0:03

Cycle 9, day 3, 1135, p.m.

0:06

17th of 20th. After 192 relative

0:08

days trapped inside 6320s,

0:10

extra-dimensional space. After

0:13

months without contact.

0:15

Radio contact was established

0:17

between site 107 and site

0:19

64. You can hear me!

0:21

Really? Is this real? You're

0:23

actually site 64. This isn't

0:25

a joke. You'd better not

0:27

be a prank. If this

0:29

is engineering pulling something funny,

0:32

I swear! After 192

0:34

days. I've been trying

0:36

to get through for

0:39

so long. 192 days.

0:41

Wasn't planning on

0:43

it. Wasn't planning

0:45

on it. You've made

0:48

contact with what? With

0:50

the outside. Go, I'm

0:52

gonna go, I'm gonna

0:55

go, I'm gonna go

0:57

tell everybody, everybody. 64

1:00

to 107, please confirm

1:02

your status. Stable,

1:04

91 survivors, we're

1:07

all right. By my

1:09

math, you would have had

1:11

92. Roger 64, we, uh,

1:13

we lost one. Coffee 107,

1:16

I'm sorry for your

1:18

loss. We appreciate that.

1:20

Was that, Dr. Lancaster in

1:22

there with you? Yes, he

1:25

was. Wait, how did you

1:27

know that? But how did

1:30

you know who it was?

1:32

News of the established contact

1:34

with the outside world spread

1:37

quickly to the rest of

1:39

the staff. As the sharing

1:42

of information with Insight

1:44

107 has been largely declassified.

1:46

Oh, what? You can't just

1:48

say that and then walk

1:50

away? I know, I'm on

1:52

my way there now. Harley!

1:55

Contact! Harley!

2:05

What?

2:08

What

2:11

do

2:14

you

2:17

need?

2:20

Contact?

2:28

He's talking to someone on the outside.

2:30

Oh. It took less than 30 minutes

2:32

for nearly the entire staff of the

2:35

site to gather outside the door of

2:37

the communications office. No, only one of

2:39

them is a dash two instance. The

2:41

other one is still a normal bird.

2:43

Gotcha. What are they saying? Yeah, when are

2:45

we getting out? I don't. There's a

2:47

traffic hazard forming outside your office.

2:49

I'm nearly there. Yes, please take

2:52

care of it. It's very

2:54

distracting. No, not you. There

2:56

are people outside might. Not

2:58

right now. What's happening over

3:00

there? That moment. Could you

3:02

all do me a tremendous

3:05

favor and leave me alone?

3:07

For maybe 15 minutes, an

3:09

hour tops. Move along, everybody

3:12

moving! A blank. Take notes.

3:14

On what? Whatever I miss while

3:17

I'm in here. Whatever

3:19

he has to tell us, he'll

3:21

still have in an hour. Thank

3:23

you. Are they going to get us

3:25

out? Dr. Klein, with the begrudging

3:28

help of security, cleared

3:30

the hallway outside the

3:33

communications office. A one-hour

3:35

distraction-free period was established

3:37

for Dr. Harley to compile

3:40

a report from the outside.

3:42

In the meantime... Attention! Sight

3:44

107! A mandatory all-staff meeting

3:46

will be held on the

3:48

AB floor in 20 minutes.

3:50

I repeat. Your presence is

3:52

required on the AB floor

3:54

in 20 minutes for a

3:56

mandatory staff meeting. Meaning that

3:58

for the next... Next roughly 90

4:01

minutes, site 107's head of communications

4:03

would be the only staff member

4:05

in the building with access to

4:07

information from the outside. And

4:09

everyone else was going to have to wait.

4:12

The meeting was more of a

4:14

ruse by Dr. Klein to keep

4:16

everyone in the same place and

4:18

prevent any attempts at sneaking access

4:20

to Harley's office or equipment in

4:22

ways that might distract him or

4:24

worse severed the connection to the

4:26

outside. Dr. Klein reasoned that

4:28

the fastest way to disseminate

4:30

the information would be for

4:32

Dr. Harley to write a

4:34

comprehensive report of the relevant

4:36

updates that could then be

4:38

shared with the entirety of

4:41

the staff. And during the wait,

4:43

personnel could make use of the

4:45

skills they have developed in the

4:47

arts of occupying themselves.

4:49

But in spite of the

4:51

mandate to attend and the

4:53

general air of palpable agitation,

4:55

A number of staff did

4:57

not show, even after waiting

5:00

10 minutes longer than had

5:02

been announced. Hello? Hello?

5:04

Hello? Working? Okay, notes.

5:06

Notes on the meeting.

5:08

Yeah, yeah. Psyche are

5:10

all here. Klein checked

5:12

everybody off from research.

5:14

Love is trying to find

5:17

a radical in the

5:19

crowd. It's pretty... It's not

5:21

very organized. Yesterday,

5:24

before classes and all of this,

5:27

I was talking to the holiday

5:29

about the D class. I had

5:31

a whole plan in my head

5:33

for getting them integrated into the

5:36

staff. I was going to talk

5:38

to maintenance, about jobs, some of

5:40

the other department heads, about training,

5:42

medical, about medical stuff, checkups, I

5:45

guess. But now I don't, I don't know

5:47

if they're going to ask us to do

5:49

human tests in order to get us out

5:51

of here. I

5:53

mean if I said I'd rather stay

5:55

in here than kill somebody to get

5:57

out, does that make me sound crazy?

6:00

And if it does, do you

6:02

think people will still feel guilty

6:04

enough about torturing me to let

6:06

me keep saying it? Have you

6:08

seen Ingrid? Yeah, a couple times.

6:10

I meant up here. Uh, no,

6:13

I hadn't. Have you heard anything?

6:15

People are still coming up. It's

6:17

only been 15 minutes. Her office

6:19

is farther down, anyway. But I

6:21

was all the way down there

6:23

when I told her. And I

6:25

made it back up 10 minutes

6:27

ago. And I wanted the slowest

6:29

people in here right now. Well,

6:31

maybe she didn't hear the announcement.

6:33

I don't know. Just give it

6:35

a few. She would have heard

6:38

the announcement. She hears everything. Ask

6:40

security? But what if she's hurt?

6:42

What if something happened? Something did

6:44

happen. Maybe she's just being clever

6:46

and she figured out a way

6:48

to eavesdrop. She does have access

6:50

to Harley's computer. Just give me

6:52

10 minutes and then we can

6:54

ask if somebody from security can

6:56

go get her. Fine. So

7:01

moot up here is bad. Somebody

7:03

from engineering, not sure who, brought

7:05

a laptop with them. Security cut

7:08

them trying to get into Harley's

7:10

computer to listen in. It's not

7:12

that I blame them for wanting

7:15

to know. I want to know.

7:17

We're all on edge. It's just

7:19

like if they had messed with

7:22

the connection and cut us off,

7:24

then where would we be? I've

7:26

been watching Klein the last 15

7:29

minutes or so. She's been talking

7:31

to Price from containment every once

7:33

in a while, and she's biting

7:36

her nails a lot. Actually, most

7:38

people don't look happy. Everybody is...

7:40

It's more anxious and nervous than

7:43

anything. Me too. I think it

7:45

makes the outside feel real again.

7:47

Our friends and families and our

7:50

children. A lot of us have

7:52

been, you know, trying our best

7:54

not to think about it. That's

7:56

not something I've encouraged in anyone's

7:59

sessions, but I haven't you know

8:01

I haven't told anybody not either.

8:03

It's, you know, it's an unprecedented

8:06

scenario. You can't, you know, it's

8:08

hard to grieve for people, you

8:10

know, are still alive and out

8:13

there and living normally. Sometimes I

8:15

feel like a therapist for the

8:17

recently deceased. And now with all

8:20

this, everything is kind of resurfacing.

8:22

I'm gonna go find Klein. I

8:27

don't know, what do you want

8:29

me to say? You don't have

8:31

to carry all this. I can't

8:33

help myself. There's nothing we can

8:35

do right now, but wait. Maybe

8:38

that's all you have to do,

8:40

but I still have to make

8:42

sure people don't... Hey, I see

8:44

you over there, back off the

8:46

doors. We only have 30 minutes

8:48

left, you could fucking handle it!

8:51

Okay, security would have stopped him.

8:53

Well, I stopped him. Why don't

8:55

we just say it, and wait

8:57

for the rest of? I mean,

8:59

nobody's gonna let anybody screw this

9:01

up, right? It's only, it's, it's,

9:04

it's fine, it's gonna be fine,

9:06

and there's only a half an

9:08

hour left. I should be happier.

9:10

Not really. We're getting out. Well,

9:12

that's, we don't know that. Maybe

9:15

not immediately, yeah. But we do

9:17

know we're gonna be much busier

9:19

in the coming weeks. Is that

9:21

the worry? Being busier? Yeah. Yeah,

9:23

I think so. Have you seen

9:25

all of us? No, I didn't.

9:28

No. I mean, I haven't really

9:30

been looking. Why? Neither have I.

9:32

I don't want to be in

9:34

charge of all this Lancaster. Oh,

9:36

that's an easy one. You aren't.

9:38

Sight-O-1 isn't exactly going to accept

9:41

our lax power structure. Well, they

9:43

don't have to know about our

9:45

lax power structure. I'm not going

9:47

to lie to the overseers. Coward.

9:49

I might. Then it's a good

9:51

thing. You won't be the one

9:54

talking to them. You might not

9:56

be talking to them either. I

10:00

don't want the old methods

10:02

to be our best way

10:04

out of here. Well, we've

10:06

got time until we find

10:08

out if we even have

10:10

a shot of escaping in

10:13

the first place. She's not

10:15

responding to her walkie. Huh?

10:17

What? Well, that's not a

10:19

reason to panic. Maybe she

10:21

hasn't turned it on. And

10:23

if she found a way

10:25

to listen in, I wouldn't

10:27

want to be distracted either.

10:29

She's not the only person

10:31

we're missing. Have we done

10:34

a headcount? Did I miss

10:36

that? We should have. All

10:38

of us isn't here either.

10:40

I mean, only missing two.

10:42

That's not bad. Who cares

10:44

if all of us isn't

10:46

here? It's not just two,

10:48

though, is it? Who else?

10:50

Where's medical? Who's from medical?

10:52

All of medical. None of

10:55

them have showed up. I've

10:57

been waiting for them. I'll

10:59

go check. No, you're still

11:01

a little slow love. Let

11:03

me do it. No. Oh,

11:05

just in case something has

11:07

happened. Yeah, Gloria is fine.

11:09

She's in her room. What's

11:11

she doing? Having a panic

11:13

attack or something like one.

11:16

Fine. You didn't just leave

11:18

her in there, did you?

11:20

Trust me, she did not

11:22

want me in there with

11:24

her. Yeah,

11:30

Lancaster. We've all had panic

11:32

attacks before. I know what

11:34

they look like. And I

11:37

don't need another mug getting

11:39

whipped in my head. Besides,

11:41

I'm going to find medical

11:43

anyway. I can just sick

11:46

a nurse on her. Oh,

11:48

okay. How's Radaker? Is you

11:50

okay? What's going on down

11:52

there? I don't know, love.

11:55

I'm going to her office

11:57

now. I'll call you again

11:59

when I find her. It

12:01

looks like they're I'm going

12:04

to run for the door.

12:06

Records. Records, really? I don't

12:08

know. They look shifty. You

12:10

sound like Klein. What do

12:13

you think about all this?

12:15

I'm excited. I want to

12:17

get out of here. I

12:19

can't wait. I want to

12:22

take the boys on hikes.

12:24

I want to take angry,

12:26

too. You're not worried about

12:28

them? Maybe they'll have to

12:31

get used to it for

12:33

a while, but we'll get

12:35

there. And if they don't

12:37

like going outside, they could

12:40

just stay in. Stay in

12:42

where? How big is your

12:44

house? Oh, I'll figure something

12:46

out. What if they can't

12:49

leave? I mean, we never

12:51

saw Dash 2 instances on

12:53

the outside. What if they

12:55

can't get out of the

12:58

anomaly? Well, what if Dash

13:00

3's can't get out? What

13:02

if you get stuck in

13:04

here? I don't know, I

13:07

actually haven't thought about that.

13:09

Did you ever see a

13:11

whole building get sucked in?

13:13

Huh? You're right. I mean,

13:16

we don't know what's going

13:18

to happen. I mean, maybe

13:20

they'll be fine. You ruined

13:22

it. I'm sorry. Harley better

13:25

have good news. Radiger,

14:04

you're okay? Fine.

14:06

So, what's the

14:08

deal? Listen, we

14:11

don't have time.

14:13

So, what's the

14:15

deal? Listen, we

14:17

don't have time

14:19

for this right

14:21

now. Your girlfriend

14:23

thinks you're dead.

14:25

Actually, she's fine,

14:27

love. She's in

14:29

her office. Unless

14:31

you're dying, you're

14:33

dying. So,

14:46

what's up? Let's just go

14:48

upstairs. No. Tell me what's

14:50

going on. It's fine. I

14:53

swear to God, kid. We're

14:55

getting out. It's possible. I

14:57

don't think I want to

14:59

get out. Yeah. A lot

15:01

of mixed feelings today. I

15:03

guess your life wasn't much

15:05

different out there than it

15:07

isn't here, was it? Hmm.

15:09

You have to stop doing

15:11

shit like this though. You've

15:13

really scared love. We'll talk

15:15

about it later. Sorry. I'm

15:17

apologize to me. Come on.

15:19

We have to go check

15:21

on medical. What? Fisher says

15:23

they're working on stabilizing her.

15:25

All of them? I don't

15:27

know. They looked busy in

15:29

there. What are we going

15:32

to tell everybody else? Nothing.

15:34

Fine, if they're all working

15:36

on her, she's not okay.

15:38

Nobody else needs this on

15:40

their plate right now. None

15:42

of us can help. All

15:44

we can do is wait.

15:46

Oh, oh, yeah, great. Why

15:48

didn't I think of that?

15:50

Oh, let's just wait. What

15:52

do you want me to

15:54

do? How do we know

15:56

she fell? How do we

15:58

know there's not something else?

16:00

She fell. Did you see

16:02

her? No. But I saw

16:04

the look on Dr. Clark's

16:06

face. He wasn't lying. I've

16:08

never seen one of our

16:11

medical doctors look scared. I

16:13

never really thought of her

16:15

as that old. Yeah, neither

16:17

of I. Attention site 107.

16:19

We have established contact with

16:21

site 64. I have been

16:23

briefing their head of communications

16:25

about our experience in here.

16:27

I will be sending my

16:29

report to records to be

16:31

printed because I know we

16:33

will crash the intranet if

16:35

I have to put it

16:37

there. Also, I will not

16:39

be leaving my office for

16:41

the foreseeable future. Are you

16:43

still there? Yeah, I'm still

16:45

here. I'm not going anywhere.

16:47

Oh, please don't go anywhere.

16:50

I just said I won't.

16:52

I don't mean to treat

16:54

you as a captive audience.

16:56

I know I'll have to

16:58

leave here at some point,

17:00

it's just... I know, don't

17:02

worry. We've got you. Episode

17:26

56 was written and produced by Anna

17:28

McGuire. The voice of Harley is Logan

17:30

Laidlaw. The voice of Klein is Tosh

17:32

Ritter. The voice of Lancaster is Jackson

17:35

McMurray. The voice of Agent Love is

17:37

Tabby Bardall. The voice of Radiger is

17:39

Anna McGuire. The voice of Cordell is

17:41

Ashley Quills. Original music by Jackson McMurray.

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