Cristin Milioti: Sarah

Palm Springs

Sarah

Sarah: You get one more sentence.
Nyles: Okay, okay, okay-
[Nyles thinks for a moment]
Nyles: Even though I pretend not to be, I've realized I'm completely codependent, but now I'm cool with it, because life is meant to be shared
[pause]
Nyles: - *semi-colon* - I need you for survival...
Sarah: That's your one sentence...
Nyles: [shouts] Wait!
[Sarah stops]
Nyles: ... I need you for survival, *comma*, but this is so much more than that
[pause]
Nyles: -*colon* - I know you better than anyone knows you, and that day we saw the dinosaurs, you said to really know a person you have to see their entire package, the good and the bad. Well, you've see mine, and I've seen yours, and you have an excellent package. *Ampersand* you're my favorite person I've ever met, and, yes, it seems like crazy odds that a person I'd meet stuck in a time loop would end up being my favorite person, but you know what else has crazy odds? Getting stuck in a fucking time loop. *Dot dot dot*...
Sarah: Ellipses.
Nyles: Yes, ellipses, thank you. *Ellipses*, I hope blowing ourselves up works, but if it doesn't, it's irrelevant for me, as long as I'm with you. And if it kills us... Well, Sarah Isabel Wilder, I'd rather die with you than live in this world without you, *emphatic period*.

Misty: [Sarah knocks] Coming!
Misty: [Opens the door] Sarah?
Sarah: [Enters the room, chuckles, to Nyles] Didn't work! Life is meaningless. Let's get the fuck outta here.
[leaves the room]
Misty: Oh my god. Are you...
Misty, Nyles: Fucking cheating on me? What? This isn't funny. Okay, stop! I'm serious! Stop copying me! Stop pretending like you know everything
[Screams, Misty's leading to a sob]
Nyles: Okay, I'm gonna go.
[gets out of bed]
Misty: [crying] Wait, what?

Nyles: I guess you followed me. It's one of those infinite time loop situations you might have heard about.
Sarah: That I might have heard about?
Nyles: Yeah.

Sarah: I can't keep waking up in here. Everything that we are doing is meaningless.
Nyles: I hope it's not all meaningless.

Sarah: I can survive just fine without you, you know. But there-there's a chance that this life can be a little less mundane with you in it.

Sarah: My whole family is embarrassed by me. They all see me as a... as a liability who fucks around and drinks too much.
Nyles: Why would they think that?
Sarah: Because I fuck around and drink too much.

Nyles: Look, I love you. Okay?
Sarah: What?
Nyles: I love you.
Sarah: You--How can you even know that? I am literally the only other human being stuck in here with you.
Nyles: No. What about Roy? I don't love him.
Sarah: Oh my God, Nyles. So you, you're... you are saying that out there in the real world, with millions of other people to choose from, you would still choose me?
Nyles: Yeah. But why would I want to go back there anyway, you know. It's a world of death and poverty, and debilitating emotional distress. At least in here, we get to be together.
Sarah: You have lost your mind.
Nyles: Is that so bad? That's what love is all about! Don't be so afraid of it.

Nyles: The pain is real. Why can't you understand that?
Sarah: It doesn't matter! Nothing matters, right? Those are your words.
Nyles: No. Pain matters. What we do to other people matters. Being a source of terror is not fun, okay? It's not fulfilling. I know this from experience. It doesn't matter that everything resets and people don't remember. WE remember. We have to deal with the things that we do.

Nyles: Think of it like this. Everything in this void, the space where the candy bar once was but is now in my stomach, is the past.
Sarah: Mm-hmm.
Nyles: And everything that's remaining is the future, encased in chocolate.
Sarah: Mm-hmm.
Nyles: I have no interest in this emptiness. You know, the who, what, why of your past. You got here, that's all that matters.
Sarah: But if you really want to know someone deeper, it does matter. It does. You have to know the whole package.
Nyles: I disagree. This... the next bite...
[Nyles bites the candy bar]
Nyles: ... that's all that matters.
Sarah: I was married for two years.
[pause]
Sarah: I knew it wasn't going to work. I knew it wasn't going to work out the moment that I said yes. I knew it wasn't going to work out when I moved to Austin for him. I knew it wasn't going to work out when I walked down the aisle. But... I went through with it. And it didn't work out. Now... ignoring all that, would make me destined to repeat it.

Nyles: I think the party's gonna start pretty soon. You wanna head back?
Sarah: Is that a joke? No. Why would I do that?
Nyles: I don't know. Eat, drink, dance. Bask in love.
Sarah: That is not love.
Nyles: Of course it is. Tala's in love.
Sarah: No, you don't actually know what you're talking about. We. You. Me. Everyone. Everyone we know. Nobody can stand the idea of being alone. So we... buy into this pageantry and celebrate its... bullshit.
Nyles: All right. So no wedding, then.

Sarah: This isn't real, Nyles. Everything that we are doing in here is fucking meaningless.
Nyles: So what? I mean, it's not like things were going so great for you out there.

Nyles: It's just a fleeting feeling.
Sarah: Right.
Nyles: It drifts away, just like they all do.
Sarah: What do you mean, "it just drifts away... like they all do"? Like what has drifted away?
Nyles: [Nyles exhales. Long pause] Everything.

Nyles: I just like to give back whenever I can. Material matters don't really concern me.
Sarah: With the exception of booze and burritos and designer drugs and candy.
Nyles: Obviously. I'm not a Puritan.
Sarah: And sex, I assume. You fuck other people in here?
Nyles: Great question.
Sarah: You must, right?
Nyles: I have, but it takes a lot of work, and I try to live my life at this point with as little effort as possible.

Sarah: But what is this? When is this?
Nyles: Yeah, 'bout that. So, this is today. Today is yesterday. And tomorrow is also today.