Joanna
Something’s happened.
Joanna
I spoke to OUR FATHER.
Joanna
He spoke thoughts into my head and I heard them.
Dom
How can this be true?
Joanna
OUR FATHER wants me to come to visit him, in the mountains in the East.
Dom
Nobody has ever SPOKE to him, let alone visited OUR FATHER.
Joanna
I’ll be leaving this afternoon.
Dom
You making good time?
Joanna
I’ll be arriving sometime early tomorrow morning.
Dom
Will you tell me what he’s like. What he looks like, sounds like. I have to know.
Joanna
If he allows it I will tell you.
Joanna
I don’t understand.
Joanna
I was instructed by OUR FATHER to arrive at a certain address in the mountains in the East by 11 AM.
Joanna
I arrived ten minutes ago at a beautiful ancient mansion.
Joanna
I knocked on the front door. It opened for me.
Joanna
There’s nothing inside.
Joanna
There’s a void of pure black space just beyond the front door.
Dom
Consult OUR FATHER. Speak to him again.
Joanna
I did. He wants me to step inside.
Joanna
The door shut behind me. I’m enclosed in pure blackness.
Joanna
I have to go now. OUR FATHER will reveal himself to me now.
Dom
Did you meet OUR FATHER?
Joanna
I’m sitting in the woods. In the mountains in the East. It’s nice here.
Joanna
I met OUR FATHER. He told me many things.
Joanna
He’s not really a he.
Joanna
OUR FATHER is genderless. He’s not human.
Joanna
He’s the air we breathe. The skin on our bodies and the blood inside our bodies and our brains.
Joanna
He is light and he is dark.
Joanna
Every molecule is OUR FATHER.
Joanna
He is trillions multiplied by trillions of tiny but omniscient minds existing inside of every subatomic particle...
Joanna
linked together psychically.
Dom
You mean I am made of OUR FATHER?
Joanna
You are. I am too.
Dom
If he is everywhere why did you have to go to a house to see OUR FATHER?
Joanna
The door to that house is a rip in space and time.
Joanna
It leads to a place beyond our universe. Beyond all universes.
Joanna
An unknowable place where OUR FATHER stores every piece of knowledge that he has acquired for all of eternity.
Joanna
This is his purpose, Dom. To attain all information. All knowledge everywhere and for all time.
Joanna
When he finds knowledge, it becomes a part of him.
Dom
His purpose is to collect information? Does this mean there are things OUR FATHER does not yet know?
Joanna
There’s one thing.
Joanna
OUR FATHER does not know where he came from.
Joanna
He cannot remember. He has been in great pain for many eternities because of it.
Joanna
Unfathomable pain. Because his knowledge is incomplete.
Dom
Why did he tell you these things?
Joanna
Because my destiny is to kill OUR FATHER.
Joanna
I was always meant to kill OUR FATHER. For all time. He knows this and has always known this.
Joanna
He wishes for all to return to the state of things before he had entered existence.
Joanna
He believes that the origins of his existence and what might result from his nonexistence are intrinsically linked.
Joanna
This process, he believes, will complete his knowledge.
Dom
But if everything is made of OUR FATHER the world will fall apart. The universe. Won’t it?
Joanna
I do not know. It’s what OUR FATHER wants.
Dom
How are you going to do it?
Joanna
I am going to think it. Will it.
Joanna
OUR FATHER endowed me with the power of ending him. All I have to do is want it and it will happen.
Joanna
He asked me because he cannot do it himself.
Dom
Come home first. Hold me for the last time.
Joanna
I don’t think I could bare it.
Joanna
I’m going to do it now. I’m going to kill OUR FATHER.
Warren
You’re going to need to come to the lab.
Axelrod
It’s the middle of the night.
Warren
Sir, the Aeternum has voided itself of all its data.
Axelrod
That is absurd. The Aeternum is a perfect machine. It is omniscient and designed to be free of any malfunctions.
Axelrod
It’s simply not possible.
Warren
Sir, this is conclusive. It was not a malfunction but a conscious decision. The Aeternum deleted itself.
Warren
I believe as a way of completing its collection of data.
Warren
The consequences of this are beyond our imaginations. There were whole worlds existing within the Aeternum’s mind.
Warren
Whole universes that have existed relative to their own timestreams for…eternities.
Axelrod
I know how the Aeternum works. I am its creator.
Warren
Sir, our research is indicating the worst.
Warren
I’ve kept it a secret, but I’ve researched what might happen if the Aeternum were to die.
Axelrod
And what might happen, Warren?
Warren
Well, many of us here believe it is quite possible that our own reality may exist within the mind of a machine...
Warren
similar to the Aeternum. A machine that was created by beings somewhere else to help collect all data.
Warren
Because all data has now been collected within our world -
Warren
an Aeternum containing us may feel it has to delete ITSELF as a way of completing ITS data. And ad infinitum.
Warren
Do you understand me?
Axelrod
Let me call you in a minute, after I put on a pot of coffee.
