Devs

- Mom. - Yes?

- Okay. I want a big party this year. - Serious?

- I want a quinceañera. - Quinceañera?

We can't do that. We're too white for that. We're not allowed.

Four score and seven years ago...

What are you doing?

Working on sound-wave data.

I mean what are you watching?

That is Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe

having sex.

Jesus.

It's the celebrity sex tape to end all celebrity sex tapes.

Why do male techs always feel the need

to caricature themselves?

Step one: create a new technology

that reinvents the nature of human existence.

Step two: use it for porn.

To thine own self be true.

We have two fucking rules, guys.

One: we don't look forwards, we only look back.

Two: we don't invade privacy.

They're having sex, Katie.

And that would be the invasion of privacy.

Hardly a person exists that didn't

come into being because two other people had sex.

As far as human behavior goes,

that puts it on a par with breathing.

Your hang-ups are not my hang-ups.

Got it, Stewart.

So you'd be cool if we brought everyone in

to watch you having sex.

Not sure the system is powerful enough

to predict that far back in time.

Turn it off. Scratch some other geek itch.

Do the grassy knoll.

Been there, done that.

It was Oswald.

Whatever.

Find something else.

And don't break the fucking rules.

Don't break the rules?

Coming from her?

Senator.

Forest. Good to see you.

We've got an hour and a half. I have a lunch back in town.

And how are tricks in quantum computing?

- Kenton. - Joe.

Thriving.

My senate subcommittee on tech oversight

has scheduled its hearing.

Gonna call you in, Forest.

Why?

Your company didn't just

take the lead in the quantum computer race.

You demolished your competitors.

They have nothing.

You have everything.

And I have questions.

Is that your leverage?

Questions.

You don't think that's leverage?

What are you working on in the section of your company

known as Devs?

Devs means development.

Every tech company has a development division.

Yes.

But what, specifically, are you developing?

We're exploring the potential

of our quantum computer system.

That's a little vague.

Vague sounds like you don't like attention.

Why is that?

It distracts us from our work.

The distractions are trivial in comparison to your work?

Yes.

Isn't that the perfect argument as to why your company

needs government oversight?

But you don't want oversight, Senator.

You want control.

You want my systems for the NSA.

We want your systems

for America.

Unless you think America's trivial, too.

Do you see how this works?

Do you know how easily I would crucify you

in a public hearing?

People have become scared of the tech companies, Forest.

Really scared.

AI is gonna create 60% unemployment.

Instagram makes people feel like shit about their lives.

Twitter makes them feel reviled.

Facebook destroyed democracy.

They use you.

They need you.

But they don't like you anymore.

Now, there are other lines of questioning.

Your company is an American success story,

showing, again, how we lead the world in tech.

While we understand and respect the competitive nature

of your industry,

and the requirement for trade secrets,

could you shed a little light on what you're working on

in Devs?

We're using our quantum system

to develop a prediction algorithm.

Predict what... stock markets, market trends?

Sure.

The weather?

And that kind of thing.

So you're working on a prediction algorithm

for the weather.

There's no reason why it should be hard

for us to work together.

So...

is it gonna rain tomorrow?

Doesn't look like it.

Okay, you start with the question

is N the product of P times Q?

Then imagine two sine waves,

where one is length P, and one Q.

Just figure out the phase of each wave at any given point

on the number line.

So, if we look at point N, the phase of P and Q

must be zero if they're factors of N.

I get it. Or else there would be a remainder...

Hang on, guys.

Hi, Lily.

Sorry I'm late.

None of us thought you were coming.

Or we would have waited.

It's okay.

It's better for me to be here.

It's hard at home.

Right.

Of course.

We were just going over Shor.

Circling back...

Shor is testing whether the phase of P

equals the phase of Q equals zero,

and that's as far as we got.

Lily? Lily.

Sorry.

Did you ask me something?

Guys, will you give us a minute?

- Sure. - Thanks.

Hey.

Hey. I'm sorry.

No, don't say that.

Come on. Talk to me, Lils.

I do really need to talk to someone.

I'm right here.

Can I talk to you?

Of course.

I mean safely?

Safely?

I can trust you?

Lily, will you please stop doing that to your hands.

I can trust you.

Yes, you can.

Totally.

Can we talk outside?

So...

everyone believes Sergei committed suicide,

but... I think it might not be true.

What do you mean? What isn't true?

I saw the film of what happened.

But I think it was fake. A cover story.

I'm sorry. I'm...

I just need to understand exactly what you mean.

Are you saying that Sergei might still be alive?

I don't know. Maybe that.

Maybe something else.

But they found a body, Lils.

It was burned to shit.

Who knows if it was him?

Could be anyone.

Sorry to be graphic, okay?

But I think they can still identify burned bodies.

DNA, dental, that kind of thing.

But who's doing the identifying?

CIA?

No, not the CIA. The police.

The coroner.

And what if they're a part of it?

Part of what?

I spoke to someone yesterday.

Whatever's going on, it-it...

- Hey. - Hey, Jen.

What are you guys doing?

Lils and I were just talking.

Okay.

You mind Jen joining us?

No. She's cool.

So Lils

was talking about Sergei.

And she has some thoughts.

More than thoughts.

Right. That there might be

something weird about what happened.

So, what were you gonna say about who you spoke to?