There are more people alive now than all who died in the entire history of mankind.
But the number of dead people will only increase.
Someday there will be no where to bury the dead.
What about skyscrapers built down to bury the dead?
Could be below the skyscrapers built for the living.
You could bury people one hundred floors below.
A universe of dead people could exist under of the living.
Bless the soul of our brother Tom ..
No one is told that the coffin is empty?
You should have put anything in, like some shoes.
It's a fake funeral.
To alienated.
It is what it is, Oscar
It makes no sense.
What if we could go down the elevator to visit our dead relatives?
As it picks up the bridge to visit relatives in Brooklyn.
Or the boat to Staten Island.
Dad told me that New York used to have a sixth Side neighborhood of Manhattan.
But you can not go there because he was drifting
and nobody knows where it went.
Well...
If you think wise guy? Let's find the sixth district.
Okay.
E?
What? What what?
What do I have to find?
What are the clues?
He shrugged as if he did idea what I was talking about.
I loved it.
It was my favorite game with Dad.
We called him "Reconnaissance Expedition."
I found something from every decade of the twentieth century.
You are a genius.
It's brilliant.
The search for the sixth district was the best all expeditions.
Ok, we have an amateur entomologist, amateur archaeologist
Computer Consultants...
Why is everything amateur? Is a component.
Pacifist amateur?
Inventor amateur. OK.
Ok, you're ready.
Dad designed the expedition so I had to talk to people,
what he knew was difficult for me.
What do you want?
What do you think?
It may be helpful.
Can not say no if I'm on the right track?
If you do not tell me, how am I going to hit?
Another way to look at it is:
how can I go wrong?
"Do not stop looking"
The Park Central not used to be where he is now.
Dad said it was in the middle of the sixth district.
Huge hooks were dug deep into the earth
and the park was carried away by all the inhabitants New York
like a carpet, the Manhattan district until the sixth.
I found something. Rates!
In that area, Oscar? Rates!
In E3. Rates!
Dad said that only the clues left in Central Park
is that allowed us to know the existence the sixth district.
Where is it?
It was my father. My grandmother gave me when I was a child.
It has no utility.
What is this?
Home movies of her grandmother.
For years I have not seen it.
Do you remember your father?
None.
I just remember it was in Dresden, Germany
The life was hard and decided that was not to have a family.
That's it? That's it.
You always wanted to be a jeweler?
You might like to be a scientist.
But I'll never know.
Why?
Because I am a jeweler.
Strawberry Fields, Belvedere Castle.
What is he looking for?
When it finds it, let him tell you.
I'll have him walk around the park. Will have to tell me about everyone he met.
Expedition will be the largest of all.
It is not asking too much of it?
If it is too easy, will not be worth finding. What will become of him as an adult?
I do not know. For that you have.
Will be one of those guy who fall in love the first shortly bossy...
Mean, beautiful, beautiful blonde...
That tells what he has to do.
Type, you can sign the check?
It is the latter, $ 71.40.
$ 71, and 40 cents
Just in time! There was actually a sixth neighborhood?
If you want to believe or not, will have to find the reasons.
What reasons?
The clues, of course
What clues? What clues? Lanes
The fossil record typical of Central Park
PH incongruous that reservoir... which leads us to balance...
According to this newspaper...
A message was found on a balance sheet in Central Park
and, according to scientific tests difficult to understand,
by my lack of preparation and because you are too young ,
able to determine who should have been written
in the sixth district. saying?
What question magnificent.
Let's see.
Ah... does not say.
Should, but does not say.
Can I see?
Want to see what?
It was the last conversation we had.
Give me that! Behind you.
Expected.
The next time you hear the voice of my father
was when I arrived at school that morning worst of days.
Get out!
Because of what was happening, we released earlier.
What a horror.
You can not smoke in the lobby. Going to end up in trouble.
Today nothing is problem. Where are your parents?
Has anyone in the downtown?
Mommy is working. Dad is a meeting somewhere.
Nor is his account, asshole.
With your permission, Oscar.
Vai lick soap.
My God!
Are you there? Hello?
Meets , if you're there, babe.
I called the office but nobody answers.
Something happened. It's okay. Told to stay where we are.
We have to wait for the firefighters.
But that's okay. I'll call later to say what is happening.
I just called to say I'm fine and do not worry. Soon I'll call you again.
2 Post, September 11, 9:12 am
Are you there? You there? Me again.
Hello!
Sorry, thought I'd be at home.
Do not know if I knew what happened, but want you to know I'm right...
We are still waiting to know what to do .
It's chaos here ... firefighters are expecting...
If the sun exploded...
Would realize only eight minutes later.
Because this is the time it takes for light to reach us.
During eight minutes there was still light.
And would heat.
It was one year my father died.
And I felt that my eight minutes with him...
Were running out.
Do not open the cabinet had Dad from the worst of days.
Mom had not touched his things.
It was all there.
"Do not stop looking"
Oscar, are you okay?
Here is Oscar Schell, grandmother...
Grandma, are you awake?
Exchange.
Here is Grandma... Grandma... Exchange.
Why are not you sleeping?
Whether I go there?
Dad ever talk of a special key with you?
Exchange.
A special key? I think not.
A special key? For what?
For serving the special key?
Exchange.
The tenant has arrived? Exchange.
The tenant? No, he never comes so soon. Exchange.
Grandma had rented a room for a Man
three weeks after the worst of days.
Why shop tenant is always closed?
And because I've never met? He likes quiet.
Why do not you tell me anything about him?
It's a person I know from my land. Come on, play.
How long will he stay here? He never stays long anywhere.
It is... dangerous?
The day you see him, do not say anything.
It can be very angry. Now touch.
What you found it, Oscar?
Exchange
Oscar? Are you still there?
Oscar.
It's some kind of safe.
There is neither any of these.
It's bigger, harder to break.
But I think it is not for wall safe.
It may be a safe bank, post office.
It's old, some 20 or 30 years.
How can I find the manufacturer?
Anyone could have done it. How do I know that closing it opens?
This I can not help you.
Unless try everything they encounter.
You never know what she can open.
There are millions of possibilities.
This is what fascinates me in braces. Always open something.
Only one.
You should not be in school?
's Day Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lie number two.
I began to tell my lies that morning
when he told my mother that she had a fever.
Do not want to infect a lot of people in college.
I may be walking a pathogen.
I thought his birthday was in January.
It used to be. Changed.
This was the number three.
Hold on, Oscar.
Who is "Black"?
On the envelope. Do you?
It could be someone who knows anything of the key.
Thank you for being a great magnet.
Why would it need?
A project on the census.
Lie number four.
Why are not you in school?
They said that I already know too much.
Black, Black, Black
Black was definitely a person.
... Probably.
It was a Black person had to know Dad.
But how?
And how would I find it?
This was a scouting expedition?
Lagos is here...
The expeditions Dad always included a trip.
78.3 nm...
Brazil.
And he always planned to the smallest detail.
9 miles per hour...
700...
What else could it be?
If there was one key, there is also a lock.
If there was a name, there is also a person.
I arrived!
Had to be a lock.
Ia find it because he would want me to find.
And would find it because that was the only way to stretch my eight minutes with him.
Perhaps this to stretch forever.
Poria a backpack everything needed to survive.
An Israeli gas mask that my grandmother had given me two weeks after the worst of days.
My tambourine to help calm me down.
Binoculars obviously
I had to take little to be lighter.
My daily dispatches. The camera of my father's father.
"A Brief History Time" Steven Hawking, that my father used to read to me.
Mobile... Fake Newtons, which I love.
The key, obviously.
The message of my father: "Do not stop looking!.
I would not stop, ever.
Hey!
Where you going?
Exit.
Where?
= = I said to the convention of comics with Mitch.
I'll be back later. Lie number 5.
Less part "I'll come back."
Do not disconnect the phone. I'll call every hour, right?
I'm serious.
Do not know what was ahead.
Although he had a stomach ache and my eyes lacrimejassem...
Decided that nothing, nothing would stop me.
Not myself.
First... Abby Black, Fort Green, Brooklyn.
How public transport gave me panic decided to walk.
I always had difficulty in doing certain things.
The elevator is working, genius.
I know, retarded.
But the worst of days made the list of things much larger.
Elderly.
People running.
Airplanes.
Things high.
Things that could get stuck.
Things loud, screaming, crying.
People with bad teeth, bags without owners, shoes without owner...
Children without parents , touching things, things with smoke...
People eating meat, people looking up...
Towers, tunnels, speed, noise, lights things with wings...
The bridges cause me panic more.
Let's try. I can not try.
If you do not try, you never know.
Do not disappoint me!
Come on, take the juice.
His grandmother used to bring me to these balances.
My favorite...
Was one, two... the third from the right.
Because I thought it was louder than the others.
So when everyone was gone
I shook.
It was just me and swings.
It is thought a lot here. Especially when I learned to drive.
Ia as high as he could.
Right to the...
Then I jumped.
For a moment I felt free as a bird.
You should try it, Oscar.
You can change your view of things.
It is not safe.
Do not need to jump.
Can we go home?
Fort Green.
Fort Green!
Fort Green! Fort Green Fort Green!
What are you doing?
Hi, my name is Oscar Schell. Met my father, Thomas Schell?
You Abby Black? Yes
I know I should always tell you this, but if you look "incredibly beautiful" in a dictionary
has a picture of you there.
Can I join?
There is a good time.
Why not?
I'm busy.
I'll buy a few beers...
Me too.
Busy with what?
It is your business? That's a rhetorical question?
I had to get there.
I have an extreme thirst.
Lie # 7.
What do you drink?
Coffee, half and half, please. You can?
Do not go in?
I love it.
I also loved.
Know a lot about elephants? Almost nothing.
I know enough.
Loxadanta Africa.
There's a woman who spent 10 years in Congo
taping them to learn how they communicate.
Abby! Where are things?
This year he played the recordings for elephants
It was fascinating when she played for the family elephant shooting an elephant died.
And they remembered.
If approached the Jeep, the recorder.
What does it feel when you heard his voice?
I do not know.
They cried? Only tears we cry, did not you?
The elephant photo is crying.
Seems, but must have been retouched with photoshop.
Do not cry.
Hi, Bob. Okay?
Okay. What do you have?
Legal. Okay ..
Te against the three...
Who is he?
My husband.
Must be finding it all very odd.
I think a lot of weird things.
People keep saying I'm too weird.
Once done tests to see if I suffered from Asperger evil.
Dad said that we are smarter than other but can not run straight.
The tests were inconclusive.
Are you sure you did not know him? Thomas Schell?
He was in the building.
On September 11.
I'm trying to find the lock for this key who was an envelope that belonged to my father.
Sorry, I know nothing of this key or his father.
I borrow it?
You can have it.
I thought you liked.
Things here are going to change going forward.
Can I give you a kiss?
You are a love but I think it would be a good idea.
Can I take your picture of remembrance?
How was the convention?
He spent the day there?
Want to unlock the door, please?
Oscar, open the door, please
Oscar.
Oscar, what are you doing?
Why do you want to login?
To say I love you.
I do not know, I was hoping you...
Do not know if you know what happened, but just wanted you to know I'm right...
's Okay.
We're just hoping to learn what we do.
It's chaos here. We are waiting for the firemen... What?
3 Post, September 11, 9:58 am.
Oscar?
Oscar!
Oscar?
Are you okay?
Yes
Te released early?
Yes
Know what happened?
Yes
Your mother will arrive shortly.
Do you want to wait there until it arrives?
I think so.
Do you want me to wait here with you?
No, okay.
Are you sure?
Any.
Are you sure?
Oscar
His father... he called?
Is there a message on the answering?
All lines are busy. Please wait.
All lines are busy. Please...
Please... please...
We could not complete your call. Please try again.
All lines are busy. Please wait.
We could not complete your call due to congestion of the lines ..
Writing...
Hi, this is the home of the Shell
Today is Tuesday, September 11.
And now the fact of the day.
It's been so cold in a Siberian region to the breath freezes instantly making each Snaps,
called "Whisper of the Stars.
Hi, this is the residence of the Shell...
= = Now nobody has to listen to them, as I had.
As if nothing had happened.
Every time you leave the house I felt lighter.
Because I was closer than my father.
But it was a little heavier because I missed my mother.
What are you looking at me like that?
How?
As if I had done something wrong.
You are with your phone? Are here.
Perhaps she was waiting there until I go away.
Or maybe she had already gone away.
Perhaps he was speaking too low for me to hear.
Hazelle Black, lived in Hamilton Heights
My God, I ask only to take care of our little Oscar
I also pray a miracle for him...
And protects it in Your arms
in your journey.
Amen
Remember...
Every day is a miracle.
Do not believe in miracles.
Find where enter this key would be a miracle.
I started with a simple problem.
A key without a lock.
I designed a system that I thought suited the problem.
Decomposed all the smallest parts possible.
I tried to think of everyone as a number
a giant equation.
It could be for a safe a bank or a bank.
It's old. Can I try to see if something opens up?
But it was not working.
Because people are not as numbers.
They are more letters.
And the letters will make up stories.
And Dad said that stories have to be shared.
Let's go, go
I had a meeting scheduled for 6 minutes with each person called Black.
But never were just six minutes.
Everyone took longer than planned.
Always wanted to comfort me me feel better.
And also tell me their stories.
But I did not want to feel better and do not want friends.
I just wanted to lock.
I was not coming from my father.
I was losing it.
Who are you, some crazy?
Hey, man! I'm talking about!
Open that door and dick!
One day must be very confusing.
I'll call soon.
Oscar, what is it?
Promises not to bury me when I die?
It is early morning, Oscar. Promise not to bury me when I die?
You will not die.
'll Live a long life.
Are you sure you love me?
Without a doubt.
So I put one of those mausoleums above ground.
We need to talk.
About the mausoleum?
No.
About what is happening.
Why do you think so hard to talk to me?
If you have not noticed, half the time you are asleep.
And forget the other half of the first half.
It is what is called legally "in absentia". An absent father.
Is being cruel. What part?
All.
Dad said that the truth liberates.
Well, your father is not here.
Just us two.
1 and It's quarter to be more mathematically correct. Do not leave this room, Oscar.
Do not leave this room! And if I die tomorrow?
You will not die tomorrow. Dad did not think was going to die tomorrow.
It will not happen to you. How do you know?
You know nothing. He buried an empty box.
It's not that. His memory is in there. But that's what it is.
Cells became Santa.
What are now the roofs.
And the river Oscar!
I in the lungs of millions of people now will breathe it in New York.
Do not work that way! How do you know how it works?
You do not understand anything of atoms and molecules.
He can stand up to the poop of the dogs in Central Park!
Okay, now enough!
Sorry, Dr. Stool. To!
But the truth is. Why can not I tell the truth? To!
He is dead but things have to make sense!
No. Things have to make sense. Not everything makes sense, Oscar!
It has to do There is an answer for everything!
I'm not stupid! It makes no sense! It's just a box! An empty box.
I know it's an empty box!
I know, but I did it for me and for you
so that at least we could say goodbye.
Why did he leave, Oscar. And it will not come back.
Never. Do not know why a man threw the plane into the building.
Do not know why my husband is dead.
As you try, will never make sense because it makes no sense.
It makes no sense!
Fuck it all! You know nothing.
Why did you lie to me?
What are you talking about?
Where were you? When?
On that day, the worst of days.
Do you know what I was working.
There was nobody here.
Before I was.
But it was not possible. Should have made it possible.
I can not make the impossible... possible.
Before you had been.
Before you were in the building instead.
Me too.
I was not serious.
Spoke, yes.
Go back to bed.
I was trying to talk to you. I'm going home.
Thomas, can you hear me? Yes'm listening.
This is unbelievable. You are seeing?
Listen... not have much time... has a queue of people wanting to use the phone.
I'll get home in about twenty minutes.
Listen. I am the World Trade Center.
How well is the World Trade Center?
I had a meeting... but that's okay. are saying to stay where we are.
Broke a window to get air.
Where are you? I'm on the 105th floor to about 8 meters from the impact.
Listen, come home now.
'll Be all right.
Where's Oscar?
Oscar is going home. But listen, come home immediately.
You can leave. I'll call back and tell him.
Will say what? I will say...
Tell you what's happening.
I'll tell you where I am
and that firefighters are on the way.
We are blocked. We have to wait...
Thomas?
This is what we do. Th .. Thomas...
Okay?
No, not right, listens...
Thomas, listen. Do this...
You have to go up the stairs. Yes
Can you hear me? Yes
Find the stairs and come home.
I gotta go, honey...
Do not They need the phone.
'll Be all right, it can leave...
Stop talking so... go up the stairs.
I just want you to know that I love you too.
I love you too.
Do not stop talking... keep talking to me...
I'll call a few minutes... Keep talking to me...
Grandma, are you awake?
Exchange
Grandma, please wake up.
Exchange
Please.
Exchange.
Grandma?
I know there's someone in there.
Do not hurt you.
I have only four years. (Lie number 64.)
Who are you?
"The Tenant"
I am the Oscar Schell
The grandson of my grandmother.
Do you know where my grandmother?
"Left" gone?
At this time of night?
Do you know where? It's a little matter of life or death.
Can we wait until it arrives.
You are a stranger, technically speaking?
Do not go into the bedroom of a stranger.
Why do not you speak? Your vocal cords are damaged?
That took a hell of a fright?
Yes
When was the last time you spoke?
Do not try to talk?
Why not try to tell me something?
Come, my name is
"tenant"
has a criminal record?
"No"
It's bad for people to earn a living?
"No"
So what's your story?
"My story is my story."
I had to tell somebody.
No longer could keep secret.
Can I tell my story?
"Yes"
My father died on September 11.
After he died I was a year without enter his room because it was too difficult.
It made me want to cry.
But one day I decided to go anyway.
I missed practicing Tae Kwon Do with him because he made me laugh.
When I went into his closet,
reached out to grab a camera and dropped a blue vase that shattered on the floor.
Inside was an envelope with the name Black writing.
I knew that Dad had left something for me and that the key would open.
I took it to the keychain that said keys to open anything...
I listed all the Blacks in the five boroughs.
I told 472 people with surnames Black
216 different addresses. Many Blacks lived together, obviously.
Figured that if I visited two every Saturday, etc. holiday.
Would take about three years to see them all...
But that's what I'll do.
'll Visit everyone who is called Black and find out where the key goes
and find what my father wanted me to find.
This is my plan.
Divide by zones... people had to lie to my mother...
Do not understand why she had to leave looking for where the key came...
To help me make sense the things that make no sense
as a building he was attacked by people who neither knew .
I see people who do not speak English hiding in rooms...
Other says that he spoke with God...
spoke to God, why not send He did not kill her son?
Or leave a building with an attacking plane? Maybe it was a god different from theirs.
After a man, who was a woman, then man, woman after all at the same time...
I was afraid because he... she was so different...
I wondered if he had penis or vagina, but so what?
What place would that be if everyone had the same haircut....
One man, who did not hear anything for 24 years...
What I quite understand, because I miss the voice of my father...
When I asked if he had agreed...
Let's do something.
See the twin brothers who pissed all together...
And he shed had to be there! There must be some reason!
It was the same design, where the same person...
The porter who was a teacher in Russia but says that now his brain is dying...
Rhamus Black has a collection of coins but has no money even to buy food...
Alan Black, helped but not much...
Worse than a brick wall...
I had tried the key in 148 different places...
But she did not go.
I had to open whatever it was he had in what Dad wanted me to find...
So I know that without it everything will be OK.
Let, then...
I still feel afraid when I walk in a strange place.
I'm so terrified that I have to hold myself ...
But never forget what he said to mama on the sixth district.
If things were easy to find...
Not worth finding them.
I'm so afraid when I leave the house.
Every time I hear a door opening...
Nothing yet stepped forward from the starting point!
More than ever, still miss my dad!
And the goal was to end this one!
It hurts too much.
Sometimes I think I'll do something very bad.
"Bad?"
"I'm tired, I sleep ."
"Do not tell your grandmother that we met."
"I wish I..."
I wish you what?
"What I was looking at you?"
No. No way.
No, no, no.
Course. Next Saturday, 7 am.
I got there 23 minutes and 37 seconds earlier just to be safe.
I do not know if I wanted him to come.
Not even know if he would not come.
I'd give anything to know.
If you come with me, there are rules.
Only entitled to two breaks to go to the bathroom.
A parade of 19 minutes to eat.
Do Tourism is prohibited, even if pass by places of historical importance.
And more...
It has 15 simple questions about her I would like you to respond.
Let.
Rule number four is to not get behind.
Can not stop to wait all the time.
Eugene Black zone is H.
It is in Rockways, to 11.3 miles.
Here.
Do not ride a train. It is not safe.
It is a right target. All public transportation is.
You can turn chopped by people who do not know you.
This is not.
He said "I can not walk that far."
He said he wanted it to be along would be by bus or train.
E train was much faster!
E wrote...
Anyway, have nothing to fear.
And I said: For you it's easy to say.
But in fact, was not.
"Sometimes we have to face our fears"
"Do not think of anything."
Do not think of anything.
This is an oxymoron. Type "right now".
An oxymoron is when two words contradict each other.
Me and my dad used to make war oxymorons.
Funny earnest.
Silence deafening.
Original copies.
Finding lost.
Student Teacher?
Gas liquid.
Clearly confused.
Dead alive.
Almost exactly ?
Genuine Imitation.