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["California Dreamin'" by
The Mamas and The Papas playing]

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♪ All the leaves are brown ♪

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♪ All the leaves
are brown ♪

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♪ And the sky is gray ♪

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[over radio]: ♪ And the sky is gray ♪

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♪ I've been for a walk ♪

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♪ I've been
for a walk ♪

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♪ On a winter's day... ♪

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[message tone playing]

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♪ I'd be safe and warm ♪

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♪ If I was in L.A. ♪

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♪ If I was
in L.A. ♪

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♪ California dreamin'... ♪

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Sorry that I'm late, exclamation point.

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I should be there any second,
exclamation point.

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[phone chimes]

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♪ Stopped into a church ♪

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♪ I passed along the way ♪

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♪ Well, I got down on my knees ♪

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♪ Got down on my knees ♪

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♪ And I began to pray ♪

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♪ I began to pray ♪

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♪ You know the pr... ♪

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[music stops]

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[crickets chirping]

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Holy shit.

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I, um, I think I'm here.

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[phone chimes]

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[message tone playing]

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Take your time, smiley face.

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[phone chimes]

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P.S. How'd you get
your text tone on my phone?

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[phone chimes]

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[clicks tongue] Oh.

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Seriously?

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[bag thumps]

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- Uh, you mind me sitting up front?

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I'm gonna put my bag in the back.

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- Uh...

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- I mean, I can, I can go in the back

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if that's weird or whatever.
- No, no, no. No.

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It's-it's totally fine. [chuckles]

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[door opens]
[exhales]

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[door closes]

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I am Clare, your Orbit driver.

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[chuckles softly]

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- I am Carl E., your passenger.

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- [laughs]
- Hi.

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- Hi.

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- Oh, you want me to Waze LAX?

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- Oh, no, no, no. I-I can do that.

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Um...

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[phone chimes]

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It'll take 54 minutes.

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- You're not from L.A.

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- Uh... [chuckles]

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[engine starts]

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No, I'm... not, actually. [chuckles]

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You should probably put your seat belt on.

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- Well, where are you from?

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- I am from Wamego.

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Wamego, Kansas.

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I actually just moved here six days ago.

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- Oh, wow.
- Yeah.

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- Uh, you live with, uh, friends, family?

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Boyfriend? Girlfriend?

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- Mm, no, just-just, uh, me and my dog.

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I don't know anyone.

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I don't know anyone in L.A.

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- Well, you know me.
- I mean...

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Well... [chuckles nervously]

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- Welcome to the city of lights

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or... dreams or delusions or whatever.

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- [laughs softly]

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- We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto.

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- [laughs awkwardly]
- [chuckles]

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- Well, I-- actually, the line is,

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"I don't believe
we're in Kansas anymore, Toto."

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I've-I've watched the movie,
like, a million times

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and, uh, Dorothy's actually from Wamego,

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so they have this museum for her and, uh,

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I-I would go a lot
and that's why I became a writer,

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or, um, I'm... trying to become a writer.

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- And that's why L.A.

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- Yeah.

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- But why now?

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- I don't know, I guess...

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I guess it was time.

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So I packed everything up
and drove 1,617 miles

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till I hit the ocean.

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I've always wanted to see the ocean.

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I've always wanted
to become a writer, too.

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- Well, nothing's ever lost, you know.

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Like time.

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It might feel like it is,

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like life might have passed you by.

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It hasn't.

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Um, you, uh...

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you have something right...

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- Oh, uh... [laughs]

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[both laughing]

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- Like, um, burger mustard?

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- Oh, yeah, it was a-a veggie burger.

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- Yeah, with v-vanilla shake
and curly fries?

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- No, actually not, I'm vegan.

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Um, but yeah. I-I was, um,

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I was running late,
so I didn't have time to,

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you know, sit down and, um,

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eat.

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- Well, let's make time.

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Fuck my flight, I can get another flight.

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Right now all I want is to get a burger
and to get to know you.

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- Um, yeah, okay.

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- I'm serious.

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This here-- Clare, Carl E.

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I mean, our names are anagrams!

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- [laughs]

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- I know that we were meant
to meet tonight.

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Not to be stalker-y.

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- No, um, you're not.

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- Well, I kind of am, but...

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fuck it, I'm an open book.
Ask me anything.

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- Are you famous? [laughs softly]

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I mean, you don't have
to tell me if you are.

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- Why would you think that?

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- You live in a mansion
and you're-you're my age.

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- Oh, no, that's not my house.

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- Oh. Okay, do you,
do you live with your parents?

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- No.

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Actually, I have no idea who lives there.

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- What do you mean?

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- About 40, 45 minutes ago,

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a sharing economy driver,
much like yourself,

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dropped me off and I rang the bell.

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When the woman that lives there
opened the door,

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I shot her in the face.

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- That's-that's funny.

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- No, I'm not being funny.

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[suspenseful music plays]

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After I shot her, I went into the bedroom,

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where I found the husband
watching basketball.

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And I shot him in the back of the head.

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♪

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And then...

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I went looking for the children.

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Keep your eyes on the road, Clare.

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We don't want to have an accident.

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♪

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I found the little princesses
in the kitchen...

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crying, blubbering,

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snotting all over the linoleum.

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God, I hate that noise.

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I didn't want to waste any ammo
on that hot mess, so...

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I used my hunting knife instead.

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- [Clare panting]

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- Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.

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Catch a princess by its toe.

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If it hollers--

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which it did, a lot--

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cut its throat.

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Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.

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Want to guess which one of
the brats is in the duffel bag

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in the back?

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- [exhales]

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- Do you know what I really,
really, really want, Clare?

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A good old-fashioned story.

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You're a writer, you moved to La-La Land

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to prove that you're employable

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and not just some Kansas bumpkin

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who won her high school poetry contest,

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so here's the deal.

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If you tell me a really good story,

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then I will let you live.

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Does that sound good, Clare Scheherazade?

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I'll take that as a yes.

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Okay.

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As they say in the biz,

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roll sound.

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Roll camera.

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And... action.