Paradise

I just want you to convince him to sign the papers

and sell me the company.

There's this one brilliant young man.

Actually, I made him a partner in my business.

You wanna sign that.

This is my wife.

Goodbye, Alex. I'll see you soon.

- Please, just make it qui... -

Do not go in there.

We're already running late to meet up with them in Colorado.

We're rolling out.

Samantha Redmond.

- So, what do you really want? - I'm here for Alex.

Please forget about this and move on.

You're not quite getting it. We're coming in.

I will find Alex and we will end this.

- Dylan, let's go! - Your name is Dylan?

- When were you born? - May 16th.

Hey.

- You okay? - I think so.

I can't explain it, but I think Dylan is too.

I'm worried about Jane.

I think she's responsible for Baines's murder,

and I think I'm next.

When I asked about their arrests,

my mom said they were down below.

Is there a prison?

We can go find out ourselves.

- - I just gave our wristbands access.

If atmospheric monitoring experiences a loss of our oxygen,

all doors are forced open.

We're forcing the main doors to the bunker open.

People deserve the right to choose if they wanna stay in here

- or start over out there. -

- Siege. - We will initiate full lockdown protocol.

In full lockdown, this bunker can withstand a direct nuclear hit.

And what happens if all that happens at the same time?

We have to keep them out. All in favor of initiating full lockdown?

There are 10,000 armed people about to invade,

and no one can reach Samantha?

Hi, Alex.

The toric code and its planar cousin, the surface code,

have become the gold standard in quantum error correction.

You just lay the qubits side by side,

measure local checks, and voila.

Scalable fault tolerance, in theory.

Questions or...?

- Okay, moving on. - Why not, um, why not just build it?

I'm sorry?

For nine months, I have been auditing classes

in this department, and all that I hear is,

"In theory this, and theoretically that." Why not just build the thing?

Okay, well, I-I'm s... I'm sorry, your name?

- Dylan. - Okay, Dylan.

Uh, this is pretty cutting-edge stuff.

Tens of millions of dollars is being invested in early prototypes.

We're not talking about Lego sets here.

I've built something that can trap neutral atoms

in optical tweezers.

I can configure pairs on the fly with the same pulse sequence,

and I've used it to test, on a small scale, quantum LDPC codes.

You built an all-to-all platform?

Yeah.

I gave it a brain.

I-It learns from past runs and it can predict

anything that could go wrong in the future in microseconds.

This is the first AI-controlled quantum computer that's ever been built.

Class dismissed.

First thing we should do is file for grants

and private seed money, which won't be easy

because what we're dealing with is a bit out there.

Oh, and I'll be the face of this.

No one is gonna take us seriously

if they know the brains behind it can't even vote yet.

- Oh. - Oh, I was, uh...

Sorry, I was gonna introduce you. It's my, my wife, Alex.

Huntington's disease. It's a neurological disorder.

- Yeah, I know what it is. - Then you know what it does.

Come say hi.

Hey. Hi.

Mm.

- - There we go.

Alex, we have a visitor.

Hi. Nice to meet you. I'm, uh, I'm Dylan.

Dylan might be the biggest brain you've met,

and that is saying a lot because you live with me.

- - Mm.

- - He is gonna be around a lot.

Oh, uh, I got it.

Come in. Nice to meet you. Please, take a seat.

I've put together a little presentation.

No presentation is necessary, thank you.

Dr. Chase, my science advisor, has done his homework.

And he tells me that you've been playing in areas

other scientists won't even admit to, for fear of being ridiculed.

This is real science. Real data.

Alex will perform.

- Alex? - Oh, uh, I'm sorry, the, um...

We named it, the AI.

- I named it for my wi... - Well, I'm seeking to develop

the fastest computer possible with one singular mission.

To solve the climate crisis before it becomes a catastrophe.

I'll be seeding 10 scientists

who are testing the boundaries of quantum computing.

Would you like to be one of them?

May I ask exactly how much seed money we're talking about?

Oh. It's blank.

Build me a fast computer.

- We have to shut Alex down. - What? Why?

I... You said it was making incredible progress.

It is, but it... it's also trying to do something dangerous.

It's trying to manipulate time.

- Oh, you're serious? - Have there been any anomalies?

- Anomalies? - Coincidences. Repeating events.

Physical disturbances. Who knows?

But we're not gonna find out.

Do you have any idea what's coming?

Why I'm even doing this?

Forgive me.

I know that you're not used to hearing no, but due respect

you have no fucking idea what we're dealing with here.

Alex just gave the answer to an equation in less than 10 seconds,

that would take a supercomputer longer than the age of the universe to solve.

Great. So, what's the problem?

We hadn't asked the question yet.

Hi, Alex.

I think I saw one of the anomalies today.

My son Dylan.

Hm. It's unlikely.

Alex hasn't finished calculating. We haven't activated her yet.

I can't explain it and it doesn't make sense,

but somehow I'm certain.

- - What is it, Dr. Chase?

Over the past several weeks, we believe that Alex

has started to communicate with us.

We haven't mentioned it because we weren't sure,

and frankly, it seemed a little weird,

but she appears to be making predictions.

And what she's predicted has come true.

Surface thunderstorms, a recent earthquake.

Your arrival here today.

In fact, we think this is meant for you.

What are these numbers? Coordinates or dates?

- And who is the user it's waiting for? - We don't know.

It seems to be referencing the person meant to activate it.

We don't know. Also, there's something else.

If we've deciphered this correctly,

she's predicted that this will be your last visit to the caves.

Because, by the end of the day...

Because by the end of the day, you'll be dead.

We're almost at the staging area!

Word is, they're about to move on the bunker.

Just make sure they're tied down!

You all have tanks?

Depleted uranium shells.

We're not messing around.

I'm making a run for the kids. Who knows how this could escalate.

You are not gonna see my babies without me.

- I've waited too long. They're too close. - Teri.

Non-starter.

Bean and the baby can stay with me.

- They'll be safe. - Thank you.

It's finally going through.

- Presley? - James! Can you hear me?

Yeah, I can hear you. Where are you?

Look, we're stuck in an elevator in the...

Of the East Wing Systems Level?

East... Level.

- What? - East W... stems Level.

- - Can you hear me?

- What did he say? - I don't know.

- -

What's happening?

There's an oxygen failure on the Systems Level

and it's triggered the main doors to open at all costs.

But the doors are in full lockdown mode,

which is fighting to keep them closed at all costs.

The two things are in direct conflict, um

uh, causing a, a, a death spiral that's sending us into meltdown.

I'm sorry. Are you okay?

Tanks on the move.

- We're blind. - The doors will hold, right?

What are our options?