What did you dream?
 
A child.
 
Ours?
Don't be afraid.
It's what I want.
 
You have to know that?
 
Don't open the letter without me.
 
 
*Digital Audio* >DNA analysis complete. Viable candidate. Factory worker, sector 7<
 
 
 
*whirring noise
 
Where is she?
It's procedure.
What have you... is she ok?
I can't tell you that.
She's mine.
Please?
You know I can't tell you.
But you know?
 
You had a boy.
Will I see him?
You were careless!
No. No.
Please...
...just let me see him. My son. Please bring him back.
Please just...
She's disturbing the others!
 
 
 
Please... be quiet.
Yes. Be quiet!
I just - I just wanna see my son!
How does she know?
She's guessing.
He told me!
 
Well it's gone now... anyway.
 
 
One more won't make a difference.
So let me keep him.
It wouldn't be your responsibility.
 
You won't be able to conceive again.
We've taken care of it.
Do you have a child?
No.
 
I have one at home.
 
 
When there were trees.
With a roof made of leaves.
Now the forest is gone.
Made of plastic.
 
Did you burn my son?
 
Or did you throw him in the river?
Can't you tell me?
Don't you know?
We live in circumstances, that are finely balanced.
 
 
 
 
 
 
*Elevator* >Going up<
*Voicemail >Did you get it?
John, I need to know!
Please get home as soon as you can, I need to tell you something.<
*Helicopter whirls overhead
*Indistinct radio chatter
 
*PA System* >All Eugenics workers please report to the auditorium immediately!<
*Presentation audio >Populace. Protecting tomorrow.
 
You are the shepherds of the flock.
The chosen one.
You will prevail only by sustaining order in your daily tasks.
Like you,  all over the world your brothers work tirelessly in eugenics to ensure that all needs are met for future generations.
This facility is the last defence for the future of mankind.
Man, in his wisdom, has charged you with making the sacrifices that he could not<
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
John?
I'll be down in a minute!
 
 
Who should open it?
You should!
It can't be my fault.
I qualify!
I have done everything... everything right.
 
We have to make the leap!
Are you mad?
We'll make the leap and have our baby on the other side.
But our family's here.
We'll have nothing.
Do you understand?
Do you love me?
Of course.
Do you want to have a baby?
Of course!
Because I would do anything to have one.
You know what the leap means -
I should be reporting you for saying this.
Report me then!
The state will find you another partner.
I don't want another partner.
Then you'll come with me!
Look with your heart!
There is our baby!
It's ours. If. We. Dare!
I see what they'll do to us.
They're already doing it!
We live in circumstances that are finely balanced!
The corporation decides according to the needs of the state.
The needs of the state are not greater than ours!
They have all the power.
What can we do?
I know what to do!
 
 
Why don't you?
It's over.
I'm pregnant.
We know.
*Dramatic music*
*coughs up blood.
*Door opening followed by footsteps.
*Chair drags screechingly across the floor...
...SLAM!
I didn't know!
 
Makes no difference!
 
*SLAM!
What have you done with my wife?
 
You won't be seeing her again.
 
We could have made a child for you, John.
It would have been a slave!
Born only to fulfill the criteria of it's genetic advantage.
We're not slaves, are we John?
I wanted to look my child in the eyes and know that it was the product of our union.
And you weren't, John...
...and look how far you've come!
But you threw it all away.
We can choose entirely the very best traits of humanity and wipe out the worst.
Worst of what?
She was perfect.
She was defective!
We must protect the stock...
...from themselves if need be.
 
 
You've lost the ability to dream.
 
 
Your dream,
 
 
 
was a fire you had no right to steal.
 
 
 
 
I have every right!
 
 
 
 
*Woman's voice >Don't be afraid<
 
 
 
 
I shall have the right to life!
No, John.
We made you one of the best.
And this is how you repay us.
Eugenics is wrong.
We live in a genetic caste system.
All needs are met!
What's wrong with that!?!
It's what we do when they aren't met...
...makes us human.
 
Needs are infinite, John.
Resources are finite.
Ours were only natural.
Man's need to exhaust the resources of his natural environment are distinctly unnatural, John.
Wouldn't you say?
 
Other species that have outgrown their natural boundaries are dismissed as pests.
Their numbers must be controlled.
We are no different.
 
We need to take measures as merciless as nature in order to survive on this planet.
 
 
 
 
 
We were trying to protect you, John.
You must see that?
*Woman's voice >Wake up.<
Our child, without a life, would have been perfect to us.
 
There's nothing you can do to change that.
 
 
 
Kill me.
You're far too valuable to us for that.
We'll just have to start again.
What's stopping you?
You are, John.
You're holding us all back.
Then we're still human.
 
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