[♪]
[gasping]
[♪]
[gasping]
[groaning]
[coughing]
[♪]
[groaning]
[crashes to floor]
["I Go To Sleep" by Peggy Lee plays]
♪ When I look up from my pillow ♪
♪ I dream you are there ♪
♪ With me ♪
♪ Though you are far away ♪
♪ I know you'll always be near to me ♪
♪ I go to sleep... ♪
♪ Sleep... ♪
♪ And imagine that you're there ♪
♪ With me ♪
♪ I go to sleep, sleep ♪
♪ And imagine that you're there ♪
♪ With me ♪
♪ I look around me ♪
♪ And feel you are ever so close ♪
♪ To me ♪
♪ Though tears that flow ♪
♪ From my eyes ♪
♪ Bring back memories of you ♪
♪ To me ♪
♪ I go to sleep... ♪
♪ Sleep... ♪
♪ And imagine that you're there ♪
♪ With me ♪
♪ I go to sleep, sleep ♪
♪ And imagine that you're there ♪
♪ With me... ♪
♪ With me ♪
[♪]
What the hell is that thing?
Nurse lady.
Linda!
It looks like a burn in the frontal lobe.
I don't know, I've never seen anything like it.
Okay.
Hey! Dave?
Yeah, this? Too much.
[Matteo] It's gotta be government, right?
I mean, who else could burn
a goddamn triangle into your brain?
It's not the government.
When I worked at Cynagen,
we got dozens of government contracts.
We tinkered with pathogens,
neurotoxins--
all kinds of bad shit.
It's something that kills you when you fall asleep.
No one's ever heard of that.
You know, you keep talking about your fancy-ass pharma job,
but what the hell you doing
working in a shithole like this, huh?
When I worked there,
I saw things...
bad things.
And I tried to blow the whistle.
Their lawyers came down hard on me.
Lost my license.
And here I am.
[Matteo] Okay.
Okay, but this is still your area of expertise, right?
You can...
You can figure this shit out.
Linda, we...
we wanna be helpful.
Whatever you need.
What I need?
What I need is a team of the hundred best virologists
working around the clock for 18 months straight.
Could you get me that?
Because that's the only way
we have a chance at beating this thing, okay?
I'm sorry.
I just...
I just need a minute to think.
[♪]
[Ruth] Where is that damn daughter of mine?
Would it kill her to send me a text?
The stress is gonna kill me before the cancer does.
I'm sorry.
Why don't you take a nap?
You can put your feet up on my bed.
I'm okay.
Thank you.
What's the matter, kiddo?
Hmm?
I know there's something you're not telling me.
I can see it on your face.
What's wrong?
[♪]
[Young Dave] What do you want?
Dave?
Dave, what's going on?
I'm okay.
Just, you know, processing some things.
Can I help?
[♪]
Katie, I'm scared.
I don't know what the hell we saw down there.
It's okay, you can...
You can talk to me.
Katie, have you ever considered
that there might be some things about me
that you wouldn't want to know?
Dave...
...you are a good person.
You are good.
And that's...
that's not gonna change,
no matter what you tell me,
no matter what you say.
Now, Dave...
when you go to sleep,
I want you to speak to The Dream People.
They won't hurt you.
I promise.
We'll be watching you sleeping.
We'll be right there with you, sweetheart.
Now, when you find them,
I want you to look right at them,
and ask, "What do you want?"
Can you do that?
"What do you want?"
- Louder. -"What do you want?"
Ooh, that's very good.
And, Davey, we think it's okay if you don't wanna do this.
It's completely up to you.
Will it make the bad things go away?
We don't know, honey.
We hope so.
It's going to make the bad things go away.
I promise, it will.
And after the bad things go away,
we're gonna find the exact same pajamas for me,
but in size medium, ladies.
[Dave chuckles]
A lady?
Yes.
[beeping]
Ah!
You see, Dave's entering REM sleep now.
This is where dreaming begins.
Dave, this is Dr. Castaneda.
I want you to follow the sound of my voice.
Dave,
you are in a safe place.
You are in your bedroom.
Nothing can harm you here.
I've reassured him.
Now I'll give him an instruction.
Dave, I want you to leave your bedroom.
I want you to walk through the door
and look for The Dream People.
Look-- Look for The Dream People...
people... people.
Look-- Look for The Dream People...
You're in a safe place.
Look for The Dream People.
[bell ringing]
What do you want?
[bell ringing]
[footsteps]
[♪]
[screaming]
- [loud alert beeping] - What is that?
Oh, that's-- that's nothing, it just, um...
[loud alert beeping]
[Tracy] You should wake him up now.
It's really nothing to be worried about.
Wake him up!
No. This is not the time to panic.
[loud alert wailing]
[Dave] Help!
Wake him up!
[loud alerts blaring]
[moaning]
Get... Get out of my way!
[loud alerts blaring]
Wake up, Dave.
Wake up!
Wake up, Dave!
Wake up, Dave! Dave!
Listen to my voice. I want you to wake up.
[screams]
What...
have you...
done?
I was at my best a few years ago.
When I met you.
Katie, when we were together...
...the nightmares stopped being a flood...
...they just trickled in.
But then, a few months ago,
they started coming back...
The Elephant Monster,
The Dream People.
Every night, I've dreamed of death.
I'm so sorry that you thought
you had to go through that alone.
You had your own demons.
You didn't sign up for mine.
Yes, actually, I did.
All you had to do was ask and I would've been there.
You have got to face this darkness.
I should know.
It will eat you from the inside.
[Ruth] Ma'am.
I just need you to shoot straight with me.
What's with the skeleton crew?
Why is everyone so upset?
And why won't you call my family?
[ticking]
[♪]
Linda!
- [rattles doorknob] - Hey!
Oh, this ain't good.
Uh, hey.
We got a situation in here.
They just through here.
- [rattles doorknob] - Linda!
What are you doing?
I don't expect you to understand,
but we've come to a decision.
What are you talking about?
[Ruth moaning]
She's dying.
The lymphoma is causing her pain.
This way, we might actually learn something.
I don't-- I don't understand.
If we scan her brain,
the imaging might help us understand
what's causing all of this.
But...
we have to run the MRI as she's falling asleep.
It's the only way to get results.
She's gonna kill her.
[Linda] We're gonna monitor her
as she goes to sleep.
Open the door!
[screams]
She volunteered.
What?
I told her the truth.
That everyone she loves is probably dead.
Her kids. Her family. Her friends.
And that if she does this,
she might save us.
Save you.
Hey, look, I don't like it either, but...
Linda!
If you do this, you are a murderer.
Do you understand?
[Ruth] Katie! It's okay, sweetie.
Ruth.
Linda, open the door!
I'm sorry.
Linda! Open the door!
[Dave] Easy, easy, easy.
You ready?
Kind of a stupid question.
[♪]
[Dave] Is it done?
[Linda] It's done.
I found something.
[Dave] What?
There was a spike in her Alpha and Beta waves...
right before her heart stopped.
That's when she died.
[Dave] What does that even mean?
It means she died in a dream.
[Matteo] I don't understand.
I don't know what else to say.
She died during a dream.
Maybe the dream killed her.
[Matteo] I don't...
I don't understand.
I don't know what you want me to say.
She died during a dream.
That's impossible.
I mean, what kind of dream...
what kind of dream can you die in?
I don't know,
but it must've been a pretty bad one.
You know what?
I'm getting real sick of your shit!
I need answers, and I need 'em now!
I don't have any answers.
[Matteo rages]
Three tours, man!
I survived three tours--
three tours--
and you're telling me this is how I'm going out?
[Matteo sobbing]
I just wish we had more time.
[♪]
I'm gonna go to sleep.
[Matteo] Yeah, no shit.
We all gonna go to sleep, man.
No. Now, Ruth...
how long did it take for her to die
after she went to sleep?
Um...
about three minutes.
Three minutes?
Okay.
Let me sleep for two and a half minutes,
and then wake me up.
Dave, what are you saying?
Well, she died in a dream.
She died in a dream, right?
So, let me fall asleep and start to dream.
And then, when I wake up, maybe we'll learn something.
Learn what?
We'll learn why I did this.
[Matteo] What the hell is that?
Scarring looks a couple weeks old.
What the fuck is that, man!
Why does it look like the scar in that person's brain?
You got something to do with this, man?
Maybe I do!
I swear...
Maybe I do, okay? I don't know.
But let's find out.
- I swear... - Let's find out.
Let's find out.
- Let's find out. - No.
No.
No, mm-mm.
We're out of options.
We don't know anything.
Just let me go to sleep for two minutes--
just two-- and then wake me up.
You can do that.
[Linda] That might be hard.
Your body's so sleep-deprived,
once you go to sleep, you might not wake up.
Wait a sec.
We're not actually entertaining this idea?
If he wants to go through with it,
I'm gonna help him.
We're all gonna die anyway.
Maybe we'll learn something.
Dave...
we're all really tired.
If we just think this through.
I have.
I mean, you know my nightmares.
And it's like you've been saying,
I can't keep running from the things that haunt me.
I can't.
I'm just tired of running.
I can handle a bad dream.
I've been doing it my whole life.
[♪]
I'm gonna start the timer as soon as you're out.
What the hell is that?
This is Plan B, in case you don't wake up.
Okay, I'm ready to go.
I'm waking you up in two minutes.
Two minutes.
[timer beeping]
If you don't wake up,
I swear to God,
I will go into that head and kill you myself.
Okay.
I will.
[Dave] I know.
This is the easy part...
falling asleep.
Yeah, easy.
[♪]
[thump]
[♪]