The Discovery
- TV-MA
- Year:
- 2017
- 102 min
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Dr. Harber,
before we're live,
I just wanted to say
thank you for choosing me.
Peter Piper picked
a peck of pickled peppers.
The rich history you have
with other journalists...
I chose you precisely
because we don't have a history.
Now, don't f*** it up.
Fifteen seconds.
People trust you...
I think that's because
people value the truth.
Right, but don't you think your
discovery was just... too dangerous
to share with the world?
Look, this has been my life's
work for over 40 years.
There's nothing willy-nilly here.
After much discussion,
much debate,
we all came to the
same conclusion.
- Which is?
- Which is, once you explore
all scientific possibilities,
and you come to a consensus,
how can you keep a discovery
so vital to our existence a secret?
And that discovery...
You proved the existence of an afterlife.
I prefer to call it
a new plane of existence.
I can't comment on terminology
like "soul" and "heaven" and "afterlife,"
but what I can say with scientific
certainty is that once the body dies,
some part of our consciousness
leaves us and travels to a new plane.
Your machine was able
on a subatomic level,
leaving the body after death.
- Is that...?
- That's correct.
Where do those wavelengths go?
My point is,
a new plane of existence is out there.
Yes, that is no longer in dispute.
But you can't tell us
what that is exactly.
When you see a train leave the station...
do you need to know where it's going
to understand that you saw it leave?
It's a tough pill to swallow.
At one point,
But, Dr. Harber, why did it take you
Where have you been?
It seems to me
that I invited you here, to my home.
Yes, you did. Thank you.
But... we only received that invitation
after the suicide toll
had rapidly reached a million.
And during that time,
celebrities, athletes,
even a close colleague of yours,
Which is why I agreed to sit with you
and try to calm the waters.
Okay.
I wanna ask you the question
that everybody watching right now
is probably wondering.
Do you feel responsible
for all those people killing themselves?
No.
- That's it?
- That's it.
Thank you, Dr. Harber...
for my fresh start.
Andy, no!
Andy!
- Andy!
- Oh, no.
Oh, God!
- Why would you do that?
- Somebody call 911.
Help! Some...
Call help, please.
Right now. Get someone here.
My God!
Why would you do that?
Oh, God.
Welcome back to our coverage of
the two-year anniversary of the Discovery.
We'll be revisiting the touchstone moments
of the past two years,
with retrospectives all weekend long.
Hard to believe that
it's been a year and a half
since Thomas Harber's first
and only post-Discovery interview
ended suddenly with an on-air suicide.
Since then, the worldwide suicide toll
has skyrocketed to staggering levels.
Over four million people
attempting to "get there."
As for Dr. Thomas Harber,
he has not made a public appearance
since that infamous
post-Discovery interview.
Completely off the grid...
I was listening to that.
I'm sorry, I thought...
I thought that I was alone.
It's off-season. Why the f***
are you going to this dreary island?
Well, you're going there.
Hi.
Hi.
Are you one of those lunatics
who just sits next to a complete stranger
You look so familiar to me.
It's possible we've met,
but you don't have
a memorable face.
Okay.
I'm sorry. I don't know why I said that.
I didn't mean that. I just...
The water. I'm just a little seasick.
That's weird. It's your lucky day.
I don't normally carry these around.
Um...
- Vertigo.
- I'm not dizzy.
You can't treat vertigo, just the effects.
That's for nausea.
Do I look like the kind of girl who's just
gonna take a pill from some strange guy?
Fair enough.
Isla. My name's Isla.
I don't look like an Isla, though.
you look like whatever name you're given,
then by four, you either settle
into your name or you just...
- What about you?
- What?
What's your name?
Oh, uh, Will Stevenson.
Will.
What?
I'm just trying to see
if you look like your name.
- What's the verdict there?
- I don't know.
It's too early to tell.
You know,
Will is just such a, like, "Will" name.
You're really something.
Happy second Discovery anniversary, Will.
They said on the news they're expecting
like a whole slew of suicides today.
People trying to get there
for the anniversary.
Did you see that video
of those dumb cheerleaders
taking pills on the 50-yard line?
I just can't get behind the concept
of suicide groups.
It's so... disingenuous, you know?
It just feels so weak.
- You don't believe in the Discovery?
- No, I don't believe in suicide groups.
The Discovery is...
I mean, the proof is overwhelming.
Proof shouldn't be overwhelming.
Proof should be definitive.
So, you don't believe.
I don't believe the way
everybody else does. No, I don't.
- And how's that?
- I'm a neurologist.
Three months ago,
I had a patient, really young,
found out that she had brain cancer.
Very sad.
She reacted to that diagnosis
a f***ing winning lottery ticket.
It wasn't because she hoped that
maybe she was going someplace better.
It was because the Discovery
made her think that it was guaranteed.
Well, yeah. Death used to be something
we just had to live with,
and now it's a convenient way
to escape pain. That's okay.
That's okay?
Another plane of existence, maybe.
Who knows? But I look around, I see
a lot of people jumping out of planes
hoping they're gonna grow wings.
Reality and fantasy
are mutually exclusive.
They don't exist in the same space.
What?
When I was five, I had an accident,
and I died for about a minute.
When I was resuscitated,
I told my parents that I saw something.
Flashes. A little boy.
Me, maybe, or my brother.
I felt stranded...
Stranded where?
This empty beach.
It doesn't matter. It was a dream.
It was a dream that I embellished
after I woke up.
Why would you make all that up?
I think it's our instinct
to search for meaning,
and when there is none,
it's our instinct to create meaning
and we just... lie. We lie to ourselves.
You are so annoying.
Has anyone ever told you that?
Yeah, they have.
Ugh. Thank God we only have
a minute left together
before we're strangers again.
You think it's gonna be a minute
this time of year? You're crazy.
Crazy, but right.
That's the attractive-girl component
and I didn't factor that in.
You'd better work on your math.
Hey!
For whatever it's worth,
I think you do look like an Isla.
How many of us have you met?
- I got it.
- No, I got it, man.
Well, I don't want to die
before we get there, Toby.
- What's going on over here?
- Eddie.
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