I'll Follow You Down Page #4

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- I mean, we're living in a negative space.

Gabe should be here now.

Your mother, you, me, none of

us should be living this life.

Gabe disappeared in 2000.

Anyone who was affected

by that is living.

An alternate reality.

We fix this, we bring him back.

It'll all return to normal.

The last 12 years of

our lives will go back

to what they were supposed to be.

You really believe this?

Yes.

Grandpa, you know how much mom

struggles forgetting about him.

This is a fantasy.

Have you told any of this to her?

No. I've only told you.

I'm... I'm begging you

to keep it that way.

Erol...

You'll probably never

forgive yourself.

Hi. Sorry, I'm late.

It's okay. I just got here.

You okay?

Yeah. Did you talk to your Prof?

Presenting in two weeks.

Oh well, I'll... I'll help.

No, you've... you've done enough.

Just show up to the presentation.

I need a friendly face there.

Yeah, I'll be there.

We still on for tonight?

Yeah, if you want. You

seem kind of preoccupied.

No. No. I really had my

heart set on seeing...

what was it again?

A one-man show about

the Bhopal disaster.

Yes. Yes. Exactly

what I wanted to see.

Hi.

Hi. So... you want to

tell me what's up?

No. Tell me... tell me

what research you did.

Mostly just the details on the GNHs

of the three countries I'm studying.

Since it's a theoretical

model, the data has...

So what are you working

on now, Professor?

I take an old family photograph

and I paint a picture

of that image.

And then I make digital copies

of it over and over again,

each time removing elements to it.

And then I... I go back

to the original painting

and take the figures out

as if they weren't there

to begin with.

So you're altering your

own memory sources.

Something like that, yeah.

Hi, honey.

Hello.

Do you want to join us?

That's all right.

I got to get somewhere.

Here, let me take these for you.

You still going?

Yeah, in a second.

Thanks, honey.

Excuse me for one minute.

Would you mind if I checked

out your work station?

You don't have to say

anything, just listen.

I've spent years on this.

Everything I've done

is based on evidence

your father left behind.

Let me walk you

through his research.

Who's this?

My husband.

Is he...?

He's dead.

We should get going.

Just think about what

I've been saying, please.

Thank you, Professor.

Good night.

Thank you for coming.

They admire you so much.

I remember when you dreamed

of becoming an artist.

Now you're doing it.

That wasn't my dream, Pops.

You okay?

Yeah. Why?

You seem distant.

Just, you know, been

away these three days.

Marika, you work too hard.

Thanks for dinner.

It was takeout.

Yeah, but it was really

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