["Pomp and Circumstance"]
["Pomp and Circumstance"]
["Pomp and Circumstance"]
A scotch on the rocks on my tab.
Your tab's run out.
It's cash or water.
Forget it.
I'm John.
I'm not that kind of girl, John.
I'm broke in case you were too polite to eavesdrop.
You, uh, want me a drink?
Aren't you bold?
Would it help if I told you that it'd be my last drink?
God, everyone's quitting and here I am just started.
What I mean is, uh, I'm not going to be around tomorrow.
Bit dramatic, ain't he?
You're my old fashioned.
Make it a double.
So, um, are you married, John?
Not lately.
Aren't you going to ask about me?
It's a funeral dress, isn't it?
So what, are you going to kill yourself or something?
Nah, I'm a coward.
I have this job and, uh, in my line of work you say no to the boss and...
Well, today I said no.
You got principles, John?
Yeah, I guess so.
Well, no wonder you're unhappy.
I'm Lila.
I know.
My husband was in robotics.
He was in, um, research and development.
He was, uh, the brains of the marriage, huh?
Yeah, most days he was three steps ahead of me.
Yeah, he was a hell of a guy.
He called me like his father.
Where did you get this?
That's why I said no.
What are you doing with a picture of my husband?
Who are you?
My, uh, my wife died three years ago.
We were only married about a year.
I was a writer back then.
And these people came to me and said they could give her back to me.
That they could ease my pain.
Who?
The robot people.
The people your husband worked for.
The people I worked for.
So you're paying off your debt for a sex doll with your dead wife's face on it?
No. No. It's not like that.
Listen, um, it was her.
It was me that was the problem.
I should have known that, uh, that I shouldn't have been so foolish
to think that, you know, she wouldn't catch on.
I could never lie to her.
Yeah, in the end she took her own life.
It was like losing her a second time.
This is a fucked up sales pitch.
That's my job.
This is the job I said I wanted to.
I told them I wanted to sell a husband to a widow.
So I'm giving it to you straight.
I thought you ought to know.
They could give you back your husband, but take it from me.
It doesn't always last.
This isn't right.
I'm sorry?
Your story. Your story is bullshit.
Why would you work for the robot people after that?
And why would they hire you out of pity?
And I don't think they make a wife bought with a suicide switch.
You'd be surprised what they could pick up along the way.
And I don't even think that you're capable of telling me the truth.
Because the truth is much, much worse, isn't it?
I thought your husband was the brains.
But he wouldn't carry more on.
It was the rider that died, wasn't it?
It was the husband.
They didn't rebuild her.
They built you.
And you weren't good enough.
It was nice for a while.
I didn't smile when I walked into a room.
But she cried when she thought I couldn't hear her.
One day she caught me reading one of his books.
You know, an unfinished draft.
I told her I was thinking of finishing it myself.
She was drunk when she drove off the third story of the parking garage.
I think she knew what she was doing.
The woman could hold her liquor.
So they made you a salesman?
I wasn't much of a husband.
Yeah, well, you're not much of a salesman either.
I'll think I'll be needing your services.
Thanks for the drink.
Have another.
And John.
I don't want to ever see you again.
You won't.
You don't get to feel twice, John.
Yeah, I know.
Are you gonna settle up before they come for you?
No, I don't think I will.
Sorry, pal.
Thank God.
I'll make the call.
I'll make the call.
I'll make the call.
Got a disabled unit.
Pulled his own plug.
Yeah, John to underclass really just crap.
Yeah, I mean, I'll hold on to it, but it's got quite a bill to settle.
I'm charging you storage by the hour.
One, two, three, four.
When I wake up, I wonder where you get your energy.
And one day you showed me your battery.
I found you in a trash can in Japan.
One word you're driving, I knew I'd be your man.
Just help me understand.
Why can't you see why, why, why, why?
Why do you feel so cold when I hold you close?
You'll never die, die, die, die.
You'll remain 17 forever as I go.
