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["Dream" by The Pied Pipers
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[dog barking in distance]
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♪♪ Dream ♪
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♪♪ When you're feeling blue ♪
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[knocking on door]
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[doorbell rings in distance]
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♪♪ Dream ♪
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[knocking continues]
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♪♪ That's the thing to do ♪
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- ♪♪ Dream... ♪
- [pounding on window]
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[Aaron]
Let me in, Daniel.
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[Daniel]
I'm fine.
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- Okay, actually, considering.
- [Aaron] No.
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No. Someone who's fine
doesn't ignore his best friend
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when he calls and calls
repeatedly.
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- Not after what's happened.
- But I'm working.
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That's what I do.
I can still work, thank Christ.
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- I don't need you checking in.
- Oh, really?
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When you isolate yourself,
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the people who love you
are going to insist
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on knowing what the hell
is going on, okay?
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Got it?
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We love you,
all your friends, your family.
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What are you doing?
Are you working on a script?
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- Is that why you're not--
- Yeah.
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So you'll have
something to sell.
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Oh, fuck you.
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Right, I'm just
your asshole agent.
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Wait, you think
I need your business?
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But while we're on
the fucking subject,
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you have been offered
a bunch of jobs,
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and I keep covering for you
because you never respond.
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I care deeply about you, Danny.
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- What you've been through--
- What I've been through?
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You tell me what it is
I've been through,
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then let's see how you do.
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Okay? You'd go insane.
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You'd go mad, you'd never stop
fucking screaming.
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"What I've been through"?
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This is hell.
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Well, then, talk to me.
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My ten-year-old son
vanishes into thin air.
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Poof.
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Who knows... do you know
where the mind goes?
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What little I have left.
I don't sleep.
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The thoughts of the ditches
he could be in,
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of the cult that kidnapped
or sex-trafficked him.
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Please. Christ, man,
sex-trafficked?
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I mean, you can't,
you cannot assume these--
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What-- d-do you know how many
kids end up in the hands
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of Bulgarian sex traffickers?
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- Have you not seen Taken?
- That's a fucking movie.
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Everyone is doing
everything they can
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- to find him.
- Everyone? Are they?
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The police? The FBI? My ex-wife?
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Is Riva doing anything
other than narcotizing herself
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on tranquilizers?
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The brilliant private eye
has nothing
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- to show for it.
- Danny, please,
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we just want you to start
coming out into the world again.
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Start living life again.
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The world is over.
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It's over.
Out there, it's just a,
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a cardboard cutout of the world,
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with people reciting lines
at my face.
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I can't interact with those p--
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They're not people,
they're empty entities.
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This picture I'm writing?
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That's how I stay in the world.
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But I'll never be part
of the outside world again.
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Well, a movie about a man
who loses his son
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and goes mad.
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- Is that really
the healthiest project that--
- You can leave now.
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You can leave now, okay?
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Last thing I need to do
is justify or explain
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my feelings or actions to you.
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Show yourself the fuck out.
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[door clattering]
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[florescent lights buzzing]
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What the fuck?
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[echoes]
Hello?
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Hello?
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Anybody here?
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Where the fuck am I?
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What in the actual fuck?
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[woman over P.A.]
Big savings means bigger smiles.
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Ask a team member today
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about our Endless Rewards
program,
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where the savings
are measured from ear to ear.
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♪♪ Dream ♪
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♪♪ When you're feeling blue ♪
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I'm dreaming.
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I'm lucid dreaming.
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♪♪ Dream ♪
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♪♪ That's the thing to do ♪
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♪♪ Dream ♪
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♪♪ While the smoke rings ♪
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♪♪ Rise in the air ♪
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♪♪ You'll find your share ♪
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♪♪ Of memories... ♪
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[woman over P.A.]
Don't move a muscle.
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A team member is right around
the corner.
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♪♪ When you're feeling... ♪
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Don't move a muscle.
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- Don't move a muscle.
- Fuck.
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- Don't move a m--
don't move a musc--
- Fuck.
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- Don't-- don't-- don't move a--
- Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.
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- Fuck!
- Don't move a muscle.
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[distorted] A team member
is right around the corner.
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[footsteps pattering]
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Who's there?
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- [creak]
- Fuck you, get out here.
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Hey.
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Are you okay?
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- [distant screech]
- Hey. Who's there?
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♪ ♪
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[creaking]
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[clicks]
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- [grunts]
- [soft laughter]
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[Roman]
What are you doing, Daddy?
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- Roman?
- Why are you on the floor?
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Roman?
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[Roman laughing]
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Roman!
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♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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[sniffles]
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[phone dialing]
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[line ringing]
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[Aaron over phone]
Where the fuck
have you been, Danny?
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I owe you an apology
for walking out on you.
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Do you know how worried
everyone is?
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You kick me out
when I try to help you,
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then you disappear
for three weeks?
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Everyone has been sick
with worry.
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I need to see you right away.
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- I've been gone for three weeks?
- Yes.
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Jesus Christ. Where did you go?
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What's the matter with you?
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I-I-I can't talk about it
on the phone right now.
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Um, could you meet me, please,
in an hour at Muse?
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♪ ♪
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Hello, Danny.
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Why is she here?
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Why are you here, Riva?
Is this--
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Are you gonna try
some kind of intervention?
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- [Aaron] Sit down.
I need to tell you som--
- No!
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- I'm not--
- Roman is dead.
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They found him.
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The police found him.
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[crying softly]
Last week.
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In the woods behind
the playground on Latham Street.
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Everyone is looking for you.
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- To tell you. Where--
- [sighs]
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Where were you?
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They found Roman?
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Where is he?
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The morgue,
the-the Westchester morgue.
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He was... [sobs quietly]
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...buried in the-the ground,
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wrapped in a blanket,
a-a red blanket.
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♪ ♪
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Are there any clues?
What are--
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What do the police say?
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[Aaron]
They don't have anything.
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They're doing tests
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for DNA and fingerprints.
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It's finally real.
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It's all real.
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I'm not dreaming anymore.
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Do you know we invented hell?
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We made it, we manifested it.
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[Max]
Hi, I'm Max.
I'll be your server.
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So the specials are
very limited.
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We have crab omelets
with chive butter--
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Could you leave us, please?
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[scoffs]
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I-I'm gonna kill
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whoever did this,
I swear to God.
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I'm gonna kill them.
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You can be in the world
one moment, and hell the next.
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It is right here.
It's right next to us.
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[Aaron]
Danny, sit down.
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Please. The funeral--
We need to talk
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- about arrangements--
- I need a moment.
I need a moment.
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- [Aaron] Please.
- I ne--
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♪ ♪
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What the fuck?
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Hey! Aaron!
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Riva!
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Aaron!
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Hey!
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What the fuck?
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Hello?
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[child's voice speaking
indistinctly]
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Roman...
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Roman, are you here?
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No.
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No way.
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Hey!
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♪ ♪
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[scuffling]
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[exhales]
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[inhales, exhales]
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[man on TV nearby]
You could tell me,
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if you wanted to,
all that happened.
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[woman on TV]
I do want to.
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[man on TV]
You've always had to hide
the truth from me.
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Your mind does it by itself
out of long habit.
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[woman on TV]
But, but you know the truth now.
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I'm not hiding anymore.
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I'm trying to remember.
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[man on TV]
Ann...
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When did you first
steal something?
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Please tell me.
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[woman on TV]
In school.
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Several times.
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[man on TV]
When you married me, I insisted
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that you start with me as--
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[static hissing]
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[distorted sound]
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♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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[announcer]
And the Oscar goes to...
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Daniel Hausman-Berger--
The Chorus.
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[applause]
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[moaning]
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Ah!
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[groaning]
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[Daniel yelping]
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[panting]
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[exhausted panting]
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Roman?
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Dad?
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Is that you?
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[growly voice]
You!
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[Daniel shouts indistinctly]
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[screams]
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- [shouts]
- [Roman] Daddy...
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[Daniel]
...do better than that.
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[Roman]
Dad. Dad!
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[singing indistinctly]
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Dad!
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[distorted singing]
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[Daniel]
Roman!
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[panting]
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♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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[mouse wheel rolling]
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♪ ♪
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[shaky exhale]
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[Eli]
Liminal space.
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It's the area between
here and there.
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Here being reality,
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there being anywhere else.
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Now, this in-between area
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would hypothetically be
accessible from either side.
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I know this
because I've been there.
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So... [sighs] Yeah.
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If you've been watching,
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I was never able
to capture sound.
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Thought I was losing my shit
for a while,
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hallucinating, till--
till I got good footage.
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Phones are useless,
wherever this is,
267
00:21:44,775 --> 00:21:47,613
so first attempts were a bust.
268
00:21:47,614 --> 00:21:50,219
Super 8 works okay.
269
00:21:50,987 --> 00:21:53,525
That's what
we're looking at here.
270
00:21:53,526 --> 00:21:55,395
Started carrying it
around with me so I,
271
00:21:55,396 --> 00:21:57,465
so I'd have it
when I slip through.
272
00:21:57,466 --> 00:21:59,538
[Eli exhales deeply]
273
00:22:01,909 --> 00:22:04,880
I'll reiterate:
this is not fiction.
274
00:22:04,881 --> 00:22:08,855
This is not some
film school class project.
275
00:22:08,856 --> 00:22:11,094
Not that you'll believe me.
276
00:22:12,564 --> 00:22:14,967
I have been to this place.
277
00:22:14,968 --> 00:22:18,877
It's not anywhere on Earth
that I know of.
278
00:22:19,612 --> 00:22:22,651
But it is
nonetheless quite real.
279
00:22:25,858 --> 00:22:28,529
Not sure why
I'm putting this out there.
280
00:22:29,632 --> 00:22:32,269
I know it sounds crazy, but...
281
00:22:32,270 --> 00:22:34,774
if you know this place,
282
00:22:34,775 --> 00:22:37,212
if anyone has been there,
283
00:22:37,213 --> 00:22:41,286
please, I have theories.
284
00:22:41,287 --> 00:22:43,559
Reach out.
285
00:22:46,398 --> 00:22:48,034
Or don't.
286
00:22:49,304 --> 00:22:51,074
Whatever.
287
00:22:57,319 --> 00:22:59,725
[lock buzzes, latch clicks]
288
00:23:03,465 --> 00:23:05,102
[door closes]
289
00:23:08,141 --> 00:23:10,078
[Eli]
The best I've been able
to figure,
290
00:23:10,079 --> 00:23:14,721
what we're experiencing
is a form of temporal phasing
291
00:23:14,722 --> 00:23:16,490
in which one bypasses
292
00:23:16,491 --> 00:23:19,429
the-the normal boundaries
of spatial reality.
293
00:23:19,430 --> 00:23:21,434
And in English, that means...?
294
00:23:21,435 --> 00:23:22,904
Sorry.
295
00:23:23,973 --> 00:23:28,081
I'm a coder,
so I-I look at video games.
296
00:23:28,082 --> 00:23:30,519
What you see on the screen
when you play a game is...
297
00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:32,690
it's just a surface,
a veneer that covers up
298
00:23:32,691 --> 00:23:35,763
a hugely complex system
of inner workings.
299
00:23:35,764 --> 00:23:38,535
But-but you as a player
are firewalled
300
00:23:38,536 --> 00:23:40,338
from seeing any of that.
301
00:23:40,339 --> 00:23:44,479
Your hardwiring ensures
that all you see is the surface.
302
00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:47,553
So, you think reality,
the world,
303
00:23:47,554 --> 00:23:49,991
- is-is like that veneer?
- Exactly.
304
00:23:49,992 --> 00:23:54,032
Now, what keeps us
tethered to reality?
305
00:23:54,033 --> 00:23:55,603
Same thing.
306
00:23:55,604 --> 00:23:57,874
Our-our hardwiring,
our-our senses,
307
00:23:57,875 --> 00:23:59,309
what we can see,
what we can touch--
308
00:23:59,310 --> 00:24:03,084
The tangible, yes,
but that's only half of it.
309
00:24:03,085 --> 00:24:04,921
What's the other half?
310
00:24:06,224 --> 00:24:08,295
The social contract.
311
00:24:09,096 --> 00:24:13,272
The rules that exist for being
a member of this species.
312
00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:17,847
When a person breaks those
rules, they can disconnect
313
00:24:17,848 --> 00:24:20,251
from our collective perception
of reality.
314
00:24:20,252 --> 00:24:24,661
The person becomes...
ontologically challenged.
315
00:24:25,597 --> 00:24:26,998
Free-floating.
316
00:24:26,999 --> 00:24:30,806
And then they slip through
to the other side.
317
00:24:30,807 --> 00:24:34,412
The other side, well...
318
00:24:34,413 --> 00:24:36,618
there's only one way
to get there.
319
00:24:36,619 --> 00:24:41,928
But yes, I think
they can slip into some...
320
00:24:41,929 --> 00:24:43,464
middle area.
321
00:24:43,465 --> 00:24:46,537
Uh, like a kind of purgatory
322
00:24:46,538 --> 00:24:48,240
where I'm being sent
to pay for my sins?
323
00:24:48,241 --> 00:24:50,278
I-I don't speak that language.
324
00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:52,750
I know science, that's all.
325
00:24:52,751 --> 00:24:55,823
Why does it look
like an office or a...?
326
00:24:55,824 --> 00:25:00,398
My guess, you're still tied
to your human faculties.
327
00:25:00,399 --> 00:25:03,706
Whatever this-this liminal...
328
00:25:05,276 --> 00:25:09,684
Whatever this liminal space
actually looks like,
329
00:25:09,685 --> 00:25:13,224
you're not wired to be able
to actually perceive it.
330
00:25:13,225 --> 00:25:16,665
So, it appears instead
as somewhere familiar.
331
00:25:16,666 --> 00:25:19,970
An-An office, a-a grocery store.
332
00:25:19,971 --> 00:25:23,678
But only in just enough detail
to be tangible.
333
00:25:23,679 --> 00:25:25,415
But it's not.
334
00:25:25,416 --> 00:25:27,653
And you know about this 'cause,
'cause you've been there,
335
00:25:27,654 --> 00:25:30,125
it happened to you. How?
336
00:25:32,029 --> 00:25:35,570
I ended up there, uh,
because of a woman.
337
00:25:37,675 --> 00:25:39,944
Charlotte Hansley.
338
00:25:39,945 --> 00:25:41,982
She was a triathlete.
339
00:25:41,983 --> 00:25:45,455
She was also a wife, and a mom.
340
00:25:45,456 --> 00:25:49,130
It was 6:49 a.m.
341
00:25:49,899 --> 00:25:51,300
I ran a red light.
342
00:25:52,369 --> 00:25:54,173
I was trying to, um...
343
00:25:55,275 --> 00:25:59,449
...click on a link
to claim a coupon for dog food.
344
00:25:59,450 --> 00:26:01,419
[tires screeching]
345
00:26:01,420 --> 00:26:03,825
I wish she had died right then.
346
00:26:03,826 --> 00:26:05,228
[distorted]
Uh, uh, okay.
347
00:26:05,229 --> 00:26:08,468
It-- It's okay.
348
00:26:08,469 --> 00:26:09,904
Uh, um...
349
00:26:09,905 --> 00:26:12,175
- I'm real-- really sorry.
- [woman choking]
350
00:26:12,176 --> 00:26:14,213
Um, um...
351
00:26:15,516 --> 00:26:17,553
[huffing]
352
00:26:17,554 --> 00:26:19,122
But she didn't.
353
00:26:19,123 --> 00:26:21,928
She held on
for a couple minutes.
354
00:26:21,929 --> 00:26:23,832
I was the only one there.
355
00:26:23,833 --> 00:26:24,934
[officer]
So, what?
356
00:26:24,935 --> 00:26:26,605
Were you looking at your phone?
357
00:26:26,606 --> 00:26:29,343
Or did she just
come out of nowhere?
358
00:26:29,344 --> 00:26:31,782
She was just... there.
359
00:26:31,783 --> 00:26:34,855
I hadn't meant to lie.
360
00:26:36,793 --> 00:26:38,929
[officer]
So, she ran the stop sign?
361
00:26:39,631 --> 00:26:41,768
It just came out.
362
00:26:41,769 --> 00:26:44,039
[siren wailing in distance]
363
00:26:47,412 --> 00:26:49,984
I didn't realize
I'd have to tell the same lie
364
00:26:49,985 --> 00:26:52,055
every day
for the rest of my life.
365
00:26:52,056 --> 00:26:57,032
That lie became the center
of my whole identity.
366
00:26:57,033 --> 00:27:00,672
A good person
had died at my hands,
367
00:27:00,673 --> 00:27:02,743
but it wasn't my fault.
368
00:27:02,744 --> 00:27:05,248
[Eli scoffs]
369
00:27:05,249 --> 00:27:07,619
I received... [laughs]
370
00:27:07,620 --> 00:27:10,025
...so much sympathy.
371
00:27:10,860 --> 00:27:13,330
Real sympathy
that I was not owed.
372
00:27:13,331 --> 00:27:15,001
And I was removed.
373
00:27:15,002 --> 00:27:18,241
I was still physically there,
374
00:27:18,242 --> 00:27:20,981
I could see everything
around me, but I...
375
00:27:21,883 --> 00:27:25,255
I couldn't break through
and be a part of it anymore.
376
00:27:25,256 --> 00:27:28,494
Reality was getting
farther and farther away,
377
00:27:28,495 --> 00:27:30,766
and then one day...
378
00:27:32,269 --> 00:27:33,973
...it was gone.
379
00:27:36,111 --> 00:27:37,379
[sighs]
380
00:27:37,380 --> 00:27:39,183
And I was there.
381
00:27:40,419 --> 00:27:41,688
In that place.
382
00:27:41,689 --> 00:27:42,990
Hello?
383
00:27:42,991 --> 00:27:46,264
What is it exactly
you think I've done?
384
00:27:47,667 --> 00:27:49,203
You came to me.
385
00:27:50,372 --> 00:27:53,913
I-I'm not your therapist,
I'm not your parole officer.
386
00:27:54,748 --> 00:27:57,954
I'm not gonna ask you
what it is.
387
00:27:58,756 --> 00:28:03,164
All I can tell you is,
if you want out of this hell...
388
00:28:04,500 --> 00:28:05,703
...you better fix it.
389
00:28:05,704 --> 00:28:08,407
The longer it festers,
390
00:28:08,408 --> 00:28:11,581
the worse this whole thing
is gonna get.
391
00:28:11,582 --> 00:28:13,183
For me...
392
00:28:13,184 --> 00:28:15,422
[deep breath]
393
00:28:16,490 --> 00:28:18,428
...I had to tell the truth.
394
00:28:20,298 --> 00:28:21,768
Face the music.
395
00:28:27,413 --> 00:28:29,382
[exhales noisily]
396
00:28:29,383 --> 00:28:31,755
♪ ♪
397
00:28:43,846 --> 00:28:45,448
[sighs sharply]
398
00:28:59,611 --> 00:29:01,848
♪ ♪
399
00:29:32,844 --> 00:29:34,313
[sniffles]
I'll do it.
400
00:29:36,017 --> 00:29:38,354
I'm so-- I'm so, so sorry.
401
00:29:42,731 --> 00:29:46,303
- [Roman's laughter echoing]
- I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
402
00:29:51,581 --> 00:29:53,451
[exhales]
403
00:29:56,759 --> 00:29:59,196
[voice breaking]
I'm sorry.
404
00:30:00,633 --> 00:30:02,336
I'm sorry.
405
00:30:03,104 --> 00:30:05,642
[sighs]
I'm sorry. It wasn't right.
406
00:30:05,643 --> 00:30:07,713
[sirens wailing in distance]
407
00:30:07,714 --> 00:30:09,884
I'll do it.
408
00:30:09,885 --> 00:30:11,854
[sirens approaching]
409
00:30:11,855 --> 00:30:14,827
- I'll do it.
- [sirens whoop]
410
00:30:14,828 --> 00:30:17,966
[officer over bullhorn]
This is the Westchester County
Sheriff's Department.
411
00:30:17,967 --> 00:30:19,937
Daniel Hausman-Berger,
412
00:30:19,938 --> 00:30:21,607
step outside
with your hands up.
413
00:30:21,608 --> 00:30:22,743
We have you surrounded.
414
00:30:22,744 --> 00:30:25,215
I repeat, you are surrounded.
415
00:30:25,951 --> 00:30:27,820
[pounding on door]
416
00:30:27,821 --> 00:30:30,057
[phone buzzes, beeps]
417
00:30:30,058 --> 00:30:32,362
- Aaron, what's going on?
- [Aaron] Come on, Daniel,
418
00:30:32,363 --> 00:30:33,965
- you know what's going on.
- [pounding continues]
419
00:30:33,966 --> 00:30:35,769
- It's over.
- I didn't do it, Aaron.
420
00:30:35,770 --> 00:30:37,171
I didn't do it.
421
00:30:37,172 --> 00:30:39,844
["Dream" by The Pied Pipers
plays]
422
00:30:39,845 --> 00:30:41,647
[Riva over phone]
You fucking monster!
423
00:30:41,648 --> 00:30:43,351
You murdered my baby!
424
00:30:43,352 --> 00:30:44,987
Oh, God, my son!
425
00:30:44,988 --> 00:30:46,624
[Aaron]
You've just got to come out,
go peacefully,
426
00:30:46,625 --> 00:30:48,695
and they're gonna
treat you fairly.
427
00:30:48,696 --> 00:30:50,532
- I swear to you I didn't do it.
- [officer] Daniel
Hausman-Berger,
428
00:30:50,533 --> 00:30:51,935
- open the door.
- [Aaron] You don't have
429
00:30:51,936 --> 00:30:53,270
to live with the lie anymore.
430
00:30:53,271 --> 00:30:54,974
- I'm not lying!
- [pounding continues]
431
00:30:56,378 --> 00:30:58,147
[Aaron]
They have you on video.
432
00:30:58,148 --> 00:30:59,516
- There was a security cam...
- [officer] Open the door!
433
00:30:59,517 --> 00:31:01,186
...at the golf course
next door.
434
00:31:01,187 --> 00:31:03,324
Why did you do it?!
435
00:31:04,595 --> 00:31:07,065
Stay there. Don't move!
436
00:31:17,085 --> 00:31:19,323
♪ ♪
437
00:31:21,895 --> 00:31:23,565
[gunfire continues]
438
00:31:28,474 --> 00:31:31,312
- [Roman playing]
- [laughter]
439
00:31:31,313 --> 00:31:33,050
Hey, guys.
440
00:31:35,957 --> 00:31:39,330
- He's back.
- Uh-huh. Uh-oh.
441
00:31:40,332 --> 00:31:44,206
Looks like Daddy's
been having playtime, too.
442
00:31:44,908 --> 00:31:47,078
Even though he told Mommy
443
00:31:47,079 --> 00:31:48,882
he was coming straight home.
444
00:31:48,883 --> 00:31:53,423
Yeah, well, Daddy got stuck
with the goddamn studio
445
00:31:53,424 --> 00:31:56,229
giving him notes, and then
they insisted on drinks,
446
00:31:56,230 --> 00:31:58,634
and Daddy couldn't just walk
out on them, now, could he?
447
00:31:58,635 --> 00:32:02,642
Well, we got approved
for pre-K today.
448
00:32:02,643 --> 00:32:06,651
Great. So everybody had
a big day. Yay.
449
00:32:06,652 --> 00:32:08,020
[Roman babbling]
450
00:32:08,021 --> 00:32:11,293
Here, honey. Here.
451
00:32:11,294 --> 00:32:13,397
What the fuck is wrong
with you, Daniel?
452
00:32:13,398 --> 00:32:16,505
Is Hollywood so important to you
that you're just...
453
00:32:17,740 --> 00:32:19,544
Are you still even human?
454
00:32:19,545 --> 00:32:23,050
- [gunfire]
- [glass shattering]
455
00:32:29,497 --> 00:32:32,269
- [Roman screaming upstairs]
- [pounding on ceiling]
456
00:32:35,275 --> 00:32:37,780
[Riva]
Yes, yes, Oscar winner.
457
00:32:37,781 --> 00:32:40,351
- Artist. Artist!
- [screaming, pounding continue]
458
00:32:40,352 --> 00:32:43,324
Sensitive, brilliant genius.
459
00:32:43,325 --> 00:32:45,695
But, oh, the second
things get tough in life,
460
00:32:45,696 --> 00:32:49,002
real life,
real life interferes with,
461
00:32:49,003 --> 00:32:53,578
with-with your precious
dreams of-of fame
462
00:32:53,579 --> 00:32:58,287
and-and Hollywood greatness,
you...
463
00:33:00,125 --> 00:33:03,631
Do you think walking out
on your family
464
00:33:03,632 --> 00:33:05,535
means you are free?
465
00:33:05,536 --> 00:33:07,672
Huh? Huh?!
466
00:33:07,673 --> 00:33:10,011
♪ ♪
467
00:33:13,151 --> 00:33:15,320
[Roman]
No, Daddy, no.
468
00:33:15,321 --> 00:33:16,457
No!
469
00:33:17,961 --> 00:33:20,364
Fuck you, Daniel.
470
00:33:20,365 --> 00:33:22,269
Fuck you!
471
00:33:26,946 --> 00:33:29,182
[Daniel straining]
472
00:33:30,586 --> 00:33:32,689
[Roman choking]
473
00:33:32,690 --> 00:33:35,395
[grunting]
474
00:33:42,109 --> 00:33:43,812
[Daniel growls]
475
00:33:45,849 --> 00:33:48,354
[panting]
476
00:34:09,698 --> 00:34:11,768
[sniffs hard]
477
00:34:14,841 --> 00:34:17,780
[breathing heavily]
478
00:34:34,714 --> 00:34:36,785
[escalator clattering]
479
00:35:05,943 --> 00:35:08,548
♪ ♪
480
00:35:36,805 --> 00:35:40,144
[Roman's voice]
Hello, Father. You came.
481
00:35:46,958 --> 00:35:49,396
[Daniel]
Can you-- Can you-- Can you--
Can you help me, please?
482
00:35:49,397 --> 00:35:53,337
I-I have to get out of here.
483
00:35:53,338 --> 00:35:55,609
I want to go home.
484
00:35:58,114 --> 00:36:00,752
[Roman's voice]
But you've only just arrived.
485
00:36:00,753 --> 00:36:02,656
You traveled so far.
486
00:36:02,657 --> 00:36:06,330
No one has ever come
this deep before.
487
00:36:10,338 --> 00:36:13,477
- Why am I here?
- You know why.
488
00:36:14,346 --> 00:36:15,982
They're coming for you, Father.
489
00:36:15,983 --> 00:36:18,855
[figures groaning]
490
00:36:23,364 --> 00:36:24,967
Time to come clean.
491
00:36:26,236 --> 00:36:27,740
You're a selfish fuck.
492
00:36:29,611 --> 00:36:32,181
Okay, okay, okay,
I'll tell everyone--
493
00:36:32,182 --> 00:36:34,720
I'll tell everyone the truth.
494
00:36:34,721 --> 00:36:37,191
I will. I promise.
495
00:36:37,192 --> 00:36:39,061
Just get me out of here, please!
496
00:36:39,062 --> 00:36:42,503
- [Roman's voice] Have you
missed me, Daddy?
- Of course.
497
00:36:42,504 --> 00:36:45,742
Of course. Every day.
498
00:36:45,743 --> 00:36:47,378
Every day, my son.
499
00:36:47,379 --> 00:36:49,482
Every day, my precious boy.
500
00:36:49,483 --> 00:36:51,621
You're lying. I know you are.
501
00:36:51,622 --> 00:36:53,591
- You're a liar.
- [gasping]
502
00:36:53,592 --> 00:36:55,327
You just want
to leave me here.
503
00:36:55,328 --> 00:36:56,964
[figures]
Liar.
504
00:36:56,965 --> 00:36:59,135
- Liar...
- It's okay.
505
00:36:59,136 --> 00:37:01,373
You can go if you want to.
506
00:37:01,374 --> 00:37:04,947
All you ever had to do
was follow the sign.
507
00:37:33,471 --> 00:37:35,976
♪ ♪
508
00:37:44,092 --> 00:37:46,330
[clock ticking]
509
00:38:16,390 --> 00:38:18,628
[clock continues ticking]
510
00:38:25,308 --> 00:38:27,478
[message board clattering]
511
00:38:47,151 --> 00:38:48,487
[inhales]
512
00:38:48,488 --> 00:38:50,859
[clock continues ticking]
513
00:39:04,420 --> 00:39:07,927
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