You rented a car.
The clinic was afuera, 170km from the city.
I imagined you like a medieval knight on a quest.
The quest for me.
I'm here to see Maria Gonzalez.
No visitors are permitted until 6.
I'm from Westerfields. She's a witness in a major fraud case.
- Name? - Maria Gonzalez.
- Your name. - William Geld from Westerfields.
- I need your print here. - It's a very urgent situation.
I know, name and print...
I can tell by looking at you...
that you are not just a keypad presser,
you make judgements.
And I made my judgement about you. If you don't have authorisation...
Tell me one thing about yourself, anything at all.
Okay. I'm tired. I have conversations like this one a lot.
If I were able to guess your palabra, would you be impressed?
I would be mummified.
- It's Garamond. - No, it's not. It's nothing like that.
Did you have an empathy virus? It doesn't work here.
That's why you got a cold here.
We use antiviral bacteria, we're infested with streptococci.
You know...Here on the outside we do not have access to some of the pleasures
freely available on the inside.
I have these...
The gold ones are particularly good.
I don't need wealth, I just need a little encouragement.
You have a very sophisticated security system here.
Of course, we have all kinds of cases here.
- What is Maria Gonzalez here for? - Are you investigating her case?
I'm investigating a fraud case, she's a witness.
She's had a finger graft.
- Nihao - Nihao
This is Maria Gonzalez.
Take a seat.
- You okay? - I'm good.
If this is about my finger, then I don't want to prosecute.
This is not about your finger.
I need to speak to Miss Gonzalez alone.
You have no authorization.
I'm investigating an incident at your place of work.
Fraudulent papeles were issued from your printer.
In the last fourteen days, three people have died,
while travelling with papeles issued from your printer.
The people who come to us are all doing something dangerous.
We have to expect that. Unfortunately some of them won't make it.
One of them, Damian Alekan, bled to death.
He was fond of bats, remember?
Damian Alekan. You met him at a bar.
and you sold him a papel which allowed him to go to Delhi.
- When did he die? - One week ago.
I've been in here for ten days.
The papeles were issued prior to you arriving here.
I'm tired, I would like to rest.
Miss Gonzalez is still in recovery.
Why is she in here?
- Please, don't use the word finger... - Her finger has just been...
It was damaged and re-grown on her family's insurance policy 22 years ago.
I know a great deal about Miss Gonzalez, you know
For instance, she was pregnant when she came in here.
I also know that you have no interest in impeding my investigation.
She violated code 46.
We terminated the pregnancy and took out the memory cluster immediately around them.
- The baby was terminated? - There was no baby.
Just a pregnancy that was terminated and the memory removed.
You've...em...You've interfered
with the memory of a key witness in an insurance fraud.
Her memory was very local. It's just the man, the sex act and pregnancy.
She doesn't remember the man at all?
The man, the sex, the pregnancy, we've erased all of them.
It's the same Maria Gonzalez. The finger was a placebo memory.
I moved it from her childhood. I think it's very effective.
- When will she be able to leave? - She's due to leave tomorrow.
I'm afraid I may have to ask you to release her to me now.
Can you miss someone you don't remember?
Can one moment or experience ever disappear completely?
Or does it always exist somewhere, waiting to be discovered?
Wait, I've forgotten something. My suitcase, it's very important to me.
It's in the back!
Is that what you're going to do?
Put me outside with them?
You've been outside before, for ten years.
You didn't come back inside till you were fourteen.
You really did your homework.
You can't sing, you like sugar fountains,
you like to grow real plants from seeds.
I must have been your favourite subject at school.
You hate the desert.
I always hated the desert.
Even at college studying Road Runner cartoons,
I had to look away.
I always wondered why the coyote didn't buy a Road Runner.
He had enough money to buy rocket-powered skates,
let alone a Road Runner.
How did you do that?
What?
I was thinking something and you heard me. That is weird.
Intuition,
I can feel what you're thinking.
I don't believe in mind-reading, I think it is all a trick.
It's not a trick, it's a gift.
What am I thinking now?
Damian Alekan.
- Have you been here before? - Once.
- You like it? - I was only here a day.
But, yes. I like it very much.
Excuse the mess.
Come here.
Sit down.
That's Damian,
you recognize him now?
I remember he wanted to go to Delhi.
And I remember the look on his face when I gave him the papel.
He tried for years to get one officially and couldn't.
I was there when you met Damian.
I was with you at the bar.
I don't understand.
You don't remember because they erased your memory.
I don't know what you're talking about.
I came to Shanghai to investigate a fraud.
I knew you were guilty,
but then I fell in love with you.
Why would they erase my memory of you?
I don't know.
Where's my cosa?
- I can't find my cosa. - You haven't lost anything.
- You haven't lost anything, relax. - I can't find my...
I can't find my cosa!
Will you stay with me?
- I'm so tired. - I'll stay with you till you wake up.
- What is it? - It'll help you sleep.
- I don't understand anything. - Neither do I.
My father used to tell me stories as I fell asleep.
Stories about Jebel Ali and the Arabian Sea.
Stories of magic and adventure.
He used to live there and believed that if we returned
everything would be alright, everything would be like it used to be,
before we were exiled.
And in my dreams, I was there.
Sample, please.
Thank you.
I've screened 30 sets of genes and there are no code 46 issues.
It's perfectly safe for you to marry.
In fact, I'd recommend it.
You both have the code for high intelligence.
- Thanks very much. - Bye, bye.
Do you know this woman?
I'm looking for her.
You must have found her if you have her hair.
It was given to me by relatives.
- What's our relationship to this woman? - I just want to know about her.
You can't liase with her. Look at this.
This is your DNA, 50% match the hair samples.
Here...
is the DNA of your mother,
a 100% match, genetically identical.
Any liaison with this woman would be a code 46 violation.
- How can that be? - Anything's possible with vitriol.
Your mother was one of a batch of 24 cloned foetuses.
The hair is from your mother or one of her genetic twins.
- This woman is identical to my mother? - No.
Diet, climate, environment,
accident, surgery, the stars, God.
We aren't prisoners of our genes.
Is this hair from your mother?
- Are you in love with this woman? - Why?
- Is she pregnant? - No.
- Were you naturally conceived? - In vitriol.
Your nurture parents will have your records.
- They're dead. - I'm sorry.
Thanks.
If we're frightened, we run. It's our instinct.
Adrenalin pumps round the body, the muscles contract,
our heart beasts faster and we run.
We run for our lives,
we run for safety, for our home, our families,
our loved ones.
I don't want you to drive and call.
I'm going to the airport and I'll be home tomorrow.
- Did you catch the bad guy? - Every time.
- How are you? - I love you.
- Me, too. - See you soon.
I need a ticket to Seattle.
It's completely red, it's out of date.
You're not covered for the Asia area.
Yeah. But I don't want to be here.
I'll leave. I want to go home.
- I'm covered to go home, right? - I really don't know, sir.
Yes, I am covered for home.
But you're not at home, sir. You're in Shanghai without cover.
I don't know why don't you just kick me out.
Kick me out in the general direction of home?
You can't fly or be in the Asia area without cover.
What am I going to do? Piss out the window at 20,000 feet?
I don't know your character well enough to say so, sir.
Maybe I can guess something about your character.
These are particularly fun.
I'm afraid you guessed wrong, sir. I'm a Christian scientist.
- I don't believe in drugs or coffee. - Damn, I'm all out of Bibles!
- Can I come in? - Can I stop you?
- I need your help. - How have you been?
I had something to do.
I shouldn't be in Shanghai, I should be in Seattle.
- You knew that last night. - I have to go.
- Go! - I can't.
My papel is red, I can't get out.
So you tried already, you were just going to disappear.
- I'm sorry. - You're sorry!
You say that too much.
I need to go home.
You have a family?
- Boy or girl? - Boy.
Jim.
He must think you're a hero for catching bad guys like me.
Something like that.
You know what they say, "the Sphinx knows best".
Maybe there's a reason you can't go home.
It's fake,
I have to swap it for a genuine pass.
I'll meet you at the airport at seven, okay?
- Thanks. - Let's go.
My name's Maria Gonzalez, I have an access problem.
I have a new finger and it needs to be recoded.
- Okay, just hold on a moment please. - Thanks.
- Good morning. - It's so good to see you.
I have a access problem. I have a new finger and I need it to be recoded.
I know, you've been relocated.
- Sorry? - You've been relocated. You'll work here now.
Why don't you come inside?
- William, where are you? - I'm in Shanghai.
- Isn't your cover out? - I extended it.
No, you haven't. Where is Maria?
Why did you remove her from Mai Lin clinic without authorization?
- She was a suspect? - Was?
Is.
You seem upset, William. Report to the Shanghai office today,
they will take over the case.
Bring me what you can. I got it today.
EXIT ONLY
It's a single exit cover,
valid for today only.
The Seattle flights leave from zone C.
I do remember you.
From a dream,
from my birthday dream.
You should go home.
Two for Jebel Ali.
- Which flight, sir? - The next one.
- Do you have cover? - I'm a resident here.
Sorry, I forgot. It's my new finger.
Thanks for choosing Pan Worldwide Airways, have a safe journey.
I'd always dreamt of Jebel Ali, Jebel Ali of my father's stories.
He told me you could do anything there, as long as you wanted it enough.
You know what?
Every time I imagined doing this, I always imagined being with you,
even though we've never met.
- You okay? - Yes.
We're looking for a place to stay.
Come.
You've never been outside, I could be your guide.
Your teacher.
Three pacoras.
We're looking for a room, we have cover.
No one has cover for over here. You can't buy cover for here.
Residents sleep at their own risk.
- Can we have a room? - Room, food, a game of chess.
There's a shower through there,
you're covered in dust!
- It'll be noisy, I'm afraid. - That doesn't matter.
We'll sleep through anything, we're so tired.
- You've come a long way? - Yes.
My wife made that
before she passed on.
- Think about her before sleeping. - Thanks.
It's a pleasure to have you.
Will you put this on?
- Does your wife look like you? - No.
How did you meet?
We worked together till we had Jim.
- You must miss him. - Yes.
Sing.
What?
I want to hear you sing.
I can't sing.
Sorry.
It's okay.
It's not your fault.
It's viral.
The Sphinx gave you a virus.
Like what? An anti-William virus?
It's involuntary, it's like adrenalin.
When you're scared of something, your body gets ready to run away.
- I'm not scared of you. - I know but your body is.
I want you to make love to me.
Make me make love to you.
I love you...
You must have known the way the virus works.
Was there nothing you could do to stop me?
- I have to make a call. - It will be recorded.
- That's okay. - The phone's there.
My name is Maria Gonzalez.
I'm recording a code 46 violation.
What is your location?
- What is this address? - 168, Shada Perrera.
- Please wait there. - I'll be right here.
Wake up.
Come on, wake up,
we have to go.
No, I want to stay here forever.
See? I can kiss you now.
I have to go, come on.
Something's happened.
- We need a car, can you help? - Cars are expensive, even more than in the city.
I got these.
I need money, people have to eat.
It's all I've got.
It's not enough.
Sonno, take them to the shop and tell Farrukh to give them a mini.
Stop playing now, stop it!
You went before a tribunal.
They decided the empathy virus had affected your judgement,
so they took away your memory of me.
Just like they had wiped my memory of you.
What does he remember about the crash?
He knows he went to Shanghai, he solved a case
on the way to the airport he crashed the hired car.
As far as he's concerned, he never went to Jebel Ali.
I'll leave you alone.
Thank you.
I missed you.
It's good to see you.
I brought you some clothes.
Daddy!
Where have you been?
Daddy did a silly thing, I crashed a car,
but the doctors fixed me up real good.
What am I thinking?
I don't know.
I'm thinking about boats.
I was exiled because I tried to cheat the Sphinx.
They left me my memories.
They don't care what you think if you're outside.
Why bother? To them, it's as if we don't exist.
That feels good!
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