Hallucinations (2021) Movie Script
1
[Ava] Reality interests me
less than truth.
[machine whirrs]
That's why I take pictures.
[machine whirrs]
[machine rattles]
I took this picture
inside a dream.
[ethereal
instrumental music plays]
My body was gone.
All my organs were one.
I had become
the underlying reality.
I was made of stars.
My body was made of stars.
[explosion booms]
[rhythmic pulsing]
[wind howling]
Oh, my God.
Are you Ava Gastpunkt?
I am.
And who are you?
Me? Me? I'm nobody.
Um, pleased to meet you,
Miriam Annabelle.
Got my hands full.
Um, you know, I wrote
my senior thesis on you
at McGill,
I think you're one of
the most interesting
female photographers
since Diane Arbus or--
or Nan Goldin or--
I don't know
why I just said that.
Do you think of Diane Arbus?
I don't particularly
enjoy it
when people call me
"female photographer."
You know, for the same reason
Chantal Akerman
refused to be labeled
a "queer filmmaker."
Intersectionality.
It's like somebody hand
the anarchist a cigarette.
I'm just a photographer, man.
[camera shuttering]
[camera shuttering]
Can I photograph your vulva?
N-- no, wait.
I mean-- I mean, what?
[announcer]
This is on tape. The tape--
[man] The Pentagon
is gonna rise into the air.
When it gets about
300 feet in the air,
it's gonna start to vibrate.
Slowly at first,
and then a little quicker.
[reporter] ...LSD.
The water filtration...
[crosstalk]
[indistinct]
Uh, not even in movies,
it's human behavior.
It's human behavior.
Landon. This is a Ava.
Ava, Landon.
-[sped-up indistinct talking]
-[door clicks]
-[Ava] Is he your boyfriend?
-[Miriam] Sort of.
He doesn't like
being called it.
-It's too institutional.
-Hi.
Landon hasn't been able to sleep
for three weeks.
It's a medical condition,
but he refuses to see a doctor.
Even though his rich parents
would pay for it.
His father is always on TV.
Wait. What?
Mm-hmm. That's right.
Always on TV.
My brain is made of rainbows.
Curiouser and curiouser it gets.
Instead of sleeping,
Landon watches tapes
of the '68 DNC.
He's trying to find VHS evidence
of the phantom.
Isn't that right,
you fuck?
What phantom?
The phantom who runs America.
Conjured
by the Founding Fathers.
His large black cape
surrounds us.
Blocks out the true sun.
His illusion,
fabric of media...
beyond the simulacra.
Oh, my!
Look! Right there.
What's that? What do you see?
Um, money?
It's an eye.
Yeah. But whose eye?
What eye? Where?
Where's that eye?
I see an eye...
inside my dreams.
You see an eye
in your dreams?
I see one eye.
This eye.
Watching me.
I see space in my dreams.
That means
you're really aliens.
Have you seen my cat?
[jingle plays]
["Apacotees"
by Mountainhood playing]
Apacotees
Princess
of the Eastern Isle
Been a while
There's faces,
pieces, busy smiles
And begonias
down the river, surfing high
To the river
Like I said to the ocean
[indistinct]
I forget that you're
way long gone
'Cause I love you anyway
Hey, hey
Life is hard,
don't say goodbye
But I won't say it anyway
Goodbye, open your eyes
On the ocean
[indistinct] hear the man
[indistinct lyrics]
[indistinct] mask his style
Apacotees
Always have to feel
those feelings right
Oh,
he's a [indistinct lyrics]
Oh
I can tell that
you're way long gone
But I love you anyway,
hey, hey
[indistinct lyrics]
He says
pose upon the passing train
Afraid of getting hurt
she says
Oh
Oh
[indistinct lyrics]
[indistinct lyrics]
Very different
[indistinct]
out there on the street
She keeps her lovers
Wondering [indistinct]
Not the first one
She escapes
and runs wild and free
Into the rain
I forget that
you're way long gone
'Cause I love you anyway
Yeah, yeah
[indistinct lyrics]
Here come
the passing trains again
What?
[light music playing]
[Emma speaking Spanish]
[speaking English]
Los Angeles cryptozoologist.
He's a sasquatch.
That one he is.
I felt that his heart
was full of sasquatch.
Like,
I hear his little heart.
I just saw that...
little heart
full of sasquatch.
LA crypto-Z
is not a real job.
That is because
I don't have a job.
I thought that's what
we were working on here, Emma.
What does
social integration means
in a disintegrating society?
[scoffs]
[sharply exhales]
Why do you come here?
[moaning]
[Sherman shushing]
[moaning]
D-- don't touch that.
-Sorry.
-[Sherman] It's okay.
Thanks.
So, next Wednesday,
my wife's having minor surgery.
Can we do Thursday at...
seven?
[upbeat rock music playing]
Hello!
I am Sir Reginald St. Clair.
Officer
of the most excellent order
of the British Empire,
and I will be your host
on this most magical journey.
We'll go here
and there and everywhere!
LA!
Land of a million
magic tricks,
dreams, and illusions.
Mirrors, castles,
chandeliers!
Habitats wherein we can find
the most curious
of life forms.
Shh!
Make not a sound.
What creature have we here?
Why it's Principala Cordyceps,
otherwise known
as the young and important
regular female.
Unknown
is her source of income
and vast potential
[indistinct].
[indistinct lyrics]
Oh, my, where was I?
Beneath the [indistinct]
He said
[indistinct lyrics]
My friend
Oh, my friend
Oh, oh, my friend
[woman] What made you decide
to learn Japanese?
[Holly chuckling]
I want some.
[giggling]
-It's fun.
-[Molly] You like it?
It looks toxic.
Isn't that a good thing?
[gasps] What are these?
I don't know.
Mm!
My heart
was turned away as well.
Mm.
It's bone marrow.
What flavor did you just say?
It is...
-it's...
-Bone marrow?
...bone marrow,
and, like, something.
Smoked cherries.
Uh...
[cars whooshing by]
[woman speaking Japanese]
[silence]
[synthwave music plays]
[man] Fuck!
[indistinct talking over radio]
[light guitar music playing]
[Emma speaking Spanish]
I witnessed
the life from your heart
It shines
to one million feet long
There is a radiance
within its string
Colors
that run into numbers
One is the number again
Here's one,
a number that love makes
Finally we found our friends
Shh!
In this vast country
broken by money
They live
in the reels of the brook
Fishes,
they swim by the daylight
Little lights they flutter
'neath the moonlight
There's a rope swing
for you to be on
[Emma speaking Spanish]
[beeping]
[light music playing]
Hello, Mom.
[sniffles]
Merry Christmas.
[sobs]
What do you mean
it's not Christmas?
-[journalist] Mr. Max!
-[journalist 2] Mr. Max!
[crosstalk]
[gasps]
[woman]
Richard Max. [indistinct]
It's him!
Richard Max! Sign my book!
Yeah, I'm Richard Max. Yeah.
[crosstalk]
[speaks foreign language]
[journalist]
Know what's going on right now?
[singing opera]
[crosstalk]
Richard Max.
Tell us, what is the secret?
The secret is now.
Oh, my word.
[speaking Italian]
Women?
God created women.
[speaking Italian]
And then?
She slept.
The rest is history.
Cryptique.
[speaking Italian]
Richard Max. Richard Max.
What does it feel like
to be the biggest celebrity?
[car horns honking]
What?
[helicopter whirring]
[whispering] What the fuck?
You see,
what people
don't know about me,
but I know about me,
is I'm real.
Real dumb?
The real thing.
Maybe dumb,
but better than non-real.
Most people,
most famous people,
are really non-real.
Or really think they are.
Same thing. I'm not.
But you're just a novelist.
But listen...
I-- I...
oh, well,
uh, don't-- don't--
don't fake it,
just be real.
Lay the real thing on me, okay?
Don't fake it.
Books are, well,
what was I saying?
Mm, books--
well,
what was I saying anyways, um,
books are movies anyway.
Or movies
are real life anyways.
Before real life happens.
Next comes books.
So, I, uh,
I've read
a lot of '80s thrillers,
and I watched
a lot of '80s thrillers.
Most of my books
are '80s thrillers.
I'm-- I'm a meme.
What are you?
I don't know.
Name?
Molly Bianca.
Pleased to meet you.
Unattainable career goals?
To be a flower.
The shape of the universe.
[snorting]
[Molly giggles]
That tickles.
[Holly] Three, two, one.
Hold on.
How did this happen?
Is this another
Molly Bianca mythology?
More tall tales
and holiday superhero antics
from the heart of--
and mind
of the city's
most beloved bizarro.
What's a bizarro?
It's, like,
you're a superhero,
who walked
into a radioactivity tank,
and you came back out
totally insane.
Like, more insane than you.
Like...
you died,
and you couldn't get out.
And way more insane
than me?
No, you're--
you're way more insane than LA.
Your heart
is an exact replica copy of LA.
[guitar music playing]
Upside down.
[director] Adjusting focus.
Fresh. Rolling. Action.
[Reginald]
Science has confirmed
the quantum mechanics
of Molly Bianca's heart.
An exact particle
of Los Angeles.
Identical
in every attribute,
a perfect simulacrum
of the desert of the real.
Her organism,
a formation of the hyper real,
vestiges of no origin.
[ethereal
instrumental music plays]
The fiction is Los Angeles.
A procession of imaginations
transformed.
As they hear
the substance of dreams
and ghosts,
known only as Hollywood.
Look! There she is now.
[whimpering]
No!
Put it out or I shall dissolve.
Who are you?
[Arcadia] Who am I, indeed.
I was Hollywood once.
Champagne and chandeliers,
tears and tiaras...
moonshine
all gone like poof.
I was a star once.
I was.
I was going to do
the talkies.
Are you a poltergeist
or something?
Or something?
More like nothing.
Not even a has-been.
More like a once-was.
Dead.
Dead.
The dormouse said.
I thought it said,
"Feed your head?"
It did?
[inquisitive
instrumental music playing]
[wood creaking]
[dark synthwave music playing]
[explosion rumbles]
[loud dinging plays]
[gasps] Oh, fuck!
What's the matter, babe?
More dreams?
What are you doing?
What is that?
Babe?
Babe?
I was a star.
I became a symbol.
That sounds like
a dream come true.
Not.
I could feel myself
s-- slowly tearing to shreds.
Internally.
From the inside.
A vast furnace
of atoms churning.
I was a storm.
This isn't a track off Tusk,
babe.
I met a very interesting guy
the other day.
He said it means something,
dreams.
But, like, I feel like a person
when I dream.
Not a person,
but a phantasm,
who used to be a person,
transformed to light.
Lost in galaxies.
A memory of a person.
Hmm, couldn't follow
up to
the transformativality.
Do you think it's possible
that our souls...
augment with other souls
when we dream?
So, a brief discourse
on rent, babe.
[Reginald]
Behold, Anastasia Valeriax.
Somewhat
of a reclusive rock star
with consistent ratings,
a laptop recording studio,
and an income
less than subprecariate,
despite a substantial following
in Europe
and the Pacific Northwest.
[man over radio]
Ten, nine, eight,
seven, six, five, four,
three, two, one, fire!
[rocket blasts]
[mellow guitar melody playing]
[Reginald] She'd been forced
to take a second job.
Situated here
as a forest ranger,
stationed in Griffith Park.
[binoculars beep, whirr]
Curious destiny.
Left to hang out in nature
and think about music.
There it was.
Inside the outside.
A noise escaped
in the insect kingdom.
Crystal ringing,
logic of the Moon.
The telekinesis of a leaf.
[animal growling]
High vibes of the rainbow.
Anastasia understood
the twisted logic
of the spinsters
named "fate."
And she found her own music
in every place.
No, no, no.
Too sentimental.
That's not what
you're supposed to say,
this is a televised
nature program, Reginald.
Think TV.
-Oh, hi.
-Hi.
Uh, I'm just peeling
this orange.
I know.
Is something the matter?
No, I'm just walking around.
It's my job to walk around
and make sure everything's okay.
In nature,
with the people, everything.
Want a piece of fruit?
Um, well, okay.
Are you Anastasia Valeriax?
Wait, you know who I am?
When you were five
did you ever think
you'd be where
you are right now?
-[Beardo sighs] No, dude.
-[Anastasia] Come on, man.
I mean, I guess
we couldn't have predicted,
like, the Internet
and all that.
-[Beardo] Right. I mean--
-[Anastasia] It's just...
I wasn't thinking
about the Internet
when I was five
except for to play, like,
- video games or something.
-[Anastasia] Yeah, but...
I don't know, man.
I don't understand,
I mean, look at it.
[Beardo] Yeah, I know.
We were at Wesleyan,
and I was like,
"I'm gonna do this,"
you know?
Like, really commit.
I'm gonna do it cool, you know?
Like, make it neat.
-Yeah. The music.
-Music.
I mean, I know musicians
don't always
make a ton of money,
except for licensing, if that,
-but...
-Right.
-...I was committed.
-[Beardo] Right.
-Look where it got me.
-[Beardo chuckles]
-Put it on.
-Fuck you, no. You put it on.
-[Beardo laughs]
-That looks good, man.
-Thanks.
-One more thing.
Oh, yeah get that.
Get that hair out of there.
-That looks good.
-What do you think? Yeah?
Yeah, you look like
you can prevent forest fires.
Let's go freaking...
-save the forest.
-[Anastasia] Okay.
[mellow instrumental
music playing]
[punk guitar riff playing]
[suspenseful music playing]
[video tape flickers]
[Infinity moans]
[Infinity giggles]
[moaning]
[distorted growling]
Infinity,
are you still there?
[speaking other language]
[distorted growling]
[eerie music playing]
[speaking other language]
[speaking other language]
[speaking other language]
[speaking other language]
Witch-speak, James, my boy.
It's witch-speak.
Gee. Witch-speak.
The language is
from the lower Ural Mountains,
but it's a particularly
Los Angeles dialect.
I recognize that voice.
Ah-ha! Here it is.
Wait a minute.
You recognize the voice
on that tape?
Outside the haunted village
of [indistinct],
Prefect A29B.
Soviets were inflicting damage
on the mud fortifications
of the local witch armies.
But wait.
I thought history
erased the witch wars.
Oh, here it is.
That's when I met her.
792 years old.
She never--
she never told me her name.
But she told me this.
[distorted talking on recording]
[distorted talking on recording]
Wait.
I recognize that voice.
Infinity.
[Infinity speaking
other language]
-[speaking other language]
-[distorted talking]
-[speaking other language]
-[distorted talking]
-[speaking other language]
-[distorted talking]
-[speaking other language]
-[distorted talking]
-[speaking other language]
-[distorted talking]
[screams]
[Reginald] She can be
the greatest discovery
of the 21st century.
[woman hums]
[indistinct lyrics]
Check
Did you find
Your way back home
To the moon
Did you grow
To your hearts
For the whole world
to hold
She has to be true
To love you
She has to be new
To love you
[indistinct lyrics]
Neon prison
Ghost on the rooftop
Cake in the kitchen
Ooh
Why'd we let her go?
[Infinity]
And then I ate its soul.
I love
To watch you fly
Girl
[indistinct lyrics]
Not quite upset
Flying
through the atmosphere
We hang our heads
Not there yet
She has to be true
To love you
She has to be new
To love you
Spider web beds
Curls in her coffin
Coffee from last night
Nothing forgiven
Ooh
Watch your back
when you're gone
Ooh
There was no such thing
as the world
Why'd I let her go
Because I love her
[Infinity] Gave him a little--
a little face.
[indistinct lyrics]
She comes back
I'm on my knees
[indistinct lyrics]
Nothing on me
Always pleasing
She has to be true
To love you
She has to be new
To love you
Beyond sunsets blessings...
[man 1 on radio]
Three, tango, zero, one, three
to bravo, Zulu,
eight, eight, over.
-[man 2 on radio] It's Mike!
-[rockabilly music playing]
[man 3 on radio]
How'd he get here?
[radio dial adjusting]
[alien]
Code name, Nova Waves.
Hello, Infinity,
can you hear me?
[radio din]
[shrill radio interference]
[man 4 on radio]
This moral decay weakened...
[alien] Can you hear me,
Infinity?
[radio din]
I'll be coming in
loud and clear.
[Infinity] Leave me alone!
[man 4 over radio] ...the
significance of the extreme...
[radio din]
[alien]
Nova Waves leaves.
[radio din]
[bell tolling]
[ethereal music playing]
[man 5] As anyone here can see--
-[radio din]
-[man 6] Dry cat food!
[man 7] Here everything
is regulated by machines.
You'll find that things
are very different here.
[radio din]
[Infinity] Leave me alone!
[man 8 over radio]
I was in love with her.
[man 9 over radio]
Continue, please.
In a full moon...
she would behave
in a very strange way.
[distorted singing]
-Professionally I wonder...
-[sound distorting]
...that after a certain time--
[man 8] I didn't have
a place to think--
[radio din]
...can cause a cycle
of a physical transformation--
[radio din]
[man 10] My colleagues--
[muffled music playing]
-I was successful with the--
-[magical musical flourish]
[radio din]
The pituitary gland
and our psychocontrols--
[radio din]
[man 11] ...transformation,
a girl who--
[radio din]
[man 12] There's not a vaccine
in the world that can stop it.
[multiple radio voices
overlapping]
[alien]
Code name, Nova Waves.
[Indigenous singing]
[man 12]
That's why it is imperative
for you to develop a vaccine
against it immediately.
[man 12] Mr. President...
[multiple radio voices
overlapping]
[man 12] There's a virus...
[multiple radio voices
overlapping]
[man 12] Might've been in
a better position to develop...
[radio din]
[man 12] ...observatories as
far away as Siberia and
Beijing.
[radio din]
[multiple radio voices
overlapping]
[swing music playing]
[multiple radio voices
overlapping]
[music and voices overlapping]
-[Vicky] Todd!
-[Todd] Vicky!
[Vicky] Are you all right?
[laughing hysterically]
Stop it! Shut up!
Get out of my head!
[woman 1]
Things like that scare me.
-[woman screaming on radio]
-[man 13] That's enough.
[screaming continues]
[screaming and wheezing]
[man 14] Look at that.
[screaming, wheezing,
talking overlap]
[repeated gunshots]
[screaming continues]
-[woman 2] Oh, wow!
- [woman 3] Wake up.
[man 14]
Did I say something wrong?
[woman 4]
No, but you just reminded me
I'm supposed to
go into town tomorrow.
There's a NASA exhibit
at the university--
[woman 5 speaking German]
[man 15 speaking German]
[woman 6] But you can't
speak German...
[man 16] I can't,
that's why I have to ask you.
[radio din]
[arcade videogame
sound effects playing]
[indistinct speaking over radio]
[sound effects continue]
Do you hear them too?
[cartoonish sound effects]
[radio din]
[distorted music plays]
[laughter]
Infinity.
Can you hear me, Infinity?
[distorted radio chatter]
Where are you?
How did you find me?
[speaking other language]
[Infinity] Leave me alone,
it's not working!
Stop! Stop!
I have someone here
who very much wants to meet you.
It-- it's Mr. World Leader Man!
I have your instructions.
[distorted radio chatter]
I first started hearing voices
in my head last week.
Mainly guys talking.
Dirty talking
about their wives.
Sometimes they'd stop
playing cards
and they'd talk to me.
Or about me.
They're using microwaves to put
their voices inside of my head.
[voice cracking] They--
they have a secret lair...
in the Santa Monica mountains.
I can't. I can't.
[sobbing]
My doctor says I'm fine.
I looked it up on the Internet.
I'm not alone.
[all] You are not alone.
Who's next?
Halifax Kryptek.
KX1000 for short.
From the year 2257.
[all] You are not alone.
This is my beast years.
H-- he follows me, he does.
Here and there.
Th-- through
a portal I formed.
He-- he looks at me
through the window and...
and then I wake up
and he's...
he's...
[laughing manically]
[all] You are not alone.
You are not alone.
You are not alone.
You are not alone.
Bat people.
Bat people and children.
They see me.
They have huge,
green laser eyes,
their eyes don't see
in the dark...
they see through the dark.
Bat children raised in labs,
made of soy...
fly through the sky...
look through my roof...
see me in bed.
After the helicopters,
they go...
[imitates bats screeching]
Like that.
[group leader]
Behold, exhibit A.
Time machine contraption.
I found this one
washed up on the cave
on the beach
outside a house in Carmel
near where
the dirigible went down in '83.
I restored it.
You can see clear
straight through
to this location in 1945.
The first time myself
from 1873
tried to kill me
in Dresden with a musket
out a hotel room window.
This spot
in space and time was Dresden,
due to the earth's rotation.
Orgasm laser.
Massive orgasm technology,
transmitted via ham radio
from MK High.
It's where
they program olympiads
using dolphin telepathy
in-- in Brentwood.
Do you know that school?
Yeah. Class of '89.
Go Dolphins!
Yeah, I, uh, I'm pretty sure
they work for the school paper,
like, special forces,
IOPS, or something.
They're giving me, uh,
pretty bad orgasms.
Um, usually
when I'm in traffic,
or commuting from work.
They're huge,
and I don't know
how they find me.
It's like-- like...
What?
Who, me?
Yes, you. Take it.
Come on.
Go on, little one.
Go on. Find your way.
[whistling]
[booming 8-bit music plays]
[alien] Can you hear my voice
inside your mind?
-[owl hoots]
-[Infinity grunts]
[loud droning]
[droning stops]
Magic vitamins.
Take me
on a magical journey.
Take me
on a magical journey.
[eerie droning]
[suspenseful music playing]
[duct tape rips]
[crow cawing]
[wind howling]
[Princess giggling]
Can you feel psychic, LA?
Can you feel psychic now,
LA?
So, you're okay?
Even though
the pills don't help anymore?
[eerie musical flourish]
She used to experience
mass reflex taxonomia,
parasomnia, [indistinct],
somnambulation.
Higher knowledge,
differentiated behaviors.
Modulated
in [indistinct] moon patterns.
Gigasmic non-corporeal contact
with illuminated beings
of a higher exoplanetary order.
Subscript.
Subject's eyes are nearly always
totally closed.
Went into
thematic spasmic patterns.
Corporeal organization
materializes.
Totally suppressed by the meds,
by the way.
But the meds don't seem to be
working so great anymore,
eh, doc?
We're up the river
with Brando.
Personal aside from me to you,
strictly liminal.
I saw a cloud
shaped like the future today.
And a...
princess.
How heteronormatively
monogamous of you.
Look.
Have you found your cat?
[serene piano melody playing]
[music picks up pace]
[Molly] This one.
That's my favorite scene.
This one.
Oh, my God, that face.
Beyond goddess.
You're totally
my favorite Hollywood star ever.
[Reginald] Arcadia Harlowe,
an exotic species
of deceased silent film
movie stars,
who yet haunt Los Angeles.
As can be seen...
she's a real girl now.
[humming] Magic.
[sighs]
Oh, my God.
That's Arcadia Harlowe.
-Who?
-Star of silent film in cinema.
We have to go and put flowers
on her star now.
[Holly] Is that a superstition
or something?
[Molly] When you see a dead
movie star in Los Angeles,
you have to go
and put flowers on her star.
S-- see, it looks like her,
but that's impossible.
Holly. Holly.
This is really happening.
[ethereal music playing]
[loud droning]
[Infinity] Happy New Year.
[droning stops]
[sheet rustling]
[tense synthwave music plays]
[Infinity] At last,
their arrival was complete.
[air raid sirens blaring]
[people screaming]
[alien machinery whirring]
[pensive synth music playing]
[droning]
[wind howling]
[video game flourish]
[distorted ringing]
[Infinity]
The bringers of the sun.
[guitar amp shrieks]
[drum solo plays]
[guitar amp buzzing]
[distorted noise plays over amp]
[guitar whining]
[crackling from amp]
[crackling, whirring]
[Infinity] She heard aliens
talking in her guitar amp.
[distorted pulsing]
[mellow guitar melody playing]
She would never tell a soul.
San Francisco
In the rain
Meeting Kyle
[Infinity]
She knew magic.
Going around
in his camper
Oregon
In the sun
Meeting Misty
Taking [indistinct]
in my sports car
I know
that our love is real
We feel
When in dreams
we see each other
And we show
the way back
Back home
The mountain
The mountain
The mountain
The mountain
The mountain
[Infinity]
Aliens are coming, dummy.
Can you hear me?
This isn't a voice
in your head.
I'm you.
[flute instrumental playing]
[disembodied giggling]
[disembodied giggling]
[wind chime jingling]
[static buzzing loudly]
[Infinity] Wake up.
Wake up.
They're here.
[eerie music playing]
What about that?
Where did you get that?
This one
I got in a thrift store.
It was just, like,
sitting in the counter.
The only thing is that,
like, it turns my...
-like, finger that green color.
-Oh, like, green.
Yeah, if you, like,
paint the inside
with nail polish.
-Clear nail polish?
-Yeah.
I've heard that,
I should do that.
I'm gonna call you Little Claw.
[both chuckle]
[eerie instrumental playing]
[Infinity]
It didn't last long.
[tires screeching]
They found her.
[alien machinery
whirring and pulsing]
[droning whistling]
[engine revving]
[static buzzing]
[distorted buzzing]
[laser whooshing]
[video game flourish]
[tires screech]
[engine revving loudly]
[screams]
[droning intensifies]
[crackling, droning]
All of it.
All the horses,
helicopters.
I want to give you
everything.
You don't understand.
Everything I've ever written...
everything I've ever done,
you'll tell them I did it.
That I'm dead.
That's it. Tell everyone.
Tell the-- the papers.
Tell America.
-Richard Max is dead.
-[Molly laughs]
And then
we'll run away together.
[howling]
-That noise you just made.
-[both laugh]
I just want to
give you everything.
What?
Fake my death.
-[Molly chuckles]
-You have to tell them.
The Pope, America,
the Internet,
the trees, the leaves.
Tell them I'm dead.
We'll fake my net-- my death
and be on the headlines.
Richard Max is dead.
And then,
we'll run away together.
[howling]
Everything I've ever done...
everything I've ever written...
all the bestsellers
I've topped,
all the royalty checks
in the mail...
all the helicopters,
the horses.
All of it was nothing
compared to you.
Mm-hmm.
And that sound
you just made.
I want to give you
everything.
What?
[howling]
[human and animal
howls overlapping]
[wolves howling]
[Molly chuckling]
[howling continues]
[Molly howling]
[chuckling]
[howling continues]
[ethereal music playing]
[howling fades away]
[Infinity] They are here.
Aliens are coming.
[body thuds on floor]
[alien buzzing]
[camcorder rattling]
[high pitched ringing]
[traffic din]
[indistinct,
overlapping radio chatter]
The pituitary gland
and our psychocontrols--
[indistinct,
overlapping radio chatter]
[man] [indistinct],
he'll follow her.
[manic laughter]
[man 10] There's not a vaccine
in the world that can stop it.
[indistinct,
overlapping radio chatter]
[Morse message beeping]
[alien]
Code name, Nova Waves.
[Indigenous music plays]
[sounds fade]
[birds chirping]
[beeping]
[women giggling]
[robotic voice]
Targets acquired.
[body thudding]
Another day in paradise.
Looks like
we have a live one.
A doctor!
A doctor!
What's that on her wrist?
What, where?
Here?
[echoing] A doctor! A doctor!
Here?
Curious.
"Give me the pills
in my pocket"?
Oh, yes.
The pills in my pocket.
Give me the pills
in my pocket.
The pills in my pocket.
[flat ringing]
[static waves]
[static waves]
[echoing dripping]
[Infinity]
Aliens are coming.
[wind howling]
Help!
-[alien buzzing]
-[crackling]
-[alien buzzing]
-[distorted guitar music]
[serene piano melody playing]
[Arcadia] I feel like...
Wait,
I've been here before.
-What is that?
-It's my diamond.
So magnificent.
I can't believe it.
[Molly] Uh, wait.
[both chuckle]
[Arcadia]
Wow. What is that?
[both chuckle]
[Molly] It's beautiful.
It's cool.
-I can see you.
-[Arcadia] I see myself.
[Molly] I feel like
we're meant to be here.
Fellow humans,
get together.
Did you know?
[overlapping,
indistinct sentences]
[Molly chuckles] Your eye!
[Molly] What are you?
[alien buzzing]
[Emma speaking Spanish]
[shutter clicks]
[alien buzzing]
[alien machinery whirrs]
[crackling, beeping]
[seagulls cawing]
[soft static buzzing]
[loud whirring]
[electric zapping]
[suspenseful music playing]
[Ava] They left us
a piece of their sky machine.
Only we could see it.
Reality interests me
less than life.
But is life no more
than what's not there?
And is what's not there
really there?
Because I'm not here.
I'm not here.
I'm not here.
I'm not here.
[downtempo guitar music plays]
Time
As slow as we want
Illusion
of sense of time
Time
It's time to say goodbye
It's time to say goodnight
[indistinct lyrics]
[indistinct lyrics]
[indistinct lyrics]
[indistinct lyrics]
[indistinct lyrics]
[indistinct lyrics]
[indistinct lyrics]
[indistinct lyrics]
[indistinct lyrics]
[indistinct lyrics]
[indistinct lyrics]
[indistinct lyrics]
[indistinct lyrics]
[indistinct lyrics]
[upbeat electronic music
playing]
[music stops]
[Ava] Reality interests me
less than truth.
[machine whirrs]
That's why I take pictures.
[machine whirrs]
[machine rattles]
I took this picture
inside a dream.
[ethereal
instrumental music plays]
My body was gone.
All my organs were one.
I had become
the underlying reality.
I was made of stars.
My body was made of stars.
[explosion booms]
[rhythmic pulsing]
[wind howling]
Oh, my God.
Are you Ava Gastpunkt?
I am.
And who are you?
Me? Me? I'm nobody.
Um, pleased to meet you,
Miriam Annabelle.
Got my hands full.
Um, you know, I wrote
my senior thesis on you
at McGill,
I think you're one of
the most interesting
female photographers
since Diane Arbus or--
or Nan Goldin or--
I don't know
why I just said that.
Do you think of Diane Arbus?
I don't particularly
enjoy it
when people call me
"female photographer."
You know, for the same reason
Chantal Akerman
refused to be labeled
a "queer filmmaker."
Intersectionality.
It's like somebody hand
the anarchist a cigarette.
I'm just a photographer, man.
[camera shuttering]
[camera shuttering]
Can I photograph your vulva?
N-- no, wait.
I mean-- I mean, what?
[announcer]
This is on tape. The tape--
[man] The Pentagon
is gonna rise into the air.
When it gets about
300 feet in the air,
it's gonna start to vibrate.
Slowly at first,
and then a little quicker.
[reporter] ...LSD.
The water filtration...
[crosstalk]
[indistinct]
Uh, not even in movies,
it's human behavior.
It's human behavior.
Landon. This is a Ava.
Ava, Landon.
-[sped-up indistinct talking]
-[door clicks]
-[Ava] Is he your boyfriend?
-[Miriam] Sort of.
He doesn't like
being called it.
-It's too institutional.
-Hi.
Landon hasn't been able to sleep
for three weeks.
It's a medical condition,
but he refuses to see a doctor.
Even though his rich parents
would pay for it.
His father is always on TV.
Wait. What?
Mm-hmm. That's right.
Always on TV.
My brain is made of rainbows.
Curiouser and curiouser it gets.
Instead of sleeping,
Landon watches tapes
of the '68 DNC.
He's trying to find VHS evidence
of the phantom.
Isn't that right,
you fuck?
What phantom?
The phantom who runs America.
Conjured
by the Founding Fathers.
His large black cape
surrounds us.
Blocks out the true sun.
His illusion,
fabric of media...
beyond the simulacra.
Oh, my!
Look! Right there.
What's that? What do you see?
Um, money?
It's an eye.
Yeah. But whose eye?
What eye? Where?
Where's that eye?
I see an eye...
inside my dreams.
You see an eye
in your dreams?
I see one eye.
This eye.
Watching me.
I see space in my dreams.
That means
you're really aliens.
Have you seen my cat?
[jingle plays]
["Apacotees"
by Mountainhood playing]
Apacotees
Princess
of the Eastern Isle
Been a while
There's faces,
pieces, busy smiles
And begonias
down the river, surfing high
To the river
Like I said to the ocean
[indistinct]
I forget that you're
way long gone
'Cause I love you anyway
Hey, hey
Life is hard,
don't say goodbye
But I won't say it anyway
Goodbye, open your eyes
On the ocean
[indistinct] hear the man
[indistinct lyrics]
[indistinct] mask his style
Apacotees
Always have to feel
those feelings right
Oh,
he's a [indistinct lyrics]
Oh
I can tell that
you're way long gone
But I love you anyway,
hey, hey
[indistinct lyrics]
He says
pose upon the passing train
Afraid of getting hurt
she says
Oh
Oh
[indistinct lyrics]
[indistinct lyrics]
Very different
[indistinct]
out there on the street
She keeps her lovers
Wondering [indistinct]
Not the first one
She escapes
and runs wild and free
Into the rain
I forget that
you're way long gone
'Cause I love you anyway
Yeah, yeah
[indistinct lyrics]
Here come
the passing trains again
What?
[light music playing]
[Emma speaking Spanish]
[speaking English]
Los Angeles cryptozoologist.
He's a sasquatch.
That one he is.
I felt that his heart
was full of sasquatch.
Like,
I hear his little heart.
I just saw that...
little heart
full of sasquatch.
LA crypto-Z
is not a real job.
That is because
I don't have a job.
I thought that's what
we were working on here, Emma.
What does
social integration means
in a disintegrating society?
[scoffs]
[sharply exhales]
Why do you come here?
[moaning]
[Sherman shushing]
[moaning]
D-- don't touch that.
-Sorry.
-[Sherman] It's okay.
Thanks.
So, next Wednesday,
my wife's having minor surgery.
Can we do Thursday at...
seven?
[upbeat rock music playing]
Hello!
I am Sir Reginald St. Clair.
Officer
of the most excellent order
of the British Empire,
and I will be your host
on this most magical journey.
We'll go here
and there and everywhere!
LA!
Land of a million
magic tricks,
dreams, and illusions.
Mirrors, castles,
chandeliers!
Habitats wherein we can find
the most curious
of life forms.
Shh!
Make not a sound.
What creature have we here?
Why it's Principala Cordyceps,
otherwise known
as the young and important
regular female.
Unknown
is her source of income
and vast potential
[indistinct].
[indistinct lyrics]
Oh, my, where was I?
Beneath the [indistinct]
He said
[indistinct lyrics]
My friend
Oh, my friend
Oh, oh, my friend
[woman] What made you decide
to learn Japanese?
[Holly chuckling]
I want some.
[giggling]
-It's fun.
-[Molly] You like it?
It looks toxic.
Isn't that a good thing?
[gasps] What are these?
I don't know.
Mm!
My heart
was turned away as well.
Mm.
It's bone marrow.
What flavor did you just say?
It is...
-it's...
-Bone marrow?
...bone marrow,
and, like, something.
Smoked cherries.
Uh...
[cars whooshing by]
[woman speaking Japanese]
[silence]
[synthwave music plays]
[man] Fuck!
[indistinct talking over radio]
[light guitar music playing]
[Emma speaking Spanish]
I witnessed
the life from your heart
It shines
to one million feet long
There is a radiance
within its string
Colors
that run into numbers
One is the number again
Here's one,
a number that love makes
Finally we found our friends
Shh!
In this vast country
broken by money
They live
in the reels of the brook
Fishes,
they swim by the daylight
Little lights they flutter
'neath the moonlight
There's a rope swing
for you to be on
[Emma speaking Spanish]
[beeping]
[light music playing]
Hello, Mom.
[sniffles]
Merry Christmas.
[sobs]
What do you mean
it's not Christmas?
-[journalist] Mr. Max!
-[journalist 2] Mr. Max!
[crosstalk]
[gasps]
[woman]
Richard Max. [indistinct]
It's him!
Richard Max! Sign my book!
Yeah, I'm Richard Max. Yeah.
[crosstalk]
[speaks foreign language]
[journalist]
Know what's going on right now?
[singing opera]
[crosstalk]
Richard Max.
Tell us, what is the secret?
The secret is now.
Oh, my word.
[speaking Italian]
Women?
God created women.
[speaking Italian]
And then?
She slept.
The rest is history.
Cryptique.
[speaking Italian]
Richard Max. Richard Max.
What does it feel like
to be the biggest celebrity?
[car horns honking]
What?
[helicopter whirring]
[whispering] What the fuck?
You see,
what people
don't know about me,
but I know about me,
is I'm real.
Real dumb?
The real thing.
Maybe dumb,
but better than non-real.
Most people,
most famous people,
are really non-real.
Or really think they are.
Same thing. I'm not.
But you're just a novelist.
But listen...
I-- I...
oh, well,
uh, don't-- don't--
don't fake it,
just be real.
Lay the real thing on me, okay?
Don't fake it.
Books are, well,
what was I saying?
Mm, books--
well,
what was I saying anyways, um,
books are movies anyway.
Or movies
are real life anyways.
Before real life happens.
Next comes books.
So, I, uh,
I've read
a lot of '80s thrillers,
and I watched
a lot of '80s thrillers.
Most of my books
are '80s thrillers.
I'm-- I'm a meme.
What are you?
I don't know.
Name?
Molly Bianca.
Pleased to meet you.
Unattainable career goals?
To be a flower.
The shape of the universe.
[snorting]
[Molly giggles]
That tickles.
[Holly] Three, two, one.
Hold on.
How did this happen?
Is this another
Molly Bianca mythology?
More tall tales
and holiday superhero antics
from the heart of--
and mind
of the city's
most beloved bizarro.
What's a bizarro?
It's, like,
you're a superhero,
who walked
into a radioactivity tank,
and you came back out
totally insane.
Like, more insane than you.
Like...
you died,
and you couldn't get out.
And way more insane
than me?
No, you're--
you're way more insane than LA.
Your heart
is an exact replica copy of LA.
[guitar music playing]
Upside down.
[director] Adjusting focus.
Fresh. Rolling. Action.
[Reginald]
Science has confirmed
the quantum mechanics
of Molly Bianca's heart.
An exact particle
of Los Angeles.
Identical
in every attribute,
a perfect simulacrum
of the desert of the real.
Her organism,
a formation of the hyper real,
vestiges of no origin.
[ethereal
instrumental music plays]
The fiction is Los Angeles.
A procession of imaginations
transformed.
As they hear
the substance of dreams
and ghosts,
known only as Hollywood.
Look! There she is now.
[whimpering]
No!
Put it out or I shall dissolve.
Who are you?
[Arcadia] Who am I, indeed.
I was Hollywood once.
Champagne and chandeliers,
tears and tiaras...
moonshine
all gone like poof.
I was a star once.
I was.
I was going to do
the talkies.
Are you a poltergeist
or something?
Or something?
More like nothing.
Not even a has-been.
More like a once-was.
Dead.
Dead.
The dormouse said.
I thought it said,
"Feed your head?"
It did?
[inquisitive
instrumental music playing]
[wood creaking]
[dark synthwave music playing]
[explosion rumbles]
[loud dinging plays]
[gasps] Oh, fuck!
What's the matter, babe?
More dreams?
What are you doing?
What is that?
Babe?
Babe?
I was a star.
I became a symbol.
That sounds like
a dream come true.
Not.
I could feel myself
s-- slowly tearing to shreds.
Internally.
From the inside.
A vast furnace
of atoms churning.
I was a storm.
This isn't a track off Tusk,
babe.
I met a very interesting guy
the other day.
He said it means something,
dreams.
But, like, I feel like a person
when I dream.
Not a person,
but a phantasm,
who used to be a person,
transformed to light.
Lost in galaxies.
A memory of a person.
Hmm, couldn't follow
up to
the transformativality.
Do you think it's possible
that our souls...
augment with other souls
when we dream?
So, a brief discourse
on rent, babe.
[Reginald]
Behold, Anastasia Valeriax.
Somewhat
of a reclusive rock star
with consistent ratings,
a laptop recording studio,
and an income
less than subprecariate,
despite a substantial following
in Europe
and the Pacific Northwest.
[man over radio]
Ten, nine, eight,
seven, six, five, four,
three, two, one, fire!
[rocket blasts]
[mellow guitar melody playing]
[Reginald] She'd been forced
to take a second job.
Situated here
as a forest ranger,
stationed in Griffith Park.
[binoculars beep, whirr]
Curious destiny.
Left to hang out in nature
and think about music.
There it was.
Inside the outside.
A noise escaped
in the insect kingdom.
Crystal ringing,
logic of the Moon.
The telekinesis of a leaf.
[animal growling]
High vibes of the rainbow.
Anastasia understood
the twisted logic
of the spinsters
named "fate."
And she found her own music
in every place.
No, no, no.
Too sentimental.
That's not what
you're supposed to say,
this is a televised
nature program, Reginald.
Think TV.
-Oh, hi.
-Hi.
Uh, I'm just peeling
this orange.
I know.
Is something the matter?
No, I'm just walking around.
It's my job to walk around
and make sure everything's okay.
In nature,
with the people, everything.
Want a piece of fruit?
Um, well, okay.
Are you Anastasia Valeriax?
Wait, you know who I am?
When you were five
did you ever think
you'd be where
you are right now?
-[Beardo sighs] No, dude.
-[Anastasia] Come on, man.
I mean, I guess
we couldn't have predicted,
like, the Internet
and all that.
-[Beardo] Right. I mean--
-[Anastasia] It's just...
I wasn't thinking
about the Internet
when I was five
except for to play, like,
- video games or something.
-[Anastasia] Yeah, but...
I don't know, man.
I don't understand,
I mean, look at it.
[Beardo] Yeah, I know.
We were at Wesleyan,
and I was like,
"I'm gonna do this,"
you know?
Like, really commit.
I'm gonna do it cool, you know?
Like, make it neat.
-Yeah. The music.
-Music.
I mean, I know musicians
don't always
make a ton of money,
except for licensing, if that,
-but...
-Right.
-...I was committed.
-[Beardo] Right.
-Look where it got me.
-[Beardo chuckles]
-Put it on.
-Fuck you, no. You put it on.
-[Beardo laughs]
-That looks good, man.
-Thanks.
-One more thing.
Oh, yeah get that.
Get that hair out of there.
-That looks good.
-What do you think? Yeah?
Yeah, you look like
you can prevent forest fires.
Let's go freaking...
-save the forest.
-[Anastasia] Okay.
[mellow instrumental
music playing]
[punk guitar riff playing]
[suspenseful music playing]
[video tape flickers]
[Infinity moans]
[Infinity giggles]
[moaning]
[distorted growling]
Infinity,
are you still there?
[speaking other language]
[distorted growling]
[eerie music playing]
[speaking other language]
[speaking other language]
[speaking other language]
[speaking other language]
Witch-speak, James, my boy.
It's witch-speak.
Gee. Witch-speak.
The language is
from the lower Ural Mountains,
but it's a particularly
Los Angeles dialect.
I recognize that voice.
Ah-ha! Here it is.
Wait a minute.
You recognize the voice
on that tape?
Outside the haunted village
of [indistinct],
Prefect A29B.
Soviets were inflicting damage
on the mud fortifications
of the local witch armies.
But wait.
I thought history
erased the witch wars.
Oh, here it is.
That's when I met her.
792 years old.
She never--
she never told me her name.
But she told me this.
[distorted talking on recording]
[distorted talking on recording]
Wait.
I recognize that voice.
Infinity.
[Infinity speaking
other language]
-[speaking other language]
-[distorted talking]
-[speaking other language]
-[distorted talking]
-[speaking other language]
-[distorted talking]
-[speaking other language]
-[distorted talking]
-[speaking other language]
-[distorted talking]
[screams]
[Reginald] She can be
the greatest discovery
of the 21st century.
[woman hums]
[indistinct lyrics]
Check
Did you find
Your way back home
To the moon
Did you grow
To your hearts
For the whole world
to hold
She has to be true
To love you
She has to be new
To love you
[indistinct lyrics]
Neon prison
Ghost on the rooftop
Cake in the kitchen
Ooh
Why'd we let her go?
[Infinity]
And then I ate its soul.
I love
To watch you fly
Girl
[indistinct lyrics]
Not quite upset
Flying
through the atmosphere
We hang our heads
Not there yet
She has to be true
To love you
She has to be new
To love you
Spider web beds
Curls in her coffin
Coffee from last night
Nothing forgiven
Ooh
Watch your back
when you're gone
Ooh
There was no such thing
as the world
Why'd I let her go
Because I love her
[Infinity] Gave him a little--
a little face.
[indistinct lyrics]
She comes back
I'm on my knees
[indistinct lyrics]
Nothing on me
Always pleasing
She has to be true
To love you
She has to be new
To love you
Beyond sunsets blessings...
[man 1 on radio]
Three, tango, zero, one, three
to bravo, Zulu,
eight, eight, over.
-[man 2 on radio] It's Mike!
-[rockabilly music playing]
[man 3 on radio]
How'd he get here?
[radio dial adjusting]
[alien]
Code name, Nova Waves.
Hello, Infinity,
can you hear me?
[radio din]
[shrill radio interference]
[man 4 on radio]
This moral decay weakened...
[alien] Can you hear me,
Infinity?
[radio din]
I'll be coming in
loud and clear.
[Infinity] Leave me alone!
[man 4 over radio] ...the
significance of the extreme...
[radio din]
[alien]
Nova Waves leaves.
[radio din]
[bell tolling]
[ethereal music playing]
[man 5] As anyone here can see--
-[radio din]
-[man 6] Dry cat food!
[man 7] Here everything
is regulated by machines.
You'll find that things
are very different here.
[radio din]
[Infinity] Leave me alone!
[man 8 over radio]
I was in love with her.
[man 9 over radio]
Continue, please.
In a full moon...
she would behave
in a very strange way.
[distorted singing]
-Professionally I wonder...
-[sound distorting]
...that after a certain time--
[man 8] I didn't have
a place to think--
[radio din]
...can cause a cycle
of a physical transformation--
[radio din]
[man 10] My colleagues--
[muffled music playing]
-I was successful with the--
-[magical musical flourish]
[radio din]
The pituitary gland
and our psychocontrols--
[radio din]
[man 11] ...transformation,
a girl who--
[radio din]
[man 12] There's not a vaccine
in the world that can stop it.
[multiple radio voices
overlapping]
[alien]
Code name, Nova Waves.
[Indigenous singing]
[man 12]
That's why it is imperative
for you to develop a vaccine
against it immediately.
[man 12] Mr. President...
[multiple radio voices
overlapping]
[man 12] There's a virus...
[multiple radio voices
overlapping]
[man 12] Might've been in
a better position to develop...
[radio din]
[man 12] ...observatories as
far away as Siberia and
Beijing.
[radio din]
[multiple radio voices
overlapping]
[swing music playing]
[multiple radio voices
overlapping]
[music and voices overlapping]
-[Vicky] Todd!
-[Todd] Vicky!
[Vicky] Are you all right?
[laughing hysterically]
Stop it! Shut up!
Get out of my head!
[woman 1]
Things like that scare me.
-[woman screaming on radio]
-[man 13] That's enough.
[screaming continues]
[screaming and wheezing]
[man 14] Look at that.
[screaming, wheezing,
talking overlap]
[repeated gunshots]
[screaming continues]
-[woman 2] Oh, wow!
- [woman 3] Wake up.
[man 14]
Did I say something wrong?
[woman 4]
No, but you just reminded me
I'm supposed to
go into town tomorrow.
There's a NASA exhibit
at the university--
[woman 5 speaking German]
[man 15 speaking German]
[woman 6] But you can't
speak German...
[man 16] I can't,
that's why I have to ask you.
[radio din]
[arcade videogame
sound effects playing]
[indistinct speaking over radio]
[sound effects continue]
Do you hear them too?
[cartoonish sound effects]
[radio din]
[distorted music plays]
[laughter]
Infinity.
Can you hear me, Infinity?
[distorted radio chatter]
Where are you?
How did you find me?
[speaking other language]
[Infinity] Leave me alone,
it's not working!
Stop! Stop!
I have someone here
who very much wants to meet you.
It-- it's Mr. World Leader Man!
I have your instructions.
[distorted radio chatter]
I first started hearing voices
in my head last week.
Mainly guys talking.
Dirty talking
about their wives.
Sometimes they'd stop
playing cards
and they'd talk to me.
Or about me.
They're using microwaves to put
their voices inside of my head.
[voice cracking] They--
they have a secret lair...
in the Santa Monica mountains.
I can't. I can't.
[sobbing]
My doctor says I'm fine.
I looked it up on the Internet.
I'm not alone.
[all] You are not alone.
Who's next?
Halifax Kryptek.
KX1000 for short.
From the year 2257.
[all] You are not alone.
This is my beast years.
H-- he follows me, he does.
Here and there.
Th-- through
a portal I formed.
He-- he looks at me
through the window and...
and then I wake up
and he's...
he's...
[laughing manically]
[all] You are not alone.
You are not alone.
You are not alone.
You are not alone.
Bat people.
Bat people and children.
They see me.
They have huge,
green laser eyes,
their eyes don't see
in the dark...
they see through the dark.
Bat children raised in labs,
made of soy...
fly through the sky...
look through my roof...
see me in bed.
After the helicopters,
they go...
[imitates bats screeching]
Like that.
[group leader]
Behold, exhibit A.
Time machine contraption.
I found this one
washed up on the cave
on the beach
outside a house in Carmel
near where
the dirigible went down in '83.
I restored it.
You can see clear
straight through
to this location in 1945.
The first time myself
from 1873
tried to kill me
in Dresden with a musket
out a hotel room window.
This spot
in space and time was Dresden,
due to the earth's rotation.
Orgasm laser.
Massive orgasm technology,
transmitted via ham radio
from MK High.
It's where
they program olympiads
using dolphin telepathy
in-- in Brentwood.
Do you know that school?
Yeah. Class of '89.
Go Dolphins!
Yeah, I, uh, I'm pretty sure
they work for the school paper,
like, special forces,
IOPS, or something.
They're giving me, uh,
pretty bad orgasms.
Um, usually
when I'm in traffic,
or commuting from work.
They're huge,
and I don't know
how they find me.
It's like-- like...
What?
Who, me?
Yes, you. Take it.
Come on.
Go on, little one.
Go on. Find your way.
[whistling]
[booming 8-bit music plays]
[alien] Can you hear my voice
inside your mind?
-[owl hoots]
-[Infinity grunts]
[loud droning]
[droning stops]
Magic vitamins.
Take me
on a magical journey.
Take me
on a magical journey.
[eerie droning]
[suspenseful music playing]
[duct tape rips]
[crow cawing]
[wind howling]
[Princess giggling]
Can you feel psychic, LA?
Can you feel psychic now,
LA?
So, you're okay?
Even though
the pills don't help anymore?
[eerie musical flourish]
She used to experience
mass reflex taxonomia,
parasomnia, [indistinct],
somnambulation.
Higher knowledge,
differentiated behaviors.
Modulated
in [indistinct] moon patterns.
Gigasmic non-corporeal contact
with illuminated beings
of a higher exoplanetary order.
Subscript.
Subject's eyes are nearly always
totally closed.
Went into
thematic spasmic patterns.
Corporeal organization
materializes.
Totally suppressed by the meds,
by the way.
But the meds don't seem to be
working so great anymore,
eh, doc?
We're up the river
with Brando.
Personal aside from me to you,
strictly liminal.
I saw a cloud
shaped like the future today.
And a...
princess.
How heteronormatively
monogamous of you.
Look.
Have you found your cat?
[serene piano melody playing]
[music picks up pace]
[Molly] This one.
That's my favorite scene.
This one.
Oh, my God, that face.
Beyond goddess.
You're totally
my favorite Hollywood star ever.
[Reginald] Arcadia Harlowe,
an exotic species
of deceased silent film
movie stars,
who yet haunt Los Angeles.
As can be seen...
she's a real girl now.
[humming] Magic.
[sighs]
Oh, my God.
That's Arcadia Harlowe.
-Who?
-Star of silent film in cinema.
We have to go and put flowers
on her star now.
[Holly] Is that a superstition
or something?
[Molly] When you see a dead
movie star in Los Angeles,
you have to go
and put flowers on her star.
S-- see, it looks like her,
but that's impossible.
Holly. Holly.
This is really happening.
[ethereal music playing]
[loud droning]
[Infinity] Happy New Year.
[droning stops]
[sheet rustling]
[tense synthwave music plays]
[Infinity] At last,
their arrival was complete.
[air raid sirens blaring]
[people screaming]
[alien machinery whirring]
[pensive synth music playing]
[droning]
[wind howling]
[video game flourish]
[distorted ringing]
[Infinity]
The bringers of the sun.
[guitar amp shrieks]
[drum solo plays]
[guitar amp buzzing]
[distorted noise plays over amp]
[guitar whining]
[crackling from amp]
[crackling, whirring]
[Infinity] She heard aliens
talking in her guitar amp.
[distorted pulsing]
[mellow guitar melody playing]
She would never tell a soul.
San Francisco
In the rain
Meeting Kyle
[Infinity]
She knew magic.
Going around
in his camper
Oregon
In the sun
Meeting Misty
Taking [indistinct]
in my sports car
I know
that our love is real
We feel
When in dreams
we see each other
And we show
the way back
Back home
The mountain
The mountain
The mountain
The mountain
The mountain
[Infinity]
Aliens are coming, dummy.
Can you hear me?
This isn't a voice
in your head.
I'm you.
[flute instrumental playing]
[disembodied giggling]
[disembodied giggling]
[wind chime jingling]
[static buzzing loudly]
[Infinity] Wake up.
Wake up.
They're here.
[eerie music playing]
What about that?
Where did you get that?
This one
I got in a thrift store.
It was just, like,
sitting in the counter.
The only thing is that,
like, it turns my...
-like, finger that green color.
-Oh, like, green.
Yeah, if you, like,
paint the inside
with nail polish.
-Clear nail polish?
-Yeah.
I've heard that,
I should do that.
I'm gonna call you Little Claw.
[both chuckle]
[eerie instrumental playing]
[Infinity]
It didn't last long.
[tires screeching]
They found her.
[alien machinery
whirring and pulsing]
[droning whistling]
[engine revving]
[static buzzing]
[distorted buzzing]
[laser whooshing]
[video game flourish]
[tires screech]
[engine revving loudly]
[screams]
[droning intensifies]
[crackling, droning]
All of it.
All the horses,
helicopters.
I want to give you
everything.
You don't understand.
Everything I've ever written...
everything I've ever done,
you'll tell them I did it.
That I'm dead.
That's it. Tell everyone.
Tell the-- the papers.
Tell America.
-Richard Max is dead.
-[Molly laughs]
And then
we'll run away together.
[howling]
-That noise you just made.
-[both laugh]
I just want to
give you everything.
What?
Fake my death.
-[Molly chuckles]
-You have to tell them.
The Pope, America,
the Internet,
the trees, the leaves.
Tell them I'm dead.
We'll fake my net-- my death
and be on the headlines.
Richard Max is dead.
And then,
we'll run away together.
[howling]
Everything I've ever done...
everything I've ever written...
all the bestsellers
I've topped,
all the royalty checks
in the mail...
all the helicopters,
the horses.
All of it was nothing
compared to you.
Mm-hmm.
And that sound
you just made.
I want to give you
everything.
What?
[howling]
[human and animal
howls overlapping]
[wolves howling]
[Molly chuckling]
[howling continues]
[Molly howling]
[chuckling]
[howling continues]
[ethereal music playing]
[howling fades away]
[Infinity] They are here.
Aliens are coming.
[body thuds on floor]
[alien buzzing]
[camcorder rattling]
[high pitched ringing]
[traffic din]
[indistinct,
overlapping radio chatter]
The pituitary gland
and our psychocontrols--
[indistinct,
overlapping radio chatter]
[man] [indistinct],
he'll follow her.
[manic laughter]
[man 10] There's not a vaccine
in the world that can stop it.
[indistinct,
overlapping radio chatter]
[Morse message beeping]
[alien]
Code name, Nova Waves.
[Indigenous music plays]
[sounds fade]
[birds chirping]
[beeping]
[women giggling]
[robotic voice]
Targets acquired.
[body thudding]
Another day in paradise.
Looks like
we have a live one.
A doctor!
A doctor!
What's that on her wrist?
What, where?
Here?
[echoing] A doctor! A doctor!
Here?
Curious.
"Give me the pills
in my pocket"?
Oh, yes.
The pills in my pocket.
Give me the pills
in my pocket.
The pills in my pocket.
[flat ringing]
[static waves]
[static waves]
[echoing dripping]
[Infinity]
Aliens are coming.
[wind howling]
Help!
-[alien buzzing]
-[crackling]
-[alien buzzing]
-[distorted guitar music]
[serene piano melody playing]
[Arcadia] I feel like...
Wait,
I've been here before.
-What is that?
-It's my diamond.
So magnificent.
I can't believe it.
[Molly] Uh, wait.
[both chuckle]
[Arcadia]
Wow. What is that?
[both chuckle]
[Molly] It's beautiful.
It's cool.
-I can see you.
-[Arcadia] I see myself.
[Molly] I feel like
we're meant to be here.
Fellow humans,
get together.
Did you know?
[overlapping,
indistinct sentences]
[Molly chuckles] Your eye!
[Molly] What are you?
[alien buzzing]
[Emma speaking Spanish]
[shutter clicks]
[alien buzzing]
[alien machinery whirrs]
[crackling, beeping]
[seagulls cawing]
[soft static buzzing]
[loud whirring]
[electric zapping]
[suspenseful music playing]
[Ava] They left us
a piece of their sky machine.
Only we could see it.
Reality interests me
less than life.
But is life no more
than what's not there?
And is what's not there
really there?
Because I'm not here.
I'm not here.
I'm not here.
I'm not here.
[downtempo guitar music plays]
Time
As slow as we want
Illusion
of sense of time
Time
It's time to say goodbye
It's time to say goodnight
[indistinct lyrics]
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[indistinct lyrics]
[upbeat electronic music
playing]
[music stops]