The Corridor Page #5

living in her basement.

I mean,

that must have been so...

Smothering.

Shh, shh.

This is what friends are for.

Yeah, hey, hey,

we're gonna get real now.

We're gonna fix you.

Hold him, Jimmy!

Come on.

What do you have to live for?

Huh?

Psych wards? Pity?

We're gonna set you free.

My path is finally

showing itself to me.

What did you do

to that hunter?

Protected our future.

I don't want

to see these things.

But you're starting to,

aren't you?

Those pills of yours

are wearing off.

The corridor has been

looking for me all along,

to make it stronger,

to take it

where it's going.

You never told me how clear

it made things, Ty.

How simple.

All these years,

taking sh*t off customers,

banging my boss

for an open mic slot

when I should have just

beat her to death instead.

Look what it's done to us

in a couple of hours!

It's only gonna get worse

when it gets somewhere!

Jim!

Connect the dots!

F***ing corridors!

Please think of Katie.

Jimmy.

You pull it together,

Jim.

What, the wife didn't pack

the iron pills?

Pull it together, Jimmy!

I'm trying to, Ev.

I just...

Well, that's disappointing.

You know, Ty,

I really thought

you'd be the next to go.

I didn't think

you'd last this long.

But that's good.

It shows that

you want to feel alive.

You know, we...

we never got our test...

no great war,

no frontier to tame.

But you be glad, Ty,

because I'm gonna give you yours

right now.

I'm gonna shoot someone,

and you are gonna tell me who.

No way.

See, I love

both of these guys,

so it's gonna be

like you pulled the trigger.

Now, you tell me!

Can you feel that pull?

You are gonna pick someone,

or I'm gonna kill you.

So who is it gonna be?

Lucky Huggs with the great job

and spectacular wife

or your little girlfriend

Chris?

Who is it gonna be?

Ev.

Ev, wait, not me.

I'm talking to Tyler now!

I'm helping him get real.

You tell me the truth

about Pauline.

Rock!

Mom overdosed on pills

she never should have

stopped taking.

That's the whole story.

Paper!

I don't know

what you want me to say!

Scissors!

Please don't point that at me.

Mom...

she cut my face open,

and then I don't remember

anything until I woke up...

Rock!

- In the f***ing bin!

- Paper!

They put me in restraints

because of what I did to you!

Scissors!

Not because of what

I did to her!

That's not what

she told me, Ty!

Can I just have

a goddamn drink?

Well, now you're talking.

Somebody help me.

A toast.

To our discovery.

To our rite of passage.

Please, don't let this happen.

I just want to go back home.

I came here for you.

I can't do this.

I know how this sounds,

but I could pay you.

He isn't even awake.

Please,

just don't say my name.

Better say something.

Oh, my God.

Say something!

I want answers!

Ev, shoot Ty!

Jim! Jim!

Well, you're not

shootin' blanks anymore!

Whoo!

You always were

my favorite, Jim.

My friend, for you.

Stop!

You feed it thoughts

of dead cells.

But it calls

for the living.

Chris...

You think you know

what it wants.

It talks to me.

You listen,

but you do not hear.

I can speak for it.

Help translate it further.

I can be its living cell.

Do you understand that?

We are killing each other.

Do you understand that?

The corridor.

It's a probe.

It's a... seeker.

It's...

It's searching,

like we all are.

And you think you know

what for.

Pure connection.

These are my delusions,

Chris.

They're not yours.

Think what you sound like.

A false prophet.

And yet I speak the word.

Chris, come back!

A little male bonding.

This place is really

putting us on

the same wavelength now, Ty.

Your pill's dying.

You can't block it out

anymore.

Welcome home.

We're not really here.

Maybe you never left.

No... oof!

Where are we going, Ty?

Where are we going, huh?

Where we going?

Huh? Huh? Huh?

You can't keep running

from it, man.

You can't keep running.

You know why?

'Cause, all corridors

lead back to your room.

Now, you take

a good, real look.

You're driving me crazy!

You're driving me crazy!

Shut up! Shut up!

How could I forget this?

Shut up!

What I did to you?

And the truth

shall lock you up!

No.

I said I'd never

be in here again.

We're not here.

We're not really here.

We still have to stop it!

You can't stop

the future, Ty.

I drugged you!

Oh, look at you now!

I made a tough guy

out of you!

My pill

is in your blood now,

so think for yourself!

Think!

Think! Think!

Think!

Think! Think! Think!

Ty! Ty!

Ty!

Enough!

It's me!

F*** you, Ev.

It's me.

I know.

Jim.

Bobby.

Oh, my God.

What have I done?

I wasn't trying

to kill her.

I wanted to kill that place

inside her.

We have to go get Chris.

You'll never stop it.

You'll never stop it, Ty.

It grew up so fast.

Better than we ever did.

Ev, don't.

None of this

would have happened

if you'd done this yourself.

Hey!

You gonna walk all the way

to the big city?

Can you hear me?

Hey!

I'm not letting you go.

Not you.

Everyone else is dead.

Just connected now,

to a path larger

than themselves.

Why can't you hear

how lonely?

Why can't you hear

how it searches?

I don't care!

Chris, it took our friends!

I am it.

I am its word.

I am its sound

which will travel.

And then you connect it

to the world and everyone dies?

What kind of f***ing message

is that?

You don't get to know

what it can do.

You don't get to understand.

If you're so in touch

with it,

then tell me something.

Tell me.

What was the last thing

that I ever said to her?

Good-bye.

Chris!

Tyler?

Lovey?

Can you hear me, Tyler?

Tyler?

Turn the key.

Tyler, lovey,

turn the key.

Can you hear it calling?

I'm ready to listen.

You're driving me crazy!

It was never her!

It was always you!

You have to disconnect!

I won't block the door!

I'll let you in me!

Turn me instead,

now that she's gone.

Turn me!

# Twinkle, twinkle,

little star #

# How I #

# Wonder #

# What you #

# I have seen you #

# In merrier stages

of undress #

# I have seen you through #

# Various states of madness #

# I have seen

your refractions #

# And I did not recognize you #

# I have seen you

in various states of madness #

# How high your highest

of heights? #

# How low are your lows? #

# How high your highest

of heights? #

# How low are your lows? #

# I am sorry

I had nothing left for you #

# My mind was willing #

# And my spirit was strong #

# My lips were tired #

# And tightened

from singing along #

# My eyelids are heavy

as anchors thrown over #

# How high your highest

of heights? #

# How low are your lows? #

# How high your highest

of heights? #

# How low are your lows? #

# I have seen you

in the eyes #

# Of a hundred thousand

other stranger faces #

# I have seen you in unlikely

and unfamiliar places #

# I have seen you be reckless

in matters of love #

# I have seen by degrees #

# The boiling point

come and go #

# How high your highest

of heights? #

# How low are your lows? #

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