Domain (2016)

Ryan Merriman: Denver

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• 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.

• 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.

• Phoenix : I'm lucky to have you here with me.

  Denver : I'm the lucky one.

• Denver : [Orlando's bunker is empty]  Where is he?

  Phoenix : Maybe he escaped.

  Denver : Maybe he's dead.

  Phoenix : We have to tell the others.

• 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.

• 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.

• Denver : [banning Orlando from the Domain]  It's done.

  Atlanta : [relieved]  Amen.

• Phoenix : Do you remember when we used to record those private videos?

  Denver : I do, yeah.

  Phoenix : What if Orlando made some of his own while he was banned? Do you think you could access them?

  Denver : Yeah, I mean if they're not hidden very well.

• Phoenix : [Orlando's feed is back on]  Orlando?

  Denver : Orlando?

  Phoenix : It's Phoenix and Denver, we turned your feed back on.

  [sees his bunker's empty] 

  Phoenix : Orlando, can you hear us?

• 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] 

• Phoenix : The epidemic was a lie.

  Nadine : No, no, it wasn't a lie, it was a *story*. I was... I was trying to create a better life, and it worked, it really worked.

  Denver : What're you talking about? I saw the news coverage.

  Nadine : We created that content to make it more believable.

• 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.

• Phoenix : I'm scared.

  Denver : Me too.

  Phoenix : Who are they?

  Denver : I don't know, I don't know. People immune to the Saharan flu?

  Phoenix : How are they finding the bunkers?

  Phoenix : I don't know, maybe they heard him screaming.

• 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 : You're a sociopath.

  Denver : Yeah, that's what they say.

  Phoenix : And I was just another victim.

  Denver : No, you were special. Because you were the one I could never truly have, the way I wanted.

• 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.