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00:05 MONICA
Thanks. Are you Michael?

00:08 MICHAEL
Yes?

00:09 MONICA
Hello, so, did you participate in the math practice? I couldn't make it to class, so I can't favorite this memory for test day. I know you're good at math, wanna tell me what you saw in class?

00:21 MICHAEL
but…

00:22 MONICA
Just so I have something in my memory about the practice. Can you look at your day on the tablet, and tell me?

00:28 MICHAEL
Okay, okay…

00:30 MONICA
Cool, send me a message.

00:45 MICHAEL
Hi! Chewbacca!

00:47 MOM
Good morning Michael? Are you remembering to put your school days on your memory tablet?

00:53 MICHAEL
Maybe…

00:54 MOM
You won't just be thinking about the day you met that girl. what was her name?

MICHAEL
00:59 Monica…

01:00 FATHER
Leave the boy, he had a good day with that girl. Let him remember it again… I still remember the day you wore that black dress and the silver necklace.

01:09 MOM
Yes, it was the day you asked me to marry you. but I remember without the help of the memory tablet… I know you bookmark this day so I don't get mad at you.

01:19 FATHER
Not true... maybe a little...

01:27 FATHER
Yes, you drive today, I need to schedule Monday's meeting on tablet memory and erase Marty's ideas, they were terrible. I don't want to remember them at the meeting time.

01:36 MOM
Why don't you just delete Marty from your memory?

01:39 FATHER
Because he's my brother and I like to go to the game with him… meeting him again every time I need to go to the game would be a problem.

01:46 FATHER
Michael, Xmeta was very smart in creating the memory tablets. With the help of Nanotechnology and Artificial Intelligence. They found out where our brain's memory database is.

01:57 MOTHER
Crazy, but it helped me become fluent in Japanese in a few weeks…

02:02 FATHER
You know, in the old days we had to read the same thing for a long time, over and over again. To decorate the information. Today just put as a priority in the table the specific memory and that's it. We already decorated.

02:16 MOTHER
Yes, there is no chess club anymore…

02:19 FATHER
We can delete traumas, bad things, that we never want to remember; But each person has their memories, I can't use your tablet. the table system doesn't allow it,...

02:28 MICHAEL
Why?

02:29 FATHER
Because... just a minute I found the meeting;

02:32 MOM
Son don't forget that today I'll pick you up at school... And please try to forget about this girl... you need to do well on the test.

02:40 MICHAEL
Do you want me to delete it? But isn't that dangerous?

02:43 MOM
NO! Michael, use your tablet with responsibly… Take care!

02:48 MICHAEL
Okay, mom… Bye Dad, By mom!

02:58 TONY
Hi Michael, how's it going?

03:00 MICHAEL
Tony, I remembered her again!

03:02 TONY
Seriously, did you teach her about the subjects of this exam?

03:05 MICHAEL
No, but I think a friend of hers decided to explain it to her.

03:11 TONY
Or another boy… hahaha

03:20 TONY
NO! You can not do that! It's dangerous! And the Professor has just arrived, and the test is about to begin.

03:29 MICHAEL
But is it today?

03:30 TONY
Today! Man, you really need to forget about this girl… Quick, in class on the 12th… favorite in your memory…

03:42 TEACHER
Now put your memory tablets in your backpack, the test is about to start

03:48 MICHAEL
Ho no, my mother is going to kill me.

03:54 MICHAEL
My mother, you're not going to like this test at all. And she warned him not to think about this girl.

04:01 MOTHER
Michael, here! I arrived!

04:06 MICHAEL
You know what, I'm going to delete this memory, it's what I'm in trouble for.

04:15 MICHAEL
Who is this girl?

04:19 MOTHER
Michael, I saw what you did!

04:21 MICHAEL
I did nothing!

04:23 MOTHER
No? So, tell me, the name of that girl…

04:27 MICHAEL
Hummm

04:28 MOTHER
You're in big trouble!

04:30 MOTHER
What is it? What is this note?

04:33 MOTHER
I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU FAILED THE TEST!

04:36 MICHAEL
I…

04:37 MOTHER
SHUT UP, I'M NOT FINISHED! AND YOU STILL ARE DELETING PEOPLE!

04:41 MICHAEL
OK, Mom! Have you said it all? You know as soon as I get out of the car, I'm going to delete this!

04:47 MOTHER
But you are prohibited! Are you going to delete your teacher too? Then your mother! You have no idea what you're doing!

04:56 MICHAEL
You don't know how I feel! Nobody understands me, maybe it would be better to delete everyone!

05:01 MOTHER
I'll talk to your father about it!

05:04 MICHAEL
You can say what you want, I'll delete you now!

05:07 MOTHER
You don’t even think about it!

05:08 MICHAEL
Maybe I will!

05:09 MOTHER
Michael, stop it! You're just making things worse...

05:13 MICHAEL
MOTHER! Watch out!

05:21 FATHER
Michael, it's your father!

05:24 FATHER
Are you okay?

05:28 DOCTOR
George, your wife is stable at the moment. But, your life is still at risk.

05:33 FATHER
And my son?

05:34 DOCTOR
your son is fine. But something happened to your memory. He doesn't remember his mother. As it is something very specific. We believe her son deleted her with the tablet, and you know... there is no way to recover that...

05:48 FATHER
But this is impossible! The tablet has protection for these things, he's just a kid.

05:53 DOCTOR
I believe that artificial intelligence recognized his mother as a trauma... an abuser and a danger... You know with the fight, and then the car accident... every situation allowed the boy to delete his mother. We are already taking the case to Xmeta...

06:08 FATHER
Shut up! It's my son! And now he doesn't remember his mother... tomorrow she might not even be here anymore... I'm going to talk to him

06:16 DOCTOR
Of course, just take it easy... I believe your tablet is still in danger. That is, he is unprotected, he will be able to delete everything. He'd better rest now…

06:27 FATHER
I want to see my son!

06:28 MICHAEL
DAD! What happened?

06:31 FATHER
You and your mother were in a car accident, you weren't hurt... but son... your mother...

06:36 MICHAEL
Father, my mother…

06:38 MICHAEL
Who is my mother?

06:39 FATHER
What do you mean?

06:41 FATHER
Here is your mother. She suffered a lot. The doctors did everything. Maybe she won't survive.

06:49 MICHAEL
No, no, it’s my fault!

06:52 FATHER
Son, So come back here!

06:55 FATHER
Hello! Hi Dad, I need your help

07:00 MICHAEL
There's nothing here about my mother, I must have deleted her… now the only view is she lies in a hospital bed and I may never see her again… Tony, What did I do?

07:10 TONY
All this because of Monica

07:12 MICHAEL
Who is Monica?

07:14 TONY
Michael, this girl was the start of it all. After you met her. You were so in love that you never got her out of your mind. And that made you lose interest in your studies. Then he fought with his mother, to the point of deleting her.

07:28 MICHAEL
That is not true! I would never do that! I… I… I just wanted to meet my mother.

07:34 TONY
Well, we know we can't recover erased memory. There is no backup… What could we do? Look at your birthday, most likely your mother is on your side when you blow out the candles… The woman you see on the tablet would be her…

07:52 MICHAEL
Let me see…

07:55 MICHAEL
No, the tablet deleted it too…

08:00 TONY
I understood. If I could trick the system somehow…

08:05 MICHAEL
Maybe if she pretended to be someone else? Chewbacca, I don't think I'll ever meet my mother… Chewbacca! Chewbacca… that's it!

08:22 MICHAEL
Chewbacca! Let's save Princess Leia!

08:28 WOMAM(MOM)
Then you came to save me! I will be forever grateful Darth Vader!

08:32 MICHAEL
No, Princess Leia! I'm Luke Skywalker. Darth Vader is evil, he's the one who put you here!

08:39 WOMAM (MOM)
Yes yes, Luke…thanks! Come on, come you too Yoda…

08:44 MICHAEL
Chewbacca!

08:46 WOMAM (MOM)
Chewbacca! Are you guys smelling bad?

08:50 MICHAEL
Yes, we went through the sewer to get here…

08:53 WOMAM (MOM)
Sewer, like sewer?

08:56 MICHAEL
Yes,... well, we didn't get inside, but we lay down in the water over there on the street….

09:00 WOMAM (MOM)
My God! Now you go straight to the bath, my son…

09:06 WOMAM (MOM)
My God! Now you go straight to the bath, my son…

09:11 WOMAM (MOM)
My God! Now you go straight to the bath, my son…

09:17 TONY
What did you see?

09:19 MICHAEL
Only 1 memory. Tony, let's go back to the hospital I want to see my mother.

09:27 GRAMPA
Michael, where have you been… I need to talk to you…

09:36 MICHAEL
No, no… WHY!!!! IT WAS AN ACCIDENT!!!

09:41 MICHAEL
It wasn't my fault... and I'll forget all about it...

09:51 TONY
What? What are you gonna do? Michael?

09:55 GRAMPA
Tony, let... he wants to get the anger out... the system won't let…

10:00 GRAMPA
MICHAEL!!! MICHAEL!!! Oh my god what do I do!?

10:21 MOM
My God! Now you go straight to the bath, my son… You can't be dirty like that...

10:29 MICHAEL
Okay, I will go…

10:31 MOM
I love you my son…

10:34 MICHAEL
Love you too…

10:43 MONICA
Hi, Michael.

10:44 MICHAEL
Hi, who are you?
10:46 MONICA
You really deleted everyone?

10:49 MICHAEL
Yes

10:51 MONICA
Sorry, I'm Monica. I heard that her mother is leaving the hospital.

10:56 MICHAEL
Hi Monica. Yes, the surgery worked. And my memory is coming back naturally.

11:03 MONICA
And how was… I mean, what is it like to live without a tablet?

11:08 MICHAEL
You know, to live.

11:11 MONICA
How?

11:12 MICHAEL
To live. You look around, you look at everyone, you look at the tablets... but, in fact, they are afraid,... of living. Are making their own choices,...They don't know what they want.

11:23 MICHAEL
When I thought my mother was going to die… I realized that it wasn't the tablet that deleted my mother's memory… I forgot her little by little. And not only her, everything in my life.
We don't realize what's important to us, and we want to live for others. Monica, don't use your tablet… just enjoy, live…

11:53 MICHAEL
MOTHER!!!

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