[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] A coma is defined as a state of unconsciousness
in which a person is unaware of what's going on around them.
Most comas last for a few days,
but in rare cases, they can last for years,
with the brain continuing to show some electrical activity.
But does that electrical activity
mean that the person in the coma is still thinking?
There are reports that people in comas
were able to hear and even see people around them.
How could that be?
Could they be conscious in some way we don't understand?
Do they know they're lying in a hospital bed?
Or do they think they're somewhere else... and if so, where?
How's it going, Bill?
About like one guy trying to pull five miles of ethernet wire
through a whole hospital by himself.
At this rate, I oughta have you online by Christmas.
Well, then, Merry Christmas, Bill.
-Good morning, Anita. -Morning.
-All right, here it comes. -Yeah.
All right, here we go. Get it, get it!
-Yeah. -All right.
-Mom... -[moans] What?
I don't mind you sleeping in my bed, but could you lay up on the snoring?
Oh, I'm sorry, baby. Gig went late.
[computer voice] You have mail.
That's weird.
What is?
-This address is garbage. -What do you mean, garbage?
Probably some cyber-weenie spamming the net.
[chuckles] English, please.
Spamming. That's when somebody sends out e-mail to every possible user.
People use it to advertise or cram opinions down your throat,
or just to be annoying.
And I take it this would be the annoying kind?
Maybe, but why would somebody send this?
"Dark," "time," "Effy," "street," and "lost."
What is this, some kind of secret code or something?
Who are you? Are you OK?
[computer voice] Message sent.
What say ye, o mechanical one?
Thou art bummed, and so is thine water pump.
[groans] Will it get us to Charleston?
If we're lucky.
[computer voice] You have mail.
Already?
Another spam.
Help me?
I think we're done here.
Come on, Mom.
I mean, I asked for a name, and she said "Kamilah."
It sounds like a girl, doesn't it?
I mean, what if she's lost or locked away somewhere?
Locked away? With a computer?
No, no. Fiona, this is obviously some practical joker,
or worse, some weirdo you shouldn't even be communicating with.
What if this isn't a weirdo? What if this kid really needs our help?
Or what if this kid is just really bored?
Then we'll give whoever it is a few yuks.
Come on, Mom. If it gets weird, I'll bail. I promise.
OK.
OK, but, uh, any more computer talk that goes on with this person,
-I'm with you. Deal? -Deal.
-OK. -Yes.
Where are you? Are you in trouble?
I want to go home.
Wow, that was fast.
[computer voice] You have mail.
Too fast. She must be online.
-[Molly] What are you doing? -[Fi] Going into Instagab.
[Molly] Instagab? What's Instagab?
It's a place where we can type back and forth and talk in real time.
Where is home?
OK, ask her if she can describe where she is.
Is she inside? Is she outside? Maybe--
Mom, slow down.
Are you inside or are you outside?
Outside. On a street.
Do you recognize anything?
No, I'm lost.
Ask her if there's anybody around who can help her.
[Fi] Can you see anybody?
No. There's nobody here. Anywhere.
Tell me, what do you see? A park? A school
Anything?
I think I found a store.
Um, does it have a name?
[Molly] She can't remember?
I don't know exactly who we're dealing with here,
but I don't think it's a lost girl.
I mean, what is she doing, wandering around town with a laptop?
Mom, my laptop has a battery and a wireless modem.
Maybe she has the same setup.
OK. All right, so I'm a dinosaur.
"I found..."
Something I know.
The Princess movie theater.
"I know I've been here lots of times.
The movie..."
Return to Snowy River, that was my favorite.
[sniffles]
I don't feel good, and it's getting colder.
Return to Snowy River? I remember that movie.
Your dad and I took you and Jack to see it,
and you were maybe one or two.
Now what are you doing?
[Fi] Looking for that theater.
[beeping]
There's only two. One's in downtown Seattle.
She said there was nobody around. There's lots of people in Seattle.
Other one's in St. George, South Carolina, a few miles off Interstate 26.
Is that close?
If you're thinking what I think you're thinking, the answer is no.
-Fi, we don't even know if this is real. -Well, let's ask her.
How do I know you're standing
in front of the Princess theater, or that your name is Kamilah,
or that you're a girl?
I don't feel good. I can't find my house.
I want to go home.
Your house?
Do you know the address?
Summerset.
One... three...
three... one...
Summerset Drive.
-What happened? -I don't know.
Fi, if she saw Return to Snowy River in a theater, she can't be a little girl.
Now what are you doing?
[Fi] Hang on a minute.
Mom, there really is a Summerset in St. George.
Why can't we just go there?
I'm sorry, honey, but we've got to get to the Eagle dealership in Charleston.
[Fi] Can't it wait?
[Molly] Honey, we need a water pump. Ned says we're leaking antifreeze.
Fiona...
Hey, there's a Sampson's Trucks in St. George,
-and they carry Eagle bus parts. -Fi, honey, I'm curious too, OK?
But you can't just waltz up to a stranger's house and say, "Are you OK?"
Can if you're with me.
OK, we'll swing by.
-You rock! -Oh, yeah, I rock. [chuckles]
[woman] Effy, would you get that?
Sure.
Hi. My name's Fi Phillips.
This may sound really strange,
but I was talking on the internet with this girl, and she was lost.
I mean, she didn't even know where she was,
and she was in this ghost town or something with no people.
-Then she told me the address-- -Fiona, breathe.
Do you know anybody by the name of Kamilah?
Is this some kind of sick joke?
No... not at all. Listen, we're sorry to have disturbed you.
Why would this be some kind of sick joke?
-Kamilah's my daughter. -Can I see her?
No.
Uh, nobody can. Kamilah's been in a coma for almost 14 years.
Yes, Kamilah is still breathing on her own,
and there's still some brain activity.
But, unfortunately, after all this time,
it doesn't necessarily indicate conscious thought.
Anita, I know that you have hope.
For years, every day, I've watched you come in here,
watched you work passive motion therapy with Kamilah, watched you talk with her.
Now, I'm not one to discourage hope, but there has been no change.
In fact, her vital signs have gotten weaker in the past few months,
that's why we brought in the EEG,
so we could more closely monitor her brain activity.
Uh, excuse me, is this normal?
This is Dr. Willstone in room 307.
We need a new EEG machine in here, stat. And send that computer technician.
I'm sorry.
It's all right.
This wouldn't affect her physically.
They're installing a network
so our computer system can be hooked up to the internet.
Clearly, someone has been very sloppy with the installation.
We'll have it fixed immediately.
-The internet... -[Dr. Willstone] Look at this.
Could you please explain to me how this could happen?
I don't know, we must have had some kind of
overload or short in the ethernet wiring.
Wait. Stop.
Don't let them disconnect her.
Fiona, you have to let them do their job.
Mrs. Simmonds, maybe the EEG wires shorted to the ethernet wires,
and that could be why Kamilah can send messages out
directly from her brain onto the internet.
What?
If that's what happened, it was one-in-a-zillion chance.
It'll never happen again.
Anita, this is beyond wishful thinking.
Please, Mrs. Simmonds. Please stop them long enough
for me to find out if it's true.
Stop.
Ma'am, this is dangerous.
Wires are exposed. We can't just ignore that.
She asked you to stop.
Cover it up for now.
We'll leave it like that until Mrs. Simmonds and I
have had a chance to talk.
Thank you, Richard.
I just have to see if my baby's still in there.
[Mrs. Simmonds] I would like to ask you some questions.
Mama?
What is my sister's name?
I...
Ida. Ida. That... that's my real name.
[Mrs. Simmonds] Where was your favorite...
hiding place?
Underneath the stairs, behind the old crib.
What was your favorite food?
Mashed potatoes. With gravy.
She's right. I forgot.
Who was your favorite...
baseball player?
Daddy.
My favorite baseball player is Daddy.
[sobbing]
It's Kamilah.
It is Kamilah.
If Kamilah is in there, how do we get her to wake up?
It seems like Kamilah is lost in some town.
I mean, she says she sees stores and streetlights.
Our... our family have lived here in St. George for well over 30 years now,
and Kamilah's never traveled.
-So, this is the only town she knows? -Yes, that's... that's right.
She told us she was trying to find her way home.
[Ida] What are you getting at?
I think Kamilah's lost in her own mind in an image of the town.
That's why she can't come out of her coma.
So, if we showed her the way home...
Why don't we step outside and let Anita have some time alone?
All right, we found the Princess theater, I guess.
My kingdom for a bag of popcorn.
OK, Jack, with your back to the theater, look down the street to the left,
and tell me what you see.
Oh, a little fountain, and a train station.
A fountain.
From where you're standing, do you see a fountain?
We have a fountain.
OK, guys, I want you to get to the fountain
and then I want you to look to the west. Tell me what you see.
Uh, there's a pay phone at the corner. OK, yeah.
[Fi] There's a phone booth on the corner down the block.
I think I see it.
OK.
All right, so she gets to the telephone booth.
Tell her to turn right and walk one full block
until the street turns into some kind of...
Pedestrian walkway. You got that?
Got it.
-Tell them where we are. -All right. Still there? OK.
She's going to pass a flower shop...
Find some cement stairs that go up to the sidewalk,
and then make a left. She can't miss it.
Roger that.
You're almost there. Now look for a flower store.
Just keep walking
until you find cement stairs that go up to the sidewalk,
then make a left. You can't miss it.
There's no walkway, just a building.
There's no building.
-She must've taken a wrong turn. -Wrong turn?
No, she didn't, she went right past the flower store.
Well, you got me. Maybe she's not in St. George.
I'll never get there.
I'll never get home.
[woman on PA indistinct]
Mrs. Simmonds, I think we're onto something.
And I'm going to need your help.
This is my Townbuilder program.
It's actually a game, but I think I can make it work for us.
Well, what do we need it for?
Kamilah's definitely lost in St. George, but the old St. George,
the way it was 14 years ago, when she went into the coma.
That's why she ran into the building Jack and Clu says doesn't exist.
That's why the Princess theater is playing Return to Snowy River.
OK, where do we start?
All right, the boys are in this section here,
so let's call this Johnston Avenue, and back here is the flower shop
where Kamilah says she ran into the building.
Oh, the cannery. The old cannery.
Right, they knocked it down about ten years ago
to make way for foot traffic from Bleeker to Johnston Avenue.
Murray Street is the next one over. That goes through to Johnston.
-Has it always been there? -I'm pretty sure.
[Fi] OK, I'll tell her to cross over to Murray.
I can't. It's too hard.
It's only a little further.
I can't see very well.
I just want to stay here.
Kamilah? Honey?
This is Effy.
Kamilah, you need to get up. You need to go home.
We're all waiting for you.
[sighs]
OK, are you guys back at the flower store? Good.
Now, I want you to head west until you hit Murray Street.
They should see an art supply store on the corner.
Art supply store. Got it.
Ah, sweet.
[Fi] She's not sure she's in the right place.
She sees a toy store.
A toy store? Oh, that's right.
The art supply store moved in only a couple of years ago.
Uh, tell her... I'm sorry.
Tell her to make a right at the toy store and keep walking, and she'll see a park.
All right, we're in the park. What's next?
Do you see it?
There's no park. I can't see the house.
She doesn't see it.
See it? She has to. She's got to see it.
Oh, the neighborhood has changed so much.
There were a bunch of warehouses, and the old firehouse was there, and...
I mean, it was a complete maze.
Effy, it's OK.
Was this church there back then?
Our church. Yes, of course.
She should be able to see the steeple from where she's standing.
Do you see a steeple?
I see it.
Oh, it's up there on the right.
I'm almost there.
[Fi] Good. Once you've passed the church, turn right.
OK, Mom, we're here.
They're there. They found it.
[exclaims]
Kamilah, do you see it?
Kamilah?
[all cheering]
Yes!
-[Fi] She's home! -Yes!
[Mrs. Simmonds gasping]
I'm right here, baby.
[sobs]
It's going to be all right, baby. Mama's here.
Everything's going to be all right.