Open Your Eyes (2021) s01e02 Episode Script

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- [indistinct chattering]
- [Julia shuddered breathing]
- [distorted voices]
- [Julia breathes deeply]
[moans]
[distorted voice]
- [distorted voices continue]
- [Julia moans]
[Julia breathes heavily]
[tense music playing]
- [Julia moans]
- [distorted voices continue]
[gurney rattling]
[tense music continues]
Hey, my name is Janek.
I'll be with you
until we get to the hospital, okay?
It's important you stay conscious.
Just stay with me, all right?
- [moaning]
- [Janek] Can you tell me your name?
[Janek] Try to look at me.
- Hey, look at me.
- [shuddered breathing]
Do you know what your name is?
Tell me if you remember what your name is?
- [moans]
- [Janek] Don't fall asleep. Stay with me.
[Janek continues indistinctly]
[Julia moaning]
[ominous music playing]
[Julia breathing heavily]
No! No! No!
No! No!
[screaming]
[screaming echoing]
[moaning, whimpering]
[panting]
[black box chimes]
[male voice] You remember
that your name is Julia.
You remember that you play the piano.
And you remember that you like playing.
You remember that you had friends,
but you don't remember who they were.
You remember your new friends
that you made in the clinic.
You remember
that your parents died in a fire.
[sighs]
You have spent the last six days
in the Second Chance amnesia clinic.
[ominous music playing]
[music fades]
[indistinct chattering]
[suspenseful music playing]
[music playing in headphones]
[gasps]
I'm sorry. I just
wanted to
[Piotr] It's all right.
I should apologize for yelling at you.
I've only been here for a couple days,
and my hands are full.
- Oh.
- [machine beeping]
Didn't you expect that?
Every place has its rules.
Everything needs some getting used to.
What are you doing to her?
We play sounds related to her past
and watch how her brain reacts to it.
- [tablet beeping]
- So Magda doesn't remember either?
[Piotr] Magda is a challenging case.
Her state is very unstable.
Magda used to refuse to take medication
or just pretend that she had.
She mixed up reality and fiction
and eventually became paranoid.
- That's why you need to sedate her?
- Yes.
Because our brains rest their systems
while we sleep.
Relaxing
or exercising.
Go on.
[girls laughing]
- Hey, are you okay?
- Yeah, I need to
I just need a minute.
[groans]
I have a cramp. [grunts]
I mean, you already pushed yourself
so hard in your own training.
Without hard work, you'll achieve nothing.
- You all say that.
- Beat it.
[Szymon exhales sharply]
- I'm gonna get a stretcher.
- Go on.
[tense music playing]
[exhales sharply]
[panting]
[Iza] Do you know who's coming?
Oh, my brother.
Apparently, he already told Zofia.
- How about you?
- My uncle.
- Not your mom?
- She's still in bad shape.
[Iza] Adam!
How about you? Anyone visiting you?
- I don't have anybody.
- And your dad?
He didn't give a shit for 18 years.
I don't see why he would now.
I don't get what the big deal is.
My mother is coming,
and it's the worst day of the month.
- What are you talking about?
- Julia, tomorrow is visiting day.
[all panting]
Julia!
[tense music playing]
[breathing heavily]
[tense music continues]
[coughs]
[Zofia] What happened?
[breathing heavily]
We have a visiting day?
[Zofia] Yes, the first Saturday
of the month.
And will there be anyone for me?
[Zofia] Yes,
somebody from your family is coming.
- I wanted to prepare you for it.
- Well, who?
Your aunt is coming to see you.
My aunt Julia?
The one I'm named after?
[fire crackling]
She she was my dad's sister.
To be honest, it feels really great
to know she'll be here.
I was worried I'd be completely alone.
And couldn't my aunt
take me back with her?
[Zofia] I think I should let her
explain that when you see each other.
[sighs]
She doesn't care about me.
Maybe we should think of it like this.
It's possible
that her sending you here is
the sign that she does.
It shows she wanted you to get better.
And how long will I have to be here for?
You remind me of myself when I was young.
I wanted things
to go faster than they were.
What's important,
as I learned much later in life,
is systematic practice
and patience in everything.
In therapy,
in learning to play the piano.
[chuckles]
You heard me play, right?
- Yes.
- [chuckles]
That was crazy.
I didn't know I could do it.
And, like, just somehow it
[Zofia] Did you enjoy it?
[uplifting music playing]
Open it.
[chuckles]
[Clair de Lune" by Debussy playing]
- [loud bang]
- [Julia stops playing]
Wow.
Your playing,
shit, it's good.
[chuckles] Thank you.
Well, I was surprised too.
[Iza] It's amazing.
Hm.
And what are you doing here?
[sighs] Zofia, she wants me
to decorate the recreation hall.
[Julia] Let me play you something, then.
- [Iza chuckles]
- [Julia plays piano]
[laughs]
[laughing]
[Julia plays "Clair de Lune"]
[low buzzing]
[buzzing continues]
- You hear that?
- [Iza] Hear what?
That that buzzing.
[buzzing continues]
[Iza] Um
It must just be the boiler room.
Could be.
[buzzing continues]
How long has it been doing this?
A couple of days.
So why am I learning about this just now?
I assume that the problem was on your end.
You were supposed to inform me
if something was wrong.
We'll have to reset the entire system.
- The processor needs a replacement.
- But a reset? We can't just reset it.
Our time is limited.
We both risked too much
at this point to fail.
Piotr.
The human mind is not a processor
that you can program over
or add memory to.
These things mustn't be rushed.
Come on. She just arrived.
So what.
We're beyond the point of stopping.
You should be patient with it.
[machine beeping]
It better not take this long
with them all.
- Time is short.
- All right.
I'll figure something out.
We need to start
the alternative cooling systems.
Maybe that will stabilize it.
Barring there are no further problems.
[exhales]
[keypad beeping]
[door lock clicks]
[Julia] What are you doing?
I'm getting the gallery ready
for our visitors.
Teacher's pet, huh?
Very funny. Maybe you could help?
[Julia] I don't get a picture?
You will eventually. You just got here.
- Who's this?
- You don't recognize her?
- [chuckles] It's Magda.
- Really?
Yeah. Yeah, she used to look like that.
Her voice was great. [chuckles]
So how long has she been here?
Well, that performance
was over 11 months ago.
Magda was the first patient
at this clinic.
How do you know that?
Because I was at that concert too.
I've been here for 65,000,350 seconds.
351,
two,
three,
four,
five
I'm not planning
on being stuck here that long.
Seven,
eight,
nine,
ten,
eleven,
twelve,
thirteen,
fourteen,
fifteen
["Clair de Lune" by Debussy playing]
[humming softly]
[sighs]
[music fades]
[distant laughter]
- [Szymon] Do we have to tonight?
- [Paweł] Dude, you always wanted to do it.
[Szymon] I know,
but I am just not so sure, okay?
- [Julia] Hey.
- Hey.
Where are you going?
Uh, the woods.
Come with us. It'll be fun.
[Adam chuckles]
[fire crackling]
What is that?
[Adam] Nobody really knows.
We just call it Amnesiol.
Zofia gives it to us when we're rowdy.
- But when it's put over heat
- Please, please, please, let us get high!
Paweł, has this stuff
ever not worked for us?
Last time it gave me nausea.
We're actually celebrating
my small success.
- I have an audition for a musical.
- Yeah, Zofia hooked him up.
Apparently, if I manage to get it,
they might let me go.
Go where?
Away from here.
Into the world.
Wait, Szymon, I thought
that you don't have any family.
What do you plan to do?
I'll turn 18 soon, so
I'll make money, and
I'll find somewhere to live.
That's why I train so hard.
To be honest,
I don't wanna get out of here.
I mean, everything I need
is in this place already,
aside from a straightener.
- You're an idiot.
- I'm an idiot?
You plan on dancing
to make rent and pay bills.
- I have talent.
- None of that matters.
- It's all about who you know.
- [Adam] Shut up and get a straw.
[music grows to crescendo]
["Run Away"
by James George & Jennifer June playing]
[coughing]
Hey, guys.
How long have you both been here?
Szymon? Szymon!
How long have you been here?
Fuck, the guy is a dancer. He can't count.
[laughs]
Wait.
I've been here forever.
[laughing]
What?
Huh?
[laughing hysterically]
Uh, no. No, thank you.
Mm. Try it.
No. Seriously.
Um, my aunt is coming to visit me.
I wanna make sure I'm
[Paweł laughing]
- What's funny about that?
- Her aunt from America!
[laughing]
She has she has an American visitor!
[laughing]
[Paweł] She has an aunt from America!
[Paweł] Man, I'd eat a hot pizza.
- [Paweł] Pizza.
- What are you saying?
Pizza.
Oh, go ahead. Don't be shy. We won't peek.
Promise.
[woman whispering] Karolina.
Karolina.
[wind gusting]
[wind intensifies]
[ominous music playing]
Karolina.
[eerie sounds]
I know you can hear me.
Karolina.
[ominous music playing]
[Julia pants]
[Julia] Guys! Guys! Wait up!
Paweł! Paweł! Someone's in the woods.
She has red hair and
[woman whispers] Karolina
Did you hear that?
- Yeah. Of course I heard it.
- [Szymon laughing]
- Seriously? Or are you just joking?
- No, seriously. No, I'm serious.
I hear it all the time.
- [laughing]
- Shh!
[Paweł] That's
that's the aunt again.
[boys laughing]
- Go on. Listen closer. Listen!
- No, thank you!
[scoffs] Just
What is this?
Oh, the grave of an heiress. Yep.
That's a grave?
- That's a grave.
- [Adam laughs]
[Julia] Ariela.
[Paweł] Ariela.
Like the dish soap?
[boys laughing]
Shut up already!
Whoa! We're in trouble!
[boys chuckling]
"What is this life"?
"Mad madness." Hm.
"What is this life"?
"Illusion's backdrop."
"A dream of shadows.
A foundation of nothingness."
That was an amazing reading. It was.
If only I had such a talent,
I'd read it myself.
[boys laughing]
[singing in Latin] ♪ In nomine Patris ♪
Et Filii ♪
Et Spiritus Sancti ♪
- [dying groan]
- [boys laughing]
Completely insane.
- All of you.
- [grunts]
[ominous music playing]
Who are you anyway?
[Paweł] Yeah, actually, who are you?
Identify yourself.
- Tell me.
- Life is just a dream.
- [Adam] We have a strange creature here.
- [Paweł] Do you even know your name?
What did you do
to get put in here with us?
So tell me your name again.
Are you a twin?
This life is a dream.
You're high out of your minds.
It's no wonder
you've been in here for so long.
Julia!
I wonder how long you'll be stuck in here.
Hm. Yeah, I wonder.
[ethereal music playing]
You remember what your name is.
You remember, um, that you play the piano.
You know that today is, um,
important because your aunt
is coming, and
[black box chimes]
[male voice] You remember
that your name is Julia.
You can't remember her.
- You remember that you can play the piano.
- [curtain motor whirring]
- And that you like playing.
- [whirring stops]
You remember that you had friends,
but you don't remember who they are.
[indistinct chattering]
Iza?
Is there anyone in this clinic
who is named Karolina?
No. Why?
Nothing. I'm just asking 'cause
Aha.
You're hearing voices?
No.
Voices, voices, voices.
Don't worry so much about it.
It happens to everybody in here.
Keep taking medication.
Over time, it will drown the voices out.
- So hang in there, all right?
- Okay. Thanks.
[indistinct chattering]
[sighs]
Why do they look so Are they okay?
I don't know.
They weren't there at breakfast.
[Piotr] Paweł, you pair up with Iza.
Szymon, you'll be with
Szymon, I think it'd be best
if you go to your room and rest for today.
In that case, Adam, you'll be with Julia.
Uh, sir, can I be
- [Piotr] Is there a problem, Julia?
- [sighs] It's nothing.
[Piotr] Then sit down, please.
The brain is the center of operations
for the entire body.
The center of the nervous system,
our biological computer,
whose software is our consciousness.
Out of the five senses
that provide it with information,
that update it,
the most prominent one for all of us is
- Um, sight.
- Sight. Well done, Paweł.
And when it's gone, what happens to you?
Cover your eyes now.
Experience life without your sight.
Ease into it.
Create your internal image
of the person you will touch.
Their avatar
We are reconnecting in a new way.
Relax.
I am relaxed.
[Adam] I can see that.
- What is it, then?
- Nothing.
We were just joking around.
You can't take everything so personally.
Give us a chance.
All right.
I am helpless and blind.
Now you can hit me.
[emotional music playing]
Not blind. Visually impaired.
And watch out, or I might actually do it.
I mean it.
[Piotr] No joking around, please.
Try to take this seriously,
and do it in silence.
[exhales]
[ethereal music playing]
[ominous music playing]
[music grows to crescendo]
[ethereal music playing]
Hey! What'd I do this time?
[tense music playing]
[panting]
[Julia panting]
What's this photo from?
That's the photo that your aunt sent in
with your application
to admit you to the clinic.
Uh, when was it taken?
It was taken during one of your concerts.
I feel so lost in all this.
When a person doesn't exactly know
what's happening to them,
they can always find the answer
deep within themselves in what they love,
what inspires them.
I hope you won't mind if I play.
You like music, don't you?
Do you wanna listen
to anything in particular?
[breathing rapidly]
["Clair de Lune" by Debussy]
[Magda] You're so fresh.
[Julia stops playing]
You're hearing voices?
Get help for it.
Uh, but the voices are
[laughing]
[door opens]
[man] Here she is.
[door closes]
[man] You! Go back to your room.
[tense music playing]
- [Julia] What's going on?
- [man] Come here.
[Julia] We we were just talking.
Get back!
[breathes heavily]
[man 2] Come here.
- You stupid fuck!
- Let's go.
[laughing]
[man 2] Come on.
[Magda whimpering]
What are you doing?
Don't!
- Calm down!
- [Magda] No, no!
[Magda laughing]
- Calm down.
- No! No!
[Magda grunting]
[shouts]
[groans, laughs]
[gasping]
[tense music fades]
Is it anything urgent?
[Julia] Yes. It's about
It's about Magda.
[Zofia sighs]
Wait just a minute.
Aniela. Please, dear. Go play, all right?
Aniela. I'm talking to you.
We need to pause, I'm afraid.
I'll see you a little later.
Put that back, Aniela.
Stop.
Let's go.
You can go and play now.
I'll come get you later, all right?
[door opens, closes]
So, what did Magda do this time?
[Julia] Nothing.
I was just in the lecture hall.
These orderlies came in for Magda.
They pinned her down,
but she didn't provoke them.
Julia, um
I need to be able to speak freely,
but you must promise
this stays between you and me.
Magda can't be without supervision
or on her own
because she's a paranoid schizophrenic.
When it comes to treating amnesia,
pharmacology is a crucial component.
Without it,
Magda could start seeing things.
"Seeing things"?
What kind of things?
You know what I'm referencing.
Dreams, hallucinations.
When memories try to get
to the surface of consciousness,
you can either try
to deal with those memories,
or they might just drive you crazy.
Like me?
Why don't you take a seat?
What's going on?
My dreams are very strange.
And
I can't seem to tell the difference of
what's fiction and what's memory.
I hear this voice, and I see
this person.
And this is why we tell you
that taking your medication is vital.
To prevent these hallucinations
from turning into more fear in your mind.
[sighs] If, uh,
the hallucinations become worse,
if they keep bothering you, then
take one pill
every six hours.
I'm giving you only a few to start
for your own safety.
Take these to your room.
I'll see you a little before dinner.
I'll meet you in the main hall.
That's where the guests check in
for visitors day.
["Windmill" by Lor playing]
Have you seen that man? ♪
Broken pieces of his plan ♪
Taken by the wind ♪
To the place where you have been ♪
Corner of the room ♪
I think I saw your brother moon ♪
He came out of the gray ♪
He was sad, but that's okay ♪
Windmill
Are you still afraid of nothing? ♪
Is the wind still your friend?
Are you still afraid of something? ♪
Is it you who command? ♪
[knocking at door]
They're here!
You're a place where I can cry ♪
You good?
[groans] I'm coming.
I feel a little stressed.
[Iza] About what?
- [sighs]
- It'll be fine.
I know it will be fine, but
I feel so goofy.
[Iza chuckles]
I feel like I won't know my own aunt.
Yeah, that's normal.
I didn't know my uncle.
I didn't even know
that my mother had a brother.
Well, and now, I wait every month
for his visit. He's just He's the best.
Anyway
Oh, all right. Okay.
- [Julia] Yeah.
- Mm-hmm.
[Iza] Mm.
[Iza] Come on.
[Iza laughing]
Oh, it's so good to see you!
[song continues playing]
[Zofia] Hello, everyone.
Thank you for coming.
Please, uh,
let's proceed to the cafeteria.
[indistinct chattering]
[Julia] Doctor?
What about my aunt?
Just wait here, okay?
If I want, when I'm sad
You're a place where I can lie ♪
When I'm tired, when I'm down
You're a place where I can die ♪
Oh, windmill
Are you still afraid of nothing? ♪
Is the wind still your friend?
Are you still afraid of something? ♪
Is it you who command?
Are you still afraid of wind? ♪
Oh, windmill
You're a place where I can cry ♪
If I want, when I'm sad
You're a place where I can lie ♪
When I'm tired, when I'm down
You're a place where I can die ♪
Running 'round the hall ♪
Holding breath and holding soul ♪
Blinded by the moon ♪
- What are you doing?
- Waiting.
Can't you see?
My aunt still hasn't come yet.
Well, I guess we'll wait together.
[scoffs]
Although, last time, mm
you shot me down.
You'd better go.
Everyone's already here.
No one comes for me either.
Fuck 'em.
Oh, windmill
You're a place where I can cry ♪
If I want, when I'm sad
You're a place where I can lie ♪
When I'm tired, when I'm down
You're a place where I can die ♪
[song fades]
[tense music playing]
[Zofia] I'm really sorry, Julia
I only found out last minute myself.
Your aunt called
and said she had to cancel the visit.
Apparently,
she's not in the best place either.
I know you're feeling disappointed,
that you feel angry.
You have no idea!
Your aunt wanted me to pass this along.
What is it?
It's everything that survived the fire.
Sorry.
[pensive music playing]
Where'd it come from?
You always had this, didn't you?
You mean to tell me
you've kept this secret?
Just like the photo in the main hall!
I can't believe that you didn't tell me!
When I I was
I was hoping
it would be better for you to wait
to be with your aunt when you saw this
just to make it easier.
[emotional music playing]
[Julia] These are my parents?
[Zofia] Yes.
They died together, didn't they?
In the fire?
[Zofia] You remember?
[siren blaring]
And I
You were rescued from the fire.
[sobbing]
[exhales]
- [Julia] Who took this photo?
- I have no idea.
Because there's
Because there's a reflection.
The back window? See that girl?
I've seen her since then.
[Zofia] I don't know
what you're talking about, Julia.
Maybe we're also related.
Maybe I'm not alone.
I'm sorry, but I don't follow,
and I'm a bit confused
because I can't see anyone
in the back window.
[tense music playing]
[crying]
[screaming]
[silence]
[glass shatters]
[pills rattling]
[whimpers]
[sighs]
[birds squawking]
[squawking intensifies]
[ominous music playing]
[ominous music fades]
[door opens]
[knocking at door]
[Adam] Are you asleep?
[door closes]
[Adam chuckles]
You're lucky.
You have something from your parents.
My mom just left me all of her debt.
And, uh,
a small bracelet.
But I suspect that [chuckles]
it wasn't even really from my mom.
Zofia just gave it to me
to make me feel better.
[emotional music playing]
Please, meet my parents.
Hello there.
Nice to meet you.
Um
You must be the one
who gave Julia her beautiful lips.
[chuckles]
Um, and Dad,
you you gave her her stubborn spirit.
[Adam chuckles]
My parents died in a fire, Adam.
And I guess that's when I lost my memory.
There's nothing left of my home.
Except for this.
And for a moment,
it almost looked like
there was a redheaded girl
in the back window.
I thought I had someone else.
But Zofia managed
to get me out of my own head.
[Adam exhales]
Iza told me that
you are just a pain in the ass.
[Adam chuckles]
That you're at war with the clinic.
What for?
I mean
they're trying to help us.
They're trying to make me
into someone I'm not.
Adam,
but you don't know who you are.
Yeah, but I know who I won't become.
I feel it.
[ominous music playing]
[Adam] Something with this clinic is
off.
They
they think that just because
we don't remember anything,
we are a blank slate.
That they can make us believe anything.
But that's not true.
[ethereal music playing]
[door opens]
[shuddered breathing]
[shuddered breathing continues]
[gasps]
[ominous music playing]
[ominous music grows to crescendo]
[ethereal music playing]
[music fades]