Metropolis

HALDEN: System's running on auxiliary. Only seven hours before it crashes.

CHRISTOPH: True.

HALDEN: You're in there. Everybody dies, you go with them --

CHRISTOPH: -- But don't you remember? I'm already dead.

HALDEN: God-Damn you!

CHRISTOPH: Yes, I believe he has --

HALDEN: -- You've made your point! You've got control of the system.

HALDEN: There are two million people in there with you.

CHRISTOPH: Yes.

HALDEN: They have nothing to do with this --

CHRISTOPH: -- Two million people lost in the digital night. What do they seek?

HALDEN: This is Halden.

CHRISTOPH: Halden, how nice to hear your voice.

HALDEN: What do you want?

CHRISTOPH: I have found in life that what one wants isn't nearly as important as what one needs.

HALDEN: What do you need?

CHRISTOPH: I need to take back what's mine.

DIGITAL GENA: How come I can't remember?

CHRISTOPH: Because I took it out of your memory.

DIGITAL GENA: Why --

CHRISTOPH: -- Because there'll be no remorse. Not in my world.

DIGITAL GENA: She said I have a son...

CHRISTOPH: No, she said she had a son. In a dream she once called life.

DIGITAL GENA: Why?

CHRISTOPH: To live forever.

CHRISTOPH: It's okay.

DIGITAL GENA: Okay...

CHRISTOPH: It's all been transferred.

CHRISTOPH: It's time to wake up.

GENA: Wake up?!

CHRISTOPH: From the dream.

GENA: What's happening?

CHRISTOPH: Nothing, go back to sleep.

GENA: But this is impossible.

CHRISTOPH: That's the grace of this world. Nothing's impossible.

CHRISTOPH: The guests are here.

GENA: Guests?

CHRISTOPH: Just like you always wanted.

GENA: It's all here...

CHRISTOPH: Yes.

GENA: You don't have much sex up there in the real world, do you?

CHRISTOPH: No...

GENA: Who are you?!

CHRISTOPH: Someone who believes in miracles.

CHRISTOPH: You were right.

GENA: About what?

CHRISTOPH: Do you believe in miracles?

GENA: I'm serious, how did you know my name?

CHRISTOPH: Your life that bad?

GENA: No, not me, I've been lucky. But I've seen what happens to other people --

CHRISTOPH: -- If your life's so good up there Gena, what are you doing down here?

GENA: That's a strange question. You a strange man?

CHRISTOPH: There you are, sitting next to the creator, what do you say?

GENA: This is how you pick up women --

CHRISTOPH: -- No.

GENA: As long as it's not 'what's your sign?'

CHRISTOPH: If you could meet God, what would you say to him?

TANNER: But once the system touches the net, all links are severed. Everybody dies.

CHRISTOPH: Only up there in the dream they called life.

TANNER: And down here --

TANNER: Until you're on the net where the corporation can't touch you, you can't open the system. They'll eject it if you do.

CHRISTOPH: One would assume so.

CHRISTOPH: With the energy from the net, we can program this world anyway we want. Redwood forests. Oceans. Mountains --

TANNER: -- Two million people plugged-in here.

CHRISTOPH: Yes.

CHRISTOPH: Unlimited energy out there. Enough to run this world for all eternity --

TANNER: -- But you'll never be able to get it through the maze.

CHRISTOPH: Me? Of course not. That's why you're here.

TANNER: You sealed off the system. When it crashes, everyone dies with you.

CHRISTOPH: Yes, but only in the dream they call life.

TANNER: Dream?!

CHRISTOPH: And all dreams, no matter how appealing, must eventually end.

TANNER: You were the one who was dying.

CHRISTOPH: Yes...

CHRISTOPH: God creates man, man creates technology, technology creates God. End into beginning.

TANNER: In a computer program.

CHRISTOPH: The new world.

TANNER: It's not real.

CHRISTOPH: Not real?

TANNER: Divinity?

CHRISTOPH: Yes.

TANNER: You are not a God.

CHRISTOPH: In here I am.

CHRISTOPH: But what would happen to me? I have no body to return to.

TANNER: Not my problem.

CHRISTOPH: So wrong --

CHRISTOPH: Halden sent men to kill me in my sleep, but simple illusions won out. So he now sends the legend to finish the deed.

TANNER: No.

CHRISTOPH: Then what?

TANNER: The patterns were moved around, but they weren't changed.

CHRISTOPH: True. But why?

DEX: You sure he's going to come?

CHRISTOPH: It's his nature.

DEX: But what if he doesn't --

CHRISTOPH: -- He will.

DEX: Where the hell are you going?

CHRISTOPH: Unfinished business.

DEX: And what about the reconfiguration?

CHRISTOPH: Perfect opportunity for you to demonstrate your continued worth.

CHRISTOPH: Remember, I'm not the one who chose this.

DEX: Yes, so which one of us does that make the coward?

EMMA: The maze has been changed --

HALDEN: -- He says the maze has been changed. I need to know for sure.

HALDEN: Have communications contact all interface centers. Tell them due to high demand, we're at full capacity and so temporarily there's no room for anyone else on the system.

EMMA: What about the customers with reservations?

HALDEN: Have the staff apologize profusely and issue credit vouchers. But remember, it's a capacity problem. That's all.

HALDEN: How long 'till we can eject?

EMMA: We're going to have to reconfigure.

HALDEN: How long?

EMMA: At least a day.

TANNER: Take care.

GENA: Take care? Where the hell are you going --

GENA: What's her name?

TANNER: Who?

GENA: The woman you're stuck on.

TANNER: There is no --

TANNER: What?

GENA: The weather.

GENA: Where you plugged-in from?

TANNER: New York.

GENA: I'm South Dakota.

HALDEN: Need the disk back!

TANNER: Insurance.

HALDEN: Insurance?

TANNER: If she's alive, you get it back.

HALDEN: An interface attendant.

TANNER: Where?

HALDEN: Times Square.

HALDEN: We drugged her. So she wouldn't remember.

TANNER: Try harder.

HALDEN: There was no need to kill her.

TANNER: Then where is she?

HALDEN: Come on Tanner, think this through.

TANNER: Then you had her killed.

HALDEN: Why would I do that?

TANNER: To hide the evidence.

HALDEN: What did he tell you?

TANNER: The truth.

HALDEN: Not his style.

TANNER: Katie was digitized.

TANNER: Who did he digitize?

HALDEN: Listen to yourself. Digitization. You know that officially that's a pure fantasy --

TANNER: -- Who did he digitize?!

TANNER: Be a hell of a lot easier to digitize a real person, then strip them down to a module you can use to make as many employee programs as you need.

HALDEN: Yes, in theory, I suppose that would work.

TANNER: Christoph was in charge of designing building modules.

HALDEN: That's right.

TANNER: Then what's with all the staffing programs in his account?

HALDEN: Good question.

HALDEN: Christoph was a brilliant programmer, but very eccentric. He insisted it be kept vacant.

TANNER: Why?

HALDEN: He wouldn't say.

TANNER: What is it?

HALDEN: The Terrace. First building Christoph ever programmed for us.

TANNER: A hotel?

HALDEN: It's not used for anything.

TANNER: One condition.

HALDEN: What?

TANNER: The truth.

HALDEN: The only way to eject it is from the inside.

TANNER: You've got the keys, send someone in --

HALDEN: -- Christoph changed the maze.

TANNER: Because why the hell would you be interested in a program that allows people to live inside your machines? I mean how much profit could there possibly be from owning the universe and selling space in it to people who are dying, or people who are just God-Damned sick of this world --

HALDEN: -- Come on, you know F.C.O. regs. Anyone caught with their R and D hand in the bio-digitization cookie jar spends the rest of their life in federal penitentiary. It's not worth it.

TANNER: Corporate fingerprints all over it.

HALDEN: Of course they are. Christoph was stealing every piece of code he could get his hands on.

TANNER: And you weren't involved.

TANNER: Try harder.

HALDEN: Christoph had spinal cancer. His body kept rejecting gene therapy. He was desperate. It was him, it wasn't us --

TANNER: -- I saw the program.

HALDEN: You're jumping to conclusions.

TANNER: He's not plugged-into the system. He's in the fucking system!

TANNER: We can be there in fifteen minutes and rip him off the system.

HALDEN: Go!

TANNER: He had access to the keys --

HALDEN: -- Yes.

TANNER: Won't be time if he gets access --

HALDEN: -- He won't.

HALDEN: Two maze runners.

TANNER: Someone sends the kid a copy of the access program, then runs the maze at the same time the kid does, using the same codes.

HALDEN: Doesn't make sense. How the hell does some fucking teenager get to the keys?

TANNER: Sorry, I just design the maze. Keeping the keys secure is your job.

HALDEN: Get some internal police there. Tell them to run a perimeter.

TANNER: But have them wait for me 'till they move in on him.

TANNER: He had keys.

HALDEN: Of course the legend would like to think that. But no one has keys. Your maze was run.

KATIE: I'm sorry.

TANNER: Sorry?!

KATIE: There was no other choice.

KATIE: I wasn't with you.

TANNER: I know.

KATIE: But you were with me.

TANNER: Not you. A copy.

KATIE: What's the difference?

TANNER: What?

KATIE: Way you kiss me.

KATIE: And it meant something.

TANNER: Yes.

TANNER: To see how long it would take for me to realize.

KATIE: Realize?

TANNER: You weren't real.

KATIE: Why?

TANNER: It was a test.

KATIE: For what?

KATIE: You said we were on the same programming team.

TANNER: Yes.

KATIE: But I don't know anything about programming.

TANNER: Once they digitized you, they added it.

TANNER: That's why they told you you can't go inside. They can't have you running into her.

KATIE: Her?

TANNER: Identical. One's you. One's digital.

KATIE: That's not possible. No one can do that.

TANNER: Corporation can.

TANNER: We worked together on the inside. You were on my programming team --

KATIE: -- The inside?

TANNER: Night City.

TANNER: Most nights you wake up crying. Never knowing why.

KATIE: Who are you?!

KATIE: You went to my high-school?

TANNER: No.

KATIE: Then how do you know about --

TANNER: -- You told me.

KATIE: What are you talking about?

KATIE: I'm sorry sir, we need your debit card before we can issue a credit --

TANNER: -- Katie.

KATIE: Someone you have to get back to?

TANNER: No.

TANNER: I've got to get back.

KATIE: Tanner.

KATIE: What brings you inside?

TANNER: Cleaning up a mess.

KATIE: Some things never change, do they?

KID: Don't know what you're talking about.

LAWYER: Of course you do. And the only shot you've got of keeping your ass from sinking in a sea of shit is to tell me where you got this program.

KID: It was just there.

LAWYER: There?

KID: My uni-net account. I log on. The program's there.

LAWYER: Just like that?

KID: Just like that --

LAWYER: What's so funny?

KID: This. No point to it.

LAWYER: Why not?

KID: Because you'll never believe me.

LAWYER: Try me.

KID: Don't know what you're talking about.

LAWYER: Of course you do. And the only shot you've got of keeping your ass from sinking in a sea of shit is to tell me where you got this program.

LAWYER: Care to tell us how you came into possession of an illegal access program?

KID: Look, I'm doing mute 'till I have a mouthpiece here who's on my side.

LAWYER: You don't need a lawyer. We found the program on your laptop.

TANNER: Connect to public access.

SYNTHETIC VOICE: Access established.

TANNER: Select uplink for Federal Communications Office. Department of Enforcement.

SYNTHETIC VOICE: Uplink selected.

TANNER: Program name?

SYNTHETIC VOICE: Resurrection.

SYNTHETIC VOICE: Standard, modern, upscale --

TANNER: -- Standard.

SYNTHETIC VOICE: Scanning body type.

SYNTHETIC VOICE: Access granted. Male or female?

TANNER: Male.

SYNTHETIC VOICE: Waiter, busboy, Maitre-De --

TANNER: -- Waiter.

SYNTHETIC VOICE: Connection approved. Ready to transmit --

TANNER: -- Transmit now!

TANNER: Transmit copy of program via satellite north uplink.

SYNTHETIC VOICE: Destination?

TANNER: Tanner-eighteen-six-two-nine.

SYNTHETIC VOICE: Checking connection.

TANNER: Voice activate.

SYNTHETIC VOICE: Activated.

TANNER: Program name?

SYNTHETIC VOICE: Resurrection.

TANNER: Describe program function.