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-Big protest.

-Uh-huh.

Well, where's your sister now?

She die prison.

Too cold. Chest fill up bad.

She die.

-What happen?

-Nothin'.

No, just, no...

give me a minute, just--

-What you do?

-No, nothing, nothing, I just--

You stupid man!

You needed a new foot anyway.

We'll get you a good one.

Is that so hard to understand?

Jesus!

Don't say Jesus bad way!

What, now I'm supposed

to watch my language?

You're worse than my mother.

I feel sorry for your mother.

I sure she suffer too

much for your fault.

Not do so fast!

Vacuum cleaner need time

same direction clean good.

Yeah, and you can take these,

these are samosas from

a couple of days ago.

Thank you, yes.

I take all these.

Oh, I think this is saag paneer--

might be a little bit old.

Oh, in prison

we die for such food.

Okay, not too many leftover

entrees today

but I threw in lots of

baked potato soup.

Thank you, Roger.

There you go.

Hey, finally got yourself

a helper, huh, Ngoc Lan?

This Paul. He break my foot.

How'd you manage that, buddy?

It's a long story,

we're sorting it out.

He stupid!

Hola, Seor Crdenas.

Hambre?

Ay, s, chinita. Gracias.

God will repay you.

How's your lung?

How's your lung?

I feel a little better today.

Gracias.

Bueno.

Okay, over here, this way.

Mucho dolor, verdad?

Yes, it hurts a lot.

Oh, it looks really painful.

I give him baths and scrub him

and put herbs,

but nothing helps.

I bet that's ringworm

which I don't know

how to say in Spanish.

But ringworm is a fungus, so

you want it dry.

Seco. Seco. No bao.

No bao. No agua. No agua.

And uh...

see if I can pick something

up at the drugstore

and bring it for him tomorrow.

Yes, you bring.

Maana medicina.

Maana medicina.

-Maana medicina.

-Gracias, doctor.

Okay, next. Let's go.

-Gracias, doctor.

-Gracias.

-Let's go!

-I'm comin'.

Take care for him.

-See you next time.

-Gracias.

So that's it?

We go home now?

Now we go church pray Jesus.

You come back tomorrow

pick me up eight o'clock.

Yeah, okay, I'll be here.

Good morning, Mr. Dusan.

We come clean for you.

Answering telephones was not

dignified enough for you.

Now you progress

to cleaning toilets.

I love you, Paul.

I really love you.

You're such a funny guy.

Hilarious.

Like I said,

you're too much nice guy

and a little bit...pathetic guy.

It's just until

she gets a new foot.

-When will that be.

-I don't know.

The doctor said a month,

maybe six weeks.

-Ah, that's an eternity.

-I know.

Meantime she's stuck

with a peg leg,

which is almost as bad

as having nothing at all.

I mean, look at her,

she's waddling around

like a goddamned pirate!

Paul! You no talk

with Mr. Dusan!

You go upstairs with Veronica!

-Paul!

-I heard you.

Don't worry, Paul.

Dusan will save you.

Wow.

Yeah, Miss Tran,

take everything.

Mr. Konrad and I are

leaving day after tomorrow

and don't know when

we'll be back.

Okay good. Thank you.

Paul, Mr. Dusan say

I take all the food.

You go find me big box.

In a minute.

First there's something

very important to discuss.

Me?

This is the situation.

I don't know exactly what,

but something big-- very big-

is happening at the

original small colony.

You know, the one in Norway.

They want me to

go there right away

with a very important delivery.

It's too complicated to explain.

Top secret and... very urgent.

Most important they are

offering us very big money.

Very big.

That means we need extra help

to do this quickly,

make them happy.

And I'm sorry to say, we need

the same excellent helper

who is currently helping you.

Him.

That's right, Ngoc Lan,

I have to go with

these guys to Norway.

So... you say...

Paul go with you Norway?

That's the situation.

Emergency situation.

And deeply humanitarian.

I mean, Ngoc Lan, I will

be able to help when I get

back one-hundred-percent

when the new foot, and--

You leave Wednesday?

Yes.

And how long you go?

Ten days. Maybe more.

Okay, yes, Norway.

I go Norway too.

No, no, no, not you.

Only Paul.

I go Norway too.

Paul, you help me

on the trip.

But you're very busy here

with humanitarian

activities on your own.

And your cleaning business.

Veronica and other ladies

know every place.

They do for me,

I pay them good.

No problem I go.

Norway colony people

invite me so many time

but I never go.

Feel so, so guilty.

They so nice people.

What?

Who invited you?

When I hospital so long time

after TV box,

people all over world

send me happy card,

flower, candy,

make me feel good.

So many letter.

One letter very special

I never forget.

From Jorgen Asbjornsen.

You got a letter from

Jorgen Asbjornsen?

Dr. Asbjornsen write me

say he feel so, so bad

I suffer for his fault.

He say he painful.

He never think make small

so bad for people.

Dr. Asbjornsen letter

make me feel so good.

I write letter too,

say now first time

I happy be small.

He say me make trip

go Norway any day.

But I too busy.

Always too busy.

Now Jesus give me

special gift, go Norway.

Thank you Mr. Dusan,

thank you Mr. Konrad.

Yes.

I go Norway too.

So happy.

Thank you special time.

Paul, look.

This Jorgen Asbjornsen.

And his wife.

Oh, my God. Jorgen Asbjornsen.

Hello.

This is such an honor.

I know, I know.

See, Paul?

Jesus smile for me.

I say Paul I want visit

Norway only for meet you.

It's true.

-I'm Anne-Helene.

-Hello.

Please, sit. Join us.

Thank you.

We're watching the world go by.

Sounds great.

You have no idea how terribly

grief-stricken we were

by Miss Tran's case.

Jorgen has lost so much

sleep over all the abuses.

It's humbling, huh?

Nature is such

a patient sculptor.

Grinding a tiny bit

each day slowly, slowly

for thousands of years to

make such a supremely

beautiful thing.

What a waste.

What a dreadful waste.

You'll have to excuse Jorgen.

These past few days has

been especially hard.

Such a big decision to make

and so quickly.

Normally when

we visit the Colony,

we like to spend a few

days in Honningsvg.

But then the news came...

and uh, yeah,

well, here we are

suddenly imposing on you.

We scarcely had

the time to pack.

I'm sorry, w-what news?

Why, the methane release.

In Antarctica. You must

know about the methane.

Yeah...

that's not-that's not

new, is it? I mean--

New or old,

it's the end.

It's the end of everything.

The world has already seen

five major extinctions,

and now there will be another.

I...I didn't want to believe it.

None of us did, but

there we were in Helsinki,

big and small.

Climatologists, bacteriologists,

demographers, physicists,

immunologists,

26 Nobel Prize

winners among us.

We built all the models,

did all the math,

and all conclusion

was consistent.

Homo Sapiens will soon

vanish from the Earth.

It is now an

actuarial certainty.

No matter how

the end will come--

environmental disaster,

pandemic disease,

unbreathable air,

impotable water,

not enough food,

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