February 9, 2021 • 29 mins
After successfully infiltrating Nextcorp by landing a position as Max’s assistant, Jack begins uncovering the company’s covert operations. Jack works tirelessly to understand why Max would aggressively push to make “Shut-Eye” available to the public despite its deadly risks.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tomorrow's Monsters. There's a production of I Heart Radio Flint
Picture Company, Psycopia Pictures and Upper Room Productions. It will
take around two point nine seconds for an object, say
amount of five ft eleven inches weighing one and sixty
two pounds, to fall from a thirteen story window of
a building too the street below, not that a humans
(00:22):
mass has any bury On the kinematic equation, the speeder
impact would be roughly twenty seven meters per second or
kilometers per hour. Upon impact, a number of things happened
to the body at once. The skull may shutter. They
also may disconnect from the rest of the heart, pumping
blood into the body cavity, depriving the brain of fresh oxygen.
(00:43):
The sudden impact could cause the blood vessels, even sells
themselves to rupture, but to one point five gallons of
blood can leave the body a human water balloon, flowing
from beneath the surface into the light. Some may take
solace in the idea that you may blackout from the
terror before landing, or have a heart attack from the stress.
(01:05):
But as they say, it's not the fool that kills you,
it's the landing. This scene has been playing in my head,
over and over a fever dream, constantly on repeat the
seconds leading up to my brother's death, because this is
(01:27):
how I imagine him, my brother being attacked and thrown
to his death from thirteen stories. I say attack because
that is the only scenario that makes sense, because I
knew my brother and my brother would never go out
of a thirteen story window voluntarily. Never, and yet suicide.
It's the official cause of death on Michael's death certificate.
(01:50):
But it's like my father always told me, never trust
the official lion. The world needs to know what really
happened and who is responsible. January seven, two pm Jenna
(02:36):
ma Marca. He most recently passed mile marker over two
days to Arlington at this rate, that is, if I
don't make too many stops. Can I help you with
anything else? Jack? Yeah? Actually, that truck behind us, how
long has it been there? The Model four XT cargo
truck has remained point three miles behind us for two hours?
(02:56):
Is that model man? No, Jack, it is a fully
automated com cargo vehicle. Would you like me to go
online for more information? As Jenna. By the way, Jenna,
can you introduce yourself? I'm Jenna and what are you, Jenna?
I'm your connected virtual assistant? Well not connected? Correct? I
(03:18):
am currently not connected? Would you like me to No, Jenna,
stop asking. I will tell you if I want to
connect you got it, Jack, Jenna is my only companion
on this voyage. Isn't that right? Jenna? Apparently before this
trip she was just my c v A. But now
I think I'm getting attached. Jenna? Can you die up
a sarcasm? Another I don't want to fall in love
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or anything. Whatever you say, Jack, Yeah, here's what we know.
Three people died of apparent suicides after participating the Next
Corps of Human trials of this soon to launch product shut.
I mind that they eliminates the need to sleep, and
one of them was my m Michael. Okay, September. I'm late,
(04:09):
not good. There was my first day in Next Corp,
my first day of my new job as Max full
as personal assisting. Can I help you? I'm Jack Locker.
I'm head to see Mr Fuller, Hi Jack, Mr Fuller?
Really dirty? No, it's followed. It gives me an opportunity
(04:33):
to introduce you know. I was confused. The problem was sleep,
as in that I hadn't had any I knew it
was a risk not sleeping because it was my first
day at next Corp and I needed to be sharp
make an impression. I took the risk of staying up
all night because sleep deprivation was tolerable. The alternative was not.
(04:56):
The alternative was night terrors, which actually makes perfect sense.
I been grieving and I was having me some fever dreams,
and these nightmares were getting worse. They were evolving, becoming
more lucid. I would wake up to the sound of
tapping on my bedroom window and this metallic smell, like
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rust and the cane leaves. In the nightmare, I see him.
Their brother was standing outside of my bedroom window, tapping
on the glass, his face stretched in anguish to formed
and flattened and still caked with the blood from the
four that killed him. It's dislocated draw, preventing him from
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saying wherever it was he had come to say. It
was like my brother's spirit was just just holding on,
just clinging desperately to its last physical contact me for
this nightmare a hundred times, for the last time there
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was something new. He wrote a message on the glass layers,
spelled out in his own body, fluid and blood. Two
words luck. It's such were my nightmares. So I chose
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not to happen, at least not before my first day
and Next Corp with Max Fuller. Mr Fuller, I just
wanted to say how much this means to me. I mean, no,
no, no no, no, I get it. No, no need for
the continued gratitude thing. Look, I'm happy to have you here, Jack,
and we've got some work to do, so just up
here on the right. On my first day, Max introduced
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me to the top minds of Next Corp, which coincidentally
also happened to be some of the top minds in
the human enhancement industry. They operated out of a reclaimed
warehouse in the dog Patch district of San Francisco. The
innovations that spring from this neighborhood are respon in school
for a considerable portion of California's GDP, which is now
the fourth largest on the planet. Everything here has reclaimed wood,
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ship lab and rusty colors. It's a form of curated authenticity,
built on the graveyard of the past and decorated with
his bones. Has a strange chili sort of fields. Unnatural everyone.
This is Jack, Jack Lock. He'll be working with us.
I'm sorry, what I don't understand. This is Jack who
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will be working with us. Yeah, I got that. Isn't
this We'll talk about Jesus. I'll go first. Hey Jack,
I'm Finn Connolly. Yes, hey, I've heard of you that
the Steve was in the act of human enhuntment. Okay, yeah, sure.
And this is Cassandra Berkeley. She's a partner and our
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staff psychiatristicest woman in the building. Nice to meet you.
Uh huh, Max, Can we speak in the hallway? We
can do that later, can't Max? Fine? Gentlemen, be sweet,
don't worry. She's always like that. Well not always, was her.
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Me little this morning, it was just ten minutes ago.
We're making bets on how quickly you'd be ejected from
the building, and yet here you stand. Wow, so I'm
not very popular around you. Well, to be completely honest
with you, there are dozens of applicants who are better
suited for this than you know of Fens. Anyway, you're
here now for whatever reason, Max has taken a shine
(08:42):
to you. And this silent young man who apparently has
no opinion on you whatsoever is Eddie Binder, who's our
team physician. Nice to meet you. It'll be good not
to be the new kid. How long have you been?
A little over month? Eddie Year is going to oversee
our next round of human trials. Next round. Didn't realize
you that human testing before, well, it wasn't entirely successful.
(09:05):
You don't hear about the unsuccessful ones to you that? Yes,
of course that makes sense. Yeah, has Max told you
what you'll be doing around here? Because we are all curious.
I'm not sure. I think he wants me to help
organize his thoughts. Uh, that sounds ambiguous. Good luck with that.
(09:28):
Oh pro tip, you should get on cast as good
side because you don't want to be on our bad side.
I need you on something, Maddy. Could you show Jack around,
catch him up on some of the new new I
can Jack, I'll catch up with you a little bit. Okay,
God's babe, how about we start with the lamp really
incredible stuff. It became immediately clear to me that Eddie
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didn't get him. He knew little about what went on before,
and even less about what was happening now. I couldn't
piece together why such a medio come man would find
himself in the midst of all these geniuses. Where they
failed to comprehend or capture is that next CORP is
ground zero in the next wave of human innovation. That
he and now I two were inside these hors witnesses
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to that elusive moment that has powered American progress for
the past two dred and seventy years. And this time
the stakes were higher than ever. This time the mad
scientists were engineering us reroute in our neural pathways, reprogramming
our brains to enable us to author ourselves and enhance
our human condition and ways that were previously unimaginable, pinked
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up so far enough and long to have a phase
too human trial. I know, they seemed like fairy tales
right way further off. I was shocked to find out
how far along they were too, How many people were
in the initial trials to phase one. It was tiny thirty. Yeah,
it's no way to do large science. But for the
company's purposes, I guess it was fine. I mean, they
already knew the drug worn't so why did they shut
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down the trials there? I don't know. I'm new here
to remember, you'll have to ask Max or Cass or
Finn or my predecessor, Dr Reynolds, though I'm not sure
she'll be willing to talk to you. Her name is
sort of Verboning. If you get me. Yeah, why okay,
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nobody tells me anything. I don't need to know. Yeah,
I look, I'm just messing with it. It's probably easier
that way, man, exactly. This guy guessing right, it's a
good uh. Here is the brake room, best snacks in
the building. Dr Abby Reynolds Hobby was Next Corps clinical physician,
tossed to monitor and tract the health data of the
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trial subjects. I had to sell number, but nothing else.
Abbe Reynolds did not want to talk about Next Corp
as she cares blocking my number. It took three days
and full Burner first to get to this point right here.
I swear to God, if you keep calling from a
Dr Reynolds, I'm not from next Corporal, from the competitor.
I'm not a report. I'm definitely not a Max Fell
the fanboy. I'm going to find out what happened. No,
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I'm sorry my brother while he was there at Next
call my brother, who is Michael Corbyn? Doctor? You try
to protect him, didn't you? The others too? And if
you weren't for you, the others would be well, they
wouldn't have survived. Viva. Let me be clear, dr un As,
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you are a hero, and now you can save the
new ones too, New ones. I need your help. I can't.
I can't help you, not the help. Yes you can,
Yes you can, you can, Truesdale, I'm sorry, Truesdale. You'll
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have to talk to David Truesdale. He was in the trials.
He's a vet. He was in the group in Tehran
and the p K Eagle Trials like the Super Soldier program.
Jesus Christ, how do you believe everything you read? They
were pumping those boys up on cocktails of methemphetamines and
no tropics, nothing that advanced, just very expensive ones. Hold on,
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write this down and Jack, Yeah, I'm blocking you again,
but I might need more information After this we never
speak again. Do you have a pen or not? Yeah? Sure?
The program i'd been named p K Eagle is one
of those conspiracy theories you occasionally are about the US
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government's attempts to make Captain America. Well, apparently this particular
rumor had truth to it. Hob He gave me an
address down in Bay View, providence shelter. It was located
in a narrow back alley, abandoned cardboard and tired blankets, vets,
nomadic got upunks, homeless families trickling down from the encampments.
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You know, and to see so rich. The site of
hopeless people is stock and I found you're still on
a car, wrapped in a tad marine comeback jacket. He
was not a friendly prisons I'm gonn't take the risk
of being traced back to next cool, so I had
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to disguise my identity. Excuse me, Mr Truthdale, Who are you?
Can I say? Dr Piz? Who are you? I'm Jim
Jim Crane. You're a cop? No no, I'm here to
ask you a few questions like a cop. No, no, listen,
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I'm here about the next corporate huh. Okay, I just
want to talk to you about the drug trial there.
How would you describe your experience? Is this a survey?
Oh no, no, no, I just check your questions somewhere else.
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Did you know Michael Corbyn Corbin? You know the name Mikey, Yeah, Michael,
Michael Michael Corbyn. Okay, progress, Mr Treuesdale, you may be
entitled to a considerable someone money. What you do know
what happened to Mr Corbin? I don't ye, skinny kid
(15:24):
real talk all right, Yeah, sure, that's that's accurate, always
making jokes. I wouldn't know. All I know is that
you are listed as one of the potential plaintiffs plaintiffs.
Took me some time to locate you, Mr Tuesdale, But
if you were in next Corps trials, the same clinical
trial with Mr Corbin, you stand to recoup a large
sum of money. If we find that next Corp is
implicated in any way for what we're wrong, class action
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suit of this kind could be settled or awarded a
generous judgment. Yeah, what happened to him? Well, Mr Trusty
else he jumped off the building ship. Yeah, I found
that dream that you know? Nah, I just must have
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heard it is so uh you two must have really
bonded there during the next court trouser. You know something else?
May I ask what was it like? Can you tell
me about your experience retreated? Well? Well, I said, my
experience was pretty good. I mean, all things considered. They
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were nice, didn't talk down to me like most of
the v A hacks, Like, yeah, I get it. My
eggs is scrambled, but like you as those responsibility right,
you had PTSD when you came back from Yeah, it
was on the ground in Tehran, the real ship show.
I mean, you'd have to be a box to come
back from that easy. And then the way they dumped
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you back in the world like everything's gonna be fine,
like hey, bat on the back of the parade, and
then you do back in the nine to five and man,
they had us on no stems over there, like the
ones that give you lads of focus, and I swear
to God, make you kid like a Yeah, I read
about the program. They shut it down right when we
all came back junkies. But next course, how did they
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treat you? They treated me like a human being, gave
me money and a place to stay for a little
and what was it? Dround like oh what the drugs? Yeah, yeah,
ship different the stems they had us on over there.
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It felt like all my energy got shifted hard into
my extremities. Like one minute, this full body with a
spine and the chest and an asshole, and then you
bite down on the capsule and all of a sudden
you're nothing but eyes and eyes beat and a finger
on a trigger. But it's not clean, like you're still
aware that your muscles are taught, your jaws clenched. You know,
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one of the biggest things that they had to do
for us metically in that program fucking didn't too, Man.
I clenched my jaws so hard I broke two boulders.
How did you get pulled into the next core? I
saw the yeah looking for steady work, and when I called,
they jumped at the chance to work with someone who
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did the ship out too. I think you finally have
someone to tell a difference between their products and their
stringy ship. Uncle Sam was pumping in US and the
drugs were better next level. When they put me on
their next core, it was fantastic. Black ops me again,
but better me, like more learned. No, not just that,
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not just alert. I was grounded. All the doubt, all
the bad thoughts that the agitation, paranoia, their self hatred,
they don't fucking evaporated. Man, you take shut eye, you
feel like a god, like you're watching the game from
above and you can see across time like everyone else
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is moving in slow motion. I had all the energy
that the old drugs gave me, all the focus, but
I was relaxed, like I was floating, like when I
was a little kid. It was perfect. I could do anything.
But then one there's no magic pill too. Somewhere along
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the line, rent comes to what do you mean? How
do what? I thought there'd be some sort of miracle
drugs with outside effects. There's always a crash at the
end of it. Man, It's the law of pleasure. Like gravity,
what goes up must come out. You gotta pay the price.
Are you all right? Sometimes? Just even talking about it,
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I get the twitches. Have you had any more contact
with the next quarter? Have you spoken to Max Fuller since? Yeah?
Just ben Benjamin? Who's Benjamin? Okay? Mr Truthsdale. Mr Trusdale
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touched me. I'm leaving the questions. It's fine, I'm gone.
I'm gone, Mr Truthsdale. Mr Truslane touched me. Touch question.
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It's fine, gone gone, David Trusdale. If only I knew
then what I know now. I left the shelter and
headed back to work. I was in with next Corp,
but so far another the fouls that I had access
to said very much about the human trials and the
test subject I had come across wards not exactly stable,
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so I'd have to keep playing until I found a
way into the inner Santum. And the daily life of
a start up assistant is hectic and tedious at the
same time. Up at five in the office that buy
seven together and sort Max's correspondents of the day and
bring it to him in the order of importance. Sometimes
I'm thrilled about my decisions with Max is like having
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to defend the dissertations. Sorry, you have three messages from
Dina Hall from whet past. I know, but I need
to connect. You know, I don't think you do. You don't.
You keep reminding me about Dina, which means you seem
to think that press is now what we should be
focused on. Yeah, but see, yes, it's going to be
here before we know it, if we wanted to, if
we want to pass. I told her. You can tell
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her louder. Okay, tend meeting with all the heads of
departments to go over a new developments, business strategy, et cetera.
A right, the daily report for Max, who normally doesn't attend,
and give it to him to read in the after.
You know, you don't have to tell me everything. Marketing says. Okay,
there's a reason I don't attend those myself, right, I
need you to be my filter. Max gives me the
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answers to every question asked at the morning meetings, which
I usually type up with my desk while shoving lunch
down my front. More correspondence, more to filter. Six thirty
I talked Max through his medians and calls for the
next day. After three weeks of what was standard my
numbering intern level work for the day, we're going to
question what the hell I was going to be able
to accomplish with this game. Don't forget. You've got a
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breakfast meeting with the A r C group to go
over the last quarters. And that's when I got the video.
You need to take that. No, just an old buddy. Sorry.
Eight thirty at before the hotel, All right, put it. Thanks, Okay,
I'm going head out get some rest. I've got a
text message from a block number, just a link to
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a video called Algernon. The scene cuts into a laboratory.
The subject step began acting erratic at roughly two fifteen
hours without sleep. At first, it was one or two
familiar voice dr Abby Reynolds. One by one day all
began exhibiting similar behaviors, pacing, digging at the bottoms of
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their cages until their claws began bleeding. Cortisol levels spiked
off the charts, and one by one, in rapid succession,
they began attacking each other themselves. They are eating each other.
I am, I am terminating this round of testing, be
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euthanizing the subject. This is I've never seen anything. If
this was the result of the animal testing rats devouring themselves,
chewing each of his faces off, then how the hell
did next Scorpe get permission to have human trials? And
these data points had to have been omitted in the
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application of a third party review of the tests. Had
to have been not just sugarcoated. They had to have
baked a brand new seven layer cake. I had to
And if we assume that it was Dr Aby Reynolds
who send the video, that would make her complicity. It
would also make her a massive liability for them. So
how much did they pay her to shut her up?
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Hero Mars? When I got home that night after me
and David Truth still popped three milligrams and Zanex washed
it down with three fingers of bourbon. The zan X
was my brother Michael's anxiety disorders of family trade. I
found the Unfield prescription and the things he'd left behind,
so I took you. I only used it occasionally, strategically,
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like when a death conform my grain was kicking in
after thirty hours without sleep. Sometimes it worked toward off
the darkness my night terrors. I just needed to turn
my brain off and check out. I remember my head
hitting the pillar. I remember the ice melting in the
(25:26):
bottom of the bourbon glass, and I remember feeling a
draft on my face and realizing my bedroom window was
open about an inch. And I remember, as I was
slipping into oblivion that had never opened the window before
because it had been sealed shot by decades of paint enamel.
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I bolted straight up, despite my very serious need for
real sleep. There's an accent booze I swallow. It couldn't
stopped my heart rate from suddenly searching, and I shot
the window, startled through my apartment in a haze, my
mind race, and despite my completely impaired bodily function, I
took a quick inventory. Something had been in my apartment.
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It was as if everything has shifted just a few
inches off. I've been hoping for some indication that was
on the right path, something to tell me I was
getting close to exposing what was being covered up. And
here it was. I had hit a nerve. I couldn't
think straight. I'd been awake for over thirty hours, and
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I wasn't going to get any of that precious sleep now,
which I needed in order to keep going, in order
to get to the truth about Next Corp. And why
Max Fuller would want to push his revolutionary human enhancement
technology to market despite the risks. What's that? That's the
low battery alert. If you'll sell at five, the vehicle
will power down if we do not recharge ship. All right,
(26:52):
find a nearrow station. Close your eyes. I let's return
to the boy. The boy on the ice. That's it.
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The boy's body has gone numb, and he's staring with
bright burning eyes at the winter stars, appearing in the sky,
trying not to think of his brother, his identical twin brother,
who who has already fallen through the ice. The final
breath frozen in his lungs is lifeless, eyes fixed towards
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the depths below the bottomless dark, a mirror image of himself.
Tomorrow's Monsters, starring John Boyega as Jack Lock, Darren Chris
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as Max Fuller, Marley Shelton as Cass Berkeley, Clark Gregg
as Walter Fuller, sah And Gauja as David Truesdale, Nicholas
Takoski as Finn Connolly, Claire Bronson as dr Abbie Reynolds,
David Chen as Michael Corbin, su Hila Elettar as Jenna,
Victor Rivera as Eddie Bender, Robert Pralgo as Agent Batty,
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Steve Coulter as Senator Berkeley, wrote A. Griffiths as Rainy Webb,
with additional performances by Helen Abel, Jason Williams, Michael Anthony,
Robin Bloodworth, and Teresa Davis. Our first assistant director is
Michael Monty. Our second assistant director is Sarah Klein. Sound
and music by Ben Lovett. Additional sound design and editing
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by Benjamin Belcolm, Justin Robowski and Mike Reagan. Casting by
Jessica Fox thick Pen. This episode features the song Through
the Eyes from the album Mirages by Michelle Nobler. Our
executive producers are Scott Shelton, Shelby Thomas, Alexander Williams, and
Matthew Frederick. Written by Dan Bush, and Nicholas Takowski. Created
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by Dan Bush and Conald Byrne, Directed by Dan Bush,
Produced by both Flint dan Bush and John Gleega. Tomorrow's
Monsters is a production of iHeart Radio, Flynn Picture Company,
Psycopia Pictures, and Upper Room Productions. For more podcasts from
My Heart Radio, visit the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,
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or wherever you listen to podcasts.
Tomorrow's Monsters. There's a production of I Heart Radio Flint
Picture Company, Psycopia Pictures and Upper Room Productions. It will
take around two point nine seconds for an object, say
amount of five ft eleven inches weighing one and sixty
two pounds, to fall from a thirteen story window of
a building too the street below, not that a humans
(00:22):
mass has any bury On the kinematic equation, the speeder
impact would be roughly twenty seven meters per second or
kilometers per hour. Upon impact, a number of things happened
to the body at once. The skull may shutter. They
also may disconnect from the rest of the heart, pumping
blood into the body cavity, depriving the brain of fresh oxygen.
(00:43):
The sudden impact could cause the blood vessels, even sells
themselves to rupture, but to one point five gallons of
blood can leave the body a human water balloon, flowing
from beneath the surface into the light. Some may take
solace in the idea that you may blackout from the
terror before landing, or have a heart attack from the stress.
(01:05):
But as they say, it's not the fool that kills you,
it's the landing. This scene has been playing in my head,
over and over a fever dream, constantly on repeat the
seconds leading up to my brother's death, because this is
(01:27):
how I imagine him, my brother being attacked and thrown
to his death from thirteen stories. I say attack because
that is the only scenario that makes sense, because I
knew my brother and my brother would never go out
of a thirteen story window voluntarily. Never, and yet suicide.
It's the official cause of death on Michael's death certificate.
(01:50):
But it's like my father always told me, never trust
the official lion. The world needs to know what really
happened and who is responsible. January seven, two pm Jenna
(02:36):
ma Marca. He most recently passed mile marker over two
days to Arlington at this rate, that is, if I
don't make too many stops. Can I help you with
anything else? Jack? Yeah? Actually, that truck behind us, how
long has it been there? The Model four XT cargo
truck has remained point three miles behind us for two hours?
(02:56):
Is that model man? No, Jack, it is a fully
automated com cargo vehicle. Would you like me to go
online for more information? As Jenna. By the way, Jenna,
can you introduce yourself? I'm Jenna and what are you, Jenna?
I'm your connected virtual assistant? Well not connected? Correct? I
(03:18):
am currently not connected? Would you like me to No, Jenna,
stop asking. I will tell you if I want to
connect you got it, Jack, Jenna is my only companion
on this voyage. Isn't that right? Jenna? Apparently before this
trip she was just my c v A. But now
I think I'm getting attached. Jenna? Can you die up
a sarcasm? Another I don't want to fall in love
(03:40):
or anything. Whatever you say, Jack, Yeah, here's what we know.
Three people died of apparent suicides after participating the Next
Corps of Human trials of this soon to launch product shut.
I mind that they eliminates the need to sleep, and
one of them was my m Michael. Okay, September. I'm late,
(04:09):
not good. There was my first day in Next Corp,
my first day of my new job as Max full
as personal assisting. Can I help you? I'm Jack Locker.
I'm head to see Mr Fuller, Hi Jack, Mr Fuller?
Really dirty? No, it's followed. It gives me an opportunity
(04:33):
to introduce you know. I was confused. The problem was sleep,
as in that I hadn't had any I knew it
was a risk not sleeping because it was my first
day at next Corp and I needed to be sharp
make an impression. I took the risk of staying up
all night because sleep deprivation was tolerable. The alternative was not.
(04:56):
The alternative was night terrors, which actually makes perfect sense.
I been grieving and I was having me some fever dreams,
and these nightmares were getting worse. They were evolving, becoming
more lucid. I would wake up to the sound of
tapping on my bedroom window and this metallic smell, like
(05:17):
rust and the cane leaves. In the nightmare, I see him.
Their brother was standing outside of my bedroom window, tapping
on the glass, his face stretched in anguish to formed
and flattened and still caked with the blood from the
four that killed him. It's dislocated draw, preventing him from
(05:41):
saying wherever it was he had come to say. It
was like my brother's spirit was just just holding on,
just clinging desperately to its last physical contact me for
this nightmare a hundred times, for the last time there
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was something new. He wrote a message on the glass layers,
spelled out in his own body, fluid and blood. Two
words luck. It's such were my nightmares. So I chose
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not to happen, at least not before my first day
and Next Corp with Max Fuller. Mr Fuller, I just
wanted to say how much this means to me. I mean, no,
no, no no, no, I get it. No, no need for
the continued gratitude thing. Look, I'm happy to have you here, Jack,
and we've got some work to do, so just up
here on the right. On my first day, Max introduced
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me to the top minds of Next Corp, which coincidentally
also happened to be some of the top minds in
the human enhancement industry. They operated out of a reclaimed
warehouse in the dog Patch district of San Francisco. The
innovations that spring from this neighborhood are respon in school
for a considerable portion of California's GDP, which is now
the fourth largest on the planet. Everything here has reclaimed wood,
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ship lab and rusty colors. It's a form of curated authenticity,
built on the graveyard of the past and decorated with
his bones. Has a strange chili sort of fields. Unnatural everyone.
This is Jack, Jack Lock. He'll be working with us.
I'm sorry, what I don't understand. This is Jack who
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will be working with us. Yeah, I got that. Isn't
this We'll talk about Jesus. I'll go first. Hey Jack,
I'm Finn Connolly. Yes, hey, I've heard of you that
the Steve was in the act of human enhuntment. Okay, yeah, sure.
And this is Cassandra Berkeley. She's a partner and our
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staff psychiatristicest woman in the building. Nice to meet you.
Uh huh, Max, Can we speak in the hallway? We
can do that later, can't Max? Fine? Gentlemen, be sweet,
don't worry. She's always like that. Well not always, was her.
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Me little this morning, it was just ten minutes ago.
We're making bets on how quickly you'd be ejected from
the building, and yet here you stand. Wow, so I'm
not very popular around you. Well, to be completely honest
with you, there are dozens of applicants who are better
suited for this than you know of Fens. Anyway, you're
here now for whatever reason, Max has taken a shine
(08:42):
to you. And this silent young man who apparently has
no opinion on you whatsoever is Eddie Binder, who's our
team physician. Nice to meet you. It'll be good not
to be the new kid. How long have you been?
A little over month? Eddie Year is going to oversee
our next round of human trials. Next round. Didn't realize
you that human testing before, well, it wasn't entirely successful.
(09:05):
You don't hear about the unsuccessful ones to you that? Yes,
of course that makes sense. Yeah, has Max told you
what you'll be doing around here? Because we are all curious.
I'm not sure. I think he wants me to help
organize his thoughts. Uh, that sounds ambiguous. Good luck with that.
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Oh pro tip, you should get on cast as good
side because you don't want to be on our bad side.
I need you on something, Maddy. Could you show Jack around,
catch him up on some of the new new I
can Jack, I'll catch up with you a little bit. Okay,
God's babe, how about we start with the lamp really
incredible stuff. It became immediately clear to me that Eddie
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didn't get him. He knew little about what went on before,
and even less about what was happening now. I couldn't
piece together why such a medio come man would find
himself in the midst of all these geniuses. Where they
failed to comprehend or capture is that next CORP is
ground zero in the next wave of human innovation. That
he and now I two were inside these hors witnesses
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to that elusive moment that has powered American progress for
the past two dred and seventy years. And this time
the stakes were higher than ever. This time the mad
scientists were engineering us reroute in our neural pathways, reprogramming
our brains to enable us to author ourselves and enhance
our human condition and ways that were previously unimaginable, pinked
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up so far enough and long to have a phase
too human trial. I know, they seemed like fairy tales
right way further off. I was shocked to find out
how far along they were too, How many people were
in the initial trials to phase one. It was tiny thirty. Yeah,
it's no way to do large science. But for the
company's purposes, I guess it was fine. I mean, they
already knew the drug worn't so why did they shut
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down the trials there? I don't know. I'm new here
to remember, you'll have to ask Max or Cass or
Finn or my predecessor, Dr Reynolds, though I'm not sure
she'll be willing to talk to you. Her name is
sort of Verboning. If you get me. Yeah, why okay,
(11:17):
nobody tells me anything. I don't need to know. Yeah,
I look, I'm just messing with it. It's probably easier
that way, man, exactly. This guy guessing right, it's a
good uh. Here is the brake room, best snacks in
the building. Dr Abby Reynolds Hobby was Next Corps clinical physician,
tossed to monitor and tract the health data of the
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trial subjects. I had to sell number, but nothing else.
Abbe Reynolds did not want to talk about Next Corp
as she cares blocking my number. It took three days
and full Burner first to get to this point right here.
I swear to God, if you keep calling from a
Dr Reynolds, I'm not from next Corporal, from the competitor.
I'm not a report. I'm definitely not a Max Fell
the fanboy. I'm going to find out what happened. No,
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I'm sorry my brother while he was there at Next
call my brother, who is Michael Corbyn? Doctor? You try
to protect him, didn't you? The others too? And if
you weren't for you, the others would be well, they
wouldn't have survived. Viva. Let me be clear, dr un As,
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you are a hero, and now you can save the
new ones too, New ones. I need your help. I can't.
I can't help you, not the help. Yes you can,
Yes you can, you can, Truesdale, I'm sorry, Truesdale. You'll
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have to talk to David Truesdale. He was in the trials.
He's a vet. He was in the group in Tehran
and the p K Eagle Trials like the Super Soldier program.
Jesus Christ, how do you believe everything you read? They
were pumping those boys up on cocktails of methemphetamines and
no tropics, nothing that advanced, just very expensive ones. Hold on,
(13:12):
write this down and Jack, Yeah, I'm blocking you again,
but I might need more information After this we never
speak again. Do you have a pen or not? Yeah? Sure?
The program i'd been named p K Eagle is one
of those conspiracy theories you occasionally are about the US
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government's attempts to make Captain America. Well, apparently this particular
rumor had truth to it. Hob He gave me an
address down in Bay View, providence shelter. It was located
in a narrow back alley, abandoned cardboard and tired blankets, vets,
nomadic got upunks, homeless families trickling down from the encampments.
(13:53):
You know, and to see so rich. The site of
hopeless people is stock and I found you're still on
a car, wrapped in a tad marine comeback jacket. He
was not a friendly prisons I'm gonn't take the risk
of being traced back to next cool, so I had
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to disguise my identity. Excuse me, Mr Truthdale, Who are you?
Can I say? Dr Piz? Who are you? I'm Jim
Jim Crane. You're a cop? No no, I'm here to
ask you a few questions like a cop. No, no, listen,
(14:37):
I'm here about the next corporate huh. Okay, I just
want to talk to you about the drug trial there.
How would you describe your experience? Is this a survey?
Oh no, no, no, I just check your questions somewhere else.
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Did you know Michael Corbyn Corbin? You know the name Mikey, Yeah, Michael,
Michael Michael Corbyn. Okay, progress, Mr Treuesdale, you may be
entitled to a considerable someone money. What you do know
what happened to Mr Corbin? I don't ye, skinny kid
(15:24):
real talk all right, Yeah, sure, that's that's accurate, always
making jokes. I wouldn't know. All I know is that
you are listed as one of the potential plaintiffs plaintiffs.
Took me some time to locate you, Mr Tuesdale, But
if you were in next Corps trials, the same clinical
trial with Mr Corbin, you stand to recoup a large
sum of money. If we find that next Corp is
implicated in any way for what we're wrong, class action
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suit of this kind could be settled or awarded a
generous judgment. Yeah, what happened to him? Well, Mr Trusty
else he jumped off the building ship. Yeah, I found
that dream that you know? Nah, I just must have
(16:13):
heard it is so uh you two must have really
bonded there during the next court trouser. You know something else?
May I ask what was it like? Can you tell
me about your experience retreated? Well? Well, I said, my
experience was pretty good. I mean, all things considered. They
(16:36):
were nice, didn't talk down to me like most of
the v A hacks, Like, yeah, I get it. My
eggs is scrambled, but like you as those responsibility right,
you had PTSD when you came back from Yeah, it
was on the ground in Tehran, the real ship show.
I mean, you'd have to be a box to come
back from that easy. And then the way they dumped
(16:57):
you back in the world like everything's gonna be fine,
like hey, bat on the back of the parade, and
then you do back in the nine to five and man,
they had us on no stems over there, like the
ones that give you lads of focus, and I swear
to God, make you kid like a Yeah, I read
about the program. They shut it down right when we
all came back junkies. But next course, how did they
(17:20):
treat you? They treated me like a human being, gave
me money and a place to stay for a little
and what was it? Dround like oh what the drugs? Yeah, yeah,
ship different the stems they had us on over there.
(17:44):
It felt like all my energy got shifted hard into
my extremities. Like one minute, this full body with a
spine and the chest and an asshole, and then you
bite down on the capsule and all of a sudden
you're nothing but eyes and eyes beat and a finger
on a trigger. But it's not clean, like you're still
aware that your muscles are taught, your jaws clenched. You know,
(18:14):
one of the biggest things that they had to do
for us metically in that program fucking didn't too, Man.
I clenched my jaws so hard I broke two boulders.
How did you get pulled into the next core? I
saw the yeah looking for steady work, and when I called,
they jumped at the chance to work with someone who
(18:35):
did the ship out too. I think you finally have
someone to tell a difference between their products and their
stringy ship. Uncle Sam was pumping in US and the
drugs were better next level. When they put me on
their next core, it was fantastic. Black ops me again,
but better me, like more learned. No, not just that,
(19:01):
not just alert. I was grounded. All the doubt, all
the bad thoughts that the agitation, paranoia, their self hatred,
they don't fucking evaporated. Man, you take shut eye, you
feel like a god, like you're watching the game from
above and you can see across time like everyone else
(19:23):
is moving in slow motion. I had all the energy
that the old drugs gave me, all the focus, but
I was relaxed, like I was floating, like when I
was a little kid. It was perfect. I could do anything.
But then one there's no magic pill too. Somewhere along
(19:46):
the line, rent comes to what do you mean? How
do what? I thought there'd be some sort of miracle
drugs with outside effects. There's always a crash at the
end of it. Man, It's the law of pleasure. Like gravity,
what goes up must come out. You gotta pay the price.
Are you all right? Sometimes? Just even talking about it,
(20:11):
I get the twitches. Have you had any more contact
with the next quarter? Have you spoken to Max Fuller since? Yeah?
Just ben Benjamin? Who's Benjamin? Okay? Mr Truthsdale. Mr Trusdale
(20:36):
touched me. I'm leaving the questions. It's fine, I'm gone.
I'm gone, Mr Truthsdale. Mr Truslane touched me. Touch question.
(21:03):
It's fine, gone gone, David Trusdale. If only I knew
then what I know now. I left the shelter and
headed back to work. I was in with next Corp,
but so far another the fouls that I had access
to said very much about the human trials and the
test subject I had come across wards not exactly stable,
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so I'd have to keep playing until I found a
way into the inner Santum. And the daily life of
a start up assistant is hectic and tedious at the
same time. Up at five in the office that buy
seven together and sort Max's correspondents of the day and
bring it to him in the order of importance. Sometimes
I'm thrilled about my decisions with Max is like having
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to defend the dissertations. Sorry, you have three messages from
Dina Hall from whet past. I know, but I need
to connect. You know, I don't think you do. You don't.
You keep reminding me about Dina, which means you seem
to think that press is now what we should be
focused on. Yeah, but see, yes, it's going to be
here before we know it, if we wanted to, if
we want to pass. I told her. You can tell
(22:11):
her louder. Okay, tend meeting with all the heads of
departments to go over a new developments, business strategy, et cetera.
A right, the daily report for Max, who normally doesn't attend,
and give it to him to read in the after.
You know, you don't have to tell me everything. Marketing says. Okay,
there's a reason I don't attend those myself, right, I
need you to be my filter. Max gives me the
(22:31):
answers to every question asked at the morning meetings, which
I usually type up with my desk while shoving lunch
down my front. More correspondence, more to filter. Six thirty
I talked Max through his medians and calls for the
next day. After three weeks of what was standard my
numbering intern level work for the day, we're going to
question what the hell I was going to be able
to accomplish with this game. Don't forget. You've got a
(22:53):
breakfast meeting with the A r C group to go
over the last quarters. And that's when I got the video.
You need to take that. No, just an old buddy. Sorry.
Eight thirty at before the hotel, All right, put it. Thanks, Okay,
I'm going head out get some rest. I've got a
text message from a block number, just a link to
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a video called Algernon. The scene cuts into a laboratory.
The subject step began acting erratic at roughly two fifteen
hours without sleep. At first, it was one or two
familiar voice dr Abby Reynolds. One by one day all
began exhibiting similar behaviors, pacing, digging at the bottoms of
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their cages until their claws began bleeding. Cortisol levels spiked
off the charts, and one by one, in rapid succession,
they began attacking each other themselves. They are eating each other.
I am, I am terminating this round of testing, be
(24:00):
euthanizing the subject. This is I've never seen anything. If
this was the result of the animal testing rats devouring themselves,
chewing each of his faces off, then how the hell
did next Scorpe get permission to have human trials? And
these data points had to have been omitted in the
(24:20):
application of a third party review of the tests. Had
to have been not just sugarcoated. They had to have
baked a brand new seven layer cake. I had to
And if we assume that it was Dr Aby Reynolds
who send the video, that would make her complicity. It
would also make her a massive liability for them. So
how much did they pay her to shut her up?
(24:42):
Hero Mars? When I got home that night after me
and David Truth still popped three milligrams and Zanex washed
it down with three fingers of bourbon. The zan X
was my brother Michael's anxiety disorders of family trade. I
found the Unfield prescription and the things he'd left behind,
so I took you. I only used it occasionally, strategically,
(25:06):
like when a death conform my grain was kicking in
after thirty hours without sleep. Sometimes it worked toward off
the darkness my night terrors. I just needed to turn
my brain off and check out. I remember my head
hitting the pillar. I remember the ice melting in the
(25:26):
bottom of the bourbon glass, and I remember feeling a
draft on my face and realizing my bedroom window was
open about an inch. And I remember, as I was
slipping into oblivion that had never opened the window before
because it had been sealed shot by decades of paint enamel.
(25:48):
I bolted straight up, despite my very serious need for
real sleep. There's an accent booze I swallow. It couldn't
stopped my heart rate from suddenly searching, and I shot
the window, startled through my apartment in a haze, my
mind race, and despite my completely impaired bodily function, I
took a quick inventory. Something had been in my apartment.
(26:09):
It was as if everything has shifted just a few
inches off. I've been hoping for some indication that was
on the right path, something to tell me I was
getting close to exposing what was being covered up. And
here it was. I had hit a nerve. I couldn't
think straight. I'd been awake for over thirty hours, and
(26:30):
I wasn't going to get any of that precious sleep now,
which I needed in order to keep going, in order
to get to the truth about Next Corp. And why
Max Fuller would want to push his revolutionary human enhancement
technology to market despite the risks. What's that? That's the
low battery alert. If you'll sell at five, the vehicle
will power down if we do not recharge ship. All right,
(26:52):
find a nearrow station. Close your eyes. I let's return
to the boy. The boy on the ice. That's it.
(27:13):
The boy's body has gone numb, and he's staring with
bright burning eyes at the winter stars, appearing in the sky,
trying not to think of his brother, his identical twin brother,
who who has already fallen through the ice. The final
breath frozen in his lungs is lifeless, eyes fixed towards
(27:34):
the depths below the bottomless dark, a mirror image of himself.
Tomorrow's Monsters, starring John Boyega as Jack Lock, Darren Chris
(27:58):
as Max Fuller, Marley Shelton as Cass Berkeley, Clark Gregg
as Walter Fuller, sah And Gauja as David Truesdale, Nicholas
Takoski as Finn Connolly, Claire Bronson as dr Abbie Reynolds,
David Chen as Michael Corbin, su Hila Elettar as Jenna,
Victor Rivera as Eddie Bender, Robert Pralgo as Agent Batty,
(28:22):
Steve Coulter as Senator Berkeley, wrote A. Griffiths as Rainy Webb,
with additional performances by Helen Abel, Jason Williams, Michael Anthony,
Robin Bloodworth, and Teresa Davis. Our first assistant director is
Michael Monty. Our second assistant director is Sarah Klein. Sound
and music by Ben Lovett. Additional sound design and editing
(28:44):
by Benjamin Belcolm, Justin Robowski and Mike Reagan. Casting by
Jessica Fox thick Pen. This episode features the song Through
the Eyes from the album Mirages by Michelle Nobler. Our
executive producers are Scott Shelton, Shelby Thomas, Alexander Williams, and
Matthew Frederick. Written by Dan Bush, and Nicholas Takowski. Created
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by Dan Bush and Conald Byrne, Directed by Dan Bush,
Produced by both Flint dan Bush and John Gleega. Tomorrow's
Monsters is a production of iHeart Radio, Flynn Picture Company,
Psycopia Pictures, and Upper Room Productions. For more podcasts from
My Heart Radio, visit the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,
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