Psychopomp

Ooh, give me.

Whatever! You know, you better be careful

I might just leave you for your buddy Jughead.

-Original. -

Does that mean you're Betty?

You know, I'm Veronica.

Well, you see Jughead, tell him I stole his cigarette.

You better be careful Archie.

I heard Jughead doesn't like thieves.

Seriously, you're not going to give me one?

Come on.

Psychopomps are entities whose role is not to charge the deceased,

but to guide them to their final destination in the afterlife.

You know, Archie, your grandma gave me these binoculars

-and she said they were magical. - Really?

Yep, she said that sometimes if you are you looking through them

that you can see the spirits of your loved ones.

- Do you see grandma? - Nope, all I can see is birds.

Who are you?

Where are we?

Very nice.

-Where are we? -

Archie, I need you to close your eyes for me.

We're going to do an exercise to put you back into those dreams you've been having.

Take a deep breath.

Relax your mind.

What do you see?

Tell me what you dreamed.

I'm standing in a sketchy restroom.

I walk into the room.

I hear a electric buzzing sound behind me.

I turn around.

- -Keep going.

I hear a woman scream.

I want to help her...

but it's blocking the doorway.

It's blocking the doorway.

I see bugs coming out of a TV screen.

They're coming for me.

-They're coming for me! - Archie.

Open your eyes.

Birdie.

Who's Birdie?

You have amnesia,

but your subconscious is trying to help you remember.

You should go back to these places you're seeing in your mind

and maybe they'll trigger your memory.

I got a special ticket just for you.

Hi, Archie. I'm Dr. Dunn.

We have to talk.

That ticket you got there that's for a free meal and for a free trip.

Time to eat, Archie.

We made some food for you.

Archie, the reason I brought you here is to enlighten you.

This meal is specially formulated for you.

You've been walking around like a zombie since your unfortunate event.

I can help you.

We can help you.

All you have to do is eat your food.

Then you'll know what's what.

Isn't that what we all want to know?

Where we come from? Where we go when the curtains go down?

We're born into a question mark and then we're just left here with no answers to anything.

We flood our youth with vanity

and our old age is filled with fear of the unknown.

That's how you feel, right?

You want to know what happened.

Well, now you can.

It's time to eat.

It's time to take that final ride.

Eat your food, Archie Finch.

I can't.

I'm sure I'll be hungry soon.

Okay...

another meal's always around the corner.

Into the kitchen we go, where we end up nobody knows.

Do you know the muffin-man The muffin-man?

Do you know the muffin-man Who lives on Drury Lane?

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Be right there.

Archie!

Come on in.

Come on in, Archie. I'll be right there.

Archie, you don't look so good.

So how's your memory?

Do you remember anything new?

It's like all the puzzle pieces are out there...

but I... just can't find it.

It's like I'm blind...

and I just can't see them.

I'm here for you not just as your assistant, but as your friend.

You were once there for me during a hard time and I want to be there for you also.

Hey, it'll... it'll come back to you.

Here they are.

All your contacts.

Now I can find Ed.

Got to say...

you're not the Archie I remember very well.

I don't remember you at all

but I'm told that you're key to my success.

One of the keys, definitely the skeleton key.

You got that right, Ed. You're definitely a skeleton.

I keep telling him to eat some steak and egg, all he wants is coffee, coffee, coffee.

If I don't have coffee and chokes, I'm living in the land of the dead here, Kim.

Ain't we all?

This is the guy that's going to find your film.

It's just a stand-in.

And this is his girlfriend.

She wants to be the lead actress in your film

and if you let her her boyfriend will fund the whole movie.

He'll fund the whole film?

Yes, and I bet he'd throw a really good wrap party like a cowboy on his own dime.

Hmm.

Oh, my doctor says that if I get back to doing things

that I have been doing before,

maybe I'll start to remember something in my past.

Sounds like a yes to me.

Oh, yeah.

Hmm, attaboy, Arch.

Oh, one more thing I forgot to mention.

His girlfriend is, um...

a little like out there.

-How so? -She sees things.

Things?

Yeah, but she's on some crazy shit that makes you go bye-bye.

I could use some crazy shit.

I've been experiencing some weird things lately myself.

Really? Like what?

I don't know. Maybe this amnesia thing...

but...

anyway.

-Let's make a movie. -Attaboy, Arch.

To our lead actress.

A star is born.

- You thirsty? -Not today.

And what have you been busying yourself with?

Well, to be completely honest...

I've been losing chunks of time.

You can't expect for your brain to be in tip-top shape after what happened to you, Archie.

Yeah, I know.

I don't even remember how I got here.

Maybe seeing some things from your past will jog your memory.

Actually, there was one thing I was hoping to take a look at.

Do you still have that belt buckle dad left me?

Ah, so you do remember something.

Look! Look deep.

Deeper.

Think about what's down there.

What's been there for ages.

No one knows.

Before the dinosaurs, this was here.

So dark, so deep, so many things hidden,

we'll never know, we'll never ever know.

Just think about it.

Imagine what could be there.

Search your mind. Every little crevice.

Search. Deeper.

Deeper.

Yes, you see it.

You begin to see. Yes, yes.

I can tell. Yes, you found it.

Ah, I can tell. I can feel it myself.

Oh! Oh, yes.

Wonder of wonders, it's there. It's there.

I see it in your eye, windows to the soul.

You can't hide a thing.

I think I can get behind that. I'll see you there.

Like clockwork, you always seem to bring my drink right when I need it,

fulfilling a woman's duty to servitude.

That's not very nice.

How can I help you?

What just happened?

Call it performance art.

I see you don't have any clocks in this place.

Do you happen to have the time?

We don't have the time, but we do have a phone.

Use that card.

Can I get you a drink, young man?