Sorry, Alice, I've turned a corner.
Well, I mean, I told you
Half an hour ago a courier delivered
a massive cheque from Vanth Capital.
What are you doing?
I'm stopping this.
Have you lost your mind?
She doesn't decide how
I live my life.
Where is she?
She left something for you
in case you came.
You know what it says?
No, of course not.
I might build up to it.
It won't change what's inside.
I've been in love with
somebody since 2007.
We tried dating but
it just did not work out.
Anyway, ever since then
we've just been friends.
It's kinda life-changing, isn't it,
when you just put
the self-absorption aside
and you focus on
the next generation?
You sound like a parent.
I'm gonna be.
You should be.
No, I'm actually going to be one.
My insemination's next Wednesday.
Well, congratulations.
Thanks.
You know she's gonna be calling
you, like, every five minutes.
I really don't think so.
Well, I do. Just don't get
sucked into it.
Don't get sucked right back into
that Alice Dysfunctionality Vortex.
Alice!
Alice. Oh, my God. Jesus Christ.
It's exhausting, isn't it,
being in love?
It's f*cking brutal.
There. Now this is
completely painless.
It will only take a few seconds.
OK?
Question. Yes?
Could Jack do that?
Well, legally, no.
No, I'm sorry.
Oh. It's all right.
But he can put his hand on
top of mine, if
How do you feel about that, Jack?
So we'd be hold
We'd be holding hands?
Yeah, just on top.
For this bit?
No, not for this bit, no. No.
For the next bit.
Yeah, OK.
Yeah, that'd be
Yeah, that'd be
Yeah.
Absolutely, yeah. No problem.
Yeah. Thanks.
Right.
Question. Yes?
Could Jack and I have
a moment alone?
Oh, well, of course.
Yeah. No, that's I'll just
..pop out. Thanks.
You OK?
Thank you.
#S
Scone?
LOUD BANG OK. Wow.
Mm, not exactly how I expected
the day going.
No.
Do you think anybody's ever done
that in here before?
Oh, God, I hope not.
D'you think we should, erm
Yeah, yeah.
They probably have
another appointment. Yeah.
God, what a colossal waste of money.
We could have gone to
f*cking Borneo.
Shh, shh, shh, shh.
Be careful!
Bye now! Thanks very much.
Fingers crossed.
Lovely to meet you.
Here we go.
Caffeine-free, obviously,
plus a little something to
keep your glucose up.
Thank you, and can you please
calm down?
If it is a pregnancy, definitionally
it's a high-risk one, so.
Those definitions are ageist.
So's life.
Works both ways.
My little guys need all the help
they can get too.
Your poor old-man sperm,
struggling to navigate upstream.
Yeah, all right.
Is there anything else?
No. Thank you very much
and please go home.
And I'll call you in
12-14 days with the results.
I'll also call you, like,
50 times between now and then.
I'm happy to stay.
I'm sure the couch is comfortable.
Do you like fussing over me?
Of course I do.
If I was laid up, you'd wait on me
hand and foot.
No, I wouldn't.
But I would hire someone.
And I'd be there also.
That's close enough.
Just think of me like any other
possibly pregnant lady.
Not a chance.
Jack?
Yeah?
Do you want to talk about
what happened today?
No.
OK.
Bye!
Jack?
Yeah?
Actually, can you stay on the couch?
Yeah.
Thank you!
I didn't hear from you yesterday.
I know. I'm sorry.
I was worried it had gone
south or something.
Yeah, no, it It was
It went
Oddly, it took
Yeah, it took an interesting turn.
Well, now you're gonna have to say.
Ah
Alice and I made love
on the insemination table.
Okey dokey!
Erm, golly.
Hm, yeah, I know.
Yeah, I
I don't really know how it happened
or what it means, or if it even
really means anything.
It could have been a one-off,
a valedictory
or maybe we crossed
a Rubicon again.
Or maybe we crossed it only
for a few minutes
and now we'll cross back
again, or maybe
So you're not sure.
Not sure, yeah.
But a non-clean slate just
got non-cleaner.
So I wonder if maybe we're
Hello.
Are you all right?
It's so funny
Your guys can swim.
Woohoo-hoo!!!
Whoa, Alice, comhghairdeas!
Comhghairdeas, comhghairdeas
comhghairdeas!
What are you saying?
That's Irish for congratulations.
Jesus, that takes so long to say.
I know.
I know.
Jack?
What?
I think, erm
I think I'm getting good at it.
You're good at what?
Like, real life.
If that's something that
you're interested in,
or anything that you
want to take a risk over?
Oh.
Can we think about it?
When have we ever not
thought about it?
Never.
My food's here. I've gotta
I love you.
Woo!
How are you feeling, love?
I'm feeling very well. Thank you.
Am I right in thinking the baby is,
like, the size of a fig?
That's right, yeah.
Next week, a lime.
So
So we did the standard
ten-week work-up.
And I need to tell you that
it showed some genetic abnormalities
that could be indicative
of an illness.
What kind of illness?
They could be indicative of cancer.
But the I mean
Cancer?
Yeah. How can they check that
when the baby's so small?
It's not the baby.
No.
It's not the baby.
It's you.
Hi, everybody.
Thanks for being here.
OK, this is Stage 4 bile duct
cancer with distant metastases.
The five-year survival rate is 2%.
Conventional therapy is already
under way at the point of attack,
but there are so many
Sorry, there are so many
points of attack that I believe
the only way to save
this patient's life is to harness
her own immune system.
Luckily, we have some
experience in that area.
Ah, in related areas.
OK.
This is CTLA-4.
It switches off our T-cells after
they've k*lled an infection
but before they start
attacking healthy tissue.
Without CTLA-4, our bodies would
basically m*rder themselves.
Cancer cells are clever f*ck.
They use CTLA-4 to fool our immune
system into thinking
everything's OK, and then
the cancer cells take over.
So what we are looking for is
a substance that stops
our T-cells from being fooled,
a tumour-specific form
of anti-CTLA-4.
Even if your theory is right
and the formulation exists
and somehow we find it, we'd still
have to work out how to
deliver it, and then put it through
trials, and then get it approved.
Someone'll do it someday.
Yes, maybe, if they've spent
a lifetime in cancer research.
You don't just swoop in and cure the
worst disease in human history
You don't if you don't try.
We did something similar
on Hashimoto's.
We knew where to look
on Hashimoto's.
And we got very lucky.
On this we're in a f*cking rowing
boat on an open ocean looking
for a drop of water with We've
got lightning-fast computers now.
They can process literally
hundreds of candidates a second
You're not being rational.
You're tilting at windmills, mate.
I've never known what that means.
That it's not gonna work, and
you're taking people
and machines away from Dengue Fever
and half a dozen other projects
we're this close on.
What are you telling me to do?
Are you telling me to let her go?
I'm telling you to let
the doctors do what they do.
They'll fail, Paul.
Their science is old. Blast away
with chemicals and radiation
and hope for the best.
Meanwhile the person suffers and
withers in front of you
and almost always dies anyway.
That can't happen to Alice.
If there's anything that I can do
I'm gonna do it.
What if there isn't?
Then I'll die trying.
OK? I'll die trying.
Look, it's not that I don't
understand. I'm sure I'd feel
the same way if, God forbid,
it were Donna.
If this was Donna we wouldn't even
be talking about it
because I would've been in
from the start.
OK.
OK?
OK.
Good man. I'll start the moment
I get back upstairs.
Good man. Just don't get your
hopes up in that way that you do.
This is still insane.
I have to have hope.
OK, well, hope. Just don't believe.
I have to believe.
Hello, miss.
Can I walk you home?
Yeah, you certainly can.
You shouldn't have done this in
the middle of a workday.
Ach, I'd spend every minute
with you if you'd let me.
Oh, that's creepy.
Yeah.
How'd it go in there?
You know.
We're all terminal. I'm just
a little more terminal than most.
OK. I, erm, called around
about your doctors
and they all check out,
but people seem especially keen
on Dr Anthony Cedarbaum
because apparently he rolls
with the punches
and he's a student of the game.
So that's good.
How are you?
I'm-I'm fine.
Mm-hm. Mm-hm.
Yeah, when was the last time
you slept?
Can we please not worry
about me right now?
Why not? It's a f*cking
excellent change of pace.
OK, the other thing.
All the sh*t online.
Do not google late at night,
but if you do google late at night -
as I admit maybe I was doing
recently -
don't get caught up in stupid
f*cking papers written by
Written by stupid people with
these ridiculous axes to grind.
It's a waste of time
and it'll drive you f
Mad. So.
Jack?
Yeah?
You wanna go somewhere?
Sure, yeah. Where do you wanna
..go?
You know where.
Cuba?
Our roof.
It's a long trip for you, Alice.
Yeah
Yeah, of course. I'll set it up.
Hey.
I've been
Yeah. Sorry. I've been
waiting for you.
I was gonna say that my instinct
is it's gotta be a protein. Right?
Mine too, because the monoclonal
antibodies are proteins.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. So that's the place
to start, then.
OK.
That's gotta be the place
to start, right?
Are you OK?
Yeah, sorry, traffic is, erm
Ah I'll-I'll call you back.
Just you keep
You keep doing what you're doing,
yeah?
Jack?
Hey, Lynn
Thanks for letting me
ruin your week.
Oh, well.
We circle the wagons, Cyril.
How are you feeling?
I'm grand. It's probably
just stress.
Yeah, yeah, exactly. I mean
Sure, we'll see.
Ah, how's Alice?
It's weird, Lynn.
I can tell she's, like, resigned
herself to the worst already,
whichI hate but makes sense.
She's always been one for the odds.
But she's still putting herself
through the chemo.
And God knows what else
after that. I just
I just can't work out why.
Well, for you, obviously.
Thanks for asking after her.
Aye, yeah, well.
I can't go around hating people.
Except for you, of course.
Of course.
You know, if you ever
actually met her
I think that
..you would really like each other.
I mean, let's not go crazy.
You know, I'm good and over you,
Jack. I can promise you that
But it doesn't mean
I don't love you.
And it doesn't mean
I don't want you wandering
the Earth making someone
else miserable.
Good morning to you,
Mr and Mrs Caine.
Oh, ah, it's Mr Caine and Ms Mixon.
We're not married. Well, we were,
but, erm, we're not any more.
I'm married tosomeone else.
You have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome,
a genetic disorder
of the connective tissue,
in your case of this piece right
here where the artery
meets your heart.
OK.
That sounds bad.
That looks bad.
Because it's an aortic aneurysm
which, had it gone undetected,
might have led to dissection,
which would have led to death.
But now that we know about it
we can keep it from k*lling you.
Jesus Christ. OK.
Your medical history says that
both your parents
died of heart attacks.
Mm. They did.
No, they didn't.
So what are my odds?
Assuming you behave yourself, 100%.
A hundred A hundred OK.
As I said, it's a syndrome,
not a disease.
You did say that, yeah.
Ha
Sorry to laugh. Just that was
a lot to
..you know. It's bad news,
but it's not
It's not terrible News.
News. Yeah.
You see all this?
This is you and me passing
into obsolescence.
Ach, we've still got some time left.
Oh, really?
Have you looked
in a mirror recently?
Because I did, and the ghost of
Marie Curie looked back
and told me I was f*cked.
Each of these servers is looking at
a different set of combinations
and permutations.
Normal proteins, novel proteins,
synthetic proteins,
a smorgasbord of proteins.
As you can see I chose yellow
for failure,
just for nostalgia's sake.
All we need is one that turns red.
Essentially, that's it.
The programs are up and running.
All that remains for the humans
to do is to stare at the screen,
contemplating their
technological unemployment
and maybe shout if anything
good happens.
Not even that, really, because about
85 alerts will just go off.
So you may as well just go home
and recuperate.
Mm. I don't like the word
"aneurysm."
Alice wants to go on a trip.
So go on a trip. It's a good idea.
I'll keep you updated.
I feel like I should be here.
Again, that's ego and neurosis.
She thinks it's gonna be
her last one.
You haven't told her, have you?
About the Ehlers-Danlos?
No, not yet. I will.
No, about this, Jack,
about everything we're doing here.
If it works she'll be my first
phone call, believe me.
And what if
If it If it doesn't
and I'd told her,
then I will spend the rest
of my life wishing that I hadn't.
OK?
Yeah.
OK.
Right, so the Paris leg will be
a piece of gateau.
Obviously.
Erm, and on the layover an agent
named Capucine or Capucina -
I got tired of asking her -
she'll be there to take you to
the fancy-person section
of the lounge.
And on the second leg, the long leg,
all your meals have been pre-loaded.
And I checked - of the 100-or-so
in-flight films
at least seven aren't based
on comic books. Mm.
All your documents are in your bag,
in the order you'll be needing them.
Don't get clever at immigration
because you might wind up
in the slammer, and then
there's nothing I can do.
Erm At the hotel,
tip like a sailor.
Bottled water only.
And the internet is still 3G.
So, yep, no public swearing.
Thank you.
You didn't need to do all of that.
It's just muscle memory.
Well, I love you.
What?
I said I'm not paying you.
Out of my way.
All yours. Move over.
You all right?Yeah
Yeah? OK.
Jesus!
What's wrong?
Nothing.
I don't like leaving Paul
in the lurch.
It makes me anxious.
Honestly, I don't feel anxious
about anything right now.
Really?
What's that like?
It's good. Oh!
Oh, for f*ck's sake!
What about now? Are you anxious now?
No.
f*ck, do you think he's hurt?
He didn't even spill his coffee.
Well, then what's taking so long?
What are they talking about?
Come on, lads.
Someone's not in holiday mode.
Because we're not yet on holiday.
We're watching these two fellas
have a chat.
Jesus Christ.
This is Oh, man.
This is not good.
You're looking at traffic.
It looks like my phone is bleeding.
It says if we leave now we get to
Heathrow in April.
Ohhh!
Jack, if we miss the flight
we'll just get the next flight.
There's No. There's, like
The next one's in two days.
I just want to be with you.
You know I just wanna be
with you too.
Good.
Why don't I ask the driver to take
our luggage back to my apartment?
I don't understand. What do we
What do we do?
Whatever we want.
Yeah.
OK?
Yeah.
So how are your tension levels?
Was a nine. Now a seven.
Ooh! Good.
Seven and a half.
Oh, my goodness. Do you know
what's on this street?
What?
My favourite house.
Where?
It's there. It's that white one,
with those windows.
Oh.
Beautiful, yeah.
Not your usual taste, though,
I wouldn't've thought.
I dunno, I feel like
I would've been ready for
something different, you know?
Yeah.
Something warmer.
I would've liked to have tried
to have kids again.
With you.
Yeah.
I wouldn't've have wanted
to raise them in my refrigerator
of an apartment, though.
I like your flat.
Hm.
Yeah, there's a time in life for
everything, isn't there?
But I feel like a kid needs a
A window in the bathroom,
for f*ck's sake.
That's fair enough. Yeah.
I can see us, though.
Two kids.
Them windows.
Can you?
Boys or girls?
Either.
Well, one of each,
if I could choose.
Mm.
Agreed.
Celia would have siblings?
Yeah.
The Caine-Long kids. Mm.
Yeah! Polite, charming,
more than usually funny.
Nice.
Oh, my God, do you want
a fizzy drink?
Do you?
f*ck, yeah, I want a fizzy drink.
It might be my last one.
My farewell fizzy drink.
I'll buy you one.
I'll buy you one.
No, I'll buy you one.
Let me buy you one.
No, I'll buy you one.
Alice, come on. Jesus Christ!
I'll buy you one. No, I'll get it.
No, it's OK. Cos I just wanna
Please don't do this!
Hello. Hi!
I'm gonna I'd like two
I'm about to pay for
..two fizzy drinks.
Mm-hm? When the kids are old enough
for us not to go totally bananas
and lose our minds,
we take them on holiday.
Where do we go?
Skiing?
No.
I've only been skiing once.
I nearly k*lled myself
and a bunch of other people.
It's not funny!
I think I need a friction-based
relationship
between myself and
the Earth's surface.
I need that with people.
I know exactly what you mean.
I'm aware. Ha.
Erm OK, no skiing,
but we'll go somewhere?
Mm-hm.
We'll travel somewhere. Where?
America!
No.
f*cking America. Donegal?
We certainly can. I've never been.
Yeah! Amazing beaches.
Amazing people.
Amazing coastline.
Amazing fiddle music.
It's amazing. Oh!
And if you know where to go
there's nobody else around,
apart from sheep and a few goats.
OK, and on day one the kids
learn to not
To stay away from the goats.
Mm. You make friends
but at a distance.
Yeah. They'll be good at that
if it's hereditary.
f*cking stop.
It's true!
And so what are we doing,
while the kids are avoiding goats?
We're gambolling.
You what? Gambling?
No. We're gambolling.
GamBOLLing? Gambolling! Yeah.
Gambolling.
Right? Show me your gambol.
I'll do a gambol
if you do a gambol.
All right. Yeah?
Mm-hm. OK.
Finished with your fizzy drink?
What in the actual f*ck?
You do it, then, go on!
No, I'll do you gambolling.
Don't do me gambolling.
You do you gambolling.
Yeah, OK. This is you gambolling.
That's "Oh,
I'm justgambolling,
"like Don't do the accent,
all right?
You do you gambolling, then.
I would just I would just gambol.
You know, like cool.
But that's not f*cking gambolling!
You've gotta put some
spirit into it.
I'd never go back to finance.
What do you do?
Charge ahead with philanthropy,
trying bit by bit to erase
the moral stain of wealth.
You?
I'm a lab rat till the day I die.
You'll have to drag me out
by my ankles.
I'd like to see that.
And then we see just little enough
of each other that when we do
it's, you know
It's still thrilling.
It's always thrilling, Alice.
People say at some point
the excitement fades away but
..with you it never has.
I feel like that about skiing.
And you. I should've led
with that. Yeah!
Maybe my mistake with skiing was
the same as my mistake with you.
I never learned to slow down.
Mm.
Well, I wouldn't wanna be one
of those couples who sits in silence
having run out of things to say
25 bloody years ago.
That's like a living death,
isn't it?
Which is arguably worse than
a dying death.
Maybe they're just content.
I don't trust content, you know.
Isn't content like
the younger cousin of
..bored shitless?
No. No?
What about when we're older,
like when we're 70?
When we're 80, 90?
Oh, well, when we're 70, 80, or 90
we begin, in a very
entertaining way,
to totally lose our wits.
Mm-hm. Chaos.
Absolute chaos.
How's your tension level?
When I'm 90 I hope it's zero.
I hope.
Do you know where we are now?
Yeah, we're a couple streets
from Celia's school.
Which you know because you've snuck
over there once or twice?
Which I do know because I might have
snuck over there once or twice.
Imagine her when we're 90?
Oh, my God, she'll have had
her dance career,
and she'll have been all over
the world.
And she'll be a diplomat.
A diplomat?
I think she'd be really good at it.
Oh, cause she's had the training.
Right, yeah.
I blame myself for that.
I blame me.
She's been well-loved, though.
And there's definitely worse things
than that.
Yes, there are.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
What's she What's she doing?
Well, she's meeting a boy, Jack.
She didn't tell me about that.
You think?
Do you think she'll be happy?
Yeah.
Do you think she'll see less
trouble than we did?
Yeah.
Maybe I should just nip over
and say hello?
No.
Unless you want to be reviled
for the rest of time.
Why don't you
Why don't you go over
and say hello? She loves you.
Nice try. she doesn't want
to see me either, Jack.
Can we go and get a proper drink?
Oh, yeah.
Can we get five?
Yes, we can.
OK.
OK, so we're 100 years old.
Well done, us. Woo!
And you're fine.
You're like a field horse,
but I'm on the fade.
What do we do?
Wego for a walk,
and we have a fizzy drink,
and we do what we did today
but in reverse.
We reminisce.
And you know how I would feel?
No.
I would feel exactly the same
as today, which is that
because you're here it's too soon.
It's too soon.
Do you think these hipsters are
looking at us thinking
we've run out of things to say?
If they are, they are morons.
Maybe content is OK, eh?
Why are you not
..angry, Alice?
Because I'm apoplectic.
Do you know what I thought when
they first gave me my diagnosis?
No.
I thought, "These people are
thieves, they're thieves of time."
But, erm
I don't want to spend the days
that I've got left
just being angry about the ones
that I'm not gonna have.
Jack
..are you gonna be all right
if I'm not one of these,
you know, 2 percenters?
No.
Are you?
Jack, I'm gonna be dead.
I think Technically, I think
dead's the opposite of all right.
Yeah, yeah. Sorry.
#S
Can I tell you a secret, though?
Whatever happens
..I think we're gonna see
each other again.
You think so?
Mm-hm.
Do you think I'm absolutely crackers
for believing that?
No. You don't think it's like
the desperate delusions of a
..nearly expired human?
No.
Do you remember that first night
that we met?
I do remember the first time
we met, yeah.
Do you remember what I asked you?
Yeah, you asked me f*cking
everything.
You asked me everything, all in
a row, like this.
Do you remember when I asked you
if you were religious?
Mm-hm.
I asked you back.
You never answered.
So are you religious now?
No!
Mayb I mean
Maybe. I don't know.
I mean, it's hard to find proof,
isn't it? Mm.
But I think there are hints.
You're saying you've had a hint?
I am saying that, yeah.
And what was the hint?
I'm looking at him.
That's Paul's ring.
Hm.
Just take it. Go on, take it.
Do you want the same again?
Oh, yeah, please.
Yeah. Thanks.
Paul.
Oh, it's you. I thought
you'd be on a plane.
I was expecting to leave a message.
No. Do you, ah
Do you have news?
No, mate. I'm sorry, I
I was just calling to tell you
we're through the first
hundred million candidates.
I was just keeping you apprised.
I'm sorry.
It's all right.
But, look, a hundred million down,
but billions to go.
So this is only the first of
approximately 17,000 phone calls.
She wouldn't want this, Paul.
What?
And it's not gonna work, is it?
We should spend her time
more wisely.
Stop it.
Go back to the other projects.
Stand down.
Are you sure?
Yeah.
OK.
OK.
Just in time.
Thank you.
To us.
Hm.
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