The Endless Page #5

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- (KNOCKING)

- Hey, I'm sorry to come by so late.

I'm, uh, lost and, uh...

(SIGHS)

Hey, I can hear you

in there.

It's Justin from

ten years ago.

Can you just help me out?

(CREAKING)

Why are you in my house?!

Why the f*** are you

in my house?!

Uh...

God damn it!

F*** me all to hell!

Just-just sit down

or whatever, all right?

Careful around my bike!

Don't you f***ing touch my bike!

So, a decade ago,

I tell you that you're livin'

in some sort of death cult,

and not only were you not bright

enough then to figure it out,

you actually came back.

You are not smart.

(CHUCKLES)

You never have been, no.

I mean, all kids are dumb,

but you're like some sort of

retarded hobbit or something.

I'm sorry.

I, uh...

I don't know how

I got lost.

I don't know how you're hanging

in there

and standing in front of me.

I don't understand what's going

on at that camp.

Bunch of loopin' prisons, man.

Like shitty pods of time.

Repeatin' over and over

and over again

like rats tellin' stories

for that thing's amusement!

My loop's short as hell, bro.

Hell, some are even shorter.

Hell, you fools, you fools up at

that hippy-dippy camp bullshit,

you're something like, what,

ten years now? (CHUCKLES)

You gotta kill yourself

before the restart

or that thing,

that thing'll do it for ya.

And it's much worse than

anything you can do to yourself.

But the camp prefers that thing

doin' it for 'em, doesn't it?

Yeah, considers it

sacred even.

It'll snatch you

right out of your shoes.

I feel terrible.

I know better than that.

Well, it just sounds like you

lost your temper, that's all.

It happens.

Hal.

Anyone want a beer?

Yeah, thanks.

Okay.

Hey, we all know that

your brother's a good guy.

We all knew about

the cult thing, but...

Whatever.

It's in the past.

You don't think most of us

have something we wish we could

just leave behind?

(WHISPERING)

The rest of it, though,

it just...

You know, this place protects us

from some of it.

But history repeats itself,

regardless.

The old skipping record plays

on, doesn't it?

I'm just grateful I get

to live at all.

Don't do it

if you don't want to.

Everything all right?

Yeah.

You might not be able to tell

because of that big ol' beard,

but Tim, he just

worries a lot.

Anything I need

to worry about?

Yeah, you get used to it.

Suicide option. Mm.

I ain't no mathematician,

but every few hours since '09...

now what is that? Hmm?

Well, it's a f***ing lot!

But what you wanna do is,

you wanna get...

you wanna get unlost...

and then leave again,

like you're not some Mongoloid

motherf***er, am I right?

'Cause if you let it

have you,

and you're still in the borders

when the loop resets,

you'll be stuck as sh*t

forever.

Hmm?

Now, you should be able to follow

that trail there, shouldn't you?

Everything looked different

all of a sudden, and I...

Yeah, I remember that.

Oh, yeah.

Thing is, you're old

as f*** now.

And more likely just to...

just to toe the line.

You know,

so sh*t shifts around a bit,

put some confusion in that

little IQ of yours to get ya.

I just really got to get back to Camp

Arcadia and get back to my brother.

I can do that for you.

Great. How do I get back?

Oh, not for free.

Big 'ol f*** no.

(CHUCKLES)

No, you gotta

suck my dick first.

What?

You have to suck

my dick first.

(LAUGHS)

I'm just f***in' with ya!

Your f***in' face!

Uh...

(LAUGHS)

No, but seriously,

not for free, no.

All right, look, I don't know

what I can give you,

but I really just gotta get back

and get back to my brother

and drive us outta here

before whatever's about...

We're all stuck in these

f***in' things, man!

But you're free,

you're free for now.

It'll get you lost, but you

can walk right through 'em

like some brainless dickhole.

(LAUGHS)

And since you wouldn't know a

carburetor from your cock...

I want you to get me a gun.

We have those back at camp.

I could just...

I ain't falling for that, no.

Sit down.

All right, now this is our

circle, right here, okay?

And there is this b*tch-ass

tweaker, with a grip of guns,

who sold me a broken computer

before I was stuck up in this

f***in' b*tch,

and he swore to God he'd make it

up to me.

This is his filthy

f***in' loop,

and this is his shitty f***in'

cabin right here, all right?

The gun-nut tweaker?

Yeah, the gun-nut tweaker.

You just follow this map

and these loop marker hoodoo

fuckamajigs.

All right, and you'll find this

smelly junkie named Chris

who's got a gun collection that'd

give Yosemite Sam a boner.

Now, you bring me back a real

nice one. Okay?

And I'll draw you one of these

fancy maps,

get you back to your brother.

Oh, and, uh...

use this compass.

And trust only this compass,

not what you see.

All right.

It doesn't let me sleep.

Funny thing is,

I don't get tired.

I just...

It doesn't let me dream.

It does that so my mind

never leaves this place.

These three hours...

Using space and time

as its horsewhip.

I'm, uh...

I'm really sorry

to hear that.

And I'll, uh...

I'll see you soon.

There is

A house

In New Orleans

They call

The rising sun...

(BIRDS CAWING)

I have this theory that it's

made up of impossible colors.

See, retinas only have three

types of cone cells,

so maybe none has

the signal strength

to see it in our normal state.

Just a theory, though.

What we do know is that...

it shows us what it sees.

It has a powerful

elegance to it.

So, it was looking at me.

Why did it send me

a picture of a trailer?

Probably where to go.

I was actually gonna go

find Justin.

Well, there you go.

I know that fight was really

hard for all of us last night,

but can you help?

I don't know anything anybody

else doesn't know about life.

But last night's got me

thinking.

Can you have power over

yourself,

if you give up any amount of

authority to something else?

I mean...

I really do have to find

Justin...

I mean, it's a good question.

Always has been,

always will be.

Go out to the route,

past Cabin Two.

When you go past it,

you'll see a small trail.

Just follow it for

a really long time.

There's no way I'm not gonna

get lost if I do that.

Can you please just

come with me?

I literally can't go with you

to help you find your brother.

But you should.

And I sincerely hope

he's okay.

I really hope you make

your own choice.

Before the third moon is full.

Hal?

Hal.

Tell me what that means.

Saying more would be like

trying to explain

an impossible color.

(BREATHES DEEPLY)

(SCOFFS)

In the house

Of the rising sun

MAN:
Yeah?

Uh, hi.

Um...

Carl sent me.

Who?

Carl. He, uh...

Can you just open

the f***ing door?!

Uh, Carl sent me

and, uh...

- What?

- Are you all right?

Oh, this?

Yeah, no, I'm fine.

It's not what it looks like.

Mike's trying to help me out.

He's my buddy.

Trying to, uh, you know,

get me clean and sober!

Okay.

Um... so...

Don't be weird, dude.

Come on in.

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