Coherence Page #8

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- Oh, baby.

Are you all okay?

Hey, where have you been?

What happened? Okay.

What have you been... Why did

you take... What did you do?

- Can you please tell us what happened?

- We went to...

We went to make a phone

call, and then when...

when we looked in

the door, we saw...

We saw this, basically.

I, I got startled.

I fell over. I hit my head.

We went back to the house to...

Wait. You already

came back here.

We already heard this story.

Why are you telling

us this story again?

- You came back with the box.

- Wait. What?

Because you came back,

and after you hit your head...

We gave him a Band-Aid

and you gave us the...

But not that Band-Aid.

- What do you mean?

- Oh, my God. I gave you a cloth Band-Aid.

Wait a minute. Hugh... There

was a Hugh and an Amir here?

Yes. And you left with the book.

You left with the pictures, and

we didn't know where you went.

We were at a house where

everybody had red glowsticks.

- You had red glowsticks.

- Do you understand?

We... We have red glow... We

took them from the other house.

- Right.

- Look. Look.

Is that... Look. That box of

red glowsticks is unopened.

Guys, if they started

here, they belong here.

They're in the right house.

- Well, welcome back.

- Welcome back.

- Jeez, man, I'm sorry.

- That's all right.

Sorry.

So, guys, what was the other

Mike like? What was he doing?

The other Mike is...

He's worried about you.

So, it was you guys

who left us the note.

No, I never got out with that note.

We ended up with two notes.

And so did we.

Well, where's... We have two notes.

One that was written here and

one that was left on the door.

If you didn't, and if

the other Hugh didn't,

then who has been

leaving the notes?

"Quantum decoherence ensures

that the different outcomes...

have no interaction

with one another."

So, that one note has been

written at least four times.

Well, how many Hugh and Amirs

are walking around out there?

Okay, before we do anything,

we have to figure out how

to mark our own house.

Just stay inside. No, no.

She's right.

Staying inside isn't realistic.

We need some kind of marker.

We got to mark this house.

If every house is the same...

If we put a marker in

front of the house,

there could be an infinite

number of houses with that mark.

So, we have to do something random.

Something that can't be repeated.

Something unique.

Dice. Do we have dice?

We have dice?

- Um, Yahtzee.

- Yeah, Yahtzee.

If we each roll a number for each

of us, that's what? That's...

Six times six times six times six

times... That's hugely random.

- The probability of that repeating is... tiny.

- And then what? We...

But so we have to have

something visual.

I mean, should we write

it down, put it in...

put it outside? Put it in an envelope?

We still won't know.

No, no, no, no.

We need something to mark it.

Yeah. We put it in a box.

- That's, that's...

- That's exactly what they've done.

- They were ahead of us.

- They were making a marker for their house.

They made a unique mark.

Only we took it.

If it seems like a good idea to us,

it would seem like a

good idea to them.

- Do you have a box?

- Yeah. Yeah, let me look.

So, we need photos.

This is so crazy.

It's par for the night.

- There are a lot of pictures here.

- You can't use that picture.

That's ridiculous.

- I'm the attorney for Grizzly Adams.

- Yeah, I know. This is...

I'm never hiring you.

How does this work as a box?

I didn't even know we had it.

It was just under a pile

of crap in the back.

If you can... That'll work.

So, tha... Tha... That's your box?

- It was here all the time.

- Of course it was.

I'm not too happy about

cutting these pictures.

And we only have pictures of

you and I together, babe.

I actually... I actually

have a photo of Kevin.

- I know that's strange. Um...

- What?

No, I have my, um...

My checking account number is written on

the back of this old photo that I have,

and it's just been in

my wallet forever.

It's right here.

What? You know what?

I-I'll just...

- I'll cut this picture that we have here.

- Just use this one. It's okay.

Just scratch off the number. Cut.

Great. I think we got one of

everybody except me, so...

I'm glad you guys all keep a lot

of pictures of your friend, Amir.

Well, we'll take one of you.

Smile, d*ckhead.

Let me see.

It's not exactly the same.

It's not the same as the

one from the other box.

They took a picture of me in the other

house, but it's not exactly the same.

This is what we're talking about.

That's a moment where it can be...

a different...

a divergent moment.

That's what we're gonna do

right now with these dice.

Wait. Since we're the blue house,

shouldn't we use a blue pen?

- Just to make it even more...

- That makes sense.

Yeah? The odds go up by three.

So, does everyone have a die?

- What's yours?

- Beth?

All right.

Six.

Hugh? Three.

Mike? Four.

Six.

Two.

You guys know what a quick code is?

You know when you...

are going online, going

into your bank account,

and when you go to your

password, it'll give you...

a picture to choose?

That's your quick code. That's called an

MFA. It's a multi-factor authenticator.

We do 'em. We put 'em in

whenever we build our big sites.

It's an icon, right?

- Sort of a random...

- A random object.

Yeah. So, what if

each of these...

has a random object in it to sort

of serve as that quick code, right?

Right. Right. So, we pick

something to put in there.

You could put anything in there, right?

A candle or a book or, um...

- The oven mitt.

- Or a ping-pong paddle.

Or a ping-pong paddle.

Exactly. Yeah.

Exactly.

- Well, how's this? And this is random, right?

- A coaster?

Is anything really random tonight?

If you have to leave,

when you check the box, open it up,

you see that, you know

you're off to a good start.

I feel better.

Okay. So we've got the box.

Yeah, and it only took all

night to figure it out.

We've marked the house.

If we stay together,

keep our heads up, and nobody

wanders off, we can get through this.

- Thanks, coach.

- Yeah.

- You want something?

- Yeah, water. Water would be great.

I'm gonna get a drink.

I wonder how different those

numbers are from the first box?

Let me check.

Where's my calculator?

Let's see.

So, if there's eight of us...

and it's six times six...

times six.

Three different colored

glowsticks times three...

is 5,038,848 possible variables.

So, that's the variable.

Are you okay?

Everything okay with the numbers?

Yeah.

D-Do you remember what number was

written on the back of your picture?

- Five.

- Yeah?

I found a good spot out front, just as long

as another Hugh and Amir don't come by.

Kevin, do you remember what number

was written on the back of your picture?

- Six.

- Yeah?

- Beth?

- Three.

Hugh, do you remember?

- I was a three.

- You sure?

Yeah. What's going

on in the kitchen?

- Pound cake.

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