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  • Brand X.

  • Okay! Okay.

  • Good Morning

  • I'm Agent Peterson. And this is Agent Wallace

  • Yeah. He's new. But, he's learning, so cut him a little slack for now.

  • Tell me your name.

  • ...your real name, for the record.

  • Charles Drake.

  • What... what do you want from me?

  • What do we want? What do we want!?

  • You the motherfucker who likes to steal shit from the government! Huh? Huh!?

  • Not yet. Be Patient

  • See what I mean?

  • What do you do for a living, Charles?

  • I teach math, at Berkley.

  • Nice cover, asshole.

  • ALGORITHM: noun. a set of rules to be followed in problem-solving operations, especially by a computer.

  • A month ago I was a god.

  • Most people have no idea what a hacker can do.

  • I make the world you live in...

  • ...and I can reshape that world if I feel like it.

  • When I look around I don't see borders walls or locks.

  • I see puzzles...

  • ...games that entertain me while I do bigger things.

  • Things like breaking into the phone company to rewrite the code on their servers

  • ...and give myself free unlimited service.

  • Swapping out my pre-burned SIM cards everyday at 6pm is a small price to pay.

  • I don't care about privacy.

  • or social status or accumulating stuff.

  • I don't care about the law or who makes it.

  • I live by one rule: information should be free.

  • And everything can be simplified, encoded and understood as information.

  • We call this the information age for a reason.

  • Companies and governments don't get it, so they are powerless against me.

  • You think there are rules?

  • You treat computers like you do everything else...

  • ...like it's an immutable fact of life and because of that

  • ...your worldview is antiquated.

  • Get ready for a serious paradigm shift.

  • The geeks have inherited the earth... the rest of you just don't know it yet.

  • For your consideration, exhibit A.

  • I just hacked every computer within 20 feet of me.

  • I own them now.

  • Thanks for coming.

  • I think my wife is cheating on me.

  • So ditch her.

  • California's a No Fault state. She gets half regardless.

  • I want proof.

  • What for? Just call it "irreconcilable differences" and bail.

  • I want proof for myself.

  • I need to know.

  • What kind of proof?

  • You want video of her playing another guy's skin-flute?

  • 'cause that's not what I do.

  • No, no, no, no, no. Look around.

  • If you find anything you send it to me.

  • Either way you still get paid.

  • That's the deal. You know my fee.

  • Why would I hack all these computers...

  • ...including the laptop of a man who just gave me five grand?

  • I don't care what he does for a living.

  • And if your wife finds out...?

  • She won't.

  • I understand the need for discretion, Mr...?

  • It's LU$er

  • I collect computers. Most of them don't lead anywhere interesting

  • so I just add them to my botnet

  • a massive set of computers I use to do whatever I feel like doing at the time

  • mostly, to cover any trace of the big hacks that I do that might lead back to me.

  • I can write the code I need to break into Dempsey's network.

  • But he lives in a very expensive neighborhood.

  • I can't just sit on his curb, outside his house, brute-forcing my way in.

  • I need another Can-of-Worm.

  • How soon do you need it?

  • Two days?

  • Are you coming?

  • Hackers come in two basic models: coders and makers.

  • Bitchan is a maker.

  • She has a degree in electrical engineering.

  • In other words, she's a lightning god, controlling and manipulating electricity to do her will.

  • As a side job, she modified gaming consoles...

  • ...so they'll played copied discs or games from anywhere in the world.

  • It's not to break the law.

  • That isn't even a factor.

  • She does it for the same reason I do. It's about information.

  • And region encoding is just another puzzle blocking the way.

  • So, is this the gig Decimate hooked you up with?

  • Yeah. It's residential. He lives in St. Francis Wood.

  • So, do the TV, the Wi-Fi, and anything else you can think of.

  • What about the firewall?

  • That too. They just upgraded to smart-meters.

  • If the worm doesn't get through in five hours

  • just reset the power to the house... force a reboot.

  • And when the can works?

  • How big?

  • It'll fit.

  • Can I spend the night?

  • When did you start asking?

  • I'm going to be here until morning.

  • We're not ADHD.

  • We just don't care that wind-speeds on Saturn can get up to 3,000 miles per hour.

  • I remember it because I collect information.

  • But it's worthless to me until I decide to build a probe to land on Saturn,

  • which doesn't even have a surface to land on anyway.

  • It's 5:55pm and Bitchan sent me a text letting me know

  • that the Can-of-Worm will run for 4 days passive, or 12 hours at full-power.

  • We like things that make us think.

  • Like, what's the most efficient way to run a Linux computer off of a battery?

  • How fast can I get this program to run?

  • What's the best way to break into a network?

  • What's the best time to launch an attack against a home network?

  • Between the hours of 3:00am and 5:00am everyone's asleep.

  • Even the police who normally patrol are sitting in their cars

  • in secluded parking lots, filling out drunk-driver arrest reports.

  • The first and probably easiest way into any home network is the TV.

  • All new TVs come with Internet-capable software

  • usually Wi-Fi enabled by default.

  • Most people don't keep their TV software updated with the latest security patches.

  • Of course, that doesn't always work.

  • There are two easy hacks to get past most firewalls.

  • The first is to use a vulnerability in the default security setup

  • in almost all routers built between 2009 and 2012.

  • The other is to turn the power off and back on.

  • For 60 seconds, while the hardware reboots, the entire home network

  • is completely insecure because the firewall software loads last.

  • The point isn't the method. It's the potential.

  • There's always a way in.

  • It might be a bit of a moral grey area to use one of the few

  • socially promoted bastions of free information to hack.

  • Or, it might be perfectly inline with the ideas of the librarians.

  • Who knows? I don't ask.

  • The point is, I'm not doing this from home.

  • I'm not destroying Mrs. Dempsey; she did that on her own.

  • I'm just exploiting the vulnerability her carnal excesses created.

  • Do you know where the weakest link in any security system is?

  • It's you, with your shitty passwords

  • and how you share every part of your life online

  • from geotagging everything you do, to a photo you post of your new ATM card.

  • And your willingness to click on links that promise something you want.

  • And now I own Sam Novak's computer.

  • Whoever he is.

  • Arthur C. Clarke wrote that any sufficiently advanced technology

  • is indistinguishable from magic.

  • This is where we make the magic.

  • Anyone heard of Emergent See?

  • Emergent See.... Big. Ugly. Nasty government contractor

  • Data-mining. NSA. CIA. Hardcore combinatorial math.

  • Is that it? Just data-mining?

  • What's your interest in Emergent See?

  • Oh. Just a side project I'm working on.

  • Tell me that you're using the neighbor's Wi-Fi.

  • Uh, yeah.

  • I need a drink.

  • Anybody else?

  • So, what's the uh... great LU$er up to tonight?

  • Finished with that client Decimate sets you up with?

  • This afternoon. How did you know about that?

  • Bitchan told me.

  • She a cheating slut?

  • Yeah. Something like that.

  • But, you'll never guess with who.

  • Does it matter?

  • Sam Novak.

  • Don't know him.

  • CTO of Emergent See.

  • No shit!?

  • I rooted his office computer this afternoon. I'm searching their network right now, as we speak.

  • Oh, no. Will, no, no.

  • I told you I wasn't.

  • It's too heavy for Backdoor.

  • I'm not using your network.

  • Yeah. And Hash told you what Emergent See does.

  • Large-scale data-mining. That means NSA. They'll find the intrusion.

  • If anyone sees anything, they're just going to think that Novak has his own botnet.

  • Fine. I think you can do it.

  • And I think you can get away with it. But, not here.

  • What is your problem?

  • Not. Here.

  • I don't go on dates. I don't go clubbing.

  • I don't care about celebrity hookups or which sports team just won.

  • My universe exists entirely within computers.

  • The moment we come up with a way to not have to eat, or sleep

  • or any of the other things required to stay alive... I'll be the first in line.

  • And by in line, I mean online, breaking in and reading about it.

  • Then, Bitchan and I will get together and bootstrap a homebrew version for ourselves.

  • Because copyrights, patents, trademarks, and all the other

  • ephemeral concepts of ownership are a time-bomb.

  • Animal trainers teach a dog by giving the dog some treat it likes.

  • They call this paying the dog.

  • I do what I do for love. Anything else is a form of slavery

  • a reduction of my humanity.

  • Which is why I feel the moral liberty to search through Emergent See's

  • network and download all of their recently developed programs.

  • After all, they are a government contractor. In this country, that means they work for me.

  • Ownership is an illusion. I don't value money.

  • I acquiesce to social norms only in so much as it's required

  • to keep myself alive... and connected.

  • Take a look at the world around you.

  • You get in your car, which is run by a computer.

  • You watch TV, which is run by computers.

  • Any concept you have a world that doesn't involve electronics is naive.

  • Of course, you can manufacture a reality to suit your delusions if you like.

  • What difference does that make to me?

  • It's just one less person I have to deal with.

  • Because, if that's your choice, then you are irrelevant.

  • You cease to exist in any meaningful way

  • except as extremely low-hanging fruit.

  • That is, until you get a seat on the senate and make idiotic laws

  • like the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

  • Copyright hinges on two interrelated ideas:

  • One, scarcity.

  • Two, if we want a section of our society dedicated to making cool stuff

  • then we've got to keep the people who create that stuff alive

  • and doing what they do best

  • like Emergent See's program called Shepherd.

  • I open it up, read a few lines of hex, and quickly recognize none of it.

  • But Hash... he codes like stream-of-consciousness poetry.

  • Maybe he can make sense of Shepherd.

  • I slurped a bunch of programs from a network I hacked into.

  • Any cool ones?

  • One's interesting.

  • Where did you get it?

  • Emergent See.

  • That's some serious shit, man. Did you disable Wi-Fi?

  • Yeah. But, I don't know what it did.

  • Okay. To hell with it. Let's take a look.

  • Okay. So, type shepherd.

  • Shepherd? They called it Shepherd?

  • Pride comes before a fall.

  • I know, right?

  • Okay. It's a bit sparse.

  • This part looks like a standard terminal...

  • But, this code here looks like it's trying to start an SSH tunnel.

  • Where's it calling?

  • It's calling? I don't... I don't know.

  • Do you think it's government?

  • Who knows? We need to give it access to find out.

  • Well... they'll know where we are.

  • And that's why, my friend, we're so close to the neighbors.

  • It'll buy us a couple minutes.

  • Any preferences?

  • Ah... I love the communal nature of San Francisco.

  • So caring. So sharing.

  • So love-ed.

  • Best Mike Myers movie ever!

  • Okay. Well, that's as far as I go.

  • Whatever it is, they don't want company.

  • Be careful, Will. Sudonym was right.

  • Emergent See's nasty... like Orwellian and shit.

  • Maybe Decimate can hack in.

  • Well, meanwhile, I'm going to stream So I Married an Axe Murderer.

  • She stole my heart and my cat.

  • We know two things about Shepherd:

  • One, it's calling something outside itself.

  • Two, it leads to a login screen.

  • Doing that in public was not smart.

  • I've got to go someplace where Wi-Fi signals can't escape.

  • You know those crazy people who wear aluminum foil hats

  • to protect themselves from the brainwashing space-rays?

  • The space-rays don't exist. But the foil?

  • That reflects almost all radio signals in existence.

  • It's similar to what the CIA uses to make their black-rooms.

  • And yes, the do call them black-rooms.

  • Of course, if you don't ground it, the reflective metal becomes a giant antenna.

  • So, the crazies, with the foil hats are actually amplifying

  • the fictitious space-rays, if they wear rubber-soled shoes.

  • Today's questions are: what is Shepherd doing; and who is it built for.

  • Whoever wrote Shepherd spent a long time doing it.

  • The entire thing is written in a proprietary language.

  • And, since my debugger only understands standard languages

  • there's just too much code to know what it's doing.

  • On to question two.

  • Who is Shepherd built for.

  • Time for some Cartesian logic: any system can be understood

  • if you break it down to its component parts.

  • Study the parts, figure out what they do

  • then you'll have a pretty good idea of what the whole thing is doing.

  • But, like I said, it would take weeks to figure out all of Shepherd.

  • So, I look for one very specific part.

  • I only need to find out who it's trying to talk to.

  • That will be a single ingredient... one number.

  • The IP address of the server it's calling.

  • In the late 1950s, MIT hackers believed as I do

  • that information should be free.

  • This ideology leads people to call us crypto-anarchists

  • an oversimplification to the point of error.

  • Just because I don't hold to the tenets of a government

  • quickly devolving into fascism doesn't make me an anarchist.

  • I don't have a label for what I do... beyond "hacker".

  • You could just as easily call me a libertarian.

  • Except, I'm not sure government has a place at all

  • or what it might look like in a future without conventional trade.

  • Or, maybe communist is right... except that means that all are community property

  • as opposed to no one owning anything, which is closer to how I feel.

  • Godwin's Law states that as online discussions grow longer

  • the probability of comparisons involving Nazis or Hitler approaches certainty.

  • The reason for this is because we, as a species, don't like vagaries.

  • It's because we come from people who needed to know

  • whether or not there was a tiger in the woods. Their lives depended on it.

  • My neighbor Brian bakes meth for the Oakland chapter of an infamous biker gang.

  • Walter White, he's not.

  • The idiot must have blown himself up.

  • The sentence for manufacturing an illegal controlled substance in the

  • state of California is usually up to 7 years.

  • Normal computer crimes can be up to 9 years.

  • Breaking into top-secret government computer systems and copying files?

  • They call that terrorism now days

  • at which point the laws have been getting a bit hazy.

  • If I'm lucky, the fire that took Brian also melted any evidence in my loft too.

  • If not, DHS now has me on their list

  • somewhere near the top.

  • Excuse me, Katherine. Is Sudo... I mean, is Susan around?

  • It's Kat. And Sudonym's in the back.

  • You asshole.

  • What're you talking about?

  • Hash told me what you did.

  • After I told you not to.

  • An hour ago they came and took him.

  • You did that... asshole.

  • Hey! Hey!!

  • Wait a second...

  • Are you listening to me!?

  • You did that LU$er!

  • I don't know who those guys were, but they came in here because you decided to steal some government shit for lulz.

  • You don't understand...

  • No. It's not that I don't understand.

  • It's that I don't care... about you.

  • ...not anymore.

  • Why are you still here?

  • I don't have any place to go.

  • Do I care?

  • You did.

  • Do. I. Care?

  • No.

  • Get the hell out of my bar.

  • Correlation without causation: that's when two things seem to be related but aren't.

  • You have two data-points: Ice cream sales, and drownings.

  • You notice that as ice cream sales increase, so do drownings.

  • You could assume ice cream makes people drown

  • or you could just look at your calendar and realize it's summer.

  • So, at first, the two facts look related.

  • But, logic tells you they're not.

  • Then you see a third factor, that they are related

  • just not in the way you first thought.

  • What is Shepherd?

  • It could just be a login screen.

  • But, to what?

  • I don't know.

  • Whoever it is, they want it hidden.

  • Bit, this sucks.

  • Yeah? What did you expect would happen?

  • I don't know. Not this.

  • What about Hash? Sudonym hates me.

  • Figure it out. Maybe she'll forgive you.

  • What the hell, Will?

  • Come on...

  • Oh my god.

  • 15 years and you're not even curious?

  • Jesus. No! You're Like my brother! And, you're drunk!

  • You might like it.

  • You might like jerking off.

  • What if Brian didn't cause the fire?

  • What if Emergent See traced Shepherd back to me?

  • Which still leaves the question: who's Shepherd calling?

  • Bit!

  • I watched Shepherd in action. I saw the login screen at the park.

  • So, why isn't the IP address working?

  • Megumi!

  • About last night... I'm sorry.

  • I know. You're a guy. It's expected.

  • It's just that the bastards burned down my apartment. They stole my friend... they kidnapped him.

  • I don't know what they're doing with him or where. I don't know if he's even still alive.

  • Well, you did hack their network.

  • You're on their side?

  • What you did was pretty stupid, Will.

  • You don't even know what Shepherd does.

  • So help me find out.

  • So black-op agents can come and kidnap me?

  • That's not going to happen.

  • Please, tell me your plan... if you even have one.

  • Find out what they're doing and why.

  • Vague and probably impossible.

  • The moment you touch Shepherd something bad happens.

  • So, then, that's where we start?

  • What?

  • Whoever owns Shepherd... anytime they see it running, they send someone, right?

  • Twice doesn't make it a trend... but, sure.

  • So, we run Shepherd and let them come to us.

  • And when they come with their guns?

  • Nobody's coming. It's clear.

  • It's done. Come on.

  • Stakeouts are so much cooler in the movies.

  • Yeah. But if this works, we'll have something.

  • Yeah. If they don't see us... if they don't catch us, whoever they are.

  • Did you put your camera in my bag?

  • Yeah.

  • Put your phone down. Keep watch.

  • Why?

  • I have to pee.

  • What?

  • What? You think girls don't have to pee?

  • Feel free.

  • Unfair.

  • Bit.

  • What?

  • I know you don't... like me.

  • Of course I like you. You're like my brother, and best friend, all in one.

  • No. I meant, attracted to me.

  • I know what you meant. I was just trying to let you off easy.

  • Easy?

  • I thought you said you were sorry.

  • I am.

  • Then why are you bringing this up again?

  • I don't know.

  • I'm just curious. Something to pass the time.

  • Why wait until now?

  • I didn't wait. That was just the first time you noticed.

  • Then what, Will? Suddenly, you think I'm going to invite you into my room?

  • No.

  • You could fuck me all night.

  • That's not what I meant.

  • What? What?

  • You see that?

  • Get the camera. Get the camera.

  • All we need is a licence... just get the license plate.

  • Get down, get down. Did they see us?

  • Did they see us?

  • I don't know.

  • Okay. Take the... take the picture.

  • Okay.

  • What's going on? Come on. Did they see us? Do you think they saw us?

  • I... I don't know.

  • Son of a bitch, that was close. Did you get it? Did you get it?

  • Let's just get out of here.

  • It didn't work.

  • We know that. Try the next one.

  • Now what?

  • When do you want to go back and get the Can?

  • It's only going to give us an IP address, not a password.

  • I have to go to work. I'll be back later tonight.

  • It's called port knocking. You want to talk to Server X, which won't respond.

  • The only way to get it to respond is to query Servers A through E

  • in a certain order, during a specified period of time.

  • Only then does Server X talk back.

  • In this case, 212.3.208.65

  • That's why the IP I got from the black-room didn't work

  • and why I just got a different IP from the Can-of-Worm.

  • Of course, that doesn't solve the login screen.

  • I'm not dressed.

  • I got the IP.

  • I went back and got the Can and it had the IP in it.

  • Did anyone see you?

  • Some nosey neighbor. I told him I was with the phone company.

  • How do you know he was local?

  • How do you know he wasn't with them?

  • That... that's just paranoid. I mean, he just walked up to me and...

  • Paranoid? Don't be an idiot, Will.

  • It's not just your shitty life on the line anymore, okay?

  • Dude! What is your problem? You ever heard of calling first?

  • You told me to come over.

  • Not a good time.

  • It's important.

  • Then why wait until we're inside? Tell me now.

  • I found the IP address Shepherd's been trying to reach.

  • I'll be back in a second.

  • And the ice?

  • Yeah. That too.

  • I know you think this is important, but it can wait.

  • It's 212.3...

  • .208.65, I know.

  • How?

  • Will? Will. What do I do for a living?

  • You're a hacker.

  • And who do I work for?

  • I don't know.

  • I work for governments. Major multi-national companies.

  • Finding an IP address is noob shit.

  • Mister Big Shot... I'm gonna need a few more tests.

  • Now, do you have something useful... or not?

  • They've got Hash.

  • I know. Kat came here for comfort, and I'd like to get back to that.

  • I need the password for the login screen.

  • I have to know what it does and why they're willing to kidnap people.

  • Will, whatever it is, it's bad. I know that; It always is.

  • It's going to be something you'll want to forget, but you won't be able to.

  • It will change your worldview. And, it will either make you an activist, or apathetic.

  • Is that what you want?

  • Yes.

  • Are you sure? There's no going back, Will. Not ever.

  • I need to know.

  • Time for your medicine.

  • Don't come in.

  • Are you sure about this?

  • What is it?

  • What do you think?

  • You wrote it down?

  • Sure. Why not?

  • That is the stupidest password I've ever seen.

  • It's actually pretty good: more than eight characters, a capital letter, and a symbol.

  • Props to Michael Mitchell.

  • Head of the NSA.

  • You wanted access. He's probably got the most. Have fun.

  • Wait, wait, wait. How did you get this?

  • He didn't give it to me, if that's what you're asking.

  • Thanks. I owe you.

  • No you don't. Not this time. Not for that.

  • It's not a puzzle anymore. Now, it's something else.

  • DHS probably thinks I'm dead.

  • They have everyone they think knows about Shepherd.

  • I could leave it alone and disappear.

  • Pull a Kevin Mitnick, sans the getting caught part.

  • Of course, Mitnick now makes millions as a security consultant.

  • I just need to terminate some of my social connections

  • So my trail never leads back to them... or from them to me.

  • Where were you?

  • I talked to Decimate.

  • Yeah. He had plans.

  • I know. How did you know?

  • So, what were you doing for the rest of the night?

  • Thinking. Wondering when... when does this thing end?

  • Are you staying here?

  • No.

  • You started it, Will.

  • I know.

  • So, what's the problem?

  • I think I should let it go.

  • What happened to your curiosity?

  • Too many people are getting hurt.

  • This country is supposed to be free.

  • I don't care about politics.

  • It's not about politics.

  • It's about an idea, Will. It's...

  • ...If people knew about this?

  • Finish this. It's not about you anymore.

  • An open Wi-Fi network is one more hop they'll have to make to find me.

  • Then, there's TOR.

  • TOR was designed by the Navy so their informants could login

  • and give them secret information from a country they're not supposed to be in.

  • Logging into Shepherd is scary however I do it.

  • The fact that it's a tracking program doesn't help.

  • Who can it track? I wonder if it can track Hash.

  • How would you wake him up?

  • No. No knives. Subtle, remember?

  • How hot's your tea?

  • Rise and shine, buddy. Rise and shine.

  • Movie time, Charles.

  • This is a video of you, at a park bench...

  • As you attempt to access a top-secret database.

  • Look, Hash. We know you did it. Okay?

  • Lying to us just makes life much more painful for you.

  • The video shows a man named William Vernor Stephenson giving you the laptop.

  • See, we were able to track his phone, but we lost his data around 6:00pm

  • Ah, but your phone... we got that for days.

  • Look. Just tell us where William is, and what you plan on doing with Shepherd.

  • What happens when I know everything: The Age of Aquarius, or 1984?

  • The U.S. government rarely builds its own technology.

  • They hire Raytheon to maintain a radar station in Alaska.

  • SAIC took over remote viewing when the Army got tired of it.

  • And Emergent See built the login app for the most powerful monitoring system ever conceived.

  • Sudonym?

  • And probably the search engine on the back-end too.

  • Kat, would you get her please. This is important.

  • What do you want?

  • We need to talk.

  • Then talk.

  • Not here. In the back.

  • Does it bother you that the NSA monitors everything that you do online?

  • Does it bother you that you're afraid of a government that claims to be for you?

  • That both private and public companies know where you are, right now.

  • Who gives a shit? Why should I care?

  • What's your name?

  • Eddie.

  • Eddie...

  • Brannon.

  • Brannon.

  • What were you doing last night, Eddie?

  • Sitting at home, watching TV.

  • What were you watching?

  • I don't remember. Something on Netflix.

  • That good?

  • Ink!

  • You got good taste in movies, Eddie. That's a good movie.

  • What the hell is this?

  • It's a tracking program.

  • What's it track?

  • Everything.

  • See what I mean? I don't do anything wrong. So, who cares?

  • That's good. You know who else didn't do anything wrong?

  • A guy named Robert Martin. At least, that's not why he was kidnapped two days ago.

  • You want to know what he's doing now?

  • Hey, that's enough.

  • I'm a software engineer at Dean & Dean. I don't even know what Shepherd is!

  • I want to believe you. I do. But we have records showing...

  • ...that you tried to access Shepherd from your house.

  • Oh, come on. I don't know. I don't. I told you everything I know.

  • Would you like a cup of coffee?

  • Sure. Remember, no cream.

  • And two sugars.

  • Only one today...

  • Why are you doing this?

  • Because you wouldn't talk to me.

  • You're an asshole.

  • Whatever the reason, that's what she said and I want to live long enough to enjoy my pension.

  • Why!

  • Robert. This is just a job to me and I'm going to come in

  • tomorrow and it's either going to be you in that chair or somebody else...

  • ...and it really doesn't matter to me.

  • I've told you everything I know. Come on!

  • This can stop anytime or go on as long as you want.

  • Come on! No... no...

  • What the hell is wrong with you!

  • I know you're mad.

  • Mad!? You show torture, in my bar, in San Francisco.

  • Will, think for a moment!

  • There's something else.

  • Yeah. You're right. You logged onto a government website

  • to show a tracking program that tracks everything.

  • You saw me use TOR.

  • And you think the CIA or whoever's behind this, you think they haven't cracked TOR?

  • No. They haven't.

  • And you know this how? Because, if they have...

  • If they trace this back to me?

  • Damn it, Will. They kidnap people. They torture people.

  • Yes. That's what I wanted to talk to you about.

  • Just think about somebody other than yourself.

  • I have been. That's why I'm here.

  • They have Hash.

  • I know. I was here when they took him.

  • No. They have him and I found him.

  • Show me.

  • You're not gonna like this.

  • Where is he?

  • 611 Folsom. Downtown, south of Market.

  • We gotta get him out.

  • This is Homeland Security.

  • They're working with the NSA and Emergent See.

  • We can't just leave him there.

  • Bitchan and I can break into their system.

  • But you're gonna need to be there to pick him up, when and if he comes out.

  • And we're gonna need your servers.

  • You want to just hack them?

  • They'll trace it, Will.

  • No, not this time.

  • They will trace it, and then who knows how many people you're gonna have to bail out.

  • I already have two.

  • There is another possibility, but it's a lot scarier

  • and it is going to add you to their list.

  • We gotta get him out.

  • If I don't come out...

  • Are you sure he's here?

  • This is it.

  • Get him out.

  • Are you ever gonna come in on-time?

  • You know what your problem is? You're too serious.

  • We're fighting terrorism. Alright? Do you want another 9-11?

  • Whatever. Someday, when you realize how much

  • shit actually goes down, you'll relax.

  • I don't know what I'm expecting. Maybe two armed guards and a full-body scanner.

  • This place looks more like a library, or a school.

  • Anything but a domestic prison for advanced interrogation.

  • What's this regarding?

  • Prisoner transfer.

  • I guess that's the point when you violate the people's trust on this scale.

  • Discretion is more important than function.

  • So, transfer. That's weird. What's this about?

  • I don't know. I don't ask.

  • I asked once. That's why I'm running these errands instead of being a field agent.

  • I know what you mean. I asked once and I didn't sleep for a week.

  • So, who do you want to work on today?

  • Martin's dead.

  • Sometimes Julie overdoes it a bit. I told her to take it easy.

  • Oh. It looks like Robert Martin isn't here anymore.

  • That's not what I was told.

  • The database was just updated.

  • Pneumonia I understand. But, letting a subject die during an interrogation?

  • That's just irresponsible.

  • Sorry. Anyway, Charles Drake should be coming right out.

  • That leaves Charles Drake.

  • Well. Drake it is.

  • How you doing today, Charlie?

  • They really went to town on you, huh?

  • I got some good news. You're getting out a here, buddy.

  • So, what do you want to try next with Drake?

  • I don't know.

  • How about the microwave?

  • I heard that wasn't gonna come in for another couple weeks.

  • No. It came in this morning.

  • That's right. Prisoner transfer.

  • I don't know where they're sending you

  • but it's gotta be better than this place, right?

  • Okay. Let's go.

  • Someone's gonna change your clothes and walk you out of here, okay?

  • He doesn't have any fillings, does he?

  • No. I checked earlier.

  • That's good. You don't want to see what happens to someone with fillings.

  • I've seen it.

  • Gnarly old burn marks all over the inside of their mouth. God.

  • And this guy, it wasn't even in his records.

  • He must have had it done in Tijuana or something.

  • Anyway, they turned the emitter on and sparks just started flying from this guys mouth.

  • And the emitter tech, he pukes on me.

  • Did they move him?

  • No.

  • So, he's in here. 'Cause I know he didn't escape.

  • No! He's not in here!

  • I know that.

  • So, they moved him.

  • That kind of thing happens all the time. Let's go check with the front desk.

  • Have you seen a Charles Drake?

  • Yeah. He just left.

  • Stop.

  • They're gone.

  • What? You're just gonna let them get away?

  • No. I'm going to send a team out after them and bring them back

  • the same way we did it the first time.

  • I'm saying we use the tools available to us.

  • Alright? Track them with their cell phones. They have GPS.

  • Where's Martin?

  • They probably killed him.

  • Wait. What? How do you know?

  • Two reasons: One, he wasn't there this morning.

  • Two, they don't transfer people out of there.

  • We can't go anywhere we've ever been.

  • So...

  • We... we. They know where we've been.

  • They know everyone that we know. They know everyone that we've ever talked to.

  • They're probably tracking us right now. Turn off your phone.

  • Where am I supposed to go?

  • I don't know!

  • Out of town.

  • Take 280 south. I need some time to think.

  • Can you bring up the lobby cameras for me please?

  • Sure.

  • Alright. Back that up five minutes.

  • Okay.

  • Alright. Wait. Pause. Who's that?

  • Can you enhance that resolution a little bit?

  • I can increase the contrast a little, but I can't add resolution that doesn't exist.

  • Alright. Whatever. Just, do that.

  • Okay.

  • Okay. Do an image search on him.

  • Damn it!

  • That's the kid from the park. That's Stephenson.

  • Go to Decimate's house.

  • I don't know where he lives.

  • Head north on 19th.

  • Up early, Will?

  • I need your help.

  • Again?

  • I'm in trouble.

  • I warned you about that.

  • I know. I get it, more than you know.

  • I doubt that. But continue.

  • We got Hash.

  • Oh, don't tell me that.

  • He's in the car.

  • Whatever. Get inside before someone sees you. Douche bag.

  • You brought him here? Will, this is bad.

  • I know. We're going to get caught.

  • And they're going to try and take me down with you.

  • I'm sorry. But, I know what Shepherd is.

  • So do I.

  • I can't let it go.

  • So, you went the way of the activist. Does this mean you're

  • willing to accept the consequences?

  • They're going to come and get me.

  • I'm not asking you to hide me. I'm asking for your help in taking them down.

  • Shepherd is wrong.

  • What are you doing here?

  • Does it matter? Will, what the hell have you done?

  • What do you want this time?

  • We need to take them down, or at least break them before they find us.

  • You got Hash out, which I have to say, more than I thought you'd manage.

  • But, attacking DHS and NSA? Will, it's crazy, even for me.

  • We can't let them get away with this. I... I can't... I can't live with it.

  • The NSA is a company mainly populated by people like me.

  • You don't stand a chance.

  • Then we notify the media.

  • Haven't you ever heard the term "media conglomerate"?

  • Damn it, Decimate. Don't you believe in anything!?

  • Survival. And what you're talking about? Not how I do it.

  • Information should be free.

  • Don't be naive, Will.

  • Nothing is changing.

  • You either play the game and thrive, or fight it and lose!

  • I don't lose.

  • Will's right. We can't let them take him.

  • Sure we can. In fact, it's probably the best option we've got right now.

  • Sometimes the best way to deal with a thing... is to go through it.

  • I thought you were his friend?

  • I am.

  • After seeing you here though, I wonder if he feels the same way about you?

  • I have a lot of work to do before sunrise, so...

  • What happens at sunrise?

  • Don't wake them. They're going to need what little rest they can get.

  • When are you going to get some furniture?

  • When I get around to it.

  • Heat? Really? You are such a guy.

  • Good morning, people!

  • I've got some bad news.

  • DHS is outside and they've come for Will and Hash and Sudonym.

  • What?

  • How did they find us?

  • I turned you in.

  • You mean, we're just going to knock?

  • Those are the orders.

  • That's not a lot of fun.

  • I get that you're pissed. But, you're just gonna have to trust me.

  • Why?

  • Because I've got a plan.

  • And if you're plan fails?

  • Punctual. I like that.

  • Where are they?

  • It's alright. They're not going to do anything rough.

  • That's part of the deal.

  • Look, I don't trust you.

  • That happens. Get up.

  • I don't know who you are or who you're friends with.

  • But, this could have been messy. You just made our job a lot easier. Let's go.

  • Anything I can do to help. Have a nice rest of your day.

  • Well that's done.

  • Words are about conveying ideas.

  • The words "twenty days later" don't even begin to convey my experience.

  • Maybe Sudonym was right. Maybe I should have left it alone.

  • Hey, it's Will, right? Let me get this off of you.

  • I got some news for you, Will. You hear me? Hey.

  • Now they're telling me... and I probably shouldn't even be here...

  • but your friend... Charles?

  • He didn't make it.

  • I'm sorry that it has to come from me.

  • They couldn't revive him.

  • You know, I'm sorry.

  • I don't know who I am anymore. Maybe that doesn't even matter.

  • Call Timothy Elliot.

  • You're up early.

  • Late, actually.

  • They've had Will for three weeks, now.

  • I know. I just got the word: they're closing the facility in a week.

  • Well, then it's time.

  • I could try to justify all of this to you but in the end it really doesn't matter.

  • What you did is important, Will.

  • It's a big deal. It's probably the biggest thing that you'll ever do.

  • What do you want?

  • I want you to work for us. What can you do.

  • I'm a... I'm a hacker... a coder.

  • That's what Timothy told us. You still feel up for it?

  • What will you do with my code?

  • Now, we could sit here and talk about the seemingly fluid nature of morality

  • and your particular take on it, but like I said, that doesn't really matter.

  • I can get you out of here. I can get you doing work that you'll be proud of.

  • How can I trust you?

  • Take a leap of faith, Will.

  • And my friends?

  • Friendly, would you come in here?

  • Would you help Will to the car where his friends are waiting for him.

  • Now Timothy told me your story, but I'd like to hear it from you.

  • Okay, here we go.

  • One, two, three...

  • What are you talking about?

  • Tell me whatever you think is relevant.

  • And don't worry about the time.

  • We've got a couple of hours before we have to get back to the office.

  • Okay. This started about a month ago.

  • A month ago... I was a god.

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