Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

01:45:26,280 --> 01:45:29,160 He hasn't come in, answered his phone. Par for the course from him. 1331 01:45:29,240 --> 01:45:31,440 Probably fucked off to Amsterdam for a spot of gardening. 1332 01:45:31,520 --> 01:45:34,040 He'll be back, he always is. Anyway, come on. 1333 01:45:44,120 --> 01:45:47,760 Looking good. Good thing I doubled on the advertising. 1334 01:45:54,280 --> 01:45:55,960 -That's not... -[sighs] 1335 01:45:56,040 --> 01:45:58,760 Stefan, mate. This is due today. You said it was stable. 1336 01:45:58,840 --> 01:46:00,840 -It was, I just-- -Just what? 1337 01:46:01,240 --> 01:46:02,440 I added in a new path, 1338 01:46:02,520 --> 01:46:05,200 the government conspiracy branch, I thought I'd tied up all the loose ends. 1339 01:46:05,280 --> 01:46:06,600 If it's something you've added, let's just take it out. 1340 01:46:06,680 --> 01:46:08,920 -No, it's important. -Stefan, mate. 1341 01:46:09,480 --> 01:46:11,040 The deadline is today. 1342 01:46:11,120 --> 01:46:14,640 I just need the weekend. I know I can squeeze this path in. 1343 01:46:14,720 --> 01:46:17,360 -It's complicated enough. -Just the weekend. Please. 1344 01:46:21,040 --> 01:46:22,720 -First thing Monday. -First thing. 1345 01:46:22,800 --> 01:46:26,400 OK. Shit, I've got to run, meeting the John Menzies guys. 1346 01:46:27,120 --> 01:46:30,840 Just don't fuck up. There's a lot riding on this now. 1347 01:46:30,920 --> 01:46:31,920 I know. 1348 01:46:33,600 --> 01:46:34,440 [door closes] 1349 01:46:35,160 --> 01:46:36,320 [door opens] 1350 01:46:37,720 --> 01:46:40,760 Er... Colin wanted me to give you this. 1351 01:46:42,160 --> 01:46:43,240 What is it? 1352 01:46:43,320 --> 01:46:45,840 He said he taped it off the telly, to inspire you. 1353 01:46:49,080 --> 01:46:51,800 -[Stefan] Do you know where Colin is? -No. Sorry. 1354 01:47:18,760 --> 01:47:20,320 You having a film night? 1355 01:47:28,160 --> 01:47:30,800 [TV jingle] 1356 01:47:30,880 --> 01:47:34,200 -They're great! -Kellogg's Frosties. 1357 01:47:39,400 --> 01:47:40,760 [man on TV] Towards the end of his life, 1358 01:47:40,840 --> 01:47:45,520 Davies was apparently self-administering hallucinogens on a daily basis. 1359 01:47:45,600 --> 01:47:47,480 This, coupled with his attempts 1360 01:47:47,560 --> 01:47:50,680 to complete the complex multiple narratives of Bandersnatch 1361 01:47:50,760 --> 01:47:52,720 was to prove the final straw. 1362 01:47:53,600 --> 01:47:55,520 He became obsessed with bizarre symbols 1363 01:47:55,600 --> 01:47:58,320 and the limitations of his own free will. 1364 01:47:58,760 --> 01:48:02,360 In his notes, Davies repeatedly sketched a glyph 1365 01:48:02,440 --> 01:48:07,640 which to him represented multiple fates, potential realities splitting in two. 1366 01:48:08,560 --> 01:48:12,440 It was the start of his complete mental collapse. 1367 01:48:12,600 --> 01:48:16,040 Davies became convinced he had no control over his fate 1368 01:48:16,120 --> 01:48:19,440 because his wife was spiking him with psychoactive drugs 1369 01:48:19,520 --> 01:48:24,160 at the behest of a demon called Pax, a sort of lion figure, 1370 01:48:24,240 --> 01:48:26,000 he claimed he'd seen in a vision, 1371 01:48:26,080 --> 01:48:28,640 and who ended up being incorporated into the book. 1372 01:48:31,680 --> 01:48:34,040 It was this that led him to kill her. 1373 01:48:34,840 --> 01:48:39,360 He decapitated her and daubed the glyph symbol on the walls with her blood. 1374 01:48:41,640 --> 01:48:43,280 After his arrest, he told police 1375 01:48:43,800 --> 01:48:47,040 we exist within multiple parallel realities at once. 1376 01:48:48,000 --> 01:48:52,400 One reality for each possible course of action we might take in life. 1377 01:48:53,280 --> 01:48:55,520 Whatever we choose to do in this existence, 1378 01:48:55,600 --> 01:48:58,880 there’s another one out there in which we’re doing quite the opposite, 1379 01:48:58,960 --> 01:49:03,680 which renders free will meaningless. Nothing but an illusion. 1380 01:49:31,000 --> 01:49:33,040 [Colin] Mirrors let you move through time. 1381 01:50:28,600 --> 01:50:30,680 [mum] Yes, and so what, Rabbit is a toy. 1382 01:50:31,160 --> 01:50:33,080 [dad] A baby's toy that he takes everywhere. 1383 01:50:33,160 --> 01:50:34,000 [mum] He's five. 1384 01:50:34,080 --> 01:50:36,240 [dad] By five he should've stopped playing with dolls. 1385 01:50:36,320 --> 01:50:38,360 -[mum] It's not a doll. -If he takes it to your parents, 1386 01:50:38,440 --> 01:50:40,640 I'm going to have to withstand another lecture from your dad 1387 01:50:40,720 --> 01:50:42,440 -about permissive child-rearing. -Oh, for God's sake. 1388 01:50:42,520 --> 01:50:45,680 No, I'm sorry, look, I am going to do something about this. 1389 01:51:00,...