Subtitles by explosiveskull
Hi.
Um, whoever's watching, I just wanted to say,
if you are at the camp and we're not back yet,
that I just wanted to say don't worry.
Uh, the ascension is something we've all been looking forward to
and we couldn't be happier,
so our round-trip from this place and back
is really something to celebrate.
So, um...
eat and drink and make yourself comfortable,
and we look forward to seeing you when we return.
Um...
Okay. Bye.
You seriously spent $20 on that
and didn't get the car battery?
You said they did it already.
- Nope. No. - Yeah. Yeah.
No. I said that right before we left,
I was told that they were all were gonna kill themselves.
And that's why we left the cult.
She didn't say anything about killing themselves.
She didn't.
It's a UFO death cult.
It's what they do.
They just call it something different.
I rescued us from a cult.
I saved you from mass suicide.
You're welcome.
The, uh, owner still gone?
Yep. But be fast.
You want, um, pork or shrimp?
Uh, neither. I'm good.
- You're not eating lunch? - Nope.
Gotta save the money you spent on antique video equipment
and not the car battery.
Oh, tattoos, those were an investment.
What?
You know they used to feed us real food.
You know, vegetables and fish that's not powder.
I'd rather be alive and eat raman
than be dead and eat... corn.
I know they were going to do it, now they clearly are,
so I was, like, ten years off.
They didn't say anything about killing themselves.
They said... Move your head.
They said they were going somewhere,
and we don't know how long or where they were going...
- Good. - How's that good?
If we were back at the camp, we'd have, like,
good food and support, and we wouldn't be
one dirty house away from being homeless.
I need the car.
I've got deprogramming in, like, half an hour. Ow.
I don't want to go to deprogramming anymore.
Are you gonna be the one to get another job
if we don't qualify for aid?
And stop leaving the dome light on in the car.
You're making the car battery even worse if that's possible.
It was mostly a joke.
But, um...
he's not happy.
I heard him crying the other night, again.
And, um...
the cult sent us a good-bye video.
Whoa. What was that like?
I mean, I was relieved, at first,
because... they're not dead.
And then I felt bad.
Because now Aaron thinks I pulled him out
all those years ago for no reason.
All of his memories of the cult
are as a kid or a teenager or whatever.
So all those memories are good,
and he sees our lives here as horrible.
But, to me,
the thing that makes our lives here better
is thinking for ourselves.
And I don't know why we haven't been able
to make a living or make friends...
meet girls.
Recovery from cult mind control is a lifelong process,
and if he resents you for pulling him out,
that's common.
Whether he resents me or he doesn't,
feeling responsible for his well-being 24/7
is exhausting.
They're gonna take the car.
The credit card was a bad idea.
I'll figure it out.
Yeah, okay.
I wanna go back.
Have fun with that.
No, I'm serious.
I'm going, just... for a visit.
You have a horrible memory.
That place is not what you think it is.
- I know. - Great. Let's not go.
Why do you wanna go back?
We can say good-bye.
Get some closure.
They were our family.
One day. One night.
We come straight back.
Will that make you feel better?
Uh...
Because if that'll get you out of this slump,
we can go back.
I mean, he's trying.
He's trying lots of things, but...
this one time, by some miracle,
we met these girls at the park,
and he takes 'em to this cheap Mexican food place,
down by the apartment.
And, out of, like...
out of, like, nervousness or something,
he's like, "I'm an ex-UFO death cult member."
And she's like, "Okay, I have to go to the bathroom."
And she obviously never comes back.
And her friend never returned my calls.
But that's him, though, you know?
Uh...
He's trying to do the right thing.
He really is.
But it has to be his way...
which never works.
And so the only thing that's worse than this shitty life
he's built for us is having no fucking control over it.
I'm sorry.
Have you talked to him about this?
No, no, he's my brother.
And you're sure it's a good idea
to go back to the cult?
It's not a cult.
It's a commune.
Uniforms. Redefining words.
Calling death "ascension."
Worshipping a deity in the forest
that no one else knows about.
And...
castration.
Okay, yeah, that's a cult.
But I actually don't remember any of those things.
I just remember, like, bonfires, family time, and good food.
It's wasn't like they were keeping us prisoner or anything.
Actually, hang on a second.
If they were gonna be, like,
pointing machine guns at our heads
and make us drink cyanide Kool-Aid,
why would you be driving us there right now?
All right, I never saw anything specifically like that.
But in your distorted memory, we were, like...
petting deer and dancing with koalas.
We were, I remember that.
Boobs.
Ah, the boobs.
♪ There is a house in New Orleans ♪
You broke the goddamn antenna. Do not put me through this.
♪ They call the Rising Sun ♪
You sound like a raccoon with strep throat.
♪ It's been the ruin of many a poor boy ♪
♪ And Lord I know I'm one ♪
You sound exactly like the mating possums outside our window.
♪ My mother was a tailor ♪
Hey, Mom. I know we don't visit much, but...
I just wanted to say I'm doing my best to take care of him.
What?
- Nothing. - I heard you.
No, you didn't.
- You becoming religious? - No.
You're praying to her grave.
It's not a grave, it's a memoriam.
Ah, talking to a memoriam.
That's totally not praying to a grave.
That's sweet. I think someone's been by or something.
Look. It's brand-new.
No, we actually made that from when we were little
because she liked to paint.
Wow, that really held up.
What the heck are those?
It's like a volcanic event,
hundreds of thousands of years ago.
And then erosion or...
something.
Hey, mind of I drive for a bit?
Nah, I'll just go the rest of the way.
You drove the whole way. I wanna drive.
I'm driving. Get in.
Not a cult at all.
Smells good.
Smells like the barley.
Hey!
Good to see you two.
What the dickens bring you all the way out here?
Just thought we'd visit while you're, uh... here.
We're always here.
You hungry?
I'm always hungry.
Let's get you fed.
You boys remember Tim, right?
- How's it going, Tim? - Hey.
You gotta try Tim's new Hefeweizen.
It is delicious.
Whoa! I didn't know you guys were gonna be here.
It's good to see you guys!
- Shane, Anna. - Hi!
This is weird. Aaron is, like, all grown up.
Do you remember me?
Yeah, a little.
So, you all look, uh...
Healthy?
Fresh food, air, and ale.
That'll do it.
I was gonna say exactly the same.
- This is amazing. - Thank you.
Shane and Anna, they grew the barley for that batch,
so they deserve credit.
- Tim, his beer, is our most profitable export. - Yeah.
Oh! You boys haven't met Lizzy.
It's nice to finally meet you two.
Everyone says all kinds of stuff about you.
Thanks. Uh, how'd you end up here?
I was at a mental health facility up the road,
and I use to wander out quite a bit.
And on one of my wanderings, I met Tim
and just realized I'm better here.
You boys remember Dave, right?
Hey.
You know, Lizzy, she's a great artist.
Actually, her sketches, they kind of remind me
of your photography, Justin.
Oh, yeah.
You were a photographer?
Um, not really.
It's when you were really little.
He was really good.
Well, could have been, given time.
It's like Shane's magic tricks.
I'm all right. It's a million hours, right?
- Man, I hope so. - A million hours?
Yeah, a million hours is the amount of time
it takes to actually master something.
So, if you live to be 115 years old
and you spend your waking, sleeping moments
just dedicated to one thing, then...
yeah, mastery is a possibility.
Absolutely.
That's mine.
You think Anna and Shane are together?
Well, they're all castrated.
So do you mean, like, emotionally?
They don't seem castrated.
You don't know how castrated people act.
And you realize she's, like, 20 years older than you.
- No, she's not. - Yes.
- No. - Yeah.
They're all in, like, their 40s. They just look young.
It's weird.
They just look like they take care of themselves
and don't eat dirty garbage food.
Taking a nap?
I... am gonna go for a run.
Hey!
Uh, okay, actually, I've been working on this one.
Pick a card, any card.
No, no, no, no.
He's just gonna keep picking the same one.
I don't wanna touch the card. Okay, just put it on top.
Can I show you something back in my cabin?
Um... right now?
Unless you know a better time.
Sure.
Try this one.
It's interesting.
Did a small batch. Thinking about doing a big run.
That Tim, he is good.
You, uh... you figure it out yet?
Not yet.
Eventually, though.
Sometimes I wish I wasn't so damned left-brained.
It either is or it isn't and...
this equation isn't... yet.
All right.
I gotta ask.
What's it solve?
Wouldn't believe me if I told you.
I like that everyone here kind of has a little thing that they do.
Yeah. I mean, some people have two or three,
but, yeah, everybody has at least one. Yeah.
So, you're like the clothing designer?
You do the camp's clothes?
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, I make a lot of stuff from scratch, but I...
you know, whatever I can find at thrift stores and...
That's where I got this.
Yeah.
I used to make a lot of your clothes. Do you remember that?
No. I mean...
I'm sorry. It's just been a long time. Sorry.
Yeah.
Do you wanna see some of my new designs?
Listen, uh, I just wanted to tell you again
that everything you did,
it ranges from "I don't care" to "All is forgiven."
Now, that being said,
why come back now?
The video you sent.
What video?
The video.
With Anna talking about...
the end.
Never been a suicide on this property that I'm aware of.
In fact, I can assure you that nothing here ends.
All that happens here is that people live long and healthy lives.
Because of that, they grow to be
the people they want to be.
Pretty simple.
There is something bigger than us out here.
And now that you're both at an age where you can understand it,
it'll become...
evident.
All right. Uh...
All right.
I'll get you another beer.
- You ready? - Yeah.
- Ta-da. - Oh, whoa.
These are good.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
Wait. What do you and Justin do?
Um... we clean.
Impressive?
Didn't you used to like to fish?
Yeah, you know, when I was a kid, but...
I don't think I even remember how to tie a fishing knot.
You know?
Uh, do you get paid for this?
What, for being alone with you?
Come on!
Yes, of course!
I mean, the money comes from the beer, but...
yeah, we all get paid for everything we do.
So you never have to leave?
All right. Black ace.
Just focus on these angels here for a second.
One, two...
So we got your red from earlier, right?
And with this little...
black, yeah.
I think I see what you're doing.
Come here. You're gonna pick a card.
Come on.
Take a look at it.
Put it back in wherever you want.
Very good.
Is that your card?
No.
Have you seen Aaron?
Yeah, he's in Anna's cabin with her.
You all right with that?
Why wouldn't I be all right with that?
You wanna see another trick?
Come on, just humor me.
It's a new one I'm working on. Come on.
Relax. Relax.
All right! Who's ready for The Struggle?
Hey, why doesn't Dave talk?
Brain injury.
Hal says he fell off a building while working construction,
and Tim told me it was self-trephination.
You drill a hole in your skull so you stay permanently high.
He drilled too far.
Ladies and gentlemen, for most of you,
this requires no explanation.
But we have many traditions here at Camp Arcadia,
none more prominent than The Struggle.
We have the struggle with passion!
The struggle for growth!
The struggle with a higher power!
Smiling Dave on a ladder.
And...
What, Anna?
That would be all of which we overcome with perseverance.
You're the one who invented this,
so why am I always the one looking ridiculous emceeing it?
Because I'm reigning champion, that's why.
That you are.
Whoo! I need a breather.
Who's next?
Come on, who's next?
Aaron?
Nah. I'm good. Next time. Thank you.
Come on.
What do you say, guys, can we get him up here?
- Come on, man! - Come on!
Let's go!
There you go.
It's all right. It's all right.
Can I go again?
We never give up.
All right! Whoo!
First man to use a fishing knot
in The Struggle is victorious!
Who's next?
Justin?
I'm sorry. I really don't want to right now.
You sure?
All right.
Thank you, Lizzy, but I could really just do this myself.
No, it's fine.
I used to clean up sores for this gun-nut tweaker guy
out in the woods, so this is nothing.
Sounds like it's a good thing you're not seeing him anymore.
Oh, we weren't dating.
He was just this guy I was sort of obsessed with
when I was on lithium, thorazine, and PCP.
Hey.
Thanks for being such a good sport.
I did not mean at all for that to happen.
I just never understood the point of that.
Just silly little metaphors, you know.
Brings the party together.
Frankly, it's a little embarrassing.
All better.
You two have some fun.
All right. I'm actually pretty tired.
So I'll see you two in the morning.
Hey, seriously.
Thanks for doing this.
I'm just happy you get to see how insane it all is.
Yeah, it's pretty weird.
But, uh, I was thinking. Could we stay for one more day?
- You're drunk. - No.
You are drunk. You smell like a Long Island Iced Tea.
You're drunk.
Can we just stay through tomorrow night?
You know, I was talking to Anna.
She said that Hal lets people take his guns out.
We could just kinda... hang out in the wilderness.
Shoot guns, just you and me, you know?
Despite all this weirdness, just kind of enjoy something for once.
I really don't wanna do that.
It doesn't cost anything.
All right. I'll let you stay one more day.
Hey, Tim.
What's in there?
Brewing equipment.
Until the FBI shows up.
Hey, you asleep?
Hmm?
I was.
And now all I wanna do is talk to you.
Seriously. Did anything happen with Anna?
Honestly, no.
Well, she gave me this look that made me think,
you know, maybe she wanted to hold hands or something.
- Nice. - Yeah.
Hey, I really think that you should have this.
I really think it's good for you.
But I also think that you should know
that when you were little,
Anna used to, like, make eyes at you.
Yeah, it's probably because
she's always been in love with me.
And we were meant to be together.
Or maybe she's a pedophile.
Women can't be a pedophiles.
- Yes, they can. - No, they can't.
Are you, like, redefining the word pedophile?
- In order for a man to have intercourse... - Go to sleep.
- In order... - Go to sleep.
- Women can't... - Go to sleep!
♪ There is ♪
♪ A house ♪
♪ In New Orleans ♪
♪ They call ♪
♪ The rising ♪
Nice.
Make sure you clean that before you give it back to Hal.
He gets pretty mad if you give it back dirty.
I can't really imagine him angry.
I can.
So your thing was photography?
Nah. I don't really have a thing yet.
I guess hunting wasn't your thing either.
I'm just kidding.
Seriously, what do you think it hit?
I don't know. You're just bad at shooting.
Hey!
Do you remember me?
♪ There is ♪
♪ A house ♪
♪ In New Orleans ♪
♪ They call ♪
♪ The rising sun ♪
♪ They... ♪
♪ They call the ri... ♪
Aah!
♪ They call the ri... ♪
Aah!
♪ They call the ri... ♪
♪ I'm gonna lay down my sword and shield ♪
♪ Down by the riverside ♪
♪ Gonna lay down my sword and shield ♪
- ♪ Down by the riverside ♪ - No, I can't follow this up.
Oh, sure you can. It'll just sound bad.
Hey, uh, do you have a minute?
And it was like...
something was there.
But-but that I couldn't see.
And it left me this... I think.
Maybe.
It's like I said.
You're at an age now where you can become a part of it.
So it's gonna be more apparent.
Yeah, but you always speak in metaphors.
So you don't trust me?
And you're gonna stand there, you're gonna tell me
that you have never experienced anything before?
I mean, I remember some things from when I was a kid,
but kids have imaginations,
and as a grown man now, I guess the reason why
I sort of dramatically asked you to come out here
is for you to just tell me,
in your own words,
what is it?
Who's the leader here, Justin?
Uh, you?
There's never been one.
I just talk more.
It's not a very flattering quality, if you ask me,
but one of the things that I talk a lot about
is that I don't have answers.
None of us do.
You wanna know what it is that runs all this?
You go find it.
How is that possible?
It's crazy, right?
Some kind of atmospheric mirroring effect.
It's like the Northern Lights.
Anyway, two moons brings a truth.
Three signifies the ascension.
All right, that just all sounds like metaphor again.
I know, I know.
You know that physics equation in my room?
- Yeah. - That's what it is to me.
And I still haven't finished that.
But what I can tell you,
is if you and Aaron, you stay one more day,
you go fishing in the lake,
and you go out to this buoy,
you dive straight down and you grab what you find there.
You're gonna have your answer.
You know how culty that sounds, right?
Confirm this thing for yourself...
and you've gotta admit it.
There it is.
A higher power?
A governing force? God?
Infinity solved.
Now, wouldn't that be a weight off your shoulders?
And if you like having that weight gone,
you and Aaron have a home here.
Even after the third moon.
Aaron, get on up here.
Get on up there!
Get on! Whoo!
Ow!
Whoo, whoo, whoo!
Here we go.
♪ There is a house in Camp Arcadia ♪
♪ They call the Rising Sun ♪
♪ My brother was a photographer ♪
You call that red stuff "the flower," right?
Yeah.
This has been really good for me.
Well, it's not over yet.
Okay.
So I happen to have this other talent
that's not making clothes where I can measure
the exact amount of drugs in my lungs at any given time.
If I were to measure out an exact amount for you
that won't make you feel weird or sick
or paranoid or anything like that,
would that be something that you're interested in?
Uh...
And there's no pressure at all. I'm not...
No. No, let's do it.
- Really? - Let's do it. Come on.
Come on, before I...
Just follow my lead. Okay, hold on.
Come here.
How do I know when I'm high?
Come here. Come walk with me. I'll show you.
You know, Tolkien said it, Lewis said it,
Lovecraft perverted it,
and we just take the definite face off of it
and we just say, "Hey, here are the tools,
but you make it what you want."
Totally. And the interesting thing about that is
when you look at things like the Hopi...
It's the gun-nut tweaker guy.
Yeah, that looks like a gun-nut tweaker.
How is that possible?
It's like a... like a heat blur.
You know, it's a natural illusion.
It has to do with solar winds
and magnetic poles and...
Um...
No. I have no idea.
Nobody in the camp does,
but they're all around the camp in a perfect circle.
It's why we use a circle emblem.
You usually need the flower to see it this clearly.
Is the reflection solid? Can you go through it?
Hmm.
This is why you sent me that video.
What?
The video you sent us talking about the ascension.
No, I didn't.
I mean, yes, I made videos in case you or my sister
or someone came back to the camp and we weren't here,
but, no, I didn't.
I didn't send that.
That's really strange because we all kind of agreed
that we wouldn't share things like that,
especially after your brother, you know?
My brother what?
I'm having such a nice time with you.
I'm so glad you're back.
It's just we don't need to talk about it.
Okay.
Do you hear music?
- Hey. Hi. - Hi.
Are you all right?
I'm fine. I just can't sleep with everybody up like this.
And I leave these notes fucking everywhere
saying, please, please, please shut the hell up!
You, uh... you don't like the parties?
I did for a few nights, but after a while...
fuck, man!
What's your name?
Justin.
I'm Jennifer.
Hey, Jennifer.
So if you don't like it here, why don't you just leave?
It's a really weird story.
You sure you wanna hear it?
It's possible you're the only woman here
not taken by several men,
so you'd have to convince me otherwise.
I'm not hitting on you. That was mostly me making a joke.
I'm 100 percent married, so...
Right. Very nice to meet you.
No, it's fine. You're...
You're all harmless.
A little brainwashed but mostly harmless.
So you're not part of the camp?
My husband Mike disappeared near here.
So I came out looking for him.
He just sort of lost it.
And I wandered until I almost passed out.
Must have been dehydration or something.
Hal found me.
He said we'd find him.
It'd take some time...
but we'd find him.
So how's the search going?
Uh...
it's been a few, um...
it's been a few...
Our son is with my parents.
So...
I'm gonna go lay back down.
Nice meeting you.
There's something out here, isn't there?
Yeah.
Yeah, there is.
I saw some things last night that...
I... I can't...
Hey, you're gonna hate this. Um...
But what if we stayed?
- Like permanently? - Yeah.
You know, we'd be taken care of.
Nothing to worry about except for doing our own thing.
There's kind of an order to things here, you know?
It's fair.
Like something really is watching out for us.
I don't know.
I always thought that if I did experience
that there was something more to all of this,
that I'd like start going to church or something.
Everybody thinks that.
But last night I was walking back to the cabin...
and there was this girl at one of the cabins, and she was...
What?
She wasn't all "Kumbaya" like the rest of the camp.
She was really scared and sad about something.
I don't know, I just...
I don't think comfort is worth dying for.
Look, man, there is no mass suicide here.
You're, like, leaping to conclusions.
We can't go back to our, like, regular shitty lives
knowing that there's actually something out here.
What are you doing? What are you doing?
Hal said the answer is at the bottom of this lake.
So I am going to bottom of this lake.
Answer to what?
Exactly what "it" is.
Well, that's way culty.
Oh!
- Not a god, it's a monster! - What?
There's something down there! I saw it! It held me down!
- What? - I don't know!
Go!
We're leaving.
- It's a tape. - I don't care, we're leaving.
Look, man, I know you've been just...
dying to make something up and get me out of here.
But I didn't see a monster or anything.
And actually, everything's fine here.
Fine, you can stay. I'm leaving.
Look, we both know that's just not happening, all right?
Look, we'll go back to the camp.
We'll say our good-byes like we're normal people,
and then we'll go, all right?
- All right. - All right. Good.
- Great. - Good!
I wish you guys could stay longer.
Yeah, me, too.
Yeah, really hard to leave, but we gotta get back to work.
Hey, I drew you a going-away gift.
Oh. Wow. Thank you.
That's, uh...
that's honest.
Hey.
Do you mind if we get a little...
culty in here?
One last time?
Um... no.
- You sure? - Yeah.
Everybody...
Justin and Aaron found a message in the lake today.
That's awesome. We haven't had one of those in a while.
Thought we'd have a viewing ceremony.
- To send 'em off. - What is it?
It's how to communicate with us.
With images.
I'm, uh... I'm Michael.
So you guys are, like, in a church group?
Uh, nice to meet you, Mike.
We're prophets of the Camp Arcadia faith.
Our whole thing is just making sure that people know
that self-sacrifice for the one true god
is the only way to begin the journey into the cosmos.
Yeah, Justin's taught me a whole lot
about our coming apocalypse, so, you know,
if you ever wanna come worship with us at the camp,
we'd love to have you.
And we also take small donations.
We're just devoted to... to... to... to... to...
So...
it appears that the message is forgiveness.
Forgiveness for those lies.
That was embarrassing.
Guys, guys, guys. Guys, wait up.
I didn't know that's what it would be.
It's not supposed to be embarrassing.
It's a lesson.
What does that mean?
Forgiveness.
We forgive you for going out and evangelizing us
as a UFO death cult or whatever.
Then telling the press,
among other things, that all of us are castrated.
You are castrated.
As far as I know,
everybody here has their sex organs.
You told me the camp... they had to do that.
That they sanctioned all of that.
- I never said that. - Yes, you did! Why...
Why did we tell that story?
Why did we go and tell that story?
I knew there was something wrong here.
And there is something very wrong here.
And I did what I had to do to keep to safe.
- And I'm sorry you're finding out this way... - You made that all up?
Without trying to throw fuel on the fire here,
would you say maybe it has something to do with you wanting to lead?
I'm trying to lead?
Even as a little boy, you were never comfortable
with there being no leader here giving definite answers.
Maybe you take crappy pictures because "it" takes pictures.
Maybe you wanna be "it."
You wanna control, you wanna be the alpha.
You've led to me so fucking much.
He lied to you. Fuck him!
I pulled the both of you...
out of your mother's burning car.
I gave you food, I gave you shelter,
I gave you every opportunity to grow.
And what you did to undermine us...
Let's just forget the fact
that we are never gonna get Dave
to take that damned white button-up shirt off...
Can you imagine trying to sell your beer
when someone can find a news article that makes you look like
a dickless, poison Kool-Aid drinking,
Heaven's Gate offshoot?
That is our livelihood.
So, no! Fuck you!
She's up there, terrified,
with some story about how you're going
to help her find her missing husband.
What are you doing here, Hal?
Walk away, man.
- Come on. - No.
- Let's go. - No.
- Now! - No!
You are a fucking cult leader!
I'm gonna have to ask you to leave.
Or we can go inside and we can put that to a vote.
But why don't you just make it easy on everybody.
God damn it, Aaron.
Fuck!
Hey, I'm sorry to come by so late.
I'm, uh, lost and, uh...
Hey, I can hear you in there.
It's Justin from ten years ago.
Can you just help me out?
Why are you in my house?!
Why the fuck are you in my house?!
Uh...
God damn it! Fuck me all to hell!
Just-just sit down or whatever, all right?
Careful around my bike! Don't you fucking 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.
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?
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?
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 fucking lot!
But what you wanna do is, you wanna get...
you wanna get unlost... and then leave again,
like you're not some Mongoloid motherfucker, 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 shit 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 fuck now.
And more likely just to... just to toe the line.
You know, so shit 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 fuck no.
No, you gotta suck my dick first.
What?
You have to suck my dick first.
I'm just fuckin' with ya!
Your fuckin' face! Uh...
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 fuckin' 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.
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 bitch-ass tweaker, with a grip of guns,
who sold me a broken computer
before I was stuck up in this fuckin' bitch,
and he swore to God he'd make it up to me.
This is his filthy fuckin' loop,
and this is his shitty fuckin' 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... ♪
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.
♪ In the house ♪
♪ Of the rising sun ♪
Yeah?
Uh, hi.
Um...
Carl sent me.
Who?
Carl. He, uh...
Can you just open the fucking 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.
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.
Can we try it another way?
Please! Please!
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 shit, man! Fucking Mike!
How the fuck 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 fucking control you over and over again.
I mean, look at me and Mike.
We're just a couple of assholes taking someone else's shit.
You gotta floor it the fuck 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 fucking run.
Like your life fucking depends on it, man,
because your fucking 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.
♪ They call the... ♪
Oh!
Don't stay here!
♪ They call the... ♪
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 fucker 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 fuck you.
Chris, it's Mike!
Your best friend!
Don't shoot!
Holy shit, man! Fucking Mike!
How the fuck are you, man?!
Uh, I'm good, man, I'm good. How are you?
Fucking fantastic, man! I'm livin' the dream!
Isn't this place the tits?
Yeah. It's something else.
Justin!
I've been looking for you all day.
Jesus. You scared the shit 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.
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.
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.
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 for a second?
I'm staying.
You can stay, too.
I know you're not going to, but, you know...
you can.
You wanna die over and over and over
and live your life on repeat from here to eternity?
You act like it's crazy,
like I'm the first person in history
that actually wants to live forever.
With people that like him.
You know, there's not much difference between
being stuck in a loop and being stuck repeating
the same shitty day over and over like back home until I die.
But back home, anything could happen.
It could be so much better than the camp.
We tried that, man.
For almost a decade.
And I'm ready to go back to not hating my life.
Dying just takes a second.
And a shitty life is long.
Aaron, I think you are making a very, very big decision
with very little thought.
And you realize that you do this once and you can never leave?
Anything is better than the life you make me live.
All right. Um...
Let's, uh...
let's get you back.
Aah!
God damn it!
Seriously, what do you think it hit?
No. Wait! Wait!
Shit!
They're coming back.
I'll feel guilty the rest of my life if I leave you here,
so I guess I'm staying, too.
You're respecting my decision to stay?
Uh, I guess.
If that's the way you wanna think about it, yeah, sure,
I'm doing that.
All right. Let's go.
What?
All I ever wanted was...
Let's go!
- Please start! Please start! - Let's go!
All right, when you get enough speed,
I'm gonna jump in. Then you jump in.
And then I'm gonna throw it in first and let the clutch go.
I know how to push-start a car!
I'm just saying what we're doing!
- Let me drive. - What?
Let me drive the car!
Just let me get it started first!
Uhh! Fuck!
Okay, you drive the fucking car!
Yeah, I'm gonna drive the fucking car!
Hey, listen, man...
'Cause we're about to die, I really think you should know...
you mess up everything.
You really do.
I never say it,
but you have just completely messed up our lives.
Aah!
But you're family.
That's what family does.
All I've ever wanted is just to be able to mess up with you.
To be able to mess up our lives just as much as you do.
All right, listen, on tombstones it says like
"Beloved Mother" or "Beloved Brother",
not "Beloved Camp Member".
And there's a reason for that, all right?
From here on out, we're equals.
I hear you.
You're my brother. And I love you.
- I love you, too. - And I need you to start this car
because I don't want you to die or me to die, okay?
- Get in! - All right!
- We made it! - We made it!
- We did it! - Yes!
Yeah!
We need gas.
No, we're good.
No, it's on empty.
- It's always like that. - Always on empty?
Empty means there's no fuel in the tank.
We couldn't even...
You figure it out.
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♪ There is a house ♪
♪ In New Orleans ♪
♪ They call ♪
♪ The Rising Sun ♪
♪ And it's been ♪
♪ The ruin ♪
♪ Of many a poor boy ♪
♪ And God ♪
♪ I know ♪
♪ I'm one ♪
♪ My mother ♪
♪ Was a tailor ♪
♪ She sewed ♪
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♪ My father ♪
♪ Was a gambling man ♪
♪ Down in New Orleans ♪
♪ Oh, Mother ♪
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♪ What I have done ♪
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