[alternative guitar music]
*
- * Is that you weeping, my love? *
* I never meant for that
* Ten sophisticated thumbs in love *
* Is what I've been blessed with *
* If salty cheeks give you away *
* You don't have to say
* You can wrestle a dove, I know, my love *
* But I'm built that way
*
I lost another student today.
We're making an album.
Full length, 12 songs.
- When?
- Soon. As soon as we can.
- How much is it gonna cost us?
- We're splitting it.
Five ways--it means we're looking at, like...
two grand each.
- What are we gonna do?
- I don't know.
I can ask my Dad for it.
- You can't ask your Dad for it, Simon.
He wouldn't give it to us anyway.
- Any other ideas?
We can't ask your parents for it.
They're stretched to their limit with Jonas.
- What's all included in it?
- Whole thing.
Recording, mixing, mastering.
All of it.
We're gonna sell it online.
Only need to sell 800 and we'll get our money back.
- 800?
That's a lot of downloads, honey.
- I know.
You know I'm doing this for us.
For our family.
- I know.
- What am I gonna do?
- Check.
- Are you gonna bet or what?
- This has got almost ten on it.
I'm gonna put it in for five.
- No, no. Cash only in the pot.
- This is cash, motherfucker.
It's got cash on it.
Call.
- You don't wanna use those things.
They use those cards to track you.
- Ain't nobody tracking me, man.
They are if you don't switch cards every time.
The metro's full of camera's, man.
And every time you swipe that card,
your picture gets matched up with--
- Shut the fuck up with your bullshit, Jonas.
Next card coming.
Eight of Diamonds.
Pay is eight on the board. - It's not bullshit.
I'm telling you what's really going on here.
- Man, what the fuck we told you about coming around here?
- Fucking come stand your ass here every day
with this bullshit.
- I'm just saying...
you don't wanna be tracked, don't use those things.
- Are you deaf too?
Get back to your shit before you get hurt.
- Fucking sheep.
- Who's the fucking sheep?
- Hey.
What's up, Simon?
Didn't see you there.
- Not much.
Going to work over on Fourth Street.
What's new with you?
- Same old shit.
Fucking assholes don't wanna listen
when someone's trying to help them.
- What else are you up to?
- I think I'm gonna stick around here
a little bit more and, uh...
maybe work on some writing later.
- Writing?
What have you been writing?
- Oh, you know...
just something I've been working on.
- That's cool.
All right, man.
I'm gonna head to work. I'll catch you later, huh?
- Uh, yeah, take it easy.
[playing Beethoven's Fur Elise]
*
[stops playing]
- Do you know what overtones are?
- No.
- When you strike a key, it's not just one frequency
that makes up the note you hear.
Listen.
[hits single note]
You hear the E, right?
That's called the fundamental note.
Now do you also hear the higher pitched sounds?
Close your eyes and listen.
[hits single note]
They're above the note, but still a part of the note.
[hits single note]
Can you hear that?
- Yeah.
I--I think so.
- No, you don't.
But if you keep listening, you will someday.
He's doing great.
- That's wonderful, Simon.
- I want you to have this down by next week, cool?
- Cool.
- And remember it's not the quantity
of the practice time.
- I know, quality.
- And?
- Consistency.
- Good job.
- Simon, uh, we've been very happy
with the lessons and Eric really enjoys working with you.
- He's a great student, I really enjoy--
- But, uh, due to our financial situation
we're gonna have to discontinue the lessons.
- Oh.
I'm sorry.
- Your payment for this week will be sent to you,
as usual.
Best of luck with everything.
- Thank you.
- What the fuck is this?
Really?
- I had no part in this, man.
- Simon, that is the opposite of what we're trying to do here.
The point isn't to divide, it's that we all have to
be on the same page.
- Honey, now let's just calm down
and talk this through.
- Guys, come on over.
No one's trying to divide anything.
- Damn it, Mom, I'm just saying
we need to try to show some unity
and solidarity for once.
- Now you know better than to talk to your Mother
that way, Ruth.
- Jeez, Dad, I'm not ten.
And maybe if you stopped treating us
like we're in middle school, we wouldn't be so fucked up.
- How long have you guys been here?
- I don't know, like, 45 minutes.
- Simon, Jonas...
would you mind just taking a seat
so we can talk about why we're here?
- Jonas, this is Dr. Rose.
Your Dad and I have been meeting with him
for a little while now, and he thought it might be good
if we all got together and talked.
- I'm not the crazy one here, Mom.
- Not the crazy one?
You're not the crazy one?
Look at yourself.
Look at all this crap on your walls.
A normal person doesn't spend his life
chasing down paranoid delusions, Jonas.
A normal person doesn't go to a park every day
like he's homeless,
trying to talk to whoever or whatever
will listen to him.
Something's gotta change or you're gonna find yourself
in some real trouble.
Not the crazy one...
- All right, I'm out of here.
- Jonas, wait.
Your father is just reacting out of frustration.
How would you feel about meeting with me
in my office tomorrow?
- I know you think that was a bad idea.
- I do.
- I was just trying to help.
- I know.
But what he needs is for you to be on his side.
For someone to be on his side.
- Don't be fooled by him, Simon.
He's not all innocent.
[dramatic music]
*
- How was practice?
- No practice, honey.
Richard bailed.
Nothing from Mario. I went out for a while.
- You okay?
- Do you hear that?
- What?
- You don't hear anything right now?
Listen.
You don't hear a sound?
- Nope.
[typing on keyboard]
- I thought I was hearing it outside too.
- Your ears are ringing.
You're probably dehydrated.
You should have some water.
[dramatic music]
*
[water running]
[water stops]
So you're writing now?
- Yeah.
- Like...
like, a book?
- Like, uh, documentaries.
- Ugh, Simon.
- Yeah, sorry.
It's just...
- What? What am I missing?
- Nothing, Simon just has something wrong with his ears.
- Like what?
- Do you hear something right now?
A sound?
Like, a low rumble kind of sound?
With this-- - Honey.
- Wait, hold on.
Tell me about this sound.
You're hearing something right now?
- Yeah, it's...
you know-- - Nothing, honey.
Years and years and years of loud playing
have finally done this.
Just go to a doctor, get it checked out.
- No, no, no, tell me about this.
What does it sound like?
- It's just kind of...
quiet...
clear...
sound.
I can't believe you're not
hearing it right now, actually.
It has, like, a low-pitch and a high-pitch.
And there's this pattern to it.
Kind of like a wave,
like it's going in and out of phase.
- Holy shit.
And you're hearing this right now?
- Aw, come on, guys. Just let it go.
Stop feeding it.
- I'm not feeding anything.
Something is clearly happening to him.
So is this, like, a constant thing?
Like, all the time?
- It seems that way.
Since last night anyway.
- All right, I think it's time we should get going.
You can't let him get you all wound up about this, honey.
- Wha--What?
- "What?"
I know you.
[typing on keyboard]
- Hello?
- Hey, what's up? What do you got?
- Who are you? - My name is Jonas.
I'm trying to get the truth out about mind control.
- I'm also trying to get the truth out, Jonas.
- About mind control? - Secret experiments.
Secret experiments testing new government technologies.
- What kind of technology?
- Psychotropic acoustics.
- Can't say I've heard of it.
- The CIA will pump noise into a detainee's cell.
To cause him stress. Deprive him of sleep.
- Yeah, that's no secret.
- But the noise they use is.
- It's called psychotropic acoustics.
They wanted the most efficient noise.
The one that would break a man the fastest.
They found that different notes and frequencies
stimulated different emotional centers of the brain.
And that led to the experiments that are happening now.
- How do you know about this?
- Let's say I have an inside source.
- Inside source.
Just like everyone else on this site
has an inside source.
Got it.
- You can believe what you want to, Jonas.
I am not here to convince you.
- What are the experiments?
- They are controlling mood and behavior in people
that don't even know they are part of the experiment.
You'd be amazed at what happens to someone
exposed to the right note
at the right frequency.
Laughter.
Tears.
Homicidal rage.
- Where are the experiments taking place?
Who are the subjects?
Listen, if you're legit, we gotta get this story out.
I have a site.
I can get the word out, but you gotta tell me more.
- I don't think you're ready for the truth, Jonas.
- Man...
you gotta listen to me.
If you're legit, then we have to get this story out.
Do you not get that?
Come on, man, what is it?
I first heard about the experiments three years ago
when my test partner told me about them.
- Test partner.
- When we were taken, it was always two at a time.
But my test partner was ex-CIA.
When we were on the ship, we were in this portal.
I learned a lot about what the CIA was up to
with their sound experiments.
- What are you talking about, man?
What portal? What ship?
- The aliens, Jonas.
I was abducted.
When they tested us, it was always two at a time.
It was my test partner that was part of the sound experiments.
- What, are you fucking kidding me?
Are you fucking kidding me with this shit?
- Far from it, Jonas.
You have got to believe me, these things really happened.
Psychotropic acoustics.
This is happening now--
[clicks off chat]
[dramatic music]
*
[off-key buzzing]
- I don't know what you're hearing,
but I don't hear it.
[pouring coffee]
Honey.
Simon.
Hey, you gotta pull yourself together.
- Sorry.
- Look, I gotta go.
I'm not looking forward to today.
There's no way I'm getting out of there before 7:00.
- What am I gonna do about my damn ears?
- Go see an ear doctor. See what they say.
It's probably the loud playing, honey,
just finally catching up to you.
- I don't think I'm losing my hearing.
- Just go see a doctor about it. Today.
- It's not inside my head.
It's a B.
[birds chirping]
- Do you hear it all the time?
- Well, until I came here.
- So it's stopped now?
- Yeah, it faded out by the time I got here.
- So it's different levels of volume?
- Yeah, I guess.
It seemed much louder last night at my house.
It sounded like the microwave or washing machine buzzing,
but really loud.
- How long have you been hearing it?
- It started about a week ago, I guess.
But it was much quieter then.
- All right.
Just put those on.
- Mr. York.
Come on back with me.
- You have a very interesting chart, Mr. York.
Have you experienced any loud noises lately?
- No, not recently.
- The reason I ask is one of the possible causes
is hearing damage.
But that brings us to your test results.
And those results don't show me the damage
for which I'd be looking.
Now you have some moderate, mid-range hearing loss.
You might experience some difficulty understanding
other people's voices.
But your ability to hear lower
and particularly upper ranges...
is far outside the norm.
Now it varies from person to person,
but a man your age typically hears
16,000, 17,000, maybe 18,000 hertz.
But during your test, you're hearing as high as
24,000 hertz.
Now my equipment doesn't even test any higher than that.
It's not unheard of, but you are the first patient
I have ever had with that kind of ability.
- So is that why it's happening?
- Well...
in your particular case, I'm not able to rule out
something external.
However, given the fact that it recently started,
it's much more likely to be internal.
Even psychological.
It could perhaps be something physical.
Something as simple as a sinus infection.
It can also very likely be a psychosomatic symptom
brought on by anxiety or nervous tension.
Have you been experiencing unusual stress lately,
Mr. York?
- No.
- No major life changes or anything like that?
- Are you saying I'm crazy, Doctor?
- No.
I'm not saying that, Mr. York.
What I am saying is that I've seen a lot of cases
of stress-related, auditory hallucinations
in people that are otherwise completely normal.
All right, here's what I'm recommending.
Get plenty of sleep, cut back on the caffeine
and the alcohol.
If the problem is physical, that should help.
And try to limit the amount of stress you're under.
That'll help if it's psychological.
Come back and see me in a few weeks
if it doesn't pass.
If that happens, we'll take a look
at some other treatments, okay?
- Okay.
They'll take care of you out front.
- You did say it's possible that it's something external.
If it is, then what?
- Well, I guess you just find out where it's coming from.
[dramatic music]
*
[birds chirping loudly]
[car honking]
- What the fuck? Is that a camera?
What the fuck, you're fucking photographing me?
[engine revving]
Fucking cowards.
- All set, Simon?
Simon?
- Yeah, I'm good.
Can I help you?
- I'm doing just fine, Simon.
Can I help you?
- You heard my name inside.
- I suppose I did.
[distant car alarm wailing]
- Hey, it's Simon.
What are you up to?
- Why'd you listen to Ruth?
Fuck doctors, man.
That's her answer to everything.
They're either in on it, or they're just interested
in your wallet.
You hear me?
- In on what, man?
[bell rings]
- [automated voice] Step back, doors closing.
[doors close]
It's back.
- Is that it?
You're hearing it? You're hearing it right now?
- All right, describe it to me.
- Well, the note--it's a B.
It sounds like there's low humming at first.
But the longer it goes on,
I hear these really high, piercing overtones.
It goes in and out of phase...
There's no break in it, it's a constant sound.
- That's right.
A polyphonic sound made up of a subsonic bass note
octaved with its supersonic counterpart.
It's the blend that causes the human reaction.
It's a B.
What does a B note do?
- What the fuck do you know about this, man?
- I know you're not crazy.
- How's that?
- Because I know of these experiments that are going on.
I know what it is you're hearing.
[wind blowing]
[keys jangling]
[dramatic music]
*
- Are you hungry?
- Yeah.
- Did you go to the doctor?
- Yeah.
- And?
- Have you noticed any unusual cars tonight?
Like any kind of odd cars or trucks outside?
- Why?
- Because we should always check for that.
Just to be careful.
- Why are you bringing this up now?
- And be careful who you talk to.
Be careful with strangers.
Be careful about giving out our information.
- Whoa, whoa, slow down.
Why are you bringing this up now?
What happened?
- Nothing.
Some weird run-ins.
- Run-ins? What kind of run-ins?
- I'm talking about some precautions for our safety.
It can't hurt, right?
- Well, I'm not so sure about that, actually.
- This isn't a joke, Ruth.
- Well, of course I'm always careful, you know that.
But you're sounding paranoid, Simon.
- I'm just saying.
Can you do those things for me? For my peace of mind.
- All right, I will.
Do you want to talk to me about these run-ins?
What's been going on?
- It's probably nothing.
I just worry about you...
about you both.
I just want to make sure you're...
Plus the sound-- it's getting worse.
I don't know.
I don't want to drag you into something.
I don't know.
- You should sleep.
- I just saw your brother.
- Yeah? What was he doing?
- Nothing.
- Come on, let's go to bed.
- You go ahead, I'll see you in a minute.
- Simon?
- Oh, hey.
- What are you doing?
- Oh, this? I'm just working on something.
- Why did you take our microwave apart?
- Yeah, sorry about that. I'll put it back together.
- But...why?
- When I was with Jonas, he told me some things.
Some things, some very specific things
about the sound.
About these experiments.
- Experiments?
- Then there's the fact that it's just getting worse.
- Simon, I think you should go see Dr. Rose.
I'm serious, baby, I think we should just--
- Why are doctors your answer for everything?
Hang out with your brother, and now I'm crazy too?
- No, that's not what I meant.
I'm not saying that, honey, I'm just saying you're stressed.
It's stress that's causing you to hear this in your head.
- Don't you understand
it's not in my head?
It's coming from somewhere out there.
- How do you know that, Simon? How do you know?
Or do you not want to go
because you're afraid of what you might find?
- There's nothing to find but the sound, Ruth.
I'm gonna find the sound, is what I'm gonna find.
- Baby you're really starting to scare me now.
You need to stop this. You need to--
- I can't stop this!
I'm not making this shit up!
- I know.
I know, baby.
I know you're not making this up.
I just think that something is going on here
that we can't deal with ourselves
and we need some outside help.
I know things have been hard with work,
with the baby.
I'm just saying you're stressed.
And I don't like seeing you stressed.
Can you stop this?
Let's go have some breakfast and talk.
- I'm fine.
It's okay.
Go to work.
Everything will be fixed when you get home.
I'm serious, go.
- What's up, man?
- What's up?
You ready?
- Yeah, man, I've been ready.
[shuffling cards]
Hey, Jonas...
why don't you come join us for a couple rounds?
- Oh, I can't, I'm waitin' on someone.
He'll be here any minute.
- So sit until he gets here. We're only playing one-two.
- Thanks, I'm good. Next time.
- Come on, man, just one game.
- Yeah, c'mon, Jonas.
- Okay, I'll give you one round.
- All right.
Yeah.
Check.
- Check.
- Bet.
- Cold.
- I'm out.
- Alright, gentlemen.
- That's it?
- That's one round. I gotta go.
- Just gonna steal the money and run, huh?
- Hmm.
All right, catch you later.
- Later, guys. - All right, man.
- Give us a chance to win our money back later, man.
- I didn't know you ever joined in those games.
- Never have.
- It looked like you won.
The sound's louder here now.
- Really?
- Yeah, It's here.
It's about the same intensity as my neighborhood.
- Got it.
- It's not here at all.
- Nothing?
- Absolutely nothing.
- Hey, there you are.
I just tried calling you.
Come here.
Oh, baby.
You must be so tired.
Why don't you just crash early tonight?
- It's heavy at every stop in the southeast.
The lightest coverage is in northwest.
- If they're testing some kind of new technology,
then why are they doing it in the worst neighborhoods
before the best ones?
- Look at the pattern.
Whatever program they're doing, it's about race.
It's about money.
It's about crime.
Prison walls.
- What, man?
- Prison walls.
They paint prison walls pastel colors
because it calms the inmates.
It keeps them subdued.
I've started seeing the same colors in bad neighborhoods,
on fences, in playgrounds.
That's subliminal visual mind control.
What you're hearing is subliminal audio mind control.
It's why everyone's being so damn nice all of a sudden.
- I don't know.
People are being nicer, if people feel more relaxed,
maybe it's not all bad.
- It's all fake is what it is.
And now that I know that it's happening,
I can feel it affecting me.
I can't think as clearly.
It's putting me to sleep.
Which is exactly what they want.
- I hate to say it, but lately
it feels like Ruth is different too.
Something is changing her.
- Of course it is.
It's probably affecting everyone except maybe you.
They're gonna build this up more and more
and you are gonna be the last person left
who is not in a trance.
Nice dog.
See that?
I never would have said that shit normally.
- The other night when I was walking home,
I followed it.
It was the loudest here. It's still loudest here.
[indistinct voices speaking]
[indistinct voices continue]
[voices fade out]
- This is it, man.
This is the proof.
That fucking guy online was for real.
We gotta find him.
Do you realize what this means, man?
It's gotta be government sanctioned.
How else would they get this on street signs?
I mean, this...
this is some real, end-of-the-world,
apocalyptic type shit here, man.
It's fucking mind control.
This is so fucked up.
- No identifying markings.
No manufacturer.
No serial number.
Nothing.
- Of course.
- We got nothing to go on.
- That's not true.
We got you.
You can hear this shit.
They weren't counting on that.
- Who the fuck is they, Jonas?
- Well, that's what we're trying to figure out.
- Yeah, no shit. And we got nothing.
- Listen to me, Simon.
There's someone out there.
And they're trying to make it so that we lose the freedom
to make our own choices.
And they're doing it in secret.
But we know about it, man.
Because you can hear this shit, we know about it.
And that means we can do something about it.
We have to do something about this, Simon.
We have to tell people that this shit is real.
That this is something that is really happening.
- All right.
What are we gonna do?
- Okay, well, they know.
Whoever they are, they know.
And they know that we know.
- That we know what, man?
That there's this box, possibly city property,
that we broke?
- That we're on to them.
Look, here are the facts.
Did you not hear a sound?
- Yeah.
- Did that sound not disappear?
Did that sound not disappear when we took that device down?
- Yeah, I think.
- Okay.
And what do you think that means, Simon?
- It means someone is planting devices
that make the sound.
- Okay, and why would somebody be planting these devices?
- Because-- - That only you can hear.
I might add.
And that everyone else is completely fucking oblivious to.
- Because the sound does something.
- Exactly.
Because the sound does something.
- Whenever you're ready, guys, no rush.
- Plus, man, look,
with everyone's strange behavior...
it's mind control.
Simon, is there any doubt?
I mean, shit, you're the one that's hearing this.
They know we're on to them.
- What the hell are we supposed to do about it, man?
We don't know for sure.
We don't know any of it for sure.
- Exactly.
That is exactly why it works.
Look, I know what we have to do.
We have to get you on video, we have to get this out there.
That's what we have to do.
This is our job.
It is our job to let the world know
that this is happening.
- No.
No, nothing like that, Mom.
Yeah, I mean, they've been spending a lot of time together
it seems.
His site? He has a site?
All right, all right. I'm looking now.
How did you know about that? Did Jonas tell you?
No, he's just stressed and all.
I mean...
Conspiracy?
Jonas X?
- For decades, the government has secretly researched
mind-control techniques on unsuspecting populations.
One such experiment is happening right now
in our nation's capitol.
There are small devices being installed
around Washington, D.C.
They transmit a mysterious, high-frequency pattern.
Most people can't hear it.
But I found one man who can, and he's speaking out about it.
How long have you been hearing the hum?
- I started hearing it about a month ago.
At first it was quieter, and just in a few locations,
but it grew every day.
- And you've identified the source?
- I believe so.
- These boxes, ladies and gentlemen,
they're hidden atop street signs,
traffic signals, and utility poles.
There are more of them every day.
And the sound is now being transmitted
over most of the city.
Only the wealthiest of neighborhoods
are free of these devices.
Please describe the sound for us.
- It sounds like an electronic signal.
Almost like a higher-pitched bee hive.
Or microwave.
But it oscillates in and out.
- And you say you've noticed changes in people's behavior
when they're exposed to the sound?
- I believe so.
It's a subtle change, but I've seen it.
People seem more docile.
I've seen it affect everyone.
Even my own wife.
- Corporations use subliminal images
in advertising.
Retailers pump artificial odors into stores to trick people
into consuming more.
Now the government has found a new sense to attack
our psyches with.
And no one knows about it.
This is a mass mind-control experiment
being perpetrated against the American people
without our consent.
How much can they control us with this technology?
What government agency or corporation
is installing these devices?
How come the devices themselves have no identifying marks?
Check your own city.
Look to the stoplights and utility poles.
The signs are everywhere.
It's just a matter of looking and listening.
Spread the word.
We must fight this while there's still time.
Thank you for watching a Jonas X production.
[echoing] A polyphonic sound...
made up of a subsonic bass note...
octaved with its supersonic counterpart.
It's the blend that causes the reaction.
- I'm home.
Did you eat yet?
You all right?
Is everything okay?
Ruth, did something happen?
- Were you ever gonna tell me?
- Tell you?
- Yeah.
Tell me.
- [Jonas' voice echoing] Look at the pattern.
It's about race.
It's about money.
It's about crime.
- Listen, honey...
I didn't wanna worry you.
I don't want to involve you.
- Involve me?
You didn't want to involve me?
I'm your wife, Simon.
I'm pretty fucking involved.
- You know that's not what I meant.
- I'm so upset right now, I can't even feel anything.
And I don't know what's worse, you doing this with Jonas
or you doing this without telling me.
- I did tell you.
You brushed it off like it was nothing,
like I'm crazy.
- Have you seen the video?
I mean, "It's even affecting my wife."
You don't think what you're doing is
even the slightest bit abnormal?
- Absolutely it is.
Just like me hearing this goddamn sound is abnormal.
- Please can you just talk to me about this
without having to drink?
Are you completely clueless of your behavior
these past few weeks?
[Jonas' voice echoes indistinct]
You never went to see Dr. Rose, you never took my advice.
Instead you started hanging out with Jonas--Jonas!
And, honestly, you honestly can't put two and two together?
What the hell did you think was gonna come of
turning to Jonas for answers?
- Turning to Jonas for answers?
How about that Jonas is the only person
that takes what I'm going through seriously?
How about that my own wife just swept it under a rug?
- Don't even-- don't you even.
How about that I'm still here?
How about that you chose to listen to Jonas' bullshit
instead of my advice?
- It's not bullshit.
He's right.
He knows what he's talking about.
- Simon, please. Think a moment.
Which is more likely,
that you're having a personal problem
and you need help,
or that the grand conspiracy that Jonas has come up with
is real?
- What I'm hearing is real.
The evidence I've seen is real, Ruth.
- What evidence?
Little streetlight boxes you can supposedly hear?
People being nice to each other?
Somehow you get a government conspiracy
out of that, seriously?
- [Jonas' voice echoing] Keeps them subdued...
- Simon...
- I know you're not crazy...
- Look, I know you're trying to understand what's going on,
but Jonas can't even help himself,
let alone you.
- Everything he's said...
everything we've seen, it all fits.
- Does it?
Simon, that's what he does.
He puts unconnected things together and turns them into
something that makes him the center
of something important.
And that's what he's done here.
He's made you believe it.
But it's never real, it's not real this time.
You must know that.
- I know what it is you're hearing...
- You needed to go to Dr. Rose
when this first started happening.
Precisely so it wouldn't spin out of control,
so it wouldn't turn into something like this.
Why do the two of you have to be so fucking stubborn?
I mean, it's not impossible
that it's something psychological, you know?
I mean, really just going to a therapist
does not mean you're crazy.
God, and tearing down that box? You could have been arrested.
- I know you're not crazy...
I know what it is you're hearing.
- We've...
we've lost Jonas already.
I can't even have a normal conversation with him.
And I couldn't bear it if you sunk into those
paranoid delusions.
There is no coming back from that.
- I know you're not crazy...
I know what it is you're hearing.
What you're hearing is subliminal audio mind control.
- Oh, my God.
- What you're hearing is subliminal audio mind control.
You're already there.
- Hey. Hey!
I'm not anywhere except right here with you,
you hear me?
I'm not anywhere except right here with you.
You wanted to come with me?
- I think we should see what he says.
If he thinks it's a good idea for us to go together,
I'm happy to.
I just want you healed.
I want us to figure out what's going on with your ears.
I just want things to be like they were before.
- Me too, honey.
- So are you, um, are not hearing it anymore?
- I am.
You look really nice.
- What, you like the puffy-eyed look?
- You look beautiful.
- I am so sorry I didn't take you seriously before.
And really, it means a lot that you're willing to do this.
I don't care if we're broke, if we're living in a shack.
I just want you to do what you love,
I want us to be happy.
That's all I want.
What is it?
Hey.
- Say something.
- Hi, why are we not walking?
- It stopped.
- What stopped?
- The sound.
- You're not hearing it anymore?
- No, it's gone.
It just stopped.
Suddenly.
- Honey, are you messing with me?
Do not mess with me right now.
- No, I'm not kidding.
It's really gone.
It's faded out before,
but it's never just stopped abruptly, mid-sound like that.
- Honey, this is great.
Whatever you're thinking, whatever you're feeling,
just focus on that.
This is a good thing.
I am so sorry we didn't do this before.
- I can't believe it.
- Come on, let's go home.
[suspenseful music]
Simon?
Oh, my God.
It's back.
It's back, isn't it?
God, I knew it.
I knew it.
- It's different.
It's different now.
It's changed.
Yeah. Hey, listen.
The note, it changed.
Somebody turned it off earlier, and there was nothing.
Now it's back.
It's louder now.
And the noise changed.
It's an F-sharp now.
- F-sharp?
Uh...ah...
all right, man, look.
I have to think about what this means.
I'm gonna go out and walk around for a little while,
and I'll let you know if I see anything weird
going on.
- What'd I tell you?
What'd I tell you about coming around here?
- Yeah, we straight on that.
- The fuck we are.
You into me for $50.
- Yeah, and I got you back last night.
You're so high you don't even remember.
- The fuck I am!
If you got me back, then what'd I do with it?
- How the hell do I know?
- What the fuck you doin' here?
- Nothing, just walking.
- Little past your bedtime, isn't it, Jonas?
Hey!
What, you got a camera?
What are you fucking gonna do with that?
- This is Jonas X, and I'm documenting
the events of the night of March 15th.
I'm at the 18th street park.
So far things seem...
- What the fuck? - What the fuck?
[loud punch]
- Filming me and shit.
Always knew you were a fucking rat.
- Unh...
- * So you feel you're touched *
* Beneath your guise
* So you won't forget me when I die *
* And so you feel you're touched *
* Beneath your guise
* And so you won't forget me when I die *
- [laughs]
Man, that fool is crazy.
[laughter]
- That's mine!
I need it back.
- [laughs] Look at him!
- I said that's mine!
- So you didn't get enough already, bitch?
- Look, you don't know what's happening right now.
Something is messing with your heads.
- What?
[loud punch] - Oh!
- * So you won't forget me when I die *
- Ain't nobody messing with our heads, fool.
- * Say it isn't so
* Don't you remember
* How it feels
* To be alive
* Don't you remember
* How it feels to be--
- You two have gotten to spend a lot of time together.
How long has it been since the incident?
- A few weeks.
- And how are you feeling about everything?
- I think I'm handling it all right.
Things seem to be going pretty well.
- How are things with Ruth?
- They're really good.
Better than they've been in a long time.
That was good last night.
- What?
The movie?
- Oh, yeah, the movie was good too.
- Oh, I see.
- What?
- You should have said, "That was nice last night."
Since a movie can't really be nice.
And, yes, last night was very...
- Good? - [giggles]
- Door-to-door service.
- Thank you, baby.
So I'll see you tonight?
- You will.
What?
I'm fine.
- Okay.
I love you.
Bye. - Bye.
- Simon, do you realize what happened to you
during the time you spent with Jonas?
When the two of you went looking for the sound,
before it stopped?
- I do, Doctor.
I experienced a, uh, shared psychosis
with Jonas.
- That's correct, Simon.
What you experienced is called induced delusional disorder.
It's a syndrome in which symptoms
of a delusional belief are transmitted
from one individual to another.
When you were hearing the sound, your psychological vulnerability
caused you to latch on to Jonas.
It caused you to take on, believe, and effectively live
in his reality.
It's not surprising, Simon, that the sound stopped
these past few weeks,
without Jonas.
Without his influence.
- So when are you coming back to see me again?
- I'll be back on Thursday.
What are you going to do until then?
- I'm a good student, Doc.
- Jonas, what are you going to do for me
before next time?
- I'm gonna walk around this damn room
for 30 minutes every day.
- You can walk around outside too.
It doesn't matter where, as long as you do it
for 30 minutes a day.
- Knock, knock. - Oh, come on in.
We're just finishing up.
[sighs]
All right, I'll see you Thursday, Jonas.
- Thanks, Doc.
- Here, I got you something.
It's about these aliens that come to Earth
and spawn with humans.
'Cause that's the most logical way
of getting rid of them.
- [chuckles]
They breed them out. - Yeah, it's crazy.
Give it a read.
What is it?
- Is it still gone?
- Yeah, man.
- I think whatever it was, it's done.
- Whatever it was...
you and me both know exactly what it was.
- Yeah, I know.
- We just scared some shit into them, man.
We fucking did it.
I can't believe we fucking did it.
- We did.
- Hell yes we did, man.
I mean, I bet those fuckers knew you could hear that shit.
We would have exposed their shit to the world.
When you heard that note change,
it was some kind of beta test or something.
I mean, I was feeling angry as fuck that night.
For no reason.
Damn near got me killed too.
- Thank God it didn't, man.
- Yeah, no doubt.
So tell me again, man.
- Not much to tell.
Heard it change, freaked out,
woke up the next morning-- ears clear as a bell.
Just silence.
- Well, at least we're aware now.
I get back home, we'll spread the word
about what we did.
Try and open people's eyes to what's going on.
- Why don't you just focus on getting yourself better for now,
huh, Jonas?
- Fair enough.
For now.
[The Translucents' Is It Real?]
- * Do you feel
* If you feel it show it
* You just show it
* Very instrumentally
* I'm not here to hide
* I'm here to live
* Sometimes it feels like
* The least fashionable way
* So you feel
* Just like you can break yourself *
* And remake yourself
* In a day
[harmonica playing]
* Is it real
* If it's real then show it *
* Do you feel
* If you feel then show it *
* I'm going
* Into this world called crazy *
* Not so crazy
* Anymore
* Stop worrying
* About what people think