Sound of My Voice Page #3

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[SIGHS]

So after my husband up

and left me...

...I wore the same pair

of sweatpants for two years.

It was Maggie who got me to see

that humans belong in the woods...

...and not in condos.

Yeah. I'm glad that you called.

This is good.

Yeah, it feels good, don't it?

Hey, come here.

I wanna show you something.

After you.

Well, maybe we shouldn't go in

all the way because I have to be back.

Oh, come on, you'll like this.

Come on.

DEWITT:

I do the La Brea Tar Pits field trip.

I said, you wanna run a trip, you do

the paperwork yourself, like everyone else.

Trying to steal my trip.

GIRL:

Give me that!

PETER:

Heidi, Stop it. What in the world?

Heidi, I said stop it. Get off.

She ruined my backpack. It's new.

[DEWITT CLAPPING]

Get back to work. Get back to work.

The show is over.

What's happened here?

HEIDI:

My backpack. She wrote.

[DEWITT SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]

You okay?

Here. I'll help you up.

[SCHOOL BELL RINGS]

Joanne?

I need to get back.

We're here.

Can't turn around now.

Here.

Why do you have a gun?

Joanne. This is weird, okay?

Hey.

I would just like to go.

Okay. Calm down.

Trust, Lorna. It is very important

that we trust each other.

We're family now.

First rule.

Always treat a gun as if it's loaded,

even if it's not.

Always keep it pointed down.

That's how you keep from

killing somebody or yourself.

Okay, you try it-

I'd rather just watch you.

Come on.

Don't be silly. I loaded it for you.

Yeah, but I just don't feel comfortable.

Nonsense. It's important.

Okay. Legs apart-

Come on.

Okay, now remember...

...push with the right hand,

pull with the left.

Okay? Keeps you steady-

[GUNSHOT]

[GUNSHOT]

[GUNSHOT]

[GUNSHOT]

[GUNSHOT]

[BOTH LAUGH]

Hi.

I texted you.

My phone died.

You wanna make huevos rancheros?

So, what happened with Joanne?

Oh, my God. She took me on a hike

through the woods...

...to this shooting range.

But it turns out I'm actually pretty good at it.

Uh, why is Joanne teaching

you how to shoot a gun?

I don't know, fun?

That's fun?

What do you think?

I don't know what to think.

That's the problem.

We don't know who these people are,

what they're capable of.

What's this "safe place" that Maggie

keeps talking about bringing us to?

Um, I was just wondering.

What's it gonna be like

when the civil war starts?

MAGGIE:

Things come together.

And they fall apart.

It's a really dark time.

My generation is really comfortable

with death.

And people die around you all the time.

But there's still beauty.

Especially when people start moving

to the countryside.

There's dancing and theater.

Lovemaking.

Are there still, like, CDs or MP3s

or something?

[MAGGIE CHUCKLES]

Um...

Not everybody has access

to that kind of technology...

...so there's not as many recorded albums...

...but there's a lot of live music.

But every once in a while...

...a song will come along

that moves everyone.

And that finds a way of getting around.

Even without MP3s.

Will you sing us something from your time?

No.

LYLE:
Come on.

MAGGIE:
I don't sing.

Come on, please?

CHRISTINE:
Yeah, yeah.

Just one song.

We wanna hear the future.

You wanna what the future--?

Yeah.

MAGGIE:
What the future sounds like?

Uh...

[LAUGHING]

Okay.

Uh...

This song was really popular

right before I left.

I'm so sorry. I can't. Sorry.

We'll close our eyes.

Yeah.

Mm-hm.

Okay.

[SINGING]

Oh, my life

Is changing every day

In every possible way

Oh, my dreams

It's never quite as it seems

Now I tell you openly

You have my heart so don't hurt me

For what I couldn't find

Totally amazing mind

So understanding and so kind

You're everything to me

Do you wanna try singing

the last with me?

It goes:

ALL:

Oh, my life

Is changing every day

In every possible way

In all my dreams

It's never quite as it seems

'Cause you're a dream to me

Dream to me

[PEOPLE LAUGHING]

LYLE:
Thanks.

MEL:
Yeah. That was good.

LAM:

Maggie?

I, uh... I mean no disrespect.

But that song, you know--

I'm sure you know, is by The Cranberries.

It was from, like, the '90s.

The 1990s.

Oh, that could be.

I wouldn't know

because I wasn't alive in the '90s.

In the future, it's made famous

by a singer named Benetton.

Can you tell us something

from the future that we could prove?

Something soon.

Huh.

When were you born?

Seventy-nine.

Okay.

Prove to me that you were alive in the '80s.

Tell me something that happened

in the spring of 1959.

What?

I was born in 2030.

You're asking me to tell you something

that happens in 2010.

That's twenty years before I'm born.

So I'm asking you to do the same.

Tell me something that happens

in the spring of 1959.

Uh...

Kennedy was assassinated.

MAGGIE:
In 1963.

That's four years from 1959.

You want me to tell you something

you can prove in 2014?

Would that make you happy?

What will you do with yourself until then?

I could tell you a major event a few years off.

And after that it's gonna be

event after event after event.

But a mind as narrow as yours...

...would have no idea

what to do with that information.

You may go now, Lam.

[SCOFFS]

I was just... I didn't--

O'SHEA:
Let's go.

LAM:
Wait.

Christine, you're gonna have to decide

what you wanna do here.

Christie.

LAM:

Christie, she's lying. It's obvious.

You're all crazy!

[DOOR CLOSES]

I can't get that song out of my head.

[CHUCKLES]

Ah, neither can I.

If you were gonna pick

a song to be from the future...

...why would it be "Dreams"

by The Cranberries?

KLAUS:

Remove Peter's restraints, please.

If you'll come with me, please, Peter,

Maggie will see you.

Just Peter, Lorna.

Okay.

I'll wait here.

No need. We'll drive you home.

[INHALER SPRAYS]

MAGGIE:

Enter.

[MEDICAL EQUIPMENT WHIRRING]

[MEL SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY]

MAGGIE:

You can sit down.

[DOOR CLOSES]

Ah.

[SIGHS]

[CHUCKLES]

I'm from the future. I'm not a saint.

Are you and Lorna happy here with us?

Yes.

Yes. Of course we are.

People leave.

Other people I kick out...

...because they're sick or lazy.

You're neither one of those, are you?

No. No, I'm not.

Do you know why

I kicked Lam out?

Because he questioned you?

No.

I'm not petty.

I don't really care if people believe me.

I don't know that I would

if I was in their shoes.

Well, why'd you kick him out?

Because I knew Christine growing up.

But I never saw Lam.

I don't think he belonged with us.

Are Lorna and I there?

That's for you to decide.

We wanna be there.

Will you do me a favor?

Anything.

Yeah?

[CHUCKLES]

This is Abigail Pritchett.

I don't understand.

I need you to bring her to me.

[CHUCKLES]

Uh... Are you joking?

What would you want

with an 8-year-old girl?

Don't worry about that.

[SCOFFS]

Well, there's no way that I'm bringing

a little girl into this basement. That's...

Then perhaps you and Lorna should

stay away from this basement as well.

You don't mean that.

I need to see Abigail Pritchett.

Why?

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