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Yeah, follow me through here. I'll show you the showroom.

Cool.

Actually, um, Oz...

Oz, do you, uh, have a sec?

Can you show this young lady around?

Uh, well never mind.

Just, uh, do your thing.

Tunnel vision.

Uh, well, I think we have, uh,

a few things from the '90s you might be into.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, please.

Great. All right, I'll show you.

Um...

Uh, sorry.

Uh, just hold on a second. I'm...

Where.

Never mind.

I'll find it later.

Hey, listen, did you get that old '83 up and running?

Yeah, I think so.

- Really? - Mm-hmm.

Well, I'm gonna kick your ass

in a head-to-head here in a minute.

Yeah.

Don't you laugh at me, you little millennial motherfucker.

I'm gonna pop you right in the starfish.

Whoa. Okay. God.

Hey, what'd you think of that girl?

Uh... girl? What girl?

The girl that was in here earlier.

Oh, my God. You are hopeless.

I got her phone number. You wanna call her?

No, that's creepy.

Come on. Oh, that's not creepy. Call her.

How is that not creepy? That's...

Well, fine. Suit yourself.

Um...

Listen, um...

I got some bad news.

Uh, it looks like...

we're gonna have to close up shop.

Close up, like f... Like, forever?

Yeah, we're just not getting

the business that we used to get.

23 years I've been here.

I thought I'd make it to 25, but...

You okay?

Yeah, yeah, I'm just, uh, a little confused.

Yeah, me too.

I never understood

why arcades went outta fashion in the first place,

so what the hell do I know?

You know a lot.

How long?

A month?

You got any savings?

Yeah, I think so.

Like a couple hundred...

Like a hun... Like a hundred bucks.

Okay.

Well, look here.

I would not be here today if it wasn't for you

and all the great work that you did,

so I think it's only fair that we split everything 50/50.

Are you serious?

Yeah, I'm serious. You deserve it.

Thank you.

Hey, listen, I gotta go up north for a couple weeks...

Family bullshit.

So, you're gonna have to look after the shop,

take care of things.

All right.

All right, I tell you what,

why don't you just take the rest of the day off

and, uh, go get drunk?

You know?

Can I give you some old man advice?

Uh, don't just go and get another job in a repair shop.

You're better than that.

Go and find something that you really wanna do.

You spend enough time making other people's games beautiful.

Do something for you, okay?

- You ready for another? - Yeah, thanks.

- There ya go. - Thanks.

Hey, Audrey.

Hey, Tess. Tom Cat?

Yes, please.

What's on?

What?

What are you... What are you lookin' at?

It's pretty intense, whatever it is.

Uh, what?

On the TV.

It's off.

Yeah, I know it's off.

Okay, okay, start over.

I'm Tess.

Oz.

Wait. Oz?

Really?

Yeah, it's short for Osgood.

I'm sorry. Have we met before?

Do you not remember me from earlier?

Were you the girl from the, uh...

Yep. Yep, yep, yep.

I was looking for a game for my brother for his birthday.

Actually, that is totally a lie.

I don't know why I just said that.

I told your boss the same thing,

but I never had any intention of buying anything.

I just...

I just wanted to come and, like, check out the games.

Why would you lie about that?

I don't know. 'Cause I thought it'd be weird

if I just rolled up and said,

"Hey can I come play some video games?"

But I-it's an arcade-game shop.

Yeah.

Yeah, when you, uh...

When you put it like that, it makes sense.

Oh, my God.

17.

Oz?

Hey, I thought I told you to get outta here and go get drunk.

I'm about to head out myself, so...

Oz?

Hey. Oz.

Oz!

Where are you?

What the hell is that?

You weren't supposed to be here.

I'm so sorry, Jerry.

Have you ever tried a Tom Cat?

No. What is that?

It's a kind of gin, but it's so good.

It's smoky like mescal. Try it.

- No, uh, I'm good. - Try it. Come on.

- Okay. - Don't be a baby.

Right?

That's actually... That is really good.

Like gin and mescal had a baby.

Yeah. Exactly.

I hope this doesn't sound too creepy.

I've totally seen you in here before.

- Really? - Yeah.

I don't remember you. Well, I usually sit over there in that corner,

with my notebook, making notes.

- You're a writer? - I'm a writer by night.

By day, I'm a receptionist.

Well, technically, I work for a temp agency.

I'm on unemployment. I'm unemployed.

If you ever wanna get, like, a drink or coffee or whatever

somewhere else sometime... you could have my number.

Well, um, act... the thing is, I don't really have a phone.

That's, like, the lamest excuse I've ever heard.

No, I... Really, I don't.

I don't. You can ask anyone.

Really?

Mnh-mnh.

- How do you call people? - Pay phones.

They still make those?

I-I guess.

Wow.

You're an antique.

I've been told that before, actually.

Okay, well, how should we do this, Osgood?

Um...

I could send my carrier pigeon over.

Or smoke signals. We could do smoke signals.

Um, I'm gonna be at the arcade all...

All day tomorrow if you wanna come by.

Yeah. Yeah, that'd be awesome.

I'm gonna leave around 4:00, go get some dinner.

If you haven't eaten,

maybe, if you wanted, you could come with me.

- Perfect. - Yeah?

Yeah, that sounds great.

All right, see you tomorrow, Osgood.

I'll see ya.

Sorry if this was weird.

No, not weird.

- It was a little weird. - Unh-unh.

Tess.

Oh.

Oh, shit.

Hey.

- Hey. - Hey, you showed up.

S... Uh, sorry I'm late.

Uh, come on.

So, did you, like, just wake up or something?

- Yeah. Yeah, I did. I'm sorry.

I just... I had, like, a really late night last night.

That's cool.

Yeah.

Is your boss gonna be mad

that you just are opening up shop now?

No. No one ever comes by here.

Well, except for me.

Where do you find all this stuff?

All over, really.

Um, like junkyards and garage sales

and side of the road and stuff.

Yeah, I just... I restore the ones that I can

and the other ones I just sorta fix up.

I'll paint the sides.

Sometimes I'll just build a whole new one

using an existing circuit board,

and, yeah, I like to think of it

as bringing the dead back to life.

Very noble.

Cool!

Do you just imagine, like,

sweeping orchestral music every time you do that?

'Cause I would.

Definitely will now.

You got any quarters?

Oh, it's all free.

What? Your boss made me pay yesterday when I came in.

You guys are a bunch of dinguses. You know that?

This is the one that I saw online that made me wanna come in.

I used to play it in the movie-theater lobby

when my parents were seeing R-rated films.

Mm.

All right, I'm a little out of practice.

Um, so I know that you just woke up and everything,

but do you wanna still get lunch?

- Totally. - Okay, cool.

I know a really good spot.

I hope you weren't expecting anything too fancy.

I don't really do restaurants.

Mm, no, this is perfect. It's tacos and it's beer.

I mean, you can't do better than that.

Right?

Sometimes I like to sit up here and look out over the city

and pretend like this alien invasion is coming

and they're about to wipe out the entire town

and I'm protected and safe up here with my tacos and my beer

just watching the whole thing go down.

What do you do after you finish your tacos and your beer?

Well, I go to the Sword Emporium like 45 minutes north of here

and I grab a couple samurai swords

and then I go hole up in some motel

right by the vending machine

and then I wait for, like, the army convoy to come by

and them to join forces with Will Smith and then I team up.

Wow. You've really thought about this.

Yep, every day.

Was that just, like, major nerd central,

or was that a bonding moment?

- Or both? - Both, I think.

I think it was both.

Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm not...

I'm usually just really bad at communication,

so when, um, things are going well, I get all in my head,

and I-I think that I'm doing something wrong

and then it ends up being bad.

Yeah, I-I do the same thing,

except I always end up talking a lot,

which I'm sure you've noticed by now.

Oh, I'm sorry. I...

I really like you, Oz. I think you're cool.

Um...

I don't know.

I-I feel like I'd be down to hang out tomorrow,

if you are... I mean, not tomorrow.

Like, when ever you're free. It could be whenever.

But, like, soon.

Sorry I'm talking so much. I do this when I get nervous.

Why are you nervous? I'm nervous.

- Why are you nervous? - Because...

you're definitely the prettiest girl that's ever kissed me.

You're really sweet.

It's true.

Okay, let's go.

- Okay. - Come on.

Tess?

Jerry?

Hey, man, look, you can't be in here.

All right?

Don't make me call the cops.

You plugged in.

Huh?

Is it beautiful?

What the fuck are you talkin' about?

The White Eye.

It looks at you, doesn't it?

Yeah, you gotta go, man.

Just let me touch it.

Ow!

Shit!

Don't just look into the void.

Let the void look into you.

Okay, but why haven't you yet?

I don't know. It just takes a lot to make a game.

It's a lot of work. Takes a lot of time.

I know that. Answer the question.

Uh, money is a thing that it takes that I don't have.

Well, we could raise money.

If I... If I... If I had one chance to do it,

I would just wanna make sure it was perfect.

You know? I wouldn't wanna...

Oz, if you tried even half as hard as anybody else,

you could make something better than like 80% of the shit

that comes out every year.

I don't know. I just... I just...

I want my first thing to be my absolute best, you know?

I don't wanna... I don't wanna half ass anything.

You can't think that way, though.

Miyamoto's first game was "Donkey Kong."

- Uh, no. No. - Yeah.

No, no, no, no, no.

Miyamoto worked on a ton of other games before "Donkey Kong."

"Radar Scope"? Hello?

- Oh, yeah. That's true. - Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Well, I dunno. It doesn't really matter anyway now

'cause I'm about to be out of a job.

What do you mean you're... You're about to be out of a job?

They're closing this place down.

About to sell all of our inventory.

Gonna put some shitty mattress place in here

in like six months.

Shit.

- Yeah. - I'm sorry.

Mm, it is what it is.

It's gonna be okay.

You know what I think?

What?

I think this is it for you.

- Thank you, I think? - No. No. No, no, no.

Not... Not like, this is itfor you,

but, like, thisis it for you.

It's a thing that my mom used to say all the time.

It means that everybody gets an "it" moment,

and it's when everything in the universe

and all around just aligns perfectly

so that you see exactly what you should be doing

with the rest of your life.

Right? So for Miyamoto, it was "Donkey Kong,"

or, like, when Doc Brown falls on the toilet

and sli... and hits his head?

Right?

And they see it and they follow it

and... and... and stuff changes.

Stuff happens for them, right?

This is it for you. This is your moment.

That's just my two cents.

Can I tell you a secret?

Only if it's a good one.

I've never told a soul.

What is it?

Come here.

Okay, so, a couple of years ago,

uh, I made this kinda... Uh, I made a thing.

I knew it. I knew it.

Well, it's called, uh, "Lazer Balls," so...

Yeah, it's, like, the dumbest fuckin' name

I've ever heard of in my life.

Furthermore, I-I never hired, like, an artist to do...

- No, it's cool. - Any renderings or anything,

so it just doesn't look very good,

but I think, you know, the general idea is there.

And, just, like, the infrastructure's good.

I just need someone to take a look at it

and make it sharp and make it smooth

and make it, you know, something people would see.

Tess?

Tess?

Hey, are you okay?

Yeah.

Yeah, I just zoned out for a second.

What's that game over there? - Aw, it's nothing.

It doesn't even work. It's... - But what is it?

It's some piece of shit that came in.

We don't... Doesn't work. - Should we try it?

No, we should go get a drink. That's what we should do.

- Oz, you're still sick. - No.

You shouldn't be drinking. Yeah. Yeah, you are.

And I'm taking a very big health risk even hanging out with you.

- Uh... - You could be Carrier X.

- I could. - Yeah.

Hey.

Hey.

What are you doing up?

I do this every night.

What?

You're crazy.

Hey, are you okay?

Just, every shitty thought I've ever had

just comes to me at 3:00 in the morning.

And couple that with the fact

I've got this gorgeous girl in bed next to me...

I don't know. The last few days have been a lot.

Just kinda like my mind is working overtime.

I read somewhere once

that when you wake up at 3:00 in the morning,

it means that your brain is operating

at a higher level than most people's.

Really?

Yeah. Thomas Edison, I think it was,

he only slept for like 45 minutes at a time.

Hmm.

It's either that, or you're being possessed by demons.

- It's probably that. - Yeah, probably.

Earlier when you were in the bathroom,

I walked by your desk and I saw something that made me think,

"I really know who this guy is."

Uh-oh.

There was this stack of old "King's Quest" floppy disks

just sitting there on your desk waiting to be installed.

It reminded me of this Tamagotchi that I used to have.

I wore it on my key chain,

for, like, years after I last used it,

just in case I ever wanted to fire it up again.

Don't they die when you don't take care of 'em?

Yeah, yeah, it... it was dead.

Rest in peace.

I'm just telling you that because,

if one of the things that you're up thinking about

is the person in bed with you right now,

you should strike that off your list,

'cause this is easy, this is good.

Relax.

Relax.

Relax.

Relax.

Relax.

Tess? Tess? Tess? Tess?

Tess? Tess? Tess? Tess?

What'd you think of that girl?

Tess? Tess? One, zero, zero, zero, zero, one.

You're definitely the prettiest girl that's ever kissed me.

Tess? Tess? Why are you nervous? I'm nervous.

Tess? Tess?

I think this is it for you.

Tess? Tess?

Who are you?

Tess? Tess?

Tess! Tess!

Relax.

Relax.

Relax.

Made of duct tape,

so they slashed the tires on my car...

- I did that. - And threw it in the snow...

I-I used to make them, too.

- You made duct-tape wallets? - Uh-huh.

Did you sell them for lots of money?

No, I just gave them away for free to my friends.

- That's so generous of you. - I know.

My friend, Michael Neukirk, he wore a duct-tape tux to prom.

- Ooh, that's cool. - He looked like a fuckin' idiot.

No, that's cool. I used to, back when I...

I'm so stoned.

I know. Me too. I wanna play video games.

- What? - What the fuck?

Oh, did you turn it on?

No, it just keeps turning on by itself.

Maybe it's haunted.

Probably.

Ooooh. No! No, no, no. I wanna play it.

- No, you don't. - Uh, yeah, yeah, I do.

I don't think you do. It's gonna make you puke.

- What? - I'm serious.

Do it. You can play.

It's just gonna ruin your night...

Maybe your life, I don't know.

Oh, well, sounds like you think

maybe it's gonna ruin yournight.

- What are you talkin' about?

Like, maybe you think you're not gonna get any action.

Well, that is something that I had thought about before.

It did cross my mind, yeah.

My libido is perfectly intact, mister,

so if your ego can take a beating, we'll be just fine.

All right, which one turns it on? This one?

Don't you dare touch that!

Shit, dude, you can't be in here. Get outta here! Who does she think she is?!

Who the hell do you think youare?!

Go, go, go, go, go. Call the police.

Hey. Hey! You gotta go, man.

You forget yourself? What the fuck?

No more distractions, all right? You have a path.

- Get offa me. - That is an impossibility.

- Let go of me. - Hey!

Hey.

Are you awake?

Hey.

Hey.

You okay?

Yeah.

You know you were supposed to come by last night, right?

I was?

Yeah, at 8:00.

Oh, shit, I'm sorry. I-I totally forgot.

I spent, like, all... all night last night at the shop.

No worries.

I was just worried, is all.

I'm fine.

Are you sure?

I threw up last night. I ruined a bunch of stuff.

Can you please go see a doctor?

Oz?

It's just, I... There's a ton of stuff to do here. I...

Do you want me to bring you some soup or something?

I can come by.

No.

Okay.

Um...

Well, I still really think you should go...

For fuck's sake, Tess, I'm fine.

Okay.

You need to trust me.

I do trust you. It's not about that.

I just... I don't know.

There's something up with you right now.

Maybe this is how I really am.

I don't believe that.

Listen, if you need anything or you wanna talk, I'm here.

Otherwise I'll just... I'll let you do your thing, okay?

Okay.

Sorry I yelled at you.

It's fine.

I'll talk to you later.

Bye, Oz.

Bye.

Ow! Fuck!

Fucking idiot.

The White Eye.

The White Eye.

The White Eye.

The White Eye.

It looks at you, doesn't it?

Doesn't it?

No.

Ones and zeros.

Intelligent design.

Made from chaos to chaos.

Oh, it is so beautiful.

I will do what he cannot.

No!

God!

I know.

I know.

I must choose...

what Ichoose.

Alone.

Ugh, quit checking your phone.

Hmm?

It's amazing what you can see in the bottom of a tumbler

if you actually look.

Been a source of inspiration for a lot of writers before you.

Well, maybe I'll quit checking my phone

if you guys get the TV fixed.

I'm in no hurry.

People don't talk to each other when the TV's on.

- Sure. - You all right?

Yeah, yeah. I'm fine

I just...

I'm confused. And annoyed.

But... I'm fine.

I am confused and annoyed most days.

Quit thinkin' about him.

I don't know what he said to you,

but whatever it is, it's not nice,

and anyone who is not nice to you does not deserve you.

Yeah, I know. I just...

I felt like I was talking to somebody else.

Unless it was literally a different person,

then he is exactly who he's always been.

You just didn't know it.

Now you do.

Just quit checking your phone.

Nothing good appears on that screen after 10:00 p.m.

Oz?

Oz?

Oz, you left the door open.

Oh, my God! Tess!

Tess.

Tess!

Tess! Tess! Please, please, please.

Do you see?

Who are you?

Who are you?

I didn't kill the girl.

- Yes, you did. - No.

You have to break it.

It's unbeatable.

The game killed her?

The game did nothing.

When you play by its rules...

it'll always win.

Did you build this?

We built this.

What is it?

A door to the infinite.

What does that mean?

We're in prison.

And where there's a prison, there are walls...

Walls that cannot be toppled,

walls that cannot be climbed.

You can't escape this prison.

On this side...

it's hell.

You dream...

but then you wake up from these dreams.

And then you die,

and all the beautiful things in your dreams die with you.

But on the other side, there's time enough for it all,

because there is no time.

And in the infinite,

all things are not just possible.

They're inevitable.

So I can save her.

No.

You have a higher purpose.

If all things are possible, then she's still alive!

No! No!

Delete the sequence.

Un... Unset decimal, unset decimal,

F, F-94, 15, 19...

What the fuck are you talking about?!

You have a responsibility!

Look beyond what's in front of you.

Delete the senses.

Break the sequence.

Be the man I could never be.

Tess: Oz...

Look between the ones and zeroes!

Hit reset!

Get outta here before I call the cops.

Maybe he likes arcade games.

Oz.

I'm so sorry, Jerry.

Maybe this is how I really am.

Be the man I could never be.

Did you build this?

We built this.

Oz!

Oz?!

Oz?!

You can have both.

Look between the ones and zeroes, Oz.

Hit reset.

No!

Hey, Jerry.

Yeah, what's up?

Hey, is it cool if I use the phone for a sec?

I think I finally found an artist.

Like, this guy's incredible.

I saw his pixel art, and it's just exactly...

Yeah, you can call him in a minute.

Uh...

first, there's a girl coming by to look at a game.

Would you show her around for me? Okay.

- Thanks. - Sure.

I'm gonna go close this deal.

It's an end of an era.

Eh, it's gonna be okay.

Yeah.