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[Robyn] "My parents tried their best to act
like I was a wanted child.
But with only one photo of my childhood...
and one I wasn't smiling in at that...
I remain a skeptic."
[♪]
[applauding]
-A die-hard fan, aren't you? -Thank you. You're so lovely.
Well, I suppose technically
anyone over 75 is a die-hard fan.
I meant it as a compliment.
[door creaks open, shuts]
Um...
have you thought about it?
Will you write my book?
-It's about to happen. -No.
Actually, it's not something I've ever had to think about.
-Just no. -I've found the cure.
I'm not indulging.
I've found the cure for regret.
Goodbye, Jim.
Can I keep these?
[door creaks, shuts] -Huh, apparently not.
[pensive instrumental music plays]
[groans lightly]
[man] Robyn?
How was the reading?
They haven't cut the lawn in centuries.
Not even centuries in dog years.
-And I only left the back. -[door opens]
[Robyn] I mean...
who does this?
Oh, I take my exercise in moderation, dear.
It's hardly exercise on a ride-on mower.
-[slaps stomach] -[chuckles lightly]
Ooh, ouch.
It's your pack for the Kruger National Park.
-Mm. -You usually only order these when we get back.
So, how did the reading go?
-I'm not upset. -It's fine if you are.
Half of them left while I was still reading.
Well, that's just rude.
I'm starting to think perhaps I should stop sharing what I write.
Well, never stop sharing with me.
Okey dokey, for the next question.
Every year in the spring,
thousands of garter snakes participate
in a mass mating ritual.
[laughing] I remember those.
A mass hating ritual?
Turn your hearing aid on.
...in the world is the largest mating den
for the garter snake?
Canada. Ontario.
I think it's actually Manitoba.
Manitoba? Are you sure?
Hmm, Robyn's right. It is Manitoba.
I got my provinces mixed up.
[man] She's a keeper. Good thing Bob kicked the bucket.
Any bets on who's next?
[melancholic music plays]
[urine trickling]
-Oh! Oh, I'm so sorry. -Oh!
Let me help you.
[emcee] Okey dokey, time for a jokey.
Why did the recruitment officer crash?
He careered off the road.
[car horn honks]
-You're driving too slowly. -[car horn honking]
-Oscar. -I'm luxuriating.
-Savoring your presence. -[Robyn scoffs]
Play your cards right, you might get lucky tonight.
-[Robyn laughing] -[Oscar] I'm not joking.
-[car horn honking] -[both laugh]
[birds chirping]
Wow.
-You still take my breath away. -[chuckles]
[Oscar snoring]
[snoring continues]
[suspenseful orchestral music plays]
[tool scraping]
[♪]
Get this-- Herbie got us a two-for-one special on Sunday.
-Mm-hmm. Tombstones. -Oh, yes.
-With matching calligraphy. -[Robyn laughing]
God, my mother was right. Never marry for love.
Have you...
read my latest?
-I couldn't get past page 40. -[baby cooing]
Don't you see-- depressing.
-No wonder your parents didn't want you. [chuckles] -[chuckles]
You ladies need any help?
[coughing]
-Is he all right? -He's had that cough since our second date.
Can I hold her?
They are lovely when they come with a return policy.
It's really hard being a single mother for the grandmother.
I am going to get a face-lift with Phyllis in Thailand.
[♪]
[birds chirping]
[breathes deeply]
[doorbell rings]
[doorbell ringing]
Yes?
Can I help you, sir?
[Jim] Have you given writing my story more thought?
Jim?
This is wholly inappropriate.
[daunting orchestral music plays]
But--
May I come in?
-Told you I'd found a cure for regret. -Tea.
I-- I'm gonna go and make some tea. I-- I-- I-- I need tea.
You stay there and don't do anything.
[Jim, echoing] I found a cure for regret.
[gasps]
[chuckles]
-But how? -You'll write my book?
Is this an optical illusion of sorts?
[chuckles] Not my field of science.
Are you Jim's son?
Robyn, you know I never had a son.
I'm getting my recorder.
-We're starting now? -Yes! Yes! Yes!
-Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! -[chuckles]
Have you seen my recorder?
[Oscar] Hmm?
-[Robyn sighs] -What?
I can't find it. Where is it?
What are you looking for?
-My recorder. I can't find it. -Oh.
-Are you writing again? -Yes.
[Oscar] What a beautiful morning.
[clock ticking]
[whispering] There's somebody in the house.
Oh, it's Jim.
W-- what? What? What Jim?
[Robyn] Jim, the science guy.
-What, Jim pharmaceutical? -Yes.
The Jim you were dating when we first met, Jim?
That's the one. Exactly.
-Jim that used to call you-- -Old socks.
Yes, I know. I remember.
Quite a nasty little man.
Okay, okay, now can you just help me look
for this recorder?
Aha!
Well, what's Jim doing in our house?
-My next book is about Jim. -What?
No. No, no, no, no, no.
-That's not possible. -[Robyn chuckles]
-[Oscar chuckles] -Oscar, what are you doing with that?
Clearing the air.
-With a pepper spray? -Uh-huh.
[Jim] Oscar.
Who are you?
Oscar, that is Jim.
-Jim, but-- -Happy to see you're still kicking.
Who the hell are you?
And what are you doing in our house?
Robyn, I love the fact you kept your first journal.
I knew you could write the moment you shared it with me.
Oscar, I was just making some tea. Would you like to finish?
-But-- -Oscar, tea.
[Oscar] I might need some help in the kitchen.
An obvious scam.
Jim is obsessed about age being a curable disease
-since I first met him. -Age?
A disease? [chuckles]
Don't drink the Kool-Aid, Robyn.
Prove to me that you are Jim.
Are you sure?
Because from where I'm sitting,
the only thing that we have in common
-is Robyn. -Don't.
[Jim] She did this thing with her tongue
-when we first kissed. -Shut up.
It was like a wiggle with a little bit of a...
-[slurps] suck. -I told you to shut up.
That enough proof for you, old socks?
Right. That's it. I'm not making anyone tea.
There's a reason why I never mentioned that kiss
in my journal.
Oh. Enlighten me.
-You really must be a sadist. -[recorder clicks]
[recorder quietly whirrs]
Boring me already.
[chuckles]
[inquisitive music plays]
I see you've already decided to take part.
I'm writing a book. It's research.
We'll have to administer medical tests
to make sure it's safe.
Meet me at noon.
I'll text you the address.
[Robyn] For the tests?
You think I'm that predictable?
[♪]
I once called my nanny "mommy."
Something we laughed about at the time
until I was old enough to understand the weight of it.
So, you read past page 40 then?
-Stalker. -When it comes to your writing, I don't have much choice.
Follow me.
[Jim] My daughter, Anna.
Her mother was a one-night-stand-turned-junkie
who threw herself off a bridge.
I paid for the funeral, but Anna didn't want me there.
[Robyn] Is Anna your reason for inventing Novice?
So you could rewrite your relationship with your daughter?
A rewrite. Yes. [chuckles]
I quite like that.
What might it do to her
if she took Novice now?
I told you,
we'd need to test the subject first
to make sure it's medically safe.
She's got needle marks up her arm.
She wouldn't take it from me anyway.
Honestly?
All right.
But just one drop.
[hopeful music plays]
[Robyn] Darling.
A sip of a new life.
[Oscar] Oh, you're taking the gloves off.
Must be serious.
The results came back.
I'm afraid it's not good news.
You may be a candidate for the Whipple procedure,
but-- well, it's pancreatic cancer.
20% of candidates are eligible,
and of that, only about 20%
have a chance at another five years of life.
[somber music plays]
[thudding]
What-- what are you doing?
Creating a baby room. Give me a hand.
Who's the father?
Wondered if you could help out with that.
[Jim] Mm.
Jim is giving us both Novice as payment for my book.
All of a sudden?
What changed?
Failsafe parenting.
If I mess it up, I give it Novice.
We go back to the beginning and try again.
"It?"
Him, her, they.
Um, I think I've moved on from the idea.
Age forced us to move on.
But when we're 30 again,
well, in a few months, I should be able to fall pregnant.
Mmm. And so we just put our trust in Jim?
[Robyn] A nurse will come tomorrow
to test for things like MS and cancer
-and make sure it's safe for us to take Novice. -[Jim sighs]
Are you okay?
[Jim sighs]
Don't know why it's shaking today.
I think it's because I'm tired.
I think they're both shaking now because you're here.
[Jim chuckles]
[somber orchestral music plays]
Okay. That's all we need.
The results will be available after the weekend.
I'm ready for you now.
Well, I-- I prefer to wait and see
what happens to her if you don't mind.
[doctor] Sure.
I want you to know that I don't regret a single day of my life with you.
Not one moment.
I loved it all.
Loved?
Robyn,
I'm not going to do Novice with you.
But that's ridiculous.
W-- what's this about?
[somber music plays]
Novice doesn't just cure the age disease.
Cell rejuvenation cures most other diseases, too.
In a few short years, our dependence on modern medicine will,
in all likelihood, be a thing of the past, hence--
Hence the pharmaceutical company firing you
shortly after discovering it.
It's going to cannibalize their business.
So, you stole the formula
from a corporate giant?
A formula I invented, yes.
Don't you fear for your life?
I love how concerned you are.
You still flirt like a creepy old man.
You still bat me away like you think I'm gonna stop.
Once your book is out, disposing of me
will only make its revelations bigger.
So you really think my book will make you safe?
More safe,
but I'd choose assassination over dying of old age any day.
That's just, well, barbaric.
This is as far as we can go.
[Robyn] Let's check on Anna.
[Jim] Okay.
♪ It was a hundred percent ♪
♪ More than you asked me to do ♪
[Anna exclaims]
♪ You think if you put my ♪
♪ You think if you put My foot in front of the other ♪
♪ I'll do what you want me to ♪
You did this.
♪ I'm gonna march to the rails ♪
♪ I'm high ♪
[crowd cheering]
[Anna laughs]
♪ Gonna climb up the mountain ♪
♪ Gotta go, go, go, go, go ♪
[keys jangle]
[Robyn] Oscar?
[somber music playing]
Oh, God.
Where have you been?
I've been here for an hour.
[sighs] I'm back now.
[ambulance siren wailing]
Luckily, just strained.
Oscar, how long has this been going on?
[Oscar] You know, doc, I used to have bruises
all over my body when I played rugby.
[Robyn] He played rugger for one season at college.
Right, well,
I suggest getting some help around the house.
-[phone ringing] -[Robyn] Excuse me.
Jane, what a surprise.
Back from Thailand already?
Oh...
Oh, Jane, I'm so sorry.
I feel so guilty.
The only thing I'm feeling...
is relief.
Don't beat yourself up about it.
Just feel it, okay?
I ended up never going to Thailand for facial surgery.
-He said we couldn't afford it. -[scoffs]
You've got nothing to be ashamed of.
You're as beautiful as ever.
You always have it so together.
No, that's not true.
I've been thinking about it a lot lately.
What if I'd never had the--
What if I had had Oscar's child?
You regret not having children?
[♪]
[rumbling]
[Robyn] Anna.
[chuckles] You have?
Come with me.
Oh, goodness, I forgot those were here.
My first book. Bought us the house.
Then this one paid for the furniture.
And the rest...
[Robyn grunts]
Don't put the most money you'll ever make
into a house that needs so much maintenance.
[Anna giggling]
What are you doing?
Oh, no, please.
Is that why you thought I brought you here?
No, darling.
I'll give you some privacy.
[birds chirping]
[doorbell rings]
Hello?
Can you come round here, please?
I have news.
You passed your medical.
[laughing joyously]
One drop a day
and every month that goes by
will make you a decade younger
and in four or five months, you'll seem 20 again,
at which point we'll dilute the formula
and keep you young...
-forever. -Oh!
Chase it with bubbles.
[ominous music playing]
I don't feel a thing.
It's kind of anticlimactic.
Unlike our first time.
Exactly like our first and last time.
[Jim chuckles]
Well, this too will change your life.
[♪]
What are you doing here?
I invited her to come and stay with us
for as long as she wants.
[Jim] I barely recognize you.
Do you know who I am?
The man that stares at me but never books me.
I'm your father.
I don't have a father.
Sit.
It's all right.
[tense music building]
[rhythmic drumming]
[singing in background]
[door opens]
[Oscar] This is godly awful.
You'd better get used to it.
She'll be staying with us for a bit.
What?
So I don't have a say in my own house anymore?
If you have a problem, you can always write to the newspaper and complain.
Isn't that what old people do?
That's just rude.
You always said that you wanted a child.
Well, now I've got you one.
Yes, but I wanted one with you.
Does that mean that you will be taking the formula?
Oh, I know what this is all about now.
You're trying to force my hand.
Speaking of which,
when will you be cutting the lawn?
When I get a part for the ride-on mower.
[Robyn scoffs]
We do have a regular lawn mower, too.
Kate Bush is giving birth
to Marilyn Manson next door,
and all you're concerned about is the grass.
Tell you what, I'll cut it.
What?
What you-- You're gonna cut the lawn in the middle of the night?
So much energy.
[Oscar scoffs]
[lawn mower engine humming]
[Anna singing, drumming in background]
[lawn mower engine humming]
[drumming stops, footsteps]
[Oscar] Robyn?
Robyn?
What?
I think the guest is in my memory room.
Well, I'm sure you can manage it on your own.
I'm taking my pepper spray.
[engine continues humming]
[objects clattering]
[door opens]
[Oscar] What are you looking for?
A phone. You have one, yeah?
-A phone? -Yeah.
[Anna] Thanks.
Who do you want to call?
It's just a mate. It's just a friend of mine.
-Mmm. -Yeah.
Friend.
Well, no phone calls tonight.
No!
[lock turns]
No, please, don't.
[ominous music building]
Please, open the door.
-Anna, you will stop this now. -Hey, please, open.
Please, open.
-Now, do you hear? -[Anna mumbling]
[crying]
Please, open...
[music fades]
Oscar?
This is incredible! [chuckles]
I've got no pain in my fingers,
and I've got all this energy,
and I haven't taken any arthritis pills.
-Nada! -[glass shattering]
[Anna screaming]
[objects thudding]
-What's going on? -I caught her looking for a phone.
-Probably to phone her-- -Her dealer.
[Anna] It's just a friend! It's just a friend!
-Oscar, I'm so sorry. -It's okay.
-I could ask Jim to take her from tomorrow. -No. No, it's okay.
[objects clattering]
Well, clearly, she's trying to create
another memory with her abstract art.
[Anna] Fuck you, bitch!
-Fuck you! -[glass shattering]
[objects clattering]
Why don't you go back to bed? I'll deal with this.
Bed?
No, I'm gonna go looking
for a couple of glasses of whiskey
and maybe even some hard drugs...
if she can give me his number.
-[both chuckling] -[Anna screaming]
-Bed. Night-night. -Night.
-[Anna groaning] -[glass shattering]
[sobbing]
[panting]
[melancholy music intensifying]
[glass shattering]
[sobbing]
[Anna screaming]
[sobbing]
[♪]
[scream echoing]
[music fades]
-[door opens] -[Anna retching]
[sobbing]
[retching]
[somber music playing]
[sobbing continues]
[retching]
[gagging]
[panting]
[crying]
[Anna] Sorry.
Oh, that's all right.
I was looking for another project anyway.
[♪]
[retching]
[sobbing]
[Robyn shushing]
[sobbing continues]
[Robyn humming melody]
[continues humming melody]
[peaceful music playing]
[birds chirping]
[eerie music playing]
[chuckles]
[phone ringing]
[ringing continues]
[upbeat piano melody playing]
[music intensifying]
[Anna vocalizing]
[doorbell rings]
Oscar probably forgot his key.
[doorbell ringing]
The fuck?
I see you got your face-lift done.
You have every reason to be upset with me.
I'm not upset, honey.
You are giving me Novice.
[Jim sighs] I'm afraid that is not an option.
I think that's your only option, sport.
[Jim] You will have access to the drug once it's on the market.
Oh, please. As if someone like me could afford it when that happens.
Either you give me Novice,
or I am going to go
to the last company you worked for, Jim.
I hardly think you're in a position to make any threats.
Huh, and you think you are?
When you take the formula, um...
we'll have to do a blood test
before that to, um, make sure it's safe.
[Jim sighs]
[chuckles] Good.
So it goes like that.
Mm.
And it-- Your turn. You try.
-[Oscar chuckling] Go on. -Okay.
First of all, put petroleum jelly on your fingers
so that if you do get glue on them,
they don't stick together.
Which can be very inconvenient. [chuckles]
Okay. Hold it.
-You got it? -[Anna] Mm-hmm.
[Oscar] You got that.
And I've got the glue.
Okay, let's lean forward so we don't get the glue on the floor.
-[Anna] Okay. -[Oscar] That's it.
[tense music playing]
Push that out.
-Press. -[Anna chuckles]
[muffled conversation]
[♪]
Oscar.
-Oscar, wake up. -Hmm?
My menstrual cycle started today.
[chuckles] You look worried.
I think it's time we slept in separate bedrooms.
Age is officially just a number.
No, it's just this child business.
It's just silly.
[grunts] Silly, silly, silly business.
[Oscar sighs]
You're cute when you get all serious.
[Oscar scoffs]
So, why haven't we had children before?
Heaven knows I wanted them.
I had my writing.
Where would I have found the time?
Well, you-- you had a-- a career.
I just had a job. I would have looked after them.
I suppose you would have.
So, why now?
Why? Why with me?
Because...
that's my biggest regret.
Not having a child with you.
I don't regret a single day in my life with you.
Bullshit.
Y-- you said it yourself.
You-- you had a job, not a career.
Yeah, well, life isn't just about work.
Well, you don't have a single friend
you enjoy spending any time with.
I have my quiz night at the Mumbles.
Answering those questions makes you feel clever.
Not at all. Not true.
Well, not anymore.
And I had my friend, Ronnie.
That was in college.
I have you.
You take two naps every day,
and the rest of the day you spend building your models.
Well, there you are, you see, I have great hobbies.
Nonsense, Oscar.
You build those models.
You even fixed them because...
Well, because our travels are like trophies to you
compared to the rest of your life.
The rest of my life?
It's average, Oscar.
I'm sorry, but we get to change that with Novice.
All of it.
You have no excuse.
Like I said...
I have no regrets.
I'll be sleeping in the open room.
[eerie music playing]
[typing continues]
[Robyn] When we marry, we promise ourselves to each other forever.
Yet our forever has death as its expiry date.
That was our reality
before Novice.
But would someone taking Novice
ever again commit to forever?
[typing continues]
[eerie instrumental playing]
Welcome.
[Robyn] Never took the scientist for an art lover.
If biochemistry manages to recapture the beauty of youth, is there a difference?
Why the elderly?
The have-nots.
They remind me of how lucky we are.
[Robyn] Hmm.
Why did you call me here?
To be my pièce de résistance, of course.
My masterpiece.
So, you read my depressing book about my childhood
only producing one photograph, and you ask to take mine.
And you say you're not predictable.
Not just a photograph.
My first nude.
No, Jim, I can't do that.
Why not?
I've never done anything like it.
Even so, this is the start of your second life.
You've just been reborn.
Celebrate that.
This conversation is over.
Jane can't pass her medical.
You know that, right?
I only have a limited supply without the means to make more.
-So... -I'll say it's cancer.
Dormant, and under normal circumstances,
not a threat,
but with Novice accelerating all cell growth,
it's just too dangerous.
But she'll think she has cancer.
[tense music building]
I will give you the rest of your supply,
and then it's up to you as to whom you decide to share it with.
What if I let you photograph me?
I can't force you to do that.
Then, maybe, I can tell her.
No, your mere presence will deeply offend her,
make her realize what she can't have, will never have.
Just let me handle it.
[♪]
Okay.
Speak to Jane.
I can't stop thinking what I'm going to do with the rest of my life.
[sighs] Maybe traveling.
Do you know there's an island
called Bonin Island just off Japan?
I can't imagine what I should be doing there.
[laughing]
-You know when dad's coming? -How come you're on Novice?
Surely, you weren't our age when you started.
Any moment now.
Hello? I asked you a question.
[Robyn] Age isn't a disease that only affects the elderly.
Anna is going to become a singer-songwriter.
What, you think I'm Hannah Montana?
I think you've got it.
[doorbell ringing]
We're round here!
And what were you in your first life?
I lived under a bridge, and fucked for drugs.
What? Your book says we should keep it real, you feel me?
I feel you. [chuckling]
-Dad. -Hi, sweetheart.
-Can we have a word? -Yes.
[tense music playing]
[indistinct conversation]
I've got cancer!
[sobbing]
[typing]
[clock ticking]
[sandpaper scraping]
[grunting]
They just won't stop shaking.
Yeah, well, check mine, too.
[sighs] Like a pair of recovering addicts we are.
[Anna] Yes. You're no recovering addict, bitch.
With all the prescription drugs I take,
I am yet to recover... bitch.
[Anna laughs]
[knocking]
-I'm taking a break, yeah? -Yeah.
I brought you Novice.
Robyn, we spoke about this.
You not wanting to take it
is like-- like telling me
that you would prefer dying to being with me.
-Well, that's not true, my love. -Then why?
You'll clearly, make a great father.
We can be the same age again.
How can that not be marvelous?
Just let it go.
Just sit with me, talk.
I really long to spend time with you.
And you don't see the irony in that request?
[sighs]
Okay.
[photo frame clatters]
[grandfather clock chiming]
[Jane] That's it. We're going to [indistinct].
-[Oscar] Mm, and? -[Jane] Remember? He hated it.
[both laughing]
[Jane] He thought that tacos were cheap sandwiches.
He didn't trust anything dim sum.
Even baguettes were pretentious.
No, the only thing that Herbie liked was my chicken soup,
and then only when I made it to his mother's recipe.
[chuckling] Well, whatever you brought us today
was absolutely delicious.
[Jane] Tom yum goong, it's a traditional Thai soup--
Oh, yum.
Oh, my God.
I can't get used to you looking just like you did when we met.
Hmm.
Jane has very kindly offered to assist me around the house.
It would be my absolute pleasure.
Oh, that's really nice of you Jane, but I'm sure we can cope.
Well, she's a qualified nurse, and the doctor did say--
I am going to go and fetch that tea.
I know Jane, and when she's that nice, you can't trust her.
I think you're being a little paranoid, darling.
[chuckles]
You are just so together
and independent now.
You're just--
Wow, wow, wow.
You must be getting ready to leave the nest.
I mean, get a record contract, you are the complete package.
You are poised to be a star.
Look! I just thought, I have got the most darling little summer house.
It's totally independent.
You could make your music there as loud as you want.
Do you want to come and see it?
[crunching] Nah.
[Jane] There's no sugar.
Just a drop of honey and a pinch of cinnamon.
Tell me what you think.
-There you go. -Thank you.
-[Oscar] Mm, delicious. -Oh, good.
[Robyn] When are the bandages coming off?
Well, the--
The doctor in the clinic in Bangkok
said not to touch them till I was safely home.
How long have you been home?
A while.
Let me help you remove them.
I am sure it's perfect.
And I'm not showing you until it's been approved.
The, um... the muscles around the eyes just--
-They need to relax. -Mm-hmm.
No, no, no, no. [exhales in excitement]
[chuckles] Ugh.
[sighs]
-Okay. -Okay.
No, no, I can't look. I can't look.
-You tell me. -Okay.
Oh, my God.
Oh, I shouldn't have gone to the cheapest clinic.
[gasps]
It could just be that the swelling hasn't settled yet.
I need to be alone.
Jane...
[screaming] Go away!
[sobbing]
It's not good. Best you find another caregiver.
[Jane screaming]
Well, Jane was never very good at holding down a job.
[snickering]
[both laughing]
Oscar.
Robyn aborted your child a month into your marriage.
Now I've got something to giggle about, too.
Is that true?
Oscar...
It's true.
I--
I'll be at the Mumbles.
Oscar.
I can explain.
[clock ticking]
[eerie instrumental playing]
[baby cooing]
[♪]
[Oscar] "I wonder why there are always ravens around the graveyard," and I said--
[all] Because they've been dying to get in.
[all laughing]
Oscar?
You ready to talk?
I thought you didn't have grandchildren.
I know, I thought so too. [laughs]
Strange, isn't it? [chuckles]
I'll make some tea.
Chamomile?
I'll come and pick some stuff up tomorrow.
Come now, Oscar.
I thought I would be a terrible mother.
Even worse than mine.
Come home. Please.
I'm not doing this to punish you.
[tea pouring]
[suspenseful instrumental playing]
You say you don't want to punish me, but it feels a lot like you are.
[Oscar] Well, you know, you can always visit any time you'd like.
I don't want you to dread coming here just like a young person would.
Fifty years of marriage, and it's this simple for you.
Fifty years is nothing in eternity.
No. No, stop thinking for me. Is this really what you want?
Yes, I think it is.
But first, I want to take a little nap.
-God, on your single bed? -Yes, on my single bed.
[tense music building]
[camera shutter clicks]
I have what I need.
[♪]
[exhales in excitement]
[whispering] Why are you being a gentleman?
Put it on a timer.
You want a picture of us?
-[camera beeping] -Five seconds.
[faster beeping]
[camera shutter clicks]
I'll need the photos as soon as.
[♪]
[knocking on door]
[exhales in excitement]
-Our portrait. -Oh, uh, thank you.
I developed it as soon as you left.
Jim Petrak, really?
-White sunglasses? -Yeah. Down with the kids.
I don't think so, and even when it was in fashion, it wasn't fashionable.
-Can I give you a hand? -No.
-You're going away? -No.
Look, we should talk about what happened yesterday.
-Never. -What's that supposed to mean?
I don't have time for this, Jim.
I don't get you.
You take my daughter in, you get naked in my apartment,
you do Novice without Oscar, and now, you want nothing to do with me.
I took Anna in to give Oscar a taste of fatherhood.
I did Novice, because I want to have a baby with him.
And I asked you to take this photograph,
because-- because I wanna make him jealous,
so he finally comes around.
Do you get it now?
All this to have a baby with him?
It has nothing to do with you.
And you think you're the sort of woman he'd want to have a child with?
Fuck off, father of the year.
I feel like such a fool.
[knocking on door]
-Thought I'd save you the trip. -Let me take that.
Thanks. Thank you. That's very kind, thanks.
Come in. Come in.
[sandpaper scraping]
Something I wanted you to see.
[ominous instrumental playing]
I forgot how a 30-year-old's skin feels.
So tightly stretched over his muscular flesh.
-Unnecessary. -Just thinking about it,
with his potential to earn resources, he'd make a great father.
He could teach our child, or even children, to lead successful lives.
-Unnecessary! -What's the matter?
You did everything you wanted, didn't you?
No regrets. This is what you wanted.
To live an average life.
Not to set the bar too high, to avoid the disappointment of failure,
-drown those dreams in excuses... -Unnecessary!
...and not accept second chances because what reason,
what excuse could you possibly come up with
to justify being average the second time around?
Unnecessary!
That is what you want, isn't it?
To breathe your last breath as a self-justified failure.
Unnecessary.
There you are.
Unnecessary.
[furniture clattering]
[eerie melody building]
[furniture clattering]
[door slams shut]
[birds chirping]
Sometimes I think I might be a horrible person.
Said the pretty lady to the dirty old man.
[both laugh]
I'll tell you something.
Let's go home.
[Robyn inhales deeply]
Okay.
-[kisses] -Mm.
[slow eerie music plays]
[♪]
I finished my book.
Oh.
How did you end it?
With her leaving.
[Oscar chuckling]
[Robyn] You sure I can't take you?
I want to take the bus.
And I'm taking these after all.
If it gets weird at Jane's house,
you come back here.
Promise me?
Mm-hmm.
[Oscar chuckles]
[Oscar sighs]
[Anna chuckles]
[tin foil rustling]
[Anna chuckles] It's pretty.
It's pretty beautiful.
It's my birthday coming up soon
and I wondered if you'd come back
and do a show for us.
Paid for, of course.
You want me to sing at your birthday?
Well, if I can afford it.
[both chuckling]
You'll be all right.
Yeah?
-See? -Mm-hmm.
It's not shaking anymore.
-Thanks. -You got it?
Yeah.
Thank you for everything.
[Oscar chuckles]
[♪]
So you like her music now?
Well, how else are we gonna get her to come and see us?
You know the old have to bribe the young
to get them to come and visit.
-[laughs] -Everybody knows that.
[both chuckling]
I, um...
I feel that it's not finished.
That it isn't done.
Since when do you have such a strong opinion on my work?
[Oscar chuckles] Oh, no.
Well, I love the idea that we're all addicts addicted to time,
that Noviceterians will constantly need
to redefine their meaning.
But, Robyn, darling, it doesn't tell me
how you feel about it.
Hmm.
Fancy a cup of tea?
[Oscar chuckles] Okay.
♪ The last time That I held for you ♪
♪ I came over to your house And we got drunk ♪
♪ On your bed ♪
♪ I knew it was the last time ♪
♪ We'd be making love Before you left me ♪
♪ Alone in your head ♪
♪ I remember When I fell for you ♪
♪ I was 15, early 2000 Full of innocence ♪
♪ Always close to the mend ♪
♪ And now I just Call you a friend ♪
♪ Can I get high on you? ♪
♪ Drown in all your oceans ♪
♪ Can I get high on you? ♪
♪ Give me The double dose emotions ♪
♪ Can I get high on you? ♪
♪ High on you ♪
♪ Be your little psycho ♪
♪ The last time ♪
♪ The last time That I held for you ♪
♪ I was overdosing On your tears ♪
♪ While you were drinking wine ♪
♪ I'm glad I was your muse ♪
♪ Even if it lasted For a little while ♪
♪ It came to my attention ♪
♪ I was looking for myself ♪
Oscar! What happened, Oscar?
I-- I'll get the car.
♪ You held on too tight ♪
♪ Thank God the rope broke ♪
♪ And I didn't see it through ♪
[gravel crunching]
♪ Can I get high on you? ♪
♪ Give me The double dose emotions ♪
♪ Can I get high on you? ♪
[indistinct whispering]
[Robyn] Stay with me, okay? Okay, I've got you.
[panting] Okay.
♪ Like sinking sand ♪
[Oscar groaning]
♪ You held my hand ♪
♪ You filled my brain ♪
♪ With gold and silver ♪
[Robyn] Help me! Help me! Please, help me!
Help me! He's in here.
♪ Help me get high on you ♪
♪ High on you ♪
♪ Be your little psycho ♪
[rattling]
[hospital din]
-[Jim] Hi. -Hi.
[Jim sighs]
I, um-- I finished it in one sitting.
It's--
it's magnificent.
And don't think I'm being biased when I say it's your best work.
It's not finished yet.
[doctor] Miss?
Are you here for Oscar Smith?
[Jim] This is Elizabeth, Oscar's niece.
Elizabeth, I regret to inform you that
the cancer has spread from the pancreas.
Cancer?
[doctor] You didn't know?
Well, the important thing is that he's comfortable.
Comfortable? What are you saying, Doctor?
[doctor] I wish I had better news.
He is stable now, but he doesn't have long.
[sobbing softly]
You can see him.
Doctor, you don't understand that I did this to him.
-I did this. -[doctor] It's completely normal to feel responsible--
No, no, no, no, no. This is my fault.
Thank you, Doctor. I've got this. Thank you.
-I gave him Novice, Jim. -Shh!
I gave him Novice.
[sighs]
All right, listen. [sighs]
This is very serious.
If you say anything now, you could go to prison.
That means no more Novice,
no more endless possibilities, nothing.
How are you thinking of Novice now when he's dying, Jim?
-He's dying of cancer. -That Novice accelerated.
[Jim] No.
[Robyn sobbing]
[hyperventilating]
I am so selfish, Jim.
-Stop this. -I did this to him.
-I'm so selfish. -Stop this.
Listen, Robyn. Robyn, listen.
Please, stop this. Stop it.
You knew that you would have to say goodbye to everyone you loved
the moment you took that formula.
Not to Oscar.
I can-- I can--
I need Oscar because...
he is everything that I lack.
No, no, no.
I don't think we should see each other again, Jim.
[sobs] I'm sorry. You and me, we just--
we would bring out the worst in each other.
[somber music plays]
[rhythmic beeping]
You were right.
I'm not done with it yet.
"You may find in Novice your forever.
The mirage of the solution to your regret."
See?
[Jane gasps]
"But as new life enters,
what you think, how you feel,
who you are still flows out."
You're a painting now.
That's how I see you.
Thank you.
[music swells]
"And so the world does not need Novice
for you to become immortal."
[Robyn panting]
"Just the sharing of your love
blossoming in a lover.
That is the path my Oscar chose to take.
His infinite life
found in his love for me,
his love I will one day share with another.
My Oscar.
The only human I knew
that walked the path to no regret."
It's beautiful, Robyn.
It's beautiful.
And it's true.
I'm pregnant, Oscar.
Oh.
Oh, wonderful.
-Really? -And you know what our first trip is going to be?
[chuckles]
I trust his father approves.
[chuckles]
Why didn't you tell me about the cancer?
Well,
I didn't want you to know because if you knew,
you would have stopped taking Novice.
I would have stopped taking Novice,
but you would have still been alive.
Alive with cancer, Robyn.
Cancer.
The quicker the better.
I'm so sorry, Oscar.
What for?
What for? For wanting me in your life forever?
No, that's the most wonderful thing
anyone has ever wanted from me.
-[Robyn chuckles] -Thank you.
[sniffling] How am I gonna do this without you?
Oh, you've always done it without me.
And to be a mother?
[Oscar chuckles]
Oh, are you kidding?
Nobody knows how to do that.
[Robyn chuckles]
[Oscar sighs]
[ominous orchestral music plays]
[Oscar sighs]
[baby giggling]
[toddler giggling]
[teenager giggling]
[♪]
["Dreaming Again" by Anna Wolf plays]
♪ As the sky falls down I bondage myself ♪
♪ Upside down here I go again ♪
♪ Playing pretend ♪
♪ As the snow falls down I bondage myself ♪
♪ Upside down I take a deep breath ♪
♪ My fears are right again ♪
♪ We're climbing over mountains ♪
♪ Broke off all the trees ♪
♪ Stood on the ledge ♪
♪ Took one step back ♪
♪ And looked inside of me ♪
♪ We're finding All the diamonds ♪
♪ Swam all the seas ♪
♪ Stood on the ledge ♪
♪ And took one step back ♪
♪ And found me ♪
♪ And the choir goes ♪
[♪]
♪ My days are young ♪
♪ In time I will see ♪
♪ Dreaming again ♪
[♪]
[soft piano melody plays]
[soft orchestral music plays]
[music ends]