1 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:26,970 [crying softly] 2 00:02:16,810 --> 00:02:17,310 Holy shit. 3 00:02:19,850 --> 00:02:22,270 -They're dead. -[woman sobbing] No! 4 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:25,520 No! 5 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:26,270 Oh, my God. 6 00:02:29,930 --> 00:02:31,220 [woman continues sobbing] No! 7 00:02:35,770 --> 00:02:39,810 [Niles] Dorothy. Rise and shine. 8 00:02:40,430 --> 00:02:41,810 Dorothy? 9 00:02:52,100 --> 00:02:53,100 Dorothy? 10 00:02:54,020 --> 00:02:57,470 [Cliff] Chief, we got a live one. 11 00:02:57,560 --> 00:02:59,100 Fresh off the knuckle. 12 00:03:00,770 --> 00:03:02,140 What the hell were you thinking? 13 00:03:02,220 --> 00:03:04,310 I'm thinking this perfectly good touching stick 14 00:03:04,390 --> 00:03:06,390 is my ticket to being able to feel. 15 00:03:06,470 --> 00:03:08,430 We agreed. No brutality. 16 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:09,680 And I agreed, but this finger 17 00:03:09,770 --> 00:03:11,520 literally fell into my lap. 18 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:14,930 See I was waiting for Vic to man up and get his lady friend back, 19 00:03:15,020 --> 00:03:16,020 and out of nowhere come these two bad guys. 20 00:03:16,100 --> 00:03:18,720 So I'm like, "What would a good person do?" 21 00:03:18,810 --> 00:03:19,850 Stop the bad guys, right? 22 00:03:19,930 --> 00:03:21,430 Which I proceeded to do. 23 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:23,390 It's important that before I tell you about the car door, 24 00:03:23,470 --> 00:03:24,890 you understand that I'm basically a hero. 25 00:03:24,970 --> 00:03:27,140 I don't give a damn, Cliff. 26 00:03:28,350 --> 00:03:29,220 Dorothy's missing. 27 00:03:29,310 --> 00:03:31,890 Table the finger and help me find her. 28 00:03:41,770 --> 00:03:43,720 Hang tight, little guy. 29 00:04:00,850 --> 00:04:02,470 You're sure we weren't followed? 30 00:04:03,810 --> 00:04:04,180 Not really. 31 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:09,810 The Bureau of Normalcy seems to be everywhere these days. 32 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:14,810 I'm sorry my son sold us out. 33 00:04:14,890 --> 00:04:18,350 Why are you apologizing? You were trying to make amends. 34 00:04:18,430 --> 00:04:20,810 And apparently, they'd all be better off if I were dead. 35 00:04:20,890 --> 00:04:22,350 Well, that may be true, 36 00:04:24,100 --> 00:04:25,270 but I would be bereft. 37 00:04:39,220 --> 00:04:43,470 -You're not coming home? -I, uh, have a commitment... 38 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:45,720 in town. 39 00:04:45,810 --> 00:04:47,310 -Really? -Yes. 40 00:04:47,390 --> 00:04:49,350 I need to purchase street clothes... 41 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:52,560 for a rehearsal... 42 00:04:53,470 --> 00:04:54,270 of Our Town... 43 00:04:55,180 --> 00:04:56,970 by the Cloverton Players. 44 00:04:57,060 --> 00:04:58,680 Community theater, huh? 45 00:04:58,770 --> 00:04:59,310 Well, go ahead and say it. 46 00:04:59,390 --> 00:05:01,060 I'm a vain, selfish person 47 00:05:01,140 --> 00:05:03,350 who'd rather chase fame than support you 48 00:05:03,430 --> 00:05:04,850 in your time of need. 49 00:05:04,930 --> 00:05:07,350 First, I'm not in a time of need. 50 00:05:07,430 --> 00:05:10,180 I'm in a time of regret and self-loathing. 51 00:05:10,270 --> 00:05:12,350 Second, I doubt it's fame you're chasing 52 00:05:12,430 --> 00:05:14,180 by joining the Cloverton Players. 53 00:05:14,270 --> 00:05:17,520 They're very well-reviewed in the Cloverton Bugle. 54 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:18,930 Well, break a leg. 55 00:05:19,020 --> 00:05:20,810 I hope you find what you're looking for. 56 00:05:23,930 --> 00:05:26,270 Right. [clears throat] 57 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:30,680 Oh. 58 00:05:30,770 --> 00:05:31,930 -Oops. -[laughs] 59 00:05:32,020 --> 00:05:34,890 Well, I was going to tell you to come back to bed, but... 60 00:05:34,970 --> 00:05:37,430 looks like you beat me to it. 61 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:39,810 Mmm. Taking advantage of the disabled. 62 00:05:39,890 --> 00:05:40,890 [whispers] Class act. 63 00:05:40,970 --> 00:05:43,560 Let's stay in today. 64 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:44,810 I'm sorry, Vic. 65 00:05:44,890 --> 00:05:45,890 But I live in the real world, 66 00:05:45,970 --> 00:05:48,390 and us normals without a S.T.A.R. Lab credit card 67 00:05:48,470 --> 00:05:51,890 have to come up with rent, buy food, 68 00:05:51,970 --> 00:05:55,390 and pay off years of medical stuff. 69 00:05:55,470 --> 00:05:57,390 I get it. What kind of medical stuff? 70 00:05:58,270 --> 00:06:01,060 PT from botched corrective surgeries, 71 00:06:01,140 --> 00:06:03,270 pain meds, PTSD meds, anxiety meds, 72 00:06:03,350 --> 00:06:06,720 which, apparently, are different from PTSD meds. 73 00:06:06,810 --> 00:06:09,060 Sounds expensive. 74 00:06:09,140 --> 00:06:09,930 Cost of doing business with black ops. 75 00:06:10,020 --> 00:06:11,350 But don't you worry. 76 00:06:11,430 --> 00:06:14,470 I'll die long before I have to pay it all off. 77 00:06:22,310 --> 00:06:23,270 Hey. 78 00:06:23,930 --> 00:06:24,350 Can I look inside of you? 79 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:28,720 -Ew. -To see what's broken, I mean. 80 00:06:28,810 --> 00:06:30,350 [chuckles] A hundred times "ew." 81 00:06:30,430 --> 00:06:32,520 There's gotta be a better way to ask that. 82 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:33,430 Look... 83 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:35,220 All this crap you're dealing with 84 00:06:35,310 --> 00:06:36,310 is because they ripped the tech out of you, right? 85 00:06:36,390 --> 00:06:38,060 -Right. -Well, I happen to know 86 00:06:38,140 --> 00:06:38,850 something about the line where tech meets flesh. 87 00:06:38,930 --> 00:06:40,390 If I could do a deep scan, 88 00:06:40,470 --> 00:06:42,640 I could figure out how to relieve some of your pain. 89 00:06:48,470 --> 00:06:50,350 I'll show you mine if you show me yours. 90 00:06:50,430 --> 00:06:52,720 [chuckles] There's gotta be a better way to say that. 91 00:06:52,810 --> 00:06:54,100 [both laugh] 92 00:06:54,180 --> 00:06:56,100 You can scan my guts if... 93 00:06:56,180 --> 00:06:58,470 you tell me about your PTSD. 94 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:00,890 All the gory details you're too chicken shit 95 00:07:00,970 --> 00:07:01,520 to share in group. 96 00:07:03,270 --> 00:07:04,520 Maybe you should go back to work. 97 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:05,810 [chuckles] You're such an asshole. 98 00:07:05,890 --> 00:07:07,890 Okay. Deal. 99 00:07:07,970 --> 00:07:09,270 -Deal? -Yeah. 100 00:07:09,350 --> 00:07:12,640 You're gonna tell my boss I got a fever? 101 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:14,100 Mmm-hmm. 102 00:07:14,180 --> 00:07:15,560 You're gonna cough up a day's wages? 103 00:07:17,970 --> 00:07:19,100 Are you gonna do the... 104 00:07:19,180 --> 00:07:21,600 -other thing you do? -Hmm. 105 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:24,520 -You like that thing, huh? -I like that thing. 106 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:34,520 [rumbling] 107 00:07:35,890 --> 00:07:37,600 What the hell? 108 00:07:43,390 --> 00:07:46,600 Yoo-hoo. Any pigtailed pains in the ass down here? 109 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:50,770 Jane? 110 00:07:50,850 --> 00:07:52,180 Oh, shit! 111 00:07:53,140 --> 00:07:55,270 Oh, shit. Oh, shit! 112 00:07:55,890 --> 00:07:58,770 [gasps] Oh, shit. Oh, shit! 113 00:07:58,850 --> 00:08:00,430 Oh, shit. 114 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:02,350 Chief! 115 00:08:02,430 --> 00:08:04,390 There's something wrong with Jane. 116 00:08:08,220 --> 00:08:11,180 -Where was she? -The basement. 117 00:08:11,270 --> 00:08:12,470 Was Dorothy with her? 118 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:14,270 [Cliff] No! Nobody cares about Dorothy! 119 00:08:14,350 --> 00:08:15,310 Jane was in the basement, covered in this shit. 120 00:08:15,390 --> 00:08:18,930 -Are you gonna help? -She's breathing. 121 00:08:19,020 --> 00:08:20,470 [Cliff] What the fuck happened? 122 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:24,180 -She was with Dorothy. -That's not an answer! 123 00:08:25,430 --> 00:08:27,810 This is Dorothy's doing. But why? 124 00:08:27,890 --> 00:08:30,140 Your daughter did this, and that's all you got? 125 00:08:30,220 --> 00:08:32,520 What about all this wax? 126 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:33,430 All you talk about is how your dumb girl's 127 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:36,220 gonna end the world, but you have no idea 128 00:08:36,310 --> 00:08:39,350 how Jane ended up in a fucking coma? 129 00:08:39,430 --> 00:08:41,060 [Larry] Hey, what's going on? 130 00:08:41,140 --> 00:08:42,720 -[Cliff] Dorothy put Jane in a coma. -Have you seen her? 131 00:08:42,810 --> 00:08:44,310 Oh, no. 132 00:08:44,390 --> 00:08:46,560 But there's something else you should see. 133 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:49,220 Is it Dorothy playing dress-up with Rita's skin? 134 00:08:49,310 --> 00:08:52,600 No, no. There's a spaceship outside. 135 00:09:01,310 --> 00:09:03,100 Tell them I'm not here. 136 00:09:03,180 --> 00:09:04,390 [Cliff] What? 137 00:09:04,470 --> 00:09:06,810 Hey. Where do you think you're going? 138 00:09:06,890 --> 00:09:07,430 I need to find Dorothy. 139 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:09,100 Wait, Niles, slow down. 140 00:09:09,180 --> 00:09:09,640 Do you know these guys? 141 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:14,810 In 1955, the Bureau gave me funding 142 00:09:14,890 --> 00:09:16,430 for my Immortus initiative, 143 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:19,100 which included sending a research team into space. 144 00:09:19,180 --> 00:09:21,560 -To do what? -Research. 145 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:26,310 I lost contact with them in the early '60s 146 00:09:26,390 --> 00:09:29,600 and assumed they were dead. Apparently, they're not. 147 00:09:29,680 --> 00:09:31,220 And their timing couldn't be worse. 148 00:09:31,310 --> 00:09:32,890 What, so, I should just send them away? 149 00:09:32,970 --> 00:09:34,270 No! 150 00:09:34,350 --> 00:09:34,640 Keep them here. 151 00:09:36,470 --> 00:09:39,600 Don't ask me. I don't fucking know. 152 00:09:40,680 --> 00:09:43,470 -[footsteps receding] -[sighs] 153 00:09:46,850 --> 00:09:48,140 Hello. 154 00:09:48,220 --> 00:09:51,350 Welcome back... to Earth. 155 00:09:52,770 --> 00:09:53,640 I'm Larry Trainor. 156 00:09:55,930 --> 00:09:58,470 -And you are... -[laughs] 157 00:09:58,850 --> 00:10:00,560 Who are we? 158 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:04,350 -We are... -[together] The Pioneers of the Uncharted. 159 00:10:04,430 --> 00:10:05,470 Earth's best and brightest, 160 00:10:05,560 --> 00:10:06,970 assembled by benevolent genius, 161 00:10:07,060 --> 00:10:08,220 Niles Caulder. 162 00:10:08,310 --> 00:10:09,220 To pilot the space vessel Icarus 163 00:10:09,310 --> 00:10:12,220 on a three-generations mission... 164 00:10:12,310 --> 00:10:14,890 Into the deepest reaches of the unknown. 165 00:10:14,970 --> 00:10:17,270 Pioneers, roll call. 166 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:21,770 The name's Zip. Hotshot pilot, nothing scares me. 167 00:10:21,850 --> 00:10:24,020 -[chuckles] Except marriage. -The name's Specs. 168 00:10:24,100 --> 00:10:26,640 I'm the brains of the op and a heartbreaker to boot. 169 00:10:28,270 --> 00:10:30,180 And my name... is Moscow. 170 00:10:30,270 --> 00:10:32,220 [both] The Russian one! 171 00:10:32,310 --> 00:10:34,430 And together we are... 172 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:37,390 -The Pioneers of the-- -Of the Uncharted. Got it. 173 00:10:37,850 --> 00:10:39,470 Zip Callahan. Wow. 174 00:10:39,560 --> 00:10:42,430 You made the back of my kid's cereal box. 175 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:44,270 I always wondered what happened to you. 176 00:10:44,350 --> 00:10:47,310 [Moscow] Well, that is a long story. 177 00:10:47,390 --> 00:10:51,220 So, where is benevolent genius Niles Caulder? 178 00:10:52,680 --> 00:10:55,560 He's, uh... He's a little tied up at the moment. 179 00:11:31,060 --> 00:11:33,180 Hey. 180 00:11:33,270 --> 00:11:34,890 What are they doing? 181 00:11:34,970 --> 00:11:36,310 There was a vote. 182 00:11:36,390 --> 00:11:38,270 A funeral procession seems appropriate. 183 00:11:38,350 --> 00:11:39,600 But we don't know they're dead. 184 00:11:39,680 --> 00:11:40,600 You saw what that thing did to them. 185 00:11:40,680 --> 00:11:43,060 Secretary, I'm gonna need you to be, like, 186 00:11:43,140 --> 00:11:46,560 10% more self-aware. 187 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:49,180 -This is a construct. -[shushes] 188 00:11:49,270 --> 00:11:51,600 Are you a construct, Jane? 189 00:11:51,680 --> 00:11:53,600 You should be completely ashamed of yourself. 190 00:11:53,680 --> 00:11:55,770 What does death even mean here? 191 00:11:56,560 --> 00:11:58,180 Personas disappear. 192 00:11:58,270 --> 00:11:59,220 They go dormant for a while. 193 00:11:59,310 --> 00:12:02,390 But there's no evidence we can even be killed. 194 00:12:03,470 --> 00:12:04,350 Not unless you pull a Miranda 195 00:12:04,430 --> 00:12:06,680 and throw yourself into the well. 196 00:12:09,060 --> 00:12:10,310 No. 197 00:12:12,350 --> 00:12:13,890 There was a vote. 198 00:12:21,220 --> 00:12:23,850 [Cliff] Dorothy. 199 00:12:23,930 --> 00:12:25,350 Come out. 200 00:12:25,430 --> 00:12:26,270 -Come out. -[Niles] Dorothy. 201 00:12:26,350 --> 00:12:28,270 [Cliff] You little shit... 202 00:12:28,350 --> 00:12:30,470 -[Niles] Dorothy. -Dorothy! 203 00:12:33,310 --> 00:12:35,520 [Niles] Dorothy. 204 00:12:42,430 --> 00:12:45,270 [Dorothy] I didn't do it. 205 00:12:45,350 --> 00:12:48,770 It was the Candlemaker. I'm sorry. 206 00:12:48,850 --> 00:12:50,430 I'm leaving. 207 00:12:51,350 --> 00:12:52,680 [rumbling] 208 00:12:52,770 --> 00:12:53,890 What the fuck? 209 00:12:56,140 --> 00:12:58,520 [loud rumbling] 210 00:13:04,220 --> 00:13:05,720 What's going on? 211 00:13:15,060 --> 00:13:17,390 Man, when the kid runs away, she really runs away. 212 00:13:17,470 --> 00:13:19,470 Damn it, Cliff, keep up. There's no time to lose. 213 00:13:19,560 --> 00:13:20,720 Pretty sure she's gone. 214 00:13:20,810 --> 00:13:22,770 You and I are gonna bring her back. 215 00:13:22,850 --> 00:13:24,770 Here. Take this. We'll need it. 216 00:13:24,850 --> 00:13:26,180 Uh, Chief, I'm sorry your daughter ran away 217 00:13:26,270 --> 00:13:28,600 to space! 218 00:13:28,680 --> 00:13:29,720 But we've got a patient on the table in there 219 00:13:29,810 --> 00:13:33,890 who we might actually be able to... Whoa! 220 00:13:33,970 --> 00:13:37,020 You had a fucking spaceship in this garage 221 00:13:37,100 --> 00:13:38,390 the whole time? 222 00:13:38,470 --> 00:13:39,470 When I lost contact with the first ship, 223 00:13:39,560 --> 00:13:41,470 I saw no reason to use the second. 224 00:13:54,350 --> 00:13:56,640 [Cliff] The fuck... 225 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:58,390 Make sure the airlock shuts behind you, Cliff. 226 00:13:58,470 --> 00:13:59,810 Things may be rusty. 227 00:14:02,640 --> 00:14:04,970 -When did you build this? -1955, 228 00:14:05,060 --> 00:14:08,180 pre-Sputnik. Technically speaking, 229 00:14:08,270 --> 00:14:09,520 I invented space travel. 230 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:11,640 Fuck! And 30 years later, 231 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:14,020 you still couldn't build me a working hand. 232 00:14:14,100 --> 00:14:17,890 I've always done the best I could with what I get, Cliff. 233 00:14:17,970 --> 00:14:21,180 And in the '50s, science still hadn't mastered basic rocketry, 234 00:14:21,270 --> 00:14:23,430 so I mixed my science with... 235 00:14:24,140 --> 00:14:26,430 a little bit of borrowed magic. 236 00:14:26,890 --> 00:14:29,520 [machine whirring] 237 00:14:33,390 --> 00:14:34,560 [scoffs] You know what? 238 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:36,930 I think you can solo this one, Chief. 239 00:14:37,020 --> 00:14:38,640 I'm not in a rush to get stranded in space 240 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:40,600 on your homebrew devil-ship. 241 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:44,930 Give me the apple, Cliff. We need fuel. 242 00:14:45,020 --> 00:14:47,430 Cliff, I need you. Dorothy needs you. 243 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:49,600 In case I haven't been clear, 244 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:51,100 fuck Dorothy! 245 00:14:51,180 --> 00:14:52,640 I'm Team Jane, 246 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:54,600 and I'd rather sit uselessly by her side 247 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:57,970 than chase your brat across the cosmos. 248 00:14:58,060 --> 00:14:58,850 Listen to me, Cliff! 249 00:14:58,930 --> 00:15:01,770 If you ever want my help with your body 250 00:15:01,850 --> 00:15:03,560 in the short time that I have left, 251 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:06,430 you will shut your damned mouth 252 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:08,680 and retrieve my child. 253 00:15:13,350 --> 00:15:15,140 [groans] Fuck it. 254 00:15:17,100 --> 00:15:18,970 [beeping] 255 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:22,810 [rocket whooshing] 256 00:15:34,310 --> 00:15:35,600 [Cliff] I'm going to space. 257 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:38,060 Of course. I'm fucking going to space. 258 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:40,930 What the hell was she thinking? 259 00:15:44,850 --> 00:15:47,970 Does she have any idea what I've done for her? 260 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:50,810 She thinks she can hide from me. 261 00:15:50,890 --> 00:15:54,560 I'll lock on to her coordinates. 262 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:57,310 She takes my ship to get away. 263 00:15:57,390 --> 00:15:58,020 I built the damn thing! 264 00:16:01,850 --> 00:16:04,430 She's too dangerous to go traipsing around, 265 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:08,720 pretending that her actions don't have any consequences! 266 00:16:15,850 --> 00:16:16,970 [Cliff speaks quietly] No wonder she fucking ran. 267 00:16:19,770 --> 00:16:20,850 All systems go, Chief. 268 00:16:20,930 --> 00:16:24,180 Looks like the old dog's got some new tricks. 269 00:16:24,270 --> 00:16:25,020 -What a whiz! -[laughs] 270 00:16:25,100 --> 00:16:27,270 Seems our reunion will have to wait. 271 00:16:27,350 --> 00:16:30,310 Yeah. About the whole benevolent genius thing... 272 00:16:30,390 --> 00:16:31,680 I should probably warn you. 273 00:16:31,770 --> 00:16:34,850 -Oh, bust my chops, will ya? -[both laughing] 274 00:16:34,930 --> 00:16:37,680 I got you, you smooth little pip. 275 00:16:37,770 --> 00:16:39,470 [Specs] Gravity. What a treat! 276 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:41,560 [both laugh] 277 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:45,810 We've been in space for 65 years. 278 00:16:45,890 --> 00:16:48,720 It's gotten... weird. 279 00:16:48,810 --> 00:16:50,270 My real name is Valentina Vostok. 280 00:16:50,350 --> 00:16:52,180 Vostok? 281 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:54,850 The cosmonaut? 282 00:16:54,930 --> 00:16:57,430 Your disappearance was the talk of the Mercury Program. 283 00:16:57,520 --> 00:16:59,680 And you must be Captain Trainor. 284 00:16:59,770 --> 00:17:01,270 Your reputation in the Air Force precedes you. 285 00:17:01,350 --> 00:17:03,100 Preceded. 286 00:17:03,890 --> 00:17:05,680 That was a long time ago. 287 00:17:12,810 --> 00:17:14,810 You have a Negative Spirit? 288 00:17:14,890 --> 00:17:17,970 Seems we have much to discuss. 289 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:26,100 [indistinct whispering] 290 00:17:32,970 --> 00:17:35,140 -Isabel. Isabel Feathers. -Gertrude. 291 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:39,930 Oh, no, thank you. 292 00:17:40,020 --> 00:17:42,350 I... I've seen this play so many times, 293 00:17:42,430 --> 00:17:44,220 -I'm already off-book. -Oh. 294 00:17:44,310 --> 00:17:47,390 Wow. But isn't the script still being written? 295 00:17:47,470 --> 00:17:49,770 The script for Our Town? No. 296 00:17:49,850 --> 00:17:51,470 I think Thornton Wilder 297 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:52,640 finished it quite some time ago. 298 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:55,560 I see where you're confused. We're not doing Our Town. 299 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:57,180 We're doing Our Town! 300 00:17:57,270 --> 00:18:00,100 [woman] Welcome to the first readthrough of Our Town. 301 00:18:00,180 --> 00:18:02,770 The script is woven from first-person testimonies, 302 00:18:02,850 --> 00:18:05,850 newspaper reports, journals, 303 00:18:05,930 --> 00:18:08,720 and what we know in hindsight about the day our town 304 00:18:08,810 --> 00:18:10,770 was sucked into the ground. 305 00:18:10,850 --> 00:18:13,560 Tonally, kind of, like, The Laramie Project. 306 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:15,470 But more important. 307 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:16,310 We'll read through Act One, 308 00:18:16,390 --> 00:18:18,140 "The Day the Monsters Attacked." 309 00:18:18,220 --> 00:18:19,770 We'll cruise right through Act Two, 310 00:18:19,850 --> 00:18:22,350 "Life as a Series of Portraits," 311 00:18:22,430 --> 00:18:25,140 we'll break for lunch, and then we'll tackle Act Three, 312 00:18:25,220 --> 00:18:28,180 "What We Talk about When We Talk About the Donkey." 313 00:18:31,060 --> 00:18:33,140 -Let's begin. -[applause] 314 00:18:38,060 --> 00:18:39,640 What part are you playing? 315 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:42,270 The Blob Lady. [giggles excitedly] 316 00:18:43,020 --> 00:18:45,310 [Moscow] Sixty-five years ago, 317 00:18:45,390 --> 00:18:47,520 Niles Caulder assembled a small team 318 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:49,600 for a top-secret project. 319 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:51,350 We were chasing a cosmic entity, 320 00:18:51,430 --> 00:18:54,560 a teleporting rift that would appear in the night sky. 321 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:55,850 The mission was to find 322 00:18:55,930 --> 00:18:57,640 a pattern in the cosmic radiation, 323 00:18:57,720 --> 00:18:59,020 which Niles believed was a source 324 00:18:59,100 --> 00:19:00,930 of time-dilating power. 325 00:19:01,020 --> 00:19:02,020 A key to immortality. 326 00:19:02,100 --> 00:19:05,640 That puts your mission at 1955, 327 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:07,600 six years before my accident. 328 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:09,180 -Accident? -Yeah. 329 00:19:09,270 --> 00:19:09,680 Niles used your research 330 00:19:09,770 --> 00:19:11,060 to send my X-15 331 00:19:11,140 --> 00:19:14,930 straight into that cosmic radiation. Hence... 332 00:19:17,220 --> 00:19:19,850 -this. -Then our mission was a success. 333 00:19:19,930 --> 00:19:21,310 -How fortunate. -Fortunate? 334 00:19:21,390 --> 00:19:23,890 -We sense you are angry. -You sense correctly. 335 00:19:23,970 --> 00:19:26,390 That rift ruined my life. 336 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:28,140 [Moscow] For us, it was a gift. 337 00:19:30,140 --> 00:19:32,140 But we do recall being upset for a time. 338 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:35,060 [Larry sighs] 339 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:37,770 The rift kept moving. 340 00:19:37,850 --> 00:19:39,220 The Pioneers chased it deeper into space. 341 00:19:39,310 --> 00:19:41,720 We lost contact with Earth, but Niles had insisted 342 00:19:41,810 --> 00:19:44,560 the mission was vital, so... 343 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:45,470 when we next caught up to it, 344 00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:48,560 I went on a spacewalk to take a sample. 345 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:52,720 When I touched the energy... Well, you know the rest. 346 00:19:53,970 --> 00:19:57,350 Not exactly, because I was irradiated. 347 00:19:57,430 --> 00:19:58,520 If I remove these bandages-- 348 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:01,060 People die. Yes. 349 00:20:01,140 --> 00:20:03,470 That happened to this body, too, 350 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:05,560 before we learnt to contain 351 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:07,020 the radiation within our skin. 352 00:20:07,100 --> 00:20:10,100 We had to live in our ship's airlock. 353 00:20:11,060 --> 00:20:13,850 -It was a difficult five years. -Five years? 354 00:20:13,930 --> 00:20:15,850 Yes. I am embarrassed to say 355 00:20:15,930 --> 00:20:18,640 it took five years to reach harmony with my... 356 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:21,770 -spirit, as you call it. -Five years. 357 00:20:22,770 --> 00:20:26,270 You learned to master that thing in five years. 358 00:20:26,350 --> 00:20:27,890 How long did it take you? 359 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:34,720 Ah... 360 00:20:35,020 --> 00:20:35,770 Well... 361 00:20:35,850 --> 00:20:38,270 For us, the change happened 362 00:20:38,350 --> 00:20:41,850 when there stopped being an "I" and a "She." 363 00:20:41,930 --> 00:20:43,640 The pass to infinite harmony 364 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:47,310 was to accept, there is only now, "We." 365 00:20:47,390 --> 00:20:48,770 Infinite harmony. 366 00:20:51,430 --> 00:20:52,770 In five years. 367 00:20:54,060 --> 00:20:55,770 [Vic] How weird do you want me to get? 368 00:20:55,850 --> 00:20:58,270 Mmm, just tell the truth. 369 00:21:00,390 --> 00:21:01,140 Okay. 370 00:21:01,220 --> 00:21:02,770 I was trying to save an old friend, 371 00:21:02,850 --> 00:21:05,810 a guy named Niles Caulder. 372 00:21:05,890 --> 00:21:07,970 Then an omniscient bad guy 373 00:21:08,060 --> 00:21:10,680 put a viral thought in my head. 374 00:21:10,770 --> 00:21:13,140 What if I can't trust my own dad? 375 00:21:13,220 --> 00:21:16,810 Next thing, I was... beating my old man to death. 376 00:21:16,890 --> 00:21:18,640 -Holy shit. -Yo, I'm skipping over 377 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:20,100 a pocket universe in a donkey, 378 00:21:20,180 --> 00:21:21,810 a world-ending cult, a world-saving cult, 379 00:21:21,890 --> 00:21:23,140 a secret government branch 380 00:21:23,220 --> 00:21:25,680 that housed a pack of flesh-eating butts. 381 00:21:25,770 --> 00:21:28,140 -Wait. Are you being for real right now? -For real. 382 00:21:28,220 --> 00:21:31,060 -For real, for real. -For real, for real? 383 00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:34,640 [both laugh] 384 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:36,520 Oh, God, I'm sorry. 385 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:37,310 I'm laughing at your PTSD. 386 00:21:37,390 --> 00:21:39,520 Look, this is why I can't do group. 387 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:41,180 Hold still. I'm trying to get a good image. 388 00:21:41,270 --> 00:21:42,720 -My bad, my bad. -Come on. 389 00:21:42,810 --> 00:21:45,470 [scanners pulsing] 390 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:47,390 Yo. 391 00:21:48,770 --> 00:21:49,430 What is this? 392 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:51,890 What? 393 00:21:51,970 --> 00:21:54,270 Did you used to have tech fused to your spine? 394 00:21:54,350 --> 00:21:56,390 Oh, yeah. 395 00:21:56,470 --> 00:21:57,350 That old thing. 396 00:21:57,430 --> 00:22:00,970 Yeah, there was a skeletal support system 397 00:22:01,060 --> 00:22:02,060 before they ripped it out. 398 00:22:02,140 --> 00:22:04,100 Experimental weapons ain't light. 399 00:22:04,180 --> 00:22:06,060 One of these broken attachment points is-- 400 00:22:06,140 --> 00:22:08,140 Leaking poison into my organs. 401 00:22:08,220 --> 00:22:11,770 Uh-oh. You kind of sound like my doctors. 402 00:22:11,850 --> 00:22:12,310 It's kind of sexy. 403 00:22:14,140 --> 00:22:16,180 -[chuckles] -You knew this? 404 00:22:16,270 --> 00:22:17,770 Roni, this stuff could kill you. 405 00:22:17,850 --> 00:22:21,520 No, Vic. This stuff is killing me. 406 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:25,520 As in, doctors stumped and chemicals classified. 407 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:30,390 I told you I'd die before I pay off my bills, didn't I? 408 00:22:30,470 --> 00:22:30,810 Jokes. 409 00:22:30,890 --> 00:22:32,220 Nice defense. 410 00:22:32,310 --> 00:22:34,310 I don't have many other options. 411 00:22:38,100 --> 00:22:40,390 Okay, I'm hacking the military. 412 00:22:40,470 --> 00:22:41,430 What? 413 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:42,350 If I can figure out what's inside of you, 414 00:22:42,430 --> 00:22:44,390 I can figure out how to neutralize it. 415 00:22:44,470 --> 00:22:46,220 Uh-uh. Don't you dare make me your project. 416 00:22:46,310 --> 00:22:49,060 I am not your redemption story, okay? 417 00:22:49,140 --> 00:22:51,720 And if you're so worried about being a bad guy, 418 00:22:51,810 --> 00:22:54,430 how about not hacking the government on my behalf? 419 00:22:56,470 --> 00:22:58,600 It's a small price to pay for what I've done. 420 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:02,220 [imitates beeping noise] Oops. Hacked the government. 421 00:23:02,310 --> 00:23:05,180 -[clicks, whirs] -Found your blueprints. 422 00:23:05,810 --> 00:23:07,270 You fucker. 423 00:23:07,350 --> 00:23:08,600 Okay, let's see. 424 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:09,970 [chuckles] 425 00:23:10,060 --> 00:23:12,100 Oh, big parts list. 426 00:23:12,180 --> 00:23:13,930 Lot of sub-contractors. 427 00:23:14,020 --> 00:23:14,850 Here we go. 428 00:23:14,930 --> 00:23:16,270 Materials vendors. 429 00:23:16,350 --> 00:23:18,600 Wait, wait, wait. Does that say "S.T.A.R. Labs"? 430 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:19,390 And "Caulder Robotics." 431 00:23:27,770 --> 00:23:31,270 [Candlemaker] You can't run away, Dorothy. 432 00:23:31,350 --> 00:23:33,640 I don't want to talk to you. 433 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:35,220 You shouldn't be upset. 434 00:23:35,310 --> 00:23:37,890 The beast was a child's thing. 435 00:23:37,970 --> 00:23:39,720 You need a new friend. 436 00:23:39,810 --> 00:23:41,310 A new protector. 437 00:23:41,390 --> 00:23:43,310 Shut... up. 438 00:23:43,390 --> 00:23:46,470 You don't even sound like yourself. 439 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:49,970 Since when do you know so many words? 440 00:23:50,060 --> 00:23:50,680 As you grow up, 441 00:23:50,770 --> 00:23:51,930 so do I. 442 00:23:52,020 --> 00:23:55,100 This is all your fault. 443 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:56,970 I didn't want to hurt Jane. 444 00:23:57,060 --> 00:24:00,520 Yes, Dorothy, you did. 445 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:01,560 You made a wish. 446 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:03,720 Go away. 447 00:24:03,810 --> 00:24:05,970 Big-girl wishes have big-girl consequences. 448 00:24:06,060 --> 00:24:07,430 But never fear. 449 00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:10,770 I'll always be by your side if you need me. 450 00:24:10,850 --> 00:24:12,520 I said, go away! 451 00:24:16,930 --> 00:24:19,310 [woman singing in Spanish] 452 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:44,720 Hey. 453 00:24:46,060 --> 00:24:46,560 Have you seen her before? 454 00:24:47,770 --> 00:24:48,220 No. 455 00:24:48,310 --> 00:24:50,060 Her station's deep. 456 00:24:50,890 --> 00:24:52,970 Do you think this is why she exists? 457 00:24:53,770 --> 00:24:55,270 To mourn? 458 00:24:55,350 --> 00:24:57,180 You think the girl expected to bury two of us? 459 00:24:57,270 --> 00:24:59,310 I'm just saying each of us serves a purpose. 460 00:24:59,390 --> 00:25:02,600 What does it mean if Baby Doll's dead? 461 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:02,720 Less playtime, 462 00:25:03,970 --> 00:25:05,270 more adulthood. 463 00:25:05,890 --> 00:25:06,810 Maybe that's fucking normal. 464 00:25:06,890 --> 00:25:09,180 But she's one of the only ones who trusted men. 465 00:25:09,270 --> 00:25:11,140 Who wanted their affection. 466 00:25:11,220 --> 00:25:12,600 And look where it got her. 467 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:13,770 So, that's it? 468 00:25:13,850 --> 00:25:14,600 We're just going to destroy that part of us? 469 00:25:16,020 --> 00:25:16,720 Forever? 470 00:25:16,810 --> 00:25:18,810 If you got a better plan, primary, 471 00:25:18,890 --> 00:25:21,060 we're all ears. 472 00:25:43,140 --> 00:25:44,720 [door creaking] 473 00:25:49,100 --> 00:25:50,470 Kay? 474 00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:58,520 Do you know what's going on out there? 475 00:26:02,180 --> 00:26:03,720 I'm responsible for this. 476 00:26:05,850 --> 00:26:07,140 I made us stay. 477 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:10,720 But now, I don't know how to fix it. 478 00:26:13,890 --> 00:26:15,600 [sniffles] 479 00:26:18,850 --> 00:26:20,270 Just tell me you're okay. 480 00:26:23,310 --> 00:26:24,520 Tell me I didn't hurt you. 481 00:26:27,850 --> 00:26:29,850 Please. 482 00:26:29,930 --> 00:26:31,390 What am I supposed to do? 483 00:26:32,270 --> 00:26:32,770 Knowing is your job. 484 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:34,720 [crying softly] 485 00:26:37,810 --> 00:26:37,850 [sniffles] 486 00:26:42,220 --> 00:26:45,310 [Vic] So, you have no idea about the off-market blueprints I sent over? 487 00:26:45,390 --> 00:26:48,270 S.T.A.R. Labs is a big company, son. 488 00:26:48,350 --> 00:26:49,770 With lots of clients. 489 00:26:49,850 --> 00:26:51,850 This seems pretty relevant to your interests, Dad. 490 00:26:51,930 --> 00:26:53,470 What's your angle on this? 491 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:54,310 -It shouldn't matter. -I'm not gonna dig deeper 492 00:26:54,390 --> 00:26:57,770 on classified military tech 493 00:26:57,850 --> 00:26:59,310 without some context. 494 00:26:59,390 --> 00:27:00,970 It's for this girl, okay? 495 00:27:01,060 --> 00:27:01,850 It's her schematic, they ripped this stuff out of-- 496 00:27:01,930 --> 00:27:04,020 A girl? 497 00:27:04,100 --> 00:27:06,220 Vic, you buried the lede. 498 00:27:06,310 --> 00:27:08,560 -Dad? -I should have seen the signs. 499 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:10,430 Hacking secret documents, 500 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:12,640 poking around dark corners of the military. 501 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:14,270 It's young love. 502 00:27:14,350 --> 00:27:15,850 -Little fatherly advice? -Pass. 503 00:27:15,930 --> 00:27:18,270 Slow down. 504 00:27:18,350 --> 00:27:19,720 Get to know this girl better. 505 00:27:19,810 --> 00:27:21,890 People involved with high-tech black ops-- 506 00:27:21,970 --> 00:27:23,350 Oh, really? 507 00:27:23,430 --> 00:27:24,850 Says the man whose own company 508 00:27:24,930 --> 00:27:25,970 sold tech to the same black ops. 509 00:27:26,060 --> 00:27:28,100 Seriously. 510 00:27:28,180 --> 00:27:28,850 How could you let this happen? 511 00:27:28,930 --> 00:27:29,720 I'm gonna level with you, son. 512 00:27:31,930 --> 00:27:33,390 That kind of money... 513 00:27:33,470 --> 00:27:34,810 is what makes you possible. 514 00:27:37,770 --> 00:27:40,720 -[Zip laughs] -[Specs] Smooth little pip! 515 00:27:40,810 --> 00:27:42,180 Oh, come here, you. 516 00:27:42,270 --> 00:27:44,640 -[grunts] -You old dog. 517 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:44,770 [laughs] 518 00:27:57,970 --> 00:27:59,560 [Moscow] She is your family? 519 00:28:02,140 --> 00:28:03,270 No. 520 00:28:06,850 --> 00:28:09,560 But she may be the only family I have left. 521 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:18,310 When you think of your family, 522 00:28:18,390 --> 00:28:20,890 your spirit grows restless. 523 00:28:20,970 --> 00:28:22,520 -We see it. -Oh, yeah? 524 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:24,310 Maybe that's because my own son 525 00:28:24,390 --> 00:28:25,520 just tried to imprison both of us. 526 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:28,720 And my grandson got shot in the gut. 527 00:28:28,810 --> 00:28:31,770 Such a loving, healthy family reunion. 528 00:28:31,850 --> 00:28:33,890 Prompted, by the way, by the spirit. 529 00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:36,470 I wouldn't even know my other son committed suicide 530 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:38,520 if this thing hadn't shown me. 531 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:39,810 What if it's trying to tell you... 532 00:28:39,890 --> 00:28:42,600 that you can release your dead son from your conscience. 533 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:45,270 The past can chain us to old wounds, 534 00:28:45,350 --> 00:28:47,470 traumas from our youth. 535 00:28:48,350 --> 00:28:50,930 There is relief in letting the past go. 536 00:28:51,020 --> 00:28:52,600 You don't know what you're talking about. 537 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:55,060 And this Zen master bullshit isn't helpful. 538 00:28:55,140 --> 00:28:56,100 It's inhuman. 539 00:28:56,180 --> 00:28:58,390 My son killed himself, because he was obsessed 540 00:28:58,470 --> 00:29:01,310 with his absentee father. 541 00:29:01,390 --> 00:29:02,350 And if that's not worth being tormented by, 542 00:29:02,430 --> 00:29:04,520 I don't know what is. 543 00:29:09,270 --> 00:29:10,890 [rumbling, beeping] 544 00:29:29,180 --> 00:29:30,680 This is my fault. 545 00:29:32,470 --> 00:29:34,680 I was so desperate to give Dorothy a family 546 00:29:34,770 --> 00:29:34,810 before I'm... 547 00:29:36,890 --> 00:29:39,350 gone. 548 00:29:39,350 --> 00:29:41,430 I pushed Jane before she was ready. 549 00:29:42,970 --> 00:29:46,470 Jane's like a daughter to me, Cliff, you must understand. 550 00:29:48,350 --> 00:29:51,680 I just wanted Dorothy 551 00:29:51,770 --> 00:29:53,640 to be normal. 552 00:29:56,100 --> 00:29:59,850 Which made me a terrible father and a bastard 553 00:29:59,930 --> 00:30:03,720 and quite possibly responsible for the world's end. 554 00:30:05,100 --> 00:30:05,890 [Cliff] Is she really that dangerous? 555 00:30:08,100 --> 00:30:09,560 I isolated her. 556 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:14,220 And in her terror, she spawned imaginary creatures. 557 00:30:14,310 --> 00:30:15,850 But as she got older... 558 00:30:17,100 --> 00:30:19,560 the creatures became more dangerous. 559 00:30:20,270 --> 00:30:21,470 Even here... 560 00:30:22,020 --> 00:30:22,810 left to her own devices, 561 00:30:22,890 --> 00:30:26,600 she could unleash a being so powerful 562 00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:29,520 it would cleave the Earth in two. 563 00:30:31,970 --> 00:30:32,850 All it would take... 564 00:30:35,220 --> 00:30:36,970 is for Dorothy to wish it so. 565 00:30:41,270 --> 00:30:42,600 Please, Cliff. 566 00:30:44,850 --> 00:30:45,890 Tell her... 567 00:30:45,970 --> 00:30:50,020 all will be forgiven. Tell her I love her. 568 00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:53,220 Tell her anything. 569 00:30:53,310 --> 00:30:54,930 Just get her back. 570 00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:56,020 [Cliff] What you makin'? 571 00:32:03,470 --> 00:32:04,720 A grave. 572 00:32:07,060 --> 00:32:08,890 Do you need help? 573 00:32:08,890 --> 00:32:09,810 No. 574 00:32:13,470 --> 00:32:14,970 Can I sit here for a while? 575 00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:33,520 And that's when I realized... 576 00:32:34,060 --> 00:32:36,180 I could make them pay. 577 00:32:36,270 --> 00:32:37,470 The ones who laughed at me, 578 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:38,140 called me freak, 579 00:32:38,220 --> 00:32:40,140 goo girl, 580 00:32:40,220 --> 00:32:41,640 Mrs. Melty. 581 00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:43,930 [laughs] Oh, they'd pay. 582 00:32:46,180 --> 00:32:48,350 I'd suffocate them all... 583 00:32:48,430 --> 00:32:49,310 under the weight... 584 00:32:49,390 --> 00:32:52,060 of my rage! 585 00:32:53,390 --> 00:32:56,470 [all applauding] 586 00:32:57,850 --> 00:32:59,930 Very nice work, everyone. 587 00:33:01,220 --> 00:33:01,680 Um... 588 00:33:01,770 --> 00:33:04,600 Very nice work, uh, 589 00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:06,270 but we didn't get all the way through it. 590 00:33:06,350 --> 00:33:07,180 We didn't? 591 00:33:07,270 --> 00:33:10,350 But more pages and revisions coming soon. 592 00:33:10,430 --> 00:33:11,270 This is beautiful work. 593 00:33:11,350 --> 00:33:13,810 Important work. 594 00:33:13,890 --> 00:33:15,060 Let's pick it up again tomorrow. 595 00:33:17,890 --> 00:33:20,390 Hey, Gertrude, nice job today. 596 00:33:20,470 --> 00:33:22,680 [sighs] Thanks. 597 00:33:22,770 --> 00:33:23,890 I so love the humanity 598 00:33:23,970 --> 00:33:26,850 that you brought to the bee keeper. 599 00:33:26,930 --> 00:33:28,430 I mean, who knew the attack on Cloverton 600 00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:30,810 killed so many bees? 601 00:33:30,890 --> 00:33:33,680 The way you eulogized them, oh. 602 00:33:33,770 --> 00:33:35,720 I could feel your pain. 603 00:33:36,270 --> 00:33:37,680 Have you acted before? 604 00:33:38,430 --> 00:33:40,890 Once or twice. 605 00:33:40,970 --> 00:33:42,930 -Mmm. -If I could offer one thought. 606 00:33:43,020 --> 00:33:45,390 It's not a note, simply an observation. 607 00:33:45,470 --> 00:33:47,390 Sure. 608 00:33:47,470 --> 00:33:48,930 -The Blob Lady. -Mmm-hmm. 609 00:33:49,310 --> 00:33:50,600 I wonder... 610 00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:52,060 if she's more human. 611 00:33:52,140 --> 00:33:55,140 Not quite so drive-in picture monster. 612 00:33:55,220 --> 00:33:56,720 After all, 613 00:33:56,810 --> 00:34:00,220 villains think that they're the heroes of their own stories. 614 00:34:00,310 --> 00:34:01,600 Oh, no. 615 00:34:02,310 --> 00:34:04,600 I thought I was playing that. 616 00:34:05,350 --> 00:34:07,310 Shoot! 617 00:34:08,060 --> 00:34:08,930 Like, 618 00:34:09,020 --> 00:34:11,600 I even did a deep-dive character bio 619 00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:13,850 for background because all the first-hand 620 00:34:13,930 --> 00:34:16,430 accounts of the event were so sketchy. 621 00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:17,810 A biography. 622 00:34:18,470 --> 00:34:18,970 Do tell. 623 00:34:19,060 --> 00:34:21,270 Well, the way I see it, 624 00:34:21,350 --> 00:34:24,020 the Blob Lady didn't actually seem to enjoy 625 00:34:24,100 --> 00:34:25,350 being so big. 626 00:34:25,430 --> 00:34:26,770 Which means she probably 627 00:34:26,850 --> 00:34:28,100 started off small. 628 00:34:28,180 --> 00:34:30,520 But her dress was fancy, like... 629 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:31,770 she wanted to be seen. 630 00:34:31,850 --> 00:34:33,890 There's a neediness there, 631 00:34:33,970 --> 00:34:36,720 like a little girl trapped in a woman's body 632 00:34:36,810 --> 00:34:37,850 still desperately vying 633 00:34:37,930 --> 00:34:40,220 for the approval of her father. 634 00:34:40,310 --> 00:34:41,680 Mother. 635 00:34:41,770 --> 00:34:43,720 Right. Of course, it's the mother. 636 00:34:43,810 --> 00:34:46,390 That lines up so much better. Thank you. 637 00:34:46,470 --> 00:34:47,810 So, the Blob Lady 638 00:34:47,890 --> 00:34:50,600 has been craving attention 639 00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:52,100 for so long, 640 00:34:52,180 --> 00:34:55,310 she is terrified that when people see what she is, 641 00:34:55,390 --> 00:34:57,720 what she really is, 642 00:34:57,810 --> 00:34:59,720 they are going to run screaming 643 00:34:59,810 --> 00:35:02,180 because she is hideous 644 00:35:02,270 --> 00:35:03,560 inside and out. 645 00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:05,770 Just, like, completely unlovable, 646 00:35:05,850 --> 00:35:07,970 unlookable, unfuckable. 647 00:35:08,060 --> 00:35:08,970 And then, everything her mother 648 00:35:09,060 --> 00:35:12,970 always said about her would be proven true. 649 00:35:13,060 --> 00:35:14,890 And the sick joke of it all, 650 00:35:14,970 --> 00:35:17,810 is that her resentment of her mother... 651 00:35:17,890 --> 00:35:18,930 is the one thing keeping her 652 00:35:19,020 --> 00:35:21,560 from what she was always meant to do. 653 00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:23,640 What is she meant to do? 654 00:35:23,720 --> 00:35:26,310 Suck the entire world 655 00:35:26,390 --> 00:35:29,270 into the folds of her big, disgusting body. 656 00:35:32,100 --> 00:35:32,850 [sighs] 657 00:35:32,930 --> 00:35:33,930 Anyway, thank you. 658 00:35:34,020 --> 00:35:37,720 I will work on that. I'll see you tomorrow. 659 00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:40,310 Well... 660 00:35:42,390 --> 00:35:44,180 I've found my nemesis. 661 00:35:49,220 --> 00:35:51,140 [Zip] Come here, you smooth little pip. 662 00:35:51,220 --> 00:35:54,520 [Specs] All right, hotshot, you're a real whiz. 663 00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:56,470 [Larry] Hey. Hey, hey. 664 00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:57,060 What's your deal? 665 00:35:57,140 --> 00:35:59,600 I'm Zip, hotshot pilot. 666 00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:01,020 Nothing scares him, 667 00:36:01,100 --> 00:36:02,180 except marriage. 668 00:36:02,270 --> 00:36:05,310 No, I know. I mean, how are you so young? 669 00:36:05,390 --> 00:36:07,310 You're not telling me you have spirits in you, too? 670 00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:10,600 The name's Specs. 671 00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:12,020 I'm the brains of the op. 672 00:36:12,100 --> 00:36:12,810 And a heartbreaker to boot. 673 00:36:12,890 --> 00:36:15,850 How are you still alive? 674 00:36:15,930 --> 00:36:16,140 [Moscow] They're not. 675 00:36:18,180 --> 00:36:20,350 Zip and Specs died a long time ago. 676 00:36:21,020 --> 00:36:21,890 [laughs] 677 00:36:21,970 --> 00:36:23,100 Come here, you smooth little pip. 678 00:36:23,180 --> 00:36:25,220 [Specs] Gravity, what a treat. 679 00:36:26,470 --> 00:36:28,020 What is this? 680 00:36:28,100 --> 00:36:30,220 The bodies of Zip and Specs were invaded by a benign spore 681 00:36:30,310 --> 00:36:32,140 from a distant planet some years ago. 682 00:36:32,220 --> 00:36:34,850 The men you see before you are husks, 683 00:36:34,930 --> 00:36:36,890 autopiloted by some... 684 00:36:36,970 --> 00:36:37,720 foreign plant matter. 685 00:36:37,810 --> 00:36:39,640 Is it contagious? 686 00:36:39,720 --> 00:36:41,060 We don't believe so. 687 00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:42,770 In fact, we, 688 00:36:43,140 --> 00:36:44,220 mostly she, 689 00:36:44,310 --> 00:36:46,720 sense that bringing their bodies into Earth's atmosphere 690 00:36:46,810 --> 00:36:48,930 would kill the spores. 691 00:36:49,020 --> 00:36:51,060 You came back to bury them? 692 00:36:51,140 --> 00:36:54,020 We need to put the past behind us, 693 00:36:54,100 --> 00:36:56,100 if we are ever going to travel farther. 694 00:36:56,770 --> 00:36:58,390 [Zip and Specs grunting] 695 00:36:58,470 --> 00:36:58,930 Nothing scares me. 696 00:36:59,020 --> 00:37:01,600 Bust my chops, will you? 697 00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:04,350 -[Zip] Come here, you dog. Bust my chops... -[Specs groans] 698 00:37:04,430 --> 00:37:06,270 I'm sorry I've been so irritable. 699 00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:08,310 Sounds like you've been through hell. 700 00:37:11,430 --> 00:37:12,390 We don't see it that way. 701 00:37:13,180 --> 00:37:16,100 Even suffering has its own meaning. 702 00:37:17,350 --> 00:37:19,350 And there is always beauty in meaning. 703 00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:24,390 We have seen much. 704 00:37:24,470 --> 00:37:28,270 And Earth is still the most beautiful place in the galaxy. 705 00:37:33,350 --> 00:37:36,350 Because it's a spinning orb of constant suffering? 706 00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:38,390 Yes. 707 00:37:40,470 --> 00:37:41,520 Exactly. 708 00:37:52,810 --> 00:37:55,140 Is Jane okay? 709 00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:56,930 I have no idea. 710 00:37:59,060 --> 00:38:02,140 Now I understand why my dad is so scared of me. 711 00:38:05,970 --> 00:38:09,970 I keep messing things up. 712 00:38:15,390 --> 00:38:15,430 Daddy. 713 00:38:19,770 --> 00:38:20,890 Jane. 714 00:38:23,310 --> 00:38:25,970 The more I'm out here in the world... 715 00:38:27,890 --> 00:38:31,180 the more I'm sure I'm a bad person. 716 00:38:37,140 --> 00:38:39,470 I'm going to stay up here, 717 00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:41,350 away from anyone I can hurt. 718 00:38:42,850 --> 00:38:44,430 -Forever. -Mmm. 719 00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:45,680 I don't think that's how oxygen works. 720 00:38:45,770 --> 00:38:48,060 [sobbing] 721 00:38:54,850 --> 00:38:55,470 Cool rocks, though. 722 00:38:57,970 --> 00:38:59,270 Who's it for? 723 00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:00,890 Manny. 724 00:39:01,720 --> 00:39:02,850 Your imaginary friend? 725 00:39:02,930 --> 00:39:04,520 You wouldn't understand. 726 00:39:08,470 --> 00:39:21,720 Try me. 727 00:39:21,720 --> 00:39:23,220 My mom gave him to me. 728 00:39:27,220 --> 00:39:29,430 He was the last piece of her I had. 729 00:39:39,100 --> 00:39:41,600 My daughter lost her mom, too. 730 00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:43,350 When she was young. 731 00:39:43,430 --> 00:39:46,060 Too young to remember much of her at all, I'm guessing. 732 00:39:46,140 --> 00:39:47,470 But from what I can tell, 733 00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:49,350 she turned out to be a really good person. 734 00:39:51,430 --> 00:39:52,310 The truth is, 735 00:39:52,390 --> 00:39:53,930 we're all struggling to figure out 736 00:39:54,020 --> 00:39:55,560 what kind of people we are. 737 00:39:55,970 --> 00:39:58,100 Jane included. 738 00:39:58,180 --> 00:40:00,270 She'll understand, I promise you. 739 00:40:01,350 --> 00:40:03,020 Sometimes a person hurts so bad, 740 00:40:03,100 --> 00:40:04,390 all they can imagine is that 741 00:40:04,470 --> 00:40:05,930 everyone wants to hurt each other. 742 00:40:06,020 --> 00:40:08,180 But that's not true. 743 00:40:08,970 --> 00:40:10,180 You're not alone. 744 00:40:10,270 --> 00:40:12,140 I know you want to be alone right now. 745 00:40:13,180 --> 00:40:16,140 But trust me, that'll pass. 746 00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:20,390 Always does. 747 00:40:22,930 --> 00:40:25,020 It's pretty. 748 00:40:31,220 --> 00:40:32,720 [Cliff] Yeah. 749 00:40:32,810 --> 00:40:34,020 I'm glad we came here. 750 00:40:51,020 --> 00:40:52,350 Never again. 751 00:40:53,810 --> 00:40:54,970 Dorothy... 752 00:40:55,890 --> 00:40:57,390 you must promise me... 753 00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:00,810 you will never make another wish 754 00:41:00,890 --> 00:41:02,770 for as long as you live. 755 00:41:02,850 --> 00:41:04,350 I promise. 756 00:41:09,810 --> 00:41:13,180 [Cliff] Christ, that's sad. 757 00:41:13,270 --> 00:41:16,600 [sputters] My name is Zip, hotshot pilot. 758 00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:18,020 [sputters] Name is Specs, 759 00:41:18,100 --> 00:41:20,100 brains of our... 760 00:41:20,180 --> 00:41:22,390 [Larry] Any last words? 761 00:41:22,470 --> 00:41:23,390 [Moscow] Yes. 762 00:41:23,470 --> 00:41:25,350 If ever any fruit grows here, 763 00:41:26,060 --> 00:41:27,350 don't eat it. 764 00:41:27,430 --> 00:41:29,470 [Zip sputters] My name is Zip, hotshot pilot. 765 00:41:31,100 --> 00:41:32,560 [babbling incoherently] 766 00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:36,140 Rest in peace, Pioneers. 767 00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:38,140 I hope it was all... 768 00:41:38,770 --> 00:41:40,520 painless. 769 00:41:47,970 --> 00:41:50,060 Thank you for your help. 770 00:41:50,140 --> 00:41:51,560 Now, it is time for us to leave. 771 00:41:52,720 --> 00:41:52,770 Back to space? 772 00:41:54,020 --> 00:41:56,020 Eventually. 773 00:41:56,100 --> 00:41:58,680 First, we will see my old home. 774 00:41:58,770 --> 00:42:00,180 How it has changed. 775 00:42:00,270 --> 00:42:01,770 How we've been forgotten. 776 00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:04,310 Then, maybe, 777 00:42:04,390 --> 00:42:07,060 we'll be able to sever our final bond to Earth. 778 00:42:07,970 --> 00:42:09,270 And you? 779 00:42:11,180 --> 00:42:13,680 [sighs] I'm going to return to my family. 780 00:42:15,100 --> 00:42:16,390 But I'm not going to sever ties. 781 00:42:16,470 --> 00:42:20,100 I'm going to mend them, or die trying. 782 00:42:31,220 --> 00:42:33,470 If you ever need a new perspective on Earth, 783 00:42:34,100 --> 00:42:35,810 I highly recommend space. 784 00:42:44,970 --> 00:42:46,430 Is that what you want, buddy? 785 00:42:48,180 --> 00:42:49,470 [exhales] 786 00:43:00,310 --> 00:43:03,180 You know what? Doesn't matter. 787 00:43:03,270 --> 00:43:05,020 For as long as you're in a human body, 788 00:43:05,100 --> 00:43:07,140 we're going to act like a human being. 789 00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:12,640 And human beings need family. 790 00:43:15,350 --> 00:43:17,470 ["Genesis" playing] 791 00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:21,890 ♪ The sky breaks ♪ 792 00:43:21,970 --> 00:43:25,310 ♪ Light reaches for me ♪ 793 00:43:25,390 --> 00:43:28,270 ♪ I'm awake ♪ 794 00:43:28,850 --> 00:43:32,270 ♪ For the first time ♪ 795 00:43:32,350 --> 00:43:36,350 ♪ It's too late ♪ 796 00:43:36,430 --> 00:43:40,640 ♪ I'm on the other side ♪ 797 00:43:46,140 --> 00:43:47,810 [Hammerhead] Why are you stopping? 798 00:43:47,890 --> 00:43:48,890 [Pretty Polly] What if he's in there? 799 00:43:48,970 --> 00:43:51,770 [Secretary] He's in there. He's always in there. 800 00:43:51,850 --> 00:43:54,810 Well, then we'll beat the shit out of him. All of us. 801 00:43:55,100 --> 00:43:56,680 Come on. 802 00:43:59,350 --> 00:44:01,180 Let's just get this over with. 803 00:44:01,430 --> 00:44:02,600 Don't! 804 00:44:05,850 --> 00:44:06,770 Don't do it. 805 00:44:09,220 --> 00:44:09,640 I'm primary. 806 00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:13,180 I'm responsible for all of us, 807 00:44:13,270 --> 00:44:15,890 and I say we have to give 808 00:44:15,970 --> 00:44:16,720 the broken ones time to mend. 809 00:44:18,390 --> 00:44:20,560 We don't know anything. 810 00:44:21,810 --> 00:44:22,520 We don't know how this happened. 811 00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:25,350 We don't know how this works! 812 00:44:27,020 --> 00:44:27,850 The one thing we do know 813 00:44:27,930 --> 00:44:30,560 is that there's no going back from here. 814 00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:33,640 You seem to know a lot about the well... 815 00:44:36,390 --> 00:44:38,180 for someone who's never been inside it. 816 00:44:38,270 --> 00:44:40,600 -Miranda. -The one and only. 817 00:44:41,430 --> 00:44:43,560 I thought you killed yourself. 818 00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:46,560 I did. I threw my battered body down the well, 819 00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:48,640 and in time, I was reborn... 820 00:44:51,100 --> 00:44:52,560 as they shall be. 821 00:44:56,100 --> 00:44:58,430 Sweet child... 822 00:44:59,850 --> 00:45:00,850 Fierce protector... 823 00:45:02,390 --> 00:45:03,600 It is time. 824 00:45:05,310 --> 00:45:06,970 ["Genesis" continues playing] 825 00:45:07,060 --> 00:45:13,470 ♪ This is where it all begins ♪ 826 00:45:14,180 --> 00:45:21,390 ♪ My Genesis ♪ 827 00:45:21,470 --> 00:45:22,270 ♪ This is where... ♪ 828 00:45:22,350 --> 00:45:24,970 [deep rumbling] 829 00:45:25,060 --> 00:45:27,430 It's okay. 830 00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:28,680 It's just their stations collapsing. 831 00:45:30,350 --> 00:45:32,640 We won't need them anymore. 832 00:45:32,720 --> 00:45:35,470 ["Genesis" continues playing] 833 00:45:37,100 --> 00:45:38,390 [sobbing] 834 00:45:53,060 --> 00:45:54,270 Now what? 835 00:45:57,060 --> 00:45:59,520 If you'll kindly step aside as primary... 836 00:46:00,720 --> 00:46:02,680 I'll show you what the girl wants. 837 00:46:05,220 --> 00:46:05,850 [sobbing] 838 00:46:23,890 --> 00:46:25,850 [breathes deeply] 839 00:46:32,270 --> 00:46:34,810 [Cliff] Wow. 840 00:46:34,890 --> 00:46:37,890 What are we all so angry about? 841 00:46:59,890 --> 00:47:00,680 So, 842 00:47:00,770 --> 00:47:03,520 her imaginary friends took out 843 00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:06,600 two of Jane's imaginary selves. 844 00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:08,810 Do we need to have an imaginary intervention? 845 00:47:08,890 --> 00:47:12,520 There's nothing funny about a damaged mind, Cliff. 846 00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:14,770 I fear Jane may never be the same. 847 00:47:18,810 --> 00:47:21,810 Be sure to secure Dorothy's helmet before re-entry. 848 00:47:27,720 --> 00:47:29,930 Thank you, Cliff. I promise I'll never 849 00:47:30,020 --> 00:47:31,930 ask another favor of you. 850 00:47:32,020 --> 00:47:33,890 [Cliff] Hey, for what it's worth, 851 00:47:34,850 --> 00:47:36,020 the kid, 852 00:47:36,100 --> 00:47:37,020 she's all right. 853 00:47:38,270 --> 00:47:39,640 She is special, isn't she? 854 00:47:41,430 --> 00:47:41,930 She's all right. 855 00:47:44,430 --> 00:47:47,020 But she deserves to be safe, happy. 856 00:47:48,720 --> 00:47:50,560 Even after you're gone. 857 00:47:51,350 --> 00:47:52,430 And if that means showing up for her 858 00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:54,390 and acting like a real family, 859 00:47:54,470 --> 00:47:56,430 then what the hell? 860 00:47:57,140 --> 00:47:58,600 I'm in. 861 00:47:58,680 --> 00:47:58,850 Let's go home. 862 00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:04,020 That means the world to me, Cliff... 863 00:48:06,770 --> 00:48:08,640 but we're not going home. 864 00:48:12,220 --> 00:48:13,890 What are you doing? Niles? 865 00:48:13,970 --> 00:48:17,100 -What the fuck are you-- -[alarm blaring] 866 00:48:17,180 --> 00:48:19,810 [Cliff screaming] 867 00:48:23,180 --> 00:48:24,640 No! 868 00:48:24,890 --> 00:48:25,850 Fuck!