01x01 - 2037: A Raven Story

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[speaker inhales deeply]

[sighs]

Is here good?

[operator] That works.

Okay.

[exhales sharply]

[sighs]

What happens when the corporations
that control our world

tell us we have
to go to 2.1, 2.2?

We can't.

[operator] Is there
anything you need?

[sighs] For people to listen.

[operator] Hologram going
live in three, two...

I was born in 2015,

when the world went to Paris
and was issued a warning.

Scientists told us way back then that
if the average temperature on Earth

increased beyond
1.5 degrees Celsius,

there would be
devastating consequences.

And they were right.
Just look around.

[reporter] Today
is July 16th, 2037.

The highly anticipated
climate change meeting, COP42,

continues today in Israel amidst
urgent cries for action and hope...

[speaker] Yet here
we are in 2037

considering the possibility
of an increase of 2 degrees.

[protestors] No!

[reporter, in Spanish] World
markets posted record gains today,

with demand for batteries and
pharmaceuticals leading the way...

[speaker, in English] But
what happens after two?

What happens when the corporations
that are destroying our world

say that our economies will fail

if we don't allow the temperatures
to rise by 2.1 or 2.2 degrees?

[protestors shouting]

Nick Bilton, CEO of
Alpha Industries,

is rumored to have invested in a new
casino project above the Arctic Circle.

Wherever the future leads, we
know we're going there together.

Bilton's partner in the enterprise is
none other than controversial developer,

you-know-who.

[speaker] Friends, Nick Bilton
is not coming to save us.

[protestors] No!

[speaker] We must
save ourselves.

[protestors shouting]

Inside that building right now, the powers
that be are negotiating your future.

[protestors shouting]

But you can't
negotiate with a fire.

[protestors shouting]

- Or a flood.
- [protestors shouting]

- Or a famine.
- [protestors shouting, cheering]

[protestors] If we go to 2,
it's the end of me and you!

If we go to 2, it's
the end of me and you!

A priest, a rabbi and an imam are
all fishing together on a boat

in the middle of a lake.

And the priest realizes he left
his fishing rod in the car.

So the priest, he turns to his colleagues,
and he says, "Hey, I'll be right back."

He gets out of the boat. He walks
across the water to the beach.

He goes to the car. He gets back across
the water and gets into the boat.

The rabbi is amazed. The
priest just walked on water.

About 30 minutes later, the imam
says, "I have to go to the toilet."

So, he stands up, steps out of the boat,
walks across the water to the beach,

finds the nearest men's room, walks back
across the water and gets into the boat.

The rabbi stares dumbfounded.

But he thinks, "Well, my faith
is at least as strong as theirs."

So, he says, "Uh... [stammers]
...I'm a little thirsty.

There's a... There's a snack bar
over there on the beach. Excuse me."

He stands up, puts his feet in the
water. Splash. Sinks like a stone.

- And then he...
- I told you that joke. That's my joke.

I love that joke.

And it's "refreshment
stand," not "snack bar."

Are you sure you wanna make
jokes your first day as a rabbi?

Yeah. Well, first of all, rabbis
are supposed to tell jokes.

And secondly, it's a perfect
description of the job.

That's what I'm doing. I'm helping people
find a way through difficult passages.

That's what I do at the center.

How are you helping
people with no homes

by sending them to other places
where they have no homes?

Dad, it's not their fault they don't
have homes. It's... They were...

I gotta get this.

- Hello, Junior.
- They were displaced.

[parent 1] Are you there yet?

[parent 2] Marshall, how
long has it been like this?

I can barely
breathe in this air.

Ugh. So much smoke
from the looting.

Um, no, Ma. There's no looting. That's
forest fires in Eshtaol and Tzora.

When you were born, we planted
trees there in your honor.

I was hoping to go.

Well, maybe if you guys come
back and visit for the holidays,

the fires will be out
and I can take you.

So, you're staying here?
That's what you've decided?

Yes, Ma. I... I told
you, I wanna stay.

I know. And I'm telling you, your
father has other expectations.

There are laws, Junior.
That's all I'm saying.

If the land is designated as
protected, then there could be issues.

[Junior] I have it
on good authority

there will be exemptions on
this protected lands bullshit.

[parent 1] How do you know?

How do I know? Oh, um, I have an app
on my phone that tells me the future.

Don't be such a... What
do you call it? A putz.

[parent 1] If Mr. Bilton
knows something ab...

No, I don't wanna discuss it on
this line, or any line, or email.

I'm gonna be back in Miami on
Friday. I can see you then.

Look, I wouldn't be here if Bilton
didn't want this to happen. Goodbye.

- [parent 1] I'm not back till Mon...
- [vocalizing]

- Where is that?
- What?

Outside. That doesn't
look like Russia.

It just says, "tropical." I mean,
I'm not even sure it exists.

Oh. [sighs]

Oh, sh*t! Look at it out there.

[singer] It's from the
forest fire in Ozera.

The firemen just quit over wages,
and it's burning out of control.

750,000 acres. That is
happening right now.

Well then, good
thing we're leaving.

Is there any special song
you want me to sing tomorrow?

Yes. One that makes people
wanna give me their money.

[news anchor] Protests have
erupted in major cities

across Europe and the US today
over the perceived lack of progress

at the Tel Aviv climate talks.

Issues on the table at Tel Aviv
include strengthening prohibitions

against development
in protected areas.

Could you turn this sh*t off?

Namaste, Hannah. Shall we begin?

- [inhales deeply] Om.
- [instructor] Om.

[person 1 pants]

- [person 1 coughing]
- [person 2 panting, coughing]

[person 1] Okay. [coughs]
Give me a minute.

[person 2] No, we gotta
keep going, Becca.

[pants] Why the
f*ck did I do this?

Get pregnant or take a job counting
ravens in the middle of the woods?

Maybe this is nature's way of
telling us to stop making babies.

Still an hour to the
evac spot. Come on.

[Becca] Ah, sh*t. You
were right. [pants]

We should've left yesterday.

Hey. It's not your
fault the wind shifted.

- [phone rings]
- [panting]

Oh, great. It's Omar.

Are you gonna answer it?

And say what?

Sorry, I can't talk right now,

I'm in the middle of a forest
fire with your unborn son.

Come on.

[Becca coughing]

[representative] Germany and Italy are
losing crops to drought and infestation.

Austria and Poland are dealing
with nationalist movements.

Raising the number of people the
EU is willing to take in right now

is a hard ask.

We need to focus on temperature.

So where do you suggest
we tell our people to go?

They have no water.

I think we'd all prefer
to solve the problems

that make people leave their
homes in the first place.

Agreed.

The goal here is
consensus on temperature.

Keeping it below 2
degrees is critical.

If the temperature goes up
2 degrees or 10 degrees,

it doesn't matter if
you have no water.

[in Arabic] You catch
more flies with honey.

Who are you right now?

An Algerian or a Frenchman?

[sighs]

[in English] We're willing
to support certain proposals

related to temperature and carbon as
long as our basic needs are guaranteed.

[representative] Can you elaborate
on the term "basic needs"?

Unlimited refuge in Europe?

Water. Water.

We'd like access
to state of the art

desalinization and
purification technology.

And what do you
mean by "access"?

The patents and designs developed
by Alpha Hydro Solutions.

You think Nicholas Bilton is
going to just give you his patents

because we ask nicely?

Okay. Drought leads
to instability.

Look at Sudan in '24.
Cape Town in '27.

Look at the west.
Argentina, 2033...

Look here. We have made
such progress in the region.

Israel and a Palestinian state
are living side by side in peace,

but it can still
all unravel so fast.

Is that a threat?

A threat?

[chuckles]

- [in French] No, it's an invitation.
- [phone vibrates]

[in English] I have to
take that call. Okay?

We need water.

[representative] Mr. Bilton does
not give things away for free,

so we need to be prepared for
what he will ask for in return.

We have 3,000 reservations already. Did
I tell you who's doing the interiors?

- You said Kanye. Still Kanye?
- Yeah! Yeah.

[both chuckle]

Oh.

[Junior slurps]

[contractor] I put
together a schedule.

From groundbreaking to
grand opening, nine months.

A wise man once said,

"What the bulldozers and dump
trucks do doesn't matter,

so long as they do a lot of it."

- [protestors shouting]
- Can you believe these people?

Hard to imagine they can march
with their heads up their asses.

They say ice sheet in Greenland
is gonna break down the middle.

- 79N ice sheet.
- Great, we'll build there next.

They say three-meter sea level
rise by the end of the century.

"They"? They also said the
same thing about Miami.

All we did was make a fortune
retrofitting the buildings.

And guess what? When it goes
up another couple of inches,

we'll retro-f*cking-fit again
and make even more money.

Here's what you need to
know about global warmings.

It will all go to sh*t at the end
of the century. One hundred percent.

We'll be dead. We'll
have to miss it,

but we'll be smiling in gold-plated
coffins designed by Kanye.

- So, let's focus on the now.
- Mmm.

Top of the World Casino is gonna
be the best casino in the world

- 'cause there's nothing else like it.
- [dance music playing]

Holy sh*t. [chuckles]

Would you look at that?

If we go to 2...

[Junior chuckles] Oh, thank God.
The trolls finally shut her up.

[crowd shouting]

[laughs]

[Marshall] So then you're planning to
keep it empty for the foreseeable future?

Never mind, Marshall. Forget it.

I'll go ride a bike in
the gym or something.

[Marshall] Yes, I understand.

- At least there's no soot there.
- [Marshall] Yes, thank you.

Okay... [sighs]
...here's the deal.

[stammers] With the
drought and the fires,

they think that filling the
pool would be insensitive.

They're worried
about the protests.

They're using the pool water
to put out the forest fires?

A Lebanese man set himself on
fire at the camp yesterday.

Was he protesting
me swimming laps?

I know you don't follow
this kind of stuff,

but a lawyer, David Buckel, in
Brooklyn, did the same thing in 2018.

Self-immolated to
protest climate change.

- And did it work? Does it ever work?
- [Marshall] Define "work."

I-I-It showed that the world is
in pain. That change is needed.

The world is always in
pain, and it never changes.

But to answer your question, work is
something you get paid for. A job.

- And then there's how the world works.
- Well, I get paid in more than money.

Dad, the people here need me.

That's why I am planning
on staying in Israel.

The people who are lighting
themselves on fire need you?

Those people need psychiatric
help and fire extinguishers.

- Why does nothing I say matter?
- [parent] You asked for my help.

You said you wanted to be a rabbi,
so I paid for you to come here,

- now you're a rabbi.
- Yes, I appreciate that.

And then I set up the interview
at Temple Israel in Miami.

Don't remember asking you
to do that one, but okay.

I paid for the wood tick eradication in
their summer camp up in the Catskills

when the Ellenberg
child got ill.

I appreciate that too.

[parent] And because
of what I did for them,

they are now offering you
the position of Youth Rabbi.

That's how the world works.

[Becca panting]

[Omar] I want to speak
to my wife, please.

[person] Low visibility along...

- Hi, baby. Bad timing, I know.
- How long till they get to the hospital?

Let me call Dr. Kilmer
to make sure...

[Becca] She had to evacuate.
Her daughter's asthmatic.

[paramedic] BP 152 over 97. Dr. Shearer,
that's higher than we'd like it to be.

Wh... Who was that?

[Omar] What's happening,
Becca? I'm coming.

No, just stay where
you are, okay?

- We'll...
- [paramedic] How far along are you?

Just see what the
doctor says, okay?

- But you just told me...
- Thirty-one weeks.

Dr. Kilmer isn't even there.

[friend] They just put her on oxygen.
I'll call you as soon as we land.

But she's going
to be okay, right?

She's not in danger or anything?

[phone beeps]

- Hello? Hello?
- [security guard 1] Stop!

[all clamoring]

- Let me through!
- [alarm blaring]

[protestor shouts]

[protester] I am the
alpha. I am the omega.

I am the air that you breathe
and the water that you drink.

I am Nick Bilton, and
I own this planet.

[electronic voice]
Mr. Bilton? Mr. Bilton?

In addition to the countries
previously mentioned, Mr. Bilton,

Egypt, Jordan, Bahrain, Kuwait
and Sudan would also be candidates

for the water
desalinization patents.

The lawyers are reviewing the
legality of such an offering,

but Alpha Hydro Solutions
wanted you to know

that giving away the patents
would amount to a net loss

of over 2.7 billion euros.

[Nick] Where are we
at with the Arctic?

The Arctic Council is open to your
proposal on underwater mining,

pending UN approval.

I'd like to know the total amount of
acreage burning worldwide at this moment.

And I'd like to know what
our people think of 79N

and what it means for sea level
change in Mumbai, Guangzhou, and...

and Miami.

Yes, Mr. Bilton.

[reporter] Models differ on the future
of the 79N glacier in Greenland.

Although all agree the giant glacier is
melting due to extreme heat and friction,

it is unclear if a catastrophic collapse
is days away, or possibly years.

[vocalizing]

Any idea what she's watching?

f*ck if I know. She's
probably shopping.

If you really wanna know, I am
watching the video for my new single.

It's just me in front of a
fireplace on this fur rug,

and I'm wearing nothing but
whipped cream and a smile.

And then in one hand I'm holding a
riding crop, and in the other, a leash.

And there are these
four supermodels.

And there's this
really nasty beat.

You would like
that, wouldn't you?

She likes fur? I know a guy
who still gets polar bear.

They have a thing in Alaska
now called a pizzly bear,

comes from a grizzly bear
f*cking a polar bear.

A friend of mine shot one last
year. Any bears on the island?

No, mainly just rocks.

The construction guy says
sometimes a walrus swims by.

You want me to ask about pizzly?

- Walrus?
- Yeah.

Maybe the casino should
offer safaris as well.

It could be you with this great
big bear, waving at people,

"Come to the Top of the World
and make a k*lling." [roars]

[Hannah] Go ahead. Check
it out. It's super hot.

[reporter] Record heat is being blamed
for the spread of wildfires worldwide.

Over 20 million acres have
already burned in that...

[Becca panting] Just talk to me
about something. Just distract me.

Okay. Okay, let me think

f*ck, anything!
Anything, just...

Um, uh... The lunch you had
with your mother last week,

you never told me how that
went? How's she doing?

- It never happened.
- What?

[breathes deeply] I
had a job interview.

With who?

Menagerie2100.

Why would you do that?

Because everything's
f*cking dying around us.

- Please, just distract me, please, please.
- Uh. [groans]

Just tell me anything. Tell me
a story. Pl... [exhales sharply]

Okay, okay. Um. Uh... Uh,
here's a story about ravens.

[Becca whimpers]

Long ago, back at the
beginning of the world,

Gray Eagle was the guardian of the
sun and the moon and the stars.

And back then, Raven
was a snow-white bird.

[panting, whimpering]

And one day, Gray Eagle's daughter
invited Raven into her father's house.

The total global population is projected
to reach nine billion this year.

- Those people are the ones in need...
- Hey. I'm flying home.

Of help, not the leaders of the world's
largest corporations who we must finally...

Are you crazy? You go
now and you miss Bilton.

We're so close. We
need you here, Omar.

She's at the hospital.

So then she's safe, no?

I need to be there.

And on what planet will you
and your new family live?

[sighs] What are you doing?

Going to be with my wife.
You can have my vote.

[protesters shouting]

[protestors] If we go to 2,
it's the end of me and you!

If we go to 2, it's
the end of me and you!

[guide] Welcome to 80 degrees
north and 55 degrees east.

Just a few years ago, this
was all covered with ice.

There's really nothing up here.

Exactly. That's what makes
it a great place to build.

It's all the nothing
you could hope for,

but in a year, you'll be
able to see it from here.

Ten stories, tropical gardens,
floor-to-ceiling smart windows.

Let's hope.

Hope? f*ck hope. Let's build.

Mr. Bilton is concerned with
this ice sheet in Greenland.

That's the ice sheet I
mentioned to you earlier.

- Nick really see it as a problem?
- One of two problems.

[Junior] Two?

[guide] I'll show you the other.

And again, there's a splash.

And as he's going down
for the third time,

the priest turns to
the imam and says...

"Do you think we should show
him where the rocks are?"

[audience laughs]

[chuckles] I left law
school a few years back

because I realized that the world
didn't need another Jewish lawyer,

much to the chagrin
of my father.

But we live in a time of crisis.

Not far from here,

environmentally displaced people
are in need of food and water.

And rest assured,

any leader who is not trying to
improve the situation is complicit.

It's like Elie Wiesel said,

"We must take sides.

Neutrality helps the
oppressor, never the victim."

[reporter] Controversy
erupted today at COP42

as tech tycoon Nick Bilton was
added to the list of speakers

at the conference's
closing ceremony.

Bilton has drawn the ire of
environmental groups in the past,

most recently over his rumored plans to
partner in a hotel development project...

[announcer] Flight 89 to
Newark International Airport

is now boarding at gate 48A.

[reporter] Last year at Davos,

Mr. Bilton said the following about
business and environmental regulation.

[Nick] It is entirely possible that
the limits we have created for business

are also limiting our ability to
solve the problem of climate change.

[Junior] Oh, this is bullshit!

What the hell are
they doing here?

My sister went through all of
this with the State Department!

Ben Zucker and the lawyers
went over all of this!

This is just... This is part of the,
uh... What the f*ck is it called?

The United Nations Convention for the
Law of the Seas and the Arctic Council.

Right! China aren't
even on the council.

And last time I looked at a
map, they're nowhere near here.

Actually, they have permanent
observer status on the council.

You're the chair, right? I
mean, Russia runs the council.

[contractor] Only until
the end of the year.

[guide] You can see
the issue right here.

Our parcel is connected by an underwater
ridge to an area they claim rights to.

You should really look at this.
They kind of are connected.

No, they're not connected, babe,

any more than Africa and
South America are connected.

Although I'm sure you could find
some as*h*le who feels the need

to put them back
together like a puzzle.

The Russians have been
here for years, okay?

The Canadians, the Danish.

Back when the US was dicking around with
the green wet dream, I was planning this.

Pompeo gave a speech
about it in 2019.

Did someone forget to
take their meds today?

Please don't tell me you woke up this
morning and decided to quit being famous

so that you could
become a geologist

or whatever the f*ck you would need
to be to know they're connected.

You invited me.

I'm gonna call my sister.

The boat's called Bing Zhànshì.

The "Ice Warrior."

Wow. [in Mandarin]
I'm impressed.

You speak very well.

A lot of my fans speak it.

Does he?

[in English] Are you kidding?

[chuckles]

[Junior] Hey, it's me.

Uh, you're probably asleep, but
I'm waking up to a world of sh*t.

So, I'm up at the island, and apparently
there's a dispute with the Chinese.

Someone is gonna turn a lot of
profit from these glaciers melting,

and it's either gonna
be the US or China.

So if you are feeling patriotic,
I suggest you call me back.

I need you to get in touch
with Secretary of State Rubio.

Tell him I'm up at the Arctic Circle
with my pants around my ankles.

f*ck!

- [crowd laughing]
- [Marshall laughs] What is this?

[singing in Arabic]

What does it say?

[friend] It's Arabic
for mazel tov.

All that means mazel tov?

[laughs] Well, the rest of it is
the kids saying they love your son.

- So cute.
- They're planning a party

in honor of Rabbi
Zucker tomorrow.

Well, we're both excited to see the work
that you and Marshall have been doing.

We're discussing
a second facility.

I think Rabbi Zucker would make a
great director of faith-based services.

[Ben] I'm sure he would be,

but he's already accepted a
position as Youth Rabbi in Miami.

Dad, I don't want to move back to Florida.
How many times do I gotta tell you?

There are people in Miami, people with
whom I have long relationships with,

who are offering
Marshall an opportunity.

You can't turn it off for
even a single moment, Ben.

The joke about the rocks, I
taught him that. Excuse me.

Hello, Junior.

I think when he sees the work that
you've done, he'll understand.

Let's hope so.

- I wanna go fix my face. It's so hot here.
- [Marshall] Yeah.

- [laughs, coughs] Excuse me.
- All right, Mom.

Wait, I'm confused.
You're going to Florida?

Yes, sir.

[Junior] How do I get the
Chinese out of my Arctic?

The Chinese? I know
nothing about the Chinese.

Well, they're parked out
in the bay, taunting me.

Junior, I'm not a lawyer. I'm
just your business manager.

But if they're not actually on the
island, they may be within their rights.

It sounds like we may
have a real problem here

- with the Arctic Council.
- Ben. Ben, Ben.

You don't call Bilton with problems,
you call him with solutions,

which is why I just
called my sister.

[panting]

Yes, I know Bilton is the
richest man on earth, I do,

but what I don't know is if that puts
him in a position to change treaties.

Help! Somebody call a
doctor! Hurry, now. Please.

[Junior] Ben. He's
Nicholas f*cking Bilton.

He can change you and
I into poor people.

[Marshall] Mom? Mom,
can you hear me?

Hey, Mom, squeeze my
hand if you can hear me.

- Hey, Mama. Mom.
- [Ben] Isabel.

I-Is-Is somebody coming?

[Marshall] Dad, do something!

Get... Get help! Mom!

[bystander] She
has a pulse, Rabbi.

Come on, Mom. Mom, stay with me.

- [device beeps]
- [guide] It's all going as planned.

He's still under the impression that
you are interested in the hotel business

rather than what's
beneath the ground.

Quite frankly, he is clueless.

All we need now is UN approval.

O-One more thing, sir.

Do you know if he's romantically
involved with the woman trav...

- [groans] Delete message.
- [device beeps]

[electronic voice] Chief
Counsel Hampton for you.

Send them in.

[Hampton] Are we really
considering waiving our patents?

Have you seen what's happening?

Markets, please.

Nickel is up 5.6%. Cobalt
up 7.7. Copper, way up.

All the base metals.

You were right. It's the fires.

The world is a desperate but predictable
animal. And it wants to run on batteries.

That makes Tel Aviv easier.

It's all just one giant, self-regulatory,
living feedback loop, isn't it?

Greenland, please.

And here we have our ice turning
into water. Adirondacks, please.

Trees turning into fire.

The solution miles
from the problem.

Or it's all just
chaos out there.

Either view presents
us an opportunity.

The man whose house is on fire is
incredibly easy to negotiate with, Mikey.

Didn't they teach you
that in law school?

[chuckles]

[inhales deeply] Time to go.

[Junior] Yeah, it's your
brother calling again.

Did you know that China has a
permanent seat on the Arctic Council?

- Did you?
- Do you expect me to wear this?

Call me back.

- [Hannah] Do you?
- Uh, that depends.

Do you really
expect to get paid?

Because if you do, let me remind you
of the deal that we both agreed on.

You would dress up as
a Christmas ornament,

sing your little song,
do your little dance,

I stick a shovel in the
ground, we all go home.

Next year, when you have a
100-night residency at my casino,

wear what the f*ck you want.

As long as you don't run
afoul of a global superpower.

What are you doing?

I wanted that one.

[laughs] Th... That one?

Oh, okay. Uh, I'll
get you another one.

In fact, you can have any rock
you want on the f*cking island

as long as it fits on the plane.

It was gold.

- What?
- Yeah. Jordan gave it to me.

He says it's everywhere, if
you know where to look for it.

Gold, copper, nickel. Yeah,
and there's one other one.

[sighs]

[Marshall, in Hebrew]
Thank you, Doctor.

I'm sorry I don't
have better news.

[Marshall, in English] Um, here's
what the doctor's saying, Dad.

[inhales deeply] She has a subdural
hematoma from the fall. Okay?

Um, her temporal lobe
appears to be involved,

so that is why she can't speak.

And so far, the extent
of the damage is unclear.

I'm sorry, Dad.

- Dad, do you understand the, uh...
- [mouthing] I'm on the phone.

[Ben] Just pull everything we have on
the Arctic development deal. Everything.

As well as all relevant
law of the sea statutes.

- Yes, and...
- Dad. Dad! Hang up the phone!

Marshall! That man and his family
have been a client for 25 years!

Twenty... That woman upstairs who
can't move has been your wife for 40!

[Ben] What? Marshall, where
are you going? Marshall!

[sighs]

[sighs, sniffs]

Are you still there?

[ice cracking]

[narrator] We may not be
able to stop extinction,

but what if we could bring
these creatures back?

Using the latest
genomic technology,

Menagerie2100 will save
what nature cannot.

We are committed to gene-capturing
the animals and plants you love,

and the ones you
never think about.

We project that by the
end of the century,

Menagerie2100 will be able to maintain
a vast library of all species,

preparing for the day when they
can be reintroduced to zoos,

parks and someday even the w...

[Becca] Lack of oxygen,
hypoxia. He wanted to come out.

Feel like he was safer inside.

He's lucky he has
such a strong mother.

[phone beeps]

Oh, he landed. [sighs]

He'll be here soon.

Thank you so much for staying.

[baby cooing]

Can I ask you something?

Sure.

On the helicopter,

you said you interviewed
with Menagerie2100.

So they decide what
species survive?

- Give up on now. Hope for the future.
- [sighs]

And you wanna help with that?

Come on. I mean,
you see the numbers.

The ravens are going away.

The bees are almost gone.

We're on track to lose a
third of life on Earth.

Everyone wants to play
God but God, I guess.

Maybe it's better than playing
funeral director for the Park Service.

I don't know.

The fires are spreading
further north.

All the way up to
Whitefeather Forest.

- They're evacuating Pikangikum.
- Oh, my God.

My mother wants to know
where she can go that's safe.

[Becca sighs]

I'm not sure safe
exists anymore.

Here, take this.

I think it helped.

Keep it.

Ask your friends at Menagerie if
they have a plan to bring us back.

[door opens, closes]

[Hannah] Ow. sh*t.

So, are we groundbreaking
or rock collecting?

Nickel, copper, what was the
third? Cobalt? Was it cobalt?

- I don't remember.
- Because that's why the Chinese showed up.

Batteries. That's what
they want, batteries.

That look like copper
to you? That line?

I don't know. I'm not a miner.
I'm a singer and an actress.

Great.

Then there's just a chance I'm wandering
around a beach staring at f*cking rocks.

[smacks lips] Here's an idea, why
don't you ask somebody who knows?

How come Jordan
knows and you don't?

Okay. So, if Jordan
knows, Bilton knows.

And I b... I bet you our deal is just for
hospitality development only, not mining.

Then we're out.

We're just out. Lost
between the laws.

Just bent over by the fine
print. Castrated by contracts.

'Cause who's going to stay in a hotel
with a view of a f*cking copper mine?

So does this mean
I'm not singing?

[Becca] That line there,
that's the heart monitor.

I don't know. They
seem really concerned.

We knew the risks, Becca. We
are all filled with plastic now.

Maybe my sperm is defective.

No, I don't think this was you.

I think I did this to him.

Did what?

He's here.

I'm here. You're here.

I was out in the
woods saving birds.

I should have been
protecting him.

And I left a climate summit
to be with my family.

Are we bad people?

[chuckles]

I guess we can ask
him when he grows up.

- [baby cries]
- It's okay.

Okay.

I called the chairman of the
board at Temple Israel in Miami.

They want to introduce you
officially to the congregation

- during the High Holidays.
- Dad.

I bought you a ticket,

but they're gonna need your passport
number and your vaccine status,

- because g*dd*mn dengue is back and...
- Dad, can you listen to me for one minute?

There are people here
who depend on me.

You saw those kids.

You have a mother
who's in the hospital.

She's got a brain injury.
She can't use her arms.

She can't form sentences.

She's gonna need a great
deal of care back in Miami.

I understand.

Do you? Do you, Marshall? Do you
know how much that woman loves you?

Because if you did, you
would come back home with us.

I love her.

"Honor your father
and your mother,

so your days may be long upon the
land of the Lord your God gives you."

Dad, what is happening right now? You're
quoting the Ten Commandments to me.

Do you r-realize that...

That she would never even have been
here walking around through the smoke

if it wasn't for you?

[scoffs] Ooh, Dad. [sniffles]

Glad she didn't have
to hear you say that.

I really am glad that her brain does not
have to try and make sense of that one,

because mine sure can't.

She needs you.

[Marshall] You
gonna answer that?

Are you?

I need you!

- [sighs]
- [door closes]

[crying]

[breathing heavily]
I need you! [cries]

[protesters] The world is on
fire! And Bilton is a liar!

Hell is upon us,
ladies and gentlemen.

We are living in a disco inferno

where the music is cooking on a
dance floor right beneath our feet.

The oven below is slow and low,
and we are still not learning.

Where did the
undying yearning go?

2 degrees.

2 degrees will cook
the fool out of you.

What are you willing to do?

[protestor] The world's on fire!

[speaker] What are
you willing to do?

Net-zero now...

How many more?

- [speaker] Don't give a f*ck about how.
- [officer] Hey, sir.

- [speaker] Net-zero now.
- Net-zero.

[speaker] I say, save
the planet somehow.

- What's it gonna take?
- [speaker] Net-zero now.

I say, save the planet somehow.

Or it will save itself from you.

[reporter] I spoke
privately to a delegate

who expressed their frustration as
we enter the final evening of COP42,

where the real possibility of
raising the temperature ceiling

above the previously agreed
upon limit is now up for debate.

Both the United States and China,
as well as Russia and India,

seem open to this idea...

I wanted to tell you
how I decided to vote.

It's all become
very complicated.

What does that mean, "complicated"?
What decision did you make?

[sighs] I think I may
have made a mistake.

[announcer] Please
make your way...

You need to tell me, what
decision did you make?

[voter] I fear I traded
the future for the present.

- I agreed to an increase.
- [sighs]

[protestors shouting]

[protesters] The world is on
fire! And Bilton is a liar!

[Mikey] It's done. All parties
agreed to our proposal.

Exemptions for patents.

You never really cared
about the casino.

The whole island could
end up underwater.

My father liked to gamble. I used to
go with him to Monaco when I was young.

He thought he was so very
clever when he beat the odds.

More clever, I think,
to control the odds.

[protesters shouting, chanting]

The lawyers would like you not to
mention the Arctic mining exemptions,

at least not until
after the vote.

Of course not. Today's not about
the exemptions. Today's about water,

and how Alpha is solving the drought
and the resulting refugee problem.

- Tomorrow, however...
- The world is on fire!

And Bilton is a liar!

[protestors shouting, chanting]

Hey, Bilton!

[protestors] The world is on
fire! And Bilton is a liar!

This is on you!

[crowd screaming]

f*ck.

[Becca] When Raven saw the sun and
moon and stars and fresh water,

he knew what he should do.

He waited for his chance.

And when no one was looking,

he stole all of them.

And a brand of fire too.

It made so much light.

I don't know what to do, Mom.

[Becca] That he was able to
fly far out to an island...

in the middle of the ocean.

And when the sun set...

he fastened the
moon up in the sky

and hung the stars around
in different places.

[Junior scoffs]

Bullshit.

And then when he
flew over the land,

he dropped all the
water he had stolen.

It fell to the ground

and became the source of all the
streams and lakes in the world.

And then Raven flew on.

The smoke from the fire he was
carrying blew over his white feathers

and turned them black.

And when his bill began to
burn, he dropped the fire.

Raven's feathers never were white again
once they'd been blackened by the smoke.

And that is why Raven
is a black bird.

I like that story.

It isn't mine. I borrowed
it from a friend.

Bullshit.

[sighs]

[walrus grunting]

[chuckles]

[walrus barking]

- [walrus barking]
- [Junior] You are one lucky walrus.

If I had my g*n, you would
be... [imitates g*nsh*t]

[walrus growling]

- [walrus growls]
- [Junior screaming]

[flesh tearing]

[phone beeps]

[walrus snorts]

[walrus barking]

[protesters chanting] If we go
to 2, it's the end of me and you!

If we go to 2, it's the end...

[crowd applauding, booing]

Good evening, everyone.

It is an honor to be here and to be
included in these vital conversations.

Around the turn of this century,

climate change was described
as a symptom of capitalism.

A symptom.

I am here to suggest that
capitalism is also the cure.

So, today I can announce that I will
make the patents for desalinization

and purification of water available to
any country that can demonstrate the need.

[crowd applauding]

Additionally...

Additionally, Alpha will
join the Tel Aviv Accord

in committing to keeping the global
temperature increase in this century

as close to 2 degrees
Celsius as possible.

- With a ceiling of 2.3 degrees.
- [crowd booing, applauding]

Thank you.

What does an increase in global
temperatures by 2 degrees Celsius

mean to you and me?

It means that when the
temperature goes up,

our imagination must
increase even more.

[speaker] It means that when the sea
level rises, we must rise up as well.

It means that when forest
fires obscure the horizon

we must look toward each
other to find our way forward.

We cannot give up and go
home for one simple reason.

We already are home.
This is our only home.

[protestors cheering]

We're not f*cking giving up.

[sighs]