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Man: As scientists continue to wonder

what caused this all to happen...

(overlapping dialogue)

Scientist believe that with proper care

and consideration...

Woman: ...following our exclusive well-used network...

(overlapping dialogue continues)

Man: ...what officials fear is becoming an epidemic.

Woman: And welcome back to WNN.

I'm joined with my two guests here in the studio today.

Man #2: You tell me why he disappeared.

Vision on. (chime)

Woman: Well, maybe we were too hard on him.

Too invasive.

Man #2: He became a celebrity, for god's sake.

He probably makes more than all of us combined.

Man #2: Boo-hoo. Woman: Hold on.

Progress out.

(chime)

Man #2: Come on. If you were in his shoes,

with the cameras following you and people always in your face,

don't you think you'd disappear too?

I mean, think about all the aggressive fans

and the stalkers who really affected him.

The man is an exception.

Exceptional.

If you saw a white tiger in the woods,

you'd follow it, right?

You'd poke him, try to take a picture.

Woman: Okay, forgive me.

But you do realize you're talking about him like if he was an animal.

Progress out. (chime)

Woman: Today, on Star News, we haven't--

Progress up.

(chime)

Up. (chime)

Up. Stop.

(alarm ringing)

(chattering on TV continues)

Computer: The time is 4:45 am.

Computer: The time is 4:45 am.

(alarm continues)

Vision off.

Computer: The time is 4:45 am.

Alarm off. Computer: The time is...

(alarm stops)

All lights, level two of ten.

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(heavy breathing)

(heavy breathing continues)

(fence rattles)

(beeps)

Woman: You run, too.

I know who you are.

And now I know where to find you!

I know where you live!

(car alarm blares)

Hall lights on full.

(knocking)

Woman: Victor.

(knocking)

Victor.

My name is Emilina Fox.

And I'm a "World News" journalist.

Here's the thing; I just want to talk.

(sighs)

Just give me a second, okay?

Emilina: Victor?

Look, I'm by myself.

I'm giving you a choice here.

Talk now, or I can make this very public, very quickly.

(sighs)

(sighs)

Emilina.

Fox. Yeah, I got it.

Um, could we go sit?

What do you want?

I just want to talk.

Fox: This is incredible.

You've been here, this whole time, alone?

Am I the first person that--

The first woman?

All right, look.

I'm gonna need you to sit down,

and tell me what you want.

On the chair.

Talk.

I want to know where you've been hiding.

What you've been doing, how you survived.

When you're alone, it doesn't really matter, does it?

Alone is alone.

Well, self-seclusion and being alone

aren't exactly the same thing.

I did not do this to myself!

Where were you and your dedication to the story

when there was two million of us?

A million?

500,000?

When there was 10,000 of us. You weren't looking for me.

Now that I'm the only one...

why do I suddenly matter?

You're a celebrity, Victor.

Why don't you take full advantage of that?

If you can't make the most of this situation,

then how can anybody else?

Why should I care...

about anybody else?

I am one...

of a kind!

What do people do to people like me, huh?

Stick me in a zoo? Lock me in a lab?

What are you doing here?

You're locked up here.

I mean, you're no more free here in this apartment

than if you were locked behind bars.

It's a choice!

Do you even know what a choice is?

Oh, fuck!

There has to be a way.

You think I'm stupid?

You don't think I want to be out there

all the time?

I am literally...

a statistic.

And I don't need to be confronted

by more people like you,

trying to push their way into my life.

Please, please. Hey, hey, hey!

Oh, my-- You don't get it, do you?

Could you stop, please? No.

Let me go.

You said you came here for a reason?

Want to see what it's like to be me?

(whimpers)

You're not alone.

(cries)

I'm sorry.

It's not something that I--

It's okay, you don't have to explain.

I--

That was me, I pushed too hard.

(sighs)

I need to show you something.

That's my son.

He turns ten today.

And I promised him...

I get it.

How could we understand what it's like to be you?

But you have to understand that we're not all the same either.

I'm just a woman that fell in love

with someone like you years ago.

A lot like me?

'Cause you, uh...

had a kid with some black guy?

I just thought that we could help each other this time.

I don't want my son to feel alone anymore.

Okay.

I'm gonna go.

Wait.

(sighs)

What's his name?

Xavier.

(News reporter speaks inaudibly)

Man #1: But there is no such thing as race.

Woman: Well, you tell that

to all of the young black boys and grown men

who found themselves disproportionately in jail

15, 20 years ago.

Man #2: They were actually around.

(chattering)

We're not only talking about the fact that there was a racial divide in our culture,

in our world, that lasted decades.

Centuries.

What we're really talking about

is that the man we all thought was the last of his kind

on the face of the earth,

he's reappeared.

Woman: Once known as potentially the last living black man

in the world, Victor Jefferson has been seen again.

(Reporters speaking foreign languages)

(static)

(music plays)