[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[RAPID CHIRPING]
[DOOR CREAKING]
[DRAMATIC BEAT]
[ELECTRIC BUZZING]
[GLASS SHATTERING]
[GUTTURAL GASPING]
[PANTING]
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Hey, hey.
Whoa.
Friendly.
Military?
CDC?
I'm glad I finally find one of you.
When your communication went down,
top brass feared the worst.
We were sent into the quarantine zone.
I'm part of a full extraction team--
or at least I was.
Radio has been silent for a while now.
We were sent in to get your lab team out.
If you're up for it, it's still what I plan to do.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[DISTANT GUTTURAL NOISES]
[GUN COCKING]
[GASPS]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[ZOMBIE GROANING]
[GUNSHOT]
I'm all clear.
[YELLS]
[GUNSHOT]
[DULL RINGING]
Take this.
Get outside and signal them.
Hurry, go!
Go!
[ZOMBIES GROANING]
[GUNFIRE]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[HEAVY BREATHING]
[GUTTURAL GRUNTING]
[PANTING]
[RUNNING FOOTSTEPS]
[TENSE MUSIC]
[ZOMBIE SHRIEKING]
[ALARM BLARING]
[HELICOPTER WHIRRING]
[DRAMATIC CRESCENDO]
[BEEPING]
Better luck next time.
Zero credits remaining.
To re-up, return to game lobby.
You dropped this on my face.
Case is cracked.
Excapist Games are not liable for any property users
bring into the game room to boost immersion.
Any properties lost, damaged, or stolen
is the user's own responsibility.
[DEEP INHALE]
You signed a waiver, bitch.
Alan!
Ooh, it's birthday cake.
Whose birthday is it?
[LIGHT ELEVATOR MUSIC]
Ooh.
Wow.
That was intense.
Oh, [CHUCKLES].
You're Cheshire?
Or is it "Che-shire?"
Cheshire?
I didn't mean-- jeez, you're higher ranked than I thought.
No, that wasn't like a gender thing.
No, I love--
I like girls.
I don't have a girlfriend, but I like--
it's fine.
I was playing with you in there.
I'm Ronald Raygun.
The gun, like--
Latin soldier.
It got real.
It got real intense there.
Trying to beat the level without a weapon, that's hardcore shit.
I've had a lot of practice.
You practically-- by practice, you mean you like dying?
Because that's pretty impossible without buying a weapon
upgrade.
You got any tips for noobs?
Yeah.
Keep quiet, keep your head down, and keep running.
Keep quiet, keep your head down, and keep running, yeah.
[CHUCKLES] No, I meant like hidden weapon caches.
Like, is there a rocket launcher on the map?
I heard last update, there's a golden gun.
Know where that is?
Do you want to re-up next round?
It's double XP weekend.
I heard it's two-for-one.
I can't.
I've got to get to work.
Can I use your phone?
I got to call my ma.
I-- why do you gotta get-- why do
you gotta get so close to her?
You do this ev--
you do this every time.
You creep them out.
You get close-- idiot.
[SIGHS]
Keep quiet, keep your head down, keep running.
[TRAFFIC NOISES]
[ELECTRICAL CHIRPING]
[ATMOSPHERIC MUSIC]
[CHATTER]
Mm.
[PHONE NOTIFICATIONS BEEPING]
All right!
Shut up!
[GROANS]
[BELL RINGING]
Keep quiet, keep your head down, keep running.
[PHONE NOTIFICATIONS BEEPING]
All right!
Mr. Woodsley has a really bad headache today,
so we're going to use our indoor voices today and talk
about your homework.
Phones off!
Barbara!
Thank you.
I did the homework, Mr. Woodsley.
Would like me to explain the area of a right triangle
to the rest of the class?
I think you also have some really relevant stuff
from chapter 3--
Tim.
You tell me about triangles.
'K. Done.
What did you want?
Summer's over, guys.
If I have to warn you one more time about paying attention--
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]
[SIGHS]
Well, I better not have to.
This is so boring.
Mark.
James.
Again, it is Mr. Woodsley.
Tell me about right triangles.
We learned it yesterday.
Yeah, I forgot yesterday.
Yeah, you forget yesterday because you were on your phone
the whole time.
So?
I could just google this if I ever have to know it.
No.
No, no, no, no, no, you can't.
I'll do it right now.
No, you can't, because the internet might not always
be there for you.
[STUDENTS GASPING]
Yeah.
No way.
Technology's not as reliable as it was five years ago.
The internet may seem like it has the answer to everything,
but don't you assume that it's going
to be there to bail you out in an emergency,
especially with everything happening nowadays.
OK.
You guys and your apps, and your games, and your--
off-- VR, ARG, retro escapist, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
That's not going to help you out there.
No.
You guys are missing the forest for the trees!
What?
[CHUCKLES]
If you are always staring down into your phone,
trying to forget everything, you're
letting the whole world pass you by.
And you never know when inspiration is going to strike.
When I was teaching English to those kids in Haiti--
Seriously?
--they listened to every single word that I said.
They had a capacity to learn.
They absorbed--
That's so depressing.
(WHISPERING) Get used to it, you little brat.
In a right triangle, there is always one 90-degree angle.
So if you want to remember that, just
remember the right angle is my age--
30-- times 3 equals 90.
Easy, right?
You're 30?
30?
He's older than my mom.
Are you married?
No.
No, I'm not married.
[PHONE RINGING]
It's not the '90s anymore.
He doesn't have to be married, girl.
I mean, I guess you're right, but [INAUDIBLE]??
He's 30 and he doesn't even have a girlfriend.
No, he has a boyfriend.
[SNORTS]
[GROANS]
I thought we weren't supposed to be on our phone!
It's an emergency.
It's an emergency, Tim.
[CHATTER]
[SOMBER MUSIC]
(ON RADIO) Let's be real.
This is all happening because we've
lost control of the internet.
(ON RADIO) Oh, here we go.
(ON RADIO) 96% of the so-called worldwide web
can't be indexed or accessed through normal browsers.
It's unpoliced, and it's an incubator--
(ON RADIO) And criminal activity on the deep web,
it is a small piece of--
(ON RADIO) Human trafficking, child pornography--
I can't be the only one to make that decision, Lisa.
There is no more money.
(ON RADIO) --this stuff you're talking about,
sure, it happens.
But that's just a small piece of the online ecosystem.
Dad?
(SARCASTIC) Right, because he treated her so well
even when he was around.
Fine, then you call him.
(ON RADIO) --for the last 20 years, that's the real problem.
Everything bad in the world right
now can be traced back to the dark web.
Shut up.
Lisa, I'm not saying that we have to do it today.
It's about quality of life.
You don't see her every day.
I do.
I'm selfish?
I moved back home so that you and your family don't have to,
but I'm selfish.
Oh, that's mature.
You and Ted and the kids have a great vacation.
I'll tell mom you said hi.
Fuck you.
[SIGHS]
[PHONE NOTIFICATION BEEPING]
Thank you.
Finally, some good news.
[YELLS]
[HONKING]
Her intestine stopped absorbing food,
so I had to switch her over to an IV line.
We're going to have to keep her on a ventilator.
I'll be right out.
Is there still a chance that she could come out
of it, even for a little while?
I've seen it happen.
But even if she does, late-stage Alzheimer's,
it may not be pleasant.
Look, her living will gives you power of attorney
after 15 years of intubation.
Have you talked with your sister?
She doesn't want to make the decision.
And I don't feel comfortable making it without her.
Would it help if I spoke with her?
Might.
But Lisa wants to wait till they get back from Hawaii.
Doesn't want to ruin the kids' vacation.
Look, she's vulnerable to pneumonia and other infections.
I can keep her on life support, but it's not
fair to your mother.
You're going to have to make a decision soon.
I'm sorry, James.
[PHONE BUZZING]
(ON COMPUTER) They put you on lunch study?
Ugh, I would kill myself if I ever
had to go back to that place.
The less that we say about it, the better.
How do you know someone's not just fucking with you?
(ON COMPUTER) Yeah, that's what I thought too,
but Ethan's an easy find.
They know him.
My horny fanboys are way too stoned
to put in the legwork it would take to find you.
(ON COMPUTER) She's been missing for six months.
I just sent you the article.
What about the police?
(ON COMPUTER) LAPD got hacked today.
They're only responding to violent crimes
and disturbances.
(ON COMPUTER) Told us to come back next week
when they were back online.
Apparently, missing people are a low priority.
Reassuring, huh?
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
Hey, quiet James.
Shitty Wi-Fi, or what?
No, no, it's just-- it's weird.
Madison PD got hacked today too.
(ON COMPUTER) Well, LA is always ahead of the trend, right?
What are we going to do about Molly?
I wasn't even that close with her.
Why would she reach out to me after all this time?
(ON COMPUTER) You were chummy in yearbook.
(ON COMPUTER) And you guys did that dumb "anti prom date" prom
date thing.
Maybe she had a crush on you.
That was like 10,000 years ago.
(ON COMPUTER) This whole thing is super
fucked up and makes no sense.
How can no one know where she is?
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
Don't know where I am.
[DRAMATIC BEAT]
Zack had a tattoo.
Our Lady of Sorrows?
(ON COMPUTER) Huh?
She put real places in the story,
like in things that I would recognize.
Like this character Zack, he had a tattoo exactly like mine.
He was at the same place that I was at--
(ON COMPUTER) Wait.
My story had a character named Zack too.
Fuck, yeah, he had an ugly-ass tattoo just like yours!
Thanks, Sam.
(ON COMPUTER) You got it.
Anyway, the hospital that Zack was in,
it's a real place in Texas.
I've been there.
It's where I first put mom when she got sick before I
had to transfer her back home.
(ON COMPUTER) Look, we're in Texas.
Molly lives just outside of Dallas.
Our Lady of Sorrows Center for Restorative Health.
It's in Abilene, Texas.
It's like two hours east of Dallas.
How would she know about mom?
(ON COMPUTER) Sam, did she give you a full name on tattoo guy?
(ON COMPUTER) Uh, Sullivan.
Zack Sullivan.
Bingo.
He's mutual friends with Molly.
(ON COMPUTER) Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, you guys gotta see this.
Check this out.
Government employee Zack Sullivan arrested December 10
for disorderly conduct and indecent
exposure in front of Homeland Security campus in Dallas.
$100 says this Zack guy is in your hospital in Abilene.
(ON COMPUTER) Maybe he knows where she is.
But why go through all the trouble?
Why not just tell us how to find her,
or what the hell's going on?
(ON COMPUTER) She can't.
She says she's not alone.
(ON COMPUTER) Yeah.
Nancy Drew here wrote back to her right away.
I warned him not to, but he goes conveniently deaf
whenever he's chasing a lead.
(ON COMPUTER) Maybe it's too dangerous
to give up her location.
Maybe she's being watched.
(ON COMPUTER) Maybe we all are.
(ON COMPUTER) Hey, let's not get paranoid.
(ON COMPUTER) What are you doing?
[PHONE RINGING]
(ON PHONE) Our Lady of Sorrows.
How can I direct your call?
Oh, yes, hi.
I was hoping that I could speak to my uncle.
He's a patient there.
Zack Sullivan.
(ON PHONE) Your uncle's requested we not forward
phone calls.
I'm sorry.
But he's there?
Can I just talk to him for a second?
Just say hi, or?
(ON PHONE) Sorry.
Have a good day.
(ON COMPUTER) OK, fine.
We need to talk to this Zack guy.
(ON COMPUTER) Agreed.
James, how quickly can you get down there?
Texas?
[CHUCKLES]
Guys.
You guys, I'm kind of underwater here right now.
We should just ignore her and wait till we
can get the cops back on.
(ON COMPUTER) I don't know that that's an option anymore.
She's clearly targeting us.
(ON COMPUTER) Yeah, and she's not stopping anytime soon.
I'm getting a new email every hour.
"Help me.
I need you."
It's a fucking cry for help.
I had to cover my mom's last bill out of pocket.
I barely made rent last month.
Even if I wanted to, I don't have the cash
to get on a plane--
(ON COMPUTER) Dude, trust me.
I know that it seems inconvenient,
but I just feel like we don't have a choice here.
We have to find her.
There's something going on.
(ON COMPUTER) Doesn't seem like she had
anybody else she could go to.
If she's in trouble, how are we going
to feel if something happens and we didn't even try to help her?
[SOMBER MUSIC]
(ON COMPUTER) It'll be fun.
Just like the 10-year high school reunion we all skipped.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
7, 3, star, 9, 0, at 6 pound.
Keep it safe.
7, 3, star, 9, 0, at 6 pound.
Keep it safe.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
(SINGING) I don't trust you with an inch of your life.
That's why I've gotta take away that knife and see the sun.
See the sun.
Su-u-u-u-un.
Oh, and if you even knew how ridiculous you looked,
then I wouldn't have to call the cops.
Ooh, I see us walking on the beach.
If you could only see the sun.
See the sun.
Su-u-u-u-un.
You and I both know, oh, she ain't worth the time.
[TENSE HUM]