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- You're overthinking it.

- Okay, fine.

The Leonids meteor shower.

- What?

What? That's not a thing. - Oh my God. Honey.

- What is it? - Come on.

Come on, look at this.

- Okay, well, first of all, it's your screensaver,

which is offensive, but also that blur

is the prettiest thing you've ever seen.

It's the most beautiful thing.

- It's the second most beautiful thing

that I've ever seen. - Thank you.

That's a little better.

- Ah, okay, fine.

What's yours?

- Oh, that's easy.

Sunset over the Grand Canyon.

- Mm. I cannot believe I've never been there.

- It's the closest thing to heaven on earth.

- I'd love to go there with you.

- I'd like that.

- Doctor Kent, 663.

Sophie, phone.

It's Riley's school again.

- Three strikes and a week suspension.

We can't have kids skipping school.

- Isn't there, I don't know

any kind of exception for special situations?

- There is nothing harder than losing a parent,

but I have given her all the leeway I can.

- She's 11 years old.

- It's been nearly a year.

May I remind you that this school

is partnered with a grief counseling service?

- We're doing okay.

- Well, she has to be picked up.

- There's nothing else you can do?

- I am sorry.

Isn't there someone who can help you?

- The airport is a monument to science.

You know, 150 years ago, it took a man six months

to travel halfway across America.

Today we have planes that harness compressible flow,

creating supersonic travel that can put you in Poland hours

after leaving Los Angeles.

Isn't that interesting?

- Yeah. Yes.

- My apology, I have to get this.

Hello, Sophie.

- Hi, I hate, hate asking you this,

but could you please,

is there any way you could pick up Riley from school?

- Oh. - She got suspended.

I would go but I have to work and I have court.

- Sophie.

- Okay, you know what, I'll do it.

No worries.

- You're a lifesaver.

- It's only gonna be a little longer.

- That's what you said in June. He should be in jail.

- It's a process. It takes time.

- I had my entire life stolen from me

and this asshole, he gets to what, just walk around

like nothing happened?

You're selling your Saturn rocket?

- Yeah. I don't want it anymore.

- But, your dad gave you that and you built it together.

Hey, you know what happens

if you miss too many days of school, right?

They hold you back a year.

- Gonna fail science anyway.

- Don't say that.

You've never gotten worse than a B.

- 'Cause of Dad.

- Arak. It helps to relax.

- Christ.

Oh my God.

- Mallory reacted exactly the same when he first tried this.

- Is that what you guys would do together, drink?

- Drink, argue, pontificate.

In my country, I had a community.

You know, like physicists, futurists, scientists.

But here, there's so little of that.

When I met Mal for the first time,

it was as if two electrons collided.

- Picking up mushrooms at a supermarket.

- There is a science to everything.

- He was so excited when he came home,

he wouldn't shut up about you.

The physicist.

- Yeah.

- Pizza!

Where's Riley?

Pizza's here.

Where should I put it?

- Wherever. I don't want it.

- You love pizza.

- Not when we have it every day.

- Let's go be with your friends.

- You invited them. You can go be with them.

- It's your birthday party.

- Exactly, it's my birthday.

You're the last person I wanna spend it with.

- Sophie, stop being so hard on yourself.

- Her birthday and I fucked it up.

- Mm, we all make mistakes.

- Sometimes I get so mad I just wanna strangle the man

that did this to us.

- Darby Brinkley.

The man who took my family from me

was named Foad Sa'adi.

- What happened?

- This man Sa'adi was a rival of my father's.

He reported my family as enemies of the government

and it didn't matter that it was bullshit and a lie,

you know, the guard took my family anyway.

And I was lucky.

If I wasn't at school,

I would've been taken too.

- Oh my God.

I'm so sorry.

Mal never told me.

- I still dream of saving my family every day.

- Yeah.

- You know, for you it doesn't have to be a dream.

Say hello to my little friend.

- What is that thing?

- Believe it or not, this was supposed to be a time machine.

- What?

- Yeah, I couldn't get it to work.

Listen, this does something else.

This machine can kill a person in the past.

And I was hoping to use it on Foad

to save my family one day.

- Uh, you know, that's impossible, right?

- I wouldn't lie to you, Sophie.

It's not powerful enough yet to save them,

but it can save Mal.

- Jabir.

- Sophie, trust me, please.

We can save Mal.

This machine is a gun

that can fire a bullet into the past.

All we need is a target.

Here.

There are six men living in Los Angeles

with the name Darby Brinkley.

I just wanna know which one is the driver, okay?

- Mal is dead. It's impossible.

- So what harm is there in trying?

- Have yourself

Have yourself a great night.

- Darby? What are you doing here?

- It's my home.

- You're drunk.

- I'm allowed to see my family.

- I will call the police, you know that.

- Oh yeah, call, call them.

It's my fucking house.

- I'm not doing this with you tonight.

- Oh, it's my- - Not tonight.

- I pay the fucking mortgage.

You hear me?

I pay the mortgage. Bitch!

- Stop. - Kara, let me in!

Kara, for fuck's sake!

Kara, come on!

- Do you know what a particle accelerator is?

- No. - No. Okay.

Uh, this is kind of like that.

The particle accelerator speeds up

a subatomic particle into almost light speed.

And this machine does that

to abstract particles.

Jabir, how?

That's a good question.

An abstract particle is a mathematical function

that can affect the sub-atomic world.

This machine sends

an abstract particle

into a specific point of space-time, okay?

And that particle causes

a series of quantum reactions

resulting in a burst of energy.

And if that burst of energy

is in a person's head.

Kill them.

That thing's ready.

Would you? Thank you so much.

First we have to find him.

Now we find him.

We need a photograph with a clearly identifiable location.

- That one.

- No, that is too old.

The further back in time,

the more power the engine requires.

This one.

So here he is at his company retreat.

I will extract the metadata,

find the GPS coordinates,

and calculate Darby's distance from the cabin.

Let's go over there.

When I press enter,

the processor will run a series of calculations

to determine his exact location in space-time.

And then the dome, that thing over there,

will generate waves. - And Mal will be alive.

- And Darby will be dead.

- If it works.

- Sophie,

there is no undo button.

You're killing a person.

We cannot take that back.

- He killed Mal.

Is there a problem?

- No, no, I just put so many years of my life

into this machine. - Okay.

- And now we are going to use it.

- And you never tested it?

- I never tested it because I didn't have to,

but all my calculations show it will work.

- Well, we're gonna find out.

What now?

- It's done.

- What do you mean it's done?

- The, the, the engine activated.

It means it's done.

- But I don't, like, I don't feel any different.

Do you?

- You cannot say this. It's just like you never know.

I mean, like, uh, let me, let me.

I may made an error while,

you know, coordinating this, uh, uh, thing,

but there's an explanation for this.

- Yeah. I'm an idiot.

What was I thinking?

- Wait.

I think I found the mistake. - Stop it.

- Sophie look. - Just stop it.

- No, no, no. Listen to me.

- Jabir, I need you to stop.

Riley is gonna be home soon.

I have to clean up. I have to figure out dinner.

I just, I cannot waste any more time on this.

Fuck.

I just.

- What is it?

- It's not working.

Fuck! Gimme your phone.

- I don't have it. - Gimme your phone!

- It's inside the house.

Wait

Wait

- You forgot the soda again, didn't you?

I see no soda.

Honey, you had one job.

Sophie?

Baby?

- Oh my God. - What's going on?

You okay?

- Oh my God. Oh, baby.

- You okay?

Honey?

What is happening with you?

My goodness.

What's up, Faraday?

- Hey, Einstein.

That smile's not gonna get you outta trouble.

- Oh my God.

Let's go, come on.

- Ready? - Yes.

- Three, two, one.

- Ah!

- What's up! - Yeah.

Cabbage Patch Time.

- Let me see.

- Is that?

- She's so happy. - Yeah.

She really needs to be asleep right now.

- Oh, come on, let 'em have some fun.

- Okay, who are you and what did you do with my wife?

- I'm not that strict.

I'm not.

You know who else deserves a little fun?

Mmm.

- I missed that. - Me too.

We should do that more often.

- Yeah, you always say that.

- This time I mean it.

- Yeah, you always say that too.

- I love you.

- I love you too.

♪ I lived among the dirty ♪

♪ I have lived among the sweet ♪

♪ I realize I sucked against ♪

♪ Your time to take the lead ♪

♪ I try to stay alive, baby ♪

♪ Take all that I can ♪

♪ Got to tell you something ♪

♪ When you get me from the promised land ♪

♪ But first you try grab your shit and run ♪

♪ I said, pull your lesson ♪

♪ From your gun ♪

- Okay. - Fix the chrome.

- Ah. - You are too damn young

to be this smart.

- Oh my God! Honey, look at you!

Ooh, lemme see, lemme see.

- So proud.

- Oh my gosh. - Look at you.

- Amazing!

You guys celebrate without me?

Good morning!

- You're making breakfast?

- Yes, yes, you do so much for us,

and I just, I wanna give you the morning off,

but first I need to find the spatula, which?

Ha, sunny-side up, right?

- You know I could do this, right?

- No, no. No.

No, mister, you are getting a morning off from cooking.

- I'm still with you, I'm still with you.

There you go, there you go.

- Hey, you.

Oh my gosh. Look at that.

- Oh, wow. - Where?

- Over there. - Oh.

- What's going on?

- What do you mean?

- I mean, what's going on with you?

You're being lax on the rules.

You're making me eggs.

The Perseids.

You have been complaining about having to come here

ever since Riley said that this is what she wanted to do.

"Who wants to spend their birthday

freezing on the side of a mountain?"

Direct quote.

"Meteor shower?

That sounds so boring."

- Well, it's not that cold.

- This is not like you.

- I'm happy.

I'm just happier than I've been in so long.

- What is the catch?

What's the catch?

- There is no catch.

You're just an incredible husband.

You're an amazing dad

and I don't tell you that enough.

- You're sweet.

- You make it easy.

- Doctor Kent, 33.

Hi.

- Oh, hey. - Hi.

- Thanks for the chess tip.

I picked it up.

Greg is already beating me.

- That's great.

That's great. Um.

I think I got the wrong shift notes.

- Looks right to me.

- Well, these, um.

These are for the, the hospice unit.

And I'm in long-term care.

- Is everything okay, Sophie?

- Yeah.

Yeah, don't mind me. I'm sorry.

Ignore me.

I don't know what I was thinking.

Hey!

- When I was a kid, I, um, I dreamt to being an inventor.

- Obviously.

- I dreamt of building flying cars

and rockets to outer space.

- I know, you promised me a hover board, remember?

- Yeah.

- Like from "Back To The Future."

- Exactly.

After the accident,

that dream died, right?

No one would hire me.

My brain stagnated.

I just felt like I didn't matter at all.

Right? - You did matter.

You do matter.

You matter so much, Mal, to me and to Riley.

- No, I know, that's,

that's actually not what I'm talking about.

- Okay.

Okay, what are you? What is it?

- Okay, so.

About three years ago,

Jabir approached me for an idea for a time machine.

I know it sounds stupid as fuck.

- No, I'm listening. - Listen.

- I'm listening.

- Okay, well.

It just made me feel so alive.

Just the idea.

So we started building it

and the more that we started working on it,

the more we realized

that this thing would actually never be a time machine,

but it could be something.

- Why are you telling me this?

- I was embarrassed.

I've been working on this thing for three years

and you've just been so nice to me.

And I just think that there should be no secrets between us.

- I know about the machine.

Jabir told me.

- But why? - I got thirty touches jugg-

- Riley, not now.

- Are you guys okay?

- Can you go play in your room

and we'll talk at dinner.

Okay.

- Why would Jabir tell you about the machine?

Why would he say something to you?

- Because he wanted to help me.

- Help you how?

- You were killed by a drunk driver

and we, and we killed him.

Please say something.

It was the longest eight months of my life.

I didn't know what I was gonna do.

Our daughter was unrecognizable

and, oh my God, she,

she quit everything.

She quit her rocket club

and she barely spoke to me.

I was drowning. We both were.

- You saved me.

- It just wasn't our family without you.

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

What are you doing?

- Uh, we are, uh.

There is this man, Yacqub Adabi, okay?

This guy drove his car into a crowd

and he murdered three people, maimed 17 others.

We can save them.

- We saved Mal.

Why do we have to kill someone else?

- A radical terrorist.

- Whoever he is, we're killing him.

- Maybe it's not about who we kill.

Maybe it's about who we save.

- So it's one bad life for three good ones.

- Now, of course, we don't know

if these lives are good lives.

- We do know that Mal, there are kids.

All kids are worth saving.

- It's way more complicated than that.

- And that's exactly why we're having this conversation.

- No, it screws with your memory.

- What do you mean?

- It's akin to the quantum theory.

The observer determines the reality, right?

So we, being in this room,

using this machine, makes us observers to the change

to the timeline. - We used the machine.

So we remember the world

like it was not the new one we created.

- Are you telling me

you don't remember the last eight months?

- No, I- I do.

I just, I remember a different eight months.

I remember the eight months where I lost you.

I remember coming home and telling Riley.

I remember, when I closed my eyes,

I could see your body.

- I'm here now and I'm not going anywhere.

- Uh, so don't you guys

want to spare someone that grief?

Two boys and a mother of three were killed in this attack.

We can save them.

Sophie, save their parents, their children, their husband,

their wives from all the pains and the suffering,

from everything we've been through.

We have this power. Why shouldn't we use it?

- It's too risky.

We saved Mal and now I work in the hospice unit

and not long-term care.

I don't remember my patients and the ones I do know,

they don't know who I.

- That's 'cause of me.

We switched your schedule to make picking up Riley easier.

- Okay, the small changes to the house, the furniture.

- It's also me.

The real question is,

are there any changes that cannot be tied back to me?

- Or Darby?

- Who's that?

- Mal, he's the drunk driver who, who.

- You guys left me.

- Oh my gosh, it's already dark.

Sorry, you must be starving.

Well, good things come to those who wait.

What do you want?

- Hm? Chicken nuggets.

- I'll see what I can do.

Race you home? - Sure.

Wait! No!

- Oh, oh, wait, wait, you're too fast.

Slow down.

- You think I'm selfish that I don't wanna use it,

but I'm not.

I'm scared.

- You can be both.

- I'm sorry, what did, what did you say the name was?

- Brinkley. Kara Brinkley.

She used to live here?

- Yeah, no, I don't.

Sorry, I don't know who that is.

- Who did you buy the house from?

- I bought the, the house from the bank.

It was a foreclosure. So.

- Yo, you ever hear,

if it ain't broke, don't fix it?

- Yeah, there's always room for improvement, brother.

- Come on.

- Let me. - No, man,

I got it, I got it.

Ow. Fuck!

- Here. Done.

You okay?

Mal.

Why did we build this machine if we are not going to use it?

- I never said that we're not gonna use it.

- Okay, we are sitting on this incredible creation.

Something no one has built before.

Something that-

- That has the ability to change the world.

You don't have to tell me, Jabir.

I know this.

It was so much easier when it was theory,

when it was just you and me spitballing ideas.

- Mm-hmm.

Maybe it's because we did it over baklava.

- Maybe. - Huh?

Everything is easier over baklava my friend.

- There might be some truth to that, Jabir.

We're gonna figure this out.

It's gonna take some time,

but we're gonna figure it out.

- It's our fault.

- That seems overly simplistic.

- A woman went bankrupt because we used the machine.

- Or she may have been going bankrupt anyway,

and all we did was increase the speed of the-

- I don't know about that theory, Jabir.

- Now listen, whatever happened, if we were held.

If we were held responsible for the byproduct

of every choice we made, we'd all be in jail.

- You just don't care.

- I do care, Sophie.

I told you there's no undo button.

- Well, I wanna do something.

- Hey, you saved my life.

You saved our family. Don't forget that.

- No, I- I don't, and I wouldn't trade you for anything,

but I can't.

We hurt an innocent woman and I can't let it go.

- All right, guys, here we go.

- Thanks.

- And I will be back to check on you in just a bit, okay?

Hey, here you go.

Ready?

- Kara?

- That's, uh, what it says.

- It's Sophie.

I'm an old friend of Darby's.

- Mine's a baseball nut. - Mm.

- She's obsessed with, um.

Ah, God, what's his name?

The guy with the chin.

- Kershaw? - Kershaw.

Yeah. You know baseball.

That's why you and Darby were friends.

- Yeah.

- He used to take Aggie

to at least two games a month.

- Wow, that's really sweet of him.

- She wasn't even his. My ex's.

Didn't matter.

Darby was just that kinda guy.

- How are you doing with everything?

It must be so hard on you and Aggie.

- When was the last time you saw him?

- Uh, I can't remember exactly.

We were pretty drunk.

- Drunk? Wow. - Yeah.

- Mm, Darby barely ever drank.

- But when he did.

- Maybe. High school, you know, people change.

He wasn't a saint, or anything. So.

- So she leaps up and traps the ball with her chest, right?

- Yeah. Yes, yes.

- Like it drops right at her feet.

- Right.

- She cuts around the first offender, and whoosh!

- All right, don't split the pole. - Bread and butter.

- Butter.

- The goalie charges out. - Okay.

- She taps it with her left foot.

- Goal! - Goal! Come on!

I love it. I love it, I love it.

- Oh, check it out.

- Yes.

Yes!

- Hey, Kara, it's Sophie from the other night.

- But classical physics and common sense

dictated that the energy of the.

- Hey. - Hey.

What did I say about using your phone while we're eating?

- We're watching TV. - We are watching TV.

This is a family activity, kiddo.

- Uh, can I?

- There's chicken in the kitchen.

- Talk to you outside first? - Yeah.

- I invited Kara Brinkley for dinner on Wednesday night.

- Why would, why'd you do that?

- Because I know what it's like to lose your husband.

- It's like one of those math problems

that you just can't stop trying to solve.

How do we use what we created but without the moral cost?

- Mm-hmm.

- So this woman that I went to grad school with,

she's an editor at Science Academy, but-

- It's not seriously thinking of calling her?

- I'm just going to float some theories out there, right?

If someone were to transmit abstract particles through time,

that's something that they would be interested in.

- But we are speaking hypothetically, aren't we?

- Totally. - Yeah.

- Yeah.

Nah bro, I called, dude.

- Mal, what? - Okay.

Okay, I need you just to listen to me.

- Mal! - I'm not going to talk

about the machine. - No, listen, what?

- Okay? I'm going to...

- What the hell were you thinking.

- Talk about the science.

- No, listen to me.

- The science, dude. - When this woman calls-

- The science! - You cannot.

- We sent- - Oh my God.

- An abstract particle through time.

And we did it without CERN.

We did it without a government grant.

We did something that no one has ever done before

and we did it in your spare bedroom, Jabir.

That's, that's like a miracle.

Okay? And it's huge.

And that has scientific value beyond ki...

This is a breakthrough that can literally redefine

our very understanding of quantum physics.

Okay, if you wanna change the world,

like I know you wanna change the world.

I wanna change the world.

We do it as scientists.

- So when do we eat?

- Aggie. Uh, manners, please.

- What? I'm hungry.

- This looks amazing.

- Uh, homemade, so. - Really?

- Yes. - No.

- Uh, thank you. It is.

Thank you for having us.

- Oh. Hi, honey.

- Hey. - Hi, uh, Kara Brinkley.

Nice to meet you. This is my daughter, Aggie.

- Hey! Why didn't you tell me?

- 'Cause you wouldn't have come.

- Of course. We killed her husband.

- I know that.

That's why I invited her.

When I lost Mal,

I felt like I- I fell into quicksand

and I just kept getting sucked deeper and deeper.

I couldn't have done it without you.

- Sophie, that is totally different.

- No. - Mal was my best friend.

I would do anything for Mal.

- Look, Jabir, you are our lifeline.

- I'm gonna sit next to you.

- Actually, your mom wants you to sit next to Aggie.

- Do I have to? - Yes.

- My mom made me sit here.

- Blackmail or bribe?

- What? - How's she making you?

Kara bribes me.

Come here tonight, then I can watch Dodgers tomorrow.

- You really didn't have to do all this.

- Oh, it was our pleasure.

- It looks delicious.

- Well, Mal's the one with the skills

in the kitchen.

- Mm, it was a team effort.

- Is it?

No.

- Well, thank you. I know how hard it can be.

- So, have you always worked in restaurants?

- Oh, well, I wouldn't call the Star Diner a restaurant.

What were you doing there?

That was so random.

Just running into you there, of all places.

- Hmm. I know, it was so random.

Um. I just wanted a cup of coffee.

- What were you doing in Bell?

- Um.

- Uh, they have the best bakeries in Bell.

- Do they? - Yes, they do.

Never been in Del Bosque's?

No? You should.

I go every time I'm around.

- Yeah, no, I've never been.

But I- I really like to make my own desert, so.

- Yeah, I can tell.

- You really cook with one arm?

- Agatha!

- Kara.

- I'm so sorry.

Uh, she definitely knows better.

- It's okay, really.

You get used to it.

So you wanna know how I cook with one arm?

Very slowly and very carefully.

- My dad's the best.

- What happened to your arm?

- Riley, did you tell Aggie about your rocket club?

They're, they're competing in the section champion-

- I can tell her.

Uh, I used to work for Lockheed

and we were testing the engine

for the F-22 Raptor and it was a beautiful,

sleek piece of engineering.

Everybody was very excited about it,

including Danny Albert, who was, uh,

bit of an idiot,

because he forgot to tighten the strap on the fuel tank.

And I was, uh,

I was underneath it when it came crashing down.

- Oh my God.

- I was in and out of the hospitals.

Doctors said that there wasn't much that they could do, so.

- Well that doesn't surprise me.

- Well, the silver lining is

that Riley got to grow up with her dad around a lot.

- Wanna hear a secret?

- Is that a trick question?

- I'm a cripple too.

- Oh, Aggie, don't, don't say that, sweetie.

- It's true. I have MS.

- You can still do everything other kids do.

- For now.

- Aggie, please.

- We lost our house 'cause of me.

- No, no, we lost our house

because of doctors and hospitals.

- And we only had to go to those doctors 'cause of me.

- Well, thank you again for having us over.

It was really kind of you and I just.

- Kara! - I'm so sorry.

Give me just one second, babe, okay?

- Didn't your mom ever teach you not to sneak up on people?

- No.

- Well, don't.

- Is she still gonna let you watch the game tomorrow?

- Why wouldn't she?

I didn't do anything wrong.

- Well, if she won't,

maybe I can stream it to you.

- Cool.

- It's, it's an awful feeling to lose those you love.

- We owe her.

- We will find a way to help.

- Okay.

- Kara used to be a baker.

13 years ago she owned a very successful cafe

until she got her money tied up with this guy.

He's considered to be Arizona's Bernie Madoff.

- You wanna use the machine again?

- This guy is a convicted embezzler.

He took her for everything that she had.

She lost the bakery, she went bankrupt.

We kill him, she has the money

to pay the doctor bills

and get Aggie the medication that she needs.

- Uh, wait a moment.

Uh, we're killing someone for stealing?

I- I don't think.

- The thing is, this guy died in jail,

so we'd just be shortening his life

by two, two-and-a-half years.

- That's a long time.

- You wanted to help Kara.

This can help Kara.

- Okay, but doesn't, doesn't changing Kara's life

also change Darby's life?

I'm not losing you again.

- I will do some diggings.

Okay, I don't think it will be a problem.

Darby has worked at Erimos since he was 22.

- I don't know.

- Honestly, it might not even be possible.

Still have to figure out a way

to extend the machine's range.

- There's the plasma idea.

- Uh-uh, our upper limit is five years.

That maybe doubles it.

It's not enough. - No, actually

it's eight years, the range.

- Actually it's five years. - No, no, no.

I can assure you,

the engine can affect eight years in the past.

- You can assure us, how?

- Do you remember the Mirror Hill shooting?

No?

- You used the machine without us?

- And saved 26 children.

- That's not the point.

- We are considering killing a person for stealing.

I stopped a mass shooting.

- Considering, not actually killing.

- Jabir, we are partners, right?

You didn't think for one second to consult with me

about these kinds of decisions?

- No, brother.

You know I've always been honest about my intentions.

- You used the machine behind our back.

How many times?

- Only once. - How many times?

- Come on, I'm telling you, only one time.

- Really? - Yes.

- I wish I could believe that.

- Listen, I cannot save my family.

No matter how powerful we make this machine,

I cannot get them back, okay?

- You made the machine to save your family.

- Yes, but if I save them, everything resets.

- Everything resets. Everything he's done is undone.

If he saves his family, he doesn't move to America.

We don't build the machine.

You don't use it to kill Darby.

- And you're dead.

- Possibly.

- Listen, I cannot help my family,

so I help others.

If we want to use this machine to help Kara,

we can use it to help Kara.

- You're always missing-

- Did you hear about David got detention?

- Yeah, that's what we're just talking about.

It's so weird. - I know, it's so weird.

- Mom? - Hey.

- Shouldn't you be be at work?

- Well, um, I thought maybe

you might wanna skip soccer practice

and we do something instead.

- Like what?

- Whatever we want.

- If I say yes, can we invite Aggie?

- Yay!

Goal! - I had that.

- Oh! - It was so close.

It was this close.

- Hey, you guys want some milkshakes?

- I just wanna have fun.

- Yeah. Thank you.

I mean, that one made, made me really irritated.

Oh yeah. - Yeah.

- That one, um. - Are you okay?

What's going on?

- Aggie? Mom!

Mom! - Aggie!

- Doctor Robert, please head to ortho.

Doctor Robert, please head to ortho.

- What's wrong with her?

- I dunno, sweetie. I'm sorry, I don't know.

Your dad's here.

- There's no guarantee it will work.

- Well, then we will find something that does.

- So the radius times two.

So that's. I don't wanna use my own handwriting.

I don't want you to get in trouble.

- All right, Aggie, time

to get something in your belly.

- Mom, I'm not hungry.

- Soup, how about soup?

- Hey.

- Aggie gets to go home today.

- That's great.

- She has to go back in a few weeks.

Some kind of follow-up surgery.

- God, that poor girl.

- I was wondering if I can skip my launch meeting

so I could be there.

Would that be okay?

- Yeah. I think that'd be really sweet.

- Mom? - Hmm?

- I'm glad you invited her over for dinner.

- Me too.

I'll do it.

- You sure?

- I owe it to her.

- Should we say something?

- Like what?

- I don't know.

My dad used to apologize before killing a spider.

We're about to kill a human being.

- For the animals and the plants

and all the good things, we thank you, Lord.

For all things great and all things small

and all of our good days and all of our bad days,

for the birds in the sky and the fish in the sea,

our family and our friends and all the love that we share.

Amen.

- Hey, Riley. What you got today?

- Welcome home present, peanut butter cups.

- Ah, be careful.

You're gonna spoil her.

Second floor. Room 216.

- Okay. And here you go.

Bring it right out.

Welcome. Uh, we'll be right with you.

- I don't see Aggie.

- There's photos.

It's her.

- Hi, guys. Sorry for the wait.

We have our new Caprice prosciutto sandwich on ciabatta,

if you would like that.

And then we also have our coffee menu up there.

Hello?

- I'll take some baklava. - Yeah.

We have to find a way to reintroduce them.

- Well, you did it before.

You can do it again.

- Wish you were there this morning.

Riley really likes her.

- My wife, the matchmaker. - Matchmaker.

I hate to tell you this, my friend,

but you have some competition.

- No, I don't. - Yeah, you do.

I know. - Oh my God.

- Come on. - I swear.

- Okay, I know. - This is incredible.

- Mm-hmm. - Okay, stop exaggerating.

Okay.

- Yeah.

- Outstanding.

Outstanding. - Yeah.

- It's a close second.

- A close second? - You are a liar.

- It's 1:30, we have to go,

if we're gonna make it to Riley's launch.

- I'll stay. You guys go.

I wanna enjoy our coffee.

- Hey, bring these for me, okay?

- Okay.

- Sure?

- Sure. - Lying ass. My God.

- Mm.

- Her launch is at 3:00, right?

- On the dot.

- Can you check?

- I'm sure it's fine. - Please?

- Probably just mixed up the location.

- I'm gonna try her cell phone.

- She's got a launch.

She's not gonna pick it up.

- Maybe.

- Your call has been forwarded.

- Went to voicemail.

I'm gonna try the house.

- Wrong location. Eldon Park.

- Don't.

- Maybe we should have brought some more snacks.

- Oh my gosh,

you know the other parents would kill us.

- Here.

Mary-Lou, we brought some snacks.

- Hey.

Oh, uh, this is the table for Virgil.

Rio Arroyo is over there.

- Mary-Lou, it's me.

- Oh, pardon, uh, who are you again?

- I'm Mal. Riley's dad?

- Uh. Who's Riley?

- I'm here. - Should be pulling up

to her school any minute, okay?

- Okay.

Riley?

Riley. - Is she there?

- Oh my God. - What?

Sophie?

Sophie, talk to me.

Talk, talk to me, Sophie, please.

Sophie.

- She's in a show.

- What? - She's in a show!

- Where?

- Hello?

- Mal?

Mal?

Mal! Is she here?

- Lisa's mom had a crown. Solid metal too.

Told you, Mom.

Mom, are you okay?

- Riley?

- We don't have time. We're late.

Terry and Leo think it's gonna suck.

They love to be haters.

Hi, Mr. Abante!

- Hey, Riley.

When are we getting that dinner scheduled?

- What's up, Mal?

- Thursday. Right? - Okay.

- You know how you said

that I shouldn't be scared?

That people like me

and will be excited to see what I do?

Thanks for always having my back.

- You're welcome.

- There's Lisa. BRB!

- This just doesn't make any sense.

Don't give me that look.

There's no way this should've happened.

Hank Montclair should've had nothing to do with this.

- It doesn't matter.

- Of course it matters. - No, it doesn't.

It doesn't.

That boy is gonna walk outta here to his parents.

Us and he's gonna be holding a crown.

- I don't know, I just- - And we're gonna need-

to pull our shit together Mal. - It doesn't make any sense.

This guy's from Arizona, he's a stockbroker from Arizona.

- I know. I know. - We've never been

to Arizona. - Mal?

- I don't. It- it.

There's gotta be some kind of correlation or something.

- Honey, I don't know, maybe we had sex

on a different day or a different hour,

a different sperm won,

but we have a son. - Isn't it awesome?

- It's great.

- Yeah, it's, it's perfect.

- Mom's gonna look so good in it.

- What?

- Try it on.

Awesome. We better get backstage.

We're first.

- Hamlet? - Yes, mother.

- Do you have the script?

- We've only practiced this like a thousand times.

- Thank you all for coming tonight

for our Winter Acting Showcase.

First up, a new twist on an old classic.

Riley Rice will be performing a scene from "Hamlet,"

and he has cast his mother Sophie

as Hamlet's mother Gertrude.

- Now Mother, what's the matter?

Dost it regard my father?

- I'm sorry. I.

I'm so sorry.

- I'm back!

I thought we could celebrate with my best.

Hello? Sophie?

Mal?

- Get out!

- Hey! Come on, stop!

What? Hey! - Get out!

- Stop. - Call the police!

- Stop. Stop, stop, honey. - Put the sword down, Riley.

- Riley?

- This guy broke into our house!

- No, no, no, no, he's- - No, this is Jabir.

He's our friend. - He's our friend.

- You know him?

- Yes.

We have to go talk to him.

- We don't even know who he is.

- He's our son.

Riley, it's me.

Can I come in?

Or I can stay out here.

I just wanted to.

I just wanted to say I'm sorry about today.

I can really suck sometimes,

but I'd love to make it up to you.

Maybe you wanna get some ice cream?

Or go to the movies, maybe?

We could go to the arcade

or the park?

What if,

what if Jabir saves this family?

- You're joking, right?

- I was wrong before. We're not his parents.

His parents are the ones that took him to plays.

They played with him and they laughed with him.

And his parents held him when he cried

and they nursed him when he was sick.

We are imposters and we will only ever disappoint him.

- There's gotta be another way.

- Mal could die.

- I know that.

- You told me the stories.

You cried so hard you couldn't even move.

Picking up the phone and having nobody to call.

I'm not gonna do that to you again.

- Maybe you don't.

Maybe without Jabir you don't cross the street

in that exact moment.

- And maybe I still do cross the street

at that exact same moment. - All I know,

the only thing I know

is that whatever life we end up with,

it will be the same as our child.

- No. Oh no.

Is that even true?

- As long as you're not in the room

when I use the machine, your memories will align.

- And you're on board with this, Jabir?

- Yeah, I am.

- But you have no idea where you're gonna be.

You have no idea what your life is gonna be like.

You'll have no memories of anything.

- But my family will be alive.

- Maybe. Been 10 years, a lot could have happened.

- Then I will have given us more time.

- Nah. No, we have no idea what's gonna happen.

The risk is way too high.

- Not for our child.

Riley needs a parent.

- Okay.

Okay.

Something that we need to do first.

- Uh, okay.

You should probably go 'cause, uh,

you cannot know when I,

when I activate the engine.

- I just couldn't have,

I couldn't have gone through all this without you.

- I doubt that.

- Hey. - Einstein, come here.

My friend.

I'll miss you guys.

- We'll miss you.

- You'll have no idea who I am.

Okay, go.

- Mal?

Whatever I say to you could be the last thing.

- Just say it.

Say it.

- I'm sorry.

- Sorry? - I'm sorry.

- What do you have to be sorry for?

You have absolutely nothing to be sorry for.

Nothing.

- You are the greatest thing

that's ever happened to me.

- Sophie.

Whatever happens, you'll work it out.

You are the rock that keeps this family together.

You understand that?

Me and, me and Riley, we're just.

Christ.

I don't wanna lose you.

I wanna see Riley grow up.

I wanna see her go to college.

I wanna see her get married.

- I think you will.

I know you will.

It's, hm, it's six o'clock.

I'm gonna come home from work soon.

My feet are gonna hurt and my arms are gonna be sore.

I'm gonna walk in the front door

and you guys are gonna be sitting there.

With all your rocket, crap spread all over the living room.

- There's gonna be glue and pieces everywhere.

- Yeah.

I'm gonna tell her to clean it up, 'cause we gotta eat.

- And she'll say, "One minute, one minute.

I'm busy."

- I'm gonna sit down on the couch

just for a little peace and quiet.

Just for one minute.

I'm gonna sit there with you guys. Okay?

- I love you.

- I L...