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- But they're not using it right now.

- What?

- They're at the beach.

- Put the drink down.

Look, they have kids!

It's summer. They're rich.

They're at the beach. The Hamptons.

- Maybe even Europe somewhere.

- No, no!

- Definitely at the beach.

- No, Hannah, we can't.

Tahir, we need something good.

This is something good.

This is wrong. It's dangerous.

I wanna kick.

I could kick in this place.

Found it.

Gone 'til September.

Okay, but we keep our bags

packed by the door.

Have you done this before?

What do I do?

Not tonight. The night always wins.

Start tomorrow.

Tonight we celebrate.

So I am barefoot.

The man's shoes didn't fit.

I smell chicken. Did you find chicken?

I feel unbelievably stupid suddenly.

I must look like a zombie Goldilocks.

This is where you should say something.

Actu... actually, don't...

don't say anything.

- I'm just gonna peel potatoes.

- I forgot how to speak for a second.

You are more beautiful

than I have words for.

Let's not go overboard.

Why don't you set the table?

I found placemats and everything in there.

Just because something is hard to

comprehend doesn't mean it's not true.

How old do you think the world is?

About four and a half billion years old.

Okay, good. So you're not a creationist.

Have you ever been to Nigeria?

I am from Lagos.

We have skyscrapers and a rail system.

You picture me running

around in a loincloth?

Okay, fine. So...

We've established that you're not

a creationist and I am a borderline racist.

How long has man been on earth?

About a hundred and thirty thousand years.

And God appeared when?

To Abraham about four thousand years ago.

So, for a hundred

and twenty six thousand years

of uninterrupted squalor and disease,

God was fine with it?

He just sat on his hands

and then four thousand years ago

decides to do something about it?

I don't claim to understand.

I know this, when I pray I am with Allah.

He speaks to me alone.

He talks... not to my mind,

but to my heart.

What do you believe?

Well, I believe I need another drink.

No, I mean it. What do you believe?

If there's nothing... if there is nothing

then how do you explain all of this?

I can't comprehend it.

Well, just because you can't comprehend

something doesn't mean it isn't true.

Now you are just being clever.

Answer the question.

I believe in the big bang.

Okay.

So who made the big bang?

- Well, that's the problem.

- Yes.

But I see no reason to solve it

with an even bigger problem.

What do you mean?

What made God?

- Well, Allah is eternal.

- Hard to substantiate though, isn't it?

Why can't we see God? Where does he live?

And why does he turn otherwise good

people into murderers in his name?

- You're funny.

- In what way?

In a contradictory way.

I'm not the first Muslim to drink.

I'm not talking about a sneaky beer

before Ramadan. You properly drink.

- You use this drug that harms you.

- You're talking about cognitive dissonance.

Heroin dulls the pain,

but it'll probably kill me.

But that assumes that I see dissonance

and not cognizance.

I need to use the powder room.

Are you tired?

I'm not ready for tomorrow to come yet.

Come to bed with me.

I used to live in a place like this.

I used to sleep in a bed like that.

- I was married.

- It's alright, Hannah.

I know it's f***ing alright.

He was a surgeon.

He enlisted in the reserves after 9/11.

And then someone came to my house

and told me he was gone, just like that.

The coffee in my hand

was still warm when he was gone.

He was killed in terrorist attack

on a military checkpoint.

I didn't know how to be

in the world without him.

And now I've made such a mess.

I don't know how to be

in the world at all.

It'll be different this time.

It'll be exactly the same this time.

Hannah?

- Hannah.

- Please, don't come in.

This is bad. This is bad.

Something's wrong.

I've done this before.

I'm telling you this.

I'm telling you something is wrong.

You know people hemorrhage from this.

You know you can have a f***ing aneurysm

from this. My f***ing head is dying here.

You've come so far, Hannah.

We're nearly there.

We are nowhere.

I'm the only person here in pain.

F*** this! I can do what I choose!

I choose out.

- I choose out and you can f***ing stop me.

- You're right, I can't stop you.

- That's right! You can't stop me!

- You're right, I can't stop you.

Sleep would help.

I need to make some money.

Will you be alright on your own?

- Excuse me. I was watching you play.

- Yes.

You're... you're good.

I mean, it was really something.

Thank you.

My pleasure.

What do you want?

So I was talking to those...

those... guys over there

and they said that

they'd seen you with her.

This is my daughter, Hannah.

Is this your... is that your girlfriend?

I'm not with anyone.

I don't know your daughter. I'm sorry.

This is really important to me.

Would you look again please, sir?

Just... I'm sure she's changed.

It's an older picture, but...

I would think you could recognize her.

Please, just... would you

just please look at it again.

I don't need to.

Those men just took your money.

I'm sorry to bother you. I...

No, no. You see, no, I'm sorry.

I don't buy it.

I don't buy it. And I'll tell you why,

I've been out west.

And I retired out there a few years ago.

But every month for the past 3 and

a half years, I've been coming back here

to look for my daughter, and I can't

tell you how many false leads I've got.

You know, let's of people

lie to you to take your money,

but nobody ever said that guy over there,

right over there, he knows your daughter.

Because that would be a stupid lie, because

I'd go back and I'd come and get my money.

I believe you do know her.

So I'm gonna ask you a favor.

Okay, this is Jake. This is Jake.

He needs his mother.

I'm sorry for your trouble.

Really, I don't know her.

If you concentrate hard enough

you can change the colors of the lights.

That's not faith by the way,

it's willpower.

You would say God can change the colors.

I'm saying we can.

- Come on, try with me.

- No.

- Didn't God tell us to try everything once?

- No, he didn't.

- Why didn't he?

- Because some things are just wrong.

So... he covered the earth in highly

addictive and highly yummy heroin,

- but we're not supposed to use it.

- Right.

- Despite it growing naturally on his earth.

- That's right.

What a sneaky little prankster God is.

- Are you concentrating?

- Stop now.

- Shame on you.

- Excuse me.

Shame on you.

You have a child and he has nothing.

No mother, no father, and for what?

- Because you are broken?

- What are you doing?

Look at the photograph. He is alone.

You have never seen a boy

who looks more alone. Look at him!

My grief is many things. It has made me

behave in ways that I regret

and in ways

that I do not fully understand yet,

but the one thing I know, it is

overwhelming my f***ing business.

Talk to me. Tell me,

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