Hello, my name is Kai. Welcome to Flight 008, a special second season of dust, made in

partnership with X-Prize. Eleven stories, each focused on a passenger aboard A&A Flight 008,

the flight that disappeared from time and landed in 2040.

In this story, humankind has found a way to fix the brains of criminals, but there will

always be those who insist they are not broken. This is Treatment Option, written by James

L. Cambias, with special performances by Reed Scott, Danny Trejo, and Keith David.

At 4.58am on June 28, 2020, the passengers on board A&A Flight 008, on route from Tokyo to San

Francisco, are cruising at an altitude of 37,000 feet, approximately 1500 nautical miles off the

west coast of the United States. A small bump, otherwise noted as a barely perceptible

bout of turbulence, passes Flight 008 through a temporary wrinkle in the local region of

space-time. What these passengers will soon find out, as they descend into SFO, is that the

wrinkle has transported them 20 years into the future, and the year is now 2040. This is the

story of the passenger in seat 39J.

I thought it was kind of weird that we were parked way over by the edge of the bay instead

of the regular gate, and when I saw all the cops and the soldiers surrounding the plane, I

started to freak out a little. And then I looked north toward the city, and I see the Shanghai

bank towers sticking up twice as tall as the pyramid, and I said to myself, oh, I don't

think we're in Kansas anymore.

Donnie Palletti had told the story six times already since the party started, so he

knew when to pause so the girls could laugh at that.

You have to remember what San Francisco was like when I left. Shit, I guess most of you

weren't even born in 2020. I thought that's a bad thing.

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