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gonna take listeners on an

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And how do we do that? Well, Along with the

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rich and sprawling tale to life.

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Set some twelve thousand years after

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the fall of modern civilization, humanity has

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returned to a way of life

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more closely resembling civilizations

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of the ancient past. Now our first

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season serves as a kind of introduction

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to each of the clans and four young people

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of new Dakota. So we have the wolves,

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the rams, the bears, and

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the birds. and we are gonna chart the

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rise of the Empire of the New

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World over the course of the show.

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What you're about to hear is the first epic a sode

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where we introduce you to Azera and

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The year is

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fifteen thousand CD.

2:01

The world for four is

2:03

lost.

2:04

Sometime near the year

2:06

two thousand six hundred, humanity

2:09

all disappeared from

2:11

the Earth.

2:12

War, plague, the

2:15

wrath of nature. The

2:17

seas came to life and swallow

2:19

the towers and machines and

2:22

weapons of their making.

2:24

The lights that burned through the night

2:26

with no flame, went

2:28

dark, and

2:30

dark was all that was known.

2:35

The

2:35

virus came next, then

2:37

ice, then rebirth.

2:42

The few survived. has wandered

2:44

alone for thousands of years,

2:47

adapting to the brutality of

2:49

the land.

2:50

their body

2:52

shaping, senses sharpening

2:54

to keep them alive.

2:57

Four tribes emerged from

3:00

the ashes.

3:01

the wolves, the

3:03

rams, the bears,

3:07

and the birds.

3:09

The people

3:09

of new Dakota.

3:12

This is the tale of the birds

3:15

of Empire. and the

3:17

birth of the dawn age.

3:21

Listen now. Unless

3:23

you for get what always

3:26

was.

3:59

You

4:04

just hit me in the battle with a giant

4:06

like a child. It's a row.

4:09

Maybe. Don't turn your back and

4:11

you won't have to wear it off. You'll

4:13

have your child. You can tell

4:16

her. Right. Whoa. Weird

4:18

to say this day will come

4:19

when I open your thrower with a fried

4:21

flavor, but you're not slicing

4:23

at dead meat. Little but you

4:25

probably will be

4:26

too. Stay

4:29

nice. Warriors to your size.

4:32

See no warriors before

4:34

me.

4:37

Sierra, sister, what he's

4:39

doing? See, Sarah, off your hands

4:41

off being absorbed. brain. All

4:44

the work we did. Where's it gone? You're

4:46

just swing way done. Holy strong.

4:48

See,

4:49

the right hand is it. It keeps

4:51

the best fighter than drive even back in

4:53

the blood death. I can. You can.

4:55

If you focus I am, focus

4:57

it. It's a fight to the death messy.

4:59

You think I'd I think you know it too well,

5:01

which is why you're fighting scared. I'm

5:03

not scared. Proving, not

5:05

to me, not to the tribe

5:08

to you. maybe you shouldn't

5:10

be taking fight him from

5:12

a blind boy. Oh, he's a better

5:14

fight than you'll ever be. Can't make

5:17

any. Look at it. Look at it. Look at

5:19

from you. It helps to have

5:21

eyes to fly. I should've killed. Hey.

5:23

Hey. Stop it. Look

5:25

here. at me, where

5:27

are you?

5:28

Yeah. I'm here. That's right.

5:30

You're here with your people, with me,

5:32

your feet on the soil that burns you.

5:34

Can

5:35

you feel it?

5:37

Answer me. What? Yes.

5:39

Can you feel it? Now

5:42

calmly.

5:43

Tell me what she's doing.

5:46

She

5:47

keeps stepping on my feet and

5:50

throwing elbows. Okay. We

5:52

didn't plan for that. Okay. I

5:55

heard how to close the cut. So I can't

5:57

hear out of my lefty. It's fine.

5:59

You need to hear to

5:59

fight. What else?

6:01

She's dropping your left hand.

6:03

I think the fingers are broken. And,

6:05

man, this should take them five out of

6:07

her shoulder. That will be where you focus

6:09

your strike. Next round his blades.

6:11

You know how to cut muscle from bone.

6:13

You know from joint. She's meat to a butcher.

6:15

A calf on your table. Nothing more. World's

6:17

gotta face. and then set

6:19

your mom up right now. Bye.

6:23

Come and take it. What's your name?

6:26

No. Give me the play. Yo. Yo.

6:28

Yo. for my eyes

6:32

and breathe. What

6:34

do you smell? We don't have time. What?

6:38

you, you smell.

6:41

The bodies have dirt, worms,

6:43

hides. See their smoke. Further.

6:46

We can't focus. You can.

6:48

What do you smell?

6:49

Save your mile

6:52

away.

6:53

Whatever. Use your gift. You

6:55

don't need sight. Just tell me what you

6:57

smell. Dead fish

7:00

on. Dead, how long? Two

7:02

hours, maybe three. Good. I'll

7:04

bring here build the world around you. The

7:06

eyes deceive,

7:07

smells, listening,

7:09

feel.

7:10

What else?

7:12

Live the ice machine is with you. What

7:15

else? What else?

7:17

Wait. Is that Good.

7:19

You

7:21

smell

7:22

like you. Tell

7:24

me what it is. Fear.

7:27

Like smell

7:29

her fear. And what does that

7:31

mean? It means she's already

7:33

dead. Yes, it does. Oh.

7:36

Now, fuck. Get your sister to her,

7:38

Mark. She's ready for out myself. In your

7:40

hand. Close to your marks. Laid

7:42

out. The great

7:44

blood will keep my blade shot on my enemies'

7:47

call. It is you. I offer unflesh.

7:50

Is today the day you die? No.

7:51

I can't hear you.

7:53

Brother. I'll be here when the soil

7:56

drinks her blood. Okay.

7:58

I'm

7:59

lucky. I love you too.

8:02

I'll go pot you this child so we can end

8:04

this. Okay. now.

8:08

White. White. I

8:18

am. I was. I

8:19

will be. I am. I am.

8:21

I am. That's why I I

8:23

will be.

8:24

I am.

8:25

I

8:29

am. I am. I am a wise. I

8:31

will be. I I

8:35

can't handle it.

8:38

I can't handle it. I

8:40

can't handle it. I can't

8:42

be. I can be.

8:45

I can

8:46

be.

8:48

Weeks prior. on

8:50

the plains of Dakota.

8:58

Whoa.

9:01

Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Great

9:07

blood health. So that's

9:07

your ruler of our great people to guide my spirit

9:10

to its target folks.

9:13

Who's there? Don't

9:16

account for the wind, Sister. You don't account for

9:18

my long end to be away from pests.

9:20

Even pests have

9:20

the rightful place. Turn lights

9:23

feed the soil and the birds and turn

9:25

death into life. Like just the other

9:27

day, I was What do you want? You're

9:29

welcome, Joy, that radiates

9:31

from my sister, like, to ready to solve. Oh,

9:32

there's some oh, so so

9:33

you can

9:36

you think me helpless,

9:38

but I don't

9:44

want to try to see you best if I a blind boy.

9:46

They might never let you within the borders again

9:48

because it would never happen. Never

9:51

never never. The word

9:53

so many Come all the way out

9:55

here to talk to me, the submission was

9:57

confusing. So Yes, ma'am.

9:59

Yeah.

9:59

I get it. When is a

10:02

win? How are you

10:04

a little brother? The sun is warm.

10:06

My lungs are filled with the sweetness of

10:08

the air. One day, you'll

10:10

just say fine. Is there I'm fine?

10:12

Then you'll know him not myself. And the gods have

10:14

traded me for an evil spirit. How

10:16

goes your training? Fine. Terrible.

10:20

Let me try.

10:21

You think you'll

10:21

do better without eyes than I do with them?

10:24

No.

10:24

I just want honor you with the toss of

10:26

my own. Give it here. Coke.

10:29

So behind in my technique. You are. The

10:31

honeymoon myth even

10:32

hurtling me since they could stand since

10:34

their days in the blood dead, which --

10:35

Ira. -- should have. You have something they

10:38

don't. What? The stink of

10:40

meat forever on me? You're

10:42

smell. You're instinct. It's like nothing

10:44

our people see. Yealous. It just

10:46

lets me smell when a bitch kaya is coming,

10:48

sticking with the snake leaves, she

10:50

chewed. Just Give me the spear. Let

10:52

me try. Here. Take it if it

10:54

will quiet you.

10:55

Call

10:57

to me from the target.

11:04

master your father. Great. Hey.

11:07

What are you doing though? Did I hit

11:09

it? Myth face right next to it. He pears out.

11:11

Answer me, Asi. Actually,

11:12

yes.

11:15

Yes. You're

11:16

not lucky though. It's not

11:18

luck. I use what I can

11:20

to bend the world to me.

11:21

I

11:22

do not grope in the dark as some

11:24

belief. My world is rich.

11:26

with sound, and slight

11:29

variations in pressure, and even the

11:31

flashing shades of changing darkness. Yeah.

11:34

I feel anything but blind. In

11:36

fact, I sometimes feel sorry for those who

11:38

can't experience the world this way.

11:41

Bring me

11:42

this beer.

11:47

Close your

11:47

eyes.

11:49

Okay.

11:49

okay Now

11:52

use

11:52

your gift to paint the world around you.

11:56

Everything that you smell. Let it

11:58

live all in one moment and build the

11:59

vision in your imagination. I

12:01

smell a riot of things all at

12:03

once always. It's too much. Just

12:05

Let it reveal itself

12:07

to you. Sage,

12:10

page

12:12

musk,

12:15

choke berries. bark

12:18

of all different thickness, wetness. There's

12:24

squirrel

12:24

fur and snake skin. I have

12:26

to build around you and now find the scent of

12:28

the mark on the tree. With the

12:31

sound and smell and

12:33

the pressure of the wind talk to your

12:34

muscles.

12:36

Wind back. Okay.

12:40

One,

12:42

two,

12:43

ruff. Open

12:48

your eyes.

12:49

I. Hit it? I

12:52

did. Wow. It's

12:54

amazing.

12:55

Perhaps, like, no. It it was

12:58

within you. I just guided you to

13:00

it. Your pupils are

13:01

lucky to have you. That's That's

13:03

not as they see it. But thank

13:05

you, Sister. One day

13:07

you'll make a great hunter. If a

13:09

mother ever allows it. She

13:11

will. made the wolf, will it?

13:13

She was looking for your mother.

13:16

That's actually what pranks me to bother you. What is

13:18

it she wants? she keeps

13:20

that to herself. The queen's

13:22

right of secrets. Even from her

13:25

son? Especially from her son. Maybe

13:27

there's fresh meat for me to butcher. More

13:29

end trails and hopeful. We can only help.

13:31

The dryers has kept the herds away. And

13:33

I have to flay

13:34

another claims rat. I'll clean if we don't handle.

13:36

The

13:36

wolf will just find our way. In

13:38

blood, she leaves us. Come.

13:41

Let me have

13:42

one more toss before we ride.

13:44

Last time was luck. I'll wager.

13:48

Luck is a God who's never favored

13:50

me, sister. Go. There must

13:52

be some other trick to it.

13:54

Come.

14:01

Is there anything better

14:03

to the Open Slates and Don? The

14:05

Open Slates and Don alone. Now,

14:07

sister, your bitterness shines a meme

14:09

on your own phone. Mom, and I must love you.

14:11

Greatly, boss. To

14:13

be a wolf is to be a god.

14:15

Lay like a child. Say it with

14:17

me. You're and I'm on

14:19

to serve all my space.

14:39

I

14:41

love the smell of our dent. Don't you?

14:44

They're tanning hides today,

14:46

so no. Describe it to

14:48

me. What you see. I

14:50

haven't time, Yaffa. I need to find

14:52

mother. Please, sister, just as

14:54

we walk, like when I was a small boy.

14:58

Our tents stretch out

15:00

on the plains beyond the ice lake. cutting

15:03

into the cool air and blew it on. The

15:07

hides pulled over the frames,

15:09

sturdy as our people.

15:13

Buffalo skulls and bones adorn the

15:15

entrances. The

15:17

mud structures absorb the

15:19

light keeping cool our young and the

15:21

gatherings that feed us and meet rents

15:23

low. You'd

15:25

see the young men laboring at the Iron

15:27

Works to make our tools as is their

15:30

purpose in place.

15:30

Also, to

15:33

raise the next generation. Yes.

15:35

True. Walking

15:36

next to me you would see one of the greatest

15:38

teachers and storytellers that our people have

15:40

ever known. Master yep.

15:42

a

15:44

title I accept. Tell me more

15:46

of this master

15:48

storyteller who walks beside you right

15:50

now. He's a young man, but

15:52

much suffering in hatred claim his

15:54

place in a tribe that looked down on

15:56

those born as he was. Our

15:58

people do not suffer

15:59

weakness in any form.

16:01

Thankfully, I was never weak. Far from

16:03

it. You've achieved the greatest item man

16:05

can achieve among our

16:06

people to raise and rear our

16:09

young, guiding them in

16:09

our ways and making sure they know their

16:12

his series, the fables of our

16:14

spirit, the legends of our great

16:16

queens, and hunters going

16:18

back to the first den mother and

16:20

wolf queen, Azeroth the

16:22

Fay.

16:22

for who you are so named?

16:24

It's a

16:25

great name wasted on

16:28

the butcher. That's

16:31

a kill call. There was no hunt. Come.

16:32

Let's find out what's the matter. Japa, I have to find mother.

16:35

She's the queens. She'll find you come.

16:36

Yep. But slow down. You're

16:39

likely to trip. By trip, you'll

16:41

catch me. No. Maybe maybe

16:42

not. Excuse me. Coming

16:44

through. What's happening?

16:46

What what's everyone cheering

16:48

for? It's I

16:50

need to get them.

16:52

Who?

16:54

Kaya and Rosa. They've

16:56

returned with a buffalo. Don't

16:58

be jealous, Azie. This

17:00

means some of us eat It's only

17:02

a cat. It looks like it hasn't fed a day.

17:04

Still, it's real meat. Azera,

17:06

who cares

17:08

who's beers are dinner?

17:09

I do. Kaya and Reza have always been cruel

17:11

to me going back to our training days in the blood

17:13

den. If it weren't for their torment, I might

17:15

come the future I will admit to be

17:17

a warrior or something more

17:19

than a butcher. Your wolf wielded differently. That

17:23

she

17:23

did.

17:30

edit Whoa.

17:35

People love the planes.

17:38

tonight, we

17:39

you should

17:41

have seen Kyla on

17:43

the mouse chasing down

17:46

this cop. Talking word. Running it down. The

17:48

blood wolf

17:48

came to life. It was like in

17:50

the old ledgies. Ressa,

17:53

rescue card. I simply would not

17:55

rest until my people had

17:57

food. I did my Judy s Hunting

17:59

pack leader.

18:01

You

18:01

had been hungry for fatted meats while here you

18:03

have it. And soon,

18:06

we'll bring

18:06

enough for all to see. We need

18:08

to butcher it play the skin quickly before

18:11

the price spoils. We need

18:13

preservatives. That's one. Just a cold

18:15

cold. Let another do it. Lania,

18:17

perhaps. she sucks at these. It just tips any

18:19

time she's around them. Chaya. Yeah. Right here.

18:21

You have the most skilled butcher art people who

18:23

ever know standing before your ass.

18:26

Suck.

18:27

Cathy. We should've smelled you

18:29

as we always do when you're nearby. Don't

18:31

worry, Kaya. Your instincts have always

18:33

been

18:33

weak. Well, So glad you

18:36

could be here to see what a real war you're

18:38

returning from a hunt looks like.

18:39

Closest you're likely to

18:41

get. Little assy is always

18:43

stuffed away in her meat, canned,

18:45

cleaning shit, and disappointing

18:48

clean mommy.

18:48

the

18:50

better be ready to use that blade if you pull

18:53

it in the presence of a true

18:55

hunter. Do you want this butcher? Or do you

18:57

prefer to sit atop your mount basking in

18:59

your own shit like a hawk. You think you're the only

19:01

buster? I'm the best.

19:03

You know what? No.

19:04

Bring it to my tent later when I've

19:06

had my grass milk alts or you and

19:09

to grass smoke if you don't do your duty to the strike

19:11

right now.

19:12

You're a wolf, not a

19:14

fish. Don't take the bait. I

19:17

do it for the tribe. Not for

19:19

you.

19:19

As you wish. It's

19:22

cute. How the little blind

19:24

boy tags along. Like I'm

19:26

too blind to feel

19:27

the ugliness coming off of you like hate from

19:29

shit. Deal with

19:30

you later. You're lucky. The

19:32

queen's favor protects you.

19:34

Boy. Get

19:34

me bowls and water if anyone can manage that

19:36

and the torch. You want me to work? I

19:38

need my

19:39

things. So get them and stop

19:41

talking. Bring

19:42

it to her. How

19:45

did our blood

19:46

queen be as such

19:48

fitter? The queen is weak, so

19:50

her daughter hones our hunger sit

19:52

to her face see

19:54

how bitter your nose tastes when she fainted to you.

19:56

Sad,

19:57

really. Perhaps it's time for a

19:59

new queen.

20:01

Rumories

20:01

she's ill. lies from jealous rivals

20:03

with big mouths. Like to both of

20:05

you. challenge her if you think she's weak.

20:07

Show this

20:08

tribe what you have beyond

20:10

plus of blood tournament to make your play

20:12

for the crown. It's open to all our people

20:14

so long as you get nine others to join with

20:16

you. Perhaps I will. failed to summon at

20:18

least nine, you'll be strapped to the binding post

20:21

and opened up for all the tribe to

20:23

steal the wolf's butcher. Now,

20:25

do your

20:26

work

20:27

Is

20:32

there much meat?

20:34

There's some,

20:35

but but what? Bestring me. I

20:37

need to wait.

20:42

the way turn

20:45

her over.

20:52

I'm

20:55

done here. Yep. Hey.

20:57

Get

20:57

back. What are you laughing at? Where

20:59

are you going? Hey.

21:02

Sick

21:02

cleanup. What's the matter? Job

21:04

two hard. This

21:05

calf was sick.

21:07

Anyone who eats

21:09

this meat will die. What are you talking about?

21:11

I can smell the liver in her blood.

21:14

Also, he didn't just

21:16

kill her. She's been dead for

21:18

at least a day. Maybe

21:19

more. How do you know that? Nothing

21:21

smells like carrying. Like the stink

21:23

of old

21:24

death. and it's everywhere. Why are you calling

21:26

us sliders? I'm not calling you anything, Reza,

21:28

because you aren't anything. Ask another

21:30

butcher. She'll tell you the same. I'm just trying to show

21:32

up your petters. like a

21:34

jealous little cat. She wants to be one of us.

21:37

We've seen you practicing

21:39

with your sad little

21:41

spear. You made your self.

21:43

A beautiful dream for an ugly

21:46

girl. And now lie.

21:49

Shame. better

21:51

butcher anyway. Okay

21:54

then.

21:59

Here.

21:59

hair eat the

22:00

heart if you don't believe

22:02

me. Go on.

22:04

You're the Miley Hunter?

22:06

No. This is the tradition. Go

22:08

on. Show the drive

22:09

how you take the life force into your

22:12

bloodstream from the heart. They don't get to see it. It'll

22:14

be a

22:14

treat for them.

22:15

Don't you wanna see Kaya in the

22:18

heart of I killed. I need

22:20

to strive to bless

22:22

it first. Ruth is cursed and

22:24

master mission deeply.

22:27

Come on. I'm not I'm not hungry.

22:30

Fine. If that appetite comes back,

22:32

go on, just take a bite.

22:33

Just know that it's

22:34

the last bite of anything you'll ever

22:36

take. a joke on your pride. A

22:39

death befitting of Yukaiya. Put your

22:41

liver out

22:41

as we'll deal with you later. Reza,

22:43

why don't you take a bite? It would be a change

22:45

from your normal of high

22:47

his ass.

22:48

You fucking cow.

22:51

Zero. because

22:53

I got big, challenging.

22:55

You would electives. session in the

22:57

fight game with me. Let's go. Stop.

23:02

Stop. Enough.

23:03

know

23:03

I can't wait. Mike, myth

23:06

of you. off the ground.

23:08

What

23:08

is this? Childishness.

23:10

Nothing with your time mother.

23:13

My queen. queen. Cayan

23:14

resident of Korps and they tried to pass

23:16

her off as a kill. And this Sarah Well,

23:18

Sarah helped them save the tribe from

23:20

bad meat. Well, Yes. My

23:22

god. And it's true

23:23

that we'll be able to use the skin and

23:25

the bones and the bladder and the sinews of

23:27

this animal the wolf has blessed us with. Myth

23:29

clean. That's

23:30

that's what we

23:32

wanted. Thank my daughter for saving your

23:34

life from your mistake. Thank

23:37

So

23:40

There

23:40

doesn't seem to be much of a

23:43

problem.

23:43

Except time waste Yes, ma'am.

23:46

Bring the corpse to Azera's tents. She'll break it

23:48

down with the tanner. Bring it to a I'm

23:50

done with this. Bend

23:51

a knee. Mother queen.

23:53

I am

23:54

your queen first. Azera, and

23:56

you will address me as such.

23:58

Now, bend a

23:59

knee. Guess

24:03

my

24:03

queen. Why are

24:05

you

24:06

too just looking at me like drowning

24:08

golfers? Go. Get this rotten meat out of

24:09

my site. And if you do ever try to

24:12

pass off find as a kill again,

24:14

you'll be stripped of your titles and spend a

24:16

cycle on the binding post is

24:18

that clear? That is really good.

24:21

People of the

24:23

grass, descendants of the great

24:25

blood wolf, give

24:27

thanks to the sun and the warmth she

24:29

gives us on this day.

24:31

The wolf

24:31

gets our people with her

24:34

fighting spirit, her ferocity,

24:37

her nose for the kill, but it

24:39

mustn't burn against

24:41

each other. We must harness

24:44

it wisely. Our

24:46

enemies lie beyond that tree

24:49

line. The bears have stopped up the river to

24:51

a trickle choking our people in the

24:53

dust of the plains, trapping

24:55

our game so we squabble over

24:57

rats and mice,

24:58

clutch at our throats.

25:01

To the

25:01

north, the dams build new settlements

25:03

on our holy land, thinking

25:06

the dryness has left us

25:08

bitter and divided. Has

25:11

it? Are we divided? No.

25:14

No. Never.

25:17

No. We

25:18

are united as the greatest warriors

25:21

Dakota has ever seen,

25:23

and we fear no one.

25:25

Even the birds, people

25:27

of the sky who look ever

25:29

down upon us right now, there you

25:31

can see them above

25:35

Spying, watching, but

25:37

we fear no one and no one must

25:39

think we fear each

25:41

other. It's

25:42

true. The

25:43

buffalo are long overdue,

25:46

but I have faith in our scouts that the

25:48

hunt will fall to us

25:49

soon. We will eat.

25:52

I promise, but

25:54

we must stay ready.

25:56

wolves are the greatest

25:59

people, the

25:59

first terror of Dakota

26:02

and the masters of this land.

26:05

We will haunt

26:05

it with blood and spears until

26:08

they hang our heads on

26:10

pikes. Now, go

26:12

to your duties and make proud

26:14

your people.

26:15

build, forge, gather

26:18

ready yourselves. The

26:21

shaman speaks

26:21

of darker days on the horizon

26:24

we will need our strength to fight for what the

26:27

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26:27

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27:21

Why? Why

27:22

must you use me as some excuse to

27:25

make a speech to our people? You think I like

27:27

dressing you down in front of

27:29

the I think you do. Then you don't truly know my

27:31

heart. So stand up for me. Be my mother

27:33

when I need you instead of making

27:35

an example of me. humiliating

27:38

me in front of everyone. You know nothing

27:40

of what it is to be a mother or a

27:42

queen. I get I know what it feels like to

27:44

be failed by butt. Sister, please.

27:46

she has to lead in a way. Yafah. Yafah.

27:49

Why

27:49

are you even here? Don't you have cubs

27:51

to tell useless stories too so they can

27:53

grow

27:53

up to be as useless and blind to the world

27:56

as you are. Actually, you're right.

27:57

My pupils will

27:59

be gathered

27:59

now awaiting me. I'll

28:02

the lab

28:04

I'll

28:04

take my leave of you

28:06

gladly. McQueen.

28:11

Yaffa, Don't Let him

28:13

go, may I be

28:16

excused? Say Mother,

28:18

I don't need you. You need a great

28:20

deal. starting first

28:22

with respect. I've done nothing but

28:24

respectings my

28:25

whole life. Is that so?

28:27

Respect the elders. respect the traditions, respect

28:30

the path you chose for me. A

28:32

lowly butcher. Butchers are

28:34

sacred among our people. I don't

28:36

feel sick it. I feel humiliated. I I feel like a

28:38

girl surrounded by death and the stink

28:40

of blood and shit and meat. The

28:42

wolf chooses a path.

28:45

Just let me hunt.

28:49

I

28:49

can do it. I

28:51

never got a fair chance. After Gaia died, I

28:53

wasn't myself for for

28:57

so long. I

29:00

couldn't focus on anything but the burn

29:02

of grief. But

29:04

it's been years and

29:07

I know that the hunt is

29:09

my calling. And if you'd only let

29:11

me show you. Your calling is

29:13

what I say it is Azera. Why

29:16

don't you do this. Because I am your mother and I

29:18

know what's best for you. How is my misery?

29:20

What's best for me?

29:20

I don't need you to protect me, and you

29:22

mine was a hunter. I know those girls

29:25

are Myth less. It's

29:26

not just hunting. It's a

29:28

life that I can handle those. Bill cut

29:30

your throat while you're not

29:31

looking and our ways would let them

29:33

they would I did.

29:37

Queen

29:38

Ilara, she favored me

29:41

after watching me fight a wild dog to

29:43

the death. She inducted

29:45

me into the hunting pack,

29:47

too young. I had

29:49

only started my time in the

29:52

blood den, I was

29:53

wild, cocky.

29:55

The fight

29:55

wolf was still beating lessons into

29:58

me. I wasn't formed. My

30:01

teeth just newly sharpened to points. But

30:03

the queen insisted I joined the

30:05

pack, and it made me feel I

30:07

could take on anything.

30:09

anyone.

30:13

But

30:13

I was wrong. Those

30:16

girls tortured me

30:17

in ways that would have made the

30:20

warriors of the crow aged blush for

30:22

shame. Mother. I

30:23

tell our people that I cut my breast off

30:25

to be

30:25

more fierce with the bow.

30:28

but it's a lie.

30:30

It was decided for

30:31

me by a hunter in the pack.

30:34

Her name

30:35

was Zakari.

30:37

Tall as

30:38

a

30:39

hook she hated me

30:41

from sight, and one day

30:43

she decided to act on that hate.

30:46

Zakari

30:47

tied me to a tree and cut

30:49

off the buds of my chest, leaving me

30:51

to die. Mother, I broke my

30:53

wrist to get free and waited

30:56

till nightfall to sneak

30:57

into her tent. In

30:59

the morning, the shaman found me in

31:02

the chanting place with Sukari severed head

31:04

in my lap wearing her

31:06

skin. I drank her

31:07

blood for strength,

31:09

chewed her heart. I

31:12

felt

31:12

her soul moving in

31:14

my body.

31:15

I felt

31:17

that girl, the one

31:19

who was young.

31:23

I felt her

31:23

die so a hunter and

31:26

later a queen could be

31:28

born. Never told me.

31:30

My wounds healed and no one ever

31:31

again challenged me. Pat

31:35

Laws

31:35

protected me from

31:37

exile. I rose to alpha.

31:39

And later, when the queen was

31:41

weak, I called the blood tournament.

31:43

She had many enemies, their

31:46

twenty warriors, was entered? Vicious warriors. Some

31:48

of them wanting a chance to avenge the

31:50

kari. I battered

31:52

my way to the death myth, killing

31:54

an old warrior named

31:56

a knoll. The queen saw her end in

31:58

my eyes and chose exile

32:01

rather than risk her life to keep

32:03

her crown. Is

32:06

this

32:06

the path you want for yourself,

32:08

my

32:08

daughter? I just want more. That

32:13

has to

32:14

be more. I'm your mother, and I'm

32:17

protecting what I see, not

32:19

snuffing it out. Even if

32:21

it sometimes feels that way.

32:24

Yes.

32:25

My queen. Are

32:29

you alright? I'm fine.

32:34

I'm fine.

32:35

the healer say?

32:37

No. Nothing if she wants to

32:39

see another sunrise.

32:42

Oh, heaven.

32:45

Goughing blood into my hand like a

32:47

wounded pump. You need to keep it from our

32:49

people. Our people don't suffer weakness and

32:51

certainly not in their queen.

32:53

Why should they? This looks like strength

32:55

to me. You're different to

32:57

my girl. born

33:00

of

33:00

some other clay. I

33:02

am

33:02

my mother's daughter. too

33:06

true. The moment

33:09

they knew the wind world was calling

33:11

me. My rain

33:12

would be over in this moment

33:14

too important for our people. What do you mean? Come

33:16

to counsel tonight. I'll

33:19

show you. Is that why you were looking

33:21

for me earlier? Yes. I

33:23

want you there for this moment.

33:25

It may change

33:26

the course of our

33:27

people. I'll be there. And

33:30

this era, Keep your

33:32

right hand up when you fight.

33:34

You drop

33:34

it too easily and it gives these bitches

33:36

in

33:36

opening. I

33:39

will. Kaya, like it

33:42

or not, she may be our next

33:44

queen. I can't

33:46

protect you from her

33:48

forever. you won't have to. Of course,

33:52

until tonight.

33:56

Let

34:00

me joke.

34:03

of a great and mighty people,

34:06

the wolves. Deep

34:11

the deep in the

34:12

black of silence. In the early days of

34:14

time, the four beasts roamed an empty landscape.

34:18

The birds. the

34:21

rams, the bears,

34:24

and the mighty sleepless

34:28

blood wolf.

34:30

Through

34:34

the plains, the mighty

34:36

wolf started to pray with claws of

34:38

steel and a mouthful of blades.

34:40

The earth then was part

34:42

fire and huge billows

34:44

of smoke powered into the sky.

34:48

the four beasts would meet upon the planes and clash in combat.

34:50

From their blood were born

34:52

the first people. beings of

34:54

great wonder and ancient magic. but

34:58

forgetful. Airgain. They

35:01

forgot the beats that

35:03

bore them. So scard the

35:06

land that fed them and

35:08

forgot that they too were animals.

35:10

They built structures to their false

35:12

gods, then made gods

35:14

of themselves. claimed to be bringers of death and

35:16

life. A great battle consumed

35:18

death, and fires in

35:20

floods and ice

35:22

in a sickness that fell all, but a

35:24

few. The first people bled

35:26

into the

35:26

earth returning from Wednesday king.

35:29

Myth was still in the

35:31

land for thousands of

35:34

years. As the earth healed, the four

35:36

beasts returned.

35:38

This time Malzavaches, with the blood of

35:40

the first people, with the bones of their

35:42

follies, they made the four great tribes

35:44

and the likeness of the first people.

35:48

The mightiest of them all was our tribe.

35:51

The wolves. People of

35:53

the grass who dwell on

35:56

the descended of the sleepless blood

35:58

wolf. Hunters of unmatched

35:59

skill faster than

36:00

a stag. We stare into

36:03

the sun without blinking. and burst

36:05

the most vicious warriors of the land. We

36:07

are unchallenged rulers of the planes that

36:09

spread across the vastness

36:12

of Dakota and so

36:14

too shall we always

36:16

be? And

36:18

you. You

36:20

are the future warriors and tanners and scouts

36:23

and fire masters. I

36:25

can help you see

36:28

our past, and great

36:31

future ahead. The old

36:33

stories will make us new. the

36:36

plague of the mountains, the

36:38

lady of Red River,

36:40

the green war, the Queen's going

36:42

back to our very first as there were

36:45

the And look who's

36:47

arrived to share her trade with

36:49

us. Yaffa. Azera of

36:52

this day. Come, sacred butcher. Do

36:54

you have meat to show

36:56

us? No.

36:58

Master Yaffa, I come to beg

37:02

forgiveness.

37:02

forgiveness is

37:04

what she seeks. Well, what

37:06

is she willing to do for

37:09

this forgiveness? Yeah. please. I

37:13

believe she said she

37:15

would beg.

37:16

Would you like

37:17

to hear that? masteryaka,

37:22

are you pleased to give you a hot tempered

37:24

system?

37:26

I

37:26

will consider

37:30

it. Are we done?

37:32

Yes. Go. Go. You're

37:33

not my problem anymore. Next

37:36

we'll be

37:38

learning about Forget

37:38

it. You don't care.

37:45

I'm sorry,

37:48

i'm sorry brother brother.

37:50

So I hear? I mean it.

37:52

Mother brings it out in you. I

37:54

be used to it by

37:56

now? She does, but I didn't mean to Come here.

38:00

What

38:02

will become of us? Not much. My fear. Care

38:04

for what you wish for, sister.

38:08

The blood wolf teaches the stubborn with

38:10

hardship and

38:12

pain. then I must be her favorite student. Come.

38:14

I meant to help you saw the pig.

38:16

There's word that some water bubbled up

38:18

through the ground. the ground? Yes.

38:21

How were we forage? Sounds

38:23

strange, bud. Water from any direction would

38:25

be a blessing. The dry season has never stayed this long.

38:27

We'll find a way. The first won't be the undoing of the mighty

38:30

wolves. That much, I know. Mother asked

38:32

me to the den of souls

38:33

tonight to hear the elder speak.

38:36

She doesn't see herself.

38:37

She has many cells. It's how she's remained queen for

38:39

so long. One, three

38:42

blood tournaments. young

38:44

men after me will tell her story with awe, and cubs

38:46

will scarcely believe a woman so fierce

38:48

ever lived. And who will follow her,

38:52

I wonder? That is for mother and the shaman to decide when the time is

38:54

right or the wolf

38:56

if a term

38:57

is called. Sounds

39:00

like you're

39:02

thinking of making a play for the blood crown

39:04

perhaps. Queen Azera, the

39:08

grumpy, seen her spend a life expending the

39:10

ship from buffalo intestines. Better you than I. Go without me to

39:12

your puddle. I need to pray. I'll

39:14

be without my eyes and my heart

39:18

if you leave me to it. No manage.

39:20

Just watch your back. Cai and Reza are up to

39:22

something. I can handle myself, sister.

39:30

Sister, tell Gaya that

39:32

tell her hello.

39:34

Hello.

39:35

our

39:50

Mighty

39:53

blood

39:53

wolf. To you, I offer my

39:56

blood and spirit and to you, I shall

39:58

return in the

39:59

wind world and my purpose is fulfilled upon your

40:02

plane. I ask now your

40:04

permission to speak to one who lives across the

40:06

divide and the clutch of

40:08

your jaws. You carry her

40:10

now as you did when she was in my

40:12

glass, my

40:13

sister, Gaia,

40:16

It

40:19

I now speak.

40:28

Sister,

40:31

I thought

40:34

much of you today as

40:37

it was near this day that

40:39

I first lost you.

40:43

I worried I feel

40:46

that you are now drifting.

40:52

farther and farther away.

40:54

Today,

40:55

when those

41:00

when

41:00

they taunted me and came from

41:02

me. Normally in those moments,

41:05

I can feel you just at

41:07

my shoulder just as we were

41:09

in the womb. Usually,

41:12

I I

41:14

can feel your on mine

41:17

as we did when hiding

41:20

from from everyone.

41:26

but

41:26

now

41:28

it's so faint.

41:31

In my dreams? have

41:34

been reliving

41:34

your death as if it

41:36

is happening again.

41:39

And again, I keep

41:41

going over it. I

41:43

felt ill when I woke, they said your horse had been

41:45

taken by an evil spirit and that you'd

41:48

fallen, that it was couldn't

41:50

have been.

41:51

I never felt

41:54

ill like

41:57

that. Your horse was

41:59

bonded to

41:59

you, like, It

42:01

was as

42:03

if some evil that

42:04

come across

42:05

the plains. It clips the

42:08

sun, like, I walked

42:10

through to some other world and I remained

42:12

here ever since a world where you're

42:14

buried beneath the earth and I am

42:16

always alone wanting to show you I

42:18

can't be good enough. braving

42:20

up, fixing up for the both of

42:22

us.

42:25

Up tight.

42:26

hi

42:35

feel like

42:36

something

42:36

is coming. Some

42:43

Eve I

42:46

can't explain it.

42:46

And if you were here, I

42:48

wouldn't have to. You just look at me and

42:51

know, but instead it's just

42:54

this Fucking emptiness.

42:56

This yawning darkness staring back

42:58

at me every day, and I can't bear it

43:00

anymore.

43:05

So

43:11

Send me

43:15

a sign. aside

43:18

from your world tells me

43:20

that this would mean something

43:23

that I mean

43:26

something that I meant for

43:28

something.

43:35

when we were children, you'd always lead the way

43:37

to breakfast, to the blood down along

43:39

the path, to the dead legs where

43:41

we'd

43:41

eat her. stolen

43:44

of biscuits syrup and scream that

43:46

we were hoarding.

43:47

I need.

43:51

Oh, gosh.

43:54

I

43:54

need you to show

43:55

me the

43:57

path again. So

43:59

that I

44:00

don't follow down yours.

44:04

I love

44:08

you, sister.

44:12

May

44:13

you walk in wind and the blood of the ancient?

44:27

Eldors. I welcome you in the name

44:29

of the great wolf. Thank you for gathering on

44:31

this night. Well, I keep the king

44:33

for

44:33

decree. And may the

44:35

wolf keep you.

44:38

Sit. Why

44:38

does this arrow sit amongst us?

44:40

My daughter is here at my

44:42

urging to learn our ways. She's

44:44

a butcher, not anointed to

44:47

discuss

44:47

the way of the gods and elders and the business of our people, she

44:49

should not be here. My daughter's presence

44:51

bothers you, Ria.

44:54

I strive. to keep the

44:56

traditions. Is that not what

44:58

keeps us great? I keep us

45:00

great. I have kept

45:02

our band of thousands thriving in the dust

45:04

of drought with enemies pressing in on all sides, so

45:06

I will share our business with

45:08

whoever I see fit. Mother, I

45:12

sit down.

45:12

shaman,

45:14

anoint Azera into

45:15

the den of souls,

45:18

Azera of Nora,

45:21

Give

45:21

me your hand. Yes,

45:24

Sherman. Does

45:24

your blood run the

45:27

color of a sunrise

45:28

deep into rivers?

45:30

high into the tall grass of the

45:33

plains. Yes, shaman. Are you now an

45:35

evermore of the wolf tribe

45:38

or Dakota? And will

45:40

your heart wither under this soil

45:42

as you move into the next

45:44

life? Crows,

45:46

eyed. Yes. showed. The thing of the wolf now takes

45:48

your blood.

45:52

drink of

45:54

your own blood as the wolf would and hear

45:57

her holy business among her

45:59

people and

45:59

our queen. Thank

46:02

you, there.

46:04

Are you satisfied

46:05

the traditions are upheld real? Yes,

46:07

my

46:07

queen. I never meant to

46:10

offend.

46:11

Rise my queen.

46:15

Bring it

46:16

in.

46:20

behold. Our future.

46:22

It's a wooden chest. That's

46:24

the mark of the rams of

46:26

on it. Open it.

46:28

Are these bits of metal?

46:30

They're just small circle.

46:34

drink it's like on a necklace or a

46:36

horse beer. It's some kind

46:38

of new metal we've never known.

46:42

not iron as our tools and weapons are

46:44

made of. This shines

46:46

like water and is softer. How did

46:48

we come hony. Zen and her raiding party captured it

46:51

from a group of friends. We

46:53

came

46:53

upon

46:54

them as they made

46:56

for the green trail. The sun was

46:59

high and it was clear many of

47:01

them had never seen battle or

47:03

swung an axe against anything more

47:05

than a tree. They

47:08

stunk of fears. We gutted them without

47:10

ceremony. The wolf keep

47:12

using. Our people will

47:15

Thank you. Come. Let

47:17

me carve a

47:18

mark into your arm.

47:22

May the wolf protect you, my

47:24

queen, and also you. Rise. Suck

47:27

with your war You're

47:30

as brave

47:30

as the wolf is fierce. Go.

47:34

Yes, my queen.

47:38

It's called silver.

47:39

Some new form of butter that

47:41

begun between the rams and the

47:43

bears. This chest was on its way to

47:45

green palm. What business

47:48

is this of our A new system of

47:50

trade is being forged between our enemies that leaves us out. Why

47:52

leave us out? Because we have nothing they

47:56

want. We used to feed Dakota with the finest of meats in

47:58

exchange from metals and tools from

47:59

the rams and elixters and crops

48:01

from the bears, but

48:04

the dryness left us with

48:06

nothing to offer. But

48:08

now

48:08

now we remind them of

48:10

who we are and what falls

48:12

to those who ignore our strength. Yes.

48:14

And now we have

48:16

something that they both value.

48:18

That is

48:19

our business. Leverage.

48:22

Those dams

48:23

will see this as an act of war.

48:25

Let them They build their settlements

48:27

on the edges of

48:30

our land, Let's remind them of what we are. Are we prepared

48:32

for what? Aaron and the Stone

48:34

Council will sue for peace and

48:36

negotiate term as he always

48:38

has. His people faint at the sight

48:40

of blood will tell him that it

48:42

was regrettable. Offer back half the

48:44

silver for some tools, and then

48:46

while I have his ear, will move their load

48:48

lenders off the plane. You

48:50

speak as if you are in the mind of the

48:52

very man. What

48:54

if he? get

48:56

up real. The people of this land

48:59

must fear us first

49:00

or we have nothing. Just

49:03

as

49:03

the moment you stop fearing

49:06

me, you'll stab me in my

49:08

back.

49:09

Do you

49:10

fear me? Yes. my

49:12

queen, as you should,

49:14

as all

49:16

of the tribes

49:16

of Dakota should fear us. the

49:20

birds in

49:20

the sky to the

49:21

bears in the green expanse,

49:24

the rams simply

49:25

want to be left

49:27

alone with their toys and wheels and contraptions

49:29

and trinkets. The age

49:32

when they were warriors is

49:34

long past. Our

49:36

scouting party was outnumbered and

49:38

they were no match. We

49:40

do

49:40

not allow our enemies to

49:43

shape us, but act to

49:45

shape them. There is rumor that Aaron's

49:47

son calls for war,

49:49

that he longs

49:51

for their

49:53

war day. Their warrior days

49:55

were marked by blood and

49:58

failure. We are the

50:00

true warriors of the

50:02

Dakota.

50:03

What says the shaman.

50:06

shaman.

50:07

the

50:09

A distant

50:10

wing a distant

50:12

horn. The gathering

50:13

store grows inside her

50:16

belly. Yes.

50:17

We're below.

50:19

the water black with the skin of the

50:21

ancients, black with the

50:22

eyes of the dead, the glips, the

50:26

poison. There is danger

50:28

in the damage. As there is

50:30

danger in the edges of the night

50:32

each time we sleep,

50:34

but the

50:35

queen is wise. not to

50:37

get into an urge to cower with hides. I think the opening. No

50:39

one wants us to cower.

50:42

Just not

50:43

ride into a war

50:45

when we're started. The shaman speak

50:48

a war. Different than any

50:50

we have known is coming.

50:53

the old prophecies will come to pass.

50:55

We must prepare we must

50:58

prepare our blades and

51:00

the very ground

51:02

threatens to open, a new death, a new world, a seed

51:04

is growing in the mountains and myth

51:06

a new light,

51:08

you see, the shaman

51:12

herself

51:12

speaks of the importance of the mountains and the battle that may

51:14

come. We

51:15

will follow you. Could

51:19

it be

51:20

so? That's

51:22

my car to the walls. Like

51:24

the fires. The hunt is

51:27

upon us.

51:28

Come. We must ready the packs.

51:29

Get your plates.

51:31

ready. Tonight, we eat, yes,

51:34

mother. We need to get you to the packs.

51:36

They'll want to hear from their queen before setting

51:38

out. You see Azera.

51:40

the

51:40

best days of our people in our head. The wolf

51:43

smiles upon us. Yes,

51:45

mother. My queen, the call is from

51:47

the west. That means

51:49

the weren't able to it in first. Your horse

51:51

is Azera. I'll see you in

51:53

the morning.

51:54

We'll share the best meat at a cup

51:57

of fresh blood. I'll make

51:59

ready

52:03

my plate.

52:15

In the

52:19

morning will

52:22

be your horse. She's here.

52:24

But why No. Yes,

52:28

brother. No. What

52:30

do you No.

52:38

Hunter.

52:43

You stand before your

52:45

queen and the spirit

52:48

of the great lord whose through us

52:50

all. Do you fear

52:51

it? You

52:55

are the fiercest of our

52:57

people.

52:58

I was once one of

53:00

you. You must be

53:02

the animal you

53:04

are hunting. you must die its step along with

53:06

it. Feel its life

53:08

kicking and wailing out of its body

53:10

as you plunge

53:11

in the spear. Cut

53:13

out the heart.

53:16

Our people

53:17

are hungry. There hasn't

53:19

been a hunt in months and

53:21

we need

53:22

to face. Will you end your people

53:24

summary? We will.

53:26

The scout say

53:26

the herd is thin but

53:29

fast and ferocious. They

53:31

are desperate. Thirsty a meme.

53:34

They'll be fighting hard.

53:36

They've grown clever and

53:38

widely in their desperation. Last

53:41

hunt, we lost good warriors to goreng

53:43

and stampede. But if

53:45

you find and

53:48

kill the alpha, chaos will run through the herd and they'll

53:50

be easy killing. Anyone who

53:52

brings me the head of

53:54

the alpha make a

53:56

rich reward of their labor.

53:59

You are the daughters of

54:02

death. The

54:04

killers of please. No person shall

54:06

no fear until they stand

54:08

before us.

54:12

You're ready. Use the

54:14

club of night and make your

54:16

people cry.

54:22

There must

54:25

not be

54:28

less color. hide

54:30

using the

54:31

rhythm of their

54:33

stamping. Shift your

54:36

stamping. Now

54:38

tonight girls.

54:46

Isn't it amazing to put a hut

54:48

in there? I can't believe them out

54:51

here with you.

54:53

If they catches out

54:54

here, Kai can slit our throats.

54:57

The elders forbid non hunch or let her

54:59

even get it. I'm sick of living

55:01

just to live. I wanna live. There hasn't been a night

55:03

hoax since I've been alive. They're not the same thing. for

55:06

a blind boy and a girl who rides by her

55:08

nose. The moon is

55:10

barely sliver. It'll take a lot to even find the alpha let alone kill

55:12

her. It'll take all we

55:14

have. Maybe even her last

55:16

breath.

55:17

Sophie And

55:18

with that last breath,

55:20

I'll say, I am

55:22

a Sarah God of

55:25

the hunt and

55:28

all know me.

55:37

Birds

55:39

of Empire

55:42

stars Bianca Norwood as Azera.

55:45

Gwendolyn Riley Strand as the

55:47

keeper, Meg Dley

55:48

see as Reza, Andrew Leiner

55:50

as Yaffa, Heidi Kwan as Kaya,

55:53

Michelle

55:53

Bonilla Esnara, Candice

55:55

Edmonson Esrielle with additional

55:58

performances by Carolina

55:59

Hoyos, Chris Watkins,

56:02

Mashari

56:02

Bain, Sharon Muthu,

56:04

written and directed by Jason

56:06

Liu, executive produced by Jason

56:08

Liu, Rob Harding, Sandra Yealink,

56:10

Michelle Zarate, and Shenian Hu.

56:12

co executive producer, Bianca Norwood, consultant Quinn

56:15

Perry, original score and composition

56:17

by Darren Johnson and

56:20

Matthew Carcenty. Music

56:22

editor David TataSure, audio engineering by

56:24

Ryan Walsh, and David TataSure, edited

56:27

by nearly off during, Additional

56:30

editor, Jeffrey Fedig,

56:31

supervising SoundFX editor and Sound Designer

56:34

Randy

56:34

Torres, followed by Dan O'Connell,

56:36

one step up. Mixed by Ben

56:38

Milchiff, additional myth, Alex

56:41

Chuck, casting director, Chrissy

56:43

Furelli, assistant director, Kelsey

56:46

Adams, Script supervisor, Beth Ann Morgan. Production coordinator,

56:48

Tom

56:48

Breck, head production assistant, Alex

56:51

Buda, production

56:52

assistant, Cesar Chavez,

56:54

Post Coordinator, Emma Jacobson, production legal, Christina

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56:57

Lindsay Keel, production accounting,

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57:02

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57:04

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