01x07 - Almost Blue

[bunniefuu]

No way. You're only 23?

Looking like that?

What's that supposed to mean?

I thought you were at least

28 or 29.

So that makes us the same age.

- Huh? Hold up, you're 23 too?

- Sure am.

Seriously?

I can't believe this.

I had you pegged being

somewhere around 40.

40?

Okay, so how old are you,

Chris? Maybe 30?

Don't be stupid,

I am not that old.

Then 26 or 27?

Nope. No comment.

Anything I say is just gonna

let you narrow it down.

- You paused there for a second.

- That means he's probably right.

I guess I better start using

"ma'am" around you.

Don't even think about it.

Since we're sharing,

I'm 16 years old.

God, could you be

any more annoying?

Ow, ow. Cut it out.

40?

All done.

What exactly

is that supposed to be?

Something he found

lying around the armory.

And now he some great idea

of using it for the barbecue.

Don't you think that's

a little dangerous?

- 40?

- Here we go.

- Wow.

- Whoa.

What was that?

Hm? A fire?

Nah, couldn't be.

Earlier today,

the very last ice floe

in the Arctic broke apart.

Oh, my God.

Wow, so the North Pole's

finally gone for good?

It's all over the news

right now.

Check this out.

This video is going viral.

-According to my calculations,

precisely 3 years from now,

the ice in the North Pole

will melt and be lost forever.

It's been 3 years to the day

since he made that speech.

For real?

So then everything is playing

out as Skinner predicted.

Some people are even starting

to treat him

like a prophet or a God.

But they were just calling him

a t*rror1st the other day.

Forget terrorism.

It's possible this could

escalate into World w*r III.

And now it look

like Hapna is old news.

Yeah, you said it.

If Skinner's telling the truth,

there's only 15 days left

until the first deaths occur

Ya'know, a world w*r might wipe

out humanity before Hapna does.

That's not very funny, Chris.

Hm? Oh, Ms. Hersch.

Sorry I'm late.

Let's get started.

Sadly, we're back to square one.

Even the FBI agents who

raided that cult,

the Tower of the Truth, couldn't

find anything tied to Skinner.

Very unfortunate.

Their deity, Naga,

was indeed an AI modeled

after Skinner's brain,

but the bureau concluded

that the man himself

wasn't involved in any way.

So, all that for nothing.

Okay, then, what do we do now?

In times like these, it's best

to go back to where we began.

- What do you mean?

- First off,

we should take another look

at Skinner's video.

Hm?

Nope. Not food.

Nor do I intend

to unilaterally decide

what the fate of

humanity will be.

All I am doing is serving

as the Seventh Trumpeter.

Wait, pause it.

What's he mean?

What is the seventh trumpeter?

It's part of the New Testament.

John, one of the apostles

of Jesus,

was given a vision

of the future by God

which he wrote about

in the Book of Revelation.

What's supposed to happen?

Volcanic eruptions,

meteor storms, and w*r.

In the Book of Revelation,

God, enraged by

humanity's arrogance,

brings down all sorts

of disasters on them.

Yikes.

Sounds like what's

happening to us now.

Angels each sound

their trumpet

warning of the next calamity.

And then,

after the seventh angel blows

its trumpet,

final judgment gets delivered

upon humanity.

Ah, that makes sense.

So that's why Skinner said he's

blowing the seventh trumpet.

Ah, there goes the timer.

I'll be right back.

Hey, so when did the other

six trumpets get played?

Good question.

Alright.

The analysis is complete.

The weather's

not very good today.

Plus, the sun will

be setting soon.

It's better if we leave tomorrow

instead. What do you think?

- Set sail.

- You sure?

We don't have the luxury

of believing in tomorrow.

You should know that.

What's that thing?

A memory drive

extracted from Naga.

And what are these numbers?

I assume it's the final output

of data it created.

So it's like Naga's

dying message?

Possibly.

This may have been its way

of trying to communicate to us.

Like telling us the name

of its girlfriend?

- Take this seriously.

- Whatever you say, chief.

That looks like a phone number

to me.

So, let's call it

and find out.

Huh? Just like that?

Perhaps it's some kind

of alpha-numeric code.

I'll run it through

my decryption software.

Or maybe they could be

map coordinates.

Huh? Ramen shop?

Sorry, I must have

the wrong number.

"Hafurrowfoohee

minminary furolee."

- What the heck?

- It doesn't make any sense.

Ah.

Found them.

So they're coordinates?

Like, latitude and longitude?

Yeah.

It's used in the military.

It's the UTM coordinate system.

Here are the four locations

they point to.

- Hm?

- Hm?

- So, uh

- Something's not right.

They all point to the middle

of the ocean.

Huh.

The Maldives, Manila Bay,

the Sakishima Islands,

Tuvalu.

I'm stumped.

Hold on.

Didn't these islands get

submerged about 10 years ago?

Now that you mention it

Are you saying these spots

used to be islands

instead of water?

Actually, these might be

Yeah, I was right.

Skinner bought land

in all four of these areas

right before they sunk

into the ocean.

He did what?

Why would he buy

sinking islands?

So is this what Naga

was trying to tell us?

Aw, man.

This is so confusing.

All this yapping

isn't getting us anywhere.

Let's take a boat ride.

Aloha ocean resort.

What are the odds

that Skinner is hiding

in one of those 4 locations?

It's hard to say

why he would be there,

But I'm sure there must

be some sort of reason

that he purchased

all of that land.

Sounds interesting.

The only problem is that

the islands are now submerged

because of global warming.

So we don't have

that many clues to follow.

Understood.

And while I have you,

do you have time

to meet me for coffee?

How interesting.

I didn't know

you liked Rembrandt.

Or maybe you just wanted to come

to a place

that hasn't been bugged?

- Not at all.

I want to appreciate

Rembrandt's artwork

one last time

before the end of the world.

That's very sentimental.

I'm just that kind of guy.

The same guy everyone sees

as a coldhearted pragmatist

and who actually might be an AI

instead of a regular

human being?

First time I've heard that.

I'll be back in an hour.

Hey, Abel?

Don't let sentimentality

k*ll your career.

You don't have to

tell me that, Liz.

Okay. See you in an hour.

Reporting in from the Maldives.

Just 12 more minutes

until I reach the target.

Roger. I'm currently over the

mouth of the Santa Maria River.

The plane's about to land.

I just left Ishigaki Island.

I'll be at Taketomi Island

in 10 minutes.

I've already made it to Tuvalu.

I'm gonna go ahead and dive in

and take a look around.

Talk soon.

Here we go.

Oh. Oh.

Who the hell is that?

- Is this it?

- Yes, sir. Right on the mark.

Just as I thought, nothing here.

Hey, guys, this is

completely unrelated, but

is Lazarus going to get

disbanded after we find Skinner?

Of course.

That's the sole purpose

of our team.

I was just thinking

that would be kind of a shame,

you know?

And? Are you saying

we're better off

not catching Skinner?

Sounds like you would rather

see the end of the world.

No, that's not what I meant.

I just

I gotta say, I totally forgot

how blue the sky and sea are.

Yeah, I don't remember the

last time I saw a clear sky.

That's because Babylonia City

is always cloudy.

It's like that everywhere

these days.

The only beautiful places left

are those without humans.

You know,

maybe this is something

Skinner wanted us to see.

So this is what

the earth really looks like

and we're destroying it.

The first six trumpets

have already sounded.

Who can really say

that Skinner is wrong then?

How was it?

A buncha nothing.

It's been 10 years now.

Everybody here packed up

and moved to another island.

Oh?

What happened there?

Oh, a bunch of flying fish

jumped out,

and one of them hit me.

Wow. Sounds like it hurts.

Not one bit.

It's an insensitivity disorder.

I was born with it.

- Huh?

It makes me unable

to feel pain,

so I don't know what it's like.

Oh, wow.

So you've never taken Hapna?

I never had a need to take it.

Cases like mine

aren't uncommon around here.

It's called analgesia.

What's up?

I just found out a

majority of the people

who lived on this island

suffer from analgesia.

Really?

Yeah, my guide is actually

a former resident.

He can't feel pain at all.

And guess what.

When he was little,

he remembers Skinner coming

to visit the island.

In the past,

we didn't have any money.

It was impossible

for us to move elsewhere.

But then

Mr. Skinner swooped in

and bought our entire island

from us.

So thanks to him, we had enough

money to start new lives.

Elaina, can you

trace where the money

that he spent on the

other islands went?

I'll try.

Damn it.

I still can't seem

to figure Skinner out.

Rembrandt is the painter

that many regard

to be the master of light.

In other words, he understood

that the true nature of things

depended heavily on

how they are illuminated.

He practically revolutionized

the world of art.

Okay then,

what is so important

that you had to bring me here

to talk?

I believe

that I owe you an apology.

What for?

Because I know how you feel

about Skinner,

and it's not a stretch to say

that I've taken advantage

of that fact.

Don't worry about it.

No one forced me to do anything.

I made my own decisions.

Of course, Doctor.

Why did he start

this whole thing?

And why did he leave me behind?

I need the answers

to those questions.

About the prison in Arizona.

The intelligence branch

of the army

has started sniffing around.

- For Axel?

- Yeah.

Plus, they're looking into

the incident

at the Schiphol Airport.

Axel is the one.

He can shed light on everything.

Skinner came to that

island 15 years ago,

for a drive

to receive gene donations.

Same story with

the other islands.

He bought up

all of their territory,

which gave the residents

enough money

to move away

and start new lives.

Whatever the case,

it's likely that this analgesia

was the origin of Hapna.

Do you know where he studied

the donated genes?

At the Hague Institute.

Skinner was a researcher there

at the time.

Interesting.

That place got shut down

after the incident.

I'll look for a list of people

who worked there

during that period.

I've been thinking, I betcha

Naga needed to understand.

Understand what?

Naga saw Skinner as its father.

It probably wanted to know

his intentions.

It feels almost like

we are experiencing everything

Skinner had gone through,

you know?

Actually, that might be

what he had in mind all along.

What do you mean?

He wants us to

feel like he felt.

Live our lives

through his experiences.

What you're really saying

all of us are just dancing

in the palm of his hand.

"The Raising of Lazarus."

Tell me something,

Dr. Hersch.

Do you somehow get

the impression

that Dr. Skinner sold

his soul to the devil

and became

a different person?

No, I don't.

I don't think he's changed

at all.

He's always been very sincere.

Practically to a fault.

But you can't survive

in the world like that.

And when I told him as much,

he replied,

"What exactly is so wrong

about a scientist

who is sincere and pure?"

Indeed.

Here's what I can say for sure.

He wants somebody

to search for him and find him.

Of course,

I'd like to believe that, too.

I've found a data archive.

It includes a list of

all the researchers affiliated

with the Hague Institute.

Huh?

What's wrong?

Well

Why?

Alexandra?

Is that you?

I ♪

I must be

losing my mind ♪

I keep on trying

to find a way out ♪

There's no need ♪

You don't lock the door

anymore ♪

I ♪

Ba ba, ba ♪

You know I

never go out ♪

Ba ba, ba ♪

And you know I

start to forget things ♪

It's okay ♪

They weren't

essential anyway ♪