Too Scary; Didn't Watch - COHERENCE

Episode Date: June 17, 2026

Emily has picked yet another very difficult movie to recap!!!(Spoiler alert: she knocked it out of the park)Movie Intro @ 19:30Trivia @ 21:53Recap starts @ 29:12 Follow the show: @TSDWpodcast on Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram.Check out our Patreon for bonus episodes and additional content!Rate Too Scary; Didn’t Watch 5 Stars on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and leave a review for Emily, Henley, and Sammy.Advertise on Too Scary; Didn't Watch via Gumball.fmSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is a headgum podcast. This is Emily, Henley, and Sammy. And you're listening to Too Scary Didn't Watch. Hi, everyone. Welcome to Too Scary Didn't Watch, the horror movie Recount podcast for those Too Scared to Watch for themselves. I'm Emily and I am too scared to watch scary movies. I'm Henley and I'm also too scared to watch scary movies.

I'm Sammy and I love watching scary movies. And so I usually watch them so that you don't have to, but sometimes things are different. And today is one of those days. And I am absolutely thrilled. I am too. Me too. But we're not going to get into that just yet.

If you'd like to jump straight to our movie today, there's timestamps in the show notes. Because first, we're checking in and finding out Emily and Henley, did anything scary happen to you guys this week? I just want to talk about the thing I already texted you guys about. I mean, you know, I needed to talk about it. You have to talk about. Actually, there's like multiple things to talk about because I'm realizing that you guys probably think I'm talking about something different. Oh, yes.

Okay. So, sure. And I think this is fun to listen to this part. It's just a two-parter. They're not connected at all. The first is just an update on the AI slop that's out there. So my TikTok algorithm is feeding me the most terrifying. I really don't like it.

Romanticie, AI, crazy shit I've ever seen in my life every couple of videos. It's another AI video of like, the Beast King has never touched a female in 10,000 years. And it's like, what the beast king is this? And it's like all of them have the most intense storylines. But then occasionally we get the like complete absurd surrealist one. So there's one that's a storyline. It's about a woman who's a tomato. Well, she's a head that's a tomato.

And she's like running from her abusive ex-boyfriend. And it's like, it's like you get all of this within the first like four, of the first like point four seconds of it hitting your screen. Like you know the entire plot line like a meet. You don't even have to watch it. You're just like there's the woman with the tomato head running from her boyfriend again. And like, this is my TikTok up.

I can't, I can't keep looking at TikTok, you guys. I can't keep doing it. This is like, she's back at it again. She's in her cycle. When I would get all those ads for you. the like phone games that are like a woman and her baby outside in the snow, build them a house before they freeze.

Yes. Sammy, it's like that. But a different flavor of it. It's because they're just like so shocking that they know you're going to like look at it for a little longer, I feel like than you would other boring ads. And it really works because I'm like, what the fuck is this? Well, it's also like. And I'm reinforcing. The ones I've been getting recently are like verging on pornography. It's like it'll be like, it's like a snake having sex with a woman.

I'm like, whoa. I'm like, what? Holy, oh, wait a minute. Just imagine if you were a teenager. I also imagine if, like, Silas Ramay was looking at my phone and I was, like, full of being through these videos. Like, this is the craziest shit I've ever seen as a 36-year-olds. It's like, yeah.

Okay, so that's one thing. And the other thing is that we all, I almost, I just got here right in the naked time. You guys, I almost missed this recording because all of the power went out in Greenwich, Connecticut because someone's big fucking American flag flew off of their house and went into like a terminal electrical center like one of like big like a big guy and is a big fucking American flag. I mean, the whole town of Greenwich. And that was at 8 p.m. last night during a windstorm, which was really bad. And there were a lot of limbs on the ground this morning. Lems, tree limbs. That's not the scary thing. It's the flag. It's absolute carnage.

You know, your classic carnage after a wind. storm. And so that was just being absolutely ripped apart. And so that was last night. It only affected like a smaller percentage of the Greenwich community. And then when they went to fix it this morning,

like an intern, like a summer intern was probably in charge. I don't know who was up there. But whatever they did, they put the flag like even more into the electrical pole. They just wrapped around tighter. I don't know. Because then it went out for all of Greenwich. Like 99% of Greenwich lost power like all day to day.

The grocery stores, the gym, the library. Like nowhere had power today all day. And it was fucking hot. Because of patriotism. Because of a big, someone's personal, huge American flag, a personal one. Rock and roll, God bless America. Privately owned. Privately owned American flag.

A privately owned. And I've been nauseous all day at the metaphor. I've been not. It's making me physically sick. It's really saying something. Yeah. It's making me physically ill. Yeah.

But just in the naked time, lights came back on. She made it. I can record. I can be here today. Thank God. God. God bless America. God bless America.

Thank God, God, bless America. Thank my white male God America. And the white male flag owner because you know that's who it was. Absolutely. What about you guys? Tell me about you. I went to the dentist for the first time in a while. Did you get gassed up? Didn't get gassed up. Okay, I've got to say, you guys, okay, I hadn't been to the dentist in a while. Sorry, sorry. I know you're supposed to go way more than I've been going. I just know every six months, which is like, minimum. Like, a dentist actually want you to go like every three, four months. Like dentists want you to be going all the fucking guys. That's big teeth talking. We're not doing that. It's not real. Sorry. Don't get me started on tentists. I'm going to shut up.

I know. Sorry. But I started to get scared about my gums were hurting. And I was like, well, that's probably not good. And I remember in those in a while, so I'm going to go. I also, I do have dental insurance, but I just like, don't ever want to go to the dentist. Found a new dentist. You guys, it was right down the street from my house.

You can book appointments online. I show up. My appointment is at four. I show up at 356, because I came straight from work, walk in. I'm seen immediately. I'm immediately brought into the chair. They sit me down. A young woman takes my x-rays.

That goes fast. She says, okay. The dentist will be here in just a moment. Truly, in just a moment. Dennis, also a woman, comes in, looks at my teeth. Is, okay, we're going to do your cleaning. It does my cleaning in fucking six minutes. And says, okay.

Now she's going to do your polish. And then you're all set. And then the dental hygieness came back. She did my polish. And I was out. I swear to God, I was in and out in 20 minutes. That's incredible. Wow.

It was not at all uncomfortable. To the point where I was like, well, they're not a real dentist. I was going to say I did go to a dentist once where I feel like they actually didn't do anything. I was like, well. You could have gotten in there a little. This is what I do in the mornings. I came here for something else. They were very highly of you.

But again, maybe it's because it's like so fucking chill. Did they tell you have seven cavities? No, I do have two little ones. And she did say little. but she was like if you look here you can see this is what I'm seeing so I was like okay you're not like totally grafting me and it's like not gonna fucking cost me anything to get them filled like all in all because I booked my next visit both visits x-rays all of it my two fillings with after my insurance I'm paying 70 bucks oh so I'm like okay you're not even getting rich off of me so I guess you must be telling the truth I just am like so I'm like are they a fake dentist and if they're not a fake dentist like why aren't all dentists like this exactly exactly Exactly. If going to the dentist can be this, why is it so bad? Yeah, it doesn't have to be this way. Why is it? Because I, my last one I went to, I was like, I was like, that's a good dentist. It wasn't like this. No, no. Not 20 minutes. An hour and 20 minutes. I just, I'm, I can't, I don't understand.

Yeah, I don't know. I just don't understand. I'm flabbergasted. I don't know. You know, that's just one thing about so many things that I don't understand. It's just one thing about so many things. I kind of haven't been able to stop talking about it. I immediately told all my coworkers. I was like, you guys all have to go to this. Like, I'm just like, how do, how are they this way? I know. I want to go to, I want to go to that dentist. I want to come go. The last, the last dentist I went to remember was a family. I was a family as a dad and it was like three sons. And they were so good and so kind, but they also deliberated over everything. There's constantly one son with the father. Just dad and sons argue. They're all in the room at the same time swapping dental ideas, swapping ideas, swapping concerns. How much is there to discuss? Literally, they're talking about I had like some little divot on my tooth that they really talked to me about for like 40. It felt like a 40 months. This is four related men all standing and talking to you.

How similar did they all look? The same. One was older. Were any of them twins? It was actually a really special experience. Were they triplets? A dad in three triplets. A dad is triplet sons.

Arguing about the divot in my tooth. They were great, though. You have the most interesting medical experiences. I do quite enjoy it. Okay, well, should you give a shout out to this dental place? No, you don't want it. Silver Lake Family Dental. Somebody's going to come and be like, it's a great.

They're not real. No, they were great. They were really great. I don't know. I'm not going to gatekeep. I'm not going to gatekeep this good dentist. So I'll have to check them out. Dental hygiene is so important. It prevents Alzheimer's, so important. So everyone keep your mouth really clean. Dang. And I've heard that I'm taking a lot of Pepsid can lead to Alzheimer's. So I really got to balance them out.

Can it? Everything leads to Alzheimer's. I don't know. Everything leads to something bad, but heartburn sucks. I've also been having a lot of heartburn. Anyway, Sammy, thanks Gary. I'm into you this week. Oh, yes. I just told you guys I was at a wedding over the week. And for the goodbye party, we had a three-hour Tiki cruise. It's really. Wild choice. It's so, like, it's just so strong. Like, it just speaks of their strength to me.

Yeah. Yeah. Yes. It was very fun and we had a very good time. But something that I realized was like outside on this boat for the whole time. And I got sunburned because I haven't been out. in the sun long enough to like reapply in a while. I forgot about like reapplying.

Right. Yeah. Because I wear sunblock every time I go outside. That's honestly where I, I think I, I mean, which I guess this makes sense. It's like I always get God at the, at the, I always think I'm going to get it in time. And I never do. Yeah. I really goofed.

How often are you supposed to reapply? I think it's technically the amount of like minutes that the number is. Like if it's SPF 50, it's like, it's like. Is that for real? I think, but I don't know. Do your own research. I've never in my life reapplied within 50 minutes. Like, never in my life.

No, I don't think most people do. But maybe every like couple hours, two hours. I mean, I was out there three hours and I got, I got. Oh, yeah, you'll go. And you're, and you're bouncing, the sun bounced off the water. You're getting hip up two angles. Also, if it's like a fresh, like, fresh skin. Fresh skin in the sun.

It's fresh. We're new to summer. We are new to summer right now. Yes. So I got a little sunburned on my, on my face and chest. And then we came home and went to bed and the morning after I am like a little bit allergic to my cats. And Mac really nuzzles me in the morning. And it's like specifically it's like wet nose that I'm really.

allergic to and so he'll like rub his little nose all over my face and normally I just get a couple hives here and there but I realized because I was sunburned this is apparently a thing because your sunburn is already like a histamine response right yeah I get hives from sunburned sometimes and so this morning like mac gnazzled me I had like a genuinely pretty scary allergic reaction and my eyes were like almost swollen shut. Oh, my fine. I really was like, because your immune system was already down.

Yes, I think so. I think it just like doubled up the histamine and was like, we got to send everything to the face. Oh, no. We got to send everything to his face. Guys, we are. Recur going to the face. And so my face got like so puffy and bright red.

And my lips were like tingly. Oh, my gosh. And my eyes were like swelling shut. My tongue felt weird and I actually was like, do I need to go to the emergency room? Yeah. Am I about to go to a flag? Oh my God. That's so scary. Duncan was like very nervous too.

Oh yeah. He's the type that he would get scared. Yeah. He was like, this was really bad. I think we like should we go to the hospital? But then I googled that the sunburn does intensify like a regular, because I was like, I haven't eaten anything. Like all it would be would be mad. I didn't know you were. allergic to Mac in that way. Yeah, I think it's genuinely like his saliva, not his usually cat allergies are saliva based for the most part. So I'm not like allergic to him most of the time, but when he's like in my face licking and rubbing his nose on me, I get

quite allergic. But it's so cute. It's so cute. I mean, I'm never going to make him of course not stop doing that. No. But so I was like, okay, well, like. Keep an eye on the time. And if it's, like, continuing to get worse for more than... Did you take, like, a Benadryl or something? Yeah, I took a just like a whatever, yeah, antistamine. And it went away after like an hour. But pretty scary.

Allergic reactions are, like, I'm not... I've never had a, like, a... I've only ever had hives-related ones or, like, my tongue feeling like a little weird. But a full-blown, like, your body just freaking out because it's... That's so scary to me. Really scary. Me too. Because you're also like, will it get, like, when does it stop? How do I know? Yeah. Does just keep ramping up forever until I'm dead? Like, I'm like, how do I know? Right. And for a lot of people, yeah, they have to like have an epipen. Yeah, that's like what a big scary allergic reaction is. I know. I know. I know. I feel like I should have an, oh, there my mind. I feel like I should have an epipen in the house just to have one. I think everyone should have an epipen in house. I know. We used to have one. I have some friends with nut allergies that fucking don't carry epipens. And I'm like, why? They love to live to live. They love to live.

Life on the edge. Don't. If you're not having like anaphylactic shock and you use an epipedin, is there any downside to that? Like, whoa, yeah. They are expensive. That's the downside. You just wasted a bunch of money. And I do wonder, too, about like scarcity.

Like, there should be available for whoever like really needs them. But I do just feel like restaurants should have them. I don't know, man. Allergies are scary. Yeah. There's someone in May's class. There's a little boy who has an egg allergy. Scary. And I'm always, like, scared that I, like, accidentally put something in May's lunchbox.

No, I know. My co-worker who I sit next to has a peanut allergy and I eat peanut butter every day at work. I put it on a rice cake. It's my 430 snack. And I'm always like, can I can't? Because I feel like I've got burned in my brain when schools are like, no peanuts in school. Like, you'll kill them if they breathe it. And so I'm always like, is this okay? Like, am I hurting you? Like, are you okay? And she's like, no, I'm like literally fine. But I'm like, I don't know. It freaks me out. It's funny. They still have that even though like none of the kids have peanut allergies. There's probably maybe one. that has a peanut allergy, but it's like they're, they're kind of, they're not as many kids getting it because now, you know, to, like, expose babies to allergens early on. And that's like, so the whole generation of kids who, like, weren't exposed and then everyone got peanut allergies, that's like, at least for us. Is it millennials or is it like, it's young millennials that have peanut allergies.

Yeah, exactly. Because I do feel like it, it wasn't quite when we were in school, but it was, it was just after. It doesn't feel like it was long enough after for it to be a whole new generation. Right. Yeah. Because they're like, I could eat, I had peanut butter sandwiches at school when I was, but then it, but then it feels like then you had to stop. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And this, I think is also what people want to listen to this. This is why people listen to us. This is why. This is why. This is why people are here. I'm riveted. I, everyone, I keep meeting people. When did Pete? When did Pete? What age of children slash adults have been in allergies the most? Which one has the most? And we don't know the answer to any of it. We don't know the answer to anything about dental care. We don't know the answer about sunscreen. We don't know anything. You guys, truly the frequency with which the phrase these women don't know anything, I've never heard of anything, comes into my brain. Because it's so true. It's, it was someone trying to insult us, but they actually, like, described me perfectly. You see me. You see me, and that's beautiful. I don't know anything.

I've never heard of anything. And that is just the truth. And if you're going to be here, you should know that. And we're wide-eyed and full of wonder and approaching everything a new... Everything we were like newborn babe. The amount of people I have to tell about this podcast who don't know me. And I have to, Tim's like, oh, tell them about your podcast. And then they're like, I'm going to listen to it.

And then I never hear from them again. And I'm like, did they listen to it? And now they know I'm a huge idiot. Exactly. They thought highly of me before. Now they don't. Like I was pulling something off for the 10 minute interaction we had. You're way worse once you get to know you.

Exactly. It's way worse. It's so much worse. Okay. Oh my gosh. It's funny because it's so untrue. I know. Wow.

Okay. Guess what, though? Guess what, you guys? I watched this week's movie. Emily. Nobody knows what it is. I watched it. Sammy, do you have any guesses?

Oh my God. Yeah, guess. Every guess. I actually have no idea. I have no idea. I know. I was just asking for fun, but I don't have any ideas either. Okay, well, that was cool.

There's just no possible way I could come up with a movie right now. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. No, you've never heard of anything. You don't know anything. Is it? an action-oriented film? No.

Okay, then never mind. Whoa. I know. Then I know you. Okay, great. Well, you guys, guess what? I've done it again, and I accidentally picked a movie that is going to be so hard to recap. I...

Body swapping. We are... Not quite, but it's... It's closer to that than other movies. And this week, we are going to be talking about coherence. Oh, my God. Oh, I've been wanting to... to do this one. I love this movie. Great. Yeah. I...

Schrodinger's cat, baby. Yeah, baby. Let's get some mind bendy. Let's do some mind bendy shit. Yeah. I told Joel I was going to drag him because I'd never seen it. And he had and I was like, could I do coherence? Is that count? He's like, it totally counts. And like, and that's like a fun recap. And he was like, yeah. I was like, how will I do this? How? How? I've been wanting to do this one. for you, but you better believe I'm going to fucking try. It's fun. Yeah, no, Emily, this is going to be amazing. We have had it requested a lot. Yeah, a lot of people want us to do this one. Okay, cool. Great. I am excited and terrified. The scary thing is me having to do this right now.

Coherence came out in 2013. It is written and directed by James Ward Burkett. Story by James Word Burkett and Alex Mnugian. And I think I said all those perfectly. It's starring Hugo Armstrong, Emily Baldoni, Nicholas Brendan, Elizabeth Grayson, Lauren Marr, Alex, Minugian, Lorraine Scafaria, and Mory Sterling. Wow. Okay, Sammy, you've seen this movie. I have. You know what? We actually almost watched it last night.

That's really... Whoa. Coherent. It's happening. I actually... Someone I know saw this movie and, like, kind of didn't just, like, describe it fully to me, but I know, like, the general... Okay.

But I've never seen, like, a trailer for it or anything. Great. I loved it. And I did find it scary both as I was watching it and just concept. The existential fear afterwards. Yeah. It's also just like fascinating how it was made. Like I'm just, it was really fun to watch it twice because you better believe I had to watch it again.

And I'm like, oh, okay, yeah, I'm really excited to talk about it. It has an 89% on Rotten Tomatoes, a 65 on Medicines. A 65 on Metacritic and a 7.2 on IMDB through the roof. A plus plus. It had a budget of $50,000. $5,000. That's crazy. Wow.

Feels like it can't be true. Box office of $139,745. Yeah, I don't remember this making too big of a splash at the theaters. No. So, okay, some trivia. Relying on a low budget of $50,000, the movie was shot over five nights in a six. single location with dialogue that was largely improvised. Yeah, that's tough. No, because it's like a

dinner party or something, right? It's a dinner party. Yeah, that's going to be tough. Well, a really cool thing about, I'm very impressive that it's mostly improvised, honestly, because there's like a lot of shit going on. And the actor who plays Amir, Alex Mnugian, I really wish I'd looked up how to say his name. I'm really sorry. He is also the co-writer. He's got the story by credit. And so he was like a mole within the cat. steering them in the right direction. And in my rewatch, there were a couple moments

where I saw that happen, knowing that. Because I watched it, I looked up all the trivia, and then I watched it again to take notes. And it was really fun to be like, he just did it. Like, it doesn't feel like that first,

not knowing that watching, but once you know it is like, it's fun. Yeah. Instead of scripts, the actors would receive only a small paragraph that only they would see as their goals for the day. That's fun.

So that allowed this. story to unfold naturally and create genuine reactions in the other actors. Oh, that's a good idea. Love this. Um, the character played by Lorraine Skafaria was supposed to be the director's wife, but she was eight and a half months pregnant when they shot this. And they were shooting it in their house. Um, so they had to shoot it quickly. Uh, some scenes ended up being reshot six months later. And Lorraine Skafaria changed her hair during that time. So they spent $8,000 getting a wig that matched her original hair, which was as much budget. as the entire first shoot.

Oh, my God. Oh, no. And because I did remember after watching it, like, seeing the credits, there was a huge, like, wig section and being like, what? It's just like regular people hanging out. And there were all these credits for wigs. And then I looked that trivia up and I was like, oh, yeah, okay, well, yeah. Checks out. Checks out. They really had to get that one wig. Also, just some fun little interesting trivia. Ryan Scafaria dated Bo Bermanum for a long time. They started dating in 2013.

which is right around when this movie was happening and that was just interesting for me a little moment in time being like, okay, so right here, right now. Right about this time. Right about this time. They also at some point lived in the house from Nightmare on Elm Street.

That's a little applicable to our... That's some fun trivia. That's where Bo Burnham's inside was filmed. It's in the Nightmare on Elm Street house with the Red Door. Love that. Love that. And we don't need to talk too much, about this, but I do see a... I think I know what you're about to talk about.

I do see a Baldoni in here. Yeah, so there is a Baldoni in here. So her name when this movie was shot was Emily Foxler, but yes, she is married to Justin Baldoni's wife. Yeah, we don't have to... So we don't have to go into it, but she's not a... We can just flag it and move on. No, we can just sort of note it.

We can just sort of note that that... You know what it does? It adds texture. It adds, like a crispy crouton you put on your meat. It's just adding a little bit of texture to our experience, just knowing that. I think it's fun to know it. So I do think we can and should watch the trailer, especially given that you have a bit of an idea of what this movie is.

I don't think it's super, super spoilery. And I do think it's fun to just get a feel for what vibe we're working with here. Great. So. let's do it. Also, I want to give a quick update. Tim just texted me and said that the flag that caused the massive... The flag. Yeah. No, we know which flag. Our outage was actually the flag from the WWE. So the WWE has their headquarters in Connecticut. Okay. And so there are so many layers to this. This metaphor is too intense. It is too intense. It is too intense.

Can you believe that, though? I can. It almost feels like someone's laughing at us. It feels simulation-y. Yeah. A little tricky that one. So yeah, WWE's flag was the reason why I was sweating my balls off today all day. Yeah.

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I got zero. On the news, you know, they're talking about the comet. Yeah, yeah. When you're last comment? After past people get lost, they would end up in the wrong home. Why? They keep telling people that this can happen. The chicken tastes like tuna.

It must be... The whole neighborhood is out of power, except for a house by two blocks up. What? What is that? What is that? What is that? I'll check it. I'll check it.

I can't stay this. I'm going to go see what's going. It's not without the rest of the house of that. See that? Oh my god. This is bad. This is really bad. Wait, you, what's the box? That was at the other house.

Oh my God. Baby, what did you see? Hugh, what did you see? We don't even belong here. Everybody knew about this. He told us. He told us. Everybody knew about this except me.

We have to just get through the night, okay? We are not from his house. We are visitors. I'm crossing all kinds of boundaries. I don't want to be stuck here. What is cool? It looks really good, uh? It's fun. It's fun. And it really like, it's, again, anytime we like talk about a super low budget movie that is effective with horror, it's just like, yeah, especially they are all so freaked out the whole time. And it's like, all you need is a bunch of people in a dark room freaked out. And then all of a sudden, like, someone bangs on the door and you're like, what the fuck? Like, like, it's just because you get, you all just get, like, so.

ramped up. And it's like, you don't need any fucking money to do that. It's really impressive. This is my favorite type of horror movie. I love the interpersonal dynamics. I know there's going to be some interpersonal dynamics. Oh, there's definitely going to be into some of that. I love that.

And yeah, just like the horror of being alive. Horror of being alive. Let's get into that, shall we? Let's do it. I'm ready. We open on our main character. Her name is Emily. Oh, God.

Great name. That's going to be really confusing, really confusing. But they call her M. Some of my friends call me M. We open on M driving. It's nighttime. She is on the phone with Kevin. She's asking, is he on his way?

He says, yes. You picked me up. He dropped me to some lawyer bar, but we're on our way. He says to her, by the way, I was hoping we could talk about it. like there's clearly a thing they know they have to talk about. So we could talk about it before the party. And she's like, oh, well, I'm like pulling up. Do you need to talk about it now?

And she loses reception. She loses him. I was like, hello, Kevin, Kevin, baby. So we know they're dating. And then we hear a crack. And she pulls her phone back and her phone screen has just like cracked on itself. No. I mean, even that, like, I can't imagine how I would react to that.

And she is immediately like, what the fadded in of itself? I'd be like, well. You'd have to call an Etsy witch. immediately. Yeah, I feel like I need to go to the hospital or the police station. Something's really bad. Something's really bad. This movie also, I'm not going to be able to fit them into the recap and all the places

they go, but this movie employs a lot of like full cut to black and then comes back up. Right. That's disorienting, which is disorienting. So just know that that's kind of happening. Because you're like, how much time just passed? How much time? Or like, are we even going forward in time? Right, right.

Whoa, whoa. So cut to Emily walking in to a house for a dinner party. She's like got a bottle of wine with her. We are introduced to Lee and Beth. This is Lee's house. They all say hi. They hug. Lee is cooking dinner.

Oh, Mike, Lee's husband, Mike is also there. They welcome her in. And they're like, by the way, Emily, did you know that Amir's bringing Lori to dinner tonight? she's like oh of course he is because he's a fucking asshole of course he's being lory they've begun uh beth reveals she's like well if if anybody needs to like take the edge off tonight i do have she brings up this little like vile this little tincture she has she's like it's got like annaisha and elder flower and a little bit of ketamine and so if anybody wants to just like kind of take the edge off i have this um as as they're in the kitchen sort of hanging

out. Beth sees this like cute little vase with flowers on it. She's like, oh, it's so cute, where'd you get it? And he's like, I got it at Galaxy Thrift, that new cute thrift store. She's like, oh, so fun. We're just like catching up, getting to hang out with each other. Kevin and Hugh arrive. Hugh is Beth's husband, so they, you know, greet each other. Kevin is Emily's M's boyfriend, and they let them know. Lori's coming. Which one's Xander from Buffy? Mike. Mike. And Mike is with who?

Lee. Okay. And that's their house. It's their house. Got it. Mike is with Lee. Who's the Ivanka Trump look alike? There's one. Justin Baldoni's wife.

Oh, that makes sense. And that's M. That is our protagonist. Okay. Got it. M is with Kevin. And Beth is with Hugh. Right. And so, yeah, M tells Kevin, you know, Lori's coming. And the way she says it, she's sort of like clocking his reaction.

And he's like, oh, Lori's coming. Okay. But we're like, there's something there. There's an interpersonal dynamic at play. I think we cut to black a little bit later in the night. People are sort of paired off having their little chats. We see Kevin and M having a talk. And he's asking her, you know, have you made a decision yet?

She's like, I don't know. It's just like, it's a really long time. he's like well you don't have to come for for the whole time you can just come for like a month I think you really like Vietnam I'm like I'm going to be there working it'd be really nice to have you so we're gathering he is going to Vietnam for four months she is really hemming and hawing about if she's going to join him she says you know I'm not saying no and he says well if you don't say yes that becomes a no so we're getting that that's a thing happening in their relationship just then they're kind of interrupted ameer and Lori enter everyone's saying hi

Everyone's being very nice to Lori, but it's, you know, it's a little awkward. Kevin and Lori, like, hug and have a very strained interaction where, you know, we're like, oh, yeah, how are you? How are you? How are things going? And she's like, yeah, no, everything's like really good with me now, like, in a really good place. And it's, there's clearly, like, some history here. Like used to date, it seems like, or a hookup or something.

Yeah. Mm-hmm. Okay. Cut to dinner. We're all around dinner table. It's a little while into the dinner party. We're having a good time. We're chatting.

we're drinking. Nobody has cell service though. They're all like, does anybody still have service? No. M shows her phone. She's like my fucking phone. She actually showed that when she first came in because you would. You'd be like, look at what the fuck just happened. You're right. They're like, actually, I can't move past this. Yeah. We just need this. We talk about the whole time. And they're all like, oh yeah, none of us have cell reception. Hugh is like really trying to to check his phone and get some sort of. message out, but he's like, no, nobody has reception. That was honestly, like, that was a little scary for me today. Like, when we, when the everything went out, because it wasn't just here. It was like everywhere. It was like everything in the vicinity. And so there were a few moments where I was like, is this the beginning of the end? Right. Right. How it starts. Like, because we didn't know why it was out. You didn't know.

It's a WWB flag. How would you know? And also there's no like cell service in Greenwich in general. And so I get no service at my house. And so I was trying to text you guys. It was like not going through. Yeah. Oh, it's freaky. And I was like, I'm just not going to think too hard about this right now. That seems right.

That seems right. It's a little spooky. Well, they're all thinking about it. They're all thinking about it. They're all thinking about it. They're saying M says it's this comet. And they're sort of laughing like, oh, sure, sure. It's the comment.

We don't have reception because of the comment. She's like, no, no, no, this can happen. I read about the last time a comet passed this close. to earth. It was like, it was like in the 1930s and it passed over Finland and people had all the strange stuff happened. They would like, they got confused. They would walk into houses that weren't theirs. Is that real? Do you think? Do you think this is a real thing? I don't know. I didn't look into it. Okay. And she's like, there's a story. A woman like called the police and said to them like, the man in my house is not my husband. And she's like, I know it's not my husband because I killed my

husband yesterday. There's a wild thing to tell the police. But, but, and so the police came, but there was nothing they could do because he was alive. So they're like, you didn't kill him. He's alive. He's here. And she was like, this is not my husband. Like, I doubt

this actually happened. I'm just wondering. I'm just wondering if there's been any kind of like space phenomena affecting human behavior at all. I don't know. I don't like it. Periods. Besides that. The moon in our periods. Which that is because we're witches. Lee tells a story where she was

like, do you guys remember like Haley's comic when that was happening? And they were like, oh, yeah. And she's like, when in school, we had to all put on like a Haley's Comet themed like performance. We like for science class. And she was like, I remember my sister got to be Haley's Comet. And I was like so jealous. And one of them was like, oh, I didn't remember you had a sister. And she's like, yeah, yeah, there's a picture my sister right there. And points, she's got like a little like a built in shelf in the room. And there's a picture of her sister on it. And Beth gets up and is like, oh, Don't put her picture there. That's the door to nowhere.

And it's like a weird little side door. And she's like, because that door doesn't like lead you anywhere in the house. And like in feng shui, that's called door to nowhere. And it like creates a weird energy of just like unresolved stuff. So you shouldn't have like a picture of a person in the door to nowhere. And she's also the one who brought like the elder flower ketamine situation.

So they're all like, okay, Beth's like woo woo. They're not really, you know, taking it super seriously. And not yet. They're not. I'm taking it seriously.

I'm taking it seriously. cut to later in the dinner they're like man when was the last time we were all together it was Thanksgiving was it 1930s Finland they're like oh no it wasn't Thanksgiving because Lori wasn't there

and Mike asked oh Lori but you know it's been so long so we saw you like how how is your yoga going and now you're like doing all that you're doing like a Spanish yoga and she's like no that's wasn't me I was just a little awkward

and he's like oh sorry that must have been some other woman that Kevin dated that Amir's hooking up with. Ooh. Okay. She honestly keeps her cool really fucking well and she's like, yeah, no, I actually do this for a living. How are you doing? Like, what's

going on with you? What do you do for a living again? And he's like, well, I'm an actor. He's like, I had to move to Silicon Valley for my wife Lee. She works for Skype, which really placed this in a moment in time. But he's like, yeah, I used to be on that TV show called Roswell and a little Lori's like, oh, I love Roswell.

Who were you in that show? And he's like, I was like one of the main guy in every episode I was wondering like. She's like, oh, sorry. I don't know. We just like, don't look familiar to me. But like, that's so cool. It must be just like you're such a good actor

that like you transformed and I don't know that it's you. Lori asks, and she's like, I'm going to, and how about you? What are you up to these days last time I saw you were like taking the dance world by storm? And I'm like, oh, yeah, that must have been when I was producing that show. Well, at the last minute, the ballet cast this other dancer. She's like the best dancer in the world.

She came to town and they cast her in the lead role. And they offered me the understudy part. But my ego was bruised and I took too long to decide. And so they ended up casting another woman. And then the main woman, Svetlana, was her name. ended up pulling out at the last minute. So the understudy went up and it like made her career. Oh. So that's what's going on with me. Oh, that's a really tough story. It's a really tough story. And everyone's like, you know, she doesn't hold a candle to you. It's such a shame because you're just such a phenomenal dancer.

And it's a bit of a sore subject. But they, uh, Lori says like, the understudy's name is Catherine Maris. And Lori's like, well, I've actually heard of her. That's like the only dancer I have ever heard of. And Lori. You're already on thin ice, Lori. And yeah. And Lori's like, so that's like, like, Catherine Maris, like, has your life. Which is not a nice thing to say. And her friends, the other friends are like, well, no, you have your life.

And it sucks that that happened. But, you know, cheers. Cheers of the life we do have. And they're like, yeah, thanks. Cheers. For now. Yeah. And someone says like, okay, someone tell a better story.

Someone tell a good story. We need like a craziest. Kevin. Tell us one of your crazy stories. Kevin. Come on. And he's like, I don't have a story. And like, come on, first one, it comes to your head.

And he's like, okay, well, and he turns to Emmie. He's like, sorry, this is, this is for when I was with Lori. But we were at, we were out at a house party this one of time, drank so much. I ended up, like, I was passed out at this party. And I had this really vivid dream that I was getting attacked by a bear. And I was, like, fending off this black bear. I woke up. I came to.

We left that party. we were like on our way home. We were walking down the street to get home and a big black dog rushes at me and jumps on me and I hear his owner call Bear, Bear! And the dog's name was Bear.

And I just like, it's so crazy. I don't know. And they sort of make fun of him. They're like, well, bear's a really common dog name. I don't actually think you're psychic. And he's like, okay, well, great. Thanks. That was my good story. And by the way is like fucking pissed because of

course, like, why would he tell a story that has to do with Lori, even though Lori's not in the story at all? But just then, Hugh, who's been on his phone again, like, trying to get some message out to somebody, his phone screen cracks. And he shows it to everybody. And he's like, what the fuck? My screen just cracked. They're like, yeah. And I was like, yeah, it's the comment. I'm telling you. And he was like, do you guys have a landline? They're like, no, sorry, we don't have a landline. And they're like, oh, but you can use Skype. Skype is a thing in this moment in time. You can use Skype. Trusty old Skype. He's like,

I just really need to get in touch with my brother. He told me to call him tonight. So I just, I need to find a way to call him. I'm like, yeah, go in the office. You can get on the computer and use Skype. He goes in there. Of course, the internet is out. Skype's not working. And they're all like, what's going on? Like, why do you need to call

your brother? Like, what's the deal? And he says, which guy's saying this again? Hugh. Hugh. Okay. You know, one of the guys. I'm kind of like cute track. I know. I feel like, yeah. I did find And it's so funny. After I watched this the first time

and I was like, how the fuck am I going to recap this? I was Googling it and there are infographics that have been made that are like the most confusing things I've ever seen. I was like, this actually makes everything so much worse. But they're like,

why do you get into your brother so much? And we learned that his brother is like a theoretical physicist. And he had just told Hugh, he's like, if anything weird happens during the comet, just, um, call me.

And then immediately the power goes out. they're lighten candles they're freaked out but now they're kind of like all right well you know power outage whatever we're having a fun give me the ketamine yeah yeah

I would like the ketamine I would like the ketamine I would like the ketamine Joel and I kept saying to as we're watching I was like I would just like go to sleep yeah I would just be like well time for sleep time for me to like not be present here they're like lighten candles

Mike brings out he has like three big boxes of glow sticks red green and blue glow sticks they open the box of blue glowsticks, they all crack them, and they're like, ooh, you know, like, the way that you do when glow sticks come out, where everybody's like, fun. Yeah, it's like, human, human nature. They look out the window and they're like, oh, my God, the whole, like, neighborhood is out of power. Whose big flag got somewhere? Yeah, this is like all hitting too close to home. Is the W.W.E.

I think that it's a heavily W.W.E. focused narrative from here on now. But they're like, well, the whole street's out. And you're like, well, we might as well, we might as well, like, go out and see the comet. Like, we never get to see this guy like this. Like, let's go outside and check it out. They bring out their glow sticks. They go outside. They look up. We do see a really beautiful, like, you can see the comet sort of going across the sky.

And they look out and they're like, all the power is out, except for there's one house, like two blocks down the street that all the lights are on. And they're like, that's weird. And then, but they go back inside. They're like, oh, they're cold. So we're like, let's go back inside. And some of them are freaked out about like, why does that house have power or no one else has power?

And like, they probably have a generator. Like, or they're like some fucking off the grid, Silicon Valley people like, they have their own power system. Mike realized he's like oh I think we have a generator let me see if I can like kick it on but Hugh is like I want to go over there and see if they have a phone I really need to call my brother and he said and they're all sort of like don't go over like we don't know those people it's dark I like don't go over there and he's like I don't know what's going on but my brother said if weird things are happening during the comet we should stay inside and and I should try to contact him and they're like okay well stay inside then like don't go try to get the phone

he's like, well, no, I think that that, like, the contacting him trumps that. Like, you guys stay here. I'm just going to go see if they have a phone. It's right down the street. Like, it'll be so quick. Five minutes there, five minutes back. So quick. Totally fine.

They're like, well, don't go alone. And Mirz says, I'll go with you. So, like, okay, fine. You guys go. But truly, like, five minutes there, five minutes back. Beth is kind of freaking out. Like, that's her husband. Just like, I don't really want you to go.

But fine. He's like, it's going to be fine. We'll go right there. We'll come back. They're all a little on edge. after they leave, Lori asks M. She's like, you seem to be the person who, like, read the most about comets.

Like, do you think, is there anything we need to be freaked out about? And M says, well, I did. I read one other story about, there was a comet that exploded over the atmosphere in Siberia. It didn't hit anything. It, like, exploded, you know, over the atmosphere, but it came really close.

And the force of it, like, flattened trees for miles. She was, like, only, like, one or two people died, though. And they're like, yeah, but it was fucking Siberia. There were only probably one or two people there. And so they're like, well, that story wasn't all that comforting. And suddenly there's a loud banging at the side door. Oh, I don't like that. Huge jump scare.

They're all freaking out. Lee says, like, Mike will get the bat. He's like, oh, okay, I'll get the bat. Kevin pulls the curtain back over the door. There's nothing out there. Oh, and this is where Lee's like, Mike, will you go check the generator? Like, I'm freaked out. I want lights on.

And he's like, if I'm fine, I'll go check. we're freaked out. There's enough weird stuff happening. We don't like it. Beth is like, I really want to go after Hugh and they're like, no, you shouldn't leave too. And just then the lights come on. And they're like, okay. Great. I'm a little less scared. It's not dark. Great. Mike comes back up. He's like, got the generator

on. They're like, whew. Great. And the doorbell rings. We're freaked out by that too, but we look. It's Hugh and a mirror. Great. Open the door. They come in. Hugh's head is bleeding. They're like, what the fuck happened? They come in there. They're acting freaked out. They're like, guys, what happened? What did you see?

Like, what's, why are you so, well, like, what you're bleeding? Like, what's going on? They don't want to talk about it. They're very flustered. Amir brings in, like, a little metal box, like, kind of the box that, like, at, like, a school fundraiser, you'd heed the cash in, you know? Like, one of those little, like, has a little lock. Amir brings it in and puts it on the table, like, what's that? He was like, you, why did you take that? He was like, I thought you put it down.

He's like, I didn't have anything to do with that box. That box was at the house. house. Like, why did you take it? He's like, I don't know. Somebody had to fucking take it. I thought it was yours. Like, I thought you wanted me to bring it. And you shouldn't have brought that. And everyone else is like, what is going on? Like, you came, your energy is crazy. You're freaking out about the spot. Like, what happened? What happened? They really don't want to. They're like, okay, we need to open this box. Like, what the fuck's in this box? Mike tries just, I think, like, a little paper clip and, you know, those things aren't actually all that safe. And he like opens it up. Tensions are. very high. They're like, maybe it's a bomb. Like open the box away from you. They're like freaking out. Open the box. Really, really slowly away from him. They look inside and there's a ping pong paddle in the box. They're like, it's a fucking ping pong paddle. And then they look beneath the ping pong paddle. There's an envelope. They open it up. And the envelope has pictures of every single one of them,

individual photos, like a picture of M, a picture of Kevin, a picture of Hugh, with numbers written on back of each photo and like red marker like ms has a number five hughes has a number three lorries has a number one whoa whoa time to go to bed yeah yeah i'm trying to sleep i'll be taking ketamine ketamine ketamine and i'm going to sleep benedril they're like what the fuck is this these are pictures of us is at the other house like they're like you have to tell us what you saw and hugh says i looked in the window i went made to see their house i looked in the window i looked in the window and I saw a dinner party seven or eight people

implying that he saw them. And... Wait, do you see people in there? He saw them. He saw them. Okay, okay, okay. And they're like, well, did you see yourself? And he was like, no, I didn't see myself. And they're like, you just fucking did a lap and you came back here. That's what happened.

They're like, did you bang on the side door? And he was like, well, yeah, I tried the front door. Nobody opened it. So I banged on the side door. and they're like, you just fucking did a lot. That was here. You saw us and you didn't see you because that was here. So I'm banging on our side door. Like, you did that. They're like, we didn't, no, I know we didn't come back to this house.

Like, I'm not, that is not what happened. Also, why is he bleeding? Yep. Yep. Yep. Good question. So he was like, here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to go, I'm going to write a note.

I'm going to write a note. I'm going to go back there. I'm going to write a note and just say like, hey. And he starts writing it on this not. He's like, hey, don't want to freak you guys out. I just like to use, I just want to use your phone. Just let me know. And he's writing that note when we hear a bang on the door.

They open the door and find a note taped to it. Pull it off. And it is the exact same note that Hugh has just been right. Oh, that's so fun. Okay, so this is just like a huge glitch in the Matrix story, like a crazy fucking glitch. The Matrix story. This is so fun. I love this. I love this. Cut to Lee is putting a band-aid on Hugh's cut, a big cloth band-aid across his head. M is laying out all the photos of them. So she's got all the photos out. And on a notepad, she's writing down like, you know, M and then whatever numbers on the

back of her photo, Hugh, number on the back of his photo. Like, just trying to figure it out, writing them out in a line. She's using a red marker. And they're like trying to try and to solve like what it's if this is a puzzle like what does this mean what are the numbers they realize they're looking at the photos and Amir's like this photo of me was taken tonight and they're like well what do you how can he be certain and he's like

because I bought this sweater today and so they're like okay um where could the photo have been taken they're looking around the room they find the spot where they think the photo was taken they're like um okay uh could they have taken it from that door, someone outside the door, could they have taken it? Could that be

the angle? They're, they're really freaking out now. They're like, what the fuck? Like, how, do you remember anybody taking a photo of you tonight? He's like, no. Is it candid or like posed? No, they're like, you're like, you're like, you're like, it's like a mug. It's like a passport photo, like a mug shot. Yeah, kind of that vibe. It's not like a from a window with a, you know, it does not look like it's from a far away. No. It's like a photo of his face. Everyone's like, I need a drink. Whatever if we take a beat, like, I need to have a fucking drink. Leaving M and Kevin still sitting in the dining room.

And M says to Kevin, the numbers written on the back of these photos, this looks like my handwriting. And she shows us where she's written out their names and numbers and puts one of the, like, photos there. And it looks exactly the same. Do you guys think you could recognize your own handwriting, like, out in the wild? I think if I had written the exact same thing, I just don't think my handwriting is recognizable at all.

I don't think my handwriting is consistent. Me too. Me too. Like I feel like I even do numbers differently kind of based on my mood. Same. So I feel like maybe. It's hard to say. I don't think I could.

I think my handwriting looks different every single time I put pen to paper. I think it's never looked the same ones. Yeah, well, maybe that's your greatest strength. It'll never catch you in a murder. Emily did a handwriting analysis once. I did. And I got to be honest, I don't remember what it told me. But it was fun.

But it's not about that. It's not about the journey. It's about the journey. It's about the asking of the questions. I did think that I wrote something down by hand. I wrote a handwritten letter and gave it to somebody recently. I was like, what if they're a handwriting expert and they're going to look at this and they're going to make all sorts of judgments about me?

based on what is written. Anyway. You spelled Beverly with an E between that. Yeah, I don't know why. Every word is misspelled, every single word. They're going to judge me so hard because every word is misspelled. Or every eye has a heart. Everything is like curly cues.

That's just how I write. So yes, I would recognize if I had to. Kevin immediately is like, you're really freaking me out. Like, it does look like your hand rating. like, I don't know. And she takes us someone to be like, hey, by the way, like, why the fuck did you bring up a story about Lori? Like, that sucked.

And he's like, I'm sorry. I know, I should have done that. It's just like, you know, you and I don't have any crazy stories. Oh, my God. You're making it worse. She's like, oh, I'm like not crazy enough for you. He's like, no, no, it's a good thing. It's like a good thing.

Like, we're so good. We're so stable. Let me show you crazy. Just then Mike comes into the room and he's like, we should all go over to the other house. like I want to go to that other house. I need to see what the fuck is up. If there's like another me there, like, I got to see it. And, you know, everyone's divided.

They're like, no, we shouldn't. We should stay here. And they're like, fuck it. Like, I need to know what's happening. I can't just like sit here and wait around. Lori is like, I also want to go. Kevin's like, fine. I'll go too.

And so M's like, well, if Kevin and Lori are going, like, I'm also fucking going. So hold on. I'm going to come too. So Lee, Beth, Hugh and Amir stay at the house. Kevin M. Lori. And Mike go. And they've got their blue glow sticks.

And they're like, okay, we're ready. That's all we need. And they walk out. They start walking up to the house. As they get sort of, they're still in the street. It's really, really dark. And as they get close to the house, Mike starts going, that's my house.

And they're like, no, it's not. Mike, it's not your house. We just came from your house. It's not your house. house he's like that's my house and he's walking up and he's like this is my fucking house and um so creepy yeah they're all like trying to talk him down like Mike and they're like stop looking in the window like we shouldn't be like let's go back now I'm like I shouldn't have taken so much ket of me yeah I'm not a bad idea and Mike like looks in the window and we see when he

looks in the window he sees Lee his wife just then they hear someone coming start like Mike get away get get away they turn around they start walking back the way they came and and they're on one side of a street and they look across the side of the street and they see M, Kevin, Lori, and Mike on the other side of the street. Oh, no. Holding red glow sticks.

Oh, no. And they freeze. We see each of them like looking at each other, taking it in, what the fuck, what the fuck. And then they all start running. And then they run in one direction back to the house they came from. They start running in the direction back to the house. They came from.

It's really fucking scary. They run through like this like super dark street cut to black. Oh. Come back up. They get back to their house. Lee and Beth and Hugh and Amir are there and they're like, what the fuck happened? They're like, we saw ourselves. We fucking saw ourselves.

They were exactly the same as us. The only difference is they had red glow sticks. We have blue glow sticks. Oh my God. You have to go to sleep now. You have to go right to sleep. M tells them, she's like, okay, I have this theory. She's like, we went through this one zone that was like way darker than the rest of the street.

It was like way darker, like pitch black. And Hugh and Amir are like, we went, yeah, we walked through that as well. And they're like, what the fuck? What the fuck is that? Beth is like, hey, your brother left a book to Hugh. She's like, your brother left a book at our place. And I had put it in an envelope to mail back to him. it's in our car.

I don't know. I don't know what's in there, but like your brother's like fucking obsessed with this shit. So like maybe there's something in the book. Like none of us know what's going on. Let's go see if that book's in the car or like if there's something in that book.

And so they go to get it. Someone's like, where's Lee? And they're like, she's taking a nap. Which I'm like, Lee, really good. Really good call. That's the right move. Lee, take a nap. That's right.

That's right. Hugh goes and gets the book, brings it in. And they're all. are like handwritten notes inside of it. And he's like, oh, my brother's professor. These, I think, are his, like, lecture notes. Oh, what a wonderful coincidence.

Yeah. He opens it up, and the lesson plan is Decoherence and Schrodinger's Cat. Okay. Let's go. And he starts reading from it. First, he explains what Schrodinger's Cat is, which that's one of the things I do sort of know.

I don't know anything. I've never heard of anything, but I have heard of Schrodinger's Cat. And I think I can sort of explain it, sort of. which is that there's a theory about physics and it's a good start and it's so there's a box

there's no that's right I was going to say Shodinger's cat is something that I've like learned one million times and still don't know if I can explain it

okay so there's a cat which I don't love that this is what it is that there's a cat in a box with a vial of poison. Poison. And so odds are 50-50 that the cat is alive or dead.

Which I'm like, are they? Whatever. Either the cat ate the poison and is dead or it didn't and it's alive. Well, Schrodinger's cat theory is that both of those possibilities are true. And only by opening the box

and looking, do you... That's like what decides which one is true when you actually see it. But until you see it, both things are simultaneously true. Which has been proven now. Like, that's like things are quantum entangled.

So particles only exist until they're observed. Weird. That reminds me of that scene from Get Out when like, he walks up the stairs and everybody just stops. That's what it makes, that's what all particles are doing. They're just like, and go. Okay, yeah. So both realities exist simultaneously and only when the box is open.

to the two realities collapse onto each other, making one of them true. But decoherence states that both realities continue to exist separate from each other, each creating a new branch of reality. And quantum decoherence ensures that the different outcomes

have no interaction with each other. So basically it's like separate timelines, ideas, right? Like it's all a multiverse shit. It's a multiverse shit. It's a multi- verse shit. Everything everywhere all at once.

Exactly. Or marble. Or marble. Was Dr. Strange? And so Mike says, okay, so there's two, something about the comet has created

two separate realities right now. And both are going to coexist until the comet passes. Like, that's our best guess. And M is like, but then why would they have contacted us? If they're supposed to

exist separately. And they realize they didn't. We took the box. Like, we did that. We went to their house. We took the box. The box wasn't supposed to be for us. Like, we took it. So we started these realities collapsing onto each other. We're the reason

why we're now seeing them, and this is happening. Which is not good, because they're supposed to be separate. And so Mike pretty quickly is like, well, I'm going to go over there and I'm going to kill the other version of me. What? And they're like,

who, wait. He's like, I'm sort of joking, but I'm mostly not. Because if I'm thinking it, other Mike is thinking it. And I have to kill him before he kills me. No, no, no. Or you could stop.

Or you could stop. And he goes on to say, and what if that mic isn't sober? What if that mic is drinking? And he is a loose cannon. I mean, we're gleaning that this mic

is sober and so he's like there could be an alternate reality version of me that's like the bad version of me basically and I don't trust him and I don't want that person out in the world that's a fucked up Mike and I don't want to just wait around for him to come get me it would be so scary if another me showed up and like tried to be like Silas and his mom like it's like the scariest thing in the world it's really scary other mommy this year this is like making me feel good that my brain doesn't work this way and I'd be like well my other me is fine because I'm not like I'm going to be on ketamine and is sleep.

I don't want any part of this. My other me has been to sleep for hours. I envy other me. They ask Mike, when you looked in the window of the other house, who did you see? And he says, I saw Hugh Amir and Lee. And they were like, so you didn't see Beth? And he's like, no, I didn't see Beth.

And they're like, okay, but you saw Lee. And in our house, in our reality. Lee is taking a nap. So they're different. So we know that things can be different in these different realities. And maybe in that reality, Beth is taking a nap.

And if Beth is taking a nap, that house is Beth didn't tell them about the book in the car. And so if they don't know, if they haven't read the lecture on quantum decoherence, they're not freaking out right now. They're not having the same conversation as us.

That's a lot of ifs, baby, but sure. Yeah. That's all we got. Okay. But they're like, okay, okay, okay. So we just need to make sure they don't get that book. If they don't have that book, they're not going to come over here and try to kill us. Okay. So they're like, great, we're just going to go take the book from their car.

That's easy enough. We're going to go take the book from their car. He was like, I actually don't think we should fucking go anywhere. We are not supposed to mess with them at all. But I don't know. They're like, we have to. This is making me think of when we did the Irish murder mystery for Hanley's birthday party and I simply couldn't deuce glean any meaning from anything and I just like fully tune out.

Like being a detective is so hard. And when you actually like watch detective or like redetective books or watch detective movies, you're like, I would never in a million years understand that clue. That clue that you just, that's a clue? I watched sheep detectives the other day and I didn't solve it before Nicholas Brown did. It was Nicholas Braun, which I would argue is worse than sheep. More embarrassing than the sheep. Well, he had a script if it helps you.

The actor Nicholas Braun was given a little bit of a leg up. All this to say, I would be zero help in this situation. I'd be asleep. Yeah, we'd all be asleep. Mentally, if not physically. So they're really debating about like, are we going to go get the book? They want to do it. They want to do it. Lori wonders, she's like, what if these other versions of us, you know, how there's, like, you know, theories about, like, a dark self.

Like, what if those people are, like, the dark versions of us? M is like, what if it's actually a good thing? You know, we all talk about wanting to know ourselves better and, like, self-experation. And, like, maybe there's something that can be positive about meeting ourselves. Just then Lee gets up from her nap. God damn it, Lee. She comes out there all like, hey, sleepy head. as they're greeting Lee asking her how she's doing

Mike pulls Kevin aside and he's like Here's what I'm gonna do We don't even have to go get the book I'm just gonna slip a note under the door at the other house I'm gonna blackmail my other Mike Into making sure that that house doesn't get the book Kevin's like what the fuck are you talking about He's like no no it's perfect it's perfect

Because it's I This is fucking perfect He's like I know I'll just I'll just I will blackmail him with the best thing. And then he won't, and then he'll make sure they don't get the book. And Kevin's like, I don't know. I think this is a pretty bad idea. I don't think you should do that.

Like, and he's like, no, no, no, no. It's cool. He's like, he's like, he has that look in his eyes. He's like, well, I can't fucking talk to this guy. And Kevin's trying to be. We don't know the best thing yet? We don't know the best thing yet. Okay, okay.

Just making sure. Kevin says, he's like, I thought you and he worked that out years ago. And he's like, no, no, we didn't, but it's fine. I'm going to go black. I'm going to go blackmail over mic. They're having a little conversation off the side. Kevin's trying to talk him out of it. He's not really listening.

Back with everybody else at the main table. Lee is like, yeah, sorry, I think I've just been like a little woozy, maybe from those drops. They're like, you took the fucking ketamine. And Beth's like, she said she wanted some. And Lee's like, yeah, I wanted some. I took some ketamine. And M says, okay, please don't take this the wrong way to Beth. But I have to ask, did you put any of those drops in our food?

thinking maybe they've all been drugged we've all been drugged I'm pretty sure you wouldn't have a shared hallucination but Beth is like absolutely fucking not I would never do that like she asked for them that's why I gave her one like I would not

drug you guys and they're like okay but isn't it true that like we could have we could they do make can make you hallucinate and they're like yeah like Beth and he were like yes but you would need so much more ketamine than is even in this vile and even if

we would not all be having the same hallucination. So we're like, okay, well, fuck. Damn. Would have been great if that was the reason, but it's not. Wait, Mike and Lee are together, right? Mike and Lee are together, yep. Okay, so also, yeah, Mike has also been acting like nuts and Lee hasn't been there to, like, notice.

So that's also convenient, too. I'm just like, do you know what I mean? Like, he's like, going off his rocker. I think he's kind of a, yeah, yeah, he's a bit of a loose cannon and we're not loving the energy in this moment. But Beth even shows them the vial. They go into the kitchen and she's like, here's the vial. Like, there's no way, there's only a little bit missing that I gave to Lee.

Like, it's not the fucking ketamine. And they're like, okay, okay, we believe you. So we're taking a beat here. That was wild. And they're in the kitchen and Beth looks over to this little face that has flowers in it and she's like, oh, Lee, that's so cute. Where did you get this face? And Lee says, I got it

This new Thrift Store, Galaxy Thrift Store. And M clocks this. Yeah, because they just had that conversation. It was the same, was Beth asked that? Beth asked it earlier. Is it a different batch? Cut to. Shrude and Amir

sneaking off together into the dining room while everybody else is in the kitchen. And they're like, fuck, what the fuck are we going to do? They pull out red glow sticks. Oh, wait, who did? Amir and who? Hugh and Amir. The first two who left the house and came back and his like head was bleeding.

They come back and they are like, they have red glow sticks. They're like, fuck. Like, they look at the box of red glow sticks on the table. It's unopened. Everybody else had blue glow sticks. So they're like, we have to, we have to go. We have to sneak back out. They grab the box and they grab the book.

Mike enters. He goes up to Kevin. He's like, I did it. I went to the house. I gave him the note. And he's like, what the fuck? What? This is getting so confusing. Yeah. But he's seeming like weird. Like he's even seeing even more off his rocker than he was before. He's like, that was crazy, man. I had to wait for so long. I had to wait until there was like a good moment. Snuck that note at the door. Like, it's anybody noticed I've been gone. It's been like 45 minutes. Kevin's like, it's been five minutes. Like, you've been gone for five minutes. What are you talking about?

And Mike goes over to the bar and grabs a bottle of wine and pours himself a big glass. Oh, a telltale sign. Lee comes up to Mike. She's like, Mike, seriously, like, why now? Why are you going to start drinking now? And he's like, why not now? And he sits down. He starts drinking.

Everyone's like, oh, shit, this really sucks. They come into the dining room and they are like, where's the box? oh my God, where's the book? And they realized Hugh and Amir are gone. Lori's like, wait a minute. They were the first ones to leave and they have been acting weird ever since they came back. Like, haven't they been acting weird ever since they came back? And she's like, maybe that wasn't our Hugh and Amir.

Maybe that was the other fucking red Gloucstack houses read Hugh and Amir. They're like, fuck. Then now they have the box. They have the book. We can't trust anyone. Our clues just left. And M's like, wait, wait, if red glow stick house had those clues, we also do. Right?

Like, if it came from inside that house, this is the same house. Right. So we have the clues as well. Okay. Because they're being brought back. Yeah. Yeah. They're cycled through.

So M says, like, my. Do you have any photos? Can you just like show me the photos you have in this house? He goes to get him. He comes back. He's got an envelope of photos. Like that you'd get like developed in 2013 that you get developed, you know, at like a drugstore. She's going through them and it includes the photos that were in the box.

She starts going through them. She notices that the photos of her and Kevin that were in that box is the same picture that was cut in half to have one of him and one of her. She's like all the pictures of the two of us are, it's us together. Mike hands and a pair of scissors. She doesn't want to do it. Cut two. A dark hallway. Lori and Kevin are in it.

Lori says, you know, maybe a bit out of place, but I'm just like, I don't know. It's crazy to me that you'd be with somebody who like wouldn't want to travel with you to Vietnam. And like you're such a big person. You just crazy Kevin. You have crazy stories. You take all these risks. And like, it's just really interesting to me that you'd be with somebody who, like, doesn't want to do that with you.

We see that Beth is overhearing this. And Kevin's like, no, I just, I really love her. And she's like, I just, the Kevin I remember was like really crazy. Like, do you remember that? Do you remember that night after the game? Oh, really so crazy. I had to do yoga for a week after that because of how crazy we were. And he's like, yeah, I do remember that.

And she's getting close. and closer and closer and they kiss. They kiss. And he does, after a moment of kissing her back, he's sort of like, you know, pushes her way and he's like, no, Lori, we're not going to do that. She's like, sorry, I'm just crossing all kinds of boundaries. And he leaves.

We see Beth then come out and sit by M and is like, hey, I'm going to tell you something. Oh, God. cut to Lee coming over to Mike. He's not doing well. He's drinking. He's drunk. And he tells her like, he's like, I really feel like I'm losing it.

I'm losing my mind. And if I'm losing my mind in this house, I'm losing my mind in that house. And she says, she's like, it's going to be okay because there is, I promise you there is no reality where anybody loves you as much as I love you right here right now. And it's very sweet. Oh, that's nice. We see M approach Kevin and she says, hey, do you think just, is anything going on with you and Lori?

Beth just came over to me and she told me she heard you guys having a conversation and he's pretty quickly like, there are much more important things happening tonight than me and Lori. Like, let's not fucking deal with that right now. Not a great answer. And the power goes out again. God damn it, WWE. Their light and candles were freaking out a little. bit when we hear a crash of like a window breaking outside. They look out. They see that the window of Hugh's car is smashed. So they're like, fuck, we need to all check on our cars. Like, I don't know

what the fuck this is, but everybody's checking your car. So they go out. We see M go over to her car. She opens a glove compartment and she pulls out a ring. She puts it on. And as she's putting it on, there's a jump scare knock on her window. Freaks her out. Like a wedding ring? Um, no, it's just like a... Oh, it's just like a normal ring. Just a normal ring. Okay. Um, but jumps here, knock on her window.

It's, it's Kevin. She's like, oh my God, she comes out. And he's like, what are you doing? And she says, I found this ring. Um, I was putting this ring on. Remember this ring that we got at, at the fair? And he's like, oh, yeah, that was a really good day. And she says, is everything okay with, uh, with Hugh's car?

He's like, what do you mean? She says, Hughes car. Did they take anything? Is everything okay? Uh-oh. And he just kind of stands there and looks at her like he doesn't know what to say. She looks at him. Wrong Kevin. And then she just starts backing the way.

Scary, scary, scary, scary, scary. She goes back to the house. The rest of the group is there. Her Kevin is there already in the house. Kevin asked her where she was. She's a little flustered. She's like, oh, I was getting this ring. Remember the spring that we got at the fair? And he's like, oh, yeah. This Kevin is a fucking dick.

They're all now debating like, why would someone break the window of the car if they didn't like want anything? Like what is that who did that? Wouldn't they want the book? The book isn't in there. Oh, the book wasn't in Houston. Because they already had the book

and then the book got taken. Right, right. But maybe, yeah, maybe that group didn't. Like, they don't know. They're like, it doesn't make sense. Just then there's a noise outside. They freak out. it's Amir and Hugh

with blue glow sticks. They like flash their blue glow sticks to the windows. They let them in. They're like, oh my fucking God, it's you guys. They're like, that was crazy. They're like acting completely different than that other Hugh and Amir. He was like, you guys,

we went to the other house and we saw us. And he was like, I got so startled. I fell. I hit my head. Like we ran back. It's just so, so crazy. everybody there. It was like they were just like us,

but they had red glow sticks. They're all like, you already told us this story. We already had this conversation. And then they realized the Band-Aid on Hugh's head is different. And they're like, that's when they're like, oh, this is our original Hugh and Amir.

That wasn't our Hewn Amir. Now you're back. Oh my God. Beth, like, hugs Hugh. They're like, thank God, you're back. And so they're like, okay, so you left us that note. And he's like, what?

and they're like the note on the door you left us a note he's like no no no I it was the craziest thing he ended up he was they were in that house for a little bit I guess he was like I never wrote my note because someone left a note on that door so that house ended up with two notes

and they're like our house ended up with two notes so there are four identical notes oh that is confusing uh oh So, time for bed. M shows him their two notes.

So they're like, that means that this one note has been written at least four times. So there are not two separate realities, red and blue. There are at least double that. Oh, this is where my math brain stops working. Yeah. This is where the infographic gets nutso, nutso. Yeah. So they're like, okay, okay, okay.

we need to figure out a way to mark this specific house. They're like, all the house are the same. How the fuck we're going to do that? If we just like put a mark on the door, how do we know that that house? That house doesn't have mark on the door. They're like, okay, we need to do something. And this is where my brain is like, I would literally never think of this. But they're like, we need to do something random, something that can't be repeated.

Like a dice roll. And they're like, okay, yes. If each single one of us rolls a dice, you know, that's six chances for each of us, eight of us six times eight. I don't fucking know. And then they're going to do the numbers. So they get dice out. And they're like, okay, okay.

but that we need a physical manifestation of these numbers. Like how are we going to know who does the numbers? And that they're like photos. Yeah. What did you want to go to sleep then? I would be like, oh, fuck. We're walking right into it, you guys. I'm going to bed.

There's no point. And they're like, okay, well, we also need somewhere to put the photos. Like how are we going to put them? And they're like, like a fucking box. And this is when Amir goes, if it seems like it's a good idea to us, it would have seemed like a good idea to them. And they're realizing every single. reality, or at least this other reality that the box they stole thought to do this same

things. They're like, okay, let's fucking go. We'll do it. Oh, do we have free will. I don't know. Lee goes and looks for a box. She brings it out. It's the exact same box that we had seen earlier, because of course it came from inside this house. We pull photos up. Once again, the only photo of M and Kevin, she would have to cut in half. It's feeling very metaphorical. She doesn't want to do it. When Lori's like, well, I actually have a photo of Kevin. Lori, come on.

They're like, what? She's like, no, it's not weird. It's just I wrote some bank information on the back of it a long time ago, so I just keep it in my well because it has my bank information on it. But like, you can use it if you want. See, it's just a picture of Kevin. And M's like, nope, cuts the picture in half. And it's like, we're good.

and they're about to go when they realize, oh, there's no photo of Amir. And Amir makes a joke like, oh, thanks, guys. We're having so many photos. We're a friend of meir. There's a photo of everybody else here in this house. Like, well, we have to just take one right now. Here is where the photo of Amir getting taken tonight comes in.

They take a photo of him. But they realize, and looking at the photo, it is slightly different than the photo of him in the other box. And so Amir is like, see, this is how we mark our specific house. These small little details are going to, like let us know which that it's a divergent moment the picture is ever so slightly different

the dice roll is going to be different like we're on the right track that's what we need to be doing like okay they're about to roll the dice and write numbers in the back of the picture and M's like she's holding a red marker she's like wait I should write it in blue because we're the blue glow stick house and they're like great and even another

random identifier perfect so they roll the dice she writes the numbers on blue marker and back all the photos and Amir's like, okay, we should also put like an object in the box like how when you're like doing a you're like logging into a website who's like it's called multi-factor authentication

and I was like God it's 2013 and he's like we should put you know how you can like you can identify a picture or something as an additional step to get into your account let's do that we'll just put a random object in and someone's like oh exactly like an oven mitt

and M says or a ping pong paddle But not that. And Amir's like, right, exactly. A ping pong paddle. She's like, no, literally, exactly. A ping pong paddle. But they're like, okay, there's a coaster on the table. Or like, because we obviously don't want to use the same one as the other house.

She was like, okay, coaster. Great. Put the coaster in the box. They're like, whew, great. I feel good. They're like, all we have to do, we stay inside. We stay together. We ride this thing out.

If for whatever reason, anybody has to leave, we know we'll put this box outside. You check this box. If there's a coaster and your number on that picture, you're in the right place. Unless someone steals the box and brings it to the other house. Great. Is the hope that when the comic passes that everything will just go back to normal? Because also, like, wouldn't you just be like, no one leave the house? I feel like also this could turn into like a prisoner movie of like.

Yeah. I mean, they are like we should just, we shouldn't ever leave, which they should never have left to begin with. But they're sort of like, yes. It keeps kind of happening. it keeps kind of happening and at the very least like this is a safeguard this box is a safeguard be a whole lot easier if we were all asleep if we had just gone to bed um but they're all feeling a little bit better now they're like we've done what we can do lee's like all right well i'm gonna go get a drink um and she asks em she says i wonder how different our numbers are from the box that

we found and em's like that's a good question let me look um because she had written the numbers down when you first got it says she said she She opens the notepad, flips to the page, and the numbers are all written, but in a green marker. No. She's never used to green marker. She looks at that and is like,

fuck. She looks over at Hugh, who's, like, calculating in his phone. I think he's trying to run the, like, what are the odds of, yeah. And his phone screen is not cracked. Oh, okay. So she's like, okay. And she starts writing down the names and numbers that she remembers from the first house underneath the green written numbers.

And she starts asking everybody one by one, hey, do you remember what number was on your picture in that first box? And they're telling her one by one. And she's circling what they say. To see who's the original. And some are in the top line. and some are in the ones she just wrote. Everyone's got mixed up in that dark alley. Mike sits down with her and she shows him what she's got.

And she's like, okay, so here's the deal. Beth and Lee are from this house originally because they've never left. Their numbers line up with the top row numbers. But everyone else is a visitor here. Whoa. which means this Lee is not your wife. Including him and Mike, right? Like them, they are also visitors here.

Yeah. And she's, and he's like, you know, absorbing this for a minute. And she says, well, it gets worse. No, she hadn't asked Mike his number yet. So me, Lori, and Kevin are from this line of house. But Hugh and Amir have to be from a third house because Hugh's phone is. not cracked. And at the start of our night,

Hughes phone screen cracked. And M tells him, she's like, I think that super dark area you walked through is like a roulette wheel. And when you go through it, you will not end up back at the house that you left. It's like a black hole. And she tells him, she's like, I think we need to find our house before the comet

passes, because I think when the comet passes, wherever we are, is where we stay. Whoa, scary. Mike says, well, if that's true and that's a big roulette wheel, there's no way to guarantee we end up back at our house. So we might as well just stay here. I think we're stuck here. I think I kind of agree with Mike. Yeah.

I never thought I'd say it. I know. Because especially you don't know how many options there are. There could be endless options and it's like. Yep. Stick with the devil you know. Right. And just then, there's a bang at the door.

I hate it. No more than you. And a note gets slid under the door. Oh, this is such a good idea for a movie. I love this. Hugh picks up the note and reads it aloud. It says, hey, Mike, Beth plus the book equals Trinidad Club. Don't let it happen, buddy, whatever it takes.

There's the blackmail. Immediately, Mike is like, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. Kevin's like, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. accuses what is this what does this mean and kevin's like ah it's no big deal it's a stupid stupid thing mike it's just some other mike out there being crazy like mike had an idea that to maybe write a thing that would keep ever just forget about it's no big deal um and he was like what what's what's going on like what is beth do you know what this is and she's like uh her nose starts bleeding and he was like if this isn't a big fucking deal why is my

wife's nose bleeding. Somebody tell me what the fuck is going on. Beth runs out of the room. He follows her. Kevin tells the rest of him. He's like, yeah, Mike had this idea to blackmail himself. Oh, my God. With the note about Beth.

And all the rest of them are like, they say to Mike, they're like, I thought you told Hugh. And he's like, yeah, I never did. We hear Hugh and Beth. screaming in the other room where he's like, why didn't you tell me what the fuck are you talking about? And she's like, I thought he told you. And he's like, why didn't you say anything?

It's just like, well, you never brought it up. So I thought maybe it was fine. Hugh storms back out. And he's like, who knew about this? Who knew about this? And they're all like, we thought Mike told you. He's like, so everybody fucking knew, everybody fucking knew. I guess I don't remember where it and inside they were in.

But 12 years ago, Mike fucked Beth. And we're not told where in the timeline of their relationship this is. We don't know if this was a cheating thing or if it was before they got together. Either way, Hugh had had no idea that Beth and Mike had fucked. He was freaking out. And so Mike thinks it'll maybe be helpful to be like, hey, buddy, we're not even, we're visitors here. This isn't our house. That actually, that isn't even your wife.

So no big deal. So no big deal That's not helping Is Mike also like wasted or? Yeah yeah yeah yeah okay They're like Hugh show us show us your phone Show us your phone he's like what the fuck I don't like to fucking show you my phone like what the fuck

What does that matter? And they're like please just please just show us your phone And he pulls his phone up And immediately Lori and Kevin are like Your phone was broken Your phone has been broken It's the beginning of the night He's like what are you fucking talking about?

No it hasn't So then Mike says everybody What was the random item in the box at the beginning of the night, the box that got brought over. What was the item in it? And Hugh goes, the stapler.

And they're like, no. Beth and Lee are like, ours was an oven mitt. And Kevin and lawyer like, ours was a ping pong paddle. Oh, wow. And Mike says,

mine was a napkin. Oh, wow. This is fun. This is really fun. So Mike says, Hugh, that is not my knee and that is not your Beth and I am not your Mike. We are from different realities.

Yeah, but Mike, it's your idea to kind of just keep them as is so we might as well let the transfer over two. What's the differences? Would love to, yeah, like, right. Well, so Hugh says, yeah, we are in different realities. In my reality, my best friend didn't fucking sleep with my wife.

I think he did though. And Mike says, well, if this all started tonight and there are a million different realities, I've slept with your wife And every one of them Oh, brother Which is a fucking wild thing to say

And Hugh punches him What does, like Lee think of this? Lee like... She knew. Oh, she knew. Everybody else knew And everybody thought Hugh and Mike had worked with out.

Right, got it, got it. Okay. So Hugh punches Mike. They, you know, split them up. Everybody goes with Hugh in the one room. M stays with. with Mike and the other. Mike says to her, you know, all night, we've been wondering if there's some dark version of us out there.

But what if we're the dark version? That's right. Just then, someone bursts through the front door. It's Mike, and he tackles other Mike. And starts beating the shit out of him. Little fun, little asterisk is that this actor has an identical twin brother, which is how they were able to do this. I'm assuming that's not in the trivia,

but he's the only person who you ever see face to face with another version of himself. And I have to imagine they're like, we could do that. Yeah, that's very convenient. On a $50,000 budget. So this, this mic is beating the shit out of our mic. Hearing this, everybody like runs back in.

Other violent mic slips out the door. The group goes to the mic that was in our house and he's not breathing. And they're like, fuck. They're like, what do we do? What do? Beth is standing over him. Her nose is still bleeding.

Some blood, I guess, drips onto Lori. Lori starts freaking out. She's like, I hate blood. Oh my God. Oh, my God. Blood. She's like, freaking out. Which I'm like, I think Mike is dead, but okay. Kevin comes up behind her and

grabs her and is like comforting her. We see M kind of just watching all this dead-eyed. And she just backs away, opens the front door and walks out. Wow. We follow her as

she walks out of the street. We see her walk through the dark space. She's to see her walk up to a house, open the box outside. She finds a stuffed monkey, looks in the window. And in that house, she sees herself sort of like hunched over

the table looking like shit. Lee comes over. She like shoves her away. Backs away. we see her approach a different imagining she's gone through the roulette wheel again she approaches another house in that house

everyone's screaming at each other the whole friend group's fucking screaming at each other Not this one No thank you Walks up to another house looks in the window We see two mics fucking tied up and gagged to chairs Whoa no we're not gonna do that one Another house we see Kevin and Lori

Have gotten together They're announcing to everybody that they decided They're in love with each other They're gonna be together No, not that house. We see her look up. We see the comet passing. Maybe we're running out of time.

Roulette wheel. Another house looks in the window. The group's having a great time. Everybody's having a great time. We're sitting in the living room. We're talking about the upcoming trip to Vietnam. M's decided to go. They're going to be in Vietnam for four months.

She and Kevin looks so happy. Everybody's doing great. R.M. seeing this? start sneaking around the house we see her clock there's a bat that we saw them use earlier as self-defense leaned up against the house she clocks that she sneaks into the kitchen

we see her grab the vial of ketamine and slip back out inside the house or with the happy happy group and we hear glass break they're all like what the fuck was that they go outside to investigate it's huge windshield

maybe somebody hit it with a bat they're like we should all go check on our cars make sure that everything's okay the happy M goes to her car everything's fine she decides to open the glove compartment

get that ring out and as she's doing that our M comes up behind her suffocates her presumably gives her some ketamine takes the ring puts it on her finger and she puts this M

in the trunk of the car which I'm like No, that choice I don't understand. Yeah, go throw her in the roulette wheel. Throw her in the roulette wheel. Yep. Throw in that roulette wheel, baby. But she comes back into the house.

The group's all, the happy group is all back in the house. We're like, where did you go? Where were you? She's like, oh, sorry. I went to get this ring. And Kevin's like, oh, I love it so much. I love you. He's a perfect boyfriend in this reality.

They're all like, what took you so long? She said, oh, yeah, I was just looking up the comet. It's really beautiful. They're like, oh, let's go out and look at the comet. She's like, no, no, no, we should stay in time. Yeah, don't go outside. They're like, no, no, no, look. They all go outside to look.

And they'll look at the common. It's beautiful. Out of the corner of her eye, she sees other M dragging herself back into the house and into the bathroom. R.M. Falls her in there. Shuts the door. This happy M.

She's not happy right now. She's really looking out of it. She's like, we see her like at the sink. like blinking and she looks up at RM. RM grabs the fucking top of the toilet and smashes her head with it. Holy shit. And then puts her in the tub.

And again, I'm like, what? I guess like you can't really carry the body outside though. No, but the tub doesn't seem like the best way's better. She puts her in the tub and she's like freaking out, she's like wiping the blood off. She's trying to like close the curtain. Lee knocks on the door. She's like, yeah, yeah, I'll be on a second.

The toilet got clogged. Which I'm like, there's no. universe where I would be like, yeah, yeah, I just took a big shit. Be out in a minute. Totally, totally right. She just right there. She, like, cleans up her mask, cleans up her hair. She's like, okay, okay.

She notices, like, somehow in that fucking brutal fight she's got into her. The ring has fallen off. So she goes in the tub. She pulls the ring off that M's finger, puts it on her finger, leaves. We see her ring on the bathroom floor. R.M. walks back out into the house. The group's all hanging.

and out in the living room. She starts kind of stumbling and she passes out. Cut to black. Cut to the next morning. She did it. She went to sleep. We see M. waking up on the couch. Looking around like, okay, what's going on here now?

We hear some noise in the kitchen. She gets up. She goes out in the kitchen. Lee's making breakfast. She's like, oh, you're awake. How are you feeling? She's like, no one noticed the corpse in the tub. Like, I'm making breakfast.

I'll be ready in a few minutes. She's like, okay. So then Em starts walking, you know, through the house. She goes up to the bathroom door and we see the handle start jiggling. She backs away. Door opens. Beth comes out. She just took a shower.

I'm also like, did everybody stay at the night? Like, what is this friend group where everybody has a dinner party and then is like, well, I'm just going to shower here in the morning, if you don't mind. Beth comes out of the shower She's like, oh, are you feeling better? I'm so glad to see you. Like, you know, everything, I'm just going to go get changed.

I'm like, okay. She's just like, so far so good. And walks outside. She looks at Hughes car. She sees windshield's still broken. Okay. That's how I remember it. It's looking around when Kevin comes up to her

and he's like, hey, ugh, how are you feeling? You really scared us last night. She's like, oh, yeah, no, I'm good. I'm good now. he hands her the ring. He's like, we found this in the bathroom. She's like, oh, thank you so much. grabs the ring, hides the fact that she already has it. And then his phone starts ringing. Oh, we noticed she looks in Hughes car and she sees the book still in the back of this Hughes car.

So this group, they were having such a good happy time. They never even got stressed about the comment. Wow. And Kevin's phone starts ringing. And he pulls it out and he goes, that's weird. you're calling me. Oh. And she gets wide-eyed and he's like, hello. And then gets kind of a concerned look on his face. And he looks over at her. End of movie.

No. Wow. No, coherence to immediately. Coherence to immediately. Coherence to immediately. We need it. Make it. I loved it.

I loved it. I loved every second of it. It's so fun. It's so fun. And it is like, what? Like, there were so many moments before I was like, I simply would never get there. I would never get there.

Right. But truly, if they had just fucking chilled out and never gone anywhere, it would have been completely fine. Which is why I'm not worried for my mind. Which is why I'm not. I know, Joel and I was like, I would just drink a bottle of wine and go to bed. Yeah.

I would just knock myself out and go to sleep and be like, hope this is okay. Also, like, things are better tomorrow. Doubockaging your stories are so interesting because it forces you to consider like how much you want your life, like your own life. Right. That is part of what makes this work. A lot of them don't. Yeah. Because like for M, she was, she could have entered that reality and just like, I don't know, started over. Like basically she didn't have to go kill her version and like commit murder. Do you know what I mean? Like you could like. did have to get rid of the her. I feel like she does.

Yeah, because it's like you can't, where's she going to live? But couldn't you? Yeah, I wouldn't know how to do any of that shit. How do you start over? I don't know. I don't know. I don't understand though why she didn't just like put her in the roulette wheel. That, that, well, that's the biggest thing.

That's where she should have gone. But then, well, I guess at the time, if it's closing, the other issue is that if everything you do is going to happen to you because someone else is going to do it to you. Right. There's also that. Yeah, it's also like all these friends were like having a bad time. It's also that. It's like if they were just like having a fun like that like the one group, a fun dinner party where they're enjoying each other's company, it would have been fine. Probably. Yeah, man, it's it's fascinating. And it's really, it's very effectively spooky. And it's so impressive that they improvised a lot of it. But they're it. So we're and rewatching it and knowing. that Amir was like the mole who knew what was supposed to happen.

It was really fun. There was one moment where, like, Hugh is all mad about Beth and Mike sleeping together, and they're like, Hugh, show us your phone. And he's like, I don't want to show you my fucking phone. Like, I want to do with this. And Amir goes, just show it to him.

And they're like, it doesn't bump watching it the first time, but then rewatching it is so funny that he's like, you got to show him. And he's like, okay. We actually, like, really needed to show the phone. Oh, it's such a good idea. Oh, Emily, you did a really good job. It could have been way more confusing.

Thank you so much. It was quite clear to me what was going on. Also, a brisk 90 minutes. Yeah. Love that. Love that. Quick little guy. I do love a like thrillery science fictiony.

Like a mind bendy. Mind bendy. But really, I mean, some really freaking good jump scares. Good use of just a blackout or like a bang on a door. Very spooky. and raising questions about like what you would do in that situation. It's just also fun to be like. Go sleep.

Yeah. I think we answered all those. Figured it all out. We'd be asleep. I like, I simply, simply, simply 1,000 million percent would never leave the house. Yeah, same, same. I mean, I've never left a house for any reason.

No, I would, at night. So why would I do it? I'm not leaving the house. Why would I do it that night? No, I would simply never leave the house. Yeah. If the safe option is like staying inside and having a good time with your friends, I think I'm going to be okay.

I think I'm going to be fine. We have wine. We have glow sticks. I think we're good. We're fine. I mean, you're having a little dance party with some glow sticks and my friends. And then I'm going to tire myself out and I'm going to go to bed real early. Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm. And I'm none the wiser. You know what I would do is like obsession style duct tape all over the doors. Like no one and no one out. I think I would just reinforce all the windows and doors and just that's what I meant by like, I feel like this could be a prisoner movie. because it could be one person being like psychotically duct taping all the... That's true. And that would be me.

That's true. And then everyone's like, Sammy, I think the comet passed. Like, I think that we can go outside now. Too bad. We have to keep doing it. But aren't we having fun? Who wants another margarita? You can't wait.

You can't leave. Yeah. Loved every second of it. Can't wait to go to bed. Not traumatized out of my mind. No way. Yep. There it is.

coherence. Coherence. The most coherent. I definitely understand physics. Let me tell you what. Physics is really crazy. Imagine it being your job. Actually, I wouldn't even know where to begin with even imagining what that job is.

It's pretty crazy. I mean, I've told you guys about how there was the regular physics and then there was the advanced physics and I was in like the regular physics, which was like dummy physics. So dumb that we would just go over to. It is such a thing as dummy physics. No, this is how dumb it was. We would just go over to our teacher's house and watch Elf. We did that like a few times.

Oh, hell yeah. All right, that is dummy physics. That's dummy physics for sure. And then the rest of the time we were like balancing like little tiny pieces of metal. And it's like we spent truly six months just balancing different weights of metal. That's what's my experience. It sounds like a fun class, honestly. I don't think I ever took physics.

I liked physics. I get a lot of physics. content on my TikTok in between AI slop about... I must have had to take physics, right? Do you have to? I prefer chemistry. I think you do have to take physics. You have to take biology, physics, chemistry.

Maybe I didn't. I know I took biology. I know I took chemistry. I must have taken physics. What's the other one? That's it. Isn't there like, do you take another one? Is there another?

Oh, I took environmental science. That was my other one that I took. A lesser science for sure. That's what. I went on on a barge in the middle of the lake. And William started a rumor that I couldn't swim. Have I told you? You started a rumor?

Yeah, because I'd broken my collarbone and we're out on the barge in the middle of the lake. You certainly shouldn't swim. And I was like, I was like, I really hope I don't fall in because like I wouldn't be able to swim. And then William was like, did you guys hear that? Henley doesn't know how to swim. And like, it's a joke, but then it spread like wildfire. So many people thought I couldn't swim. People would be like, have you thought about taking swimming lessons?

Oh, like, just like in a nice way. It's so funny to be like a rumor that just makes people like, Oh my God, I'll go swing with you sometime. Let's have a pool party. Brandon people would be like, oh, but Henley, don't you not know how to swim? It like followed me for years. Interesting. It's very funny.

I mean, yeah, that's how I heard about you. This is Emily can't swim. You should be my friend Henley. She can't swim. Okay. Bedtime for me. Bedtime. Love you guys.

Too much. Wow. Love you so much. Would never scream at you. at a party in any reality. Can you imagine? I can't. I literally can't.

If there are a million different realities, I am not screaming at you in a single one of them. I can promise you that. No. No. So that's nice. So that's nice. That's so nice. I feel really good about our prospects in a dire comet situation.

Yeah, need to. No sleep will be lost for me tonight. No, thank God. No voices really. Just regular old people. Do it as your, do it as dark Emily. Oh, do it as dark Emily. Oh, do as M.

From all of us here at Too Scary, didn't watch. Goodbye. She's just like a little more curt, you know? Yeah. Don't mess with her. She's really curt. She's so curt. She's really dark. She's so curt.

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