1بخش

We have a place, a compound.

We have a community.

It’s safe here.

How many of you are there?

Are any of them children?

Because the fastest way to get here is by the river,

and I don’t think you could make it with kids.

Listen to me, I’m only gonna say this once.

We are going on the trip now, It’s going to be rough.

It’s gonna feel like it’s going on for a long time,

so it’s gonna be hard to stay alert.

It’s gonna be even harder to be quiet, but you have to do both.

You have to do every single thing I say or we will not make it.

Understand?

Under no circumstance are you allowed to take off your blindfold.

If I find that you have, I will hurt you.

Do you understand?

It’s cold, We have blankets.

Boy, you have your dog, Girl, you have your kitty.

This is just a place, There’s nothing more that we need from it.

Do you understand?

And no talking on the river.

You must listen as closely as you can.

If you hear something in the woods, you tell me.

If you hear something in the water, you tell me.

But you never, ever take off your blindfold.

If you look, you will die.

Do you understand?

It’s okay, It’s okay, It’s okay.

Kitty, - It’s okay, It’s okay.

Let’s go.

Okay, Okay.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

Twenty-eight, 29, 30, Okay, this way, It’s fine.

Thirty-one, 32, 33.

Where is it, Where is it?

Uh, asshole, I was listening to that, -Yeah, so were the people down the street.

The store was packed, This thing seems serious.

Wow, you literally have no food.

What– What thing, -Are you serious?

I’m serious, -Turn on the news, dumb-dumb.

Dumb-dumb.

What channel, dumb-dumb, -Any one of them.

Airports and train stations have shut down.

Streets are crowded with people escaping cities by car and on foot

as witnesses report unexplained mass suicides.

First recorded in Romania,

there’s now an alarming spread of incidents into Europe and Siberia.

Estimated death toll is in the tens of thousands.

don’t yet know what is causing the mass suicides in Europe and Russia.

The eyewitness reports tell of people exhibiting psychotic behavior.

Our sources are telling us

this does not appear to be pathological or viral.

US authorities are advising the public to remain calm.

There have been no officially confirmed inst–

Well, it’s in Russia, so

Well, try telling that to the soccer moms fighting over bottled water.

Speaking of which, I just got off the phone with Mom.

How come I have to update her about you all the time?

Why do you have to talk about me, -I’m not telling her about my life.

At three o’clock, I’m gonna go check out an Arabian stud in Sausalito.

See, now that is a sentence you don’t hear every day.

You wanna come, -I can’t, I’ve got my OB with Dr, Lapham.

Lapham, when, -Oh, my God.

Why does your voice get high when it gets excited?

How about I drive you, -No, I’m fine.

I can go in, We can maybe see the baby.

Or I can cancel the appointment and we can go and see a horse.

No, Fuck the horse.

Wow, Such venom.

What do you think?

I think I see a whole bunch of people sitting together,

but they all feel incredibly lonely.

The loneliness is just incidental.

It’s really about people’s inability to connect.

Inability to connect to what?

Can you move, -Malorie.

I need you to move, -We’ve been through this.

Mm-hmm, -That’s not how it’s gonna be for you.

It’s different with a baby, It’s an immediate love affair.

It’s not gonna be that way for me, -Yes, it will.

No, ma’am, -You should be afraid of being alone,

not of this.

And what we need to do is get you

out into the real world with other people,

not stuck in this house all day, You never leave.

Why should I leave, I have you to get me groceries.

You have to move, -No, not moving.

Yes, you do, -Not moving.

Why, -Not moving, I love my house!

I know it took you a long time to find a studio you loved,

and ever since Ryan left, you’ve gotten a lot more work done.

But, so fine, so no more roommates.

Ryan was not a roommate.

Uh, it turns out he kind of was.

Anyway, can’t raise a kid here, Where would you even put her?

How do you know it’s a she?

Wishful thinking, I guess.

Sorry, it’s work, I’ll be there in a second.

Hi.

Yeah, they just had to push the surgery back an hour.

Yes?

Yeah.

I’ll call right back.

What?

You still don’t wanna know the gender?

And ruin the surprise, Dr, Lapham, No.

How have you been feeling, Have you been sleeping any better?

Rough.

I never slept well before I had this condition.

It’s called pregnancy, It’s okay to say it out loud.

Oh, don’t you know, Doctor, if you don’t acknowledge a thing, it simply goes away?

Oh, really, All this time, I had no idea.

When a horse gets pregnant, - God, the horse.

You know about horses, When a horse gets pregnant, it knows right away.

Does it?

It changes the way it eats, It changes its gait.

It bites all the other horses who come too close.

It’s too bad we’re not horses.

It is too bad, Great to be a horse, Then we would have, like, a mother

who would have actually raised us

and a father off on some faraway stud farm.

Hold on, Our father was off on a faraway stud farm.

That is correct, - That is correct.

Poor us.

We should go feel sorry for ourselves with lunch and a bottle of wine.

Oh, finally, now you’re making some sense.

Good, -Really, in front of me?

We didn’t mean it

No, like a tiny glass of rosé is not gonna hurt the little bean.

I’m pretty sure I heard the word “bottle.

”

You might want to think of a name besides “little bean”

seeing as your child is now the size of a small melon.

Small melon!

I know it’s hard to love someone you haven’t met yet.

Oh, that’s beautiful.

Thought about stitching that on, like, a little lavender sachet?

Could sell them in the gift shop, -In the gift shop.

You’re having a baby, Malorie.

Pretty soon you and I, Jessica, and some hard-ass labor and delivery nurse

will be on the third floor making the same wise cracks.

Only this time, you won’t be going home by yourself.

I know, I know.

But if that’s not what you want,

there are plenty of couples who are desperate to adopt a child.

There are no judgments here, You can make whatever choice you want.

But what you can’t do is ignore it and hope it just goes away.

You okay in there?

I’m great.

Are you puking?

Just go to the car.

Is it chunky?

No, it was actually the really smooth kind that just shoots out real clean.

I’ll meet you at the car, okay?

In the corridor, - Let’s get it clear.

Hey, Hey, Hey, security!

Watch out, Help, I need help!

No, get back!

Calm down, Please calm down, -Code gray, Level one.

Calm down, Security!