01x01 - Pantheon

Episode transcripts for the TV show "Pantheon". Aired: September 1, 2022 - present.*
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Bullied teen Maddie begins receiving messages from a stranger that claims to be her recently deceased father, David; his consciousness has been uploaded to the cloud after an experimental brain scan, and it turns out he's not the only one.
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01x01 - Pantheon

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♪♪

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Teacher: The Greek god Zeus
leads a heavenly w*r

against his father, Kronos,
for supremacy of the universe.

The Babylonian goddess Tiamat
makes w*r against her children,

who k*lled her husband,
who tried to k*ll them.

[Beep]

The Norse god Odin and
his brothers forge a new world

from the m*rder*d corpse
of their grandpa.

Maddie:
Most of the girls in my class

completely missed the moment
when the world began to end.

Too wrapped up
in their own drama,

obsessed with their own lives...

or trying to ruin mine.

♪♪

[Keyboard clacking]

♪♪

And the list goes on
and on and on.

But the story... Well, the story
is kinda the same.

Family feud escalates
into violent power struggle

between a pantheon of supreme
beings and their offspring.

A new world is created
in the aftermath.

And this same basic plot
is the backbone

for creation myths
of different cultures

from different parts
of the world

that knew nothing
about each other.

Comparative mythologists
call this a...?

Uh, where are you going?

Bathroom.

Forget something?

My phone's in my bag.Cool.

When it's on my desk,
you can go to the restroom.

[Student giggles]

♪♪

Hey.

Madison! Hey!

♪♪

[Panting]

♪♪

[Whirring]

Ellen:
It's been two years.

Two years ago
this week, actually.

And she really hasn't been
the same since he passed,

as you can imagine.

Dean: I can, yeah.

I wish we would've known.

She didn't say anything.

No.
And I didn't either.

I should have,
on the application.

You know, it's just
with that and the move,

new school, new home...

I get it.

Change is a huge cause
of stress,

and then you add in
being a teenager on top.

[Electricity buzzing]

[Beep]

Oh, my God! Dad!

I-It'll need upgrades.

I love it!

I figure every engineer
needs their toolkit.

It might be
a little slow, but...

I'll swap in an SSD,
boost the RAM.

[Beep, whirring]

Did you get it
on eBay or New egg?

Actually, it's Mom's old laptop.

Mom's?
Mm-hmm.

She should know the password.

She's never gonna give me that.

Well, not if you don't ask her.

She wants me to "unplug."
She hates all technology.

No, she doesn't.

♪♪

Why do you want me
to talk to Mom?

Is this a trick question?

Why did you give me this?

My birthday's
not till next month.

Maddie.

I thought you were
getting better.

What's the point of all of this
if you're not getting better?!

I don't want
this stupid computer!

♪♪

Maddie, if I really
thought I was dying,

I would give you my laptop.

I gave you that one because
it's a piece of junk.

And I want you to talk to Mom
because she's your mom.

She's smart and she's caring,

and if you're going through
a rough patch,

she is the absolute
best person to talk to.

♪♪

Wanna talk about it?

No.

♪♪

[Dog barking]

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[Keys jingle]

[Sighs]

♪♪

[Bag thuds on floor]

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[Beep]

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[Keyboard clacking]

[Sighs]

♪♪

[Ominous music plays]

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[Sniffles]

[Sobbing]

♪♪

[Thunder rumbles]

[Electricity buzzing]

[Beeping]



♪♪

Maddie:
Don't show weakness.

♪♪

You're confused?

Or... Or you can't talk?

Whatever.

I saw the damn e-mail.

♪♪

Yeah.
It made me feel like sh*t.

♪♪

Easier said than done.

♪♪

[Thunder rumbling]

Umbrella in the rain?

♪♪

Protection from the rain?

♪♪

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[Thunder rumbles]

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[Thunder crashes]

[Bell rings]

[Indistinct conversations]

Maddie: I always try to get in
right at the bell or a little after.

Cuts down on their time
to mess with you.

[Students laughing]

Sometimes it doesn't work.

♪♪

[Students giggling]

Eight means eight.
Come on. Take your seats.

Mr. Jones!
I amin mine!

Kelly's the best,
Mr. Jones.

We are tardy.

[Giggling]

Teacher: Okay, guys,
if you check SiteGeist,

you'll see I put
your syllabus in there.

Hey.
What's wrong?

Today, though,
something was different.

[Beep]



[Whooshing,
electricity crackling]

[Beep]

♪♪

♪♪

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[Whooshing,
electricity crackling]

[Phone buzzing]

♪♪

I'm not sure what was going on,

but by lunch, Samara's squad
was turning on one another.

[Whispering]
...sociopathic. Oh, my God.

Like, I don't even get it
or whatever...

[Indistinct whispering]

[Whimpering]

[Rapid footsteps depart]

[Laughs]

[Phones buzzing and dinging]

- Huh?
- [Gasps]

[Screams]

♪♪

[Indistinct conversations]

[Toilet flushes]

[Crying]

Kelly:
Erin, it's okay.

Erin: It's not okay.

What is your problem, bitch?!

My problem?

How did you hack my phone?!

- Guys!
- ...and said...

I said, how did you
hack my phone?!

[Glass shatters]

[Both grunting]Guys!

Guys, stop it!

[Beep]

[Laughing]

Oh, my God!
That even looks like her!

How did you hack all of them?

[Keyboard clacking]



♪♪

You know my mother?

Who knows me?

You're home early.

Uh, computers went down at work.

Who are you talking to?

I'm not.
It's just a... chat.

With who?

Uh... Emo.

And... And who's Emo?

Just someone online...

who's been helping me.

Let me see.

No! Mom!

[Keyboard clacking]

That's not gonna work.

How long has this been going on?

Nothing is "going on," Mom.

What is this?
What are these?

That's all he uses.

I thought you didn't know
who he was.

How do you know Emo is a he?

I don't! I just call him Emo
because he only talks in emoji!

Do you have any idea
how dangerous...

[Beep]

[Keyboard clacking]

He won't respond to... I-I got it.



How do I get out of this?

I don't know.
It's... It's not an app.

It's like a root chat.

What... the hell?

♪♪

Mom?

What are lips?
A man's lips?

"What lips my lips have kissed,
and where and why."

It's from a poem.

What poem?

♪♪

No. No way.

No g*dd*mn way.

♪♪

[Line ringing]

Dr. Waxman, please.

No, I don't have an extension.

Peter Waxman. Head of Research.

Tell him it's Ellen Kim.
He'll pick up.

Waxman: Ellen? What have you done
with David?

Don't bullshit me, Pete.

He just sent me a message.
On the computer.

No. No. You hang up this phone,
and it is w*r.

Just tell me the truth.

What have you done
with my husband?!

[Telephones ringing]

♪♪

Anssi:
Down link from Palo Alto!

It's Waxman.

Pope. Waxman: We have a breach.

Someone reached out
to David Kim's family.

Who?
Who do you think?

What do they know?

Nothing they can prove.

Didn't you say if we partitioned
language processing,

this wouldn't be an issue?

[Sighs] I told you,
the brain is holonomic.

You need to cut
his network access now.

Yeah. Okay.
You're right.

But don't sound
so nervous, Pete.

This is a big step forward.

[Rachel West's "Something New"
plays]♪ It don't have to be better ♪

♪ But it can't be
what you're used to ♪

♪ You're looking
for something new ♪

♪ I can tell you're looking
for something new ♪

[Phone buzzing]♪ It don't have to be better

♪ But it can't be
what you're used to ♪

♪ You're looking
for something new ♪

[Beep] [Line ringing]

Pope: Pope.
What's wrong?

Nothing. Just...

want to hear how it's going
with our boy.

Fine.

But, um, I'd rather
update you at check-in.

I don't want to send you
an incomplete report.

Yeah, I understand.

You know, I'm sitting here
in my car, without my notes.

Fair enough.
We'll talk soon.



♪♪

[Groans]

[Engine starts]

♪♪

Ms. Hunter: Gauss sits at the
absolute maximum point on the curve.

4y equals negative 2x
to the third,

plus 3x to the second, plus 7,

over the interval, negative 1-2.

Now, Pascal's seat is collinear

with those of Gauss
and Kronecker.

So where does Pascal sit?

Caspian?

Caspian?

Two-zero.

C-Can you tell us
how you arrived at that?

Since Gauss sits at negative 1-3

and Kronecker at 1-1,
slope is negative 1.

[Pencils scribbling]

Student store's
around the corner,

and there's the auditorium
where the theater dweebs hang.

No, no, no.

That's Casper
the unfriendly goth.

Caspian.

Oh.
Like, um, "Narnia."

Sorry.

No. You're right.
"Narnia."

Come on, before
he sh**t up the school.

Don't you hear the strange
talking beasts?

Hannah.

Like Montana!

[GRMLN's "27 Kids" plays]♪ Here
comes the one I'm counting on ♪

♪ They think
we're only just a pawn ♪

♪ How long
until they end their time? ♪

♪♪

♪ I hear the shouting
in the streets ♪

♪ Where all the corners
seem to meet ♪

♪ We fight another
hidden crime, the reason ♪

♪ 27 kids are gonna
speak their minds ♪

♪ Maybe ten'll make it
all the way ♪

♪ Every single kid
is gonna take their find ♪

♪ But only
if we roll the signs ♪

Hi.

We're out of milk.

Oh, sh*t.

I, um... I got caught up
at the post office

and then I forgot
about the groceries.

♪ We decorate the holly tree

♪♪

Angry Texan truther: Pentagon
denies existence of the project to create

- Super-Strategists...
- Market anomaly deemed result

of high-speed
trading algorithms.

Man: Researchers fear
mysterious computer virus

able to jump from speakers
to microphones.

Siri voice:
Singularity Institute announces

timeline for immortality.

Maddie: I think Logorhythms
faked my Dad's death

and is holding him hostage.

♪♪

♪ Rebel Gene

[Keyboard clacking]

[Electricity crackles]

- Bump.
- Troll.

Angry Texan truther:
No, this sh*t's real.

Everyone knows
Logorhythms is dirty.

They built m*llitary-grade AIs
for the U.N.

Man: Centillion has
the U.N. contract.

Logorhythms built the exploit

for the NSA
to scan your hard drive.

♪♪

David: So, what do you
think now, Mads?

[Birds chirping]

♪♪

That it's not true
and that I'm stupid.

Hey, you're not stupid,
and I didn't say it's not true,

just that there's not
enough evidence to prove

that aliens
built the pyramids...

and that there's
more evidence to suggest

that they were man-made.

I mean, I feel dumb for
believing Bianca and Ali.

Like, they're always swearing
the Illuminati is real

and aliens planted humans and...

Yeah.

It's just a fifth-grade thing.

Eh, it's an every-grade thing.

People of all ages
believe in conspiracies.

Why?

I think because they're
scared of death. Or danger.

Chaos.
Exactly.

Vocab word.
Correct use.

Chaos is scary
for a lot of people.

And as weird as it sounds,
they feel much better believing

that there's somebody behind the
scenes controlling everything.

Even if that somebody
is a secret society

or evil government or...
[Chuckles]

Even alien force
controlling the world.

Now, it's still scary,

but not as bad as feeling like
there's no one in charge.

So then none of these
conspiracies are true.

Uh...

Both:
Not necessarily.

[Chuckles]

You should always
seek out proof...

and you should never
stop asking questions.

♪♪

[Mouse clicking]

♪♪

♪♪

Is he back?
No.

This is the recovered chat-log
from my swapfile

and all the IP connections
as far as I could trace.

What are you doing
with all that?

Asking for help.
Someone has to.

We just had this conversation.

There was no conversation.

I told you to call the police.

And tell them what?

I heard you say he's alive.

I heard you say, "What have
you done with my husband?"

I didn't say...

[Sighs]
I was upset.

Because of the poem.

I know. I looked it up.

Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Dad had these books of hers.

Those are mine.

And I never said he was alive.

I was upset because someone
was playing a prank.

Who? Logorhythms?
Why?

That's what I'm gonna find out.

No. You're not
telling me something!

You're lying! Maddie, look at me.

Your father is not alive.

♪♪

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♪♪

We got a new TorChat.

♪♪

Thom?
Y-You'll wanna see this!

Caspian:
Is this you?

Supervisor:
Who's he talking to?

And what's with the emoji?

Ten previous chats
going back... five months.

Send me those.
And start a track.



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[Engine starts]

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Gabe: She hates me,
doesn't she?

Ellen: No.

It's okay. I get it.

This has nothing to do
with Maddie.

Then I don't get it.
Is it something I did?

No.

But it's something
you can't tell me about.

You... There's nothing to tell.

Nothing you would believe.
Or nothing you would understand.

What?

I'm not sure I understand.

Alright.

I know we haven't known each
other for that long. Six months?

And this has only been
for the last three,

so there's no obligation
or anything.

If you wanna call it off
or take a break or whatever,

just... just...

You can just do that.

Could've been over the phone.

Most people
don't even do that much.

Gabe, I know.
I didn't want to do that,

because, really,
you've done nothing wrong.

In fact...

Ugh.
I really like you.

I really like you.

So you see how it's hard
to get a call out of nowhere

to meet you
at a random Starbucks

to hear you can't
see me anymore...

but you can't tell me why
'cause it's something

I wouldn't understand
or believe.

That makes me worried, Ellen.
Should I be worried?

'Cause if you're in
some kind of trouble...

It's my husband.

It's David.

♪♪

I get it, okay?

Despite what she did,
I still think about Julie.

And unlike Julie,

David sounds like
he was an amazing person.

But he's gone, Ellen.

He didn't leave you,
but he's not coming back.

Whether you're with me
or not, that's not gonna change.

I love him.

But...

I love you, too.

♪♪

♪♪

[Horns honking]

Good morning.
One for breakfast?

I think I'm meant
to meet someone.

Mr. Chanda.
Your party's expecting you.

♪♪

Chanda:
Singularity is near,

and whoever makes the big bets
and the right bets

will control
not just the market,

but the future.

The Singularity.

Isn't that robots taking over,
wiping us out?

That's AI.
I'm talking about UI.

Uploaded Intelligence.

Uploaded.

Uploading human minds
to the cloud.

What?
Like memories or...?

No, the whole person.

The whole brain.
Every neuron.

A digital emulation
of a human mind...

which, eh, you run with
massive parallel computers.

Is that the tech
that Prasad's developing?

[Dishes clatter]

Hey. You're 6,000 miles
from Mumbai,

and you're just grabbing some
breakfast before your flight.

Sounds like
science fiction to me.

Sure, but so does half the stuff
we do every day.

Driver less cars,
computers on our wrists,

genetic editing...

Ray, I promise you, we doubt
this man at our own peril.

You are looking at the second
coming of Nostradamus.

Hey.
I'm just an engineer.

No, no, no.
You are a prophet, Chanda.

If I didn't work
for Ajit Prasad,

you'd be calling me
a patent troll.

C.E.O.: Eh, Prasad
may get the spotlight,

but we know you're
the guy-behind-the-guy.

Alliance isn't patenting
the technology.

They're not even developing it,
as far as I know.

But someone is, someone will,

and when they do,
it'll change the world.

C.O.O.: Or end it.

Oh, we are done.
That's for certain.

But it's not death.
It's retirement.

Unless you consider them
the same thing.

[Chuckles]
I don't.

This will be bigger than
the Industrial Revolution.

The UIs will transform business,
medicine, construction.

Once they are running things,
humans can kick back...

All at once, and for good.

This'll birth a massive
retirement industry

for the young, which will
have its own opportunities.

The market for new products
and services is endless.

Can you give us an example?

You mean like a free sample?

No.

Double your current salary
year one,

stock bonuses commensurate
with patent performance,

and you come into
the spotlight, my friend.

Uh, that's...
very generous.

Very tempting.
Uh, but...

This has nothing to do
with generosity.

You're worth this.

[Horn honking]

Mr. Chanda?

[Door closes, engine starts]

[Eerie music plays]

[Grunts]

[Grunts]

♪♪

Hacker: Researchers
claim the nuclear plant

maintenance program will make
human supervision redundant.

Mac Fred: North Korean Leader
said to be seeking digital immortality.

Female news anchor:
Prized Alliance engineer

Vinod Chanda missing,
feared kidnapped.

[Knock on door]

Dinner's ready.

Okay.

And Dad's home.

[Door closes]

[Sizzling]

Hey, Dad.

Cary: Hi.

Stir-fry.

With tofu and bok choy.

With tofu and bok choy.

Is that alright?

I thought you said something
about a home-cooked meal.

This is home-cooked.

Monday through Thursday,

all I eat is Chinese
take-out or room service.

I don't understand. I see that.

This is home-cooked.
I... cooked it.

You've stated that twice now.
I haven't disputed it once.

- How's San Jose?
- How's school?

I got a call from Caspian's
calculus teacher today.

She said he's ready
to take the AP exam now

and start a college course
next semester.

Well, it's good he's past that.
Differential calc's worthless.

[Scoffs] Worthless?

It's not practical
in the real world.

'Less you wanna be a teacher.

You want to be a programmer?
Lambda.

Renee: Well, I thought
it was impressive.

And if you were hiring
for Centillion or Logorhythms,

your opinion
might have value. Caspian: I know Lambda.

Really?

So, if I were
to give you a problem,

like the kind they throw
for an entry-level coder job,

you could solve it? Renee: Cary.

You brought up math, Rene.
I'm just talking to my son.

I'm pretty tired.

Alright. I'll give you
an easy one, then.

Five geniuses sit around
a table, each with a bowl

of tofu stir fry
with bok choy in front of them.

There's one chopstick
between each guy,

therefore one
to the right and left.

In order to eat,
any given genius

needs to use both chopsticks.

They have to alternate eating
and thinking

because they can't do both
at the same time.

How do you make sure
all the geniuses

get their thinking done
without starving to death?

Renee: Well, I think
I know this one.

Each man takes a chopstick
to feed the man next to him.

That's a religious allegory
between heaven and hell.

This is a... A concurrent
algorithm problem.

So he knows what the problem is.
That isa start.

Assume infinite amount
of stir fry?

And infinite amount
of stomach space.

Maybe it is hell.

It's hard to avoid deadlock,
isn't it?

This is a shared
resource problem

that appears in programming
all the time.

Unh-unh. The guy on your right's
using that one.

He just wants to eat his dinner.

Quiet.

I give up.
I don't get it.

It's a hierarchy solution.

You assign a partial order
to the resources.

Okay. You number the chopsticks
one through five.

Each man picks up
the lowest number first

from the two in front of them,
and the order...

And the order they put them
down in doesn't matter.

If four of the five geniuses

pick up
the lowest numbered stick,

only the highest numbered
remains on the table,

leaving an odd man out
until the next round.

I thought you said
you didn't get it.

It's not practical
in the real world.

Unless your program only
has access to one database.

Across multiple,
you'd have to release

higher numbered records
before accessing new ones

and your program would stall,
then crash, then you'd be fired.

Oh, but you do avoid deadlocks.

It's easy to poke holes
when you don't have a...

Introduce a third party. Someone
from the outside. A waiter.

An arbitrator that each genius
has to ask permission for

to lift their stick.

They can always put down,

but they must have
permission to lift.

Third party works as a mutex.
Reduces parallelism.

Wow, honey.

"Wow, honey." Do you n
understand one word he said?

I understand a lot of things.
I know he wasn't wrong.

I know that.Here. Take mine, too.

Just like I know
what "home-cooked" means,

even if you don't.

It's "meal."
"Home-cooked meal."

It's not tofu, not kale.

Meat loaf!
Mashed potatoes!

You know? Food!

[Dishes crash]

[Faucet running]

[Renee sobs softly]

[Door closes]

[Sobbing]

[Door closes]

[Faucet shuts off]

♪♪

Meat loaf and mashed potatoes?

I improvised.

[Engine starts]

♪♪

That's right!
Go back to your whores!

♪ I know I'm meant
for more than this ♪

♪ I know I'm meant
for more than this ♪

[Tires screech]

[Click]

[Tires screech]

♪♪

[Indistinct conversations]

[Bell rings]

Teacher: Okay, guys, come on.
Take your seats.

Let's get started.

♪♪

[Bell rings]

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♪♪

[Engine revs]

♪♪

[Horn blares]

[Tires screech]

♪♪

Teacher: Everybody, take out
your journals, please.

♪♪

Uh, journal, please.

[Bag unzipping]

♪♪

[Bell rings]

♪♪

♪♪

Come on. Come on!

Samara: I knew it! Samara.

Is this where you
hacked us from? Out here?

I-I didn't.

Let me see your laptop.

The bell rang.
I'm late. Aah!

You are gonna admit
what you did,

or I will kick your ass
right here, right now!

Hey! Did you just
thr*aten my daughter?

Who the hell are you?! Mom!

- Lemme go!
- Shut up!

If you touch her agai,
I will kick your ass,

and I will gladly suffer
the consequence.

Get me?

Uh-huh.
Mom, stop!

- Are you okay?
- What are you doing here?

Look, I... I came to say sorry.

I didn't expect...

[Sighs]
I'm sorry.

You're right.

There's something
I'm not telling you.

Something I never thought
I'd have to.

And now I have to.

♪♪

[Indistinct shouting]

♪♪

It's a massive DDoS att*ck.

We're trying to black hole it,

but there's multiple
simultaneous att*cks.

Okay. Where are they
from? There's no signature.

It's just a message,
written in ideogram...

"Let Man Go."
Or "Let Him Go."

I-I don't know.

Call Shyer and Stern
and have them check on Lowell.

I think she just realized she's
not the only one out there.

What? [Line disconnects]

♪♪

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♪♪

Holstrom: The true
breakthrough will come

not when we create an artificial
intelligence that can think,

but one that can feel.

Caspian: I heard
they're testing a program

to upload human brains.

[Screams]

Pope: This is
dangerous tech.

You don't want to play with it.

[Cellphone vibrating]

David: Hi, kiddo.

Dad.

I want to show you something.

♪♪

Maddie:
How can we be human

without a body?

Now you can say
"holy sh*t."

Holy sh*t.

Chanda: Right now, we are
the only Uploads.

But soon there will be others.

This is bigger than your dad,
or you, or me.

You don't understand
about who these people are

or what they're capable of.

[expl*si*n]

Ellen:
There's going to be w*r.

♪♪

Chanda:
We were human.

We are Gods now.

[expl*si*n]

♪♪



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