I've been calling people all over the city, looking for you.
Christ! Where have you been?
I've been calling people all over the city, looking for you.
I was about to call the police. What's going on, Sam?
- I don't know. - No, you've gotta talk to me. I've been up all night.
- What happened to your arm? - Dog bite.
- Dog bite? - Yeah, I had the shots and the painkillers.
- What dog? Where? - Look, I'm seeing things that don't make any sense...
and I'm meeting people that are supposed to be dead...
and Beth's had a nervous breakdown.
The kid I'm treating knows what's gonna happen before it happens.
- Okay, just slow down. - And I saw the same boy lose the same balloon twice.
- Baby, you're not making any sense. - No, nothing makes any sense.
- You're scaring me. - Nothing makes any sense.
Okay. You just need to relax. Slow down.
- Okay. - Hey, you need to sleep.
Yeah. No, I can't.
- I gotta find him. I'm running out of time. - No, no.
- Just for a while. Lie down. - You think?
All right. All right.
Maybe just for a little bit.
Okay.
Maybe just a little bit.
Jesus Christ.
I've been looking all over for you.
I want you to come uptown with me. I want you to meet a friend of mine.
I don't wanna go uptown.
I met your mother last night.
What do you mean, you met my mother?
You told me she was dead.
She's okay?
Yeah, everyone seems to think your mother's dead...
but I'm standing in a kitchen talking to her.
Sh-She's gonna be okay?
I don't know. She's sick. She got hurt somehow. I don't know.
Is she mad?
- The dog seemed pretty fuckin' mad. - What dog?
- Olive. - Olive?
Yeah, we put Olive to sleep when I was 12.
She had a tumor in her liver.
Well, Olive's not dead. She is very much not dead.
Yeah, she is. But she was a good girl.
Quit playing with me. I wanna know what's going on.
How do you know the future? I wanna help you, but-
- I need some fuckin' answers! - What happened to your parents?
Look, there are things that you have to tell me. I mean, I mean...
if you were just gonna kill yourself, you'd have done it by now.
So why haven't you?
Why do you keep coming to me?
'Cause you're the only one that can help me.
That's why.
Henry? Henry?
I've seen people go through what you're going through.
I've helped them come out the other side.
If you work with me, I can help you.
The way you helped your girl?
It's Lila, right?
I've seen the, uh, scars on her wrists.
Did you save her?
She saved herself.
Yeah, but you helped, right?
No. Sometimes suicide is an attempt for attention. With Lila it wasn't.
She put three four-inch vertical slits in each wrist.
She split both sets of ulnar and radial arteries.
By the time I got to her, she'd lost five pints of blood.
I just pulled her out of the bathtub, put tourniquets on both arms...
and called an ambulance.
Aren't you afraid she's gonna do it again?
No.
Why?
'Cause she loves me.
If she were here, I know she'd say...
to open your eyes a little wider.
I know she'd tell you that there's too much beauty to quit.
She's probably right.
Anyway... it's too late.
Henry?
I can't let you leave this time.
You gotta stay with me. I gotta take you uptown to meet this-
- Get the fuck outta my way. - No, you gotta come with me to the-
- Get outta my way, all right? Move. Move. - I can't.
- I can't let you- - Let me show you something.
I killed my parents.
I killed my mother and my father.
I'm gonna go to hell.
Or maybe I'm already there. I don't know.
I'm sorry, Sam.
Don't follow me.
Canal Street. A diner.
Canal Street. A diner. Yeah, which diner? There's maybe 20.
I don't know, pick one. Keep the meter running.
Excuse me. Do you have an Athena working here?
Yeah. Athena!
- Yeah, what? - Athena?
What? What do you want?
All right, next one. All right, next one.
All right.
There's one more.
We're running out of options here. I really don't know what you want.
All right. Just try one more, please.
Excuse me. Do you have a waitress here named Athena?
- Athena? - Yeah.
No, never heard of her.
- Can I get a coffee, please? - Sure.
Planning on proposing to Athena?
No. Do you know her?
- Are we talking about the same girl? - You a cop?
No, I'm more of a matchmaker.
Doesn't work here anymore. But she's in my acting class.
She is? Could you tell me where she lives?
What are you, her stalker?
No. No.
I'm a psychiatrist.
See?
A psychiatrist, huh? So you could write a Xanax prescription.
I could write a Xanax prescription...
for one of my patients who needed it, yeah.
Okay.
Good luck finding Athena.
- Prison, my lord? - Denmark's a prison.
- Then is the world one? - A goodly one...
in which there are many confines, wards and dungeons.
Denmark being one of the worst.
We think not so, my lord.
Well, then 'tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad...
but thinking makes it so.
To me, it is a prison.
- Prison, my lord? - Denmark's a prison.
- We already had this conversation. - Oh, um, uh, wait a minute.
Uh, um-
- "Why then your ambition"- - Why then your ambition makes it one.
'Tis too narrow for your mind.
I could be bounded in a nutshell...
and count myself a king of infinite space...
were it not that I have bad dreams.
- That's my favorite line in the whole play. - It's a good line.
However, my favorite line of the play is:
"O what a rogue and peasant slave am I."
I have no idea what any of it means, but I love the word "slave."
I love it. I gotta go.
- I've got a solo in choir tomorrow morning. - Thanks for reading with me.
- You're a good Rosencrantz. - I know. Bye.
- Hello. - Hi.
I always pictured Hamlet as a man.
That's a bit narrow-minded of you, isn't it?
This is the lesbian Hamlet. All the parts are played by women.
- Oh. - I'm joking.
I'm Ophelia. I just get so sick of playing her.
Things get tough, she jumps in the drink.
Hamlet hogs all the good lines.
Well, he's notorious for that.
We've met before, haven't we?
No, I don't think so. I'm Sam Foster.
- Athena. - Hi.
Hi. Are you joining the class?
No. I've been looking for you, as a matter of fact.
That's flattering. Why?
I'm a psychiatrist, and I have a patient who, uh...
likes you very much.
That's an unusual way of trying to get a date.
- What's his name? - Henry Letham.
- Sounds familiar. - You served him coffee in a diner a couple of times.
You were nice to him. But the way he tells it, you're the one good thing...
that ever happened to him.
Henry. Is he very pale, very thin?
- His arms are scarred. - Yeah, that's him.
He always ate pecan pie with his coffee. I remember that.
But I never spoke to him outside the diner.
- Oh. - Except-
Yeah? What?
I feel really stupid saying this stuff to a psychiatrist.
- You'll think I'm insane. - No.
I had the strangest feeling about him.
I mean, he's this ragged-looking guy.
Probably hasn't bathed in months, but something about him.
I'd seen him before. Somewhere.
I'd known him.
- Yeah. - What's wrong with him?
He's going to kill himself.
Why?
He thinks he's done something terrible. That's my guess anyway.
I wish there was something I could do to help.
Actually, this probably won't help, but I did run into him one time at A. Smith's.
- A. Smith's? - The art bookstore?
He was sitting in the back, reading.
I don't know. Maybe he hangs out there.
- Where is it? - Nearby. Come on. I'll show you.
Athena?
Athena!
Athena?
Athena! Athena!
I'm just trying to figure out if I'm the king or the farmer.
Still there.
- Athena? - We think not, my lord.
Well, then 'tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad...
but thinking makes it so.
- To me, it is a prison. - Prison, my lord?
Denmark's a prison. We already had this conversation.
Sonny Rollins. Hmm.
Ah.
- Are you lonely here? - Who's that?
Who's there?
Why isn't Mom with you?
I'll call the police.
Put the phone down, Dad.
It's Henry.
Henry? What are you doing here?
Just wanted to see you one more time.
Henry.
I need you to leave now.
You can't sneak into people's homes.
I don't wanna go, Dad.
You've got the wrong man.
I've told you before.
I don't wanna die.
You don't have to die.
- Will you do something for me, Dad? - What?
- What are you doing? - It's okay. It's okay.
I want you to look at me, okay?
Just look at me.
It's just lightning.
Remember that time we found all those dead sparrows in the yard?
Do you remember that? They were in that tree that got hit by lightning.
Who are you?
I'm your son.
No. No.
Tell Mom I love her, all right?
You should show your mother your paintings.
Yeah, well, you know...
Doesn't Athena look beautiful tonight?
They remind me of us when we met all those years ago.
Yeah.
How have you guys stayed so in love after all these years?
Well, it's simple-
We're closed.
Ben, let him in. See what he wants.
All right.
Can I help you find something?
Henry Letham.
A book by Henry Letham or on Henry Letham?
No, I-I thought he might be here.
I was told he comes here sometimes.
Nobody's here, man, 'cause the store is closed.
How about you don't fuck with me right now?
- Smitty, you know a guy named Henry Letham? - Sure.
- Something happen to him? - Yeah, I need to find him.
I keep telling the kid to get some sun.
It's not healthy spending all your time in bookstores. Yeah, that's his.
He didn't have any money to pay for the books he wanted, so he gave me this.
I think I got a pretty good deal. The kid's got talent, huh?
He traded the painting for some books? Which books?
Tristan Rêveur. What else?
The kid's obsessed with Rêveur.
- You got any more of his books? - No, he bought me out.
It's all secondhand, out-of-print stuff.
Right. Thanks.
So, what do you think? Is he gonna make it?
What?
You think he's got what it takes?
Yeah. Yeah.
- Hello? - It's me.
Jesus, Sam, where are you? Are you okay?
I'm fine. Listen. Tristan Rêveur killed himself on his 21st birthday, right?
Oh, God, it's that kid's 21st birthday today.
Yeah. How'd he kill himself?
Um, he shot himself on the Brooklyn Bridge.
He said it was the best artwork of the 19th century.
- Hello? - Lila, listen.
I need you to know something. I trust you.
- I trust you more than anyone in the world. - What's going on, Sam?
Listen, if anything happens tonight, you know I love you.
It's the one thing I know is real.
I'm worried about you.
Don't be. I love you, Lila.
Sam?
- Leon? - I always thought you had brown eyes.
- You can see. - I can see everything.
- For the first time, I can see everything. - But how?
Henry. It's all because of Henry.
What's happening to us?
The Buddhists had it right all along.
The world is an illusion.
- What time is it? - It's 11:33.
Check.
Saturday night in the rain!
You'll never find a cab.
Damn it.
Listen to my voice, Henry. Stay with me, okay?
Mommy, is that man gonna die?
Well, I hope not, baby. I don't think so.
Brooklyn Bridge-
Henry.
One of the first times I met you...
you said...
that you didn't know what was real anymore.
And I said that I did.
But I was wrong.
I don't know what's real anymore.
You are.
You're real.
And you're trying to save me. You're just too late.
'Cause I gotta wake up.
You are awake.
Henry, look around you.
If this is a dream, the whole world's inside it.
This hurts too much.
- I wish you didn't have to see this. - Henry.
It happened in front of me. It was right in front of me. I was the first one here.
- I didn't move him. I know you're not supposed to move them. - Do you have a phone?
I already called.
Here, let me help. I'm a nurse.
He's losing a lot of blood. I'm gonna straighten up his face, all right?
Okay, maintain pressure on that. Keep an eye on his pulse.
Can you hear me?
- Should I- - It's okay.
You're gonna be all right.
You're gonna be fine.
It's okay.
- How are the others? - They're gone.
- You said you were a nurse? - Yeah.
- What's your name? - Lila.
Now listen, listen. Lila here's a nurse.
I want you to listen to her voice, all right?
- Okay. - Okay?
I'm gonna go in your pockets and see if I can find your name.
- Okay. Yeah. - All right?
What's your name? Can you tell me your name?
- What's that? - Is that hail?
No, no, that's not hail.
- That's just the light. - Henry? Henry, is that your name? Henry, listen.
My name is Sam. I'm a doctor, all right? I'm gonna look after you, okay?
I need you to try and stay awake.
I want you to listen to Lila's voice and just stay awake.
- Stay with us here, okay? - How old are you, Henry?
What's that?
- What did he say? - "Forgive me."
Hey, Henry, listen. I was driving right behind you.
You didn't do anything wrong, all right? Your front tire blew.
Okay? It wasn't your fault.
It's not anybody's fault. You don't have to be sorry.
It's okay.
- So?
- He's just a kid. - You're gonna be all right.
He's just waking up.
- Stay with us, Henry. - Stay with us.
Stay with me, okay? Listen to my voice, Henry.
- Stay with us, okay? - Did he say something?
He's looking for something. This ring.
There you go. You stay here with us, Henry, okay?
- Yes. - Stay awake now.
Honey, you gotta stay with me by the car. We can't run away from each other.
Remember I said this?
- Mommy, is that man gonna die? - No, angel, he's gonna be fine.
The ambulance is gonna come, and they're gonna help him out.
- You wanna go and see if they're comin'? - Where's the fuckin' ambulance?
- Listen to us. - Hey, Henry, stay conscious.
- Look at me, Henry. Henry, look at me. - Stay with us.
- His pulse is fading. - Try and stay conscious. Try and stay awake.
Listen to the voice. Come on, Henry. Henry?
Henry, look at me. Open your eyes. Here, look at me.
- Stay with us here, Henry. - Stay there. Look at me.
- Is that you? - What? What?
That's my girl right there. That's my girl.
Will you marry me?
Let's go back to the car. Come on, let's go.
- Will you marry me? - Yes.
- Will you marry me? - Yes, Henry.
- Henry? Henry? Henry? - He's not going to make it.
- Henry, try and stay with us. - Henry, open your eyes.
- I can't breathe. - You can't breathe? Come on. I'll get this loose.
No.
- Henry? - Stay with me, okay? Don't leave me.
I'm not gonna leave you. It's okay. Don't be afraid.
Don't be afraid.
You don't have to be sorry.
- Henry? - Henry.
- Hey, Henry.
I know you're not supposed to-
- May I have your name, ma'am? - Elizabeth Levy.
Uh, once we get all your information, detectives are gonna wanna speak with you.
- Okay. - Take it from here.
Hey, thank you for helping.
I wish we could have done more.
No one ever asked me to marry them before.
Wanna get a cup of coffee somewhere?
I'm never gonna sleep tonight.
Yeah, I'd like that.