We’re Alive: Descendants - Chapter 1 - The Walls Between Us - Part 1 of 2

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Speaker 9 You done yet?

Speaker 6 Hold on.

Speaker 10 Yes, it's definitely the correct tunnel this time. Followers already dug up a piece of Cody.

Speaker 6 We're so close to finding Ink's old lair.

Speaker 8 Maybe closer than you think. We found something.

Speaker 10 This might be it. I have to go.

Speaker 6 I'll report in after.

Speaker 8 This way.

Speaker 6 Jeff, what is it?

Speaker 8 Found some wood chunks in the dirt that look man-made.

Speaker 11 That's a really good sign.

Speaker 12 Could be his desk.

Speaker 8 Before I show you where,

Speaker 8 how about a down payment? We've been digging for hours already.

Speaker 10 Isn't service in his good name enough?

Speaker 8 If his good name is Stardust? Sure. I don't subscribe to that infected voodoo shit.
I need something I can use, thank you.

Speaker 10 Fine, take your drugs.

Speaker 12 Now show me.

Speaker 10 Does anyone actually care about what we're trying to do here anymore?

Speaker 6 No one is devout.

Speaker 6 Oh, no.

Speaker 8 You wanted someone devout? There you go.

Speaker 10 I'm all for the cause, but Shelly, she's...

Speaker 6 Ugh.

Speaker 6 I overheard.

Speaker 10 They found something? Just have the others watch for trouble. We're too close now.

Speaker 1 I want to see it.

Speaker 14 You don't know what it is.

Speaker 6 I don't even know.

Speaker 9 I'll still behold whatever it is he hath made.

Speaker 6 Whatever, fine.

Speaker 11 Just watch our asses.

Speaker 9 Echo, decrease perimeter. Defend the entrance of this tunnel.
Eyes sharp.

Speaker 9 So, what'd you find?

Speaker 8 Wood fragments.

Speaker 8 And something special.

Speaker 8 Some kind of sword. Not a lot of damage either.
Still sharp.

Speaker 16 It's not just any sword.

Speaker 9 It's the katana that killed the master.

Speaker 14 So dramatic.

Speaker 9 Blessed be all he hath touched.

Speaker 9 Where did you find it? Show me!

Speaker 18 Shelly!

Speaker 9 Don't run with that, you idiot! The hell are you doing? I won't damage it, I promise.

Speaker 8 I'm more worried about you running into something. We shored up the tunnel walls, but who knows if what the infected made will still hold?

Speaker 6 Oh, it will.

Speaker 10 That at least I know.

Speaker 14 If they made it, it will hold.

Speaker 6 Whoa.

Speaker 6 Look at all the handprints.

Speaker 10 First generations. And yet they still knew how to do this.

Speaker 10 Surprised you haven't read up on anything about it. The infected are known to mix their own version of cement from their saliva, hard as any rock.

Speaker 8 That's how they made all this shit?

Speaker 10 This is nothing. I've seen a Riverrunner tribe in the Midwest, six generations of infected deep now.

Speaker 10 And they were making structures above ground this way.

Speaker 6 Even used it to build dams.

Speaker 10 The species just instinctively knows how to build this shit.

Speaker 11 And they keep getting more and more complex.

Speaker 6 Species?

Speaker 8 You swallow the Kool-Aid like the rest of them?

Speaker 10 Better to think of them as something completely different from us now.

Speaker 10 They have come so far.

Speaker 10 And yet we remain the same.

Speaker 10 Fascinating creatures. Can you imagine what they'd be like now if Ink had lived?

Speaker 9 And I'm holding the katana that killed the greatest infected of all.

Speaker 20 Don't get too attached.

Speaker 10 All artifacts are going to the director. We are here for a reason.

Speaker 9 Of course. I just like feeling it.

Speaker 8 Your people better be keeping an eye out there. If someone from Westport found out...

Speaker 10 I have no clue.

Speaker 14 We are way outside their walls.

Speaker 10 Besides, all the areas around the arena are off-limits, even to them.

Speaker 9 Perimeter check?

Speaker 6 Good here. All quiet.

Speaker 6 Hey, look.

Speaker 8 Another one of their markings. Looks like that protection symbol that Westport used.

Speaker 10 Inks mark.

Speaker 10 It's a shame it doesn't work like it used to. The infected have grown resilient to its control over the years.

Speaker 10 And we still don't know what it truly meant.

Speaker 18 So it died with him?

Speaker 10 Maybe.

Speaker 10 Over here! Hey, you think this might be it? They found something!

Speaker 19 Careful!

Speaker 6 Careful!

Speaker 19 Here, give me the drill. I'll do it.

Speaker 21 Ah, sure.

Speaker 18 Here you go.

Speaker 21 I gotta go check out the other side.

Speaker 19 Shelly, back up.

Speaker 10 This is it.

Speaker 6 Easy. Can see.

Speaker 6 The desk! The desk where he...

Speaker 6 What exactly did he do here?

Speaker 6 He had notes.

Speaker 10 About his infected ink wrote everything down.

Speaker 6 Glorious notes.

Speaker 8 This is what we're looking for, not gold or some shit. How is this so valuable?

Speaker 19 Usable information is immeasurable.

Speaker 8 We're done.

Speaker 10 Check it out. Matches the photos from the recording.
Same wood grain and paint as the desk. Here and here.

Speaker 9 Cody saw all of it.

Speaker 10 But we never could read anything from the recorded footage. What Saul transmitted from the drone Cody before the explosion was too low resolution.

Speaker 4 But it's how we knew where to look.

Speaker 22 Play the DVD back.

Speaker 8 Just one man took down your little savior.

Speaker 9 Judd?

Speaker 12 Ink knew his species' purpose.

Speaker 10 He was creating new forms and breeds of infected way before we ever saw it naturally occurring.

Speaker 9 Ahead of his time.

Speaker 12 Still died.

Speaker 10 That doesn't mean what he was working on died too.

Speaker 10 Not now, anyway.

Speaker 6 You get over here? Coming, coming.

Speaker 6 Is it? Is it?

Speaker 10 This is...

Speaker 6 This is it.

Speaker 6 These are them.

Speaker 6 Incredible.

Speaker 23 They're here.

Speaker 9 So much survived.

Speaker 6 These are his words.

Speaker 9 We can read them. He will finally speak to us.

Speaker 17 Shall we?

Speaker 17 Hang on.

Speaker 9 When get things

Speaker 6 across

Speaker 6 the rest, I uh

Speaker 9 are those words?

Speaker 10 It might take time to decipher exactly what any of it means.

Speaker 22 They don't communicate like we do.

Speaker 10 Put everything in the suitcase.

Speaker 19 Clear the rest of the papers from the dirt, but be careful.

Speaker 15 Okay.

Speaker 15 Where?

Speaker 9 I'll be right back.

Speaker 7 Where are you at?

Speaker 8 Over here.

Speaker 21 I was uh I was picking away and well

Speaker 21 We hit an air pocket. There's a big open space over here on the other side

Speaker 21 It leads down even further

Speaker 21 We didn't dig that some of this place never even collapsed

Speaker 25 Infectado a boyo assault team get down here secure the tunnel entrance You need me to stay you got a weapon?

Speaker 21 Uh yeah

Speaker 10 I have someone freeing the rest of the papers now. What did you find?

Speaker 26 The diggers out of here.

Speaker 9 Take this to the katana, but don't hurry

Speaker 18 quickly, but don't damage the papers.

Speaker 2 What the hell is that?

Speaker 2 Cover the hole!

Speaker 9 Almost got everything.

Speaker 21 I think I see something.

Speaker 23 Wait,

Speaker 23 something else.

Speaker 6 I'm too far.

Speaker 6 Get to me,

Speaker 6 guys.

Speaker 6 Get out of here.

Speaker 6 I got this.

Speaker 9 It's something else scumming from below.

Speaker 6 Saul told Cody.

Speaker 10 He saw it.

Speaker 6 Something lived.

Speaker 19 We need to get out of the tunnels.

Speaker 9 We would be blessed to see his creation. You may not live that long.

Speaker 8 What are you still doing here? Go!

Speaker 9 Get the papers and go!

Speaker 18 That better be all of them.

Speaker 9 But if he has another for us to behold, we should be ready. It will still kill you.

Speaker 9 His work dies if we die with it. Then fine.

Speaker 6 Run. I would be honored to hold the line.

Speaker 19 I didn't even see it. Did you see it?

Speaker 19 It was too dark.

Speaker 6 All I see is shadows.

Speaker 18 I can't see the damn thing.

Speaker 6 I saw it.

Speaker 6 I swear.

Speaker 9 Beautiful thing.

Speaker 6 Skin's pitch black. Black as coal.

Speaker 6 Fuck it. Shoot the tabor.
Collapse them all.

Speaker 6 Back up to the end gun! Get behind me.

Speaker 9 Come first out of this fucking mess. Oh shit!

Speaker 6 Oh shit! John! John! Wait!

Speaker 6 It's in the walls. It's in the walls!

Speaker 9 Get to the trucks!

Speaker 6 Get everyone out of here!

Speaker 6 Shelly!

Speaker 9 You need to go now. You can't fight it in there.

Speaker 9 Shelly out! Alvin, save yourself!

Speaker 6 It's out!

Speaker 6 Go!

Speaker 6 I lost it. I lost it.

Speaker 18 Where the hell did it go?

Speaker 6 Did it go in the alley?

Speaker 6 God! No, I'm out! Tut! Come with me! I have a sword! Fuck you! You let this thing!

Speaker 6 up!

Speaker 6 We fucked up!

Speaker 6 Oh, thank God! The truck!

Speaker 6 This was such a bad idea!

Speaker 19 I still have the papers.

Speaker 9 At least I have his research.

Speaker 6 Whoa!

Speaker 6 Shelly,

Speaker 6 Shelly,

Speaker 9 Shelly, I'm so sorry.

Speaker 6 I didn't know.

Speaker 9 I'm sorry.

Speaker 19 I got you now.

Speaker 6 I got you.

Speaker 9 Are you bit?

Speaker 6 What? No.

Speaker 9 Here, move quick.

Speaker 19 What is it? I don't know what that was.

Speaker 9 Just get in the truck.

Speaker 23 You're gonna make it?

Speaker 19 yeah

Speaker 19 anyone else

Speaker 19 no

Speaker 6 green

Speaker 10 eyes you saw its eyes damn you were that close.

Speaker 10 Cole

Speaker 10 Shelley

Speaker 6 Oh no

Speaker 21 Where is it?

Speaker 6 Where's the sword?

Speaker 6 Oh God

Speaker 6 where are you?

Speaker 6 Please

Speaker 6 yeah,

Speaker 6 where'd you go?

Speaker 6 Do it

Speaker 6 do it

Speaker 6 come on

Speaker 6 where are you?

Speaker 6 Where are you going?

Speaker 6 Where

Speaker 6 Oh, God.

Speaker 6 What have we done?

Speaker 6 What

Speaker 6 have we done?

Speaker 6 We're alive,

Speaker 6 descendants,

Speaker 8 written and directed by Casey Rayland.

Speaker 8 Chapter One

Speaker 6 The Walls Between Us

Speaker 12 Part One of Two

Speaker 12 Thank you so much. And congrats on today.

Speaker 12 Nicholas.

Speaker 12 Hey, hey, Nick.

Speaker 23 Yes, uh, sorry.

Speaker 23 Not a problem, ma'am. Thank you.

Speaker 7 Oh, no, thank, thank you.

Speaker 27 Thank you so much.

Speaker 6 Come on, guys.

Speaker 9 Come on, let's go.

Speaker 28 Is everything okay?

Speaker 23 Yeah, something.

Speaker 2 I just.

Speaker 6 I don't know.

Speaker 23 I apologize.

Speaker 23 I did not mean to take any attention away from you because you deserve all of it.

Speaker 28 It's okay. I get it.
I'm okay with sharing.

Speaker 6 A little.

Speaker 28 I was just sketching while you were away.

Speaker 6 Oh,

Speaker 6 that's pretty good. Is this me?

Speaker 23 Can I have it?

Speaker 28 If you want, I don't think that it's very good.

Speaker 6 I like it. Thanks.

Speaker 23 Well,

Speaker 23 their time is over, and now all of my focus is back on you.

Speaker 28 What were we talking about?

Speaker 18 Your dad.

Speaker 6 I mean, what a stud.

Speaker 23 I can't believe it. I mean, he caravanned all the way from Utah.

Speaker 28 Yep, just the two of us in 23. So I was just 14.

Speaker 28 I thought that he was crazy. And he was.

Speaker 28 It wasn't an easy trail, but we eventually made it here to Westport.

Speaker 6 Boy,

Speaker 4 if you were 14,

Speaker 1 then you were born in.

Speaker 14 Look at you.

Speaker 28 Yes, I'm an 09 baby. Conceived in the old world, birthed in the new.

Speaker 28 My mother.

Speaker 28 I don't know how she made it as long as she did, but she did.

Speaker 28 She was so strong.

Speaker 28 And yours, too, of course, everyone knows.

Speaker 23 Hey, to the tough mamas.

Speaker 23 Cheers.

Speaker 28 To them.

Speaker 23 Um. One second.

Speaker 28 I've had you barely 30.

Speaker 23 I'm so sorry, Lisa. This is my life now, it seems.

Speaker 6 For you, I'll live with it.

Speaker 18 Alright, then.

Speaker 23 Yeah, it's um, it's a page for my unit.

Speaker 28 Oh, what time is it? I haven't been watching. Do you need to get going?

Speaker 11 Nah, there's still time.

Speaker 23 And still more left to drink.

Speaker 28 You're sure.

Speaker 23 I know when I'm needed.

Speaker 23 So, um,

Speaker 23 your dad, uh, he lives here in Westport, right?

Speaker 6 You, um,

Speaker 23 you think I should meet him?

Speaker 28 Oh, I would love that, but he works on the rail line, so he's gone for months at a time.

Speaker 24 We rarely see each other.

Speaker 23 That's um that's rough work.

Speaker 28 Pa enjoys it. Has some unbelievable stories from out there.

Speaker 28 Even saw one of the tribes of infected, the scorpions, out past the outpast the old California border in the desert.

Speaker 23 Nasty things.

Speaker 28 Pa said that.

Speaker 28 What's worse is that they've been getting more aggressive.

Speaker 23 Did he tell someone? Did Westboard do anything about it?

Speaker 28 Last time someone tried to collapse a tribe, two more sprouted up. What can anyone really do?

Speaker 6 What?

Speaker 23 Hit for the soft spots. I mean, target the right areas.

Speaker 28 You can't kill them all, Nicholas Tink.

Speaker 23 Yet.

Speaker 23 But you give me enough time, and I will. Eventually.

Speaker 11 I'll find some way to kill every last one of them.

Speaker 6 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 6 What?

Speaker 23 You don't believe me?

Speaker 28 I don't think it's possible.

Speaker 23 See, no one's tried. There's got to be something about the infected that we've been missing.
A weakness?

Speaker 23 Maybe I'll find it when I get out there.

Speaker 6 Oh.

Speaker 6 What?

Speaker 28 Those were just some big words from someone who's never set a single foot in the red zone.

Speaker 23 Damn, that's cold.

Speaker 28 Well, someone's got to keep you in check. And it's true.

Speaker 23 You never set foot in the red zone either.

Speaker 14 You fly over, so... We land the helicopter all of the damn

Speaker 28 do not downplay what I do, Nick.

Speaker 6 I'm not, I'm not.

Speaker 11 I know what you do.

Speaker 23 I ain't mean it like that.

Speaker 23 I'm just hoping I get an assignment where I can do some real good against those things. Take down a tribe, kill an alpha, collapse entire hives.

Speaker 23 I mean, why go through all this training just to do nothing with it? I could do a lot if they let me.

Speaker 23 No one around here seems to be focused on getting rid of those things anymore.

Speaker 28 That's because there's a whole lot worse out there than just infected. We're just tiny cogs in this big-ass wheel.

Speaker 28 Trust me. Wait and see what assignment they give you.

Speaker 23 I'll know soon enough.

Speaker 28 You really should get going.

Speaker 23 Just one second.

Speaker 23 Sir?

Speaker 16 Yes, sir. Would you like a refill?

Speaker 23 Can I get another spice to go? And the credit slip, if you don't mind.

Speaker 16 Yes, of course.

Speaker 6 Right away.

Speaker 14 I cannot believe you.

Speaker 6 What?

Speaker 23 There's no alcohol in these.

Speaker 6 Oh. Hmm.

Speaker 23 Not my beeper this time.

Speaker 28 It's mine. Now I gotta go.

Speaker 24 The bill.

Speaker 6 Sign here, sir.

Speaker 24 And if you don't mind, would you sign my copy of the story of survival?

Speaker 6 Sure, sure.

Speaker 11 Hey! Wait up!

Speaker 6 I'm coming! Thank you.

Speaker 12 After you?

Speaker 28 How gentleman-like.

Speaker 23 So, am I gonna see you tonight after the ceremony?

Speaker 28 Looks like this is just a recon mission.

Speaker 28 So maybe.

Speaker 6 Good.

Speaker 23 Bye.

Speaker 26 Bye.

Speaker 9 DFC Grant.

Speaker 22 Ride's here. Need to get moving.
We lift off in 60.

Speaker 28 Then you can spare two more seconds, Brown.

Speaker 23 Wait, Alex? Alex Brown is on your flight crew?

Speaker 2 You know him?

Speaker 23 Unfortunately, more than a little. From training mostly.

Speaker 23 Keep your distance.

Speaker 10 He's got a screw loose.

Speaker 28 Seems fine to me, but it's only been three missions.

Speaker 23 Let's hope you don't get to know him like I do.

Speaker 24 Shouldn't you be somewhere right now?

Speaker 22 Soon to be private?

Speaker 23 Shouldn't you be minding your own business?

Speaker 22 Didn't know you and Lisa were dating.

Speaker 6 It's good.

Speaker 23 What does that mean?

Speaker 22 Means we gotta go.

Speaker 6 See you around,

Speaker 6 Nick.

Speaker 6 That guy.

Speaker 6 That guy.

Speaker 28 Hey, don't let Alex get to you. He was only half a cycle ahead.
And you'll outrank him soon enough.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 23 And he'll really hate that.

Speaker 28 He doesn't matter. We matter.

Speaker 6 I know.

Speaker 23 I know.

Speaker 23 Be safe out there, Lisa.

Speaker 6 Always.

Speaker 28 Good luck today.

Speaker 23 Thanks.

Speaker 23 I'm coming. I'm coming.

Speaker 23 Yeah, I need to pay quite a few transfer.

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Speaker 15 This is our long-established local local news on this Monday, July 12th, 2027.

Speaker 15 Tensions continued to melt between West Ford and the Republic after an unplanned overnight expansion along the former Texan border, totaling more than 300 square miles west.

Speaker 15 Aaron Friedrich, ambassador of General Kremer and the Republic, had this to say.

Speaker 6 What now? Our expansions of territory strictly follow the law of acquisition. We secured a section of uninhabitable zone for our red coat population.
Make it safe, make it yours, right?

Speaker 6 Well, it's called Liberty Province now. Fuck that.

Speaker 15 The Westworld ambassador disagrees.

Speaker 26 This just further advances their military forces and cuts the distance between our sovereign states by 50%.

Speaker 26 This is another major major act of hostility from one of our largest allies and oldest trade partners.

Speaker 30 Their nation could have expanded in any direction. And which way did it go?

Speaker 26 Towards us.

Speaker 30 It's clear what this means.

Speaker 6 Come on. The states of United America have all the room they want east of the Mississippi.
They don't have to worry about security like we do. Our republic needs more of a buffer zone.

Speaker 6 And if we're going to expand anywhere, it needs to be further along our railroad. That is a trade route that we need to protect.
It's in everyone's best interests.

Speaker 6 The sovereign nations of the UA, the Republic, and Westport. Whatever.
I gotta get going. We may not be a country like we were before Worthy Operator.

Speaker 23 Tired of hearing the same thing.

Speaker 6 Doesn't change, isn't it?

Speaker 31 Hey, you're Tink, right?

Speaker 6 What?

Speaker 31 Nicholas Tink, son of Saul and Lizzie.

Speaker 31 You got the special blood thing. You can't turn.

Speaker 6 Raw!

Speaker 6 Maybe.

Speaker 23 I don't really know. Hey, sorry, kid, I'm in, I'm in a rush.

Speaker 31 Can I get an autograph at least?

Speaker 23 Sign what?

Speaker 31 My baseball bat.

Speaker 6 I don't play.

Speaker 31 Does it matter? I got a pen.

Speaker 30 Persistent.

Speaker 6 Alright.

Speaker 6 Thanks. Go eels.
Um, yeah, sure.

Speaker 6 Go Eels.

Speaker 6 Weird kid.

Speaker 10 Sir, a moment of your time.

Speaker 11 I can't stop walking.

Speaker 6 Holy son, please hear me out.

Speaker 23 Hey, don't call me that, okay? I got places to be. Daughter.

Speaker 6 Daughter, come here.

Speaker 23 I'm not interested.

Speaker 10 Look, she's very pretty.

Speaker 12 Fit?

Speaker 9 Just see. Straight teeth?

Speaker 23 Good cheese. I don't do that anymore, okay?

Speaker 19 I can pay.

Speaker 6 Could have strong children of the sun. Hey, back up, right.

Speaker 9 Just back the fuck up. Got it?

Speaker 6 God, I know. I can't walk anywhere.

Speaker 9 Please, she's beautiful. And she's very compliant.
Leave me alone.

Speaker 6 Creep.

Speaker 6 Hey, kid.

Speaker 14 Got some great seats for the upcoming fights if you're interested.

Speaker 23 Nah, I'm good. I'm in a hurry.

Speaker 13 Oh, come on.

Speaker 14 You know you wanna look to a young strapping boy like you.

Speaker 24 I mean, these take place near on the old Nevada border.

Speaker 23 That sounds good, man, but I'm not interested.

Speaker 6 Ain't no rules out there.

Speaker 18 And you ain't seen nothing like this before, I tell you.

Speaker 18 You can't let these warmongers push it around.

Speaker 6 Yeah,

Speaker 6 People aren't the enemy.

Speaker 6 Soldier coming in. Let them through.
Make a hole.

Speaker 23 All good, brothers. I'm on your side.

Speaker 14 Then why do you help them?

Speaker 23 Change comes from the inside.

Speaker 11 Peace.

Speaker 6 Peace.

Speaker 22 Finally showed up.

Speaker 14 Skipped the boring parts.

Speaker 6 Right.

Speaker 29 Class of 2027 of the Westport Military Academy. You've made it.

Speaker 23 Just in time.

Speaker 8 Descendants will continue after a word from our sponsors.

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Speaker 9 Clutch move by the home team.

Speaker 32 What's the game plan from here on out?

Speaker 4 Laundry? Not today. Dishwasher?

Speaker 32 Sidelined.

Speaker 4 What a performance by Team California.

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Speaker 1 Coach, the energy out there felt different. What changed for the team today?

Speaker 2 It was the new game Day Scratches from the California Lottery. Play is everything.
Those games sent the team's energy through the roof.

Speaker 3 Are you saying it was the off-field play that made the difference on the field?

Speaker 2 Hey, a little play makes your day, and today it made the game. That's all for now.

Speaker 5 Coach, one more question: Play the new Los Angeles Chargers, San Francisco 49ers, and Los Angeles Rams Scratchers from the California Lottery.

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Speaker 8 And now, back to descendants.

Speaker 29 Class of 2027 of the Westport Military Academy. You've made it!

Speaker 23 Just in time.

Speaker 29 I did the math.

Speaker 29 Sorry. Did you know that we've been through over 10,000 hours of rigorous training to get us to this point?

Speaker 29 Back in the old days, they said that would qualify you as a master.

Speaker 6 Well then,

Speaker 29 I'm looking at 30 of the finest masters in their field.

Speaker 6 Believable. Finally, ready to get on to their personality.

Speaker 23 Fuck yourself.

Speaker 6 Kindly.

Speaker 26 But remember, pity is not yourself. So

Speaker 6 what I miss.

Speaker 20 So, just most of Vera's speech,

Speaker 20 she's going to kill you.

Speaker 6 I heard

Speaker 6 anything

Speaker 6 in the nick of time.

Speaker 6 Ugh. Don't let that become a thing.

Speaker 20 You were with Lisa, weren't you?

Speaker 23 Maybe.

Speaker 11 Oh, I figured.

Speaker 6 Man.

Speaker 23 It's a full house.

Speaker 10 Ooh, and look who else showed up to watch. The crew.

Speaker 6 Where?

Speaker 11 In the back, up in the VIP boxer.

Speaker 23 Oh, please.

Speaker 23 That's just CJ.

Speaker 14 Just CJ.

Speaker 20 You think I might actually meet her this time?

Speaker 6 I mean, maybe.

Speaker 23 See if she sticks around.

Speaker 23 Trust me, she's not that special.

Speaker 20 Yeah, well, Nick, to everyone else, she is that special. And you know what? After you cross that bridge there, you know what you're gonna have to call her.

Speaker 6 Nope.

Speaker 6 Won't do it, Dean.

Speaker 23 She will always be CJ to me.

Speaker 14 I will never call her.

Speaker 33 Madam President, you must be so proud.

Speaker 27 I am.

Speaker 29 Go forth with confidence in knowing that we're fighting the battle we're meant to.

Speaker 28 She is a warrior.

Speaker 27 She speaks her mind.

Speaker 33 Beautiful speech, CJ.

Speaker 27 I know. And it's all her.

Speaker 27 But let's see if she can live up to her words.

Speaker 15 I'm very sorry to interrupt you.

Speaker 33 Secretary Dora.

Speaker 24 Excuse me?

Speaker 30 What is it?

Speaker 30 The president.

Speaker 23 Madam President.

Speaker 24 There's been an incident.

Speaker 33 You should come with me.

Speaker 9 In the middle of my daughter. There's been an attack.
Can it wait?

Speaker 2 I wasn't bi-infected.

Speaker 17 Thank you, Lieutenant Vera Jane, 2027 Box Track Company's Distinguished Honor Graduate.

Speaker 20 Here comes Vera.

Speaker 6 Ooh, she does not look happy.

Speaker 23 Does she ever?

Speaker 20 Well, she did up there, and now it's going to be gone, thanks to you.

Speaker 6 Brought this on all of us.

Speaker 9 Nicholas Tink.

Speaker 6 Distinguished honor graduate.

Speaker 23 Very nice title.

Speaker 4 Where have you been?

Speaker 27 Did you get my beeps?

Speaker 24 I filled your pager with messages. Hey, I've been busy.

Speaker 2 Okay, I'm here.

Speaker 23 Don't worry. I heard your whole speech.

Speaker 1 Were you really listening?

Speaker 23 Yeah, you hit all the right points. As far as speeches go, B plus.

Speaker 20 Oh, don't listen to him. It was an A, maybe an A minus.
It was very solid.

Speaker 16 This is serious. Were you listening? I changed the speech.

Speaker 6 Oh, from the 61st draft or last night.

Speaker 27 I was working on the computer at the IC.

Speaker 16 I overheard Sergeant Hoggs talking. They're switching targets in training.

Speaker 20 He already extended the training cycles.

Speaker 6 What now?

Speaker 20 Switching targets?

Speaker 23 What the hell does that mean?

Speaker 16 The entire next class and one after. Most of their sections are about human enemies.
A lot of the advanced infected combat is gone.

Speaker 23 Nothing would surprise me at this point.

Speaker 25 If it's true, it's disgusting.

Speaker 20 It's this whole Republic thing. It's got everyone freaking out.

Speaker 23 Compared to what the infected can do, the Republic ain't shit.

Speaker 20 Don't underestimate how bad humans can be. I mean, we may be the bigger threat again.

Speaker 23 There ain't no way to compare. Humans can kill you, but at least they leave your soul.

Speaker 6 Dean, quiet down over there.

Speaker 10 Me? I what

Speaker 9 really?

Speaker 6 How do I get in trouble for this? Nick, every

Speaker 6 hey,

Speaker 6 what can I say?

Speaker 6 Oh, angry at you.

Speaker 14 Before we hand out diplomas, I have a few words to convey as well.

Speaker 24 CJ, I...

Speaker 6 I don't know. Tell me.
Now.

Speaker 25 Quit stalling.

Speaker 24 This morning, the 4 a.m. train left Westport.
Six cars, three were shipping, two personnel, one coal, and one engine. Heavy caliber guns working front and back.
Made it to Riverside by 5.30 a.m.

Speaker 6 All normal.

Speaker 24 Makes every checkpoint headed out on time.

Speaker 27 Dora, I don't need the setup to a fucking math problem. What happened?

Speaker 7 Where are our people?

Speaker 6 First of all, let me thank you all on the job well done and your dedicated service.

Speaker 14 Seriously, family, friends, give these soldiers a hand.

Speaker 13 You are joining those few elite citizens who give everyone here a better way of life,

Speaker 10 protecting us

Speaker 14 from those who would do us harm

Speaker 6 because we are always a target.

Speaker 33 At 12.03 p.m.

Speaker 24 today, our conductor broadcasts this message over the radio.

Speaker 6 Everyone, get down!

Speaker 2 Hijackers?

Speaker 6 Robbing the train?

Speaker 30 Worse.

Speaker 17 Nothing is ever as you expect.

Speaker 17 There will be situations where you don't know who to trust.

Speaker 17 The world can be full of corruption.

Speaker 17 You will be forced to adapt and overcome.

Speaker 17 There's no telling what you might encounter when protecting the lives of fellow Westport citizens. Getting everything

Speaker 17 and everyone.

Speaker 9 Republic soldiers have attacked us right outside their border. It's the Red Guard.
They're using a tank for Christ's sake.

Speaker 17 What was once a meager colony is now a thriving metropolis, and we continue to grow as the largest shipping port in the Pacific.

Speaker 17 Wherever you are in uniform, you represent what Westport stands for and who we are.

Speaker 9 We have to fight back!

Speaker 24 It's too late for that, Grants!

Speaker 9 Get that transmission sent!

Speaker 6 Okay.

Speaker 6 I know there's still people in the railroad.

Speaker 14 You have earned the name of Guardian,

Speaker 17 a title given to the men and women who have stood to watch at these walls since D-Day and the first days of the column.

Speaker 17 This diploma is a contract of your commitment to serve the citizens of this state.

Speaker 6 Ah,

Speaker 10 there you are. Oh, no.

Speaker 6 Get away from that!

Speaker 22 Please don't.

Speaker 22 No!

Speaker 17 No matter what events may follow,

Speaker 19 the Republic

Speaker 14 is possible.

Speaker 14 You are bound to serve.

Speaker 17 Proceed with commencement.

Speaker 5 Who has heard this recording?

Speaker 33 W News already has a copy waiting for your time.

Speaker 27 Paish's phone number. I'm pretty sure he's in the audience.

Speaker 24 Right away.

Speaker 24 If this leads to war.

Speaker 27 Right now, I need someone I can trust in front of everything.

Speaker 33 You think he'll do it?

Speaker 27 Michael will understand what's at stake.

Speaker 6 But

Speaker 27 I'm more concerned about how someone else is going to react.

Speaker 6 PV2 Nicholas Tink

Speaker 17 weapons and defense

Speaker 8 place your wrist on the imprinter

Speaker 10 my first ink scan your new barcode

Speaker 8 proceed down the steps for processing

Speaker 6 Henry Williams

Speaker 23 not bad hope you send me somewhere good I have nothing to do with it

Speaker 23 But I know where I'd send you.

Speaker 8 Welcome, Private Tink, to your next four years.

Speaker 23 Goodbye, free will.

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Speaker 2 Descendants.

Speaker 8 Produced by Wayland Productions. Written and directed by KC Weyland.

Speaker 23 Starring Daton Gilber as Nicholas.

Speaker 25 Hodgin Cho as Vera.

Speaker 6 Austin Trace as Alex.

Speaker 28 Bree Tilton as Lisa.

Speaker 20 Hayes Dunlap as Dean.

Speaker 27 Constance Parne as CJ.

Speaker 1 Lauren Croom as Secretary Dora.

Speaker 17 Thomas Bell as Hoggs.

Speaker 10 Skip Peepo as Alger.

Speaker 8 Tony Tarika as Judge. Kate Bowman as Shelley.

Speaker 12 Leonard Kelly Young as Conductor Grant.

Speaker 8 Levi Petrie as Chancellor Friedrich.

Speaker 25 Briarley Bishop as Iola Statley.

Speaker 20 Brandon Burns as Seal.

Speaker 8 Nick Fisher as Kid.

Speaker 2 Nate Jeans as Saul.

Speaker 8 And I'm Michael Swan.

Speaker 8 Additional voices by Joshua Keeser, Steve Schneider, Greg Miller, Shannon Zimmerman, Phil Nieto, Holly Megan Scott, Kyle Pudding, Michael Dean Wilkins, Adrian Baron, Michael Keen,

Speaker 8 Podfest 2019 fans.

Speaker 8 Produced by Casey Weyland. Line producers, Christian Vera and Elisa Elliott.
Editing and sound design by Victoria Cheng and Michael Keene. Assistant Editing by Isabella Miller.

Speaker 8 Infected sound design by Victoria Cheng and Michael Keene. Mastered by Victoria Cheng.
Original music by Danny Berkhoff Hopkins. Recording and Engineering by Wayland Productions.

Speaker 8 Recording Engineer, Michael Keen.

Speaker 8 Script Supervisors, Lauren Kroom and Victoria Chang.

Speaker 8 Production Assistants, Isabella Miller and Holly Megan Scott. Audio Production Manager, Victoria Chang.
Social media manager, Gino Jang. Videographer, Blair Wayland.
Co-produced by Rusty Quill.

Speaker 8 Executive Producer, Alexander J. Newell.
Chief Marketing Officer, Callum Doherty. Marketing Assistant, Hattie Quinlan.

Speaker 8 For more info about the show and a complete list of cast and crew, visit us at www.weerealive.com. This has been A Theater for the Mind by Weyland Productions.