The Tenth | 3.7

[00:00:00] Escaping Denver, batch 3, episode 7, the 10th.

[00:00:28] See this is the problem with leaving your window open all the time for a stupid bird as well.

[00:00:39] Nope, nope.

[00:00:46] It's been four straight days of rain so I figured this would be a good time as any to try

[00:00:50] quitting again.

[00:00:51] You know, to avoid the whole wet, smoke smell combo.

[00:00:55] I'm one day in and I'm already back to biting my nails.

[00:00:58] And not only because of the nicotine I'm craving but also Noah.

[00:01:01] He was just shot again.

[00:01:04] Not only that, he broke his ribs on the fall so he must be hurting right now.

[00:01:08] I'd want a curl into a ball in high, but dependable Noah while he'll trek onto level T.

[00:01:14] Of course he has no idea what level he's currently on but that wouldn't change his destination.

[00:01:18] Why?

[00:01:19] Because that's where Sarah told him to meet.

[00:01:22] It simplifies things when you just feel you know someone.

[00:01:26] Yes, I'm just the Shmo who got sent messages but I'm also the Shmo that listened to them.

[00:01:30] Over and over.

[00:01:32] I know these two.

[00:01:34] And I may not know them on the surface but what I do know is how they react when trapped

[00:01:37] in a subterranean labyrinth and truthfully it's the only version of them I need to know.

[00:01:42] Noah will follow the plan.

[00:01:45] And Sarah, I believe her when she says she'll meet on level T because honestly I can't

[00:01:49] fathom why she'd lie.

[00:01:51] He wants to survive, she's hungry for it.

[00:01:54] It's the only one of her qualities we can really count on anymore.

[00:01:58] Speaking of reliable, good afternoon Malenky.

[00:02:03] Then never gets old.

[00:02:21] Sorry.

[00:02:23] Didn't mean to start recording while spitting out blood but here we are.

[00:02:28] Oh, where the hell am I?

[00:02:32] Seriously.

[00:02:33] I've just been crawling for whatever.

[00:02:36] A bunch of really wanted it.

[00:02:39] I can hear Terry in part of the vent to get it on.

[00:02:44] I'm equal parts terrified and flattered and lost.

[00:02:48] Seriously, where am I?

[00:02:50] I slid down a few vents, climbed up another incline so really I could be anywhere.

[00:02:56] Good news is, Sarah's looking for me.

[00:02:59] I've left a healthy trailer blood she can follow.

[00:03:03] Bad news is, I've left a trailer blood that can be followed.

[00:03:08] But it hasn't been pushed out yet.

[00:03:12] It takes a lot longer to heal without the music.

[00:03:15] Still burns.

[00:03:17] I don't get off any easier there.

[00:03:20] I am getting woozy though.

[00:03:22] That's new.

[00:03:24] I've lost too much blood.

[00:03:30] Oh, yeah there's that too.

[00:03:33] Should've started there.

[00:03:34] There's a hole in me.

[00:03:37] Not the bullet wound but my shoulder right through.

[00:03:41] Didn't feel it happened but maybe puncher got me with a bullet or...

[00:03:48] Or that fucking magnet shot through me on its way to the fan blade.

[00:03:53] The hole is different than my leg.

[00:03:56] This looks like a coin shot through me.

[00:03:59] And while I didn't get a chance to see the magnet before it shot at the putty,

[00:04:03] it's the only thing I can think there would have done that.

[00:04:07] I can't keep pressure on it while I move so I need to find a way out of this man into level T.

[00:04:14] Sarah can fix me up.

[00:04:16] If I could just get to her.

[00:04:30] A bit of a pickle here stranger.

[00:04:33] Found a vent but don't have the strength to open it.

[00:04:39] Yeah, I've fled a lot.

[00:04:43] And I'm not so sure anymore.

[00:04:50] It looks dark and abandoned inside the vent so I very well could be on level T.

[00:04:55] I just can't.

[00:05:09] This feels like a ridiculous place to die.

[00:05:13] No witnesses, no fanfare, no spectacle, what a waste.

[00:05:22] I faced off with a sentient robot for God's sakes.

[00:05:29] And now I'm gonna die like a lost rat in a ventilation system.

[00:05:37] Fitting.

[00:05:42] You know those...

[00:05:45] Triathletes that...

[00:05:47] Collapse?

[00:05:49] At the finish line?

[00:05:51] Yeah, that's me.

[00:05:54] I'm so close.

[00:05:59] My heart is racing but I can't muster the strength.

[00:06:04] Oh, I'm so cold but still burns.

[00:06:09] Sarah.

[00:06:12] Sarah.

[00:06:16] Sarah.

[00:06:21] Noah?

[00:06:23] Noah!

[00:06:27] Noah!

[00:06:29] Sarah.

[00:06:30] Noah!

[00:06:31] I swear I hear him.

[00:06:33] Noah!

[00:06:34] Wait, there you are!

[00:06:36] What's...

[00:06:38] Noah?

[00:06:39] Noah, Noah look at me.

[00:06:40] I'm gonna get you out.

[00:06:44] Noah, wake up.

[00:06:46] You have my multi-tool so I need your help.

[00:06:49] I can't unscrew it from my side.

[00:06:51] Noah, I need you to push the vent so I can pull you out.

[00:06:55] You follow?

[00:06:56] Sarah.

[00:06:58] When did you...

[00:06:59] How did you find me?

[00:07:01] You called out.

[00:07:02] Plus the vent is bleeding.

[00:07:04] Oh, no.

[00:07:06] Noah, I need you to push.

[00:07:08] Ready?

[00:07:09] Okay.

[00:07:10] Now!

[00:07:17] Okay, give me a hand.

[00:07:19] No, not your phone.

[00:07:21] Wait, are you recording?

[00:07:23] Give me that!

[00:07:30] Ugh!

[00:07:34] Are you good?

[00:07:35] Peachy, yeah.

[00:07:36] I just...

[00:07:37] I thought the desk was a little lower.

[00:07:40] Well, it's a tall desk.

[00:07:42] Right?

[00:07:45] Anyway, you're good?

[00:07:46] Yeah.

[00:07:48] I mean, just to start.

[00:07:50] Yeah, I know what you meant.

[00:07:51] And yeah.

[00:07:53] Okay.

[00:07:55] We got the band back together.

[00:07:57] Woo!

[00:07:58] Ah!

[00:07:59] Ah.

[00:08:00] Okay, say hello, Sarah.

[00:08:02] Can we just get on with it?

[00:08:03] And that's Sarah.

[00:08:04] Yep.

[00:08:05] You know her voice.

[00:08:06] And we're in level T.

[00:08:08] Level V.

[00:08:09] But you said to meet on T.

[00:08:11] Which we did.

[00:08:12] But the old medical bay was on level V.

[00:08:14] And what?

[00:08:15] You carried me down here?

[00:08:16] Yeah, just down the stairs.

[00:08:17] Mostly dragged you down the hole.

[00:08:19] And I was...

[00:08:20] Unconscious.

[00:08:22] Perfect.

[00:08:23] Okay.

[00:08:24] Well, we're on level V, which appears to be as empty as T.

[00:08:26] Not empty.

[00:08:27] Just not used.

[00:08:29] Same thing.

[00:08:30] Ah, from it.

[00:08:32] Right.

[00:08:34] Okay, yeah.

[00:08:35] Well, we're hauled up in the old medical bay.

[00:08:37] We're not in the medical bay.

[00:08:38] Do you just want to record this?

[00:08:40] I just woke up from being passed out since yesterday.

[00:08:43] I clearly don't know any details.

[00:08:44] It was two days ago.

[00:08:46] You've been asleep for almost 36 hours.

[00:08:48] 36 hours!

[00:08:49] That's...

[00:08:51] Wow.

[00:08:52] Okay, I'm definitely not the one who should be telling this story then.

[00:08:54] Can you?

[00:08:55] Where do I start?

[00:08:56] Well, there's heaps, I don't know.

[00:08:58] Where did you go after we split up?

[00:09:00] How long has it been?

[00:09:01] Have you run into the fear beans?

[00:09:02] Tunnel, Tars and how did you hear about me in the pipes?

[00:09:04] Okay, well, slow down.

[00:09:06] Let's...

[00:09:07] Let's start with the pipes.

[00:09:08] I heard on the radio...

[00:09:09] Where'd you get a radio?

[00:09:10] It was in the uniform.

[00:09:11] So I...

[00:09:12] Where'd you get the uniform?

[00:09:13] Are you gonna let me do this?

[00:09:15] Sorry.

[00:09:16] Okay.

[00:09:17] No more questions.

[00:09:18] Wait.

[00:09:19] One more.

[00:09:20] You have a knife now.

[00:09:21] Is that a question?

[00:09:22] Yes, I relieved it from the captain before I made my way down.

[00:09:26] Can I continue?

[00:09:27] Right.

[00:09:28] So I hear on the radio that there's a fugitive crawling through the internal sewer system,

[00:09:34] and I think...

[00:09:35] How many fugitives could they have on the run?

[00:09:37] And I know they're not talking about me.

[00:09:39] So I boogie up to level P and march down the hall listening for screams.

[00:09:44] I didn't scream.

[00:09:45] No, you didn't.

[00:09:47] But your cook friend set off the radio.

[00:09:49] You didn't.

[00:09:50] But your cook friend set off the silent alarm,

[00:09:53] and I got lucky enough to be the first one there.

[00:09:55] And he wasn't my friend.

[00:09:57] Clearly.

[00:09:58] From there we headed down the hallway looking for a place to hide.

[00:10:02] Yeah, you kicked my ass in the hallway a bit.

[00:10:04] You know you could have pulled your punches.

[00:10:06] Not much of an actor.

[00:10:08] Then we found a room to tuck him into and gave him the means to get out

[00:10:13] with a plan of meeting up on level T.

[00:10:15] What, how did you find me?

[00:10:17] I'd been up and down the hallways looking for you, calling your name.

[00:10:21] But nothing.

[00:10:22] Eventually, I faintly heard my own name.

[00:10:25] I thought it was my mind playing tricks on me,

[00:10:27] but then I heard it one more time,

[00:10:29] and I knew it had to be you.

[00:10:31] Finding event wasn't hard because it was the only one leaking blood.

[00:10:35] You could smell it in the air.

[00:10:37] And to be honest, your lucky eye was what found you.

[00:10:41] So then you dragged me down to level V and wait for me to wake up?

[00:10:45] Something like that.

[00:10:47] The medical bay had loads to help me clean you up, but no food.

[00:10:51] So you scavenged?

[00:10:53] Down here, no.

[00:10:55] I snuck back up and loaded up on some food and gear, even some fresh clothes,

[00:10:59] and yep, now we're up to date.

[00:11:05] There's more to dive into there for sure,

[00:11:07] but I'm not going to turn my nose up at what you got your hands on.

[00:11:10] Is that pack for me?

[00:11:12] Yeah, loaded it up with some food and a few other things if you're up for carrying it.

[00:11:17] I think so. If we take it slow.

[00:11:19] You sound like you know where we're heading next.

[00:11:22] Yeah.

[00:11:24] I think we've left Allen waiting long enough.

[00:11:27] Who the fuck?

[00:11:30] Allen! I forgot about Allen!

[00:11:34] God, he looks like a lifetime ago.

[00:11:38] So, elephant in the room?

[00:11:42] Something's off.

[00:11:44] Right?

[00:11:46] She's abrupt and a little more coarse and he's being obnoxious and defensive.

[00:11:50] And I know they departed on weird terms,

[00:11:54] but I figured when they got back together it would flow again.

[00:11:58] We know what Noah has been through,

[00:12:01] but what has she been through since we last caught up with?

[00:12:04] The level of trauma because she has experience to become this jaded.

[00:12:08] Or rather, what additional trauma has she experienced?

[00:12:11] After I remind myself that everything they do, how they react,

[00:12:14] what they say is in part a product of this, you know, whole traumatic experience.

[00:12:19] Well, that doesn't mean they get absolved of their accountability.

[00:12:22] It does help explain where it's rooted.

[00:12:25] I sometimes feel like I'm losing the plot over here at escaping Denver HQ.

[00:12:29] We spend a little too much time alone

[00:12:32] and in your own head it can be tough to know what to believe anymore.

[00:12:37] With the collision of conspiracy theories and myth and history,

[00:12:40] I'm beginning to lose touch with what's real.

[00:12:44] What I'm getting at is that I'm hearing all of this.

[00:12:48] I'm getting to digest it, think about it, sleep on it.

[00:12:51] But no one, Sarah?

[00:12:53] They just have to push through, coping with it however they can.

[00:12:57] And if her Sarah that means she's being able to coldly shoot a prep cook in the face,

[00:13:01] then I guess that's just where she's at.

[00:13:04] I'm not making excuses for her make no mistake, I'm scared of her.

[00:13:08] Afraid for Noah, she's changed.

[00:13:11] But that was already the case when they split up.

[00:13:14] My only hope is that Noah can help bring back the Sarah we all remember.

[00:13:23] We're making our way back through to service tunnels.

[00:13:26] After that cramped ventilation shaft, this feels palatial but miss fancy pants disagreeing.

[00:13:31] I'm not fancy for not enjoying the stink and sound of rats

[00:13:35] as I walk through clouds of steam of God knows what.

[00:13:39] You're a trash panda for liking it.

[00:13:41] The raccoon, nature's noble burglar.

[00:13:44] It's high praise.

[00:13:46] Are you sure we're going in the right direction?

[00:13:48] Like I told you before.

[00:13:50] No, but it's familiar.

[00:13:55] It's dozens of pipes and conduits running along a moldy and moist concrete tunnel.

[00:14:01] It all looks the same.

[00:14:03] Exactly familiar.

[00:14:05] I swear, if you...

[00:14:06] I'm kidding, I'm kidding, okay? Lighten up a little.

[00:14:09] Look we're not being actively chased.

[00:14:12] No monsters are breathing down our necks.

[00:14:15] This might be the good times.

[00:14:18] We're on the right path.

[00:14:19] Do you see that up ahead?

[00:14:21] What the hell is that?

[00:14:22] It's a dead body.

[00:14:24] Did you?

[00:14:26] Me? No, it...

[00:14:28] He was dead when I found him the first time.

[00:14:31] Looks like the puncher made short work of him.

[00:14:34] And you use this dead body as a landmark?

[00:14:37] What is this Everest?

[00:14:39] I didn't place it there.

[00:14:41] It was left after one of those robots punched a bunch of holes in him.

[00:14:44] There's only one puncher.

[00:14:47] That's reassuring.

[00:14:48] It isn't.

[00:14:49] It's a brutal killing machine.

[00:14:52] I heard them talking about the thing like it was alive, first of its kind, apparently.

[00:14:58] Yeah.

[00:14:59] Things seem to understand me.

[00:15:01] Understand you?

[00:15:03] That thing is smarter than either of us.

[00:15:05] And it's not supposed to be hindered by things like morals or pain,

[00:15:09] making it all the more dangerous.

[00:15:12] I challenged it to a fight and convinced it to drop its weapon.

[00:15:16] Did you?

[00:15:17] And did it really drop it?

[00:15:19] Toss it right on the ground.

[00:15:21] That is a problem.

[00:15:23] Emotions.

[00:15:25] Wasn't supposed to have them, but they came with the intelligence.

[00:15:29] It makes it difficult to control.

[00:15:31] Is that why they don't make more of them?

[00:15:34] Do I look in charge?

[00:15:36] I'm just telling you what I heard.

[00:15:38] Sorry, it just sounds like you heard a lot and maybe you knew more.

[00:15:41] Nope. Just tapped out.

[00:15:43] Easy.

[00:15:44] Hey, don't step on the dead.

[00:15:47] This thing has been here for months, if not longer.

[00:15:49] Looks like a corn husk doll.

[00:15:51] Doesn't mean you need to step on it.

[00:15:53] Do you need to be recording while you chastise how I walk?

[00:15:56] I'm always recording.

[00:15:58] Who knows what this information does for our stranger.

[00:16:00] They could be assembling a rag tag team as we speak

[00:16:03] and knowing about the landmark dead body

[00:16:05] in the tunnels could be helpful.

[00:16:07] And why aren't you recording?

[00:16:09] Like, I told you before I lost my phone after we split up.

[00:16:13] And now that there's only one phone between us,

[00:16:15] maybe you should be conserving the battery.

[00:16:18] Fair.

[00:16:20] We're getting close to making it to our little camp where you'll see Alan.

[00:16:24] Believe me, you'll recognise him from before.

[00:16:27] Yeah, I'm just not good with names.

[00:16:29] Well, he is his Alan.

[00:16:32] Trying to be nice.

[00:16:36] A fire burning.

[00:16:37] Shh.

[00:16:39] We've made it back to our camp, but it seems to have been ransacked.

[00:16:43] Why did all this paper come from...

[00:16:45] Shh.

[00:16:47] There are papers everywhere and I have no idea where they came from.

[00:16:50] Covered in mostly hand writing.

[00:16:52] Could Alan have made these?

[00:16:54] In three days?

[00:16:55] It's hundreds of pages, each written on.

[00:16:57] Plus who knows what's in the books.

[00:17:01] But three days is a while so, yet technically he could have made these but not likely,

[00:17:06] he probably found them scavenging.

[00:17:10] The mess is everywhere.

[00:17:11] But the fire looks fresh. He's nearby, let's just call out his neck.

[00:17:14] Do you have a death wish?

[00:17:16] Call out.

[00:17:17] Call out when we don't even know what we're dealing with.

[00:17:21] I'm not seeing any signs of violence.

[00:17:23] Oh, oh! You can detect signs of violence now.

[00:17:26] Must be some uniform.

[00:17:27] Do you see blood?

[00:17:28] Do you see anything broken, crushed?

[00:17:30] No.

[00:17:32] It just looks like a hoarder's gone camping.

[00:17:34] The papers aren't all stepped on, Noah.

[00:17:36] I don't think basic perception is anything worth noting with sarcasm

[00:17:40] but maybe that's just the uniform speaking.

[00:17:43] Well, I wasn't...

[00:17:44] Yes, you were.

[00:17:45] And I want it to stop.

[00:17:47] Just because I don't think your friend was attacked doesn't mean any of this is okay.

[00:17:51] It looks like a beautiful mind down here.

[00:17:53] And unless he's solving the world's problems?

[00:17:55] He's obviously not solving the world's problems.

[00:17:57] It was hyperbole.

[00:18:00] I'm just saying that they say it's a fine line between insanity and genius

[00:18:05] and I'm guessing it's not so fine a line with Adam.

[00:18:09] Alan.

[00:18:10] Whatever.

[00:18:11] He's stacked loose paper around a fire like a madman and then fucked off somewhere.

[00:18:15] He's clearly...

[00:18:16] A genius? No, it's me!

[00:18:18] It's me, Alan!

[00:18:19] It's Alan.

[00:18:20] Put the gun down.

[00:18:21] You met me before.

[00:18:22] I'm Alan.

[00:18:23] From before!

[00:18:24] He jumped out of nowhere.

[00:18:25] You jumped out of nowhere.

[00:18:26] I was trying to time my entrance.

[00:18:28] And how do you think it went?

[00:18:29] I have notes.

[00:18:33] Sarah?

[00:18:34] This is Alan.

[00:18:36] Alan, Sarah?

[00:18:39] Alan is a friend now.

[00:18:41] Hi.

[00:18:42] I switched sides.

[00:18:44] Again.

[00:18:45] He switched sides again so we're good.

[00:18:47] He's a friend and we don't need to aim guns at friends.

[00:18:54] There we go.

[00:18:55] Okay.

[00:18:56] Now that we're all acting sensibly, no guns aimed at one another is there anything you want to say?

[00:19:01] To one another.

[00:19:03] Sorry I startled you.

[00:19:05] Given our situation, it was a shit idea.

[00:19:08] That's great.

[00:19:09] Thank you, Alan.

[00:19:10] It was a shit idea.

[00:19:12] And Sarah?

[00:19:15] I'm sorry I shot at you.

[00:19:17] Perfect.

[00:19:19] This is nice.

[00:19:21] All of us together.

[00:19:25] The Sarah loaded up on all sorts of gear.

[00:19:27] Two backpacks, fold to the brim.

[00:19:29] Nice!

[00:19:30] It was nothing, mostly food and first aid.

[00:19:33] And Alan, it looks like you've been busy too?

[00:19:37] What with all your papers?

[00:19:41] Yeah, I went a little hog wild on papers.

[00:19:44] At first I thought, perfect.

[00:19:46] What amazing fire fuel.

[00:19:47] So I started bringing stacks up to the alcove but as I sat there feeding reams to the flames, it occurred to me.

[00:19:53] What if the symbols on the page is meant something?

[00:19:56] You know?

[00:19:57] Symbols on a page.

[00:19:59] Are you describing letters?

[00:20:02] Is he just discovering the written language?

[00:20:04] No.

[00:20:05] And ouch, I can read.

[00:20:07] Look.

[00:20:09] Carapax fold under and unite to the mandibles bear a pulpus that is long and three jointed.

[00:20:18] What the hell am I reading?

[00:20:20] Journals!

[00:20:21] First hand accounts written by scientists, technicians, even a few pages from a report of solar panels,

[00:20:26] all of it dating back to the early 90s.

[00:20:30] Those stacks talk about animals, creatures, that stack, plants.

[00:20:34] This stack over here is mushrooms, but I haven't gone over it.

[00:20:37] Just seen some sketches.

[00:20:38] If those piles are about animals, plants and mushrooms, what are all these other heaps about?

[00:20:42] Heaps!

[00:20:43] I'm sorry, it's not perfectly organized.

[00:20:46] It's been a bit of a one-man operation over here while you were gone and I didn't expect you to return with guests.

[00:20:52] Sarah's not just a guest, and you can also admit that this alcove looks a lot more chaotic than when I left.

[00:20:57] Do you two want me to leave and give you some space?

[00:21:00] Or do you want to get on with telling us about your other perfectly organized heaps of papers?

[00:21:05] They look like they have the same symbols as the wall.

[00:21:08] Jumping ahead to the end of it, but yeah.

[00:21:10] Those piles over there, they talk about runes.

[00:21:13] Sometimes it's translations, sometimes it's etchings,

[00:21:16] but sometimes we get lucky and it's analysis.

[00:21:20] Essays on what some of this stuff means.

[00:21:22] And how does learning misinformation help us get out?

[00:21:25] It doesn't, but it gives us something to say when we do make it out.

[00:21:29] If we find the right string to pull on, we can unravel this whole collective.

[00:21:33] Give purpose to what we've been through.

[00:21:35] Purpose is a pretty big promise.

[00:21:38] This information really that groundbreaking?

[00:21:40] I have barely scratched the surface, to be honest.

[00:21:43] Plus reading and properly digesting are two very different things.

[00:21:47] But yeah, it's groundbreaking.

[00:21:50] What if I told you that there are nine planets in our solar system?

[00:21:54] Are they?

[00:21:56] No, there's only eight.

[00:21:57] He's counting Pluto, which is a dwarf planet.

[00:22:00] No, I'm not.

[00:22:01] And Pluto isn't the only dwarf planet in our system.

[00:22:05] I'm talking about something else.

[00:22:07] Look, is this an etching?

[00:22:09] Yeah, I'm thinking it's from one of the walls around here.

[00:22:12] What are we looking at here?

[00:22:14] Our solar system?

[00:22:16] Exactly.

[00:22:17] We got the Sun, then Mercury, Venus.

[00:22:20] Here's us on Earth, then Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

[00:22:26] And oh, Pluto.

[00:22:28] No.

[00:22:29] And what the hell is the big one at the end?

[00:22:33] No, Bureau.

[00:22:37] The Beeru, Nibaru.

[00:22:41] It's a planet that is destined to destroy the Earth in some spectacular cataclysmic event,

[00:22:46] according to the internet.

[00:22:50] Now, I'm no planet expert or expert in anything really,

[00:22:54] but wouldn't an extra planet be a relatively easy thing to disprove?

[00:22:58] We're not talking light years away.

[00:23:00] We're talking within our own solar system.

[00:23:03] A giant, it's a less geologic, somehow hiding.

[00:23:06] Feels a little too much of a stretch.

[00:23:10] Less.

[00:23:12] This was being hidden on purpose.

[00:23:15] I mean, you and I aren't exactly zipping around the galaxy fact-checking NASA,

[00:23:19] so I guess they could get away with all manner of sins.

[00:23:24] Something to think about there.

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