(lighthearted piano music)
(truck engine running)
(timer goes off)
(door opening)
(Dee Dee meowing)
- Oh! Dee Dee where you headed?
(Dee Dee meowing)
Jimmy, I'm back!
I saw Janett today, she sent you her best wishes.
Her and their son are thinking about
going to Pheonix for Christmas.
You remember him?
He's a little freckle-headed, little boy,
that used to run around all the time?
Well, guess what?
He's going to college this year.
And I was like,
"Ooh, how's middle-school?"
(laughs) Your wife has no sense of timing, does she?
Want some lunch?
(heart rate monitor beeping)
(timer goes off)
Okay you ready?
Okay one, two and three.
(heart rate monitor beeping)
Okay that's better.
(plane-like object rumbling)
(low bass of impact sound)
What is that?
(truck engine running)
(truck door open and closes)
(eerie music)
(alien weak groaning)
(alien loudly breathing)
- Help!
(alien gasping breath)
- Here you go, you're okay.
(alien wheezing)
- Water.
(alien wheezing)
(alien gulping water)
(alien loudly breathing)
(alien slowly breathing)
(Kathie whistling)
(Kathie humming happily)
(mellow music)
(door opening)
(lighthearted piano music)
- Sorry! I- I just- I was ah...
I brought you some breakfast.
I'll be in the kitchen
- Your face turned red?
- Well, it's embarrassing.
Shameful?
- Fascinating!
And what is shame used for?
Is it a social mechanism or
- I brought you some clothes.
Are you a robot?
- Robot? No. I am Rogl from Actice.
- Well, I'm Kathie from... Arizona.
Put these on you'll get sick.
- Your daughter's, I assume?
- Why are you here?
- I was researching less-developed life-forms.
- Eat your food it'll get cold.
(heart rate monitor beeping)
- Hello! I am Rogl. What's your name?
- This is my husband, Jim.
Jimmy! This is Rogl, our midnight guest.
- I did not know you were a doctor, Kathie.
- I might as well be.
- A patient in his state requires
constant doctor's supervision, does he not?
- Trust me, Jimmy's better off here.
- How?
- 'Cause I love him.
- And does that affect his rate of recovery
more than professional care?
- Whoa! What are you doing?
- Gastrostomy feeding is optimal
when the head of the bed is elevated 35 degrees.
- Don't you know a full lot?
All this professor talk!
- Language is easy.
What I don't understand yet is this.
Why would a self-sufficient being
care for an immobilized with no hope of recovery?
- "Love is when Mom isn't mad at you
that you ate the last cookie - Marie, 4".
- That's a good one.
- That's illogical. Which is not surprising
since a developing brain tends to generalize.
- You'll get it when you have kids.
- I do.
- Well, you must be missing them.
You're their mother.
- Acticians do not form emotional bonds
with their kids, only genes.
- Well, humans do. I do!
- And where is your kid?
- I got it.
(sad piano music)
- You look different.
It's not shame.
What is it?
- It's sadness, okay?!
That's your lesson. Happy?!
(sad piano music)
(plates clanking)
(water pouring)
- You can feed Dee Dee.
Her bowl is over there.
(Dee Dee purring)
- What's that sound?
- What sound?
(Dee Dee purring)
- Cats heal people like that.
(Dee Dee meows)
(Kathie laughs)
It's okay! Jim will get his Dee Dee therapy later.
(Dee Dee meows)
- Do you like a walk outside?
- Would you?
(bouncy piano music)
When Christine was little,
she used to drag Jimmy outside
to look at the stars.
They knew every constellation.
I couldn't get them back in the house,
the two of them.
And then she turns seventeen and she leaves.
How are you getting home, Ro?
(melancholic music)
(birds chirping)
Jimmy! We have a surprise for you.
Happy anniversary!
It's your favorite! Double chocolate.
(blender rumbling)
(heart rate monitor beeping)
(Katie laughs)
Ro! Get in! Come on!
(Katie laughs)
Okay. One, two and three (laughs)
(camera snaps)
I really like that one.
I'm the luckiest girl.
(heart rate monitor beeping)
Great. Just keep doing that.
- You never told me where she is.
- Charleston. I think.
- So why have you kept all of these?
- Well, you never know.
- You don't?
- You know, she only visited Jim once?
In the hospital.
She didn't say a word,
showed up, paid the bill and left.
I... I can't blame her,
It's heartbreaking to see Jim like this.
I don't even remember
what his voice sounds like anymore.
And she hasn't even..
- Kathie,
I'm sorry you daughter doesn't love you.
- ...I. How can you say that!? I
- Let me help.
(melancholic music)
You're not alone.
(heart rate monitor beeping)
- Ro?
(heart rate monitor beeping)
(neck breaks)
RO?!
(door opens and closes)
Get away from him!
- Kathie?
(melancholic music)
(Kathie breathes heavily)
- No...
(gun fired)
(Rogl inhales sharply)
(Rogl bodyfall)
- [Rogl] Water! (coughs)
Water!
(Rogl gasping breath)
- [Rogl] Water! (door opens and closes)
(Kathie breathes heavily)
(water drops)
(melancholic music)