Hello, I'm Phil. And you're Mary, yeah? [Sits at opposite end of table facing Mary] I was hoping to ask you a few questions for some clarification on our end, if that's okay. First thing, could you establish how you got in here?
I walked through a wall. In the basement of a furniture store.
Can you confirm that this is the location in question? Okay, good. So you were shopping, or...
I was looking for someone.
Were you looking for this man? Right here?
Where am I right now?
Could you just confirm for me? [Points to photo of Clark again] Is this man right here? Here, the man you were looking for.
Please. Sorry, what was your name?
Phil.
Please, Phil. Where am I?
I'm not... I make, um... sorry, my... our company... [slides ASYNC pamphlet across table] we make MRI machines. Or, I should say, um... We used to make MRI machines. Not anymore. That was before we... before... we found...
You've been there?
Yes, I have. And now, it's my job. Every day, I go in there. And I just try to... Try to find out even a little bit more. I map out areas to the best of my ability. And more and more, I'm convinced... that nothing in our lifetime... Mary... nothing in maybe all of recorded history... means more... than this.
But I don't understand it.
I don't... I can't even describe it. It...
It's like describing a dog to someone Who's never seen a dog. And then asking them to try draw it. Now you want me to... describe it. And then... You'll write it down, and then what?
Mary...
You'll let me go?
We all want the same thing here. We do. We just... want to find out even a little bit... more.
What's gonna happen to me, Phil?
That decision's not up to me. So... If we could just... talk. Just you and me. You know? Just like... Just like two regular people. We could unpack... some of this. We've both been in there. And... and... and... and get on the same page. There are... doors... opening... everywhere. We don't know why... or... what's connecting them. They just sort of keep happening and we don't want to stop them. :[A backrooms montage of Mary's childhood moments and aesthetics, career book launches, poles of Kat and Bobby missing posters and their motel residence, and contemporary urban landscapes follows with a backroomsised catatonic Mary-esque figure in a room]
