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(MUSIC PLAYING)

DAVID: Where were you born?

ZABI: Kingsley Falls,
an hour outside of Quebec City.

Date?

March 7th, 1983.

My parents' names
are Greg and Lana.

What's the address
of your childhood home?

Two-thirty-one, Evergreen Lane,
Quebec City, Quebec. G0A 1B0

SARAH: Good job.

Thanks. Your turn, Andrew.

(CHUCKLES)

Don't smile.

Sorry. I won't.

Where were you born and when?

Kinburn, Ottawa,
June 7th, 1981.

Kinburn postal code.

KOH 2HO.

Father and mother's name?

Bill and Elodie Girard.

Mother's maiden name?

Rambert. No, Reigner, Reigner.

(IMITATES BUZZER RINGING)

(JARRET CHUCKLING)

(ALL LAUGHING)

MALE VOICE 1 ON RADIO:
How'd your area sweep

go today, Gabe?
You limpdick motherfucker.

Did you drive anything
outta that bush?

Ah, shit. Who's got
the radio tonight?

(GASPS)

All right, fine.

(CHUCKLES)

I got it.

(CHUCKLES)

SARAH: I got it, I got it.

JARRET: Thanks, babe.

All right, guys, I think
it's tied to tuck in.

Hey, David, enjoy that
overnight duty, you know?

Hey, would you mind covering
for him for like...

twenty minutes?

Thirty minutes.

(CHUCKLES)

Oh.

Yeah, okay, sure, that's fine.

Thirty minutes?

(GROWLS)

Take your time.

(DAVID CHUCKLING)

(CHUCKLES)

(BOTH MOAN)

(BOTH PANT)

I love you, David.

(PANTS)

I love you so much.

(PANTS) Call me Andrew.

(BOTH PANT)

Andrew?

Yeah.

Oh. You like that, Andy, huh?

(PANTS)

You like it
when I call you Andrew?

I love it.

(CUTLERY CLATTERS)

He's getting more
stubborn, isn't he?

SARAH: Yeah.

(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

(ALARM RINGING)

(ZABI MOANING SOFTLY)

(SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING)

(ZABI SMOOCHES)

(DOOR CREAKS)

JARRET: It's nice, isn't it?

It's almost like
the old days, huh?

DAVID: Yeah.

I was starting to forget.

(EXHALES)

JARRET: We need to make a run.

(INHALES SHARPLY) I know.

(LEAVES RUSTLE)

(CAR ENGINE REVVING)

(KNOCK ON WINDOW)

VOLUNTEER 1: Afternoon, Miss.

(INHALES, EXHALES)

Can you take
the sunglasses off please?

(MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO)

Is this an official
volunteers checkpoint?

It is.

Papers, ma'am.

(PAPERS RUSTLING)

(SONG PLAYING
INDISTINCTLY ON RADIO)

Got a haircut recently.

Neck check.

Miss.

(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

Need another minute?

VOLUNTEER 2: Am I sensing
a little attitude, Miss?

(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

She's clean.

(SIGHS)

You're good to go.

Enjoy your day.

(INTENSE MUSIC
CONTINUES PLAYING)

(WHEELS WHIRRING)

(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

(SPEAKER BEEPING)

FEMALE VOICE 1 OVER PA:
Attention, all goods

must be purchased
with a valid business card.

Cash will no longer be accepted.

(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

(SONG PLAYING
INDISTINCTLY ON RADIO)

(GUN CLICKING)

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

ARJAY: (GROANING)
Get the fuck off me.

(GROANING) Listen-- listen...

(VOLUNTEER 1 GRUNTS)

(ARJAY GROANS)

(VOLUNTEER 1 GRUNTS)

VOLUNTEER 1: You know,
you'd look a lot prettier

with no teeth, motherfucker.

(VOLUNTEER 2 CHUCKLING)

VOLUNTEER 2: No. No, no, no, no.
Blow his fucking cock off.

That's every faggot's
worst nightmare.

(GUN CLICKS)

SARAH: Stop. (BREATHES DEEPLY)

(CHUCKLES)

(VOLUNTEER 1 GRUNTS)

(GROANS)

(VOLUNTEER 1 GRUNTS)

(SARAH GRUNTS)

(PANTS)

(VOLUNTEER 1 GRUNTS)

(GROWLS, GRUNTS)

(GRUNTS)

(PANTS, GRUNTS)

(GUNSHOT)

(VOLUNTEER 2 GRUNTS)

(GROANS)

(PANTS)
Come on, we're having fun.

(GROANS)

You're pretty easy.

(SCREAMS)

(GUNSHOT)

(PANTS)

(ARJAY PANTS)

(COUGHS)

(PANTS)

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

(SARAH PANTS)

(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)

(DRONE WHIRRING IN DISTANCE)

What are you doing
near the no-fly zone,

you little fucker?

DAVID: Don't worry,
it's about to hit the perimeter.

Look.

(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

(VEHICLE APPROACHING)

(TIRES SQUEALING)

Help.

ZABI: What?

DAVID: What?

I got somebody in the back.
Need to get him inside.

ZABI: What?

SARAH: He's hurt. (PANTS)

(GRUNTS) Zabi, open the door.

Yeah, yeah. I...

SARAH: You got him?

DAVID: Yeah. Grab him there.

Try to hold that wound.

SARAH: Got it.

DAVID: Try to hold onto that.

I got his legs. I got his legs.

SARAH: Let's go.

DAVID: Okay. Okay.

SARAH: Shit.

What happened? Do you know?

SARAH: Easy.

DAVID: Easy. All right.

JARRET:
What the fuck is going on?

Who the fuck is that?

(DAVID SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)

Okay. Zabi, come here,
come here. Right here.

Hold just like that.
I'm gonna get my stuff.

ZABI: Oh, God. (PANTS)

Don't look at it.
Just keep the pressure on.

David, hurry up. (PANTS)

Oh, my God, Sarah, what the hell
happened to your head?

SARAH: I'm fine,
just go move the truck.

Move the truck? What the fuck
are you talking about?

Who the fuck is that?

DAVID: Okay, okay,
you ready? Thank you.

Is he gonna be okay?

DAVID: I don't know.
I have to look at these wounds.

(BREATHES SHAKILY)

SARAH: Zabi...

Zabi. Go move the truck,
we might have company.

JARRET: Company? Sarah,
what the hell did you do?

(PANTS)

(BOTH SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)

(PANTS)

(CAR BEEPING)

(BOTH SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)

ZABI'S FRIEND:
They are gonna kill us.

ZABI:
Just say it was my fault.

It is your fault.

(CELLPHONE RINGING)

Oh, it's David,
I have to get this.

Zahabiya, hurry up.

Just, cover for me.

(GROANS)

(CAR HORN HONKING)

DAVID ON PHONE: Hey, babe.

Hey. Everything okay?

DAVID:
I have to work a double...

(EXPLOSION)

(BREATHES SHAKILY)

(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)

(INDISTINCT CLAMORING)

(BREATHES SHAKILY)

(INDISTINCT CLAMORING)

DAVID: It's not safe anymore.

We have to get Zahabiya
out of here.

SARAH: No

JARRET: David's right.

(BREATHES SHAKILY)

JARRET: We have a very
small window

before those volunteers
you fucking shot are found.

Now is the time to move.

DAVID: They could've been
found already.

JARRET: They could have sent
scanners out

to cover every square inch
of this place,

setting up roadblocks
on every route out of here.

We need to leave.

No, we stick to the plan.
We stay with the radio.

(SCOFFS) Because it has
done what for us, exactly?

SARAH: We could hear
from them any day now.

Yeah, or it could be
another month.

Do you really wanna do this
for another month?

We don't have a choice.

What about the dog, huh?

How long do you think
you can keep

that fucking charade up?

Just feeding him
for weeks on end forcing--

We're here
because you trust me, right?

Yes, of course I trust--

Right?

(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)

Yes.

SARAH: That means we stay put.

We are on lock down,
which means no more fishing,

no more praying on the porch,
no more runs,

no more smoke breaks.

We have been way too casual.

We need to stick to the routine.

I am the only one
who has done this.

So, I need you to trust me.

This will work.

We just have to stick
to the plan.

What are we going to do
about the barcode on our couch?

JARRET: You always do this.

You care way too much
about other people.

You need to protect us
and our friends.

Jay you're hurting my head.

You don't even know him.

SARAH: I know he's branded.

Just like Zabi.

(INHALES) What's one more person
on this last run?

It's just one more.

Sarah.

SARAH: Stop.

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

(SARAH SIGHS)

You can't save everybody.

(EXHALES)

I can try.

(SMOOCHES)

(INHALES)
I need to take a shower

(WATER RUNNING)

(COUGHS)

(COUGHS)

(DAVID GROANS)

(INHALES, EXHALES)

(CLOCK TICKING)

(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)

(TYPEWRITER KEYS CLICKING)

DOCTOR: We had a no-show
for the 3:45 slot.

Just got the go-ahead
to send the authorities

to that address.

(SCANNER BEEPING)

MALE VOICE 1: Come on, dude.
It's all right.

ATTENDEE: Stand up.

Come with me.

(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)

(TYPEWRITER KEYS CLICKING)

(INHALES, MOANS)

ZABI: I'm gonna go feed the dog.

I'll be right back
to relieve you.

DAVID: Okay,
just be quick about it

before I nod off again.

Hi. You're up.

Oh, hey.

How are you feeling?

I feel okay.

You hungry? Want some coffee?

Uh. Coffee would be
great, actually.

DAVID: Okay.

(CHUCKLES)

I'm Zahabiya.

Did you sleep well?

(DOOR CLOSING)

Yeah, I did, really well.

Oddly enough.

(ZABI CHUCKLES)

(INHALES SHARPLY)

It's good, no. (INHALES)
I'll see you in a little bit.

Here you go.

Uh. We don't have any sugar...

or milk, actually.
(CHUCKLES) Sorry.

It's fine.

(WOOD CREAKING)

DAVID: (INHALES) So, uh,

you're feeling
a little bit better.

That's really good.

Oh, thanks to you,
I guess. (CHUCKLES)

Are you in an EMT
or doctor or something?

Or, you were?

I... I was a nurse.

I was studying to get my MD
when... everything fell apart.

Well, either way,
could've fooled me. (CHUCKLES)

(INHALES)

(SLURPS)

(CHUCKLES)

(GROANS)

Mm, here, here, here. Easy.

(ARJAY GROANS)

(GROANS)

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

VOLUNTEER 3 ON RADIO: Victims'
bodies have been located,

and volunteers' families
are being notified.

(VOLUNTEER 1 GRUNTS)

(SARAH GRUNTS)

VOLUNTEER 3 ON RADIO:
Continuing to collect evidence

from the scene.

(PANTS)

VOLUNTEER 3 ON RADIO:
Potential ID of suspect

is being circulated.

(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)

ARJAY: I appreciate you all
helping me.

I'll be outta your space
as soon as I can.

(INHALES) I'm sorry for being
such a burden.

You're not a burden.

So... (EXHALES)
...this is our radio.

We're waiting on coordinates
from my contacts in Canada.

They're all working to find
us a safe crossing point

to get over the border.

Those coordinates
will only come through this.

So, this radio is our lifeline.

I've done this before

with a few
other groups... (INHALES)

...but this time,
we're all going

to get out for good.

Uh. We man the radio in shifts,
all day, all night.

So there's never a moment
when someone

isn't listening to it.

We could get noticed
at any moment, any day now.

You wanna get the fuck out
of this country?

LORI:
Obviously a lot of controversy

(CHUCKLES)

LORI: ...around the volunteers.

Uh. You know,
today's your opportunity

to try to explain to our viewers
what you guys represent?

(TRAIN ENGINE REVVING)

(DRONES WHIRRING)

Well, I mean, this is a group
of concerned citizens

who all agree the key

to a healthy society
starts at home.

You know,
in-- in your neighborhood,

in your communities,
and... (INHALES)

...illegals are still pouring
in with their drugs

and their bombs and their--
their trucks

used as battering rams--

TV off.

(TV BEEPS)

More stringent measures
must be taken.

What type of measures
are you suggesting?

THE FOUNDER: Well, we need
to start self-policing.

We need to know
who our neighbors are.

We need to protect
our children, our culture,

our way of life. And eventually,
this organization

will have a volunteers group
in every major city. (CHUCKLES)

Like a-- a militia?

I mean, it essentially...

(LAUGHS)

...sounds like
you're building out a militia.

No, I-- I wouldn't jump to that.

We're just trying
to embody the change

we wanna see in our communities.

You mean maintain the status
quo in your communities?

It sounds like
you don't want change--

All right, look,
you understood my meaning.

You're-- you're being
pedantic now.

LORI: Your followers, um,
they have a uniform.

Uh. The-- the orange?

This is a uniform?
No. (CHUCKLES)

LORI: And your members
consist of predominantly

white men.

Uh. Excuse me, Lori,
we encourage anyone

who believes
in the cause to join.

Now, I can't rightly say
exactly what the breakdown

of our members look like, but--

LORI: You know, actually,
I can, um,

I have the figures right here.

(CLEARS THROAT)

This is-- Yeah, actually can--
can we just put this on screen

for our viewers?

Uh. As you can see, 89 percent
of your group polled

identified as avid
gun rights activists.

Yeah. I've seen the,
uh, so-called report

you're talking about.

Who, uh, did the polling
for that, exactly?

You know, there actually,
there've also been reports

of certain volunteer factions
being continuously linked

to violent hate crimes?

Those reports are false.

Completely fabricated.

LORI: Do you have any comments
on these numbers?

THE FOUNDER:
I don't. They are fake.

I think...

You know I-- I think,
respectfully,

I think we're done talking here.

(SPITS)

(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

DAVID: (CHUCKLING)
Did you decide on a name yet?

I've always liked the name Isko.

Isko?

ARJAY: Mm-hmm.

I don't know.

You kinda seem
like a Justin to me.

Oh, no. Ew, gross.

That is like the least
Filipino name I've heard.

Other than like, Brett.

(BOTH LAUGH)

Who cares? You can be
whatever you wanna be.

ARJAY: I do.

Don't whitewash me,
girlfriend. I care.

(CHUCKLES) Okay. Okay.

Um... (INHALES)

and you studied
to be an architect.

ARJAY: Mm-hmm.

But now you work as a...

As a, uh... (LIPS SMACKING)
...project manager

at a queer nonprofit
organization

that, uh,
houses homeless, LGBT kids.

Uh. Wow, okay.

ARJAY: Mm-hmm.

That is incredibly specific.

It is. (LAUGHS)

(CHUCKLES)

And then, you know, we have
to figure out the basic stuff.

You know, birthday, address,
social insurance number,

shit like that.

(LIPS SMACKING) Fine.
But I'm sticking with Isko.

(DAVID CHUCKLING)

Uh. Hey, you should probably
stay off your feet.

(EXHALES) No, I've been laying
down for, like, two days.

I need to move. (INHALES)
My ass is killing me.

What is going on here?
(CHUCKLES)

Who are these guys?

Can't sleep either, huh?

Babe. Yeah, I told him
he should be asleep.

Yeah, you--
you should be asleep too.

Quiet shift?

DAVID: Yeah, as always.

Well, up early.
Might as well... (INHALES)

...feed the dog.

Oh, you guys have a dog?

Oh, I love dogs. (CHUCKLES)

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

(DOG BARKING)

(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

ZABI: If you're staying here,

you should probably
learn how to do this too.

Stay close. Watch your head.

(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

GABE: What about my water?

ZABI: Take one of those
water bottles.

Roll it across the floor to him.

Who's this faggot? (SNIFFLES)

If you want your waste bucket
emptied this week,

you won't use that language.

We had everything lined up.

The safe house,
the supply chain,

but the location was compromised
when we arrived.

Sarah thought fast.
We ended up here at his house.

I don't understand.

A volunteer's
property's a no-fly zone.

They get to keep
their freedom of privacy

as upstanding Americans
for their dedicated service.

Hey, I'm sorry. And you said,
this is his house?

Yeah, we're hiding
in plain sight.

Oh, my God.

I don't know

how you haven't strangled
that guy yet.

I wouldn't be able
to help myself.

We're not gonna hurt him,
we just-- We need him right now.

When we leave, we'll let him go.

I said lockdown, Goddammit.
Get your asses inside.

ZABI: You want me
to do the check-in?

No, I got it.

VOLUNTEER 4 ON RADIO:
Gabe, check in.

(RADIO STATIC)

Gabe, you limpdick motherfucker,
where the fuck are you?

Check in.

(RADIO STATIC)

ZABI: Tag me in.

Kept the seat warm for ya.

Thanks.

(SIGHS)

Take a load off.
We'll be here a while.

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

JARRET: How you feeling, babe?

Like I got pistol whipped
in the back of the head.

(EXHALES)

Did you have David
take another look at you?

Yeah, he says I probably have
a brain hemorrhage.

That's not funny.

(CHUCKLES)

You know, we still
haven't unload the supplies

from the truck,
including the ibuprofen

you clearly need Sarah bear.

We shouldn't risk it.

(SIGHS) It's been
nearly two days.

We haven't heard
peep on the radio.

(INHALES SHARPLY)

JARRET: We need those supplies--

Jay.

JARRET: And I need my hot sauce.

Please, you're hurting
my head, again.

JARRET: I'm going.

Feeding an extra mouth
is a burden...

that we do not need.

DAVID: You are so paranoid.

I am not paranoid,
I'm cautious.

You always get like this
with new people.

No, I don't.

Yes, you do.

You get closed off
and paranoid and grumpy.

JARRET: He is not a new person,
David, he's a total stranger.

He's branded, and we are trying
to get out just like him.

I'm just saying, be cautious
with the guy, all right?

Stop being all chummy and shit.

This plan is complicated
enough as it is

without having some
unvetted gay guy

piggybacking his way across
the border on our dime.

(METAL CLATTERING

Jesus, now you sound like them.

Ah, shut up.

(SCOFFS)

DAVID: Just be nice.

JARRET: Okay.

We already gave him
the option to come with us.

And Sarah trusts him.

So, that should be all
that you need to know.

I love you to death,
David, but you're wrong here.

He could be
a liability. (EXHALES)

Welp, at least Sarah got booze.

(BOTH CHUCKLE)

(MUFFLED MUSIC PLAYING)

(GABE EXHALES)

(EXHALES)

(CHAINS RATTLE)

(MUFFLED MUSIC PLAYING)

(EXHALES)

(LAUGHING)

Pick your...

Spades.
So, those are your cards.

Um. Spades are trump.
You have to follow suit.

So if someone plays
a Heart, you play Heart.

If someone plays a Diamond,
you play Diamond.

You're in teams.
It's you and Jarret versus--

We're gonna kill it,
'cause I have a great hand.

Me and Zabi.

That's not true. Zabi is one
of the great card sharks

of all time.

JARRET: Whoa.

ZABI: Didn't know that, did you?

(ARJAY EXHALES)

DAVID: If someone plays
a Heart, you gotta play a Heart,

if it's Diamonds--
Let's just play.

Okay.

DAVID:
We'll tell you

when you fucked it up.

JARRET: All right, starting off.

Here we go.

Three of clubs.

DAVID: Wow, that's powerful.

It's...

A powerful first move.

I hope everyone's
paying attention.

(POP MUSIC PLAYING ON STEREO)

(CHUCKLES)

ZABI: Okay, kid's got moves.

DAVID:
Dance that pain away, boy.

(ZABI CHUCKLES)

Go, go, go, go.

Go, go, go, go.

ZABI: Yes. (LAUGHS) Oh.

You okay?

(ARJAY GROANS)

Huh?

(RADIO SWITCHES OFF)

DAVID: (EXHALES)
What are you doing? It's early.

Uh. David.
It's actually really late.

No, it's not late.
Just shut up.

Arjay, drink, hmm?

(RADIO CRACKLES)

(RADIO STATIC)

VOLUNTEER 5 ON RADIO:
Solemnly swear

to always hold hate
in my heart for...

niggers... spics.

(RADIO STATIC)

(CRICKETS CHIRPING)

(SIGHS) Well,
I think we should all just...

(INHALES) ...get some rest.

(DAVID EXHALING)

David...

Aren't you on radio tonight?

(EXHALES SHARPLY) Fuck.

Um...

can I switch with someone?

With who?

Um...

(DAVID EXHALING)

I can take it.

No, you can't. I have
to train you first. But...

JARRET: No, no.

...in this place we...

I can teach him. Okay?

DAVID: You sure?

Yeah, why don't you
get some rest.

DAVID: Okay. Be nice.

JARRET: Okay.

DAVID: Paranoid grumpy.

Okay.

DAVID: Yeah?

Yeah.

Night.

ARJAY: Night.

(DAVID SIGHS)

Let's go. (GRUNTS)

(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)

(CRICKETS CHIRPING)

JARRET: These are our radios.
Our walkie, the CB.

The walkie is always
on channel three.

That's the volunteer's channel.

The CB,
you don't fuckin' touch it.

You just listen.

Every 15 minutes
you put an entry in the log.

It keeps you alert and shows
you're not fucking us all

by falling asleep.

Got it. Uh.
What do I write down, exactly?

Whatever you want.

Just make sure
it keeps you awake.

We can't miss this.

Once we get those coordinates
from Sarah's contacts,

we have a one hour window
to make it

to the rendezvous point
before the window closes,

for good.

You understand
how important this is?

Yeah, of course I understand.

(JARRET EXHALES)

If you were to hear something
tonight... anything tonight,

you write down exactly
what you heard, word for word,

legible, no mistakes.

Okay, so, you mean
if I hear the coordinates

or if I hear
the volunteers again?

Once you write it down,
you move as fast as you can,

and you wake us all up,

and we book our asses
to the rendezvous.

Do you understand all that, bud?

Or do you want me
to write you a manual?

(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

What's your deal?

JARRET: What's yours?

I already told you.

Yeah.

ARJAY: Mm-hmm.

Yeah, you already told me.

You're just some little kid,
and you're looking to get out.

Aren't we all?

I don't care,

one way or another
what your story is, Arjay.

But you were never supposed
to be a part of mine.

So do not fuck this up.

Or you can wave goodbye
to your free ride

across the border.

(SNORES)

(INHALES, EXHALES)

(METAL CLATTERING)

(DOOR CREAKS)

GABE: Oh, I thought you forgot
about me.

What's for dinner?

I was gonna give
this cigarette to you.

Like I promised yesterday.

(INHALES)

Until you called
my new friend a faggot.

(SCOFFS)

If you'd like to apologize,
I might reconsider.

(BREATHES DEEPLY)

Well, he is, isn't he?

A faggot? No, he isn't.

He's gay.

I'm a Muslim.

You're a white volunteer
who wants us dead.

No, I don't want you dead,
you're a lady.

Well, maybe the faggot
'cause he's a dude.

I just don't wanna
have to look at you.

ZABI: 'Cause I'm a shit-skin?

Remember when you used
to call me that?

GABE: I never called you that.

Yes, you did.
You used to call me a shit-skin.

And you stopped.
Why did you stop?

I definitely
never called you that.

You called me a shit-skin
and you saw how it hurt me...

and then you stopped.

It was easy to stop, wasn't it?

Took a while to get there,
but we were making progress.

Yeah, we were till that...

bald bitch came
and busted my lip again today.

You know, she doesn't have
to smash my face in

every time she wants me
to do a radio check-in.

She could just ask me nicely.

I'll talk to her about that.

It's important we're civil
with each other.

GABE: Civil?

(SCOFFS)
What the fuck you talk...

I'm chained to a post
in my own fucking barn.

Shittin' in a bucket!

Civil?

That fuckin' bald cunt's
got some serious rage issues

and she's taking it out on me.

(WOOD CLATTERING)

The way you talk to us,

you're not doing
yourself any favors.

(TRAY CLUTTERS)

(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)

(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

Hey there. (CHUCKLES)

Sarah said for you to go to bed.

I'm radio-trained now.
(CHUCKLES)

(DAVID SIGHS, CHUCKLES)

Are you okay? (CHUCKLES)

(CHUCKLES)

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

(BOTH CHUCKLE)

(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING)

You ever stop to think about...

these ideas that you believe

and this cause
that you're behind,

that maybe
it's just... all wrong?

GABE: What do you mean?

I mean, everything
that the volunteers do...

and say,

how it affects other people.
What if it's just...

wrong?

(SIGHS) It's not.

But... what if?

What kind of pain
were you going through?

When you started believing
everything that you believe?

I don't...

(CHAINS RATTLING)

...I don't know
what you're asking me.

I'm just asking,

when you started feeling
this way.

What happened to you?

GABE: I think
I don't wanna talk anymore.

I don't feel
like talking. (INHALES)

You-- you gonna give me
that cigarette or not?

(EXHALES)

You're a really
good dancer, Arjay.

(CHUCKLES)

Okay. (LAUGHS)

(DAVID LAUGHING)

DAVID: It's like...
it's like you don't care what

anyone else thinks about you.

I don't, or I try not
to at least. (CHUCKLES)

I wish I was like
that. (CHUCKLES)

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

ARJAY: Hey...

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

...what's the matter, David?

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

I'm...

I'm really glad you're here.

Why do you think
it is we can't talk about this?

(INHALES) Why do we always
get stuck in the same place?

There's nothing to figure out.

You don't have to figure
out my fucking brain.

I already told you,
I wanna preserve my culture,

my way of life, my country.

Your existence, people like you,

they're actively
replacing my entire race.

That's just a fact.

It's the largest genocide
this world has ever seen.

You ever stop to think
that that's wrong?

I just-- I'm trying
to understand all this... rage.

Allowing you to exist
is a threat to the white race.

I hate this fuckin'
conversation.

'Cause you're afraid
of having it.

Shut the fuck up!

Shut the fuck up!

(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

Do you ever regret it?

Regret what?

Our stupid tattoo.

Are you kidding me, man?

Of course not.
That was an epic night.

(GROANS)

Oh, no, no, no.
I'm so fucking stupid.

ARJAY: Hey.

I'm so fucking stupid.

It's okay.

DAVID: No, it's not, no.

(INHALES) I'm sorry,

I'm so sorry.

ARJAY: No, you don't need
to apologize.

I didn't mean to.
You're not a...

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

I'm really fucking
drunk right now.

(BREATHES HEAVILY)
And I didn't mean to.

(SOBS) I'm... I'm not, um...

(BREATHES SHAKILY)

(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

(CHAINS RATTLE)

I'll see you tomorrow.

(EXHALES)

Hey.

Give the faggot
a goodnight kiss for me.

It's exhausting.

Isn't it?

(DOOR CLOSING)

(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

(DAVID SNORING)

David?

David.

(EXHALES)

(DOOR CREAKING)

ZABI: Hey.

Hey.

How's it going?

He just came down here
and fell asleep.

(ZABI LAUGHS)

My silly boy.
I'll take him upstairs.

Everything okay with the radio?

Yeah, great.

Any questions?

Hmm.

You'll do great.

(DAVID SNORES)

ZABI: Hey, come on.
Let's go to bed.

DAVID: I'll just sleep here.
I just got outta bed.

Okay. You're okay. It's okay.

That's it. (EXHALES)

ZABI: Shh.

Oh, easy. Easy.

(FLOOR CREAKING)

(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)

DAVID: Don't worry man,
I got it.

(MUFFLED VOICES)

DAVID: Table talking's fine.

Just don't play that one.

I can. Stop looking at my cards.

(JARRET LAUGHING)

SARAH: It's very rude. (groans)

What are you gonna do?

SARAH: I'm gonna--
I'm gonna do this.

(JARRET LAUGHING)

(GASPS)

Hey, buddy.

Hi, honey.

Come here.
Oh, what's going' on, hmm?

ZABI: Could he be
any more adorable?

Hmm?

DAVID: Impossible.

What happened?

BOY: I fell.

You wanna tell me a secret?

ZABI: No.

BOY: I heard something outside.

You heard something?

Oh, I'm sorry.

Want Daddy
to put you back to bed?

JARRET: Need me to investigate?

Take care
of all the monsters for you?

JARRET: Yeah? Should I go check?

Yeah? All right, come here.

ZABI: Somebody's bed time.

You know what,
give your Mom a kiss.

Here you go. (GRUNTS)

Give Mommy a kiss.

Oh! (LAUGHS)

Thank you.

(LAUGHS)

All right, here we go.
You ready?

(BOY CHUCKLES)

(JARRET BLOWS RASPBERRY)

Oh!

(BOY LAUGHS)

JARRET: Love you.

Goodnight.

JARRET: What do you say
we have a sleepover, huh?

(SARAH CLEARS THROAT)

(CELLPHONE ALARMS BUZZING)

SARAH: What's going on?

(INDISTINCT CLAMORING
OVER PHONE)

Oh, God.

(EXPLOSION OVER PHONE)

(CHILD CRYING OVER PHONE)

JARRET: Sarah.

(INDISTINCT CLAMORING)

SARAH: Get him away
from the window.

(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

JARRET: It's okay.

SARAH: It's okay.

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

(RADIO STATIC)

VOLUNTEER 6 ON RADIO: Volunteer
number 9947, check in.

Nine-nine-four-seven,
I said check in.

(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

Jarret, Jarret, wake up.

ARJAY: They're talking to us.

Uh. The volunteers
are asking 9947?

Get back to the radio, now.

VOLUNTEER 6 ON RADIO: 9947,
Rise and shine, buttercup.

Jesus Christ, keep it down,
asshole. 9947 reporting.

VOLUNTEER 6 ON RADIO:
Five minutes out, coming in now.

(RADIO STATIC)

Uh. I'm still
in my underwear, man.

David, Zabi, code red.

What's going on?

No time to talk,
just get downstairs. Let's go.

VOLUNTEER 6 ON RADIO:
Put your fuckin' skirt on,

motherfucker. We're activated.
Gonna raise some hell.

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

Fuck yeah, man. I'll be ready.

(WALKIE-TALKIE BEEPS)

Fuck.

SARAH: Let's go, let's go.

Arjay, downstairs, come on.

Get in the basement. Let's go.

(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

Sarah, should we bring
the dog up?

No. Uh. (PANTS) Go to his room.
Put on his clothes.

What? Put on his clothes?

Yeah, you just answered as 9947,
you need to be him.

No, Sarah, fuck that.

You get his ass out here
and you tell him

that we're gonna shoot him

if he doesn't make
his friends go away.

We shoot him or them,
we're dead.

Sarah, we did not plan
for something like this.

That's why I am making a plan.

The-- they probably don't know
who Volunteer 9947 is

or they would've used his name.
They-- they always do.

Probably?

Just-- We don't have time
for this.

Please, go put on his clothes.

JARRET: Fuck.

(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

(SARAH PANTS)

(RADIO STATIC)

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

Zabi? (PANTS)

Give me a hand with this.

What is happening?

SARAH: The volunteers are
coming. Keep your mouth shut.

(PANTS)

Sarah, take the walkie.

Yeah. Make a pot of coffee,
act normal.

I'm gonna keep the dog
from barking.

I don't know
if this is a good plan,

making coffee.
What am I gonna offer them some?

I need the gun.

I need it
for that piece of shit.

Well, then use a fucking knife,
I need the gun.

Oh, my God, okay. (PANTS)

Fuck.

(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

ARJAY: Shit. (PANTS)

(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

(PANTS)

(PANTS)

(CAR HORN HONKING)

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

Help!

SARAH: Shut the fuck up.

GABE: Help! (GRUNTS)

(SARAH PANTS)

Help! (GROANS)

Shut the fuck up.

(GABE GROANS)

Shut the fuck up right now.

(GROANS)

Stop screaming.

(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

VOLUNTEER 7: You Victor? 9947?

Guilty as charged.

VOLUNTEER 7: Grab your shit.
We gotta move fast.

VOLUNTEER 8:
Some queer killed two

of our brothers
not ten miles down the road.

(GROANS)

Shut up.

(GABE WHIMPERING)

VOLUNTEER 7: Gathering any of us
we can along the way,

building a little hunting party.

Gonna have ourselves a fag drag.

Nobody kills two of our men
without the hammer coming down.

Get in the fucking truck.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

VOLUNTEER 8:
Yeehaw! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo!

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(VOLUNTEER 8 LAUGHING)

(CAR ENGINE REVVING)

(EXHALES)

VOLUNTEER 8: Giddyup, giddyup.

They're gonna fuckin' kill him.

He's smart. He'll figure it out.

(DOOR OPENING)

(SARAH BREATHES HEAVILY)

Sarah, what do we do?

We're gonna go after him, right?

(EXHALES) Why didn't anyone plug
this back in?

DAVID: Sarah?

(SARAH SOBS)

Sarah, he needs us.
We have to go after him.

SARAH: (PANTS) He's doing
what he needs to do

and he always comes back to me.

Isn't this time
a little fucking different?

We stay on task,
we stay on routine.

That's all that matters.

Who cares
about that fucking radio?

They could've called
when it was unplugged.

Fuck the radio.
They're gonna kill him!

Stop being emotional,
I'm trying to focus.

(PANTS)

(BREATHES SHAKILY)

(RADIO STATIC)

What did you do to him?

(INHALES) I kept him quiet.

(SIGHS)

(EXHALES)

(SIGHS)

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

(PANTS)

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

What are you doing?

DAVID: Arjay, get outta the way.

No, I know Jarret is your friend
and you love him,

but you can't go after him
alone. Don't be stupid.

I'm gonna keep my distance.

I just need to see
that he's okay.

(PANTS) So, move.

(PANTS)

Get out. (PANTS)

No, it's not safe.

You're not thinking clearly,
David.

(DAVID PANTING)

It is safe. It is safe for me,
it is safe.

I'm not branded,
unlike you. (PANTS)

We're not that different.

(DAVID PANTS)

Yeah, except that I can pass
and you can't.

So, get the fuck out.

I understand being emotional

and making
stupid decisions, okay?

(BREATHES HEAVILY)
It's been my entire life.

But what you're about to do
is gonna get you both killed.

No, I can't...

(DAVID PANTS)

I know how much you care
about him,

but you're not leaving.

(PANTS)

(PANTS)

ARJAY: I won't let you.

(PANTS)

Why are you
doing this to me? (PANTS)

I know how you feel.

(AMBIENT MUSIC PLAYING)

DAVID: Shut up.

You don't understand how I feel.

ARJAY: Yes.

You do not know how I feel.

ARJAY: I do know.

DAVID: You don't know
how I feel. You don't--

David. David, David, David.

I understand exactly
how you feel. Okay?

(PANTS)

I'm-- I'm sorry.

Hey. It's okay.

(BOTH CHUCKLE)

David, that's not what
I came here for.

Sorry.

(BREATHES SHAKILY)

Well, fuck it then,
you're gonna come with me.

No, David, David.

Come here.

It's okay.

(DOOR CREAKING)

(INHALES SHARPLY)

(OBJECTS CLATTERING)

(EXHALES)

I know if I apologize,
it won't mean anything to you,

but it doesn't change the fact
that I'm sorry that happened.

It won't happen again.

I won't let it.

You're outta your mind
if you think anything you say

to baldy's gonna have an effect.

(INHALES)

Is there anything I can do
to show you I truly am sorry?

To make you trust me again?

No.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

Never seen this photo.

(EXHALES)

(CHAINS RATTLING)

ZABI:
You have a beautiful family.

(CHAINS RATTLING)

I'm gonna leave this here.

I'll see you for dinner?

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

GABE: I just want a beer.

Get me a beer, I'll forget
your friend's a cunt.

(RADIO STATIC)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO)

VOLUNTEER 9 ON RADIO:
Any volunteers in the area

come down to the quarry.
We got some snowflakes to melt.

Fuck you, you bastards!

(SARAH SCREAMING)

(SNIFFLES)

Fuck.

(RADIO STATIC)

(EXHALES)

Okay, it's a big day, Reese.

(SARAH SOBS)

(SIGHS)

(CRICKETS CHIRPING)

(RADIO STATIC)

(ARJAY EXHALES)

(INHALES SHARPLY)

(EXHALES)

DAVID: You should cover up.

ZABI: I don't like
that he's down there alone.

SARAH: Arjay can handle it.

He can also handle David,
apparently.

I'm glad he knocked some sense
into you.

If you push it like that again,
I'm gonna to lock you

in the fucking barn.

Okay.

You could've blown
the whole operation.

Okay, okay. I get it.

Fuck.

(CAR ENGINE REVVING)

Arjay.

Absolutely quiet.

(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(DOOR CREAKING)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

VOLUNTEER 10: Your weapon.

(SIGHS)

(DOOR CREAKING, CLOSING)

(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

(JARRET GROANS)

(JARRET BREATHES SHAKILY)

(METAL CLANKING)

(JARRET EXHALES)

(GLASS CLINKING)

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

We have a serious problem.

Jesus, this is insane.

Well, David,
I think what is insane

is staying someplace
where people might attack you

if you're holding Zabi's hand.

DAVID:
You are being paranoid, man.

There's no way
that this can get any worse.

Somebody... (INHALES)

...someone will do something.

ZABI: David...

What?

...they're branding people now.

(CROWD CHANTING IN DISTANCE)

JARRET: The group that Sarah
has with her right now...

(CROWD CHANTING IN DISTANCE)

JARRET: ...they have them.

(CROWD CHANTING IN DISTANCE)

Just think about it, okay?

(CROWD CHANTING IN DISTANCE)

Really, think about it.

(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

(CHAINS RATTLE)

(GABE CHUCKLES)

How'd you know my brand?

Got it from your pantry.

Ah, of course you did.

(CAN CLATTERING)

(GULPS)

Ah.

(EXHALES)

(DOOR CREAKING)

(DOOR CLOSING)

(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

(SIGHS)

JARRET: David says you've been
on the radio most of the day,

you should take a break.

Why don't you tell me
what happened to you out there,

and I'll tell you
if I wanna take a break.

They've gotten bigger.

They're growing.
They're more organized.

And?

And we need to move right now.

Bad idea.

Sarah. (EXHALES)

It's been months.

This operation has dried up.

We are waiting on a ghost.

We promised David and Zabi
that we would get them across

and that is what
we're going to do.

We were positioned as outpost
for nearly three weeks.

Just watching one road
out of the mountains

for Taliban fighters. Hmm.

During the day,
it was burning fucking hot.

It was freezing cold at night.
I mean, it just sucked.

(INHALES)

Twenty-four-seven,
eyes on the same

stupid fucking road.

Sounds pretty boring.

Yeah, it was more boring
than you could imagine.

(CHUCKLES)

I had no idea you served.

(GABE SCOFFS)

Two tours.

Thank you.

For what?

Serving.

Wanting to help the world.

Hmm. (INHALES)

(CLEARS THROAT)

I had to feed wife
and kids somehow.

I don't know
that I helped all that much.

You must have.

(CAN CLATTERING)

Thank you for your service.

Well, it's been a long time
since anybody said that.

(INHALES) Y-- you remember
when we used to thank the troops

for the service? People even had
stickers and shit.

Yeah, I remember. (CHUCKLES)

Feels like a long time ago now.

Something tells me
you never had a bumper sticker.

(LAUGHS)

(GABE LAUGHING)

(INHALES)

GABE: Ah, well. (SIGHING)

(CHAINS RATTLING)

Didn't get much thanks
from ole...

Uncle Sam either. (EXHALES)

ZABI: What was it like
when you came back?

Couldn't sleep.

Couldn't find work.
Couldn't get treatment.

Couldn't talk to my wife,
it was fuckin' great.

Where is she now?

GABE: I don't know.

(CHAINS CLATTERING)

(EXHALES)

(LIPS SMACKING)
Took off with the kids.

(INHALES, LIPS SMACKING)
You know...

probably couldn't put up
with me anymore. (CHUCKLES)

I don't blame her.

I'm sorry.

Well... (INHALES)
...shit happens. (EXHALES)

You got another one?

(LAUGHS)

So, all it took you to chill out
was a couple beers?

Should've asked for one
a month ago.

Yeah, well...

baldy would've just cracked it
over my fucking skull.

(BOTH LAUGH)

(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

WOMAN: (CRYING) Please.

Please.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

WOMAN: Please! (SCREAMING)

We can go home.

(EXHALES)

(RADIO STATIC)

JARRET: We can go home
and start over, you and me.

No, we can't.

You signed up for this. You knew
what we were getting into.

(EXHALES)

I'm scared.
Okay, Sarah? (BREATHES SHAKILY)

I'm really scared
and I want to go home.

I know, we all are.

But you cannot let them
see that.

You have to stay strong
for them.

(INHALES)
We need to put our family first.

(SCOFFS, INHALES)
We don't have a family anymore.

We can start a new one.

We already did.

They're upstairs.

(FLOORBOARD CREAKS)

ZABI: Why did you join?

GABE: What, the army?

(CHAINS RATTLING)

No, the volunteers.
Was it after your wife left?

(EXHALES)

(LIPS SMACKING)

ZABI: Well, it's...

it's okay if you don't--

you don't wanna
talk about it.

No, it's okay. (EXHALES)

Yeah.

It was after they left.

Because... you were...

lonely?

Yeah.

(INHALES) I guess I, uh,
was a little lonely, yeah.

And you wanted to protect
your country?

ZABI: Like you had done before.

Yeah.

(CAN CLATTERING)

From who?

(CHUCKLES) People like you.

ZABI: People like me?

Well, not you, exactly.

Uh...

ZABI: What sort of people then?

(INHALES SHARPLY)

Well just, you know, uh...

yeah, Muslims, foreigners,
illegals, types of people.

But I'm a Muslim.

GABE: So, uh...

Yeah. Well, yeah.

I wanna protect it
from people like you then.

Just p-- people
that don't belong here.

But I was born here.

Well I said... not you, exactly.

But people like you.

(INHALES)
So, if protecting your country,

your culture,
from people like me means...

(INHALES) ...tracking me
everywhere I go

and locking me up, w...

would you do that to me?

Can we go back
to just talking? (SIGHS)

We are talking.

Well, fuck, I mean, let's talk
about something else.

(EXHALES)

GABE: It's killing my buzz.

Okay.

(BREATHES DEEPLY)

Am I the first Muslim
you've ever met?

'Course not,
I served in Afghanistan.

But am I the first Muslim
you've ever really,

really talked to?

(SCOFFS)

You kiddin' me?

(INHALES SHARPLY)

I trained ANA recruits outside
the wire for weeks on end.

I was with 'em every single day.
I-- I turned 'em into soldiers.

So, you must have
gotten close with...

some of them?

Yeah.

Yeah, sure but...

(INHALES, CLEARS THROAT)
...some of 'em were...

(EXHALES)

(CHUCKLES)
...pretty cool guys, definitely.

Yeah but, good guys or not,
I had to watch my back.

(INHALES, EXHALES)

Do you want me dead, Gabe?

No.

I don't. Of course I don't.

'Cause those volunteers
that showed up today...

I'm certain,

if they had found me,
they would've killed me.

You heard 'em, didn't you?

I heard 'em.

ZABI: You don't seem
like one of them.

(INHALES)

Yeah well... (CLEARS THROAT)
...I'm not.

Most of those guys
are just a bunch of assholes

playing dress up.
You know... (INHALES)

Never served,
never did much of anything. I...

I don't-- I don't care
for most of 'em,

to be honest with you.

But you see what they're doing,

the people they're hurting.
Those people... (INHALES)

...they're like me.

No, I never hurt anybody.

But people are hurting now.
People are dying... now.

Now.

I never thought it would turn
into what it did.

Neither did I.

(INHALES)
I'll tell you one thing,

um, when I joined...

I definitely didn't see myself
hanging out in my barn with you.

(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)

I never thought I'd be complicit
in locking you up

in your barn. (CHUCKLES)

Never thought
I'd have a conversation...

like this with a... volunteer.

And I never thought I'd share
a beer with a Muslim.

ZABI: I never... I never thought
I'd have to leave my home.

I never thought that...

I would see my family...

blown apart because...

a volunteer placed
a bomb in our mosque.

I didn't know
that happened to you.

It did.

I'm sorry it did.

Don't you wish
that this would all just...

go away? (SCOFFS)

I mean, wouldn't that be nice?

(INHALES)

Yeah, it would. (CLEARS THROAT)

I don't think it's too late.

I'll drink to that.

Yeah, I'm gonna put these
in the fridge next time.

Are you even supposed
to be drinking?

No.

Goes against my beliefs.

Fuck yeah.

(LAUGHS)

(CHUCKLES)

Finish it off.

I'll see you tomorrow.

In sha'Allah.

(CHUCKLES)

In sha'Allah.

(CRICKETS CHIRPING)

DAVID: I was about to go
do a safety check,

you've been gone for so long.

I'm sorry.

I didn't mean to scare you.

Have you been drinking?

Uh. Had a couple beers, yeah.

You drank with him?

With the dog?

We're not gonna call him
that anymore.

From now on we use his name...

Gabe.

DAVID: No, we don't.

I don't wanna use his name.
Why would I wanna use his name?

What exactly is going on?

What are you doing with him,
Zabi?

Talking.

I'm trying to understand.

What? What are you trying
to understand?

Why he's such a piece of shit
to us?

He's ignorant and angry...

but he's not entirely bad.

He's still a-- a person, David.

No, Zahabiya, no.

He's trying to get
into your head.

(ZABI INHALES)

He's totally playing you.

You know that I'm right.

I don't think you are.

I'm sorry it makes you angry,
but I-- I don't.

Yeah it-- it does make me angry.

That you are out there
in that barn hour after hour.

What are you trying to do,
convert him?

You can't.

There's no middle ground
with the volunteers.

They see black
and they see white.

You're wrong.

I talked to him tonight
about my family,

and he said he was sorry.

(SIGHS)

ZABI: It wasn't an act.

He wasn't pretending.

Oh, don't be stupid, please.

He just wants to get
outta that barn.

He's not different than us,
he's just on the other side.

(DAVID EXHALES)

ZABI:
If I could change his mind.

If I could change...

DAVID: You can't, you can't...

...one person's mind...

DAVID: ...change his mind.

...then maybe more people--

Just-- just fucking stop it,
all right?

Stop trying to find
his humanity.

He doesn't have any.

I have more reason
to hate him than you do.

My family was slaughtered.

David, slaughtered,
my entire...

family.

Our family.

Yeah, but I can't bring myself
to hate him.

I need to convince myself
that the world isn't shit,

that there's still
good people in it.

Because if I--
if I don't believe that

then what is the point
of being part of it?

Tell me.

(INHALES, EXHALES)

(DOOR OPENING)

Just...

(DOOR CLOSING)

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

(EXHALES)

(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)

David,

I hope this correspondence
finds you well.

I'm pleased to inform you

that according
to this year's census,

you're eligible to have
your student loan debt

entirely abolished in exchange
for a onetime donation

to my election campaign.

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

(INHALES)

Hey, hey, it's okay.

Jarret...

Come with me. Don't talk.

Okay?

Come on.

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

(WATER RUSHING)

(GRUNTS)

Jarret, are you gonna tell me
what happened yesterday?

Or you just gonna float there?

You should come in. It's nice.

I'm cold.

Are you not cold?

It's freezing.

But it's nice.

I gotta cleanse
my eyeballs. (CHUCKLES)

ARJAY: What happened today,
it was a mistake.

I stopped you from leaving,
that's all.

You, a-- and your secrets. Uh...

I don't want any part of it.

Whoa.

Did you get your tattoo removed?

Uh. Yeah. Couple a years ago.

JARRET: Uh. Ouch. I'm not sure
if I should be offended or not.

Why the hell did you do that?

Well, uh,
it just always made me think

too much about that day.

The day that we...
When we found 'em.

JARRET: Yeah, so?

So, I always hated myself
when I thought about it.

Ouch, man...

now I'm actually offended.

Why would you hate yourself
for something we did

when we were drunk
and stupid teenagers?

Do you ever think
about that night?

I remember it,
if that's what you mean.

(DAVID SNIFFLES,
BREATHES HEAVILY)

What do you remember about it?

Why would you get it removed?

That shit doesn't work, man.
I can still see it there.

What do you remember
about that night?

(SIGHS)

DAVID: Tell me.

Remember the same thing
that you remember.

Tell me.

JARRET: Tell you what?

You can't even fucking say it.

JARRET: David...

(BREATHES SHAKILY)

JARRET: I remember, David, okay?

I remember, you remember.

(BOTH BREATHING HEAVILY)

Do you want me to say it?

Would it make you feel better
if I said it?

(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)

I remember. (BREATHES HEAVILY)

Is that what this is about?

(BOTH MOAN)

(DAVID BREATHES HEAVILY)

(ARJAY PANTS)

(MOANS)

(PANTS)

You hear something? (PANTS)

(DRONE WHIRRING)

(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

Don't make a sound.
It won't see you.

(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

(DRONE WHIRRING)

DAVID: Every time I look
at that tattoo...

(PANTS)
...I would think of that night.

And I would think
about how it ended,

and wonder
why it made me feel so bad.

And then the volunteer shit
started happening and I was...

(PANTS) ...and I was...

I was scared and I just wanted
those feelings to go away.

So I...

I fucking got it removed.

David...

David, hey.

Not that it helped. (SOBS)

Hey, Dave.

I love you.

But you are in your head.

We were just kids.

(DAVID SOBBING)

JARRET: And nobody blamed you

for hiding that part
of yourself...

(SOBS)

...when our country
started falling apart.

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

But I am really...

not the one that you gotta talk
to about this.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know.

I'm scared.

JARRET: I know.

I don't want her to think
less of me.

(PANTS)

David, hey, hey. Hey.

I am so fuckin' sorry...

(PANTS)

...that this whole thing
is such a mess.

But we are going
to get out of here.

I swear, okay?

We're gonna leave tonight.

(CRIES)

Okay?

As soon as the sun goes down.

We're not gonna wait
on coordinates anymore,

all right?

Okay.

Okay?

We need to ditch Arjay.

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

We need to put the dog down.

(PANTS)

And I need you, David, okay?
I need you to stop crying...

and help me, okay?

Help me, please, convince Zabi
and Sarah it's time to go.

Okay?

Come on.

Okay.

(SNIFFLES)

JARRET: Come on. Get in, get in.

JARRET: Come here.

Come here. It's okay,
it's okay, it's okay.

It's okay, it's okay.

It's okay.

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

JARRET: Zabi.

Hey.

You stop feeding
that piece of shit.

Where were you guys?
What's going on?

We're leaving, tonight.

Now, I know
you don't wanna do this,

but we all have to do things
that we don't wanna do. (PANTS)

So, you're gonna go in there

and take care
of your pet project.

Put a bullet
in his fucking head,

and meet us inside
for a group meeting.

You got it?

David...

JARRET: David, come on!

David!

(DOOR OPENING)

ZABI: You heard that.

(CHAINS RUSTLE)

ZABI: I'm sorry, I...
(BREATHES SHAKILY)

I don't know
that I can protect you.

(CHAINS RATTLING)

I can help you.

I tr-- I trust you.

Hey.

(INHALES, EXHALES)

Zabi, if you trust me too,
I can help you.

I can sh...

I can show you
across the border.

If you let me go,

I can show you
across the border.

I... I know how to get there.

I'm sorry. (INHALES)
They'll never believe that.

Jarret will never believe that.

(GABE BREATHES SHAKILY)

You still have to try.

(BREATHES SHAKILY)
I wanna see my family again.

(BREATHES SHAKILY)

If you don't,
he's gonna kill me. (SNIFFLES)

There is a simple way
not to fuck this up

and that is to stay put.

Why do we have to keep having
the same conversation

over and over again?

This is not like
your other runs.

This time, it's different.

How?

Things have changed.

These aren't just groups
of fucking zeros...

going out,
looking for a good time,

calling in a couple of illegals.

These are organized hunters
with assault rifles

out for blood.

Yeah, well, things have been
escalating for months.

We found a group of people
yesterday, trying to cross.

They brought them to a field.

And they beat them to death.

(DAVID EXHALES)

They tied them with chains
to their trucks...

to drag them around
this field for hours.

They lit their bodies on fire.

Sarah, they lit
their bodies on fire.

So, you're proving
my fucking point.

We just can't... (INHALES)

...we can't go running out there
like idiots.

I had to kick.

I had to kick a woman's face in
and I had to like it, Sarah.

I had to like it.

(BREATHES SHAKILY)

I need...

We need to leave tonight

and that is Goddamn
fucking final.

Okay. Okay. Let's just calm down
a second, okay?

We're all gonna figure this out
together as a group.

Now, just listen.

And I know you're not gonna
like this, Jarret,

but Gabe, the volunteer,
he wants to help us.

Don't even get me started.

And you?

You need to leave.

David and I have talked,
and you're a liability.

Jarret says
that there are photos

of you all over town.

From where?

A checkpoint?

I don't know,
but you have to leave, Arjay.

I'm sorry.

(SARAH COUGHING)

(SOBS)

JARRET: He is a leech.

We are not getting rid
of anyone.

Yeah, apparently not.

We can't even get rid
of the fucking asshole

at the barn
because he's become your buddy.

Jarret!

Zabi, who's on? (SOBS)
No one's on the radio.

Sarah. Sarah,
nobody is coming to save us.

Nobody.

Can you just wake up?

(SNIFFLES)

ZABI: Jarret.

JARRET: Fuck it.

ZABI: Jarret,

you wanna plan, I have one.

Gabe knows how to get us
across the border safely.

He's willing to show us

in exchange
for letting him go...

(SCOFFS)

...unharmed, which...

is what we were planning, right?
That was the original plan.

He wants to help us.
This might be our best chance.

(INHALES) You can come with us
tonight or you can stay

and you can wait to be dragged
out by a fuckin' chain.

(FOOTSTEPS RECEDING)

(DOOR CLOSING)

Is that what you think
of me too?

That I'm a leech.

No.

Arjay... of course not.

Everything was fine
before you showed up.

(ARJAY BREATHES SHAKILY)

I don't think that's true.

(INHALES) But you know what?

(SOBS) You tell yourself
what you need to

in order to survive this.

(ZIPPING BAG)

ZABI: Arjay.

(FOOTSTEPS RECEDING)

(DOOR CLOSING)

(SIGHS)

ZABI: Wait!

Arjay!

I'm not going back.
Please, don't ask.

Okay, but...

where are you
going to go? (PANTS)

What are you going to do?

You don't have to leave.

You're part
of our family now. (PANTS)

Our fucked up little family.

Please, Zahabiya.

I don't wanna cause
anymore trouble.

(PANTS)

ARJAY: I should've never stayed
in the first place.

Please, let go of me.

I want you to stay, Arjay.

(PANTS)

I don't deserve your help.

(ZABI PANTS)

Of course you do. (PANTS)

I've been nothing but trouble
to you and your friends.

Just let me go.

ZABI: No, I won't.

I can't let you
leave like this. (PANTS)

Stay.

You're the only one here
who really knows

what I'm going through. (PANTS)

David and I...

(INHALES)

David and you what?

There are things
that you do not know.

(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)

(RADIO STATIC)

(SARAH COUGHS)

(SIGHS)

(RADIO STATIC)

(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)

(METAL CLATTERING)

(DOOR OPENING)

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

They wouldn't listen.

I don't think
there's any convincing them.

They don't trust you.

Well, you can.

You can trust me.

I hope so.

I'm going to uncuff you, Gabe.
(BREATHES SHAKILY)

(BREATHES SHAKILY)

ZABI:
And I'm asking you to stay put.

Don't run for the hills
the second my back is turned.

Don't storm the house
and catch us off guard.

(BREATHES SHAKILY)

If I come back with the group
and you're still here waiting

they'll know
that they can trust you.

(BREATHES SHAKILY)
I'll know that I can trust you.

(INHALES SHARPLY)

(CHAINS RATTLING)

(GABE BREATHES SHAKILY)

(ZABI EXHALES)

(CHAIN RATTLING)

(SNIFFLES, SOBS)

(BOTH CRYING)

I really hope
this isn't the last time

I see you.

(EXHALES)

(BREATHES SHAKILY)

Arjay's gone.

DAVID: Good.

He doesn't wanna cause
any more trouble.

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

I'm guessing you didn't kill
the volunteer?

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

Are you kidding me?

Of course not.

(BAG THUDDING)

Well then,
what are we gonna do, Zabi?

We can't let him go tonight
when we leave.

He-- he'll just round up
the troops and hunt us all down.

He won't. I trust him.

(DAVID SIGHING)

Look, come with me,
I'll show you.

He's not the person
that you think he is.

(ZIPPER ZIPPING)

Someone has gotta
take care of this.

We have to cover our tracks.
(INHALES, EXHALES)

Can you even see
how this looks right now, David?

You're holding a gun...
(INHALES)

...and talking about
killing someone.

(SCOFFS) It's seriously
like I don't even know you.

Yeah, well... it has to be done.

So, I don't know
what to tell you.

(GUN CLATTERS)

Go get Jarret.
Tell him to do it.

(DRAWER CLOSING)

(RADIO STATIC)

Sarah... I've packed
all of your things.

(SARAH INHALES SHARPLY)

JARRET: I would like you
to come upstairs.

(RADIO STATIC)

(EXHALES)

(SARAH SIGHS)

JARRET: I don't know
how to do this without you.

(SOBS)

I don't know how to do
anything without you.

(SNIFFLES)

We've helped so many people.

The one time I try to do it
with the people I love the most

it all gets fucked.

JARRET: I know.

(BREATHES SHAKILY)

But I need your help.

David and Zabi feel safest
when you are leading us.

Arjay told me...

about what happened.

(INHALES, EXHALES)

Is it true?

(BREATHES SHAKILY)

Is this the first time?

(BREATHES SHAKILY)

You-- you've always
felt this way?

(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

(BREATHES SHAKILY)

Why? (BREATHES SHAKILY)

Why have you never talked
to me about this? (SOBS)

I could've... (SOBS)

I would've understood,
I... (BREATHES SHAKILY)

I would have.

You can't understand.

I'm branded, David. (SOBS)

Branded. (BREATHES HEAVILY)

I got marked while you hid.

You could've had the--
You didn't... (SOBS)

...you didn't even
have the courage to be yourself

let alone talk to me about this.

And meanwhile,
we could have been

going through
all of this together. (CRIES)

(BREATHES SHAKILY)

I'm sorry.

(ZABI SOBBING)

I'm so sorry.

There should've been
two letters on our door.

I went through
all of this alone! (SOBS)

You could have been
honest with me.

You don't understand.

You didn't give me a chance to.
(BREATHES SHAKILY)

I've always been alone
with this.

ZABI:
You didn't have to be. (SOBBING)

(EXHALES)

ZABI: You made that choice.

I didn't have to self-report,
send in my census form.

I could've hid,

stopped going to mosque,
avoid my family. (SOBS)

But I... (CRIES)
...I know who I am.

(SOBS)

And even though
it's been terrifying,

even though it has put me
through hell... (CRIES)

(SOBS)

If I... (SOBS)

if I could go back... (SOBS)

...I would still self-report
because I am proud of who I am.

JARRET: I'm gonna unplug
the radio.

Don't you fucking dare.

Sarah...

Let me do this.

All you have to do
is come with me

and we can have the life
we had before--

No, don't touch it.

I promise we can start again.

We can build
a new family, Sarah.

I don't want to replace him.

Okay?

(SOBS) I don't.

I'm gonna unplug it right now.

SARAH: No.

JARRET: Sarah,
we need to let go.

We have to move on!

SARAH: Stop! (GRUNTS)

(JARRET GROANS)

(SARAH WHIMPERS)

Oh, my God. Oh, my God,
oh, my God.

Oh, my God, oh, my God,
oh, my God, oh, my God.

Baby, okay baby,
calm down, okay?

(SARAH PANTS)

You're making yourself sick,
calm down.

ZABI: I've always known
that you were different.

That's why I fell in love
with you. (SOBS)

But, now... (CRIES)

JARRET: David! Zabi, help!

(EXHALES)

I need to get Sarah and Jarret

and we need to meet
at the barn now.

David, David, do you hear me?

(DAVID BREATHES SHAKILY)

David, look at me, look at me.

Look at me!

(GROANS)

(BOTH BREATHING HEAVILY)

I'm sorry.
I know that you're in pain.

(SOBS)

But that man in the barn,
he's in pain too.

(BREATHES SHAKILY)
And I trust him.

He has been open
and honest with me

and he is our way out of here.

(BREATHES SHAKILY)

I will always love you.

Always. (SOBS)

But we have to start over
and to do that,

we need to get out of here, now.

JARRET: Help!

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

JARRET: Help!

(DOOR OPENING)

(FOOTSTEPS THUMPING)

It's okay, okay? It's okay.

It's okay.

ZABI: What's happening?

JARRET: I don't know.
I don't know,

she just started bleeding.

What did you do?

JARRET:
I don't know.

Honey.

JARRET:
I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know.

Okay, hey, look at me.

I don't know.

Sarah, we're gonna
get you cleaned up,

and get us out of
here, all right?

(JARRET PANTING)

We've got to wait.

JARRET: It's okay, it's okay.

Just wait.

JARRET: It's okay.

SARAH: We can't give up now.

(RADIO STATIC)

Sarah, Sarah,
it's okay, it's okay.

Look at me. Look at me,
keep your eyes open.

(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)

ZABI: You've given us
everything we need, okay?

Let me help you.

(SARAH PANTS)

ZABI:
We don't need to worry anymore.

I've got you, I've got you.

(ELECTRICITY CRACKLES)

(JARRET GRUNTS)

ZABI: It's okay, it's okay.

(JARRET PANTS)

(GUNSHOTS)

ZABI: David.

I got her, I got her, I got her.

Here, I got her, I got her.

Be careful.
I'll be right behind you.

(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

(PANTS)

David...

(BREATHES SHAKILY) No.

(PANTS)

JARRET: David...

why don't you give me the gun?

It's over. Okay? It's over.

Just give me the gun.

(GUN COCKS)

No!

(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)

(CRIES)

(PANTS)

Okay, okay, come out here.
Time to go.

ZABI: (SOBBING) No, I can't go.

JARRET: We're gonna go, come on.

Come on.

(SARAH BREATHING HEAVILY)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO)

VOLUNTEER 11 ON RADIO:
Volunteer 9947, check in.

Volunteer 9947,
scanner just picked up

multiple shots in your zone.

Multiple shots fired
in your zone.

(PANTS)

VOLUNTEER 11:
Volunteer 9947, check in.

Multiple shots fired
in your zone. Copy.

(PANTS)

(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)

(SOBS)

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

JARRET: Sarah!

(SOBS)

JARRET: Sarah!

(SOBS)

Oh, my God. Oh, my God,
I told you not to move, baby.

How did you get up the stairs?

(SOBS) There is no baby.

He's gone.

I know.

I know.

VOLUNTEER 11 ON RADIO:
Volunteer 9947

gunshots in your zone.

(SOBS)

Repeat, multiple shots fired
in your zone. Copy.

SARAH: (CRYING)
My head hurts so much

and I don't know what to do.

JARRET: It's okay. It's okay.

(SOBS)

JARRET:
I promise we're gonna fix it

and we'll make it
stop hurting, okay? I promise.

VOLUNTEER 11 ON RADIO:
All units to zone ten.

All available units to zone ten.

(SARAH PANTS)

VOLUNTEER 11:
Volunteer 9947, check in.

(RADIO STATIC)

(SARAH PANTING)

(SOBS) No. (PANTS)

(RADIO STATIC)

Volunteer 9947, I heard 'em too.
I'm gearing up and ready to go.

VOLUNTEER 11 OVER RADIO: Copy.

No, Jarr.

(PANTS)

JARRET: Yes, yes.

I'm gonna buy you
some time, okay?

Now, you and Zabi,
you're gonna get to the truck,

and you're gonna drive
to the border,

and you're gonna cross.

You're gonna find one
of the spots

that you've crossed before
'cause I know you can do it.

You remember. You remember.

(BREATHES SHAKILY)
What about David?

ZABI: David...

is...

gone.

He's gone.

But you two are gonna get
outta here, okay?

You just gotta go now.

No, no.

Yes.

I'm gonna find you.

No.

I'm gonna find you. Promise,

No.

I'll find you.

I'm gonna find you. (PANTS)

(SARAH PANTING)

JARRET:
Zabi, Zabi, hey, look at me.

You gotta
take care of her, okay?

Okay.

You gotta take care of her.
You do not come back.

Okay.

ZABI: Sarah, let's go.

(JARRET BREATHES HEAVILY)

SARAH: Please, come.

JARRET: I love you, okay?
I love you, okay?

You just gotta go.
You gotta go now.

Okay.

(ZABI PANTS)

(SARAH COUGHING)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(PANTS)

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

(WATER RUNNING)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(DOG BARKING)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(DOOR CLOSING)

(ZABI PANTS)

(DOGS BARKING IN DISTANCE)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

This way.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO)

Hey, 9947.

VOLUNTEER 12: I'm 4464,
good to meet you, brother.

JARRET: Nice to meet you.

I'm Dee, 23487.

Hi.

VOLUNTEER 12: Hey,
sorry to bug you guys, but, uh,

I'm gonna sweep the area,
all right?

JARRET:
It's not a disturbance at all.

I mean, I just-- I just
appreciate you guys checking in.

(PANTS)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO)

JARRET: Step on inside, I'll--
I'll get my gear.

DEE: Hey.

Yeah?

DEE: You said
you heard shots, right?

Yeah.
I-- I definitely heard 'em.

Well, what direction
did they sound like...

(DOOR CLOSING)

...they were coming from?

Uh. I-- I couldn't rightly say.

I mean, I had the game on, uh,
pretty loud.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO)

(SARA WHIMPERS)

Sarah...

VOLUNTEER 12: We know they came
from zone ten, right?

Very few residences around here.

Shouldn't take long to find 'em.

Do you mind if,
uh, for safety sake,

if we take a look around?

(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO)

I-- I don't mind at all.

As long as you don't mind
my dirty undies laying about.

Hey, hey, hey, uh,
weren't you with us yesterday?

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

ZABI: (PANTING) Sarah.

Come on.

I know you, you busted
that one bitch's teeth,

clean outta her head. (LAUGHS)

Yeah. (CHUCKLES)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(PANTS)

Go, go, go, go.

(DEE LAUGHING)

(BOTH PANT)

VOLUNTEER 12: Fuckin'
miss out on all the fun.

(VOLUNTEERS LAUGHING)

(SARAH BREATHING HEAVILY)

Sarah, we have to run, okay?

I can't do it.

You can do it, you can do it.

(PANTS)

I need help.

ZABI: Okay.

(PANTS)

Ready? One, two, three. (GRUNTS)

(SARAH PANTS)

(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

(DRONE WHIRRING)

(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

(SARAH GROANS)

(VOLUNTEER 13
INDISTINCTLY OVER RADIO)

(DOG BARKING)

Finished sweeping the property.
We didn't find anything.

All right, let's start
a larger sweep of the area.

Check the woods
at the perimeter.

Hey, 9947,
what you got in that barn?

(CHUCKLES) I mean,
to be honest fellas,

it's been a long time
since I've been in there.

You know, the usual stuff,
tractor, small propane tanks,

you know.

(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

(GUN CLICKING)

(SARAH PANTS)

(STORM SIREN BLARING)

SARAH: (WHIMPERS)
What the fuck is that?

(PANTS)

ZABI:
They found Gabe, and David.

Sarah, we gotta go.

No, Jarret.

(ZABI GRUNTS)

(BOTH PANT)

Come on.

(SARAH GROANS)

(ZABI PANTS)

(STORM SIREN CONTINUES BLARING)

(BOTH BREATHING HEAVILY)

(CAR ENGINE REVVING)

(ZABI PANTING)

(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)

(PANTS)

(PANTS)

(SIREN BLARING)

(ZABI PANTING)

SARAH: What's going on?

Why are we slowing down?

There's a checkpoint ahead.

We might be fucked.

(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)

ZABI: Holy shit.

SARAH: What?

They have Arjay.

Tied up on the side
of the road just to our right.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO)

(EXHALES)

Evening, miss,
can I see your papers?

Oh, of course.

I heard the siren.
Is everything all right?

Everything's fine. Your papers.

Wait here a minute.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO)

Give me the gun.

When you see your moment,

grab Arjay
and get the fuck outta here.

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

Looks like we got a problem
here, Miss Sarah.

It says here you're female,
Caucasian.

I need you to turn around
so I can see... (GROANS)

SARAH: Don't come any closer
motherfuckers

or I'll blow his head off.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

VOLUNTEER 14: She's armed.

VOLUNTEER 14: Billy, keep an eye
on that bitch in the truck.

VOLUNTEER 15:
All right, just settle.

We need to get more men
in the area.

VOLUNTEER 15: Let him go.

SARAH: Or what?

Can I tell you the truth? Can I?

BILLY: Don't you move
a muscle, bitch.

SARAH: Come on. Come and get me.
Try it.

What're you lookin' at?
Keep your eyes down.

VOLUNTEER 16: Get to the truck.

VOLUNTEER 17: All right.

VOLUNTEER 14: This is your last
chance. Let him go.

(SARAH SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)

SARAH:
I shot those little bitches

I said don't look at me.

(ARJAY GRUNTS)

(VOLUNTEER 17 GROANS)

(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

(SARAH SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)

(DOOR CLOSING)

(SARAH SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)

(TIRES SQUEAL)

(GUNSHOTS)

(ARJAY BREATHING HEAVILY)

(EXHALES)

(BREATHES SHAKILY)

Where's everyone else?

(BREATHES SHAKILY)
They're coming later.

(BREATHES SHAKILY)

They'll be right behind us.
(BREATHES SHAKILY)

How will they find us?

(ZABI BREATHES SHAKILY)

They just will.
They... (INHALES)

...they'll cross too and...
(BREATHES SHAKILY)

...we'll find each other.

(BREATHES SHAKILY)

How?

So, you were saying,
native New Yorker?

DAVID: Mm-hmm.

Native New Yorker.

Brothers and sisters?

DAVID: Three brothers.

(SOBS)

ZABI: Three brothers?

And, uh, where do you fall
in the line?

DAVID: Yongest.

The baby.

Yeah.

(ZABI SOBBING)

DAVID: I'm glad I waited
that whole extra 20 minutes

for you.

(LAUGHS)

Dude, it was the MTA.

You're really not gonna
ever let this go, are you?

Are you?

If you had been ghosted
as many times as I have,

you wouldn't let it go either.

I don't think you wanna compare
statistics in that area, buddy.

Oh, yeah? Try me.

Let's say, I've been on more
dates that didn't show up

than did.

(CHUCKLES) Uh. It's just...

I'm usually always wearing this.

So, on a first date...
I don't know.

I'd love to ask
the real assholes

why they didn't show up,
but I-- I have my theories.

I'm sorry, I don't understand.

I'm Muslim.

This is a hijab.

Got it. Uh. Sorry,
I'm an idiot. (CHUCKLES)

ZABI: No.

Thank you for telling me that.

And I'm sorry,
I still don't understand.

You didn't wear this
on our first date because...

Um. I...
I don't know. (CHUCKLES)

It's kind of hard to talk about.

(INHALES, EXHALES)

I guess
I-- I haven't really felt...

very safe... recently,

with everything
that's been going on.

So...

you were a stranger.

On our first date,
I was nervous. I...

I didn't know
what I was walking into.

You could've been
a volunteer for all I knew.

What? Do I look like
a volunteer to you?

ZABI: Well...

(BOTH LAUGH)

No, come on. (INHALES)

Med school keeps me way too busy
to do any volunteer work.

Last time I ever volunteered
for anything

I think was, um, a bake sale
in middle school.

(LAUGHS)

I made burnt cookies.

(ZABI LAUGHS)

It's really,
really great recipe.

I can share it with you.

ZABI: Please.

Yeah.

(ZABI LAUGHS)

Do you wanna put that on?

Yes.

DAVID: You look...

so beautiful.

(ZABI CHUCKLES)

That's very sweet but...

sometimes... (EXHALES)

...people look at me
and they only see this...

this one thing.

Sometimes, I know
that they don't like me

because of it.

I met you and for a split second
I thought...

this would just all be
so much easier

if I wasn't Muslim,

which is horrible, but...

So, you hid it.

I... (INHALES)

...thought that I could not hide
this part of myself but just...

delay you knowing about it
until I felt...

safe.

I don't know,
it sounds stupid but...

I... I haven't been
wearing it recently.

You don't have to hide
that part of yourself from me.

You don't have to hide
anything with me.

(CHUCKLES)

Okay.

Thank you.

I won't.

Because, uh,
I'd like to keep seeing you,

if that's...

(ZABI CHUCKLES)

...something
that's interesting to you.

ZABI: Are you sure?

'Cause times
are changing. And... (INHALES)

...people will look at us,
my parents included.

Fuck 'em.

(LAUGHS)

Not your parents, of course, no.

I will win them over
easy enough.

Oh, yeah?
Are you ready to convert?

Oh, easy. One step at a time.

Okay, then... hold my hand.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

(TRUCK ENGINE REVVING)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC CONCLUDING)

(STATIC BUZZING)

♪ This is my country
My damn country ♪

♪ Give me my country
You can keep the rest ♪

♪ This is my country
My damn country ♪

♪ And it don't mean a thing
If it don't past the test ♪

♪ I'm drawn like a moth
To the neon lights ♪

♪ I need a bucket of beer
And someone to fight ♪

♪ Don't call yourself country
If your music is shitty ♪

♪ Or this Carolina boy'll
Take you down to fist city ♪

♪ You know who you are
I ain't gonna name names ♪

♪ Just keep your hands
Off my country ♪

♪ And go back
From where ya came ♪

♪ This is my country
My damn country ♪

♪ Give me my country
You can keep the rest ♪

♪ This is my country
My damn country ♪

♪ And it don't mean a thing
If it don't pass the test ♪

♪ If you can't sing along
To "Tear In My Beer" ♪

♪ Then don't forget your coat
And get the fuck outta here ♪