The Mandela Effect (2019) Movie Script

How many?

How many trials will it take

for this rat to run this maze

without making any mistakes?

How quickly will the rat

complete the maze each time?

Over multiple trials,

will he get faster?

Over time,

rats tend to run the maze

with fewer and fewer errors.

Soon, they eliminate

the errors altogether

and move faster.

As the rat moves, it's creating

an internal map of its world.

Researchers use maze studies

to help identify

general principles

about learning and memory,

and what they learn can be

applied to other species.

Even us.

I design games.

I code. In video games,

we come across these principles

each time we play.

They are designed

so we use our memory

to learn, adapt and advance.

Without our memory,

we'd get nowhere.

Okay.

Other arm.

Sam, honey, put George down

or you're going to

get lotion on him.

You guys need napkins?

Yes, please.

- Jinx.

Hey, Sam?

- Where are you going?

- We're just going to find shells.

I won't go into the water.

Okay, just stay where

we can see you.

Sam.

My precious Sam.

♪ You must remember this

Becoming parents gave Claire and

I a greater sense of purpose.

He told me enough.

Luke, I am your father.

Whoa.

Every day

brought with it new memories.

Each one sacred in its own way.

"Scaredy-bear.

Scaredy-bear." Teased Brother.

"And that's quite enough

of that," added Papa Bear.

"And the wolf

shall dwell with the lamb.

The leopard will lie

down with the young goat.

The calf and the young

lion will feed together.

And a little child

will lead them."

God's telling us here

that no matter how bad

things seem right now,

something better

is waiting for us.

It doesn't feel real.

I don't feel real.

I know exactly what you mean.

What's this?

I just, I thought we should

start putting stuff away.

It's been months.

I don't think I'm ready yet.

Can we just leave everything

the way that Sam left it?

I'm sorry.

I should've talked to you first.

At least for a little while.

I mean, just I don't think I'm ready to

shove the memory

of her into the attic.

That's not what I'm doing.

Her books, no, no.

These...

These are...

These are what?

These are her favorite things.

- Oh, Schmidt.

- Jesus Christ.

- Oh, Matt? What are you doing?

- Sorry, you said

I could crash here

if I can't drive.

- Jesus.

- I, I was, um, I was going to sleep in the garage.

I thought somebody

was breaking in.

I got hungry.

All right,

let's keep it down.

Your sister is sleeping.

So, what's the occasion?

Do I need one?

You're good, though?

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm good. I'm...

I'm seeing someone.

Cool.

- Cool.

- Yeah, yeah.

I, uh, figure you

probably don't

want to hear about it, but.

No, dude.

It's nice to hear

about something happy.

Honestly.

Mind if I ask you something?

It's going to sound weird.

Mm-mm.

You remember the children's

book when you were

growing up about

the family of bears?

The Berenstein Bears.

Berenstein, S-T-E-I-N.

Yeah, Stein, they were Jewish.

- What?

- Stain, Berenstain.

- Huh.

- It's weird, right?

Yeah.

Okay. Look, I have

a ton of client meals today.

- I really need you out of the kitchen.

- Oh, I'm sorry.

Matt, Matt's asleep

in the garage, so...

Okay.

Sure you're ready

to get back to work?

I mean, you can take more time

off if you think you need it.

No, I like the work.

Just, I need to

focus on something.

How about you?

Babe, do you remember this?

I mean, do you remember

where this was taken?

Yeah, it's Griffith Observatory.

Yeah, but is that

how you remember it?

I mean, is that where we were?

I swear, I remember

taking this photograph,

but we were in Seattle.

We were visiting your parents and,

and, uh, and you were really

mad at your mom and, uh,

we were at the

Pacific Science Center.

That doesn't ring any bells?

No, you're confused.

It's Griffith Observatory

and, um, yeah,

I was really mad at my mom

but they were,

they were here. They were

visiting for the holidays.

Yeah, but I remember Sam's

facial expression was...

Okay, Brendan,

please I need space.

- I'm sorry, I just...

- No.

How'd you sleep?

Great.

I remember where

we were when we took this photo.

Claire's mother had begged

us to come with Sam

before they went another year

without getting to see her.

Claire and her mom had a blowout so I

kept finding places to take the family

whenever I could.

We went to the aquarium,

we went to the zoo,

we went to the Pacific

Science Center.

It was the Pacific

Science Center,

it wasn't Griffith Observatory.

I want to show you something.

- ♪ Hey, Mandela

♪ We want freedom

In South Africa ♪

The term was coined by

Paranormal Consultant Fiona Broome

refers to widespread

misconception

that former South African

president Nelson Mandela

died in the 1980s while

he was incarcerated.

I heard somebody say,

"Now, where's Mandela?"

Well, Mandela's dead.

The Mandela Effect.

- Now they're saying...

- Someone, often many people

having a clear

memory of something

that actually did not happen.

Jif peanut butter?

Whole communities

sprung up around this.

I mean it's, it's disorienting.

Darth Vader

actually never said,

"Luke, I am your father."

What he actually said was.

No.

I am your father.

No.

It's not true.

- That's impossible!

- It's Jiffy.

Jiffy, everyone knows

it's Jiffy Peanut Butter.

How would

you feel if you could no longer

trust your own memories?

We're living

in parallel universes,

multiple timelines.

So, what do... what do you think?

I think I need something to eat.

Okay, but if you had

to pick an explanation.

- False memory.

- Look on Reddit.

- Legit source.

- This is just a jumping off point.

- Fair enough.

- Look, I keep coming back to either we're sliding

between parallel realities or,

B, like a simulation.

Like, we're, we're living

in some holodeck VR shit

- and it's glitching out.

- Or, it's just false memory.

Plus, not everybody

remembers the same effects.

Plenty of people

don't remember Sinbad

being in a genie movie

or Mandela dying in the '80s.

But how do you

explain the people

that do have those memories,

like thousand or maybe tens

of thousands of people, how?

Hey, you were out with my

brother for a while today, huh?

Yeah, he's good.

He's, uh, I think

he's getting serious

about that guy

he's, he's dating.

Is that what you talked about?

Mostly.

Well...

Don't get stuck

in here, you know.

The CERN super

collider is dangerous.

The first beam was circulated

on 10 September 2008.

The first spotting of

the Mandela Effect online

that I can find is also 2008.

Physicality also changes

based on an observer to observe,

which in layman's terms

means that it exists

in more than one

place at one time.

Parallel worlds

overlap with ours.

And if we're smart enough,

we can dive into them

and grab their resources

and pull them back into ours.

Are you saying

that your attempt to understand

the fundamental

operations of nature

leads you to a set of equations

that are indistinguishable

from the equations that

drive search engines

- and browsers on our computer?

- Yes, that is correct.

What I've come to understand is that

there are these incredible pictures,

buried in them are

computer codes that contain

all of the information of a set

of equations that are related

to string theory.

And so, I'm left with the puzzle

of trying to figure out whether

I live in the Matrix or not.

And what

does string theory say?

It says that there

is a multi-verse.

If there are other universes,

can we go between universes?

What answers

are you looking for?

Uh, I'm sure you...

I'm sure you get this a lot,

but if there is a God,

why take Sam?

Don't let anyone

say something like,

"God wanted another

little angel."

This idea that He took her.

What happened to Sam wasn't

God's plan or desire.

Free will is the greatest

gift that God ever gave,

and in free will,

we can have the will to change...

In a purely

deterministic universe,

what happens to free will?

So...

God

created the Earth

and then left us

to do with it what we will?

He certainly left

us some guidelines,

a whole book of them.

We may never know the answers

to some of these questions.

You, Brendan, will never figure

out the meaning of life.

However,

you can figure out the meaning,

the purpose of your life.

You know...

Matt, I'm not the only

one who thinks like this.

I mean, there's, you saw

incredible scientists,

Neil deGrasse Tyson, James

Gates, and lots of people...

Because I love you, dude, I asked

my friend Angie about false memory.

- False memory, Matt.

- No, hear me out. She's a neurologist, like for real.

She says that memories

are like chains of neurons

and synapses, and sometimes

it only takes one molecule

to hold it all together. And, you can't

predict which ones you hold on to,

they're unreliable.

Can I get two iced coffees, please?

Our brains aren't like Dropbox where

you can keep everything uncorrupted,

- stuff get scrambled.

- Matt, I don't deny that any of that is true,

but I'm not talking

about memory, okay?

I'm talking about reality.

You know, everyone

getting things scrambled

all in the same way

and at the same time,

it just doesn't make any...

Thanks, keep it.

It has nothing to do

with our brains.

And it's possible

that in one reality,

the old cartoon is the

Flinstones, Meet The Flinstones,

but that in this reality

it's Flint, with a T.

Brendan, it was always Flint.

You...

People are grasping at straws

rather than accepting

reality for what it is.

Maybe it's you that can't accept

that maybe none of this is real.

You're quiet,

is everything all right?

Claire?

It's just, you've been

hard to reach lately.

Hard to talk to.

I know.

I'm working on it.

I talked to Matt.

He was worried that

you're becoming fixated

on this Internet theory.

Is that what you've been

spending your time on?

Maybe you can fill me in.

I don't want to

bother you with it, it's...

You wouldn't be bothering me.

I just started noticing

some things and then,

you know, Matt thought it

was interesting, too, so...

Well, can you elaborate?

Like, what kind of things?

I'm just trying to think

of a good example.

Uh.

Can you picture

the Monopoly Man?

Yeah.

What's on his face?

What does this have

to do with anything?

What does he wear on his face?

Um...

one of those, um...

- Monocle.

- Yeah.

So, apparently

it's never been the case.

I mean, I'm pretty sure he does.

Okay.

What does this have

to do with anything?

That's weird.

- Right?

- Yeah.

So, that's just one example.

I remember that, too.

Lots of people do

and that, that's the thing.

Hold on.

Does this look different to you?

- Um.

- Where's his tail?

I mean, you remember

his tail, right?

Sam had George with her

at the beach that day.

- Stop.

- But if you look it up.

- Stop.

- Claire.

If you look it up,

it says he never had one,

at least not here

in whatever world

or timeline it is that

we're experiencing.

Do you hear yourself right now?

I mean, what does any of this

have to do with anything?

Do you remember after the funeral...

...you said to me, Claire,

remember you said

that it didn't feel real?

- Yeah.

- That's how I felt. That's it, this whole time,

like, just that it

doesn't feel real,

that something is

off in the world,

like, it, like it's shifting.

Oh, Brendan.

Then I started to notice

these things but,

Claire, I'm not the only one.

People all over the world

are noticing changes.

In geography, in the Bible.

The Bible.

Maybe it's in my head, Claire,

but what if it's not,

you know, what if Sam,

I mean, what if,

what if it's connected?

Brendan...

I am not sure that you

are dealing with this

in a productive way.

I don't think that any of this is healthy.

- Claire, just wait...

- Please do not interrupt me!

Please. There are things that,

that I still want

from life for us.

I want to reopen

my restaurant one day.

I want you to just,

to be happy again,

and for us to be happy

together, and all this shit

is just going to hold us back.

Okay?

Curious George, Brendan?

At the end,

I had to spend my time

doing something for real.

When he

started working,

we figured Brendan

was in his 20s,

he branched out for himself

a couple of years ago.

- Another round?

- I'll come with.

No embarrassing stories

while I'm away, please.

I take it you heard

I talked to Claire?

Yeah, that might have come up.

I'm sorry if it

caught you off guard.

It's not that we can't

talk about this stuff,

it's just that you need

to be there for each other

and you're not. You're not

holding up your end of the deal.

You're right.

We are living in

a computer-programmed reality

and the only clue we have to it

is when some

variable is changed.

Simulation hypothesis

was first published

by Hans Moravec.

Later, the philosopher,

Nick Bostrom,

developed an expanded argument

examining probability

of our reality

being a simulacrum.

We are all very likely

not living in a real universe

but living in

a simulated universe.

There's a one in a billion's

chance that this is base reality.

We're clearly on

a trajectory to have games

that are indistinguishable

from reality,

and those games could

be played on any PC.

Either we're going

to create simulations

that are indistinguishable

from reality

or civilization will

cease to exist.

We, with our minds

from a distance,

can act as a quantum observer.

Things like long-range field

effects of consciousness

where you need to

send an influence,

hopefully, purely quantum

mechanically to a distance.

You could do it this way,

which would put the human person,

a being in a very

powerful position.

While many scientists talk

about simulation theory,

there is one man

working to prove it,

that's Dr. Roland Fuchs.

It is

a simulation and we

are living in it.

You, you, and you.

Code,

ones, zeros.

You've all heard people talk

about simulated reality before,

I'm sure. The key...

to understanding this...

is understanding

the technology...

No.

Hi, Dr. Fuchs.

Uh, my name is Brendan.

I hope you don't mind me

reaching out to you like this.

I thought making a video would be

the best way to explain myself.

Uh...

Sir. I admire your work.

I'm intrigued by

so many of your ideas.

- Yes.

- Um, uh, I'm sorry.

Well, I didn't hear

back from you.

I found this clip of

a seminar that you gave

on simulation theory

and I just...

I have some

questions and ideas, too,

based on what you were

talking about.

- I recognize you now.

- You do?

Yeah, I watched your video.

It's Brendan, right?

- Yes.

- Yeah.

It's nice to hear that my idea

has captured someone

else's imagination,

but I'm running late, son.

Maybe I could buy

you a cup of coffee after?

I'm sorry I can't

be more helpful.

Five minutes?

I'm sorry for your loss, son.

Did you hear that?

I don't...

Dad?

Wait.

What?

What, what is it?

I'm sorry.

Maybe you should think

about talking to someone,

like, uh...

Like a grief counselor,

or...

someone that can help.

Okay.

I will.

Please, Dr. Fuchs,

I just need 10 minutes

of your time.

Before you say no.

This is my home.

I know, but please, Dr. Fuchs.

- Ten minutes.

- Before, you said five.

Okay, five.

Thank you.

Sit down over there.

So, who are you?

Me, I'm, I design games.

But...

when Sam died,

when my daughter died...

I began to notice these changes,

these, uh, inconsistencies.

You know,

grief takes on many forms.

And there are people

you can talk to

about losing your child.

That's what my wife said.

She thinks I'm losing my mind.

When I started to look

for explanations

for what I was seeing,

I found you.

And?

And I think we believe

the same thing.

What do I believe, hmm?

Have you heard of

the Mandela Effect?

- Looney Tunes.

- What, wait, hear me out, I...

Everybody thinks it's spelled

with two Os as in toon,

cartoon, when actually

it's T-U-N-E.

- Yes.

- As in music.

Exactly. That, that's a,

it's a Mandela Effect.

See, see at first, I thought

that this was something to do

with, like, parallel

universes or, or maybe CERN,

like the Large Hadron Collider

had ripped something open.

Do you think it's a simulation?

I'm sure they are exactly

what they appear to be...

false memories.

What?

But...

But some of them could

be breadcrumbs, um...

- From what?

- Mistakes left behind by the countless,

tiny micro-corrections

the sim might have to make

- to keep it on course.

- Updates?

Tell me, Brendan,

what is it you're

looking for, exactly?

Hmm?

I'm looking for what's real,

for the truth.

Let me ask you something.

When your child was born, hmm,

could you feel

the smile on your face?

That joy inside welling up?

The lightness in your step?

Hmm? Remember that?

And when she died,

did you feel the sorrow?

Did you feel the pain?

Did you feel the tears

running down your cheeks?

That we get to feel these

things should be real enough.

But it isn't enough,

not if it isn't real.

Dr. Fuchs, I've been coding

since I was six years old.

If this is a simulation,

I mean, if this is code,

then I can do something.

You think your wife

thinks you're crazy now.

Whatever is running all of this

has enormous processing power.

But these glitches that we see,

like the Mandela Effect,

show me that it has its limits.

If this structure is

a simulated structure,

the sim need only be

concerned with the walls,

the shadows, the glass,

the reflections in the glass.

That's procedural generation.

We use that in video games.

It's not wasting any power

or any energy on what's

inside the building.

Not until someone has

the intention to walk in there.

If a tree falls and there's no

one around to see it, does it make a sound?

Does it even exist at all?

What about the forest itself?

You think this world

works that way,

that when we're not

observing it, it's saving data?

It's my belief that our

observation contributed

to the creation of

the physical world, yes.

If a conscious being isn't observing

something, does that thing actually exist?

In computing, in video games,

procedural generation

allows a computer

to not get bogged down

in processing data

that it isn't using

or observing.

If something isn't

being observed

by the collective

consciousness...

then it would cease to exist

until it is observed once again.

But if the computer that was

running the simulation

had unlimited power,

it wouldn't need to conserve

bandwidth like that.

If we could access the code,

it could be crashed.

Well, that's my hypothesis.

All it would take is a program.

Instead of saving

processing power,

would exploit

the processing power.

- Yes.

- Like your sim does...

Using the procedural generation.

- Yes.

- Like if the program ran a sim,

which was designed

to observe everything

- all at the same time.

- And all the time.

Yes. And if those sims

spawned new sims,

reproducing exponentially, each would

eventually overload the original

and overwhelm the processor.

But you can't run a program

like that on an ordinary PC.

You need a computer

that was strong enough,

powerful enough to

run it long enough

for it to have an effect

on base reality.

I headed a team tasked

with putting together

the university's first

quantum computer.

It's in there.

There she is.

512 qubits.

Thousands upon thousands

of times faster

than any of today's

supercomputers.

- It's impressive.

- Mm.

Let me show you around.

This is your access point.

There's no need

to go into the vault.

You run your program here.

And it's a basic

operating system.

The hardware is where it's at.

Uh...

Hi.

- Toby.

- Dr. Manning. Thank you.

- You want to tell me what's going on here?

- I apologize.

It was a spur-of-the-moment

thing and I can explain...

Have you been drinking?

Oh, listen, man, Doctor...

Am I even talking to you, man?

You go ahead to class.

I'll see you there, James.

- Who was that?

- An old colleague.

Manning is, he's running

the program now.

What the hell

is he even doing here?

Do you think

this could work?

Perhaps.

But what it'll accomplish,

I can't be so certain.

Acts 17:28, "For in Him we

live and move and have our being."

If there is a creator,

there might be endless reasons

why they'd run the simulation.

It could be recreational.

What makes you think that this is going

to bring your daughter back anyway?

- I don't.

- Maybe some future post-human society

wants to examine their ancestry.

What if it's about power?

Corporations coming

together, data mongers.

Facebook, Google,

cell phone companies

building a world with all the

information we've left behind?

You don't know, that's right.

Imagine political models. You

put politician X or some real estate tycoon

in as president, see what happens

over the next hundred years.

If you could predict the stock markets you'd

be 10 years ahead of your political enemies,

what would that be worth?

How do you put a price tag

on that kind of power?

What if these Mandela

Effects are breadcrumbs?

They're bugs in a system.

What happens if

no one corrects them?

It's no small thing

shutting the world down.

Bug trigger errors can have ripple

effects that can spread through

and crash entire systems.

You believe that the

simulation tried to stop you?

My work on this brought

me nothing but grief.

I was a bug in the system.

Brendan, there's something you're

going to need to understand.

Ideas...

are dangerous things.

Dad?

Huh?

Dad.

Claire, did you hear that?

Dad!

Dad?

Dad, I'm scared.

Sam?

- What is it? What are you doing?

- I'm sorry.

It was Sam.

Oh, look.

Come here.

You got to calm down, okay?

- You're starting to scare me.

- But she...

Look, she's gone.

You have to try.

It's just a bad dream.

What biocentrism

is saying is, is,

is that reality is a process.

It's not just something that

you just open your eyes

and it's out there.

You wake up in

the morning and the world

is just magically there.

You're an experiment to show

that not a single particle exists

with any real properties

until it's observed.

Even Stephen Hawking

at this point now

has a new concept

of the universe,

what he calls as

Top-Down Theory,

where he's saying that

the actual observer

actually determines the past.

Now, if you think about it,

if the particles right now,

in the present, are not

determined until you observe them,

then how can there

actually be a past?

All right.

Are there, is there good hard

science, uh, to support this?

So again,

I mentioned to you

this two hole experiment.

Again, the Heisenberg's

famous uncertainty principle,

the entangled particle,

it's very real hard experiments

that are telling us

that particles simply

do not exist out there

with real particles

until they're observed.

Jesus.

All right, kiddo. Good job.

- Did you brush your teeth?

- Yup.

Really? 'Cause I didn't

hear any brushing.

I'll brush 'em again.

All right. I'm going to come

and make sure you get them all.

No.

Excuse me!

I'm sorry.

Where were you last night?

I called Matt.

What time did you get back?

Late.

What happened? What did you see?

I saw...

I think I'm going crazy. Claire.

All right, come here.

- Sit.

- I saw her.

I saw Sam.

- I saw Sam.

- Okay, okay.

You have to breathe.

Here.

And now

the latest on the inquiry

into election irregularities.

Election officials

say an investigation

into how this might have

happened is ongoing.

Local authorities in

Vancouver, British Columbia

have issued evacuation.

This is the phone of Dr. Roland Fuchs,

please leave a message.

Uh, Dr. Fuchs, it's Brendan.

I think something is happening.

I don't know.

I'm not doing too, too good.

Please just call me back

when you get this.

I need a program that

utilizes procedural generation,

I already have that,

I can rip open one of my old game builds,

augment it, scale it up.

Now, what's nice about

quantum computation language

is that its syntax

resembles the syntax

of the C programming language.

Its classical data

types are similar

to the primitive

data types in C.

One can combine classical

code and quantum code

into the same program.

The program will focus

on automating repetition

taken from my

original game's code

then finding a higher

order extraction,

using multiplication it'll

exponentially push things along.

The only way to know if it works

will be to run it through

the quantum computer.

Brendan?

Yeah, babe,

I won't be much longer.

It just takes time.

I had a nightmare.

Do you see her?

Yeah.

- What? What's wrong?

- Sam?

She's okay?

What do you mean?

- Sam.

- Yeah.

We just, we had breakfast and...

Oh, you had a bad dream.

- Uncle Matt.

- Hola.

Claire, Bren Bren.

Did you eat?

Yeah, I'm good.

Hey, little lady,

what you making over here?

A spaceship, of course.

Of course.

Jared.

Yeah, yeah, man.

I know, how long has it been?

Two years?

Yeah, things

are great, you know, um,

she's fine, yeah, Claire,

Claire's, Claire's good.

Um, and, and Sam's doing great.

You remem...

Yeah, it's nice

catching up with you, too.

I will,

I'll tell her you said so.

And Sam wanted me

to say hi to you.

Yeah, she's eight now,

she's eight.

It's been that long?

Can you believe it?

This is the phone

of Dr. Roland Fuchs,

- please leave a message.

- Dr. Fuchs, it's Brendan.

Please call me.

- It brought Sam back.

- Dad?

- It brought my daughter back.

Put it on, dad.

It gave me

the one thing

that would make me stop.

Sam.

My precious Sam.

Okay, I'm coming for you.

Brendan, you want

cranberry or lemonade?

And I climbed it.

A fact documented in

30-something year old photograph.

I went through a long

stretch of adolescence.

Hey, what?

What?

What are you doing?

Claire, where are you going?

Claire?

Claire, where,

where are you going?

- Sweetie, come back to bed.

- I can't, I can't, I can't.

You're fine. You're fine. You're fine.

Come on, let's go back to bed.

Mom, are you okay?

She's fine.

Sam, go back to bed.

Honestly, I don't

remember it at all.

But... I mean, I feel,

I feel fine now.

Good.

It's good but I can

take her, okay?

It's fine. You should,

you should sleep in.

Do whatever you want, okay?

Yeah. Are you sure?

Yes.

No, she's been great.

She gets along with

all the other kids.

Her work's been great.

Come on.

Claire?

Oh, shit!

Claire?

Claire, are you okay?

My eggplant.

It's okay.

It's, I got it.

Look, it's just...

I'm sorry, I...

- I don't know what happened.

- It's okay. You were too...

- I'm sorry.

- Hey.

Why don't we just go get Sam?

We'll go get Sam.

We'll take the day off, right?

Get out of the house.

Yeah?

Yeah.

All right. What color should

I paint this thing?

Orange.

Orange it is.

What should we keep in here?

Bacon.

Bacon?

Orange doesn't go with

anything in the living room,

we should paint it brown.

The boss already decided

we got to paint it orange.

Paint it fucking brown, Brendan.

Jesus.

Stop it.

Jesus, what are you doing?

No, Claire.

Wait. Stop.

Claire.

Please, stop.

I'm sorry, we'll pay for that.

Come on, Sam, we've got to go.

Come on, Sam. Wait, Claire.

I'm sorry. Come on.

Thank you for coming,

I know it was such short notice.

It's no problem, what happened?

She had, like...

an episode. I'll tell you about it

in a minute, I want to check on Sam.

No, no, I got it.

I'll stay close.

Thanks.

Hey, you. What's that song

you were just playing?

Just something I was practicing.

I liked it.

Is Mom going to be okay?

Uncle Matt is here.

He always makes her laugh.

She's going to be fine.

Hey,

of all the gin joints

in all the world

she walks into mine.

She shouldn't be here.

Babe... Claire.

She shouldn't be here.

You shouldn't be here!

Claire,

Claire, you're okay.

Let's get you

back to bed, okay?

It's okay.

Claire, it's fine.

- Sam, we'll be right back.

- Go this way.

♪ Light brown feathers

♪ I dream of a genie,

With light brown feathers ♪

She's back asleep.

Mom's going to be fine.

I see you.

How long has this

been going on, man?

Well, it hasn't...

I don't know what's

happening to her.

She needs to see

somebody, right?

Yeah, she needs to see someone.

Can you...

Can you watch Sam for

just a minute, please?

- I've got a...

- You're going now?

Please.

Hi.

Yes, can I help you?

Um, I'm, I'm here

to see Dr. Fuchs.

Are you,

are you a student of his?

No. Um, uh,

well, actually, I was.

Yeah.

Roland...

he passed away.

I mean, I just spoke with him.

I just, I just saw him.

It was quite unexpected,

that I can tell you.

What happened?

I think that the disappointment

of what happened with his work,

it just...

slowly consumed him.

He became

a paranoid hermit

who didn't have

the sense to wash himself.

They were separated

for some time.

I guess what I meant to ask

you is that how did he die?

He hung himself.

About two months ago now.

Two months?

I'm just trying to get the

place in some kind of order

before it goes on the market.

What the hell is going on?

Pardon?

Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't...

I didn't mean, you know, I'm intruding.

Uh, it's getting very late.

Uh, I should go.

I have to go.

If I'm right

and this works,

I guess I don't know

if I'm talking to anyone.

But if I'm wrong, but if

something happens to me...

I need Sam, Claire...

anyone who sees this,

I need you to know...

I'm not crazy.

I'm not a bad man.

I just,

I need to know the truth.

Keep playing.

You know I love it

when you play.

I know.

I'm pretty good.

Play that one song, Sam.

For me.

Sing it, Sam.

Do you remember the words?

♪ You must remember this

♪ A kiss is still a kiss

♪ A sigh is just a sigh

♪ The fundamental things

Are gone ♪

♪ As time goes by

Excuse me. Who are you?

I'm just a student.

Excuse me. I'm sorry.

Are you allowed to be here?

Yeah, of course.

I'm calling security.

No.

Yes. Wait, hey!

Get off!

Oh, shit.

Shit.

Come on.

- Claire.

- Where are you?

- I'm on my way home.

- I don't feel good.

- Something's wrong.

- It's all right, it's all right.

- I'm on my way there. You'll be all right.

- I tried

to close my eyes

and all I could see...

I was watching myself.

I could see that I was in the

kitchen with my eyes closed.

Oh, Jesus.

What's happening to me, Brendan?

You don't have

to be afraid, Claire.

Just get here fast, okay?

I don't know what's going on.

Just...

Quick, Brendan.

I'm going to break!

You don't have to be afraid.

Shit.

Claire?

- Sam!

- Mom!

- Sam!

- Wait, Claire!

Mom!

- Come here, baby. Come here.

- Mom!

- What's happening?

- Claire, Sam, come here.

We're going to be

fine. We're going to be okay.

No!

Mom, don't be scared.

Okay. Other arm.

Hey, Sam,

where are you going?

We're just going to find shells.

I won't go into the water.

Okay, just stay where

we can see you.

Sam!

Leave George with us.

The Mandela Effect (2019) - full transcript