Little Fish (2020) - full transcript
A couple fights to hold their relationship together as a memory loss virus spreads and threatens to erase the history of their love and courtship.
(FILM REEL TICKING)
(LIGHT MUSIC)
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(GULLS CAWING)
(WAVES CRASHING)
(WOMAN SNIFFLING)
(WOMAN SIGHS)
(WAVES CRASHING)
(DOG PANTING)
Oh hello.
(LAUGHS) Hello.
Who are you?
Hey!
Yeah?
Is this your dog?
(DOG WHINES)
Sorry, what?
Is this your dog?
What?
What?
You're smiling.
Oh, no, I didn't except
your accent to be your voice.
I mean, that's all.
What's wrong with it?
Nothing.
EMMA VOICEOVER: I was
so sad the day I met you.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(ENGINE RUMBLING)
(SIRENS WAILING)
I can't remember why.
(SIRENS WAILING)
Just stop listening.
Stop thinking.
Tune it out.
What's that thing you're
supposed to do? Count sheep?
One sheep, two sheep,
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
black sheep, blue sheep.
(DOG WHINES)
Blue.
I wonder if Blue ever worries.
Nah.
Blue doesn't worry.
All these little pieces.
(FIREWORKS SIZZLING)
So much to remember.
(MUFFLED TALKING)
That smoke smell in Jude's hair.
Samantha telling
stories of the road
and Ben agonizing
over the playlist.
What was the song?
I can't remember anymore.
Focus on the important things.
Jude Andrew Williams.
We were married on
October 14, 2021.
A Thursday.
I should be writing this down.
(LIGHT CLICKS)
(PAPER RUSTLING)
(MUFFLED TALKING)
♪ Memoirs was at the
brokenhearted ♪
♪ Hennessy vision
of bad bitches ♪
Everyone in, act like
you like each other.
Pressed in tighter.
Tighter, tighter, tighter.
Everyone say "cliche"!
ALL: Cliche!
- I got you a drink.
- Oh, thank you.
- Emma, get in here.
- Okay, yeah.
Tim, get in!
Okay.
♪ What I'm fighting
for, whatever is ♪
♪ Used to vision me
and forever asked one ♪
- Oh.
- Wait.
One, two, three, cheese!
ALL: Cheese!
Thank you.
- Be right back.
- Send that to me.
- I'm sending it.
- Okay, good.
♪ Different liquors
out of sight ♪
♪ And out mind with
my niggas chillin' ♪
♪ Records since I
ever be go figure ♪
- ♪ Little me ♪
- You okay?
- Yeah.
- He's bitter.
Uh, I just got ahold of
work and I'll be two seconds.
(TIM SIGHS)
(PHONE RINGING)
Hello?
JUDE: Hey, it's Jude.
Are you calling me?
JUDE: Uh, yeah.
Why? Is this not a good time?
No, no, no, just that
cowards like me only text.
JUDE: Oh, well,
well, I did text,
but then I realized
I wasn't gonna get
to hear that cool accent again.
So, uh...
(LAUGHS) Um, um.
I'm at a Halloween
party so sorry
if it's a little bit loud.
JUDE: Yeah, me too.
How is yours?
Yeah, it's fine.
Just a typical Halloween party.
JUDE: Cool, well, uh you
better get back to it then.
Actually it's a bag of wank.
JUDE: It's what?
It's just shit,
it's really shit.
JUDE: I bet you my Halloween
party is 10 times worse.
Prove it.
(UPBEAT MUSIC)
Can't it wait till tomorrow?
A dog might've
been hit by a car,
the details are unclear.
Do you want me
to come with you?
No, no, no, no, you stay here.
Have fun and I'll
speak to you tomorrow.
(ENGINE RUMBLING)
Hey!
Are you George Washington?
(LAUGHS) No.
No, I'm Claude Bourgelat.
Who's Clark Bergo...
- Who's Claude-
- Come on up,
I'll buzz you.
Which way am I going?
Just that way.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
(DOOR BUZZING)
Claude Bourgelat, the
French veterinary surgeon
who actually opened
up the very first
veterinary practices in Lyon.
Lyon.
Is your costume a
guy who Googles things
and pretends he
already knew 'em?
(LAUGHS) That is my costume.
Yeah, funny, you're
actually the only
person to get it right.
- Shall I.. Can I?
- Yeah, come meet
these clowns, come on.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
Welcome.
Come, come.
Everybody, this is Emma.
Emma, this is everybody.
EMMA VOICEOVER:
Jude Andrew Williams.
He always had a
camera in his hand
and a photograph in his mind.
Yeah, come on, man!
EMMA VOICEOVER: He
could seem guarded at first
but if you ever needed to
know how he really felt
you could just look
at his pictures.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
(CAMERA CLICKS)
(MUFFLED TALKING)
It was hard to believe that
was only the beginning.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
(MUFFLED TALKING)
(CAMERA CLICKS)
Can I kiss you?
I'm not available.
Right. Tom.
Tim.
Tim.
That's even worse.
(EMMA LAUGHS)
So, do you love him?
- No.
- No?
Then why are you with him?
It's just what's
happening right now.
Yeah, but that's not even true
'cause you're here right now.
I, uh, I can respect that
you're doing your thing,
just take note that
I asked I guess.
Noted.
After you.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
That didn't happen!
(DOOR SQUEAKS)
EMMA VOICEOVER: It feels
wrong to make this about us.
It's bigger than that.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
So much bigger.
We'd hear stories
from somewhere like
the coast of
Maryland or Florida.
Always there, not here.
Like the story of the
man stranded in the ocean
picked up by a fishing boat.
It turned out he was
another fisherman,
his boat washed up to
shore four days later.
He said he couldn't
remember how to steer it
so he decided to swim home.
Or the woman in the marathon
who forgot to stop running.
(ENGINE RUMBLING)
(SIREN WAILING)
There's something quite beautiful
to these stories at first.
But then a pilot
forgot how to fly.
They call it NIA.
Neuroinflammatory Affliction.
It can affect anyone,
and there's no cure.
Ben was the first person
we knew to get sick.
We say get sick, but
that's not really it.
Some people snap all at
once, other people fade away.
I'm not really sure
which one is worse.
(BLANKETS RUSTLING)
Sup?
Nothing apparently.
Fell asleep.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
(LIGHT CLICKS)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
Jude?
- Yeah?
- Hey, I'm going now.
All right.
EMMA: You good?
Yeah, just waking up.
All right, well,
I'll see you later.
- All right, babe.
- Bye, darling.
JUDE: Bye, bye, bye.
(DOG WHINES)
- Hey.
- Hey.
How many have we got
today? We're already packed.
Just two.
Come on, bud.
All right, come here.
(GRUNTS) I got ya, all right.
Hello, you.
All right, let's see if
we can find your family.
Oh, yeah.
Come here.
(EMMA GRUNTS)
- Oh, hey, I can get that.
- Oh, that's all right.
- Yeah, all good.
- Oh okay.
All set.
- Thanks, Frank.
- Sure.
Sorry, your name again?
Emma.
Emma, right!
Right, right.
Well, it's not to
uh... yeah, yeah.
(PHONE RINGING)
(HORN HONKING)
(TRAFFIC HUMMING)
(DOOR THUDS)
Jude?
I thought that was you.
Naps.
How's it going, man? You good?
Good, and you?
JUDE: Yeah, good
to see you man.
Yeah, it's been awhile.
What brings you here?
I'm playing here tonight.
- Here?
- Yeah.
- No shit.
- Yeah.
- You're still at it.
- That's right.
Awesome, that's awesome.
- You should come.
- Tonight?
Yeah.
Well, I gotta
check with my wife.
- Wife?
- Yeah, I got married.
Get the fuck outta here.
Holy shit, man.
- Man, we gotta catch up.
- Yeah.
You got a minute?
Yeah, I got a minute.
- You need a hand or what?
- Yeah, of course, come on.
- All right.
- Are you still rolling
with the same crew?
JUDE: Yeah, I still see 'em.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, what happened?
Playing solo or what?
NAPS: Hey, man. Stop it.
- What happened?
- Nothing.
(DOG WHINING)
(LIGHT MUSIC)
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(LIGHTER CLICKS)
(CHURCH BELL DINGS)
Coming by, sorry, sorry.
(MUFFLED TALKING)
- Mr. Johnson.
- Where the hell
- have you been?
- Yeah, I'm so sorry, sir.
You were supposed to
be here an hour ago.
Yeah, I, there's
no excuse, sir.
We wanted pictures of
the girls getting ready.
We paid for pictures of
the girls getting ready.
Yeah, I understand, I-
- No, no, I don't think
you do understand.
Those moments are gone,
we don't get those back.
We had to get my nephew
here to take pictures.
Yeah, sorry, sir.
I'll get a full
deposit back to you.
Hey, hey.
Just take some fucking pictures.
- Okay.
- Yes, sir.
(MUFFLED TALKING)
(PHONE RINGING)
MOM: Hi, love.
Hi, Mom.
MOM: How is it, then?
Yeah, fine.
How was Germany?
MOM: Oh, didn't I tell you?
That trip got postponed.
I'm still at home, but I'll
be going there in a few weeks.
Mom, you have to
tell me these things,
I'm coming to see
you in a month.
- Hun-
- Will you be back by then?
MOM: I thought I did tell ya.
Didn't I?
But don't worry, I'll be back.
How are ya?
I'm okay.
Work's getting stressful,
but I'm looking forward
to coming and seeing ya.
I wish they hadn't
grounded all those flights
so I could come sooner,
but it's all right.
MOM: Oh, remind me.
Is David coming with ya?
- Jude?
- What?
EMMA: Jude.
MOM: Oh, God, what did I say?
Chris, Henry, David, Jude.
You know I was never
good with names anyhow.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Yeah.
Yeah, no, but it's not the first
time you've forgotten, Mom.
I know I told ya I could
only get the one ticket.
MOM: Of course, that's right.
Well, hug Jude for me, will ya?
Yeah.
Mom.
MOM: What?
Are you feeling okay?
MOM: Yes, love. I'm great.
You let me do the
worrying over here.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(ENGINE RUMBLING)
You all right?
Yeah, you?
I'm not even a vet anymore,
I'm just an executioner.
I hate it.
I had to put down the
most beautiful pup today,
she had the most
expressive eyes.
They were like human eyes.
I was gonna call you and see
if I could take her home.
Let's...
Please let's not
get into that again.
It's just one dog.
No, but it's not just one.
If we take one we'll
probably take 17
and we already got Blue,
we don't have room.
You know that we can't.
(ENGINE RUMBLING)
(MUFFLED TALKING)
What's happening?
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
MAN: Why are you stopping?
(TALKING OVER EACH OTHER)
Yeah, I don't think this
bus is going anywhere.
WOMAN: What is
happening right now?
MAN: Attention.
If you are lost or need
assistance, call 707
and have your ID ready.
If someone you know
is lost or missing,
check the missing person
database or call 811
(EMMA HUMMING)
(JUDE HUMMING)
(KNIFE TAPPING)
Do you think anybody's immune?
Oh yeah.
Me, for instance.
All right, so it doesn't
affect the geniuses amongst us.
(GASPS) What if the
only person who's immune
already has Alzheimers?
Ooh.
So you'd never know.
Ooh, yeah.
That is so fucked up
that's probably how it is.
Or what if this is
just the next phase
of human evolution and we
should just embrace it?
We fucked everything up
so badly that the only way
to survive this is
just by forgetting.
Mm hmm, yeah,
I like that, too.
(DOG BARKS)
What about dogs?
Do you think dogs
are susceptible?
Unclear.
They rely more on
associative memories,
so just don't change
the way you smell
and keep feeding him
and you'll be fine.
Hey, don't you fucking
forget about me, Blue!
Oh, I'm sorry, bud.
I didn't think you'd
take that so seriously.
Yeah, I love you, too.
Yeah, sorry, buddy.
(JUDE SIGHS)
It's a shame we can't
take some of them.
The dogs.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
They've been putting
down so many recently.
What?
Yeah, just like a
puppy or something.
I'm sure Blue wouldn't mind.
What?
You said we couldn't.
When?
We had an argument about
this last week and then
we were just about to get
into it again on the bus.
Very good.
- Jude, I'm-
- Almost.
This is an ongoing argument
that we've been having,
we were just about to get
into it half an hour ago.
It was just now.
I don't remember that.
Oh my God.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Did you know this was happening?
No, how am I
gonna know I forgot?
Do you know who I am?
Yeah, you're my
wife, Emma Veta.
Where did we meet?
What's your father's name?
- Where did you grow up?
- Emma!
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
This is gonna be
like Ben, isn't it?
EMMA VOICEOVER:
When your disaster
is everyone's disaster,
how do you grieve?
When Ben first started
losing his memory
he wanted us to record
every song he'd ever written
before they were all gone.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
(WOMAN HUMS)
Wanna do it again?
One, two, three, four.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
You got this.
Just relax, you got this.
It's not happening.
It's not happening,
it's just not happening.
You got it.
If you want, we can just
record the guitar first
and the vocals and then
I can open up the bass.
JUDE: Yeah, sounds good.
SAM: Okay.
(GUITAR CLATTERING)
(DOOR THUDS)
EMMA VOICEOVER: He tried
so hard not to see him scared.
I guess we all did.
I got an idea.
(TATTOO GUN BUZZING)
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(LIGHT MUSIC)
♪ You get away ♪
♪ You always get away
with everything ♪
♪ Look at all the fingerprints ♪
♪ You left all over my body ♪
♪ Make it sacred,
make it count ♪
♪ Oh no, you're not
easy to forget ♪
EMMA VOICEOVER: I can't
tell if I'm torturing myself,
pretending like I'm
gonna find the answer.
I keep going back
to the beginning.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
(PHONE RINGING)
JODY: This is Jody Ryerson.
Leave a message after the tone.
WOMAN: The mailbox is
full and cannot accept
any new messages at this time.
Goodbye.
(TRAFFIC HUMMING)
(MUFFLED TALKING)
WOMAN: If you are
experiencing NIA symptoms
I need you over here.
MAN: Don't worry
about the car.
(MUFFLED TALKING)
If you are here on
behalf of someone else,
please make a line to my right.
Listen carefully!
If you are experiencing NIA
symptoms, I need you over here.
If you are here on
behalf of someone else,
please make a line to my right.
If you were here yesterday
and did not get in,
please have your
ticket stubs ready.
WOMAN: I dropped mine!
MAN: Excuse me!
On behalf of someone
else, over here.
Sign the consent form,
have your money ready.
- All sign the consent form.
- Gloria, over here!
WOMAN: Okay,
okay, okay, people.
Have your ticket stubs ready.
WOMAN: I'm sorry, we
can't accept anyone under 25.
What do you mean?
WOMAN: The brain
isn't fully developed.
If you are experiencing
NIA symptoms, over here.
(MUFFLED TALKING)
- Nurse!
- Are you kidding
me right now?
- Can I help you?
- Yes!
Excuse me.
What is this? Have
you found a cure or?
This is for the chance
to be in a clinical trial,
it's a lottery.
Okay, but does it work?
I mean, if you get into
the trial, does it work?
All I know is
that it's a trial.
Fill this out, turn it out
when you get to the door
and have your money ready, okay?
MAN: We have to
wait in line anyway,
you can't jump ahead.
And I wanna go in.
I don't care about anybody else.
I'm talking about me.
WOMAN: I don't know.
I don't know, but my
dad, he's lost his ID.
MAN: Fine, fine!
WOMAN: Guy pushed in front!
MAN: Which line is
it? This one or that one?
WOMAN: Over here.
(MUFFLED TALKING)
(TAPPING)
Roses felt too easy, but
I didn't know what you liked
so I got you daisies.
Aren't daisies weeds?
Huh?
Aren't daisies weeds?
Oh, well good to
see you and goodnight.
I'm kidding!
Come here.
(DOOR THUDS)
Yeah, I think I'm gonna
do a couple more years
as a vet tech to
save up some money
to go back to
school to study bio,
eventually be in the labs
and maybe publish one day.
We'll see.
What about you?
What about me?
What are you doing?
Oh, well, I've been around a
lot with Ben and Sam touring,
- taking pictures.
- Yeah.
For different bands,
different magazines.
EMMA: Oh, cool.
Yeah.
I helped them record.
It was a cool way to spend
the first half of my 20s, but
things got a little outta
hand with drinking, drugs.
Uh, Sam's parents were out
here so we came here to dry out
and kinda never really left.
Is that why you
don't drink anymore?
Yeah.
What was it that
happened to make you stop?
That's a pretty intense
second date question.
Sorry.
I'm just being nosy.
Just tell me to shut up.
So, actually, do you
want me to leave?
I'll go.
No, it's all right,
I'll go. You stay here.
(BOTH LAUGHING)
Anyway, you, it's
not our second date.
It's not?
No, first one was Halloween.
Well, I definitely
don't count that.
Because you can't count.
No, because you
said it didn't happen.
What didn't happen?
This.
Sorry.
- No!
- Sorry, sorry.
No, I thought it was
a smooth, cool moment,
- but if you're not uh-
- No, no, don't be silly.
Uh, I just...
I'm just not very good at this.
What?
Do you wanna have sex?
(JUDE LAUGHS)
Don't laugh!
I really need your
fucking consent.
Oh my God, uh...
Yes.
But I know you're going
through some shit with Tom,
- I don't wanna-
- Tim.
Tim.
Yeah, and he's just a friend.
JUDE: Yeah,
does he know that?
Not in those exact words.
Well, I get that.
So, let's just wait.
I'm not going anywhere.
(UPBEAT MUSIC)
♪ I run after you ♪
♪ Like a fool would do ♪
♪ But mama didn't
raise no fools ♪
♪ And I should know ♪
♪ That baby you got it ♪
♪ That's all I can say for you ♪
♪ You got soul, too much soul ♪
♪ Foxy clothes,
the cutest nose ♪
♪ A groovy set there's
nothing fake about you ♪
♪ Baby you got it ♪
♪ People can cruel, they
say I've lost my cool ♪
♪ But it's very hard
to keep my cool ♪
♪ When I'm around you ♪
♪ 'Cause baby you got it ♪
♪ That's all I can say for you ♪
♪ You got soul, too much soul ♪
♪ Foxy clothed,
the cutest nose ♪
♪ The mood is set, there's
nothing fake about you ♪
♪ Baby you got it ♪
♪ I'm glad I found you ♪
♪ Gonna cling to you ♪
♪ I'll give you love and
money, everything to you ♪
♪ No matter what they say ♪
♪ No matter what they do ♪
♪ I'm never gonna love
another girl like you ♪
(PHONE BUZZING)
♪ 'Cause baby you got it ♪
♪ That's all I say for you ♪
Hello?
WOMAN: Jude Williams, please.
This is his wife,
who's speaking?
WOMAN: I'm Dr. Dormer with
DPC Research Development.
The NIA trial.
Hello?
Yeah, yeah, I'm here.
DORMER: Can I speak
with your husband?
Um, it's probably best
that you just speak to me
'cause I'm the one that
submitted the application.
DORMER: Jude has been
selected for the clinical trial
on an NIA suppressant.
I see from the forms
that were submitted
that he's exhibiting
NIA symptoms, correct?
Hello?
Yeah, sorry.
Yeah, I'm here.
So, he's gotten in?
DORMER: He's been
accepted for an evaluation.
If he passes he'll be
invited to participate
in the actual trials.
We're trying to
move quickly here.
Can we schedule an appointment
for him to come in tomorrow?
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
The government has the
cure, they have the true cure,
not the one they're giving
us that doesn't work.
They've been keeping
NIA on the streets
just like that fuck
Reagan did with AIDS.
And who's doing
something about it?
Are you? I am because I care.
I don't want this sickness,
this population control.
They're keeping us down.
They have the true cure.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(MUFFLED TALKING)
(KEYS JINGLING)
Wear one of these
and when you're done
filling this paperwork out
somebody will call your name.
Keep your mask on and
fill this paperwork out.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(SOMBER MUSIC)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(FEET TAPPING)
SAM: Emma?
Hey.
Oh my God, Sam.
Good to see you, hey.
Oh, it's good to see you.
It's been a minute.
Yeah, I know. Yeah.
I'm just here for the day, just
- running errands.
- Yeah.
Right.
Right, yeah.
Oh, it's good to see ya.
- Yeah.
- Are you all right?
I'm good, yeah, I'm good.
- Yeah?
- Yeah, really, I'm just...
How are you?
Yeah, no, yes, I am just...
Just making phone calls
and all that stuff.
Sorry I haven't called.
Yeah.
Yeah, same. I'm...
I wanted to.
Oh, darling.
You must think I'm the
biggest asshole on the planet.
No, I don't.
No, I don't, that's ridiculous.
I do not think that at all.
Sorry, I'm just.
- Yeah, sorry.
- It's okay.
Um, tell Jude I say hi, okay?
Yeah, I will.
It's good to
see you, I just...
Good to see you.
I just wasn't expecting
to see you, that's all.
Yeah.
Yeah, no worries.
- I'll give you a bell.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- Bye.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
DORMER: Any history
of heart disease?
JUDE: Nope.
DORMER: High cholesterol?
JUDE: Nope.
DORMER: Diabetes?
JUDE: Nope.
DORMER: Do you take drugs?
JUDE: What does
that got to do with-
- We'll find out either way,
- so better to get it out now.
- Oh, it's not gonna
be a problem, I've been clean
for five years and nine months.
DORMER: So, how long
would you say you've been
experiencing symptoms of NIA?
JUDE: Like a month.
I can remember some things,
but other things are just gone.
Like details, I
can't do details.
Like I can remember
people, who they are,
but I can't zero in.
Your brain may be
trying to bridge the gaps,
taking other moments
you still remember
and merging with false memories.
(TAPPING)
(JUDE GASPS)
JUDE: So, the treatment.
Is it like what?
It's like a pill or?
DORMER: We'll be
doing an oral CP.
JUDE: Sorry, what?
An oral cranial puncture.
Think of it as clearing
a clogged pathway.
The brain is separated
into four major lobes.
The one most closely associated
with memory being temporal.
Now, we remove the lateral
through he roof of the mouth.
(HIGH PITCHED RINGING)
(DISTORTED TALKING)
Inter-cranial hypertensions.
(HIGH PITCHED RINGING)
(DISTORTED TALKING)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
- Jude?
- Yeah?
Are you okay?
Yeah.
But what are the risks?
We have some literature
we can send home with you
that really walks
you through the ins
and outs of the procedure.
It's not complicated, but
there are significant risks.
We have a counselor on
hand to help make sure
you understand what
we're dealing with.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
EMMA VOICEOVER: To identify
a neuroinflammation begin
by asking baseline questions.
What's your name?
How old are ya?
What's your favorite color?
This is all they've
given ya? Brain teasers?
I thought there was supposed
to be some sort of procedure.
Yeah, it's brain
teasers and...
And?
Surgery.
They take like a
metal straw and...
(JUDE SIGHS)
I don't wanna do it, Em.
What'd the doctor say?
They don't even know
if it's gonna work,
it's like a trial.
Let's see and find
out, let's poke around
in some dude's skull and
hope we don't cripple him
and make him go blind.
I'm not doing it, man.
I could just wind up with no
memory, no legs, and no eyes.
And if I'm gonna forget who I am
then I'd at least like to be
able to see where I'm going.
EMMA: So you made
up your mind then.
Yeah.
Do I not get a say in this?
Emma, you can't ask me
- to sit there while-
- But Jude, I am asking ya,
I am asking ya,
I have to ask ya.
I get it, you don't wanna go
blind or end up in a wheelchair
but if there's a chance
that we can stop it
then I don't understand
why you won't try.
- I know you're upset-
- I'm not fucking upset, Jude!
Well, you don't sound
very not fucking upset!
My mom's starting to fade.
Why didn't you tell me?
Because I can't do
anything about it, Jude.
I've got a ticket
that I can't change
for weeks from now and now
I've got this, I've got you.
So what am I supposed to do?
Just go off to England while
my husband forgets about me?
I'm not fucking doing that.
I'm not losing my mom and my
husband in the same breath,
so I need you to
explain it to me.
Can you explain it to me
why you won't do this?
What? Because you don't care?
No, of course I
fucking care, Emma.
This is happening to me.
This is fucking
scary for me, too.
I'm scared.
I'm fucking scared.
(EMMA SNIFFLES)
Who am I? How old am I?
What's my favorite color?
Jude, please.
I'm scared, too.
(JUDE SIGHS)
You're my wife, Emma
Vita Ryerson Williams.
You're 28.
Your favorite color is yellow.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
Describe a memory
that took place
in the room that you're in.
(EMMA GASPS)
- You fucking-
- Whoa, easy, take it easy.
(EMMA LAUGHS)
Take it easy, easy.
You fucking!
JUDE: Well, you didn't
like the gray walls in there,
you said they reminded you
of rainy days back home.
(EMMA SQUEALS)
So you painted 'em yellow.
(BOTH LAUGHING)
- Come on.
- No!
EMMA: What time
of year was it?
Summer.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
No, winter.
(WIND WHISTLING)
(JUDE SIGHS)
We had just bought a fish.
EMMA: What fish?
You called him Ampersand.
Emma and Jude.
Emma and Jude.
Do you remember why
we bought the fish?
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(BELL RINGS)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(MUFFLED TALKING)
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(WATER BUBBLING)
Look at this little guy.
He doesn't have a clue
what's going on in the world.
No NIA, no cancer, no crusades.
Just gets to swim around
having a good time.
We should be so lucky.
That's what I feel
like when I'm with you.
Like a fish?
No, you know what I meant.
That's the nicest thing
you've ever said to me.
Let's get married.
Okay.
No, I'm not joking.
Me neither.
I wanna spend the rest
of my life with you.
I wanna fucking marry you.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Shit.
Change your mind already?
No, I don't have a ring.
Then buy me a fish.
Yeah?
(EMMA HUMS)
Do you know that this
is a type of memory
exclusively tied to the touch?
Haptic memory.
Haptic?
Did you read that in your book?
I haven't forgotten
how you feel.
Will you touch me?
(LIGHT MUSIC)
(MUFFLED TALKING)
EMMA VOICEOVER: They say
you can't forget feelings
and I still believe that.
(HELICOPTER WHIRRING)
Even after Ben.
Sam?
(CLATTERING)
What, what, what, what, what?
Are you all right?
Darling, what's
happening? What's happening?
He's just freaking
out, Emma, I can't.
It'll be okay, it'll be okay.
What the fuck!
BEN: Get out!
Ben?
Ben?
- Ben?
- Jude?
Yeah.
(HEAVY BREATHING)
You all right?
BEN: Jude.
Can I come in?
BEN: I don't know.
I'm coming in, all right?
(HEAVY BREATHING)
What's going on?
EMMA: Jude!
Yeah?
Yeah, we're good.
We're good, right? We're good.
Yeah, we're okay.
He's... Emma.
Are you all right?
Did he hurt you?
He just grabbed a knife
and he doesn't even
remember my name right now.
- Calm down.
- I thought I was in my house,
man, and then this fucking
bitch just walks in.
I don't fucking know her.
I don't fucking know her!
No, no, no, this is your
house. This is your house.
- It is, right?
- Yeah, that's Samantha.
- Sam.
- I don't know Sam.
Man, you've been
together for a while.
Shit, you've known her
longer than you've known me.
- I have?
- Yeah.
Look at your chest.
Look, look, look.
Here.
You see?
Ben, you're sick,
man, you got NIA.
You had it for awhile, it's
making you forget shit.
Sam's been helping you through.
Yeah, you guys are
great together, man.
Shit, you make music
together. You're awesome.
Hey.
Hey!
It's not your fault, man.
Can I take this?
(BEN CRIES)
Come on, man.
(THUDDING)
(HEAVY BREATHING)
Okay.
Why the fuck me, man?
Just relax, bud.
- Why the fuck me?
- Relax, it's not your fault.
(SOMBER MUSIC)
EMMA VOICEOVER:
Ben Richards was
from Hidalgo County, Texas.
He's a songwriter,
and like many,
believed that music
would save the world.
It's wrong.
The ambiance is
so... it's wrong.
JUDE: Huh?
I'm gonna go record outside.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
It's all wrong,
let's get outta here.
Remember the counts?
- I can't remember.
- No, man.
Why not?
EMMA VOICEOVER:
His mother was Lizette
and his father was Dave,
and since he moved away he
called them every Sunday.
We're trying to have a baby.
Sam!
We've been together for
so long, it's about time.
EMMA: Sam,
that's so exciting!
Yeah.
EMMA VOICEOVER: When
he first started to lose
his memory Ben kept it a secret.
Just like everyone
did back then.
(TATTOO GUN BUZZING)
(RAIN PATTERING)
Ben could turn any
room into a concert
when he was inclined to.
That was his gift.
This is who we all remembered.
Who we were clutching on to.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(MUFFLED TALKING)
(HORN HONKING)
(LIPS SMACKING)
Don't fall in.
Don't.
- Will you come-
- Don't, Jude.
Honestly, Jude.
- Do not fall in.
- Don't you fucking d...
This is so scary,
- do not do that.
- Emma, no!
Stop, stop it, stop.
You're gonna get us in trouble.
- You jump, I jump!
- Stop it.
Get off me, I'm trying
to see the whales.
Oh yeah, I got told
if we're gonna see one
it's gonna be right here.
- Oh yeah?
- Yeah.
Okay.
You all right? Do
you want anything?
Um, I'll have a tea.
If they've got tea, black tea.
Yeah? Okay.
If you see one
tell him to wait.
I will just for you.
- (GASPS) Jude!
- Yeah, what?
Nothing.
(PHONE BEEPS)
All right, we're just getting
word into the newsroom now.
Moments ago DPC issued
a statement indicating
that the early results of their
controversial NIA treatments
are quote
overwhelmingly positive.
Now, in that same
statement they also say
that due to overwhelming
demand that they
are not able to accept
any new applicants.
What do you make of that?
I guess if this treatment
is having some success,
that's wonderful news.
WOMAN: Overwhelmingly positive
certainly sounds like they
- might be onto something.
- What can I get you?
REPORTER: It does, but
they have already closed off
a very selective monitor
to the general public
and I assume that
the FDA has been-
- Tea.
REPORTER: There are
people with loved ones
who are afflicted with
this who want a chance.
WOMAN: Stop, don't touch me!
MAN: Stop here!
WOMAN: Stop it!
Get away from me!
MAN: Stop! Stop it!
WOMAN: Stop! Turn
the boat around!
WOMAN: Stop the boat!
We have to go back,
we have to go back.
Stop!
I don't know who you are!
- Help me!
- Stop her!
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
- Stop her!
- Help me!
- Okay.
- Help me!
- What's happening?
- Help!
Turn the boat around!
No, stop touching me, please.
Just get away from me.
We have to go back, please!
Don't! Stop it!
Back off, back up.
Get away!
Em?
WOMAN: Go back,
we need to go back!
- Em?
- Jude!
JUDE: Em!
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(WATER SPLASHING)
MAN: Hurry!
Throw it in!
MAN: Turn the boat around!
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(MUFFLED YELLING)
EMMA VOICEOVER:
Overwhelmingly positive results.
The first sign of a cure
and they shut everyone out.
(EVERYONE YELLING)
(SMASHING)
It's no wonder people
are going crazy.
And while they went crazy
all we could do was wait.
Wait to hear that we got an in.
Wait to hear that we
were gonna be okay.
(SIRENS WAILING)
We're gonna be okay.
This procedure works.
A viral video is
causing a stir today
of a Dr. Sam Tomlin of
the DPC walking viewers
through a step-by-step
tutorial of the procedure
which supposedly puts
a halt to NIA symptoms.
(SIRENS WAILING)
Already we're getting reports
from local emergency rooms
of more than a dozen new
patients who've attempted
the procedure on themselves.
EMMA VOICEOVER:
We're gonna be okay.
We have increased
police presence
and cannot stress enough
this is not a proven cure.
Step back now!
REPORTER: It is, at
best, a promising lead
in the road to a cure.
(GLASS SHATTERING)
We urge everyone to remain calm.
(SMASHING)
EMMA VOICEOVER:
We're gonna be okay.
(PHONE BUZZING)
Hello?
Yes, speaking.
Sorry, I thought
he was already in.
Yeah, that's...
that's not possible.
Um, can I speak to
Dr. Dormer please?
Well, can I talk to someone?
Who's your supervisor?
Yeah, but there's been a mistake
and you need to check again.
Or I need to someone
who can sort it out.
Fine.
Yeah, fine.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Fuck.
Jude.
They said they didn't
take you 'cause you've
got drugs in your system.
What?
EMMA: You know what
they're talking about?
Nope.
Jude, you can't lie
to me about this stuff.
Emma, I swear to God, I've
been sober for five years.
You know that, I wouldn't
just fuck things up like that.
So what? They're just lying?
Unless it's a mistake.
What did they say?
They said they found
cocaine in your system
and now you can't get
the procedure done.
Is that true?
No, it can't be true.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
EMMA: Jude.
Fuck.
What?
I ran into an old
friend from way back
and I used to party
a lot with him.
I thought we just caught up.
I don't remember, but that's
the only time I could've...
So it's possible, then.
(JUDE SIGHS)
(EMMA CLEARS THROAT)
I just need a minute.
(SIGHS) Damn.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
SAM: I can't do this.
What do you mean?
He's been forgetting
pieces of himself
for the last six months.
Tonight he just forgot me.
Oh, darling.
This is going to get worse.
I love him, Emma.
I love him so much.
But it's a sinking ship.
I can either tie myself to
him and get dragged down
or cut loose and
try to stay alive.
I understand, but-
- I don't think you
understand, Emma.
I truly hope you never
have to understand.
The man who promised he
was gonna love me forever,
he just tried to stab
me with a kitchen knife
that my mother gave him.
What the fuck am I
supposed to do right now?
EMMA VOICEOVER:
They lost each other.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
But I won't lose you.
Tell me about our first kiss.
Jude.
The walls, there were
these black shapes.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Well, I don't
remember the walls.
Can I kiss you?
Our first kiss can't
be in line for the loo.
I didn't say that.
JUDE: No?
No, I said I'm not available.
Right, Tim.
EMMA: Tom.
But I thought
his name was Tim.
Yeah, but you
always called him Tom.
- Tom.
- Tim.
Tim.
That's even worse.
So, do you love him?
- No.
- No?
You didn't even have
to think about it.
No, I didn't.
Tell me about the walls.
I don't remember the walls.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
What's this?
JUDE: It's a picture of you.
What's this?
Do you know who I am?
JUDE: You're Emma.
Then why'd you have
to write this down?
I'm doing my best.
When were we married, Jude?
April.
No, uh, August.
August?
When did we get married, Jude?
Uh, it was a
Wednesday in August.
Just...
Just focus on the details,
the memory has dozens
of threads to the
other memories.
Was it in a church?
I don't know.
Was it a big wedding?
Steps.
Steps.
Yeah, we kissed on some steps.
It was a Thursday,
it was just us,
we decided we didn't
wanna wait until the date.
EMMA: What color
was the dress?
JUDE: White.
Blue.
Do you remember who was there?
(MUFFLED TALKING)
(SOMBER MUSIC)
Uh...
Ben.
Samantha.
Congratulations.
I love you, I'm so happy.
He played us a song.
- I wrote this for you.
- No, no, no.
He gave us a song.
Our song.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
♪ Stay awake just to
burn you into my mind ♪
♪ Don't fall asleep till I
see you and I close my eyes ♪
♪ Pull you closer just
to feel you breathing ♪
♪ Blend your flesh to mine ♪
Close your eyes.
Why?
Just close 'em.
♪ Darkness when
I close my eyes ♪
(LIGHT MUSIC)
Do you remember meeting me?
(WATER SPLASHING)
A waterpark.
I remember a waterpark and
it was October, it was cold.
Hi.
It was the day they
shutdown the park.
Everything was going
outta business,
every day was
something's last day.
We were the
oldest people there.
We were the only people there.
♪ I'll take you dancing
in the flickering lights ♪
♪ I'll spin your hand ♪
I was so sad
the day I met you.
JUDE: Why?
Can't remember.
I just know that after I saw
you I wasn't sad anymore.
♪ Just to see you dancing ♪
(WATER SPLASHING)
(EMMA GRUNTS)
We were married October
14th of last year.
We didn't have a wedding,
we just went right
to the courthouse.
Ben and Sam were there.
Your dad was there.
Your friends, my friends.
It was a mad dash
with no warning and
still so many people made it.
I'm so sorry I don't remember.
It's not your fault, though.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
I haven't
forgotten how I feel.
EMMA VOICEOVER:
So much to remember.
All these little pieces.
For some people
NIA is a slow drip,
for others it's a
stop all at once.
For you it's slow.
This can work.
(RAIN PATTERING)
Okay, left!
No, my left!
Keep going!
Perfect!
Pretty fucking cool, huh?
EMMA: Yeah, it's cool!
Hang on.
(CAMERA CLICKS)
EMMA VOICEOVER: Every
day he rediscovers the city.
JUDE: Oh, fuck, fuck, fuck!
EMMA VOICEOVER: Places
we had known in special ways
were strange again.
Move back.
All right.
I think it took.
EMMA VOICEOVER:
Some things were easy.
Hang on.
EMMA VOICEOVER: And
some things are hard.
Have we been here before?
No.
No, we haven't.
EMMA VOICEOVER: Because
his losses were mine, too.
(WATER TRICKLING)
What the?
What is this, a fish?
Yeah.
I got it with you.
Do you like it?
(EMMA LAUGHS)
What, what, what?
What?
Oh, my God.
No!
(EMMA LAUGHS)
- We got matching tats.
- We did indeed.
EMMA VOICEOVER:
Do I know you better
than you know yourself?
Right now, maybe.
Why did we tattoo fish?
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(KNOCKING)
- Oh, thank god!
- What?
(JUDE SIGHS)
Oh shit, I couldn't, uh...
I knew that we lived on
Ormand but I couldn't remember
which door so I just
knocked on 'em all
and nobody wanted to help me.
Darling.
Here you go.
It's okay.
EMMA VOICEOVER: I
find myself wondering how
to build a future if you keep
having to rebuild the past.
Yeah, it woulda been
nice to know that I fucking
had this and I don't know.
(DOGS BARKING)
EMMA VOICEOVER: Life goes
forwards, not backwards.
I'm still reading about
the brain, taking notes.
I don't know, feeling
like I'm doing something.
(PAPER RUSTLING)
(PHONE BUZZING)
Mom?
MAN: Uh, is
this Emma Ryerson?
Oh my God, is she okay?
MAN: She's all right.
We identified her.
She's in the hospital now and
people are looking after her.
Does she know who she is?
MAN: She knows her
first name. Bits and pieces.
Um...
Could you tell her that Emma,
that her daughter loves her
and I haven't forgotten
and that I'm gonna try
and be there as soon as I can.
Would you tell her that please?
(GULLS CAWING)
EMMA VOICEOVER: What
were we even trying to save?
Our experiences together?
Is that all I love about him?
I wish I could look at him and
just find what went missing.
But he looks the same.
Jude, I'm so tired of this.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
JUDE: I have to
ask you something.
Okay.
I'm not sure how.
Is it scary?
Yeah.
I've been doing some
reading about the procedure
and what they were
gonna do to me.
Okay.
And I was thinking
we could do it.
Do it?
Yeah, or you could do it.
At work.
Are you being serious?
Yeah, I know it sounds
crazy, but they have
these videos online and
they swear that it worked.
No, they swear that it worked.
You take this long needle
and you find this nerve
at the base of the brain-
- You didn't wanna do
it when professionals
were gonna do it,
Jude, I'm a vet.
Yeah, I know,
but I'm going, Em.
We have to try and
I'm gonna feel better
knowing that it's you.
No, you can't
ask me to do that.
No, but I am asking you.
But what if, um...
What if something goes
wrong or I hurt you
or I make it worse or
you get an infection?
Well, I wouldn't of
asked you if I hadn't
thought about all of that.
I trust you.
I don't know what else to do.
I don't know what else there is.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(ENGINE RUMBLING)
(DOG BARKING)
(KEYS JINGLING)
(DOGS BARKING)
(DOOR THUDS)
Stay here, I'm
gonna go and check.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(DOG BARKING)
(DOOR CLICKS)
Okay, we're all safe.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
MAN: This ridge should
soften into a membrane
that will give a little
when you push it.
This area will be
the puncture point.
Okay.
Okay, this is what we
use to open dog's mouths
when we clean the teeth.
It won't really fit, but it
will stop you from biting.
Wider.
How's that?
How do I look?
(MUFFLED TALKING)
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(DOGS BARKING)
(EMMA SIGHS)
Um...
Carfentanil could kill
you so I'm gonna give you
some Telazol for the pain-
(JUDE GROANS)
- Jude-
- No drugs, I gotta be...
- I wanna be-
- Jude.
No, please, fuck that shit.
Come on.
(JUDE SIGHS)
(DOGS BARKING)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
- (JUDE SIGHS)
- You ready?
(JUDE HUMS)
- I'm ready.
- You ready?
Yeah, yeah.
Take a deep breath.
Deep breath.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
Breathe.
Deep breath.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
You all right?
You all right?
Yeah, we got this.
Come on, come on.
Yo!
Yo!
(JUDE GROANS)
All right, let's
get it. Come on.
EMMA: Are you sure?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's
go, let's go, let's go.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Here we go, come on.
Okay, deep breath.
(JUDE GROANS)
Deep breath, deep
breath, deep breath.
Deep breath.
(JUDE GROANS)
Jude, I don't know.
(JOAN GROANS)
(SHOE SQUEAKING)
Jude, I don't
know, I don't know.
(JUDE SCREAMS)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(LIGHT MUSIC)
Close your eyes.
- Why?
- Just close 'em.
All right, pretend
we're somewhere hot.
- Okay.
- Like the jungle.
EMMA: No, Hawaii.
Hawaii?
(EMMA HUMS)
All right, so we're in Hawaii.
Let's pretend we
just got married.
EMMA: We did
just get married.
Oh yeah.
So, all right, it's our
honeymoon, we're in Hawaii,
and we're in the water
but you gotta sneak off
because there is
jellyfish and sharks.
And the water is
dead clear so I'll be
able to spot 'em a mile away.
No, but it's like
three a.m. so it's dark.
And if you look out
onto the horizon
you can see like
la lightnening storm=.
Am I naked?
Hell yeah, it's a
honeymoon. Always.
Me, too.
Sounds perfect.
Yeah.
Perfect Hawaiian honeymoon.
Don't ever forget it.
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
Easy.
Easy.
What happened?
You blacked out.
- I blacked out?
- Yeah.
Jude, slowly, slowly.
Oh.
Did we get it?
I'm not sure.
How long was I out for?
10 minutes.
(SIGHS) Oh, for God sake, Jude.
It was so scary.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
EMMA VOICEOVER:
Did I hurt ya?
Did I help ya?
How long until we'll know?
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(ZIPPER BUZZING)
(BAG RUSTLING)
You going somewhere?
Who are you?
What?
Oh, fuck off.
Fuck off, Jude.
For fuck's sake!
That's so annoying!
How could you tell?
I could see you chew
your lip you were trying
to do your stupid
smile you stupid twat.
- Sorry.
- Oh, thank you.
Good morning.
(JUDE SIGHS)
Hey, can we take the
car, just go do like
a road trip or something?
Put this guy in the back seat.
Do you feel up for that?
Yeah.
Yeah, I could use the air.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
(ENGINE RUMBLING)
Out of all the concerts
that you've been to,
what was the worst?
Uh...
Oh, I saw Courtney
Love in Vegas.
She came out, sang
one line, and got hit
with a chocolate bar and left.
(LAUGHS) No.
She said, "Fuck
you, Las Vegas!"
(BOTH LAUGHING)
And then she left.
What about you?
Uh, you at karaoke last year.
Absolutely traumatic experience
for me and everyone around.
Traumatic?
Oh, completely tone deaf.
It's good you have
hands, though.
(JUDE LAUGHS)
Everything shuts down
when you start singing.
♪ Do do do do ♪
♪ Do do do do ♪
♪ Do be do be be ♪
It's the face
that you do as well.
I can't even look at ya.
(JUDE LAUGHS)
(LIGHT MUSIC)
I folded my ears in on
themselves 'cause I can't do it.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
(CAMERA CLICKS)
- Oh, is that fun?
- Blue!
Is that fun?
(DOG BARKS)
Blue, Blue!
- Catalog, Blue.
- Blue!
Yeah, boy.
EMMA: Have you got the key?
Huh?
Have you got the key?
Yeah, he said the mailbox.
(METAL SCREECHING)
No?
Hang on.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(KEYS JINGLING)
- He must have forgot.
- Okay.
(FIRE CRACKLING)
I still have no news on my mom.
Still?
Did you try your aunt?
Yeah, I've tried her as well.
Yeah, I got something
I need to say to you
but it doesn't feel
like the right time.
But I don't feel
like I can wait.
Okay.
Uh...
I wrote it down so I
wouldn't mess it up.
(JUDE SIGHS)
There's no easy way to say
this, but it didn't work.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
I woke up this morning and
I didn't recognize you.
So it definitely didn't work.
Emma, now I'm starting
to forget even you.
(PAPER RUSTLING)
Dear Emma, I wanted
to write this to you,
I wanted to say this
to you while I still
have as much of me as I do.
Every morning I wake
up and I have to look
at Polaroids with
names on 'em just so
I can remember that he's Blue.
Or like this
morning when we left
I had to let you go out
first because I couldn't
remember which car was ours.
There's chaos all around
us, people freaking out
looking for cures, we're
losing our friends,
you're losing your mom,
borders are sealed,
flights are grounded,
and people are getting
lost on their own streets.
And in the middle of it
it feels like it's just us
doing whatever the fuck we can.
So I wanted to come out
here while it's still quiet
so that I could look
you in the eye in case
before I'm all gone and tell
you that you are the love
of my life because you
make me laugh every day
and you make my life worth
living and you make me
feel like I'm not alone.
And if things were normal,
then you'd be the person
that'd make it okay that I
gotta grow old and die someday
because at least I got to spend
some of that time with you.
But things aren't normal
and so I guess instead,
or as well, I love you
because you stayed.
Because when things got scary
you knuckled down
and you stayed.
And you got me through each day.
And I hope I did the same
for you, or I hope that
I can still do the
same for you somehow.
Yeah, yeah, I just had to
because I feel we gotta be real.
Yeah.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(LIPS SMACKING)
(LIGHT MUSIC)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(MUFFLED TALKING)
(DOG BARKING)
JUDE: What's this? Come on.
Come on.
(JUDE WHISTLING)
Oh, come here.
Yeah, yeah.
You can't get that stick.
You can't get there first.
You can't get that stick.
You can't get that stick.
- Hey!
- Hey.
This dog's cool.
His name's Blue.
Oh, Blue! Yeah.
Yeah.
(BLUE BARKS)
Yeah, Blue. Come on.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
What?
Come on.
(ENGINE RUMBLING)
(LIGHT MUSIC)
EMMA: Oh no, are
they turning us around?
JUDE: Uh, I don't know.
(SIREN WAILS)
(WINDOW HUMMING)
OFFICER: IDs please.
Is this road
closed, sir, or what?
OFFICER: Just the IDs.
Why?
OFFICER: Government
mandated for
the missing persons database.
We're not missing.
Not yet.
Okay, go on through.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(ENGINE RUMBLING)
How many today?
Oh, just one.
Maybe people are remembering
to close their gates.
Yeah, well, I've got that.
Cheers.
Here you are.
Here you go.
Thank you.
- Here.
- Thank you much.
That'll take care of it.
Let me give you this.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
Thanks.
Hey, um, just wondering if
you know where Frank is.
He's the guy that
usually comes here.
He's called Frank.
ANNIE: Frank hasn't
been here in weeks.
I'm Annie.
Do you not remember me?
No, of course I knew,
I was just wondering
if you've heard from Frank.
No, I haven't.
(DOOR SLAMS)
Sorry.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(PAPER RUSTLING)
(HIGH PITCHED RINGING)
(LIGHT MUSIC)
Where you off to?
On the hike.
Why do you wanna go on a hike?
It's winter, it'll be cold.
I asked you last night, you
said we could go on a hike.
Yeah, you're
right, I did say that
I just didn't think
you'd remember.
Are you coming or?
Yeah.
(CAMERA CLICKS)
(LIGHT MUSIC)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
Come on.
(ROCKS RUSTLING)
Beautiful, huh?
Come on, let's get it.
What?
- Let's go, like-
- Oh, Jude.
Just go like here.
Right there.
EMMA: For fuck's sake.
What do you want me to do?
You know, just do your thing.
Oh, Jude, this is...
This is gonna look shit.
Turn around.
- Nightmare.
- Look, whale.
Oh, Jude, I'm not
in the mood for this.
- That's good.
- No.
- Yeah, walk towards me.
- Enough, enough.
Yeah, that's good,
that's good, that's good.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Yes.
(WAVES CRASHING)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
Oh shit, can I get one more?
Just here?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
(EMMA GROANS)
Yes!
(CAMERA CLICKS)
It's a nice camera.
I hope it turns out.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Jude?
Jude.
Hey.
- Jude.
- What?
- Everything okay?
- No, no, no.
- What?
- No, no, Jude.
You all right?
- No.
- Is there a problem?
- Jude, who am I?
- Huh?
- Who am I?
- I don't Know.
Do not touch me, please.
No, Jude, look
at me, look at me.
What, what, can I help?
- I'm your wife.
- Can I help?
- What?
- I'm your wife, Emma.
- All right, I can't do this.
- Jude, Jude.
- Jude, I'm your wife.
- Out of my personal space
- here, can you-
- Jude, I'm your wife.
Jude, look at me. Who am I?
No, don't touch me, man.
Look, we left the
house this morning-
- Are you fucking crazy?
We left the
house this morning.
All right, all right, I don't-
- Who am I and what's
my favorite color?
- Are you deranged?
- Who am I, what's my fav-
- Are you deranged?
- Jude, Jude, just relax.
- Will you not touch me?
- Just relax.
- Fuck, man.
- Jude.
- Please, we leave together.
- Will you not touch me?
- I just told you once.
- Jude, I'm going crazy.
Please, just look me.
Jude, look at-
(THUDDING)
(HEAVY BREATHING)
Listen, I don't know
if you're a psychopath
or you're sick or
what's going on
but it's got nothing to
do with me, all right?
I'm sorry I pushed you.
I'll see if I can
get you some help.
(WAVES SLOSHING)
Jude!
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Jude.
(HEAVY BREATHING)
(EMMA CRIES)
(LIGHTS CLICKING)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
EMMA VOICEOVER: I was
so sad the day I met ya.
Oh, hello.
(LAUGHS) Hello.
Who are you?
EMMA VOICEOVER: I
can't remember why.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
(LIGHT MUSIC)
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(GULLS CAWING)
(WAVES CRASHING)
(WOMAN SNIFFLING)
(WOMAN SIGHS)
(WAVES CRASHING)
(DOG PANTING)
Oh hello.
(LAUGHS) Hello.
Who are you?
Hey!
Yeah?
Is this your dog?
(DOG WHINES)
Sorry, what?
Is this your dog?
What?
What?
You're smiling.
Oh, no, I didn't except
your accent to be your voice.
I mean, that's all.
What's wrong with it?
Nothing.
EMMA VOICEOVER: I was
so sad the day I met you.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(ENGINE RUMBLING)
(SIRENS WAILING)
I can't remember why.
(SIRENS WAILING)
Just stop listening.
Stop thinking.
Tune it out.
What's that thing you're
supposed to do? Count sheep?
One sheep, two sheep,
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
black sheep, blue sheep.
(DOG WHINES)
Blue.
I wonder if Blue ever worries.
Nah.
Blue doesn't worry.
All these little pieces.
(FIREWORKS SIZZLING)
So much to remember.
(MUFFLED TALKING)
That smoke smell in Jude's hair.
Samantha telling
stories of the road
and Ben agonizing
over the playlist.
What was the song?
I can't remember anymore.
Focus on the important things.
Jude Andrew Williams.
We were married on
October 14, 2021.
A Thursday.
I should be writing this down.
(LIGHT CLICKS)
(PAPER RUSTLING)
(MUFFLED TALKING)
♪ Memoirs was at the
brokenhearted ♪
♪ Hennessy vision
of bad bitches ♪
Everyone in, act like
you like each other.
Pressed in tighter.
Tighter, tighter, tighter.
Everyone say "cliche"!
ALL: Cliche!
- I got you a drink.
- Oh, thank you.
- Emma, get in here.
- Okay, yeah.
Tim, get in!
Okay.
♪ What I'm fighting
for, whatever is ♪
♪ Used to vision me
and forever asked one ♪
- Oh.
- Wait.
One, two, three, cheese!
ALL: Cheese!
Thank you.
- Be right back.
- Send that to me.
- I'm sending it.
- Okay, good.
♪ Different liquors
out of sight ♪
♪ And out mind with
my niggas chillin' ♪
♪ Records since I
ever be go figure ♪
- ♪ Little me ♪
- You okay?
- Yeah.
- He's bitter.
Uh, I just got ahold of
work and I'll be two seconds.
(TIM SIGHS)
(PHONE RINGING)
Hello?
JUDE: Hey, it's Jude.
Are you calling me?
JUDE: Uh, yeah.
Why? Is this not a good time?
No, no, no, just that
cowards like me only text.
JUDE: Oh, well,
well, I did text,
but then I realized
I wasn't gonna get
to hear that cool accent again.
So, uh...
(LAUGHS) Um, um.
I'm at a Halloween
party so sorry
if it's a little bit loud.
JUDE: Yeah, me too.
How is yours?
Yeah, it's fine.
Just a typical Halloween party.
JUDE: Cool, well, uh you
better get back to it then.
Actually it's a bag of wank.
JUDE: It's what?
It's just shit,
it's really shit.
JUDE: I bet you my Halloween
party is 10 times worse.
Prove it.
(UPBEAT MUSIC)
Can't it wait till tomorrow?
A dog might've
been hit by a car,
the details are unclear.
Do you want me
to come with you?
No, no, no, no, you stay here.
Have fun and I'll
speak to you tomorrow.
(ENGINE RUMBLING)
Hey!
Are you George Washington?
(LAUGHS) No.
No, I'm Claude Bourgelat.
Who's Clark Bergo...
- Who's Claude-
- Come on up,
I'll buzz you.
Which way am I going?
Just that way.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
(DOOR BUZZING)
Claude Bourgelat, the
French veterinary surgeon
who actually opened
up the very first
veterinary practices in Lyon.
Lyon.
Is your costume a
guy who Googles things
and pretends he
already knew 'em?
(LAUGHS) That is my costume.
Yeah, funny, you're
actually the only
person to get it right.
- Shall I.. Can I?
- Yeah, come meet
these clowns, come on.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
Welcome.
Come, come.
Everybody, this is Emma.
Emma, this is everybody.
EMMA VOICEOVER:
Jude Andrew Williams.
He always had a
camera in his hand
and a photograph in his mind.
Yeah, come on, man!
EMMA VOICEOVER: He
could seem guarded at first
but if you ever needed to
know how he really felt
you could just look
at his pictures.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
(CAMERA CLICKS)
(MUFFLED TALKING)
It was hard to believe that
was only the beginning.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
(MUFFLED TALKING)
(CAMERA CLICKS)
Can I kiss you?
I'm not available.
Right. Tom.
Tim.
Tim.
That's even worse.
(EMMA LAUGHS)
So, do you love him?
- No.
- No?
Then why are you with him?
It's just what's
happening right now.
Yeah, but that's not even true
'cause you're here right now.
I, uh, I can respect that
you're doing your thing,
just take note that
I asked I guess.
Noted.
After you.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
That didn't happen!
(DOOR SQUEAKS)
EMMA VOICEOVER: It feels
wrong to make this about us.
It's bigger than that.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
So much bigger.
We'd hear stories
from somewhere like
the coast of
Maryland or Florida.
Always there, not here.
Like the story of the
man stranded in the ocean
picked up by a fishing boat.
It turned out he was
another fisherman,
his boat washed up to
shore four days later.
He said he couldn't
remember how to steer it
so he decided to swim home.
Or the woman in the marathon
who forgot to stop running.
(ENGINE RUMBLING)
(SIREN WAILING)
There's something quite beautiful
to these stories at first.
But then a pilot
forgot how to fly.
They call it NIA.
Neuroinflammatory Affliction.
It can affect anyone,
and there's no cure.
Ben was the first person
we knew to get sick.
We say get sick, but
that's not really it.
Some people snap all at
once, other people fade away.
I'm not really sure
which one is worse.
(BLANKETS RUSTLING)
Sup?
Nothing apparently.
Fell asleep.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
(LIGHT CLICKS)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
Jude?
- Yeah?
- Hey, I'm going now.
All right.
EMMA: You good?
Yeah, just waking up.
All right, well,
I'll see you later.
- All right, babe.
- Bye, darling.
JUDE: Bye, bye, bye.
(DOG WHINES)
- Hey.
- Hey.
How many have we got
today? We're already packed.
Just two.
Come on, bud.
All right, come here.
(GRUNTS) I got ya, all right.
Hello, you.
All right, let's see if
we can find your family.
Oh, yeah.
Come here.
(EMMA GRUNTS)
- Oh, hey, I can get that.
- Oh, that's all right.
- Yeah, all good.
- Oh okay.
All set.
- Thanks, Frank.
- Sure.
Sorry, your name again?
Emma.
Emma, right!
Right, right.
Well, it's not to
uh... yeah, yeah.
(PHONE RINGING)
(HORN HONKING)
(TRAFFIC HUMMING)
(DOOR THUDS)
Jude?
I thought that was you.
Naps.
How's it going, man? You good?
Good, and you?
JUDE: Yeah, good
to see you man.
Yeah, it's been awhile.
What brings you here?
I'm playing here tonight.
- Here?
- Yeah.
- No shit.
- Yeah.
- You're still at it.
- That's right.
Awesome, that's awesome.
- You should come.
- Tonight?
Yeah.
Well, I gotta
check with my wife.
- Wife?
- Yeah, I got married.
Get the fuck outta here.
Holy shit, man.
- Man, we gotta catch up.
- Yeah.
You got a minute?
Yeah, I got a minute.
- You need a hand or what?
- Yeah, of course, come on.
- All right.
- Are you still rolling
with the same crew?
JUDE: Yeah, I still see 'em.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, what happened?
Playing solo or what?
NAPS: Hey, man. Stop it.
- What happened?
- Nothing.
(DOG WHINING)
(LIGHT MUSIC)
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(LIGHTER CLICKS)
(CHURCH BELL DINGS)
Coming by, sorry, sorry.
(MUFFLED TALKING)
- Mr. Johnson.
- Where the hell
- have you been?
- Yeah, I'm so sorry, sir.
You were supposed to
be here an hour ago.
Yeah, I, there's
no excuse, sir.
We wanted pictures of
the girls getting ready.
We paid for pictures of
the girls getting ready.
Yeah, I understand, I-
- No, no, I don't think
you do understand.
Those moments are gone,
we don't get those back.
We had to get my nephew
here to take pictures.
Yeah, sorry, sir.
I'll get a full
deposit back to you.
Hey, hey.
Just take some fucking pictures.
- Okay.
- Yes, sir.
(MUFFLED TALKING)
(PHONE RINGING)
MOM: Hi, love.
Hi, Mom.
MOM: How is it, then?
Yeah, fine.
How was Germany?
MOM: Oh, didn't I tell you?
That trip got postponed.
I'm still at home, but I'll
be going there in a few weeks.
Mom, you have to
tell me these things,
I'm coming to see
you in a month.
- Hun-
- Will you be back by then?
MOM: I thought I did tell ya.
Didn't I?
But don't worry, I'll be back.
How are ya?
I'm okay.
Work's getting stressful,
but I'm looking forward
to coming and seeing ya.
I wish they hadn't
grounded all those flights
so I could come sooner,
but it's all right.
MOM: Oh, remind me.
Is David coming with ya?
- Jude?
- What?
EMMA: Jude.
MOM: Oh, God, what did I say?
Chris, Henry, David, Jude.
You know I was never
good with names anyhow.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Yeah.
Yeah, no, but it's not the first
time you've forgotten, Mom.
I know I told ya I could
only get the one ticket.
MOM: Of course, that's right.
Well, hug Jude for me, will ya?
Yeah.
Mom.
MOM: What?
Are you feeling okay?
MOM: Yes, love. I'm great.
You let me do the
worrying over here.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(ENGINE RUMBLING)
You all right?
Yeah, you?
I'm not even a vet anymore,
I'm just an executioner.
I hate it.
I had to put down the
most beautiful pup today,
she had the most
expressive eyes.
They were like human eyes.
I was gonna call you and see
if I could take her home.
Let's...
Please let's not
get into that again.
It's just one dog.
No, but it's not just one.
If we take one we'll
probably take 17
and we already got Blue,
we don't have room.
You know that we can't.
(ENGINE RUMBLING)
(MUFFLED TALKING)
What's happening?
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
MAN: Why are you stopping?
(TALKING OVER EACH OTHER)
Yeah, I don't think this
bus is going anywhere.
WOMAN: What is
happening right now?
MAN: Attention.
If you are lost or need
assistance, call 707
and have your ID ready.
If someone you know
is lost or missing,
check the missing person
database or call 811
(EMMA HUMMING)
(JUDE HUMMING)
(KNIFE TAPPING)
Do you think anybody's immune?
Oh yeah.
Me, for instance.
All right, so it doesn't
affect the geniuses amongst us.
(GASPS) What if the
only person who's immune
already has Alzheimers?
Ooh.
So you'd never know.
Ooh, yeah.
That is so fucked up
that's probably how it is.
Or what if this is
just the next phase
of human evolution and we
should just embrace it?
We fucked everything up
so badly that the only way
to survive this is
just by forgetting.
Mm hmm, yeah,
I like that, too.
(DOG BARKS)
What about dogs?
Do you think dogs
are susceptible?
Unclear.
They rely more on
associative memories,
so just don't change
the way you smell
and keep feeding him
and you'll be fine.
Hey, don't you fucking
forget about me, Blue!
Oh, I'm sorry, bud.
I didn't think you'd
take that so seriously.
Yeah, I love you, too.
Yeah, sorry, buddy.
(JUDE SIGHS)
It's a shame we can't
take some of them.
The dogs.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
They've been putting
down so many recently.
What?
Yeah, just like a
puppy or something.
I'm sure Blue wouldn't mind.
What?
You said we couldn't.
When?
We had an argument about
this last week and then
we were just about to get
into it again on the bus.
Very good.
- Jude, I'm-
- Almost.
This is an ongoing argument
that we've been having,
we were just about to get
into it half an hour ago.
It was just now.
I don't remember that.
Oh my God.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Did you know this was happening?
No, how am I
gonna know I forgot?
Do you know who I am?
Yeah, you're my
wife, Emma Veta.
Where did we meet?
What's your father's name?
- Where did you grow up?
- Emma!
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
This is gonna be
like Ben, isn't it?
EMMA VOICEOVER:
When your disaster
is everyone's disaster,
how do you grieve?
When Ben first started
losing his memory
he wanted us to record
every song he'd ever written
before they were all gone.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
(WOMAN HUMS)
Wanna do it again?
One, two, three, four.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
You got this.
Just relax, you got this.
It's not happening.
It's not happening,
it's just not happening.
You got it.
If you want, we can just
record the guitar first
and the vocals and then
I can open up the bass.
JUDE: Yeah, sounds good.
SAM: Okay.
(GUITAR CLATTERING)
(DOOR THUDS)
EMMA VOICEOVER: He tried
so hard not to see him scared.
I guess we all did.
I got an idea.
(TATTOO GUN BUZZING)
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(LIGHT MUSIC)
♪ You get away ♪
♪ You always get away
with everything ♪
♪ Look at all the fingerprints ♪
♪ You left all over my body ♪
♪ Make it sacred,
make it count ♪
♪ Oh no, you're not
easy to forget ♪
EMMA VOICEOVER: I can't
tell if I'm torturing myself,
pretending like I'm
gonna find the answer.
I keep going back
to the beginning.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
(PHONE RINGING)
JODY: This is Jody Ryerson.
Leave a message after the tone.
WOMAN: The mailbox is
full and cannot accept
any new messages at this time.
Goodbye.
(TRAFFIC HUMMING)
(MUFFLED TALKING)
WOMAN: If you are
experiencing NIA symptoms
I need you over here.
MAN: Don't worry
about the car.
(MUFFLED TALKING)
If you are here on
behalf of someone else,
please make a line to my right.
Listen carefully!
If you are experiencing NIA
symptoms, I need you over here.
If you are here on
behalf of someone else,
please make a line to my right.
If you were here yesterday
and did not get in,
please have your
ticket stubs ready.
WOMAN: I dropped mine!
MAN: Excuse me!
On behalf of someone
else, over here.
Sign the consent form,
have your money ready.
- All sign the consent form.
- Gloria, over here!
WOMAN: Okay,
okay, okay, people.
Have your ticket stubs ready.
WOMAN: I'm sorry, we
can't accept anyone under 25.
What do you mean?
WOMAN: The brain
isn't fully developed.
If you are experiencing
NIA symptoms, over here.
(MUFFLED TALKING)
- Nurse!
- Are you kidding
me right now?
- Can I help you?
- Yes!
Excuse me.
What is this? Have
you found a cure or?
This is for the chance
to be in a clinical trial,
it's a lottery.
Okay, but does it work?
I mean, if you get into
the trial, does it work?
All I know is
that it's a trial.
Fill this out, turn it out
when you get to the door
and have your money ready, okay?
MAN: We have to
wait in line anyway,
you can't jump ahead.
And I wanna go in.
I don't care about anybody else.
I'm talking about me.
WOMAN: I don't know.
I don't know, but my
dad, he's lost his ID.
MAN: Fine, fine!
WOMAN: Guy pushed in front!
MAN: Which line is
it? This one or that one?
WOMAN: Over here.
(MUFFLED TALKING)
(TAPPING)
Roses felt too easy, but
I didn't know what you liked
so I got you daisies.
Aren't daisies weeds?
Huh?
Aren't daisies weeds?
Oh, well good to
see you and goodnight.
I'm kidding!
Come here.
(DOOR THUDS)
Yeah, I think I'm gonna
do a couple more years
as a vet tech to
save up some money
to go back to
school to study bio,
eventually be in the labs
and maybe publish one day.
We'll see.
What about you?
What about me?
What are you doing?
Oh, well, I've been around a
lot with Ben and Sam touring,
- taking pictures.
- Yeah.
For different bands,
different magazines.
EMMA: Oh, cool.
Yeah.
I helped them record.
It was a cool way to spend
the first half of my 20s, but
things got a little outta
hand with drinking, drugs.
Uh, Sam's parents were out
here so we came here to dry out
and kinda never really left.
Is that why you
don't drink anymore?
Yeah.
What was it that
happened to make you stop?
That's a pretty intense
second date question.
Sorry.
I'm just being nosy.
Just tell me to shut up.
So, actually, do you
want me to leave?
I'll go.
No, it's all right,
I'll go. You stay here.
(BOTH LAUGHING)
Anyway, you, it's
not our second date.
It's not?
No, first one was Halloween.
Well, I definitely
don't count that.
Because you can't count.
No, because you
said it didn't happen.
What didn't happen?
This.
Sorry.
- No!
- Sorry, sorry.
No, I thought it was
a smooth, cool moment,
- but if you're not uh-
- No, no, don't be silly.
Uh, I just...
I'm just not very good at this.
What?
Do you wanna have sex?
(JUDE LAUGHS)
Don't laugh!
I really need your
fucking consent.
Oh my God, uh...
Yes.
But I know you're going
through some shit with Tom,
- I don't wanna-
- Tim.
Tim.
Yeah, and he's just a friend.
JUDE: Yeah,
does he know that?
Not in those exact words.
Well, I get that.
So, let's just wait.
I'm not going anywhere.
(UPBEAT MUSIC)
♪ I run after you ♪
♪ Like a fool would do ♪
♪ But mama didn't
raise no fools ♪
♪ And I should know ♪
♪ That baby you got it ♪
♪ That's all I can say for you ♪
♪ You got soul, too much soul ♪
♪ Foxy clothes,
the cutest nose ♪
♪ A groovy set there's
nothing fake about you ♪
♪ Baby you got it ♪
♪ People can cruel, they
say I've lost my cool ♪
♪ But it's very hard
to keep my cool ♪
♪ When I'm around you ♪
♪ 'Cause baby you got it ♪
♪ That's all I can say for you ♪
♪ You got soul, too much soul ♪
♪ Foxy clothed,
the cutest nose ♪
♪ The mood is set, there's
nothing fake about you ♪
♪ Baby you got it ♪
♪ I'm glad I found you ♪
♪ Gonna cling to you ♪
♪ I'll give you love and
money, everything to you ♪
♪ No matter what they say ♪
♪ No matter what they do ♪
♪ I'm never gonna love
another girl like you ♪
(PHONE BUZZING)
♪ 'Cause baby you got it ♪
♪ That's all I say for you ♪
Hello?
WOMAN: Jude Williams, please.
This is his wife,
who's speaking?
WOMAN: I'm Dr. Dormer with
DPC Research Development.
The NIA trial.
Hello?
Yeah, yeah, I'm here.
DORMER: Can I speak
with your husband?
Um, it's probably best
that you just speak to me
'cause I'm the one that
submitted the application.
DORMER: Jude has been
selected for the clinical trial
on an NIA suppressant.
I see from the forms
that were submitted
that he's exhibiting
NIA symptoms, correct?
Hello?
Yeah, sorry.
Yeah, I'm here.
So, he's gotten in?
DORMER: He's been
accepted for an evaluation.
If he passes he'll be
invited to participate
in the actual trials.
We're trying to
move quickly here.
Can we schedule an appointment
for him to come in tomorrow?
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
The government has the
cure, they have the true cure,
not the one they're giving
us that doesn't work.
They've been keeping
NIA on the streets
just like that fuck
Reagan did with AIDS.
And who's doing
something about it?
Are you? I am because I care.
I don't want this sickness,
this population control.
They're keeping us down.
They have the true cure.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(MUFFLED TALKING)
(KEYS JINGLING)
Wear one of these
and when you're done
filling this paperwork out
somebody will call your name.
Keep your mask on and
fill this paperwork out.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(SOMBER MUSIC)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(FEET TAPPING)
SAM: Emma?
Hey.
Oh my God, Sam.
Good to see you, hey.
Oh, it's good to see you.
It's been a minute.
Yeah, I know. Yeah.
I'm just here for the day, just
- running errands.
- Yeah.
Right.
Right, yeah.
Oh, it's good to see ya.
- Yeah.
- Are you all right?
I'm good, yeah, I'm good.
- Yeah?
- Yeah, really, I'm just...
How are you?
Yeah, no, yes, I am just...
Just making phone calls
and all that stuff.
Sorry I haven't called.
Yeah.
Yeah, same. I'm...
I wanted to.
Oh, darling.
You must think I'm the
biggest asshole on the planet.
No, I don't.
No, I don't, that's ridiculous.
I do not think that at all.
Sorry, I'm just.
- Yeah, sorry.
- It's okay.
Um, tell Jude I say hi, okay?
Yeah, I will.
It's good to
see you, I just...
Good to see you.
I just wasn't expecting
to see you, that's all.
Yeah.
Yeah, no worries.
- I'll give you a bell.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- Bye.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
DORMER: Any history
of heart disease?
JUDE: Nope.
DORMER: High cholesterol?
JUDE: Nope.
DORMER: Diabetes?
JUDE: Nope.
DORMER: Do you take drugs?
JUDE: What does
that got to do with-
- We'll find out either way,
- so better to get it out now.
- Oh, it's not gonna
be a problem, I've been clean
for five years and nine months.
DORMER: So, how long
would you say you've been
experiencing symptoms of NIA?
JUDE: Like a month.
I can remember some things,
but other things are just gone.
Like details, I
can't do details.
Like I can remember
people, who they are,
but I can't zero in.
Your brain may be
trying to bridge the gaps,
taking other moments
you still remember
and merging with false memories.
(TAPPING)
(JUDE GASPS)
JUDE: So, the treatment.
Is it like what?
It's like a pill or?
DORMER: We'll be
doing an oral CP.
JUDE: Sorry, what?
An oral cranial puncture.
Think of it as clearing
a clogged pathway.
The brain is separated
into four major lobes.
The one most closely associated
with memory being temporal.
Now, we remove the lateral
through he roof of the mouth.
(HIGH PITCHED RINGING)
(DISTORTED TALKING)
Inter-cranial hypertensions.
(HIGH PITCHED RINGING)
(DISTORTED TALKING)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
- Jude?
- Yeah?
Are you okay?
Yeah.
But what are the risks?
We have some literature
we can send home with you
that really walks
you through the ins
and outs of the procedure.
It's not complicated, but
there are significant risks.
We have a counselor on
hand to help make sure
you understand what
we're dealing with.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
EMMA VOICEOVER: To identify
a neuroinflammation begin
by asking baseline questions.
What's your name?
How old are ya?
What's your favorite color?
This is all they've
given ya? Brain teasers?
I thought there was supposed
to be some sort of procedure.
Yeah, it's brain
teasers and...
And?
Surgery.
They take like a
metal straw and...
(JUDE SIGHS)
I don't wanna do it, Em.
What'd the doctor say?
They don't even know
if it's gonna work,
it's like a trial.
Let's see and find
out, let's poke around
in some dude's skull and
hope we don't cripple him
and make him go blind.
I'm not doing it, man.
I could just wind up with no
memory, no legs, and no eyes.
And if I'm gonna forget who I am
then I'd at least like to be
able to see where I'm going.
EMMA: So you made
up your mind then.
Yeah.
Do I not get a say in this?
Emma, you can't ask me
- to sit there while-
- But Jude, I am asking ya,
I am asking ya,
I have to ask ya.
I get it, you don't wanna go
blind or end up in a wheelchair
but if there's a chance
that we can stop it
then I don't understand
why you won't try.
- I know you're upset-
- I'm not fucking upset, Jude!
Well, you don't sound
very not fucking upset!
My mom's starting to fade.
Why didn't you tell me?
Because I can't do
anything about it, Jude.
I've got a ticket
that I can't change
for weeks from now and now
I've got this, I've got you.
So what am I supposed to do?
Just go off to England while
my husband forgets about me?
I'm not fucking doing that.
I'm not losing my mom and my
husband in the same breath,
so I need you to
explain it to me.
Can you explain it to me
why you won't do this?
What? Because you don't care?
No, of course I
fucking care, Emma.
This is happening to me.
This is fucking
scary for me, too.
I'm scared.
I'm fucking scared.
(EMMA SNIFFLES)
Who am I? How old am I?
What's my favorite color?
Jude, please.
I'm scared, too.
(JUDE SIGHS)
You're my wife, Emma
Vita Ryerson Williams.
You're 28.
Your favorite color is yellow.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
Describe a memory
that took place
in the room that you're in.
(EMMA GASPS)
- You fucking-
- Whoa, easy, take it easy.
(EMMA LAUGHS)
Take it easy, easy.
You fucking!
JUDE: Well, you didn't
like the gray walls in there,
you said they reminded you
of rainy days back home.
(EMMA SQUEALS)
So you painted 'em yellow.
(BOTH LAUGHING)
- Come on.
- No!
EMMA: What time
of year was it?
Summer.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
No, winter.
(WIND WHISTLING)
(JUDE SIGHS)
We had just bought a fish.
EMMA: What fish?
You called him Ampersand.
Emma and Jude.
Emma and Jude.
Do you remember why
we bought the fish?
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(BELL RINGS)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(MUFFLED TALKING)
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(WATER BUBBLING)
Look at this little guy.
He doesn't have a clue
what's going on in the world.
No NIA, no cancer, no crusades.
Just gets to swim around
having a good time.
We should be so lucky.
That's what I feel
like when I'm with you.
Like a fish?
No, you know what I meant.
That's the nicest thing
you've ever said to me.
Let's get married.
Okay.
No, I'm not joking.
Me neither.
I wanna spend the rest
of my life with you.
I wanna fucking marry you.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Shit.
Change your mind already?
No, I don't have a ring.
Then buy me a fish.
Yeah?
(EMMA HUMS)
Do you know that this
is a type of memory
exclusively tied to the touch?
Haptic memory.
Haptic?
Did you read that in your book?
I haven't forgotten
how you feel.
Will you touch me?
(LIGHT MUSIC)
(MUFFLED TALKING)
EMMA VOICEOVER: They say
you can't forget feelings
and I still believe that.
(HELICOPTER WHIRRING)
Even after Ben.
Sam?
(CLATTERING)
What, what, what, what, what?
Are you all right?
Darling, what's
happening? What's happening?
He's just freaking
out, Emma, I can't.
It'll be okay, it'll be okay.
What the fuck!
BEN: Get out!
Ben?
Ben?
- Ben?
- Jude?
Yeah.
(HEAVY BREATHING)
You all right?
BEN: Jude.
Can I come in?
BEN: I don't know.
I'm coming in, all right?
(HEAVY BREATHING)
What's going on?
EMMA: Jude!
Yeah?
Yeah, we're good.
We're good, right? We're good.
Yeah, we're okay.
He's... Emma.
Are you all right?
Did he hurt you?
He just grabbed a knife
and he doesn't even
remember my name right now.
- Calm down.
- I thought I was in my house,
man, and then this fucking
bitch just walks in.
I don't fucking know her.
I don't fucking know her!
No, no, no, this is your
house. This is your house.
- It is, right?
- Yeah, that's Samantha.
- Sam.
- I don't know Sam.
Man, you've been
together for a while.
Shit, you've known her
longer than you've known me.
- I have?
- Yeah.
Look at your chest.
Look, look, look.
Here.
You see?
Ben, you're sick,
man, you got NIA.
You had it for awhile, it's
making you forget shit.
Sam's been helping you through.
Yeah, you guys are
great together, man.
Shit, you make music
together. You're awesome.
Hey.
Hey!
It's not your fault, man.
Can I take this?
(BEN CRIES)
Come on, man.
(THUDDING)
(HEAVY BREATHING)
Okay.
Why the fuck me, man?
Just relax, bud.
- Why the fuck me?
- Relax, it's not your fault.
(SOMBER MUSIC)
EMMA VOICEOVER:
Ben Richards was
from Hidalgo County, Texas.
He's a songwriter,
and like many,
believed that music
would save the world.
It's wrong.
The ambiance is
so... it's wrong.
JUDE: Huh?
I'm gonna go record outside.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
It's all wrong,
let's get outta here.
Remember the counts?
- I can't remember.
- No, man.
Why not?
EMMA VOICEOVER:
His mother was Lizette
and his father was Dave,
and since he moved away he
called them every Sunday.
We're trying to have a baby.
Sam!
We've been together for
so long, it's about time.
EMMA: Sam,
that's so exciting!
Yeah.
EMMA VOICEOVER: When
he first started to lose
his memory Ben kept it a secret.
Just like everyone
did back then.
(TATTOO GUN BUZZING)
(RAIN PATTERING)
Ben could turn any
room into a concert
when he was inclined to.
That was his gift.
This is who we all remembered.
Who we were clutching on to.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(MUFFLED TALKING)
(HORN HONKING)
(LIPS SMACKING)
Don't fall in.
Don't.
- Will you come-
- Don't, Jude.
Honestly, Jude.
- Do not fall in.
- Don't you fucking d...
This is so scary,
- do not do that.
- Emma, no!
Stop, stop it, stop.
You're gonna get us in trouble.
- You jump, I jump!
- Stop it.
Get off me, I'm trying
to see the whales.
Oh yeah, I got told
if we're gonna see one
it's gonna be right here.
- Oh yeah?
- Yeah.
Okay.
You all right? Do
you want anything?
Um, I'll have a tea.
If they've got tea, black tea.
Yeah? Okay.
If you see one
tell him to wait.
I will just for you.
- (GASPS) Jude!
- Yeah, what?
Nothing.
(PHONE BEEPS)
All right, we're just getting
word into the newsroom now.
Moments ago DPC issued
a statement indicating
that the early results of their
controversial NIA treatments
are quote
overwhelmingly positive.
Now, in that same
statement they also say
that due to overwhelming
demand that they
are not able to accept
any new applicants.
What do you make of that?
I guess if this treatment
is having some success,
that's wonderful news.
WOMAN: Overwhelmingly positive
certainly sounds like they
- might be onto something.
- What can I get you?
REPORTER: It does, but
they have already closed off
a very selective monitor
to the general public
and I assume that
the FDA has been-
- Tea.
REPORTER: There are
people with loved ones
who are afflicted with
this who want a chance.
WOMAN: Stop, don't touch me!
MAN: Stop here!
WOMAN: Stop it!
Get away from me!
MAN: Stop! Stop it!
WOMAN: Stop! Turn
the boat around!
WOMAN: Stop the boat!
We have to go back,
we have to go back.
Stop!
I don't know who you are!
- Help me!
- Stop her!
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
- Stop her!
- Help me!
- Okay.
- Help me!
- What's happening?
- Help!
Turn the boat around!
No, stop touching me, please.
Just get away from me.
We have to go back, please!
Don't! Stop it!
Back off, back up.
Get away!
Em?
WOMAN: Go back,
we need to go back!
- Em?
- Jude!
JUDE: Em!
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(WATER SPLASHING)
MAN: Hurry!
Throw it in!
MAN: Turn the boat around!
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(MUFFLED YELLING)
EMMA VOICEOVER:
Overwhelmingly positive results.
The first sign of a cure
and they shut everyone out.
(EVERYONE YELLING)
(SMASHING)
It's no wonder people
are going crazy.
And while they went crazy
all we could do was wait.
Wait to hear that we got an in.
Wait to hear that we
were gonna be okay.
(SIRENS WAILING)
We're gonna be okay.
This procedure works.
A viral video is
causing a stir today
of a Dr. Sam Tomlin of
the DPC walking viewers
through a step-by-step
tutorial of the procedure
which supposedly puts
a halt to NIA symptoms.
(SIRENS WAILING)
Already we're getting reports
from local emergency rooms
of more than a dozen new
patients who've attempted
the procedure on themselves.
EMMA VOICEOVER:
We're gonna be okay.
We have increased
police presence
and cannot stress enough
this is not a proven cure.
Step back now!
REPORTER: It is, at
best, a promising lead
in the road to a cure.
(GLASS SHATTERING)
We urge everyone to remain calm.
(SMASHING)
EMMA VOICEOVER:
We're gonna be okay.
(PHONE BUZZING)
Hello?
Yes, speaking.
Sorry, I thought
he was already in.
Yeah, that's...
that's not possible.
Um, can I speak to
Dr. Dormer please?
Well, can I talk to someone?
Who's your supervisor?
Yeah, but there's been a mistake
and you need to check again.
Or I need to someone
who can sort it out.
Fine.
Yeah, fine.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Fuck.
Jude.
They said they didn't
take you 'cause you've
got drugs in your system.
What?
EMMA: You know what
they're talking about?
Nope.
Jude, you can't lie
to me about this stuff.
Emma, I swear to God, I've
been sober for five years.
You know that, I wouldn't
just fuck things up like that.
So what? They're just lying?
Unless it's a mistake.
What did they say?
They said they found
cocaine in your system
and now you can't get
the procedure done.
Is that true?
No, it can't be true.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
EMMA: Jude.
Fuck.
What?
I ran into an old
friend from way back
and I used to party
a lot with him.
I thought we just caught up.
I don't remember, but that's
the only time I could've...
So it's possible, then.
(JUDE SIGHS)
(EMMA CLEARS THROAT)
I just need a minute.
(SIGHS) Damn.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
SAM: I can't do this.
What do you mean?
He's been forgetting
pieces of himself
for the last six months.
Tonight he just forgot me.
Oh, darling.
This is going to get worse.
I love him, Emma.
I love him so much.
But it's a sinking ship.
I can either tie myself to
him and get dragged down
or cut loose and
try to stay alive.
I understand, but-
- I don't think you
understand, Emma.
I truly hope you never
have to understand.
The man who promised he
was gonna love me forever,
he just tried to stab
me with a kitchen knife
that my mother gave him.
What the fuck am I
supposed to do right now?
EMMA VOICEOVER:
They lost each other.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
But I won't lose you.
Tell me about our first kiss.
Jude.
The walls, there were
these black shapes.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Well, I don't
remember the walls.
Can I kiss you?
Our first kiss can't
be in line for the loo.
I didn't say that.
JUDE: No?
No, I said I'm not available.
Right, Tim.
EMMA: Tom.
But I thought
his name was Tim.
Yeah, but you
always called him Tom.
- Tom.
- Tim.
Tim.
That's even worse.
So, do you love him?
- No.
- No?
You didn't even have
to think about it.
No, I didn't.
Tell me about the walls.
I don't remember the walls.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
What's this?
JUDE: It's a picture of you.
What's this?
Do you know who I am?
JUDE: You're Emma.
Then why'd you have
to write this down?
I'm doing my best.
When were we married, Jude?
April.
No, uh, August.
August?
When did we get married, Jude?
Uh, it was a
Wednesday in August.
Just...
Just focus on the details,
the memory has dozens
of threads to the
other memories.
Was it in a church?
I don't know.
Was it a big wedding?
Steps.
Steps.
Yeah, we kissed on some steps.
It was a Thursday,
it was just us,
we decided we didn't
wanna wait until the date.
EMMA: What color
was the dress?
JUDE: White.
Blue.
Do you remember who was there?
(MUFFLED TALKING)
(SOMBER MUSIC)
Uh...
Ben.
Samantha.
Congratulations.
I love you, I'm so happy.
He played us a song.
- I wrote this for you.
- No, no, no.
He gave us a song.
Our song.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
♪ Stay awake just to
burn you into my mind ♪
♪ Don't fall asleep till I
see you and I close my eyes ♪
♪ Pull you closer just
to feel you breathing ♪
♪ Blend your flesh to mine ♪
Close your eyes.
Why?
Just close 'em.
♪ Darkness when
I close my eyes ♪
(LIGHT MUSIC)
Do you remember meeting me?
(WATER SPLASHING)
A waterpark.
I remember a waterpark and
it was October, it was cold.
Hi.
It was the day they
shutdown the park.
Everything was going
outta business,
every day was
something's last day.
We were the
oldest people there.
We were the only people there.
♪ I'll take you dancing
in the flickering lights ♪
♪ I'll spin your hand ♪
I was so sad
the day I met you.
JUDE: Why?
Can't remember.
I just know that after I saw
you I wasn't sad anymore.
♪ Just to see you dancing ♪
(WATER SPLASHING)
(EMMA GRUNTS)
We were married October
14th of last year.
We didn't have a wedding,
we just went right
to the courthouse.
Ben and Sam were there.
Your dad was there.
Your friends, my friends.
It was a mad dash
with no warning and
still so many people made it.
I'm so sorry I don't remember.
It's not your fault, though.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
I haven't
forgotten how I feel.
EMMA VOICEOVER:
So much to remember.
All these little pieces.
For some people
NIA is a slow drip,
for others it's a
stop all at once.
For you it's slow.
This can work.
(RAIN PATTERING)
Okay, left!
No, my left!
Keep going!
Perfect!
Pretty fucking cool, huh?
EMMA: Yeah, it's cool!
Hang on.
(CAMERA CLICKS)
EMMA VOICEOVER: Every
day he rediscovers the city.
JUDE: Oh, fuck, fuck, fuck!
EMMA VOICEOVER: Places
we had known in special ways
were strange again.
Move back.
All right.
I think it took.
EMMA VOICEOVER:
Some things were easy.
Hang on.
EMMA VOICEOVER: And
some things are hard.
Have we been here before?
No.
No, we haven't.
EMMA VOICEOVER: Because
his losses were mine, too.
(WATER TRICKLING)
What the?
What is this, a fish?
Yeah.
I got it with you.
Do you like it?
(EMMA LAUGHS)
What, what, what?
What?
Oh, my God.
No!
(EMMA LAUGHS)
- We got matching tats.
- We did indeed.
EMMA VOICEOVER:
Do I know you better
than you know yourself?
Right now, maybe.
Why did we tattoo fish?
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(KNOCKING)
- Oh, thank god!
- What?
(JUDE SIGHS)
Oh shit, I couldn't, uh...
I knew that we lived on
Ormand but I couldn't remember
which door so I just
knocked on 'em all
and nobody wanted to help me.
Darling.
Here you go.
It's okay.
EMMA VOICEOVER: I
find myself wondering how
to build a future if you keep
having to rebuild the past.
Yeah, it woulda been
nice to know that I fucking
had this and I don't know.
(DOGS BARKING)
EMMA VOICEOVER: Life goes
forwards, not backwards.
I'm still reading about
the brain, taking notes.
I don't know, feeling
like I'm doing something.
(PAPER RUSTLING)
(PHONE BUZZING)
Mom?
MAN: Uh, is
this Emma Ryerson?
Oh my God, is she okay?
MAN: She's all right.
We identified her.
She's in the hospital now and
people are looking after her.
Does she know who she is?
MAN: She knows her
first name. Bits and pieces.
Um...
Could you tell her that Emma,
that her daughter loves her
and I haven't forgotten
and that I'm gonna try
and be there as soon as I can.
Would you tell her that please?
(GULLS CAWING)
EMMA VOICEOVER: What
were we even trying to save?
Our experiences together?
Is that all I love about him?
I wish I could look at him and
just find what went missing.
But he looks the same.
Jude, I'm so tired of this.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
JUDE: I have to
ask you something.
Okay.
I'm not sure how.
Is it scary?
Yeah.
I've been doing some
reading about the procedure
and what they were
gonna do to me.
Okay.
And I was thinking
we could do it.
Do it?
Yeah, or you could do it.
At work.
Are you being serious?
Yeah, I know it sounds
crazy, but they have
these videos online and
they swear that it worked.
No, they swear that it worked.
You take this long needle
and you find this nerve
at the base of the brain-
- You didn't wanna do
it when professionals
were gonna do it,
Jude, I'm a vet.
Yeah, I know,
but I'm going, Em.
We have to try and
I'm gonna feel better
knowing that it's you.
No, you can't
ask me to do that.
No, but I am asking you.
But what if, um...
What if something goes
wrong or I hurt you
or I make it worse or
you get an infection?
Well, I wouldn't of
asked you if I hadn't
thought about all of that.
I trust you.
I don't know what else to do.
I don't know what else there is.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(ENGINE RUMBLING)
(DOG BARKING)
(KEYS JINGLING)
(DOGS BARKING)
(DOOR THUDS)
Stay here, I'm
gonna go and check.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(DOG BARKING)
(DOOR CLICKS)
Okay, we're all safe.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
MAN: This ridge should
soften into a membrane
that will give a little
when you push it.
This area will be
the puncture point.
Okay.
Okay, this is what we
use to open dog's mouths
when we clean the teeth.
It won't really fit, but it
will stop you from biting.
Wider.
How's that?
How do I look?
(MUFFLED TALKING)
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(DOGS BARKING)
(EMMA SIGHS)
Um...
Carfentanil could kill
you so I'm gonna give you
some Telazol for the pain-
(JUDE GROANS)
- Jude-
- No drugs, I gotta be...
- I wanna be-
- Jude.
No, please, fuck that shit.
Come on.
(JUDE SIGHS)
(DOGS BARKING)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
- (JUDE SIGHS)
- You ready?
(JUDE HUMS)
- I'm ready.
- You ready?
Yeah, yeah.
Take a deep breath.
Deep breath.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
Breathe.
Deep breath.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
You all right?
You all right?
Yeah, we got this.
Come on, come on.
Yo!
Yo!
(JUDE GROANS)
All right, let's
get it. Come on.
EMMA: Are you sure?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's
go, let's go, let's go.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Here we go, come on.
Okay, deep breath.
(JUDE GROANS)
Deep breath, deep
breath, deep breath.
Deep breath.
(JUDE GROANS)
Jude, I don't know.
(JOAN GROANS)
(SHOE SQUEAKING)
Jude, I don't
know, I don't know.
(JUDE SCREAMS)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(LIGHT MUSIC)
Close your eyes.
- Why?
- Just close 'em.
All right, pretend
we're somewhere hot.
- Okay.
- Like the jungle.
EMMA: No, Hawaii.
Hawaii?
(EMMA HUMS)
All right, so we're in Hawaii.
Let's pretend we
just got married.
EMMA: We did
just get married.
Oh yeah.
So, all right, it's our
honeymoon, we're in Hawaii,
and we're in the water
but you gotta sneak off
because there is
jellyfish and sharks.
And the water is
dead clear so I'll be
able to spot 'em a mile away.
No, but it's like
three a.m. so it's dark.
And if you look out
onto the horizon
you can see like
la lightnening storm=.
Am I naked?
Hell yeah, it's a
honeymoon. Always.
Me, too.
Sounds perfect.
Yeah.
Perfect Hawaiian honeymoon.
Don't ever forget it.
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
Easy.
Easy.
What happened?
You blacked out.
- I blacked out?
- Yeah.
Jude, slowly, slowly.
Oh.
Did we get it?
I'm not sure.
How long was I out for?
10 minutes.
(SIGHS) Oh, for God sake, Jude.
It was so scary.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
EMMA VOICEOVER:
Did I hurt ya?
Did I help ya?
How long until we'll know?
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(ZIPPER BUZZING)
(BAG RUSTLING)
You going somewhere?
Who are you?
What?
Oh, fuck off.
Fuck off, Jude.
For fuck's sake!
That's so annoying!
How could you tell?
I could see you chew
your lip you were trying
to do your stupid
smile you stupid twat.
- Sorry.
- Oh, thank you.
Good morning.
(JUDE SIGHS)
Hey, can we take the
car, just go do like
a road trip or something?
Put this guy in the back seat.
Do you feel up for that?
Yeah.
Yeah, I could use the air.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
(ENGINE RUMBLING)
Out of all the concerts
that you've been to,
what was the worst?
Uh...
Oh, I saw Courtney
Love in Vegas.
She came out, sang
one line, and got hit
with a chocolate bar and left.
(LAUGHS) No.
She said, "Fuck
you, Las Vegas!"
(BOTH LAUGHING)
And then she left.
What about you?
Uh, you at karaoke last year.
Absolutely traumatic experience
for me and everyone around.
Traumatic?
Oh, completely tone deaf.
It's good you have
hands, though.
(JUDE LAUGHS)
Everything shuts down
when you start singing.
♪ Do do do do ♪
♪ Do do do do ♪
♪ Do be do be be ♪
It's the face
that you do as well.
I can't even look at ya.
(JUDE LAUGHS)
(LIGHT MUSIC)
I folded my ears in on
themselves 'cause I can't do it.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
(CAMERA CLICKS)
- Oh, is that fun?
- Blue!
Is that fun?
(DOG BARKS)
Blue, Blue!
- Catalog, Blue.
- Blue!
Yeah, boy.
EMMA: Have you got the key?
Huh?
Have you got the key?
Yeah, he said the mailbox.
(METAL SCREECHING)
No?
Hang on.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(KEYS JINGLING)
- He must have forgot.
- Okay.
(FIRE CRACKLING)
I still have no news on my mom.
Still?
Did you try your aunt?
Yeah, I've tried her as well.
Yeah, I got something
I need to say to you
but it doesn't feel
like the right time.
But I don't feel
like I can wait.
Okay.
Uh...
I wrote it down so I
wouldn't mess it up.
(JUDE SIGHS)
There's no easy way to say
this, but it didn't work.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
I woke up this morning and
I didn't recognize you.
So it definitely didn't work.
Emma, now I'm starting
to forget even you.
(PAPER RUSTLING)
Dear Emma, I wanted
to write this to you,
I wanted to say this
to you while I still
have as much of me as I do.
Every morning I wake
up and I have to look
at Polaroids with
names on 'em just so
I can remember that he's Blue.
Or like this
morning when we left
I had to let you go out
first because I couldn't
remember which car was ours.
There's chaos all around
us, people freaking out
looking for cures, we're
losing our friends,
you're losing your mom,
borders are sealed,
flights are grounded,
and people are getting
lost on their own streets.
And in the middle of it
it feels like it's just us
doing whatever the fuck we can.
So I wanted to come out
here while it's still quiet
so that I could look
you in the eye in case
before I'm all gone and tell
you that you are the love
of my life because you
make me laugh every day
and you make my life worth
living and you make me
feel like I'm not alone.
And if things were normal,
then you'd be the person
that'd make it okay that I
gotta grow old and die someday
because at least I got to spend
some of that time with you.
But things aren't normal
and so I guess instead,
or as well, I love you
because you stayed.
Because when things got scary
you knuckled down
and you stayed.
And you got me through each day.
And I hope I did the same
for you, or I hope that
I can still do the
same for you somehow.
Yeah, yeah, I just had to
because I feel we gotta be real.
Yeah.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(LIPS SMACKING)
(LIGHT MUSIC)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(MUFFLED TALKING)
(DOG BARKING)
JUDE: What's this? Come on.
Come on.
(JUDE WHISTLING)
Oh, come here.
Yeah, yeah.
You can't get that stick.
You can't get there first.
You can't get that stick.
You can't get that stick.
- Hey!
- Hey.
This dog's cool.
His name's Blue.
Oh, Blue! Yeah.
Yeah.
(BLUE BARKS)
Yeah, Blue. Come on.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
What?
Come on.
(ENGINE RUMBLING)
(LIGHT MUSIC)
EMMA: Oh no, are
they turning us around?
JUDE: Uh, I don't know.
(SIREN WAILS)
(WINDOW HUMMING)
OFFICER: IDs please.
Is this road
closed, sir, or what?
OFFICER: Just the IDs.
Why?
OFFICER: Government
mandated for
the missing persons database.
We're not missing.
Not yet.
Okay, go on through.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(ENGINE RUMBLING)
How many today?
Oh, just one.
Maybe people are remembering
to close their gates.
Yeah, well, I've got that.
Cheers.
Here you are.
Here you go.
Thank you.
- Here.
- Thank you much.
That'll take care of it.
Let me give you this.
(LIGHT MUSIC)
Thanks.
Hey, um, just wondering if
you know where Frank is.
He's the guy that
usually comes here.
He's called Frank.
ANNIE: Frank hasn't
been here in weeks.
I'm Annie.
Do you not remember me?
No, of course I knew,
I was just wondering
if you've heard from Frank.
No, I haven't.
(DOOR SLAMS)
Sorry.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(PAPER RUSTLING)
(HIGH PITCHED RINGING)
(LIGHT MUSIC)
Where you off to?
On the hike.
Why do you wanna go on a hike?
It's winter, it'll be cold.
I asked you last night, you
said we could go on a hike.
Yeah, you're
right, I did say that
I just didn't think
you'd remember.
Are you coming or?
Yeah.
(CAMERA CLICKS)
(LIGHT MUSIC)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
Come on.
(ROCKS RUSTLING)
Beautiful, huh?
Come on, let's get it.
What?
- Let's go, like-
- Oh, Jude.
Just go like here.
Right there.
EMMA: For fuck's sake.
What do you want me to do?
You know, just do your thing.
Oh, Jude, this is...
This is gonna look shit.
Turn around.
- Nightmare.
- Look, whale.
Oh, Jude, I'm not
in the mood for this.
- That's good.
- No.
- Yeah, walk towards me.
- Enough, enough.
Yeah, that's good,
that's good, that's good.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Yes.
(WAVES CRASHING)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
Oh shit, can I get one more?
Just here?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
(EMMA GROANS)
Yes!
(CAMERA CLICKS)
It's a nice camera.
I hope it turns out.
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Jude?
Jude.
Hey.
- Jude.
- What?
- Everything okay?
- No, no, no.
- What?
- No, no, Jude.
You all right?
- No.
- Is there a problem?
- Jude, who am I?
- Huh?
- Who am I?
- I don't Know.
Do not touch me, please.
No, Jude, look
at me, look at me.
What, what, can I help?
- I'm your wife.
- Can I help?
- What?
- I'm your wife, Emma.
- All right, I can't do this.
- Jude, Jude.
- Jude, I'm your wife.
- Out of my personal space
- here, can you-
- Jude, I'm your wife.
Jude, look at me. Who am I?
No, don't touch me, man.
Look, we left the
house this morning-
- Are you fucking crazy?
We left the
house this morning.
All right, all right, I don't-
- Who am I and what's
my favorite color?
- Are you deranged?
- Who am I, what's my fav-
- Are you deranged?
- Jude, Jude, just relax.
- Will you not touch me?
- Just relax.
- Fuck, man.
- Jude.
- Please, we leave together.
- Will you not touch me?
- I just told you once.
- Jude, I'm going crazy.
Please, just look me.
Jude, look at-
(THUDDING)
(HEAVY BREATHING)
Listen, I don't know
if you're a psychopath
or you're sick or
what's going on
but it's got nothing to
do with me, all right?
I'm sorry I pushed you.
I'll see if I can
get you some help.
(WAVES SLOSHING)
Jude!
(LIGHT DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Jude.
(HEAVY BREATHING)
(EMMA CRIES)
(LIGHTS CLICKING)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
EMMA VOICEOVER: I was
so sad the day I met ya.
Oh, hello.
(LAUGHS) Hello.
Who are you?
EMMA VOICEOVER: I
can't remember why.
(LIGHT MUSIC)