7 Splinters in Time Page #2

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Can you tell me anything

about you?

Um...

Yeah.

It was very...

It was very nice to meet you.

I can't feel my face.

Really? Wait, are

you... I... I mean...

I was just... sorry.

Um...

Daniel and I were the type of

friends who would sit for hours

and just laugh about things

and talk.

And then Daniel was

also the type of friend

who every once in awhile

would just, like,

make you feel like something

was real in the world.

His wife said he left

for work and never came back.

He works in a nail factory.

He composes string quartets

for a hobby.

Nail factory? You serious?

Yeah.

What's his background?

That's just the thing.

Apparently suffered

from a major case

of amnesia a decade prior.

History's completely spotty.

What do we know about him?

Woke up on a highway.

Couldn't remember his name.

Couldn't remember anything...

His family, his childhood.

Slate's clean.

Are you all right, Lefaux?

Are you taking the medication?

Yeah.

Yeah.

All right, come on.

Come on.

Police are investigating

the brutal homicide

of a 40-year-old man

early Wednesday morning.

I'm watching on a screen.

First,

I see brother Daniel dead.

I see him dead.

As of yet, investigators

do not have any leads...

And then he walks

out of a building.

Mr. nightingale

was found by a dock worker

at six A.M. today,

having apparently died

of internal injuries...

What's happening here?

How does someone become dead

and then become alive again?

Brother Daniel needs my help.

Everyone thought it was you.

Stabbed in the navel.

Hey!

It's all rhythmical. Why don't

you go get a job, you freak.

Come on, I had a job once.

I did not like it.

Is this a good move for you?

Or a bad move for you?

Is this a good move for you

or bad move for you?

I'll take winner.

That would be me.

Who's he? I don't like

the cut of his suit.

Yes, well, I told him as much.

You think you know a person,

and then he goes

and pulls a stunt like that.

I understand.

Okay. The thing was...

Stop! Wait!

I'm sorry, do I know you?

Who are you?

You look just like me.

You gotta be kidding me.

Brother Daniel needs my help.

To help brother Daniel,

I have to get to Fyodor wax.

I don't know where he is,

but then I remember this tape.

Years ago Fyodor sent me a tape.

What's on the tape?

Well, the tape is information.

Does it just play automatically?

Of course it doesn't play

automatically.

It just makes sound

because someone wants

to make it make sound.

Who's the someone?

It's Fyodor.

He used to play the piano.

Those must be Fyodor's hands.

They have to be.

In the background

there's a little coaster,

and on that coaster,

if you stop the tape

it says,

"the hotel Babylon."

Is he talking to me?

Is he asking me something?

Is he saying to me,

"I want you to come to me.

So that you, when you get

to me, will talk to me

or hear some more information

from me, for you?"

I don't know.

To help brother Daniel,

I have to get to Fyodor wax.

I think this is

a message for me.

Piano. Piano.

What he really means is,

"come get me,

you f***ing lunatic."

...pleasant experience,

all in all.

I'm sorry, do I know you?

What if you were able to go back

and replay the same way

you rewind a film

to see a part that you wanted

to see again all over again?

What if time

could work that way?

What if time could work

in the way

that you could go back in time

and find that one person,

that one person who was

the one that got away,

or the one

that you got away from,

and you could say to them,

"I know what I did wrong.

Do you know what you did wrong?

Can we agree

on what we did wrong?"

I think back to things

that have come before

and I wonder what makes then

so different than now?

Because if I had the ability

to go back to then,

I wouldn't think

of then as then,

I would think of it as now.

So, is "then" now?

And even "now" is

what was to be back then

when I was thinking it was now.

And it's a little strange,

don't you think?

Because "to be" is to be now.

I mean, now.

Well, then what I meant now

to be isn't to be,

because "to be" is now,

but what I meant to be was then,

then referred to as now,

only when I was speaking of it

as "now" then before.

Whoa.

Whoa.

Are we related, man?

I've never seen anyone look

so much like me.

I know, I know.

Just, please, stay with me.

Have a look at that.

Oh, man, this is not happening.

I think someone is after us.

Have you noticed anything

suspicious around here lately?

Is this about the give that

Sheila left in the dumpster?

Man, I can explain that.

That's great.

Local police are conducting

an investigation

into the apparent homicide

of a 40-year-old local trader.

Mr. Dreyfus Tierney's body

was discovered earlier today

near the central

stock exchange complex.

Cause of death, multiple knife

wounds to the abdomen.

The police department has

not issued a statement,

but there is speculation

as to whether this murder

was connected to

the stabbing death...

Somebody change the channel,

man.

I'm just gonna finish this.

There might be other

versions of me in the world,

but I still felt alone.

None of these cheap duplicates

knew who the killer was,

and they were paying

for their ignorance in blood.

Maybe the clues

were closer to home,

in the places I'd been

too afraid to look until now.

That... that symbol

means "Omphalos."

Yeah.

Omphalos?

Yeah, in Greek

"Omphalos" means navel.

I'm sorry, did you say "navel"?

Zeus.

Zeus foisted two eagles

across the world

to meet at the navel

of the world.

Are you all right?

I have to look something up.

What time do you close?

We don't close. No.

You don't close.

Where would I find

the microfiche?

I have no idea.

Great.

Creation from nothing.

The cords all link back.

Joyce.

Here you are.

Your father fiddled

with the fabric.

I'm sorry?

We have newspaper articles

going back 200 years.

Thank you.

Oh, if you need help,

she's very good.

No, I don't... I don't need...

I'll be going.

Lights out at six!

No dalliance, no body dilatory!

You are a lizard warrior.

If you sit in the sun

long enough, you'll get hit.

I asked the librarian

for all articles containing

the word Omphalos.

Find what you were looking for?

I know where I was born now.

Excellent.

Come back anytime.

Sometimes you wake up

in the morning

and you're like this.

You're like a lizard on a road.

You don't know who you are?

Can you tell

me anything about you?

You know who you are.

Is this a good move for you

or a bad move?

God!

What are you doing in here?

You know what time it is?

No, I don't.

I'm starving!

Oh, god!

You want me to starve to death.

I'll be right there.

Sometimes she's

just talking to you,

and you remember what it's like.

Like, a nurturing being, right?

I can't get to her,

because she's gone

and has been

for a very long time.

And when I say gone, I don't

mean like on a trip to a store.

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