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S2 Ep10: “The Big Picture”
In Season 2, Episode 10 of 'Case 63,' titled 'The Big Picture,' we delve into the complexities of memory, destiny, and the possibility of alternate futures. The protagonist grapple...
S2 Ep10: “The Big Picture”
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You're listening to Case 63, a Spotify audio series.
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Oh.
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Without a doubt, my last entry, it's 4.22pm on December 21, 2012.
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I'm here again in this cubicle, in the same bathroom.
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Everything is spliced together, moments, people, places.
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The future changes, the only certainty.
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Jesus, nothing is certain.
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Events and whole lives could be radically altered at any moment, without any warning.
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What will dying feel like?
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What feel like sleeping?
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Will I dream?
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Will I remember my life?
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The thousands of moments that defined me?
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In the final moment, will I be aware of my entire life?
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The whole big picture?
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Is there a big picture?
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Am I in it?
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What would be my last memory?
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What will happen to my memories?
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What will happen to the memory of that coffee at dawn while it was snowing?
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To that sunset that made me cry.
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With that quote, I underlined in a book, and that I found again many years later, and it saved my life again.
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Holding my father's hand as a little girl while we walked among the rocks on a beach.
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My first salty kiss under a red tree.
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My med school finals, and the magnificent feeling of aching them.
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My mother reading me a story in a clinic after the operation.
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The fights I had with my sister, and thousands of beautiful moments I shared with her,
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where were all of that go?
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And the people I love?
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Will I remember them in my dreams?
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If I dream, will I recognize anybody and feel any love?
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Or will I start all over again as an echo of who I was, a tape recorded over with new memories?
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An echo of an echo.
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Inside this stall, everything feels exactly like it did before.
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A deja vu, Vence, I would say.
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Everything is blurry.
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I feel the vortex.
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I feel the three timelines, three possibilities.
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And the first one I leave, I walk towards Vence and try to be happy for a small fraction of time.
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Ignoring the future, and knowing I'll die before I board the plane.
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Will it be art attack?
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Will I fade away?
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Will it be painful?
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In this second timeline, I do what Oliver told me to do.
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An act of unbelievable, unforgettable violence in front of Marie.
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I make it clear in the worst, most painful way possible that she shouldn't believe in me,
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probably ruining her, ruining Vincent.
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And the third possibility, the third timeline, is to try something impossible.
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The person can alter the future of others.
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Why can't she alter her own destiny?
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Break the rules, destroy the rules.
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Why isn't something like that possible? Why not?
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Two minutes. Two minutes. I have two minutes.
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Are they?
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Where are you, Marie?
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Marie!
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Marie! Hey, we were looking for you.
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Are you in the family?
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Marie, honey, look at me, look at my eyes.
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The future isn't written. Do you hear me?
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Be your future. Break it. Break the fucking mechanism. Break the...
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Be a future.
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Dad!
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Be a future, Scholast.
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I'm here, be a future.
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Sorry, I can't help you.
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She just... She just...
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Hey, how are you feeling?
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Dad, what happened?
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What happened to her?
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I don't know, Marie, look at me.
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I don't know what to say, but I love you and I want you to trust me.
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Somehow, everything's gonna be alright.
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Okay, Dad, I'm really confused.
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I know, I know.
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I don't know how I feel. I feel like nothing is real.
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I know, I know, but many, many things are real.
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She said something to me before she...
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Beatrix told me to create my future.
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And then she fell down, she collapsed, and she looked up at me as if...
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Like, as if...
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As if she was saying goodbye?
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Yeah, yeah.
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Yes, I felt that. I felt like we were saying goodbye.
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I saw you both when I was running towards you.
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She looked over at me and I felt the same.
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Right.
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But I felt something else too, it's strange.
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But it didn't feel like a final goodbye, it was more like...
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Right. It was more like...
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See you again soon, right?
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Right? Maybe that was just her being kind, letting us know she was at peace with us.
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Yeah, maybe. Probably.
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Come here, I need a hug. You need a hug.
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We're gonna be fine.
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We are.
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We are.
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Sure.
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Wait for me here. I'll be right back.
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I'll detect it as a few more questions, then we'll go home, okay?
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Yeah, okay. I'll be right here.
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Marie Baker?
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Um...
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Who are you?
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This is for you.
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Who are you? What is this?
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A tape recorder?
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Listen to it.
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What's going on? Who are you?
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Marie, I'm just the messenger.
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The answer is the answers to your questions.
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Well, they're actually right there.
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What are you talking about?
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The answers to what?
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The questions.
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To everything, Marie.
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Everything.
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Everything.
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Everything.
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Everything.
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Everything.
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Everything.
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Everything.
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If I'm able to record this message and if you're able to listen to it,
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it's because you succeeded in avoiding
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an even transcending what was supposed to be your own destiny.
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Congratulations, dear Marie.
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I'm so happy to be talking with you.
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I'm recording this from another timeline.
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An alternate universe that would have been impossible without you.
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I imagine you're very confused.
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But believe me, trust me.
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What's coming is better.
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There's a better future for you, Marie.
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For everyone.
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And how do I know this?
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I'm Beatrix Knight.
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And I'm recording this message in the year 2062.
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Case 63.
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Created and written by Julio Rojas.
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Adapted by Maravela Smolendes.
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Directed by Mimeo Donald.
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Starring Julian Moore, Oscar Isaac, Zoe Winters, and Aryan Moehead.
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Produced by Spotify Studios, 4060, and Mad Jean Media.
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Supervising producer Alexandra K Brown.
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Senior producer Katie Pestor.
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Associate producer Kayla Stokes.
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Sound design and mix by Daniel Brunel, Daniel Ramirez, and Jonathan Roberts.
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Recorded at Harbor Picture Company by Bobby Johansson and Bo Emory.
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And at Great Pound Studios by Christopher Ead.
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Sound supervision and additional recording by Jonathan Roberts.
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Score by Moehead.
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Originally produced by Emisore Podcasting.
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For complete show credits, go to the Spotify app.