The Colony (2007) s01e05 Episode Script
Stranger Among Us
We are on the edge of a global catastrophic disaster.
Human conflict.
Nuclear bombs.
Natural disasters.
Chemical and biological warfare.
Without warning, the world as we know it can come to an end.
22 days ago, a group of volunteers entered a 10-week experiment to see if they can survive and rebuild after a simulated viral outbreak leaves los angeles and the rest of the planet devastated.
Their new home a cordoned-off, 80,000-square-foot warehouse near downtown los angeles.
They started with no electricity no water and no communication with the outside world.
They're not broadcasting.
They're just transmitting.
As part of the experiment, an outside gang of looters and thugs challenge the colonists' resources and security.
So far, the volunteers have built the survival basics.
There you go.
And after an attack to steal their resources they assembled an arsenal of weapons whoa! Now i'm looking at five.
a quest for solar energy and a fight for survival.
No! Don't touch me! As day 23 begins, the colonists are still struggling to make a normal life for themselves.
I am not happy in this warehouse.
In the end, our team has one main goal, and that is to get the hell out of here.
Acquiring food and supplies after a disaster can be difficult.
Eventually, you'll want to leave the city and go to a place that has more sustainable resources.
With their supplies diminishing, the volunteers have set their sights on leaving the bleak, urban environment of the colony by fixing a broken-down flatbed truck.
As part of the experiment, the volunteers must survive and rebuild, using the limited resources on hand.
But later in the experiment, they'll be given details of a possible escape route.
Last week, they took their first step toward life beyond the colony by getting the truck's engine up and running.
It runs! Purrs like a kitten.
Now the colonists need to figure out the rest of the plan for their escape vehicle.
What do we need on this to really get out of here? Think of this as our exodus vehicle, right? It's got to look scary, and it's got to be able to take somebody out if you really need to.
What kind of weaponry can we have? I mean, one thought i had is an air cannon and/or a flamethrower.
Yeah, what you got, leilani? Even if we had something protruding out, kind of like spears, like, on a pole.
Along here, we all got to be able to sit.
Like, we could go several miles without running into people.
So i was just looking at simple wooden benches that open up, like on a sailboat.
We can store all of our food on them.
We have to watch our clearance on this.
We're dealing with a 13-foot truck, so i'm thinking taking that shell off and then working the plankings.
Sounds good.
The idea is, if we pull this, the weight of this thing is gonna pull it down and snap it off, and we'll be free and clear of this back.
Oh! It took out the gir yeah! There we go.
Ah ho ho! Good.
Done.
With the back removed, it's time to clear the busted planks from the deck, which means it's time to crank up their new generator.
Four days ago, the colonists bartered for it and 5 gallons of gasoline from a band of traders.
The new genny should put out four times the juice of their old one a jury-rigged model mike made from a pressure-washer engine and two car alternators.
With the new generator, the colonists should finally be able to crank up their arc welder a necessity for working on the escape vehicle.
Back to the genny.
Damn it.
In the shop, mike tries to figure out what's wrong with the new generator.
I had current through there.
That meter shows that we have some electricity flowing but not enough not the right one.
It's not it's not doing it right.
It should be steady, and it's not steady.
It's jumping up and down.
Something is seriously wrong.
Right now, this is a dead deal.
Joe the trader screwed us.
We gave him two good machines for a junk machine.
In a catastrophe, small generators and batteries are a temporary solution for power.
But, eventually, you'll need something more sustainable for the long term.
Until they can fix the new generator, it's back to the old one, but that means no welding.
It's not a genny.
It's a car alternator.
It was only meant to charge a battery.
It'll get us power.
Won't get us welding power.
I would give my left "you know what" for a couple of solar panels.
I'm so sick of this.
I think i mentioned that i saw solar panels.
Where? Joey remembers seeing solar panels in two places on the roof of a nearby abandoned building and on his walk to the colony 22 days ago.
I'm looking at five.
Where, where, where, where, where, where, where? About 1:00.
Those have to be solar panels.
They're worth a look.
To duplicate the generator, we're gonna need about eight panels, just to keep the batteries charged up so we can use power tools here and there.
Maybe if you want to go check what we saw on the roof with binoculars, with a few people, i'll take a few people to where i think i remember seeing them.
Let's organize our little raiding parties and get going.
Go, go.
Michael is really getting everyone involved, and everyone recognizes the importance of having an alternative source of energy.
And us being situated here in los angeles, there's no better place to tap into the seemingly never-ending energy from the sun.
All right, lock up.
The colonists have encountered thugs and thieves on the streets outside the colony.
Not knowing what lies ahead, they proceed with caution.
The building where mike saw the panels and the freight yard from day one have both been cordoned off as part of the experiment.
Joey will lead his team to the yard while mike takes a crew to break into the building.
Think anyone lives here? I don't know.
Steel-frame door.
See if i still got the skills.
Yeah! There we go.
That was it? That was it? Hang on.
I think i got it.
Yeah! There.
Whoo! Anything spooky up there? Solar panels? Those are the ones? Wow.
Solar panels are used to power warning lights on railways and highways.
They don't need to be attached to the electricity grid, and they last for years.
That's exactly what we need on the bottom.
We need to take this whole thing, okay? Let's roll out of here fast.
Come on.
Wait.
You good? Meanwhile, mike and his team have the more difficult task of disassembling a permanent installation on the roof.
Now i got to put all the screws back in here.
I unscrewed my end over here.
After a disaster, scavenging and stealing may actually become a way of life.
And the people who would ordinarily never steal are out there taking things.
The panels weigh about 20 pounds each, and these colonists have netted 14 of them.
John v.
Scavenges materials for a makeshift litter that will carry the load.
We got solar panels and, you know, all the energy we can use, pretty much, during the daytime.
But now we just got to set it up.
There.
Push it down now.
You guys, open up! Come on in.
Look what we got.
Keep on pushing it now.
There we go.
Way to go, guys.
How many did we get? Oh, damn! What are those, 75s? 75, so do the math.
Four 75s over there.
So we got 2 kilowatts almost.
All told, the colonists net 1875-watt solar panels enough to keep their batteries charged indefinitely.
Come on, guys.
Come on, come on, come on.
First of all, let me tell you what a solar panel does and how it's made.
These are very fragile.
The toughest part is the glass.
You can't scratch it, but you can break it.
Let's say this solar panel had two of these cells missing.
It would put out maybe 10 watts instead of 75.
It's that sensitive.
So, we have our battery bank.
We have our inverter, and our inverter gives us a.
c.
The solar panels are all gonna be lined up.
The most important thing to do is to set these panels up on a stand outside.
Mike's plan calls for building a solar-panel structure in three stages.
First, they'll weld together three frames, each holding six panels.
Then, they'll construct a base for the frames to fit into and rotate on.
The third and final step will be mounting a motorized swivel that follows the sun as it moves across the sky.
So, imagine our genny running eight hours a day with no noise.
And no fuel.
We've got the power that we need right now to do whatever the hell we want.
This is a big job.
Everyone's got to be involved.
This takes precedence over everything.
The colonists have a great scheme for making power, but they need their new generator to implement it.
I cannot weld up the solar system.
We need the big genny up to weld.
Everything's on hold until tomorrow morning.
When there's light, i can jump on that genny and try to figure out why the hell it's not working.
Coming up that is freakin' amazing.
the quest for solar continues whoo! No, no! and the colonists face a threat to their very survival.
All you want to do is steal! Get the out! We need to start rationing a little bit.
I think we're on our last bag of coffee.
We're done with peanut butter.
Currently, they have 11 days of food, 9 days of water, and only 4 gallons of gas for the generator.
I'm going to immediately jump on the genny.
Let me work on the genny alone, because two heads in one toilet doesn't work, okay? Okay, just let me know if you need help.
I like welding and making lots of strong stuff, so i need to get this genny working one way or another.
If you're going to try large-scale construction, you need an arc welder.
It's a kind of tool that allows you to fuse metal into whatever shape you need.
But it requires a good deal of power about 3,000 watts.
After four hours, mike is still baffled.
The converter's all hooked up.
How's this going? It's going rough, man.
It's going rough.
Can you start it and let me see if i can we'll start it, but you measure it and you'll get nothing.
Mike, it's running too slow.
Its rpms are too low.
With john c.
's help, mike realizes his mistake.
I lowered the rpms, thinking that we'd save fuel.
Lowering the rpms pbht! Wouldn't engage.
Just didn't kick in.
It kicked in, but it didn't kick in enough.
This thing is meant to run at 1,800 to 3,000 rpm.
Let's put the damn thing together, and we can weld.
With the genny finally cranking, the solar build can officially begin.
In the side room, mike and joey find plenty of scaffolding pipe for the solar-panel frames.
If we have one piece of pipe we need one pipe to go inside or outside of one of these pipes.
And how loose can it be? It doesn't have to be perfect.
It can be a little loose.
All this stuff's the same.
What's that? Let's cut this off and see what we got.
Like "buttah.
" Do it! Do it! Yeah! That's what i'm talking about.
There's our swivel.
All right.
Whew! Aah.
Got me again.
Got me a couple times.
With the frames in place, mike moves on to stage 2 of the build the supporting base.
We're basically gonna have a pole here.
It's gonna be drilled into here for a base.
And then we put our big "h" unit on top of that to hold the solar panel.
There we are.
Whew.
Morning noon afternoon.
In the main warehouse space, computer engineer john c.
Is working on the final stage of the build a motorized solar tracking system.
This is actually the gear motor that we're gonna use.
So, these are little photoresistors from these little electronic kits over here.
Now, if the sun were coming in like this if it saw this one more than the other one, that motor would start turning clockwise.
And then, as soon as they got even, it would stop, which is what you want.
If it were to overshoot or it were to be night, it would back up until it got even again.
So both of those things need to be in the full light, and then it'll stop.
And it's working, which is pretty darn cool.
I love it.
I love it.
That's just freakin' amazing.
That is freakin' amazing.
That is brilliant.
The components are complete.
It's time to assemble them in the yard.
Now, what we need is a cross gusset this way and another cross gusset that way to keep the shear from doing this.
We already have this taken care of.
You guys want to raise that one up as much as we need it? Right, raise that one up as high as you can get it.
Tilt, tilt, tilt.
I got it.
Watch your hand.
Manhandled.
All righty.
All right, back over.
Watch your fingers.
Are you clear? This is where we test our welds.
So, if they're gonna break, they're gonna break now and not with the panels on.
So they ain't breakin'.
That works.
Yay! Engineering is about inventing cool stuff, and there's no better motivation than survival to invent your way into a better existence or keep yourself in existence.
Rather than drill screws into the delicate panels, the colonists mount them at the edges with bolts and washers.
And, joey, this is the worst time to ever miss.
I gotcha.
This would be the worst time to ever miss a screw.
I don't miss.
By the end of the day, the colonists have mounted all 18 panels.
The dream of unlimited electrical power awaits only john c.
's sun-tracking system.
Coming up on "the colony" we have to coexist.
two more volunteers arrive.
I find their behavior to be sketchy.
And the colonists' world turns upside down.
Hyah! Dawn breaks on the colony.
John c.
And mike still have a day's work to finish the solar project, and john v.
Has a scheme to solve a long-standing gripe.
I was thinking of doing that washing machine.
My idea was just a simple bucket tilted on its side.
Until this point, the colonists have done their wash by hand in tubs, using corrugated steel as a washboard.
You put your laundry in here your dirty clothes right in there.
And it spins around, propelled by you guessed it a bicycle.
So, that's it.
Will it make my clothes more beige? And your browns more radiant.
So, what i have planned here was to get these drive wheels.
Then, this whole assembly being tilted like this.
When this spins on the rollers, it'll spin on these rollers.
And to drain it, drop down to drain.
Basically, what i'm gonna do is get this freewheel gear off the bicycle.
It'll be almost like riding a normal bike.
It should just line up to the barrel, sit right on top of this wheel, and roll out the barrel.
It'll spin with it.
It doesn't run.
It's freewheel.
Whack the damn thing.
The last component of the solar power system is john c.
's tracking device.
This arm is gonna connect on here and move them all side-to-side to follow the sun.
Let's see if this thing works, michael.
Click it on.
Let's try.
Motor's going.
It's moving.
It's tracking.
I want to see if the tracker's gonna actually see it.
That's looking good.
The earth receives more energy from the sun in just one hour than the entire planet uses in a year.
If harnessed properly, solar energy could take you completely off the grid and eliminate your reliance on fossil fuels.
As you can see, we've got our gear motor here.
And this little tracking system that i designed basically has one photocell right here, with some shade.
When the sun is out, it will track till the sun is actually shining on that cell.
Then it'll stop this motor.
When the sun advances, the thing will advance along with it.
At the end of the day, there's another photocell at the top shuts the whole thing down.
We're getting free power from the sun, no generator, no gasifier.
Batteries getting charged by total solar power, thanks to these guys.
Everybody, guys.
Awesome! We're completely running on solar.
The whole system is working perfectly.
The arrays are moving as they're supposed to.
They're generating the right power.
The tracker is working.
I couldn't be happier.
So, it's all hooked up.
But the best is actually in here.
Okay.
I patched it in.
Made a little voltmeter here, actually, to measure the voltage.
It's about 14 volts, which is great.
The inverters are telling me that these things are full.
This means welding.
This means fabricating.
This means getting the truck running.
And getting out of here.
That would be awesome.
Let's go use some of it.
Yeah, let's go use some power.
I want to light this place up like it was a christmas tree.
As day 25 ends, mike's in the mood to celebrate.
Light 'em up.
Yeah, baby! Let there be light.
Whoo! Yeah, baby! Lights, baby! And a lot more to come.
John v.
Is ready to finish off the pedal-powered clothes washer.
Okay, now we're gonna take this bike and mount it into the brackets.
We've got to cut down a couple more pieces of wood to shim it up.
I'm literally a couple screws away.
Okay.
Why don't you put the drum on there? We didn't have any shorter ones? Nope.
That's all we have.
Whoo-hoo! We're washin' laundry, man.
It will be a lot of water.
That works, man! Look at that! Oh, my god! That's brilliant! I'm happy.
This is the gentle cycle.
My clothes weren't that dirty.
Look at all that dirt.
Whoa, your clothes weren't dirty, my look at this.
Looks like river mud.
For 30 seconds of pedaling, that's some pretty dirty water.
We so do not suck.
It's very important that we maybe take a break, sit down, get off our feet, rest, relax.
This is it.
In this phase of the experiment, two outsiders will stake a claim to the colony itself.
Up to this point, outsiders sent to the compound have clearly been outsiders.
The last thing the colonists expect is someone walking in with their own key.
The thing about a disaster on a major scale is that laws and normal property rights may be ignored.
People will squat in houses, buildings, pretty much wherever they can.
We saw this after katrina.
Yo! Hey.
Guys? Hey! Somebody's in here.
Somebody's in here.
Who the hell are you guys? Hey! Everybody! We got company! Everybody in! Now! What's up, man? Stay there.
I don't have to stay there.
You're in my house.
No, this is my house.
I left here you left here? six weeks ago, and now what is all this? What? The two new arrivals have been briefed on the colonists' activities over the past five weeks.
It's called our home, baby.
Who brought this truck in here? It was outside.
We brought it in.
When a guy that's 6'5" and 260 pounds walks in your door, you're not actually gonna tackle the guy and pin him to the ground.
What about my cash that was in a safe? We got the cash.
You got my vodka? Unfortunately, the vodka's gone.
Andre.
Andre, i'm joey.
Andre, i'm mike.
Hey, andre.
Everybody, introduce yourself.
Let's get them some water.
Just out of curiosity, because we have been having some problems, did you guys just walk right in? Yeah, i have a key to that door.
It's his place, obviously.
We were wondering who was here before us, and we didn't realize that they would be coming back.
You guys made a lot of changes, huh? We did more than you think.
What's up with the truck? That truck is gonna run.
You think you're gonna start that truck up? We started that truck up.
That truck runs.
And we're gonna get other things running.
We got gennies.
We got power.
We got solar panels.
We got everything.
Are we still stocked with food in the pantry? We got some food.
The one thing that gets me, right off from the bat, is you did have a key.
But we haven't seen anybody else except for you two right now, as far as people that we want to run into.
I know this is your place.
You have to understand, this has kind of become our place.
Joey, please speak to where we can all hear you, 'cause you're representing all of us.
Thank you.
When andre and elizabeth arrived, my intuition was just throwing red flags.
Joey is in charge of security, but as soon as we have two new people walk into our home, within five minutes, he's willing to show them all of our secrets.
Right now, mike has been staying in here.
Okay? We've been running electrical.
This bathroom, we've been using.
We're basically just flushing everything with gray water.
Oh, great.
You guys got a workout room, huh? Who put this up? Leilani did.
She's our martial-arts expert.
That's nice.
We got to work out sometime.
We got to spar.
We have a sparring guy.
We can spar.
So, what we've been doing is locking up at night, putting this board in between it.
Simply trying to just make a little normandy out here.
As you can see, i opened up the wall a little bit right there.
Remember, you had that room right there? I made a catwalk attaching that so i can have a lookout post also up there.
After a disaster, resources are limited.
And if you have a functioning shelter going, you have to decide under which conditions, if any, that you're gonna accept new people.
By not discussing it, the issue will force itself on you, because there are always more people who need help.
You put yourself in his shoes.
He left this place, trying to get out.
And he couldn't get out, and he came back and he found us.
Yeah, but still, i mean, having a key, you welcome him, embrace him, welcome him with open arms, tell him everything where all the food is? After putting all the cards above the table, that wasn't wise.
We're in a survival we're in a really tense situation, and i just don't feel like that was the best move.
Chickens.
Uh-huh.
Are you the leader of these guys? It's been happening, but we don't try to claim it that way.
This guy was obviously here before.
I don't trust him, but i don't not trust him, either.
I know the others think i'm stupid for that, but, uh, it'd be different if these people just showed up off of the street.
That wasn't the case.
This guy had a key.
He knew what was in the place.
So, if i were to, uh, if i wanted to go back out and look for survivors, you seem like a pretty strong we'll talk.
Whatever we have to do.
Yes, ma'am? Let's not take it upon yourself to discuss let's all discuss this, talk.
Absolutely, allison.
No need for you to take control right now.
This is the way he's acting.
"Here's the food.
Here's the water.
" How to receive newcomers is often a point of friction within a group.
Some are quick to welcome outsiders.
Others are far less trusting.
The two people that are against bringing people in are you and joey, and you guys are just like, "here.
" Well, he walked in with the key.
But, like, in a survival situation, there's no like, finders keepers.
The one thing i would say is that we just be attentive.
We cannot be attentive by saying, guess what, "hi, welcome, there's our food.
There's our other food.
There's our food.
Here's how to shoot the gun towards me.
" Let's make this a group effort and not a "joey showing them where everything is" effort.
I'm stepping back.
Please do.
I'm done.
Absolutely.
Right now, i just can only relate it to the four of us when we walked in and how grateful and appreciative we were to have a place to stay off the streets.
And they don't have that same approach, so, uh, it's odd.
It's very odd.
Despite their misgivings, the colonists sit down to their first dinner with the new arrivals.
So, eat, and welcome.
And, hopefully, this is maybe the beginning of something good.
And please relax while you're here.
So, what are we eating? Basically, just some beef and rice and a few noodles put together.
So, how many servings can i have? Like, can i get three, four? Every day, we're eating canned foods.
We're consuming these things that we're not replacing, that will not last forever.
It's incredibly stressful to be in a situation where we don't have food past two, three weeks.
I don't know if i want to stay here, but, uh, you know, i feel like this place is just as much mine as yours.
I'll stay as long as i want.
We're a community, and we have rules that we have to live by for our survival.
The consequences are severe.
You guys were out there.
'Cause all of our lives are at risk.
It's not okay to just go and crack open our community's food and eat when you're hungry.
It's not okay to urinate in whatever stall you want to and waste water.
I get that, but my question is, for people who come in, if there's death outside the door, are you gonna turn them away if they don't follow your rules? You're gonna play god and say, "you do this and stay here, or you're out.
" We play by the rules because we need to protect everyone in here from the chaos outside.
And if you want to come in, to be protected from the outside, then what is your problem to go according to our rules? The problem is being told that i must do something.
The rules abide by not wasting water, not common-sense stuff.
We're not telling you, "you have to sit there and do that and go there and do that.
" You know what, guys? I can't take this anymore.
I'm gonna leave here when i want to leave here.
It's not your decision.
Until then, we have to coexist.
As part of the experiment, these two people have been sent in to test the colonists' unity and challenge complacency.
I'm just trying to know where andre is at all times.
I want to do my own thing right now, you know, and i'd like you guys to, like, respect that and just kind of back off.
I'm trying to talk to him and get to know him.
I just find their behavior to be sketchy.
As much as i want to like them and trust them part of me still worries that they may not be completely on the level and that, you know, the fact that andre has a key doesn't make him necessarily a good guy.
I don't know what the right thing to do is right now.
I'm not exactly sure, so i'm just kind of in the waiting period.
They haven't proved themselves yet not at all.
What is that sound? Hey, is it cool if i take a shower? Absolutely.
The colonists ration their water supply, using only one minute of hot water per shower.
But liz is taking her time, draining their reservoir with a 30-minute soak.
Today, my mind has a heightened sense of awareness, let's say.
Just keeping an eye on our new friends.
That all the water that we brought to the roof.
We give her a shower, and she took all the water.
Guess what.
Let elizabeth take a shower.
Drained everything on the roof.
Not one single drop.
Why am i not surprised? What are you guys doing? I was gonna put down something about, uh, us being here.
Um, that's morgan, and that's what she's doing is to chronicle-ize our stay here.
Did you work out today? Uh, a little bit.
Feel like sparring, get a little workout in? Yeah.
I'm pretty sure i can handle you.
See what you got.
All right.
All right.
Hyah! Hyah, hyah! Hyah! Hyah! That's nice.
That's nice.
Yeah? That's all you got? Hyah! Whoo! I told you, girl.
Liz? Let's get out of here.
I feel like andre is testing me just to see just to figure it all out.
The colonists call an emergency meeting to discuss andre and liz.
Hey, mike! Let's all just have a sit-down.
Hardened tool steel my triple-threat nose picker.
You know, you can pick your friends, but you can never pick your friend's nose, right? That's right.
Okay.
Is everybody here? My nose picker.
We have a number of concerns.
This is a very serious situation.
We welcomed these guys in, okay? We gave them the benefit of the doubt.
We've offered them food.
We've offered them shelter.
We've offered them to participate and become a member of our community.
What that takes from their end is a willingness to contribute.
How much time we're gonna give them that's gonna be up for discussion.
They're trying out for the team.
So far, they haven't made it.
The most important thing for a group that's digging their way out of a disaster is a sense of stability.
That sense can only come once the group members are familiar and comfortable with one another.
If an outsider or group of outsiders suddenly appear, it can upset that fragile dynamic.
This isn't just a houseguest that we have to turn away and hurt some feelings.
If this doesn't work out, this can be our survival.
The consequences are severe.
They already got it.
No, this is we're all sitting around here talking while they're taking our wake up! It's not solar week anymore! Andre? You want to have a sit-down with us? Oh, my god.
We've been very hospitable.
He's not even respecting what you're saying.
He's looking away.
Can't you see what he's doing? If you think that you intimidate me by your size, i can put you down with my thumb.
So, respect me, look at me, and get out of my face with that what are you gonna do? We'll talk later.
Andre, i've not disrespected you once.
All right? Neither has joey, neither has george, neither has the professor.
We are all standing here.
Basically, what we're saying, there are codes of conduct here.
All right? We have worked hard to get water.
You don't know how hard and how many times we have risked our lives to get water.
And you know water is the basis of survival.
If you want to not be a part, then don't be a part.
Don't use the water.
Don't use the shower.
Don't use anything that we have worked hard for.
Andre and liz don't like the rules, so the colonists are ready to see them leave.
Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk.
Liz? Let's go.
Let's get out of here.
Let's go upstairs and get our got it.
Could someone go and grab a couple of cans for them and some water, please? Just just something.
John c.
Gathers up some food to send them off.
But the newcomers make one more grab at the colony's resources.
Excuse me, liz.
What's up? Wait.
Liz, what are you doing? After weeks of isolation, the volunteers begin to believe that the world of the experiment is real.
And therefore, any threat to their food or supplies becomes an actual threat to what is keeping them alive.
In that case, they'll defend their resources almost as if their very lives depend on it.
Hey, liz, what are you doing? This stuff is ours just as much as it is yours.
Andre and liz have been sent in to test the colonists' unity and complacency.
They've been instructed not to physically harm the colonists, but the colonists don't know that.
And accidents can happen.
Get off of me, blondie! Put the cans down! Andre! Get your hands off of her! Now! We've taken from you, man! No! No! Andre! You've done enough! Look over there.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Whoa, whoa! Hey, hey, hey! Don't you ever touch me! How dare you?! We let you in here! We gave you water! We gave you food! And all you want to do is steal! Get the out! Give us a couple more cans.
We may have let you in, but you asked, man.
Empty-handed! Out! Let's go.
Drop the cans! No, let them have that and some water.
Scared of your get out! Get out! You emptied my bag? Put my back in my bag! You can leave, but you're only leaving empty-handed.
Are you going now?! Get out of my bag! Stop it! Stop it! Stop.
It's done.
Open that door! Get out and never come back, 'cause you're never allowed back.
We'll be back.
Don't worry.
We'll be ready for your you be ready! Be ready! We kicked you out this time, we'll kick you out again! I'm okay.
You're alive.
That's good.
Hell, yeah, i'm alive.
You okay? Yeah, i'm fine.
I'm fine.
You teach me well.
I'm fine.
That door that they came in it's okay.
I'm too mad right now.
Please don't.
It's okay.
Even allison didn't know she could get that angry.
I knew she could, and she did it, and that impressed me.
And i think she feels stronger for being able to get, you know, violent when it was necessary, and it was necessary.
It was almost beautiful and poetic and magical all at the same moment, with all the craziness and the yelling and the screaming, to feel that unity finally just snap into place as if we all had one common purpose, and that was to get these two threatening people outside of our compound, and we did.
"The colony's code of conduct.
"Our colony adheres to live with respect "towards all of the following and to contribute "towards the procurement and security of each and all.
"If anyone cannot abide by these guidelines of the colony, "we will not be able to welcome you amongst us, "and the colony must disassociate from you, for we will not be able to coexist.
" Coming up on "the colony" communicating with the outside world.
Hey, you guys, we're transmitting.
And the colonists lose one of their own.
He went too far.
I can't find him.
I've never left a man behind until today!
Human conflict.
Nuclear bombs.
Natural disasters.
Chemical and biological warfare.
Without warning, the world as we know it can come to an end.
22 days ago, a group of volunteers entered a 10-week experiment to see if they can survive and rebuild after a simulated viral outbreak leaves los angeles and the rest of the planet devastated.
Their new home a cordoned-off, 80,000-square-foot warehouse near downtown los angeles.
They started with no electricity no water and no communication with the outside world.
They're not broadcasting.
They're just transmitting.
As part of the experiment, an outside gang of looters and thugs challenge the colonists' resources and security.
So far, the volunteers have built the survival basics.
There you go.
And after an attack to steal their resources they assembled an arsenal of weapons whoa! Now i'm looking at five.
a quest for solar energy and a fight for survival.
No! Don't touch me! As day 23 begins, the colonists are still struggling to make a normal life for themselves.
I am not happy in this warehouse.
In the end, our team has one main goal, and that is to get the hell out of here.
Acquiring food and supplies after a disaster can be difficult.
Eventually, you'll want to leave the city and go to a place that has more sustainable resources.
With their supplies diminishing, the volunteers have set their sights on leaving the bleak, urban environment of the colony by fixing a broken-down flatbed truck.
As part of the experiment, the volunteers must survive and rebuild, using the limited resources on hand.
But later in the experiment, they'll be given details of a possible escape route.
Last week, they took their first step toward life beyond the colony by getting the truck's engine up and running.
It runs! Purrs like a kitten.
Now the colonists need to figure out the rest of the plan for their escape vehicle.
What do we need on this to really get out of here? Think of this as our exodus vehicle, right? It's got to look scary, and it's got to be able to take somebody out if you really need to.
What kind of weaponry can we have? I mean, one thought i had is an air cannon and/or a flamethrower.
Yeah, what you got, leilani? Even if we had something protruding out, kind of like spears, like, on a pole.
Along here, we all got to be able to sit.
Like, we could go several miles without running into people.
So i was just looking at simple wooden benches that open up, like on a sailboat.
We can store all of our food on them.
We have to watch our clearance on this.
We're dealing with a 13-foot truck, so i'm thinking taking that shell off and then working the plankings.
Sounds good.
The idea is, if we pull this, the weight of this thing is gonna pull it down and snap it off, and we'll be free and clear of this back.
Oh! It took out the gir yeah! There we go.
Ah ho ho! Good.
Done.
With the back removed, it's time to clear the busted planks from the deck, which means it's time to crank up their new generator.
Four days ago, the colonists bartered for it and 5 gallons of gasoline from a band of traders.
The new genny should put out four times the juice of their old one a jury-rigged model mike made from a pressure-washer engine and two car alternators.
With the new generator, the colonists should finally be able to crank up their arc welder a necessity for working on the escape vehicle.
Back to the genny.
Damn it.
In the shop, mike tries to figure out what's wrong with the new generator.
I had current through there.
That meter shows that we have some electricity flowing but not enough not the right one.
It's not it's not doing it right.
It should be steady, and it's not steady.
It's jumping up and down.
Something is seriously wrong.
Right now, this is a dead deal.
Joe the trader screwed us.
We gave him two good machines for a junk machine.
In a catastrophe, small generators and batteries are a temporary solution for power.
But, eventually, you'll need something more sustainable for the long term.
Until they can fix the new generator, it's back to the old one, but that means no welding.
It's not a genny.
It's a car alternator.
It was only meant to charge a battery.
It'll get us power.
Won't get us welding power.
I would give my left "you know what" for a couple of solar panels.
I'm so sick of this.
I think i mentioned that i saw solar panels.
Where? Joey remembers seeing solar panels in two places on the roof of a nearby abandoned building and on his walk to the colony 22 days ago.
I'm looking at five.
Where, where, where, where, where, where, where? About 1:00.
Those have to be solar panels.
They're worth a look.
To duplicate the generator, we're gonna need about eight panels, just to keep the batteries charged up so we can use power tools here and there.
Maybe if you want to go check what we saw on the roof with binoculars, with a few people, i'll take a few people to where i think i remember seeing them.
Let's organize our little raiding parties and get going.
Go, go.
Michael is really getting everyone involved, and everyone recognizes the importance of having an alternative source of energy.
And us being situated here in los angeles, there's no better place to tap into the seemingly never-ending energy from the sun.
All right, lock up.
The colonists have encountered thugs and thieves on the streets outside the colony.
Not knowing what lies ahead, they proceed with caution.
The building where mike saw the panels and the freight yard from day one have both been cordoned off as part of the experiment.
Joey will lead his team to the yard while mike takes a crew to break into the building.
Think anyone lives here? I don't know.
Steel-frame door.
See if i still got the skills.
Yeah! There we go.
That was it? That was it? Hang on.
I think i got it.
Yeah! There.
Whoo! Anything spooky up there? Solar panels? Those are the ones? Wow.
Solar panels are used to power warning lights on railways and highways.
They don't need to be attached to the electricity grid, and they last for years.
That's exactly what we need on the bottom.
We need to take this whole thing, okay? Let's roll out of here fast.
Come on.
Wait.
You good? Meanwhile, mike and his team have the more difficult task of disassembling a permanent installation on the roof.
Now i got to put all the screws back in here.
I unscrewed my end over here.
After a disaster, scavenging and stealing may actually become a way of life.
And the people who would ordinarily never steal are out there taking things.
The panels weigh about 20 pounds each, and these colonists have netted 14 of them.
John v.
Scavenges materials for a makeshift litter that will carry the load.
We got solar panels and, you know, all the energy we can use, pretty much, during the daytime.
But now we just got to set it up.
There.
Push it down now.
You guys, open up! Come on in.
Look what we got.
Keep on pushing it now.
There we go.
Way to go, guys.
How many did we get? Oh, damn! What are those, 75s? 75, so do the math.
Four 75s over there.
So we got 2 kilowatts almost.
All told, the colonists net 1875-watt solar panels enough to keep their batteries charged indefinitely.
Come on, guys.
Come on, come on, come on.
First of all, let me tell you what a solar panel does and how it's made.
These are very fragile.
The toughest part is the glass.
You can't scratch it, but you can break it.
Let's say this solar panel had two of these cells missing.
It would put out maybe 10 watts instead of 75.
It's that sensitive.
So, we have our battery bank.
We have our inverter, and our inverter gives us a.
c.
The solar panels are all gonna be lined up.
The most important thing to do is to set these panels up on a stand outside.
Mike's plan calls for building a solar-panel structure in three stages.
First, they'll weld together three frames, each holding six panels.
Then, they'll construct a base for the frames to fit into and rotate on.
The third and final step will be mounting a motorized swivel that follows the sun as it moves across the sky.
So, imagine our genny running eight hours a day with no noise.
And no fuel.
We've got the power that we need right now to do whatever the hell we want.
This is a big job.
Everyone's got to be involved.
This takes precedence over everything.
The colonists have a great scheme for making power, but they need their new generator to implement it.
I cannot weld up the solar system.
We need the big genny up to weld.
Everything's on hold until tomorrow morning.
When there's light, i can jump on that genny and try to figure out why the hell it's not working.
Coming up that is freakin' amazing.
the quest for solar continues whoo! No, no! and the colonists face a threat to their very survival.
All you want to do is steal! Get the out! We need to start rationing a little bit.
I think we're on our last bag of coffee.
We're done with peanut butter.
Currently, they have 11 days of food, 9 days of water, and only 4 gallons of gas for the generator.
I'm going to immediately jump on the genny.
Let me work on the genny alone, because two heads in one toilet doesn't work, okay? Okay, just let me know if you need help.
I like welding and making lots of strong stuff, so i need to get this genny working one way or another.
If you're going to try large-scale construction, you need an arc welder.
It's a kind of tool that allows you to fuse metal into whatever shape you need.
But it requires a good deal of power about 3,000 watts.
After four hours, mike is still baffled.
The converter's all hooked up.
How's this going? It's going rough, man.
It's going rough.
Can you start it and let me see if i can we'll start it, but you measure it and you'll get nothing.
Mike, it's running too slow.
Its rpms are too low.
With john c.
's help, mike realizes his mistake.
I lowered the rpms, thinking that we'd save fuel.
Lowering the rpms pbht! Wouldn't engage.
Just didn't kick in.
It kicked in, but it didn't kick in enough.
This thing is meant to run at 1,800 to 3,000 rpm.
Let's put the damn thing together, and we can weld.
With the genny finally cranking, the solar build can officially begin.
In the side room, mike and joey find plenty of scaffolding pipe for the solar-panel frames.
If we have one piece of pipe we need one pipe to go inside or outside of one of these pipes.
And how loose can it be? It doesn't have to be perfect.
It can be a little loose.
All this stuff's the same.
What's that? Let's cut this off and see what we got.
Like "buttah.
" Do it! Do it! Yeah! That's what i'm talking about.
There's our swivel.
All right.
Whew! Aah.
Got me again.
Got me a couple times.
With the frames in place, mike moves on to stage 2 of the build the supporting base.
We're basically gonna have a pole here.
It's gonna be drilled into here for a base.
And then we put our big "h" unit on top of that to hold the solar panel.
There we are.
Whew.
Morning noon afternoon.
In the main warehouse space, computer engineer john c.
Is working on the final stage of the build a motorized solar tracking system.
This is actually the gear motor that we're gonna use.
So, these are little photoresistors from these little electronic kits over here.
Now, if the sun were coming in like this if it saw this one more than the other one, that motor would start turning clockwise.
And then, as soon as they got even, it would stop, which is what you want.
If it were to overshoot or it were to be night, it would back up until it got even again.
So both of those things need to be in the full light, and then it'll stop.
And it's working, which is pretty darn cool.
I love it.
I love it.
That's just freakin' amazing.
That is freakin' amazing.
That is brilliant.
The components are complete.
It's time to assemble them in the yard.
Now, what we need is a cross gusset this way and another cross gusset that way to keep the shear from doing this.
We already have this taken care of.
You guys want to raise that one up as much as we need it? Right, raise that one up as high as you can get it.
Tilt, tilt, tilt.
I got it.
Watch your hand.
Manhandled.
All righty.
All right, back over.
Watch your fingers.
Are you clear? This is where we test our welds.
So, if they're gonna break, they're gonna break now and not with the panels on.
So they ain't breakin'.
That works.
Yay! Engineering is about inventing cool stuff, and there's no better motivation than survival to invent your way into a better existence or keep yourself in existence.
Rather than drill screws into the delicate panels, the colonists mount them at the edges with bolts and washers.
And, joey, this is the worst time to ever miss.
I gotcha.
This would be the worst time to ever miss a screw.
I don't miss.
By the end of the day, the colonists have mounted all 18 panels.
The dream of unlimited electrical power awaits only john c.
's sun-tracking system.
Coming up on "the colony" we have to coexist.
two more volunteers arrive.
I find their behavior to be sketchy.
And the colonists' world turns upside down.
Hyah! Dawn breaks on the colony.
John c.
And mike still have a day's work to finish the solar project, and john v.
Has a scheme to solve a long-standing gripe.
I was thinking of doing that washing machine.
My idea was just a simple bucket tilted on its side.
Until this point, the colonists have done their wash by hand in tubs, using corrugated steel as a washboard.
You put your laundry in here your dirty clothes right in there.
And it spins around, propelled by you guessed it a bicycle.
So, that's it.
Will it make my clothes more beige? And your browns more radiant.
So, what i have planned here was to get these drive wheels.
Then, this whole assembly being tilted like this.
When this spins on the rollers, it'll spin on these rollers.
And to drain it, drop down to drain.
Basically, what i'm gonna do is get this freewheel gear off the bicycle.
It'll be almost like riding a normal bike.
It should just line up to the barrel, sit right on top of this wheel, and roll out the barrel.
It'll spin with it.
It doesn't run.
It's freewheel.
Whack the damn thing.
The last component of the solar power system is john c.
's tracking device.
This arm is gonna connect on here and move them all side-to-side to follow the sun.
Let's see if this thing works, michael.
Click it on.
Let's try.
Motor's going.
It's moving.
It's tracking.
I want to see if the tracker's gonna actually see it.
That's looking good.
The earth receives more energy from the sun in just one hour than the entire planet uses in a year.
If harnessed properly, solar energy could take you completely off the grid and eliminate your reliance on fossil fuels.
As you can see, we've got our gear motor here.
And this little tracking system that i designed basically has one photocell right here, with some shade.
When the sun is out, it will track till the sun is actually shining on that cell.
Then it'll stop this motor.
When the sun advances, the thing will advance along with it.
At the end of the day, there's another photocell at the top shuts the whole thing down.
We're getting free power from the sun, no generator, no gasifier.
Batteries getting charged by total solar power, thanks to these guys.
Everybody, guys.
Awesome! We're completely running on solar.
The whole system is working perfectly.
The arrays are moving as they're supposed to.
They're generating the right power.
The tracker is working.
I couldn't be happier.
So, it's all hooked up.
But the best is actually in here.
Okay.
I patched it in.
Made a little voltmeter here, actually, to measure the voltage.
It's about 14 volts, which is great.
The inverters are telling me that these things are full.
This means welding.
This means fabricating.
This means getting the truck running.
And getting out of here.
That would be awesome.
Let's go use some of it.
Yeah, let's go use some power.
I want to light this place up like it was a christmas tree.
As day 25 ends, mike's in the mood to celebrate.
Light 'em up.
Yeah, baby! Let there be light.
Whoo! Yeah, baby! Lights, baby! And a lot more to come.
John v.
Is ready to finish off the pedal-powered clothes washer.
Okay, now we're gonna take this bike and mount it into the brackets.
We've got to cut down a couple more pieces of wood to shim it up.
I'm literally a couple screws away.
Okay.
Why don't you put the drum on there? We didn't have any shorter ones? Nope.
That's all we have.
Whoo-hoo! We're washin' laundry, man.
It will be a lot of water.
That works, man! Look at that! Oh, my god! That's brilliant! I'm happy.
This is the gentle cycle.
My clothes weren't that dirty.
Look at all that dirt.
Whoa, your clothes weren't dirty, my look at this.
Looks like river mud.
For 30 seconds of pedaling, that's some pretty dirty water.
We so do not suck.
It's very important that we maybe take a break, sit down, get off our feet, rest, relax.
This is it.
In this phase of the experiment, two outsiders will stake a claim to the colony itself.
Up to this point, outsiders sent to the compound have clearly been outsiders.
The last thing the colonists expect is someone walking in with their own key.
The thing about a disaster on a major scale is that laws and normal property rights may be ignored.
People will squat in houses, buildings, pretty much wherever they can.
We saw this after katrina.
Yo! Hey.
Guys? Hey! Somebody's in here.
Somebody's in here.
Who the hell are you guys? Hey! Everybody! We got company! Everybody in! Now! What's up, man? Stay there.
I don't have to stay there.
You're in my house.
No, this is my house.
I left here you left here? six weeks ago, and now what is all this? What? The two new arrivals have been briefed on the colonists' activities over the past five weeks.
It's called our home, baby.
Who brought this truck in here? It was outside.
We brought it in.
When a guy that's 6'5" and 260 pounds walks in your door, you're not actually gonna tackle the guy and pin him to the ground.
What about my cash that was in a safe? We got the cash.
You got my vodka? Unfortunately, the vodka's gone.
Andre.
Andre, i'm joey.
Andre, i'm mike.
Hey, andre.
Everybody, introduce yourself.
Let's get them some water.
Just out of curiosity, because we have been having some problems, did you guys just walk right in? Yeah, i have a key to that door.
It's his place, obviously.
We were wondering who was here before us, and we didn't realize that they would be coming back.
You guys made a lot of changes, huh? We did more than you think.
What's up with the truck? That truck is gonna run.
You think you're gonna start that truck up? We started that truck up.
That truck runs.
And we're gonna get other things running.
We got gennies.
We got power.
We got solar panels.
We got everything.
Are we still stocked with food in the pantry? We got some food.
The one thing that gets me, right off from the bat, is you did have a key.
But we haven't seen anybody else except for you two right now, as far as people that we want to run into.
I know this is your place.
You have to understand, this has kind of become our place.
Joey, please speak to where we can all hear you, 'cause you're representing all of us.
Thank you.
When andre and elizabeth arrived, my intuition was just throwing red flags.
Joey is in charge of security, but as soon as we have two new people walk into our home, within five minutes, he's willing to show them all of our secrets.
Right now, mike has been staying in here.
Okay? We've been running electrical.
This bathroom, we've been using.
We're basically just flushing everything with gray water.
Oh, great.
You guys got a workout room, huh? Who put this up? Leilani did.
She's our martial-arts expert.
That's nice.
We got to work out sometime.
We got to spar.
We have a sparring guy.
We can spar.
So, what we've been doing is locking up at night, putting this board in between it.
Simply trying to just make a little normandy out here.
As you can see, i opened up the wall a little bit right there.
Remember, you had that room right there? I made a catwalk attaching that so i can have a lookout post also up there.
After a disaster, resources are limited.
And if you have a functioning shelter going, you have to decide under which conditions, if any, that you're gonna accept new people.
By not discussing it, the issue will force itself on you, because there are always more people who need help.
You put yourself in his shoes.
He left this place, trying to get out.
And he couldn't get out, and he came back and he found us.
Yeah, but still, i mean, having a key, you welcome him, embrace him, welcome him with open arms, tell him everything where all the food is? After putting all the cards above the table, that wasn't wise.
We're in a survival we're in a really tense situation, and i just don't feel like that was the best move.
Chickens.
Uh-huh.
Are you the leader of these guys? It's been happening, but we don't try to claim it that way.
This guy was obviously here before.
I don't trust him, but i don't not trust him, either.
I know the others think i'm stupid for that, but, uh, it'd be different if these people just showed up off of the street.
That wasn't the case.
This guy had a key.
He knew what was in the place.
So, if i were to, uh, if i wanted to go back out and look for survivors, you seem like a pretty strong we'll talk.
Whatever we have to do.
Yes, ma'am? Let's not take it upon yourself to discuss let's all discuss this, talk.
Absolutely, allison.
No need for you to take control right now.
This is the way he's acting.
"Here's the food.
Here's the water.
" How to receive newcomers is often a point of friction within a group.
Some are quick to welcome outsiders.
Others are far less trusting.
The two people that are against bringing people in are you and joey, and you guys are just like, "here.
" Well, he walked in with the key.
But, like, in a survival situation, there's no like, finders keepers.
The one thing i would say is that we just be attentive.
We cannot be attentive by saying, guess what, "hi, welcome, there's our food.
There's our other food.
There's our food.
Here's how to shoot the gun towards me.
" Let's make this a group effort and not a "joey showing them where everything is" effort.
I'm stepping back.
Please do.
I'm done.
Absolutely.
Right now, i just can only relate it to the four of us when we walked in and how grateful and appreciative we were to have a place to stay off the streets.
And they don't have that same approach, so, uh, it's odd.
It's very odd.
Despite their misgivings, the colonists sit down to their first dinner with the new arrivals.
So, eat, and welcome.
And, hopefully, this is maybe the beginning of something good.
And please relax while you're here.
So, what are we eating? Basically, just some beef and rice and a few noodles put together.
So, how many servings can i have? Like, can i get three, four? Every day, we're eating canned foods.
We're consuming these things that we're not replacing, that will not last forever.
It's incredibly stressful to be in a situation where we don't have food past two, three weeks.
I don't know if i want to stay here, but, uh, you know, i feel like this place is just as much mine as yours.
I'll stay as long as i want.
We're a community, and we have rules that we have to live by for our survival.
The consequences are severe.
You guys were out there.
'Cause all of our lives are at risk.
It's not okay to just go and crack open our community's food and eat when you're hungry.
It's not okay to urinate in whatever stall you want to and waste water.
I get that, but my question is, for people who come in, if there's death outside the door, are you gonna turn them away if they don't follow your rules? You're gonna play god and say, "you do this and stay here, or you're out.
" We play by the rules because we need to protect everyone in here from the chaos outside.
And if you want to come in, to be protected from the outside, then what is your problem to go according to our rules? The problem is being told that i must do something.
The rules abide by not wasting water, not common-sense stuff.
We're not telling you, "you have to sit there and do that and go there and do that.
" You know what, guys? I can't take this anymore.
I'm gonna leave here when i want to leave here.
It's not your decision.
Until then, we have to coexist.
As part of the experiment, these two people have been sent in to test the colonists' unity and challenge complacency.
I'm just trying to know where andre is at all times.
I want to do my own thing right now, you know, and i'd like you guys to, like, respect that and just kind of back off.
I'm trying to talk to him and get to know him.
I just find their behavior to be sketchy.
As much as i want to like them and trust them part of me still worries that they may not be completely on the level and that, you know, the fact that andre has a key doesn't make him necessarily a good guy.
I don't know what the right thing to do is right now.
I'm not exactly sure, so i'm just kind of in the waiting period.
They haven't proved themselves yet not at all.
What is that sound? Hey, is it cool if i take a shower? Absolutely.
The colonists ration their water supply, using only one minute of hot water per shower.
But liz is taking her time, draining their reservoir with a 30-minute soak.
Today, my mind has a heightened sense of awareness, let's say.
Just keeping an eye on our new friends.
That all the water that we brought to the roof.
We give her a shower, and she took all the water.
Guess what.
Let elizabeth take a shower.
Drained everything on the roof.
Not one single drop.
Why am i not surprised? What are you guys doing? I was gonna put down something about, uh, us being here.
Um, that's morgan, and that's what she's doing is to chronicle-ize our stay here.
Did you work out today? Uh, a little bit.
Feel like sparring, get a little workout in? Yeah.
I'm pretty sure i can handle you.
See what you got.
All right.
All right.
Hyah! Hyah, hyah! Hyah! Hyah! That's nice.
That's nice.
Yeah? That's all you got? Hyah! Whoo! I told you, girl.
Liz? Let's get out of here.
I feel like andre is testing me just to see just to figure it all out.
The colonists call an emergency meeting to discuss andre and liz.
Hey, mike! Let's all just have a sit-down.
Hardened tool steel my triple-threat nose picker.
You know, you can pick your friends, but you can never pick your friend's nose, right? That's right.
Okay.
Is everybody here? My nose picker.
We have a number of concerns.
This is a very serious situation.
We welcomed these guys in, okay? We gave them the benefit of the doubt.
We've offered them food.
We've offered them shelter.
We've offered them to participate and become a member of our community.
What that takes from their end is a willingness to contribute.
How much time we're gonna give them that's gonna be up for discussion.
They're trying out for the team.
So far, they haven't made it.
The most important thing for a group that's digging their way out of a disaster is a sense of stability.
That sense can only come once the group members are familiar and comfortable with one another.
If an outsider or group of outsiders suddenly appear, it can upset that fragile dynamic.
This isn't just a houseguest that we have to turn away and hurt some feelings.
If this doesn't work out, this can be our survival.
The consequences are severe.
They already got it.
No, this is we're all sitting around here talking while they're taking our wake up! It's not solar week anymore! Andre? You want to have a sit-down with us? Oh, my god.
We've been very hospitable.
He's not even respecting what you're saying.
He's looking away.
Can't you see what he's doing? If you think that you intimidate me by your size, i can put you down with my thumb.
So, respect me, look at me, and get out of my face with that what are you gonna do? We'll talk later.
Andre, i've not disrespected you once.
All right? Neither has joey, neither has george, neither has the professor.
We are all standing here.
Basically, what we're saying, there are codes of conduct here.
All right? We have worked hard to get water.
You don't know how hard and how many times we have risked our lives to get water.
And you know water is the basis of survival.
If you want to not be a part, then don't be a part.
Don't use the water.
Don't use the shower.
Don't use anything that we have worked hard for.
Andre and liz don't like the rules, so the colonists are ready to see them leave.
Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk.
Liz? Let's go.
Let's get out of here.
Let's go upstairs and get our got it.
Could someone go and grab a couple of cans for them and some water, please? Just just something.
John c.
Gathers up some food to send them off.
But the newcomers make one more grab at the colony's resources.
Excuse me, liz.
What's up? Wait.
Liz, what are you doing? After weeks of isolation, the volunteers begin to believe that the world of the experiment is real.
And therefore, any threat to their food or supplies becomes an actual threat to what is keeping them alive.
In that case, they'll defend their resources almost as if their very lives depend on it.
Hey, liz, what are you doing? This stuff is ours just as much as it is yours.
Andre and liz have been sent in to test the colonists' unity and complacency.
They've been instructed not to physically harm the colonists, but the colonists don't know that.
And accidents can happen.
Get off of me, blondie! Put the cans down! Andre! Get your hands off of her! Now! We've taken from you, man! No! No! Andre! You've done enough! Look over there.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Whoa, whoa! Hey, hey, hey! Don't you ever touch me! How dare you?! We let you in here! We gave you water! We gave you food! And all you want to do is steal! Get the out! Give us a couple more cans.
We may have let you in, but you asked, man.
Empty-handed! Out! Let's go.
Drop the cans! No, let them have that and some water.
Scared of your get out! Get out! You emptied my bag? Put my back in my bag! You can leave, but you're only leaving empty-handed.
Are you going now?! Get out of my bag! Stop it! Stop it! Stop.
It's done.
Open that door! Get out and never come back, 'cause you're never allowed back.
We'll be back.
Don't worry.
We'll be ready for your you be ready! Be ready! We kicked you out this time, we'll kick you out again! I'm okay.
You're alive.
That's good.
Hell, yeah, i'm alive.
You okay? Yeah, i'm fine.
I'm fine.
You teach me well.
I'm fine.
That door that they came in it's okay.
I'm too mad right now.
Please don't.
It's okay.
Even allison didn't know she could get that angry.
I knew she could, and she did it, and that impressed me.
And i think she feels stronger for being able to get, you know, violent when it was necessary, and it was necessary.
It was almost beautiful and poetic and magical all at the same moment, with all the craziness and the yelling and the screaming, to feel that unity finally just snap into place as if we all had one common purpose, and that was to get these two threatening people outside of our compound, and we did.
"The colony's code of conduct.
"Our colony adheres to live with respect "towards all of the following and to contribute "towards the procurement and security of each and all.
"If anyone cannot abide by these guidelines of the colony, "we will not be able to welcome you amongst us, "and the colony must disassociate from you, for we will not be able to coexist.
" Coming up on "the colony" communicating with the outside world.
Hey, you guys, we're transmitting.
And the colonists lose one of their own.
He went too far.
I can't find him.
I've never left a man behind until today!