Infinite Light

Whoever is listening, this is Sean Stephens.

The experiment, it...

It worked.

Hey.

Hey!

What are you thinking about?

Nothing.

Come on, don't be boring.

Tell me, I want to know.

Did you pack your camera?

It's in the back.

John was telling me you two have been making good progress

on that device thing.

Well, he was just trying to impress you.

We actually haven't done much

since the last time you saw it.

What does it do though?

Oh my God.

It matches frequencies to other local emitters

to break their pattern and create its own footprint.

Right.

Ah, look at that, perfect.

Fuck off!

What are you trying to do?

I'm trying to hit you.

It's not working, stop.

Every page that you turn, it's new and exciting!

So exciting, I mean, what more do you want?

What don't you get?

Maybe it's because I'm not a huge nerd like you.

A nerd?

Well, coming from the girl

who exclusively reads vampire novels.

Thank you for calling them novels.

Thank you for calling me a nerd.

Come on, you know you're a nerd.

Just let me die alone, okay?

No.

Don't say things like that.

Stay with me.

I, um, I got you something.

What?

It's an old audio recorder.

I thought you could use it to record your notes

when you and John are working on your projects.

Wow.

Thank you.

Where did you find this?

It was my dad's actually.

Oh.

It was his fault, the fire.

That's why John hates him.

Well, it was an accident, right?

No.

I don't know.

I'm sorry.

Do you wanna take my picture?

Oh, sure, yeah.

Oh, I think it needs the...

Oh right, yeah.

Here.

I've never really used that one before.

I think I got it.

Okay, you ready?

Yeah.

Three.

Two.

One.

Sarah?

Sarah!

Sarah!

Sarah, Sarah, look at me.

Sarah?

Oh my God.

Sarah.

Please wake up.

Wake up, wake up.

Alex?

Alex.

Hey buddy, you slept on the couch again.

Yeah.

I'm sorry.

How you doin'?

I'm okay.

Your mom and I are heading to the airport soon.

You gonna be okay with your sister here?

Yeah, yeah.

She's gonna try to have a party, okay?

I know her.

You make sure that doesn't happen, okay?

Look, Alex.

I know we haven't had a chance to really

talk about what happened.

You know, I'm just not very good at these things,

and your mother... - Dad, it's.

I'm okay.

All right.

Try not to burn the house down, all right?

I won't.

Is that a promise?

I promise.

And, um.

Oh, John's here.

All right.

Look, if there's anything, just call us, okay?

Will do.

Thanks, Dad.

I can't believe it's been a month already.

No, no.

No, I can't.

Got into a fight with my mom again, a bad one.

What happened?

I don't know, she's just.

She's been dead silent about the whole thing, you know.

She hasn't said a single thing to me since Sarah died.

It's like.

I don't know, she acts the same way she acts

when I ask about by my dad.

I don't know, maybe it's how she deals with death.

I gotta show you something.

You finished it.

Finished it while you were on the trip.

Oh, couldn't wait, huh?

Impressed?

No, no, I guess not.

You wanna see this bad boy in action?

- Hell yeah. - All right.

Who should our first victim be?

Oh.

Ooh, what about that asshole over there?

Oh yeah, look at that dick.

Wait, you sure you can get it with this thing?

It goes up to nine meters.

Nine?

What do you think, like 4.3?

All right, right.

Three.

Two.

One.

And I'm gonna say.

Well, I guess it works.

Could not have asked for a better test than that.

Sarah would have loved this.

Yeah, yeah.

She probably would have just laughed about this.

I really miss her, John.

Yeah, I know.

I do too.

I, uh...

I gotta clean out a bunch of stuff from Sarah's room,

and I was thinking about doing it tomorrow.

And I don't know if you wanted

to like help or. - Yeah.

Yeah?

Sure.

Okay, so Alex, hi.

Hi.

Refused to go to any

of the haunted houses with me this year.

So now I'm making him promise on camera

that he is coming with me next year.

Promise!

Alex, for me, for me.

- I promise! - Okay.

I'm gonna do them, okay?

Yes.

Annie?

Fuck.

Jesus.

It's fine.

No, what, Derek?

Oh my God, this is so embarrassing.

You should leave.

- What, but? - Derek.

I'll see you later.

Alex.

I'm so sorry.

Mom and Dad have been gone for like 12 hours.

I know, I know, just please don't tell them.

Is that?

Yeah.

You want one?

Hey, remember when you first brought Sarah here?

Mom and Dad were so happy.

Yeah.

You were pretty happy too.

Yeah, I was.

She was pretty cool.

And we had a lot in common.

And she was good for you.

Yeah.

Yeah, she was.

You know.

Nevermind.

What?

No, you're not gonna like where this is coming from.

What is it?

Well, Derek has...

Oh, Jesus.

Alex.