- This is it. - Yeah.
Hopefully this is the right Alejandro Diaz.
Yeah, I don't want to hug another stranger.
Here we go.
Mom!
We found you.
What are you doing here?
Camila, it's okay.
Who is it?
Oh.
Welcome, little Alejandro.
If someone adopts you, tell them to adopt me too.
I'll be a good brother. What do you say?
Alejandro. Keep moving.
More babies need to be held.
What are you doing?
Seeing if this spot would feel good to a flower.
Ah.
Does it?
I think so.
Hmm.
There's a baby in there.
That's right.
This one is only for you.
Take good care of it.
Thank you!
Are you sure about this job?
I always thought you would want to work with children.
You're such a sweet boy.
The pay is good, and they provide housing.
Also, please...
don't tell the other guys in the oil field that I'm a sweet boy.
Okay. I won't.
Good luck, Ale.
We'll miss you.
Hello?
Hello? Who is this?
I'm...
I'm Alejandro.
I'm your son.
If it's weird, I get it.
I can hang up right now.
I know it's weird...
No, please.
I just thought my information, that it was sealed.
I unsealed it.
Sorry if...
No.
I'm glad you found me.
You are?
Yes.
I'm just surprised.
Right.
I'll be in Mexico soon to visit my family.
I'd like to meet you. If you'd like that.
I'd like that.
It's good to...
meet you?
You're so...
grown up.
Come in.
I bought you some cookies.
Thank you.
Sit.
Your room is nice.
Sí...
It's good not having all those pesky walls
breaking up the space.
They just get in the way.
You joke around like my daughter, Alma.
I have a sister?
Two, actually.
Alma and Becca.
I always wanted to be a brother.
Wow, they're so cute.
If it's okay,
I'd like to meet them someday.
Someday. Maybe.
Are you all right?
Yeah.
There's just a lot of dust.
This job doesn't seem very safe.
Have you thought about something else?
I heard computers pay well.
I could pay for training.
Thank you, but you don't need to do anything for me.
That's not why...
I'd like to.
It's something I can do.
I'll think about it.
You can take the whole tin, if you want.
I will take the tin, but I'll leave you the cookies.
And then next time,
I'll come back with the tin full of something homemade for you.
How does that sound?
That sounds nice.
-Hello? -Alejandro?
It's me.
I'm glad you called.
I can't wait to show you my new apartment.
It has so many walls.
You're going to love it.
It's great that the new job is working out.
Listen...
I can't call you from my house anymore,
and you can't call me.
Do you understand?
Is everything okay?
My husband asked about my calls to you,
and I can't explain it to him right now, so...
Oh, okay...
I understand.
Happy birthday, my love.
I hope this year is fantastic.
Merry Christmas.
May the holiday spirit be with you.
Happy birthday.
- I hope you have another wonderful year.
You made it!
Come in.
I'm sorry it took so long.
I do want to visit more often.
I made you cookies.
You remembered.
Yes.
Happy birthday.
Merry Christmas.
Happy birthday.
I hope you like brownies.
I'm glad you could make it.
- Feliz navidad... cumpleaños...
navidad... cumpleaños...
I've never made peppermint bark before...
You're warm.
Yeah. They think it's bronchitis.
I feel like you've had this cough for years now.
- I know. - So when
are you going to get a wife to take care of you?
I don't know.
Maybe never.
Never?
Why not?
I'm not... interested in women.
Ah.
Men?
Then a husband?
I don't know...
I'm pretty shy about relationships.
Why?
You're so wonderful.
I want to be my best self when I approach someone seriously.
I think you're perfect right now.
Thank you.
But if I were your son...
You are my son.
If people knew I was your son,
would it be so easy to accept me?
Yes.
Of course.
I would be proud.
I am proud.
I left you messages and emailed.
I'm in town.
Actually I'm... outside your house.
Alejandro, I'm sorry, but you cannot
just show up to my house like this.
I'm in town for a work conference.
I just wanted to see you.
I've been busy with Becca's wedding.
The whole family is here.
I haven't had time. I'm sorry.
I know this is complicated for you.
But I need to talk to you.
What is it? What's going on?
They found scarring in my lungs.
From the silica dust-- when I worked in the oil fields.
They want to remove lung tissue.
I should have gotten you out of that job earlier.
Could you come and stay with me?
Help me?
It's difficult for me to get away right now.
Yeah.
Okay.
That's my daughter.
Please, you have to go.
Can I meet her?
Not now.
She just got married.
I can't surprise her like this.
Just admit it, you're ashamed of me.
No! That's not it.
I'm ashamed of me.
I'm ashamed of what I did.
This thing you did-- it's me.
I'll send money for the surgery.
I'm sorry.
Becca, what are you doing here?
- No, Alejandro.
You need to go. Now!
I brought you some things.
Why did you change your mind?
You ask so little of me,
and my family asks so much...
You shouldn't have to go through this alone.
I panicked.
Please forgive me.
- Okay. - Okay.
Here.
Thank you for being here.
I'm happy to be here.
- Mom! - We found you.
What are you doing here?
Camila, it's okay.
Who is it?
Oh.
Hey, you okay?
What is going on? Why are you here?
We tried calling you. You didn't answer.
But it's okay.
It's all gonna be better now because we know everything.
This is the worst time.
No, this is okay.
Hi, I'm Alma.
I am your favorite sister.
- How are you? - Hi, I'm Alejandro.
I'm your only brother... that we know of.
- Got you, Mom. - Please.
Eh, come in... Please, come in.
I'll make tea.
No, no, you rest.
I'll make the tea.
Okay. Thank you.
Alejandro, we're so excited to meet you...
I wish you'd told me about this.
I'm sorry you felt that you couldn't.
Did you just hear me apologize?
I can't talk about this right now.
I take it that's not weed, huh?
It's medicine for the lungs.
So it is weed.
Oh, my God.
I am so sorry for making you laugh.
It's really hard for me not to be this hilarious.
You'll learn that about me.
- It's okay. - So, Mom?
How come you never told us about Alejandro?
I... I... couldn't.
I was young.
My mother already disowned me.
I had nothing.
How could I take care of a baby?
I felt when I lost you...
I lost half of myself.
I tried once
to put the two halves of me together.
I thought once I was pregnant with Alma,
you would be okay with another child.
With my son.
I even went to get the paperwork.
I gave you a plant that day.
This one is only for you.
Take good care of it.
Thank you!
I was going to show you the papers.
I was going to tell you everything.
But I...
couldn't.
That was you.
You came, and you didn't take me.
Why?
What can we do about the past?
It's not important anymore.
It's not important?
This is my life.
Everything could have been different,
and you won't tell me why.
- Are you all right?
Calm.
I need you to go.
Okay.
Alejandro needs you to leave.
- He needs to rest. - No.
I don't want you here.
I'm tired of being what you're hiding--
what you can't let be part of your life.
No, I want to stay.
I'll bring the tea.
I'll get it.
Please...
...just leave.
Okay.
How could you do this?
How could you invade my privacy like this?
What happened to make you change your mind
about adopting Alejandro?
Alma, stop.
I didn't want to complicate your lives.
I didn't want to burden our family.
I did it for you.
To be a good mother and-and wife to you.
So this is our fault?
But you never even gave us a chance.
You never talked to me about this.
Your mother told me it was a mistake.
That I shouldn't burden my family with my past.
That I needed to leave that version of me behind.
- ...for our family, I was wrong. - Becca.
- I don't know what you want me to say. - The door, it just appeared.
It's got to mean something.
- You talked to my mother about this? - We were close.
She was a mother to me when my own mother refused to be.
- I trusted her. - But you didn't trust me.
When did this happen? When were you close
- with Geraldine? - I used to visit her in the mental hospital.
And that's when she told you not to adopt Alejandro?
I hoped he would have a better life.
That he would be adopted.
You think it's easy to be wrong about this?
Stop it.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry it all happened like this.
Camila, please, don't walk away.
What are you doing?
Why didn't you go into Mom's memory?
Because searching around is just making it worse.
We know about our brother. How is this worse?
He doesn't want anything to do with us.
And we've wrecked his relationship with Mom.
And Mom and Dad won't stop fighting.
Don't you see what's happening around you?
When Mom was talking about Geraldine, that door appeared
in front of Alejandro's apartment,
and I heard the crying child again.
- Crying child? - Yes.
Behind the door, there is a crying child,
And I believe that's Alejandro.
This feels insane.
What if all we have to do is go back
and stop Geraldine from telling Mom
not to adopt Alejandro?
There's no way it's that simple.
Can we just give it a shot? I mean, what do we have to lose?
You have nothing to lose.
I'm the one that collapsed doing this.
Just try and get us there.
I can fix this. I've done it before.
Yeah, you know, speaking of that,
what is this other life that you and Dad changed?
- I can't talk about that. - Oh.
- Mm-hmm. - He told me not to.
Will you just trust me?
You want to go on some quest to be the big family hero?
Then, fine.
Mm-hmm.
Becca...
you accessed Mom's memory without her even here.
Come on.
I'm not going.
Then I'll do it myself.
Good luck.
Count Ten
Wait, this is...
don't come around...
Becca?!
Becca, come back.
You sent me to the wrong time.
Hey!
You need to calm down.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey! No, no, no, no, no, no
no, no, no, no, no, no. You don't understand.
I'm not supposed to be here, sir.
Sure. Never heard that before.
No, no, no!
No, no, no, no, no, wait, wait, wait!
- No!
Becca!
Fuck!