We're Alive: Descendants - Chapter 15 - Valley of the Shadow of Death - Part 1 of 3

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Speaker 15 We're Alive

Speaker 7 Descendants

Speaker 13 Written and directed by Casey Weyland

Speaker 13 Chapter Fifteen

Speaker 13 Valley of the Shadow of Death

Speaker 13 Part One of Three

Speaker 13 I can't,

Speaker 9 I can't do it anymore.

Speaker 4 This is too far.

Speaker 12 You just have to keep going.

Speaker 12 Don't give up.

Speaker 4 Thanks.

Speaker 4 Gloria.

Speaker 12 Gloria,

Speaker 12 we have to slow down. People are starting to fall behind.

Speaker 17 Slow down anymore and we're never going to make it. These people realize that, don't they?

Speaker 12 They're doing the best they can.

Speaker 18 Yeah?

Speaker 17 Tell it to the people hunting us down.

Speaker 12 Well, fortunately, I still don't see them. Walking through the hills must have worked.

Speaker 12 Their vehicles couldn't keep up.

Speaker 17 For only so long. You haven't heard any explosions, have you, Grant?

Speaker 12 Nothing.

Speaker 17 They should have blown the past by now. If Alex and Dot screw that up, none of this is going to matter.

Speaker 12 How much further is this Atlas place?

Speaker 17 A few more hours, maybe?

Speaker 12 We should have left earlier. Traveled through the night.
There's no shade out here.

Speaker 17 These people were exhausted then. They needed every bit of rest for how far we have to go.

Speaker 12 Would it have mattered? They're still exhausted. We need some help over here.

Speaker 4 Uh-oh.

Speaker 12 I got some stragglers.

Speaker 7 Keep pushing.

Speaker 18 Here.

Speaker 18 Cover your head with this. Wrap up.

Speaker 4 Keep this on up here first.

Speaker 4 It's too hot.

Speaker 19 Come on, don't fall behind, kid.

Speaker 20 Do you have any water?

Speaker 17 Only a little left, and I need to ration it.

Speaker 20 My legs are tired.

Speaker 17 Nothing I can do about that.

Speaker 4 Carry me.

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 17 No.

Speaker 20 Just a little bit, please. I can piggyback.

Speaker 17 Look, kid, why don't you go ask your parents?

Speaker 20 I can't.

Speaker 17 Why not?

Speaker 20 They left.

Speaker 4 where are they?

Speaker 20 They left the worker camp a long time ago. Never came back.

Speaker 17 So it's just you? By yourself?

Speaker 20 Yep.

Speaker 20 That man you were talking to, he said we all had to go. And I couldn't stay in Prim.

Speaker 20 Now, can you please carry me?

Speaker 17 I'm tired enough just dragging myself along.

Speaker 17 Please.

Speaker 17 But look, you can have some of my water.

Speaker 4 Ooh, thank you.

Speaker 4 Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, wait, no, no, I got I gotta

Speaker 17 ration it

Speaker 20 Sorry

Speaker 17 That's fine, I guess I'll manage I feel much better now. Well, that makes one of us

Speaker 17 What's your name, kid?

Speaker 20 Gus

Speaker 4 Gloria

Speaker 4 What are you wearing? Where'd you get all that stuff?

Speaker 17 What this? This is my equipment. I brought the body armor with me to be safe.

Speaker 17 Which I wasn't expecting to be wearing when I was walking home.

Speaker 20 You're not from Prim?

Speaker 21 No.

Speaker 20 Where are you from?

Speaker 17 Well, if you can keep up, then you'll find out.

Speaker 4 Okay.

Speaker 20 Is it better than the camp?

Speaker 20 What?

Speaker 17 Yes, it's way better.

Speaker 10 Cool.

Speaker 17 So cool. Just, you know, just wait and see.

Speaker 4 I will.

Speaker 4 Gloria.

Speaker 12 I think we might have a few more.

Speaker 4 Oh.

Speaker 12 Is that...

Speaker 12 Yeah.

Speaker 4 That's...

Speaker 12 That's Alex and Dot.

Speaker 17 They must have set the explosives off.

Speaker 4 Oh, thank heavens.

Speaker 12 I was starting to get worried.

Speaker 17 Well, I still am.

Speaker 10 This is only a delay.

Speaker 17 Once the Boers trucks find a way around the pass, pass, and they will, there's nothing between us and them anymore. We can't let anything slow us down now.

Speaker 12 About that, a few people have fallen way behind. They aren't able to keep up.
Maybe we should divert. Looks like there's a town just a little south of us if we just keep.

Speaker 17 No, we stay on the path. Don't go anywhere near settlements.
This is the only way, trust me.

Speaker 7 If you say so.

Speaker 12 But we're losing people.

Speaker 17 And we're going to lose more. You have to accept that grant.

Speaker 17 This is a race now, where the losers don't survive.

Speaker 12 I know, I know. You're right.
You're right. It's just hard.
I mean, some of these people I've gotten to know. And some are just too old for this.
Some too young.

Speaker 17 There's only so much we can do.

Speaker 17 Don't forget, you need to make it there, too.

Speaker 12 Focusing on the others helps distract from my own pains.

Speaker 4 Well, not me.

Speaker 4 What

Speaker 12 you sent only two explosives with Alex and Dot, right?

Speaker 4 Uh-huh.

Speaker 17 No, that's

Speaker 17 that's something else.

Speaker 17 Go

Speaker 17 hang

Speaker 17 on

Speaker 17 up

Speaker 17 my head

Speaker 17 Alex

Speaker 17 Alex

Speaker 17 My head.

Speaker 4 I'm bleeding.

Speaker 3 Yes.

Speaker 4 Did we

Speaker 4 did it? Dodd.

Speaker 4 It worked.

Speaker 4 You sure? Uh-huh.

Speaker 4 No shit.

Speaker 22 The whole rocky pass came down.

Speaker 22 They're trying to shoot their way through.

Speaker 23 Last thing I remember was setting it off, and then

Speaker 23 their tank firing right where I was at, and pieces of the rock going everywhere.

Speaker 7 Wait, you pulled me out

Speaker 4 and on to demon?

Speaker 4 Damn.

Speaker 4 Thank you.

Speaker 4 Strong.

Speaker 4 This.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 4 That's good. Yeah.

Speaker 23 Man, my head is still pounding, but

Speaker 16 Vest took most of the shrapnel, thankfully.

Speaker 23 Good thing we still had the body armor.

Speaker 22 Okay, okay, yeah, yeah, we gotta go.

Speaker 23 Come on, come on, demon.

Speaker 4 I

Speaker 4 ride.

Speaker 4 Good thinking.

Speaker 23 I'll get on the front and just hold on.

Speaker 4 Rope?

Speaker 4 Yeah, okay, time me.

Speaker 22 Time me to you.

Speaker 22 Okay.

Speaker 4 Okay. I think so.

Speaker 4 Get.

Speaker 4 Get.

Speaker 4 I'm just gonna close my eyes. One sec.
Just for a sec.

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Speaker 13 Oh, man

Speaker 4 Have I been out long?

Speaker 4 Uh-huh.

Speaker 4 Okay.

Speaker 23 Still haven't called up to Glory and the others.

Speaker 23 At least that means they're getting ahead.

Speaker 23 It's good.

Speaker 23 We sure they went this way?

Speaker 9 Oh, you're following their tracks.

Speaker 4 Look.

Speaker 4 Oh no.

Speaker 4 Oh, is that one of our people?

Speaker 4 Just laying there?

Speaker 4 You th you think they're

Speaker 4 Todd?

Speaker 4 Dead.

Speaker 4 I mean,

Speaker 23 I knew people would fall behind, but I didn't think it'd be this bad.

Speaker 23 No, no. Keep going.

Speaker 4 The man was old, but still sucks.

Speaker 4 Is that another one?

Speaker 4 Shit.

Speaker 4 Nothing we can do.

Speaker 23 We just need to focus on those we did get out.

Speaker 23 Dot.

Speaker 21 Hey, how you doing, demon?

Speaker 18 Hanging in there?

Speaker 22 Boars people still aren't through the pass.

Speaker 23 Good job, buddy. We'll get you some really nice oats, carrots, or something when we get there.
And whatever Gloria has left.

Speaker 4 Talon?

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 21 Yeah, I see it over there.

Speaker 22 But the group went this way.

Speaker 7 We should follow.

Speaker 22 Maybe catch up a bit.

Speaker 4 Demon,

Speaker 22 can you?

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 4 Here we go. Good boy

Speaker 23 Hell of a lot better than walking

Speaker 23 My head still hurts

Speaker 23 I can't wait till we get there and I can just lay down

Speaker 7 Damn I think I chipped my tooth at the pass.

Speaker 4 Dot

Speaker 7 I mean hey if that's the worst thing I gotta deal with, then

Speaker 4 shit.

Speaker 7 Another refugee.

Speaker 22 They fell behind the group, but at least they're still walking.

Speaker 4 Little.

Speaker 4 It's a kid.

Speaker 4 Damn.

Speaker 22 Demon, you able to take one more?

Speaker 4 They just left him behind?

Speaker 22 Can't believe it.

Speaker 4 Hey.

Speaker 22 Hey, kid.

Speaker 4 Hey!

Speaker 18 He's not stopping.

Speaker 22 Must be delirious out here in that hoodie.

Speaker 22 Can you untie me?

Speaker 18 Give me the canteen.

Speaker 18 Tot.

Speaker 18 Tot.

Speaker 4 It's alright.

Speaker 7 There's enough water to share.

Speaker 4 No, Dot.

Speaker 7 What? I mean, we have to do something.

Speaker 21 We can't just leave him out here. It's gonna end up like the others.

Speaker 22 Hey, kid.

Speaker 22 Wait up.

Speaker 4 Kid. Dot.

Speaker 4 Are you... Are you hurt?

Speaker 22 Dot, get the first aid kit.

Speaker 4 Dot.

Speaker 4 Come on, he needs our help.

Speaker 22 We got you.

Speaker 4 Don't worry.

Speaker 16 We'll fix you up.

Speaker 21 We gotta ride back to the group and...

Speaker 21 Holy shit!

Speaker 21 I can see that now.

Speaker 21 Get the fuck off me! Shoot! Yes, shoot!

Speaker 4 Help me! Do something! I can't!

Speaker 22 God damn it, stop trying to fight me!

Speaker 4 There's more of them!

Speaker 4 Oh shit! You broke it! You broke his neck!

Speaker 9 No.

Speaker 4 Blood. Smart!

Speaker 4 Come!

Speaker 22 How many more are there?

Speaker 22 They must be from the town they look like goddamn kids the fucking thing actually dressed itself to resemble us

Speaker 22 out of here

Speaker 4 Okay

Speaker 4 How the hell was I supposed to know they sure as hell look like real kids to me those were clean clothes

Speaker 4 Trick hell of a good one makes us think they're human and then bam

Speaker 4 oh man if you weren't there I'd touch tutor Stay away from the towns.

Speaker 16 Yeah, no shit.

Speaker 22 We better catch up to the others and warn them about those.

Speaker 4 Uh-huh.

Speaker 22 The Bors people were bad enough.

Speaker 21 Hey, maybe those things will go after them.

Speaker 7 That'd be something, right?

Speaker 23 Never even heard of any infected like that before.

Speaker 21 Are they new?

Speaker 22 It even said words.

Speaker 21 Like, not as many as you got now, but a few.

Speaker 23 Wonder if anyone else knows about this kind.

Speaker 9 There are so many species listed in here

Speaker 9 Listen to this one mimics these short infected I only recently discovered I thought the name was fitting as they will find human clothes right ones that aren't tattered and and or well used to better hide and disguise themselves among us.

Speaker 9 With only the use of a handful of English words and their natural childlike physique, entire encampments have been lost. Fallen victim to their copycat nature, preying upon the empathy of humans.

Speaker 9 Once one gets in, others like it are soon to follow. Trust your instincts.
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Speaker 9 Damn, your grandma's journal is incredible. These creatures just keep getting worse and worse.

Speaker 9 And it says here that given their birth rates and growth, there could be millions in the southwest, many of which we have yet to encounter.

Speaker 7 Scary shit in there.

Speaker 4 Huh.

Speaker 9 Not all of it. The research she documented is fascinating.
She really did a hell of a service putting this together. Even her infected equation is spot on.

Speaker 9 The flexible genome idea is brilliant.

Speaker 14 And

Speaker 14 you understand all of that?

Speaker 9 Well, a fair amount. I studied bio and chembooks in my free time.

Speaker 14 Of course, you did.

Speaker 9 I'm just very impressed, is all

Speaker 9 she was pretty awesome.

Speaker 4 Yeah,

Speaker 4 I know.

Speaker 14 Now, you mind putting that away? Look, I get it. It's another book for you to absorb, but I could really use an extra set of eyes on this road right now.

Speaker 4 Right. Right.

Speaker 14 Everything in this swampland is so overgrown now. Lots of spots for things to hide.

Speaker 14 Give it all a wide berth.

Speaker 9 Sorry, I just uh...

Speaker 14 Well, this is my first time out I want to be prepared and you will be more prepared if you can anticipate something coming Oliver said that the highway was clear, but we cannot trust that.

Speaker 14 I mean things change all the time

Speaker 4 right

Speaker 15 now

Speaker 14 Look from here to here is my sector of fire. I got the front of what we call point

Speaker 14 You cover the rear if you see anything move call it out then wait for me before you engage

Speaker 9 uh right And and uh to engage or shoot, I rotate this little switch here, and then I can pull the trigger.

Speaker 14 Just rotate it once. Don't go to three-round burst or fully auto.
Knowing you, you'll just waste ammo.

Speaker 9 And how many shots does this one have?

Speaker 14 29 rounds for the MP5. I made sure before we left.

Speaker 9 Why not 30?

Speaker 14 I never fill a magazine all the way. Overcompresses.
It's not good for the spring. Could jam easier with older equipment like this.

Speaker 9 Yeah, that

Speaker 9 makes sense.

Speaker 9 There's some sort of book or manual I could read up on this?

Speaker 4 Yeah,

Speaker 14 I don't have one. I'm sure someone did at one point.

Speaker 9 How did you learn all this?

Speaker 9 Back in Westport?

Speaker 14 Sure did. Guardian training.
Different weapons require new skill sets. They taught a wide variety so that if we ever found a weapon in the field, we can be effective it.

Speaker 14 Hard to shoot something that you don't know. Especially cleaning and maintaining them.

Speaker 9 Yeah, um yeah, makes total sense.

Speaker 4 You.

Speaker 4 you alright there?

Speaker 14 Does that make you nervous?

Speaker 9 No, I'm um I'm fine with this.

Speaker 14 Uh I mean, look, it's it's okay if you are. My mom, I mean my my adopted mom, Pegs, doesn't handle guns, like, at all.

Speaker 4 No,

Speaker 9 it's it it it's not that. Uh

Speaker 9 just still feeling the withdrawals.

Speaker 4 Oh, um

Speaker 4 is it bad?

Speaker 4 Yeah, very.

Speaker 9 Yeah,

Speaker 9 you have no idea.

Speaker 14 Maybe I do.

Speaker 14 R

Speaker 4 really?

Speaker 4 You?

Speaker 14 Uh a while back I uh struggled with a few things.

Speaker 14 Took me a while to get clean.

Speaker 9 W were you forced to to use

Speaker 4 me?

Speaker 14 No, I um

Speaker 14 I I chose to

Speaker 4 why

Speaker 14 that's uh

Speaker 14 that's hard to say.

Speaker 14 I mean, I don't I don't know if it was ever really one thing

Speaker 14 I was going through a lot help me forget

Speaker 4 Yeah,

Speaker 4 well well, what do you need to forget?

Speaker 14 You know, Will, you ask a lot of questions

Speaker 9 Sorry, I'm just curious.

Speaker 9 Is that bad?

Speaker 14 Not really.

Speaker 14 I just uh

Speaker 14 I just don't really like to talk about this kind of stuff.

Speaker 4 Uh Uh...

Speaker 4 Why?

Speaker 14 Because it's hard to.

Speaker 4 Well,

Speaker 9 for me, right,

Speaker 9 it was nice to hear that you may know what this feels like, because I just... I don't know how much longer I could take it.

Speaker 9 Everything

Speaker 9 I've been feeling is catching up with me all at once.

Speaker 9 Stardust helped me keep it at a distance.

Speaker 14 Numb.

Speaker 14 It was making you feel numb.

Speaker 4 Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 9 And

Speaker 4 now,

Speaker 9 all these new experiences, the plane, those people, these environments,

Speaker 9 to absorb it all, it's so overwhelming, and I'm exhausted just by my thoughts.

Speaker 18 It's I'm

Speaker 9 it's just it helps to know that I'm not alone, is all I was trying to say.

Speaker 9 I get it.

Speaker 14 That's sort of how I became an

Speaker 14 addict.

Speaker 14 It was all starting to become too much.

Speaker 4 The world?

Speaker 14 My world.

Speaker 14 So many expectations, what people thought I should be, how they wanted me to act, their goals for my life.

Speaker 14 Like you said,

Speaker 14 it was exhausting.

Speaker 9 Was it

Speaker 9 because you were a guardian?

Speaker 14 No.

Speaker 14 Mostly because of who my dad was. I mean, my real dad and mom.

Speaker 9 I thought you said people didn't know he was immune.

Speaker 14 There were rumors, and that was enough.

Speaker 14 But it was also because of what my dad did.

Speaker 14 People wanted me to be the same,

Speaker 14 act like him.

Speaker 14 I couldn't even be myself.

Speaker 14 Didn't know who I was.

Speaker 14 Maybe I still don't.

Speaker 9 So you

Speaker 9 have some big shoes to fill back home.

Speaker 14 You don't even know the half of it.

Speaker 14 My foster dad, Michael,

Speaker 14 He waited so long to tell me what really happened with my parents and when he did it all came at once

Speaker 14 and I just got just got so tired of people trying to protect me

Speaker 14 it didn't help it just made it harder to deal with

Speaker 9 so that's why you became an addict

Speaker 14 was only the start

Speaker 14 and it wasn't just the booze or whatever

Speaker 4 Look,

Speaker 14 I don't even know if I should tell you half of the shit I got into. Well

Speaker 9 Who would I ever say anything to

Speaker 9 and trust me being from Prim

Speaker 9 Nothing you could tell me could be worse than what I saw there

Speaker 14 I don't know it was bad

Speaker 14 like really bad looking back at it all

Speaker 14 Where I grew up I'll admit I got really really spoiled people would just keep feeding the issue, giving me whatever I wanted. Even

Speaker 4 whoever.

Speaker 23 How did that work out?

Speaker 14 How do you think?

Speaker 14 A 16-year-old boy getting offered up a lot of daughters.

Speaker 14 I mean, that kind of thing sounded good at the time, but

Speaker 14 it really messed with my head.

Speaker 9 So, um.

Speaker 9 So, people assumed you were immune because of the rumors of your dad that's that's why you'd be propositioned

Speaker 4 Yeah,

Speaker 14 it was pretty fucked up

Speaker 14 They all wanted children of the Sun

Speaker 14 They figured I could give them something that no one else could

Speaker 26 That's that's really messed up

Speaker 26 Wait

Speaker 9 So then you you have kids

Speaker 14 honestly

Speaker 4 I don't I don't know.

Speaker 14 Didn't want to know.

Speaker 14 I mean, I didn't tell no one about what happened.

Speaker 14 Shit,

Speaker 14 I can't even deal with the thought of it now.

Speaker 14 I was raised away from my road dad, and now

Speaker 14 who knows? Maybe I did the same to some strangers.

Speaker 14 It was a lot to put on a kid. Especially a dumb, spoiled one like me.

Speaker 14 Nick,

Speaker 14 listen,

Speaker 9 how we had to grow up

Speaker 9 doesn't have to change who we grow up to be.

Speaker 9 I understand this changes something I have to do for myself.

Speaker 9 Where I started out, how my life was in prim, that that can't be the end of me, only my beginning.

Speaker 14 I like that one,

Speaker 4 But um

Speaker 14 what sucks is that the only person I think that knew any better for me, who didn't let me get away with half the shit that I tried

Speaker 14 He's um

Speaker 14 he's fucking gone now.

Speaker 9 So that's that's who Michael was to you?

Speaker 14 The only dad I ever really knew

Speaker 9 I'm so sorry.

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 4 Meanwhile.

Speaker 14 So, what about you? Well, your mom and dad like that?

Speaker 4 Me?

Speaker 9 Oh, um, my parents were killed in the arena before I could even remember them.

Speaker 9 Oh.

Speaker 9 Oh, God.

Speaker 14 Are you are you serious?

Speaker 4 Uh, yeah.

Speaker 9 I had to practically raise myself. There was some help from other workers, but then those those people either died from living in a camps or were sent to the arenas to help fill a spot.

Speaker 9 Wow.

Speaker 14 And here I was complaining.

Speaker 14 I can't even begin to imagine.

Speaker 14 How long did you live like that?

Speaker 9 Um till I was

Speaker 26 ten.

Speaker 9 Some of the higher skilled workers that were engineers started giving me a few books and drawings to study. Mostly because I never stopped asking questions.

Speaker 9 They let me read their notes and schematics, put the pieces together. I was able to do a lot of what they could do very quickly.
Supervisors would even give me special assignments.

Speaker 26 And

Speaker 9 then the board took notice.

Speaker 9 allowed me to leave the camps and work for her exclusively.

Speaker 9 Yeah.

Speaker 9 Well, uh uh, first I started repairing bits of her casino slot machines, moved over to the motor pool, refurbishing vehicles, then

Speaker 9 security systems,

Speaker 9 then I developed and installed life tracking monitors in the arenas. Uh, eventually, I

Speaker 9 pretty much ran all the technology.

Speaker 14 And you're pretty young still, and you're so taught.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 9 Yeah, well, um, mostly.

Speaker 9 I love figuring out how how stuff works and then how to improve it ever since I was very young.

Speaker 9 Apparently my m my mom would call me her little genius.

Speaker 26 Or

Speaker 9 that's what people

Speaker 26 told me who who knew her.

Speaker 26 So

Speaker 26 yeah.

Speaker 9 Well, back in the old world my mom and dad worked for some advanced industries.

Speaker 26 Knew a whole hell of a lot and and

Speaker 9 then

Speaker 9 like that they uh were forced into the arenas and died like so many others

Speaker 14 all that knowledge wasted and do you still worked for the boar even after all that

Speaker 9 what what could i do i told myself that i i would never get into the position that my parents were in power even if given from bad people is better than being helpless

Speaker 9 and and and well i was right working with the boar it gave gave me the opportunity to help you and your friends.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 14 I didn't even think about it like that.

Speaker 14 We owe you a lot.

Speaker 9 No, no, no, you, you don't.

Speaker 9 You're helping save me, too.

Speaker 9 You just

Speaker 9 may not know it.

Speaker 14 What's it, man? Look, we get back to Westport, and I'm gonna help you start over, all right? You have no idea how much we could use someone like you there.

Speaker 4 Really? Oh, yeah.

Speaker 14 You would be able to make some real changes in this world.

Speaker 26 I.

Speaker 9 I'd like that.

Speaker 9 I would.

Speaker 14 Just gotta get there first.

Speaker 14 Which means we gotta step it up if we're gonna make it to that train on time. Right.

Speaker 9 Hey, Nick,

Speaker 9 you think Vera and Nakoma will make it back there too? To Westport?

Speaker 14 Vera could take care of herself. She's in a good position, too.

Speaker 14 Nakoma.

Speaker 14 Now that's another story.

Speaker 9 She better not get caught.

Speaker 14 I mean,

Speaker 14 she does have some skills.

Speaker 4 She snuck up on all of us.

Speaker 14 Been doing that kind of shit for a while.

Speaker 14 If Nakoma plays things right,

Speaker 14 they won't find her.

Speaker 14 Let go of me!

Speaker 4 If you want,

Speaker 10 I caught one of our trespassers held up in a townhouse nearby.

Speaker 27 Where did the other two go?

Speaker 2 They're long gone

Speaker 4 on their way to the rail line.

Speaker 27 You should have gone with them.

Speaker 27 We may have others still on the perimeter. Do a full sweep.

Speaker 27 Why did you come back? We let you go.

Speaker 9 I didn't know if I could believe you.

Speaker 17 What you told Vera, it didn't make sense.

Speaker 27 Oliver gave you a chance. He told you the truth and warned you about what would happen if you came back.

Speaker 4 Fine.

Speaker 9 I'll leave then.

Speaker 8 I'll leave this time.

Speaker 17 It's too late.

Speaker 17 What does that mean?

Speaker 1 Your protection ran out, which means you're trespassing.

Speaker 28 So?

Speaker 4 So?

Speaker 27 You haven't put it together yet? This is the family. We're very strict.

Speaker 10 We kill trespassers.

Speaker 13 To be continued in the next episode of We're Alive Descendants.

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Speaker 18 You've been listening to We're Alive, Descendants.

Speaker 13 Produced by Wayland Productions. Written and directed by KC Weyland.

Speaker 14 Starring Datan Gilber as Nicholas.

Speaker 19 Christy Carlson-Romano as Gloria.

Speaker 23 Vanessa Born as Nacoma.

Speaker 9 Sam Skolnick as Will.

Speaker 24 Austin Trace as Alex.

Speaker 25 Briarly as Dot.

Speaker 27 Alita Lachey as Fingers.

Speaker 12 Leonard Kelly Young as Conductor Grant.

Speaker 27 Augie Wayland as Gus.

Speaker 13 Charlotte Evelyn Williams as Phyllis. And I'm Michael Swan.
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Speaker 13 Original music by Robert Mai. Theme music by Danny Berkhoff Hopkins.

Speaker 9 Score assistance by Evan Tamani.

Speaker 13 Recording and Engineering by Wayland Productions. Sound engineering by Gino Jang and Victoria Chang.
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