Two Sentence Horror Stories (2017) s01e09 Episode Script
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1 [CONVERSATION IN MANDARIN ON TELEVISION.]
[CONVERSATION IN MANDARIN ON TELEVISION.]
[MUSIC FADES.]
- [DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE.]
- [DOOR OPENS.]
[CHIMES TINKLING.]
[DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE.]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS.]
How does it feel to be so alone? How does it feel? Ooh ooh [SINGING INDISTINCTLY.]
How does it feel to be so alone? How does it feel? [MUSIC STOPS.]
Hey, hold the door! Oh.
- Can you get it? - Yeah.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
[ELEVATOR MOTOR WHIRRING.]
[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS.]
[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS.]
Okay, this is my floor.
Oh, me too.
Erica.
Just moved in.
Oh, you! You listen to music all the time.
I can hear you at night.
I mean hear music.
I'm sorry.
I can turn it down if you No, no, no.
I actually wish I could hear it better.
[CHUCKLES.]
A neighbor that wants me to turn the music up? Now, that is a first.
[CHUCKLES.]
[BOTH CHUCKLE.]
I'm Mona.
Well, Mona, if you, um, ever want to borrow some music, or [THUMPING ON WALL.]
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATION IN DISTANCE.]
- Oh, here, let me help you.
- No, no! I'm sorry.
It's my mom.
She needs me.
- [DOOR SLAMS.]
- [SOFT, DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS.]
[CONVERSATION IN MANDARIN ON TELEVISION.]
[SHOUTING IN MANDARIN.]
[CONVERSATION IN MANDARIN ON TELEVISION.]
Hey! Don't move.
Ohh.
[SOBS.]
MA: Mei-mei? [SOFT, DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS.]
[SINGING INDISTINCTLY.]
Oh oh [SINGING INDISTINCTLY.]
Oh oh [SINGING INDISTINCTLY.]
How does it feel to be so alone? Nice little setup you got here.
[COUGHING.]
Hi.
[CHILDREN PLAYING IN DISTANCE.]
What are you listening to? Oh nothing, really.
[METAL CLANKS.]
I'm sorry.
[SOFT, DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS.]
[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES.]
[GASPING.]
[GASPING.]
[MOANING.]
[SCREAMS.]
[MUSIC STOPS.]
[GASPS.]
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[KEY RATTLES IN MAILBOX LOCK.]
Hey.
[SOFT, DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS.]
Hi.
Excuse me, I'm gonna I-I'm sorry if I'm being weird.
It's okay.
I get it.
You get what? You're straight.
I'm not.
It's cool.
It is what it is.
That's not it.
So then, it's just me.
- N-no.
- No worries.
- Let me just get by.
- What I meant is No! [GASPS.]
Mona! Wait! [SIGHS.]
Mona, did you do that? ERICA: That was amazing.
MONA: No one has ever said that about me.
ERICA: How do you do that? MONA: I've just always been this way.
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY.]
ERICA: Can I see you later? [DRAMATIC MUSIC INTENSIFIES.]
[MA LAUGHS.]
Don't call me that.
We'll watch an episode later.
You're wrong.
And she already does.
Don't say that! Don't you dare! Please shut up.
[SOBBING.]
[SOBBING.]
[SOBBING.]
I wish you would just die! [BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[MUSIC FADES.]
[SOFT, DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS.]
Hello? [STATIC ON TELEVISION.]
[BAG RESTS ON FLOOR.]
Your door was open.
Just wanted to make sure everything was okay.
Mona? [GLASS SHATTERS.]
[DOOR CREAKS.]
Just let me be.
[SOBBING.]
I hate you, oh, Ma! [MUSIC INTENSIFIES.]
[GASPS.]
[GRUNTS.]
[GURGLING.]
[GASPS.]
[GASPS.]
[GASPS.]
[MUSIC STOPS.]
[SOBBING.]
[CONVERSATION IN MANDARIN ON TELEVISION.]
[SOFT, DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS.]
SUSPECT: Hey! [OVER POLICE RADIO.]
Jason Miller, on two counts grand theft auto.
No outstanding warrants.
Exercise caution.
- SUSPECT: Man! It's too tight, man! - [SCUFFLE IN DISTANCE.]
[POLICE RADIO CHATTER.]
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS.]
Ugh! SUSPECT: Let me go.
- [BONE CRACKS.]
- Aah! SUSPECT: Hey! POLICEMAN: What are you talking about, dude? SUSPECT: Hey.
Hey! [POLICE RADIO CHATTER CONTINUES.]
SUSPECT: Let go, man! I didn't do nothing! Ugh! [SOFT, DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS.]
[BRAKES SQUEAL.]
[ENGINE SHUTS OFF.]
Do you need help? [INDISTINCT ON RADIO.]
[VISOR SLAMS.]
It's currently 59 degrees.
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATION ON RADIO.]
I saw what the cops did to you earlier.
You weren't doing anything, and they beat you.
And I know this stuff happens all the time, but I've never seen it before.
A 29-year-old unidentified man went berserk last night - opening fire on - It was awful.
I came back because I wanted to help.
So s-should I drop you off at a hospital, or No hospitals.
not releasing any information until I'd appreciate it if you could get me to Merton.
a crackdown on laboratory experiments on animals is expected to become Sure, uh I can take you as far as Marronville.
Thank you.
what animals would be allowed to be used in a lab.
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY.]
You know, some people would say a white girl like you, shouldn't be picking up black guys like me.
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY.]
I'm just playing with you.
[CHUCKLES.]
power was out for three hours in Eastern Metro because of downed hydro lines.
Um I'm Michelle.
The cleanup is expected to take at least two days.
I'm Jason.
is pegged at $3 million.
Reported missing yesterday, Mary Renton.
The Mooretown College senior was last seen in a parking lot, leaving a local bar on Saturday night.
Blood matching her blood type was found where her car was [RADIO TURNS OFF.]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS.]
[ENGINE SHUTS OFF.]
- Want something? - No.
I'm fine, thank you.
You sure? [DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES.]
[DOOR SLAMS.]
[ENGINE STARTS.]
[TIRES SCREECH.]
[MUSIC SOFTENS.]
You kind of look like her.
I'm sorry? The The The missing girl.
Be careful.
Okay? [BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[SIGHS.]
[DOOR OPENS.]
- [COINS CLINK.]
- Shit.
I think somebody outside is following me.
Can you please help me? - Frank! - Yeah? Do you see that man outside? - The black guy? - Yeah.
You want me to call the police? Oh, maybe that's not necessary.
Uh, can you maybe just come outside and see me to my car? Well, if he's bothering you, I should really call the police.
I-I just I really don't want to do that.
All right, give me a second, then.
Hey! Back away from the lady's car.
Where is it? Where's my wallet?! I don't want any trouble, okay? I just want to drive out of here.
You offer to help a man when he's down, just so you can take what little he got?! Hey, I'm not gonna ask you again.
Give it back to me! She stole my wallet! Hey! Watch your language! I'm gonna stand here, watch you leave, make sure we don't have to enjoy your company again.
I'm gonna see you again.
I promise you.
Ugh! - [KICKING CANS.]
- Hey! [DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE.]
[SIGHS.]
Thank you.
[MUSIC FADES.]
- [BANGING ON WINDOW.]
- [SCREAMS.]
- [ENGINE BACKFIRES.]
- [HORN HONKING.]
[TIRES SCREECHING.]
- [VEHICLES COLLIDE.]
- Oh! Oh! - [TIRES SCREECHING.]
- Hey! - [VEHICLES COLLIDE.]
- Oh! [TIRES SCREECHING.]
[CRASH.]
[SOFT, DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS.]
[AIR WHOOSHING.]
Ow.
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES.]
- Oh! - [ENGINE SPUTTERING.]
- Hey! - [SCREAMING.]
- [KNOCKING ON WINDOW.]
- Hey! [MUSIC INTENSIFIES.]
[MUSIC DEINTENSIFIES.]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC SOFTENS.]
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[UNLATCHES TRUNK.]
[GASPS.]
Oh! [GUN COCKS.]
You shouldn't have followed me! - Whoa! Whoa! - Don't move! I was just trying to get away from you! Okay, okay, look, look, calm down! But you wouldn't leave me alone! I know.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Look, I lost my temper.
Just Look, please, just put down the gun.
I can't do that.
Listen, this is all just a misunderstanding.
This is all your fault! I-I just needed your wallet.
It's okay.
I-It's okay.
It doesn't matter, it's just money.
The picture I just wanted the picture back.
What picture? My daughter.
It's the only one I have.
Listen I Look, p-please, Michelle.
Michelle I just want to see my daughter.
Please.
Don't you get it? I took your wallet so that I could plant it and then I could just walk away.
It was all I needed.
- But now this way works better.
- Wait! [GUNSHOT.]
[SOFT, DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS.]
Mary Renton's body was discovered late last evening in the trunk of her car along the Malpaick Freeway, along with the body of Jason Miller, a local resident with a previous conviction for grand theft auto.
Sources within the Police Department have informed us that Mr.
Miller died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
[SOFT, DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS.]
[BEEP.]
[CLEARS THROAT, SIGHS.]
When you're little, everyone tells you how to act What you can and can't do, who you can be But you don't have to accept what they tell you.
[SIGHS, CLEARS THROAT.]
[BREATHING RAPIDLY AND HEAVILY.]
I was a lonely kid, growing up trans in the middle of nowhere.
The Internet is what saved me, connected me to a bigger world, taught me to imagine a better one even one where we can push our bodies to become an extension of the Internet.
[YELPING.]
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[SOFT, DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS.]
[WHIMPERING.]
[GRUNTING.]
[SOBBING.]
Try to hack yourself.
Post your results.
Make it better.
'Cause we biohackers, we're we believe in action.
Our bodies are the interface.
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
- [CLICK.]
- Aah! [THUD.]
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING.]
[DOG PANTING.]
[GASPING, WHIMPERING.]
Hey, hey, it's me George.
It's me George.
It's okay.
Calm down.
It's okay.
It's okay.
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
What hap What hap [MOANING.]
Nola, here.
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
It's okay.
- [SIGHS.]
- It's okay.
[MOANS.]
Let me check your stitches.
[MOANS.]
[SIGHS.]
[SIGHS.]
[SIGHS.]
[SIGHS.]
The stitches are fine.
[SIGHING.]
What the hell is wrong with you? You drop off the planet, no communication for months, then you leave me a message to come as soon as possible with my emergency medical gear? Do you know how scary it is to get a message like the one you left me?! And then to find you bleeding out on your kitchen floor?! - But you did get to me in time.
- [CHUCKLES.]
And George thank you.
George.
You got lucky! What if I didn't get the message?! You don't do that to someone who loves [SIGHS.]
I should take you to the hospital.
- I don't do hospitals.
Oh.
- Nola, I am a nurse.
Uh, George George, I'm starving.
I'm a nurse, not a doctor.
You should get checked out.
Seriously, I need to eat.
[SIGHS.]
Uh [SIGHS.]
Okay, w-what do you want? T-The The The Thai place.
[CELLPHONE KEYS CLICKING.]
I feel something.
Hey, don't.
Don't do that.
It's an antenna.
The kind used by the Internet.
Receives and transmits radio-wave frequencies.
It's super crude wetware, but I got to start somewhere.
When was the last time you ate a full meal? George wouldn't it be amazing if the Internet was an extension of our brain? - [DISTORTED WHOOSH.]
- Do you listen to yourself? You mutilated your body to become a walking server? For what? Net neutrality? I didn't I didn't mutilate my body; I hacked it.
All of us biohackers are working to make humanity better through equal access to technology.
Open source citizen science When is the last time you got out of the house to see friends Real friends, actual friends And not one of those discussion boards? I know it can look, like, c-crazy to someone else, but [CHUCKLES.]
it's not.
We're We're visionary.
George I need your help to keep going.
[CLOCK TICKING.]
Why can't you ever just be happy where you are? George, t-this is the biggest breakthrough that has No, nothing has changed! I'm not gonna help you hurt yourself.
Absolutely not.
Uh, okay, you know, try not to sound so unsure.
I stood by you.
I supported you through your transition.
TransiThis is not about my transition.
This This is I am so much more than that.
No, this is different! This is dangerous! And I can't I won't Watch you destroy yourself with this obsession! And don't call me again to patch you up after one of your hacks.
You need help, and I can't give it to you.
[MUSIC STOPS.]
[COMPUTER KEYBOARD CLACKING.]
[SOFT, DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS.]
[NOTIFICATION TONES.]
[STATIC.]
[SNIFFLING.]
[NOTIFICATION TONE.]
[DISTORTED WHOOSH.]
[BEEP.]
[STATIC.]
[DOG PANTING.]
[STATIC.]
[GIGGLES.]
[SOFT, DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS INTENSIFIES.]
[CELLPHONE BUZZING.]
[SIGHS.]
Hello? Lo, what is happening with you? - George? - I've been calling you all night.
- [STATIC.]
- [GASPS.]
What's going on?! Talk to me! I just heard you scream! Are you okay?! I am freaking out! Talk to me! G-George, hold on, hold on, hold on.
Wait, no, no, I'm fine.
I'm fine, you just - [SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY.]
- I was just sleeping.
- But, no, I'm tot - Talk to me! The posts you keep posting on Facebook! No, I don't know what W-What What posts? I've been sleeping! What the hell? I didn't do this, I swear.
I've been hacked or something.
[NOTIFICATION TONE.]
Oh, my God.
[TV TURNS ON UNEXPECTEDLY.]
George, I'm gonna have to call you back.
[LOUD KNOCKING ON DOOR.]
Okay.
Oh! Hey, hey, hey.
Hey, please don't hurt me.
You can take whatever you want.
[BREATHLESSLY.]
You will stop harassing us with those e-mails.
E-mails? Do you know what it's been like these past four years, not knowing what happened to our son?! How could you know that's my son's favorite show? - Who are you? - Oh, no.
[BANGING.]
- Okay - [SOBBING.]
Was it you? Did you hurt him?! I know this is gonna sounds crazy, but Ben, he's your son, right? You're his f You're his father.
I-I think Ben or Or his spirit is using me to communicate with you.
He's in a place Uh, wooden pallets, - big towers of them.
Swear to God, I - Shut up, shut up, shut up! He's got a L-Listen, there was a There was a dog there, too.
Um, uh, it's In the yard, with Ben, a scruffy-haired dog that That Ben kept petting.
That's Malcolm's dog! - That's my brother.
- [BREATHING HEAVILY.]
- Hey, hey! - No! [GUNSHOT.]
[WIND WHISTLING.]
[GASPS.]
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
Ben? [BREATHING HEAVILY.]
Oh, Ben, I'm sorry for what happened to you.
[SIGHS.]
I hope you find peace.
[SIGHING.]
[SIGHS.]
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
- Hello? - George, George.
- You okay? - [SIGHS.]
It's incredible.
No, I'm fine, really.
A-At least, I am now.
I connected to something Another world or frequency I couldn't have imagined.
But I-I get it now, and it I helped someone, George.
I know this doesn't make any sense, but I can't wait to tell you all about it.
- Nola? Are you there? - [CLICK.]
I'm losing you.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS.]
[STATIC.]
[MUSIC FADES.]
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[SHOUTING ON TELEVISION.]
Please help me! Stop, please! Please! Are you okay? Please, there's a guy chasing me! - Please! - Hey! [SOBBING.]
Please help me! Stop! [SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY.]
Please help me! Stop, please! Please! - Are you okay? - Please stop! [NOTIFICATION TONES.]
[CELLPHONE BUZZING.]
[NOTIFICATION TONES CONTINUE.]
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[STATIC.]
[GASPS.]
No, no.
Please leave me alone.
Please, please just leave me alone.
Wake me up.
WOMAN: Honey, is there something wrong with the Internet? Leave me alone.
Please.
Okay, this is crazy, right? It's all right.
Um [CLEARS THROAT.]
Everything has to start somewhere.
Nothing has to end there.
[CLAPPING.]
Whew.
Who knows what's gonna happen? [BEEP.]
[CONVERSATION IN MANDARIN ON TELEVISION.]
[MUSIC FADES.]
- [DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE.]
- [DOOR OPENS.]
[CHIMES TINKLING.]
[DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE.]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS.]
How does it feel to be so alone? How does it feel? Ooh ooh [SINGING INDISTINCTLY.]
How does it feel to be so alone? How does it feel? [MUSIC STOPS.]
Hey, hold the door! Oh.
- Can you get it? - Yeah.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
[ELEVATOR MOTOR WHIRRING.]
[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS.]
[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS.]
Okay, this is my floor.
Oh, me too.
Erica.
Just moved in.
Oh, you! You listen to music all the time.
I can hear you at night.
I mean hear music.
I'm sorry.
I can turn it down if you No, no, no.
I actually wish I could hear it better.
[CHUCKLES.]
A neighbor that wants me to turn the music up? Now, that is a first.
[CHUCKLES.]
[BOTH CHUCKLE.]
I'm Mona.
Well, Mona, if you, um, ever want to borrow some music, or [THUMPING ON WALL.]
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATION IN DISTANCE.]
- Oh, here, let me help you.
- No, no! I'm sorry.
It's my mom.
She needs me.
- [DOOR SLAMS.]
- [SOFT, DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS.]
[CONVERSATION IN MANDARIN ON TELEVISION.]
[SHOUTING IN MANDARIN.]
[CONVERSATION IN MANDARIN ON TELEVISION.]
Hey! Don't move.
Ohh.
[SOBS.]
MA: Mei-mei? [SOFT, DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS.]
[SINGING INDISTINCTLY.]
Oh oh [SINGING INDISTINCTLY.]
Oh oh [SINGING INDISTINCTLY.]
How does it feel to be so alone? Nice little setup you got here.
[COUGHING.]
Hi.
[CHILDREN PLAYING IN DISTANCE.]
What are you listening to? Oh nothing, really.
[METAL CLANKS.]
I'm sorry.
[SOFT, DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS.]
[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES.]
[GASPING.]
[GASPING.]
[MOANING.]
[SCREAMS.]
[MUSIC STOPS.]
[GASPS.]
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[KEY RATTLES IN MAILBOX LOCK.]
Hey.
[SOFT, DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS.]
Hi.
Excuse me, I'm gonna I-I'm sorry if I'm being weird.
It's okay.
I get it.
You get what? You're straight.
I'm not.
It's cool.
It is what it is.
That's not it.
So then, it's just me.
- N-no.
- No worries.
- Let me just get by.
- What I meant is No! [GASPS.]
Mona! Wait! [SIGHS.]
Mona, did you do that? ERICA: That was amazing.
MONA: No one has ever said that about me.
ERICA: How do you do that? MONA: I've just always been this way.
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY.]
ERICA: Can I see you later? [DRAMATIC MUSIC INTENSIFIES.]
[MA LAUGHS.]
Don't call me that.
We'll watch an episode later.
You're wrong.
And she already does.
Don't say that! Don't you dare! Please shut up.
[SOBBING.]
[SOBBING.]
[SOBBING.]
I wish you would just die! [BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[MUSIC FADES.]
[SOFT, DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS.]
Hello? [STATIC ON TELEVISION.]
[BAG RESTS ON FLOOR.]
Your door was open.
Just wanted to make sure everything was okay.
Mona? [GLASS SHATTERS.]
[DOOR CREAKS.]
Just let me be.
[SOBBING.]
I hate you, oh, Ma! [MUSIC INTENSIFIES.]
[GASPS.]
[GRUNTS.]
[GURGLING.]
[GASPS.]
[GASPS.]
[GASPS.]
[MUSIC STOPS.]
[SOBBING.]
[CONVERSATION IN MANDARIN ON TELEVISION.]
[SOFT, DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS.]
SUSPECT: Hey! [OVER POLICE RADIO.]
Jason Miller, on two counts grand theft auto.
No outstanding warrants.
Exercise caution.
- SUSPECT: Man! It's too tight, man! - [SCUFFLE IN DISTANCE.]
[POLICE RADIO CHATTER.]
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS.]
Ugh! SUSPECT: Let me go.
- [BONE CRACKS.]
- Aah! SUSPECT: Hey! POLICEMAN: What are you talking about, dude? SUSPECT: Hey.
Hey! [POLICE RADIO CHATTER CONTINUES.]
SUSPECT: Let go, man! I didn't do nothing! Ugh! [SOFT, DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS.]
[BRAKES SQUEAL.]
[ENGINE SHUTS OFF.]
Do you need help? [INDISTINCT ON RADIO.]
[VISOR SLAMS.]
It's currently 59 degrees.
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATION ON RADIO.]
I saw what the cops did to you earlier.
You weren't doing anything, and they beat you.
And I know this stuff happens all the time, but I've never seen it before.
A 29-year-old unidentified man went berserk last night - opening fire on - It was awful.
I came back because I wanted to help.
So s-should I drop you off at a hospital, or No hospitals.
not releasing any information until I'd appreciate it if you could get me to Merton.
a crackdown on laboratory experiments on animals is expected to become Sure, uh I can take you as far as Marronville.
Thank you.
what animals would be allowed to be used in a lab.
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY.]
You know, some people would say a white girl like you, shouldn't be picking up black guys like me.
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY.]
I'm just playing with you.
[CHUCKLES.]
power was out for three hours in Eastern Metro because of downed hydro lines.
Um I'm Michelle.
The cleanup is expected to take at least two days.
I'm Jason.
is pegged at $3 million.
Reported missing yesterday, Mary Renton.
The Mooretown College senior was last seen in a parking lot, leaving a local bar on Saturday night.
Blood matching her blood type was found where her car was [RADIO TURNS OFF.]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS.]
[ENGINE SHUTS OFF.]
- Want something? - No.
I'm fine, thank you.
You sure? [DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES.]
[DOOR SLAMS.]
[ENGINE STARTS.]
[TIRES SCREECH.]
[MUSIC SOFTENS.]
You kind of look like her.
I'm sorry? The The The missing girl.
Be careful.
Okay? [BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[SIGHS.]
[DOOR OPENS.]
- [COINS CLINK.]
- Shit.
I think somebody outside is following me.
Can you please help me? - Frank! - Yeah? Do you see that man outside? - The black guy? - Yeah.
You want me to call the police? Oh, maybe that's not necessary.
Uh, can you maybe just come outside and see me to my car? Well, if he's bothering you, I should really call the police.
I-I just I really don't want to do that.
All right, give me a second, then.
Hey! Back away from the lady's car.
Where is it? Where's my wallet?! I don't want any trouble, okay? I just want to drive out of here.
You offer to help a man when he's down, just so you can take what little he got?! Hey, I'm not gonna ask you again.
Give it back to me! She stole my wallet! Hey! Watch your language! I'm gonna stand here, watch you leave, make sure we don't have to enjoy your company again.
I'm gonna see you again.
I promise you.
Ugh! - [KICKING CANS.]
- Hey! [DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE.]
[SIGHS.]
Thank you.
[MUSIC FADES.]
- [BANGING ON WINDOW.]
- [SCREAMS.]
- [ENGINE BACKFIRES.]
- [HORN HONKING.]
[TIRES SCREECHING.]
- [VEHICLES COLLIDE.]
- Oh! Oh! - [TIRES SCREECHING.]
- Hey! - [VEHICLES COLLIDE.]
- Oh! [TIRES SCREECHING.]
[CRASH.]
[SOFT, DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS.]
[AIR WHOOSHING.]
Ow.
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES.]
- Oh! - [ENGINE SPUTTERING.]
- Hey! - [SCREAMING.]
- [KNOCKING ON WINDOW.]
- Hey! [MUSIC INTENSIFIES.]
[MUSIC DEINTENSIFIES.]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC SOFTENS.]
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[UNLATCHES TRUNK.]
[GASPS.]
Oh! [GUN COCKS.]
You shouldn't have followed me! - Whoa! Whoa! - Don't move! I was just trying to get away from you! Okay, okay, look, look, calm down! But you wouldn't leave me alone! I know.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Look, I lost my temper.
Just Look, please, just put down the gun.
I can't do that.
Listen, this is all just a misunderstanding.
This is all your fault! I-I just needed your wallet.
It's okay.
I-It's okay.
It doesn't matter, it's just money.
The picture I just wanted the picture back.
What picture? My daughter.
It's the only one I have.
Listen I Look, p-please, Michelle.
Michelle I just want to see my daughter.
Please.
Don't you get it? I took your wallet so that I could plant it and then I could just walk away.
It was all I needed.
- But now this way works better.
- Wait! [GUNSHOT.]
[SOFT, DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS.]
Mary Renton's body was discovered late last evening in the trunk of her car along the Malpaick Freeway, along with the body of Jason Miller, a local resident with a previous conviction for grand theft auto.
Sources within the Police Department have informed us that Mr.
Miller died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
[SOFT, DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS.]
[BEEP.]
[CLEARS THROAT, SIGHS.]
When you're little, everyone tells you how to act What you can and can't do, who you can be But you don't have to accept what they tell you.
[SIGHS, CLEARS THROAT.]
[BREATHING RAPIDLY AND HEAVILY.]
I was a lonely kid, growing up trans in the middle of nowhere.
The Internet is what saved me, connected me to a bigger world, taught me to imagine a better one even one where we can push our bodies to become an extension of the Internet.
[YELPING.]
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[SOFT, DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS.]
[WHIMPERING.]
[GRUNTING.]
[SOBBING.]
Try to hack yourself.
Post your results.
Make it better.
'Cause we biohackers, we're we believe in action.
Our bodies are the interface.
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
- [CLICK.]
- Aah! [THUD.]
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING.]
[DOG PANTING.]
[GASPING, WHIMPERING.]
Hey, hey, it's me George.
It's me George.
It's okay.
Calm down.
It's okay.
It's okay.
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
What hap What hap [MOANING.]
Nola, here.
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
It's okay.
- [SIGHS.]
- It's okay.
[MOANS.]
Let me check your stitches.
[MOANS.]
[SIGHS.]
[SIGHS.]
[SIGHS.]
[SIGHS.]
The stitches are fine.
[SIGHING.]
What the hell is wrong with you? You drop off the planet, no communication for months, then you leave me a message to come as soon as possible with my emergency medical gear? Do you know how scary it is to get a message like the one you left me?! And then to find you bleeding out on your kitchen floor?! - But you did get to me in time.
- [CHUCKLES.]
And George thank you.
George.
You got lucky! What if I didn't get the message?! You don't do that to someone who loves [SIGHS.]
I should take you to the hospital.
- I don't do hospitals.
Oh.
- Nola, I am a nurse.
Uh, George George, I'm starving.
I'm a nurse, not a doctor.
You should get checked out.
Seriously, I need to eat.
[SIGHS.]
Uh [SIGHS.]
Okay, w-what do you want? T-The The The Thai place.
[CELLPHONE KEYS CLICKING.]
I feel something.
Hey, don't.
Don't do that.
It's an antenna.
The kind used by the Internet.
Receives and transmits radio-wave frequencies.
It's super crude wetware, but I got to start somewhere.
When was the last time you ate a full meal? George wouldn't it be amazing if the Internet was an extension of our brain? - [DISTORTED WHOOSH.]
- Do you listen to yourself? You mutilated your body to become a walking server? For what? Net neutrality? I didn't I didn't mutilate my body; I hacked it.
All of us biohackers are working to make humanity better through equal access to technology.
Open source citizen science When is the last time you got out of the house to see friends Real friends, actual friends And not one of those discussion boards? I know it can look, like, c-crazy to someone else, but [CHUCKLES.]
it's not.
We're We're visionary.
George I need your help to keep going.
[CLOCK TICKING.]
Why can't you ever just be happy where you are? George, t-this is the biggest breakthrough that has No, nothing has changed! I'm not gonna help you hurt yourself.
Absolutely not.
Uh, okay, you know, try not to sound so unsure.
I stood by you.
I supported you through your transition.
TransiThis is not about my transition.
This This is I am so much more than that.
No, this is different! This is dangerous! And I can't I won't Watch you destroy yourself with this obsession! And don't call me again to patch you up after one of your hacks.
You need help, and I can't give it to you.
[MUSIC STOPS.]
[COMPUTER KEYBOARD CLACKING.]
[SOFT, DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS.]
[NOTIFICATION TONES.]
[STATIC.]
[SNIFFLING.]
[NOTIFICATION TONE.]
[DISTORTED WHOOSH.]
[BEEP.]
[STATIC.]
[DOG PANTING.]
[STATIC.]
[GIGGLES.]
[SOFT, DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS INTENSIFIES.]
[CELLPHONE BUZZING.]
[SIGHS.]
Hello? Lo, what is happening with you? - George? - I've been calling you all night.
- [STATIC.]
- [GASPS.]
What's going on?! Talk to me! I just heard you scream! Are you okay?! I am freaking out! Talk to me! G-George, hold on, hold on, hold on.
Wait, no, no, I'm fine.
I'm fine, you just - [SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY.]
- I was just sleeping.
- But, no, I'm tot - Talk to me! The posts you keep posting on Facebook! No, I don't know what W-What What posts? I've been sleeping! What the hell? I didn't do this, I swear.
I've been hacked or something.
[NOTIFICATION TONE.]
Oh, my God.
[TV TURNS ON UNEXPECTEDLY.]
George, I'm gonna have to call you back.
[LOUD KNOCKING ON DOOR.]
Okay.
Oh! Hey, hey, hey.
Hey, please don't hurt me.
You can take whatever you want.
[BREATHLESSLY.]
You will stop harassing us with those e-mails.
E-mails? Do you know what it's been like these past four years, not knowing what happened to our son?! How could you know that's my son's favorite show? - Who are you? - Oh, no.
[BANGING.]
- Okay - [SOBBING.]
Was it you? Did you hurt him?! I know this is gonna sounds crazy, but Ben, he's your son, right? You're his f You're his father.
I-I think Ben or Or his spirit is using me to communicate with you.
He's in a place Uh, wooden pallets, - big towers of them.
Swear to God, I - Shut up, shut up, shut up! He's got a L-Listen, there was a There was a dog there, too.
Um, uh, it's In the yard, with Ben, a scruffy-haired dog that That Ben kept petting.
That's Malcolm's dog! - That's my brother.
- [BREATHING HEAVILY.]
- Hey, hey! - No! [GUNSHOT.]
[WIND WHISTLING.]
[GASPS.]
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
Ben? [BREATHING HEAVILY.]
Oh, Ben, I'm sorry for what happened to you.
[SIGHS.]
I hope you find peace.
[SIGHING.]
[SIGHS.]
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
- Hello? - George, George.
- You okay? - [SIGHS.]
It's incredible.
No, I'm fine, really.
A-At least, I am now.
I connected to something Another world or frequency I couldn't have imagined.
But I-I get it now, and it I helped someone, George.
I know this doesn't make any sense, but I can't wait to tell you all about it.
- Nola? Are you there? - [CLICK.]
I'm losing you.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS.]
[STATIC.]
[MUSIC FADES.]
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[SHOUTING ON TELEVISION.]
Please help me! Stop, please! Please! Are you okay? Please, there's a guy chasing me! - Please! - Hey! [SOBBING.]
Please help me! Stop! [SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY.]
Please help me! Stop, please! Please! - Are you okay? - Please stop! [NOTIFICATION TONES.]
[CELLPHONE BUZZING.]
[NOTIFICATION TONES CONTINUE.]
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[STATIC.]
[GASPS.]
No, no.
Please leave me alone.
Please, please just leave me alone.
Wake me up.
WOMAN: Honey, is there something wrong with the Internet? Leave me alone.
Please.
Okay, this is crazy, right? It's all right.
Um [CLEARS THROAT.]
Everything has to start somewhere.
Nothing has to end there.
[CLAPPING.]
Whew.
Who knows what's gonna happen? [BEEP.]