Tuesday, 3 March 2026

Disabused




[TEETH CHATTERING.]


DAVID

Shit.

He's in there, right? 

His mind somewhere? 


CARY : 

Oh, yes.

Brain readings remain normal.

His mind is active, we just don't 

know what it's doing.



They're in The Maze.


CARY : 

Meaning? 


DAVID : 

I don't know.

Let's find out.


[BIRDS SINGING.]


CARY : 

Now, is this — 


DAVID : 

Well, we're inside his mind.


CARY : 

Oh.

It's nice.

David.

[CLIPPERS SNIP.]

Oh 


DAVID : 

Ew.


 Hello.


DAVID : 

Hey, man.

It's David and Cary.

Do you 


Hello.


DAVID : 

It-It's David.

We're — The Monk infected you.

We're here to, I guess, 

rescue you? 


PTONOMY

Hello.


DAVID : 

What's wrong with him? 


CARY : 

I don't know.


DAVID : 

Is this where everybody goes? 

When they get infected? 

Some kind of floral astral plane.


CARY : 

Do you sense anyone else here? 


DAVID : 

— Nope.


CARY : 

Then it's His Maze.

If I had to guess, 

I'd say The Contagion 

locks people inside 

their own brains.

Inside their own realities.

…Yeah, this is Ptonomy's maze.


DAVID : 

Yeah, but gardening


CARY : 

It isn't gardening.

It's that he doesn't remember us.

See? He forgets what he's 

doing after every rose, 

and then the shears 

and the basket, 

they remind him.


DAVID : 

So what are you saying? 


CARY : 

It's A Fantasy.

Or maybe I should say 

core desire.

Our friend here is 

a memory-machine.

He remembers every 

moment of every day.

Now if that was your condition,

 what might you wish for? 


DAVID : 

….To forget.


CARY : 

I mean, it's beautiful, really.

To live in the moment 

No past, no future.


DAVID

Yeah, but it's not real.


CARY : 

It's real to him.

In this moment.


DAVID : 

What are you saying, 

we should leave him here? 


CARY : 

I'm not saying anything.

I'm merely making 

an observation.


DAVID : 

What if it was Kerry? 


CARY : 

— You're right.

Wake him up.


DAVID : 

How? 


CARY : 

I don't know. You're 

The Psychic.

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