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00:05:50Easton
00:05:52Jesus it's been a while
00:05:57They're very long long wow the chances
00:06:02Have you been I'm good. I'm good. I'm just walking the neighbor's dog. That's good. Um
00:06:11What are you doing here
00:06:13Just getting something to eat. I'm walking down Main Street. No, I mean, what are you doing here in town?
00:06:20My father died I
00:06:24Heard about that. I'm sorry. Thanks
00:06:27So you um
00:06:29You you've been here in town this whole time. No, I wasn't notified. So here I am now a few weeks late
00:06:40It's okay, it's my own fault nobody knew where I was
00:06:45So, um, where are you at now Chicago
00:06:49A small computer repair shop. Oh, nice your own boss
00:06:53Yeah
00:06:54American dream, right, right. Yeah. Well good for you and you
00:06:59Um, I'm teaching now at the elementary school actually
00:07:04Wow, the old stopping ground. Yeah
00:07:09Yeah, I actually took over the second grade class after mrs. Finning retired
00:07:15Finny retired. Mm-hmm
00:07:17Mm-hmm. God, I'll time for us
00:07:25Mm-hmm. It's nice to be back here for a little while. Yeah, you know, this is a great walk, especially for this high-octane
00:07:32Yeah, I'm sure
00:07:35So I better get going. Yeah, me too. Good seeing you. Yeah. No, it's great. Great seeing you
00:07:43All right, come here so polite
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00:07:50It's really good seeing you see you too. Bye. Bye
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00:11:16You know
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00:12:02See what hole
00:12:22This right there
00:12:37Sorry for just walking in
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00:12:43Just got back to town and thought I'd stop in and see how you're doing. Can I get you something coffee water?
00:12:49Coffee be great. Thank you good
00:12:53But I know something else you
00:13:00Swear Janet knew she was leaving soon
00:13:18Oh
00:13:28Enjoy your knees while you still got him
00:13:33You don't have no Lord no, all right
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00:13:52Still as good as you remember. Oh, yeah
00:13:5950 seconds in the microwave and they're perfect
00:14:05Sometimes I think I've forgotten how good they are. I don't know how you could
00:14:10Easy, you just gotta eat one of the goddamn things every day
00:14:19I
00:14:32Think I should say something
00:14:36About Tom I
00:14:41Know that an apology will never be enough
00:14:46But for what it's worth
00:14:48I'm sorry
00:14:52How was your son
00:14:56And I should have at least gone to the funeral
00:15:05Just let me enjoy some company for a change
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00:15:30Might have to use it after real quick before I hit the road. Yeah, this one's broken. You'll have to use the one upstairs
00:15:36Yeah
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00:16:27Thanks again for the hospitality anytime
00:16:31Hang in there, okay
00:16:34I'll be back to visit. I mean, okay
00:16:48You
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00:18:18I
00:18:33Like what you've done with the place
00:18:35It's a lot more color in here than I remember
00:18:38What are you doing here?
00:18:40Well, I had to come and see it for myself
00:18:43Haley Reid taking over miss Finley's reign of terror. Okay. All right, stop it
00:18:49wait
00:18:50Miss Reid, right?
00:18:54No, that hasn't changed
00:18:57Let's see
00:19:07So it's not a lesson plan for today you're gonna break it
00:19:12I'm gonna do it again. Miss Reid. I promise
00:19:16So, what are you doing here again, I
00:19:19Want to see if you wanted to do something in the next couple of days
00:19:23maybe
00:19:25Like what? I don't know. I was kind of hoping you might have some ideas. See technically I'm a visitor here
00:19:33Well, will you promise to pick your head back up if I agree
00:19:43Fine
00:19:45Good
00:19:47So, um, what happened to your hand Oh
00:19:51Abandoned on something
00:19:59Since you're here, would you want to go check something out with me real quick?
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00:20:12One
00:20:34Wow
00:20:43The
00:20:45River has time
00:20:48Waves chime like a clock
00:20:51Standing on a dock it passes. We look like words in a book forward motion
00:20:59on and on
00:21:01no emotion
00:21:04If only our time
00:21:06by the ocean
00:21:09Huh, I don't remember Tom writing that mean either so they dug it under the ground this past fall
00:21:22It's pretty bleak for an eighth grader, yeah, well he was always serious business
00:21:29Yeah, I was
00:21:39So
00:21:44Tomorrow
00:21:51Yeah, why not
00:22:08I
00:22:23Can I help you I was wondering what room Mary Denny might be in are you family? I'm her son
00:22:32Okay, she's in room 105 you'll need a passcode for the security door
00:22:40And you'll find that at the end of the hall
00:23:01You
00:23:26How are you
00:23:31I don't see you quite a while
00:24:02I know you can't hear me
00:24:13But mom
00:24:21I might be dying soon
00:24:31I was working on this computer project for the last three years
00:24:56You can hear me
00:25:01I'm sorry
00:25:07I'm sorry for everything
00:25:31Oh
00:25:38I didn't know you had a visitor Mary. Yeah, that's fine. No, just leave him
00:25:43I was gonna take her to the cafeteria if you'd like to join us
00:25:47No, I'm okay
00:25:49Okay
00:26:01Thanks, mom
00:26:31You
00:26:33You
00:26:58Just gonna kiss you
00:27:00So a couple of years ago a catfish got stuck in the lock and dam
00:27:04They said it was like 40 years old Wow. Yeah, they even put a picture of it in the paper
00:27:09They they laid it down the cement and then they had a couple of people around it for comparison
00:27:14This thing was massive. It was like, I don't know. I think they weighed it in to somewhere around
00:27:21450 pounds
00:27:24You quit a fish fry
00:27:27Guess what? They called it. I don't know what
00:27:30Come on
00:27:36Maybe dick. Oh, no, try a little harder. I don't know. Give me a hit. Okay
00:27:43It's a famous cat
00:27:47Okay
00:27:49Socks socks. Yeah Clinton's cat. Are you kidding me? That's your first guest at a famous cat
00:27:56Yeah, okay, it's a famous cat that talks
00:28:08Sylvester no scratchy. Nope
00:28:18Cheshire nope, he doesn't
00:28:26I'm gonna have to see Tom's dad at the farm the other day. Oh, yeah, how's he doing?
00:28:32Seemed okay
00:28:39That was a really great thing I'm gonna do I should I should probably go do that sometime soon
00:28:46Yeah, I hadn't seen him since before Tom died
00:28:50Hey, you know what we should do
00:28:53We should go to the spot
00:28:56I don't know. Oh, come on. It's still a great place to sneak a smoke. I quit
00:29:02Yeah, so and I never started
00:29:05And your point is?
00:29:07My point is that we should go for old time's sake
00:29:12For old time's sake, huh?
00:29:15Yep
00:29:18Hey
00:29:19bar
00:29:21Can't believe I can't remember the name of all the stuff to animal head. Oh, yeah. That's right
00:29:31Yeah, yeah
00:29:33I
00:29:51Have to ask your husband
00:29:54Oh
00:30:00Sorry
00:30:02Ex-husband
00:30:07Well
00:30:10Terry mm-hmm
00:30:13We met through a friend
00:30:16Blind date actually
00:30:19And we had a lot of fun together back then
00:30:22Maybe a little too much fun sometimes, but I don't know because the job
00:30:30He was always on the road I was always here I said old Hayden
00:30:39So what about you know, no ex-wife
00:30:47Those engagements
00:30:51Didn't work out I
00:30:58Don't know why just just
00:31:03Sure was my fault. Oh
00:31:05You always so hard on yourself
00:31:08What?
00:31:10guilting yourself
00:31:12Yeah, maybe
00:31:14You were
00:31:20I had to get out of here one way or another
00:31:24College was a good excuse what?
00:31:27I
00:31:40Know it's an accident accidents happen that can happen either of you
00:31:44But having a tongue, yeah, I did
00:31:48I feel like I let him up
00:31:52You both went out there together
00:31:57Don't you feel any guilt for what we did to him we were young Easton it was 20 years ago. I
00:32:07I never wanted to cheat on him
00:32:18I made the move though
00:32:20After all this time this still bothers you. I mean don't wasn't it enough that you stayed away for so long. No
00:32:27You know, well then just carry it for the rest of your life then
00:32:36I should have stayed
00:32:39Maybe
00:32:42No
00:32:45I should
00:32:47When things like this happen in life Easton they just
00:32:51They become a part of you and you just you learn how to deal with them
00:32:58And that's that
00:33:02Yeah
00:33:24I'm not going to let this spoil this opportunity. Excuse me. Would you mind taking a picture of us?
00:33:31I've got three bucks
00:33:32Don't worry about it
00:33:49Thank you
00:34:01I
00:34:14Had fun
00:34:20If you end up staying longer than you thought you were going to and I was giving a collar
00:34:28Whatever
00:34:32I
00:34:35Really there's something I need to show you
00:34:49It's gonna be extremely hard to believe I understand that
00:34:53But I need to tell you now
00:34:56sooner rather than later because
00:34:59Times getting short
00:35:02Okay
00:35:05Take out that photo from earlier why?
00:35:12Please
00:35:23Had that the entire time right
00:35:28You've had possession of that photo
00:35:31This entire time it's never lost your sight. I mean I haven't taken it from you. Nobody has
00:35:39You saw the guy take the picture and then we saw it get developed and you put it in your jacket and that's where it's
00:35:44Been ever since
00:35:46Yeah, so I
00:35:50Can't stress enough that this is not
00:35:53some stupid joke
00:35:55Or magic trick you're tied to this and I need your help
00:36:01I
00:36:08Don't get it
00:36:22Okay, what is this what are you doing?
00:36:25All right
00:36:27computers
00:36:28And the internet have always been my hobby
00:36:31Are you messing with me because this isn't funny. Please just listen
00:36:38I've been working on this project for the last three years. I
00:36:42wrote web spiders
00:36:44Which are automated programs that catalog data?
00:36:49they scan the internet and
00:36:52They store specific information on my servers
00:36:56So what we were doing was building a an efficient source for all the information that the internet has to offer
00:37:02No matter how obscure
00:37:05About a month ago
00:37:09Massive amount of data just inundated my hard drives. It's doubling my stored space. I
00:37:18Went through and I cleaned it all up and
00:37:20It was just almost all just crap just corrupted files really nothing
00:37:26Except for one single readable file
00:37:32Named Easton Denning
00:37:36You know
00:37:38What it was was a scanned newspaper article
00:37:42That you're holding. Okay, this this is this is outrageous because it's impossible
00:37:47You tell me how could this be a fake with these two pictures identical setting this up?
00:37:53Oh be impossible quiet for a second. Okay, I don't know. I don't Haley. I'm scared and confused, too
00:38:04But the fact is that I've had this article my obituary for the better part of a month and
00:38:12Besides the fact that there's a photo in here of me and you
00:38:15Somebody I hadn't even seen in 19 years a photo that didn't even exist until three hours ago
00:38:21It also mentions that I was preceded in death by my father
00:38:31So I call him
00:38:34Just to see if he was okay
00:38:37And this is all bullshit
00:38:41And he answered the phone and he said hello I
00:38:47I
00:38:49Wasn't ready to talk to him
00:38:53I hung up the phone
00:38:57About the goddamn phone
00:39:00He died 11 days later of a massive heart attack
00:39:05Everything in this article has come true from my dad dying to this photo
00:39:10What you're seeing are doing, but I can't listen to this anymore Easton. It's insane Haley. No, you know what?
00:39:15you know what I know I
00:39:18Know that a lot of things in your life have been going on, right? So
00:39:24It's impossible for this to be happening and it's crazy for you to be making up stories to fixing Haley
00:39:30I need your help
00:39:32Wait, wait Haley what?
00:39:35There were instructions. I don't know what they mean, but it close your eyes and turn the dial tonight
00:39:41Just close your eyes and turn the duck
00:39:45You
00:40:15You
00:40:45You
00:41:15You
00:41:45You
00:42:16You
00:42:33Hey, hey, how'd you know I'd be here just a hunch
00:42:41You you seem pretty relaxed, I'm not
00:43:11So, I believe you okay
00:43:14Thank you
00:43:21Tom say oh
00:43:22Yeah, yeah
00:43:24Then he gave it to me after they cleared out his room. No one knew the combo
00:43:28Did it open?
00:43:30Well, I did what you said. I closed my eyes and turn the dial
00:43:35Until it clicked a lot. It's inside. Oh, I didn't I
00:43:39Don't look inside
00:43:43You know, I just don't I don't want to dig this up any further I
00:43:48Knew I had the safe for a reason and it served its purpose
00:43:54Tom's gone. So what's inside doesn't matter
00:44:09I
00:44:17Smell the same
00:44:21Is that supposed to be well, you know places have a smell your house always smell like
00:44:28Bacon and vanilla
00:44:32Candle
00:44:34We're smells I suppose
00:44:39Oh
00:44:59No Easton absolutely not I'm not going to
00:45:02Tell me what smells the same down here. Yeah funny Easton. It's real funny
00:45:08Why do we need to go down here?
00:45:31Oh
00:45:46Several new lives. I don't even know how many there have been in the last 20 years
00:45:53Guys saw a lot about the 93 one of the news. Yeah. Well people had to use boats just to get home
00:45:59There's a resilient residents in the flood zone, okay Easton, are you gonna try these theories out of me or not?
00:46:07Maybe
00:46:20Okay, he's uh, he's lines they represent the rivers crest or in floods, right
00:46:27Right
00:46:30What happens to the water during a flood
00:46:35I
00:46:37Don't know. No, stay with me. Where does the water go during a massive flood when they can't be contained?
00:46:47I
00:46:48suppose wherever it can exactly
00:46:52Spills over the edge into unexplored space any nook and cranny you can find
00:46:58Right. Yeah, I don't I'm not following. I'm sorry. So suppose
00:47:03Yeah, let's say the river the Mississippi represents the internet flowing through time. Okay
00:47:22Okay
00:47:24Here's the river
00:47:27Start to finish
00:47:32This X marks when I received the future data
00:47:37Somewhere downriver there was a flood
00:47:43And when water spills into unexplored spaces it goes everywhere and anywhere
00:47:52Uncontrolled and unrestrained
00:47:54My program
00:47:57Acts like a water pump or a vacuum
00:48:00Sucking up any new information that comes across the wandering water must have permeated either by chance or otherwise
00:48:06within reach of my machine
00:48:09Which began sucking up all it possibly could of the flooded water
00:48:14creating
00:48:16An information wormhole, so then what caused the flood then?
00:48:24I
00:48:27The only thing that was different is a vintage processor that I reprogrammed and was overclocking I
00:48:34Mean I had tampered with that model before
00:48:38It's all relative though this either happened on accident or on purpose but someone is behind it
00:48:47Because those instructions are handwritten
00:48:54Well, do you know how you're supposed to die then
00:49:00Only roughly when
00:49:03According to the service this time it's
00:49:06Sometime within the next three days
00:49:11Do you think you could be stopped I
00:49:15Hope so
00:49:21Why don't we go check out your older, okay
00:49:24Hmm don't get any ideas
00:49:31I'm sorry for dragging you into this
00:49:40If I had no choice you're tied to everything
00:49:48What do you mean
00:49:51Beneath the article
00:49:54handwritten
00:49:56There were four dates and times all labeled with locations
00:50:01Three of them I've been to
00:50:04Clock tower I ran into you
00:50:08then the farm where I saw Lenny and
00:50:12Nursing home where mom gave me this key
00:50:16The fourth I have to go to tomorrow morning the train tracks
00:50:20our old fishing spot, so
00:50:24So this was all planned
00:50:27our meeting and everything
00:50:30sort of
00:50:33It's like the framework for something bigger
00:50:36some purpose or
00:50:39angle
00:50:44But there are also words about you you can't have this dial thing, yeah
00:50:51Yeah
00:50:57And it said you need her
00:51:20I
00:51:46Just want to take the trash out
00:51:51I
00:52:04Still feel like we should be doing something
00:52:07I'm doing all we can
00:52:09It's all we know
00:52:11Let me go with you today. No
00:52:14Go to school. I'll meet you later. I think this is more important. I
00:52:19I need to face it by myself. Why?
00:52:25What do you think it happened I need to face it alone this is your life Easton
00:52:37You know, I don't get it
00:52:39Cuz you asked for my help and then you tell me to go to school
00:52:42I think that that can wait and this can't Haley, please
00:52:46Trust me
00:53:16I
00:53:46I
00:54:16I
00:54:46I
00:55:16I
00:55:46I
00:56:16I
00:56:47Geez you're gonna break it down. Hey
00:56:51So you took them
00:56:55Come on don't play dumb the photo in the article
00:56:59Yeah
00:57:01What'd you do?
00:57:03Get rid of them
00:57:05Why would you do that? Because I had to try to do something
00:57:10What are you pissed you were behind my back I know I had to okay, I had to destroy them
00:57:16So they couldn't be published and sent back to you
00:57:32Don't you get it we can't change anything
00:57:40There's no way out of this
00:57:43Everything that happens was always gonna happen. Wait, what did you have another copy? No
00:57:50The last instructions the train tracks it floated on by
00:57:57well, I I
00:57:59Don't get it
00:58:02Whoever wrote the instructions knew that you would try to destroy it. I guess I'm just supposed to hang on to it
00:58:08But why would that matter
00:58:11Maybe article is a key. I
00:58:14Don't know
00:58:15I'm ideas
00:58:17Was wasn't there anything left of the instructions or no, that's everything
00:58:28Maybe I'm supposed to die
00:58:30Easton do you have what do you have a death wish?
00:58:34No, well you are giving up way too easily
00:58:40I'm lost Haley. I
00:58:44Know
00:58:47But we just we have we have to stay focused okay, and we have to we have to think through this
00:59:03What time is it I don't know about two or three
00:59:13Anything
00:59:17No, really you
00:59:20Too tired, maybe I should go make some coffee. No, no go back to sleep. Are you sure? Yeah
00:59:33I
00:59:50Told Tom
00:59:52What
00:59:57Told Tom that night about you and me while we were out on the ice
01:00:12Push me
01:00:16Swung at me
01:00:19Almost hit me, but he didn't
01:00:23And I just reacted and pushed him back
01:00:28And he fell
01:00:32Right through the ice
01:00:37Happened so quickly
01:00:43And struggle at all I just
01:00:47Disappeared
01:00:49That's out
01:00:52And he was gone
01:01:23You
01:01:45Jesus what's this?
01:01:47You out there for me
01:01:50Because going back to Chicago to your place
01:01:55But thinking about it all night after you fell asleep your theory and all of it this
01:02:01This is gonna come true unless we create a scenario where it cannot truthfully exist
01:02:10Okay
01:02:11Listen, we use your computer, right? We create one of those
01:02:16Digital flood thingies and we send this article back to you now
01:02:20I have already destroyed that photo right so it can't exist and it can't be published. But this
01:02:25This is the only photo left
01:02:27So if we are the ones that send it back to you in the first place, it will instantly discredit itself
01:02:36Exactly what you say I
01:02:39I
01:02:40Don't even know where to begin programming an operation like that
01:02:42okay, listen it either works because it's already worked and it's happened in the future or it doesn't and and and we just go back
01:02:50To square one, but it's worth a shot
01:02:59Hey, you have a white piece of paper in a pen
01:03:08Okay, write this down
01:03:15December 5th 3 15 p.m. The clock tower
01:03:24December 6th 12 o 1 p.m. The farm
01:03:35December 8th
01:03:38830 a.m
01:03:40Rivers Edge
01:03:42December 10th
01:03:45730 a.m. The train tracks
01:03:50You need her
01:03:53When she doubts
01:03:56Tell her to close her eyes
01:04:00And turn the dial
01:04:09You
01:04:21Let's get going
01:04:26Okay, here's what I'm thinking
01:04:29All the information that was sent to me were corrupted files
01:04:34except for the article
01:04:36And they're all sent from a certain web address
01:04:44We need to acquire that web address run it from an outside server some hosting facility
01:04:52I'll have to create a base HTML so I can upload all the data on my hard drives
01:04:57Use all my processing power and bombard that hosting facility
01:05:01It's a lot of the server precisely all the dash and corrupt instantly
01:05:07I
01:05:15Have to write a new web spider one that gathers information specific to my name
01:05:23We'll target spider zero zero at that website and embed it with a send back command
01:05:30Then just as the information flood reaches its peak we'll launch the spider
01:05:36If everything goes as planned, we'll scan the article and send that through last
01:05:42Spiral gobble up the information the servos will crash and the information will be lost somewhere in between
01:05:49We'll spill into the dark web
01:05:55Go back in time
01:06:03Bleed through the information fabric long enough to be found in the past
01:06:07I
01:06:09Don't know exactly how it works, but it has to
01:06:14Already has technically
01:06:21Well, that'll work that's good on the train it's either you or it
01:06:37I
01:06:57Send it
01:07:07It's it's it's froze damn it
01:07:16It's in I already did again again
01:07:29Okay, okay, okay
01:07:36I
01:07:48What
01:07:56They're empty
01:08:02I think it worked
01:08:07I think it worked
01:08:29So we're to blame for this
01:08:33No
01:08:36We did what we had to do
01:08:53So I
01:08:54Haven't been completely honest with you
01:08:57Eastern this better not be a joke
01:08:59It's nothing crazy. I
01:09:02Don't think at least it's nothing crazy bad. Nothing crazy bad. Nothing crazy bad
01:09:10There's more
01:09:14Little unfinished business and what if I say I'm not gonna read this I
01:09:24Think I'm okay with that. Is that right? Yeah
01:09:31I
01:09:37Don't be so polite, right? Yeah
01:09:46But you might want to read it
01:09:51Okay, okay, yeah, I'll see you soon
01:10:01I
01:10:03I
01:10:30Cold beer two chili dogs with
01:10:33their
01:11:03I
01:11:33I
01:11:56Lady
01:11:59Eastern how the hell are you? Good. It's just over a Paul's tap. That's some of those dogs. Mm-hmm. Yeah, how about you?
01:12:08Getting ready to head on home. Are you driving? Yeah
01:12:12Hey, why don't you let me give you a lift? No, I'm fine. Yeah, come on just chance to catch up a little bit more
01:12:20Bullshit you think I'm drunk, don't you?
01:12:24I'm sure you can make it home just fine
01:12:26What chance it I
01:12:29Like the odds
01:12:33Hey, I'd like another Carmel bar, yeah, how about you would bet you need to at least
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01:14:12I'm sorry that took so long
01:14:14Couldn't find the attendant. I
01:14:16Think I was in there taking a crap or something. I
01:14:19Found this, right?
01:14:22Yeah
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01:14:33Tell me about that night
01:14:38What's that
01:14:41Tell me about that night
01:14:50Why
01:14:53You because I asked
01:15:16We were at a party in West of you
01:15:22You know, there are a few hours had a couple of beers
01:15:31It's cold at night we decided to go down to the riverbank
01:15:43Got down there
01:15:45It was just pitch black
01:15:48As far as you can see
01:15:51Who went first
01:15:59I don't remember
01:16:20I
01:16:43Think I'm gonna have one. It's been a while
01:16:50To
01:16:58You and one for me
01:17:09Warm these up and it's the pisser for me. Come sit down
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01:23:34Easton asked me a question once
01:23:37He asked me
01:23:39Where does water go during a flood and I responded wherever it can
01:23:47I
01:23:49Would like to think that in his time here Easton realized something very valuable
01:23:55You either remain in stale stagnant water frozen in time your whole life or
01:24:04You take chances you flow with the river and see where it takes you
01:24:10Because you can't control life much like you can't control a rising River
01:24:14But the beauty is that we're all headed downstream together
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