YellowBrickRoad (2010) - full transcript

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.