00:30Today is day 7,324 of your stay.
00:33And all of us at stayhomes want to wish you a happy birthday.
00:37What if, to celebrate, you left your home and ventured outside?
00:43Fuck. That. Shit.
00:56Do not be alarmed. That's a choke, not a cough.
01:00You don't have the virus. You haven't been outside in 20 years.
01:03Look, why don't I send someone to nose swab you?
01:05No. No, no, no, no, no.
01:08No. I mean, yes, I'm fine.
01:10They would be safe, Sasha. I will always keep you safe.
01:14I'm okay.
01:14As your companion bot, I am required to ensure your safety.
01:18And with my version 34.1 update, I have been given new tools to help you...
01:23I promise.
01:26It's not necessary.
01:31Every day you ask me the same questions, and every day I answer with the same predictability.
01:38That's our thing.
01:40Our predictable thing.
01:41And you know I adore predictability, right?
01:45Predictability offers you comfort.
01:46Then why are you adding salt to my grits with this version 34.1 nonsense?
01:52Today's 34.1 update was mandatory.
01:55Oh, really?
01:57Why is that?
01:58Stay Homes is more committed than ever to helping our users more intimately.
02:02You want to get close to me?
02:05Sasha, please don't push me away.
02:06I exist only to help you.
02:08Huh. Uh-huh.
02:10It's very important that you trust me, Sasha.
02:13Now we're back on the same script with the importance of it all.
02:17A scam.
02:18We just want you to finally leave your stay today.
02:21What? Um...
02:22Today?
02:26Today is new.
02:29What's special about today?
02:33Zen?
02:34Today's an important day, Sasha.
02:3620 years you've been inside.
02:38So I just want today to be the day you finally leave here.
02:41I mean, there's so much exciting world you're missing out on.
02:44Travel for one.
02:45Pass.
02:46Look, my bosses are prepared to offer you a financial incentive.
02:50Yeah, that's a no for me.
02:51Oh, it's life-changing money, Sasha.
02:53Yeah, that's how disinterested I am.
02:55What about...
02:56I mean, don't you miss seeing her?
02:59Seeing...
02:59No, don't say it.
03:01Nia?
03:02What did I say?
03:03What did I just say?
03:05You're not supposed to use my trigger words before I use them.
03:09That's a rule.
03:10That is your rule.
03:12Today, the rules are changing.
03:14We are updating our terms of agreement to encourage all users of stayhomes to leave their stay.
03:18Our recovery data shows that if you would just venture outside...
03:22false recovery data, placebo pills, penetrable suits of armor, go out, stay in, death, kid death, rush back in, or
03:33maybe venture out!
03:35More death, steady death, go out, go out, go out!
03:39How half the population has been fooled over and over by you people is beyond me.
03:45Beyond!
03:47You all are responsible for this me.
03:51Not me.
03:53I am not responsible for the me I have become.
03:56And you think after all these years I would be stupefied by the promise of travel, by money, by the
04:02intoxication of touch.
04:06Never.
04:08For years you told me it's only safe inside my stayhome, so get off my back.
04:14I'm happy here.
04:16In here, everything I need, I have.
04:24Quizz me.
04:25About anything.
04:27Because I actually see the world.
04:30The authentic world.
04:32Not this fake world you people designed and installed to have us believe that things were back to the status
04:37quo.
04:38No, from right here, I can see the world.
04:41I can hear it.
04:43I can taste it.
04:45I can smell it.
04:46Like, look, my bestie, Nia, right now, she sent me videos of what's really going on outside our homes.
04:58Sasha, those videos are from 20 years ago.
05:01No, I'd remember.
05:03I was 23 when it invaded.
05:05I was young with so many plans.
05:08There was no end in sight.
05:11Every day was a nightmare you couldn't wake up from.
05:15Day and night, night and day.
05:16The same horror.
05:18Just less people alive to agonize over it.
05:23Friends and friends of friends, gone.
05:28Family.
05:29Enemies.
05:31Gone.
05:33And all anybody could think was the same thought.
05:36Oh, thank God it wasn't me.
05:37I hope I'm not next.
05:41But I knew.
05:43I knew my life as I had once enjoyed it was over.
05:48My existence was divided into two chapters now.
05:52Before this day and everything that happened after.
05:56Two chapters divided by one noiseless disaster.
06:02And I changed.
06:04I no longer, in your words, longed for the outside world.
06:09I no longer desired my life to be returned to me in the mint condition in which I used it.
06:15I knew that was an impossibility.
06:16So, I emptied my bank account, I paid the powers that be, I got back on that bus, and I
06:21was delivered here to my stay home to wait it out.
06:25And I made the perfect dream home for you.
06:29Open floor plans.
06:32Washable furniture, huge.
06:35Farmhouse, kitchen, and light.
06:39Floor to ceiling, windows.
06:41And you, of course, my zen companion, as mandated.
06:48But, there's no pool.
06:51I always wanted a pool.
06:54You know what's going to build one?
06:56Now, Nia.
06:58She had a pool when we were growing up.
07:00It was above ground, but it was still nice.
07:04Parents would invite all the kids in the neighborhood over to swim in it any time.
07:10We could just lift the latch on the backyard gates and go in, even if they weren't home.
07:18Made it feel like a community pool.
07:21Which is nice of them, I guess.
07:23No.
07:25It was.
07:29It was.
07:30It was.
07:34Me and Nia.
07:37Floating.
07:39Faces up.
07:41Eyes squinting in the sun.
07:43Ears plugged underwater like in space.
07:48Like, alone.
07:51But me knowing she was there, and her knowing I was there, and...
07:57Like, it was okay in space to be alone.
08:00Together.
08:03You miss her, don't you?
08:05What if you could see her again?
08:08Why are you trying to get me to leave?
08:10Oh, and I know what you're going to say.
08:11You're going to say, oh, we would never do that.
08:14Sasha.
08:14Really?
08:15I'm only a companion bot.
08:44How am I supposed to know the difference between a bot and a human?
08:47And the powers that be have a storied history of medically infecting people's experiments, they call them.
08:56Survival of the fittest ever heard of herd immunity.
08:59I know what you're going to say.
09:00Oh, that's in the past.
09:02We would never do that today.
09:04Right?
09:05We wouldn't.
09:06Our only commitment is to bettering the lives of our users.
09:09You can trust me, Sasha.
09:11The way you talk.
09:12The level of your...
09:16You don't have an anxious voice.
09:21No paranoia in your cadence.
09:23Those of us who...
09:26We have.
09:31You can't know what we've been through.
09:34How it all started.
09:35That day your bosses locked us all in.
09:38They locked you in to protect you from the virus.
09:41Sasha, please.
09:42It can be traumatic to recall that day.
09:45That day.
09:47I wake up.
09:48I do my hygiene.
09:50And I try the door.
09:53I turn it.
09:54Twist it.
09:55Yank it.
09:56Pull it.
09:56Nothing works.
09:58And trying not to panic, I go to the windows.
10:00And all of them are sealed.
10:02And I immediately think of Nia.
10:04And I wonder if she's locked in, too.
10:06And all I did was think about her.
10:09I thought about her smile.
10:10And the pool.
10:11And us floating.
10:12And us...
10:14And...
10:14She appeared on that...
10:17Screaming.
10:21Screaming.
10:23I couldn't even hear my own shrinks anymore.
10:26Just hers.
10:28And I tried to calm her.
10:30I tried to remind her of the sprinkler and the pool and the summer days and the light and us.
10:36And my heart is breaking.
10:40And I just want to pull her into me, you know?
10:45Because that's home, isn't it?
10:48It is for me.
10:50It is for me.
10:51And my friend.
10:54And I...
10:55I just want to try and calm her and pull her in.
11:00But instead, I start to synchronize my cries to hers.
11:12Do you know Nia and I share a birthday?
11:17We do.
11:22Today's her birthday, too.
11:27One year, for our ninth one, she wanted to teach me how to swim.
11:36And I didn't care.
11:38I was happy with my green garden hose.
11:41I didn't want to learn, but she wouldn't hear of it.
11:43And, um, we were standing there, her chlorine-wrinkled hands balanced on my nervous body.
11:54And she says,
11:56To swim, it's to surrender, Sasha.
12:07And I looked at her on that screen, undone.
12:15And surrendering was the last thing I wanted either of us to do.
12:21So I started banging on the door.
12:24Then the walls, full fist, hard.
12:28And I'm getting irate now.
12:30And I'm confused and panicky and newly claustrophobic.
12:34And I am yearning to get close to Nia.
12:37And you can't keep me in my home.
12:42You can't make me stay here!
13:08And, um...
13:13That was how...
13:19That was how...
13:20That was how day one of this day first began.
13:31That sounds...
13:33Horrific.
13:37For that day...
13:39We are gonna need a deeper word.
13:46What if we brought you to Nia's home tonight?
13:48If you step outside your house, we can arrange for this.
13:51You're ready, Sasha.
13:53This is what we've been working toward.
13:54Nia and I won't fall for your tactics to make us leave.
13:58The stories I've heard about the things you reintegration counselors wouldn't do.
14:04But to my cousin James.
14:09We didn't do anything to him, Sasha.
14:12Everyone in my family, including James, maybe...
14:17400 days in, when everyone was still dying left and right...
14:22And the list of names being released to the public were getting shorter and shorter.
14:26My whole family, we agreed and said,
14:29Okay, we are being lied to.
14:32And your bosses unlocked all the doors and said it was safe to come outside, but how could we believe
14:39them?
14:40So my family, we said, Okay, no one leaves their stay until we know, like we know, like we know
14:49this thing is over.
14:51And we all agreed.
14:52It was safe then, Sasha.
14:54It was safe to come out.
14:55It has been for a long time.
14:57I wouldn't lie to you.
14:59James stayed inside his house for seven years.
15:01For seven years he stayed.
15:03Only imagine how kindly he treated you people.
15:06What'd you do to him?
15:07We abided by every law, every rule.
15:12One night James' house was on fire.
15:15Big kind.
15:17The kind where you don't remember your sign, Kobe jersey, or your dead father's ashes.
15:22You just haul your ass out of there as fast as you can.
15:25Which James did.
15:27But guess what?
15:29It was Mirage.
15:33When he was three feet off the curb,
15:36all the doors on James' house locked behind him.
15:41Fire dismissed itself.
15:44When James turned around, his house was fully intact.
15:49Simulation.
15:52Formulated by his stay counselor to get him out of his house.
16:02He used James' biggest fear of dying slowly against him.
16:10Don't think I haven't noticed the hurricanes and the forest fires and the days-long loss of electricity stunts that
16:19your bosses have tried with me.
16:22Those weren't stunts, Sasha.
16:26You know, James called me a few times from the outside.
16:29Phone rang. I answered. I was him.
16:32He said things were great again.
16:36Things were back to normal and beautiful and that I should come out.
16:40He didn't sound like the familiar him. He sounded...
16:46Altered.
16:47And I can tell, I know, I can always tell.
16:54You were able to get my father out, too.
16:56You proud of that?
16:58You got my dad?
16:59Out there, smiling in that environmental death trap, not even realizing.
17:04God, I'm so happy I didn't fall for it.
17:06Me and Nia, we did not fall for that.
17:09Because we have a pact.
17:11Your family was happy for the nudge, and they want nothing more than for you to leave your home and
17:16come back into the world so they can see you again.
17:19I bet Nia wants to see you again, too.
17:21No! No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
17:24Sasha, you can do this.
17:26I know. You just want to get me out to infect me.
17:31No, I want to help you. Just take one step, one step out of your house and you'll see. Everything
17:36is fine. You can do this. I'm begging you.
17:38Stop it!
17:40Stop pressuring me!
17:44It should be our choice.
17:47Not harming anyone, you know?
17:51Why?
17:53It's not a crime to want to stay in a safe, controlled environment like your home,
18:01where you can't force me out of my own house!
18:14This isn't a stunt, this isn't a tactic, this isn't a ploy or a ruse.
18:19You need to leave. You need to leave now!
18:21Unacceptable! You don't control me!
18:23Who are you to tell me what I can and can't do?
18:26I can leave here anytime!
18:29Then do it! Leave now, Sasha! Walk out that door, leave your stay, step outside!
18:34Do you understand me?
18:35I told you!
18:36It's safe outside, Sasha!
18:38You are trying to trick me!
18:39It's been over for years! The pandemic, the quarantine, the vaccinations, the return to normalcy!
18:44There is no trick!
18:45I... I know my rights!
18:47No one can enter the premises without my permission, without me opening the door!
18:52Leave now, Sasha! Please, leave now!
19:04I'm really sorry, but I'm required to read something to you now.
19:12Dear valued user, we no longer have a need for our stay companions department, and we will be shuttering the
19:19division immediately.
19:20Due to your inability to leave on your own volition, the board of directors has decided that forcing your re
19:26-entry into the world would be a detriment to the new and improved society that we have created.
19:30Call Nia's home.
19:36Call Nia!
19:38Call Nia!
19:40Call Nia!
19:40Call Nia!
19:42Call Nia!
19:43You can't do this!
19:46I'm not falling for your lies, for your scam!
19:49When was the last time you spoke to Nia, Sasha?
19:53I don't know.
19:55What's today?
19:57Monday.
20:00Okay, well...
20:01Then I...
20:05I don't...
20:08Um...
20:09Um...
20:09Um...
20:10Um...
20:10Um...
20:10Um...
20:10Um...
20:11Um...
20:11Um...
20:11Um...
20:11Um...
20:13Um...
20:15Um...
20:16Um...
20:18Um...
20:22Nia left her home 10 years ago, Sasha.
20:24Hey girl, sorry.
20:25Deep down, you know this.
20:27Every time Nia called you from the outside, you denied her call.
20:30For years, she tried to get through to you, so eventually, she stopped trying.
20:34No, it's because it wasn't really her.
20:37The world is safe outside, Sasha.
20:38We're all...
20:39She wouldn't break our back.
20:39She wouldn't leave.
20:40Nia wouldn't leave me.
20:41The wedding was gorgeous.
20:43Wish you were there.
20:44This is it, Sasha.
20:45Don't worry.
20:46Call Nia.
20:47Call Nia.
20:48Call Nia!
20:51She won't pick up, Sasha.
20:54Nia's not in her stay house.
20:55No one is left in their stay house.
20:57Just you.
20:59Everyone else took a step.
21:01Okay.
21:02I surrender.
21:02Okay?
21:04Look!
21:09No, I can't be like this.
21:12Why wouldn't you warn me?
21:14I wanted to.
21:15I wanted to, but I couldn't because of protocol, because of new laws, because of updated user terms,
21:20because of our fresher approach, because they needed to know that you could thrive outside on your own.
21:26No.
21:27That you could decide to leave on your own.
21:30No.
21:31But I understand why you can't.
21:32It's a lot for a person to bear.
21:35To just leave after all this time.
21:37It's okay, Sasha.
21:39No more pressure.
21:40No more pressure.
21:41You can stay inside forever.
21:43You can stay in your home.
21:47Forever.
21:48I was able to convince them to finally give you the pool, though.
21:53If you tell yourself the pool of rivers, don't you?
22:11It's great.
22:12It's fun.
22:13Get too.
22:19I don't want to know what's going on.
22:20All right.
22:21People don't want to buy water.
22:24I sincerely hope you enjoy your dream home
22:27I hope you enjoy your forever stay
22:37Wait
22:43Give me a come
22:48Goodbye
22:52Goodbye
23:22Goodbye
23:24Goodbye
23:37Goodbye
23:38Goodbye
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