Parallels Page #3

Let's get back inside.

Back inside.

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HAROLD:

Ah! Everything's gone.

Come on.

[BOTH PANTING]

[HAROLD COUGHING]

Yeah, they went

into the building.

HAROLD:

They're not following us.

Why aren't they

following us?

Maybe they're afraid.

HAROLD:

They're walking away. That's--

That's good, right?

I feel like we were running

pretty fast on that-- That one.

I don't-- Haven't ran

that fast in a while.

Why did Dad send us here?

I don't know.

I mean, maybe we weren't,

uh, supposed...

to go to the-- I-- I don't know.

Maybe it's a mistake.

No. I mean, no, it--

It can't be a mistake.

He sent us to this exact

address at that exact time.

Dad wanted us to come here.

Where is here?

I-- I--

Well, I have a theory.

What?

You're not gonna like

my theory.

It's better than the theory

we have, which is no theory.

Well, not necessarily.

I mean,

a terrible theory could be

worse than no theory.

Harold, just tell us the theory.

Okay.

Just look

at all this graffiti

of different Earths,

different...

Histories,

different worlds.

Okay, what about it?

It's all bullshit.

Yeah, right, right.

But what if it's not?

What if all of these Earths

are equally real?

What if we are

on Earth now, just...

another version of it?

WOMAN:
Actually...

I'm--

[GASPS]

that's sounds kind of right.

[SIGHS]

I take it this is your first

trip through the building.

Where did you come from?

The building

is pretty big.

There's lots of different

ins and outs.

I'm Polly.

Ronan.

Beatrix.

Harold. Harry.

Well, you guys

are all really polite.

Okay, you said

that he was about right.

What did you mean by that?

You guys got on

on that last Earth, right?

That one with your Internet

and your fancy phones

and your lattes?

That's just sitting

right where you left it.

This Earth,

on the other hand,

this Earth looks

nuked to sh*t.

This Earth?

Yeah.

You hit them

every once in a while.

It's usually some U.S.-Soviet

thing from the '70s or '80s.

Sometimes you get China,

Pakistan in there.

I saw Egypt cause it once.

That was a weird Earth.

I mean, this is just assuming

that you're working off

more or less

the same 20th Century, so--

How many Earths are there?

I don't know. Nobody knows.

Some people think

every possible Earth exists.

So like,

out there somewhere,

there's an Earth

that is exactly like your Earth,

just with one less mosquito.

Some people think

that there is an Earth

that's so perfect,

it's basically heaven.

Yes, nerd in front?

When can we go home?

This building jumps

every 36 hours.

So we have got

32 hours to kill.

Till then, there's

nothing to do but wait.

But you guys have to be back

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