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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:58,701 --> 00:00:59,936 - Analyze. 2 00:01:00,036 --> 00:01:02,804 - Analytic circuits impaired. 3 00:01:02,871 --> 00:01:06,008 No threatening life form detected. 4 00:01:21,622 --> 00:01:23,291 No power left. No power left. 5 00:01:24,793 --> 00:01:27,895 Damage alarm! Damage alarm! Damage alarm! 6 00:01:31,498 --> 00:01:32,865 - Where were you? 7 00:01:32,965 --> 00:01:35,868 -I don't feel so good. 8 00:01:56,088 --> 00:01:57,387 - You... 9 00:01:58,589 --> 00:02:00,358 You piece of shit. 10 00:02:00,425 --> 00:02:01,892 -I resent that. 11 00:02:11,234 --> 00:02:13,436 - Fucking turdfish bird! 12 00:02:13,536 --> 00:02:15,404 Ah! 13 00:02:15,505 --> 00:02:17,539 Shit! Shit! 14 00:02:17,606 --> 00:02:18,942 Shit! 15 00:02:21,776 --> 00:02:23,746 Why didn't you warn me? 16 00:02:23,847 --> 00:02:26,448 -It's not a life form I'm familiar with. 17 00:02:28,783 --> 00:02:30,118 - Facts. 18 00:02:30,252 --> 00:02:31,519 What are the facts? 19 00:02:31,619 --> 00:02:34,123 There are things that can hurt me. 20 00:02:34,223 --> 00:02:36,292 There's a power grid on the meridian. 21 00:02:36,425 --> 00:02:40,094 If I can get there, this thing can beam me off. 22 00:02:42,896 --> 00:02:44,864 That's an assumption. 23 00:02:47,401 --> 00:02:49,803 Do I have amnesia? 24 00:02:50,770 --> 00:02:52,873 Am I brain damaged? 25 00:02:53,806 --> 00:02:55,409 Something is missing. 26 00:02:55,475 --> 00:02:57,810 - Somethingismissing. 27 00:03:01,914 --> 00:03:03,649 - Am I narrating? 28 00:03:03,750 --> 00:03:05,484 - Don't assume anything. 29 00:03:05,584 --> 00:03:06,719 That's how to survive. 30 00:03:06,819 --> 00:03:09,220 Anything can change. 31 00:03:09,321 --> 00:03:12,323 Everything will change. 32 00:03:19,832 --> 00:03:21,899 - Something feels fucked. 33 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:23,768 Everything is fucked. 34 00:03:23,835 --> 00:03:26,236 I could be captured at any moment. 35 00:03:26,337 --> 00:03:28,606 Another turdfish bird or something worse 36 00:03:28,673 --> 00:03:30,140 could fly out of nowhere. 37 00:03:33,676 --> 00:03:35,244 Do I have a wife? 38 00:03:36,613 --> 00:03:39,782 Children? Parents? 39 00:03:47,089 --> 00:03:50,859 All I have is a name. 40 00:03:51,759 --> 00:03:54,863 And why Lars Shrike? 41 00:03:54,996 --> 00:03:57,265 Mommy and Daddy Shrike? 42 00:03:57,365 --> 00:03:59,266 And baby Lars? 43 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:33,064 - Lars, good night. 44 00:04:43,875 --> 00:04:47,979 - If I dream, I don't remember. 45 00:04:49,980 --> 00:04:53,049 Was I a test tube baby on a spaceship? 46 00:04:53,149 --> 00:04:55,852 Was amnesia engineered into my genes, 47 00:04:55,918 --> 00:04:57,586 and I awoke to selfhood? 48 00:04:58,722 --> 00:05:01,024 Without the neuroses of parents 49 00:05:01,092 --> 00:05:04,428 and genetically programmed to navigate the world, 50 00:05:04,561 --> 00:05:09,263 whatever that world or planet or asteroid might be. 51 00:05:11,267 --> 00:05:14,770 And somewhere along the line, I failed to socialize, 52 00:05:14,870 --> 00:05:16,739 or I was wrongly accused, 53 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:18,873 and I wound up on a prison planet 54 00:05:18,940 --> 00:05:22,077 for a crime I forgot. 55 00:05:22,177 --> 00:05:26,881 Or was I genetically engineered to be a prisoner? 56 00:05:26,948 --> 00:05:29,448 Because prisons need prisoners. 57 00:05:31,619 --> 00:05:33,285 It could be a false memory... 58 00:05:34,855 --> 00:05:36,555 a memory implant. 59 00:05:37,790 --> 00:05:39,260 In this memory, 60 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:44,396 I was sent to a psychiatric hospital on the Alfvén moon. 61 00:05:46,733 --> 00:05:50,969 I was... am a manic depressive. 62 00:05:52,304 --> 00:05:53,938 I am manic. 63 00:05:54,039 --> 00:05:55,541 To avoid being depressed, 64 00:05:55,641 --> 00:05:58,710 I was falsely accused of industrial espionage 65 00:05:58,811 --> 00:06:00,078 because the watchers 66 00:06:00,146 --> 00:06:03,148 did not believe I could invent so many things. 67 00:06:09,319 --> 00:06:12,488 Lars Shrike... 68 00:06:15,592 --> 00:06:18,127 the hero of his own story. 69 00:06:20,329 --> 00:06:22,397 No. 70 00:06:43,250 --> 00:06:44,585 Ah! 71 00:06:44,685 --> 00:06:45,920 Fuck! 72 00:06:46,021 --> 00:06:48,623 -Damage alarm! Damage alarm! 73 00:06:48,689 --> 00:06:50,423 Damage alarm! 74 00:06:55,529 --> 00:06:57,129 Ouch! 75 00:06:59,366 --> 00:07:00,532 - Ah, shit. 76 00:07:13,445 --> 00:07:14,980 -Damage report: 77 00:07:15,048 --> 00:07:18,316 Barrel bent. Main circuit marginal. 78 00:07:18,383 --> 00:07:20,118 Aim unreliable. 79 00:07:20,218 --> 00:07:22,320 Navigation unreliable. 80 00:08:20,940 --> 00:08:22,408 - You're awake. 81 00:08:23,509 --> 00:08:24,676 It's OK, Lars. 82 00:08:26,779 --> 00:08:28,114 - How do you know my name? 83 00:08:29,047 --> 00:08:30,748 - You escaped. 84 00:08:30,848 --> 00:08:32,584 You're famous. 85 00:08:34,085 --> 00:08:37,422 Yes, I'm real. 86 00:08:38,688 --> 00:08:40,759 - Can you read my thoughts? 87 00:08:40,859 --> 00:08:43,261 - I can read your expression. 88 00:08:46,097 --> 00:08:46,964 - Are you... 89 00:08:47,097 --> 00:08:49,266 - A prisoner? Yes. 90 00:08:50,133 --> 00:08:53,570 Lottie. I escaped too. 91 00:08:54,638 --> 00:08:57,740 - Where are you from? What system? 92 00:08:57,807 --> 00:08:59,777 - Seoul. 93 00:08:59,877 --> 00:09:01,743 I have Earth parents. 94 00:09:01,811 --> 00:09:02,778 Do you? 95 00:09:04,814 --> 00:09:06,649 - I don't know. 96 00:09:06,782 --> 00:09:09,251 - Don't know or don't remember? 97 00:09:10,285 --> 00:09:11,887 - I don't remember. 98 00:09:11,987 --> 00:09:13,654 So I don't know. 99 00:09:15,223 --> 00:09:16,758 Where's my chrono-blaster? 100 00:09:16,825 --> 00:09:18,093 - Lars... 101 00:09:22,097 --> 00:09:23,732 - What are my options? 102 00:09:23,832 --> 00:09:26,567 Number one, she might not be what she seems. 103 00:09:26,667 --> 00:09:30,071 She might be a threat, a double agent. 104 00:09:30,171 --> 00:09:32,172 She might be anything. 105 00:09:33,307 --> 00:09:34,675 I can kill her. 106 00:09:34,809 --> 00:09:36,144 I have the element of surprise. 107 00:09:36,244 --> 00:09:40,180 -Damage alarm! Damage alarm! Damage alarm! 108 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:42,682 -Two, I can kiss her. 109 00:09:42,815 --> 00:09:45,118 Might be my first time, 110 00:09:45,185 --> 00:09:49,821 because amnesia is a form of virginity. 111 00:09:52,658 --> 00:09:57,029 Three, we can politely go our separate ways. 112 00:09:57,129 --> 00:09:59,297 I might double my odds of escape 113 00:09:59,364 --> 00:10:01,867 if the pursuers have to split up 114 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:04,603 to pursue me and Lottie separately. 115 00:10:04,703 --> 00:10:09,106 Four, I might find the duplicity of her friendliness exciting 116 00:10:09,207 --> 00:10:11,544 and have amazing sex with a double agent 117 00:10:11,644 --> 00:10:14,678 because she is pretending to be something she's not. 118 00:10:14,779 --> 00:10:15,712 -Damage alarm! 119 00:10:15,813 --> 00:10:18,615 -It's sex and death and self-loathing 120 00:10:18,715 --> 00:10:20,450 all rolled into one. 121 00:10:20,551 --> 00:10:21,618 Five... 122 00:10:21,718 --> 00:10:24,854 There are probably an infinite number of option, 123 00:10:24,955 --> 00:10:27,622 but I'd just like to stop thinking and kiss her. 124 00:10:42,304 --> 00:10:45,406 It's so cold and you're so warm. 125 00:10:45,540 --> 00:10:48,809 You're the nicest person I've met on this planet. 126 00:11:09,995 --> 00:11:11,898 Was there a Lottie? 127 00:11:11,998 --> 00:11:14,199 Was there a chrono-blaster? 128 00:11:15,502 --> 00:11:19,438 Did an imaginary Lottie steal an imaginary chrono-blaster? 129 00:11:27,779 --> 00:11:28,946 CB. 130 00:11:29,079 --> 00:11:30,513 -Lars. 131 00:12:16,557 --> 00:12:18,724 -Why a blue sky today? 132 00:12:20,827 --> 00:12:23,997 I don't know the astronomy of this planet. 133 00:12:24,097 --> 00:12:26,232 I don't even know its name. 134 00:12:32,471 --> 00:12:34,140 - Don't assume anything. 135 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:35,841 That's how to survive. 136 00:12:35,975 --> 00:12:38,409 Anything can change. 137 00:12:38,510 --> 00:12:41,513 Everything will change. 138 00:13:11,707 --> 00:13:14,877 - Fuck me, they got tracking devices. 139 00:13:14,977 --> 00:13:18,380 Maybe they're calibrated to a different life form. 140 00:13:19,314 --> 00:13:21,116 Elite guards? 141 00:13:21,216 --> 00:13:23,385 A native tribe? 142 00:14:08,592 --> 00:14:11,895 Ah, drinking cylinders. 143 00:14:11,996 --> 00:14:13,930 Clever. 144 00:14:17,567 --> 00:14:19,603 I need to wait for night. 145 00:14:22,773 --> 00:14:25,709 How does an amnesiac entertain himself? 146 00:14:29,546 --> 00:14:31,781 This is where I could relive memories. 147 00:14:31,915 --> 00:14:34,750 Review the moments that got me here. 148 00:14:36,085 --> 00:14:38,454 If I had memories. 149 00:14:41,757 --> 00:14:42,857 Ah! 150 00:16:57,715 --> 00:16:59,650 How does this work? 151 00:16:59,750 --> 00:17:02,187 Is it heat activated? 152 00:17:02,253 --> 00:17:03,919 By body heat. 153 00:17:05,421 --> 00:17:07,256 Pressure sensitive. 154 00:17:09,759 --> 00:17:12,194 Is there an access code? 155 00:17:13,829 --> 00:17:15,930 A pattern that you tap. 156 00:17:33,915 --> 00:17:35,949 Ah... 157 00:17:55,134 --> 00:17:56,869 My first good day. 158 00:17:58,138 --> 00:18:00,072 That I remember. 159 00:18:39,908 --> 00:18:42,176 Mmm. Mmm! 160 00:19:14,941 --> 00:19:17,943 A four-wheeled device. 161 00:19:22,649 --> 00:19:24,949 Units for solitary confinement. 162 00:19:27,485 --> 00:19:29,219 A penal colony. 163 00:19:34,292 --> 00:19:35,894 Is he a guard? 164 00:19:37,729 --> 00:19:39,897 Is this housing for the guards? 165 00:19:43,568 --> 00:19:46,704 A tracking device and a communicator. 166 00:19:46,804 --> 00:19:50,073 An evolved form of the chrono-blaster. 167 00:19:50,173 --> 00:19:52,242 - I'm highly evolved. 168 00:19:52,342 --> 00:19:53,410 - Quiet! 169 00:19:53,544 --> 00:19:55,845 -I'm very highly evolved. 170 00:20:01,250 --> 00:20:02,885 - Analyze. 171 00:20:04,652 --> 00:20:06,521 -Nutritional value. 172 00:20:06,588 --> 00:20:08,255 - Toxicity? 173 00:20:08,390 --> 00:20:10,658 -Low-level toxicity likely. 174 00:20:10,758 --> 00:20:13,028 - How low level? How likely? 175 00:20:13,095 --> 00:20:15,931 -Analytic circuits impaired. Power diminished. 176 00:20:16,064 --> 00:20:18,999 Immediate power recharge advised. 177 00:20:19,099 --> 00:20:21,335 - Where? How? 178 00:20:21,436 --> 00:20:24,337 -That's your job, not mine. 179 00:20:43,589 --> 00:20:46,290 - A rat in a maze... 180 00:20:47,426 --> 00:20:49,126 who thinks the maze is freedom. 181 00:21:47,347 --> 00:21:48,181 Well? 182 00:21:48,281 --> 00:21:50,448 - No access to power source. 183 00:21:51,452 --> 00:21:53,753 - Then how am I supposed to charge you? 184 00:21:53,853 --> 00:21:55,421 -I don't know. 185 00:22:28,018 --> 00:22:30,287 - Prison guards on patrol? 186 00:22:30,387 --> 00:22:33,121 Or maybe I crawled through a wormhole 187 00:22:33,223 --> 00:22:35,493 that connects the prison planet to this one. 188 00:22:35,559 --> 00:22:38,995 Maybe the guards followed me through the wormhole. 189 00:22:40,964 --> 00:22:43,898 Or maybe I am an experiment, 190 00:22:43,998 --> 00:22:47,301 gone awry or forgotten. 191 00:22:49,571 --> 00:22:51,072 Mmm. 192 00:23:21,868 --> 00:23:25,937 - Lars. Lars. Lars. 193 00:23:26,838 --> 00:23:28,272 Lars. 194 00:23:56,033 --> 00:23:57,966 - My heart is racing. 195 00:23:59,702 --> 00:24:01,302 My heart. 196 00:24:04,206 --> 00:24:07,043 How do I know I even have a heart? 197 00:24:07,143 --> 00:24:11,546 Maybe I'm bionic, but with fake blood sacks to fool me. 198 00:24:12,915 --> 00:24:16,483 Maybe I only think I'm warm-blooded. 199 00:24:18,052 --> 00:24:19,721 - Don't assume anything. 200 00:24:19,821 --> 00:24:21,456 That's how to survive. 201 00:24:21,556 --> 00:24:23,592 Anything can change. 202 00:24:23,658 --> 00:24:27,093 Everything will change. 203 00:24:33,667 --> 00:24:36,436 - What do they eat on my home planet? 204 00:24:36,503 --> 00:24:39,471 Or the space station, if that's where I was born. 205 00:24:40,607 --> 00:24:43,976 I can't remember what or how I ate in prison. 206 00:24:44,843 --> 00:24:46,512 Red wine vinegar. 207 00:24:46,646 --> 00:24:48,346 Vinegar? 208 00:24:50,349 --> 00:24:51,850 I can read. 209 00:24:51,983 --> 00:24:54,019 Red is a color. 210 00:24:55,286 --> 00:24:56,321 Wine... 211 00:24:57,356 --> 00:24:58,656 Vinegar. 212 00:25:00,125 --> 00:25:02,593 How do I know what these symbols mean? 213 00:25:18,673 --> 00:25:19,876 Ah... 214 00:25:19,976 --> 00:25:21,944 I am Lars Shrike. 215 00:25:22,045 --> 00:25:23,346 I can read. 216 00:25:23,446 --> 00:25:26,215 And I do not like red wine vinegar. 217 00:25:29,517 --> 00:25:31,120 I like apple juice. 218 00:25:32,355 --> 00:25:35,857 When I know 10 or 100 or 200 things about myself, 219 00:25:35,957 --> 00:25:38,025 will I know who I am? 220 00:25:41,630 --> 00:25:46,167 How many facts does it take to make me into a me? 221 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:02,214 A prisoner? 222 00:26:03,816 --> 00:26:05,384 An outcast? 223 00:26:07,754 --> 00:26:09,721 Scavenging. 224 00:26:12,022 --> 00:26:14,494 What does scavenging mean? 225 00:26:14,594 --> 00:26:19,496 - To get food or other objects from refuse or rubbish. 226 00:26:26,937 --> 00:26:28,371 -Water. 227 00:26:30,707 --> 00:26:32,608 Water. 228 00:26:58,633 --> 00:26:59,733 Oh... 229 00:27:07,242 --> 00:27:10,144 - My battery is dying. 230 00:27:11,146 --> 00:27:16,149 There is less and less of me left. 231 00:27:29,496 --> 00:27:32,064 - Remotely piloting a craft. 232 00:27:35,266 --> 00:27:37,337 Yes, it must be a prison, 233 00:27:37,470 --> 00:27:40,638 with each one of them imprisoned in their own cell. 234 00:27:44,275 --> 00:27:46,610 Maybe this isn't a prison. 235 00:27:48,012 --> 00:27:50,348 A family? 236 00:27:53,282 --> 00:27:55,820 How do I know those words? 237 00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:58,520 Did I have a family? 238 00:28:00,022 --> 00:28:01,258 Did I have a father? 239 00:28:01,358 --> 00:28:04,427 A brother? A sister? 240 00:28:05,495 --> 00:28:06,629 A mother? 241 00:28:09,699 --> 00:28:12,700 Have I lost all memory of my family? 242 00:28:24,612 --> 00:28:28,649 - Cannot... access... 243 00:28:28,716 --> 00:28:31,519 power... source. 244 00:29:02,747 --> 00:29:04,249 - Ah... 245 00:29:15,226 --> 00:29:17,261 A tool... 246 00:29:18,928 --> 00:29:20,897 For what? 247 00:29:22,098 --> 00:29:24,533 Ah! A tool. 248 00:29:58,632 --> 00:30:00,266 Ah! 249 00:31:02,189 --> 00:31:03,857 This moment will pass. 250 00:31:05,293 --> 00:31:07,195 Or will it? 251 00:31:07,296 --> 00:31:10,532 Everything that happens happens now. 252 00:31:11,465 --> 00:31:14,333 Now lasts forever. 253 00:31:16,036 --> 00:31:17,604 Now... 254 00:31:18,505 --> 00:31:20,006 is a present. 255 00:31:21,207 --> 00:31:24,710 - Good night... 256 00:31:25,779 --> 00:31:27,380 Lars. 257 00:31:28,981 --> 00:31:30,316 -Good night. 258 00:32:32,341 --> 00:32:35,510 - So that's what you look like. 259 00:32:37,210 --> 00:32:38,746 - You. 260 00:32:38,846 --> 00:32:40,614 -I... 261 00:33:06,404 --> 00:33:09,707 -Good night... 262 00:33:11,141 --> 00:33:12,976 ...Lars. 263 00:34:18,503 --> 00:34:19,971 -California. 264 00:34:23,208 --> 00:34:25,043 That's on Earth. 265 00:34:25,176 --> 00:34:26,712 Am I on Earth? 266 00:34:28,112 --> 00:34:30,447 Or am I being tricked? 267 00:34:31,380 --> 00:34:33,018 If I was an inventor, 268 00:34:33,119 --> 00:34:36,621 maybe there are inventions in my head they want access to. 269 00:34:38,289 --> 00:34:42,025 Is my every move being watched? 270 00:34:42,125 --> 00:34:43,793 Is all this an illusion? 271 00:34:45,027 --> 00:34:49,732 There might be camouflaged cameras everywhere. 272 00:34:52,568 --> 00:34:53,904 Maybe... 273 00:34:54,036 --> 00:34:57,339 Maybe everything that I see is a projection. 274 00:34:57,407 --> 00:34:59,075 Some demigod flipped a switch. 275 00:34:59,175 --> 00:35:01,009 That some demigod flipped a switch. 276 00:35:01,076 --> 00:35:02,878 When the sky went from green to blue. 277 00:35:02,978 --> 00:35:04,146 Maybe I'm a grand experiment. 278 00:35:04,246 --> 00:35:07,983 Maybe I'm a grand experiment facing budget cuts. 279 00:35:08,083 --> 00:35:11,486 And tomorrow, there will be no sun. 280 00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:16,156 Tomorrow, there will be no tomorrow. 281 00:35:43,115 --> 00:35:44,348 What planet is this? 282 00:35:45,917 --> 00:35:47,018 - Huh? 283 00:35:47,118 --> 00:35:48,287 - What is that? 284 00:35:48,387 --> 00:35:50,254 - It's a cell phone. 285 00:35:51,355 --> 00:35:52,790 - From a prison cell. 286 00:35:52,924 --> 00:35:54,125 - No. 287 00:35:54,225 --> 00:35:55,792 - Why is it called a cell phone? 288 00:35:55,927 --> 00:35:57,794 - I don't know. It just is. 289 00:35:57,894 --> 00:35:59,564 - Is it a tracking device? 290 00:35:59,631 --> 00:36:01,464 - Yeah, they can track you with this. 291 00:36:01,598 --> 00:36:02,866 - Weapons function? 292 00:36:02,967 --> 00:36:04,101 - No. 293 00:36:04,201 --> 00:36:05,535 - Navigation function? 294 00:36:05,635 --> 00:36:06,870 - Yeah. 295 00:36:06,971 --> 00:36:09,106 - Can it connect to a power beam? 296 00:36:09,206 --> 00:36:10,107 - A power beam? 297 00:36:10,207 --> 00:36:12,107 - Transport beam to transport off the planet. 298 00:36:12,209 --> 00:36:13,375 - Huh? 299 00:36:13,475 --> 00:36:14,978 - How can I get one? 300 00:36:15,111 --> 00:36:16,212 - Money. 301 00:36:16,312 --> 00:36:18,279 I get disability benefits. 302 00:36:19,481 --> 00:36:22,051 - A disability is a benefit? 303 00:36:22,151 --> 00:36:23,553 - Yeah. 304 00:36:23,653 --> 00:36:27,823 They give you money if you have a disability. 305 00:36:29,257 --> 00:36:30,558 Or you can panhandle. 306 00:36:30,658 --> 00:36:33,794 You can ask folks for money. 307 00:36:33,894 --> 00:36:35,464 Or you can collect bottles 308 00:36:35,564 --> 00:36:37,765 and take them to the recycling center. 309 00:36:38,767 --> 00:36:41,167 But it'll take a hell of a lot of bottles 310 00:36:41,301 --> 00:36:43,269 to get a cell phone with. 311 00:36:45,573 --> 00:36:47,574 - I've learned a lot from you. 312 00:36:48,474 --> 00:36:49,809 Thank you. 313 00:36:51,777 --> 00:36:54,247 - What happened to you? 314 00:36:54,347 --> 00:36:56,115 Why are you here? 315 00:36:59,186 --> 00:37:00,185 - I escaped. 316 00:37:01,287 --> 00:37:02,988 - To this? 317 00:37:54,570 --> 00:37:57,304 -Another four-wheeled device. 318 00:37:59,740 --> 00:38:02,408 Are scavengers welcome inside? 319 00:38:37,375 --> 00:38:39,276 - Hello! Joshua Tree Library. 320 00:39:14,109 --> 00:39:16,410 - You need to sign up to use a computer. 321 00:39:17,479 --> 00:39:19,413 - What's a sign up? 322 00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:21,215 - See that lady over there? 323 00:39:21,315 --> 00:39:24,150 Just go tell her you'd like to use a computer. 324 00:39:35,896 --> 00:39:38,331 - I'd like to use a computer. 325 00:39:38,431 --> 00:39:40,233 - Do you have a library card? 326 00:39:40,333 --> 00:39:42,267 - No. 327 00:39:42,334 --> 00:39:44,234 - Um, an ID card? 328 00:39:46,973 --> 00:39:48,740 Proof of address? 329 00:39:49,675 --> 00:39:51,743 Something with your name? 330 00:39:56,281 --> 00:39:58,448 That's not an ID. 331 00:40:00,017 --> 00:40:02,020 - It is where I come from. 332 00:40:09,292 --> 00:40:10,761 - Here. 333 00:40:11,695 --> 00:40:13,596 Take this to any computer that's open 334 00:40:13,696 --> 00:40:15,499 and use this username and access code, 335 00:40:15,599 --> 00:40:17,198 and you'll have an hour of time. 336 00:40:19,869 --> 00:40:22,038 You look like you have a question. 337 00:40:22,972 --> 00:40:24,874 - What is the web? 338 00:40:25,874 --> 00:40:28,709 - The worldwide web is the Internet. 339 00:40:28,843 --> 00:40:30,478 - Internet? 340 00:40:32,948 --> 00:40:35,017 I don't know what that word is. 341 00:40:35,117 --> 00:40:39,055 - Well, the Internet connects computers all over the world. 342 00:40:39,155 --> 00:40:42,122 You can find out about anything on the Internet. 343 00:40:46,059 --> 00:40:48,394 Take that to any computer and log on. 344 00:41:12,051 --> 00:41:13,985 How are you doing? 345 00:41:14,085 --> 00:41:17,021 - I... I don't know what to do. 346 00:41:18,055 --> 00:41:19,890 - Well, you need to use the mouse 347 00:41:19,991 --> 00:41:22,726 to get the cursor over the username box. 348 00:41:22,826 --> 00:41:23,761 - Mouse? 349 00:41:23,894 --> 00:41:25,428 - This is the mouse. 350 00:41:25,563 --> 00:41:28,264 And the arrow is the cursor. 351 00:41:29,366 --> 00:41:31,501 See it moving around on the screen? 352 00:41:32,670 --> 00:41:36,106 So you get the cursor to the spot where you want it, 353 00:41:36,206 --> 00:41:40,243 and then you give the mouse a little press, like that. 354 00:41:40,343 --> 00:41:41,877 In this case, 355 00:41:41,945 --> 00:41:44,446 over the box that says "username." 356 00:41:49,751 --> 00:41:51,586 You've never used a computer? 357 00:41:53,188 --> 00:41:55,189 - Not that I remember. 358 00:41:55,290 --> 00:41:56,023 - Go ahead. 359 00:41:56,123 --> 00:41:57,625 Use the keyboard... 360 00:41:59,361 --> 00:42:03,031 to enter the username I put down on that piece of paper. 361 00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:08,101 And now enter the password I gave you. 362 00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:16,308 And hit "enter," this key right here. 363 00:42:18,810 --> 00:42:20,580 Good. 364 00:42:20,647 --> 00:42:22,882 You're learning fast. 365 00:42:23,783 --> 00:42:24,784 - That's the web? 366 00:42:24,884 --> 00:42:27,119 - Yeah. That's the web. 367 00:42:27,219 --> 00:42:28,388 - Ah... 368 00:42:28,488 --> 00:42:30,821 - What do you want to learn about? 369 00:42:30,922 --> 00:42:32,291 - Me. 370 00:42:33,626 --> 00:42:36,128 - OK. Uh, then... 371 00:42:36,228 --> 00:42:39,230 Write your name in the search box. 372 00:42:56,779 --> 00:42:59,182 - Ah... 373 00:43:01,017 --> 00:43:02,417 That's me! 374 00:43:02,518 --> 00:43:06,422 - Well, there are probably lots of Lars Shrikes. 375 00:43:06,522 --> 00:43:10,357 You need to use your mouse to click on one of the links, 376 00:43:10,493 --> 00:43:12,360 and it'll take you to the websites 377 00:43:12,494 --> 00:43:15,197 where the words "Lars Shrike" are referenced. 378 00:43:16,764 --> 00:43:18,599 Go ahead. Try the first one. 379 00:43:23,872 --> 00:43:26,106 - Huh, that's interesting. 380 00:43:26,206 --> 00:43:28,109 He wroteThe Trouble with Dick. 381 00:43:28,209 --> 00:43:30,544 We have that in fiction. 382 00:43:30,644 --> 00:43:31,644 - Excuse me. 383 00:43:32,879 --> 00:43:34,279 - Good luck, Lars. 384 00:43:34,381 --> 00:43:36,649 If you need any more help, just ask me. 385 00:43:37,717 --> 00:43:39,319 - Thank you. 386 00:43:41,721 --> 00:43:43,190 - Yes, how can I help you? 387 00:43:43,290 --> 00:43:44,824 - Hi, I called earlier. 388 00:43:44,891 --> 00:43:48,327 - The Trouble with Dick is a groundbreaking synthesis 389 00:43:48,393 --> 00:43:51,395 of science fiction and autofiction. 390 00:43:52,899 --> 00:43:55,067 Inner space and outer space fuse 391 00:43:55,168 --> 00:43:59,204 as the fictional character of Richard Kendred 392 00:43:59,304 --> 00:44:01,973 struggles to write a potboiler SF story, 393 00:44:02,073 --> 00:44:04,509 The Galactic Chain Gang. 394 00:44:04,576 --> 00:44:07,912 Lars Shrike, Kendred's fictional alter ego, 395 00:44:08,012 --> 00:44:11,582 undergoes all manner of Job-like suffering 396 00:44:11,715 --> 00:44:14,751 on an unnamed prison planet. 397 00:44:19,389 --> 00:44:21,425 - Did I read The Trouble with Dick? 398 00:44:21,525 --> 00:44:24,761 Did I have a fever dream of my own that I don't remember, 399 00:44:24,895 --> 00:44:28,597 and then woke from the fever dream brain damaged and deluded 400 00:44:28,730 --> 00:44:31,267 that I was Lars Shrike? 401 00:44:34,603 --> 00:44:37,272 "As the character of Lars Shrike exists 402 00:44:37,372 --> 00:44:41,077 "within the context of Kendred's seminal work of autofiction, 403 00:44:41,177 --> 00:44:42,944 "he can be regarded as an expression 404 00:44:43,045 --> 00:44:46,281 "of the author's masochism. 405 00:44:46,415 --> 00:44:48,883 "How else to explain the otherwise unmotivated episos 406 00:44:48,950 --> 00:44:52,051 "of pain and suffering that the character is subjected t? 407 00:44:53,121 --> 00:44:55,723 "The Trouble with Dick might instead be titled 408 00:44:55,789 --> 00:45:00,259 The Three Stigmata of Lars Shrike." 409 00:45:12,905 --> 00:45:14,573 The Trouble with Dick. 410 00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:17,808 She said they had that book here. 411 00:45:23,581 --> 00:45:24,982 Kendred. 412 00:45:25,115 --> 00:45:26,651 Kendred. Kendred. 413 00:45:26,751 --> 00:45:28,752 H-I-J-K... 414 00:45:28,819 --> 00:45:30,087 Kafka. 415 00:45:31,421 --> 00:45:32,721 Kendred. 416 00:46:58,201 --> 00:46:59,537 - I looked on the web, 417 00:46:59,637 --> 00:47:03,205 and that's the only Lars Shrike I can find other than you. 418 00:47:05,876 --> 00:47:08,511 You can take that home with you if you want. 419 00:47:09,411 --> 00:47:11,414 - I don't have a home. 420 00:47:11,547 --> 00:47:14,517 - Well, you can take it out of the library. 421 00:47:16,418 --> 00:47:18,221 I'll issue you a library card, 422 00:47:18,321 --> 00:47:20,421 and you can use that to borrow the book. 423 00:47:20,521 --> 00:47:22,323 - Can I borrow a map too? 424 00:47:22,423 --> 00:47:24,325 - What kind of map? 425 00:47:25,260 --> 00:47:29,597 - A map to 5730 Laverne Terrace, 426 00:47:29,698 --> 00:47:31,031 Los Angeles. 427 00:47:31,099 --> 00:47:32,765 - You'll have to print that map. 428 00:47:33,901 --> 00:47:35,202 - On the computer? 429 00:47:35,269 --> 00:47:36,937 - Copy it on the paper. 430 00:47:37,037 --> 00:47:38,705 It's 10 cents a page. 431 00:47:39,907 --> 00:47:43,042 I guess you're thinking: "What is 10 cents?" 432 00:47:43,109 --> 00:47:44,111 - Yes. 433 00:47:44,211 --> 00:47:46,279 - And you don't have any money? 434 00:47:47,780 --> 00:47:49,515 - Money? 435 00:47:50,516 --> 00:47:52,383 - I'll print it out for you. 436 00:47:52,450 --> 00:47:55,352 Go back to your computer and hit "print." 437 00:47:55,453 --> 00:47:57,788 And the map will print on that printer. 438 00:47:57,889 --> 00:48:00,293 You're my good deed for the day. 439 00:48:00,426 --> 00:48:03,295 - You're the nicest person I've met on this planet. 440 00:48:03,396 --> 00:48:06,430 - I take that as a high compliment. 441 00:48:09,100 --> 00:48:11,535 - Is this a prison planet? 442 00:48:12,637 --> 00:48:15,271 - Only if you think of it that way. 443 00:48:17,307 --> 00:48:19,542 Where did you get those clothes? 444 00:48:20,576 --> 00:48:22,479 - I got them in prison. 445 00:48:24,482 --> 00:48:27,384 Although I'm not so certain about that anymore. 446 00:48:27,485 --> 00:48:31,420 I have an inner voice that tells me not to assume anything. 447 00:48:32,654 --> 00:48:35,823 - Sounds like a pretty good inner voice. 448 00:49:13,325 --> 00:49:14,593 -Baby buggy. 449 00:49:15,695 --> 00:49:16,629 - Hey! 450 00:49:16,696 --> 00:49:18,328 -Baby buggy. 451 00:49:49,558 --> 00:49:51,627 Come on, baby. You can do it. 452 00:49:52,528 --> 00:49:54,796 - Cannot... 453 00:49:55,865 --> 00:49:58,232 access... 454 00:50:00,735 --> 00:50:03,572 ...power. 455 00:50:04,906 --> 00:50:06,373 - Come on! 456 00:50:42,040 --> 00:50:46,710 -I'm dying... 457 00:50:47,779 --> 00:50:49,447 ...Lars. 458 00:50:53,116 --> 00:50:55,218 Lars, 459 00:50:55,285 --> 00:51:00,022 I'm dying. 460 00:51:41,329 --> 00:51:43,930 - Step away from the vehicle. 461 00:51:46,166 --> 00:51:48,401 Step away from the vehicle. 462 00:51:50,970 --> 00:51:54,506 Walking in the middle of the road is dangerous. 463 00:51:56,308 --> 00:51:57,744 Did you hear me? 464 00:51:57,844 --> 00:51:59,010 - Yes. 465 00:52:00,112 --> 00:52:01,847 - Have you been drinking? 466 00:52:01,948 --> 00:52:03,649 - Yes. 467 00:52:03,749 --> 00:52:06,517 - Public intoxication is a crime. 468 00:52:07,519 --> 00:52:09,419 - I have not been drinking toxins, 469 00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:11,188 unless they are tasteless toxins. 470 00:52:11,322 --> 00:52:12,456 - Stop! 471 00:52:13,323 --> 00:52:14,692 Back away. 472 00:52:14,825 --> 00:52:17,493 Hands up, where I can see them. 473 00:52:23,099 --> 00:52:24,869 What are you doing out here? 474 00:52:24,969 --> 00:52:29,439 - I am walking to 5730 Laverne Terrace. 475 00:52:30,806 --> 00:52:32,775 - Are you visiting friends? 476 00:52:34,342 --> 00:52:35,877 Family? 477 00:52:37,379 --> 00:52:39,014 Anybody? 478 00:52:42,618 --> 00:52:45,886 Well, stay safe. 479 00:54:03,192 --> 00:54:08,029 -A monument, or the king's guard. 480 00:54:08,129 --> 00:54:11,766 The Burger King's guard. 481 00:54:57,175 --> 00:55:00,845 -Lars... 482 00:55:08,751 --> 00:55:11,354 - Turn around and go back. 483 00:55:11,455 --> 00:55:13,422 You should go back to Lottie. 484 00:55:13,522 --> 00:55:15,090 -Lottie... 485 00:55:23,131 --> 00:55:26,334 -Or we could go back to the librarian. 486 00:55:31,607 --> 00:55:36,042 -Maybe electromagnetic waves are twisting my synapses. 487 00:57:00,955 --> 00:57:02,790 -"There was a phone in the kitchen 488 00:57:02,891 --> 00:57:04,625 "where Dick would have some privacy" 489 00:57:04,726 --> 00:57:06,093 "for the call to Mr. Samsa." 490 00:57:06,193 --> 00:57:10,964 "Mr. Samsa was his best hope to sell a story." 491 00:57:11,097 --> 00:57:13,199 - Mr. Samsa, hi, this is Dick Kendred. 492 00:57:14,434 --> 00:57:17,303 - Well, you said to call you if I had any other ideas. 493 00:57:17,437 --> 00:57:19,538 -Well, I'll be glad to read whatever you got. 494 00:57:19,639 --> 00:57:20,707 Just send it on in. 495 00:57:20,807 --> 00:57:22,875 - Well, I haven't actually written it yet, 496 00:57:22,975 --> 00:57:24,442 but I wanted to tell you my idea 497 00:57:24,543 --> 00:57:26,811 to see if you thought it was, well, commercial or not, 498 00:57:26,945 --> 00:57:28,213 since you said that... 499 00:57:28,313 --> 00:57:30,982 - OK, Dick. Well, give it to me in a very quick nutshell. 500 00:57:31,116 --> 00:57:33,818 - OK. The title is The Galactic Chain Gang. 501 00:57:33,918 --> 00:57:35,654 -Good title. 502 00:57:35,754 --> 00:57:37,221 - It's about this inventor, 503 00:57:37,322 --> 00:57:39,624 sort of a genius industrialist type, 504 00:57:39,724 --> 00:57:41,260 who gets sent to a prison planet 505 00:57:41,326 --> 00:57:44,327 where he maybe gets embroiled in all these alternate realities. 506 00:57:52,102 --> 00:57:55,006 - I... I plan on working in a lot of desert stuff, you know? 507 00:57:55,139 --> 00:57:58,741 Hostile creatures maybe escape from the chain gang and can... 508 00:57:58,842 --> 00:58:02,344 -Listen, kid, sounds promising, but go easy on the desert stuff. 509 00:58:02,479 --> 00:58:05,948 Maybe throw in some mountains and a few oceans, 510 00:58:06,015 --> 00:58:08,083 a little city action, whatever. 511 00:58:11,520 --> 00:58:13,787 - The Galactic Chain Gang? 512 00:58:13,854 --> 00:58:16,122 Is this an alternate reality? 513 00:58:17,358 --> 00:58:20,094 Or is all this something I imagined? 514 00:58:20,194 --> 00:58:24,365 Or did some sadistic god or system engineer 515 00:58:24,465 --> 00:58:27,801 design me to suffer here... 516 00:58:29,202 --> 00:58:30,436 forever? 517 00:58:32,106 --> 00:58:36,309 Or as a way station to some other place, some other time? 518 00:58:38,044 --> 00:58:40,848 Or am I an android whose ocular input 519 00:58:40,948 --> 00:58:44,018 is being watched by an alien species 520 00:58:44,118 --> 00:58:47,218 that takes vicarious pleasure from my suffering? 521 00:58:48,554 --> 00:58:51,791 Did I imagine a book called The Trouble with Dick? 522 00:58:51,891 --> 00:58:55,326 Did I invent Richard Kendred... 523 00:58:56,494 --> 00:58:59,065 and name myself Lars Shrike? 524 00:58:59,165 --> 00:59:03,067 Why don't I imagine the book out of existence? 525 00:59:03,167 --> 00:59:07,971 Why don't I imagine myself out of existence? 526 00:59:12,908 --> 00:59:14,810 OK, I'm still here. 527 00:59:19,582 --> 00:59:22,517 I think, therefore I still am. 528 00:59:30,158 --> 00:59:32,160 The sun is setting. 529 00:59:33,762 --> 00:59:36,497 If there still is only one sun. 530 00:59:38,600 --> 00:59:42,236 Why assume that I'm able to take another breath? 531 00:59:44,238 --> 00:59:48,274 I breathe, therefore I am. 532 01:00:01,955 --> 01:00:03,857 And if I shouldn't assume anything, 533 01:00:03,957 --> 01:00:06,125 why should I assume these marks on these pages 534 01:00:06,259 --> 01:00:09,128 will take me to a place that might not even exist? 535 01:01:01,775 --> 01:01:03,110 Cookies? 536 01:01:23,096 --> 01:01:25,699 "Waves of energy rushed through Dick. 537 01:01:25,832 --> 01:01:29,535 "He'd finished his novel, and that felt amazing. 538 01:01:29,635 --> 01:01:32,138 "That his life would lead somewhere, 539 01:01:32,204 --> 01:01:34,138 "and it would be a great adventure 540 01:01:34,205 --> 01:01:35,673 "for as long as he lived it... 541 01:01:36,775 --> 01:01:38,509 as an adventure." 542 01:01:48,285 --> 01:01:50,386 Is this an adventure? 543 01:01:52,290 --> 01:01:57,227 Not one I would pick for myself, unless I did. 544 01:02:02,732 --> 01:02:04,733 Will I ever know? 545 01:03:18,235 --> 01:03:21,103 Are there other escaped prisoners here? 546 01:03:21,203 --> 01:03:22,537 Secret police? 547 01:03:24,074 --> 01:03:26,942 Is this place, are all these people, 548 01:03:27,043 --> 01:03:28,743 all this suffering... 549 01:03:29,946 --> 01:03:34,216 something Richard Kendred concocted for me to see? 550 01:03:40,123 --> 01:03:42,991 What kind of mind would imagine this? 551 01:03:43,124 --> 01:03:47,394 Did the mind that imagined this also imagine me? 552 01:04:40,544 --> 01:04:43,013 - Can I help you? 553 01:04:43,113 --> 01:04:45,180 -Does Richard Kendred live here? 554 01:04:46,549 --> 01:04:48,618 - Who is asking? 555 01:04:48,719 --> 01:04:50,386 -Lars Shrike. 556 01:05:09,370 --> 01:05:11,738 Are you Richard Kendred? 557 01:05:11,872 --> 01:05:13,339 - Yes. 558 01:05:15,042 --> 01:05:16,576 Are you real? 559 01:05:16,676 --> 01:05:17,910 - I don't know. 560 01:05:18,044 --> 01:05:19,578 I hope so. 561 01:05:23,215 --> 01:05:25,251 - How did you find me? 562 01:05:26,151 --> 01:05:27,553 - I went to a library. 563 01:05:27,653 --> 01:05:29,488 Someone helped me. 564 01:05:29,589 --> 01:05:31,923 - Where did you get that jumpsuit? 565 01:05:32,991 --> 01:05:34,428 - In the prison? 566 01:05:34,561 --> 01:05:39,264 I don't remember anything except what happened after I escaped. 567 01:05:39,364 --> 01:05:41,200 - And your eye? 568 01:05:41,267 --> 01:05:44,902 - Some sort of flying fish creature. 569 01:05:46,938 --> 01:05:48,673 - A turdfish bird? 570 01:05:48,773 --> 01:05:50,108 - Yes. 571 01:05:50,241 --> 01:05:53,509 - That sounds like the kind of idea I would have. 572 01:05:54,611 --> 01:05:56,179 Please, come in. 573 01:05:57,747 --> 01:05:59,615 Your things are safe. 574 01:06:01,751 --> 01:06:03,120 - Don't assume anything. 575 01:06:03,220 --> 01:06:05,421 That's what a voice inside my head kept saying. 576 01:06:05,521 --> 01:06:07,789 The voice sounded exactly like your voice. 577 01:06:08,958 --> 01:06:12,394 - I feel like I'm talking to me. 578 01:06:13,896 --> 01:06:14,798 How about you? 579 01:06:14,931 --> 01:06:19,301 Do you feel like you are talking to yourself? 580 01:06:21,637 --> 01:06:24,739 - I came here for answers, not more questions. 581 01:06:27,375 --> 01:06:29,210 - I'm being rude. 582 01:06:30,111 --> 01:06:31,778 Please come in. 583 01:06:33,815 --> 01:06:35,648 Come, come. 584 01:06:38,284 --> 01:06:40,988 Are you hungry? Thirsty? 585 01:06:41,088 --> 01:06:44,224 Do you want a smoothie? Some supper? 586 01:06:45,157 --> 01:06:46,459 - You decide. 587 01:06:46,559 --> 01:06:49,828 I do not know the names of Earth foods. 588 01:07:00,806 --> 01:07:02,273 - May I? 589 01:07:04,810 --> 01:07:06,444 Thank you. 590 01:07:19,956 --> 01:07:23,360 It's exactly as I imagined. 591 01:07:23,460 --> 01:07:26,262 - Why wouldn't it be? 592 01:07:27,264 --> 01:07:30,932 - I'm having trouble with this whole... 593 01:07:32,033 --> 01:07:33,701 situation. 594 01:07:36,304 --> 01:07:37,705 Why... 595 01:07:40,308 --> 01:07:42,810 Why do you exist? 596 01:07:42,877 --> 01:07:46,145 How do you exist? 597 01:07:46,213 --> 01:07:48,348 - Why do you exist? 598 01:07:48,449 --> 01:07:50,216 - I was born. 599 01:07:50,317 --> 01:07:51,686 - But why? 600 01:07:53,654 --> 01:07:56,289 - I don't know why I was born. 601 01:07:56,389 --> 01:07:58,125 - Then why should I know why? 602 01:07:58,226 --> 01:08:00,127 - I knew my mother and my father. 603 01:08:00,227 --> 01:08:01,328 I knew how I was born. 604 01:08:01,395 --> 01:08:03,163 My father got my mother pregnant. 605 01:08:03,230 --> 01:08:04,731 My mother gave birth to me. 606 01:08:04,865 --> 01:08:06,732 - But why are you you? 607 01:08:06,832 --> 01:08:08,034 How are you you? 608 01:08:08,134 --> 01:08:10,069 How did that happen? 609 01:08:10,170 --> 01:08:12,238 - Genetics. Experience. 610 01:08:12,339 --> 01:08:14,238 - I readThe Trouble with Dick. 611 01:08:14,372 --> 01:08:16,242 That was me. 612 01:08:16,375 --> 01:08:19,245 That was my experience in that book. 613 01:08:19,345 --> 01:08:22,747 - None of this makes any sense. 614 01:08:22,846 --> 01:08:25,049 Characters in books 615 01:08:25,149 --> 01:08:28,720 do not come to life. 616 01:08:31,421 --> 01:08:33,258 - So I'm a character. 617 01:08:33,392 --> 01:08:36,193 - And characters don't walk and talk, 618 01:08:36,260 --> 01:08:37,595 not in the real world, 619 01:08:37,694 --> 01:08:39,763 not outside the pages of the book. 620 01:08:39,863 --> 01:08:42,933 - The voice, your voice kept saying again and again, 621 01:08:43,067 --> 01:08:44,335 not to assume anything, 622 01:08:44,435 --> 01:08:46,669 and yet here we are assuming so many things. 623 01:08:46,769 --> 01:08:50,407 - Because you can't get through a day or an hour 624 01:08:50,508 --> 01:08:53,376 without assuming hundreds of things. 625 01:08:53,443 --> 01:08:55,776 - But that's not what the voice kept saying. 626 01:08:56,779 --> 01:08:59,681 If it really was your voice I kept hearing. 627 01:09:02,617 --> 01:09:04,919 - You can be quite logical. 628 01:09:06,187 --> 01:09:10,890 Imaginative and logical. 629 01:09:14,562 --> 01:09:16,529 - I'm very confused. 630 01:09:19,466 --> 01:09:22,569 - I'm pretty confused too. 631 01:09:23,537 --> 01:09:26,639 - That is not what I wanted to hear. 632 01:09:29,573 --> 01:09:32,443 - How did you get here? 633 01:09:35,115 --> 01:09:36,482 - Don't you know? 634 01:09:38,484 --> 01:09:40,586 - You think I wrote this? 635 01:09:42,822 --> 01:09:45,122 - You could be writing this conversation right now, 636 01:09:45,221 --> 01:09:46,125 for all I know. 637 01:09:46,225 --> 01:09:47,892 - I'm not at a keyboard. 638 01:09:47,992 --> 01:09:49,427 - In your head. 639 01:09:50,795 --> 01:09:53,496 - I stopped writing this story. 640 01:09:53,631 --> 01:09:56,500 I couldn't make it work. 641 01:09:58,668 --> 01:10:00,670 - You put out my eye. 642 01:10:01,604 --> 01:10:03,238 - I'm sorry about that. 643 01:10:03,338 --> 01:10:04,840 I... 644 01:10:07,344 --> 01:10:11,614 This is all quite a shock to me. 645 01:10:13,250 --> 01:10:15,684 I could be hallucinating you. 646 01:10:15,784 --> 01:10:17,451 - I could be hallucinating you. 647 01:10:17,519 --> 01:10:19,420 - I wish that you were. 648 01:10:19,521 --> 01:10:20,856 - My pain. 649 01:10:20,990 --> 01:10:23,157 You gave me all my pain. 650 01:10:23,258 --> 01:10:26,361 - You exist because of me. 651 01:10:26,495 --> 01:10:28,930 - I didn't ask to exist. 652 01:10:29,030 --> 01:10:31,498 - I didn't ask to either. 653 01:10:33,301 --> 01:10:35,436 Are you glad that you do? 654 01:10:35,536 --> 01:10:37,304 - What? 655 01:10:37,371 --> 01:10:39,138 - Exist. 656 01:10:45,212 --> 01:10:47,013 - I have mixed feelings. 657 01:10:53,352 --> 01:10:54,854 - I get it. 658 01:10:58,124 --> 01:11:01,526 You look very tired. 659 01:11:02,461 --> 01:11:04,228 - I am very tired. 660 01:11:06,899 --> 01:11:09,233 - I'll make up a bed for you. 661 01:11:12,703 --> 01:11:15,305 - I can sleep in your dwelling? 662 01:11:15,406 --> 01:11:18,041 - Yes, of course. 663 01:11:19,745 --> 01:11:24,415 I'm not gonna throw my character out on the street. 664 01:11:24,515 --> 01:11:27,049 - You said I wasn't your character anymore. 665 01:11:30,720 --> 01:11:32,688 - I'll go get the bedding. 666 01:11:38,327 --> 01:11:40,161 Here we go! 667 01:11:43,999 --> 01:11:45,199 I... 668 01:11:46,201 --> 01:11:50,937 can't help feeling that I have completely... 669 01:11:52,073 --> 01:11:54,007 lost my mind. 670 01:11:55,209 --> 01:11:57,010 - I've had that same feeling. 671 01:11:58,279 --> 01:12:01,915 I've had it for as long as I can remember, which isn't very long. 672 01:12:03,518 --> 01:12:05,951 I was hoping for an explanation. 673 01:12:07,187 --> 01:12:09,021 - I wish I had one. 674 01:12:14,527 --> 01:12:16,628 I need one too. 675 01:12:16,728 --> 01:12:19,531 Help yourself to... 676 01:12:20,732 --> 01:12:24,769 whatever you'd like to eat or drink. 677 01:12:26,738 --> 01:12:28,907 Do you need anything else? 678 01:12:30,107 --> 01:12:31,542 - Where do you write? 679 01:12:33,310 --> 01:12:34,812 - In... 680 01:12:35,713 --> 01:12:37,081 another room. 681 01:12:39,149 --> 01:12:40,584 - May I see it? 682 01:12:43,486 --> 01:12:45,321 - Yes. Yes. 683 01:12:45,455 --> 01:12:46,957 Come. 684 01:13:00,835 --> 01:13:02,070 - Ah! 685 01:13:09,476 --> 01:13:10,946 - So... 686 01:13:12,646 --> 01:13:16,014 This is where I write. 687 01:13:18,286 --> 01:13:22,857 I've had a lot of trouble continuing your story. 688 01:13:24,024 --> 01:13:26,359 I've been working on it for years. 689 01:13:29,528 --> 01:13:31,998 I'm truly sorry for... 690 01:13:33,499 --> 01:13:35,032 your suffering. 691 01:13:35,968 --> 01:13:37,936 How could I have known? 692 01:13:43,708 --> 01:13:45,209 What are you thinking? 693 01:13:46,278 --> 01:13:47,544 I'm sorry. 694 01:13:47,678 --> 01:13:49,481 That's not a fair question. 695 01:13:49,547 --> 01:13:51,115 - I am thinking. 696 01:13:53,952 --> 01:13:56,654 So, this is the room where I was born. 697 01:14:07,565 --> 01:14:10,632 - Did it hurt to get that? 698 01:14:10,733 --> 01:14:12,301 - I don't remember. 699 01:14:54,441 --> 01:14:56,442 The things that I've seen. 700 01:15:03,182 --> 01:15:04,715 The moon. 701 01:15:06,751 --> 01:15:08,252 Light. 702 01:15:12,290 --> 01:15:13,959 With no warmth. 703 01:15:19,529 --> 01:15:21,031 Faith. 704 01:15:29,906 --> 01:15:31,908 So much beauty. 705 01:15:39,115 --> 01:15:40,215 I am... 706 01:15:41,284 --> 01:15:42,451 grateful... 707 01:15:44,653 --> 01:15:46,287 to exist. 708 01:16:06,440 --> 01:16:08,173 I am very tired. 709 01:18:07,218 --> 01:18:11,955 "Lars pushed his baby buggy..." 710 01:18:12,890 --> 01:18:16,026 "away from the charging station." 711 01:18:21,863 --> 01:18:23,700 "Every bone in his body, 712 01:18:23,800 --> 01:18:27,902 "every synapse told Lars that the desert was safety, 713 01:18:27,969 --> 01:18:29,905 "the desert was his destiny. 714 01:18:29,972 --> 01:18:32,575 "that he should turn left 715 01:18:32,641 --> 01:18:37,079 "and retrace his steps back to from where he came. 716 01:18:37,146 --> 01:18:42,150 Lars knew now that his existence depended on this." 717 01:19:13,446 --> 01:19:18,450 "Lars locked the chrono-blaster onto the transport beam" 718 01:19:18,517 --> 01:19:23,153 "that would lift him off the prison planet." 719 01:19:23,254 --> 01:19:28,192 "Ah, this was how it felt to leave." 720 01:19:33,696 --> 01:19:35,031 "The end." 721 01:21:10,785 --> 01:21:12,620 Cold. 722 01:21:12,754 --> 01:21:14,088 Lars! 723 01:21:14,955 --> 01:21:16,456 Lars! 724 01:21:19,093 --> 01:21:21,262 Lars! 725 01:21:45,651 --> 01:21:47,086 Don't assume anything. 726 01:21:47,153 --> 01:21:49,154 That's how to survive. 727 01:21:52,156 --> 01:21:54,559 Anything can change. 728 01:21:54,660 --> 01:21:57,494 Everything will change. 729 01:21:59,964 --> 01:22:02,733 - Yes, everything will change. 730 01:22:04,068 --> 01:22:06,004 This is perfect. 731 01:22:06,104 --> 01:22:09,339 To have a complex and troubled character 732 01:22:09,439 --> 01:22:11,276 and to not yet have any idea 733 01:22:11,343 --> 01:22:14,744 where he will go or what he will do. 734 01:22:16,980 --> 01:22:22,184 What worlds he might visit, what prisons he might escape. 735 01:22:26,856 --> 01:22:28,523 How about this? 736 01:22:28,658 --> 01:22:33,495 One alternate reality opens into another. 737 01:22:35,331 --> 01:22:38,366 A universe of infinite regress, 738 01:22:38,500 --> 01:22:42,303 or better yet, infinite egress. 739 01:22:47,174 --> 01:22:48,808 This is gonna be great. 740 01:22:52,211 --> 01:22:55,148 - Are you writing me? 741 01:22:55,215 --> 01:22:58,550 -This will write itself. 742 01:23:23,408 --> 01:23:26,576 - You escaped. You're famous. 743 01:23:27,711 --> 01:23:29,880 -Why are you here? 744 01:23:30,915 --> 01:23:33,582 - There are probably lots of Lars Shrikes. 745 01:23:34,551 --> 01:23:37,653 -Are you visiting friends, family? 746 01:23:38,755 --> 01:23:41,558 -You think I wrote this? 747 01:23:43,560 --> 01:23:46,761 -There's less and less of me... 748 01:23:47,828 --> 01:23:48,897 left. 749 01:24:54,323 --> 01:24:56,292 Don't assume anything. 750 01:24:58,561 --> 01:25:00,397 That's how to survive. 751 01:25:01,330 --> 01:25:02,664 Anything can change. 752 01:25:03,600 --> 01:25:05,735 Everything will change. 49572

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