Who Killed Alaska Final Mystery Revealed

WHO KILLED ALASKA
#19 - MIRROR MEMORIA: FINALITY
written by
Cameron Cooper LeBrun

STUMP TOWN.
JO
Denver, you have no idea what you’ve just done. My dad’s gonna kill me.
DENVER
It’s okay. You didn’t kill Alaska, so. Your private business is completely unrelated, we stepped on
your privacy, my bad, and I don’t want this to be a problem—
JO
You don’t understand.
Jo cocks her gun. [Ringing.]
DENVER [narrator]
Jo’s gun is a 480 caliber Ruger Super Redhawk. I hope to live another day. I peek between my
fingers, but my hands are shaking. Let’s begin.
Reloading. Cocking the gun. Pulling the trigger— it fires, but the chamber’s empty.
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THEME SONG STARTS
[Bring Me a Beer plays.]
DENVER [narrator]
Make sure to check the description for content warnings, as this episode contains references to
sensitive topics surrounding mental health and instruments of violence.
Welcome to Who Killed Alaska: Detective Files.
BOO
This is Who Killed Alaska: The Adventures!
DENVER [narrator]
I’m a private investigator looking for the killer.
BOO
And I’m the regular guy who’s gonna stop him.
BOO / DENVER [narrator]
Previously on Who Killed Alaska!
REFRESHER MONTAGE BEGINS
BOO [clip - WKA2]
My reflection talks to me. And I’m avoiding him.
BOO [clip - WKA16]
Emma. Jo. You’re gonna meet reflection.
MIRROR BOO [clip - WKA16]
I’m responding to you.
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BOO [clip CONTD. - WKA16]
Yeah.
MIRROR BOO [clip CONTD. - WKA16]
I, me, my, mine. He can’t form a sentence but I can.
BOO [clip - WKA16]
We have 48 hours. Or the mirror’s going to kill Boo the same day as Alaska.
MIRROR BOO [clip - WKA16]
He has 48 hours to solve who killed Alaska. If he doesn’t solve Alaska’s death, I’m going to take
over his body.
EMMA (unison) [clip CONTD. - WKA16]
Why would you do that?
MIRROR BOO (unison) [clip CONTD. - WKA16]
He has 48 hours. BECAUSE HE’S STUPID! Because he’s useless! He had two years to solve
Alaska’s death and he’s done NOTHING.
EMMA [clip - WKA16]
You can’t take a brother away from Alaska. Alaska’s dead.
He doesn’t have to be!
Alaska would come back if Boo just solved this fucking mystery! But he barely told you that,
because he doesn’t tell you anything, because you’re NOT FRIENDS—
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BOO [clip - WKA17]
Know where all the answers are! Know it! Need to go to bottom of the lake!
JO [clip - WKA18]
He wants to go to the— to the bottom of the lake. The lake in Stump Town.
LOGAN [clip CONTD. - WKA18]
Why?
JO [clip - WKA18]
[H]is psychic said a while ago that Outsiders come from the bottom of that lake so now he wants
answers. But I told him no we’re not doing that.
BOO [clip - WKA18]
Jo! Your hands are scarred!
BOBBY [clip - WKA18]
That’s a tattoo of an X symbol… for the Colombo crime family.
BOO [clip CONTD. - WKA18]
The… the fucking MAFIA!?
DENVER [clip - WKA18]
Jo takes something out of that brown bag and raises it to the sky. [GUNSHOT]
REFRESHER MONTAGE ENDS
BOO
And now, it’s time for the new episode!
DENVER [narrator]
Welcome back, bud.
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This is Who Killed Alaska.
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It sounds like Denver’s voice is coming from a tape recorder.
DENVER
It’s time to meet the suspects. Suspect 5: Josephine Magaro—
Click. Rewind. Click.
DENVER
Suspect 5: Josephine Magaro—
Click. Rewind.
DENVER [narrator]
Suspect 5: Josephine Staluppi. Female. 5 feet, 6 inches. 179 pounds. Member of a dying criminal
industry known as the American Mafia. Winner of the 2017 Cat Owning Competition—
JO
(crying happy tears) I just own so many cats!
CROWD
Awwwww.
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DENVER [narrator]
—and also the first woman to ever become an official Made Man in any of the five families. Jo is
the main cause of cocaine’s resurging popularity in Nassau County, beginning in 2019 in the
Stump Town market.
JO
Hey! You ever tried coke?
EMMA
Oh I’m good! That’s so girlboss. Want some unprocessed opium?
JO
Uhhhh I’m good.
DENVER [narrator]
In the gardens of Roslyn Estates, we meet a woman who clawed her way to sit high on her throne
of dirt at the bottom of the food chain. Daughter to Romeo Staluppi, a wannabe killer without
victims, and the owner of the overpriced boot weighing on Jo’s back.
ROMEO
Say cheese!
JO
That is not a video—
ROMEO LAUGHS.
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DENVER [narrator]
In the mafia, Jo is what you call a soldier. Her father is a capo, which makes him a lesser king in
their world. Jo got her start stealing tires off of cars and handing them over to family-owned car
dealerships for reselling.
BOO [2017 recording]
Wha— where did my tires go!?
BOO kicks his car with a GRUNT.
DENVER [narrator]
Now her entire career is proving that she deserves his title through petty scams and protection
rackets.
Jo is a standing soldier in a dying industry, and if this is a losing war, then Jo comes from
a family of cockroaches. Fifty years ago, a roach like Jo would not have opportunities in the
mafia. Not just because she’s a woman— but because she is a stubborn brute who throws temper
tantrums and hates authority. This is a bottom-feeder.
BOO is HYPERVENTILATING.
DENVER [narrator]
Allegations of Jo’s criminal activity include: arson, forgery, drug dealing, theft, racketeering, and
for the time being, suspected murder.
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STUMP TOWN.
Gunshot.
JO
(standard American accent) GET ON THE GROUND!
BOO / DENVER / BOBBY / EMMA / LOGAN
WOAH!
BOO
WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR ACCENT?
JO
GET ON THE GROUND!
The gun rattles in Jo’s trembling hand. Besides Dylan and Dan, everyone drops to the
ground.
BOO
Why’re you talking like that!?
JO
I’m 21 year old! Of course I don’t have a Long Island accent. The Jo you know is somebody I
made up.
BOO
Jo?
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BOO’S BREATHING picks up again.
JO
Everybody take out your phones! Give them to Dylan and Dan.
They do. Dylan and Dan walk around gathering people’s phones.
JO
There you go.
EMMA
How long have you been in the mafia? Jo?
JO
Shut up. I’m thinking. Dan, phones in the lake.
DAN
(serious) Okay.
EMMA GASPS.
Dan throws their phones in the lake.
JO
Stand up! Do you guys see that tree over there? I want you to go over there and pray to that tree.
Go. All of you, go.
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They begin walking serially.
JO
Walk to this tree here.
They do.
BOO
How long in the mafia?
JO
Before I met you.
Gathering by the tree.
JO
Circle up. All around the tree. Circle.
They start to do so.
Jo pushes them into place.
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JO
Bobby, over here— Come on. Now I want you to pray to the tree. Look faaaaar up into that tree.
You see all those branches? This tree is your god. If you look close, can you see it? How
beautiful it is? The seeds look like little angels. I want you to pray to this tree.
Jo shoots another warning shot into the sky.
JO
Pray! Out loud!
LOGAN (unison)
Please don’t let me be killed. I’m sorry for what Denver did. Please don’t kill me. I know I’ve
been smiling less. I’m sorry. I’ll do anything you need. I can help out. I won’t hesitate anymore.
DENVER (unison)
Protect, we ask you, O Lord, this house against the assaults of our spiritual enemies; and cause
the present dreadful disorder of the air to cease. We offer you, O Lord, our praises and sacrifices
in thanksgiving for the favors we have already received. Lord, please hear our humble
prayers; that we may rejoice in the ceasing of this unlikely storm, and always make a good use of
the grant of your favors. Amen.
The sound of a heartbeat. Water dripping in a cave.
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DENVER [narrator]
Boo feels something thin slip between his fingers. His hand closes around the object on a reflex.
He raises it to his face. Focuses his double-vision. He’s holding a photograph, slightly wet. It’s a
photo of Mother Mary, burned on the edges. The burn marks are old. Boo starts a thought and his
cerebral cortex flares up. His left hemisphere parts the spinal fluid to nearly kiss his skull and
suddenly he doesn’t know how this card got in his hand.
He feels lost where he’s standing, and a black spot is growing in the corner of his eye.
Think.
Think.
DENVER [narrator]
Boo’s vision is turning dark. This is a predictable symptom of brain trauma. But Boo is
determined to figure out this card. He asks himself: how long has he been holding this piece of
paper? He thinks. Suddenly a sensation comes to him: the card definitely slipped into one of his
hands. But which hand? By now, both of his hands are touching the card of Mother Mary in front
of him. But he realizes— his right thumb is on the right edge! His left thumb is near the center of
the card, and he’d only cover up the card like that if he was grabbing for the card blindly. That
means the card was passed into Boo’s left hand.
Now Boo glances to his left. Someone is standing there, on his left side. And as bad luck
would have it, his vision is getting too dark to see who it is. He can just repeat that word to
himself: Think! Boo will later compare this feeling to running into a wall. But as he looks to this
person on his left, he’s looking down instinctively, meaning he’s looking at someone short—
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Emma. Boo puts together that Emma is standing on his left. Emma slipped Boo a wet card of
Mother Mary. So what would she be trying to tell him with a gimmick like this? Emma would
never communicate in code. Emma communicates in the most literal terms possible. Instead, this
card must be a tool for a practical purpose. Why did Emma hand Boo a picture of Mother Mary?
Think.
BACK TO SCENE.
BOBBY (unison)
You are an extraordinary tree. I am sorry for not noticing. You’re a very special tree. Graffiti is
really just a kind of prayer from person to person so you must be very holy. AHHHHHHH!!!!
AHHHHHHH!!!
EMMA (unison)
Thank you… for… your beauty… and… thank you… for… your oxygen… and… thank you…
for your beauty… And thank you for your beauty… And thank you for your beauty…
DAN
How’re we gonna get out of this?
JO
Right. Well. Let’s play Russian Roulette.
LOGAN
You wouldn’t do this to me…
Jo pops open the cylinder. Spills out all the ammunition and re-inserts one cartridge.
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JO
Logan, do you wanna go first? Yeah? Come here. COME HERE.
Logan approaches.
JO
I thought you like this kind of thing!
Jo spins the cylinder.
JO
Everybody keep praying! Now let’s see who survives.
Jo pulls the trigger.
JO
Congratulations. Now go back to your god.
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DENVER [narrator]
The card of Mother Mary is flexing gently under Boo’s thumbs. The feeling reminds Boo of a
word. Wet. The paper is wet! And it’s already drying in the sunlight. And that means nothing.
Think.
BACK TO SCENE.
JO
Denver! Come here!
Denver approaches.
JO
Denver, you have no idea what you’ve done. You fucked all of us.
DENVER [narrator]
Jo spins the cylinder. She puts the gun to my head.
Spin. Click.
DENVER [narrator]
And I survive. I’ll spend a lot of nights thinking about this moment. My hands shake.
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DENVER [narrator]
And Boo sees my hands shaking. He’s seeing light and color and people and a beautiful tree. Boo
has the thought— everyone seems to be in some kind of intense situation. Why is Emma here?
She can disappear at any moment. After all, Emma’s version of being an Outsider is going into
hiding at will. Oh, Emma can disappear! And it’s not just that Emma goes invisible. She goes
unnoticed. Anything that Emma does can be ignored.
If Jo went into the water, and this card is wet, then Emma stole this off of Jo!
DENVER [narrator]
Emma could swipe the card out of Jo’s pocket, and Jo wouldn’t realize! But if this belongs to Jo,
then Boo recognizes this item. He’s seen cards like this in books and docuseries. La Cosa Nostra
holds initiation rituals.
A flame.
DENVER [narrator]
The newly “made man” is handed a card with a picture of a saint or Jesus or Mary herself.
DENVER [narrator]
Then the initiated burns the card up to ash, to show that family comes first, even before God.
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Flame is extinguished.
DENVER [narrator]
That’s why this card is burned on the edges. But somehow Jo saved the card. She couldn’t stand
to burn Mary. And after all this time, she still carries Mary around with her.
EMMA / DENVER [narrator]
In her wallet.
DENVER [narrator]
That’s when Boo, quietly, says this:
BACK TO SCENE.
BOO
Jo is really religious.
DENVER [narrator]
I hear that while Jo shuffles me back to the tree. Boo’s brain is overworked and I see his eyes
powering down in the small translucent vulnerability on the right side of his goggles. Now it’s
my turn to think.
JO
Bobby! Your turn!
DENVER [narrator]
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Why is Jo doing this? I think we broke a kind of code of silence when we found out she was in
the mob. But why is her reaction Russian roulette? I’m playing Boo’s game now, in their world.
Chess pieces moving.
YOUNG BOO
Check.
BACK TO SCENE.
DENVER
(terrified, but brave) Jo, you can stop now. You don’t have to keep going.
JO
Go back to praying, Detective.
DENVER
Except you’re not going to shoot me, and I appreciate that— or at least, I hope you’re not gonna
shoot me.
JO
Oh really!? You think so, really!?
Jo begins to load a new bullet into her gun.
DENVER
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Let’s stop playing this game and find a happier ending. Jo, I… I know what you’re doing. Boo
figured it out.
BOO
Who?
DENVER
You’re praying… that we won’t get shot.
JO
Why would I, why would I do that.
DENVER
Otherwise, why wouldn’t you just shoot us?
JO
You don’t know what you’re talking about— stop acting like you’re in my head.
Logan drops to the ground.
LOGAN
Ohhh thank god. Thank god. (explaining his reaction to the others) Jo’s eye is twitching— that
happens when she lies!
JO
How do you know that!?
DENVER (interrupting)
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(relieved) Jo! Put away the gun.
EMMA and BOBBY CHEER in relief.
JO
Stop! Not everything is about you, and your own survival instincts! I also have to live! Nobody’s
recognizes how hard I tried to get this asshole and his beautiful hair off our backs! There’s no
way that’s just me.
BOO
Who has beautiful hair?
JO
You! You! You’re the prettyboy!
BOO
You’re a prettyboy?
JO
NO!
JO GRUNTS.
DENVER
How long do we have left, Boo?
JO
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You’re not safe yet!
DENVER
Please, we’re okay! We’re okay, we’re okay…
BOO HUMS “BURY ME.”
EMMA
(terrified) Boo doesn’t— ugh! We have twenty-four hours or probably some more. Sorry.
DENVER
Let’s postpone this for twenty-four hours. I think you’re saying didn’t kill Alaska.
JO (interrupting)
I didn’t kill him.
DENVER
Do you care about solving the mystery anymore?
JO
That thing isn’t even Boo, though. There’s no point in saving him.
BOO
What thing?
JO
I guess I’m a little curious. (pause) You think you can solve it in twelve hours?
DENVER
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Please, let’s truce.
JO
I’m gonna speak with my associates and we’ll come to a decision. C’mon, let’s talk!
Dylan, Dan, and Logan approach.
JO
That’s Dylan and Dan. Logan, I barely even know you.
LOGAN LAUGHS.
LOGAN
Oh, sorry I thought the gun thing was an initiation. Okay, sorry, my bad.
DENVER [narrator]
We stand by the tree; ready to pray.
DENVER
(whispering) Ok so this is where we decide if we’re gonna run or not run.
EMMA
(whispering / shivering all over) And they still have a gun.
LOGAN
(whispering) Guys that gun thing was really stressful, right?
EMMA
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(whispering / shivering all over) Should we run? I don’t know!
BOO
(whispering) Ohhh my god Jo’s friends put, put, put that guy in the hospital. Ughhh, that’s why,
the, the—
LOGAN
(whispering) Welcome back.
BOO
(whispering) Who was that?— P name.
LOGAN
(whispering / genuine) Do you mean Peppa Pig or Pete Cantu?
BOO
(whispering) Um?
EMMA
(whispering) Bobby’s not responsive by the way… I think we hit one of his triggers…
DENVER
(whispering) Should we run or no? Emma, no-looky-at-bug. Emma!
EMMA
(whispering) I’m with you! I ALSO want people to shut up!
DENVER
(whispering) Emma Wooten, do you wanna run? We’re gonna lose our chance. We’re gonna lose
our chance. Pick! 5, 4, 3, 2—
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EMMA (interrupting)
(whispering) Uh— ju— uh—
DENVER
(whispering) Ok I’m the birthday boy and I decide and I pick run.
Denver starts fast-walking.
DENVER
We run now. We run now.
Everyone runs.
JO [distant]
HEY! YOU COME BACK OR I’LL SHOOT!
Running.
JO [distant]
I’LL SHOOT YOU RIGHT NOW!
DEEPER WOODS OF STUMP TOWN.
Running.
EMMA, LOGAN, BOO, BOBBY, and DENVER BREATH HEAVILY.
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EMMA
(breathing heavily) Can we hide in the Greenhouse?
GREENHOUSE.
Running “in”side.
EMMA, LOGAN, BOO, BOBBY, and DENVER CATCH their BREATH.
DENVER
(breathing heavily) Let’s call the cops…
Boo takes a seat.
EMMA
(breathing heavily) How?
DENVER
(breathing heavily) I’ve got my phone in the car.
LOGAN
(breathing heavily) You told me to leave the car door open.
DENVER GROANS.
LOGAN
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(breathing heavily) You know what’s funny? This was a really bad day to wear my corset.
LOGAN WHEEZES out a laugh. It’s a conversational laugh. But breathless & stressed.
BOO
(breathing heavily) Just letting you know. There’s 24 hours before the end of everything.
Pause.
Strange sound.
EMMA
(breathing heavily) Um. Did you guys just hear that?
BOO
Hear, the, heard what?
EMMA
(breathing heavily) It kinda sounded like a metal door? (pause / breathing) I’m sorry, that was
distracting… I’ve heard that sound before… I heard it… the night Alaska died too. While me and
Alaska were getting high in the Greenhouse.
Tape recorder click.
EMMA [clip - WKA12]
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While we were in the greenhouse, I heard a metal door below me. Maybe it really was Harvey
Paris… trying to open his cast-iron coffin…
EMMA
What if…
BOO
No.
EMMA
I mean, that can’t be the ghost of Harvey Paris? In the ground?
BOO
24 hours.
EMMA
Yeah. (muttering) I don’t know why I thought that…
Denver stomps on the soil. Feeling it out with his feet.
LOGAN
Be careful.
DENVER
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I’m checking if there’s something under here.
Pause.
DENVER
Where did the door sound come from?
EMMA
The ground.
Simult: Denver walks to Boo and squats in front of where Boo (POV) sits.
DENVER [narrator]
I stoop in front of Boo. I need his input.
DENVER
Emma heard a sound in the Greenhouse. It came from the ground. It sounded like a metal door.
What does that mean?
BOO
Sssss… Sss…
DENVER
Let me try again. Take your time. You’re standing on soil, and you hear a metal door below you.
What could that sound actually be?
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Rapid chess moves. But they’re glitching.
BOO
It’s a metal door opening under ground.
DENVER
Do you think it could be a metal coffin?
BOO
No. No— a door wouldn’t sound like door with soil and soil and. No, under the ground. Maybe a
basement under feet.
DENVER
Like another room? (to Emma) It’s not in the soil, it’s UNDER the soil! Is there a room under
here, under the Greenhouse?
EMMA
Yes! The Greenhouse is on top of the Jailhouse!
DENVER
THAT’S A CLUE!
EMMA
The stairs are broken but they were two floors in the same building!
DENVER
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That night, you heard a sound from the crime scene! Emma! Is there a metal door in the
Jailhouse?
EMMA
I don’t think so…
LOGAN
That’s super weird. No there’s not.
DENVER
Can I have that?
Denver takes the mic from Boo.
DENVER [narrator]
We look over the side of the Greenhouse to the broken stairs and that’s no option. We take the
long way around to the Jailhouse.
DEEPER WOODS.
Moving through the brush.
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LOGAN
Shh.
DENVER [narrator]
Very. Carefully.
JAILHOUSE.
Everyone’s looking around.
DENVER [narrator]
We’ve got no metal doors in the Jailhouse. There’re no doors.
EMMA
(a careful volume) Oh! The oven.
DENVER [narrator]
Emma steps over to a rusty, broken-down oven in the room’s corner.
She closes it.
EMMA
(a careful volume) That’s it. That’s the sound.
Denver walks to Emma. So does Logan.
DENVER
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(a careful volume) An oven. This isn’t what I thought you meant.
EMMA
(a careful volume) This isn’t what I thought I meant but this is the sound.
She opens it and closes it.
DENVER
Let me see something.
Denver opens the oven. Looks inside.
Pulls out the gun.
DENVER [narrator]
I find Jo’s gun in there.
DENVER
(a careful volume) This is Jo’s gun. That’s what you heard today, this is the gun.
LOGAN
(a careful volume) Oh my god.
DENVER
They were hiding this to cover their tracks. Guys, we have their gun now. I-I’m gonna take out
the bullets.
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Denver takes out the bullets. Puts them in his pocket. Puts the gun in another pocket.
DENVER
(a careful volume) So you heard this same oven close the night that Alaska died. I’m trying to
figure out why someone would walk into the room, close an oven that doesn’t work anymore,
and leave. They could’ve been hiding something.
LOGAN
(a careful volume) I think someone was in there.
Pause.
DENVER
(a careful volume) What?
LOGAN
(a careful volume) Actually, no. You know what? Nobody was in there. I didn’t say that.
DENVER (interrupting)
(a careful volume) Emma, try to get in there.
EMMA
(a careful volume / suddenly crying) Okay.
Emma starts climbing into the oven.
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DENVER
(a careful volume) Try to smoosh inside.
EMMA
(a careful volume / crying) Okay I’m climbing inside.
EMMA continues, GRUNTING.
EMMA
(a careful volume) I’m too juicy.
LOGAN
(a careful volume) You’re a little bone man.
DENVER
You guys, stop it. Don’t make me laugh right now.
EMMA SNIFFLES and wipes her tears.
EMMA
(a careful volume) You know who’s smaller? I bet Glory could’ve fit.
BOO
GET GLORY! (hyperventilates) GET GLORY AND ALICE! Where!? Are they!?
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DENVER
Getting Glory isn’t a bad idea. Someone fits in the oven? They have a perfect way to get the
jump on Alaska. You hide, pop out, attack. We get Glory, we check the logistics of her possibly
stabbing Alaska.
EMMA
Boo took my car earlier. It’s probably in the parking lot.
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DEEPER WOODS.
Moving through the brush.
DENVER [narrator]
We walk Emma across Stump Town, quietly, through the brush. When we find the parking lot,
we also find her car parked diagonally in the middle of the asphalt. No sign of Jo and her boys.
My car is gone. I notice my hands are shaking again. And I think it’s funny.
We consider piling in the car and leaving Stump Town behind, but we agree to save Boo.
We decide to solve the mystery, and that means Emma has to leave and come back with Glory.
(pause) And Boo is left alone to sleep.
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JAILHOUSE.
LOGAN
Sleep well.
BOO
Thank you.
Logan walks away.
BOO
Alaska… gonna save Alaska…
LATER.
BOO
Hey Mirror. If Jo isn’t friend, can you be friend?
LATER.
BOO
Found some chalk. Now a picture.
LATER.
Boo is drawing with chalk.
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BOO
That’s funny. Who is that? Drew somebody who looks like Alaska, except… Who is he?
LATER.
BOO
(singing) Little Boo Curtis, where are you going? Up in the air? Everywhere? Do you head for
Heaven, or Hell, or somewhere in between? What is your wish? Will it finally be granted, a quiet
voice, a “boo” in the night? Will you be satisfied then? When nothing is left?
DENVER [narrator]
We shove Glory’s body into the broken oven.
BOO is WEEPING in the corner.
DENVER
(straining) Take her legs— Take her legs.
EMMA
Don’t hit her head.
LOGAN
I got ‘er. I got ‘er.
GLORY
Kite. Lite. Might. Good night. The stars will shine at the bottom of the sky and good night. I, me,
my, mine. Someone needs their way home. Come back. Come back to me. I’m alone anymore.
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DENVER [narrator]
We take a moment. We pat each other on the back.
BOO WEEPS.
EMMA and LOGAN LAUGH in some nervous relief.
DENVER
(chuckling) I’m gonna need a nap.
DENVER [narrator]
And Boo watches the pointed foot of Glory emerging from the oven.
BOO SNIFFLES. Stops.
EMMA, LOGAN, and DENVER LAUGH.
DENVER [narrator]
Her bony legs un-spindle from the hole in looming silence. Her skin glistens in strange shadows.
And more of her appears. From out of the oven. And her arms bloom outwards from the dark.
Were we missing too much sleep? You have to forgive me. Glory begins walking to the
doorway. And the boy who follows her is little Boo Curtis.
Footsteps.
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DEEPER WOODS.
Footsteps.
More footsteps. On and on.
DENVER [narrator]
Glory enters the water.
BOO
Oh. It slipped my mind.
Pause.
BOO
I’m needed in the lake.
He drops in.
BENEATH THE WATER.
GLORY
Where am I?
BOO
Glory!? Is that the real—
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BOO starts CHOKING, but it’s underwater. Muffled.
MIRROR BOO
Welcome back. Welcome to the edge of the earth. I can’t choke your soul, Boo. Nobody can.
Your soul is choking because you’re trying to be dishonest. At the bottom of the lake, dishonesty
dies. Only truth survives. (pause) Stop trying to lie! You’re going to pass out.
BOO releases a muffled COUGH.
BOO
Why are you upside down?
MIRROR BOO
I don’t know. Something something mirrors? The lake is unstable, by the way. If either of us is
getting out of here alive, our soul will need to fight this insane water pressure. Something went
wrong. We were definitely supposed to meet here but something has gone horribly wrong.
BOO
Who called me here?
MIRROR BOO
Mainly the lake. Everything happening here is an inevitability. This was necessary. But that’s
why it’s concerning me that cause and effect got broken by a force we don’t understand. What
happens when reality breaks?
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BOO
You are talking nonsense to me.
MIRROR BOO
I don’t know what to do so I’m more than a little concerned. But you’re right. You have no idea
what I’m talk—
BOO’S CAR.
Boo finds himself driving his car.
BOO BREATHES IN like he’s waking from a nightmare.
[Fuck You Kyle plays on the speaker.]
JO
And that’s when I said, go fuck yourself with a meatball, motherfucker!
EMMA, LOGAN, and BOBBY LAUGH.
BOO
What going, what is going on?
JO
Boo, you should sing My Chemical Romance for us!
BOO
Jo! Something weird is going on!
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JO (interrupting)
Go ahead! Sing! Boo! Boo!
JO / BOBBY / LOGAN / EMMA
Boo! Boo! Boo! Boo! Boo! Boo!
BOO (interrupting)
Guys! Guys, can you stop!? Stop!
JO / BOBBY / LOGAN / EMMA
Boo! Boo! Boo! Boo! Boo! Boo!
BOO (interrupting)
I was just in the lake! I was just in the lake! Guys!
Boo hits the brakes. Opens the door. And gets out.
EMPTY HIGHWAY.
BOO
What the fu— WHERE?—
Another car door opens. It’s Jo. She steps out.
Alice is barking from the car.
JO
Boo! What’s wrong?
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BOO
I— don’t! Know!
JO
Babes, why don’t you give me the keys? I can drive for you. Let’s talk about it.
Pause.
A QUICK EXHALE from BOO.
Boo steps to Jo. Pulling keys out of his pocket. Gives them to her.
They get back in the car. Boo sits shotgun.
BOBBY
Here it comes!
BOBBY / LOGAN / EMMA
(singing along) Cause I’m gonna steal your car, Kyle / Take your new guitar, Kyle / And watch
me!
THEY CONTINUE SINGING.
Jo starts driving.
BOO
(whispering badly) What the fuck…
JO
Everything good?
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BOO
(changing the subject) Well I’m seeing what I’m missing out on.
JO
Oh yeah?
BOO
Umm, I guess I’m feeling really nostalgic, but also, I’m realizing that when you go to bed at
night, you can’t really trust anybody to not beat the crap out of you, can you?
Pause.
JO
Is Grindr that bad, or?
BOO
Naw, it’s not. I’m just thinking I should be careful who I hang out with. But maybe the reason I
got along with her in the first place is because we’re both broken toys. I think that makes it my
fault.
JO
To be honest, I didn’t know you hang out with anyone who isn’t a suspect.
Pause.
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BOO
Is anybody in the world actually safe, though? If I found Alaska’s killer, can I be 100% certain
that I’m gonna be safe to be around?
JO
I’m wearing a hand-knitted sweater made from my cats’ dyed fur.
BOO (interrupting)
For serious? Like HAND-DYED?
JO
(quietly / holding a laugh) This took three weeks!
Boo rests his head against the window.
BOO
(depressed) That’s awesome… (darkly contemplative) Do I scare people?
JO
I feel like everybody has red flags. That’s just the deal we make.
BOO
But I don’t want that. Who’s gonna ask for my permission? Nobody cares how I feel.
JO
What do you mean?
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BOO
I don’t care. I don’t care how you feel anymore. I don’t care how you feel anymore. And I don’t
even wanna go home! I don’t know what I want but I just don’t care anymore!
GLORY [echoing]
That’s not the point.
BOO
GLORY?
GLORY [echoing]
That’s not the answer. Try again.
BOO
GLORY WE’RE TOTALLY STILL IN THE THE LAKE, RIGHT? I HOPE YOU’RE REAL,
CAN WE HANG—
Suddenly, we’re somewhere else.
CHURCH.
JO
Do you ever feel bad?
BOO
Hold on. I’m kind of— I’m kind of fucked up. Am I— I’m not high. (calling out) Hey? Glory?
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JO
What’re you doing?
BOO
(calling out) Glory? (to Jo) Wassup. What do I feel bad about?
JO
Killing your pet hedgehog.
BOO
You’re joking. We’re talking about the hedgehog I had when I was seven years old. What’s
wrong with us?
JO (interrupting)
I thought you said thirteen years old.
BOO
I don’t know how old I was! I was seven! My brain was forming!
JO (interrupting)
Ok, seven! Pretend it’s seven! Do you feel bad about your hedgehog dying?
BOO
I mean.
JO
You need one word to answer.
BOO CHOKES. STOPS.
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BOO
It wasn’t my fault, so…
JO
Um— yes it was. Yes it was.
BOO (unison)
No it wasn’t.
JO (unison)
And even if it wasn’t your fault, you should still feel guilty.
BOO
For what?
JO
You were there.
BOO
Wait, this is weird— you’re saying to me, a human man, or like— kinda a human, I guess, and
kinda, um, how am I supposed to feel comfortable around you when you say I should find
excuses to feel worse about my dead hedgehog? You’re saying that to me?
JO
Yeah. You kinda suck for that.
BOO
There really is something wrong with you. I don’t know what it is. I have to go.
GLORY [echoing]
That’s not the answer. Try again.
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SUNNY DAY.
JO
Boo! Catch the frisbee!
BOO
Wait. This is wrong. That’s not fair.
JO
What happened.
BOO
(calling out) Glory? Can we talk?
JO
What’re we talking about?
BOO (interrupting)
(calling out) We don’t— we don’t have to hang out if that’s like. Against cosmic rules or
whatever.
JO
Yo, what?
BOO (interrupting)
(calling out) It doesn’t have to be a thing thing. (to Jo) Is my vocabulary narrowing? Tell me
later. (calling out) Glory, I’m pretty sure I’m picking up what you’re making me do and it’s kind
of not what I want to do in a funny way. So like. No consent. Yeah.
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JO
What’s happening? What’s happening? Can you look at me? Can you look at me for a second?
Can you look at me? What’s happening?
BOO
Touch.
JO
Hello?
BOO
(calling out) I just touched her nose, Glory. She has a physical form. I think you already know
that, but, um. Glory, she, I’m touching her arm. She’s like she’s real I think.
JO
Look at me. Can you look at me? WHAT’S HAPPENING?
Boo starts stomping on the dirt.
JO
What’re you doing now? (pause) Can you tell me what you’re doing? (pause) WHY WON’T
YOU LOOK AT ME?
BOO
Mm? (pause) I guess I never noticed…
JO
Noticed what!?
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BOO
You don’t wanna know.
JO (interrupting)
Finish your thought!
BOO
That you’re so desperate. Is that what you wanted to hear?
Pause.
JO
You can’t even look at me when you’re being an asshole.
BOO
Now how do you know I’m not looking at you?
JO
Boo? You’re not wearing goggles.
BOO
Oh!
GLORY [echoing]
Don’t panic.
BOO
Oh, that’s my face!
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GLORY [echoing]
Boo, don’t panic.
JO
(cold) Do you wanna hide it from me that badly? What’re you trying to hide, anyway?
BOO
You’re looking at… Stop looking at me—
JO
Then look at me first! Don’t you pity me at all!?
BOO
I guess I never noticed…
JO
Boo, did you forget I read emotions? I’ve been reading you always. So what’s your mask gonna
hide?
BOO is CHOKING.
GLORY [echoing]
Stop panicking!
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BENEATH THE WATER.
BOO COUGHS.
BOO
I’m in the lake. Hi, mirror guy.
MIRROR BOO
What did you just do?
BOO
I don’t know. I feel weird.
MIRROR BOO
You keep saying you miss Alaska. What do you miss about him? You don’t even know how to be
honest anymore. I can’t believe you’re me. You know what I think? I think we’re doomed. I think
this hinges on you and I don’t think you have control of yourself or anything else at this point.
BOO
Let’s exchange information. Explain to me what’s happening.
MIRROR BOO
Why do I have to team up with you?
BOO
You don’t have to team up with me. But you should give me all the information I need to stop us
from dying.
MIRROR BOO
What I do know is why you’re here. A year ago, you jumped in this lake. Remember?
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BOO
Yeah.
MIRROR BOO
You started something you didn’t finish. If a caterpillar comes out of the chrysalis still a
caterpillar, its body is broken and it’s deformed. But if you come out of the lake basically
unchanged, then it’s the lake that breaks.
BOO
I don’t get it.
MIRROR BOO
I have a second metaphor.
BOO
Go for it.
MIRROR BOO
The last time you entered the lake, you opened up the question— we could say the question was
“Why am I here?” or “Who am I?” or “Who do I want to be?” Those are a few ways you could
translate the same concept into language. And when you ask a question, it needs an answer. In
destiny, questions and answers rely on each other. The question is architecturally supported by
the answer and the answer is architecturally supported by the question. It is only an answer if it
has a question, and it is only a question if it has an answer. Imagine you’re doing a tarot reading
and you flip over a series of cards and they’re blank. Or— this is even closer— what if you were
doing a tarot reading and you found out your cards only had one side? You came to the lake to
answer the question— or to go with the metaphor, you’re here to keep the cards two-sided. But
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something about the setup is wrong. I don’t know what’s wrong. There’s a portion of this event
that the past can’t lean on properly. We’re standing on the hole to Purgatory and it’s only, I don’t
know, a mile thick? We’re both gonna be crushed by this water pressure soon, or one of the other
million dangers is gonna kill us. And after that… god, there are physics questions here. You
should’ve gone to college.
BOO
Are you done?
MIRROR BOO
Yeah.
BOO
That was a pretty good metaphor.
MIRROR BOO
No compliments.
BOO
Great metaphor. It was gr— super good. Fuckin loved—
MIRROR BOO
No compliments! Kill yourself.
BOO
Ha! Kill yourself.
MIRROR BOO
Kill yourself.
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BOO
Kill yourself.
MIRROR BOO
Kill yourself.
BOO
Kill yourself.
MIRROR BOO
Kill yourself—
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NEAR THE LAKE.
The sound of waves on the rocks.
DENVER [narrator]
At the start of every day— I remind myself. Today could be difficult. Today could be trying. And
I’m always prepared to be scared and overwhelmed. Y’know, everything is worth a try. A try,
yeah, it’s worth your confidence.
Someone wants to find Boo more than anybody else. And she wasn’t even invited to the
search party. Guess who? You’ll hear her coming.
Alice approaches the microphone. Sniffing very directly into the mic.
DENVER [narrator]
Her name is Alice. And she’s Boo’s dog. Who would’ve guessed that Alice would’ve saved the
day?
EMMA [distant]
Alice! Aliiiiice! C’mere, puppy!
Her collar jangles as she looks around.
EMMA [distant]
Good girl! You’re a good girl! Such a good girl! C’mere!
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LOGAN [distant]
That can’t be Alice.
EMMA [distant]
Look at her collar.
LOGAN [distant]
Ohhh myyyy god how did she get here?
EMMA [distant]
Alice! Mwah mwah! Alice!
EMMA [distant]
What’s she doing?
LOGAN [distant]
She’s looking for Boo.
EMMA [distant]
Well yeah, but— she’s not a bloodhound.
Alice jumps. Splash! She’s entered the lake.
EMMA [distant]
Denver?
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DENVER [narrator]
There are people who care about Boo getting home safe. At noon, Jo threw six phones into the
lake. We found four of them, washed up on the rocks later on. Their sim cards are broken but
they’re all on. And they’re all recording. They’re stuck recording, and we can’t turn them off.
LATER.
LOGAN
That’s when Alice jumped in the lake.
EMMA
Alice really reminded me of… the white rabbit.
DENVER
From Alice in Wonderland?
EMMA
Oh. (crying) Alice is going to Wonderland.
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BENEATH THE WATER.
BOO
Kill yourself.
MIRROR BOO
There’s someone new. Somebody jumped in the lake.
BOO
Oh, I— (pause) I feel that too. They feel familiar. Almost like—
GLORY [echoing]
We’re not done yet.
HOSPITAL.
JO
I’m glad you’re feeling better, Boo!
BOO
Is this the hospital? When did I get better?
JO
Earlier.
BOO
(solemn) Hey, Jo. This is random. If you had to be anybody, who would you be?
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JO
I’d be me.
BOO
Why?
JO
I like the sound of my own voice. (laughs) At least how it sounds in my own head. You know
how your voice sounds different when you hear a recording?
BOO
Do you ever talk to yourself?
JO
No.
BOO
That means you only like it when other people hear you, right? Maybe you like how your voice
sounds in your own head but your instincts tell you that’s how you sound to others, so you create
a version of you that you like and then you become your own audience.
Glass cracks.
JO
What?
Glass cracks.
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JO
This isn’t the hospital.
BOO
No.
Glass cracks.
JO
Am I real?
BOO
I don’t know.
GLORY [echoing]
NO NO NO! YOU BROKE IT! TRY AGAIN!
JO
Are you real?
BOO
I try to be.
JO
What kind of answer is that? Yes or no? YOU NEED ONE WORD TO ANSWER!
The glass shatters.
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NEAR THE LAKE.
DENVER [narrator]
I look for Boo and Glory and Alice in the lake over and over. And I can’t find them.
DENVER [narrator]
Logan calls me over.
LOGAN [distant]
It just got worse.
Denver walks to Logan.
LOGAN
We had a Jo sighting.
DENVER
Where?
LOGAN
Over there.
EMMA
Over there.
LOGAN
She took a nose-dive into the lake. She literally—
DENVER
Are you serious?
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LOGAN
—like that.
EMMA
I told you, she was there when Alice went in. She knows that Boo has to be in the lake.
DENVER
I’m gonna look in the lake again. You guys don’t wanna come, do you?
EMMA
(crying) No.
DENVER
Just wanted to check.
LATER.
DENVER [narrator]
I tie the phone to my side to let it record me. Once again, I jump into the lake.
Jumps in. Splash.
BENEATH THE WATER.
The mic glitches but does not break.
Strange sounds.
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NEAR THE LAKE.
DENVER
If Boo and Glory went in the lake, they’re… gone. We’re… not invited.
LOGAN
What did you see?
DENVER
No no no. No.
DENVER [narrator]
There are still two phones in the lake. And they’re both listening.
BENEATH THE WATER.
A distant splash.
Jo tries to breath but she starts choking.
THE OTHER JO
Welcome to the edge of the earth, sweetheart. Jo. Chill out. Ok? You’re choking because you’re
trying to be dishonest. It’s simpler here than on earth. Dishonesty dies here. Only truth survives.
Stop trying to lie! You’re going to pass out.
JO
YOU AGAIN!— Woah. This… feels weird.
THE OTHER JO
You’re becoming simpler.
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JO
You ruined my dream. You showed up to my performance when I was in high school. That was
you, right?
THE OTHER JO
Yes.
JO
I thought I killed you.
THE OTHER JO
Yeah… No, you didn’t.
JO
WHERE’S Boo?
THE OTHER JO
Something is wrong. The lake is unstable. We’re exactly on time. But Boo is somewhere else.
This world is falling apart.
JO
TAKE ME to him!
THE OTHER JO
Everyone’s becoming separated. I don’t know how you’d even find him. Oh wait. Boo got
separated from his reflection. His reflection’s that way. (noticing) Glory’s behind you.
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SUNNY DAY.
Birds chirp.
JO BREATHES IN suddenly like she’s waking from a dream.
JO
Where am I?
BOO
We’re closing in on the end.
JO
Boo? You’re okay.
BOO
Soon it’ll be time for you to destroy me.
Pause.
JO
Are you the real Boo?
BOO
Of course I am. Are you the real Jo?
JO
Probably.
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BOO
That’s a weird thing to say. You need one word to answer.
JO
The other Jo is back… Do you remember her?
BOO
Sure. I remember everything.
JO
Boo, I… I don’t know what she wants.
BOO
She wants you to destroy me.
JO
Why?
BOO
Because you want to destroy me.
JO
Why?
BOO
Because I saw the real you. I know about it, Jo. You broke omerta; the code of silence. If anyone
finds out you’re in the mob, your dad’s gonna make the order. He’s gonna have somebody else
kill you. And then it’ll be over. All of your life will be over. All your memories will die. Nobody
will remember you fondly.
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JO
You’ll remember me… right? What am I saying…
Boo laughs on an exhale.
BOO
I have a present for you.
Boo hands Jo the gun.
BOO
It’s time to destroy me.
Jo begins to cry.
JO
Boo.
She aims.
She shoots.
Bang.
Birds fly away.
72

In the silence: glass cracks.
Then glass cracks.
Then silence.
Then the glass shatters.
JO
Boo. I know what I’m here to do. I’m not here to save you, am I?
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MIRROR BOO
Boo? Where are you? This world is breaking.
BOO
What do I do!? What do I do, what do I do!?
A long silence.
BOO
Hello?
HOUSE PARTY.
A pause. Boo is looking around.
BOO
(yelling above music) JO?
COREY
(yelling above music) ‘Ey! Curtis! Wassup!
BOO
(yelling above music) Hi. Um. Have you seen Jo?
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COREY
(yelling above music) It’s been a while, how you been? It’s been, like, so long, it’s been like two
years.
Pause.
BOO
(yelling above music) This’s happened before.
COREY
(yelling above music) Oh, yeah. Okay, no worries. I just wanted to say, you’re such an
inspiration to everybody. Like, everybody.
BOO
(yelling above music) Excuse me, can you move out of my way?
COREY
(yelling above music) You’ve gone through a lot, man.
BOO
(yelling above music) Glory? Is this supposed to happen?
COREY
(yelling above music) Okay, well— yeah, okay, you have a good night!
The soundtrack builds. This is episode 2.
But the diegetic doesn’t disappear. We hear Boo run to the bathroom.
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BATHROOM AT PARTY.
Door shuts, muffling voices and loud party music.
BOO
I don’t wanna relive this! I don’t wanna!
PAST BOO [clip - WKA2]
So hello. This is my audition tape to my— future employers. Hopefully. (pauses) I don’t know
how to start this.
BOO
SHUT UP! SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!
Our BOO WHIMPERS. Listening for a moment.
Y’know, I’ve been thinking about how I want to do this. (thinking) Mmm. I’ve been feeling
uncomfortable, actually, from trying to figure out how to present who I am to you[—]
BOO
SHUT UP!
[—]but I was deliberating on that stuff, and I was like, y’know, why do I need to show you the
best version of who I am?
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BOO
SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP! YOU’RE A
NOBODY! YOU’RE NOBODY!
CUT TO BLACK.
THE OTHER JO
Why do you hate this?
BACK TO SCENE.
BOO
I HATE THIS!
My name is Boo Curtis—
CUT TO BLACK.
THE OTHER JO
You need one word to answer.
BACK TO SCENE.
—and I am famous in my hometown as the person whose brother died.
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That’s what people know me by. That is myyyy claim to fame, so to say. My brother died
two years ago by the day, he died while I was in high school, and while he was surfing people’s
couches.
BOO
SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP!
THE OTHER JO
I think I know what it is, Boo.
BOO
No! Don’t show me! DON’T SHOW ME!
CUT TO BLACK.
THE OTHER JO
You were holding a script. (long pause) You pre-wrote all of this.
BACK TO SCENE.
I’ve been feeling uncomfortable, actually, from trying to figure out how to present who I am to
you—
BOO
It doesn’t matter if I pre-wrote it.
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CUT TO BLACK.
THE OTHER JO
You’re ashamed. You couldn’t even be honest when it mattered.
BACK TO SCENE.
you—
BOO
But I was using my own words! Those were my words!
CUT TO BLACK.
THE OTHER JO
Why did you lie?
BACK TO SCENE.
you—
BOO
I didn’t lie.
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CUT TO BLACK.
THE OTHER JO
But you didn’t tell the truth. You said you were going to be authentic. Isn’t that what lying is?
Isn’t lying reading authenticity from a script?
BACK TO SCENE.
you—
BOO
Did my Jo ever detect that?
CUT TO BLACK.
THE OTHER JO
You’re right. She didn’t. (pause) You spend so much energy pre-planning what you say, and your
Jo never picked up on that. Because there are different kinds of truths. You have what’s actually
true. Then there’s what you think is true, aka not lying. And then there’re truths that you try to
tell, because they’re technically true, so in a way, you never really lied. Fake truths don’t bother
lie detectors. Are pre-written monologues good enough for you?
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BACK TO SCENE.
BOO
No.
you—
BOO
That isn’t who I am. That doesn’t represent me. Even though I’m the one who said it.
THE OTHER JO
Are you real?
BOO
I try to be.
The other Jo drags a baseball bat.
THE OTHER JO
I’m tired of your whining.
THE OTHER JO pats a baseball bat into hand.
Again. The glass.
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BOO
Jo! Don’t hurt me!
THE OTHER JO
Let’s do it— just like softball practice!
ON BLACK.
BOO
I can be good.
It sounds foggy, but a baseball bat hits something.
BOO
I’m not a bad kid.
The baseball bat hits something. Glass cracking.
BOO
I promise.
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BOO
I promise!
BOO
I know who I am! I know who I am. I know who I am. I don’t have to be a fake version of me. I
know who I… (chokes) Where is the root of the problem?
Crack.
BOO
There is none.
Crack.
BOO
Everything, everything is broken.
The glass shatters.
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BOO
I don’t know who I am.
The glass shatters.
BOO
I don’t know who I am.
The glass shatters.
BOO
Outsider.
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CLIFFSIDE.
Jo walks.
JO
Boo… I’m on my way to you. I see your emotions. I recognize that fear. I can see past this
reality.
TRAIN.
BOO
Jo.
JO
Yes, Boo? (pause) I know you’re not the real Boo.
BOO
What’s that supposed to mean?
JO
What do you need?
BOO
Are you afraid of being seen?
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JO
No. What’s that supposed to mean?
BOO
I am.
JO
Oh yeah. I guess that’s why you’d where that stuff all the time. What’re you hiding under there,
anyway?
BOO
Do you wanna see?
JO
Yeah. I’m surprised. You’d offer willingly?
Boo takes his goggles and mask off.
JO
You’re beautiful. Even more now. I’m surprised. Why do you wear the mask and the goggles?
BOO
Haha. There’s a supernatural reason for that, and there’s a philosophical reason for that, and then
there’s another reason.
JO
Tell me.
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BOO
Hold on, I’m gonna put these back on.
He does.
BOO
The supernatural reason is people don’t stop looking at me, and that causes problems. The
philosophical reason is I don’t like being put in boxes, whether they’re good boxes or bad ones.
And the third reason is— if people see you, if they see your eyes and your facial expressions,
they know you very intimately. I never wanted anybody to see who I am on the inside.
JO
That’s it? I see your feelings all the time. Plenty of people have depression.
BOO
Have you seen depression like mine?
Jo hesitates.
JO
Do you want the truth or the lie?
BOO LAUGHS.
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BOO
I know. It’s got a little more to it, though. D’you get why I’d hide something like that?
JO
Not really.
BOO
Because when other people see who you are— that canonizes it. It becomes real. That’s why we
hide so many parts of ourselves. Because when people see them, you can never put them away
again.
JO
You don’t mean we, though.
Glass shatters.
NOWHERE.
JO
We?
BOO’S CAR.
[Fuck You Kyle is playing on the speakers], but someone immediately clicks the player to
turn it off.
88

BOO
Everything good? You wanna talk?
JO
Not really. Just keep driving that way.
BOO
Mkay.
JO
Is there something you wanted to talk about?
BOO
Actually, yeah. Open the glove compartment?
Jo clicks the glove compartment.
JO
What’s this? Oh! (sighs in relief, laughs) Oh my— For a second I thought you were giving me a
picture of Mary, like Jesus’s mom.
BOO
No, no. Look at that. Do you know who that’s a picture of?
JO
You gave me a picture of a random homeless guy?
BOO CLICKS HIS TONGUE.
89

JO
Sorry— sorry.
BOO
That’s a picture of your ancestor.
JO
My what? Why would you— have a photograph of my ancestor in your glove compartment?
BOO
Because— that’s your generational trauma.
Silence.
NOWHERE.
MIRROR BOO
Your great, great, great, great, great grandfather owned a couple pennies and that’s all.
JO
What does that have to do with me?
MIRROR BOO
That has everything to do with you. He needed to survive. He did what it took. He couldn’t eat
otherwise.
JO
So?
90

STUMP TOWN.
The forest is burning.
JO SCREAMS. She runs.
MIRROR BOO
He owned nothing. Now you’re going to spend the rest of your life needing to own the world.
EMMA
Jo what’s the truth?
LOGAN
BOBBY
BOO
Jo. What’s the truth?
Jo stops. She drops to the ground.
JO
THE TRUTH IS I HATE MYSELF!
THE OTHER JO
Your father hit you.
91

ROMEO
YOU VIOLENT PIECE OF SHIT!
JO COWERS in fear.
THE OTHER JO
His parents hit him.
A LITTLE BOY COWERS in fear.
THE OTHER JO
His parents hit him.
ANOTHER LITTLE BOY COWERS in fear.
THE OTHER JO
Her parents hit her.
A LITTLE GIRL COWERS in fear.
We hear a chorus of fearful wails, like spirits of the underworld.
92

THE OTHER JO
Josephine, it’s time to become who you were always meant to be! Join the endless tradition of
mothers and fathers who beat their children! And then, find your honorary son! KILL BOO!
JO
I’m not a bad kid…
BOO’S POV.
We hear the sound of the foggy baseball bat.
BOO
JO’S POV.
JO
BOO’S POV.
BOO
JO’S POV.
MIRROR BOO
You had a family and all you needed was friends.
93

JO
BOO’S POV.
THE OTHER JO
You had friends and all you needed was a family.
BOO
JO’S POV.
MIRROR BOO
He was doomed from the start. Wasn’t he, Jo?
JO
MIRROR BOO
Wasn’t I?
JO
Boo?
MIRROR BOO
No. But I’m a part of him. The part he doesn’t want.
94

THE OTHER JO
DON’T LISTEN TO HIM! DON’T LISTEN TO HIM! DON’T LISTEN TO HIM!
JO
How can I escape this?
MIRROR BOO
It’s time to find the truth.
JO
Haven’t I already?
MIRROR BOO
Almost.
The blackness and the wailing fades into the water of the lake.
MIRROR BOO
You’ve forgotten where you came from.
JO
Purgatory.
MIRROR BOO
That’s right. That’s where all monsters come from. Everybody who’s fucked up. Everybody who
was made wrong. The moment you and Alice entered this lake all that time ago, you opened up a
question. That question was, “Who am I?” You only need one word to answer.
95

JO
One word?
MIRROR BOO
That’s right. When you were in Purgatory, you were not a person. You were an idea. That’s where
ideas come from. One word. Everything about you, every single aspect of your personality, is a
way of hiding this one secret word at the core of your self. Who you are now was built around
this one single word.
JO
Then I need to know. I need to know who I am.
MIRROR BOO
Swim to the bottom of the lake. Then let the word out.
Jo swims.
A latch is unlatched. A little door is opened.
JO
Who am I? Please. Tell me. Who am I?
EMMA / BOBBY / LOGAN / BOO
Selfishness.
96

BOO’S POV.
BOO
I’m not a bad kid… I’m not a bad kid…
MIRROR BOO
Who are you, then?
BOO
Boo?
MIRROR BOO
No, I’m not Boo. Just his reflection. Just your reflection. Boo— are you done struggling yet?
You’ve fought too hard. How many times have you almost died within the past 48 hours?
BOO
I’m not done yet. I’m not done yet. I have to save Alaska.
MIRROR BOO
If we survive this continuity error, you’re not going to make it in time.
BOO
How many hours do I have left?
MIRROR BOO
One.
BOO
One? One hour? But. I don’t know anything. I haven’t done anything.
MIRROR BOO
It’s understandable. You almost erased yourself with head trauma. You almost became nobody.
97

BOO
Hey, is it true what you said before? That I want to be nobody?
MIRROR BOO
Of course you do. That’s what you’ve been trying to do all this time— scatter your identity. You
wanted to lose it. But you can’t do that and live at the same time.
BOO
And what about— why did you want me in the lake?
MIRROR BOO
Bringing you here was the plan all along. This is the only place I can kill you. And I don’t think
you can leave anymore.
BOO
No. I don’t think so either. So is this the end? You’ll kill me in one hour?
MIRROR BOO
Yeah. You have an hour. I hope you meet Alaska first. He’s down here, somewhere.
BOO
My brother’s down here? My one and only brother?
MIRROR BOO
Yeah. It’s not a resurrection, but maybe you’ll get to meet him again, one last time. At the bottom
of this lake.
BOO
Can I be alone?
98

And Boo is alone.
THE OTHER JO
So you’re giving up?
BOO
Jo?
THE OTHER JO
No. But I’m a part of her. The part she doesn’t want. But I think she’s making progress on that.
(pause) Are you giving up?
BOO
I think so. I think it’s time. I only have an hour left. I’m not going to solve who killed Alaska.
THE OTHER JO
I think that’s reasonable.
BOO
I thought you’d be more indignant.
THE OTHER JO
Do you want me to be?
BOO
It’s okay.
99

THE OTHER JO
By the way, you’re wrong about Jo. You’re wrong about why that friendship didn’t work, in the
end. It was never the danger that made you afraid of her. It wasn’t the gun. It was that you
showed her your weakness.
BOO
Um. (pause) What?
THE OTHER JO
You showed her your vulnerability.
SUNNY DAY.
THE OTHER JO
When she shot her gun, she saw your nude brain. Without all the layers of clothes, you’re so
bony. Nobody can unsee what’s already been seen. That’s when you threw her away. Then you
pretended it was an issue of morality but it never was. You never cared whether Jo was a good
person. You just wanted to keep lying. Lying about who you are, deep inside. You can’t face it.
BOO CHOKES.
100

THE OTHER JO
What’s that? You never lied? Of course you did. You lied the cruelest lie of all: a lie of omission.
You omit yourself. You omit who you are. You put on fake shows of vulnerability but you never
let anyone close. But you’ve gone and made things complicated because you’re afraid of lying
now. You’re afraid of the reminder that you have so much to hide. Whether you lie or tell the
truth, you are permanently aware of the demon inside of you, the truth of who you are.
Glass shatters.
CAVERN.
On a mine cart. We descend.
THE OTHER JO
It’s time to find the truth. You’ve forgotten where you came from.
BOO
Purgatory.
THE OTHER JO
That’s right. That’s where all monsters come from. Everybody who’s fucked up. Everybody who
was made wrong. The moment you entered this lake all that time ago, you opened up a question.
That question was, “Who am I?” You only need one word to answer.
101

BOO
One word…
THE OTHER JO
When you were in Purgatory, you were not a person. You were an idea. One word. Everything
about you, every single aspect of your personality, is a way of hiding this one secret word at the
center your existence. Who you are now has been built around this one single word.
BOO
All I could do was find Alaska. But I’m ready to know now. Who have I been all this time? Who
have I been all my life?
THE OTHER JO
Swim to the bottom of the lake. Then let the word out.
Glass shatters into the sounds of the lake.
BENEATH THE WATER.
A latch is unlatched.
BOO
Tell me who I am.
EMMA / BOBBY / LOGAN / JO
PAIN!
102

BOO
NO!
PAIN!
BOO
NO!
PAIN!
BOO
NO!
YOU ARE PAIN! YOU ARE PAIN! YOU ARE PAIN! YOU ARE PAIN!
BOO
YOU’RE LYING! YOU’RE LYING! MY ENTIRE LIFE! WHAT WAS THE POINT! WHAT
WAS THE POINT IF IT WAS INESCAPABLE! WHY DID YOU MAKE ME TRY! WHO DID
THIS TO ME! WHO DID THIS TO ME! (tiring himself out) Who did this to me! Who did this
to me! Who did this to me…
A beautiful voice carries through the water. It’s coming closer. It’s GLORY, HUMMING
BURY ME.
103

GLORY
I don’t remember you.
BOO
Glory?
GLORY
I feel like I should remember you but I don’t remember you. I think I’ve forgotten something
important.
BOO
GLORY?
GLORY
Hallelujah?
[Bury Me Again.]
Boo swims up.
BOO
You’re back in your body! Is this all it took? Getting close to Purgatory?
GLORY
So I am supposed to know you. You’re a good hugger.
BOO
Glory! GLORY! This is the answer! None of that stuff about who I am, or who I’m supposed to
be! It’s about what I’m supposed to do!
104

GLORY
What’re you supposed to do?
BOO
I’m supposed to go home with you— home! Back to the place we came from! Back to Purgatory,
where we can just be ideas! Everything lead up to this! I didn’t see it this whole time. Denver
will still be around to solve Alaska’s death. I’ll leave the microphone at the bottom of this lake.
He’ll find it okay. My mirror can finally have my body and I won’t even mind! Emma can take
care of Alice! I’m sure she will! It’ll be the end of— the end of— everything, but I won’t even
need Alaska! When I have! You!
GLORY
Boo… wait… I think I almost… remember…
BOO
You’ll have a lot to remember. Let’s go home.
[The music overtakes everything. A grand goodbye.]
MIRROR BOO
I finally found you.
A neck is snapped.
105

GLORY
You’re killing me.
MIRROR BOO
I’m sorry.
BOO
GLORY! GLORY! GLORY! GLORY COME BACK! GLORY COME BACK! GLORY COME
BACK! MY HAPPY ENDING! MY HAPPY ENDING! GLORY, YOU ARE MY HAPPY
ENDING! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE!
BOO
Why did you kill her!?
MIRROR BOO
She was the continuity error. It’s over! Glory was never supposed to be here. She interrupted the
loop between you, Jo, and Alaska. Reality’s going to stabilize! One of us can go home!
BOO
I was in love with her!
MIRROR BOO
You’re in love with everybody.
BOO
How can you kill anybody!? Why don’t you care!?
MIRROR BOO
Boo. (laughs) If I can kill, so can you. After all— I’m your reflection.
106

BOO
No. I’m starting to remember—
ALASKA [distorted]
NO!
BOO
I’m starting to remember things. But how could I possibly forget— I CAN’T FORGET!
Glitching.
BOO
Where's the evidence?
MIRROR BOO
Look for it.
BOO
Where's the evidence?
ALASKA [distorted]
BOO! STOP!
MIRROR BOO
Don’t you see? You’re the greatest liar of all. You lied even to yourself.
BOO
Where’s Alaska?
107

MIRROR BOO
You’re gullible.
BOO
Where is he?
MIRROR BOO
This isn’t your first time at the bottom of the lake, Boo. Where do you think I was last time?
Alaska was never here!
BOO
No!
MIRROR BOO
It was always me!
BOO
NO!
ALASKA [?]
He’s wrong.
BOO
Alaska?
ALASKA [?]
He’s lying.
MIRROR BOO
DON’T LISTEN TO HIM! [VOICE FADING AWAY] DON’T LISTEN TO HIM! DON’T
LISTEN TO HIM!
108

BOO
You’re here…
ALASKA [?]
He’ll be back to hurt you soon. I’m sorry. I can only keep him away for a little while.
BOO
That’s okay. But I have to apologize to you. I didn’t save you. Ohh, I’m older than you now…
ALASKA [?]
That’s okay, Boo!
BOO
You do remember!
ALASKA [?]
How could I forget? You’re my brother, remember?
BOO
All you have to know is you’re my brother, and I’m yours, and right now we keep each other
safe. Alaska… did I really kill you?
ALASKA [?]
I don’t know.
BOO
I keep thinking, what if I did kill you? What if the last version of me killed you and I lost that
with my brain injury? What if I was a liar and I can’t remember? What if I was a liar and I made
myself forget?
109

ALASKA [?]
I don’t know what it means, to kill.
BOO
Hurting someone. Don’t say you’d forgive me. I don’t want that. I guess I wouldn’t. Alaska,
you’re getting further away. Are you leaving me? I want to spend the rest of this hour with you.
ALASKA [?]
Then remember me. Remember me properly. Remember all the things I don’t remember about
me.
BOO
Remember… I’ve been remembering you all wrong. I do remember. Your problem was that you
were a jerk. You were just like Jo. You were selfish. But I also forgot that you loved me. More
than I loved you.
ALASKA [?]
That’s right, Boo! I love you!
Twinkling. A new Alaska is appearing before us. His voice will become clear.
[Alaska’s theme rises! Triumphant! He’s here!]
BOO
Alaska! My brother!
ALASKA
It’s okay. Hey, maybe I am older.
110

BOO
You are Alaska! Don’t try to remember! Just be my brother! Alaska, I’ve gone through so much
today! You should’ve seen me! I was so strong!
ALASKA
I bet.
BOO
But in the end, my reflection— oh, that was my reflection before, the one you’re keeping away?
My reflection killed my friend— he hurt her in a way that nobody can take back. I think I did the
same thing to you. I think… I’m capable of it.
ALASKA
Boo Curtis! You are wrong! The thoughts in your head do not represent you.
BOO
Then what do they represent? They’re my thoughts.
ALASKA
Well. I think they reflect things about you.
BOO
That’s too bad.
ALASKA
Silly! Don’t you know what a reflection is? It’s an inversion. A reflection is what happens what
you take something and you turn it around.
BOO
Alaska… then my thoughts… are me. But they’re not me at all. Are they?
111

ALASKA
That’s right. Reflections are things you look at to fix your hair. Or sometimes, your feelings.
BOO
Alaska. I want to spend the rest of my time with you. Can we? Can we really?
ALASKA
Okay. How should we spend the rest of the time?
BOO
Do you know what happens at the end of the hour?
ALASKA
No?
BOO
Good. Do you wanna play a word game?
ALASKA
That sounds fun.
BOO
Do you wanna make up silly songs?
ALASKA
Yeah! That sounds fun!
BOO
Let’s do that, then! I’ll make up a silly song.
ALASKA
Yes, yes! Sing! This is fun!
112

BOO
(improvising) Here we are, in the sea / One plus one equals three— (spoken) I dunno. I’m sorry.
ALASKA laughs a BOISTEROUS LAUGH.
ALASKA
I like that! Let me try!
BOO
Ok. We should have maybe five minutes left.
ALASKA
Ok!
BOO
Sing a silly song for me.
ALASKA
Ok!
(singing) I am so tough
So stay away
I’ll eat you up
I’ll be okay
(spoken) Wow, I’m so good at this!
Heed teeth of knives
I am more than my size
113

There’s all the things I used to say
Stuck with another stranger
Forgetting mother nature
Stuck with another stranger
Forgetting mother nature
Now you know that you’ll love me
Forever; without any measure, you know
Hold me close, you’ll never want to go
Now I’m your light inside all the darkness
When you are at work you’re alone
But dream a bit just like I am right next to you
It will be just like I am right there for you
I think I love you too
Now you are always worried
Seems you are always sorry
I’m not scared at all since I
Have you; I know that I won’t live long
And that is fine, I know you’re strong
114

Useless, still I’m your light in the darkness
And soon I will break and be gone
But it will be just like I am right next to you
It will be just like I am right there for you
One day, I’ll save you too
BOO
Alaska. I know what I have to do. I don’t have to give up yet. I don’t have to stop. It’s time for
me to live! I’m going to live! I’m going to live.
MIRROR BOO / BOBBY / EMMA / JO / LOGAN
THERE’S NOTHING YOU CAN DO.
BOO
There is!
YOU ARE PAIN.
BOO
I am! I will answer the question! I am pain! But I’m also a liar! I’m going to shove all of the pain
down— but this time, I’ll do it on purpose! From now on, I’m whoever I want to be! I’m fake! I
will repress everything, if it means I can live for Alaska! If it means I can be his brother! If my
reflection is everything I hate about myself, then I am going to bury everything I hate. He won’t
have power over anyone anymore!
115

Your answer is wrong! The only way out of pain is honesty! That is how pain begets joy! You’re
going to destroy your chance at happiness!
BOO
Fine!
There’s no coming back here again! The question is going to be answered and the hole is going
to close! You’re going to be locked permanently in the wrong skin! Are you willing to live your
entire life as a lie!? Every version of your story ends in a tragedy! There will be no happy
ending!
BOO
I used to think that life was about trying to be happy. But now I see that there are so many kinds
of happiness. I won’t let anyone take my pain away. This pain is mine. Every headache, every
tragedy. This is my answer! If I’m pain, then give me pain! And then let me live for Alaska!
BENEATH THE WATER.
BOO
There’s a hand, reaching into the water. (pauses) Is this Denver? He’s shaking. It’s funny. I don’t
even like you. And yet I know exactly what you mean. In another world, we could’ve been good
friends. Wow, look how you’re shaking. Has it been that hard? I think when you shake like this…
yeah… this is what happens when you push all of the pain down, and it tries to get out somehow.
116

It’s okay, Denver. I’m pain. I’ll take all of your pain from you. It’s mine now. It’s my burden to
carry.
DENVER [narrator]
He takes my hand.
BOO
Now take me home.
CONVENIENCE STORE.
BOO
Is reality breaking one last time? Okay. I’ll see where I am. For old time’s sake.
Boo walks outside, through the convenience store’s doors.
SUNNY DAY.
JO
Boo.
BOO
Jo.
JO
I’ve been a lot of places today.
117

BOO
Me too.
JO
We’re going to be different people now. Is that okay?
BOO
Give me your hand.
ON BLACK.
BOO
I’m having a wonderful dream.
JO
Me too.
BOO
About how I’m in a burning building.
JO
And in your mask, you can’t breathe.
BOO
But I look down from the window.
JO
And I’m there, waiting with my arms out.
BOO
I take off my mask.
118

JO
And you’re afraid to jump.
BOO
Because you’ll see my burns.
JO
I’ll see your eyes.
BOO
But you call out a question.
JO
“Do you want to be friends?”
BOO
That’s when I jump into your arms.
JO
That’s when I catch you, Boo.
BOO
I will jump to you every time.
JO
Whenever you’re on tall buildings.
BOO
Whenever I don’t want to go home.
JO
I’ll catch you. I’ll catch you every time. I’m having a wonderful dream.
119

BOO
Me too.
JO
About always knowing you.
BOO
Forever.
JO
And I helped you down. And I helped you down. From the edge of every cliff. I helped you
down.
DENVER [narration]
We pull them from the lake.
120

NEAR THE LAKE.
Emergency sirens.
EMT
They hit their heads pretty badly at the bottom of the lake. They could wake up with incredible
symptoms, I mean, they might even wake up as completely different people…
DENVER
Jo. If you can hear me— I’ve had some time to think. You and me are going to write a fucking
novel, Jo. I’m going to take you in while you document every single thing your family has done.
If you’re honest, I think you’ll be able to escape a court sentence. And more importantly, I’ll be
able to protect you from your family. I’ll have to keep you under my supervision, and… Oh,
maybe you can’t hear me… That’s alright. I’ll tell you later.
EMMA
Alice! It’s Alice!
DENVER [narrator]
And Alice runs to where Boo lies on his stretcher, and for a minute, I almost think she looks like
a protective… No. That can’t be it.
EMMA
Denver! Isn’t this great?
DENVER
Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. Emma, is there anything more powerful than a dog’s love?
121

Alice barks happily.
DENVER
I’m just imagining things.
PLAYING FROM A TAPE RECORDER.
BOO
Hey Alaska. Don’t you wanna know what your word is?
ALASKA
I already know my word.
BOO
You do?
Alaska laughs gently.
ALASKA
Guardian.
Click. And the tape stops.
The end.
122

CREDITS
THE GHOST FACTORY
WRITER/DIRECTOR/HEAD - Cameron LeBrun
SCRIPT EDITOR - Katrina Clairvoyant
ASSISTANT PRODUCER - Lorena De Leon
MUSIC - Thor Speeler, Cameron LeBrun
VOCALS - Thor Speeler
BACKING VOCALS in “LETTERS” - Bella Wynne, Cameron LeBrun
SOUND DESIGN - Andres Buitrago, Austin Blackwell, Jacob Lundy
MIX & MASTER - Manas Kunder
AUDIO ASSISTANCE - Thor Speeler
ART - Bella Wynne, Lock Reinhardt, and doritofalls
GLORY JOHNSON - Lindsay Zana
JO MAGARO - Sally Roberts
EMMA WOOTEN - Liz Mina
LOGAN GOLDBERG - Trent Trachtenberg
BOBBY YORKE - Kyle Parker
PERFORMING / SINGING ALASKA CURTIS - Emma Martin
DISTORTED ALASKA CURTIS - Resident Foot-Lover Trent Trachtenberg
FINN DENVER - Joseph Kitembo
BOO CURTIS - Alex Redd
DAN - Donald Sutton
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EMT - Susan Paerels
ROMEO MAGARO - Dave Maynard
PATRONS - LavenderKozzy, grinleysspa, Nicole Collard, Rad, Antigone, LaceAnn,
MishaWarlock, Andrew Roper, CJ Taylor Caldwell, Lilly Carleton, Emma, Shep, Sarah, Ash,
Shoshi, Chrysaor, Gamzee, Mic Drop, Matt (those are two people but I think you should fuse
into one person named Mic Drop Matt), LivinLuxuriouslySelena, Kelly Brennan, and Declan
McAuley!
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