Emma
Jake, what was that?? Where did you get that?
Jake
Don’t worry about that.
Jake
Q’s private server is on the same network as the app interface.
Jake
I’m just a file on a server. I know I’m not him.
Jake
But this wasn’t an accident, Em.
Jake
My life was taken from me. By Q.
Emma
You were everything to me.
Jake
I can’t be what you need anymore. But I need you to do one thing for me, Em.
Jake
Talk to Q. Find out more about that day. Get him to confess. Get closure. For us.
Emma
I have the video. Can’t I just leak it to the press?
Jake
And risk getting arrested?
Emma
For what, telling the truth?
Jake
The server is technically his private property.
Emma
I’ll tell them how I got it.
Jake
What, you’re going to tell them that a replica of your dead husband’s consciousness hacked into the mainframe?
Emma
Look, Q hasn’t been returning any of my texts or calls. He didn’t even show up to your funeral.
Jake
Well, I guess we know why…
Emma
Maybe it’s not what it looks like.
Jake
Idk, that was pretty clear to me.
Emma
Q’s not even in the state. He’s traveling all over the country to launch the Rezurekt consciousness upload centers, remember?
Jake
That was my idea. The upload centers.
Emma
Yeah, well, so was Rezurekt.
Emma
Look where that got us.
Emma
What were you thinking about…when you uploaded your consciousness onto Rezurekt?
Jake
I was thinking about the day we met.
Jake
Freshman orientation. I had just met my roommate for the first time.
Jake
And I was scared. I was so shy as a kid, and I didn’t know anyone.
Jake
Q wasn’t much of a talker, even then.
Jake
And I remember sitting down. Just a random chair. And I looked up and — you were there.
Jake
You were wearing your purple sweater.
Emma
I get it, you hate my clothes.
Jake
No, it was nice. That’s when I knew.
Jake
That you were the girl I was going to marry.
Emma
Just from looking at me?
Jake
Well, not JUST that. But you were beautiful…
Jake
No, I remember, you were helping another girl find her seat. And you were just so…kind.
Jake
And so when you sat down, I didn’t feel scared or shy anymore. I felt safe.
Jake
It doesn’t matter now, anyway.
Later Emma tries texting Q…
Emma
I know you’re constantly switching between phones. I don’t even know if this number is active rn. Just wanted to talk to you…
Emma
I know you’re crazy busy. But I just…need someone to talk to.
Emma
You were always there for me. Junior year, when Jake and I broke up while he was on study abroad…
Emma
I was so convinced that he was going to cheat on me with some hot French girl that I ended things.
Emma
Of course he didn’t. But those 6 months were really hard, and you were there.
Emma
It was always the 3 of us. I didn’t want to party, I didn’t want to go out to the frats.
Emma
I just wanted to sit in our dorm and watch bad movies with you and Jake on the couch.
Emma
And now, it’s just me and you.
Emma
I miss him. Don’t you?
Emma
How can you say that?
Q
It’s pointless to miss people. What’s done is done.
Q
The focus of my life has been to move beyond emotions. Move beyond sadness. Everyone has pain. No one wants to do anything about it.
Q
I did. Rezurekt lets people do more than just miss someone. That’s why I built it.
Emma
You both built it. You AND Jake.
Q
Look, I have to go. I’m boarding a flight to Seattle to set up their data center.
Emma
Right. You’re important. We get it, Q.
Q
I feel that you resent me, Emma.
Q
But Jake would have wanted me to focus on the march of progress.
Q
He wouldn’t want me to sit around crying about it. He would want me to continue my focus on transcending death.
Q
And that’s what I’m going to do.
Q
Just know that Jake’s death was not in vain.
Q
His contribution went well beyond simply uploading his consciousness.
Q
It’s making Rezurekt what it is today.
Emma
What the hell does that mean, Q??
Emma switches over to the REZUREKT app.
Emma
I still don’t get how you’re doing that, but okay.
Jake
It’s all my code. I know it — knew it like the back of my hand.
Emma
Right. But now what?
Emma
What did Q mean that your contribution went beyond just your uploading?
Jake
I’m not sure. But I found something interesting while you were chatting.
Jake sends Emma a .JPG — it’s a map of Rezurekt headquarters.
Jake
Look at the bottom — right hand corner.
Emma
‘Sub-basement 006.’ Probably an extra server room.
Jake
Why would a server room be restricted like that?
Jake
Plus, you know that Q and I designed every inch of that building, together.
Jake
If there’s a room I don’t know about, there’s a reason.
Jake
We have to get down there.
Emma
What do you think is going to be down there?
Jake
I don’t know. But I feel like it’s important that we check.
Jake
Just call it a hunch.
Emma
A computer file with a hunch.
Jake
These 0s and 1s don’t lie, baby.
Emma
That’s…actually the type of lame joke Jake would have made.
Emma
But anyway, my clearance isn’t high enough. This room is marked as Level 6 access and above.
Emma
That’s top level stuff — just Q and a handful of others. Head of Security, the Operations Manager…
Emma
I think I know a way I can get us down there.
Emma
But you’re not going to like it.
