WEBVTT FILE 1 00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:07.000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:13.000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:17.800 --> 00:00:20.237 [distant siren wailing] 4 00:00:27.679 --> 00:00:30.117 [buzzing] 5 00:00:41.650 --> 00:00:43.782 - I'm still here. 6 00:00:43.913 --> 00:00:46.176 [distant barking] 7 00:00:46.307 --> 00:00:48.396 [chatter] 8 00:00:57.579 --> 00:01:00.016 [rattling] 9 00:01:02.453 --> 00:01:04.455 - I'm still here. 10 00:01:04.586 --> 00:01:06.675 And so are you. 11 00:01:06.805 --> 00:01:08.677 [somber music] 12 00:01:08.807 --> 00:01:11.201 [dial tone] 13 00:01:16.772 --> 00:01:19.166 [alarm beeping] 14 00:01:38.663 --> 00:01:41.144 [water bubbling] 15 00:01:46.236 --> 00:01:49.283 - So you're not going to tell me her name? 16 00:01:49.413 --> 00:01:50.588 - Don't make it a big thing, mom. 17 00:01:50.719 --> 00:01:52.416 - Well, she invited you to hang out. 18 00:01:52.547 --> 00:01:53.635 - I know that. 19 00:01:53.765 --> 00:01:54.897 - Hey. 20 00:01:55.027 --> 00:01:55.941 - Hey. 21 00:01:56.072 --> 00:01:57.204 - Hey. 22 00:01:57.334 --> 00:02:00.685 - Guess who just might have a girlfriend. 23 00:02:00.816 --> 00:02:01.991 - I heard he's got two of them. 24 00:02:02.122 --> 00:02:03.471 - I didn't say that. - Oh. 25 00:02:03.601 --> 00:02:04.472 [laughter] - Oh my gosh. 26 00:02:04.602 --> 00:02:05.560 You guys are annoying. 27 00:02:09.259 --> 00:02:10.130 - Good nap? 28 00:02:10.260 --> 00:02:11.870 - Yeah. 29 00:02:12.001 --> 00:02:15.961 Weird dreams I still have this headache that won't go away. 30 00:02:16.092 --> 00:02:18.050 - You think you should call out? 31 00:02:18.181 --> 00:02:19.922 - No. 32 00:02:20.052 --> 00:02:22.577 They're probably short staffed as it is. 33 00:02:22.707 --> 00:02:24.883 Speaking of which, have you seen my ID anywhere? 34 00:02:25.014 --> 00:02:26.233 - Yeah. 35 00:02:26.363 --> 00:02:27.059 This is what happens now that you're only 36 00:02:27.190 --> 00:02:28.713 volunteering twice a year. 37 00:02:28.844 --> 00:02:29.975 - Why don't you give me a hard time a little bit more, 38 00:02:30.106 --> 00:02:31.325 will you. 39 00:02:31.455 --> 00:02:32.239 Guilt trip me. 40 00:02:32.369 --> 00:02:33.283 Yeah. 41 00:02:33.414 --> 00:02:35.807 [curious music] 42 00:03:03.139 --> 00:03:05.097 What's he doing tonight? 43 00:03:05.228 --> 00:03:08.144 - He said he's hanging out at a friend's house down the street. 44 00:03:08.275 --> 00:03:09.450 - What about you? 45 00:03:09.580 --> 00:03:10.886 You still going to do that work thing? 46 00:03:11.016 --> 00:03:13.367 - I decided to ditch it and go to my sister's. 47 00:03:13.497 --> 00:03:15.630 She's having her annual shindig. 48 00:03:15.760 --> 00:03:17.066 - It's quite a hike, isn't it? 49 00:03:17.197 --> 00:03:18.285 - I know. 50 00:03:18.415 --> 00:03:19.677 I just feel like I owe her a visit. 51 00:03:19.808 --> 00:03:23.159 Check out the invitation she sent. 52 00:03:23.290 --> 00:03:25.422 - Julia's New Year's Eve bonanza. 53 00:03:25.553 --> 00:03:27.816 Well, you-- you can't miss that. 54 00:03:27.946 --> 00:03:29.252 - This came from your brother. 55 00:03:29.383 --> 00:03:30.993 I was thinking of putting him on the fridge. 56 00:03:34.953 --> 00:03:36.390 - Where are their sweaters? 57 00:03:36.520 --> 00:03:37.782 - I think the sweaters are cute. 58 00:03:37.913 --> 00:03:40.002 - Dad, did you get the Lakers tickets yet? 59 00:03:40.132 --> 00:03:41.003 - Oh, shit. 60 00:03:41.133 --> 00:03:42.787 No, not yet. 61 00:03:42.918 --> 00:03:44.224 I'm still working on it. 62 00:03:44.354 --> 00:03:45.877 - If you give me your card, I can order them 63 00:03:46.008 --> 00:03:47.096 because they're going to sell out. 64 00:03:47.227 --> 00:03:48.880 - No, no. I'm going to do it. 65 00:03:49.011 --> 00:03:53.189 - Oh, I almost forgot. 66 00:03:53.320 --> 00:03:55.887 I had coffee with Matt Chauvins yesterday. 67 00:03:56.018 --> 00:03:57.976 He asked to read your book. 68 00:03:58.107 --> 00:04:00.501 - It's-- it's really not that type of thing, you know? 69 00:04:00.631 --> 00:04:06.289 - Well, he was thrilled to give you notes, so, sent it to him. 70 00:04:06.420 --> 00:04:08.335 Is that a problem? 71 00:04:08.465 --> 00:04:09.249 - No. 72 00:04:09.379 --> 00:04:10.902 I mean, look. 73 00:04:11.033 --> 00:04:13.862 It's-- he's just a big-time fiction writer, you know? 74 00:04:13.992 --> 00:04:16.081 And you asked him to read my dumb little memoir. 75 00:04:16.212 --> 00:04:17.387 - Wow. 76 00:04:17.518 --> 00:04:21.522 OK, no more goodwill gestures from me. 77 00:04:21.652 --> 00:04:23.045 - Appreciate it. 78 00:04:23.175 --> 00:04:27.528 - [radio chatter]. 79 00:04:27.658 --> 00:04:29.704 [horns honking] 80 00:04:31.140 --> 00:04:32.097 [radio chatter] 81 00:04:33.534 --> 00:04:34.448 [radio fades out] 82 00:04:34.578 --> 00:04:36.972 [train horn blares] 83 00:04:48.244 --> 00:04:49.637 [line ringing] 84 00:04:49.767 --> 00:04:51.160 - You've reached Andrew. 85 00:04:51.291 --> 00:04:52.509 Please leave a message and I'll get back to you. 86 00:04:52.640 --> 00:04:53.554 - Hey, big brother. 87 00:04:53.684 --> 00:04:54.903 It's me. 88 00:04:55.033 --> 00:04:57.601 Just calling to say happy new year. 89 00:04:57.732 --> 00:04:59.037 I got those photos you sent. 90 00:04:59.168 --> 00:05:00.125 Thanks for those. 91 00:05:02.650 --> 00:05:03.999 Anyway, give me a call back. 92 00:05:04.129 --> 00:05:05.043 Let's catch up. 93 00:05:09.570 --> 00:05:11.485 [door clicks shut] 94 00:05:11.615 --> 00:05:14.009 [phone rings] 95 00:05:15.576 --> 00:05:17.969 [elevator dings] 96 00:05:26.456 --> 00:05:28.676 - Because I'm at work right now. 97 00:05:28.806 --> 00:05:30.852 You cannot just drop this on me last minute, Ty. 98 00:05:30.982 --> 00:05:31.940 It's New Year's Eve. 99 00:05:34.638 --> 00:05:35.509 Fine. 100 00:05:35.639 --> 00:05:36.901 [phone rings] 101 00:05:37.032 --> 00:05:38.163 No. 102 00:05:38.294 --> 00:05:39.991 I just can't argue about it right now. 103 00:05:40.122 --> 00:05:41.166 You know what? 104 00:05:41.297 --> 00:05:42.211 I'll figure it out. 105 00:05:45.301 --> 00:05:46.737 Steven, hi. 106 00:05:46.868 --> 00:05:47.999 How are you? - Good. 107 00:05:48.130 --> 00:05:49.305 - So good to see you. 108 00:05:49.436 --> 00:05:50.567 - How are you? 109 00:05:50.698 --> 00:05:52.134 - You know, same old, same old. 110 00:05:52.264 --> 00:05:53.440 - I'm not interrupting, am I? 111 00:05:53.570 --> 00:05:54.963 - No. 112 00:05:55.093 --> 00:05:57.313 That was just my ex-husband dropping the ball again. 113 00:05:57.444 --> 00:05:59.359 I actually have to go and get my kids. 114 00:05:59.489 --> 00:06:01.186 He got his dates all messed up, and now it's 115 00:06:01.317 --> 00:06:02.623 impossible to find a sitter. 116 00:06:02.753 --> 00:06:03.928 Actually, I think it's just going 117 00:06:04.059 --> 00:06:05.234 to be here most of the night. 118 00:06:05.365 --> 00:06:06.801 Cindy's off at 11:00 - Oh. 119 00:06:06.931 --> 00:06:07.889 Uh, OK. 120 00:06:08.019 --> 00:06:09.369 - I'm so sorry, Steven. 121 00:06:09.499 --> 00:06:11.196 I know it's a lot for one person, but I just-- 122 00:06:11.327 --> 00:06:12.197 - No. No, no, no. 123 00:06:12.328 --> 00:06:13.242 It's fine. It's fine. 124 00:06:13.373 --> 00:06:14.939 Go be with your kids. It's OK. 125 00:06:15.070 --> 00:06:16.550 - You're a lifesaver. - Come on. 126 00:06:16.680 --> 00:06:18.203 You're the hero. 127 00:06:18.334 --> 00:06:20.467 I'm the one who sold out and went into private practice. 128 00:06:20.597 --> 00:06:21.468 [laughter] 129 00:06:21.598 --> 00:06:22.904 - Well, at least use my desk. 130 00:06:23.034 --> 00:06:23.861 I do have the nice chair. 131 00:06:23.992 --> 00:06:24.862 - Thank you. 132 00:06:24.993 --> 00:06:26.864 All right. 133 00:06:26.995 --> 00:06:28.344 [phone rings] 134 00:06:28.475 --> 00:06:29.432 - Hello. 135 00:06:36.657 --> 00:06:37.875 - Lifeline. 136 00:06:41.052 --> 00:06:43.707 Hello? 137 00:06:43.838 --> 00:06:46.231 - I don't want to talk about myself. 138 00:06:46.362 --> 00:06:47.711 - OK. 139 00:06:47.842 --> 00:06:48.886 I understand. 140 00:06:51.498 --> 00:06:52.412 Hello? 141 00:06:59.854 --> 00:07:02.160 [phone rings] 142 00:07:11.213 --> 00:07:12.214 Lifeline. 143 00:07:17.219 --> 00:07:18.655 Hello? 144 00:07:18.786 --> 00:07:21.005 [muffled breathing] 145 00:07:22.398 --> 00:07:25.836 It's-- it's OK if you're not ready to talk, 146 00:07:25.967 --> 00:07:27.403 but can I get your name at least? 147 00:07:31.015 --> 00:07:31.886 - Mary. 148 00:07:32.016 --> 00:07:33.670 - Mary? 149 00:07:33.801 --> 00:07:34.758 Hi, Mary. 150 00:07:34.889 --> 00:07:35.846 I'm Steve. 151 00:07:38.719 --> 00:07:42.113 - I don't really know how this works. 152 00:07:42.244 --> 00:07:47.554 - Well, it's really whatever you feel like you need. 153 00:07:47.684 --> 00:07:50.382 What made you call in this evening? 154 00:07:50.513 --> 00:07:51.949 And there's no right answer to that. 155 00:07:52.080 --> 00:07:54.822 - I don't want to feel like this. 156 00:07:54.952 --> 00:07:56.171 I want it to be over. 157 00:07:58.869 --> 00:08:00.349 But please, don't tell the police 158 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:04.005 where I am because they'll just-- 159 00:08:04.135 --> 00:08:05.310 - No, no, no. No. 160 00:08:05.441 --> 00:08:06.616 No, no I won't. I promise. 161 00:08:06.747 --> 00:08:08.226 This call is anonymous, so you don't 162 00:08:08.357 --> 00:08:09.445 have to worry about that, OK? 163 00:08:12.492 --> 00:08:14.232 OK? 164 00:08:14.363 --> 00:08:17.497 I'd just like to talk a little bit about how you're feeling. 165 00:08:17.627 --> 00:08:20.717 Did, uh-- did something happen at home tonight? 166 00:08:20.848 --> 00:08:22.589 Maybe a fight with family, or-- 167 00:08:22.719 --> 00:08:23.633 - Yeah. 168 00:08:23.764 --> 00:08:24.634 Yeah. 169 00:08:24.765 --> 00:08:25.940 - Yeah? 170 00:08:26.070 --> 00:08:28.072 Can you tell me a little bit about that? 171 00:08:28.203 --> 00:08:30.510 [pencil scratching] 172 00:08:32.424 --> 00:08:39.344 - Um, it's just my head. 173 00:08:39.475 --> 00:08:40.868 It's been all over the place. 174 00:08:40.998 --> 00:08:47.614 And no one I know gets it, so I got these pills. 175 00:08:47.744 --> 00:08:49.877 - You have the pills with you now? 176 00:08:50.007 --> 00:08:51.356 [somber music] 177 00:08:51.487 --> 00:08:52.488 - Mm-hmm. 178 00:08:55.491 --> 00:08:57.145 They're for sleep and depression. 179 00:08:57.275 --> 00:08:59.800 But I figured if I take enough-- 180 00:08:59.930 --> 00:09:02.237 - Well, I'm really hoping you don't do that, Mary. 181 00:09:02.367 --> 00:09:03.717 - There's no other way. 182 00:09:03.847 --> 00:09:05.545 I don't have a choice. 183 00:09:05.675 --> 00:09:06.415 - Wait. 184 00:09:06.546 --> 00:09:07.634 Why do you say that? 185 00:09:07.764 --> 00:09:09.331 - What? 186 00:09:09.461 --> 00:09:11.202 - When you say that don't feel like you have a choice, 187 00:09:11.333 --> 00:09:12.290 what do you mean by that? 188 00:09:15.642 --> 00:09:16.860 - Mary, can you-- 189 00:09:16.991 --> 00:09:19.907 can you tell me where you are right now? 190 00:09:20.037 --> 00:09:20.951 Are you at home? 191 00:09:21.082 --> 00:09:23.171 - No, I'm in Palm Springs. 192 00:09:23.301 --> 00:09:26.740 My husband rented a house here for the holidays. 193 00:09:26.870 --> 00:09:30.918 - But he knows that you've been having a hard time? 194 00:09:31.048 --> 00:09:32.572 - What? 195 00:09:32.702 --> 00:09:35.575 - But he knows that you've been hurting? 196 00:09:40.188 --> 00:09:41.145 Mary? 197 00:09:41.276 --> 00:09:42.582 - I don't trust him. 198 00:09:42.712 --> 00:09:44.322 He's the reason I'm-- 199 00:09:44.453 --> 00:09:46.324 - The the-- the reason that you-- 200 00:09:46.455 --> 00:09:48.109 you feel like hurting yourself? 201 00:09:48.239 --> 00:09:51.025 - Yeah. 202 00:09:51.155 --> 00:09:52.635 [ominous music] 203 00:09:52.766 --> 00:09:55.638 He drove us out here because I was having problems. 204 00:09:55.769 --> 00:09:58.772 There was a medication change I went through recently. 205 00:09:58.902 --> 00:10:04.778 And I told him I was in therapy and he got really mad. 206 00:10:04.908 --> 00:10:06.693 - How come? 207 00:10:06.823 --> 00:10:08.390 - I don't think I can talk much longer. 208 00:10:08.520 --> 00:10:09.521 - Why not? 209 00:10:12.176 --> 00:10:13.830 Mary, is it because you're worried 210 00:10:13.961 --> 00:10:15.832 about your husband finding out? 211 00:10:15.963 --> 00:10:16.920 - Yeah. 212 00:10:20.576 --> 00:10:24.362 - Has your husband ever hurt you? 213 00:10:24.493 --> 00:10:26.626 - No. 214 00:10:26.756 --> 00:10:28.149 But I'm afraid of him. 215 00:10:28.279 --> 00:10:29.193 It's hard to explain. 216 00:10:34.764 --> 00:10:35.635 - No, no. 217 00:10:35.765 --> 00:10:38.159 I think I understand. 218 00:10:38.289 --> 00:10:41.510 But I got to say, things, they sound really tense over there 219 00:10:41.641 --> 00:10:42.946 tonight. 220 00:10:43.077 --> 00:10:45.906 So I'd like to come up with a safe word, 221 00:10:46.036 --> 00:10:48.996 or-- or phrase in case your husband comes home 222 00:10:49.126 --> 00:10:50.214 and we're still talking. 223 00:10:50.345 --> 00:10:51.825 - What do you mean? What is-- 224 00:10:51.955 --> 00:10:53.261 - It's just a way for you to let me 225 00:10:53.391 --> 00:10:56.699 know that you're feeling unsafe so it 226 00:10:56.830 --> 00:10:58.353 doesn't trigger your husband. 227 00:10:58.483 --> 00:11:00.442 Can we do that? 228 00:11:00.572 --> 00:11:01.486 - OK, fine. 229 00:11:01.617 --> 00:11:02.444 Yeah. 230 00:11:02.574 --> 00:11:03.924 - OK, great. 231 00:11:04.054 --> 00:11:05.839 So the best thing to do is to pick 232 00:11:05.969 --> 00:11:08.580 a word or a phrase that's really easy to bring up 233 00:11:08.711 --> 00:11:10.234 in a conversation. 234 00:11:10.365 --> 00:11:12.715 [horn honks in distance] 235 00:11:14.238 --> 00:11:16.458 - Like, "he's so wonderful," or something? 236 00:11:16.588 --> 00:11:17.372 - Yeah. 237 00:11:17.502 --> 00:11:18.808 Yeah, that's great. 238 00:11:18.939 --> 00:11:20.505 "He's so wonderful" works. That's great. 239 00:11:20.636 --> 00:11:21.855 And you'll remember that, right? 240 00:11:21.985 --> 00:11:22.986 Just in case? 241 00:11:23.117 --> 00:11:24.640 - Yeah. 242 00:11:24.771 --> 00:11:25.641 - OK. 243 00:11:25.772 --> 00:11:27.251 - I don't know. 244 00:11:27.382 --> 00:11:29.863 It feels really risky. 245 00:11:29.993 --> 00:11:31.125 - Mary-- Mary, listen. 246 00:11:31.255 --> 00:11:33.083 I just want to do whatever we can to-- 247 00:11:33.214 --> 00:11:34.215 - I should hang up. - No. 248 00:11:34.345 --> 00:11:35.477 No, no, no. Mary. 249 00:11:35.607 --> 00:11:36.478 Mary. Wait. 250 00:11:36.608 --> 00:11:38.262 Wait. Are you still there? 251 00:11:38.393 --> 00:11:43.659 If we can get you someplace safe tonight away from your husband, 252 00:11:43.790 --> 00:11:48.795 OK, just until your therapist is available, 253 00:11:48.925 --> 00:11:52.799 do you think that you could hold off on maybe taking those pills? 254 00:11:52.929 --> 00:11:54.496 [tense music] 255 00:11:55.497 --> 00:11:56.367 - I-- I don't know. 256 00:11:56.498 --> 00:11:57.978 Maybe. 257 00:11:58.108 --> 00:11:59.283 - Maybe? 258 00:11:59.414 --> 00:12:01.982 Well, can you give me your address? 259 00:12:02.112 --> 00:12:07.074 And I'd just feel better if we got you out of that situation, 260 00:12:07.204 --> 00:12:10.338 away from him. 261 00:12:10.468 --> 00:12:12.383 578 Flamingo Drive. 262 00:12:12.514 --> 00:12:14.037 - 578 Flamingo Drive. 263 00:12:14.168 --> 00:12:17.562 And you said you're in Palm Springs, right? 264 00:12:17.693 --> 00:12:20.304 - Honestly, I think it'd be easier to just end it. 265 00:12:20.435 --> 00:12:21.610 - Mary. Mary. 266 00:12:21.741 --> 00:12:23.307 - It just keeps happening. [wailing] 267 00:12:23.438 --> 00:12:24.352 - I know. 268 00:12:24.482 --> 00:12:25.745 Listen, I understand, Mary. 269 00:12:25.875 --> 00:12:27.007 I understand. 270 00:12:27.137 --> 00:12:29.096 Listen. 271 00:12:29.226 --> 00:12:30.227 But that would be-- 272 00:12:33.317 --> 00:12:35.842 that would be a really big mistake and one that you cannot 273 00:12:35.972 --> 00:12:36.799 take back. 274 00:12:36.930 --> 00:12:38.583 Do you understand that? 275 00:12:38.714 --> 00:12:40.324 [tense music] 276 00:12:40.455 --> 00:12:41.238 Mary? 277 00:12:41.369 --> 00:12:42.849 [phone beeps] 278 00:12:42.979 --> 00:12:43.850 Shit. 279 00:12:59.430 --> 00:13:01.868 [unsettling music] 280 00:13:05.393 --> 00:13:07.787 [horn wailing] 281 00:13:16.708 --> 00:13:18.232 [radio chatter] 282 00:13:19.320 --> 00:13:20.625 - --games are on the schedule. 283 00:13:20.756 --> 00:13:23.106 The Cavaliers came up with a surprise. 284 00:13:23.237 --> 00:13:25.152 [gentle music] 285 00:13:25.282 --> 00:13:27.632 [phone rings] 286 00:13:32.072 --> 00:13:34.378 - Lifeline. 287 00:13:34.509 --> 00:13:36.424 How can I help you today? 288 00:13:36.554 --> 00:13:38.382 [uneasy music] 289 00:13:38.513 --> 00:13:40.863 [pencil scratching] 290 00:13:42.386 --> 00:13:43.779 [phone rings] 291 00:13:43.910 --> 00:13:45.650 - Lifeline. 292 00:13:45.781 --> 00:13:48.175 [phone rings] 293 00:13:49.698 --> 00:13:53.136 - And give that hot bath a try, OK? 294 00:13:53.267 --> 00:13:55.617 Thank you. 295 00:13:55.747 --> 00:13:56.661 Yeah, you too. 296 00:14:06.933 --> 00:14:09.326 [phone rings] 297 00:14:14.810 --> 00:14:17.160 Lifeline. 298 00:14:17.291 --> 00:14:18.335 [sneezes] 299 00:14:18.466 --> 00:14:19.336 - Sorry. 300 00:14:19.467 --> 00:14:20.381 I'm sick. 301 00:14:20.511 --> 00:14:21.948 - OK. 302 00:14:22.078 --> 00:14:24.733 Well, that's OK, but this line is specifically 303 00:14:24.864 --> 00:14:27.997 for mental health purposes, so. 304 00:14:28.128 --> 00:14:30.043 - So, what? 305 00:14:30.173 --> 00:14:32.872 - Well, if you, uh-- 306 00:14:33.002 --> 00:14:35.048 if you have a cold, then you should 307 00:14:35.178 --> 00:14:40.009 talk to a doctor or someone more qualified than me. 308 00:14:40.140 --> 00:14:41.315 No. 309 00:14:41.445 --> 00:14:44.448 I mean, I also want to kill myself. 310 00:14:44.579 --> 00:14:45.928 - OK. 311 00:14:46.059 --> 00:14:48.452 That is something that we should talk about. 312 00:14:48.583 --> 00:14:50.367 [coughing] 313 00:14:50.498 --> 00:14:52.282 - Can you-- can you hold on a second? 314 00:14:52.413 --> 00:14:53.457 - Sure. 315 00:14:53.588 --> 00:14:55.677 [muffled laughter] 316 00:14:57.418 --> 00:15:00.725 Listen, if this is a prank call, I'm going to hang up, OK? 317 00:15:00.856 --> 00:15:03.250 [laughter] 318 00:15:08.124 --> 00:15:10.474 - Julia, what are you two doing? 319 00:15:10.605 --> 00:15:12.694 [line clicks] 320 00:15:16.872 --> 00:15:18.700 [phone rings] 321 00:15:18.830 --> 00:15:20.920 - Lifeline. 322 00:15:21.050 --> 00:15:22.704 You all right? 323 00:15:22.834 --> 00:15:25.228 [a/c whirrs] 324 00:15:33.236 --> 00:15:35.673 [water splashes] 325 00:15:46.815 --> 00:15:47.729 - You all right? 326 00:15:47.859 --> 00:15:49.035 - Oh, yeah. 327 00:15:49.165 --> 00:15:50.645 It's just a little coffee burn, thanks. 328 00:15:50.775 --> 00:15:51.907 How's your night going? 329 00:15:52.038 --> 00:15:53.039 - Pretty good. 330 00:15:53.169 --> 00:15:54.692 Feels like it's been nonstop. 331 00:15:54.823 --> 00:15:55.867 - Yeah. 332 00:15:55.998 --> 00:15:57.217 I'm going to make a little coffee. 333 00:15:57.347 --> 00:15:58.609 You want some? [phone ringing] 334 00:15:58.740 --> 00:15:59.915 - Lifeline. 335 00:16:00.046 --> 00:16:02.483 [coffee percolating] 336 00:16:06.443 --> 00:16:08.968 [phone rings] 337 00:16:19.935 --> 00:16:21.806 - Lifeline. 338 00:16:21.937 --> 00:16:23.286 - Hi. 339 00:16:23.417 --> 00:16:25.767 Uh, my wife, Mary, called a little while ago. 340 00:16:25.897 --> 00:16:26.811 My name is Jason. 341 00:16:26.942 --> 00:16:29.118 - OK. 342 00:16:29.249 --> 00:16:32.078 Yeah, hi. 343 00:16:32.208 --> 00:16:35.168 She, you know-- well, I'll let her explain. 344 00:16:35.298 --> 00:16:36.212 She's right here. 345 00:16:36.343 --> 00:16:37.257 - Hello? 346 00:16:39.302 --> 00:16:40.173 - Hi, Mary. 347 00:16:40.303 --> 00:16:41.609 It's Steven. 348 00:16:41.739 --> 00:16:44.133 [tense music] 349 00:16:44.264 --> 00:16:45.961 - Um, yeah. 350 00:16:46.092 --> 00:16:51.140 I just wanted to call and-- and say, I was sorry about before. 351 00:16:51.271 --> 00:16:55.275 My meds, they just make me think crazy thoughts. 352 00:16:55.405 --> 00:16:57.842 And 353 00:16:57.973 --> 00:17:02.021 - Mary, is your husband there with you right now? 354 00:17:02.151 --> 00:17:03.326 - Uh-huh. 355 00:17:03.457 --> 00:17:04.458 Yeah. 356 00:17:08.766 --> 00:17:10.594 He's so wonderful. 357 00:17:10.725 --> 00:17:12.988 [clock ticking] 358 00:17:13.119 --> 00:17:14.468 - Well, thanks for letting me know 359 00:17:14.598 --> 00:17:17.340 you're OK, and have a good rest of your night. 360 00:17:17.471 --> 00:17:18.341 - Yeah. 361 00:17:18.472 --> 00:17:19.473 Happy new year. 362 00:17:19.603 --> 00:17:20.604 - You too. 363 00:17:25.783 --> 00:17:27.698 [dial pad beeping] 364 00:17:28.786 --> 00:17:31.050 [line trilling] 365 00:17:31.180 --> 00:17:32.703 - Palm Springs Police department. 366 00:17:32.834 --> 00:17:34.444 What's your emergency? 367 00:17:34.575 --> 00:17:36.490 - Hi, my name is Steven Thomas and I'm a hotline responder 368 00:17:36.620 --> 00:17:38.361 at the Lifeline Call Center. 369 00:17:38.492 --> 00:17:42.539 There's a lady in your area at 578 Flamingo Drive 370 00:17:42.670 --> 00:17:45.760 and I believe that there's a possible domestic violence 371 00:17:45.890 --> 00:17:48.415 situation with her husband. 372 00:17:48.545 --> 00:17:49.851 - All right. 373 00:17:49.981 --> 00:17:51.896 Let me put you through to an officer on patrol. 374 00:17:52.027 --> 00:17:53.550 Hang on. 375 00:17:53.681 --> 00:17:55.552 [tense music] 376 00:17:55.683 --> 00:17:58.599 [phone ringing] 377 00:18:03.647 --> 00:18:05.910 - This is Officer Fredericks with the Palm Springs PD. 378 00:18:06.041 --> 00:18:07.956 You're reporting a domestic violence case? 379 00:18:08.087 --> 00:18:09.000 - Yes. 380 00:18:09.131 --> 00:18:13.179 She's at 578 Flamingo Drive. 381 00:18:13.309 --> 00:18:15.006 That's the address dispatch sent us. 382 00:18:15.137 --> 00:18:16.486 Is there a number I can reach you at? 383 00:18:16.617 --> 00:18:17.487 - Sure. 384 00:18:17.618 --> 00:18:23.189 My cell is 717-555-6455. 385 00:18:23.319 --> 00:18:24.712 - Great. 386 00:18:24.842 --> 00:18:26.627 I'll give you a call back once we get eyes on her. 387 00:18:26.757 --> 00:18:27.758 What was the name again? 388 00:18:27.889 --> 00:18:28.759 - Mary. 389 00:18:28.890 --> 00:18:30.892 I didn't get a last name. 390 00:18:31.022 --> 00:18:31.936 - OK. 391 00:18:32.067 --> 00:18:33.590 Well, we're on our way now. 392 00:18:33.721 --> 00:18:34.591 - Great. 393 00:18:34.722 --> 00:18:35.679 I appreciate it. 394 00:18:38.682 --> 00:18:41.163 [eerie music] 395 00:18:47.691 --> 00:18:50.085 [deep rumbling] 396 00:18:50.216 --> 00:18:52.653 [glasses clinking] 397 00:19:00.095 --> 00:19:02.619 [lights buzzing] 398 00:19:17.112 --> 00:19:18.983 [water draining] 399 00:19:19.114 --> 00:19:21.595 [phone rings] 400 00:19:33.172 --> 00:19:34.303 Lifeline. 401 00:19:34.434 --> 00:19:36.653 [light breathing] 402 00:19:38.525 --> 00:19:39.917 - I'm going to kill myself. 403 00:19:40.048 --> 00:19:40.962 - OK. 404 00:19:43.312 --> 00:19:45.140 Can you tell me a little bit about why? 405 00:19:50.624 --> 00:19:53.192 - It wouldn't make sense. 406 00:19:53.322 --> 00:19:56.195 - Well, I'd like to try and understand. 407 00:19:56.325 --> 00:19:58.240 I'm in no rush. 408 00:19:58.371 --> 00:20:00.590 [ominous music] 409 00:20:02.505 --> 00:20:05.813 Can you tell me a little bit about yourself? 410 00:20:05.943 --> 00:20:07.249 - Like what? 411 00:20:07.380 --> 00:20:09.382 - You-- you have a job? 412 00:20:09.512 --> 00:20:12.776 You-- are you a student? 413 00:20:12.907 --> 00:20:14.517 - I go to UCLA. 414 00:20:14.648 --> 00:20:15.692 - Oh, yeah? 415 00:20:15.823 --> 00:20:17.259 I went there. 416 00:20:17.390 --> 00:20:18.739 I mean, a while ago, but. 417 00:20:18.869 --> 00:20:23.178 Um, what's your name? 418 00:20:23.309 --> 00:20:24.614 - Steven. 419 00:20:24.745 --> 00:20:25.833 - Steven. 420 00:20:25.963 --> 00:20:28.575 That's my name, too. 421 00:20:28.705 --> 00:20:31.230 Where are you right now, Steven? 422 00:20:31.360 --> 00:20:32.753 - In a motel. 423 00:20:32.883 --> 00:20:34.581 [pencil scratches] 424 00:20:34.711 --> 00:20:35.625 I bought a gun. 425 00:20:39.194 --> 00:20:41.109 - I got to be honest with you, Steven. 426 00:20:41.240 --> 00:20:48.725 Um, guns make me really nervous in this kind of situation. 427 00:20:48.856 --> 00:20:51.467 Did you tell anyone else where you are? 428 00:20:51.598 --> 00:20:55.515 - I-- I tried to tell my girlfriend, 429 00:20:55.645 --> 00:21:02.913 but-- or ex-girlfriend, but we just got into a fight, so. 430 00:21:03.044 --> 00:21:05.873 - I'm sorry to hear that. 431 00:21:06.003 --> 00:21:07.744 What's your girlfriend's name? 432 00:21:07.875 --> 00:21:10.269 [tense music] 433 00:21:11.705 --> 00:21:15.274 - It's Vivian, but everybody calls her Viv. 434 00:21:15.404 --> 00:21:16.884 - And you said your name is Steven? 435 00:21:17.014 --> 00:21:17.928 - Yeah. 436 00:21:18.059 --> 00:21:19.278 - What's your last name? 437 00:21:19.408 --> 00:21:20.366 - Thomas. 438 00:21:22.542 --> 00:21:24.152 - Thomas. 439 00:21:24.283 --> 00:21:28.287 So you wouldn't happen to have gone to Woodrow Wilson High 440 00:21:28.417 --> 00:21:30.854 School, did you? 441 00:21:30.985 --> 00:21:31.812 - Yeah. 442 00:21:31.942 --> 00:21:33.683 How did you know that? 443 00:21:33.814 --> 00:21:35.511 [laughter] 444 00:21:35.642 --> 00:21:37.296 - I'm going to put you on hold for just a second, all right? 445 00:21:40.995 --> 00:21:43.389 [line trilling] 446 00:21:48.089 --> 00:21:49.003 - Hello? 447 00:21:49.133 --> 00:21:50.091 - Hey, it's me. 448 00:21:50.221 --> 00:21:51.527 - Dad? 449 00:21:51.658 --> 00:21:54.225 - Yeah, nice work with that prank call there. 450 00:21:54.356 --> 00:21:55.488 - What? 451 00:21:55.618 --> 00:21:56.532 - That was good. 452 00:21:56.663 --> 00:21:58.534 You get your Mom in on that, too? 453 00:21:58.665 --> 00:22:01.320 - Dad, I seriously have no idea what you're talking about. 454 00:22:01.450 --> 00:22:02.799 [ominous music] 455 00:22:02.930 --> 00:22:04.671 - This is the guy that called in claiming to be me, 456 00:22:04.801 --> 00:22:06.107 you knew nothing about that? 457 00:22:06.237 --> 00:22:07.413 - No. 458 00:22:07.543 --> 00:22:09.110 [laughter] 459 00:22:09.240 --> 00:22:11.939 And, Dad, it's really loud here right now, so-- 460 00:22:12.069 --> 00:22:13.767 - OK. All right. 461 00:22:13.897 --> 00:22:15.159 Well, we'll talk about this later. 462 00:22:15.290 --> 00:22:16.944 - OK, bye. 463 00:22:17.074 --> 00:22:19.468 [droning music] 464 00:22:23.516 --> 00:22:24.386 - Hey. 465 00:22:24.517 --> 00:22:25.996 So-- so listen, buddy. 466 00:22:26.127 --> 00:22:29.086 - You seriously just put me on hold? 467 00:22:29.217 --> 00:22:30.740 I came here to blow my brains out 468 00:22:30.871 --> 00:22:32.002 and you're too fucking busy-- - OK. 469 00:22:32.133 --> 00:22:32.829 - --to stay on the phone with me? 470 00:22:32.960 --> 00:22:33.874 - Hey, listen. Listen. 471 00:22:34.004 --> 00:22:35.005 Listen. I'm sorry. 472 00:22:36.006 --> 00:22:36.703 I'm sorry that-- you're right. 473 00:22:36.833 --> 00:22:38.705 That was wrong of me. 474 00:22:38.835 --> 00:22:40.184 I apologize. 475 00:22:40.315 --> 00:22:41.795 [sniffles] 476 00:22:41.925 --> 00:22:43.449 - Whatever. 477 00:22:43.579 --> 00:22:45.146 It doesn't matter. 478 00:22:45.276 --> 00:22:46.713 It's happening no matter what, so. 479 00:22:50.673 --> 00:22:52.283 - When you say it's happening, you mean-- 480 00:22:52.414 --> 00:22:55.548 - I mean, I'm going to kill myself. 481 00:22:55.678 --> 00:22:56.592 I've already decided. 482 00:22:59.639 --> 00:23:02.032 - But you haven't done it yet and that's a great thing. 483 00:23:02.163 --> 00:23:03.164 - I told myself midnight. 484 00:23:06.123 --> 00:23:08.691 - Is there a reason that you gave yourself a time? 485 00:23:08.822 --> 00:23:10.345 - I don't know. 486 00:23:10.476 --> 00:23:12.565 It helps when I have a goal, I guess. 487 00:23:12.695 --> 00:23:13.696 [somber music] 488 00:23:13.827 --> 00:23:17.308 - Well, you seem pretty determined. 489 00:23:17.439 --> 00:23:20.137 Did you get the gun for this purpose? 490 00:23:20.268 --> 00:23:22.226 - Yeah. 491 00:23:22.357 --> 00:23:25.926 - It's either I use it on myself or on-- 492 00:23:26.056 --> 00:23:27.144 - On who? 493 00:23:27.275 --> 00:23:29.059 [droning music] 494 00:23:30.060 --> 00:23:32.236 - Doesn't matter. 495 00:23:32.367 --> 00:23:35.239 I'm too much of a coward to do that. 496 00:23:35.370 --> 00:23:37.851 He always knew that about me. 497 00:23:37.981 --> 00:23:41.724 I only called because I don't want to be alone when I do it. 498 00:23:41.855 --> 00:23:43.465 It said this hotline was anonymous, 499 00:23:43.596 --> 00:23:46.033 so I figured if I told anyone else, they'd call the cops. 500 00:23:46.163 --> 00:23:47.904 - Well, that's not going to happen with me. 501 00:23:48.035 --> 00:23:51.430 But I got to be honest with you, this, uh-- 502 00:23:51.560 --> 00:23:52.953 this worries me, Steven. 503 00:23:53.083 --> 00:23:54.563 - But you're not going to call them though, right? 504 00:23:54.694 --> 00:23:55.999 'Cause if I hear one fucking siren-- 505 00:23:56.130 --> 00:23:57.174 - No, no. 506 00:23:57.305 --> 00:23:58.437 I'm not going to call the cops. 507 00:23:58.567 --> 00:24:00.090 I just want to keep talking to you, OK? 508 00:24:00.221 --> 00:24:01.396 That's it. 509 00:24:01.527 --> 00:24:04.355 Can we do that? 510 00:24:04.486 --> 00:24:06.009 - Yeah. 511 00:24:06.140 --> 00:24:08.534 - OK. 512 00:24:08.664 --> 00:24:10.623 - As long as you know, it won't matter. 513 00:24:10.753 --> 00:24:11.885 [clock ticking] 514 00:24:12.015 --> 00:24:15.279 We can't change what's happening. 515 00:24:15.410 --> 00:24:19.893 - What specifically do you feel like you can't change? 516 00:24:20.023 --> 00:24:22.025 - I-- I just mean, generally. 517 00:24:22.156 --> 00:24:27.291 I-- I feel like we all believe we're in control when we aren't. 518 00:24:27.422 --> 00:24:28.858 - So you feel powerless? 519 00:24:28.989 --> 00:24:30.643 - I don't feel, I am. 520 00:24:30.773 --> 00:24:31.905 I am fucking powerless. 521 00:24:32.035 --> 00:24:34.951 That's why I know nothing matters. 522 00:24:35.082 --> 00:24:38.085 I know people say that all the time, but it's true. 523 00:24:38.215 --> 00:24:40.435 It's, like, the only thing that's true. 524 00:24:40.566 --> 00:24:42.306 [clock ticking] 525 00:24:42.437 --> 00:24:43.612 - That nothing matters? 526 00:24:43.743 --> 00:24:45.962 - We're all just talking to ourselves, 527 00:24:46.093 --> 00:24:49.226 telling ourselves the same things over and over, 528 00:24:49.357 --> 00:24:51.925 putting meaning into every little-- 529 00:24:52.055 --> 00:24:53.840 we're pretending to be people we aren't, all 530 00:24:53.970 --> 00:24:57.496 of us, acting like everything's perfect and normal. 531 00:24:57.626 --> 00:25:00.020 [ominous music] 532 00:25:00.150 --> 00:25:01.151 - And what I did. 533 00:25:04.372 --> 00:25:05.373 - What did you do? 534 00:25:09.856 --> 00:25:15.122 - I mean, what I let that happen. 535 00:25:15.252 --> 00:25:16.166 - Good boy. 536 00:25:20.954 --> 00:25:22.129 - What did you let happen? 537 00:25:22.259 --> 00:25:23.260 - Forget it. 538 00:25:26.916 --> 00:25:28.614 - Steven. 539 00:25:28.744 --> 00:25:32.531 - Once I do this, I'll be free. 540 00:25:32.661 --> 00:25:34.968 I mean, it's all insane. 541 00:25:35.098 --> 00:25:38.972 And if the whole world is insane, then-- 542 00:25:39.102 --> 00:25:42.410 then why is it insane to want to end my life? 543 00:25:42.541 --> 00:25:45.892 - I think it would be tragic, but insane? 544 00:25:48.459 --> 00:25:49.460 I don't know. 545 00:25:52.551 --> 00:25:53.900 You see, there's a part of me that 546 00:25:54.030 --> 00:25:55.945 can understand the feeling that the whole world is 547 00:25:56.076 --> 00:25:59.035 rigged against us. 548 00:25:59.166 --> 00:26:01.037 And no matter how hard we try, life just 549 00:26:01.168 --> 00:26:05.738 keeps putting obstacles in our way, sometimes worse. 550 00:26:05.868 --> 00:26:09.089 Sometimes things feel like they're 551 00:26:09.219 --> 00:26:12.658 so bad that that it is too much for one person to take on. 552 00:26:15.617 --> 00:26:17.576 Alone, at least. 553 00:26:17.706 --> 00:26:20.143 [eerie atmospheric music] 554 00:26:20.274 --> 00:26:25.801 But that's why you called in and I think that's great. 555 00:26:31.111 --> 00:26:32.112 Steven? 556 00:26:35.245 --> 00:26:36.420 You still with me? 557 00:26:40.381 --> 00:26:42.731 [machine beeps] 558 00:26:50.565 --> 00:26:52.785 [chatter] 559 00:27:01.228 --> 00:27:03.186 [phone beeps] 560 00:27:03.317 --> 00:27:05.711 [line trilling] 561 00:27:09.236 --> 00:27:10.672 - Hi, this is Vivian. 562 00:27:10.803 --> 00:27:11.978 Please leave a message. 563 00:27:12.108 --> 00:27:13.022 [beep] 564 00:27:13.153 --> 00:27:14.458 - Hey, it's me. 565 00:27:14.589 --> 00:27:19.028 Just had a call that threw me for a loop. 566 00:27:19.159 --> 00:27:20.943 Give me a call when you get it. 567 00:27:21.074 --> 00:27:22.641 I love you. 568 00:27:22.771 --> 00:27:25.034 [lights buzzing] 569 00:27:27.820 --> 00:27:28.734 - OK. 570 00:27:28.864 --> 00:27:30.083 I'm so sorry. 571 00:27:30.213 --> 00:27:31.475 I know you're about to head out, but I 572 00:27:31.606 --> 00:27:33.216 need to run down to the restroom downstairs. 573 00:27:33.347 --> 00:27:35.392 Can you cover for me for just a sec? 574 00:27:35.523 --> 00:27:36.611 - Yeah, sure. 575 00:27:36.742 --> 00:27:37.656 - Thank you. 576 00:27:37.786 --> 00:27:39.135 - Uh-huh. 577 00:27:39.266 --> 00:27:40.615 [gentle music] 578 00:27:40.746 --> 00:27:42.922 [ringtone plays] 579 00:27:43.052 --> 00:27:44.663 - Hello? - Hi. 580 00:27:44.793 --> 00:27:45.794 It's Officer Fredericks. 581 00:27:45.925 --> 00:27:46.969 - Oh, yeah. 582 00:27:47.100 --> 00:27:47.970 - This is my cell. 583 00:27:48.101 --> 00:27:49.755 I just wanted to follow up. 584 00:27:49.885 --> 00:27:53.106 We arrested the victim's husband you called in about, a Jason. 585 00:27:53.236 --> 00:27:54.324 - Oh, OK. 586 00:27:54.455 --> 00:27:56.370 And-- and how's Mary? 587 00:27:56.500 --> 00:27:58.198 - She was worked up for sure. 588 00:27:58.328 --> 00:28:00.287 And we had an ambulance take her to the hospital 589 00:28:00.417 --> 00:28:01.897 since her head was injured pretty bad. 590 00:28:02.028 --> 00:28:03.769 - Oh my goodness. 591 00:28:03.899 --> 00:28:05.901 - But hey. 592 00:28:06.032 --> 00:28:07.903 It's great you called. 593 00:28:08.034 --> 00:28:09.426 Who knows how bad things could have 594 00:28:09.557 --> 00:28:11.254 gotten if we hadn't showed up? 595 00:28:11.385 --> 00:28:12.952 - Well, thank you. 596 00:28:13.082 --> 00:28:14.736 - I'll give you a call this week since we'll 597 00:28:14.867 --> 00:28:16.651 need a full statement. 598 00:28:16.782 --> 00:28:17.957 - For sure. 599 00:28:18.087 --> 00:28:19.349 - This is the best number to reach you at? 600 00:28:19.480 --> 00:28:20.655 - Yes, it is. 601 00:28:20.786 --> 00:28:22.004 - OK. 602 00:28:22.135 --> 00:28:23.266 You have a good rest of your night, sir. 603 00:28:23.397 --> 00:28:24.572 - You too. 604 00:28:24.703 --> 00:28:26.095 Happy new year. 605 00:28:26.226 --> 00:28:28.576 [elevator whirrs] 606 00:28:28.707 --> 00:28:31.057 [doors grind shut] 607 00:28:33.624 --> 00:28:35.496 [horn honks] 608 00:28:36.758 --> 00:28:38.194 [police radio chatter] - Hey, there. 609 00:28:38.325 --> 00:28:39.500 I'm just going to use your restroom really quick, 610 00:28:39.630 --> 00:28:40.544 all right? 611 00:28:40.675 --> 00:28:42.503 - Key's on the desk right there. 612 00:28:42.633 --> 00:28:44.418 - Thank you. 613 00:28:44.548 --> 00:28:46.942 [water splashing] 614 00:28:47.073 --> 00:28:49.423 [muzak playing] 615 00:28:57.213 --> 00:28:59.694 [high-pitched ringing] 616 00:29:04.003 --> 00:29:04.873 - You never listen. 617 00:29:05.004 --> 00:29:06.919 You never listen. 618 00:29:07.049 --> 00:29:09.356 [crying] 619 00:29:09.486 --> 00:29:11.532 Listen now, huh? 620 00:29:11.662 --> 00:29:13.403 [piano plays] 621 00:29:13.534 --> 00:29:15.362 [glasses shatter] 622 00:29:15.492 --> 00:29:17.930 - You're going listen to me. 623 00:29:18.060 --> 00:29:20.410 [woman crying] 624 00:29:25.154 --> 00:29:26.025 - Yeah. 625 00:29:26.155 --> 00:29:27.374 All right. 626 00:29:27.504 --> 00:29:29.898 [door clicks open] 627 00:29:32.379 --> 00:29:33.467 - What was that? 628 00:29:33.597 --> 00:29:34.903 - Damn gunshot victim. 629 00:29:35.034 --> 00:29:37.166 - Those doctors, there's a hospital nearby? 630 00:29:37.297 --> 00:29:39.125 - Yeah, next door in the west tower. 631 00:29:39.255 --> 00:29:42.389 I'll tell you, a bunch of strange happenings going on 632 00:29:42.519 --> 00:29:43.390 in this plot. 633 00:29:43.520 --> 00:29:45.827 Man. 634 00:29:45.958 --> 00:29:46.828 You on eight, right? 635 00:29:46.959 --> 00:29:48.438 - Yeah. 636 00:29:48.569 --> 00:29:49.962 - Yeah, you'll probably see me around here later. 637 00:29:50.092 --> 00:29:52.051 - Graveyard shift for us, huh? 638 00:29:52.181 --> 00:29:54.401 - Man, it gets lonely around here on New Year's Eve. 639 00:29:54.531 --> 00:29:56.359 I tell you. 640 00:29:56.490 --> 00:29:57.621 - But-- 641 00:29:57.752 --> 00:29:58.622 [lights buzzing] 642 00:29:58.753 --> 00:30:00.668 - I don't believe this. 643 00:30:00.799 --> 00:30:02.496 Is this happening upstairs, too? 644 00:30:02.626 --> 00:30:04.367 - Yeah, there's something similar. 645 00:30:04.498 --> 00:30:06.979 It must've been from that earthquake earlier. 646 00:30:07.109 --> 00:30:08.067 - We had one? 647 00:30:08.197 --> 00:30:09.633 - Yeah, you didn't feel it? 648 00:30:09.764 --> 00:30:11.810 - I must have missed it. 649 00:30:11.940 --> 00:30:12.985 - Hey. Thanks again. 650 00:30:13.115 --> 00:30:14.290 - Oh. No problem. 651 00:30:14.421 --> 00:30:15.378 Happy New Year. 652 00:30:15.509 --> 00:30:16.597 - You too. 653 00:30:16.727 --> 00:30:18.642 [ringtone plays] 654 00:30:18.773 --> 00:30:19.774 - Andrew. 655 00:30:19.905 --> 00:30:21.123 [horn honks] 656 00:30:21.254 --> 00:30:22.255 - Hey, man. 657 00:30:22.385 --> 00:30:23.604 Sorry, I just got your message. 658 00:30:23.734 --> 00:30:24.561 - Yeah, no worries. 659 00:30:24.692 --> 00:30:25.780 - Yeah. 660 00:30:25.911 --> 00:30:26.825 It's crazy. 661 00:30:26.955 --> 00:30:28.304 It's almost midnight here. 662 00:30:28.435 --> 00:30:31.133 The boys somehow have more energy than me. 663 00:30:31.264 --> 00:30:33.527 - Yeah, they look really big in the photos you sent. 664 00:30:33.657 --> 00:30:35.181 - Yeah. Tell me about it. 665 00:30:35.311 --> 00:30:37.009 - Hey, I-- 666 00:30:37.139 --> 00:30:39.620 I was meaning to call you earlier this week, you know? 667 00:30:39.750 --> 00:30:41.187 It's-- it's just-- it's been a little. 668 00:30:41.317 --> 00:30:42.231 - No, no, no. 669 00:30:42.362 --> 00:30:43.232 I get it. 670 00:30:43.363 --> 00:30:44.494 I get it. 671 00:30:44.625 --> 00:30:47.062 It's weird. 672 00:30:47.193 --> 00:30:51.850 I've been thinking about Mom and Dad recently and-- 673 00:30:51.980 --> 00:30:53.112 and I don't know. 674 00:30:53.242 --> 00:30:55.897 It's-- It's like memories of them. 675 00:30:56.028 --> 00:30:57.551 They're fading, you know? 676 00:30:57.681 --> 00:30:59.988 Like, I can only remember them in bits and pieces now. 677 00:31:02.817 --> 00:31:04.645 Sorry, I-- I don't know what I'm trying to say. 678 00:31:04.775 --> 00:31:05.689 - No, I-- I get it. 679 00:31:05.820 --> 00:31:07.691 It's the same for me. 680 00:31:07.822 --> 00:31:10.520 It feels like it's easier to block things 681 00:31:10.651 --> 00:31:12.522 out most of the time. 682 00:31:12.653 --> 00:31:15.308 You know I've been thinking about it, too. 683 00:31:15.438 --> 00:31:20.052 I mean, how can we not on a night like tonight, you know? 684 00:31:20.182 --> 00:31:23.751 Do you remember that time when dad took Mom on that trip 685 00:31:23.882 --> 00:31:25.579 and left us alone for the weekend 686 00:31:25.709 --> 00:31:27.842 and didn't tell us where they were going or anything? 687 00:31:27.973 --> 00:31:29.583 They just left. 688 00:31:29.713 --> 00:31:31.890 - Yeah. 689 00:31:32.020 --> 00:31:33.892 Yeah, I remember that. 690 00:31:34.022 --> 00:31:36.329 [somber music] 691 00:31:39.854 --> 00:31:42.204 [engine rumbles] 692 00:31:45.207 --> 00:31:49.951 - You said something to me I've never forgotten. 693 00:31:50.082 --> 00:31:51.039 - What if he kills her? 694 00:31:54.303 --> 00:31:56.479 - I know they came back a few days later. 695 00:31:56.610 --> 00:31:59.091 She was OK, but-- 696 00:31:59.221 --> 00:32:03.617 and then with me going so far away for college. 697 00:32:03.747 --> 00:32:10.711 We've never talked about it, but I could have done more. 698 00:32:10.841 --> 00:32:13.888 I know that. 699 00:32:14.019 --> 00:32:15.107 Hey, Steve. 700 00:32:15.237 --> 00:32:16.282 Hang on one sec. 701 00:32:16.412 --> 00:32:18.545 Honey! 702 00:32:18.675 --> 00:32:19.763 Boys. 703 00:32:19.894 --> 00:32:21.156 [stammers] 704 00:32:21.287 --> 00:32:23.593 I'm sorry, we're closing in on midnight here. 705 00:32:23.724 --> 00:32:25.465 - Yeah, no. 706 00:32:25.595 --> 00:32:26.901 I gotta run, too. 707 00:32:27.032 --> 00:32:28.424 I'm at work, so. 708 00:32:28.555 --> 00:32:32.254 - Hey, but let's find a time to talk more, you know, 709 00:32:32.385 --> 00:32:35.475 when I'm not being used as a jungle gym. 710 00:32:35.605 --> 00:32:36.955 - Yeah, for sure. 711 00:32:37.085 --> 00:32:39.218 [energetic music] 712 00:33:23.262 --> 00:33:24.611 - Hello? - Steven? 713 00:33:24.741 --> 00:33:26.134 Hi. 714 00:33:26.265 --> 00:33:28.876 It's Matt Chauvins, a colleague of your wife's. 715 00:33:29.007 --> 00:33:29.920 - Yeah. 716 00:33:30.051 --> 00:33:31.444 Hi, how are you? 717 00:33:31.574 --> 00:33:32.488 - I'm good. 718 00:33:32.619 --> 00:33:33.750 I'm good, I'm good. 719 00:33:33.881 --> 00:33:34.795 Yourself? 720 00:33:34.925 --> 00:33:35.752 - I'm great. 721 00:33:35.883 --> 00:33:37.232 Um, funny. 722 00:33:37.363 --> 00:33:40.366 I'm actually looking at your Wikipedia page. 723 00:33:40.496 --> 00:33:41.802 [laughter] 724 00:33:41.932 --> 00:33:43.325 - No kidding? 725 00:33:43.456 --> 00:33:48.113 - Yeah, I-- I heard that Vivian sent my draft to you. 726 00:33:48.243 --> 00:33:49.549 So sorry. 727 00:33:49.679 --> 00:33:51.072 I just didn't expect to hear from you so soon. 728 00:33:51.203 --> 00:33:54.423 - Well, good writers seek out other good writers 729 00:33:54.554 --> 00:33:55.468 whenever they can. 730 00:33:55.598 --> 00:33:56.686 - Hey, you're the professional. 731 00:33:56.817 --> 00:33:58.036 I'm just a wannabe. 732 00:33:58.166 --> 00:34:00.560 - Oh, please don't sell yourself short. 733 00:34:00.690 --> 00:34:01.865 - Well, I-- I'll-- 734 00:34:01.996 --> 00:34:03.606 I'll admit, by the end of college, 735 00:34:03.737 --> 00:34:07.349 I was dead set on either being a psychologist or a sci-fi writer, 736 00:34:07.480 --> 00:34:08.698 so you know. 737 00:34:08.829 --> 00:34:10.352 - Oh yeah? 738 00:34:10.483 --> 00:34:11.440 - Yeah, yeah. 739 00:34:11.571 --> 00:34:12.876 It's going to be one or the other-- 740 00:34:13.007 --> 00:34:15.401 [building rumbles] 741 00:34:15.531 --> 00:34:17.403 [lights clicking] 742 00:34:17.533 --> 00:34:19.927 [glass breaking] 743 00:34:23.409 --> 00:34:24.366 - Hello? 744 00:34:27.500 --> 00:34:28.675 - Hi, sorry. 745 00:34:28.805 --> 00:34:30.198 Did you-- did you feel that earthquake? 746 00:34:30.329 --> 00:34:31.678 - No, no. 747 00:34:31.808 --> 00:34:33.941 It must have not hit us here in the Valley. 748 00:34:34.072 --> 00:34:35.029 Are you all right? 749 00:34:35.160 --> 00:34:38.119 - Uh, yeah. 750 00:34:38.250 --> 00:34:41.209 Yeah, all good. 751 00:34:41.340 --> 00:34:43.429 - Good. 752 00:34:43.559 --> 00:34:45.822 So I know it's New Year's Eve. 753 00:34:45.953 --> 00:34:47.607 I hope I'm not interrupting 754 00:34:47.737 --> 00:34:50.436 - No, not at the moment. 755 00:34:50.566 --> 00:34:54.222 - Well, I had to call because honestly, I'm 756 00:34:54.353 --> 00:34:56.659 reading this memoir and I'm on the edge of my seat. 757 00:34:56.790 --> 00:34:57.573 I couldn't put it down. 758 00:34:57.704 --> 00:34:58.705 - Really? 759 00:35:00.620 --> 00:35:02.535 - That-- that means a lot. 760 00:35:02.665 --> 00:35:03.579 - Yeah no. 761 00:35:03.710 --> 00:35:06.104 It's gripping stuff. 762 00:35:06.234 --> 00:35:10.020 I really can't wait to read the rest. 763 00:35:10.151 --> 00:35:13.763 - Well, I figured it was more or less finished, page count-wise. 764 00:35:13.894 --> 00:35:15.287 - Huh. 765 00:35:15.417 --> 00:35:17.115 So I'm just going to give you my personal opinion. 766 00:35:17.245 --> 00:35:18.855 You can take it, you can leave it, but-- 767 00:35:18.986 --> 00:35:20.074 - No, no. 768 00:35:20.205 --> 00:35:22.903 Please, I-- I'd love the feedback. 769 00:35:23.033 --> 00:35:26.733 - Well, it feels like you stopped short right 770 00:35:26.863 --> 00:35:29.431 as things with your father start heating up. 771 00:35:29.562 --> 00:35:31.825 [ominous music] 772 00:35:32.956 --> 00:35:33.957 - Can I trust you? 773 00:35:37.222 --> 00:35:39.876 - But the way you set everything up until this point, 774 00:35:40.007 --> 00:35:42.749 the father-son dynamic, yeah. 775 00:35:42.879 --> 00:35:47.362 I just figured there was more to explore with that relationship. 776 00:35:47.493 --> 00:35:50.060 - With my father? 777 00:35:50.191 --> 00:35:51.845 OK. 778 00:35:51.975 --> 00:35:54.500 Because I don't think I really got into our relationship 779 00:35:54.630 --> 00:35:57.155 until around chapter eight or so. 780 00:35:57.285 --> 00:35:58.634 - Huh. 781 00:35:58.765 --> 00:36:00.941 Vivian must have sent me an earlier manuscript. 782 00:36:01.071 --> 00:36:02.769 This copy ends at chapter five. 783 00:36:02.899 --> 00:36:03.900 - Oh. 784 00:36:06.599 --> 00:36:09.428 I actually have the latest draft emailed to myself 785 00:36:09.558 --> 00:36:12.822 and I can forward that to you right now. 786 00:36:12.953 --> 00:36:14.259 - Yeah, that'd be great. 787 00:36:20.308 --> 00:36:22.441 The writing is terrific. 788 00:36:22.571 --> 00:36:24.094 And your teenage years? I mean-- 789 00:36:24.225 --> 00:36:25.052 [exhales] 790 00:36:25.183 --> 00:36:27.010 It's harrowing, honestly. 791 00:36:27.141 --> 00:36:31.493 Yeah I just end up sticking to sci-fi and political thrillers. 792 00:36:31.624 --> 00:36:34.801 Maybe I'm too afraid of getting personal. 793 00:36:34.931 --> 00:36:37.195 [phone beeps] 794 00:36:37.325 --> 00:36:38.239 - Man, I'm sorry. 795 00:36:38.370 --> 00:36:39.719 I've got to call you right back. 796 00:36:39.849 --> 00:36:41.590 - Oh, OK. 797 00:36:41.721 --> 00:36:43.636 Let's-- let's talk later. 798 00:36:43.766 --> 00:36:45.028 - Hey, Viv. 799 00:36:45.159 --> 00:36:46.465 - Hey, sorry. 800 00:36:46.595 --> 00:36:48.206 I just got your message. - It's all right. 801 00:36:48.336 --> 00:36:49.294 It's no problem. 802 00:36:49.424 --> 00:36:51.818 - Have you talked to Jeff? 803 00:36:51.948 --> 00:36:53.907 - Yeah, I talked to him about an hour ago. 804 00:36:54.037 --> 00:36:56.301 He was still at the party. 805 00:36:56.431 --> 00:36:57.432 Why? 806 00:36:57.563 --> 00:36:59.347 - He hasn't responded to my text. 807 00:36:59.478 --> 00:37:00.783 - Really? 808 00:37:00.914 --> 00:37:02.220 - I mean, I know he's just down the street, 809 00:37:02.350 --> 00:37:03.873 but I've been trying to check in. 810 00:37:04.004 --> 00:37:05.092 Oh. Hang on. 811 00:37:05.223 --> 00:37:07.399 He just texted. 812 00:37:07.529 --> 00:37:10.750 He's saying he'll be home by 12:30 at the latest. 813 00:37:10.880 --> 00:37:12.447 - You're great. 814 00:37:12.578 --> 00:37:14.101 And how was your party? 815 00:37:14.232 --> 00:37:16.059 - Ugh, I left early. 816 00:37:16.190 --> 00:37:17.887 I'm actually on the road now. 817 00:37:18.018 --> 00:37:19.759 - That much fun, huh? 818 00:37:19.889 --> 00:37:20.934 - No, it was fine. 819 00:37:21.064 --> 00:37:22.675 It was good to see Julia. 820 00:37:22.805 --> 00:37:24.764 She spent at least an hour telling embarrassing stories 821 00:37:24.894 --> 00:37:26.287 from when we were young. 822 00:37:26.418 --> 00:37:27.810 How is everything on your end? 823 00:37:27.941 --> 00:37:29.290 Your voicemail sounded-- 824 00:37:29.421 --> 00:37:30.857 - No. 825 00:37:30.987 --> 00:37:34.252 I-- I think I just wanted to hear your voice, you know? 826 00:37:34.382 --> 00:37:36.558 Conversation's tonight got me thinking. 827 00:37:36.689 --> 00:37:37.864 - Yeah? 828 00:37:37.994 --> 00:37:38.908 - Yeah. 829 00:37:39.039 --> 00:37:40.997 - About what? 830 00:37:41.128 --> 00:37:43.086 - Us, the past. 831 00:37:43.217 --> 00:37:46.351 - Oh, not the past. 832 00:37:46.481 --> 00:37:49.092 - Yeah, that little old thing. 833 00:37:49.223 --> 00:37:50.964 [gentle music] 834 00:37:51.094 --> 00:37:55.882 I just think there's things I've forgotten, you know? 835 00:37:59.538 --> 00:38:02.628 Senior year of college and maybe before. 836 00:38:05.195 --> 00:38:07.937 Tell me what you remember about us. 837 00:38:08.068 --> 00:38:09.504 - About us? 838 00:38:09.635 --> 00:38:11.854 Wow. 839 00:38:11.985 --> 00:38:14.509 - Yeah. 840 00:38:14.640 --> 00:38:16.598 Yeah, from the beginning. 841 00:38:16.729 --> 00:38:20.080 - Well, I hope you haven't forgotten that much. 842 00:38:20.210 --> 00:38:23.475 - No, I'm just in a reflective moment. 843 00:38:23.605 --> 00:38:27.130 And I am writing a memoir, supposedly, anyway. 844 00:38:27.261 --> 00:38:28.262 - Yeah. 845 00:38:28.393 --> 00:38:30.569 That's true. 846 00:38:30.699 --> 00:38:32.222 So? 847 00:38:32.353 --> 00:38:35.835 - Well, we first met in psych class, 848 00:38:35.965 --> 00:38:42.972 but I don't think we started dating until physics I think. 849 00:38:43.103 --> 00:38:44.626 We ended up getting partnered together 850 00:38:44.757 --> 00:38:47.150 for a final, that paper we wrote. 851 00:38:47.281 --> 00:38:50.676 God, why do I always forget the name? 852 00:38:50.806 --> 00:38:52.112 - The many worlds one? 853 00:38:52.242 --> 00:38:53.374 - Yeah. 854 00:38:53.505 --> 00:38:55.202 Yeah, that one. 855 00:38:55.333 --> 00:38:57.900 - Which, by the way, I found that stashed at home earlier 856 00:38:58.031 --> 00:38:59.424 today. 857 00:38:59.554 --> 00:39:00.816 You kept that? 858 00:39:00.947 --> 00:39:01.730 - Yeah. 859 00:39:01.861 --> 00:39:03.166 Yeah. 860 00:39:03.297 --> 00:39:04.472 Probably just sentimental value, I guess. 861 00:39:04.603 --> 00:39:05.734 - Yeah. 862 00:39:05.865 --> 00:39:07.301 I hadn't thought about that till today. 863 00:39:07.432 --> 00:39:08.911 - Yeah. 864 00:39:09.042 --> 00:39:10.739 I don't know why I hold onto it. 865 00:39:10.870 --> 00:39:16.310 I just felt like we got through some tough times that year, so. 866 00:39:16.441 --> 00:39:20.009 But yeah, that-- that paper, it was 867 00:39:20.140 --> 00:39:21.968 way above our heads when we were trying 868 00:39:22.098 --> 00:39:24.318 to prove that parallel universes existed, 869 00:39:24.449 --> 00:39:26.320 or-- or something like that. 870 00:39:26.451 --> 00:39:29.236 I remember you had doubts. 871 00:39:29.367 --> 00:39:31.456 - Yeah, that sounds like me. 872 00:39:31.586 --> 00:39:33.893 [laughter] 873 00:39:34.023 --> 00:39:36.591 - You got all philosophical that first night working 874 00:39:36.722 --> 00:39:41.161 on the take-home, debating whether life was deterministic. 875 00:39:41.291 --> 00:39:45.687 You had this relentless belief in free will. 876 00:39:45.818 --> 00:39:50.475 And that, among other things, is why I fell in love with you. 877 00:39:53.695 --> 00:39:55.131 - What do you mean by we-- 878 00:39:55.262 --> 00:39:57.046 we got through tough times that year? 879 00:40:00.136 --> 00:40:02.225 - Well, you know. 880 00:40:02.356 --> 00:40:06.839 I mean, I don't even want to think about it now, but-- 881 00:40:06.969 --> 00:40:09.276 - No, what? 882 00:40:09.407 --> 00:40:10.756 - No. 883 00:40:10.886 --> 00:40:12.932 It just-- it's hard to think about how close things 884 00:40:13.062 --> 00:40:15.151 came to ending. 885 00:40:15.282 --> 00:40:17.327 - What do you mean, "ending?" 886 00:40:17.458 --> 00:40:18.981 - Just us. 887 00:40:19.112 --> 00:40:21.636 Everything that day in the car. 888 00:40:29.601 --> 00:40:34.127 It was a few weeks after you first told me about the scars 889 00:40:34.257 --> 00:40:38.348 on your back, where they really came from. 890 00:40:42.570 --> 00:40:44.093 - Go get our room. 891 00:40:44.224 --> 00:40:46.444 [tense music] 892 00:40:51.231 --> 00:40:53.799 - You were so afraid to talk about it back then. 893 00:40:53.929 --> 00:40:56.410 [tempo increasing] 894 00:41:18.171 --> 00:41:19.085 [smacks] 895 00:41:19.215 --> 00:41:20.086 [grunts] 896 00:41:20.216 --> 00:41:21.043 - No crying. 897 00:41:21.174 --> 00:41:22.044 [smacks] 898 00:41:22.175 --> 00:41:23.306 [grunts] 899 00:41:23.437 --> 00:41:24.612 Quiet, Steven. 900 00:41:24.743 --> 00:41:27.223 [unsettling music] 901 00:41:34.666 --> 00:41:37.146 [line trilling] 902 00:41:41.629 --> 00:41:43.109 [tone plays] 903 00:41:43.239 --> 00:41:45.894 - The number you dialed is not in service. 904 00:41:46.025 --> 00:41:47.940 [unsettling music] 905 00:41:48.070 --> 00:41:50.420 [line trilling] 906 00:41:50.551 --> 00:41:52.335 - Hello? 907 00:41:52.466 --> 00:41:54.512 - Jeff? 908 00:41:54.642 --> 00:41:55.730 - Sorry, man. 909 00:41:55.861 --> 00:41:57.384 You got the wrong number. - Come on. 910 00:41:57.515 --> 00:41:58.690 I know this is Jeff's number. 911 00:41:58.820 --> 00:41:59.647 I'm his father. 912 00:42:02.432 --> 00:42:03.738 [line trilling] 913 00:42:03.869 --> 00:42:04.696 - Hey. 914 00:42:04.826 --> 00:42:05.653 You've reached Tyler. 915 00:42:05.784 --> 00:42:07.002 Leave a message. 916 00:42:07.133 --> 00:42:09.570 [phone beeps] 917 00:42:24.672 --> 00:42:27.066 [keys clacking] 918 00:42:40.558 --> 00:42:43.038 [unsettling music] 919 00:42:51.090 --> 00:42:52.395 - Just go. 920 00:42:52.526 --> 00:42:54.920 [muffled rainfall] 921 00:42:56.922 --> 00:42:59.315 [door clicks open] 922 00:43:00.316 --> 00:43:01.274 [door slams shut] 923 00:43:01.404 --> 00:43:03.668 [phone ringing] 924 00:43:08.455 --> 00:43:09.456 - Lifeline. 925 00:43:13.721 --> 00:43:15.941 - It's me again. 926 00:43:16.071 --> 00:43:17.377 - Steven? 927 00:43:17.507 --> 00:43:18.465 - Yeah. 928 00:43:22.208 --> 00:43:24.253 - I'm glad you called back. 929 00:43:24.384 --> 00:43:26.081 You're still in the motel? 930 00:43:26.212 --> 00:43:27.126 - Yeah. 931 00:43:30.085 --> 00:43:31.565 Do you believe in the afterlife? 932 00:43:31.696 --> 00:43:33.611 [gentle music] 933 00:43:34.742 --> 00:43:38.616 - Well, um, I'm not religious. 934 00:43:38.746 --> 00:43:42.663 So in that sense, no. 935 00:43:42.794 --> 00:43:47.625 - You know, as a kid, the idea of the afterlife scared me. 936 00:43:47.755 --> 00:43:49.148 Even reincarnation. 937 00:43:52.238 --> 00:43:55.241 - Why do you think? 938 00:43:55.371 --> 00:43:56.895 - It's like that Greek myth of Sisyphus. 939 00:43:57.025 --> 00:43:58.461 You know that one? 940 00:43:58.592 --> 00:44:00.159 - Yeah, I do. 941 00:44:00.289 --> 00:44:01.856 The guy that pushes the rock up the hill over and over. 942 00:44:04.554 --> 00:44:06.165 - Sometimes I think that's all life 943 00:44:06.295 --> 00:44:10.604 is, these endless cycles of pain that we all just accept. 944 00:44:10.735 --> 00:44:14.347 I wanted to know that when we die, that it's just over. 945 00:44:14.477 --> 00:44:16.828 Just blackness No more consciousness, no-- 946 00:44:16.958 --> 00:44:19.526 no more pain. 947 00:44:19.657 --> 00:44:21.354 - And that's something you find comforting? 948 00:44:24.836 --> 00:44:26.446 - Finality, yeah. 949 00:44:29.188 --> 00:44:33.758 I hate the idea that there could be two possible outcomes. 950 00:44:33.888 --> 00:44:38.806 Death just feels like it should be so definitive. 951 00:44:38.937 --> 00:44:41.896 Like, it's the one thing you can't cheat. 952 00:44:42.027 --> 00:44:44.899 - Well, I told you, I don't think it's a-- an insane thought 953 00:44:45.030 --> 00:44:47.510 to contemplate death, or even think about taking your own 954 00:44:47.641 --> 00:44:49.034 life. But-- 955 00:44:49.164 --> 00:44:51.514 [somber music] 956 00:44:51.645 --> 00:44:55.605 I think with what you have going on, Steven, that this is-- 957 00:44:55.736 --> 00:44:56.868 - Stop. 958 00:44:56.998 --> 00:44:58.086 - Stop what? 959 00:44:58.217 --> 00:44:59.522 - Just get it-- 960 00:44:59.653 --> 00:45:01.220 get it through your fucking head that you're not 961 00:45:01.350 --> 00:45:02.656 going to talk me down. 962 00:45:02.787 --> 00:45:05.224 I'm not-- I'm not calling you to be fucking saved. 963 00:45:05.354 --> 00:45:07.356 You should treat this like it's already happened. 964 00:45:09.968 --> 00:45:11.360 - What's already happened? 965 00:45:11.491 --> 00:45:13.449 - Yeah, because there's no stopping it. 966 00:45:13.580 --> 00:45:16.670 I'm killing myself at midnight, like I said. 967 00:45:16.801 --> 00:45:19.107 [shrill music] 968 00:45:21.109 --> 00:45:24.765 But I agree, obviously, that it's not 969 00:45:24.896 --> 00:45:26.462 insane to think about it. 970 00:45:26.593 --> 00:45:30.553 It's insane if you don't think about killing yourself. 971 00:45:30.684 --> 00:45:34.296 Honestly, I think everyone, every person on-- 972 00:45:34.427 --> 00:45:39.084 on Earth is just doing therapy with themselves constantly. 973 00:45:39.214 --> 00:45:42.261 I mean, one part of our brain telling another part 974 00:45:42.391 --> 00:45:47.962 not to kill ourselves, that there's some reason to keep-- 975 00:45:48.093 --> 00:45:51.923 - That's an interesting way of looking at life. 976 00:45:52.053 --> 00:45:54.012 Maybe a little cynical, but I think it makes sense. 977 00:45:54.142 --> 00:45:55.361 - I don't know. 978 00:45:55.491 --> 00:45:57.798 It's so weird that I'm even doing this. 979 00:45:57.929 --> 00:46:00.279 - What, calling in tonight? 980 00:46:00.409 --> 00:46:01.410 - Yeah. 981 00:46:04.065 --> 00:46:06.415 I've always hated to talk about myself to other people, 982 00:46:06.546 --> 00:46:09.070 especially when I'm in a bad place. 983 00:46:09.201 --> 00:46:10.898 - Well, I'm happy that you did, because I'm 984 00:46:11.029 --> 00:46:14.423 a big believer in talking things out. 985 00:46:14.554 --> 00:46:16.512 I think it helps. 986 00:46:16.643 --> 00:46:19.211 You know, when I was younger, I think it was a lot like you, 987 00:46:19.341 --> 00:46:20.603 and I didn't talk about anything. 988 00:46:24.042 --> 00:46:25.957 Even my first girlfriend in college, 989 00:46:26.087 --> 00:46:30.309 I never told her anything personal, was never vulnerable. 990 00:46:30.439 --> 00:46:31.571 [muffled rain pattering] 991 00:46:31.701 --> 00:46:34.661 - If you can't talk to me, then-- 992 00:46:34.792 --> 00:46:37.185 then I can't do this anymore. 993 00:46:37.316 --> 00:46:39.884 - Then go. 994 00:46:40.014 --> 00:46:40.928 - Steven. 995 00:46:41.059 --> 00:46:41.973 - Just go. 996 00:46:44.323 --> 00:46:45.977 - You know, I've taken a few psych classes, 997 00:46:46.107 --> 00:46:48.153 so you don't have to bullshit me. 998 00:46:48.283 --> 00:46:49.763 - I'm not. 999 00:46:49.894 --> 00:46:51.591 - Yeah, you're just trying to bond with me. 1000 00:46:51.721 --> 00:46:53.245 I know how it works. 1001 00:46:53.375 --> 00:46:54.942 - Well, I'm sorry it came across that way, 1002 00:46:55.073 --> 00:47:00.034 but I do believe I can relate to what you're saying. 1003 00:47:00.165 --> 00:47:01.644 - How do you do it? 1004 00:47:01.775 --> 00:47:02.776 - Do what? 1005 00:47:05.474 --> 00:47:07.955 - I don't know, stay optimistic while taking calls 1006 00:47:08.086 --> 00:47:11.045 from people like me. 1007 00:47:11.176 --> 00:47:12.307 I mean, when you go home, what? 1008 00:47:12.438 --> 00:47:15.833 You just shut it off and forget about it? 1009 00:47:15.963 --> 00:47:17.443 - I wish it were that easy. 1010 00:47:17.573 --> 00:47:18.487 - So, what? 1011 00:47:18.618 --> 00:47:20.707 You get high or something? 1012 00:47:20.838 --> 00:47:21.839 - No. 1013 00:47:21.969 --> 00:47:24.319 [somber music] 1014 00:47:25.799 --> 00:47:27.496 Well, I have-- 1015 00:47:27.627 --> 00:47:30.151 I have been known to finish off a bottle of wine 1016 00:47:30.282 --> 00:47:33.111 when I get home from time to time. 1017 00:47:33.241 --> 00:47:41.423 But, um, I'm lucky to have people in my life I can rely on. 1018 00:47:41.554 --> 00:47:43.121 - Yeah. 1019 00:47:43.251 --> 00:47:44.383 That's the thing about luck. 1020 00:47:44.513 --> 00:47:46.907 No one wants to talk about it. 1021 00:47:47.038 --> 00:47:51.216 - You really feel like you don't have anyone you can rely on? 1022 00:47:56.438 --> 00:47:57.875 - Not after what he's done to me. 1023 00:48:04.011 --> 00:48:06.622 - Your father? 1024 00:48:06.753 --> 00:48:09.147 [sighs] 1025 00:48:11.062 --> 00:48:11.932 - What? 1026 00:48:12.063 --> 00:48:13.586 You never, ever listen. 1027 00:48:13.716 --> 00:48:15.196 - Sorry. I'll listen. 1028 00:48:15.327 --> 00:48:16.850 No! [bangs] 1029 00:48:16.981 --> 00:48:17.895 [sobbing] 1030 00:48:18.025 --> 00:48:19.374 - You going to listen now? 1031 00:48:19.505 --> 00:48:20.375 - Please. 1032 00:48:20.506 --> 00:48:21.420 - Huh? 1033 00:48:21.550 --> 00:48:22.508 - Please. 1034 00:48:22.638 --> 00:48:23.901 I want to see Thomas, please. 1035 00:48:24.031 --> 00:48:26.381 [somber music] 1036 00:48:29.819 --> 00:48:31.560 - Your girlfriend. 1037 00:48:31.691 --> 00:48:33.519 Tell me more about her. 1038 00:48:33.649 --> 00:48:35.695 [eerie music] 1039 00:48:35.825 --> 00:48:37.262 Vivian's her name, you said, right? 1040 00:48:39.351 --> 00:48:40.308 - Yeah. 1041 00:48:43.659 --> 00:48:46.445 And we've been dating since we were sophomores, so 1042 00:48:46.575 --> 00:48:49.230 a couple of years. 1043 00:48:49.361 --> 00:48:53.147 I-- I always thought she was out of my league. 1044 00:48:53.278 --> 00:48:54.801 I was surprised when she asked me out. 1045 00:48:58.065 --> 00:49:02.113 - I know you said that you guys had a fight. 1046 00:49:02.243 --> 00:49:06.552 But she seems like someone you've confided in before, 1047 00:49:06.682 --> 00:49:08.162 or trusted. 1048 00:49:08.293 --> 00:49:12.471 - I-- I-- I told you, I-- 1049 00:49:12.601 --> 00:49:14.821 I can't trust anyone. 1050 00:49:14.952 --> 00:49:16.779 [door creaks open] 1051 00:49:17.824 --> 00:49:20.218 Not after what he's done to me. 1052 00:49:20.348 --> 00:49:22.655 [ominous music] 1053 00:49:22.785 --> 00:49:25.136 [clock ticking] 1054 00:49:40.368 --> 00:49:42.980 Are you a father? 1055 00:49:43.110 --> 00:49:43.981 - I am, yeah. 1056 00:49:49.334 --> 00:49:50.813 - You seem like you'd be a good one. 1057 00:49:55.296 --> 00:49:56.254 I feel like that's rare. 1058 00:50:00.475 --> 00:50:02.173 - Can we talk about your dad for a minute? 1059 00:50:06.829 --> 00:50:12.183 'Cause he seems like a pretty hard guy to have for a parent. 1060 00:50:12.313 --> 00:50:14.011 - You could say that. 1061 00:50:14.141 --> 00:50:16.361 [uneasy music] 1062 00:50:16.491 --> 00:50:18.667 [gravel crunching] 1063 00:50:18.798 --> 00:50:20.843 - Did he abuse you? 1064 00:50:20.974 --> 00:50:22.236 [keys jangle] 1065 00:50:22.367 --> 00:50:24.499 - Yeah. 1066 00:50:24.630 --> 00:50:26.936 [door slams] 1067 00:50:28.155 --> 00:50:29.852 But he always disguised his love. 1068 00:50:33.682 --> 00:50:35.597 He's always with me. 1069 00:50:35.728 --> 00:50:44.128 His voice, I hear it even now. 1070 00:50:44.258 --> 00:50:46.913 I feel him hovering over me all the time. 1071 00:50:47.044 --> 00:50:52.223 Like, one day, he's telling me how proud he is of me, and-- 1072 00:50:52.353 --> 00:50:54.877 [crying gently] 1073 00:50:55.008 --> 00:50:57.141 - And then what? 1074 00:50:57.271 --> 00:50:59.534 [ominous music] 1075 00:51:02.842 --> 00:51:03.712 - Fuck it. 1076 00:51:03.843 --> 00:51:04.713 It doesn't matter. 1077 00:51:04.844 --> 00:51:05.758 - No, it does. 1078 00:51:05.888 --> 00:51:06.802 It does matter. 1079 00:51:06.933 --> 00:51:09.370 What were you going to say? 1080 00:51:09.501 --> 00:51:10.371 - Nothing. 1081 00:51:10.502 --> 00:51:11.459 - Steven. 1082 00:51:15.420 --> 00:51:18.684 Steven, can we push back this deadline that you've set? 1083 00:51:18.814 --> 00:51:19.772 Can we do that? 1084 00:51:22.470 --> 00:51:24.516 - No. 1085 00:51:24.646 --> 00:51:26.039 I can't. 1086 00:51:26.170 --> 00:51:27.954 I can't just let him eat away at me little by little. 1087 00:51:28.085 --> 00:51:29.956 - Then let's talk about that a little bit more. 1088 00:51:30.087 --> 00:51:31.131 - No! 1089 00:51:31.262 --> 00:51:33.394 I-- I can't fucking think straight. 1090 00:51:33.525 --> 00:51:35.092 I just-- I just want you to fucking talk 1091 00:51:35.222 --> 00:51:36.223 about something else, man. - All right, then. 1092 00:51:36.354 --> 00:51:37.529 All-- all right. I'm sorry. 1093 00:51:37.659 --> 00:51:38.878 Then let's talk about something else. 1094 00:51:39.008 --> 00:51:42.969 We can talk about whatever you want, OK? 1095 00:51:43.100 --> 00:51:45.928 But there's one thing that I need to know, Steven. 1096 00:51:46.059 --> 00:51:48.279 [tense music] 1097 00:51:50.194 --> 00:51:52.544 Do you have the gun in your hand right now? 1098 00:51:52.674 --> 00:51:55.112 [eerie horn] 1099 00:52:05.687 --> 00:52:08.125 [line trilling] 1100 00:52:16.481 --> 00:52:17.612 - This is Officer Fredericks. 1101 00:52:17.743 --> 00:52:19.571 - Hey, Steven. 1102 00:52:19.701 --> 00:52:22.878 I know that you're all alone in a motel 1103 00:52:23.009 --> 00:52:26.360 and you're sounding really depressed. 1104 00:52:26.491 --> 00:52:28.057 And you told me that you have a gun. 1105 00:52:33.846 --> 00:52:35.848 I know that you're in the Red Palm Motel. 1106 00:52:35.978 --> 00:52:37.328 - I didn't tell you that. 1107 00:52:37.458 --> 00:52:38.720 - Yes, you did. 1108 00:52:38.851 --> 00:52:39.678 - How did you-- 1109 00:52:39.808 --> 00:52:40.809 - You told me that. 1110 00:52:40.940 --> 00:52:42.115 You told me where you-- 1111 00:52:42.246 --> 00:52:43.508 I just forgot the room. - No, I didn't-- 1112 00:52:43.638 --> 00:52:44.857 - I just forgot the room. Just tell me the room. 1113 00:52:44.987 --> 00:52:46.293 - I didn't tell you-- 1114 00:52:46.424 --> 00:52:47.773 I didn't tell you my room number either. 1115 00:52:47.903 --> 00:52:49.557 - Steven, I don't want you to die. 1116 00:52:49.688 --> 00:52:51.298 Can you just tell me where you are? 1117 00:52:51.429 --> 00:52:55.824 Please, just so I know. 1118 00:52:55.955 --> 00:52:58.131 [tense music] 1119 00:52:58.262 --> 00:52:59.741 - It's room 15, all right? 1120 00:53:03.267 --> 00:53:05.747 [door creaks] 1121 00:53:07.836 --> 00:53:09.011 [door clicks shut] 1122 00:53:09.142 --> 00:53:10.056 But I told you, if you call the cops-- 1123 00:53:10.187 --> 00:53:11.753 - I know. I know. 1124 00:53:11.884 --> 00:53:13.625 If you hear any sirens, you're going to kill yourself. 1125 00:53:13.755 --> 00:53:15.148 And I don't want that, Steven. 1126 00:53:18.238 --> 00:53:21.894 But I was thinking, what if I came? 1127 00:53:24.505 --> 00:53:26.159 Not the cops, just me. 1128 00:53:26.290 --> 00:53:28.030 It'll take me a little bit to drive out there, 1129 00:53:28.161 --> 00:53:29.336 but I can be there. - No. 1130 00:53:29.467 --> 00:53:30.424 No. No. 1131 00:53:30.555 --> 00:53:31.991 There's no time. Just stop, OK? 1132 00:53:32.121 --> 00:53:33.645 Just stop. - OK. 1133 00:53:33.775 --> 00:53:35.516 Then-- then-- then just it's important for me 1134 00:53:35.647 --> 00:53:37.214 to know where you are, OK? 1135 00:53:37.344 --> 00:53:38.650 And I'm just confirming. 1136 00:53:38.780 --> 00:53:41.392 You said the Red Palm Motel, room 15, correct? 1137 00:53:41.522 --> 00:53:43.524 - Why-- why do you keep asking me what I said 1138 00:53:43.655 --> 00:53:44.482 - I'm sorry. 1139 00:53:44.612 --> 00:53:45.570 You're right. 1140 00:53:45.700 --> 00:53:47.224 I won't ask again, OK? 1141 00:53:47.354 --> 00:53:49.835 [shrill music] 1142 00:53:51.402 --> 00:53:53.795 [clock ticking rapidly] 1143 00:54:05.633 --> 00:54:06.591 - Tell me a story. 1144 00:54:11.160 --> 00:54:12.161 - A story? 1145 00:54:14.947 --> 00:54:16.340 - One from when you were a kid. 1146 00:54:19.386 --> 00:54:23.216 That's the only good memory I have of my dad. 1147 00:54:23.347 --> 00:54:27.046 He'd read to me when I was little. 1148 00:54:27.176 --> 00:54:28.917 He really enjoyed that for some reason. 1149 00:54:33.618 --> 00:54:34.532 - Steven. 1150 00:54:37.709 --> 00:54:38.927 Hey, Steven. 1151 00:54:39.058 --> 00:54:40.102 - I have to do it. 1152 00:54:40.233 --> 00:54:41.582 I'm sorry. - No, no. 1153 00:54:41.713 --> 00:54:42.888 Hold on. Hold on. 1154 00:54:43.018 --> 00:54:44.716 I know it's really hard right now, 1155 00:54:44.846 --> 00:54:47.849 but I need you to stick with me for just a little longer, OK? 1156 00:54:47.980 --> 00:54:49.895 Because I really think that I fully understand what 1157 00:54:50.025 --> 00:54:51.636 you're going through. - You couldn't. 1158 00:54:51.766 --> 00:54:52.854 - No, I do. 1159 00:54:52.985 --> 00:54:53.899 - No. 1160 00:54:54.029 --> 00:54:56.249 - No, I do. 1161 00:54:59.383 --> 00:55:02.037 Your father. 1162 00:55:02.168 --> 00:55:05.040 I know. 1163 00:55:05.171 --> 00:55:07.826 I know everything. 1164 00:55:07.956 --> 00:55:10.785 Your mother, I know her, too. 1165 00:55:10.916 --> 00:55:12.178 - What? 1166 00:55:12.309 --> 00:55:14.572 [clock ticking] 1167 00:55:14.702 --> 00:55:17.052 [unsettling music] 1168 00:55:20.012 --> 00:55:21.230 - I know what happened to her. 1169 00:55:21.361 --> 00:55:23.494 And now you blame yourself. 1170 00:55:23.624 --> 00:55:24.495 - I don't-- 1171 00:55:24.625 --> 00:55:26.497 How do you-- 1172 00:55:26.627 --> 00:55:27.585 - I just know, Steven. 1173 00:55:30.631 --> 00:55:32.067 - No, you can't. 1174 00:55:32.198 --> 00:55:33.112 You can't. 1175 00:55:33.242 --> 00:55:34.069 No one does. 1176 00:55:34.200 --> 00:55:35.636 He-- 1177 00:55:35.767 --> 00:55:38.726 - He covered it up, and he forced you to lie. 1178 00:55:38.857 --> 00:55:41.120 [clock ticking] 1179 00:55:42.687 --> 00:55:45.342 - Going to have to tell the police what happened. 1180 00:55:45.472 --> 00:55:47.126 [somber music] 1181 00:55:48.127 --> 00:55:50.477 Can I trust you? 1182 00:55:50.608 --> 00:55:52.740 - And then when she was gone and your brother went away 1183 00:55:52.871 --> 00:55:55.352 to college, he turned to you. 1184 00:55:58.180 --> 00:56:00.400 He started hurting you. 1185 00:56:00.531 --> 00:56:01.575 He made you powerless. 1186 00:56:01.706 --> 00:56:02.533 But you're not, Steven. 1187 00:56:02.663 --> 00:56:04.056 - Yes, I am. 1188 00:56:04.186 --> 00:56:05.492 I told you, we all are. 1189 00:56:05.623 --> 00:56:07.233 - It's not your fault. You did everything 1190 00:56:07.364 --> 00:56:10.541 you could to protect your mom, especially for being a kid. 1191 00:56:16.547 --> 00:56:27.209 And everything your father did to you, I know the effects 1192 00:56:27.340 --> 00:56:28.297 it had on you. 1193 00:56:32.780 --> 00:56:34.391 We can protect you from him. 1194 00:56:37.829 --> 00:56:41.267 We can fix this without-- 1195 00:56:41.398 --> 00:56:43.225 you don't have to do this, Steven. 1196 00:56:43.356 --> 00:56:44.749 - How do you know all this about me? 1197 00:56:44.879 --> 00:56:45.750 Is it possible-- 1198 00:56:45.880 --> 00:56:47.491 - I know it's strange. 1199 00:56:47.621 --> 00:56:50.624 I know it's strange, but I'm here to tell you there's hope. 1200 00:56:50.755 --> 00:56:52.626 And no matter how bad you're feeling right now, 1201 00:56:52.757 --> 00:56:54.759 those feelings, they're survivable. 1202 00:56:54.889 --> 00:56:57.892 And I know that because I've seen it, Steven. 1203 00:56:58.023 --> 00:56:58.980 I've seen it. 1204 00:57:01.853 --> 00:57:03.985 - I can't-- 1205 00:57:04.116 --> 00:57:05.073 I can't. 1206 00:57:05.204 --> 00:57:06.205 - Yeah, you can. 1207 00:57:06.335 --> 00:57:07.162 - I'm sorry. 1208 00:57:07.293 --> 00:57:08.512 - No. 1209 00:57:08.642 --> 00:57:09.513 Just stay with me. 1210 00:57:09.643 --> 00:57:10.514 It's easy. 1211 00:57:10.644 --> 00:57:11.776 Just stay. 1212 00:57:11.906 --> 00:57:14.256 [somber music] 1213 00:57:15.257 --> 00:57:16.389 Steven, are you here? 1214 00:57:20.524 --> 00:57:21.568 - I have to. 1215 00:57:21.699 --> 00:57:22.569 - No, you don't. 1216 00:57:22.700 --> 00:57:23.875 - I'm sorry. 1217 00:57:24.005 --> 00:57:26.181 - Because you have a future, I promise you. 1218 00:57:26.312 --> 00:57:29.533 I promise you that there's a future with people who love you. 1219 00:57:29.663 --> 00:57:31.186 I promise you, Steven, these people are-- 1220 00:57:31.317 --> 00:57:33.493 [gun shot] 1221 00:57:36.975 --> 00:57:39.325 [rumbling] 1222 00:57:39.456 --> 00:57:41.893 [banging] 1223 00:57:47.855 --> 00:57:50.249 [creaking] 1224 00:58:00.607 --> 00:58:01.521 - Hello? 1225 00:58:05.394 --> 00:58:06.787 - Hi, yeah. 1226 00:58:06.918 --> 00:58:08.267 - Hey. 1227 00:58:08.397 --> 00:58:09.790 Just wanted to stay on the line to confirm. 1228 00:58:09.921 --> 00:58:12.184 You've got a potential suicide victim at The Red Palm 1229 00:58:12.314 --> 00:58:13.620 is what it sounded like. 1230 00:58:13.751 --> 00:58:16.493 Room 15, right? 1231 00:58:16.623 --> 00:58:18.059 - Yes, room 15. But hurry. 1232 00:58:18.190 --> 00:58:19.496 I think it's-- 1233 00:58:19.626 --> 00:58:20.845 - I'm already on my way. 1234 00:58:20.975 --> 00:58:23.804 I'm only a minute out, so I'll call you back. 1235 00:58:23.935 --> 00:58:25.284 - Thank you. 1236 00:58:25.414 --> 00:58:27.808 [phone beeps] 1237 00:58:30.419 --> 00:58:32.813 [tense music] 1238 00:58:56.533 --> 00:58:58.535 What? 1239 00:58:58.665 --> 00:59:01.015 [ringtone playing] 1240 00:59:03.844 --> 00:59:04.802 [phone beeps] 1241 00:59:04.932 --> 00:59:05.977 Hello? 1242 00:59:06.107 --> 00:59:06.978 - Yeah, hi. 1243 00:59:07.108 --> 00:59:09.415 So nothing here at The Red Palm. 1244 00:59:09.546 --> 00:59:11.243 Actually, the hotel manager says no one's 1245 00:59:11.373 --> 00:59:13.071 checked in at all tonight. 1246 00:59:13.201 --> 00:59:14.376 [ominous music] 1247 00:59:14.507 --> 00:59:15.552 - What? 1248 00:59:15.682 --> 00:59:17.249 - But a sort of a weird thing. 1249 00:59:17.379 --> 00:59:21.558 I found a bullet hole in the wall of the bathroom in room 15. 1250 00:59:21.688 --> 00:59:22.559 - You did? 1251 00:59:22.689 --> 00:59:24.212 - Yeah. 1252 00:59:24.343 --> 00:59:25.823 I mean, I can't tell if that's what it is for sure, 1253 00:59:25.953 --> 00:59:31.916 or how recent it is, but it looks old if I had to guess. 1254 00:59:32.046 --> 00:59:36.398 - Um, thank you for your help. 1255 00:59:36.529 --> 00:59:41.708 I-- I guess I don't-- 1256 00:59:41.839 --> 00:59:42.796 thank you. 1257 00:59:49.586 --> 00:59:52.066 [door clicks shut] 1258 00:59:57.028 --> 00:59:59.552 [humming] 1259 01:00:04.078 --> 01:00:06.515 [eerie music] 1260 01:00:12.043 --> 01:00:14.480 [door clicks shut] 1261 01:00:16.961 --> 01:00:19.485 [footsteps descending] 1262 01:00:22.488 --> 01:00:23.489 Hey! 1263 01:00:33.238 --> 01:00:36.110 [door clicks shut] 1264 01:00:38.025 --> 01:00:39.157 Hey! 1265 01:00:39.287 --> 01:00:41.638 [droning music] 1266 01:00:44.118 --> 01:00:45.293 [door creaks] 1267 01:00:45.424 --> 01:00:46.338 Hello? 1268 01:00:52.213 --> 01:00:53.214 Hello? 1269 01:00:57.828 --> 01:01:00.221 [droning intensifies] 1270 01:01:01.266 --> 01:01:03.660 [doorknob clicking] 1271 01:01:06.532 --> 01:01:07.402 [banging] 1272 01:01:07.533 --> 01:01:08.534 Hello? 1273 01:01:10.710 --> 01:01:12.364 - Hey. 1274 01:01:12.494 --> 01:01:14.932 You're not authorized to be on this floor, are you? 1275 01:01:15.062 --> 01:01:16.150 - No. I-- 1276 01:01:16.281 --> 01:01:17.151 - Come on, man. 1277 01:01:17.282 --> 01:01:18.500 I like you. 1278 01:01:18.631 --> 01:01:20.154 I don't want to have to report you. 1279 01:01:20.285 --> 01:01:22.679 [droning subsides] 1280 01:01:32.514 --> 01:01:34.516 - There's something going on in that lab. 1281 01:01:34.647 --> 01:01:36.518 - Looked pretty dead to me. 1282 01:01:36.649 --> 01:01:38.564 [tense music] 1283 01:01:39.565 --> 01:01:41.959 [elevator dings] 1284 01:01:44.570 --> 01:01:45.397 - Eight, right? 1285 01:01:45.527 --> 01:01:46.920 - Yeah. 1286 01:01:47.051 --> 01:01:49.096 You said there's a hospital in the west tower? 1287 01:01:49.227 --> 01:01:50.576 - Mm-hmm. 1288 01:01:50.707 --> 01:01:53.710 - What's the name of it? 1289 01:01:53.840 --> 01:01:56.060 - Not again. 1290 01:01:56.190 --> 01:01:58.671 [elevator dings] 1291 01:02:20.649 --> 01:02:22.608 [distant sirens wailing] 1292 01:02:23.609 --> 01:02:26.090 [phone ringing] 1293 01:02:36.100 --> 01:02:37.710 - Hello? 1294 01:02:37.841 --> 01:02:39.233 - Hey. 1295 01:02:39.364 --> 01:02:40.669 I'm so sorry. 1296 01:02:40.800 --> 01:02:43.237 I just realized my sister and her friend, 1297 01:02:43.368 --> 01:02:45.805 they prank called this number earlier tonight. 1298 01:02:45.936 --> 01:02:47.720 And when I realized it was-- [muffled laughter] 1299 01:02:47.851 --> 01:02:48.982 - Julia, no. 1300 01:02:49.113 --> 01:02:50.418 Come on, you said you'd apologize. 1301 01:02:50.549 --> 01:02:51.724 Julia. - Wait. 1302 01:02:51.855 --> 01:02:53.160 - I-- 1303 01:02:53.291 --> 01:02:54.814 - Wait, your-- wait your sister's named Julia? 1304 01:02:54.945 --> 01:02:56.294 Your younger sister? 1305 01:02:56.424 --> 01:02:58.383 - Yeah, she's-- sorry. 1306 01:02:58.513 --> 01:03:00.254 You know, she's a little young. 1307 01:03:00.385 --> 01:03:01.690 - And you're Vivian? 1308 01:03:01.821 --> 01:03:03.388 [ominous music] 1309 01:03:03.518 --> 01:03:04.955 - Yeah. 1310 01:03:05.085 --> 01:03:07.914 How did you know that? 1311 01:03:08.045 --> 01:03:11.396 - It's January 1, 2009 where you're at, right? 1312 01:03:11.526 --> 01:03:14.791 Just past midnight? 1313 01:03:14.921 --> 01:03:16.314 - Yeah. 1314 01:03:16.444 --> 01:03:19.621 - I need to tell you something about Steven Thomas. 1315 01:03:19.752 --> 01:03:20.666 - You know Steven? 1316 01:03:20.797 --> 01:03:21.928 - Yeah, it's a long story. 1317 01:03:22.059 --> 01:03:24.104 But listen, right now, I need you 1318 01:03:24.235 --> 01:03:30.458 to go to Saint Jude's hospital in Palm Springs, OK? 1319 01:03:30.589 --> 01:03:31.459 Do you have a car? 1320 01:03:31.590 --> 01:03:33.200 - Uh, yeah. 1321 01:03:33.331 --> 01:03:36.595 But what's going on? 1322 01:03:36.725 --> 01:03:40.120 - Steven tried to kill himself tonight. 1323 01:03:40.251 --> 01:03:42.775 And I don't know if he's going to make it. 1324 01:03:42.906 --> 01:03:44.168 - Uh, OK. - OK? 1325 01:03:44.298 --> 01:03:45.125 - OK. 1326 01:03:45.256 --> 01:03:46.474 I'm-- I'm-- I'm-- 1327 01:03:46.605 --> 01:03:48.259 I'm going now. 1328 01:03:48.389 --> 01:03:51.958 Wait, are you the person he said he talked to earlier tonight? 1329 01:03:52.089 --> 01:03:53.699 - I don't know. Did he-- 1330 01:03:53.830 --> 01:03:55.353 - He said he tried calling someone, 1331 01:03:55.483 --> 01:03:56.571 but that he kept hanging up. 1332 01:03:56.702 --> 01:03:58.443 He wasn't really making sense. 1333 01:03:58.573 --> 01:04:04.188 But anyway, whoever you are, thank you. 1334 01:04:04.318 --> 01:04:05.667 [gentle music] 1335 01:04:05.798 --> 01:04:08.192 [phone beeps] 1336 01:04:12.587 --> 01:04:13.588 - He tried to call. 1337 01:04:27.646 --> 01:04:30.083 [distant sirens wailing] 1338 01:04:34.044 --> 01:04:36.437 [muffled laughter] 1339 01:04:37.395 --> 01:04:38.918 [chatter] 1340 01:04:39.049 --> 01:04:41.486 [distant siren wailing] 1341 01:04:49.015 --> 01:04:51.409 [floor creaking] 1342 01:04:51.539 --> 01:04:53.933 [unsettling music] 1343 01:05:21.482 --> 01:05:22.744 [faucet clicks] 1344 01:05:22.875 --> 01:05:25.312 [water runs] 1345 01:06:16.146 --> 01:06:18.626 [buttons beeping] 1346 01:06:21.586 --> 01:06:24.067 [phone ringing] 1347 01:06:27.113 --> 01:06:28.549 - Lifeline. 1348 01:06:28.680 --> 01:06:31.074 [phone clicks] 1349 01:06:31.204 --> 01:06:33.554 [water running] 1350 01:06:50.919 --> 01:06:53.313 [tense music] 1351 01:07:00.320 --> 01:07:02.670 [buttons beeping] 1352 01:07:02.801 --> 01:07:05.151 [phone ringing] 1353 01:07:09.634 --> 01:07:12.898 - Lifeline. 1354 01:07:13.029 --> 01:07:15.118 Can I get your name? 1355 01:07:15.248 --> 01:07:16.771 - Steven. 1356 01:07:16.902 --> 01:07:18.338 I don't want to talk about myself. 1357 01:07:21.994 --> 01:07:24.388 I just need a distraction. 1358 01:07:24.518 --> 01:07:26.042 I don't know. 1359 01:07:26.172 --> 01:07:30.916 I-- maybe you can just talk about yourself or something? 1360 01:07:31.047 --> 01:07:31.873 - OK. 1361 01:07:32.004 --> 01:07:33.005 I understand. 1362 01:07:33.136 --> 01:07:34.267 Sure. 1363 01:07:34.398 --> 01:07:36.356 Well, my name is Steven, too, actually. 1364 01:07:36.487 --> 01:07:37.749 Steven Jefferson. 1365 01:07:37.879 --> 01:07:40.317 And your last name is? 1366 01:07:40.447 --> 01:07:42.058 - Thomas. 1367 01:07:42.188 --> 01:07:44.060 - Gotcha. 1368 01:07:44.190 --> 01:07:47.237 Well, that's funny. 1369 01:07:47.367 --> 01:07:51.676 Both of our names together make up one whole former president. 1370 01:07:51.806 --> 01:07:55.071 Sorry, I only-- I only tell bad jokes. 1371 01:07:55.201 --> 01:07:57.595 [gentle music] 1372 01:08:01.033 --> 01:08:03.514 [pencil scratching] 1373 01:08:07.518 --> 01:08:09.259 - Do you have a family? 1374 01:08:09.389 --> 01:08:11.261 - I do, yeah. 1375 01:08:11.391 --> 01:08:13.915 I have a wife and a son. 1376 01:08:14.046 --> 01:08:17.702 My-- my son's about to turn 14 next month, actually. 1377 01:08:17.832 --> 01:08:18.703 [gun clicks] 1378 01:08:18.833 --> 01:08:20.748 And he's a big Lakers fan. 1379 01:08:20.879 --> 01:08:22.010 [pencil scratching] 1380 01:08:22.141 --> 01:08:23.360 My wife thinks he has a girlfriend, 1381 01:08:23.490 --> 01:08:29.801 but he's too shy to talk to me about that stuff. 1382 01:08:29.931 --> 01:08:32.108 And so recently, I've only been volunteering 1383 01:08:32.238 --> 01:08:34.588 a few times a year, uh, ever since I 1384 01:08:34.719 --> 01:08:35.807 went into private practice. 1385 01:08:38.375 --> 01:08:40.072 And I was told that writing a memoir 1386 01:08:40.203 --> 01:08:43.597 would be a good therapeutic exercise. 1387 01:08:43.728 --> 01:08:44.990 [keyboard clacking] 1388 01:08:45.121 --> 01:08:48.472 So I'm about five chapters deep in right now. 1389 01:08:48.602 --> 01:08:50.996 [shrill music] 1390 01:09:03.487 --> 01:09:05.967 [distant alarm wailing] 1391 01:09:41.829 --> 01:09:44.267 [pencil scratching] 1392 01:10:05.853 --> 01:10:07.725 - Tell me a story. 1393 01:10:07.855 --> 01:10:10.249 [frantic music] 1394 01:10:20.085 --> 01:10:22.522 [gun shot] 1395 01:10:22.653 --> 01:10:26.352 [water draining] 1396 01:10:26.483 --> 01:10:28.789 [lights flickering] 1397 01:10:28.920 --> 01:10:30.922 [machine beeping] 1398 01:10:31.052 --> 01:10:32.880 [machine beeping rhythmically] 1399 01:10:35.709 --> 01:10:38.059 [light buzzes] 1400 01:10:55.163 --> 01:10:57.775 - I can't take any more of these seizures. 1401 01:10:57.905 --> 01:11:00.212 [muffled conversation] 1402 01:11:01.561 --> 01:11:03.259 [electrical whining] 1403 01:11:03.389 --> 01:11:05.957 - Let's induce hypothermia again to reduce the brain swelling. 1404 01:11:06.087 --> 01:11:07.175 - Clear! 1405 01:11:07.306 --> 01:11:09.613 [rumbling] 1406 01:11:09.743 --> 01:11:12.137 [glass breaking] 1407 01:11:13.138 --> 01:11:14.226 - Knock, knock. 1408 01:11:14.357 --> 01:11:15.662 - Who's there? 1409 01:11:15.793 --> 01:11:18.056 [machine beeping rapidly] 1410 01:11:18.186 --> 01:11:20.667 [rumbling] 1411 01:11:24.192 --> 01:11:27.848 - Do you ever see a future between us? 1412 01:11:27.979 --> 01:11:30.242 [machine beeping rapidly] 1413 01:11:33.550 --> 01:11:34.812 - Steven. 1414 01:11:34.942 --> 01:11:35.769 - Steven, look at-- 1415 01:11:35.900 --> 01:11:37.118 - Just go. 1416 01:11:37.249 --> 01:11:39.643 [somber piano] 1417 01:11:48.521 --> 01:11:49.914 - I'm alive. 1418 01:11:50.044 --> 01:11:52.438 I'm alive. 1419 01:11:52.569 --> 01:11:54.179 - OK Stay with us, Steven. 1420 01:11:54.310 --> 01:11:55.572 [electrical whining] 1421 01:11:55.702 --> 01:11:57.182 We're losing him. 1422 01:11:57.313 --> 01:11:58.401 Clear! 1423 01:11:58.531 --> 01:12:00.794 [rumbling] 1424 01:12:00.925 --> 01:12:02.230 [furniture crashing] 1425 01:12:02.361 --> 01:12:03.275 [glass breaking] 1426 01:12:03.406 --> 01:12:05.756 [machine beeping rapidly] 1427 01:12:10.195 --> 01:12:12.502 - Alive. 1428 01:12:12.632 --> 01:12:13.720 I'm alive. 1429 01:12:13.851 --> 01:12:15.156 I'm alive. 1430 01:12:15.287 --> 01:12:16.810 I'm alive. 1431 01:12:16.941 --> 01:12:19.335 [beeping fades] 1432 01:12:21.293 --> 01:12:23.730 [machine beeping rhythmically] 1433 01:12:37.657 --> 01:12:39.442 - You know his odds aren't good. 1434 01:12:39.572 --> 01:12:41.357 [machine beeping rhythmically] 1435 01:12:41.487 --> 01:12:42.358 [ventilator whirring] 1436 01:12:42.488 --> 01:12:52.890 And even if he does make it, I-- 1437 01:12:53.020 --> 01:12:54.544 I can't stand to see him like this. 1438 01:12:54.674 --> 01:12:55.675 I need to go on a walk. 1439 01:12:55.806 --> 01:12:56.981 - Andrew. 1440 01:12:57.111 --> 01:12:58.112 - I'm sorry. 1441 01:12:58.243 --> 01:12:59.592 Hi, 1442 01:12:59.723 --> 01:13:02.203 [beeping continues] 1443 01:13:06.686 --> 01:13:09.123 [gentle music] 1444 01:13:15.652 --> 01:13:18.089 [baby wails] 1445 01:13:26.489 --> 01:13:27.838 - Hi, Mary. 1446 01:13:27.968 --> 01:13:29.405 How you doing? 1447 01:13:29.535 --> 01:13:31.015 - OK, I guess. 1448 01:13:31.145 --> 01:13:33.234 - So your concussion symptoms were pretty mild, 1449 01:13:33.365 --> 01:13:35.498 but we're still going to want to keep you overnight, OK? 1450 01:13:35.628 --> 01:13:37.195 - Also, there's a detective here that 1451 01:13:37.325 --> 01:13:38.457 would like to speak with you. 1452 01:13:41.808 --> 01:13:44.202 [baby wails] 1453 01:13:44.332 --> 01:13:46.726 [phone ringing] 1454 01:13:46.857 --> 01:13:48.641 - Mary, hi. 1455 01:13:48.772 --> 01:13:51.992 I'm Detective Fredericks with the Palm Springs Police. 1456 01:13:52.123 --> 01:13:55.561 I'd like to get more background about your husband, Jason. 1457 01:13:55.692 --> 01:13:58.042 [triumphant music] 1458 01:13:59.043 --> 01:14:00.044 - Yeah, that's fine. 1459 01:14:00.174 --> 01:14:01.088 Thanks. 1460 01:14:01.219 --> 01:14:02.089 - Hey, Loretta. 1461 01:14:02.220 --> 01:14:03.613 [phone rings] 1462 01:14:03.743 --> 01:14:04.657 - Hello? 1463 01:14:04.788 --> 01:14:05.571 - Dr. Williams? 1464 01:14:05.702 --> 01:14:07.312 - No, I-- I can't. 1465 01:14:07.443 --> 01:14:08.879 I can't get a sitter that fast. - Dr. Williams, I'm sorry. 1466 01:14:09.009 --> 01:14:09.967 It's very urgent. - Come on. 1467 01:14:10.097 --> 01:14:11.838 You're just not telling me this? 1468 01:14:11.969 --> 01:14:13.274 - I just have to show you one thing. 1469 01:14:13.405 --> 01:14:14.537 - I gotta call you back. 1470 01:14:14.667 --> 01:14:16.060 - It's just going to be really quick. 1471 01:14:16.190 --> 01:14:17.278 All right, so the patient in 204, he was just-- 1472 01:14:17.409 --> 01:14:18.845 [speech fades] 1473 01:14:21.021 --> 01:14:22.936 [baby wails] 1474 01:14:23.067 --> 01:14:25.156 [man humming] 1475 01:14:47.918 --> 01:14:50.311 [machine beeping] 1476 01:14:50.442 --> 01:14:52.836 [ventilator hissing] 1477 01:15:30.264 --> 01:15:33.093 - They told me it's not likely you'll wake up. 1478 01:15:33.224 --> 01:15:35.356 I don't believe it. 1479 01:15:35.487 --> 01:15:38.708 I know you. 1480 01:15:38.838 --> 01:15:42.450 When you do, we're going to talk more, OK? 1481 01:15:42.581 --> 01:15:44.235 We're not going to hide things. 1482 01:15:48.805 --> 01:15:52.896 I'm scared though, Steven. 1483 01:15:53.026 --> 01:15:54.985 But I'm still here. 1484 01:15:55.115 --> 01:15:56.552 And so are you. 1485 01:15:56.682 --> 01:15:57.988 [somber music] 1486 01:15:59.032 --> 01:16:00.381 [phone buzzes] 1487 01:16:00.512 --> 01:16:01.905 [ringtone plays] 1488 01:16:02.035 --> 01:16:03.515 [machine beeping] 1489 01:16:23.013 --> 01:16:24.362 [beeping stops] 1490 01:16:24.492 --> 01:16:27.234 [somber music]