Redux Redux

REDUX REDUX

Specials are up on the board, doll.

Let me get you a menu.

Hon?

Sorry.

Let me give you a little advice.

Pick somethin' from the first page.

'Cause that fancy stuff in the back?

They don't come out looking like the pictures.

I... I don't want anything from the kitchen.

I uh, I gotta get goin'.

Well, let me get you somethin' for the road.

You look like you could use it.

Thanks, Deb.

Where's her body?

Who the fuck are you?

-Number 12. -You wanna live?

Tell me anything about her.

What's her name?

What'd she look like?

Where is she?

Her name was Anna.

She lived her whole life in 14 years.

For what? To cross paths with you?

To get discarded in a ditch?

H... h... hold on.

-Where is she? -Do you even remember?

Please.

Shit.

Need a little time to look over this menu, hon?

Who's working in the kitchen?

-I don't know. -Uh, Gustavo and Marvin.

You lookin' for somebody?

Deb! Can you get that?

Neville's not working?

There was a hair in my burger, that's disgusting.

I want a refund...

She... she ate the whole thing.

Oh, I'm telling you she put it in there on purpose

and I could get sick...

Cream and sugar?

Hold it.

Don't move. Don't move!

Wait! Wait!

Hey, can I help you find what you're looking for?

All good, thanks!

Uh, ma'am, I'm gonna need to see your rental agreement.

Ma'am? Ma'am, stop the car!

Ma'am, get out of the car, okay?

Stop! Stop!

-Move! -Oh, oh shit!

"Police Radio warning".

In pursuit of suspect.

Fuck.

Fu...

Fuck.

Shit.

Hold it! Hold it!

Hold it!

Come out of there!

Open the door!

I said, open up!

Get the fuck out of there!

-Breach! Breach! -Breach!

Yeah, uh, do you have any adjoining rooms?

No.

Or... or two rooms next to each other with a cot?

I can put you in like, room 12 and 13.

-Hi, sorry. -Hi, can I stay in that room?

Uh, I'm sorry, what?

Sorry, I... I know this is weird, it's just um, the door

was already open, so...

My stuff is inside already.

Hey there.

-Hi. -Oh, hi.

You don't have a lighter, by any chance?

I... if you asked me two weeks ago,

I would've, but I just quit.

I'm so sorry.

-Damn. -You sure you quit?

Not just, taking a little vacation?

Uh, I'm pretty sure.

I don't, I... I have uh, nicotine gum.

Uh...

But,

It's a bit sweaty.

How can I resist?

Are you new here?

It's not that frightening when you get down there.

Yeah, I've been uh, going to a similar one.

Honestly, it just feels like some nights of beer

might do me better.

-Yeah. -I hear that.

What do you think?

-To uh, for a beer? -To get a beer?

For the... for the, like, the two of us?

Yeah.

Unless you gave that up, too.

Listen, I uh, I can't go down there.

Let me buy you a beer. Or a Seven and Seven.

Well, that's my drink.

My first meeting uh,

it's I think a month after my wife passed away,

and I was uh, emoti... I was... uh, it was rou... it was bad.

And I showed up late, and apologized to everybody,

came in, sat down, and this guy was telling a story

about uh, falling off the wagon

and crashing his car into a turnpike in an interstate.

And the next woman started talking about making meth

in this meth... I realized I was in the wrong meeting.

Yeah.

And I'm watching everybody tell their stories,

and at that point I didn't realize

that you didn't have to share when you came to the meeting,

so I was terrified that I'm gonna get called out

for being a narc if I don't tell an equally-horrifying story.

So I'm racking my... and I've never seen hard drugs

in my life, but I'm thinking about maybe my back stories

that I was doing meth and hit rock bottom,

like dissolving a guy in a bath.

I was thinking about Breaking Bad.

I was thinking about every episode of break...

I was trying to remember.

But uh, when the time came, I apologized,

and anyway, that was my first session.

Well, I uh, I spent my first session trying to...

Muster up the courage to talk about my daughter,

and this 20-year-old kid, I mean, this teenager is...

is an emotional wreck in the corner,

just like loud, ugly crying,

so I... I stopped, you know, to let him take the floor,

thinking he just got orphaned.

Sure.

But as it turns out, his girlfriends just dumped him.

Like, come on, dude, you know, keep it together.

You lost your daughter?

It was a long time ago.

Uh, excuse me can... can we close out?

You wanna get out of here?

Uh, yeah, sure.

Is your place close by?

Oh, yeah, yeah, sure.

Irene?

I don't know if you remember me. I'm Mrs. Baker.

I had you for ninth grade algebra.

Uh, I... I think you got me mixed up with someone else.

Irene Kelly?

Mom, that's not her.

What?

-That's not her. -She's gone, mom.

They found her after her daughter died.

Oh my God, that's right.

I... I'm sorry. She was an old student of mine.

You look just like her.

You know what, um, I gotta get going.

Oh.

Hey.

Sorry, this is stupid.

-No, I'm sorry. -Uh, that was uh, wild.

-Are you okay? -Yeah, I don't know.

That... that woman just, she got me mixed up with someone else

and it just kind of wigged me out, I guess.

I... I just feel like I shouldn't really be here.

Is this 'cause she knew your name

and that was... and then she said

that they found you after your daughter die...

It's... I... can we acknowledge that was just a bit...

I just... I'm playing catch up here.

I'm glad you gave up smoking.

Think you finally turned a corner.

You don't need me fucking things up for you.

You look good, Jonathan.

Can I tell you something?

Yeah, sure.

We've met before.

When?

Last week.

And the week before that.

And the week before that.

And then we uh, we go to this bar

and then we fuck in your car.

Okay.

It's the closest thing I have to a monogamous relationship.

Are you lacing these with PCP or...

What are you talking about?

I've wanted to tell you for a really long time.

We've met and fucked hundreds of times

in different parallel universes.

I've been traveling through them.

I uh,

I stayed in one universe with you for two months.

What is this?

When did you do this?

Don't be scared.

I... I've been traveling through them looking

for my daughter.

Looking for a world where she wasn't kidnapped and murdered.

But every universe is just like the one before it.

They're all the same.

The changes are so small, you can barely notice them.