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(dramatic blast)

(crickets chirping) (frogs croaking)

- Are you okay? - Did you see that?

(people whispering indistinctly)

Did you guys see that?

(people whispering indistinctly)

- [Afua] Folks, let's have it quiet

so we can take a head count.

Bettina? - I'm here.

- [Afua] Who's... who's next to me? I'm scared.

- [Oren] It's Oren. Wh... Where's your hand?

Got it. Got your hand.

- [Afua] Nikolai.

- [Nikolai] I'm here.

- Manav. - Here, I'm here.

I think we're okay.

- [Afua] Christine?

- [Christine] I'm here.

- [Afua] Shaina?

Sh... Shaina?

Shaina!

- [Student] (indistinct) The other way.

- [Afua] Shaina!

(melancholic pensive music)

(car tires screech)

(car horns honking)

(car horns honking)

(warm pensive music)

(birds chirping)

- Some studio.

It's not my favorite, yeah. I'm good, yeah.

But sure, I guess it's fine. - Yeah.

- Hi, I'm Shaina.

Odd question for you. What year is this?

- Whatever you're selling, honey, we're not buying.

- Selling? What's selling?

Selling, I remember. Uh, this is a market?

- So, I warned him about...

- I need a lot of help. - Oh, my gosh!

I'm sorry. I'm sorry, we can't help you.

- I think I'm scared. - Hey, hey, hey!

Take a hike, lady.

- A hike? Why are we taking a hike?

- Take a hike, or I'm gonna call the cops!

- What are cops?

- I'm gonna call the police, seriously. We can't help you.

- Police, police! I remember. What year is this?

- It's 2015.

(teenagers chattering) (teenagers laughing)

- Hi!

- Who's that?

- Hi. (teenagers laughing)

I'm Shaina.

- You a nympho? (teenagers laughing)

- A what?

- Oh, gosh!

- I think I need some assistance.

- (laughs) You wanna come to my place?

- I would! I would love to go to your place.

- Yeah, oh! You one of them, what's it called, a cougar?

(teenagers laughing)

- All right, come on, guys.

(teenagers speaking indistinctly)

- Call me some time, all right?

- Stop! - How do I call?

How do I call you?

- [Teenager] Oh, my god!

(chimes tinkling)

(melancholic pensive music)

- Afua, if you can read me, 2015.

No exact date, but it looks like summer.

40.6700 north, 73.9400 west, so I'm still in Lanape.

I crossed several temporal zones, but spatially,

I'm where I started, which means

the lab is over here.

Except it's 2015, so everyone's living above ground,

and people are probably calling this place New York.

Although Afua had me focus my studies on the late stages

of The Great Despair,

I seem to know enough about the middle stages

to be able to communicate, and I'm learning fast.

"Take a hike" means go away,

and hugs are perceived as a sign of aggression,

which is not something I could have known.

Afua, if you can read me, wish you were here.

(car horn honks) (melancholic pensive music)

Funit Usion Is down.

It's the turn of the millennium,

so solar tower's a century away,

supernova is at least two centuries away.

Solar emergency power does seem to be working,

so I can use the implement for recordings

and probably a few simple tasks.

Afua, if you can read me, I am looking at plastic.

And I am not in a museum.

- Hey. - Hey!

- Do you need something?

- Yes! Oh, I'm Shaina. What's your name?

- It's Alfred.

- Alfred, I'm so happy to be talking to you.

- Hey, can you do me a favor? - Absolutely.

- We're gonna go to an ATM

so you could take out some cash for me.

- And what is that? - Nice and easy, okay?

We're goin' to an ATM. We understand each other?

Just walk.

Just act natural.

- Okay.

I was being natural.

I don't know what an ATM is.

- How 'bout you not be funny and you get to go home today?

There's an ATM on this corner right here in this store.

- Okay, but I was not being funny,

and you were not laughing, which is case in point.

- I don't know why you don't understand

what's happening to you right now.

- I... I'm not from around here.

- Where you from?

- It's a long story.

- It's in there. The ATM's right by the door, come on.

- Uh, will you show me? I don't know what it is or what to...

Will you show me what to do with it?

You okay? You seem nervous.

Okay, come on, let's go in there.

Okay, let's go. Right there, let's go.

- [Shaina] Where are we going?

- (sighs) Come on.

- Ah. - Let me see your card.

Your card? I'm not fucking with you, lady.

Give me your fuckin' card.

- I don't think I have a card?

- Let me see your wallet.

- What's a wallet?

- Are you in a fuckin' coma, or something?

Give me your fucking wallet!

- Uh, I think probably where I come from

we don't have wallets, is my guess.

- What do you have?

- I have my implement. Do you wanna see it?

- Is this a fucking joke?

Give me your fucking wallet! Give me your fucking wallet.

- What kind of a card do you need?

Maybe this... What is wrong with you?

- My implement can decode this appliance.

Where does it go?

Don't put that in there.

(chimes tinkling)

(ATM beeps) - It works.

- What's your PIN?

- What's a PIN?

- Your number. It wants a number.

Put a number. - I don't have a number.

- Just put your number in. (ATM beeps)

- [Shaina] Um.

(ATM beeping)

- Hit enter.

(ATM beeps)

(ATM beeping)

Just act like you know me.

- Okay.

- Which account do I use?

- What account do you want?

(Shaina smooches)

(ATM beeping)

(ATM beeping)

It's for moneys! This machine is for money!

- Yeah. (ATM whirring)

- I should have known that from the signs of the dollar!

I've seen these in collections!

(Alfred laughs)

Wow! You need anything else?

- Yeah, yeah.

(ATM beeping)

(ATM whirring)

- More moneys!

- Everything is okay?

- Hi, I'm Shaina.

- No, we're all good. Hey, later, babe.

- Where are we going?

Alfred? Alfred, Alfred, Alfred!

Alfred, wait! Alfred, Alfred!

Wait!

Alfred! - Shit!

(both thudding)

Hey, I just need some help.

Get away from me.

- I just need some help.

I just need somebody... I can't help you.

- Why is everybody saying that?

You don't know what I need help with.

- I'm busy!

- Look, you're the only person

who's been willing to talk to me.

- Look, I wasn't talking to you.

Yeah, you were.

You were being mugged, lady.

- What's mugged?

- What?

- What's mugged?

- It's when someone forces you to give them money.

- I can give you money, that's not a problem.

I can give you money whenever.

Just need a little help. (car horns honking)

(birds chirping)

- So if my girlfriend is weird, don't worry about it.

She's nice if she knows you.

- Okay.

- She just likes to hear herself talk, that's all.

- Oh, me too.

(door closes)

- Hey. Did you eat yet?

- [Shaina] Hey!

- Who's that? - She's a friend from work.

- Hi! I'm Shaina.

- Um, Milton? - She's just stoppin' by.

Oh. Why?

Alfred, Alfred... Who's Alfred?

- That's what they call me at work.

You can call me Milton when we're not at work.

- Milton.

Where'd she go?

- She'll cool down in a minute. It is fine.

- She's not happy with you.

- That's her thing. She does that.

- She's not happy. What happened to her? Something happened.

- That's what... That's her thing. She does that.

- Maybe we can help her.

- No, we can't help her.

- [Shaina] Why not?

- [Imani] Milton!

- [Milton] What?

- Come! - Just wait.

- Milton!

- What? - Who is that?

- [Milton] She's from work. Don't worry about it.

- I don't believe you.

- Why wouldn't you believe me?

- Why didn't you tell me she was comin' over?

I wasn't even dressed.

- Look, I did, I told you. You forgot.

I told you this morning.

- No, you didn't!

- I definitely did.

- Don't be lying to me, Milton.

- [Shaina] Can I listen? Can I help?

What's the problem?

- Mind if we speak privately?

- Why?

- We need our privacy.

- You don't want my help?

Okay. If you change your mind, I'm right here.

- [Imani] She needs to go home.

I don't have a head for this right now.

- She's just gonna stay for one night.

- Wait, what? What?

She has got to go right now!

Um...

You've gotta go, I'm sorry. Today's not a good day.

- Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, misunderstood.

I'm gonna live with you until I find a way to get back home.

- [Imani] Wait, come again?

- He didn't tell you? - Oh-

- Alfred said I'm gonna live with you... Milton.

- [Milton] Imani, can I talk to you for a second?

- [Imani] Oh, you wanna talk to me?

- [Milton] Yeah, come here.

- No, no, talk to me right here.

- Right here.

- [Imani] Talk to me right here.

- [Shaina] Right here.

- Listen, I didn't wanna tell you what happened to her

'cause I didn't wanna alarm you.

- [Imani] Oh, what happened to her?

- It's a sensitive situation.

- Oh, you hear that, What's-Your-Name?

It's a sensitive situation. - Shaina.

- Your nose is gonna get caught in his lies

if you hear what he has to say.

- She's not stable.

- What? - She's not stable.

She just got outta the hospital.

- Okay, that's it. I'm done.

I'm done with you, Milton. Grab your bags.

- What are you talkin' about?

- The landlord was here. You told me you paid the rent.

- No, that's not what I said.

I said I was going to pay the rent.

- Oh, no, you chump, you told me you paid it!

You made me look like a fool around here, okay?

The landlord says we're three months back, three...

- I was gonna see him this evening.

- Where's that from?

- I got a bonus.

- You got a bonus in cash?

- You know Joey runs a cash business.

What was he gonna do?

He was gonna give me some coupons?

He was gonna pay me in doughnuts? Come on, you know that.

- Just tell me you didn't steal this.

- Imani, seriously?

- I don't know what to think anymore.

I feel like I don't even know you.

- What are you talking about?

You know it hurts my feelings when you call me a liar.

(smooches) Look, I'm... (Shaina smooches)

- Oh, my... - She's just...

Hey, could we check out another ATM later?

- To get moneys? (warm music)

Yeah.

Hey, people hold hands here.

- [Milton] What?

- Do people hold hands here?

- Oh, yeah, sure, they hold hands.

- Oh, good!

- You know what, uh, people don't hold hands here.

- They don't?

You change your mind, let me know.

I'd love to hold your hand.

- Okay.

(knocking on door)

Hey, buddy, it's me. Open the door.

- [Antonio] How do I know?

- Open the door. You'll find out.

- [Antonio] Yeah, but if I open the door and it's not you,

then that's too late.

- It's me. Open the door.

(lock clicks)

What the fuck?

(chain rattling)

- [Antonio] Who's that?

- It's a friend of mine, don't worry about it.

- Yeah, it's not your house.

You don't have to worry about it.

- She's nice. Don't be a stupid dick.

Open the fucking door.

Open the fucking door!

- Is he okay?

- He's not all there, if you know what I mean.

- He's there, I saw him.

- Mm, he's paranoid, but like, for real, diagnosed.

Hey, buddy, 100... 20 bucks if you open the door.

(locks clicking)

- You said 100.

- I said 20.

- You said 100 first.

- But then I change it to 20.

- But I opened the door because you said 100.

- Listen, I'm gonna need to ask you a favor.

- Hi, I'm Shaina. (moans softly)

Are you okay?

- I was just scared. I didn't know who you were.

- Why are you scared? What happened to you?

- You guys know each other?

- We do now.

- Okay.

So, look, do you mind if she crashes here for now?

'Cause she's not from around here,

and Imani flipped about her staying with us.

(Shaina laughs)

Okay, she can stay here.

Um... - I'm scared too.

- What's wrong?

- I had an accident,

and um... I need to figure out how to get back home.

- Oh, I'll help you. It's okay now.

- (laughs) The kinda help that I need

is going to require a lot of effort.

I need to recruit a team of physicists

who will study my implement with me,

and help me figure out how to power it back up.

- Team of physicists, I'm on it.

- That's what I need.

- You guys are gonna be fine, cool. That's great.

So I'm gonna have to check up on you later, okay?

- Where are you... where are you going? - I'll be back, all right?

I'll be back a little later. I'mma check up on you.

Where are you going?

[Milton] I gotta run.

- [Shaina] What? I wanna run.

- Didn't you hear what she said?

She had an accident. She needs a team of physicists.

- I know, I know, and we're gonna get to that later,

but I have a busy day.

- What are you busy with?

- Running errands for my boss.

- [Shaina] What's... What's a boss?

- A boss is when you...

- Hi, I'm Shaina.

Is he okay?

- Who?

- The guy who just walked in here?

- Oh, he just lives here, don't worry about him.

- Uh, okay. Well, let's talk to him, maybe he can help, too.

- No, no, he's not gonna help.

- [Milton] I'm gonna see you guys later.

Why won't he help? Wait... [Antonio] He's busy.

- How am I gonna talk to you?

I don't know how your devices work.

- Use Antonio's phone.

- I don't have any minutes.

- Really? - How do you have minutes?

- Antonio's roommate's gonna let you use his phone.

- Highly unlikely.

- I'll be back a little bit later, all right?

- In an hour?

- In a few hours.

- Okay. - I'll be back.

- I'll wait. I'm so glad that we're helping each other.

Ugh! - Sure.

- I'll wait for you.

I look forward... to you coming back.

(locks clicking)

- So why do you need a team of physicists?

- (sighs) It is a very complicated story,

and you will find it very hard to believe it.

- Try me.

- Okay. (clears throat)

So, I was visiting a physics lab,

and we had an accident, and I ended up here.

I'm from the year 2592.

- Okay.

(people talking indistinctly)

Do they have these in the future?

- What? - Refrigerators.

- Oh, yeah, but much bigger ones. We live in groups.

And ours generally have food in them.

I'm so hungry.

- Oh.

Try this.

Pocket Yum-Yum.

- There's food in this?

- Yeah. You want me to toast it?

- [Shaina] What's this?

(can tab twangs)

- [Rudy] That's my beer.

- Oh, thanks.

- He means he doesn't want you to have any.

- Bends all the way. (can hisses)

(Shaina sniffs)

(groans) This went bad.

- That's my beer, okay? I'm taking it to a party tonight.

- [Shaina] What do you do with that at a party?

- People drink it.

(Shaina sniffs) - Who is this?

- She's from the future.

- Hi, I'm Shaina.

- Right. Just don't drink my beers.

Thanks.

- I didn't catch his name. Let's go talk to your friend.

- [Antonio] He's not my friend.

- You live with him.

- Yeah, he just lives here.

He just lives here because I fell a little behind on my rent

for a little while.

- What's rent?

- What you pay to live somewhere.

- You have to pay to live?

So if he helps you to live,

doesn't that make him your friend?

- What? No, no, he's not a friend, he's a tenant.

- So I wanna meet your tenant. He may be able to help me.

- I don't wanna talk to my tenant.

- Hello? What's his name?

- [Rudy] What?

- See, he wants to talk to us. He must get lonely in there.

Hey! Hey, I didn't hear your name.

- I'm Rudy.

- Rudy! - Yeah.

- I hope I didn't confuse you in the kitchen.

- No, it's fine.

Just, I don't know, don't take my beers, that's all.

- Okay. I wanted to ask you if, um...

(keyboard keys clacking)

Wow, can I look? Can I look?

I've never seen one of these outside of a museum

that's actually working.

Can I see? Wow!

What do you call these, computers?

- Technically, that's a MacBook Pro.

- Can I touch the keyboard?

- [Rudy] Okay.

- [Shaina] And it's 2015, so you really just invented these,

what, a couple of decades ago?

Well, I mean,

it's like four years old, so I have to get a new one, but...

- Whoa, imagine you went back in time

and saw the invention of the printing press.

That would be pretty amazing, right?

- Right, right, okay, so here's the thing.

Listen, I'm kinda busy right now, so...

- What are you busy with?

- I was just lookin' up stuff. Just lookin' up something...

- How do you look up stuff? - It's fine.

- She really doesn't know. She's from the future.

- Um, okay. Well, I'm pretty busy, like I said, so...

- Well, you see, Milton said he was busy too.

What is everybody so busy with?

- Show her how to look stuff up.

- How do you look things up if you're looking down

at the keyboard?

- Oh, what that means is like, you know,

if you need to find something out,

you just look it up on Google and it'll tell you,

like what's the next iPhone gonna look like,

or, you know, what's the best pose to sleep in

if you have sciatica. Stuff like that.

- So we can do the looking up on the Google

to find physics labs?

- Uh, look up what? - This is amazing!

I need to find a team of physicists

who are gonna study my implement

and help me figure out how to get back home.

- I bet we could Google that.

- I bet we can! This is exactly what we need!

- No, listen, listen,

why... why don't we... why don't we look this up tomorrow, okay?

- Why tomorrow? Why can't we do it right now?

- Antonio, can't you just look this shit up

on your own computer?

- I lost my charger, my battery's dead.

- Okay, dude, I don't know, look it up on your phone.

- I don't have any data left.

- Dude, I can't help your friend, okay? I'm sorry.

Why can't you help us? You gotta get outta here.

- Why can't you help us?

- Look, unlike Bozo the Clown over here, I work, okay?

And when I get home after a long fucking day,

I just wanna relax by myself.

I mean, if that's okay with you.

- We'll relax with you.

You'll be so much more relaxed if you're not alone.

Do you need a... Oh, you do need to relax!

Lay down. Antonio, get in here.

We're gonna give him a back rub.

- Hey, listen, why don't you guys

get the hell outta my room... - What? Why?

- Or I don't pay rent, how 'bout that? I move out.

Let's not start any wars.

We're starting a war?

(door slams) Wow, he's really upset.

Rudy, are you okay? - Seriously, just leave him alone.

It's a 20-minute walk from the subway.

It's a really hard room to rent, okay?

Just let it go and we'll find another computer.

- Okay, but we need to help him. Did you feel his back?

You live with the guy and you've never rubbed his back?

- It's really a 15-minute walk,

and it's only 20 minutes if you walk slow on purpose.

So you can stay free tonight,

but it's 30 bucks a night, okay?

- What are bucks?

- Bucks, uh... Dollars, money.

- Oh, okay.

- And I'm giving you my pillow 'cause it's softer,

but we can take turns with it.

- Where... Where are you sleeping?

- In my room.

- So why aren't I sleeping there?

- What do you mean?

- I'm not gonna sleep by myself.

I'll sleep in your room with you,

and we can sing lullabies to each other.

- Lullabies in my room?

- Yes. (pounding on door)

- Don't open that, it could be anybody. Don't, don't!

(pounding on door continues) No, don't!

- [Milton] Antonio, it's me!

- It's Milton!

- Hey. - Hey!

Hello. - I left my keys here?

- [Shaina] What are keys?

- Keys to get into my apartment.

- What are they?

- Like that.

- Oh.

- [Milton] Not findin' 'em.

- Why don't you take one of these?

- [Milton] That's not my key. That's Antonio's.

- [Antonio] Maybe you left them in the bathroom.

- Maybe, yeah. Why don't you look there, and I'll look here.

Got 'em!

Thanks, guys. Look, I'll see you tomorrow?

- When you wake up?

- I don't know. Can we go to another ATM tomorrow?

- Sure.

- Great! Great, yeah, when I wake up.

- [Shaina] Come here.

- [Milton] All right. (laughs)

Okay.

- Enjoy your dreams.

- [Milton] Mm-hmm.

- Say hi to Imani.

I wanna see where you sleep.

- No, it's not... - I wanna see your room.

- No, don't, no, don't go... - Why?

- [Antonio] Please don't go in...

I'm in the middle of cleaning.

- Wow.

You need help organizing.

- Well, I'm getting a shelving unit next week.

- Well, (clears throat)

I wanna sleep in here.

- You'd be more comfortable on the couch.

- Why? Where are you sleeping?

- Here.

- So I'll be more comfortable here. Let's invite Rudy.

- No, he doesn't... He doesn't wanna be invited.

- Sure he does.

He must get so lonely sleeping in that room by himself.

- He's used to it. (laughs) We're all used to it.

- That makes it so much more terrible.

- If you... if you invite him to come sleep with you,

he's gonna think you wanna have sex.

- Why would I have sex with him? He's not my partner.

- If you sleep in the same bed, you have to have sex.

- You have to?

- Well, not have to, but you'd want to.

- What if you don't want to?

- But if you're in the same bed, you always want to.

- You always want to?

And that's why everybody here sleeps alone?

- I don't know.

- Well, it's not a problem.

I'm gonna tell him that I'm always

very happy to sleep with him,

and that I don't plan to have sex with him.

- You can't tell him that. You're gonna insult him.

- What... what part of that would insult him?

This is more confusion than I can handle in one day.

Do you wanna see the implement?

Where'd I put it?

It's not where I usually leave it.

(chimes tinkling)

(clears throat) Um,

I am living with Milton's friend, Antonio.

His room is a wonderland of treasures,

and I can hardly wait to explore.

You wanna talk to my friends?

- To who?

- My friends who live in the future.

- I can speak to the future?

(melancholic music)

- I don't know.

Afua, if you can read me...

(melancholic music continues)

I'll do whatever I can to figure out how to get back home,

but I don't know how yet.

(melancholic music continues)

(light switch clicks)

- Where you been?

- Joey needed me back at the shop.

Was a long day.

- Where's the crazy lady? She with Antonio?

- (exhales) Yeah. She's fine.

Imani.

- [Imani] Hmm?

- You like to hold hands?

- Huh?

- You know, holding hands.

- Go to sleep.

- I was just thinking about-

- I'm not in the mood, Milton.

- I'm not... I know that...

I know you're not in the mood. (laughs)

- Then good night.

- Just thinkin' we can hold hands.

- Are you all right?

- Yeah, I'm all right.

- Something's got into you.

- What? No, nothing's got into me.

(light switch clicks)

(chimes tinkling)

(chimes tinkling)

(chimes tinkling)

(light switch clicks)

(chimes tinkling)

- Antonio.

Antonio, they found me. They're sending me a message!

Afua, I can hear you!

(Antonio groans) I can hear you!

I'm getting the message, keep going!

Can you read me? Are you getting my messages?

Are you getting my messages?

They found me! They know where I am!

They know where I am! (Antonio shushes)

Keep going!

Ava Shaw is what?

She's what? She's what?

Don't cut out. Don't cut out, don't cut out, don't cut out!

Please don't cut out! Don't cut out!

They found me! They sent me a message!

It's a list of names.

This must be a group of physicists who live now

who can help me!

Afua, thank you! She sent me a list!

This is a group of physicists!

Okay, the first one is Ava Shaw.

We have her coordinates. Let's go find her.

Uh, how do we?

Cars, right? You use cars?

- Yeah. - Where are your cars?

- I don't have a car.

- You don't have a car? You don't have a car.

Um, okay. Um, Rudy!

Rudy would have a car! No, he doesn't have a car.

- Let's ask Rudy for his car!

Let's ask Rudy for his car!

He doesn't have a car.

But he doesn't have a car!

- [Shaina] We have to find her!

- [Antonio] Rudy doesn't have a car.

- Well, then let's see if somebody in this building

has a car. - Nobody has a car.

- We have to go... - You can't go out.

- Does the person across the hall have a car?

- I don't know. - What's their name?

- I don't know.

- You don't know the person you live with?

- They don't live with me.

- Yes, they do.

- No, they don't.

- Okay, then let's meet them and see if they have a car.

- They don't have a car.

Nobody has a car. This is New York City.

We travel by subway.

- Okay, let's put our shoes on. Let's get on the subway.

- What's the address?

- I have the coordinates.

- I don't know what to do with these numbers.

I need an address.

- Okay, well, we have to find out

what address is at these coordinates. Um...

Do the looking up on the Google.

- I don't have a computer.

- Rudy has a computer.

- No! No, no, no!

(Antonio speaks indistinctly)

You really wanna do this?

- I have to.

- Okay, then we have to do it my way,

'cause your way works in the future, not now.

- Okay, what's your way?

- Okay, so my way is we go in quietly,

we don't wake him up, we grab the computer,

and we bring it out here.

When we're done, we put it back... quietly.

He won't ever know we used it.

- I'm sure that he would be very happy-

- (shushes) Okay.

You want future way or you want the way that works?

- Future way works better.

(clears throat)

I want the way that works.

- Okay, follow me.

I think you should go in.

- Why?

- Well, because if we get caught, it should be you.

- Okay.

(floor boards creaking)

(Antonio shushes)

(Antonio shushes)

(floor boards creaking)

- Yo, yo!

- Uh... - What the...?

- I think we got caught.

- Yeah, you did get caught.

- I need a computer. - What the hell? What?

- Need a computer.

I came in very, very quietly

so that you wouldn't know I took it.

- I advised her against that.

- Rudy, I have a list of physicists

who can help power up my implement and get me home,

but I need to do the looking up on the Google

so I can find the address for these coordinates.

- Just say "look it up."

- Okay, listen, listen, honestly, seriously, guys.

I don't like it when people use my computer, okay?

I don't like it when people wake me up while I'm sleeping

by trying to sneak into my room,

and I really don't like it when people

do both of those things at three o'clock in the morning.

- Four o'clock.

- Four, four, thank you, Antonio.

Four o'clock in the morning.

Rudy, Rudy, Rudy, Rudy,

this is really, really important.

- Yes, I know, you've mentioned that.

- I have to explain this to you. Let me explain it.

- And... are you serious?

- Rudy, Rudy, listen to me.

Imagine you're driving a car. You imagining it?

- Yes, yes, yeah, okay. - Okay.

You're driving a car, you take a turn.

All of a sudden, (hands clap) boom!

It's the 1400s. - It's the 1400s.

- 600 years ago, right? - Right, of course.

- And you've run out of fossil fuels-

- Mm-hmm. - So your car can't go.

- Mm-hmm. - In the 1400s,

nobody can help you because nobody there

has ever heard of cars, ever seen one, right?

- Wow, yeah.

- So you're in trouble, right?

- Mm-hmm. - Solid metaphor.

- Now, imagine you found a list of names of people

who live in the 1400s who can find fossil fuel

and make your car go.

You'd wanna find them, right?

- Absolutely.

- Okay, so first name, Ava Shaw.

I need an address for these coordinates

so that he can take me on the subway.

- Oh, no, no, no, I don't... I don't go on the subway.

- Antonio's mentally... He doesn't leave the house.

- Okay, so you go with me.

- Oh, uh. Have you guys ever heard of a job?

- I've heard of it. I studied history.

- Okay, listen, listen, okay.

All right, I go to work at eight a.m., okay,

in the morning, tomorrow. - Mm-hmm.

- If you let me go to sleep now,

and I really... really hope you let me go to sleep now,

okay, I will promise to come back in the afternoon

and... and do... do whatever this is.

Deal? Does that work for you, Antonio?

- Um... - Good.

Yes? - I will let you go to sleep-

- Okay. - But you have to look up

these coordinates before you go to work.

- Are you kidding me?

- Before, okay? I'll see you at seven.

- No, no, no, no, no, no, no, 7:30.

- I will see you at 7:15.

- Goodnight, goodnight. - That's a yes,

don't push your luck.

- Goodnight!

- Yes, goodnight. - Let me tuck you in.

- Oh, thank, okay. - Do you want a song?

- No, I'm good, thank you, though.

That's very generous. If we come in at seven,

Antonio and I can give you a back rub.

- Okay, seriously, 7:15.

Goodnight. - Okay, 7:15.

- Please. Really lookin' forward to it.

(door clicks)

- So the first thing is that these people,

we couldn't find them... uh.

Some we couldn't find at all,

some are not at these coordinates,

except for the first one, except for Ava Shaw.

- [Milton] Mm-hmm.

- The second thing I don't understand

is the Ava Shaw that lives at these coordinates

uh... doesn't work at a... at a physics lab.

She works at a ad agency.

- Uh-huh.

- So firstly, what's an ad agency?

- Uh, you know, they make ads. Ad agency.

- What are ads?

- Okay. Well... Okay, yeah, so you see that?

You see that poster there? - Yeah.

- So people see that, and then it makes them

wanna buy scotch.

It's an ad.

- That makes you wanna buy scotch?

- Sure.

- Ad is short for advertisements!

- Right.

- Where you ask people to buy things

so that you have the moneys.

I've read about advertisement.

So why would a physicist work at an advertisement agency?

- No, a physicist wouldn't work at an advertisement agency.

- See, so that doesn't make sense.

(train clacking on track)

(turnstile beeps)

(chimes tinkle) (turnstile beeps)

Hello? Hello!

Hello!

- Ooh, hey. Hey, what are you doing?

You can't just open a door.

Oh, it doesn't open.

Why? She's not home.

We can wait for her.

- We could wait for her. We can't break into her house.

- How do you break a house?

- Break into her house.

It means you're going in without permission.

- I'm sure she would want us to be comfortable

while we're waiting.

And she probably has food in there. I'm hungry!

It doesn't open.

What's this? - It's a matchbook.

No, she wouldn't want us to be comfortable.

She would scream and call the cops if she walked in

and saw us raiding her fridge.

- Where are you going?

- We need to wait for her somewhere else.

(warm music)

- You have an appointment?

- We... We don't have an appointment.

We're here to see Ava Shaw.

- Okay, well, you need an appointment.

- How do we make an appointment?

- You gotta call in.

- Okay, how do we call in?

- You call her assistant.

- Great. How do we call her assistant?

- She's extension 34.

- 34, that's the number. Can we use your phone?

Do you have minutes? - No, no, no, no.

I'll call. What's the number here?

(soft jazz music)

(telephone ringing)

(telephone ringing)

(telephone ringing)

Extension 34.

- One moment.

(buttons beeping)

- (exhales) It's going to voicemail.

Hi, we're in the reception area.

We're looking for Ava Shaw.

- We're waiting for her in the reception area.

- We're gonna wait for her in the reception area. Thanks.

(soft jazz music)

- What happened to her? Is she okay?

- What do you mean?

- Something bad happened to her.

- Nothing happened to her. She's fine.

She's a model. She's modeling.

- She's doing what?

- She's being sexy. Yeah.

- Something bad happened to her. How is that sexy?

- You know, she's not gonna get your message for a while.

She's at lunch.

- I wanna have lunch! Where is she having lunch?

- I don't know, I'm not her stalker.

- What's a stalker, a helper?

- Yeah, I think I know where she is,

where we can find her tonight.

The matchbook on her steps.

West End Lounge, that's probably where she's at.

(warm music)

(motorcycle rumbling) (people chattering)

(motorcycle rumbling)

- Got enough money?

- Uh, for now, yeah.

ID, please. We need to go get more tomorrow.

- Hey.

- ID? - He needs to know your age.

- I'm turning 63 next week.

- Uh, no, I need an ID.

- What's an ID?

- (sighs) Uh... Okay.

Look, we're gonna have to... I'm gonna have to go in there solo.

You can't get in there without an ID. - Why?

Why? You can't go in there if you're under 21.

- Why? - People drink in there.

- People are getting intoxicated?

People are getting intoxicated in there?

- [Milton] Yup, yup, yeah.

- [Shaina] I've read about that!

- Yeah, yeah.

Um... look, I'll just go in there for a few,

and see if I find her, okay?

- Okay, I'll wait.

- Don't talk to anyone.

- Why?

- (laughs) You don't realize it,

but you say things that freak people out.

You're gonna get yourself in trouble.

You don't know what you're doing.

- Okay, 'cause I do things the future way,

and not the way that works.

- Right. - Okay.

I won't talk to anybody.

- So that, that includes no hugging.

- No hugging. - No, don't hug anyone,

especially around here.

That's bad news. - Hugging is bad news.

No talking, no hugging. No wonder you guys get intoxicated.

You must be really bored.

- Know what? Try this, just...

That's good, yeah.

(muffled energetic music)

(muffled energetic music)

(Shaina laughs)

(Shaina laughs)

- You waiting for someone?

- Milton.

- Oh, he your boyfriend?

- Uh, he's helping me.

Oh.

Yeah, but he told me not to talk to anybody.

- It's all right, I'm not gonna hurt you.

- Why would you hurt me?

No, he's worried if I talk to anybody,

it would freak them out.

- Oh, yeah? - Yeah.

- Well, I don't scare too easily.

- No?

- How come you're not goin' inside?

- I don't have an ID.

- Oh, seriously? I know Tommy!

- Oh, yeah? - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

How old are you?

- I'm turning 63 next week.

- Cool, me too!

- Really? - Yeah!

Come on. I know Tommy.

- All right! - Yeah! (laughs)

She's cool.

- [Shaina] Milton told me not to hug anybody.

- [Rough Guy] Oh, sounds like that friend of yours

has somethin' up his ass.

- [Shaina] That's an expression

you will need to explain to me.

(energetic music)

How do people talk to each other in here?

(energetic music) - Huh?

What do you wanna drink?

- Oh, water. I would love some water.

- Live a little, it's okay.

- Why would I only live a little?

- I'm gonna get you something you'll like.

- Wait, are you getting intoxicated?

- [Rough Guy] Huh?

- Oh, I don't wanna get intoxicated.

- Don't worry about it.

Didn't you say it's your birthday next week?

- People get intoxicated if it's their birthday?

- If they're turnin' 63, then yeah.

- I'm gonna go find my friend Milton.

He's here to help me.

- I'm sure he's okay.

- [Shaina] What? Why would he not be okay?

- I wasn't done talkin' to you yet.

- Oh, I don't wanna talk right now.

I'm gonna find my friend.

- You are a freak, aren't you?

- What? I'm not from around here.

- Didn't I just get you that drink?

- What? - Hey, hey, hey!

- Whoa! - Didn't I just get you that drink?

That drink, I just bought it for you.

Now you gonna sit down, or you gonna be a bitch about it?

- A what?

- Hey, leave her alone!

(rough guy thuds) (rough guy groans)

(energetic music) (people chattering)

You okay?

- I've never hurt somebody before.

- What happened? - Why are you so upset?

- Hey, get outta here! (rough guy spits)

- No, no, no, no, no, no!

If you get upset too,

then it's only gonna make things harder!

- Thought we said that you were gonna wait outside!

- He helped me get inside.

Why is everybody so upset around here?

Did you find her?

- No, I was lookin' all over.

- And nobody here knows her?

- I didn't... I didn't ask.

- Hey, do you know Ava Shaw?

- Uh, yeah. You friends with her?

(Ava retching)

- Oh, oh, you're sick. (Ava coughing)

You're sick. Let me... let me take you home and take care of you.

- I got this. (laughs) - What?

- He's got this.

- You're intoxicated too. You can't help her.

- Who are you? (laughs)

- I'm a friend.

Hey... Take a hike, lady!

- You take a hike, lady. I need to talk to her.

- I said scram! - Okay,

we don't have to get aggressive, all right?

Come on, let's go.

- What? She's sick.

I have to be with her... We'll catch her

another time. - Until she gets well

and tell her why I'm here.

Ava. - What do you want?

- Ava, Ava, were you a physicist before you worked

at an ad agency?

Oh, no, Shaina, seriously,

she's not a physicist.

- She's gotta be. - Why are you still here?

(Ava retching) (vomit splattering)

(Calvin laughing)

Why are we still here?

- Hey, hey.

(Calvin groans) - Where... where are you going?

Where are you taking her?

- Beat it, lady. I am not fuckin' with you!

- If beat it means take a hike,

I'm not going anywhere. - Who is that?

- Some bitch has an issue with you.

- I don't have an issue.

Ava, I need your help, and I think you need my help too.

Where are you going? - Does it look like

she wants to help you? (laughs)

- Hey, hey, hey.

Where... where are you going? I'm gonna come with you.

- [Calvin] Whoa! (laughs)

- I'm going with them. - Shaina, don't do-

- Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. - What?

- Yo, yo, whoa, buddy! You don't have to get aggressive.

- Tell your lady that we don't wanna talk.

- Okay, they don't wanna talk to you.

- They wanna talk to me. - We'll find

another physicist. - What?

- What is a physikist?

Why don't you buckle me?

- The seatbelt will make you puke in my car. (laughs)

- I want an ice cream sandwich.

- What's an ice cream sandwich?

What does she want? Get her what she wants.

- What's your name?

- [Shaina] I'm Shaina.

- No, you.

- I'm Calvin. (burps)

Remember, I told you that earlier? (laughs)

- No, I don't remember. If I remembered, would I ask you?

Why do you have to be so critical?

- Hey, you just met this girl?

- If you two don't scram,

I'm gonna call the cops, capiche? (laughs)

- You two fighting over me? (laughs)

I always wanted cute boys to fight over me.

- Let me come with you. I'd like to come with you.

- Hey, why don't you scram, lady?

- Scram, take a hike, beat it.

You have a lot of words for go away.

- Bye-bye. (laughs)

(car revs) - Hey, hey, let me in.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, where are you going?

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait... Shaina, don't.

(car tires screech)

- Let's go to her house.

She'll turn up there eventually.

- Why don't we look up the other names on the list?

- She's the only name we found.

- That girl's not a physicist!

- She's the only name we found.

- Then let's get you back to Antonio's-

- Okay. - For now.

- [Shaina] What's that? What are you doing?

- Hailing a taxi.

(car whooshes by)

- I've never been in a car before.

Hey, I'm Shaina! I've never been in a car before.

- Listen, give him a break, okay?

You can't just start talking to total strangers.

- How do you make friends with them?

- You don't.

- I was visiting... You know you almost

got us killed back there?

That guy was not a joke.

- (clears throat) I apologize for making a mistake.

- You just do what I tell you, and we stay outta trouble.

- Okay, but I don't wanna go back to Antonio's place.

I think we should go to Ava's place.

She will turn... she will turn up there.

- That's literally the fastest way to get us in to trouble.

- So what do we do?

- Look, we get a good night's sleep,

we think about it tomorrow.

(chimes tinkling)

How'd you do that?

- What? - Turn your thing on?

- Oh, you uh, swipe your fingers in opposite directions.

That way, you don't turn it on by accident.

You wanna try it?

(clears throat)

(chimes tinkling) (Milton laughs)

- Yeah, that's cool. How'd you get it to work at the ATM?

- You just turn it on.

It can figure out what the appliance

it's using is looking for.

(taxi driver speaking Arabic)

(Shaina speaking Arabic)

(taxi driver speaking Arabic)

(Shaina speaking Arabic)

(taxi driver speaking Arabic)

(Shaina speaking Arabic)

(taxi driver speaking Arabic)

(Shaina speaking Arabic)

(taxi driver speaking Arabic)

(Shaina speaking Arabic)

(taxi driver speaking Arabic)

- Milton.

He takes care of his family.

Milton, Ava Shaw, she's not a physicist.

- Yeah, we know that.

- Okay, remember I said there were three things

that confused me about the list Afua sent me?

The third thing was that the last name on the list

had the same name as my grandfather.

- Okay.

- He doesn't have the same name as my grandfather, Milton.

That is my grandfather!

What do you mean?

Afua sent me my genealogy!

Ava Shaw, that's my great-great-great-great-grandmother!

(taxi driver speaking Arabic)

(Shaina speaking Arabic)

(car tires screeching)

- Whoa, whoa, what did you tell him? Where we going?

- We don't know where she's gonna be tonight,

but we know where she's gonna be in the morning.

- No, no, her office? You're gonna get arrested.

- What's arrested?

- [Milton] The cops are gonna... The police, what?

- Yes. - Why would the police come?

I just need to talk to her. Milton, Milton!

That woman was my great-great-great-great-grandmother!

Afua, is a genius!

- Calm down, calm down. - I know.

(taxi driver speaking Arabic)

(Shaina speaking Arabic)

- I'm gonna have to get out here

if you're gonna take this cab downtown.

- Why, why? You have to come with me.

You have to help me.

- It's two in the morning. I'm done here.

- What, why? Why?

- I have responsibilities.

- What responsibilities? To your job?

- To Imani.

- Tell her what we figured out!

She would want you to help me.

(Shaina speaking Arabic)

(melancholic music)

(chimes tinkling)

(lock clicks)

(creaking floor boards)

(light switch clicks)

- Where you been?

- [Milton] I was working late.

- I don't believe you.

- What? What are you upset about?

- I don't believe a word you say.

I think you lie to me every other day.

- What would I lie to you about?

- About this.

- What is this?

- I don't know. You tell me.

I found it in a box of Band-aids

stashed in a bathroom cabinet.

- Look, Imani... Save it.

I don't know who you are.

- Imani, look, I've been saving day and night

without telling you 'cause...

It's because I've been meaning to...

I can't ask you to marry me if I don't get a ring,

a real ring.

Look, you deserve a good man.

You deserve a good life.

Look, I'm not lying to you.

This is the truth. This is the whole truth.

- All of it?

- All of it.

- You were working late tonight?

- I was.

Love you, babe.

(light switch clicks)

(car horn honking)

- Hey! (people laughing)

- Hey! Hey, do you know Ava Shaw?

No?

Hey, hey, hey, do you know Ava Shaw?

Um, can I have some of your sandwich?

I'm really hungry.

(clears throat)

Hey, do you know Ava Shaw? Do you know Ava Shaw?

Ava!

Ava!

Ava, Ava Shaw.

- Excuse me? - It's me.

I was there last night at the West End Lounge,

when you were throwing up,

remember? - I'm sorry, I don't know you.

- You went home with that guy, Calvin, remember?

- I don't know you... I was there

with my friend, Milton.

Ava, I need to talk to you. Remember me?

I saw you last night.

Ava, Ava, I really need to talk to you.

Hi, I'm Shaina.

Ava, I waited for you outside this building

since three o'clock in the morning.

Um...

- I'm sorry. You did... you did what?

- I... I need to talk to you.

I know... I know that you're very, very sick

from all the intoxications.

- Excuse me?

- Ava, Ava, Ava, Ava... Good morning.

- I really need to talk to you.

You want to talk to me.

- Well, uh, the train was delayed a little bit,

so just tell them I'll be there in a couple of minutes.

- What are you eating?

- Can you please show her the way out? Thank you.

- No, no, no, no, no, no, no, Ava, Ava-

- Whoa, whoa, should I call security?

- What's security? Police?

No, there's no reason for police.

A very good friend sent me my genealogy-

- I'm have to ask you, if you don't leave right now

- I'm afraid that - - [Shaina] You need to help me.

- [Security Guard] Is there a problem here?

You want to help me. I'm sorry, I can't help you.

- [Shaina] We need to live together until you help me.

She's not authorized here.

Ava, no, everything is okay.

There's no problem.

- Ava - - Oh! - Miss,

you're gonna have to come with us.

- Ava, I'm here from the future.

You're my great-great-great-great-grandmother. Ava!

Experiments in transtemporal motion

began decades before I was born.

It was a collaboration between a group of historians

and a team of physicists.

And my mentor, Afua Ray, was invited to join

in this, uh, in this project, because of her famous journals

on The Great Despair,

which is, um (clears throat)

(clears throat)

That's, uh, that's the term that later generations used

to describe this period of time in history.

Um...

So the inaugural expedition was scheduled for July 4th.

- Fourth of July?

- It's a holiday... here.

Uh... right, we don't have, um, national borders in 2592.

The purpose of the mission was purely

the curiosity and joy of learning all about you.

Um... You see, in 2330, Star K.I. Pagasia

went into a supernova so intense

that its radiation wiped out all digital data on Earth.

So all we've had to go on to study you

have been ruins and any papers that were preserved.

So Afua invited a group of her students, myself among them,

to come see the lab.

To put it in your terms Um...

imagine someone who never drove a car started a car engine.

They could get into an accident, right?

(clears throat) So that's what happened.

We had an accident, and I ended up here by myself in 2015.

But the good news is they located me.

Afua sent me a signal listing my genealogy,

tracing me all the way back

to my

great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother,

Ava Shaw.

- I see.

Shaina is, um, it's not a particularly futuristic name.

- What do you mean?

- I mean, you know, it's a... it's a nice Jewish name.

- It is a nice Jewish name! I'm Jewish.

- How did, um... how did Afua communicate with you? Did you hear her voice?

- Hear her voice? That would be nice.

No, she, uh, she sent me a... a written message.

It's on my implement. I'll show it to you.

(keyboard keys clacking)

My implement.

Whoa!

Whoa!

Whoa!

My implement is not here!

We have to go back to the agency.

- Send in Jim to assist my patient to her room,

and I just forwarded her prescription

to the pharmacy. My implement, it's not here.

- Please fill immediately, thanks.

- [Shaina] It's not here.

Whoa, whoa, whoa! - Shaina, Shaina, Shaina.

- This is not good! This is not good.

- Shaina, Shaina, Shaina... We have to go to the agency.

We have to go back to the agency, or it might be in the car.

I had it in the car.

- We are here to help you.

- Thank you. - Oh!

Thank you, thank you.

It's okay, it's okay.

- Thank you. - It's okay. Good, it's okay.

Oh, here's Jim. He will help you.

- I thought you were helping me.

- I have other patients to see, Shaina.

He'll take care of you. Jim, he's good, yeah.

- Thank you, thank you. Let's go.

I need to get to the agency right away.

I need to find the car we were in.

I have to find... Why does this door not open?

Why does this door not open?

I'm gonna help you out.

- Okay, the longer I take to retrace my steps,

the harder it is gonna be to find my implement.

- Hi, Shaina, I'm Linda... Hi.

- I'm here to help you. - Thank you.

Thank you. - Okay.

Um, I'm gonna need you to take these.

What are those? Oh, they'll just help you

relax and make sense

of things. - I don't need to relax.

I need to find my implement.

I can't get home until I find it.

- [Nurse Linda] Where's home?

- 2592.

- 2592 what?

- The year 2592. Why won't this door open?

Will you please open this door for me?

What is this place? Where is the exit?

I need to get outta here.

I need to get outta here immediately.

What is this place? I don't understand.

Get me outta here. I need to get outta here.

This door doesn't open either.

- We're here to help you.

- Please open this door for me.

You are not helping! I need to get outta here.

- Please, just relax. This will help you relax.

- I don't want that. I don't... What are you doing?

I don't want that! - We need back-up.

- Hey, what are you doing? Why are you holding...

Why are you holding me?

What are you doing? - Shaina, can you count

to 10 for me? - What?

What? What is that?

What are you doing? I don't want that!

What are you doing? Get away from me!

Get away from me! Get away from me!

What are you doing? Take a hike!

Take a hike! What are you doing?

I don't want that! Stop, stop!

I don't want that! I don't want that!

Stop! Get away!

Get away!

(muffled speaking over speaker)

(door opens)

- How you feelin' today, Shaina?

- [Shaina] Not sure.

- [Nurse Linda] Well, this will make you feel better.

- - Thanks. I'm hungry.

- You're welcome. Did you sleep okay?

- I'm not sure.

(muffled speaking over speaker)

(clears throat)

This food is, uh...

It's upsetting my stomach. I'm not used to it.

- Well, it's standard cafeteria style.

- I don't mean here, I mean here in 2015.

- Right.

Do we, uh, invent pills that make food obsolete in the future?

- Food obsolete? (laughs)

(Nurse Linda laughs)

Do you not use the expression that food grows on trees?

It's everywhere.

I miss the tomatoes that grew in our yard.

- Do you, uh, live with someone?

- Live with a lot of people.

Nobody likes to live alone.

- I think it's... well, this food will make you strong.

- This food is making everybody here sick.

Where I come from, the average life span is 160 years.

- Must be a nice place where you come from.

- It's a nicer place than I realized.

Linda, right?

- Yes.

(clears throat)

- I want you to know that... (beep)

I care about you,

that I'm really...

(beep)

...that I'm really sorry about what I have to do.

- What do you mean?

- No one deserves to get hurt,

(clears throat)

but, um, I have to get outta here.

- What do you mean? What do you plan to do?

- Whatever it takes.

(punch thuds)

(Nurse Linda thuds)

(door beeps)

(melancholic music)

I thought I knew a lot about The Great Despair.

I read, I studied, I devoted years of my life

to learning about these dark times

in which moneys were regarded as more important

than the people who used them.

I read about armies, jails, orphanages.

I learned about all those symptoms

of keeping the riches of the planet

in the hands of a small group of scared individuals

who couldn't think about the whole.

I read about pollution,

about people using most of their space

for their machines, and not for themselves.

I read about the enslavement of women,

but I could have never imagined people walking right by it,

as if it wasn't happening.

(pensive music)

I read about using the shades of human skin

to justify violence and exploitation.

I read about people being treated differently

depending on the work they did.

But until you've seen the results of all that,

until you've seen everyone around you

wrapped in this blanket of isolation,

until you've seen two human beings

sitting right by each other and acting as if they're alone,

you can't really understand it.

Until you've seen this level of joylessness, loneliness,

until you've seen this level of despair

on real, live human beings,

you can't possibly imagine what it looks like.

(pensive music continues)

(rain pattering)

I thought I knew a lot about The Great Despair,

but I didn't know.

(pensive music continues)

(knocking on door)

Rudy.

- Hey. - How's work?

- What do you need?

- I'm looking for Antonio.

Antonio? - He's not here.

- Not here?

- He doesn't live here anymore.

- He doesn't live here?

Where... where'd he go? - Who is that?

- [Rudy] It's one of Antonio's friends.

- Oh, the guy that tried to kill himself?

- He... he what?

- Oh, he tried to kill himself.

They put him in the hospital. Bellevue, I think.

- What... what's Bellevue?

- It's a mental hospital.

- What's a mental hospital?

- He lost it.

- He lost what?

- The guy lost his mind.

- How do you... how do you lose a mind?

- He's... he's just not here, okay?

- Rudy, I lost my implement

and I don't know what I'm gonna do without it.

And I (clears throat) need help.

I need help finding it and I need a place to live.

- Look, I'm sorry, okay?

We work, we live here now, so...

(melancholic music)

(knocking on door)

- Who's that?

- It's Shaina (clears throat). I was here the other day with Milton.

- I know who you are.

- Could I talk to Milton?

- [Imani] What do you want with him?

- I was hoping he'd be able to help.

- He can't help you.

- Wait, wait, wait, wait, don't go, please.

Listen, I understand so much better now

why you're not happy.

I know it very generally. I don't... I haven't heard your stories.

I don't know what happened to you.

- Nothing happened to me.

- I need you to be kind to me,

even if it... even if it breaks your heart to do it.

(Shaina sniffles)

I don't have anywhere to go, and, um,

I keep, uh, (clears throat) I keep making mistakes.

I don't know how to be in this world.

And, uh...

My only hope,

the only hope that I have right now,

is you,

is you deciding that you're gonna be kind to me.

Milton, Milton! Milton.

The doctor, they injected me with something

and they tried to lock me up in this place,

and I lost my implement.

I don't have anywhere to go. I need to live with you.

- No, no, no, no, no, I can't help you.

- No, Milton... I'm sorry.

- They put Antonio in that place. We have to go get him too.

- Look, I have my own problems, I can't do this right now.

- Let her in.

Okay, I'm gonna have to ask you not to do that.

- [Shaina] Okay, tell me if you change your mind.

- Imani, we're doin' lunch, right?

- Not now, Milton.

- What do you mean? I'm starvin'.

- I need to ask you a few things before we go to lunch.

- What's wrong? Is something wrong?

- Couple of things.

Yeah, couple of things are pretty much wrong.

You could say that.

- What's wrong?

- Do you know Milton from work?

- No, I don't know where he works.

- I said that she was from work so that you wouldn't worry.

- That's why you said that?

You tellin' me you got this as a bonus.

You wanna tell me why you said that?

- Joey gave me that.

- Joey ain't gave you nothin'. I spoke to Joey.

You haven't worked for him in months!

- Imani.

- Don't Imani me! Where'd you get the money?

- I got it... Don't lie to me-

- I gave it to him. - Milton.

- I gave it to him.

He met me on the street and he asked to go to an ATM.

- What ATM? What are you talkin' about?

- He needed money so he asked for help.

- So he told you to go to a ATM?

- That's where you get the moneys, right?

- You wanna tell me what's really goin' on here

before I pop you in the face?

- Imani, wait, listen. - Yo, stop!

Don't, don't. Just tell me what's going on, Milton!

Or else I'm gonna put your shit out on the sidewalk!

- I asked her for a loan... I wanted to help him.

- So you loaned him thousands of dollars.

Um, what do I look like, a fool to you?

What's... what's goin' on, Milton?

I didn't loan it to him.

I gave it to him. I didn't need it.

- (laughs) So you didn't need your thousands of dollars?

- They weren't mine. They were at the ATM.

I used my implement to take the money.

What is going on? Milton!

You should listen to him!

You should listen to him and find out how he feels.

When I met him, he looked so scared and nervous.

He didn't think anybody would wanna help him.

He was showing people a gun to get help.

He was showing me his gun

because he thought I wouldn't go to the ATM.

- You mugged this lady? - That's not how

it went down. - What's mugging?

Oh, you did mug me! You said you were mugging me.

- Oh, you mugged a mentally-unstable lady for cash?

This is how we pay our rent?

- [Milton] It's not what it sounds like!

- Yo, how long have you been doin' this?

- That was the first and only time.

I would never do that again.

I couldn't even do it.

I don't believe one word

you said, not one word.

- Wasn't her money in her thing.

The implement, she put it in an ATM,

and then the machine started

giving us whatever we wanted. Yo, stop, stop, stop,

shut up, shut up, please!

You're makin' this... My implement! - I'm not lyin'.

You found it, you found it!

I'm tellin' you the truth.

- What is this? - That's my implement!

That's my implement!

It's a piece of paper.

- No, it's a device! It got me here from 2592!

- You mugged someone who needs help?

- No, Imani, I saw that with my own eyes!

She put it in the machine and it spat out money.

(melancholic music)

(melancholic music continues)

- Get out.

- Imani.

- Please get out.

I can't live with a gun-toting thief

who steals, robs, and cheats for money, yo!

- [Milton] It's not who I am!

- [Imani] That's who you've become! Just get out!

- Imani. - Please, get out!

Get out, please! - Imani! Imani!

- Just... get out.

You can come get your shit when I'm at work,

and I'm changing the lock

so you better get here before Tuesday.

Don't say it.

- Imani... Don't, don't fuckin' say it.

- I love you. I love you.

- You shoulda thought about that shit

before you lied to me every fuckin' time!

You lied to me! You shoulda thought about that!

- You don't think that I did?

You don't think that I thought about it

every fuckin' time I had to lie around here

to get through the fucking day?

You think I wanna be stealing?

You think I wanna be fucking stealing?

Joey went outta business because they doubled his rent.

He's living with his sister, and his mom is already there

'cause she has nowhere to go.

I tried to get another job, and I couldn't.

Imani, I looked for months. I couldn't get a fucking job!

I went back to Henry!

I went back to him and I begged.

He made me get on my knees and beg for my old job back

at half of what he used to pay me, and I did it.

I did that.

I got on my knees and I begged like a dog

so that he could be entertained.

And then after I did that, he kicked me outta there,

like the lying sack of shit that I am.

I didn't know what to do, Imani.

We couldn't make the rent on your money alone.

We couldn't make the bills!

I had to figure out how to keep bringing food

to this fucking table!

But what broke my heart more than any other fucking thing

was hurting you, Imani.

What was killing me every day

was thinking about what would happen to you

if I couldn't make ends meet around here.

I couldn't put you through that.

I couldn't put you through all the fuckin' misery

that was keeping me up every night,

and keeping me from being able to breathe during the day.

At least one of us could get to sleep sometimes.

But I did.

I did, I thought about how much I love you

every fucking time that I lied to you, every fucking time.

That was the only thing I could think about

to stay sane around here.

(Imani sniffles)

- I can't. I'm sorry, babe, I just... I can't. (sniffles)

I can't. I just can't. (sniffles)

(melancholic music)

- [Shaina] It's June 30th, 2016, my 64th birthday.

I spend a lotta my time in what they call a park

because it looks like the closest thing to my home.

My implement continues to decay with each passing day.

I don't have the skill to repair it,

but I'm still looking for someone

who will work with me to figure out how.

The recording devices they use here

are made of digital technologies, but without money,

I don't have access to those.

(melancholic music continues)

As I've continued to watch my fellow humans

endure this harshness,

what's come over me ultimately

is a sense of awe.

It's beyond my comprehension how,

in the midst of such inhuman conditions,

my ancestors kept finding ways

to be human with each other.

(warm pensive music)

How did my people, hundreds of years ago,

without any reassurance

that something else really is possible,

with their imagination being their only real weapon,

how did we still manage to pull ourselves and one another

out of our despair?

(warm pensive music continues)

As I try to imagine what it must have taken,

there wasn't one single human being around me

I didn't want...

to thank.

We really are the most resilient, creative,

stunning, and magnificent survivors in our known universe.

(melancholic music continues)

And every day that I've spent here, living in the past,

I want to thank my ancestors for getting us from here...

to there.

♪ Deep blue sea, baby ♪

♪ Deep blue sea ♪

♪ Deep blue sea, baby ♪

♪ Deep blue sea ♪

♪ Deep blue sea, baby ♪

♪ Deep blue sea ♪

♪ And now there's peace throughout the land ♪

♪ And o'er the deep blue sea ♪

♪ Sleep, my child ♪

♪ You are safe and sound ♪

♪ Sleep, my child ♪

♪ You are safe and sound ♪

♪ Sleep, my child ♪

♪ You are safe and sound ♪

♪ And now there's peace throughout the land ♪

♪ And o'er the deep blue sea ♪

(singers humming)

(singers humming)

♪ Yesterday ♪

♪ War clouds hung so low ♪

♪ Yesterday ♪

♪ War clouds hung so low ♪

♪ Yesterday ♪

♪ War clouds hung so low ♪

♪ And now there's peace throughout the land ♪

♪ And o'er the deep blue sea ♪

♪ Love of life ♪

♪ Finally turned the tide ♪

♪ Love of life ♪

♪ Finally turned the tide ♪

♪ Love of life ♪

♪ Finally turned the tide ♪

♪ And now there's peace throughout the land ♪

♪ And o'er the deep blue sea ♪

♪ Deep blue sea, baby ♪

♪ Deep blue sea ♪

♪ Deep blue sea, baby ♪

♪ Deep blue sea ♪

♪ Deep blue sea, baby ♪

♪ Deep blue sea ♪

♪ And now there's peace throughout the land ♪

♪ And o'er the deep blue sea ♪