Synchronic (2020) Movie Script
1
[thunder rumbles]
[thunder continues]
[rain pattering]
[thunder rumbling]
[indistinct chatter in other room]
[thunder rumbles]
[elevator dings]
[breathes heavily]
[TV clicks]
[breathes heavily]
[suspenseful music]
[door opens]
[music intensifies]
[breathes heavily]
[eerie music]
[breathes heavily]
[snake rattling]
[yells inaudibly]
[inaudible scream]
[yells inaudibly]
[wind whooshes]
[suspenseful music]
[stretcher clanks]
-[Dennis] 1107 right?
-[Steve] Yeah.
[Dennis] Fuck, shit.
Tom!
I swear to God,
Tom's the worst driver we've ever had.
[Dennis chuckles]
You usually hide your hangovers better.
My mouth tastes like
nasty cinnamon whiskey.
[Steve chuckles]
The glitter won't come off.
Yeah, uniform got glitter on it?
Oh, no, the room was dark.
I couldn't tell which one
was mine, so pretty sure
this is her uniform
from the athletic store.
Fine, all right, I get it.
It's unprofessional.
It's cold as fuck out here, man,
thank you.
[chuckles]
-[Steve] Here we go.
-[Dennis] Here we go.
[eerie music]
I think they need help.
[suspenseful music]
I hope she wakes up.
I think she's got school in the morning.
I'll take the kid.
What happened?
I was sleeping in the bedroom,
and I heard French and, and the wind.
[Dennis] Sir, can you hear me?
[Dennis] Okay, I've got a chest wound.
[suspenseful music]
What'd you take, kid?
[suspenseful music]
[Dennis] How's it going in there, Steve?
OD, figurin' it out.
Miss, what'd the kid take?
What you got in your pockets?
Miss fuck!
[crack girlfriend] Heroin.
[groans]
[groans] Shit!
[panting]
[clicks]
That Narcan? Can I have some?
[Jacobs] Hands, where I can see them!
[Jacobs] Keep 'em up.
[Jacobs] Drop your weapon.
[Beaumont] He don't look good, do he?
[police radio chatter]
[Dennis] How's it goin' in there, man?
Dispatch fucked up, said assault.
You show up to work dressed like Tupac,
the fuck you expect?
[police radio chatter]
[spits]
[clicks]
[gasps]
[Steve] `Victim is good.
How 'bout in there?
[Dennis] We've got a penetrating
trauma in the torso,
applying occlusive dressing
to a sucking chest wound.
[police radio chatter]
And, hold on what's that sound?
[Dennis] Knife wound in his front.
[Dennis] Exit out his back.
[Steve] A what?
[Dennis] We'll make an airway en route.
The fuck you lovebirds do
to these nice people?
Heroin overdose in the back. Knife wound.
[police radio chatter]
[Jacobs] He shoot H, too?
You do this?
Probably did it to himself.
Designer drug been makin'
junkie monkeys go nuts.
Ain't illegal though,
so the fuck you gonna do, son?
Uh, yeah, heroin
possession is though.
You want to tell us where
you hid the weapon,
the, um, the what, the
[Dennis] Three foot long knife.
[police radio chatter]
But isn't that a
Wanna save yourself some trouble
and tell us where the sword is?
[suspenseful music]
Still waters run deep.
[in Spanish]
Speak English. Please.
[sniffs]
[suspenseful music]
-[radio chatter]
-Let's get him outta here.
[Dennis] Yeah.
[suspenseful music]
[siren wails]
[suspenseful music]
[thunder rumbling]
[clanks]
[Dennis] Don't have kids
18 years apart, dude.
Well, you can't, 'cause we're old as fuck,
but gotta keep that window slim.
At least you can get a free babysitter.
[thwacks]
And even though Brianna's 18,
and I love my daughter to death,
she's a fuckin' awful babysitter.
[Nurse Hall] The pills will help
against HIV.
It'll take about six weeks
to know for sure,
but I've never had a positive
from a needle stick.
I sent it to the fast lab,
so give you a call tomorrow
about everything else.
Is there any reason we
shouldn't do a full workup?
Ignorance is bliss, that's about it.
Hangover's worse than usual,
but that's probably from the drinking
and recreational drug use.
We'll ignore the ganja
and booger sugar markers.
[Steve] Mm-hm. Thank you.
Hey, what'd you get my baby daughter?
[Steve] Uh, some condoms, magnums.
[Dennis] Ah, Christ.
[Steve] Nah, they're earrings, man.
She's one, man, nothing's pierced.
It's strategy. So when you
give her the earrings,
she'll be old enough to know
that I got 'em for her.
Okay.
A tiny dress would be a waste of money.
Look, babe, Uncle Steve's
sittin' all the way over here,
because he went and slept
with all mommy's friends
before they married all
those men over there.
-[Steve] That's not true.
-[Tara] Yes
-[Dennis] Oh, it's kinda true.
-[Tara] Yes, it is.
[Steve] Let me hold the baby,
come on, let the girls see
-what they're missin'.
-Oh, that's a terrible idea.
[Steve] Come on,
I'd be a great dad, come on.
-Oh boy, okay.
-[Dennis] No, no.
-[Steve] look at that.
-[Dennis] Oh no, oh God.
-[Steve] Hey, ladies. Oh no.
-[Tara] Oh, the baby.
-[Dennis] Bad idea, bad idea.
-[baby cries]
[Steve] Oh, wait, why's your baby
And there we go! What did you do?
-[Steve] No, no, no.
-Hey, hey, give her back.
[Tara] I think you busted her.
Give her back, give her back.
-Racist baby.
-[Dennis chuckles]
-[Steve laughs]
-[Tara] No.
She seems happy.
Yeah, no.
Give her a break, man.
She work during the day with lawyers,
stay up all night with the kids,
then have to deal with your ugly mug.
I'm gonna go say what's up to Brianna.
She's bein' a little emo,
incorrectly thinks you're cooler
than me, 'cause I'm her dad
and you're just some asshole
who pops up from time to time.
Yo, B.
Hey, what up?
-I got somethin' for you.
-Yeah.
You poured me a cheap one.
You're not old enough to know
what cheap beer is yet.
I'm 18, and I know this is some
cheap-ass lager.
Fuck, stop sayin' your age.
I don't want to think
about 18 years goin' by that fast.
Why you sittin' over here
by yourself on this shitty rock?
There's cake and barbecue
and old, fat people over there.
There's something wrong with me.
[chuckles]
Uh, no, no one died or anything,
I just, uh, I, uh--
[phone vibrates]
Oh, excuse me for one second.
Hello?
[tense music]
Yeah, I'll be there on Tuesday,
Doctor, thank you.
[somber music]
[phone rings]
-[clanks]
-[phone rings]
[groans]
[park girl] Fuck, firemen
have to get up early.
[Steve] Yeah.
[splashes]
[Steve] What time you go to work?
[park girl] I'm between jobs,
so I thought it'd be a good time
to visit with friends,
but I'm thinkin' about makin'
an app for power crystals,
or astrology, or both, I don't know.
[Steve] That sounds like
a really bad idea.
[Steve] Look,
I have to run to work, so, um.
Uh, oh, it was nice to meet you.
It was nice to meet you, too.
Be sure to lock the door
on your way out, okay?
[somber music]
[sobbing]
Brianna wants to move onto
campus, a room opened up.
That's what she wants?
Yeah.
I'll, uh, I'll miss her.
[wood scratches]
Gonna go with seven milligrams
of morphine,
in case the burn's second degree.
You think of anything else?
Uh, dry wraps.
Hey, can you reach me a codeine, please?
-[tires screeching]
-[grunts]
Shit, fuckin' Tom!
Well, at least it's not you driving.
[Steve] What the fuck are you
talking about?
-[Steve] I'm a great driver.
-No, you're not.
[Steve] I'm the best driver you know.
Nope, and a Black man drivin'
through the Garden District,
we'd be pulled over so much,
there'd be people dyin'
-all over New Orleans.
-[pills clatter]
[tense music]
[siren wailing]
[suspenseful music]
Where's the victim?
Why'd y'all tell dispatch
there was a burn victim?
[Jacobs] There he is.
Yeah, uh, that's a body,
not a burn victim.
New kid called it in.
What happened to him?
Passed out with a cigarette
in his mouth or, you know.
What?
Beaumont, what'd you call this?
[Beaumont] Spontaneous human combustion.
-[police radio chatter]
-He's way into that shit.
Yeah, how do we put that in a report?
Anyways, somethin' to be aware
of, honey bears.
Passed out smoking, easy enough.
It's evidence or whatever,
so maybe don't touch it.
-[bird squawks]
-[dog barks]
[suspenseful music]
[alarm beeping]
[MRI beeping]
[thunder rumbling]
[heavy rain pattering]
[buzzing]
[sighs]
[siren wailing]
[radio chatter]
-[Bob] It's a snake bite.
-[Steve] Yeah, no shit.
Miss, you happen to know
what kind of snake bit you?
Travis.
We need to figure out what kind
of poison this is.
[Bob] A Venom.
It's not poison, it's venom.
-That's what I said.
-That's not what you said.
That's exactly what I said.
My ears be working and shit,
that ain't what you said--
So you gonna tell me what I said
two seconds ago?
That's okay, okay, okay.
Well, he's gotta be here somewhere.
We've searched through
everything, man. It's not here.
Travis.
[cries]
Oh, she checked in with her boyfriend.
-Travis.
-[Steve] Dennis, look.
Dispatch, unit 101 requesting
back-up to the 9th Street Hotel.
We got a snakebite
and an unknown possible O.D.
A snake on the second
floor of a fucking hotel.
[Steve] You remember that
snakebite we ran out on
in the boonies near Chalmette?
Hey, Miss, are you in
a Pentecostal religion?
-[breathes heavily]
-[radio chatter]
Some dude walkin' around
with a fucking copperhead,
-he thinks God's gonna save him.
-It ain't no fuckin' copperhead.
Well, what is it, bruh?
I mean, the punctures,
they're not the right size,
and her response to the venom,
it could only be a fuckin'
Eastern Diamondback Rattler?
There hasn't been an Eastern Diamondback
seen in Louisiana in decades.
[Leah breathes shakily]
All right, want to help me find it?
I know I can grab that motherfucker.
[Dennis] Okay.
Miss, I'm gonna find your friend,
Steve here's gonna mark the rate
of swelling,
so the ER know how much
anti-venom to use, okay?
This is fucking pointless, okay, let's go.
All right, y'all be safe.
[shuddering]
[suspenseful music]
[car approaching]
-[siren wailing]
-[knocks]
Is it broken?
There was a loud crash.
Something might have hit the sensor.
[clanks]
[suspenseful music]
[siren wailing]
[Doctor] It's, um, it's an odd one.
[Doctor] You see here?
That's your pineal gland.
Now usually when there's a tumor
in this area, it's inside,
but yours is at the top, here,
like a soda cap.
[Doctor] I've never quite seen that.
So what are you saying?
[Doctor] Usually, an adult pineal gland
is calcified to some extent,
basically hardening with age,
but yours is like a teenager's.
My boyfriend's New Agey friend
thinks it's a third eye seat
of the soul or whatever,
so maybe your unique endocrine gland
makes you more enlightened.
So how does that affect the cancer?
[Doctor] It suggests to me
it's been there a while,
but it also looks like a glioblastoma,
which are extremely aggressive so--
So it won't be a slow death?
I gave you the good news first.
[door opens]
[approaching footsteps]
Hello.
[Tara] Hey listen, I know you're
like a grown-ass lady
about to move out of my house,
but if you're gonna stay out all night,
can you at least text us, please?
All right.
[Tara] All right?
Good morning.
-Good morning
-[Tara] I love you.
I love you, too.
The bad news is it's inoperable,
and we'll have to begin
treatment no matter what.
[Doctor] We'll have to track it.
Truthfully, you could have six weeks
or you could have 60 years.
There's a degree of chance,
but closer to six weeks
if we don't start you on
radiation immediately.
I, uh
In the meantime,
here's some support groups
and supplementary alternative therapies
that patients have found helpful
and ways of telling your family.
[sighs]
[ball bouncing]
-[Dennis] Whoa!
-[Brianna] Ah.
All right, what's up with your grades?
Are you depressed?
What? No.
Just, um, I don't know what I wanna do.
About what?
My pregnancy.
Yeah, the father,
he's being really weird about it.
No, like,
like for work, like a job,
you know, when college is done.
Oh, so you have a, you have a C average
because you don't know what you
wanna be when you grow up?
Well, now you're making it sound
ridiculous, but,
seriously, it's a lot of like
crazy hard work
for not knowing where it's going
or if I can even do it.
-[clanks]
-Of course you can do it.
All right, let's think about
this. What do you like?
When you were a kid,
you used to love watching
The X-Files with me.
You should be an FBI agent.
[ball bounces]
[dramatic music]
All right. Let's play Horse without the E.
Look, I'm gonna say what I always say,
but just listen this time.
[ominous music]
-[coin jingles]
-[sighs]
You remember this song from high school?
Redman sampled Claude Debussy.
Funny I can remember that,
but I can't remember
four years of AP French.
-Life's not fair.
-[woman laughing]
Hey.
Happy birthday.
[indistinct chatter]
[chuckles]
Boom.
Uh, it's real science-y.
[Dennis chuckles]
Yeah.
Thanks, man.
You know, when you think about it,
strip clubs are like the one
place you really can't have sex.
Highlights certain things.
[indistinct chatter]
Doubts, man, they never go away.
You know, you think the wedding day
is gonna dissolve that,
and it is profound,
but, you know, the doubts,
-they never go.
- I get it, bro.
You're a guy in a relationship.
You want this?
No.
But there's these few hours
on a Sunday morning,
after breakfast, the kids are there,
we're having coffee together,
listening to music, and I feel like
I'm supposed to feel, you know?
I haven't felt anything but
whiskey and a hard dick in a decade.
[Dennis] You're a blessed man.
[indistinct chatter]
All right, as your humble,
hypocritical, idiot,
drunken, birthday celebratin' best friend,
what's goin' on with all the pain killers?
It's fine, man.
I know, I know, just promise
me you won't become
a junkie-paramedic-cliche.
I promise I won't become
a junkie-paramedic-cliche.
[indistinct chatter]
[tense music]
[dispatch] Unit 101, we have a 14-6
at University Fraternity Row,
please respond.
[tense music]
Upstairs balcony!
Miss, can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
W-W-What?
Do you know your name?
I'm not the police.
You, you need to help Tim.
He has a heart condition,
and I think he took too much coke.
Before I passed out,
his chest was hurting.
Okay, okay, I'll get to Tim.
I just need to know
if there's somebody else
that might need some help.
Brianna.
Okay, where's Brianna,
and what did she take?
She took the fake Ayahuasca from the store
when she was sitting right there.
[suspenseful music]
[rain pattering]
Just go and check her room?
[man yells in background]
Yeah, I know, just please,
just please do it.
Do it now, yes, please.
[dog barks]
[tense music]
Uh, okay, um. Tara, she's missing.
Uh, I'm gonna call you back
after I've, uh
They need to file a missing
persons report, and
[suspenseful music]
[music intensifies]
[heavy rain falling]
[engine revving]
[sighs]
[engine revving]
[door opens]
[musical chimes]
-[door closes]
-Hello?
-[clattering]
-[coughs]
How can I help you, sir?
Uh
-How many?
-[Steve] All of 'em.
You have any more in the back?
-Where?
-The back, back inventory.
Oh, we don't, we don't have that.
So when do you get more?
[chimes]
No, we don't, it's discontinued.
This happens a lot
with that stuff back there.
How much?
-[calculator clacks]
-$105.14.
You have good people dying every day.
You in here killing your brain.
People fuckin' gettin'
stabbed with swords, fallin' down
seven-story elevator shafts for this shit!
I'm so sorry.
I'm sorry, I didn't even know
I was bothering you.
-I just, like, apologize--
-[door closes]
[dog barks]
[honks]
-[Kermani] Excuse me, sir.
-What?
[Kermani] I know this sounds
strange, but, uh,
-for triple what you just paid?
-No!
Go home to your wife
or your girlfriend, whoever.
Be glad you didn't ingest this shit.
-I'll give you $2,000.
-Go home.
[engine revs]
[suspenseful music]
[machine whirrs]
[Tara] The cell phone company
said her cell is still inactive,
but I got a hold of one of
her friends from class
who thinks that maybe she saw her
at a party earlier that night
and so I think if we just,
we just keep posting on her social media.
[Dennis] What?
What are you doing?
I'm printing these out,
and then I'm gonna put 'em up.
[Tara] Can't you do something
else while they're printing?
Like call every hospital
and jail in Louisiana
and call the credit card company
and ask the police
to search the Mississippi
while you were asleep?
[printer clicking]
Why would you search the Mississippi?
[Dennis] You know what I mean.
She's not, she's not dead,
so why would you search the Mississippi?
We have to be realistic.
I'm gonna, I'm gonna hire
a private investigator.
-The entire police department--
-What are you doing?
[dramatic music]
-[baby cries]
-[Tara sighs]
[clattering]
[light switch clicks]
Shh, shh, shh, lay down boy,
lay down, lay down.
Stay, stay.
[light switch clicks]
[light switch clicks]
Who's there?
[rattling]
[panting]
-Oh, oh shit!
-[Kermani] Hey!
Come, come the fuck outta there!
-[Kermani] Wait, wait, wait!
-Get outta my house!
-Wait!
-You motherfucker, what the fuck
-are you doin' in my closet.
-I'm not here to hurt you!
-Get outta my house!
- My name is Dr. Kermani.
What the fuck are you doin'? I don't care.
-What are you..
-[Kermani pants]
You're what?
My name is Dr. Kermani.
[both panting]
Come outta there.
Okay.
-Take your jacket off.
-Okay.
Turn around.
[Kermani] Wait, what are you doing,
what are you doing?
No, no, no.
Hello, yes, I have an intruder
-in my house.
-[Kermani] No, no, wait, wait.
-[Kermani] I'm here to help!
-Yes, ma'am.
-Cause I heard you in the store.
-My address is 1827
-You've seen what it does!
-Alexandria Avenue.
-Help, man!
-Thank you.
All right, you have until
they get here, all right?
Now, lucky for you this neighborhood,
has a shitty response time.
Can I, okay, all right.
I make synthetic drugs.
What I would do is create new drugs
very similar to illegal drugs,
but the molecules just
different enough to be legal.
I know what designer drugs are.
The FDA finally cracked
down on every variant
we could come up with so
we rushed out to market
with what was meant to be a DMT-like drug
that we synthesized from
a red flower that only grows
in a very isolated region
of the California desert
Can I use the back of this?
My mother recently passed away,
I know how hard it is.
-[Kermani] Condolences.
-It's me.
I have a tumor on my pineal gland.
Sorry to hear that.
But actually, um,
so you experience time as it actually is
rather than the linear,
one-event-after-another way
that we normally experience it. It, it
Okay, um
uh, here
You drop the needle on the song
you wanna play,
but they're all always there.
These tracks are like time, right?
Adults partially go,
appearing like ghosts in the past,
but kids, since their pineal gland
hasn't calcified,
they physically go to another
time entirely.
[Kermani] Sometimes not returning.
You expect me to believe
that you came here
to atone for your evils,
and I'm just gonna give you back
your drug that's killing kids?
I mean, I only had a few
accounts at some gas stations,
smoke shops throughout Louisiana,
some other states.
I've been driving around buying them out.
This was my last stop.
Well, too bad, I flushed it all.
So get out.
It's all gone?
Yeah.
All of it, all of it's gone.
Get the fuck out of my house.
When Kyle recruited me,
I was working in a generics lab in China.
Would've done anything to get back home,
but I left a good teaching job
for that money, so
There's just one more sample to eliminate.
[door closes]
[panting]
[suspenseful music]
[machine whirring]
[Dennis] You know they say we
see everything once in this gig?
[siren wailing]
Pretty sure we've just seen
our first junkie sword fight.
[indistinct chatter]
-You all right?
-Yeah.
It's just a little tequila headache,
I'm fine.
[siren wailing]
[Dennis] Time for your, uh,
your sermon again.
[Steve] Sir,
there was a time when
Dennis here and I were
gonna go to med school,
takin' a whole mess of science pre-reqs.
Dennis here hated a lot of it,
but I sort of became a armchair physicist.
No equations or anything,
just fun theories and history.
Like, do you know the letter
Einstein wrote
to his dear friend Michele Besso's wife
after he passed away?
That's all right.
He said,
"Now he has departed this strange world
a little ahead of me.
This means nothing.
People like us,
who believe in physics,
know that the distinction between
the past, present, and future
is only a stubbornly
persistent illusion."
-[groans]
-[vomits]
[thwacks]
[phone vibrates]
-Hey, Captain.
-[captain] Hey, Dennis,
do you have a minute?
Yeah, what's up.
[captain] I have a discrepancy
between the morphine
inventory and what the hospital
pharmacy says we logged.
I know you guys are clean,
but keep an eye on other shifts, would ya?
Yeah.
We'll talk about it in the morning.
You know, you don't have to be here.
We can get another paramedic to come in.
I don't wanna go home,
I wanna fuckin' work.
Yeah, but you and Tara should be together.
[dispatch] All units be advised
we have an open fracture
at 1988 Bourbon Street.
[Dennis] Unit 101 en route.
[thunder rumbles]
[tense music]
[suspenseful music]
Sir, can you tell me
what caused the injury?
[babbling, laughing]
Hey, do y'all know what happened to him?
[babbling]
Did he fall from something?
Sir, we can get you out of here
as soon as possible, all right?
We just want to stabilize the injury.
and we'll take you to the ER, all right?
[speaking Creole]
Use saline to remove any large
contaminants.
I know.
[man speaking Creole]
Apply the splint. Use some pressure.
Stop tellin' me how to do
my job, all right?
-Someone has to.
-What's that supposed to mean?
Sir, do not smoke that now.
[yelling in Creole]
You show up to work fucked up,
it's not gonna be on me
if you kill someone.
[skeleton man laughing]
[speaking Creole]
[Steve vomits]
We need to get a line of morphine in him.
You sure we have morphine?
What the fuck's that supposed to mean?
You can't deal with reality,
so you pop pills and get wasted
every night.
The reality you can't deal with
is you're a forty-something
child, and I've wasted
half my life on bullshit loyalty.
-Shut the fuck up!
-[babbling]
I'm so fuckin' tired of you complainin'.
You're disappointed in everybody
around you.
All you do is complain about
your fucking wife,
who's obviously too good for you,
and you don't give a shit
about your family!
I don't give a shit about my family?
Yeah, 'cause you're a selfish
ass who only cares about--
-[grunts]
-[panting]
[babbling, laughing]
-[grunts]
-[groans]
[both panting]
[man continues laughing]
[both panting]
-Fuck you, D!
-[Dennis] Yeah.
Fuck you.
Fuck you, Tom. Get back in the ambulance.
Shut the fuck up! Tom, no, I need you,
come back, help me for fuck's sake.
-[suspenseful music]
-[man laughing]
[TV narrator] Let's go back
as far as we can
to the very first moment the univer--
[news anchor] Two deputies were injured.
Details on what unfolded this morning
and the arrests made since,
and, finally, still no leads
on a young woman
who disappeared Wednesday night
after taking bath salts
-at a Tulane area house party.
-Bath salts?
[TV detective] I want to thank
the community for their continuous
Where'd they get that from?
[detective] for the missing
person case of Brianna Dannelly.
As many of the members in
our community are aware,
allied agencies and our agency
have continued to search
and are hoping for the safe return
of Brianna Dannelly.
It's so important that our community
comes together
and puts any information
that they have out there
for law enforcement. I'm asking for tips.
Any of your tips can be sent
directly to us and we will
forward those
to the New Orleans Police Department
[suspenseful music]
[music intensifies]
[male actor 1] She in here?
[male actor 2] Yeah, she's
been in here for about a week.
[playful music]
[male actor 3] Might wanna
step to the side. She's from around--
[female actor]
Bad things could happen.
[static]
[sighs]
[insect buzzes]
[whooshing]
[warbling]
[water sloshes]
[breathes heavily]
[panting]
[insects chirping]
[water trickling]
[man speaks Spanish]
God, protect me,
protect us with your light.
Our Father, Who art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy Name.
[alligator snarls]
[gasps]
Our Father, Who art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy Name.
[whispers in Spanish]
[man yells in Spanish]
Ghost!
-Oh!
-[gator snarling]
[man yells in Spanish]
Return to hell!
No, no, no!
-[clanks]
-[gasps]
[panting]
[soft chattering on TV]
[breathes heavily]
[male TV actor 1]
Don't hesitate to call us,
especially if you have unexpected guests.
[Male TV actor 2]
Well if we do, we'll let ya know.
All right, take care everyone.
Stay alert, we're waitin' around out here.
[suspenseful music]
[beeps]
[Steve] Uh
[sighs]
If you're watching this,
I'm probably trying to convince you
of somethin' that's
pretty unbelievable or I'm dead.
Uh
This
This is a time travel pill.
It allows you to go back in time
for about seven minutes.
I know it sounds
brain-damaged orangutan
fucking crazy, but I was
[sighs]
I was just back in time.
In this exact geographical location,
before it was all pumped out,
and it was still swampland.
Now, another observation,
things that touch you while on the drug
seem to be a little distorted.
My best friend,
Dennis Dannelly, who's probably
watchin' this if I'm dead,
his daughter Brianna took it,
and she disappeared.
So hopefully with these experiments,
I'll learn a way to bring her back.
[sighs]
Or be stabbed by an early
European settler,
which sounds a lot better than
wastin' away from cancer.
[dog whines]
[wind roaring]
-[breathes heavily]
-[grunts]
[yells]
[gasps and moans]
[panting]
Observation one.
I'm not exactly sure why
I went to a different time
than the first pill.
The only difference is exactly
where I was in the room
when the pill kicked in.
[suspenseful music]
[breathes heavily]
[wind howling]
[animal growls]
[panting]
[animal growls]
[trumpeting]
[suspenseful music]
[Steve] And in that moment,
seeing what years of barely
surviving is like,
this man probably 10 years younger than me
but looking decades older
despite his paleo diet,
that I realized
The past fucking sucks, man!
And, observation two,
the exact place where you are
when the drug kicks in
determines the time you go back to.
For example,
this spot took me to the Ice Age twice.
This spot took me to the swamp,
dick-ass conquistador.
And also leaves the question,
if this door works both ways,
how did Brianna get stuck back in time?
[suspenseful music]
[knocking]
Tara?
[ominous music]
[machine whirring]
[no audible dialogue]
What?
My dad always says it's better
to be single anyway.
That looks bad to you?
Just gross because it's them and boring,
'cause they're boring.
Tell you a story.
There was a time your dad
was goin' through a drought,
major drought.
Girl wouldn't talk to him
to save her life.
She would drown in a river
before talkin' to him.
I met your mom in a bar one night.
She was really nice, but I was
tryin' to thin out my herd,
too much goin' on. So I set him up.
Then you came along.
Luckily, not ugly like your dad,
thanks to your mom.
So, I say all that to say,
you're not gonna have the same
problems that your dad did.
Congratulations, be happy.
[ominous music]
-[knocking on door]
-Yeah?
[Brianna] Uh, is it cool if I come in?
-Yeah.
-No.
-Stay there.
-[laughs]
[Brianna] Um, should I be scared?
-No.
-No, come on.
-Hey.
-[Dennis] Hey.
Hey.
Uh, what are we doing for dinner?
You wanna go out? Let's go out.
Yeah, I've got time before my shift.
No, you should sleep.
You're slow and clumsy when
you're well rested, so
There's only so many ambulance
protein bars and IV hydration
I can take. I want to go out
for a real meal with all of us.
-[Tara] Sound good?
-Yeah, let's go.
[bird chirps]
[ship horn honks]
[radio news anchor]
Reported earlier this morning,
a man was found dead
of an apparent suicide
from cyanide poisoning.
Identified as Dr. Patrick Kermani of Ohio,
a chemist for a drug manufacturer--
-[car door opens]
-[vomits]
[Steve] Here we go.
in the universe.
This old coin, and the last few
experiments got me thinking.
What can I bring back and forth?
[sighs]
This coin the stab victim had.
[yells]
[suspenseful music]
The doorknob in the theme park.
-[suspenseful music]
-[woman yells]
Non-living things can travel,
just not without distortion,
and I've been fine.
So, um
I'm gonna see if I can bring Hawking
back in time with me
through physical contact.
That way I'll know
every possible way I'll be able
to bring Brianna back.
Come on, buddy, come on.
[suspenseful music]
[breathes softly]
What'd you, where did you?
No, sir, look, I apologize,
I can explain.
Police!
[suspenseful music]
[Joe yells] Police!
[dog leash clanks]
Sir, if you'll just calm down,
we'll leave.
-No, we'll leave, we'll leave!
-[Joe yells]
[wood breaks]
Come on!
[suspenseful music]
[timer beeps]
Shit.
[siren blaring in distance]
[suspenseful music]
[indistinct chatter]
As soon as he goes to sleep,
we're gonna get high
and break in and get to our spot.
[indistinct chatter]
Sounds worse than it actually is, right?
-[woman] Go in there, and check.
-[man] Just keep looking.
Here we go.
[man] He's got to be someone
-[watch beeps]
-[indistinct chatter]
-[man] I don't see
-[Steve breathes heavily]
[glass breaking]
[indistinct chatter]
[man] Sir, the window broke.
[Steve] Here we go, boy.
Come on, boy.
Ooh.
[man] I'm gonna' search for
[breathes heavily]
-[floor creaks]
-You son of a bitch!
[grunts]
[groans]
[timer beeps]
-Police!
-Hawking!
Hawking, come on, boy, come on!
Hawking, come on!
[yells]
-[Klansman] Is he in there?
-[Steve] Come on!
-Come on, boy!
-[door knocking]
-[man yelling outside]
-Come on, man!
-[timer beeps]
-[Joe] Get in here!
[Steve] No, no, no!
-Hawking, no!
-[gunshot]
[timer beeps]
[Steve panting]
[timer beeps]
[dramatic music]
Hawking!
[hawking cries]
Observation three.
Don't
Don't be shit!
Don't be late.
Obs
-Ooh.
-[dramatic music]
So it seems you have to be touching
whatever you bring back,
like quantum mixing or something.
Hawking had on his collar, so
It's chaotic how much of
anything comes back safely.
[dramatic music]
Either way, there aren't enough
pills for me to go back and
find Hawking.
And if you're late
[leash clanks]
[bells playing]
[Tara] You said that they sounded like
Rain Man on cocaine.
That is exactly what you said,
it's a direct quote.
-It's not very, very nice.
-Yeah, they do.
Come on, babe.
-They do.
-[Tara] Please, please, please,
Steve has other friends.
Look, um,
there's something I never told you.
During the Katrina cleanup,
Steve got this call,
and a few coffins had been
ripped out of Lafayette Cemetery
and ended up in some Garden District yard.
And a cleanup worker traced some
of the serial numbers
back to Steve.
[birds chirping]
[Dennis] Two of them were his parents,
and one was his little sister Dana.
And Dana was just a kid when she died.
And when we came across her coffin,
it had been opened by looters,
and seeing her tiny remains,
all I could think about was Brianna,
and I literally passed out.
[sighs]
And when I came to on the porch,
Steve was asking if I was okay.
I mean, if I was okay.
And I got up, and I was leaning
against one of those
rich assholes' Roman columns while
Steve watched his little sister
being dragged out in her coffin
to the truck
to join his parents.
And that was his 30th birthday.
Hello.
[clock chimes]
[breathes heavily]
[TV announcer] Marty and Doc
are stuck in the rockin' '50s.
Fuck Back to the Future.
The past was hell.
They tryin' to make it all look
cozy and shit.
Best part about the past
was the music, which,
with your boy and them.
He tryin' to rock out to Chuck Berry.
I try that, they'd put me
in jail or, or worse.
[TV chatter]
Huh, bro?
[TV announcer] Your favorite
classic movies playing tonight
- on NOLA nine.
-[Steve chuckles]
[rain pattering]
[Steve] Three pills left.
-[watch beeps]
-Time to find Brianna.
[sighs]
[timer beeps]
[breathing heavily]
-[indistinct chatter]
-[Steve breathes heavily]
[timer beeps]
-[breathes heavily]
-[groans]
[grunts]
[groaning]
[crickets chirp]
Aah!
Brianna!
[breathing heavily]
[man speaks in tribal language]
Come.
[man speaks in tribal language]
Come.
[Steve] Have you seen a girl?
[fire crackles]
A young woman, a young lady?
[in French]
A woman?
[man speaks in tribal language]
The Spirit has been summoned.
Hold the Spirit close.
You, uh, what you,
wait a minute, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Hey, whoa, wow, what are you,
no, no! Wait, wait, no!
Wait, wait, wait, no, no, no, no, wait!
[groans]
[loud whooshing]
-[Steve groans]
-Aah!
[Steve breathes heavily]
[tense music]
[Steve breathes heavily]
[man speaks in tribal language]
Protect the Spirit.
[Steve panting]
[suspenseful music]
[Steve yells]
[groans]
[Steve breathes heavily]
Oh, shit.
Apparently,
-the present can anchor you.
-[rustling]
[suspenseful music]
[breathes heavily]
What are you doing on my roof?
Are you sure this is where Brianna was
when she disappeared?
No.
She wandered off somewhere.
Why the fuck didn't you say that?
I almost
[grunts]
Go back inside, you high as fuck!
[hip-hop music]
[background chatter]
[Dennis] With Brianna gone,
I think my marriage is, um
I think I'm getting a divorce.
-[indistinct chatter]
-[Dennis sighs]
She hates me.
She knows me better than anyone,
and she hates me.
And she's right.
She made an oath to love me
unconditionally and she has.
I made that same promise,
and every day I wish
I didn't hate half the music
she listens to,
or that she wore sexier underwear,
that her tits were bigger,
that she didn't sound
so happy all the time,
because I think that
conspicuously happy people
-are dumb.
-[chuckles]
So I get frustrated and I,
I start these ridiculous arguments,
secretly hoping that
she ends it, as if that wouldn't
fucking destroy me.
Brianna was the one thing
that was keeping us together,
and now she's gone, so, uh
[Dennis sighs]
Remember that trip we took
to Thailand and I
I got malaria and I was
in that shitty hospital
and all I could think about was her,
getting home to her.
[hip-hop music in background]
That's how I feel now.
She won't even look at me,
because I'm such a fucking asshole.
And I miss Brianna so fucking much.
[Dennis sobbing]
[Dennis cries]
[Steve] This is about you,
Tara, and Brianna.
Nothing else matters.
And just so you know, my life sucks.
-[Dennis chuckles]
-Come on.
I'm serious, man.
It's no fun. You might see James Bond,
but I experience Charlie Sheen, all right?
[chuckles]
What you and Tara have,
even with all the fights,
the ups and downs, the doubts,
I'd take that shit in a heartbeat.
I sleep around by default
and then mourn the aspect
of myself that used to feel
something above fuckin'.
But then I found out I was dyin'.
My brain
has a tumor.
And all those things just seem trivial.
That there's meanin'
in the things I do have,
and I want to spend the time I have
preservin' 'em.
I've been in treatment
and I found out it's workin', but
when you're starin' down at the end,
you realize there are things
that are far worse than death.
And none of those things are
what you were upset about.
How long have you known?
Couple of weeks.
Look, I'm sorry
I didn't tell you. It's just--
You know what, fuck you!
Look, you have a right
to be mad, all right?
But you understand why it hasn't
been a good time
to tell you, right?
Look, I'm tryin' to do my best, man.
[sighs]
I was so close to making a bad
haircut joke earlier.
[chuckles]
[sniffs]
You know, it turned out it was Tom.
[Dennis] Fuckin' driver
who took the morphine.
You probably drove him to it.
Hey, it's not misplaced rage
if the guy's a fuckin' idiot.
[chuckles]
[grunts]
[crickets chirping]
Ah!
So you've really been lookin'
for the one this whole time?
You know the real tragedy
of meeting the love of your life?
If it's happened, it's behind you.
It's not gonna happen again.
And although it's wonderful,
what's ahead of you,
it's really, really hard.
You know, about that treatment thing,
I decided to put it on pause.
-There's somethin' that came up,
-What are you talking about?
-You're going to fucking chemo.
-Something, look, something
came up that's really important
that I have to do.
Then do it in chemo, bitch!
You know the difference between
your life and mine?
Do you wanna know
what the difference really is?
What?
Random events, chance, and luck.
Now, some people might think
it's God or the universe
or what the fuck ever,
but that's what it is.
[crickets chirp]
Let's go see my family.
I wanna show y'all somethin'.
[suspenseful music]
[Steve] There are things worse than death.
[gasping and grunting]
[whimpers]
Shit.
Right.
Listen, I would do anything
to get her back, but this is--
I know it's kangaroo shit loony,
I know, but we gotta try.
I'm not saying we shouldn't but,
but you made it back last time,
okay, maybe not next time.
And who knows what else
it's doing to you, I mean,
the next dose could kill you.
It should be me.
It's gotta be me.
Look, I have the youth tumor.
Your pineal gland is old as shit.
It's literally impossible for you.
[sighs]
Now, if you were lost in time,
and considering you raised her
and you guys share the same DNA,
let's assume that you would make
the same decision.
What would you do?
[suspenseful music]
[Dennis sighs]
I'd leave a message somewhere permanent.
[clanks]
[suspenseful music]
[Steve] Uh, Hawking,
he, uh
What?
Uh.
[sniffs]
It's just been oh, man,
if all this works out, I'll
I'll tell you about it someday.
[exhales]
This is delicious.
This dirty, shitty river,
this beer,
this time,
wouldn't change it.
The clock just
keeps tickin' down
and the lower that number gets,
you realize how fucking amazing now is.
The present is a miracle, bruh.
[sighs]
[chuckles]
That's a pretty shitty, misspelled,
unspecific message, huh?
[Steve] "Allways"?
Remember that home hospice
call we had a few years back,
100-year-old woman,
she had end-stage kidney disease,
all those pictures with like
Louis Armstrong and Nina Simone?
Yeah, I remember that.
Well, she had this book on her nightstand.
Can't remember what it was
called but something like,
Facing Death with a Smile,
or some bullshit.
While we were waiting for the coroner,
I thumbed through it,
and there's this passage about
how we're all most likely to die.
[Dennis] Brianna, she asked me about that,
and it's like a third of us
will be prolonged in a bed,
a third of us will be a sharp
decline in a bed,
and a third of us will be
a roller coaster of organ failure,
again, in a bed, being treated,
and the tiniest percentage
is sudden death.
And that's our business, man. We
We're seeing the exceptional ones.
That's what you told your daughter?
That's the most fucked up--
-[Steve chuckles]
-[Dennis] No, man, no, no, no.
[laughs]
What it made me realize is
that we know how it ends.
Mystery solved.
And in death, the wild cards of fate
are the exceptional ones.
But in life, all that
crazy shit that happens before
you die, there's always
infinite possibilities.
So, yeah,
the last thing I ever said
to her as her father
-was alway--
-[glass shatters]
[ship horn honks]
[explosion]
[fire crackles]
[explosion]
[grunts]
-[explosion]
-[grunting and gasping]
Shit, shit!
[fire crackles]
[explosion]
[grunts and groans]
[groans]
[tense music]
-[timer beeps]
-Brianna!
[explosion]
[groans]
Brianna!
Brianna!
[explosion]
Brianna.
-Brianna.
-[suspenseful music]
[grunts and groans]
[explosion]
[Dennis] Tara, it's me.
[dramatic music]
I need you.
-[bell chimes]
-[dramatic music]
Really fucking need you.
[panting]
[dramatic music]
[woman grunts]
-[Brianna] Hello?
-[whimpers]
[Brianna] Hello?
[panting]
-[Steve groans]
-[Brianna] Steve!
[groans]
How did, how did you find me?
-The message.
-[both panting]
What? What message?
Don't worry about it. Here, take this.
It's time to go home, just take it.
[Steve panting]
[Brianna panting]
Where's yours?
I'm good.
Come on.
[grunting and panting]
[panting]
Okay.
Any minute now,
something from the present
is gonna appear nearby, all right?
Now, if we're not back at the boulder
by the time it disappears,
we'll be stuck here forever.
Okay?
Aah!
-I'll help you across.
-No!
You're gonna run as fast
as you fucking can.
[fire crackles]
-[grunts]
-[warbling]
Go, go, go!
[grunting and panting]
[both groaning]
-[both panting]
-[man whistling tune]
[suspenseful music]
[looter] Ya with the slave!
[tense music]
Come'ya, shoot ya, both ya!
Okay, all right!
Don't move.
Yeah.
I'm your slave.
[suspenseful music]
Come here!
Everything's gonna be all right.
[fire crackles]
[suspenseful music]
Get down on your knee.
Okay, okay.
Yeah. I'm your fuckin' slave.
You come on.
[suspenseful music]
Come on.
-[fire crackling]
-[Steve] Come on!
Now come on and get your fuckin' slave!
[suspenseful music]
-[timer beeps]
-[breathes heavily]
[timer beeps]
[explosion]
-[yells]
-[explosion]
[groaning and panting]
-[gasps]
-Oh, shit!
[timer beeps]
[ominous music]
[sobbing]
You okay?
I'm fine. I'm totally fine.
-[Dennis] Oh, my God.
-[Brianna] Sorry.
-[Brianna sobbing]
-Don't be sorry.
[suspenseful music]
[dramatic music]
[music intensifies]
[tense music]
[thunder rumbles]
[thunder continues]
[rain pattering]
[thunder rumbling]
[indistinct chatter in other room]
[thunder rumbles]
[elevator dings]
[breathes heavily]
[TV clicks]
[breathes heavily]
[suspenseful music]
[door opens]
[music intensifies]
[breathes heavily]
[eerie music]
[breathes heavily]
[snake rattling]
[yells inaudibly]
[inaudible scream]
[yells inaudibly]
[wind whooshes]
[suspenseful music]
[stretcher clanks]
-[Dennis] 1107 right?
-[Steve] Yeah.
[Dennis] Fuck, shit.
Tom!
I swear to God,
Tom's the worst driver we've ever had.
[Dennis chuckles]
You usually hide your hangovers better.
My mouth tastes like
nasty cinnamon whiskey.
[Steve chuckles]
The glitter won't come off.
Yeah, uniform got glitter on it?
Oh, no, the room was dark.
I couldn't tell which one
was mine, so pretty sure
this is her uniform
from the athletic store.
Fine, all right, I get it.
It's unprofessional.
It's cold as fuck out here, man,
thank you.
[chuckles]
-[Steve] Here we go.
-[Dennis] Here we go.
[eerie music]
I think they need help.
[suspenseful music]
I hope she wakes up.
I think she's got school in the morning.
I'll take the kid.
What happened?
I was sleeping in the bedroom,
and I heard French and, and the wind.
[Dennis] Sir, can you hear me?
[Dennis] Okay, I've got a chest wound.
[suspenseful music]
What'd you take, kid?
[suspenseful music]
[Dennis] How's it going in there, Steve?
OD, figurin' it out.
Miss, what'd the kid take?
What you got in your pockets?
Miss fuck!
[crack girlfriend] Heroin.
[groans]
[groans] Shit!
[panting]
[clicks]
That Narcan? Can I have some?
[Jacobs] Hands, where I can see them!
[Jacobs] Keep 'em up.
[Jacobs] Drop your weapon.
[Beaumont] He don't look good, do he?
[police radio chatter]
[Dennis] How's it goin' in there, man?
Dispatch fucked up, said assault.
You show up to work dressed like Tupac,
the fuck you expect?
[police radio chatter]
[spits]
[clicks]
[gasps]
[Steve] `Victim is good.
How 'bout in there?
[Dennis] We've got a penetrating
trauma in the torso,
applying occlusive dressing
to a sucking chest wound.
[police radio chatter]
And, hold on what's that sound?
[Dennis] Knife wound in his front.
[Dennis] Exit out his back.
[Steve] A what?
[Dennis] We'll make an airway en route.
The fuck you lovebirds do
to these nice people?
Heroin overdose in the back. Knife wound.
[police radio chatter]
[Jacobs] He shoot H, too?
You do this?
Probably did it to himself.
Designer drug been makin'
junkie monkeys go nuts.
Ain't illegal though,
so the fuck you gonna do, son?
Uh, yeah, heroin
possession is though.
You want to tell us where
you hid the weapon,
the, um, the what, the
[Dennis] Three foot long knife.
[police radio chatter]
But isn't that a
Wanna save yourself some trouble
and tell us where the sword is?
[suspenseful music]
Still waters run deep.
[in Spanish]
Speak English. Please.
[sniffs]
[suspenseful music]
-[radio chatter]
-Let's get him outta here.
[Dennis] Yeah.
[suspenseful music]
[siren wails]
[suspenseful music]
[thunder rumbling]
[clanks]
[Dennis] Don't have kids
18 years apart, dude.
Well, you can't, 'cause we're old as fuck,
but gotta keep that window slim.
At least you can get a free babysitter.
[thwacks]
And even though Brianna's 18,
and I love my daughter to death,
she's a fuckin' awful babysitter.
[Nurse Hall] The pills will help
against HIV.
It'll take about six weeks
to know for sure,
but I've never had a positive
from a needle stick.
I sent it to the fast lab,
so give you a call tomorrow
about everything else.
Is there any reason we
shouldn't do a full workup?
Ignorance is bliss, that's about it.
Hangover's worse than usual,
but that's probably from the drinking
and recreational drug use.
We'll ignore the ganja
and booger sugar markers.
[Steve] Mm-hm. Thank you.
Hey, what'd you get my baby daughter?
[Steve] Uh, some condoms, magnums.
[Dennis] Ah, Christ.
[Steve] Nah, they're earrings, man.
She's one, man, nothing's pierced.
It's strategy. So when you
give her the earrings,
she'll be old enough to know
that I got 'em for her.
Okay.
A tiny dress would be a waste of money.
Look, babe, Uncle Steve's
sittin' all the way over here,
because he went and slept
with all mommy's friends
before they married all
those men over there.
-[Steve] That's not true.
-[Tara] Yes
-[Dennis] Oh, it's kinda true.
-[Tara] Yes, it is.
[Steve] Let me hold the baby,
come on, let the girls see
-what they're missin'.
-Oh, that's a terrible idea.
[Steve] Come on,
I'd be a great dad, come on.
-Oh boy, okay.
-[Dennis] No, no.
-[Steve] look at that.
-[Dennis] Oh no, oh God.
-[Steve] Hey, ladies. Oh no.
-[Tara] Oh, the baby.
-[Dennis] Bad idea, bad idea.
-[baby cries]
[Steve] Oh, wait, why's your baby
And there we go! What did you do?
-[Steve] No, no, no.
-Hey, hey, give her back.
[Tara] I think you busted her.
Give her back, give her back.
-Racist baby.
-[Dennis chuckles]
-[Steve laughs]
-[Tara] No.
She seems happy.
Yeah, no.
Give her a break, man.
She work during the day with lawyers,
stay up all night with the kids,
then have to deal with your ugly mug.
I'm gonna go say what's up to Brianna.
She's bein' a little emo,
incorrectly thinks you're cooler
than me, 'cause I'm her dad
and you're just some asshole
who pops up from time to time.
Yo, B.
Hey, what up?
-I got somethin' for you.
-Yeah.
You poured me a cheap one.
You're not old enough to know
what cheap beer is yet.
I'm 18, and I know this is some
cheap-ass lager.
Fuck, stop sayin' your age.
I don't want to think
about 18 years goin' by that fast.
Why you sittin' over here
by yourself on this shitty rock?
There's cake and barbecue
and old, fat people over there.
There's something wrong with me.
[chuckles]
Uh, no, no one died or anything,
I just, uh, I, uh--
[phone vibrates]
Oh, excuse me for one second.
Hello?
[tense music]
Yeah, I'll be there on Tuesday,
Doctor, thank you.
[somber music]
[phone rings]
-[clanks]
-[phone rings]
[groans]
[park girl] Fuck, firemen
have to get up early.
[Steve] Yeah.
[splashes]
[Steve] What time you go to work?
[park girl] I'm between jobs,
so I thought it'd be a good time
to visit with friends,
but I'm thinkin' about makin'
an app for power crystals,
or astrology, or both, I don't know.
[Steve] That sounds like
a really bad idea.
[Steve] Look,
I have to run to work, so, um.
Uh, oh, it was nice to meet you.
It was nice to meet you, too.
Be sure to lock the door
on your way out, okay?
[somber music]
[sobbing]
Brianna wants to move onto
campus, a room opened up.
That's what she wants?
Yeah.
I'll, uh, I'll miss her.
[wood scratches]
Gonna go with seven milligrams
of morphine,
in case the burn's second degree.
You think of anything else?
Uh, dry wraps.
Hey, can you reach me a codeine, please?
-[tires screeching]
-[grunts]
Shit, fuckin' Tom!
Well, at least it's not you driving.
[Steve] What the fuck are you
talking about?
-[Steve] I'm a great driver.
-No, you're not.
[Steve] I'm the best driver you know.
Nope, and a Black man drivin'
through the Garden District,
we'd be pulled over so much,
there'd be people dyin'
-all over New Orleans.
-[pills clatter]
[tense music]
[siren wailing]
[suspenseful music]
Where's the victim?
Why'd y'all tell dispatch
there was a burn victim?
[Jacobs] There he is.
Yeah, uh, that's a body,
not a burn victim.
New kid called it in.
What happened to him?
Passed out with a cigarette
in his mouth or, you know.
What?
Beaumont, what'd you call this?
[Beaumont] Spontaneous human combustion.
-[police radio chatter]
-He's way into that shit.
Yeah, how do we put that in a report?
Anyways, somethin' to be aware
of, honey bears.
Passed out smoking, easy enough.
It's evidence or whatever,
so maybe don't touch it.
-[bird squawks]
-[dog barks]
[suspenseful music]
[alarm beeping]
[MRI beeping]
[thunder rumbling]
[heavy rain pattering]
[buzzing]
[sighs]
[siren wailing]
[radio chatter]
-[Bob] It's a snake bite.
-[Steve] Yeah, no shit.
Miss, you happen to know
what kind of snake bit you?
Travis.
We need to figure out what kind
of poison this is.
[Bob] A Venom.
It's not poison, it's venom.
-That's what I said.
-That's not what you said.
That's exactly what I said.
My ears be working and shit,
that ain't what you said--
So you gonna tell me what I said
two seconds ago?
That's okay, okay, okay.
Well, he's gotta be here somewhere.
We've searched through
everything, man. It's not here.
Travis.
[cries]
Oh, she checked in with her boyfriend.
-Travis.
-[Steve] Dennis, look.
Dispatch, unit 101 requesting
back-up to the 9th Street Hotel.
We got a snakebite
and an unknown possible O.D.
A snake on the second
floor of a fucking hotel.
[Steve] You remember that
snakebite we ran out on
in the boonies near Chalmette?
Hey, Miss, are you in
a Pentecostal religion?
-[breathes heavily]
-[radio chatter]
Some dude walkin' around
with a fucking copperhead,
-he thinks God's gonna save him.
-It ain't no fuckin' copperhead.
Well, what is it, bruh?
I mean, the punctures,
they're not the right size,
and her response to the venom,
it could only be a fuckin'
Eastern Diamondback Rattler?
There hasn't been an Eastern Diamondback
seen in Louisiana in decades.
[Leah breathes shakily]
All right, want to help me find it?
I know I can grab that motherfucker.
[Dennis] Okay.
Miss, I'm gonna find your friend,
Steve here's gonna mark the rate
of swelling,
so the ER know how much
anti-venom to use, okay?
This is fucking pointless, okay, let's go.
All right, y'all be safe.
[shuddering]
[suspenseful music]
[car approaching]
-[siren wailing]
-[knocks]
Is it broken?
There was a loud crash.
Something might have hit the sensor.
[clanks]
[suspenseful music]
[siren wailing]
[Doctor] It's, um, it's an odd one.
[Doctor] You see here?
That's your pineal gland.
Now usually when there's a tumor
in this area, it's inside,
but yours is at the top, here,
like a soda cap.
[Doctor] I've never quite seen that.
So what are you saying?
[Doctor] Usually, an adult pineal gland
is calcified to some extent,
basically hardening with age,
but yours is like a teenager's.
My boyfriend's New Agey friend
thinks it's a third eye seat
of the soul or whatever,
so maybe your unique endocrine gland
makes you more enlightened.
So how does that affect the cancer?
[Doctor] It suggests to me
it's been there a while,
but it also looks like a glioblastoma,
which are extremely aggressive so--
So it won't be a slow death?
I gave you the good news first.
[door opens]
[approaching footsteps]
Hello.
[Tara] Hey listen, I know you're
like a grown-ass lady
about to move out of my house,
but if you're gonna stay out all night,
can you at least text us, please?
All right.
[Tara] All right?
Good morning.
-Good morning
-[Tara] I love you.
I love you, too.
The bad news is it's inoperable,
and we'll have to begin
treatment no matter what.
[Doctor] We'll have to track it.
Truthfully, you could have six weeks
or you could have 60 years.
There's a degree of chance,
but closer to six weeks
if we don't start you on
radiation immediately.
I, uh
In the meantime,
here's some support groups
and supplementary alternative therapies
that patients have found helpful
and ways of telling your family.
[sighs]
[ball bouncing]
-[Dennis] Whoa!
-[Brianna] Ah.
All right, what's up with your grades?
Are you depressed?
What? No.
Just, um, I don't know what I wanna do.
About what?
My pregnancy.
Yeah, the father,
he's being really weird about it.
No, like,
like for work, like a job,
you know, when college is done.
Oh, so you have a, you have a C average
because you don't know what you
wanna be when you grow up?
Well, now you're making it sound
ridiculous, but,
seriously, it's a lot of like
crazy hard work
for not knowing where it's going
or if I can even do it.
-[clanks]
-Of course you can do it.
All right, let's think about
this. What do you like?
When you were a kid,
you used to love watching
The X-Files with me.
You should be an FBI agent.
[ball bounces]
[dramatic music]
All right. Let's play Horse without the E.
Look, I'm gonna say what I always say,
but just listen this time.
[ominous music]
-[coin jingles]
-[sighs]
You remember this song from high school?
Redman sampled Claude Debussy.
Funny I can remember that,
but I can't remember
four years of AP French.
-Life's not fair.
-[woman laughing]
Hey.
Happy birthday.
[indistinct chatter]
[chuckles]
Boom.
Uh, it's real science-y.
[Dennis chuckles]
Yeah.
Thanks, man.
You know, when you think about it,
strip clubs are like the one
place you really can't have sex.
Highlights certain things.
[indistinct chatter]
Doubts, man, they never go away.
You know, you think the wedding day
is gonna dissolve that,
and it is profound,
but, you know, the doubts,
-they never go.
- I get it, bro.
You're a guy in a relationship.
You want this?
No.
But there's these few hours
on a Sunday morning,
after breakfast, the kids are there,
we're having coffee together,
listening to music, and I feel like
I'm supposed to feel, you know?
I haven't felt anything but
whiskey and a hard dick in a decade.
[Dennis] You're a blessed man.
[indistinct chatter]
All right, as your humble,
hypocritical, idiot,
drunken, birthday celebratin' best friend,
what's goin' on with all the pain killers?
It's fine, man.
I know, I know, just promise
me you won't become
a junkie-paramedic-cliche.
I promise I won't become
a junkie-paramedic-cliche.
[indistinct chatter]
[tense music]
[dispatch] Unit 101, we have a 14-6
at University Fraternity Row,
please respond.
[tense music]
Upstairs balcony!
Miss, can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
W-W-What?
Do you know your name?
I'm not the police.
You, you need to help Tim.
He has a heart condition,
and I think he took too much coke.
Before I passed out,
his chest was hurting.
Okay, okay, I'll get to Tim.
I just need to know
if there's somebody else
that might need some help.
Brianna.
Okay, where's Brianna,
and what did she take?
She took the fake Ayahuasca from the store
when she was sitting right there.
[suspenseful music]
[rain pattering]
Just go and check her room?
[man yells in background]
Yeah, I know, just please,
just please do it.
Do it now, yes, please.
[dog barks]
[tense music]
Uh, okay, um. Tara, she's missing.
Uh, I'm gonna call you back
after I've, uh
They need to file a missing
persons report, and
[suspenseful music]
[music intensifies]
[heavy rain falling]
[engine revving]
[sighs]
[engine revving]
[door opens]
[musical chimes]
-[door closes]
-Hello?
-[clattering]
-[coughs]
How can I help you, sir?
Uh
-How many?
-[Steve] All of 'em.
You have any more in the back?
-Where?
-The back, back inventory.
Oh, we don't, we don't have that.
So when do you get more?
[chimes]
No, we don't, it's discontinued.
This happens a lot
with that stuff back there.
How much?
-[calculator clacks]
-$105.14.
You have good people dying every day.
You in here killing your brain.
People fuckin' gettin'
stabbed with swords, fallin' down
seven-story elevator shafts for this shit!
I'm so sorry.
I'm sorry, I didn't even know
I was bothering you.
-I just, like, apologize--
-[door closes]
[dog barks]
[honks]
-[Kermani] Excuse me, sir.
-What?
[Kermani] I know this sounds
strange, but, uh,
-for triple what you just paid?
-No!
Go home to your wife
or your girlfriend, whoever.
Be glad you didn't ingest this shit.
-I'll give you $2,000.
-Go home.
[engine revs]
[suspenseful music]
[machine whirrs]
[Tara] The cell phone company
said her cell is still inactive,
but I got a hold of one of
her friends from class
who thinks that maybe she saw her
at a party earlier that night
and so I think if we just,
we just keep posting on her social media.
[Dennis] What?
What are you doing?
I'm printing these out,
and then I'm gonna put 'em up.
[Tara] Can't you do something
else while they're printing?
Like call every hospital
and jail in Louisiana
and call the credit card company
and ask the police
to search the Mississippi
while you were asleep?
[printer clicking]
Why would you search the Mississippi?
[Dennis] You know what I mean.
She's not, she's not dead,
so why would you search the Mississippi?
We have to be realistic.
I'm gonna, I'm gonna hire
a private investigator.
-The entire police department--
-What are you doing?
[dramatic music]
-[baby cries]
-[Tara sighs]
[clattering]
[light switch clicks]
Shh, shh, shh, lay down boy,
lay down, lay down.
Stay, stay.
[light switch clicks]
[light switch clicks]
Who's there?
[rattling]
[panting]
-Oh, oh shit!
-[Kermani] Hey!
Come, come the fuck outta there!
-[Kermani] Wait, wait, wait!
-Get outta my house!
-Wait!
-You motherfucker, what the fuck
-are you doin' in my closet.
-I'm not here to hurt you!
-Get outta my house!
- My name is Dr. Kermani.
What the fuck are you doin'? I don't care.
-What are you..
-[Kermani pants]
You're what?
My name is Dr. Kermani.
[both panting]
Come outta there.
Okay.
-Take your jacket off.
-Okay.
Turn around.
[Kermani] Wait, what are you doing,
what are you doing?
No, no, no.
Hello, yes, I have an intruder
-in my house.
-[Kermani] No, no, wait, wait.
-[Kermani] I'm here to help!
-Yes, ma'am.
-Cause I heard you in the store.
-My address is 1827
-You've seen what it does!
-Alexandria Avenue.
-Help, man!
-Thank you.
All right, you have until
they get here, all right?
Now, lucky for you this neighborhood,
has a shitty response time.
Can I, okay, all right.
I make synthetic drugs.
What I would do is create new drugs
very similar to illegal drugs,
but the molecules just
different enough to be legal.
I know what designer drugs are.
The FDA finally cracked
down on every variant
we could come up with so
we rushed out to market
with what was meant to be a DMT-like drug
that we synthesized from
a red flower that only grows
in a very isolated region
of the California desert
Can I use the back of this?
My mother recently passed away,
I know how hard it is.
-[Kermani] Condolences.
-It's me.
I have a tumor on my pineal gland.
Sorry to hear that.
But actually, um,
so you experience time as it actually is
rather than the linear,
one-event-after-another way
that we normally experience it. It, it
Okay, um
uh, here
You drop the needle on the song
you wanna play,
but they're all always there.
These tracks are like time, right?
Adults partially go,
appearing like ghosts in the past,
but kids, since their pineal gland
hasn't calcified,
they physically go to another
time entirely.
[Kermani] Sometimes not returning.
You expect me to believe
that you came here
to atone for your evils,
and I'm just gonna give you back
your drug that's killing kids?
I mean, I only had a few
accounts at some gas stations,
smoke shops throughout Louisiana,
some other states.
I've been driving around buying them out.
This was my last stop.
Well, too bad, I flushed it all.
So get out.
It's all gone?
Yeah.
All of it, all of it's gone.
Get the fuck out of my house.
When Kyle recruited me,
I was working in a generics lab in China.
Would've done anything to get back home,
but I left a good teaching job
for that money, so
There's just one more sample to eliminate.
[door closes]
[panting]
[suspenseful music]
[machine whirring]
[Dennis] You know they say we
see everything once in this gig?
[siren wailing]
Pretty sure we've just seen
our first junkie sword fight.
[indistinct chatter]
-You all right?
-Yeah.
It's just a little tequila headache,
I'm fine.
[siren wailing]
[Dennis] Time for your, uh,
your sermon again.
[Steve] Sir,
there was a time when
Dennis here and I were
gonna go to med school,
takin' a whole mess of science pre-reqs.
Dennis here hated a lot of it,
but I sort of became a armchair physicist.
No equations or anything,
just fun theories and history.
Like, do you know the letter
Einstein wrote
to his dear friend Michele Besso's wife
after he passed away?
That's all right.
He said,
"Now he has departed this strange world
a little ahead of me.
This means nothing.
People like us,
who believe in physics,
know that the distinction between
the past, present, and future
is only a stubbornly
persistent illusion."
-[groans]
-[vomits]
[thwacks]
[phone vibrates]
-Hey, Captain.
-[captain] Hey, Dennis,
do you have a minute?
Yeah, what's up.
[captain] I have a discrepancy
between the morphine
inventory and what the hospital
pharmacy says we logged.
I know you guys are clean,
but keep an eye on other shifts, would ya?
Yeah.
We'll talk about it in the morning.
You know, you don't have to be here.
We can get another paramedic to come in.
I don't wanna go home,
I wanna fuckin' work.
Yeah, but you and Tara should be together.
[dispatch] All units be advised
we have an open fracture
at 1988 Bourbon Street.
[Dennis] Unit 101 en route.
[thunder rumbles]
[tense music]
[suspenseful music]
Sir, can you tell me
what caused the injury?
[babbling, laughing]
Hey, do y'all know what happened to him?
[babbling]
Did he fall from something?
Sir, we can get you out of here
as soon as possible, all right?
We just want to stabilize the injury.
and we'll take you to the ER, all right?
[speaking Creole]
Use saline to remove any large
contaminants.
I know.
[man speaking Creole]
Apply the splint. Use some pressure.
Stop tellin' me how to do
my job, all right?
-Someone has to.
-What's that supposed to mean?
Sir, do not smoke that now.
[yelling in Creole]
You show up to work fucked up,
it's not gonna be on me
if you kill someone.
[skeleton man laughing]
[speaking Creole]
[Steve vomits]
We need to get a line of morphine in him.
You sure we have morphine?
What the fuck's that supposed to mean?
You can't deal with reality,
so you pop pills and get wasted
every night.
The reality you can't deal with
is you're a forty-something
child, and I've wasted
half my life on bullshit loyalty.
-Shut the fuck up!
-[babbling]
I'm so fuckin' tired of you complainin'.
You're disappointed in everybody
around you.
All you do is complain about
your fucking wife,
who's obviously too good for you,
and you don't give a shit
about your family!
I don't give a shit about my family?
Yeah, 'cause you're a selfish
ass who only cares about--
-[grunts]
-[panting]
[babbling, laughing]
-[grunts]
-[groans]
[both panting]
[man continues laughing]
[both panting]
-Fuck you, D!
-[Dennis] Yeah.
Fuck you.
Fuck you, Tom. Get back in the ambulance.
Shut the fuck up! Tom, no, I need you,
come back, help me for fuck's sake.
-[suspenseful music]
-[man laughing]
[TV narrator] Let's go back
as far as we can
to the very first moment the univer--
[news anchor] Two deputies were injured.
Details on what unfolded this morning
and the arrests made since,
and, finally, still no leads
on a young woman
who disappeared Wednesday night
after taking bath salts
-at a Tulane area house party.
-Bath salts?
[TV detective] I want to thank
the community for their continuous
Where'd they get that from?
[detective] for the missing
person case of Brianna Dannelly.
As many of the members in
our community are aware,
allied agencies and our agency
have continued to search
and are hoping for the safe return
of Brianna Dannelly.
It's so important that our community
comes together
and puts any information
that they have out there
for law enforcement. I'm asking for tips.
Any of your tips can be sent
directly to us and we will
forward those
to the New Orleans Police Department
[suspenseful music]
[music intensifies]
[male actor 1] She in here?
[male actor 2] Yeah, she's
been in here for about a week.
[playful music]
[male actor 3] Might wanna
step to the side. She's from around--
[female actor]
Bad things could happen.
[static]
[sighs]
[insect buzzes]
[whooshing]
[warbling]
[water sloshes]
[breathes heavily]
[panting]
[insects chirping]
[water trickling]
[man speaks Spanish]
God, protect me,
protect us with your light.
Our Father, Who art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy Name.
[alligator snarls]
[gasps]
Our Father, Who art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy Name.
[whispers in Spanish]
[man yells in Spanish]
Ghost!
-Oh!
-[gator snarling]
[man yells in Spanish]
Return to hell!
No, no, no!
-[clanks]
-[gasps]
[panting]
[soft chattering on TV]
[breathes heavily]
[male TV actor 1]
Don't hesitate to call us,
especially if you have unexpected guests.
[Male TV actor 2]
Well if we do, we'll let ya know.
All right, take care everyone.
Stay alert, we're waitin' around out here.
[suspenseful music]
[beeps]
[Steve] Uh
[sighs]
If you're watching this,
I'm probably trying to convince you
of somethin' that's
pretty unbelievable or I'm dead.
Uh
This
This is a time travel pill.
It allows you to go back in time
for about seven minutes.
I know it sounds
brain-damaged orangutan
fucking crazy, but I was
[sighs]
I was just back in time.
In this exact geographical location,
before it was all pumped out,
and it was still swampland.
Now, another observation,
things that touch you while on the drug
seem to be a little distorted.
My best friend,
Dennis Dannelly, who's probably
watchin' this if I'm dead,
his daughter Brianna took it,
and she disappeared.
So hopefully with these experiments,
I'll learn a way to bring her back.
[sighs]
Or be stabbed by an early
European settler,
which sounds a lot better than
wastin' away from cancer.
[dog whines]
[wind roaring]
-[breathes heavily]
-[grunts]
[yells]
[gasps and moans]
[panting]
Observation one.
I'm not exactly sure why
I went to a different time
than the first pill.
The only difference is exactly
where I was in the room
when the pill kicked in.
[suspenseful music]
[breathes heavily]
[wind howling]
[animal growls]
[panting]
[animal growls]
[trumpeting]
[suspenseful music]
[Steve] And in that moment,
seeing what years of barely
surviving is like,
this man probably 10 years younger than me
but looking decades older
despite his paleo diet,
that I realized
The past fucking sucks, man!
And, observation two,
the exact place where you are
when the drug kicks in
determines the time you go back to.
For example,
this spot took me to the Ice Age twice.
This spot took me to the swamp,
dick-ass conquistador.
And also leaves the question,
if this door works both ways,
how did Brianna get stuck back in time?
[suspenseful music]
[knocking]
Tara?
[ominous music]
[machine whirring]
[no audible dialogue]
What?
My dad always says it's better
to be single anyway.
That looks bad to you?
Just gross because it's them and boring,
'cause they're boring.
Tell you a story.
There was a time your dad
was goin' through a drought,
major drought.
Girl wouldn't talk to him
to save her life.
She would drown in a river
before talkin' to him.
I met your mom in a bar one night.
She was really nice, but I was
tryin' to thin out my herd,
too much goin' on. So I set him up.
Then you came along.
Luckily, not ugly like your dad,
thanks to your mom.
So, I say all that to say,
you're not gonna have the same
problems that your dad did.
Congratulations, be happy.
[ominous music]
-[knocking on door]
-Yeah?
[Brianna] Uh, is it cool if I come in?
-Yeah.
-No.
-Stay there.
-[laughs]
[Brianna] Um, should I be scared?
-No.
-No, come on.
-Hey.
-[Dennis] Hey.
Hey.
Uh, what are we doing for dinner?
You wanna go out? Let's go out.
Yeah, I've got time before my shift.
No, you should sleep.
You're slow and clumsy when
you're well rested, so
There's only so many ambulance
protein bars and IV hydration
I can take. I want to go out
for a real meal with all of us.
-[Tara] Sound good?
-Yeah, let's go.
[bird chirps]
[ship horn honks]
[radio news anchor]
Reported earlier this morning,
a man was found dead
of an apparent suicide
from cyanide poisoning.
Identified as Dr. Patrick Kermani of Ohio,
a chemist for a drug manufacturer--
-[car door opens]
-[vomits]
[Steve] Here we go.
in the universe.
This old coin, and the last few
experiments got me thinking.
What can I bring back and forth?
[sighs]
This coin the stab victim had.
[yells]
[suspenseful music]
The doorknob in the theme park.
-[suspenseful music]
-[woman yells]
Non-living things can travel,
just not without distortion,
and I've been fine.
So, um
I'm gonna see if I can bring Hawking
back in time with me
through physical contact.
That way I'll know
every possible way I'll be able
to bring Brianna back.
Come on, buddy, come on.
[suspenseful music]
[breathes softly]
What'd you, where did you?
No, sir, look, I apologize,
I can explain.
Police!
[suspenseful music]
[Joe yells] Police!
[dog leash clanks]
Sir, if you'll just calm down,
we'll leave.
-No, we'll leave, we'll leave!
-[Joe yells]
[wood breaks]
Come on!
[suspenseful music]
[timer beeps]
Shit.
[siren blaring in distance]
[suspenseful music]
[indistinct chatter]
As soon as he goes to sleep,
we're gonna get high
and break in and get to our spot.
[indistinct chatter]
Sounds worse than it actually is, right?
-[woman] Go in there, and check.
-[man] Just keep looking.
Here we go.
[man] He's got to be someone
-[watch beeps]
-[indistinct chatter]
-[man] I don't see
-[Steve breathes heavily]
[glass breaking]
[indistinct chatter]
[man] Sir, the window broke.
[Steve] Here we go, boy.
Come on, boy.
Ooh.
[man] I'm gonna' search for
[breathes heavily]
-[floor creaks]
-You son of a bitch!
[grunts]
[groans]
[timer beeps]
-Police!
-Hawking!
Hawking, come on, boy, come on!
Hawking, come on!
[yells]
-[Klansman] Is he in there?
-[Steve] Come on!
-Come on, boy!
-[door knocking]
-[man yelling outside]
-Come on, man!
-[timer beeps]
-[Joe] Get in here!
[Steve] No, no, no!
-Hawking, no!
-[gunshot]
[timer beeps]
[Steve panting]
[timer beeps]
[dramatic music]
Hawking!
[hawking cries]
Observation three.
Don't
Don't be shit!
Don't be late.
Obs
-Ooh.
-[dramatic music]
So it seems you have to be touching
whatever you bring back,
like quantum mixing or something.
Hawking had on his collar, so
It's chaotic how much of
anything comes back safely.
[dramatic music]
Either way, there aren't enough
pills for me to go back and
find Hawking.
And if you're late
[leash clanks]
[bells playing]
[Tara] You said that they sounded like
Rain Man on cocaine.
That is exactly what you said,
it's a direct quote.
-It's not very, very nice.
-Yeah, they do.
Come on, babe.
-They do.
-[Tara] Please, please, please,
Steve has other friends.
Look, um,
there's something I never told you.
During the Katrina cleanup,
Steve got this call,
and a few coffins had been
ripped out of Lafayette Cemetery
and ended up in some Garden District yard.
And a cleanup worker traced some
of the serial numbers
back to Steve.
[birds chirping]
[Dennis] Two of them were his parents,
and one was his little sister Dana.
And Dana was just a kid when she died.
And when we came across her coffin,
it had been opened by looters,
and seeing her tiny remains,
all I could think about was Brianna,
and I literally passed out.
[sighs]
And when I came to on the porch,
Steve was asking if I was okay.
I mean, if I was okay.
And I got up, and I was leaning
against one of those
rich assholes' Roman columns while
Steve watched his little sister
being dragged out in her coffin
to the truck
to join his parents.
And that was his 30th birthday.
Hello.
[clock chimes]
[breathes heavily]
[TV announcer] Marty and Doc
are stuck in the rockin' '50s.
Fuck Back to the Future.
The past was hell.
They tryin' to make it all look
cozy and shit.
Best part about the past
was the music, which,
with your boy and them.
He tryin' to rock out to Chuck Berry.
I try that, they'd put me
in jail or, or worse.
[TV chatter]
Huh, bro?
[TV announcer] Your favorite
classic movies playing tonight
- on NOLA nine.
-[Steve chuckles]
[rain pattering]
[Steve] Three pills left.
-[watch beeps]
-Time to find Brianna.
[sighs]
[timer beeps]
[breathing heavily]
-[indistinct chatter]
-[Steve breathes heavily]
[timer beeps]
-[breathes heavily]
-[groans]
[grunts]
[groaning]
[crickets chirp]
Aah!
Brianna!
[breathing heavily]
[man speaks in tribal language]
Come.
[man speaks in tribal language]
Come.
[Steve] Have you seen a girl?
[fire crackles]
A young woman, a young lady?
[in French]
A woman?
[man speaks in tribal language]
The Spirit has been summoned.
Hold the Spirit close.
You, uh, what you,
wait a minute, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Hey, whoa, wow, what are you,
no, no! Wait, wait, no!
Wait, wait, wait, no, no, no, no, wait!
[groans]
[loud whooshing]
-[Steve groans]
-Aah!
[Steve breathes heavily]
[tense music]
[Steve breathes heavily]
[man speaks in tribal language]
Protect the Spirit.
[Steve panting]
[suspenseful music]
[Steve yells]
[groans]
[Steve breathes heavily]
Oh, shit.
Apparently,
-the present can anchor you.
-[rustling]
[suspenseful music]
[breathes heavily]
What are you doing on my roof?
Are you sure this is where Brianna was
when she disappeared?
No.
She wandered off somewhere.
Why the fuck didn't you say that?
I almost
[grunts]
Go back inside, you high as fuck!
[hip-hop music]
[background chatter]
[Dennis] With Brianna gone,
I think my marriage is, um
I think I'm getting a divorce.
-[indistinct chatter]
-[Dennis sighs]
She hates me.
She knows me better than anyone,
and she hates me.
And she's right.
She made an oath to love me
unconditionally and she has.
I made that same promise,
and every day I wish
I didn't hate half the music
she listens to,
or that she wore sexier underwear,
that her tits were bigger,
that she didn't sound
so happy all the time,
because I think that
conspicuously happy people
-are dumb.
-[chuckles]
So I get frustrated and I,
I start these ridiculous arguments,
secretly hoping that
she ends it, as if that wouldn't
fucking destroy me.
Brianna was the one thing
that was keeping us together,
and now she's gone, so, uh
[Dennis sighs]
Remember that trip we took
to Thailand and I
I got malaria and I was
in that shitty hospital
and all I could think about was her,
getting home to her.
[hip-hop music in background]
That's how I feel now.
She won't even look at me,
because I'm such a fucking asshole.
And I miss Brianna so fucking much.
[Dennis sobbing]
[Dennis cries]
[Steve] This is about you,
Tara, and Brianna.
Nothing else matters.
And just so you know, my life sucks.
-[Dennis chuckles]
-Come on.
I'm serious, man.
It's no fun. You might see James Bond,
but I experience Charlie Sheen, all right?
[chuckles]
What you and Tara have,
even with all the fights,
the ups and downs, the doubts,
I'd take that shit in a heartbeat.
I sleep around by default
and then mourn the aspect
of myself that used to feel
something above fuckin'.
But then I found out I was dyin'.
My brain
has a tumor.
And all those things just seem trivial.
That there's meanin'
in the things I do have,
and I want to spend the time I have
preservin' 'em.
I've been in treatment
and I found out it's workin', but
when you're starin' down at the end,
you realize there are things
that are far worse than death.
And none of those things are
what you were upset about.
How long have you known?
Couple of weeks.
Look, I'm sorry
I didn't tell you. It's just--
You know what, fuck you!
Look, you have a right
to be mad, all right?
But you understand why it hasn't
been a good time
to tell you, right?
Look, I'm tryin' to do my best, man.
[sighs]
I was so close to making a bad
haircut joke earlier.
[chuckles]
[sniffs]
You know, it turned out it was Tom.
[Dennis] Fuckin' driver
who took the morphine.
You probably drove him to it.
Hey, it's not misplaced rage
if the guy's a fuckin' idiot.
[chuckles]
[grunts]
[crickets chirping]
Ah!
So you've really been lookin'
for the one this whole time?
You know the real tragedy
of meeting the love of your life?
If it's happened, it's behind you.
It's not gonna happen again.
And although it's wonderful,
what's ahead of you,
it's really, really hard.
You know, about that treatment thing,
I decided to put it on pause.
-There's somethin' that came up,
-What are you talking about?
-You're going to fucking chemo.
-Something, look, something
came up that's really important
that I have to do.
Then do it in chemo, bitch!
You know the difference between
your life and mine?
Do you wanna know
what the difference really is?
What?
Random events, chance, and luck.
Now, some people might think
it's God or the universe
or what the fuck ever,
but that's what it is.
[crickets chirp]
Let's go see my family.
I wanna show y'all somethin'.
[suspenseful music]
[Steve] There are things worse than death.
[gasping and grunting]
[whimpers]
Shit.
Right.
Listen, I would do anything
to get her back, but this is--
I know it's kangaroo shit loony,
I know, but we gotta try.
I'm not saying we shouldn't but,
but you made it back last time,
okay, maybe not next time.
And who knows what else
it's doing to you, I mean,
the next dose could kill you.
It should be me.
It's gotta be me.
Look, I have the youth tumor.
Your pineal gland is old as shit.
It's literally impossible for you.
[sighs]
Now, if you were lost in time,
and considering you raised her
and you guys share the same DNA,
let's assume that you would make
the same decision.
What would you do?
[suspenseful music]
[Dennis sighs]
I'd leave a message somewhere permanent.
[clanks]
[suspenseful music]
[Steve] Uh, Hawking,
he, uh
What?
Uh.
[sniffs]
It's just been oh, man,
if all this works out, I'll
I'll tell you about it someday.
[exhales]
This is delicious.
This dirty, shitty river,
this beer,
this time,
wouldn't change it.
The clock just
keeps tickin' down
and the lower that number gets,
you realize how fucking amazing now is.
The present is a miracle, bruh.
[sighs]
[chuckles]
That's a pretty shitty, misspelled,
unspecific message, huh?
[Steve] "Allways"?
Remember that home hospice
call we had a few years back,
100-year-old woman,
she had end-stage kidney disease,
all those pictures with like
Louis Armstrong and Nina Simone?
Yeah, I remember that.
Well, she had this book on her nightstand.
Can't remember what it was
called but something like,
Facing Death with a Smile,
or some bullshit.
While we were waiting for the coroner,
I thumbed through it,
and there's this passage about
how we're all most likely to die.
[Dennis] Brianna, she asked me about that,
and it's like a third of us
will be prolonged in a bed,
a third of us will be a sharp
decline in a bed,
and a third of us will be
a roller coaster of organ failure,
again, in a bed, being treated,
and the tiniest percentage
is sudden death.
And that's our business, man. We
We're seeing the exceptional ones.
That's what you told your daughter?
That's the most fucked up--
-[Steve chuckles]
-[Dennis] No, man, no, no, no.
[laughs]
What it made me realize is
that we know how it ends.
Mystery solved.
And in death, the wild cards of fate
are the exceptional ones.
But in life, all that
crazy shit that happens before
you die, there's always
infinite possibilities.
So, yeah,
the last thing I ever said
to her as her father
-was alway--
-[glass shatters]
[ship horn honks]
[explosion]
[fire crackles]
[explosion]
[grunts]
-[explosion]
-[grunting and gasping]
Shit, shit!
[fire crackles]
[explosion]
[grunts and groans]
[groans]
[tense music]
-[timer beeps]
-Brianna!
[explosion]
[groans]
Brianna!
Brianna!
[explosion]
Brianna.
-Brianna.
-[suspenseful music]
[grunts and groans]
[explosion]
[Dennis] Tara, it's me.
[dramatic music]
I need you.
-[bell chimes]
-[dramatic music]
Really fucking need you.
[panting]
[dramatic music]
[woman grunts]
-[Brianna] Hello?
-[whimpers]
[Brianna] Hello?
[panting]
-[Steve groans]
-[Brianna] Steve!
[groans]
How did, how did you find me?
-The message.
-[both panting]
What? What message?
Don't worry about it. Here, take this.
It's time to go home, just take it.
[Steve panting]
[Brianna panting]
Where's yours?
I'm good.
Come on.
[grunting and panting]
[panting]
Okay.
Any minute now,
something from the present
is gonna appear nearby, all right?
Now, if we're not back at the boulder
by the time it disappears,
we'll be stuck here forever.
Okay?
Aah!
-I'll help you across.
-No!
You're gonna run as fast
as you fucking can.
[fire crackles]
-[grunts]
-[warbling]
Go, go, go!
[grunting and panting]
[both groaning]
-[both panting]
-[man whistling tune]
[suspenseful music]
[looter] Ya with the slave!
[tense music]
Come'ya, shoot ya, both ya!
Okay, all right!
Don't move.
Yeah.
I'm your slave.
[suspenseful music]
Come here!
Everything's gonna be all right.
[fire crackles]
[suspenseful music]
Get down on your knee.
Okay, okay.
Yeah. I'm your fuckin' slave.
You come on.
[suspenseful music]
Come on.
-[fire crackling]
-[Steve] Come on!
Now come on and get your fuckin' slave!
[suspenseful music]
-[timer beeps]
-[breathes heavily]
[timer beeps]
[explosion]
-[yells]
-[explosion]
[groaning and panting]
-[gasps]
-Oh, shit!
[timer beeps]
[ominous music]
[sobbing]
You okay?
I'm fine. I'm totally fine.
-[Dennis] Oh, my God.
-[Brianna] Sorry.
-[Brianna sobbing]
-Don't be sorry.
[suspenseful music]
[dramatic music]
[music intensifies]
[tense music]