OBEX (2025) Movie Script
1
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- Hello. You hungry?
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- On Friday the 13
- Oh, look.
- A television event
for all those who like to
be scared out of their wits.
For the first fiendish
time on television-
- Oh, yeah.
- "A Nightmare on Elm Street."
This is no
ordinary scary dream
this is the ultimate terror.
- Don't fall asleep.
- "A
Nightmare on Elm Street"
premiers Friday the 13th.
- Oh, we're definitely
gonna watch that.
Oh yeah.
- From
around your town
and across the country,
this is "America Today."
- Welcome to "America
Today." I'm Neal Browne.
- Huh, you ready?
Come here.
Can you sit? Can you touch?
Good girl.
Mm.
Mm.
- Even baby powder
doesn't gently
cleanse and freshen-
- Well, as we know
there are billions,
literally billions of
cicadas out there.
Listen to what they sound like.
And we're gonna be
cooking with these.
It's very difficult to believe
that people
actually do cook with
and find cicadas
extremely tasty.
What are we gonna
be making today?
- Today, we're having cicada
omelet and chili cicada.
- Well, that sounds very good.
I hope you have some
made so we can have-
- Cicada omelet.
Yeah.
Get your pens and paper
because we'll be offering
these recipes absolutely free.
Alright, first of all,
how do you kill the bugs?
- I try to
think of the best way
to kill 'em without it being a
very traumatic sort of thing.
- And actually, and
you can also see
their little, their little eyes.
I mean, they're-
- Yep. You can see
their nice little red eyes.
- Wait, do the eyes-
- Little red eyes.
You got little red eyes?
- Yeah, they
change color. Right, okay.
Here's the, here's the omelet.
Might be a little hot there-
- Listen to them.
Sound of frying cicadas
on live television.
Are you gonna freeze
them, freeze lots of them,
So you can have
a 17-year supply?
- 17 years in the earth,
and then you just
get eaten on TV.
- That's great.
- Yeah.
Why don't we stop for a moment,
go to our little break,
and when we come back,
we're gonna have some
people in our audience
who're gonna taste our cicadas.
That'll be coming up
next in just a moment.
Look what's ahead.
- Did you have a good breakfast?
Oh, should we get to work?
Okay, come on.
Hello?
- Hey, Conor, it's Mary.
- Oh, hey, Mary.
Happy Wednesday.
- Happy Wednesday.
How's it going?
- Good. You know, just working.
- Anything interesting?
- Kids, families, the usual.
- Oh, sounds great.
So I, I wanted to let you
know I might be moving.
- Oh, yeah?
- Yeah. I, I just had
my final round of interviews.
I'm supposed to know
by the end of the week.
- Oh, that's great.
Congratulations.
- Well, I
haven't gotten it yet.
- Oh, right.
- Okay, well, there
was a special on green grapes,
so I got you some of those.
- Oh, that's great,
Mary. Thanks.
- Alright, Conor.
See you next week?
- Yeah, see you next week, Mary.
There it is.
"I will draw you
with my computer."
Looks good.
"OBEX."
"A breakthrough in
interactive gaming
that puts you inside the game.
Can you make it to
the end of the maze
and defeat the demon Ixaroth
before he eats
your mortal soul?"
Film yourself from a few angles
and tell us a bit
about yourself.
What is your name?
Where are your hobbies?
Do you have a pet?" I do.
"Where do you live?
Who are you?
Using state-of-the-art
technology
we insert you into the game."
"OBEX."
Hello, my name is
Conor Thomas Marsh.
I'm sorry if you're having
trouble hearing this.
I currently have
billions of cicadas
in my backyard screaming.
I'm supposed to
tell you about myself.
There's really not
too much to tell.
I'm 36. I live in Baltimore.
This is Sandy. I don't
know how old she is.
A couple years ago she just
showed up in my backyard
and she never left.
I sure am glad you stayed.
I don't know what
I'd do without you.
I saw your ad. I love
computer games.
Recently, they've all have
been starting to feel the same.
I think I'm craving
something new.
That's why your game sounds
so interesting, "OBEX."
It's a very intriguing title.
And it's such a cool concept
putting real people into games.
It got me thinking that,
at the rate we're going,
maybe someday we'll all
be living in computers.
Even dogs.
Right, Sandy?
Do you wanna live in a computer?
Sandy says, "Yes."
Maybe you put
Sandy in the game too.
Is that really
what I sound like?
Okay. I'll do some
poses for you now.
- Hello?
- Hey Mary, it's Conor.
S- sorry to be
calling you so late.
- Hey Conor,
what's going on?
- Well, I'm here
making my dinner
and there's something
wrong with the cheese.
- Oh no. Is it moldy?
- No, no, no.
It, it's not moldy.
It's the white cheddar, I
prefer the orange cheddar.
- Oh, right.
I meant to tell you that when
I dropped off your groceries.
They were out of
the orange cheddar,
so I just got you the
white cheddar instead.
Actually, since I have you,
I wanted to let you know
that I heard back about
that job and I got it.
- Uh-huh.
- So I'm moving.
- Okay.
- Do you
need help finding
someone else to
bring your groceries?
- Oh, no, no. I, I'm okay.
- Yeah? Are you sure?
- Yeah. Yeah.
- Alright.
Have a good night, Conor.
- Uh, you too, Mary.
- George Bush
was in Baltimore today.
George Bush Jr., that is.
The Vice president's
son came to town
to announce the lineup
for his father's Maryland
presidential campaign.
Congresswoman Helen Bentley
and former
Congresswoman Marjorie Holt
were named co-chairs
for the Republican campaign.
Meanwhile, the senior
George Bush is in Poland.
The vice president made
a dramatic appearance
with solidarity leader
Lech Walesa today.
Bush concludes his
Poland visit Tomorrow
with the tour of the
Nazi concentration camps
at Auschwitz and Birkenau.
Keith Eric must,
h- he never steps in the
ring if he doesn't think
he's gonna really walk
all over the opposition.
One of his tactics we've
seen him use before,
he'll try to jump his opponent
before the bell sounds.
- How about a song, Sandy?
Here in my car
I feel safest of all
I can lock all my doors
It's the only way to live
In cars
Here in my car
I can only receive
I can listen to you
It keeps me stable for days
In cars
Here in my car
I know I started to think
About leaving tonight
Although nothing seems right
In cars
- Are you hungry?
Did you feed the goldfish today?
When we get home, I'll
start the water for you.
- I already took a bath.
- I bet you
didn't wash your hair.
You used to love when
I washed your hair.
- Are you feeling sick?
- No, I'm
feeling much better.
- You don't sound better. You
sound like you're still sick.
We'll be home soon.
- From
around your town
and across the country,
this is "America Today."
- We're glad to have you
with us on "America Today."
I'm Neal Browne.
Every year, dozens
of eagles, hawks,
and other birds of prey
are seriously injured.
Some are shot by people,
others get hit by cars or
stuck on barbed wire fences.
There are facilities
around the country
to care for those birds.
One of them is in Colorado,
Reporter Gary Shapiro and
photographer Brian Gill
take us to Boulder to
introduce us to a lady
who does more than just
care for her birds of prey.
- They're
born to be free-
- Hello?
- Hey, Conor. It's Mary.
I'm sorry for
coming by so early.
- Hey, Mary. What's going on?
- Well, I was
actually wondering
if you could check
something for me.
Is there any blood in the milk?
- What?
- Blood in the milk?
- Mary?
- Come on, Sandy.
Gonna get you. Gonna get you.
Come on.
Gimme, gimme.
Gimme that.
- January 13th, 1982.
At 4:01 on that snowy
afternoon, Air Florida Flight 90
was at the bottom of the
Washington D.C. Potomac River.
The rescue drama was about
to be played out in real time
on live television.
The Boeing 737 had collided
with the 14th Street Bridge
shortly after takeoff
from National Airport
on its way to Fort Lauderdale.
Four people laid
dead on the bridge
and America watched in disbelief
as helicopters
hovered over the river
searching for survivors.
Only five people were pulled
out of the water alive.
- I don't feel like
singing tonight, Sandy.
Goodnight.
- Do you
remember the summer
we stayed at the
beach with your aunt
and you had the kite that
was shaped like a horse?
- I loved that kite.
- Until the rope snapped
and it flew away over the ocean.
- I was so sad.
- Do you
remember what I told you?
- You said now
the horse was free
and it was going to run
all the way to heaven.
- Do you
want to go to heaven?
- Number one in
American customer satisfaction
for only $500 down
and $99 a month.
- Sandy.
Sandy. Come on.
There's nothing there.
Come on. It's movie time.
Come on.
- What'd you think?
- Hope you don't have
any bad dreams tonight.
- And now we can watch
it whenever we want.
- We'll clean up in the morning.
Come on Sandy. Let's go to bed.
Sandy?
Sandy.
Sandy?
Come on.
Sandy.
Sandy?
Sandy?
Sandy.
Sandy? Sandy?
Sandy?
Sandy.
Come on.
Sandy?
- I'll be right with you.
Oh!
- Mary?
- Hi, Conor.
- What
are you doing here?
- I work here.
This is the new job I
told you about, remember?
Are you okay?
What's going on?
- I don't know what's going
on. I just wanna find my dog.
- Okay. Okay.
Just hold on. Come.
Here. Drink this.
It's an elixir. It'll
calm you down.
There you go.
Deep breaths. Just relax.
I'll be right with you.
Stay here. Keep breathing.
I'll be right back.
How's it going?
- I need
your strongest rope.
- Here it is. What are
you gonna do with it?
- I'm setting
a trap for Ixaroth.
- Oh, well, good luck.
Are you feeling better?
- Yeah, a bit.
But something
doesn't make sense.
- Well, yeah.
Look at your watch.
Time moves differently here.
- Where am I?
This is a map of Obex?
- Mm-hmm.
So you are here. I
also have shop here.
- I've seen this before.
Concatix Castle.
- Mm-hmm.
The entrance to the
Nightmare Realm.
A truly terrible place.
Hm.
- Looks scary.
- That's where the demon
king, Ixaroth, lives.
He rules over all of Obex.
He won't stop until he's
devoured every living soul.
I'm afraid that
Ixaroth took Sandy.
- Ixaroth took Sandy?
Well then I have to go to
Concatix Castle
and get her back.
- No, not so fast.
You're gonna need supplies.
Ixaroth has placed his
minions across the land.
- Goodbye, Mary.
- Goodbye, Conor.
- You mind cutting me loose?
- Of course. Sorry.
- Say what's your name?
- Name's Conor.
- Conor. Hmm,
that's kind of familiar.
Well, I'm an RCA Victor
Model 14-S-7074G.
But you can call me Victor.
Just tell me, Conor,
where you headed?
- Concatix Castle.
- Concatix Castle?
Now why would you want to go
to a nasty place like that?
- Rescue my dog, Sandy.
- Sandy.
Yeah, I bet she's
a real good dog
if you'd go all the way
to that castle rescue her.
You ever seen "Lassie?"
- Uh-huh.
- Now
that's a good show.
I always wondered
how they get that dog
to do all that stuff.
- I'm sorry, Victor.
I have to go.
- Now hold up. You
don't wanna go that way.
- Yes I do. It's
the shortest path.
- Yeah, but
there's a better path.
It's faster and we can
listen to music on the way.
Come on, I'll show you.
- You sure?
- Sure as the
six o'clock evening news.
We just gotta make a quick
stop in the Valley of Bones.
Here it is.
This right here, the better way.
- My mom had a
car just like this.
- It's unlocked.
- Yep.
And the key should
be under the visor.
- That's were my
mom kept them too.
- It's a good
place to keep 'em.
If and when you're
boat comes home
I hope you find
you're not alone
Set yourself up
with a late, late show
- This is kind of weird, but
this car smells like my mom.
- Oh really?
What'd she smell like?
- Cigarettes.
She smoked Camels
till the day she died.
- Oh, I'm sorry, Conor.
I didn't know she'd passed.
- She was a good mom.
When I was little she
would sing lullabies
to help fall asleep.
- And what
about your dad?
- He died when I was little.
I don't have any
memories of him.
- Oh geez, I'm sorry.
- His plane crashed in the
mountains. They never found it.
- You don't say.
- It was hard on my mom.
- Yeah, I bet.
- I just hope they're
in heaven now.
- Heaven.
Now that's a nice idea.
Do you wanna know what
my idea of heaven is?
- Sure.
- So get this,
it's a real special place
where all the old televisions,
they, once they're outta
service, of course,
they just get to sit there
and they spend the rest of
their days watching people.
- Watching people?
- That's right.
Give the TVs a chance to
do some of the watching.
- Okay. I like that.
- Pretty good, right?
What about you? What's
your idea of heaven?
- Just a day at the
beach with my dog.
- With Sandy?
- Yeah.
- Do you love her?
- With all my heart.
- You're gonna get
her back. I just know it.
And when you do,
you're gonna take her
straight to the beach.
If and when,
ooh, I feel fine
- Ma'am? Are you okay?
Ma'am, are you okay?
Ma'am?
- Victor!
Victor. Victor.
Victor!
Victor.
- Mm? Why'd
we stop driving?
Conor?
- Victor.
- Conor?
Conor! Conor!
Oh, shit. Oh.
- I'm hurt.
- Oh, that
ain't good, buddy.
Okay, all right.
Come on, let's go.
I got an idea.
Come on.
You've got this.
Stay with me
buddy. Stay with me.
Just a little bit further.
Come on. You got this.
Almost there. Stay with me.
Come on. You're
gonna be alright.
Come on. Almost there.
- How long's
it supposed to take?
- It should only take
a couple minutes.
- Oh, my stars.
I really hope this works.
- It'll work.
- I don't know, Mary.
Mm. I don't know.
All that blood.
I guess I'm worried
he's gonna die.
- You know, Victor,
even if he does die,
it's not the end.
One life can take many forms.
For a caterpillar, its
life ends in darkness,
but then it emerges from a
chrysalis reborn as a butterfly.
- Conor! You're
alive.
- Mary.
- Hi, Conor.
How do you feel?
- I feel reborn.
It's locked. Is there
another way in?
- Doesn't look like it.
- Step back.
- Careful.
Ow. Fuck.
Gonna try all the combinations.
- Wait, are,
are you kidding me?
It's 10 billion possibilities.
You know how many
years that takes?
- I don't care. I
have to save Sandy.
- Conor.
Hey, it's late.
It's dark and, and we don't
know what's out there.
What we need to do, is just
get a good night's rest
and in the morning we'll
find another way in, alright?
Hey. Hey, come on now.
Look, we can get started as soon
as that sun starts to peak
through those
mountains, alright?
Buddy, don't you worry.
We're gonna get you in there.
Alright? I promise.
- Okay.
- I just
figured it out.
- The lock combination?
- No. Figured out why
your name was so familiar.
I didn't see it before,
but from this angle in
the flickerin' light,
you look just like him.
You see, there was this man
who lived alone.
He would watch me every day
when he got home
after a long day's work.
And then he met this girl
and they fell in love.
And the two of them would
watch me on Friday nights.
Before long, the
girl got pregnant
and they had a little boy.
And the three of 'em
would watch me together.
And on Saturday mornings,
the, the man would get up early
while the mom
was still sleeping.
And then the man and the boy
would watch cartoons together.
You know what that
boy's name was?
It was Conor.
Don't you see? That's why
your name was so familiar.
That little boy was you.
I was your daddy's TV.
- You were my dad's TV?
- That's right.
From what I could tell,
he was a hard worker.
He loved your mom,
and boy, he loved you.
- Victor, I'm gonna go to sleep,
and first thing in the morning,
I'm gonna wake up
and go get my dog.
- Hey, you
mind if, uh, I stay up
and watch you for a bit?
Just till I go to sleep.
- Sure, Victor. See
you in the morning.
- Victor.
Victor?
Victor!
Victor!
Victor.
Victor!
Victor!
- Time moves
differently here.
- Victor.
Ixaroth!
Where's Sandy?!
Sandy.
Sandy. Sandy.
Hang in there, Sandy.
I'm here. It's okay.
This isn't real. This
is just a nightmare.
- Hey, Conor. This
ain't no nightmare.
Your dog is dead and
you're dead.
- Watch it, Conor. Geez.
- Mary?
- You're so pathetic.
- What?
- Just get away from
me. I can't stand you.
- What's wrong?
- Grocery shopping for
you every Wednesday
was the worst part of my week.
- Mary...
- I hate you.
- Victor!
- Conor!
Make it stop, Conor.
Oh God, Conor. It hurts.
Turn it off.
- How, Victor? I don't know how.
- Unplug me.
Just unplug me!
Tender shepherd,
tender shepherd
Let me help you
count your sheep
- Mom.
One in the meadow
Two in the garden
Three in the nursery
Fast asleep
Fast asleep
- Your grandmother.
So many memories.
- I've never seen these before.
- You were a happy baby.
Until your father abandoned us.
- You mean when he died
in the plane crash?
- He didn't die
in a plane crash.
He left me for another woman.
- No, he didn't.
- Yes he did.
- That's not true.
- Yes it is.
- No it's not.
- Yes.
- No!
- Remove your skin.
- You killed my dog.
- You chose this life.
You brought this on yourself.
You put yourself into the game.
You live your miserable
life reflected in screens.
Look how pitiful you are.
- Hi, my name is Conor
Thomas Marsh. I'm 36.
I live in Baltimore and I'm
the reason my dog is dead.
Someday, we'll all
live in computers
because life outside is too sad.
I have no real friends.
Sandy was my only
friend and I killed her.
- By playing the game
you killed your dog.
- You killed my dog!
Come on, Sandy.
Let's go outside.
- Women who go
to work need sheer pantyhose
that don't gather around the
ankles-
- You hungry? Come on.
- Or sag around the knees.
New Second Skin by Anderson.
Second Skin are made from
revolutionary bare Lycra,
so they fit like a second skin.
All day long.
No matter how much bending and
stretching your job entails.
Second Skin, the
first sheer pantyhose
to benefit the working girl-
- Hello. You hungry?
- in any position
- You hungry? Mm.
- On Friday the 13
- Oh, look.
- A television event
for all those who like to
be scared out of their wits.
For the first fiendish
time on television-
- Oh, yeah.
- "A Nightmare on Elm Street."
This is no
ordinary scary dream
this is the ultimate terror.
- Don't fall asleep.
- "A
Nightmare on Elm Street"
premiers Friday the 13th.
- Oh, we're definitely
gonna watch that.
Oh yeah.
- From
around your town
and across the country,
this is "America Today."
- Welcome to "America
Today." I'm Neal Browne.
- Huh, you ready?
Come here.
Can you sit? Can you touch?
Good girl.
Mm.
Mm.
- Even baby powder
doesn't gently
cleanse and freshen-
- Well, as we know
there are billions,
literally billions of
cicadas out there.
Listen to what they sound like.
And we're gonna be
cooking with these.
It's very difficult to believe
that people
actually do cook with
and find cicadas
extremely tasty.
What are we gonna
be making today?
- Today, we're having cicada
omelet and chili cicada.
- Well, that sounds very good.
I hope you have some
made so we can have-
- Cicada omelet.
Yeah.
Get your pens and paper
because we'll be offering
these recipes absolutely free.
Alright, first of all,
how do you kill the bugs?
- I try to
think of the best way
to kill 'em without it being a
very traumatic sort of thing.
- And actually, and
you can also see
their little, their little eyes.
I mean, they're-
- Yep. You can see
their nice little red eyes.
- Wait, do the eyes-
- Little red eyes.
You got little red eyes?
- Yeah, they
change color. Right, okay.
Here's the, here's the omelet.
Might be a little hot there-
- Listen to them.
Sound of frying cicadas
on live television.
Are you gonna freeze
them, freeze lots of them,
So you can have
a 17-year supply?
- 17 years in the earth,
and then you just
get eaten on TV.
- That's great.
- Yeah.
Why don't we stop for a moment,
go to our little break,
and when we come back,
we're gonna have some
people in our audience
who're gonna taste our cicadas.
That'll be coming up
next in just a moment.
Look what's ahead.
- Did you have a good breakfast?
Oh, should we get to work?
Okay, come on.
Hello?
- Hey, Conor, it's Mary.
- Oh, hey, Mary.
Happy Wednesday.
- Happy Wednesday.
How's it going?
- Good. You know, just working.
- Anything interesting?
- Kids, families, the usual.
- Oh, sounds great.
So I, I wanted to let you
know I might be moving.
- Oh, yeah?
- Yeah. I, I just had
my final round of interviews.
I'm supposed to know
by the end of the week.
- Oh, that's great.
Congratulations.
- Well, I
haven't gotten it yet.
- Oh, right.
- Okay, well, there
was a special on green grapes,
so I got you some of those.
- Oh, that's great,
Mary. Thanks.
- Alright, Conor.
See you next week?
- Yeah, see you next week, Mary.
There it is.
"I will draw you
with my computer."
Looks good.
"OBEX."
"A breakthrough in
interactive gaming
that puts you inside the game.
Can you make it to
the end of the maze
and defeat the demon Ixaroth
before he eats
your mortal soul?"
Film yourself from a few angles
and tell us a bit
about yourself.
What is your name?
Where are your hobbies?
Do you have a pet?" I do.
"Where do you live?
Who are you?
Using state-of-the-art
technology
we insert you into the game."
"OBEX."
Hello, my name is
Conor Thomas Marsh.
I'm sorry if you're having
trouble hearing this.
I currently have
billions of cicadas
in my backyard screaming.
I'm supposed to
tell you about myself.
There's really not
too much to tell.
I'm 36. I live in Baltimore.
This is Sandy. I don't
know how old she is.
A couple years ago she just
showed up in my backyard
and she never left.
I sure am glad you stayed.
I don't know what
I'd do without you.
I saw your ad. I love
computer games.
Recently, they've all have
been starting to feel the same.
I think I'm craving
something new.
That's why your game sounds
so interesting, "OBEX."
It's a very intriguing title.
And it's such a cool concept
putting real people into games.
It got me thinking that,
at the rate we're going,
maybe someday we'll all
be living in computers.
Even dogs.
Right, Sandy?
Do you wanna live in a computer?
Sandy says, "Yes."
Maybe you put
Sandy in the game too.
Is that really
what I sound like?
Okay. I'll do some
poses for you now.
- Hello?
- Hey Mary, it's Conor.
S- sorry to be
calling you so late.
- Hey Conor,
what's going on?
- Well, I'm here
making my dinner
and there's something
wrong with the cheese.
- Oh no. Is it moldy?
- No, no, no.
It, it's not moldy.
It's the white cheddar, I
prefer the orange cheddar.
- Oh, right.
I meant to tell you that when
I dropped off your groceries.
They were out of
the orange cheddar,
so I just got you the
white cheddar instead.
Actually, since I have you,
I wanted to let you know
that I heard back about
that job and I got it.
- Uh-huh.
- So I'm moving.
- Okay.
- Do you
need help finding
someone else to
bring your groceries?
- Oh, no, no. I, I'm okay.
- Yeah? Are you sure?
- Yeah. Yeah.
- Alright.
Have a good night, Conor.
- Uh, you too, Mary.
- George Bush
was in Baltimore today.
George Bush Jr., that is.
The Vice president's
son came to town
to announce the lineup
for his father's Maryland
presidential campaign.
Congresswoman Helen Bentley
and former
Congresswoman Marjorie Holt
were named co-chairs
for the Republican campaign.
Meanwhile, the senior
George Bush is in Poland.
The vice president made
a dramatic appearance
with solidarity leader
Lech Walesa today.
Bush concludes his
Poland visit Tomorrow
with the tour of the
Nazi concentration camps
at Auschwitz and Birkenau.
Keith Eric must,
h- he never steps in the
ring if he doesn't think
he's gonna really walk
all over the opposition.
One of his tactics we've
seen him use before,
he'll try to jump his opponent
before the bell sounds.
- How about a song, Sandy?
Here in my car
I feel safest of all
I can lock all my doors
It's the only way to live
In cars
Here in my car
I can only receive
I can listen to you
It keeps me stable for days
In cars
Here in my car
I know I started to think
About leaving tonight
Although nothing seems right
In cars
- Are you hungry?
Did you feed the goldfish today?
When we get home, I'll
start the water for you.
- I already took a bath.
- I bet you
didn't wash your hair.
You used to love when
I washed your hair.
- Are you feeling sick?
- No, I'm
feeling much better.
- You don't sound better. You
sound like you're still sick.
We'll be home soon.
- From
around your town
and across the country,
this is "America Today."
- We're glad to have you
with us on "America Today."
I'm Neal Browne.
Every year, dozens
of eagles, hawks,
and other birds of prey
are seriously injured.
Some are shot by people,
others get hit by cars or
stuck on barbed wire fences.
There are facilities
around the country
to care for those birds.
One of them is in Colorado,
Reporter Gary Shapiro and
photographer Brian Gill
take us to Boulder to
introduce us to a lady
who does more than just
care for her birds of prey.
- They're
born to be free-
- Hello?
- Hey, Conor. It's Mary.
I'm sorry for
coming by so early.
- Hey, Mary. What's going on?
- Well, I was
actually wondering
if you could check
something for me.
Is there any blood in the milk?
- What?
- Blood in the milk?
- Mary?
- Come on, Sandy.
Gonna get you. Gonna get you.
Come on.
Gimme, gimme.
Gimme that.
- January 13th, 1982.
At 4:01 on that snowy
afternoon, Air Florida Flight 90
was at the bottom of the
Washington D.C. Potomac River.
The rescue drama was about
to be played out in real time
on live television.
The Boeing 737 had collided
with the 14th Street Bridge
shortly after takeoff
from National Airport
on its way to Fort Lauderdale.
Four people laid
dead on the bridge
and America watched in disbelief
as helicopters
hovered over the river
searching for survivors.
Only five people were pulled
out of the water alive.
- I don't feel like
singing tonight, Sandy.
Goodnight.
- Do you
remember the summer
we stayed at the
beach with your aunt
and you had the kite that
was shaped like a horse?
- I loved that kite.
- Until the rope snapped
and it flew away over the ocean.
- I was so sad.
- Do you
remember what I told you?
- You said now
the horse was free
and it was going to run
all the way to heaven.
- Do you
want to go to heaven?
- Number one in
American customer satisfaction
for only $500 down
and $99 a month.
- Sandy.
Sandy. Come on.
There's nothing there.
Come on. It's movie time.
Come on.
- What'd you think?
- Hope you don't have
any bad dreams tonight.
- And now we can watch
it whenever we want.
- We'll clean up in the morning.
Come on Sandy. Let's go to bed.
Sandy?
Sandy.
Sandy?
Come on.
Sandy.
Sandy?
Sandy?
Sandy.
Sandy? Sandy?
Sandy?
Sandy.
Come on.
Sandy?
- I'll be right with you.
Oh!
- Mary?
- Hi, Conor.
- What
are you doing here?
- I work here.
This is the new job I
told you about, remember?
Are you okay?
What's going on?
- I don't know what's going
on. I just wanna find my dog.
- Okay. Okay.
Just hold on. Come.
Here. Drink this.
It's an elixir. It'll
calm you down.
There you go.
Deep breaths. Just relax.
I'll be right with you.
Stay here. Keep breathing.
I'll be right back.
How's it going?
- I need
your strongest rope.
- Here it is. What are
you gonna do with it?
- I'm setting
a trap for Ixaroth.
- Oh, well, good luck.
Are you feeling better?
- Yeah, a bit.
But something
doesn't make sense.
- Well, yeah.
Look at your watch.
Time moves differently here.
- Where am I?
This is a map of Obex?
- Mm-hmm.
So you are here. I
also have shop here.
- I've seen this before.
Concatix Castle.
- Mm-hmm.
The entrance to the
Nightmare Realm.
A truly terrible place.
Hm.
- Looks scary.
- That's where the demon
king, Ixaroth, lives.
He rules over all of Obex.
He won't stop until he's
devoured every living soul.
I'm afraid that
Ixaroth took Sandy.
- Ixaroth took Sandy?
Well then I have to go to
Concatix Castle
and get her back.
- No, not so fast.
You're gonna need supplies.
Ixaroth has placed his
minions across the land.
- Goodbye, Mary.
- Goodbye, Conor.
- You mind cutting me loose?
- Of course. Sorry.
- Say what's your name?
- Name's Conor.
- Conor. Hmm,
that's kind of familiar.
Well, I'm an RCA Victor
Model 14-S-7074G.
But you can call me Victor.
Just tell me, Conor,
where you headed?
- Concatix Castle.
- Concatix Castle?
Now why would you want to go
to a nasty place like that?
- Rescue my dog, Sandy.
- Sandy.
Yeah, I bet she's
a real good dog
if you'd go all the way
to that castle rescue her.
You ever seen "Lassie?"
- Uh-huh.
- Now
that's a good show.
I always wondered
how they get that dog
to do all that stuff.
- I'm sorry, Victor.
I have to go.
- Now hold up. You
don't wanna go that way.
- Yes I do. It's
the shortest path.
- Yeah, but
there's a better path.
It's faster and we can
listen to music on the way.
Come on, I'll show you.
- You sure?
- Sure as the
six o'clock evening news.
We just gotta make a quick
stop in the Valley of Bones.
Here it is.
This right here, the better way.
- My mom had a
car just like this.
- It's unlocked.
- Yep.
And the key should
be under the visor.
- That's were my
mom kept them too.
- It's a good
place to keep 'em.
If and when you're
boat comes home
I hope you find
you're not alone
Set yourself up
with a late, late show
- This is kind of weird, but
this car smells like my mom.
- Oh really?
What'd she smell like?
- Cigarettes.
She smoked Camels
till the day she died.
- Oh, I'm sorry, Conor.
I didn't know she'd passed.
- She was a good mom.
When I was little she
would sing lullabies
to help fall asleep.
- And what
about your dad?
- He died when I was little.
I don't have any
memories of him.
- Oh geez, I'm sorry.
- His plane crashed in the
mountains. They never found it.
- You don't say.
- It was hard on my mom.
- Yeah, I bet.
- I just hope they're
in heaven now.
- Heaven.
Now that's a nice idea.
Do you wanna know what
my idea of heaven is?
- Sure.
- So get this,
it's a real special place
where all the old televisions,
they, once they're outta
service, of course,
they just get to sit there
and they spend the rest of
their days watching people.
- Watching people?
- That's right.
Give the TVs a chance to
do some of the watching.
- Okay. I like that.
- Pretty good, right?
What about you? What's
your idea of heaven?
- Just a day at the
beach with my dog.
- With Sandy?
- Yeah.
- Do you love her?
- With all my heart.
- You're gonna get
her back. I just know it.
And when you do,
you're gonna take her
straight to the beach.
If and when,
ooh, I feel fine
- Ma'am? Are you okay?
Ma'am, are you okay?
Ma'am?
- Victor!
Victor. Victor.
Victor!
Victor.
- Mm? Why'd
we stop driving?
Conor?
- Victor.
- Conor?
Conor! Conor!
Oh, shit. Oh.
- I'm hurt.
- Oh, that
ain't good, buddy.
Okay, all right.
Come on, let's go.
I got an idea.
Come on.
You've got this.
Stay with me
buddy. Stay with me.
Just a little bit further.
Come on. You got this.
Almost there. Stay with me.
Come on. You're
gonna be alright.
Come on. Almost there.
- How long's
it supposed to take?
- It should only take
a couple minutes.
- Oh, my stars.
I really hope this works.
- It'll work.
- I don't know, Mary.
Mm. I don't know.
All that blood.
I guess I'm worried
he's gonna die.
- You know, Victor,
even if he does die,
it's not the end.
One life can take many forms.
For a caterpillar, its
life ends in darkness,
but then it emerges from a
chrysalis reborn as a butterfly.
- Conor! You're
alive.
- Mary.
- Hi, Conor.
How do you feel?
- I feel reborn.
It's locked. Is there
another way in?
- Doesn't look like it.
- Step back.
- Careful.
Ow. Fuck.
Gonna try all the combinations.
- Wait, are,
are you kidding me?
It's 10 billion possibilities.
You know how many
years that takes?
- I don't care. I
have to save Sandy.
- Conor.
Hey, it's late.
It's dark and, and we don't
know what's out there.
What we need to do, is just
get a good night's rest
and in the morning we'll
find another way in, alright?
Hey. Hey, come on now.
Look, we can get started as soon
as that sun starts to peak
through those
mountains, alright?
Buddy, don't you worry.
We're gonna get you in there.
Alright? I promise.
- Okay.
- I just
figured it out.
- The lock combination?
- No. Figured out why
your name was so familiar.
I didn't see it before,
but from this angle in
the flickerin' light,
you look just like him.
You see, there was this man
who lived alone.
He would watch me every day
when he got home
after a long day's work.
And then he met this girl
and they fell in love.
And the two of them would
watch me on Friday nights.
Before long, the
girl got pregnant
and they had a little boy.
And the three of 'em
would watch me together.
And on Saturday mornings,
the, the man would get up early
while the mom
was still sleeping.
And then the man and the boy
would watch cartoons together.
You know what that
boy's name was?
It was Conor.
Don't you see? That's why
your name was so familiar.
That little boy was you.
I was your daddy's TV.
- You were my dad's TV?
- That's right.
From what I could tell,
he was a hard worker.
He loved your mom,
and boy, he loved you.
- Victor, I'm gonna go to sleep,
and first thing in the morning,
I'm gonna wake up
and go get my dog.
- Hey, you
mind if, uh, I stay up
and watch you for a bit?
Just till I go to sleep.
- Sure, Victor. See
you in the morning.
- Victor.
Victor?
Victor!
Victor!
Victor.
Victor!
Victor!
- Time moves
differently here.
- Victor.
Ixaroth!
Where's Sandy?!
Sandy.
Sandy. Sandy.
Hang in there, Sandy.
I'm here. It's okay.
This isn't real. This
is just a nightmare.
- Hey, Conor. This
ain't no nightmare.
Your dog is dead and
you're dead.
- Watch it, Conor. Geez.
- Mary?
- You're so pathetic.
- What?
- Just get away from
me. I can't stand you.
- What's wrong?
- Grocery shopping for
you every Wednesday
was the worst part of my week.
- Mary...
- I hate you.
- Victor!
- Conor!
Make it stop, Conor.
Oh God, Conor. It hurts.
Turn it off.
- How, Victor? I don't know how.
- Unplug me.
Just unplug me!
Tender shepherd,
tender shepherd
Let me help you
count your sheep
- Mom.
One in the meadow
Two in the garden
Three in the nursery
Fast asleep
Fast asleep
- Your grandmother.
So many memories.
- I've never seen these before.
- You were a happy baby.
Until your father abandoned us.
- You mean when he died
in the plane crash?
- He didn't die
in a plane crash.
He left me for another woman.
- No, he didn't.
- Yes he did.
- That's not true.
- Yes it is.
- No it's not.
- Yes.
- No!
- Remove your skin.
- You killed my dog.
- You chose this life.
You brought this on yourself.
You put yourself into the game.
You live your miserable
life reflected in screens.
Look how pitiful you are.
- Hi, my name is Conor
Thomas Marsh. I'm 36.
I live in Baltimore and I'm
the reason my dog is dead.
Someday, we'll all
live in computers
because life outside is too sad.
I have no real friends.
Sandy was my only
friend and I killed her.
- By playing the game
you killed your dog.
- You killed my dog!
Come on, Sandy.
Let's go outside.