Another shot, another Bud.
- This is on the house. - Why?
It just is, bitch.
Patrón!
Dude, fix your fucking face.
- Hello again. - Hello again.
Idea.
Let's start over.
How 'bout if you help me? Unless I'm horning in here.
Oh, you are, but the food is good.
See, I've got this little problem. I've got a stalker.
Doesn't sound life-threatening. I need a cover.
I need for you to pretend that we're having a scintillating conversation...
and you are wildly entertained.
I know it's tough. I'll improvise.
I don't talk like that.
She's right across the room. She's burning a hole in my back now.
Red dress, strappy shoes.
That's right.
I think she is the saddest girl...
to ever hold a martini.
- Are you okay? - No.
Why? What's wrong? Is it me?
- Is it me? - I'll tell you later.
- Something's wrong. Tell me now.
Talk about it all right now.
- Talk about it. Get it all out. - I'll tell you later!
Say everything now.
Just say everything now. Now! Now! Now!
I'll tell you in another life, when we are both cats.
I can't believe you just said that.
That is the greatest thing that I've ever heard.
That's hilarious that you said that.
See, that... You said that.
That is what I love about you.
That's hilarious.
I'll tell you in another life, when we are both cats.
Cats!
Well, this is where I leave you.
I'll walk you to your door.
- I live just around the corner. - I've got my bike here.
- I'd rather walk. - Don't be a drag.
Can't you see she wants to go on her own?
Shut up. You're drunk.
I may be an idiot, but I'm not drunk.
Seriously, I don't need you to walk me home.
Thank you.
Okay, then. So we'll call you.
We'll go catch a movie or something.
So we'll meet up soon.
We'll meet up soon.
We'll call you again to go out with me!
We'll call you.
It's been a real blast.
I bid you good evening.
Wait, wait. Where are you going?
My bike... it's back over there. We'll hang soon.
And bring your mask if you want. I'm getting used to it.
Wait a minute.
What?
I don't know.
You drank a little too much. Call me tomorrow if you want.
Tomorrow I'll wish I was dead.
No, you won't. You just need to sleep.
What?
What did you say to Julie Gianni the night of the accident?
What?
You told her she was a fuck buddy.
Never.
She was a little more than pissed about it.
Have you been harboring this shit all along?
I never talked to her.
Whatever.
Anyway...
who am I if I can't be the one to tell you you're not ugly?
Come on.
Give me a courtesy laugh.
Oh, Brian, I'm so fucked up.
I'm just so fucked up.
Hey, Brian, come on.
We're best friends!
We're bros!
Come on, man, we're bros.
Open your eyes.
This is a cheap ploy for sympathy.
I'm okay. I'm okay.
And it worked. Get up.
I agree.
This is a joke.
I'm not gonna lie to you.
I liked the way you looked.
But...
you have to pull it the fuck together.
Because if not, I'll forget the other guy.
You know that other guy? You.
I'm still that guy. I'm still that guy.
I don't have a mother-savior bone in my body.
It's not about that. You are coming inside.
But if this turns out to be a big mistake...
I do have the ability to fall out of love with you...
like that.
We created our own world together.
- I am still that guy. - Shut up.
Us versus them.
- Where's Brian? - Brian?
He went with you, didn't he?
I thought you guys hooked up.
I wish you hadn't gotten in the car with that girl.
Sofia, l...
Your eyes apologize better.
Come on.
Holy God, this is going to change my life...
in a zillion different ways.
I must be nuts.
And we were quite a pair.
Her believing in me, me believing that...
I actually deserved it.
I see you haven't been wasting your time.
Do you ever draw anything else?
Did you sleep last night?
No, I did not sleep.
Got to leave early today, so you'll have to be brief.
Now, what can you tell me...
about the name "Ellie"?
Ellie.
Is that a girl you knew, a girl you were in love with?
I've only been in love once.
Apparently, you kept repeating it last night.
You did sleep, David. Your advisor said you cried out.
- You had a nightmare. - Everything's a nightmare.
You cried out for Ellie, David. Do you remember what happened?
Dig deep, David.
Dig deep.
You cried out for Ellie. What do you remember about Ellie?
Show me your face, David.
Help me open the door.
It's true you had an accident. It's true you were disfigured.
But not anymore.
Do you remember?
They did fix your face.
Take off that mask, David.
You'll see your face is perfect under there.
I never trusted the doctors.
What happened next was surreal.
That same arrogant bastard, Dr. Pomeranz, called me.
Suddenly he was my new best friend.
David! Hey, my brother.
I felt really bad about our last conversation.
He said he'd discovered a new form of reconstructive surgery...
with the help of a doctor from Berlin.
Hello.
Next thing I knew, they shot me full of drugs I'd never heard of...
and away we went.
What if God was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Trying to make his way home
He's got a good voice.
Fifty-five.
The odds, they said, were one in three...
that the headaches could be reduced by 50 percent...
and facial tissue could be regenerated.
The first to incorporate the concept of endoscopic periorbital fiber optics.
Where are we gonna eat later?
I can't even tell you what they did.
It seemed like science fiction to me.
Madonna had that song, "Borderline."
- That was a hell of a song. - And another snip.
This is gonna be one good-looking guy when I'm done.
Obviously, I was suspicious.
Wouldn't you be?
Suspicious of whom, of what?
Doc...
once you've been driven off a bridge at 80 miles an hour...
somehow you don't invite happiness in without a full body search.
At the risk of boring you...
I can present the alternate argument.
I once knew a guy...
who was a real loner.
One day he woke up at 40...
with two daughters that lit up his life with purpose...
and he suddenly goes to endless school plays...
and he gets home at 9:20 for the evening discussion...
and he has the time of his life.
His favorite Beatle was once John, and now it's Paul.
I always liked George.
It all depends on the individual, doesn't it?
Tell me, what's happiness for you?
What's happiness to you, David?
- How 'bout another question? - You won't show me your face.
Will you?
So back to the time line.
Hurry. Let's move through this.
What?
You've got to take the plates off.
I don't want to know what's under here.
It's gonna be fine. You'll see.
- I'll go tomorrow. - Today.
I already called Pomeranz and switched it to Wednesday.
What?
I hope that woman at the front desk gave you shit about it.
Another day won't matter. Besides, the Mustang will be fixed.
The plan was going in the Mustang. The Mustang's not ready.
So we'll go tomorrow in the Mustang.
- Good. - We'll go when it's fixed.
I know that the problem...
wouldn't be you delaying something you were dreading.
Couldn't be that.
I mean...
I mean, I agree.
I think it's very important...
to have...
the right car...
to take you...
where you want to go...
24 hours a day.
How bad is it?
Well, your ears are in the right place.
And the rest of it...
is not too bad at all.
It's perfect.
Do you love me?
I mean, really love me?
Because if you don't...
I'll just have to kill you.
You see, my next life?
In my next life...
I'm gonna come back as this mole right here.
Seriously, this mole.
You'll have to wear bikini tops to work and loose-fitting shirts...
so that I can breathe.
I love you.
Love you.
I love you.
I can live right there.
Is this a dream?
Absolutely.
We talked about the big things, the little things...
and the big things.
But in truth, with Sofia...
it was the in-between times.
What did she say?
I have no idea.
- How's things, Brian? - Fine.
- How's things? - Don't flatter yourself.
I'm fine.
Besides, Sofia is great but by no means one of a kind.
She was a proximity infatuation.
And don't use that. It's mine. Thanks.
Where'd you get this camera?
I'm into things. You have no idea, my friend.
Just as long as you're okay.
And anyway, we're friends, aren't we?
- Always. - That's right.
What's up with your face?
- Fuck! - What?
There's a seam opening!
- David Aames. - You fucking asshole.
I know.
Was I snoring?
I think it was me.
I was thirsty, that's all.
I'm dreaming about you.
I could listen to you say "mmm"...
for the rest of my life.
Baby, what's wrong?
Where is she?
Who?
I'm Sofia.
Now, I'm gonna make sure that I tie it four times.
You know why, Julie?
Because four times really means something.
David, don't hurt me.
I'm freaked out. It worked.
You know you're not gonna get away with this...
so tell me now, where is Sofia.
I am Sofia.
- Where's Sofia? - I am Sofia!
- Where is she? - I am Sofia!
I'm calling the police, and you can tell it to them.
- You survived the accident. - What accident?
Whose body was it? It was the Seven Dwarfs.
- I wasn't in an accident. - You're trying to steal my life!
Of course you weren't in an accident.
Now it's fucking attempted murder!
I'm Sofia. Please.
Tell it to them.
This is David Aames.
I need help.
I have an intruder... I've captured an intruder...
who's entered my home.
God. Wake up, man.
Are you for real?
Kept me waiting here for three hours. They won't even tell me any news.
These guys think that I had something to do with this.
Give us a minute here, yeah?
Detective Larson, Detective Andrews, thanks very much.
They think that I had something to do with this.
I'm gonna handle this exactly the way your father would.
I've got it solved.
You got it solved?
Where is she?
She's gonna be fine. Now, this whole file is gonna...
Thank God you're here, man.
It's okay.
- I love her. - Yeah.
Right now I want you to look at these photos, then I'm gonna destroy them.
Sofia's testimony is also in here.
It won't exist.
She's not gonna press charges.
Press charges against me?
David, wake up.
Now, as a friend...
I think you should see what you did to Sofia.
The press won't get hold of this if you get away quickly.
Tommy, this is Julie. This is not Sofia.
This is Julie Gianni.
I didn't do this to her. Tommy, someone's setting me up.
David, the board and I have taken care of everything.
Okay, they've been really great, really great, actually.
All this is gonna disappear.
We're all behind you, even the board.
Get out of here.
This is a revolution of the mind.
You're in fuckin' sad shape!
Don't fucking ever hit a girl.
Hit me, but don't fucking ever hit a girl!
Listen to me. It wasn't Sofia.
It was Julie.
- It was Julie. - It was Julie Gianni.
Yes.
So Sofia was abducted by Julie...
and now Julie is posing as Sofia.
You're in O.J. Land, man.
Julie Gianni is fucking dead!
I don't care what they told you, I can assure you Julie Gianni is alive.
- She is alive. - I didn't talk to them.
I talked to Sofia.
- Where is she? - I just dropped Sofia off.
I saw everything you did to her.
Let me tell you something. I did not do that to her.
Look at me. Look me in the eye.
You tell me that's the girl you brought to the party.
You tell me that that's your dream girl...
your proximity infatuation.
Yes!
And you stole her from me.
The one girl I really wanted, and you took her from me.
You're insane. You're losin' it, man.
- You have revealed yourself. - Oh, yeah.
I'm with them.
Where'd you get the coat, Brian?
Where'd you get the camera?
How much did they pay you?
Listen to me, 'cause this is the last time we're ever gonna speak.
I was your only friend.
You have revealed yourself to me.
Problems?
I'm in no mood to be fucked with, so do yourself a favor...
There's an explanation for all this, David.
You and I know each other. You found me on the Internet.
I'm here to help you, David.
Who the fuck are you? Why are you following me?
First of all, it's very important that you calm down.
Calm down?
Calm down.
You must overcome your fears and regain control.
Take ahold of your life again, David.
It's as easy as holding that glass.
What if I were to tell you that you can take control...
of all of this, everything?
Even me.
Look, I'm straight. Okay?
David, look at all these people.
Seems as though they're just all chatting away, doesn't it?
Yeah.
- Nothing to do with you. - No.
And yet...
maybe they're only here because you wanted them to be here.
You are their god.
Not only that, but you can make them obey you or even destroy you.
Well, what I'd love for them to do is shut the fuck up.
Especially you.
You see?
You and I signed a contract, David.
Who is the man in the restaurant? Who is it?
I can't...
Can you tell the difference between dreams and reality?
- Of course. Can you? - Think about it.
Think with your head.
You signed a contract...
did you not?
I signed something.
Was the man in the restaurant there?
- Fuck... - Accept your body's resistance.
Let your head answer.
Sign the contract, David.
- Yes. - That's right.
Who is Ellie?
- I don't know what's real. - What happened that night?
- Somebody died. - I don't want to remember.
You hold the keys to this prison.
- It wasn't Sofia. - Who was it?
- No. - Who was it?
I'm afraid of how powerful this is.
You wanna let it out, don't you, David?
You're about to tell me.
Tell me...
what your heart and soul will not allow you to forget.
Did you kill Sofia?
I thought you were a vandal.
Who are you?
I'm Sofia.
You are not...
Sofia.
I'm Sofia.
Whatever.
We're gonna be together again.
You're gonna forget about Juliana and we're gonna be together.
I'm not gonna be afraid of you anymore.
I'm gonna get you a cold towel. I'll be right back.
I love you.
Pleasure delayer.
Sofia?
I am Sofia.
I love you.
Oh, I missed you so much.
Where were you?
Forget it.
I don't need to know.
It doesn't matter.
Just tell me that you love me.
I love you.
What is happiness to you, David?
For me...
it's being here with you.
What the fuck...
is happening?
What is fucking happening?
David was a real delight as a child.
Oh, God!
I'm so afraid of how powerful this is!
Oh, David!
That is the greatest thing I've ever heard.
In another life when we are both cats.
What's happening?
Hey, man, what's happening?
You bitch!
I don't wanna see your face!
I did it, didn't I?
But I don't feel like I killed someone.
- David... - I feel like...
- who was the man... - I'm in a dream.
At the restaurant?
Sometimes...
the mind behaves as if it were in a dream.
Faces change. People become other people.
The subconscious is a powerful thing.
You treated Julie carelessly, didn't you?
Your feelings of responsibility or guilt over Julie...
might have easily turned Sofia into Julie.
Do you know what derangement is?
I need your help.
All I know is, you killed your girlfriend...
and I don't know what's in your mind.
I need your help.
I would work on this case forever if I could, but we're out of time.
What will you plead?
Temporary derangement.
That's your best chance.
I don't think they'll believe me.
What do you believe?
Believe it or not, I care about you.
You've become like family to me.
I don't want to give up on you, David, but I needed more.
I needed...
I needed an answer.
I mean, I even thought there was more than a good chance...
somebody was playing a trick on you.
Maybe it was the board.
But I can't exceed my duties.
I'm just a psychologist.
And I have to go now.
Will I see you at the trial?
No, I'm...
I'm just the opening act.
Reassurance is our specialty. That is the Life Extension credo.
Benny is a dog who was frozen for three months...
and thawed out to live a normal life.
Life Extension can translate to the human form too.
How do you accomplish such a thing?
Seventy-two cryonized patients...
are currently held at our facility in New Brunswick.
And we feature the finest scientific technicians on the planet.
McCabe!
Come back!
Life Extension Corporation, please.
- Can I help you? - LE.
We hold a court order.
I think I've been here before.
Her name is Libby.
Good morning, Mr. McCabe.
I'm Libby. I'm here to assist you.
He's my son. He's very shy.
You're not with the media or a part of any legal consortium, correct?
No.
Welcome to Life Extension.
Take a look at our proposal. Please follow me.
You can wait out here.
You'll be meeting Rebecca Dearborn...
my personal role model.
I didn't need the pain anymore. I already experienced that.
They want you to lay down and die. Life Extension wants you to live.
I don't think that God disapproves of this.
"Cryonization. ? a journey of reawakening...
after the preservation of the human body at extremely low temperatures."
They laughed at Jules Verne too.
You are not...
Mr. McCabe, how are you? I'm Rebecca Dearborn.
Life Extension, or LE as we like to refer to it...
is a glimpse of the future.
It's a ticket.
Not in the juvenile sense, but in the deeply meaningful sense...
that can only be born in the human heart.
The DNA codes of the human body have been broken.
Soon, heart ailments, cancer...
so much more will be a thing of the past.
Very simply, your anguish, your discontent...
even your death is no longer necessary...
in a traditional sense.
Whatever malady hides behind that mask, it's temporary.
Within an hour of your passing...
LE will transfer your body to a vessel...
where you will be sealed and frozen at 196 degrees below zero.
Power outtages, earthquakes...
nothing will affect your suspension hibernation.
Did you sign a contract with these people, David?
What's the Lucid Dream option?
Good choice.
The Lucid Dream is Life Extension's newest option.
For a little extra...
we offer the cryonic union...
of science and entertainment.
"Cryo-tainment."
Some find this presentation helpful.
I have a universe
Inside me
Portrait of a modern human life.
American, male...
birth and death.
Imagine that you are suffering from a terminal illness.
You'd like to be cryonized, but you'd rather be resurrected...
to continue your own life as you know it now.
LE offers you the answer.
Upon resurrection...
you will continue in an ageless state...
preserved but living in the present...
with a future of your choosing.
Your death will be wiped from your memory.
Your life will continue as a realistic work of art...
painted by you, minute to minute...
and you'll live it with the romantic abandon of a summer day...
with the feeling of a great movie...
or a pop song you always loved...
with no memory of how it all occurred...
save for the knowledge...
that everything simply improved.
In any instance of discontent...
you'll be visited by technical support.
It's all just around the corner.
The day after tomorrow, another chapter begins seamlessly.
A living dream.
Life Extension's promise to you.
Life, part two.
A living dream.
"Your death will be wiped from your memory."
I guess I missed that one in USA Today.
A dream.
What if there was a mistake?
What if the dream became a nightmare?
Of course your subconscious can always play tricks on you.
The subconscious is a very powerful thing.
Did you sign a contract with these people, David?
But this is a serious business.
The Lucid Dream is worth the risk.
And what is any life if not the pursuit of a dream?
The dream of peace...
the dream of achievement...
the dream of hearing someone say these words...
when they really, truly mean them.
I love you, David.
I love you.
Roam free, David.
Most of us live our whole lives...
without any real adventure to call our own.
It's hard to comprehend.
But they laughed at Jules Verne too.
This...
is a revolution...
of the mind.
I wanna wake up!
Tech support!
Hey! Face!
It's a nightmare!
Tech support!
David Aames.
I think it's time we had a proper reintroduction.
I'm Edmund Ventura from the Oasis Project.
Formerly Life Extension, LE.
- Tech support. - Yes.
Yes, I'm your tech support...
and we first met 150 years ago.
Oh, shit.
You sold me the Lucid Dream.
What the hell happened?
I tried to warn you in the bar.
I told you you must exercise control, that it all depended on your mind.
All of this...
everything is your creation.
And now we're heading toward your true moment of choice.
True moment of choice?
Yes.
When did the Lucid Dream begin?
Remember the day of the nightclub?
We'll meet up soon.
That night, after Sofia left you and you fell asleep on the pavement...
that was the moment that you chose for the splice.
- Splice? - Splice.
The end of your real life and the beginning of LE's Lucid Dream.
A splice of many, many years which passed...
while you were frozen and dreaming.
From the moment you woke up on that street...
nothing was real in the traditional sense.
Open your eyes.
Your Lucid Dream is monitored by Life Extension...
and a panel of experts who are following your every thought...
even at this moment.
Forgive me. I'm blowing your mind.
I'm not a big fan of heights.
I know.
We erased what really happened from your memory.
- Erased? - Replaced.
By a better life...
under these...
beautiful, Monet-like skies.
My mother's favorite.
A better life because you had Sofia.
You sculpted your Lucid Dream out of the iconography of your youth.
An album cover that once moved you.
An album cover?
There are some things...
that you're not old enough to understand just yet.
A movie you saw once that showed you what a father could be like...
or what love could be like.
This was a kind woman...
an individual...
more than your equal.
You barely knew her in real life, but in your Lucid Dream...
she was your savior.
What happened in my real life? Something happened.
What did you erase?
Do you really want to know?
Tell me everything.
The morning after the nightclub, you woke up on that street...
hung over and alone.
You got up, walked away.
You never saw Sofia again.
I didn't kill Sofia.
You battled your board for control of the company...
and in the end it was Thomas Tipp, your father's friend...
the man whosejob you saved...
who wrenched the company back into your control.
Tommy.
But then...
somebody died.
You longed for Sofia.
You shut yourself away for months.
You were alone.
You couldn't stand the pain anymore, the headaches.
You could barely function.
I found you on the Internet.
I signed a contract with you, and then...
I remember.
Somebody died.
It was me.
And on a day in late December...
you gave yourself to us.
You're now in a suspended state.
Your friend Brian Shelby threw a three-day memorial in your old home.
He was a true friend.
You were missed, David.
It was Sofia who never fully recovered.
It was she who somehow knew you best...
and like you, she never forgot that one night...
where true love seemed possible.
Consequences, David.
It's the little things.
The little things.
There's nothing bigger, is there?
Your subconscious did create problems.
Your dream turned into a nightmare.
The glitch has been corrected.
So all I have to do is imagine something.
Like, if I wanted...
McCabe to come back right now...
Listen to me.
These people are dangerous.
We're in trouble. We need to get off this roof now.
We're now on pause...
and you're about to return to your Lucid Dream.
With all the upgrades...
you won't remember any of this...
nor will you be charged for technical support.
It's now your moment of choice.
You can return to your Lucid Dream and live a beautiful life...
with Sofia or whomever you wish...
or you can choose the world out there.
"The world out there."
And you can bring me back...
just like Benny the dog?
Yes.
Just like Benny the dog.
Your face and body can be fixed now, of course.
But things are very different now...
and your finances won't last long.
Your panel of observers are waiting for you to choose.
There are no guarantees...
but remember...
even in the future...
the sweet is never as sweet...
without the sour.
How do I wake up?
The decision is yours.
And I chose this scenario, didn't I?
Yes, to face your last remaining fear of heights.
David, don't listen to him.
You were right. This is the seven dwarfs. It's a setup!
You can't trust him.
Don't feel bad for him, David. This winning man is your creation.
It's in his nature to fight for his existence, but he's not real.
I'm real.
I have two daughters...
and you know that.
What are their names?
I'm real.
I'm mortality as home entertainment?
This cannot be the future!
Can it?
Good-bye.
It's been a brilliant journey of self-awakening.
And now you've simply got to ask yourself this...
What is happiness to you, David?
I want to live a real life.
I don't want to dream any longer.
Any last wishes?
Let them out there read my mind.
I wish you well, David.
Look at us.
I'm frozen, and you're dead.
And I love you.
It's a problem.
I lost you when I got in that car.
I'm sorry.
Do you remember what you told me once?
That every passing minute...
is another chance to turn it all around.
I'll find you again.
I'll see you in another life...
when we are both cats.
Relax, David.
Open your eyes.