4.21
INT. WILL AND HANNAH'S KITCHEN - EVENING #21#
THE HUM cuts. After dinner. Counters half-cleared. An under-cabinet strip pools warm light across the worktop; the rest of the room sits in shadow.
I hate it when you do that.
Sorry, I needed to get you out of there.
I understand why you're skeptical. But you really are happy.
I'll just have to take your word for it, won't I? You lied to me. You lied to me from the start.
I did.
That's it? No apologies?
How could I ever apologise for it?
You can't. But you could have the decency to try.
Would you accept them?
Fuck no.
That's what I thought.
And you ruined Julia's life.
Did I? If anything, I just put things back where they belonged.
What does that even mean? What did you do?
(a beat)
That girl you saw is Maya. She was my partner. She dies one year from that moment. Cancer. No time travel can beat it. I go back there every day. But the Will who lives in this house together with Hannah, he's learned to live with it. Because he's happy.
It's a lie.
Not to them. You can't travel to a future you haven't been. But I've been there. I've lived it. Things are good.
You manipulated me every step of the way. How can that be happiness?
Why not? Her happiness isn't any less real than yours. Even when this world's Josh doesn't even know you.
That's different. I remember the truth.
Do you?
I am done with this. And I am done with you. And I don't have to be scared of you anymore.
She walks around the kitchen island to get closer to Will.
What are you doing?
She grabs him by his wrists. THE HUM builds...