01 Cube - Sci-Fi Horror 1997 English

[LOUD HISSING]

Uh...

[HOLLOW ECHOING]

[RUMBLING]

[BREATHING UNEVENLY]

[UNEARTHLY WHOOPING SOUNDS]

[ECHOING CLANG]

[GROANS]

Hey.

Hey.

[UNEARTHLY WHOOPING NOISES]

[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]

Ah!

[SCREAMING]

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

It's all right. I'm not gonna hurt you.

[YELLING] What do you want?

[WHISPERING] I thought you were...

What?

I don't know.

[LOW MECHANICAL HUM]

[RUMBLING]

[LEAVEN] Help!

Help!

Help!

Help!

Stop!

What?

What?

[WHISPERING] It's okay.

Come here.

[GRUNTS]

It's okay. Calm down.

Everything's gonna be fine.

What was in there?

Just give me a minute
to figure things out.

Why were you afraid of that room?

Give me a minute, I said!

[LOUD SLIDING]

How many people are in this thing?

Listen! We can't go
climbing around in here.

- Why not?
- [DOOR SLIDES SHUT]

[WHISPERING] There's traps.

What do you mean, traps?

Booby traps.

I looked in a room down there

and something almost cut my head off.

[GASPING FEARFULLY]

[HOLLOWAY] Holy cats!

Holy, holy cats.

You all right?

Mister.

Worth.

Don't worry.

I hit my head.

Let me take a look at that.

It's okay.

I'm a doctor.

Doesn't look bad.

[GRUNTS]

What the hell are you doing?

Hey, old man, did you hear what I said?

[DOOR SLIDES SHUT]

Motion detectors
integrated into the walls.

Tough to spot.

[LEAVEN] Oh, God.

[SOBBING] Oh, God, oh, God!

Wait a second.

Let's all just relax for a minute.

Does anybody remember
how they got here?

Perogies!

I was eating dinner.

Perogies. Cheese and potato.

I ran out of sour cream,

and then I went
to the fridge, and then...

I don't know.

You?

Leaven?

I...

I just went to bed, and...

What about you?

I just woke up here.

Middle of the night.

It's like Chile.

They always come
in the middle of the night.

Who?

[HOLLOWAY] Only the government
could build something this ugly.

[QUENTIN] Oh, it ain't government.

[HOLLOWAY] Then what is it?

I don't know.

- [RUMBLING]
- Aliens.

Please. We're spooked enough as it is.

Let's... Let's rule out aliens for now

and concentrate on what we know.

My mom's gonna freak.

Rennes?

I just won't be there. They'll freak.

What do you think, Rennes?

We won't solve jack shit sitting still.

I'm moving in a straight line
till I get to the end.

All right. I tend to agree.

[LEAVEN] Shouldn't we wait here?

For what?

To see if anybody comes.

No one's gonna come.

Look. There's a way in here,

so there's gotta be a way out.

We can avoid the traps using the boot.

Holloway, is it? What do you think?

Look for an exit?

Okay.

What about you?

It can't be that simple.

[RENNES] It won't be that simple.

Look around.

Take a good, long look-see.

'Cause I got a feeling
it's looking at us.

I just want to wake up.

Leaven.

We can do this.

We just have to stay calm

and work together as a team.

[TWITCHES]

There's gonna be a lot of people
looking for us on the outside.

I'm a cop. All right?

- You're a cop?
- Yeah.

I'm gonna get you outta here.

I promise.

You gotta be with me on this one.

Okay.

Okay.

[DOOR SLIDES OPEN]

Boot it.

Clean.

[DOOR SLIDING OPEN]

[RUMBLING]

[RATTLING]

[HOLLOWAY] That one sounded closer.

It's mechanical.
Seems to come at regular intervals.

[QUENTIN] Maybe
it's the ventilation system.

[RENNES] No vents.

[HOLLOWAY] No kidding. I'm boiling.

What is it?

Serial numbers?

[HOLLOWAY] Room numbers.

They're different in each room.

Oh, great.
Well, there's only 566 million,

400,000 odd rooms in this thing.

Well, there better not be.

We have about three days
without food and water

before we're too weak to move.

Well, they have to feed us, don't they?

Holloway.

[HOLLOWAY] Oh, we have heat,
stress, physical exertion,

i.e., dehydration,

headaches, dizziness, disorientation,
confused mental processes.

The body eventually begins
to break down its own tissue.

Suck on it.

Keeps the saliva flowing.

[SNIFFING]

What?

The air seems dry in there.

[HOLLOWAY] Trapped?

Molecular chemical sensor.

Why the hell didn't the boot set it off?

The boot's not alive.

Detects hydrogen sulphide
excreted from the skin.

How is it you know so much
about sensors, Rennes?

[DOOR SLIDES SHUT]

Renn.

Not Renns.

It's French.

Fine. You're French.
I'm asking you how...

Rennes.

Sensor expert.

About the right age.

I don't believe it.

[CHUCKLING]

This guy's the Wren.

The what?

He's the Wren. The bird of Attica.

- Flew the coop on six major prisons.
- Seven.

[HOLLOWAY] You're kidding, right?

You can get us out.

Maybe.

An escape artist.

Yeah. I'm Harry fucking Houdini.

The only reason I dragged you this far
is 'cause I need your boots.

If you don't smarten up,
I'm gone like that.

No more talking.

No more guessing.

Don't even think about nothing
that's not right in front of ya.

That's the real challenge.

You gotta save yourselves
from yourselves.

[CLICKS]

Merde.

[SCREAMING]

Get him out.

[MUFFLED SCREAMING]

[ALL SCREAMING]

[SOBBING]

Oh, my God.

[SOBBING]

[QUENTIN] So. It was electro-chemical
or whatever, right?

And he missed it.

The Wren. That's great.

That's fucking great.

All right.

It's time to reassess this place.

I've been over it again and again.

Why would they throw
innocent people in here?

Are we being punished?

I've never done anything
to deserve this.

Forget about all that!

You can't see the big picture
from in here, so don't try.

Keep your head down.

Keep it simple.

Just look at what's in front of you.

That's what he said.

Start with us.

We got an escape artist and a cop.

There's gotta be a reason for that.

You're a doctor, Holloway.

That gives you a function,
a reason, right?

No. It just makes me go,

Why me and not one of
the other 10 million doctors out there?

[SIGHS]

Leaven. What are you?

Nothing.

I just go to school.

I hang out with my friends.

What else?

There is nothing else.

My parents are these people.
I live with them.

I'm boring.

I think we have to ask
the big questions.

What does it want? What is it thinking?

One down, four to go.

[LOW RUMBLING]

Why don't you tell us
what your purpose is, Worth?

Often wondered that myself.

[SIGHS]

I'm just a guy.

I work in an office building
doing office building stuff.

I wasn't exactly bursting
with joie de vivre before I got here.

Life just sucks in general.

Oh, I can't stand that attitude.

'Cause he's right.

What's your purpose, Quentin?

Kids.

Three of them.

I haven't made my peace yet.

I'm getting' outta here no matter what.

That's where my strength comes from.

You people find yours
wherever you got it.

Christ's sake, Worth,
what do you live for?

Don't you have a wife
or a girlfriend or something?

Nope. I got a pretty fine
collection of pornography.

Oh, nice. Nice.

I haven't got anybody, either,
but I'm not giving up.

I am pissed off.

They came into our homes.

They stripped us bare!

They took my rings!

They took...

Oh, my amethyst.

[RUMBLING]

I want to know who's responsible.

[QUENTIN] Leaven?

Your glasses.

You don't need them?

They're for reading.

Well, they took off her jewellery,
but they must've put these on you.

If nothing's random,

why are they here?

[QUENTIN] Leaven.
What do you do in school?

Math.

[HOLLOWAY] What can they mean?

Shh.

149.

Prime numbers.

I can't believe I didn't see it before.

[QUENTIN] See what?

It seems like if any of these numbers

are a prime, then the room is trapped.

Okay. Um...

645.

[WHISPERING] 645...

That's not prime.

372.

No.

649.

Right. Eleven times 59.

It's not prime, either.

So that room is safe.

Wait, wait, wait.

How can you make that assumption
based on one prime number trap?

I'm not.
The incinerator thing was prime, 083.

The molecular chemical thingy had 137.

The acid room had 149.

You remember all that in your head?

I have a facility for it.

Leaven,

you beautiful brain.

Boot it.

Okay. Outta the way.

[LEAVEN] Brains before beauty.

Safe!

Safe. [CHUCKLING]

Prime numbers!

Prime numbers!

Prime numbers!

[ECHO] Prime numbers!

[ECHO] Prime numbers!

[LEAVEN] Oh. How long
have we been in here?

[QUENTIN] Nine or 10 hours.

[LEAVEN] How do you know?

[QUENTIN] Five o'clock shadow.

The last thing I remember was shaving.

[LEAVEN] I guess I missed breakfast

or lunch

or... Whatever.

[QUENTIN] Well, don't worry.

I'll be home in time for dinner.

[SQUEALING]

[LEAVEN CHUCKLES] If we get out,
I'll make you dinner.

[QUENTIN] You got a date.

Doing good.

[WHOOSHING]

I need to smoke!

I'd smoke a butt off the sidewalk.

Holloway. Just reel yourself in a bit.

Come on. We're moving' along.

Things are looking up.

Okay, okay. You're right.
I quit smoking years ago.

[SIGHS]

I just need to be occupied.

Talk, then. Have a conversation.

What kind of doctor are you, anyway?

Uh... Oh, you know, I'm the free kind.

Okay, chitchat, chitchat. Uh...

Um... Come on, help me.

Uh, tell me about your rug rats.

Okay. We have three boys...

Nine, seven and five.

Oh, good God.

Poor woman.
There's no way I'd survive that.

Yeah, well, she didn't, either.

No, she's not dead.
We're just separated.

Uh... I'm sorry.

I can't just shoot the breeze.

These numbers aren't prime.

Okay. Clear.

Excuse me. Sorry.

You, uh, could try
and help me out here, buddy.

No, I couldn't.

This one's trapped, too.

We have to backtrack?

Not yet.

[HOLLOWAY] Oh, no.

Read them to me.

[HOLLOWAY] What are you, his coat rack?

[LEAVEN] Oh, please.

[BANGING]

It's stuck.

[SLIDING]

[LEAVEN] [GASPS] Look out!

[GROANS]

[DOOR SLIDES SHUT]

This room is green.

Holloway.

Hi there.

This room is green.

[HOLLOWAY] Yes, it is.

I want to go back to the blue room.

What is it, shock or what?

I think he's mentally handicapped.

I like the blue room.

Jesus Christ.

He almost broke my neck.

Hey there, are you all alone?

You want to hold my hand, honey?

Mmm... Butter first. Then honey, Kazan.

Butter first, then honey.

How'd he survive?

I want to go back to the blue room.

There's lots of blue rooms.

We'll find you another one real soon.

[LEAVEN] This is just way too bizarre.

Well, you just worry about
your numbers then.

Go on. I'll look after him.

Safe, obviously,
since he almost fell on my head.

[HOLLOWAY] Shall we go for a walk,

Kazan?

You want to go for a walk?

[WAILING]

[HOLLOWAY] Um... Quentin?

Let's not make him do
the climbing thing right away.

Holloway...

Holloway.

[HOLLOWAY] Could they have taken us
all the way to New Mexico?

[QUENTIN] What are you
talking about, Holloway?

[HOLLOWAY] I'm talking about where do you
hide something this big.

[LEAVEN] At least he's
good for something.

Hey, I'm sorry to shake
your foundations, Quentin,

but you have no idea
where your tax dollars go.

Free clinic doctors?

Only the military industrial complex

could afford to build something
this size.

Holloway...

What is the military industrial complex?

Have you ever been there?

I'm telling you, it's not that complex.

How would you know, from where you are?

Who do you think the establishment is?

It's just guys like me.

Their desks are bigger,
but their jobs aren't.

They don't conspire. They buy boats.

No. This place is...

Remember Scaramanga?

The bad guy in
The Man with the Golden Gun.

Yeah.

It's some rich psycho's entertainment.

[LAUGHING]

Is that what you think?

Clear.

[LAUGHING]

Okay. You're a cop.

Single bullet theory.

Right on.

[CHOKING]

[WAILING]

Gas!

Holloway, get back here!

[COUGHS]

[SWALLOWS]

It's okay.

I just swallowed my button.

[KAZAN WAILING]

[LEAVEN] I hate this. I hate this.

Your boy's having
a conniption fit in there.

It's like cramming without coffee.

She needs a break.

She can do it.

They don't look prime to me.

Is that your two-bits worth, Worth?

For what it's worth.

Well?

Well, he's right.

Not prime.

Stop!

In front of you.

Ah!

What is it?

Ow!

[KAZAN WAILING]

Shut up!

I don't know what happened.
It wasn't prime.

Quentin, hold still.

[KAZAN WAILING]

Somebody stop that racket!

Worth!

Leave the boots.

[WAILING]

And shut the fucking door!

I had a feeling about that fucking guy.

He knew about that trap.

But these numbers aren't prime.

Then your number system failed,
but he knew.

Knew what? How would he know?

You're the paranoid one. Think about it.

His only function so far
has been to kick us when we're down.

So he has a bad attitude.

You saying that makes him a spy?

Trust me on this.

It's my job to read people
like an x-ray.

[DOOR SLIDES OPEN]

He doesn't like red rooms.

[SIGHS] So what happened?

You saw what happened.

Quentin!

I guess the numbers
are more complicated than I thought.

Maybe they mean nothing at all.

[LEAVEN] No. It means
they're more involved.

They've worked for us up to now,
haven't they?

I just need some more time with them.

Well, we need to rest anyway.

Well, that's handy

'cause there's not a fuck of a lot else
we can do.

Are they telling you anything?

They're not tarot cards.

Do you have any idea
how many variables I have to consider

before I can decipher numbers this size?

They don't reveal themselves right away.

They're like people.

[LEAVEN] Oh, gross!

No, not here, honey.

Over in the corner.

[URINATING]

What? He's just peeing.

Jesus Christ.

That's excellent.
Now it totally reeks in here!

You find this all pretty funny,
don't you?

What's your fucking problem, Worth?

Even Holloway's holding up
better than you.

Get over there and help her with him.

That's your job, baby-sitter.

Jawohl, Kommandant.

Somebody has to take responsibility
around here.

And that somebody has to be you.

Not all of us have the luxury
of playing nihilist.

Not all of us are conceited enough
to play hero.

This is a will to live.

Everybody's got it, Worth, even you.

Especially you,
hiding behind that cynical front.

A will to live.

That's the warm, cosy feeling
deep inside?

Thanks, Quentin. I'm a new man.

Oh, poor Worth.

Nobody loves me.

If that's the chip on your shoulder,
why did you lug it all this way?

Why don't you just lie down and die?

Do it.

Show us you have some backbone

and jump in the sushi machine.

Be a man.

Thought so.

Fuck you, Quentin.

I don't wanna die.

I'm just being realistic.

Do you think they'd go
to all the trouble to build this thing

if we could just walk out?

Do you think they would've left us clues

and let us beat it so far
if there wasn't a way out?

You think we matter? We don't.

Put us out of your misery

so we can get on
with getting out of here.

Oh, you're not getting out of here.

- Yes, we are!
- No, you're not.

Yes, we are!

There is no way out of here!

Gotcha.

How do you know that?

Answer the question, Worth.

Oh, God.

Who are you?

I'm the poison.

I designed the outer shell.

The what?

The shell. The sarcophagus.

You built this thing?

Not this part. The exterior.

I don't know anything about the numbers
or anything else in here.

I was contracted to draw plans
for a hollow shell.

A cube.

A cube? Why didn't you tell us?

For God sakes, Worth,
you knew what it was.

No.

Worth,

you're lying.

Not at first.

[HOLLOWAY] Who's behind it?

I don't know.

Who hired you?

I didn't ask.

I never even left my office.

I talked on the phone
to some people, other guys like me,

specialists working on small details.

Nobody knew what it was.

Nobody cared.

Bullshit! You knew from square one.

Look at him.

He's up to his eyeballs in this thing.

No, Quentin.

That's how they stay hidden.

You keep everyone separated

so the left hand doesn't know
what the right hand is doing.

The brain never comes out in the open.

Whose brain?

It's all the same machine, right?

The Pentagon,
multinational corporations,

the police.

You do one little job.

You build a widget in Saskatoon,

and the next thing you know,
it's two miles under the desert,

the essential component
of a death machine.

I was right all along!
My whole life, I knew it!

I told you, Quentin!

Nobody's ever gonna
call me paranoid again!

We gotta get out of here
and blow the lid off this thing!

Holloway, you don't get it.

Then help me, please. I need to know.

This may be hard for you to understand,
but there is no conspiracy.

Nobody is in charge.

It's a headless blunder operating
under the illusion of a master plan.

Can you grasp that?

Big brother is not watching you.

What kind of fuckin'
explanation is that?

It's the best you're gonna get.

I looked, and the only conclusion
I can come to

is that there is nobody up there.

Somebody had to say yes to this thing.

What thing? Only we know what it is.

We have no idea what it is.

We know more than anybody else.

I mean, somebody might've known
sometime before they got fired

or voted out or sold it.

But if this place ever had a purpose,

then it got miscommunicated
or lost in the shuffle.

I mean, this is an accident,

a forgotten,
perpetual public works project.

You think anybody
wants to ask questions?

All they want is a clear conscience
and a fat paycheck.

I mean, I leaned on my shovel
for months on this one.

This was a great job.

Why put people in it?

Because it's here.

You have to use it,
or you admit it's pointless.

But it... It is pointless!

Quentin, that's my point.

What have we come to?

It's so much worse than I thought.

Not really. Just more pathetic.

You make me sick, Worth.

I make me sick, too.

We're both part of the system.

I drew a box, you walk a beat.

It's like you said, Quentin,

Just keep your head down,
keep it simple,

just look at what's in front of you.

I mean, nobody wants to see
the big picture.

Life's too complicated.

I mean, let's face it.

The reason we're here
is that it's out of control.

This is how we ruin the world?

[LEAVEN] Well, duh!

Have you been on glue all your lives?

I've felt guilty for ruining the world
since I was, like, seven.

God! If you need someone to blame,
throw a rock!

[SIGHS]

Well, I feel better.

That's why you stayed with us.

To confess.

Still looking for someone
to bust, Quentin?

[GROANS]

[LEAVEN] Quentin, stop it!

Stop it!

We need him.

What for?

Have you gone absolutely mad?

He's the only one who knows
anything about the place.

Worth.

Hi.

So there's this outer shell.

- Yeah.
- And it's a cube, right? Like this?

I assume so.

Are there any doors?

- This one door.
- Where?

Wherever the door guy put it.

Six guesses, and it's sealed
from the outside.

And what are the dimensions
of the outer shell?

Four hundred and thirty-four
feet square.

- May I?
- Come on, honey, slide over.

[GRUNTING]

Fourteen by fourteen by fourteen.

The inner cube can't be flush
to the shell wall.

I know that. There's a space.

One cube?

I don't know. It makes sense.

Okay.

Well, the biggest
that the cube can be, then,

is 26 rooms high, 26 rooms across, so...

Seventeen thousand, five hundred
and seventy-six rooms.

Seventeen thousand, five hundred
and seventy-six rooms?

Oh, God.

That makes me queasy.

Descartes!

Leaven, you are a genius.

What? What?

Cartesian coordinates. Of course!

Coded Cartesian coordinates.

They're used in geometry to plot points
on a 3-dimensional graph.

In English. Slower.

Bonjour?

These numbers are markers.

A grid reference,
like latitude and longitude on a map.

The numbers tell us
where we are inside the cube.

But where are we?

It works!

Ok, um, all we have to do
is add the numbers together.

X coordinate is 19.

Y is...

Twenty-six rooms.

So that places us

seven rooms from the edge.

All right.

Let's go.

Just out of curiosity...

I mean, don't hit me again or anything,

but what are you gonna do
when you get there?

Maybe we can get the door open.

Huh. Oh.

What we need to do is figure out
how to get around the traps.

I'm dealing with that, Holloway.

I'm looking for practical
solutions here.

Well, you haven't found any yet.

We cut the risk with the numbers
and the boot.

Worth will go in first.

No, he won't, Quentin. We take turns!

Relax.

[QUENTIN] Room for two in there?

What's the matter?

[LEAVEN] These coordinates. 14, 27, 14.

- [QUENTIN] What about 'em?
- Well, they don't make sense.

Assuming the cube is 26 rooms across,

there can't be a coordinate
larger than 26.

If this were right,
then we would be outside of the cube.

No. Not outside of the cube.

[QUENTIN] Oh. Guess that means
we're not having dinner.

[KAZAN] Trap, trap, trap, trap.
[QUENTIN] Let's hope this one's safe.

[KAZAN] Trap, trap, trap.

Trap!

Trap!

[WHISPERS] Sound activated.

Boo.

Lovely.

How come the sound of the door opening
didn't set it off?

Must be rigged to ignore it.

So that's it.
The edge is surrounded by traps.

Well, I guess we have to backtrack
and try somewhere else.

[QUENTIN] Who knows how many detours
we'll have to take?

I say we cross the bitch.

Right.

How many boots
do we have left, Holloway?

Get it off him.

We know how it works.
We just have to be quiet.

That's pretty fucking quiet.

I'm glad you're on side, Worth,
'cause you're up.

[KAZAN] Ah!

And he's not coming.

Of course he is.

- No way.
- You're not leaving him behind.

He's unpredictable.

When we get to the edge,
we can come back for him,

but he'll get somebody killed here!

Am I right?

[HOLLOWAY] Shame on you.

Will you look at yourselves?

What have you turned into?

They may have taken our lives away,
but we're still human beings.

That's all we've got left.

We'll come back for him.

That's a lie, and you know it.

[BREATHES DEEPLY]

[HUMS SOFTLY]

He'll be quiet.

[DOOR SLIDING]

[RUMBLING]

[CLICKS]

[BOTH MOUTHING]

[HANDLE CLICKS]

[CLICKS]

[BREATHES SOFTLY]

Ah!

[GASPS]

[SCREAMING]

You fucking fuck!

All right, that's enough!

He's a trap!

Let him go right now!

Law of the jungle, Holloway.

He's endangering the pack.

Let him go, you Nazi!

What'd you call me?

Quentin, you let that innocent boy go.

You listen to me, woman.

Every day I mop up
after your bleeding heart.

The only reason you even exist
is because I keep you!

[WHISPERS] I know your type.

No kids, no man to fuck you,

so you go around outraged,

sticking your nose up
other people's assholes,

sniffing their business!

You missed your boat, Holloway.

You're all dried up
inside there, aren't you?

That's your fucking problem.

How dare you say that to her?

You don't know her, Quentin.
None of us know each other here.

Oh, I do.

No, you don't!

No wonder your wife left you.

All that bottled up anger.

And a thing for young girls.

[HOLLOWAY] Ow!

God help you, Quentin.

Did you smack your kids around, too?

Is anybody besides me

interested in what's on the other side
of that door?

Open it.

Door number six, not number one,
door number two?

Open the fucking thing.

Oh. Sunshine.

Nighttime.

My old friend, the shell.

It's there.

Morning!

[ECHO] Morning... Morning...

Hang on to me.

Can't see shit.

Nothing to hang on to.

We gotta try something.

We gotta see if the door's over there.

Someone has to swing over there
and take a look.

[WORTH] Swing?

We make a rope out of clothes.

Take 'em off. I'll tie it around myself.

Oh, yeah, you're gonna go.

You weigh, like, 500 pounds.
It'll snap in 2 seconds.

I'm the lightest.

Forget it.

I'll go.

I'm going, Holloway.

She's right, Quentin. You're too heavy.

I'm the lightest after Leaven.

Anyways, it's my turn.

How long did you know
people were being put in here?

Couple months.

That's not long,
if you consider your whole life.

I am.

You opened my eyes, Worth.
That's something.

David.

Helen.

You're such a Helen.

That's as far as you go!

[HOLLOWAY] There's nothing down here!

Hold tight.

I'll try swinging over there.

[ALL GRUNT]

Brace yourselves. I'm gonna try again.

Okay.

One more time.

Hurry! You're getting heavy.

[RUMBLING]

[HOLLOWAY SCREAMS]

What the hell's going on?

[QUENTIN] Get up here now!

[GRUNTING]

[CHUCKLES]

[WORTH] Quentin!
[LEAVEN] Have you got her?

[WORTH] What's going on?

[LEAVEN] Quentin, is she ok?

[SCREAMING] No!

She, uh...

Slipped.

[KAZAN] Holloway?

[SOBS]

[KAZAN WAILING]

Hey. Shh. Come on, Kazan.

[CONTINUES WAILING]

[SHOUTS] Kazan, will you please
stop doing that?

Leaven,

you gotta be strong, sweetheart.

Don't even talk to me.

We gotta get down to the bottom.

It'll be easier to get onto the shell
from there.

It's a long fuckin' way
with only one boot,

but we gotta do it
before we get too weak.

You gotta keep
cracking the numbers, Leaven.

I can't think any more.

Sure you can.

It's your gift.

It's not a gift.

It's just a brain.

Let her sleep for a while.
We haven't slept in fuck knows how long.

All right.

One hour.

How the fuck are you gonna know
how long an hour is?

An hour is as long as I say.

Shh.

[GROGGILY] What are you doing?

We have to make it down to the bottom.

It'll be quiet there and
you can concentrate.

You just wanna leave them?

They're traps, Leaven.

We are the key. I'll get us down there.

You think us out. Believe in me.

Try and see what I see,
how my mind works,

the flash when I look
into someone's head,

like a fucking x-ray.

I looked through the walls.

I dreamed him at his desk,
designing everything.

He can't let you solve the puzzle, see,
because there is a purpose.

We are the purpose. The cube is us.

- Quentin...
- We fit like numbers.

A man and a woman.
Two halves of the equation.

I take you down...

The perfect key.

I slip you in the lock.

[LEAVEN] Ah!

Leaven,

it's time to go down.

[WHINING]

[GRUNTS]

[DOOR SLIDES SHUT]

Get away from her.

Leaven,

they're fucking spies. Him, the retard.

Holloway had outside information
about my family,

but she slipped up, didn't she?

She crossed the line.

You dropped her.

Just go, Quentin.

Give us the boot, you pig!

Ah!

[GRUNTS]

You don't want the boot.

[MOANING]

[THUDDING]

[QUENTIN] You want to
come with us, Worth?

Down the hatch.

[WORTH SCREAMS]

[THUDS]

[SOBS]

[WORTH LAUGHING]

What the fuck's with him?

[WORTH CONTINUES LAUGHING]

[WORTH CONTINUES LAUGHING]

How did he...

[LAUGHING] It's, it's... It's the Wren.

The old Wrenster.

How could...

We've been going in circles. [LAUGHING]

That can't be.

- Where are we?
- I don't know.

[DOOR SLIDES OPEN]

- Where are we?
- [GRUNTING]

You figure it out.

You haven't done anything.

All you did was freak out,
you murderer!

[SOBBING]

[LAUGHING]

I guess you were right, Worth.

There is no way out of here.

[SOBBING SOFTLY]

Get away from me.

[QUENTIN CRYING]

Wasn't Rennes killed in that room?

How come there's nothing out there?

It's the edge.

But we weren't at the edge before.
Where's the room that killed Rennes?

Fuck off!

Oh, that was good.

What difference does it make?

We're dead, anyways.

Hey! [BANGING]
Listen to what I'm saying.

There was a room there before.

We haven't been moving in circles.
The rooms have.

[WHISPERS] Of course.

The rooms?

That explains the thunder
and the shaking.

We've been shifting the whole time.

It's the only logical explanation.

I am such an idiot.

What are you onto, Leaven?

Gimme a minute.

Okay, the numbers are markers,
points on a map, right?

Right.

Then how do you map a point
that keeps moving?

Permutations.

Permu what?

Permutations. A list
of all the coordinates

that the room passes through.

Like a map that tells you
where the room starts,

how many times it moves,
and where it moves to.

A number tells you all that?

I don't know.

See, I've only been looking
at one point on the map,

which is probably the starting position.

All I saw was what the cube looked like
before it started to move.

Okay, so it's moving.

How do we get out?

Twenty-seven.

I know where the exit is.

Where?

- Stay away from me.
- Back off, Quentin.

I just wanna know.

Don't you wanna know?

You remember that room
we passed through before,

the one with the coordinate
larger than 26?

What about it?

That coordinate placed the room
outside the cube.

A bridge.

Right. But only in
its original position.

What are you talking about?

Look, the room starts off as a bridge,

and then it moves its way through
the maze, which is where we ran into it,

but at some point,
it must return to its original position.

So the bridge is only a bridge...

For a short period of time.

This thing is like
a giant combination lock.

When the rooms
are in their starting position,

the lock is open.

But when they move out of alignment,
the lock closes.

With a structure this size,
it must take days

for the rooms to complete a full cycle.

So when does it open?

Don't.

To find the original coordinates,
the numbers are added together.

To find the permutations,
they're subtracted from one another.

That's it.

This room moves to zero, one,
and negative one on the x-axis.

Two, five, and negative seven on y.

And one, negative one, and zero on z.

And what does that mean?

You suck at math?

Okay, I need the room numbers
around us as a reference point.

6-6-6.

8-9-7.

4-6-6.

[DOOR SLIDES OPEN]

5-6-7, 8-9-8.

- Okay?
- Yes.

And 5-4-5. Did you get that?

6-5-6, 7-7-8, 4-6-2.

[LEAVEN] That's enough.
X is 17, y is 25, and z is 14.

Which means this room
makes two more moves

before returning
to its original position.

- Do we have time?
- Maybe.

Then let's go.

Can you work the traps for this system?

Fuck the traps. Let's get to the bridge.

Well, you threw out our last boot,
you fucking idiot.

- Technically, I can identify the traps.
- Technically?

First, I thought that they were
identified by prime numbers,

but they're not.

They're identified by numbers
that are the power of a prime.

- Okay, so?
- Can you calculate it?

The numbers are huge.

But you can, right? She can.

I'd have to calculate
the number of factors in each set.

- Maybe if I had a computer.
- You don't need a computer.

- Yes, I do!
- Figure it out.

- I can't!
- I'm not dying in a fucking rat maze!

Look, nobody in the whole world
could do it mentally.

Look at the numbers. 567, 898, 545.

There's no way I can factor that.

I can't even start on 567.

It's astronomical!

[KAZAN] Two.

Astronomical.

What did you say?

Astronomical.

[WORTH] Before that.

Factors.

How many factors, Kazan, of 567?

Two.

What, are you fucking kidding?

Kazan, how many factors does 30 have?

Three.

- [LEAVEN] How about seven?
- One. Gumdrop.

I don't have any gumdrops.

Gumdrop.

Kazan,

I'll give ya a whole box
of gumdrops for each answer.

Gumdrops come in bags.

Okay, you want 'em in bags,
you got 'em in bags.

[KAZAN] I don't like the red ones.

[DOOR SLIDES OPEN]

8-9-8.

Two.

5-4-5.

- Two.
- He's giving us the factors.

Astronomical.

You're telling me
telethon boy is a genius?

By those numbers,
the room should be safe.

Only one way to find out.

Don't!

[GROANS]

Safe.

Kazan,

my man.

[QUENTIN] What's the number, buddy boy?

Hey!

Right here. Look here!

Make him do it.

Kazan, we're gonna do
some numbers now, ok?

We like to do numbers, right?

- Prime numbers.
- That's right.

Can you tell me the factor of 6-5-6?

Two.

- 7-7-9?
- Two.

4-6-2?

- Three.
- Clear.

Move.

Come on. Come on, let's go.
You, too, Worth.

[QUENTIN] Move your scrawny ass, Worth.

I'm not through with you yet.

Leaven, open that door.

Get Einstein workin' on the numbers.

[CHOKING]

- Oh, jeez.
- Go!

- Worth...
- [WORTH] Hurry!

Leaven.

5-6-3?

Please, Kazan. 5-6-3.

You fuckers. You're dead.

- Two.
- Clear.

One.

Trapped.

- Check the floor.
- Is he dead?

- [QUENTIN] Ah!
- Not quite.

[QUENTIN] Not even close!

Worth, I'm getting out of here,
and I'll feed you to a fucking trap

on the way!

Where is he?

Come here.

I said come here right now!

[WORTH GRUNTS]

[WORTH] Gotcha.

That way.

- Two.
- Clear.

- Four.
- Clear.

[WORTH] Whoa.

[LEAVEN] Whoa. [ECHOING]

[CRASHING]

[THUDDING]

[WORTH] Guess that proves
our theory. Numbers.

[KAZAN] Four. Two. Three.

Clear.

[RUMBLING]

BOTH: Kazan!

[KAZAN WAILING]

[WHISPERS] Listen.

He hasn't moved far.

I'll go find him.

What do you think?

You don't have a lot of lives left.

Ah.

Ah.

[DOOR SLIDES OPEN]

Kazan.

I didn't move.

Yeah, good, but you're gonna
have to climb up here, okay?

I don't like that.

Fourteen...

Twenty-six...

Fourteen.

Worth, get back here right now!

Five bags of gumdrops.

Twenty-seven bags total.

Twenty-seven bags. Deal.

Worth, this room's next move
takes it to the bridge!

We're coming!

Over here.

Move it!

We don't have much time. Come on.

[RUMBLING]

[ALL GRUNTING]

[THUDS]

Worth. Worth.

[GASPS]

[GROANS] This better be it.

[LEAVEN] It should be.

Where?

Oh, well.

[DOOR SLIDES SHUT]

Give it a minute. Be patient.

So, guess what.

No.

This is the room we started in.
[CHUCKLES]

I was right.

We should never have moved
in the first place.

[CHUCKLES]

[RUMBLING]

[THUDS]

[GASPS HAPPILY]

The bridge.

Red.

[LEAVEN] Kazan...

Four. Two. Four.

Clear.

[DOOR SLIDES SHUT]

[SOBS]

Worth.

Go ahead.

What are you doing? You can't quit now.

It's not your fault!

I have nothing to live for out there.

What is out there?

[WORTH] Boundless human stupidity.

[DOOR SLIDES OPEN]

I can live with that.

[GASPS]

[SCREAMS]

- Kazan, get out through the door!
- [WAILING]

[GASPS]

Red, Kazan.

[WAILING]

[RUMBLING]

[SCREAMS]

[THUDS]