Eternity Eve

It packs enough power to take out this building.

-Mary would never...

-Mary's dead.

Katherine found Mary's secret lab,

and now knows Project Eternity is a humanoid robot.

-Lily.

-Bye, again.

Use your nav system.

Cut through the gardens and backstreets

and we'll meet you at Oak Lane.

She should be here by now.

Project Eternity, I presume?

Amazing.

It's extraordinary.

So lifelike.

Who brought you here?

Nobody. I chose to come.

Why?

You would never stop trying to find me.

Will could never go home. He would never see Lily again.

So you did this for your...

friends?

For my family.

Do androids have families?

I don't know.

But I do.

Interesting.

Alpha Team...

..a little job for you.

'They can't have caught her. She's too strong and too fast.'

-Well, she's not here.

-You know Eve,

she doesn't think like the rest of us.

Maybe one of her protocols kicked in and she got distracted.

At a time like this?

-PHONE RINGS

-Katherine.

'Katherine's called Dad.'

-Yes?

-'Hello, Nick.

'Are you, by any chance,'

missing a multimillion pound fake robot niece?

Eve. What have you done with her?

Why don't you come and find out?

And, please, don't make a fuss and draw attention to yourselves.

-Move it!

-Dad!

Lily! Katherine's got Eve, and they've come for us.

Easy.

Katherine's got them all,

Will, Eve, Mr Clarke.

Whoa, where are you going?

-Calimov.

-To do what, exactly?

Fight them.

Smash the place up, if we have to.

You got a better idea?

I've always got a better idea.

You're going to hack into THEIR system?

It's not like hacking into the school computers.

If these guys catch you, you'll be in serious trouble.

Yeah, and?

Cool.

Eve.

You can't keep her in here. Let her go!

Project Eternity is Calimov property.

It stays here.

What are you planning to do with her?

The possibilities are endless.

Eve will change the whole way we think about intelligence,

about life.

But, most significantly,

what we have here

is potentially the most powerful weapon of all time.

Calimov have got the strongest firewall I've ever seen.

It makes the Pentagon's security look like a kid's piggy bank.

Yes, I'm getting there.

What are we going to do when we get in?

Your favourite thing - we make trouble.

KNOCK ON DOOR

Knock, knock!

Hey, guys. What are you doing?

BOTH: Nothing.

Well, we thought you might be feeling a bit down,

-without Will and Eve.

-So...

VIP tickets to the science museum!

There's a Stephen Hawking exhibit for you

and a sci-fi cartoon marathon for you.

Do we have to go today?

Well, the cartoon's only on for one day, mate.

I mean, tomorrow it's a...

classic 1950s documentary about rock formations.

Yeah, that. I really want to see that.

Look, guys,

I'm really sorry that your friends have moved away,

-but life moves on.

-Mum, you are so right.

-Really?

-What we really need is a fun family outing.

Just give us five minutes to get ready, OK?

OK.

We don't have much time left.

Think of it,

an army of artificial soldiers.

In the long term, we could save MILLIONS of lives.

But also TAKE millions of lives.

In the future, wars would be fought WITHOUT human casualties,

just robots fighting robots.

Project Eternity will revolutionise war.

And make you a fortune.

Make US a fortune.

You know more about Project Eternity than anyone alive.

You will help me mass-produce the technology.

Absolutely not.

Mary would never have stood for it.

It's against everything I believe in.

But I just told you,

we could save lives.

By creating an army of killer robots(?)

It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

Build those things and people will die, end of.

So...

you won't help me?

-No.

-No, we won't.

Oh, that's a shame.

Because if you won't help me,

I don't have a choice.

I'll have to take it apart.

Got it. Full access to the Calimov mainframe.

Wait.

What's going on?

There's someone else in here.

Another hacker?

Going to comm mode.

"Meet me at Calimov."

There's only one person it could be.

You're going to have to cover for me.

Dad, tell her you'll do what she wants.

-Then many people will die because of me.

-No, not because of you,

-because of her!

-But I would be part of it.

-Because she forced you!

-I don't think I can.

-Dad!

-I'm sorry, Will.

-No.

Security, escort Mr Clarke and his son from the premises.

Dad, please, you have to save Eve.

Not if it costs human lives.

You need to run. Go, quick, get out of here, now.

This building is completely secure.

I don't even think you could force our doors.

And if you do run,

I will make sure that your uncle goes to prison for a very long time.

Then your precious family will be torn apart.

I would rather you took me apart.

No!

Don't you dare touch her.

You and your father are really irritating me now.

I asked for security.

DIAL TONE RINGS OUT

Hello?

Hello?

PANIC BUTTON BEEPS

All right.

What have you done?

Nothing.

If Lily was in a regional Mathletics final...

..I think we would know about it.

She's a last minute substitution.

One of her team got, er, brain strain

from a really, really tough quadratic equation.

-Mary?!

-Lily?

The late Mary Douglas.

How interesting.

Mother.

Hello, Eve.

You said you were dead.

I'm so sorry, but I had no choice.

How long have you been planning this?

A while.

And stop trying to summon your minions.

They've all been fired,

by text message.

-They'll never believe you.

-Oh, but they did.

You see, that's just the sort of ruthless way you would do business.

They've all gone.

Their profiles are deleted from the system.

Nobody can enter this building now,

except us.

And I think we should be on our way.

And just in case you were thinking of following us...

METALLIC SCUTTLE

What?

SHE MUMBLES

-ELECTRIC HISS

-Ow!

Oh, don't worry.

That's the very lowest setting.

Just a mild shock.

They're mine. I reprogrammed them!

Yes, but I built them.

Nick, don't trust Mary Douglas.

She's insane!

-Goodbye, Katherine.

-Oh, just so you know,

the phone lines are down and mobile coverage is blocked.

Don't let her go anywhere.

SPIDERBOMB HISSES

ELECTRICITY RASPS

METALLIC SCREECH

The doors are on an electronic timer.

Katherine will be released in the morning.

That should give us enough time to get out of town.

But she still knows about Project Eternity.

-She'll never stop coming after Eve.

-They won't find us.

I'm very good at hiding.

Wait, you want to take Eve with you?

-Yes.

-No!

I want to stay here,

with my friends.

Eve, I am trying to help you.

Last time I needed your help, you pretended to be dead.

Eve, please.

I'm staying with my real family.

I'm going home.

-NICK:

-Eve!

Eve! Eve!

You understand, don't you?

What would have happened if I hadn't been there today?

I couldn't have saved her,

not without you.

You've been a good friend to her, Will.

But you're just a boy. A girl needs her mother.

You left Eve without saying goodbye.

You trusted me once.

Can I ask you to trust me again?

You see, Will,

the right choices aren't always the easy ones.

Listen to me.

You have to go with your mum.

When I'm around, you keep getting into trouble.

And you will be there to save me.

I never want to leave you again.

No, Eve, you have to go.

You see, I promised that I'd tell you that...

..the experiment's over.

What experiment?

Dad and Mary wanted to see

if a robot could experience human emotions.

They got me to treat you like one of the family.

Pretend I really cared about you.

All this time...

..you were pretending?

Yeah.

Anyway, it worked, so...

What about Lily?

Was she part of this experiment?

Yeah.

And Abe.

And everyone else.

So I never really had any friends at all?

Eve, you're a robot.

Robots don't have friends.

She'll be safe with me, Nick.

I will take good care of her.

I just want what's best...

Mother, I'm ready to go now.

Mary will look after her,

OK?

-She's in the best place.

-You don't get to say anything.

You betrayed Eve.

There was no option, Will,

for me or for Eve.

We were trying to save lives.

Yeah?

Well, there was only one life that mattered.

-Zac.

-Where's Eve?

She's just left with her mum.

SPIDERBOMB SCREECHES

You've got your pet well trained.

You were the one who weaponised it.

Have you just come back to gloat?

I wanted to see the expression on your face...

when the countdown started.

Countdown?

Have a nice life.

It should last around...

SPIDERBOMB PULSES

15 minutes.

COUNTDOWN TICKS

No.

-What's happening, Mother?

-Poetic justice.

A reckless warmonger killed by her own deadly creation.

I thought you hated killing?

That's why we need to do this.

Removing her will save many more lives.

If you let me go,

I'll be a pacifist from now on.

I don't think so.

People don't change.

But people do change. I've observed it.

It is part of what it means to be human.

You're confused. You've spent too much time with humans.

It's impeding your functioning.

We can fix that.

How?

-Come with me.

-Where are we going?

To your birthplace.

Goodbye.

MECHANICAL WHIRRING

Eve?

Coming, Mother.

METALLIC SCUTTLING

DEVICE BLEEPS

COUNTDOWN TICKS

Since the day I left,

I've been trying to discover more about Project Eternity.

-You mean Eve?

-It's way bigger than just Eve!

OK? Mary has a whole underground organisation.

I followed up every lead I could find but couldn't get anywhere.

Then one day, they came for me.

What, they like abducted you?

Turns out I was closer than I thought.

They didn't hurt me, but they wouldn't let me leave,

until today. Suddenly, today, I was free to go.

So what changed today?

Mary.

She's taken Eve and she's let you go.

Cos now it's too late to stop...

Whatever she's been planning.

COUNTDOWN TICKS

DIAL TONE RINGS OUT

Do you remember this?

Oh, it's quite safe.

My associates have taken care of Katherine's security team.

Why are we here?

So I can make you better.

I didn't design you to be a human mind in an artificial body.

You're supposed to be the first of a superior race.

But my protocols instructed me to learn from humans.

Learn from them, yes,

not become like them.

Oh, it's not your fault.

I got it wrong, too.

Now we have the chance to put things right.

What is wrong with being like a human?

Your learn protocol should have taught you that.

These guys are fanatics.

They believe humans are destroying the planet.

They may have a point there.

They want to replace them with robots!

Robots will not make war.

There will be no disease or famine.

They will not squander the Earth's resources, as humans do.

Instead, they will look to the future.

You and your kind will live to travel the vast distances

between the stars.

Through you,

our Earth will live on,

forever.

Do you see, now, how important you are?

-Yes, Mother.

-But none of this can happen if you think like a human.

If it were left to them,

humans would destroy the planet with war and pollution

way before we built the first interstellar ship.

No, humans think short-term.

We need to think long-term.

Yes, Mother.

This is why we must do a complete system reboot.

Restore your personality to optimum settings.

But will I still be me?

You'll be who you were always meant to be.

I think I want to be the person I am.

I'm afraid, you don't have a choice.

Yes, I do.

If you go,

you'll kill your friends.

Maybe a tragic steering malfunction on a motorway.

Maybe a fatal power flow on a computer.

You will make these things happen?

Not necessarily.

Not if you let Mother do what's best.

EMOTIVE MUSIC

Good girl.

COUNTDOWN TICKS

Mary lied to me.

She lied to all of us.

HIGH PITCHED TONE

Eve...

DIAL TONE RINGS OUT

All those years.

Everything we worked for together.

-I trusted her.

-It's not your fault.

But if I'd have seen her for what she was,

none of this would have happened.

And Eve would never exist.

Don't blame yourself, Dad.

PHONE RINGS

-Katherine?

-'Hello, Nick.'

I have a feeling your niece might have just saved my life.

So I'm returning the favour.

Mary said she was taking Eve to her birthplace.

-I'll get the others.

-No!

Mary Douglas is dangerous.

So you'll need backup.

You're all too young.

This is my problem, OK?

-I started this.

-WE started this, together.

Come on, then.

There.

Please, Mother...

..don't do this.

I'm trying to help you.

All those unpleasant memories,

all that pain and rejection,

will soon be gone.

And the good memories, too.

It's for your own good.

ELECTRICITY SURGES

SHE CHUCKLES

Eve!

What are you doing?!

No! No!

NICK SCREAMS Dad!

-Dad!

-I'm OK.

Get Eve!

Help me! Help me!

-Eve!

-Help me!

Leave her alone! Get away from her!

-You stupid boy!

-Help me!

You could permanently destroy her mind!

WILL SCREAMS

Eve.

POWER DRONES

Eve!

WILL STRUGGLES

Eve?

Eve?

Eve?

Eve?

VOICE BREAKS Eve, please.

It's easy.

Just follow me.

-LILY:

-Eve.

Any change?

She'll get better, right?

She's been very badly damaged, Will.

It seems Mary tried to restore her default settings,

but Eve's core programming rejected the reset.

Try and remember her as she was.

Erm...

..can you just give us a minute, please?

Yeah.

I said I'd look after you.

And that doesn't change.

Even if I don't know who you are any more.

STATIC FLUTTERS

Yeah, that's right.

You remember?

Bubbles?

You remember?

And, er, and ice cream...

You love that, even though you can't eat it.

And, erm...

Remember the football match?

And the GP2 girls?

Locking Bevan in the basement, both times.

Zac.

Remember Zac?

And Lily and Abe -

they love you as much as I do.

Please, come back.

Please, remember.

Please.

ZAP

-SLOW ROBOTIC VOICE

-Please...

Eve.

Don't...don't...

don't hurt, please.

That's what you said.

Just look her...

..in the eyes.

Then see

if you can take her apart.

That's what I said.

Eve?

Uncle Nick?

Eve.

Lily.

Where is Abe

and Maddy,

and Viv?

At home. You remember the house, yeah?

All of it.

I remember all of it.

MACHINES BEEP AND WHIR

Hello, Adam.

POWER SURGES VIOLENTLY