The Endless Page #6

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Please.

- What's your name?

- Justin.

Let me stop you

right there, okay?

Can I ask you a question?

Cool.

Do you have any drugs or crack

at all on you?

- What?

- Like drugs, in your pocket, right now, on you.

Do you wanna share them with me?

I'd love to share them with you.

But we have to do it fast, because

Mike's... Aah, there he is.

Mike, right?

Yeah.

Do you remember me from...

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, no, we're not interested

in your religion.

And just so you know,

Chris is my best friend,

he's a drug addict, I'm just

trying to get him clean.

There's nothing weird

going on.

Hey, I found this

hard drive.

I think it might have

the answer.

You hear that?

Mike found another message

on a shitty hard drive.

And it's great

to have company.

Hey, Mike, why don't you get

our guest a chair?

Okay, so what can we do

for you, sir?

Basically, Carl said that you

could give him a gun.

Oh.

You told Shitty Carl you'd

give him a gun?

Yeah. I told you about that

a year ago.

- No, you didn't.

- Yes, I did.

Me and Shitty Carl

are shooting buddies.

The two of you smoked crack

together

and then would steal

the red buckets

- from the Salvation Army guys outside of grocery stores.

- Why is that even relevant?

You have horrible judgment

in other people.

Shh.

Shh. Shh, shh.

(HARD DRIVE PLAYING)

(HEAVY BREATHING)

MIKE:

Can we try it another way?

CHRIS:

Please! Please!

(SCREAMING)

I guess that didn't work.

What was that?

It was either our past

or our future.

Doesn't really make

any difference.

Practically the same thing.

See, we've been stuck in this

infinite loop,

and we've been trying to do

different things to get out of it,

and I guess that didn't

work.

Oh, my God, if I have

to listen to you say

one more time at the beginning,

"Holy sh*t, man! F***ing Mike!

How the f*** are you, man?"

I think I might blow

my brains out.

What? What is that?

What accent is that?

Is that Irish?

That's how you sound.

It's what you sound like.

What about you?

At the beginning of the thing?

You come to the woods with your

hair combed full of gel,

all hunched over like some kind

of James Bond with scoliosis

trying to hide a boner.

Hey, can I impart some wisdom

upon you?

Don't ever give in.

Not once.

The trick to this whole thing

is to not be afraid of

something that's...

that's horrifying.

And everyone's afraid of it.

But if you let it control you

one time,

it's gonna f***ing control you

over and over again.

I mean, look at me and Mike.

We're just a couple of a**holes

taking someone else's sh*t.

You gotta floor it

the f*** out of here.

And if you see that thing,

you don't apologize to it,

you don't bow down to it,

you don't conform,

you just f***ing run.

Like your life f***ing depends

on it, man,

because your f***ing life

depends on it.

All right? That's my advice

to you.

I wish you safe passage.

Cheers.

You ready?

You wanna try it?

Yeah. Let's do it.

Follow me.

I'll show you the guns.

(WOMAN SINGING ON PHONOGRAPH)

They call the...

They call the...

They call the...

- They call the...

- (CLOCK TICKING)

- (MAN SCREAMS)

- (THUDS)

- They call the...

- (CLOCK TICKING)

- (MAN SCREAMS)

- (THUDS)

- They call the...

- (MAN SCREAMS) - (THUDS)

- They call the...

- (MAN SCREAMS) - (THUDS)

- They call the...

- (MAN SCREAMS) - (THUDS)

- They call the...

- (MAN SCREAMS) - (THUDS)

- They call the...

- (MAN SCREAMS) - (THUDS)

- They call the...

- (MAN SCREAMS) - (THUDS)

Oh!

Don't stay here!

- They call the...

- (MAN SCREAMS) - (THUDS)

You can't help.

Just leave before it...

Aah!

Oh! Aah!

You know, it is so strange

seeing how close

another loop is to this one,

closed, shitty little area.

How long have you been

stuck in this loop?

Well, that's hard to tell.

I mean, when we first got here,

I said if I got Chris clean

in a week, we'd leave,

and that was, um...

that was a lot of weeks ago.

Yeah, I keep thinking there's

like this configuration

that's gonna break us out

of the story, you know,

like a "Life Rubik's Cube."

The one thing I do know for

certain

is I would rather

reset things on my terms

than allow that f***er

to do it for me.

Well, what's the first thing you're

gonna do when you get out of here?

See my wife Jenn

and our baby.

You know, it's funny,

she used to leave these

annoying little notes around

the house.

You know, used to really get

under my skin.

Man, what I wouldn't give to

wake up to one of those notes.

I just hope she's happy

and moved on.

You know, it's funny,

we never, uh...

we never anticipate the ways

we're gonna isolate ourselves

from the ones we care about.

Anyway, I hope you find your

brother, you know.

Good luck, and don't get stuck.

Hey, Mike?

I'm...

I really hope

you get out here.

Because f*** you.

(SLAM)

Chris, it's Mike!

Your best friend!

Don't shoot!

Holy sh*t, man!

F***ing Mike!

How the f*** are you, man?!

Uh, I'm good, man,

I'm good. How are you?

F***ing fantastic, man!

I'm livin' the dream!

Isn't this place the tits?

Yeah.

It's something else.

(GROWLING)

(SNARLING)

Justin!

I've been looking for you

all day.

Jesus. You scared the sh*t

out of me.

Why'd you do that?

Why did you just

take off like that?

I didn't just take off,

I was asked to leave.

I thought you'd got

eaten by a bear.

Now I'm lost.

Are you lost?

Yeah, I'm lost. Because you

left the dome light on again

and didn't get a new car

battery.

- Doesn't make any sense.

- You don't make any sense.

- Are you gonna apologize?

- Hurry up.

We're gonna have to push start

the car to get out in time

and you're not very strong.

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

Hello?

We're, uh...

lost.

Ah, the flower.

It's actually a flower.

That's unexpected, right?

No. Can we go?

Yeah, there's no one here.

I think I can figure it out

with a compass.

It'll just take forever.

(PROJECTOR WHIRRING)

JUSTIN:

It'll just take forever.

JUSTIN:

It'll just take forever.

(THUD)

So, Anna...

Yeah.

Yeah, we slept together.

- Wow.

- Yeah.

- Congrats.

- Thank you.

I've never done that.

Yeah, we went to bed around

midnight,

and had a really good night's

sleep

and then when I woke up, I saw

you were still gone

so I came to rescue you.

You're welcome.

You mean you literally just

slept together?

- Yeah, that's what I said.

- I know that's what you said,

but usually when people say they

slept together,

it means that they had sex.

Pretty sure the word "sleep"

means when you close your eyes,

get comfortable, become

unconscious...

Never mind. Never mind.

God, I feel like I'm gonna die

of thirst.

You all right?

Not much left.

You don't need it?

No, Aaron,

I don't need water.

(WHISPERING)

All right.

Now, if we hurry,

we might make it back to camp

before the third moon.

Come on, let's go.

I gotta talk to you

about something.

Great. Tell me on the way

back to the car.

No, man.

Can you just have a seat

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