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(birds chirping)

(leaves rustling)

(seabirds squawking)

(metallic creaking)

(baby burbles)

DAVID: Lessons in time travel,

chapter zero.

Who we were does not dictate

who we will be.

But often...

it's a pretty good indication.

(squelching)

Time travel does not give one

the opportunity to change oneself.

But rather,

to eradicate oneself...

(squelching)

(whirring)

...and allow something else to form

in the wake of what once was.

And in this is a sort of grace...

(rumbling)

...or madness.

Your turn.

(exhales)

(squelching)

(whirring)

(takes deep breath)

(exhales)

(speaking Mandarin)

It's okay.

I'm gonna fix this.

It'll all be over soon.

To the death.

DAVID: Because if we don't believe

in change...

...then we don't believe in time.

(door creaks closed)

(chain rattling)

I like this.

CHARLES: What?

Us.

You.

(chuckles)

I simply can't quit you, my dear.

Nor would you want me to, I suspect.

This is...

My Farouk.

The parasite in my skull.

(chuckles) Such a pleasure to see you again, Charles.

It's been quite some time.

You deceived me.

I came here in good faith.

You broke my boy.

Your boy has always been broken, I'm told.

Now I know you.

David.

The victim.

A boy pretending to be a man.

Always blaming others.

Boo-hoo.

-(Amahl laughs) -David, per...

(Farouk gasps)

I suppose...

this makes us dance partners.

Does it not?

-(gunshot echoes) -Go, go, go.

-Go. -(baby wailing)

Kerry!

Kerry...

Kerry.

(gasps)

(panting)

Oh, Mother, Grandmother.

It's come at last, the sickness.

(distorted): No!

-Behind you! -Where?

(glitchy): They're everywhere-everywhere.

So many. Too many.

(Gabrielle gasps)

We have to get out of this house.

Come on. (panting)

Okay.

(baby cries)

(laughter echoes)

Cary, what do we do?

Cary.

-(laughter echoes) -Spaghetti.

My brain is full of spaghetti.

What is happening? What is happening?

-The world's ending. -(laughter echoing)

(baby cries)

My world ended a long time ago.

-I can't think. I... -Yes, you can.

-Cary. -(whimpers)

I...

They consume time, yes?

So, theoretically, were someone to have

twice the temporal identity,

then that someone would be twice as difficult to consume.

(low growling)

Like...

like a loaf of bread with two times as much yeast.

-Or... -So you want us to bake bread?

Yeah, no. No, I...

I have an idea.

It may not stop them,

but it will certainly confuse them.

Together.

One more time.

(distant ticking)

(baby crying)

I see it now.

You're gods.

I wish.

(exhales sharply)

(laughter echoing)

(snarling)

Kerry.

Oh, I love my job.

(crying)

(grunting)

-(laughter echoing) -(baby fusses)

(gasps)

(crying continues)

(grunting)

(exhales)

(gun cocks)

(gasps)

(gun cocks)

(baby wailing)

David, whatever you're doing, do it faster.

(chain rattles)

DAVID: Your problem is you think

this fight is one-on-one.

You against me.

But I'm not alone. I am Legion.

We all share one thing...

DAVIDS (overlapping): Monster, monster,

monster, monster, monster, monster...

(overlapping voices continue)

(voices distorting)

(overlapping): Monster, monster, monster, monster!

DAVID: We hate you.

(shouting)

Monster.

(whistles)

(doors rattling)

(all grunting)

(grunts)

(groans)

(exhales)

(sighs)

(knife unsheathes)

(Farouk chuckles)

Such a disappointment.

We can make anything we fancy

in this arena of infinite promise,

and this is what we come up with?

Weapons? War?

Surely we have more imagination than that.

(cork pops)

-(shouts) -(baby crying)

CARY: How are we doing?

I can't talk. Killing.

CARY: Kerry? Is something wrong?

-Kerry? -(distant gunshots)

No.

-Nothing at all. -(gunshots continue)

(all grunting)

(shouting)

(grunts)

(screams)

AMAHL: Do you know why you have failed?

Because under all your anger...

there is a baby.

Scared, small.

Given away by his mother

and father.

A baby who is unloved,

and knows that he's unloved.

I'm a good person.

I deserve love.

AMAHL: No, you don't.

(shudders, sniffles)

(screaming)

Mother, do you think they'll drop the bomb?

Mother, do you think they'll like this song?

Mother, do you think they'll try to break my balls?

Ooh, ah

Mother, should I build the wall?

Mother, should I run for president?

Mother, should I trust the government?

Mother, will they put me

In the firing line?

Ooh, ah

Is it just a waste of time?

Hush now, baby, baby

Don't you cry

Mama's gonna make all of your nightmares

Come true

Mama's gonna put all of her fears

Into you

Mama's gonna keep you

Right here under her wing

She won't let you fly

But she might let you sing

Mama's gonna keep baby

Cozy and warm

Ooh, baby

Ooh, baby

Ooh, baby

Of course mama's gonna help build the wall

(shouting)

Mother, do you think she's good enough

For me?

Mother, do you think she's dangerous

To me?

Mother, will she tear your little boy apart?

Ooh, ah

Mother, will she break my heart?

Hush now, baby, baby

Don't you cry

Mama's gonna check out

All your girlfriends for you

Mama won't let anyone dirty

Get through

Mama's gonna wait up

Until you get in

Mama will always find out

Where you've been

Mama's gonna keep baby

Healthy and clean

Ooh, baby

Ooh, baby

Ooh, baby

You'll always be baby to me

Mother, did it need

To be so high?

GABRIELLE: My boy.

My beautiful boy.

(wind howling)

(strained breathing)

Time to die.

(strained laugh)

(choking)

(ticking)

(rumbling)

(glass clinking)

(laughter echoing)

(glass shatters)

(glass shatters)

(rumbling continues)

(gasping softly)

(electrical buzzing)

(squeaking)

(gasping softly)

(ticking)

(low growling)

("Al Sharp" by The Beta Band playing)

Is it because I'm beside myself with love

That I can't say these things to you...

Or is it because I'm beside myself with guilt

That I can't say these things to you...

Oh, you and me will never be

Fine

You and me will never be

Fine...

(panting)

(speaks Mandarin)

Is it because the life beyond the heart

Was taken out for good?

Al Sharp, he got the money

Or because the Power Ranger

Robots in disguise

Have called a war to you, honey?

You and me, we'll never be fine...

I've lived in your son's mind for 32 years.

I saw what he saw, I felt what he felt,

I thought what he thought.

And over time, what was once a prison became a person.

It's hard to hate someone you understand.

I love the boy, Charles.

I consider him, uh, my...

Son?

(chuckles)

Would that I could be as strong a father as you are.

But alas, it's not in my nature.

(laughs softly)

-May I be honest with you? -Please.

The man you met, the man I was,

he brought you here with base intentions.

To dominate, to punish.

Not because he was strong, because he was weak.

I was weak.

Now I'm older and weary of this churn.

We call it...

I did not come here to defeat David,

but to aid him in his quest.

What I'm trying to say is... I have changed.

-Well, then I have a proposition for you. -Hmm.

-CARY: Kerry? -(gunshots)

I don't feel so good.

It's nothing. It's just a little arthritis. We're still deadly.

(distorted giggling)

CARY: I-I'm scared. I don't want to die.

There is no glory

like the glory of one last battle.

(high-pitched whistling)

Please, Father,

before we go, there's one more thing I must do.

(Amahl choking)

David.

Stop!

(grunts, yells)

I had him!

-Yes, I saw the blood. -What did you think,

-I was gonna kill him with words? -David, stop.

Listen to me, please.

I see you. I do.

You're trapped in a war that you didn't start. This is my fault.

I did this. You never had a chance because of me.

What... what are you saying?

I'm saying that war is not the answer.

-(sighs) -It's the problem.

David, we don't need this barbarism.

-I've made a deal with Farouk. -What...?

Oh, you're saying we just leave?

I'm saying that we respect their right to exist

-and they respect ours, yours. -(scoffs)

Isn't that what you want?

-To be free? -I...

-Farouk will never go for that. -He will.

And what are we supposed to do, take him at his word?

We're telepaths. We never have to take anyone at their word.

I've... No, I-I've come this far,

and I can't just leave it up to...

David. David.

I wasn't there for you.

You needed me, your mother, and we gave you away.

I can't imagine doing it, but...

I adore you, David, and that will never change.

I could only have done it to protect you.

I was a baby.

I'll never know what that's like,

the pain of it, to be abandoned,

but I am here now,

and I want to make it right.

So, please, my darling boy...

...let me be your father.

(sniffles, shudders)

You have become soft in your old age. (laughs)

Was I really this bitter and filled with hate?

How petty you seem.

Here.

Let me show you what I have learned.

(whirring)

My beautiful boy.

YOUNG AMY: Come on, king. Come on.

DAVID: "To bed, to bed," the mother said.

(whistle blows)

(glass shatters)

(overlapping voices echoing)

LENNY: It's always blue.

It's always blue.

DAVID: You leave me alone! God!

(man yelling)

(indistinct whispering)

LENNY: Hold the phone. Is that...?

Who's that?

Why are the hot ones always so crazy?

MAN: How does that make you feel?

SYD: We've got to get better.

I was looking for you.

David? No.

YOUNG DAVID: Trick or treat!

LENNY: They're coming for you...

CLARK: David!

WOMAN: Take my hand.

(overlapping voices continue)

SYD: We can do together.

Do you see?

FAROUK: You decide what is real and what is not.

DAVID: This is you.

FAROUK: Seeing you like this, what you have become.

Boy undone by revenge.

I'm sorry.

(grunting)

(crying)

Stay behind me.

(growling)

(high-pitched whistle)

(speaking Mandarin)

How did you...

Thank you.

Sydney Barrett, Gabrielle Xavier

and the infant David,

the universe acknowledges you,

that you exist and that your existence is important.

I can see that you've suffered,

that people you love have suffered,

and you want to know that it meant something.

It did.

It does.

Nothing of value is ever lost.

Did he do it?

David?

The David you know is almost gone.

His past changed.

And now, Sydney Barrett, your past will change, too.

The life you've lived, your memories,

everything will be new.

So I die?

This you, the you you are now.

But the you you will be?

She will be... glorious.

How do you...

I am time.

I see all.

I like your jumper.

Thank you.

-So do I die now? -No.

I will give you time for one last thing.

(sighs)

And thank you for helping me when I was human.

What just happened?

I think we saved the world.

So... a new beginning.

What will you do?

(chuckles softly)

Be a baby.

Then a boy.

Then a man.

(chuckles) Well, when you're grown,

come and see me.

Together, we will rule the world. (chuckles)

Mm, no.

I don't think I will.

Ah, well...

(low rumbling)

(rumbling continues)

(exhales)

Okay.

Now I'm ready.

(fire crackling)

Look at you.

I feel like I look sophisticated.

I was gonna say wise.

(boy laughing)

(model train chugging)

(footsteps approaching)

You okay, old man?

(grunts softly)

I don't think you can call me that anymore, huh?

Then...

...how about brother?

That works, my love.

That works.

(birds chirping)

This world...

...makes no sense when you're not in it.

I feel exactly the same way.

-Is David...? -No. He's upstairs.

With his friends.

Our baby has friends.

Thank God.

Are you all right?

Do you ever think you should have just let me sleep?

In the hospital?

Never.

-I saw demons. -Yes, you did.

I saw a monkey with a king in his head...

(both chuckle)

I saw our son as an adult...

but so angry.

And together we fought a mad tyrant.

So...

demons--

sounds like you got off rather lightly.

I can't do this without you.

He needs us both.

No more travel.

No more bloodshed.

You know, I've always wanted to become a teacher.

Are you gonna kiss me?

-Abso-bloody-lutely. -(chuckles)

(baby crying)

(baby cooing)

Hey.

Hey.

Are you not surprised to see me?

She told me. Switch.

I get to do it all over again.

This life.

Yeah.

And I bet you're gonna turn out extraordinary.

Without me around.

Yeah.

I am.

Sorry.

I like your mom.

(chuckles softly)

Yeah.

I'm looking forward to getting to know her.

So now what? (sighs)

We just sort of...

Fade away.

Into the ether.

I have to say, I didn't think you'd help me.

I didn't.

I helped him.

(baby cooing)

David.

Yeah?

Be a good boy.

(both chuckle softly)

(baby cooing)

("Happy Jack" by The Who playing)

Happy Jack wasn't old, but he was a man

He lived in the sand at the Isle of Man

The kids would all sing, he would take the wrong key

La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la...

So they rode on his head in their furry donkey

La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la...

The kids couldn't hurt Jack, they tried, tried, tried

They dropped things on his back

They lied, lied, lied, lied, lied

But they couldn't stop Jack, or the waters lapping

La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la...

And they couldn't prevent Jack from being happy

La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la

And they couldn't prevent Jack from being happy.

Captioned by Media Access Group at WGBH

MAN: Now I get it.