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are the same. They offered me to be the
mother.
    VICTORIA
    What did you tell them?
    EVE
    I'm not interested in.
    VICTORIA
    I have often heard about the reproductive rite. What
do you feel?
    EVE
    Sensations we can't imagine, they told me.
    VICTORIA
    How many are going to participate?
    EVE
    About twenty.
    VICTORIA
    Have they already chosen your substitute?
    EVE
    I don't think so. Are you interested in?
    VICTORIA
    Are you joking?
    They start walking along the tunnel.
    VICTORIA
    I don't know your community enough. And then, there
is James. Perhaps he would understand, but for sure it will be the
end of our relationship.
    EVE
    Are you sure he is the right person?
    Victoria doesn't answer.
    EVE
    I suggest you to speak with James.
    beat
    I'll be waiting for you here.
    INT. earth SECURITY HEADQUARTERS -- EVENING
    In the middle, stands a crystal table illuminated by
spotlights that concentrate their beams on the central inlay of a
golden snake.
    C573Y raises his head from the desk. In his field has
appeared a message: WIDMAN AND YUNG KILLED. WIDMAN'S CAR BLOWN UP
3.45 P.M..
    ASSISTANT
    appearing in C573Y's visual field
    The explosion happened in the Space Agency parking
lot. Widman was killed outright, the woman while getting her to
hospital. There are no injured. A team of ours is on the spot.
    C573Y
    What about the inquiry?
    ASSISTANT
    The bug has confirmed they were the informers. Eve
Dirac contacted them to introduce a friend of hers. The intrusion
into the information system of the Agency was organized by Dirac's
friend.
    C573Y
    Did he reach the files of the Alpha Centauri
Projects?
    ASSISTANT
    He was clever at canceling his traces. We are looking
for them.
    C573Y
    When is the brain digitization beginning?
    ASSISTANT
    Within ten minutes. The forensic department confirmed
me.
    C573Y
    Did you find out the motive?
    ASSISTANT
    The two didn't know. But Widman was worried, very
worried. Once I heard him speaking about terrorism. Only
suspicions.
    C573Y
    What about a virus?
    ASSISTANT
    I had the software of the Caravels checked. No
anomaly so far.
    perplexed
    I've more news. Last Saturday Widman flew to the
Cayman Islands. I had him followed. He went into the Overseas Bank,
to withdraw a money transfer from a company that belonged to Nihil
fifty years ago.
    C573Y
    The Head of the Elects!
    ASSISTANT
    He is Eve Dirac's partner.
    C573Y
    The author of the collective suicides... At the end
more than one thousand corpses were counted. All of them headless.
Brain digitization, clearly.
    ASSISTANT
    Nihil is beginning a new phase of his plan, I
fear.
    beat
    I asked the Defense about Eve Dirac. I had to
threaten them with talking to the President, to obtain an answer:
she belonged to the Red Helmets, the elite corps of the Army!
     
    INT. earth Nihil's villa -- MORNING
    NIHIL's face is framed by dark curls and a pointed
beard; his eyes are as black as coal (soul, now installed in an
android, apparently 50 years old).
    He walks back and forth in the room, then sits down
at a table and drums his fingers on the glass surface.
    His ASSISTANT is in front of him. They chat. Words
cannot be heard clearly; Nihil has a SHRILL VOICE.
    In Nihil's visual field appears a message: WITNESSES
KILLED - TRACES REMOVED.
    Nihil interwines his fingers with a satisfied
face.
    NIHIL
    In a few weeks, it will be all over.
    assistant
    Your new community is enthusiastic about your
plan.
    A new message appears in the visual field of the two:
WE HAVE CAUGHT A NOVICE IN NIHIL'S ROOM - WAITING FOR YOU IN THE
HALL.
    The two run upstairs, into the meeting room. The
young man is in the middle, with a frightened face, surrounded by
five followers.
    NIHIL
    pointing at two followers
    You stay here. The others must leave.
    When the door closes, he looks daggers at the
novice.
    NIHIL
    What were you doing?
    The other keeps SILENT.
    NIHIL
    If you don't tell me all the truth, you will regret
it. So what?
    The novice gazes into space.
    NIHIL
    to his assistant
    Go and get today's