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Do you want to continue?

2:03

Maybe,

2:07

one minute, can you

2:09

reach the anything please.

2:28

No? Pam?

2:34

Pam? Dr

2:39

Jennings cardiac arrest on the retail

2:41

deck. Ugh,

2:45

what? Where? I'm here, I'm here.

2:47

And where is here? Clive,

2:50

oh fuck. Where are you? Um,

2:55

actually I don't know. Lots of

2:57

Pam. Some plastic guy in a

2:59

lot of eyeliner is looking at me like, oh money. Is

3:02

there actually a cardiac arrest

3:04

going on? No, and that's the fair

3:06

oaf. They're in the mighty sphinx. That's

3:09

the other side of the ship Pam. She's already

3:11

landing, you're supposed to be here.

3:12

I think it's best for everyone if I send

3:15

you a message to the group.

3:16

I told you I wanted you to be there Pam,

3:18

you're the chief cryonist. You're technically

3:20

the most important person on the vessel.

3:22

I'd like that in writing.

3:23

Pam, it's 11am, right? I don't care

3:26

if you have a drinking problem, can you just make it less visible? You

3:28

have a visible drinking problem. I'm

3:30

allowed to have a visible drinking problem. I don't have

3:32

to vitrify anyone's portfolio of emotions. I'm

3:34

gonna go, say hi to the boss. We'll find

3:36

you later. It's

3:37

11am.

3:40

It's 11am.

3:42

The

3:45

moon has turned. Your

3:47

guess has led to sir.

3:49

The rotors and the helicopter are just slowing.

3:51

You may walk the way the moon is. Are

3:55

you all three of those? I'm all three

3:58

of them. Welcome

4:03

aboard the Alohai Ernity.

4:09

Can you take a picture

4:12

of me, Clive? I can see your head and

4:14

see how I can see shit. How are

4:16

you Ernie? I'm sure it's

4:18

yours, because you're looking hot,

4:21

are you, Clive? I

4:25

can't see all the white and

4:27

the little huts in the air. I'm

4:29

going to have a cake and whip on a little beer

4:31

and you'll be rich in it and grow into a raspy car.

4:34

I can't pretend that's not what I'm going for. And

4:36

trust me, you'll see some dinosaurs by the end

4:38

of the day. Speaking of which, where's

4:40

Malcolm?

4:41

It took more effort than I care to share

4:44

to convince my father not to come. Then

4:46

why wouldn't you let him? This is everything

4:48

he ever wanted. If I left you two

4:50

together for 20 minutes, you'd sign the

4:52

company away, flow his estate on one

4:54

of your flat dancers and head his heart exploded,

4:57

and if he admired his second-rate cryopods by

4:59

morning. But he would have had a hell

5:01

of a night. Right, in we go.

5:12

Jesus.

5:18

Tell me you didn't have that plane just for me.

5:20

That Sebastian Bedford himself,

5:22

the founder of this great

5:23

enterprise, invented the idea

5:25

while on a cruise with his family, exploring the

5:27

fjords of Norway and the Noughties. He voices

5:30

all the robots on the ship. How quaint. Is

5:32

he dead yet? Now we're picking

5:34

him up in Cuba in a couple of weeks. Good

5:36

chance he is then. I hear the insurgents there. Ah,

5:38

ah, ah, ah, ah,

5:39

leave reality where it belongs.

5:41

Outside. Well, that topic, I

5:43

hope you brought something a bit more fun to wear. The fatigues are a bit

5:45

too real world, you know. The clients help pay us to escape exactly

5:48

that. So sorry. Thomas. Yes,

5:50

sir. Thomas

5:53

here will take you to your cabin. Get yourself settled in. I'll

5:55

meet you at the Thirsty Burger for cocktails,

5:57

right? Deck seven.

5:58

We have important things to discuss.

5:59

Ergo cocktails.

6:02

Aloha.

6:03

I

6:32

like

6:32

to sit at the bar. Do you mind if we sit at the bar? The bar

6:34

is fine. The bar

6:36

is fine. Sophia,

6:39

my love. Good afternoon, Mr.

6:41

Shinn. Old fashions. Oh, have a

6:43

gin and tonic, thank you. Two old fashions.

6:46

I said that gin and tonic. I know, the old

6:48

fashions are for me. And have your drinks and don't

6:50

go in the morning. Sorry.

6:51

Hi. Rebecca,

6:54

you seem stressed. I want the fire

6:56

clive, everyone is stressed. What are those? I

6:59

mean, that's just objectively not true. Sophia,

7:01

are you stressed? I feel blessed

7:03

to be stressed, boss. What?

7:12

Wiring your brain for hyper sleep, reducing

7:15

anxiety, and just taking the edge off this

7:17

crummy world. Everyone here takes it.

7:19

Look around you, you see stress in these people. They

7:23

seem... Jesus,

7:24

is that a table dancer? It's a little bit

7:26

of a dance. Yeah, she's normally dancing on the bar. I asked

7:29

her to move for you. Oh, so sweet, Clyde. Can

7:31

we please get off? Look, you came all this way. Can

7:33

we just cocoon a matata for five minutes? Yeah.

7:37

Olive? Here's a Bedford Bot. What

7:39

is a Bedford Bot? Oh. Aloha.

7:42

Would anyone like Olive? Yes.

7:45

Fine, Olive.

7:46

Make it go away. Thank

7:48

you, Bedford Bot. You're so welcome.

7:51

Aloha. Look, our site.

7:55

Look around you, all these people were staring down the

7:57

barrel of death. They chased a speck of

7:59

blood.

7:59

spend the time they had left having fun, they

8:02

eat, drink, dance, gamble, say

8:04

something inadvertently slash openly racist

8:06

every now and again, hump each other to sleep, do

8:09

it all again the next day. You know what

8:11

the biggest stress of my life is? Chlamydia.

8:13

The sexual health nurses are the busiest people in this

8:16

show. Jeez, it's wet. Yeah, their names

8:18

are Chloe and Lydia as well, you couldn't make it up. So,

8:21

how does all this work? Well,

8:24

you've joined us on the most highly sought after leg

8:26

of the cruise, South American coast. A 183

8:28

guests at present, all

8:31

with various ailments. Back third of

8:33

the ship is entirely medical wing. We give

8:35

them whatever they need to keep the party going as long

8:37

as they want, along with the eternity shrug

8:40

that makes them neurologically pion

8:42

ahead of the continued process. When

8:44

the fat lady sings, Pamela Jennings and

8:46

her choir team jump in and do the business. How

8:49

many guests do you have in the Chloronic storage right now?

8:51

Just four. They'll be collected and flown to the storage

8:53

site in Miami when we hit. Two

8:56

of them agreed to be on public exhibition in the Bedford

8:58

Hall of Eternity on deck four.

8:59

We can go see them if you like. I do not like.

9:02

Where's our prince? That is

9:04

the spirit.

9:05

Hello, my name

9:08

is

9:13

Sophia.

9:19

Hey, hey, you might want to get near the big red button.

9:21

I've already caused a

9:40

crowd

9:47

thing.

9:50

What's going on? Fantastic timing. Couldn't be better.

9:53

Oh, look,

9:54

it has to melt

9:55

its

9:58

time. Christ, look.

9:59

He's having a heart attack, yeah. Everyone's

10:02

got a little wristband on. If they're vital, it's getting the red.

10:04

It alerts the cryo team. Oh, Sophia, I think

10:06

he's gonna slump. It is okay, it's okay,

10:08

I got it, I got it. We

10:11

need to help the poor man. You wanted to straggle

10:13

him 30 seconds ago. Drink your drink. Oh,

10:16

here they are, in the corner. Thanks,

10:19

Clive. Is that Pat? Yeah,

10:21

the one and only. Why is she wearing sunglasses in

10:23

doors? Yeah, just a little fashion. Mel,

10:25

Mel,

10:25

Mel, Mel, Mel.

10:28

What the hell is happening? I

10:30

wanted you to see this, I'm so glad it's happened.

10:32

I was trying the cake. How are we doing, Dr. Jennings?

10:35

Do you know that? Sophia, I'm hitting

10:37

the button. Go ahead! It's normally

10:39

your job, are you sure? Take it away, boss.

10:42

Oh, what am I thinking? Rebecca, do you want to

10:44

hit the button? Just on the other side of the bar there.

10:47

What's the big red button? Time for the fat lady

10:49

to sing. What? Ah, he's gonna do it. Nice.

10:52

Yeah. Happy deci-day, dearpele

10:55

Departmenta Laterentry Happy deci-day

10:57

Jack Greán Happy

10:59

deci-day Commander Melvin

11:03

Happy deci-day

11:05

dear Belvin

11:09

Happy deci-day Chishow

11:12

Happy

11:14

deci-day dangerous Oh

11:19

Melvin,

11:20

I'll be kind if you missed out on Rio I'll

11:23

take you on a walk to Chishow Holy

11:47

shit, Clive You said

11:49

you had a gallery, I didn't think I told

11:51

you It's not all full of the Roman Empire

11:54

orgies and Vomitorians This is incredible

11:56

Although there is a toga party in the bingo hall last Friday

11:59

the month that goes down here pretty fast. Are

12:01

these original? In the morning it

12:03

smells like a farmer's market. I can't even go on that.

12:05

Clive? Yes, yes. Bedford's

12:08

private collection. He wanted to share

12:10

it with the world, by which I presume

12:12

he means obscenely wealthy old white people. They're

12:15

supposed to be music. Now where's the music?

12:27

Clive,

12:29

I'm here to congratulate

12:31

you on securing

12:32

the continued investment made by the Venezuelan

12:35

Government. Things are looking very encouraging

12:37

for the Argentinians and the Colombians, and

12:40

to wish you every success ahead of tomorrow's

12:42

meeting with President Macedo in Rio.

12:44

All

12:44

of which you could have done via a passive

12:46

aggressive email. So, why

12:49

are you really here Becky?

12:51

I've had reports that Wilkins is interested

12:54

in sitting down with us. Shit, really?

12:56

Which has led to whispers that Bernard

12:58

might be considering as well. Even

13:01

heard rumblings from the Germans. This is incredible.

13:03

Yes, very incredible.

13:05

So why are you miserable?

13:06

I

13:09

want you to consider slowing down.

13:10

Slowing down? It's

13:13

taken years to get anyone in Europe to sit down with us. Why

13:15

can't the UK, France and Germany everything

13:17

on the table? It's taken years because they

13:19

were spending their money trying to turn things around. To

13:22

try and stop what's happening? What's happening

13:24

everywhere?

13:25

Yeah, they're real heroes. Well,

13:26

if it's just the odd paranoid dictator

13:29

wanting the latest perk for his panic room, then we're

13:31

all well and good. But once every major

13:33

government in the Western world buys a bulk pack of cryopods

13:36

and starts digging a bunker, it sends a message.

13:38

Becky, I think you sound a

13:40

little alarmist and frankly, a little ungrateful.

13:43

Continue to turn things around for over. I know.

13:45

The company your father helped

13:46

build the company you stands to run

13:48

not long from now. Guys, there isn't going

13:49

to be and not long from now and the people

13:52

are starting to figure it

13:53

out. Your

13:55

personal pilot landed your personal helicopter on

13:57

the most expensive ocean line on the seven seas that you've

13:59

been in.

13:59

part. You want to talk about the people?

14:02

I wasn't

14:02

joking about Cuba. There are activists,

14:05

terrorist groups, they know

14:07

the high and mighty are planning on locking themselves

14:10

away and going to sleep while the planet

14:12

cares itself to bits. The raid on the

14:14

continued plant in Michigan last week. You

14:16

said that was handled. It was handled, but

14:18

not without significant disruption to production.

14:21

They blew up a lab. People died, Clive.

14:24

Our people. They should never have got

14:26

as far as they did.

14:27

What are you saying? That it was an inside

14:29

thing? I'm saying once

14:32

this knowledge is out there, you can't put it back in the bottle.

14:35

We've identified cells in at least 15 countries,

14:38

environmentalist groups who are specifically targeting

14:40

cryotech. I'm scared and

14:43

you should be too. Right now we're floating

14:45

on the biggest billboard in the world for the cryonics

14:47

industry. You couldn't paint a bigger bull's

14:49

eye on your face. And from what I've heard,

14:52

Mercedes has made no secret of his interest

14:54

in your offer. I don't know what we're sailing into

14:56

tomorrow.

14:56

We're sailing into Rio de Janeiro,

14:59

where our guests will have a jolly old time in the sunshine

15:01

and get some nice souvenirs of that big old statue

15:04

of Jesus while I add a few more zeros

15:06

to our met game this year. Do I need

15:08

to remind you that we were still playing catch up 18 months

15:10

ago. Amos did it ugly, but they did it first.

15:12

The Lynx I've had to go to. Yes, yes,

15:14

we all know you're the man who's saved

15:16

overhead. Good God. I

15:19

assume all the life rafts on this boat are filled

15:21

with hot air that comes out of your mouth.

15:26

It's late. I've drunk too much. I'm

15:28

going to bed. We can talk more tomorrow.

15:30

Tomorrow you can fly your helicopter over

15:32

Sugarplum Mountain and watch the sun go down

15:35

over one of the most beautiful cities in the world. All

15:37

courtesy of Conting.

15:38

It's Sugarplum Mountain.

15:41

Enjoy your painting. It's

15:56

a shell. It's a shell.

15:59

What? What time is

16:02

it? All three hundred,

16:03

sir. What's going on? Sir,

16:06

I think you better come to the bridge. What

16:08

is it? We'll see you on the bridge, sir. What

16:19

is going on? After

16:21

ship is up. Look out the window. What

16:24

the hell

16:25

is that? That's the port, sir. Some

16:27

kind of explosion. Captain, how

16:29

close are we to the port? A kilometer. Please

16:32

stop the ship. My gawd

16:33

is fucked. There is a gawd, sir. Oh,

16:35

yeah. What does the radio

16:37

say? The radio is turned. Jabbed?

16:40

Jabbed. Who's jabbing the radio? We don't

16:42

know. There's a smoke coming from the head you took.

16:44

We thought it was a simile of some kind.

16:46

But now we think there may have

16:48

been some kind of incident. Oh, some

16:51

kind of incident. Oh, thank you so much, Russell.

16:53

TV's working. Okay. Hey,

16:56

get those people indoors. I want them off deck. Turn

17:01

it up. What

17:04

are they saying?

17:06

They're

17:08

saying protests on the streets from

17:10

yesterday turned violent

17:13

in the evening.

17:13

And

17:20

separate explosions around

17:23

the city, including government news.

17:25

I

17:28

don't want them

17:34

to have smoke. What

17:39

are you doing on the bridge? Ma'am?

17:41

The sun is calling for your image. What?

17:45

It means death before the sea. What

17:47

are you talking about? This very destination

17:49

movie is a carnival hall. You should

17:51

all have typed in your life route. The

17:54

rest of you on the deck. Part of all of

17:56

the sea.

17:57

I

18:00

can't believe

18:09

we're heading quicker than the cane isn't for show.

18:12

Where am I bleeding?

18:15

Which way? Left.

18:17

No. I'm a left. Ham.

18:21

Pamela. What does Pamela have

18:23

at me? Get to the helipad. We're leaving. They're

18:27

blowing up the shit. Just get in. What's wrong with you?

18:33

You're the one. You're the one. Thomas.

18:36

Thomas. Why are you in

18:38

the middle of the hole? I know you

18:41

as well. Help!

18:47

I don't know. The tape's all down

18:50

here. I like that

18:52

nothing. Hi.

18:57

Huh? Huh? Look at him going. Oh

19:00

my god. Oh my god. They nearly got me. You're okay now.

19:03

Let me get my hat out of here. Yeah.

19:07

How do you know you bought it? Good.

19:10

You could be one of them. Wait.

19:12

Do you want to make some rabbit toy

19:14

and breakfast? You never got a nightmare. It's

19:17

gonna be the fucking theater. Well let's

19:19

go. Copy that. I'm

19:24

fucking here. She's

19:26

the man that just went to the place. They're

19:28

getting out of here. She's been all

19:30

shirley. They're on the way for us, lookie. We're

19:33

so late. I'm gonna

19:35

get her. Shit. We're

19:37

taking it. We're

19:40

gonna go get her. I'm gonna get her.

19:43

I'm gonna get her. I'm

19:45

gonna get her. I'm gonna get her.

19:49

I'm gonna get her. I'm

19:51

gonna get her. I'm

19:54

gonna get her. I'm gonna get her. What?

20:00

You are vulnerable, you are the god

20:02

you are. I know you both like it. You

20:05

better avoid, you better avoid the wicked

20:07

or you will feel so much. The god you had

20:10

every time so long, you will

20:12

have all you ever, you will

20:15

have to continue. What?

20:18

What? I'll bring you. Five

20:40

of

21:11

the four four

21:17

four

21:19

four five

21:24

five six seven

21:29

seven seven

21:33

seven seven

21:37

seven seven