[theme song plays]
♪ Demons come from every side ♪
♪ In the darkness is the light ♪
♪ Out of the shadows of my life ♪
♪ In the darkness is the light ♪
♪ Surrender will win the fight ♪
♪ This girl's walked on fire and ice ♪
♪ But I come out ♪
♪ On the other side of paradise ♪
♪ Paradise ♪
[Fi] Ever since there's been life,
the question has been how can we avoid death?
From the physicians of ancient Greece to the Native American shamans,
from the medieval barbers to the giant medical establishments of today,
as long as man has lived, man has wanted to live longer.
But nobody's ever stopped to ask the question:
if we could live forever, would we want to?
-[girl] I just want to go see her. -[man] Absolutely not.
[woman] It's against the rules and you know that.
[girl] But I've waited for so long, and now she's here.
If I don't go now, I might never get another chance.
[man] The answer is no, and that's final.
[girl] You can't just tell me what to do.
[woman] Until you understand the consequences, we can, and we will.
[girl] How could it make things any worse than they are?
[music plays]
♪ Rebecca moves across the world ♪
[Clu] OK, you're taking your driving test, and you see a sign, "construction ahead."
What do you do?
[scoffs] That's easy.
Crank up the tunes to drown out the noise.
Eh? Oh, and I guess slow down.
Yes. Whoa, dude.
Can I help you?
Sorry, I didn't mean to startle you.
No, I...
[Fi] Um, are you here to see the band?
'Cause they don't even start rehearsal for the next couple of hours.
I don't think I'll be able to stay.
I, uh... I just kind of wanted to see her.
See her? You mean my mom?
Sure, of course, uh...
You're just like I imagined. You're Fiona.
Your brother, Jack, must be here, too.
-Do I know you? -Oh, no, no, um...
I read about you guys in the Rolling Stone article.
They didn't talk about us in that article.
It must've been another one. I've read them all.
Listen, you've got to tell me, is she going to start recording again?
I'm working on it, if I could just get those 20-year-old A&R guys...
[whispers] Rebecca?
I'm sorry.
Um... it's just that you look so much like someone I used to know.
Actually, you look exactly like someone I used to know.
Molly.
[scoffs] Rebecca?
I, uh... Rebecca is my mom.
[chuckles] Rebecca's your mother.
You mean she's here? She lives here?
The Rebecca from the song?
We're only in town for... for a little while, uh...
How are your parents?
Does Kathleen still make that great soda bread?
Are we talking about the Rebecca who was your friend when you were a kid?
-The one who disappeared? -Yes, Fi.
I would really like to see your mother. Can I call her?
She's at work right now, uh, it's really hard for her to get away.
The guy at the museum mentioned you were going to be playing,
so she asked me to come.
She still thinks about you all the time.
You know, the summer at the beach, the fourth of July party,
-the cute lifeguard... -She... she told you that?
She told me everything.
She still feels bad about the way she left.
She didn't have a choice.
Uh... look, I really appreciate you coming here,
but I want to see your mom.
Isn't there some way that we can meet?
Uh, yeah, uh... I'll give her a call.
There's some phones down there.
Oh, no, we have a cell phone.
-No, no, it's OK. I'll... be back. -OK.
Fiona, honey? I'm sorry I snapped at you.
It's just that, that was really freaky.
She's so much like her mother.
She really creeped me out. I mean, she knew stuff about us.
Well, honey, her mother and I were best friends when I was your age.
But if she's been keeping track of me all these years, why didn't she just call?
Fi?
Hello?
She's not listed in the white pages, but there's four museums.
There's the Milwaukee museum, the history museum,
a kids' museum, and that art one.
Hey, Mom. Would this be a good time to discuss car possibilities?
I'm sorry, baby, but you know what? We've got an errand to run.
Good start, dude.
-You got her on the ropes. -Yeah, you think?
-Totally. -All right.
[man] Yes, yes, as a matter of fact, we do have a Rebecca who works here.
Most remarkable intern I've ever seen.
She'll have quite a career when she grows up. Ah...
Grows up?
Uh, the Rebecca that I'm talking about would be my age.
Oh, I assumed you were referring to Rebecca Habib.
Well, I am. Habib would be her maiden name.
Oh, well, our Rebecca, you see, oh, she'd be about your daughter's age.
She has the same name as her mom?
-[pager beeping] -Oh.
It's Irene. Is there a phone around?
Mm, yes, yes, yes, you can use mine.
-Here it is. -Thank you.
Yes, Rebecca has a most unusual talent for restoration.
Hi, Irene.
It's hard to do a sound check with no one making any sounds.
[Molly] I'm sorry, I got a little tied up here...
Well, what's up?
-Actually, we're tracking a mystery. -Really? Me too.
Mine is, how am I going to get you to do the gig
-with you on the other side of town? -Irene, I'd really like to follow this up.
Go ahead, Mom. Can't disappoint the public.
Hang on a sec. Let me guess. You are volunteering to track this for me?
Now that it's really getting weird, try and stop me.
[chuckles] OK, I'm... I'm on my way.
But I'm not going to let a 13-year-old girl
wander around Milwaukee on her own.
We'll take a cab back, and Jack and Clu can go with you.
-May I? -Oh, please, yes.
-Fancy a soda while you're waiting? -Yeah, thanks.
Yes, Rebecca is most unusual.
Which one? OK.
You see, most interns, they wind up stuffing envelopes,
but Rebecca, she shows the most extraordinary ability for restoration.
Here, let me show you.
It's as if she already knows how the piece should look.
It's almost like she was there.
All right, what's this address again?
Um, 2728 Grandview.
I mean, I called information, new listings.
I guess they haven't lived here long.
[Clu] OK, there it is, right there.
Uh, hey, you guys, isn't that her?
[Fi] Yeah, that's her.
[Jack] I thought you said that girl's supposed to look just like her mom.
Hide. Hide. Get down.
Where did you go, Rebecca?
It better not have been to see that Phillips girl.
Phillips girl?
Jack, remember when I told you
that she was just an ordinary, run-of-the-mill mystery girl?
I lied.
Yeah, Grandma, the picture of Mom and Rebecca.
Yeah, put it in the machine face down, and then press start.
The one that says "start" underneath.
OK, yeah, I'll hold. Oh, don't worry about it.
I'll pay for the phone call out of my allowance.
Oh, good, it's coming through.
Thanks, Gram. Give my love to Grandpa. Bye.
It's her.
[alarm clock ringing]
Clu. Clu, man, wake up.
We're gonna miss the breakfast buffet.
Clu. Clu, man?
[Clu] Good morning, dude. Hey, sorry about the soda on the carpet.
Uh, Fi was up early, said she needed some company for a field trip.
Uh, we'll be back in a couple, I guess.
Hey, scarf me some bagels from the breakfast buffet. Later.
[machine beeps]
[knocking]
[Molly] Jack?
Uh, hang on, Mom.
-Hey. -Hey.
Wow. [chuckles]
Keith Moon left hotel rooms cleaner than this.
You're up early.
Yeah, I woke up and Fi was gone.
I thought maybe you'd know where she went.
Uh, she and Clu headed out early.
Hm. Hey, I'm sorry I was so late last night.
-More problems with the sound board. -No prob.
You guys, uh... didn't happen to find out more
about that girl that came to see me?
You mean the girl who was supposed to be Rebecca's daughter?
We saw a girl and her parents.
At least I think they were her parents, anyway.
And the mother looked just like the girl?
No.
Look, Mom, is this, like, a big deal?
When I was Fi's age, I had a really tough time.
I used to fight with your Grandma and Grandpa a lot.
Don't tell them I told you that, OK?
Then one day, Rebecca showed up,
and it was like I finally had someone to talk to.
She understood me. She understood everything.
You don't get many friends like that in your life, you know?
Yeah.
And then, one day, she was gone.
I mean, gone.
What is it about me, Jack?
Why do I have to lose so many people?
-Mom... -I'm sorry.
I'm really sorry, honey.
It's just that sometimes when you lose so much,
you just can't stand to lose even one more thing.
[knocking]
Apparently, manners aren't her strong suit.
Rebecca! I know it's you, Rebecca, and I want to talk!
Whoa, I thought Rebecca was the mom.
Rebecca!
You, not him.
He's a friend.
Hey, no problem. I'll just catch up on my reading. [laughs]
Are you moving?
No.
This is you, isn't it?
-Why did you come here? -Why'd you come to see my mom?
What are you?
Your mom is the only friend I ever made.
Then it's true.
We took a lot of pictures this day.
Your grandma, Kathleen, gave me this one.
Here's one of us at a Halloween party.
And that's your great-grandmother, Fiona, the one you're named after.
She was just a grandma back then.
You don't get any older.
I get older. Just more slowly than you.
How slowly is slowly?
Takes me about a hundred years to get one year older.
I'm 1327.
Next December.
1300... are you serious?
It's genetic, I guess. It runs in the family.
I kept track of Molly, you know. She won a song contest when she was 15.
"Midnight Passage."
Then she met your dad. I was jealous of her.
I'll never be able to do that, get married.
Then they started making records,
and it became easier for me to keep track of her.
You have everything they ever did.
When I read about your dad's car accident...
I wanted to call. I almost did.
-But my parents stopped me. -Why?
Once you almost get burnt at the stake, I... I guess you tend to keep to yourself.
So, you keep moving so no one will find out?
How do you survive?
We buy a clay pot when it's brand new.
Wait 500 years, and it's a valuable antique.
That's amazing.
I mean, what you've seen, what you've done, how you live...
I mean, you must know everything.
Sure, I know a lot.
I know what it's like to be alone.
And you think it's so amazing, but I don't want to be amazing.
I don't want to be a freak! I hate my life!
Odio mi vida! Ich hasse meine leben!
Watashi no jinsei wa dai ki rai!
Thu-val ci-sa mach huth!
That was Etruscan.
My mom had a friend there when she was a little girl.
That girl's bones are dust now.
Even her language is dead.
I just wanted to come back and see your mom.
I was so stupid! I can't reveal myself.
I can't reveal my family.
You gotta tell her something.
I mean, she's waited her whole life to find out.
OK.
I'll come tonight at 5:00, after I get off at the museum.
I'm not gonna tell her the whole story, but I'll tell her something.
All right? You won't say anything?
Five o'clock.
Come on, let's go.
-We done? -Yep.
[man] Rebecca.
[footsteps approaching]
Hey.
Where were you off to so early this morning?
-Just went for a walk. -Did you see her?
You did. You saw her. What did she say?
She said she'd be here at 5:00, then she'd explain.
Fiona, honey, just take me to her, please.
-I... I can't. I promised. -Fi, this is important to me.
-She said she wanted to explain herself. -Fi, she's not coming, OK?
She's just... She's going to leave, just like she did before.
She said she'd come.
Just tell me where she is.
I... I can't. I'm sorry.
Hey, Moll.
Look, we have to do another sound check 'cause of the sound board.
-Are you OK? -Yeah.
"Rebecca."
[piano plays]
♪ Rebecca moves across the world ♪
♪ She's a scirocco on the sand ♪
♪ She is the Nile that flows forever ♪
♪ Cutting a wound across the land ♪
♪ She'll be your friend Before you know her ♪
♪ She'll have your trust Before it's earned ♪
♪ But like any nomad she will wander ♪
♪ Breaking the hearts of all concerned ♪
♪ History clouds what we remember ♪
♪ The one that you wanted her to be ♪
♪ Mystery shrouds her like an island ♪
♪ But it's an island in a lonely sea ♪
♪ Oh, Rebecca ♪
♪ Doo, doo, doo, doo-wow ♪
♪ Oh, Rebecca ♪
[no audio]
♪ I was 13 going on 40 ♪
♪ Wasting my summer on the beach ♪
♪ Burned on the outside Raw in the middle ♪
♪ That Molly's just too hard to reach ♪
♪ Rebecca moved in, yeah, she moved me ♪
♪ She was the best friend I'd ever had ♪
♪ And then one day she went away ♪
♪ Didn't think I'd ever feel that bad ♪
♪ Where did you go? ♪
♪ Why did you lie? ♪
♪ Why did you leave Without saying goodbye? ♪
♪ How 'bout the promise That you made me? ♪
♪ Was it really so easy to trade me ♪
♪ For another town ♪
♪ Another friend ♪
♪ Another beginning without any end? ♪
[no audio]
♪ So many times I would've called you ♪
♪ If I'd had your number in my hand ♪
♪ You were the one I would have turned to ♪
♪ When things didn't go The way I'd planned ♪
♪ I never got a chance to tell you ♪
♪ Things didn't go the way I'd planned ♪
♪ History clouds what I remember ♪
♪ The woman I wanted her to be ♪
♪ Mystery shrouds her like an island ♪
♪ Does she still remember me? ♪
♪ All my life is like a turnstile ♪
♪ So many strangers passing through ♪
♪ There have been more than I can number ♪
♪ But I still remember you ♪
♪ Oh, Rebecca ♪