"Something happened to me." "listen to me... tell them all that i got out." "Something happened to me- i-i was in new york." "Go to 554- 554 what?" "Tell them- what's- where am i!" "You're-you're not from here." "I don't even know how i got to this place." "You... are... miracle!" "be seeing you." "Taxi!" "Hey." "where to?" "yeah, i need to get to a railroad station." "a rail what?" "yeah, a train, a train." "Take me to the nearest town, if you have to." "hey, man, i just do local destinations, okay?" "What's the matter with you- i need to get outta here." "Hey, man, i don't know what you're talking about" "Trains and railroads and..." "I'm sorry- um..." "I'm just trying to get my bearings here, all right?" "Hey, it's okay." "Where is this place?" "This... it's the village." "Yeah, but what village?" "Hey, man, what gives with you- this is the village" "And i do local destinations?" "you crazy?" "Hey, can you help me?" "I need you to help me." "All right, uh, let's dance, first." "I don't know how i got here." "You've never been to "club more" befo" "Are you okay?" "What the hell is goin' on?" "Where am i- the whole place?" "You're in the village..." "Where else would you be?" "Are you sick or something?" "I must be." "I can't seem to get a hold of any of this." "They're after me." "Hey, where to now, my friend?" "Drive- just drive!" "Okay." "you know, i thought i'd lost you." "you know this job is crazy." "The hours i do, man, i never see my wife," "Never see my kid." "I have got to get outta this." "You understand?" "Yeah." "Is that your little girl?" "oh, yeah!" "that's my 8-3-2." "Hey, let me tell you," "I got her this little bike, right?" "Man, i have never seen anything like it." "What did you say her name was?" "Name, it's, uh, it's 8-3-2." "If i asked you to take me to 554" "Well, i'd say "now, you're talkin'."" "She's over there." "Uh, specials tonight are beef noodle wrap" "And warm feta salad wrap" "And for dessert, we have my own favorite" "Cinnamon fig and honey wrap." "Do you have anything that's not a wrap?" "Why would we?" "I'll stick with a coffee for now- thank you." "can i have one coffee, please?" "I actually have a message for you," "From an old man." "93?" "yeah." "Is he okay?" "He wanted me to tell you, "he got away."" "he said i had to find you." "No, please, uh, don't involve me in this." "Involve you in what?" "Who is this guy and why was" "Why was he being chased by those" "I don't know what they are, but they're after me now." "Uh, he was just a drunk who used to come here" "And talk lots of crazy talk- if he's got himself into some kind of trouble," "That's got nothing to do with me." "i have to go." "I can't let them see me with you." "Why did he want me to find you?" "He must've had a reason?" "He got away." "Yes." "I didn't believe him." "I didn't believe." "go out through the back." "uh, please, help me get outta here!" "get up and walk." "h- how can i get up?" "how can i walk?" "how long have i been here?" "you know you are six." "please, i'm nobody." "I don't know anything, please!" "but you do... you are six... you are village..." "The truth is right inside you, six." "look-look!" "It's you." "And i thought you just wanted to dance with me." "H- how long have i been here?" "Well, you've been sleeping a while." "I thought i was dyin'." "help me." "What's happening to me?" "I wish you didn't fight it." "Fight what?" "Please, let me help you." "I don't want your help, lady" "I want to get the hell outta here." "Look, here's what's gonna happen" "I'm gonna fetch you a cold drink" "And then, someone is gonna take you home." "You're a free man." "I'd like to speak to the american council, please." "Look, see how the sun makes it all glow?" "Kind of day that makes you glad to be alive." "Why are you keepin' me here?" "I see no locked doors." "Well, they were after me." "Ooo, sounds terribly ominous." "Why am i here?" "it has nothing to do with me- any of this." "I've seen you before." "Really?" "What were you doing in the mountains, six?" "I was-i was, uh, lost." "I mean, i have no idea how i got here." "I- what did you call me?" "This- look, something's wrong here." "Yes!" "You are wrong, six." "Do not call me that- i am not six." "Show me your id papers." "Well, i don't have any papers..." "Well, you just put them there." "You were seen in the mountains." "what have you done with 93?" "I don't know anything about 93." "Where is the old man?" "You can't do this to me!" "I don't care who you are- do you hear me!" "Now, i wanna get back to new york." "Well, that's not possible" "There is no new york- there's only the village." "look, we've been here before." "it all feels too familiar- i know that." "truly, we live for today." "This is my home?" "we must be doing something right." "No, i mean... you can't escape it." "My apartment in- done in your other life." "This is where you belong." "we interrupt this programming for the following public- will you just, uh, sign this to say that everything's in order?" "I'm signin' nothin', pal." "the palais today identified the missing villager as 93, a man in his late 70's, last seen heading north into the desert two nights ago." "93 is well known to hospital staff following a history of stage seven mental unwellness." "he also suffers from shortness of breath, dizzy spells and a weak heart." "but we wish him well and hope to report his discovery eminently... if not sooner." "Hey!" "What can i do you for?" "I'd like to buy a map." "Hmm... street or topographic?" "Biggest one you got." "That's the biggest?" "Pull her out." "That's it!" "Buy one, get one free." "What the hell would i want with two maps?" "Makes a perfect gift." "Big enough for ya?" "Here we are..." "You are here." "That's the palais two." ""wow" being the appropriate word." "and that's the clinic and" "Where's the road outta here?" "ohh- you crack me up, six." "You've not seen me before." "no, sir." "you, i would remember." "But you know my- welcome to the village." "Everybody knows everybody!" "Be seein' ya!" "six!" "Six, wait!" "Why are you calling me that?" "well, i think that it suits you." "Six... hmm, i like it." "Six, where do you think you're going?" "Goin' home." "You won't get far." "Is there nothing can say that will make you wait?" "you can tell me the truth." "What the hell is this place?" "You're one of us." "That's the truth." "Wha- hey!" "Aw, man, not my car- come on!" "Do you think i could use your phone?" "Mine's just been stolen." "Yeah." "Go ahead." "Actually, i lied." "I lost it." "I'm always losing my phone." "i hate leaving messages- don't you?" "i noticed you, 'cause you look like you're waiting for someone." "Maybe, i am." "Who you waitin' for?" "Don't answer that." "i'm late... again." "...traffic the same on the g.w. as the jersey turnpike." "it's hell on four wheels out there." "so, if you want my advice- get off your butt and walk!" "total gridlock from some kind of gas explosion in the heart of brooklyn." "Hey!" "you got my phone." "Oh!" "Um, i'd say, "sorry" but i promised myself" "I'd stop apologizing to men." "Having a party?" "Yeah, you wanna come?" "Can't make it tonight." "There's no party, anyway." "Ah, just what i thought..." ""drinking alone."" "I'm celebrating." "Oh, yeah- what?" "You were talking to someone." "You shouldn't listen to other people's conversations." "It's rude." "How come you're interested in my life back there," "If it doesn't exist?" "Of course, i'm interested." "I want to help you with these delusions." "I can't leave here, can i?" "Why would you want to leave?" "why would you even think such a thing?" "All right, doctor." "My delusion is, i met a woman the other night..." "And i invited her back to my apartment." "Did she come back..." "To your apartment?" "I don't know." "I don't know." "what's that?" "I haven't opened it, yet." "It's from the clinic." "What's it say?" "We've been summoned, to the clinic." "What for?" "An appointment, with two." "Oh, dear!" "It says someone else here at the bottom." "So, this guy at the hospital." "he wants to know where 93's body is." "Why?" "That's not a delusion." "That's happening here, right now." "If you did see 93." "Is that why they set me free, to let you loose on me?" "the caring, sharing doctor," "With the big beautiful eyes and the nice, girly smile." "Soften me up- get me to talk?" "Of course, you doubt me." "You doubt everything," "But that's not you speaking, six." "That's your condition." "my condition is that i'm being held here" "Against my will." "cabins 29 to 63." "yellow district- cabins 309 to 357." "green district- apartments 51 to 299." "Can you see, six," "How i might wonder why you are here," "If, as you claim, "you know nothing about 93?"" "I came here to find out who this man, 93, is." "Now that you're here..." "Do you see what he was?" "A drunk." "A fool." "Maybe he drank," "Because he found the lie of this place unbearable." "he knew what i know." "The village is not all that there is." "What is it you're suggesting?" "A hole in the sky," "Aliens landing secretly in the night," "Mysterious roads that lead beyond, beyond, beyond." "A magic gateway, perhaps?" "Some portal leading into "never-never land."" "Take a look outside, six." "People going about their lives," "Strolling in the sun, sitting together in the park," "Or anywhere where they might choose to sit together." "They take a scooter ride, go dancing," "Enjoy a beer in the cafe," "While they gaze about the village." "Contented." "hopeful." "every day above ground is a good day." "The problem... is in your mind." "Well... i want out." "You've tried that!" "There is no "out."" "There is only "in."" "Now, you can go on tormenting yourself," "If that's what you want," "Or you can stop." "If 93 were no more than a drunk," "A fool, as you say," "Then why were they chasing after him?" "Shooting at him?" "Because 93 found something," "And if he can do it, i can." "I pity you, six." "You refuse to open your mind to the possibility" "That you're wrong." "If i open my mind," "You'll take it away from me." "We might..." "But we will always give it back." "Did 93 show you this- i need to know." "Did he talk to you about this?" "Are there other drawings?" "554, please." "93 must've trusted you." "There has to be a reason he told me to come to you." "What is this- what does this do?" "I'm going to meet my boyfriend." "I'm sorry." "please, help me." "please." "93 said, "the drawings were from his other life..." ""before the village."" "That's all i know." "You have to leave me alone, now." "And you are here to receive a medal" "For services to the village," "And you should keep the medal with you," "At all times." "And when you met number six," "What did you make of him?" "He was a little strange." "A- a-actually- nope." "Number six has been dealt with," "So he is no longer a worry to us." "And there was another thing, in the summons." "Uh, yeah, it said, uh," ""to bring cake, with cherries in it."" "Did you?" "Uh, yeah- yeah." "Oh, no- leave it there." ""my dear villagers, perhaps two could interrupt your day in the sun to relate the grave news that we have discovered number 93's body in the mountains." "sadly, the old man had succumbed to a weak heart." "he spoke briefly to emergency staff, before dying on route to the hospital." "his last words were to honor the village, and request the anthem be sung in his name." "If you tell me what you know," "I promise you, i won't come back." "breathe in, breath out... village life goes on." "Do you want, uh, something to drink?" "93 was convinced that his dreams meant" "That he had another life, before this one." "he started saying things" ""that we're prisoners here."" "Prisoners?" "I've said too much." "I- i don't even know who you are." "It's okay- you can trust me." "i am not one of them." "I dream this, all the time." "What is it?" "This is more real, than anything out there." "This is the first bit of hope i've been given," "Since i got here." "If there are others like us, who dream, and they got to thinking that 93 escaped, then- do you think there are others?" "Do you?" "Are you for real?" "I promise you- you're safe with me." "i'll see you at the cafe tomorrow." "What is it, 11-12?" "Why is six so convinced there is another place?" "Because for people like six, life is not enough." "The simple life..." "They want to escape it." "What are you doing here?" "Oh, i'm trying to find out what you're doin' here." "Do something for me, will ya?" "Lie down beside me." "you're supposed to be trying" "To convince me you're sane." "Come on." "Uh, okay." "Right." "A hundred billion stars," "Over and over billions of galaxies, and that's just what we can see." "Can you honestly tell me" "That the village is all that there is?" "Of course not." "Has to be life out there somewhere." "Perhaps, another village." "Oh, it's, um, 400 billion," "By the way." "Look at me." "Isaac newton, galileo," "Plato, socrates," "Karl marx, groucho marx," "Darwin- surely, darwin." "kennedy, bob dylan, david beckam." "Who invented the telephone?" "Oh, uh, uh..." "Alexander graham bell- the light bulb?" "512." "Everyone says it was thomas edison." "It was joseph swan." "where do these names come from- these memories?" "I was taught this stuff by a lady named mrs. radcliff," "My teacher." "Now, where does that come from?" "now, tell me about mrs. radcliff." "you're humoring me. tell me, anyway." "Okay, she had a big blue nose," "Skin like a crocodile." "She actually looked more like a man in a dress." "Not just a man, but a boxer." "Wow!" "I like her, already." "Do you know what a crocodile is?" "Are you trying to trap me?" "Yes- no." "Yes." "Yes... yes. are you trying to trap me?" "no." "Tell me about the woman." "I resigned today." "Oh, that's why you're celebrating." "Alone." "Too bad." "Um, i go this way." "Oh!" "Really?" "Really." "Uh, what's your name?" "Lucy." "Lucy." "Well, i'd like to get to know you, lucy." "Well, maybe you can." "Well, i'd like to get to know you, tonight." "Well, maybe you can." "maybe, you can." "* take your burden to the lord and leave it there * * if you trust and never doubt * * it will surely bring you out * * take your burden to the lord and leave it there *" "What's goin' on?" "You know what it is, six." "93 deserves a decent burial." "You didn't find his body." "93 is gone- escaped." "Found the way out." "If 93 found the way out," "Six can convince himself that there is an out." "Six must try to escape, because six knows," "There is nothing to escape from." "In his mind, in is soul," "Six knows that six is six." "Hey, man- need a cab?" "Why would i need a cab, if i'm going into a cafe?" "Well, you know, people who go into cafes," "Come outta cafes," "And sometimes, they might need a cab." "Well, i don't know, if i'll need a cab." "Why you hassling me, anyway?" "hey, six..." "I like ya- you're a likable man." "And i like giving rides in my cab to people i like." "Sometimes, being nice is, uh," "Well, it's just being nice." "Hey." "I'll always be here, if you need me." "Thanks." "if you're crawling through traffic, hoping to escape for the weekend, think hard, my friends." "did you hear that?" "it's the same on the g.w.- it's hell on four wheels out there." "oh, gridlock, after some kind of gas explosion, in the heart of brooklyn." "Put a pillow on his face." "Snuffed him out like a" "Snuffed him out like a candle." "Now-now, he's dead." "Need some help here!" "Hey." "I'm glad i met you, six." "I'm glad i told you." "Perhaps, we can escape together." "when you're better." "93 said- he said..." ""follow the towers."" "please, back away, sir- please, back away." "keep calm, now." "What is it- terrorists?" "Some kind of resistance?" "Tell me- you should've stayed away from her." "So, what are you saying?" "Are you saying, "this is my fault?"" "Look- no, you tell me, damn it!" "Don't you see- what's the matter with you?" "With every pore of my body, i'm scared." "Look, um..." "Sometimes, not very often," "Something like this happens." "And everything goes back to normal." "Things, they settle down." "They do it for us." "Just, please, don't make things worse, six." ""i promise you, you're safe with me."" "two!" "Do you hear me?" "She's gone- you did that." "she knew there was a way outta here!" "and i'm gonna find it!" "I will find a way to escape!" "Do you hear me?" "i am not a number!" "i'm a free man!" "Human beings can be so cruel."