From Flower Vase to Film Emperor in Hollywood

Escaping and running frantically, Joel called out to Clementine, continuously traversing through his memory scenes, trying to escape the pursuit of the memory erasure program, return to Lacuna, Inc., and find the doctor to seek a solution.

However, it failed—

This was Joel's memory, and that doctor was also a projection in Joel's mind, equivalent to an image Joel had fantasized. He did not possess any power and naturally could not help Joel terminate the memory erasure program.

So, what to do?

The two fled and traveled, Joel told Clementine the whole story, trying to find a solution, but obviously, it wasn't that easy.

In reality, Patrick was trying to make Clementine truly fall in love with him. He took Clementine to the Charles River, lying on the ice to count stars, and repeated the words Joel had once said to Clementine.

"I have no regrets now. I'm just too soon. I've never had this feeling before. This is what I've been craving."

Like reciting lines.

But he never expected it to backfire.

These identical words did not move Clementine. Clementine only felt irritable and flustered, and she turned around and left for home without saying a word.

In Joel's brain, Joel and Clementine tried naive and foolish methods, but unexpectedly, Clementine thought of a possibility.

"...Joel, why don't you take me to a place where I'm not? A place where I don't belong? Can we hide there until dawn?"

That way, Stan and the others wouldn't be able to find Clementine deep in his memories.

Joel seriously pondered for a moment but found that everything was in vain. "I really can't remember any memory where you weren't."

Clementine: "Oh, that's so sweet; but try to look."

Joel quietly looked at the pitter-patter of rain outside the window. The memory of wearing yellow rain boots and a raincoat and stepping in puddles in the yard as a child emerged.

Hum, hum, hum, Joel softly hummed a nursery rhyme he liked as a child, and then, it actually started to rain in their apartment, and even the green bicycle from his childhood memory appeared in the apartment.

A surreal and romantic scene unfolded before their eyes.

Clementine revealed a big smile, "Success! I'm a genius!"

Joel took Clementine back to his childhood memory. He became a baby again, crawling under the kitchen table; while Clementine put on Mrs. Hanlin, the next-door neighbor from his memory, and busied herself in the kitchen.

This scene is definitely full of imagination—

On the movie screen, it was still Stan and Mary, but Anson, wearing pajamas, had shrunk to the size of a baby and was crawling on the ground; while Kate was normal size, wearing a vintage long dress from thirty years ago with red hair.

It's not just wild imagination; it's simply... mind-blowing!

For a moment, Joel returned to the age of four, trying to open the refrigerator to find ice cream, and then wailing because he missed his mother. Hidden within that baby's body was the soul of a half-adult, half-infant, making it difficult to distinguish.

Clementine tried to calm the baby down, but in a flurry, Clementine had to pull up her skirt to divert Joel's attention.

Joel: ...Ew.

At the Angelica Film Center, laughter erupted like thunder. No one was an exception. The space formed by the surrounding buildings reverberated with echoes of laughter and applause—

This is indeed a comedy.

Honestly, ordinary people would never have such a mind, even if they saw it with their own eyes, they would be stunned, unable to keep up with the speed of the mind for a while.

There, Joel and Clementine finally hid in his four-year-old memories.

Here, in Joel's apartment, Stan and Mary, who were being intimate, finally heard the warning sound from the computer. At this time, Stan realized that the memory erasure process had gone off track and they might burn out Joel's brain.

Stan was stunned.

In a flurry, Mary thought Stan should notify Dr. Howard.

Stan tried to refuse, but Mary thought they had no choice.

At this time, when Dr. Howard arrived at the apartment, Mary greeted the doctor in her most perfect posture; however, the doctor temporarily had no time to pay attention to Mary. He had to deal with Joel's situation as soon as possible.

The doctor took action and immediately solved the problem.

He found Joel and Clementine soaking in a pile of dishes in Joel's mother's sink. With one button, the two were swept into the sewer.

However, in the apartment, Joel's tightly closed eyes suddenly opened, which scared the doctor, Stan, and Mary. The three crowded above Joel, jostling in the lens, trying to confirm whether Joel had woken up.

The situation was not good, very not good.

The doctor became busy again, and with great difficulty, he pulled Joel back on track again. The memory erasure program continued, but then he discovered that Joel and Clementine were constantly deviating from the memory blueprint:

They were returning to Lacuna, Inc., they were returning to the memory blueprint that had been erased tonight, they were trying to stop the memory erasure program.

However, the doctor breathed a sigh of relief: at least now he knew where they were. As long as there were traces and clues, Stan would be able to erase the memories.

The doctor packed up and prepared to leave, but he never expected Joel and Clementine to disappear again. The figures of the two disappeared again on the computer's brain blueprint, and the doctor had to stop again.

Joel was trying to find the most embarrassing moment in his memory according to Clementine's idea, hiding Clementine in the corners of those memories:

As a teenager, he was interrupted by his mother when he was sneaking around in bed.

A bed appeared out of thin air on the snowy beach of Montauk, satisfying his wild fantasies on the beach, outdoors, and in the wild.

When he was four years old, he was instigated by his friends to use a hammer to knock on a dead sparrow, but he broke down, cried, and burst into tears after he actually did it. Then, a little girl appeared and rescued him, but after that, he liked the feeling of "suffocation."

Then, they reappeared on the snowy beach of Montauk. Clementine realized that Joel's most private and embarrassing secrets might be hidden in the beach villa. She tried to get closer, and Joel tried to pull her away. The two chased and frolicked on the beach, laughing constantly.

Joel was hiding, Joel was hiding, Joel was gradually opening up his most embarrassing memories.

This made Dr. Howard and Stan frown, so much so that the doctor had to stay at the computer at all times, ready to pull Joel out of the corners of his memory at any time.

A chase is happening, with some absurdity, some romance, some sadness, and some fragmentation, slowly unfolding like a picture scroll.