"Do you think people could change?" "I'm talking at the most basic level." "Do you think a truly bad person can become good?" "And vice versa?" "Experiencing the hottest September on record." "And authorities are reminding us all to conserve energy so turn down those thermostats and try not to blast that Air Conditioning." "Now, we go to St Bernard Parish." "Where a triple homicide has police searching for answers and a neighborhood searching for its soul." "It's unexpected." "Is it really?" "I've got a question to ask you." "Yeah?" "I think we've been dating long enough that I can ask you this question." "Why the fuck don't you have anything on your walls?" " What?" " Like posters, paintings family pictures?" "A picture of a kitten hanging on a branch saying "hang in there"." "I've never been big on decorating." "Well..." "I could buy you something." "Tell me what you like." "I don't know, you choose." "Okay." "Wrong answer." "That is what you always say." "I do?" "Especially in bed." "Really?" "Yeah, you're very conventional, when it comes to having sex." "It kept you coming back here." "I'm not saying it's bad." "Baby you're hot." "And you got a great cock." "But you know... we can... we can try things that are different." "I guess i'm just a meat and potatoes kind of guy." "Are you sure about that?" "This is why we've never gone serious." "No." "I'm just not that kind of girl." "What about if i put up some posters?" "Why do i want to mess up a good thing?" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Help me!" "Please!" "Hey, hey..." "Hey sweetheart it was just a bad dream." "Come to bed." "This is it?" "Two cobbs and a chicken masala." "Is the fish done yet?" "Give me a second please." "Alright, you know i don't like it when they whine." "Almost done, okay?" "Dylan, you look like shit, man." "Are you alright?" "I had a bad dream..." "It's the cod..." "You're dreaming til you're dead?" "You look like that shit." " Coming through, sorry." " Fuck!" "This seriously might get infected." "You need to see a doctor." "I don't like doctors." "Well have fun losing your arm." "Thanks, mom." "Hey thank you." "Hello?" "Hey." "I'd love to, i've got company." "Who is it?" "One sec." "It's my buddy Johnny." "He's getting a bunch of people gather for the Saint's game." " Oh my God, let's do it." " No." "Yes!" "Really?" "All we ever do is hang around your apartement, watch TV and fuck." "Shh, it's my sous chef." "It'll be good for you to see the outside world." "Okay, we'll be right over." "Do you need anything?" "What do you want to pick up?" "Maybe grab the chips, i'll get the beer." " What?" " Hey..." "No." "No." "They're good." "We're getting them." "You want American or imported?" "American." "Dylan?" "Dylan!" "What the fuck's going on?" "Where did you go?" "You're okay, look at me." "You're okay." "I don't understand, so this has happened before then?" "You don't have to tell me that, i don't understand it anymore than you do." "I'm fucking terrified." "I feel like i'm falling apart." "I'm going crazy." "I'll call as soon as i get there, okay?" "You can't tell me where you're going?" "I can't say it." "Try, my mouth might inform the worst." "Well he's in his office." "Okay." "You know the wing?" "Yeah." "Nice to..." "The prodigal son returns, i suppose." "Well..." "I don't know where to start." "I'm sorry." "I had to leave." "I already lost over 2 years to this place." "Consider yourself lucky." "Most of my patients never wake up, period." "Do not give me the miracle speech..." "I'm not feeling to miraculous right now." "What's going on?" "Why are you here?" "I've been having these episodes." "It was in a convinient store." "Next thing i know, i was coming to a parking lot." "It feels like i go somewhere else entirely." "And the things I see they're really horrible." "Has anything else changed since you left?" "I'm as blank as i ever was..." "I have no idea who I am." "Or my life before i woke up here." "Sounds to me like your memories are coming back." "Interrupting your current state of be-attitude." "I don't think they can be memories, they're far too strange, they follow some twisted nightmare logic." "I don't know what be-attitude means." "It's a state of grace." "Some people regard amnesia as the ultimate blessing." "A blank slate." "A change to start anew." "Why would anybody want to forget what their life was like?" "Someone who didn't have a good one." "Can i ask you a question?" "Go ahead." "Do you think I'm dead?" "You think this is a dream..." "I don't know where you're getting at but as your doctor..." "I can assure you of two things." "One, people in a persistent vegetative state don't dream." "And two you are most certainly alive." "What does this all gonna do?" "The MRI confirmed that there's no structural damage." "These give me a peak of your brain in action." "If you have an episode it's gonna tell me what's going on." "Try to relax." "I'll try." "You were sleepwalking." "I wasn't dreaming, it was real." "I could hear it." "I could smell it, and I could taste it." "You were in the deepest stages of REM when this occured." "I can't stay here." "Explain to me why not." "I came here terrified there was a tumor in my head." "But you know what, there is not a medical explanation for what happened to me..." "I disappeared from this room." "I came back in the hallway." "In between, I went somewhere else." "No." "It sounds like neurogical malfunctioning." "It sounds to me, your doctor, we need to continue testing you." "Oh yeah?" "Run a million tests hook me up to an IV, stick probes up my ass you're not gonna find anything." "My memory goes back just under 3 years." "I don't know who i am." "I know my time tables, I know how to go to the store but anything personal, it's gone." "Dylan White isn't even your real name, is it?" "Dylan White is a deep coma patient." "I stole his driving license, social security card so i could get a start." "Wasn't there an accident near where they found you?" "No, just me lying here with this cerebral hematoma and fractured collar bone." "I was never supposed to be found." "Dylan..." "They ran your fingerprints, right?" "Nothing." "That means you've never been arrested." "You've never been arrested, you don't have a criminal record." "Wait a second." " Sir, can I borrow your paper for a second?" "Thank you." " Sure." "What is it?" "I've seen this number before." " Are you sure?" " Yeah." "It's in New Orleans port area." "Hey, wait a minute." "Dylan, you want to drive an hour or so to some house because you think you've seen this number in a dream?" " It's more like a shitty motel." " That's not my point." "I know, I know." "Doesn't this strike you as weird?" "Everything is striking me as weird." "Right now, okay?" "Okay." "I have Wednesday off, we can leave in the morning." "It feels like something i have to do alone." "Okay." "Well, well." "Haven't seen you for a while." "You want the usual?" "Yeah, sure." "Alright, 101 it is." "Just sign right there." "How much is it?" " $20." " Sure." "Thank you." "Fuck." "Whiskey and Abita taster, please." "Keep them coming." "You got it." "It's a snake." "You want a closer look?" "What does it mean?" "Nothing." "I like snakes." "I'm trying to please you." " Oh yeah?" " Uh um." "Funny." "I've been doing the same thing." "Trying to please me?" "Trying to please myself." "You're a funny guy." "Do we know each other?" "I'd like to think you don't remember." "No." "No." "I got it." "You used to come in with Quincy, didn't you?" "Cause then i would've seen you but never met you." "It's not like you're someone i hang out with." "He's not that bad, is he?" "You're a funny funny guy." "Quincy's not that bad?" "He's like a..." "He's like a soft little bunny rabbit." "So..." "I haven't seen you around, what have you been up to?" "This and that, you know." "Since we never officially met..." "Marlena." "Dylan." "Dylan." "Nice to meet you, Dylan." "Another round here for me and my friend." "Chin-chin." "Another." "Why should I care about this?" "Because he was asking about you." "People ask about me all the time." "That's how i earn my money, that's my business." "He looked familiar, you know?" "Like I've seen him before." "It sort of strange." "Suspicious." "Like a criminal?" "Was he packing or something?" "Not like that, you know." "Take a look around down there." "What do you see?" "Lot of people." "People." "I see criminals, all of them, fucking criminals." "Are you done wasting my time here?" "Sorry." " I just..." " You just what?" "Don't you got things to attend to?" "Yeah." " You got it." " Good." " Oh fuck." " Hey." " Good morning to you, sunshine." " What?" "Afternoon, actually." "Coffee's brewing." "Don't worry." "I didn't take advantage of you." "I would've, you passed out cold at 5 AM." "I feel like shit." "Yeah, tell me about it and i gotta go to work." "What do you do?" "I dance at Passions." "Cool." "The manager hates me, put me on the day shift." "Believe me, i work for every dollar." "I know the feeling." "Try and drink it." "I gotta go." "You're gonna be at the Saturn later?" "Yeah, probably." "Marlena..." "I'll see you later." "The shipment came in." "Good." "Can we get it unloaded tonight?" " No, we gotta wait three days." " Three days?" " Why?" " It's the only way we can avoid that prick at customs." "You think it'll go bad?" "It better not." "I'll got a lot of money invested in this." "Some sick shit." "Must be chilly up there on your moral high ground." "Can i help you?" "Yeah, i was wondering if..." "I'm so sorry you haven't been here for a while." "I'll get Mike." "Hey, it's Holly." "Jaron's here to see you." "Yeah, that's him." "I'm good with faces." "Okay." "Do..." " You want something to drink?" " No, thank you." "Jaron." "What brings you back, brother?" "I was in the neighborhood." "You haven't been here for a couple years." "About three." "Where you've been?" "North of here, you know, way out of the city." "Rayborn or Angola?" "It's none of my business." "I just want to let you know it's no big thing." "Come on back, come on back." "Quincy's looking to buy?" "Yeah, he told me to stop by." "You tell him i said thank you." "I'd love to be in business with him again." "I got some new stuff he'd like, let me show you." "What do you think?" "You can't tell right of three times the usual power." " Yeah?" " Try it out." "Just charge it, quick try it out." "Okay." "There's nothing it won't stop." "Here's the other thing." "The latest in tranq-gun." "I know the laws are little dicey... when it comes to using them on humans the way I figured though..." "I'd rather have you drop me with this than a real bullet." "That's the idea." " You mind if I..." " Yeah, yeah." "So what do you think?" "I know, i know." "Quincy's got to see them first." "You're good for it." "You want both?" "He's gonna want to see both, yeah." "You'll be back with an answer soon, right?" "Like always, okay?" "That's right, like always." " Good seeing you, brother." " Yeah." "It's a girl." "It's gonna be a fucking mess in there." "Who cares, open it up." "Go!" "Come on!" "Move it!" "Get in the van." "Gt in the van!" "In the van!" "You didn't give them buckets to shit in?" "That container was in the sun for three days." "They're probably drinking their own piss." "Make sure you get their mouths washed out." "We're missing one." "Shit!" "We got a dead one in here." "Fuck." "Alright, get her wrapped up and throw her in the river." "Get these back, put her in the van." "Get back in there!" "Sit down!" "Get them cleaned up." "Hello?" "One second." "Hang on." "Okay, hang on." "You're gonna invite me in or i'm gonna have to bust it down?" "Hold on." "Hey." "Just wanted to say..." " Hey." " Hi." "Jesus." "I could have one bitch of a day." "I can see that." "You want?" "God, yeah." "I had beer too." "Thank you." "For liabation." "Chin-chin." "So what's wrong with you?" "I've been thinking." "Yeah?" "Try to avoid that." "Do you think that people can change?" "I'm talking to the most basic level, do you think that a truly bad person can become good and vice versa?" "I don't know." "I think most people are just different shapes of assholes." "Do you worry about stuff like that?" "What the hell are you talking about?" "Do you worry if you're a good person?" "No." "I have rent to pay." "So you think you're bad?" "That's not what i meant." "I asked you a question." "How bad are you?" "Tell me how bad you were." "I have a girl." " Fuck." " Asshole!" "Turn over." "Fuck." "Call me." "Do you know where i could find Quincy?" "I don't know, Saturn's usually the place." "Hello?" "Hey." " Hey you..." " How are you?" "Good, what's going on?" "Where are you?" "I'm still at the port." "How's it going?" "Good." "You're getting any answers finding out anything?" "Yeah, yeah..." "I am." "Well..." "My real name is Jaron." "Jaron?" "No way." "You're much more of a Dylan." "I am?" "Jaron sounds like a basketball player." "Anything else?" "Yeah, yeah." "What?" "People assumed that i've been in prison." "That's why i've been away." "Come home now." "I can't." "Yes, you can." "I don't care what you did down there." "Just please, come home." "Jaron?" " What?" "Not even hello?" " Hey." "Hi Quincy." "It's good to see you back here." "I've been wrapping up a few things..." "You didn't afford to come in for your old mate Quincy?" "Why don't we go upstairs to the office?" "We can catch up on old times." "It's quieter up there." "Yeah." " Here?" " Yeah, you remember the old office." "Are you good?" "Couldn't be better." "Yourself?" "Yeah." "Actually I've been working as a cook for a while." "Get the fuck out of here, a chef?" "Yeah." "Pretty good at it, actually." "Bit different from what i used to do, huh?" "Yeah, i'd say." "Yeah." "I can't believe you nearly walked passed me down there." "Sorry, i was distracted." " Things changed." " Yeah." "Look at me, i'm reevaluating my spiritual believes." "Oh yeah?" "You tend to do that when you bump into some motherfucker that you killed three years ago." "There you are." "We need to talk." "Okay." "Who did you tell?" "I don't know what you're talking about." "Who did you tell about our little operation that's going on here?" "I don't know what you mean." "Did you check him for a wire?" "He's clean." "This is how it's gonna be." "I swear i don't remember anything." "I don't believe you." "I was in a coma." "I woke up not remembering who i was." "You don't remember who you was?" "I don't remember anything." "How the fuck did you end up back here then?" "I saw a picture in the papers..." "I recognized the building." "And i came here." "You used to be a good liar." "I fucking made you." "You listen to me." "Did I ever tell you how i got Jesus Vasquez to talk?" "Of course you didn't." "Cause you don't fucking remember nothing." "Reggie, get my little package, please." "We found your girlfriend." "Cute ass." "She's not my girlfriend." " Really?" " Yeah." "She's not my girlfriend." "I just met her, okay?" "You don't mind if Reggie does this then, do you?" "That's better, darling." "We need you awake for this." "She has nothing to do with this!" "I'm bored of you acting dumb, Jaron." "Oh my God." "You want to start talking now?" "Oh my God." "Stop it." "God..." "Stop!" "You got one more chance." "Or you're next." "We were in business together, that's all i know." "Some kind of business." "Let's have a little chat." "Sit down." "What the fuck..." "Sit down." "Thank God you got smokes." "Neat little party trick, huh?" "You realize how unique you are, don't you?" "This has only happened once or twice before." "This sliding back and forth that you're doing." "You are still having trouble reconciling yourself to my presents i need you to snap out of it." "Where am i?" "This place has many names..." "I was always fond of the Greek Tartarus." "It's out of vogue these days, which is unfortunate." "This can't be real." "If i had a dime for everytime i heard that." "It'd be more than a road of good intentions leading here." "It's not happening." "Your problem is that it is." "So if we could move along." "It's not like i imagine..." "Which way i fly is hell, I myself am hell." "Milton and Dante were spinning dark fantasies the capacity of the human minds to cling to fairytales is just staggering." " So who are you?" " I have many names too." "You can think of me as a guy... who got into really bad fight with his boss." "Did you create this place?" "I did not." "Where do you think i fell to?" "I feel like it's killing me." "Cause it is." "You were supposed to die." "The coma you were in was supposed to segway quite nicely into death." "You had one foot in the grave, so to speak." "But i woke up." "That you did." "I don't know how or why." "But now you're half here half there and everytime you come you stay a little longer." "You leave a little more of yourself behind." "And pretty soon you'll be mine like you're supposed to be." "I am damned?" "The boy gets it." "The things i see here, they tied to what i did." "They're abstractions." "Representation of past, present, and future." "Nightmare logic, as you once put it." "I like that." "I mean, why be obvious?" "You have an eternity to figure it out." "Marlena?" "Sort of." "Come on." "Wait til we get to the really good stuff." "Why is this happening now?" "I've been awake for over a year." "Let's just say there's no such thing as coincidence." "You've been giving me clues." "Have I?" "If I figured it out can i have a way of ending up here?" "Just remember you're talking to." "I don't know what I did." "Best amnesia." "You want something." "I always do." "But you do too." "And that's your problem." "You're running out of time." "Tick tock, tick tock." " I've a parting gift to you." " What?" "Your memory." "Interesting." "St Helia." "The Patron Saint of Attrition." "I've never seen anyone light it before." "I don't know what attrition is." "It's imperfect grace." "Repents out of fear of damnation." "Not the love of God." "It ain't the right one?" "I'm surprised that there's even a candle for it." "Many people consider attrition a sin." "How can repenance be wrong?" "If it's done for the wrong reasons." "True repenance..." "Self knowledge." "And it's made without hoping for anything in return." "Come on, everybody that comes in here want something in return." "Some do." "Others come to seek enlightment." "And others come because they've been grazed by the Holy Spirit." "Sometimes all three." "How about you?" "You feel Christ has led you here?" "Different guy, same employer." "I'm not exactly sure I know what you..." "Long story." "Listen..." "I'm sorry for asking this, but you don't look well." "Are you sick?" "Would you like for me to hear your confession?" "It might help." "I think i'm way passed that." "Hey no matter how big your sin is..." "God has seen it before." "And others have surpassed it." "God is generous." "He would judge accordingly." "That's what i have to do." "What?" "Judicate." "No remember, judgement is God's job." "Let's hope so." "How much is my share?" "You keep up the good work there will plenty more where that came from." "It's for you to understand." "You can do pretty much anything you want to you can tell her your problems, fuck her in the ass, i don't care." "Just don't hit them in the face, they gotta work." "Alright?" "Uh-um." "Hey baby." "Okay." "You want one of the young ones?" "They're barely budding." "The older ones aren't quite as ripe but they know what they're doing." "Have fun." "See?" "I feel him kick." "Do you feel it?" "He's so strong." "My baby." "How do you know it's a boy?" "I saw his father back in my country and..." "I just know." " Mitcha." " Yo." "We need to talk." "What?" "We got a problem." "One of the girls saw me clipped Williams." "How do you know?" "This." "This is bullshit, it's not signed, we'll never know who it is." "That's the point." "What?" "These girls get talking." "They're gonna come up with some crazy ideas and see if they can get a deal for amnesty." "If they get out, which they won't." "What about if one of them talk to a client?" "Before you know, all this shit will be on the fucking internet." "What are you gonna do?" "Torture each one of them til you find out who it is?" "They'll all confess." "Fuck that." "It's not as if we can't replace them." "You can't be serious." "When was the last time you congratulate me on my sense of humor?" "Okay." "There are million different ways we can handle this." "Okay." "Give me one." "What?" "There's a conscience building up in there, now is it?" "I'll beef up security." "I'll keep them quiet." "Me, I'll do it." "Listen, they'll all fucking OD or get sick anyway." "I say we take the garbage out now." "No, no." "No?" "Just remind me who the fuck is in charge here." "Stop with the theatric, please." "I can't let you do this." "Think of the fucking money." "Yeah." "Now get the fuck out of my way." "Now." "It's just business." "Stand back." "Come on." "Shit!" "You must have a fucking death wish." "Stop playing around!" "We killed them." "You're fucking righteous with me?" "You worked, and you enjoy the fucking money." "What the fuck is going on here?" "Welcome back." "You brought me a present." "Who is this?" "Shut up." "I know what i did." "And?" "You know that old saying..." ""truth will set you free"?" "That's bullshit right there." "The truth that got me here..." "That's interesting." "You're trying to make a deal?" "No." "He's yours." "Always has been." "What are you talking about?" "I am in the midst of a discussion..." "Yeah?" "Fucking try and discuss this." "Stop it." "What is this?" "Come on." "You don't want anything?" "Do you know what it's like to not have a clue who you are?" "When i left the hospital, I was searching and everything that I did it's to feel what kind of person I was." "Good people recycle, bad people they cut other drivers off in traffic." "I made a life of myself, a mediocre life." "I was half living, by following those rules, but..." "I was scared." "I was scared because i thought that I had cheated somebody out of money or been involved in a robbery." "I didn't know." "I didn't know." "You knew." "So come on." "You don't want anything?" "No?" "I don't know how else to say it." "I belong here." "Wherever God wants me." "I have no use for you anymore." "I've had enough of this fucking shit." "You really shouldn't have done that." "We're gonna have a lot of fun." "Ring leader, Quincy Roland, presumed dead by police." "They've closed investigation of the human trafficking and prostitution ring." "In other news, it is still a hot one." "The Department of Water and Power still urging us all to do our part and conserve energy." "Wait a second." "You're gonna tell me what happened down there?" "What did you do?" "Nothing." "I did nothing."