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Once upon a time, there was a little girl

and she was in the world, and the world didn't hurt her.

She wasn't too far into it, just out of her front door

when it happened.

From then on, the universe was two things.

The dark, loud, and it smelled.

And the world, which was worse.

And in the dark, I thought that I was alone.

And at first I was okay,

but I never saw anyone else outside.

So I thought he was the whole world.

And I thought that it was just me and him in the universe.

And that wouldn't be enough.

I used whatever I could to feel.

I couldn't see them, not really,

but I drew them with whatever I could feel.

Then I wasn't alone.

It was weeks they said,

but they didn't know it was forever.

I heard later, I didn't know at the time.

All I know is I picked the wrong thing to draw

with and it saved me.

And that was a long time ago. It was news.

I was news.

And I thought that was all of it.

For everyone else, that was all of it.

And for a long time,

I thought I was okay, that I could be better.

I thought that I could be strong,

but everything out there reminded me of it.

And every year I let my world get a little bit smaller.

It wasn't giving up all at once.

It was one thing at a time until there wasn't much left.

I think maybe it would keep getting smaller

'til I was afraid of this room or that,

or some corner felt wrong or too big.

And I'd go into smaller and smaller spaces

until someday I'd crawl into the bathtub or under my bed

and I'd never be able to come out.

And that's where they'd find me or they wouldn't.

And the only thing to do would be to find my friends.

Package.

Mail day.

What is this?

This isn't canvas.

So I say a donation of

and she disappoints us both by not saying cash.

[So what is it?

Art supplies. Didn't you open it?

To be honest, you could sell these

for more than I've been getting 'em for your work.

No offense, they're just that fancy.

Yeah, I saw the paint and all that other stuff,

but these sheets.

Vellum, darling.

It's vellum. The Magna Carta is written on it.

- It, it looks like skin. - Because it is.

Of what?

Something expensive. Are you hearing me?

Okay, so what, what is all this supposed to do?

I don't know. To inspire you?

It's up to you, darling.

When can I expect your next?

Couple weeks?

Lovely. Kiss, kiss.

Yeah. Tado.

Let's see what we can make with you.

It's in the past. Nothing lasts.

This too shall pass.

Good morning, Harold.

Shut up, Mimi. No, you're a whore.

You know, why don't you just shut the fuck up for once Mimi?

♪ Tweedle-lee-dee-dee-dee, tweedle-lee-dee-dee ♪

♪ Tweedle-lee-dee-dee-dee, tweedle-lee-dee-dee ♪

♪ Tweedle-lee-dee-dee-dee, tweedle-lee-dee-dee ♪

♪ Tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet ♪

♪ He rocks in the tree tops all day long ♪

♪ Hoppin' and a-boppin' and a-singing his song ♪

♪ All the little birds on Jaybird Street ♪

♪ Love to hear the robin go tweet, tweet, tweet ♪

♪ Rockin' robin, tweet, tweet, tweet ♪

♪ Rockin' robin, tweet, tweedle-lee-dee ♪

♪ Blow rockin' robin, 'cause we're really gonna rock tonight ♪

♪ Tweet, tweet, tweedle-lee-dee ♪

♪ Every little swallow, every chick-a-dee ♪

♪ Every little bird in the tall oak tree ♪

♪ The wise old owl, the big black crow ♪

♪ Flappin' their wings singing go bird go ♪

♪ Rockin' robin tweet, tweet, tweet ♪

♪ Rockin' robin tweet, tweedle-lee-dee ♪

♪ Blow rockin' robin, 'cause we're really gonna rock tonight ♪

♪ Tweet, tweedle-lee-dee ♪

♪ Tweedle-lee-dee-dee-dee, tweedle-lee-dee-dee ♪

♪ Tweet, tweedle-lee-dee-dee ♪

♪ Tweet, tweet, tweedle-lee-dee-dee ♪

♪ Tweet, tweedle-lee-dee-dee ♪

♪ Tweedle-lee-dee-Dee, tweet, tweet ♪

It's in the past, nothing lasts.

so, so fast.

Where'd he go?

Where'd he go?

- Three weeks? - Forever.

Maybe he's missing.

I guess for you, he definitely is.

You know what I think?

Yeah, you think that it should inspire me.

You think that everything should inspire me.

You've sent me one painting in three weeks.

I've sold four.

I have an empty wall and people are looking at it,

thinking it's art.

I'm trying, it's just that...

Have you tried the new stuff,

the weird stuff?

No, not yet.

Well, he's missing for you.

Maybe he needs a missing persons poster.

That's how you find him, maybe.

I hate you.

And I'm just using you

for the work and the money.

We know. Kiss, kiss.

Okay, bye.

Who are you when you're out there in the world?

When I'm not watching?

Do people know you?

They think that they know you, but they don't.

Who misses you when you're gone? Besides me, of course.

Who are you when I can't see you?

That's what we're gonna find out.

Who are you, Benji?

He killed a lot of people, didn't he?

Ah, but he had a better style.

Besides, he was out for a kingdom.

Half the size of France.

It's up to you, darling.

When can I expect your next?

Are you hearing me?

Are you hearing me?

Are you hearing me? Are you hearing me?

Are you hearing me? Are you hearing me?

Are you hearing me?

I don't know what I expect. You were never from me.

You like me, don't you, Harry?

I guess you can't leave, can you?

Would you leave if you could?

Yeah. Me neither.

Get outta my house. Seriously, Benji, get out!

Get outta my home.

Benji, you need to leave!

I don't know why you're here.

Just take anything. I don't care.

Please, just get out.

Please. I don't want you here.

I don't want you, I don't want you here. Get out!

Is this really happening?

What does it mean if it is? What does it mean if it's not?

I'm sorry.

How?

Oh God. You're bleeding.

I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to cut you.

I'm gonna get something for your hand, okay?

Just stay here, okay?

Stay.

I think that I might have made you.

I'm sorry, I don't even know if this is real.

Just stay.

Okay.

Just stay.

I'm gonna get you some clothes.

Name.

Title, appellation, character, reputation.

To give an appellation to, to mention by name, to dominate,

to style, to term, to call.

To designate. To nominate.

We should give you a name. Hmm.

How about Webster?

Yeah?

Webster.

Web.

Webster.

Web.

- Webster. - Webster.

Oh, you got it.

Webster.

Okay. What else can we teach you?

This is a canvas. I made you out of a canvas.

You see?

Webster?

Webster. Yeah.

Exactly. Exactly.

Okay, good. You are learning.

This is yellow. Yellow.

And we'll start with something simple.

Okay, what's yellow?

The sun. The sun is yellow.

The sun is yellow, right?

So if you were to go outside,

which is up in the sky, right?

So this is outside, out past here.

I don't go outside.

You don't go outside either.

But the sun is outside.

And that's why we're inside.

No outside.

Yeah. No outside.

Exactly. Exactly.

Okay. Here, why don't you try painting something?

Let's, what color do you like?

Do you wanna pick a color?

You can, you can choose a color. You choose.

Oh, oh, oh.

Okay.

Normally we use

brushes, paint brushes.

But these are your fingers.

Sometimes we use things

besides our fingers to do things like helpers,

like helper, finger.

So like painting, you normally use a brush.

A brush, right?

Or eating, like eating. Oh God.

I don't even know how to explain eating to you.

You know what? Why don't we go try to eat something?

Oh, that?

Webster.

No, that's Mimi.

Yeah, she's my friend.

Well, between me and you, she's kind of a bitch.

But like you, you're my friend.

Mimi, Webster, Dulce.

Mimi Dulce, friend.

You see?

- Friends. - Yeah.

Inside friends.

- Friends. - Friends.

Tea hot. Hot.

Don't do that. Burn yourself like me.

You wanna try eating?

And then you just kind of like-

- Hot, hot!

Yeah, I know.

Well, I'm not going to eat it.

It's too hot. You're right.

But that's really good. That's really good.

That's really good.

You chew it and then you swallow it.

Here.

Okay, now you try.

No, no, no.

Yeah.

Okay. Yeah, that's good.

That's good.

But good job.

You did the right thing.

Yeah, exactly.

Okay. Yeah, you can eat it now.

Chew. MmHmm.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Good job.

You missed a little, but that's okay. We'll get there.

You like that painting, huh?

Hey, you wanna come with me?

Right.

Okay.

Good night.

Good night.

Oh my God.

I haven't slept like that in years.

It was completely dreamless.

So, Harold Eats just like us.

It's, you know, it's not hot, but yeah, that's the idea.

Yeah.

So he can eat.

- Chew. - Chew.

Yeah, exactly.

Friends.

That's Mimi.

Right.

Friends?

You wanna make Mimi?

I don't really even know how this works.

I mean,

you're here, but

should we try to make her?

Right.

Okay, let's do it.

Let's see how we can do this.

Okay, so maybe we'll need

more vellum.

Can you hand me, um...

You know what, grab that vellum.

The brown one?

No, here. This one.

Just this. This is vellum.

Will you hold this?

Thank you.

I don't know if it'll work for sure, just so you know.

But we'll try.

Friends, friends. We'll try.

Let's see if we can get some water on this.

Holy fucking shit.

Thank you.

You don't smell like anything.

I normally don't like the way people smell.

But you don't smell like anything.

You're the first person I've ever had here

in my house or my bed.

I don't really like people.

I don't think they like me much either.

Stay with me.

Please.

Right.

- Good night. - Good night.

Hi.

You're here.

Here.

It worked.

It.

You. You worked.

Webster.

Webster, come here.

It's okay.

Webster.

Here.

Here.

Here.

Here.

It's okay.

Webster.

- Mimi? - Yeah.

Mimi. Mimi. Mimi?

You're Mimi.

Your name is Mimi.

This is Webster. Webster.

I'm Dulce.

Dulce.

And you're Mimi

Dulce.

Dulce.

Webster.

- Yeah. - Mimi.

It's okay. It's okay.

- Mimi. - Yeah.

Exactly.

That's exactly right.

Wow.

You're smart.

Smart. Mimi smart.

Yes.

Mimi is smart.

Mimi smart.

I'm gonna go get you some clothes, okay?

It's okay. Okay.

Me.

This is for you to wear.

Clothes.

- Clothes. - Clothes.

Yeah. These are buttons.

See? Button.

Button. Yeah.

Button. Exactly.

No button. No button.

Yeah, no button.

Webster doesn't have buttons. You're right.

Okay, well.

Painting?

Paint.

How about paint?

Let's try painting.

- Paint. - Paint.

Yeah. Painting.

- Yellow. - Yellow.

This is yellow.

It's a color.

These are brushes, paint brushes.

Yeah.

You put it on the canvas.

Yeah, just like that.

But you have to put paint on it first.

So, here.

Yeah, you put the brush in the yellow.

Yellow.

- Yellow. - Yellow.

Yeah. That's yellow.

- Yellow. - Yellow. Yeah.

Yellow, yellow, yellow.

That's really good.

Yellow.

Yellow, yellow.

Thank you.

Yeah, it's no problem.

What should we paint?

Whatever you want to paint.

How do you know how to talk?

You can talk now?

You can speak now?

Speak now.

I can do it on my own.

Okay.

- Thank you. - Yeah.

Webster, come on.

It's okay.

What can we do?

So I guess it's technically your birthday

'cause it's your first day here.

So, this is for you.

You can blow it out.

Oh, no.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Okay.

It's your turn. You can shower now.

I had an idea.

Oh.

Okay. Mimi!

Ow.

Hot.

He's saying it hurts.

It's okay. It's okay.

It hurts.

I'll be softer, but I had an idea.

Okay.

You see like mine?

I am going to take it out so I can do it to you.

Tell me if it hurts, okay?

Okay.

It's okay. I think maybe...

It's nice, it's just, it's not really me, you know?

But you didn't even look at it.

Yeah, it's...

You can shower now.

Do you have a family?

What?

Do you have a family?

You and Webster are my family.

But what about before me and Webster got here?

I had a family a long time ago, but...

Hey, I have an idea.

Wait.

Forgot about this thing.

What is that?

It's a TV.

Okay. Let's see if we can turn this thing on.

Okay. Here, look at this.

Here we go.

There it's here. Here, let's change the channel.

Yeah, that's kind of crazy, right?

So, you can watch this whenever you want.

It's like the book I read.

Oh yeah?

The leaves and flowers.

It's outside.

Will we go outside?

No.

But this is a way to see it.

It's really loud out there.

Scary.

Cars and people.

I don't like it.

You don't like it? You don't like outside.

But I want to see it. Maybe one day.

Yeah, maybe one day.

We'll work on it.

- I'm hungry. - You hungry?

Okay, let's go make some food, then.

Thanks.

Webster.

Don't eat off the table. Eat from your bowl.

Don't eat on the table.

It's okay. It's okay.

Don't worry.

It's okay.

Okay, thanks Mimi.

Thanks, Mimi.

Mimi?

Mimi?

Mimi?

Mimi!

Mimi, what are you doing?

Mimi, you have to get away from that door.

I wanna go.

No, Mimi. It's not safe out there.

- I want to leave. - No, Mimi.

Mimi, You don't know what's out there.

You have to get away from the door. Please.

Please get away from the door.

Mimi, you have to get away from that door.

You're just scared.

No, I'm not, please.

You don't know what's out there, okay?

It's dangerous. You won't survive.

Can't survive in here.

You just want to keep us in here?

I don't want to stay here.

Why do you never leave? Why do you want to keep us here?

I wanna see the world. We can go together.

I'm not scared like you.

No, I'm not.

It's dangerous out there, Mimi.

You don't know what's out there. You won't survive.

Why do you say this?

I'm sorry. Mimi, please.

We can find another way.

I promise. Just please get away from the door.

People like us can't survive out there.

People like us?

What do you think I am?

You're my friend.

That you keep locked up.

No.

I just wanna stay right here.

I like to listen to the sounds.

It's nice.

I'm sorry. Mimi, please.

Let me out.

We can figure out another way,

but just please get away from the door, okay?

Please, Mimi.

Mimi.

Just for tonight. I'm begging you.

I'm begging you.

Please just come back up.

Just for tonight, please.

Mimi.

Sit down.

What's wrong with you? Why are you so afraid?

It's dangerous out there, Mimi.

You couldn't understand.

'Cause I'm not like you.

I'll tell you everything, okay?

I don't go out there

because I was so young when it happened.

I had only been in the world a few years.

I was right outside my front door,

drawing with chalk on the sidewalk.

And the next second I was being yanked

into a cold, dark place.

I couldn't see anything.

But, I remember the smell.

And from then on, I was either

inside the trunk

or I was outside.

At least inside I was alone.

Outside, everything hurt.

I thought that I would die in there.

I wished that I would when I didn't.

I didn't know how long I had been in there

when they found me,

or even what his face looked like, but

everything about the world reminded me of him.

So, every year

I let my world get a little bit smaller until finally they

would find me in a closet somewhere,

under the bed.

And so that's how I decided I would live,

alone and in the dark.

Until you

and you, Mimi.

And now I don't have to leave.

I have everything here.

Because you have Webster.

No, you too, Mimi.

I have both of you.

I'm not like you or you and I can't be here.

Mimi.

Mimi.

Mimi, I'm sorry.

I didn't mean to hurt your feelings in there.

Really, it's for your own good.

Mimi, I'm just trying to do what's best for you.

It's so dangerous out there.

This vellum looks really expensive.

Are you even hearing me?

I care about you guys and I just,

you don't understand the things that are out there.

I'm just trying to do what's best for you.

I'm sorry.

Try to find another way.

It's just not safe.

Webster!

Mimi, what are you doing?

Webster!

Come on, Webster. I'm so sorry.

Mimi!

Just wait, just wait.

Mimi!

Mimi, stop!

Stop! What are you doing?

You're gonna hurt him.

What is wrong with you?

Mimi!

Mimi!

Mimi, open the door!

Open the door, Mimi!

Mimi!

Open up this door!

What are you doing? Hot. Hot.

Mimi, open the fucking door!

Don't you hurt him!

Don't fucking touch him, Mimi!

Open the door!

Mimi, open the door!

Webster.

No, no!

No!

No, no, no, please.

Webster.

Hi, I'm Mimi.