Original subtitles

(furtive piano plinking)

(birds chirping)

- [Voiceover] President Dogget's issuing over

50 executive orders today alone.

(beeping) Washington analysts

are reeling with a virtual blitz of new laws

coming out of the White House, affecting everything

from public housing legislation to the war for freedom

in Venezuela.

(furtive piano plinking)

(birds chirping)

(train chugging)

(train whistle blows)

(melancholic, old-timey piano music)

(beep)

- [Voiceover] Hello, Gregory.

Scan N Scram has a special price on Monoxydil.

Stock up today and keep a full head of hair.

Hello, Shirley.

Scan N Scram has a special price on

maximum-protection tampons, aisle nine.

- Hey, excuse me.

Listen, I'm a tourist just trying to ride the train

and I don't think my chip is gonna work.

I was wondering if maybe I gave you some coin

you could grab these for me?

- It'll work here, they work everywhere.

- No, it's just, I don't think mine will.

I'd do anything if you could help me.

- Sure.

You'll have to come up to my place.

- Sure.

- [Voiceover] Thank you, Gregory, for shopping Scan N Scram.

(furtive piano plinking)

(beep)

(melancholic old-timey piano music)

(cash register rings)

(cat meows)

(birds chirping)

- [Voiceover] Hello, Greggie.

- Take your shirt off.

- Boy, you don't waste any time.

- [Gregory] Edison!

- So, what is all this?

- It's my stuff.

- Look, I'm not really into kinky shit.

What are you doing?

- What happened here?

- What is that?

- Did you have an accident?

- Oh, fuck, you're a fucking cop?!

- I'm not a cop.

- You got to be kidding me.

You're fuckin' undercover with the fuckin' beard.

- I don't work for the government.

- Then what the fuck is all this?

- [Gregory] It's left over from an old job.

- Oh, goddamn it.

- You pulled your chip out.

- Fuck you.

- Why'd you pull your chip out?

- There's a fucking war going on in Venezuela, right now.

Anybody that goes over there does not come back.

Look, I'll suck you off

but after that just forget fuckin' forget about me, OK?

- You're a "No Papers".

- Don't call it a...

I'll do anything you want.

- I don't want to get involved.

- I'm not bothering anybody.

I didn't do anything.

- Just put your shirt on and go.

- Hey, I'm asleep right now.

If it's urgent, thumb the pound key to wake me.

Otherwise I'll catch you in a couple of hours.

- Hey, buddy.

It's beautiful weather out here.

You don't know what you're missing

locked up in that cubicle all day.

Listen, when you get a chance, shoot me a message.

We need to talk.

(beep)

(meow)

(beeping)

- Goodbye, Izzy.

- [Voiceover] Goodbye, Greggie.

(geese honking)

- Hey there.

You're not making much progress with that.

- It's no big deal.

- You dug gardens before?

- Yep.

- In this kind of soil?

- Dirt is dirt.

(chicken crowing)

- Hey, why don't you see if they have a spade like this

over there in the tool shed?

- I know how to dig a garden.

- Suit yourself.

See, with this spade, I just ease it into the soil,

wiggle it around a little bit,

then gently lift it out.

Are you sure you don't want to try my spade?

- This was a waste of time.

- Well, that didn't take long.

- It doesn't make any sense for me to be working over there

in that community garden.

I can plant a garden for you right here in your backyard.

- I don't have any tools.

- I can get a spade.

(sighs)

- Don't you like it over there?

- They can't really expect me to wear this.

- How cute.

- Please, Mother, don't make it any worse.

What's the matter?

- Nothing.

- Why aren't you at the garden?

- [Boy] That place bites.

- I like walking over there in the afternoons.

Especially when all the blooms have opened up.

Sometimes when I wear my Desdemona hat,

people actually recognize me.

Not often, but it's nice when they do.

It's so interesting to see what they've planted.

The beans, and corn, peas, and all of the rose bushes.

Do you remember that rose bush that we planted at the house?

- No.

- Oh, sure you do.

I wanted to have a rose garden

just like the gardens in Portland when I was a little girl.

They were beautiful.

I was gonna put a garden right in the front of the house,

where everyone could enjoy it

and people could smell the fragrances.

I'm not sure what happened.

I think I got the wrong kind of rose bush or something

but I put it in the ground and it did absolutely nothing.

Got black spots all over the leaves.

When it did bloom they looked absolutely terrible.

Anyway, one day when I came back from the studio,

it was when I was making that film with Spielberg,

your father had told the gardener to dig it up.

(sighs) I was so angry with him.

But, of course, I never let on in front of you kids.

- We knew.

- Oh, you did not.

How could you?

We never fought in front of you.

We didn't even raise our voices when you were in the room.

Ow, damn it.

I stuck myself again.

- Here, Mother, let me do it.

- I was a good mother to you.

At least I could buy you a new blouse if you lost a button.

- You were Mother and you still are.

- Nothing I can do about it now.

Except spoil my grandson.

Speaking of which,

you worked hard this morning, you must be famished.

Why don't I go to the kitchen

and see what we can scrounge up for lunch?

- We're all making sacrifices.

If you can't get a job then at least plant a garden

so we have fresh vegetables.

- This town is dead.

There aren't any jobs.

Why did we move here?

- We've had this discussion.

I know it's not the best solution

but ti's our only option right now.

Waiting tables won't feed three mouths.

- Don't talk to me like I'm a gongoozler.

I'll get a job.

- How about a nice peanut butter and honey sandwich?

And I've got a jar of pickles.

We can take it outside and wave to the train as it goes by.

- It won't be back until 4:00.

- You should work for the railroad.

Have you ever thought about that?

You are so good with time schedules and everything.

- [Boy] They're not hiring.

- Have you asked?

- [Boy] I asked out at the station

and I asked at the office out back.

- But you would be so good at it

and I could see you in that conductor's costume

waving at the children as the train goes by.

- Grams, I'm gonna put in a tomato garden for you

right here in the backyard.

- [Grams] Here?

- We can plant beans and peas and corn

and surround it with roses.

- Well, do you think that it would really work?

The backyard is covered with that black shit from the train.

- [Boy] I'll scrape it off.

How about it, Grams?

- (sighs) Don't you think the plot at the community garden

is a better place?

- I can't work there.

- Danny!

- I'll get a job.

I said, "I'll get a job!"

I just have to find a job.

(playful, vaudevillian piano music)

- [Voiceover] Hello, Daniel Dominicci.

- Hi.

I'd like to fill out a job application.

- Sign says, "Not hiring."

You can try The Rusty Nail

but I don't think they're hiring either.

- Did you ask?

- They're only hiring locals.

I moved here a year ago and I still haven't found a job.

- This town sucks.

- Hey.

I got something.

Let's go to the river and chill.

- How did you score?

- Got it from a No Papers.

They're growing this shit.

- All right.

We should blow this place

and move up there.

- If you can find it.

I hear they scan you.

If you've got a chip, they won't tell you shit.

- Well, I'm digging mine out.

This town's a hellhole, you know.

There's nothing to do.

Even if you do get a job,

they want to know what you're doing all the time.

- You can't get a real job without your chip.

- Hey, what's a real job?

Working for that AmeriCorps?

- (scoffs) You couldn't get me to work for those people.

- Hey, they're hiring someone at the food bank

to move boxes.

- I got it, it's mine!

- Not if I get there first.

(hiss)

(melancholic piano music)

- A mysterious stranger still baffles police in Denver

six weeks after he was found with no i.d. chip

and his thumbprints burned beyond recognition.

- President Dogget is scheduled to announce today

her administration's plan for ending the war in Venezuela.

Insiders tell Internet All The Time that President...

(rustling leaves)

The critics argue the armed services have no more troops

to deploy.

- [Voiceover] Daniel Dominicci.

- [Voiceover] The senate has accused President Dogget

of breaking her campaign promise only three...

- Oh, it's you.

- [Gregory] How is your garden coming?

- It's fine.

I got a flat.

- [Gregory] Planted anything yet?

- (sighs) I came to get my bike fixed.

- I open at 10:00.

- I'll come back.

- No, it's all right, I'll fix it.

- Maybe I better come back.

- It's all right.

You gonna ride on this?

Just visiting?

- We moved here.

- Oh?

- [Danny] We moved in with my grandmother.

- Who's your grandmother?

- Isadora Dominicci.

- I thought so.

- Wouldn't it make more sense for a bike repair shop

to be in town instead of all the way out here?

- I like my privacy.

- Just you and your cat.

How rustic.

- We don't like a lot of visitors.

- You've got a screwy way of running a business.

- Works for me.

- What do you think?

- About what?

Oh.

So,

do you want a new tube

or do you want me to fix the hole?

- Well, what does it cost?

- I'll patch it.

You don't remember me, do you?

- At the garden the other day, I remember.

(hiss)

Well, what do I owe you?

- Tell you what, I'll cut you a deal.

Without a plastic liner,

you're gonna have a flat within a week.

- Well, I wouldn't have got a flat in the first place if...

Never mind.

- I'll charge you for the next one.

- I can hang.

Mom's paying for it anyways, until I can find a job.

- Forget about it.

- Are you sure?

- See you next week.

- Don't count on it.

- [Voiceover] Goodbye, Daniel Dominicci.

(beep)

- What's up?

- Hey, talk about a small world.

I just saw your son.

- No shit, what's he doing there?

- Ange must have moved in with Izzy.

I think he came along.

- What's he look like?

- He's grown up.

He's taller than we are.

- Well, send me a picture if you manage to capture one.

- My camera's weren't on.

I'll get a picture next time he brings his bike in.

When was the last time you saw him?

- Ange still won't talk to me.

Is she talking to you?

- No, Danny doesn't even know who I am.

- Well, if you see Ange, tell her I hope she's happy.

- Last time I saw her, she told me to eat shit and die

and then she called me a mocking stock of humanity.

- You should've heard what she called me.

- So, what are you working on?

- I can't really talk about it.

- I was just wondering,

have you heard anything about the No Papers around here?

- Let's just say,

it's impossible to track them in the mountains.

- But you're trying?

- Can't talk about it.

I gotta go.

God is calling.

- Hey, I think Danny's gay.

- That's what this is about.

You want permission to date my son.

- What?

- You brought it up.

- No.

Just because I tell you he's gay

doesn't mean that I want to date your son.

- Shut up.

You wanted to do it with me

the whole time Ange and I shard the apartment with you.

- Not even.

- You walked around naked every time Ange left for class.

- No, I didn't.

- If I'd have said yes,

we would have been on you waterbed in 10 seconds.

- You're flattering yourself.

- Imagine, me being your father-in-law.

That's a riot.

Send pictures.

(beep)

- [Danny] It must have been really exciting

to make all those movies.

- [Isadora] It was hard work.

- [Danny] Do you miss it?

- Oh, it was a fun ride while it lasted.

Sometimes I do miss the fans.

It's not gonna get these tomato plants planted, come on.

- Grams?

- Mmm-hmm.

- Do you know that guy that runs the bike repair shop?

- Who?

- The bike repair shop up the road?

- I never learned to ride a bike.

- Well, he acted like he knew you.

- Well, what's his name?

- I don't know.

He's just some guy.

That's his plot.

- (laughs) I've known a lot of guys in my lifetime.

Is he handsome, married,

is he about my age or younger?

- Younger.

- [Isadora] Why are you asking?

- He called you Izzy.

- Really?

Only L.A. people call me that.

What did he look like?

- Well, he has a beard, blue eyes, short hair.

When he smiles, he has these wrinkles up here.

He fixed my flat tire for free.

He said he wouldn't charge me.

- He doesn't think that you're a charity case, does he?

What did you tell him?

- I tried to pay him but he wouldn't charge me.

- [Izzy] Why not?

- He said I'd be back.

- Well, I don't want you obligated to anyone.

Now, I'm gonna give you some coin

and I want you to go back this afternoon and pay him.

I don't want him to think of you as a shooler.

(beeps)

- [Voiceover] Daniel Dominicci.

- Look, I'm closed.

Unless you got another flat.

- I want to pay you back for fixing my flat.

- (laughs) No, forget about it.

- No, I want to.

- I won't take money from you.

- My grandmother doesn't want me to be obligated to you.

- Huh, forget about it.

You're not obligated to me.

- Well, wait, if you won't take my money, I was thinking

I could do something to help you around the shop.

- I don't need any help in the shop

and right now I'm busy.

- Wait!

How did you know my grandmother was called "Izzy"?

- She worked for a company that I used to work for.

- What job?

- Look, I fix bikes, OK?

And right now, I'm baking my bread.

So, unless your bike is broken,

I'll see you in the garden sometime.

(laughs)

(chuckles)

(hissing)

(grunts)

(hissing)

(knocking)

- [Danny] Hey, I got another flat!

- What did you do?

- I hit that rock in your driveway.

- (sighs) Come in.

- [Danny] What are you baking?

- Bread.

- Is it hard?

- I thought you wanted your bike fixed.

- I do.

I just thought we could talk, that's all.

- OK.

What did your mother tell you?

- My mother?

- Yeah, about men who live alone with a cat in the woods?

- She doesn't know I'm here.

- She probably does.

There are sensors all the way up to the top of the hill.

She can find you on her Dennis Lee

- She doesn't have one.

She says, "It's a violation to our constitutional rights,"

or something like that.

Anyways, Mom gets all hyper about the stupidest things.

What are you doing?

- Mixing the bread dough.

- Is it hard?

- Go wash your hands, I'll show you.

(water running)

OK, so just dive in.

(old-timey piano music)

(laughing)

(laughing)

(growl)

- Mmm, this is so good.

- Better than store-bought.

- This is so much better.

- Well, when we get your garden planted,

you'll have vegetables all summer.

Here you go.

And you can start cooking for your family.

- You'll have to show me.

- Sure.

- I also want to put in an arbor.

Or some place with a bench.

Some place shady for my grandmother to come out and sit.

- You know, I thought I saw her out there

but she was too young.

Isn't Isadora in her late 60's?

- Well, she used to live in L.A.,

so she's had her wrinkles removed at least...

once.

(laughing)

- I should have said something to her

but I don't really talk to people around here too much.

- People around here aren't really friendly.

- It's a tourist town.

People come and go.

- I used to hang out with these guys

but one of them did something really stupid

that pissed me off.

Anyways, they're stupid.

OK, I don't mean stupid, I just mean

they don't want to do anything with their lives.

They just want to hang out and score pot off the No Papers.

- I'd avoid the No Papers if I were you.

- Why?

- Well, why did they pull out their chip?

What are they hiding from?

- There were these people living on the beach at home,

when there was a beach.

I don't know what happened to them,

everyone just ignored them.

- I got some blackberry jam that I made last week.

Let's see if it's still good.

- I always felt bad for them

so, if I had some coin on me, I'd give it to them.

- Who?

- The people living on the beach.

- They did it to themselves.

- What do you mean?

- The only people who don't have chips right now

are criminals who are hiding from the law.

- [Danny] Mom says, "It's just people

"who want their privacy."

- If I want my privacy, I stay home.

- But you have to go out.

You have to go to the store.

But I did know this kid once who never got chipped.

His parents wouldn't let the hospital chip him.

- You're kidding.

He's gonna have a hell of a time getting i.d. papers

when he becomes an adult.

How's he gonna prove who he is?

- I don't know, fingerprints maybe.

- (scoffs) Good luck.

- Mom told him that he'd get a job with her at the college

but then we had to move.

- You can't help everybody.

- [Danny] Yes, you can.

Well, the government can.

That's the reason why we have a government,

to look after its citizens.

- I used to believe that.

When I was in college, the economy was terrible

and the unemployment rate was really high.

(beep) - Kind of like today?

- And we were in the middle of a war

but hardly anybody knew anything about it.

- Kind of like today?

- So, we elected this president,

and we thought he was gonna change everything. (laughs)

We were really excited that, finally,

everything was gonna be taken care of.

No one person can do it all.

- Yes you can.

Well, not alone but if we all work together.

- I wish I still believed that.

When I worked for this company we developed this software

that could scan people's chips from a further distance

so, if there was an earthquake, the rescue workers

could find people buried in the rubble.

I thought it was gonna be a really great idea.

- That is a great idea.

- Well, it didn't turn out the way I thought it would.

But I did get some awards.

That's for best product development.

Outstanding code engineer.

And the one in the middle I'm most proud of,

it's visionary of 2022.

- I want to do something important like that.

Something that changes the world.

(melancholic piano music)

- Hey, why don't you take some bread home

to your grandmother?

- Are you sure you don't want it?

- When you come back, we can bake some more.

(clock ticking)

(birds chirping)

- What time did you get home?

- I don't know.

I gotta go, I love you, Mom.

- Where are you going?

- Danny, Danny.

Where did this bread come from?

- Try it.

I baked it, it's good.

- Danny!

(playful piano music)

- [Danny] Mom's pressuring me into getting a job.

No one's hiring.

They only want locals.

- [Greg] Have you thought about AmeriCorps?

- [Danny] No way.

- [Greg] Well, they do the kind of things you want to do.

They rebuild houses, clean up after natural disasters.

- [Danny] I want a real job.

- [Greg] It is a real job.

You get a check.

It's great experience.

Everybody should do it.

- [Danny] So, if I did apply, and I 'm not saying I will,

but if I did, they wouldn't take me anyway.

I'm not a local.

- [Greg] Tell them your grandmother lives here.

- [Danny] But I didn't grow up here.

- [Greg] Yeah, well, with all these coastal refugees,

I guess it's only natural they'd only hire locals.

- [Danny] So, I'm screwed?

- [Greg] At least give it a try.

- [Danny] Enlisting in AmeriCorps is for losers.

- [Greg] You said you wanted to do something to help people.

- [Danny] Something important.

- [Greg] You'd be rebuilding houses

and cleaning up after storm damage.

- [Danny] So, what do I say?

- [Greg] Flash 'em your smile,

'cause you've got a great smile,

tell them your name,

give 'em your Dennis Lee number,

and tell 'em you gotta go

because you're helping somebody in the garden.

- [Danny] I have to think about it.

- [Greg] No, don't think about it, just go.

- [Danny] I look before I leap.

- [Greg] Just like your mother.

- You know her too?

- Oh, we met.

Think about it.

Just go and do.

You can tell me all about it tomorrow.

- Please don't play with the toys.

You'll wear out the batteries.

(beep)

- What's up?

- Hey.

They change the water in your fishbowl yet?

- No, in fact it's starting to go Pakistani around here.

- Listen, there's this kid who just moved here

and he's trying to get into AmeriCorps.

- It's a good program.

- Yeah.

Thing is though, the recruiters are only accepting

their local homegrown.

It's very difficult for a newcomer to get accepted.

- Well, it's tough all over.

- Do you know anybody at the Corps?

- (laughs) It's a big government.

- But a small world.

I just read a story about a man who fathered a kid,

and never saw the little tyke,

and then 20 years later the kid turned around

and filed a lawsuit against his father

for being an absentee dad.

The court ordered papa to pay millions

in retroactive child support.

- Subtle.

- Well, I'm just bringing it up.

- I'll make some calls.

- Great.

How's everything else?

- Couldn't be better.

(beep)

- Show a little more cleavage.

Men like that.

- This isn't an acting job.

- Oh, sure it is.

You want the customers to like you.

- I'm doing this for the money.

- Just like acting.

Don't worry, dear, you're gonna do fine.

- I never dreamed I'd scrape this low.

- Well, I took roles that were beneath me

but I took them.

Besides, you have to remember,

actors are whores anyway.

- (laughs) Look at you.

- Look at me.

- You look great.

(scoffs)

Grams, do you remember that guy I told you about?

The one that called you Izzy?

- Yes.

- We've been hanging out.

He's kind of cool.

His name's Greg Forrester, do you know him?

- When did you talk to Greg Forrester?

- This morning.

He has a plot in the community garden next to ours.

- He lives here?!

Oh, my God!

- Did he tell you that he lives here?

- Yeah, he's the guy that I told you about

that runs the bike repair shop.

- What did he say to you?

- We've been hanging out in the garden

and I went to his house and we made some bread.

- So, you really did bake that bread?

- Danny, Greg Forrester is not a good person.

I don't want you talking to him.

- What are you talking about?

- If you see him on the street, just go about your business.

Let him go his way and you go yours.

You didn't tell him anything about you, did you?

- We've been talking a bit.

- How many times have you seen him?

- A couple of times in the past few weeks.

- You knew Greg lived here, didn't you?

That's why you had me move here.

Mother, I just don't know about you constantly meddling

in my life.

- I'm not meddling in your life.

I didn't know that he lived here.

This is the first time I've heard of it.

- You've always been arranging things for me.

- I do things to look out for you.

I'm just trying to help.

- You're not helping!

Did you think Greg and I would just bump into each other

in town by coincidence

and then everything would be forgiven?

Like we're best friends again?

- Angelina, I didn't know that he was here.

I don't know where you get off

having these conspiracy theories.

I do know that I didn't raise you to behave like this.

- A person with moral integrity?!

No, you certainly didn't!

- Get off your high horse and look around.

- After everything Greg's done to you,

I can't believe you'd come up with something like this.

- I've forgiven Greg.

I've let that go

and that 's what you need to do.

That's all that matters.

- That's not all that matters!

Look at the way you're living!

Think about what you've lost!

- I didn't have anything so how could I lose anything?

- I want you to stop talking to him.

- He hasn't done anything wrong.

I think he's kind of cool.

- You don't know him.

- He's helping me get work.

He said he's gonna talk to someone to get me in

with AmeriCorps.

Why shouldn't I hang out with him?

- You shouldn't have anything to do with him

for no other reason than what he did to your grandmother!

- He didn't do anything to me.

- I'm sorry, Mom, but this is your problem,

not mine.

If I see him, I see him.

(playful, old-timey piano music)

- [Greg] This little piggy went to market

and this little piggy planted a garden

and this little piggy...

dropped out of the world and became a recluse

and this little piggy fell in love

and this little piggy ran all the way home!

(laughing)

- Mom says you went to school together.

- Yeah, she was dating my roommate.

We shared an apartment for a while.

- I think she's really upset at you about something.

- We had a disagreement.

- [Danny] What about?

- Doesn't really matter now.

- No, I want to know.

- (sighs) OK.

It used to be that when the paramedics scanned your chip

they had to wave the scanner very close to your shoulders

so they could get a read on the chip,

so that idea I had about being able to scan the chip

from a further distance, that got applied to stores.

- You did that too?

- Well, it wasn't just my idea.

Ange and Michael and I all brainstormed it together.

It's just I'm the one who figured out how to make it work.

- And that's why she's still mad at you?

- I think she doesn't like what the technology does.

- (sighs) Well, she's that way.

I kind of feel like I've lived in a monastery my whole life.

Every time she'd come home from teaching her classes

I'd have to turn off all the electronics.

I didn't even have a Dennis Lee until I was 18.

I was so out of it.

(laughs)

- You seem pretty with it now.

- So, then you hired Grams?

- I convinced Ange to ask your grandmother to do it.

She did it for free.

That's why you hear Izzy's voice

when you walk into the Scan N Scram.

- I got you something.

Open it.

- OK, thank you.

Oh, how cool.

(laughs) How did you know I liked these?

- I saw you in the store.

- You saw me in the store?

When did you see me in the store?

- A few weeks ago.

You were playing with them.

(laughing)

- [Danny] I wonder why Grams never told me

about making those recordings for the stores.

- Well, it was only supposed to be for emergencies.

Thought it would be a really good idea.

- Well, I want to do something like that.

Something that changes the world.

- The problem with big change is how it affects the details.

- Well, they should make me a benevolent dictator.

- (laughs) That is an oxymoron.

- No, it's not.

I have this whole digital city that I created.

There was an amusement park,

there was the work districts, there was the mass transit.

Everyone had a job.

There was no unemployment rate.

Everyone was really happy.

- Except the ones who weren't.

- No one had a reason to be.

They had everything.

- Well, OK, if they had everything

but what about the people who didn't have everything?

- They didn't have a reason to be unhappy.

They had everything.

- Well, OK...

What if I was in love with this guy

but he wasn't in love with me?

Does that mean that he has to be with me

in order for me to be happy?

But he wouldn't be happy.

- I bet he would.

- OK, but what if he didn't?

- But you don't know.

- OK, but let's say that he didn't.

If he was with me he would be unhappy

in order to make me happy.

- I bet he'd want to be with you.

(melancholic piano music)

(train chugging)

(train whistle blows)

(sighs)

(birds chirping)

(leaves rustling)

- Greg! Greg!

- [Voiceover] Daniel Dominicci.

- I got in, I got accepted.

- [Greg] You did?

- Yeah, they said they really liked what I had to say

and that I start next week.

- Way to go.

- I'm so happy.

(sighs) I know it's gonna be hard work

but I think I'll really like what I'll be doing.

- You're gonna be here in town though, right?

- Yeah, and on the reservation out west.

Thanks for your help.

- I didn't do it.

You got the job.

(laughs)

(melancholic piano music)

(clock ticking)

- Did you start work today?

- Not 'til Monday.

- Where have you been, you look worn out?

- I do?

I just went for a ride.

- Oh, yeah, where did you go?

- Just up the hills.

- [Angelina] Did Greg go with you?

- [Danny] We ran into each other.

- What's going on between you and Greg?

- Nothing.

He's helping me plant a garden.

- Is that all?

- Isn't that enough?

I can't get the vegetables to grow any faster!

- I wasn't talking about what you're doing in the garden.

- What your mother wants to know is,

well, you're spending an awful lot of time with Greg.

You don't come home for dinner in the evenings

and in the mornings, you're up and out of the house

before I've even fixed breakfast.

Sometimes I wonder if you've even come home at night.

- Yes, I'm coming home!

- He's a bad influence on you.

- No, he's not!

- You don't know him!

- You can't tell me how to live my life!

- Maybe we should invite Greg for dinner.

- That's the last thing I want!

- Well, I'd like to see him again.

- Would you please let me parent my child?!

- I'm not a child!

- I'm not trying to interfere.

- [Danny] It's OK, Grams, I'm used to this!

- Oh, no you don't.

Don't you pit your grandmother against me!

- I'm not against you.

- I'm 20 years old.

I don't know why I moved here in the first place!

- I cannot do this, I cannot do it!

You're going to abandon me now?

After all I've done for you.

Look at me working as a waitress.

I've got a masters degree and I'm waiting on rednecks

who call me "baby" and "honey" and drop their silverware

just so they can watch me bend over.

I'm doing this so we can survive

and I'll be goddamned if you're dating Gregory Forrester!

- You knew him over 30 years ago!

- 25 and that's another issue!

- This isn't settling anything.

- Would you please stay out of this?!

- Oh, all right.

Fine, I'll just go to my room and close the door

and pretend for a moment that this isn't my house

and that you're staying here as my guests!

- [Angelina] Mom?!

- At least talk to him.

- All right.

All right!

You two want to see him so bad,

have him over for dinner.

- When?

- Monday.

- I don't want to do anything that's going to upset you.

- Well, I'll ask him.

- Are you happy now?

- I just want my daughter and my grandson to be happy.

I will do anything I need to do to make this family happy

and that will make me happy.

- Mother, I'm happy.

OK, Mother, I'm happy!

(sighs)

- [Voiceover] Daniel Dominicci.

(melancholic piano music)

- Hmm, what you thinkin'?

- What do you mean?

- You're thinking about something.

- Well, Grams wants you to come over for dinner

Monday night.

- Hmm, I have other plans.

- What?

- Studying.

- You're always studying.

What's so important?

(sighs)

- I'm trying to undo something I did.

- You don't want to see Grams?

- Where's the house?

- Fine, don't come if you don't want to.

- I'm asking you, where's the house?

- 621 Sierra Vista.

- I'll be there.

- And wear pants.

- Anything else?

- And shoes. (laughs)

- Oh, now that's going too far.

- Grams is old, don't freak her out.

- (laughs) I don't think anything could freak out Isadora.

- It means a lot to me.

- [Greg] And it means a lot to me too.

- We're getting intel

the No Papers in the San Juan Mountains

are planning to strike the major cities.

What are you getting?

- After 150 years of mining,

those mountains are like Swiss cheese.

Satellites can't see what they're doing.

- What do you hear from Greg Forrester?

- Greg?

- He's living out there.

- He's repairing bicycles.

- He was seen in a convenience store with a No Papers,

he could be helping them.

- Greg is not involved with a No Papers.

- He's a security risk, they shouldn't have let him go.

- He's not involved.

- It may be time to take him out.

- He would be working here

if they'd given him security clearance.

I'll prove to you he's not involved with the No Papers.

- How?

(beep)

(beeping)

- [Greg] Hey, can't talk.

I'm meeting somebody.

- We might have a job for you.

- I'm out of the loop.

I haven't kept up with any of this stuff.

A 12 year old knows more than I do.

- Just the same, I'm gonna send a file over to your

Dennis Lee.

Just take a look at it and let me know what you think.

- Gonna take credit for my work again, huh?

- If it keeps America safer, you bet.

- Eh, if I have the time.

- Just read the file.

You understand this stuff better than anyone.

- You have no scruples.

(beep)

- [Woman] What did that prove?

- That he has nothing to hide.

I just uploaded a covert explorer to his Dennis Lee

with that file and he took it without question.

I'll be able to see everything and hear everything.

If he's involved, we'll know.

If not, leave him alone.

(knocking)

- Hello, Greg.

- Hey, Ange.

You look great.

- I don't feel so great.

- Greggie, hi, how are you? - [Greg] Hey, Izzy.

- How wonderful to see you.

- I brought you some bobbles from the garden.

- Oh, they're beautiful.

Well, come in.

Don't stand out there like a shooler.

(laughs)

- [Danny] Hello. - [Greg] Hey.

- You look nice.

- So do you.

I got these for you.

- Thank you.

- [Izzy] Greg, I can't believe we're practically neighbors.

- I had no idea you'd moved to Chama.

- Well, I had to leave L.A.

Too crowded and not enough water to grow a palm tree.

Here I can just relax and look after my babies.

- [Angelina] Danny, will you get the silverware?

- What are you wearing on your feet?

You look like a penguin.

- Danny insisted.

- Oh, he did.

- Grams.

- [Izzy] Well, no one dresses up around here

unless it's a really special occasion.

- I didn't want to show up on your doorstep

looking like a No Papers.

You might shoot me.

- Tempting.

At least you're wearing pants.

- You take off those shoes.

You'll be much more comfortable.

I found some steak today at the store

and we're going to have goulash.

- How's the spy business?

- I'm not in the spy business.

- How's the tracking down and recording

everybody's private business business?

- Angelina, don't start.

We're going to have a pleasant conversation tonight.

- I quit the company six years ago.

- Should we talk into the flowers

or can the chip pick up our voices from here?

- [Izzy] Angelina?

- The chips can hear anything in the room

but I don't have any of those anymore.

Actually, I just found out they have a chip now

that takes pictures.

No doubt some synworm is probably in a basement

watching me walk around the shop all day

since I signed that no compete contract.

- Is someone really watching what goes on in the shop?

- No.

No, no, no, they wouldn't be interested.

- So, what are you doing, Greggie?

- Bicycle repair.

Much more low-tech,

somehow more fulfilling.

And I like gardening a little bit,

hanging out with Danny.

You still acting?

- Oh, no.

The community theater here asked me to do some shows

but I don't know.

After all, this is Chama.

I think my time on stage and screen is over.

- [Danny] It's kind of weird,

every time I walk into the store I hear the robo-greeter.

I mean, I know it's a machine, but it's my grandmother.

- Well, we wanted someone who sounded warm and familiar.

- You wanted a celebrity.

- [Danny] Grams keeps telling me to buy toothpaste.

- I'll always take care of you, dear.

- She should have been paid for that.

When the company was bought out,

they should have paid her.

- I was thankful that you even thought of me.

- I somehow sort of thought you blamed me.

- Well, I guess I should have received royalties

off of every person that walked into every store in America

but that's life.

- I just want you to know,

I had nothing to do with the stores.

That happened after I was fired.

- No way.

- Fired, with a severance package.

Doesn't matter anyway.

It was a shit job.

- Well, who would have thought

that I'd be the Voice of America?

And, it killed my career.

- They got me too.

- Bastards.

- Cross biters.

- Flauches.

- [Izzy] May they rot in Hell.

- So, what are you working on, Izzy?

Another project?

- No, really and truly,

I open my mouth in front of a director and they exclaim,

"The robo-greeter."

Honestly, Greg, I don't know what I'm gonna do with myself.

I've actually thought about doing some writing.

- Your autobiography.

- No, we're not gonna write those stories.

(laughing)

Now that I have my daughter and grandson here

I don't think I'm gonna have a lot of time

to do any writing.

- It's only temporary.

- Well, you can stay here as long as you want,

you know that.

I want this to be your home.

- We'll be moving again

as soon as I find an open faculty position.

- We move almost every year.

- [Angelina] Not every year.

- Why did you leave your last position?

- The campus closed after the hurricane.

- We didn't own a boat.

- The tidal surge flooded our house

and destroyed everything: carpet; furniture.

Mold started growing inside the walls.

- Well, your insurance should have covered that.

- We didn't have insurance.

- (laughs) Ange, you always took a million precautions,

how could you not have insurance living on the coast?

- We lived five miles inland.

- They all keep saying on the news

that the altitude is falling.

- The only thing falling is my bank balance.

- They must think we're stupid.

- Look who got elected president.

- House rules: no politics.

We're going to have a pleasant conversation.

- A time may come

when you're gonna have to break those rules.

- The elections are rigged, anyway.

What's the use?

- We still have a democracy.

As long as we stand up and fight for it.

- That's right, Danny.

You fight for it.

And when they fire you from your job,

you can ask yourself how you're going to eat.

This is all your fault and don't pretend it's not.

Danny, do the dishes.

- We just started eating.

- How is it his fault?

- I never thought I'd see you again.

- Ange.

- I want you to know you will not be invited here

for any family gatherings.

I can't control who my son sees during the day

but I won't let your influence corrupt this family.

- I haven't done anything to hurt you.

Now, you may be mad because Michael abandon you

and Danny but I didn't do anything to hurt you.

Nothing!

- Don't bring his father into this.

And don't act all innocent either.

We knew the technology was dangerous.

We knew how it could be used.

- We didn't know that.

- The three of us sat around the kitchen table

'til 4:00 in the morning talking about all the dangers

in chipping people.

I even said a burglar would be able to use our scanner

to find out if anyone was in the house.

That was 20 years ago, look at the crime rate.

- The police are using it to find criminals.

- To scan every car that drives down the freeway?

Stopping you if you go down the same street twice?

What good is that?

We vowed to never let our research out and to destroy it

because we knew the implications were horrific.

You and me and Michael, all three of us

in that dinky, little apartment.

We burned your research book on the stove.

It set off the fire alarm and it woke up the old couple

next door, don't you remember that?

You tried to take the pan outside

and it burned a hole in your pants.

It left a scar on your leg, don't you still have it?

We pledged to never, never let anyone develop this software!

But you did it anyway.

And then sold the company.

And Michael, God knows what Michael was doing.

How can you date him, Danny?!

He's your father's best friend!

- More goulash?

- Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln.

How was your first day at work?

- You didn't tell me you knew my father.

- I told you about Michael.

- You didn't tell me he was my father.

- Michael is your father.

- (sighs) This is too weird.

- Danny... (sighs)

- She says he left because of me.

- It wasn't you.

They just saw the world completely differently.

- Let's not talk about this right now.

- No, I want to.

- They didn't have a good break-up.

- He must have been a total asshole.

- Maybe he was to Ange.

- She told me my father's an arrogant pig.

- He wanted to be a father for you but she wouldn't let him.

- Do you still talk to him?

- He asked me to send a picture of you.

- What's he like?

- He's smart, like you are.

He used to be idealistic, just like you are.

But I think he's bought into the program now.

- I'm not like him.

- You're right, Danny.

You're not like him.

- Sometimes I think she gets mad at me

because I remind her of him.

- No, Danny, no.

Don't say that.

- Your mom's very smart and she's very strong-willed.

She and Michael and I were working together on this project

but she didn't like the implications

of what the technology would bring.

And so she sabotaged her own work.

- Sabotaged it?

- I can't fault her beliefs

but his is information technology

and that means gathering private information about people.

Our lives used to be very different.

Like it or not, Danny, the world changed.

- You mean this is the world you created?

- Yes.

It's the world I created.

- Tell Michael I never want to meet him.

- I guess I better excuse myself.

- Goodnight, Greggie.

- I'm sorry, Izzy.

I didn't think it would turn out this way.

Goodnight, Danny.

- Mom?

- Not now, Danny. (sniff)

- I love you.

(melancholic piano music)

- [Voiceover] Hello, Greggie.

(sighs)

(sighs)

- I sure fucked up, Izzy.

(crash)

- [Voiceover] Hello, Isadora.

- Oh, hey, Izzy.

- Oh, Greggie.

Hi, how are you?

- Thanks again for dinner last month.

- Oh, sure.

Actually, I'm looking for notepads.

Have you seen any note paper?

I'm gonna write just a few stories down.

Nothing professional, just ramblings.

- Why aren't you using your Dennis Lee?

- Because I can't coordinate my brain with my thumbs.

It's so much more complicated than typing.

- It's easier.

- Well, I can't get the hang of it.

- Well, here are some stickies.

- Well, great.

Five of these and I can write haiku.

(laughs)

- How's Danny?

- He's fine.

He comes home from work, showers,

hardly says a word during dinner,

goes to his room, shuts the door.

You should talk to him.

- He won't talk to me, I've tried.

- Well, he's gonna have to talk to someone.

His mother leaves next week.

Of course, he can stay at the house,

I'm not worried about that, but it's starting to feel

a little like a monastery around there.

- Where's Ange going?

- Don't you know?

I guess you wouldn't.

She got a job at a university in Indonesia, of all places.

- Really?

- Jakarta.

Now, her radical independence in a Muslim world

might not be a good mix but at least it's a job

and there's not a war there, thank God.

- Yeah, it's starting to get bloody in Venezuela,

from what I hear.

- I don't want to think about it.

Why don't you come by the house this evening?

- No, Izzy.

I saw Danny in the garden and he walked away

before I could get near him.

- You know, he's had quite a crush on you

until, of course, he found out that you weren't perfect.

- I thought it was more than a crush.

Well, it was for me.

- Well, he's young.

He hasn't learned yet that it's our imperfections

that make us human.

(laughs)

- I guess I'm superhuman.

- No, I can top you there.

(laughs)

You know, Greggie, when I first met you,

years ago, I was kind of hopeful that you and Angelina

were seeing each other.

Of course that was before I knew anything about Michael

and why tell your mother that you're pregnant.

But anyway, then I found out, of course,

that you weren't into girls but, for a moment,

I actually thought of you as a son.

- Then what did you think when you thought I might

become your grandson-in-law?

- Well, yes, if you two are good for each other,

then age doesn't matter.

He can learn from you.

- I think I was learning a lot from him.

- Whatever happens,

don't start calling me "Grams".

I don't let on but I actually hate that.

I mean, how can I be that old?

I still feel like I'm 29.

(laughs)

- [Greg] I'll catch you later, Izzy.

- The National Program, created 20 years ago,

to rebuild infrastructure after natural disasters,

has never been implemented before on foreign soil.

Sources inside the White House say President Dogget

has selected AmeriCorps enlistees to rebuild schools

and medical facilities in the Venezuelan war zone.

- What's up?

- Dogget is sending everyone at AmeriCorps into combat.

- Housing reconstruction.

- Bullshit!

What the fuck is she doing?

- Greg, I'm a t work.

- Everyone in the program?

- It's a full deployment.

- Oh, no, she can't.

- Enlistees will be notified tomorrow.

If they don't report for assignment,

the Scanner Network will locate them.

- There's no draft, they don't have to go.

- They enlisted.

- And what if they refuse?

- Greg, I can't talk right now.

- Call me.

(beeping)

- Yes?

- Danny, you don't know me...

- I know who you are.

- Well, OK.

Look, there is a lot I would like to tell you

but not right now.

Is Greg there with you?

- No.

- [Michael] I've got to talk to Greg.

- Then call him yourself.

I thought you were his best friend.

- You need to tell Greg his Dennis Lee is tapped.

They can see and hear everything.

- Tell him yourself.

- I can't, Danny, that's the thing.

- How do you know it's bugged?

- Because I'm the one who tapped it.

Danny, listen to me, this is very important.

You have to ride into the mountains tonight.

- I'm going to bed.

- No, you can't.

Look, pack some food and some clothes.

Leave all your electronics, don't take any of it.

There are plenty of people in the mountains

who can help you.

- This is a joke.

- [Michael] I know what I'm talking about.

Do what I tell you.

- Mom's right, you are an arrogant pig.

(beep)

(sighs)

(slam)

- Any news in your region?

- No, nothing to report.

(knocking)

(knocking)

- Izzy. - [Izzy] Greg...?

- I have to see Danny. - [Izzy] It's late.

- I know but it's important.

I have to see him.

- I said to come by in the evening but not this late.

- Oh, please, Izzy.

- All right, let me see if he's still up.

(thunder)

- Hey. - [Danny] Hey.

- I've got to talk to you.

- Your best friend, Michael, called.

He says your Dennis Lee's tapped.

What's going on?

You know, I may be a little naive, but I'm not stupid.

You two are totally cranking me.

- Danny, they're sending everyone In AmeriCorps

to Venezuela.

- What do you mean?

- What did Michael tell you?

- He told me to pack my stuff and leave.

- Oh, he's really serious.

They are gonna ship you out.

- AmeriCorps isn't army.

- Doesn't matter now.

- I didn't join the army.

- They can send you anywhere they want to.

- I'm not gonna fight in some stupid war!

- They're not calling it fighting, Danny!

"You're gonna rebuild houses," is what they're saying.

But I promise you they're gonna put a gun in your hand

and they're gonna ship you into a war zone.

- No way, I won't go to the training center.

- You don't have to go.

They're gonna come for you.

- Why didn't you tell me this could happen?

- Well, it never could before.

The president has got Congress all tied up.

Anybody who disagrees with her is just called an anarchist.

- They can't take my baby.

- No one can stop her.

- It's worse than I feared.

- What am I supposed to do?

I'm not a soldier.

- We're gonna have to hide you, Danny.

How did Michael know that my Dennis Lee is tapped?

- He did it.

- [Greg] What?

- He said he did it.

- I run a virus scan...

The file he sent me.

Oh, fuck.

- We'll pack tonight.

I can drive us to a friend's in Oklahoma.

- You can't take your car, Ange.

If the police scan it, they'll know he's with you.

- Now, let's just try to keep a calm head.

Tomorrow morning we'll be able to think much more clearly.

- Danny, I know you're very angry at me.

Maybe you hate me

but I have fallen so deeply in love with you.

I can't imagine living without you.

If they ship you off to that blood jungle

I'm never gonna see you again.

I can't imagine going back to the way it was before.

Please let me help you.

I didn't know what love was like before I met you.

(sighs)

- I love you.

Michael said I should go to the mountains.

He said people there can help me.

- [Ange] I'll go with you.

- You can't, Mom.

You just got a job.

- [Ange] Forget the job.

- I don't know where we'll wind up,

or how long we'll be gone.

- If you join the No Papers,

it's going to be very difficult to get back into society.

- I can't leave my baby.

- Angelina.

Baby, it's gonna be OK.

It's all right.

- It's time for me to make my own life.

(suspenseful piano music)

- [Voiceover] Hello, Greggie.

Daniel.

Hello, Angelina.

Isadora. - [Izzy] Give it a rest.

- Why didn't you tell me what you were doing with my voice?

- It was supposed to be for medical records

in an emergency.

- I never worked again when those machines popped up

in every Wal-Mart, pawn shop, and convenience store

in America.

- You should've listened to me.

- I knew what the software could be used for.

The potential...

It was exciting to dream about the possibilities but...

It was too unlikely.

Seemed pretty farfetched. (beeping)

Then we started developing chips that record events.

It was supposed to be for pet owners.

A veterinarian would inject the chip in your cat

and you'd know where the cat has been

or where the cat is now.

No more lost cats.

We demo-ed in Vegas, it got a lot of buzz.

- That's what did it.

- I started thinking,

"Wow, we could use this technology to track disease,

"fears of contagion."

Two weeks later we got an offer for a buyout.

I wasn't too sure about it.

- What did Michael do?

- Michael needed the money.

We both did.

We signed the papers.

Well, a week later I got pulled into security.

These were guys who I'd known for years

and suddenly they're treating me like I'm a criminal!

They said I didn't pass the security check!

- [Danny] Why?

- They axed all you.

- They gave me a check, pulled my badge,

and told me it would be a bad idea if I wrote any more code.

Like I was a hacker!

- You are a hacker.

They just didn't want you working against them.

- I'd never been so scared in my entire life.

I was afraid if I walked down a dark alley

I'd get a bullet in the back of my head.

- Oh, my God.

- I cashed the check.

I called a friend to break into my house

to get some books, my tools, pick up Edison.

I ditched my car,

I didn't know if they had a locator on it or not.

I knew I couldn't cross the borders

because they could track me if I did

and that's how I wound up here.

I figured it was so far away no one would look for me.

And after a while, when nothing happened,

I figured they weren't looking for me.

(sighs)

I was so lonely

until I met you.

- We've got each other now.

- This is what I've been working on every night.

It's a fabric that should block the scanners.

Try it, wrap it around your shoulder.

- Does it come in other colors?

(laughs)

- [Voiceover] Goodbye, Isadora.

Angelina.

- I'll leave you the spec.

At the least, this is one way we can fight back.

But, in your case, we have to destroy your identity.

- (sighs) Do it.

- Greg, what are you doing?

- It has to come out.

- With a paper knife?!

- (laughs) It's better than a steak knife.

- It's OK, Mom.

- Life goes on.

(melancholic piano music)

- It's so small.

- And so dangerous.

- They're not looking for you.

- They will be.

It has to go.

- [Voiceover] Goodbye, Daniel.

Goodbye, Greggie.

- Goodbye, Izzy.

- Wow.

- [Greg] No identity, right?

- [Danny] No identity.

- [Greg] The hotter it is, the less it'll hurt.

Izzy, this should make up for some of the royalties

you should have earned.

- Oh, what is this?

- Well, it's what's left over from my payout.

- I can't take that.

- You deserve this.

- No, you and Danny need this.

Keep it.

- (laughs) Not where we're going.

I can repair bicycles to barter what we need.

Danny will find something useful.

We'll be OK.

- We'll be better than OK.

(meow)

- Izzy, I need to ask you a favor.

- [Izzy] Of course, anything.

- I don't know where we're gonna be

and it could be pretty difficult on Edison here.

He's a good cat.

I've had him 12 years.

Could you look after him?

- Oh, gosh.

You're giving me your cat.

- I'm loaning you my cat.

- Does he use his box? (meow)

- Mostly.

Goodbye, Edison.

I promise I'll come back for you.

- Goodbye, Mom.

- Be careful.

It won't always be like this.

- We'll be OK.

It'll work out.

(crying)

- I'll take care of your cat.

You better take care of my grandson.

- I will.

- Bye, Grams.

- I love you.

- You promise?

- With all my heart.

Come on.

(playful, old-timey piano music)