A government conspiracy

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Outside the Cube, two system engineers, WYNN Eric Wien and DODD, are monitoring and recording the people trapped in the Cube in real time through the monitoring screen. They themselves can only stay in the monitoring room and cannot go out. According to the above statement, the people in the Cube are all death row prisoners. They voluntarily signed the pink agreement, were brainwashed and lost their past memories, and then entered the Cube to participate in this experiment instead of the death penalty.
WYNN found that Lace in Cube was a politician. She did not lose her memory, and WYNN did not find the woman's agreement. WYNN felt that the woman should not be inside. After that, there was a call from above and someone arrived at the exit of Cube, and DODD and WYNN executed the exit procedure according to the order. WYNN found that it was his colleague Owen who had escaped to the exit. At this time, Owen has been brainwashed and amnesia. The DODD executive program tied him with an iron chain and asked him questions: Question 1: Say your name. Question 2: Do you believe in the existence of God? When Irving couldn't answer the second question, DODD pressed the "No" button, and Irving was burned to death by the fire that burst from the floor. DODD asked WYNN to put the letter with the execution result into the elevator, but WYNN walked in, the elevator went down, and it was the entrance of the Cube after the door opened. WYNN entered the Cube to rescue the people trapped inside.
WYNN found Leis and others, told them that they were responsible for collecting data and using a variety of chemical and biological reagents to test the activity and tolerance of the brain, and to record their dreams. Reis and others have previously discovered that each portal in the room has a three-letter mark separated by two dots. WYNN said that there are a total of 25 rooms, only 2 rooms have a Z coordinate marked 26, they will periodically move to the edge, but 2 exit points are monitored, and 1 accidental exit can be directly outside the Cube.
Jacks brought his assistants Fein and Quikley to the surveillance room to deal with the emergency. They dissolved all the letter iron bars on the room portal according to the order from above, activated traps in the surrounding rooms, and dealt with WYNN. Electric current attacks were launched in every room, and DODD broke the wire at a critical moment, and they escaped. DODD continued to damage the circuit and was discovered by Jacks, who was murdered. Cube is powered off due to circuit damage and all traps are invalid. The system will restart after 10 minutes. Clearing the program will burn everything in the room. Hesek, who was trapped in the Cube, was a soldier who was secretly implanted with a chip when he joined the army. According to the troop surveillance network, Jack activated Hesek's pain-suppressing function and strengthened his physical strength, and ordered him to murder WYNX and DODD. WYNX and DODD worked together to kill Hesek and escaped into the water through an exit in the room. But they were attacked after they landed ashore, WYNX was arrested, and DODD escaped.
WYNX woke up and found that he was tied to the operating table. Jacks told him that he was directly convicted and showed him the pink agreement signed with his name. WYNX was implanted with a chip in his brain and turned into a fool, then thrown into the Cube, and together with others, he became a new white mouse in the laboratory.
As a prequel to Cube, the film explains the background of Cube and where the people in Cube come from. Eric Wien, who turns into a fool at the end, also echoes Kazan, a young man with autism in the first film. WYNN and DODD outside Cube did seemingly compliant work, but in fact they became the executioners of the government. The high-level government's throwing Leis, a dissident person into the Cube, shows the viciousness of its methods against dissidents. The metaphors in the first part become explicit in the prequel.

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Cube Zero quotes

  • Jax: Order number 793-bla-bla-bla-bla: Commence standard series of needle tests on Raine's group.

    [pauses and continues whispering]

    Jax: You do know what that means?

    Dodd: Yes, sir! Of course, sir. All in a days work, sir. Right away, sir.

    Jax: Do us a teensy favor and use mister Wynn's auxiliary monitor, we'll need the big guns here for our little mouse-hunt.

    Dodd: Of course, sir. Anything I can do to help, sir.

    Jax: That's the spirit, mister Modd. Way to keep the world safe for democracy...

  • Jax: [Dodd has swallowed a widget needed to power the cube] Cute. And rather cliche, in an endearing kind of way. Unfortunately, I do believe there is a penalty; a rather strict penalty for sabotaging state property.

    [blows dust from pen into Dodd's face and Dodd collapses]

    Jax: Ooh, instant paralysis, they weren't kidding, were they?

    [he bends down to cut Dodd open]

    Jax: However, not to worry, Mr. Dodd. You will still be able to feel.

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