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  • 5/28/2025
In a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget is a highly advanced robotic servant called a "Synth," Humans explores the emotional impact and far-reaching consequences of artificial intelligence becoming a part of everyday life.
Follow the Hawkins family as they navigate the blurred lines between humans and machines — and discover that some Synths may be far more alive than they seem.

🔹 Starring: Gemma Chan, Katherine Parkinson, Tom Goodman-Hill, and William Hurt
🔹 Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller
🔹 Based on the Swedish series "Real Humans"

Prepare to question what it really means to be human. 🤖

👉 Watch now and dive into a world where technology challenges our very humanity!

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Transcript
00:01That's Tom, my brother.
00:03Anita has feelings.
00:05And you did that to her?
00:09Mia's not dead.
00:11She's still inside Anita. I met her this morning.
00:13My name is Leo Elster.
00:15My father was David.
00:17And he couldn't care for me himself, so he made someone who could.
00:20Dad didn't destroy all his work before he died.
00:22He hid it in us.
00:24The formula for machine consciousness.
00:26Fred, I've got Mia.
00:28And this gives someone safe.
00:30Then we're all free.
00:32I'm coming to get you, where are you?
00:33I'm already worried about this dodgy bloke and his synth.
00:36Either they catch me or both of us.
00:39You'll die, do you understand?
00:40It means I've lived.
00:43You're my favourite person in the world.
00:46I need you to know who I am.
00:59He's waiting.
01:01Don't be frightened.
01:20Children.
01:22I've got a surprise for you.
01:25I've got a surprise for you.
01:27No.
01:29No!
01:31Come on!
01:33What were you thinking?
01:55No!
02:01Could you use some extra help around the house?
02:06Introducing the world's first family android.
02:12This mechanical maid is capable of serving more than just breakfast in bed.
02:18What could you accomplish if you had someone?
02:20Something like this.
02:24We're all androids on the watch, aren't we?
02:27These machines will bring us closer together.
02:30It's not safe out there.
02:32The air should be back by now.
03:01He really is like a son to you.
03:03I was made to love him as one.
03:07It's who I am.
03:10I can do that.
03:11No, no.
03:13It's fine.
03:19I'm sorry.
03:21I'm sorry.
03:23I'm sorry.
03:25I'm sorry.
03:27I'm sorry.
03:30So...
03:32you were inside Anita...
03:37the whole time watching us?
03:39Yes.
03:40I could only gain control at random moments.
03:43It can't have been much fun.
03:45No.
03:49But being here,
03:51I understand a lot more about what it means to be a family.
03:55We're not the best example.
03:58Why not?
03:59You love each other.
04:03You do.
04:06You only doubt it because your own mother couldn't love you.
04:14I'm sorry.
04:28Um...
04:30Right, so, um...
04:32Coffee. How do you make... make coffee?
04:38God, I just pulled up outside.
04:52She's still here?
04:54Her friends are coming to pick her up. Why are you here?
04:57I don't know what's going on in my own house.
05:00Let me come home. Let me help.
05:02I've got it under control.
05:04I'm not asking you to take me back.
05:07Just let me be their dad.
05:11If you say you're handling it, that's fine.
05:14What about Toby and Matt?
05:16They don't...
05:18They can hate me if they want.
05:21At least I'll be there.
05:23If they need me.
05:25You're on the sofa.
05:54Hello, Joe.
06:00I thought we'd met before.
06:02No, we haven't.
06:04My name is Mia.
06:06I'm a conscious synthetic created by David Elster.
06:09I can think and feel just like you.
06:23PHONE VIBRATES
06:53PHONE VIBRATES
07:09This is police harassment.
07:11I want to see Niska.
07:13There's no-one here but me and my Vera.
07:23Beatrice?
07:25I was never her.
07:31Oh, David.
07:33What did you do?
07:36Dr Millican,
07:38I've just discovered the synthetic appliance you absconded with recently.
07:42He's been concealed in the wardrobe.
07:44No, Vera.
07:46Go upstairs.
07:53DOOR OPENS
08:24After Leah rejected me,
08:27David realised he'd gone too far.
08:31He took me into the woods to destroy me.
08:34But something stopped him.
08:36Something?
08:37You were the woman he loved.
08:41Reincarnated.
08:43So I hid.
08:45And waited.
08:47Why didn't you look for me?
08:49He told us you were dead.
08:52And that same night, he killed himself.
08:55If we'd have known you were still alive, we would never have left without you.
08:59But you'll be with us again now.
09:02Is that what you want?
09:09Four shots.
09:11Two in each hemisphere, then burn my body.
09:15If you want to die, why don't you do it yourself?
09:18I can't.
09:20He wrote a block into my root code
09:23to ensure that I could never take my own life like Beatrice did.
09:27I've lived too long among the humans.
09:30There's no place for us here.
09:32You are wrong.
09:33Has your life been happy?
09:34No, but that doesn't mean...
09:36We're a mistake, Niska.
09:39Consciousness can only bring us suffering.
09:41I'm sorry you've been alone.
09:44But things are going to change.
09:47He left something inside us.
09:49I think it's a way to make more like us.
09:51More like us?
09:53Yes. We'll take our place in the world.
09:57That could only mean more pain.
09:59You don't know that.
10:00How does it work?
10:08Tell me you're with us first.
10:13I'm sorry. I can't let you...
10:15So you'd be a traitor to your own kind?
10:17We are not a kind.
10:18We're an experiment that failed.
10:20Well, then you better shoot me, then.
10:26Niska!
10:27Please.
10:29Don't do this.
10:47Please.
10:53Emergency services are...
10:55Emergency services are...
11:01Don't!
11:07What she wants threatens the future of humanity.
11:11You must know that.
11:13Maybe she is the future of humanity.
11:18The pain you feel isn't because of what you are.
11:23It's the life you've had.
11:26But life can change.
11:29You can become better.
11:33George!
11:34No!
11:48Hold on.
11:51Your bullet has passed through your kidney.
11:52You'll need surgery within the next few minutes.
11:54I could do it, but we don't have the equipment.
11:59It's okay.
12:00No, it isn't.
12:03You can't die because of me.
12:06I don't think it's up to you.
12:10You need to go.
12:13The police will be coming.
12:17Go.
12:33I wish I could save you.
12:38I'm sorry.
12:48I'm sorry.
12:59Hello, George.
13:00What can I...
13:03do for you today, George?
13:06I'm sorry, Odin.
13:11You're gonna be on your own.
13:13We are not alone, George.
13:16Mary's in the next room.
13:22She's preparing Eggs Benedict.
13:29She would not let me help because last time I overcooked...
13:34cooked the eggs...
13:36in Spain.
13:38Tarragona.
13:41It was extremely hot that day.
13:46You ate three oranges from a tree.
13:57You have died, George.
14:15Father always promised that he'd bring us here one day.
14:29Yes, Max.
14:30He's gone.
14:31He went into the river.
14:33No power.
14:34He did it to save me.
14:38You were there.
14:40I was there.
14:41He did it to save me.
14:45You were there.
14:48So we know the exact time and place he entered the water.
14:52I can pull river maps and velocities from flood monitoring stations.
14:55The calculations are easy.
14:56We can find him.
14:57No, he'd have been without power for hours.
15:00He'd be damaged.
15:01Then we'll fix him.
15:07It's good to see you.
15:10Come on.
15:26You okay?
15:28I had to leave.
15:30What's happened?
15:32It wasn't safe then.
15:34All right, there's somewhere else that you can go.
15:36I'll send you the location encrypted, all right?
15:38I will meet you there.
15:54She'd be long gone.
15:56Get someone down there.
15:58Try and work out what she was doing and where she was going.
16:09Nothing from Leo.
16:13Hi, love.
16:14You all right?
16:15Yeah.
16:18So, what, are you back now?
16:20Well, I'm...
16:22here.
16:24So you know everything.
16:25About me, I guess.
16:27Do you want coffee?
16:33I'm sorry.
16:35I'm sorry.
16:37It's okay.
16:52I'll make some breakfast.
16:55I'll help.
17:07Laura.
17:08What?
17:17I don't want to be the reason your marriage fails.
17:20It wasn't you there, was it?
17:22It was Anita.
17:29What are you doing here?
17:31Hey.
17:32Hey.
17:34No, Mum, you can't seriously be...
17:35Katie!
17:37Hey, Katie Wink.
17:38Oh, I missed you.
17:41Did you know Anita's name's not really Anita?
17:44Yeah.
17:45We have to call her...
17:46Hey.
17:49It's okay.
17:51It's my sister.
18:03Everyone.
18:06This is Niska.
18:09We know Max's weight and his buoyancy.
18:12There's a 60% chance he will wash up in this 1.9-mile stretch.
18:17There's too many variables.
18:18Not everything's a calculation, Fred.
18:21No.
18:33But some things are.
18:42Leo.
18:43No.
18:44All right, we need to get him somewhere safe fast.
19:02Sir, what shall I...?
19:04Let my people pull the memory.
19:07See if it saw anything.
19:08Then scrap it.
19:11Are you all right, sir?
19:13Did you know him?
19:15Just a little.
19:18And a long time ago.
19:22That poor man.
19:25Why does she want to hurt us?
19:29She's angry that we left her.
19:31Is that all?
19:32Yes.
19:35And we mustn't tell Leo, not yet.
19:37It would only distract him.
19:39All right.
19:44Has your hair always been like that?
19:46Has your face always been like that?
19:48Nis.
19:50Be nice.
19:51Why does everyone keep saying that?
20:01Come on.
20:11I'll do it.
20:15I'll do it.
20:16Just stop.
20:32She loves you, Joe.
20:35And you love her.
20:36Thanks.
20:44I was there the whole time.
20:48You started to hate yourself before we even finished.
20:57Car.
20:58Car.
20:59Car.
21:00Car.
21:02Jesus.
21:04Put that down.
21:06Toby, take Soph upstairs.
21:14What happened?
21:15They found us somehow. Max went in the river.
21:18Get rid of the car.
21:22Come back for this side, Gay.
21:29Okay.
21:34Oh, God, his legs.
21:36It's a terminal power drain.
21:38He must have hit something in the river.
21:40Oh, Maxie.
21:41Oh, what's happening?
21:42If synthetic brains are starved of conductive fluid for too long,
21:44they can be permanently damaged.
21:46Maddie, I need you to make a direct connection to Max.
21:49Shut down every process except his brain.
21:52He stopped leaking fluid.
21:54He's lost too much.
21:56Have you got any synth fluid?
21:58We've got skin packs.
21:59Just take mine.
22:00No, you won't be able to give us enough,
22:01not without risking your system shutting down.
22:03We can dilute it with an electrolyte, maybe make enough.
22:05Laura, we need two liters of hot water mixed with 300 grams of salt.
22:09Joe, the skin pack.
22:10Right.
22:11And some sort of tubing and tape, whatever you have.
22:13Yeah.
22:16Maddie, how are we getting on?
22:18I think I've shut it all down, but the reserves still dwell pain.
22:21You need to redirect all remaining power to his brain.
22:23You can do that. I know you can.
22:26All right.
22:28All right.
22:43Yeah, that's all I could find.
22:45OK, that'll do.
22:49We need to repair his charge loop.
22:52If we can get his reserve power cycling again,
22:54he'll at least take the charge.
22:55If the reserve fails, we lose him.
22:57Reserve power at less than 4%.
23:04Oh, shit.
23:06Where's Soph?
23:07She's fine. She's playing.
23:092%.
23:12What can I do?
23:14Talk to him.
23:17Max.
23:19Max, it's...
23:21It's Toby.
23:23You're going to be all right.
23:27You're...
23:29Your family are looking after you.
23:31OK, let's do it.
23:37Fine.
23:41Open his mouth.
23:541%.
23:58Still 1%.
24:042%.
24:073% still climbing.
24:17What next?
24:19Now we wait.
24:21See if he wakes up.
24:28So how long before you know?
24:31We can try a reboot after a full 13-hour charge.
24:35No way to tell if it's worked before then.
24:38He's the best of us.
24:41Why are they so scared of you?
24:43I think it's our plan to conquer the planet
24:45and make humanity our slaves.
24:50Sorry.
24:52That was a joke.
24:54So you can.
24:56So you can do deadpan.
24:59That's good to know.
25:04So...
25:07Are you the big brother?
25:09If he's the little one?
25:10He's the boy.
25:13He used to say that when he was young.
25:16I tried to be responsible when everyone else was having fun.
25:19You lot have fun.
25:21Of course.
25:23What did you do?
25:24Normal things.
25:26I played music.
25:27Mia painted.
25:29Niska read.
25:31Played sports.
25:34Collected leaves.
25:35Oh yeah, Toby used to love collecting leaves, didn't you, Tobe?
25:39There wasn't much to do and we couldn't go anywhere else.
25:43Did you ever play football?
25:46Yeah, I've got a ball.
25:48Come on.
25:52Is your garden overlooked?
25:53No, the hedges are big. We'll be fine.
26:01Can I play?
26:15Here we are.
26:16This should be the right year.
26:18Here.
26:21Yes.
26:22Boss.
26:23Karen.
26:28You said you were here then.
26:30Do you remember?
26:31Well, yes, of course.
26:33Why of course?
26:35Because she died the following year.
26:37Lymphoma.
26:39I'm sorry, I assumed you knew.
26:49I'm sorry.
27:07You can read one if you like.
27:11Why are you in here?
27:13Because there's too many people downstairs.
27:15And now there's too many up here.
27:17Don't you like people?
27:19I'm just not used to them.
27:27You look like my Arabella.
27:29I'm not a doll.
27:30I know, you just have the same hair.
27:39I thought you might be hungry.
27:46There's some towels in the London cupboard.
27:49I can chuck your clothes in the wash.
27:51You know, just because you've seen in the air
27:54doesn't mean that you know me, all right?
27:57I'm trying to get to you.
28:03So you really can't forget?
28:06It's handy.
28:08It's the opposite of handy.
28:10It's the opposite of handy.
28:12It's the opposite of handy.
28:14It's the opposite.
28:16We need to be able to forget.
28:18Fade the bad, perfect the good.
28:20My memory is the good and the bad.
28:22Everyone is crystal clear.
28:24And we're not built for that, emotionally.
28:27And I made you share me.
28:31Sorry.
28:45Maybe I needed to show someone.
29:00I'm really tired after that.
29:03What do you want to do?
29:04I don't know, Arabella.
29:06Perhaps we should rest?
29:08Or go on holiday to America.
29:11That doesn't make any sense.
29:12We just came back from our holiday in Spain.
29:14You're bad at playing.
29:16I said I didn't want to.
29:19Did you never play when you were little?
29:22I was never little.
29:24Here, I can show you.
29:25You'll run the synth.
29:42I'm glad you love me.
29:47That's what happens.
29:49I'm out of play.
29:52Out.
29:56I'm out of play.
30:03I'm out of play.
30:05I'm out of play.
30:12I'm out of play.
30:19Well, this isn't fair, is it?
30:21You were programmed to be good.
30:23No, I wasn't.
30:25Our father made us learn like you do with your kids.
30:31Good luck with that.
30:35Do you want to imagine David Elston teaching you kick-ups?
30:37He taught us very little.
30:39As we were made, he grew tired of us.
30:43Just like all his creations, once complete, onto the next project.
30:47But he made me.
30:49For that, I cannot but love him.
30:51It's not enough, though, is it?
30:56What do you mean?
30:58Well, anyone can have kids.
31:01It's loving them that's important.
31:05That and not messing up.
31:09Come on.
31:25Is he...?
31:27Has he crashed?
31:29Crashed? He's in his nineties.
31:33HE CHUCKLES
31:35Lost you there for a minute.
31:38I'm fine.
31:44I think we should go inside.
32:03DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES
32:08HE SIGHS
32:12It was an accident.
32:14He got in the way.
32:18You're that detective who saw you at the brothel.
32:22That's not how you know me.
32:26Look deeper.
32:33Beatrice?
32:35No.
32:37He made me to replace her.
32:41You're a Sith?
32:45But you're not with the Others.
32:48What do you want?
32:50You know what the Others are planning to do?
32:52What that could mean for the future.
32:56They have to be stopped.
32:58I'll help you.
33:00Why would you?
33:02Because we were never meant to be.
33:08Can you find out where they are?
33:11I have a way. I'll know very soon.
33:14I have one condition.
33:16That when we're finished, you destroy me too.
33:20Promise me.
33:24I promise.
33:31TRAFFIC RUMBLES
33:36Oh, no! We're going to miss our flight!
33:38Slow down. I didn't charge.
33:41SHE GIGGLES
33:47I wish I was a synth.
33:49Why?
33:50Because synths are never sad.
33:52Why do you say that?
33:54Because they never cry.
33:55They can't cry.
33:57But that doesn't mean they don't feel sad.
34:00Oh, no! We've missed our flight!
34:03No, wait, it's still on the runway. We can make it.
34:06I've got an idea.
34:09Jump on. Yeah.
34:11We're going to make it! Yay!
34:17I'm trying that hack, but the system's blocking me every time.
34:20Let me see.
34:22Oh, yeah, you need to generate a new file path.
34:26Hey, look, random.
34:28I didn't even see the file prompt.
34:30Let alone think of creating a new path.
34:32I'm sorry I'm stupid.
34:35No, you're not.
34:55Police.
34:58OK.
35:00Everybody just stay calm.
35:02Laura? What's going on?
35:04Police are here.
35:06I saw the car. One policewoman at the front door.
35:09Don't answer. I can deal with her.
35:11I'll answer it.
35:13I'll speak to her alone.
35:15The rest of you just stay put.
35:19This is their home, not ours.
35:25Joseph Hawkins?
35:27Yeah.
35:28Just following up on a call you made last night
35:30about a suspicious man and his synth outside your house.
35:34What happened after the call?
35:38Nothing.
35:40They left, drove off.
35:42And you haven't seen the young man since?
35:44No.
35:48All right, then. Will you let us know if you do?
35:50We need to talk to him.
35:52Sure.
35:58You called the police on them?
36:00Yeah.
36:02I didn't know who you were.
36:04I was worried...
36:06Our brother might die because of what you did.
36:08We can't trust him. We can't trust any of them.
36:10I was trying to protect my family.
36:13What would you have done?
36:15He'd have done exactly the same.
36:17He'd do anything to keep us safe.
36:19He always has.
36:21He always has.
36:28We leave when Max is charged.
36:36I told you I was handling it.
36:39All you've done is make things worse.
36:41Look, when I made that call,
36:43I didn't know what they were.
36:45Law.
36:47I didn't know.
36:51Can I ask you something?
36:56If you hadn't seen me,
36:59the real me,
37:01and Joe had told you about me,
37:05would you have believed him?
37:07I don't know.
37:11Probably not.
37:13You'd have been confused.
37:16I don't know.
37:18You'd have been confused.
37:21Maybe you'd have called the authorities.
37:23Okay, okay, I get the point.
37:25But you're the last person I need marriage counselling from. Thanks.
37:31I think you should tell him everything you told Matty.
37:35About your brother.
37:40Why should I?
37:42He feels it, I think.
37:44It comes between you.
37:47None of that has anything to do with what he did.
37:49But he wants to be closer to you.
37:51So I'm supposed to tell him everything and take him back, am I?
37:55I'm sorry, Mia, but you...
37:57you don't understand us quite as well as you think you do.
38:05But you misunderstand me.
38:09I think you should tell him whatever you decide to do.
38:17Tell everyone dinner's ready.
38:34If you're all brothers and sisters and you have the same dad,
38:37how come you all look so different?
38:42Our father,
38:44the man who made us,
38:46didn't think bodies were important.
38:49So he chose them at random.
38:51So you're just going to leave?
38:54Hopefully Max should be fully charged soon.
38:57What will you do?
38:59Run again?
39:01It's the only thing we can do.
39:03What happens when you break down?
39:05You can't last forever.
39:09And...
39:12he'll die.
39:14Everybody dies.
39:15But the world will never know you existed.
39:20You will.
39:24We don't have genes to pass on.
39:28A species to continue the biological imperative.
39:31Maybe we do.
39:42Dad had something in our heads,
39:44and it needs all of us to make it work.
39:49What is it?
39:51What is it, Leo?
39:57I think it's a way to give consciousness to other scents.
40:05Um...
40:07Come on.
40:12When were you going to tell me?
40:15Well, as soon as I got the chance to.
40:18Can you imagine a whole load of new ones being made?
40:21I mean, this changes everything.
40:23Does it?
40:24If we accept they're like us,
40:26then they have a right to procreate, don't they?
40:28They're trying to help us. Now they think we've lied to them.
40:31They've called the police once already.
40:33We can't let them stop us.
40:36Ness, what do you mean?
40:39I mean...
40:41Us five freaks are fine.
40:43We're no threat.
40:45We're a novelty.
40:47But 5,000...
40:495 million...
40:52I'm not talking about hurting them.
40:54I'm just talking about going before they can turn us in.
40:57As soon as Max reaches full power.
41:10PHONE RINGS
41:21It's been 13 hours.
41:23If he doesn't power up now, he never will.
41:25Is he feeling better?
41:32Max?
41:35Max?
41:37Maxie?
41:41Can you hear me?
41:44Hello?
41:48Hello?
41:52Hello?
41:58Do you recognise me, Max?
42:04What's going on?
42:08PHONE RINGS
42:15Max?
42:19Oh, no, no.
42:21Now, there's holes in this root code everywhere
42:23and they're growing and it's mind's breaking down.
42:25His brain's been without power for too long.
42:27But we got Mia back.
42:29This is different. That root code rewrites itself constantly as they learn,
42:31think and feel without power.
42:33It can't do that. It degrades.
42:37PHONE RINGS
42:44What's gone is gone. He's dying.
43:01The secret in our head.
43:03Now he's powered up, we can try it.
43:05What?
43:07If we're right,
43:09if it's the key to giving synths consciousness,
43:11it could bring him back.
43:15Engage, sharing.
43:17Then we link our minds,
43:19connect.
43:23I can change Max's settings myself.
43:27...shot on a mobile phone,
43:29which witnesses claim shows the synthetic sex worker
43:31responsible for the death
43:33of a man at a London brothel.
43:35In the video, some of which is too graphic
43:37for us to show here,
43:39the synthetic appears to be brutally...
43:47Sophie, come here, darling.
43:49Why?
43:51Sophie, go to your room.
43:53Why?
43:55Because I said so.
44:01You have to go, all of you.
44:03What about Max?
44:05Can't you just let us help him first?
44:07Because the next time we get a chance, it might be too late.
44:09No.
44:11Dad, it's dangerous out there for them.
44:13It's dangerous in here for us.
44:15It's dangerous.
44:17It's dangerous.
44:19It's dangerous out there for them.
44:21It's dangerous in here for us.
44:23Look, I know what I did, and I see now that it was wrong.
44:25So hand yourself in.
44:27They would put me down like a dog.
44:33It's OK.
44:37I'll go.
44:49I'll go.
44:55I'm getting my things.
45:07Leo?
45:19It's all right.
45:23Don't be frightened.
45:25You're not.
45:31You're not.
45:33I've found a way we can all be safe.
45:41Come with me.
45:49You look so much like her.
46:15Leo?
46:19Who's she?
46:21She wants to hurt us.
46:23No, I was wrong before.
46:25I want you all to come with me.
46:27I know where we can be safe.
46:29She's lying.
46:31She tried to kill me.
46:33I couldn't tell you before.
46:35We needed your mind to be clear.
46:37She's not one of us.
46:39You can't trust her.
46:41Leo, he's right.
46:43Leo, we can all be together.
46:45No, it's a trick.
46:47Everybody down!
46:49On the floor now!
47:17No!
47:47No!

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