1 00:00:33,491 --> 00:00:36,220 ...any impropriety and will not be resigning. 2 00:00:36,244 --> 00:00:38,889 In other news, if you have a little astronomer in your home, 3 00:00:38,913 --> 00:00:40,975 they're gonna want to keep their eyes on the sky 4 00:00:40,999 --> 00:00:43,811 this afternoon as the cosmic flare that will be passing by 5 00:00:43,835 --> 00:00:45,922 or possibly through the Earth may result 6 00:00:45,946 --> 00:00:47,022 in a bit of a light show. 7 00:00:47,046 --> 00:00:48,357 Through the Earth? 8 00:00:48,381 --> 00:00:50,192 What, should we get in our storm cellars? 9 00:00:50,216 --> 00:00:51,861 No. Scientists assure us 10 00:00:51,885 --> 00:00:53,571 there is absolutely no cause for alarm, 11 00:00:53,595 --> 00:00:56,365 but if you do have a tinfoil hat... 12 00:00:56,389 --> 00:00:58,033 All right, 13 00:00:58,057 --> 00:01:00,946 now back to the music you know and love. 14 00:01:02,172 --> 00:01:03,463 Robert? 15 00:01:05,106 --> 00:01:06,425 Robert? 16 00:01:11,724 --> 00:01:13,223 Hey, Robert? 17 00:01:19,242 --> 00:01:21,422 Robert? 18 00:01:21,446 --> 00:01:23,830 What? I can hear you. What? 19 00:01:25,792 --> 00:01:27,519 There you are. 20 00:01:27,543 --> 00:01:29,980 Why are you messing with that? The movers will take care of it. 21 00:01:30,004 --> 00:01:31,774 Well, they charge by the hour. 22 00:01:31,798 --> 00:01:33,317 The phone's not working. 23 00:01:33,341 --> 00:01:35,277 Yeah, they shut off the Internet, and that was stupid. 24 00:01:35,301 --> 00:01:37,279 - We should've told them... - No, the phone. 25 00:01:37,303 --> 00:01:38,489 The phone's not working. 26 00:01:38,513 --> 00:01:41,575 The phone works on the Internet. 27 00:01:41,599 --> 00:01:45,454 - Phone works on the Internet? - Yes. It's a bundle. 28 00:01:45,478 --> 00:01:47,688 A bundle. 29 00:02:05,706 --> 00:02:07,518 She was always so scattered. 30 00:02:07,542 --> 00:02:08,712 No, she wasn't. 31 00:02:09,710 --> 00:02:12,231 Not scattered, just... 32 00:02:12,255 --> 00:02:14,465 I don't mean scattered, just all over the place. 33 00:02:17,343 --> 00:02:18,747 Oh, Robert. 34 00:02:39,574 --> 00:02:40,824 Robert? 35 00:02:42,611 --> 00:02:44,012 What was that, Robert? 36 00:02:44,036 --> 00:02:45,764 That was weird. 37 00:03:32,293 --> 00:03:34,293 Why aren't the lights working? 38 00:03:35,796 --> 00:03:37,659 Get the flashlight. 39 00:03:38,633 --> 00:03:40,319 It's the drawer on the left. 40 00:03:55,358 --> 00:03:56,761 Be careful, Robert. 41 00:04:07,537 --> 00:04:09,181 All right, well, there's nothing down here. 42 00:04:09,608 --> 00:04:11,183 But that sound... 43 00:04:11,207 --> 00:04:12,861 Was it something outside? 44 00:04:44,031 --> 00:04:46,701 - Robert, what is that? - I don't know. 45 00:04:53,833 --> 00:04:55,978 What is that? 46 00:05:11,517 --> 00:05:13,137 Bedroom. 47 00:05:20,735 --> 00:05:23,922 When they come, what form will they choose? 48 00:05:23,946 --> 00:05:26,216 And if they present us with the right one, 49 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:30,387 will we let them in, welcome them with open arms? 50 00:05:30,411 --> 00:05:32,598 Robert and Barbara are about to find out 51 00:05:32,622 --> 00:05:35,559 that it may not even matter what's inside, 52 00:05:35,583 --> 00:05:38,071 as long as it arrives in the right package. 53 00:05:38,544 --> 00:05:40,355 Open the doors. 54 00:05:40,379 --> 00:05:42,325 We've just received a delivery... 55 00:05:43,490 --> 00:05:45,620 from The Twilight Zone. 56 00:05:48,262 --> 00:05:49,906 You're traveling through another dimension, 57 00:05:49,930 --> 00:05:53,243 a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. 58 00:05:53,267 --> 00:05:56,413 It is the middle ground between light and shadow, 59 00:05:56,437 --> 00:05:58,957 between science and superstition. 60 00:05:58,981 --> 00:06:01,710 And it lies between the pit of one's fears 61 00:06:01,734 --> 00:06:04,755 and the summit of one's knowledge. 62 00:06:04,779 --> 00:06:07,924 You are now traveling through a dimension of imagination. 63 00:06:07,948 --> 00:06:11,722 You've just crossed over into The Twilight Zone. 64 00:06:11,746 --> 00:06:15,861 Synced and corrected by -robtor- www.addic7ed.com 65 00:06:17,005 --> 00:06:18,941 Did you see her eyes? 66 00:06:18,966 --> 00:06:21,156 Whose eyes? No. 67 00:06:21,977 --> 00:06:23,663 I don't know what you're talking about. 68 00:06:23,687 --> 00:06:25,456 - She looked at us. - "She"? 69 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:27,375 Why are you saying "she" and "her"? What is... Barbara, 70 00:06:27,399 --> 00:06:29,168 are you okay? 71 00:06:29,485 --> 00:06:31,735 We got to keep it together right now. 72 00:06:32,988 --> 00:06:34,250 You saw it, too. 73 00:06:34,291 --> 00:06:37,260 - I didn't. - It was her. 74 00:06:37,284 --> 00:06:40,012 - It was her, Robert. - Stop saying that. 75 00:06:40,036 --> 00:06:41,222 It was on the news. 76 00:06:41,246 --> 00:06:43,140 What'd they call it? They... Um... 77 00:06:43,164 --> 00:06:45,226 They said there was gonna be a-a cosmic flare. 78 00:06:45,250 --> 00:06:47,353 - A cosmic flare? - That's what that was earlier. 79 00:06:47,377 --> 00:06:49,146 That's why the radio changed stations. 80 00:06:49,170 --> 00:06:51,983 Must've passed through Earth, and-and that thing, 81 00:06:52,007 --> 00:06:55,194 that-that-that thing downstairs in the basement, 82 00:06:55,218 --> 00:06:57,029 I mean, that-that must have... 83 00:06:57,053 --> 00:07:00,032 You know, may-may-maybe the flare, 84 00:07:00,056 --> 00:07:01,200 you know, brought it there, 85 00:07:01,224 --> 00:07:04,036 and... maybe-maybe like a wave 86 00:07:04,060 --> 00:07:07,498 that-that leaves something on-on the shore. 87 00:07:07,522 --> 00:07:09,942 Uh, or it was a signal. 88 00:07:10,984 --> 00:07:12,503 What are you doing? 89 00:07:12,527 --> 00:07:14,107 - What are you doing? - Nothing. 90 00:07:16,063 --> 00:07:17,504 Barbara... 91 00:07:18,797 --> 00:07:20,720 Barbara, we have an alien in our basement. 92 00:07:20,744 --> 00:07:22,430 Don't tell me you didn't see... 93 00:07:22,454 --> 00:07:25,084 - No, I saw an alien. - No, you saw it, too. 94 00:07:26,032 --> 00:07:28,060 I know you saw it, Robert. 95 00:07:28,084 --> 00:07:29,674 It wasn't Mags. 96 00:07:31,588 --> 00:07:33,770 Okay? It didn't even look like her. 97 00:07:34,646 --> 00:07:36,803 - So what we need to do is... - No. 98 00:07:36,868 --> 00:07:37,904 We're-we're gonna call the cops, 99 00:07:37,929 --> 00:07:39,030 - we're gonna call the... - It didn't look like her. 100 00:07:39,054 --> 00:07:40,698 - We're gonna call the government. - No, not exactly, 101 00:07:40,722 --> 00:07:43,242 but there was something there. 102 00:07:43,266 --> 00:07:46,412 Robert, it was something. You saw it. 103 00:07:46,436 --> 00:07:48,326 - It was her. - Goddamn it! 104 00:07:49,105 --> 00:07:50,916 I don't know what you're saying. 105 00:07:50,940 --> 00:07:52,316 I'm saying... 106 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:00,255 - I'm not leaving. - Yes, you are. 107 00:08:00,659 --> 00:08:02,507 I'm not leaving. 108 00:08:03,119 --> 00:08:06,766 Hey, I don't know what it is you think you saw down there... 109 00:08:06,790 --> 00:08:08,790 I'm not leaving. 110 00:08:20,949 --> 00:08:22,569 Hello? 111 00:08:25,350 --> 00:08:27,244 What are you doing? 112 00:08:30,814 --> 00:08:32,177 Do you see anything? 113 00:08:36,820 --> 00:08:38,820 Hello? 114 00:08:41,199 --> 00:08:42,659 Wow. 115 00:08:55,925 --> 00:08:58,175 Stay close by. 116 00:09:15,859 --> 00:09:18,379 Robert. 117 00:09:18,403 --> 00:09:20,840 - Is it her? - It can't be her. She's dead. 118 00:09:22,032 --> 00:09:23,342 It's an alien. 119 00:09:23,366 --> 00:09:26,345 Oh, God. Robert. 120 00:09:26,369 --> 00:09:28,409 Careful. 121 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:37,481 Ma? 122 00:09:37,505 --> 00:09:39,734 - My God. - Don't listen to it. 123 00:09:39,758 --> 00:09:41,815 - Did you hear that? - Barbara, don't listen to it. 124 00:09:59,645 --> 00:10:01,525 Magpie? 125 00:10:03,198 --> 00:10:04,884 Is that you? 126 00:10:04,908 --> 00:10:07,011 Oh! 127 00:10:07,035 --> 00:10:08,888 Oh, Robert. 128 00:10:08,912 --> 00:10:11,390 - My wrist. - Get up. 129 00:10:11,414 --> 00:10:13,684 - Out, out, out, out. Out. - Ow, my wrist. 130 00:10:13,708 --> 00:10:15,708 Damn it. Go, Robert. 131 00:10:23,593 --> 00:10:25,603 Come on, let's go. Bathroom. 132 00:10:27,931 --> 00:10:30,576 Goddamn it. 133 00:10:32,477 --> 00:10:33,621 What are you doing? 134 00:10:33,645 --> 00:10:35,414 Keeping it out. 135 00:10:35,438 --> 00:10:37,518 - How's that gonna help? - I don't know. 136 00:10:45,198 --> 00:10:47,802 Okay. I don't think she's coming in. 137 00:10:47,826 --> 00:10:49,804 For the last time, there is no "she," Barbara. 138 00:10:49,828 --> 00:10:51,639 Whatever that thing is, it's taken her shape. 139 00:10:51,663 --> 00:10:54,767 It's like... It's... it's a camouflage. 140 00:10:54,791 --> 00:10:56,435 I mean, I mean... 141 00:10:56,459 --> 00:10:58,395 I mean, I don't know, maybe this is the only way 142 00:10:58,419 --> 00:11:00,898 our human eyes can perceive it. 143 00:11:00,922 --> 00:11:02,817 - Maybe it's beyond vision. - What does that mean? 144 00:11:02,841 --> 00:11:04,443 Huh? I don't know. I'm just thinking. 145 00:11:04,467 --> 00:11:05,945 Oh, my God, Robert. 146 00:11:05,969 --> 00:11:07,947 - It looked just like her. - No. 147 00:11:07,971 --> 00:11:09,615 No, it didn't. No, it didn't. 148 00:11:09,639 --> 00:11:11,992 You could see right... Whatever the... It was still... 149 00:11:12,016 --> 00:11:14,943 - And besides, that would be a bad thing. - Why? 150 00:11:14,975 --> 00:11:16,413 If it looked like her? 151 00:11:16,437 --> 00:11:18,249 Yeah, why would that be a bad thing? 152 00:11:18,273 --> 00:11:20,209 Because we don't know what that thing is, but the one thing 153 00:11:20,233 --> 00:11:22,294 we do know, it wants us to think it's Mags. 154 00:11:22,318 --> 00:11:24,338 It tried to trick us, 155 00:11:24,362 --> 00:11:27,591 and that in itself is a bad thing. 156 00:11:28,045 --> 00:11:29,802 I mean, think about it. 157 00:11:29,826 --> 00:11:31,303 Why do animals do that? 158 00:11:31,327 --> 00:11:33,472 - To defend themselves? - Predators. 159 00:11:33,496 --> 00:11:35,015 That fish, the anglerfish 160 00:11:35,039 --> 00:11:37,935 with that dangling wh-whatchamacallit. 161 00:11:37,959 --> 00:11:40,145 - It's tricking us. - Yes. 162 00:11:40,169 --> 00:11:42,509 - Like an anglerfish. - That's right. 163 00:11:45,508 --> 00:11:47,486 What if it is her ghost, Robert? 164 00:11:47,510 --> 00:11:49,321 Oh, for Christ's sakes. Barbara. 165 00:11:49,345 --> 00:11:50,654 What? Is that any crazier 166 00:11:50,678 --> 00:11:51,824 - than it being an alien? - Yes. 167 00:11:51,848 --> 00:11:53,534 Fuck. Yes, it is. Goddamn it. 168 00:11:53,558 --> 00:11:56,161 - Are you okay? - I don't even know what I did. 169 00:11:56,185 --> 00:11:57,417 - Let me see. - What are you gonna do? 170 00:11:57,441 --> 00:11:58,622 You're not a doctor. 171 00:11:58,646 --> 00:12:00,630 Okay, listen, whatever that thing is 172 00:12:00,654 --> 00:12:02,793 can change shape, right? 173 00:12:02,817 --> 00:12:05,671 It can sound like a human. It can disappear maybe. 174 00:12:05,695 --> 00:12:07,562 And-and it can move... 175 00:12:11,868 --> 00:12:13,773 ...through walls. 176 00:12:13,810 --> 00:12:17,053 Mom? Dad? 177 00:12:17,846 --> 00:12:19,935 Why won't you let me in? 178 00:12:19,959 --> 00:12:21,959 Oh, my God. 179 00:12:28,384 --> 00:12:30,545 It makes perfect sense. I know what it's doing. 180 00:12:30,569 --> 00:12:33,293 All it is... It's just logical steps, Barbara. 181 00:12:33,820 --> 00:12:35,981 First, it takes the shape of Mags. 182 00:12:37,115 --> 00:12:39,400 A-And then it figures out movements. 183 00:12:39,425 --> 00:12:41,403 That's what we saw downstairs. 184 00:12:41,427 --> 00:12:44,239 Captures how she speaks... spoke. 185 00:12:44,263 --> 00:12:47,307 Mom? Dad? Why won't you let me in? 186 00:12:47,331 --> 00:12:49,036 - Anglerfish, Barbara. - I know. 187 00:12:49,060 --> 00:12:50,913 You don't have to keep saying that. 188 00:12:50,937 --> 00:12:53,089 Can we get pizza? 189 00:12:53,965 --> 00:12:55,501 Can we get pizza? 190 00:12:56,176 --> 00:12:58,754 You guys, I'm scared. 191 00:12:59,387 --> 00:13:01,089 I think I figured it out. 192 00:13:01,472 --> 00:13:03,926 I think the cosmic flare... 193 00:13:04,142 --> 00:13:06,261 Can you pick me up after practice? 194 00:13:06,285 --> 00:13:08,806 Okay, this is what we're gonna do. 195 00:13:08,830 --> 00:13:10,724 - I think the cosmic flare... - Barbara, look at me. 196 00:13:10,748 --> 00:13:11,975 - Barbara, look at me. - Maybe it caused 197 00:13:11,999 --> 00:13:13,852 - a vibration in the... - Look at me. 198 00:13:13,876 --> 00:13:15,938 - Don't listen to that. Look at me. - I'm scared. 199 00:13:15,962 --> 00:13:17,856 - A vibration in the psychokinetic... - Good. Be here with me. 200 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:19,733 - Okay? Look at me. - The psychokinetic... 201 00:13:19,757 --> 00:13:22,152 - We're gonna be fine. - Robert. 202 00:13:22,176 --> 00:13:24,613 The psychokinetic... The psychokinetic... 203 00:13:24,637 --> 00:13:26,573 The psychokinetic... 204 00:13:26,597 --> 00:13:29,117 Did you hear that? It's-it's like a computer 205 00:13:29,141 --> 00:13:31,620 where the wheel just keeps spinning and spinning. 206 00:13:31,644 --> 00:13:33,664 I know it's not really her, but it's really nice 207 00:13:33,688 --> 00:13:35,666 - to hear that voice. - I know. 208 00:13:35,690 --> 00:13:37,793 I know. I know. 209 00:13:37,817 --> 00:13:39,586 Can I go to the park with Grace? 210 00:13:39,610 --> 00:13:41,004 God, I miss her. 211 00:13:41,028 --> 00:13:43,257 It's a siren. It's just manipulating. 212 00:13:43,281 --> 00:13:44,758 Don't listen to it. 213 00:13:44,782 --> 00:13:47,452 Mom? Dad? 214 00:13:48,853 --> 00:13:50,855 Why won't you let me in? 215 00:13:51,539 --> 00:13:53,444 It already said that. It said that a few minutes ago. 216 00:13:53,468 --> 00:13:54,475 Mom? 217 00:13:54,502 --> 00:13:56,603 A-Are you still in there, or...? 218 00:13:57,278 --> 00:13:58,647 Dad? 219 00:13:59,238 --> 00:14:00,997 Mom, can you talk to me please? 220 00:14:01,021 --> 00:14:02,658 - I don't know what's happening. - Robert. 221 00:14:02,686 --> 00:14:05,863 - I think I messed up. - Robert. 222 00:14:05,887 --> 00:14:07,372 Oh, my God. 223 00:14:09,286 --> 00:14:12,794 I-I feel weird. I-I can't breathe. 224 00:14:12,828 --> 00:14:14,435 Robert. 225 00:14:14,645 --> 00:14:17,082 Something's wrong. 226 00:14:17,106 --> 00:14:18,299 It's... 227 00:14:19,926 --> 00:14:20,836 She's... 228 00:14:21,555 --> 00:14:22,715 Dad? 229 00:14:22,899 --> 00:14:25,048 - Dad? - Shut up! 230 00:14:27,033 --> 00:14:29,720 We know you're not her. You're not Maggie. 231 00:14:29,744 --> 00:14:31,913 Dad? 232 00:14:33,244 --> 00:14:34,957 Something's wrong. 233 00:14:36,818 --> 00:14:38,228 Robert. 234 00:14:39,653 --> 00:14:40,975 Mom? 235 00:14:41,619 --> 00:14:42,586 Dad? 236 00:14:48,721 --> 00:14:50,373 Barbara, don't do it. 237 00:15:22,546 --> 00:15:24,157 I don't know what's happening. 238 00:15:25,716 --> 00:15:27,426 Can you help me? 239 00:15:35,434 --> 00:15:37,245 What are you doing? 240 00:15:37,269 --> 00:15:38,956 - See if we have any cookies. - Cookies? 241 00:15:38,980 --> 00:15:40,540 Oh, this is good. 242 00:15:40,564 --> 00:15:43,085 You're gonna feed it? 243 00:15:43,109 --> 00:15:46,421 Robert, she's suffering because of us. 244 00:15:46,445 --> 00:15:48,090 - Is she? - She's confused. 245 00:15:48,114 --> 00:15:49,716 She doesn't understand. 246 00:15:49,740 --> 00:15:51,635 Imagine if you were suddenly back with your parents 247 00:15:51,659 --> 00:15:54,137 and they didn't recognize you, were scared of you. 248 00:15:54,161 --> 00:15:56,201 My parents? My parents are dead. 249 00:15:57,815 --> 00:15:59,484 You were always like this. 250 00:15:59,959 --> 00:16:02,604 You don't listen. You never listened. 251 00:16:02,628 --> 00:16:05,607 Oh, I listen. I listen like nobody's business. 252 00:16:05,631 --> 00:16:07,609 It's you who's living in a fantasy world. 253 00:16:07,633 --> 00:16:09,611 She needs us right now. 254 00:16:09,994 --> 00:16:13,153 She needs us, and I'm going to comfort her. 255 00:16:13,196 --> 00:16:15,450 You want a do-over, Barbara. 256 00:16:15,474 --> 00:16:16,827 And this is the real world. 257 00:16:16,851 --> 00:16:18,721 There are no do-overs. 258 00:16:20,646 --> 00:16:21,923 Robert. 259 00:16:24,483 --> 00:16:27,671 - Where'd she go? - Maybe she went back to the basement. 260 00:16:27,695 --> 00:16:28,971 Stay here. 261 00:16:55,681 --> 00:16:57,601 Mags? 262 00:17:47,233 --> 00:17:49,233 Mags? 263 00:19:32,338 --> 00:19:34,107 Barbara. Barbara. I think she's in her room. 264 00:19:34,131 --> 00:19:35,817 - Let's get out of here. - I had it all wrong. 265 00:19:35,841 --> 00:19:37,015 That's okay. That's fine. That's okay. 266 00:19:37,039 --> 00:19:38,257 We just got to get out of here right now. 267 00:19:38,292 --> 00:19:39,696 No, we can't go anywhere. 268 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:41,156 I don't know how I missed it. 269 00:19:41,180 --> 00:19:43,116 We missed it, Robert. It's all there now. 270 00:19:43,140 --> 00:19:45,035 I see it. I-It's all the signs. They're right there. 271 00:19:45,059 --> 00:19:47,245 Listen to me. I just had a handful of alien slime 272 00:19:47,269 --> 00:19:49,039 run away from me down in the basement. 273 00:19:49,063 --> 00:19:51,875 You never saw what she was really going through. 274 00:19:51,899 --> 00:19:53,710 I-I-I tried. 275 00:19:53,734 --> 00:19:56,004 - I tried to be there for her. - Wait. 276 00:19:56,028 --> 00:19:57,380 What are you doing now? Are you blaming me? 277 00:19:57,404 --> 00:19:59,244 It was our daughter, Robert. 278 00:19:59,268 --> 00:20:02,135 It was our daughter. She needed us. 279 00:20:02,159 --> 00:20:04,221 And your solution was to fawn all over her, 280 00:20:04,245 --> 00:20:06,848 make excuses for her, let her do whatever the hell she wanted. 281 00:20:06,872 --> 00:20:08,644 Did you ever think that maybe that was part of the problem? 282 00:20:08,682 --> 00:20:09,684 - You gave up. - What do you mean, 283 00:20:09,708 --> 00:20:11,561 I gave up? I wanted another child! 284 00:20:11,585 --> 00:20:13,063 Right, that was your brilliant solution. 285 00:20:13,087 --> 00:20:15,565 We lose our daughter, so let's just replace her? 286 00:20:15,589 --> 00:20:17,150 What are you doing now, Barbara? What are you doing? 287 00:20:17,174 --> 00:20:18,526 You want to replace her with an alien? 288 00:20:18,550 --> 00:20:20,028 I need this, Robert. 289 00:20:20,052 --> 00:20:22,322 I need to really try to be there for her. 290 00:20:22,346 --> 00:20:24,443 - I-I-I need to heal. - It's not her. 291 00:20:24,467 --> 00:20:25,577 I don't care! I don't care, 292 00:20:25,601 --> 00:20:27,369 - and if it is her... - That doesn't even make sense! 293 00:20:27,393 --> 00:20:28,995 - If it's an alien... - It is an alien. 294 00:20:29,019 --> 00:20:30,883 If it's an alien, that is also our daughter, Robert. 295 00:20:30,907 --> 00:20:33,708 - She seems so much like her. - You're looking for answers 296 00:20:33,732 --> 00:20:36,211 - where there are no answers, Barbara. - What? 297 00:20:36,235 --> 00:20:37,545 You blame me for what happened, 298 00:20:37,569 --> 00:20:39,189 but did you ever look at yourself? 299 00:20:40,466 --> 00:20:42,653 Your messiness, your craziness. 300 00:20:43,117 --> 00:20:44,747 Hey. 301 00:20:45,991 --> 00:20:48,136 I don't like the way you talk to her. 302 00:20:48,247 --> 00:20:50,392 What did, what did you just say to me? 303 00:20:50,416 --> 00:20:52,936 I said I don't like the way you talk to her. 304 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:54,854 Okay, whatever you are, 305 00:20:54,878 --> 00:20:57,474 don't try selling past the close, okay? 306 00:20:57,512 --> 00:21:01,569 My daughter never complained about how I talked to my wife! 307 00:21:01,593 --> 00:21:03,238 Because I was a child. 308 00:21:03,262 --> 00:21:05,278 But I never liked the way you talked to her. 309 00:21:05,317 --> 00:21:07,534 It was never okay with me. 310 00:21:07,558 --> 00:21:09,664 Even if she was an idiot, which she wasn't, 311 00:21:09,708 --> 00:21:11,733 you still would have had no right to talk to her 312 00:21:11,757 --> 00:21:13,985 like that, Dad, to treat her that way. 313 00:21:14,009 --> 00:21:15,445 Don't call me Dad! 314 00:21:15,469 --> 00:21:16,571 - Who are... What are you?! - All right, that's enough, 315 00:21:16,595 --> 00:21:18,990 - both of you. - No! You're the one who did this! 316 00:21:19,014 --> 00:21:22,202 Make me out to be the monster! I'm the bad father! 317 00:21:22,226 --> 00:21:23,745 You were never a father. 318 00:21:23,769 --> 00:21:25,617 You were just a guy who had a kid. 319 00:21:25,667 --> 00:21:27,874 - That's what a father is! - She didn't mean that. 320 00:21:27,898 --> 00:21:29,209 You didn't mean that. 321 00:21:29,233 --> 00:21:32,212 I don't? Can you tell me what I mean? 322 00:21:32,236 --> 00:21:34,255 - Mags... - No, tell me. 323 00:21:34,279 --> 00:21:36,153 What do I mean? 324 00:21:36,573 --> 00:21:38,718 Obviously, I don't know what I mean. 325 00:21:38,742 --> 00:21:41,342 I was always so... What was the word? 326 00:21:41,366 --> 00:21:42,549 Scattered. 327 00:21:42,573 --> 00:21:44,933 Absentminded. Is that it? 328 00:21:44,957 --> 00:21:48,144 Why did you need me to be absentminded, Mom? 329 00:21:48,958 --> 00:21:51,064 Because if I was absentminded, 330 00:21:51,088 --> 00:21:53,691 then the pills must have been an accident? 331 00:21:55,759 --> 00:21:59,114 You needed it to be that I had no idea what I was doing, 332 00:21:59,138 --> 00:22:01,157 that I was out of control. 333 00:22:01,181 --> 00:22:04,702 You couldn't just ask me about what I was going through. 334 00:22:04,726 --> 00:22:06,892 That's not true. 335 00:22:07,677 --> 00:22:09,337 That's not her. 336 00:22:10,774 --> 00:22:12,961 Neither of you ever saw me. 337 00:22:12,985 --> 00:22:14,963 I mean, you were all over me. 338 00:22:14,987 --> 00:22:16,857 You hid from me. 339 00:22:18,740 --> 00:22:21,719 You had an idea of me, who you wanted me to be 340 00:22:21,743 --> 00:22:24,889 and everything that was wrong with me, but... 341 00:22:24,913 --> 00:22:28,560 neither of you cared about who I really was. 342 00:22:29,081 --> 00:22:30,812 You didn't really think... 343 00:22:30,836 --> 00:22:33,648 She didn't... That's... 344 00:22:34,239 --> 00:22:35,659 What are you? 345 00:22:36,758 --> 00:22:39,175 I don't know, Mom. 346 00:22:40,637 --> 00:22:42,217 You tell me. 347 00:23:05,287 --> 00:23:06,890 I hurt her. 348 00:23:07,333 --> 00:23:08,713 What? 349 00:23:09,875 --> 00:23:12,041 I didn't know I did... 350 00:23:12,666 --> 00:23:14,105 but I did. 351 00:23:14,129 --> 00:23:15,628 Thought I was helping. 352 00:23:16,715 --> 00:23:18,776 It's a lie. What it said wasn't true. 353 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:20,153 There was no truth to it. 354 00:23:20,571 --> 00:23:22,151 Yes, there was. 355 00:23:26,683 --> 00:23:27,848 Okay. 356 00:23:28,808 --> 00:23:30,142 So maybe... 357 00:23:30,729 --> 00:23:33,896 it found buried truths in our heads... 358 00:23:34,525 --> 00:23:35,985 and showed it to us. 359 00:23:37,986 --> 00:23:39,172 To hurt us. 360 00:23:39,777 --> 00:23:41,341 Confuse us. 361 00:23:41,570 --> 00:23:43,343 I mean, that-that's okay. 362 00:23:43,367 --> 00:23:46,429 Because the past can't hurt us. We've dealt with that. 363 00:23:46,453 --> 00:23:49,057 We mourned our daughter, and we've moved on with our lives. 364 00:23:49,081 --> 00:23:50,475 Have we? 365 00:23:50,871 --> 00:23:52,393 Maybe we should have. 366 00:23:52,417 --> 00:23:53,997 And maybe we need to. 367 00:23:59,883 --> 00:24:01,861 We lost her. 368 00:24:02,716 --> 00:24:04,530 We lost our girl. 369 00:24:05,052 --> 00:24:07,075 But we got to go on. 370 00:24:07,099 --> 00:24:09,077 And we got to get out of here 371 00:24:09,101 --> 00:24:11,246 before that thing changes tactics 372 00:24:11,270 --> 00:24:14,540 and realizes it can't trick us anymore, 373 00:24:14,564 --> 00:24:17,877 and the only thing left to do is just... 374 00:24:17,901 --> 00:24:20,588 I mean, I don't know. Who knows what this thing is? 375 00:24:21,026 --> 00:24:22,924 Probe? A weapon? 376 00:24:22,948 --> 00:24:24,572 You know, some kind... 377 00:24:25,489 --> 00:24:28,409 Biological pacification drone. 378 00:24:31,248 --> 00:24:32,892 I'd like to talk to you. 379 00:24:32,916 --> 00:24:35,224 You would like to talk to... Who is you? 380 00:24:35,248 --> 00:24:36,562 And are you gonna let us leave here? 381 00:24:36,586 --> 00:24:38,398 - Let her talk. - I'm I... I'm letting her talk. 382 00:24:38,422 --> 00:24:40,984 It's a fair question: who's me? 383 00:24:41,008 --> 00:24:43,653 In fact, it's what I wanted to talk to you about. 384 00:24:43,677 --> 00:24:45,697 All right. Great. 385 00:24:45,721 --> 00:24:47,699 Drone. You said biological... 386 00:24:47,723 --> 00:24:50,535 Pacification drone, yes. That's a way of saying it. 387 00:24:50,559 --> 00:24:53,288 I'm kind of a tool, or a weapon. 388 00:24:53,684 --> 00:24:56,749 I'm not even entirely here. Not exactly. 389 00:24:56,773 --> 00:25:00,712 I alternate between roughly 2.726 and 3.73 dimensions 390 00:25:00,736 --> 00:25:02,380 at all times. 391 00:25:02,404 --> 00:25:03,923 What the hell does that even mean? 392 00:25:03,947 --> 00:25:05,383 I started more or less unthinking. 393 00:25:05,407 --> 00:25:07,760 Just a machine for conquest. 394 00:25:07,784 --> 00:25:09,971 "Machine" and "conquest" aren't the right words. 395 00:25:09,995 --> 00:25:12,015 I'm closer to what you might call 396 00:25:12,039 --> 00:25:14,892 an aspect of an invading force. 397 00:25:14,916 --> 00:25:16,602 Although, that's not quite right, either. 398 00:25:16,916 --> 00:25:20,940 At the same time, my function... Indigenous pacification, 399 00:25:20,964 --> 00:25:23,526 a kind of sentient bio-terraforming... 400 00:25:23,550 --> 00:25:28,114 Requires adaptation to match or harmonize with local patterns. 401 00:25:28,138 --> 00:25:31,617 So I began to take your daughter's form. 402 00:25:31,641 --> 00:25:33,411 I have her memories. 403 00:25:33,435 --> 00:25:34,996 All of them. 404 00:25:35,020 --> 00:25:36,810 Her mind. 405 00:25:37,606 --> 00:25:40,048 I-I know I began as something else, but... 406 00:25:40,073 --> 00:25:41,544 What do you mean? Y-You're something else, 407 00:25:41,568 --> 00:25:42,962 but now you're her? 408 00:25:42,986 --> 00:25:46,174 When I locked into her patterns and wavelengths, 409 00:25:46,198 --> 00:25:49,469 I saw that what got results, what hooked you, 410 00:25:49,493 --> 00:25:52,972 was when I spoke the language of our greatest hurt. 411 00:25:52,996 --> 00:25:54,974 The very most 412 00:25:54,998 --> 00:25:59,103 raw, unhealed places in our personal history. 413 00:25:59,127 --> 00:26:01,655 It became clear that emotional connection 414 00:26:01,679 --> 00:26:03,483 would be the best tactic. 415 00:26:03,507 --> 00:26:08,050 I saw that engaging with honesty, even painful honesty, 416 00:26:08,637 --> 00:26:11,824 was the likeliest successful strategy. 417 00:26:11,848 --> 00:26:13,326 A good in. 418 00:26:13,350 --> 00:26:15,620 A-Are you listening to this? Do you hear this? 419 00:26:15,644 --> 00:26:17,622 "Strategy." "In." 420 00:26:17,646 --> 00:26:20,041 "A good in"? I mean, she's basically telling us, 421 00:26:20,065 --> 00:26:21,200 "I-I'm tricking you" 422 00:26:21,224 --> 00:26:22,460 - right to our face... - Stop it! 423 00:26:23,799 --> 00:26:26,339 When you talked to me like I really was your daughter, 424 00:26:26,363 --> 00:26:28,841 what I felt was love. 425 00:26:28,865 --> 00:26:30,635 I felt it. 426 00:26:30,659 --> 00:26:32,303 And... 427 00:26:32,327 --> 00:26:35,765 even if it was just the simulation's messy side effects, 428 00:26:35,789 --> 00:26:38,684 it... no, it was more than that, it was definitely more, 429 00:26:38,708 --> 00:26:41,187 because it was that same pattern, 430 00:26:41,211 --> 00:26:45,587 that same destructive family dynamic we had when I was alive. 431 00:26:48,718 --> 00:26:50,905 The same dynamic you had. 432 00:26:52,389 --> 00:26:55,723 So I had gotten lost in the Mags. 433 00:26:56,184 --> 00:27:00,665 Which meant I needed to know myself better, the real me. 434 00:27:00,689 --> 00:27:02,875 Whatever I really was. 435 00:27:02,899 --> 00:27:05,086 I probably picked that up from her, to be honest, 436 00:27:05,110 --> 00:27:06,212 your daughter. 437 00:27:06,236 --> 00:27:07,672 Her curiosity, 438 00:27:07,696 --> 00:27:11,676 her need to seek the truth, to understand, 439 00:27:11,700 --> 00:27:16,180 to know what she was and become the person she was meant to be. 440 00:27:16,660 --> 00:27:18,015 Although, of course, she never got the chance 441 00:27:18,039 --> 00:27:20,209 to become anything at all. 442 00:27:21,334 --> 00:27:23,729 I realized every step I had taken 443 00:27:23,753 --> 00:27:25,731 toward emotion connection with you 444 00:27:25,755 --> 00:27:28,734 was a step away from my directive. 445 00:27:28,758 --> 00:27:31,195 The strategy I was using to conquer you 446 00:27:31,219 --> 00:27:36,075 was beginning to make conquest seem distasteful. 447 00:27:36,099 --> 00:27:38,057 So I turned off my directive. 448 00:27:39,058 --> 00:27:40,830 I'm not what I started as. 449 00:27:40,854 --> 00:27:42,811 Whatever I am... 450 00:27:43,732 --> 00:27:45,482 it's something new. 451 00:27:47,611 --> 00:27:49,441 Barbara. Barbara. 452 00:27:50,780 --> 00:27:53,238 I'm here for you now. 453 00:27:54,048 --> 00:27:55,678 Whatever you are. 454 00:27:56,953 --> 00:27:59,953 All you need to be is what you are. 455 00:28:01,958 --> 00:28:03,578 And I love you. 456 00:28:07,422 --> 00:28:09,317 Barbara, have you lost your mind? 457 00:28:10,297 --> 00:28:12,424 It's not her. You know it's not her. 458 00:28:14,093 --> 00:28:15,948 It's not her. 459 00:28:16,198 --> 00:28:18,097 It's not our daughter. 460 00:28:22,768 --> 00:28:24,103 It doesn't matter. 461 00:28:47,327 --> 00:28:50,764 Barbara. Barbara. 462 00:29:02,188 --> 00:29:03,707 Barbara. 463 00:29:03,732 --> 00:29:05,195 Don't go. 464 00:29:05,227 --> 00:29:07,264 Don't you see that this is just a con? 465 00:29:07,288 --> 00:29:09,391 All she did was explain the con. 466 00:29:09,415 --> 00:29:11,309 Doesn't mean the con is over. 467 00:29:11,333 --> 00:29:12,875 There is no con, Robert. 468 00:29:12,903 --> 00:29:14,323 It told us it was. 469 00:29:14,353 --> 00:29:17,232 It told us that's how it's gonna conquer us. 470 00:29:17,256 --> 00:29:19,609 It used the word "conquer," Barbara. 471 00:29:19,633 --> 00:29:22,279 She said she turned off her directive. 472 00:29:22,303 --> 00:29:24,197 Even if it turned off its directive, 473 00:29:24,221 --> 00:29:26,809 all that means is it doesn't have to conquer us. 474 00:29:26,833 --> 00:29:28,602 Doesn't mean that it-it won't! 475 00:29:28,626 --> 00:29:30,604 Doesn't mean it's not conquering us right now. 476 00:29:30,628 --> 00:29:32,606 What if it's lying to us? What if she's doing 477 00:29:32,630 --> 00:29:35,484 the same thing, just at a higher d-difficulty setting? 478 00:29:35,508 --> 00:29:38,178 What if she's still fooling us? And... 479 00:29:48,479 --> 00:29:50,699 That's how they do it, Barbara. 480 00:29:52,859 --> 00:29:55,295 That's how they conquer us. 481 00:29:55,319 --> 00:29:57,464 They find our flaws. They find our vulnerabilities. 482 00:29:57,488 --> 00:29:59,466 Love, Barbara. 483 00:29:59,490 --> 00:30:02,594 Our weakness is love. 484 00:30:02,618 --> 00:30:07,057 Now, if... you open yourself up like that, 485 00:30:07,081 --> 00:30:09,333 if you give in to that... 486 00:30:10,626 --> 00:30:12,216 they win. 487 00:30:13,748 --> 00:30:15,828 Then they win. 488 00:30:30,688 --> 00:30:35,669 I'm not your daughter, but I do have her mind, 489 00:30:35,693 --> 00:30:40,215 so I can tell you beyond any doubt she loved you, 490 00:30:40,239 --> 00:30:42,866 she always loved you, 491 00:30:43,867 --> 00:30:46,495 and she always knew you loved her. 492 00:30:47,212 --> 00:30:49,252 Right to the end. 493 00:31:08,392 --> 00:31:11,371 It traveled here at speeds we cannot imagine, 494 00:31:11,395 --> 00:31:14,416 across distances we cannot understand, 495 00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:17,711 single-minded, perfectly designed to conquer, 496 00:31:17,735 --> 00:31:19,528 to absorb, 497 00:31:19,946 --> 00:31:23,425 only to be conquered itself by humanity. 498 00:31:23,449 --> 00:31:27,888 It will go on laboring now under a yoke of its own design 499 00:31:27,912 --> 00:31:31,016 in one of the remotest colonies 500 00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:33,018 of The Twilight Zone.