Recap
In the tropical forest, Chana and Simpa are surprised that the visitors speak their language. When they ask which village the visitors come from, Stuart names Pasadena, a place they have not heard of. They invite Stuart, Denise, Bert and Kripke to their community, offering food, shelter, water and companions to sleep with. When Bert asks what they expect in return, Chana says that meeting their visitors’ needs is reward enough. Kripke immediately declares this his favorite universe.
Around the campfire, Stuart questions how an isolated tribe without modern technology came to speak English. Denise suggests that they may somehow be speaking the tribe’s language instead, but neither can explain how Stuart knows a word such as “helicopter” when the villagers have no concept of one. Elsewhere around the fire, Chana tells Bert that he is beautiful and invites him to spend the night with her. Unaccustomed to such attention, Bert chokes on his food.
Stuart and Denise hear electricity crackling from the vari-state quantum entanglement device, so he removes a component and discovers that it has burned out. Nearby, Kripke complains about his aching feet and removes his shoe, which a villager promptly claims for himself. Kripke tries to explain that the shoe belongs to him, but Manu is unfamiliar with personal ownership and takes Kripke's other shoe as well.
The following morning, Denise marvels at how peaceful and beautiful it is here. Stuart is glad she likes it, as he was unable to repair the machine. When he jokes that they may have to find a hut in a neighborhood with good schools, Denise remembers their children from the suburban simulation. Stuart reminds her that the children were merely projections created to imprison them, but Denise still regards them as theirs. Stuart hopes that the person sending him messages might reveal how to fix the machine.
After spending the night with Chana, a delighted Bert tells her that he loves her, and she quickly returns the sentiment. His happiness fades when she agrees to share Simpa’s bed that evening. Chana does not understand why this bothers Bert, so he tells her about monogamy. Although the concept is foreign to her, she agrees to consider it because it would make him happy. Elsewhere, Kripke emerges from his hut after entertaining several women and a man.
As they head into the forest, Stuart and Denise find a woman examining bear droppings for omens about rain and fertility. Convinced that whoever is guiding him may use the same method, Stuart joins the woman in digging through the pile of shit.
Back in the camp, Kripke begins teaching the villagers about personal property, marking a communal bowl with a “K” and declaring it his. When a woman asks whether sharing everything would be better, Kripke dismisses the idea as communism and figures the villagers know how that system turned out. When they ask him to explain, he hesitates and instead orders them not to touch his bowl.
After the woman gives up finding anything in the pile of bear excrement, Stuart uncovers the instruction “Use red quartz,” although neither he nor Denise knows where to find any. Meanwhile, as the villagers begin carving their initials into cookware, Manu tells a confused Simpa that sharing is for “commies” and “sociawists.”
One morning, Chana wakes to find Bert crying beside her because he is unused to being happy. When Simpa enters their hut and asks why Chana did not meet him the previous night, she explains that she now has sex only with Bert. Simpa strongly objects to monogamy and storms off.
By a lake, Kripke introduces the villagers to the concepts of credit and wealth. After Simpa interrupts to ask about monogamy, Kripke compares it to choosing to eat the same fish for the rest of one’s life. When Simpa asks what to do if his desired partner is monogamous with someone else, Kripke offers three solutions: moving on, encouraging her to cheat or getting rid of the other man. Still unfamiliar with violence, Simpa wonders whether the rival could be sent on a journey. Kripke suggests instead that his romantic rival might fall from a cliff, unaware that Simpa is talking about Bert.
When Stuart and Denise seek Bert's advice, they find him happily dressed like one of the villagers. Before they can ask about the red quartz, Bert announces that Chana has agreed to marry him. Denise wonders if Chana even knows what marriage is. After Bert identifies red quartz in a necklace worn by Gavel, Gavel refuses to hand it over to Stuart, declaring it his and insisting that they are not communists. Stuart immediately recognizes Kripke’s influence. Later, Stuart and Denise confront Kripke while he relaxes in a pool with two women. Kripke recommends stealing the necklace, assuring Stuart that the peaceful villagers do not fight.
That night, Denise keeps watch while Stuart enters Gavel’s hut and tries to take the necklace from him as he sleeps. Gavel rolls over and traps Stuart in an embrace. After Stuart escapes with the red quartz, Gavel comes out and takes back the necklace, insisting that it is "mine."
The next morning, Stuart tells Bert that they need to find another source of red quartz. Bert instead asks him and Denise to participate in his wedding. Denise eagerly agrees because she is an ordained minister, although Stuart notes that her church does not exist in this universe and calls it “bullshit” in the one where it does. Denise reminds him that Bert, who has always supported Stuart, is entitled to a bit of happiness. Stuart reluctantly agrees to be his best man. Around them, the villagers have started to argue and chase one another for their possessions.
Stuart, Denise and Bert stand beneath a wooden arch as the villagers gather for the wedding. Stuart sings “We’ve Only Just Begun” as Chana is walked down the aisle. Denise then begins the ceremony with an elaborate metaphor comparing marriage to a boat. Before she can wed the couple, Simpa arrives and objects. He condemns monogamy as another form of possession and insists that they should share everything: partners, clothes, shoes and bowls. When he takes Manu’s bowl to demonstrate, Manu strikes him with it and the villagers start to brawl.
Kripke joins Stuart, Denise and Bert by the arch, claiming not to understand what has gotten into the villagers. As Bert watches his wedding collapse into mayhem, Stuart notices that Gavel has lost his necklace in the fighting. He crawls through the crowd, retrieves the red quartz and installs it in the quantum device. As Simpa carries Chana away, Kripke holds Bert back from following after her. With the machine operational again, Stuart activates it and transports the four of them out of the broken paradise.
After they arrive in an apparently normal version of Stuart’s comic book store, Bert mourns the happiness he has lost. Kripke is still wondering how the villagers were able to speak English, while Stuart thinks the more important question is whether they have finally reached a normal universe. At the counter, Denise takes a bite from a green plant and agrees that everything seems normal.
