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Speaker 15 Descendants.

Speaker 24 Written and directed by KC Weyland.

Speaker 24 Chapter Nineteen

Speaker 12 Dwelling in the Past

Speaker 16 Part Two of Three

Speaker 5 Ah, but you sit. Ah, I'm trying.

Speaker 5 Oh.

Speaker 26 You know, this is a pretty nice medical facility you have here. It's very clean.

Speaker 27 Well, it has to be. Otherwise, all my testing and research would be worthless.

Speaker 26 Wait, you're still doing that?

Speaker 27 Never stopped.

Speaker 27 Now, hold still. Almost done.

Speaker 10 It's not totally sterile.

Speaker 28 I mean, you do sleep in this room.

Speaker 10 Oh, hush.

Speaker 27 So, no permanent damage?

Speaker 27 Missed everything vital in your midsection.

Speaker 27 Gonna be sore for a while, though.

Speaker 27 There. That should do it.

Speaker 10 Alright.

Speaker 10 Damn.

Speaker 19 Pretty good at that, Grandma.

Speaker 27 Plenty of practice. Can't tell you how invaluable a good stitch is in today's world.

Speaker 30 Tanya, are you any good with a pair of scissors?

Speaker 28 I definitely need a haircut after that singing.

Speaker 26 Hey, Dean, actually, you know, I could shave it all off if you like. I think it'd be a really good look.

Speaker 28 Yeah, I'd rather burn than bear. Have a weird-shaped head as it is.

Speaker 20 Oh, yeah, you could say that again.

Speaker 27 You are lucky where you got hit, Nicholas. Clean entry and exit.
Million-dollar bullet right there.

Speaker 31 You know, I should have collected it.

Speaker 32 Could have been rich.

Speaker 10 That was good.

Speaker 27 More and more like your father every day. You're telling me.

Speaker 33 Okay, hold on.

Speaker 26 You guys say that like it's a bad thing.

Speaker 10 Well, what's wrong?

Speaker 26 You didn't want to come in? Too squeamish, huh?

Speaker 33 Oh, no, no. I

Speaker 33 just was reading up on the caverns. Fascinating.
So much I never knew about this place.

Speaker 27 There's a lot more to it than just what they wrote on all these displays in the old world.

Speaker 27 Seems like it's about time I showed you.

Speaker 12 Who's coming?

Speaker 21 Where does this elevator go?

Speaker 27 Down into the caves. A direct route.

Speaker 33 Whoa, I wanna see.

Speaker 33 It is more than just these little rock formations, right?

Speaker 32 Oh,

Speaker 27 much, much more.

Speaker 27 You have to be there to believe it. Well, I'm fine waiting up here.
Once was definitely enough.

Speaker 36 I'll see you when you come back.

Speaker 33 Uh, what does that mean?

Speaker 36 Is it bad?

Speaker 37 It's

Speaker 27 different.

Speaker 3 But Tanya's right.

Speaker 27 You need to see it to understand.

Speaker 28 I'm good staying too. I'll keep an ear to the radio, make sure we're in the clear and the Republic isn't circling back.

Speaker 28 Also, I've been trying to establish communication with Westport.

Speaker 33 Oh, uh, do you need help with that?

Speaker 28 Thanks, but I. I got this covered.
Uh, it's kind of my specialty, radios and stuff, so.

Speaker 27 Why don't you you just go with Nick, man?

Speaker 10 Oh, okay.

Speaker 33 Yeah, hey, just let me know if you ever need anything.

Speaker 35 Hmm?

Speaker 29 Oh, from you.

Speaker 20 Okay,

Speaker 20 we'll do.

Speaker 27 I don't want to leave you, Nick, but I know how much he's been waiting for this.

Speaker 1 I'm just

Speaker 38 so glad you're back with me.

Speaker 26 And I ain't going nowhere, am I?

Speaker 27 You better not.

Speaker 39 You're gonna love it down there.

Speaker 27 I'll get started on dinner.

Speaker 40 Hey, Grandma.

Speaker 26 You sure that they're gonna be safe? I mean, those infected, they're just wandering around here.

Speaker 23 How can you even begin to trust them?

Speaker 27 Come here,

Speaker 27 me?

Speaker 27 Yes, follow me.

Speaker 27 Let's get this over with.

Speaker 19 Okay.

Speaker 19 Pem.

Speaker 29 What

Speaker 29 are you doing?

Speaker 32 Pem!

Speaker 33 You're calling it over.

Speaker 33 How do you know its language?

Speaker 27 It took years working with them and living here. But I know most of their words now.
It's fairly limited and simple.

Speaker 33 What words did you just say?

Speaker 27 I said, come.

Speaker 33 Some of these pacifists are

Speaker 33 different subspecies?

Speaker 27 They aren't all from the same tribe, no, but they share the same behavioral nature. Whatever happened with these, the violent aggressive tendencies weren't passed down genetically.

Speaker 27 None are first-generation or direct infected.

Speaker 33 Oh, so their violent temperament is a recessive gene for some?

Speaker 27 I think it's more than that. Like their minds have quieted.
They're further genetically from the initial infection, so they are more connected and grounded.

Speaker 26 It has green eyes.

Speaker 27 She does.

Speaker 27 They're less cloudy in more ways than one.

Speaker 27 It's a sign that they're more coherent with a clear mind.

Speaker 10 Like Bill?

Speaker 33 That that would make sense.

Speaker 12 Who?

Speaker 33 Oh, it's um an infected. We crossed.
Had one cloudy eye, one green. Spoke some words as well.

Speaker 27 I saw one like that, too, a long time ago.

Speaker 27 Their eyes and language are a clear indicator of the level of intelligence.

Speaker 26 Yeah, that one was something else.

Speaker 41 Yeah.

Speaker 36 So

Speaker 36 you are Yaat?

Speaker 33 This is Noha?

Speaker 27 That's right. Yaat means mother.
It's what they affectionately call me. Noha chose her own name.

Speaker 9 She did.

Speaker 9 What does it mean?

Speaker 27 I think it means egg.

Speaker 27 Yamta.

Speaker 25 Go ahead.

Speaker 27 You can touch it. It's okay.
She'll let you.

Speaker 26 Nah, not a chance.

Speaker 41 Kiana.

Speaker 27 Oh, that

Speaker 27 means peace. A word they use often.
It's what these truly want.

Speaker 26 Yeah, look, that's great and all, grandma, but I'm still not touching that.

Speaker 10 I'll do it.

Speaker 17 Whoa.

Speaker 33 If you ever told me I'd touch a live infected,

Speaker 20 it's scary, but kind of awesome.

Speaker 27 See, Nicholas, I told you. These are different.

Speaker 27 It's difficult to see past what has happened before. I understand.

Speaker 27 But if you don't, you'll never recognize who they truly are.

Speaker 41 Okay. Fatsy.

Speaker 27 She called you Thin.

Speaker 27 I think that's your nickname now.

Speaker 20 Oh,

Speaker 5 cool.

Speaker 10 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what are you doing?

Speaker 26 Back up.

Speaker 32 What is it doing?

Speaker 37 Relax, Nick.

Speaker 27 She's not gonna hurt you.

Speaker 20 Well, not like she could, anyway.

Speaker 27 What do you mean by that?

Speaker 33 Well, from your story before, you know?

Speaker 33 Nick's immune, like you.

Speaker 25 Wait, what, what, what?

Speaker 27 You found out?

Speaker 27 It's confirmed?

Speaker 27 We never were certain when you were younger.

Speaker 18 Look, it just...

Speaker 26 it just bit me the one time, but that was enough.

Speaker 40 Hey, maybe don't tell Pegs, okay?

Speaker 26 I wouldn't want to worry her.

Speaker 29 Can...

Speaker 27 Can I see?

Speaker 26 What's going on? Grandma, can you tell whatever it is, Noha, to back up?

Speaker 27 Interesting.

Speaker 27 Give her a moment. Just give her a moment.

Speaker 27 This may prove something. Hang on.

Speaker 26 What do you mean? Are you crazy, Grandma?

Speaker 27 She's in now.

Speaker 27 Angma.

Speaker 27 Angma?

Speaker 27 Angma.

Speaker 27 What?

Speaker 26 What does what does that mean?

Speaker 5 Blood.

Speaker 27 Your nickname now, apparently.

Speaker 26 Um, um, Grandma, can you please get this thing away from me?

Speaker 37 She.

Speaker 27 Noha is one of the smartest of her clan. Some don't know every word, but she comprehends the most.

Speaker 5 Pa Tama.

Speaker 26 Yeah, whatever you say.

Speaker 33 Well, who taught them their language?

Speaker 27 Oh, now that. That is something I'm still working out.
Many infected evolved completely independently, yet respond to the same root words. And then there are others that can't say any at all.

Speaker 27 Those kinds seem to communicate only through smells and pheromodes.

Speaker 27 So...

Speaker 33 their language is intrinsic? It's part of their instincts or base genetics?

Speaker 27 That is one of my hypotheses.

Speaker 27 Where did you come from, Will?

Speaker 27 Is Prim some sort of learning institution?

Speaker 34 Well,

Speaker 33 no,

Speaker 33 no, I just

Speaker 33 learn quickly. I like to read and

Speaker 33 I just study anything I can.

Speaker 26 Yeah, Grandma. Prim was a gambling city, pitting people against infected for money.

Speaker 27 Oh.

Speaker 26 Will over here was one of their captives.

Speaker 10 Oh my.

Speaker 27 And did you

Speaker 27 is that where you went, Nick?

Speaker 26 Not by choice. A few of us were captured after I went to where the journal said to go.
Well, those of us who survived Ink's tunnels.

Speaker 12 Look, I don't understand, Grandma.

Speaker 26 Why would you even send us there?

Speaker 14 Did you

Speaker 26 did you know that would happen

Speaker 26 that

Speaker 26 Why won't you tell me?

Speaker 26 What are you hiding? Hiding

Speaker 26 Oh, you're not gonna say me say no

Speaker 37 I need to sit down.

Speaker 36 Here, here.

Speaker 33 Come back inside.

Speaker 29 Okay.

Speaker 27 Thanks, Noah.

Speaker 27 I'll be okay.

Speaker 27 I just need to catch my breath.

Speaker 33 Are you sure you're all right? Was it another dizzy spell?

Speaker 27 All of this is a lot at once.

Speaker 20 Yeah?

Speaker 26 You and me both.

Speaker 41 Yeah.

Speaker 27 It's okay. It's okay.

Speaker 27 Locha.

Speaker 27 Nick.

Speaker 27 I'm trying to explain.

Speaker 27 Why I did any of this.

Speaker 27 It's not easy.

Speaker 27 But the only way it'll make any sense is

Speaker 27 if I take you down below.

Speaker 26 Come on now. How can that make any difference? You're saying that I should, what, trust you now? After sending me and the others into a damn meat grinder, Grandma?

Speaker 27 Do you think I would ever willingly put you in danger? I sent you there. But others were supposed to go too.
They were meant to keep you safe.

Speaker 44 Oh, them.

Speaker 20 The followers.

Speaker 26 That's who you told?

Speaker 30 They believed in the cause.

Speaker 26 Well, whatever cause you convinced those people to have, well, guess what? They ended up letting out some fucked up infected that Ink had trapped inside.

Speaker 30 Called it coal.

Speaker 26 Pitch black skin, fast, and strong. And it killed every single one of those followers.

Speaker 27 You saw it?

Speaker 26 It was a complete blur. We were lucky to get out of there alive.
Most of my team that went with me died.

Speaker 26 and the few who survived were captured and sent to Prim to be killed in some other fucked up way by the infected.

Speaker 26 Now,

Speaker 26 is that what you were expecting, Grandma?

Speaker 25 No, no, no, no, no, not at all.

Speaker 27 That wasn't supposed to happen.

Speaker 25 Oh, Nick, I'm so sorry.

Speaker 18 Yeah,

Speaker 26 me too.

Speaker 27 Please,

Speaker 42 I.

Speaker 27 You have to let me explain.

Speaker 27 Give me the chance to show you what I know.

Speaker 32 And then...

Speaker 27 And then you can judge if it was a mistake.

Speaker 33 All those notes in the journal covering the infected species.

Speaker 33 She was right about everything we've encountered so far.

Speaker 33 What else don't we know?

Speaker 27 I left the last pages of my journal blank. What I'm going to show you is what would go there.

Speaker 27 Please,

Speaker 32 give me a chance.

Speaker 10 Nick.

Speaker 35 All right, fine.

Speaker 26 What's down there?

Speaker 26 Pen!

Speaker 26 Pen!

Speaker 27 I think she knows where we're headed. She wants to go with us down to the caves.

Speaker 26 I'm sorry, I'm sorry, go into the elevator with with that.

Speaker 27 She will not hurt you. I promise.

Speaker 30 I.

Speaker 30 Grandma, I don't know the

Speaker 18 Okay, fine, fine, fine.

Speaker 26 All right, but I'm still carrying this with me.

Speaker 27 If you have to.

Speaker 42 I

Speaker 27 I understand why it may be so hard to let go of how you feel about them.

Speaker 40 I'm coming. I'm coming.

Speaker 26 But, Grandma, can you at least have it stand in the corner away from me?

Speaker 26 Those

Speaker 27 others.

Speaker 27 The followers who were at Ink's tunnels.

Speaker 27 Are you sure

Speaker 12 they're

Speaker 12 they're all dead?

Speaker 34 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 26 Well, except Alvin. He got nabbed too.
Ended up with us in Prim.

Speaker 27 He did. Is he?

Speaker 33 I'm pretty sure he didn't make it out of Prim, though.

Speaker 33 He was the one who threw the switch that let the infected out and overthrew the city.

Speaker 26 Nice job, PP Pants.

Speaker 9 Excuse me?

Speaker 40 Oh, uh, nothing.

Speaker 4 You kinda had to be there.

Speaker 27 Such a loss.

Speaker 27 Alvin had a brilliant mind. We shared many of the same passions.

Speaker 27 We met here early on when I was first researching the pacifists.

Speaker 27 I wish I could have shown him what I've learned about this place since then.

Speaker 29 Hmm.

Speaker 33 Well, you know, Alvin wanted us to come here. To find you.

Speaker 33 He told me to take Nick and find the director.

Speaker 9 Hmm.

Speaker 27 He must have understood how important you are.

Speaker 19 Me?

Speaker 13 Yeah, I don't think so.

Speaker 34 Come on now. Hmm.

Speaker 27 She keeps smelling you.

Speaker 26 Yeah, I know, but we just showered yesterday in the Republic. I mean, these are new clothes.

Speaker 40 You think she's smelling the wound or something?

Speaker 32 No,

Speaker 32 no.

Speaker 27 I think it's something deeper. A scent she has about you.

Speaker 27 Something I think I've known.

Speaker 26 What's that?

Speaker 27 You'll see.

Speaker 40 You know, Grandma, you love doing that, don't you?

Speaker 26 I mean, keeping us in the dark, taunting us?

Speaker 19 A little.

Speaker 27 Took a lot to get to this point. I'm taking my time enjoying the moment.

Speaker 26 Speaking of taking time,

Speaker 19 how deep is this?

Speaker 26 I mean, can we trust this elevator?

Speaker 33 Does look pretty old.

Speaker 27 750 feet to what they call the big room.

Speaker 9 Oh, geez.

Speaker 33 The elevator is the only way down here.

Speaker 27 There are other entrances. There's a large walkway near the other buildings.
It's a long ways in. And then the tunnels spread out for miles in all directions.

Speaker 27 In fact, some of them open up right into the Republic.

Speaker 10 Seriously?

Speaker 27 How do you think I sent the journal? I have had to find ways into the city for resources and supplies. I mailed it when relations were fairly good.

Speaker 27 But from what Peggs and Dean tell me, that must have been one of the last shipments to make it to Westport.

Speaker 33 But wouldn't someone in the city notice your condition?

Speaker 27 I would wait for the dust storms when everyone covers up. They happen from time to time, especially in the summer.
I had to plan accordingly.

Speaker 26 Uh, should I be worried about what she's smelling?

Speaker 26 No.

Speaker 27 Smell is just a very, very strong sense for them. Some may have words, but it is how all of them communicate.

Speaker 40 Well, can you communicate to her to stay back?

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Speaker 29 This is it.

Speaker 5 This?

Speaker 27 This is just the airlock. Go through the revolving door.
They built this to isolate the cavern from the outside air. A way to preserve what's here.

Speaker 27 Everything this deep is highly sensitive to exposure.

Speaker 8 After you,

Speaker 19 whoa,

Speaker 29 they had a restaurant down here?

Speaker 27 Used to be quite the tourist destination.

Speaker 14 Whoa,

Speaker 19 really great.

Speaker 27 Just keep walking. She's so impatient.

Speaker 27 Oh.

Speaker 10 Wow.

Speaker 14 Now, that

Speaker 26 is incredible.

Speaker 27 It really opens up, doesn't it?

Speaker 43 Doesn't even seem real.

Speaker 26 This much space?

Speaker 26 So far underground?

Speaker 27 Welcome to the big room.

Speaker 27 Grab a flashlight.

Speaker 33 These rock formations are massive.

Speaker 9 There's pillars and hanging stalactites everywhere.

Speaker 33 How is any of this possible?

Speaker 27 The short version?

Speaker 27 All around southern New Mexico used to be a limestone reef. It dried up, changed into sulfuric acid, and carved out these massive cavities deep into the earth.

Speaker 33 There was an ocean here?

Speaker 33 Can't even begin to imagine how long all this would take to form.

Speaker 27 Mm-hmm. Makes you feel small in comparison.

Speaker 19 Yeah.

Speaker 26 More like creepy as hell.

Speaker 27 I read in one of the books here that caves are one of the last unexplored frontiers. And from what I've seen, that seems right.

Speaker 26 Well, all I see is how many places shit could be hiding.

Speaker 27 Don't worry, it's safe.

Speaker 27 This way, stay on the path.

Speaker 27 Whoa,

Speaker 26 no shit. You see how far that drop-off is down there?

Speaker 20 I'm glad there's rails.

Speaker 27 These were only installed in the tourist areas, and we're not going there.

Speaker 20 Oh, great.

Speaker 33 You have lights down here, and the elevator works, but how?

Speaker 27 There's a generator. They installed it for emergencies.

Speaker 27 it powers our equipment but we only run it when we have to and where do you get the fuel from one of the branches of the caves exits into the republic which is near a fuel reserve and we only go there when we have to we no ha or the others would help i couldn't carry the canisters myself it's a very long way there

Speaker 19 really

Speaker 27 they even help you when you get past the surface of the infection and begin to communicate, there is so much more underneath.

Speaker 27 Part of the reason I wanted you to come here was to witness all of this and hopefully understand

Speaker 27 them more.

Speaker 9 But these are just caves, right?

Speaker 30 Yeah, what's the big deal?

Speaker 26 Tourists have been all up and down Carlsbad Caverns for years, right?

Speaker 27 Not everywhere.

Speaker 27 I'm taking you to Letchagir.

Speaker 26 Wait, uh, that's not this place?

Speaker 27 No.

Speaker 27 Let your gear is another massive set of caves. After the outbreak, new paths revealed themselves down here.
They're all connected now. A vast, outstretched network underground.

Speaker 27 Can take you far and wide, so long as you know the way.

Speaker 5 Ta'akt.

Speaker 27 What does she keep saying? It's where she's taking us.

Speaker 27 Now, watch your footing through here. It's pretty rocky.
And mind your head, too.

Speaker 34 Ouch!

Speaker 27 Oh, see, I told you.

Speaker 27 Good thing you have a thick skull.

Speaker 19 Ha ha.

Speaker 10 Oh,

Speaker 35 oh, man.

Speaker 33 I kind of wish there was still a path and a handrail.

Speaker 26 Here, Will. Just give me your hand.

Speaker 10 Okay,

Speaker 19 thanks.

Speaker 32 All right, now.

Speaker 37 Careful down the ladder.

Speaker 36 Oh, we have to go down that too?

Speaker 27 You're lucky. Used to be just a rope.
I installed these a while back to make it easier to get through some of the passages. It could be a lot worse.

Speaker 10 Oh, boy.

Speaker 27 Don't look down.

Speaker 33 How big are these caves?

Speaker 27 Over a hundred miles of passages.

Speaker 19 Really?

Speaker 30 We're not going that far, right?

Speaker 32 No, no.

Speaker 27 Only about three miles were ever open to the public.

Speaker 33 So a lot of it was never explored?

Speaker 10 Uh-huh.

Speaker 27 And even then, these parts we're in weren't even accessible until the outbreak.

Speaker 33 So how do you even know where to go? Oh, it must be easy to get lost in here.

Speaker 27 That's why it's always good to take a guide. Pan.

Speaker 27 Pan.

Speaker 27 And if that's not an option,

Speaker 27 I left a few markers along the ground to lead me home.

Speaker 20 UV paint?

Speaker 26 Why not just real paint?

Speaker 27 It's actually not paint at all. That's calcite from the walls.
Glows under UV light, see?

Speaker 27 I didn't want to disturb or leave permanent marks in the caverns. It's fragile down here and needs to be preserved.
But this helps if I ever lose my way.

Speaker 26 Would you really not want to get lost in this place?

Speaker 20 Never make it out

Speaker 26 Hey, how does Noha know where to go?

Speaker 27 Sense pheromon trail, most likely

Speaker 27 Here

Speaker 20 Here it is

Speaker 27 the entrance to what you need to see you finally gonna tell us where we're going

Speaker 33 What exactly does that mean?

Speaker 10 Home

Speaker 10 This?

Speaker 26 This is where the pacifists live?

Speaker 27 They do come down here, but

Speaker 27 no.

Speaker 20 Well, then...

Speaker 33 Whose home is this?

Speaker 27 The first.

Speaker 27 Infected. If you want to call them that.

Speaker 5 What? No way. Koinak.

Speaker 27 Noha calls them Koinak, which I think means ancient or old.

Speaker 27 Those passages we just came through aren't on any cavern map I've I've seen, and I've looked through them all. This is past the western borehole.

Speaker 27 I think when the first gas pockets ruptured, enough pressure built up and then revealed where this place was hiding.

Speaker 43 You've been

Speaker 26 looking for this for like

Speaker 18 forever.

Speaker 27 I never thought I'd find a habitat intact, but

Speaker 27 here we are.

Speaker 14 Whoa.

Speaker 33 There's symbols on the wall.

Speaker 27 Infected symbols like those were found in Lechagia caves years ago. And the photo ended up being published in a book.
The authors never knowing what it truly meant. But I did.

Speaker 27 And that's what eventually led me here. Wow.

Speaker 18 What are they exactly?

Speaker 33 It's picture-based, like hieroglyphics?

Speaker 27 Yes, yes, yes. They're writing.
They would see or feel it to know what it meant.

Speaker 35 It's so old.

Speaker 35 But still.

Speaker 35 Grandma? Grandma? So

Speaker 35 beautiful.

Speaker 26 Grandma? Grandma? Grandma? Tonya. Hey, Tanya.

Speaker 35 Hey, Tanya.

Speaker 20 Hey, hello, hello.

Speaker 35 Grandma,

Speaker 26 do we need to head back?

Speaker 30 Or are you okay?

Speaker 32 No, not no.

Speaker 27 I'm fine. Not much further.

Speaker 27 And then we can rest. We're almost to what I need to show you.

Speaker 27 Just wait by the entrance. I'll go turn on the lights inside.

Speaker 10 No, I.

Speaker 33 Wow, I mean, I can't believe this has all just been down for so long.

Speaker 18 Oh.

Speaker 26 You know, Will.

Speaker 26 When I was little, she used to tell me stories about where she thought the infected originally came from.

Speaker 26 She said they must have lived deep in the earth at some point.

Speaker 26 I figured it was a fairy tale.

Speaker 26 Crazy grandma, you know.

Speaker 26 I never thought.

Speaker 26 I never thought she'd actually be right.

Speaker 27 Hey, are you uh worried about her?

Speaker 26 Because of what just happened.

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 33 I mean, I know she's your grandma and all, but she's also partially infected.

Speaker 9 Like 13 bites?

Speaker 12 Yeah,

Speaker 12 I know.

Speaker 26 I haven't stopped watching.

Speaker 18 Both of them.

Speaker 18 Okay,

Speaker 27 they're on. Save your flashlights.
I have a generator for inside here.

Speaker 33 All this was dug out of the rock?

Speaker 33 And then molded in place?

Speaker 27 Parts are the natural formation of the cavern. But they shaped it into their own.

Speaker 26 You know, this area sort of looks like Ink's tunnels in LA,

Speaker 14 but older.

Speaker 26 There's still handprints in the walls.

Speaker 27 Incredible, right?

Speaker 18 Hold up, hold up.

Speaker 26 Are there any other infected in here?

Speaker 27 Yes, but don't be alarmed. Many pacifists come down here.
They were the reason I found this place at all.

Speaker 33 They showed it to you?

Speaker 27 No, I did.

Speaker 10 There's a

Speaker 33 path down into more passages.

Speaker 9 How big is their home?

Speaker 5 This

Speaker 5 to Acht.

Speaker 27 I've been in all the rooms. I believe there's about a hundred or so.

Speaker 26 A hundred?

Speaker 19 Uh-oh, we're not going through.

Speaker 27 I only need to show you a few of them.

Speaker 15 Relax.

Speaker 33 Easy for you to say.

Speaker 26 We're in the lion's den here.

Speaker 27 This way.

Speaker 27 Most of the structures of the underground rooms are fairly simple, squarish, shaped and dug around the harder rock formations.

Speaker 27 Some have the gypsum crystals still in place, others even carved into designs.

Speaker 37 Oh, wow.

Speaker 33 This shape, it looks like.

Speaker 33 Is this one of them?

Speaker 27 I think so.

Speaker 36 A sculpture. Wow.

Speaker 37 How is it that we can still breathe down here?

Speaker 33 Doesn't feel thin at all.

Speaker 33 There must be like a microclimate almost with an airflow.

Speaker 27 There is

Speaker 27 through most of these caverns. But when I first came down here into Tacht,

Speaker 27 it was difficult to breathe. Most of the air vents they designed had collapsed or were sealed.

Speaker 33 They were that advanced?

Speaker 27 Very, very advanced, especially for their time.

Speaker 27 There's freshwater pools you can still drink from, fungus rooms for food growth.

Speaker 27 Even found an area for what I think was for fermentation.

Speaker 40 A bunch of drunk mo people.

Speaker 33 Have you figured out how old this place is?

Speaker 27 As far as I can tell, tens of thousands of years old.

Speaker 19 Really?

Speaker 19 Huh?

Speaker 25 But how can you know?

Speaker 27 Some of the remains I found match the fossil records of archaic humans.

Speaker 36 Wait, then

Speaker 33 the first infected were Homo sapiens?

Speaker 37 Yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 27 It explains a lot.

Speaker 27 Why what caused them to change was able to spread to us so easily. And no other species.

Speaker 8 Because

Speaker 19 genetically, we're compatible.

Speaker 26 So, this is why you came back here after leaving Westport?

Speaker 27 Not exactly.

Speaker 27 I had no idea about Tox at the time. I did explore Letcher Gia Caves in my original travels, trying to find the origin of that photo of the infected symbol, but never could.

Speaker 27 It's a deep, dangerous labyrinth down here, and going by myself wasn't a good idea.

Speaker 27 But I always felt something was here.

Speaker 27 The first time I came, I ended up discovering the tribe of pacifists in the mountains above Lechagia.

Speaker 27 They were very hesitant of me at first. A very odd reaction I had never seen with any infected.
I ended up studying them and discovered how unique they truly are.

Speaker 8 The pacifists weren't listed in your journal?

Speaker 27 No,

Speaker 27 no, they weren't. I I didn't want anyone coming here herding or running experiments on them.

Speaker 27 It wasn't until I came back after leaving Westport for good that they really started to trust me. Eventually, I was shown this place.
There to act.

Speaker 27 Cloud.

Speaker 20 Whoa. Mushrooms.

Speaker 27 Watch where you sit. This is one of their food sources.
Mine too, at times. They brought these in from somewhere else, but they thrive.

Speaker 30 Hey, they're infected over there.

Speaker 27 Told you not to worry about them. They're harvesting.

Speaker 26 Yeah,

Speaker 26 no, thanks.

Speaker 40 Really not hungry.

Speaker 10 They survive off just this?

Speaker 26 No wonder why they're so skinny.

Speaker 27 Their metabolic functions don't require as much food as we do. They can survive on so much less.
Pretty sure that's mentioned in my journal. One of the reasons they are such hardy survivors.

Speaker 33 The mushrooms, the skills required to grow something down here.

Speaker 37 How did they figure out how to do all this?

Speaker 27 What we might classify as instincts. It must all be passed genetically.
Ink's tunnels had mushrooms growing similar to this in LA.

Speaker 10 That

Speaker 33 well, to pass on that kind nature something so complex isn't possible

Speaker 27 Is it you only think it's not possible because no one has ever experienced or documented it before not at this level if that were true then these skills would need to be passed through the infection for some I believe it is

Speaker 27 One of the reasons I have spent so much time continuing to study the pacifists. Their minds are less cloudy.
They have been able to show me much more than I'd ever dreamed.

Speaker 27 Not to mention, it's a lot easier to pick things up from a species when they're not trying to kill you.

Speaker 20 I would imagine.

Speaker 26 How do you know these first infected lived here, deep underground?

Speaker 27 Well, for one, they weren't always infected back then.

Speaker 27 I believe these quinarch started out like any other hominid and then then learned how to develop their homes underground, away from predators, the elements, even other early humans.

Speaker 33 If a civilization lived underground, I mean, this deep anyway,

Speaker 29 we'd probably never find it.

Speaker 37 Exactly.

Speaker 27 When the society or structure collapsed, all evidence would become lost.

Speaker 26 So they all would have died out at some point.

Speaker 27 But not right away.

Speaker 27 Come.

Speaker 10 Pem.

Speaker 33 You mentioned you found remains.

Speaker 37 Oh, yes.

Speaker 27 Lots.

Speaker 27 That's where we're going next.

Speaker 26 What's with the tarp blocking the path?

Speaker 27 Safety. Here, Will.

Speaker 27 You want to put on a respirator for this part?

Speaker 20 Why?

Speaker 20 But I'll be fine.

Speaker 27 I suspect you will be.

Speaker 27 This leads to the deepest part of their home.

Speaker 5 Manna, manna, mana.

Speaker 27 Noha is going to wait here. She doesn't want to go any further.

Speaker 30 I don't know if I want to either.

Speaker 39 Oh, come on, scaredy cat.

Speaker 26 Says the guy wearing a mask.

Speaker 26 Oh,

Speaker 38 this is a long way down.

Speaker 27 Still sealed?

Speaker 9 Uh, I think so.

Speaker 36 Nothing's getting in.

Speaker 27 How you feeling?

Speaker 8 Fine.

Speaker 29 The air, it has a tint down here.

Speaker 27 The yellow gas. It's thicker the deeper you go.

Speaker 26 We know what that means.

Speaker 33 There's still decomposing infected?

Speaker 27 Let me show you where.

Speaker 35 So, Grandma,

Speaker 26 we can breathe this because we're immune.

Speaker 21 Is that it?

Speaker 27 Doesn't affect us. Same as the infected.
The top just helps it stay contained. Now, what you're putting through here, it'll start to get wider.

Speaker 33 I just don't get it. How can the original dead infected still be decomposing?

Speaker 27 They're not.

Speaker 27 The pacifists started putting their deceased in the pit long before I got here. Another possible intrinsic memory.

Speaker 8 The pit

Speaker 12 damn.

Speaker 27 Do not get close.

Speaker 33 How far down does it go?

Speaker 27 Hand me your flashlight.

Speaker 14 Oh my god.

Speaker 33 There's so many bones.

Speaker 27 40 feet down.

Speaker 27 And I'm guessing it goes even deeper. Who knows how long their dead have piled in there?

Speaker 33 Water seeping through the cracks of the wall.

Speaker 33 This doesn't seem sanitary.

Speaker 27 No.

Speaker 27 No, it's not.

Speaker 14 Wow.

Speaker 26 Be careful, Will, because if you fall, I am not going in after you.

Speaker 33 Those colors on the walls.

Speaker 24 The dark brown lines, that's iron.

Speaker 27 You noticed. A while back, I pulled samples.
Fully active microbial communities. Even ancient bacterium, all extremophiles, thriving under harsh conditions.

Speaker 24 Yeah, that makes sense.

Speaker 20 Mm-hmm. A real nasty hole.

Speaker 18 Got it.

Speaker 24 Might as well be one big Petri dish.

Speaker 33 If they weren't infected when they first came down here, then

Speaker 30 this could be where it originated.

Speaker 27 Under these conditions,

Speaker 27 I believe that's where what we call the infection first came to life in this pit, or one like it.

Speaker 16 You know what?

Speaker 26 It's gross enough down there.

Speaker 26 I'd believe it.

Speaker 24 Too bad there's no way to know for sure, though.

Speaker 25 Well, show over.

Speaker 27 Unless they wrote it down.

Speaker 27 Our tour's not done yet.

Speaker 29 Seriously?

Speaker 5 God, you're so cool.

Speaker 26 Grandma, you're having too much fun.

Speaker 33 It's uh clear in this room, you're sure?

Speaker 27 Yes, the gas stays on the lower levels. Although, I don't recommend we stay down here much longer.
This is the last stop.

Speaker 26 You know, our little field trips, great and all, but how does this explain any of what you did and why you sent for me?

Speaker 27 You're not very patient, are you?

Speaker 30 After all I've been through to get here?

Speaker 26 No.

Speaker 23 No, I am not.

Speaker 33 I don't know about you, but I find this all so fascinating. These are the answers to questions people have been asking for so long, and Tanya discovered a massive breakthrough.

Speaker 37 This is history right here.

Speaker 40 Well, I'm glad at least you're excited.

Speaker 28 Will

Speaker 26 holy shit, don't be sneaking up on me like that.

Speaker 27 Good, you're back, Noha. I was hoping you'd be here for this.
Come on,

Speaker 10 Ben,

Speaker 35 Noha.

Speaker 27 Why did she stop?

Speaker 27 The symbol above the door

Speaker 27 It's fine you've been in here before

Speaker 10 Pim

Speaker 26 what symbol

Speaker 26 oh

Speaker 34 I I know that

Speaker 34 that's

Speaker 34 Ink's mark

Speaker 34 as we knew it

Speaker 37 but for them it's a mark of royalty.

Speaker 27 The leaders and elders who commanded absolute power over others.

Speaker 33 So much so that it still affects them?

Speaker 27 Only for some.

Speaker 27 It's lost meaning for most. Diluted exposure from humans putting it on everything to try and keep infected away.

Speaker 33 Did they have any more symbols?

Speaker 33 I didn't see many before in the other tunnels, but

Speaker 25 how about all these?

Speaker 25 Whoa.

Speaker 10 Yeah,

Speaker 33 I'd say so.

Speaker 10 Oh,

Speaker 33 the wall's completely covered.

Speaker 5 Stretches the whole hallway.

Speaker 26 These look like people here.

Speaker 33 And are these mushrooms? So many details.

Speaker 33 These here really remind me of hieroglyphics, but simpler.

Speaker 27 And older than that.

Speaker 5 This.

Speaker 27 This is their entire written history in one place.

Speaker 27 Down here, there wasn't anything to erode it. Their symbols have been completely preserved.

Speaker 27 You...

Speaker 9 you took pictures, right?

Speaker 33 Or rubbings of the marks?

Speaker 27 I have documented all of it.

Speaker 27 But nothing serves this justice. Like...

Speaker 27 Standing in its presence.

Speaker 26 Do you know what it all means?

Speaker 27 Noha has helped considerably with that. She has been my

Speaker 27 Rosetta stone.

Speaker 24 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, Grandma, grandma, we need to get her out of here.

Speaker 32 No, no,

Speaker 27 not yet. Not yet.

Speaker 26 Look, Grandma, I can see all of this later.

Speaker 32 I have waited long enough.

Speaker 27 You wanted me to explain.

Speaker 27 This is our history, as much as it is theirs.

Speaker 36 What?

Speaker 14 How?

Speaker 5 Just sit and listen.

Speaker 27 What concerns us starts here

Speaker 27 on the right half of the wall?

Speaker 27 This panel depicts their early history. While they were still, well, mostly human.
These ancients, as Noha said.

Speaker 10 Koinak.

Speaker 27 They all lived in peace underground.

Speaker 27 The Koinak, a hominid subspecies, carefully excavated caves for years.

Speaker 27 The first among them used what appears to be advanced tools and vast experience to know how to dig deep into the earth and still sustain life.

Speaker 27 This tribe of Koinak that lived here used the natural features of the cave as a way to go deeper than most others.

Speaker 27 There were other Koinak, or ancients,

Speaker 27 and their tribes lived all along the coasts of the Great Ocean. I believe they're referring to the Pacific.

Speaker 27 Knowledge and skills would be passed along from the leaders who would travel between each underground encampment.

Speaker 10 The keepers of it all.

Speaker 5 Mahak.

Speaker 40 Inks mark.

Speaker 27 Their symbol is the shape of a hand, with lines along the top to illustrate their control over others, well respected, honored, but also feared.

Speaker 27 They and their civilizations were very advanced for their time.

Speaker 27 This may well be one of the first forms of writing, predating Sumerian even.

Speaker 27 The surface was filled with many threats, freezing weather, wild animals, and most dangerous of all,

Speaker 27 other subspecies of humans.

Speaker 27 Down here, they could have peace, continuing to grow with time.

Speaker 27 Knowledge was prized above all else, building upon discoveries from their past to continually move them forward.

Speaker 26 Sounds like a pretty good plan.

Speaker 27 It was.

Speaker 27 Until something happened

Speaker 27 none of them could ever anticipate.

Speaker 33 That looks like them throwing bodies into the pit.

Speaker 27 They believe that the only way they could remain together and strong as a tribe was if their dead became part of their foundation. Literally.

Speaker 26 That's when they became infected?

Speaker 27 In a way, but not like we've seen it. At least not at first.

Speaker 27 They depict

Speaker 27 here

Speaker 27 an image of someone deceased transferring into the head of another person that's living,

Speaker 27 combined with their symbol of knowledge. And all of this emanating from their pit.

Speaker 36 They

Speaker 33 believed the infection was knowledge.

Speaker 27 That's what Noha says. Memories from their past selves.

Speaker 33 The bodies decomposed in essentially a vat filled with metals and other organisms, and that's where the first infection was born? Broken pieces of genetic material under the right conditions.

Speaker 27 Became something like we've never seen before or since.

Speaker 27 The chance nature of existence.

Speaker 27 it's it's not a virus those die without hosts

Speaker 27 so you're saying that the infection or whatever it is is alive it's self-sustaining if that's how you define alive and it carries pieces along with it from one person to the next

Speaker 33 perhaps it wasn't specifically memories it still have inherited instincts and properties from the previous generations, so

Speaker 33 it might be some form of it.

Speaker 26 Could be.

Speaker 27 I've known humans that pass trauma from a father to a son, as if those experiences become embedded in their genes.

Speaker 21 No one specific, right?

Speaker 26 Is that how we fit in?

Speaker 27 I'm getting to that.

Speaker 33 These changes would take a lot of time, right?

Speaker 27 From the look of this, the infection took years, maybe generations,

Speaker 27 but it also adapted fairly quickly.

Speaker 27 At first, they felt like whatever they inherited from their past selves was a blessing. Knowledge and evolutionary experience that was prized so highly would continue on.

Speaker 27 But that feeling didn't last.

Speaker 27 After a while, it began to corrupt. Their drawings here depict their heads or minds filled with too many past thoughts, overwhelming themselves.

Speaker 26 They were going crazy.

Speaker 33 A compiling of base instincts overtaking the others.

Speaker 41 Mayok.

Speaker 41 It occur.

Speaker 27 They started killing each other,

Speaker 27 one by one.

Speaker 27 It was...

Speaker 27 somewhat contained at first, but gradually got worse.

Speaker 27 Then there came a time when some of the tribe chose to leave the caves to live on the surface. They're shown here

Speaker 27 on mouth,

Speaker 27 escaping and dwelling on the land while the others remained behind, deep in the earth.

Speaker 27 Eventually, the tribe sealed itself off from the outside.

Speaker 27 The leaders thought the the corruption must have been coming from the surface.

Speaker 27 They had no idea.

Speaker 27 After this point,

Speaker 27 the writing becomes very

Speaker 27 different,

Speaker 27 almost chaotic.

Speaker 27 The symbols show the outlines of their people.

Speaker 27 Their fingers becoming long and pronounced, eyes not the same as before, and skin shown as rough.

Speaker 26 And they eventually died out.

Speaker 37 But who knows how long that took?

Speaker 27 There is one final entry

Speaker 27 from whoever's mind lasted the longest.

Speaker 27 They etched two figures.

Speaker 27 One, the same shape as those that went to the surface. Angma.

Speaker 29 The other,

Speaker 29 a shape

Speaker 27 never recorded before.

Speaker 27 A figure carved all the way out of the rock as if entirely black.

Speaker 27 It bears the mark of ink, with several more lines leading off to many other infected below.

Speaker 20 One leader.

Speaker 26 No, that's not possible.

Speaker 37 You see it?

Speaker 27 The last symbol is shared between the two, Angma and Mahak.

Speaker 33 Wait you're not suggesting Angma who me.

Speaker 10 What?

Speaker 26 Me?

Speaker 44 No, no, no, that's not right.

Speaker 5 Angmas.

Speaker 12 You and I.

Speaker 27 She thinks that's us.

Speaker 27 We are the descendants of the ones who left.

Speaker 27 That's the reason we're immune. Enough time after the exposure, the infection can't continue within us.

Speaker 33 Unless it becomes too much for your system to handle.

Speaker 9 Like a viral load.

Speaker 30 Wait, wait, that's who you think we are?

Speaker 27 It makes sense. They can even smell it on us.

Speaker 33 But the other figure, Mahak.

Speaker 27 The one with dark skin.

Speaker 42 Would that be...

Speaker 15 Cole?

Speaker 37 What if it is?

Speaker 27 It bears Ink's mark on the wall.

Speaker 27 I know what my son saw in the tunnels the day he died. It was all recorded in the video feed.

Speaker 27 And if what you said is true, that's where Cole was let out.

Speaker 27 He has to be the same.

Speaker 26 No, look, Grandma, you may have some of this right, but that was just another fucked up experiment Inc.

Speaker 12 made.

Speaker 26 Another one of his monsters.

Speaker 33 What does the other symbol above them mean?

Speaker 33 The one that joins the two of you?

Speaker 27 Kirala.

Speaker 33 That was the word she said earlier.

Speaker 5 For peace.

Speaker 9 Fuck no.

Speaker 12 That's not gonna happen.

Speaker 26 It killed so many already. Even your follower people.

Speaker 26 There can never be peace with Cole or any infected. It's just a matter of time before they turn on you, Grandma.

Speaker 26 Is this is this why you wanted me to go there? Why you sent the journal?

Speaker 26 Is is this the reason I wanted I I thought that then That's not what was supposed to happen you sent me there to die is what almost happened and you you based it all off of some old-ass carvings on a wall You may not even know how to read any of this shit You're basing everything on that monster Noha

Speaker 32 Nick Please

Speaker 26 people I love have died because you sent me away

Speaker 26 So much has happened. I can't I can't fucking believe this.
I can't fucking believe you.

Speaker 41 Look here, Anna.

Speaker 41 Keep it.

Speaker 5 Stop.

Speaker 5 Tanya.

Speaker 10 Tanya. Leave.
No, no, no.

Speaker 26 I'm done with all of this shit. I'm leaving.

Speaker 10 It's.

Speaker 37 It's.

Speaker 5 Oh, oh, no.

Speaker 34 Tanya.

Speaker 34 Tanya.

Speaker 39 We need to get her back to the surface.

Speaker 29 Help me, Nick. Oh, my God.

Speaker 35 Unbelievable.

Speaker 39 Grandma, grandma. I'm sorry.

Speaker 39 I didn't mean to.

Speaker 39 Tanya, please. Let's go.
Hurry! Come on, come on, let's get it to her feet!

Speaker 39 Come on,

Speaker 39 Grandma, please just hang in there! Please! This isn't fast enough!

Speaker 35 No! Come on, move, Will, let's go!

Speaker 39 Put it over your shoulder and clear the way!

Speaker 39 Yeah, grandma, just hang in there.

Speaker 39 Yeah, tonight.

Speaker 39 I'm sorry.

Speaker 35 I'm sorry, I didn't mean this.

Speaker 24 To be continued in the next episode of We're Alive: Descendants,

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Speaker 24 You've been listening to We're Alive, Descendants, produced by Wayland Productions, written and directed by KC Weyland, starring Jaton Gilbert as Nicholas, Sam Skolnick as Will.

Speaker 28 Hayes Dunlap as Dean.

Speaker 46 Elisa Elliott as Pegs.

Speaker 24 Shirley Jordan as Tanya.

Speaker 27 Morgan Toll as Noha.

Speaker 24 And I'm Michael Swan. Additional Voices by Film Netto.
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