7 Splinters in Time Page #3

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It's more like dead.

Soggy.

I will get better cereal.

What the f*** does that mean?

I think there's someone

who wants to say something

right here.

What do you want to say?

You are on the air.

What's this picture?

Don't touch.

My memories.

Don't f***ing touch, Daniel!

My name's Darius, Babs.

You look more like a Daniel.

There was once a time

that I was in a circus.

And inside the circus

there was a friend

and his name was Daniel.

Daniel was the type of guy

who could take a hat

and he could flip it around

and catch it on his foot.

Flip it...

Help!

No foreign technology.

You don't know the technology.

You don't have

a relationship with it.

That would be like you get

married to somebody

that you've never even met.

What are you gonna do

on the first night?

You're laying in bed,

you roll over and you say,

"are you a man or a woman?",

and then you figure it out then.

And then your lip freezes up

and you cannot speak

as well as you used to

be able to speak.

My lip was in

a temporarily fear state,

an angry state, an angry lip.

I don't even believe

these things I'm telling you.

In fact, I don't even believe

that there is a you

because I haven't seen any

evidence of you ever before.

A murder.

A teenager killed

in a brutal stabbing.

Why?

And then I saw

the other article.

Darius Lefaux found on route 80.

Had I killed that boy?

Hello?

Hello?

I started my life

a lost soul on a road

in close proximity

to a murder scene.

Did I kill that kid

in the newspaper clipping?

Maybe that's why

someone wanted me dead.

This is gonna be like a

reunion, like a family reunion.

But it's gonna be like

a family reunion

where the house burns down.

It's gonna be like

a family reunion

where everyone takes forks and

gouges each other's eyes out.

It'll be like a family reunion

where everyone's in love

and it's Christmastime and

everyone's so happy to celebrate.

But instead what they do is

they poison each other's food.

That's what it's gonna be like

to reunite with

my dear friend Fyodor.

Hey!

Okay. Okay.

Okay.

I almost hoped

I was going crazy.

You know you're in deep

when your best hope of salvation

is the possibility

that you are in fact insane.

Mr. Lefaux.

When was this taken?

A long time ago.

What brings you here?

I came for a new prescription

for Thorazine.

Just been having a lot

of memories.

Normally I don't remember

very much, though.

I just need a new prescription.

What kind of memories?

It's bits and pieces.

This strange tunnel.

Something about a circus.

This beautiful girl.

And, um...

There's this phrase.

This goddamn phrase,

I can't get it out of my head.

Sparrow is dead.

I don't know.

You tell me.

Can you tell me more

about this girl?

Look, I keep seeing

duplicates of myself.

Duplicates of yourself?

I think I'm in danger.

Why do you think

you're in danger?

I think someone's trying

to kill me.

I don't think I'm the right

person to treat you.

I don't need you to treat me,

I just... I just...

I'm going to refer you

to a colleague of mine.

There are different versions

of me in the world.

Well, I think that's true

for all of us, Daniel...

Mr. Lefaux.

You just called me Daniel.

You look so much like him.

I'm sorry.

I have to go.

Wait! Mr. Lefaux!

Back to the drawing

board for old John Luka.

You make stuff, you lose it,

you break it,

and then hopefully

you get it back.

But sometimes you don't

get it back.

Sometimes the things you lose

stay gone forever,

and time just slips away from

you because it's not stopping,

and that's

where Omphalos comes in.

What if time didn't have to keep

going and going and going?

From that point on, I knew

I'd been wrong about everything.

Someone else wasn't

after me for murder.

I was after myself for murder.

Babs!

Babs!

Oh, Babs!

Shh! Gently, gently.

I'm so sorry.

Your medicine.

Here you go.

Here you go.

Here you go.

There you go.

Here, have some water.

Easy.

Okay.

I'm so sorry.

You're okay.

You're okay.

I got you.

Hope you were out

having a good time

while you were forgetting

about old Babs.

Not really.

You should've been.

I messed up.

Yeah, well...

Well, where were you?

I've been going

through a lot lately.

I haven't known what's real.

This is real.

Babs is real.

I'm the person you take care of.

I need you.

I won't always be able

to take care of you.

It's good to need people.

Who do you need?

The girl in the car was Alise.

Alise Spiegelman.

The girl from my memories.

And I'd just seen her.

How did you find me?

Mr. Luka.

How did you find me?

I need to speak with you.

I remember everything.

We were together.

But I saw you last week.

I haven't seen you in 10 years.

You died 10 years ago.

I was born 10 years ago.

Good god.

You better come in.

One of those moments

you keep going back to

and wonder if you could

do things differently.

Everything slowed down.

I mean, you would never think...

How long were we together?

Six years.

I haven't opened this box

in a long time.

Why not?

The past is a dangerous place.

You can fall right into it

and never come back.

We are mature in one realm,

childish in another.

The past, present,

and future mingle

and pull us backward, forward,

or fix us in the present.

We are made of layers,

cells, constellations.

I always remembered those words

but could never place them.

Just...

Okay, what's going on?

I need you to give me

a little more here.

Isn't this enough?

I don't know anything about you.

Where do you live?

Who are your friends?

Do you know what sparrow was?

Was that something we said?

Why are you alive?

Let's start there.

I quit the program.

I resigned in protest.

And at any rate,

your money is...

Two weeks in the future.

Forget about the money.

Did you send me that tape?

Did you want me to find you?

I try not to act anymore,

Mr. Luka.

I try and be.

Perhaps help others...

Increase their awareness

of... well...

Well, the inner music. I'm

concerned about brother Daniel.

I saw on the news. You'd be

wise to leave well enough alone

with Mr. Lefaux.

Tampering tangles the tissue.

Dual causality,

curtains for Schmedley.

Enjoy the finishing fireworks.

Then I'll find him myself.

You needn't look far.

Try the scene of the crime.

All right.

But be careful

where you intercede.

The maker has always had

the better map.

Sometimes I feel

like a sparrow...

I think I've always

been waiting for you

to have things make sense.

Sometimes

I feel like a sparrow

Tell me, tell me

where do I go?

Daniel.

Bye.

Bye.

Timms?

Lefaux? Is that you?

Yeah.

I got another murder for ya.

They're dropping

like flies, huh?

Can't handle another murder.

Well, this ain't

exactly another murder

in the traditional sense.

What do you mean?

Different victim, same body.

Stay back! Stay back.

You're alive!

I'm not kidding.

I'm not gonna hurt you.

Did you kill dubious?

Who's dubious? It's me.

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