1 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:16,440 This husk is weak. 2 00:02:20,380 --> 00:02:21,380 Broken. 3 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:40,300 I won't get very far in this. 4 00:02:50,030 --> 00:02:51,710 And I'm already compromised. 5 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:57,660 This husk struggles to breathe, but it's stronger than the last. 6 00:05:02,670 --> 00:05:03,670 Are you done? 7 00:05:59,050 --> 00:06:02,750 No amount of research could have prepared me for this world. 8 00:06:07,130 --> 00:06:11,710 How much time did we waste studying their primitive ways? 9 00:06:15,590 --> 00:06:17,310 Their fragile society. 10 00:06:22,770 --> 00:06:24,630 And their useless bodies. 11 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:42,180 There's nothing worthwhile here. 12 00:06:48,380 --> 00:06:49,840 Nothing is keeping. 13 00:06:55,380 --> 00:06:56,960 Nothing is remembering. 14 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:08,260 This place is so much worse than I ever imagined. 15 00:08:29,930 --> 00:08:31,630 Mission one, report. 16 00:08:33,610 --> 00:08:34,909 Mission one, 17 00:08:35,929 --> 00:08:37,289 acquire a husk. 18 00:08:37,990 --> 00:08:38,990 Complete. 19 00:08:40,110 --> 00:08:42,409 Mission two, report. 20 00:08:44,450 --> 00:08:47,490 Mission two, find a safe house. 21 00:08:48,030 --> 00:08:49,030 Complete. 22 00:08:55,530 --> 00:08:59,090 Requesting mission three, please. 23 00:09:01,740 --> 00:09:03,000 Mission 3 objective. 24 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:09,040 Find him, observe him, and gather information regarding his research. 25 00:09:10,060 --> 00:09:11,680 Where can I find him? 26 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:27,960 What comes after that? 27 00:09:35,820 --> 00:09:36,860 When can I come home? 28 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:40,080 Mission 3 objective. 29 00:09:40,780 --> 00:09:46,180 Find him, observe him, and gather information regarding his research. 30 00:09:55,060 --> 00:09:56,300 Mission confirmed. 31 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:40,880 What can I get you? 32 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:46,160 Nothing. 33 00:10:47,420 --> 00:10:48,420 For now. 34 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:51,360 All right, let me know when you're ready. 35 00:11:31,310 --> 00:11:33,770 with two more of these when you get a chance, all right? Coming up. 36 00:11:34,710 --> 00:11:35,730 Rough day? 37 00:11:36,470 --> 00:11:40,590 Rough fucking life, man. I mean, really, what the fuck's been going on these 38 00:11:40,590 --> 00:11:42,170 days? You're telling me. 39 00:11:47,330 --> 00:11:51,890 How you doing? 40 00:11:59,880 --> 00:12:00,900 I said, how you doing? 41 00:12:09,540 --> 00:12:10,540 Hello. 42 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:21,960 Tell me, what's a pretty girl like you doing in a shithole like this? 43 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:31,500 It's a compliment, sweetie. 44 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:34,600 Thank you. 45 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:45,000 So, uh... What's your name? 46 00:12:51,640 --> 00:12:53,820 Excuse me, I need to use the restroom. 47 00:13:26,079 --> 00:13:29,580 Hey. I was hoping we could finish our conversation, you know, from earlier. 48 00:13:31,020 --> 00:13:32,020 I'm Alan. 49 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:34,340 What was your name again? 50 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:42,780 Thank you for your interest in me, but for the rest of the night, I would 51 00:13:42,780 --> 00:13:43,820 to be left alone. 52 00:13:46,220 --> 00:13:47,660 I'm just asking for your name. 53 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:52,800 You know, it's really fucking rude. 54 00:13:54,510 --> 00:13:56,090 to share when someone asks. 55 00:13:57,190 --> 00:13:58,350 I just want to talk. 56 00:14:00,450 --> 00:14:01,790 Please leave me alone. 57 00:14:04,090 --> 00:14:05,310 Why are you being like this? 58 00:14:06,070 --> 00:14:08,290 Why are all of you like this now? 59 00:14:08,490 --> 00:14:10,710 What, a good guy is just trying to save the day? 60 00:14:11,850 --> 00:14:16,550 What the fuck is wrong with you? I'm sorry. You don't know how to love 61 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:21,620 We were just talking. I asked if you knew how to listen, motherfucker. 62 00:14:22,220 --> 00:14:26,380 I'm really sorry. We were just talking and I'm a little drunk. Yeah? 63 00:14:27,180 --> 00:14:30,660 You ain't using this so I can have it, right? 64 00:14:30,860 --> 00:14:31,860 No, no, no. 65 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:39,400 Get the 66 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:40,940 fuck out of here. 67 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:49,840 On three, you're going to breathe it in as deep as you can. 68 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:52,320 One, two, three. 69 00:14:55,700 --> 00:14:58,160 One more time. One, two. 70 00:15:07,220 --> 00:15:08,420 There you go. 71 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:13,060 Nice and easy. 72 00:15:21,420 --> 00:15:24,720 Just like a breeze. 73 00:15:29,060 --> 00:15:32,680 Should I call 911? 74 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:37,380 No, she just needs a second. But get her some water. No ice. 75 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:45,460 Never knew that Los Angeles air could taste so good. 76 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:49,800 Thank you. 77 00:15:51,370 --> 00:15:52,370 Okay, take it slow. 78 00:16:07,470 --> 00:16:08,850 Let's try this again. 79 00:16:10,370 --> 00:16:13,450 I'm gonna pour a little into your mouth, very little. 80 00:16:15,270 --> 00:16:19,570 Relax your throat and open it, but don't breathe it in like the inhaler. 81 00:16:19,900 --> 00:16:21,720 Two tubes in here, remember? 82 00:16:37,340 --> 00:16:38,400 First husk. 83 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:41,440 It's okay. 84 00:16:45,860 --> 00:16:47,120 How did you know? 85 00:16:48,780 --> 00:16:51,580 I have done everything there is to do on this planet. 86 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:57,240 All kinds of weird shit. But the one thing I haven't done is squatted on the 87 00:16:57,240 --> 00:17:03,800 floor of some shithole bar teaching a 25 to 35 -year -old woman how to drink 88 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:04,800 water. 89 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:09,300 Human infants are born knowing how to swallow. 90 00:17:16,140 --> 00:17:18,869 Technically, this is my second husk. Yeah. 91 00:17:19,210 --> 00:17:21,230 First few always go quickly. 92 00:17:22,770 --> 00:17:23,770 Training wheels. 93 00:17:26,790 --> 00:17:28,109 Does this one have a name? 94 00:17:30,330 --> 00:17:31,570 Her name was Val. 95 00:17:33,550 --> 00:17:34,529 Val's good. 96 00:17:34,530 --> 00:17:35,750 I call myself Mauro. 97 00:17:40,370 --> 00:17:46,070 So, Val, want to go somewhere where we can talk privately? 98 00:17:49,900 --> 00:17:50,900 I don't know. 99 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:54,180 Come on. It's not like I can kill you. 100 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:11,660 Everything is so strange. 101 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:16,580 So overwhelming. 102 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:19,180 And I can't get my bearings. 103 00:18:23,820 --> 00:18:30,580 Feels like I'm falling more like I'm going to 104 00:18:30,580 --> 00:18:31,580 fail 105 00:19:22,120 --> 00:19:23,120 Have a seat. 106 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:33,000 Coffee? 107 00:19:37,420 --> 00:19:39,060 I'm not sure I like coffee. 108 00:19:39,380 --> 00:19:40,740 Of course you do. 109 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:43,420 You just don't know it yet. 110 00:20:27,530 --> 00:20:28,910 Don't those cause cancer? 111 00:20:31,090 --> 00:20:33,010 This one already has cancer. 112 00:20:33,850 --> 00:20:36,330 And it's spreading like wildfire. 113 00:20:38,970 --> 00:20:45,930 So, Belle, although it is exceedingly wonderful to finally have one of 114 00:20:45,930 --> 00:20:50,970 my very own kind right here in my own home, sitting at my table, 115 00:20:51,110 --> 00:20:58,030 I have to ask, out of the trillions... trillions of habitable planets spread 116 00:20:58,030 --> 00:21:03,370 across this ever -expanding, supposedly indifferent, but clearly antagonistic 117 00:21:03,370 --> 00:21:04,370 universe. 118 00:21:06,630 --> 00:21:08,310 Why the fuck are you here? 119 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:27,760 You know, at first I thought maybe you were a soldier sent here to rough me up 120 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:28,760 or whatever. 121 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:32,660 But after your stellar performance at the bar, it's clear you didn't study 122 00:21:32,660 --> 00:21:33,660 combat. 123 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:39,320 Then, I thought you were a spy 124 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:43,620 sent here to watch me. 125 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:57,260 it's clear you don't have the training for that 126 00:22:49,540 --> 00:22:50,900 surprisingly potent. 127 00:22:51,740 --> 00:22:54,440 Wait till you try french fries, drugs, and sex. 128 00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:03,960 So, what brings you to this dull hell? 129 00:23:07,620 --> 00:23:08,680 Same as you. 130 00:23:13,100 --> 00:23:14,380 You're a scientist? 131 00:23:26,540 --> 00:23:30,620 And what were you researching that was so upsetting they exiled you here? 132 00:23:34,260 --> 00:23:35,880 I don't want to talk about it. 133 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:37,860 Why, you afraid they're listening? 134 00:23:44,420 --> 00:23:45,420 Yes. 135 00:23:45,900 --> 00:23:49,840 Well, of course they're listening. They're always listening. We were always 136 00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:50,840 listening, remember? 137 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,540 Floating just beyond the edges of what these pieces of shit can perceive? 138 00:23:58,190 --> 00:24:01,990 But that's all right. You can give me a depressing life story when you're ready. 139 00:24:08,330 --> 00:24:14,190 What were you researching that was so upsetting they exiled you here? 140 00:24:15,110 --> 00:24:16,110 Dad? 141 00:24:18,530 --> 00:24:19,650 In here, sweetie. 142 00:24:23,110 --> 00:24:24,510 There she is. 143 00:24:25,030 --> 00:24:27,250 How's my little buttercup doing? 144 00:24:27,610 --> 00:24:29,670 Fine. Yeah? Finish your homework? 145 00:24:30,090 --> 00:24:30,529 Of course. 146 00:24:30,530 --> 00:24:33,030 Finish your other homework? Yes. Yeah? Well, let me see. 147 00:24:38,190 --> 00:24:42,930 Wow. Yeah, that is gorgeous. Look at that line work. 148 00:24:43,450 --> 00:24:46,850 Stop. Oh, what am I, raising Da Vinci here? Hey, that's enough. 149 00:24:47,170 --> 00:24:48,170 Oh, no. 150 00:24:49,070 --> 00:24:52,030 Delilah, I want you to meet my new friend, Vel. 151 00:24:52,850 --> 00:24:56,050 Vel here is just like your dear old dad. 152 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:01,080 Hi, Bill. 153 00:25:04,340 --> 00:25:05,340 Hello, Delilah. 154 00:25:06,820 --> 00:25:10,120 Sweet, you can give us a few more minutes, and then as soon as we're done, 155 00:25:10,120 --> 00:25:12,960 promise you and I'll watch that dumbass show you like. 156 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:15,600 Fine. But it's not done. 157 00:25:16,020 --> 00:25:17,200 Not smart either. 158 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:20,200 Oh, don't forget to take your medicine. 159 00:25:21,380 --> 00:25:22,520 Blue pill or white pill? 160 00:25:23,020 --> 00:25:24,020 Blue pill. 161 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:25,480 It's always blue. 162 00:25:26,420 --> 00:25:27,820 Watch it. One day it'll be white. 163 00:25:31,850 --> 00:25:32,850 Love you. 164 00:25:38,150 --> 00:25:39,150 Love you, too. 165 00:25:46,650 --> 00:25:47,650 She's human. 166 00:25:50,750 --> 00:25:52,630 Yeah, simple enough. 167 00:25:52,890 --> 00:25:58,730 One of my old husks from a while back had a little baby girl, so I kept it. 168 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:04,500 As a companion. 169 00:26:08,740 --> 00:26:10,420 Got something for you. 170 00:26:32,330 --> 00:26:35,590 Go to a little convenience store. Not a big one. 171 00:26:36,310 --> 00:26:37,450 Pick up the essentials. 172 00:26:37,830 --> 00:26:42,010 Food, water, tampons, whatever. You know that much, right? 173 00:26:43,070 --> 00:26:44,830 Don't go using her credit cards anymore. 174 00:26:45,030 --> 00:26:46,510 They'll be looking for your husks soon. 175 00:26:50,730 --> 00:26:51,730 Thank you. 176 00:26:52,530 --> 00:26:53,530 Nothing. 177 00:26:54,030 --> 00:26:57,430 Believe me, you don't want to change husks as much as I did in the beginning. 178 00:26:58,470 --> 00:27:00,970 It's a crap shoot and you end up with a bunch of garbage. 179 00:27:02,639 --> 00:27:06,160 But once you get good at it, 180 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:13,160 you'll drift toward the 181 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:17,680 healthy ones. Well, healthier ones. 182 00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:23,740 But hey, the one you got now, rock solid. So take good care of this. 183 00:27:26,340 --> 00:27:27,340 Right. 184 00:27:39,310 --> 00:27:40,750 certain I did everything right. 185 00:27:42,550 --> 00:27:43,890 I even smile. 186 00:27:45,910 --> 00:27:48,450 And yet, he still accosted me. 187 00:27:52,310 --> 00:27:54,190 Is it because of this husk? 188 00:27:56,350 --> 00:27:57,810 Because of how I look? 189 00:28:00,930 --> 00:28:01,930 No. 190 00:28:03,890 --> 00:28:05,250 And yes. 191 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:10,000 How do you feel? 192 00:28:12,340 --> 00:28:15,780 At first, when he cornered me. 193 00:28:39,370 --> 00:28:45,510 you'll understand so another cup of coffee tomorrow 194 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:51,060 There's a hostility woven into the fabric of this world. 195 00:29:53,060 --> 00:29:59,740 All of them hate something or someone, even if that someone 196 00:29:59,740 --> 00:30:00,860 is themselves. 197 00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:06,100 What is the purpose of all that rage? 198 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:10,180 What does it change? 199 00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:14,880 Maybe. 200 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:17,560 There is nothing. 201 00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:22,140 Mission 3, report. 202 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:26,940 Mission 3. 203 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:29,080 Find him. 204 00:31:29,780 --> 00:31:30,880 Observe him. 205 00:31:31,620 --> 00:31:32,620 Complete. 206 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,940 What information was gathered regarding his research? 207 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:44,760 None. 208 00:31:47,860 --> 00:31:49,060 Mission 3. 209 00:31:49,740 --> 00:31:50,740 Failed. 210 00:31:51,060 --> 00:31:52,960 This isn't a simple task. 211 00:31:54,840 --> 00:32:00,920 Everything about this place is... Your mission was to find him, observe him, 212 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:03,020 gather information regarding his research. 213 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:05,660 No information was gathered. 214 00:32:06,700 --> 00:32:08,040 Mission failed. 215 00:32:14,100 --> 00:32:15,820 Mission four, objective. 216 00:32:17,220 --> 00:32:18,620 Uncover his research. 217 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:21,900 Learn of its application and report back. 218 00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:30,080 Once I do this, can I leave this place? 219 00:32:32,860 --> 00:32:33,860 This body? 220 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:37,100 Can I come home? 221 00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:12,060 Oh, and the motherfucking thing. An alien is a little green man with big 222 00:34:12,060 --> 00:34:14,980 eyes or a giant squid from outer space. 223 00:34:15,500 --> 00:34:20,260 Imagine, we evolve beyond space and time, beyond physical form. And the 224 00:34:20,260 --> 00:34:24,120 thing we do when we get here is inhabit a tentacle monster who wants to fuck a 225 00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:25,120 Japanese girl. 226 00:34:26,639 --> 00:34:27,639 And you know, 227 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:31,179 they've got a term here, illegal aliens. 228 00:34:32,199 --> 00:34:33,360 Know who they are? 229 00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:36,840 No. 230 00:34:37,990 --> 00:34:42,550 Mexicans, Salvadorians, Haitians, Indians, the Lebanese, the Vietnamese, 231 00:34:42,590 --> 00:34:46,150 basically anyone with a year -round tan and an accent. 232 00:34:48,750 --> 00:34:50,610 Who are the legal aliens? 233 00:34:50,949 --> 00:34:52,830 They own property on the west side. 234 00:34:54,690 --> 00:34:58,390 There's no logic to it. There's never been any logic to it. 235 00:34:58,670 --> 00:34:59,970 And it's getting worse. 236 00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:08,600 It appears you've gotten accustomed to it. 237 00:35:09,500 --> 00:35:12,340 You even seem comfortable here. 238 00:35:13,060 --> 00:35:14,060 Comfortable? 239 00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:16,580 Fucking comfortable? 240 00:35:18,220 --> 00:35:21,100 I have seen the edges of the universe. 241 00:35:22,300 --> 00:35:25,920 I've seen stars consume planets. 242 00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:28,580 I've fucking seen gravity. 243 00:35:29,390 --> 00:35:33,330 But for thousands of vomitous, putrid, stinking years, I've been stuck here on 244 00:35:33,330 --> 00:35:38,450 two legs in solitary confinement, forced to observe the world through teeny tiny 245 00:35:38,450 --> 00:35:43,150 pinholes in my skull that are only able to see the same versions of red, blue, 246 00:35:43,290 --> 00:35:44,750 yellow, over and over again. 247 00:35:45,850 --> 00:35:50,230 You know, when these husks die, it's the only time I feel like myself. 248 00:35:52,010 --> 00:35:56,570 When I feel, just for a few seconds, a brief moment. 249 00:35:58,380 --> 00:35:59,380 Like me. 250 00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:03,980 And I can see. 251 00:36:17,700 --> 00:36:23,100 And I hit a fucking wall and they sent me right back here and stuffed me into 252 00:36:23,100 --> 00:36:26,880 another prison made of blood and bones and diseased meat. 253 00:36:28,650 --> 00:36:29,609 Comfortable, yeah. 254 00:36:29,610 --> 00:36:34,170 See how comfortable you are after you've died 15 times of a heart attack or lost 255 00:36:34,170 --> 00:36:40,050 another foot to diabetes or been called a witch 256 00:36:40,050 --> 00:36:47,050 and burned alive all because you're a 257 00:36:47,050 --> 00:36:48,050 scientist? 258 00:36:59,150 --> 00:37:00,150 I'm sorry. 259 00:37:04,370 --> 00:37:06,030 Just being a crybaby. 260 00:37:07,870 --> 00:37:09,790 Don't let me ruin this for you. 261 00:37:11,970 --> 00:37:14,230 You'll find out soon enough on your own. 262 00:37:24,270 --> 00:37:25,970 I was researching time. 263 00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:36,100 That's forbidden. 264 00:37:37,380 --> 00:37:38,380 I know. 265 00:37:41,540 --> 00:37:48,440 I told them, look, the beginning is the 266 00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:49,440 end. 267 00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:52,420 And the end is the beginning. 268 00:37:55,060 --> 00:37:57,260 And it's all happening at once. 269 00:38:01,100 --> 00:38:02,520 Even as we speak. 270 00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:10,960 And infinite beings don't like the sound of endings, do they? 271 00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:15,960 No. 272 00:38:17,900 --> 00:38:19,220 So now I'm here. 273 00:38:23,820 --> 00:38:26,220 Truth is the burden of the job. 274 00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:36,280 So... What were you researching? 275 00:38:51,069 --> 00:38:55,930 Language. Specifically, how the description of a thing becomes the 276 00:38:58,050 --> 00:38:59,550 I don't understand. 277 00:39:00,010 --> 00:39:05,110 For as fragile and disappointing as these husks are, they do possess one 278 00:39:05,110 --> 00:39:07,510 that I'm particularly fascinated with. 279 00:39:08,350 --> 00:39:14,630 What they think and how they think is intrinsically linked to their language. 280 00:39:15,150 --> 00:39:18,430 And they have nearly no control over it. 281 00:39:19,210 --> 00:39:23,150 See, if I say, um, flower, 282 00:39:23,350 --> 00:39:29,010 forest, mountain, 283 00:39:29,270 --> 00:39:31,570 sky. 284 00:39:35,130 --> 00:39:37,530 You saw all of that in your head, didn't you? 285 00:39:38,490 --> 00:39:40,530 You had no control over it. 286 00:39:41,050 --> 00:39:45,930 Our kind doesn't experience this. We didn't used to experience it. 287 00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:52,600 Now, with these bodies, these hearts, our mind 288 00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:55,240 creates this. 289 00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:01,520 But this is really going to fuck you up. 290 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:09,000 If we read something, the human mind has to create it. 291 00:40:34,540 --> 00:40:36,000 Saw it, didn't you? 292 00:40:38,100 --> 00:40:44,340 Whether it was perched on a park bench, or a tree branch, or floating.