How many?
How many trials will it take for this rat to run this maze
without making any mistakes?
How quickly will the rat complete the maze each time?
Over multiple trials, will he get faster?
Over time, rats tend to run the maze
with fewer and fewer errors.
Soon, they eliminate the errors altogether
and move faster.
As the rat moves, it's creating
an internal map of its world.
Researchers use maze studies
to help identify general principles
about learning and memory,
and what they learn can be applied to other species.
Even us.
I design games.
I code. In video games, we come across these principles
each time we play.
They are designed so we use our memory
to learn, adapt and advance.
Without our memory, we'd get nowhere.
Okay.
Other arm.
Sam, honey, put George down
or you're going to get lotion on him.
You guys need napkins?
Yes, please.
-Jinx. -Jinx.
Hey, Sam?
-Where are you going? -We're just going to find shells.
I won't go into the water.
Okay, just stay where we can see you.
Sam.
My precious Sam.
♪ You must remember this
Becoming parents gave Claire and I a greater sense of purpose.
He told me enough.
Luke, I am your father.
Whoa.
Every day brought with it new memories.
Each one sacred in its own way.
"Scaredy-bear.
Scaredy-bear." Teased Brother.
"And that's quite enough of that," added Papa Bear.
"And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb.
The leopard will lie down with the young goat.
The calf and the young lion will feed together.
And a little child will lead them."
God's telling us here
that no matter how bad things seem right now,
something better is waiting for us.
It doesn't feel real.
I don't feel real.
I know exactly what you mean.
What's this?
I just, I thought we should start putting stuff away.
It's been months.
I don't think I'm ready yet. Can we just leave everything
the way that Sam left it?
-I'm sorry.
I should've talked to you first.
At least for a little while. I mean, just I don't think I'm ready to
shove the memory of her into the attic.
That's not what I'm doing.
Her books, no, no.
These...
These are...
These are what?
These are her favorite things.
-Oh, Schmidt. -Jesus Christ.
-Oh, Matt? What are you doing? -Sorry, you said
I could crash here if I can't drive.
-Jesus. -I, I was, um, I was going to sleep in the garage.
I thought somebody was breaking in.
I got hungry.
All right, let's keep it down.
Your sister is sleeping.
So, what's the occasion?
Do I need one?
You're good, though?
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm good. I'm...
I'm seeing someone.
Cool.
-Cool. -Yeah, yeah.
I, uh, figure you
probably don't want to hear about it, but.
No, dude.
It's nice to hear about something happy.
Honestly.
Mind if I ask you something?
It's going to sound weird.
Mm-mm.
You remember the children's
book when you were growing up about
the family of bears?
The Berenstein Bears.
Berenstein, S-T-E-I-N.
Yeah, Stein, they were Jewish.
-What? -Stain, Berenstain.
-Huh. -It's weird, right?
Yeah.
Okay. Look, I have a ton of client meals today.
-I really need you out of the kitchen. -Oh, I'm sorry.
Matt, Matt's asleep in the garage, so...
Okay.
Sure you're ready to get back to work?
I mean, you can take more time off if you think you need it.
No, I like the work.
Just, I need to focus on something.
How about you?
Babe, do you remember this?
I mean, do you remember where this was taken?
Yeah, it's Griffith Observatory.
Yeah, but is that how you remember it?
I mean, is that where we were?
I swear, I remember taking this photograph,
but we were in Seattle. We were visiting your parents and,
and, uh, and you were really mad at your mom and, uh,
we were at the Pacific Science Center.
That doesn't ring any bells?
No, you're confused.
It's Griffith Observatory and, um, yeah,
I was really mad at my mom but they were,
they were here. They were visiting for the holidays.
Yeah, but I remember Sam's facial expression was--
Okay, Brendan, please I need space.
-I'm sorry, I just-- -No.
-How'd you sleep?
Great.
I remember where we were when we took this photo.
Claire's mother had begged us to come with Sam
before they went another year without getting to see her.
Claire and her mom had a blowout so I kept finding places to take the family
whenever I could. We went to the aquarium,
we went to the zoo,
we went to the Pacific Science Center.
It was the Pacific Science Center,
it wasn't Griffith Observatory.
I want to show you something.
-♪ Hey, Mandela -♪ Hey, Mandela
♪ We want freedom In South Africa ♪
The term was coined by Paranormal Consultant Fiona Broome
refers to widespread misconception
that former South African president Nelson Mandela
died in the 1980s while he was incarcerated.
I heard somebody say, "Now, where's Mandela?"
Well, Mandela's dead.
The Mandela Effect.
-Now they're saying... - Someone, often many people
having a clear memory of something
that actually did not happen.
Jif peanut butter?
Whole communities sprung up around this.
I mean it's, it's disorienting.
Darth Vader actually never said,
"Luke, I am your father."
What he actually said was.
No.
I am your father.
No.
It's not true.
-That's impossible! -It's Jiffy.
Jiffy, everyone knows it's Jiffy Peanut Butter.
How would you feel if you could no longer
trust your own memories?
We're living in parallel universes,
multiple timelines.
So, what do-- what do you think?
I think I need something to eat.
Okay, but if you had to pick an explanation.
-False memory. - Look on Reddit.
- Legit source. -This is just a jumping off point.
-Fair enough. -Look, I keep coming back to either we're sliding
between parallel realities or, B, like a simulation.
Like, we're, we're living in some holodeck VR shit
-and it's glitching out. -Or, it's just false memory.
Plus, not everybody remembers the same effects.
Plenty of people don't remember Sinbad
being in a genie movie or Mandela dying in the '80s.
But how do you explain the people
that do have those memories,
like thousand or maybe tens of thousands of people, how?
Hey, you were out with my brother for a while today, huh?
Yeah, he's good.
He's, uh, I think he's getting serious
about that guy he's, he's dating.
Is that what you talked about?
Mostly.
Well...
Don't get stuck in here, you know.
The CERN super collider is dangerous.
The first beam was circulated on 10 September 2008.
The first spotting of the Mandela Effect online
that I can find is also 2008.
Physicality also changes
based on an observer to observe,
which in layman's terms means that it exists
in more than one place at one time.
Parallel worlds overlap with ours.
And if we're smart enough, we can dive into them
and grab their resources and pull them back into ours.
Are you saying that your attempt to understand
the fundamental operations of nature
leads you to a set of equations that are indistinguishable
from the equations that drive search engines
-and browsers on our computer? - Yes, that is correct.
What I've come to understand is that there are these incredible pictures,
buried in them are computer codes that contain
all of the information of a set of equations that are related
to string theory. And so, I'm left with the puzzle
of trying to figure out whether I live in the Matrix or not.
And what does string theory say?
It says that there is a multi-verse.
If there are other universes,
can we go between universes?
What answers are you looking for?
Uh, I'm sure you...
I'm sure you get this a lot,
but if there is a God,
why take Sam?
Don't let anyone say something like,
"God wanted another little angel."
This idea that He took her.
What happened to Sam wasn't God's plan or desire.
Free will is the greatest gift that God ever gave,
and in free will, we can have the will to change--
In a purely deterministic universe,
what happens to free will?
So...
God
created the Earth
and then left us
to do with it what we will?
He certainly left us some guidelines,
a whole book of them.
We may never know the answers to some of these questions.
You, Brendan, will never figure out the meaning of life.
However,
you can figure out the meaning, the purpose of your life.
You know...
Matt, I'm not the only one who thinks like this.
I mean, there's, you saw incredible scientists,
Neil deGrasse Tyson, James Gates, and lots of people--
Because I love you, dude, I asked my friend Angie about false memory.
- False memory, Matt. -No, hear me out. She's a neurologist, like for real.
She says that memories are like chains of neurons
and synapses, and sometimes it only takes one molecule
to hold it all together. And, you can't predict which ones you hold on to,
they're unreliable. Can I get two iced coffees, please?
Our brains aren't like Dropbox where you can keep everything uncorrupted,
-stuff get scrambled. -Matt, I don't deny that any of that is true,
but I'm not talking about memory, okay?
I'm talking about reality.
You know, everyone getting things scrambled
all in the same way and at the same time,
it just doesn't make any--
Thanks, keep it.
It has nothing to do with our brains.
And it's possible that in one reality,
the old cartoon is the Flinstones, Meet The Flinstones,
but that in this reality it's Flint, with a T.
Brendan, it was always Flint.
You...
People are grasping at straws
rather than accepting reality for what it is.
Maybe it's you that can't accept
that maybe none of this is real.
You're quiet, is everything all right?
Claire?
It's just, you've been hard to reach lately.
Hard to talk to.
I know.
I'm working on it.
I talked to Matt.
He was worried that you're becoming fixated
on this Internet theory.
Is that what you've been spending your time on?
Maybe you can fill me in.
I don't want to bother you with it, it's--
You wouldn't be bothering me.
I just started noticing some things and then,
you know, Matt thought it was interesting, too, so...
Well, can you elaborate?
Like, what kind of things?
I'm just trying to think of a good example.
Uh.
Can you picture the Monopoly Man?
Yeah.
What's on his face?
What does this have to do with anything?
What does he wear on his face?
Um...
one of those, um...
-Monocle. -Yeah.
So, apparently it's never been the case.
I mean, I'm pretty sure he does.
Okay.
What does this have to do with anything?
That's weird.
-Right? -Yeah.
So, that's just one example.
I remember that, too.
Lots of people do and that, that's the thing.
Hold on.
Does this look different to you?
-Um. -Where's his tail?
I mean, you remember his tail, right?
Sam had George with her at the beach that day.
-Stop. -But if you look it up.
-Stop. -Claire.
If you look it up, it says he never had one,
at least not here in whatever world
or timeline it is that we're experiencing.
Do you hear yourself right now?
I mean, what does any of this have to do with anything?
-Do you remember after the funeral...
...you said to me, Claire, remember you said
that it didn't feel real?
-Yeah. -That's how I felt. That's it, this whole time,
like, just that it doesn't feel real,
that something is off in the world,
like, it, like it's shifting.
Oh, Brendan.
Then I started to notice these things but,
Claire, I'm not the only one.
People all over the world are noticing changes.
In geography, in the Bible.
The Bible. Maybe it's in my head, Claire,
but what if it's not, you know, what if Sam,
I mean, what if,
what if it's connected?
Brendan...
I am not sure that you are dealing with this
in a productive way. I don't think that any of this is healthy.
-Claire, just wait-- -Please do not interrupt me!
Please. There are things that,
that I still want from life for us.
I want to reopen my restaurant one day.
I want you to just, to be happy again,
and for us to be happy together, and all this shit
is just going to hold us back.
Okay? Curious George, Brendan?
At the end, I had to spend my time
doing something for real.
When he started working,
we figured Brendan was in his 20s,
he branched out for himself a couple of years ago.
-Another round? -I'll come with.
No embarrassing stories while I'm away, please.
I take it you heard I talked to Claire?
Yeah, that might have come up.
I'm sorry if it caught you off guard.
It's not that we can't talk about this stuff,
it's just that you need to be there for each other
and you're not. You're not holding up your end of the deal.
You're right.
We are living in a computer-programmed reality
and the only clue we have to it
is when some variable is changed.
Simulation hypothesis
was first published by Hans Moravec.
Later, the philosopher, Nick Bostrom,
developed an expanded argument examining probability
of our reality being a simulacrum.
We are all very likely not living in a real universe
but living in a simulated universe.
There's a one in a billion's chance that this is base reality.
We're clearly on a trajectory to have games
that are indistinguishable from reality,
and those games could be played on any PC.
Either we're going to create simulations
that are indistinguishable from reality
or civilization will cease to exist.
We, with our minds from a distance,
can act as a quantum observer.
Things like long-range field effects of consciousness
where you need to send an influence,
hopefully, purely quantum mechanically to a distance.
You could do it this way, which would put the human person,
a being in a very powerful position.
While many scientists talk about simulation theory,
there is one man working to prove it,
that's Dr. Roland Fuchs.
It is a simulation and we
are living in it.
You, you, and you.
Code,
ones, zeros.
You've all heard people talk about simulated reality before,
I'm sure. The key...
to understanding this...
is understanding the technology--
No.
Hi, Dr. Fuchs. Uh, my name is Brendan.
I hope you don't mind me reaching out to you like this.
I thought making a video would be the best way to explain myself.
Uh...
Sir. I admire your work.
I'm intrigued by so many of your ideas.
- Yes. -Um, uh, I'm sorry.
Well, I didn't hear back from you.
I found this clip of a seminar that you gave
on simulation theory and I just...
I have some questions and ideas, too,
based on what you were talking about.
-I recognize you now. -You do?
Yeah, I watched your video.
It's Brendan, right?
-Yes. -Yeah.
It's nice to hear that my idea
has captured someone else's imagination,
but I'm running late, son.
Maybe I could buy you a cup of coffee after?
I'm sorry I can't be more helpful.
Five minutes?
I'm sorry for your loss, son.
Did you hear that?
I don't...
Dad?
Wait.
What?
What, what is it?
-I'm sorry.
Maybe you should think about talking to someone,
like, uh...
Like a grief counselor,
or...
someone that can help.
Okay.
I will.
-Please, Dr. Fuchs,
I just need 10 minutes of your time.
Before you say no.
This is my home.
I know, but please, Dr. Fuchs.
-Ten minutes. -Before, you said five.
Okay, five.
Thank you.
Sit down over there.
So, who are you?
Me, I'm, I design games.
But...
when Sam died, when my daughter died...
I began to notice these changes, these, uh, inconsistencies.
You know, grief takes on many forms.
And there are people you can talk to
about losing your child.
That's what my wife said.
She thinks I'm losing my mind.
When I started to look for explanations
for what I was seeing, I found you.
And?
And I think we believe the same thing.
What do I believe, hmm?
Have you heard of the Mandela Effect?
-Looney Tunes. -What, wait, hear me out, I--
Everybody thinks it's spelled with two Os as in toon,
cartoon, when actually it's T-U-N-E.
-Yes. -As in music.
Exactly. That, that's a, it's a Mandela Effect.
See, see at first, I thought that this was something to do
with, like, parallel universes or, or maybe CERN,
like the Large Hadron Collider had ripped something open.
Do you think it's a simulation?
I'm sure they are exactly what they appear to be...
false memories.
What?
But...
But some of them could be breadcrumbs, um...
-From what? -Mistakes left behind by the countless,
tiny micro-corrections the sim might have to make
-to keep it on course. -Updates?
Tell me, Brendan,
what is it you're looking for, exactly?
Hmm?
I'm looking for what's real, for the truth.
Let me ask you something.
When your child was born, hmm,
could you feel the smile on your face?
That joy inside welling up?
The lightness in your step?
Hmm? Remember that?
And when she died, did you feel the sorrow?
Did you feel the pain?
Did you feel the tears running down your cheeks?
That we get to feel these things should be real enough.
But it isn't enough,
not if it isn't real.
Dr. Fuchs, I've been coding since I was six years old.
If this is a simulation, I mean, if this is code,
then I can do something.
You think your wife thinks you're crazy now.
Whatever is running all of this
has enormous processing power.
But these glitches that we see, like the Mandela Effect,
show me that it has its limits.
If this structure is a simulated structure,
the sim need only be concerned with the walls,
the shadows, the glass, the reflections in the glass.
That's procedural generation.
We use that in video games.
It's not wasting any power
or any energy on what's inside the building.
Not until someone has the intention to walk in there.
If a tree falls and there's no one around to see it, does it make a sound?
Does it even exist at all?
What about the forest itself?
You think this world works that way,
that when we're not observing it, it's saving data?
It's my belief that our observation contributed
to the creation of the physical world, yes.
If a conscious being isn't observing something, does that thing actually exist?
In computing, in video games,
procedural generation allows a computer
to not get bogged down in processing data
that it isn't using or observing.
If something isn't being observed
by the collective consciousness...
then it would cease to exist
until it is observed once again.
But if the computer that was
running the simulation had unlimited power,
it wouldn't need to conserve bandwidth like that.
If we could access the code, it could be crashed.
Well, that's my hypothesis.
All it would take is a program.
Instead of saving processing power,
would exploit the processing power.
-Yes. -Like your sim does--
Using the procedural generation.
-Yes. -Like if the program ran a sim,
which was designed to observe everything
-all at the same time. -And all the time.
Yes. And if those sims spawned new sims,
reproducing exponentially, each would eventually overload the original
and overwhelm the processor.
But you can't run a program like that on an ordinary PC.
You need a computer that was strong enough,
powerful enough to run it long enough
for it to have an effect on base reality.
I headed a team tasked with putting together
the university's first quantum computer.
It's in there.
There she is.
512 qubits.
Thousands upon thousands of times faster
than any of today's supercomputers.
-It's impressive. -Mm.
Let me show you around.
This is your access point.
There's no need to go into the vault.
You run your program here.
And it's a basic operating system.
The hardware is where it's at.
Uh...
Hi.
-Toby. -Dr. Manning. Thank you.
-You want to tell me what's going on here? -I apologize.
It was a spur-of-the-moment thing and I can explain--
Have you been drinking?
Oh, listen, man, Doctor--
Am I even talking to you, man?
You go ahead to class. I'll see you there, James.
-Who was that? -An old colleague.
Manning is, he's running the program now.
What the hell is he even doing here?
Do you think this could work?
Perhaps.
But what it'll accomplish, I can't be so certain.
Acts 17:28, "For in Him we live and move and have our being."
If there is a creator, there might be endless reasons
why they'd run the simulation.
It could be recreational.
What makes you think that this is going to bring your daughter back anyway?
-I don't. - Maybe some future post-human society
wants to examine their ancestry.
What if it's about power?
Corporations coming together, data mongers.
Facebook, Google, cell phone companies
building a world with all the information we've left behind?
You don't know, that's right.
Imagine political models. You put politician X or some real estate tycoon
in as president, see what happens over the next hundred years.
If you could predict the stock markets you'd be 10 years ahead of your political enemies,
what would that be worth?
How do you put a price tag on that kind of power?
What if these Mandela Effects are breadcrumbs?
They're bugs in a system.
What happens if no one corrects them?
It's no small thing shutting the world down.
Bug trigger errors can have ripple effects that can spread through
and crash entire systems.
You believe that the simulation tried to stop you?
My work on this brought me nothing but grief.
I was a bug in the system.
Brendan, there's something you're going to need to understand.
Ideas...
are dangerous things.
Dad?
Huh?
Dad.
Claire, did you hear that?
Dad!
Dad?
Dad, I'm scared.
- Sam?
Sam?
-What is it? What are you doing? -I'm sorry.
It was Sam.
Oh, look.
Come here. You got to calm down, okay?
-You're starting to scare me. -But she...
Look, she's gone.
You have to try. It's just a bad dream.
What biocentrism is saying is, is,
is that reality is a process.
It's not just something that you just open your eyes
and it's out there.
You wake up in the morning and the world
is just magically there.
You're an experiment to show that not a single particle exists
with any real properties until it's observed.
Even Stephen Hawking at this point now
has a new concept of the universe,
what he calls as Top-Down Theory,
where he's saying that the actual observer
actually determines the past.
Now, if you think about it, if the particles right now,
in the present, are not determined until you observe them,
then how can there actually be a past?
All right. Are there, is there good hard
science, uh, to support this?
So again, I mentioned to you
this two hole experiment.
Again, the Heisenberg's famous uncertainty principle,
the entangled particle,
it's very real hard experiments that are telling us
that particles simply do not exist out there
with real particles until they're observed.
Jesus.
All right, kiddo. Good job.
-Did you brush your teeth? -Yup.
Really? 'Cause I didn't hear any brushing.
I'll brush 'em again.
All right. I'm going to come and make sure you get them all.
No.
Excuse me!
I'm sorry.
Where were you last night? I called Matt.
What time did you get back?
Late.
What happened? What did you see?
I saw...
I think I'm going crazy. Claire.
All right, come here.
-Sit. -I saw her.
I saw Sam.
-I saw Sam. -Okay, okay.
You have to breathe.
Here.
And now the latest on the inquiry
into election irregularities.
Election officials say an investigation
into how this might have happened is ongoing.
Local authorities in Vancouver, British Columbia
have issued evacuation.
- This is the phone of Dr. Roland Fuchs,
please leave a message.
Uh, Dr. Fuchs, it's Brendan.
I think something is happening.
I don't know. I'm not doing too, too good.
Please just call me back when you get this.
I need a program that utilizes procedural generation,
I already have that, I can rip open one of my old game builds,
augment it, scale it up.
Now, what's nice about quantum computation language
is that its syntax resembles the syntax
of the C programming language.
Its classical data types are similar
to the primitive data types in C.
One can combine classical code and quantum code
into the same program.
The program will focus on automating repetition
taken from my original game's code
then finding a higher order extraction,
using multiplication it'll exponentially push things along.
The only way to know if it works
will be to run it through the quantum computer.
Brendan?
Yeah, babe, I won't be much longer.
It just takes time.
I had a nightmare.
Do you see her?
Yeah.
-What? What's wrong? -Sam?
She's okay?
What do you mean?
-Sam. -Yeah.
We just, we had breakfast and...
Oh, you had a bad dream.
-Uncle Matt. -Hola.
Claire, Bren Bren.
Did you eat?
Yeah, I'm good.
Hey, little lady, what you making over here?
A spaceship, of course.
Of course.
Jared.
Yeah, yeah, man.
I know, how long has it been?
Two years?
Yeah, things are great, you know, um,
she's fine, yeah, Claire, Claire's, Claire's good.
Um, and, and Sam's doing great.
You remem--
Yeah, it's nice catching up with you, too.
I will, I'll tell her you said so.
And Sam wanted me to say hi to you.
Yeah, she's eight now, she's eight.
It's been that long? Can you believe it?
This is the phone of Dr. Roland Fuchs,
-please leave a message. -Dr. Fuchs, it's Brendan.
Please call me.
-It brought Sam back. -Dad?
-It brought my daughter back.
Put it on, dad.
It gave me the one thing
that would make me stop.
Sam.
My precious Sam.
Okay, I'm coming for you.
Brendan, you want cranberry or lemonade?
And I climbed it.
A fact documented in 30-something year old photograph.
I went through a long stretch of adolescence.
Hey, what?
What?
What are you doing?
Claire, where are you going?
Claire?
Claire, where, where are you going?
-Sweetie, come back to bed. -I can't, I can't, I can't.
-You're fine. You're fine. You're fine.
Come on, let's go back to bed.
Mom, are you okay?
She's fine.
Sam, go back to bed.
Honestly, I don't remember it at all.
But... I mean, I feel, I feel fine now.
Good.
It's good but I can take her, okay?
It's fine. You should, you should sleep in.
Do whatever you want, okay?
Yeah. Are you sure?
Yes.
No, she's been great.
She gets along with all the other kids.
Her work's been great.
Come on.
Claire?
Oh, shit!
Claire?
Claire, are you okay?
My eggplant.
It's okay.
It's, I got it.
Look, it's just...
I'm sorry, I--
-I don't know what happened. -It's okay. You were too...
-I'm sorry. -Hey.
Why don't we just go get Sam? We'll go get Sam.
We'll take the day off, right? Get out of the house.
Yeah?
Yeah.
All right. What color should I paint this thing?
Orange.
Orange it is.
What should we keep in here?
Bacon.
Bacon?
Orange doesn't go with anything in the living room,
we should paint it brown.
The boss already decided we got to paint it orange.
Paint it fucking brown, Brendan.
Jesus.
Stop it.
Jesus, what are you doing?
No, Claire.
Wait. Stop.
Claire.
Please, stop. I'm sorry, we'll pay for that.
Come on, Sam, we've got to go.
Come on, Sam. Wait, Claire.
-I'm sorry. Come on.
Thank you for coming, I know it was such short notice.
It's no problem, what happened?
She had, like...
an episode. I'll tell you about it in a minute, I want to check on Sam.
No, no, I got it. I'll stay close.
Thanks.
Hey, you. What's that song you were just playing?
Just something I was practicing.
I liked it.
Is Mom going to be okay?
Uncle Matt is here.
He always makes her laugh.
She's going to be fine.
Hey,
of all the gin joints in all the world
she walks into mine.
She shouldn't be here.
Babe... Claire.
She shouldn't be here.
You shouldn't be here!
Claire, Claire, you're okay.
Let's get you back to bed, okay?
It's okay. Claire, it's fine.
-Sam, we'll be right back. -Go this way.
♪ Light brown feathers
♪ I dream of a genie, With light brown feathers ♪
She's back asleep.
Mom's going to be fine.
I see you.
How long has this been going on, man?
Well, it hasn't--
I don't know what's happening to her.
She needs to see somebody, right?
Yeah, she needs to see someone.
Can you...
Can you watch Sam for just a minute, please?
-I've got a-- -You're going now?
Please.
Hi.
Yes, can I help you?
Um, I'm, I'm here to see Dr. Fuchs.
Are you, are you a student of his?
No. Um, uh, well, actually, I was.
Yeah.
Roland...
he passed away.
I mean, I just spoke with him.
I just, I just saw him.
It was quite unexpected, that I can tell you.
What happened?
I think that the disappointment of what happened with his work,
it just...
slowly consumed him.
He became a paranoid hermit
who didn't have the sense to wash himself.
They were separated for some time.
I guess what I meant to ask you is that how did he die?
He hung himself.
About two months ago now.
Two months?
I'm just trying to get the place in some kind of order
before it goes on the market.
What the hell is going on?
Pardon?
Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't-- I didn't mean, you know, I'm intruding.
Uh, it's getting very late. Uh, I should go.
I have to go.
If I'm right and this works,
I guess I don't know if I'm talking to anyone.
But if I'm wrong, but if something happens to me...
I need Sam, Claire...
anyone who sees this, I need you to know...
I'm not crazy.
I'm not a bad man.
I just, I need to know the truth.
Keep playing.
You know I love it when you play.
-I know.
I'm pretty good.
Play that one song, Sam.
For me.
Sing it, Sam.
Do you remember the words?
♪ You must remember this
♪ A kiss is still a kiss
♪ A sigh is just a sigh
♪ The fundamental things Are gone ♪
♪ As time goes by
Excuse me. Who are you?
I'm just a student.
Excuse me. I'm sorry.
Are you allowed to be here?
Yeah, of course.
I'm calling security.
No.
Yes. Wait, hey!
Get off!
Oh, shit.
Shit.
Come on.
-Claire. -Where are you?
-I'm on my way home. -I don't feel good.
-Something's wrong. -It's all right, it's all right.
-I'm on my way there. You'll be all right. -I tried
to close my eyes and all I could see--
I was watching myself.
I could see that I was in the kitchen with my eyes closed.
Oh, Jesus.
What's happening to me, Brendan?
You don't have to be afraid, Claire.
Just get here fast, okay?
I don't know what's going on.
Just...
Quick, Brendan. I'm going to break!
You don't have to be afraid.
Shit.
Claire?
-Sam! -Mom!
-Sam! -Wait, Claire!
Mom!
-Come here, baby. Come here. -Mom!
-What's happening? -Claire, Sam, come here.
We're going to be fine. We're going to be okay.
No!
Mom, don't be scared.
Okay. Other arm.
Hey, Sam, where are you going?
We're just going to find shells.
I won't go into the water.
Okay, just stay where we can see you.
Sam!
Leave George with us.