The Choice Revisited - Batch 1 - Episode 6

[00:00:08] I've gotten more messages so we'll be back with the 4th Batch of Episode 6, just, you know, give me a few weeks to get them organized.

[00:00:14] In the meantime, in order to make sure you're up-to-date on where we've been in Escaping Denver,

[00:00:18] I've pulled 3 more episodes from past batches that are worth a revisit.

[00:00:24] I've chosen Episode 106 to start because not only does it touch on some of the help no one Sarah have received,

[00:00:29] but also that Sarah might have another side.

[00:00:31] And given where we left off on Batch 3 with no end the hands of a Sarah clone named Harper,

[00:00:37] perhaps this bit of context might help.

[00:00:40] Episode 6, The Choice.

[00:00:45] Sorry if I'm snappy this morning, I'm just...

[00:00:47] I'm really not winning.

[00:00:49] I got an official warning from the building manager, me smoking.

[00:00:54] And I appreciate the suggestions to use gum or the patch to quit.

[00:00:57] I'm just...not quite there.

[00:01:00] When I am ready to quit believe me, I will get all over it.

[00:01:03] Right.

[00:01:05] Before we get too far into this episode, there are a couple things I'd like to address based on the emails I've been getting.

[00:01:11] I started this podcast asking for help.

[00:01:14] Initially, I was hoping to get no one Sarah out, but I quickly realized I'm not really in a position to do that.

[00:01:20] How would I even go about doing that?

[00:01:23] Why just walk into the Denver Airport and ask their information desk to access their secret bunker and if it's not too much trouble,

[00:01:29] the ability to free a couple of their test subjects? No.

[00:01:33] I don't think we're going to be the rescue team to get them out.

[00:01:36] But I do think we're the right people to figure out what happened.

[00:01:40] Maybe get them some justice app to the fact, maybe just get closure on the subject or at the very least provide some sort of context to what they went through.

[00:01:49] I don't know.

[00:01:51] This isn't a postmortem because as far as I'm aware, they are still very much alive, at least as far as the messages go.

[00:01:58] What this is...

[00:01:59] What this is is a chronically enough of a few very terrible days.

[00:02:04] Sure, it's taking us weeks to go through, but that's only because the messages came in and one lump mess.

[00:02:11] So yes, I acknowledge that your emails and information can help them in real time, but maybe they can help the next batch of captains.

[00:02:18] Maybe stop there forever being a next batch.

[00:02:21] So please keep sending them.

[00:02:29] So once again we find our heroes locked in a room with monsters on the outside.

[00:02:33] This time likely just the one monster.

[00:02:37] Like how casually I throw around the word monster now, that's unsettling.

[00:02:43] Anyways, it sounds like this giant monster is just outside the door in the phone is ringing.

[00:02:48] Who's on the other side of the call?

[00:02:50] Well, we can assume it's their ally, the person on the inside helping them, but really it could be anyone.

[00:02:56] In what was with the tunnel Tarzan?

[00:02:58] How are Noah and Sarah not way more interested in the wild man living in the caves?

[00:03:02] Can humans even survive without sunlight for years?

[00:03:07] I'll research while we jump back in with Noah and Sarah.

[00:03:21] What do we do?

[00:03:24] But I think it's all hold, almost like it was designed to lock monsters out.

[00:03:28] Well, lock monster's in.

[00:03:42] What the hell is this rain?

[00:03:45] Looks like a lab or something.

[00:03:47] Hard to tell on his life.

[00:03:50] There's still stuff in the cobbards.

[00:03:52] Container's box is, it feels like they got up and left.

[00:03:56] That's why everything feels so abandoned.

[00:03:59] We should get the phone.

[00:04:01] Noah?

[00:04:03] Yeah, yeah, I'm here.

[00:04:05] I'm here too, thanks for asking.

[00:04:07] I've been ringing for hours now.

[00:04:10] We know. You'll apparently work up the monster.

[00:04:12] You've seen them?

[00:04:14] No, but something big is outside of door waiting.

[00:04:17] Then you're telling us there's more than one monster down here?

[00:04:22] Yes, many.

[00:04:23] You've seen them?

[00:04:26] Oh, my own floor.

[00:04:27] But I know that where you are used to be under our control.

[00:04:30] The control of the new world order?

[00:04:34] Collective of what? Jesus!

[00:04:36] You're supposed to be helping us.

[00:04:37] And instead of answers, we're just always ending up with more questions.

[00:04:42] And more questions lead to more answers.

[00:04:45] That hasn't happened yet.

[00:04:46] Why did the collective lose control down here?

[00:04:49] The official statements had structural integrity, but it's because of your monsters.

[00:04:56] You knew that will monsters down here and you sent us here anyway?

[00:05:01] What was the alternative? I assure you.

[00:05:04] There are no shortage of monsters up here.

[00:05:09] Okay, what's our next step? Why did you send us down here?

[00:05:13] Next steps are all leaps of faith.

[00:05:16] Well, that's unnerving.

[00:05:18] What do you mean?

[00:05:23] The prince here say Ann Rumor.

[00:05:26] We followed your lead and now you're telling us that we're moving forward with a guessing game.

[00:05:30] Your free to climb back upstairs. I'm sure the test would be happy to have their little mouse back.

[00:05:34] Stop fighting.

[00:05:36] Where are we current? It looks like a lab.

[00:05:41] Lab 4126 to be precise.

[00:05:43] It doesn't say what was done there, so I don't know what resource is you'll find.

[00:05:48] I do know that it has steel doors, so you should be safe to rest there.

[00:05:55] Now that we shut the door, it's pretty dark, so I don't know.

[00:05:58] Sarah, let's check the lights.

[00:06:01] If you can find it.

[00:06:02] Found it.

[00:06:04] No, doesn't look like wait.

[00:06:06] Hey, there's a blinking green light.

[00:06:10] It's plugged in. We have a live-out.

[00:06:14] Ta-da!

[00:06:14] And we have light.

[00:06:16] I don't know how often you'll find power going forward.

[00:06:18] I would use this time to charge your batteries, literally and figuratively.

[00:06:23] Then what?

[00:06:24] Get charged up, phone and bodies, what next?

[00:06:27] We still have a literal monster outside our door.

[00:06:30] You're in a very large laboratory complex.

[00:06:32] You should be able to go lab to lab without going back into the main hall, at least for a while.

[00:06:39] It will hold.

[00:06:41] What have you gotten us into?

[00:06:48] Hold on a second.

[00:06:49] I shouldn't have been recording from the start.

[00:06:52] She's right. There's another lab back here.

[00:06:56] And we've got full power.

[00:06:58] We don't go any further. Hey, come back.

[00:07:01] It seems safe enough.

[00:07:02] Okay. Be careful.

[00:07:05] Like that means anything anymore.

[00:07:09] No, I'm sorry.

[00:07:09] Sometimes we get on recording anymore.

[00:07:12] That was the voice.

[00:07:13] The one that's supposed to be helping us and the one who led us into what's likely a monster-healthcape.

[00:07:19] Not exaggerating.

[00:07:22] Anyway, you heard the voice wearing some sort of lab now.

[00:07:27] No big as all.

[00:07:27] Test tubes though. Nothing mad scientist.

[00:07:29] You just have a lot of empty countertops and cobbets filled with who knows what.

[00:07:33] Lucky for us, these groups equipped their labs with giant doors for whatever reason.

[00:07:37] So we're safe.

[00:07:41] It'll hold.

[00:07:44] This is very chemical smell in this room.

[00:07:47] Quite sour, pungent, it's foul.

[00:07:49] I swear it's something like the maldehyde or something similar.

[00:07:52] Why would you need the maldehyde in an underground lab?

[00:07:54] What kind of nightmares are they cooking up?

[00:07:57] The only saving grace is that this place hasn't been used in years.

[00:08:00] The dust without scary paw prints being on them is the only thing I have to back that up.

[00:08:04] But it's promising.

[00:08:08] I think the chances are they've been keys in one of these drawers.

[00:08:18] Despite their being power in this room, only about half the bulbs are lit.

[00:08:22] As such, I'm going to need to use my flashlight to see what the room has to offer.

[00:08:26] Signing off for now.

[00:08:32] We're about to switch to Noah's recording so I figured it was a pretty good place for me to jump in.

[00:08:36] So a fully stocked lab sitting untouched since the 80s miles beneath the Denver airport.

[00:08:43] Sounds just as crazy when I say it out loud.

[00:08:46] Did the collective really leave in such a hurry that they didn't clear out their cupboards?

[00:08:51] Because of unruly monsters?

[00:08:54] That doesn't bode well for our two friends.

[00:08:56] If it's so dangerous that the collective and all of its infinite resources had to pull out this quickly.

[00:09:02] And what did the ally say about there being more monsters?

[00:09:05] That's the kind of information you wish to have before you climbed down into this mess.

[00:09:09] The ally is helping. Why?

[00:09:11] What the hell is she holding back?

[00:09:16] There. Sorry about that. I meant to be recording these talks just in case I miss anything.

[00:09:22] You're always so good about that.

[00:09:25] And with a full power.

[00:09:27] They don't go any further. Hey, come back.

[00:09:29] Let her go.

[00:09:31] It seems safe enough.

[00:09:32] Okay. Be careful.

[00:09:37] Why am I letting her go explore her on her own?

[00:09:40] So we can speak. You can't trust her.

[00:09:45] Sarah? Why not?

[00:09:47] You just can't.

[00:09:50] Okay, you didn't have to give me more than that.

[00:09:52] For starters, her name's not Sarah. There is no Sarah in the experiment.

[00:09:57] I don't understand.

[00:09:59] She's lying, Noah. She's only ever out for herself. You have to be careful with who you trust if we're going to get you out.

[00:10:05] And what about you?

[00:10:07] I have no idea who you are. We've been calling you Bob Lazar after this.

[00:10:11] I know who he is. We aren't the same. He had left whereas I'm still very much inside.

[00:10:18] Or I'd give you my name. They would find me, kill me and end your chances of freedom.

[00:10:22] Already I have stayed here too long.

[00:10:25] And what do I call you?

[00:10:26] You don't.

[00:10:35] So can people live without the sun?

[00:10:38] Technically, a human can survive without sunlight but is likely to die from other complications like diseases or whatever they get from lack of sunlight.

[00:10:46] What I'm saying is tunnel tarzan is likely sick, depressed and pale.

[00:10:52] Or he's lying about being down there for years.

[00:10:56] I'm a few cups of coffee and several pages into a deep dive about Bob Lazar.

[00:10:59] So I apologize if it feels like I'm rambling. But the guys are rock star.

[00:11:04] If he's a little kid.

[00:11:05] Basically, he gets hired to work at a base near Area 51 so we can reverse engineer and alien ship.

[00:11:12] Cool, right?

[00:11:14] He sees shit and then goes public all about it.

[00:11:16] Even names and element that had yet to be synthesized which I still don't fully understand.

[00:11:22] But how is he perceived?

[00:11:24] Well, pretty much how the police perceived me when I reached out.

[00:11:28] Crazy.

[00:11:29] Even after some of the stuff he said, prove to be real the damage was done.

[00:11:34] I guess I know how things might end for me.

[00:11:41] I gotta believe he was on the level.

[00:11:43] If he was and that facility existed then maybe this place in Denver exists and I'm not pulling my hair out for nothing.

[00:11:49] Although, if this is all in elaborate hoax, at least nobody would be in any real danger.

[00:11:55] I'm not gonna lie.

[00:11:56] There's a big part of me that wants all of this to be real.

[00:11:59] Like a childhood fulfillment or validation for monsters to exist for aliens to have landed.

[00:12:05] For there to just be more, you know?

[00:12:10] I am both jealous of and terrified for no insera.

[00:12:13] They are the fortunate dude.

[00:12:18] So the ally was no real help to them.

[00:12:20] Unless I miss something and please let me know if I did.

[00:12:23] But she really didn't tell them anything that would help them out that much.

[00:12:26] Or even at all.

[00:12:28] Instead, she threw some serious doubt into her boy Noah about Sarah though.

[00:12:32] If that is her real name.

[00:12:34] You know what?

[00:12:35] I'm not sure it matters to be honest.

[00:12:37] She seems like she's very much in the shit with Noah so who cares if she didn't trust him with her real name.

[00:12:42] I'm not certain I would either.

[00:12:44] Random guy on the other side of glass.

[00:12:47] It's not a game changer for me.

[00:12:49] Well, matters though.

[00:12:51] This weather it is for Noah.

[00:12:56] She hung on.

[00:12:58] And I didn't learn anything.

[00:12:59] You missed the beginning of the call but really it was nothing.

[00:13:02] Welcome to the lab.

[00:13:03] Hang tight.

[00:13:04] She's not Sarah.

[00:13:05] Noah!

[00:13:06] Get in here.

[00:13:07] Put a pin in there.

[00:13:11] Are you all right?

[00:13:13] Yeah.

[00:13:13] You good?

[00:13:15] Yeah.

[00:13:15] She have anything good to say?

[00:13:17] Not really, she hung up.

[00:13:19] Great.

[00:13:21] Make sure pull back.

[00:13:21] That's not my idea but I mean I think so.

[00:13:25] Okay.

[00:13:26] Well, while we wait let me welcome you to the Monster Lab.

[00:13:30] The Monster Lab.

[00:13:31] Well the lab where they studied monsters.

[00:13:34] Monsters whoology.

[00:13:35] Cryptos whoology.

[00:13:37] Basically the study of monsters.

[00:13:39] They aim to prove cryptids exist.

[00:13:41] Big foot, Loch Ness.

[00:13:43] If it's all the same to you I'm just going to stick with Monster Lab.

[00:13:47] What makes you think it has anything to do with the monsters?

[00:13:49] I knew you'd ask to follow up.

[00:13:51] Pretty sure Noah.

[00:13:52] One, there are about 10 bins of skulls.

[00:13:54] All different ones.

[00:13:57] Monsters skulls.

[00:13:58] Every skull looks like a monster skull.

[00:14:00] I can't tell but I also found this.

[00:14:04] What is it?

[00:14:06] Pruth.

[00:14:07] Come on open it.

[00:14:10] Okay.

[00:14:11] I'm opening the box and oh, oh god.

[00:14:15] Oh, what the hell is that?

[00:14:17] That's all.

[00:14:18] A tongue?

[00:14:19] It's the size of a toddler.

[00:14:20] God of e.

[00:14:21] There's taste buds.

[00:14:22] I knew I could smell from the other hide so I just followed my nose.

[00:14:25] You called me over to gross me out.

[00:14:27] No, that was an added bonus.

[00:14:29] I called because I found a set of keys.

[00:14:31] What are they open?

[00:14:32] No idea yet.

[00:14:33] But I'm hoping that door and given our situation I figured it best to pair up before embarking past any lock doors.

[00:14:40] Want to do the honors?

[00:14:42] You're going to get rid of them though.

[00:14:42] I'll get rid of the tongue.

[00:14:48] Wait let me go grab my bed like.

[00:14:50] I have the gun.

[00:14:51] Which is why I want my bed like.

[00:14:53] Look, I'm hoping the door leads to a closet filled with food but given how things seem

[00:14:58] to go, I don't want to be at the mercy of whatever is out there without anything to defend myself

[00:15:03] with.

[00:15:03] Shit.

[00:15:06] I keep forgetting about our hallway friend.

[00:15:08] Scared the shit out of me.

[00:15:10] Ready?

[00:15:14] Oh good.

[00:15:16] Another hallway.

[00:15:18] Well.

[00:15:19] It is another hallway.

[00:15:27] Like tile and black walls.

[00:15:29] Not I'm going to sit over.

[00:15:30] There's only one set of doors in the whole hallway.

[00:15:33] So?

[00:15:34] Weird, is all.

[00:15:36] I'm a way of the anything else.

[00:15:41] Find anything else that's useful yet.

[00:15:43] No, but I start looking when I found the keys.

[00:15:46] Speaking of which.

[00:15:48] Thank you.

[00:15:50] Shall we?

[00:15:54] Let's do it.

[00:15:57] Wait.

[00:16:01] What the?

[00:16:02] Hello!

[00:16:04] It's a theater.

[00:16:05] Close.

[00:16:06] It's an operating theater.

[00:16:07] Like for surgeries?

[00:16:09] Yeah.

[00:16:10] Do these even exist still?

[00:16:12] Not outside of me's in.

[00:16:14] Oh, it's huge.

[00:16:15] A little too big actually.

[00:16:18] You could operate on a dozen people down here.

[00:16:20] Or maybe one big thing.

[00:16:24] Chase, there must be seating for 100 people here.

[00:16:27] Six, seven, eight, rows plus.

[00:16:30] Ah, those?

[00:16:32] Yeah, I think so.

[00:16:33] In concrete.

[00:16:35] Yeah.

[00:16:35] Can cool as even do that to a wall?

[00:16:38] Apparently.

[00:16:41] I want to leave you.

[00:16:42] Yeah, let's.

[00:16:46] After seeing that space, this hallway feels more like a choke point

[00:16:48] to prevent big things from leaving the theater.

[00:16:52] How is something that they even get in there?

[00:16:54] There was a bead on the back wall.

[00:16:56] I'm guessing it leads to a whole other floor.

[00:16:58] Please go on forever.

[00:17:00] It definitely goes on.

[00:17:01] Okay, back to the first lab.

[00:17:06] So what now?

[00:17:08] We listen.

[00:17:10] How are you for battery?

[00:17:12] 68%.

[00:17:12] I'm at 42.

[00:17:14] I'll go first and food.

[00:17:16] Two, about no three of those astronaut bars.

[00:17:19] Split one.

[00:17:21] You see my phone?

[00:17:23] Ah, I'm an idiot.

[00:17:26] I forgot I was in your pocket?

[00:17:27] Yeah.

[00:17:31] And now they're in an operating theater.

[00:17:34] This is all starting to give me serious ones

[00:17:36] who were over the kukus and S5s.

[00:17:38] Like a decommissioned mental loss

[00:17:39] from the 50s or something.

[00:17:41] It's one thing for them to do their monster alien

[00:17:43] autopsy stuff in the lab.

[00:17:45] Why an operating theater?

[00:17:47] Why the need for an audience?

[00:17:49] And who would that audience even be?

[00:17:51] I mean, the collective is supposed to be the super secret society

[00:17:53] or whatever.

[00:17:54] But now I'm to believe they're just totally open

[00:17:56] to having an audience for their experiments.

[00:17:59] It's weird.

[00:18:01] It just doesn't make sense.

[00:18:08] Phone's ringing again.

[00:18:09] You don't need to recall anything.

[00:18:10] Just that's the damn fun.

[00:18:13] Hello?

[00:18:15] I need to move.

[00:18:16] They'll be able to dress this contactivity event.

[00:18:19] Uh, I don't.

[00:18:20] Of course you don't understand but you will.

[00:18:22] There's a door in the next laboratory.

[00:18:24] There are a few doors.

[00:18:25] This one leads to a hallway.

[00:18:27] We know it.

[00:18:29] Good.

[00:18:29] There's a room.

[00:18:30] The operating theater.

[00:18:31] Don't interrupt me in that room.

[00:18:34] There should be a large metal door.

[00:18:35] We saw it earlier.

[00:18:36] It was shut.

[00:18:37] You need to find a way of all again.

[00:18:41] You can't expect us to willingly walk into where there were monsters.

[00:18:45] I don't expect to...

[00:18:51] No.

[00:18:53] We don't know if that thing is still on the hallway.

[00:18:55] This might be our only way out.

[00:18:57] There has to be a third option.

[00:18:58] Two bad options isn't really a choice.

[00:19:01] Then what's the answer?

[00:19:02] I don't know but it's not going further down into this madness.

[00:19:05] Ever since we started listening to your inside man, things have got to decidedly more dangerous.

[00:19:10] She's helping.

[00:19:11] Is she?

[00:19:12] It sounds to me like they have the perfect way to have us walk deeper into this maze.

[00:19:17] They don't want us here.

[00:19:18] I don't want us here.

[00:19:19] Let's just go back up and beat this stupid maze together.

[00:19:22] Maybe that's our way out.

[00:19:24] Look, the phone rang and nothing's mushing to the door.

[00:19:27] The monsters gone.

[00:19:28] Now's our chance to sneak away.

[00:19:30] I can't.

[00:19:31] Why do you trust her?

[00:19:32] We don't know who the hell she is.

[00:19:36] Well, the same could be said for you.

[00:19:39] You have something to say?

[00:19:42] She told me.

[00:19:43] She told me your name's not Sarah.

[00:19:46] The you've been lying.

[00:19:47] And you believe her.

[00:19:51] Of course you do.

[00:19:52] I'm going back up.

[00:19:54] If you want to come, cool.

[00:19:55] Otherwise, I thought it was good luck.

[00:19:59] Just like that.

[00:20:00] Just like that.

[00:20:02] You know, she said you were only ever out for you.

[00:20:04] Just someone has to be.

[00:20:07] You're really going to leave.

[00:20:08] You're really not going to come?

[00:20:13] I'm so sorry.

[00:20:15] Bye.

[00:20:18] Bye.

[00:20:25] The breakup.

[00:20:27] Now, I know they're not together together,

[00:20:29] but they were a team for a bit.

[00:20:31] And now Sarah is choosing to go at alone.

[00:20:34] Well, she's choosing not to trust the ally,

[00:20:36] but it's basically the same thing.

[00:20:39] And she must feel pretty strongly about it too

[00:20:41] because I can't think of anything that would drive me back into the hallway with that giant creature.

[00:20:47] Plus, no one seems so convinced that they need to follow their ally

[00:20:50] that I really don't know who's right.

[00:20:54] I think I'm going to go with no one this one though.

[00:20:56] The danger feels less imminent.

[00:20:58] Plus, what if the ally really is right?

[00:21:01] And this is the only way out?

[00:21:04] It's a lot to think about.

[00:21:07] Big thank you to Curious Casford.

[00:21:08] You're continued supporting getting these messages out.

[00:21:10] And come back next time for another episode of the Skipping Denver.

[00:21:35] Every season of Survivor starts the same way.

[00:21:38] Build the challenges and we hide the advantages.

[00:21:40] And then we turn it over to the players.

[00:21:42] I am ready to forge my own path.

[00:21:45] And no matter how many times we do it,

[00:21:47] I'm still surprised.

[00:21:49] Survivor has evolved all these advantages,

[00:21:51] all these ways can have to be victory or glory is death.

[00:21:54] That's why we walk because every season of Survivor is a new adventure.

[00:22:00] Survivor.

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