Azura Skye: Beth Carter

Alien Code

Beth Carter

Beth Carter: June 4th, that's the day I accepted this job. After that I got sick, I started hallucinating, seeing things that weren't there. I tried to come up with some rational and reasonable explanation but none of them made sense. So I started thinking about the message. About the key and quantum memory. Polarized photons carrying a message from the future. But photons are just packets of light, and light crosses the universe. What if someone or something was sending messages into the abyss? Across space, across time, all we have to do is look for them. I started capturing photons and deciphering codes. I became obsessed. I believed the dead were speaking to me, calling down from the heavens. Then among those voices I heard my own. I was just talking to myself. Neither one of us should ever have taken that job, because it took our health. And who we used to be, it's not who we are now.
Alex Jacobs: You see them, right?
Beth Carter: Everything you think you see is just delusions.
Alex Jacobs: Do you see that one out the window?
[Beth nods hesitantly]
Alex Jacobs: If I'm hallucinating, then how are we hallucinating the same thing? This is real, this is here. They put that message on that satellite and this machine, this is gonna tip the first domino. We have to do something.
Beth Carter: I just want to die in peace.

Alex Jacobs: Beth Carter? I'm Alex Jacobs, I'm a cryptographer.
Beth Carter: Why are you here?
Alex Jacobs: A couple months ago, I was hired by a company, A.R.I.S.T.
Beth Carter: I'm sorry, I'm not feeling very well.
Alex Jacobs: I know, but I need to talk...
Beth Carter: I have to go.
[closes door on him]
Alex Jacobs: Can I just talk to you for one second? It's important! Listen, I worked on, shit, I worked on the same message as you!
[going around the house]
Alex Jacobs: Listen to me, you don't have to worry, alright? I'm not with A.R.I.S.T. I went to the library to track you down, they won't even know that I'm here.
[trips]
Alex Jacobs: Ow, fuck!
[gets up]
Alex Jacobs: Look! I stayed in the same room as you! I saw- I found your name etched on the bedpost. The message, it's not, it's not... it's not what it says it is. It's not from us!
[Beth appears at the door]
Alex Jacobs: I tried to tell them but they won't listen. And I'm seeing things that I can't explain, but no one believes me because... I'm dying! I'm dying... they gave me six months.
Beth Carter: [opens door] I've got two left.

Beth Carter: I still don't accept it. It's hard to believe that 4 weeks from now I will be longer able to walk, in 6 weeks I'll be so weak, I won't be able to talk, and in 8 weeks, I'll be ashes.