- Boston: I have a proposal for the Domain.
- Orlando: Oh here it comes, the bullshit Domain.
- Boston: Since day one, Orlando's been nothing but a thorn in our sides and now he's confessing to brutally murdering innocent people.
- Orlando: No no no, they weren't *all* innocent.
- Boston: We don't have to listen to it anymore. We just ban him and shut off his feed for good.
- Orlando: Ah!
- [claps]
- Orlando: I love it! You can't ban me.
- Denver: I can.
- Houston: For real? You can just shut us off at anytime?
- Denver: It's not that simple, okay? It's a hack I came across after studying the code for years. But that doesn't mean I agree with Boston. Banning someone is permanent, we can't come back from it so we have to make sure that this is something we all wanna do.
- Atlanta: While you two are bickering like an old married couple, I'm gonna do my morning prayers, anyone want to join me?
- Chicago: Every morning you ask us if we wanna pray and the answer is always the same. Isn't that the definition of psychosis?
- Phoenix: I'll pray with you.
- Atlanta: Really?
- Phoenix: Sure, I don't know any prayers though.
- Atlanta: That's okay, I can send you one. It's one that I used to do with my girls just before I put them to bed.
- Atlanta: [praying] Oh Lord, make me brave.
- Phoenix: [joining] Make me brave.
- Atlanta, Phoenix: Brave enough to face the dark, the dark that pulls me in, as the storm rages through, let me rise above the gale with bright eyes, confident Thy way is wise. Lord, make me brave, brave to face the murk of life, help me with my human plight. Help me to retain my sight, to know that from the dark comes light. To know that from the dark comes light.
- Atlanta: Amen.
- Phoenix: Amen.
- Atlanta: Thanks, Phoenix, that was nice.
- Phoenix: [after Houston's day cycle malfunctions and their terminals go blank] I think we should turn Orlando's feed back on.
- Atlanta: What? No!
- Boston: Why?
- Phoenix: Maybe we broke the system when we banned him. Think about it, there are supposed to be seven of us and right now there are only six, maybe we caused the glitch.
- Phoenix: I don't know where to start.
- Denver: This is about your mom, right?
- Phoenix: My mom isn't alive.
- Denver: Yeah, I know.
- Phoenix: I mean she wasn't alive before all this. I... I was in prison when I won the lottery.
- Denver: Really? Why?
- Phoenix: I never knew my dad, cuz he died when I was young. My mom raised me alone. She worked constantly 'cuz she had to. I spent a lot of my teenage years alone, got in with a bad crowd, got into drugs, mostly meth. I lied, stole, ran away from home when I was 17, came back when I OD'd, didn't stop me. One night, I got high, paranoid, accused my mom of stealing my stash, I went down to the kitchen, grabbed a paring knife, went back up the stairs, and I stabbed her. The drugs were in my room where I left them.
- Denver: I'm so sorry, Phoenix, I wish I could hold you right now. When did this happen?
- Phoenix: I was in prison when the flu hit, so almost seven years ago now.
- Denver: The whole Orlando thing makes a lot more sense now.
- Phoenix: Banning him was wrong, who am I to judge?
- Denver: It's not the same.
- Phoenix: Yeah, you're right, what I did was worse.
- Orlando: [the Domain is deadlocked whether to ban him or not] Let me make this easy for you: do it, ban me.
- News Anchor: A powerful new strain of influenza has killed more than 5,000 people in Egypt according to reports out of Cairo.
- News Anchor: New cases of the Saharan flu were reported in France, Spain, Germany and Italy.
- News Anchor: The flu is spreading beyond doctors' abilities to contain it.
- News Anchor: The flu has reached U.S. shores with cases reported in...
- News Anchor: We have reports that a million have died in the Middle East.
- News Anchor: -and San Fransisco.
- News Anchor: We have reports that a million have died...
- News Anchor: The World Health Organization warns that this could be a civilization-ending event.
- News Anchor: -This could be a civilization-ending event.
- News Anchor: The World Health Organization has started construction on half a million underground bunkers.
- News Anchor: Scientists are searching desperately for a cure, but they warn that Saharan Flu mortality could be 100%.
- News Anchor: Authorities promise that lottery winners will have access to bunkers within 24 hours.
- News Anchor: With an estimated 3 million dead worldwide, it is unclear if the bunkers will be finished in time.
- News Anchor: This is our final broadcast: Good luck, and Godspeed.
- Nadine: [in an instructional video] Hello, my name is Nadine, and I am the designer of the LSB-300 lifesaving bunker. If you're watching this, the lottery is over and you are one of the lucky few who will live through the Saharan flu epidemic. You are a survivor. If need be, your bunker can keep you alive for up to 70 years.
- Houston: [as the lights in his bunker keep flashing bright colors that change every few seconds] Yeah I tell you, I ain't gonna last 70 hours if this shit don't stop.
- Boston: It'll work itself out, just calm down.
- Houston: Oh, you wanna trade bunkers?
- Nadine: To protect you from surface conditions, your bunker is 30 feet underground. The artificial day cycle will keep your sleep patterns normal. Your bunker is stocked with enough Supplival powder to last a lifetime. When mixed with water, Supplival creates a delicious shake that's packed with nutrients, in vanilla, strawberry, or chocolate.
- Atlanta: [drinking her Supplival] This is so *not* a chocolate shake.
- Nadine: The generator powers the bunker's closed-loop air and water filtration. 100% of what you consume is recycled.
- Boston: Wait a minute, does that mean we drink our own piss?
- Denver: You just now realized that?
- Boston: [dryly] Science is amazing.
- Nadine: The generator also powers the atmosphere purifier. The purifier filters contaminated air molecules and strips them of the virus. The 500,000 bunkers that make up the network operate in tandem to eliminate the viral threat. The network generates an estimate for how long this process will take, based on daily data which you can view in your statistics terminal. Solitary habitation is necessary to ensure that this virus spreads no further. To combat the inevitable sense of isolation, we created Domain. Domain is an information and social networking platform. Domain also allows full access to our encyclopedic archives. Studies found that groups of seven create an ideal long-term social networking community. Each group of seven was selected using algorithms derived from your personal histories. Right now I too am probably living out my days in an LSB-300 just like yours, wondering how much longer I'll be down here. One thing is certain, we will eradicate the Saharan flu. Your efforts matter, *you* matter. We are the survivors. An Earth free of this virus awaits, humanity is counting on us.
- Phoenix: [about her and Denver's 'relationship'] I'm sorry to be blunt, but it's really none of your business.
- Boston: Look, I'm just worried about you, okay? I mean there's something about him that just gives me the creeps, don't you see that?
- Phoenix: No I don't. He's never been anything but supportive and loving.
- Boston: You never even met him in person.
- Phoenix: I never met you in person and you expect me to trust you. What is this about, Boston?
- Boston: Denver reminds me of my dad. His looks, his voice, his mannerisms, everything. You know on the surface, he's really friendly, super smart and charming, but there was something really fake about it all. I mean he was mean as shit behind closed doors. You hit this switch and snap, he was a monster.
- Phoenix: Listen, I always appreciate your honesty, and thank you for your concern, but I know Denver, and he is nothing like your father.
- Orlando: This here is a fucking joke, I have to listen tot his blah blah blah bullshit day in and day out. Banning me is not a punishment.
- Denver: Orlando, banning you is permanent. No contact with anybody for the rest of your time down here.
- Phoenix: That could be more than 20 years.
- Orlando: Well that to me sounds like a 20 year vacation.
- Boston: How many people have you killed anyway?
- Orlando: To be honest, 15, maybe 20, I don't know.
- Atlanta: Oh my God!
- Orlando: [mocks her] 'Oh my God!' Are you serious? Come on, most of them were bank robberies gone bad. I'm sorry, hold on, there *was* a time I did it for sport, and to tell you the truth, it was actually fun.
- Atlanta: I am trying to find a way to pray for your soul, but I'm not sure if you even have one.
- Orlando: Oh and this is coming from the Mother of the Year. What's it like to uh, think about those three precious angels up there dead with everyone else?
- Atlanta: How *dare* you?
- Orlando: No, I'm just asking, I mean they were, they were kids, right? I mean that is a hell of a way to go, especially being so young.
- Houston: Dude, that is fucked up.
- Orlando: But it's the truth, that's what I'm talking about, hey the truth! And none of you want to hear it!
- Boston: Is there any chance that Orlando can actually be in there somewhere?
- Denver: I mean there's a possibility he could be dead or I don't know, hiding from the camera, but that doesn't seem like his personality.
- Phoenix: Well what if he tried to escape?
- Atlanta: How can he escape? The doors are locked.
- Phoenix: Has anyone tried their door since the terminal shut down?
- [everybody looks to their doors]
- Boston: Chicago, nice of you to join us.
- Chicago: Give me a break, I think I have a cold.
- Boston: You're in a hermetically sealed environment, so that's actually physically impossible.
- Chicago: Well *something's* making me sick.
- Houston: Maybe you should drink a fucking Supplival, put some meat on them weak ass bones.
- Phoenix: What did they do?
- Nadine: Are you sure you want to know?
- Phoenix: Yes, they're my friends.
- Nadine: Well, Raymond Voss was a career criminal, he was in and out of prison his whole life, I think you know the rest of his resume. Hector Gonzales was in a gang, he was directly responsible for at least 20 murders. Olivia Michaels was suffering from postpartum depression and she drowned her three little girls, right before she attempted to commit suicide with pills. Cedric Jackson was a prostitute and drug addict, he murdered innumerable men who paid to have sex with him, stealing their cash, their jewelry. Barry O'Malley, robbed a bank with his two brothers, afterwards they were trying to divide the heist, and he murdered them both, execution style.
- Phoenix: And Denver?
- Nadine: Dean Atkins stalked and murdered 11 women that he met on various dating websites.
- Nadine: This program was my life, my baby. I watched all of you every day for six years, I know everything about all of you. I gave you a purpose, a reason to live, I gave you hope. An opportunity to put your past behind you and to create something new, a way to live your life in a humane atmosphere, instead of some prison where the inmates are raped and murdered.
- Phoenix: [crying] This is worse!
- Nadine: It's only worse because you found out, you were never supposed to find out.
- Denver: Ignorance is bliss, huh?
- Nadine: Something like that.
- Denver: So the bunkers are all connected, right? Every bunker in the Network has its own feed, that's 500,000 feeds. So the Domain, what it does is it limits access to the seven people in your group. The feeds, they're still there, but you just can't see 'em.
- Phoenix: Well can you access them now?
- Denver: Yeah, I already did. I can only pull 'em up one at a time. This is a random one.
- [shows an empty bunker]
- Denver: I'm assuming they already took this person.
- [shows another bunker with a black man silently talking incessantly]
- Phoenix: Who is that?
- Denver: No idea.
- Boston: Why can't we hear him?
- Denver: I couldn't locate the audio streams, video only, so we can't communicate with them, and they can't see us.
- Phoenix: I actually believed you.
- Denver: Believed what?
- Phoenix: That you loved me.
- Denver: Oh, Phoenix, I love you, in my way.
- Phoenix: Did you love the women you killed?
- Denver: For a while, sure.
- Phoenix: Then why did you kill them?
- Denver: I can't explain that to you in a way that you'd find accessible.
- Denver: There's more.
- Phoenix: What?
- Denver: There's only 1,000 feeds coming from the main server.
- Boston: So what?
- Denver: So there should be 500,000, one from each bunker.
- Phoenix: Is it possible you just can't access them all?
- Denver: No, no, I mean I didn't think that it was possible, so I triple checked, but I'm telling you, there's only 1,000 bunkers.
- Boston: What does that mean?
- Denver: It means they lied to us.
- Phoenix: Why have you been removing people from their bunkers?
- Nadine: They're shutting down the Domain.
- Phoenix: Why?
- Nadine: Because you banned Orlando!
- Phoenix: Who even knows about that?
- Nadine: Everyone! Somebody leaked the video, it blew up on the internet, it was national news for weeks. The media called you 'The Penthouse Prisoners', they couldn't believe how much freedom you had in the prison environment. It was ridiculous, we were always in control. That's not all, the public hated that you didn't even know you were in prison, they thought the bunkers were too nice, they thought you were getting off too lightly. Never underestimate humanity's capacity to be punitive.
- Atlanta: [the others try to talk her out of sabotaging the Supplival tube to look for an escape] Look, guys, if I wind up starving to death, then I guess that was God's plan for me all along.