I'm not scared of hell, Doc. I-- I lived a decent life. Don't think there is such a place, anyway. I guess I'm scared... That there's nothing. There was nothing before, so what if there's nothing after?
We don't end, Charlie. I know that for certain. I don't know much else, but I know that we don't end.
Always tickles me, watching you rubes threaten a god.
Man takes a drink. The drink takes a drink. And then the drink takes the man. Ain't it so, Dad?
Medicine. Medicine is what it is. Bonafide cure-all. Depression, stress, remorse, failure, it wipes it all away. The mind is a blackboard. And this is the eraser. A man tries. He provides. But he's surround by mouths that eat and scream and cry and nag. So he asks for one thing, just one thing for him. To warm him up. To take the sting out of those mouths eating and eating and eating everything he makes, everything he has. And that family. A wife. A kid. Those mouths eat time. They eat your days on Earth. They just gobble them up. It's enough to make a man sick. And this is the medicine. So tell me, pup... are you gonna take your medicine?
I'm not!
You must be lonely. Being the last one, I mean the last one in the world.
Rose the Hat
Oh, sweetie, I'm not the last, far from it. I'm just the prettiest.
Hey, it never occurred to me to ask you back then: What happens to them in those boxes? Do they die in there?
Do you care?
I missed you.
Has it been a long time? Can't tell. This world is a dream of a dream to me now.
Eight years. A little more.
Last time I saw you, you was at the bottom. You look better now.
Why are you here?
I'm here because it all comes 'round. Ka is a wheel, Doc. You listen, son. It hurts to be here, so I'll only say it once. These empty devils ever found you when you was a tyke? If they had even sniffed you? You'd be long dead. They're on the land like a cancer on the skin. Once they rode camels in the desert, once they drove caravans across Eastern Europe. They eat screams and drink pain. And they've noticed that little girl. They might kill her. Might turn her. Or might keep her 'til she's all used up and that'd be worst of all. You can't let 'em.
Why me?
Because she found you! Because she showed up! Hell, Doc, why me? You just walked on into my kitchen one day, I'm still on the hook!
What the hell am I supposed to do?
Get her what she asked for. You won't see me again, Doc. This is my last dream. It seems to me you grew up fine, son. But you still owe a debt. Pay it.
Ain't that the way? Man just living his life, trying to do his work. He gets put upon. Pulled into other people's problems. I see it all the time, if you don't mind my saying.
Rose the Hat
What's in those? Something special, huh?
They're not special. They're starving!
I thought we lived forever.
Rose the Hat
Did someone promise you that, Andi? Did someone say you were immortal? I said "live long, eat well". We can live long, very long. And we do, most of us. But we haven't been eating well. Not for a long time.
Hello, Danny. Come and play with us. Forever. And ever. And ever.
Rose the Hat
Damn, I thought he had another few minutes in him.
Abra Stone
Well, it's just arrogance. It's arrogance, really. But, makes sense if you think you're gonna live forever. Stands to reason... of course you wouldn't wear your seatbelt.
Rose the Hat
You watched empires rise and fall. Cheered the Gladiators in Rome. Sailed across oceans to new worlds. You fed on kings and princes and popes... They wrote myths of you and made statues, and they trembled in their villages and beds and skyscrapers. So, no. You're not scared. You're a king. And you eat fear.
Rose the Hat
Well, hi there.
Rose the Hat
You taste like whiskey.
Horace Derwent was the last one, confetti on his suit. He said "Great party, isn't it?" Shit-eating grin on his face 'til I pulled out a box for him. That grin went fast.