Dead Air

What do you think is in that darkness?

I don't know, but it must be something bad,

otherwise why would I block it out of my memory?

We can try and figure it out.

Another attempt to get me to agree to hypnosis?

You can't blame a girl for trying, William.

When are you gonna start calling me Will?

When you call me Lydia.

You seem very pensive today.

I'm just tired.

A lot happening, the anniversary, yes?

Denise, two years?

Yeah.

How are the girls doing?

They're fine.

Have either of them said anything

about your wife's passing?

Why would they?

Well with your own mother passing,

it's a shared experience you all have.

I didn't lose my mother when I was a teenager.

But you lost your father, though when you were a kid.

I'm well aware of that.

I'm just surprised the topic hasn't come up.

I think it's more important that we move on with our lives

and leave the past where it belongs.

It's not my intention to agitate you.

See, I think it is if you think it'll help,

which it doesn't.

Ironically, I've actually had a dream

about my father the other night.

Really?

What were the circumstances?

Nothing really, he was just sort of there.

You lose your one parent and then you start dreaming

about the one that you barely knew

or that you hardly ever give a thought to.

I mean, up until a couple of weeks ago,

I had only had like a single picture of him

and I misplaced that years ago.

What happened a few weeks ago?

I came across some boxes of his stuff in my mother's attic.

What was in those, in those boxes?

I haven't had the time to bring them home yet.

You haven't had the time or you haven't made the time?

I figure if my mom put all that stuff away,

maybe she put that stuff away for a reason.

I mean, maybe she was trying to keep

something about my father from me for a reason.

Or maybe she didn't want to deal with you,

you know, asking questions about him,

wanting to know more about him.

Maybe she thought that would be too painful.

For me?

For her.

Have you ever considered that you might be teeing up

the same exact circumstances for your daughters?

The Soviet union announced

it will not participate in the Los Angeles summer Olympics

in retaliation for the American boycott

of the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

In national news, as the campaign for November heats up,

president Reagan said today-

- Just go ahead and set the boxes there.

There's one more.

Can you get it please?

Why can't Shanna get it?

Mindy.

Stuff must be old.

About 40 years.

Looks like a lot of junk.

I'm sure has some value to it

if Nana held on to it for that long, right?

I miss her.

Me too.

You know, she lived a long life, right?

Now, she's with your grandfather.

Yeah, she used to talk about him sometimes.

Grandpa Harold.

Gerald.

What?

My dad's name was Gerald, so it'd be Grandpa Gerald.

- Thank you. - Am I done now?

Yes, you're done now.

Good, I hate it down here, it smells so musty.

This is W-2-A-S-D.

Whiskey two Alpha Sierra Delta.

This is H-8-A-9-Q-R-L. How are you, Eva?

I feel like people are watching me.

I feel eyes on me all the time.

I just want to feel safe.

I'm doing the best I can here.

You're crazy, you know that?

I know.

Relax, nobody's watching you.

How do you know that?

You're just a normal American woman.

Who'd be watching you?

I don't know.

I don't know.

I just feel so alone.

So, go out, meet people, have a drink, dance.

You know I can't do that.

Copy that, then I can't help you.

Shit.

Breaker breaker. No, that's CB's.

Hello out there, anybody home?

Very Dangerous.

Hello, this is William.

Who's out there? I'm picking you up.

This is K-2-W-M-O. Can you hear me?

Careful! It's not what it seams.

Hello, I'm not making that out.

Hello?

Can you hear me?

What are you reading?

Protocols for using that radio downstairs.

You're gonna use that old thing?

Why not? Might be fun.

Get me in touch with my dad, maybe.

Maybe you can connect with him on the other side.

I don't think I could afford

that long distance bill, honey.

Who'd want to talk to dead people?

I think it'd be cool, don't you think?

Well, it'd certainly be interesting, that's for sure.

Okay.

Use QC as a general...

Let's give this a try.

Calling QC, is anybody on this frequency?

Calling QC.

This is W-2-A-S-D Whiskey two Alpha Sierra Delta.

Who is this? What's your call number?

Me? It's K-2-W-M-O.

Do you have a handle, K-2-W-M-O?

Traveling man? What's yours?

Melder girl.

It's nice to meet your Melder girl.

Whereabouts are you?

Why do you want to know that?

No reason really, just curious.

I'm really, really new at this.

So, I don't know how far away you can reach people.

You can reach people all over the world.

No shit.

No shit.

New York.

I'm sorry, what?

I live in New York.

The city?

No, small town in New York state.

Hey, me too.

What are the odds, huh?

Well, you know, it is a big state,

lot of people live here.

So, what town do you live in?

I'd prefer not to say.

Okay. I mean, upstate, downstate?

Let's just say New York state

and leave it at that, shall we?

Okay.

Do you like baseball?

No.

Okay. This is why I don't date.

I'm sorry, I didn't catch that. Come again.

I said, is anything interesting going on

around where you are, wherever you happen to be living?

Nothing interesting ever happens to me around here.

Same day, same song, as they say.

See, now I know exactly where you are.

What do you mean by that?

You know what? You know where I live?

I was just kidding.

Sorry.

Don't worry, my daughters

don't get my sense of humor either.

So, you're married?

I was, she died a couple of years ago, leukemia.

Sorry to hear that.

So am I, how about you, are you married?

No.

Boyfriend?

Not anymore.

I'm sorry to hear that.

Well, I guess.

You know I'm like a lot of other women these days.

I mean, so many men have come and gone.

Tough love life, huh?

I prefer not to talk about this.

I'm sorry, I wasn't meaning to be nosy.

It's jake.

Did you just say it's jake?

Yeah.

God, I haven't heard that expression in years.

Well, jake, you know, it means it's okay,

everything's fine, like that.

No, I know what it means,

my grandfather used to use it all the time.

You actually sound familiar to me.

I wonder if we've met before.