K Krueger
You directly interfered with a government operation. And as a result, you caused the deaths of innocent civilians. Is that correct?
Yates
You're absolutely right, sir. Thanks to Lasseter activating Howell, seven American citizens are now dead.
K Krueger
This is an operation that you created and spearheaded without any authorization, is that correct?
Yates
Yes, sir. But you have to understand, I was self-starting.
Yates
Did I make some mistakes? You know, I did. Did I take some shortcuts? Sure. But in the end, I was just doing what I needed to do to create a cost-efficient exploit of a system already put in place. And if I'd pulled it off, you'd be thanking me. Right? Come on, you'd be **** thanking me, right?
Yates
Okay! Thank you.
V Victoria
[Krueger kills Yates]
I don't know if this is appropriate, but please do not kill me.
K Krueger
I'm your source. When I called to notify you that the sweep was happening, I did it out of respect and courtesy. And you've made me regret that now. It was not my intention for you to act like a child and try to save your puppy. The puppy was going down, I was notifying you of the puppy's death. But the puppy just shit all over everything! You have a crazy, scary rabid puppy that murders people and will still need to be put down. You understand that, correct?
K Krueger
You better pray you can find a way to turn this into a win and pull a miracle out of your ass. Because if you can't, that's you. [looks to Yates]
V Victoria
You already have your miracle, sir. My program worked. Wiseman beat Toughguy. Mike Howell eliminated 17 Toughguy assets single-handedly. That makes him the most effective asset we've ever seen in any of the Ultra programs. Ever! In 60 years. Pardon me for saying it, sir, but that is a puppy worth saving. That is a $400 million puppy. And you have him sitting in a holding cell right now.
Mike
How did you know what that gas was?
Phoebe
Okay... I...
Mike
No, no, no. What's going on? How do you know what that gas was?
Phoebe
I don't know what's going on. But, listen. Baby. Mike, Mike, hey. I don't know what's going on! But I do know what's going on with you, okay? If you just listen. Listen!
Mike
Okay, tell me then.
Phoebe
It's not going to make any sense right now.
Mike
What is going on with me?
Phoebe
I'm your handler. I was assigned to you five years ago. Please understand, I'm CIA. Okay?
Mike
You're what?
Phoebe
Listen to me. It's okay. I've been trying to tell you this for so **** long.
Mike
Phoebe. Are you not my girlfriend?
Phoebe
Of course I'm your girlfriend, babe. That's what I'm telling you.
Mike
Please stop it. No. No, I can't even look at you. I gotta go.
Mike
Leave me alone! Get off of me!
Phoebe
Mike, relax!
Mike
Look, I just need to know. Am I real?
Phoebe
Yes, you're real.
Mike
Are your parents really dead? Okay, how much of everything that you've ever told me is just a complete lie?
Phoebe
Not everything is a lie.
Mike
No, please don't use your grown-up voice with me. No, I was in love with you. I am in love with you. I don't even know who you are!
Phoebe
[crying]
****, Mike!
Mike
No, you don't get to fake cry with me, okay. They probably train you how to do this, don't they? To **** with my emotions. Okay, well stop it. Please stop it. Hey! Stop it, okay! **** stop it!
Phoebe
I'm not lying anymore. Just give me one chance. I'm not going to lie to you anymore.
Mike
Get out. Get out of my car.
Phoebe
No. No, Mike. I can't!
Mike
Get out of my car, okay?
Phoebe
It's my **** car!
Mike
Yo, Phoebe, where are we going?
Phoebe
We are leaving. We are getting the **** out of town!
Mike
No, I can't leave town. You know that.
Phoebe
Well, you didn't have people trying to kill you before, I was thinking maybe that could motivate us here.
Mike
Okay, fine, so where do you want to go?
Phoebe
Oh ****, I don't know!
Mike
Alright listen. We'll take my car and we'll go to Rose's house, okay?
Phoebe
What? You want to get high right now? Mike?
Mike
No! I don't want to get high. Rose has like guns and shit, okay. He can help us hide out and I'm still in handcuffs.
Phoebe
Okay, you are not in any position to be making the plan right now.
Mike
Really? Well, who is? The cops are all dead.
Phoebe
The guy in the thing. In the cell thing, doesn't see the gun, You don't point at it and go, gun!
Mike
Okay, no I recognize that now as, like, a faux pas. I'm sorry.
Phoebe
And if someone who's trying to kill you goes "wait!" You don't go, oh what do you want to talk about?
Mike
Okay! You're right. I'm sorry. Please just don't yell at me, okay?
Mike
You know what skeeves me out, Phoebe?
Phoebe
What?
Mike
That car down there has moved so much. Like, it was built in a factory, you know, on a production line. And then it was like, shipped here.
Phoebe
And then, like, this guy drove it all over the place.
Mike
Yeah, exactly. But all the time, like for years, or really for, like, decades really, this one tree has been sitting in this one place not doing anything until tonight when it, like, stopped the car.
Phoebe
Yeah?
Mike
Okay, so this car is always going. And that tree is always just, like, stopping. You know? Like, it's just been stopping there for years until tonight when it met something that it didn't want to keep going, and it was just : like, "No! You're stopping, too"
Mike
And then this tree that has never done anything is ****, like, destroying this beautiful, really beautiful fast-moving thing.
Phoebe
Why are you crying?
Mike
Because, Phoebe, like... am I that tree?
Phoebe
No. No!
Mike
I think I'm that tree. And I think you're the car and I think I'm stopping you.
Phoebe
You are not the tree.
Mike
Okay.
Phoebe
I love you.
Phoebe
Hey. Hey, you seem, like, spooky quiet.
Mike
I am spooky quiet. I'm like, I think I'm in the anaphylactic shock.
Phoebe
That's not what that's called.
Mike
I'm trying to think of stuff, you know. Phoebe, I can't remember anything. I can't even remember where I went to school. Did I go to school?
Phoebe
Maybe don't think about it.
Mike
Did we even talk about my parents?
Phoebe
Okay, so just lead me through this one more time. Just so I'm clear.
Mike
Um, I hit him with a spoon and his lungs exploded.
Phoebe
It wasn't his lungs.
Mike
No, that's what happened. Because he couldn't breathe because I got him in the neck.
Phoebe
Yeah, your lungs aren't in your neck, they're in your chest.
Mike
I know that, Phoebe. No, I don't know that. No, I do. Phoebe, it doesn't even make any sense to me.
Phoebe
Okay. Okay, so you said something about a lady. What did she say to you?
Mike
Okay, so she said. I don't know what she said. Like, some bullshit. I don't know what she said.
Phoebe
Babe. We're in jail. So maybe just try and remember and focus and put it together. What did the lady say?
Mike
Okay, she said Mandelbrot set is in motion. Echo Choir has been breached. We are fielding the ball.
Phoebe
Mike, what the **** does that mean?
Mike
I don't know. Phoebe, I don't know but I remember it like it just happened. I remember every single thing that happened to me in the last 94 minutes. 94 minutes? How did I even get that number, Phoebe? I remember literally every single thing that happened. I can picture it all.
V Victoria
Do you remember when you were arrested when you were 18 for the acid? That was when we first met. I was recruiting for a program called Wiseman. Which was basically designed to take third strike misdemeanor offenders and offer them the opportunity to volunteer.
Mike
Volunteer? For what?
V Victoria
To be an experiment.
Mike
An experiment?
Mike
That was a mistake.
V Victoria
No, but Mike, you worked. All the other subjects that came in, they were all failures. But not you. You were a success, but it was driving you insane. It was driving everybody insane. The risks weren't worth the rewards. So I shut it down, and I gave you all new lives and new identities. A fresh start here.
Mike
Yeah. So you erased my memories and you **** with my head. And you left me here with a fake girlfriend.
V Victoria
This isn't who you always were. The slow thinking, the inability to leave town. The phobias. We did that to protect you.
Mike
To protect me? Well, tell that to the guys who are trying to kill me.
Yates
Uh, your girlfriend's here. Would you ever like to see her alive again?
Mike
I don't know.
Yates
So if I just took out my gun and blew her **** face off, you'd be cool with that?
Mike
No, that wouldn't be cool. Is she really there with you?
Phoebe
Mikey? I'm sorry. But I'm the tree. I've been the tree the entire time, you're the car. Okay? I love you. So you can leave. You can go wherever you want and they will **** never...
Yates
[hangs up]
That was really **** lame.
Yates
Well, if it isn't Miss Stockholm Syndrome 2010.
Phoebe
Yates. What the **** are you doing here?
Yates
Whoa. That's unprofessional.
Phoebe
Who's running this operation? Since when did desk jockeys like you run field ops?
Yates
Well, I guess that's the problem with going dark for five years. You kinda fall out of the loop on a couple things.
Phoebe
Do you have authorization at all? Where's Krueger?
Yates
Phoebe Selburg. She who'd rather suck some stoner's **** than turn herself in for debrief, is going to question my authorization? I've read your file. You have no secrets from me! Your boyfriend isn't real. We made him. Oh, I'm so sorry that some lab-rat made you **** a bunch of times in the back of a Taco Bell. Yeah, that's probably a good reason to throw away your entire life! I guess it all worked out because look where I am now. In charge of a major operation. And look where you are. Under departmental arrest for insubordination, and your face is all messed up. And I'm going to get a promotion.
