We're Alive: Descendants - Chapter 19 - Dwelling in the Past - Part 1 of 3

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Speaker 49 And what Casey and his team were able to bring to life established the foundation of the world we get to play in today. Some of us even get to do it as our full-time jobs.

Speaker 49 When I saw this Kickstarter, only one thought went through my head. If Casey thinks the story needs to be told, then we need to help get it told.
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Speaker 50 We're Alive

Speaker 51 Descendants

Speaker 50 Written and directed by Casey Weyland

Speaker 50 Chapter 19

Speaker 50 Dwelling in the Past

Speaker 50 Part One of Three

Speaker 52 Grandpa, you have no idea what we did to get here.

Speaker 57 Oh, believe me, I know. I know.

Speaker 58 I gotta tell you everything.

Speaker 55 Okay, hang on, hang on.

Speaker 57 I need to sit.

Speaker 59 Tanya, here, take my arm.

Speaker 60 Why don't you rest on the steps?

Speaker 57 Thank you, pigs.

Speaker 57 You have no idea how much it means to me to see you here, Nicholas.

Speaker 52 Me too.

Speaker 61 So this is your grandma?

Speaker 63 The the one who wrote the journal?

Speaker 62 That that book you've been carrying?

Speaker 52 You said she was dead.

Speaker 54 I thought she was. I just.

Speaker 6 I can't believe it.

Speaker 64 Grandma, what

Speaker 55 what is wrong with your

Speaker 54 skin?

Speaker 1 Yeah, well,

Speaker 57 I was wondering how long it would take you to notice.

Speaker 57 I try to keep covered, but there's no hiding it anymore.

Speaker 52 Your face,

Speaker 1 it's almost all gray.

Speaker 56 Oh, wow.

Speaker 57 Losing my pigment.

Speaker 54 Your eyes look different, too.

Speaker 52 Is

Speaker 54 all of this from the cancer?

Speaker 54 Well,

Speaker 57 not exactly.

Speaker 57 But I am sick.

Speaker 53 With what?

Speaker 54 How is any of this possible?

Speaker 57 That's gonna take some time.

Speaker 54 Well, grandma, we got plenty now, don't we? It took long enough to get here, but thankfully, Will and I.

Speaker 58 Oh, yeah, this is uh, this is Will.

Speaker 54 He traveled with me from Prim. I honestly wouldn't have made it here without him.

Speaker 55 Uh,

Speaker 62 hi, you, you did,

Speaker 4 thank you, Will.

Speaker 60 Thank you for keeping him safe.

Speaker 57 We're grateful for you. Oh,

Speaker 67 I mean, I did nothing.

Speaker 54 That ain't true, man. We've been through so much already.

Speaker 6 Felt like forever. But

Speaker 64 I knew you'd be here, Mama.

Speaker 4 I was starting to lose hope, but somehow I knew too.

Speaker 6 Easy, easy.

Speaker 68 How bad are you hurt?

Speaker 69 You don't seem fine.

Speaker 66 Ma, relax, okay?

Speaker 54 My sides wrap tight.

Speaker 71 I'm good. I'm great, actually.

Speaker 54 But look, I want to know about you.

Speaker 58 How long have you been here?

Speaker 67 How did you even get here?

Speaker 54 And first off, why are all these infected just standing around us?

Speaker 70 Yeah, why aren't they attacking?

Speaker 4 About a week. I am.

Speaker 69 Well, we left Westport on a plane after.

Speaker 70 After.

Speaker 70 Well, there's

Speaker 35 there's something you need to know about

Speaker 55 Michael.

Speaker 55 Yeah,

Speaker 56 I know.

Speaker 55 I heard

Speaker 55 Vera told me,

Speaker 54 and some weird-ass family explain the rest.

Speaker 55 They, um,

Speaker 54 they said he's gone,

Speaker 56 yeah.

Speaker 1 Nick, I'm

Speaker 60 I'm so, so sorry.

Speaker 64 No, no, no, no, my...

Speaker 54 Look,

Speaker 54 it's you that I need to say sorry to. I left you all alone, and you had to deal with everything by yourself.

Speaker 64 And now

Speaker 54 I won't get to say it to him either.

Speaker 70 No, no. Michael knew.
He was more worried about what was happening with you than...

Speaker 69 anything about himself.

Speaker 73 The doctor said that if I had gotten there any later, I wouldn't have been able to talk with him at all, and then I wouldn't have found you.

Speaker 60 All Michael ever wanted was for you to be safe.

Speaker 70 He cared more than he ever could say.

Speaker 65 I guess

Speaker 54 we have that in common.

Speaker 1 If

Speaker 57 anyone needs to apologize, it should be me. If it hadn't been for that journal, you wouldn't have left in the first place.

Speaker 64 Wait, the journal?

Speaker 54 You sent the journal?

Speaker 1 I did.

Speaker 55 Why?

Speaker 57 I have a reason, but you're gonna have to trust me and give me time to explain.

Speaker 62 Trust you?

Speaker 54 Honestly, I feel like I barely know you. Even when you were in my life, you were never around.
Always leaving Westport.

Speaker 6 And now I find out you're alive?

Speaker 54 Did you even have cancer?

Speaker 54 And what else?

Speaker 54 Have you been living here the whole time? I mean, my only connection to who I really am is you, and you left.

Speaker 54 Grandma,

Speaker 54 do you understand how much I needed you?

Speaker 57 Of course I do.

Speaker 57 As much as I needed you.

Speaker 57 But you have to believe me. There was no way I could remain in Westport.

Speaker 57 I didn't know what might happen next.

Speaker 57 The only option I had was to leave.

Speaker 57 Things started to

Speaker 57 get to be too much.

Speaker 57 I told Michael the same.

Speaker 54 Did you know?

Speaker 57 It was

Speaker 57 one of the hardest days of my life.

Speaker 57 What the hell?

Speaker 51 Who is it?

Speaker 24 It's Tanya.

Speaker 24 What?

Speaker 55 Oh, geez.

Speaker 50 Get in here. It's a mess out there.

Speaker 57 I know the feeling.

Speaker 74 Just couldn't wait till morning.

Speaker 57 Is Pegs here?

Speaker 74 No, she's at the food and agriculture meeting tonight.

Speaker 50 You need her?

Speaker 57 And Nicholas?

Speaker 74 He's asleep in bed. What's going on?

Speaker 55 What's wrong?

Speaker 57 I think it's time, Michael.

Speaker 51 Time for what?

Speaker 57 What do you mean for what? People have started to notice. They'll only believe this cancer story for so much longer.

Speaker 57 Look at my skin. Even less color than last week.

Speaker 74 Well, it doesn't look that bad. Maybe, uh, you know, maybe with a little makeup.

Speaker 66 For how much longer?

Speaker 57 I need to do this while I'm still me.

Speaker 55 What if there are other options?

Speaker 57 There are none.

Speaker 57 Michael, you know how hard this is. How one day I might just wake up and I have no control anymore.

Speaker 57 We don't even know what could happen next. I'm endangering people.
I can't do that any longer. I've made my decision.

Speaker 74 You don't know if you'll even turn. You said so yourself.

Speaker 57 I know enough.

Speaker 57 This is my choice.

Speaker 66 Now,

Speaker 57 I need you to uphold your promise.

Speaker 57 Yeah.

Speaker 57 Um,

Speaker 56 does Hope know?

Speaker 57 I've already talked to her at the hospital. She's prepared to do her part, has a body ready for cremation.

Speaker 57 If anyone asks, this is what I wanted.

Speaker 57 People already know I'm sick. Tell them the cancer took hold, that it was quick, and I wanted people to remember me for how I was, not what I became, which is absolutely true.

Speaker 57 Well,

Speaker 74 where will you go? Do you have a plan?

Speaker 57 There's a place I traveled through in New Mexico. Spent some time studying there.
Let your gear.

Speaker 37 Right here.

Speaker 57 Fairly remote, but it'll be safe.

Speaker 57 I want to go back. Maybe able to continue my studies for as long as possible.

Speaker 57 I can make it the rest of the way if you can get me out of Westport. There's no chance anyone at the border crossing wouldn't notice me looking like this.

Speaker 57 Hmm.

Speaker 57 Well.

Speaker 74 if that's truly what you want,

Speaker 74 we can leave first thing in the morning. Good.

Speaker 55 Good.

Speaker 57 It is.

Speaker 57 I'll meet you at the hospital.

Speaker 56 But Michael,

Speaker 57 no one can know about this, okay?

Speaker 57 If anyone were to find out, it would damage everything I've done so far. All my research in the field, all the good it has has done would be lost.

Speaker 1 This

Speaker 57 is all people would remember of me.

Speaker 74 Not even Nick or Peggs? I can't tell them?

Speaker 57 Uh-uh, especially not Nick.

Speaker 57 He's gonna have a hard enough time as it is.

Speaker 57 But he still needs to know what he might be, and that there's a chance he's immune. He hasn't heard all the details about his father and what happened before.

Speaker 57 I was gonna tell him the full story when he was old enough and ready,

Speaker 57 but

Speaker 57 that's gonna have to be you now.

Speaker 55 Wow, uh,

Speaker 74 I don't know. I mean, you may be asking the wrong person here.

Speaker 57 Would you do that for me?

Speaker 57 I don't know how much longer I have. Consider these my last wishes.

Speaker 57 And no records of where I'm going. No journals, nothing.
I know how you like to keep track of things.

Speaker 57 This can only be a secret if you keep it.

Speaker 57 Do this for me,

Speaker 6 but also for him.

Speaker 6 All right.

Speaker 6 I will.

Speaker 6 It won't be easy, but

Speaker 74 I'll find a way.

Speaker 74 Thank you.

Speaker 57 I have one last request.

Speaker 55 Oh my god, there's more.

Speaker 57 Can I see my grandson one last time?

Speaker 57 Of course.

Speaker 74 He's in his room sleeping.

Speaker 57 I won't wake him.

Speaker 57 He's sure as a snorer, isn't he?

Speaker 57 You have no idea.

Speaker 57 Goodbye, my baby boy.

Speaker 57 I love you so much, Nicholas.

Speaker 57 Um,

Speaker 57 so, uh,

Speaker 74 what happens if I ever need to reach you? Are you me?

Speaker 57 Doubt that'll happen.

Speaker 57 But if it does

Speaker 55 then

Speaker 55 well

Speaker 57 I don't know.

Speaker 74 Well, you know, if you don't if you don't want me records or

Speaker 74 any mention of you, uh, we could just make up a name. Maybe use your title?

Speaker 57 Director of Infected Studies.

Speaker 5 Or just director.

Speaker 74 We used all kind of code names in the old tower for the radio. It was a way to keep our identity safe.

Speaker 57 I remember.

Speaker 6 Sure.

Speaker 66 Why not?

Speaker 57 If it ever comes to that.

Speaker 56 Thank you, Michael.

Speaker 56 Man.

Speaker 57 You can do this, right?

Speaker 57 I need you to be strong.

Speaker 74 Well, it's not me I'm worried about.

Speaker 74 You have any idea what this is gonna do to him?

Speaker 74 I mean, how do I even begin to tell Nick what he might be?

Speaker 57 If anyone could explain it, it's you and Peggs.

Speaker 57 As much as you've already done for that boy.

Speaker 57 Oh, I am forever grateful.

Speaker 57 And I know Saul would be too.

Speaker 57 I wish things were different, That I could be there for him through all that.

Speaker 57 Luckily, he has a father like you.

Speaker 57 Well,

Speaker 74 Nick doesn't always feel that way.

Speaker 74 But thanks.

Speaker 57 Sometimes we have to do things for the people we love that they just won't ever understand.

Speaker 55 See you in the morning, Michael.

Speaker 55 And thank you.

Speaker 55 Good night, Tanya.

Speaker 55 Oh, my.

Speaker 59 Michael kept his promise. He never told anyone anyone about what really happened to you, Tanya.

Speaker 59 And when Nick turned 14, we told him about his mom and dad

Speaker 59 and what he might be.

Speaker 56 Well,

Speaker 57 Michael and I kept in touch for a while in the beginning.

Speaker 57 But then we drifted apart over time.

Speaker 57 It was hard to hear about the lives of

Speaker 57 those I loved, but couldn't be a part of any more.

Speaker 1 I'm so, so, so sorry, Nicholas.

Speaker 57 I honestly never thought I'd make it this long.

Speaker 66 But then

Speaker 57 I had to find a way to reach you.

Speaker 54 Wait, wait, what do you mean? Make it this long?

Speaker 53 What's going on?

Speaker 54 What really happened to you?

Speaker 57 This happened.

Speaker 55 Oh my god, are those all bites from infected?

Speaker 54 Grandma, how many do you have?

Speaker 57 Thirteen. What?

Speaker 54 How is that possible? I only knew of the one.

Speaker 56 That one

Speaker 57 I got early on when everything first started at the colony. The others

Speaker 57 came much later, during the years I spent in the field researching them.

Speaker 57 Oh, inevitably, some got too close, but I was always able to get away.

Speaker 57 Whatever immunities inside of me prevented infection from taking over.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 57 apparently, I can only hold off so much.

Speaker 65 I

Speaker 54 didn't know.

Speaker 57 That was the point.

Speaker 57 I never wanted to put anyone in danger. The Jagia seemed like my only option.

Speaker 55 Wait,

Speaker 58 it's you?

Speaker 62 You were the director?

Speaker 56 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 62 We made it.

Speaker 68 This is where we're supposed to be.

Speaker 68 Yeah.

Speaker 65 It is.

Speaker 62 Everything we went through, it's...

Speaker 6 It's just crazy to think.

Speaker 6 Who the hell is that?

Speaker 53 Keys! Keys! I need your keys! What?

Speaker 1 Dean?

Speaker 75 The guy who stabbed you in the back? The liar?

Speaker 55 Dean?

Speaker 54 Oh, man, you and I got words too.

Speaker 53 Yeah, sure, fine.

Speaker 54 Whatever you want, just give me the keys to your blue truck.

Speaker 54 How did you know? Hurry!

Speaker 53 They've been talking about it all over the Republic's radio.

Speaker 62 Uh about what?

Speaker 54 Now, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme.

Speaker 4 Oh, Nick, just do it.

Speaker 6 Okay, here.

Speaker 54 Everyone, get inside.

Speaker 1 Hurry.

Speaker 53 Tanya, I need your cane.

Speaker 57 Take it.

Speaker 63 Why does he want that?

Speaker 18 Huck up in.

Speaker 54 The hell did you just say?

Speaker 62 You can talk to them?

Speaker 52 It's their language.

Speaker 54 Wait, what? Hold on. It's their fuck.
Dean, where is he going?

Speaker 73 Dean came here with me.

Speaker 70 Wherever he's headed, I'm sure it's for a good reason.

Speaker 54 Wait, you trust him too? He's one of them. Those family people.

Speaker 62 Oh, oh, I am well aware.

Speaker 57 You'll be able to see what Dean's doing from the top floor of the visitor center. Peggs, can you...

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 69 I'll show him where.

Speaker 1 I'll catch up.

Speaker 54 Boy, hey, Grandma, are you gonna be okay? I mean, the infected thing.

Speaker 75 It's fine. They listened to her.

Speaker 57 Your friends figured it out. Go on.

Speaker 54 You know, it's taking everything that I got right now not to shoot those things.

Speaker 60 I know it still freaks me out too, but they aren't aggressive.

Speaker 54 Ma, how is that? How is that even possible?

Speaker 69 Well, the way Tanya explained it, there's just many different kinds of subspecies, and well, this is the kind that doesn't attack.

Speaker 6 Well, did they're pacifists? No way.

Speaker 54 Yeah, I don't know if I entirely believe that. Seems too crazy.

Speaker 73 Oh, yeah, that's...

Speaker 4 That is only the start. Wait till you hear the rest.

Speaker 54 You really never knew about this place? Michael never told you?

Speaker 59 Not a word.

Speaker 69 Didn't know about Tanya, none of it.

Speaker 73 He kept it a secret from everyone, including his wife.

Speaker 1 Ooh, ouch.

Speaker 6 Right? You get it.

Speaker 62 Thank you, um.

Speaker 58 Oh, it's Will.

Speaker 6 Right, Will.

Speaker 54 How many, um, how many more steps up? This is... This is kind of starting to hurt.

Speaker 73 You said it was nothing.

Speaker 75 Well, maybe not nothing.

Speaker 6 He was sh shot after all. You were shot?

Speaker 54 Ma, out of the long list of important things that I want to deal with right now, this is definitely the lowest, okay? I mean, where do I even start with this place?

Speaker 63 How about we start with where that Dean guy is going?

Speaker 68 Why did he need the keys to our truck?

Speaker 53 Oh, look, there!

Speaker 54 There he goes. He's driving up the road we came in on.
Is he?

Speaker 54 He's trying to escape.

Speaker 73 No, no, no. I don't think so.
Dean wouldn't do that.

Speaker 75 Uh, he's really booking it.

Speaker 54 Uh, well, there goes our ride. And you really think you know this guy, Ma, huh? He's one of those spies.

Speaker 69 Yeah, I know, but Dean's whole family did a lot to try and get you back. After you left, a group from Westport went to try and find you all, Mira as well.

Speaker 63 Oh, those were the people we saw in Prim. I met one.
Her name was, uh,

Speaker 62 Riley? Riley?

Speaker 73 You did? What happened to them? I never heard back.

Speaker 53 Uh,

Speaker 61 you said you left a week ago? Uh-huh.

Speaker 59 That's right about the time that Prim fell.

Speaker 4 That's where you were.

Speaker 62 Well, wait, what do you what do you mean fell?

Speaker 61 The city was overrun by infected.

Speaker 70 Oh my god.

Speaker 54 But but what about Ma, Ma, Bert and Kelly were leaving on a helicopter, okay? I saw them head in the direction of Westport, and I think that the others were with them, too.

Speaker 70 Okay, so they would have made it home.

Speaker 54 Yeah, you know, Bert. I'm pretty sure.

Speaker 60 Well, I must have missed them.

Speaker 69 All that happened in this Prim?

Speaker 56 Well,

Speaker 6 what about Vera, Alex, and the others from the helicopters?

Speaker 54 Did they- Well, Vera is safe, and I'm pretty sure Alex went back with the others.

Speaker 54 The only other one that was with us was Lisa.

Speaker 72 We lost her there.

Speaker 1 Oh, Nick.

Speaker 6 I'm sorry.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Uh, I think Dean is headed towards the main road.

Speaker 6 I can't see the truck anymore.

Speaker 54 Oh, wait, you sure that he's not belling on us? I mean, look, I've got some serious shit to talk about with that guy.

Speaker 61 No, I really don't think he was.

Speaker 49 What, Nick?

Speaker 53 Yeah, okay. Nick,

Speaker 54 Nick, big ass plane.

Speaker 63 There's a big ass plane coming from the direction of the Republic. Oh, wait, wait, you-you don't think they've probably sent a plane after our truck because of what happened at the checkpoint.

Speaker 1 Oh, no.

Speaker 55 Okay.

Speaker 54 Republic is right.

Speaker 1 So left.

Speaker 58 Oh, okay. Tanya's came.
Where did...

Speaker 71 Oh, man, please tell me you reached the steering wheel.

Speaker 58 Please, please, please.

Speaker 58 Yes!

Speaker 58 All right, steering wheel's locked.

Speaker 58 Now, cruise control.

Speaker 57 Oh, let this work, please, please let this work.

Speaker 56 There!

Speaker 56 Look, Ma!

Speaker 1 No hands!

Speaker 56 Oh, God, and there's the plane! Oh, it's working!

Speaker 1 It's working!

Speaker 1 Oh!

Speaker 11 Oh!

Speaker 55 Oh, no!

Speaker 56 It's working!

Speaker 55 Oh, it's actually working!

Speaker 56 Oh,

Speaker 56 shit!

Speaker 54 They're they're just tracking the truck down, right? I mean, I mean, you don't think they would actually

Speaker 56 Oh shit

Speaker 60 Dean

Speaker 54 That that that was a bomber.

Speaker 62 He didn't just trying to save us

Speaker 6 because of us

Speaker 54 Wait a minute the bomber is circling around heading back to the Republic come on

Speaker 55 Finally.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's a lot of steps. Coming through, Gravel.

Speaker 52 Now, where are you going?

Speaker 73 We have to check on Dean.

Speaker 57 I thought you were already doing that.

Speaker 62 Well, we gotta do it from down there now.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 66 fine.

Speaker 66 I'm coming.

Speaker 66 He took my cane.

Speaker 24 Why do you have to take my good cane?

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Speaker 54 Oh, check that car.

Speaker 63 Nick, none of these vehicles are gonna work.

Speaker 75 They've been sitting here for too long.

Speaker 54 Shit, Pegs, Tanya, have anything that we could drive?

Speaker 60 No, I don't think so.

Speaker 52 All right, then wait here.

Speaker 62 Oh, what, what, you're gonna walk there?

Speaker 54 Yeah, I have to look for Dean.

Speaker 63 I thought you just said you couldn't trust him.

Speaker 54 Yeah, that was before I knew the guy ran off to save our asses. That bomber has spotted the truck parked anywhere near here.

Speaker 55 I know

Speaker 58 he led it away.

Speaker 54 Just stay there, okay? I'm not losing you again.

Speaker 63 Hey, you don't mind if I come, right?

Speaker 54 Yeah, of course not, man.

Speaker 70 Hey, um.

Speaker 63 Listen, if if things hadn't gone wrong at the border

Speaker 63 If I hadn't shot that guard, they wouldn't have done this.

Speaker 54 Look, you don't know that, okay? They still could have, anyways. You did what you had to, Will.
I keep telling you.

Speaker 75 Yeah, that doesn't make me feel any less shitty.

Speaker 65 Wait, wait, wait.

Speaker 54 There's the smoke.

Speaker 54 Oh, man. They've definitely hit something.
I can almost see it. Come on, we gotta get to the top of the hill.

Speaker 54 Whoa,

Speaker 54 the truck.

Speaker 54 Damn it, Dean.

Speaker 52 He was

Speaker 65 my best friend.

Speaker 65 Was

Speaker 54 you you motherfucker?

Speaker 6 What do you mean? Was your best friend?

Speaker 54 Oh, come on, man. Do I even need to explain why?

Speaker 56 Oh,

Speaker 51 it's clear, right?

Speaker 54 They didn't send any more.

Speaker 76 Planes?

Speaker 54 Yeah, it's clear. So, can I fucking hit you now?

Speaker 76 The part of me that just bailed out of a moving truck onto the road would really rather you not

Speaker 71 as well as the part of me that was singed my ears that continue to ring very loudly from the shockwave and also the part of me that landed on a cactus when I rolled into the ditch so they wouldn't see me.

Speaker 54 Oh, the dramatics. Now you're just being a little bitch.

Speaker 58 Oh shit.

Speaker 50 Man, did I miss you, Nick?

Speaker 67 Oh, you sure you did?

Speaker 54 Not that someone told you to miss me.

Speaker 55 Right? That's fair.

Speaker 71 Like, I should have gone with you. You don't know how much I wish I would have.

Speaker 54 No, no, you don't.

Speaker 76 Really, Nick, I do.

Speaker 71 There's a lot I wish I had said before.

Speaker 58 I've had to live a weird life with all that family

Speaker 71 stuff.

Speaker 71 I mean, so much of what I've had to do feels like a lie.

Speaker 71 The only thing that has ever been real has been being friends with you, man.

Speaker 55 You uh

Speaker 64 you really mean that?

Speaker 55 Would I try and run down a military bomber for just anyone?

Speaker 6 These aren't only tears of pain, man.

Speaker 71 Well, okay, they are mostly that.

Speaker 71 Look, 100% truth with you all the time now.

Speaker 1 I am hurting like hell.

Speaker 54 You know, maybe that makes sense for it.

Speaker 67 Just like a little. You got a long way to go, but.

Speaker 1 what else has a man gotta do?

Speaker 55 I mean, come on.

Speaker 75 I can't believe you made it.

Speaker 6 You're okay after all that, huh?

Speaker 58 Oh, uh,

Speaker 71 hold on, what about this guy?

Speaker 54 Does he know

Speaker 66 anyone mentioned about

Speaker 6 the family affair stuff?

Speaker 1 Oh, I know all about that stuff.

Speaker 75 I was with Nick and Irim.

Speaker 56 Oh, great.

Speaker 71 Well, it was a nice secret society while it lasted.

Speaker 54 All right, come on. Let's get back to the visitor center.

Speaker 54 Hey, Dean, you got any decent first aid supplies?

Speaker 71 Yeah, we got a lot of stuff.

Speaker 58 Oh, crap, you're bleeding, too.

Speaker 71 How did that...

Speaker 54 You know, just got shot.

Speaker 1 And you're just walking around with it like that?

Speaker 54 Oh, yeah. You know, you know, maybe one of us knows how to tough things out.

Speaker 64 You know. Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 I almost got blown up.

Speaker 64 Come on.

Speaker 54 Like, that ain't nothing compared to what Will and I went through.

Speaker 55 Oh, really?

Speaker 54 I mean, this man practically grew up in hell.

Speaker 51 Why? Where are you from?

Speaker 1 Uh, um, Prim.

Speaker 58 Yeah, you have to catch me up.

Speaker 76 We haven't heard a lot from out here.

Speaker 58 Oh, likewise,

Speaker 54 this place is something else.

Speaker 65 Hey, Dean, uh,

Speaker 54 there is another thing that's been on my mind. It's uh actually been really eating away at me.

Speaker 71 100% honesty. Just ask.

Speaker 54 Okay, how do I put this? Uh.

Speaker 54 Alright, in the Guardian trials, you remember how you choked me out, right? I mean, you could only do that because of your little super spy training, right?

Speaker 1 Oh, that? Oh,

Speaker 76 that's really been weighing on you all this time, hasn't it?

Speaker 54 I mean, yeah, you seriously kicked my ass.

Speaker 54 I just have to know for myself if it was a fair fight.

Speaker 76 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 72 I really did kick your ass.

Speaker 71 Uh, yeah, okay, fine. I did have some previous hands-on instruction.

Speaker 54 I fucking knew it.

Speaker 6 You're a- you're a- You're a cheater.

Speaker 1 Oh, heartily.

Speaker 53 Just admit I beat your ass.

Speaker 54 Oh, no, I'm not forgetting that. That right there?

Speaker 66 Oh, my goodness.

Speaker 54 That is unforgivable. It wasn't even an even playing field.

Speaker 1 Just wait.

Speaker 64 Something else, man.

Speaker 71 That's a good time.

Speaker 75 You know, Nick and I?

Speaker 67 We built a car together.

Speaker 55 Oh, really?

Speaker 61 You took down a giant swamp infected, too, so.

Speaker 56 Okay.

Speaker 61 Oh, and we even jumped on a moving train.

Speaker 53 Remember that?

Speaker 58 Whoa.

Speaker 58 Yeah, it was

Speaker 54 really something, wasn't it, Will?

Speaker 54 Dean, you're gonna like Will.

Speaker 64 Super, super smart guy.

Speaker 54 You know, he made a new modopistol in only a few days.

Speaker 75 That's what I killed the swamp thing with.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it was

Speaker 6 pretty crazy stuff pretty crazy stuff yeah crazy

Speaker 76 cool man cool thanks thanks

Speaker 51 um

Speaker 56 whoo mm-hmm

Speaker 71 dude oh i'm fine pegs it worked we're safe how did you know that was going to happen the the plane the radio from the republic the one i stole earlier this week i was monitoring it heard about the attack at the border checkpoint then they called in a bomber to engage, and once I figured out it was you, and then you were here,

Speaker 76 I had to lead them away.

Speaker 6 Quick thinking.

Speaker 71 Yeah, well, if I didn't, this all might have been discovered.

Speaker 55 Or become a pile of rubble.

Speaker 54 Wait, so the Republic doesn't know about this place?

Speaker 76 Thankfully, no. They have a lot of border to monitor.

Speaker 64 Actually, what even is this place?

Speaker 1 Well, uh,

Speaker 71 I'm not sure if I am really really the best one to explain.

Speaker 52 I knew you'd be fine.

Speaker 55 Well, I sure didn't.

Speaker 57 But you led them away, right?

Speaker 53 Yeah.

Speaker 71 And now that they think your truck is destroyed, I doubt anyone will come looking for you too.

Speaker 55 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Speaker 6 You're... You alright?

Speaker 54 Here, Grandma, just sit down.

Speaker 33 Catch your breath.

Speaker 33 Tanya.

Speaker 54 Hey, hey, hey, hey, Grandma.

Speaker 71 Can you hear me? Hear me?

Speaker 5 Tracker Vital. Right.

Speaker 56 Tanya, Tanya.

Speaker 56 Sorry. Sorry.

Speaker 1 I'm fine. I'm fine.

Speaker 6 Just allowed it once.

Speaker 57 Got a little overwhelmed and dizzy.

Speaker 6 Okay, Grandma, are you sure that you're alright?

Speaker 6 I am.

Speaker 57 I'm just glad you're all safe.

Speaker 57 And so is Lechagia.

Speaker 54 What's what's so important about this place?

Speaker 54 Why did you come here? The sign didn't even say that name, so so what is it?

Speaker 71 It's uh probably better if you show him, right?

Speaker 6 Ah, but after we use some of those good old doctor skills again,

Speaker 57 of course.

Speaker 57 This way.

Speaker 22 Him too. Oh my.

Speaker 54 If you say so, look, it's only a scratch, Ma

Speaker 6 Carlsbad Caverns.

Speaker 6 We're on top of a cave, right?

Speaker 57 One of the largest in the world.

Speaker 50 And it used to be a tourist attraction?

Speaker 57 At one point.

Speaker 57 But now,

Speaker 57 it's so much more.

Speaker 65 Why?

Speaker 54 What are you protecting? What's down there?

Speaker 57 Answers, Nicholas. To the questions you've been asking yourself, I have no doubt.

Speaker 57 And what I've been searching for my whole life.

Speaker 50 To be continued in the next episode of We're Alive Descendants.

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Speaker 50 Descendants, produced by Wayland Productions, written and directed by KC Weyland, starring Jaton Gilber as Nicholas, Sam Skolnick as Will.

Speaker 71 Hayes Dunlap as Dean.

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