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[dramatic music plays]
♪♪
[alarm blaring]
♪♪
[grunting]
♪♪
[slow music plays]
♪♪
[Leo] Love.
Kiska, your big day has arrived.
The subjects are coming in two hours.
Time to get up.
Krasótka, you must get up.
Arise, Anastasia. Mwah.
I heard you up and was hoping you were sleepwalking again.
- One more hour. - No more sleep.
Ah, Leo.
This will make you more sleepy.
[record player clicking]
[music playing on record player]
[Anna] You're a mad man.
I am the idiot.
And you are my mad scientist woman.
- Oh, yes. Yes. Yes. - No!
Yes, yes, yes. Come on.
♪♪
[music fades]
- Oh, boy. - What?
It says that military intelligence,
our captain, is attached to this experiment
because this technology, if effective,
is meant to aid our soldiers in the field in their fight
against all enemies of the Soviet Union.
- The Red Army. - I know, I know.
[Anna] You're taking me seriously this time.
What does it say about the captain?
It says that he was a regular infantryman,
born and raised in Donetsk,
fell back with his unit to defend Stalingrad.
While there, was given his officer's commission
after numerous acts of bravery,
was also awarded Za Boevye Zaslugi for battle merit
and Za Otvagu for courage.
I thought they just sent a lowly prison guard,
but a captain of military intelligence?
- I know. - War hero, no less.
This is big, Anna.
Leo, do you think this captain
knows what happened to you at your clinic?
Love, I just want to know if you think what happened
may have leaked.
- Uncle said he took care of it. - Yes, yes.
I know that your uncle made your paperwork disappear.
But maybe people talked about it.
[Leo] This is the Soviet Union.
Everyone talks, and no one says anything.
Should we reach out to your uncle to see
what he thinks about it?
Maybe I could send him a note.
- Will they read it, Leo? - I will send it to his home
and not KGB headquarters in Moscow.
He will know how we should handle this captain.
Or maybe, if need be, he could assist us handling him.
There is no need to worry, Anna.
They think this study is important.
Hence this captain. So if...
when it goes well, the world will be your oyster.
- Still doesn't ease my anxiety. - It should.
Once the party sees what an asset you are for them,
then only the sky is the limit for you.
Trust me. I know how these men think.
Yes, these men.
My advice, which is the same advice my Uncle Oleg
has given to me many times,
is to play nice with this captain.
Tell him whatever it is he wants to hear.
You never know what he can do for you.
For us. Time to go.
Let me finish.
Leo, did you take your pills?
Uh, no. Where are they?
I hid them. Take.
[slow music plays]
[sighs]
The Red Army.
[Leo] Dear uncle, I hope this letter finds you well.
As you know, Anna and I are...
[slow music plays]
♪♪
[sighs]
♪♪
Hey, little guy. [clicking tongue]
Come on, come on, come on, come on.
Come here. Come here. Yeah.
[Anna] Oh, you found a friend?
♪♪
[screaming]
[dramatic music plays]
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I am armed with the DWM 1906.
But we were told that these men would not be violent criminals.
But they have all committed crimes against the state,
which is just as bad if not worse.
Better safe than sorry, as the saying goes.
Regardless of the nature of their crimes,
they may try and get aggressive with you both.
These men are from the Gulag.
They are no doubt hardened by that experience.
You must remember that you cannot trust them.
Not even a little.
♪♪
[Anna] Look at this inkblot and tell me anything
that comes to your mind.
Like a... like a little...
What is the word?
Embryo.
This... This embryo has all elements of life in it.
It's like a massive sun sitting on the head
of a magnificent pin.
And this embryo is fighting
to become a little fetus.
Angel fetus.
Did I get that right?
[Anna] This is not a pass or fail test.
I am simply recording the time it takes
so that we have a baseline measurement.
♪♪
Which one is not like the others?
Horse.
Dog.
Car.
And goat.
♪♪
Goat.
[Anna] No. Give it one more try.
I think it's the goat.
It is the car.
I don't understand.
You can ride the horse, the car, the dog,
but you cannot ride the goat.
[Anna] You can ride a dog?
If the dog is big enough and the person small enough.
[Anna] But you cannot ride a goat?
Ride a goat.
That's ridiculous.
[laughs]
♪♪
Dog.
Star.
Cloud.
[Subject 4] Chicken.
[Anna] A chicken?
Yes. Chicken.
- Anything else? - No.
Just chicken.
[Anna] Tell me about this chicken.
[sighs]
It's a fucking chicken.
♪♪
[Subject 5] A rat.
[Anna] Describe this rat to me.
The rat has been run over.
It lies in the street
with its guts hanging out.
And its tongue sticks out of its mouth,
which is both disgusting
but funny looking, too.
[Anna] Where was the rat going?
Home.
♪♪
[Yegor] The parameters of this experiment are as follows.
The subjects will be deprived of sleep
for 30 consecutive days.
This experiment was designed
to test the limits of mental endurance
and push the boundaries of human evolution.
[Yegor] What is your name?
Serg...
[Yegor] Get him up.
What does that say?
- Subject 6. - Subject 6. Correct.
That is your name.
- What is your name? - Subject 5.
[Yegor] What is your name?
[grunts]
[Yegor] What is your name?
[Subject 4] Subject 4.
[Yegor] What is your name?
Subject 3.
[Yegor] There are simple rules for you
to understand while you're here.
You see those two people over there?
They are the doctors in charge of this experiment.
I'm here to make sure you comply
with every single request of the doctors.
If you fail to comply, you will go back to the Gulag.
If you do comply, then after the 30 days,
thanks to the grace
and kindness of the Secretary General Stalin,
you will be released from prison
and be able to go back to the lives you left behind.
Do you understand?
- Yes, Captain. - Yes, Captain.
[dramatic music plays]
♪♪
Enter.
[grunts]
[locks creaking, clicking]
Anna.
[Leo] These men are not prisoners.
They are subjects in our study.
You cannot beat them.
[Yegor] It is very important in situations like this
to set a very strong tone with the prisoners.
You simply cannot beat them.
[Anna] Leo, please.
Don't you have to clean up the surgical area?
Yes, Doctor.
Right away.
Excuse me.
[Anna] These subjects must be in a controlled environment.
And if they are gripped with an existential fear of you,
we will not be able to get the most conclusive result
from this experiment.
I understand.
Since they are only four subjects,
why did Moscow decide to give them the numbers
3, 4, 5, and 6?
Life in Gulag can, at times, be very hierarchical.
And so, the men will fight to be number one or number two.
In my experience, no one fights to be number three.
Fascinating psychology.
My job and your job are very similar, Doctor.
You study the minds of men.
And I put it into practice.
You see, I must understand how the minds of men work
in order to control them.
And by controlling them, keep us all safe.
But what was it you said?
Better safe than sorry.
And, Capt...
Yegor,
you were the one who said better safe than sorry.
Not me.
Did I?
[light switch clicks]
♪♪
[Anna] Oh, you have your little friend with you.
[Leo] Yes. I like his company.
Anna, I think I know Subject 3.
You know him? How?
I'm not sure. I... He's just so familiar to me.
Don't mention it to Yegor. You know how quick
they are to find someone guilty by association.
Of course. I just can't place where I know this man.
[Yegor] Doctors.
Do you have the blood and urine samples ready?
The guard is about to leave,
and I want to send them to Moscow with him.
They're right there.
You two must submit your blood and urine samples, as well.
Excuse me? That is highly unorthodox.
Since you're the observers of this experiment,
they just want to make sure that you're not
under the influence of any substances.
Trust me,
this is just more bureaucratic nonsense from Moscow.
No, thank you.
[Anna] Can we have some privacy, please?
[sighs] Leo, we cannot submit your blood.
Your medication will show up.
What choice do we have?
I will have to send two vials of my blood.
Anna, that won't fool anyone.
I know. But at least it will give us time.
- Time for what? - To clean your system.
Are you sure you want me to stop taking medication?
But we don't have any other option.
Come on.
Are your nightmares back?
A little more.
I know, Anna.
Sorry.
[dramatic music plays]
♪♪
[Anna] As per the protocols, they have been acclimated
to the new environment for four hours.
Now it's time to introduce the gas into the chamber.
♪♪
[ticking]
Now.
[lever creaking]
[gas hissing]
♪♪
[knocking]
Now, we observe.
♪♪
If you could be any kind of animal, which would you be?
I'd be a cat.
Ah. I'd be a bear.
A horse.
[man] More like an ass. [laughs]
[man] I'd be... I'd be a wolf.
Oh! [laughs]
[man #2] [howling]
[Subjects laughing]
What are you doing, Leo?
You know this is not right. We shouldn't be drinking.
Shh. It will be fine. It's just a little bit.
And just this once. To your success.
[laughter continues]
[man howls]
[laughter]
[Anna] Day 1 went very well.
The subjects quickly got settled into their new environment.
There was a general sense of unease
when the gas was introduced,
but once the subjects realized it was harmless,
they adapted very well.
As for the staff, Security Officer Sokolov
has been very diligent and thorough
in informing me of the security protocols for the experiment.
His attention to detail has been especially helpful.
My assistant, Dr. Leo Antonoff, has performed admirably.
He implanted the shock devices
in all of the subjects without incident.
If the patients don't cooperate with our testing,
we will use the shock devices to enforce compliance.
We can change the shock intensity
and single out the patients depending on the situation.
[Yegor] If you don't mind me asking,
how long have you and Leo been married?
Ten years this May.
- Pre-war. - Yes.
I met Leo in university after my parents
and I moved back to the Soviet Union from Madrid.
And you, Captain? Are you married?
I am married to my work.
[chuckles]
I understand.
[Subject 4] I could never settle on just one.
What about you, huh? You have a woman back home?
[Subject 5] My wife. Or at least I did.
- What happened? - Stopped writing.
Not right away, but after the first year,
she just sort of fell away.
[Subject 4 laughs]
Eh.
No loyalty.
It's not that.
She should live her life.
What about you, huh? You have a woman back home?
The only woman in his life is his mama.
- She write to you? - Yes.
Nearly every week.
See?
A good woman, his mother.
You, tell me about your woman back home.
[Subject 3] The only woman for me...
Mother Russia.
Been very difficult when he was away in Stalingrad.
Yes, it was. But we all had a part to play.
Yes, but to be pining away when a loved one...
I wasn't pining away.
I was actively helping with the defense of Moscow.
In fact, I was in your line of work.
Were you?
Yes, I was fresh out of university,
and they made me an intelligence analyst.
I would go over the intel reports
that came in and score the veracity of the asset.
I had no idea.
Believe it or not, Captain,
I am not the Sonya Marmeladova character you think I am.
I don't think you're Sonya Marmeladova at all, Doctor.
Anna Karenina maybe.
♪♪
[door opens]
♪♪
Leo!
I'm so sorry.
He hasn't been sleeping well.
How ironic.
♪♪
[breathing shakily]
[Yegor] I got you more coffee.
Thank you.
Long day.
Long night.
Is Leo okay?
I want to apologize for that.
He hasn't been sleeping well.
If there's anything I can do.
Thank you. He's fine, though.
Looks like we're losing number 4.
Number 5 and 6 don't look too good, either.
I wonder if we should increase the amount of gas.
That might be, but right now, we have to wake them up.
You're right.
[Anna] No. That should be the last resort.
You only have to show one. The rest will get the message.
♪♪
Hello!
Do not fall asleep.
Do not close your eyes!
If you feel tired, get up!
Come on, get up!
Your freedom depends on it.
♪♪
Due to the recent events,
the security protocols have been increased.
If there are any incoming letters,
they will all go through me and be subject to my review
before being disseminated.
[Anna] After 48 hours, we observed that Subject 4
seemed less affected by the gas than the others.
He was drowsy and on the verge of falling asleep.
The other subjects were sluggish, as well,
but not to such a great degree, so we increased the amount
of gas being pumped into the chamber by 12%.
♪♪
Subject 3, please come to the testing station.
[Leo] Good morning.
♪♪
Let us begin. What do you see?
[Subject 3] It's like, um, seedling.
It's growing.
Expanding.
[Subject 3] It can grow into a sun.
It's... It's alive.
If it's cared for enough, its potential is unlimited.
But for now, it's so tiny.
But it's...
It's determined.
[clock ticking]
[lamp chain clicks]
[ticking continues]
[alarm rings]
[Subject 6] I wonder if it is day or night.
- It's night. - How do you know?
It feels like night.
It feels like night because you are tired.
Doesn't mean that it is night.
Also doesn't mean it's day.
And I'm not tired.
You look tired.
No, I don't.
You do look kind of tired.
Just because he looks tired doesn't mean he is tired.
Well, it also doesn't mean that he isn't.
I'm not tired!
[Anna] Subject 4 to the testing station, please.
[Subject 4] Food?
[Anna] I am sorry, but that isn't how it works.
Each subject is only allowed one ration
that will be dispensed after testing.
The tests are repeated every eight hours.
You must complete the test in order to receive your rations.
Well done, Subject 4.
Subject 6...
what do you see?
My mother's vatrushka. I can still remember the taste.
It's funny.
The more time I spend in here,
the better my memory becomes.
It isn't vatrushka, but it's all that we have.
What do you see?
[Subject 4] Nothing.
Nothing?
You must see something. Take your time.
Nothing.
If you see nothing, then you eat nothing.
I see a piece of shit.
Bon appétit.
A tree.
Please describe a tree.
I had a swing on a tree that looked just like this.
My uncle made me this swing.
He built it for my birthday.
I loved this tree.
When I would come home,
I would see the silhouette of the tree,
and I knew I was home.
I felt safe.
One day,
I noticed there was something different.
I noticed it was...
He was...
[dramatic music plays]
♪♪
[Leo] What is your name?
♪♪
The security officer is not present.
What is your real name?
♪♪
Subject 3.
[shoe clatters]
[Anna] A change seems to have occurred
among some of the subjects, and they appear to be struggling
with the rigors of the experiment.
I can't do this.
[Anna] Just try to tell me what you see.
[Subject 5] Madness.
This is all madness.
I see a s... sickness that grows inside of you.
With roots that spread
like cold, bony fingers...
wrapping around your heart
and squeezing it until all of the life is gone.
[Subject 5] There is madness in this picture.
There is madness in this chamber.
And if I look close enough into your face...
I will see madness there, as well.
[dramatic music plays]
[Anna] The more serious issue is with Subject 4.
His appetite is much larger than the other subjects,
and he is demanding more rations.
More food.
I do good on test. More food.
[Anna] I'm sorry. That isn't how it works.
The rations are the same for all participants.
This is ridiculous!
I do everything you ask me to do,
yet you barely feed me!
My colleague Dr. Leo Antonoff and I are contemplating
either increasing or decreasing the gas
to see if that affects Subject 4's hunger and metabolism.
One thing that might be a factor is that
Subject 4's physical strength might have put him
in a position of dominance in the Gulag where he could,
through intimidation or violence,
increase his food intake at the expense of other inmates.
That is not possible here,
and thus his reduced caloric intake
and not the gas might be the reason of his deterioration.
♪♪
Get up. Move!
Move!
[Subject 4] You're up, you're up. Come on, get up.
It's time to be the animal, ah? Go, go, go, go, go!
[laughs]
I'll be waiting for you.
What do you think...
Don't look at me like that!
What are you looking at, huh?!
Food, food!
Give me more food!
Barely feed me! Give me more food!
See? A good woman, his mother.
Huh, huh?!
A warning!
You fucking touch me one more fucking time!
Huh?! I get out of here in 30 days.
You fuck your way through.
[Electricity zaps, Subject 4 screaming in pain]
What is happening?! Help! Help!
There's something wrong! Help!
[Anna] The subjects are performing up to standard
in all of their cognitive, psychological,
and physical tests.
Subject 4 is still having some minor struggles, though,
which is surprising since he was, by far,
in the most hardy condition when he arrived.
It is worth noting that physical conditioning
may actually be detrimental when it comes to the gas.
♪♪
[loud thump]
Hungry. Please.
I-I-I'm starving.
I'm hungry.
Please.
[electricity zaps]
[sobbing]
[breathing heavily]
[clock ticking]
[clicking]
[Leo] Subject 3, please come to the testing station.
[Subject 3] Do you know that I knew your uncle, Leo?
Who are you?
[Subject 3] The question isn't who am I?
The security officer is a poison pill.
Don't swallow what he feeds you.
Is he giving you trouble?
No, not at all.
Because if he is,
you should not hesitate to shock him.
I'm not going to shock anyone, Yegor.
Thank you.
You and your wife are two very different people.
Can you please tell me what you see?
I don't see anything.
I know this is hard, but can you please open your eyes?
Blank.
Blank, blank, blank, I see blank.
I see dark.
I don't see anything! I don't see anything, okay?!
I see nothing!
[groans softly]
[banging on chamber]
I'm hungry.
Food, please.
Rations can only be dispensed at eight-hour intervals after...
- I'm hungry now! - At eight-hour intervals after
the testing... - I'm not a lab rat!
I'm not a lab rat!
Give me some food!
Calm yourself. Think of your freedom.
Don't throw it all away because of the hunger.
You can eat in another two hours.
Two hours?
Fuck you!
Two hours!
[speaking indistinctly]
[muffled shouting]
[man] No! No! No!
[Subject 4 screaming angrily]
[Electricity zapping, Subject 4 shouting]
Yegor, stop.
I'm just doing what you should have done.
[electricity zapping]
- It won't change anything. - Yes, it will.
If you want to stop being shocked, calm yourself
and sit quietly on the floor.
Yegor, stop.
[Yegor] I'm trying to save your experiment.
This is over. This whole thing is over.
No, it isn't.
See? The rest will follow his lead.
[flesh splats]
What was that?
The device.
He tore the damn thing out of his own neck.
♪♪
Sokolov! Sokolov!
You did this to me!
You sent me in here as a spy!
Said I'd go to space. You lied to...
[Leo] Yegor, we need to open the chamber.
No. This experiment is still operational.
How is this, any of this, operational?
One of the subjects needs medical attention.
We have to treat him. Open the chamber.
This experiment continues.
This experiment is null and void.
[Anna] That's not true.
This experiment is even more vital now
that there has been a breakdown in the chamber.
We came here to study how sleep deprivation
and the gas affects men.
Well, it is affecting them.
We need to observe it as best we can
and study their actions and reactions.
[muffled screaming]
Leo, this is science.
This is madness.
[muffled screaming]
[Anna] Subject 4 has had a complete mental breakdown.
The subjects have barricaded themselves in the chamber
and covered the majority of the observation window.
Thankfully, we have an obstructed view
and we can still observe the subjects and listen to them.
Security Officer Sokolov has assured me
that we are still in complete control of the situation,
regardless of the subjects' rebellion.
[alarm blaring]
[blaring continues]
[blaring stops]
[receiver clicks]
[Yegor] Stay here.
I have mail to look over.
[paper ripping]
- What are you doing? - I'm doing my job, Leo.
- No, I mean with the captain. - What are you talking about?
First, he tells me that you have repeatedly shocked the subjects.
And now, after Subject 4 basically tells us
Yegor is a liar, you still side with him over me.
You told me to make nice with him.
I'm simply trying to get on his good side
so he can be an ally to us.
[Leo] To you.
[Subject 5] They said that if we clean the window
and we start the test over again, we can still go home.
[Subject 4] Do we believe them?
You think that they are lying?
What I think...
What I think is that you are a fucking idiot.
What are you... What are you going to do?
[Subject 4] None of your fucking business.
So we shock the patient to keep them in line
and you let them suffer in there with no food
and with need of medical attention just to please him?
I'm in an impossible situation.
This is what he wanted me to do, so I did it.
I did it for the experiment. I did it for the science.
I am not a sadist. And you know me well enough
to know that I am a moral and ethical person.
- Do I? - Oh, please stop.
You haven't slept for days, and you're irritable
and looking for someone to lash out against.
- I'm not looking... - Can you please stop
and just support me and my experiment for once?
For once? What does that mean, for once?
It means that you understand the compromises
that I would have to make in order to get things
accomplished in the name of science.
Anna, you're throwing away your ethics,
your humanity, your integrity.
- I'm not throwing anything away. - Yes, you are.
When reason fails, the devil helps.
I'm trying to get ahead, and I'm trying to
- protect you at the same time. - Protect me, yes.
Not everybody has an uncle to pull strings for them.
I'm sorry, Leo.
You know that I didn't mean that.
[sighs]
Come on!
[man] Come on, hurry!
[dramatic music plays]
♪♪
- Show me. - Take it!
Come on!
Take it. Come on.
Hurry!
♪♪
Leo! Leo!
Come on.
♪♪
[grunts]
♪♪
[breathing shakily]
[breathing deeply]
♪♪
[vomits]
♪♪
[clang]
Leo!
Take it.
♪♪
You need to get some sleep.
Please.
You need to rest, kiska.
Go.
[Yegor] I have reviewed the letters from Moscow.
Your uncle Oleg.
It says he's not expected to live for more than two weeks.
I knew your uncle, you know.
I met him many times, have even briefed him in his home.
He was a great man.
A true patriot.
He is.
You two were close, were you not?
Didn't he raise you as his own after your family died?
Great man.
A great man.
It must have been a great advantage
to have a man as powerful and as connected as your uncle
as your benefactor.
I've made my own way in the world...
Captain.
It must be a scary proposition for you.
It looks like that for the first time,
you're all alone in this world, Leo.
[door closes]
[man] At least the deaths of our loved ones were not in vain.
[man #2] Cold comfort.
[man] What?
[man #2] Did you lose anyone?
I doubt you even fought in the war.
[speaking indistinctly]
♪♪
- Who's watching the subjects? - Leo.
What are you doing here?
Relax, Anna.
You should not be here, Captain.
Mm. It's Captain now?
There is no reason to be afraid, Anna.
I just wanted to share some news with you.
I got the report from Moscow.
Your blood test came back positive.
You're pregnant.
It was a shock to me, too, considering your history.
You worked so hard to get this far.
It would be a shame if this were to derail your progress.
Know this.
I can help you to take care of this situation.
And Leo will be none the wiser.
I promise you.
And you and I know he wouldn't handle the pressure
of fatherhood very well.
We wouldn't want a replay of that ugly incident
at the clinic in Basmanny
to take place here now, would we?
You understand?
I have to be honest.
I didn't think little Leo had it in him.
Did you?
♪♪
[Subject 3] One more thing.
Stop interrupting me when I am speaking.
Let me finish what I am saying
and then I will signal with my hand like this.
I need to sleep.
♪♪
Not everybody has an uncle
pulling strings for them, you know.
Not everyone is fucking their way to the...
to the top.
[Yegor] Looks like number 4 is not doing so well.
[muffled shouting]
Come on! Come on!
"What do you see?" and then you eat nothing!
They give you stinking nothing!
[speaking Russian]
[shouts indistinctly]
[Yegor] Are you going to do anything about this?
[Subject 4 shouting]
You think you're a big man?!
Get out!
Tell the other subjects that if they don't subdue
number 4 immediately, you will shock them.
[shouting continues]
Don't look at me like that!
[Subject 4] When are they coming for you?
[shouting indistinctly]
Have I done anything to you?!
Subject 3, 5, and 6, subdue number 4 immediately
or we will be forced to shock you.
Fuck you! Fuck you!
[dramatic music plays]
[indistinct shouting]
[electricity zapping]
[screaming]
[zapping continues]
Well done.
[Leo screaming indistinctly]
- It's all over now. - Did she take the children?
- I saw him. - Who?
- What have you done, Anna? - Leo...
-Tell me. You've been drinking.
What was Yegor doing in our room with you?
- Tell me! - Leo!
He was just sharing some news with me.
I am pregnant.
How is this possible?
Do you need me to explain that to you?
No, it's just so incredible.
- I know. - I'm gonna be a father.
Leo.
That means you really cannot drink anymore.
You cannot self-medicate.
You need to keep yourself together until all this is over.
Okay?
- Okay. - Okay.
♪♪
[alarm blaring]
[Subject 3] Dostoyevsky once wrote
"The soul is healed by being with children."
Do you have children?
Yes.
Which is it?
- Yes. - Yes.
What will you name this child?
My father's name was Pyotr. I always liked Pyotr.
Nikolai, after my father.
Do you like Yegor?
What about Yuri?
- I like Yuri. - Good.
Because my name is Yuri.
Yuri Antonovich Karlov.
Anna. Leo.
Do you want to go to the heavens with me?
[footsteps rapidly approaching]
Leo. What's wrong?
[Leo] Yuri, that son of a bitch. That son of a bitch!
What happened?
Do you remember about two years ago in April,
I think at my uncle's house, a large dinner party.
Lots of bigwigs from the Communist Party were there.
It was an unusually hot night. My uncle had a party.
- Do you remember? - No. Why?
Remember that fat bureaucrat?
- The one we call the Walrus? - Golovkin?
Yes! Golovkin was there and he got drunk
and fell asleep on the balcony.
And your uncle said that his snoring sounded
like an air raid siren.
Mm-hmm.
What does this have to do with anything?
At that party, we talked to a man.
It was so hot. We... We talked on the roof.
He was working in a space program
in research and development.
And he was going on about the stars, planets and all of that.
- On the walk home, you said... - He was a genius.
I remember.
His name was Yuri.
Karlov.
Yes.
What makes you think of this man?
That is Yuri Karlov.
Are you crazy? What are you saying?
- It can't be him. - It's him.
I heard him saying his first name days ago,
but none of it clicked until now.
It's impossible.
- Anna, it's him. I know it. - Leo.
Yuri Karlov is brilliant.
Subject 3 is a lot of things,
but I'm not sure brilliant is one of them.
Watch him.
Attention, Dr. Yuri Karlov,
please report to the testing station.
It's him.
- It really is him. - I told you.
What is he doing here?
Do you think he got caught up in a purge?
When Subject 4 went mad,
he was hearing something about Yegor,
and he was saying that he was a liar
and saying something about space, going to space.
Yes. That was strange.
- What is it? Leo. - Shh.
- Can you explain it to me? - Shh, shh.
What are you doing?
[music playing loudly]
Do you feel that you are really pregnant?
What?
Do you think you're pregnant?
Yes.
Maybe. I-I don't know. Why?
A pregnancy. My uncle.
We want one to be true and one to be false.
And now Karlov.
You don't find any of this curious?
Hundreds of suspicions don't make a proof,
- and you know that, Leo. - Anna, this is not some
paranoid delusion of grandeur or drunken fairy tale.
I know this world. I know these types of people.
They are capable of anything.
I should have realized that they were listening to us long ago.
My uncle taught me better than that.
Okay, okay, just try and think this through rationally.
Why would Yegor tell me that I am pregnant
or that your uncle is dying?
If I am not pregnant and your uncle isn't dying,
we will know soon enough when this experiment is over.
I know that you don't trust my judgment right now,
but ask yourself this question.
Do you trust Yegor?
No.
And I don't think I trust myself anymore.
But that doesn't mean that Yegor has lied
about me being pregnant.
None of this is that what it seems.
You're the psychologist. You know what is he doing.
For some reason, he's flooding us with lies.
Drown the truth.
- The truth. - Yes, truth.
Do you even want to be a father?
Of course.
Do you want to be a mother?
Honestly?
I didn't.
With the way things have been with you,
with the incident at the clinic, I didn't because I was scared.
And all of that didn't matter, though, because I thought
that the possibility of me getting pregnant
didn't even exist.
But now, I don't know. It makes me feel happy
to think that I have a child inside of me.
This child. Our child. This is possibility.
This is hope. This is everything.
Because I feel so irrationally overwhelmed by hope and joy,
even in the face of your sickness.
Even after all we've been through,
even in the middle of this madness.
Shh, shh.
That's how.
That's why I think that I am really pregnant.
Leo, you're sure there isn't another reason for you
to be so resistant to this news?
I am resistant to the lies.
I am resistant to half truths.
I am resistant to Yegor,
to the Red Army and all it represents.
We live in the world full of lies where truth has no meaning.
How can we even hope to live our genuine life
with rational decisions when we are forever kept far
from verifying or knowing the truth?
♪♪
[Anna] All is quiet in the chamber.
The only visible signs of life now are mere shadows.
[dramatic music plays]
♪♪
[Electricity zapping, subjects screaming]
Give me your key, Anna.
Anna.
Yegor, give me your key.
Give me the key.
♪♪
[Leo] What are you doing?
I'm taking control of the situation.
[gas hissing]
The valve is set.
That door stays shut until the 30 days are complete.
Subject 4 was yelling that he knew you
and that you said he'd go to space.
He's gone mad.
Just tell us the truth, Yegor.
Just tell us one true thing.
The truth is that I'm still in charge here.
And this experiment is still operational.
[Anna] Things are deteriorating quickly and everything
has become seemingly impossible.
The experiment hangs by a thread
and it's really difficult to know what to do.
What if we should continue?
♪♪
- This is not operational! - Anna, stop!
Stop!
[Anna] Yegor.
Before we go in there, you need to tell us the truth.
We can't fix this if you don't tell us what is going on.
When you do work for Moscow,
whether it be for the Committee or the Red Army or the KGB,
everything is like a giant Matryoshka doll
where little lies are contained in bigger lies
and bigger lies and bigger lies.
So open up one of these dolls and explain to us
why we would need internal security for this experiment.
Subject 3 is no ordinary prisoner.
In fact, he is no prisoner at all.
His name is Yuri Karlov, and he's a very powerful man
in the Space Exploration division
of the Soviet Space Agency.
Is this just another one of your lies, Yegor?
Subject 4 is in the chamber to keep Karlov safe.
And now that this experiment has failed, none of us are safe.
What do we do now?
We try and salvage the situation...
and save our own asses.
[door clanking]
[dramatic music plays]
♪♪
Anna, help me.
Quick.
♪♪
[Leo] Bring me that medical bag.
[Subject 4 laughing]
- Mission failed! - Captain, Captain, I...
Failed!
They cut out his tongue.
[Subject 4] Please.
He's a monster.
Help me, Captain, please.
My eyes!
[Yegor speaking indistinctly]
I didn't do this.
I swear I didn't do this.
[gunshot]
What happened?
Subject 4 jumped me.
[Subject 3] Aaah!
- Yegor. Yegor. - No!
But what are doing?
♪♪
Leo!
[thumping, Subject 3 screaming]
[Yegor] Remember what Dostoyevsky taught us.
Man has it all in his hands
and it all slips through his fingers from sheer of cowardice!
Well, I'm no coward, and it's not going to slip
through my fingers!
- [grunts] - Aah!
Aah!
[Yegor] Shock him! [groans]
- [gurgling] - Don't try to talk. Calm down.
Calm down.
[Yegor] Anna!
♪♪
Ahh.
- Anna. - The most offensive thing,
- Yegor, wasn't your lying. - Anna, come here.
The most offensive thing was that you lied
and you worshipped your lying.
♪♪
One can often forgive lying,
don't you think, Anna, Leo?
Or should I say...
Subject 1 and Subject 2?
I found lying to be a delightful thing.
For it often leads to the truth.
♪♪
Anna... Leo...
would you like to go to the heavens with me?
♪♪
The parameters of this experiment are as follows.
The subjects will be deprived of sleep for 30 consecutive days.
These experiments, this experiment,
the experiment is designed,
was designed to test the limits of human endurance.
The parameters of this experiment are as follows.
The subjects, the subjects, the subjects, the subjects will
be deprived of sleep for 30 consecutive days.
This experiment is designed to test
the limits of mental endurance
and push the boundaries...
of human evolution.
Ahh. Ah. Aah.
[snow crunching]
♪♪
[screams]
♪♪