Just Beyond (2021) s01e08 Episode Script

(theme music)
I can't believe I'm actually holding it.
Commander Canada number 43.
First appearance
of his maple syrup blasters!
And it's ours.
(bell chimes)
So how do we do this?
Is it like a joint custody thing
where I get it on weekends?
'Cause obviously, you get it for more time
'cause you paid for it,
but I wanna be a part of its life too,
you know?
I'll help you care for it.
It's not a baby, Mason.
Oh, but it is, Sam.
It's our baby.
(chuckles)
You're an idiot.
Oh, hey, guys.
Tommy.
TOMMY: What are we up to today?
(quirky music)
Give it back!
Commander Canada?
Seriously?
You can't read it, it's mint!
It's mint?
- (rustles)
- (sloshes)
Now it's pave-mint.
(chuckles)
SAM: No!
(Tommy chuckles)
Thanks, man.
- MASON: Oh.
- (liquid trickling)
(both sigh)
I wish Commander Canada would send
that guy to another dimension.
I'm sorry, man.
I know how much that comic
meant to you, and your dad.
Gee, I can't believe
it's been almost a year
Can we not talk about it?
(stammers)
Yeah, sorry, sorry. I didn't
(shushes)
It's all good.
(somber music)
JENNY: Sam?
SAM: Sorry.
I was at the store with Mason,
and we just
I, I just lost track of time.
Sam, I, I told you I wanted us
to start having dinners again.
We need to get back
to some kind of normal.
I don't wanna be normal.
Stop trying to make me forget him.
I'm not trying to make you forget.
But I'm, I'm still here.
And, and this, us, moving on?
It's more important
than some old comic book.
(sentimental music)
It was dad's favorite.
Sam
(thunder rumbles)
- (rain pattering)
- (wind howling)
(thunder crashes)
(thunder rumbling)
(somber music)
(liquid trickling)
No, no, no, no, no,
I've had enough of wet comics today.
(wind howling)
No, no, no.
- (wind whistling)
- (thunder crashes)
- (wind howling)
- (gasping)
(groans, pants)
No, no, no, no.
(thunder rumbles)
(groans)
(Sam screaming)
(screaming echoing)
(Sam breathes deeply)
(gasps)
SAM: This is not my room.
Where am I?
(suspenseful music)
I'm in a picture with Tommy Munson?
These aren't my clothes.
(thuds)
(breathes sharply)
What's going on?
(quirky music)
You're up.
(chuckles)
(dog barks)
Oh, honey, are you feeling okay?
(dog barking)
FAKE DAD: That's my boy.
I told 'em you'd bounce right back.
My boy
The doctor said you might be
confused about some things.
Yeah. It's, it's just a minor concussion.
- No big deal.
- After you went in for the header.
Header? Like, as in soccer?
Sam, you were All-State last year.
No. No, I, I was in my treehouse, and
Treehouse?
I don't live here.
- (fake dad grunts)
- FAKE MOM: Should we call the doctor?
No, he said
it might not come back all at once.
Maybe we should just try
to jog his memory.
(clicks)
See, champ?
(fake dad sighs)
You shot that birdie on the 18th hole?
(breathes deeply)
I, um
I think I just need to lay down again.
- Sure.
- Oh.
Okay.
(door closes)
(suspenseful music)
(exhales)
(doorknob clicks)
(rattling)
(exhales)
Can I help you?
Very funny, Mom.
Hey hey, excuse me?
Look, I'm sorry
for being a jerk yesterday,
but you didn't have to prank me like that.
That really freaked me out.
(stammers)
Do I know you?
Yeah. You're my mom,
this is our house,
our stuff,
our tree
house.
ANDY: Jenny? Everything all right?
Dad?
- Dad!
- (grunts)
He thinks I'm his mom.
Hey, buddy, if you're lost,
we can call your parents.
You are my parents!
I think we should call the police.
Yeah, maybe.
Why are you doing this?
Okay, I'm getting the phone.
(whispers)
What is happening?
(ominous music)
(distorted zapping)
(panting)
(wind gusting)
(distorted zaps)
(panting)
(tense music)
(relieved panting)
What do you want?
Do you know who I am?
- MASON: Yeah, you're Sam.
- (pants)
Oh, thank God.
Why are you at my house?
Because we're best friends?
(snickers)
Oh, okay. Funny.
You and Tommy don't punk me
enough at school,
- so now you gotta come to my house?
- Wait, wait. Tommy?
Yeah, you and your alpha bro Tommy Munson.
What, is he gonna come jumping
out of the bushes now?
Mason, listen to me.
I was in my treehouse,
and there was this storm, and lightning,
and all of a sudden I'm here
and my dad's alive.
Cool, good luck with that.
Wait! We've been best friends
since kindergarten.
- Uh-huh.
- We made up our own secret language.
- Let go of the door!
- I know about the mayonnaise incident!
Yeah, and you still sleep
with your stuffed cat, Saint Jerome.
You gag when you smell licorice,
and you have a weird belly button.
You fart when you're scared.
(farts)
(chuckles softly)
Mason, I think
I'm in an alternate universe.
I really need your help, please.
MASON: Maybe the storm caused
some kind of interdimensional rift.
There's plenty of examples in comics.
Actually, half of these
are about interdimensional rifts.
But why give me another life?
Well, normally, when people wake up
in other people's bodies,
it's 'cause they have to learn a lesson.
Like a bully waking up as a weakling.
Mason, we were the weaklings.
It was just an example.
There's something else.
Before I came over here, I sorta glitched.
What do you mean?
After I ran out,
I was standing on the sidewalk,
and then everything got dark for a second.
All the trees were dead,
and the houses were all old.
Like the Ontario Zone.
SAM: Exactly!
What does it mean?
I
(snickers)
It means you're pretty much a goner.
What?
Well, if it's like the Zone,
you're gonna glitch more and more
until you're stuck there forever.
Unless
Uh, no. It's too crazy.
Mason, I guarantee you it's not too crazy.
Okay.
If the treehouse brought you in,
maybe, just maybe, it can get you out.
But there's no treehouse in this universe.
Then you have to
convince them to build one
before it's too late.
(exhales)
(machine whirring)
EMPLOYEE: Like this, down
(employee speaking indistinctly
over speaker)
(phone vibrating)
MASON: There he is.
What are you doing?
Better vantage point?
(indistinct chatter)
Think he's seen us?
I think he saw us.
Where'd he go?
- Um, you wanna split up?
- MASON: Go.
Can I help you?
How do you know where I work?
Oh, we know a lot of things.
Look, Dad. I, I mean, Andy. Uh
I know how insane this is gonna sound,
but I come from a alternate universe
where you're my dad and I
Yeah, uh-huh.
I really don't have time for this.
- Let's go.
- You can't make us leave!
We're customers, we want wood! Lots of it!
Okay, this time,
I really am gonna call the police.
You grew up in Grand Rapids!
Your first dog
was a Dalmatian named Freckles.
You met mom, Jenny,
at an ice cream parlor.
You always get a double scoop
of Rocky Road.
And you're, you think golf is ridiculous.
Your favorite comic book
is Commander Canada number 43, May 1988.
- Yeah. It's the first appearance
- First appearance
BOTH: of the maple syrup blasters.
I was in the treehouse.
The one that you and me
started building together.
And lightning hit the tree, it fell.
When I woke up, I was here.
Only, uh, I wasn't me.
That's that's not possible.
But what if it was?
- I think that
- (clears throat)
We think we need to rebuild it
and get me back home.
(phone vibrating)
(Sam sighs)
Look, I gotta go.
Um I understand
if you don't believe me.
Come by the house tomorrow.
We'll talk.
(chuckles)
Okay.
(distorted zaps)
(wind gusting heavily)
(panting)
(distorted zapping)
(tense music)
So, son, uh your mom and I think
maybe you should
stay home until you're better.
But I, uh
I couldn't reach you all day.
I was worried sick.
Sorry, I was looking
for birthday presents for you.
(scoffs)
My birthday was two weeks ago.
Which means only 50 short
shopping weeks till next year.
FAKE MOM: And I talked to Tommy's mom.
She said he hasn't heard from you.
Oh, uh
Right. Tommy.
(chuckles)
Me and Tommy. Buddy-buddy.
I have an idea.
Why don't you invite Tommy
to the lake with us this year?
That'd be too much fun.
FAKE DAD: You remember last summer
at the lake with Lolo?
She was so excited to get there,
she could barely wait for us to park.
- Mm-hmm.
- (fake mom laughs)
She headed straight down the pier
and jumped right into the water!
(laughter)
(panting)
(fake mom laughs)
Lolo. Uh
Lolo loves the lake.
- She's been going her whole life.
- (fake mom chuckles)
Of course,
dinners are always a little interesting.
I know, right?
Always begging for table scraps.
Crazy Lolo.
Table scraps?
I know I shouldn't feed her
under the table.
But she's so cute!
Son, Lolo's your grandmother.
FAKE MOM: And our dog's a boy.
Obviously!
Everyone's talking about my bad memory.
You guys forgot how funny I am!
(laughter)
That, that was a good one, son.
(fake mom and fake dad laugh)
You think this is all a dream?
Part of me wants to wake up
in my own room.
But then, I wouldn't get
to see my dad tomorrow.
(chuckles)
Seeing you wouldn't be
so bad either, I guess.
For the record, you look like a Lolo.
- (dog panting)
- (chuckles)
(light switch clicks)
(gentle music)
(breathes deeply)
(chuckles)
ANDY: It is a pretty sweet spot
for a treehouse.
We finished the last one in two days.
Well, except for the roof.
We didn't finish that part.
Why didn't we finish it?
Um
(stammers)
I guess we just kinda lost interest.
Hmm.
Andy?
Can I talk to you for a second?
Yeah.
It's fine.
You're not seriously considering
building a treehouse?
I mean you don't believe him, right?
He knew things about me only a,
a son would know about his father.
So, yeah, I believe it's possible.
I've read about people
who've had these same experience
Yeah, Andy, in comic books.
Look
(sighs)
I wanna help this kid too, but this?
This, it's
Crazy. I know.
Look. The way I see it, if he's right,
we're helping a kid get back to his life.
And if he's wrong
We're helping a lonely kid feel better.
We even get a nice treehouse
out of the deal.
(birds chirping)
(gentle music)
All right, well,
what are we standing around here for?
- Let's go to the lumberyard.
- (laughs)
All right, if we're gonna be
building a treehouse,
we're probably gonna need to fuel up.
- Anybody hungry?
- Oh, ooh!
There's this great diner we used
to go to, uh, by the lumberyard.
Hot Betty's?
Yeah, they have the best
BOTH: chocolate chip pancakes.
(sighs)
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh ♪
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh ♪
(man vocalizes)
In a perfect world, everybody knows ♪
That it comes around same as it goes ♪
But the way it is ♪
Is the way it is ♪
I'm just tryna find
my way through this ♪
In a perfect world ♪
In a perfect world ♪
Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh, oh-oh ♪
- Yeah, look at that.
- Yeah.
TOMMY: Sam?
- I've been trying to call you, man.
- SAM: Oh, Tommy.
- Thought we were gonna go golfing.
- Yeah, um
I'm not really into golfing anymore.
Comic books are way cooler.
But, uh, have fun!
Anybody like ice cream?
- I do.
- Yeah! I knew it, come on.
(indistinct chatter)
(machine whirring)
See if we have enough.
Okay
- Six, yeah. Perfect.
- Okay.
Thirsty?
Yes.
- He's having the time of his life.
- (chuckles)
He never had another big kid
to play with in this universe.
How come you guys never had kids?
We talked about it.
(sighs)
Something we always wanted to do,
you know, one day.
So, in this other universe,
what kind of mom am I?
I mean, you're a great mom.
The best.
I don't tell you enough.
Or her, I guess.
I'm sure we both know,
even if you don't remember to tell us.
Well, I'm obviously
the world's greatest dad.
Yeah, actually.
(water pouring)
- JENNY: Oh!
- (music plays louder)
- ANDY: Okay.
- Okay, here come the dad move.
Old-school, shimmy, yes.
- (laughing)
- The shimmy shimmy.
(laughs)
- ANDY: Oh, my God.
- Oh, guys,
- we still got a little work to do.
- (distorted zapping)
- WOMAN: Sam
- (wind gusting)
Sam, wake up. Can you hear me?
Sam
Sam
(tense music)
Sam, wake up!
(distorted zapping)
- Sam, are you okay?
- What happened?
I touched you and you just fell.
(panting)
I've been having these glitches.
Glitches?
It's like I'm in the same spot, but
everything around me is
Is what?
Dead.
(pants)
Mason thinks
the longer I'm here, the worse it'd get.
And he said if I don't get back in time,
I could stay in this dead place forever.
Well, then we'd better get
an early start tomorrow.
Are you okay?
WEATHERMAN: You might wanna bring
those umbrellas to work today.
We are in for some weather.
The forecast calls
for severe thunderstorms
starting this evening
and continuing through the night.
(indistinct TV chatter)
Dom-be-doo-be-doo ♪
(dog moans)
Dom-dom dom-be-doo-be-doo ♪
Woa-woa-woa-whoa ♪
Well, I love, love you, baby ♪
Come and go with me ♪
I want you, honey ♪
We'll go all to see ♪
I need you, baby ♪
So come go with me ♪
- Can I do that?
- Yeah, here we go.
(whispers)
Try yourself.
Mm-hmm.
(thunder rumbling)
There's a storm coming.
What if it's the same storm
that knocked my treehouse down?
Then, we'll be ready.
(distorted zap)
WOMAN: Sam, Sam
Sam, wake up. Can you hear me?
Sam.
(distorted zapping)
(wind gusting)
Sam, are you okay?
Hey, hey, it's all right.
(exhales)
We're almost done.
(panting)
(thunder rumbles)
(exhales)
(thunder rumbling)
It's here.
Guess we finished just in time.
Actually, there's one more thing.
Come on.
(gentle music)
(sighs)
(gentle music)
(exhales)
(chuckles)
SAM: Sorry for leaving
an empty treehouse in your yard.
Well, actually, I'm hoping
it won't be empty for too long.
- (chuckles)
- Yeah?
Yeah.
I mean, this parenting thing's
been kinda fun.
(laughs)
(Jenny chuckles)
(thunder rumbles)
(rain pattering)
(suspenseful music)
(thunder rumbling)
ANDY: Lookin' good.
I figure, the more I can make it
look like the other treehouse,
the better chance this has of working.
(Andy exhales)
MASON: I hope you're right.
(chuckles)
A vintage Commander Canada figure.
I don't have to tell you how rare this is.
You're sure that was
in the other treehouse?
I'm sure.
If something happens to it,
I'm gonna track you down
in the other dimension and kill you.
(chuckles)
Thank you, Mason.
(gentle music)
Well see you in another life.
(distorted zaps)
Don't leave.
Sam?
I don't wanna go back.
But you'll have your life back.
But I won't have you.
(chuckles)
What?
Where I'm from, you're
A year ago, you
(murmurs)
Don't tell me how.
ANDY: That's why you acted
so surprised to see me.
(distorted zaps)
Being with you again
I don't want it to end.
I wanna stay here.
Forever.
I miss you so much, Dad.
- (thunder rumbles)
- (rain pattering)
Sam
your mother is still there.
And if she is anything like she is here,
her heart would break in two
if she didn't have you.
If I was anything like I am here,
then I'd want you to be there.
For her.
(thunder crashes)
Stay with me.
Just a little longer, please?
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, of course. I'll stay.
I love you, Dad.
I love you.
- (thunder rumbles)
- (rain pattering)
(thunder crashing)
(thunder crackling)
- (machine beeping)
- (indistinct chatter)
Sam?
Mom.
Oh, you're awake!
He's awake!
- (sobbing)
- (door opens)
I was so worried about you.
I saw Dad.
- (chuckles)
- SAM: He helped me find my way back.
So did you.
(exhales)
I love you so much.
- (Jenny sniffles)
- (groans)
I love you too, Mom.
- (chuckles)
- Ow.
Oh, I'm sorry.
(chuckles)
(whispers)
You scared me.
(Sam exhales)
(gentle music)
(exhales sharply)
(soft piano music)
What do you think?
Wanna rebuild this thing with me?
SAM: Also, what do you think
about getting a dog?
(gentle music)
(soft piano music)