He Realizes That He is in a Simulation Made By The Government To Uncover His Secrets

After spending a few minutes lost in thought,  Danny regains awareness when his therapist gets his attention. She asks him to remember the  traumatic reason why he’s here, and Danny begins telling the story of how he lost her daughter. He  had taken Minnie to the park, and while the girl was having fun, Danny got distracted for just one  second. This was enough for Minnie to disappear without a trace. Danny became suspicious of a  guy named Lyle, who had been staring at the kids that day, and he

managed to have him arrested.  However Lyle’s lawyer claimed innocence due to mental incapacity, insisting Lyle didn’t remember  what happened or where Minnie was. Years passed and Danny’s wife left him, but he never moved on.  Once the therapy session is over, Danny looks at pictures of Minnie and his very blonde and white  wife Vivian before meeting with his partner Nicks. Together they head towards a local bank because  they received an anonymous tip warning them of an imminent robbery. Nick

s explains two other  branches of the same bank were previously robbed already, but only one specific safety deposit box  was taken every time even if they didn't have any money. When they arrive, the two detectives join  their surveillance team in the truck to observe the scene outside the bank. They soon notice  a man called Dellrayne, who Danny thinks looks familiar. He sits next to a woman on a bench,  and when Dellrayne says it’s very hot today, the woman begins walking away actually repeat

ing  it. Then Dellrayne talks to the cops in front of the bank, who easily let him pass. Danny realizes  Dellrayne has accomplices and immediately goes after him. When he gets inside, an employee tries  to stop him, so Danny secretly steals his keys and pretends he wants to open a safety box. He’s then  taken to the deposit and when the man discovers he’s missing the keys, he leaves to find them,  giving Danny the chance to use the key and open the box number that was robbed in the other  branch

es. To his shock, he finds a picture of his daughter with a handwritten note instructing  him to “find Lev Dellrayne”. Meanwhile the woman outside continues to complain about the heat  and walks around while taking off her clothes, not stopping at the traffic lights and causing  an accident that makes a bunch of cars crash, blocking the road. At that moment, Dellrayne  enters the bank and with just one word, he makes the receptionist decide they’re closed  for the day. Suddenly all the front doo

r cops burst inside and threaten everyone to make them  run while the receptionist goes to retrieve the same deposit box. Danny pulls out his gun and  tells her to stop, but it’s like she can’t even tell he’s there and keeps on moving. The cops  soon join them and shoot Danny, who thankfully is wearing a bulletproof vest. Then they escort  the woman with the box out of the bank and get in an armored truck, which they drive until they  find the road blocked but the woman suffering from imaginary

heat. The receptionist tries to dodge  her and ends up crashing the truck, immediately dying from her injuries. Dellrayne approaches the  crash site, grabs the box, and puts a bomb in the woman’s hand before leaving. By the time Danny  finally catches up, the bomb blows up, destroying all evidence. Danny notices Dellrayne running away  and immediately starts chasing him. They enter an old building and Danny is startled by a sudden  noise, but it’s just his fellow detectives. The three of them go

upstairs to find Dellrayne on  the roof, but when he says he’s the wrong man, the two detectives turn their weapons against  Danny. Dellrayne also mentions Lyle, implying he knows something about Minnie. Danny takes out the  picture to demand answers and Dellrayne finally realizes the box is empty at the same time Nicks  arrives with backup. Finding himself cornered, Dellrayne tells the detectives to clean up before  jumping to escape. The two detectives shoot each other and when Danny looks at

the street,  Dellrayne is gone. Nicks then informs Danny only one guard survived and he claims not to remember  anything, just like Lyle did. In the evening, Danny is reviewing the footage when he gets a call  from Nicks, who informs him they’ve tracked the anonymous caller and gives him the address. Danny  goes to the location and meets Diana, a psychic who is currently working with a big burly man.  The guy goes outside to wait on his bike while Danny asks some questions, but Diana refuses  t

o answer and asks Danny to leave, obviously scared of something. At that moment, someone  approaches the big man outside and suddenly, he’s driving his bike right through the store,  intending to kill Diana and Danny. They move out of the way just in time and when the guy sees he’s  failed to kill them, he uses a piece of debris to end things for himself. Seeing as Diana is now in  danger too, Danny takes her to the police station, where she confesses the whole story. It’s revealed  that Dellray

ne is a hypnotic, meaning he possesses psychic abilities that allow him to control  people's minds. Diana has the same powers, and both she and Dellrayne used to belong to  a classified agency known as The Division, established by the U.S. government. This program  was designed to train individuals with psychic abilities, and at first they pretended to help  them, but later it became clear that they wanted to use them for conflict and politics. When Danny  doesn’t believe her, Diana takes contro

l of Nicks, making him sit, cry, and then go outside for  a smoke just by talking to him. Her story goes on to explain Dellrayne is the most powerful  hypnotic, but he went rogue. The Division tried to stop him and Diana was one of the agents  to fight him, but Dellrayne escaped anyway, so Diana quit and started a new life to stay  hidden. When she read about the robberies on the news and heard nobody remembered anything, she  knew Dellrayne was behind it. Meanwhile outside, Dellrayne finds Nick

s and uses his powers  on him. Suddenly Nicks storms back inside, ready to shoot Danny and Diana. He won’t answer  to reason, so Danny has to shoot him in the leg to stop him. Nicks still attacks him and starts a  fight, causing Danny to struggle against him until he manages to handcuff him to the cell bars.  However Nick is still under the influence of Dellrayne’s power and he can’t stop trying until  he completes the orders. He desperately struggles against the handcuffs, hurting his wrist in

the  process. The pain doesn’t stop him and he almost manages to escape, but Diana cuts in and shoots  him in the head first. Danny is furious, but Diana explains Nicks would’ve died anyway and this  counts as setting him free. Since they have no way to explain Nicks’ death, Danny and Diana run out  of town while their faces appear all over the news as fugitives. At a diner, Danny confesses that  he finally believes Lyle when he said he didn’t remember anything and that Dellrayne is obviously  b

ehind Minnie’s disappearance. At that moment the local sheriff enters the diner and recognizes  them, but before he can take out his gun, Diana uses her powers to make him call the station  and tell them he saw the fugitives running away; she also makes him pay for everything. When  Danny and Diana try to leave, the sheriff gets a message on his radio - it's Dellrayne, who says  he’s coming for them. As soon as they come out, they find Dellrayne and two cops waiting for them.  Danny tells Diana

to get away while he distracts them and he runs towards the train rails, where he  carefully moves to hide behind passing trains and stay away from the men that are now looking for  him. After some sneaking around, Danny suddenly turns on his heel and is shocked to find the  landscape folding in front of him. A sudden noise behind him reveals Dellrayne and the cops,  and now the landscape returns to normal, revealing it was another mind trick of Dellrayne. When the  cops are about to shoot him,

a truck suddenly runs over them, turning out to be Diana. The duo  escapes together in the vehicle and begins making their way to Mexico. Diana explains a hypnotic can  make someone see whatever they want them to see unless they have a psychic block, and Diana thinks  Danny somehow has a very powerful one because she hasn’t been able to use her powers on him. However  it seems Dellrayne can. Later when they make it to the border, a guard tries to stop them, but Diana  uses her powers to make the

guy let them pass. Eventually they go to see Jeremiah, who also used  to work at The Division. He doesn’t have powers, but he has a very strong block that only Dellrayne  can break. When they knock at his door, Jeremiah sends his cleaning lady to open it, but soon gets  suspicious and takes out his own weapon as Danny enters alone. At that moment the cleaning lady  takes out a gun too and it’s revealed to be Diana, who had used her powers to put an illusion  around herself while sending the oth

er lady to hide in the closet. When they ask Jeremiah about  Dellrayne, he explains that Dellrayne is after something called “Project Domino”, a powerful  weapon created by The Division that has the capability to control the minds of individuals  in any situation, even those highly resistant to hypnosis. Dellrayne stole the Domino and concealed  it in an undisclosed location, and to ensure its secrecy he wiped his own memory, only leaving  secret clues behind as potential triggers in case he nee

ds to remember. The Division captured  him shortly afterward, but six weeks ago, something triggered his memory and he escaped.  Now he’s looking for other clues to remember the location of the Domino, and Jeremiah suspects  that the trigger is in one of those bank deposit boxes. When Danny confesses he found a picture of  Minnie in the boxes, Jeremiah asks to look at it, and Diana immediately gets suspicious. Jeremiah  reveals he’s actually Dellrayne wearing a psychic disguise and shoots at the

m. Danny and Diana run  away, trying to mix their presence in the street crowd. Some men suddenly turn against them,  apparently being under Dellrayne’s powers too, so Danny shoots his gun in the air to make the  civilians run away. After pushing a few men off, Diana and Danny run to another street, where  they shoot at a driver’s helmet to make him fall off his bike. Then they steal the bike  and begin driving very fast through town, pushing away any new person that tries to  stop them. Suddenl

y the landscape begins folding again and Danny feels confused, but Diana  reminds him it isn’t real and he keeps going, causing a truck to get off the road and crash.  The building it hit begins crumbling above them, so the duo drops the bike and runs away, only  to find themselves cornered in a blocked alley. Dellrayne arrives with a bunch of cops under his  command and tries using his powers to catch them. However Danny remembers what Diana told him  about the block and he concentrates his min

d, starting a power of wills that abruptly ends with  the cops turning against Dellrayne. As the police take him away, Danny freaks out because he never  had powers before but he’s obviously been trained to control them, and Diana reaches the conclusion  his memory must’ve been wiped. Afterward they go to see another friend of Diana’s named River,  who possesses exceptional hacking skills and built the network for the Division. River does  some searching on his computer and finds Danny’s records

with marine records and the police, but  there are no mentions of a wife. When River looks a bit deeper, Danny is devastated to learn his  ex-wife Vivian is also a member of The Division. Her location is encrypted, so it’ll take River a  few hours to crack. Danny and Diana go to another room to rest, and Danny shares his story with  Vivian. They had fallen in love during college, then they got married and started their  family, but as soon as Minnie was abducted their relationship was completel

y shattered. Danny  thinks Vivian lied about her job but that her pain had been real. Later while Diana takes a shower,  Danny receives a call from an unknown number, which turns out to be Dellrayne. He uses  his powers on Danny to make him hurt Diana, and Danny tries his best to resist them as he  hangs up. However there are still traces of the power in his mind, and Danny hits the table before  looking for Diana, only to realize all this time he’s been carrying scissors in his hand and he  did

n’t notice. He forces himself to stick them on the wall and walk away, but as Diana comes out  to check on him, Danny looks again and realizes the scissors are still in his hand. He raises them  as he tries to fight the impulse to attack her, but Diana sees his reflection in the mirror  and immediately turns around to kiss him, providing a distraction that helps him break out  of the impulse. They spend a few moments getting frisky together and eventually fall asleep, but  Danny wakes up when he

has nightmares of his family memories and Diana somehow turning into  Vivian. Then Danny sneaks into the other room where River is sleeping too. Using the computer,  Danny is shocked to discover Diana has the name “Vivian” on the system and she’s still working for  the Division. It turns out that Danny’s memory was modified: Diana had been his real wife all along  but every time he looked a the pictures, he would see the blonde woman instead. Then Danny looks  for Minnie’s profile and he’s shoc

ked to discover she’s Domino. Her skills are so great because  she’s the daughter of two powerful hypnotics. At that moment Diana wakes up and tells Danny  the whole story. Both she and Danny were part of the Division, and when the organization learned  about Minnie’s powers, they tried to take her to train her to be the most powerful hypnotic  in the world. Diana agreed with this plan, but Danny refused to let the government use a  child like that. It was he who kidnapped Minnie to then delete

his own memories to keep her safe.  Danny starts remembering his plan and explains he wanted to protect Minnie from every person  in the room, revealing he’s finally realized this isn’t real. River’s room suddenly goes away  and Danny finds himself in the Division’s base, where he’s been put through an illusion to try  to get Minnie’s location out of him. His cop life is a lie, everything he’s lived since he saw  the therapist is part of the Division’s plan to make him remember Minnie’s location

. Diana,  Nicks, the fake Vivian, River, the therapist, and all the people from the bank are all Division  members that had been acting their part. Dellrayne is there too and has the picture, explaining the  words written there are the key to finding Minnie. They’ve been trying for four years to get Danny  to remember, but whenever they are close enough, Danny figures it out and breaks the illusion, so  they have to start again. Danny still refuses to cooperate and runs outside, where he finds a

ll  the sets they’ve built to make the illusion more real. The Division agents immediately surround  him and tase him to knock him out. Moments later, Danny wakes up inside a lab and Diana tells him  her love for him is real, but Danny still insults her. Giving up, Diana and the others proceed to  connect Danny to a machine and reset his memory, so whenever they ask him a question, he can only  say “I don’t know”. When he wakes up, Danny thinks he’s at the therapist’s office again. The new  illu

sion starts exactly the same way as last time, using even the same words. As Danny goes through  the motions, in real life the Division keeps an eye on his vitals, and the agents play their  parts around the set. However when Danny gets in the fake elevator and looks at his phone, he sees  the pictures with Diana’s real face, meaning his block has finally become strong enough to stop the  reset. For now Danny pretends to play along. Nicks comes to pick him up and they go to the bank,  which is j

ust another part of the set. While they look at the surveillance footage, Danny pretends  to be taking notes about the case in his notebook. Like last time, he leaves the truck to enter the  bank, but when the Division gets distracted by waiting for him to cross the door, Danny suddenly  disappears. As all the agents go looking for him, Danny manages to steal a van and begins driving  like crazy, running over every set piece and person that dares to stand in his way. Diana  uses a radio to trans

mit her powers through the speakers that are all over the base, but Danny’s  block is strong and he just drives away. At that moment Nicks finds Danny’s notebook and discovers  he’s been using it to decipher the phrase from the picture. It turns out “find Lev Dellrayne”  is an anagram for “Deer Valley Lane”, which is Minnie’s location. A few hours later, Danny makes  it to Deer Valley, where Carl and Thelma receive him with their weapons out. After confirming he  has remembered everything, they

take him inside, where Danny finds a grown Minnie playing with  dominos. Father and daughter reunite with a hug and suddenly Minnie announces her mother is here.  Meanwhile the Division agents are approaching in helicopters and a quick system search tells them  that the ranch in Deer Valley belongs to Thelma and Carl, who are Danny’s foster parents. When  they land, Thelma and Carl give a warning shot and talk to Diana as if they know her, but Diana  doesn’t remember either of them. Since they w

on’t cooperate, Dellrayne orders his men to shoot  them. Diana is desperate to get her daughter and runs to the bodies, trying to get them to talk  before they die. At that moment Danny comes out and says the woman he loves wouldn’t want such a  life for her daughter, implying Diana is a pawn of the Division. Then Minnie comes out and hugs her  mother, saying she’s proud of her for coming home. Diana is confused, and Minnie reveals all this has  been a plan to escape from the Division. Dellrayne

begins freaking out as he realizes this isn’t real  and he shoots the house, causing the illusion to start wavering. Minnie uses her powers to make  Nicks shoot all the other agents, and the few that try to resist it are controlled by Danny  so they’ll end things for themselves instead. Suddenly the illusion ends and Dellrayne discovers  they’re on a fake set near the hills. Carl and Thelma are alive and they proceed to shoot any  agents that are still standing. In the meantime, Minnie connects

to her mother to fix her memories.  Diana sees herself tied to a chair with a man in a red mask that is resetting her mind while ignoring  her pleas for help. Diana opens her eyes, shocked by all the new memories, and when Dellrayne is  about to shoot her, Minnie uses his powers to make him end things for himself instead. Then Danny  tells the whole story: as soon as Minnie was born, they knew she was extremely powerful. The Division  began training her, confirming she could be very dangerous a

nd used for war. Danny and Diana didn’t  want that future for her but they also knew the Division would never let them go, so they made  a plan to escape them for good. Minnie was kept hidden with her grandparents so she could practice  her powers until she was strong enough to fight the Division while her parents deleted their  own memories. Danny wrote the photograph with the clue for himself, then he put on that red mask  to modify Diana’s memory and made her believe she was on the Division’s

side. That way one day she  could make them all come here and kill them to end things for good. The family hugs as they celebrate  they’re finally free from the Division. The three of them leave with Thelma in a helicopter while  Carl says he’ll stay behind to clean up. However as soon as they’re gone, it’s revealed that the  dead Dellrayne on the ground is actually Carl, and the alive Carl had been Dellrayne all along. Now  he can escape and start a new plan to get Minnie.