"Visitation starts in 20 minutes." " what'd he do with it?" "What did he do with it?" " Hey, sexy." "Tell me about the day David came to live with you." " Why?" " A man brought him, yeah?" " I was four." " But you remember." "Don't lie!" " It was late." "I was in my room and I heard voices." "So I snuck out onto the landing." "For a long time, I thought it was a dream." " Yeah, that was him." "Oh, what did he do with it?" "What did he do with it?" " What did he do with it?" " Why are you doing this?" "He was just a baby." " Uhh, he's not a baby now." "Uh-oh." "Looks like one of the animals is out of its pen." "Fascinating." "You've manifested your cryogenic state into a literal ice cube." "When I woke up this morning," "I thought to myself, it's gonna be daylight savings soon." "Then I realized, I don't know what that means." " It's when you set the clocks forward or back to maximize daylight during the work day." " Huh." "That's not very interesting." "I thought we were literally saving daylight." " My god." "Oliver, you haven't aged an hour." " Oh, no, whoa." " Oh, oh, oh." "Wait till Melanie sees." " Melanie?" " Your... your wife." " My wife?" "Is she..." "For some reason I wanna say..." "Chinese?" " No, she's not Chinese." " Got it." "Japanese?" " No, not Asian in any way." "No." " Ahh." "Hm." "Good to know." "I've been in here a long time, you see." "Or at least, I think I have." "Hours... or, what's longer than hours?" "Years." "My memory's a bit, um..." "It's a bit, uh..." "Oh, what's the word?" "What's the word?" "Dishes?" "No." "Anyhow, I supposed we'd better rescue them, then." "Your friends." "I've been watching you see this... uh, this David person and his monster." "It can't find us in here, in case you were worrying." " The parasite." " Yes, that's what I said." "Parasite." " Mental, obviously." " Yes, a separate consciousness from David has attached itself to him and has been..." " using his power to feed its own." " You're not... are you gonna do that the whole time?" " Do... do what?" " Finishing my sentences." " No, sorry." "Old habit." " A tenor, perchance, are you?" " A tenor?" " We're starting a barbershop quartet, David and myself." ""Roll out the barrel," that kind of thing." "Nothing serious." "Just fun." "Oh, which reminds me." "You know what it is, don't you?" " I'm sorry." "Having a little trouble keeping up." " What..." " the monster." "You know what it is." "Or should I say who." "Farouk." "I read David's mind, you see, when they were trapped here." "He and David." "He's very clever, our monster." "But he puts all his energy into tricking David." "Didn't think to watch his six." "And by six I mean..." " What do I mean?" " Wait, wait, you're saying..." "Of course!" "Amahl Farouk." "I should have known." "The dog!" " Oh." "There's a dog?" " In David's memories, he's disguised himself as a really..." "A very cute, little beagle." "But the name... king..." "I should..." "Amahl Farouk." "The shadow king." " We have to rescue them." " Didn't I just say that?" "I'm sure I said that." "Rescue them." "After the whole Chinese wife debate, which I'm still not totally convinced." "Are you sure she's not?" "Because I seem to have a very intimate recollection of one night..." "All right, then." "Then the next question is:" "How?" "How do we rescue them?" "We are just minds, after all." "And their bodies..." "Are in quite a jumble." "Facing certain death, and all that." "He's too powerful for me." "Farouk." "He's too virile, psychically." "David could break you out of the dream, possibly all of you." "But he's compromised, currently." " Farouk has locked him away in a tiny corner of his mind." "He'll be gone entirely, soon." "And then the shadow king will become David." "It's too much vermouth." "You want me to put a little bit more vodka in there?" " David." "My device." "I made a halo, randomly firing electromagnetic signals in a 360 degree radius, which should... if we can put it on David's head..." "The real David..." "In the now-frozen timeline, it should block the shadow king." "Isolate it and end the hospital fantasy." " Unfreezing time and executing your friends in a hail of bullets, unfortunately." "Unless we can physically change the dynamic of the room." "Block the bullets, move the bodies." "We're gonna need everybody." " Let me introduce you to my friend, Jules Verne." " It's all right." "He can't hear us in here, the monster." "He's very powerful, but Oliver has a few tricks" " left up his sleeve." " First of all..." " Syd, it's easier if I just talk." " The hospital wasn't real." " No shit." " Well, to be accurate, there is a real hospital," " but we weren't there." " It was a mental projection, created by the monster." " I've been paying attention." " Right, well, so our..." " our bodies are in David's childhood bedroom, probably frozen in time." "And if I remember it right, someone just fired a machine gun." "So I'm thinking, when time starts again," " we'll all be killed." " Yes." "Wow!" " What we have to do is distract the monster..." "Who looks like Lenny but isn't..." "So we can save our bodies, without her knowing." "And then find a way to end the hospital fantasy" " and save David." " Right." "And there's a..." "There's a device." " I built a..." " great, so I'll go to the hospital and save the others and deal with Lenny and you fix it." "So I'm not murdered when I wake up." " Are we good?" " Yeah, that's what" " I was gonna..." " great, let's go." " Okay... wait, wait, wait." "You'll need these." "Oliver made them." "That's Melanie's... ahh..." "Anyway, he has some control here." "And he made these to help us." "They'll show you what's real and what isn't." "These are for the others." "Try not to draw attention to yourself." "Because Farouk is watching." " Farouk?" " Yeah, it's a long story." "Just maintain the illusion." "And be ready." "I'll send a signal when I'm in place." " This oughta be interesting." "I'm coming for you, baby." " David!" " Come with me." " No." " Oliver." "Oh." "I thought you were..." " set them along the perimeter." " On the chest of a barmaid in sale, were tattooed the prices of ale." "And on her behind, for the sake of the blind, was the same information in braille." "Mm." "Oliver bird." "Dedicated follower of fashion." "Have I seen you before?" "At the poetry slam?" " No." " You do seem familiar, though." "What did you say your name was, again?" "No." "Don't tell me." "I'll remember." "Whoo, what a pickle." "Where did you say that device was?" "The, uh... your halo?" " Here, in my hand." " Mm." " So you're saying multi-faced..." " Melanie?" "David?" "David!" "Melanie!" "Ah, ah." "No!" "Ah!" "Oh!" " Shh." "Okay, ooh." "You're okay." "You're just in a coffin." "It's no big deal." "It's not even a..." "It's more of a mental..." "It's... it's a mental coffin." "Your body isn't... this is your mind that's trapped." "Which is... that's not better." " David." " Ah, ohh!" " You're freaking out." "Stop it." " Whoa!" "Oh, no, you're not... oh, don't tell me you're trapped in here with another thing..." "Monster... whatever it is." " Hm?" " No, he's up there." "The monster." "He tricked us into giving up control." " Tricked you." " What?" "Yeah, I..." "I got that part of me." "But if you're not the monster, then..." " I'm you." "Your rational mind." "You're having a breakdown..." "A stress response." "Your power is kicking in to save you." "It created me." "You did." " Wha... ah..." " And you're British?" " Like I said, I'm your rational mind." " And I created you?" " Yes." "Before this thing takes control of our body forever." " Okay." "Well, hah..." "Look around, pal." "We're in a locked coffin, underground." " Right." " There is no way out." " Tell me, how can we be underground when we're not even inside our body?" "So if there's no body and no ground, then there's no coffin." "It's just an idea." " That makes sense." " Good." "Now, I want you to imagine a classroom." " What?" " A classroom." " With a blackboard." "We're gonna figure this thing out, you and me." "Once and for all." "Good." "Nice blackboards." "Now, I want you to forget all the tricks." "The memory work, the MRI..." "Forget all the lies." "It's your mind." "You know everything the monster knows." "So go back to the beginning." "What have we learned?" " I'm adopted." " Good." "Write it on the board." " Really?" " Yeah." "You imagined chalk, right?" "Well, go on." " Which... why didn't they..." " My parents were..." "I don't even know what to call them now, but..." "Why didn't they tell me?" "Or Amy?" "Why... why didn't she..." "Hey, focus." "This is about facts." "Fact one:" "You're adopted." "What's fact two?" "What did Lenny say about your father?" "Your real father." " She said she knew him." " Yes." "And before we go further, let me ask you this:" "Do you think that thing up there is Lenny?" " No." " So what is it?" " Uh, what'd he say?" " The scientist... uhh, a parasite?" " Yes." " Write it down." "It's not an insect, right?" "Not a botfly or a tapeworm." "It's, a..." " yes, of course." "It's a mutant." "Like me." " And has been with you a long time." "Maybe since you were a..." " a baby." "So, okay." "I had a dad." "And a mom, I guess, right?" "And if Lenny knew him, then he was probably a mutant, like me." "Psychic, I'm guessing." "And he... this thing..." "The monster..." "Was his enemy." "And they must have fought." " Did they fight with their fists?" " Uh... no." " They fought here." "In the astral plane." "With their minds." "And my father..." "God, this is so weird." "I don't even know how to picture him." "Um, screw it, okay." "My father, he must have won." "And the monster, or whatever, somehow his mind or his soul or his being or whatever was..." "It didn't die." "But its mind floated off." "And dad goes home." ""Sweetheart, it's over." "I won." "Give me some sugar."" " Is that..." "Is that supposed to be a British accent?" " And there's me." "I'm born." "And he... they... somehow, they decided to give me away, right?" "I mean, did they know?" "Or maybe it wasn't..." "Maybe it wasn't about the monster." "Maybe they just didn't want me." " Oh, boohoo." " Come on, focus." " Right." " You're right." " I am pretty." "I am loved." " Keep going." " Let's say, for now, that dad was worried it wasn't safe for me." "So instead, to keep me safe, I went to live with my other mom and dad..." "My adopted..." "In secret." "Somehow, the monster was watching and it found me." "Like a haunted house," " he possessed me." " Why?" " Revenge." "Isn't that what she... what it said?" " Good." "Keep going." " It... it possessed me." "And that made me sick." "My powers didn't help..." "Hearing voices and seeing..." "That this thing made it worse." "And he... it... poisoned me, my whole life." "It made me... it made me crazy." "And it fed on me." " To what end?" " Power." "It was weak, but I made it stronger." "My powers." "And it kept feeding." "Uh, what did Lenny say?" "The only being that matters in the universe is god." "So it fed on me so that one day, maybe, it could get its revenge." "Of course." "But then Syd came." "And she woke me up." "The monster realized it couldn't hide anymore." "And it..." "And here we are." "I mean, not here, in this classroom, but..." "Where are we again?" " Our mind is in the astral plane." "Our body is in our room from when we were kids, with our friends." " And they're in trouble." " Melanie was wrong." "I was sick." "But I'm not sick anymore." " So what are you gonna do about it?" " I'm gonna get my mind back." " Melanie." "David?" " Oh." " No, no." "Where was I?" "Oh, yes." "Here we go." " Ah!" " David." "David." " Kerry." " You okay?" "You?" "It's gone." " No!" "It's not gone." "We've isolated it in your mind." "The monster with the device." " So leave it on?" " Yes, please." " You okay?" " Yeah." " David, we should..." "I really think we should go to my lab." "Tell him, Melanie." "Elevator going down." " How do you feel about beat poetry?" "Deliver my sermon to my soul." "And Jack's soul, too." "And anyone who'll listen." "Jack made a mean Martini." "I knew a guy called Jack." "Would you like some eggs?" "How about tomato?" "To look at the sunset over the box house hills and cry." "Is that right?" "Oh, yes." "Where was I?" "You were never another locomotive sunflower." "You were a sunflower." " I know you're not a fan of mealtime." "Did you wanna..." " I'm good." " All right." " Did you want something?" "There's soup." " You left me." "I needed you and you left me." "Malfunction detected." "Hot water levels at 13%." "Malfunction detected." "Hot water levels at 13%." "Malfunction detected." "Hot water levels at 13%." " I'm so..." " No." " Sorry." " No." "Not here." "I should've told you about the man" " and being adopted..." " the man?" " They are so..." "But I mean, now I know you weren't sick." "And you had this thing inside of you." "And the powers." "David, you have powers." " I know." "I'm a mutant." " Mutant." "But no..." "I should've... you should've come to live with me." "With Ben, with... oh, my god." " I have to call Ben." " Amy." " No." "He'll be so worried." " Amy, you can't." "They're watching him, division three." " If you call him..." " an email, a..." " David." " I could call from a pay phone." " Just get some rest." "We'll figure this out." " Careful." "Don't... don't let it move around too much." "I don't know how stable the connection is." " Everything okay?" " Not really." "I think we should get this thing out of me fast." "I don't think it's too happy." " Did I ever tell you a story about the lady and the crane?" " Many times." "Tell me again." " David." " You look well." "Love that headband." "I know." "Me, not so much." "Third degree, thank you very much." "Really painful." "We have so much to talk about." "You can kill the others."