The Vicious Cycle | 4.6

[00:00:00] Tag Herr Jauch

[00:00:01] Herr Ulmen, was haben Sie diesmal wieder nicht verstanden?

[00:00:05] Ja, Herr Jauch, können Sie mir das mit dem E-Rezept nochmal erklären?

[00:00:07] Es ist doch nun wirklich einfach. Also, Shop-Apotheke-App öffnen, Krankenkassenkarte dranhalten.

[00:00:13] Karte dranhalten, Rezepte auswählen, bestellen, fertig.

[00:00:16] Ja, Sie wissen doch wie es geht.

[00:00:17] Ja, aber also einfach nur dranhalten, ich dachte meine Frau wollte mich verarschen.

[00:00:22] Diesmal ausnahmsweise nicht.

[00:00:25] E-Rezept, Shop-Apotheke, hältst du schon dran?

[00:00:29] Escaping Denver

[00:00:30] Batch 4, Episode 6

[00:00:32] The Vicious Cycle

[00:00:34] Too comfortable and too many people saw me going in and out from a door that wasn't exactly one most people used.

[00:01:02] And anyways, I started getting nods from people.

[00:01:05] Familiar nods.

[00:01:06] Nods that say, hey, we both see each other a lot because we're both locals.

[00:01:10] Which is exactly what I'm trying to avoid.

[00:01:13] I want to blend in. Fade into the background.

[00:01:16] Right.

[00:01:17] When I last left you, Sarah had blown Harper and herself up in a loading bay.

[00:01:21] And Noah had left Tunnel Tarzan behind to die.

[00:01:23] No, he didn't leave him behind to die, but kind of did.

[00:01:27] I know Tunnel Tarzan asked for him to do it, but still.

[00:01:31] If none of that made sense to you, please go back and listen again because today we're going to hit the ground running.

[00:01:44] I'll get to her.

[00:01:45] I'll find her.

[00:01:45] I'll get to her.

[00:01:46] I'll find her.

[00:01:47] I'll...

[00:01:50] Where was the explosion?

[00:01:52] The loading bay.

[00:01:54] But the place looks like a war zone.

[00:01:55] A direction.

[00:01:57] That way.

[00:01:58] But we're supposed to be locking down the cells.

[00:02:01] I...

[00:02:01] I'm a medic.

[00:02:03] Where's your gear?

[00:02:07] Where's your gear?

[00:02:09] Shit.

[00:02:10] Shit.

[00:02:10] Shit.

[00:02:11] I have about one minute before that moron realizes what just happened and I need to be far away by then.

[00:02:29] Sarah's been here for sure.

[00:02:31] Everything is scorched and there's shards of metal everywhere.

[00:02:34] Just shards.

[00:02:35] I think they're pieces of a truck.

[00:02:37] How did you do this, Sarah?

[00:02:39] Oh.

[00:02:40] Anything?

[00:02:42] Nothing.

[00:02:43] I think it was just Harper.

[00:02:48] Doesn't make sense.

[00:02:49] What the hell happened?

[00:02:54] Fuel truck blew up, I guess.

[00:02:56] Things don't just blow up.

[00:02:59] Happens all the time down here.

[00:03:03] Was she stable when they got her out?

[00:03:06] Stable?

[00:03:06] Yes.

[00:03:07] But also cooked.

[00:03:10] Nasty.

[00:03:12] Yeah.

[00:03:13] She wasn't exactly pleasant before.

[00:03:20] Things don't just blow up.

[00:03:22] Sarah blows them up.

[00:03:24] She was here.

[00:03:25] But if she was in that explosion,

[00:03:29] what if she's the person they think is cooked Harper?

[00:03:33] She's strong, but she doesn't heal.

[00:03:38] There are thousands of truck pieces.

[00:03:40] If she was here, she'd be riddled with shrapnel.

[00:03:44] Even embedded in a metal...

[00:03:46] I don't know, ramp or something?

[00:03:49] Crazy.

[00:03:51] Like...

[00:03:54] Oh.

[00:03:55] She's good.

[00:03:56] She is good.

[00:03:58] I mean, I couldn't, but...

[00:04:00] She's strong enough.

[00:04:01] Of course.

[00:04:04] Oh.

[00:04:05] I forgot.

[00:04:06] You can't see what I'm seeing.

[00:04:07] Proof Sarah is alive.

[00:04:10] There's this huge metal ramp.

[00:04:12] Wide as a door, and maybe even longer.

[00:04:14] Big.

[00:04:15] And it's made of that steel with the diamond shapes on it?

[00:04:18] I don't know its name.

[00:04:20] Diamond steel?

[00:04:21] Whatever.

[00:04:22] And it is pierced by all these metal shards,

[00:04:24] like a shield covered in arrows.

[00:04:26] You know?

[00:04:27] Like someone who used the ramp thing as a shield,

[00:04:29] and the only person I know strong enough to do that is Sarah.

[00:04:33] So?

[00:04:34] I think she's alive.

[00:04:36] Probably hurt, but alive.

[00:04:40] And I'm gonna find her.

[00:05:13] Still recording.

[00:05:14] Walkman?

[00:05:22] We'll see.

[00:05:25] I gotta move.

[00:05:28] Slowly.

[00:05:37] Happened to the quiet alcoholism of keeping a bottle of booze in your desk drawer?

[00:05:45] Not even aspirin.

[00:05:47] And I don't even want to drink it.

[00:05:49] My fingers got a little flame broiled,

[00:05:51] and I was hoping to disinfect them before I tried taping them up.

[00:05:56] Oh, dammit.

[00:05:58] I'm hiding under a desk.

[00:06:00] For now.

[00:06:01] I'm regrouping.

[00:06:06] Really wish there'd been another witness for that.

[00:06:09] You know, beyond my evil clone or whatever,

[00:06:11] because that had to have looked cool.

[00:06:14] Causing a spark with the ramp?

[00:06:16] I didn't know it would spark.

[00:06:18] I hoped it would,

[00:06:19] but I really didn't have anything to back it up with.

[00:06:22] Beyond that hope.

[00:06:24] But,

[00:06:25] boom.

[00:06:27] Worked a treat.

[00:06:28] Blew my ass back 50 feet,

[00:06:29] but at least I was shielded.

[00:06:31] She would have been blown to bits.

[00:06:33] No way she could have survived that.

[00:06:39] She'll have survived, right?

[00:06:44] I'm not a tracker or anything.

[00:06:47] Not professionally,

[00:06:48] but I'd like to think I have a strong sense for this kind of thing.

[00:06:52] Problem is,

[00:06:53] if there aren't footprints or a trail of blood,

[00:06:56] I don't have a clue what I should be looking for.

[00:06:58] This is pointless.

[00:07:00] I know she went this way,

[00:07:01] but beyond that,

[00:07:02] I don't have a...

[00:07:03] Hey!

[00:07:03] You!

[00:07:04] Stop!

[00:07:05] I forgot about him.

[00:07:11] I just want to talk!

[00:07:15] I won't be taken again.

[00:07:16] I can't.

[00:07:17] Not again.

[00:07:19] I can't.

[00:07:20] I won't.

[00:07:21] I can't.

[00:07:22] I can't.

[00:07:23] Come out.

[00:07:24] I can't.

[00:07:25] I won't.

[00:07:26] I can't.

[00:07:27] I can't.

[00:07:28] There's only so far you could go.

[00:07:30] I won't.

[00:07:30] I can't.

[00:07:31] I know you're somewhere close.

[00:07:32] Just come out.

[00:07:34] I don't want to.

[00:07:37] Just come quietly,

[00:07:39] and I won't shoot.

[00:07:41] Fuck this.

[00:07:43] Fuck this.

[00:07:49] I can't.

[00:07:50] I say.

[00:07:50] I won't.

[00:07:51] I won't.

[00:07:52] I won't.

[00:07:56] I think I've given it enough time.

[00:08:15] Haven't heard anything in a while.

[00:08:21] That was fucked up, wasn't it?

[00:08:23] I mean, that was me.

[00:08:25] Not just some random soldier, but me.

[00:08:28] I'm the psychopath holding Noah hostage.

[00:08:32] Of all the people they could have chosen, they chose me.

[00:08:36] Why?

[00:08:38] Just to mess with Noah, or do I have that in me?

[00:08:41] Was that something already there?

[00:08:43] Or did they add to the recipe just to make her?

[00:08:47] What does that say about me?

[00:08:52] The way she looked at me?

[00:08:54] She hated me.

[00:08:57] I know my hate look.

[00:08:59] It was surreal.

[00:09:01] Penetrating even.

[00:09:04] I mean, I don't love myself.

[00:09:05] I'm working on that.

[00:09:07] Or I was working on that, but I'm not there yet.

[00:09:09] And the way she, I, looked at me?

[00:09:13] It was with all the self-loathing I already feel.

[00:09:17] Like confirming it in a way that isn't possible without a second you.

[00:09:22] But it did something to me.

[00:09:24] It focused me on something.

[00:09:26] The path forward was so clear.

[00:09:29] I just wanted to win in that moment so badly.

[00:09:33] So immediately.

[00:09:35] To prove that's not me.

[00:09:37] To beat the evil version of myself.

[00:09:41] I was so angry.

[00:09:45] They chose me?

[00:09:49] Using me to do whatever it is they did to Noah.

[00:09:52] I had to win.

[00:09:54] So when I...

[00:09:56] Shit.

[00:09:57] Someone's at the door.

[00:09:58] I see their feet under the door.

[00:10:00] Come out.

[00:10:03] Come out.

[00:10:08] There's only so far you could go.

[00:10:11] I know you're somewhere close.

[00:10:13] Just come out.

[00:10:14] I don't wanna.

[00:10:17] Just come quietly.

[00:10:19] And I won't shoot.

[00:10:21] Fuck this.

[00:10:23] I could have sworn that was Noah.

[00:10:29] That was Noah.

[00:10:30] I said I won't.

[00:10:32] I won't.

[00:10:33] I won't.

[00:10:46] Noah, it's me.

[00:10:47] Sarah.

[00:10:48] Noah, stop.

[00:10:49] Stop.

[00:10:49] It's me.

[00:10:51] Sarah?

[00:10:51] It's me.

[00:10:53] How do I...

[00:10:54] How do I know?

[00:10:56] You'll have to trust me.

[00:10:57] I don't think I can.

[00:11:01] We saw Bigfoot tear Palmer in half.

[00:11:03] You could know that by looking at the pieces.

[00:11:06] And...

[00:11:07] And afterwards he spoke.

[00:11:08] Just the one word.

[00:11:10] Even.

[00:11:13] Sarah.

[00:11:14] Yeah, mate.

[00:11:15] It's me.

[00:11:17] How?

[00:11:18] Where?

[00:11:18] I...

[00:11:18] Yep, yep.

[00:11:19] All of that.

[00:11:19] But first we have to run.

[00:11:21] Get up.

[00:11:21] Grab what you can from our friend there.

[00:11:23] And we move.

[00:11:24] To where?

[00:11:25] I know a place.

[00:11:29] Okay.

[00:11:30] Ready when you are.

[00:11:31] Let's talk about it.

[00:11:32] And you're sure the food's good to eat?

[00:11:35] We were eating it before.

[00:11:37] Not you, but you know.

[00:11:40] Tunnel Tarzan you.

[00:11:41] I figured that's what this place was.

[00:11:44] Where Tunnel Tarzan lived.

[00:11:46] Really?

[00:11:47] When he said we were headed back to where he lived, I pictured a fire in a cave scattered

[00:11:51] with bones.

[00:11:52] Not this.

[00:11:53] I'm sure he started with the cave.

[00:11:56] But now that we both know he was me.

[00:11:59] Or...

[00:12:00] Me.

[00:12:01] Him.

[00:12:02] Or both of us Noah's.

[00:12:04] Get it.

[00:12:05] Now that we know who he was, this makes sense.

[00:12:08] I was always more little rascals than I was Swiss family Robinson.

[00:12:14] I don't know what any of that means.

[00:12:15] Can we just...

[00:12:16] One year in college, I moved in with a bunch of idiot friends.

[00:12:21] Place wasn't a frat, but basically was.

[00:12:24] Open door policy.

[00:12:25] Always a party.

[00:12:26] Always leftover pizza.

[00:12:28] Anyways, my bed was too big to make it up to the second floor, so I just moved into

[00:12:32] the unfinished basement.

[00:12:33] Hmm.

[00:12:34] I'm sure the ladies were charmed.

[00:12:35] I don't think a better room would have saved me there.

[00:12:38] But there I was.

[00:12:39] Bed in a concrete basement.

[00:12:41] I immediately covered the bare studs with street signs, maps, posters, and slowly the

[00:12:46] walls of the bedroom formed.

[00:12:48] Like a basement treehouse.

[00:12:49] But you didn't even have a door.

[00:12:51] I had beads.

[00:12:53] Lots of beads.

[00:12:55] Almost...

[00:12:56] Too much beads.

[00:12:58] This place is just a more mature approach to my nesting habits.

[00:13:01] Comfy furniture.

[00:13:02] Pelford appliances.

[00:13:04] You're playing jazz.

[00:13:06] And you like jazz?

[00:13:07] Of course not.

[00:13:08] Nobody likes jazz.

[00:13:10] But it's the kind of record I'd keep around to impress people.

[00:13:13] I did start thinking of him as a sophisticated knower.

[00:13:17] See?

[00:13:18] Hook, line, and sinker.

[00:13:19] I'm good.

[00:13:21] This place is awesome.

[00:13:22] I can see why he gave up on escaping.

[00:13:24] You could get comfortable here.

[00:13:26] You want to talk about what happened?

[00:13:31] I'm actively avoiding it.

[00:13:34] You were attacked when he was saving you and he was killed.

[00:13:37] That's an oversimplification.

[00:13:40] Well, it's literally all you told me.

[00:13:43] He sacrificed himself.

[00:13:47] Allowed me to get away.

[00:13:49] Yeah, it was pretty incredible.

[00:13:52] He was so quick to act.

[00:13:54] Resolute.

[00:13:56] Commanding, even.

[00:13:57] He was pretty great.

[00:13:59] Built all this.

[00:14:01] Journaled, too.

[00:14:02] Books full of notes.

[00:14:04] I didn't know you journaled.

[00:14:06] I didn't.

[00:14:08] Well, you can stop when we get out.

[00:14:11] Yeah.

[00:14:13] When we...

[00:14:14] So, he sacrificed himself?

[00:14:16] Yeah.

[00:14:18] Couldn't lock the door from the inside and they were pounding on it.

[00:14:21] And he was just holding it shut.

[00:14:23] But then how did you...

[00:14:24] I was in a set.

[00:14:26] Looked like the cells we started in.

[00:14:29] Felt like them, but it wasn't.

[00:14:31] He pointed out that the glass wall might not be as strong as the last time.

[00:14:35] I broke it and got out of the neighboring cell.

[00:14:38] And when Tunnel Tarzan followed...

[00:14:40] He didn't.

[00:14:41] He stayed behind.

[00:14:44] And you?

[00:14:45] Got out of the neighboring cell and locked the door behind me.

[00:14:49] That's heavy.

[00:14:49] I heard the gunshots eventually.

[00:14:55] He couldn't survive.

[00:14:56] He doesn't heal like me.

[00:14:59] If he stayed behind, he must have known it was the only way.

[00:15:02] He did.

[00:15:03] And it was.

[00:15:05] We both would have been killed otherwise.

[00:15:08] He died a hero.

[00:15:11] It doesn't sound like you had a choice.

[00:15:13] He willingly died a hero.

[00:15:16] What part are you struggling with?

[00:15:19] Living with myself.

[00:15:26] They're back.

[00:15:27] At least, back together.

[00:15:29] Noah seems like he's still got some coming back to do before he's himself.

[00:15:32] But this does feel like it's both...

[00:15:35] Not clones or anything, but actually them.

[00:15:39] The message is lined up in the end.

[00:15:41] And I'm happy that Sarah stepped in.

[00:15:42] We don't normally get to see Noah's primal side.

[00:15:45] I wasn't even sure one existed.

[00:15:48] Harper broke something in him that doesn't heal.

[00:15:51] Sure his body heals, but the mind?

[00:15:53] Can you heal the ability to trust?

[00:15:55] She got into his head.

[00:15:57] Really got into his head.

[00:15:59] And while I guess that was the point, it's still...

[00:16:02] Cruel.

[00:16:05] At least she's cooked now.

[00:16:07] Colin?

[00:16:08] Oat milk latte for Colin?

[00:16:11] By the time this is released, I'll be miles from here.

[00:16:14] Miles away from Colin and his dairy-less needs, so don't try to look into where I'm at.

[00:16:18] I'll be in a new spot.

[00:16:20] It is lonely.

[00:16:22] Just carrying on.

[00:16:23] This is giving me deja vu vibes.

[00:16:30] Me quietly recording while Noah snores away.

[00:16:33] Been here before.

[00:16:35] A few times.

[00:16:40] He's, um...

[00:16:41] I don't know what they did to him.

[00:16:45] What a version of myself did to him.

[00:16:48] He looks at me differently now.

[00:16:52] Like he's waiting for something.

[00:16:54] Waiting for me to reveal that this is all still part of the test and I'm still Harper and there was never a Sarah.

[00:17:00] Waiting to betray him again.

[00:17:04] Hell, I'm waiting for something like that too.

[00:17:07] We got away too easily, right?

[00:17:10] After they found that soldier, they'd sound the alarms.

[00:17:14] Send lizard dogs after us.

[00:17:17] Of course the alarms were already blaring.

[00:17:21] Maybe we just got lucky.

[00:17:25] Speaking of luck, you're up to date on the adventures of Noah?

[00:17:28] I imagine he told you everything because, well...

[00:17:32] That's Noah.

[00:17:35] Crazy.

[00:17:35] Crazy.

[00:17:37] Only Noah would make enemies of a newly sentient robot spider the size of a sedan.

[00:17:42] And only Noah would survive.

[00:17:45] Bloodied, beaten and victorious.

[00:17:49] That should be his family crest.

[00:17:53] We got him cleaned up.

[00:17:54] Thankfully the blood didn't seem to be his.

[00:17:59] But there was evidence of the horrors he's experienced.

[00:18:03] He doesn't scar anymore.

[00:18:05] No.

[00:18:07] But when he regrows large areas of skin...

[00:18:10] They come back hairless.

[00:18:13] Well, he's damn near hairless right now.

[00:18:16] Small patches of hair.

[00:18:17] But for the most part...

[00:18:19] It's all new skin.

[00:18:24] So I can't help but circle back on what the hell they did to him.

[00:18:29] What I did to him.

[00:18:32] I need to know why he looks at me the way he does.

[00:18:37] We're gearing up to head back out.

[00:18:38] You have everything?

[00:18:39] Yeah, I'm just...

[00:18:40] Updating.

[00:18:41] Yep.

[00:18:41] We just can't come back here.

[00:18:43] I know.

[00:18:43] I have everything.

[00:18:44] Food?

[00:18:45] Like six of those package dealies.

[00:18:47] Water?

[00:18:48] Full bottle and full bladder.

[00:18:49] Hold it.

[00:18:50] Do you...

[00:18:51] Yes.

[00:18:51] I have the soldier's gun.

[00:18:52] I have the ammo and a knife and a telescoping baton for some reason.

[00:18:58] Hmm.

[00:18:59] Medical supplies.

[00:19:00] Grab two rolls of duct tape, which is all I really need.

[00:19:03] And what about the rest of us mere mortals?

[00:19:05] A whole med kit.

[00:19:07] By the way, if I'm carrying all of this...

[00:19:09] What do you carry?

[00:19:11] Myself.

[00:19:12] With some dignity.

[00:19:13] Funny.

[00:19:13] But actually, I'm not a pack mule.

[00:19:16] Food, water, batteries, a flashlight, ammo, a handgun, and this.

[00:19:21] Cool.

[00:19:23] A butterfly knife.

[00:19:25] I've never seen one in real life.

[00:19:26] I know, right?

[00:19:29] And nothing else?

[00:19:32] What did you do?

[00:19:33] Just check the bag.

[00:19:34] We really don't have time for this.

[00:19:36] Then we really don't have time to argue about it.

[00:19:42] My Walkman.

[00:19:43] What did you do to it?

[00:19:44] Fixed it.

[00:19:45] It's covered in duct tape.

[00:19:47] I know.

[00:19:48] I fixed it.

[00:19:51] Wait.

[00:19:52] That should have worked.

[00:19:53] I don't see how it could have.

[00:19:55] I'm the youngest male in a long line of women.

[00:19:57] My sister, female cousins, female second cousins.

[00:20:00] They were itching to find something to hand me down.

[00:20:03] I grew up with a dozen broken Walkmans and CD players I made do.

[00:20:07] With duct tape?

[00:20:08] Mostly.

[00:20:09] Yeah.

[00:20:09] Which is why I thought this would work.

[00:20:12] It's fine.

[00:20:13] You can try again later.

[00:20:16] You sure this is a good plan?

[00:20:18] We could just stay here.

[00:20:19] It's a great plan.

[00:20:21] If we can find our way.

[00:20:22] Yeah, that's a big if.

[00:20:24] We're constantly lost.

[00:20:26] No, we're constantly in vents.

[00:20:28] But this time, we're heading back to familiar territory.

[00:20:31] We've been there a couple of times.

[00:20:32] Familiar.

[00:20:34] What if he doesn't want to see us?

[00:20:36] Tough.

[00:20:36] He made his choice.

[00:20:38] Helped me out and helped you out in a huge way.

[00:20:41] Gave you those magnet weapons.

[00:20:42] He's picked his side.

[00:20:43] Last time I was there, I brought the puncher with me.

[00:20:46] Puncher was the robot?

[00:20:48] Robot spider.

[00:20:49] Yeah.

[00:20:50] But I brought trouble.

[00:20:52] We're not bringing trouble anymore.

[00:20:54] We're trying to outrun it.

[00:20:56] The archivist feels like the next natural move.

[00:20:59] Maybe he has a new weapon or new information for us.

[00:21:02] Or maybe it's where your stuff was archived.

[00:21:05] If they archived it.

[00:21:07] Yeah.

[00:21:08] I guess it would be there.

[00:21:10] And you said you still have one more magnet thing in your belongings.

[00:21:13] Which is worth retrieving.

[00:21:15] You're right.

[00:21:17] You're right.

[00:21:18] It would be there if it still exists.

[00:21:21] Mate.

[00:21:21] The thing killed a giant robot and shut down a huge internal fan.

[00:21:25] We need the third magnet.

[00:21:27] What if we encounter a transformer?

[00:21:30] Oh, don't tease.

[00:21:31] That would be amazing.

[00:21:33] Don't change, Noah.

[00:21:35] What?

[00:21:35] Why?

[00:21:36] Because even after everything that's been done to you,

[00:21:39] you still want to encounter an even bigger robot.

[00:21:42] Well, technically, transformers are robots in disguise.

[00:21:46] But I think I've had my fill a straight up robots.

[00:21:49] I think I'm game for anything that breaks the cool threshold.

[00:21:52] Hmm.

[00:21:53] Clones not cool enough for you?

[00:21:55] Not when you likely are one.

[00:21:56] No.

[00:21:56] I'm talking laser sword fights, teleportation beams, fricking Godzilla.

[00:22:01] The cool stuff.

[00:22:02] Mm-hmm.

[00:22:03] The dangerous stuff.

[00:22:05] I guess.

[00:22:06] Mom.

[00:22:07] Mom.

[00:22:11] Another hallway.

[00:22:12] Looks identical, but what's lurking behind?

[00:22:15] Can you not...

[00:22:15] I'm so bored.

[00:22:17] Boring is good.

[00:22:19] Boring isn't running and screaming and shooting.

[00:22:23] But it's still boring.

[00:22:24] We just keep doing the same thing and it's maddening.

[00:22:27] We're not doing the same thing.

[00:22:28] We're walking hallways that look the same.

[00:22:30] Feel the same.

[00:22:31] But they aren't the same.

[00:22:33] You'd think we'd be better at this by now.

[00:22:36] I don't want to hang around long enough to build skills.

[00:22:38] I want out.

[00:22:39] We've checked level L and that didn't seem right.

[00:22:42] So now we do K and if not K...

[00:22:45] G.

[00:22:45] I get it.

[00:22:46] I was going to say M.

[00:22:47] But yeah, you get it.

[00:22:49] Look.

[00:22:50] We're close to leaving this place.

[00:22:52] I can feel it.

[00:22:53] Almost taste it.

[00:22:54] But in order to do that, we need to be methodical.

[00:22:58] Deliberate.

[00:22:59] You follow?

[00:23:01] We need to look like we belong.

[00:23:03] Just two random employees doing some task.

[00:23:06] I get it.

[00:23:07] Jeez.

[00:23:08] Good.

[00:23:09] Then grow up.

[00:23:09] We have an archivist to find.

[00:23:12] Oh.

[00:23:14] Still recording.

[00:23:15] Yeah.

[00:23:17] I'm gonna...

[00:23:19] Stop.

[00:23:23] We're screwed.

[00:23:25] Two soldiers posted outside the door.

[00:23:27] Big old fuck you guns.

[00:23:29] Damn it.

[00:23:30] Why did I let Noah run with his little plan?

[00:23:33] He's gonna get killed.

[00:23:34] And I'm gonna get killed trying to stop him from getting killed.

[00:23:37] A vicious cycle.

[00:23:39] One of us is always in need of saving and the other one always faces death and survives.

[00:23:44] Not that I'm rooting for the alternative, but still, it's exhausting.

[00:23:50] Noah has it in his head that he can distract the soldiers so that I can sneak in.

[00:23:55] Fair?

[00:23:56] The crazy pants part is that he thinks he can make it back to me in time to go in with me.

[00:24:02] This might be my fault.

[00:24:03] The whole grow up thing seems to have stung.

[00:24:06] But he's...

[00:24:07] I don't know.

[00:24:08] Acting out is the wrong way of saying it, but he's kind of acting out.

[00:24:13] He was so vulnerable back at Tarnal Tarzan's place.

[00:24:16] But now...

[00:24:18] Now he's like a sullen teenager looking for attention, and I don't have the patience to deal with that.

[00:24:23] I don't know how...

[00:24:24] What the...

[00:24:26] Noah.

[00:24:27] What the hell was that?

[00:24:28] I don't know, but we should, you know, do something about it.

[00:24:31] We were told not to move an inch.

[00:24:33] Dude, we're guarding a locked door.

[00:24:35] They don't even know how to open it.

[00:24:36] What the hell are we guarding it from?

[00:24:38] Maybe we're making sure nothing comes out.

[00:24:40] That lunatic asshole is gone.

[00:24:43] After he locked it up, they tracked him trying to make a run for it, but ended up falling down a shaft.

[00:24:48] Brutal way to go.

[00:24:49] Which is exactly why we should investigate.

[00:24:51] I don't want to end up getting thrown down a shaft.

[00:24:54] Can we?

[00:24:57] It worked!

[00:24:59] God damn it.

[00:25:03] Buttons.

[00:25:04] Uh...

[00:25:05] There's gotta be a code.

[00:25:06] Uh, what could it be?

[00:25:06] What could it be?

[00:25:08] Uh...

[00:25:09] What was that receipt code?

[00:25:10] God, I hate numbers.

[00:25:11] Shit.

[00:25:15] And you said it couldn't be done?

[00:25:17] Jesus, Noah.

[00:25:18] Just get the shit out of me.

[00:25:19] I told you I was coming back.

[00:25:21] Yeah, but I didn't believe it.

[00:25:22] Then you kind of brought this on yourself.

[00:25:24] Okay, we don't have time for this.

[00:25:25] Uh, we need a code.

[00:25:26] What was that receipt code?

[00:25:28] Oh, uh...

[00:25:29] I don't know.

[00:25:30] Uh, 3785?

[00:25:33] No.

[00:25:35] 3786?

[00:25:37] No.

[00:25:38] All right.

[00:25:39] Try 3787.

[00:25:43] We're gonna die here.

[00:25:45] Mercifully not.

[00:25:52] We'll stop there because what happens next requires your full attention, and I'm still

[00:25:56] sorting through them.

[00:25:58] I share Sarah's concern about Noah.

[00:26:01] A kid in my high school, his dad died in my senior year.

[00:26:04] He was out of school for like a week or so, but when he came back, it was like nothing had

[00:26:07] happened.

[00:26:08] Same class clown, same joke, same smile.

[00:26:10] But the eyes had changed.

[00:26:13] They were different now.

[00:26:14] His eyes couldn't hide the pain, and that's how I'm feeling here.

[00:26:18] It's one of the millions of times I wish I could see them actually see their faces, their

[00:26:23] ticks, understand what they're not saying.

[00:26:25] So yeah, I share Sarah's concern.

[00:26:27] Noah is hurting.

[00:26:28] Has to be hurting.

[00:26:29] And the less he deals with it, the more of a ticking time bomb he is.

[00:26:33] I mean, we saw that new side of him when he beat the soldier to death.

[00:26:39] A big thank you to the folks over at Reddit at rEscapingDenver.

[00:26:43] Nice to be reminded that people are listening.

[00:26:45] Thank you to Curious Cast for your unwavering support.

[00:26:47] We'll be back next week with another episode of Escaping Denver.

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