Parallels Page #5

What if he's a fan

of some huge movie here

that we've never even

heard of?

What if he's exactly

the same?

No, no. It's not gonna work.

Harry, please.

Okay.

I wouldn't ask you

if it wasn't important.

It's Beatrix928.

What?

My password.

Beatrix928.

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Why 928?

It's your birthday.

Right. Duh.

No.

Yeah.

Oh, God.

We are the same.

[DOORBELL RINGS]

I feel like I should

explain right now

that this doesn't

usually go over very well.

Why not?

I don't know. It's like,

"Ding dong. What's up?

I'm your nonexistent son. Don't

worry, I can explain.

I'm from a totally different

parallel alternate universe.

I don't think your key

is gonna fit in that lock.

Touch.

RONAN:

Hello?

Guess nobody's home.

[SIGHS]

So, uh, what happens

after you find your dad?

I don't know. I'd give him

this thing that he left for me.

What thing?

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Where did you get that?

What, you know what it is?

I don't know what it is,

but I know where it came from.

That came

from the Core World.

I don't believe it.

I'm an a**hole.

What?

Look at me.

I'm a corporate scumbag lawyer.

I'm sure there's

more to it than that.

I mean, this you

is a good person, right?

Yeah.

Yes, I just--

I can't believe that I'd be

capable of something like this.

No wonder I can

afford this place.

Oh, my God.

HAROLD:

What?

I found my dad.

Okay.

He died three months ago.

Oh, well, that's this world's

version of him.

It's not your dad.

Yeah, I know, but still...

HAROLD:

How did he die?

Killed at work.

Wait a second. Isn't that--?

That's the building.

What the hell?

POLLY:

Where do you think

the building came from?

I haven't really had a second

to think about it.

Nobody knows

where the building came from.

But the building

is always the same.

Every single universe.

Everywhere on every Earth,

the building

is always the same.

But it didn't just appear

out of thin air.

Somebody, somewhere

made that thing.

Nobody knows why, but

whatever crazy world that is,

whatever the hell

that place is,

that's what people call

the Core World.

If they had the technology

to punch a hole

through

every parallel universe,

think what kind of a crazy

goddamn Earth that must be.

I mean, they must be

a thousand years ahead of us,

technology-wise.

And no one's ever

been there before.

But every once in a while,

somebody stumbles across

a piece of technology.

It's like a scrap

from the grown ups' table.

Something that's so crazy,

cool and sophisticated

that it has to be

from the Core World.

How did your dad get it?

I guess

that's the Big Danny.

The what?

The-- You--

The thing--

You--

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MAN:

Hey, uh...

it's cool if you wanna work

back here and all, I guess.

But the bank called.

Can you reauthorize

the charges?

For some reason they think

it might be identity theft.

Identity theft?

I know, right?

I was like, "What?

The dude's right here."

[COMPUTER BEEPS]

Happy?

Cool, yeah.

No more interruptions.

[]

"Alex Carver, predeceased

by his wife Livia

by three years,

survived by their daughter,

Beatrix."

What?

I went to college in this world.

Goddamn it.

Well, that's

a good thing, right?

Well, that's weird.

What?

It doesn't mention Ronan.

This is not my room.

I mean, it's my room--

No, I get it, I get it.

You know

what this is called?

This is called the parallel

universe dj vu.

Did you think all your old stuff

was gonna be here?

Everything's familiar

and kind of not familiar

at the same time?

Sound about right?

Yeah, it sounds about right.

Yeah.

Do I seem familiar?

What do you mean?

You know, you feel like

we've met before?

Um-- Why?

Well, other Ronans

in other universes,

we keep meeting up

world after world,

and we always end up

right here in your bed.

Just like this.

Oh, you liar.

[LAUGHS]

Oh, man,

I totally had you going.

Oh, for like a second.

You were totally psyched.

Sounds like...

Whatever.

You don't even exist

in this universe, pally.

Ouch.

[POLLY CHUCKLES]

[SIGHS]

What?

Nothing.

Come on, tell me.

I guess I was hoping...

I didn't have the best time

growing up in this house.

I got into a lot of fights.

And I was always

upsetting my mom.

She'd always

just be like,

"You gotta learn

to control yourself, sweetie.

You gotta learn

to control yourself."

[SIGHS]

I used to have a bad temper.

Used to.

What happened?

I killed her.

We were driving home

this one time,

and this truck sideswiped us

and ran us off the road.

It was real scary. We thought

we were gonna go over.

I don't know. I got out,

and this guy is like stammering.

He's clearly drunk

or something.

He's mumbling, he's mumbling,

and next thing I know,

I'm grabbing the guy, I'm

dragging him out of the window.

And I'm just wailing on him,

wailing on him.

My mom jumps out the car.

She's yelling at me,

because, you know, she doesn't

want me to kill the guy.

And I guess the way

that our car was parked,

traffic was swerving

and they couldn't--

They couldn't see her and--

I heard this noise,

and I turned around--

[SOBBING]

I'm so--

I'm sorry.

It was my fault.

As you can imagine,

I wasn't very popular

around here after that.

My dad was a ghost.

Beatrix had to cancel

her college plans

to take care of him.

And I just split.

I was just hoping

that maybe in this world,

maybe things

were a little bit better.

[SNIFFLES]

But, you know,

there is no other you

in this world.

[CHUCKLES]

Lucky him.

[SIGHS]

You're gonna have

to get used to the dj vu.

Some worlds are gonna be

really, really different.

And then some worlds

are very weirdly the same.

How much the same?

[]

Huh.

Now, how's that for dj vu?

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We need to get out.

Carver, get out here!

We need to get out

right now.

Carver!

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[THUDS]

[GRUNTS]

[GRUNTS]

[GUN C*CKS]

[WHIRRING]

What the hell was that?

I don't know,

I found it like 10 worlds ago.

But that was

the last charge, so...

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Who were those guys?

I don't know exactly.

Strangers.

I've seen them in enough worlds

to know not to mess with them.

But if they're

after your dad,

then he's in worse trouble

than I thought.

All right, do you know how

to drive one of these things?

You don't know how to drive?

Come on.

[TIRES SCREECH]

I don't believe this. Beatrix, I

suppressed evidence.

What evidence?

Against the corporation.

Okay?

The corporation that killed,

like, hundreds of people,

by the way.

It's in his e-mails.

I mean, that sucks,

but I guess I just don't know

what we're supposed

to do about it.

Yeah, but I gotta

do something, right?

What if I were to just

e-mail all of it

right now

to The New York Times?

But then what?

I mean, do you really

wanna ruin other you's life?

Yeah.

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What's that?

[WHIRRING]

[WHIRRING]

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

What happened?

Okay, we should

get out of here.

Come on. Let's go find Ronan

and what's-her-name.

Okay, one second.

What?

Well, I just-- I'll meet you

downstairs in a minute. Okay?

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