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WEBVTT - https://subtitletools.com 00:02:41.761 --> 00:02:43.362 You can do this. 00:02:49.836 --> 00:02:51.370 Steady! 00:03:33.479 --> 00:03:35.247 Give me your hand! 00:03:39.619 --> 00:03:41.420 I can't reach! 00:03:50.597 --> 00:03:51.930 No!! 00:03:55.001 --> 00:03:57.236 What do I do?! 00:03:59.973 --> 00:04:01.473 Here! 00:08:07.753 --> 00:08:13.091 - Okay. September 4th, take two a long way home. 00:11:28.754 --> 00:11:31.690 - Hey, coming in at the top of the charts this week 00:11:31.692 --> 00:11:33.792 it's a new band... 00:12:03.422 --> 00:12:05.223 - Come on... 00:14:24.964 --> 00:14:28.366 - One day, in a little village close to where I used to live, 00:14:28.368 --> 00:14:32.904 but far from me today, a little girl was born. 00:14:38.978 --> 00:14:40.645 She was called vaysha. 00:14:40.647 --> 00:14:43.314 A beautiful little girl, said the villagers. 00:14:43.582 --> 00:14:47.252 Her mother looked at her with adoration. 00:14:48.454 --> 00:14:52.490 How could this mother, leaning over the cradle, 00:14:52.492 --> 00:14:57.428 imagine that her little girl's eyes would see things this way? 00:14:57.897 --> 00:14:59.597 Little vaysha had been born 00:14:59.599 --> 00:15:01.299 with a left eye that only saw the past 00:15:01.301 --> 00:15:01.666 and a right eye that only saw the future. 00:15:05.471 --> 00:15:08.273 When little vaysha grew up and began to talk, 00:15:08.275 --> 00:15:11.342 she explained that she saw the sky like this. 00:15:13.479 --> 00:15:15.647 And even though her eyes were open, 00:15:15.649 --> 00:15:17.682 like those of any sighted person, 00:15:17.684 --> 00:15:20.585 it was as though vaysha was blind. 00:15:20.587 --> 00:15:22.320 "Vaysha the blind girl." 00:15:22.322 --> 00:15:25.356 This was how everyone came to call her. 00:15:45.577 --> 00:15:47.645 Everyone was convinced that vaysha's eyes 00:15:49.515 --> 00:15:51.382 were the result of black magic. 00:15:52.385 --> 00:15:54.686 A gaggle of old medicine women 00:15:54.688 --> 00:15:58.156 paraded into the house to identify the spell 00:15:58.158 --> 00:16:00.992 and attempt to heal the little girl of this affliction. 00:16:19.445 --> 00:16:21.479 Drink the extract of blue thistle 00:16:22.081 --> 00:16:24.248 for 40 days before the sun rises. 00:16:25.017 --> 00:16:28.586 Place the gallbladder of a buzzard on the left eye, 00:16:28.588 --> 00:16:31.356 the heart of a rooster on the right eye, 00:16:31.358 --> 00:16:33.992 an oscillated peacock feather 00:16:33.994 --> 00:16:36.995 and the tongue of a horned viper on both. 00:16:48.474 --> 00:16:51.342 The old woman whispered that nothing would work 00:16:51.344 --> 00:16:54.045 unless a way was found to reunite her eyes 00:16:54.047 --> 00:16:56.414 and bring her back to this world. 00:16:56.416 --> 00:17:00.418 All attempts to restore her normal vision failed. 00:17:05.624 --> 00:17:09.293 In the courtyard, she advanced with outstretched arms, 00:17:09.295 --> 00:17:11.195 and bumped into the cherry tree. 00:17:11.197 --> 00:17:12.730 She toppled pots in the shed. 00:17:12.732 --> 00:17:15.233 Ripe cherries or the pots to gather them - 00:17:15.235 --> 00:17:18.069 these did not exist for her. 00:17:18.071 --> 00:17:21.272 In her eyes, the present did not exist. 00:17:24.276 --> 00:17:25.810 Vaysha grew up. 00:17:25.812 --> 00:17:27.612 She became a beautiful young woman. 00:17:27.614 --> 00:17:31.315 The fact that she had one green eye and one brown eye 00:17:31.317 --> 00:17:33.351 only added to her beauty. 00:17:33.353 --> 00:17:38.156 One day, a young man came to ask for her hand. 00:17:38.158 --> 00:17:40.758 When she laid her eyes on him, this is what she saw. 00:17:40.760 --> 00:17:45.129 - My goodness, what has 00:17:45.131 --> 00:17:47.065 ...his hair is all white. 00:17:47.067 --> 00:17:50.134 Poor dear. My goodness, he smells like dirt. 00:17:50.136 --> 00:17:51.803 His shirt is not tucked in his pants, 60 00:17:51,805 --> 00:17:51,803 his knees are all scraped. 00:17:51.805 --> 00:17:56.507 His time has come and he's asking me to marry him. 00:17:56.509 --> 00:17:59.310 I could be his mother. It must be a joke. 00:17:59.312 --> 00:18:02.213 - The same story was repeated with each suitor. 00:18:03.115 --> 00:18:05.483 Vaysha was unable to find any man 00:18:05.485 --> 00:18:08.086 who could unite her sight. 00:18:09.621 --> 00:18:12.156 She rarely left the house. 00:18:12.158 --> 00:18:15.827 In her eyes, the present did not exist. 00:18:22.134 --> 00:18:23.534 Even at night, 00:18:23.536 --> 00:18:26.671 while vaysha slept, she could not truly rest. 00:18:26.673 --> 00:18:28.673 She had nightmares. 00:18:28.675 --> 00:18:33.244 Like a serpent's tongue, her dreams would split in two. 00:18:33.246 --> 00:18:36.848 On one side, she saw herself as a little girl; 00:18:36.850 --> 00:18:40.852 and on the other, she saw herself already dead. 00:18:40.854 --> 00:18:43.521 Sometimes the difference between the two eyes was slight, 00:18:43.523 --> 00:18:45.523 only a few hours apart. 00:18:45.525 --> 00:18:48.693 For the left eye, the sun had just risen. 00:18:48.695 --> 00:18:51.696 The right eye was already seeing the moon shine. 00:18:51.698 --> 00:18:53.698 But other times, 00:18:53.700 --> 00:18:57.201 her left eye only showed her an abyss and a great void, 00:18:57.203 --> 00:18:59.237 like that which preceded creation, 00:18:59.239 --> 00:19:03.541 while her right eye could only perceive ruins and disaster, 00:19:03.543 --> 00:19:06.611 after what could have been an apocalypse. 00:19:09.882 --> 00:19:13.451 It was difficult for vaysha to live with her disability. 00:19:13.453 --> 00:19:16.287 This is why one day, out of desperation, 00:19:16.289 --> 00:19:19.924 she had the idea of tearing out an eye with her own hands. 00:19:19.926 --> 00:19:22.460 But she didn't know which one. 00:19:22.462 --> 00:19:24.395 If she chose to remove her left eye, 00:19:24.397 --> 00:19:27.198 that would mean that she would live forever in the future. 00:19:28.600 --> 00:19:30.468 And the future... 00:19:48.453 --> 00:19:51.489 And the future, it scared her. 00:19:51.491 --> 00:19:54.225 It was dark and depressing. 00:19:55.294 --> 00:19:57.828 However, if she removed her right eye, 00:19:57.830 --> 00:20:00.331 she could live in the past, 00:20:00.333 --> 00:20:02.967 which is always more certain and reassuring. 00:20:02.969 --> 00:20:06.571 But how to live with parents who are young children? 00:20:09.942 --> 00:20:11.976 Vaysha could not be happy, 00:20:11.978 --> 00:20:14.679 neither in the past nor in the future. 00:20:14.681 --> 00:20:16.981 This story is a hopeless story, 00:20:16.983 --> 00:20:19.684 because we cannot find anything in this world 00:20:19.686 --> 00:20:22.920 capable of reuniting these two views. 00:20:33.398 --> 00:20:35.967 And now, dear audience, 00:20:35.969 --> 00:20:38.502 close your right eye. 00:20:38.504 --> 00:20:41.505 How sad if, with your left eye, 00:20:41.507 --> 00:20:44.976 you could no longer see any film or any story, 00:20:44.978 --> 00:20:48.246 only the blank page preceding the story. 00:20:49.648 --> 00:20:51.415 Woe to you. 00:20:52.818 --> 00:20:54.986 And now close your left eye. 00:20:55.954 --> 00:20:57.722 If you still do not see the film, 00:20:57.724 --> 00:20:58.856 because it is already erased 00:21:00.626 --> 00:21:02.493 and the images have become dust and white ash... 00:21:04.396 --> 00:21:06.330 Woe to me. 00:21:09.034 --> 00:21:11.302 Do we look at the world 00:21:11.304 --> 00:21:13.671 with the eyes of vaysha the blind? 00:22:08.660 --> 00:22:11.362 I received a Christmas card this morning. 00:22:11.364 --> 00:22:14.765 It didn't come with the regular mail for some reason. 00:22:14.767 --> 00:22:16.701 That was a bit strange. 00:22:16.703 --> 00:22:20.671 It was also strange that it was addressed from my friend techno. 00:22:20.673 --> 00:22:24.041 It read: "Hey rob, if you are reading this, that 00:22:24.043 --> 00:22:26.777 means I'm dead. 00:22:26.779 --> 00:22:28.412 I just want to say thanks. 00:22:28.414 --> 00:22:30.981 I'll see you soon. 00:22:30.983 --> 00:22:32.650 Go get drunk on me. 00:22:32.652 --> 00:22:35.820 Techno." 00:22:35.822 --> 00:22:37.555 Techno stypes. 00:22:37.557 --> 00:22:39.123 What a guy he was. 00:22:39.125 --> 00:22:41.492 He always said he'd never make it to forty. 00:22:46.064 --> 00:22:50.134 A year and a half earlier, i was on a plane to China, 00:22:50.136 --> 00:22:52.103 I was on my way to see techno. 00:22:55.040 --> 00:22:58.442 He was at the military hospital in Guangzhou, 00:22:58.444 --> 00:23:00.544 waiting for a new liver. 00:23:00.546 --> 00:23:05.783 His father sent me with two clear instructions: One - gotta 00:23:05.785 --> 00:23:08.953 get techno to stop drinking, at least long enough 00:23:08.955 --> 00:23:11.489 to receive a liver transplant. 00:23:11.491 --> 00:23:14.792 And two - get him back home to Vancouver. 00:23:20.165 --> 00:23:22.566 Get techno to stop drinking... 00:23:22.568 --> 00:23:24.969 That's not gonna be easy. 00:23:24.971 --> 00:23:28.005 Cos that's what techno really liked to do... 00:23:28.007 --> 00:23:29.974 Was drink. 00:23:31.176 --> 00:23:33.077 And smoke. 00:23:36.014 --> 00:23:37.515 And fight. 00:23:37.949 --> 00:23:41.051 He was in no condition to fight. 00:23:41.053 --> 00:23:42.920 He was sick. 00:23:43.188 --> 00:23:45.089 He was really sick. 00:23:45.924 --> 00:23:49.460 He was crippled from a car accident when he was seventeen, 00:23:49.462 --> 00:23:51.996 but that's not how he lost his big toe. 00:23:51.998 --> 00:23:55.933 He lost that in a motorbike accident. 00:23:55.935 --> 00:23:58.969 Yeah, he was broken alright. 00:23:59.638 --> 00:24:02.773 What was he fighting for anyways? 00:24:02.775 --> 00:24:05.609 And what was he still doing in China? 00:24:08.447 --> 00:24:12.583 I first met techno in the fall of 1978. 00:24:12.585 --> 00:24:16.720 My first memory of techno was, we were playing soccer 00:24:16.722 --> 00:24:21.725 on this field, and, the ball was coming right to me. 00:24:21.727 --> 00:24:24.195 Right when I was about to jump for it, this kid jumped right in 00:24:24.197 --> 00:24:26.464 front of me and he jumped higher than 00:24:26.466 --> 00:24:29.099 I'd ever seen anybody jump before. 00:24:29.101 --> 00:24:32.236 And he chested the ball, sorta trapped it, and then he 00:24:32.238 --> 00:24:36.574 kicked it, from about halfway across the field, 00:24:36.576 --> 00:24:39.109 and I'm pretty sure he scored.... 00:24:39.111 --> 00:24:42.947 Another time, there was this sports day at school, 00:24:42.949 --> 00:24:46.050 and I remember he casually picked up this ball, 00:24:46.052 --> 00:24:49.253 and he chucked it, right across the field. 00:24:49.255 --> 00:24:52.590 And I remember going up after him, and thinking 'oh I could do 00:24:52.592 --> 00:24:58.162 that', and I chucked the ball as hard as I could, and it only 00:24:58.164 --> 00:25:00.731 went halfway across the field. 00:25:00.733 --> 00:25:03.000 For the next little while, i went to that school on the 00:25:03.002 --> 00:25:06.837 weekends and practised throwing balls, to see if I could throw 00:25:06.839 --> 00:25:11.909 it across the field, and i never got anywhere near it. 00:25:11.911 --> 00:25:13.978 But I'll tell you one thing. 00:25:13.980 --> 00:25:16.947 Techno was fast. 00:25:16.949 --> 00:25:21.185 Techno was the fastest human I'd ever seen. 00:25:21.187 --> 00:25:24.755 When he ran, he just took off. 00:25:24.757 --> 00:25:27.725 There's no way you could ever catch him. 00:25:28.627 --> 00:25:33.163 And so there I was, I couldn't really Chuck a ball too far, 00:25:33.165 --> 00:25:35.232 and I didn't really play hockey, 00:25:35.234 --> 00:25:37.835 and I didn't really play soccer either. 00:25:37.837 --> 00:25:42.306 All I did, all the time, was I used to draw. 00:25:43.808 --> 00:25:46.076 And that's the one thing i could do that techno couldn't 00:25:46.078 --> 00:25:52.116 really do, and so, we became friends after that. 00:25:57.022 --> 00:26:00.691 One day techno said, 'hey, do you wanna go shoot some balls 00:26:00.693 --> 00:26:06.163 around after school?' And I said 'yeah, ok.' In the middle of us 00:26:06.165 --> 00:26:09.767 playing around, techno went berserk, he proceeded to break 00:26:09.769 --> 00:26:12.202 about 20 windows at the school. 00:26:12.204 --> 00:26:16.240 We were walking home, and we got picked up by a squad car, and I 00:26:16.242 --> 00:26:18.943 remember thinking i really didn't like to be 00:26:18.945 --> 00:26:20.911 in the back of a squad car. 00:26:21.947 --> 00:26:26.917 I looked over, and techno thought it was great. 00:26:26.919 --> 00:26:29.119 And that kind of explains the difference 00:26:29.121 --> 00:26:31.956 between the two of us. 00:26:31.958 --> 00:26:35.726 And we were only like twelve years old, and he used to tell 00:26:35.728 --> 00:26:39.229 us these stories about fucking his girlfriend, and I remember I 00:26:39.231 --> 00:26:43.834 didn't even have pubic hair yet like that's how young we were. 00:26:43.836 --> 00:26:46.704 I guess that's the thing with him, it seemed like he could 00:26:46.706 --> 00:26:49.173 always just pull it off. 00:26:49.175 --> 00:26:51.642 Whether he was diving off a cliff, 00:26:51.644 --> 00:26:54.645 or riding his skateboard through traffic... 00:26:54.647 --> 00:26:58.282 It just seemed like he could always just pull it off. 00:27:20.005 --> 00:27:23.007 Techno's daredevil heroics were the stuff of legend 00:27:23.009 --> 00:27:25.776 to us regular teenagers. 00:27:27.412 --> 00:27:31.715 To befriend techno was to board a thrill ride of some sort. 00:27:41.893 --> 00:27:45.295 Techno pushed the limits of whatever situation he was in. 00:27:49.067 --> 00:27:54.071 The greater the danger, the greater the thrill. 00:28:27.372 --> 00:28:29.139 He loved to steal. 00:28:29.141 --> 00:28:33.777 Cars, bikes, electronics, he didn't care. 00:28:33.779 --> 00:28:36.346 He always had some sort of scam on the go. 00:28:36.348 --> 00:28:39.249 And was always covering it with lies. 00:28:39.251 --> 00:28:41.452 The stealing eventually got him in trouble with some of the 00:28:41.454 --> 00:28:44.254 senior students in high school. 00:28:46.091 --> 00:28:48.125 That was bad news. 00:28:49.160 --> 00:28:52.863 Then he started stealing from his friends. 00:28:52.865 --> 00:28:55.733 Then nobody could trust him. 00:28:57.769 --> 00:29:00.204 It was around this time, that techno started hanging around 00:29:00.206 --> 00:29:02.306 with a bunch of dickheads wearing alligator shirts with 00:29:02.308 --> 00:29:04.842 the collars turned up. 00:29:06.778 --> 00:29:08.979 I didn't really care much for these guys, but, 00:29:08.981 --> 00:29:13.183 I have to admit, they were getting lots of pussy. 00:29:13.185 --> 00:29:16.153 One evening, techno phoned me up and asked me if I wanted to go 00:29:16.155 --> 00:29:21.859 to a party at the other end of town, with his dickhead buddies. 00:29:21.861 --> 00:29:23.460 I declined. 00:29:24.496 --> 00:29:27.264 It was the summer of our graduation. 00:29:27.266 --> 00:29:29.466 We were seventeen. 00:29:34.939 --> 00:29:37.474 Techno was completely in control, and completely 00:29:37.476 --> 00:29:40.944 out of control at the same time. 00:29:46.152 --> 00:29:50.387 An emergency crew showed up to the scene of the accident... 00:29:50.389 --> 00:29:53.791 And techno was nowhere to be seen. 00:29:53.793 --> 00:29:56.193 After some time they found him in a bush... 00:29:56.195 --> 00:29:59.163 Fifty yards away from the crash site. 00:30:00.231 --> 00:30:06.069 He was busted up pretty good, he nearly lost a leg 00:30:06.071 --> 00:30:09.139 and there was some significant brain trauma. 00:30:12.577 --> 00:30:15.979 He drifted in and out of consciousness long enough 00:30:15.981 --> 00:30:19.216 to wave goodbye to me. 00:30:19.218 --> 00:30:22.252 I was on my way to the airport. 00:30:22.254 --> 00:30:25.289 I was off to calgary to become a realtor. 00:30:28.459 --> 00:30:31.161 Techno had a very long recovery and his 00:30:31.163 --> 00:30:34.431 friends gradually stopped visiting. 00:30:34.433 --> 00:30:38.035 He'd burned a lot of Bridges right before the accident. 00:30:38.037 --> 00:30:39.469 It must've been very lonely sitting in the hospital for the 00:30:39.471 --> 00:30:43.173 better part of two years, 00:30:43.175 --> 00:30:46.210 wondering where all your friends are. 00:30:46.212 --> 00:30:48.445 But recover he did. 00:30:48.447 --> 00:30:53.483 His speech was different, slower and slurred, and he had a limp. 00:30:54.319 --> 00:30:57.621 I'd come by and visit him whenever I was in town... 00:31:02.060 --> 00:31:06.864 This is right around the time he started to drink regularly. 00:31:06.866 --> 00:31:08.398 One day techno announced that his 00:31:08.400 --> 00:31:10.500 insurance settlement had came in. 00:31:10.502 --> 00:31:12.469 This time he wasn't lying. 00:31:12.471 --> 00:31:16.607 One and a half million dollars it took the lawyers ten years 00:31:16.609 --> 00:31:18.542 to settle his case. 00:31:19.644 --> 00:31:21.979 There were many points in techno's life where you could 00:31:21.981 --> 00:31:26.216 say, 'this was the beginning of all his troubles', the car 00:31:26.218 --> 00:31:31.054 accident was surely one of these points, the day his settlement 00:31:31.056 --> 00:31:33.223 came in was another. 00:31:39.330 --> 00:31:41.565 And that's when Jennifer entered the scene. 00:31:48.539 --> 00:31:50.540 She was a damn drunk. 00:31:53.945 --> 00:31:59.249 When she was done with him he too would be a damn drunk. 00:32:08.159 --> 00:32:10.127 Techno was a funny millionaire. 00:32:19.170 --> 00:32:21.471 He dressed and acted like a skid. 00:32:23.074 --> 00:32:26.476 He smoked dog ends off the street. 00:32:26.478 --> 00:32:30.180 His drink of choice was pear cider. 00:32:30.182 --> 00:32:33.483 Techno asked me to be the best man at his wedding. 00:32:33.485 --> 00:32:35.218 I refused. 00:32:35.553 --> 00:32:38.488 His wife poured spaghetti on his head and burned his eyelids 00:32:38.490 --> 00:32:41.091 with cigarette butts. 00:32:44.128 --> 00:32:48.465 I'm not sure where this happens on the timeline, but one day 00:32:48.467 --> 00:32:51.101 techno was riding his motorbike. 00:32:55.273 --> 00:32:59.343 As he was looking back to merge onto the highway, 00:32:59.345 --> 00:33:02.412 he ran into the merge sign. 00:33:03.648 --> 00:33:07.351 The sign clipped the toe pedal right off his motorbike 00:33:07.353 --> 00:33:09.653 and took his big toe right along with it. 00:33:12.657 --> 00:33:14.691 This would add an even more pronounced limp 00:33:14.693 --> 00:33:16.660 to his walk... 00:33:25.103 --> 00:33:27.037 More time passed. 00:33:43.788 --> 00:33:48.458 One day I went out to the bay where he lived to visit him. 00:33:48.460 --> 00:33:50.027 I pulled over. 00:33:51.529 --> 00:33:54.498 As he bent down to lean into the window I noticed he had 00:33:54.500 --> 00:33:57.801 a really yellow complexion. 00:33:57.803 --> 00:34:01.405 Apparently, he was given bad blood from the hospital 00:34:01.407 --> 00:34:03.807 and contracted hepatitis c. 00:34:03.809 --> 00:34:06.209 He would eventually sue the hospital for 00:34:06.211 --> 00:34:08.612 another 600 thousand dollars. 00:34:08.614 --> 00:34:11.181 By this time techno was very rich. 00:34:11.183 --> 00:34:14.217 He always had an odd assortment of hangers-on available 00:34:14.219 --> 00:34:16.219 to do odd jobs for him. 00:34:16.221 --> 00:34:20.290 There was Freddy the freeloader, dump truck, Teddy two fingers, 00:34:20.292 --> 00:34:21.825 and dogbreath... 00:34:21.827 --> 00:34:24.161 This guy was a piece of work. 00:34:24.163 --> 00:34:26.596 Most of them were crackheads. 00:34:26.598 --> 00:34:29.066 Techno could stay up for days on end, 00:34:29.068 --> 00:34:32.269 Polish off dozens of pear cider in one sitting. 00:34:32.271 --> 00:34:36.540 He'd get drunk and get on the horn, and call everyone he knew 00:34:36.542 --> 00:34:39.643 and invite them to parties at his buddy's warehouse. 00:34:39.645 --> 00:34:41.812 He claimed celebrities would be in attendance, 00:34:41.814 --> 00:34:44.714 like that douchebag from nickelback. 00:34:44.716 --> 00:34:47.651 No-one I ever knew went to these parties. 00:34:50.755 --> 00:34:53.323 Techno knew his days were numbered. 00:34:53.325 --> 00:34:56.326 He carried on as if he just didn't care. 00:34:56.328 --> 00:35:00.664 According to him, he had been right on the edge. 00:35:00.666 --> 00:35:02.599 He wanted to live. 00:35:02.601 --> 00:35:05.602 He loved life in fact, he just had so much pain. 00:35:05.604 --> 00:35:10.173 Pain in his legs, he said the hep c was terribly painful, 00:35:10.175 --> 00:35:12.576 he was always vomiting. 00:35:12.578 --> 00:35:16.580 He loved to drink, and claimed this was the only thing 00:35:16.582 --> 00:35:19.182 that relieved his pain. 00:35:19.184 --> 00:35:24.287 The combination of drinking and the hep c wore out his liver, 00:35:24.289 --> 00:35:27.290 in pretty short order. 00:35:27.292 --> 00:35:30.694 The Canadian transplant society refused to put him on 00:35:30.696 --> 00:35:33.296 the ten year waiting list for a new liver 00:35:33.298 --> 00:35:36.399 unless he stopped drinking. 00:35:36.401 --> 00:35:39.202 In ten years he'd be dead anyways. 00:35:39.204 --> 00:35:42.305 Catch-22. 00:35:42.307 --> 00:35:44.274 Later... 00:35:45.843 --> 00:35:47.777 I was in China. 00:35:47.779 --> 00:35:50.547 I received an email from techno's mother saying that he 00:35:50.549 --> 00:35:54.518 too was in China, and perhaps I could go see him? 00:35:54.520 --> 00:35:57.521 As it turned out, he wasn't far away from where I was. 00:35:57.523 --> 00:35:59.556 He was there with his second wife. 00:36:01.325 --> 00:36:03.760 What was techno doing in China? 00:36:05.897 --> 00:36:08.365 Techno met Vince in some unlikely place 00:36:08.367 --> 00:36:11.301 in Vancouver, in a pub. 00:36:11.303 --> 00:36:13.937 Vince was in the business of organising transplant services 00:36:13.939 --> 00:36:16.773 for those in need. 00:36:16.775 --> 00:36:20.377 Techno was on his last legs. 00:36:20.379 --> 00:36:22.712 These services did not come cheap however... 00:36:22.714 --> 00:36:25.749 A quarter of a million dollars up front. 00:36:25.751 --> 00:36:27.784 He promised that techno would be back home 00:36:27.786 --> 00:36:30.887 in six weeks with a new liver. 00:36:30.889 --> 00:36:35.192 We met him at the white swan restaurant in Guangzhou. 00:36:36.661 --> 00:36:38.662 He didn't look too good. 00:36:43.834 --> 00:36:46.570 He was totally sketched out. 00:36:46.572 --> 00:36:49.539 I found it strange at dinner when techno ordered a cocktail, 00:36:49.541 --> 00:36:51.908 that it met no resistance from his wife. 00:36:51.910 --> 00:36:55.579 They both assured me that his old liver was shot anyways, 00:36:55.581 --> 00:36:58.548 and that he'd be receiving a new one soon. 00:36:58.550 --> 00:37:00.917 That all seemed perfectly logical to me, 00:37:00.919 --> 00:37:02.953 and I also ordered a cocktail. 00:37:04.322 --> 00:37:07.757 It was a perfectly festive evening...Techno's drinking soon 00:37:07.759 --> 00:37:12.429 erupted into utter chaos, just like it always did. 00:37:12.431 --> 00:37:15.398 He was making things more difficult, in spite of us all 00:37:15.400 --> 00:37:17.300 there trying to help him. 00:37:21.639 --> 00:37:24.741 We left secure in the knowledge that techno would soon be back 00:37:24.743 --> 00:37:26.643 home with a new liver. 00:37:28.012 --> 00:37:29.846 Months passed... 00:37:29.848 --> 00:37:32.949 I got word techno was still in China, still waiting for a 00:37:32.951 --> 00:37:35.752 liver, except now the situation had spun 00:37:35.754 --> 00:37:37.921 completely out of control. 00:37:37.923 --> 00:37:40.390 His wife left him there by himself, 00:37:40.392 --> 00:37:42.425 he started drinking again. 00:37:42.427 --> 00:37:43.727 It really didn't look like techno 00:37:43.729 --> 00:37:45.929 was gonna make it home alive. 00:37:45.931 --> 00:37:49.032 I met with techno's father, we cooked up this plan to try to 00:37:49.034 --> 00:37:52.469 get techno back home one way or the other. 00:37:52.471 --> 00:37:55.038 I phoned him up and I said 'look, I'm gonna come out there 00:37:55.040 --> 00:37:57.374 and we're gonna try and get you back home again,' 00:37:57.376 --> 00:37:58.908 and all he said was 00:37:58.910 --> 00:38:01.678 'well hurry the fuck up.' 00:38:01.680 --> 00:38:04.781 I really didn't want to go back to China... 00:38:04.783 --> 00:38:07.717 So there I am on the airplane. 00:38:07.719 --> 00:38:10.487 I could see the sprawling mass of Guangzhou 00:38:10.489 --> 00:38:12.989 appear out of the haze. 00:38:12.991 --> 00:38:17.661 And as the plane approached the runway, the real work 00:38:17.663 --> 00:38:19.329 was just about to begin. 00:38:26.737 --> 00:38:28.838 I passed through customs and entered 00:38:28.840 --> 00:38:30.874 the main concourse of the airport. 00:38:30.876 --> 00:38:32.642 There was a little girl there named flora, 00:38:32.644 --> 00:38:34.511 holding my name on a card. 00:38:34.513 --> 00:38:38.381 We exchanged greetings and she went off to look for techno. 00:38:38.383 --> 00:38:41.851 After a while techno appeared. 00:38:41.853 --> 00:38:43.486 He shook my hand. 00:38:43.488 --> 00:38:46.489 His expression was something like 'thanks for coming here 00:38:46.491 --> 00:38:51.394 man', mine was 'now let's get you the fuck outta here.' 00:38:51.396 --> 00:38:54.764 back at the military hospital, I met dr Lee. 00:38:54.766 --> 00:38:56.866 He explained to me that it was imperative that 00:38:56.868 --> 00:38:58.535 techno quit drinking. 00:38:58.537 --> 00:39:01.604 The sooner he quit, the sooner he was able to receive a new 00:39:01.606 --> 00:39:04.040 liver, it was that simple. 00:39:04.042 --> 00:39:07.644 And also, if I could get rid of that damn cat in his room. 00:39:07.646 --> 00:39:09.446 I turned to techno... 00:39:09.448 --> 00:39:11.548 'Ok, where is it?' 00:39:11.550 --> 00:39:15.485 he knew exactly what I was talking about. 00:39:15.487 --> 00:39:20.623 He produced a bottle of baijo, he was mixing it with gatorade. 00:39:20.625 --> 00:39:22.525 'All of it' I said. 00:39:24.095 --> 00:39:27.130 It took a while, but eventually he gathered up all his various 00:39:27.132 --> 00:39:30.367 stashes of liquor hidden around his room. 00:39:30.369 --> 00:39:33.136 Satisfied, I dumped it all out in the toilet, 00:39:33.138 --> 00:39:35.572 he didn't like that very much. 00:39:35.574 --> 00:39:39.709 On the way out I grabbed the cat and released it in the courtyard 00:39:39.711 --> 00:39:41.678 in the rear of the building. 00:39:46.083 --> 00:39:49.419 And then I checked into the hotel next to the hospital. 00:39:50.154 --> 00:39:54.791 I set up my computer and scanner and got busy on my second book. 00:40:08.439 --> 00:40:11.574 The next day I went to go visit techno in his room. 00:40:12.610 --> 00:40:15.178 He was in the middle of his daily routine. 00:40:15.180 --> 00:40:16.780 He was sitting on the side of his bed 00:40:16.782 --> 00:40:20.150 vomiting into a trash bin. 00:40:20.152 --> 00:40:22.619 Flora was there, fussing with his hair and 00:40:22.621 --> 00:40:24.454 straightening out his shirt. 00:40:24.456 --> 00:40:26.856 I busied myself with something. 00:40:26.858 --> 00:40:30.427 I noticed the cat had somehow returned to the room. 00:40:30.429 --> 00:40:31.861 I removed it again. 00:40:36.767 --> 00:40:38.768 Techno was hooked up to an intravenous drip for 00:40:38.770 --> 00:40:40.804 the rest of the morning. 00:40:40.806 --> 00:40:43.440 We watched an episode of Seinfeld... 00:40:43.442 --> 00:40:46.042 I'm not sure what was in that drip, but it surely kept him 00:40:46.044 --> 00:40:48.645 alive all these months. 00:40:48.647 --> 00:40:51.848 Techno rarely got going until mid-afternoon, and then we would 00:40:51.850 --> 00:40:53.917 set out on our little adventure. 00:40:53.919 --> 00:40:57.520 This was usually something simple like going for lunch. 00:41:00.624 --> 00:41:03.827 He had the hospital address written on a piece of paper and 00:41:03.829 --> 00:41:05.562 set in plastic. 00:41:05.564 --> 00:41:08.731 This was tied around his neck with a piece of string. 00:41:08.733 --> 00:41:12.936 It said something like: 'If you find me, please return me to 00:41:12.938 --> 00:41:16.906 'dot dot dot'.' Simple but effective. 00:41:16.908 --> 00:41:19.709 He had a collection of business cards from local restaurants 00:41:19.711 --> 00:41:21.678 he'd show to taxi drivers. 00:41:21.680 --> 00:41:24.881 On this particular day, we were going to the German restaurant. 00:41:24.883 --> 00:41:27.550 He of course immediately ordered a cocktail, 00:41:27.552 --> 00:41:29.152 which I had to confiscate. 00:41:30.221 --> 00:41:34.023 I always felt like a fuckin cop when I was with that guy. 00:41:34.025 --> 00:41:37.861 It was normal for him to shut down for a while after lunch. 00:41:37.863 --> 00:41:39.996 This he did with much discomfort. 00:41:39.998 --> 00:41:42.866 After about an hour he'd bum a smoke of some poor Chinese 00:41:42.868 --> 00:41:46.269 fellow and then we would get back to the hospital and he'd go 00:41:46.271 --> 00:41:49.506 for a nap back in his room and I'd continue working on my book 00:41:49.508 --> 00:41:51.508 back at the hotel. 00:41:51.510 --> 00:41:56.045 At night I'd come by for another generous dose of Seinfeld. 00:41:56.047 --> 00:41:59.048 This routine would repeat itself like clockwork. 00:42:00.184 --> 00:42:03.887 A week later my wife arrived, thank god. 00:42:03.889 --> 00:42:05.722 I was already going nuts. 00:42:05.724 --> 00:42:08.525 Back at the hospital, i continued to remove the cat from 00:42:08.527 --> 00:42:12.595 techno's room every day, 'what the fuck.' Techno didn't know 00:42:12.597 --> 00:42:14.163 what was going on either. 00:42:15.566 --> 00:42:17.767 I brought techno food every morning. 00:42:20.070 --> 00:42:24.040 He'd look at it and grimace and say something like 'ah I can't 00:42:24.042 --> 00:42:26.876 eat that kind of lettuce' or 'i can't eat bananas without 00:42:26.878 --> 00:42:30.013 sprinkles on it' or something retarded like that. 00:42:41.091 --> 00:42:43.026 And so it went... 00:42:43.028 --> 00:42:49.832 First it was Seinfeld, then friends, then we discovered 00:42:49.834 --> 00:42:51.301 my name is Earl. 00:42:53.003 --> 00:42:55.638 Other than that, there wasn't much to mark 00:42:55.640 --> 00:42:57.840 the passing of time. 00:42:57.842 --> 00:43:00.610 Techno had his good days, and his bad days. 00:43:00.612 --> 00:43:03.746 He'd looked forward to a special meal for days. 00:43:03.748 --> 00:43:07.083 Techno's immune system was so low, a piece of fish that was 00:43:07.085 --> 00:43:10.787 slightly off or some other funky food would put him down 00:43:10.789 --> 00:43:13.056 for a week or two. 00:43:13.058 --> 00:43:16.359 That was sad when techno got sick like that. 00:43:16.361 --> 00:43:20.930 One day we were in his room watching TV and he got up and 00:43:20.932 --> 00:43:23.866 hobbled to the bathroom with the iv pole. 00:43:32.943 --> 00:43:35.979 When he got out he said 'look, i dragged the iv pole to the 00:43:35.981 --> 00:43:39.382 bathroom and I wasn't even hooked up to it.' We laughed 00:43:39.384 --> 00:43:41.851 until we cried. 00:43:41.853 --> 00:43:44.287 I think we were cracking up. 00:43:44.289 --> 00:43:47.290 Just then the door opened and a hand dropped the cat 00:43:47.292 --> 00:43:49.859 back in the room. 00:43:49.861 --> 00:43:52.795 Things were getting tense back in Vancouver. 00:43:54.031 --> 00:43:55.632 Techno and his father were having a 00:43:55.634 --> 00:43:57.700 bitter dispute about money. 00:43:59.136 --> 00:44:03.339 I saw techno cry that day, I'd never seen that before. 00:44:04.742 --> 00:44:07.944 Thank god flora was there to put her arm around him, cos I didn't 00:44:07.946 --> 00:44:10.380 know what the hell to do. 00:44:17.921 --> 00:44:20.990 I was making great progress with my book. 00:44:20.992 --> 00:44:23.092 I had no distractions in China. 00:44:24.729 --> 00:44:29.198 Sometimes techno would come and visit me in the hotel room. 00:44:46.316 --> 00:44:48.317 After a while he'd say something like 00:44:48.319 --> 00:44:51.354 'i gotta go take my pill' or 'i gotta go get something from my 00:44:51.356 --> 00:44:56.826 room.' I'd give him about five minutes and then 00:44:56.828 --> 00:44:59.028 I'd go chasing after him. 00:45:06.103 --> 00:45:10.440 I hated being a cop, but i was actually pretty good at it. 00:45:10.442 --> 00:45:13.876 It wasn't hard to figure out what techno was up to. 00:45:21.351 --> 00:45:22.885 God. 00:45:23.821 --> 00:45:25.922 And then more time passed. 00:45:27.958 --> 00:45:31.761 Except now, it was the three of us. 00:45:33.130 --> 00:45:34.997 Three foreigners in China. 00:45:36.300 --> 00:45:39.235 We each brought something to the table, but techno was the 00:45:39.237 --> 00:45:42.438 undisputed leader cos he had the hospital address tied 00:45:42.440 --> 00:45:44.440 around his neck. 00:45:44.442 --> 00:45:47.844 Without that, we'd all be sunk. 00:45:47.846 --> 00:45:50.346 Occasionally a liver would come in that matched techno's blood 00:45:50.348 --> 00:45:53.850 type, we were careful not to get our hopes up. 00:45:53.852 --> 00:45:57.386 We weren't supposed to know this but, the sad truth was techno 00:45:57.388 --> 00:46:01.190 was waiting for a liver from some guy on death row. 00:46:01.192 --> 00:46:04.494 I asked techno what he thought about some poor fellow dying 00:46:04.496 --> 00:46:06.529 so that he could live. 00:46:06.531 --> 00:46:10.133 'I don't care.' Techno's favourite answer. 00:46:12.136 --> 00:46:14.403 Eventually a liver did come in. 00:46:15.873 --> 00:46:17.440 A real quality one too. 00:46:18.876 --> 00:46:22.145 Apparently, a fellow in his early twenties was about to be 00:46:22.147 --> 00:46:26.449 executed and he had the same blood type as techno. 00:46:26.451 --> 00:46:29.018 We couldn't help but get our hopes up this time. 00:46:29.020 --> 00:46:32.121 Everything happened really quickly after that. 00:46:32.123 --> 00:46:35.124 Techno was prepped for surgery in the morning and then we 00:46:35.126 --> 00:46:37.226 wheeled him to the other building where they perform the 00:46:37.228 --> 00:46:39.796 transplant surgeries. 00:46:39.798 --> 00:46:41.898 I remember looking at a pile of rubbish in the corner of the 00:46:41.900 --> 00:46:46.002 elevator and thinking how filthy this hospital was. 00:46:46.004 --> 00:46:48.971 I'd never seen techno so scared. 00:46:48.973 --> 00:46:53.075 The transplant ward had flickery lights and holes in the ceiling, 00:46:53.077 --> 00:46:55.945 and then they wheeled him off through the double doors 00:46:55.947 --> 00:46:57.513 and he was gone. 00:47:00.551 --> 00:47:03.119 Kung and I walked back to the hotel. 00:47:03.121 --> 00:47:06.556 That dumb cat darted out in front of us on the way back. 00:47:08.959 --> 00:47:11.294 We were called back to return to the hospital. 00:47:12.896 --> 00:47:14.931 Dr Lee wanted to show us techno's old liver 00:47:14.933 --> 00:47:17.033 for some reason. 00:47:17.035 --> 00:47:21.237 This infamous liver that's been the source of so much grief, I 00:47:21.239 --> 00:47:23.873 had to take a look at it. 00:47:23.875 --> 00:47:27.210 A couple of days later we saw techno in the isolation ward. 00:47:27.212 --> 00:47:29.946 He was behind glass with some other patients. 00:47:29.948 --> 00:47:32.448 He had tubes running down his mouth and he was hooked up to 00:47:32.450 --> 00:47:34.350 all sorts of machines. 00:47:34.352 --> 00:47:39.055 After a few more days, he had moved into his own room. 00:47:40.290 --> 00:47:41.991 We had to wear hospital gowns, 00:47:41.993 --> 00:47:45.027 masks to avoid him getting an infection. 00:47:45.029 --> 00:47:49.198 He jumped out of bed and shook my hand, he was clearly pleased. 00:47:49.200 --> 00:47:51.968 And then he went over to the TV and started adjusting 00:47:51.970 --> 00:47:53.269 the angle on it. 00:47:53.271 --> 00:47:57.340 The nurses were chasing him around the room. 00:47:57.342 --> 00:48:00.042 He must've been high on drugs or something cos he sure regretted 00:48:00.044 --> 00:48:01.611 doing that later. 00:48:04.548 --> 00:48:08.251 Rejection was a big issue at this time. 00:48:08.253 --> 00:48:12.154 It was amazing to see the transformation in him, 00:48:12.156 --> 00:48:14.023 and it happened so quickly as well. 00:48:14.025 --> 00:48:16.025 First his eyeballs became white, 00:48:16.027 --> 00:48:18.928 and then his thinking became clear again. 00:48:18.930 --> 00:48:23.299 Before the surgery it seemed like he was always bogged down. 00:48:23.301 --> 00:48:25.635 It was an awesome thing to watch. 00:48:25.637 --> 00:48:29.505 But, he still couldn't leave his room. 00:48:29.507 --> 00:48:32.174 He had beaten the odds. 00:48:32.176 --> 00:48:35.411 One day I was in his room, he was sleeping. 00:48:35.413 --> 00:48:38.247 He was chewing, and putting handfuls of air 00:48:38.249 --> 00:48:40.182 in his mouth and chewing. 00:48:40.184 --> 00:48:43.920 He woke up and said 'ah man, i was having this great dream 00:48:43.922 --> 00:48:47.423 about food.' I asked him on another occasion 'what does it 00:48:47.425 --> 00:48:54.397 feel like to have a new liver?' He said 'it feels, it feels like 00:48:54.399 --> 00:48:58.234 somebody removed a frozen lasagne out of my chest and 00:48:58.236 --> 00:49:03.239 replaced it with another frozen lasagne.' Now it was time to 00:49:03.241 --> 00:49:05.708 plan the exit strategy, but first we had to 00:49:05.710 --> 00:49:07.310 pay off the hospital. 00:49:07.312 --> 00:49:09.979 For some reason the hospital only took cash. 00:49:09.981 --> 00:49:12.048 Techno's father had to organise a massive 00:49:12.050 --> 00:49:14.083 western union transfer. 00:49:14.085 --> 00:49:15.484 It was a big fuck up. 00:49:15.486 --> 00:49:19.188 Western union didn't wanna transfer that much money. 00:49:19.190 --> 00:49:24.160 It took all day, but in the end we had a big bag full of 00:49:24.162 --> 00:49:26.095 one hundred renminbi notes. 00:49:26.097 --> 00:49:28.631 It was a stack of notes over two feet long. 00:49:28.633 --> 00:49:31.734 Me and two little Asian girls were my backup. 00:49:35.038 --> 00:49:37.440 We returned to techno's room. 00:49:37.442 --> 00:49:40.343 First we wanted to take a look at the piles of money, 00:49:40.345 --> 00:49:42.411 I could see techno's eyes light up. 00:49:42.413 --> 00:49:45.314 For a moment I had second thoughts about leaving all that 00:49:45.316 --> 00:49:47.149 money in his room. 00:49:47.151 --> 00:49:49.719 The next day was another split second timing day. 00:49:49.721 --> 00:49:52.121 I had to collect the money from techno's room. 00:49:52.123 --> 00:49:55.057 He was barking orders and being rude to everyone, I stopped 00:49:55.059 --> 00:49:57.193 talking to him for a few hours. 00:49:57.195 --> 00:49:59.128 I had plenty of other stuff I had to do. 00:49:59.130 --> 00:50:01.197 First I had to go pay off dr Lee, 00:50:01.199 --> 00:50:03.399 then I had to rush over and pay the hospital. 00:50:03.401 --> 00:50:06.635 Everything went perfectly smooth, except one of the stacks 00:50:06.637 --> 00:50:11.207 of bills was short a one hundred renminbi note. 00:50:11.209 --> 00:50:15.411 I made the difference with my own money, then I rushed back. 00:50:15.413 --> 00:50:18.414 Dr Lee had to explain how all the anti-rejection drugs had to 00:50:18.416 --> 00:50:21.317 be taken, all of which was in mandarin. 00:50:23.053 --> 00:50:26.222 Then I had to rush back and collect techno, who was having a 00:50:26.224 --> 00:50:28.357 smoke by the lobby. 00:50:28.359 --> 00:50:31.627 He had a surgical mask pulled down, he was wearing his black 00:50:31.629 --> 00:50:36.165 cowboy hat and his white suit, which was two sizes too big. 00:50:36.167 --> 00:50:39.602 I told him about the missing note and he said 'yeah I know, 00:50:39.604 --> 00:50:41.237 cos I took it.' 00:50:42.406 --> 00:50:44.373 long pause... 00:50:46.643 --> 00:50:48.044 I was steaming. 00:50:48.046 --> 00:50:52.681 'Let me get this straight, you stole a hundred renminbi, 00:50:52.683 --> 00:50:56.452 of your own money?' Grabbed his cigarette, snuffed 00:50:56.454 --> 00:50:59.422 it out on the ground and then we headed to the airport. 00:51:02.559 --> 00:51:05.761 First I had to see kung off, and then techno and I had to 00:51:05.763 --> 00:51:08.230 get a plane to Hong Kong. 00:51:08.232 --> 00:51:11.801 And this is where the story gets really fucked up. 00:51:11.803 --> 00:51:14.437 I'd over-stayed my visa by a couple months, 00:51:14.439 --> 00:51:16.372 that's a big deal in China. 00:51:16.374 --> 00:51:20.376 This caused all sorts of alarm bells to start ringing. 00:51:20.378 --> 00:51:22.244 Then they took us to a holding room, 00:51:22.246 --> 00:51:25.314 we were about to miss our connecting flight 00:51:25.316 --> 00:51:29.285 there was no way techno was not going home on that flight, 00:51:29.287 --> 00:51:32.788 so I turned to him and I said 'you go, and I'll meet you 00:51:32.790 --> 00:51:35.591 in Hong Kong.' And that's the second time I saw fear 00:51:35.593 --> 00:51:37.660 in techno's eyes. 00:51:37.662 --> 00:51:42.131 He nodded and then I had this image in my head of him limping 00:51:42.133 --> 00:51:43.766 away from me towards the gate. 00:51:46.136 --> 00:51:50.139 Meanwhile, back in the holding office another guy showed up. 00:51:50.141 --> 00:51:53.175 He said he needed money, he made a space between his fingers 00:51:53.177 --> 00:51:55.144 about an inch and a half deep. 00:51:55.146 --> 00:51:58.547 Hell, I had a wad about 50 inches deep the day before. 00:51:58.549 --> 00:52:01.484 He had someone escort me to a couple of atms and they 00:52:01.486 --> 00:52:04.520 shook me down for about seven hundred us dollars. 00:52:04.522 --> 00:52:07.256 He was actually a pretty nice guy. 00:52:07.258 --> 00:52:09.558 I was about one hour behind techno. 00:52:09.560 --> 00:52:11.760 This is the first time techno was unsupervised 00:52:11.762 --> 00:52:13.662 since he arrived in China. 00:52:13.664 --> 00:52:17.233 We were too close to home to blow it now. 00:52:17.235 --> 00:52:20.202 I arrived in Hong Kong and immediately scanned every bar 00:52:20.204 --> 00:52:22.571 and smoking room all the way to the gate. 00:52:24.741 --> 00:52:28.644 I finally caught up to him at gate one hundred and something. 00:52:28.646 --> 00:52:30.813 He didn't look so good. 00:52:30.815 --> 00:52:34.683 In fact, he never really looked good again after that. 00:52:34.685 --> 00:52:37.319 He walked all the way from gate five. 00:52:37.321 --> 00:52:39.421 I don't know why he didn't get a wheelchair. 00:52:39.423 --> 00:52:42.458 At one point he sat down on a bench that said 'wet paint.' 00:52:42.460 --> 00:52:45.494 he had black marks going across the back of his white suit. 00:52:46.630 --> 00:52:49.431 We boarded the flight to Vancouver. 00:52:49.433 --> 00:52:53.435 He had a business class ticket and I was in coach, 00:52:53.437 --> 00:52:54.703 what the fuck? 00:52:58.708 --> 00:53:03.179 I could see the top of his cowboy hat through the curtains. 00:53:03.181 --> 00:53:06.515 I called the flight attendant aside and I said 'my friend 00:53:06.517 --> 00:53:09.351 cannot drink under any circumstances. 00:53:09.353 --> 00:53:13.556 He's also very persuasive, so don't be fooled.' 00:53:13.558 --> 00:53:15.658 I was totally acting like a cop again. 00:53:18.728 --> 00:53:21.564 And at one point, techno came back to coach 00:53:21.566 --> 00:53:23.666 and sat next to me on the flight. 00:53:25.835 --> 00:53:29.205 He seemed so calm and happy to be going home. 00:53:30.440 --> 00:53:34.310 I hadn't seen techno this happy for a long time. 00:53:34.312 --> 00:53:36.779 With all the commotion happening that day, 00:53:36.781 --> 00:53:40.449 I can't remember if he took his anti-rejection pills. 00:53:40.451 --> 00:53:42.551 He was supposed to take them twice. 00:53:44.854 --> 00:53:47.957 This next part of the story is a little hard to tell. 00:53:47.959 --> 00:53:52.328 It seemed like we had finally got home after this huge ordeal, 00:53:52.330 --> 00:53:54.463 and I handed techno off to his folks. 00:53:56.399 --> 00:53:58.500 I sorta thought I needed some time away from techno 00:53:58.502 --> 00:53:59.802 for a while. 00:54:02.772 --> 00:54:07.376 That night, techno made a turn for the worse, and went into 00:54:07.378 --> 00:54:11.647 pure rejection mode, and began to turn yellow again. 00:54:11.649 --> 00:54:14.984 He was rushed to the Vancouver general hospital. 00:54:14.986 --> 00:54:17.019 Over the course of time his situation went 00:54:17.021 --> 00:54:18.520 from bad to worse. 00:54:20.323 --> 00:54:22.524 I couldn't believe it when I heard the news 00:54:22.526 --> 00:54:24.493 that techno had died. 00:54:28.265 --> 00:54:30.966 Techno was convinced that nothing could kill him. 00:54:30.968 --> 00:54:35.371 The truth is, is that by this time, there really wasn't much 00:54:35.373 --> 00:54:36.839 keeping techno alive. 00:54:40.410 --> 00:54:42.845 His ashes were gonna be distributed out at the cliff 00:54:42.847 --> 00:54:45.914 where he used to dive off of at lighthouse park. 00:54:45.916 --> 00:54:49.752 His father said a few words and distributed his ashes. 00:54:49.754 --> 00:54:52.554 Just then a big gust of wind came and picked up that big 00:54:52.556 --> 00:54:55.724 cloud of ash and blew it towards this group that was about a 00:54:55.726 --> 00:54:59.461 hundred yards downwind from us, and they completely got dusted 00:54:59.463 --> 00:55:01.030 with techno's ashes. 00:55:01.032 --> 00:55:04.600 And his dad said, kinda comically, 00:55:04.602 --> 00:55:11.707 'son, even in death you're still giving me troubles.' 01:02:04.754 --> 01:02:05.854 Max 01:02:06.089 --> 01:02:07.155 Max? 01:02:07.157 --> 01:02:08.356 Max? 01:02:12.829 --> 01:02:13.929 Max! 01:02:15.398 --> 01:02:16.832 Max?! 01:02:17.467 --> 01:02:18.934 Mmh...It's him! 01:11:32.755 --> 01:11:36.024 Today's my birthday and I'm treating myself 01:11:36.026 --> 01:11:39.494 to a trip to the seaside, as I do every year. 01:11:40.296 --> 01:11:44.299 I love sitting down to a meal of fresh grilled fish 01:11:44.566 --> 01:11:46.668 with a little glass of white wine, 01:11:46.869 --> 01:11:51.339 overlooking the wide empty beaches of the north coast. 01:11:57.346 --> 01:12:01.382 Rats! There's that crackpot from the retirement home again. 01:12:05.587 --> 01:12:09.424 She came for me this morning. She called me "mom." 01:12:09.426 --> 01:12:11.592 She's clearly out to lunch. 01:12:11.794 --> 01:12:14.529 "She'll take you to the seaside, madame Jacqueline, 01:12:14.531 --> 01:12:17.765 don't you worry!" They told me at the retirement home. 01:12:17.767 --> 01:12:19.801 Well, I do worry! 01:12:19.803 --> 01:12:23.071 She's quite terrifying with her big staring eyes 01:12:23.073 --> 01:12:24.038 like a Halibut! 01:13:02.611 --> 01:13:05.813 I can take the train on my own; I'm not a child! 01:13:11.820 --> 01:13:14.889 And I don't fancy traveling with a lunatic. 01:13:27.069 --> 01:13:29.904 That chicken reminds me of a story. 01:13:33.175 --> 01:13:35.877 The day my poppa brought home a chicken. 01:13:35.879 --> 01:13:37.712 He had chopped off its head 01:13:37.714 --> 01:13:40.448 but the creature refused to die. 01:13:40.849 --> 01:13:44.652 Far from being resentful, it took quite a shine to my father, 01:13:44.654 --> 01:13:46.788 who ended adopting it. 01:13:47.790 --> 01:13:51.459 The creature followed him everywhere, like a dog, 01:13:52.027 --> 01:13:56.497 even to the factory. He was the star of the neighborhood. 01:13:58.700 --> 01:14:00.034 What was its name again? 01:14:01.470 --> 01:14:03.938 Anyway, one day the cat got him. 01:14:05.441 --> 01:14:08.142 My father was inconsolable. 01:14:08.844 --> 01:14:10.678 He shut himself in the kitchen 01:14:10.680 --> 01:14:13.781 and chopped the heads off chickens for two days straight, 01:14:13.783 --> 01:14:17.151 hoping the miracle would happen again. 01:14:55.792 --> 01:14:57.825 I can't wait to see the sea. 01:14:58.994 --> 01:15:01.996 I used to bring my little girl with me back in the day. 01:15:03.031 --> 01:15:05.066 Oh, I'd love some fish! 01:15:06.835 --> 01:15:08.903 I'll have to remember to ask my grandmother 01:15:08.905 --> 01:15:11.172 for her recipe for Dover sole. 01:15:52.314 --> 01:15:54.048 The lunatic! 01:15:54.050 --> 01:15:55.616 She found me! 01:15:56.251 --> 01:15:58.052 What a nuisance she is! 01:15:59.154 --> 01:16:00.788 My head?! 01:16:01.924 --> 01:16:04.292 Oh, no! What have I done with my head? 01:16:07.262 --> 01:16:09.130 - Mom, what's wrong? 01:16:09.132 --> 01:16:11.032 There she goes again, calling me "mom!" 01:16:11.567 --> 01:16:12.934 Honestly! 01:16:39.061 --> 01:16:40.795 My head! 01:18:38.013 --> 01:18:40.281 - Mom... 01:18:40.283 --> 01:18:43.984 How are you doing? 01:18:43.986 --> 01:18:46.854 - I'm fine, dear. 01:18:46.856 --> 01:18:49.957 I'm just fine. 01:26:46.334 --> 01:26:48.435 Marcus: What... what the?! 01:26:55.376 --> 01:26:56.944 Noé: Er, ugh, major 01:26:57.745 --> 01:26:59.246 Marcus: What is that? 703 01:27:00,515 --> 01:27:00,514 Noé: What are we gonna do? 01:27:03.351 --> 01:27:03.984 Marcus: I haven't come two million klicks eating steak 01:27:03.986 --> 01:27:07.588 pills to get kicked out just arriving ok? Let's go! 01:27:07.755 --> 01:27:09.856 Noé: Wait it could be dangerous! 01:27:10.291 --> 01:27:12.259 Marcus: Don't worry, we're just gonna talk. 01:27:12.261 --> 01:27:14.728 Noé: Ow, I don't like it when you get political. 01:27:15.430 --> 01:27:19.333 Marcus: Gentlemen, would you be kind enough to vacate the 01:27:19.335 --> 01:27:23.503 premises so we may properly finish our mission of creating 01:27:23.505 --> 01:27:26.540 a new peaceful era for the human race. 01:27:32.380 --> 01:27:34.248 Noé: Simpler, major, simpler! 01:27:34.250 --> 01:27:36.717 They don't seem to understand 01:27:38.419 --> 01:27:41.755 Marcus: Us here, you get out! 01:27:45.727 --> 01:27:48.695 Marcus: Move or I'll kick your sick alien ass out!! 01:27:48.697 --> 01:27:48.829 Noe: Ah major? 01:27:52.000 --> 01:27:54.534 Marcus: It's crazy how much time you lose with formalities!