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Once upon a time, before I came
You cried and cried and watched TV all day.
Until you were a zombie.
But then I zoomed down from heaven through skylight into room
And I was kicking you from the inside boom boom
And then I shot out onto rug with my eyes wide open
And you cutted the cord and said “Hello Jack.”
Ma. I’m five.
- I'm so old now! - You're such a big boy now!
Yep.
Good morning lamp.
Good morning plant.
Good morning eggsnake.
Good morning rug. Good morning wardrobe.
Good morning TV.
Good morning sink.
Good morning toilet. Good morning everyone.
- Ok. - It's my birthday, I'm five.
I get it.
- Take your vitamin, it's the last one.
- Vitamins.
Is bad tooth hurting?
But you know, mind over matter.
If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
You're right.
Hey, do you know what we're gonna do today?
What?
We are going to bake a birthday cake.
- A birthday cake? - Mhm.
- Like in TV? - Mhm, but for real.
No way...
At back.
1, 2, 3...
4, 5. 1, 2,... 3, 4, 5
There you are.
Good night, Dora. Thanks for helping...
I love you.
Ok, TV off.
I'm going to grow and grow until I'm a giant.
- Look, Ma, I'm stronger than Samson. - Yeah, you are.
I'm going to be Jack the Giant, Giant-Killer!
And burst out of skylight into space with my dog Lucky...
and BOOM BOOM BOOM between all of the planets.
Get started some stretch.
Good job, good job.
Switch your leg.
- Go on. - I'm doing it.
- Yeah. - Get down...
Like a frog.
Feet back and we're doing push-up down.
Ok, time for track.
It's this one. Oh, I meant this wall.
Did I say this one? I meant this wall. But, actually I meant this one.
But this one, but this one needs it too.
Yeeaahh.
Very good.
- Is that the batter? - It's batter, we have some butter too.
Butteeer!
Yeah, mash that in.
- Hope you got it. - Why don't you do some of that?
- Can you do that? - Yep.
- Abracadabra.
- Now the candles!
We don't have any candles.
I know.
You said a birthday cake for real.
That means candles on fire.
Jack...
It's ok without the candles, it's still a birthday cake.
You should ask for candles for sunday treat, not dumb jeans.
I'm sorry.
You know I have to ask for stuff that we really need.
Stuff that he can get easily.
But Old Nick gets anything, by magic.
- Why don't we try your cake?! - No.
Jack...
- Let's try a bite a bit. - I said NO!
Come here.
Next week when I'm six...
you better ask for real candles.
Next year you mean.
And Edmond tears free out of the bag...
and swims and swims of the island Monte Cristo.
And he digs up the treasure his friend was telling him about.
He buys a big yacht,
And sales back to France.
And when he gets there he decides to buy the island.
And call himself The Count.
And vows to take revenge on all of the people that ruined him.
- May I have my birthday cake? - Tomorrow.
Just a bite.
- Well you washed your teeth already.
- One last story? Please.
Come on Jack, it's late, let's go to bed.
Sing.
One evening when the sun went down
And the jungle fire was burning
Down the tracks came a hobo hicking
And he said boys I'm not turning
I'm headed for a land that's far away
Beside the crystal fountain
Oh come with me, go and see
The big rock candy mountain
In the big rock candy mountain
There's a land that's clear and bright
- Here's the jeans. - Thanks.
The grapes were way too much, so I got you canned pears.
What's that? A birthday cake?
You should have told me, I'd got him a present.
So, how old is he anyway, four?
Five.
1, 2, 3...
There is room, then outer space.
there's all the TV planets,
then heaven.
Plant is real but not trees.
Spider are real...
and one time the mosquito that was sucking my blood.
But squirrels and dogs are just TV.
Except Lucky, he is my dog that might come some day.
Mountains are too big to be real and the sea.
TV persons are flat and made of colors.
But me and you are real.
Old Nick, I don't know if he's real.
Maybe half?
48, 49...
50, 51...
What is it?
- It's bad tooth.
Can I hold it?
Wow!
You made him gone!
He was alive thing, he was real!
He would have stolen our food.
Mouse can have my food, I'm not hungry.
He would've brought in germs, bit us in our sleep.
Mouse is my friend...
And you splatted him dead.
No I didn't, he's hunky-dory.
- Are you tricking me? - No, Jack, I swear.
He's safe at home in the backyard with his Ma.
What backyard?
Mouse lives in a yard in TV??
Here you can make UFO out of this.
Why you didn't tell Old Nick it was my birthday?
- Because he's not our friend. - He said he'd bring me a present.
You're not supposed to be listening to that, you're supposed to be asleep.
- I never had a present. - Well he didn't mean it.
It might be my dog, Lucky.
Jack, we can't have a dog, there's not enough room.
Space, there's not enough space, with the barking and the scratching.
- Lucky won't scratch, he promises. - There is no Lucky.
- Yes, there is! - No, there's not!
You made him up in your head, he's not real.
Jack, I'm sorry.
Come here, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry... You're right, it wasn't nice.
Where do we go when we're asleep?
Right here in room.
But dreams?
Do we go into TV for dreaming?
We're never anywhere but here.
Can I open it?
Mhm.
Yeeess.
Why the aliens never scream back??
Because they still can't hear us.
- We'll do even louderer, ok? - Ok.
[PLAYING] I'll kill you!
- Mommy, it's attacking me! - Oh no!
[PLAYING] Got you!
Ma, what smells bad?
Fuck!
- What's that smell? - Sorry, I burned some cheese.
I just wasn't thinking.
Well, thinking is not your strong suit.
I know.
- Yeah. - Why don't you sit down?
Thank you.
So how did he like his truck?
Yeah?
Yeah... I know boys.
The vitamins?
- Ah, it's the waste of money, there's nothing in.
- If we had a better diet... - Oh, fuck, here we go again.
Maybe if you could stop complaining and be a little grateful.
- Thank you.
- God, like fucking pulling teeth sometimes.
- Thank you for everything.
- You just have no idea about the world today.
- No. - No.
- Who pays the power bill? Who pays for everything?
- You.
I how do you think I'm gonna be able to keep doing that?
- What do you mean?
Nothing.
- No, what did that mean? - Six months I've been laid off.
Six months.
Yeah... If you had to worry your little head?
- What are you gonna do about it?
- Are you looking for a job? - There are no fucking jobs, Jesus!
- Hey there. - He's asleep.
I don't think so.
Do you keep him in the closet all day, as well as all night??
What, the little freak has two heads or something?
- Hey.
- Shh. - Come to bed. - Hey, Jack.
- Hey. - Let's go to bed. - You want some candy?
Do you like candy?
- Come on out and get some candy. - Come to bed.
- Please...
- Please?
Didn't your Momma ever teach you any manners, young lady?
Hi son.
Get away from him! Don't touch him!
- Don't touch him. - Cut the noise!
- No! - Cut the noise!
Cut the noise!
You wanna breathe?
Yeah? Do you wanna breathe?
Shit, fuck!
Don't touch him!
Fuck!
If you ever touch me like that again...
If you ever grab me like that I'm gonna fucking kill you!
- Do you understand that? - Don't touch him.
Yeah, well you forget where you got him.
Jack! Jack!
I'm sorry I came out of wardrobe!
- Are you ok? - I'm sorry.
- It's ok. - I won't do it again.
Ma, I'm a dragon.
I'm a dragon.
He cut the power.
For, you see, so many out of the way things had happened latly
- that Alice... - "Lately".
lately, that Alice had begun to think that
very few things indeed were really impossible.
There's seemed to be no use in waiting by the little door...
Ma...
Hey Jack, do you remember mouse?
Yeah.
Yeah?
Do you know where he is?
I do.
He's on the other side of this wall.
What other side?
Jack, there is two sides to everything.
Not in octagon.
Yeah...
- But... - An octagon has eight sides.
But a wall, ok?
A wall is like this.
See, we're on the inside...
the mouse is on the outside.
- In outer space? - No, in the world.
It's much closer than outer space.
I can't see the outside side.
Listen, I know that I...
told you somethings else before but you were much younger.
I didn't think that you could understand but now you're so old...
And so smart. I know that you can get this.
Where do you think that Old Nick gets our food?
- From TV by magic! - There is no magic.
What you see on TV, those are pictures of real things, of real people.
It's real stuff.
Dora's real for real?
No, that's a drawing. Dora is a drawing.
But other people... They have faces like us.
Those are pictures of real things.
And all the other stuff you see on there, that's real too.
That's real oceans, real trees, real cats.
No way.
- Where they all fit? - They just do, they just fit.
They just fit out in the world.
Jack, c'mon...
You're so smart. I know that you've been wondering about this.
Can I have something else to eat?
There's a leaf!
- Do you see that? - Where?
Look.
I don't see a leaf.
Come here, I want you to see.
Come have a closer look.
You see that? See?
Dumbo Ma, that's not leaf, leaves are green.
Yeah, on trees, but then they fall and they rot, like salad in the fridge.
Where's all that stuff you said?
Trees and dogs and cats and grass?
Well, we can't see it from here...
because the skylight looks upwards instead of sideways.
You're just tricking me.
No, I'm not.
- Liar, liar, pants on fire! - Jack!
I couldn't explain it before because you were too small...
you were to small to understand so I had to make up a story. But...
But now I'm doing the opposite.
Ok, I'm doing the opposite of lying, I am unlying.
Because you're five now.
You're five and you're old enough to understand...
what the world is. You have to understand!
We can't keep living like this you need to help me.
I want to be four again.
Do you remember how...
Do you remember how Alice wasn't always in Wonderland?
She fell down, down down deep in the hole.
Well, I wasn't always in room, I'm like Alice.
I was a little girl named Joy.
Nah...
And I lived in a house with my mom and my dad.
You would called them Grandma and Grandpa.
What house?!
A house, it was in the world.
And there was backyard, we had hammock.
We would swing in the hammock and we eat ice cream.
A TV house?
No, Jack, a real house, not TV.
Are you even listening to me?
When I was a little older, when I was 17...
I was walking home from school...
- Where was I? - You were still up in heaven.
But there was a guy, he pretended that his dog was sick...
What guy?
Old Nick, we called him Old Nick.
I don't know what his real name is.
But he pretended his dog was sick.
What's the dog's name?
Jack, there wasn't a dog!
He was trying to trick me, ok?
There wasn't a dog, Old Nick stole me.
I want a different story!
No, this is the story that you get!
He put me in his garden shed.
Here. Room is the shed.
He's locked the door and he's the only one that knows the code.
You know, the secret numbers that open the door?
He is the only one that knows and I've been locked in here for seven years.
I've been in here for seven years, do you understand?
This story is boring!
Jack, the world is so big!
It's so big you wouldn't even believe it.
And Room is just one stinky part of it.
Room is not stinky, only when you do a fart!
My God...
I don't believe in you stinky world!
Ma...
It's warm again.
Ma...
Eggsnake's our longest friend and fanciest.
Meltedy Spoon's the best to eat with because he's more blobbier.
Labyrinth is the twistiest.
And she hides things so I don't know where they are.
Toilet's the best at disappearing poo.
Lamp's the brightest except when the power is cut.
You're the best at reading and songs and lots.
Except if you're having a Gone Day.
I'm the best at drawing and jumping and growing and nearly everything.
[TV] But the turtle is no longer afraid of that.
She is bigger now and her shell is much harder.
Are turtles real?
Yeah, they are totally real.
I had a turtle as a pet.
And crocodiles and sharks?
Yeah, they are all real.
Real?
Sort of.
So, these are real people but they are playing dress-up.
They are pretending that they're people from hundreds of years ago.
Just TV?
You're getting it!
When Old Nick comes back, I'm gonna kick him in the butt.
Let me tell you something.
You know, one time I tried to kick Old Nick in the butt.
I hid behind the door.
And I was holding the lid from the toilet tank.
There used to be a lid on it, it was the heaviest thing in Room.
When he came in I smashed it on his head.
But I messed up.
He shoved the door closed and he grabbed me by the wrist.
That's why it's sore now.
We could wait till he's asleep and kill him dead.
Yeah, we could, but...
Then what?... We'd ran out of food.
And we don't know the code to the door.
Hey! The Grandma and Grandpa could come.
Jack, they don't know where we are.
Room's not on any map.
Jack, listen to me. Now we got a chance.
We've nearly missed it but we got our chance.
So, you're gonna help me.
You're gonna help me trick Old Nick.
I don't get it.
I'm going to make your face so hot...
that Old Nick will have to take you to the hospital in his truck...
and then when you get there you're gonna say to the doctors, Help! Police!
- Well, maybe next year when I'm six. - Tonight.
It has to be tonight, Jack.
Tell Old Nick that...
because of the power cut...
you go so cold that you got fever.
Tomorrow, please!
No, I'm your Ma, so sometimes I have to pick for the both of us.
It's ok, it's ok, you gotta stay floppy.
Ok, you stay floppy and you're not gonna move...
or say a word, you're too weak, ok?
What are you doing?
What are you doing?!
I'm sorry, I just got to make you smell sick.
Good, that's good, show me how...
Show me how you're gonna pull the note out of your pocket.
Show me the note.
Come on, you're at the hospital...
Show me.
What's this?
What's that?
You see? You got a bit of me. All the time.
Ok, you put it back in your pocket..
Good, good, ok.
And you gotta be strong too.
Ok?
- I'm scared. - I know.
Come on.
It's ok.
- There you are! - You know the drill.
- Not a peep till the door is shut. - Sorry, just...
Jack's sick.
It was so cold.
- Well, you brought that on yourself.
- Well, I couldn't keep him warm, and now he's burning.
- Give him some of those painkillers.
- I've tried, but he just keeps puking them back up.
Don't! Don't you...
Stay still?
Jesus, he's on fire.
Ok, I'll get him something stronger.
But he... he's five, he's dehydrated, he has fever.
He could go into convulsions any minute.
- Just shut up and let me think. - He needs antibiotics.
Ok, alright, I'll get him something tomorrow night.
No, you need to take him to the E.R. right now.
- Stop the hysterics! - I'm begging you!
Am I still gonna go?
No, not this time.
It's ok.
Do you remember how...Edmond pulls his friend out of the bag?
And hides in.
And then he gets in the bag.
And he lays in there really still until the guards come.
Cause that's what you're gonna do.
You see? How that's even tricksier than pretending to be sick.
Because you're gonna...
Play dead.
Folding over.
- I don't want to be dead. - You're just pretending to be dead.
Stay stiff.
We're gonna roll you up in rug so that Old Nick won't see you.
Won't see that you're alive inside.
Old Nick is gonna pick you up. This, stay stiff, stiff, stiff.
And you're not gonna be wobbly and floppy this time...
you're gonna be real stiff.
Like, like a robot.
Now shake.
So, that's what it will feel like.
And that's when you'll know that Old Nick's driving.
That means he's busy and so it's time for you to roll.
And you're not going to make a sound.
And I'm going to be there in your head talking to you all time.
Roll, roll, roll. Now wriggle, wriggle, wriggle!
- I can't, stop! - Come on, Jack.
- Ma, I can't! - Ok.
And Old Nick's gonna come and he's gonna pick you up with rug...
and he is gonna take you outside.
And he's gonna put you in his truck.
And he's gonna.... find a place to...
To...
Lay you down.
No.
But it'll be ok though.
Cause you're gonna wriggle out, and you're gonna run away.
Hands like this.
Ok, too many turns, that time will shorten the rug.
Ok.
Roll, roll, roll, roll, Jack! Roll, come on, roll.
- You got it, wriggle, wriggle, yes! - I hate you!
Ok, ok.
Truck, wriggle out, jump, run.
You will jump...
Jump when you hit the first STOP sign.
When truck rolls to a stop.
You're gonna shout when you see somebody.
You say "my Ma is Joy Newsome"!
- Who is Somebody?
Anybody, it's the first person that you see.
- An actual real alive person?
What if Old Nick unwraps me?
He won't.
You got bad tooth?
He's in here so I don't lose him.
You're amazing.
You're gonna love it.
What?
The world.
My house with the hammock.
And Grandma and Grandpa.
And you?
Yeah.
Stay stiff. Sorry, Jack.
Stay stiff.
- You can do this. - Antibiotics.
What are you doing?
He got worse in the night.
He didn't wake up.
Ah, geez...
Poor girl.
- Well, I guess it must have been pretty serious.
- You killed my baby.
Ok, take it easy, ok, let me have a look.
- Don't touch him! - Ok.
- Are you sure? - Am I sure?!?.
- Well, he can't stay here, you know. - No.
- Where are you gonna take him? - I don't know.
I'm thinking...
- Somewhere nice.
It can't be here, I'll feel him.
- Ok. - Somewhere with trees.
Trees, sure, yeah.
I want you to swear to me you won't even lay your filthy eyes on him.
Swear to me that you won't look at him!
I swear.
- Ok, we still got an hour till dark. - Now!
- Now! I can’t bear it. - Alright.
- Gentle please! - Ok.
- Please, please! - I got him.
- Please gentle. - I got him, I got him.
Step back.
Face the wall..
Truck.
Wriggle out.
Jump.
Run. Somebody.
God.
Fucking bitch.
- Boomer!
I'm really sorry man, she just came out of nowhere.
Hey, hey! I'm really sorry.
- Is your little girl ok? - It's under control.
Has she been in some kind of accident? Would you like me to call in someone?
- Help! - I'll take care of it.
- What's that you got there, honey? - Come on.
- Is that for me? - Come on.
Why don't you just mind your own business?
- Ma, help me! - I'm calling the cops, mister.
Come here, sit.
Hi, honey.
This is Boomer, he's not gonna hurt you.
You hold on, I'm gonna call somebody.
It was red pickup, she was running away from this guy who grabbed her.
- I tried to stop him. - Thank you.
Hey, hey there.
I'm officer Parker. Can you tell me your name?
Hi.
- Jack.
Can you say that a little louder for me?
Ok.
So...
Do you have another name...?
Jack?
Ok, it's ok.
Can you tell me how old you are?
- I'm five. - Five.
That's great, ok.
Now...
Can you tell me where you live?
Why don't we call child services?
Do you have a mom, Jack?
Ma.
Ok, good. Does she have another name?
- I can't remember.
Where is Ma right now?
- Room. - What Room?
Jack, where is this Room?
That guy with the truck, is that your dad?
Is that Ma's boyfriend, do you know him?
What's that, Jack?
- A bit of Ma.
That's ok baby. That's good.
Thank you, Jack, that's good, you did real good. Ok?
So Jack, anything recognizably?
Jack, anything?
Your room, Jack. What's outside the room?
- Space.
No.
- The world. - You think the kid's on something?
- Ok, listen, when you step out the door...
- No, no, you don't? - We don't know to open the door.
- My money's on some kind of cult.
The tooth, the long hair.
Is there daylight in your room?
- Ok, good, how many windows? - Zero.
- Well then how does the sun come in? - Through skylight.
Skylight? Ok, excellent, so..
- You live in a house with the skylight?
- Room's not a house.
Ok.
- It's a... - Yeah?
You'll get more out of him after he's had some sleep.
- Tom, give it a second.
- Room's a...a shed.
- A shed?
Jack, a shed? Ok, good boy.
That's a needle in a haystack.
Ok, listen to me.
What made you jump out of the truck, Jack?
Ma said my head.
Ok. What exactly did she say?
Jump when it slows down, but I couldn't.
Alright. So what did you do?
What did you do?
Third time, I got banged.
The third time of what, Jack?
Third slow, everything went sideways.
And then it stopped...
- And I jumped... - I got it.
I got it honey, I got it.
- 54O9 call. - [PD] Go ahead.
Dispatch, listen carefully, wa have a rough location.
South on Elm, three stop signs past the junction with Beach...
Look for a garden shed with a skylight.
Also check the most recent satellite images for...
a red pickup in the driveway.
- 54O9 over. - Unbelievable.
[PD] Ok, copy that 54O9.
Good work, Jack.
[PD] Anything is possible, we got a hostage situation.
Stay with the kid.
Everything is gonna be ok, Jack, just settle in.
- Hey Parker. You'll need help out here?
- Is he inside?
- I think not.
Ma!
Open the door. Open!
- Jack! Where have you been? - Ma, I'm in the world!
Ma!
Can we go to bed?
Yeah.
They'll take us somewhere to sleep soon.
No, but bed...
In Room.
Ma, Maa!
Good morning, sleepyhead.
I was waiting so long for you to wake up I fell asleep again.
Are we on another planet?
Same one, just the different spot.
This one is...
A bedroom, in a hospital.
Are we sick for real or pretend?
We're not sick. We're the opposite of sick.
How long are we staying?
Not long.
Grandma saw us last night...
and she's gonna get us once they say we’re OK.
And Grandpa?
He was away for work, but he’s on a plane coming back home..
I wet the bed before, I'm sorry.
- Yeah? - It was by accident.
That's ok.
Hello?
Yeah.
Just now.
Yeah, that would be great.
Can you bring it in 20 minutes?
Ok, thank you.
Step out.
Ok.
- Ma, that's waste. - We'll get you a new ones.
- For sunday treat?
There will be so many treats, and not just on sunday.
Ma, where's the bath?
There's a shower, it's splashier.
Jack, come here.
That's us.
Ma, will he find us?
No.
He will never find us.
Come on.
Bath before bed, that's the rule.
There are no rules, Jack. We can do what we like.
- Are you hurting? - No.
You wanna come in?
Ma, the door is ticking.
Hey, it's ok.
- Good morning. - Hi.
It's ok. Come on.
- So, we're all awake now? - Yeah.
- Just put it over there. - It's ok, Jack.
- Hi, Jack.
How you doin'?
My name is Dr. Mittal,
and you were asleep when I showed up this morning.
- You hungry? - Do you want some breakfast?
Yeah, you must be starving.
He's gonna bring you some breakfast.
Check out what we got, it's pancakes and fruit.
Let's check it out...
Pancakes.
It's really good.
Really, really good.
You wanna try it? It goes with syrup too.
- Everything's looking good. - You wanna try syrup? It's very sweet.
So,
I brought you some goodies.
- Sunglasses. - Ok.
That will make you more comfortable if you need to go outside.
And sunscreen, that's for him mainly.
- This is important, that's for Jack. - Is that really necesarry?
Well, there's a lot of germs in the air that he still needs to get used to.
And my colleague prescribed...
this for your pain for you wrist...
until they can get you set up for surgery.
And that's to help you sleep.
- Just take it a few. - Ok.
Thank you.
Come on, Jack, let's try some pancake.
So have you had a chance to think about what we discussed this morning?
Yeah, I did think about it, thank you, but...
I really want to go home.
Ok.
- You know my view. - Yeah.
With everything you two experienced and just...
- Assess Jack properly. - But nothing happened to Jack.
- I understand.
- He's gonna be ok, right?
The most important thing you did,
was to get him out while he’s still plastic.
- what? - I'm not plastic.
What's that, Jack?
He says that he's real, he's not plastic.
Well you got me there, Jack.
You're real, and you're very brave.
- Let's talk about this later. - Dad?
Dad!
I'm sorry, we just couldn't wait any longer.
That's ok, don't worry about it.
Hello, Jack, thanks for saving our little girl.
I've been in the world 37 hours.
I've seen pancakes and the stairs.
And birds, and windows and hundreds of cars.
And clouds and police and doctors.
And Grandma and Grandpa.
But Ma says they don't live together in the hammock house anymore.
Grandma lives there with her friend Leo now.
And Grandpa lives far away.
- I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I've seen persons with different faces
And bigness and smells talking all together.
We are getting unconfirmed reports that an individual has just been arrested.
The world's like all TV planets on at the same time.
So I don't know which way to look and listen.
I just wanna come home.
There's doors and more doors.
And behind all the door there's another inside.
And another outside.
And things happen, happen, happen,
it never stops.
Plus...
the world's always changing brightness and hotness.
And there's invisible germs floating everywhere.
When I was small I only knew small things,
but now I'm five I know everything.
- We're walking out on this? - Come on sweety, it's ok, just pick him up.
- Come here, Jack. - We love you, Jack.
Mrs. Newsome, Channel 5.
Don't worry, they will get bored quickly.
The back of the property is screened very well.
We're taking care where necessary.
So if you keep the front drapes closed...
- We're home now. - You can keep privacy.
We'll be outside if you need anything.
Alright, thank you, thanky you so much.
Your father is still talking to a lawyer.
You wanna take your shoes off?
- Are you ok? - Yeah.
Let's check out downstairs.
You can do it. One way in.
That's good, come on, one step at the time.
- Ok, one more. - Hello.
Welcome home honey, I'm very very happy to see you.
- Me too. - Jack,
- This is Leo. - Hey, there sport.
Leo's been our friend since your mom was little.
- Jack. Come on. - It's ok, it's alright.
- It's alright, sweety. - I'm sorry.
Jack.
- So what can I get you? Anyone hungry?
- We have everything. - Yeah, people have been so kind.
Hey, Jack, would you like something to drink?
Jack,
Grandma asked you a question, if you want anything?
You hungry?
Juice.
He would like some juice.
- Please. - Ok.
- Coming right up. - Thank you.
- How about you? - I'm ok.
Hey, you know, when Grandma asks you a question, you can answer her.
You don't need to say everything to me, ok?
- Ma? - What?
What are those?
Those are toys, gifts for you.
From people that are very happy...
that we got home safe.
What people?
Just people.
Where's ice cream in the hammock?
I don't know, we'll get that later.
What is that? Let me se that.
- Where did you get this? - Down there.
Just in case.
Do you have a dog?
It's Leo's dog, Seamus.
- He’s on furlough at the moment, with a pal of mine out of town.
Living the country life.
- You know, people at the hospital said...
to avoid pets until your immunity is back up and there's so much...
What?
- The lawyer said they're expecting a plea but we can’t rule out a trial.
He wanted to get into everything, and I said "Not today".
Good.
- I made it clear there'd be no further contact.
No statements. To respect our family.
Ah sorry, I'm sorry.
- Can I get you a drink, Bob? - Thank you.
- Scotch... whatever you have. - Sure.
- Sweety, is there anything you'd like?
Or like to do...or?
You got it, you got it.
Come on.
Yeah...
This is your Mom's room, Jack.
Hey.
Maybe tomorrow we can cut that hair. What do you say, Jack?
- Ma. - What?
That's true.
He says that’s where his "strong" is.
Yeah.
Maybe I'll just let you rest. We'll see you downstairs.
- We'll be downstairs, ok? - Ok.
- It's really good, Nancy. - You wanna try some?
It's apples, you like apples.
- How about some ice cream, Jack?
What do you say?
Thank you.
You know, you can say it louder than that.
Thank you.
- It's ok. - Thank you for being polite.
Leo?
- Ice cream hurts. - You got a brain freeze there, Jack.
Just eat it slower, ok?
I think I'll turn in.
Is there something wrong?
- No. - Why are you in such a hurry?
It's been a big day.
- You haven't said one word to Jack.
Joy. Joy.
We don’t have to talk about this now.
God.
Yes we do, Dad.
Look at him.
Dad.
- Robert. - Please.
Dad.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, I can't.
- We're out of here. - Robert...
- Joy... - Just spit out, let's go.
- We're going to bed. - No.
Joy, don't! Joy! Robert.
Where's Grandpa?
He had to go home for a while.
You want to play with some of those toys?
- You know who that is? - This, that's you.
Yeah, that's me.
And Stacy Benton.
And Heather Noel and Laura Sullivan.
We were on the relay team.
I was the anchor. I was really fast.
We did track.
Real track?
On a field.
- You know what happened to them? - No.
Exactly.
Nothing. They just lived their life and nothing happened.
Jack, get away from the window.
Jack?
So, the other thing that we need to discuss is...
some sort of media strategy.
We're not ready for talking like that, not yet.
Ok.
There's gonna be expenses within forward and a prime time interview...
just one prime time interview means a lot of money.
Ma, how long are we gonna be here for?
This is where we live now, Jack.
As much information I could give in.
I'm sure Nancy knows more.
I'll get her to call you as she gets home.
- Thanks. - Thanks again.
Ok. So...
What am I gonna do now...?
What if there's anybody around that would...
play with me here...
talk to me.
I guess not.
I'm pretty hungry.
Oh, I know! Got something in the kitchen I think.
Oh yes, I got something very tasty in the kitchen, I think.
Let me see...what's here.
Hello.
I didn't know you were up.
Pretty good, am I right?
I like this kind, too.
Kind of sweet, but pretty good.
You really have a dog?
I do.
Named Seamus.
He's very small. Not very smart.
You should meet him sometime.
He'll shake your hand.
I had a dog once named Lucky.
- But he wasn't real. - Yeah?
He lived in Room.
So you got some fluffy cloud in the sky?
- Mhm.
Looks like a nice day.
Which one of these guys is you?
That guy?
And who is this?
- What is that? - It's a whale.
This guy sees blood under the ice so he wants to go diving.
- I'm sorry. - Oh?
It's ok, don't worry about it. Let her rest.
- I'm almost done here. - Ok.
I'm really looking forward to see how this masterpiece turns out.
- Don't worry about it. - Just couldn't come down.
- It's perfectly normal. - She's not talking.
It's understandable. It's gonna take time for her to heal.
She's been home what, 10 days?
Jack, can you go downstairs, please?
Now.
Jack!
Come here.
Look, you have all these toys.
I don't want them.
Any kid would be so happy to have these...
and you barely even touched them.
Try the legos. See this?
Put these together like this, you see how I'm doing it?
Try it.
Is it fun?
Jack.
Can you say something?
Jack!
He needs to play with something real.
I'm worried about him being on the phone.
- He's doing fine. - Well...
I didn't give him my phone so I'd appreciate if you didn't give him yours...
Ok, I won't.
Great.
I just want him to connect with something.
Joy...
Joy, he's really doing fine.
I don't know what's wrong with me.
I was supposed to be happy.
- You just need to rest, ok? - No, I don't!
- I don't need to rest! - But the doctor said...
That's not what the doctor said, you don't know what he said...
because it was confidential conversation.
- You don't know what he said! - Alright, alright, alright.
You're impossible to talk to right now.
Well sorry!
- No, no you're not sorry! - Yeah, I'm not sorry.
You have no idea what's going on in my head.
- Yeah, well try me.
I have asked you.
And then what, then every time you look at me that's all that you see?
When I look at you Joy, I will see my daughter.
You don't need me.
You've been doing just fine without me.
How can you say that?
Do you think that you're the only one who's life was destroyed?
Actually, that's exactly what I think.
Yeah, how would you feel if somebody took Jack away from you?
- Oh shut up! - Go easy.
Look at him!
You should be thinking about him.
Don't you tell me how to look after my son.
I'm sorry that I'm not nice anymore.
You know what, maybe if your voice saying "be nice"...
hadn't been in my head, then...
maybe I wouldn't have helped the guy with a fucking sick dog!
Stay there, Jack.
I'm calling the fucking lawyer.
I can't stand this place.
Isabelle, so what are we thinking for the walk and talk?
And I want you to know that you guide this interview, ok?
So, what you feel comfortable with, you talk about it.
And when you don't, you just say...
"not comfortable" and we move on to another question.
- Ok. - And I'm gonna, you know..
My lawyer said that's...
- You're good. - Thanks.
Did you ever think you could see this house again?
I hoped.
- You hoped? - Yes.
And did you think about things from his childhood?
It's time to go down downstairs, Jack, remember what your Mom said?
- I think we got hot. - Yeah, the lights.
The lights will get very warm.
Listening to you I'm sure you must have felt at times as if...
God had deserted you.
- In those very black moments... - Yeah.
Did you consider taking your own life, just to escape.
- I'm getting a feeling my client... - It's ok.
- I'm ok. - Can you give her a minute, please.
I'm fine, can I just have a tissue?
Of course, can we get her a tissue, please.
- Here you go. - Hard to talk. - I'm sure.
- Sorry. - You don't have to apologize.
Nobody's expecting you to be.
You know, the pillar of strength. You can cry.
You know, why don't we just go on to the next question, would that be ok?
Do you want to put your tissue, maybe under your chair.
Yeah.
- There you go. - Ok.
- Good. - Ok.
So...
When Jack came along...
was it different for you then?
When Jack came everything was different.
He was so beautiful... and...
I just knew that I had to keep him safe.
Of course, of course.
When he's older...
will you tell Jack about his father?
Jack's not his.
He's not his? So are you saying that there were other men?
No.
A father is a man who loves his child.
Of course, that's so true in very real sense, but the..
- The biological relationship... - But that's not a relationship.
Jack is, is nobody's but mine.
- When he was born, did it, did it ever occur to you...
to ask your captor to take Jack away?
Away?
Well, to take him to a hospital, say...
Leave him there where he could be found.
Why would I do that?
- So Jack could be free.
Now, this is the ultimate sacrifice and I understand that...
but did you think about him having a normal childhood?
- But he had me. - Of course he did.
But, was that the best thing for him?
Ma?
Ma!... Ma!
- Jack, what is it? - Ma! Ma!
- What, what? - Ma! Ma!
Joy! Come here, Jack, come here, come here!
- Call 911. - Ma!
I'm here, my sweety.
Bye.
Hello?
Hi.
How she doin'?
He's upstairs.
Jack...
Come on.
Phone's for you.
- Say hello. - Hello.
Jack, Jack?
- Are you there? - Ma.
- How are you doing? - Come back.
I can't just yet.
Come back now!
I'll be there soon, I just have to be here just a little while longer.
I pick, I pick for both of us.
Jack?
Leo?
There's so much of place in the world.
There's less time because the time has to be spread...
extra thin over all the places, like butter.
So all the persons say "hurry up, let's get going".
"Pick up the pace, finish up now".
Ma was in a hurry to go boing up to heaven...
but she forgot me, Dumbo Ma.
So the aliens threw her back down, craaaaash....
and broke her.
Ok.
You good?
- Can you help me carry a bag of groceries? - Yep.
- Is that ok? - Yep.
Ok, cool, thank you. It's light.
Alright.
- You've been shopping...
We're making cupcakes.
- Have a good day. - See you.
You ok? Come on.
- You're really good at that.
- I did before, in Room.
You did? Wow.
- What else did you do there? - Lots of stuff.
Sometimes I miss it.
Wasn’t it awfully small?
It went every direction,
all the way to the end. It never finished.
And Ma was always there..
But it was small in wardrobe.
- What did you do in wardrobe? - Sleep.
When Old Nick came.
I want to see Ma.
Yeah, I know.
She just needs to be on her own for a while.
Jack, there’s someone here who’d like to meet you.
Oh, Jack, here, let me get this for you.
Come on, lets go see.
Jack, meet Seamus.
Would you like to pet him?
Here you go, shake him again, makes him feel good.
Makes him feel good?
Yeah, makes him feel good, he should try that.
He's moving.
Grandma?
- Yes? - I need the scissors.
- What for? - For cutting my hair.
- Do you really want to do that? - I want to send it to Ma.
How come?
She needs my strong more than me.
So I want to send it to her. Or you could take it to her.
- I can help you if you'd like. - Yes, please.
Ok.
Ok!
Let's do this right.
I have been wanting to cut that hair for a very long time.
Come on.
I used to cut your mother's hair all the time.
And your grandpa's. I hope I still got it.
Do you think this will work?
Can my strong be her strong too?
Of course it can.
We all help each other stay strong.
No one is strong alone.
You and your mommy, you help each other through, don't you?
Yep.
You and me. You and Leo. And Leo and me.
We all have the same strong.
I guess we do.
Alright...
Are you ready?
Steady.
Here, see?
See?
What do you think?
It can get through in my eyes.
No there's a towel right there if you need.
- And my mouth. - Yeah.
This is the best part.
- It feels good? - Yeah.
Oh God.
Let's see.
There.
I love you, Grandma.
I love you too, Jack.
I'm sorry, Jack.
That's ok.
Don't do it again.
I promise.
Are you better now?
Yeah, I'm starting to be.
- Hey, Jack. - Yeah?
Grandma brought this to me.
I knew that I could get better.
You saved me.
Again.
- Can I...? - No.
There's no more left, sorry.
Ok.
I'm not a good enough Ma.
But you're Ma.
I am.
I’m going to play with Aaron now, he's my friend.
Ok.
When I was four I didn't even know about the world.
And now me and Ma are going to live in it forever and ever.
Until we're dead.
This is a street in a city in a country called America.
And Earth, that's a blue and green planet...
always spinning so I don't know why we don't fall off.
Then there's Outer Space,
and nobody knows where's heaven.
And Ma and I have decided that because we don’t know what we like
we get to try everything.
There are so many things out here.
And sometimes it's scary
but that's ok.
Because it's still just you and me.
Can we go back to Room?
Jack.
Just for a visit.
Watch your step.
- Is this Room? - Yeah.
Has it gotten shrinked?
Where is everything?
Taken away for evidence.
Proof that we were here.
This because door's open.
What?
It can't really be Room if door's open.
Do you want me to close it?
No.
Jack, can we go?
Bye plant.
Bye chair No.1.
Bye chair No.2.
Bye table.
Bye wardrobe.
Bye sink.
Bye-bye skylight.
Ma, say bye-bye to Room.
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