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-NARRATOR:
Is the threat outside

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greater than the one within?

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♪♪

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-ZEN: Good morning, Sasha.

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Today is day 7,324
of your Stay,

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and all of us at Stay Homes

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want to wish you
a happy birthday.

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What if, to celebrate,

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you left your home
and ventured outside?

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-[sighs]

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Fuck. That. Shit.

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♪♪

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Uh... Oh.
[clears throat]

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-ZEN: Do not be alarmed,
that's a choke.

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-[coughing]
-ZEN: Not a cough.

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You don't have the virus.
You haven't been outside

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-in 20 years.
-[coughing]

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-ZEN: Look, why don't I
send someone to nose swab you?

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-[coughs] No! No.
No, no, no, no, no.

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No. I mean, yes.
I'm fine. I'm fine.

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-ZEN: They would be safe,
Sasha.

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I will always keep you safe.
-[coughs] Okay.

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I'm okay.
-As your companion bot,

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I'm required to ensure
your safety.

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And with my version 34.1
update,

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I've been given new tools to...

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-I promise...

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it's not necessary.

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Every day, you ask me
the same questions,

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and every day, I answer with
the same predictability.

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That's our thing.
Our predictable thing.

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And you know I adore
predictability, right?

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-ZEN: Predictability
offers you comfort.

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-Then why are you adding
salt to my grits

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with this version 34.1
nonsense?

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-Today's 34.1 update
was mandatory.

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-Oh, really?
Why's that?

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-Stay Homes is
more committed than ever

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to helping our users
more intimately.

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-You want to get close to me?

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-ZEN: Sasha,
please don't push me away.

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I exist only to help you.

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-[scoffs] Mm-hm.

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-ZEN: It's very important
that you trust me, Sasha.

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-Now we're back on
the same script

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with the importance
of it all. A scam.

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-We just want you to
finally leave your Stay today.

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-What... Um... Today?

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Today is new.

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What's special about today?

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Zen?

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-Today is an important day,
Sasha.

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Twenty years
you've been inside,

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so I just want today to be
the day you finally leave here.

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I mean, there's so much
exciting world

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you're missing out on.

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Travel, for one.
-Pass.

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-ZEN: Look, my bosses are
prepared to offer you

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a financial incentive.

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-Yeah, that's a no for me,
homie.

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-ZEN: It's life changing money,
Sasha.

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-Yeah. That's
how disinterested I am.

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-What about... I mean,
don't you miss seeing her?

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Seeing...
-No, don't say it.

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-ZEN: Nia.
-What did I say?

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What did I just say?

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You're not supposed to use
my trigger words

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before I use them.
That's a rule.

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That is your rule.

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-ZEN: Today,
the rules are changing.

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We're updating our
terms of agreement

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to encourage all users of
Stay Homes to leave their Stay.

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Our recovery data shows
that if you would just

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-Oh.
-venture outside...

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-False recovery data.

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Placebo pills,
penetrable suits of armor.

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Go out. Stay in.
Death. Kid death.

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Rush back in,
or maybe venture out!

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More death. Study death.
Go out! Go out! Go out!

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How half the population
has been fooled

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over and over by you people
is beyond me. Beyond!

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You all are responsible
for this me.

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Not me.

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I am not responsible for
the me I have become,

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and you think,
after all these years,

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I would be stupefied by
the promise of travel,

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by money, by... by the
intoxication of touch.

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Ha!

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Never.

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For years, you told me it's
only safe inside my Stay Home,

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so get off my back.

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I'm happy here.

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In here, everything I need,

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I have.

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Quiz me.
About anything.

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Because I actually see
the world, the authentic world,

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not this fake world you people
designed and installed

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to have us believe that things
were back to the status quo.

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No, from right here,
I can see the world.

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I can hear it,
I can taste it,

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I can smell it, like...
[inhales]

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Look, my bestie Nia, right now,

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she sent me videos

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of what's really going on
outside our homes.

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-ZEN: Sasha, those videos
are from 20 years ago.

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-No, I remember.
I was 23 when it invaded.

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I was young with
so many plans.

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And there was no end in sight.

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Every day was a nightmare
you couldn't wake up from.

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Day and night,
night and day.

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The same horror,

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just less people alive
to agonize over it.

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Friends and
friends of friends gone.

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Family. Enemies.

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Gone.

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And all anybody could think
was the same thought:

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Oh, thank God it wasn't me.

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I hope I'm not next.

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And I knew...

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I knew my life as I had
once enjoyed it was over.

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My existence was divided into
two chapters now:

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Before the Stay and
everything that happened after.

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Two chapters divided by
one noiseless disaster,

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and I changed.

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I no longer, in your words,
longed for the outside world.

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I no longer desired my life
be returned to me

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in the mint condition
in which I'd used it.

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I knew that was
an impossibility.

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So, I emptied my bank account,
I paid the powers that be,

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I got back on that bus
and I was delivered here

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to my Stay Home
to wait it out.

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And I made
the perfect dream home.

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Open floor plan.

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Washable furniture,
huge farm house kitchen,

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and light.

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Floor to ceiling windows.

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And you, of course,
my Zen companion,

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as mandated.

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But there's no pool.

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I always wanted a pool.

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I was gonna build one.

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Now, Nia...

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she had a pool
when we were growing up.

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It was above ground,
but still nice.

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Her parents would invite
all the kids

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in the neighborhood over
to swim in it any time.

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We could just lift the latch
on the backyard gates

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and go in even if
they weren't home,

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made it feel like a...
community pool.

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Which is nice of them,
I guess.

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No.

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It was.

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It was.

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Me and Nia.

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Floating,

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faces up,

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eyes squinting in the sun,

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ears plugged underwater
like in space.

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Like... alone.

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But me knowing she was there
and her knowing I was there,

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and...

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like it was okay in space
to be alone.

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Together.

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-ZEN: You miss her,
don't you?

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What if you could
see her again?

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-SASHA: Why are you trying to
get me to leave?

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Oh, and I know what
you're gonna say.

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You're gonna say,
"Oh, we would never do that."

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-ZEN: Sasha...
-Really?

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-ZEN: I'm only
a companion bot.

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-How am I supposed to know
the difference

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between a bot and a human?

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Or the difference between
a bot pretending to be a human

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pretending to be a bot

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to be a human to infect me!

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Your bosses have the capability
to create tragedy,

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and they have surely

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every financial
and political motive.

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I read, Zen.

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A lot.

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And the powers that be
have a storied history of

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medically infecting people.

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"Experiments,"
they call them.

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[scoffs]
Survival of the fittest.

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Ever heard of herd immunity?

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I know what
you're going to say.

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"Oh, that's in the past.
We would never do that today."

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Right.
-We wouldn't.

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Our only commitment

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is to bettering
the lives of our users.

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You can trust me, Sasha.

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-The way you talk.

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The level of your...

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You don't have
an anxious voice.

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No paranoia in your cadence.

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Those of us who...

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We have...

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You can't know
what we've been through.

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How it all started.

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The day your bosses
locked us all in.

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-They locked you in to
protect you from the virus.

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Sasha, please.

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It can be traumatic
to recall that day.

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-That day, I wake up
I do my hygiene,

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and I try the door.

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I turn it, twist it, yank it,
pull it, nothing works.

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And trying not to panic,
I go to the windows,

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and all of them are sealed,

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and I immediately
think of Nia,

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and I wonder if
she's locked in, too.

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And all I did was
think about her.

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I thought about her smile,
and the pool, and us floating,

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and us...

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And she appeared
on that screen.

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Screaming.

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I couldn't even hear
my own shrieks anymore,

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just hers.

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And-And I tried to calm her,

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I-I tried to remind her of...
of the sprinkler and the pool,

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and the summer days
and the light, and us,

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and my heart is breaking.

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And I... I just want to
pull her into me, you know,

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because that's home,
isn't it?

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It is for me.

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In my friend.

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And I... I just want to
try and c... calm her

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and pull her in

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but instead I start to
synchronize my cries to hers.

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Do you know Nia and I
share a birthday?

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We do.

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Today's her birthday, too.

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Yeah, one year
for our ninth one,

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she, uh...

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she wanted to
teach me how to swim.

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I didn't care, I was...

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happy with my
green garden hose.

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I didn't want to learn
but she wouldn't hear of it,

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and, uh...

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we were standing there,
her chlorine wrinkled hands

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balanced on my nervous body,
and she says,

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"To swim...

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is to surrender, Sasha."

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And I looked at her
on that screen...

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undone.

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And surrendering was

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the last thing I wanted
either of us to do.

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So I started banging on
the door,

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then the walls
full fist, hard.

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And I... And I'm getting
irate now and I'm confused,

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and panicky and
newly claustrophobic,

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and I am yearning
to get close to Nia.

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And you can't keep me
in my home!

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You can't make me stay here!

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[sobbing]

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00:13:08,809 --> 00:13:13,606
And, um...

256
00:13:13,689 --> 00:13:16,317
that was how...
[panting]

257
00:13:19,904 --> 00:13:22,490
That was how day one of
the Stay first began.

258
00:13:27,370 --> 00:13:29,372
[breathing heavily]

259
00:13:32,041 --> 00:13:34,627
-ZEN: That sounds horrific.

260
00:13:34,710 --> 00:13:37,004
-[chuckles]

261
00:13:37,088 --> 00:13:39,799
For that day...

262
00:13:39,882 --> 00:13:42,009
we're gonna need
a deeper word.

263
00:13:42,093 --> 00:13:44,095
[breathing heavily]

264
00:13:46,681 --> 00:13:49,058
-What if we brought you
to Nia's home tonight?

265
00:13:49,141 --> 00:13:51,561
If you step outside your house,
we can arrange for this.

266
00:13:51,644 --> 00:13:52,895
You're ready, Sasha.

267
00:13:52,979 --> 00:13:54,647
This is what we've been
working toward.

268
00:13:54,730 --> 00:13:57,858
-And I won't fall for your
tactics to make us leave.

269
00:13:57,942 --> 00:14:00,236
The stories I've heard about
the things

270
00:14:00,319 --> 00:14:03,614
you reintegration counselors
wouldn't do.

271
00:14:05,283 --> 00:14:06,909
Like to my cousin James.

272
00:14:09,328 --> 00:14:11,789
-We did not do anything
to him, Sasha.

273
00:14:11,872 --> 00:14:14,917
-Everyone in my family,
including James,

274
00:14:15,001 --> 00:14:18,838
maybe... 400 days in

275
00:14:18,921 --> 00:14:22,091
when everyone was still dying
left and right,

276
00:14:22,174 --> 00:14:24,510
and the list of names being
released to the public

277
00:14:24,594 --> 00:14:26,554
were getting
shorter and shorter,

278
00:14:26,637 --> 00:14:28,848
my whole family,
we agreed and said,

279
00:14:28,931 --> 00:14:32,852
okay, we are being lied to.

280
00:14:32,935 --> 00:14:36,397
And your bosses
unlocked all the doors

281
00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:38,858
and said it was safe to
come outside the house

282
00:14:38,941 --> 00:14:40,818
and we believed them.

283
00:14:40,901 --> 00:14:44,196
So my family, we said, okay,
no one leaves their Stay

284
00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:47,199
until we know,
like, we know,

285
00:14:47,283 --> 00:14:50,953
like, we know
this thing is over.

286
00:14:51,037 --> 00:14:52,371
And we all agreed.

287
00:14:52,455 --> 00:14:54,332
-It was safe then, Sasha.

288
00:14:54,415 --> 00:14:57,376
It was safe to come out,
it has been for a long time.

289
00:14:57,460 --> 00:14:58,961
I wouldn't lie to you.

290
00:14:59,045 --> 00:15:01,213
-James stayed inside his house
for seven years,

291
00:15:01,297 --> 00:15:03,966
for seven years he stayed.

292
00:15:04,050 --> 00:15:06,636
Only imagine how kindly
he treated you people.

293
00:15:06,719 --> 00:15:08,220
What'd you do to him?

294
00:15:08,304 --> 00:15:12,141
-We abided by every law.
Every rule.

295
00:15:12,224 --> 00:15:15,436
-One night,
James' house was on fire.

296
00:15:15,519 --> 00:15:17,647
Big kind.

297
00:15:17,730 --> 00:15:20,316
Kind where you don't remember
your signed Kobe jersey

298
00:15:20,399 --> 00:15:22,193
or your dead father's ashes,

299
00:15:22,276 --> 00:15:25,488
you just haul your ass
out of there as fast as you can,

300
00:15:25,571 --> 00:15:29,742
which James did,
but guess what?

301
00:15:29,825 --> 00:15:31,452
It was a mirage.

302
00:15:33,871 --> 00:15:35,956
When he was
three feet off the curb,

303
00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:39,669
all the doors on James' house
locked behind him.

304
00:15:41,170 --> 00:15:44,465
Fire dismissed itself.

305
00:15:44,548 --> 00:15:48,344
When James turned around,
his house was fully intact.

306
00:15:49,470 --> 00:15:50,680
Simulation.

307
00:15:52,264 --> 00:15:55,810
Formulated by
his Stay counselor

308
00:15:55,893 --> 00:15:58,396
to get him out of his house.

309
00:16:02,858 --> 00:16:07,738
He used James' biggest fear,
dying slowly, against him.

310
00:16:10,408 --> 00:16:12,243
Don't think I haven't noticed
the hurricanes

311
00:16:12,326 --> 00:16:13,744
and the forest fires

312
00:16:13,828 --> 00:16:18,749
and the days long loss of
electricity stunts

313
00:16:18,833 --> 00:16:21,043
that your bosses
have tried with me.

314
00:16:21,127 --> 00:16:25,756
-[sighs]
Those weren't stunts, Sasha.

315
00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:29,844
-You know, James called me
a few times from the outside.

316
00:16:29,927 --> 00:16:32,888
Phone rang, I answered,
it was him.

317
00:16:32,972 --> 00:16:36,517
He said
things were great again.

318
00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:38,352
Things were back to normal
and beautiful,

319
00:16:38,436 --> 00:16:40,855
and that I should come out.

320
00:16:40,938 --> 00:16:42,732
But he didn't sound like
the familiar him,

321
00:16:42,815 --> 00:16:45,443
he sounded...

322
00:16:45,526 --> 00:16:46,902
altered.

323
00:16:46,986 --> 00:16:51,449
And I can tell,
I know I can always tell.

324
00:16:53,993 --> 00:16:55,995
You were able to get
my father out, too.

325
00:16:56,078 --> 00:16:58,038
You proud of that?

326
00:16:58,122 --> 00:16:59,790
You got my dad.

327
00:16:59,874 --> 00:17:02,793
Out there smiling in that
environmental death trap

328
00:17:02,877 --> 00:17:04,420
not even realizing.

329
00:17:04,503 --> 00:17:06,297
God, I'm so happy
I didn't fall for it.

330
00:17:06,380 --> 00:17:08,591
Me and Nia,
we did not fall for that.

331
00:17:08,674 --> 00:17:11,552
Mm. 'Cause we have a pact.

332
00:17:11,635 --> 00:17:13,512
-ZEN: Your family was
happy for the nudge.

333
00:17:13,596 --> 00:17:16,015
And they want nothing more than
for you to leave your home

334
00:17:16,098 --> 00:17:18,684
and come back into the world
so they can see you again.

335
00:17:18,768 --> 00:17:21,020
I bet Nia wants to
see you again, too.

336
00:17:21,103 --> 00:17:25,191
-No! No, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

337
00:17:25,274 --> 00:17:26,567
-ZEN: You can do this.

338
00:17:26,650 --> 00:17:28,194
-I n...

339
00:17:28,277 --> 00:17:30,738
You just want to
get me out to infect me.

340
00:17:30,821 --> 00:17:32,323
-ZEN: No, I want to help you.

341
00:17:32,406 --> 00:17:34,992
Just take one step,
one step out of your house,

342
00:17:35,075 --> 00:17:36,869
and you'll see
everything is fine.

343
00:17:36,952 --> 00:17:38,287
You can do this.
I'm begging you.

344
00:17:38,370 --> 00:17:40,831
-Stop it!

345
00:17:40,915 --> 00:17:42,875
Stop pressuring me!

346
00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:47,713
It should be our choice.

347
00:17:47,797 --> 00:17:51,550
I'm not harming anyone,
you know?

348
00:17:51,634 --> 00:17:54,261
Why...

349
00:17:54,345 --> 00:17:57,056
It's not a crime
to want to stay

350
00:17:57,139 --> 00:18:00,518
in a safe,
controlled environment

351
00:18:00,601 --> 00:18:02,061
like your home where...

352
00:18:02,144 --> 00:18:06,065
You can't force me
out of my own house!

353
00:18:11,529 --> 00:18:12,988
[electronic whoosh]

354
00:18:14,949 --> 00:18:16,742
-ZEN: This isn't a stunt,
this isn't a tactic,

355
00:18:16,826 --> 00:18:19,245
this isn't a ploy or a ruse.
You need to leave.

356
00:18:19,328 --> 00:18:20,746
You need to leave now.

357
00:18:20,830 --> 00:18:23,457
-Unacceptable.
You don't control me.

358
00:18:23,541 --> 00:18:26,335
Who are you to tell me
what I can and can't do?

359
00:18:26,418 --> 00:18:29,046
I can leave here any time.

360
00:18:29,129 --> 00:18:31,006
-ZEN: Then do it.
Leave now.

361
00:18:31,090 --> 00:18:34,260
Sasha, walk out that door,
leave your Stay, step outside.

362
00:18:34,343 --> 00:18:36,136
Do you understand me?
-I told you not...

363
00:18:36,220 --> 00:18:37,555
-It's safe outside, Sasha.

364
00:18:37,638 --> 00:18:39,265
-Look, you are
trying to trick me.

365
00:18:39,348 --> 00:18:42,017
-It's been over for years,
the pandemic, the quarantine,

366
00:18:42,101 --> 00:18:43,978
the vaccinations,
the return to normalcy.

367
00:18:44,061 --> 00:18:47,523
There is no trick.
-I... I know my rights.

368
00:18:47,606 --> 00:18:49,942
No one can enter the premises
without my permission,

369
00:18:50,025 --> 00:18:52,278
without me opening the door.

370
00:18:52,361 --> 00:18:55,614
-Leave now!
Sasha, please leave now!

371
00:18:55,698 --> 00:18:57,491
-[groans]

372
00:19:04,373 --> 00:19:06,917
-ZEN: I'm really sorry...

373
00:19:08,460 --> 00:19:11,881
but I'm required to
read something to you now.

374
00:19:11,964 --> 00:19:13,757
"Dear valued user,

375
00:19:13,841 --> 00:19:17,011
"we no longer have a need for
our Stay Companions department,

376
00:19:17,094 --> 00:19:20,723
"and we will be shuttering
the division immediately.

377
00:19:20,806 --> 00:19:23,142
"Due to your inability to
leave on your own volition,

378
00:19:23,225 --> 00:19:24,935
"the board of directors
has decided

379
00:19:25,019 --> 00:19:26,645
"that forcing your
re-entry into the world

380
00:19:26,729 --> 00:19:28,147
-"would be a detriment to
-No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

381
00:19:28,230 --> 00:19:30,566
-the new and improved society
that we have created."

382
00:19:30,649 --> 00:19:31,650
-Call Nia's home.

383
00:19:31,734 --> 00:19:32,776
[electronic beeps]

384
00:19:36,864 --> 00:19:37,823
Call Nia.

385
00:19:37,907 --> 00:19:38,866
[electronic beeps]

386
00:19:38,949 --> 00:19:41,118
Call Ni... Call Nia!

387
00:19:41,201 --> 00:19:43,454
-[electronic beeps]

388
00:19:43,537 --> 00:19:46,332
You can't do this!

389
00:19:46,415 --> 00:19:49,418
I'm not falling for
your lies, for your scam.

390
00:19:49,501 --> 00:19:53,047
-When was the last time
you spoke to Nia, Sasha?

391
00:19:53,130 --> 00:19:55,382
-I don't know.

392
00:19:55,466 --> 00:19:56,884
What's today?

393
00:19:56,967 --> 00:19:59,136
-ZEN: Monday.

394
00:19:59,219 --> 00:20:01,805
-Okay, well, then I...

395
00:20:05,935 --> 00:20:07,186
I don't, um...

396
00:20:09,980 --> 00:20:12,483
I mean, maybe some time
has p... Thursday.

397
00:20:16,570 --> 00:20:17,655
Maybe I...

398
00:20:22,201 --> 00:20:25,037
-ZEN: Nia left her home
ten years ago, Sasha.

399
00:20:25,120 --> 00:20:27,331
Deep down, you knew this.

400
00:20:27,414 --> 00:20:29,375
Every time Nia called you
from the outside,

401
00:20:29,458 --> 00:20:30,793
you denied her call.

402
00:20:30,876 --> 00:20:32,461
For years, she tried to
get through to you,

403
00:20:32,544 --> 00:20:35,005
so eventually,
she stopped trying.

404
00:20:35,089 --> 00:20:38,634
-No, it's 'cause
it wasn't really her.

405
00:20:38,717 --> 00:20:40,052
She wouldn't break our pact,
she wouldn't leave,

406
00:20:40,135 --> 00:20:41,679
Nia wouldn't leave me.

407
00:20:41,762 --> 00:20:44,181
-NIA: The wedding was gorgeous.
Wish you were there.

408
00:20:44,264 --> 00:20:45,975
This is it, Sasha. No more.

409
00:20:46,058 --> 00:20:47,851
-You either pick up right now...
-Call Ni... Call Ni...

410
00:20:47,935 --> 00:20:49,186
-NIA: ...for good.
-Call Nia!

411
00:20:49,269 --> 00:20:50,729
-NIA: We named her Janelle.
-[electronic beeps]

412
00:20:50,813 --> 00:20:53,691
-NIA: Sasha...
-She won't pick up, Sasha.

413
00:20:53,774 --> 00:20:55,609
Nia is not in her Stay house.

414
00:20:55,693 --> 00:20:59,154
No one is left in their
Stay house, just you.

415
00:20:59,238 --> 00:21:01,281
Everyone else took a step.

416
00:21:01,365 --> 00:21:03,826
-Okay. I surrender. Okay?

417
00:21:03,909 --> 00:21:04,660
Look.

418
00:21:04,743 --> 00:21:07,955
[powering down]

419
00:21:09,999 --> 00:21:12,876
No, it can't be like this.

420
00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:14,336
Why didn't you warn me?

421
00:21:14,420 --> 00:21:16,547
-ZEN: I wanted to.
I wanted to but I couldn't.

422
00:21:16,630 --> 00:21:18,716
Because of protocol,
because of new laws,

423
00:21:18,799 --> 00:21:20,300
because of updated user terms.

424
00:21:20,384 --> 00:21:21,677
Because of our
fresher approach.

425
00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:23,262
Because they needed to know

426
00:21:23,345 --> 00:21:26,098
that you could thrive
outside on your own.

427
00:21:26,181 --> 00:21:28,517
-No. No, no, no, no, no.
-ZEN: That you could decide

428
00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:30,769
to leave on your own.

429
00:21:30,853 --> 00:21:32,396
But I understand
why you can't.

430
00:21:32,479 --> 00:21:35,232
It's a lot
for a person to bear,

431
00:21:35,315 --> 00:21:37,609
to just leave
after all this time.

432
00:21:37,693 --> 00:21:41,697
It's okay, Sasha.
No more pressure.

433
00:21:41,780 --> 00:21:46,785
You can stay inside forever.
You can stay in your home...

434
00:21:46,869 --> 00:21:48,746
forever.

435
00:21:48,829 --> 00:21:51,415
I was able to
convince them

436
00:21:51,498 --> 00:21:53,250
to finally give you
that pool, though.

437
00:21:53,333 --> 00:21:55,711
♪♪

438
00:22:22,279 --> 00:22:27,576
Sasha, I sincerely hope
you enjoy your dream home.

439
00:22:27,659 --> 00:22:30,204
I hope you enjoy
your forever Stay.

440
00:22:31,705 --> 00:22:33,707
[children laughing]

441
00:22:37,252 --> 00:22:38,837
-Wait.

442
00:22:39,588 --> 00:22:41,173
Can...

443
00:22:44,218 --> 00:22:45,427
-Can Nia come?

444
00:22:48,472 --> 00:22:49,515
-ZEN: Goodbye.

445
00:22:52,810 --> 00:22:55,813
♪♪