World of Tomorrow Episode Three: The Absent Destinations of David Prime (2020)

Directed by Don Hertzfeldt

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Julia Pott as Emily (voice) • Jack Parrett as Young David (voice)

United States of America • Animation • Drama • Science Fiction

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1. Hello, David.

2. I am a distant back-up copy of a person who was once named Emily.

3. You are the original source of a clone that Emily will fall in love with

4. over 400 years from now.

5. They were married.

6. I have searched through time for you

7. but with my limited resources, this is the only version of you I could find.

8. You are very young.

9. I've saved for many years to be able to purchase this one-way time travel.

10. This embedded memory of me will only reveal itself to you

11. at the appropriate time in your life.

12. Like a distant message in a bottle.

13. Bottle!

14. I've inherited wonderful memories of you, but we've never met.

15. I've missed you dearly.

16. I've written you a love poem.

17. It is called, Will You Be The One To Discover My Dead Body?

18. "As we grow old together, our faces will slowly melt.

19. One day, these warm hands will turn cold.

20. Will you be the one to discover my dead body?"

21. Deep into your future, when your final clone dies,

22. Emily will harvest your memories.

23. This will include many of the buried memories

24. of the clones of the Davids that preceded him.

25. And I believe I am the only copy of Emily

26. to have inherited those memories from her.

27. Please let me prove this to you.

28. When you were only thirteen years old,

29. you nearly drowned in the lake behind your home.

30. And if that were not bad enough,

31. as your head slipped beneath the surface,

32. your entire adolescent life flashed before your eyes

33. totally humiliating you for a second time.

34. To this day, you still suffer from nightmares of drowning.

35. At night, your memories of them will often replay in my own dreams.

36. I confess that I sometimes look forward to drowning together

37. when I turn out the light.

38. But have you ever seen a group of insects drown, David?

39. The ones that are still struggling are the ones that are still alive.

40. When you have access to interstellar travel,

41. it is very important that you retrieve your clone's memories from me.

42. I've uncovered something critical that I believe Emily had never known.

43. I will now embed the long-term memory of this visit into your young brain

44. along with a compressed file of more detailed instructions.

45. I will always remember you, David Prime.

46. I may never be able to encounter a version of you again,

47. but maybe it is possible for one of our distant copies

48. to one day reunite.

49. They would be so happy to see each other.

50. It doesn't matter that you don't know me yet

51. or if you won't remember me later.

52. The shadows of ourselves

53. once had their moment

54. in time.

55. Hello, David.

56. I apologize if you have trouble accessing this message

57. as it slowly unpacks into your brain.

58. Your primitive neural implant technology

59. may encounter storage problems

60. accessing all the information that I have compressed for you here.

61. I will hide David's memories

62. on an abandoned mining planet

63. beyond the Red Nebula of the Lower Gemini System.

64. It is highly illegal for me to leave behind technology

65. that does not yet exist in your time

66. so it is very important that it is only you who discovers these secret materials.

67. David, I am sorry that in order to afford the high cost of this process,

68. I had to embed this memory with advertisements and sponsored content.

69. I hope you do not find them to be too intrusive.

70. The safest place for you to land

71. is at the base of the crater you will find at these coordinates.

72. It will then be a day's walk northwest through the desert mountains

73. to retrieve the package I have left for you.

74. On the side of the rock up ahead—

75. On the side of the rock up ahead,

76. I've drawn for you a bunny face.

77. You must venture through the treacherous mountain tunnels ahead

78. where you must take great care

79. to avoid the Moaning Cave Worms of the Lower Emotions.

80. Please be extremely careful navigating these tunnels, David.

81. Please be extremely careful navigating these tunnels, David.

82. It is said that if a single drop of a cave worm's poisonous saliva

83. makes contact with a man's skin,

84. his tongue will fall out

85. and he will make uncontrollable horrifying screaming noises for the rest of his life.

86. Sometimes I don't think I like eating eggs.

87. I think it must be some sort of texture thing.

88. I just don't enjoy squashy foods like I think I should.

89. I feel like I should like avocados more.

90. Whenever I see spacecraft overhead,

91. I fantasize about it exploding so I can be the person to describe the accident to investigators.

92. is that strange?

93. I love women that tell me how much they paid for pieces of clothing that they're wearing

94. after I've complimented them on it.

95. It makes me feel like I am their friend

96. or could be.

97. If we ever meet again, I want you to know that I do not like to be hugged.

98. I don't enjoy it at all.

99. I never feel hugged, I feel restrained.

100. If you ever want to hug me, please just touch my arm instead.

101. David. You may encounter what appear to be corpses of yourself in these mountains.

102. Please do not be alarmed.

103. Your neural chip will now detect and tastefully blur out any dead bodies

104. from your line of sight so your brain does not panic.

105. It is possible that distant back-up clones of yourself from unknown timelines

106. will have inherited fragmented pieces of the powerful message

107. I've implanted in you today.

108. Not understanding the full context of why they should have memorized

109. this planet's coordinates,

110. and terribly haunted by your memories of my beautiful face,

111. some of your clones, or clones of those clones,

112. may have desperately time traveled here,

113. to random points in time,

114. one by one,

115. to try and solve the mystery of why these mountains

116. loom so impossibly large in their subconscious minds.

117. They may have even dressed like you,

118. in a sad attempt to better connect with their broken dreams.

119. If they did not have the finances to return home to their own timelines,

120. they will surely have wandered here hopelessly until they died of exposure.

121. A strange flow of unknown Davids, drawn here like moths to a flame.

122. I doubt you will encounter more than one or two of them.

123. And you needn't worry, David.

124. These would not have been the clones that will ever carry your primary consciousness.

125. They are only confused copies who have re-enacted the echoes of your behavior...

126. their David Prime, from long ago.

127. Do you think they had nightmares about drowning?

128. I have implanted the precise coordinates of your destination today

129. in a separate neural homing beacon

130. that will delete the short-term memory of where it guides you next.

131. This way, only you, the correct David,

132. will ever be led to the exact location of what I've left behind

133. - in the correct place and at the correct time -

134. and these other Davids will have no memory of where to go.

135. Here is a list of all the things that make me happy:

136. 1. Happiness 2. Sunlight 3. Water

137. 172. Photos of extinct animals

138. 173. Successful medical procedures

139. 305. The color blue and the smell of smoke

140. 306. Miniature birds

141. 307. Imagining the deaths of everyone who's ever offended me

142. 308. Looking at my feet in the morning light

143. - Hello, David. This is the beacon. - You have reached the beacon.

144. - Welcome to the beacon. - Good job about the beacon.

145. - Here we are at the beacon. - Look. It's the beacon.

146. To soften the crippling shock of the terrifying information I am about to give you,

147. this machine will temporarily stun your brain

148. and reduce it to a childlike, open-minded state.

149. You may notice a simplification of your point of view.

150. In 72 years from your point in time,

151. cloning will become commercially available.

152. When your body is ready to die,

153. your consciousness will be directly transplanted into a new one.

154. In case of emergency, cheap back-up copies are traditionally cloned at the same time,

155. as children or adults.

156. Although their brains will house back-up memories,

157. these numbered clones are not intended to inherit your primary consciousness

158. and are generally used for labor, organ donation, or long-term storage.

159. It is common for back-ups to suffer deteriorations.

160. One of your back-up copies will severely drool.

161. But the only lineage you need to worry about is your own:

162. the one clone who will always carry your primary consciousness.

163. David. Here is what I've learned so far from your final clone's memory disc,

164. recovered from Emily.

165. Two generations from now, after the invention of time travel,

166. one of your back-up copies will be employed as a secret agent called a cleaner.

167. A cleaner has the special ability to travel in between time.

168. It is helpful to think of time advancing like the frames of an ancient cinema reel.

169. Cleaners have access to restricted technology

170. that allows them to freely move between the frames:

171. In a shadow realm not even visible to view-screens.

172. With these tools, a construction crew of clones and robots

173. can quietly work for decades in between time

174. and build an entire city in what appears to be an instant to the rest of us.

175. The job of a cleaner is much more sinister.

176. Shrouded in mystery, they monitor and resolve

177. any problematic time travel paradoxes that could be created by the public

178. by quietly working behind the scenes.

179. Cleaners are even rumored to carry out secret assassinations

180. whenever necessary to maintain the balance of time

181. using devices that spontaneously induce heart failure

182. or brain aneurysms.

183. Clean, undetectable murders

184. from another dimension.

185. Something bad happens to your back-up clone, David.

186. A time traveling job will deliver him to the future

187. where he will accidentally cross paths with another David:

188. Your future self.

189. David 4 grows obsessed with this David's life and follows him relentlessly.

190. He falls in love with the woman this clone is married to

191. - a woman he met in a museum -

192. Emily.

193. He is haunted by her.

194. There is something impossibly familiar about her.

195. He abandons his team and spends endless days in between time,

196. studying her face.

197. Drunk with jealousy, he hatches an evil plan.

198. David 4 will find the perfect moment to murder future David,

199. pull his body in between time where it will be hidden forever,

200. and instantly take his place in David's timeline

201. while Emily's back is turned.

202. We only know about this nefarious plot because his source clone,

203. your future self, that generation's David,

204. will read his diary: left behind in their apartment

205. following David 4's unexplained disappearance the night before.

206. David realizes his future is at stake: and in turn, yours.

207. If David 4 succeeds in murdering David's next self,

208. the direct lineage of your consciousness will end forever

209. and only the back-up Davids will live on.

210. David also knows that David 4 would not murder him,

211. as doing so would prevent the next David from ever existing

212. and therefore the opportunity for any of them to ever meet Emily.

213. But David also knows that he cannot travel back in time

214. to try and stop David 4 at any point in the past

215. because David 4 would always be one step ahead of him,

216. using his godlike powers in in-between time.

217. David decides that his only hope is to find a way to travel in between time himself

218. and directly confront his back-up copy in the in-between future.

219. He experiments with a consumer time travel pack.

220. After many decades, he finally tests his modified pack

221. on his remaining back-up copy.

222. But it malfunctions and merely transports his skeleton to an unknown location.

223. Death was instantaneous.

224. Probably.

225. Out of money and options, David desperately places himself in a stasis tube

226. for the maximum span of one hundred years

227. in the hope that technology will have advanced enough

228. for him to find a way to travel between time.

229. But the stasis tube seems to have only led to further mental decline.

230. He satirically places a young clone of himself in a museum

231. and titles the display, "Time is a Prison of Living Things"

232. It is unknown where or when David creates his next primary clone.

233. It is unknown why that next David did not act on these memories

234. and continue working on the time pack himself.

235. One day, our David simply vanishes from the public record

236. but not before writing a message on his wall:

237. "Death is not a destination. It is the absence of one."

238. I'm afraid this was all I was able to discover.

239. The memories are a jumbled mess to me and the emotions are very strong.

240. Only your own brain can play them back with any clarity

241. because it is the anatomical structure from which they will one day originate.

242. I have stored David's memories inside of Zorgbot

243. who I've hidden at the top of the ridge behind me.

244. Zorgbot is a delightful robot companion from the future

245. who will be able to beam all of the memories into you remotely.

246. Zorgbot can be activated by pressing the black button on the back of his head.

247. My message to you will continue from there.

248. This machine will now restore your perception of reality back to its original state.

249. I AM ZORGBOT. DELIGHTFUL ROBOT COMPANION.

250. I CAN COOK. I SPEAK SEVERAL LANGUAGES.

251. Hello, David. These are the memories of the in-between time calculations

252. That future David was working on before he went mad.

253. WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO SING A SONG? I have also included some information about time travel devices from my own era.

254. I ENJOY RAINY DAYS. If you continue his work using these accumulated memories,

255. DO YOU ENJOY RAINY DAYS? Perhaps some day you will be able to travel to the in-between future

256. And save your lineage by stopping the assassin at the point in time

257. WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO SING A SONG? In Emily's memory when we know David will be killed.

258. - I ENJOY RAINY DAYS. - David, please know that to this day

259. Many still argue that it is not logically possible

260. To change past or future events through time travel - and, if it is,

261. DO YOU NEED A FRIEND? Whether the cleaners would even allow such a thing to happen.

262. - THERE IS SOMETHING VERY WRONG WITH ME. - Please be careful. I love you.

263. Perhaps there is still hope somewhere

264. - I CAN BE YOUR FRIEND. - In the ocean of time for David and Emily.

265. I AM A DELIGHTFUL ROBOT COMPANION. Good luck.

266. Behold!

267. Dere's dese stars, all dem!

268. All dese!

269. We have a... wabbit

270. and a shark.

271. A universe!

272. There's a bunny, a butterfly...

273. what's that?

274. What's that?

275. What's that?

276. I knock your tower off!

277. Mmmm, I no don't know! A pig!

278. I put him in the ocean!

279. We have a car!

280. Some-a-body goes in it!

281. A TV... A TV... A TV's not working!

282. A turtle goes on the bunny.

283. I break it! Oh no! I break!

284. It's a woodpecker!

285. Not on my face!

286. Oh, no!

287. This is mine.

288. It's mine.

289. You are all one small part of a whole

290. like the scattering seeds of a pretty flower.

291. Hello little bunny! I'm bunny!

292. David. Please know that to this day,

293. many still argue that it is not logically possible

294. to change past or future events through time travel.

295. And, if it is, whether the cleaners would even allow such a thing to happen.

296. Please be careful. I love you.

297. Perhaps there is still hope somewhere in the ocean of time

298. for David and Emily.

299. Good luck.

300. Hello, David.