Devs

Did you call the speaker of the house a four-letter word?

- No. - Are you sure?

Yes, I'm sure. "Ass" is a three-letter word.

I had to, like, open the bruise up

and let some of the bruised blood come out

to show them...

I had to, like, open the bruise up

and let some of the bruised blood

come out to show them...

Okay. Individual.

I had to, like, open the bruise up

and let some of the bruised blood

come out to show them...

I had to, like, open the bruise up

and let some of the bruised blood

come out to show them... Come out to show them...

Come out to show them...

Come out to show, show...

Show, show, show, show, show...

So...

Don't.

Don't what?

Just...

let it be normal.

This?

Yes.

Normal.

Yeah.

Okay.

I can do normal.

So what about the dishwasher?

What about the dishwasher?

Did it get emptied last night?

I'm not-I'm not trying to make a big deal or anything, you know,

I just...

You did say you were gonna do it,

and I did it the night before, so...

Excuse me.

I walked the dog.

You were gonna empty the dishwasher.

We have a dog?

We don't have a dog.

We have a cat.

So you walked the cat?

Yeah.

Yeah, okay, well, good.

Because the cat's not gonna walk itself.

- Can you see Daddy? - We can discuss this

- in, like, 30 seconds. - I know we can

discuss it in 30 seconds. We can also discuss it now.

No, I'm hanging up.

You know I hate talking and driving.

You can't wait 30 seconds?

We could go further back.

Further than a billion years?

We don't need to.

It works.

Why don't I feel good about it?

That would be your unconscious mind speaking to you.

And what it's saying is, "Uh-oh."

Because a few hours ago, we were in reality

and we were working on a sim.

And now we've pretty much traded.

That's the reality.

Right there.

It's not even a clone of reality.

The box contains everything.

It doesn't contain us.

One-second projection.

- Oh, shit. - Oh, shit.

- What the fuck, Stewart? - What the fuck, Stewart?

- That's messed up. - That's messed up.

- Switch it off. - Switch it off.

The box contains us.

The box contains everything.

And inside the box

there's another box.

Ad infinitum, ad nauseam.

Hey.

Yeah.

I think I'll go.

I know.

We both know.

We both know this particular day inside and out.

Forwards and backwards.

Up to a point.

Right.

Okay.

- I'll see you there. - Yeah.

Remember, Lyndon's in your car.

There's that whole thing.

Sure.

Hi, Lyndon.

Shit.

Sorry.

I was...

asleep.

I really need to talk to you, Katie.

And I thought you might be here.

Just give me a chance and hear me out, please.

And I know you have to get to work,

but we could drive up 280 and find somewhere to stop.

Maybe Crystal Springs Dam?

It's right on the way.

Sure, Lyndon. We'll do that.

Cool.

Lils.

Are we leaving normality?

Yeah.

Only for a moment, though.

I want to know.

What's our plan?

Last night, you asked

what was on their mind.

And I said madness.

They're having the tech nerd's wettest dream.

The one that reduces everything

to nothing.

Nothing but...

code.

What does that mean?

It means they believe everything is computational.

And of course, they've cracked the encryption key

to compute it.

So everything is unpackable...

and packable.

And reversengineerable.

And predictable.

Stars.

Planets.

Dust.

Us.

Me.

You know the problem with the people who run tech companies?

They have too much power.

It drives them crazy.

They end up thinking they're messiahs.

Sometime after midnight,

they think I'm gonna go to Devs.

And they think I'm gonna do something

that folds into their plan.

But I'm gonna fuck them up.

I'm gonna contradict their prediction.

They say I'm gonna go to Devs.

So all I have to do is not go.

We fuck 'em up by hanging out in your apartment for a day?

Yeah.

I'd sort of mentally prepped myself

for a high-speed police chase

and 20 years in jail, but...

okay.

Let's try your way.

Do you want me to pretend I don't know what happens next?

So you've watched this before.

Breaking your own rules, Katie.

That's why you're cool.

Why didn't you look into the future?

You could have.

Why ask a question

when you've already heard the answer?

I didn't want to know the future,

it's not that strange.

While I have the illusion of free will,

I have the illusion of free will.

You know he's wrong.

I... And I don't blame him.

I never liked the Everett interpretation either.

I liked Penrose or pilot-wave.

But it turns out that Everett was right.

The many worlds are real.

You're right, Lyndon.

I do know he's wrong.

- You do? - Yes.

- Then why haven't you said? - You don't understand.

I don't understand what?

You're here to argue for your job back.

To ask me to appeal to Forest on your behalf,

but the... the conversation you planned

isn't how this plays out.

It isn't?

No.

A few moments from now...

you climb over this rail.

You stand on the other side and balance there,

right on the edge of the dam.

Just your toes on the concrete,

arms outstretched, not holding the rail.

What?

Whether you stay balanced or fall depends on

quantum variations of the air around you, the wind.

I'm not following, why the fuck would I do that?

It's an act of faith.

Or belief.

In what?

Exactly what you just said.

In many worlds.

If you believe in it, you know there will be worlds

in which you fall.

And worlds in which you don't.

But you'll only be conscious of the worlds