The Abstract (2013) - 2026 re-edited version

[00:00:16][music] You're not listening to me. We've got multiple sightings. People are scared, but there's like not one bit of official pay for it. I get what you're saying, Steve, but [ __ ] like this just doesn't make the news. When was the last time you saw a ghost make any sort of headline? Does Kate Moss count? No, they love that [ __ ] It'll be sandwiched between a kitten up a tree and somebody's 100th birthday. Yeah, but then they say it just disappeared, right? My ex-wife disappeared. That doesn't make her a ghost. Doesn't make this a ghost either.

[00:00:52]>> So, what you're saying is he's not human. He's a figure.

[00:00:56]>> That's exactly what I'm saying. That's what everybody's saying to me. Something not human.

[00:01:00]>> Yeah. Know Jesus, Steve. Where you getting your information from now?

[00:01:04]Every any old wino on the street. Any old person, you're just paying what?

[00:01:08]Look, I'm paying reasonable people reasonable money.

[00:01:12]Just got to keep your ears open. Keep your mind open.

[00:01:17]See what I'm saying to you if I when we've looked at it. I'll make my own mind up.

[00:01:33][music] Just take your time. Just I just want to know exactly what you saw in your own words. Just exactly what you saw.

[00:01:50]>> Um well, you know, I I was I was I was around here, you know, kind of in my usual spot, you know. Um this is this is where I come from. Um and There was there was a woman walking across the bridge. Um, you know, I I saw the woman. There was nothing nothing out nothing out usual. Um, but she was she was walking across the bridge and she must she must have got about halfway.

[00:02:25]Um, and then and then this [ __ ] thing just appeared from nowhere.

[00:02:30]>> What thing? What what kind of thing?

[00:02:34]Well, you know, it was it was like, but it wasn't of this. It wasn't of this earth. It wasn't human. Um, and it just stood there and it put out its arm and the woman just froze [ __ ] still. The woman the woman froze still and this thing was just stood there holding her like from a distance.

[00:03:04]Um and she froze on the bridge.

[00:03:08]>> How how how long was she frozen?

[00:03:11]>> Um you know it must have been a it must have been a good like 20 minutes or something.

[00:03:17]>> I've seen enough. Yeah, just >> this guy is either in a [ __ ] space cake wacko or we're getting a good look at something that needs some serious investigating.

[00:03:29]>> Yeah, and that's why we're here.

[00:03:33]What do you think? This is my holiday home.

[00:03:36]>> Well, what's wrong with Nottingham?

[00:03:38]>> I thought we were coming here maybe see some of the local attractions, you know, get to grips with a few things.

[00:03:43]>> Yeah, we're here to work.

[00:03:46]>> Yeah. You remember that time we were at university and Chan brought us that new type of plant to look at.

[00:03:51]>> I need help deciphering the origins of this specimen.

[00:03:55]>> Well, exactly. You didn't believe me then. And what happened? The university came and took it off us.

[00:03:59]>> Yeah. And they probably just ran away and did all their own tests on it anyway. And what we what were we left with?

[00:04:04]>> That's the thing is, you know, if you go looking for like unconventional truths, then you're going to get a reputation.

[00:04:12]>> Yeah. Chan did come to us for our reputation.

[00:04:14]>> Exactly. a reputation for thinking outside of the box.

[00:04:20]>> Talk about thinking outside the box.

[00:04:22]You're trying to um prove to me that sofas and everything else had some sort of thinking process and everything was conscious.

[00:04:29]>> That was a joke.

[00:04:30]>> Exactly. So, what do you think this is?

[00:04:42]Well, you're right about one thing.

[00:04:45]We need to see this thing for ourselves.

[00:04:48]Oh, yeah. Makes sense.

[00:04:50]What's the plan?

[00:04:53]Got the camera and got the reader. We need to get out there and take some tests.

[00:05:04]And then what?

[00:05:06]Look, we got to get to the place where this thing has been seen. Go at night, keep out of the way, get some readings, and we'll get the hell out.

[00:05:15]>> Sounds very scientific. Um, what if we don't see it?

[00:05:19]>> Why don't we keep going back?

[00:05:21]>> For how long?

[00:05:24]Till we get what we need?

[00:05:57]So this is the place.

[00:06:00]>> Yeah.

[00:06:02]All activity seems to center around this bridge.

[00:06:05]>> [ __ ] Well, look, let's just wait this thing out. Don't waste the batteries on the reader and we'll get down low and stay out of sight until something happens.

[00:06:15]>> Seems we got a 4hour window from all the accounts.

[00:06:18]>> Okay. Well, we just wait for someone to approach the bridge and then that happens. This thing should come out. If it's ever going to come out, >> do we? What?

[00:06:31][ __ ] no. Like we don't we got a clue what this thing's capable of.

[00:06:37]At the end of the day, we're just scientists. We just come here to get our information and then we get out.

[00:07:02]Someone's coming. Get the camera.

[00:07:04]>> Oh [ __ ] All right. All right. I'm on it. On it. Minute. On it. Get that reading.

[00:07:20][screaming] Heat. HEAT.

[00:07:40][screaming] >> [music] [music] >> Look at skin.

[00:08:14]some kind of pattern or something.

[00:08:17]Zebra.

[00:08:18]>> Oh, no way. That is weird. That is Well, look, you get discovering those readings for us.

[00:08:24]>> I have and makes sense.

[00:08:29]>> No sense. No, it's it's reading is it's old.

[00:08:40]>> How old?

[00:08:44]Old older than anything I've ever seen.

[00:08:48]The big bang over the university.

[00:08:50]>> Yeah.

[00:08:51]>> Older than that.

[00:08:52]>> Older than that.

[00:08:55]>> Yeah. I mean, look, I mean, the alpha waves are are clear. They're constant, but there's there's no time corrosion.

[00:09:03]>> Are you sure you're using that thing, right?

[00:09:06]>> This was taken tonight.

[00:09:13]I'm pretty sure if we spread this information around, it's just going to get debunked and seemed seemed and deemed as a hoax.

[00:09:20]>> But it's not a It's not. But you're right. We got to keep this to ourselves.

[00:09:28]You take What do you say?

[00:09:33]>> Well, it's hard to take your eyes off it. It just doesn't just doesn't look right.

[00:09:39]It's like I've never seen anything like it. It makes no sense. It's not human.

[00:09:44]It's got no face. It's just an abstract skin.

[00:09:50]What does it say? No face. Just an abstract skin.

[00:09:58]Abstract.

[00:09:59]That's it. That's it. That's what it is.

[00:10:03]>> Quick. Abstract. What do you mean?

[00:10:04]>> Well, it's it's got no form. Abstract.

[00:10:07]You know, all the art stuff, abstract patterns and making pictures.

[00:10:12]>> Yeah. No, just I think I know someone can help us.

[00:10:18]>> Really? I thought you said we were going to keep this between us.

[00:10:22]>> Yeah, I know. But now she's legit.

[00:10:29]>> And who is it? Who is she?

[00:10:35]She's um psychiatric a shrink.

[00:10:40]>> She's fit.

[00:10:42]>> That will help our situation out a hell of a deal, won't it?

[00:10:45]>> Yeah, but she knows about these things.

[00:10:48]So, what are you suggesting?

[00:11:06]>> [music] [music] [music] >> So you see extraction.

[00:11:29]It's common amongst mentally ill patients. It's like a a way of escape, like a a denial of reality.

[00:11:37]If you look at examples of abstract art, okay, you'll see maybe all linked to reality.

[00:11:45]We don't know where the abstraction comes from, though.

[00:11:49]>> And what do you think this has to do with our investigation?

[00:11:55]Look, if you if you have a look at these abstract forms, okay?

[00:12:00]Even the ones that look more realistic, there's still no real link to our reality.

[00:12:08]>> What are you saying? What did we see?

[00:12:10]>> Well, we never really thought that this work would have anything to do with our physical world. Just more of a display of psychology through creativity, basically.

[00:12:19]>> But what we saw was real.

[00:12:22]>> Yeah. Well, it can be real, just maybe not as you see it here. Think of um the movement in water, the patterns you see in the atmosphere, even the folds in your clothes. It's all technically abstraction, or at least in a lucard.

[00:12:36]>> No, I see what you're saying, but um what does it all mean? I mean, is it significant?

[00:12:42]>> Yeah, of course abstraction significant.

[00:12:44]It's something that's eluded science.

[00:12:47]>> So, what could this [ __ ] thing be?

[00:12:49]cuz like I'm not I'm not trying to swear pardon my French and all that. I'm not being ignorant, but I'm just trying to get my head around what we're dealing with here.

[00:12:57]>> I'm as as intrigued about this as you are. Now, you said you've got some readings that are old or ancient.

[00:13:03]>> Yeah. I mean, you know, the readings we got, there's no other explanation for it.

[00:13:09]>> Interesting. Well, you know, abstraction is old, and I guess abstraction is within nature, and nature's as old as time, >> right?

[00:13:36]Do you realize this could be dangerous?

[00:13:38]>> I think I can handle myself. I do deal with some pretty dangerous individuals, you know.

[00:13:42]>> Oh, yeah. I suppose you do. My cave. Oh, I can't tell you how many times you met the incarnation of the devil or had to stop the coming of the Antichrist.

[00:13:51]Saving the world from Armageddon's a day job for me.

[00:13:53]>> Yeah, that is does all seem a little bit badass, but I don't think we're at stage while we're getting here.

[00:13:59]>> I wouldn't be too sure.

[00:14:00]>> Seriously.

[00:14:02]>> Oh, no. I'm sure. Uh, abstract figures freezing people at times. A pretty regular thing around here, right?

[00:14:07][clears throat] >> Fine. Look, you might not believe it all, but I do think there's some truth in all of this. You've got the evidence.

[00:14:24]It's me.

[00:14:37]I can't believe I'm [ __ ] doing this.

[00:14:39]You're the one who needed convincing.

[00:14:40]Why don't you get frozen?

[00:14:41]>> Shut up, Mo, man. You'll be fine. And this is for science. Anyway, besides, if all works out, you'll be famous.

[00:14:48]>> Oh, just try and stay calm, okay? None of the other victims have died yet.

[00:14:52]Remember, this abstract's only freezing people like regular citizens. So, just try and act normal.

[00:14:58]>> I am normal.

[00:14:59]>> Seriously though, with power that it's displaying, they might be able to detect the whisper in a trap. Okay.

[00:15:10]>> All right.

[00:15:32]>> [music] >> Where are What do you want?

[00:15:44]>> I am here to show humanity the error of its ways. Mankind's systematic religion is destroying God.

[00:15:55]>> I don't understand.

[00:15:57]>> God is all of nature, mankind included, and you are destroying this planet.

[00:16:08]>> I am going to destroy that plan. So that a new species may take its place.

[00:16:15]>> That's insane. I mean, mankind has a fault and doesn't deserve extinction.

[00:16:20]>> Quite the opposite. Mankind has poisoned this once green earth. You are destroying God itself.

[00:16:28]I'm here to execute God's plan to its foot so that mankind may no longer survive.

[00:16:37]I can see that right. Who are you? I am nature.

[00:16:43]>> [ __ ] nature.

[00:16:45]>> Just be ignorant. I expect from your species. Your task is to tell humanity of its inevitable dives.

[00:16:54]Tell your people what is coming for them. Stand for them. They'll destroy you. Impossible. I made you.

[00:17:05]Are you?

[00:17:08]No.

[00:17:10]We are all God. Consider God is a mind and you are part of this mind needs to be removed so God may survive.

[00:17:26][ __ ] Okay. Okay.

[00:17:34]>> What happened?

[00:17:40]I don't know in the room.

[00:17:43]>> Brian, give him the coat. It's freezing.

[00:18:00]Moving >> an abstract.

[00:18:12]He spoke to me.

[00:18:18]He was going to wipe out the human race.

[00:18:20]Please, Brian. What just happened?

[00:18:22]>> He was suspended for about 5 minutes, but the abstract stood there where he appeared.

[00:18:28]He's going to wipe out the human race.

[00:18:30]>> Right. Hang on. Just think. This could be a psychotic delusion. No one else has mentioned anything about what he saw or heard.

[00:18:40]>> Scared God's body.

[00:19:01]That'll explain why the readings are so ancient.

[00:19:04]He's part of God. He's he's remembered all the time. Well, none could believe in all this [ __ ] Just leave me. Come on. We can walk. Walk.

[00:19:13]>> Come on. Let's get out of here.

[00:19:47]The room looks like water.

[00:19:53]It was like I was inside the river somewhere.

[00:19:56]>> Interesting. Why would it take you into the water?

[00:20:00]>> Maybe cuz the river is part of nature.

[00:20:03]>> You could be right, Steve.

[00:20:05]The abstract obviously using the river as it location to track people cuz it's near to nature. Water moves like an abstract.

[00:20:15]Just call freaking I've seen this thing now. I've experienced it. Other people have seen him go to do something.

[00:20:25]>> Yeah, but you're the only one that's reported anything that is said or what you've seen.

[00:20:29]>> Yeah. And he's the only one with any rationality. Steve's a scientist.

[00:20:33]Everyone else that's been seen or been taken have gotten just nobody's. No [ __ ] credentials, no nothing.

[00:20:42]You're different.

[00:20:45]>> Jesus, Steve, you're not different. He's just like anyone else. You think because you bought some lowgrade fancy equipment and you've got a website makes you a [ __ ] scientist.

[00:20:54]>> Hold on a minute, baby. Where's all this come from?

[00:20:57]>> Right. I think it's time I stopped playing with you two little wankers.

[00:21:04]>> Now, I'm sure your government would be very proud and you'd probably be commended if you were going to live any longer.

[00:21:24]Hello.

[00:21:26]>> Hello. You've reached General Roberts over time.

[00:21:30]>> Hi, it's Diane Strathold, East Midland Psychiatric Nurse.

[00:21:34]>> Hello, Strathold. How are you?

[00:21:37]>> There's been a development in Nottingham. One of the abstracts has been cited. I've got two casualties.

[00:21:42]Both freelance scientists, nothing but a couple of Ghostbusters really. I had to execute them myself, but they've managed to record some valuable information.

[00:21:51]>> That's interesting news, Miss Stra.

[00:21:54]We'll send them right away.

[00:21:56]>> Okay. Well, um I'm at um >> There's no need to tell us your location, Miss Stra. We'll be there soon.

[00:22:04]>> Bastards.

[00:22:07]What have I done?

[00:22:20]Heat. Heat.