I'll Follow You Down Page #6

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finding the right balance.

Do you mind if I ask you how

you found that balance?

I don't know.

Well, you're doing better than

I am. I got no wife, no kids.

Both my parents are dead.

I'm...

I'm sorry.

Yeah, you should be.

Oh, well, good luck

with your paper.

Actually, my father's not dead yet.

He left me when I was nine.

My mom and I dropped him

off at the airport.

He was going on a business

trip to Princeton

and he was supposed to

come back in a few days,

but he never did.

We waited a long time.

I mean, my mom did.

It was so long ago I don't

really remember him.

My mom went back to school

and became a professor.

And she was inspired in her work.

But she never got

over the confusion

of not knowing where

my father went.

I think she thought he ran

off with another woman.

She was devastated and

she took her own life.

Then my grandfather

came to me and he said

that we could find my father

if we worked together.

It would take time, maybe years

to figure out what he had done.

But we did it.

I haven't seen him in 12 years.

Erol?

Oh my God.

So tell me about Einstein.

That's why you're here, isn't it?

Huh? Yeah.

Why?

What... what could he possibly tell

you that you don't already know?

First tell me...

what happens to me?

Tonight you're mugged.

They kill you.

That's it.

All this work and some guys take

you for the money in your pocket.

What is this?

It's you.

It's your suit, it's

your description.

They left your pocket watch.

I don't know why.

You're wearing your keys

in your left pocket?

Yeah.

The basement wall?

This is everything you've

missed for 12 years.

You really were a good father.

I was a happy kid.

How did she die?

Pills.

It was her third try.

She couldn't bear not knowing

why the love of her life vanished.

And you...?

I lost everything.

And I rebuilt your dream.

It's all here.

All because you wouldn't tell

her what you were doing.

So you tell me, why?

I... I tried. I tried

so many times.

You never said the words,

"I'm building a..."

She didn't want to hear it.

She...

anything that would

change our life, she...

she... she wouldn't have it.

She's happy, you know.

I decided I... I can travel.

I can go, I can come back.

She'll never know.

Try and speak in the past tense.

It was a long time ago.

Mom didn't sign up for this.

Signed up?

Right.

This is the most important

discovery in history.

Imagine the good that

we can do with this.

No.

You have to choose.

It's one or the other.

Your family or this.

Well, then family.

Always family.

I never knew that

this would happen.

Okay.

It's really you.

You're a man.

And you...

What, it took you what, under a

year to do what took me decades.

Your mother was right.

You are a genius.

I'm not.

I'm not a genius.

I've been selfish and neglectful.

I had a child.

I had a life with Grace

and I f***ed it up.

Little Grace, our neighbour?

You are the only one

who can fix this now.

I will.

I promise you.

I've missed you.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

Okay.

Okay.

No, just give me a couple of

days and I'm going to go back

and I'm going to talk to your

mom. I'm going to tell her.

I'm going to make sure

there's no misunderstanding.

A couple of days?

Listen, I'll have to...

I have to finish my work here.

Einstein's going to help me set

up the parameters of its use.

I've finished the work he started.

That's why I'm here.

Create safeguards, okay, to prevent

this kind of thing from happening.

- That's what he did with the atomic bomb.

- You can't. There are no parameters!

Einstein spoke against

the use of the bomb.

Even... even with all my genius,

I couldn't begin to imagine

the chaos if even one

more person used this.

There are no exceptions.

Al would tell you the same thing.

You have to go back

now and destroy it.

There's nothing wrong with

the technology. Nothing.

Listen...

listen, I've been

very, very careless.

I realize that now. I've been

talking to strangers, even.

I'm going to stay down

here the entire time.

Mom died because of this. Does

that mean anything to you?

Of course it does! That's why I

will avoid the mugging this time.

Now you've given me what I need.

You can even stay here.

There's so many questions I want

to ask you. You've grown up.

We can make...

together we can make sure

that I get back safe.

I know you think you're being safe.

I know you think you're being careful,

but you have to look at the chart.

Look at it.

Look at it carefully.

Why didn't you intercept

me before I left?

Why risk coming back?

That's the question, isn't it?

I wanted to see this.

I wanted to see the

fruits of your labour.

The glorious unknown that

you gave up everything for.

I hoped you'd go back immediately

and you could erase the

last 4556 days of my life.

And I'd be a child,

looking up at you with wonder as

you came back from your trip.

And I will do.

The problem is I

know how you think.

You and I have lost

the same things.

But I had to feel those losses.

I had to watch a loved one die.

I had to create

safeguards to make sure

that this never happened again.

You say you love mom and me?

More than anything.

They love you too.

Go back now and remember

the man I became

because of your choices.

F***!

No.

Oh my God.

No.

Oh my God.

First move the pawn to pawn three.

Hi.

Honey, look who's here.

Dad.

Hi.

Hi, Mr. Whyte.

You're early.

What happened?

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