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(people chattering)

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(solemn music playing)

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(school bell ringing)

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Student: "It is not chaos or death."

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"It is form and union and plan.

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"It is eternal life.

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"It is happiness.

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"The past and present wilt.

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"I have filled them, emptied them,

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"and proceed to fill my next
fold of the future.

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"Listener up there! What have
you to confide to me?

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"Look in my face while I snuff
the sidle of evening.

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"Talk honestly, no one
else hears you,

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and I stay only a minute longer."

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(sirens wailing) -"Do I
contradict myself?

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"Very well then, I
contradict myself.

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I am large, I contain multitudes."

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(whispers) My God.

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What is it?

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Clearly something more
interesting than Whitman.

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California. There was
another earthquake.

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A huge chunk's gone from Santa
Barbara to Fresno.

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- Student 2: It's fucking crazy.
- Into the ocean.

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- Just like that.
- Teacher: Alright, alright.

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Settle down.

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Got no connection.

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Anybody else have one?

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- (students muttering)
- student: No.

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Teacher: Oh, eh, sorry.
Network's still down.

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I've got his file here, though.

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Uh, Dylan's been diving lately.

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I mean, this semester, he's gone

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from As and Bs to Ds.

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You keep hard copies?

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When the network started acting up,

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a lot of us started
keeping hard copies.

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What do you think? I mean, you
think it's coming back?

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Well, I don't, I don't know.

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Dylan's mom: I remember the world
before the internet.

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Why is it so hard to imagine
carrying on without it?

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It is, though, isn't it?

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How do we go back? How...
Can we go back?

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What if it's down for
good this time?

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Internet's still down.

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Teacher: Yeah, but lucky for us,

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I've got hard copies
for each student.

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Parent: I think this might be it.

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I don't think it's coming
back this time.

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You might be right.

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But I do think we should
talk about Emily.

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Her attendance has
really fallen off.

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Her attendance?

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Absenteeism's at an all-time high

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all over the world.

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We got doctors and pilots and cops

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and everyone's just pissing
the fuck off, right?

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But you, you want to talk
to us about Emily?

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Parent 2: How are they
supposed to study, anyway?

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Web's been on the fritz
for eight months.

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Half those sites are just garbled.

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I mean, I get it, sites go dark.

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But what about all that other stuff?

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Like, sites are there, but all the
punctuation's wrong.

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Words spelled wrong. How do
you explain that?

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Well, I can't,

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but Brian can still
prepare for class.

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I mean, the library's still here.
Internet or not.

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Pornhub's down.

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Did you know that, Mr. Anderson?

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Yeah, I, uh,

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I, I, I had noticed that. Yeah.

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Sorry if Bri's been any trouble.

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It's just me now. His mom...

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she left, I don't know where.

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That's been happening a
lot more I hear,

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people just ghosting.

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Hers was some star-crossed
boyfriend from high school.

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They dated a month.

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Goddamn month. She's
gonna throw 20 years

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in the trash to chase down a month.

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I guess she never stopped
thinking about him.

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I guess we've all got
someone like that.

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I mean, I get it, if it
really is the end,

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like those kooks in the
purple robes say,

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then who do you want to
be with for it?

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But to leave her son?

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Uh, she says she'll be back.

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I don't know. Um...

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Fuckin' Pornhub.

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What if that never comes back?

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"Fuckin" tragedy.

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I mean, even if it is the
end of all things...

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that's just fuckin' mean.

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(both laughing)

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- Sorry.
- Yeah.

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Reporter: It's a scene
of devastation

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and heartbreak in California,

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as rescue workers sift
through what remains

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of the northern portion
of the state.

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Reporter 2:350 dead in
North Yorkshire

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as water levels continue to...

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(reporter speaking French)

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(reporter speaking Spanish)

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(reporter speaking German)

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(reporter speaking Japanese)

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(reporter speaking Italian)

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Narrator: The day Marty Anderson

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first saw the billboard

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was just before the internet
finally went down for good.

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(horns honking)

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It had been wobbling
for eight months,

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but other problems, like fires,
earthquakes,

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and whole species of birds
and fish dying off

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had taken priority.

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Newscaster (on radio):...till
today, thought to be

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the largest wildfire in
United States history.

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("Gimme Some Lovin' by
Steve Winwood playing)

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♪ Well, I feel so good ♪

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♪ Everything is getting high ♪

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narrator: Ordinarily, Marty
would've driven home

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by way of the Turnpike bypass,

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but that wasn't possible

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due to the collapse of the bridge

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over Otter Creek.

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♪ So glad we made it ♪

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♪ You gotta ♪

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(horn honks)

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<i>♪ Gimme, gimme some lovin' ♪</i>

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♪ Gimme some a-lovin' ♪

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<i>♪ Gimme, gimme some lovin' ♪</i>

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♪ Gimme some a-lovin' every day ♪

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♪♪

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NPR host (on radio): Well, with what
happened in California,

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that officially makes
Nevada one of the most

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populous states in the Union now.

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NPR host 2: The thing that must
be said here is...

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narrator: Felicia Gordon is a nurse

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at City General.

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Though for the last few weeks,

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she's felt more like an undertaker.

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The staff, whose numbers
have been dwindling

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since late summer, have
begun referring

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to themselves as the Suicide Squad.

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NPR host (on radio): We'll be back
to talk more about this

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and, uh, also about the
fires in the Midwest,

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speaking of water scarcity,
back after this break.

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(upbeat jingle playing)

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Announcer (on radio): We'd
like to say thank you

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to Charles Krantz

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for 39 great years.

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Thanks, Chuck.

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(tingle continues)

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Man: Hey.

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Heard you got another one.

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Yeah. One more.

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Nurse: Mine wasn't so lucky.
Slit wrists, so...

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what were we supposed to do really?

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Hear about Marilou?

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No. What about Marilou?

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She left!

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- Her ex. Remember Pedro?
- Mm-hm.

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He showed up, and I don't know
what he said to her,

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but she walked out holding his hand.

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And I remember how bad
that divorce was.

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- Do you remember?
- Yeah, I remember.

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Well, I guess that's
all bridge water

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'cause off she went.

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Reporter (on radio):...sinkholes
that have been opening up.

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Nurse: I wonder what the stats are.

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You think more people
are splitting up

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or getting back together?

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I mean, do you think
marriage rates are up

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- or divorce rates...
- Marriages.

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- You're an optimist.
- No. (Laughs)

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Divorce takes way longer,

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and I don't think anyone's filing.

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Why bother? Six months of
paperwork at least.

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Probably more.

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Marriage license is one page

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and it takes an hour or so.

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I'm gonna guess marriages.

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Man (on TV): Missed you for lunch,
missed you for dinner.

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What's the matter? Don't
you eat anymore?

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Woman (on TV): Well, I
wasn't hungry tonight.

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Man: Weren't you hungry
this morning either?

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- Woman: Who stole my nylons?
- (phone ringing)

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Egads! The very... Not very.

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Man: Too much rehearsal last night,
huh?

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Woman: It was kind of a workout.

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Man: That why you slept late?

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Woman: Oh, I didn't sleep late.

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- I went uptown.
- (Phone ringing)

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- Man: Shopping?
- Woman: No.

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Hey.

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Felicia Gordon (on phone): Hi.

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You hung up?

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Felicia: Yeah.

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But then I figured you
probably saw it. So...

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How are you?

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Marty Anderson (on phone): I'm okay,
I guess.

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How are you?

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I was, um, thinking about you today.

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We were at work talking about
marriages and divorces.

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Like, which are happening more now...

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Marriages, I bet.

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Ain't nobody waiting on a divorce.

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Felicia: What about remarriages?

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You want to buy a guy a
drink first or...

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Felicia: I bet those are happening.

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I mean, it makes sense.

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People wanting something
comforting and...

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familiar.

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So... how was your day?

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You're just going right for it,
aren't you?

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Humor me.

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Marty: It was, um...

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It was a day, I guess.
(clears throat)

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You know? Weird.

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Parent-teacher sessions,

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felt like pissing in the wind.

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You know about California, right?

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Marty: Yeah.

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I know they're saying most of it
was already evacuated,

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but I heard today there are
hundreds of thousands

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of refugees trekking east.

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Did you know Nevada is
one of the most

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populous states in the Union now?

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I heard a, a scientist on NPR say

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California is peeling away
like old wallpaper.

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And another Japanese reactor got
inundated this afternoon.

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And they're saying, you know, it was
shut down and all's well,

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but I just, I, I don't
think I believe that.

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Marty: Cynic.

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Well, we're living in cynical times,
Marty.

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I mean, some people think we're
living in the last times.

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Not just the religious crazies
either. Not anymore.

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And you are hearing that from a
member in good standing

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of the City General Suicide Squad.

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That's what we call ourselves now.

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No lie.

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We lost six today, but
there's 18 more

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we dragged back, mostly
with naloxone.

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But supplies of that are
getting very thin.

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And I heard the head pharmacist say

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we might be completely out by
the end of the month.

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That sucks.

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Felicia: Yeah. Yeah. (Laughs)

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Yeah, that sucks. It
it really sucks.

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The internet's down, and
California's hanging

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by a thread.

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There's fires and famines

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and plagues and all the rest.

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I mean, it just

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the center doesn't hold.

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It just won't let up.

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How long is this gonna go on?

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How much can we take before
the whole thing...

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before the whole thing goes apart,
I mean.

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00:12:04,270 --> 00:12:05,350
(sighs)

260
00:12:06,430 --> 00:12:09,350
I'm teaching the kids Carl
Sagan right now.

261
00:12:11,310 --> 00:12:13,820
You ever hear what he said about
the cosmic calendar?

262
00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:17,700
Uh... I don't know. I
don't think so.

263
00:12:17,900 --> 00:12:21,090
Well, the universe is 15
billion years old.

264
00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:22,800
And if you took all of that,

265
00:12:22,830 --> 00:12:26,100
all, all 15 billion years

266
00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:30,140
and compress them into a
single calendar year,

267
00:12:30,170 --> 00:12:33,850
then the Big Bang happens in the
first second, January 1st.

268
00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:35,840
And, and today,

269
00:12:36,300 --> 00:12:39,820
oh, right now, we're in the
final millisecond

270
00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:41,760
of the last minute of the last day,

271
00:12:42,350 --> 00:12:43,700
December 31st.

272
00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:45,660
But if you go back to the start,

273
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if the, if the Big Bang happens

274
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at midnight, January 1st,

275
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then each month of this calendar

276
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is one and a quarter
billion years long.

277
00:12:55,020 --> 00:12:57,250
Hey, nobody told me there was
math on this exam.

278
00:12:57,280 --> 00:13:00,010
Marty: The universe
starts January 1st,

279
00:13:00,030 --> 00:13:02,880
but the, uh, the Milky
Way didn't form

280
00:13:02,910 --> 00:13:04,490
until May.

281
00:13:04,780 --> 00:13:06,220
Our sun and our earth,

282
00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:09,960
they don't show up until
mid-September.

283
00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:12,710
Life appears soon after. But not us.

284
00:13:13,210 --> 00:13:16,270
No. No, no, we don't appear
for guess how long?

285
00:13:16,300 --> 00:13:18,690
Again, I was told
there'd be no math.

286
00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:20,050
Marty: December 31st.

287
00:13:20,930 --> 00:13:22,400
Last day on the calendar,

288
00:13:22,430 --> 00:13:24,660
and the very first human
beings on Earth

289
00:13:24,680 --> 00:13:26,060
made their debut

290
00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:28,220
around 10:30 p.m.

291
00:13:29,060 --> 00:13:32,400
10:30 p.m. on the last day.

292
00:13:32,730 --> 00:13:35,500
And, um, every minute since then

293
00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:37,040
is 30,000 years.

294
00:13:37,070 --> 00:13:41,320
So, 11:46 p.m.,

295
00:13:41,740 --> 00:13:45,830
only 14 minutes ago,
humanity tamed fire

296
00:13:46,490 --> 00:13:49,200
and now we're out of minutes,
we're into seconds.

297
00:13:50,790 --> 00:13:52,470
11:59 and 20 seconds,

298
00:13:52,500 --> 00:13:56,380
the domestication of plants
and animals begin,

299
00:13:56,750 --> 00:13:59,920
an application for the human
talent for making tools.

300
00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:03,260
11:59 and 35 seconds,

301
00:14:04,090 --> 00:14:06,070
agricultural communities

302
00:14:06,100 --> 00:14:08,220
evolved into the first cities.

303
00:14:09,890 --> 00:14:11,430
Our recorded history,

304
00:14:11,890 --> 00:14:14,060
everyone we've ever heard of,

305
00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:18,070
every single thing in any one of
our history books...

306
00:14:19,900 --> 00:14:21,900
happens in the last 10 seconds.

307
00:14:24,450 --> 00:14:26,120
The last 10 seconds

308
00:14:26,780 --> 00:14:28,330
of the last minute

309
00:14:28,790 --> 00:14:30,950
of the last day on the calendar.

310
00:14:32,410 --> 00:14:33,960
December 31st.

311
00:14:38,750 --> 00:14:40,300
So how long is it gonna go on?

312
00:14:41,460 --> 00:14:42,970
I don't know, Fel.

313
00:14:44,010 --> 00:14:46,030
If you're right, and you might be,

314
00:14:46,050 --> 00:14:48,990
that this really is the,
the last times

315
00:14:49,010 --> 00:14:51,470
and the universe is dying,

316
00:14:51,930 --> 00:14:53,370
and let's just say it's
a fast death,

317
00:14:53,390 --> 00:14:55,450
even if all of this is
happening in the,

318
00:14:55,480 --> 00:14:58,230
the last split second,

319
00:14:58,860 --> 00:15:00,400
microsecond,

320
00:15:00,820 --> 00:15:02,570
who knows how long that'll last.

321
00:15:02,990 --> 00:15:05,990
Maybe seconds, maybe eons.

322
00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:09,090
Maybe all this is happening as
the cosmos burps out

323
00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:10,490
its last breath.

324
00:15:12,500 --> 00:15:14,710
Maybe it's all happening in the last

325
00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:18,210
single solitary heartbeat.

326
00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:24,470
Jesus, Marty.

327
00:15:26,970 --> 00:15:28,260
Yeah.

328
00:15:29,300 --> 00:15:30,680
(sighs)

329
00:15:34,390 --> 00:15:36,520
Listen, Fel, I should go. I've,
um...

330
00:15:38,770 --> 00:15:40,690
I've got tests to grade.

331
00:15:42,570 --> 00:15:43,570
Felicia: Marty...

332
00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:46,840
the world is going down the drain,

333
00:15:46,860 --> 00:15:48,340
and all we can say is, "That sucks."

334
00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:51,580
So, maybe we're going
down the drain too.

335
00:15:52,540 --> 00:15:53,950
Marty: Maybe.

336
00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:56,680
But, you know, Chuck
Krantz is retiring.

337
00:15:56,710 --> 00:15:58,140
- So...
- (Felicia laughing)

338
00:15:58,170 --> 00:16:00,980
...I guess there's a gleam of
light in the darkness.

339
00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:02,400
Yes. Thirty-nine great years.

340
00:16:02,420 --> 00:16:04,230
Marty: Oh, you saw that
weird billboard?

341
00:16:04,260 --> 00:16:06,190
No, it was an ad on the radio that,
um,

342
00:16:06,220 --> 00:16:08,150
(clears throat) that NPR show I
was telling you about.

343
00:16:08,180 --> 00:16:09,360
Marty: If they're
running ads on NPR,

344
00:16:09,390 --> 00:16:10,650
it really is the end of the world.

345
00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:11,700
(Felicia laughs)

346
00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:13,700
Tell me, how does Chuck Krantz

347
00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:15,370
rate this kind of coverage?

348
00:16:15,390 --> 00:16:18,000
I mean... looks like an accountant.

349
00:16:18,020 --> 00:16:19,310
I've never heard of him.

350
00:16:20,150 --> 00:16:22,040
Used an old photo too, I guess.

351
00:16:22,060 --> 00:16:23,920
I mean, the guy barely
looks 40 at all,

352
00:16:23,940 --> 00:16:26,170
let alone 40 years on the job.

353
00:16:26,190 --> 00:16:28,150
The world is full of mysteries.

354
00:16:29,860 --> 00:16:32,700
And, hey, no hard stuff, Marty.

355
00:16:32,910 --> 00:16:34,580
Okay? Have a beer instead.

356
00:16:36,830 --> 00:16:38,210
You got it.

357
00:16:41,750 --> 00:16:43,940
Newsreader (on TV): The Ohio
EPA has now issued

358
00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:45,480
a code red air quality alert

359
00:16:45,510 --> 00:16:47,230
for Cleveland and its surrounding...

360
00:16:47,260 --> 00:16:49,550
(switch clicks) -(upbeat
music playing on TV)

361
00:16:58,140 --> 00:17:00,770
(continuous beep)

362
00:17:06,980 --> 00:17:10,780
(beeping)

363
00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:15,590
Oh, shit on a stick.

364
00:17:15,620 --> 00:17:19,330
(upbeat jingle playing)

365
00:17:20,120 --> 00:17:21,730
Announcer (on TV): We'd like
to say thank you

366
00:17:21,750 --> 00:17:23,020
to Charles Krantz

367
00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:26,060
for 39 great years.

368
00:17:26,090 --> 00:17:27,710
Thanks, Chuck.

369
00:17:32,050 --> 00:17:33,260
(jingle stops)

370
00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:35,240
(crackling)

371
00:17:35,260 --> 00:17:37,640
(continuous beep)

372
00:17:42,650 --> 00:17:44,650
(birds chirping)

373
00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:50,700
- (keys jingle)
- (groans)

374
00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:56,370
Marty: Gus!

375
00:17:57,620 --> 00:17:59,540
Oh. Hey, Marty.

376
00:18:00,120 --> 00:18:01,660
Where's your car?

377
00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:03,480
(Gus chuckles) It's... it's on,

378
00:18:03,500 --> 00:18:05,100
it's on the sidewalk halfway down

379
00:18:05,130 --> 00:18:07,150
Main Street Hill with a
hundred others.

380
00:18:07,170 --> 00:18:08,810
I finally just had to turn around.

381
00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:10,440
Fuck it, I walked...

382
00:18:10,460 --> 00:18:12,110
What do you think it is, like,
three miles?

383
00:18:12,130 --> 00:18:13,550
I just walked three miles.

384
00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:16,240
Oh, you're going to school.
Hold on a sec.

385
00:18:16,260 --> 00:18:20,030
Uh, real quick, you gotta,
you gotta go,

386
00:18:20,060 --> 00:18:22,120
listen to me, you gotta
go out Route 11

387
00:18:22,140 --> 00:18:24,370
and then hook back on, on, on 19.

388
00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:26,580
Yeah. There's gonna be
plenty of traffic.

389
00:18:26,610 --> 00:18:28,170
You gotta go out at least 20 miles.

390
00:18:28,190 --> 00:18:29,540
You might make it before lunch.

391
00:18:29,570 --> 00:18:32,130
- I wouldn't count on it.
- What happened?

392
00:18:32,150 --> 00:18:34,300
Giant sinkhole opened up on
Market and Main.

393
00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:36,340
Man, the-the thing, it, uh,
it's huge.

394
00:18:36,370 --> 00:18:38,510
All the rain probably had
something to do with it,

395
00:18:38,530 --> 00:18:40,390
lack of maintenance maybe more so.

396
00:18:40,410 --> 00:18:42,600
But it's not my department,
thank God.

397
00:18:42,620 --> 00:18:44,670
But, yeah, there's, there's gotta be

398
00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:46,640
- 20 cars at the bottom.
- (Marty scoffs)

399
00:18:46,670 --> 00:18:48,730
And some of the people in
some of those cars,

400
00:18:48,750 --> 00:18:49,770
they ain't comin' back.

401
00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:52,420
Jesus, I was, I was just
there last night,

402
00:18:53,090 --> 00:18:54,280
backed up in traffic.

403
00:18:54,300 --> 00:18:56,140
Thank God you weren't
there this morning.

404
00:18:57,300 --> 00:18:58,890
I assume you know about California.

405
00:19:00,010 --> 00:19:01,530
I didn't turn on the TV
this morning.

406
00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:02,990
- Oh!
- Is there something new?

407
00:19:03,020 --> 00:19:04,850
The, the rest of it went.

408
00:19:05,690 --> 00:19:08,420
I-I mean, th-they're saying that 20%
of Northern California

409
00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:10,920
is hanging in there, which
probably means, what, 10%?

410
00:19:10,940 --> 00:19:13,900
But the food-producing regions
are... they're gone.

411
00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:17,050
And with the Midwest
turning to charcoal

412
00:19:17,070 --> 00:19:18,590
and Florida flooding, that's like

413
00:19:18,620 --> 00:19:20,740
all the food-producing regions

414
00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:23,220
in the country just gone.

415
00:19:23,250 --> 00:19:24,510
And the same thing with Europe.

416
00:19:24,540 --> 00:19:26,180
I mean, it's famine time in Asia.

417
00:19:26,210 --> 00:19:27,430
There's a million people dead.

418
00:19:27,460 --> 00:19:29,270
They're saying it's the
bub-bublonic,

419
00:19:29,290 --> 00:19:30,400
- bubonic plague.
- Bubonic.

420
00:19:30,420 --> 00:19:32,060
Bu-Bubonic plague. Yeah.

421
00:19:32,090 --> 00:19:34,730
And the bees, I mean, they were in
trouble a decade ago,

422
00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:36,110
but they're completely gone now.

423
00:19:36,130 --> 00:19:37,400
I mean, there's a couple of
hives or whatever

424
00:19:37,430 --> 00:19:38,950
down in South America,

425
00:19:38,970 --> 00:19:40,700
but there ain't no honey, honey.

426
00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:43,160
And without those little guys, like,
what's gonna pollinate

427
00:19:43,180 --> 00:19:44,740
all the crops we have left?

428
00:19:44,770 --> 00:19:45,740
I mean, I can't do...

429
00:19:45,770 --> 00:19:47,040
Excuse me. One sec.

430
00:19:47,060 --> 00:19:48,250
Yeah, yeah. That's-that's cool.

431
00:19:48,270 --> 00:19:50,170
A-Andrea? Are you,

432
00:19:50,190 --> 00:19:52,080
are you Andrea from Midwest Trust?

433
00:19:52,110 --> 00:19:54,130
I'm Felicia Anderson's husband.

434
00:19:54,150 --> 00:19:56,250
Ex, actually.

435
00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:57,510
I think you and Fel know each other.

436
00:19:57,530 --> 00:19:59,470
We met at a, a, a game
night at David's.

437
00:19:59,490 --> 00:20:01,490
- A few game nights.
- Yeah, sure.

438
00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:03,160
What do you want?

439
00:20:03,370 --> 00:20:06,010
I just had a long walk, and
my car is stuck,

440
00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:07,460
and the bank is,

441
00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:08,960
it's leaning.

442
00:20:10,250 --> 00:20:11,460
Leaning?

443
00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:13,050
Yeah.

444
00:20:13,340 --> 00:20:14,840
It's on the edge of the sinkhole.

445
00:20:16,260 --> 00:20:17,610
Guess that's the end of my job.

446
00:20:17,630 --> 00:20:19,440
Marty: Hey, I'm curious
about the billboard

447
00:20:19,470 --> 00:20:20,700
on the bank building.

448
00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:22,320
- Have you seen it?
- How could I miss it?

449
00:20:22,350 --> 00:20:25,310
And I saw the ads too, on TV.

450
00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:28,120
No more ads for cars or
discount furniture.

451
00:20:28,140 --> 00:20:30,290
Just, "Charles Krantz",

452
00:20:30,310 --> 00:20:32,710
39 great years. Thanks, Chuck.”

453
00:20:32,730 --> 00:20:34,330
Marty: So, he doesn't
work at the bank?

454
00:20:34,360 --> 00:20:37,090
He's not retiring from the bank?

455
00:20:37,110 --> 00:20:39,160
I don't know Charles Krantz.

456
00:20:39,820 --> 00:20:42,450
I think it's just a prank.
Performance art.

457
00:20:44,910 --> 00:20:45,910
Take care.

458
00:20:52,540 --> 00:20:54,380
Gus: They look like refugees.

459
00:20:55,340 --> 00:20:56,550
Marty: Yeah.

460
00:20:58,670 --> 00:21:00,680
No one looks that concerned.

461
00:21:01,260 --> 00:21:03,110
(groans) What good would that do?

462
00:21:03,140 --> 00:21:05,010
All was concerned at the start.

463
00:21:05,470 --> 00:21:07,330
Remember the protests?
You remember...

464
00:21:07,350 --> 00:21:09,240
they knocked over the fence
at the White House,

465
00:21:09,270 --> 00:21:10,700
and all those students got shot?

466
00:21:10,730 --> 00:21:12,750
- Yeah.
- And the overthrow of the Russian government.

467
00:21:12,770 --> 00:21:15,500
You got the Four Day War between
Pakistan and India

468
00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:20,360
and the fucking... the
volcano in Germany.

469
00:21:20,700 --> 00:21:23,740
There was a volcano in Germany.
That's, that's crazy.

470
00:21:24,030 --> 00:21:26,720
And we just kept saying, "Oh,
it's gonna blow over."

471
00:21:26,740 --> 00:21:29,040
That doesn't look to be happening,
though, does it?

472
00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:33,190
No.

473
00:21:33,210 --> 00:21:35,710
I think that suicides
will slow down.

474
00:21:37,210 --> 00:21:41,470
I think people will just... wait.

475
00:21:43,890 --> 00:21:45,350
For what?

476
00:21:46,010 --> 00:21:47,060
The end.

477
00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:51,350
This is the end of everything.

478
00:21:52,850 --> 00:21:54,540
I mean, we're, we're going through

479
00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:55,750
the five stages of grief.

480
00:21:55,770 --> 00:21:57,500
Don't you get it? I mean, we just,

481
00:21:57,530 --> 00:21:59,820
we just landed on the final stage.

482
00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:01,610
Acceptance.

483
00:22:03,410 --> 00:22:04,660
The waiting...

484
00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:08,700
I think that's the hardest part.

485
00:22:10,410 --> 00:22:13,230
And the whole thing, it just, it-it
came out of nowhere, right?

486
00:22:13,250 --> 00:22:15,980
I mean, everyone knew there was
trouble with the environment.

487
00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:18,230
I mean, I think even the
right-wing nut jobs

488
00:22:18,250 --> 00:22:19,860
were secretly, they got it.

489
00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:21,090
But this...

490
00:22:22,590 --> 00:22:24,010
(voice breaking) this...

491
00:22:24,340 --> 00:22:29,720
this is just 60 different
varieties of shit.

492
00:22:30,100 --> 00:22:33,310
It's just so much shit
that happened fast.

493
00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:36,440
It's like a year, man.
Fourteen months.

494
00:22:38,110 --> 00:22:39,780
(sighs) Sucks.

495
00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:43,450
(sniffles)

496
00:22:44,450 --> 00:22:47,260
Yeah. Sucks. (Laughs)

497
00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:50,640
(airplane droning)

498
00:22:50,660 --> 00:22:51,660
Huh.

499
00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:53,410
Skywriting.

500
00:22:56,170 --> 00:22:58,960
I haven't seen one of those
since I was a kid.

501
00:23:01,340 --> 00:23:02,630
Oh.

502
00:23:04,130 --> 00:23:05,430
What the fuck?

503
00:23:06,970 --> 00:23:10,810
My sentiments... exactly.

504
00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:17,150
- (helicopter whirring)
- (sirens wailing)

505
00:23:18,060 --> 00:23:20,480
(horns honking)

506
00:23:25,530 --> 00:23:28,070
(curious music playing)

507
00:23:41,210 --> 00:23:42,730
(lights buzzing)

508
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:44,880
(panting)

509
00:23:45,510 --> 00:23:47,280
Whoa, whoa, whoa, where
have you been?

510
00:23:47,300 --> 00:23:48,510
Are you kidding?

511
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:50,530
(panting) I had to run here.

512
00:23:50,550 --> 00:23:53,580
The traffic's insane, and half
the cars are empty.

513
00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:54,910
Dr. Winston's MIA.

514
00:23:54,930 --> 00:23:56,080
- What?
- Yeah.

515
00:23:56,100 --> 00:23:57,660
He walked in this morning,
and he looked around

516
00:23:57,690 --> 00:23:58,710
and he walked out again.

517
00:23:58,730 --> 00:23:59,870
And now I can't find him.

518
00:23:59,900 --> 00:24:01,520
He dropped his pager when
he walked out.

519
00:24:02,360 --> 00:24:04,540
(panting) Okay. I'll scrub in.

520
00:24:04,570 --> 00:24:06,200
The beds are empty.

521
00:24:06,860 --> 00:24:08,510
Most of them walked out.
I-1-I transferred

522
00:24:08,530 --> 00:24:10,010
the last of the stable ones.

523
00:24:10,030 --> 00:24:12,840
But, Felicia, there's
something weird.

524
00:24:12,870 --> 00:24:16,140
(monitor beeping steadily)

525
00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:17,540
What is that?

526
00:24:21,340 --> 00:24:24,840
(beeping continues)

527
00:24:29,890 --> 00:24:31,720
What's wrong with the monitor?

528
00:24:32,140 --> 00:24:34,560
That's the thing, it-it's, it's
not just that one.

529
00:24:39,190 --> 00:24:42,870
(monitor beeping)

530
00:24:42,900 --> 00:24:44,150
(sighs)

531
00:24:50,490 --> 00:24:53,910
(monitor beeping)

532
00:24:55,290 --> 00:24:58,960
(multiple monitors beeping)

533
00:24:59,500 --> 00:25:02,330
I don't know, Fel. I don't know.

534
00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:06,170
I mean... I might want to
get out of here.

535
00:25:07,460 --> 00:25:09,690
I might wanna go home.

536
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:11,190
I don't think I need to
be here anymore.

537
00:25:11,220 --> 00:25:14,140
(beeping continues)

538
00:25:15,260 --> 00:25:17,730
(continuous beeping)

539
00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:21,100
(changing channels, all beeping)

540
00:25:23,190 --> 00:25:24,190
(static glitches)

541
00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:26,900
(TV switches off)

542
00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:32,610
(sighs)

543
00:25:37,370 --> 00:25:40,100
(line ringing)

544
00:25:40,120 --> 00:25:41,120
(call failure beeps)

545
00:25:43,130 --> 00:25:44,130
(sighs)

546
00:25:51,130 --> 00:25:52,130
(phone beeps)

547
00:25:55,470 --> 00:25:56,890
(phone beeps)

548
00:25:59,270 --> 00:26:00,310
(phone beeps)

549
00:26:03,150 --> 00:26:04,270
(sighs)

550
00:26:13,990 --> 00:26:15,070
(phone clatters)

551
00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:33,050
(solemn music playing)

552
00:26:38,220 --> 00:26:42,020
(birds cawing, tweeting)

553
00:26:48,730 --> 00:26:51,900
(airplane droning)

554
00:26:54,570 --> 00:26:56,370
(coughs)

555
00:26:56,530 --> 00:26:57,870
You okay, sir?

556
00:26:58,530 --> 00:27:00,850
Yeah. Just taking a rest.

557
00:27:00,870 --> 00:27:02,310
(distant sirens wailing)

558
00:27:02,330 --> 00:27:05,770
I walked downtown to look
at the sinkhole

559
00:27:05,790 --> 00:27:07,270
and take a few pictures
with my phone.

560
00:27:07,290 --> 00:27:11,020
Thought one of the local TV stations
might be interested,

561
00:27:11,050 --> 00:27:14,380
but they all seem to be off the air.

562
00:27:15,430 --> 00:27:17,260
Except for pictures of Krantz.

563
00:27:19,220 --> 00:27:22,180
- All Krantz all the time.
- (chuckles)

564
00:27:23,390 --> 00:27:25,390
- Any idea who he is?
- None.

565
00:27:26,020 --> 00:27:31,290
I've asked two dozen people, at
least. Nobody knows.

566
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:35,920
Our man, Krantz, is the Oz of the
apocalypse. (Chuckles)

567
00:27:35,950 --> 00:27:38,320
- Our last meme.
- (Chuckles)

568
00:27:38,740 --> 00:27:41,050
- Where are you heading?
- Harvest Acres.

569
00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:43,250
Nice little enclave off
the beaten track.

570
00:27:44,500 --> 00:27:45,960
I'm heading there myself.

571
00:27:46,830 --> 00:27:48,430
- My ex lives there.
- Huh.

572
00:27:48,460 --> 00:27:49,730
Well...

573
00:27:49,750 --> 00:27:51,090
I can walk with you if you like.

574
00:27:52,380 --> 00:27:53,670
What do you do, Sam?

575
00:27:54,260 --> 00:27:56,180
If you still do anything, I mean.

576
00:27:57,550 --> 00:28:01,240
Owner and chief undertaker for
Yarborough Funeral Home.

577
00:28:01,260 --> 00:28:03,070
Oh, man! (Chuckles)

578
00:28:03,100 --> 00:28:04,240
Yeah.

579
00:28:04,270 --> 00:28:06,580
We had a boom.

580
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:07,790
It's hard to feel good about it,

581
00:28:07,810 --> 00:28:08,960
but business was never better

582
00:28:08,980 --> 00:28:10,730
than it was a few weeks ago.

583
00:28:11,900 --> 00:28:16,450
But my real interest's meteorology.

584
00:28:17,610 --> 00:28:20,050
Dreamed of being a
television weatherman

585
00:28:20,070 --> 00:28:22,700
in my salad days, maybe even
one of the networks.

586
00:28:23,620 --> 00:28:25,290
But n-no.

587
00:28:25,830 --> 00:28:27,250
I keep up, though.

588
00:28:27,790 --> 00:28:29,100
Read the journals.

589
00:28:29,120 --> 00:28:30,480
(helicopter whirring nearby)

590
00:28:30,500 --> 00:28:32,210
And I can tell you

591
00:28:32,670 --> 00:28:35,270
something amazing if
you want to hear.

592
00:28:35,300 --> 00:28:36,300
(Marty chuckles)

593
00:28:36,590 --> 00:28:40,800
You know how people say there
are 24 hours in a day?

594
00:28:41,890 --> 00:28:43,350
Well, they're wrong.

595
00:28:43,890 --> 00:28:47,450
There were 23 hours and 56 minutes

596
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:48,810
in a stellar day.

597
00:28:56,490 --> 00:28:58,280
Plus a few odd seconds.

598
00:28:58,490 --> 00:28:59,710
Marty: There "were"?

599
00:28:59,740 --> 00:29:02,880
Based on my calculations,
which I assure you

600
00:29:02,910 --> 00:29:05,160
I can back up, my math is good,

601
00:29:05,830 --> 00:29:10,830
there are now 24 hours and two
minutes in a day.

602
00:29:11,170 --> 00:29:12,560
Do you know what that means?

603
00:29:12,580 --> 00:29:15,400
Well, you're saying the Earth's
rotation is slowing down?

604
00:29:15,420 --> 00:29:16,840
Exactly.

605
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:20,110
Lot of folks think all of
these disasters

606
00:29:20,130 --> 00:29:22,240
are 'cause of what we've done
to the environment.

607
00:29:22,260 --> 00:29:24,200
Not so.

608
00:29:24,220 --> 00:29:27,330
I'm the first to admit, we
treated our mother,

609
00:29:27,350 --> 00:29:30,640
yes, she's our mother, all of us,
very badly.

610
00:29:31,190 --> 00:29:33,940
Certainly molested her, if not
outright raped her.

611
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:37,170
But... we're puny

612
00:29:37,190 --> 00:29:40,530
compared to the great clock
of the universe.

613
00:29:41,740 --> 00:29:42,780
No.

614
00:29:43,070 --> 00:29:44,240
Whatever's happening

615
00:29:44,530 --> 00:29:48,040
is much larger than
environmental degradation.

616
00:29:48,700 --> 00:29:50,120
The math says so.

617
00:29:51,250 --> 00:29:54,130
And, and math can do a
lot of things.

618
00:29:54,420 --> 00:29:56,550
I mean, math can be art...

619
00:29:57,880 --> 00:29:59,210
but it can't lie.

620
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:07,370
You know what?

621
00:30:07,390 --> 00:30:09,220
I think I'll sit

622
00:30:10,060 --> 00:30:12,230
and enjoy the sunset

623
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,870
while I wait for the arthritis

624
00:30:15,900 --> 00:30:17,570
to settle a bit.

625
00:30:17,770 --> 00:30:19,070
You care to join me?

626
00:30:21,070 --> 00:30:22,550
(distant siren wails)

627
00:30:22,570 --> 00:30:23,740
(sighs)

628
00:30:23,990 --> 00:30:25,240
I think I'll go on.

629
00:30:26,410 --> 00:30:29,470
The ex. I understand.

630
00:30:29,490 --> 00:30:33,210
Well, it was nice speaking with you,
Mr. Anderson.

631
00:30:45,470 --> 00:30:48,600
(ominous music playing)

632
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:02,320
♪♪

633
00:31:15,290 --> 00:31:16,330
Hey.

634
00:31:17,250 --> 00:31:18,460
Hey.

635
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:21,730
Don't worry. I'm going to
see my ex-wife,

636
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:23,340
Felicia Anderson.

637
00:31:23,970 --> 00:31:26,340
I think she's back to Gordon now.

638
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:28,970
She lives on Fern Lane, number 19.

639
00:31:29,810 --> 00:31:32,020
Yeah, I know Miss Gordon.

640
00:31:33,770 --> 00:31:35,060
What are you doing out?

641
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:38,150
I wanted to go skating.

642
00:31:40,650 --> 00:31:42,150
I used to love skating.

643
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:44,990
Then you should go skating.

644
00:31:45,650 --> 00:31:46,990
(chuckles)

645
00:31:47,820 --> 00:31:48,970
Maybe I should.

646
00:31:48,990 --> 00:31:51,370
Why do you see Miss Gordon
if she's your ex?

647
00:31:53,540 --> 00:31:54,960
I still like her.

648
00:31:55,500 --> 00:31:56,960
Girl: Do you fight?

649
00:31:57,920 --> 00:31:59,250
We used to.

650
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:02,690
We get along better now
that we're exes.

651
00:32:02,710 --> 00:32:05,920
Miss Gordon gives us gingersnap
cookies sometimes.

652
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:08,990
I like Oreos better, but...

653
00:32:09,010 --> 00:32:11,700
That's just the way the
cookie crumbles, right?

654
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:13,070
Gingersnaps don't crumble.

655
00:32:13,100 --> 00:32:14,490
At least not until you crunch them...

656
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:16,490
(loud boom)

657
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:18,190
(booming echoes)

658
00:32:19,100 --> 00:32:21,270
(ominous music playing)

659
00:32:25,030 --> 00:32:26,570
You better go home, I guess.

660
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:32,410
It's too dark for skating
without streetlights.

661
00:32:33,790 --> 00:32:37,250
Is everything gonna be okay?

662
00:32:39,790 --> 00:32:41,170
Sure it is.

663
00:32:44,750 --> 00:32:47,970
(ominous music intensifies)

664
00:33:15,950 --> 00:33:17,500
Go home.

665
00:33:18,330 --> 00:33:20,750
Go home to your Mom and Dad.

666
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:24,500
Do it now.

667
00:33:45,980 --> 00:33:48,280
(music softens)

668
00:33:48,690 --> 00:33:50,650
(melancholic music playing)

669
00:33:57,990 --> 00:33:59,160
Huh?

670
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:02,670
(panting)

671
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:04,100
(Felicia sighs)

672
00:34:04,130 --> 00:34:06,960
Oh, thank God. Oh, thank God.

673
00:34:07,500 --> 00:34:09,570
- Thank God.
- Marty: They, they just...

674
00:34:09,590 --> 00:34:12,340
(both panting)

675
00:34:12,970 --> 00:34:15,990
They just, they just
started showing up.

676
00:34:16,010 --> 00:34:17,510
No, I know, I know, I saw.

677
00:34:18,810 --> 00:34:20,180
Is it just here?

678
00:34:20,810 --> 00:34:22,310
I think it's everywhere.

679
00:34:24,810 --> 00:34:27,320
I think it's almost...

680
00:34:31,900 --> 00:34:33,070
Yeah...

681
00:34:33,990 --> 00:34:35,490
Yeah, I think it's almost...

682
00:34:37,660 --> 00:34:38,700
(exhales deeply)

683
00:34:45,130 --> 00:34:47,540
(melancholic music continues)

684
00:34:53,340 --> 00:34:55,990
(monitor beeping)

685
00:34:56,010 --> 00:34:58,180
(music fades out)

686
00:35:01,220 --> 00:35:03,440
(beeping continues)

687
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:24,210
(sniffles)

688
00:35:30,590 --> 00:35:31,590
(sniffles)

689
00:35:34,720 --> 00:35:38,180
(somber music playing)

690
00:35:41,260 --> 00:35:43,680
(monitor continues beeping)

691
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:54,570
(melancholic music playing)

692
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:19,550
Marty: It's the brightest I've
ever seen the stars.

693
00:36:25,060 --> 00:36:26,770
Just look at that.

694
00:36:29,100 --> 00:36:31,960
There's Aquila the eagle.

695
00:36:31,980 --> 00:36:33,270
Mm-hm.

696
00:36:34,070 --> 00:36:35,320
There's, uh...

697
00:36:35,940 --> 00:36:38,860
Cygnus the swan.

698
00:36:44,540 --> 00:36:46,310
♪♪

699
00:36:46,330 --> 00:36:47,710
You see it?

700
00:37:01,430 --> 00:37:02,890
And there's the North Sta...

701
00:37:07,180 --> 00:37:08,480
Did you just see that?

702
00:37:09,690 --> 00:37:10,730
Yeah.

703
00:37:14,820 --> 00:37:16,290
(loud echoing boom)

704
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:17,940
There goes Mars.

705
00:37:22,070 --> 00:37:24,910
(multiple loud booms)

706
00:37:33,330 --> 00:37:34,790
I'm scared.

707
00:37:36,420 --> 00:37:38,320
- (shaky breaths)
- (loud booms)

708
00:37:38,340 --> 00:37:39,800
I am too.

709
00:37:40,220 --> 00:37:41,720
Chuck's wife: It's okay, honey.

710
00:37:42,340 --> 00:37:44,030
(monitor beeping)

711
00:37:44,050 --> 00:37:45,050
You go on.

712
00:37:47,850 --> 00:37:49,520
You go on ahead, okay?

713
00:37:50,350 --> 00:37:51,690
(exhales weakly)

714
00:37:53,350 --> 00:37:55,670
(monitor beeping steadily)

715
00:37:55,690 --> 00:37:58,570
(crying) Just thirty-nine years.

716
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:07,140
Thirty-nine great years.

717
00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:09,870
(monitor continues beeping)

718
00:38:15,210 --> 00:38:16,750
Thanks, Chuck.

719
00:38:18,050 --> 00:38:21,050
(loud rumbling)

720
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:27,410
("Gimme Some Lovin' by
Steve Winwood playing)

721
00:38:27,430 --> 00:38:29,030
♪ Gimme some a-lovin' ♪

722
00:38:29,060 --> 00:38:31,290
<i>♪ Gimme, gimme some lovin' ♪</i>

723
00:38:31,310 --> 00:38:33,060
♪ Gimme some a-lovin' ♪

724
00:38:34,650 --> 00:38:37,020
(music distorting) ♪ Gimme
some a-lovin' ♪

725
00:38:42,780 --> 00:38:44,450
- (trembling breath)
- I love y...

726
00:38:58,420 --> 00:39:01,760
(voices speaking indistinctly)

727
00:39:08,470 --> 00:39:10,570
Narrator: With the help of
her friend, Mac,

728
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:12,370
who has an old van,

729
00:39:12,390 --> 00:39:15,080
Taylor Franck sets up her drum kit

730
00:39:15,100 --> 00:39:16,410
in her favored spot

731
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:19,170
on the Eighth Street Promenade.

732
00:39:19,190 --> 00:39:20,780
(people chattering)

733
00:39:21,990 --> 00:39:23,920
It's Thursday afternoon.

734
00:39:23,950 --> 00:39:26,840
The weather is fucking gorgeous,

735
00:39:26,870 --> 00:39:28,760
and the streets are
thronged with people

736
00:39:28,780 --> 00:39:30,850
looking forward to the weekend,

737
00:39:30,870 --> 00:39:33,760
which is always better than
the weekend itself.

738
00:39:33,790 --> 00:39:36,120
- All good. Taylor?
- Yeah, thanks.

739
00:39:36,420 --> 00:39:38,630
Ten percent is all the
thanks I want, dude.

740
00:39:39,460 --> 00:39:41,900
Narrator: Taylor, and Mac too,

741
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:42,860
work part-time

742
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:45,550
at Doctor Records on Castle Street.

743
00:39:46,050 --> 00:39:47,740
- But on a good day...
- (van door closes)

744
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:50,200
... Taylor can make almost
as much busking.

745
00:39:50,220 --> 00:39:51,640
(van engine starts)

746
00:39:51,970 --> 00:39:55,330
Busk-drumming isn't what her
parents saw for her

747
00:39:55,350 --> 00:39:57,620
when she enrolled at Juilliard,

748
00:39:57,650 --> 00:40:00,480
and they don't know yet that
she dropped out.

749
00:40:01,110 --> 00:40:04,590
Juilliard wanted you to think about
what you were doing,

750
00:40:04,610 --> 00:40:07,630
but as far as Taylor is concerned,

751
00:40:07,660 --> 00:40:12,220
the beat is your friend and
thinking is the enemy.

752
00:40:12,240 --> 00:40:14,910
(slow-tempo drumming)

753
00:40:17,500 --> 00:40:21,400
She starts warming up,
going easy at first.

754
00:40:21,420 --> 00:40:23,670
Slow tempo, no cowbell,

755
00:40:24,090 --> 00:40:27,360
not minding that the magic
hat stays empty

756
00:40:27,380 --> 00:40:29,490
except for her two crumpled dollars

757
00:40:29,510 --> 00:40:31,660
and a quarter flipped contemptuously

758
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:33,490
by a dude on a skateboard.

759
00:40:33,510 --> 00:40:34,720
(coin clinks)

760
00:40:35,020 --> 00:40:38,560
There is time. There is a way in.

761
00:40:38,940 --> 00:40:42,020
Finding the in is half the fun.

762
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:44,340
Maybe even most of it.

763
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:45,490
(drumming stops)

764
00:40:46,030 --> 00:40:48,880
Janice Halliday is on her way home

765
00:40:48,910 --> 00:40:52,010
from seven hours at Paper and Page,

766
00:40:52,030 --> 00:40:54,370
and may walk all the
way to the ocean.

767
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:58,890
Her boyfriend of 16 months just
broke up with her,

768
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:01,350
and he did it the modern way.

769
00:41:01,380 --> 00:41:02,520
Motherfucker!

770
00:41:02,540 --> 00:41:04,400
Narrator: It was totally unexpected,

771
00:41:04,420 --> 00:41:07,070
like having a door
slammed in your face

772
00:41:07,090 --> 00:41:09,470
just as you were getting ready
to walk through it.

773
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:11,450
- It was...
- Fucking bullshit!

774
00:41:11,470 --> 00:41:12,860
Narrator:...fucking bullshit.

775
00:41:12,890 --> 00:41:14,740
She isn't in love with him.

776
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:17,330
Never even kidded
herself that she was.

777
00:41:17,350 --> 00:41:18,790
- But still it...
- Fucking sucks.

778
00:41:18,810 --> 00:41:21,850
Narrator:...is a dismaying
shock just the same.

779
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:24,750
She supposes she'll have some wine

780
00:41:24,770 --> 00:41:26,610
when she gets home and cry.

781
00:41:27,240 --> 00:41:30,300
Maybe queue up one of her
big band playlists

782
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:32,410
and dance drunk around the room.

783
00:41:32,780 --> 00:41:35,410
She loved to dance in high school.

784
00:41:35,660 --> 00:41:38,640
Maybe she can recapture a little
of that happiness.

785
00:41:38,660 --> 00:41:40,890
- Fucking really?!
- Passerby: Excuse me.

786
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:43,580
Sorry, sorry, sorry. Not you,
not you.

787
00:41:44,250 --> 00:41:45,810
(sighs) Fuck!

788
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:48,590
Barista: Got an oat milk
latte for Chuck.

789
00:41:49,340 --> 00:41:50,930
Narrator: Charles Krantz,

790
00:41:51,590 --> 00:41:52,990
Chuck to his friends,

791
00:41:53,010 --> 00:41:56,070
is dressed in the armor
of accountancy.

792
00:41:56,100 --> 00:41:59,430
Gray suit, blue shirt, blue tie.

793
00:41:59,730 --> 00:42:04,110
His Samuel Windsor shoes are
inexpensive but sturdy.

794
00:42:04,770 --> 00:42:07,080
He's here for a week-long conference

795
00:42:07,110 --> 00:42:10,650
titled "Banking in the
21st Century."

796
00:42:10,950 --> 00:42:14,760
He's been sent by his bank,
Midwest Trust,

797
00:42:14,780 --> 00:42:16,330
all expenses paid.

798
00:42:16,660 --> 00:42:20,600
Chuck has enjoyed the
speakers and the panels.

799
00:42:20,620 --> 00:42:22,020
He was on one panel

800
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:24,100
and is scheduled to be on another

801
00:42:24,130 --> 00:42:27,060
before the conference ends
at noon tomorrow,

802
00:42:27,090 --> 00:42:30,230
but has no wish to spend
his off-duty hours

803
00:42:30,260 --> 00:42:33,300
in the company of 70
other accountants.

804
00:42:33,630 --> 00:42:35,150
He speaks their language,

805
00:42:35,180 --> 00:42:38,220
but likes to think he
speaks others as well.

806
00:42:39,140 --> 00:42:40,620
At least he did,

807
00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:43,690
although some of the
vocabulary is now lost.

808
00:42:44,730 --> 00:42:47,880
Now, his sensible Samuel
Windsor Oxfords

809
00:42:47,900 --> 00:42:50,530
are taking him for an
afternoon walk.

810
00:42:50,820 --> 00:42:52,710
His life is narrower

811
00:42:52,740 --> 00:42:54,800
than the one he once hoped for,

812
00:42:54,820 --> 00:42:56,660
but he's made peace with that.

813
00:42:57,120 --> 00:42:59,140
He understands that narrowing

814
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:01,750
is the natural order of things.

815
00:43:02,620 --> 00:43:04,270
He has a wife, Ginny,

816
00:43:04,290 --> 00:43:07,140
to whom he is scrupulously faithful,

817
00:43:07,170 --> 00:43:09,650
and an intelligent, good-humored son

818
00:43:09,670 --> 00:43:10,710
in middle school.

819
00:43:11,170 --> 00:43:14,490
He also has only nine
months to live,

820
00:43:14,510 --> 00:43:16,490
though he doesn't know that yet.

821
00:43:16,510 --> 00:43:18,930
(drum music playing)

822
00:43:21,220 --> 00:43:24,660
Taylor has been on the job
for 10 minutes now

823
00:43:24,690 --> 00:43:26,980
and has nothing to show for it.

824
00:43:29,730 --> 00:43:32,170
She sees a Mr. Businessman type

825
00:43:32,190 --> 00:43:33,670
coming toward her

826
00:43:33,690 --> 00:43:36,130
and something about him,
God knows what,

827
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:39,780
makes Taylor want to
announce his approach.

828
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:43,890
She slips first into a reggae beat,

829
00:43:43,910 --> 00:43:45,710
then something slinkier.

830
00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:50,060
And for the first time today,
Taylor feels a spark

831
00:43:50,090 --> 00:43:53,340
and begins to whack the
cowbell on the downbeat.

832
00:43:54,220 --> 00:43:55,550
It's pretty cool.

833
00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:58,450
The groove has arrived,

834
00:43:58,470 --> 00:44:02,180
and the groove is like a road
you want to follow.

835
00:44:02,470 --> 00:44:06,540
She could speed the beat up, get
some tom in there,

836
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:08,830
but she's watching Mr. Businessman

837
00:44:08,860 --> 00:44:11,270
and that seems wrong for this dude.

838
00:44:11,940 --> 00:44:15,880
She believes Mr. Businessman
will just go on past

839
00:44:15,900 --> 00:44:18,590
on his way to the business hotel,

840
00:44:18,610 --> 00:44:19,880
and when he's gone,

841
00:44:19,910 --> 00:44:22,240
Taylor will switch to
something else.

842
00:44:24,700 --> 00:44:27,890
But instead of floating on by...

843
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:30,290
(upbeat drum music playing)

844
00:44:37,510 --> 00:44:39,800
♪♪

845
00:44:56,570 --> 00:44:59,820
♪♪

846
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:09,710
(drumming stops)

847
00:45:17,220 --> 00:45:19,220
(drumming resumes)

848
00:45:34,150 --> 00:45:36,980
♪♪

849
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:47,160
♪♪

850
00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:00,050
Onlooker 1: Woo!

851
00:46:04,350 --> 00:46:06,310
♪♪

852
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:10,200
Onlooker 2: Yeah!

853
00:46:10,230 --> 00:46:12,480
♪♪

854
00:46:27,830 --> 00:46:30,720
♪♪

855
00:46:30,750 --> 00:46:32,520
(people exclaiming)

856
00:46:32,540 --> 00:46:36,790
♪♪

857
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:44,220
- Onlooker: Woo!
- (Crowd cheering)

858
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:46,890
Come on.

859
00:46:48,390 --> 00:46:49,430
Come on, little sister.

860
00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:51,620
Let's dance.

861
00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:53,370
Dance.

862
00:46:53,390 --> 00:46:55,350
(people exclaiming)

863
00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:58,210
- Yeah!
- (Crowd cheering)

864
00:46:58,230 --> 00:47:00,570
I'll lead you. I got you.

865
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:04,200
♪♪

866
00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:24,130
♪♪

867
00:47:30,430 --> 00:47:32,600
(crowd cheering)

868
00:47:42,280 --> 00:47:43,530
(crowd cheering)

869
00:47:49,450 --> 00:47:50,580
Uh.

870
00:47:55,290 --> 00:47:58,920
It's okay. It's my glasses.
It's my glasses.

871
00:48:00,340 --> 00:48:03,340
(crowd cheering)

872
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:12,310
♪♪

873
00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:20,900
(crowd cheering)

874
00:48:32,540 --> 00:48:36,330
- (fast-paced beat playing)
- (crowd cheering)

875
00:48:48,300 --> 00:48:51,180
♪♪

876
00:49:02,820 --> 00:49:05,030
(crowd clapping rhythmically)

877
00:49:09,070 --> 00:49:11,240
(drumming intensifies)

878
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:25,020
(drumming stops)

879
00:49:25,050 --> 00:49:28,220
(crowd cheering)

880
00:49:34,810 --> 00:49:37,520
(cheering intensifies)

881
00:49:39,730 --> 00:49:41,020
What are we doing?

882
00:49:41,730 --> 00:49:42,730
I don't know.

883
00:49:51,070 --> 00:49:54,580
(cheering continues)

884
00:49:59,410 --> 00:50:01,250
Taylor Franck: No more today, folks.

885
00:50:01,790 --> 00:50:03,080
No more today.

886
00:50:03,540 --> 00:50:05,850
No more today. We gotta quit
while we're ahead.

887
00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:07,250
(crowd groans)

888
00:50:09,260 --> 00:50:11,150
Chuck Krantz: Do you need
a-any help at all or...

889
00:50:11,180 --> 00:50:12,570
Mac: Here, can you, uh, take this?

890
00:50:12,590 --> 00:50:14,320
- Sure.
- Just, just spin the thingy here.

891
00:50:14,350 --> 00:50:15,820
But watch out for your fingers.

892
00:50:15,850 --> 00:50:18,200
It'll, it'll, it'll get 'em good,
you know what I mean?

893
00:50:18,220 --> 00:50:20,330
- Yeah, yeah.
- (Indistinct chatter)

894
00:50:20,350 --> 00:50:22,700
Janice Halliday: What just happened?

895
00:50:22,730 --> 00:50:24,460
That was incredible.

896
00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:26,080
Mac: You dance for a living?

897
00:50:26,110 --> 00:50:27,540
Chuck: No. (Laughs) Oh, no. I...

898
00:50:27,570 --> 00:50:29,590
- No, I do not, sir.
- What do you do for a living?

899
00:50:29,610 --> 00:50:31,380
Chuck: Oh, no, I think I... Did I... I
didn't break it, did 1?

900
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:33,280
I think he broke, I
think he broke it.

901
00:50:35,070 --> 00:50:36,300
Taylor: Let's hit the pond.

902
00:50:36,330 --> 00:50:38,620
Mac: We'll never find
parking by the Common.

903
00:50:39,450 --> 00:50:40,540
We will today.

904
00:50:41,830 --> 00:50:42,830
Today...

905
00:50:44,460 --> 00:50:45,580
is magic.

906
00:50:50,420 --> 00:50:52,220
Where did you learn to
dance like that?

907
00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:56,300
(indistinct chatter)

908
00:50:59,970 --> 00:51:02,200
Oh, no, no, no, that's yours.

909
00:51:02,230 --> 00:51:03,410
Nope, we split it even.

910
00:51:03,440 --> 00:51:04,960
By myself, I wouldn't have
made half as much

911
00:51:04,980 --> 00:51:06,310
if I drummed till midnight.

912
00:51:07,900 --> 00:51:09,230
(chuckles)

913
00:51:17,410 --> 00:51:18,580
You okay?

914
00:51:20,660 --> 00:51:21,700
Yeah.

915
00:51:23,540 --> 00:51:25,670
Yeah. Just one of my headaches.

916
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:30,520
Oh, no, no, no. Come on. I don't
need it. You keep it.

917
00:51:30,550 --> 00:51:32,380
Come on, man, you earned it.

918
00:51:33,090 --> 00:51:34,440
Buy yourself dinner.

919
00:51:34,470 --> 00:51:37,090
Give it away. But I'm
handing it to you.

920
00:51:42,390 --> 00:51:43,830
You could do this for a living,
you know?

921
00:51:43,850 --> 00:51:45,580
(Janice laughs) -Chuck: I
don't know about that.

922
00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:48,290
I really think we could busk our way
to fame and fortune.

923
00:51:48,310 --> 00:51:49,520
(both chuckle)

924
00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:55,240
What made you stop in front of me?

925
00:51:56,570 --> 00:51:57,700
(Chuck sighs)

926
00:51:57,950 --> 00:51:59,370
Why did you start moving?

927
00:52:01,620 --> 00:52:04,430
Narrator: He could say it was
because he was thinking

928
00:52:04,460 --> 00:52:08,310
about his old half-assed band,
The Retros,

929
00:52:08,330 --> 00:52:10,980
and how he liked to dance
across the stage

930
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:12,710
during instrumental breaks.

931
00:52:14,210 --> 00:52:15,470
But that's not it.

932
00:52:19,350 --> 00:52:20,680
I don't know.

933
00:52:24,270 --> 00:52:25,620
Mac: Taylor, we gotta roll,

934
00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:27,080
or you're gonna end up
spending your take

935
00:52:27,100 --> 00:52:28,270
on my parking ticket.

936
00:52:29,650 --> 00:52:32,710
So, you guys don't want a
career change?

937
00:52:32,730 --> 00:52:34,710
Chuck: Career change? How...
I mean...

938
00:52:34,740 --> 00:52:36,250
Taylor: We'll make a name
for ourselves.

939
00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:37,660
(Chuck laughs)

940
00:52:38,240 --> 00:52:39,820
You got to get in here
before you go.

941
00:52:40,910 --> 00:52:42,970
- Group hug.
- Oh, oh, okay.

942
00:52:42,990 --> 00:52:44,260
- Taylor: Group hug.
- Chuck: Okay.

943
00:52:44,290 --> 00:52:45,680
- (Taylor laughs)
- Chuck: Go.

944
00:52:45,700 --> 00:52:47,330
- Taylor: Come on.
- (Janice chuckles)

945
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:50,460
(gentle music playing)

946
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:55,210
Buskers forever.

947
00:52:55,590 --> 00:52:57,150
Mac: Yeah. Buskers forever.

948
00:52:57,170 --> 00:52:59,740
We gotta roll before the
meter maid shows up.

949
00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:03,430
♪♪

950
00:53:05,850 --> 00:53:07,270
Chuck: I'm so sorry.

951
00:53:07,980 --> 00:53:09,200
That sucks.

952
00:53:09,230 --> 00:53:11,230
Janice: It does suck. (Sighs)

953
00:53:11,650 --> 00:53:13,320
I thought he was a nice guy.

954
00:53:13,610 --> 00:53:16,240
He was a pretty good lover, and we
had fun and all that.

955
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:19,420
If I can find a video of us dancing,

956
00:53:19,450 --> 00:53:22,220
which I'm gonna look because
I bet we go viral,

957
00:53:22,240 --> 00:53:24,390
I'm gonna send it to
him with a text,

958
00:53:24,410 --> 00:53:27,930
a text that says, "This is
what you're missing."

959
00:53:27,960 --> 00:53:29,460
(Chuck laughs)

960
00:53:36,340 --> 00:53:37,800
You're gonna be fine.

961
00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:41,890
I don't know a lot, but I
know that much.

962
00:53:45,260 --> 00:53:47,280
You got a bright sunbeam
in front of you,

963
00:53:47,310 --> 00:53:49,690
and you're gonna step right into it,
I can tell.

964
00:53:52,980 --> 00:53:53,980
But yeah.

965
00:53:56,230 --> 00:53:58,650
It sucks. Not much else to say.

966
00:54:01,450 --> 00:54:02,630
Everything goes down the drain,

967
00:54:02,660 --> 00:54:04,720
and all we can say is, "That sucks."

968
00:54:04,740 --> 00:54:06,490
Mm. Yeah.

969
00:54:07,700 --> 00:54:09,500
Maybe we're going down
the drain too.

970
00:54:11,870 --> 00:54:13,290
Maybe.

971
00:54:15,460 --> 00:54:16,590
I'm this way.

972
00:54:19,340 --> 00:54:21,380
Uh, I'm that way.

973
00:54:27,140 --> 00:54:28,470
Thank you for the dance.

974
00:54:30,560 --> 00:54:33,330
(gentle music playing)

975
00:54:33,350 --> 00:54:34,560
(Janice chuckles)

976
00:54:47,530 --> 00:54:49,540
(music fades out)

977
00:54:51,370 --> 00:54:53,540
(people chattering)

978
00:55:10,180 --> 00:55:12,350
(curious music playing)

979
00:55:23,740 --> 00:55:25,380
Narrator: As he passes the place

980
00:55:25,410 --> 00:55:27,260
where Taylor set up her drums,

981
00:55:27,280 --> 00:55:29,540
those two questions recur.

982
00:55:32,160 --> 00:55:34,460
Why did he stop to listen?

983
00:55:35,920 --> 00:55:38,960
And why did he start to dance?

984
00:55:41,960 --> 00:55:43,510
He doesn't know.

985
00:55:44,930 --> 00:55:47,850
And would answers make a
good thing better?

986
00:55:50,890 --> 00:55:54,270
Later, he'll lose the
ability to walk,

987
00:55:54,690 --> 00:55:57,290
never mind dancing with
little sister

988
00:55:57,310 --> 00:55:58,900
on the promenade.

989
00:55:59,570 --> 00:56:02,730
Later, he'll lose the
ability to chew food.

990
00:56:03,820 --> 00:56:06,660
Later, he'll forget his wife's name.

991
00:56:07,870 --> 00:56:11,390
Later, he'll lose his grip
on the difference

992
00:56:11,410 --> 00:56:13,580
between waking and sleeping

993
00:56:13,870 --> 00:56:17,290
and enter a land of pain so great

994
00:56:17,620 --> 00:56:20,460
he will wonder why God
made the world.

995
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:22,860
♪♪

996
00:56:22,880 --> 00:56:25,820
What he will remember, occasionally,

997
00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:29,780
is how he stopped and
dropped his briefcase

998
00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:33,640
and began to move his hips to
the beat of the drums.

999
00:56:34,470 --> 00:56:36,160
And he will think

1000
00:56:36,180 --> 00:56:38,810
that is why God made the world.

1001
00:56:40,810 --> 00:56:41,940
Just that.

1002
00:56:44,990 --> 00:56:46,950
(music fades out)

1003
00:56:50,410 --> 00:56:54,660
(voices speaking indistinctly)

1004
00:56:58,420 --> 00:57:00,480
(distant toy train horn blows)

1005
00:57:00,500 --> 00:57:02,840
(children playing)

1006
00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:07,440
Narrator: Chuck was looking forward

1007
00:57:07,470 --> 00:57:09,260
to having a baby sister.

1008
00:57:09,680 --> 00:57:11,700
Of course, he was also
looking forward

1009
00:57:11,720 --> 00:57:13,740
to having parents,

1010
00:57:13,760 --> 00:57:16,530
but none of that worked out
thanks to a patch

1011
00:57:16,560 --> 00:57:20,350
of well-hidden ice on an
1-95 overpass.

1012
00:57:20,850 --> 00:57:23,460
(train whistle hooting) -(exclaims)

1013
00:57:23,480 --> 00:57:25,840
Chuck wasn't in the car
when it happened

1014
00:57:25,860 --> 00:57:28,670
because his parents were
having a dinner date

1015
00:57:28,700 --> 00:57:32,090
and he was being babysat by
his grandparents,

1016
00:57:32,120 --> 00:57:35,830
who, at the time, he was still
calling Zaydee and Bubbie.

1017
00:57:36,200 --> 00:57:37,850
He was seven years old.

1018
00:57:37,870 --> 00:57:39,500
Excellent job.

1019
00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:42,390
Narrator: For a year and a half,
it was a house

1020
00:57:42,420 --> 00:57:44,590
of unadulterated sadness.

1021
00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:48,730
Albie and Sarah Krantz
had not only lost

1022
00:57:48,760 --> 00:57:50,610
their son and daughter-in-law...

1023
00:57:50,630 --> 00:57:51,990
Why're you not eating?

1024
00:57:52,010 --> 00:57:53,700
Narrator:...they had lost
the granddaughter

1025
00:57:53,720 --> 00:57:56,490
who would've been born just
three months later.

1026
00:57:56,520 --> 00:57:58,060
Young Chuck: What's going on?

1027
00:57:58,390 --> 00:58:00,870
Narrator: The name had already
been picked out...

1028
00:58:00,890 --> 00:58:03,210
- Her name is Alyssa.
- Narrator:... Alyssa.

1029
00:58:03,230 --> 00:58:06,790
When Chuck said that sounded
to him like rain,

1030
00:58:06,820 --> 00:58:09,820
his mother had laughed and
cried at the same time.

1031
00:58:11,070 --> 00:58:12,570
He never forgot that.

1032
00:58:14,620 --> 00:58:16,680
Albie processed his grief

1033
00:58:16,700 --> 00:58:19,600
by turning to his two absolutes,

1034
00:58:19,620 --> 00:58:22,290
numbers and alcohol.

1035
00:58:22,920 --> 00:58:25,560
Sarah, though, could find no joy

1036
00:58:25,590 --> 00:58:27,500
in her usual pleasures.

1037
00:58:27,880 --> 00:58:30,400
She loved the flavors of life,

1038
00:58:30,420 --> 00:58:32,780
music, art, and food,

1039
00:58:32,800 --> 00:58:35,410
but now, found the world quiet

1040
00:58:35,430 --> 00:58:38,140
and gray and flavorless.

1041
00:58:40,100 --> 00:58:42,370
Some of the good feelings came back

1042
00:58:42,390 --> 00:58:44,710
into the house with time.

1043
00:58:44,730 --> 00:58:46,420
There were a lot of takeout meals

1044
00:58:46,440 --> 00:58:48,130
after the accident,

1045
00:58:48,150 --> 00:58:50,090
but around the time Chuck turned 10,

1046
00:58:50,110 --> 00:58:52,990
his grandma started cooking again.

1047
00:58:53,610 --> 00:58:56,220
She liked rock-and-roll
while she was cooking.

1048
00:58:56,240 --> 00:58:57,390
(music plays on radio)

1049
00:58:57,410 --> 00:59:00,560
Music Chuck would've thought
much too young for her,

1050
00:59:00,580 --> 00:59:02,750
but which she clearly enjoyed.

1051
00:59:03,120 --> 00:59:04,850
("Dance Hall Days" by
Wang Chung playing)

1052
00:59:04,880 --> 00:59:07,420
♪ Take your baby by the hand ♪

1053
00:59:07,790 --> 00:59:09,110
(tapping rhythmically)

1054
00:59:09,130 --> 00:59:12,300
♪ And make her do a high handstand ♪

1055
00:59:13,880 --> 00:59:16,760
♪ And take your baby by the heel ♪

1056
00:59:18,810 --> 00:59:20,450
♪ And do the next thing
that you feel ♪

1057
00:59:20,470 --> 00:59:21,910
(chuckles)

1058
00:59:21,930 --> 00:59:25,250
Come on, little brother, let's
dance. (Chuckles)

1059
00:59:25,270 --> 00:59:27,830
♪ We were so in phase ♪

1060
00:59:27,860 --> 00:59:31,650
♪ In our dance hall days ♪

1061
00:59:32,490 --> 00:59:36,070
<i>♪ We were cool on craze ♪</i>

1062
00:59:37,410 --> 00:59:39,760
♪ When I, you ♪

1063
00:59:39,790 --> 00:59:42,910
♪ And everyone we knew
could believe ♪

1064
00:59:43,210 --> 00:59:46,390
♪ Do and share in what was true ♪

1065
00:59:46,420 --> 00:59:47,710
<i>>♪ Oh, I said ♪</i>

1066
00:59:50,460 --> 00:59:52,260
♪ Dance hall days, love ♪

1067
00:59:56,180 --> 00:59:58,850
♪ Take your baby by the hair ♪

1068
01:00:01,010 --> 01:00:03,680
♪ And pull her close and there,
there, there ♪

1069
01:00:05,640 --> 01:00:08,690
<i>♪ And take your baby by the ears ♪</i>

1070
01:00:10,190 --> 01:00:13,320
♪ And play upon her darkest fears ♪

1071
01:00:14,530 --> 01:00:16,590
♪ We were so in... ♪

1072
01:00:16,610 --> 01:00:19,870
(upbeat music playing on TV)

1073
01:00:22,450 --> 01:00:24,370
Sarah Krantz: You could learn
those moves, kiddo.

1074
01:00:25,210 --> 01:00:26,210
You're a natural.

1075
01:00:26,920 --> 01:00:28,640
Wh-Where did you learn?

1076
01:00:28,670 --> 01:00:30,340
Sarah: High school.

1077
01:00:30,840 --> 01:00:32,440
Chuck: What were you like
in high school?

1078
01:00:34,050 --> 01:00:36,530
- I was a kusit.
- (Both laugh)

1079
01:00:36,550 --> 01:00:38,550
But don't you tell your
Zaydee I said that.

1080
01:00:38,840 --> 01:00:40,240
He's old school, that one.

1081
01:00:40,260 --> 01:00:41,360
(snorts)

1082
01:00:41,390 --> 01:00:42,890
(both chuckle)

1083
01:00:43,430 --> 01:00:45,140
Narrator: Chuck never told.

1084
01:00:46,480 --> 01:00:48,620
His grandparents' house became

1085
01:00:48,650 --> 01:00:50,620
every inch his home

1086
01:00:50,650 --> 01:00:52,070
with one exception.

1087
01:00:53,230 --> 01:00:55,070
The cupola on the roof.

1088
01:00:56,400 --> 01:00:57,610
(switch clicks)

1089
01:00:57,860 --> 01:01:01,410
Chuck was forbidden to go
into the cupola.

1090
01:01:01,740 --> 01:01:04,010
That was his grandfather's rule,

1091
01:01:04,040 --> 01:01:08,100
and it was absolute, emphatic.

1092
01:01:08,120 --> 01:01:11,390
Albie wasn't a stern man
in other matters.

1093
01:01:11,420 --> 01:01:14,590
He was downright gentle
in most respects.

1094
01:01:14,840 --> 01:01:16,920
But on this point, he was rigid.

1095
01:01:20,010 --> 01:01:22,410
Chuck asked about it, of course,

1096
01:01:22,430 --> 01:01:23,560
and more than once.

1097
01:01:23,970 --> 01:01:25,410
What was up there?

1098
01:01:25,430 --> 01:01:28,040
What could you see from
the high window?

1099
01:01:28,060 --> 01:01:31,980
And the big question, why
was the room locked?

1100
01:01:33,190 --> 01:01:35,460
- Grandma said...
- Because the floor isn't safe

1101
01:01:35,480 --> 01:01:36,960
and you might go right through it.

1102
01:01:36,990 --> 01:01:39,090
- Narrator: Grandpa said...
- There's nothing up there

1103
01:01:39,110 --> 01:01:40,550
because of that rotten floor.

1104
01:01:40,570 --> 01:01:42,930
And the only thing you can see
through the windows

1105
01:01:42,950 --> 01:01:44,760
is the shopping center.

1106
01:01:44,780 --> 01:01:47,600
Narrator: He said that until,
one night,

1107
01:01:47,620 --> 01:01:50,100
just before Chuck's 11th birthday,

1108
01:01:50,120 --> 01:01:52,890
when he told at least
part of the truth.

1109
01:01:52,920 --> 01:01:54,150
Carl Sagan (on TV): The
cosmic calendar

1110
01:01:54,170 --> 01:01:56,810
compresses the local
history of the universe

1111
01:01:56,840 --> 01:01:58,840
into a single year.

1112
01:01:59,090 --> 01:02:01,590
If the universe began
on January 1st,

1113
01:02:01,930 --> 01:02:04,450
it was not until May that the
Milky Way formed.

1114
01:02:04,470 --> 01:02:07,580
Narrator: Drinking is not
good for secrets.

1115
01:02:07,600 --> 01:02:09,910
And after the death of his son,

1116
01:02:09,940 --> 01:02:12,960
daughter-in-law, and
granddaughter-to-be,

1117
01:02:12,980 --> 01:02:15,230
Alyssa, who sounds like rain,

1118
01:02:15,770 --> 01:02:18,210
Albie Krantz drank a great deal.

1119
01:02:18,240 --> 01:02:20,170
Sagan: Everything humans
have ever done

1120
01:02:20,200 --> 01:02:22,170
occurred in that bright speck

1121
01:02:22,200 --> 01:02:25,130
at the lower right of the
cosmic calendar.

1122
01:02:25,160 --> 01:02:26,970
Chuck: I'll bet you could see

1123
01:02:26,990 --> 01:02:28,930
way past the Westford Mall

1124
01:02:28,950 --> 01:02:30,250
from the cupola.

1125
01:02:31,540 --> 01:02:35,140
You gotta be able to see the whole
town from up there,

1126
01:02:35,170 --> 01:02:36,170
I bet.

1127
01:02:37,090 --> 01:02:39,650
Albie Krantz: If you went up there,

1128
01:02:39,670 --> 01:02:42,380
you might see a lot more
than you wanted.

1129
01:02:43,680 --> 01:02:45,100
That's why it's locked, Chucko.

1130
01:02:45,510 --> 01:02:48,890
Every month is one and a quarter
billion years long.

1131
01:02:49,140 --> 01:02:51,950
Each day represents 40
million years.

1132
01:02:51,980 --> 01:02:54,770
Narrator: He wanted to ask
what Grandpa meant.

1133
01:02:55,110 --> 01:02:58,960
But the adult part of him,
not there in person,

1134
01:02:58,980 --> 01:03:02,170
no, not at 10, but something
that had begun to speak

1135
01:03:02,200 --> 01:03:04,800
on rare occasions, told him

1136
01:03:04,820 --> 01:03:06,970
- to be quiet.
- Sagan: At this scale...

1137
01:03:06,990 --> 01:03:09,830
narrator: Be quiet and wait.

1138
01:03:10,410 --> 01:03:13,930
But all of human history
would occupy an area

1139
01:03:13,960 --> 01:03:15,080
the size of my hand.

1140
01:03:15,630 --> 01:03:19,400
We're just beginning to trace the
long and tortuous path

1141
01:03:19,420 --> 01:03:21,110
which began with the primeval...

1142
01:03:21,130 --> 01:03:23,430
You know what style of
house this is?

1143
01:03:24,470 --> 01:03:25,900
Victorian.

1144
01:03:25,930 --> 01:03:27,140
That's right.

1145
01:03:28,100 --> 01:03:30,030
And not pretend Victorian either.

1146
01:03:30,060 --> 01:03:33,390
It was built in 1885.

1147
01:03:34,100 --> 01:03:37,160
It's been remodeled half a
dozen times since.

1148
01:03:37,190 --> 01:03:41,070
But that cupola was there
from the start.

1149
01:03:42,070 --> 01:03:44,710
Been here since '71.

1150
01:03:44,740 --> 01:03:47,260
And in all those years, I
haven't been up

1151
01:03:47,280 --> 01:03:50,050
to that damn cupola half
a dozen times.

1152
01:03:50,080 --> 01:03:52,120
'Cause the floor is rotted?

1153
01:03:53,660 --> 01:03:55,580
'Cause it's full of ghosts.

1154
01:03:56,960 --> 01:04:00,420
Sagan:...around 10:30 p.m.
on December 31st.

1155
01:04:00,800 --> 01:04:03,070
- Y-You remember Scrooge?
- Chuck: Yeah.

1156
01:04:03,090 --> 01:04:04,690
That Scrooge movie we watched?

1157
01:04:04,720 --> 01:04:05,860
I remember.

1158
01:04:05,880 --> 01:04:08,550
Do you think of that as
a ghost story?

1159
01:04:09,800 --> 01:04:11,320
I-I guess so.

1160
01:04:11,350 --> 01:04:14,140
Heard someone say it was
a ghost story.

1161
01:04:16,730 --> 01:04:18,900
Christmas Yet to Come.

1162
01:04:19,610 --> 01:04:21,520
Sagan: 11:59:20,

1163
01:04:21,900 --> 01:04:24,380
evening, last day of the...

1164
01:04:24,400 --> 01:04:26,860
Jefferies boy was a month later.

1165
01:04:28,740 --> 01:04:30,410
Henry Peterson,

1166
01:04:31,700 --> 01:04:33,120
that took longer.

1167
01:04:34,290 --> 01:04:38,390
Four... maybe five years on.

1168
01:04:38,420 --> 01:04:40,540
And by then...

1169
01:04:42,170 --> 01:04:45,130
I almost forgot what I saw up there.

1170
01:04:47,470 --> 01:04:48,970
Almost.

1171
01:04:51,640 --> 01:04:54,520
Said I'd never go back up
there after that.

1172
01:04:56,310 --> 01:05:00,190
And I wish I hadn't
because of Sarah.

1173
01:05:03,230 --> 01:05:06,320
Because of your Bubbie, Chucky.

1174
01:05:08,490 --> 01:05:10,240
Your sweet Bubbie.

1175
01:05:12,370 --> 01:05:13,660
And the bread.

1176
01:05:15,120 --> 01:05:17,540
Sagan: Every person we've
ever heard of,

1177
01:05:18,670 --> 01:05:19,890
somewhere in there...

1178
01:05:19,920 --> 01:05:21,580
It's the waiting, Chucko.

1179
01:05:23,920 --> 01:05:25,560
That's the hard part.

1180
01:05:25,590 --> 01:05:27,940
Sagan: Everything in
the history books

1181
01:05:27,970 --> 01:05:30,050
happened here

1182
01:05:30,590 --> 01:05:33,320
in the last 10 seconds of
the cosmic calendar.

1183
01:05:33,350 --> 01:05:34,990
- (door slams)
- Sarah: Ooh!

1184
01:05:35,010 --> 01:05:36,770
It's getting cold out there.

1185
01:05:37,060 --> 01:05:40,020
Vera says hi. She says
thanks for the soup.

1186
01:05:41,440 --> 01:05:43,730
She laid the gossip on me,
laid it good.

1187
01:05:44,070 --> 01:05:45,840
Of course... (laughs)

1188
01:05:45,860 --> 01:05:47,170
That's why we have a Vera, isn't it?

1189
01:05:47,190 --> 01:05:49,130
So, what's the latest?

1190
01:05:49,150 --> 01:05:50,970
Well, I don't know if you've heard,

1191
01:05:50,990 --> 01:05:54,430
but Trish is saying Karen and
Matty are in therapy.

1192
01:05:54,450 --> 01:05:57,010
- Again.
- Who's Henry Peterson, Zaydee?

1193
01:05:57,040 --> 01:05:58,720
Sagan:...the universe that made us

1194
01:05:58,750 --> 01:06:02,460
or we can squander our 15
billion-year heritage.

1195
01:06:02,880 --> 01:06:04,850
Sarah: And get some pancake mix.

1196
01:06:04,880 --> 01:06:07,060
Yellow box, not the orange box.

1197
01:06:07,090 --> 01:06:09,020
- You got all that?
- Albie: I got it.

1198
01:06:09,050 --> 01:06:11,510
- Do you need me to write it down?
- I got it.

1199
01:06:11,890 --> 01:06:13,110
Don't you think about driving.

1200
01:06:13,140 --> 01:06:14,990
The walk will sober you up.

1201
01:06:15,010 --> 01:06:16,570
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1202
01:06:16,600 --> 01:06:19,270
(insects chirping)

1203
01:06:22,900 --> 01:06:24,060
(door closes)

1204
01:06:34,410 --> 01:06:36,200
He'll be back with some groceries.

1205
01:06:37,240 --> 01:06:39,010
Then, how about tonight,

1206
01:06:39,040 --> 01:06:41,750
we do some s'mores in the fireplace?

1207
01:06:43,120 --> 01:06:45,250
- Yeah.
- Yeah.

1208
01:06:47,090 --> 01:06:49,340
Was he blabbing to you
about his ghosts?

1209
01:06:50,920 --> 01:06:52,430
The ones that live in the cupola?

1210
01:06:54,760 --> 01:06:56,100
Yeah.

1211
01:06:56,600 --> 01:06:58,100
Well, are there?

1212
01:06:59,930 --> 01:07:01,100
What do you think?

1213
01:07:02,230 --> 01:07:04,650
I wouldn't pay too much
attention to Zaydee.

1214
01:07:04,940 --> 01:07:07,540
He's a good man. But, sometimes,

1215
01:07:07,570 --> 01:07:11,800
well, sometimes, he drinks too much.

1216
01:07:11,820 --> 01:07:13,210
Then he rides his hobby horses.

1217
01:07:13,240 --> 01:07:14,670
I'm sure you know what
I'm talking about.

1218
01:07:14,700 --> 01:07:16,570
Who was the Jefferies boy?

1219
01:07:21,370 --> 01:07:22,370
Well...

1220
01:07:23,160 --> 01:07:24,790
that was a very sad thing, kiddo.

1221
01:07:26,420 --> 01:07:28,770
He lived on the next block over,

1222
01:07:28,800 --> 01:07:30,980
and he got hit by a car

1223
01:07:31,010 --> 01:07:33,050
when he chased a ball
into the street.

1224
01:07:34,130 --> 01:07:35,680
It happened a long time ago.

1225
01:07:38,390 --> 01:07:40,910
And if your grandpa says he saw it
before it happened,

1226
01:07:40,930 --> 01:07:42,270
he's mistaken.

1227
01:07:47,150 --> 01:07:49,150
(weak laugh) He just
drinks too much.

1228
01:08:00,330 --> 01:08:04,160
You know, I could take those to Mrs.
Stanley if you want.

1229
01:08:05,120 --> 01:08:07,140
Oh, that's very thoughtful of you.

1230
01:08:07,170 --> 01:08:08,460
I bet Vera'd love that.

1231
01:08:09,790 --> 01:08:10,800
Mm.

1232
01:08:11,840 --> 01:08:13,270
Just wonderful.

1233
01:08:13,300 --> 01:08:15,030
Your, your grandmother is an artist.

1234
01:08:15,050 --> 01:08:16,690
Thank you for bringing them over.

1235
01:08:16,720 --> 01:08:17,800
Was that your idea?

1236
01:08:18,140 --> 01:08:20,030
- Be honest.
- It was.

1237
01:08:20,050 --> 01:08:21,640
Well, can I make you a cup of tea?

1238
01:08:22,020 --> 01:08:24,640
Um, I don't drink tea, but, um,

1239
01:08:25,020 --> 01:08:26,640
I wouldn't mind a glass of milk.

1240
01:08:28,520 --> 01:08:30,190
Well, your grandmother's a saint.

1241
01:08:31,020 --> 01:08:32,250
And what about your granddad?

1242
01:08:32,280 --> 01:08:34,210
Did he have that thing on
his back looked at?

1243
01:08:34,240 --> 01:08:37,010
Yeah, the, the doctor took it
off and had it tested.

1244
01:08:37,030 --> 01:08:38,230
(whispers) Tell me everything.

1245
01:08:38,530 --> 01:08:40,450
It wasn't one of the bad ones.

1246
01:08:41,370 --> 01:08:42,740
Thank God for that.

1247
01:08:43,120 --> 01:08:44,290
Yeah.

1248
01:08:45,540 --> 01:08:47,730
He, um, he was talking to Grandma

1249
01:08:47,750 --> 01:08:50,670
about someone named Henry Peterson.

1250
01:08:52,590 --> 01:08:53,690
So awful.

1251
01:08:53,710 --> 01:08:55,360
You know, Henry was a bookkeeper,

1252
01:08:55,380 --> 01:08:56,630
just like your granddad.

1253
01:08:56,920 --> 01:08:59,030
He did a lot of the other
businesses in town.

1254
01:08:59,050 --> 01:09:00,360
The ones that your
Zaydee didn't do...

1255
01:09:00,390 --> 01:09:01,890
How did it happen?

1256
01:09:04,470 --> 01:09:06,490
I don't think you want to hear
about that stuff.

1257
01:09:06,520 --> 01:09:11,040
Um, w-w-well, Granddad said it was,
uh, peaceful.

1258
01:09:11,060 --> 01:09:12,690
(mouth full) Peaceful?

1259
01:09:13,110 --> 01:09:15,610
He killed himself. Hung himself.

1260
01:09:16,070 --> 01:09:17,500
His wife, you see, she ran off

1261
01:09:17,530 --> 01:09:19,630
with this younger man, barely
old enough to vote.

1262
01:09:19,660 --> 01:09:22,160
And she was in her 40s. What do
you think of that?

1263
01:09:23,280 --> 01:09:24,970
- Wow.
- Damn right, wow.

1264
01:09:24,990 --> 01:09:27,210
And then, I heard that...

1265
01:09:32,920 --> 01:09:34,420
What's happening at school?

1266
01:09:36,010 --> 01:09:38,280
- Who's smooching who?
- (Chuckles)

1267
01:09:38,300 --> 01:09:41,360
Teacher: "Talk honestly, for no
one else hears you"

1268
01:09:41,390 --> 01:09:43,530
and I stay only a minute longer.”

1269
01:09:43,550 --> 01:09:45,930
- (students chattering)
- "Do I contradict myself?"

1270
01:09:46,770 --> 01:09:47,890
"Very well then,"

1271
01:09:48,770 --> 01:09:49,940
"I contradict myself,"

1272
01:09:51,600 --> 01:09:52,650
"I am large.

1273
01:09:53,900 --> 01:09:55,440
I contain multitudes."

1274
01:09:55,690 --> 01:09:58,170
Narrator: On the last day
of sixth grade,

1275
01:09:58,190 --> 01:09:59,380
Miss Richards,

1276
01:09:59,400 --> 01:10:01,760
a sweet, hippie-dippyish young woman

1277
01:10:01,780 --> 01:10:04,390
who had no command of discipline

1278
01:10:04,410 --> 01:10:06,510
and would probably not last long

1279
01:10:06,540 --> 01:10:09,260
in the public education system,

1280
01:10:09,290 --> 01:10:11,810
tried to recite for Chuck's class

1281
01:10:11,830 --> 01:10:16,420
some verse of Walt Whitman's
"Song of Myself."

1282
01:10:17,510 --> 01:10:20,510
"Failing to fetch me at
first keep encouraged."

1283
01:10:21,130 --> 01:10:23,640
Missing me one place,
search another.”

1284
01:10:24,140 --> 01:10:27,270
- (bell ringing)
- (students chattering)

1285
01:10:37,150 --> 01:10:38,900
That went well, don't you think?

1286
01:10:40,030 --> 01:10:42,610
Yeah, I'm, I'm sorry about that.

1287
01:10:43,950 --> 01:10:48,540
What does he mean when he says,
"I am large,

1288
01:10:48,870 --> 01:10:51,250
I contain multitudes"?

1289
01:10:54,210 --> 01:10:55,710
What do you think he means?

1290
01:10:56,460 --> 01:10:58,940
All the people he knows.

1291
01:10:58,960 --> 01:11:00,090
Yes.

1292
01:11:00,590 --> 01:11:02,380
But maybe he means even more.

1293
01:11:03,720 --> 01:11:05,340
Here. Come here.

1294
01:11:09,180 --> 01:11:11,490
What's in there? Between my hands?

1295
01:11:11,520 --> 01:11:13,410
- My brain.
- (Chuckles)

1296
01:11:13,440 --> 01:11:15,770
No, um, that's not
exactly what I mean.

1297
01:11:16,810 --> 01:11:17,980
What's in there?

1298
01:11:18,320 --> 01:11:20,360
Right between my hands right now.

1299
01:11:21,990 --> 01:11:23,150
I don't know.

1300
01:11:23,530 --> 01:11:24,860
All the people you know?

1301
01:11:25,990 --> 01:11:27,160
I guess.

1302
01:11:27,530 --> 01:11:29,290
Just the people you know?

1303
01:11:31,540 --> 01:11:32,910
Everything you see.

1304
01:11:33,540 --> 01:11:35,040
Everything you know.

1305
01:11:36,290 --> 01:11:38,310
The world, Chuck.

1306
01:11:38,340 --> 01:11:40,980
Planes in the sky. Manhole
covers in the street.

1307
01:11:41,010 --> 01:11:44,070
Every year that you live, that
world inside your head

1308
01:11:44,090 --> 01:11:48,300
will get bigger and brighter and
more detailed and complex.

1309
01:11:48,850 --> 01:11:51,700
You will build cities and
countries and continents,

1310
01:11:51,720 --> 01:11:55,830
and you will fill them with
people and faces,

1311
01:11:55,850 --> 01:11:57,210
real and imagined.

1312
01:11:57,230 --> 01:11:58,820
Do you understand?

1313
01:12:00,230 --> 01:12:01,540
Don't stop there.

1314
01:12:01,570 --> 01:12:03,710
You fill the whole thing

1315
01:12:03,740 --> 01:12:05,780
with everyone you ever meet,

1316
01:12:06,160 --> 01:12:07,410
everyone you ever know,

1317
01:12:07,780 --> 01:12:10,540
everyone you ever just imagine.

1318
01:12:11,410 --> 01:12:13,330
It'll be a universe.

1319
01:12:14,540 --> 01:12:18,380
A whole universe right
between my hands.

1320
01:12:20,210 --> 01:12:22,840
You contain multitudes.

1321
01:12:26,050 --> 01:12:27,090
So...

1322
01:12:28,720 --> 01:12:31,850
what happens to that
universe if someone...

1323
01:12:33,140 --> 01:12:34,560
I don't know,

1324
01:12:35,020 --> 01:12:38,770
hits a patch of ice and goes
off an overpass or...

1325
01:12:41,690 --> 01:12:43,940
Don't worry too much
about those things.

1326
01:12:44,610 --> 01:12:48,490
Just remember that you contain
multitudes, Chuck.

1327
01:12:50,240 --> 01:12:51,620
Isn't that wonderful?

1328
01:12:53,790 --> 01:12:56,310
Now, go on. You were
such a good boy.

1329
01:12:56,330 --> 01:12:58,420
I've really enjoyed
having you in class.

1330
01:13:02,750 --> 01:13:05,940
(melancholic music playing)

1331
01:13:05,970 --> 01:13:08,970
(students chattering)

1332
01:13:19,850 --> 01:13:22,120
Narrator: Chuck did enjoy his summer

1333
01:13:22,150 --> 01:13:23,690
until August,

1334
01:13:24,280 --> 01:13:25,740
when Bubbie died.

1335
01:13:26,110 --> 01:13:28,990
(indistinct praying)

1336
01:13:30,320 --> 01:13:32,180
It happened at the grocery store

1337
01:13:32,200 --> 01:13:34,300
down the street, in public,

1338
01:13:34,330 --> 01:13:36,850
which was a little undignified,

1339
01:13:36,870 --> 01:13:38,930
but at least it was the
kind of death

1340
01:13:38,960 --> 01:13:40,640
where people can safely say...

1341
01:13:40,670 --> 01:13:42,420
Thank God she didn't suffer.

1342
01:13:43,750 --> 01:13:45,310
Narrator: The other standby...

1343
01:13:45,340 --> 01:13:46,900
She had a long, full life.

1344
01:13:46,920 --> 01:13:49,300
Narrator:...was more
of a gray area.

1345
01:13:49,880 --> 01:13:53,100
Sarah Krantz had yet to
reach her mid-60s.

1346
01:13:56,810 --> 01:13:59,620
Once more, the house on
Pilchard Street

1347
01:13:59,640 --> 01:14:02,690
was one of unadulterated sadness.

1348
01:14:03,810 --> 01:14:07,590
Albie wore his mourning band,
and lost weight,

1349
01:14:07,610 --> 01:14:09,960
and stopped telling his jokes

1350
01:14:09,990 --> 01:14:13,780
and began to look older
than his 70 years.

1351
01:14:14,780 --> 01:14:17,160
(peppy music plays in store)

1352
01:14:21,210 --> 01:14:22,710
- That's it?
- Yeah.

1353
01:14:24,290 --> 01:14:25,880
Buck 75.

1354
01:14:28,050 --> 01:14:31,680
Um, that lady who was in
here a few weeks ago,

1355
01:14:32,390 --> 01:14:34,430
the one who died.

1356
01:14:35,010 --> 01:14:38,020
Where was she when it happened?

1357
01:14:38,350 --> 01:14:40,230
That's a little creepy, kid.

1358
01:14:42,230 --> 01:14:43,730
She was my grandma.

1359
01:14:45,770 --> 01:14:47,750
Clerk: She was getting a
loaf of bread.

1360
01:14:47,780 --> 01:14:49,670
Pulled down almost everything

1361
01:14:49,690 --> 01:14:51,570
on the shelf when she collapsed.

1362
01:14:52,070 --> 01:14:56,030
I'm sorry if that's too
much information.

1363
01:14:57,790 --> 01:14:58,950
Nah.

1364
01:15:00,370 --> 01:15:01,750
I already knew that.

1365
01:15:03,500 --> 01:15:07,670
(snoring)

1366
01:15:12,260 --> 01:15:13,720
(snoring continues)

1367
01:15:20,220 --> 01:15:22,980
(keys jingling)

1368
01:15:26,940 --> 01:15:28,110
(lock clicks)

1369
01:15:41,080 --> 01:15:42,080
(sighs)

1370
01:15:46,250 --> 01:15:48,790
(door creaks)

1371
01:15:57,300 --> 01:15:59,100
- Albie: No!
- What?!

1372
01:15:59,930 --> 01:16:03,680
- Get away from there! You get away from there.
- What? Hey, hey!

1373
01:16:06,100 --> 01:16:09,150
(dramatic music playing)

1374
01:16:15,150 --> 01:16:17,660
(gasping)

1375
01:16:26,790 --> 01:16:28,080
Give me that.

1376
01:16:30,040 --> 01:16:32,210
Give it to me. Give it to me.

1377
01:16:32,710 --> 01:16:34,110
Give me it.

1378
01:16:34,130 --> 01:16:36,090
(sobs)

1379
01:16:38,430 --> 01:16:39,700
Oh.

1380
01:16:39,720 --> 01:16:41,850
Oh, I'm sorry.

1381
01:16:42,350 --> 01:16:44,030
I'm sorry.

1382
01:16:44,060 --> 01:16:45,620
Are you okay?

1383
01:16:45,640 --> 01:16:47,190
What did you see?

1384
01:16:49,440 --> 01:16:51,500
What did you see?

1385
01:16:51,520 --> 01:16:54,650
I'm sorry. It's just, you can't.

1386
01:16:55,490 --> 01:16:57,740
You can't do that, Chucky.

1387
01:16:58,450 --> 01:17:00,220
You just can't.

1388
01:17:00,240 --> 01:17:01,640
Oh, I'm so sorry.

1389
01:17:01,660 --> 01:17:05,640
Oh, I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry.

1390
01:17:05,660 --> 01:17:07,810
- (Chuck sobbing)
- I'm sorry.

1391
01:17:07,830 --> 01:17:10,630
(students chattering)

1392
01:17:11,500 --> 01:17:14,710
(melancholic music playing)

1393
01:17:29,980 --> 01:17:31,360
Sarah: Come on, little brother.

1394
01:17:32,230 --> 01:17:33,770
(echoing) Let's dance.

1395
01:17:41,200 --> 01:17:44,290
(indistinct chatter)

1396
01:17:49,420 --> 01:17:52,520
Teacher: Hello, twirlers, and hello,
spinners.

1397
01:17:52,540 --> 01:17:55,270
What do you know? Three
boys this year.

1398
01:17:55,300 --> 01:17:56,610
It's a new record.

1399
01:17:56,630 --> 01:17:58,150
You gentlemen might find yourselves

1400
01:17:58,170 --> 01:17:59,900
being teased for your new hobby.

1401
01:17:59,930 --> 01:18:02,530
I assure you, you are the
smartest young men

1402
01:18:02,550 --> 01:18:03,820
in the whole school.

1403
01:18:03,850 --> 01:18:05,430
You'll soon see what I mean.

1404
01:18:05,890 --> 01:18:08,870
For those who don't know me, I
am Miss Rohrbacher.

1405
01:18:08,890 --> 01:18:11,000
And when I'm not teaching
the girls phys-Ed,

1406
01:18:11,020 --> 01:18:13,670
I am what a few
students have called,

1407
01:18:13,690 --> 01:18:15,360
"The Dance Monster."

1408
01:18:16,400 --> 01:18:18,040
Nothing? Alright.

1409
01:18:18,070 --> 01:18:19,710
You have chosen what might be

1410
01:18:19,740 --> 01:18:21,920
the best club this
school has ever had.

1411
01:18:21,950 --> 01:18:23,760
'Cause if we didn't have
girls volleyball,

1412
01:18:23,780 --> 01:18:25,260
we wouldn't have nothing.

1413
01:18:25,280 --> 01:18:27,100
No, no, no.

1414
01:18:27,120 --> 01:18:30,920
Back, Mr. Mulford, you are mine now.

1415
01:18:32,630 --> 01:18:34,750
- (waltz music playing)
- Waltz.

1416
01:18:36,090 --> 01:18:37,760
Narrator: Chuck knew it.

1417
01:18:39,470 --> 01:18:41,400
(energetic music playing)

1418
01:18:41,430 --> 01:18:42,760
Cha-cha.

1419
01:18:44,390 --> 01:18:45,470
Narrator: Chuck knew it.

1420
01:18:47,810 --> 01:18:49,700
- (upbeat music playing)
- Swing.

1421
01:18:49,730 --> 01:18:51,200
Triple step. Rock step.

1422
01:18:51,230 --> 01:18:53,040
- Triple step. Rock step.
- Narrator: Chuck knew it.

1423
01:18:53,060 --> 01:18:56,000
Rohrbacher: Triple step. Rock step.

1424
01:18:56,020 --> 01:18:57,940
(upbeat samba music
playing) -Samba.

1425
01:19:00,780 --> 01:19:01,840
Don't know that one.

1426
01:19:01,860 --> 01:19:03,010
Narrator: He was, by far,

1427
01:19:03,030 --> 01:19:05,130
the best dancer in the little club.

1428
01:19:05,160 --> 01:19:07,590
So, Miss Rohrbacher mostly put him

1429
01:19:07,620 --> 01:19:09,290
with the girls who were clumsy.

1430
01:19:09,540 --> 01:19:12,600
He understood she did it to
make them better,

1431
01:19:12,620 --> 01:19:14,500
and he was a good sport about it.

1432
01:19:14,960 --> 01:19:17,600
Near the end of their two hours,
however,

1433
01:19:17,630 --> 01:19:20,190
The Dance Monster would show mercy

1434
01:19:20,210 --> 01:19:22,900
and pair him with Cat McCoy,

1435
01:19:22,930 --> 01:19:24,780
who was an eighth grader

1436
01:19:24,800 --> 01:19:27,850
and the best dancer of the girls.

1437
01:19:28,680 --> 01:19:31,180
Chuck didn't expect romance.

1438
01:19:31,430 --> 01:19:33,250
Cat was not only gorgeous,

1439
01:19:33,270 --> 01:19:35,980
she was a full foot
taller than he was.

1440
01:19:36,310 --> 01:19:39,000
But he loved to dance with her,

1441
01:19:39,020 --> 01:19:40,990
and the feeling was mutual.

1442
01:19:41,320 --> 01:19:43,990
Rohrbacher:...three. Out, two,
three. Switch.

1443
01:19:44,360 --> 01:19:45,610
And stop.

1444
01:19:46,030 --> 01:19:48,760
In, two, three. Out, two, three.

1445
01:19:48,780 --> 01:19:50,970
Turn. Now box.

1446
01:19:51,000 --> 01:19:54,060
One, two, three. One, two, three.

1447
01:19:54,080 --> 01:19:56,810
One, two, three. One, two, three.

1448
01:19:56,830 --> 01:19:59,310
I don't know what that is.

1449
01:19:59,340 --> 01:20:00,730
Oh, my God.

1450
01:20:00,750 --> 01:20:03,400
Okay, 10 minutes freestyle.

1451
01:20:03,420 --> 01:20:06,510
("My Sharona" by The Knack playing)

1452
01:20:15,390 --> 01:20:18,460
♪ Ooh, my little pretty one,
my pretty one ♪

1453
01:20:18,480 --> 01:20:21,380
♪ When you gonna give me some time,
Sharona? ♪

1454
01:20:21,400 --> 01:20:22,920
Hey. Watch this.

1455
01:20:22,940 --> 01:20:25,490
♪ Ooh, you make my motor run,
my motor run ♪

1456
01:20:26,490 --> 01:20:28,280
(Cat chuckles)

1457
01:20:28,990 --> 01:20:30,410
Show me how you did that.

1458
01:20:30,870 --> 01:20:32,510
Chuck: Ready?

1459
01:20:32,540 --> 01:20:35,290
Slide, slide, slide.

1460
01:20:35,580 --> 01:20:37,560
- (Cat chuckles)
- Here, ready?

1461
01:20:37,580 --> 01:20:39,690
Try it with me.

1462
01:20:39,710 --> 01:20:41,860
♪ M-m-m-my Sharona ♪

1463
01:20:41,880 --> 01:20:44,150
- Um...
- Uh, kick off your shoes

1464
01:20:44,170 --> 01:20:46,590
- and do it in your socks.
- Aye-aye.

1465
01:20:48,760 --> 01:20:50,510
Now, slide.

1466
01:20:51,260 --> 01:20:52,560
Slide.

1467
01:20:52,890 --> 01:20:54,890
Yeah. There you go.

1468
01:20:55,560 --> 01:20:57,980
Hey! Show me.

1469
01:20:59,810 --> 01:21:01,080
Pop. Slide.

1470
01:21:01,110 --> 01:21:03,480
Pop. Slide. Slide. Slide.

1471
01:21:03,940 --> 01:21:05,440
Yeah, again.

1472
01:21:06,490 --> 01:21:07,630
Chuck: Pop. Slide. Pop.

1473
01:21:07,650 --> 01:21:08,970
♪ Woo! ♪

1474
01:21:08,990 --> 01:21:12,090
♪ M-m-m-my Sharona ♪

1475
01:21:12,120 --> 01:21:14,010
narrator: Twirlers and
Spinners let out

1476
01:21:14,040 --> 01:21:16,010
half an hour late that day.

1477
01:21:16,040 --> 01:21:17,830
♪ My Sharona ♪

1478
01:21:18,080 --> 01:21:19,350
Cat McCoy: That's so rad.

1479
01:21:19,380 --> 01:21:21,060
You figured that out by yourself?

1480
01:21:21,090 --> 01:21:23,060
Chuck: Well, I just kept
rewinding and rewinding

1481
01:21:23,090 --> 01:21:24,960
til I figured it out.

1482
01:21:27,260 --> 01:21:28,880
We should do that at the Fling.

1483
01:21:30,800 --> 01:21:35,080
Uh, not as a date or anything.

1484
01:21:35,100 --> 01:21:36,980
I'm going out with Dougie Wentworth.

1485
01:21:37,770 --> 01:21:39,410
You know that, right?

1486
01:21:39,440 --> 01:21:40,520
Yeah.

1487
01:21:42,650 --> 01:21:44,540
But that doesn't mean we
couldn't show them

1488
01:21:44,570 --> 01:21:45,790
some cool moves.

1489
01:21:45,820 --> 01:21:47,130
(chuckles)

1490
01:21:47,150 --> 01:21:49,320
I really want to. Do you?

1491
01:21:49,990 --> 01:21:51,570
I-I don't know.

1492
01:21:51,870 --> 01:21:53,450
I'm a lot shorter.

1493
01:21:53,780 --> 01:21:56,370
(sighs) I think people will laugh.

1494
01:22:11,890 --> 01:22:14,240
- That totally works.
- It totally does.

1495
01:22:14,260 --> 01:22:16,660
- Chuck: Are you sure?
- Oh, yeah, I'm sure.

1496
01:22:16,680 --> 01:22:18,390
Chuck: Well, they feel great!

1497
01:22:19,060 --> 01:22:21,350
Uh, just a little big.

1498
01:22:24,310 --> 01:22:25,710
Cat: That should be enough.

1499
01:22:25,730 --> 01:22:27,590
- Rohrbacher: Little more.
- Cat: Maybe one more.

1500
01:22:27,610 --> 01:22:29,030
Rohrbacher: How's that?

1501
01:22:31,240 --> 01:22:34,030
Floor feels like ice. (Laughs)

1502
01:22:34,410 --> 01:22:35,890
You put scratches on that floor,

1503
01:22:35,910 --> 01:22:37,970
- the janitor is gonna beat y...
- Timmy.

1504
01:22:38,000 --> 01:22:39,560
There won't be no scratches.

1505
01:22:39,580 --> 01:22:41,580
He's too light on his
feet to leave any.

1506
01:22:43,000 --> 01:22:45,290
Albie: Almost perfect.

1507
01:22:49,670 --> 01:22:51,340
Take another run at these two.

1508
01:22:51,840 --> 01:22:53,570
(sighs)

1509
01:22:53,590 --> 01:22:55,390
You don't need to sigh.

1510
01:22:55,720 --> 01:22:57,030
You're good at this, you know?

1511
01:22:57,060 --> 01:22:58,830
You're really good at it.

1512
01:22:58,850 --> 01:23:00,810
Yeah, but it's boring.

1513
01:23:01,230 --> 01:23:03,960
Boring? What, you mean math?

1514
01:23:03,980 --> 01:23:05,210
Yeah.

1515
01:23:05,230 --> 01:23:07,330
I wonder if maybe next semester

1516
01:23:07,360 --> 01:23:09,960
you might want to try Math
League after school.

1517
01:23:09,990 --> 01:23:12,130
I did it all high school, in fact,

1518
01:23:12,150 --> 01:23:13,800
and it was so great.

1519
01:23:13,820 --> 01:23:15,620
I'm doing Twirlers and Spinners.

1520
01:23:17,080 --> 01:23:18,330
Yeah.

1521
01:23:19,790 --> 01:23:22,580
Hey, hey, put that down for a
second, will you?

1522
01:23:23,580 --> 01:23:25,380
Just a little about math.

1523
01:23:25,920 --> 01:23:27,940
Because people start out thinking

1524
01:23:27,960 --> 01:23:29,110
it might be boring,

1525
01:23:29,130 --> 01:23:31,170
and that's their first mistake.

1526
01:23:31,630 --> 01:23:35,450
It's used in every career,
in every job,

1527
01:23:35,470 --> 01:23:38,110
in every facet of life
on this planet.

1528
01:23:38,140 --> 01:23:40,850
That's a fact. Hell, the planet.

1529
01:23:41,270 --> 01:23:43,940
How do you think we figure out
how long a day is?

1530
01:23:44,520 --> 01:23:46,770
Everybody knows how long a day is.

1531
01:23:47,060 --> 01:23:49,440
- How long?
- Twenty-four hours.

1532
01:23:49,730 --> 01:23:52,780
People say it's 24 hours,
but they're wrong.

1533
01:23:53,200 --> 01:23:57,130
There are 23 hours and 56 minutes

1534
01:23:57,160 --> 01:23:58,590
in a stellar day.

1535
01:23:58,620 --> 01:24:01,790
Plus a few odd seconds.
Math proves it.

1536
01:24:02,330 --> 01:24:04,640
How do we know how old the Earth is?

1537
01:24:04,670 --> 01:24:07,980
How old the universe is, how long
people have been here?

1538
01:24:08,000 --> 01:24:10,270
Or how to build a bridge
or a skyscraper

1539
01:24:10,300 --> 01:24:12,590
or how far apart the stars are?

1540
01:24:12,920 --> 01:24:14,730
How did we land on the moon?

1541
01:24:14,760 --> 01:24:16,400
The stars themselves.

1542
01:24:16,430 --> 01:24:18,740
Why they burn, why atoms
split and fuse,

1543
01:24:18,760 --> 01:24:20,810
and all the rest is just math.

1544
01:24:22,810 --> 01:24:24,940
Hey, stars are just math.

1545
01:24:25,390 --> 01:24:27,330
When you look at the night sky,

1546
01:24:27,350 --> 01:24:29,620
you're seeing the greatest equation

1547
01:24:29,650 --> 01:24:31,110
in the universe.

1548
01:24:31,400 --> 01:24:34,250
Heck, your dancing, that's math too.

1549
01:24:34,280 --> 01:24:37,260
I mean, what's the
language of dance?

1550
01:24:37,280 --> 01:24:40,390
How do you learn your steps?
It's even in the name.

1551
01:24:40,410 --> 01:24:42,890
I mean, they call it "the count."

1552
01:24:42,910 --> 01:24:44,430
One and two and three and four.

1553
01:24:44,450 --> 01:24:47,310
What's a waltz? One, two, three,
one, two, three.

1554
01:24:47,330 --> 01:24:49,670
Just numbers, just math.

1555
01:24:50,380 --> 01:24:51,800
And more than that,

1556
01:24:52,920 --> 01:24:54,510
there's an art to it.

1557
01:24:55,380 --> 01:24:57,990
What I do, all these files here,

1558
01:24:58,010 --> 01:24:59,470
all these folders,

1559
01:25:00,350 --> 01:25:03,120
these are all people's lives.

1560
01:25:03,140 --> 01:25:05,180
Every choice they made.

1561
01:25:05,850 --> 01:25:07,940
Last year, last 10 years.

1562
01:25:08,270 --> 01:25:10,290
Everything that's important to them.

1563
01:25:10,310 --> 01:25:13,670
Every weakness they have, every
vice, every dream,

1564
01:25:13,690 --> 01:25:16,950
it's all here in numbers.

1565
01:25:17,400 --> 01:25:19,800
Some schmuck comes in,
takes those numbers,

1566
01:25:19,820 --> 01:25:23,540
does the math without artistry,
someone loses their house.

1567
01:25:23,990 --> 01:25:27,410
I take those numbers,
do a little art,

1568
01:25:28,000 --> 01:25:29,540
I save someone's life.

1569
01:25:30,330 --> 01:25:31,710
That's what I do.

1570
01:25:32,130 --> 01:25:34,670
That's what accounting is.

1571
01:25:35,210 --> 01:25:37,570
Chuck: Well, maybe they
should teach that,

1572
01:25:37,590 --> 01:25:39,280
the cool stuff,

1573
01:25:39,300 --> 01:25:42,510
and not just all the boring stuff.

1574
01:25:43,100 --> 01:25:44,310
Hmm.

1575
01:25:48,060 --> 01:25:49,690
(gulps)

1576
01:25:51,520 --> 01:25:54,460
Math is something else too.

1577
01:25:54,480 --> 01:25:57,210
Some math, math that's
called statistics

1578
01:25:57,240 --> 01:25:58,820
or probability,

1579
01:25:59,360 --> 01:26:01,870
it can tell you stuff
about your future.

1580
01:26:03,200 --> 01:26:05,290
It could tell you, for example,

1581
01:26:06,370 --> 01:26:08,260
you're more likely to be drafted

1582
01:26:08,290 --> 01:26:10,310
by a major league sports team

1583
01:26:10,330 --> 01:26:12,920
than to make a real
living as a dancer.

1584
01:26:16,710 --> 01:26:20,090
The world loves dancers,
it truly does.

1585
01:26:20,550 --> 01:26:25,030
But it needs accountants, so
there's much more demand,

1586
01:26:25,060 --> 01:26:27,680
so there's much more opportunity.

1587
01:26:28,730 --> 01:26:32,150
I know that might hurt, but
it's the truth.

1588
01:26:32,730 --> 01:26:37,110
Math is truth. It won't lie to you.

1589
01:26:37,730 --> 01:26:40,760
It doesn't factor in
your preferences.

1590
01:26:40,780 --> 01:26:42,660
It's pure that way.

1591
01:26:43,910 --> 01:26:46,410
Math can do a lot of things.

1592
01:26:47,910 --> 01:26:49,330
Math can be art.

1593
01:26:51,250 --> 01:26:53,210
But it can't lie.

1594
01:26:53,670 --> 01:26:54,670
So...

1595
01:26:56,250 --> 01:26:58,110
take another run at those two

1596
01:26:58,130 --> 01:26:59,420
because, Chucko,

1597
01:27:00,340 --> 01:27:02,470
you are good.

1598
01:27:03,300 --> 01:27:06,720
You... have art in you.

1599
01:27:11,020 --> 01:27:13,000
<i>("All Been Said Before" by Matt
Nathanson playing)</i>

1600
01:27:13,020 --> 01:27:14,940
<i>♪ Hugging me like skin ♪</i>

1601
01:27:16,150 --> 01:27:18,080
<i>> And I'll sweat it clean?</i>

1602
01:27:18,110 --> 01:27:20,380
<i>♪ Until I can taste ♪</i>

1603
01:27:20,400 --> 01:27:23,450
♪ The oxygen ♪

1604
01:27:24,320 --> 01:27:26,620
♪ Oh ♪

1605
01:27:44,300 --> 01:27:46,470
♪♪

1606
01:27:48,970 --> 01:27:51,080
Hey! You look great!

1607
01:27:51,100 --> 01:27:53,310
Thanks. Uh, you too.

1608
01:27:53,810 --> 01:27:54,850
(both chuckle)

1609
01:27:55,150 --> 01:27:57,170
Wanna show 'em how it's done?

1610
01:27:57,190 --> 01:27:59,900
Uh, I don't know. I kinda, um...

1611
01:28:01,030 --> 01:28:02,650
I kinda hurt my leg.

1612
01:28:04,240 --> 01:28:05,570
You hurt your leg?

1613
01:28:05,950 --> 01:28:08,620
Maybe, maybe let's, let's wait
for a better song.

1614
01:28:11,500 --> 01:28:15,330
("All the Time" by We're
About 9 playing)

1615
01:28:18,340 --> 01:28:20,840
♪ Today I changed the picture ♪

1616
01:28:21,130 --> 01:28:23,550
♪ In our old oak frame ♪

1617
01:28:25,680 --> 01:28:29,390
♪ To a painting I made of a
photo inside... ♪

1618
01:28:30,760 --> 01:28:31,850
Hey, kiddo.

1619
01:28:33,060 --> 01:28:34,060
Hey.

1620
01:28:35,850 --> 01:28:37,980
Thought you were gonna
tear it up tonight.

1621
01:28:40,070 --> 01:28:41,530
I don't, I don't know.

1622
01:28:42,190 --> 01:28:44,170
My shoes feel all funny,

1623
01:28:44,190 --> 01:28:47,780
and... I hurt my leg.

1624
01:28:48,530 --> 01:28:50,410
Oh, you hurt your leg?

1625
01:28:51,700 --> 01:28:52,700
Yeah.

1626
01:28:53,120 --> 01:28:54,540
I'm sorry to hear that.

1627
01:28:56,210 --> 01:28:57,930
So, you came stag, huh?

1628
01:28:57,960 --> 01:28:59,750
- Hmm?
- No date.

1629
01:29:00,340 --> 01:29:01,630
Nah, I...

1630
01:29:01,920 --> 01:29:05,020
That'll change. Believe me,
it'll change.

1631
01:29:05,050 --> 01:29:06,720
Just give it some time.

1632
01:29:07,630 --> 01:29:09,180
None of this, none of...

1633
01:29:09,550 --> 01:29:12,450
None of that out there
really means anything.

1634
01:29:12,470 --> 01:29:15,240
It's all just, just a scrimmage.

1635
01:29:15,270 --> 01:29:16,950
Just a practice.

1636
01:29:16,980 --> 01:29:19,330
(upbeat music playing)

1637
01:29:19,350 --> 01:29:21,580
Hey, this is perfect. Come on.

1638
01:29:21,610 --> 01:29:23,400
Nah, I'm still, uh...

1639
01:29:24,110 --> 01:29:25,550
My leg's still wonky.

1640
01:29:25,570 --> 01:29:27,090
Chuck, come on.

1641
01:29:27,110 --> 01:29:28,460
We're gonna blow the roof off.

1642
01:29:28,490 --> 01:29:29,820
I'm sorry.

1643
01:29:30,910 --> 01:29:32,410
It really hurts.

1644
01:29:37,960 --> 01:29:41,920
("Rock n Roll Boogie" by The
Math Club playing)

1645
01:29:46,630 --> 01:29:50,220
You know, I've been dancing
since I was eight,

1646
01:29:50,510 --> 01:29:52,100
and I teach PE,

1647
01:29:52,550 --> 01:29:55,070
and I've seen when my kids get hurt.

1648
01:29:55,100 --> 01:29:56,700
I see how their walk changes.

1649
01:29:56,730 --> 01:29:59,000
I see how their posture changes.

1650
01:29:59,020 --> 01:30:01,440
And don't mind me saying,
but you look...

1651
01:30:02,900 --> 01:30:04,690
Well, you look fine to me, Chuck.

1652
01:30:06,070 --> 01:30:09,490
I'm not saying that you have to
dance with the girl.

1653
01:30:09,860 --> 01:30:11,880
It's up to you. I'm just saying

1654
01:30:11,910 --> 01:30:14,490
dance or no dance, you
don't have to lie.

1655
01:30:16,120 --> 01:30:17,540
Tell her the truth.

1656
01:30:20,330 --> 01:30:21,580
She can take it.

1657
01:30:22,790 --> 01:30:26,000
(music continues faintly)

1658
01:30:28,130 --> 01:30:30,130
(insects chirping)

1659
01:30:43,980 --> 01:30:45,150
(chuckles)

1660
01:31:09,840 --> 01:31:13,050
("Gimme Some Lovin' by
Steve Winwood playing)

1661
01:31:25,770 --> 01:31:27,540
♪ Well, my temperature's rising ♪

1662
01:31:27,570 --> 01:31:29,340
♪ And my feet on the floor ♪

1663
01:31:29,360 --> 01:31:32,610
♪ Crazy people knocking 'cause
they're wanting some more ♪

1664
01:31:32,900 --> 01:31:35,760
♪ Let me in, baby, I don't
know what you got ♪

1665
01:31:35,780 --> 01:31:38,080
- You ready?
- Yeah. Let's do it.

1666
01:31:39,040 --> 01:31:42,000
♪ And I'm so glad we made it ♪

1667
01:31:43,160 --> 01:31:45,230
♪ So glad we made it ♪

1668
01:31:45,250 --> 01:31:46,690
♪ You gotta ♪

1669
01:31:46,710 --> 01:31:48,230
♪ Gimme some a-lovin' ♪

1670
01:31:48,250 --> 01:31:50,190
<i>♪ Gimme, gimme some lovin' ♪</i>

1671
01:31:50,210 --> 01:31:51,520
♪ Gimme some a-lovin' ♪

1672
01:31:51,550 --> 01:31:53,360
<i>♪ Gimme, gimme some lovin' ♪</i>

1673
01:31:53,380 --> 01:31:57,050
♪ Gimme some a-lovin' every day ♪

1674
01:31:59,350 --> 01:32:01,770
(all cheering)

1675
01:32:09,480 --> 01:32:11,280
(all cheering)

1676
01:32:16,320 --> 01:32:18,090
♪ Well, I feel so good ♪

1677
01:32:18,120 --> 01:32:20,260
♪ Everything is getting higher ♪

1678
01:32:20,290 --> 01:32:21,470
♪ You better take it easy ♪

1679
01:32:21,490 --> 01:32:23,220
♪ 'Cause the place is on fire ♪

1680
01:32:23,250 --> 01:32:26,730
♪ Been a hard day and I
have so much to do ♪

1681
01:32:26,750 --> 01:32:29,400
<i>♪ We made it, baby, and it
happened to you ♪</i>

1682
01:32:29,420 --> 01:32:32,170
♪ And I'm so glad we made it ♪

1683
01:32:33,470 --> 01:32:35,610
♪ So glad we made it ♪

1684
01:32:35,630 --> 01:32:37,190
♪ You gotta ♪

1685
01:32:37,220 --> 01:32:38,530
♪ Gimme some a-lovin' ♪

1686
01:32:38,550 --> 01:32:40,570
<i>♪ Gimme, gimme some lovin' ♪</i>

1687
01:32:40,600 --> 01:32:41,700
♪ Gimme some a-lovin' ♪

1688
01:32:41,720 --> 01:32:43,700
<i>♪ Gimme, gimme some lovin' ♪</i>

1689
01:32:43,730 --> 01:32:45,330
♪ Gimme some a-lovin' ♪

1690
01:32:45,350 --> 01:32:47,000
<i>♪ Every day ♪</i>

1691
01:32:47,020 --> 01:32:49,210
(all cheering)

1692
01:32:49,230 --> 01:32:52,230
♪♪

1693
01:33:04,870 --> 01:33:06,890
♪ Well, I feel so good ♪

1694
01:33:06,920 --> 01:33:08,930
♪ Everything is getting higher ♪

1695
01:33:08,960 --> 01:33:11,840
♪ You better take it easy 'cause
the place is on fire ♪

1696
01:33:12,130 --> 01:33:15,070
♪ Been a hard day and
nothing went too good ♪

1697
01:33:15,090 --> 01:33:18,190
♪ Now I'm gonna relax like-a
everybody should ♪

1698
01:33:18,220 --> 01:33:21,050
♪ And I'm so glad we made it ♪

1699
01:33:21,350 --> 01:33:22,360
♪ Hey-hey ♪

1700
01:33:22,390 --> 01:33:24,530
♪ So glad we made it ♪

1701
01:33:24,560 --> 01:33:25,950
♪ You got to ♪

1702
01:33:25,980 --> 01:33:27,870
- ♪ Gimme some a-loving ♪
- (cheering gets louder)

1703
01:33:27,890 --> 01:33:29,460
<i>♪ Gimme, gimme some loving ♪</i>

1704
01:33:29,480 --> 01:33:30,620
♪ Gimme some loving ♪

1705
01:33:30,650 --> 01:33:32,860
<i>♪ Gimme, gimme some loving ♪</i>

1706
01:33:33,900 --> 01:33:36,360
<i>♪ Gimme, gimme some loving ♪</i>

1707
01:33:36,950 --> 01:33:39,280
<i>♪ Gimme, gimme some loving ♪</i>

1708
01:33:40,320 --> 01:33:42,510
<i>♪ Gimme, gimme some loving ♪</i>

1709
01:33:42,530 --> 01:33:44,990
(all cheering)

1710
01:33:49,330 --> 01:33:52,040
(cheering gets louder)

1711
01:33:58,840 --> 01:34:01,610
All (chanting): One more time!
One more time!

1712
01:34:01,640 --> 01:34:03,490
One more time!

1713
01:34:03,510 --> 01:34:05,220
One more time!

1714
01:34:05,680 --> 01:34:07,330
Narrator: They may have been young,

1715
01:34:07,350 --> 01:34:10,330
but they were smart enough to
know when to quit.

1716
01:34:10,350 --> 01:34:13,310
(all cheering)

1717
01:34:18,740 --> 01:34:19,840
Thank you, guys.

1718
01:34:19,860 --> 01:34:21,590
Narrator: Six months before he died

1719
01:34:21,610 --> 01:34:25,340
of a brain tumor at the
unfair age of 39,

1720
01:34:25,370 --> 01:34:28,830
and while his mind was still
working, mostly,

1721
01:34:29,120 --> 01:34:32,480
Chuck told his wife the
truth about the scar

1722
01:34:32,500 --> 01:34:33,880
on the back of his hand.

1723
01:34:35,590 --> 01:34:37,270
When they'd first started dating,

1724
01:34:37,300 --> 01:34:39,480
he told her he'd gotten
it from a boy

1725
01:34:39,510 --> 01:34:41,190
named Doug Wentworth,

1726
01:34:41,220 --> 01:34:44,320
who was pissed about him dancing
with his girlfriend

1727
01:34:44,350 --> 01:34:45,950
at a middle school formal

1728
01:34:45,970 --> 01:34:48,280
and pushed him into a
chain link fence

1729
01:34:48,310 --> 01:34:49,450
outside the gym.

1730
01:34:49,480 --> 01:34:50,940
I lied about that, though.

1731
01:34:54,020 --> 01:34:55,250
Oh, my.

1732
01:34:55,270 --> 01:34:57,500
A man of secrets,

1733
01:34:57,530 --> 01:34:58,900
even still.

1734
01:35:00,860 --> 01:35:02,460
Ginny Krantz: What happened, love?

1735
01:35:02,490 --> 01:35:04,820
Chuck: When our fabulous
dance was over, I...

1736
01:35:05,240 --> 01:35:07,740
I was sweaty and I was so hot.

1737
01:35:08,370 --> 01:35:10,720
I-I felt like my cheeks were
gonna catch fire.

1738
01:35:10,750 --> 01:35:11,930
You were great.

1739
01:35:11,960 --> 01:35:13,460
- Thank you.
- What a star.

1740
01:35:14,750 --> 01:35:15,940
Chuck: All I wanted in that moment

1741
01:35:15,960 --> 01:35:18,400
was just darkness,

1742
01:35:18,420 --> 01:35:19,880
cool air,

1743
01:35:20,670 --> 01:35:22,220
and to be by myself.

1744
01:35:26,760 --> 01:35:28,930
There were millions of
stars that night.

1745
01:35:30,600 --> 01:35:31,940
Millions of them.

1746
01:35:32,270 --> 01:35:34,440
And millions more behind them.

1747
01:35:35,100 --> 01:35:39,110
And sure, m-may... Yeah, maybe
they were just math.

1748
01:35:40,030 --> 01:35:42,670
But they also danced.

1749
01:35:42,700 --> 01:35:45,780
I know 'cause I saw one of them.

1750
01:35:47,490 --> 01:35:51,260
And I remember thinking, the
universe is large

1751
01:35:51,290 --> 01:35:53,770
and, and it contains multitudes,

1752
01:35:53,790 --> 01:35:57,340
but it-it also contains me.

1753
01:35:58,500 --> 01:35:59,960
And in this moment...

1754
01:36:01,590 --> 01:36:03,260
I am wonderful.

1755
01:36:04,300 --> 01:36:06,990
And I have a right to be wonderful.

1756
01:36:07,010 --> 01:36:09,100
- (fence rattles)
- Oh!

1757
01:36:10,600 --> 01:36:12,660
(groans)

1758
01:36:12,680 --> 01:36:14,350
Ginny: Why lie about that, silly?

1759
01:36:15,940 --> 01:36:18,230
You're a strange wonder, my dear.

1760
01:36:19,900 --> 01:36:22,040
Narrator: He doesn't offer more

1761
01:36:22,070 --> 01:36:25,780
because the scar was important
for another reason.

1762
01:36:26,820 --> 01:36:29,580
It was part of a story he
couldn't tell,

1763
01:36:29,990 --> 01:36:32,810
even though there was now an
apartment building

1764
01:36:32,830 --> 01:36:34,970
on the site of the Victorian house

1765
01:36:35,000 --> 01:36:37,380
where he had done most of
his growing up.

1766
01:36:38,670 --> 01:36:41,400
The haunted Victorian house.

1767
01:36:41,420 --> 01:36:42,420
Mm.

1768
01:36:42,800 --> 01:36:44,010
No reason.

1769
01:36:45,680 --> 01:36:47,430
Funny thinking, I guess.

1770
01:36:47,840 --> 01:36:49,950
Narrator: The scar meant more,

1771
01:36:49,970 --> 01:36:52,020
so he had made it more.

1772
01:36:52,310 --> 01:36:56,520
He just couldn't make it as much
more as it really was.

1773
01:36:56,890 --> 01:36:59,080
That made little sense.

1774
01:36:59,110 --> 01:37:02,980
But as the glioblastoma
continued its blitzkrieg,

1775
01:37:03,360 --> 01:37:05,840
it was the best his
disintegrating mind

1776
01:37:05,860 --> 01:37:07,010
could manage.

1777
01:37:07,030 --> 01:37:10,160
(upbeat music playing on TV)

1778
01:37:19,040 --> 01:37:20,340
(switch clicks)

1779
01:37:22,840 --> 01:37:24,050
(switch clicks)

1780
01:37:28,930 --> 01:37:30,220
(switch clicks)

1781
01:37:31,550 --> 01:37:35,350
(groaning, gasping)

1782
01:37:36,230 --> 01:37:39,790
(groans)

1783
01:37:39,810 --> 01:37:41,540
Narrator: Chuck's grandpa,

1784
01:37:41,560 --> 01:37:42,860
his Zaydee,

1785
01:37:43,570 --> 01:37:45,170
died of a heart attack

1786
01:37:45,190 --> 01:37:49,210
five years after the
Fall Fling dance.

1787
01:37:49,240 --> 01:37:51,880
Chuck was a junior in high school

1788
01:37:51,910 --> 01:37:55,010
singing in a band and
dancing like Jagger

1789
01:37:55,040 --> 01:37:57,080
during the instrumental breaks.

1790
01:37:57,540 --> 01:37:59,920
Funeral director: He made all the
arrangements himself.

1791
01:38:01,040 --> 01:38:03,060
Came in a few weeks ago

1792
01:38:03,090 --> 01:38:05,310
just to make sure everything
was to the letter,

1793
01:38:05,340 --> 01:38:07,670
which I thought was strange.

1794
01:38:08,170 --> 01:38:10,240
Not many people bother to do that.

1795
01:38:10,260 --> 01:38:11,490
Most people,

1796
01:38:11,510 --> 01:38:14,470
they come here once to
set it all up.

1797
01:38:14,970 --> 01:38:16,930
They aren't anxious to
come back again.

1798
01:38:18,140 --> 01:38:21,540
Next time I see 'em, they're in
their Sunday best,

1799
01:38:21,560 --> 01:38:22,650
if you get me.

1800
01:38:24,770 --> 01:38:28,070
He was a great man and
a good friend.

1801
01:38:29,280 --> 01:38:32,090
He's been doing our
books for 23 years

1802
01:38:32,120 --> 01:38:34,590
and saved our skin more than once

1803
01:38:34,620 --> 01:38:35,990
when the tax man was coming.

1804
01:38:38,660 --> 01:38:41,310
So, do I owe you any money?

1805
01:38:41,330 --> 01:38:42,810
Not a penny.

1806
01:38:42,830 --> 01:38:46,020
He took care of that too.
Settled his tab

1807
01:38:46,050 --> 01:38:47,550
that same visit.

1808
01:38:48,630 --> 01:38:49,630
You know...

1809
01:38:50,800 --> 01:38:52,220
the strangest thing.

1810
01:38:52,640 --> 01:38:55,930
And this will sound strange,
so bear with me.

1811
01:38:56,390 --> 01:38:58,980
See, I, uh,

1812
01:38:59,270 --> 01:39:01,790
dreamed of being a
television weatherman

1813
01:39:01,810 --> 01:39:02,960
in my salad days

1814
01:39:02,980 --> 01:39:04,520
with maybe one of the networks.

1815
01:39:05,730 --> 01:39:07,190
Wasn't in the cards for me.

1816
01:39:08,070 --> 01:39:11,990
But I did spend a summer at WKNB.

1817
01:39:12,950 --> 01:39:15,760
Well, there was a guy

1818
01:39:15,780 --> 01:39:17,800
at KNB who they said

1819
01:39:17,830 --> 01:39:19,810
could feel a storm coming

1820
01:39:19,830 --> 01:39:21,710
two solid weeks away

1821
01:39:22,000 --> 01:39:23,730
without the radar.

1822
01:39:23,750 --> 01:39:25,310
Had a sixth sense.

1823
01:39:25,330 --> 01:39:27,500
Damnedest thing I ever saw.

1824
01:39:27,920 --> 01:39:30,150
Uh, used to make this face,

1825
01:39:30,170 --> 01:39:33,740
this face when people talked about
their travel plans,

1826
01:39:33,760 --> 01:39:35,820
if he knew something they didn't.

1827
01:39:35,850 --> 01:39:38,950
Not... not a smile, per se.

1828
01:39:38,970 --> 01:39:40,830
No joy in it.

1829
01:39:40,850 --> 01:39:44,190
Just a... knowing.

1830
01:39:45,150 --> 01:39:47,190
"Weatherman Stare," I called it.

1831
01:39:48,020 --> 01:39:50,840
And I didn't have it, not me.

1832
01:39:50,860 --> 01:39:53,360
So, I'm here, not there.

1833
01:39:56,030 --> 01:39:58,970
Your granddad had that same face

1834
01:39:58,990 --> 01:40:00,750
when he was in here.

1835
01:40:01,370 --> 01:40:05,040
Like... he knew it was gonna rain.

1836
01:40:05,460 --> 01:40:08,210
And I was just a guy selling
him an umbrella.

1837
01:40:10,510 --> 01:40:11,670
Weatherman Stare.

1838
01:40:12,720 --> 01:40:14,340
(chuckles) I'm sure of it.

1839
01:40:15,720 --> 01:40:17,010
The strangest thing.

1840
01:40:19,060 --> 01:40:21,200
Narrator: Albie left him everything.

1841
01:40:21,220 --> 01:40:24,480
More than enough to pay for his
college education.

1842
01:40:24,770 --> 01:40:27,540
And later on, the sale
of the Victorian

1843
01:40:27,560 --> 01:40:30,670
paid for the house he and
Ginny moved into

1844
01:40:30,690 --> 01:40:33,400
after their honeymoon in
the Catskills.

1845
01:40:35,240 --> 01:40:38,220
He flatly refused to move to Omaha

1846
01:40:38,240 --> 01:40:40,660
to live with his mother's parents.

1847
01:40:41,080 --> 01:40:42,800
- Look, I love you guys...
- narrator: He said.

1848
01:40:42,830 --> 01:40:46,310
...but this is where I grew up and
want to stay till college.

1849
01:40:46,330 --> 01:40:48,080
I'm 17. I'm not a baby.

1850
01:40:48,420 --> 01:40:50,980
Narrator: So, they,
both long retired,

1851
01:40:51,000 --> 01:40:52,440
came to him

1852
01:40:52,460 --> 01:40:54,400
and stayed in the Victorian

1853
01:40:54,420 --> 01:40:57,320
for the 20-odd months
before Chuck went off

1854
01:40:57,340 --> 01:40:59,510
to the University of Illinois.

1855
01:41:01,600 --> 01:41:05,180
They weren't able to be there for
the funeral, however.

1856
01:41:06,390 --> 01:41:09,080
It happened fast, as
Albie had wanted,

1857
01:41:09,110 --> 01:41:11,170
and his mom's folks had loose ends

1858
01:41:11,190 --> 01:41:13,150
to tie up in Omaha.

1859
01:41:13,940 --> 01:41:16,780
Chuck didn't really miss them,
if he was honest.

1860
01:41:17,780 --> 01:41:19,930
His Zaydee hated a fuss

1861
01:41:19,950 --> 01:41:22,370
almost as much as he hated a crowd.

1862
01:41:26,410 --> 01:41:29,270
A day before they were
scheduled to arrive,

1863
01:41:29,290 --> 01:41:31,600
Chuck finally opened the envelope

1864
01:41:31,630 --> 01:41:33,610
that had been sitting on the table

1865
01:41:33,630 --> 01:41:34,670
in the front hall.

1866
01:41:36,010 --> 01:41:38,610
It was from Sam Yarborough,

1867
01:41:38,630 --> 01:41:42,610
owner and chief undertaker at
Yarborough Funeral Home,

1868
01:41:42,640 --> 01:41:47,310
and inside were Albie Krantz's
personal effects.

1869
01:42:04,830 --> 01:42:06,140
(inhales deeply)

1870
01:42:06,160 --> 01:42:08,460
(sighs)

1871
01:42:08,750 --> 01:42:09,750
(switch clicks)

1872
01:42:25,140 --> 01:42:26,350
(lock clicks)

1873
01:42:37,280 --> 01:42:39,490
(door creaks)

1874
01:43:12,230 --> 01:43:15,520
(birds tweeting) -(dog
barking in distance)

1875
01:43:24,240 --> 01:43:27,200
(monitor beeping)

1876
01:43:43,720 --> 01:43:46,740
Narrator: In this room,
Chuck's grandpa had seen

1877
01:43:46,760 --> 01:43:48,070
the Jefferies boy,

1878
01:43:48,100 --> 01:43:50,310
body broken by the car.

1879
01:43:51,730 --> 01:43:55,100
He'd seen Henry Peterson
hanging from the ceiling.

1880
01:43:55,810 --> 01:43:58,940
He'd seen his own wife lying dead.

1881
01:43:59,280 --> 01:44:01,590
And likely, Chuck supposed,

1882
01:44:01,610 --> 01:44:05,110
perhaps the night Chuck had
stolen his keys,

1883
01:44:05,700 --> 01:44:10,220
Albie had even seen himself
crumpled to the floor,

1884
01:44:10,240 --> 01:44:12,410
still clutching his upper arm.

1885
01:44:13,620 --> 01:44:16,250
"It's the waiting," he'd said.

1886
01:44:17,380 --> 01:44:19,060
"That's the hard part."

1887
01:44:19,090 --> 01:44:20,310
(monitor beeping)

1888
01:44:20,340 --> 01:44:23,300
Now Chuck's own waiting would begin.

1889
01:44:24,680 --> 01:44:26,840
How long would that wait be?

1890
01:44:27,640 --> 01:44:31,450
Exactly how old was the man in
the hospital bed?

1891
01:44:31,470 --> 01:44:34,480
(beeping continues)

1892
01:44:36,650 --> 01:44:39,330
- There was a final bip...
- (beeping stops)

1893
01:44:39,360 --> 01:44:41,320
...from the unseen monitor

1894
01:44:42,070 --> 01:44:43,940
and then that was gone too.

1895
01:44:46,910 --> 01:44:48,590
The man did not fade,

1896
01:44:48,620 --> 01:44:51,740
as ghostly apparitions
did in the movies.

1897
01:44:52,410 --> 01:44:54,330
He was just gone.

1898
01:44:54,910 --> 01:44:58,500
Insisting he had never been there
in the first place.

1899
01:45:00,210 --> 01:45:02,170
- He wasn't...
- narrator: Chuck thinks.

1900
01:45:02,550 --> 01:45:04,470
...and I will insist he wasn't.

1901
01:45:05,630 --> 01:45:09,430
And I will live my life until
my life runs out.

1902
01:45:11,350 --> 01:45:12,720
I am wonderful.

1903
01:45:14,560 --> 01:45:16,440
I deserve to be wonderful.

1904
01:45:19,100 --> 01:45:21,020
And I contain multitudes.

1905
01:45:29,320 --> 01:45:32,010
(footsteps fading)

1906
01:45:32,030 --> 01:45:35,040
(melancholic music playing)

1907
01:45:37,540 --> 01:45:41,630
("The Parting Glass" by Gregory
Alan Isakov playing)

1908
01:46:00,400 --> 01:46:03,730
♪ Of all the money I ever had ♪

1909
01:46:05,400 --> 01:46:09,780
♪ I spent it in good company ♪

1910
01:46:10,410 --> 01:46:14,490
♪ And all the harm I've ever done ♪

1911
01:46:16,080 --> 01:46:19,960
♪ It was to none but me ♪

1912
01:46:23,250 --> 01:46:25,590
♪ And all I've done ♪

1913
01:46:27,260 --> 01:46:29,720
<i>♪ For want of wit ♪</i>

1914
01:46:31,260 --> 01:46:35,970
♪ To memory now I can't recall ♪

1915
01:46:38,430 --> 01:46:43,270
♪ So fill to me the parting glass ♪

1916
01:46:43,770 --> 01:46:48,940
♪ Good night and joy be to you all ♪

1917
01:47:11,930 --> 01:47:16,720
♪ Fill to me the parting glass ♪

1918
01:47:17,180 --> 01:47:21,480
♪ And drink a health
whate'er befalls ♪

1919
01:47:22,140 --> 01:47:26,980
♪ Then gently rise and softly call ♪

1920
01:47:27,480 --> 01:47:32,660
♪ Good night and joy be to you all ♪

1921
01:47:55,930 --> 01:48:00,220
♪ OF all the friends I ever had ♪

1922
01:48:00,810 --> 01:48:05,270
♪ They're sorry for my going away ♪

1923
01:48:05,940 --> 01:48:10,780
<i>♪ And all the
sweethearts I ever had ♪</i>

1924
01:48:11,150 --> 01:48:15,700
<i>♪ They would wish me one
more day to stay ♪</i>

1925
01:48:18,530 --> 01:48:20,870
♪ Since it fell ♪

1926
01:48:23,120 --> 01:48:25,000
♪ Into my lot ♪

1927
01:48:26,830 --> 01:48:31,590
<i>♪ That I should rise and
you should not ♪</i>

1928
01:48:33,970 --> 01:48:38,550
♪ I'll gently rise and softly call ♪

1929
01:48:39,050 --> 01:48:44,730
♪ Good night and joy be to you all ♪

1930
01:49:07,750 --> 01:49:12,460
♪ Fill to me the parting glass ♪

1931
01:49:12,880 --> 01:49:17,300
♪ Drink a health whate'er befalls ♪

1932
01:49:17,890 --> 01:49:22,430
♪ Then gently rise and softly call ♪

1933
01:49:22,970 --> 01:49:27,810
♪ Good night and joy be to you all ♪

1934
01:49:28,190 --> 01:49:34,860
♪ Good night and joy be to you all ♪

1935
01:49:36,570 --> 01:49:39,620
(song fades out)

1936
01:49:43,950 --> 01:49:47,120
(melancholic music playing)

1937
01:50:16,990 --> 01:50:20,160
(melancholic music continues)

1938
01:50:35,590 --> 01:50:37,760
(music fades out)