Domain (2016)
Beth Grant: Nadine
Quotes
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Nadine : [in an instructional video] Hello, my name is Nadine, and I am the designer of the LSB-300 lifesaving bunker. If you're watching this, the lottery is over and you are one of the lucky few who will live through the Saharan flu epidemic. You are a survivor. If need be, your bunker can keep you alive for up to 70 years.
Houston : [as the lights in his bunker keep flashing bright colors that change every few seconds] Yeah I tell you, I ain't gonna last 70 hours if this shit don't stop.
Boston : It'll work itself out, just calm down.
Houston : Oh, you wanna trade bunkers?
Nadine : To protect you from surface conditions, your bunker is 30 feet underground. The artificial day cycle will keep your sleep patterns normal. Your bunker is stocked with enough Supplival powder to last a lifetime. When mixed with water, Supplival creates a delicious shake that's packed with nutrients, in vanilla, strawberry, or chocolate.
Atlanta : [drinking her Supplival] This is so *not* a chocolate shake.
Nadine : The generator powers the bunker's closed-loop air and water filtration. 100% of what you consume is recycled.
Boston : Wait a minute, does that mean we drink our own piss?
Denver : You just now realized that?
Boston : [dryly] Science is amazing.
Nadine : The generator also powers the atmosphere purifier. The purifier filters contaminated air molecules and strips them of the virus. The 500,000 bunkers that make up the network operate in tandem to eliminate the viral threat. The network generates an estimate for how long this process will take, based on daily data which you can view in your statistics terminal. Solitary habitation is necessary to ensure that this virus spreads no further. To combat the inevitable sense of isolation, we created Domain. Domain is an information and social networking platform. Domain also allows full access to our encyclopedic archives. Studies found that groups of seven create an ideal long-term social networking community. Each group of seven was selected using algorithms derived from your personal histories. Right now I too am probably living out my days in an LSB-300 just like yours, wondering how much longer I'll be down here. One thing is certain, we will eradicate the Saharan flu. Your efforts matter, *you* matter. We are the survivors. An Earth free of this virus awaits, humanity is counting on us.
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Phoenix : What did they do?
Nadine : Are you sure you want to know?
Phoenix : Yes, they're my friends.
Nadine : Well, Raymond Voss was a career criminal, he was in and out of prison his whole life, I think you know the rest of his resume. Hector Gonzales was in a gang, he was directly responsible for at least 20 murders. Olivia Michaels was suffering from postpartum depression and she drowned her three little girls, right before she attempted to commit suicide with pills. Cedric Jackson was a prostitute and drug addict, he murdered innumerable men who paid to have sex with him, stealing their cash, their jewelry. Barry O'Malley, robbed a bank with his two brothers, afterwards they were trying to divide the heist, and he murdered them both, execution style.
Phoenix : And Denver?
Nadine : Dean Atkins stalked and murdered 11 women that he met on various dating websites.
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Nadine : This program was my life, my baby. I watched all of you every day for six years, I know everything about all of you. I gave you a purpose, a reason to live, I gave you hope. An opportunity to put your past behind you and to create something new, a way to live your life in a humane atmosphere, instead of some prison where the inmates are raped and murdered.
Phoenix : [crying] This is worse!
Nadine : It's only worse because you found out, you were never supposed to find out.
Denver : Ignorance is bliss, huh?
Nadine : Something like that.
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Phoenix : Why have you been removing people from their bunkers?
Nadine : They're shutting down the Domain.
Phoenix : Why?
Nadine : Because you banned Orlando!
Phoenix : Who even knows about that?
Nadine : Everyone! Somebody leaked the video, it blew up on the internet, it was national news for weeks. The media called you 'The Penthouse Prisoners', they couldn't believe how much freedom you had in the prison environment. It was ridiculous, we were always in control. That's not all, the public hated that you didn't even know you were in prison, they thought the bunkers were too nice, they thought you were getting off too lightly. Never underestimate humanity's capacity to be punitive.