True Dark (2024)

[bunniefuu]

(heavy breathing)

(scared breathing)

(intense music)

So I figure you guys have some questions.

Who are you? Where am I?

Am I going to m*rder you? Right.

But look, I'm not gonna

answer those questions okay.

'Cause I don't want to, and

because I don't need to.

The sooner that you guys

understand the dynamic here,

the sooner that we can

get through all the sh*t

that we have to get through.

All right?

Okay.

(door opening, footsteps)

And now you have another question,

but this one I'll answer.

It's called interim.

It has many uses.

You'll find out about them shortly.

(injecting noise)

All right, now that that's

outta the way, let's begin.

Ah, what the f*ck is going on here?

Okay. Okay. This is crazy.

I don't know who you people are,

but you need to let us go right now.

Right now, right, right Now,

Why did you only inject them?

And what was it? What did,

what did you inject us with?

Can you, can, can you answer us?

No, I don't. I don't.

Is this real

Aisha baby? Are you okay?

Listen, everything's

gonna be fun, all right.

Oh, that's, that's real funny to you, huh?

Making people cry as funny.

How about you let me outta here

and I'll, I, I, I, I, I I'll wipe

that little smug a*s grin off your little

b*tch a*s face more.

No, no. I can't stand

to look at his face any f*cking

longer. Let's just go, bro. Why?

If you just calm down, Let's just go.

You're not, let's go see That. Let's go

Quiet.

(silence)

We are beginning.

Yeah. All right. Uh,

prepare yourselves, folks.

You're not gonna like this

sh*t.

What?

What are we beginning Your memory?

(wind chimes)

(wind chimes getting louder)

Oh, sh*t. (wind chimes stopping)

Did I scare you, bro? Yeah.

Just the absolute sh*t outta me.

You didn't hear me knocking

outside for like five minutes?

Yeah. There's no way you

were doing any kind of knocking,

Bro. Seriously? I,

what the hell is

that? What are you talking about?

It's art. That's not art, bro.

This is, is it a joke or something? Like

It's abstract.

Well, that's a word for it.

I mean, horrifying would be nothing.

Anyway, here, man, this

is, uh, Kylie's present.

Yeah. Thanks. Mm-Hmm.

Uh, speaking of, that's all you

plan on doing for a birthday.

I mean, Jesus, Brian, I'm

glad I'm not your girlfriend.

You don't even have balloons, bro.

You gotta have balloons. Balloons are sick.

Jesus Christ. Lamar,

what are you taking for,

there's birthday stuff

in the bag over there.

Balloons? Yes. Balloons. Okay.

Well, nice then. sh*t,

let's get this stuff set up

before Kylie and Aisha get here.

Aisha's coming. Uh,

I thought she had to work or something.

Yeah, I don't know. She caught out sick.

Um, okay.

That's okay. Yeah, Yeah, yeah. Of course.

All right. So first big

birthday dating Kylie.

You got anything special planned?

No. Nah, you know, you know Kylie,

she likes to keep things low key.

Yeah, man. That's what

we, were all just friends.

But you're the boyfriend now.

We got bigger responsibilities.

No, no, man.

She doesn't care about things like this.

It's fine.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

Yeah, I guess I'm just used to Isha, man.

You know how she gets around

her birthdays or anniversaries?

sh*t. Come to think about it.

I gotta figure out something to get her,

Um, balloons now.

Yeah. Uh, for sure. First, do

you have any, uh, beer, bro?

Do I have beer in? Call me. Oh,

Amen. No,

but seriously though, you

guys are good, you and Kylie.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely. We're great.

How, uh, how are you guys? Ah,

You know, same old, same old.

Actually, it's not true.

Things are good with us,

but Aisha's been acting real f*cking

weird for like a week or so.

Really? Yeah,

she, sh*t, bro.

I don't know why I did that.

These are my new kick around shoes, man.

Jesus Christ. Um, anyway. Why is that?

You sh*t been acting so weird.

Like, she, she's just been

real skittish with me,

and Aisha just does the most random sh*t,

like, okay.

The other night we're

watching a movie together

and she just randomly

starts turning off the TV

and I'm looking at her like,

what the f*ck are you doing?

And she just kind of

shrugs at me, you know?

And then sometimes, man,

like I, I swear she's seeing sh*t.

Like, she'll just be looking in a corner

and not looking at nothing.

Like she sees something there, you know?

You've been hanging with her.

Have you seen anything?

Brian, you good?

(bottle smash followed by complete silence)

f*ck Aisha. Something's going on. Brian.

I think he's going deaf or I'm

just gonna call 911. All right. Just

Relax, Don. No. Little more don't,

don't. I can hear again.

I'm okay. You're okay. What?

What the f*ck, bro? Is this some sort

Of joke? I, I, I

don't know what that was,

but I'm, I'm fine now.

I'm fine, man. This is so f*cked up, bro.

What the hell? Aisha, are you okay?

Oh, sorry, Kylie, what happened?

And, um, happy birthday, my dear.

Uh, I'm sorry we didn't decorate the place.

You guys kind of came early.

Thanks my dear. Yeah,

It's okay. I don't

care. But I was walking

with Aisha here talking

about some pretty serious stuff,

and she just started

sprinting away from me.

I mean, you honestly freaked me out.

What was that?

You know, I was feeling a

little bloated, thought going.

One nice little jog would help.

All right, weirdo. Okay.

I'm, um, gonna go to the bathroom.

Lamar, you okay? You're

looking a little off.

Yeah, I am a little off right now.

Uh, your boyfriend here almost gave me

a f*cking heart attack, so

You did?

Yeah. I don't know what happened.

I couldn't, I couldn't hear

for like 30 seconds. Wait,

Wait. What?

Yeah. Are you okay?

Yeah, yeah, I'm fine. It's all good.

You're fine. You're good, right?

I thought you were having

a f*cking brain aneurysm.

I've never been more scared, bro.

Oh, I'm so touched. You care so much.

Well, you can get over that

and go f*ck yourself too.

Are you really sure you're okay?

Yeah. Yeah, I'm good.

Okay. Go to your room for a second.

Uh, Jesus, Kylie, happy birthday.

Shut up. Yeah, let's go.

Well, all I know is

y'all better just keep it

real quiet back there.

All right. I'm gonna come over here

and finish putting up the decorations or

Whatever. You

still have that fricking

thing on your wall.

It's not funny anymore, Right?

I don't know what you people

are on about, about the

Painting. It was

never even funny. It was just weird.

You know what? It's true.

What they say good art isn't appreciated

In its time. Oh my

God.

So What's up?

It's my birthday.

Uh, I'm aware.

I'm,

I'm 28.

I'm officially in my late twenties.

And you, you're, you're pretty

firmly in your early twenties.

I don't know. I, I guess his birthday has

just been making me think a lot.

What have you been thinking about, Kylie?

You're still young and

I'm just not anymore.

And that's, that's okay.

I don't, I don't give

a sh*t about all that.

It's just the whole date.

A bunch of people face

of your early twenties.

I'm done with it.

(gentle music)

And you might not be, and that's okay,

because lately you just,

you seemed really far away.

I guess I just wanted to, to check in.

Are you serious about this,

Kylie?

It's,

It's okay.

Let's just, let's just

go back out to the party

and I'm all in. (wind chimes)

I'm in love with you, Kylie.

I'm all in on us.

(slapping noise) Should we

go check on that? They're fine.

(music fades, replaced

by growing static noise)

(static gets louder)

You hear that? What? It's ecstatic.

I don't hear

God. Oh, Jesus. (static

gets extremely loud)

Oh,

oh, you

Guys, Come on.

Please. Just say, say something

Guys. Get outta here,

Aisha baby, please. Just calm down.

Just relax. Come on. It

took you guys long enough.

Come on. I don't know what's happening.

Come on, God. Damn it Aisha.

I don't think she can see or hear us. Mom.

It's okay. What's she doing?

Come on, please step out. You please.

I don't know.

You should wait. You should wait with her.

f*ck no. sh*t.

f*ck Aisha. It's okay. It's okay.

Let go. What? Cry? I'm sorry.

Sorry. I'm sorry.

I don't know what to do.

Wait. Oh, oh, sh*t.

She's gonna leave. No, no. What?

No, no, no, no, no, no.

No. sh*t. Stop.

What is she doing? What she doing?

What the, come on.

It's okay.

(raining)

Just Snap outta me.

Come on.

(engine revs)

(tires screeching)

Gonna f*cking k*lled out.

Oh my God. Aisha,

welcome back.

Aisha.

Oh, sh*t.

Everything. Look, I just got you, okay.

Oh sh*t.

Oh my f*cking God.

God damn it man. I'm sorry for scaring me.

God. Damn it.

I think we need to go to the hospital.

The sh*t that's been happening with you

and Brian is some f*cked

up sh*t, like schizophrenic

paranoid, taking a double

dose of LSD type of f*cked up.

So, no, we're going to the hospital

to get your brains checked out.

No, no more. I'm not doing that.

I'm good now. No, I'm good.

It was, it was probably just

stress or a momentary snap

or whatever, but it's over.

What is this rationalization?

Aisha, you are speaking gibberish. No,

Lamoine enough. I'm

not going to the hospital. A

I don't know. I think the

hospital isn't a bad idea.

No, I mean, you could have

a brain tumor or something.

Guys. Aisha, come on.

We're going to the hospital, obviously

just not tonight.

Brian. Dude, Listen,

whatever's going on in our

brains is gonna be there in the morning.

Let's just let celebrate

Kylie's birthday. Oh my. No.

About that. No, no, none of that.

But I got you an ice cream cake

and we're all going to eat it, okay?

Okay.

This is a weird night, dude.

(eery happy birthday music)

Yeah, This one's for me, my dear.

Oh, thank you, my dear.

Gotta sound like you've been married

for 50 years, my dear.

My dear.

How the heck did you remember Brian?

How the heck did I forget?

Thank you. It was so, so

special about this book.

It, uh, I read it

for a homework assignment in

high school. (Creole Song Begins)

It seriously screwed up my brain,

but it's also what made me

want to study philosophy so much.

My life changed. 'cause one

assignment in high school.

It's crazy.

Well, I am glad you like it, my dear.

Thank you. I'm, uh,

I'm gonna get me another piece of cake.

Anybody want some?

No,

Brian.

(Brian groans)

Brian, Something's happening, isn't it?

Can't move. Alright, that's it.

I'm calling 911.

We're going to the f*cking

hospital right now. That's it.

That's a good idea.

(Aisha screaming; sounds

of violence and commotion)

sh*t, Aisha. What the f*ck are you doing?

Awaken.

Interesting.

That's interesting, isn't it?

What was that?

That was Brian's memory,

His perspective. Supplicated

by your memory and Aisha's

and uh, right. What was your name again?

f*ck off.

Yeah. f*ck off's memory.

Why, why, why do you

care about our memories?

They're the ones f*cking

with Brian and Aisha's minds.

I still don't, why? I I still don't get it.

I'm so sorry. Do you want

me to just take a beat

so I can explain everything for you?

Would you like that? Alright, now, uh,

I need some answers from

your boy Brian here.

I'm Not giving you any

answers until you tell us exactly

What the hell is going on.

You guys ever wanna get out of here? Huh?

Do you wanna get outta those wheelchairs?

Do you want your freedom

back? People stop spouting sh*t

and just do whatever the

f*ck I tell you to do.

Okay? All right. Brian answers please.

When you were in the

kitchen with the bottle

of beer in your hand, what did it feel

like before you dropped it?

It was, I don't

know. It's hard to describe.

I'm gonna need better than that man.

Use your big boy words.

I guess when I dropped the first bottle,

it, it just sort of happened.

Okay. What about the second time

when you smashed the bottle?

You know, when you're in an elevator

and you kind of wanna

press the button a bunch

of times it was like that.

It was just an impulse.

But then, then it became an itch

way in the back of my head.

And the itch grew until

it wasn't an itch anymore.

It was a pounding every muscle

and nerve was screaming

for me to drop that bottle.

And I tried to fight it, but

Yeah, You know,

you probed into my f*cking

head, so, you know.

All right. Alright.

What about when you were

in the bedroom with Kylie?

Did you feel the same

pounding in your head?

No. No, I didn't.

And what about the figure

that you saw in the corner of that room?

Had you ever seen that before?

No. Never.

What about you, Aisha?

Many times I,

What's interesting about

those side effects, isn't it?

Yes. Temporary deafness,

hearing music when there isn't any.

That's, it's really weird.

Yes. And you know what

else tickles my curiosity?

How two different people are

experiencing the same side effect.

I mean, they're seeing

the exact same figure on

different, separate occasions.

That shouldn't be possible, should it?

Do you remember what you said to me,

what you promised me when I agreed

to join your little mind f*cking operation?

I do. Yeah. Bang,

Guys. Come on. We gotta

get outta these f*cking things. Kylie.

You got small hands. You should

be able to just slip right on now.

More than stop it. We're not

getting outta here until they let us out.

No, I'm not just gonna

give up just like that.

That was crazy, Brian,

which, what you went through,

like in the bedroom, the thing you saw

that was messed up.

Yeah. But, um,

everything before that.

You meant what you said, right?

Yeah. Yeah. Kylie. Of course I did.

Are you sure? Are you okay?

Yeah. Yeah. I'm great. Are you sure?

All right. Here we go. Aisha's memory.

Everyone ready? Wait. Yeah.

I don't give a f*ck.

(tapping noise)

(ocean waves crashing)

(leaves blowing in wind)

(sirens)

(phone ringtone)

Aisha: Hey, Kylie. What do you mean?

I am here?

Where are you? Why are you there?

I'm at the, you know, I am at the bench.

(phone vibrating) Just, um, Kylie,

sorry. I got another call coming in.

Just, um, come to the bench. Okay.

Hello? Yes, this is she.

Okay. Okay.

Okay. And you're, um,

you're a hundred percent sure because,

because when I did the test myself.

Right. Okay.

I just don't get, I know

this is what everyone says,

but I, I don't get how it's even possible.

I've been on the pill and everyone,

and everyone I've been with has worn.

Yeah,

(ominous music)

yeah.

No, I know I have.

(ocean waves crashing)

Okay. Well, I,

(muffled) Aisha, Aisha, Aisha.

Aisha.

Aisha. Aisha. A Aisha.

Are you okay?

Yep. Sorry.

I was just,

oh my God.

It's your birthday.

Happy birthday. Beautiful.

Do you Feel in control of your life?

No.

I mean, I, I feel like we

can control small decisions.

We can control our perspectives,

but, um, the big trajectory

of our lives, I think that's fate.

But I'm Libra so of course I think that

What do you think?

Um, yeah,

honestly, I feel like I have

complete control over my

life. It's kind of the problem.

What do you mean? I mean,

I, I keep making choices

and they always end up

being the wrong choices.

And so I keep f*cking up my life.

And so I would really love

it if the stars were making all

my choices and I could

blame everything on them.

(ominous music)

Do you think I'm making a

mistake by dating Brian?

What? Are you not happy with him?

I'm definitely happy with him. He's great.

But, um, sometimes I just

feel like I'm dating a little boy.

How? Um, I mean,

he hates doing the dishes.

He hates vacuuming. He's fine.

Just turning his underwear inside out

and calling it good, you know?

Yeah. I dunno. No, that's true.

But it's also incredibly sweet

and funny and passionate.

You know's. Kind of more

important, don't you think?

Um, Yeah.

Um, I know that. Oh my God.

(LOUD STATIC)

Who is that?

I,

I don't know, Kylie. I don't know.

I

(LOUD STATIC)

What the f*ck,

(DISTANT STATIC)

Brian? What the f*ck

is going on, dude? f*cking me.

I can't hear.

He, I can't hear f*cking jab.

Brian. Just breathe. Man.

f*ck. Look at me. Look at me. f*ck Brian.

Should I call 911?

Okay, relax bro. Up.

Aisha, f*ck, something's

going on with Brian.

I'm gonna hold on one, just breathe, man.

All right.

No, no, no. I can't hear.

(ocean waves crashing)

f*ck. Is this some sort of joke?

What the hell, Aisha? Are you okay?

I'm sorry, Kylie. What

happened? Also,

Happy birthday made dear.

I'm sorry we didn't get to finish.

Put up putting up the decorations.

Uh, she guys came early.

Thanks, my dear. It's, I don't care.

I, but I was walking with

Aisha talking about some kind

of serious stuff

and she just started

sprinting away from me.

Honestly, you kind of freaked me out.

What was that?

I was, I was feeling a little bloated,

thought I'd go on a little jog. Might help.

Alright. Darn all.

Um, anyways, I, I need to use the bathroom.

(metronome, slowly quickening)

(metronome stops)

(metronome begins)

(intense music)

Brian: I'm all in.

I'm in love with

you, Kylie.

I'm all in on us.

Hey girl.

There we go. Let's get the balloon.

All right.

Alright, You uh,

gonna start blowing anytime soon.

You all right?

Yeah, I'm good. Yeah.

Why aren't you being

honest with me anymore?

What the f*ck? Aisha.

Aisha,

I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry. I don't know.

I don't know why I just did that.

I'm sorry.

I don't know why I did that. I'm sorry.

Just The hell man.

Look,

Look, no.

Warm, warm.

Look, you're not an easy person

to deal with. I know that.

I've always known that, but I didn't care

because you were real and you were honest.

Honest about what you wanted

and honest about how you were feeling.

But now you're still not easy

to deal with (clock ticking)

and you're also not being honest anymore.

(clock ticking slower)

So I'm gonna give you another

chance, girl. Be honest.

(clock slowing down more)

What is going on?

(fan slowing down)

Lamorne (voice slowing down):

Aisha what is... what is going on?

(time freezes)

(waves crash with hallucinatory music

Come on,

Lord.

Step out of it.

(sound of glass shattering

freezes and stretches)

Hello. Hello.

Welcome back.

(Creole Song Begins)

And what's so special about this book?

You know, I read it in high school.

I was like 15 or something.

Seriously messed up my brain.

But it's also what made me

want to study philosophy.

It's crazy. So much of

my life changed from this

one homework assignment in high school.

I am glad you like it, my dear.

I'm gonna cut myself another

piece of cake. Anybody want some?

No. Thanks

Brian.

Brian, Something's happening, isn't it? No,

I Can't f*cking move. Alright,

that's it.

I'm calling 911 and we're

going to the f*cking hospital.

That's it. Aisha, you okay?

Aisha? What are you, what are

you doing with that, Aisha?

No sh*t. What the f*ck are you doing?

Get the knife. Get the

knife outta her hand. f*ck.

I'm sorry, God. Damn it Isa, let it go.

Let the f*cking knife go.

Nurse. Can I have you come remove

two of the subjects for me?

Thank you,

Aisha, you're pregnant.

I shall, my God. Why didn't you tell me?

Yes, Nurse, these two. Thank you.

No leave. Leave me here.

Where are you? Where are you taking this?

What's going on? Where are we go,

Aisha, don't worry.

Your pretty little heads. Okay?

I need to talk to these two

in private for a second.

(lights flickering)

I can't believe she didn't tell me

Either. One of them

Are being honest, even

before all this sh*t.

Okay? Brian, you tried to fight the urge

to break that bottle, right?

Yes. And when you, you know,

you couldn't move your body and,

and Aisha here was trying

to stab you in the face.

Did you try to fight that?

Of course, I,

But you failed.

Ah, I tried to fight against

Benjamin And you failed. Okay.

What about you, Aisha?

And you had that impulse

to, to empty all the shampoo

and soap into Brian's bathroom.

Did you try to resist that at all?

No. What about when you

slapped Lamoine here

or you were trying to m*rder Brian?

You didn't try to fight that urge?

No. Why not?

I dunno. Look,

you guys both suffered some really strange

side effects, okay?

That's just your brain trying

to calibrate with the interim.

That's, it's normal.

But what's really not

f*cking normal is this figure

that you both keep seeing.

When the world was frozen,

none of it felt real.

It felt like it was all in my head.

And that was what was so scary about it.

'Cause it felt like I was going crazy.

But the figure, I never thought I

was going crazy 'cause it felt real

and it felt like someone

was really watching me.

She's right. There is

something different about it.

Okay, Paris, you can Bring

the other two back in.

Thank you. Are we

Ever getting out of here?

Honestly, I don't know,

baby, is it?

I dunno. Brian, I don't know anything.

I think we're good. Brian.

He tried to resist the interim.

He couldn't do it.

And the other one, Aisha,

she just sort of rolled with it.

So it seems like whether or

not a host is complacent,

the the interim is going to win.

Those are the results

that you wanted, right?

Yes. And what about the, the side effects?

You know that those glitches,

Our engineers have

already fixed the issues.

The interim has been updated.

I was thinking back to

when I first recruited you,

how far we've come, how close

we are to the finish line.

We missed when the job is done.

Thanks. The job's not done.

So what are next steps?

We, we could go into

Lamoine or Kylie's memory,

but I don't, I don't

think we'd find anything.

I mean, maybe we could, uh, cut them loose.

No, your memory, What?

We're going into your memory.

They have to know exactly what's going on.

Only then will we know

interim is truly infallible.

I, I don't,

I don't think I like that.

(piano plays elegant music)

Aisha Dhar, Brian Lowell

Lamorne Johnson.

Kylie Jacques

you all have questions.

Here are the answers.

Stop. Stop.

You got to find a silent

and you can say, can attorney for attorney

Seth Cole, in

and out of juvie, his entire

adolescent life been in

and out of jail the rest of his life.

Grand larceny, grand theft, auto

aggravated as*ault, burglary.

Seth Cole seems to have made

all the wrong choices in life.

Or maybe not. Maybe

Seth Cole grew up in one

of the worst neighborhoods in Los Angeles.

Maybe Seth Cole had parents

who cared more about heroin than him.

Maybe Seth Cole didn't

make all the wrong choices.

Maybe Seth Cole didn't have choices.

Maybe Seth Cole was powerless.

You're not a cop. No.

Are you my lawyer? No.

And who are you?

Seth Cole received a 1470 on his SAT.

Seth Cole could have gone to college.

Instead, Seth Cole

managed to circumvent some

of the best security

systems, steal from some

of the nicest homes in Hollywood.

Seth Cole likely would've evaded most

of his arrests had it not

been for the incompetence

of the people he worked with.

Seth Cole has potential.

Who in the f*ck are you?

I'm someone who is very, very powerful,

but I'm someone who wants, who needs to be

far more powerful.

And I believe you Seth Cole

can help me achieve this goal.

Okay? In return,

I will give you something

you have never had

power and choice.

And here's the first

choice I will provide you.

Go to lockup, then go to jail

for six, maybe nine months,

or come with me now and accept the job.

I haven't been booked yet and

bail hasn't even been set.

I don't think you

understand how powerful. I'm

All right. What's this job?

(silence)

I can't tell you. I have to show you.

Okay, Then show me.

What is this place

I just gave you? Verbal

control. Tell her to do something.

Wait, what? I'm showing you the job.

Tell her to do something. Anything.

Okay? Um, I don't know. Say hi.

Hi. No, tell her to do something

She wouldn't normally do.

Something she wouldn't

do in front of people.

I don't know what, um, okay, hang on.

Um, hey, pick your nose now.

Jesus. Is this, what is this? Now?

Tell her to stop. Uh, yeah.

Go ahead and stop now.

No, tell her to do something bad,

something extreme.

Something she would never do.

You know what? No, that's all right.

I get the point. So that's fine. No,

You don't.

True power transcends all ethicality.

Morality, legality, true

power is all there is.

If you do not issue a command,

I will tell her to attack you.

Make your choice. What?

Okay, just f*cking hang on a second.

I don't, I don't know. Um,

may make yourself throw up.

(gagging and vomiting noises)

Stop.

All right.

Look, I don't know what kind

of sh*t you think I'm into.

I, I didn't like that one bit.

That's a lie. You liked it quite a bit.

The power?

What? No. What is that?

What, what is this? Who,

who the hell are you That

Was in Trump?

An advice I created.

So what it, it like controls people's minds

Among other functions.

Interim can make the subject

do simple physical acts like

what you had the nurse do in there.

Interim can make the subject see

and feel things that aren't there

and interim can allow us

to peer inside the memories

of the subject to exist

within their consciousness.

And soon in rum will allow us to plant

fake memories.

Erase real ones, sow ideas,

inspirations, impulses.

There could be a future where we can twist

and shift and shape the subject personality

and mind into whoever we want them to be.

Do you understand?

Nothing like this has ever existed

in the history of the universe.

Nothing. Do you

understand Seth Cole?

Yes. So you are taking the job.

I I don't look, I still

have no f*cking idea

what the job is.

Over the next year, you will

aid me in numerous trials

to bring interim through

its final testing phases.

Twilight Midnight deep night,

and then a final diagnostic

where we bring interim out

of this place into the real

world, a final test to prove

that interim is ready for the next step.

What are the next steps?

Next step is domination.

True, dark. The final phase.

Okay, look, I I don't,

I don't think I'm the

right person for this. You

Will be paid 25,000

monthly if you take the job.

Just so you know. Set.

Cole, what?

25,000 monthly?

Huh? Okay.

If I accept this job, I just want you

to promise me something.

All this mind f*cking sh*t.

I'll do that to whoever. Okay?

For 25,000. I really don't give a f*ck.

But I want you to promise me, promise

that you don't f*ck with my brain.

Okay? No mind control, no interim nothing.

Deal.

That is a deal. Is that cool?

(Beethoven Music)

(keys jiggling in lock)

How do you have a key to this place?

I own a building. Which one?

Pick a number one to 55.

What? That cannot be how

you're choosing this.

This building has families, young couples,

students recently divorced.

The point of this final

diagnostic is to prove that interim

can and will work on

anyone in any situation.

So pick a number one to 55.

Okay, fine. Uh, 23.

So What's the procedure here?

I'll inject the subject

or subjects you bug every

room, then hang the painting

somewhere prominent.

What do you end up choosing?

The acrylic painting

of the p*nis with an eyeball.

And what they're just gonna see like a

bowl of fruit or something.

They'll see whatever

art speaks to them most.

Hey, Hey. Wait, wait, wait

a f*cking second here.

What, what if they're not

sleeping or they wake up when

You need to? There's chloroform in

the bag.

Go to sleep.

It's done.

So now,

now we wait.

We need the right setting

for the final test.

What are you gonna know

when it's the right setting?

I'll know

(static growing)

What the f*ck is it?

I know you did it. I know

you f*cking injected me.

(STATIC BLAST)

Oh f*ck.

(phone vibrates)

Hello.

Really?

Okay.

Okay. Test one.

A simple physical command

of your observation

of second party is a

go drop bottle of beer.

Lamorne: Actually, that's not

true. Things are good with us,

but I think she's been acting real f*cking

weird for like a week or so.

Brian: Really? Lamorne: Yeah, she, sh*t.

Brian.

Seth: Okay. Test one. A success.

You want me to proceed to two A?

Well,

okay, two A then

repeated physical command

under continued observation

of second party drop beer bottle.

Lamorne: Like, okay,

the other night we're

watching a movie together

and she just randomly

starts turning off the TV

and I'm looking at her like,

what the f*ck are you doing?

And she just kind of shrugs at me,

You know?

And then sometimes man, like I, I swear

She's seeing sh*t. Like she'll

Just be looking in a corner

And not looking at nothing.

Like she sees something there. You know,

what the f*ck?

Lamorne: Are you, are you good?

Man? Brian: I can't hear anything.

Lamorne: What do you mean

you can't hear anything?

Brian: I can't hear anything.

Lamorne: Are you deaf? f*ck.

Test two A is a success,

but, uh, no delayed

compliance from subject A.

So mark for later questioning.

I'm going out for a sec.

Subject A is experiencing a side effect.

After resisting interim, the subject seems

to have lost all ability to hear.

Make a note for the viewing.

Yep.

Where do you go?

Where do I go? Yeah.

Sometimes it's like you

don't even see me or hear me.

It's like your,

your mind is somewhere

totally different than your body.

I have many things on my mind.

Yeah, sure.

I don't think I trust you.

Trust me. Seth Cole,

why would you trust me?

What happened? Couldn't I couldn't hear

Like 30 seconds.

Wait, what? Are you okay?

Yeah. Yeah, I'm fine.

It's all good. Where is subject be?

Bathroom, I think

Proceed with test three B,

Right? Uh,

test three B.

Simple physical command

in isolation as we go.

Uh, What

Did we put in the bathroom?

Oh yeah. Empty all shampoo

and other bottles in shower.

Test three B is a success.

Go back to subject A. We

need to start pushing intro.

I'm officially in my late twenties

and you, you're, you're pretty

firmly in your early twenties.

What test were you thinking here?

Seven. A Complex communicative

and emotional command.

All right, I guess we're

skipping some steps.

Keep listening to subject aid for an in.

Switch me back to the bathroom. Feed

subject B is glitching.

Make a note.

He Just felt

Really Far away.

Are you serious about this

Or

Tightly?

You love this woman? Tell her let's

Just go back out to the party.

I'm all in.

I'm in love with you, Kylie.

I'm all in on us.

Seven A is a success.

Good. Subject B is side effects of past

proceed with six B and 10 B,

Right? 10 B already.

Yes.

And rum is ready. I can feel it True.

Dark is coming.

Okay.

Hey girl.

And you want me to do

six B before 10 B? Right?

Okay, fine. Proceeding with test six B.

Extreme physical act

against known third party.

I don't you be honest with anymore.

What the f*ck? ISA

And six B is a success.

Hey. Hey,

Where are you?

Hey, where

Are you?

Hey, this is your final test.

Where in the f*ck are you?

Do you hear that? What?

It's like, it's like static.

I don't hear anything. Brian.

What the hell is oh,

Oh God.

Oh Jesus. Oh, wait, wait. What's wrong? Oh.

All right. Test 10 B

complex hallucinatory and sensory event.

Here we go.

Activate simulation. 2, 3, 7, 2.

(clock ticking normally)

So I'm gonna give you another chance.

Be honest, what's going on?

What's wrong?

Come on. What is, what is this? Okay

guys, get out here.

Something's wrong with Aisha.

10 B is a success.

No, we don't know that yet.

It could be a glitch.

She has to be experiencing

the exact simulation.

We won't know for sure what

the subject is actually

experiencing until we take

her to the viewing room.

Yeah. Uhhuh, right? My bad.

Do you know why I hired you? What?

You have no qualifications.

You are a convicted criminal.

And I pay you very well.

Plenty of people would k*ll for this job.

So why did I hire you?

You hired me because I had no choice.

I'd just been arrested.

So it was either take the

job or go back to jail.

And even if I did the jail

time, I was always destined

to be a convict or going back

to work in shitty minimum

wage jobs or going back to crime.

So I had no choice and

that's why you hired me.

You knew you'd have total control over me.

And because you're f*cking

addicted to power and control.

That is correct. Seth Cole,

what part of that makes you

think you are irreplaceable?

sh*t. Stop.

(running footsteps, shouting)

Should we, uh, end the simulation?

No.

What? Uh, what, what are you

Doing?

Wait, what the f*ck are you doing

Testing in from in the face of death?

What? No. Hold on, hold on, hold on.

Don't, don't do this.

(engine screaming)

(sound of a sprinkler)

You stopped the simulation.

Yep. What you were doing.

That wasn't part of the job.

The job Seth Cole is to

do whatever I tell you.

Yeah. Well, you should

probably fire me then.

This isn't that kind of job.

(car approaching)

You know, I've, uh,

I've been thinking a lot

about what you've said to me.

When we first met

after I got arrested, you said that maybe

I didn't make all the wrong

choices in life, that maybe

I didn't have choices,

that I was powerless.

And it's funny too, you know,

because that's exactly

how I used to look at it.

Victim of circumstance, you

know, dealt a bad hand, right?

All that sh*t I stole and I fought

and I got high because

I didn't have a choice.

But god damn, that is the

biggest load of bullshit

because everyone has a choice.

You know, even if it's

choosing between death

or continuing your shitty existence.

But what we're doing with

interim, it's erasing choice.

It is murdering free will something

that humans have had since

the dawn of f*cking time.

Don't you, don't you think that's evil?

Okay?

(Creole Music Begins)

Are you a f*cking p*ssy?

Seth Colt.

What? Morality is a game

for children and pussies.

Proceed with nine a and 11 a.

Ask them the final questions.

I call the nurses in, they'll

take care of the rest,

Right?

Okay. Um, I need you guys

to answer the, the

following questions with it.

Yes or no? Do you,

to the best of your abilities

understand what interim is.

Yes. Yes. Yeah. Yes.

And knowing what you

now know about interim,

do you think you could resist its commands?

Its its power.

No. No.

Brian, you think you can resist interim?

No. Right?

Do you know what Aristotle

thought about free will Seth,

unlike Leni, who thought

free will was a fantasy

that all the choices someone makes in life

are predetermined at birth.

Aristotle believed we simply have the power

to do or not to do.

And it's those choices

that make us who we are.

I always like the Aristotle side

more, but who knows?

Maybe there is no free will.

Maybe we're born and, and there's a path.

And no matter what we do,

we can't leave that path.

I, I don't know.

But what I do know is that

I don't want that person

out there determining the

path my life takes to you.

f*ck, no,

(intense music)

Kylie. I, um,

I think, I think let's not, Okay.

You guys wanna get outta those wheelchairs,

Please. God.

Here

Free everyone else.

f*ck you. Come on.

Let's get the sh*t outta here.

Stop. You

can't tell me what to do anymore.

I quit.

What are you gonna do?

sh**t me.

No, Seth Cole.

They are,

Sorry. P

that's not how this story's ending.

You're not in control and

you have no f*cking power.

I destroyed Interim. You colossal a*s.

You destroyed Interim. Yes, I f*cking did.

And you're never getting a true dark.

(sound of static)

I hear, I hear it too.

I'm sorry, Seth Cole.

But you are mistaken.

You may have destroyed what

you think is in interim,

but Intrum is not some metal cube.

What are you talking about?

I am Intrum. (static rises)

Oh f*ck

sh**t him.

(g*nsh*t)

No, please Don't. Don't

(g*nsh*t)

m*therf*cker.

Okay. Okay. Please, please

don't, look, I I won't quit.

Okay? You can, you can do

whatever you want. Just

Stop. The Person: I'm afraid there

is no room for you here anymore.

Now that we have reached True Dark,

but I appreciate all your hard work,

Cole. It will

be remembered.

Resist it, Brian.

I know you can do it. f*cking resist it.

sh**t him in the leg. I want

to perform one last test.

sh**t him. sh**t him now.

Brian, don't you do it.

I know you're more...

(g*nsh*t)

when did you do it?

When did you inject me?

The night you agreed to the job.

What are you doing? The

Person: Do you want to k*ll me?

Seth Cole?

Yes. Then take the g*n.

Let's see who is more powerful.

Don't sh**t,

I

Now blow your brains out.

(sound of sprinklers)

Let us begin. True dark.

(ominous, melancholic music begins)

Oh God.

Yeah.

Hey, what's up dude? Oh

Yeah. How much sh*t we drink

last night?

Oh, honestly, I don't

remember drinking anything,

which probably means a f*ck ton.

Oh, what the hell happened to my face? Oh

Wow.

Oh, I've never been blackout before.

This is kind of crazy.

I have been, but it did not feel like this.

What did we like, like wash

a bunch of mushrooms down

with Absinthe

Maybe, honestly. Good birthday, my dear?

Oh. Yeah. From,

from what I can remember I guess.

Well, sh*t, it's 1130 guys.

I gotta get home, shower

and head to the gym.

It's 1130.

Oh, I should go

thank you.

Yeah, I think I'm gonna

head out too Brian. Yeah.

Yeah. But thanks for what

I'm sure was a epic birthday.

Yeah, of course my dear.

You guys, see you soon. Yes.

Thanks so much for having us.

Absolutely. Catch you later. Mm-Hmm.

Oh, Kylie. Um.

Thanks my dear.

See you guys.

(Creole Song Begins)