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After Shock is a presentation of My Heart Radio

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and Nomadic Engine previously

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on Aftershock. You aren't

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coughing, I feel fine, you

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look fine, and my immuse,

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I just saw the strangest thing

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there was Wayne. He went to the other camp and

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then one by one he spit

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into their water or onto their

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food. Spitting in someone's food. It's twisted,

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but it's not like awful. It is if

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you have a lethal virus. Wayne

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knows he's a carrier and is

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killing everyone at the other camp. We

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have to leave now. Who

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exactly did he tell you he was? He's a prison

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guard at l A County. His name is Wayne Shark.

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The prison guard in l A County named Wayne Shark was

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killed in a riot the day of the quake. The man

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you've known as Wayne. His blood test

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identifies him as one Scott

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Briggs, a felon who was housed in

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l A County. Until you escape the day of the quake.

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During the riot, get in the Taylor,

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I'll shove the boat out. Where's Cassie? Can

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you see her? No, Cassie, let

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go, hands up, be

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careful. You do not want to cut me. Go Just

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go, please, cass You shut the funk up. I

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don't take her, please, no, I

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lay before it's too late, get her out

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of here? Did you really kill everyone?

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An hour ago? I would have sworn on a stack of

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Bibles that you would never kill anyone that

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you weren't capable of it. I exposed

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them to a virus that they were

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probably dumb enough to catch on their own. I

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expedited their debts.

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So what now? To keep each other's

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secrets? If you don't tell them what I've done,

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I won't tell them about

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Michaela. Okay, you keep

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my secret, I'll keep yours when they

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find us. You're a good samaritan, a guy

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who helped me escape a dangerous

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city. And Michaela never

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existed. You didn't come here for her, You never

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met her. You don't know who she is. We

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can tell the story of this place without

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anyone ever knowing she was

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here. It

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feels like overkilling. Ah,

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poor choice of words. I don't believe it. Overkilling?

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Oh my god? What

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too soon? Don't

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joke about killing people, Gussie?

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Come on, if we can't joke about it, Oh

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my god? Stop what

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you have You had a great sense of

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humor? Just don't Is

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it over a little serial killing. This

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is it's

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not funny. Okay, fine,

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I think you'll find its human nature. The

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bleaker things are the more we try

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to find something to lighten it up. We're

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not like friends

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anymore. You get that, right, Cassie.

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Nothing's changed. It's

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still just you and me working to do what needs

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to be done. Everything has changed.

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You've killed people and

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I was too dumb to see it. What did

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you see? Huh?

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Answer me? Answer me? What

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did you see in me? I

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mean you were my friend.

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You helped me get here, you helped

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me save Michaela. We went

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crabbing and you got my back with the tips

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and that's all. But you also

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killed people to keep

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you safe. Don't do that. Don't

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make this my fault. No, no, it's not.

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It was my choice. Karen

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Francis Wait wait, wait, you killed

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Karen. I thought that was the spring

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water. Ah,

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there was more of an STD situation.

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Yes, Why is that hard to believe?

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I'm not that bad looking. I'm

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sorry, I just can't believe it. In the middle of this

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ship show, you found time to two

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what seduced a woman? Oh? Please,

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shouldn't take a lot of seduce, Okay, t

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m if your point is it was an accidental

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transmission, like

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a test case. I was pretty sure I've been

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exposed to whatever killed Maud, so assuming I was immune,

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I wanted to see if I could pass it on. And

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I also wanted to get laid. It's

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nice to know stone cold killers are still dudes

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at heart. Easy on the judgment or

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what or you'll

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kill me? Fuck it, go ahead, spit

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on me, bleed on me, strangle

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me, whatever. Stop this bullshit

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about us being friends. Why the

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only thing different is that you know what

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I did. No, the only

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thing different is that I know that we

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value human life differently. When

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you threw the gun in the water on the beach

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in Santa Monica, I thought this guy just

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shot two people. But he's laying down arms

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and he's doing the right thing. It was self defense.

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He knows killing is wrong, Yes,

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and I stand by it. Everyone

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who's died here, Cassie self defense Because

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sooner or later they'd have watched both

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of us die, starved us

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out so that they could live. Why is one

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bad and the other good? Because

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maybe they wouldn't have. You

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didn't give them a chance to do the right thing.

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You didn't give them a chance to prove they were

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good people. You played god and you

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took their lives. They were warning from

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one another. Do you think they

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want to share with you what?

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You're such an inspired leader, you'd have talked

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them out of out of who they were. I

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believe in your leadership, Cassie.

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Okay, you've done some amazing things, stuff

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that I didn't think it was possible. But come

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on, you're not Gandhi.

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It was on the verge of falling apart.

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Who are you to make that decision?

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Is is it that you feel like you

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don't deserve it? What? I

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killed people to keep you alive because

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I thought you deserved life more

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than they did. That's

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insane. Why, Cassie,

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you're a good person. That's rare.

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You risk your life to walk into the rage

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of a teenager, knowing that no one would

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ever know if you left here to die. Here you

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could have hidden, you could have stayed in l

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a anything. You decided to come save some

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girl who hated you to make

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me feel less guilty for having

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an affair, stop with come

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on, you know how many people have

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affairs every day. They're not all running

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around trying to right the wrong. Cassie,

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that, and I think that you deserve to

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live. Why does

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that make you so angry? I don't. Why

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would I more than anyone else. My

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life's a fucking joke. I'm

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a middle aged woman who had an affair with a man who

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honestly may never have even

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planned to leave his wife. I

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fucked up a young woman's life because it felt

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good to be with her father. I

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teach it a shitty public school. My students

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end up in the criminal justice system as often as they end

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up in college. The world

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won't care I was here. It

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won't know. I haven't made it a better place.

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I sucked up a bunch of resources, and I'll die

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having left the planet a little worse off than it was

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when I was born. You

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talked a grown man out of a gun. You

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made John Tibbs think that this was a place

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of safety and second chance, and

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he died the next day.

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Really sold on the idea that you're

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not worth shit, aren't you? I mean,

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if the shoe fits Cassie, are

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you? Are you mad at me for killing

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people? Are you mad at me for believing

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that you're worth something? Enough

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already? What

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what do you mean? Rocks? That's

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enough? Right? I

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yeah, I don't know. Let's stand back. Can

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you see the spring? I

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mean it's dark, so no, I don't

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think so. Man, it's enough.

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We just need to cover. No one's gonna be looking for. What's

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next. We

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put holes in the boat, the last bodies

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in the cave. I think the boat, the Michaela,

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she's all that's left, and Karen's camp. We

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should take all the tents and burn them,

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erase all signs. I'll

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get them. I don't want you getting infected

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if there's blood or spit or something.

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Okay, I'll get the boatlet

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and you can bring the tents to the fire. Yeah,

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that sounds good. Maybe run by

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tips camp and bring something we can

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eat. I'm starving. Yeah,

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me too. That's a good idea,

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Cassie, Yeah,

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no cuscus okay,

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sure, no couscous. Oh

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my god, I'm gonna kill you. It

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was the best I could do in the moment. Do you

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have any idea what her parents are gonna do to me?

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She might not tell, Lawrence Antlee. Girl

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is a sensitive soul, and you a

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penguin and a blender who tells that joke to a kindergartener

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working eyes school? It's that's my one

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clean joke. Oh god, I feel like her

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sister even said she's done a report on

10:12

penguins like she loves them.

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Oh man, if they fire me, it's all

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your fault. My how how?

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How is this my fault? You walked by

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and gave me that look what

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look a woman? Don't even act like you

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don't know. I am very well behaved, especially

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during school hours. I would never look at a principle

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like that.

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Look. M

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hm hm,

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I miss you. I'm right here, baby.

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I know she won't be

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for long enough. And

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that's not that's not pressure, that's

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just that's just me missing

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you. This

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isn't forever, I know, and

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I'm not. I

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shouldn't have said anything. I'm skipping. I'm

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sorry. Hey, listen

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to me, and I want you to

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hear it. I

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feel the same way. I'm

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grateful for what we

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have. That's

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enough justice. How does

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it feel? How

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does the web feel? You got

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my whole heart woman, right

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there in you. I'm with you, even when I'm

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not with you. You're here. Neither

11:35

distance nor time can change that. M

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neither distance nor time. But

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baby, we've got to get

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you out of here. What we've

11:47

got to get you out of here? Where where

11:50

do I go?

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Wait? Where what

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I said? We've got to get you out of here? I'm

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am I dreaming. No, ma'am,

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you're being rescued. I

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have a live one here ready over

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to Major chop As and let him know we have one incoming

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from the islands, running

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late, Private, Sorry,

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sir, anyone

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left in the canteen? No, sir,

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get a move on, ye,

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Private at ease? Morning,

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sir, Good morning, it's oh six

12:59

hundred. Are all the crew accounted for in

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there? Yes, sir, I have the

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roster here if you'd like to check it. Good

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work. The bridge crew asked me to remind you that they'll

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need to return to post within the hour to maintain positions,

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So, of course, are you ready

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to start the briefing? Sir? I am

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after you, Private, Thank

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you for taking the time to fill us in, Sir, there's

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a lot of concern among the truth, sir.

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Where are you going then?

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Is it done? Yes, sir, and

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damn it, you

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won't hear from me again until I'm back in

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Coronado. Good,

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we're captain, Thank you, sir. Any

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reason to suspect it on airborne? Negative,

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sir. All evidence points to body

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fluid transmission allet

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on that one. If you say so, sir,

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listen, I know it's ugly, but you're saving thousands

14:24

of civilion lives and maybe millions. It's

14:27

hell, but you did good today. It's

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what they pay is the big bucks for. If

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someone's getting bade here, sir, this

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isn't something that can come in. Yeah, I understand,

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sir, but I feel

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confident that I can recommend you for command

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again, thank you, sir. It's

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Coronado ready for the specimen until

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it's not a hundred on that yet. If not,

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they'll send a hwe we copy. You

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can't go along. I wouldn't

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mind seventy two of our in our sir. Sure,

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captain, you've earned it, thank you. Or I

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will report from the base you

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do that and where you get

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your butt work done, just so I can reassure the Joint

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Chiefs that you're not at risk. The Joint

15:10

chiefs know about this or not

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yet they don't, but if they need to know, who ever

15:14

changes, we need to see why a copy

15:18

that so over and hour and

15:21

mark we did

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not get court martial over

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and now it

15:36

feels good to stand are your risk?

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Okay, sure, yeah, you could

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follow me. Thank

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you for coming back, I said I would. Can

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I ask you something if you must?

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Do you think the island's cursed? What

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thought it was cursed? Your people

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were there? Did they think it was haunted?

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My people are science. But everyone

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who went there died except me and

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and Layla Hula Master's right, But

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everyone else card a virus. They died

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of science, not superstition.

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It's human nature to want a reason. But guess what,

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it isn't personal. There is no grand

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plan at work. It felt cursed

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being there, I said. The only curse on

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that island was a man who called himself Wayne

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Sharp. Where

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did everyone go? Listen to me? I'm

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telling my command. You died in custody.

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Do you understand? So when

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you leave, you are gone because

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Sander Wallace is dead. You change your name,

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you move away, you start a new life.

16:44

Wait, what why I have

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orders to contain an outbreak? Half this ship

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is infected? Is that why there's no one

16:50

I need you to focus? My

16:53

orders are determinate. You terminate

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me now. I am satisfied you pose no

16:58

threat. I don't terminate

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civilians unless there is no other solution.

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So what's the solution.

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I'm sorry, I'm having trouble thinking clearly

17:14

all of a sudden. It's okay. It's

17:16

a lot to take in, but you have to listen and

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get clear right now. Can

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you drive a zode yet? I

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yes, I can. Sure good you're

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gonna drive that one at the bottom of this ladder.

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Now, I've got rations on board, a life jacket,

17:31

and a nautical map. You get

17:33

yourself safe, you take a new name, start

17:35

a new life. The Navy will believe

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you died in custody in as far as everyone else

17:39

knows you died in the quake.

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If you make a liar out of me, Cassie, I

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can't help you. Okay, do

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you understand? Yes,

17:51

yes I do. Thank you. Thank me

17:53

by getting out of here. Take the leadder down.

17:56

Zodiac is tied up in the bottom, ready to go. You'll

17:58

have enough gas to get to the main land from there

18:02

from their good luck to you. Thank

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you. I don't know why

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you're doing this, but one less thing on my conscience.

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Let's go. I'm going, Jassie.

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Yeah, try to stay clear

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of serial killers. I'll

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do my best. Sweet

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lose sweet

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chain

18:50

because you and me now like I'm everyone

18:52

else a little under the weather. You

18:56

know, I wouldn't have thought yellow was your color. It's it's

18:58

actually quite the coming. Oh

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and is that an extra helmet for

19:02

me? Or? Okay?

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That answers that out

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of questions. Just one more major

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child is he didn't leave the ship, didn't

19:15

have contact with anyone who did, so you

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infected him? Right? Hey

19:22

man, easy, Okay, my shoulder doesn't

19:24

like Oh really, I'm gonna go behind

19:26

the all right, Minesota.

19:31

I took a sip from his soda. I

19:34

saw it. Thanks walk,

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what's all that? That's

19:53

the clue? Holy ship

19:56

man, that's some quarantined

19:59

They're all gonna die in there. Man, that's

20:02

uh fucked

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up. I've got things to

20:06

learn from you. Don't do

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that first life boat up ahead. God

20:16

damn, I won't repeat myself bridge, Oh

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come on, yes you will. You need me alive. Don't just

20:21

strong army all you want. But at the end of the day, you gotta

20:23

deliver me hailing hardy to your laboratory.

20:26

So I want you to repeat yourself

20:28

that. God, what

20:31

the fuck? Man? What I need

20:33

to deliver is a sample of your

20:35

blood, which, given our proximity

20:38

to Coronado, I can do with you unconscious

20:40

or dead for that matter, that

20:44

wasn't a bluff. I'd be dead already. You know, if

20:46

you weren't fat, you'd be dead already.

20:48

See, I'm not trying to move your large ass deadweight.

20:51

You are much more efficient to move alive

20:53

and walking. That's it, Bridge,

20:59

Go ahead, go ahead, test your

21:01

theory. Lifeboat

21:05

up ahead, you're gonna get in. I'm

21:07

gonna lower it to water, climb down with my

21:10

gun pointed at your face, and motor

21:12

us away. If you give me one

21:14

single reason they understood. Boss,

21:17

I'll play nice.

21:41

And you need help navigating in the dark. You've

21:44

got some merit, badge, I don't know about.

21:46

I studied the constellations while I was

21:48

inside. That is romantic.

21:55

I had my reasons. I missed

21:58

the sky. Here

22:00

a night like this, I can get

22:02

you wherever you want to go. And

22:04

and that is the first thing you said that hasn't

22:07

made me want to kill you. So

22:12

you know where we're going. We'll find out, won't

22:14

we. There's

22:16

the Seven Sisters and

22:19

Cassiopia funny story behind

22:21

that. When she was stuck in the sky by

22:24

Poseidon because she was unfaithful

22:26

to it. It was for bragging about

22:28

her daughter. What Posiden

22:31

banished Cassiopia to the sky to cling

22:33

forever the North Star as a punishment

22:35

for bragging about her daughter's beauty.

22:38

No ship failed

22:41

again by the prison education system.

22:44

I wonder if Cassie was named after that. I never thought

22:47

to ask her if she was a Cassiopia

22:49

or Cassidy or a

22:51

Cassandra. Why

22:55

are we stopped? Dude?

22:59

I'm sorry? What is that? Hey?

23:02

I will shut the funk up, you know, Yeah,

23:05

this isn't for you. So

23:09

what I think it is? Have you heard

23:11

of the Lebiathan? I don't think it was on

23:13

a g D in the

23:16

Navy's s S. Lebiathan left

23:18

New Jersey with eleven thousand troops

23:20

and crew on board. By the time

23:22

it ducked in France ten days later, two

23:24

thousand men were sick with the Spanish flu.

23:27

Nearly a hundred had already died and been

23:29

buried at sea. The ship seeded

23:32

an infection in northern France that spread

23:34

so far than the next six months deaths

23:36

from the Spanish Flu which eclipsed those from the

23:38

World War. Conservatively, it

23:41

was fifty million dead some estimates

23:44

double day, how many people

23:46

were on that ship in front of us, less

23:49

than fifty million h

24:14

Holy Mother of God? What was

24:16

that? The the navy

24:19

ship, the one anchored off the island sky

24:22

high that there won't

24:24

be anything left of it?

24:26

Is that? Is that people screaming

24:31

they're being burned alive, only

24:34

ship, the whole things,

24:37

it's going down. May

24:40

God have mercy on their souls. What

24:44

now we wait for

24:46

Cassie. She will

24:48

come for me. I know

24:51

it. Oh

24:56

oh wow, that's

24:58

what I called conting Mark

25:01

White, right, when

25:05

are you going after MICHAELA? As

25:07

soon as Cassie leaves me through it? See?

25:10

That is what I call contain

25:18

Aftershock. Episode ten stars

25:21

Sarah Wayne Calley's as Cassie Wallace,

25:24

David Harbor as Wayne Sharp, and

25:26

Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Marked Over,

25:29

Tatti Gabrielle as MICHAELA. Annesley,

25:31

Janelle Parrish as Leli who Am Masters,

25:33

Russell Horns b s CEO, Rockman

25:36

Dunbar as Lawrence Annesley, and

25:38

d J. Bonilla as Ernesto. Additional

25:40

cast includes Conrad Goody as

25:42

Reservist Number two, Mike Peebler

25:44

as Reservist number three, and Amy Castle

25:47

as Carrier Reservist Aftershock

25:50

is created by Patrick Carman, Sarah

25:52

Wayne Cally's and Ben Haber. Written

25:54

by Sarah Wayne Cally's, directed

25:57

by Sarah Wayne Cally's, sound

25:59

design, score ing and mixed by Jeff Schmidt.

26:01

Original score composed by Emily

26:04

Rice. Aftershock is executive

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produced by Ben Haber, Mark

26:08

Ramsey, Sarah Wayne Kelly's and Patrick

26:11

Carman. Executive produced by

26:13

Salmon Al Rashid, Sam Frohman

26:15

and Simmons Fraser. Executive produced

26:18

by David Harbor. Executive produced

26:20

by Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Executive

26:22

produced by Paul Anderson and Nick

26:24

Pinella for Workhouse Media. Executive

26:27

produced by Noel Brown for I Heart

26:29

Radio. After Shock was produced during

26:31

the COVID nineteen pandemic and was mostly recorded

26:33

remotely out of the performers and producers homes. Additional

26:36

recordings were at Bandwagon in Los Angeles,

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Hyperbolic Audio in New York City, which Shop

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Studios in Vancouver Island, Canada, on One

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Audio in Berlin, Germany, and Boutwell Studios

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in Birmingham, Alabama. After Shock is

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a presentation of iHeart Radio and Nomadic

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Engine in association with Cardinal Productions,

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Mark Ramsey Media and Workhouse Media.

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For more podcasts from my Heart Radio, visit the

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iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever

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you get your favorite shows.