Goodbye World

"I went to the woods

"because I wished to live deliberately,

"and see if I could learn what it had to teach,

"and not, when I came to die,

discovered that I had not lived."

That's Henry David Thoreau in 1854.

And it made sense to me 150 years later.

So when you were still in your mama's belly,

we sold our company, left our old friends,

and moved here to Northern California.

You see, I knew the great collapse was coming.

Everyone says that now, but I knew.

It didn't take much to tear us apart.

Just a quick ripping away

of the things we'd come to depend on.

Our world was like a bubble waiting to pop.

And off you go.

There you go.

Pick a good one for tonight, okay?

Great choice, Hannah-bear. Show your mama.

Nice one.

Lily, do you think we have enough basil inside?

I don't know.

Do you want to check?

I am working on something important right now.

So I just want to know how awkward it's going to be.

Has he already apologized in the e-mail?

James doesn't apologize.

Then why are we going?

Well, he might take some responsibility.

He just never actually says the words "I'm sorry."

Baby, baby, not when you're driving.

"Goodbye, world"?

Did you just text me?

Honey, you're holding my phone.

Oh, yeah. Weird.

Hey, what are you doing?

We are on vacation, remember?

We agreed...

we're only talking to each other.

The system tells you three lies.

It tells you that you're free. You're not.

It tells you that you can change it from within. You can't.

And if you try to change it from the outside,

it tells the rest of the world you're a violent criminal.

The system sent me to jail for five years

for burning down a factory farm that was under construction.

Real change isn't pretty, isn't safe.

But revolution is our moral obligation,

and the only real expression of freedom that we have left.

What good is freedom if you're in jail?

What good is it being out of jail if you're not free?

Didn't you miss having sex?

Not as much as I miss good coffee.

Laura Sheppard is not a name we can have associated

with a non-profit donor-supported organization.

I can be very effective behind the scenes.

The right people still take my phone calls.

Look...

...your résumé is very, very impressive.

There are many fields where your reputation

will not be a handicap for you.

You could make substantially more money

in the private sector.

Which is exactly the reason you should hire me.

I'm here because I believe it's worth fighting for.

"It"?

Democracy.

I'm sorry.

You know, I find it really funny

that your program director cheated on his wife

with the teenage babysitter,

yet I'm the one who's unhireable.

He didn't get caught on camera, honey.

It was a disaster.

What? What do you mean?

Yeah, I know Lev Berkowitz.

The text message "Goodbye, world"

has been received by over a million cell phones.

And many of those phones have actually shut down

because of the sheer number of messages they're receiving.

The source of the virus still a mystery at this point,

but as you can imagine authorities now

are looking into it, hopefully trying to pinpoint

exactly where it's coming from.

When we come back we'll have our own tech experts

and hopefully shine some light on the mystery.

Also, we'll have more on the controversial decision

by the Supreme Court concerning life sentences for minors.

All of that, plus news updates,

and your weather and sports when we come back.

Now we're receiving unconfirmed reports

that the nation is under a large-scale cyber attack.

I'm told it's suspected of being connected

to that "Goodbye, world" text.

There have been disruptions in basic utility service

around the country in some of the larger urban areas,

including New York, Chicago,

Boston and--

(People shouting indistinctly)

("High Fidelity" by Jurassic 5 playing)

Can you turn that down a bit?!

What?

Could you turn it down?

Huh?

So do you want to bring it up or should I?

Either way, but I think it would help if you apologized first.

And what exactly do you think I should say?

Uh, I don't know.

How about, "Hey, Nick,

sorry I froze you out of that company you founded with Lily."

That wasn't a very friendly thing to do.

He wanted to sell our user's private information

without their-- I know. Trust me, I know.

I'm just saying this would go a lot better

if we play nice tonight.

We have all weekend to talk about the house.

Benji. Yeah?

You forgot something.

Hey, hey!

Jesus. You all right? Yeah.

Someone just blew up a truck on the 405.

No shit. Really?

Yeah. People are freaking out.

This pump's dead.

Nick?

Over here.

The pump's dead. We should go.

No, no, no, no.

Come here. Come here, you got to see this.

We're already late.

No, no, no, no. Quick. Real quick. Come on.

Come on. You're going to love it.

I can't believe they're still doing this.

What? Selling vegetables?

This.

Just literally a box of cash sitting on a table

by the side of the road. So?

So, what's to stop me from taking it?

The Ten Commandments.

I mean in the real world.

Just kidding.

No, no, no. Thou shall not turn on their cell phone.

Well, you need to call them

to let them know we're running late.

There's no service here, is there?

Hey, do you have any cash?

We should bring cucumber.

Lily loves cucumbers.

Well, then I'm sure she has some.

Let's go.

You stole that?

I left my sunglasses.

That's a $200 cucumber.

It'll be worth it, I promise.

Hope so, because it certainly seems important to you

to impress your ex-girlfriend.

It's not like that. It's an ice-breaker.

She has a really immature sense of humour, trust me.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking.

There are some security concerns right now

at the San Francisco Airport,