Around the Sun (2019) EN

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Oh... sorry...

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<i>Pardon</i>

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- <i>Bonjour.</i>
- <i>Bonjour</i>

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- Maggie?
- Bernard?

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<i>Je m'excuse...</i>

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Are you... all right?

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Yes. Just give me a second.

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Is it my fault?

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I'm sorry?

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I missed you...

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The other entrance.

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The other entrance? Oh, of
course.

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No, no, totally my fault.

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Did you get spun around?

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I... no, not spun... I found
the place all right.

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It was just... a bit of a...

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a bit of a communication
problem...

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...internally, I mean.

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Well, so you're English.

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- And so are you!
- And so I am.

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They sent me especially.

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Might have had something to do
with my schoolboy French,

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when I called.

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So will it just be the two of
us?

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We do have a team. I'm a bit
junior.

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- Just the guy they send out for a first look.
- Right.

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So, here we are.

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Listen, are you sure it's all right
to take the whole afternoon for this?

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Absolutely. It's really the
only way to see it all.

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And we're fine to walk, rather
than drive?

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I am if you are.

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Absolutely.

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Brilliant. You can just leave
the car here.

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Now, I must warn you, it's
pretty run down.

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Well, I guess that makes it
all the more... cinematic.

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Sorry.

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That might be a problem.

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- Sounds like there's an airport nearby?
- Oh. Just a small one, In Rouen.

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I'll check the schedules.

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Right. So any rivers, streams,
flowing water on the property?

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No. But there's a lake, and
two small ponds.

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And which way is west?

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- Over there.
- Oh.

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- So, sunset over there?
- Yup, almost every day.

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Yes.

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Great. Best during autumn,
so good timing there.

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Well, I can definitely see why Monet
painted the cathedral a million times.

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Never the same light twice!

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That could make things tricky
actually.

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I'd love to take a few photos
if...

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Please, go ahead.

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For some reason my phone doesn't
send pictures over here, so...

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Oh, it's just something with the
settings. I had it happen to me. I can...

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Right, it works.

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- Now please delete that immediately.
- Oh, I don't know!

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I think I'll just stick with
this.

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Whatever works.

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Maybe you could give me the
lowdown?

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OK, the basics. Roughly twenty
acres altogether.

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Large forest to the south of us,
farmland to the north.

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the main building was put up on the
original foundation of a feudal castle,

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which had been destroyed during the
Wars of Religion, probably around 1592.

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Lots of modifications and
additions since then.

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The heritage is the thing,
really.

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Best known for one famous
literary guest,

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Fontenelle, who wrote his
landmark

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"Conversations on the Plurality
of Worlds",

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while staying here at
the end of the 17th Century.

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Of course Fontenelle isn't
a household name now,

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but he's very influential.

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He helped popularize the
Copernican model of the universe.

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That in fact the sun doesn't
orbit the Earth...

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It's the other way round. Yes.

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He was probably thinking:

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Come on, people... this paradigm
isn't going to shift itself!

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Presumably the book was based on
actual events:

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A young philosopher... basically
meaning a scientist,

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stays at a country château,

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hosted by a bright young
aristocratic woman.

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Every evening for five nights,

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the two of them go for a walk
in gardens just like these

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and have very descriptive and
often quite flirty

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conversations on how the cosmos
works.

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Fascinating.

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No, really it is.

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Well, it was a radical idea,
and it took a while

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to catch on. Because the
pre-Copernican model,

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with all these stars
miraculously

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flying round the Earth in only a
day's time, and a bunch of

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planets that didn't quite move
quite like the rest of them,

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and the odd comet coming
inexplicably out of nowhere...

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well, it a bit of a mess. Or,
anyway,

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the explanation got so
self-contradictory

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because people kept adding
unnecessary complications

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just to try and rationalize it.

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Sounds like a bad
relationship.

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Tell me about it.

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You don't actually have to tell
me about it. I was just saying...

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agreeing with you.

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Right.

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I'm sorry if I go on too much
about this stuff.

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It's just so funny:

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I don't think I'd ever even
heard

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of Fontenelle before taking this
job,

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and getting to know this
property.

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But his stuff clicked with
things

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I suppose I'd always been
interested in.

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Makes you wonder.

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Right.

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I mean, what if this very
important book

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that was written here was really
boring,

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of no interest whatsoever?

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What if! We'd probably still
think

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we were the centre of the
universe.

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Last occupied quite a few years
ago by descendants

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of the owners from its halcyon days, who
couldn't afford to keep the place up anymore.

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Official policy is that I'm not supposed
to admit this, but it's quite a sad story.

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Anyway, the plan was to convert
it all into a spa and golf course.

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But that would've meant doing away with
some important historical features.

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What with property law here being
about as fusty and arcane as the

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outdated model of the universe,
well, permission for that was denied.

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- Red tape...
- Oh, yes.

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So it's been on the market
again,

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but really in a sort of limbo.

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Maintenance obviously neglected,
apart

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from emergency work to stop some
of the buildings collapsing.

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Water's running, but the
heating's bust.

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A cleaner and a gardener come
every couple of weeks.

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Given the planning issues, how
do you think

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the locals would react to a film
production happening here?

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Just... gut feeling?

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It's an unusual situation.

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Temporary occupancy. Hard to
tell.

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I see.

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Not entirely encouraging.

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Maybe not entirely, but...

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Well, what can you tell me about
your film?

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Not much, I'm afraid.

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The director is a bit of an
eccentric.

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Brilliant. But cryptic.

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He said if I find the right
place, he'll fit the story to it.

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Calls it "living off the land".

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He's a romantic, I suppose.

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One thing I can tell you is that in
this case we only need one location.

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Or, one that serves as many.

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So that's an advantage,

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or maybe a disadvantage.

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I was instructed to take my time
and

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hold out for a cosmic epiphany,
whatever that means.

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Wow.

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I swear I'm not being coy.
I really don't know.

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- It's actually a bit nerve-wracking.
- I can imagine.

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Before we go in, can I ask you
something else?

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Yeah.

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Is it just me or does this
feel really familiar?

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<i>Bonjour</i>. Maggie?

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Hi.

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- It's my fault.
- I'm sorry?

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I must have told you to go to
the other entrance.

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Ah.

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I hope you didn't get too spun
around.

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It's all right.

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Well, you're English.

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- And so are you!
- And so I am.

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What are the odds?

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So. Here we are.

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Will it just be the two of us?

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- I hope that's all right.
- Yes. I... only hate to take up your whole afternoon.

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It's really the only way to
see it all.

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And we're fine to walk, rather
than drive?

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I am if you are.

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Absolutely.

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Great. Well, why don't I just leave
the car here, and, uh, we'll go.

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Now, I must warn you, it's
pretty run down.

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Excellent. Nothing but
potential.

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- Er, Excuse me a sec.
- Of course.

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Everything all right?

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Ah, I see. Would you say it's
more of an <i>ennui</i> or a <i>malaise</i>?

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It's sort of a <i>je ne sais</i>
<i>quoi</i>.

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Ah. But not quite a <i>joie de</i>
<i>vivre</i>, in any case.

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<i>Non</i>. Not quite. Not yet.

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Sounds like there's an airport
nearby?

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In Rouen.

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Great. That could be really
convenient.

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- And mobile phone coverage is strong, I see.
- Not everywhere. There are definitely some dead zones.

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We can certainly help with that. In any case
we'd need to dig up quite a bit to lay our cables.

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And we'd need to do a lot in
terms of security.

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Maybe more than you'd expect.

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Oh.

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Our CEO is really paranoid. He's had
several threats made against his life.

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These two facts may be related.

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Would you mind if I take a few
photos?

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By all means.

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Great. You can give me the
lowdown as we go.

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What's fascinating to me is that Fontenelle is
obviously wrong on some pretty basic stuff,

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and yet exactly right,
and way ahead of his time, on many others.

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Life on the moon? Uh, sorry.

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Although even he said:

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<i>don't give more than half
your mind to ideas like this,</i>

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<i>and leave the other half open so
that contrary ideas can still fit in.</i>

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Now everybody knows that the idea of
life on the moon is silly, don't they?

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Yet not everybody knows why, when we look at
the moon, we always see the same side of it.

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Because it takes as long to go round
its axis as it does around the Earth.

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Guess who was already onto that
in 1686?

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It's entirely appropriate they
named a crater after him.

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Obviously the bigger deal was the bit
about the Earth going round the sun.

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That was radical, and took a
while to catch on.

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Because the previous understanding
was so self-contradictory

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that people kept adding unnecessary
complications to try and rationalize it.

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- Sounds like a bad relationship.
- Tell me about it.

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You don't have to actually tell
me about it. I was just saying...

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Right.

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René Descartes figured that all heavenly
bodies swirled around in the ether,

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making little whirlpools that
held everything together.

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That was his system, which
Fontenelle adopted.

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Well, then Isaac Newton amended Descartes,
not long after <i>Conversations</i> was published.

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Fontenelle revised it,
but it didn't line up with the new system.

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Not that it's about that.

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It's about the possibility, the value,
of reasonable, non-pedantic conversation.

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OK, well, then Einstein amended
Newton, and so on.

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The idea of the ether hasn't
entirely gone away.

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Spacetime, dark matter,

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we still need there to be "stuff",
some medium which it all swirls around in.

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And we still need someone to
remind us, as Fontenelle put it,

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that <i>our common folly is to believe that everything
in creation is destined for our service.</i>

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Anyway, last occupied quite a
few years ago,

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but the owners couldn't afford to keep the place up
any more. And so eventually our firm acquired it.

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Official policy is not to admit as
much, but it's quite a sad story.

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Or at least I think it is.

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Is it just me or does this feel
really familiar?

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I don't know. What's your
yardstick?

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What's yours?

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I'm not sure there is one.

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For me, or you, or anyone.

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That seems acceptable.

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Shall we?

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This is a bit unpleasant, but
wasn't

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- there something about a... suicide?
- What?

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Someone in the bankrupt family,
after losing the property?

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Oh, I don't... You know, I'm
just a bit junior myself.

242
00:18:40,688 --> 00:18:42,657
Just the girl they send out to
show the place.

243
00:18:43,290 --> 00:18:45,593
Thought I read a mention in
somebody's notes.

244
00:18:45,793 --> 00:18:51,799
Well, that would be terrible. But not
beyond the realm of possibility, I suppose.

245
00:18:52,399 --> 00:18:54,669
This place has definitely had
its fair share of casualties.

246
00:18:54,869 --> 00:18:58,573
- Maybe more than its fair share.
- Maybe.

247
00:19:04,679 --> 00:19:07,849
So, <i>Pluralities of Worlds</i>, eh?

248
00:19:08,348 --> 00:19:10,283
Doesn't exactly roll off the
tongue.

249
00:19:12,120 --> 00:19:14,522
<i>Conversations on the Plurality</i>
<i>of Worlds</i> It's very important.

250
00:19:14,722 --> 00:19:16,858
Or at least, that's its English
name.

251
00:19:17,058 --> 00:19:20,762
Quite right. Everything important
starts with a conversation.

252
00:19:23,631 --> 00:19:26,333
So this is, or was, the library.

253
00:19:27,467 --> 00:19:30,705
Yes, it's a hugely important book.
And not his only contribution.

254
00:19:31,471 --> 00:19:37,679
In fact, in my early eager-beaver days I lobbied for
having the whole place turned into a Fontenelle museum.

255
00:19:38,646 --> 00:19:40,915
That idea didn't really catch
on.

256
00:19:42,950 --> 00:19:45,318
But maybe there's a buyer out there who'll
recognize the cultural significance of the place.

257
00:19:45,853 --> 00:19:49,557
- And be able to afford it.
- Yeah, that too.

258
00:19:49,857 --> 00:19:53,928
- What do you think the odds are?
- Mm, maybe slightly lower than the odds of

259
00:19:54,128 --> 00:19:57,699
intelligent extra-terrestrials
elsewhere in the universe.

260
00:19:58,398 --> 00:20:00,501
Right. Pity.

261
00:20:01,468 --> 00:20:03,938
Maybe some aliens will come
along and buy it.

262
00:20:04,739 --> 00:20:06,574
Surely they'd know what they've
got here.

263
00:20:06,774 --> 00:20:08,609
They might not even need
central heating.

264
00:20:08,810 --> 00:20:10,578
That's the spirit.

265
00:20:12,479 --> 00:20:15,616
Well, I seem to like the place
after all.

266
00:20:16,483 --> 00:20:18,485
I'll take it!

267
00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:21,622
Wish I could buy it. Maybe.

268
00:20:22,924 --> 00:20:25,860
I think I'm beginning to feel a
little protective over it.

269
00:20:26,828 --> 00:20:27,995
Isn't that funny?

270
00:20:29,864 --> 00:20:32,900
Having managed the place for quite a while
now, I feel pretty attached to it myself.

271
00:20:36,771 --> 00:20:38,506
Could you help me with...?

272
00:20:40,041 --> 00:20:41,509
Yeah!

273
00:20:49,884 --> 00:20:51,686
So do you know any stars?

274
00:20:51,919 --> 00:20:54,655
I can usually find Orion's
belt.

275
00:20:55,056 --> 00:20:56,958
I meant stars as in famous
people.

276
00:20:57,792 --> 00:20:59,660
No, I...

277
00:21:00,528 --> 00:21:05,700
...not really. Unless you count
That Guy from That Thing,

278
00:21:05,900 --> 00:21:10,004
- and What's Her Name Again.
- Oh, you know them?! I love them!

279
00:21:10,204 --> 00:21:14,609
Know is too strong a word.
But we worked together once or twice.

280
00:21:14,809 --> 00:21:16,476
And what are they like in
person?

281
00:21:17,645 --> 00:21:19,279
Just like everybody else.

282
00:21:21,883 --> 00:21:26,687
About four ninety-five.
How exact do you need it?

283
00:21:26,888 --> 00:21:29,023
That'll do. Thanks. This
way...

284
00:21:33,795 --> 00:21:36,898
Did you ever want to be in films
yourself? Or make them?

285
00:21:37,098 --> 00:21:42,335
No, no. I wouldn't know how.
Don't have the mind for it.

286
00:21:43,037 --> 00:21:44,939
I'm not sure what I do have the
mind for.

287
00:21:45,706 --> 00:21:46,941
Started law school,

288
00:21:47,141 --> 00:21:49,577
but that felt wrong pretty
quickly.

289
00:21:49,777 --> 00:21:53,848
Somehow fell into this film location racket
thinking it would be a good way to travel.

290
00:21:54,048 --> 00:21:55,850
Ah, brilliant.

291
00:21:57,819 --> 00:22:02,590
It is and it isn't. You can never just be
in a place; you always have to pay attention.

292
00:22:03,591 --> 00:22:06,093
Although maybe that's precisely
what my mind is good for:

293
00:22:06,661 --> 00:22:08,996
- the refusal to relax.
- Oh, I don't know.

294
00:22:09,697 --> 00:22:13,000
I think maybe you've got something in
your idea of alien property developers.

295
00:22:16,204 --> 00:22:20,340
Would you believe one of the
deal-breakers with my ex was an argument

296
00:22:20,541 --> 00:22:23,678
about the Fermi paradox?
Do you know what that is?

297
00:22:24,779 --> 00:22:26,881
I've worked on a couple of
sci-fi shows.

298
00:22:27,849 --> 00:22:30,383
- That's something to do with aliens too, right?
- Yeah!

299
00:22:32,053 --> 00:22:34,889
That's all I've got. You'll
have to remind me.

300
00:22:35,189 --> 00:22:40,628
Basically, that yes, indeed, the likelihood of
there being civilized life somewhere else out there

301
00:22:40,828 --> 00:22:45,132
is so high, it's seriously weird not
to have had contact with any by now.

302
00:22:46,234 --> 00:22:48,970
Maybe they're all too busy
scrolling on their space phones

303
00:22:49,170 --> 00:22:51,772
to engage in meaningful personal
communication.

304
00:22:51,973 --> 00:22:54,876
You know, that is one theory,
more or less.

305
00:22:55,076 --> 00:22:59,013
Yeah, we should send them
a big group text, distract them

306
00:22:59,213 --> 00:23:02,382
from what they're doing and make
them feel pressured to reply...

307
00:23:02,583 --> 00:23:06,954
Or, you know, maybe they're just
really bad at reading social cues.

308
00:23:07,221 --> 00:23:09,724
Our whole civilization is like
that now.

309
00:23:10,124 --> 00:23:13,794
Do you think that's a consequence
of technological evolution?

310
00:23:14,128 --> 00:23:19,767
Just as you master spaceflight, you also
become vaguely sociopathic. I like it.

311
00:23:20,134 --> 00:23:24,538
I mean, it's sad and tragic, but
that's precisely its charm.

312
00:23:24,939 --> 00:23:28,943
You see! How hard is it to stretch your brain
once in a while and just, you know, give a toss.

313
00:23:29,277 --> 00:23:32,914
- Oh, I didn't mean to...
- Oh, not you. One.

314
00:23:33,247 --> 00:23:35,750
Well, one in particular.

315
00:23:37,919 --> 00:23:39,887
You know he didn't even really care about the question
of whether we're alone in the universe or not!

316
00:23:40,087 --> 00:23:42,823
How can you not care about that?
Just a little?

317
00:23:44,225 --> 00:23:47,528
And I always felt like I was the only one
who cared about the state of our flat.

318
00:23:48,296 --> 00:23:53,768
I was the one opening curtains, and buying flowers and
turning music on. Otherwise it just wouldn't happen.

319
00:23:54,902 --> 00:23:58,973
So, yeah... that.
And the Fermi paradox.

320
00:24:01,976 --> 00:24:05,012
It's funny how you think you
know what you need from someone,

321
00:24:05,212 --> 00:24:08,082
and then some little thing gives
you a whole new perspective on that.

322
00:24:09,951 --> 00:24:12,219
Or I guess it's not a little
thing. It's a huge thing.

323
00:24:12,987 --> 00:24:14,121
That's the point.

324
00:24:16,257 --> 00:24:18,993
Maybe your director could make a
movie about that.

325
00:24:19,927 --> 00:24:23,030
- Your love life?
- Oh God, no. Boring!

326
00:24:23,597 --> 00:24:26,133
The Plurality. Fontenelle.

327
00:24:28,069 --> 00:24:31,572
Fontenelle. Sounds like a
pudding.

328
00:24:32,273 --> 00:24:34,608
Something with lots of pastry
and cream.

329
00:24:34,842 --> 00:24:37,144
And chocolate! There'd have to
be chocolate.

330
00:24:38,012 --> 00:24:39,479
It should be if it isn't
already.

331
00:24:41,182 --> 00:24:44,051
Fontenelle made it more possible
for women to be scientists.

332
00:24:44,251 --> 00:24:48,923
And for science-fiction, like that show you
worked on, even to be a genre in the first place.

333
00:24:49,390 --> 00:24:54,662
So, yeah, I am pro-Fontenelle.
<i>Quel mec</i>!

334
00:25:02,169 --> 00:25:07,274
So, it's basically all dialogue,
with only two people, right?

335
00:25:07,475 --> 00:25:09,176
Yeah, pretty much.

336
00:25:10,845 --> 00:25:14,682
- Hm, I don't know.
- And not even really a drama, it's more of an essay.

337
00:25:15,916 --> 00:25:21,255
- Not exactly high-stakes conflict.
- No. Although I suppose that is relative.

338
00:25:21,455 --> 00:25:24,525
They talk about things that were
very dangerous ideas back then.

339
00:25:25,393 --> 00:25:32,533
Actually, do you know what it's really like? It's like
one of those super nerdy late-night student chats.

340
00:25:33,267 --> 00:25:37,938
- God, do you remember those?
- I do, yeah. Barely.

341
00:25:38,406 --> 00:25:42,043
- It feels like it's been forever.
- Doesn't it? I miss that.

342
00:25:43,411 --> 00:25:46,747
Yeah, it's like that. With an
element of romance, though.

343
00:25:46,981 --> 00:25:52,686
They definitely flirt. Each of them has a
kind of naivety, each has a kind of wisdom.

344
00:25:52,887 --> 00:25:56,257
They need each other. I swear there's
something going on between them.

345
00:25:58,225 --> 00:26:01,228
OK, so obviously not something
my ex would buy a ticket for.

346
00:26:01,429 --> 00:26:06,200
Although maybe he'd watch it on Netflix for a
nostalgic night of feeling bored and annoyed at me.

347
00:26:06,834 --> 00:26:09,270
- I'll be sure to tell the boss.
- Please do.

348
00:26:10,337 --> 00:26:16,143
- You must promise not to be hurt if he goes in a different direction.
- Offence will not be taken.

349
00:26:17,745 --> 00:26:21,749
So, shall we go and have a look at
the <i>petit château</i>... the little house?

350
00:26:22,116 --> 00:26:25,352
I thought this was the <i>petit</i>
one. Now I am in a spin.

351
00:26:26,487 --> 00:26:28,155
- I'm just joking.
- Oh.

352
00:26:30,124 --> 00:26:33,928
I'm sure it does feel little when you're
standing in the living room of that one

353
00:26:33,994 --> 00:26:36,330
looking through the
window back at this one.

354
00:26:36,397 --> 00:26:39,600
Yes, let's go look at the little
house.

355
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:41,268
The relatively little house.

356
00:26:52,746 --> 00:26:54,281
Should you get that?

357
00:26:56,750 --> 00:26:58,652
Why don't I just turn it off?

358
00:26:59,487 --> 00:27:00,888
Are you sure?

359
00:27:06,528 --> 00:27:08,762
...last occupied quite a few
years ago,

360
00:27:10,931 --> 00:27:12,733
but the owners couldn't afford to keep the place up
any more. And so eventually our firm acquired it.

361
00:27:14,335 --> 00:27:18,372
Official policy is not to admit as
much, but it's quite a sad story.

362
00:27:18,906 --> 00:27:20,307
Or at least I think it is.

363
00:27:22,877 --> 00:27:25,412
The plan was to convert it all
into a spa and golf course.

364
00:27:25,614 --> 00:27:31,752
But, property law here being about as arcane and
fusty as the outdated model of the universe,

365
00:27:31,952 --> 00:27:33,787
well, permission for that was
denied.

366
00:27:34,488 --> 00:27:36,690
- Good old red tape.
- Oh, yes.

367
00:27:37,791 --> 00:27:41,195
That's fine. Wouldn't want it
any other way.

368
00:27:55,943 --> 00:27:59,246
And so you're... what are you?

369
00:28:02,816 --> 00:28:05,986
My email signature says
Director of Special Projects.

370
00:28:06,487 --> 00:28:12,960
And at the moment, my special project is finding
just the right spot for a satellite campus.

371
00:28:14,228 --> 00:28:15,696
Hence our afternoon together.

372
00:28:16,931 --> 00:28:17,965
It feels nice to be a part of
something special.

373
00:28:19,568 --> 00:28:22,903
I'm flattered by your interest.
On behalf of my employer, of course.

374
00:28:23,605 --> 00:28:27,441
I'm flattered by your being
flattered, on behalf of mine.

375
00:28:28,943 --> 00:28:33,347
So can I ask, why here?
Why not something in a city?

376
00:28:34,516 --> 00:28:41,455
Well, we've developed plenty of somethings in plenty of
cities but we've been routinely accused of gentrification,

377
00:28:41,922 --> 00:28:43,257
or worse.

378
00:28:45,726 --> 00:28:52,499
So we had a brainstorm, and decided to establish something
somewhere with a pre-existing aristocratic infrastructure,

379
00:28:53,434 --> 00:28:55,503
- whatever that means.
- I see.

380
00:28:57,639 --> 00:29:00,741
Well, the local <i>départment</i> will still
find a way to make things hard for you.

381
00:29:00,941 --> 00:29:04,878
- You mustn't underestimate that.
- Of course. We've budgeted for it.

382
00:29:05,312 --> 00:29:08,382
As I said, we wouldn't have it
any other way.

383
00:29:08,650 --> 00:29:14,321
It can't just be about infrastructure, though,
right? Don't you just get a gut feeling sometimes?

384
00:29:16,423 --> 00:29:17,992
Sometimes.

385
00:29:19,793 --> 00:29:22,463
But you probably have an algorithm to
determine the sentimental value of things.

386
00:29:23,163 --> 00:29:25,766
We have plenty of algorithms.

387
00:29:26,501 --> 00:29:28,969
But sometimes their logic can be
a bit fuzzy.

388
00:29:36,578 --> 00:29:39,847
- About the last family that lived here...
- Yeah?

389
00:29:41,448 --> 00:29:42,182
Oh, nothing.

390
00:30:00,034 --> 00:30:01,869
And here's the library.

391
00:30:02,469 --> 00:30:04,572
It's really a shame to see it in
this condition.

392
00:30:07,975 --> 00:30:11,078
Have you ever had a fear of re-reading
books that once meant the world to you?

393
00:30:12,446 --> 00:30:18,952
What would that be called?
Retro-biblio-philia-phobia?

394
00:30:19,486 --> 00:30:22,222
I'm sure a poet somewhere has
come up with a name for it.

395
00:30:23,457 --> 00:30:25,125
I get that fear sometimes.

396
00:30:27,261 --> 00:30:30,998
Like how you can fall in love with someone and be
dazzled by all the beautiful things about them,

397
00:30:31,633 --> 00:30:35,102
and then one day suddenly realize you've
considered them ugly for a long time.

398
00:30:36,170 --> 00:30:38,839
- I don't read many books these days.
- No?

399
00:30:39,641 --> 00:30:43,243
Not for a while. Not since my
abortive attempt at law school.

400
00:30:44,746 --> 00:30:47,247
- In my case it was when someone
said: <i>the universe</i>

401
00:30:47,448 --> 00:30:49,983
<i>doesn't care about me, so why
should I care about it?</i>

402
00:30:50,184 --> 00:30:52,986
- Me as in you?
- No, him. I'm quoting him.

403
00:30:53,187 --> 00:30:56,990
As in, the universe didn't care about
him, so why should he care about it?

404
00:30:58,058 --> 00:31:01,295
But it's a good guess that his
logic applied to me too.

405
00:31:01,663 --> 00:31:03,931
It is a fairly perceptive
question.

406
00:31:04,264 --> 00:31:07,000
I know. I loved him a lot.

407
00:31:10,137 --> 00:31:12,306
It's funny how you think you
know what you need.

408
00:31:13,140 --> 00:31:14,809
You want someone to make you
feel like you're not alone.

409
00:31:15,577 --> 00:31:20,147
So maybe it's worse when you do find
someone and you end up feeling more alone.

410
00:31:22,617 --> 00:31:27,254
I ended up marrying someone
blonde and sunny, which is strange,

411
00:31:28,088 --> 00:31:32,594
because I'd always thought I had a thing
for pensive, unconventional brunettes.

412
00:31:34,729 --> 00:31:36,930
She even agreed with me.

413
00:31:40,267 --> 00:31:44,037
So what do we know about this
woman?

414
00:31:44,773 --> 00:31:45,439
Sorry?

415
00:31:47,709 --> 00:31:52,446
The marquise. This scientist came to her château,
presumably with several other high society guests,

416
00:31:52,647 --> 00:31:59,319
and what... the two of them just slipped out and
went for country walks in the garden every night?

417
00:31:59,521 --> 00:32:00,655
That's just the book.

418
00:32:02,524 --> 00:32:04,958
Yeah, but he was based on the author,
and she was based on a real person, right?

419
00:32:05,159 --> 00:32:08,128
She was the daughter of a very
distinguished salon hostess.

420
00:32:08,328 --> 00:32:11,432
When he wrote it she was a widow
in her 20s, with a little boy.

421
00:32:12,734 --> 00:32:14,401
I don't know how her husband
died.

422
00:32:16,336 --> 00:32:19,106
- You've really got into this, haven't you?
- For some reason I just couldn't help myself.

423
00:32:20,274 --> 00:32:22,309
There is something about this
place. Isn't there?

424
00:32:23,076 --> 00:32:25,112
We shall consult the
algorithm.

425
00:32:28,081 --> 00:32:34,188
Come on, what is it, you like to just come
up here every now and then and... hang out?

426
00:32:34,388 --> 00:32:38,158
You make it sound unseemly.
It's not like I'm squatting or anything.

427
00:32:39,426 --> 00:32:43,330
Well wouldn't you, if you had
access to a place like this?

428
00:32:44,364 --> 00:32:47,234
It does feel miles away from
everything.

429
00:32:47,434 --> 00:32:50,505
Mm. It does. Nice, isn't it?

430
00:32:51,739 --> 00:32:52,439
I don't know.

431
00:32:56,243 --> 00:33:01,549
I suppose I can understand how some people might
resist the idea of a tech company taking over.

432
00:33:02,416 --> 00:33:05,520
Even an empty country retreat is
still a country retreat.

433
00:33:07,387 --> 00:33:11,425
Maybe it's the emptiness itself
that's most appealing.

434
00:33:12,326 --> 00:33:15,195
What is it that makes someone
cross that threshold?

435
00:33:15,395 --> 00:33:18,265
One minute you're texting right in front
of your friends to see if there's something

436
00:33:18,332 --> 00:33:21,368
better going on somewhere
else without you,

437
00:33:21,435 --> 00:33:28,075
and the next you're swearing off the Internet, maybe
even off the grid entirely, hiding in your bunker.

438
00:33:29,209 --> 00:33:32,514
We have teams working on that
very question.

439
00:33:32,814 --> 00:33:34,281
Teams!

440
00:33:48,863 --> 00:33:54,334
Oh, and yet, lest we forget, this is pretty much the
same basic stuff that got Galileo banned and arrested.

441
00:33:54,536 --> 00:33:57,572
It's one of the ideas that got
Giordano Bruno burned at the stake.

442
00:33:57,872 --> 00:34:00,107
- Is that so?
- It is.

443
00:34:00,542 --> 00:34:03,210
How do you think our man
Fontenelle got away with it?

444
00:34:04,344 --> 00:34:09,182
Probably helped not to be in Italy. And to
be friends with the local chief of police.

445
00:34:10,350 --> 00:34:13,353
But also: his book isn't
polemical.

446
00:34:13,555 --> 00:34:18,358
It's very charming. And that
always goes such a long way.

447
00:34:19,326 --> 00:34:23,330
- Oh, god. I'm just going on and on, aren't I?
- No, no, please continue.

448
00:34:23,531 --> 00:34:24,532
OK, good!

449
00:34:25,733 --> 00:34:28,168
It's good to have a real
audience.

450
00:34:28,368 --> 00:34:31,238
You know, I started a Facebook
group, but nobody joined.

451
00:34:31,606 --> 00:34:33,440
- Ah.
- Yeah.

452
00:34:35,877 --> 00:34:39,379
- Well, there are loads of other ways you could try...
- Actually, no. It's weird to hear myself talk about it.

453
00:34:39,747 --> 00:34:42,215
I'm almost afraid to share it
now.

454
00:34:51,258 --> 00:34:56,363
Plurality of worlds. I think the
most recent, very educated guess

455
00:34:56,564 --> 00:35:02,202
is that there's something like 40 billion Earth-like
planets, of the right temperature, in the Milky Way alone.

456
00:35:02,537 --> 00:35:07,207
Universe. Multiverse.
At a certain point it stops mattering.

457
00:35:07,642 --> 00:35:11,178
- I suppose that's the definition of infinity.
- That's a bit cynical.

458
00:35:11,679 --> 00:35:15,182
You could say that. Or just
practical.

459
00:35:15,650 --> 00:35:21,254
Some people find the concept of infinity
soothing. Others find it terrifying.

460
00:35:21,789 --> 00:35:27,528
Why not just compromise and say: it is
what it is. It's a big old twisted loop.

461
00:35:27,729 --> 00:35:31,331
Definitely cynical. But I
don't blame you.

462
00:35:31,532 --> 00:35:35,570
It's the age we live in. They thought the atom
bomb would burn off the whole atmosphere.

463
00:35:35,770 --> 00:35:40,474
They thought the Large Hadron Collider would tear
open a black hole which would swallow us all.

464
00:35:41,274 --> 00:35:44,311
No, it won't be so quick and
easy.

465
00:35:44,512 --> 00:35:48,281
It'll be overpopulation, climate
change,

466
00:35:48,482 --> 00:35:54,287
some marauding investment bank that becomes
sentient, all gradually wearing us down.

467
00:35:55,056 --> 00:35:58,693
From the plurality to the singularity!
Before we even know it.

468
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:07,434
OK, but what if all civilizations have decided
it's too dangerous to make contact...

469
00:36:07,635 --> 00:36:10,437
they've all sort of made it a
policy not to.

470
00:36:11,304 --> 00:36:16,678
Some people just stare at their phones all the time
because they're too shy and awkward, it's easier.

471
00:36:18,913 --> 00:36:23,751
You know, I think this place
is bigger than I'd...

472
00:36:24,686 --> 00:36:27,889
What about these buildings, out
here, do people live in those?

473
00:36:28,321 --> 00:36:30,357
They've been empty for several
years.

474
00:36:30,558 --> 00:36:35,495
- I see. But it's possible.
- Sure. You might be able to convert them.

475
00:36:36,864 --> 00:36:38,566
Then I do see potential here.

476
00:36:41,035 --> 00:36:45,740
Tell me this, Mr. Special Projects, if this does become
your satellite campus, would you be working here yourself?

477
00:36:47,407 --> 00:36:48,910
In a way I already am.

478
00:36:51,679 --> 00:36:55,616
- This one. The little one.
- Relatively little.

479
00:36:55,950 --> 00:36:57,451
Can we take a look?

480
00:37:36,624 --> 00:37:37,625
After you.

481
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:42,597
- Shouldn't it be ladies first?
- Not in this situation.

482
00:37:42,797 --> 00:37:46,033
This is uncharted territory.
I'm not even sure if it's safe.

483
00:37:49,570 --> 00:37:54,942
How about this? If it isn't
safe, we can turn around.

484
00:37:55,943 --> 00:37:59,814
- And around...
- And around...

485
00:38:00,882 --> 00:38:03,684
- There must be a way to the main
rooms from here.

486
00:38:04,519 --> 00:38:06,587
Shouldn't I be asking you that
question?

487
00:38:10,992 --> 00:38:13,895
- Shit.
- Quite.

488
00:38:14,095 --> 00:38:16,631
Let's see if I can...

489
00:38:23,805 --> 00:38:26,874
Well, that's a bit...
personal. But OK.

490
00:38:28,676 --> 00:38:30,077
Congratulations.

491
00:38:31,746 --> 00:38:33,981
Oh, unless she's not your wife.

492
00:38:34,749 --> 00:38:36,551
- She is.
- Good.

493
00:38:38,252 --> 00:38:41,289
You don't seem the type to go around
having affairs and unhappy accidents.

494
00:38:42,824 --> 00:38:46,761
Oh, what is it?
Have I wounded your pride?

495
00:38:47,094 --> 00:38:50,330
Affairs maybe, accidents
definitely not?

496
00:38:50,932 --> 00:38:53,801
Hm. I'm afraid that doesn't seem
quite right either.

497
00:38:55,603 --> 00:39:00,875
Maybe it's that you are a good boy, and you know you are,
but you sort of hoped you'd come across otherwise?

498
00:39:01,876 --> 00:39:03,811
OK, no, that's too much.

499
00:39:04,011 --> 00:39:08,348
What type are you, then? I don't
think I've figured it out.

500
00:39:10,651 --> 00:39:11,619
Sorry.

501
00:39:14,755 --> 00:39:18,793
- Let's just see if we can get the door open again.
- Excellent idea.

502
00:39:20,828 --> 00:39:23,030
Isn't it a bit weird to just
send that?

503
00:39:24,665 --> 00:39:25,900
Instead of calling?

504
00:39:27,335 --> 00:39:30,805
Of course, I don't know. I don't
know how you two communicate.

505
00:39:31,005 --> 00:39:33,140
I've seen people post those
things on line.

506
00:39:33,341 --> 00:39:35,877
For starters, she just pissed on
that, it's gross.

507
00:39:36,077 --> 00:39:38,946
And isn't it way too early to be
making announcements?

508
00:39:39,146 --> 00:39:45,887
Posting an ultrasound I can almost understand,
but even then it's way too much information.

509
00:39:46,721 --> 00:39:48,856
Invading the kid's privacy
before it's even a kid.

510
00:39:49,657 --> 00:39:52,727
- Now you just sound like a threatened...
- I don't care.

511
00:39:54,662 --> 00:39:59,000
I just hope that when the time comes,
you'll remember this conversation

512
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:01,903
and think twice before
uploading.

513
00:40:03,070 --> 00:40:04,105
You and your lady.

514
00:40:06,240 --> 00:40:07,708
Diana.

515
00:40:09,210 --> 00:40:12,013
Now there's someone with
considerate parents.

516
00:40:12,847 --> 00:40:14,515
Goddess of the moon.

517
00:40:14,982 --> 00:40:16,550
Mistress of the hunt.

518
00:40:17,818 --> 00:40:20,755
- Princess of the Wales.
- That too.

519
00:40:24,926 --> 00:40:28,461
- Can I ask you something?
- Anything.

520
00:40:30,231 --> 00:40:32,166
Are we stuck in here?

521
00:41:30,291 --> 00:41:35,596
Do you not think the charms of a fine
night may even exceed those of the day?

522
00:41:36,030 --> 00:41:39,233
Yes. The day's beauty is
blonde and brilliant,

523
00:41:39,433 --> 00:41:43,170
but the beauty of the night is
brunette, which is more touching.

524
00:41:44,038 --> 00:41:48,642
You are very generous to give favour
to the brunette, being so fair yourself.

525
00:41:51,078 --> 00:41:52,646
It is certainly true,

526
00:41:54,248 --> 00:41:56,917
that an unclouded sun is one of the
most beautiful things in nature,

527
00:41:57,184 --> 00:42:00,221
and the most beautiful things in
the imagination,

528
00:42:00,421 --> 00:42:05,026
the heroines of our romances,
always seem to be blonde too.

529
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:09,196
Even if I did believe you, I
shouldn't be satisfied,

530
00:42:09,397 --> 00:42:13,534
since the blonde brightness of day has
still so little effect on your heart.

531
00:42:14,201 --> 00:42:18,105
Why do lovers, the best judges
of what stirs our emotions,

532
00:42:18,305 --> 00:42:22,076
address all their poetic
effusions only to the night?

533
00:42:22,376 --> 00:42:24,945
Everything is softer in
starlight.

534
00:42:25,179 --> 00:42:30,051
We feel freer to be alone with
our pensive pleasures.

535
00:42:31,752 --> 00:42:36,157
Besides, the day sky shows us
only the sun,

536
00:42:36,357 --> 00:42:40,995
where the night gives its great
scattering of innumerable stars.

537
00:42:41,195 --> 00:42:46,801
I love the stars, I'm almost
angry with the sun for hiding them.

538
00:42:48,702 --> 00:42:53,240
I cannot forgive him for making
me lose sight of so many worlds.

539
00:42:53,441 --> 00:42:57,344
Worlds? What do you mean?

540
00:42:58,179 --> 00:42:59,613
Pardon me.

541
00:43:00,414 --> 00:43:02,716
You've struck a chord with my
imagination.

542
00:43:02,917 --> 00:43:05,586
I forget myself in a romantic
idea.

543
00:43:05,786 --> 00:43:09,290
And what romantic idea is
this?

544
00:43:11,358 --> 00:43:13,694
I'm half-ashamed to admit it.

545
00:43:14,862 --> 00:43:20,267
I have a notion that every star
may well be a world.

546
00:43:21,102 --> 00:43:25,706
I will not swear to it, but I think it so.
Because it pleases me to think so,

547
00:43:26,140 --> 00:43:29,210
and I believe that pleasure is
an accessory to truth.

548
00:43:29,410 --> 00:43:33,380
Well, if there's such a pleasure in it,
I'll believe the stars are anything you say.

549
00:43:33,582 --> 00:43:42,123
Oh, madam, no, it is not an enjoyment as you'd
find in seeing one of Molière's comedies:

550
00:43:42,490 --> 00:43:47,294
it is a pleasure of reason. It
delights only the mind.

551
00:43:48,796 --> 00:43:52,666
Do you think me incapable of
pleasures which depend only on reason?

552
00:43:53,267 --> 00:43:57,705
I'll show you your mistake.
Teach me about your stars.

553
00:43:59,306 --> 00:44:02,309
No. Let it never be said that
on an

554
00:44:02,511 --> 00:44:05,679
enchanted evening walk with the
most interesting and beautiful

555
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:09,183
woman I know, that all I did was
talk about philosophy.

556
00:44:11,185 --> 00:44:12,253
Well,

557
00:44:15,222 --> 00:44:16,724
what's wrong with philosophy?

558
00:44:42,016 --> 00:44:43,684
Here we are.

559
00:44:45,152 --> 00:44:48,389
Well, I guess there is a plus
side to having parked over here.

560
00:44:48,590 --> 00:44:51,725
Assuming our rescuer ever
arrives.

561
00:44:58,265 --> 00:45:00,234
While we're waiting,

562
00:45:00,502 --> 00:45:03,837
I'm very interested to hear more
of your literary analysis.

563
00:45:04,038 --> 00:45:09,076
Well, I'm not at all sure you're being sincere, but
I'm going to press on anyway because this is important:

564
00:45:09,843 --> 00:45:12,780
the question of whether it's
feminist or not... the idea of this

565
00:45:12,980 --> 00:45:16,083
philosopher mansplaining the
whole universe to the marquise.

566
00:45:16,518 --> 00:45:20,788
Of course what we understand as
feminist is from a modern point of view,

567
00:45:21,021 --> 00:45:22,856
and in fact he was writing in an
era

568
00:45:24,526 --> 00:45:26,860
when men felt super-threatened by
women who wanted to educate themselves.

569
00:45:27,596 --> 00:45:29,964
Aren't we still in that era?

570
00:45:30,264 --> 00:45:32,766
Oh, look at you, scoring
points.

571
00:45:33,968 --> 00:45:39,039
The thing is, the marquise chooses to spend
time with him, and to learn about astronomy.

572
00:45:39,507 --> 00:45:44,979
There's a lot of other much less engaging things
she would have been expected to be doing instead.

573
00:45:45,446 --> 00:45:50,050
And there are definitely moments when she doesn't put
up with his bullshit, his supposed "gallantries".

574
00:45:50,552 --> 00:45:52,052
I think there's something to
that.

575
00:45:54,522 --> 00:45:59,793
Fontenelle's entire literary reputation depended on him coming
up through salons, which were created and run by women.

576
00:46:00,562 --> 00:46:02,863
I don't think he was being
condescending.

577
00:46:03,565 --> 00:46:05,432
Or at least he was trying not to
be.

578
00:46:06,568 --> 00:46:09,136
He lived almost to 100, and
there's this story

579
00:46:09,571 --> 00:46:14,775
about how he met a young woman
not long before he died,

580
00:46:15,577 --> 00:46:19,913
and said, "Ah, madame. If only I
were eighty again!"

581
00:46:20,381 --> 00:46:24,918
Fine, I do get the humour and
that it's supposed to be charming,

582
00:46:25,119 --> 00:46:27,154
but on the other hand, it's a
bit of a creepy move.

583
00:46:27,388 --> 00:46:29,990
Oh come on, give the guy a
break.

584
00:46:30,190 --> 00:46:34,862
I only point this out to show that
I hold my monsieur to a high standard

585
00:46:35,563 --> 00:46:38,165
Anyway, apparently he never married.

586
00:46:38,533 --> 00:46:41,536
Oh my God. Was he just covering
for being gay?

587
00:46:42,036 --> 00:46:45,072
And all this was last-minute
reputation insurance?

588
00:46:45,272 --> 00:46:49,109
I'm sure there's some postgraduate
student somewhere investigating.

589
00:46:50,477 --> 00:46:52,946
It always gets political and
complicated,

590
00:46:53,548 --> 00:46:54,915
everybody's flawed.

591
00:46:57,552 --> 00:46:59,019
Calvados.

592
00:46:59,688 --> 00:47:00,954
The good stuff.

593
00:47:03,090 --> 00:47:04,458
What would that look like?

594
00:47:04,659 --> 00:47:07,161
I mean, would we rent these
places out?

595
00:47:08,462 --> 00:47:11,098
No, no. I couldn't be a
landlord.

596
00:47:12,734 --> 00:47:16,203
Maybe start a commune?

597
00:47:17,271 --> 00:47:18,972
Those places never last.

598
00:47:19,173 --> 00:47:20,240
People always fall out.

599
00:47:20,642 --> 00:47:23,277
I know. We could open a B&B.

600
00:47:23,977 --> 00:47:26,246
Probably not a lost cause in
terms of planning permission.

601
00:47:26,514 --> 00:47:28,982
And it's not a bad compromise:
sort of renters,

602
00:47:29,183 --> 00:47:31,218
sort of commune. There's a
turnover built in,

603
00:47:31,418 --> 00:47:32,986
before we get sick of people.

604
00:47:34,321 --> 00:47:36,957
You could host your salons.
Invite some philosophers.

605
00:47:37,991 --> 00:47:40,861
Nice to get at least a little
bit off the grid.

606
00:47:41,529 --> 00:47:44,865
Not have to be chasing a mobile
phone signal all the time.

607
00:47:48,670 --> 00:47:51,238
Isn't it something how much we
think about ourselves, but

608
00:47:52,741 --> 00:47:54,274
barely know who we are?

609
00:47:55,943 --> 00:47:58,912
To paraphrase a certain French writer
friend of mine from the old days:

610
00:47:59,647 --> 00:48:02,182
God must have been drunk when he
created us,

611
00:48:02,550 --> 00:48:04,985
and laughed his ass off when he
sobered up.

612
00:48:12,059 --> 00:48:14,596
Just curious, though,

613
00:48:15,229 --> 00:48:17,331
how far away is this locksmith
you called?

614
00:48:17,699 --> 00:48:19,233
Oh, hush.

615
00:48:33,447 --> 00:48:37,685
In truth, it's actually a lot
smaller than I remember.

616
00:48:38,118 --> 00:48:40,087
Well, you've grown.

617
00:48:47,695 --> 00:48:49,196
What are you doing here,
Bernard?

618
00:48:59,206 --> 00:49:02,943
The family that your bank got
rid of...

619
00:49:04,077 --> 00:49:09,049
And the one, perpetually
unmentioned, casualty of that deal...

620
00:49:09,283 --> 00:49:10,685
Your Dad...

621
00:49:14,689 --> 00:49:16,490
So that makes you the enemy.

622
00:49:20,394 --> 00:49:21,295
But how can you be?

623
00:49:23,263 --> 00:49:25,132
You were just a kid when it
happened.

624
00:49:26,501 --> 00:49:28,503
And whilst I was getting myself
all torn up about

625
00:49:28,703 --> 00:49:31,972
whether I was French or English,
posh or not,

626
00:49:32,439 --> 00:49:35,008
a poor orphan or just some
spoiled brat...

627
00:49:35,209 --> 00:49:37,978
Well, whatever you were doing,

628
00:49:38,813 --> 00:49:42,149
probably wasn't with any malice
towards me or my family.

629
00:49:42,517 --> 00:49:44,485
That's absolutely true.

630
00:49:46,788 --> 00:49:50,324
In my mind I went through a few
versions of how this could go.

631
00:49:52,259 --> 00:49:54,361
Nothing violent or anything,
don't worry.

632
00:50:00,434 --> 00:50:02,302
What am I doing here?

633
00:50:05,272 --> 00:50:07,074
I don't even know.

634
00:50:09,343 --> 00:50:14,582
But whatever it is, I couldn't just call up your company
and demand a whole afternoon of your time for it.

635
00:50:15,282 --> 00:50:16,584
No, I needed a story.

636
00:50:17,552 --> 00:50:20,555
So, I was a film location
finder.

637
00:50:21,388 --> 00:50:23,290
A tech start-up big-shot.

638
00:50:23,625 --> 00:50:26,426
A philosopher-scientist of the
17th century!

639
00:50:30,330 --> 00:50:33,300
It's not easy to find your place
in this world, Maggie.

640
00:50:34,167 --> 00:50:36,303
Let alone the whole cosmic
scheme.

641
00:50:38,305 --> 00:50:41,375
I actually did work at a couple
of TV shows.

642
00:50:41,576 --> 00:50:44,679
Rock bottom assistant, thanks to
an uncle who knew someone.

643
00:50:45,312 --> 00:50:47,649
And flirted with the idea of
making something out of it.

644
00:50:48,248 --> 00:50:50,150
Even did time in Los Angeles,

645
00:50:50,450 --> 00:50:53,353
which was fucking awful.

646
00:50:54,589 --> 00:50:57,457
Worse than law school, which,
yes, I did start

647
00:50:57,659 --> 00:51:01,328
with the intention of suing the
shit out of your employer.

648
00:51:02,329 --> 00:51:05,399
But which I promptly dropped out
of.

649
00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:07,200
Of course.

650
00:51:09,003 --> 00:51:13,206
And yes, I did work at one of those vaguely
sinister tech companies for a while,

651
00:51:14,341 --> 00:51:16,243
also without distinction...

652
00:51:16,476 --> 00:51:18,178
until I got the sack.

653
00:51:18,580 --> 00:51:20,480
And no, she doesn't know.

654
00:51:25,285 --> 00:51:29,557
They'd probably turn this place into
some high-tech secret headquarters.

655
00:51:30,925 --> 00:51:33,460
Your company been approached by
anyone like that?

656
00:51:33,661 --> 00:51:37,297
- Not that I'm aware of.
- Good! That's good.

657
00:51:37,599 --> 00:51:39,232
I fucking hate those...

658
00:51:39,433 --> 00:51:41,134
I don't even know where they
come from.

659
00:51:43,004 --> 00:51:44,772
I am definitely not one of these little shits
who think they can walk out of any job

660
00:51:44,973 --> 00:51:47,174
and get snapped right up by some
other company.

661
00:51:47,407 --> 00:51:51,178
The bratty egomaniacs who just
retire at our age.

662
00:51:52,513 --> 00:51:54,214
Guess I'm not a go-getter.

663
00:51:55,750 --> 00:51:58,519
I don't know what I am,
but I am definitely not a petty go-getter.

664
00:51:59,319 --> 00:52:00,454
Hey, I know what you are.

665
00:52:01,388 --> 00:52:02,189
What?

666
00:52:03,524 --> 00:52:05,392
You're nine months away from
being someone's father.

667
00:52:05,593 --> 00:52:06,426
Fuck!

668
00:52:07,394 --> 00:52:09,463
Just thought I'd point that
out.

669
00:52:09,998 --> 00:52:12,232
Thank you so much.

670
00:52:15,670 --> 00:52:16,804
It's interesting.

671
00:52:18,338 --> 00:52:19,674
Can I see that message again?

672
00:52:28,315 --> 00:52:29,651
D'you know what that is?

673
00:52:30,051 --> 00:52:31,686
I have a pretty good idea.

674
00:52:33,087 --> 00:52:36,658
No, I mean the image itself:
the circle with a cross in it.

675
00:52:39,827 --> 00:52:43,363
That's the ancient symbol of the
Sun. The solar cross.

676
00:52:43,564 --> 00:52:46,433
But at some point they changed it.
Like if you look on the NASA website,

677
00:52:46,634 --> 00:52:48,435
you'll see that now it's the
symbol of the Earth.

678
00:52:48,636 --> 00:52:51,906
At some point the sun symbol
became a circle with a dot in it,

679
00:52:52,106 --> 00:52:55,710
and that symbol was adopted as
the official symbol of the Earth.

680
00:52:57,545 --> 00:52:58,378
Who knew?

681
00:53:00,715 --> 00:53:02,583
That actually is very
interesting.

682
00:53:05,887 --> 00:53:09,423
- What do you think good ol' Fontenelle would make of that?
- Exactly!

683
00:53:09,624 --> 00:53:13,661
Or maybe just think it was a
really cool coincidence.

684
00:53:20,868 --> 00:53:26,473
"I've failed as a father," that's what
he'd say, over and over and over again,

685
00:53:28,475 --> 00:53:30,477
mostly with something like this
in his hand.

686
00:53:31,779 --> 00:53:34,448
He could get so sodden with
self-pity.

687
00:53:35,415 --> 00:53:36,551
But he wasn't wrong.

688
00:53:38,753 --> 00:53:40,621
I don't know who to be angry
with,

689
00:53:41,656 --> 00:53:43,758
but I'm sure as hell not ready
to be a parent.

690
00:53:43,958 --> 00:53:44,859
Who is?

691
00:53:46,527 --> 00:53:49,964
- Well isn't that just such a fucking cliché.
- Yeah, for a reason, though.

692
00:53:50,164 --> 00:53:51,532
Well it pisses me off.

693
00:53:53,601 --> 00:53:56,637
I say I'm not ready, and
unfailingly, that's the answer.

694
00:53:56,838 --> 00:53:58,806
As if I somehow no longer even
have any say in it all.

695
00:53:59,006 --> 00:54:00,742
Well I do have a say. I demand a
say.

696
00:54:02,844 --> 00:54:04,979
And I know it's selfish, and selfishness is
precisely the thing you need to learn to do without

697
00:54:05,179 --> 00:54:06,814
in order to be ready.

698
00:54:07,014 --> 00:54:08,883
Yeah, learn to.

699
00:54:09,650 --> 00:54:11,451
And that takes a while.

700
00:54:13,187 --> 00:54:15,757
We humans have a reasonably long gestation
period, so that buys you some time.

701
00:54:15,957 --> 00:54:20,528
No one even wants to believe there's
a possibility I'd make a crap father.

702
00:54:20,728 --> 00:54:23,430
And so they'd just pretend
otherwise, and then, what?

703
00:54:23,831 --> 00:54:26,433
when I have a messed-up kid,

704
00:54:26,634 --> 00:54:30,772
they'll just, what?... suddenly
all be shocked.

705
00:54:35,076 --> 00:54:36,677
"They fuck you up..."

706
00:54:40,815 --> 00:54:42,683
"...your Mum and Dad."

707
00:54:45,686 --> 00:54:47,522
"They may not mean to..."

708
00:54:48,956 --> 00:54:51,058
"...but they do."

709
00:54:59,700 --> 00:55:01,736
Imagine if they built a huge
spaceship

710
00:55:01,936 --> 00:55:06,541
where the idea was to travel for
generations to reach another solar system,

711
00:55:06,908 --> 00:55:08,776
and they all got cooped up and
sick of each other,

712
00:55:08,976 --> 00:55:10,812
and someone had brought that
poem,

713
00:55:11,012 --> 00:55:13,848
and it was, you know, like
subversive literature,

714
00:55:14,882 --> 00:55:18,986
and they all had a revolution of
deliberately refusing to reproduce,

715
00:55:19,187 --> 00:55:23,724
and so that by the time that ship
actually reached another world,

716
00:55:25,126 --> 00:55:29,362
all those aliens would only find
dead bodies.

717
00:55:32,934 --> 00:55:36,571
Is this something you've been working on?
Are you trying this out on me?

718
00:55:36,771 --> 00:55:38,338
No, just came up with it now.

719
00:55:39,874 --> 00:55:42,109
But I like it! Maybe I should
give this film business a go, eh?

720
00:55:42,310 --> 00:55:44,111
Definitely. Yeah, yeah, you
should.

721
00:55:47,048 --> 00:55:49,116
You're a very tolerant person,
Bernard.

722
00:55:50,885 --> 00:55:52,352
I appreciate that.

723
00:55:52,954 --> 00:55:54,655
- Am I?
- Yeah.

724
00:55:55,790 --> 00:55:57,925
Good dad material, I'm telling
you.

725
00:55:58,993 --> 00:56:00,061
Christ.

726
00:56:02,730 --> 00:56:04,031
You should call her back.

727
00:56:05,933 --> 00:56:08,035
It's not like you to torture her
this way.

728
00:56:10,037 --> 00:56:12,874
- How could you possibly know that?
- I don't know.

729
00:56:14,008 --> 00:56:14,909
I hope.

730
00:56:17,178 --> 00:56:19,379
We're just not at ease any
more.

731
00:56:20,748 --> 00:56:21,782
Not together.

732
00:56:22,950 --> 00:56:25,853
We tried having a baby and it
wasn't working,

733
00:56:26,053 --> 00:56:28,656
so I wanted to use that as a
weapon, to say...

734
00:56:29,056 --> 00:56:33,094
there you have it. The universe is
telling us we don't belong together.

735
00:56:34,095 --> 00:56:35,129
I didn't say it.

736
00:56:36,864 --> 00:56:38,032
I don't believe it.

737
00:56:40,134 --> 00:56:42,770
Not because I think we belong together, but because
I think there's no such thing as belonging.

738
00:56:44,038 --> 00:56:45,873
The universe tells us nothing.

739
00:56:46,908 --> 00:56:48,109
It's not conscious.

740
00:56:49,476 --> 00:56:52,847
And if it is, it's clearly
indifferent to the likes of us.

741
00:56:55,950 --> 00:56:58,819
We have an awful habit of
shutting each other down.

742
00:57:00,087 --> 00:57:01,122
We've become...

743
00:57:02,156 --> 00:57:03,157
ungenerous.

744
00:57:16,237 --> 00:57:18,072
Wonder how long that guy's going
to take.

745
00:57:19,573 --> 00:57:20,942
Could be in here for the night.

746
00:57:21,943 --> 00:57:25,212
Pity; the sunsets are nice here
this time of year.

747
00:57:29,216 --> 00:57:30,551
I'm a loser too, you know.

748
00:57:32,787 --> 00:57:35,122
- I don't think I used that word exactly.
- This job...

749
00:57:35,923 --> 00:57:39,827
if I'm being honest about it...
is undeniably the safe choice.

750
00:57:40,928 --> 00:57:45,166
I'm into pasty-faced poets and
sci-fi and astronomy,

751
00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:47,134
but look how I spend my days.

752
00:57:48,569 --> 00:57:50,871
If I'd known, when I was little,
about the Plurality of Worlds,

753
00:57:52,740 --> 00:57:55,009
I don't mean the actual plurality of worlds;
I think I probably did know about that.

754
00:57:55,242 --> 00:57:58,112
Which by the way is a testament
to something:

755
00:57:58,312 --> 00:58:00,614
if a girl like me can take that
knowledge for granted,

756
00:58:00,848 --> 00:58:04,518
when back then even an
aristocratic woman wasn't expected

757
00:58:04,719 --> 00:58:05,953
to know or even quite fathom it,

758
00:58:06,153 --> 00:58:08,022
well, then, that is saying
something about...

759
00:58:08,622 --> 00:58:12,026
I don't know... grace, I
suppose.

760
00:58:13,094 --> 00:58:15,029
Anyway, if I'd known about this,

761
00:58:15,629 --> 00:58:18,199
I just know it would have
inspired me to be

762
00:58:18,899 --> 00:58:20,034
a scientist,

763
00:58:20,901 --> 00:58:22,069
or a writer,

764
00:58:23,404 --> 00:58:25,039
or at the very least someone
who dresses up as something

765
00:58:26,273 --> 00:58:27,174
interesting and goes to
Comic-Con once in a while.

766
00:58:29,210 --> 00:58:30,945
But I really think it's too
late.

767
00:58:32,279 --> 00:58:33,714
You're not even 30.

768
00:58:34,048 --> 00:58:35,649
That's presumptuous,

769
00:58:37,118 --> 00:58:39,954
but also the most optimistic
thing I think I've heard you say.

770
00:58:40,955 --> 00:58:41,522
Yeah.

771
00:58:43,124 --> 00:58:44,925
What has come over me?

772
00:58:47,161 --> 00:58:51,032
Maybe there's a parallel universe where
it worked out better for both of us.

773
00:58:52,733 --> 00:58:55,202
And probably at least one
where it worked out worse.

774
00:58:55,403 --> 00:58:58,739
Well I don't if that's
pessimistic or optimistic, but yeah,

775
00:58:59,440 --> 00:59:00,741
probably.

776
00:59:03,077 --> 00:59:04,678
Too many possibilities.

777
00:59:08,315 --> 00:59:10,985
I hope you don't just think
I'm some fantasy girl,

778
00:59:11,786 --> 00:59:13,220
an escape from it all.

779
00:59:14,088 --> 00:59:15,689
Now that's presumptuous.

780
00:59:18,125 --> 00:59:19,326
Don't look at me.

781
00:59:20,227 --> 00:59:22,096
You're the one driving this
thing.

782
01:00:38,439 --> 01:00:40,307
- Is it my fault?
- I'm sorry?

783
01:00:40,509 --> 01:00:43,144
- I probably should have gone to the other...
- Oh, not at all.

784
01:00:43,512 --> 01:00:45,880
Oh, I'm so sorry.

785
01:00:46,280 --> 01:00:48,883
- Did you get spun around?
- That's all right.

786
01:00:49,083 --> 01:00:49,884
Are you sure?

787
01:00:50,484 --> 01:00:51,719
Absolutely.

788
01:00:54,488 --> 01:00:57,191
Well, you are indeed English.

789
01:00:57,391 --> 01:00:59,793
- And so are you!
- Partially, anyway.

790
01:00:59,994 --> 01:01:00,928
Right.

791
01:01:02,830 --> 01:01:05,666
I realize it may have been a bit presumptuous
of me to think you'd enjoy a look around.

792
01:01:05,900 --> 01:01:07,401
What? No!

793
01:01:07,602 --> 01:01:09,770
I mean, no, not presumptuous.
Not at all.

794
01:01:10,204 --> 01:01:12,339
- Of course I wanted to look around.
- OK, good.

795
01:01:13,575 --> 01:01:16,677
How dickish would it have been
to accept a stranger's

796
01:01:16,877 --> 01:01:21,382
very specific invitation, come all this
way, and then just tell her to eff off?

797
01:01:21,583 --> 01:01:26,220
Right, but what if it had been
10 or 15 years ago?

798
01:01:26,420 --> 01:01:29,223
That might be exactly what I'd
have done, yeah.

799
01:01:29,890 --> 01:01:31,660
Well, good timing then.

800
01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:34,361
Shall we?

801
01:01:37,431 --> 01:01:40,734
Now, I must warn you, it's
getting pretty run down.

802
01:01:40,935 --> 01:01:44,338
Yeah, I've braced myself as
best I can.

803
01:01:44,972 --> 01:01:46,407
How long has it been?

804
01:01:46,608 --> 01:01:48,008
Many years.

805
01:01:48,409 --> 01:01:50,344
I don't know. I've lost count.

806
01:01:52,046 --> 01:01:56,016
There was a highly regrettable druggy
dropout period just after law school,

807
01:01:56,317 --> 01:01:59,386
when I occasionally would drive
past the place to see...

808
01:02:00,522 --> 01:02:03,023
I don't know... to see if it was
even real.

809
01:02:04,458 --> 01:02:06,760
That quickly felt pathetic.

810
01:02:07,394 --> 01:02:08,563
It wasn't even conclusive:

811
01:02:09,263 --> 01:02:12,733
right now, for instance, it
seems less real than ever.

812
01:02:13,602 --> 01:02:15,002
To me too, actually.

813
01:02:17,037 --> 01:02:19,406
It's a shame we're late for all
the wild strawberries.

814
01:02:19,641 --> 01:02:22,343
Fontenelle swore that
strawberries made him live longer.

815
01:02:22,977 --> 01:02:24,745
He made it to almost 100,
didn't he?

816
01:02:25,446 --> 01:02:26,146
That's right.

817
01:02:27,414 --> 01:02:29,016
Good ol' Fontenelle.

818
01:02:31,418 --> 01:02:33,320
It is bizarre to see it like
this.

819
01:02:34,388 --> 01:02:37,925
Obviously better than a
fucking golf course. But still.

820
01:02:38,158 --> 01:02:42,029
Well, as you know, French
property law being what it is...

821
01:02:42,229 --> 01:02:44,999
I know. Protects the history
and all that.

822
01:02:45,567 --> 01:02:48,035
But to see it empty, it's
tragic.

823
01:02:49,036 --> 01:02:50,170
I agree.

824
01:02:53,107 --> 01:02:56,443
So you're telling me you haven't
had offers from any insufferable

825
01:02:56,645 --> 01:02:59,847
filthy rich tech brats looking
to turn it into, I dunno,

826
01:03:00,180 --> 01:03:04,451
the company's Thursday afternoon massage
parlor-slash-super-soldier cloning lab?

827
01:03:05,386 --> 01:03:06,920
No serious offers.

828
01:03:07,121 --> 01:03:08,822
Do you know anyone who's in the
market?

829
01:03:09,524 --> 01:03:10,858
No one who'd admit it.

830
01:03:11,458 --> 01:03:12,793
So,

831
01:03:13,927 --> 01:03:16,196
here we are. At last.

832
01:03:18,132 --> 01:03:21,035
In my mind I ran through a few
versions of how this could go.

833
01:03:21,603 --> 01:03:22,570
Oh?

834
01:03:23,971 --> 01:03:26,541
You probably worked out I
stalked you a little bit online.

835
01:03:28,475 --> 01:03:31,478
And I imagined all sorts of reasons you might
have to come here so that I could meet you.

836
01:03:32,946 --> 01:03:34,481
Definitely presumptuous.

837
01:03:34,683 --> 01:03:37,484
And I got a little bit carried
away.

838
01:04:28,102 --> 01:04:32,139
Anyway, talk about making something
more complicated than it needs to be.

839
01:04:33,107 --> 01:04:36,877
So finally I just worked up the
nerve to get in touch.

840
01:04:38,078 --> 01:04:42,015
- I hope it wasn't too weird.
- No, not too weird.

841
01:04:43,651 --> 01:04:45,252
I mean, it's completely weird.

842
01:04:45,452 --> 01:04:49,089
But not you. The place. The
circumstances.

843
01:04:49,557 --> 01:04:50,124
Right.

844
01:04:51,659 --> 01:04:54,995
And I hope you'll forgive me if
I've become familiar too quickly.

845
01:04:56,196 --> 01:04:57,164
I don't know.

846
01:04:58,633 --> 01:05:00,668
What's too quickly by your
standards?

847
01:05:00,869 --> 01:05:03,203
To be honest, I don't really
have a standard.

848
01:05:03,404 --> 01:05:04,271
Me neither.

849
01:05:07,441 --> 01:05:10,612
You don't have a pregnant wife who's
waiting to hear from you, do you?

850
01:05:10,812 --> 01:05:12,179
What?

851
01:05:16,718 --> 01:05:19,186
No! I hope not...

852
01:05:20,655 --> 01:05:22,322
No. I'm not married

853
01:05:23,457 --> 01:05:24,324
Divorced.

854
01:05:26,828 --> 01:05:30,330
OK. So this is a gravitational
question.

855
01:05:31,766 --> 01:05:35,002
Would you say, if you had to
choose either/or,

856
01:05:35,436 --> 01:05:40,340
you're someone who leaves,
generally, or someone who gets left?

857
01:05:41,074 --> 01:05:45,112
Or, someone who attracts, or
someone who becomes attracted?

858
01:05:49,216 --> 01:05:50,951
I don't even know anymore.

859
01:05:51,151 --> 01:05:53,287
Gravity's still such a
mystery, isn't it?

860
01:05:54,756 --> 01:05:57,024
And, not to pry,

861
01:05:57,224 --> 01:06:00,994
but OK yes, to pry a little...

862
01:06:02,831 --> 01:06:05,499
the offspring situation?

863
01:06:11,405 --> 01:06:15,075
I was all for them, actually,
but things didn't work out.

864
01:06:16,343 --> 01:06:17,444
We were young.

865
01:06:18,513 --> 01:06:20,515
Probably for the best, to tell
the truth.

866
01:06:21,381 --> 01:06:22,550
I pushed way too hard.

867
01:06:23,217 --> 01:06:25,352
Perhaps overcompensating

868
01:06:25,553 --> 01:06:28,021
- for everything.
- Of course.

869
01:06:28,388 --> 01:06:30,390
I mean, not of course but...

870
01:06:31,559 --> 01:06:33,427
- I'm sorry.
- It's all right.

871
01:06:34,261 --> 01:06:35,996
It was a long time ago now.

872
01:06:39,266 --> 01:06:43,003
Well, the place does feel a
little bit haunted.

873
01:06:43,905 --> 01:06:49,777
But seriously Maggie, I think that's because
nothing's been done to it since we left!

874
01:06:52,279 --> 01:06:53,581
What's the plan?

875
01:06:54,849 --> 01:06:57,184
- What are you going to do to turn it around?
- I know.

876
01:06:58,185 --> 01:06:59,286
Oh, I'm just joking.

877
01:07:00,254 --> 01:07:01,021
Sorry,

878
01:07:02,222 --> 01:07:05,292
I don't know why I'm teasing
you. We've just met.

879
01:07:08,830 --> 01:07:11,198
I suppose it always felt a
little bit haunted.

880
01:07:11,566 --> 01:07:13,133
In good ways, too.

881
01:07:14,167 --> 01:07:16,169
The place has definitely been
through a lot.

882
01:07:25,647 --> 01:07:27,114
Still here.

883
01:07:28,315 --> 01:07:29,483
Christ.

884
01:07:30,284 --> 01:07:32,085
That's just unbearably sad.

885
01:07:32,286 --> 01:07:33,420
I know.

886
01:07:36,189 --> 01:07:37,457
Have you got a pencil?

887
01:07:38,560 --> 01:07:39,561
I've got a pen.

888
01:07:40,294 --> 01:07:42,296
That's good. That's better.

889
01:08:10,592 --> 01:08:14,127
- I think that's actually even more sad now.
- It really is, isn't it?

890
01:08:14,328 --> 01:08:15,730
- What have we done?
- I know.

891
01:08:16,363 --> 01:08:19,466
It wasn't enough to repossess our
sprawling manse and let it rot?

892
01:08:19,667 --> 01:08:22,369
- But now you have to go and scribble all over the walls?
- Stop it.

893
01:08:22,570 --> 01:08:25,405
God, I'm being... horrible.

894
01:08:26,440 --> 01:08:27,709
That was a bit much.

895
01:08:27,909 --> 01:08:31,211
It was. Forgive me, Maggie!

896
01:10:01,936 --> 01:10:03,738
How did you even get this?

897
01:10:04,471 --> 01:10:05,773
Just don't tell my boss.

898
01:10:06,808 --> 01:10:07,909
Or sue him.

899
01:10:08,910 --> 01:10:10,343
Please.

900
01:10:13,581 --> 01:10:15,516
I loved this book when I was
younger.

901
01:10:17,919 --> 01:10:21,488
I didn't understand it. Almost
did.

902
01:10:23,524 --> 01:10:24,625
I wanted to.

903
01:10:25,827 --> 01:10:28,495
I wanted to be a "philosopher"
when I grew up.

904
01:10:30,732 --> 01:10:32,767
Then we lost the house. And
Dad...

905
01:10:34,902 --> 01:10:37,538
Perfect training for a
philosopher, now I think about it.

906
01:10:39,874 --> 01:10:41,809
This is pretty much my
favourite book.

907
01:10:43,945 --> 01:10:45,880
So thanks for letting me borrow
it,

908
01:10:46,914 --> 01:10:48,683
however unwittingly.

909
01:10:50,918 --> 01:10:52,520
You're very welcome.

910
01:10:56,924 --> 01:11:01,261
It's mind-blowing to think there are
places like this all over France.

911
01:11:01,662 --> 01:11:03,497
All over Normandy, even.

912
01:11:03,698 --> 01:11:05,833
But this is one of a kind,
though, isn't it?

913
01:11:08,503 --> 01:11:10,872
Honestly, what do you think
will become of it?

914
01:11:12,607 --> 01:11:13,508
Don't laugh.

915
01:11:14,742 --> 01:11:17,044
I tried to get it turned into a
Fontenelle museum.

916
01:11:18,045 --> 01:11:19,279
Seriously?

917
01:11:21,616 --> 01:11:22,950
Tried to? Past tense?

918
01:11:23,151 --> 01:11:24,552
Didn't work.

919
01:11:26,821 --> 01:11:27,955
We should try again.

920
01:11:31,692 --> 01:11:35,295
There's just one other thing I'd
like to look for.

921
01:11:54,849 --> 01:11:56,984
Wait here, I'll be right back.

922
01:12:04,625 --> 01:12:05,927
<i>Et voilà!</i>

923
01:12:07,728 --> 01:12:11,364
Perhaps past its best, but I'm
willing to give it a go.

924
01:12:12,066 --> 01:12:13,601
Have a drink with me, Maggie.

925
01:12:14,802 --> 01:12:15,937
What is that stuff?

926
01:12:16,137 --> 01:12:17,872
Maggie! You disappoint me.

927
01:12:18,139 --> 01:12:19,874
What is this, you ask?

928
01:12:21,042 --> 01:12:22,610
Apple brandy?

929
01:12:22,810 --> 01:12:25,680
The best apple brandy! The
only.

930
01:12:25,880 --> 01:12:27,849
The pride of Normandy.

931
01:12:30,751 --> 01:12:32,620
You know who else had a thing
for apples?

932
01:12:33,788 --> 01:12:34,856
Isaac Newton.

933
01:12:36,057 --> 01:12:39,627
That great English shifter of
French paradigms.

934
01:12:40,027 --> 01:12:43,898
If we're going to drink to all the people who
got us here, we should drink to him too.

935
01:12:45,933 --> 01:12:49,804
And to gravity being a little bit
less of a mystery than it used to be.

936
01:12:53,975 --> 01:12:56,043
In my mind I was playing a
little game.

937
01:12:56,777 --> 01:12:59,146
If I only I could keep you here
till sunset...

938
01:13:00,181 --> 01:13:01,414
What would happen?

939
01:13:01,916 --> 01:13:02,917
No idea.

940
01:13:04,118 --> 01:13:06,888
Sometimes I lack imagination in
really odd ways.

941
01:13:10,057 --> 01:13:11,391
Do you know any stars?

942
01:13:12,093 --> 01:13:14,695
Not anymore. Not by name.

943
01:13:15,096 --> 01:13:18,465
You know there's this app where you
can hold your phone up towards the sky

944
01:13:18,532 --> 01:13:21,002
and it tells you the
constellations you're looking at.

945
01:13:21,068 --> 01:13:22,837
- That's amazing.
- I thought so.

946
01:13:23,137 --> 01:13:24,906
But it needs a mobile signal,

947
01:13:25,106 --> 01:13:27,474
so maybe we don't want to go off
the grid after all.

948
01:13:30,077 --> 01:13:32,479
And if there really are infinite
stars,

949
01:13:33,080 --> 01:13:36,050
does that mean that any constellation
you could possibly imagine,

950
01:13:36,250 --> 01:13:38,485
any little connect-the-dots you
could make,

951
01:13:38,953 --> 01:13:40,755
must exist somewhere?

952
01:13:41,555 --> 01:13:44,025
Like all you need is the proper
vantage point to see it from?

953
01:13:44,225 --> 01:13:46,127
And the propensity to look for
it.

954
01:13:46,794 --> 01:13:48,162
No shortage of that here.

955
01:13:50,731 --> 01:13:52,465
Well, think about the face in
the moon...

956
01:13:54,235 --> 01:13:56,469
it's a great big reminder of how it's in
our nature to see what we want to see.

957
01:13:58,005 --> 01:14:00,541
- Ourselves.
- Quite.

958
01:14:01,909 --> 01:14:05,813
Well! Sounds like we've got it
all sorted, doesn't it?

959
01:14:06,147 --> 01:14:06,881
What?

960
01:14:08,049 --> 01:14:08,950
The universe.

961
01:14:09,150 --> 01:14:11,919
Oh shit, I don't know.

962
01:14:12,119 --> 01:14:12,954
No?

963
01:14:13,821 --> 01:14:16,524
Well, the sun-earth situation,

964
01:14:17,091 --> 01:14:19,093
yeah, most people seem pretty
clear on that.

965
01:14:19,293 --> 01:14:22,096
But stuff like quantum
entanglement,

966
01:14:22,363 --> 01:14:25,099
the multiverse, what there was
before the Big Bang?

967
01:14:25,800 --> 01:14:26,466
Fuck!

968
01:14:27,768 --> 01:14:29,203
So there won't be another
moment where someone says,

969
01:14:30,204 --> 01:14:34,075
<i>Oh, actually, it's this.</i>

970
01:14:34,942 --> 01:14:38,012
<i>Yeah, that's much simpler,
that makes sense. It's this, everyone.</i>

971
01:14:38,212 --> 01:14:39,246
Theory of everything.

972
01:14:41,315 --> 01:14:42,883
Don't know. Could be.

973
01:14:43,284 --> 01:14:45,052
Teams are working on it, for
sure.

974
01:14:46,153 --> 01:14:47,154
Teams!

975
01:14:52,960 --> 01:14:54,562
If someone does crack it,

976
01:14:56,230 --> 01:14:58,632
they won't be burned at the
stake, will they?

977
01:14:59,033 --> 01:15:00,501
I would hope not.

978
01:15:01,235 --> 01:15:02,937
But you never know.

979
01:15:05,272 --> 01:15:07,008
All alone in the meantime.

980
01:15:08,909 --> 01:15:09,977
Alone together.

981
01:15:14,181 --> 01:15:18,919
There's this great part where the
Marquise talks about how it's overwhelming

982
01:15:19,120 --> 01:15:21,255
to realise our insignificance in
the universe.

983
01:15:22,156 --> 01:15:24,058
And the Philosopher says: <i>yes</i>,

984
01:15:25,760 --> 01:15:29,163
<i>but it doesn't lessen the charms of a
beautiful face, a fine pair of eyes...</i>

985
01:15:30,331 --> 01:15:36,303
as he puts it: <i>they retain their power in
spite of all the worlds that can be created.</i>

986
01:15:39,340 --> 01:15:42,309
Not bad. What does she say to
that?

987
01:15:44,678 --> 01:15:45,679
She says:

988
01:15:46,747 --> 01:15:48,215
<i>Love is a strange thing;</i>

989
01:15:49,283 --> 01:15:51,285
<i>it escapes every corrective,</i>

990
01:15:52,353 --> 01:15:55,289
<i>and no system of understanding
can reduce it.</i>

991
01:16:07,747 --> 01:16:12,747
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