YellowBrickRoad (2010) - full transcript
One Morning in New England, 1940, the entire population of Friar New Hampshire - 572 people - walked together up a winding mountain trail and into the wilderness. They left behind their clothes, their money, all of their essentials. Even their dogs were abandoned, tied to posts and left to starve. No One knows why. A search party dispatched by the U.S. Army eventually discovered the remains of nearly 300 of Friar's evacuees. Many had frozen to death. Others were cruelly and mysteriously slaughtered. The bodies of the remaining citizens are still unaccounted for. Over the years, a quiet cover-up operation managed to weave the story of Friar into the stuff of legends and backwoods fairy tales. The town has slowly repopulated, but the vast wilderness is mostly untracked, with the northern-most stretches off limits to local hunters and loggers. In 2008, the coordinates for the "YELLOWBRICKROAD" trail head were declassified. The first official expedition into a dark and twisted wilderness will attempt to solve the mystery of the lost citizens of Friar...and reach the end of the trail.
Reporting from station eight
at 1100 hours, recorded
this the 10th of October
in the year 1940, case file 64708NH90.
Subject is the last remaining citizen
and only survivor among the missing
numbered so far at 257, 257.
This matter is to be classified
until further review.
Gentleman, quiet please thank you.
Sir, why was your town abandoned
and how did you come to
be the only one remaining?
- I walked.
- And you were the
only one to return, why is that?
The others all dead.
I couldn't
I left them on the trail.
Subject
has his hands over his ears
in great pain, sir, sir,
what is it that you hear?
What is it you hear sir?
- Am I the only one here?
No sir, I'm also here.
- I'm not too late am I?
We close in two minutes.
- Thank God.
- You hear about Friar, New
Hampshire that old road?
- Yes.
- Two forms of photo
identification if you would.
Mr. Barnes, what you're asking for
there are certainly those who would prefer
you didn't have it.
- I understand that.
I'm completely positive you're about
to add to my collection of letters
explaining the supposed gray
areas of public domain and--
You should
think more optimistically
Mr. Barnes, all yours, case files,
the photos and the numbers.
- Holy God.
- Furthermore, I'm to apologize
for all the years of inconvenience
to you and to your wife.
They probably don't really mean it.
I mean it.
Enjoy your picture show Mr. Barnes.
- Excuse me.
Hello?
- We're drinking.
You're drinking.
You're a teacher now Kenny, you drink.
- Just pour it Walter.
- Guess that decides
the common misconception
that you can't do what you
love, you resort to teaching.
I don't know where I was going with that.
Because it seems like
that's what happened.
- Then pour me a drink.
- I'm really gonna miss you guys.
I don't know what the hell I'm gonna do.
- So how about we drink to throwing it all
out the goddamned window, screw the job.
Screw Walter's tenure.
What happens if we could do another book?
- He has it.
- No, he doesn't.
So now it's real.
Mr. and Mrs.
Barnes this is Jerry
up at the New Hampshire offices.
We did get word that your
proposal has gone through.
I can't say anyone around here
is too excited about that.
The ranger we'll be providing you with
will not have firearms on with
him, so neither should you.
Best of luck on your trip.
Who the
fuck do you think you are?
Stay the fuck out.
Don't come here.
We're not gonna talk to you.
We can't get away from people like you.
Fuck--
- Does all this scare you?
- In a good way.
- Are you gonna be terribly disappointed
if we get all the way out there
and get a vague, unpublishable story
and some pictures of some bones?
- Yes.
And I won't be terribly disappointed.
- That's what I thought.
I love you by the way.
We do that yet today?
- I love you more.
Now under the
influence of a tasteless,
but fast-acting poison.
- Okay, day one, pretty simple.
Today's all about packing
up and shipping out.
We'd like to be on the trail by noon,
make as much ground as we can before dark.
So why don't we make like it's summer camp
and do the whole you know the drill.
- I'll go first, my name's Melissa Barnes,
I'm co-authoring this thing
and I take point in the field.
- I'm Cy Banbridge, here
from the forestry service.
It was required, but I've
been feeling ready for this.
- Daryl Luger, I do maps.
- Erin Luger, we do maps.
There have been no new maps
of the south or the north
since like turn of the century,
so my sister and I get
to be the lucky ones.
- We're psyched.
- We are.
- Jill Bateman, Teddy
and Melissa's intern.
And just got the
med kit and the training
to go with it, so she can help with
any blisters, aches and pains.
- Intern's got the painkillers.
- All right, Walter Myrick.
I teach behavioral psychology.
I'll be giving you guys some tests daily
and reporting them on this little camera,
but you know no release forms, no stress,
just look however you look.
Ow.
- Bright light early morning, I know,
but I take lots of them.
- It's true.
- Fantastic.
- Right, Teddy Barnes,
co-author, photographer literally.
The story of Friar fascinates me.
Look, I don't know if we'll find
all the answers out there,
but I can tell you that
we have been blessed
with the opportunity to take a legend
and turn it into recorded history.
Pancakes, pancakes.
- Hey.
- Hey.
Okay, I'm gonna
ask you a series of questions
and I want you to just
answer honestly okay?
Not too much thinking, sound good?
- Okay, just go ahead
and ask your quiz there.
What's your name?
- I already oh I got you Cy Banbridge.
Where are you right now?
- Parking lot.
Good enough.
What smell do you associate
with the color red?
- You gotta be kidding me, cherries
I'm thinking cherries I guess.
What does that mean?
- It means that you
don't have brain damage.
- There we go, all right.
- Hey.
- You keep the GPS.
- Right near here, this way.
- Here?
- According to this and
the numbers you gave me,
the trail ends right here.
- That thing's broken.
- Sweet.
- Those numbers are accurate.
- Well do you see a trail?
- We--
- We're looking for a trail here.
- Are you like retarded
hikers or something
because you're in a movie theater?
- Hold on a second buddy.
- Hey fuck you Egon.
Tickets are eight dollars,
so 56 smackers for all seven,
will you be joining us
at the movies today?
- Hey, you're awesome.
- Come on, this isn't happening.
We're leaving.
- What are we watching?
- Something to do with guns and tits
and the end of the world.
- Nobody will talk to us.
- It's okay.
I'm not one of the angry
ones, just jealous.
- Why is that?
- You get to walk the road.
- Except we don't.
There is no road, right?
Coordinates were a sham somehow.
Led us right here that's why
we walked in here like assholes.
Did someone tell you
all not to talk to us?
- My grandfather gave me this job.
He owned it a while before
he got cancer in his throat
and died, that was last year.
He was friends with the guy
who owned it way back when,
back before everybody walked.
- Your grandfather was
here in '39 and '40?
- Every other weekend
on logging trips yeah.
I've gotta change the reel.
- Now wait a minute--
- Before the movie starts
or we don't paid.
Look.
Reach down right side in the back,
left over from the old
dais, Gone with the Wind,
original print, I shit you not.
That second one is the Oz movie.
I found it left in the projector.
It won't run, it's worn to shreds
from all the times they
put it through the machine.
Hey I didn't you could use me
a source or anything did I?
- Okay, I don't have a lot of money.
- You go something better, you
got a fucking expedition to--
- You gotta be kidding me.
- Listen, I got my own hiking gear.
I can cook.
I can tell you everything
I know for the book.
I got no real family,
no money to go south.
You gotta please you
gotta take me with you.
- I appreciate that but
you're not hearing me.
There is no trial, then there is no trip.
- But there is a trial and--
- You've seen it?
- There's even a marker, stone,
it says Yellow Brick Road.
We drink there sometimes to get scared.
I walked the first 100 yards once.
Okay and
what is your full name?
- Erin Lilian Luger.
I'm like you
to speak in gibberish
for me until I ask you stop.
Thank you stop.
- Okay.
Without looking at your watch,
can you tell me what time it is?
- 3:17.
- Very good.
Two times two is four.
- Cy.
- Four times two is eight.
Eight times two is 16.
- 16 times two is 32.
32 times two is 64.
64 times two is 128.
Now I'd like
you to write a word
for me with your finger backwards
so that I can read it.
- Let's just camp here tonight.
We can set up a tent right over there.
- Let's give it one more hour.
Oh!
- Yeah, break your wrist
again, that would be good.
- Give me one more hour okay?
- Indian cucumber.
You can dig them up, they're sweet.
- Cool.
Right how
do you feel right now?
- A little warm, a little
buggy, otherwise great.
I'd like
you to repeat a gesture
until I saw stop.
Okay stop.
- I'm not done yet.
- Well I said stop.
- Okay.
Thank you.
All right count in prime numbers
for me starting with two.
- Two, three, five, seven,
11, 13, 17, 19, 23--
Fantastic, stop.
- I won the Olympics
for fastest fire builder
four years in a row, summer
camp Olympics that is.
- Fastest fire builder?
How's that work exactly?
- You tie a piece of string
18 inches above the ground
and the first one that
burns through it wins.
- 18 inches?
Baby stuff.
I'd do twice that at least.
- Hey Cy are moose dangerous?
- Yeah, screw around with the moose sure,
seen them take a person
right up in their antlers
fling them like 50 feet.
- Bears what you gotta worry about.
- I don't really mind bears.
- A bear will kill you a lot
more sooner than a moose.
- Yeah, but it's the antlers.
I don't like the antlers.
Hey guys.
Not all at once, two each you know.
- Gimme it.
- Gimme it.
- Okay, one, two.
- Do you have caramel?
- Cy you want some?
- Here you want to trade,
lollypop, lollypop?
- Did she say we get two each?
- Stop!
- Nobody move.
- Snatched your souls!
- Asshole!
- The hat, where'd you get it?
- Oh, I found it just now
in the woods taking a piss.
I almost hosed it down
on the leaves there.
- Did you piss on it?
- Maybe some mid to
late 30s.
- Somebody screwing with us.
- I don't know.
- Check the label.
- Are you serious?
- Can I check it?
- That's scary shit.
- Look, that's not possible,
look, there's no way this hat
has been through 70 years of weather.
- Maybe someone's missing it right now,
someone close by.
- Oh, right up my spine.
- Nice try, but that's lethal no way.
- We have to keep it very safe.
- Oh, can I wear it?
- Why would you want to wear it?
- I don't know, seems the
best way to keep a hat safe.
It's true.
Okay.
- No no no, don't hurt the
hat, don't hurt the hat.
Come here.
- Oh my!
All right name?
Melissa Barnes.
Where are you right now?
I'm on the
road, we are on the road.
We are on the road now.
How do you feel?
- Pretty good, maybe great,
slightest bit weak in the
stomach, but otherwise.
Tell me the
smell you first associate
with the color blue.
- Ammonia, or maybe chlorine
like in a swimming pool.
- Happy mountain green earth whatever.
See you at camp!
So it's 1940
fall, getting colder.
Yep, grand dad would have been 15.
- And Roosevelt's not paying any attention
to the Great North Woods.
- No one is, people are losing hope.
They spend all the time
and I mean all the time
at the movies starting
at munchkins and things.
- Right and an emerald city.
- Sure.
- So what did you think
of the official report
when you saw it?
- Well he only believed
things he saw himself
so he stuck to Friar just to see
talked whatever uniform would talk.
- What did he find there?
- They didn't leave everything behind.
It's just the things they took,
not the things you'd expect.
He said the formal wear was gone,
the hats and suits and gloves and things.
- She waits to tell us
this after we find the hat.
He felt they took the music,
one of those old phonographs
where you turn the crank, no juice needed.
- It's amateur hour, it's ridiculous.
- Let's just wait till we're sure.
- Okay if you say so, suckers.
- Coordinate five at 11.5
degrees to the northwest.
Coordinate six at 47.01 degrees northwest.
Coordinate are you ready?
- Go.
- Coordinate seven's at 62
degrees that's north now?
- Eight?
- Hold on, I gotta recalibrate.
- Hummus tastes like nothing.
- D, take off the hat, I'm serious.
- Like lemmings, they just do it,
there's not one wave of lemmings.
It doesn't matter.
- What?
- Problem.
- Did you break it?
This is Teddy, you guys hear me over?
- We're here over.
GPS says we're in Guam over.
- The hell you say over.
Never mind over now.
Hey, Jill the
intern where are we now?
- 40 miles northwest of Florence!
- Could be a steel mill far off.
Wind tunnel, natural amphitheater anyone?
Hey Jill the
intern, where are we now?
- Just outside of Melbourne.
- Oh good day Melbourne.
- There's a kangaroo.
This dingo at my baby!
Subject
four, this is day three,
okay early memory first one that comes.
My first cat
Reggie taking Reggie home.
Can you remember
what Reggie sounded like?
- Yes.
- Can you imitate that sound?
- You want me to meow?
- Yes.
- Daryl, kill the engine.
- Shh shh shh.
- You hear it too?
- I heard that.
- I heard it too.
- I heard it too.
- Oh my God, oh my God, oh
my God oh my God, oh my God.
Theories one solar flares,
geothermic and magnetism.
Two, human presence as Cy suggested,
like we're being punked by the FBI.
Three, collective hallucination,
we pass the psychosis
around like a disease.
Far fetched, maybe, but
Daryl and Walter's work
with the audio levels indicate that--
The music's coming
from the end of the road.
- Fourth, it's the people of Friar,
it's the walkers, somehow they're here.
Here's what we know.
We're not all crazy.
Our instruments are buggy.
We are five days away from
civilization with gear,
three without, so here we are
and this meeting is officially
about the possibility of turning back?
- Oh boo.
- What?
- No no no throw that stuff at me,
because I'm the one who
suggested going back.
- Boo!
- Ow!
- None of your theories really
explain the music though,
how do you explain the music?
- It could be God.
- How could we all
be crazy, I don't get that?
- Right.
- This is the music
they were listening to, over
and over and over again,
my grandfather said, he
used to have the film reels.
They were addicts for this stuff.
- Wait, stop, back up, Jill the intern
said something crazy, I
want more information.
Intern, repeat if you would.
- It could be never mind.
- God!
Theory five act of God.
- Oh, it's ridiculous.
- What if the people of Friar believed
this was the road to some god?
Some wizard or something to
stop the war from ever coming?
You can ask the
wizard for anything can't you?
- Anything.
- Nope, because if you remember,
the wizard turned out to
be a little bald douche.
You're being an asshole
today can you stop being an asshole?
- Everybody needs to have
their voice heard you know.
It's my turn now.
I think we don't know what's going on here
and we should leave.
I'm scared.
- What if there is an end to this thing
and someone or something is there,
what would you ask for?
- That's a deeply personal question.
- What's your answer Mr. Barnes?
- I'd just ask him to
smile for the camera.
That's all I need.
- It goes, they both go.
- We can't tell which is true north.
- Try calling northeast north 17 degrees.
- How did you do that?
- Your sister said your
instruments have been off.
- Well yeah but I haven't
been, that's north.
- D, you're good at math,
but you're not that good.
- I am too that good.
This is a triple in magnetic force
and the opposite spiral like the way
toilets flush in Australia.
- Does that mean there's
a point in the center?
- Yeah, I think that's where
the music is coming from.
- Do you have the math to get us there?
I want that coordinate.
So do we.
- We don't have it yet.
We have to start taking
side specs south, okay,
adding things up.
- I'm on it.
- What's your full name?
- Liv Michelle McCann, should
I look at you or the camera?
- No look at the camera and
where are you right now?
- Daryl says we're 65 miles
inside Yellow Brick Road.
We've been hearing the music
since yesterday morning.
Say the alphabet backwards.
- Z, Y, X, W, V, U, fuck, T?
- That's fine.
- No, let me finish.
- V, U, T, S, R.
- That's fine, that's fine.
You've proved your--
- Q, P, N, M, L, shit what comes after
I mean before L, L, K, J, I,
H, G, F, E, D, C, B, A.
- We've got another one.
- Another crossroads guys.
♪ Kiss me once again and hold me ♪
♪ That's the kind of old goodbye ♪
- You were talking.
- What was I saying?
- Not going back.
- Not going back?
- Not going back.
Your little heart is beating so fast.
- It's not little.
Canvas the site already.
- You're not where you're
supposed to be over.
Daryl I know this is
funny, but it's not funny.
Take the hat off.
How do you feel right now?
- I'm low.
- Speak in gibberish
till I ask you to stop.
All right stop.
Now repeat a gesture
until I ask you to stop.
Teddy.
You're all right, you're all right.
- Get your arm off me.
I was just
I was listening to the music that's all.
I want to know where it
went, when it's coming back.
What if we never heard
it in the first place?
Don't you miss it?
- No.
- What are you seeing on the tapes?
- Well, it's different for everyone.
It's like separations and
slow downs in association,
memory loss, so what if people start
forgetting the way back?
- Daryl has the numbers
written down clearly.
- I'm not talking about the way home.
I'm talking about the way back
to where we started, to who we were
when we began this thing.
- But they were here Walter.
They passed right through
this spot, I'm sure of it.
- We have plenty for the book.
This isn't about the book for you anymore.
This is about you reaching,
you're always reaching for things
that you don't understand
that you can't see
and this time that really scares me.
- Why?
- You see this?
Take a good look.
Come on, everyone.
Bad berry, atropa belladonna, nightshade,
make sure you can tell it from the others,
bad goddamn berry.
- I wasn't eating it.
I was squishing it.
Berries are for squishing.
Sorry bad berry.
- Bad berry.
- Very bad berry.
- Bad berry.
- You know what?
We deserve a goddamn party.
- All right, but be careful I mean that.
- Fastest fire builder huh?
- Oh shit, this is gonna happen.
Somebody pour me a shot.
- Burn it out.
- Don't burn out.
Closer than I
ever thought it would be.
Why do we even have a ref
if everyone keeps cheating?
You ask a
question for the wizard,
you ask him that.
- No!
Something's here.
I don't want to stay anymore.
- It's all right.
- It's okay.
- It's okay.
- I'm eating.
- We should move.
- No one listening.
- There's no place like home.
- Guys.
What is it
Liv, we just went to sleep?
- I lied.
- We were catching onto that.
- I never knew my grandfather
and he lived in Maine,
but I did grow up in Friar.
- Just go to sleep.
- You should know all this wondering
about why they walked
people who live in Friar
don't wonder about that.
If you live there, you understand.
It's not something you
can write a book about.
- I tested Jill first thing this morning.
I asked her for her
earliest childhood memory.
She told me it was standing at the trail
at the Yellow Brick Road.
So which direction is it
gonna be in today huh?
We're taking the hint.
- Give it one more day.
- One more day.
- Hold up.
We have to take a site.
Do you want to take the
Argo and just catch up?
- No, we'll wait.
- Okay, D.
- Everybody these are the 15 minutes
that are gonna make us all well okay?
- Oh D you got your finger
prints all over this.
- You know you look like shit?
- Oh.
- Is it scratched?
- No.
- Did you scratch the lens?
- No.
- Is it scratched?
- Give me the hat.
- Is it scratched?
- Take off the hat, D.
- Is it scratched?
- Take off the fucking hat.
- Is it fucking scratched?
- I'm not kidding
with you anymore.
Will you please take off the hat?
- Is it scratched?
- Give it to me.
- Did you scratch it?
- Take it off, give it to me.
- Did you scratch the fucking--?
- Shut your face and take off the hat.
- Is the fucking lens scratched?
- If you don't fucking take that hat off.
Now move!
- Oh God, he's going for the trees.
- Let me see, I want to see.
- Oh God.
- We have to get out of here.
- You stay there and be quiet.
- I'm gonna walk home.
- It'll be okay.
- I'm gonna walk--
- What did you see Walter?
- He killed her, he just ripped her apart.
- Why?
- They were arguing over the hat.
- What?
Walter what happened?
Listen up everybody.
- Erin's dead.
- Yes.
All right.
There's been a terrible tragedy.
Walter you and I will set
up emergency camp here.
Teddy, Cy, you guys
take the knife, machete,
whatever you can, go find Daryl.
- I think we just go home.
- Daryl knows the way home.
Trails forked two dozen times.
- There's no book.
- He's got it on him.
- We can find our way back.
I can find our way.
- Teddy, Melissa, I agree with Cy.
- Stop, let me out of this.
- He looked scared.
- Bring him back okay?
- How did this happen?
A moment ago we were fine.
- No, no we weren't.
- Damn it!
- Melissa?
- Damn you!
- Melissa?
- What?
- Never mind.
- What is it Jill?
- I was wondering where
the candy bag went.
- All right, I completely get it.
Look, we're gonna be okay.
We're gonna be fine Jill.
Teddy and Cy are gonna bring back Daryl
and the map to Friar
and we're gonna go home.
Do you believe me?
- I believe you.
- I don't.
- I just need some Walter,
I just need some help.
I mean fine we've got
it to put it together,
mark it somehow right,
we can't just leave it.
- You're not going back?
- What are you looking for?
- Something bright
to mark the body.
- Liv, not alone.
- I don't care.
- They're going for Erin.
- You sure you saw him come this way?
- I thought so.
I don't know what I saw.
Oh God, make it shut up.
- It's like on purpose how it does that.
- Obviously on goddamn purpose.
There.
It's him.
- I caught that.
I saw him.
- Shut that thing up.
- Daryl!
Daryl, will you answer me?
- We know you're right there.
- No!
Guys, I think I did something really bad.
- We know.
We know man and it's okay.
I hurt my leg.
- Yeah, we'll get you help for that,
just come right on out here it's fine.
- Okay, Daryl I want you to
listen to me carefully okay?
You're not in any trouble.
I know.
It feels like no one will forgive you,
but you're wrong.
Everyone who loves you will forgive you.
- We all thought it is what he's saying,
but not saying Daryl.
I thought it for days.
We all did.
I thought of killing.
I thought it too Daryl.
You guys can just leave me here.
But you can't do that can you Teddy?
- We may have to take him.
No no no no.
You don't have to do that.
I'm coming.
- That's good.
That's good Daryl, thank
you, now I'm just gonna
tie a little rope around your hands
as a safety precaution okay?
- Yeah, I think you'd better.
- That's good.
Sit down.
- Tie me up.
Now.
- Someone will always be watching him.
- I can't feel my hands.
- I don't care.
- I need you to loosen the
ropes man, just a little.
I have some questions about
the numbers for getting home, Daryl.
- You're a music guy Teddy.
I was never a music guy.
But this song this song's
been growing on me.
Is it growing on you?
I hear the people in the music.
I hear the people who walk.
- Daryl, the numbers.
- I can't take us home.
- You can and you will.
- Look at the pages, Teddy, I mean look.
Yesterday morning, 48.3
miles by pedometer,
but it charted out at 29.2 miles
when we added the numbers up going south.
- Impossible.
- Exactly.
- And next morning we set
out from camp at 8:45 a.m.
8.2 miles by pedometer, yet
our chart said 19 miles.
We looked back three miles later
and we couldn't even find the camp site
and the view on the scope.
It was gone.
- Our numbers are right.
You would have said something.
Erin would have said something.
- No, because when you're traveling along
Yellow Brick Road the numbers are hard.
They add up.
They make sense going forward,
which is exactly how
we were taking our sites, going forward.
Looking back was a different story,
looking back looking side to side,
the land is like liquid.
- Just show me how they work.
- Flip to the back page.
That'll take you to the
end of the road Teddy,
think about that.
- What's it doing?
- I don't know, maybe nothing.
- I hear a pattern.
- No shit.
- All right, so we need cotton balls,
bandanas, whatever you can stop the noise.
- I can't find it.
- Keep looking Jill.
- Please go away.
- Useless.
- That's the way home.
He wrote it down, we're--
- Catch up, Daryl is batshit,
so the numbers are all batshit numbers.
- No, it's there.
This is the way home.
It's here.
He wrote it down.
- I swear to God if you don't shut up.
Stop!
- None of you know me.
You don't even look at me.
- All right, enough.
We lost a lot of gear,
but people can survive
you're just gonna have to trust me.
- Lady, are you kidding me?
- Oh I'm lady now?
- Yeah, you're lady.
- You gonna forget how
to learn my fucking name Cy?
- Stupid goddamn lady.
- Both of you, easy.
- Hey don't talk to me.
- Keep your hands down.
- Don't talk like--
- Keep your hands down.
- Get down goddamn it!
Any reason we should
listen to another word
out of your hole--?
- Because it's all
about getting out now, isn't it?
Teddy and I have walked
Siberian forests, desert
goddamn wastelands--
- Oh to hell with your wastelands,
what is your plan?
- She doesn't have a plan.
- We have to stick together.
We ration the food and water
in our packs and we walk.
Off trail screw the trail, due south.
We'll leave at first light.
- We don't have the gear do we?
- No, the way I see it we go west?
- West.
- I know there's nothing east
and there's even less up north,
but west there ought to be a better shot.
Maybe we cross into Vermont.
- I'm not sure I'm in
love with ought to be.
Yeah, you had your chance to talk.
- I'm talking now.
- Well keep talking.
Now you got a reason, I've
got a reason that matters.
I've got this knife.
Yeah, I ain't parting ways with.
I can cut through brush, kill an animal.
I'll fend off a goddamn lunatic
driving a goddamn go cart
wielding my goddamn machete.
I'm not waiting till morning.
- I want to know what Teddy thinks.
- I think we should continue north.
- Really?
It's not an option.
No more north.
- I just think we should
go home with answers.
These questions will kill us.
- These questions never
needed to be fucking asked.
What the hell does it matter anyway?
- He's all right.
He took a fall, but he's all right.
Off we're going south.
- Liv and I head west
tonight, with or without you.
You can go on and kill your damn selves,
but this one this one
ain't gonna die with you
because she never should have been allowed
on this goddamn trip in the first place
and I ain't a part of no
damn democracy right now.
I promise you that.
- We need to split up the gear.
- I'll go stow the binoculars.
- Mr. Barnes.
- Take the lantern head
lamp's ours, last light yours.
- The water?
- You need it.
- You need it.
- Don't let this happen.
We should set watch.
Where are we now?
- Stay with me, stay with me.
Where are we now?
Where are we now?
- Don't, it's too far away.
Don't listen to him, he can't
see us, stay with me please,
stay with me.
- Where are we now?
- Where are you?
I can't feel you.
- I'm here, right here.
- That's better.
I had a dream we made it all the way home
and it wasn't there.
- It's okay.
- It was gone.
The grass was black and
the sky was full of smoke
and I was there, but I was dead.
All the people were all
dead or disappeared.
We were so scared.
Even worse when I woke up because
what if this road is our home now?
- No!
No no no!
No, stop!
No!
No!
- Line up three objects
and you make sure they stay in line.
You doing fine you know?
You're doing real good.
- No.
- Take it, I'll catch a chipmunk later.
- Gross.
Why isn't it getting darker than this?
- I don't know.
- You don't think we're
actually going north?
- No chance.
- Bad berries.
- Yup.
Don't eat that.
I tried it in like the 10th grade okay.
I mean it didn't kill
me, but it gets you high.
- Really?
- Uh huh.
Dumb fuck thing to do though.
Eat too much, it's poison.
Plus you get a rash.
- I like this forest!
- I like it too.
I like it too.
- I feel like walking.
- No no no no too dangerous.
Let's just stay right here.
- Okay.
- Can I touch your hair?
- Okay.
You sure we can't walk,
get some more milestone?
Oh my gosh, look a chipmunk.
Would you eat one of those?
- I have I ground it up
with a rock and I fried it.
- How did it taste?
- Bloody.
- You're hilarious.
- I'm gonna kiss you, that's okay right?
- No.
- Really?
No Cy.
- It was North Dakota.
- That'll be a beam with
a falcon on the gate.
- And we had to bribe that woman
because she wouldn't let dogs in.
- Oh Mickey was on that trip.
- Remember when Teddy got hives
from the chlorine in the hot tub?
- Mickey was so small then.
Mickey will die soon.
That girl is feeding him.
She's irresponsible.
She won't check to see
that we haven't come home.
She'll just stop coming.
He'll sit by the door and
cry for days and days.
- This topic, Teddy's he's gonna be fine.
We're on our way home right now.
Hear hear hear don't listen to that.
Here, take these, come on.
Use as many as you need.
- 3rd grade, Mrs. Scott, hairy chin wall,
I had chicken pox, stayed home a week.
I had a crush on Brent
Ian, but he doesn't know.
I think I love him, resting
a finger on his face,
vacation on Cape Cod.
I loved the beach.
- Are you?
- What?
- Are you mad at me?
- No.
I'm just coming down high.
- Can you help me?
- How?
- Put it all together.
We're walking right now.
- Right.
- We've been walking for
what seems like forever.
- Yes.
- But it isn't.
We were part of a group of
people that walked north
because we were wondering
why another group of
people had walked north.
We were all once born
and we're all gonna die.
We do lots of things in between like this
and sometimes we have
jobs like you had a job
and your job was to walk this trail.
I lived alone and sold popcorn.
And I lied because I knew
I think I always knew if you
live in town long enough,
you know oh God, the
real reason they walked,
just like I feel your eyes on me right now
even though I can't see you.
You always know the trail's there.
Everyone does.
But no one says it.
You're embarrassed to believe
it could be like a way out.
You feel like the trail
will understand you
and now I think that's the worst part.
That it does.
- It's mountains tomorrow I think.
- Hey guys look.
- No way you had that the whole time?
- Did you steal that?
- I got it when we
were dividing up our things
and nobody remembered.
- Please?
- Let's ration it okay.
We have a long road ahead of us.
- I'm sorry!
I was so hungry!
I'm sorry!
- Liv, it's happening to me too,
what happened to Daryl.
- Just go to sleep.
- No, no if the music keeps up
and we don't find a town soon
I'm gonna do something to
you that's unspeakable.
- Like what?
- I've been thinking about it for miles,
all the things I'm gonna do.
I thought about taking myself out,
but I think if I start cutting things
I might get confused.
Get out the rope sugar pop.
- Teddy, come back, Teddy.
You fuck!
♪ Walter, Walter ♪
♪ Leave me in the beyond there ♪
♪ Walter Walter ♪
♪ Find the forest Walter ♪
♪ And feel the forest Walter dear ♪
- It's the song isn't it?
It's a sick coincidence.
- It's calling me out.
- Don't you leave me.
- I won't.
- Walter?
Why didn't you find anybody?
- I can't answer that.
- So you've been best friends
with both Teddy and me
for all these years.
- Isn't it amazing?
Everything changes when deep in your heart
you think you might die tomorrow.
Are you sure?
- Yes.
- We'll go away or these trees will.
- I might plead at the end,
but you just gotta do it
and don't be like those others,
don't argue with me, talk talk talk.
I don't want to talk anymore.
- You want me to stab you?
- No, no, I don't want
my blood on that knife.
- Then how?
- You got to break my neck.
- I can't, I don't know how.
- You grab and you twist.
- I'm not strong enough.
- Yes you are, anyone can do it.
- But I can't.
- Somewhere in you you can.
You've gotta find the place that can,
I'm sorry Liv but you've gotta
find the place that wants to.
- Don't, don't, stop!
Please oh God stop.
- Walter!
Walter!
- Melissa I want you to forgive me.
I've just I've seen too much,
so it's time for me to
click my heels and go home.
I know you probably
don't want to see this,
but it's just so that in some way
even if it's off the timeline,
I know that I know that
you're here with me.
So stay with me hmm?
Don't look away.
What's your name?
My name is Walter.
And how do you feel right now?
Ah, much better.
Earliest childhood memory?
Climbing up the bars
of my crib to get out.
Speak in gibberish
until I say stop.
Stop.
Stop.
Stop.
- It's never ending.
- Teddy?
Teddy?
Teddy.
Teddy, can you hear me?
Don't leave me out here alone.
I'm trapped here and I don't think
I don't
if you had to go north,
if you had to go, had you
thought to wake me that morning,
I would have gone with you.
Melissa.
I want you to know that I'm here.
- Daryl.
In the cave behind you.
Are you going to run?
- I don't want to run from you.
Why not?
I mean with my leg you
might have a chance.
- Are you gonna kill me, here now?
Yes.
- Please Daryl, does it
have to be so much pain?
- Yes.
Here we go.
- Melissa, are you there?
I thought I heard you somehow.
Is it possible that you could hear me?
I'm somewhere off the map, I don't know.
I can't read the numbers.
I can't trust the numbers.
I'm starting to think the trick is
that it never ends that there is no end.
Melissa are you there?
Are you sleeping?
Are you somewhere sleeping without me?
I hope you make it home
and that's it warm and
he's waiting for you.
I hope that you can remember how to live.
He hung out to hear the music
and you'll be with Walter.
And Walter will be happy too.
And everything where I ended
up never picture where I am.
And don't let anyone
else picture it either.
One day one day you won't think about me,
not even to curse me.
I loved you.
Go home.
Help anyone.
Am I the only one here?
- No sir.
I'm also here.
- Who are you?
- I run the picture shows of course.
- You have to help me, please
listen to me, listen to me.
- I'm listening yes.
- There are others.
I have to find them help,
you have to understand,
I left them out there.
- They no longer require help.
- How do you know that?
- Because I've seen it.
- And her?
Please what happened to her?
- Oh Mrs. Barnes, I've just seen her.
- Have you?
Is she here?
Did she make it to the end?
- Oh indeed sir she's arrived at the end.
But there are so many ends.
Enjoy your picture show Mr. Barnes.
Take your seat there.
Teddy.
This is our home.
- No!
The grass is black.
The sky is choked with smoke.
- No!
All of
the people have disappeared.
This is our home.
This is our home.
at 1100 hours, recorded
this the 10th of October
in the year 1940, case file 64708NH90.
Subject is the last remaining citizen
and only survivor among the missing
numbered so far at 257, 257.
This matter is to be classified
until further review.
Gentleman, quiet please thank you.
Sir, why was your town abandoned
and how did you come to
be the only one remaining?
- I walked.
- And you were the
only one to return, why is that?
The others all dead.
I couldn't
I left them on the trail.
Subject
has his hands over his ears
in great pain, sir, sir,
what is it that you hear?
What is it you hear sir?
- Am I the only one here?
No sir, I'm also here.
- I'm not too late am I?
We close in two minutes.
- Thank God.
- You hear about Friar, New
Hampshire that old road?
- Yes.
- Two forms of photo
identification if you would.
Mr. Barnes, what you're asking for
there are certainly those who would prefer
you didn't have it.
- I understand that.
I'm completely positive you're about
to add to my collection of letters
explaining the supposed gray
areas of public domain and--
You should
think more optimistically
Mr. Barnes, all yours, case files,
the photos and the numbers.
- Holy God.
- Furthermore, I'm to apologize
for all the years of inconvenience
to you and to your wife.
They probably don't really mean it.
I mean it.
Enjoy your picture show Mr. Barnes.
- Excuse me.
Hello?
- We're drinking.
You're drinking.
You're a teacher now Kenny, you drink.
- Just pour it Walter.
- Guess that decides
the common misconception
that you can't do what you
love, you resort to teaching.
I don't know where I was going with that.
Because it seems like
that's what happened.
- Then pour me a drink.
- I'm really gonna miss you guys.
I don't know what the hell I'm gonna do.
- So how about we drink to throwing it all
out the goddamned window, screw the job.
Screw Walter's tenure.
What happens if we could do another book?
- He has it.
- No, he doesn't.
So now it's real.
Mr. and Mrs.
Barnes this is Jerry
up at the New Hampshire offices.
We did get word that your
proposal has gone through.
I can't say anyone around here
is too excited about that.
The ranger we'll be providing you with
will not have firearms on with
him, so neither should you.
Best of luck on your trip.
Who the
fuck do you think you are?
Stay the fuck out.
Don't come here.
We're not gonna talk to you.
We can't get away from people like you.
Fuck--
- Does all this scare you?
- In a good way.
- Are you gonna be terribly disappointed
if we get all the way out there
and get a vague, unpublishable story
and some pictures of some bones?
- Yes.
And I won't be terribly disappointed.
- That's what I thought.
I love you by the way.
We do that yet today?
- I love you more.
Now under the
influence of a tasteless,
but fast-acting poison.
- Okay, day one, pretty simple.
Today's all about packing
up and shipping out.
We'd like to be on the trail by noon,
make as much ground as we can before dark.
So why don't we make like it's summer camp
and do the whole you know the drill.
- I'll go first, my name's Melissa Barnes,
I'm co-authoring this thing
and I take point in the field.
- I'm Cy Banbridge, here
from the forestry service.
It was required, but I've
been feeling ready for this.
- Daryl Luger, I do maps.
- Erin Luger, we do maps.
There have been no new maps
of the south or the north
since like turn of the century,
so my sister and I get
to be the lucky ones.
- We're psyched.
- We are.
- Jill Bateman, Teddy
and Melissa's intern.
And just got the
med kit and the training
to go with it, so she can help with
any blisters, aches and pains.
- Intern's got the painkillers.
- All right, Walter Myrick.
I teach behavioral psychology.
I'll be giving you guys some tests daily
and reporting them on this little camera,
but you know no release forms, no stress,
just look however you look.
Ow.
- Bright light early morning, I know,
but I take lots of them.
- It's true.
- Fantastic.
- Right, Teddy Barnes,
co-author, photographer literally.
The story of Friar fascinates me.
Look, I don't know if we'll find
all the answers out there,
but I can tell you that
we have been blessed
with the opportunity to take a legend
and turn it into recorded history.
Pancakes, pancakes.
- Hey.
- Hey.
Okay, I'm gonna
ask you a series of questions
and I want you to just
answer honestly okay?
Not too much thinking, sound good?
- Okay, just go ahead
and ask your quiz there.
What's your name?
- I already oh I got you Cy Banbridge.
Where are you right now?
- Parking lot.
Good enough.
What smell do you associate
with the color red?
- You gotta be kidding me, cherries
I'm thinking cherries I guess.
What does that mean?
- It means that you
don't have brain damage.
- There we go, all right.
- Hey.
- You keep the GPS.
- Right near here, this way.
- Here?
- According to this and
the numbers you gave me,
the trail ends right here.
- That thing's broken.
- Sweet.
- Those numbers are accurate.
- Well do you see a trail?
- We--
- We're looking for a trail here.
- Are you like retarded
hikers or something
because you're in a movie theater?
- Hold on a second buddy.
- Hey fuck you Egon.
Tickets are eight dollars,
so 56 smackers for all seven,
will you be joining us
at the movies today?
- Hey, you're awesome.
- Come on, this isn't happening.
We're leaving.
- What are we watching?
- Something to do with guns and tits
and the end of the world.
- Nobody will talk to us.
- It's okay.
I'm not one of the angry
ones, just jealous.
- Why is that?
- You get to walk the road.
- Except we don't.
There is no road, right?
Coordinates were a sham somehow.
Led us right here that's why
we walked in here like assholes.
Did someone tell you
all not to talk to us?
- My grandfather gave me this job.
He owned it a while before
he got cancer in his throat
and died, that was last year.
He was friends with the guy
who owned it way back when,
back before everybody walked.
- Your grandfather was
here in '39 and '40?
- Every other weekend
on logging trips yeah.
I've gotta change the reel.
- Now wait a minute--
- Before the movie starts
or we don't paid.
Look.
Reach down right side in the back,
left over from the old
dais, Gone with the Wind,
original print, I shit you not.
That second one is the Oz movie.
I found it left in the projector.
It won't run, it's worn to shreds
from all the times they
put it through the machine.
Hey I didn't you could use me
a source or anything did I?
- Okay, I don't have a lot of money.
- You go something better, you
got a fucking expedition to--
- You gotta be kidding me.
- Listen, I got my own hiking gear.
I can cook.
I can tell you everything
I know for the book.
I got no real family,
no money to go south.
You gotta please you
gotta take me with you.
- I appreciate that but
you're not hearing me.
There is no trial, then there is no trip.
- But there is a trial and--
- You've seen it?
- There's even a marker, stone,
it says Yellow Brick Road.
We drink there sometimes to get scared.
I walked the first 100 yards once.
Okay and
what is your full name?
- Erin Lilian Luger.
I'm like you
to speak in gibberish
for me until I ask you stop.
Thank you stop.
- Okay.
Without looking at your watch,
can you tell me what time it is?
- 3:17.
- Very good.
Two times two is four.
- Cy.
- Four times two is eight.
Eight times two is 16.
- 16 times two is 32.
32 times two is 64.
64 times two is 128.
Now I'd like
you to write a word
for me with your finger backwards
so that I can read it.
- Let's just camp here tonight.
We can set up a tent right over there.
- Let's give it one more hour.
Oh!
- Yeah, break your wrist
again, that would be good.
- Give me one more hour okay?
- Indian cucumber.
You can dig them up, they're sweet.
- Cool.
Right how
do you feel right now?
- A little warm, a little
buggy, otherwise great.
I'd like
you to repeat a gesture
until I saw stop.
Okay stop.
- I'm not done yet.
- Well I said stop.
- Okay.
Thank you.
All right count in prime numbers
for me starting with two.
- Two, three, five, seven,
11, 13, 17, 19, 23--
Fantastic, stop.
- I won the Olympics
for fastest fire builder
four years in a row, summer
camp Olympics that is.
- Fastest fire builder?
How's that work exactly?
- You tie a piece of string
18 inches above the ground
and the first one that
burns through it wins.
- 18 inches?
Baby stuff.
I'd do twice that at least.
- Hey Cy are moose dangerous?
- Yeah, screw around with the moose sure,
seen them take a person
right up in their antlers
fling them like 50 feet.
- Bears what you gotta worry about.
- I don't really mind bears.
- A bear will kill you a lot
more sooner than a moose.
- Yeah, but it's the antlers.
I don't like the antlers.
Hey guys.
Not all at once, two each you know.
- Gimme it.
- Gimme it.
- Okay, one, two.
- Do you have caramel?
- Cy you want some?
- Here you want to trade,
lollypop, lollypop?
- Did she say we get two each?
- Stop!
- Nobody move.
- Snatched your souls!
- Asshole!
- The hat, where'd you get it?
- Oh, I found it just now
in the woods taking a piss.
I almost hosed it down
on the leaves there.
- Did you piss on it?
- Maybe some mid to
late 30s.
- Somebody screwing with us.
- I don't know.
- Check the label.
- Are you serious?
- Can I check it?
- That's scary shit.
- Look, that's not possible,
look, there's no way this hat
has been through 70 years of weather.
- Maybe someone's missing it right now,
someone close by.
- Oh, right up my spine.
- Nice try, but that's lethal no way.
- We have to keep it very safe.
- Oh, can I wear it?
- Why would you want to wear it?
- I don't know, seems the
best way to keep a hat safe.
It's true.
Okay.
- No no no, don't hurt the
hat, don't hurt the hat.
Come here.
- Oh my!
All right name?
Melissa Barnes.
Where are you right now?
I'm on the
road, we are on the road.
We are on the road now.
How do you feel?
- Pretty good, maybe great,
slightest bit weak in the
stomach, but otherwise.
Tell me the
smell you first associate
with the color blue.
- Ammonia, or maybe chlorine
like in a swimming pool.
- Happy mountain green earth whatever.
See you at camp!
So it's 1940
fall, getting colder.
Yep, grand dad would have been 15.
- And Roosevelt's not paying any attention
to the Great North Woods.
- No one is, people are losing hope.
They spend all the time
and I mean all the time
at the movies starting
at munchkins and things.
- Right and an emerald city.
- Sure.
- So what did you think
of the official report
when you saw it?
- Well he only believed
things he saw himself
so he stuck to Friar just to see
talked whatever uniform would talk.
- What did he find there?
- They didn't leave everything behind.
It's just the things they took,
not the things you'd expect.
He said the formal wear was gone,
the hats and suits and gloves and things.
- She waits to tell us
this after we find the hat.
He felt they took the music,
one of those old phonographs
where you turn the crank, no juice needed.
- It's amateur hour, it's ridiculous.
- Let's just wait till we're sure.
- Okay if you say so, suckers.
- Coordinate five at 11.5
degrees to the northwest.
Coordinate six at 47.01 degrees northwest.
Coordinate are you ready?
- Go.
- Coordinate seven's at 62
degrees that's north now?
- Eight?
- Hold on, I gotta recalibrate.
- Hummus tastes like nothing.
- D, take off the hat, I'm serious.
- Like lemmings, they just do it,
there's not one wave of lemmings.
It doesn't matter.
- What?
- Problem.
- Did you break it?
This is Teddy, you guys hear me over?
- We're here over.
GPS says we're in Guam over.
- The hell you say over.
Never mind over now.
Hey, Jill the
intern where are we now?
- 40 miles northwest of Florence!
- Could be a steel mill far off.
Wind tunnel, natural amphitheater anyone?
Hey Jill the
intern, where are we now?
- Just outside of Melbourne.
- Oh good day Melbourne.
- There's a kangaroo.
This dingo at my baby!
Subject
four, this is day three,
okay early memory first one that comes.
My first cat
Reggie taking Reggie home.
Can you remember
what Reggie sounded like?
- Yes.
- Can you imitate that sound?
- You want me to meow?
- Yes.
- Daryl, kill the engine.
- Shh shh shh.
- You hear it too?
- I heard that.
- I heard it too.
- I heard it too.
- Oh my God, oh my God, oh
my God oh my God, oh my God.
Theories one solar flares,
geothermic and magnetism.
Two, human presence as Cy suggested,
like we're being punked by the FBI.
Three, collective hallucination,
we pass the psychosis
around like a disease.
Far fetched, maybe, but
Daryl and Walter's work
with the audio levels indicate that--
The music's coming
from the end of the road.
- Fourth, it's the people of Friar,
it's the walkers, somehow they're here.
Here's what we know.
We're not all crazy.
Our instruments are buggy.
We are five days away from
civilization with gear,
three without, so here we are
and this meeting is officially
about the possibility of turning back?
- Oh boo.
- What?
- No no no throw that stuff at me,
because I'm the one who
suggested going back.
- Boo!
- Ow!
- None of your theories really
explain the music though,
how do you explain the music?
- It could be God.
- How could we all
be crazy, I don't get that?
- Right.
- This is the music
they were listening to, over
and over and over again,
my grandfather said, he
used to have the film reels.
They were addicts for this stuff.
- Wait, stop, back up, Jill the intern
said something crazy, I
want more information.
Intern, repeat if you would.
- It could be never mind.
- God!
Theory five act of God.
- Oh, it's ridiculous.
- What if the people of Friar believed
this was the road to some god?
Some wizard or something to
stop the war from ever coming?
You can ask the
wizard for anything can't you?
- Anything.
- Nope, because if you remember,
the wizard turned out to
be a little bald douche.
You're being an asshole
today can you stop being an asshole?
- Everybody needs to have
their voice heard you know.
It's my turn now.
I think we don't know what's going on here
and we should leave.
I'm scared.
- What if there is an end to this thing
and someone or something is there,
what would you ask for?
- That's a deeply personal question.
- What's your answer Mr. Barnes?
- I'd just ask him to
smile for the camera.
That's all I need.
- It goes, they both go.
- We can't tell which is true north.
- Try calling northeast north 17 degrees.
- How did you do that?
- Your sister said your
instruments have been off.
- Well yeah but I haven't
been, that's north.
- D, you're good at math,
but you're not that good.
- I am too that good.
This is a triple in magnetic force
and the opposite spiral like the way
toilets flush in Australia.
- Does that mean there's
a point in the center?
- Yeah, I think that's where
the music is coming from.
- Do you have the math to get us there?
I want that coordinate.
So do we.
- We don't have it yet.
We have to start taking
side specs south, okay,
adding things up.
- I'm on it.
- What's your full name?
- Liv Michelle McCann, should
I look at you or the camera?
- No look at the camera and
where are you right now?
- Daryl says we're 65 miles
inside Yellow Brick Road.
We've been hearing the music
since yesterday morning.
Say the alphabet backwards.
- Z, Y, X, W, V, U, fuck, T?
- That's fine.
- No, let me finish.
- V, U, T, S, R.
- That's fine, that's fine.
You've proved your--
- Q, P, N, M, L, shit what comes after
I mean before L, L, K, J, I,
H, G, F, E, D, C, B, A.
- We've got another one.
- Another crossroads guys.
♪ Kiss me once again and hold me ♪
♪ That's the kind of old goodbye ♪
- You were talking.
- What was I saying?
- Not going back.
- Not going back?
- Not going back.
Your little heart is beating so fast.
- It's not little.
Canvas the site already.
- You're not where you're
supposed to be over.
Daryl I know this is
funny, but it's not funny.
Take the hat off.
How do you feel right now?
- I'm low.
- Speak in gibberish
till I ask you to stop.
All right stop.
Now repeat a gesture
until I ask you to stop.
Teddy.
You're all right, you're all right.
- Get your arm off me.
I was just
I was listening to the music that's all.
I want to know where it
went, when it's coming back.
What if we never heard
it in the first place?
Don't you miss it?
- No.
- What are you seeing on the tapes?
- Well, it's different for everyone.
It's like separations and
slow downs in association,
memory loss, so what if people start
forgetting the way back?
- Daryl has the numbers
written down clearly.
- I'm not talking about the way home.
I'm talking about the way back
to where we started, to who we were
when we began this thing.
- But they were here Walter.
They passed right through
this spot, I'm sure of it.
- We have plenty for the book.
This isn't about the book for you anymore.
This is about you reaching,
you're always reaching for things
that you don't understand
that you can't see
and this time that really scares me.
- Why?
- You see this?
Take a good look.
Come on, everyone.
Bad berry, atropa belladonna, nightshade,
make sure you can tell it from the others,
bad goddamn berry.
- I wasn't eating it.
I was squishing it.
Berries are for squishing.
Sorry bad berry.
- Bad berry.
- Very bad berry.
- Bad berry.
- You know what?
We deserve a goddamn party.
- All right, but be careful I mean that.
- Fastest fire builder huh?
- Oh shit, this is gonna happen.
Somebody pour me a shot.
- Burn it out.
- Don't burn out.
Closer than I
ever thought it would be.
Why do we even have a ref
if everyone keeps cheating?
You ask a
question for the wizard,
you ask him that.
- No!
Something's here.
I don't want to stay anymore.
- It's all right.
- It's okay.
- It's okay.
- I'm eating.
- We should move.
- No one listening.
- There's no place like home.
- Guys.
What is it
Liv, we just went to sleep?
- I lied.
- We were catching onto that.
- I never knew my grandfather
and he lived in Maine,
but I did grow up in Friar.
- Just go to sleep.
- You should know all this wondering
about why they walked
people who live in Friar
don't wonder about that.
If you live there, you understand.
It's not something you
can write a book about.
- I tested Jill first thing this morning.
I asked her for her
earliest childhood memory.
She told me it was standing at the trail
at the Yellow Brick Road.
So which direction is it
gonna be in today huh?
We're taking the hint.
- Give it one more day.
- One more day.
- Hold up.
We have to take a site.
Do you want to take the
Argo and just catch up?
- No, we'll wait.
- Okay, D.
- Everybody these are the 15 minutes
that are gonna make us all well okay?
- Oh D you got your finger
prints all over this.
- You know you look like shit?
- Oh.
- Is it scratched?
- No.
- Did you scratch the lens?
- No.
- Is it scratched?
- Give me the hat.
- Is it scratched?
- Take off the hat, D.
- Is it scratched?
- Take off the fucking hat.
- Is it fucking scratched?
- I'm not kidding
with you anymore.
Will you please take off the hat?
- Is it scratched?
- Give it to me.
- Did you scratch it?
- Take it off, give it to me.
- Did you scratch the fucking--?
- Shut your face and take off the hat.
- Is the fucking lens scratched?
- If you don't fucking take that hat off.
Now move!
- Oh God, he's going for the trees.
- Let me see, I want to see.
- Oh God.
- We have to get out of here.
- You stay there and be quiet.
- I'm gonna walk home.
- It'll be okay.
- I'm gonna walk--
- What did you see Walter?
- He killed her, he just ripped her apart.
- Why?
- They were arguing over the hat.
- What?
Walter what happened?
Listen up everybody.
- Erin's dead.
- Yes.
All right.
There's been a terrible tragedy.
Walter you and I will set
up emergency camp here.
Teddy, Cy, you guys
take the knife, machete,
whatever you can, go find Daryl.
- I think we just go home.
- Daryl knows the way home.
Trails forked two dozen times.
- There's no book.
- He's got it on him.
- We can find our way back.
I can find our way.
- Teddy, Melissa, I agree with Cy.
- Stop, let me out of this.
- He looked scared.
- Bring him back okay?
- How did this happen?
A moment ago we were fine.
- No, no we weren't.
- Damn it!
- Melissa?
- Damn you!
- Melissa?
- What?
- Never mind.
- What is it Jill?
- I was wondering where
the candy bag went.
- All right, I completely get it.
Look, we're gonna be okay.
We're gonna be fine Jill.
Teddy and Cy are gonna bring back Daryl
and the map to Friar
and we're gonna go home.
Do you believe me?
- I believe you.
- I don't.
- I just need some Walter,
I just need some help.
I mean fine we've got
it to put it together,
mark it somehow right,
we can't just leave it.
- You're not going back?
- What are you looking for?
- Something bright
to mark the body.
- Liv, not alone.
- I don't care.
- They're going for Erin.
- You sure you saw him come this way?
- I thought so.
I don't know what I saw.
Oh God, make it shut up.
- It's like on purpose how it does that.
- Obviously on goddamn purpose.
There.
It's him.
- I caught that.
I saw him.
- Shut that thing up.
- Daryl!
Daryl, will you answer me?
- We know you're right there.
- No!
Guys, I think I did something really bad.
- We know.
We know man and it's okay.
I hurt my leg.
- Yeah, we'll get you help for that,
just come right on out here it's fine.
- Okay, Daryl I want you to
listen to me carefully okay?
You're not in any trouble.
I know.
It feels like no one will forgive you,
but you're wrong.
Everyone who loves you will forgive you.
- We all thought it is what he's saying,
but not saying Daryl.
I thought it for days.
We all did.
I thought of killing.
I thought it too Daryl.
You guys can just leave me here.
But you can't do that can you Teddy?
- We may have to take him.
No no no no.
You don't have to do that.
I'm coming.
- That's good.
That's good Daryl, thank
you, now I'm just gonna
tie a little rope around your hands
as a safety precaution okay?
- Yeah, I think you'd better.
- That's good.
Sit down.
- Tie me up.
Now.
- Someone will always be watching him.
- I can't feel my hands.
- I don't care.
- I need you to loosen the
ropes man, just a little.
I have some questions about
the numbers for getting home, Daryl.
- You're a music guy Teddy.
I was never a music guy.
But this song this song's
been growing on me.
Is it growing on you?
I hear the people in the music.
I hear the people who walk.
- Daryl, the numbers.
- I can't take us home.
- You can and you will.
- Look at the pages, Teddy, I mean look.
Yesterday morning, 48.3
miles by pedometer,
but it charted out at 29.2 miles
when we added the numbers up going south.
- Impossible.
- Exactly.
- And next morning we set
out from camp at 8:45 a.m.
8.2 miles by pedometer, yet
our chart said 19 miles.
We looked back three miles later
and we couldn't even find the camp site
and the view on the scope.
It was gone.
- Our numbers are right.
You would have said something.
Erin would have said something.
- No, because when you're traveling along
Yellow Brick Road the numbers are hard.
They add up.
They make sense going forward,
which is exactly how
we were taking our sites, going forward.
Looking back was a different story,
looking back looking side to side,
the land is like liquid.
- Just show me how they work.
- Flip to the back page.
That'll take you to the
end of the road Teddy,
think about that.
- What's it doing?
- I don't know, maybe nothing.
- I hear a pattern.
- No shit.
- All right, so we need cotton balls,
bandanas, whatever you can stop the noise.
- I can't find it.
- Keep looking Jill.
- Please go away.
- Useless.
- That's the way home.
He wrote it down, we're--
- Catch up, Daryl is batshit,
so the numbers are all batshit numbers.
- No, it's there.
This is the way home.
It's here.
He wrote it down.
- I swear to God if you don't shut up.
Stop!
- None of you know me.
You don't even look at me.
- All right, enough.
We lost a lot of gear,
but people can survive
you're just gonna have to trust me.
- Lady, are you kidding me?
- Oh I'm lady now?
- Yeah, you're lady.
- You gonna forget how
to learn my fucking name Cy?
- Stupid goddamn lady.
- Both of you, easy.
- Hey don't talk to me.
- Keep your hands down.
- Don't talk like--
- Keep your hands down.
- Get down goddamn it!
Any reason we should
listen to another word
out of your hole--?
- Because it's all
about getting out now, isn't it?
Teddy and I have walked
Siberian forests, desert
goddamn wastelands--
- Oh to hell with your wastelands,
what is your plan?
- She doesn't have a plan.
- We have to stick together.
We ration the food and water
in our packs and we walk.
Off trail screw the trail, due south.
We'll leave at first light.
- We don't have the gear do we?
- No, the way I see it we go west?
- West.
- I know there's nothing east
and there's even less up north,
but west there ought to be a better shot.
Maybe we cross into Vermont.
- I'm not sure I'm in
love with ought to be.
Yeah, you had your chance to talk.
- I'm talking now.
- Well keep talking.
Now you got a reason, I've
got a reason that matters.
I've got this knife.
Yeah, I ain't parting ways with.
I can cut through brush, kill an animal.
I'll fend off a goddamn lunatic
driving a goddamn go cart
wielding my goddamn machete.
I'm not waiting till morning.
- I want to know what Teddy thinks.
- I think we should continue north.
- Really?
It's not an option.
No more north.
- I just think we should
go home with answers.
These questions will kill us.
- These questions never
needed to be fucking asked.
What the hell does it matter anyway?
- He's all right.
He took a fall, but he's all right.
Off we're going south.
- Liv and I head west
tonight, with or without you.
You can go on and kill your damn selves,
but this one this one
ain't gonna die with you
because she never should have been allowed
on this goddamn trip in the first place
and I ain't a part of no
damn democracy right now.
I promise you that.
- We need to split up the gear.
- I'll go stow the binoculars.
- Mr. Barnes.
- Take the lantern head
lamp's ours, last light yours.
- The water?
- You need it.
- You need it.
- Don't let this happen.
We should set watch.
Where are we now?
- Stay with me, stay with me.
Where are we now?
Where are we now?
- Don't, it's too far away.
Don't listen to him, he can't
see us, stay with me please,
stay with me.
- Where are we now?
- Where are you?
I can't feel you.
- I'm here, right here.
- That's better.
I had a dream we made it all the way home
and it wasn't there.
- It's okay.
- It was gone.
The grass was black and
the sky was full of smoke
and I was there, but I was dead.
All the people were all
dead or disappeared.
We were so scared.
Even worse when I woke up because
what if this road is our home now?
- No!
No no no!
No, stop!
No!
No!
- Line up three objects
and you make sure they stay in line.
You doing fine you know?
You're doing real good.
- No.
- Take it, I'll catch a chipmunk later.
- Gross.
Why isn't it getting darker than this?
- I don't know.
- You don't think we're
actually going north?
- No chance.
- Bad berries.
- Yup.
Don't eat that.
I tried it in like the 10th grade okay.
I mean it didn't kill
me, but it gets you high.
- Really?
- Uh huh.
Dumb fuck thing to do though.
Eat too much, it's poison.
Plus you get a rash.
- I like this forest!
- I like it too.
I like it too.
- I feel like walking.
- No no no no too dangerous.
Let's just stay right here.
- Okay.
- Can I touch your hair?
- Okay.
You sure we can't walk,
get some more milestone?
Oh my gosh, look a chipmunk.
Would you eat one of those?
- I have I ground it up
with a rock and I fried it.
- How did it taste?
- Bloody.
- You're hilarious.
- I'm gonna kiss you, that's okay right?
- No.
- Really?
No Cy.
- It was North Dakota.
- That'll be a beam with
a falcon on the gate.
- And we had to bribe that woman
because she wouldn't let dogs in.
- Oh Mickey was on that trip.
- Remember when Teddy got hives
from the chlorine in the hot tub?
- Mickey was so small then.
Mickey will die soon.
That girl is feeding him.
She's irresponsible.
She won't check to see
that we haven't come home.
She'll just stop coming.
He'll sit by the door and
cry for days and days.
- This topic, Teddy's he's gonna be fine.
We're on our way home right now.
Hear hear hear don't listen to that.
Here, take these, come on.
Use as many as you need.
- 3rd grade, Mrs. Scott, hairy chin wall,
I had chicken pox, stayed home a week.
I had a crush on Brent
Ian, but he doesn't know.
I think I love him, resting
a finger on his face,
vacation on Cape Cod.
I loved the beach.
- Are you?
- What?
- Are you mad at me?
- No.
I'm just coming down high.
- Can you help me?
- How?
- Put it all together.
We're walking right now.
- Right.
- We've been walking for
what seems like forever.
- Yes.
- But it isn't.
We were part of a group of
people that walked north
because we were wondering
why another group of
people had walked north.
We were all once born
and we're all gonna die.
We do lots of things in between like this
and sometimes we have
jobs like you had a job
and your job was to walk this trail.
I lived alone and sold popcorn.
And I lied because I knew
I think I always knew if you
live in town long enough,
you know oh God, the
real reason they walked,
just like I feel your eyes on me right now
even though I can't see you.
You always know the trail's there.
Everyone does.
But no one says it.
You're embarrassed to believe
it could be like a way out.
You feel like the trail
will understand you
and now I think that's the worst part.
That it does.
- It's mountains tomorrow I think.
- Hey guys look.
- No way you had that the whole time?
- Did you steal that?
- I got it when we
were dividing up our things
and nobody remembered.
- Please?
- Let's ration it okay.
We have a long road ahead of us.
- I'm sorry!
I was so hungry!
I'm sorry!
- Liv, it's happening to me too,
what happened to Daryl.
- Just go to sleep.
- No, no if the music keeps up
and we don't find a town soon
I'm gonna do something to
you that's unspeakable.
- Like what?
- I've been thinking about it for miles,
all the things I'm gonna do.
I thought about taking myself out,
but I think if I start cutting things
I might get confused.
Get out the rope sugar pop.
- Teddy, come back, Teddy.
You fuck!
♪ Walter, Walter ♪
♪ Leave me in the beyond there ♪
♪ Walter Walter ♪
♪ Find the forest Walter ♪
♪ And feel the forest Walter dear ♪
- It's the song isn't it?
It's a sick coincidence.
- It's calling me out.
- Don't you leave me.
- I won't.
- Walter?
Why didn't you find anybody?
- I can't answer that.
- So you've been best friends
with both Teddy and me
for all these years.
- Isn't it amazing?
Everything changes when deep in your heart
you think you might die tomorrow.
Are you sure?
- Yes.
- We'll go away or these trees will.
- I might plead at the end,
but you just gotta do it
and don't be like those others,
don't argue with me, talk talk talk.
I don't want to talk anymore.
- You want me to stab you?
- No, no, I don't want
my blood on that knife.
- Then how?
- You got to break my neck.
- I can't, I don't know how.
- You grab and you twist.
- I'm not strong enough.
- Yes you are, anyone can do it.
- But I can't.
- Somewhere in you you can.
You've gotta find the place that can,
I'm sorry Liv but you've gotta
find the place that wants to.
- Don't, don't, stop!
Please oh God stop.
- Walter!
Walter!
- Melissa I want you to forgive me.
I've just I've seen too much,
so it's time for me to
click my heels and go home.
I know you probably
don't want to see this,
but it's just so that in some way
even if it's off the timeline,
I know that I know that
you're here with me.
So stay with me hmm?
Don't look away.
What's your name?
My name is Walter.
And how do you feel right now?
Ah, much better.
Earliest childhood memory?
Climbing up the bars
of my crib to get out.
Speak in gibberish
until I say stop.
Stop.
Stop.
Stop.
- It's never ending.
- Teddy?
Teddy?
Teddy.
Teddy, can you hear me?
Don't leave me out here alone.
I'm trapped here and I don't think
I don't
if you had to go north,
if you had to go, had you
thought to wake me that morning,
I would have gone with you.
Melissa.
I want you to know that I'm here.
- Daryl.
In the cave behind you.
Are you going to run?
- I don't want to run from you.
Why not?
I mean with my leg you
might have a chance.
- Are you gonna kill me, here now?
Yes.
- Please Daryl, does it
have to be so much pain?
- Yes.
Here we go.
- Melissa, are you there?
I thought I heard you somehow.
Is it possible that you could hear me?
I'm somewhere off the map, I don't know.
I can't read the numbers.
I can't trust the numbers.
I'm starting to think the trick is
that it never ends that there is no end.
Melissa are you there?
Are you sleeping?
Are you somewhere sleeping without me?
I hope you make it home
and that's it warm and
he's waiting for you.
I hope that you can remember how to live.
He hung out to hear the music
and you'll be with Walter.
And Walter will be happy too.
And everything where I ended
up never picture where I am.
And don't let anyone
else picture it either.
One day one day you won't think about me,
not even to curse me.
I loved you.
Go home.
Help anyone.
Am I the only one here?
- No sir.
I'm also here.
- Who are you?
- I run the picture shows of course.
- You have to help me, please
listen to me, listen to me.
- I'm listening yes.
- There are others.
I have to find them help,
you have to understand,
I left them out there.
- They no longer require help.
- How do you know that?
- Because I've seen it.
- And her?
Please what happened to her?
- Oh Mrs. Barnes, I've just seen her.
- Have you?
Is she here?
Did she make it to the end?
- Oh indeed sir she's arrived at the end.
But there are so many ends.
Enjoy your picture show Mr. Barnes.
Take your seat there.
Teddy.
This is our home.
- No!
The grass is black.
The sky is choked with smoke.
- No!
All of
the people have disappeared.
This is our home.
This is our home.