Solos (2021) s01e01 Episode Script
Leah
1
If you travel to the future,
can you escape your past?
Wrong.
Come on.
All right.
All right. Um
Okay.
Um it's day 1,227.
I am still trying to make
contact with the future,
and today's trial
appears to have failed.
Unless you feel like
talking now.
Hello.
Hello.
Can you hear me now?
Do you remember that?
Can you hear me now?
It was the the
Verizon guy.
God, that was so long ago.
That must have been,
like, 20 years ago.
Can you hear me now?
Oh, my God,
and do you remember that
he went to Sprint
like a traitor?
Like when LeBron
went to the Knicks?
Or when Trump fled to Russia?
Thought I would have
found you by now.
My future me.
I thought that
I would be where you are,
away from all this.
I thought
it would finally be over.
But well,
that's 10,620 failures,
unless we recall
what Edison said.
"I have not failed,
I've simply found
10,000 ways it didn't work."
What a fuckin' dude.
Okay.
Okay. Um, I'm just gonna
recalibrate the, um
I'm working, Rachel.
Don't "I'm working" me.
You're still in Mom's basement
with your ridiculous
time travel project.
I have funding from
private trillionaire investors
who race yachts, so
Yeah, well, Mom keeps
waving her hand around,
and in a lot of pain.
- What time is it?
- I don't know.
Okay. Is she, like,
pointing at the ceiling?
Yeah, I think so.
Okay, and is she saying,
like, "hole, hole"?
- Yeah, exactly.
- She's too hot.
Every day it's
the same damn thing.
The sun warms her room and
the nurses never anticipate
the rise in the Cauchy Horizon.
I tell them this
every single day
- The rise in the what?
- What did you say?
-I said the rise in
the greenhouse effect.
- No, you didn't.
- Yes, I did, Rachel, okay?
The greenhouse effect
makes it too hot in her room,
and if the nurses would just
lower the temperature
to 68 degrees at 3:30
- Well, they are really busy
and you are, like,
the rudest person ever so
-Oh, my God, Rachel, please.
Did she have her bath today?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
How are the sores
on her right leg?
- They look pink.
- They're pink?
Okay, that's good.
That's good.
Uh, make sure you put
the cream on lightly,
you did it too thick last time
and it made her uncomfortable.
Fine.
Oh, and I can't be with her
next Wednesday.
- Unacceptable.
- Excuse me?
-I have asked you for one night
in six months, Rachel
Yeah, well, my "23 And
Meet" pushed to Wednesday,
and he's supposed to be my
literal chromosomal match.
Besides, you're her favorite,
so Oh, look at that.
Mom wants to talk to you.
Of course.
- Hey.
- I hold the phone up.
- Mom.
- Hey.
-Hey. How you doin' today, Ma?
I know.
I know you want it colder,
they're gonna fix it.
You're
You're gonna be okay.
I promise.
I love you so much.
All right? You just
You tell the nurses if
your arm starts to
tingle again, okay?
You point to your arm
and you tell them, okay?
I love you so much,
I love you, Mom, I love you.
Okay? Forever.
Sorry you had to hear that.
It must bring you back.
Hey, did you ever get
the nurses to anticipate
the rise in the Cauchy Hor
I mean, the greenhouse effect.
Why do I keep saying
the Cauchy Hor
If the refraction is at 3.4,
then the Cauchy Horizon
Hello?
What?
Come on, come on, come on.
Come on.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no,
come back, come back.
Come on. Come on.
Hello?
Come on! Hello!
Hello?
Hello. Can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
- Are you out there?
- Are you out there?
Please be out there.
- Fuck you!
- Fuck me? Fuck you!
- Holy
- Fuck!
-Oh, my God.
Oh, my God, can
What's your name?
Please tell me your name.
- You first.
- Oh, my God.
- What? You sound
- You sound just like
Me.
-Tell me your name.
Polchinski's paradox
says that
-Oh, fuck Polchinski's fucking
paradox. Tell me your name.
- Leah.
- Leah Salovaara.
And And yours?
-I'm Leah.
I'm Leah Salovaara, too!
- Oh, my God.
- Oh, my God.
But wait, how can I know that
you're really
- You?
- Yeah, I mean.
What's something that only I
I mean, you
Only you would know?
- Uh, first kiss, no tongue.
Henry Chon.
- First kiss with tongue.
- Malorie Jackson.
-Um, uh, favorite singer?
The real one, not the one
that you tell people.
- Kelly Clarkson.
- Just because she's popular
doesn't mean she's not amazing.
Worst nightmare?
Rachel deciding on
my end of life care.
- Love of your life?
- Mom.
- Oh, my God.
- Oh, my God.
-Oh, my God.
- You're like You're
- I'm
Can you hear me now?
Sorry?
-What, did you say something?
Can you hear me now?
It's like the
- The Verizon commercial.
- Oh, oh my God.
-You know, 'cause we
finally connected,
like past and future,
like getting good service.
No! No, no, no.
- It's hilarious.
- Stupid.
I can't Oh, my God,
I can't believe
he went to Sprint.
What a traitor.
- Right?
Uh!
Should we get
the video working, like
- Heck, yeah!
- Um Right.
-What is your non-relativistic
wave function exponent?
It is 845.64.
- Hi!
- Oh, my God.
-Hi!
-You look amazing.
-Oh, my God, this is so
"Parent Trap" right now,
like, like, like,
how did you even
-The Cauchy Horizon.
The curve projected at
an exponent of 35,
and I finally hypothesized
an upward shift.
-The Cauchy? Wow,
that is like really
It worked. Genius!
And I am, like
I'm so honored to know you.
To, like, even let alone be you.
Oh!
-You sound
You sound so happy.
-Duh! I mean, we did it!
We did it, we did it.
We did it with absolutely
no support from the department.
-Oh, my God, Professor Marchek.
- Fuck him.
- Fuck him,
and his one paltry sentence
in our 300 page funding
application.
"You can't solve
time travel."
-And you know
he wasn't saying that
time travel can't be solved.
He was saying you can't solve
time travel. Right?
Oh, my God, time travel
is such a fucking boys club.
I mean, they get
"Back To The Future,"
"Terminator," "Midnight in
Paris," "Avengers: End Game,"
and we get exactly one story
about a woman
traveling through time,
"13 Going On 30."
Oh, yes!
The lone female led entry
in the time travel canon
is a 2004 romantic comedy
starring Jennifer Garner
and Mark Ruffalo.
And it's not her brains
that send her forward in time,
it's magic fucking wishing dust.
And it's like
- Yeah, but I mean,
it's not like the only
female time travel story.
-I'm pretty sure it is.
-Um, well, like what about
"Contact"?
Jodie Foster time travels
- Well, I mean, like
- Through wormholes in that so
- Yeah, but
-And "Doctor Who."
Jodie Whittaker
is such a badass.
- After 13 seasons? Like
-Well, I mean, like
what about "Kindred"?
And "Outlander"?
And "Happy Death Day"?
-Can you just, like
let me have my strong feelings
about "13 Going On 30"?
- Fuck magic wishing dust.
- Fuck magic wishing dust!
-And, you know what?
Fuck you, Professor Marchek!
It's so good
to say to someone
who understands.
Um
- Should you get that?
- Ah! I'm sorry!
Can you just, like, hold on
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, be you.
Okay.
-Hey. No, no, no, no, no, Mom,
don't worry, don't worry,
it's fine. What's up?
Listen, you'll be fine,
Mom, okay?
I can't come in,
I can't right now,
but, um, but everything's
gonna be fine.
You're gonna be fine, I promise.
Okay.
I love you.
I love you so much.
Mom, I lo
Um, Mom, um
I just want to let you know
that work's going really good.
Like, I'm I've had some
really exciting
developments in my project.
Yeah. So, um
So I just I'm gonna be
pretty busy tonight,
so if you try to get in touch
with me and you can't,
it's just I I just
want you to know that I'm okay.
Okay? Like,
everything's fine.
Um
Hey, what was that, Ma?
-I I Okay.
Um all right,
get some rest, Ma.
I love you.
Hey.
So, like, what's it like?
-Are you okay?
-Yeah! Oh, yeah,
I'm fine. Sure.
But, like, what's it like
where you are?
Sorry, I know, I know,
I know, I know, I know.
- I can't Yeah, I mean
- Butterfly Effect.
I can't know 'til
I get there, so, um
Let's do this.
- Like
- Like right now?
-Yeah. Yeah, like, right now.
I've only been searching
for you for five years.
Don't you want to,
like
pee first or tell Mom?
I mean, like really tell her?
-What?
-Shouldn't you, like,
tell Mom? She'd be worried.
I mean, I guess I
I could tell her for you.
I think. I don't know.
I hope she'd remember.
- Uh, Leah?
- Yeah.
-Where are you?
- In our basement.
- No, but I mean, like
like, when are you?
- 2019.
-I thought I was talking with
the future, not the past.
I I thought
you sounded happy.
I thought that
we were in the future,
and we were happy again,
but you you're in 2019?
You're not happy,
you're just dumb!
-Excuse me?
Leah. Girl.
-Don't. Don't say girl.
It's just like Ugh!
I need to get out of here.
- Yeah, come to 2019.
- Oh, my God.
We can have the craziest
30th birthday party,
'cause I'm pretty sure 2020
is gonna be my year.
You are so naive!
You are so unaware.
I mean, how long have you
even been trying to travel?
Like, if it's 2019 and
you're in our basement lab,
that means you've
been trying since
-This morning.
It's beginner's luck. Right?
-Rachel was right. We really
can be a lot sometimes.
-Rachel is not right.
Rachel is never right!
Do you understand?
- Um, I think I understand
- a lot more than you do.
- You are 29!
You are a child,
you're an infant,
you're an embryo,
you're a fucking seed!
-Wow. I did not anticipate
future me being such
a condescending bitch.
- Tch, tch, tch!
-Oh! Are you just gonna, like,
not talk to me now?
Are you just gonna give me
the interdimensional
silent treatment?
Okay, that's cool, that's great.
Yeah, no, totally.
-Okay, so, in order to run
a reverse dimensional
location search,
I need to know what
the interdimensional VIN is
on your computer.
- Oh, now you want me.
- Need, not want.
-And why should I tell you?
-Because I want to
communicate with the future.
-Oh, well, I already am
communicating with the future,
and she's a miserable old hag.
-I am a very tired 34.
You are Oh, God. Fine!
Leah, I will make you a trade.
If you tell me the code,
I will tell you something,
anything, about the future.
-Fine.
How does "Game of Thrones" end?
- Seriously?
- You said any question
I wanted, so I want
- Not well.
Leah, not well.
Daenerys loses her shit,
and just
a two-episodes-prior sane
and brilliant young queen,
and suddenly, a bloodthirsty,
pathetically convenient tyrant.
Now What is
the dimensional VIN?
- It's not working.
- That's weird.
-Do not fuck with me
right now, Leah.
Are you sure
you gave it to me correctly?
-Um, I was a fucking
Fulbright Scholar, Leah.
-So was I, Leah, and
it's not working, so
You know what? Fuck it.
-What are you doing?
Leah, come on.
Honestly, this is crazy.
Like, why do you even want to
travel to the future anyway?
- Leah
- You need to stop talking.
-No, no, no, no, no,
don't touch that!
Just Just, like Ugh!
Can you just be happy
where you are?
Leah. Leah! Stop!
Ah!
Hello?
-Oh, my God.
Oh, my God! Hi!
Yes! Yes! This is
This is you.
I mean, this is me,
this is Leah from the past.
It is a privilege to meet you.
Let me video you in.
Hold on.
- Oh, my God.
- Oh my God!
Oh, my God.
I did it! That was even easier
than, like, "13 Going On 30"!
- Um
- No. No!
- Oh, my God.
- No, no, no. No, no, no, no, no.
Leah, when are you calling from?
- 2019.
-But that's impossible.
I moved just 10 years in
the opposite direction
of Past Leah,
so
if you're also 2019,
then that means that you're
-The future.
-It's you.
Ooh!
- Hi, Leah.
- Hey, girl!
- Don't say girl.
- It's just
-Why? Why would you
pretend to
- I had to.
- Why?
- To stop you.
- To stop me? From what?
-Coming here.
-How are we not documenting
this? -How interesting.
I don't I don't When
-2029, five years
in your future.
-Uh, why do you look
younger than her?
-In the future,
we are very rich,
and, um I read somewhere
that Karl Lagerfeld
had a facialist
come over every night
to drain his lymph, so
-Okay, okay, can we all
just focus, please?
Leah.
- Yes?
-O-Only future Leah.
Please
- Leah
I'm begging you. You've got to
get me out of here.
- Leah, stop. Just stop.
- But
Just
No, it wouldn't be fair.
-Fair? Fair, fuck you.
Fuck you!
Give me the algorithm.
- It doesn't work like that.
-Could you just tell me
how to get out of here?
-Why?
Why do you want to
travel to the future, Leah?
-Well, first of all,
fuckin' Marchek.
- Just Past Leah.
- That's me.
-Just 2024 Leah.
-For my research.
So I can prove Marchek wrong.
- Right?
- Tell me why.
-So I can be the first.
The first to do it, the
the maverick, the pioneer.
- Bullshit.
-Because I want to watch
the fucking
"Game of Thrones" prequel.
-Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait.
There's gonna be a prequel?
-Tell me why.
- She doesn't need to know.
- Know what?
- Leah.
- No.
-Once we take it from her,
-LEAH 3: Excuse me.
-It's gone. And no matter how
far back she travels
-She will always know
that it's coming.
-There's no play here, Leah.
I need you to tell me why you
want to travel to the future,
and I need the truth.
-I'm so sorry. Um
I want to travel to
the future
so that I can find a cure.
-A cure for what?
-For Mom.
Um, she gets sick.
-Why? What's, uh
What's wrong with her?
What's gonna be wrong with her?
-What? No.
-She's gonna fall off her bike
-No.
-In summer, July, a couple of
years from now for you.
Um
It's bad.
You move home,
you drop out of school,
Carl will dump you over it,
and it just
You care for her night and day.
Night and day, night and day,
and it just gets
worse and worse.
Is she in pain?
-Here I am.
You happy now?
-Why do you want to
travel to the future, Leah?
- I just told you.
- Just told you.
-Why are you so sure
that there's a cure for ALS
in only five years?
Why not travel 10 years ahead
or 20 or 100?
- I don't know, I just
- No?
-I just assumed that in
five years there would be
What is she
talking about? Why is she
-I don't know,
she's acting crazy.
-You are a terrible liar.
Mom always said so.
-Don't even speak about her.
-Why do you want to travel
- to the future, Leah?
- I told you.
-What was
the doctor's prognosis?
- Don't you I told you
- Say it. Why, Leah?
Why do you want to journey
the space time continuum
and land five years
in the future?
-Because I need her to be gone!
Because I need it
to be finished!
Okay?
Five years.
Five years,
that's her prognosis, okay?
Five years,
they give her five years,
but the thing is,
every day feels like a year.
And there have been
so many days and
tests and surgeries
and last rites,
there have been so many
last rites and so little mercy.
And so much loss of movement
and memory in her,
and the slurred speech and
the only Leah understands,
only Leah does it right,
she only wants Leah,
only Leah can
I love her so much
and I need it to be done.
She's right.
I'm lying.
By the time Mom
gets her diagnosis,
it's too late for a cure.
-And because of
the Butterfly Effect,
you can't change that without
destroying everything else.
-The truth is
horrible.
Necessary truth
is that I need her to be
a thing of the past
so that I can be
a thing of the future.
Is that what you wanted?
You happy now?
-Nothing about this
makes me happy.
This was you reaching out
to me, wasn't it?
- Yeah.
- Why?
Because
you need to accept
you can't fix it.
-No.
Leah,
there is nothing you can do
to escape this.
I know because I tried.
I jumped and
and I won the Nobel Prize,
and I'm Time's
Person of the Century,
and I'm friends with
Mark Ruffalo,
- and
- Wait, really?
But none of it matters.
I left her
I left her in that
beige hospital room to die.
I did what you want to do,
I came here,
and now I'm nowhere.
And it would be
the same for you.
You'd leave and and
you'd still feel the weight,
the heaviness of having made
the choice to survive,
and you'd realize far too late
the gift that you had
with her every day.
Every day is a year.
Every day with her,
time stands still,
and you won't be able to
live with yourself
for ever having wanted it
to speed up.
Leah!
The reason I am here now
is because I need you to stay.
And I need you to
forgive me for going.
I can't fix I mean
I get why I left,
but I can't seem to
let go.
And I thought if you can
forgive me,
forgive us for leaving,
then I can live
and you can just
stop and, like, just be there,
just just just be with her
like I couldn't, Leah.
-I really didn't solve it?
-No. I didn't use
the Cauchy Horizon.
-Okay.
Okay.
I, uh
Of course, I forgive you.
-Thank you.
- What's that?
- I didn't touch anything.
-You solved time travel
your way,
and I'll solve it mine.
The Cauchy Horizon works.
-No.
- Baby Leah
- I don't love that name.
- Dimensional VIN is 4.5514.
- Leah, what are you doing?
- Wait, what?
- You input that into
the computer, okay? And then you
travel as far into the future
as you need to until
-Leah, no, no, no, no, no!
- There's a cure for Mom.
- Stop, stop, stop.
-Don't listen to her,
listen to me.
- The Butterfly Effect.
- You can still save her
in your timeline.
You find the cure.
-If you save someone
who is meant to die
-All other timelines will cease.
You will destroy both of us.
-You find it and you travel back
to July, 2019,
before she gets sick,
and you give it to her, and
and you solve time travel,
and become famous and wealthy
- She will live
and the two of us
will disappear.
- We're gone!
- You live a happy life.
Do you understand?
A good life.
A life without pain
or regret with Mom.
-Leah, I c I am not ready.
I I No, I
-And you never will be.
But it's time.
- No, you can't.
- Don't No. No!
You fucking traitor!
-Can you hear me now?
-Why are you doing this? Why?
-I can't leave Mom
in that beige room
with no hope and no us,
and I can't make Mom and us
go through all that pain
again and again and again,
so we gotta make way for
a new future.
-No, no, no.
Listen, Leah, Leah, Leah,
listen to me, listen to me.
Mom, she wouldn't want us to
sacrifice our lives for her.
- I know. Wasn't she the best?
- No, no, no, no, no.
I don't want to die.
I don't want to die, Leah.
-Well, you've still got time.
I'd get to work, though.
You're smarter but
- No, Leah, Leah
- Leah's younger.
-Stop
Hey, Ma.
Yeah, yeah, I'm great.
I'm, uh
I, um I just had to call
'cause, uh
It's so small,
but, um
do you remember that night
during Hurricane Felix?
I was like five, and, um
you got me and Rachel
out of bed,
and you carried us
down to the basement, and
and, uh it's just
Sorry, I just I remember that
the the wind got really
loud.
And the thunder started,
and Rachel was asleep,
but I I couldn't sleep. Um,
I was crying and I was, uh
I was really scared.
And you, um
You just held me and
rubbed my back,
and you were humming this song
and you said to me
that it was a song that
Grandma had sung to you,
and and so I just, I
I've been trying to
remember that song,
and I can't remember it
and it's driving me crazy.
And, um, I'm just
I had to call and and
How does it go, Mommy?
How does it go?
If you travel to the future,
can you escape your past?
Wrong.
Come on.
All right.
All right. Um
Okay.
Um it's day 1,227.
I am still trying to make
contact with the future,
and today's trial
appears to have failed.
Unless you feel like
talking now.
Hello.
Hello.
Can you hear me now?
Do you remember that?
Can you hear me now?
It was the the
Verizon guy.
God, that was so long ago.
That must have been,
like, 20 years ago.
Can you hear me now?
Oh, my God,
and do you remember that
he went to Sprint
like a traitor?
Like when LeBron
went to the Knicks?
Or when Trump fled to Russia?
Thought I would have
found you by now.
My future me.
I thought that
I would be where you are,
away from all this.
I thought
it would finally be over.
But well,
that's 10,620 failures,
unless we recall
what Edison said.
"I have not failed,
I've simply found
10,000 ways it didn't work."
What a fuckin' dude.
Okay.
Okay. Um, I'm just gonna
recalibrate the, um
I'm working, Rachel.
Don't "I'm working" me.
You're still in Mom's basement
with your ridiculous
time travel project.
I have funding from
private trillionaire investors
who race yachts, so
Yeah, well, Mom keeps
waving her hand around,
and in a lot of pain.
- What time is it?
- I don't know.
Okay. Is she, like,
pointing at the ceiling?
Yeah, I think so.
Okay, and is she saying,
like, "hole, hole"?
- Yeah, exactly.
- She's too hot.
Every day it's
the same damn thing.
The sun warms her room and
the nurses never anticipate
the rise in the Cauchy Horizon.
I tell them this
every single day
- The rise in the what?
- What did you say?
-I said the rise in
the greenhouse effect.
- No, you didn't.
- Yes, I did, Rachel, okay?
The greenhouse effect
makes it too hot in her room,
and if the nurses would just
lower the temperature
to 68 degrees at 3:30
- Well, they are really busy
and you are, like,
the rudest person ever so
-Oh, my God, Rachel, please.
Did she have her bath today?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
How are the sores
on her right leg?
- They look pink.
- They're pink?
Okay, that's good.
That's good.
Uh, make sure you put
the cream on lightly,
you did it too thick last time
and it made her uncomfortable.
Fine.
Oh, and I can't be with her
next Wednesday.
- Unacceptable.
- Excuse me?
-I have asked you for one night
in six months, Rachel
Yeah, well, my "23 And
Meet" pushed to Wednesday,
and he's supposed to be my
literal chromosomal match.
Besides, you're her favorite,
so Oh, look at that.
Mom wants to talk to you.
Of course.
- Hey.
- I hold the phone up.
- Mom.
- Hey.
-Hey. How you doin' today, Ma?
I know.
I know you want it colder,
they're gonna fix it.
You're
You're gonna be okay.
I promise.
I love you so much.
All right? You just
You tell the nurses if
your arm starts to
tingle again, okay?
You point to your arm
and you tell them, okay?
I love you so much,
I love you, Mom, I love you.
Okay? Forever.
Sorry you had to hear that.
It must bring you back.
Hey, did you ever get
the nurses to anticipate
the rise in the Cauchy Hor
I mean, the greenhouse effect.
Why do I keep saying
the Cauchy Hor
If the refraction is at 3.4,
then the Cauchy Horizon
Hello?
What?
Come on, come on, come on.
Come on.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no,
come back, come back.
Come on. Come on.
Hello?
Come on! Hello!
Hello?
Hello. Can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
- Are you out there?
- Are you out there?
Please be out there.
- Fuck you!
- Fuck me? Fuck you!
- Holy
- Fuck!
-Oh, my God.
Oh, my God, can
What's your name?
Please tell me your name.
- You first.
- Oh, my God.
- What? You sound
- You sound just like
Me.
-Tell me your name.
Polchinski's paradox
says that
-Oh, fuck Polchinski's fucking
paradox. Tell me your name.
- Leah.
- Leah Salovaara.
And And yours?
-I'm Leah.
I'm Leah Salovaara, too!
- Oh, my God.
- Oh, my God.
But wait, how can I know that
you're really
- You?
- Yeah, I mean.
What's something that only I
I mean, you
Only you would know?
- Uh, first kiss, no tongue.
Henry Chon.
- First kiss with tongue.
- Malorie Jackson.
-Um, uh, favorite singer?
The real one, not the one
that you tell people.
- Kelly Clarkson.
- Just because she's popular
doesn't mean she's not amazing.
Worst nightmare?
Rachel deciding on
my end of life care.
- Love of your life?
- Mom.
- Oh, my God.
- Oh, my God.
-Oh, my God.
- You're like You're
- I'm
Can you hear me now?
Sorry?
-What, did you say something?
Can you hear me now?
It's like the
- The Verizon commercial.
- Oh, oh my God.
-You know, 'cause we
finally connected,
like past and future,
like getting good service.
No! No, no, no.
- It's hilarious.
- Stupid.
I can't Oh, my God,
I can't believe
he went to Sprint.
What a traitor.
- Right?
Uh!
Should we get
the video working, like
- Heck, yeah!
- Um Right.
-What is your non-relativistic
wave function exponent?
It is 845.64.
- Hi!
- Oh, my God.
-Hi!
-You look amazing.
-Oh, my God, this is so
"Parent Trap" right now,
like, like, like,
how did you even
-The Cauchy Horizon.
The curve projected at
an exponent of 35,
and I finally hypothesized
an upward shift.
-The Cauchy? Wow,
that is like really
It worked. Genius!
And I am, like
I'm so honored to know you.
To, like, even let alone be you.
Oh!
-You sound
You sound so happy.
-Duh! I mean, we did it!
We did it, we did it.
We did it with absolutely
no support from the department.
-Oh, my God, Professor Marchek.
- Fuck him.
- Fuck him,
and his one paltry sentence
in our 300 page funding
application.
"You can't solve
time travel."
-And you know
he wasn't saying that
time travel can't be solved.
He was saying you can't solve
time travel. Right?
Oh, my God, time travel
is such a fucking boys club.
I mean, they get
"Back To The Future,"
"Terminator," "Midnight in
Paris," "Avengers: End Game,"
and we get exactly one story
about a woman
traveling through time,
"13 Going On 30."
Oh, yes!
The lone female led entry
in the time travel canon
is a 2004 romantic comedy
starring Jennifer Garner
and Mark Ruffalo.
And it's not her brains
that send her forward in time,
it's magic fucking wishing dust.
And it's like
- Yeah, but I mean,
it's not like the only
female time travel story.
-I'm pretty sure it is.
-Um, well, like what about
"Contact"?
Jodie Foster time travels
- Well, I mean, like
- Through wormholes in that so
- Yeah, but
-And "Doctor Who."
Jodie Whittaker
is such a badass.
- After 13 seasons? Like
-Well, I mean, like
what about "Kindred"?
And "Outlander"?
And "Happy Death Day"?
-Can you just, like
let me have my strong feelings
about "13 Going On 30"?
- Fuck magic wishing dust.
- Fuck magic wishing dust!
-And, you know what?
Fuck you, Professor Marchek!
It's so good
to say to someone
who understands.
Um
- Should you get that?
- Ah! I'm sorry!
Can you just, like, hold on
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, be you.
Okay.
-Hey. No, no, no, no, no, Mom,
don't worry, don't worry,
it's fine. What's up?
Listen, you'll be fine,
Mom, okay?
I can't come in,
I can't right now,
but, um, but everything's
gonna be fine.
You're gonna be fine, I promise.
Okay.
I love you.
I love you so much.
Mom, I lo
Um, Mom, um
I just want to let you know
that work's going really good.
Like, I'm I've had some
really exciting
developments in my project.
Yeah. So, um
So I just I'm gonna be
pretty busy tonight,
so if you try to get in touch
with me and you can't,
it's just I I just
want you to know that I'm okay.
Okay? Like,
everything's fine.
Um
Hey, what was that, Ma?
-I I Okay.
Um all right,
get some rest, Ma.
I love you.
Hey.
So, like, what's it like?
-Are you okay?
-Yeah! Oh, yeah,
I'm fine. Sure.
But, like, what's it like
where you are?
Sorry, I know, I know,
I know, I know, I know.
- I can't Yeah, I mean
- Butterfly Effect.
I can't know 'til
I get there, so, um
Let's do this.
- Like
- Like right now?
-Yeah. Yeah, like, right now.
I've only been searching
for you for five years.
Don't you want to,
like
pee first or tell Mom?
I mean, like really tell her?
-What?
-Shouldn't you, like,
tell Mom? She'd be worried.
I mean, I guess I
I could tell her for you.
I think. I don't know.
I hope she'd remember.
- Uh, Leah?
- Yeah.
-Where are you?
- In our basement.
- No, but I mean, like
like, when are you?
- 2019.
-I thought I was talking with
the future, not the past.
I I thought
you sounded happy.
I thought that
we were in the future,
and we were happy again,
but you you're in 2019?
You're not happy,
you're just dumb!
-Excuse me?
Leah. Girl.
-Don't. Don't say girl.
It's just like Ugh!
I need to get out of here.
- Yeah, come to 2019.
- Oh, my God.
We can have the craziest
30th birthday party,
'cause I'm pretty sure 2020
is gonna be my year.
You are so naive!
You are so unaware.
I mean, how long have you
even been trying to travel?
Like, if it's 2019 and
you're in our basement lab,
that means you've
been trying since
-This morning.
It's beginner's luck. Right?
-Rachel was right. We really
can be a lot sometimes.
-Rachel is not right.
Rachel is never right!
Do you understand?
- Um, I think I understand
- a lot more than you do.
- You are 29!
You are a child,
you're an infant,
you're an embryo,
you're a fucking seed!
-Wow. I did not anticipate
future me being such
a condescending bitch.
- Tch, tch, tch!
-Oh! Are you just gonna, like,
not talk to me now?
Are you just gonna give me
the interdimensional
silent treatment?
Okay, that's cool, that's great.
Yeah, no, totally.
-Okay, so, in order to run
a reverse dimensional
location search,
I need to know what
the interdimensional VIN is
on your computer.
- Oh, now you want me.
- Need, not want.
-And why should I tell you?
-Because I want to
communicate with the future.
-Oh, well, I already am
communicating with the future,
and she's a miserable old hag.
-I am a very tired 34.
You are Oh, God. Fine!
Leah, I will make you a trade.
If you tell me the code,
I will tell you something,
anything, about the future.
-Fine.
How does "Game of Thrones" end?
- Seriously?
- You said any question
I wanted, so I want
- Not well.
Leah, not well.
Daenerys loses her shit,
and just
a two-episodes-prior sane
and brilliant young queen,
and suddenly, a bloodthirsty,
pathetically convenient tyrant.
Now What is
the dimensional VIN?
- It's not working.
- That's weird.
-Do not fuck with me
right now, Leah.
Are you sure
you gave it to me correctly?
-Um, I was a fucking
Fulbright Scholar, Leah.
-So was I, Leah, and
it's not working, so
You know what? Fuck it.
-What are you doing?
Leah, come on.
Honestly, this is crazy.
Like, why do you even want to
travel to the future anyway?
- Leah
- You need to stop talking.
-No, no, no, no, no,
don't touch that!
Just Just, like Ugh!
Can you just be happy
where you are?
Leah. Leah! Stop!
Ah!
Hello?
-Oh, my God.
Oh, my God! Hi!
Yes! Yes! This is
This is you.
I mean, this is me,
this is Leah from the past.
It is a privilege to meet you.
Let me video you in.
Hold on.
- Oh, my God.
- Oh my God!
Oh, my God.
I did it! That was even easier
than, like, "13 Going On 30"!
- Um
- No. No!
- Oh, my God.
- No, no, no. No, no, no, no, no.
Leah, when are you calling from?
- 2019.
-But that's impossible.
I moved just 10 years in
the opposite direction
of Past Leah,
so
if you're also 2019,
then that means that you're
-The future.
-It's you.
Ooh!
- Hi, Leah.
- Hey, girl!
- Don't say girl.
- It's just
-Why? Why would you
pretend to
- I had to.
- Why?
- To stop you.
- To stop me? From what?
-Coming here.
-How are we not documenting
this? -How interesting.
I don't I don't When
-2029, five years
in your future.
-Uh, why do you look
younger than her?
-In the future,
we are very rich,
and, um I read somewhere
that Karl Lagerfeld
had a facialist
come over every night
to drain his lymph, so
-Okay, okay, can we all
just focus, please?
Leah.
- Yes?
-O-Only future Leah.
Please
- Leah
I'm begging you. You've got to
get me out of here.
- Leah, stop. Just stop.
- But
Just
No, it wouldn't be fair.
-Fair? Fair, fuck you.
Fuck you!
Give me the algorithm.
- It doesn't work like that.
-Could you just tell me
how to get out of here?
-Why?
Why do you want to
travel to the future, Leah?
-Well, first of all,
fuckin' Marchek.
- Just Past Leah.
- That's me.
-Just 2024 Leah.
-For my research.
So I can prove Marchek wrong.
- Right?
- Tell me why.
-So I can be the first.
The first to do it, the
the maverick, the pioneer.
- Bullshit.
-Because I want to watch
the fucking
"Game of Thrones" prequel.
-Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait.
There's gonna be a prequel?
-Tell me why.
- She doesn't need to know.
- Know what?
- Leah.
- No.
-Once we take it from her,
-LEAH 3: Excuse me.
-It's gone. And no matter how
far back she travels
-She will always know
that it's coming.
-There's no play here, Leah.
I need you to tell me why you
want to travel to the future,
and I need the truth.
-I'm so sorry. Um
I want to travel to
the future
so that I can find a cure.
-A cure for what?
-For Mom.
Um, she gets sick.
-Why? What's, uh
What's wrong with her?
What's gonna be wrong with her?
-What? No.
-She's gonna fall off her bike
-No.
-In summer, July, a couple of
years from now for you.
Um
It's bad.
You move home,
you drop out of school,
Carl will dump you over it,
and it just
You care for her night and day.
Night and day, night and day,
and it just gets
worse and worse.
Is she in pain?
-Here I am.
You happy now?
-Why do you want to
travel to the future, Leah?
- I just told you.
- Just told you.
-Why are you so sure
that there's a cure for ALS
in only five years?
Why not travel 10 years ahead
or 20 or 100?
- I don't know, I just
- No?
-I just assumed that in
five years there would be
What is she
talking about? Why is she
-I don't know,
she's acting crazy.
-You are a terrible liar.
Mom always said so.
-Don't even speak about her.
-Why do you want to travel
- to the future, Leah?
- I told you.
-What was
the doctor's prognosis?
- Don't you I told you
- Say it. Why, Leah?
Why do you want to journey
the space time continuum
and land five years
in the future?
-Because I need her to be gone!
Because I need it
to be finished!
Okay?
Five years.
Five years,
that's her prognosis, okay?
Five years,
they give her five years,
but the thing is,
every day feels like a year.
And there have been
so many days and
tests and surgeries
and last rites,
there have been so many
last rites and so little mercy.
And so much loss of movement
and memory in her,
and the slurred speech and
the only Leah understands,
only Leah does it right,
she only wants Leah,
only Leah can
I love her so much
and I need it to be done.
She's right.
I'm lying.
By the time Mom
gets her diagnosis,
it's too late for a cure.
-And because of
the Butterfly Effect,
you can't change that without
destroying everything else.
-The truth is
horrible.
Necessary truth
is that I need her to be
a thing of the past
so that I can be
a thing of the future.
Is that what you wanted?
You happy now?
-Nothing about this
makes me happy.
This was you reaching out
to me, wasn't it?
- Yeah.
- Why?
Because
you need to accept
you can't fix it.
-No.
Leah,
there is nothing you can do
to escape this.
I know because I tried.
I jumped and
and I won the Nobel Prize,
and I'm Time's
Person of the Century,
and I'm friends with
Mark Ruffalo,
- and
- Wait, really?
But none of it matters.
I left her
I left her in that
beige hospital room to die.
I did what you want to do,
I came here,
and now I'm nowhere.
And it would be
the same for you.
You'd leave and and
you'd still feel the weight,
the heaviness of having made
the choice to survive,
and you'd realize far too late
the gift that you had
with her every day.
Every day is a year.
Every day with her,
time stands still,
and you won't be able to
live with yourself
for ever having wanted it
to speed up.
Leah!
The reason I am here now
is because I need you to stay.
And I need you to
forgive me for going.
I can't fix I mean
I get why I left,
but I can't seem to
let go.
And I thought if you can
forgive me,
forgive us for leaving,
then I can live
and you can just
stop and, like, just be there,
just just just be with her
like I couldn't, Leah.
-I really didn't solve it?
-No. I didn't use
the Cauchy Horizon.
-Okay.
Okay.
I, uh
Of course, I forgive you.
-Thank you.
- What's that?
- I didn't touch anything.
-You solved time travel
your way,
and I'll solve it mine.
The Cauchy Horizon works.
-No.
- Baby Leah
- I don't love that name.
- Dimensional VIN is 4.5514.
- Leah, what are you doing?
- Wait, what?
- You input that into
the computer, okay? And then you
travel as far into the future
as you need to until
-Leah, no, no, no, no, no!
- There's a cure for Mom.
- Stop, stop, stop.
-Don't listen to her,
listen to me.
- The Butterfly Effect.
- You can still save her
in your timeline.
You find the cure.
-If you save someone
who is meant to die
-All other timelines will cease.
You will destroy both of us.
-You find it and you travel back
to July, 2019,
before she gets sick,
and you give it to her, and
and you solve time travel,
and become famous and wealthy
- She will live
and the two of us
will disappear.
- We're gone!
- You live a happy life.
Do you understand?
A good life.
A life without pain
or regret with Mom.
-Leah, I c I am not ready.
I I No, I
-And you never will be.
But it's time.
- No, you can't.
- Don't No. No!
You fucking traitor!
-Can you hear me now?
-Why are you doing this? Why?
-I can't leave Mom
in that beige room
with no hope and no us,
and I can't make Mom and us
go through all that pain
again and again and again,
so we gotta make way for
a new future.
-No, no, no.
Listen, Leah, Leah, Leah,
listen to me, listen to me.
Mom, she wouldn't want us to
sacrifice our lives for her.
- I know. Wasn't she the best?
- No, no, no, no, no.
I don't want to die.
I don't want to die, Leah.
-Well, you've still got time.
I'd get to work, though.
You're smarter but
- No, Leah, Leah
- Leah's younger.
-Stop
Hey, Ma.
Yeah, yeah, I'm great.
I'm, uh
I, um I just had to call
'cause, uh
It's so small,
but, um
do you remember that night
during Hurricane Felix?
I was like five, and, um
you got me and Rachel
out of bed,
and you carried us
down to the basement, and
and, uh it's just
Sorry, I just I remember that
the the wind got really
loud.
And the thunder started,
and Rachel was asleep,
but I I couldn't sleep. Um,
I was crying and I was, uh
I was really scared.
And you, um
You just held me and
rubbed my back,
and you were humming this song
and you said to me
that it was a song that
Grandma had sung to you,
and and so I just, I
I've been trying to
remember that song,
and I can't remember it
and it's driving me crazy.
And, um, I'm just
I had to call and and
How does it go, Mommy?
How does it go?