(suspenseful futuristic music)
(heavy breathing)
(door opening)
- Good morning Mr. Freeman, how are you feeling?
- Couldn't be better.
Wait, wait.
What is this?
- It's just a pre-anesthetic Mr. Freeman,
nothing to worry about, it's gonna make you feel
a little bit numb, maybe a little bit sleepy.
(electronic beep)
I'm gonna take you down to surgery now Mr. Freeman.
(door opening)
(suspenseful futuristic music)
(door opening)
(medical machines beeping)
Just a minute.
- [Doctor] Good morning Mr. Freeman.
- Hello.
- How are you?
Are you ready?
- I guess so, your nurse gave me something.
- I looked at your brain scan and the tumor
is pretty deep in there.
But I am sure we can get it out.
Never seen your clone before have you?
- No never, it's strange.
- First we are going to mirror your brain,
it's a standard backup procedure.
Your IQ is 442.
- I'm a professor for quantum physics and dark matter.
- You must be a genius.
Well let's get things rolling shall we?
(suspenseful music)
(chair hydraulics lifting)
How many layers are we doing?
- Four Dr. Richards.
- [Doctor] Prepare the backup.
- [Voiceover] Initiating backup procedure.
- Everything seems to be in order.
- The magnetic fields are stable, up-link is ready.
- Are you feeling drowsy?
- No, not really, but I feel something,
it's like ants crawling through my brain.
- Tingling?
It's part of the process.
- Well, as long as you don't copy the tumor.
- Just your memories.
You can breathe normally.
We're starting the transfer now.
- A backup, in case of what?
- In the unlikely event that something would go wrong
during surgery, it would give us a chance to save you.
- Save me?
Well, if I wake up over there, that's not gonna be me,
I'm not him, right?
I mean--
- You would wake up in a different body.
- Huh?
I've got a tumor in my head the size of an apple,
that is not the way to fix it.
- Mr. Freeman, we have to follow protocol
before we do the surgery.
- Point is, quantum physics says it's impossible
to make an exact copy of anything.
You can't copy the probability distribution
of electrons, if I die, I die, that's it.
- [Voiceover] Minor interference detected.
- Is it still readable on your screen?
- Well it's there, but it's--
It could be better.
- When we fall asleep at night, our conscious
is turned off, our basic self is gone.
But when you wake up the next day,
how do you know you are the same as you were before?
You might have been sleeping for weeks
or maybe frozen for centuries.
- I guess I could tell, if I'd been sleeping
for hundreds of years.
- Yes, but you could only tell
by looking at your surroundings,
me, the ship, not by how you felt.
As long as your memories are the same,
you'll think that it was you going to bed,
in reality you can't be sure that you're still you,
maybe last night didn't even exist.
- What are you saying?
That I'm a clone?
- I'm just saying, if you can't tell the difference
why be so worried?
You may have been dying every single night
since you were born.
We're all memories professor, that's our soul.
- (gasps) I'm sorry doctor, I--
- [Voiceover] Warning, major interference detected.
- It's not looking good over here, he's running out of time.
- Status?
- 79.1%, he's accessing the hippocampus,
how is that possible?
- Can't be.
- It looks like he's analyzing
some complex mathematical equation.
- No, he's praying.
Increase the fields.
- But if we increase the fields it--
- Do it.
(dramatic suspenseful music)
- Increasing on sector five, 84.6%.
- Memories.
I have memories, of how I got my scar for example.
I used to get butterflies when I was young.
(gasps) I married my wife, it was 'cos she smiled.
(gasps) Everything's blurry now,
I can't move my eyes.
I don't wanna fucking die here you know.
I just don't want to fucking die here.
(dramatic suspenseful music)
My memories.
I can see.
- He's shutting down the mainframe,
he's running out of time.
- [Voiceover] Emergency (muffled) activated.
(electric surging)
- Transfer complete Dr. Richards.
- [Voiceover] Transfer complete.
- Did we get all of it?
- Er, yes, em, well most of it.
October of last year could be gone,
a couple of days in November.
- Nothing major is missing?
- Nothing in the files doctor.
- We have to fabricate the scar.
- Do you--
Do you want me to shut him down and start the transfer?
- Ah, yes Sophie, thank you.
Let's play some music.
(slow suspenseful music)
What are you waiting for?
- Nothing I, I--
We killed him.
- We saved him, forever and a day.
(door opening)
(slow suspenseful music)