Rememory Page #4

-Lawton?

-That's right.

He offered me a check as long

as I didn't talk to anyone.

-Did you take it?

-Of course I took it.

Who couldn't use $50,000?

Anyway, you can't fight these corporations.

You never win.

No.

I'm very sorry

about your sister.

You know, there was

another guy came by,

a young guy, kind of strange.

He said he was a researcher

from the doctor... Gordon.

What did he want?

To know if Allison

really killed herself.

That was all.

He seemed shocked

when I said yes.

You remember his name?

Neil Frankel.

-The valentine.

-What's that?

Nothing, just trying

to remember the name.

Mm.

Well, that's what he said.

But then again, you said

your name was Basil Pine.

Fill yourself with quarters

Showered and blue-blazered

Fill yourself with quarters

[Sam] Somebody help me!

Please!

[sobbing, panting]

[strumming guitar]

Who are you working for?

An interested party.

Who are you?

I worked with Gordon. I

was a research assistant.

Neil Frankel?

How did you find me?

I remembered your face

from the product launch.

I tracked you down.

-Pretty good memory.

-It's photographic.

That's the reason why Gordon wanted

me a part of the test group.

-He found it curious.

-What do you want from me?

The machine.

Is it missing?

-We need the machine!

-Who's we?

-Cortex!

-I don't-- I don't have it.

But I can help you find

it if you help me.

-How? -Tell me what led

to Allison's suicide.

You're not supposed

to know about that.

There are people

looking for you--

A man has been murdered.

We got bigger things

to worry about.

-It was an aneurysm.

-That's what they say,

but if you trusted Lawton we

wouldn't be meeting like this.

Unless this is a set up.

Why did you go see Allison?

I wanted to see if it was true.

About her suicide?

But she'd been dead

for weeks when you got there.

I didn't know that. Not

even Gordon knew--

How could you not know?

Her test phases were over, it--

Lawton didn't want us to know.

He was hiding it.

Yes, could you imagine the

headlines if it got out

that a patient had killed

herself during trials?

That would've been the story. It

would've ended the whole thing.

By the time Gordon found out,

he had no choice but to

continue with the launch.

But he didn't know everything.

The research, it's flawed.

-Lawton manipulated it.

-Why would they do that?

Because a not so small

percentage of people

were prone to adverse

effects of the machine.

Adverse how?

Explicit and emotional

memories getting confused

and playing out in reality,

over-firing of synapses,

hallucinations, time collapse.

Just like Allison.

If Gordon had known,

he would've fixed it,

I don't have a doubt, but he

would've needed time, months,

and that's something

that Lawton didn't have.

He made certain promises.

There are issues

to be figured out,

but the machine is incredible.

What it can do for people, it...

Gordon deserves to be

remembered as a genius.

I think we're done here.

If you find the machine,

you know where I work.

I'm looking for a young woman

who was part of the test group.

Well, there were two, and

now one of them's dead.

Mom? Mommy?

Please.

I love you.

Gordon.

[thunder rumbling]

We've tracked down the group,

but none have the machine.

I was saving this...

for Gordon's return.

I'm sure he would've wanted you

to enjoy it nonetheless.

Do you have any idea

the amount of pressure

crushing down on me?

We'll find it.

Yes, you will.

Good morning, birthday boy.

Please.

Does thinking of this

always make you so angry?

Wendy, this will help.

So, when you think of it,

do you still feel fear?

-Mom?

-Does your heart rate increase?

Mommy!

I understand.

I'll be here if you

have any questions.

It's beautiful, isn't it?

Exquisite.

Reminds me of a memory.

Yeah? Of what?

My father.

He was a real outdoorsman.

Hunting, fishing,

hiking, all of it.

One day, he took my brother

and I out for a hunt.

It was rare that he

took both of us.

We dug a hole in the

mud and waited.

I just wanted to make him proud.

After about an hour,

a rabbit popped up.

I grabbed my gun,

and he went from a quick

hop to a straight drop.

Blood everywhere.

Yeah, kind of wish I

could forget that one.

You have something you

wish you could forget?

Or someone? Gordon Dunn, maybe?

Who are you?

I'm working for his widow.

I know about you and him.

-You think he was killed?

-I do.

And I know you saw

him that night.

I know you stole the machine.

I loved him, and he loved me.

Was it over?

It's not my choice.

Is that why you

took the machine?

To get back at him?

While I was working with

Gordon one session,

he-- he saw something.

It was nothing incriminating,

it was just this memory

from a few years ago

with the man I loved.

A private moment.

He had no right to even see it.

So I wanted it back.

Imagine, to have your memories

watched by other people,

in front of an audience?

It was like my life

wasn't my own anymore.

Every memory became

clouded with Gordon.

But you didn't get them back.

I tried.

I took the machine from Cortex

and I went back to

Gordon's house.

[soft noise]

I just wanted to get

my memories back.

I didn't care about the rest.

-But then...

-[Carolyn] Gordon?

Gordon?

Gordon?

I even tried to go back,

but everything was gone.

I can't move on from this

until I have my memories back.

If you help me find

who killed Gordon...

I'll get them back for you.

If you haven't talked to

Todd yet, you should.

He was furious.

He was there that night?

Gordon was...

he was a brilliant man,

and a truly good man.

I still haven't decided

if his creation was.

Yeah, neither have I.

Why are you doing this?

Resolution.

[Carolyn's doorbell rings]

It has one button. Off and on.

[chuckling]

Med school. Oxford.

Specifically, the

woods behind the lab.

Gordon was testing on animals

and I was freeing them,

and he got worried that someone

was busting out the primates,

so he came after me.

He found me in the woods

feeding sandwiches to Pickles.

Pickles?

Pickles the chimp.

Okay.

It was a whole other time.

Funny how life goes, huh?

Years pass, and slowly you

find yourself defined

not so much by the

things that you do,

but the things

that you don't do.

I was gonna learn

French, write a book,

I was gonna have a happy,

huge, sprawling family,

and one by one, I

didn't do those things,

or those things didn't happen.

And I am what is left.

I guess, in part, we're all

remains of unfulfilled dreams.

After Jane died, Gordon wanted

to have another, and I couldn't.

So he threw himself

into his work.

I think he really believed

that the machine could

change the past,

and when he realized

that he-- it didn't--

he found himself another woman

who didn't remind him of that.

And I still loved him.

I will always love him.

He was brilliant.

And the last thing

that I said to him...

was "You're an a**hole."

And I have to live with that

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