(ominous music begins)
(static)
(plane squeals)
(radio announcer speaks indistinctly)
(glass shatters)
- [Narrator] When I close my eyes at night,
there is only darkness.
When I open my eyes in the morning, there is only this.
Our world is not powered by oil
or money
or dreams
or God.
Our world is run on trust.
We see the universe as a machine,
everything in the right place,
gears forever rotating.
Our world,
eternal,
fixed,
like the sun.
Trains and people and clocks will be on time.
Time marches forward, never backwards, never standing still.
The son buries the father, grows old
and his son will bury him.
The past written in books...
- [Robotic Voice] Good morning, Mr. Midlake.
Have a good day, sir.
- [Narrator] The books that have survived.
This is the truth.
It's made us the Kings.
We trust that our memories were real,
that our pictures speak a thousand words
and what they say be the truth.
- [Voice On Radio] Do you feel like you were born in another time?
Like you belong to another place?
- [Narrator] We trust that when people
say they love us, they mean it.
Not just in their heads, but in their hearts.
- Isabelle.
Isabelle, it's me!
(car horn honks)
- [Narrator] Because love is forever, like death.
What if the things you know
are just a made up story, an illusion?
A lullaby?
A bedtime fairytale?
(building crashes)
And you're still asleep.
- [Man] Please leave a message after the tone.
(phone beeps) (dramatic music begins)
- [Man (Over Phone)] I know what I saw,
I know what I remember.
She is out there.
She's real.
- [Man] End of message.
(machine beeps)
- [Robotic Voice] Access denied.
Please talk to Gate Service.
Please talk to...
- [Narrator] What if the universe is not fixed?
What if the universe is falling apart?
Broke?
(crowd chatters indistinctly)
(woman speaks foreign language)
(man shouts in foreign language)
(police sirens blares)
(voices echo indistinctly)
(man inhales sharply)
- [Narrator] What if all the graves are empty?
What if the dead come back?
What if one woman...
- Isabelle! - [Narrator] Is the same
as any other woman?
(dog barks)
What if one man...
- Isabelle!
- [Narrator] Is every man?
- No!
- [Narrator] What if we are not the Kings?
What if I don't dream at night?
Because this... is the dream.
(flies buzz)
(drum beats slowly and dramatically)
(dramatic music begins)
What if darkness is reality?
What if there is no love
(voice glitches) because there are no insides to show?
What if there is only darkness in me?
(helicopter roars by)
(dramatic music continues)
(music progressively softens)