0:00

Whoa, check out that block of birds.

0:02

They're so synchronized. I wish

0:04

we could be like that at work. Well, then you should

0:06

try Monday.com. It's a work management

0:08

platform. Yeah, it might ruffle some feathers to

0:10

change the way we work. That's the thing. Monday.com

0:13

lets you choose how to manage your own work. But

0:16

at the same time, it keeps you and everyone

0:18

else aligned on projects, big

0:20

picture workflows, and company goals.

0:22

Sounds like working together is no longer a

0:24

bird inn. Get it? Because-

0:26

Yeah, I get it. Go to Monday.com

0:28

to get started for free.

0:32

Everyone good? Everyone

0:34

got a mince pie? Everyone got a little glass of water? We're

0:36

all? Yeah. All right, the year 2014, deep

0:38

underground. Blah, blah, blah, friend computer. It may be dark,

0:40

I'm friends. But depending on your security clearance, this is paranoia.

0:43

What are you doing? What was that? Do it properly,

0:45

Dave. Fine. First,

0:48

the bad news. The world

0:50

is no longer habitable to human

0:52

life. Now for the good news.

0:55

Your new life starts today. Down

1:06

even deeper down than normal,

1:09

you have found yourselves in the RAND department in

1:11

the service, or at least an audience

1:13

with the head of the RAND

1:16

department, a clone known as VictorILX57.

1:20

Not a typical clone, very into his job. Very,

1:22

very into the gear that is laid out

1:25

in the tables in front of you. And he has a question

1:27

for all of you at this moment. You

1:30

with

1:30

the orange jumpsuit,

1:33

what's your name? My name is StrawberryRCY42.

1:36

I have an important question for you. Yes. That

1:39

orange jumpsuit, is it stiff? Because

1:42

this one I got a huge stiffy.

1:44

Once you get the indigo, it's stiffy

1:47

blood and central. And he has another question

1:49

for you. If

1:52

you could have, and this sounds like

1:54

a little bit of sedition, so bear with me.

1:57

I'm looking at you loyalty officer.

1:59

He says with the comfort that only a scientist in an indigo

2:02

jumpsuit could have. If you could have

2:04

any mutant power, what

2:06

would it be? My only mutant power

2:08

would be to serve friend computer

2:11

better than I already do. Okay, that sucks.

2:13

You! So

2:15

I guess you would have the power of super suction

2:18

here, because

2:20

you're sucking up so much. That

2:22

would be your power, you'd be a big suckbot.

2:25

You'd be the suckbot 9000. Just

2:27

understand from my perspective, leading a team

2:29

here,

2:31

you have flagged that this kind of conversation is obviously

2:33

potentially seditious in an

2:35

abstract scenario where

2:38

I was so misfortunate to be outside the system

2:40

in benevolence of friend computer. He sees

2:42

you and his eyes light up and he puts a finger to

2:44

his lips and then he walks, runs

2:47

into what just is like a milk crate full

2:49

of strange inventions. He grabs one, he slams it down

2:51

on the table, written on tape

2:53

on top of it, is dead zone, dead

2:55

zone generator and he flicks a switch

2:58

and then he looks at you again. And also as

3:00

he does that, everyone's heads up displays,

3:02

the treason stars, the names plates all

3:05

suddenly disappear and they go, they become like

3:07

variable not found and things like that. Okay,

3:10

great. I've got so many questions

3:12

to ask to my penis and balls.

3:17

Oh yes, that's right. Why

3:22

don't you have a little peek because you can. Okay,

3:25

there's no there's no pixels here. You

3:29

see un-pixelated junk. That's

3:32

yours. That's your penis. This

3:34

has really made me understand my character a lot

3:37

more. Fine specimen.

3:38

He's activated a small dead

3:40

zone, which means that you could

3:43

talk freely. This is the kind of wildly

3:45

inappropriate privileges that one as brilliant

3:47

as Victor can make for himself. It's

3:50

almost contraband item probably in the

3:52

whole of Alpha complex, but by

3:54

activating it computer can't

3:56

know about it. So it's not quite a

3:58

paradox, but it's.

4:00

Silly. Go on,

4:02

have a squeeze, Beadle. Wait, I'm sure

4:04

you wanna have some hard. Oh, they wanted me

4:06

to check out my hogs, says. My

4:09

hogs? My hogs? Did you say hogs,

4:11

Beadle? I imagine I have multiple piggy-sits or whatever

4:13

it is. There's a mutant in our midst. Check

4:16

out your hogging butt hog. Oh, look, and I tell you, he starts

4:18

to put his hand just over everyone's dick. Don't

4:21

look, no one's to look. Just

4:22

cupping everyone's bones. Please don't, please

4:24

don't. Okay,

4:27

he's freaking out. How about you? Boingy

4:29

legs. Boingy legs? He's

4:31

actually just been like, he's

4:34

just been like holding that in this

4:36

whole time. But I actually,

4:39

one of his little assistants comes up whose

4:41

name is, I guess, Igor B721. And

4:45

he goes, there is, of course,

4:47

the petty bullet run. Yes, there

4:50

it is. There is that. I will

4:52

go and get it. Igor will go and get it. Igor, you go and get

4:54

it. Oh, very exciting. And he runs away and

4:56

then he pulls back a cart. And on that cart

4:58

is a pair of what looks like exoskeleton

5:01

legs. You sort of hop into it like a pair of mechanical

5:03

trousers. And he says, quick,

5:06

quick, the troubleshooter should just get up on the stepladder

5:08

and hop in.

5:10

I'll do it. Okay, you do, and he's tightened some

5:12

belts. And he goes, just try

5:15

a

5:15

small jump for now, but a small one. I'll

5:18

do a small jump. You go, you jump eight

5:20

feet in the air and you land down

5:22

again. Did I hit my head on anything? No, you don't because he says,

5:25

they're actually in a danger room that has been

5:27

created by the Rand department for testing

5:29

this equipment. Oh, It's

5:33

very important. They built up pressure. So you

5:35

see that little button on the side? Press it

5:37

now, it will vent the pressure. And

5:40

all of this hydraulic steam just dissipates

5:43

instantly out of the legs. Okay, so that means

5:45

my legs are back to normal. Well, it means

5:47

that it's vented the energy that was stored

5:49

by you doing the jump. And yeah, you

5:51

can walk around in it now. It's large, it's

5:53

a bit awkward, but you can- Have I got

5:55

a little spring in my step though? Okay,

5:58

now almost uncomfortable amount of spring. This will blend

6:00

in seamlessly, I hope, to your jumpsuit

6:03

so that you will appear, as is

6:05

the mission, to be one of

6:07

mutant powers. But it is just science.

6:10

Thank you very much, sir! I cannot tell you

6:12

how happy I am with two of the things that have

6:14

happened to me in the last two seconds.

6:16

I would, uh,

6:19

love to be able to manifest fire.

6:22

Ooooh! See? That's

6:25

not bad. I'm going to have to report you for sedition!

6:27

Hahahaha! And he

6:29

pulls out a pair of gauntlets that look like heavy, insulated

6:32

gauntlets. He slaps them down on the table. Now this is

6:34

not quite fire, but it is fire

6:36

of the gods. This is electricity,

6:39

you see? These are electro-sharp

6:42

gauntlets. Put them on! There are micro-tactile

6:44

switches just underneath your middle finger, inside

6:47

the glove. So it turns out from the inside,

6:49

so just flicks that bad boy on. Uh-huh.

6:52

Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Blue arcs of

6:54

lightning cone out, and he goes, and if you push

6:56

it forward, you can even fire small little globules

6:59

of energy. Wow. Keep it to go!

7:01

Hit Igor! No! Don't

7:04

hit Igor! I actually think he likes it! What's the range

7:06

on these bad boys? Well, why don't we get Igor

7:08

to start running and you can see? He

7:10

goes running,

7:10

he goes running. He hit

7:13

him in the back, he collapses forward with

7:15

his... A hole in his back collapses

7:18

against a lot of equipment that is destroyed, and Victor

7:20

doesn't seem to care, and then just stops

7:22

dead on the floor. Keep running, Igor! He's not running

7:25

anymore! We need a scientific test!

7:27

Stop being such a big baby, Igor! So

7:29

I move backwards and start

7:31

getting the range of... Yeah, you keep shooting at

7:33

the corpse of Igor. Mm-hmm, yep. You're

7:35

just able to, it seems, hurl electricity

7:39

out of the gauntlets. They start

7:41

to get a bit uncomfortably hot the more you use them.

7:43

And how, what's the distance? Would you say that it was the maximum range?

7:45

Oh, I would say, maybe... 10 meters. Yeah, 10

7:48

meters. Okay, great.

7:50

The distance of a Nerf gun, basically. That doesn't help

7:52

me. Yeah, 15 meters. We'll say 15 meters. That's

7:55

good. I can imagine that. Yeah, great.

7:57

And as you do that, there's a ding, and...

7:59

The doors open and two figures enter, a very

8:02

slimy, very wet, very reproachful looking

8:04

Igor too, walks in and next

8:06

to him is the figure of your friend

8:08

Buffcon. Hello. Buff,

8:11

and Buffcon, you're there

8:13

and there's a sort of apologetic orderly next

8:15

to you with a screwdriver and you're

8:18

either, I don't know, weary or fury, but there's something

8:20

going on in your face and you're dragging alongside

8:23

you a large portion

8:26

of the machine that has been disassembled

8:28

to allow you out. But it's still

8:29

strapped like a huge piece

8:32

of sort of mechanical dead

8:34

weight around your wrist. It's

8:36

like when you get your hands stuck in a vending machine

8:39

and then they can't get you out, they just cut

8:42

it off. And then you just sort of won

8:44

with that machine. You guys, you guys-

8:47

I am so sorry about this. You guys don't have never happened

8:49

to you guys? That has never happened before

8:51

with the machine. We're gonna get it fixed. Did

8:53

you put your arm in there with like a slap band

8:55

or something? Yeah, I

8:57

didn't realize that that was disallowed. Okay,

9:00

well, that should have been, I'm gonna have to have a word

9:02

with Quattro. And so anyway,

9:05

come back to PLC tomorrow, we'll

9:06

be able to get that thing off you. Okay.

9:08

No, it's, you know, sorry again. It's

9:11

very strange. And the order leaves. What, wait,

9:13

you there? Yes. Boy,

9:14

what day is it? You there. What

9:17

rank are you? Well, I'm red, I'm

9:20

like you, but I work for technical services.

9:22

My name's Milo R. MBX.

9:26

Let me tell you something.

9:28

If I ever get to yellow, you're

9:30

fucking dead. Well, I don't think this

9:32

is- You are fucking dead. I'm

9:34

the one that took the thing off you. I didn't put- Oh

9:37

no. Did you? Cause it's still here, you

9:39

fucking idiot. You're dead.

9:42

He turns- Generous gallant. He

9:46

turns white and he disappears, but you can now meet

9:48

the figure of Victor. Oh, I liked this one.

9:50

He's got some fire in his belly. Oh,

9:52

hey there. You boy. What day

9:55

is it? It's year 249, I think. It's

9:59

close enough.

9:59

If you could have, for this mission, you

10:02

will need to appear as a mutant. If

10:04

you could have any mutant power, what would it be?

10:06

I would like... I would

10:09

like something that makes up

10:11

for my inability to do

10:13

athletics or throwing. Can I have an exoskeleton,

10:16

please? That's interesting.

10:18

I think we might have something.

10:20

Victor 2? Oh, yes. Oh,

10:23

you're all... Can I... Igor 2?

10:26

Yeah, it's... I really enjoyed being shot in the

10:28

back, repeating... So they say that after you die,

10:30

you can't feel repeated shots, but I

10:32

feel like I felt them. Yeah, stopping such

10:34

a baby. This is you. Wawa-wawa. That

10:37

was my impression of you. What did you think? Well,

10:39

I... How can I help you, sir? Could

10:42

you go get the experimental manual

10:44

operations extensor, please? Oh, yes, immediately.

10:47

The Mach 5! And he goes and he lights up and

10:49

then he wheels

10:49

in a trolley. And the

10:51

trolley has what looks like a belt harness,

10:53

like for a steadicam. It kind of goes over your

10:55

shoulders, goes around your waist. And there

10:58

is a huge metal kind

11:00

of... almost a version of a utility belt. But

11:02

hanging off the segments of it

11:05

are little fibrous strings

11:09

made of what looks like a very strong,

11:12

thin mechanical

11:15

segments structure.

11:17

Kind of like tendrils, I guess,

11:19

or mechanical tentacles. They're really like... Like

11:21

Doc Ock, but really thin. Really thin. You'd... Filaments.

11:24

You'd miss them in certain lights. Yeah, yeah. But you can

11:26

notice here when they sort of move. And

11:28

he takes it and he straps it around your waist.

11:31

And then he presses a button. And

11:34

suddenly all of the

11:37

tentacles float in the air. And

11:40

then he takes a headpiece and he puts it around your

11:42

head, Bofcon. And you suddenly get this

11:44

weird sense that you can control these 600

11:47

tendrils. Individually

11:49

quite weak, but they're... So go ahead.

11:53

You're a lemony. Vis

11:55

your mind. Think about picking up Igor

11:57

and throwing him across the room. Don't think that that's

11:59

necessary, that.

11:59

I have bought a baseball bat. Here you go. I'm

12:02

picking you up. Now. And

12:04

I'm putting you in this shoot here. No, no,

12:06

no, no. Not this shoot, not this shoot. Pfft. Pfft.

12:09

You put him in the shoot. Pfft. And then the doors

12:11

open and a very wet and reproachful Igor

12:14

three walks in and he's like, you

12:16

know we have the target practice dummy for this.

12:19

Yeah, yours is target practice dummy dummy. Yeah,

12:22

a beetle. Why

12:23

about you brother?

12:24

Oh, I would mind there maybe be visible sometimes.

12:27

Oh, say no more. Igor.

12:30

Igor. Yes. Oh, yeah, you're

12:32

so gooey. It's not my fault. It's the vat. There's

12:34

something strange and itchy in the compound. Yeah,

12:37

get the auto response imager. Off

12:39

your hop. But it's so heavy. I know. All

12:41

right, and he walks forward and then he takes a, you

12:44

sort of see some tinkering, but then he brings out what

12:46

looks not like too heavy. A another

12:49

belt. This one is a sort of belt harness and it has.

12:51

Most of my technology is belt based. It

12:54

has a gem in the center of it that sits in the middle of your torso.

12:57

What you need to do is let me just take this and set the frequency.

12:59

All right, press your hand over the

13:01

lens. And I want you to think of

13:04

a portrait of a puppy. You do that and then

13:07

suddenly blink. And there's a sort of the

13:09

light around him. This,

13:10

you don't sort of see anything, but for the rest of you, the

13:13

light seems to shift around beetle.

13:15

And then suddenly there's an easel and there's a

13:17

portrait sitting there of a quite cute

13:20

puppy. Yeah, so the way this works is it just projects

13:22

images onto you that blend into

13:25

the background.

13:26

So you're not actually invisible, you know, technically

13:29

speaking. Oh, what do I look like right now? You

13:31

look like a portrait of a puppy. Okay, so just another

13:33

question. I did ask before if I could be invisible. You

13:36

just give me a way to look like a portrait of a puppy.

13:38

Well, no, no, no. What depending on the catalog,

13:41

you can become many things. Yeah, like

13:43

for example, see the wall next to the

13:46

training area, that zepric wall. Think

13:49

of the wall.

13:50

See if the wall texture is in your

13:52

catalog. Does this mean that

13:54

if I want to move invisibly, I'm thinking

13:56

every single time I

13:58

walk. Frame by frame, baby. 24 seconds.

14:01

The camera perspective will work with you, so people will walk

14:03

around you, they will see it from the correct

14:05

angle. Yes, but if you move, you're fucked. Now,

14:09

this is not a weapon of violence,

14:12

but would you like to take a couple of swings at

14:15

Igor with a baseball bat? He's

14:18

cracking, he smacks across the wall, he's like, thank

14:20

you sir, yes, wonderful to work in the Rand

14:22

department. Okay, so now

14:24

we have all our equipment, everyone's

14:26

got their Christmas presents, everyone knows what they've got. I'm

14:29

responsible

14:29

for everyone's equipment, okay? Yes,

14:32

you need to sign here. Okay, it's

14:34

just last time they tried

14:36

to put my hand in a machine, and

14:39

it got stuck, so now I can't quite write.

14:41

We actually have the new, weren't you working

14:44

on a new system that would solve that problem? It

14:46

was a four-coloured pen. No,

14:49

the other system. Oh yeah, go get it.

14:52

And he pulls out and he's like, yes, but fortunately

14:54

we've heard reports of clones having their hands

14:56

stuck inside the signature machine. Yeah, right

14:59

here, you fucking idiot. This

15:01

fucking thing here. We've removed the shielding, you just

15:03

need to take

15:03

your hand and you need to place it on

15:06

the glass, and without the shielding there's nothing to catch

15:08

your hand. Okay, sorry, he places his hand

15:10

on the thing. Alright, there's

15:12

a white shock and a poof, and

15:15

your hand sort of comes back off and you look

15:17

at it and your fingerprints are gone, your

15:19

entire skin is sort of white, and

15:21

your senses, like the senses

15:23

of it are all sort of very, very strange. Did

15:26

you just steal my fingerprints? Oh,

15:28

steal is such a silly word. Okay, you guys.

15:30

I need

15:31

those. How am I going to access my bank

15:33

account? You've got five others. Get over

15:35

it. Where am I going?

15:36

Where am I going? That's you. Also,

15:39

I would for the next 12 hours try not to operate any heavy machinery, use a pen,

15:41

or do anything that requires manual

15:43

dexterity. Okay, thank you very much, goodbye. Can I

15:45

just say, Bofkorn, you're being a real ego right now.

15:51

Just out of anger,

15:53

Bofkorn just shoots ego. Oh

15:57

yes, very good sir. I'm sure you had perfectly

15:59

good.

15:59

There is a reason to test that. He

16:02

dies and as you all leave, you hear

16:04

a voomph as a little ego starts waddling

16:06

back into the room. So you all have your

16:09

experimental technology. By

16:11

the way, Hing, you've got two large weapons.

16:13

So are you going to share? Cause

16:16

you obviously can't wear both of them on your back.

16:18

I'm talking about your rocket launcher and your cone rifle. I think that

16:20

is the, I think, did I use the kind of rifle last

16:22

time? Yeah, so you left it in your barracks for now? That

16:25

means you can use it whenever you want. Yeah, I'll just have the rocket launcher.

16:27

Can I ask a question, Dave? Yeah.

16:30

Is Beadle required to fulfill

16:32

the outcomes of the mission or is his mission

16:34

only to be a big

16:37

sentry man? No,

16:37

he's a troubleshooter. He works

16:40

for you and he works for the mission. So

16:43

he's still one of your troubleshooters. Now, as

16:45

you make your way up to PLC, you see that Quatro is

16:47

still there and he and two other orderlies are

16:50

working on a quite large

16:52

clone with sort of the

16:54

strange features and the sideburns that you recognize

16:57

and the big black and yellow patch of

16:59

the mutant leader that Insec

17:02

has codenamed Firebrand. His name is Sykes.

17:04

Sykes, sorry. Oh, and as

17:06

they're doing this, they're actually, one

17:09

of them is getting him to sign something and another one

17:11

of the orderlies is taking the black

17:13

and yellow patch off his shoulder so that he can

17:15

go undercover.

17:16

So you say these four

17:19

colors in one pen, is

17:21

this what you, that

17:22

is incredible. He's saying to Quatro.

17:24

Yeah, great. And then the other credits is a

17:26

bargain. He spends his only 300 credits and

17:29

he gets a four color big, which is, but that's like

17:33

four pens in one pen. Didn't

17:35

he also invent one? This

17:38

isn't Victor. This

17:39

is, you would be forgiven. Oh, sorry, my mistake. This

17:41

is Sykes, an entirely different character.

17:44

One's German. This is your mutant. Oh,

17:46

oh. Yeah.

17:49

Can I ask a question, Dax? Sure. If they are

17:51

posing as mutants with Sykes. Wait,

17:53

isn't it Firebrand? Firebrand is the code

17:55

name. Is what the insect

17:58

used to call him. Sykes is his actual name. They

18:00

oppose his mutants and want to pass his mutants. Why

18:02

is Sykes going undercover as an otter mutant? He's

18:04

not going as an otter mutant, he's himself,

18:07

but he's taking off the black and yellow patch

18:09

that they use for their safety to identify him as

18:11

registered. Oh, he's not registered. He's not meant

18:13

to be registered. Taking off his yellow star. Yeah.

18:16

Basically, you... Comfortable, it's not good. Yeah, I

18:18

don't like it saying it like that, but yeah, he's taking off his identifier.

18:21

Cool.

18:22

Oh, this is what the world, you know, you

18:25

work underground for so long fighting,

18:27

you know, the fight. You

18:29

come to the surface and you see these technological

18:32

wonders. Blue, green,

18:36

red, black, all

18:38

in one little capsule. I'm

18:40

getting sick of this joke. Mr.

18:44

Sykes, here's your backpack with your mission

18:46

equipment. It's good. You have... you will

18:48

know that your red laser pistol and any other weapons

18:50

have not been assigned to you. Due to the unique

18:52

situation you find yourself in, Syne here. Mm-hmm,

18:55

I will. He signs and then he grabs a backpack

18:57

and slings it over his shoulder. All

19:00

right, I am Sykes. You may call me Firebrand.

19:03

You are? You've got that mutant power

19:05

where you can talk to machines. I have a certain

19:07

amount of empathy toward machines,

19:10

yes. So I've got an exoskeleton

19:12

on now.

19:13

Yes. Can you make it do

19:15

stuff? If I chose to, I might

19:18

be able to. Prove it. I do not choose

19:20

to. Prove it now. I do not choose to. I don't believe

19:22

you can do it. You feel... I slap across

19:24

the face. Yeah, one of your tendrils slaps you. Was

19:28

that you? Did you do that or was that a malfunction? It

19:31

could have been an incredible coincidence,

19:33

but actually we'll never know. I guess we just don't know.

19:38

It's great to do this mission with you,

19:40

Mr. Firebrand. My name is

19:42

Clancy. Clancy? Yes.

19:46

That was me saying hello. Oh, he's not

19:48

a conversational guy. I

19:51

am the leader of the team, Strawberry R-C-Y-4-2. Glad

19:56

to have you aboard. And you're a double agent,

19:58

you say? This is great. So

20:00

you you you you you

20:02

were born a mutant you've now been recruited

20:04

by the Alpha complex And now you're going back there

20:06

to betray your own kind you

20:09

must feel like a fucking loser Like

20:12

a real piece of shit. He's what I'm sighs and

20:14

looks down I have

20:16

wrestled with my conscious on this for a

20:18

long time and where'd you come to? Why'd you

20:21

why did you settle on? Well, you have put it

20:23

very succinctly that a part of me philosophically

20:26

feels like a real piece of shit The

20:28

rest here the movement has

20:30

lost its way

20:31

I was a commander in a scion

20:34

cell for a long time and I saw

20:36

some things That made me

20:38

question whether our means

20:41

justifies the ends. What kind of things

20:43

I saw a man punch a

20:45

dog You just punched

20:48

me This

20:51

was a dog in a blue suit it was a dog he had

20:53

a little suit on and some shoes

20:57

Said for the revolution and then he

21:00

punched the dog and I said to

21:02

the man why what's for the revolution?

21:04

It was a man or a mutant. It was we do

21:07

not make this distinction Mutants are

21:09

men men are mute. No, it works

21:11

one way

21:15

All right,

21:15

you have your mission equipment you have your experimental

21:18

gear you also have custody

21:20

and actually at that moment the blue coat goes and Says

21:23

uh, who's who you have a loyalty

21:25

officer on you? All right You're prepared

21:27

to take custody for this very dangerous criminal being

21:30

responsible to make sure that they are maintained

21:32

as a high priority Asset of Alpha complex

21:34

they will not escape they will not be killed They

21:36

will not lose that those abilities that make

21:38

them an asset You will be issued with a

21:41

single syringe with a dose of

21:43

ultra knocks Which is a powerful sedative

21:45

that can

21:45

incapacitate and paralyze its user

21:48

It must be administered to in a

21:50

single stab to the neck in close quarters

21:53

Only use it if you feel it is necessary. He gives you a little plastic

21:55

case that has a syringe in it

21:59

Oh, that's right. Do you want to a bit later

22:02

back in the parish? Very small doses of Ultronox

22:04

are sold on the grey market because they it

22:06

is a powerful recreation drug in entirely

22:09

small doses. But of course, you would never dream

22:11

of using it that way. And he says,

22:13

Use it to kill people, right? Sleep

22:15

them to sleep.

22:16

Little bit for mummy, a little bit for

22:18

the baby.

22:21

The baby's the one you're putting to sleep. Sign

22:24

here and he gives you a clipboard for a signature. Alright,

22:28

you sign and you now have custody. As you

22:30

fulfill all of the little meanings that you need,

22:33

your HUDs, because you've stepped out of the dead

22:35

zone, all light up and you can see

22:37

a destination that you're heading to inside the sector,

22:39

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23:16

Lime Tree, Tango. Can I just quickly

23:18

clarify our mission? Yeah. So

23:21

we're taking

23:22

Firebrand, which is his internal

23:25

code name. I'm going to get, I was going to be really

23:28

clear. You should be clear about this. Firebrand

23:30

is what we call him, not, Sykes is what

23:32

they call him. Okay. So we should

23:34

be calling him Sykes. If you call him an

23:36

insect code name in front of another mutant,

23:38

that would suggest that he is in insect custody,

23:41

which he is. But I could just be like, if that happened,

23:43

I'd be like, yes, these are my new friends, I have a new nickname.

23:46

They say, you are strong like Firebrand.

23:48

So they give me this nickname. Sounds like

23:51

he wants you to call him Firebrand. Sounds

23:53

like he came up with Firebrand. I'm just saying, if it came

23:55

up, we could work with it.

23:57

But the mission is just basically to get him to the safe house. Hot

24:00

Rod and then use him to identify

24:02

the new mutant leader take out all subversives

24:05

and also I hopefully Take out the cell

24:07

of free enterprises that

24:09

are helping them escape. Okay, but

24:13

El Fuego It

24:16

meets the fire. Yeah,

24:19

I'm just not seen it. Okay, that's what Sykes

24:21

is fine But it raises

24:23

a good point. Perhaps we all need a

24:25

mutant names. Oh Okay,

24:30

my mutant thing is boingy legs if

24:32

anyone's got any ideas. Sprengo! Or

24:34

the gazelle.

24:35

Gazelle. I like gazelle. Gazelle,

24:38

alright. You'll

24:41

be gazelle. This is actually great by the way

24:43

cray culture clubs because they're so secret they

24:46

I membership try to hide each other Sykes

24:48

may not even be his name a lot of mutants will

24:50

use nicknames. So this is actually a really smart thing Will

24:52

they be able to see our um our

24:54

screens? No, everything.

24:56

The reason they're all harnesses and stuff is afterwards you put your

24:58

jumpsuits back on over them even

25:00

your

25:02

Pedo-masculotron. What

25:04

was it called? It was the boingy legs. Yeah

25:06

boingy legs even yeah Now

25:14

no double-o looks like a regular watch

25:16

does keep the time but press this button

25:18

and you become a bit I

25:22

do try to bring it back in one piece. The pedi-pulotron.

25:25

The pedi-pulotron. So even that You've

25:29

had to get a bulkier jumpsuit. Yeah,

25:32

but you're

25:32

able to conceal them underneath your legs Yeah,

25:35

so as stars our real identities

25:37

won't be flushing around. No actually no

25:39

as you left. Beans can't say that. Oh yeah of course

25:41

only troubleshooters can see them. Oh cool. Okay. What do you

25:43

want your nickname to be? Oh, I guess let

25:45

me think shouldn't have bolts of electricity.

25:48

I guess okay something like uh

25:56

Pikachu now

25:57

if no one else is taking it. I'll take firebrand

25:59

if that's okay Okay cool. Great,

26:02

firebrand and Sykes. No, that's so confusing.

26:06

What about Stinkface? What

26:08

about the spider? Redback? What

26:12

about Anemone? Mortal

26:14

Anemone. Daddy Longling.

26:18

Jellyfish. Jellyfish

26:20

is nice. Alright, roll out Autobots.

26:24

And he says that in some Autobots. Helpfully

26:26

go out of the way, revealing the exit to the

26:28

peels. As the

26:31

four of you start to follow the path. Now

26:33

of course if you want, this is a great opportunity for

26:35

you to send any messages that you want. Make contact

26:37

with anybody that you need to send. Have these guys checked their

26:39

rumours?

26:40

I've sent their rumours. Have you had a chance to a little?

26:43

Check my email before, was there anything? Yeah,

26:46

no, nothing for you. As

26:49

we're walking, can I ask to be healed

26:52

by Alex? Might I have one of those med

26:54

kits please?

26:54

Well I can certainly administer it to you,

26:56

yes. Make a brain science check for me. Me?

27:00

Yep, every success that you make is how many levels of healing

27:02

are administered to your friend. One.

27:09

One, so you heal, you go up an entire

27:11

level. And actually as a byproduct, your

27:13

tingling hand sort of goes back to normal. Unfortunately no

27:15

amount of healing. My fingerprints

27:18

are back. No, no, no, no, your fingerprints

27:20

are not back. Your sense of feeling has

27:22

gone back to your hand. So you can use

27:24

dexterous stuff again. The other hand is still encased

27:27

inside metal. Anyone else, do you

27:29

guys want to make contact? I'll

27:31

do a quick little chat if I could, Dave. Oh

27:34

yeah, so you're going to get some messages, in which case I would ask everybody

27:36

to

27:36

leave. I'm going to call

27:38

the mutants. Yep,

27:41

so you can blink in and Fred and Freise in. The

27:43

reason you have two minders, by the way, is that also,

27:46

this Your Mutant Leader has a head on the back

27:49

of their head, and they have a complicated

27:51

mirror arrangement on their neck, so that you can

27:53

talk to both heads at once. But it's a two-headed

27:55

person. Sure, sure.

27:56

Oh, hello there. Yes?

27:59

Um... You sound

28:02

different to last time. Well, it's part of my mutation.

28:04

What, your voice changes? Every 24

28:06

hours or so. Yeah.

28:09

Okay. There's something in the water here in

28:11

this sector. The mutations are strange,

28:13

but they're also volatile. What about you? We

28:16

wanted you to zero in on what your mutation was. I

28:19

feel like I could spend moxie points

28:21

to make people move their limbs.

28:23

Oh, you're a puppeteer. Yeah.

28:27

It's a very rare mutation. I have some info.

28:29

I want to give you guys though. I'm

28:32

about to deliver a scion

28:36

by the name of

28:37

Sykes. You might know

28:40

him as Sykes, but his insect

28:42

codename is Firebrand. And we're meant

28:44

to be busting him out as part of our mission. Sykes

28:47

was killed. He was killed in a mission two weeks ago. He's

28:50

not dead.

28:52

Busting him out?

28:55

Yeah, he was captured

28:57

or something. And now he's a double agent and I'm returning him

28:59

to you guys. You're taking

29:02

a double agent back to

29:04

a secret scion safe house.

29:06

That's what they've asked us to do. Now, I he's

29:08

a little thing. I've got a rocket

29:11

launcher. Do you want me to just kill this motherfucker?

29:14

No, no, no, you can't you can't kill scion.

29:16

Cyan is holding a high priority

29:19

asset for the Brotherhood. It we you

29:21

want to see God. He's got you

29:24

really shouldn't be knowing about this. This is top-level stuff.

29:27

He's got he's come into

29:29

possession of something. It's a it's a black

29:31

box got a strange symbol on it. Okay

29:33

picks it up from a double agent working inside

29:36

Alpha comm a central processing.

29:38

Now, he's holding it in a safe

29:40

location somewhere in a safe house. We haven't found out where

29:43

you need to find out where that box is before anything

29:45

happens to him. You understand? Okay, you

29:47

get your hands on that box. You get it to

29:49

us. You might find yourself moving up in the Brotherhood.

29:52

And what is what do I

29:54

get for doing that?

29:56

Well, we can get you Xavier implants.

29:59

I don't know what that is.

29:59

It is, but I want it. Big bazongas. You're

30:02

gonna get me huge mummy milk teddies? Oh

30:05

my goodness. Xavier implants.

30:07

We use them to enhance

30:10

and give you a measure of control over your mutant powers.

30:12

Essentially it's free moxie that you get every

30:14

fight you can spend on using your powers. Damn,

30:16

and I could use it to puppete my huge teddies.

30:19

We have a grey market doctor who's the only

30:21

person in this sector who knows how to install them.

30:24

Alright, I'll get you your damn box and I'll kill this man

30:26

as well. I didn't, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

30:29

If you can get the box,

30:29

you don't need to kill him, but make sure he

30:32

doesn't die without us getting

30:33

the box. Okay, but if

30:35

he does die? Well, that would be bad because

30:37

he is your brother. He's also a mutant, right? Nobody's

30:40

a traitor. Well,

30:42

that's a good point. If you think, if

30:44

you think that he's a traitor, you're sure that he's a

30:46

traitor. Look, we haven't had contact

30:48

with him for almost two weeks. I

30:50

assumed he was dead, but if

30:52

this is the psychs I grew up with... I

30:54

mean, look, if you guys already thought he was

30:57

dead, it doesn't matter if I kill him, right?

30:59

Hear me when I say this. I

31:01

would be very surprised indeed if he

31:04

turned. So you think he's a triple agent then?

31:06

Well, I don't know what to believe. But also, he's a

31:08

machine empath. You know what that is? One of our

31:10

most powerful weapons against friend computer.

31:12

If we could get a machine empath inside

31:14

the central core, we could maybe fix

31:16

this society. So you want me to...

31:19

Okay, okay. Don't kill him unless you have

31:21

to. He's important to the movement. Okay.

31:24

Obviously, if you can help the rest of the mutants

31:26

escape, we would consider that a personal plus. Okay.

31:30

They're your brothers too. Don't forget that. Your

31:32

brothers and sisters. Alright, let's do it. Alright,

31:34

we got to go. We got mixed doubles, tennis. We did really well

31:36

in the tournament, by the way. Oh yeah, thanks for asking. Bye.

31:39

Alright everyone. Don't worry, I wasn't talking

31:41

to anyone, okay? I wasn't doing

31:43

any secret stuff.

31:44

Nearly one second past. I looked at a bug and

31:46

then I stopped looking at a bug. Yeah. I

31:49

was also looking at that bug. We

31:51

trust in a friend computer and

31:54

they decide...

31:55

Hello, hello. I'm circles. I

31:58

just heard a couple of... trust

32:00

in friend computer that's excellent have a commendation

32:02

it is a absolutely valueless

32:05

but it will make you feel better tonight and he suddenly

32:07

where the treason stars are you get a smiley face

32:10

oh better right now thank you friend computer

32:13

everybody is part of the circle of trust already

32:15

the only thing they could do is to betray it now

32:17

of course I'm still here what's this circle of

32:19

trust it's a circle of trust that we feel

32:21

implicitly in the system that we live in

32:24

which is under your benevolent control sounds

32:26

wonderful how's the mission going while I'm here

32:29

very good very good everything happening

32:31

normal style is there anything is

32:35

there anything that I can do to help you my favorite

32:37

team of troubleshooters cool

32:40

hats cool hats I

32:42

can I can work on you know you want cool

32:44

hats yeah there will be a

32:47

cool hats will be let me work on that that's interesting

32:49

I'll dedicate some I will dedicate some

32:52

subroutines to coming up to an adequate solution

32:54

for you cool hats you want cool hats you

32:56

will have and it blinks out great so

32:58

you're making away the mission unless anybody else has any other mission

33:00

messages they want to check their messages do anything like that

33:02

I might just check my messages all right

33:04

very zero very quickly Alex

33:07

is gonna check her spam they're

33:10

all immediately taking all of their shirts off very

33:14

very strange the figure of Moira

33:16

shows up and you notice straight away that her arms

33:19

in a sling and she's got bandages down the

33:21

side of her face she looks filthy

33:24

oh let me tell

33:26

you a rough

33:27

game of tennis Moira you were there

33:29

when I was attacked I got the box and I

33:32

gave it to the computer

33:39

I know you did and that

33:41

was good number

33:45

one complete yes

33:47

and I can't fault you all that although I did say it would be better

33:49

if you gave it to me but I know that wasn't possible because a building

33:51

fell on you okay listen

33:54

our plan was to get an agent within

33:57

Alpha comm

33:58

to snatch it once you deliver computer.

34:01

It seems that by the time they went to snatch it another

34:03

faction had. Now it's cost me not

34:05

insignificant resources to find out what that faction

34:08

is and it's the scions. They've

34:10

got the box.

34:10

Scions. The scions

34:13

aren't

34:13

they something that I've heard in this

34:15

episode? The mutant heathens.

34:18

The mutants have got a box. Now

34:21

Intel is sketchy here but it

34:24

may be at a safe house in Lime

34:28

Tree Complex. Do you know what that is?

34:29

That's where I'm being

34:31

sent right now to complete one of my other missions. Her

34:34

eyes perk right

34:36

up. Tell me more. Well I've

34:40

got to deliver

34:41

Sykes to the mutants. He's

34:44

a double agent for Alpha Complex.

34:47

Otherwise known as Firebrand.

34:50

The heathen who likes to smooch computers.

34:53

Oh he's some sort of... I thought I suspected

34:56

as much yes. Right well listen here.

34:59

Your priority number one is to retrieve

35:01

the box from the scion. Word

35:03

on the street is that they're using it as

35:06

currency with the free enterprise

35:08

for their extraction. Yes

35:11

and the free enterprise are another group

35:13

aren't they? Look I'll get you up to

35:15

speed but really I'd like you to do some extracurricular reading.

35:18

Yes the free enterprise are a group of

35:21

largely unaffiliated thugs frankly.

35:23

They're mercenaries for hire. Hyper

35:25

capitalists they believe in a currency

35:28

that should be able to pass from hand to hand. Something called

35:30

the three markets which is an almost religious

35:33

like belief for them.

35:35

They've made a currency out of hacked gift cards

35:37

that most of the other great culture clubs use to

35:40

trade between the culture clubs. And they

35:42

will do things for the highest bidder. In this case extract

35:44

mutants out of a home that is no longer safe.

35:47

So listen should the trade-off

35:49

happen between the scion and the free market

35:52

and the box changes hands. It's not

35:54

impossible for us to get it back but it's a lot

35:56

harder.

35:57

Got it so get it before they give it to the free enterprise.

36:00

If you will.

36:02

And yes, that's priority number one. Usually

36:04

I just deal with one task at a time,

36:06

but is there anything else you need me to do? Have a

36:08

lovely day. Thank

36:10

you so much. I was being sarcastic, goodbye.

36:13

Blink and the screen goes dead. Why

36:15

do I follow her? All

36:20

right, you make your way down

36:22

towards Lime3Tango, a

36:24

hab complex at the very back of

36:26

sector CYN. This is

36:28

in sort of the poor, more run-down

36:31

areas of the sector. There's some spotty

36:33

power over here, and the computer is in the process

36:36

of moving people out. So a lot of these hab complexes

36:38

are abandoned, technically for repairs,

36:41

which I'm sure are coming any day now. And it

36:43

seems for month cycles, nothing has occurred.

36:45

As you do as well,

36:46

all of you receive a priority message as

36:48

your achievements for the mission are uploaded

36:51

from the computer, which I am sending to all

36:53

of you now. The achievements range from

36:56

help a red-cleared citizen realise their full potential,

36:59

find an unrealised application for approved

37:01

experimental equipment, de-escalate

37:03

a tense situation without violence, escalate

37:06

a calm but seditious situation with

37:09

violence, and for 125 credits, retrieve

37:12

and lodge a pre-reckoning artefact from

37:14

a grey culture club. So

37:16

again, these are ways that all of you can

37:19

earn extra credits for the mission. What

37:21

were they again? Either you've been emailed, they've all gone

37:23

to your tablets, and they've all gone to your actual email

37:25

addresses as

37:27

you find yourselves outside

37:29

Ham, Hap Complex, Lime, 3, Tango.

37:33

And you realise as you do that your

37:35

outfits look wildly out of place. Although

37:38

there are a bunch of sort of rough looking

37:41

operatives, mostly reds and oranges, a couple

37:43

of infereads as well, loitering, down

37:46

around the central lifts of this abandoned

37:48

Hap Complex. None of them are wearing

37:50

weird punk gear. They're all basically just wearing

37:53

their uniforms. They look at you as

37:55

you look at them, and you realise that you

37:57

are here, you are deep inside the belly of the beast, near.

38:00

an outpost of scion, those despicable

38:03

mutants that wish harm to friend computer

38:05

your mission is simple, your mission could not

38:07

be clearer infiltrate, exfiltrate,

38:10

assassinate and find whatever

38:13

you can to stop scion

38:15

in their tracks such is the way of troubleshooters and

38:17

such is the way of

38:20

Alpha Complex, bada bada

38:22

bada bee bada boo The

38:26

cast of this week's episode of OK Computer is

38:29

Alex Lee, Simon Greiner, Michael Hing

38:31

and Tom Carding Our dungeon master and friend

38:33

computer is Dave Harlan the NPC voices

38:35

provided by Ben Jenkins and music provided

38:38

by Tom Carding Shakira Khan is our producer

38:40

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38:43

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39:02

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