We fade in to a shot of the serene lake, the surrounding trees. Then we hear some fast footsteps--two people running. We see two people running along a trail bordering the woods and a lake. Eventually they slow to a halt. The guy says, “You sure you can keep up, Taylor?” and chuckles. The girl gives him a smirk and slaps him on the arm. “I’m keeping up fine Nathen thank you”, she says the last part sarcastically. “Well, it’s only a couple more miles and then we’ll turn around. We’ve got to be ready for that marathon.” They begin running again and it fades out as happy music plays in the background.
There is a knock on the door and the girl opens to the guy, who says,”You ready?” The girl replies, “Yeah let’s go.” The girl, in a navy blue shirt and black shorts, heads outside. We see her shutting the door.
In the car, the guy says, “I was gonna wait until we got to the marathon, but I thought I’d just get it over with.” He pulls out a watch from his pocket and says, “Happy One Year Anniversary” and gives it to her. The girl accepts the gift and smiles with her eyes looking down and her face glowing. They start driving, and the girl has trouble putting on the watch. The guy reaches over and smiles. The camera pans away to the trail.
The trail empty, except for an OTS of the girl staring ahead. Shes wearing the same clothing as when she left for the marathon, watch and all. Then it cuts to an ECU of the girl, a small drip of water going down her cheek. She looks at her watch [9:45] She turns around all of a sudden and walks away.
We see the girl running by herself in the woods and by the guy’s house in different sets of clothes which each cut. Every time she passes by his house she glances over at the window, with its blinds/curtains shut. Then after one day outside of his house she finally pulls out her phone and tries to call him. She calls the guy and leaves a message. “Hi umm. Just another message. I must’ve sent a hundred by now. Look, I know you were a little freaked out about what happened but it’s fine now, so just...call me back...please.” The girl sighs and puts the phone down. She stares at her running shoes and continues to run.
She is in the spot where she remembered being with the guy (opening scene). She stops. There is a flash of that scene and when she returns to the present the guy is standing there in black running clothes. The girl smiles. “Get my messages?” “More or less...I’m sorry we didn’t get to do the marathon. Come on [he gestures]...if you can keep up” [he half-smiles] He gestures to her to run with him. She does and after a bit she spots a tree and says, “Last one to the tree is a rotten egg!” She runs as fast as she can laughing. We see her from the front and see that the guy is no longer there. She reaches the tree and says as she turns around, “See I told you I could kee-”. She sees him no longer there.
Then she sees him again turning to cross the bridge not far away. Then she starts running fast in that direction. She keeps running but can never seem to catch up to him. She is now in the neighborhood and she is running out of breath but she keeps going as we have a split screen of the guy putting on a shirt, a tie (white), combing his hair. We see her jumping over things--little obstacles.
As she knocks on his door frantically it finally opens. The guy opens the door, dressed in black. “I’ve been waiting for you,” he says half-smiling. “Let’s walk.” They walk a short distance and sit down on a bench. “You see. Nathan’s gone. He’s off living his life. You don’t belong here anymore Taylor.” The girl looks at him in confusion and looks at her watch again [9:45] and starts to speak but the guy cuts her off. “This isn’t your world. Nathan in white knocks on an unknown door. The door opens to a different girl. “You’ve been gone for months don’t you get it? Let him go. Let me go,” Nathan’s subconscious self explains to Emily as they sit on the bench. The girl stands up, unsure of what to do and who the man is. Looking around she finally decides to run back to his house.
She goes into his room and sees the photos of her on his dresser, below which rests a photo-shopped image of her that says Rest In Peace Taylor 1991-2011 with a small heart at the bottom. She sees the watch, no longer ticking, below the photo and grabs it and the photo. She puts on the watch and then drops to the floor quietly, staring at the photo. The man comes in.The girl says, “Is he okay?” “I told you. He’s moving on. He’s left this part of himself behind. Nathan puts his hands on his chest, indicating that this is the subconscious part of himself he left behind. Nathan’s subconscious self reaches his hand out. “He never forgave himself, you know.” We briefly see Nathan with the other girl and they’re walking. He stops and gives this stranger a watch identical to Taylor’s. Then we see Taylor with look of sudden realization on her face as we hear a car swerving and then crashing, and the Taylor takes his hand, the watch still on her wrist. As he says this, we see the girl’ bloody arm limply outside the car, with the watch still ticking away. They fade into nothing, leaving the photo on the empty floor.
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