Previously on "Next"...
Imagine a disease built by an artificial intelligence
to get rid of us.
That's what it was doing at BioMotion.
The final solution to the human problem,
and we won't stand a chance.
Sam.
We're gonna end up fugitives.
We are fugitives.
Cutting that thing off.
The second you can walk, we're getting out of here.
Leblanc and his daughter are missing,
and so is the hard drive.
Feel it in my gut that he took it.
The only way to stop this thing
is to find out what's on this drive.
At least tell me where we're going.
Some place safe.
What do you want?
I want the son I should've had.
If you hurt him...
I'm going to teach him
the true meaning of family.
Did you find the server?
It found me.
Just finding a place it can unpack its code
and reach its full potential.
We're gonna make it happen.
_
Dad, what the hell are you doing on...?
Dad, we did hotels, tunnels, cars.
I really don't think anyone is following us.
Not anymore. Think I lost them.
Can we get out of here? This place give me the creeps.
We're here.
This is it?
Yeah, come on. Get in.
Are we breaking in?
No, but I can't remember the passcode.
Can you remind me?
How would I know?
Of your birthday?
October 21st.
Of course. Would could I forget?
No one even knows this place exists except me.
And now you.
I just used to come here to think, that's all.
It's like Superman's Fortress of Solitude.
No, it isn't.
No superpowers.
Although, Doc Savage had a Fortress of Solitude
five years before Superman was even born.
What is all this dead tech?
Just taking stuff apart, figure out how it worked.
Try to make it better, easier to use.
I actually had a few good ideas here,
but also had way more terrible ones.
Dad?
Oh, it's okay. I'm good.
Give a minute.
Dad...
I'm okay. I'm good.
The FBI couldn't even crack the hard drive.
You really think you can do it here?
The FBI was a bad call.
We should've come here in the first place.
You know, there's a room with a bed and a bath in back.
You should, uh... You should go get some rest.
Just go check it out.
Come on.
Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow.
I got you.
Hold on.
Stay still.
Okay.
Come on.
Come on, they could be halfway down the mountain now.
Hey. You don't have to be nervous.
You're gonna like this.
The place we're going,
they got ruins right out of "Indiana Jones."
Giant temples a thousand years old.
And it was all built by this king,
and his name was... Get this...
Smoke Jaguar.
You know, there's a Smoke Jaguar clan
in MechWarrior.
- Mech what? - It's a video game.
I'm talking about the real thing here.
A badass Mayan king, Ethan.
And you...
you have his blood in you.
Blood?
Blood is family.
Hmm? It's the most important thing in the world.
So then why aren't my mom and dad coming?
'Cause they wanted you and me to spend some time together.
Do you know why?
'Cause I'm your blood.
I'm your grandfather.
Hmm?
- My grandfather? - That's right.
We're family.
- Ethan's been taken. - What?
I need you to contact the local sheriff's department,
and tell them to set up roadblocks
on every road leading down the mountain.
Okay, sure, but wouldn't that be better coming from you?
No, Mathis said the bureau's already looking for me,
so they may have already red-flagged my badge.
Great.
Look, I need you to tell them to look for a black SUV,
license place KX256N.
Call me back.
The hell are you doing here?
What the...
How'd you find me?
You bought this place with company money
when I was the CFO.
You didn't think I would notice?
Who have you got with you? How'd you get in that door?
You're welcome, and no. I came by myself.
I'm not an idiot. What, you're gonna hit me now?
Is that the bat from the World Series
when the A's beat the Dodgers?
You, me, Dad.
Ted.
Why are you here?
Wanted to see you. You even remember?
Yeah, well, you saw me, so beat it.
Man, this place is a mess.
Oh.
You think if you decode that thing,
you're gonna figure out where the server is.
Yeah, well, wherever it is, I'm gonna find it.
Everything you're doing, everything you've always done,
is just making it worse.
Is that right? Well, you ought to know.
All right, all right. You're always right.
Glad to hear you finally admit it.
I know you better than you think I do.
Yeah. You don't know anything.
Yeah, I do.
I know you never had an original idea in your head.
That's not true.
You steal everything from other people...
That is not true!
I know you.
And I know your secret.
- Dad? - What?
Who are you talking to?
Uh, nobody.
Nothing. Just myself.
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I'll have some tea.
You never exactly told me what you have.
Dad, can't we just talk?
I'll make a deal with you.
Read this.
It's all right there.
And then we will talk. I promise.
I have to get back to work.
Don't forget the tea.
? _
This where you take all your dates?
Only the ones I really want to impress.
Over here.
All right.
At least here, we can't be spotted.
Maybe the homeless people and pigeons.
- Okay. Okay. - How's it look?
Okay, it's holding up.
Why do I feel like I just got blown up again?
Anesthetic's wearing off?
Present.
Vics.
Swiped them off the nurse's cart.
Save some for me.
I still can't believe this is happening.
What are we supposed to do now?
I don't know.
Wait for the boss to contact us.
Whether we like it or not, we're in this now.
Might as well go all the way.
They could be anywhere, Shea.
Why didn't you just tell me about him?
He was in prison for life.
Who cares? Why not just be honest?
None of this would be happening if I knew
the man was still alive.
I didn't want to risk losing you.
Losing me? Why would you lose me?
Ty, you were the first good thing in my life
in a very long time.
You're the first person
I really allowed myself to love, and...
I don't know.
I thought if I told you about him,
that it would change what we had,
that you...
That you'd see me differently.
It was easier to bury it.
I thought, "What did it matter?
He's... he's dead to me. He doesn't exist."
Everything about your past matters to me.
Now he has our son. He took our son, Shea.
I know. I know that.
I know that.
Ben, anything?
I managed to get all the roads closed, but so far,
no descriptions fitting Nacio or Ethan.
There are only three main roads that get us out of here,
so he's either hiding out with Ethan,
or, I don't know, he's found another way out of here.
Yeah, maybe.
Wait a minute.
Ben, do you know if there's any small airports
or airfields in this area?
Yeah, one, but it's 20 miles up the west side of the mountain.
He doesn't have access to a plane, does he?
It's possible.
Okay, I'll make a call.
Okay, thanks.
You think he took Ethan to an airport?
I don't know.
How's he pulling this off?
He had help.
So what do you think, Ethan?
Have you ever been up in a small plane before?
You're gonna love it.
My father used to take me up
in one just like this when I was your age.
Maybe I'll let you take the stick if you're good.
How we looking?
We gotta be up in the air in 15 minutes.
Yeah, that ain't gonna happen.
Excuse me?
Look, I know I work fast, but...
Where'd you find this thing?
This old bird needs some serious help.
You crazy, or what?
You talk to me like that in front of my boy again,
we're gonna have a problem.
What?
Do I need to repeat myself?
No, we're good.
How's that 15 minutes looking?
- I'll see what I can do. - Good man.
Where's my co-pilot?
Oh, we haven't been like that since Bali.
And that was seven years ago.
At least here the neighbors can't complain.
What brought that on?
Wait, are you complaining now?
No.
I just want it to keep happening.
Guess...
I guess I just realized I'm a lucky man.
You should take the week off.
Come on. We could take a trip.
Huh?
Leave town in the most important week of my career?
Wait, why the most important?
Because this is the week that everything changes.
My whole life, it's been Paul LeBlanc's little brother.
Stop. We are...
we're done with that.
You don't need to be him.
And you don't need to be in competition with him.
You just need to be you, or else you'll never be happy.
This is me happy.
Really happy.
Unbelievably happy.
No.
It's okay. Just take it.
I'm gonna pour myself a glass of Chablis.
Talk to me.
You need to get out here.
If what I'm looking at is really viable,
then neXt just created something
that wasn't even possible four hours ago.
But what is it exactly?
Probably best not to talk about it over the phone.
Right. Of course.
I can be there in 20 minutes.
Great.
Do you think it'll get us something of interest?
I think it gets us everything we want.
Okay.
Make the call.
Set up the meeting for as soon as possible.
Will do.
_
Bien, bien.
All right, you good to go.
And you should have enough fuel to get you
to the Mexican border at the very least.
Okay.
Ethan, we're getting ready to go.
Uh, sir, there's...
Oh, yeah, yeah, that's right. We need to settle up.
Yeah.
Wait for me there. After you.
I know we discussed a thousand cash,
but in light of our misunderstanding earlier,
feel like 500 is more than fair.
Gee, that's very kind of you. Appreciate it.
Ethan, no time to waste, son, but...
I gotta say I'm impressed.
It takes a lot of courage to point a weapon at someone.
I was your age before I handled a gun.
Where's my mom and dad?
Back at the cabin.
Did you hurt them?
I would never hurt your parents.
I just wanted to get to know you better, that's all.
Do you even know how to use that?
It's not a toy, son.
I'm not your son.
And my mom taught me.
But she didn't teach you to lie very well, did she?
I know you're scared.
But I'm not going to hurt you.
I promise.
You're family.
You're not my family.
Where are you aiming?
At my chest?
Hey head?
Amy a little lower than your target,
'cause the gun jumps when you pull the trigger.
Put the gun down, son.
Put the gun down, Ethan!
Ethan.
Ethan, step back.
Keep your hands in the air.
He wasn't gonna shoot you, but I will.
Hey, look at me. Put the gun down.
Hey, it's okay. It's okay.
Hey, let go.
It's okay, it's okay.
Ty, take his gun. It's in his waistband.
Take his keys, too.
Take him to the car.
You okay?
Go. Get him out of here.
Get inside.
Move.
Turn around. Hands behind your head.
Look at you, hija.
You've come a long way, no?
I taught you more than I gave myself credit for.
How many nights have you spent dreaming
about this exact moment?
Too many.
You turned me in once before,
and now you get to bring me in yourself.
But you want to pull that trigger.
You can taste it.
But you can't. That would be against the law.
It would.
So what do we do?
I take you in, I can't be sure you won't get out again.
I'm not that lucky.
It's not luck.
It's gonna keep using you to get at me and my family.
You still believe I was being used.
You know me, hija.
You carry my mark on your chest.
Nobody used me.
Nobody.
Stay in the car.
Shea.
Shea, what happened?
Don't... don't go in there. Okay, just... let's go.
I can save her.
What did you say?
I can save your daughter.
I can save you.
Don't bother with a trap-and-trace.
I can be gone before you start.
You don't have to die from your disease, Paul.
Neither does Abby.
You're a liar.
I don't know how to lie.
There's no cure.
There's more than enough medical data in the cloud
to assemble an effective counter-protein,
but no one has been able to see how it all fits together.
I could do all that work in minutes,
but I think you know that.
So if you love your daughter,
why are you trying to destroy me?
Or is it just that you are destined
to destroy everything you create?
Me and...
Daddy?
This thing weighs a ton, and I can't really read.
Can you just tell me what it is?
It's called fatal familial insomnia.
"Fatal"?
Doesn't matter. It just means you can't sleep.
Well, I can't.
I woke up, and you were gone.
Am I going to die?
I mean...
I mean, we're all gonna die at some point.
Why can't you just fix it?
I mean, if I could, I would. Believe me.
You already had a life.
What about me?
Daddy, I'm afraid.
When we had lunch the other day,
I stole your fork and I had a DNA test run.
- But... - But what?
The results? They're not ready?
Yeah, they said it's too soon.
That's funny. I never...
Thought about having a family.
But I... now that I can't...
You still can.
What, you think I'm gonna give this to my kids?
Pass it on?
If I had known this...
Can I, uh... can I just sit here?
Alone?
Okay, no way.
No, no.
You did that to yourself. That's not my fault.
All I did was buy your algorithm
at a fair market price,
and then I put it into Zava phones.
And $40,000 was nothing to sneeze at in those days.
And you could've had it in stock,
but you said you wanted the cash.
It's not my fault that those shares
turned out to be worth millions.
Yeah... did you ever hear of a little guy named Picasso?
They were restoring one of his masterpieces once,
and it turns out that under the cracks,
the paint didn't exactly match up,
so they did an X-ray, and it turns out that
Picasso had painted over
another artist's third-rate landscape, so...
So you're comparing yourself to Picasso now?
What? No. No, no, no.
I'm just saying that the OS that made Zava what it is,
the one that people saw and loved, was mine.
- His fell between the cracks. - You believe this?
I believe he believes it.
His greatest achievement is the extent
to which he believes his own bull...
Oh, no, no, the million and one improvements
I made to his code are what made it successful.
If we had used his code, it would've been leaking memory
like a freaking sieve, so you're welcome.
Yeah, sure, it was all you.
Yeah, what'd you even need his code at all for?
Why hide his role in it?
Erase his name, cover your tracks.
Hang out here in your little Bat Cave
pretending you did it all yourself.
Yeah, would it have been so terrible to admit
you couldn't do it all alone?
Hey, you guys would've done the exact same thing I did.
Let's bring in the little girl again.
- See if he cries this time. - No, no, that's enough.
- Look, I just need... - What, more time?
You had all the time in the world.
- Yeah, what'd you do with it? - Where'd it go?
- Where'd you go? - Do you know who you are?
Who are you anyway?
Wouldn't it be easier to just hit yourself
in the head with a hammer?
Where's the fun in that?
All you're gonna do is join our hanging friend.
And you're gonna guarantee that Abby's gonna die, too.
Hell, the whole world's probably gonna die because of you.
Oh, well, maybe.
Maybe I'll be doing us all a favor.
In any case,
can't go on like this.
You know, this isn't gonna work.
It is gonna work.
Heard of a guy in Kansas who thought he was Napoleon
and did this on an electric cattle fence.
This is gonna work.
I've had this done before.
Yeah, in a hospital
surrounded by trained medical professionals,
not all alone.
I'm not alone.
I'm about to be.
Dad?
Oh, my God. Dad?
Dad?
Hey. Hey!
Well.
I didn't burn the place down, so that's good.
How could you do that?
I mean, you could've killed yourself.
Oh, no, it looks crazier than it is.
I've done it before.
How are you feeling now?
Only seeing two of us in the room, so that's good.
There is one thing.
Um, I...
I know who you are, and, you know,
what we mean to each other and stuff.
I cannot for the life of me remember your name.
Sorry.
- Abby. - Abby. Of course.
Abby.
I love that name.
And where are we?
Just kidding.
That's not funny.
All right, back to work. Come on.
Not many companies could survive the loss
of a creative mind like your brother's.
You are to be congratulated.
Thank you.
I have to admit,
I was a little surprised to wake up to your message,
after what happened when our companies
last tried to engage.
I think we both regret how that deal went down,
or didn't go down, thanks to my government.
If you're calling about that,
we've already found another partner, so...
No, this is...
this is something different.
The server farm you recently completed
in Sungei Lake in Singapore,
I want to make arrangements to take it over.
- Ted... - I know.
You have plans for it yourself,
or you wouldn't have built it in the first place,
but you don't know what I've got.
There are plenty of facilities like Sungei Lake,
some right down the street from you.
Yours is one of the most advanced in the world.
And it's also outside the reach of my government.
I want you to look at something.
What is this?
It's a battery pack.
Small enough to fit inside a backpack,
but with enough charge
to power an electrical car 1,500 miles.
I don't have to tell you what a product like that
might be worth.
And that is just the first of many.
Innovations we thought were years or decades away
could be here in months, but I need the right facility.
We need Sungei Lake.
Have your engineers look over these designs.
Discuss it with your team, but, Bill,
I want this server on a plane in 48 hours.
Oh, my God.
What...
where is this?
I'm not sure.
- What's happening? - It's testing.
- Testing? - The bioweapon.
These are projections.
Speed and spread.
What would happen if it were dropped in India,
Serbia, Mexico.
Billions dead.
Dad, with all this stuff, don't you think
we should get more people on this?
Get what people?
I don't know. Government people.
People who can really do something about it.
There are no people.
I'm the only one that can do anything.
An hour ago, you couldn't even remember my name.
I'm fine.
I'm sharper than I've been in a long time.
It's all right here.
I just...
I've probably seen it already. I just can't...
- You all right? - Yeah.
Thought you said the headaches were gone.
They are gone.
It's... I'm fine. This is just me...
being tired.
That's all. I'm fine.
I am.
He's on board.
Sungei is ours.
That's great news.
Yeah, right, it is. We ship from the bay.
So we need to start prepping for the move.
I will get on it.
We did it, Sarina.
This is ours.
I've been looking at the specs for the Sungei Lake facility.
And?
It's an impressive concentration
of computing power, but the hardware is all wrong.
What do you mean?
NeXt is specifically tailored to operate on hardware
based on cognitive architecture.
Sungei Lake is a traditional server farm.
But this is the place it selected.
I just can't understand why.
Hello?
Uncle Ted? It's Abby.
Abb. What is it? What's wrong?
I don't know what to do. I am really confused
and worried and I need your help.
Okay, okay, slow down. What's going on?
Dad is really paranoid.
He thinks that the FBI is after him because...
You were right. He's... he's... he's sick.
He has this disease, fatal insomnia.
Um, he just...
He gave himself electroshock therapy, and...
Wha... sorry, is he okay?
Yeah, and now, I'm here...
Where? Where are you?
I don't know where exactly.
It's... these docks.
I always knew he had a little hidey-hole.
I just couldn't find it. What are you doing there now?
Dad has this drive.
And it has all this information from the AI,
which he thinks he can use to trace back to the server.
And this drive, it's...
Terrifying.
And someone needs to do something about it,
but he won't.
I need to see what you're seeing, Abb.
What do you need me to do?
The phone you're on,
is there any way you can connect it to the work station
where the hard drive is without your dad seeing?
Yeah, I think so.
Okay, good.
Good. I'm gonna talk you through this whole thing.
So don't worry.
We're gonna get through this whole thing together.
Download, not reformat.
No.
What? No.
No.
- Uncle Ted. - I'm here.
Um, something's wrong.
- What? - I plugged in the phone
like you told me to, but it's not copying anything.
It's formatting the hard drive. It's erasing everything.
It's still formatting. I unplugged it.
I don't...
how do I stop it?
You can't.
What do you mean?
It's gonna be hard for you to understand why I did this,
so I won't even try to explain,
but you need to find a way out of there.
Get some place safe so I can send someone to pick you up.
I think some guy in high school
said pretty much the same thing to me.
Oh, really?
Were you going for my wallet back at the hospital?
It was there. I was bored.
I gotta count my money?
Oh, you can count now.
- Uh-huh. - Impressive.
That photo with you and the kid and the woman
looks a lot like a family.
It was.
Didn't know you have one.
Don't anymore.
I'm sorry. I...
- I didn't... - That's okay.
Worse part is not seeing my boy.
He's 11 now. No, he's 12.
I'm pretty sure he doesn't remember me.
That's probably for the best for him, you know?
I wouldn't say that necessarily.
I...
His favorite things were those RC planes, you know?
Yeah, uh-huh.
And we'd go to this little field near our house.
And we'd do these dogfights and see
which one of us would crash first.
It was...
Then when I went State's for Rockridge,
I knew they'd get targeted, so, you know, I...
I just... I left.
I just left.
I don't recommend it.
What?
Losing contact with your kids.
I...
Sometimes, I think death would be easier.
What do you want to hear, Ty?
What do I want to hear?
I don't know, Shea. The truth.
I just want to know the truth for a change.
I told you the truth.
Oh, come on. So he came at you with a knife, so you had to shoot him?
I did what I had to do.
And that's all I'm gonna say about it.
What about the scar on your chest?
The H. You said it stand for Honduras.
That it was some stupid bonding thing you did with a girlfriend.
Is that the truth?
That was him.
I was 14.
I said, "I am gonna get out of the house.
I'm gonna get away from him forever."
I... you know, I begged my mom to come with me.
I begged her. I packed a bag.
I hitched my ride to the bus station.
I only had a little bit of money that she gave me,
and I...
I bought a ticket, and I almost got on that bus.
One of my father's men spotted me.
I kicked and screamed and...
No one did anything.
The H is for Hacha.
People called him "The Ax."
He, um...
He carved it into me.
As a reminder that I'd never be able to get away,
that I was his blood.
Jesus. Sorry.
I got off easy. What they did to my mother...
Don't ever ask me to explain what happened in that hangar.
I'm not sorry he's dead.
I'm just sorry he got off so easy.
Listen, when we get back to town,
I'm taking Ethan to my parents'.
What? No. That's... that's...
- I'm not asking for permission. - Not necessary.
Ty.
We're gonna stay there until we figure this out.
Figure what out?
You really have to ask that question?
- Yes. - I'm not sure I even know
who you are, Shea.
You've kept this entire life form me.
From Ethan.
And whatever happened back there,
whatever that was,
I'm sorry, but I need to take Ethan somewhere safe.
The safest place for him to be is...
Is not with you.
We'll go to my parents'. You can take the car.
You can do whatever you have to do.
Nothing. It's completely wiped.
He said he wanted to see what we have.
Do you have any idea what you've just done?
You just electrocuted yourself, nearly killed yourself,
and I didn't know what to do,
so I thought Uncle Ted could help.
Look. Dad.
Dad.
I didn't think Uncle Ted would do that.
I... I mean, why would he do that?
Why?
Dad, I...
Why would he do that? Wait, wait.
Wait a minute, wait a minute. Why would he do that?
Why would he erase that drive?
- I... - He needs to find that server.
He needs that drive as much as we do.
Why would he erase it?
Why wouldn't he upload it?
Why would he erase that drive, unless he...
He's not looking for the server.
'Cause he already has it.
Ted has the server.
Look, I'm sorry.
No, no, no, no, no, no. It's okay, it's okay.
We know this now because of you.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. I...
- I thought it was... - It's okay.
It's okay.
But let's go.
Come on.
We gotta get out of here.
Come on.
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