Will finds the hospital from the recording online and visits it, but finds that the hallway from the video is gone after remodeling a decade prior. After the failed attempt, Will enters the room alone and puts back a piece of wiring he took out of the machine, which then shows a sequence of Pat Phillips driving to a hospital, visiting someone and fighting with a woman there. The next day, they try to record the afterlife but nothing happens. Will reveals to Isla that his mother killed herself when he was younger. At a later meeting with the occupants, Thomas reveals he invented a machine that can record what dead people see in the afterlife, which requires a dead person, and they steal the corpse of Pat Phillips (Paul Bellefeuille) from the morgue. He brings her to the mansion, where she is taken in. Later, Will sees Isla on the beach as she walks into the water with a backpack loaded down by a gym weight. Will blames him for the high suicide rate. They enter a room where Will meets Lacey (Riley Keough) and Cooper (Ron Canada), and sees his father tied up to a machine as they kill and revive him. Will notes people working for him, and Toby says they all attempted suicide. Will is picked up by his brother Toby (Jesse Plemons), who drives him to an isolated mansion where their father has built up his new station. Will also shares a memory he had while being dead for a minute, where he saw a young boy at a beach. He says he is upset that people keep killing themselves, while Isla thinks it's an easy way out. They have a conversation and Will notes Isla looks very familiar. On the two year anniversary of the discovery, Harbor's son Will (Jason Segel) travels on a ferry where he meets Isla (Rooney Mara). Directly after, a member of the crew kills himself on air. The interviewer asks Harbor if he feels responsible, and he says no. An interviewer (Mary Steenburgen) questions Thomas Harbor (Robert Redford), the man who scientifically proved the existence of an afterlife, a discovery that has led to an extremely high suicide rate.

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The discovery