Back to 15 (2022) s02e05 Episode Script
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[electronic dance music plays]
[crowd cheering]
One more of these,
pretty please, bartender. Thank you.
I must be in heaven now,
'cause I'm looking at an angel.
- Salud.
- Salud.
[laughing]
[Camila] Anita?
[chuckles] It's you. How's this possible?
No, no, no, no. I'm sorry.
I don't know who you are.
Anita! Anita!
Anita!
Are you crazy?
Why are you acting like that?
Hi, Camila.
BACK TO 15
I never thought that I'd bump into you
in a nightclub in Buenos Aires.
Gosh, it's been 15 years.
Wait. Fifteen years, you said?
That's nuts!
I followed your transition
on social media. I'm so proud.
- God, 15 years since I saw you.
- Fifteen years, yeah, more or less.
So how are you then?
What are you doing here?
- I'm here for a book-fair event.
- So you're still writing, right?
Never dropped it! [chuckles]
- Check it out.
- Aw!
[Anita gasps]
[squeals]
[Camila chuckles]
"Much more than 'Envolvimento':
The Biography of MC Loma"?
[chuckles]
- I don't see your name on it!
- Sh!
So I do ghostwriting.
- You write ghost stories
- Yeah, they're other peoples' stories.
I don't get credit for it.
It's actually kind of interesting.
Yeah, but what about your own stories?
[chuckles]
I don't know. No time for that now.
So have you thought about
going back to Imperatriz?
Ah, it's too hard though.
I have too much going on.
If you wanna come back again
and you need a place,
you're more than welcome at mine.
Well, that'd be cool.
But I'd stay at my mom's house
when I'm there.
Anita, your mom is selling the house.
- Wait. What did you say?
- Imperatriz is being sold off, Anita.
There's a real estate company
that's buying everyone out.
Sorry, I understand it's not that simple
to just go back to Imperatriz
out of nowhere.
It's hard for me. Believe me.
There's a lot of pain there,
and I get that.
A lot of difficult people.
But you have friends there.
[upbeat, curious music plays]
[horns honking]
[camera clicking]
Here. Look here.
What? Wonderful.
- Wanna go out?
- Not tonight, no.
- I'm meeting up with some friends.
- Okay, well, I'll join you.
No, but these are friends from school,
so it could be a little awkward.
Well, yeah. Of course.
Uh, don't worry. Actually, I think I have
plans with a friend that I forgot about.
Oh, well, cool.
- All right.
- [woman] Yeah.
[somber music plays]
Mmm.
THREE-BEDROOM HOUSE FOR SALE
But why didn't anybody
tell me about the sale?
Don't you think it's 'cause you're always
running away from everyone?
[gasps]
[sniffs]
Is this stuff really just ice cream?
I think I'm hallucinating.
Oh, you're not hallucinating, no.
I've always been right here.
What are you saying?
Finally, you've decided it'd be
a good idea to listen to your conscience,
which is me.
You need to go back to Imperatriz, Anita.
[scoffs]
Get lost, kid. Stop.
Your own house is up for sale!
Our own house.
Mmm. So I should just give all this up?
I'm not saying that. I'm talking about
your friends and your family.
I may be wrong about this,
but I don't happen to recall
that chocolate ice cream
sending you a ton of messages
asking you to hang out sometime. Did it?
[sighs]
[young Anita] You know that sleeping
won't make me go away, right?
Yeah, I don't believe in ghosts.
[sighs]
[chuckles]
Aren't you just a tiny bit curious
about how everyone is doing?
It's much better than drinking
cheap wine all alone here.
No, that wine's not cheap though.
Argentinian.
And there's no point in me going back.
I mean you've already packed
your bags and all that, so
I'm going to bed. Enough of this.
Jesus Christ, come on.
We both know this life of partying
and hooking up with strangers
is just a facade.
You can't just run forever, Anita.
Do you think you could try to be quiet?
'Cause I'm trying to sleep.
I don't know how you can think of sleep,
especially when you know
our childhood home is for sale!
Well, it wasn't my plan
to go back now though.
[sighs]
But it's been a while now that things
haven't been going according to plan.
Right?
[sentimental music plays]
Damn it.
FOR SALE
[Anita thinking] What is all this?
My God, what the hell's going on here?
FOR SALE
FOR SALE
SCHEDULE A TOUR
Imagine if she catches a glimpse of that
ridiculous Santa tattoo on your neck.
No, it's not of Santa at all.
It's the gnome from the movie Amélie.
- Mm-hmm.
- And shouldn't you be going?
I'm always here with you, remember?
Who the hell is this guy?
So sorry, but, uh,
is this the wrong address for Vânia?
Vannie, hon!
You've got a visitor!
- Vannie?
- Vannie?
Oh, shit
[gasps] Anita!
- Hey, Ma.
- [Vânia] I missed you so much, honey!
Oh my God. Muah!
Oh my
Tattooed, I see.
Yeah!
Amazing.
- I've got one too.
- No way.
I have. Check it out.
"Wisdom" in Hindu. Good, right?
You're certain
that thing really says "wisdom"?
Anita, I sense you're feeling anxious.
Your aura
is coming off a bit yolk-yellow.
- Come here, sweetie. Come on.
- Yolk-yellow? What does that even mean?
[gong rings]
Ohm.
Now what we'll do
This will clear all of your heavy energy
and will free you from anything
that's been causing you stress
and making you nervous.
You're literally
about to sell Dad's house, Mom.
That's what's making me nervous.
It's my house, and you know that.
You chose to move away
and hide from everything and everyone,
but I stayed here.
And life has moved on, Anita.
You can't sell the house, Mom, okay?
You've already got a boyfriend!
- [Vânia] Marco?
- [both laugh]
When you and your sister left the house,
I went and rented both your rooms out.
Marco's a lodger.
And he's gay!
Well, no, actually I'm bi.
We do actually exist.
[Vânia and Marco laugh]
Besides, what if he was my boyfriend?
I mean, who cares?
Anita, your father passed away
15 years ago,
and I'm still here and very much alive.
And your mother is a very beautiful woman
and so interesting.
- [laughs]
- And her pelvic opening, it's like
No! No, no, no, no, I can't hear you.
I came here for the house.
Could we possibly find a way
to just not sell the house?
Do you want to move back in
here with us? Is that it?
No way, no, no, no.
Not in a million years.
I swear that it's not that.
But I just don't wanna lose
all the memories that are here.
Anita, our memories,
they follow us everywhere we go.
We can't change that.
In my case, a country house
in São Thomé das Letras.
[Vânia and Marcos] Mmm!
[Vânia] I've even made an offer.
[Marco] Mmm.
Ah!
No, guys, I just really don't think
I can do this right now.
I'm gonna head out.
They're absolutely crazy.
- [door opens, closes]
- Ah.
[Anita] I shouldn't've come.
So you took a 4-hour flight,
a 2-hour bus ride, and a car journey
just to run away all over again?
Didn't you see what happened back there?
Mom doesn't even need me now.
The house is gone,
and my mission here is kaput.
Oh, Anita, you give up too easily
on what really matters, you know that?
Anita?
Joel?
Finally, you're back. You came back!
You finally came!
Finally! You really showed up!
[laughing]
Is it really you?
- Are you all right?
- [Joel] No.
But I'm much better,
because you're really back!
Come on.
I've gotta fill you in on everything.
For God's sake, come on over here.
So you're living in the van then, huh?
I like to think of it as driving my house.
Yeah, my life has gone downhill
since you disappeared after the games.
Well, I'm not sure if I've really reached
the foot of the hill yet.
But wait. I thought that you
I don't know. I guess I just thought
that you'd moved on.
How, sweetheart? I couldn't move on.
I share a connection with you, remember?
If you travel through time,
I travel through time, yeah?
- Why would I spend six months in this van?
- You should've just called me.
You don't think I tried?
I knew you needed some space to think,
so I gave you a month.
Then another month to work
through your feelings, for reflecting.
And by the third month,
I tried to find you,
Apparently, you don't talk
to your family anymore.
Now hang on.
I change my phone number a lot, so I
It's not even important.
It's not important,
because you're here now.
And we can finally go back to 2006
and back to our average lives.
Never again.
I'm going back to Buenos Aires. Okay?
And if it's about time traveling,
then I do not wanna hear about it.
[Joel chuckles]
Anita, you've spent
the last few months eating
Argentine pastries with dulce de leche
while I've been sleeping in this van.
Then again, what was I expecting?
Once an egoist, always an egoist.
- I was just living my life, Joel.
- So screw everyone else?
Don't you understand
it doesn't matter what we do now?
The present's always going to be shitty.
You have no idea how bad shit can get.
You know, I've got my van.
You should see how the others are doing.
- What is it?
- Forget about it.
Who else's life is shitty?
Just show me, Joel.
GO AWAY, PRINCIPAL BETH
What the hell is all this?
Is this SISET from the Upside Down?
Just you wait.
[Carol]
It's like my old coach always used to say.
You guys are like fruits in a big salad.
A fruit salad.
Or it went something like that.
Let's get moving, okay?
Let's move those feet.
I remember the story that Coach Lúcia
told you about having to be your own ball.
[Carol] Oh, Anita! I missed you!
- [Joel] Hey, Carol.
- [Carol] Hey!
So it looks like you are
the new coach at our old school.
Yeah. Well, technically I teach phys ed.
It's different.
I always thought
you'd go pro when we grew up.
Not every dream comes true, I guess.
But that's okay though.
At least I'm working with my husband now.
- Hey, Douglas!
- [Douglas] Yeah?
[Carol] Look who's here.
Anita?
- Douglas!
- Wow, time hasn't changed a thing!
- Ah!
- Hey, what's up, man?
Joel! [chuckles]
Hey!
It's a pleasure to see you,
but I gotta get back to work.
The girls are having trouble with the net.
My love.
Bye, love. Bye.
Anita, it was good to see you.
I don't want to be
that cringey, old millennial and all,
but this current generation is just so
Maybe the school shut-down is all right.
Yeah. It'll force me to get out
and do other things with my life.
The school's closing down?
Is everything in this town
falling apart?
Who's responsible for coming
and ruining everything?
You should go and talk to Henrique.
Well, I guess that's our next person.
[gentle, upbeat music plays]
[Anita]
"Imperatriz, the Paris of Minas Gerais"?
What is this shit?
Henrique!
[Henrique] Just a minute.
I'll be right back, okay? Hang on.
Would you mind telling me
what's going on in this town, Henrique?
Good to see you too, Anita.
Aren't you a musician though?
Anita, I gave up on music.
Remember all that trouble at school?
The band fought,
and it wasn't the same after that.
Then my grandma's health got worse.
Really, I just needed
to find work and some cash.
- Real estate though? What for?
- What's the problem with that?
Sorry.
[Henrique] Hmm.
It's just that this real estate fund
doesn't seem to care about this town.
Quite the contrary, you know?
- You know who they are?
- No.
It's an anonymous fund
from Belo Horizonte. I know that.
And their goal is
to turn Imperatriz into Paris.
[laughs]
God, could they make it any tackier?
- Christ.
- What?
I thought you used to love Paris?
You know what, Anita?
I had some opportunities in life, yeah.
Not too many.
But I did take them.
I didn't run away
from my responsibilities.
I gotta get back the showroom, okay?
The showroom.
Okay, let's get back to this.
We have
a few reasonably priced options here.
Let me know what you think.
[Anita] So you two are married now?
I mean, of course you are. I knew that.
I knew I knew that.
Of course, I knew it, but kids are
not in the picture, right?
So I'm not a
an aunt?
Of course you're not, Anita.
Do you really think I'd have kids
with this loser?
[laughs sarcastically] Yeah, you wish.
- In order to have kids, you actually
- Fabrício! Look.
You're the one spending
all your time sitting around,
playing that little fantasy football,
okay.
- Knew you'd bring up the football.
- Uh, what's new guys? What's going on?
[laughs]
Everything's just wonderful!
Look around. Can't you tell?
Hey, this joint isn't what it used to be,
but it's all we got, okay?
Uh, guys, it really isn't,
you know, the worst.
[grunts]
- Aren't you gonna
- Yeah, of course.
Thank you for this.
- Thank you for abandoning me here.
- Sorry.
- You know I
- No, no, no, no, no! Just forget it.
I guess I probably should've just stayed
in São Paulo instead of coming back?
Guys, it's impossible for life
to be any worse than it already is.
- No way, no how. Huh-uh.
- [Fabrício] Wow.
That's really sweet, you know?
I think that might've been
the nicest thing you've ever said to me.
- Oh, this is good? You like living here?
- I didn't say that.
- That's life, right? You deal with it.
- No, forget it.
Everything's the worst.
I feel bad
for giving these guys this shitty present.
There's only one way to fix all this.
- You know that.
- No, no, no, no. Don't think about it.
Imagine if it gets worse.
I'm starting to think the more we meddle,
the worse it gets for everyone.
The rest of the gang is on their way.
A toast to our reunion.
Nice to have you back in Imperatriz.
[upbeat music plays]
[all] We go high. We go low.
We come together, and we po!
- [Douglas] Cool, just drank fire.
- [César] Oh man, that burns.
[laughs]
[Fabrício] Smooth.
But really, you're saying
that Spark is a doctor?
Who would let him be a doctor?
What is this?
- I swear!
- Doctor though?
- Oh yeah!
- Nah, show me!
Check it out. Here!
He's still cute, huh?
[laughs]
You know who else is still cute now?
- That boy Henrique.
- Chill, Carol.
Well, I can be dieting
and still look at the menu, right?
Guys, come on. He is pretty fine.
[laughs]
But he works for a bunch of assholes.
I don't know, guys.
That's what he could get in this town.
If you didn't have the diner,
who can say?
- I mean, you could be in his place.
- Only if they paid really well.
Says the entrepreneur that hit it big
with his famous diner, yeah.
Hey, how do we all feel
about a toast to failure,
to always being stuck
in our pitiful little lives?
[Douglas] Yeah, cheers for sure.
Everyone besides, uh,
our little Anita, yeah?
Your life's beautiful in Argentina.
Guys, I feel a little bad about how
I just left you guys here.
No, Anita.
It's not like that.
We'd like you to be here
for your friendship.
It's not like you have to come fix us.
What could you possibly change?
[chuckles] Just imagine it!
Just imagine such a superpower
right at your fingertips.
[Douglas] Well, at least they only built
an Eiffel Tower, right?
They didn't stick fucking I don't know
a Statue of Liberty
in the center of town or anything.
- Not yet, at least.
- [Joel] At least. At least.
Are you thinking
what I'm thinking right now?
I don't know. Uh, what?
Go and take down that Eiffel Tower?
- [Anita] Yes!
- [Joel] Hey!
- Super great idea!
- [Anita] Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!
Wait. Please, guys. Are you crazy or what?
Oh, come on! We're not 15, for God's sake.
- [Luiza] Nah, bro!
- Let me finish!
- Don't be such a square, bro!
- Van Life, why would you call me that?
I'm serious! You're drinking more?
Fine.
[all] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Joel's van will get us there ♪
[Fabrício] I was opening the door.
[Luiza] No, it's cool.
I don't need any help.
- You're drunk, babe. I know you are.
- [Luiza] Let's check this thing out.
[overlapping chatter]
[Luiza] I think this thing looks
like some kid's art project.
Welcome to Paris!
- [Douglas] Oh boy!
- [Fabrício] Oh my God, it's crazy dude.
- "Imperatriz, the Paris of Minas Gerais."
- [Joel] Remember the good old days?
We were the worst thing
to happen to Ms. Beth!
We need some graffiti.
Someone wanna help with that?
- I can!
- [Carol] No way!
[Anita] Ah, yeah, Camila! Whoo!
[Fabrício] Camila!
- [Douglas] Go for it!
- [Luiza] Do it!
- Yeah!
- [Fabrício] Yo, C?
- [Douglas] Whoa!
- [Fabrício laughs]
[Luiza] I think she's gonna
write "Camila" now.
- [Joel] Are you okay?
- [Luiza] Are you good?
ASS
- She wrote "ass"? Really, girl?
- What is this?
- [Fabrício laughs]
- Assassins of Imperatriz!
[laughing]
[Luiza] We gotta do this quickly though.
- We're all good over here.
- [Camila] We've tied it pretty tight here.
Guys, guys, guys. Hey, can we
just cut this shit out. It's gonna go bad.
- [Luiza sighs]
- Douglas, can you stop wussing out?
- Anita! Hold on, Anita.
- [Henrique] Have you lost your minds?
[Camila] Oh, here he comes with that walk.
Anita, what is this?
- We're getting rid of that gross tower.
- [Fabrício] Come on, Anita!
- [Luiza] Yeah! Yeah!
- [Douglas] Careful.
- Careful!
- [Fabrício] Let's go! Let's go!
- [Luiza] Whoo!
- [Fabrício] Go on!
- Ah!
- [Fabrício] Drive!
[Douglas] Guys! Guys!
[Carol yelps]
- [Douglas] Ah!
- [Luiza gasps]
BREWERY
- [Luiza gasps]
- [Anita] Oh.
I said it'd go bad.
- [police sirens blare]
- [dogs barking]
The police.
[indistinct chatter]
You've really screwed me, Anita.
You trespassed on private property.
You vandalized it all!
Henrique, hey, calm down.
We'll say that you weren't with us
and you had nothing to do with it.
Ugh.
How long you think they'll keep us for?
Hmm. Why?
You have somewhere special to be, missy?
You seemed pretty excited
to go cause trouble.
- No more than you, right, honey?
- [Fabrício] Oh, this is my fault now?
- We were all there together.
- Do me a favor and just close your mouth.
You're so annoying.
Please cut it out. Look where we are.
Yeah, guys, right. We did something wrong,
Now all of us are here in the same boat.
- Don't worry.
- Uh, uh, uh. I didn't do anything.
Douglas, can you zip it?
- What do you want from me?
- [whispers] Be quiet, yes?
Hey, what's wrong?
If only we had access
to a computer right now,
we could go back to 2006 and poof!
- All sorted. Everyone free to go.
- Don't do this, Joel?
Anita, we're in prison!
And you wrecked my van,
so I guess I'm hopeless and homeless!
[Anita chuckles]
Just when I think things
can't get any worse,
something always comes
and proves me wrong.
[mysterious music plays]
Eduardo?
What are you doing here?
[laughs]
I've just flown in by helicopter
from Belo Horizonte.
Apparently, a group of vandals
tried to break into my property.
Wait. Your property?
That's right. The building site
you decided to attack is mine,
as are all the other buildings in town.
That's impossible. It's you?
I'm the main investor in the fund.
I pay your wages, Henrique.
But you were a moron back then.
How could you do this?
- Douglas, you should control your wife.
- Well, she actually controls me.
[laughs]
Well, I had quite a bit of luck.
Fifteen amazing years
of several highly improbable
and well-placed bets.
Improbable wins too?
Yeah, my winning streak started off
back in high school in 2006.
I won a laptop at the festival. Remember?
I won with my lucky number, 42.
[laughs]
Right, and you came here
to humiliate everyone?
On the contrary.
I'm not going to press charges,
having considered
our amazing friendship over the years.
[Joel] It's you.
You stole my notebook, did you?
I remember!
It was at the end of the handball game.
Joel, cool it. I'm being kind here,
and I'm giving you a chance.
Cool it? He used my notebook!
What are you talking about?
Anita, I used to write down all the events
from 2006 to 2021.
All in the notebook. It's all in there.
And Eduardo has been holding onto it!
That's why he's so lucky, you see?
How much have you had to drink, huh?
Well, Joel's clearly had too much.
Guys, I've never been more sober!
This guy used my notebook
to win the raffle at the festival in 2006,
and it's been one win after another.
If you don't wanna get locked up here,
I'd shut your mouth now.
I've done more than enough for you.
You would've never been the mascot
if I didn't land it for you.
- [grunts]
- [Luiza gasps]
[laughs]
[laughs] I've changed my mind.
I'm going to press charges after all
for the tower
and the physical assault
from this clown here.
I think we gotta go back.
I don't think I can do that, Joel.
You don't wanna face your father's death.
That's why you won't go back.
But, Anita, you're gonna lose
your dad in every timeline.
Death is inevitable, but the rest of it
it doesn't all have to end this way.
We can make it better for me,
for you, better for everyone else.
I'll be there for you, and I promise
all of your friends will be there.
Trust me.
[Carol] Anita.
Look, I don't understand
what's happening here,
but I've got so much faith in you, really.
- Carol's right, Anita.
- You have to go now.
- [Joel] Go on.
- Yeah, go on.
- Go on, Anita.
- Get out of here.
[Joel] Get out of here.
- Go on.
- Officer, we have a runner here!
Get off! Get off!
[officer] Cool it. Cool it.
[upbeat rock music plays]
[Marco] Hey!
PHOTOBLOG
LOG IN TO MY ACCOUN
I don't actually think I can do this.
[sighs]
Oh, Anita.
No one's ever fully ready
to cope with death.
You're not gonna be able to deal with
this pain you're feeling
by running away though.
You're pretty mature for 15, huh?
[chuckles] That's because I'm actually 30.
[both laugh]
But for real,
look at all the different things
that've had to happen
for you to get to this moment right now.
Don't let go of that.
Can you come with me?
I'm you and you're me. Remember?
[modem pings]
["Aonde que eu Vá" plays]
[lyrics in Portuguese]
[sighs]
[Luiza crying]
FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS
WITH DEEPEST SYMPATHY
[overlapping chatter]
How are you?
It's so hard.
But I'm getting better.
You know
you can always count on me though.
I know I can,
my partner in secret time travel.
[both laugh]
And speaking of that though,
we really need to start
thinking about our next plan.
We have to stop Eduardo from creating
the worst timeline
of all those that we've visited.
[Joel] Let's do this.
[upbeat rock music plays]
[crowd cheering]
One more of these,
pretty please, bartender. Thank you.
I must be in heaven now,
'cause I'm looking at an angel.
- Salud.
- Salud.
[laughing]
[Camila] Anita?
[chuckles] It's you. How's this possible?
No, no, no, no. I'm sorry.
I don't know who you are.
Anita! Anita!
Anita!
Are you crazy?
Why are you acting like that?
Hi, Camila.
BACK TO 15
I never thought that I'd bump into you
in a nightclub in Buenos Aires.
Gosh, it's been 15 years.
Wait. Fifteen years, you said?
That's nuts!
I followed your transition
on social media. I'm so proud.
- God, 15 years since I saw you.
- Fifteen years, yeah, more or less.
So how are you then?
What are you doing here?
- I'm here for a book-fair event.
- So you're still writing, right?
Never dropped it! [chuckles]
- Check it out.
- Aw!
[Anita gasps]
[squeals]
[Camila chuckles]
"Much more than 'Envolvimento':
The Biography of MC Loma"?
[chuckles]
- I don't see your name on it!
- Sh!
So I do ghostwriting.
- You write ghost stories
- Yeah, they're other peoples' stories.
I don't get credit for it.
It's actually kind of interesting.
Yeah, but what about your own stories?
[chuckles]
I don't know. No time for that now.
So have you thought about
going back to Imperatriz?
Ah, it's too hard though.
I have too much going on.
If you wanna come back again
and you need a place,
you're more than welcome at mine.
Well, that'd be cool.
But I'd stay at my mom's house
when I'm there.
Anita, your mom is selling the house.
- Wait. What did you say?
- Imperatriz is being sold off, Anita.
There's a real estate company
that's buying everyone out.
Sorry, I understand it's not that simple
to just go back to Imperatriz
out of nowhere.
It's hard for me. Believe me.
There's a lot of pain there,
and I get that.
A lot of difficult people.
But you have friends there.
[upbeat, curious music plays]
[horns honking]
[camera clicking]
Here. Look here.
What? Wonderful.
- Wanna go out?
- Not tonight, no.
- I'm meeting up with some friends.
- Okay, well, I'll join you.
No, but these are friends from school,
so it could be a little awkward.
Well, yeah. Of course.
Uh, don't worry. Actually, I think I have
plans with a friend that I forgot about.
Oh, well, cool.
- All right.
- [woman] Yeah.
[somber music plays]
Mmm.
THREE-BEDROOM HOUSE FOR SALE
But why didn't anybody
tell me about the sale?
Don't you think it's 'cause you're always
running away from everyone?
[gasps]
[sniffs]
Is this stuff really just ice cream?
I think I'm hallucinating.
Oh, you're not hallucinating, no.
I've always been right here.
What are you saying?
Finally, you've decided it'd be
a good idea to listen to your conscience,
which is me.
You need to go back to Imperatriz, Anita.
[scoffs]
Get lost, kid. Stop.
Your own house is up for sale!
Our own house.
Mmm. So I should just give all this up?
I'm not saying that. I'm talking about
your friends and your family.
I may be wrong about this,
but I don't happen to recall
that chocolate ice cream
sending you a ton of messages
asking you to hang out sometime. Did it?
[sighs]
[young Anita] You know that sleeping
won't make me go away, right?
Yeah, I don't believe in ghosts.
[sighs]
[chuckles]
Aren't you just a tiny bit curious
about how everyone is doing?
It's much better than drinking
cheap wine all alone here.
No, that wine's not cheap though.
Argentinian.
And there's no point in me going back.
I mean you've already packed
your bags and all that, so
I'm going to bed. Enough of this.
Jesus Christ, come on.
We both know this life of partying
and hooking up with strangers
is just a facade.
You can't just run forever, Anita.
Do you think you could try to be quiet?
'Cause I'm trying to sleep.
I don't know how you can think of sleep,
especially when you know
our childhood home is for sale!
Well, it wasn't my plan
to go back now though.
[sighs]
But it's been a while now that things
haven't been going according to plan.
Right?
[sentimental music plays]
Damn it.
FOR SALE
[Anita thinking] What is all this?
My God, what the hell's going on here?
FOR SALE
FOR SALE
SCHEDULE A TOUR
Imagine if she catches a glimpse of that
ridiculous Santa tattoo on your neck.
No, it's not of Santa at all.
It's the gnome from the movie Amélie.
- Mm-hmm.
- And shouldn't you be going?
I'm always here with you, remember?
Who the hell is this guy?
So sorry, but, uh,
is this the wrong address for Vânia?
Vannie, hon!
You've got a visitor!
- Vannie?
- Vannie?
Oh, shit
[gasps] Anita!
- Hey, Ma.
- [Vânia] I missed you so much, honey!
Oh my God. Muah!
Oh my
Tattooed, I see.
Yeah!
Amazing.
- I've got one too.
- No way.
I have. Check it out.
"Wisdom" in Hindu. Good, right?
You're certain
that thing really says "wisdom"?
Anita, I sense you're feeling anxious.
Your aura
is coming off a bit yolk-yellow.
- Come here, sweetie. Come on.
- Yolk-yellow? What does that even mean?
[gong rings]
Ohm.
Now what we'll do
This will clear all of your heavy energy
and will free you from anything
that's been causing you stress
and making you nervous.
You're literally
about to sell Dad's house, Mom.
That's what's making me nervous.
It's my house, and you know that.
You chose to move away
and hide from everything and everyone,
but I stayed here.
And life has moved on, Anita.
You can't sell the house, Mom, okay?
You've already got a boyfriend!
- [Vânia] Marco?
- [both laugh]
When you and your sister left the house,
I went and rented both your rooms out.
Marco's a lodger.
And he's gay!
Well, no, actually I'm bi.
We do actually exist.
[Vânia and Marco laugh]
Besides, what if he was my boyfriend?
I mean, who cares?
Anita, your father passed away
15 years ago,
and I'm still here and very much alive.
And your mother is a very beautiful woman
and so interesting.
- [laughs]
- And her pelvic opening, it's like
No! No, no, no, no, I can't hear you.
I came here for the house.
Could we possibly find a way
to just not sell the house?
Do you want to move back in
here with us? Is that it?
No way, no, no, no.
Not in a million years.
I swear that it's not that.
But I just don't wanna lose
all the memories that are here.
Anita, our memories,
they follow us everywhere we go.
We can't change that.
In my case, a country house
in São Thomé das Letras.
[Vânia and Marcos] Mmm!
[Vânia] I've even made an offer.
[Marco] Mmm.
Ah!
No, guys, I just really don't think
I can do this right now.
I'm gonna head out.
They're absolutely crazy.
- [door opens, closes]
- Ah.
[Anita] I shouldn't've come.
So you took a 4-hour flight,
a 2-hour bus ride, and a car journey
just to run away all over again?
Didn't you see what happened back there?
Mom doesn't even need me now.
The house is gone,
and my mission here is kaput.
Oh, Anita, you give up too easily
on what really matters, you know that?
Anita?
Joel?
Finally, you're back. You came back!
You finally came!
Finally! You really showed up!
[laughing]
Is it really you?
- Are you all right?
- [Joel] No.
But I'm much better,
because you're really back!
Come on.
I've gotta fill you in on everything.
For God's sake, come on over here.
So you're living in the van then, huh?
I like to think of it as driving my house.
Yeah, my life has gone downhill
since you disappeared after the games.
Well, I'm not sure if I've really reached
the foot of the hill yet.
But wait. I thought that you
I don't know. I guess I just thought
that you'd moved on.
How, sweetheart? I couldn't move on.
I share a connection with you, remember?
If you travel through time,
I travel through time, yeah?
- Why would I spend six months in this van?
- You should've just called me.
You don't think I tried?
I knew you needed some space to think,
so I gave you a month.
Then another month to work
through your feelings, for reflecting.
And by the third month,
I tried to find you,
Apparently, you don't talk
to your family anymore.
Now hang on.
I change my phone number a lot, so I
It's not even important.
It's not important,
because you're here now.
And we can finally go back to 2006
and back to our average lives.
Never again.
I'm going back to Buenos Aires. Okay?
And if it's about time traveling,
then I do not wanna hear about it.
[Joel chuckles]
Anita, you've spent
the last few months eating
Argentine pastries with dulce de leche
while I've been sleeping in this van.
Then again, what was I expecting?
Once an egoist, always an egoist.
- I was just living my life, Joel.
- So screw everyone else?
Don't you understand
it doesn't matter what we do now?
The present's always going to be shitty.
You have no idea how bad shit can get.
You know, I've got my van.
You should see how the others are doing.
- What is it?
- Forget about it.
Who else's life is shitty?
Just show me, Joel.
GO AWAY, PRINCIPAL BETH
What the hell is all this?
Is this SISET from the Upside Down?
Just you wait.
[Carol]
It's like my old coach always used to say.
You guys are like fruits in a big salad.
A fruit salad.
Or it went something like that.
Let's get moving, okay?
Let's move those feet.
I remember the story that Coach Lúcia
told you about having to be your own ball.
[Carol] Oh, Anita! I missed you!
- [Joel] Hey, Carol.
- [Carol] Hey!
So it looks like you are
the new coach at our old school.
Yeah. Well, technically I teach phys ed.
It's different.
I always thought
you'd go pro when we grew up.
Not every dream comes true, I guess.
But that's okay though.
At least I'm working with my husband now.
- Hey, Douglas!
- [Douglas] Yeah?
[Carol] Look who's here.
Anita?
- Douglas!
- Wow, time hasn't changed a thing!
- Ah!
- Hey, what's up, man?
Joel! [chuckles]
Hey!
It's a pleasure to see you,
but I gotta get back to work.
The girls are having trouble with the net.
My love.
Bye, love. Bye.
Anita, it was good to see you.
I don't want to be
that cringey, old millennial and all,
but this current generation is just so
Maybe the school shut-down is all right.
Yeah. It'll force me to get out
and do other things with my life.
The school's closing down?
Is everything in this town
falling apart?
Who's responsible for coming
and ruining everything?
You should go and talk to Henrique.
Well, I guess that's our next person.
[gentle, upbeat music plays]
[Anita]
"Imperatriz, the Paris of Minas Gerais"?
What is this shit?
Henrique!
[Henrique] Just a minute.
I'll be right back, okay? Hang on.
Would you mind telling me
what's going on in this town, Henrique?
Good to see you too, Anita.
Aren't you a musician though?
Anita, I gave up on music.
Remember all that trouble at school?
The band fought,
and it wasn't the same after that.
Then my grandma's health got worse.
Really, I just needed
to find work and some cash.
- Real estate though? What for?
- What's the problem with that?
Sorry.
[Henrique] Hmm.
It's just that this real estate fund
doesn't seem to care about this town.
Quite the contrary, you know?
- You know who they are?
- No.
It's an anonymous fund
from Belo Horizonte. I know that.
And their goal is
to turn Imperatriz into Paris.
[laughs]
God, could they make it any tackier?
- Christ.
- What?
I thought you used to love Paris?
You know what, Anita?
I had some opportunities in life, yeah.
Not too many.
But I did take them.
I didn't run away
from my responsibilities.
I gotta get back the showroom, okay?
The showroom.
Okay, let's get back to this.
We have
a few reasonably priced options here.
Let me know what you think.
[Anita] So you two are married now?
I mean, of course you are. I knew that.
I knew I knew that.
Of course, I knew it, but kids are
not in the picture, right?
So I'm not a
an aunt?
Of course you're not, Anita.
Do you really think I'd have kids
with this loser?
[laughs sarcastically] Yeah, you wish.
- In order to have kids, you actually
- Fabrício! Look.
You're the one spending
all your time sitting around,
playing that little fantasy football,
okay.
- Knew you'd bring up the football.
- Uh, what's new guys? What's going on?
[laughs]
Everything's just wonderful!
Look around. Can't you tell?
Hey, this joint isn't what it used to be,
but it's all we got, okay?
Uh, guys, it really isn't,
you know, the worst.
[grunts]
- Aren't you gonna
- Yeah, of course.
Thank you for this.
- Thank you for abandoning me here.
- Sorry.
- You know I
- No, no, no, no, no! Just forget it.
I guess I probably should've just stayed
in São Paulo instead of coming back?
Guys, it's impossible for life
to be any worse than it already is.
- No way, no how. Huh-uh.
- [Fabrício] Wow.
That's really sweet, you know?
I think that might've been
the nicest thing you've ever said to me.
- Oh, this is good? You like living here?
- I didn't say that.
- That's life, right? You deal with it.
- No, forget it.
Everything's the worst.
I feel bad
for giving these guys this shitty present.
There's only one way to fix all this.
- You know that.
- No, no, no, no. Don't think about it.
Imagine if it gets worse.
I'm starting to think the more we meddle,
the worse it gets for everyone.
The rest of the gang is on their way.
A toast to our reunion.
Nice to have you back in Imperatriz.
[upbeat music plays]
[all] We go high. We go low.
We come together, and we po!
- [Douglas] Cool, just drank fire.
- [César] Oh man, that burns.
[laughs]
[Fabrício] Smooth.
But really, you're saying
that Spark is a doctor?
Who would let him be a doctor?
What is this?
- I swear!
- Doctor though?
- Oh yeah!
- Nah, show me!
Check it out. Here!
He's still cute, huh?
[laughs]
You know who else is still cute now?
- That boy Henrique.
- Chill, Carol.
Well, I can be dieting
and still look at the menu, right?
Guys, come on. He is pretty fine.
[laughs]
But he works for a bunch of assholes.
I don't know, guys.
That's what he could get in this town.
If you didn't have the diner,
who can say?
- I mean, you could be in his place.
- Only if they paid really well.
Says the entrepreneur that hit it big
with his famous diner, yeah.
Hey, how do we all feel
about a toast to failure,
to always being stuck
in our pitiful little lives?
[Douglas] Yeah, cheers for sure.
Everyone besides, uh,
our little Anita, yeah?
Your life's beautiful in Argentina.
Guys, I feel a little bad about how
I just left you guys here.
No, Anita.
It's not like that.
We'd like you to be here
for your friendship.
It's not like you have to come fix us.
What could you possibly change?
[chuckles] Just imagine it!
Just imagine such a superpower
right at your fingertips.
[Douglas] Well, at least they only built
an Eiffel Tower, right?
They didn't stick fucking I don't know
a Statue of Liberty
in the center of town or anything.
- Not yet, at least.
- [Joel] At least. At least.
Are you thinking
what I'm thinking right now?
I don't know. Uh, what?
Go and take down that Eiffel Tower?
- [Anita] Yes!
- [Joel] Hey!
- Super great idea!
- [Anita] Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!
Wait. Please, guys. Are you crazy or what?
Oh, come on! We're not 15, for God's sake.
- [Luiza] Nah, bro!
- Let me finish!
- Don't be such a square, bro!
- Van Life, why would you call me that?
I'm serious! You're drinking more?
Fine.
[all] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Joel's van will get us there ♪
[Fabrício] I was opening the door.
[Luiza] No, it's cool.
I don't need any help.
- You're drunk, babe. I know you are.
- [Luiza] Let's check this thing out.
[overlapping chatter]
[Luiza] I think this thing looks
like some kid's art project.
Welcome to Paris!
- [Douglas] Oh boy!
- [Fabrício] Oh my God, it's crazy dude.
- "Imperatriz, the Paris of Minas Gerais."
- [Joel] Remember the good old days?
We were the worst thing
to happen to Ms. Beth!
We need some graffiti.
Someone wanna help with that?
- I can!
- [Carol] No way!
[Anita] Ah, yeah, Camila! Whoo!
[Fabrício] Camila!
- [Douglas] Go for it!
- [Luiza] Do it!
- Yeah!
- [Fabrício] Yo, C?
- [Douglas] Whoa!
- [Fabrício laughs]
[Luiza] I think she's gonna
write "Camila" now.
- [Joel] Are you okay?
- [Luiza] Are you good?
ASS
- She wrote "ass"? Really, girl?
- What is this?
- [Fabrício laughs]
- Assassins of Imperatriz!
[laughing]
[Luiza] We gotta do this quickly though.
- We're all good over here.
- [Camila] We've tied it pretty tight here.
Guys, guys, guys. Hey, can we
just cut this shit out. It's gonna go bad.
- [Luiza sighs]
- Douglas, can you stop wussing out?
- Anita! Hold on, Anita.
- [Henrique] Have you lost your minds?
[Camila] Oh, here he comes with that walk.
Anita, what is this?
- We're getting rid of that gross tower.
- [Fabrício] Come on, Anita!
- [Luiza] Yeah! Yeah!
- [Douglas] Careful.
- Careful!
- [Fabrício] Let's go! Let's go!
- [Luiza] Whoo!
- [Fabrício] Go on!
- Ah!
- [Fabrício] Drive!
[Douglas] Guys! Guys!
[Carol yelps]
- [Douglas] Ah!
- [Luiza gasps]
BREWERY
- [Luiza gasps]
- [Anita] Oh.
I said it'd go bad.
- [police sirens blare]
- [dogs barking]
The police.
[indistinct chatter]
You've really screwed me, Anita.
You trespassed on private property.
You vandalized it all!
Henrique, hey, calm down.
We'll say that you weren't with us
and you had nothing to do with it.
Ugh.
How long you think they'll keep us for?
Hmm. Why?
You have somewhere special to be, missy?
You seemed pretty excited
to go cause trouble.
- No more than you, right, honey?
- [Fabrício] Oh, this is my fault now?
- We were all there together.
- Do me a favor and just close your mouth.
You're so annoying.
Please cut it out. Look where we are.
Yeah, guys, right. We did something wrong,
Now all of us are here in the same boat.
- Don't worry.
- Uh, uh, uh. I didn't do anything.
Douglas, can you zip it?
- What do you want from me?
- [whispers] Be quiet, yes?
Hey, what's wrong?
If only we had access
to a computer right now,
we could go back to 2006 and poof!
- All sorted. Everyone free to go.
- Don't do this, Joel?
Anita, we're in prison!
And you wrecked my van,
so I guess I'm hopeless and homeless!
[Anita chuckles]
Just when I think things
can't get any worse,
something always comes
and proves me wrong.
[mysterious music plays]
Eduardo?
What are you doing here?
[laughs]
I've just flown in by helicopter
from Belo Horizonte.
Apparently, a group of vandals
tried to break into my property.
Wait. Your property?
That's right. The building site
you decided to attack is mine,
as are all the other buildings in town.
That's impossible. It's you?
I'm the main investor in the fund.
I pay your wages, Henrique.
But you were a moron back then.
How could you do this?
- Douglas, you should control your wife.
- Well, she actually controls me.
[laughs]
Well, I had quite a bit of luck.
Fifteen amazing years
of several highly improbable
and well-placed bets.
Improbable wins too?
Yeah, my winning streak started off
back in high school in 2006.
I won a laptop at the festival. Remember?
I won with my lucky number, 42.
[laughs]
Right, and you came here
to humiliate everyone?
On the contrary.
I'm not going to press charges,
having considered
our amazing friendship over the years.
[Joel] It's you.
You stole my notebook, did you?
I remember!
It was at the end of the handball game.
Joel, cool it. I'm being kind here,
and I'm giving you a chance.
Cool it? He used my notebook!
What are you talking about?
Anita, I used to write down all the events
from 2006 to 2021.
All in the notebook. It's all in there.
And Eduardo has been holding onto it!
That's why he's so lucky, you see?
How much have you had to drink, huh?
Well, Joel's clearly had too much.
Guys, I've never been more sober!
This guy used my notebook
to win the raffle at the festival in 2006,
and it's been one win after another.
If you don't wanna get locked up here,
I'd shut your mouth now.
I've done more than enough for you.
You would've never been the mascot
if I didn't land it for you.
- [grunts]
- [Luiza gasps]
[laughs]
[laughs] I've changed my mind.
I'm going to press charges after all
for the tower
and the physical assault
from this clown here.
I think we gotta go back.
I don't think I can do that, Joel.
You don't wanna face your father's death.
That's why you won't go back.
But, Anita, you're gonna lose
your dad in every timeline.
Death is inevitable, but the rest of it
it doesn't all have to end this way.
We can make it better for me,
for you, better for everyone else.
I'll be there for you, and I promise
all of your friends will be there.
Trust me.
[Carol] Anita.
Look, I don't understand
what's happening here,
but I've got so much faith in you, really.
- Carol's right, Anita.
- You have to go now.
- [Joel] Go on.
- Yeah, go on.
- Go on, Anita.
- Get out of here.
[Joel] Get out of here.
- Go on.
- Officer, we have a runner here!
Get off! Get off!
[officer] Cool it. Cool it.
[upbeat rock music plays]
[Marco] Hey!
PHOTOBLOG
LOG IN TO MY ACCOUN
I don't actually think I can do this.
[sighs]
Oh, Anita.
No one's ever fully ready
to cope with death.
You're not gonna be able to deal with
this pain you're feeling
by running away though.
You're pretty mature for 15, huh?
[chuckles] That's because I'm actually 30.
[both laugh]
But for real,
look at all the different things
that've had to happen
for you to get to this moment right now.
Don't let go of that.
Can you come with me?
I'm you and you're me. Remember?
[modem pings]
["Aonde que eu Vá" plays]
[lyrics in Portuguese]
[sighs]
[Luiza crying]
FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS
WITH DEEPEST SYMPATHY
[overlapping chatter]
How are you?
It's so hard.
But I'm getting better.
You know
you can always count on me though.
I know I can,
my partner in secret time travel.
[both laugh]
And speaking of that though,
we really need to start
thinking about our next plan.
We have to stop Eduardo from creating
the worst timeline
of all those that we've visited.
[Joel] Let's do this.
[upbeat rock music plays]