The Discovery Page #6

than for me.

Alzheimer's.

She deteriorated after Dad died.

- Connor?

- You knew my father, too?

You know, actually, Pat mentioned him.

That he went to see him before he died.

Well, anyway, Dad died and...

Mom, she started going downhill

real fast after that.

My husband and I, we own the house now.

Is there gonna be a service or anything,

um, for Pat?

I wouldn't know.

I'm sorry, if you don't mind me saying,

you don't seem that upset

about your brother's death.

Look...

it seems as though you liked him.

You found something in him...

so, I'm sorry.

But to the rest of us...

he was a piece of sh*t

who left his sister

with a cancer-ridden father

and a mother

who lost every marble she ever had.

I'm sorry. So...

is the last time that you saw Pat

when he went to visit

your Dad in the hospital?

I don't know what bullshit

he hauled your way,

but he never visited my father

in the hospital.

If he told you that, it's a lie.

He called and said he was gonna visit him,

but he never showed up.

This is gonna sound really strange,

but did Pat have a tattoo?

He told you about that?

Well...

When he turned 18,

we got matching waves.

We were really close then.

So, the machine doesn't record a memory.

It wasn't a bad theory.

People are just gonna

keep killing themselves.

You know, sooner or later,

you're gonna have

to forgive your dad.

I've been thinking a lot

about the difference between...

what something is

and what something means.

And I don't know what any of this is...

but I do think

if there's a meaning to any of it,

it has something to do

with not pressing the reset button,

even if things get really rough.

We're a bunch of

people running around,

making the same

mistakes over and over.

And I don't know why we think

it'll be different somewhere else...

unless we learn what we're supposed to

while we're here.

What was your son's name?

Oliver.

I was dreaming.

When he was in the water,

I was dreaming.

What about?

I don't know.

I can't remember.

It was one of those

times where you know

for sure you're dreaming,

but you don't...

don't know what about.

I wish I knew.

You don't have to do this alone anymore

if you don't want to.

Will!

F***! F***, Will!

Get up. It's Dad.

What the f*** are you doing?

What about Dad?

- It's dad. Get the f*** up.

- Okay. All right. I'm coming.

I didn't know, so,

I couldn't stop it.

Slow down

and tell me exactly what happened.

He hooked himself

up to the device.

He wanted to prove that it works.

- Dad's hooked up right now?

- Yes.

We need to tell him that it works.

What?

What works?

- What are you doing?

- He demanded.

- Why aren't you bringing him back?

- He's too far along.

We already know that it records something.

Cooper...

it works, okay?

Dad?

Dad?

Time to pull yourself away.

Come back to reality. Come home.

- Is that Mom?

- It's Mom.

What I'm doing is reality.

I need to finish.

It's important. Do you understand?

- Their anniversary.

- Yeah.

I'm going upstairs.

Now, don't be dramatic.

I'll be done soon. And we can have dinner.

Honey, wait.

Maybe work can wait.

So, what do you say we have some dinner?

She's not taking the bath.

- That's not what happened.

- I know.

We can bring him back.

Cooper, just... wait.

We have to see what happens.

We've got to do it now,

or it'll be too late.

Will, come on.

Toby, I'm sorry. Cooper, now!

Dad? Dad, listen to me.

Dad, please. Listen to my voice.

- Is he gonna be brain...?

- I don't know. I don't know.

Cooper, hit it again!

Dad?

What happened?

I knew I saw her.

Like a dream that you can't remember.

I can't figure out what this is, Dad.

I never left my study.

Never stopped her on the stairs.

- And she drew a bath.

- I know.

And in the Pat Phillips recording,

he has a different tattoo on his arm.

I always said the afterlife

was a different plane of existence.

But...

what if it's a different plane...

of this existence?

Alternate realities?

No, our reality...

with differences and variations.

Stepping out of a truck...

to visit a dying parent.

Random, like different tattoos.

Stopping someone from going upstairs

to end their life.

When we die, what if we travel

to an alternate version of our own life?

A second chance?

Then we wouldn't... just have to accept

our biggest regret.

In the afterlife, we could change it.

At the risk of stating

the super f***ing obvious...

if you are right

and word of this got out...

We have to destroy the machine.

Hey, Thomas.

Everyone wants to know what's going on.

Welcome, everybody.

Nice to have you all here.

I asked you to gather here today because

I thought that we should be honest.

- Hi.

- Honest with ourselves,

honest with each other.

- You got to see your mom again.

- I see you as family...

and I think you see me

in the same way.

And as family...

I think sometimes

we get so absorbed with...

what we're doing individually,

we go off on our own track and so forth,

we lose the fact

that how important family is.

Lacey?

Lacey.

Lacey, it's okay. Put the...

Put the gun down.

Lacey, I was wrong.

You do not need to do this.

I didn't kill her.

I just relocated her.

Isla?

Isla?

Isla. Oh, it's okay.

Isla? Dad! Oh, God.

Dad, please! I need your help!

Somebody go get help.

I just wanted my spot back.

Okay. Okay.

Isla. Dad, please help her.

Don't talk. Just breathe.

I don't wanna die anymore.

You're okay.

I just need you to stay with me.

Yeah. Ha!

Isla?

Isla?

They were asking, the cops,

who to contact for Isla.

- Next-of-kin deal.

- I'll have Cooper look into it.

Okay.

I don't wanna overwhelm him

with questions right now, okay?

Okay. Yeah, that's probably a good idea.

Yeah.

- Maybe I should go in and check on him...

- No, no, no. Don't.

He needs rest.

He needs to process, okay?

- All right.

- You can check on him after dinner.

And then we'll finish breaking down

the machine tonight.

Okay.

But...

we haven't come close...

to figuring this all out yet,

or what it all means.

Like, if it really is another version

of our own life,

then what happens when we die again?

Toby.

- Toby.

- What?

We've got to let it go

for a while.

We've just got to.

Completely dismantled.

- All traces need to be gone.

- Thomas, I hear you.

William?

Let us in, don't do this.

William.

He's on the ferry headed here?

- Not the same here.

- What?

I don't understand. How are we watching

this right now if he's not dead?

since Thomas Harber's first

and only post-Discovery interview ended

with an on-air suicide.

Since then,

the worldwide suicide toll has sky...

I was watching that.

Isla?

- Isla?

- It's off-season.

- Why are you going to this dreary island?

- Isla?

- I have to stop your shooting, Isla.

- Sit down.

I need you to come with me right now.

Sit down, Will. This is just your memory.

I'm a part of you. Sit down.

What are we doing back on this ferry?

What the f*** is going on?

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