Athena
I should drive. Casey, I know you have no reason to trust me, but I've been looking for someone like you for a very long time. Now, please, pull over.
Of all the people you could give a pin to, why me?
Athena
Because you're special.
Yeah, special.
Athena
You are.
Athena
Did you make this yourself?
Yeah.
Athena
Why?
I guess I got tired of waiting around for someone else to do it for me. [he and Athena smiles]
Athena
Frank?
Yeah?
Athena
You want to know why you could never make me laugh?
Why?
Athena
Because you're not funny. [Frank and Athena laugh] You can let me go now. Goodbye, Frank.
Goodbye, Athena.
Athena
The Monitor — the bomb is gone, but I'm not... yet. There isn't much time. My self-destruct. Use it. You know what to do, Frank. This … set it right this time.
I thought you can't have ideas.
Athena
Well, what do you know?
What do you know?
Athena
Systems failing.
You were pirating the signal. How?
What?
At your house, all your TVs, your "Doomsday room" — you were boosting the feed from that monitor thing. How did you do that?
No big deal, they're running so much power through it now a HAM radio could pick it up — it's just a matter of finding the right frequency.
You grabbed a signal from another dimension, from a machine here — that means it's transmitting there. What if its not just predicting the future …
… It's broadcasting it.
When I touched this thing, for a few minutes, it felt like anything was possible. So why can't the opposite happen? What if the monitor is just a giant pin, but instead of making you think positive? It makes you think negative, and it — it's convincing the whole world to feed the wrong wolf. We need to turn that thing off.
Even the teeniest of actions can change the future.
How can you be sure?
Because I know how things work.
Why are they taking the platform down?
Because it's hard to have ideas, and easy to give up.
But you won't, right?
Never.
There are 2 wolves"… You told me this story my entire life, and now I'm telling you - there are 2 wolves and they are always fighting. One is darkness and despair, the other is light and hope. Which wolf wins?
C'mon, Casey.
Okay, fine, don’t answer.
Whichever one you feed.
Good. Eat.
David Nix
Ah, it's uninhabited, and uncharted; looks like a perfect place to spend your last days.
David, the monitor is acting as an antenna. It isn't just receiving tachyons, it is taking a possible future and making it likely...
...And amplifying it — transmitting it, like a feedback loop.
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy, that's coming from right there.
But it's not just showing people the end of the world. It's giving them the idea — over and over and over again — so they just accept it!
It's a ticking time bomb — and we're the ones that lit the fuse.
We still have, like 58 days to try to change things - but nothing will work — as long as that thing is still on.
David Nix
Young lady, I'm going to assume that your knowledge of tachyonic fusion is a bit sketchy; shutting it down is impossible; there is no "off."
I'm telling you what it's doing. Why don't you care?
Because he's the one who's doing it... right?
David Nix
Well Frank, it's been wonderful catching up, but as we were fairly clear about the terms of your exile and the consequences of your violating it — what the hell are you doing here?
I think she can fix it.
David Nix
I'm sorry, I…
Her. [indicating Casey] I think she can fix it, David.
Wait— What?
I've been pirating your signal. Every time you turn it on here I can see it there, and it flickered. A percentage dropped, David.
David Nix
Impossible.
You don’t believe me? Let's go find out.
I'm sorry. What can I fix?
David Nix
The world, Miss Newton. He thinks you can fix the world.
Why do you love the stars so much, Casey?
Casey [as very young child]: Because… I want to go there.
But they're so far away.
It will take a long time, a real long time. What if you get all the way up there, and there's nothing?
What if there's every ting?
Oh, you little... [runs to the door and tugs at it] You know I can call the cops anytime! Anytime! You have– I'm giving you 5 seconds to–
I am not leaving! Either tell me how to get there, or kill me!
If you touch anything in there, that's exactly what I'll do! What are you doing?!
I'm touching things!
Open this door now! I mean it! I'll knock you out! [bangs on the door again]
Hey, what's this doing with the trombone-sliding-thing?
Leave that alone! I'm serious!
Will you take me there?
No!
Then you're not serious!
Okay, accept that there is a world where I know, with absolute certainty the exact time of your death? Now, do want me to tell you, or not?
Of course I would. Who wouldn't? But what if accepting my death is what causes it? So the answer is yes. I would want you to tell me, but I wouldn’t believe you.
You have to believe me.
Why, don’t we like make our own destiny and stuff? [probability factor on Frank's monitor reduces from 100% to 99.9994% — and she is puzzled to see him staring at it] What?
Who are you, kid?
Hey, don't touch that! [takes the bomb and stows it in a pouch] This is one-kiloton detonation. It is NOT a toy. Do not mess with my stuff! You got that?
Sor-RY!
Do you want to tell this story?
No, you're doing fine.
Because if you think you could tell this story better, I would absolutely love to hear you try.
Wow! Really?
Really.
Well, I guess, technically, I am more qualified.
Are you? How so?
Because, unlike you, I'm an optimist.
I don't know!