Spontaneous (2020) Movie Script
1
[Spiros] Okay, the right combination
is to say X is one of those,
and two of these.
Um. Well, let's take
the equation number two.
If I make a picture that satisfies
all the X, Y, Z points
that solve this equation,
well, first of all, the origin
is not one of them.
X, Y, Z, it being zero, zero, zero,
would not solve it.
So, what are some of the points
that do solve it?
Now, let's see maybe if X is one and--
-[bursting explosion]
-[students gasp]
[Mara] Katelyn Ogden was a lot of things,
but she wasn't particularly explosive
[screams]
-[students clamoring]
-in any sense of the word.
-[Mara] She was a sundress of a person.
-[soft electronic music playing]
-[Mara] Cute, airy, inoffensive.
-[camera shutter clicks]
[Mara] And she was quickly becoming
the Dalton twins' number one
-marijuana customer at Covington High.
-[laughs]
[Mara] But that's hardly a reason
to pop like a zit.
-[students clamoring]
-[sobbing] She's all over me!
[Mara] Spraying all over us.
-I wasn't close with Katelyn.
-[camera shutter clicks]
[Mara] She was just,
you know, a classmate.
Someone I sat behind
or passed in the halls every day
-from kindergarten to senior year.
-[camera shutter clicks]
-[Mara] We ran in different circles.
-[camera shutter clicks]
[Mara] But lots of people liked her.
Guys especially.
I was gonna ask her to prom.
[whimpers] She was so hot.
I even narrowed down motel room options
to two choices. [whimpers]
She was so open-minded.
[Mara] Jed Hayes was particularly crushed.
-[school bell ringing]
-[students clamoring]
-Mara!
-[Mara] Oh, my God, Tess!
-What what happened?
-Katelyn exploded.
-What? Like a bomb?
-No. Like a balloon.
What?
Oh, my God, your shoes.
[Mara] Everyone quickly realized
Katelyn Ogden was not a suicide bomber.
Seeing as the only thing
that blew up was Katelyn Ogden.
Her desk remained unscathed
by the Ogdenblast.
[inspectors groan]
[Mara] The only damage her clothes took
was cosmetic.
[inspector 1] This isn't right.
She was just a kid.
[Mara] It wasn't right.
She was just a kid.
-[inspector 1 groans]
-[inspector 2] This is fucking disgusting.
[Mara] And it was very fucking disgusting.
After the unprecedented event,
all of our third-period class
got taken to the police station,
-which was very exciting.
-[sobbing]
[Mara] We got asked
a lot of important questions like
Did Katelyn ever say anything suspicious?
About wanting to blow up? All the time.
I was kidding.
Then they took all our clothes,
and let us shower.
-Uh. Will I get these back?
-Do you want these back?
[Mara] I only washed my hair.
Then they gave us a bunch of ugly-as-shit
sweat suits and made us wait.
-[vending machine rattles]
-[Mara sighing]
-[music concludes]
-[telephone ringing in distance]
-It was like a Cronenberg movie.
-[chuckles]
What do you think happened?
-Aliens?
-It wasn't aliens, bro.
[Harper] I'm just saying.
She was there, then she wasn't.
It's not fair. She was so nice.
I was gonna ask her to prom.
She was very open-minded.
When the hell are they gonna let us
out of here?
When they know
it's not gonna happen again.
When what's gonna happen again?
[imitates explosion]
[whimpers]
[coughs, retches]
[Mara] It happened again.
-It happened again a lot.
-[Becky coughs]
["It Happened Again" playing]
I'm not going to school tomorrow.
No shit, sweetheart.
[song fades]
-[Angela] Are you hungry?
-No, not really.
-[Angela] Do do you wanna talk?
-I think I just wanna go to bed.
Okay, kiddo.
-You know, we thought it was a shooter.
-[sighs] Dad--
We we didn't have any information.
They didn't tell us anything. And, uh
I'm just trying to say
that we're so glad you're okay.
And that your classmates are just
regular assholes and not evil.
That is a silver lining. [chuckles softly]
Good night.
-[lighter flicks]
-["Recite Remorse" playing]
[Mara exhales]
[cell phone chimes]
-Huh?
-[screen tapping]
[cell phone chimes]
-[cell phone chimes]
-[chuckles]
-[laughs]
-[screen tapping]
[song concludes]
["Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye"
playing]
[screen tapping]
I loved you in the morning
Our kisses deep and warm
Your hair upon the pillow
Like a sleepy, golden storm, yes
Many loved before us
We know that they are not new
In cities and in forests they smiled
-Is this song
-Yeah, it is definitely sexual.
And now, we've come to distances and
Right on.
[song continues]
I always wondered what happens
to those when someone dies.
-[exhales deeply] Fuck me. I need drugs.
-[song concludes]
Shrooms?
-Ooh. Shrooms?
-No.
Yeah. It's like weed, but a fungi.
I've never had shrooms.
Well, I honestly cannot think
of a better time to start.
It's a terrible time to start.
I would love to start.
-["Lost In Love (Vox)" playing]
-[chuckles]
You're gonna make yourself sick.
Nuh-uh. You brew 'em in liquid
so that you don't get sick.
That's what Native Americans do.
-In pumpkin spice lattes?
-Yeah. Pumpkins, Thanksgiving, duh.
-Duh.
-[chuckles]
-Here.
-[Mara gasps]
-Oh, my God. I fucking love it. [chuckles]
-[song fades]
[Mara] Tess McNulty and I
have been best friends
since elementary school.
-Will you be my best friend forever?
-Obviously.
[soft electronic music playing]
[Mara] When Tess's shitbrain dad
walked out on her and her mom,
-we spent a few days at the beach.
-[seagulls squawking]
[Mara] And we saw
these baller old chicks in kimonos
smoking a hookah
with their toes in the sand.
Let's do this.
-[Mara] It remains our life plan.
-[music concludes]
-To Katelyn.
-To Katelyn.
["Lost In Love (Vox)" resumes]
No. No. Stop! Stop!
-Mm.
-This is-- Put
-[cup clatters]
-[Mara gags]
-Are you done?
-[exhales]
[sighs] I didn't know Katelyn
that well beyond social media.
Yeah, I know. Me neither.
-Did she get into college yet?
-[Tess] I don't know.
I know she wanted
to be a journalist, though.
Oh, we have too many
excellent journalists as it is.
Did Katelyn at least get laid
before [smacks lips] everything?
-Oh, yeah. She was a total slut.
-[chuckles] You know what? Good for her!
I agree! Get it while the getting is good.
The only downside is high school boys.
I know. I cannot wait to be old.
-[laughs]
-I can't wait to be a cougar.
I'm gonna be like,
"Come hither, young man,
and pleasure me eagerly."
[chuckles wickedly]
Hey, mind if I join you guys?
Tess, don't look now,
but there's a boy staring at us.
-I think he's staring at you.
-Oh, right you are.
-Hey, Dylan.
-Hey, Mara.
-Hey, Tess.
-Hi, Dylan.
Thanks.
-How you guys doing?
-[Mara] All right.
Definitely the best memorial service
I've ever been to.
-Best funeral too.
-Second best for me. My dad's was better.
-Well, holy shit, Dylan.
-Oh, it's okay.
The Ogdens can just try harder next time.
-Well, holy shit, Dylan.
-Am I bombing this banter thing?
Like the end of Dr. Strangelove.
Don't you think that movie
is kinda ruined now?
Yeah, I kinda do.
-What's going on?
-Yeah, actually, what is going on?
Oh, I thought talking to you
at the funeral might be icky.
-Icky?
-It's an adjective.
Yeah, I know it's an adj
Oh! Holy shit! You're the guy.
You have a crush on me.
-Hello.
-[Tess] What's going on?
This is the guy. This is Dick Pic Dylan.
-Ew! You sent her a dick pic?
-No, that would be gross!
He sent me pictures of Richard's.
-That's worse.
-[chuckles] How is that worse?
-Why did you text me that?
-The Richards?
No. The declarative statement.
Katelyn exploded
in the middle of pre-calc,
and it got me thinking about life
in an ironic way.
And what would happen
if I popped, you know?
And then you said it might happen again,
and I was like, "I gotta get shit done,
in case she's right."
[chuckles softly]
Do you wanna go
to the ladies' room with me?
-Uh
-Come on. It'll be fun.
She's gonna go to the bathroom
and throw up because she just drank
a shitload of mushrooms,
and she wants you to hold her hair back.
[snaps fingers]
-Oh, in that case
-[song concludes]
[retches]
[groans, inhales sharply]
I'm not usually like this.
I can usually really hold my drugs.
[chuckles] Also, I usually never do drugs.
[Dylan chuckles]
We live in strange and unusual times.
[chuckles] That is so true. [exhales]
-[soft music playing]
-[Mara giggling]
There are a lot of you.
-[Mara giggling]
-How many?
I'll throw up if I count,
but more than one.
[chuckles] That's awesome.
-You should make out.
-All right. [chuckles]
-How do I do that?
-With your tongues.
Oh, shit.
[groans, sniffs]
[exhales]
I saw Katelyn's dad
scratch her stick figure sticker
off the back of his car.
I always wondered what happens
to those when someone dies.
-What happens is I get shroomed.
-[Dylan chuckles]
-Hey, did you see Katelyn
-Go boom? No.
-Did you?
-I only heard it.
It's weird being right there
and missing it.
[gasps] Like, I'm sad I missed it,
and that makes me feel terrible.
Yeah. Yeah, no,
it must be so invigorating.
Invigorating.
-Oh, okay.
-[Mara groans, retches]
[belches, retches]
-You okay?
-Mm-hmm.
[music concludes]
[both chuckle]
-Thanks for saying you liked me.
-Sure.
Hey, would you wanna come with me
to the homecoming game?
[soft music playing]
What?
I'm trying to think of a reason to say no.
[chuckles, clicks tongue]
-I could give you some.
-Shoot.
-Well, maybe just homecoming sucks?
-Yeah, but it's fun to make fun of.
-Plus, Halloween.
-Hmm. Yeah, okay.
Then maybe I'm just a guy
who is interested in grief-induced sex.
Way sluttier girls than me, though.
Probably wouldn't stick around
while I hurled either.
True.
Well, maybe you just don't really know me.
But I do know you.
-Oh, yeah?
-[Mara] Yeah.
You're in a bunch of my classes.
You're a movie nerd
Pretty cute.
Your dad died
when a bunch of manure fell on him.
Oh, my God. I'm so sorry.
I just realized I said that out loud.
[chuckling] Now, you have to come
to the game with me.
-I really do.
-[laughs]
-I'm so sorry.
-No, it's okay. It's okay.
I-- I blame the shrooms.
-Okay. Yes. Thank you.
-[chuckles]
My dad was a farmer.
But he died of a heart attack.
The rumor of him
being crushed to death by shit is false.
And impossible, if you've seen
any Back to the Future movie.
-Kids are cruel. I'm I'm really sorry.
-It's okay.
We're all cruel.
Today was weird.
Tonight was all right.
Yeah. Tonight was all right.
[music concludes]
This isn't gonna become
a regular thing, right?
The intoxication?
No. No. I just needed [sighs]
I don't know what I needed.
Have you cried yet?
Have you?
I cry all the time.
[Mara] It's just not the same
without the blood.
[soft electronic music playing]
[Mara] I just look
like a stupid prom queen.
I should have just dressed up
as a sexy witch too.
I'm just a normal witch.
I'm not even cleavage-y.
[scoffs] Girl, your sexiness
is unavoidable.
[indistinct chatter]
Shit. They've built her a shrine.
[chuckles] Hey, there's Dick Pic.
Hello, Quaker Oats.
-Oh, are you supposed to be Carrie?
-Yes! Oh, my God. Thank you!
Yeah. No, it's great.
I mean, it would have been really cool--
-Don't say it.
-I know. Katelyn fucked it up.
[teens gasp]
-I mean, she didn't intentionally--
-You're making it worse.
[sighs]
-Your hat
-[Mara chuckles]
-Hey, will you stop?
-[grunts]
I don't know you that well.
-[Tess screams, laughs]
-[Dylan] Okay.
-[laughs]
-[chuckles]
[inhales sharply]
-So, what gives, Hipster Oats?
-[music concludes]
-Our football team are the Quakers.
-[chuckles] No, not your costume.
-The crush you say you have on me.
-[chuckles softly]
I want, like
a timeline.
-[uplifting music playing]
-So
First day of school.
New town after my dad died.
First time I saw you
was right after Spiros introduced me
in front of the class.
You must be Dylan. Welcome.
Class, I'd like for you
to meet Mr. Dylan Hovemeyer.
He's new here.
So, please, don't be yourselves.
Be nice.
[hisses]
It was a good first impression.
[chuckles softly] A few weeks later,
I saw you at the Moonlight.
And when Jed tried wrapping
his arm around you
[screams, groans]
And then on the day after the election
-[blows whistle]
-Mara, why are you wearing that?
Because I'm motherfucking grieving.
You got detention for the profanity.
Motherfucking worth it.
It's clich,
but you wrote a poem last spring
that made me feel like you understood me,
even though we barely talked.
I friended you on Facebook afterwards.
I looked at your pictures sometimes.
I even gave you my number,
but I think you forgot
or never saved it in your phone.
I hoped we'd run into each other
during the summer, but never did.
And then it was senior year,
and I thought, "Why try?"
"We're going to college."
And that made me sad,
because you seemed so cool and original.
-But then
-[bursting explosion]
-[school bell ringing]
-[students clamoring]
[gasps]
When Katelyn died,
I didn't see you anywhere.
You had two backpacks.
One of them was hers.
-[music concludes]
-[Dylan panting]
-[soft music playing]
-Are you okay?
-I I don't know what to do with this.
-[panting] I can take care of it for you.
[Becky] When what happens again?
[Mara imitates explosion]
And when you said it might happen again,
I thought, "Whoa!"
"Maybe I've been wasting my entire life
preparing for a year
that may never come for me."
So, fuck it.
I'm gonna tell you how I feel.
I'm gonna spend my savings on a car.
I'm not gonna be scared anymore. I'm not
[music concludes]
Hey, are are you even listening to me?
-[crowd cheering]
-Oh, yeah.
Sorry. No. [chuckles]
Seriously, that was wonderful.
I don't want you to think
I was not paying attention. I--
'Cause it kind of looks like you're just
taking pictures of the game. [laughs]
[laughs] No! No.
Not of the game. Never of the game.
I'm waiting
for the "We Love Cocks" moment.
I would have never guessed
that was what was about to be said.
-[chuckles]
-[chuckles] Okay. Look.
Every game, Harper Wie,
Perry Love, and Steve Cox,
for just one brief moment,
line up for the "We Love Cocks" moment.
-That's so immature. [chuckles]
-[chuckles] It really is.
-[soft music playing]
-[chuckles]
I have a moment for you
where I knew I liked you.
[chuckles] You like me?
Maybe.
It was, like, forever ago,
and I was just chilling,
and then you looked me in the eye
and you said, "Mara
we love cocks."
Mara
we love cocks.
-[bursting explosion]
-[crowd gasps, clamors]
Did something happen?
[boy] What? Shit, man!
[crowd clamoring]
[somber music playing]
[gasps]
[Mara] Perry Love was that guy
that just made everything better.
He was like air conditioning.
And then he was news. We all became news.
The popping was given the sexy moniker
of "The Covington Curse." [scoffs]
Stupid fucking curse.
By the way, Perry Love was gay.
I didn't even know that
until the memorial.
And when my bro came out to us
in sixth grade,
we loved him.
-[whispering] Oh, come on.
-Because he was our best bro.
And we're progressive like that.
Our boy
our boy was too much rock
for this world, bitch!
[all cheering]
[Mara] It was a nice moment.
Of course, what we didn't know
at the time was
-School's canceled.
-[music fades]
For how long?
But we're just gonna keep applying
to colleges.
So, you'll be all set
once this blows over.
Well, at least now you can't say,
"Things were so much harder
back in my day."
[chuckles softly] You're right.
You have it way worse.
[crickets chirping]
[sniffles]
[vehicle approaching]
[upbeat song playing over stereo]
-[music stops]
-[Mara] Oh, my God.
Of course, you don't drive a Hyundai
or something like that.
It reminded me of this Springsteen song.
-Which one?
-The one about the milk truck driver.
There's a Springsteen song
about a milk truck driver?
Guess you'll have to find out.
-I swear to God, I'm never gonna find out.
-I just bought it today.
-[chuckles] Why?
-[Dylan chuckles]
Uh. I was saving up for a college car,
but then I thought,
"I might die tomorrow."
-So, I went to the dealer.
-Of milk trucks.
And I saw it, and I laughed, and I thought
other people would laugh too.
It was cheap. So, why not?
Just get me through till graduation, baby.
-That should be our school slogan.
-[chuckles] It really should.
-You ready to go?
-In your milk truck?
Fuck, yeah.
-Fuck, no! We are never forgetting them!
-[indistinct chatter]
-Whoo!
-[crowd cheers]
[loud hip-hop music plays]
-I love you, bro.
-[Harper] I love you too, man.
I love you guys too. Hey. [chuckles]
-I really need this drink. Can I take it?
-Why?
-Please? Please. Please.
-Why, why, why?
I'm gonna grab it.
-Okay. Okay. Have fun.
-[indistinct chatter]
You wanna go for a walk?
I love walks.
-[gulps]
-How's your drink?
-[inhales sharply] It's very tequila-y.
-[chuckles]
-[groans]
-Wait, are you drinking
Yeah, you're drinking straight tequila.
I mean, no.
-[chuckles] I'm just drinking beer.
-Drink big, bro!
Wait. Wait, wait, wait. [gasps]
What if alcohol is what makes it happen?
-[gasps] No!
-No!
-[both laugh]
-[cup clatters]
[cup clatters]
-[both laugh]
-[soft music playing]
-What do you think does?
-Um. [chuckles] I don't know.
-That's not good enough!
-Well, I don't!
It's the cosmic bullshit
of the universe, right?
-Lame.
-I'm sorry. [chuckles]
I'm writing this book
called All the Feels.
It's about this guy
who, when he touches people,
he takes all their feelings,
and then they die.
I just wanted you to know
something about me no one else does.
-[chuckles softly] Are you drunk?
-Oh. Dude, yeah.
-Are you?
-No.
-[chuckles]
-How many cups have you had?
-[chuckles] I don't know. Oh, shit.
-[chuckles]
-[chuckles]
-[sighs] Tell me something, just for me.
Okay, well, um, after my dad died,
I would go to this old barn
with a tape player and dance by myself.
Like, to Bon Jovi. [chuckles]
Yeah, I'd just cry, and dance,
and then rewind [chuckles]
and cry, and dance.
That's the saddest thing I've ever heard.
-And people are literally blowing up.
-[chuckles]
Actually, uh, they're not just people.
They're seniors.
-Is that true?
-Yeah.
Also, we stopped walking.
-[inhales sharply] The shocks keep coming.
-[chuckles]
I really wanna kiss you, man.
Yeah?
Yeah.
[breathing heavily]
[crowd cheering in the distance]
[grumbles, chuckles]
We should--
We should probably go, right?
No.
-You taste like tequila. [chuckles]
-[chuckles]
-[crowd clamoring]
-[music fades]
-[upbeat song playing]
-Oh, God. [breathes deeply]
Fuck me.
[sighs]
[camera shutter clicks]
[song concludes]
[Rosetti] Special Agent Rosetti.
Thank you, ladies, for coming in.
Let me be the first to say,
I'm I'm truly sorry.
-It's okay.
-Yeah. I mean, it could be worse, right?
We could be Republicans.
-[laughs]
-[Mara chuckles]
That was funny.
Thank you.
So, you ladies blow people up?
Uh. No, ma'am.
Do you do you think
there's someone killing everyone?
I think we've effectively ruled that out.
I mean, unless there's a mad scientist
or a warlock on the loose.
Kids are literally blowing up. So, I mean,
that could be a possibility, right?
If you believe in warlocks.
I don't know what I believe anymore.
Do you have any idea
why it's happening, though?
At the moment, no.
But we're close to figuring it out.
[clicks tongue] Or so I'm told.
Wait. So, what you're saying is,
we're we're fucked.
No. What I'm saying is that I need help.
Listen. Everyone's scared,
and scared people all want the same thing.
Which is?
To survive.
-Right.
-Yeah.
-We would actually love to survive.
-Yeah. That'd be sick.
Good. So, bring me something.
Uh. What do you want?
[Jenna laughing]
Drugs?
-That's what she said.
-[chuckles]
She thinks drugs is making us pop?
I think it's less accusational and more,
"What the holy fuck is going on?"
"Let's rule shit out-onal."
So, you're not gonna tell
this Scully wannabe they came from us?
Girl, do I look
like Benicio Del Toro to you?
[laughs] I don't know what that means.
-I don't either.
-[Jenna laughs]
-I need to rewatch Traffic.
-[laughs]
[clears throat] We're gonna sidebar.
-Do your thing.
-Okay.
[whispering] What? What do you think?
[whispering] I think
we gotta get rid of them.
I got her to go for it too.
-Okay. It's done. [clears throat]
-All right?
All right, we're we're down.
What do you want?
That's the best part.
America's reimbursing me.
-So, you're buying
-Everything.
[both laugh]
-God bless America!
-I, uh Okay. I'm gonna get the keys.
-[chuckles]
-[Mara] Keys?
Oh. We don't keep our shit at home.
[Jenna] Mm-mm.
-[swing music playing over stereo]
-We hide it.
Never know when the feds
are gonna fuck ya.
-I I have a question.
-Suitcase related?
Suitcase related.
Leaving Jersey tomorrow.
-Yeah. Getting the fuck outta Dodge.
-Oh.
-Do you guys think it's Covington?
-I don't know what it is.
But I also don't really wanna find out.
So, how you been holding up
during all this garbage?
Hanging in, yo.
Started making out with a real sweet boy.
-[Jenna] What?
-No shit! Who?
-Hovemeyer. [chuckles]
-[Joe and Jenna laugh]
-[Jenna] Yes! Oh, my God.
-Oh, you know, the world is a cra--
[bursting explosion]
[distorted rumbling]
-[crashes]
-[both scream]
Fuck! Go! Go! Go!
-[sobbing] It's flooded with Joe.
-[Mara] Hurry! Jenna, come on!
-[car horn honking]
-[groans] Wait. I can't see anything.
[sobbing] I can't--
-Put your foot on the brake.
-His shoes are there.
I'll move his shoes. Just steer.
-[Jenna] Can't--
-[bursting explosion]
-[gasps]
-[silence]
[old folk music playing]
[old folk music playing over stereo]
[Dylan pants]
[soft tense music playing]
[Dylan] Mara!
Mara!
Mara!
Mara! [pants] Mara.
[music fades]
-[Dylan] Are you okay? Are you okay?
-[Mara panting]
[soft music playing]
-[Dylan] Are you okay?
-[breathing heavily]
[Dylan] Where's Joe and Jenna?
-I think they're dead.
-[Dylan] They are?
I tried to get them off,
but they won't come out of me.
-They won't come out of my clothes.
-I thought it was
I thought it was you.
[music concludes]
-No. Dude, the sweat suit?
-Sorry, I just didn't have time to think.
I'm not wearing this.
Hey, I called Rosetti.
Smart.
What was it like?
It
it really fucking sucked.
[eerie music playing]
[Mara chuckles]
What the hell is this E.T. bullshit?
-Hey. Hey. Hey. [grunts]
-Hey, get your fucking hands off of him!
-Hey, get your fucking hands off-- Hey!
-[Dylan] Hey, don't grab her!
-[Mara] Get your--
-Put her down!
-Get your fucking hands off of me!
-Stop! Mara!
Get your fucking hands
off of me right now!
-[Dylan] Mara!
-I said, get off!
-[music stops]
-[lights buzzing]
[woman] Mara, I'm Dr. Rolanda.
We're here to help you, okay?
Help yourself, lady.
[breathes heavily]
[groans, breathes heavily]
[groans, breathes heavily]
-[doctor whispering indistinctly]
-Okay.
[doctor] This is just gonna be monitoring
your vitals. That's all it is.
[doctor] We're just gonna do
a little bit of blood work.
And just making sure
that everything is normalized.
Then we're gonna get you
out of here in no time.
Okay, okay.
[doctor] All right. It's okay.
It's okay.
"E.T."
[breathes heavily]
"Elliott."
"E.T."
"Elliott."
[Mara] "E.T."
"Elliott!"
"E.T.!"
[EKG monitor beeping]
Hey, Mara.
Mara.
Hey. [chuckles]
[Mara] Yo.
Where are we?
I don't know.
But I think they're doing tests on us.
The whole class is here.
They asked me a bunch of questions.
Like what?
[Dylan] Like what I've had to eat
and drink in the past couple months.
And the places I've visited.
And my list of sexual partners.
What did you say?
I just told them,
"Your mom."
-[Dylan laughs]
-[laughs] Nice.
-I knew you'd like that one.
-Mm-hmm.
[soft music playing]
Have you ever done it?
Are you gonna ask me?
I don't actually care.
You don't?
No. Just don't, like, screw anyone
while you're my girlfriend.
Am I your girlfriend?
-Are you?
-Am I?
Do you wanna be my girlfriend?
[inhales deeply]
I guess, that would be fine.
Cool.
What's gonna happen to us now?
-I think we just, you know, date.
-[chuckles softly]
-No, I meant in this plastic world.
-Oh.
I I think
this is our life now.
-[chuckles softly]
-[Mara sighs]
[music concludes]
[soft electronic music playing]
[Mara] So, our beloved government
quarantined us in tents,
trying to make pills that would keep
our blood inside our bodies.
It was a blast.
What's your name for the record, please?
Mara Carlyle.
Cox. Steve Cox.
-Cole.
-[Dr. Rolanda] Cole what?
Cole wants a lawyer.
-How old are you, Becky?
-Seventeen.
-Seventeen.
-I'm 17.
Not for long.
[Dr. Rolanda] What can you tell me
about Katelyn Ogden?
She was hot.
I'd tap it.
I was gonna take her to prom.
Tell me about Perry Love.
He was hot.
Tap that too.
[Dr. Rolanda] What did you dream
about last night?
Doughnuts.
You can ask my lawyer.
-[Dr. Rolanda] Do you get angry, Becky?
-Yeah, I'm angry all the time.
-[Dr. Rolanda] Are you angry right now?
-Fuck, yeah.
What is it you want to do in college?
Stay alive.
[Mara] At least we were comfortable.
-[Tess groans] So uncomfortable.
-[music concludes]
[sighs] Always smells weird in here.
Like feet and cinnamon buns.
[chuckles] Yeah, more feet.
You okay?
What if it happens to you?
It won't.
-[Tess] How do you know that?
-[chuckles softly]
Promise?
-I can't promise you.
-[Tess] No, why? Just promise me.
Promise or I'll scream.
-[imitates shriek]
-[laughs]
-Stop it.
-[Tess] Promise. Please.
It'll be fine.
That's not very convincing.
But if you go, like, I'm coming.
-And if I go, I'm taking you too.
-[laughs]
I'm serious.
We're being roomies down there.
'Cause we both know
we're not going up there.
-[chuckles] I'm fucking down.
-[laughs]
I love you. Oh, my God.
-I love you too.
-Down to that.
-[clicks tongue]
-[inhales]
[both whispering] Pow!
[characters on TV grunting]
[Mara] I am so bored!
[sighs] I'm so bored!
How long do we have to stay
in this condom?
A while, I think.
At least we know we're super healthy.
-We should try to break out.
-I already tried that.
[Harper] Why would we try and break out?
I got here as soon as I heard
about this place.
This is where they're going to cure us.
Those conservative weirdos with the signs,
they said that we were cursed.
Everyone's online trying to figure out
why it's happening and who's next.
-Whose fault do they think it is?
-Bro, it's no one's fault.
But if it's a curse, it's someone's fault.
But, bro, there's no curse!
-[chuckles]
-I don't care why it's happening.
-I just want to figure out how to stop it.
-Maybe we just have to graduate.
I'm, like, looking at you right now,
and really feel like we should make out.
Stop.
-[Tess] Stop making that face.
-What face?
[moans softly]
[breathing heavily]
[chuckles]
Hey. How are you doing?
-[chuckles] Right now?
-[chuckles]
No. I I mean, like, with the Daltons
and everything.
-Can we talk about it later?
-[pants]
I just want you to know
you can talk to me.
[moans] I'd rather just make out with you.
[both chuckle softly]
-But but later, I mean.
-There is no later.
-That was fucking deep, son. [chuckles]
-[chuckles]
That's what your mom said.
-Oh! That was great! [laughs]
-[laughs]
[upbeat music playing]
[male voice on TV]
We know these are scary times.
But with your help, we are sure
a cure is right around the corner.
[music stops]
Now, we know this hasn't been ideal,
but we're doing everything we can
to help solve this problem
as quickly as possible.
We in Washington will continue
to push forward to find a cure,
so that you good kids can go back
to the lives that you so richly deserve.
Now, does anybody have any questions?
-[students] Yeah.
-[clears throat] Yes.
Firstly, thank you for talking to us.
Super cool.
-You're very welcome.
-[Mara] Secondly,
how come whenever someone
from Washington
says that they're doing everything
to help us,
it usually means that nothing
is getting done and we're all screwed?
-Uh. Perhaps my PowerPoint wasn't clear--
-Oh, no. It was clear. It just sucked.
[chuckles softly]
No. Like, unless
this is a magical slideshow
that can cure us, I don't get
what you're doing
that can actually help us.
Hey, I get it. I do.
You have every reason to be angry.
But I just want all of you to know
that you have all of our thoughts
and prayers.
[students chuckle]
-I don't want that shit unless it works.
-[girl] Yeah.
If you can't fix us, then just tell us.
We have too many assclowns
lying to us as it is.
Mara is right.
You politicians don't care about us.
The only people who care about us is us.
-[students cheer]
-[Steve] Quaker!
-Whoo!
-Yeah, baby.
-Yep!
-Quaker!
[students chanting] Quakers! Quakers!
Quaker! Quaker!
[students] Quakers! Quak--
-[bursting explosion]
-[students gasp]
["Bye Bye Life" playing]
[bursting explosion]
[screams, sobs]
Go fuck yourself.
[song continues]
[bursting explosion]
-[Dylan] Mom!
-[softly] Hi.
[song concludes]
Whoo!
[laughs] Yes!
Wait.
Where are all the Christmas decorations?
I don't think people
felt very festive this year, you know?
Aw!
-Yeah.
-Bummer.
[door opens]
-[gasps]
-[switch clicks]
Oh, my God! You got a tree!
We got a tree!
Oh, my God! This is so cool!
A real one too.
Not one of those fake ones.
We gotta put
some more ornaments on this thing.
I wanna go get changed.
I'm gonna go get changed. Wait right here.
-[Mara] I'm home! [hums]
-[whispering] Thank you.
-[door opens]
-[Mara] Room!
-[soft music playing]
-[sighs]
Are they really gonna call the pill
the Snooze Button?
That's what that Dr. Rolanda lady
said on the news.
Oh, yeah. I know her.
She's pretty professional.
For a bitch.
She can call it whatever she wants
as long as it works.
[smacks lips] True that.
That is a sweet tree.
Hey. Blow.
This feels like a trap.
We know you smoke pot.
You're terrible at hiding it.
-No, I'm not.
-Yes, you are.
Just let him be the cool dad.
-You're busted. I'm just joking.
-[Angela chuckles]
[inhales]
-Come on.
-[exhales]
[inhales deeply]
[exhales]
Is this what adulthood is like?
Yeah.
It's like this, except with more anxiety
and complete terror.
-[Angela inhaling]
-We just gotta get you through graduation.
Everyone keeps saying that.
You really think that's the winner?
[exhales]
I gotta think something.
Sick tree!
[music concludes]
["It Happened Again" playing]
[song concludes]
I don't think I've ever been
in a girl's room before.
[chuckles]
I mean, one that I've dated.
Well, I guess,
you can tick that off your bucket list.
[both chuckle]
-[smacks lips] Also, I got you a present.
-No!
-[Mara] Mm-hmm.
-I haven't had time to get you one.
What? [chuckles] What is it?
[clicks tongue] It's
my body
in a sexual situation.
Oh. [chuckles]
Never gotten that before.
-[laughs, yells]
-[chuckles]
-Oh, are you okay? [chuckles]
-[laughs]
-[soft song playing]
-[chuckles]
Can I tell you something?
Yeah.
I'm just so glad
I didn't explode all over you.
[both laugh]
I just kept thinking,
"Please don't explode."
-"Please don't explode."
-[chuckles]
-You know, you guys have it so tough.
-So tough. [chuckles]
I really like you.
I really like you too.
[Mara breathing deeply]
[both sigh]
Do you think we're safe now?
I don't know. I hope so.
I say we just stick to the plan
and go back to school,
and take it one day at a time.
Wait, what?
-What to what?
-The school part.
-You didn't hear?
-[song concludes]
-[rain pattering]
-No!
[Tess] Come on. Let's go!
Move! Come on.
-[soft music playing]
-[Tess] Move!
[Tess] All the other classes are meeting
at the community center
so they don't catch our disease.
Why?
It could be worse.
-How?
-We could be like Katelyn.
[Spiros] Katelyn wasn't the first person
I saw blow up.
-[music concludes]
-When I was stationed,
I saw a buddy of mine, Mark Jensen
step on a land mine.
No goodbyes, no last words. Just
that's it.
That was it.
Look, I'm not about to sit here
and tell you that everything
is gonna be okay, because that's bullshit.
I mean, I don't know.
But I do know
that I will help you graduate.
-That sound good?
-[students] Yeah.
Yeah?
Cole.
[Cole] Can I get a bathroom pass?
Just go, man.
[grunts] Ooh. [grunts]
[Mara sighs]
You're not gonna abduct us again, are you?
Firstly, I never did that. Secondly, no.
-We're really confident that the Snooze--
-Don't say it.
Snooze Button.
-Fuck.
-What do you have against it?
-Literally, just the name.
-Okay. What would you call it?
I don't know. Something science-y.
It has a science-y name
that nobody remembers.
Why? 'Cause it's a dozen syllables long.
Hence, the nickname.
Thank you so much for FBI-splaining
the concept of nicknames to me.
You're welcome.
Now, get out of here. You're healthy.
Why are you still here?
In my office? 'Cause I work here.
No, like, if you think it's all done
and cured, why are you still here?
There are a dozen grunts
that can take my blood pressure.
-You have a badge.
-Everyone here has a badge.
You don't think it's done, do you?
You know what they say.
Hope for the best
-Prepare for the worst!
-[chuckles]
-Is that a sex thing?
-No. But maybe. Ready?
[soft music playing]
[Dylan chuckles softly]
-Yeah. [chuckles]
-You're good. Just go forward.
Am I gonna hurt myself?
[Mara] You probably will,
but it won't be my fault.
[both laughing]
-[Mara] What are you doing?
-I don't know. I'm just scared.
-[Mara] Come on. Why are you scared?
-I don't know.
-[Mara] I'm so trustworthy.
-[laughs] I'm so nervous.
-[Mara] It's okay.
-Okay.
[Mara] But you need to be really careful
'cause this is a really dangerous place.
-Okay. Wait, what does that mean?
-[laughs]
What does that mean?
-Wait. What am I getting myself into?
-Okay.
-Stand right here. Ready?
-Uh-huh.
And now, you're gonna twirl.
-[Dylan] Okay. [chuckles]
-One.
-Two, three.
-Well, this is fun. I like this.
-[Dylan] Okay.
-Okay. [chuckles]
-Are you ready?
-No.
-[chuckles]
-Okay, I'm ready.
[Mara blows]
Were you prepared?
[music concludes]
No. [chuckles]
I was like, "What should I get my boy toy
for Valentine's-slash-his-birthday?"
And I thought, "He had it so tough
when he was a kid."
"He would dance by himself
in a barn to '80s music."
-[stereo clicks]
-["And We Danced" playing]
"So, maybe he'd like to know
he wasn't by himself anymore."
[both laugh]
-This is cool. [chuckles]
-Yeah?
-Yeah.
-[chuckles]
Thanks, Mara.
-Oh. [laughs]
-[laughs]
[both laugh]
[Mara chuckles]
Can we talk about something?
You're pregnant.
-I am. It's triplets.
-[gasps]
-My seed is mighty!
-[chuckles] It is.
[laughs]
-Okay. Go on.
-Uh. okay. Um.
What happens after we graduate?
-You mean, like, with us?
-Yeah.
I actually haven't thought that far ahead.
-I know it's silly, but--
-I know I wanna be with you.
[chuckles softly] Yeah?
-Yeah. I mean
-[chuckles]
you're, like, the best thing
to come out
of spontaneous combustions for me.
-[chuckles] The very best?
-The very best.
I love you.
-Fuck!
-[gasps]
-You can't say that!
-I'm so sorry!
-You can't say that!
-[laughs]
-Are you kidding me?
-I'm sorry. I screwed that up.
-Yeah, you did!
-Oh, my God!
-Say it to me later on, okay?
-No.
[both laugh]
Okay. Yeah, I'll say it. [laughs]
[both laugh]
Hey, um
maybe this summer,
we can just drive around for a while.
-I'd like that.
-[chuckles softly]
-If we're not fleshy dead bits.
-If we're not fleshy dead bits.
[song concludes]
[song playing over jukebox]
Have you heard
of the infinite monkey theorem?
No, but I'm way into how that sounds.
It's the idea of, like,
if you have infinite monkeys,
and you give them
all infinite typewriters,
and an infinite amount of time,
they'll write Shakespeare.
-The word "Shakespeare"?
-No, like, a full play of his.
Sound like pretentious fucking monkeys.
-Stop.
-[Mara] Can't they write something else?
They'll literally write
every book ever written,
because they can't not.
-They can't not.
-Mm-hmm. I think about this a lot.
Okay.
I think it helps explain what's happening.
You think monkeys are writing
books that make us explode?
No, the idea that because you can't say
with certainty
that something won't happen,
then eventually it has to happen.
Like the Big Bang.
I like my idea about evil monkeys
writing plays better.
This is taking forever, isn't it?
I don't think she's coming.
No one's ever been scared of me before.
-Let's go somewhere else.
-No. This is where we go.
This is our spot. This is our thing.
I know, but
maybe it's not our thing anymore.
[sighs]
Whatever.
[Dr. Rolanda] The last thing I want
is for you to feel
like science fair projects.
Because of your help, the CDC and the FDA
have been working
around the clock with Washington
to make the Snooze Button available
over the counter to all Americans.
So, what is the Snooze Button?
For starters, it's not, sadly,
a cure, but it is
a treatment.
Give you an example.
Sometimes, you're typing on your computer,
and out of nowhere, it turns off, crashes.
When that happens to us,
we're not so lucky.
Can I get a volunteer?
-[Steve] Yeah.
-[girl scoffs] Yeah, no.
[Dr. Rolanda] Steve, great. Come on up.
-[students cheering]
-[Dr. Rolanda] Whoo!
-Oh, hey. Yes.
-[Steve grunting]
-This is for our bros.
-[students] Yeah!
-[students cheer]
-Okay. Steve.
Can I get you to pat your head, please?
-That's it?
-[students chuckle]
-[Dr. Rolanda] Can you rub your belly?
-[Steve] Yeah, come on.
-Okay, stand on one foot.
-[students laugh]
Jump up and down.
-[students laugh]
-This is bullshit--
-[bursting explosion]
-[students gasp]
-[bursting explosion]
-[students gasp]
-[bursting explosion]
-[students gasp]
-[Mara breathing shakily]
-[student] Run!
-[students clamoring]
-[chairs clattering]
[groans]
-[desk thuds]
-[bursting explosion]
[students clamoring]
[Dylan] Mara! Come on, get up. Come on.
-[bursting explosion]
-[students clamor in fear]
-[bursting explosion]
-[students clamor]
-[groans]
-Mara!
Tess!
-[bursting explosion]
-[students clamor]
[pants]
[Mara] Come on.
[bursting explosion]
-[students clamoring]
-[girl 1] Help me!
-[bursting explosion]
-[students clamor]
-[school bell ringing]
-[students continue clamoring]
-[girls screaming]
-[bursting explosion]
[students clamoring]
-[girl 2] Open the door!
-[students clamoring]
-[bursting explosion]
-[students clamor]
[both groan]
[Dylan] Mara! Mara!
-[Cole] Come on.
-What?
[Cole] This way is faster.
-What the fuck is happening?
-[Cole] They were wrong.
They were-- [groans]
-We need to--
-[bursting explosion]
[breathes heavily, whimpers]
[tense music playing]
[panting]
-[pants, gulps]
-[music concludes]
-[school bell ringing]
-[birds chirping]
[pants]
-[Dylan] Mara!
-[gasps, pants]
Dylan. [sobbing]
[pants] Are you okay?
-[chuckles] No. Are you?
-[pants] I'm just glad you're still here.
-[sirens blaring in the distance]
-[both chuckle]
[abrupt silence]
[somber music playing]
[Mara] A fragment of his jawbone
hit my forehead.
I never felt it.
-[shower running]
-[Angela] Mara! Mara!
[Mara] I never felt anything.
[Angela] Okay. Oh, my God.
Hey.
[music continues]
[Mara] All I remember is wanting to die.
Honey?
Um. Dylan's mom called for you.
She just wanted to see how you were doing.
[somber music continues]
[Tess] Mara, can you open the door?
Please.
[Tess] Mara, I just want
to make sure that you're okay.
[Mara] Whoo! You're okay!
[Dylan and Mara laughing on video]
-[Mara on video] Oh, my God. [chuckles]
-[music concludes]
[birds chirping]
All right, you're gonna need vodka,
dry vermouth, grenadine, and ice.
-[soft music playing]
-Mix three parts vodka
with one part vermouth.
-[sniffles] Fill with ice.
-[ice cubes clinking]
-[drink splashes]
-And stir
before pouring into a martini glass.
Okay. And then with the grenadine,
you're gonna basically pour
the entire fucking bottle
into the martini.
And now, you have my brand-new cocktail,
which I've called, "All of my friends
and boyfriend are dead."
[music concludes]
[inhales, sighs]
Well, I have a couple of questions.
-Oh, okay. But hold on.
-No, please don't.
[gulps, exhales]
-You can have the next one.
-Okay.
-I'm not equipped to deal with this.
-[Mara] I know, right?
But I've literally found one thing
-that makes that feeling go away.
-[alcohol pouring]
What is it?
[whispering] Alcohol. Shh.
[Charlie] Why are you whispering?
[whispering] 'Cause it's a secret.
'Cause I'm underage.
Don't tell anyone though.
[chuckles softly]
[crickets chirping]
[melancholy music playing]
[humming]
[Mara gasps] Tessy!
-Mara.
-Tessy! Let's go fuck shit up.
-[Tess] How did you get here?
-I walked, yo.
-That's, like, ten miles.
-I know.
I'm fucking Wonder Woman.
Come on. Let's go do something.
[music concludes]
Let's go throw water balloons
full of red paint at kids.
-[Tess] Mara.
-[laughs]
No. We have to go to school.
Oh, fuck school!
No! I can't fuck school!
Okay, I need to get the fuck out of here!
And what happened to Dylan, it sucks.
It really fucking sucks. And I'm sorry.
But people have been dying
for seven fucking months.
I'm losing my mind. I don't want to die.
Well
then don't die.
-Easy.
-No.
Now, stop being a bitch. Come help me out.
No. I can't help you
the way you want me to.
How do I want you to?
You want to stop existing
until you actually stop existing.
-[Mara] What's with the van?
-They don't want us driving anymore.
Just just come hang with me instead.
If you don't, I'll never get
a beach house with you, ever. Ever.
As if we're gonna live
that long anyway.
[Mara] I fucking hate you!
["I'll Believe in Anything" playing]
[song concludes]
-[bell dings]
-[Mara] Oh, fuck.
-[bell dings]
-[Mara] Fuck. [groans]
[groans]
What's up?
-Oh, fuck-- [groans]
-[bottle shatters]
[Mara laughing]
[laughs]
Hey, it's like a metaphor.
-Mara.
-What?
-Are you gonna arrest me?
-No.
-I just came by to see if you needed help.
-Here. Have a drink.
[car alarm blaring]
-[Charlie] What the fuck?
-[sighs]
-An agent's car?
-It was funny at the time.
Oh, it was funny? What time was it funny?
-Like, four o'clock.
-That's not what I fucking meant.
No shit, Dad.
-Are you still drunk?
-[Mara] One thousand percent.
-Where do you even get alcohol?
-Besides here? I steal it.
Why would you tell me that?
'Cause you asked and I'm drunk.
So, why would I lie?
-[Charlie] To make us feel better.
-[scoffs] That's all you care about.
I've heard you call people
about helping me.
We've called them in front of you.
We only care about you.
Why why do you think
we're applying to all these colleges?
[Mara] I don't wanna go
to any fucking colleges.
I don't give a fuck what you do
as long as you're alive.
That is what's gonna make us feel better.
Yeah? Well, I'm gonna die
in a violent explosion full of blood.
Probably all over you. Feel better?
[whimpers]
Oh, fuck off.
[door slams]
-["Even" playing]
-[inhales]
[exhales]
[song continues]
[song concludes]
[hip-hop music playing over speakers]
[music continues in the distance]
[Mara] Tequila?
What kind of tequila?
No. It's okay. I'm okay.
[cell phone chimes]
Did you just send me
a beach house listing?
-Maybe.
-But we're never gonna be old.
But we're already really, really old.
I'm leaving tonight.
I need my life to start.
Even if it's just a few minutes long.
I hope you live forever.
Like an elf.
Elves live forever?
Unless they're murdered or die from grief.
That's what Dylan said.
-[sighs] He was a nerd.
-[Tess] Hmm.
Yeah, he was all right.
I'll see you inside.
You'll always be my best friend.
[music concludes]
["May I Have This Dance" playing]
-[Mara grunts]
-[objects clatter]
[exclaims]
-[indistinct chatter]
-[sobbing]
[laughs]
[Mara] What the fuck is this?
[chuckles] It it's it's grad.
-No. It's prom.
-No. It's it's both.
-[laughs]
-[both laugh]
That's fucking stupid.
[song concludes]
[upbeat song playing over stereo]
[slurps]
[Spiros] Becky Burke.
[crowd cheers, applauds]
[sniffles]
[feedback screeches]
I just wanna say I'm sorry
for killing everyone.
-Okay. Mara, just--
-[students grumble]
No. It's cool, man.
[sighs] I'm sorry I'm the curse.
I always have been. I did the math.
From Katelyn, to Perry, and the Daltons.
And Dylan.
-I'm the reason why it happened.
-[students whispering]
And I don't know why.
I'm not a great person.
And I hate myself so much
for hurting everyone.
[sighs] I'm so sorry.
I wish they were all here
to celebrate this dumb bullshit.
-Okay. Thank you, Mara.
-Oh, hey.
Also
Springsteen is really good.
I found that out the hard way.
-[mic thuds]
-[feedback screeches]
-[sniffles]
-[scattered applause]
-Thank you, Mara.
-[exhales]
-Claire Hacklon.
-[sighs]
-[students applaud]
-It's all my fault.
[girl 1] What?
-I'm the curse.
-[girl 2] What's she saying?
I wasn't a good enough Christian,
and now Jesus is punishing me.
Boo! Sit down, whore!
-[sobs]
-[feedback screeches]
No, no! It's it's my fault!
[sobbing] I wanted to be top of the class.
And I think I, like,
willed all my competition to die.
-No.
-I'm sorry.
-It's okay.
-[girl 3] I'm sorry. [sobs]
-No. No, no, no.
-[girl 4] Oh, my God. It was me.
[boy 1] No. It's me. I used to steal food
from the cafeteria!
-[indistinct chatter]
-[somber music playing]
[girl 5] It was me.
[crickets chirping]
[Mara sniffles]
[sobs]
I love you too, you know?
[sobs]
[music concludes]
[footsteps approaching]
Hi
Dylan's mom.
Hi, Mara. Can I join you?
I'm sorry I didn't come to the funeral.
I understand.
It's a cool headstone though. [sniffles]
He designed it.
-Really?
-Mm-hmm.
The first time
Dylan and I ever really hung out
I was super sick on shrooms
[breathes deeply]
and I saw so many of him.
-[melancholy music playing]
-[sighs] And it was beautiful.
And now, I can't even see
one of him. [chuckles softly]
[breathes shakily]
He told me he held your hair.
-He told you that?
-Mm-hmm.
Did you think I was bad news bears?
No.
No, I just--
I thought you were in a lot of pain.
And didn't know how to deal with it.
[sobs]
I don't know what to do with my body.
[sobbing] It feels like I'm dying.
[sobs]
I'm so scared all the time.
[music continues]
Sometimes, I wish I would just die
so it was over. [sniffles]
[sobs]
That's just what life
feels like sometimes.
-Life fucking sucks.
-It does. It really does.
Why is this happening? [sobs]
Did you hear about the the man
in Florida with the sinkhole?
He was asleep in his bed
and a sinkhole opened.
His bed fell right down into it.
His brother heard him
shouting from the next room.
He ran over and found this giant pit
where the room used to be.
He could hear his brother
screaming for help,
but it was impossible to help him.
-They never even got his body out.
-[sobs]
Great. Now, I have to be afraid
of sinkholes too. [chuckles]
[chuckles] It's just life.
I'm sure he didn't deserve it.
None of you deserve this.
But deserves got nothing to do with it.
-That's a good line.
-I stole it from Clint Eastwood.
Oh. [sniffles]
[breathes shakily]
I think Dylan got it.
The answer, I mean.
God. [breathes deeply]
What am I supposed to do now?
Do you wanna come over
for dinner next week?
[laughs]
Yeah. [sniffles] Sure.
Thanks. [sniffles]
Are you okay?
[music concludes]
[birds chirping]
[door opens]
I'm sorry.
["Fourth of July" playing]
[Charlie sighs]
[Mara sniffles]
[Mara] After a few months,
there were no more explosions.
Everyone left, and we were free to leave.
It was super anticlimactic.
The man was like,
"Oh, hey, the Snooze Button works."
"We just got that last batch wrong.
But we swear this new batch is legit."
I think they just wanna sell me pills
for the rest of my life.
[song continues]
You sure this thing is safe?
[chuckles softly]
I mean, compared to what?
-Call us every hour. Or even more often.
-Yeah. Call us a lot.
You know, I actually think I will.
[seatbelt clicks]
[van engine starts]
[Mara] They're gonna tear down the school,
which makes sense.
They're also going to make
a memorial for the departed,
which makes less sense,
because, let's be honest
that sappy shit's gonna suck.
[camera shutter clicks]
[Mara] By the end of the school year,
-31 students in the senior class died.
-[camera shutter clicks]
[Mara] I didn't die.
I guess, I'll never know why.
[bus windows pounding]
[children giggling]
[Mara] So, what did we learn?
What did we learn?
At the end of the day, it's all a
Oh, fuck this shit, man.
The world is a fucking cruel
piece of shit, and nothing makes sense.
And the only thing you can do
is put your middle fingers up
and be all, like,
"Fuck you, life! Suck my dick!"
"I'm gonna be amazing
in spite of all life's shit."
-[camera shutter clicks]
-[Mara] I'm gonna travel the world.
I'm gonna get my bachelors of bullshit,
I'm gonna write some books,
and make a low to minimum wage,
but do really well online.
I'll probably date some nice boys.
I'll probably marry a few of them.
And sometimes, late at night,
when the world is quiet,
I'll tell them about Dylan
and what he meant to me.
And how I think about him every day.
I'll probably have a bunch of kids
and be a dope mom, and then--
No, you know what? Fuck it.
I'm gonna be president.
I, Mara Carlyle
Trump's gonna look up at me
from his gold-crusted coffin and go,
"Who the fuck is this bitch?"
And I'll tell him
That's President Bitch to you,
motherfucker.
The Big Bang happened
out of nowhere for no reason.
Or maybe God set it all into motion.
Who knows?
But then, like, the dinosaurs died
because a meteor hit the Earth
at the exact worst spot imaginable.
-[explosion]
-Fuck, man!
[Mara] And volcanoes erupt,
and drunk drivers drive,
and sinkholes collapse.
And sometimes, people explode.
And, I guess, that just means
bad shit's gonna happen.
It's inevitable. And so, here we are.
I'm gonna live the life
I wanna have right now.
I'm not gonna waste time waiting
for a day that may never come for me.
So, fuck it.
I'm gonna stay at the beach house
and smoke a hookah
with my toes in the sand.
I don't know what's gonna happen next.
I hope it's cool.
All I know is I could die any second now.
Hell, so could you.
Nothing's fair.
But it's a beautiful world,
and I'm happy I get to be here,
if only for a little while.
-The fuck else can you do?
-[song concludes]
[soothing electronic music playing]
[music concludes]
[dramatic music playing]
[music concludes]
[soft music playing]
[music concludes]
[Spiros] Okay, the right combination
is to say X is one of those,
and two of these.
Um. Well, let's take
the equation number two.
If I make a picture that satisfies
all the X, Y, Z points
that solve this equation,
well, first of all, the origin
is not one of them.
X, Y, Z, it being zero, zero, zero,
would not solve it.
So, what are some of the points
that do solve it?
Now, let's see maybe if X is one and--
-[bursting explosion]
-[students gasp]
[Mara] Katelyn Ogden was a lot of things,
but she wasn't particularly explosive
[screams]
-[students clamoring]
-in any sense of the word.
-[Mara] She was a sundress of a person.
-[soft electronic music playing]
-[Mara] Cute, airy, inoffensive.
-[camera shutter clicks]
[Mara] And she was quickly becoming
the Dalton twins' number one
-marijuana customer at Covington High.
-[laughs]
[Mara] But that's hardly a reason
to pop like a zit.
-[students clamoring]
-[sobbing] She's all over me!
[Mara] Spraying all over us.
-I wasn't close with Katelyn.
-[camera shutter clicks]
[Mara] She was just,
you know, a classmate.
Someone I sat behind
or passed in the halls every day
-from kindergarten to senior year.
-[camera shutter clicks]
-[Mara] We ran in different circles.
-[camera shutter clicks]
[Mara] But lots of people liked her.
Guys especially.
I was gonna ask her to prom.
[whimpers] She was so hot.
I even narrowed down motel room options
to two choices. [whimpers]
She was so open-minded.
[Mara] Jed Hayes was particularly crushed.
-[school bell ringing]
-[students clamoring]
-Mara!
-[Mara] Oh, my God, Tess!
-What what happened?
-Katelyn exploded.
-What? Like a bomb?
-No. Like a balloon.
What?
Oh, my God, your shoes.
[Mara] Everyone quickly realized
Katelyn Ogden was not a suicide bomber.
Seeing as the only thing
that blew up was Katelyn Ogden.
Her desk remained unscathed
by the Ogdenblast.
[inspectors groan]
[Mara] The only damage her clothes took
was cosmetic.
[inspector 1] This isn't right.
She was just a kid.
[Mara] It wasn't right.
She was just a kid.
-[inspector 1 groans]
-[inspector 2] This is fucking disgusting.
[Mara] And it was very fucking disgusting.
After the unprecedented event,
all of our third-period class
got taken to the police station,
-which was very exciting.
-[sobbing]
[Mara] We got asked
a lot of important questions like
Did Katelyn ever say anything suspicious?
About wanting to blow up? All the time.
I was kidding.
Then they took all our clothes,
and let us shower.
-Uh. Will I get these back?
-Do you want these back?
[Mara] I only washed my hair.
Then they gave us a bunch of ugly-as-shit
sweat suits and made us wait.
-[vending machine rattles]
-[Mara sighing]
-[music concludes]
-[telephone ringing in distance]
-It was like a Cronenberg movie.
-[chuckles]
What do you think happened?
-Aliens?
-It wasn't aliens, bro.
[Harper] I'm just saying.
She was there, then she wasn't.
It's not fair. She was so nice.
I was gonna ask her to prom.
She was very open-minded.
When the hell are they gonna let us
out of here?
When they know
it's not gonna happen again.
When what's gonna happen again?
[imitates explosion]
[whimpers]
[coughs, retches]
[Mara] It happened again.
-It happened again a lot.
-[Becky coughs]
["It Happened Again" playing]
I'm not going to school tomorrow.
No shit, sweetheart.
[song fades]
-[Angela] Are you hungry?
-No, not really.
-[Angela] Do do you wanna talk?
-I think I just wanna go to bed.
Okay, kiddo.
-You know, we thought it was a shooter.
-[sighs] Dad--
We we didn't have any information.
They didn't tell us anything. And, uh
I'm just trying to say
that we're so glad you're okay.
And that your classmates are just
regular assholes and not evil.
That is a silver lining. [chuckles softly]
Good night.
-[lighter flicks]
-["Recite Remorse" playing]
[Mara exhales]
[cell phone chimes]
-Huh?
-[screen tapping]
[cell phone chimes]
-[cell phone chimes]
-[chuckles]
-[laughs]
-[screen tapping]
[song concludes]
["Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye"
playing]
[screen tapping]
I loved you in the morning
Our kisses deep and warm
Your hair upon the pillow
Like a sleepy, golden storm, yes
Many loved before us
We know that they are not new
In cities and in forests they smiled
-Is this song
-Yeah, it is definitely sexual.
And now, we've come to distances and
Right on.
[song continues]
I always wondered what happens
to those when someone dies.
-[exhales deeply] Fuck me. I need drugs.
-[song concludes]
Shrooms?
-Ooh. Shrooms?
-No.
Yeah. It's like weed, but a fungi.
I've never had shrooms.
Well, I honestly cannot think
of a better time to start.
It's a terrible time to start.
I would love to start.
-["Lost In Love (Vox)" playing]
-[chuckles]
You're gonna make yourself sick.
Nuh-uh. You brew 'em in liquid
so that you don't get sick.
That's what Native Americans do.
-In pumpkin spice lattes?
-Yeah. Pumpkins, Thanksgiving, duh.
-Duh.
-[chuckles]
-Here.
-[Mara gasps]
-Oh, my God. I fucking love it. [chuckles]
-[song fades]
[Mara] Tess McNulty and I
have been best friends
since elementary school.
-Will you be my best friend forever?
-Obviously.
[soft electronic music playing]
[Mara] When Tess's shitbrain dad
walked out on her and her mom,
-we spent a few days at the beach.
-[seagulls squawking]
[Mara] And we saw
these baller old chicks in kimonos
smoking a hookah
with their toes in the sand.
Let's do this.
-[Mara] It remains our life plan.
-[music concludes]
-To Katelyn.
-To Katelyn.
["Lost In Love (Vox)" resumes]
No. No. Stop! Stop!
-Mm.
-This is-- Put
-[cup clatters]
-[Mara gags]
-Are you done?
-[exhales]
[sighs] I didn't know Katelyn
that well beyond social media.
Yeah, I know. Me neither.
-Did she get into college yet?
-[Tess] I don't know.
I know she wanted
to be a journalist, though.
Oh, we have too many
excellent journalists as it is.
Did Katelyn at least get laid
before [smacks lips] everything?
-Oh, yeah. She was a total slut.
-[chuckles] You know what? Good for her!
I agree! Get it while the getting is good.
The only downside is high school boys.
I know. I cannot wait to be old.
-[laughs]
-I can't wait to be a cougar.
I'm gonna be like,
"Come hither, young man,
and pleasure me eagerly."
[chuckles wickedly]
Hey, mind if I join you guys?
Tess, don't look now,
but there's a boy staring at us.
-I think he's staring at you.
-Oh, right you are.
-Hey, Dylan.
-Hey, Mara.
-Hey, Tess.
-Hi, Dylan.
Thanks.
-How you guys doing?
-[Mara] All right.
Definitely the best memorial service
I've ever been to.
-Best funeral too.
-Second best for me. My dad's was better.
-Well, holy shit, Dylan.
-Oh, it's okay.
The Ogdens can just try harder next time.
-Well, holy shit, Dylan.
-Am I bombing this banter thing?
Like the end of Dr. Strangelove.
Don't you think that movie
is kinda ruined now?
Yeah, I kinda do.
-What's going on?
-Yeah, actually, what is going on?
Oh, I thought talking to you
at the funeral might be icky.
-Icky?
-It's an adjective.
Yeah, I know it's an adj
Oh! Holy shit! You're the guy.
You have a crush on me.
-Hello.
-[Tess] What's going on?
This is the guy. This is Dick Pic Dylan.
-Ew! You sent her a dick pic?
-No, that would be gross!
He sent me pictures of Richard's.
-That's worse.
-[chuckles] How is that worse?
-Why did you text me that?
-The Richards?
No. The declarative statement.
Katelyn exploded
in the middle of pre-calc,
and it got me thinking about life
in an ironic way.
And what would happen
if I popped, you know?
And then you said it might happen again,
and I was like, "I gotta get shit done,
in case she's right."
[chuckles softly]
Do you wanna go
to the ladies' room with me?
-Uh
-Come on. It'll be fun.
She's gonna go to the bathroom
and throw up because she just drank
a shitload of mushrooms,
and she wants you to hold her hair back.
[snaps fingers]
-Oh, in that case
-[song concludes]
[retches]
[groans, inhales sharply]
I'm not usually like this.
I can usually really hold my drugs.
[chuckles] Also, I usually never do drugs.
[Dylan chuckles]
We live in strange and unusual times.
[chuckles] That is so true. [exhales]
-[soft music playing]
-[Mara giggling]
There are a lot of you.
-[Mara giggling]
-How many?
I'll throw up if I count,
but more than one.
[chuckles] That's awesome.
-You should make out.
-All right. [chuckles]
-How do I do that?
-With your tongues.
Oh, shit.
[groans, sniffs]
[exhales]
I saw Katelyn's dad
scratch her stick figure sticker
off the back of his car.
I always wondered what happens
to those when someone dies.
-What happens is I get shroomed.
-[Dylan chuckles]
-Hey, did you see Katelyn
-Go boom? No.
-Did you?
-I only heard it.
It's weird being right there
and missing it.
[gasps] Like, I'm sad I missed it,
and that makes me feel terrible.
Yeah. Yeah, no,
it must be so invigorating.
Invigorating.
-Oh, okay.
-[Mara groans, retches]
[belches, retches]
-You okay?
-Mm-hmm.
[music concludes]
[both chuckle]
-Thanks for saying you liked me.
-Sure.
Hey, would you wanna come with me
to the homecoming game?
[soft music playing]
What?
I'm trying to think of a reason to say no.
[chuckles, clicks tongue]
-I could give you some.
-Shoot.
-Well, maybe just homecoming sucks?
-Yeah, but it's fun to make fun of.
-Plus, Halloween.
-Hmm. Yeah, okay.
Then maybe I'm just a guy
who is interested in grief-induced sex.
Way sluttier girls than me, though.
Probably wouldn't stick around
while I hurled either.
True.
Well, maybe you just don't really know me.
But I do know you.
-Oh, yeah?
-[Mara] Yeah.
You're in a bunch of my classes.
You're a movie nerd
Pretty cute.
Your dad died
when a bunch of manure fell on him.
Oh, my God. I'm so sorry.
I just realized I said that out loud.
[chuckling] Now, you have to come
to the game with me.
-I really do.
-[laughs]
-I'm so sorry.
-No, it's okay. It's okay.
I-- I blame the shrooms.
-Okay. Yes. Thank you.
-[chuckles]
My dad was a farmer.
But he died of a heart attack.
The rumor of him
being crushed to death by shit is false.
And impossible, if you've seen
any Back to the Future movie.
-Kids are cruel. I'm I'm really sorry.
-It's okay.
We're all cruel.
Today was weird.
Tonight was all right.
Yeah. Tonight was all right.
[music concludes]
This isn't gonna become
a regular thing, right?
The intoxication?
No. No. I just needed [sighs]
I don't know what I needed.
Have you cried yet?
Have you?
I cry all the time.
[Mara] It's just not the same
without the blood.
[soft electronic music playing]
[Mara] I just look
like a stupid prom queen.
I should have just dressed up
as a sexy witch too.
I'm just a normal witch.
I'm not even cleavage-y.
[scoffs] Girl, your sexiness
is unavoidable.
[indistinct chatter]
Shit. They've built her a shrine.
[chuckles] Hey, there's Dick Pic.
Hello, Quaker Oats.
-Oh, are you supposed to be Carrie?
-Yes! Oh, my God. Thank you!
Yeah. No, it's great.
I mean, it would have been really cool--
-Don't say it.
-I know. Katelyn fucked it up.
[teens gasp]
-I mean, she didn't intentionally--
-You're making it worse.
[sighs]
-Your hat
-[Mara chuckles]
-Hey, will you stop?
-[grunts]
I don't know you that well.
-[Tess screams, laughs]
-[Dylan] Okay.
-[laughs]
-[chuckles]
[inhales sharply]
-So, what gives, Hipster Oats?
-[music concludes]
-Our football team are the Quakers.
-[chuckles] No, not your costume.
-The crush you say you have on me.
-[chuckles softly]
I want, like
a timeline.
-[uplifting music playing]
-So
First day of school.
New town after my dad died.
First time I saw you
was right after Spiros introduced me
in front of the class.
You must be Dylan. Welcome.
Class, I'd like for you
to meet Mr. Dylan Hovemeyer.
He's new here.
So, please, don't be yourselves.
Be nice.
[hisses]
It was a good first impression.
[chuckles softly] A few weeks later,
I saw you at the Moonlight.
And when Jed tried wrapping
his arm around you
[screams, groans]
And then on the day after the election
-[blows whistle]
-Mara, why are you wearing that?
Because I'm motherfucking grieving.
You got detention for the profanity.
Motherfucking worth it.
It's clich,
but you wrote a poem last spring
that made me feel like you understood me,
even though we barely talked.
I friended you on Facebook afterwards.
I looked at your pictures sometimes.
I even gave you my number,
but I think you forgot
or never saved it in your phone.
I hoped we'd run into each other
during the summer, but never did.
And then it was senior year,
and I thought, "Why try?"
"We're going to college."
And that made me sad,
because you seemed so cool and original.
-But then
-[bursting explosion]
-[school bell ringing]
-[students clamoring]
[gasps]
When Katelyn died,
I didn't see you anywhere.
You had two backpacks.
One of them was hers.
-[music concludes]
-[Dylan panting]
-[soft music playing]
-Are you okay?
-I I don't know what to do with this.
-[panting] I can take care of it for you.
[Becky] When what happens again?
[Mara imitates explosion]
And when you said it might happen again,
I thought, "Whoa!"
"Maybe I've been wasting my entire life
preparing for a year
that may never come for me."
So, fuck it.
I'm gonna tell you how I feel.
I'm gonna spend my savings on a car.
I'm not gonna be scared anymore. I'm not
[music concludes]
Hey, are are you even listening to me?
-[crowd cheering]
-Oh, yeah.
Sorry. No. [chuckles]
Seriously, that was wonderful.
I don't want you to think
I was not paying attention. I--
'Cause it kind of looks like you're just
taking pictures of the game. [laughs]
[laughs] No! No.
Not of the game. Never of the game.
I'm waiting
for the "We Love Cocks" moment.
I would have never guessed
that was what was about to be said.
-[chuckles]
-[chuckles] Okay. Look.
Every game, Harper Wie,
Perry Love, and Steve Cox,
for just one brief moment,
line up for the "We Love Cocks" moment.
-That's so immature. [chuckles]
-[chuckles] It really is.
-[soft music playing]
-[chuckles]
I have a moment for you
where I knew I liked you.
[chuckles] You like me?
Maybe.
It was, like, forever ago,
and I was just chilling,
and then you looked me in the eye
and you said, "Mara
we love cocks."
Mara
we love cocks.
-[bursting explosion]
-[crowd gasps, clamors]
Did something happen?
[boy] What? Shit, man!
[crowd clamoring]
[somber music playing]
[gasps]
[Mara] Perry Love was that guy
that just made everything better.
He was like air conditioning.
And then he was news. We all became news.
The popping was given the sexy moniker
of "The Covington Curse." [scoffs]
Stupid fucking curse.
By the way, Perry Love was gay.
I didn't even know that
until the memorial.
And when my bro came out to us
in sixth grade,
we loved him.
-[whispering] Oh, come on.
-Because he was our best bro.
And we're progressive like that.
Our boy
our boy was too much rock
for this world, bitch!
[all cheering]
[Mara] It was a nice moment.
Of course, what we didn't know
at the time was
-School's canceled.
-[music fades]
For how long?
But we're just gonna keep applying
to colleges.
So, you'll be all set
once this blows over.
Well, at least now you can't say,
"Things were so much harder
back in my day."
[chuckles softly] You're right.
You have it way worse.
[crickets chirping]
[sniffles]
[vehicle approaching]
[upbeat song playing over stereo]
-[music stops]
-[Mara] Oh, my God.
Of course, you don't drive a Hyundai
or something like that.
It reminded me of this Springsteen song.
-Which one?
-The one about the milk truck driver.
There's a Springsteen song
about a milk truck driver?
Guess you'll have to find out.
-I swear to God, I'm never gonna find out.
-I just bought it today.
-[chuckles] Why?
-[Dylan chuckles]
Uh. I was saving up for a college car,
but then I thought,
"I might die tomorrow."
-So, I went to the dealer.
-Of milk trucks.
And I saw it, and I laughed, and I thought
other people would laugh too.
It was cheap. So, why not?
Just get me through till graduation, baby.
-That should be our school slogan.
-[chuckles] It really should.
-You ready to go?
-In your milk truck?
Fuck, yeah.
-Fuck, no! We are never forgetting them!
-[indistinct chatter]
-Whoo!
-[crowd cheers]
[loud hip-hop music plays]
-I love you, bro.
-[Harper] I love you too, man.
I love you guys too. Hey. [chuckles]
-I really need this drink. Can I take it?
-Why?
-Please? Please. Please.
-Why, why, why?
I'm gonna grab it.
-Okay. Okay. Have fun.
-[indistinct chatter]
You wanna go for a walk?
I love walks.
-[gulps]
-How's your drink?
-[inhales sharply] It's very tequila-y.
-[chuckles]
-[groans]
-Wait, are you drinking
Yeah, you're drinking straight tequila.
I mean, no.
-[chuckles] I'm just drinking beer.
-Drink big, bro!
Wait. Wait, wait, wait. [gasps]
What if alcohol is what makes it happen?
-[gasps] No!
-No!
-[both laugh]
-[cup clatters]
[cup clatters]
-[both laugh]
-[soft music playing]
-What do you think does?
-Um. [chuckles] I don't know.
-That's not good enough!
-Well, I don't!
It's the cosmic bullshit
of the universe, right?
-Lame.
-I'm sorry. [chuckles]
I'm writing this book
called All the Feels.
It's about this guy
who, when he touches people,
he takes all their feelings,
and then they die.
I just wanted you to know
something about me no one else does.
-[chuckles softly] Are you drunk?
-Oh. Dude, yeah.
-Are you?
-No.
-[chuckles]
-How many cups have you had?
-[chuckles] I don't know. Oh, shit.
-[chuckles]
-[chuckles]
-[sighs] Tell me something, just for me.
Okay, well, um, after my dad died,
I would go to this old barn
with a tape player and dance by myself.
Like, to Bon Jovi. [chuckles]
Yeah, I'd just cry, and dance,
and then rewind [chuckles]
and cry, and dance.
That's the saddest thing I've ever heard.
-And people are literally blowing up.
-[chuckles]
Actually, uh, they're not just people.
They're seniors.
-Is that true?
-Yeah.
Also, we stopped walking.
-[inhales sharply] The shocks keep coming.
-[chuckles]
I really wanna kiss you, man.
Yeah?
Yeah.
[breathing heavily]
[crowd cheering in the distance]
[grumbles, chuckles]
We should--
We should probably go, right?
No.
-You taste like tequila. [chuckles]
-[chuckles]
-[crowd clamoring]
-[music fades]
-[upbeat song playing]
-Oh, God. [breathes deeply]
Fuck me.
[sighs]
[camera shutter clicks]
[song concludes]
[Rosetti] Special Agent Rosetti.
Thank you, ladies, for coming in.
Let me be the first to say,
I'm I'm truly sorry.
-It's okay.
-Yeah. I mean, it could be worse, right?
We could be Republicans.
-[laughs]
-[Mara chuckles]
That was funny.
Thank you.
So, you ladies blow people up?
Uh. No, ma'am.
Do you do you think
there's someone killing everyone?
I think we've effectively ruled that out.
I mean, unless there's a mad scientist
or a warlock on the loose.
Kids are literally blowing up. So, I mean,
that could be a possibility, right?
If you believe in warlocks.
I don't know what I believe anymore.
Do you have any idea
why it's happening, though?
At the moment, no.
But we're close to figuring it out.
[clicks tongue] Or so I'm told.
Wait. So, what you're saying is,
we're we're fucked.
No. What I'm saying is that I need help.
Listen. Everyone's scared,
and scared people all want the same thing.
Which is?
To survive.
-Right.
-Yeah.
-We would actually love to survive.
-Yeah. That'd be sick.
Good. So, bring me something.
Uh. What do you want?
[Jenna laughing]
Drugs?
-That's what she said.
-[chuckles]
She thinks drugs is making us pop?
I think it's less accusational and more,
"What the holy fuck is going on?"
"Let's rule shit out-onal."
So, you're not gonna tell
this Scully wannabe they came from us?
Girl, do I look
like Benicio Del Toro to you?
[laughs] I don't know what that means.
-I don't either.
-[Jenna laughs]
-I need to rewatch Traffic.
-[laughs]
[clears throat] We're gonna sidebar.
-Do your thing.
-Okay.
[whispering] What? What do you think?
[whispering] I think
we gotta get rid of them.
I got her to go for it too.
-Okay. It's done. [clears throat]
-All right?
All right, we're we're down.
What do you want?
That's the best part.
America's reimbursing me.
-So, you're buying
-Everything.
[both laugh]
-God bless America!
-I, uh Okay. I'm gonna get the keys.
-[chuckles]
-[Mara] Keys?
Oh. We don't keep our shit at home.
[Jenna] Mm-mm.
-[swing music playing over stereo]
-We hide it.
Never know when the feds
are gonna fuck ya.
-I I have a question.
-Suitcase related?
Suitcase related.
Leaving Jersey tomorrow.
-Yeah. Getting the fuck outta Dodge.
-Oh.
-Do you guys think it's Covington?
-I don't know what it is.
But I also don't really wanna find out.
So, how you been holding up
during all this garbage?
Hanging in, yo.
Started making out with a real sweet boy.
-[Jenna] What?
-No shit! Who?
-Hovemeyer. [chuckles]
-[Joe and Jenna laugh]
-[Jenna] Yes! Oh, my God.
-Oh, you know, the world is a cra--
[bursting explosion]
[distorted rumbling]
-[crashes]
-[both scream]
Fuck! Go! Go! Go!
-[sobbing] It's flooded with Joe.
-[Mara] Hurry! Jenna, come on!
-[car horn honking]
-[groans] Wait. I can't see anything.
[sobbing] I can't--
-Put your foot on the brake.
-His shoes are there.
I'll move his shoes. Just steer.
-[Jenna] Can't--
-[bursting explosion]
-[gasps]
-[silence]
[old folk music playing]
[old folk music playing over stereo]
[Dylan pants]
[soft tense music playing]
[Dylan] Mara!
Mara!
Mara!
Mara! [pants] Mara.
[music fades]
-[Dylan] Are you okay? Are you okay?
-[Mara panting]
[soft music playing]
-[Dylan] Are you okay?
-[breathing heavily]
[Dylan] Where's Joe and Jenna?
-I think they're dead.
-[Dylan] They are?
I tried to get them off,
but they won't come out of me.
-They won't come out of my clothes.
-I thought it was
I thought it was you.
[music concludes]
-No. Dude, the sweat suit?
-Sorry, I just didn't have time to think.
I'm not wearing this.
Hey, I called Rosetti.
Smart.
What was it like?
It
it really fucking sucked.
[eerie music playing]
[Mara chuckles]
What the hell is this E.T. bullshit?
-Hey. Hey. Hey. [grunts]
-Hey, get your fucking hands off of him!
-Hey, get your fucking hands off-- Hey!
-[Dylan] Hey, don't grab her!
-[Mara] Get your--
-Put her down!
-Get your fucking hands off of me!
-Stop! Mara!
Get your fucking hands
off of me right now!
-[Dylan] Mara!
-I said, get off!
-[music stops]
-[lights buzzing]
[woman] Mara, I'm Dr. Rolanda.
We're here to help you, okay?
Help yourself, lady.
[breathes heavily]
[groans, breathes heavily]
[groans, breathes heavily]
-[doctor whispering indistinctly]
-Okay.
[doctor] This is just gonna be monitoring
your vitals. That's all it is.
[doctor] We're just gonna do
a little bit of blood work.
And just making sure
that everything is normalized.
Then we're gonna get you
out of here in no time.
Okay, okay.
[doctor] All right. It's okay.
It's okay.
"E.T."
[breathes heavily]
"Elliott."
"E.T."
"Elliott."
[Mara] "E.T."
"Elliott!"
"E.T.!"
[EKG monitor beeping]
Hey, Mara.
Mara.
Hey. [chuckles]
[Mara] Yo.
Where are we?
I don't know.
But I think they're doing tests on us.
The whole class is here.
They asked me a bunch of questions.
Like what?
[Dylan] Like what I've had to eat
and drink in the past couple months.
And the places I've visited.
And my list of sexual partners.
What did you say?
I just told them,
"Your mom."
-[Dylan laughs]
-[laughs] Nice.
-I knew you'd like that one.
-Mm-hmm.
[soft music playing]
Have you ever done it?
Are you gonna ask me?
I don't actually care.
You don't?
No. Just don't, like, screw anyone
while you're my girlfriend.
Am I your girlfriend?
-Are you?
-Am I?
Do you wanna be my girlfriend?
[inhales deeply]
I guess, that would be fine.
Cool.
What's gonna happen to us now?
-I think we just, you know, date.
-[chuckles softly]
-No, I meant in this plastic world.
-Oh.
I I think
this is our life now.
-[chuckles softly]
-[Mara sighs]
[music concludes]
[soft electronic music playing]
[Mara] So, our beloved government
quarantined us in tents,
trying to make pills that would keep
our blood inside our bodies.
It was a blast.
What's your name for the record, please?
Mara Carlyle.
Cox. Steve Cox.
-Cole.
-[Dr. Rolanda] Cole what?
Cole wants a lawyer.
-How old are you, Becky?
-Seventeen.
-Seventeen.
-I'm 17.
Not for long.
[Dr. Rolanda] What can you tell me
about Katelyn Ogden?
She was hot.
I'd tap it.
I was gonna take her to prom.
Tell me about Perry Love.
He was hot.
Tap that too.
[Dr. Rolanda] What did you dream
about last night?
Doughnuts.
You can ask my lawyer.
-[Dr. Rolanda] Do you get angry, Becky?
-Yeah, I'm angry all the time.
-[Dr. Rolanda] Are you angry right now?
-Fuck, yeah.
What is it you want to do in college?
Stay alive.
[Mara] At least we were comfortable.
-[Tess groans] So uncomfortable.
-[music concludes]
[sighs] Always smells weird in here.
Like feet and cinnamon buns.
[chuckles] Yeah, more feet.
You okay?
What if it happens to you?
It won't.
-[Tess] How do you know that?
-[chuckles softly]
Promise?
-I can't promise you.
-[Tess] No, why? Just promise me.
Promise or I'll scream.
-[imitates shriek]
-[laughs]
-Stop it.
-[Tess] Promise. Please.
It'll be fine.
That's not very convincing.
But if you go, like, I'm coming.
-And if I go, I'm taking you too.
-[laughs]
I'm serious.
We're being roomies down there.
'Cause we both know
we're not going up there.
-[chuckles] I'm fucking down.
-[laughs]
I love you. Oh, my God.
-I love you too.
-Down to that.
-[clicks tongue]
-[inhales]
[both whispering] Pow!
[characters on TV grunting]
[Mara] I am so bored!
[sighs] I'm so bored!
How long do we have to stay
in this condom?
A while, I think.
At least we know we're super healthy.
-We should try to break out.
-I already tried that.
[Harper] Why would we try and break out?
I got here as soon as I heard
about this place.
This is where they're going to cure us.
Those conservative weirdos with the signs,
they said that we were cursed.
Everyone's online trying to figure out
why it's happening and who's next.
-Whose fault do they think it is?
-Bro, it's no one's fault.
But if it's a curse, it's someone's fault.
But, bro, there's no curse!
-[chuckles]
-I don't care why it's happening.
-I just want to figure out how to stop it.
-Maybe we just have to graduate.
I'm, like, looking at you right now,
and really feel like we should make out.
Stop.
-[Tess] Stop making that face.
-What face?
[moans softly]
[breathing heavily]
[chuckles]
Hey. How are you doing?
-[chuckles] Right now?
-[chuckles]
No. I I mean, like, with the Daltons
and everything.
-Can we talk about it later?
-[pants]
I just want you to know
you can talk to me.
[moans] I'd rather just make out with you.
[both chuckle softly]
-But but later, I mean.
-There is no later.
-That was fucking deep, son. [chuckles]
-[chuckles]
That's what your mom said.
-Oh! That was great! [laughs]
-[laughs]
[upbeat music playing]
[male voice on TV]
We know these are scary times.
But with your help, we are sure
a cure is right around the corner.
[music stops]
Now, we know this hasn't been ideal,
but we're doing everything we can
to help solve this problem
as quickly as possible.
We in Washington will continue
to push forward to find a cure,
so that you good kids can go back
to the lives that you so richly deserve.
Now, does anybody have any questions?
-[students] Yeah.
-[clears throat] Yes.
Firstly, thank you for talking to us.
Super cool.
-You're very welcome.
-[Mara] Secondly,
how come whenever someone
from Washington
says that they're doing everything
to help us,
it usually means that nothing
is getting done and we're all screwed?
-Uh. Perhaps my PowerPoint wasn't clear--
-Oh, no. It was clear. It just sucked.
[chuckles softly]
No. Like, unless
this is a magical slideshow
that can cure us, I don't get
what you're doing
that can actually help us.
Hey, I get it. I do.
You have every reason to be angry.
But I just want all of you to know
that you have all of our thoughts
and prayers.
[students chuckle]
-I don't want that shit unless it works.
-[girl] Yeah.
If you can't fix us, then just tell us.
We have too many assclowns
lying to us as it is.
Mara is right.
You politicians don't care about us.
The only people who care about us is us.
-[students cheer]
-[Steve] Quaker!
-Whoo!
-Yeah, baby.
-Yep!
-Quaker!
[students chanting] Quakers! Quakers!
Quaker! Quaker!
[students] Quakers! Quak--
-[bursting explosion]
-[students gasp]
["Bye Bye Life" playing]
[bursting explosion]
[screams, sobs]
Go fuck yourself.
[song continues]
[bursting explosion]
-[Dylan] Mom!
-[softly] Hi.
[song concludes]
Whoo!
[laughs] Yes!
Wait.
Where are all the Christmas decorations?
I don't think people
felt very festive this year, you know?
Aw!
-Yeah.
-Bummer.
[door opens]
-[gasps]
-[switch clicks]
Oh, my God! You got a tree!
We got a tree!
Oh, my God! This is so cool!
A real one too.
Not one of those fake ones.
We gotta put
some more ornaments on this thing.
I wanna go get changed.
I'm gonna go get changed. Wait right here.
-[Mara] I'm home! [hums]
-[whispering] Thank you.
-[door opens]
-[Mara] Room!
-[soft music playing]
-[sighs]
Are they really gonna call the pill
the Snooze Button?
That's what that Dr. Rolanda lady
said on the news.
Oh, yeah. I know her.
She's pretty professional.
For a bitch.
She can call it whatever she wants
as long as it works.
[smacks lips] True that.
That is a sweet tree.
Hey. Blow.
This feels like a trap.
We know you smoke pot.
You're terrible at hiding it.
-No, I'm not.
-Yes, you are.
Just let him be the cool dad.
-You're busted. I'm just joking.
-[Angela chuckles]
[inhales]
-Come on.
-[exhales]
[inhales deeply]
[exhales]
Is this what adulthood is like?
Yeah.
It's like this, except with more anxiety
and complete terror.
-[Angela inhaling]
-We just gotta get you through graduation.
Everyone keeps saying that.
You really think that's the winner?
[exhales]
I gotta think something.
Sick tree!
[music concludes]
["It Happened Again" playing]
[song concludes]
I don't think I've ever been
in a girl's room before.
[chuckles]
I mean, one that I've dated.
Well, I guess,
you can tick that off your bucket list.
[both chuckle]
-[smacks lips] Also, I got you a present.
-No!
-[Mara] Mm-hmm.
-I haven't had time to get you one.
What? [chuckles] What is it?
[clicks tongue] It's
my body
in a sexual situation.
Oh. [chuckles]
Never gotten that before.
-[laughs, yells]
-[chuckles]
-Oh, are you okay? [chuckles]
-[laughs]
-[soft song playing]
-[chuckles]
Can I tell you something?
Yeah.
I'm just so glad
I didn't explode all over you.
[both laugh]
I just kept thinking,
"Please don't explode."
-"Please don't explode."
-[chuckles]
-You know, you guys have it so tough.
-So tough. [chuckles]
I really like you.
I really like you too.
[Mara breathing deeply]
[both sigh]
Do you think we're safe now?
I don't know. I hope so.
I say we just stick to the plan
and go back to school,
and take it one day at a time.
Wait, what?
-What to what?
-The school part.
-You didn't hear?
-[song concludes]
-[rain pattering]
-No!
[Tess] Come on. Let's go!
Move! Come on.
-[soft music playing]
-[Tess] Move!
[Tess] All the other classes are meeting
at the community center
so they don't catch our disease.
Why?
It could be worse.
-How?
-We could be like Katelyn.
[Spiros] Katelyn wasn't the first person
I saw blow up.
-[music concludes]
-When I was stationed,
I saw a buddy of mine, Mark Jensen
step on a land mine.
No goodbyes, no last words. Just
that's it.
That was it.
Look, I'm not about to sit here
and tell you that everything
is gonna be okay, because that's bullshit.
I mean, I don't know.
But I do know
that I will help you graduate.
-That sound good?
-[students] Yeah.
Yeah?
Cole.
[Cole] Can I get a bathroom pass?
Just go, man.
[grunts] Ooh. [grunts]
[Mara sighs]
You're not gonna abduct us again, are you?
Firstly, I never did that. Secondly, no.
-We're really confident that the Snooze--
-Don't say it.
Snooze Button.
-Fuck.
-What do you have against it?
-Literally, just the name.
-Okay. What would you call it?
I don't know. Something science-y.
It has a science-y name
that nobody remembers.
Why? 'Cause it's a dozen syllables long.
Hence, the nickname.
Thank you so much for FBI-splaining
the concept of nicknames to me.
You're welcome.
Now, get out of here. You're healthy.
Why are you still here?
In my office? 'Cause I work here.
No, like, if you think it's all done
and cured, why are you still here?
There are a dozen grunts
that can take my blood pressure.
-You have a badge.
-Everyone here has a badge.
You don't think it's done, do you?
You know what they say.
Hope for the best
-Prepare for the worst!
-[chuckles]
-Is that a sex thing?
-No. But maybe. Ready?
[soft music playing]
[Dylan chuckles softly]
-Yeah. [chuckles]
-You're good. Just go forward.
Am I gonna hurt myself?
[Mara] You probably will,
but it won't be my fault.
[both laughing]
-[Mara] What are you doing?
-I don't know. I'm just scared.
-[Mara] Come on. Why are you scared?
-I don't know.
-[Mara] I'm so trustworthy.
-[laughs] I'm so nervous.
-[Mara] It's okay.
-Okay.
[Mara] But you need to be really careful
'cause this is a really dangerous place.
-Okay. Wait, what does that mean?
-[laughs]
What does that mean?
-Wait. What am I getting myself into?
-Okay.
-Stand right here. Ready?
-Uh-huh.
And now, you're gonna twirl.
-[Dylan] Okay. [chuckles]
-One.
-Two, three.
-Well, this is fun. I like this.
-[Dylan] Okay.
-Okay. [chuckles]
-Are you ready?
-No.
-[chuckles]
-Okay, I'm ready.
[Mara blows]
Were you prepared?
[music concludes]
No. [chuckles]
I was like, "What should I get my boy toy
for Valentine's-slash-his-birthday?"
And I thought, "He had it so tough
when he was a kid."
"He would dance by himself
in a barn to '80s music."
-[stereo clicks]
-["And We Danced" playing]
"So, maybe he'd like to know
he wasn't by himself anymore."
[both laugh]
-This is cool. [chuckles]
-Yeah?
-Yeah.
-[chuckles]
Thanks, Mara.
-Oh. [laughs]
-[laughs]
[both laugh]
[Mara chuckles]
Can we talk about something?
You're pregnant.
-I am. It's triplets.
-[gasps]
-My seed is mighty!
-[chuckles] It is.
[laughs]
-Okay. Go on.
-Uh. okay. Um.
What happens after we graduate?
-You mean, like, with us?
-Yeah.
I actually haven't thought that far ahead.
-I know it's silly, but--
-I know I wanna be with you.
[chuckles softly] Yeah?
-Yeah. I mean
-[chuckles]
you're, like, the best thing
to come out
of spontaneous combustions for me.
-[chuckles] The very best?
-The very best.
I love you.
-Fuck!
-[gasps]
-You can't say that!
-I'm so sorry!
-You can't say that!
-[laughs]
-Are you kidding me?
-I'm sorry. I screwed that up.
-Yeah, you did!
-Oh, my God!
-Say it to me later on, okay?
-No.
[both laugh]
Okay. Yeah, I'll say it. [laughs]
[both laugh]
Hey, um
maybe this summer,
we can just drive around for a while.
-I'd like that.
-[chuckles softly]
-If we're not fleshy dead bits.
-If we're not fleshy dead bits.
[song concludes]
[song playing over jukebox]
Have you heard
of the infinite monkey theorem?
No, but I'm way into how that sounds.
It's the idea of, like,
if you have infinite monkeys,
and you give them
all infinite typewriters,
and an infinite amount of time,
they'll write Shakespeare.
-The word "Shakespeare"?
-No, like, a full play of his.
Sound like pretentious fucking monkeys.
-Stop.
-[Mara] Can't they write something else?
They'll literally write
every book ever written,
because they can't not.
-They can't not.
-Mm-hmm. I think about this a lot.
Okay.
I think it helps explain what's happening.
You think monkeys are writing
books that make us explode?
No, the idea that because you can't say
with certainty
that something won't happen,
then eventually it has to happen.
Like the Big Bang.
I like my idea about evil monkeys
writing plays better.
This is taking forever, isn't it?
I don't think she's coming.
No one's ever been scared of me before.
-Let's go somewhere else.
-No. This is where we go.
This is our spot. This is our thing.
I know, but
maybe it's not our thing anymore.
[sighs]
Whatever.
[Dr. Rolanda] The last thing I want
is for you to feel
like science fair projects.
Because of your help, the CDC and the FDA
have been working
around the clock with Washington
to make the Snooze Button available
over the counter to all Americans.
So, what is the Snooze Button?
For starters, it's not, sadly,
a cure, but it is
a treatment.
Give you an example.
Sometimes, you're typing on your computer,
and out of nowhere, it turns off, crashes.
When that happens to us,
we're not so lucky.
Can I get a volunteer?
-[Steve] Yeah.
-[girl scoffs] Yeah, no.
[Dr. Rolanda] Steve, great. Come on up.
-[students cheering]
-[Dr. Rolanda] Whoo!
-Oh, hey. Yes.
-[Steve grunting]
-This is for our bros.
-[students] Yeah!
-[students cheer]
-Okay. Steve.
Can I get you to pat your head, please?
-That's it?
-[students chuckle]
-[Dr. Rolanda] Can you rub your belly?
-[Steve] Yeah, come on.
-Okay, stand on one foot.
-[students laugh]
Jump up and down.
-[students laugh]
-This is bullshit--
-[bursting explosion]
-[students gasp]
-[bursting explosion]
-[students gasp]
-[bursting explosion]
-[students gasp]
-[Mara breathing shakily]
-[student] Run!
-[students clamoring]
-[chairs clattering]
[groans]
-[desk thuds]
-[bursting explosion]
[students clamoring]
[Dylan] Mara! Come on, get up. Come on.
-[bursting explosion]
-[students clamor in fear]
-[bursting explosion]
-[students clamor]
-[groans]
-Mara!
Tess!
-[bursting explosion]
-[students clamor]
[pants]
[Mara] Come on.
[bursting explosion]
-[students clamoring]
-[girl 1] Help me!
-[bursting explosion]
-[students clamor]
-[school bell ringing]
-[students continue clamoring]
-[girls screaming]
-[bursting explosion]
[students clamoring]
-[girl 2] Open the door!
-[students clamoring]
-[bursting explosion]
-[students clamor]
[both groan]
[Dylan] Mara! Mara!
-[Cole] Come on.
-What?
[Cole] This way is faster.
-What the fuck is happening?
-[Cole] They were wrong.
They were-- [groans]
-We need to--
-[bursting explosion]
[breathes heavily, whimpers]
[tense music playing]
[panting]
-[pants, gulps]
-[music concludes]
-[school bell ringing]
-[birds chirping]
[pants]
-[Dylan] Mara!
-[gasps, pants]
Dylan. [sobbing]
[pants] Are you okay?
-[chuckles] No. Are you?
-[pants] I'm just glad you're still here.
-[sirens blaring in the distance]
-[both chuckle]
[abrupt silence]
[somber music playing]
[Mara] A fragment of his jawbone
hit my forehead.
I never felt it.
-[shower running]
-[Angela] Mara! Mara!
[Mara] I never felt anything.
[Angela] Okay. Oh, my God.
Hey.
[music continues]
[Mara] All I remember is wanting to die.
Honey?
Um. Dylan's mom called for you.
She just wanted to see how you were doing.
[somber music continues]
[Tess] Mara, can you open the door?
Please.
[Tess] Mara, I just want
to make sure that you're okay.
[Mara] Whoo! You're okay!
[Dylan and Mara laughing on video]
-[Mara on video] Oh, my God. [chuckles]
-[music concludes]
[birds chirping]
All right, you're gonna need vodka,
dry vermouth, grenadine, and ice.
-[soft music playing]
-Mix three parts vodka
with one part vermouth.
-[sniffles] Fill with ice.
-[ice cubes clinking]
-[drink splashes]
-And stir
before pouring into a martini glass.
Okay. And then with the grenadine,
you're gonna basically pour
the entire fucking bottle
into the martini.
And now, you have my brand-new cocktail,
which I've called, "All of my friends
and boyfriend are dead."
[music concludes]
[inhales, sighs]
Well, I have a couple of questions.
-Oh, okay. But hold on.
-No, please don't.
[gulps, exhales]
-You can have the next one.
-Okay.
-I'm not equipped to deal with this.
-[Mara] I know, right?
But I've literally found one thing
-that makes that feeling go away.
-[alcohol pouring]
What is it?
[whispering] Alcohol. Shh.
[Charlie] Why are you whispering?
[whispering] 'Cause it's a secret.
'Cause I'm underage.
Don't tell anyone though.
[chuckles softly]
[crickets chirping]
[melancholy music playing]
[humming]
[Mara gasps] Tessy!
-Mara.
-Tessy! Let's go fuck shit up.
-[Tess] How did you get here?
-I walked, yo.
-That's, like, ten miles.
-I know.
I'm fucking Wonder Woman.
Come on. Let's go do something.
[music concludes]
Let's go throw water balloons
full of red paint at kids.
-[Tess] Mara.
-[laughs]
No. We have to go to school.
Oh, fuck school!
No! I can't fuck school!
Okay, I need to get the fuck out of here!
And what happened to Dylan, it sucks.
It really fucking sucks. And I'm sorry.
But people have been dying
for seven fucking months.
I'm losing my mind. I don't want to die.
Well
then don't die.
-Easy.
-No.
Now, stop being a bitch. Come help me out.
No. I can't help you
the way you want me to.
How do I want you to?
You want to stop existing
until you actually stop existing.
-[Mara] What's with the van?
-They don't want us driving anymore.
Just just come hang with me instead.
If you don't, I'll never get
a beach house with you, ever. Ever.
As if we're gonna live
that long anyway.
[Mara] I fucking hate you!
["I'll Believe in Anything" playing]
[song concludes]
-[bell dings]
-[Mara] Oh, fuck.
-[bell dings]
-[Mara] Fuck. [groans]
[groans]
What's up?
-Oh, fuck-- [groans]
-[bottle shatters]
[Mara laughing]
[laughs]
Hey, it's like a metaphor.
-Mara.
-What?
-Are you gonna arrest me?
-No.
-I just came by to see if you needed help.
-Here. Have a drink.
[car alarm blaring]
-[Charlie] What the fuck?
-[sighs]
-An agent's car?
-It was funny at the time.
Oh, it was funny? What time was it funny?
-Like, four o'clock.
-That's not what I fucking meant.
No shit, Dad.
-Are you still drunk?
-[Mara] One thousand percent.
-Where do you even get alcohol?
-Besides here? I steal it.
Why would you tell me that?
'Cause you asked and I'm drunk.
So, why would I lie?
-[Charlie] To make us feel better.
-[scoffs] That's all you care about.
I've heard you call people
about helping me.
We've called them in front of you.
We only care about you.
Why why do you think
we're applying to all these colleges?
[Mara] I don't wanna go
to any fucking colleges.
I don't give a fuck what you do
as long as you're alive.
That is what's gonna make us feel better.
Yeah? Well, I'm gonna die
in a violent explosion full of blood.
Probably all over you. Feel better?
[whimpers]
Oh, fuck off.
[door slams]
-["Even" playing]
-[inhales]
[exhales]
[song continues]
[song concludes]
[hip-hop music playing over speakers]
[music continues in the distance]
[Mara] Tequila?
What kind of tequila?
No. It's okay. I'm okay.
[cell phone chimes]
Did you just send me
a beach house listing?
-Maybe.
-But we're never gonna be old.
But we're already really, really old.
I'm leaving tonight.
I need my life to start.
Even if it's just a few minutes long.
I hope you live forever.
Like an elf.
Elves live forever?
Unless they're murdered or die from grief.
That's what Dylan said.
-[sighs] He was a nerd.
-[Tess] Hmm.
Yeah, he was all right.
I'll see you inside.
You'll always be my best friend.
[music concludes]
["May I Have This Dance" playing]
-[Mara grunts]
-[objects clatter]
[exclaims]
-[indistinct chatter]
-[sobbing]
[laughs]
[Mara] What the fuck is this?
[chuckles] It it's it's grad.
-No. It's prom.
-No. It's it's both.
-[laughs]
-[both laugh]
That's fucking stupid.
[song concludes]
[upbeat song playing over stereo]
[slurps]
[Spiros] Becky Burke.
[crowd cheers, applauds]
[sniffles]
[feedback screeches]
I just wanna say I'm sorry
for killing everyone.
-Okay. Mara, just--
-[students grumble]
No. It's cool, man.
[sighs] I'm sorry I'm the curse.
I always have been. I did the math.
From Katelyn, to Perry, and the Daltons.
And Dylan.
-I'm the reason why it happened.
-[students whispering]
And I don't know why.
I'm not a great person.
And I hate myself so much
for hurting everyone.
[sighs] I'm so sorry.
I wish they were all here
to celebrate this dumb bullshit.
-Okay. Thank you, Mara.
-Oh, hey.
Also
Springsteen is really good.
I found that out the hard way.
-[mic thuds]
-[feedback screeches]
-[sniffles]
-[scattered applause]
-Thank you, Mara.
-[exhales]
-Claire Hacklon.
-[sighs]
-[students applaud]
-It's all my fault.
[girl 1] What?
-I'm the curse.
-[girl 2] What's she saying?
I wasn't a good enough Christian,
and now Jesus is punishing me.
Boo! Sit down, whore!
-[sobs]
-[feedback screeches]
No, no! It's it's my fault!
[sobbing] I wanted to be top of the class.
And I think I, like,
willed all my competition to die.
-No.
-I'm sorry.
-It's okay.
-[girl 3] I'm sorry. [sobs]
-No. No, no, no.
-[girl 4] Oh, my God. It was me.
[boy 1] No. It's me. I used to steal food
from the cafeteria!
-[indistinct chatter]
-[somber music playing]
[girl 5] It was me.
[crickets chirping]
[Mara sniffles]
[sobs]
I love you too, you know?
[sobs]
[music concludes]
[footsteps approaching]
Hi
Dylan's mom.
Hi, Mara. Can I join you?
I'm sorry I didn't come to the funeral.
I understand.
It's a cool headstone though. [sniffles]
He designed it.
-Really?
-Mm-hmm.
The first time
Dylan and I ever really hung out
I was super sick on shrooms
[breathes deeply]
and I saw so many of him.
-[melancholy music playing]
-[sighs] And it was beautiful.
And now, I can't even see
one of him. [chuckles softly]
[breathes shakily]
He told me he held your hair.
-He told you that?
-Mm-hmm.
Did you think I was bad news bears?
No.
No, I just--
I thought you were in a lot of pain.
And didn't know how to deal with it.
[sobs]
I don't know what to do with my body.
[sobbing] It feels like I'm dying.
[sobs]
I'm so scared all the time.
[music continues]
Sometimes, I wish I would just die
so it was over. [sniffles]
[sobs]
That's just what life
feels like sometimes.
-Life fucking sucks.
-It does. It really does.
Why is this happening? [sobs]
Did you hear about the the man
in Florida with the sinkhole?
He was asleep in his bed
and a sinkhole opened.
His bed fell right down into it.
His brother heard him
shouting from the next room.
He ran over and found this giant pit
where the room used to be.
He could hear his brother
screaming for help,
but it was impossible to help him.
-They never even got his body out.
-[sobs]
Great. Now, I have to be afraid
of sinkholes too. [chuckles]
[chuckles] It's just life.
I'm sure he didn't deserve it.
None of you deserve this.
But deserves got nothing to do with it.
-That's a good line.
-I stole it from Clint Eastwood.
Oh. [sniffles]
[breathes shakily]
I think Dylan got it.
The answer, I mean.
God. [breathes deeply]
What am I supposed to do now?
Do you wanna come over
for dinner next week?
[laughs]
Yeah. [sniffles] Sure.
Thanks. [sniffles]
Are you okay?
[music concludes]
[birds chirping]
[door opens]
I'm sorry.
["Fourth of July" playing]
[Charlie sighs]
[Mara sniffles]
[Mara] After a few months,
there were no more explosions.
Everyone left, and we were free to leave.
It was super anticlimactic.
The man was like,
"Oh, hey, the Snooze Button works."
"We just got that last batch wrong.
But we swear this new batch is legit."
I think they just wanna sell me pills
for the rest of my life.
[song continues]
You sure this thing is safe?
[chuckles softly]
I mean, compared to what?
-Call us every hour. Or even more often.
-Yeah. Call us a lot.
You know, I actually think I will.
[seatbelt clicks]
[van engine starts]
[Mara] They're gonna tear down the school,
which makes sense.
They're also going to make
a memorial for the departed,
which makes less sense,
because, let's be honest
that sappy shit's gonna suck.
[camera shutter clicks]
[Mara] By the end of the school year,
-31 students in the senior class died.
-[camera shutter clicks]
[Mara] I didn't die.
I guess, I'll never know why.
[bus windows pounding]
[children giggling]
[Mara] So, what did we learn?
What did we learn?
At the end of the day, it's all a
Oh, fuck this shit, man.
The world is a fucking cruel
piece of shit, and nothing makes sense.
And the only thing you can do
is put your middle fingers up
and be all, like,
"Fuck you, life! Suck my dick!"
"I'm gonna be amazing
in spite of all life's shit."
-[camera shutter clicks]
-[Mara] I'm gonna travel the world.
I'm gonna get my bachelors of bullshit,
I'm gonna write some books,
and make a low to minimum wage,
but do really well online.
I'll probably date some nice boys.
I'll probably marry a few of them.
And sometimes, late at night,
when the world is quiet,
I'll tell them about Dylan
and what he meant to me.
And how I think about him every day.
I'll probably have a bunch of kids
and be a dope mom, and then--
No, you know what? Fuck it.
I'm gonna be president.
I, Mara Carlyle
Trump's gonna look up at me
from his gold-crusted coffin and go,
"Who the fuck is this bitch?"
And I'll tell him
That's President Bitch to you,
motherfucker.
The Big Bang happened
out of nowhere for no reason.
Or maybe God set it all into motion.
Who knows?
But then, like, the dinosaurs died
because a meteor hit the Earth
at the exact worst spot imaginable.
-[explosion]
-Fuck, man!
[Mara] And volcanoes erupt,
and drunk drivers drive,
and sinkholes collapse.
And sometimes, people explode.
And, I guess, that just means
bad shit's gonna happen.
It's inevitable. And so, here we are.
I'm gonna live the life
I wanna have right now.
I'm not gonna waste time waiting
for a day that may never come for me.
So, fuck it.
I'm gonna stay at the beach house
and smoke a hookah
with my toes in the sand.
I don't know what's gonna happen next.
I hope it's cool.
All I know is I could die any second now.
Hell, so could you.
Nothing's fair.
But it's a beautiful world,
and I'm happy I get to be here,
if only for a little while.
-The fuck else can you do?
-[song concludes]
[soothing electronic music playing]
[music concludes]
[dramatic music playing]
[music concludes]
[soft music playing]
[music concludes]