Jeremiah (2002) s01e19 Episode Script
Things Left Unsaid (1)
(Jeremiah) Dear dad, after searching all these years, I know now that Valhalla Sector is real, and that you may still be there, alive.
What I want is to break off and go looking.
But look where? Simon's journal only goes so far.
Marcus promised he'd pass along any information he gets about Valhalla Sector.
So, until then, all I can do is wait and do jobs like this to fill in the time.
Hey, I need a good word that rhymes with "existential.
" "Presidential.
" No.
President's dead.
That's what makes it existential.
Lee Chen sent us out on one of his patented go-see-what's-out-there missions, while Marcus finishes putting together a big meeting in St.
Louis.
They're bringing in some of the people who've managed to rebuild different parts of the country to talk about creating an alliance, kind of a continental Congress thing.
Seems odd that Lee would send us all the way out here at a time like this, just to drive around.
I'd almost think he wants us out of the picture, but I'm trying to be less paranoid these days.
[crickets chirping.]
Shit.
Kurdy "Deferential" won't work either.
I tried that one.
Somebody cut a page out of the back of Simon's journal.
What? Check it out.
See? The other side of the sheet came out.
Somebody cut it.
Maybe Simon tore something out.
No, man, it was his journal.
He-- If he was going to tear it out, he'd just tear it out.
There wouldn't be any reason for him to try to hide it.
Someone took a razor or something sharp and cut it deep in the fold right there, so that nobody would notice that there was a page missing.
Who the hell would do that? It's not who would.
It's who could.
Goddamn, we've been following this thing for 10 months like it was the fucking Bible.
It's been doctored, because somebody didn't want us to find something out.
I'm going back.
Oh, no.
Right now? Yes, right now.
They've been jerking us around, they've been keeping shit from us from the first fucking day! They cut something out of the end of Simon's journal, and I'm going to find out what it was, and, by God, I'm going to find out why.
[engine starting.]
[engine revving.]
[tires screeching.]
(Jeremiah) Dear dad, it's been 15 years since the Big Death wiped out everyone over the age of innocence.
The end of your world, the beginning of mine.
[brakes screeching.]
(Jeremiah) Gas, oil Check the tires, will ya? It seems to be pulling to the left.
Looks like they're almost ready to go.
You know this whole thing was Elizabeth's idea, don't you? Deliver a bunch of gassed-up cars for those who can't make it to the meeting on their own, let 'em go as far as they can till they run out of gas, and pass them on to another car.
Thunder Mountain pony express.
Cute.
Speaking of Elizabeth, I--I know it's a lot to ask, so I gotta make sure you're down with this.
Yeah, I'm down.
I don't like it, but I'm down.
You know it's-it's not her personally.
It's just I know that.
Meet me back here in 10.
(Elizabeth) You sure you don't want to take a look? No, Elizabeth.
I, uh Probably won't find anything your size anyway.
You know, sometimes when the scavenger teams bring back supplies, it's kind of a mixed blessing.
It's like we get baby clothes and nothing else, or we get winter stuff and it's summer.
Not that you can really tell in here, but-- Listen, Elizabeth, I need to ask you something.
Mmm? And this may be a little difficult.
It's about Simon.
Oh.
When Simon died, we know that his journal was here somewhere, because Marcus ended up with it.
That's right.
What did he say when you gave it to him? He didn't.
That is, I didn't.
I didn't give it to him.
Then how'd he get it? Whenever Simon had to go into a place as screwed up as Clarefield, he'd report in every 48 hours so we'd know he was OK.
When he didn't report in, I got nervous.
I went to see Marcus, but he said he was sure Simon would check in soon.
And when I came back, Lee was already here reading the journal.
I mean, it wasn't a big deal.
It wasn't supposed to be private or anything, but Lee? What are you-- I knocked, but you weren't in.
You talked to Marcus? Uh, yeah, he said with any luck, we should hear from Simon in a few hours.
Maybe.
Just to be on the safe side, I figured I'd better find out where he was going and what he was doing, in case we have to send out a rescue team.
Wouldn't you know? All of our teams have a certain amount of discretion, Simon more than most.
Now, normally, I wouldn't intrude, but if he needs help-- Uh, no, it's OK.
You know, whatever helps Did Simon tell you who he was going to meet? No.
I was asleep when he took off.
I know he was in a hurry.
If you were asleep, how do you know he was in a hurry? Whenever he gets up first, he pulls the covers back over me to keep me warm, but when I got up, I was cold, and he was gone.
Do you mind if I No, no.
Like I said, anything that helps.
[door opening.]
[door closing.]
(Kurdy) So you never saw Simon's last entry? At the time, no, but later on, I asked Lee, and he let me take a look at his journal.
And it ended with the page about the burners, right? Nothing past that? No.
That was the end of it.
Why? Kurdy, what's going on? All right, now you gonna do this calm like we planned, right? Yeah, calm's my middle name.
Yeah, too bad your last name is "before-the-storm.
" You just do what you gotta do.
I'll be all right.
Yeah, I've heard that shit before.
(Lee) And with so many of our resources diverted outside to handle the meeting, we need to increase patrols around the perimeter.
Now, in just the last 10 days, we had 2 incidents of unidentified people checking out the area.
Now, maybe it's nothing, just somebody lost off the main road, but the way things are going-- Hey, Lee.
- Hey, what the - Stay out of this, Marcus.
Where the hell is it? I don't know what you're talking about.
Oh, really? Come on, why don't you lie to me some more, you piece of shit? Get security, fast! You been worrying about this day, Lee, huh? Wondering when it would come? Afraid I was too stupid to figure it out, but that I just might pull it off? That's enough! There's a page missing out of Simon's journal, Marcus! What? You're out of your mind.
It's true.
Someone cut it out.
Even if it is true, you don't know that Lee did anything.
Yes, I do, Marcus! If you had cut it out, you'd never have given me the book.
He got his hands on it first, before anybody else, so if somebody had cut it out, then he would know it.
Only he would know.
So what was on the page, Lee? huh? What was on that page that was so fucking important you had to cut it out, that you didn't want the rest of the world to ever know? Grab that crazy son of a bitch! [grunting.]
Marcus, God, I'm telling the truth! You crossed the line, Jeremiah.
I'm telling the truth! (Lee) Stick him in a holding cell.
It's not so easy when you don't have your pal Kurdy to back you up, is it? Where is Kurdy, Jeremiah? I don't know.
I've been too busy to worry about him.
Makes two of us, asshole! Lee, what the hell is going on? Lee? [rattling.]
(Marcus) Listening devices, detailed notes on every decision I've made in this office, every conversation that we had, every mission that (Jeremiah) We knew we had a leak.
It makes sense.
You want someone in a position to spy on us, get the guy in charge of security.
Who watches the watchmen? Exactly.
But you didn't find the missing page of Simon's journal? No.
I found everything else, but not that.
Erin, any sign of Lee? I've got every security team in the place turning the Mountain upside down, but we still can't find him.
If there's anybody who can slip out without being seen, it's Lee.
He knows every way in and out.
I've been thinking about the meeting in St.
Louis, Marcus.
(Erin) With all this going on, maybe we should postpone.
No.
We've gone through a lot of trouble to get these people onboard.
They're coming because Thunder Mountain represents strength and unity.
If we back off because we're afraid, it'll send the wrong message.
Besides, Lee wasn't directly involved in the security preparations for the meeting.
Nathan's been handling all that at his end.
You know, the thing is, I can almost justify most of this.
The listening devices, they could have been here since before we took over, and Lee's never been big on privacy.
The notes, he's an obsessive personality.
He might want to keep detailed logs of all our activities here.
This is where it all falls apart.
You don't have a cell phone unless there's someone on the other end to talk to.
He sure as hell wasn't calling any of us.
That leaves someone on the outside.
Does that thing have a, uh A phone directory? You know, list of numbers? No.
But it has a redial function.
[dialing.]
[phone ringing.]
(man) Yes? Hello? Hello? [phone hanging up.]
So you read this already? Yep, I read it.
Look, I don't like this, man.
I mean, we got what we came for.
We proved Lee has been spying on us.
I think we need to give that to Marcus.
Yeah, when the time is right.
What the fuck kind of answer is that? Look, the only reason I've stayed alive this long is by not shitting on the people who fought to help me.
All right? Now, that's been pretty easy, 'cause there haven't been a whole lot of 'em.
Now, Marcus may be odd, but Marcus has tried to do all right by us.
Yeah, and we've done all right by him, but he has kept secrets from us in the past.
I say it's time we keep a few.
You want to leave Marcus out, I'll back you up, because that's what I said I'd do, so I'm doing it, but I want it to go on the record I don't like it.
And to tell you the truth, Jeremiah, some days, I think you've got a fucking death wish, and I don't want to be around you when the fairy godmother of darkness decides to grant you your wish.
"En route to meeting with the brothers of the apocalypse outside Clarefield.
" Who in the hell are the brothers of the apocalypse? I think they're the guys we met on the road about 3 months ago.
(Kurdy) Who are those guys? (David) Uh, they joined up with us about 4 weeks ago.
They're a fairly new order.
They consider themselves to be pallbearers for the old world, here to bear witness to the end.
End of what? Everything.
At least it sounds like them, anyway.
"M," that--that's probably Matthew.
[clearing throat.]
"'M' thinks brothers may be direct link to V.
S.
" That's Valhalla Sector, Kurdy, a direct link.
"Something's wrong.
" "They're afraid.
" "Maybe Big D-2.
" Yeah, that's what got me, Big D-2.
That's the return of the Big Death.
There's only one way to find out.
Jeremiah, what are you doing? Just going for a little drive, that's all.
You don't have an assignment.
As far as I'm concerned, we do.
We need every available vehicle for the relays.
This one isn't available right now, Marcus.
You do this, Jeremiah, you can't come back, neither of you.
Wouldn't be the first time.
[engine revving.]
[tires screeching.]
Damn it.
(Kurdy) Stop the car.
What? Stop the fucking car.
[door opening.]
What? You had no right.
What? You want to burn your bridges with Marcus and everybody else back at the Mountain, that's your business, but I don't.
You didn't even bother to ask me.
- No, I just figured-- - Yeah, you figured wrong.
See, your problem is you think you know every goddamn thing.
I don't know everything.
Well, then act like it once in a while! I'm sorry, man.
Sometimes, I I'm sorry.
This isn't working anymore, Jeremiah.
When we first met, we were going the same way.
But I don't believe we're going the same way any longer, so I've made my mind up.
I'm gonna go to Clarefield with you, because I promised I would, and I keep my promises, same as you.
But after that, I'm taking the Rover, and I'm going back to the Mountain.
I'm going back to Elizabeth, and I'm going back to some kind of purpose in my life, and that's with or without you.
And if it's with, I'll come up with some kind of explanation-- - Kurdy-- - But, after that, this so-called partnership is over.
You are on your own.
We are done.
[engine starting.]
[engine revving.]
[door opening.]
We ready to go? All team drivers are standing by, each having enough gas for his part of the relay, plus extra in case of emergency.
We also have a full gas tanker going to places with cars but no gas.
[sighing.]
Everything's ready to start the relay.
Get everybody en route to the meeting in St.
Louis If that's what you still want, Marcus.
You sound dubious.
Lee, Jeremiah and Kurdy are all awol.
That's a lot of x-factors wandering around loose.
Well, the Valhalla Sector is starting to move.
They're reclaiming bases and building up their resources.
This may be our last chance to put up a united front before they come after us.
All right, heat 'em up and hit the road.
[horse neighing.]
[people chattering.]
[music playing.]
[people chattering.]
Hey, heard you were looking for Theo.
Is she around? Yeah, when she wants to be.
She's just, uh, being a little extra careful these days, you know? She likes me to check things out first, 'cause I'm smart enough to figure out if it's a trap.
You're also expendable.
I'll just go get her then.
So, you want to talk? (Jeremiah) We just thought we'd check in, see if you plan on attending the big meeting In St.
Louis that Marcus is setting up.
I sent back a yes on that 5 days ago.
You see, I got into this game to build something This town, my town.
Your town? Yeah.
You see, I got a real simple philosophy.
If it ain't nailed down, it's mine, and if I can pry it up, it ain't nailed down.
You see, my voice ought to be heard at this meetin', same as everybody else's, but you knew that.
see, I can see it in your eyes.
So why don't you can the bullshit and tell Theo what you want? (Jeremiah) We need I need a favor.
(Theo) A favor? From me? Whoo! This is interesting.
Oh, you must have come by a hard road to be asking me for a favor.
Come on, I told you this was a bad idea.
Let's go.
Hang on, now.
Now, what kind of favor are we talking about, huh? I need information.
Oh.
[clearing throat.]
Well Let Theo help you.
[whooping.]
Hey, you shouldn't be here.
This isn't a good place for little girls.
Where'd you come from? Well, where's your mom and dad? Decontamination procedures don't work.
What'd you say? Decontamination procedures don't work.
We have to burn the bodies.
What bodies? The darkness is coming.
There's no one left to play with anymore.
Who told you-- Hey, wh-where'd you get that from? Hey! Hey! (Jeremiah) I'm looking to find some guys called the brothers of the apocalypse.
Oh, I never figured you for the long robes and bell set.
I've just got to ask 'em some questions.
The brothers moved into town about 5 years ago, took over a place up on Broxton road.
Set up a nice vegetable garden for trade, a little winery that makes the, ow, best Beaujolais nouveau your ass will ever know.
Hey, they send me 2 crates a year.
I leave them alone.
Other than that, they keep quiet, which is pretty easy, with that, uh, vow of silence thing and all.
It's funny, though.
What? For about the last year, more and more of 'em been showing up and moving in.
That's why I laughed at you when you asked, 'cause you ain't the first one.
Huh! But if there is anybody in the world who would pluck out his eyes before he Took a vow of silence, it's you.
Thanks for the insight.
Yeah, that's what I'm here for.
I'm a helpful kind of a woman, Jeremiah.
Now, just do me a favor.
Let me know what they got on up under them robes, 'cause I got some serious money riding on this.
Hey, Jeremiah, you owe me now, and Theo always collects on her debts.
[laughing.]
[whooping.]
(Erin) So why didn't you ever tell me you can't drive? (Marcus) It's not that I can't drive.
It's that I've never had a reason to learn.
After my parents died at the Mountain, I kind of turned my attention towards keeping the place going.
I Never got more than a couple of miles from the place.
I'm supposed to be, you know, "the guy.
" How--how can I be "the guy" and then tell people I don't know how to parallel park? It's embarrassing.
No, it's not.
Yes, yes, it is.
It's embarrassing.
No, it's Cute, in a embarrassing kind of way.
God, I hope this works, Erin.
We have to start building a world that we can live in, not Not a world of whatever's left of the military wants to create.
We'll get there.
I hope so.
I truly hope so.
[bird hooting.]
[helicopter approaching.]
My position's been compromised.
You have to bring me in.
Unless you want this whole operation blown wide open, you'd better bring me in.
Right now.
[birds cawing.]
Excuse me, but, uh, we're looking for the guy in charge here Hey.
Vow of silence, remember? Gotta appoint somebody who can talk, you know, to deal with the outside world.
Hey, buddy Anybody here know a guy named Simon? (Clarence) Simon? From the Mountain? Yeah.
He was here? I sent several of our order to meet him.
He said he would return.
No, that's not going to happen.
He's dead.
Dead? Yeah.
How did he die? Gunshot.
[shot fires.]
[tires screeching.]
[horn honking.]
Simon! Simon - He's been hit! - How bad? It's bad! Did he say anything before he died? Yeah.
(Simon) We have--we have to warn the others, and we'll need to take the Rover back to Thunder Mountain.
OK? I want you to p-promise me that y-you'll tell them, you'll warn them.
Tell them what? What? It's coming again.
It's coming.
It's coming again.
That's all? There's nothing else? Nothing about us? No.
We didn't know about this place till a few days ago.
That is more terrible than you know.
So much time has been wasted.
[panting.]
I say we should never have waited.
I told the others (Kurdy) Waited for what? Come.
Well, well.
It's you again.
[car door closing.]
In fact, every time I see you, it's you again.
You're in a rut, you know that? Marcus thought it would speed things up since I knew the way here.
Oh, and I'm supposed to admire your bravery for coming back to a place and a person, that is to say, me, that caused you such terrible pain.
Is that it? No.
You're supposed to get in the car.
It's a long drive to St.
Louis.
Well, I ain't holding you up.
Shoot.
It's you and everybody else that's slowing down the march of progress.
I tell you, it's been like old-home week around here with you people.
What do you mean, "old-home week"? Oh, you don't know? Oh, so they were here on their own.
Oh, this is getting more interesting by the second.
If things keep going like this, I may have to start selling tickets.
Theo? Your pals were here.
Jeremiah and Kurdy.
Tweedle-dumb and tweedle-dumber.
Which is which? You make the call.
They were here? When? You have to tell me, please.
Oh.
Say it again.
For me.
Please.
(Jeremiah) What is all this, anyway? (Clarence) This is where our new memberslive and meditate and pray.
We welcome all those who believe as we do, those in need of our help.
Well, that's great, I guess.
Yes.
We have saved many a lost soul.
[whipping.]
[rattles.]
(Clarence) Simon is dead.
Our message was not delivered in full.
(Jeremiah) Excuse me, but you said when we got here you'd explain.
We're here.
Right.
What's this about? Who are you people? Brothers Whoa.
(Clarence) The old world died, because, like Sodom, it had become too corrupt to be saved, so God decided to wipe the slate clean and begin again from a place of innocence.
Suffer the little children to come unto me.
The children, the only ones who could be pure in an impure world, so the children of the world were spared the agony of the Great Death, and A very few of us.
(Clarence) No virus is 100 percent fatal to 100 percent of the population.
There will always be some with an immunity.
We who survived gathered together, because we believed we'd been spared for a reason, to bear witness to the rebirth of the new world, to prepare for the 2nd coming, when the world will be reborn as a paradise for a thousand years.
So what went wrong? We thought the apocalypse had run its course, that the time for rapture had arrived, but we were wrong.
The apocalypse is not yet over.
Through the acts of a few, the virus did not end as it was meant to end.
We have proof that the Great Death has returned.
[crickets chirping.]
[brakes squealing.]
(Theo) The brothers are up on Broxton road.
I hope you don't mind going alone, 'cause, uh, I got places to be.
[gravel crunching.]
(Clarence) Less than a year ago, we began to hear rumors that the Great Death had returned, followed by stories of whole towns being burned to the ground without explanation.
The burners.
We've seen 'em.
Well, at first, we refused to believe these stories.
I mean, people get sick and die for a multitude of reasons.
[sighing.]
And the world had been reborn, made new.
There was no reason for the Great DSeath to return.
And then, one of our order visited one of the towns that had been burned.
There was nothing, nothing to show why it had been burned.
And then he found I'm sorry.
It's Hard for me.
That is when we got word to Simon through one of our contacts in Clarefield, and arranged a meeting.
You sure this is the right place? This is where they said to wait.
Then where the hell are they? I don't know.
[bells clanging.]
What did they find? Oh, dear God.
I-it--it was the children.
Bury it.
Just do whatever you have to do.
Just--just take it away.
Wha-what? What did you see? I'll explain it to you on the way.
We have to warn the others.
We have to let them know.
Come on.
The first time the Great Death came, it took root in the hormones of adults.
But now, somehow, it has mutated, picking up traits from several common diseases like smallpox, measles With the result that now, though it moves more slowly than before, it may be capable of destroying all life as we know it.
I mean, young, old, it no longer matters.
What I don't get, what I don't understand, is if you had all this information, if you had proof, why didn't you just have Simon come here? Why--why would you meet him outside? We can only continue our work if our activities are not a threat.
If anybody suspected an alliance between our 2 groups, it could prove disastrous.
But there is no alliance.
What? I thought that's why you're here, that's why you were sent.
I mean, we had a message.
We just found out about you guys now.
No, no, that's impossible.
We had a message saying that we should do nothing un-until receiving further word, that it--it had all been arranged.
A message from who? A friend of Simon's.
He said his name was Lee Chen.
[sighing.]
That's why he tore the page out.
He knew Marcus would send someone here A.
S.
A.
P.
He didn't want us putting together what we know with what they know, because separately, we don't have enough information to do anything, but together-- Together, we got enough to fight 'em.
Clarence, in Simon's journal, it says that there is a direct link between here and a place called Valhalla Sector.
Do you know it? Well, yes, of course.
Why? Are you looking for it? [sighing.]
Only for the last 15 years.
Do you know where it is? Do I? N-no, but there is a small town near here called Millhaven.
It's one of their main transit points.
Have you heard of it? Yeah, Lee said there was nothing there of interest to us, so we shouldn't even bother with it.
Son of a bitch.
[car approaching.]
Go to Millhaven.
Go to the tavern, ask for Wylie.
He's one of us.
Will he be able to get me to Valhalla Sector? Well, yes, if that is what you want.
Yes, without question, Wylie can get you to the Valhalla Sector.
It seems your 15-year journey is almost over, but you will need something to prove that it was I who sent you.
Here.
Give him this.
[muffled groaning.]
Shh, shh, shh.
What are you doing here? - Let me go! - Shh.
Not until you answer my question.
I'm looking for someone.
Who? His name is Kurdy.
I think he's here with his partner, Jeremiah.
Jeremiah's here? Are you sure? - Yeah, I think so.
- No.
Dear God, no.
Were you part of the convoy? How do you know about the convoy? Did you break off from the convoy to come here? Yes.
We've got to hurry.
You've been followed.
Come on.
Let me go! I've got to get you away from here.
I've got to get you all-- Come on.
Run! [guns firing.]
[screaming.]
What the hell is that? Ah, they know you're here.
No.
No, no way.
Come on, let's go.
[guns firing.]
[bullets ricocheting.]
[groaning.]
[grunting.]
[guns firing.]
[grunting.]
[punching.]
[grunting.]
[guns firing.]
[gun cocking.]
[bullets ricocheting.]
[panting.]
Ah! [groaning.]
Kurdy! Elizabeth! No! [groaning.]
[car approaching.]
[tires squealing.]
[brakes screeching.]
Hurry! - (Jeremiah) You all right? - Oh, shit! (Ezekiel) Let's go! Come on! [Kurdy groaning.]
[guns firing.]
(Jeremiah) Hit it! (Jeremiah) Ezekiel, stop the truck.
Stop the fucking truck.
- Kurdy? - Oh, she's hit.
- Oh, how bad? - Oh, it's bad.
Let's go! They're gonna be after us! Look, she's been hit.
We gotta do something.
We gotta get her to Clarefield, man.
Somebody in Clarefield-- No, no, no.
not we, me.
She's hurt because of you and your goddamned quest.
(Kurdy) I'm taking her back! No, no.
No! You stay back! Stay the fuck away from her! And you stay the fuck away from me! I'm done, man.
I'm done with this and I'm done with you.
You are on your own! (Jeremiah) Dear dad, I've made up my mind.
One way or another, no matter what it costs, I'm finally gonna see you, face to face.
And when I do, we're gonna talk, 'cause the time for secrets is over.
As of right now, everything changes.
Everything.
original source: peritta synced and corrected: quinnell
What I want is to break off and go looking.
But look where? Simon's journal only goes so far.
Marcus promised he'd pass along any information he gets about Valhalla Sector.
So, until then, all I can do is wait and do jobs like this to fill in the time.
Hey, I need a good word that rhymes with "existential.
" "Presidential.
" No.
President's dead.
That's what makes it existential.
Lee Chen sent us out on one of his patented go-see-what's-out-there missions, while Marcus finishes putting together a big meeting in St.
Louis.
They're bringing in some of the people who've managed to rebuild different parts of the country to talk about creating an alliance, kind of a continental Congress thing.
Seems odd that Lee would send us all the way out here at a time like this, just to drive around.
I'd almost think he wants us out of the picture, but I'm trying to be less paranoid these days.
[crickets chirping.]
Shit.
Kurdy "Deferential" won't work either.
I tried that one.
Somebody cut a page out of the back of Simon's journal.
What? Check it out.
See? The other side of the sheet came out.
Somebody cut it.
Maybe Simon tore something out.
No, man, it was his journal.
He-- If he was going to tear it out, he'd just tear it out.
There wouldn't be any reason for him to try to hide it.
Someone took a razor or something sharp and cut it deep in the fold right there, so that nobody would notice that there was a page missing.
Who the hell would do that? It's not who would.
It's who could.
Goddamn, we've been following this thing for 10 months like it was the fucking Bible.
It's been doctored, because somebody didn't want us to find something out.
I'm going back.
Oh, no.
Right now? Yes, right now.
They've been jerking us around, they've been keeping shit from us from the first fucking day! They cut something out of the end of Simon's journal, and I'm going to find out what it was, and, by God, I'm going to find out why.
[engine starting.]
[engine revving.]
[tires screeching.]
(Jeremiah) Dear dad, it's been 15 years since the Big Death wiped out everyone over the age of innocence.
The end of your world, the beginning of mine.
[brakes screeching.]
(Jeremiah) Gas, oil Check the tires, will ya? It seems to be pulling to the left.
Looks like they're almost ready to go.
You know this whole thing was Elizabeth's idea, don't you? Deliver a bunch of gassed-up cars for those who can't make it to the meeting on their own, let 'em go as far as they can till they run out of gas, and pass them on to another car.
Thunder Mountain pony express.
Cute.
Speaking of Elizabeth, I--I know it's a lot to ask, so I gotta make sure you're down with this.
Yeah, I'm down.
I don't like it, but I'm down.
You know it's-it's not her personally.
It's just I know that.
Meet me back here in 10.
(Elizabeth) You sure you don't want to take a look? No, Elizabeth.
I, uh Probably won't find anything your size anyway.
You know, sometimes when the scavenger teams bring back supplies, it's kind of a mixed blessing.
It's like we get baby clothes and nothing else, or we get winter stuff and it's summer.
Not that you can really tell in here, but-- Listen, Elizabeth, I need to ask you something.
Mmm? And this may be a little difficult.
It's about Simon.
Oh.
When Simon died, we know that his journal was here somewhere, because Marcus ended up with it.
That's right.
What did he say when you gave it to him? He didn't.
That is, I didn't.
I didn't give it to him.
Then how'd he get it? Whenever Simon had to go into a place as screwed up as Clarefield, he'd report in every 48 hours so we'd know he was OK.
When he didn't report in, I got nervous.
I went to see Marcus, but he said he was sure Simon would check in soon.
And when I came back, Lee was already here reading the journal.
I mean, it wasn't a big deal.
It wasn't supposed to be private or anything, but Lee? What are you-- I knocked, but you weren't in.
You talked to Marcus? Uh, yeah, he said with any luck, we should hear from Simon in a few hours.
Maybe.
Just to be on the safe side, I figured I'd better find out where he was going and what he was doing, in case we have to send out a rescue team.
Wouldn't you know? All of our teams have a certain amount of discretion, Simon more than most.
Now, normally, I wouldn't intrude, but if he needs help-- Uh, no, it's OK.
You know, whatever helps Did Simon tell you who he was going to meet? No.
I was asleep when he took off.
I know he was in a hurry.
If you were asleep, how do you know he was in a hurry? Whenever he gets up first, he pulls the covers back over me to keep me warm, but when I got up, I was cold, and he was gone.
Do you mind if I No, no.
Like I said, anything that helps.
[door opening.]
[door closing.]
(Kurdy) So you never saw Simon's last entry? At the time, no, but later on, I asked Lee, and he let me take a look at his journal.
And it ended with the page about the burners, right? Nothing past that? No.
That was the end of it.
Why? Kurdy, what's going on? All right, now you gonna do this calm like we planned, right? Yeah, calm's my middle name.
Yeah, too bad your last name is "before-the-storm.
" You just do what you gotta do.
I'll be all right.
Yeah, I've heard that shit before.
(Lee) And with so many of our resources diverted outside to handle the meeting, we need to increase patrols around the perimeter.
Now, in just the last 10 days, we had 2 incidents of unidentified people checking out the area.
Now, maybe it's nothing, just somebody lost off the main road, but the way things are going-- Hey, Lee.
- Hey, what the - Stay out of this, Marcus.
Where the hell is it? I don't know what you're talking about.
Oh, really? Come on, why don't you lie to me some more, you piece of shit? Get security, fast! You been worrying about this day, Lee, huh? Wondering when it would come? Afraid I was too stupid to figure it out, but that I just might pull it off? That's enough! There's a page missing out of Simon's journal, Marcus! What? You're out of your mind.
It's true.
Someone cut it out.
Even if it is true, you don't know that Lee did anything.
Yes, I do, Marcus! If you had cut it out, you'd never have given me the book.
He got his hands on it first, before anybody else, so if somebody had cut it out, then he would know it.
Only he would know.
So what was on the page, Lee? huh? What was on that page that was so fucking important you had to cut it out, that you didn't want the rest of the world to ever know? Grab that crazy son of a bitch! [grunting.]
Marcus, God, I'm telling the truth! You crossed the line, Jeremiah.
I'm telling the truth! (Lee) Stick him in a holding cell.
It's not so easy when you don't have your pal Kurdy to back you up, is it? Where is Kurdy, Jeremiah? I don't know.
I've been too busy to worry about him.
Makes two of us, asshole! Lee, what the hell is going on? Lee? [rattling.]
(Marcus) Listening devices, detailed notes on every decision I've made in this office, every conversation that we had, every mission that (Jeremiah) We knew we had a leak.
It makes sense.
You want someone in a position to spy on us, get the guy in charge of security.
Who watches the watchmen? Exactly.
But you didn't find the missing page of Simon's journal? No.
I found everything else, but not that.
Erin, any sign of Lee? I've got every security team in the place turning the Mountain upside down, but we still can't find him.
If there's anybody who can slip out without being seen, it's Lee.
He knows every way in and out.
I've been thinking about the meeting in St.
Louis, Marcus.
(Erin) With all this going on, maybe we should postpone.
No.
We've gone through a lot of trouble to get these people onboard.
They're coming because Thunder Mountain represents strength and unity.
If we back off because we're afraid, it'll send the wrong message.
Besides, Lee wasn't directly involved in the security preparations for the meeting.
Nathan's been handling all that at his end.
You know, the thing is, I can almost justify most of this.
The listening devices, they could have been here since before we took over, and Lee's never been big on privacy.
The notes, he's an obsessive personality.
He might want to keep detailed logs of all our activities here.
This is where it all falls apart.
You don't have a cell phone unless there's someone on the other end to talk to.
He sure as hell wasn't calling any of us.
That leaves someone on the outside.
Does that thing have a, uh A phone directory? You know, list of numbers? No.
But it has a redial function.
[dialing.]
[phone ringing.]
(man) Yes? Hello? Hello? [phone hanging up.]
So you read this already? Yep, I read it.
Look, I don't like this, man.
I mean, we got what we came for.
We proved Lee has been spying on us.
I think we need to give that to Marcus.
Yeah, when the time is right.
What the fuck kind of answer is that? Look, the only reason I've stayed alive this long is by not shitting on the people who fought to help me.
All right? Now, that's been pretty easy, 'cause there haven't been a whole lot of 'em.
Now, Marcus may be odd, but Marcus has tried to do all right by us.
Yeah, and we've done all right by him, but he has kept secrets from us in the past.
I say it's time we keep a few.
You want to leave Marcus out, I'll back you up, because that's what I said I'd do, so I'm doing it, but I want it to go on the record I don't like it.
And to tell you the truth, Jeremiah, some days, I think you've got a fucking death wish, and I don't want to be around you when the fairy godmother of darkness decides to grant you your wish.
"En route to meeting with the brothers of the apocalypse outside Clarefield.
" Who in the hell are the brothers of the apocalypse? I think they're the guys we met on the road about 3 months ago.
(Kurdy) Who are those guys? (David) Uh, they joined up with us about 4 weeks ago.
They're a fairly new order.
They consider themselves to be pallbearers for the old world, here to bear witness to the end.
End of what? Everything.
At least it sounds like them, anyway.
"M," that--that's probably Matthew.
[clearing throat.]
"'M' thinks brothers may be direct link to V.
S.
" That's Valhalla Sector, Kurdy, a direct link.
"Something's wrong.
" "They're afraid.
" "Maybe Big D-2.
" Yeah, that's what got me, Big D-2.
That's the return of the Big Death.
There's only one way to find out.
Jeremiah, what are you doing? Just going for a little drive, that's all.
You don't have an assignment.
As far as I'm concerned, we do.
We need every available vehicle for the relays.
This one isn't available right now, Marcus.
You do this, Jeremiah, you can't come back, neither of you.
Wouldn't be the first time.
[engine revving.]
[tires screeching.]
Damn it.
(Kurdy) Stop the car.
What? Stop the fucking car.
[door opening.]
What? You had no right.
What? You want to burn your bridges with Marcus and everybody else back at the Mountain, that's your business, but I don't.
You didn't even bother to ask me.
- No, I just figured-- - Yeah, you figured wrong.
See, your problem is you think you know every goddamn thing.
I don't know everything.
Well, then act like it once in a while! I'm sorry, man.
Sometimes, I I'm sorry.
This isn't working anymore, Jeremiah.
When we first met, we were going the same way.
But I don't believe we're going the same way any longer, so I've made my mind up.
I'm gonna go to Clarefield with you, because I promised I would, and I keep my promises, same as you.
But after that, I'm taking the Rover, and I'm going back to the Mountain.
I'm going back to Elizabeth, and I'm going back to some kind of purpose in my life, and that's with or without you.
And if it's with, I'll come up with some kind of explanation-- - Kurdy-- - But, after that, this so-called partnership is over.
You are on your own.
We are done.
[engine starting.]
[engine revving.]
[door opening.]
We ready to go? All team drivers are standing by, each having enough gas for his part of the relay, plus extra in case of emergency.
We also have a full gas tanker going to places with cars but no gas.
[sighing.]
Everything's ready to start the relay.
Get everybody en route to the meeting in St.
Louis If that's what you still want, Marcus.
You sound dubious.
Lee, Jeremiah and Kurdy are all awol.
That's a lot of x-factors wandering around loose.
Well, the Valhalla Sector is starting to move.
They're reclaiming bases and building up their resources.
This may be our last chance to put up a united front before they come after us.
All right, heat 'em up and hit the road.
[horse neighing.]
[people chattering.]
[music playing.]
[people chattering.]
Hey, heard you were looking for Theo.
Is she around? Yeah, when she wants to be.
She's just, uh, being a little extra careful these days, you know? She likes me to check things out first, 'cause I'm smart enough to figure out if it's a trap.
You're also expendable.
I'll just go get her then.
So, you want to talk? (Jeremiah) We just thought we'd check in, see if you plan on attending the big meeting In St.
Louis that Marcus is setting up.
I sent back a yes on that 5 days ago.
You see, I got into this game to build something This town, my town.
Your town? Yeah.
You see, I got a real simple philosophy.
If it ain't nailed down, it's mine, and if I can pry it up, it ain't nailed down.
You see, my voice ought to be heard at this meetin', same as everybody else's, but you knew that.
see, I can see it in your eyes.
So why don't you can the bullshit and tell Theo what you want? (Jeremiah) We need I need a favor.
(Theo) A favor? From me? Whoo! This is interesting.
Oh, you must have come by a hard road to be asking me for a favor.
Come on, I told you this was a bad idea.
Let's go.
Hang on, now.
Now, what kind of favor are we talking about, huh? I need information.
Oh.
[clearing throat.]
Well Let Theo help you.
[whooping.]
Hey, you shouldn't be here.
This isn't a good place for little girls.
Where'd you come from? Well, where's your mom and dad? Decontamination procedures don't work.
What'd you say? Decontamination procedures don't work.
We have to burn the bodies.
What bodies? The darkness is coming.
There's no one left to play with anymore.
Who told you-- Hey, wh-where'd you get that from? Hey! Hey! (Jeremiah) I'm looking to find some guys called the brothers of the apocalypse.
Oh, I never figured you for the long robes and bell set.
I've just got to ask 'em some questions.
The brothers moved into town about 5 years ago, took over a place up on Broxton road.
Set up a nice vegetable garden for trade, a little winery that makes the, ow, best Beaujolais nouveau your ass will ever know.
Hey, they send me 2 crates a year.
I leave them alone.
Other than that, they keep quiet, which is pretty easy, with that, uh, vow of silence thing and all.
It's funny, though.
What? For about the last year, more and more of 'em been showing up and moving in.
That's why I laughed at you when you asked, 'cause you ain't the first one.
Huh! But if there is anybody in the world who would pluck out his eyes before he Took a vow of silence, it's you.
Thanks for the insight.
Yeah, that's what I'm here for.
I'm a helpful kind of a woman, Jeremiah.
Now, just do me a favor.
Let me know what they got on up under them robes, 'cause I got some serious money riding on this.
Hey, Jeremiah, you owe me now, and Theo always collects on her debts.
[laughing.]
[whooping.]
(Erin) So why didn't you ever tell me you can't drive? (Marcus) It's not that I can't drive.
It's that I've never had a reason to learn.
After my parents died at the Mountain, I kind of turned my attention towards keeping the place going.
I Never got more than a couple of miles from the place.
I'm supposed to be, you know, "the guy.
" How--how can I be "the guy" and then tell people I don't know how to parallel park? It's embarrassing.
No, it's not.
Yes, yes, it is.
It's embarrassing.
No, it's Cute, in a embarrassing kind of way.
God, I hope this works, Erin.
We have to start building a world that we can live in, not Not a world of whatever's left of the military wants to create.
We'll get there.
I hope so.
I truly hope so.
[bird hooting.]
[helicopter approaching.]
My position's been compromised.
You have to bring me in.
Unless you want this whole operation blown wide open, you'd better bring me in.
Right now.
[birds cawing.]
Excuse me, but, uh, we're looking for the guy in charge here Hey.
Vow of silence, remember? Gotta appoint somebody who can talk, you know, to deal with the outside world.
Hey, buddy Anybody here know a guy named Simon? (Clarence) Simon? From the Mountain? Yeah.
He was here? I sent several of our order to meet him.
He said he would return.
No, that's not going to happen.
He's dead.
Dead? Yeah.
How did he die? Gunshot.
[shot fires.]
[tires screeching.]
[horn honking.]
Simon! Simon - He's been hit! - How bad? It's bad! Did he say anything before he died? Yeah.
(Simon) We have--we have to warn the others, and we'll need to take the Rover back to Thunder Mountain.
OK? I want you to p-promise me that y-you'll tell them, you'll warn them.
Tell them what? What? It's coming again.
It's coming.
It's coming again.
That's all? There's nothing else? Nothing about us? No.
We didn't know about this place till a few days ago.
That is more terrible than you know.
So much time has been wasted.
[panting.]
I say we should never have waited.
I told the others (Kurdy) Waited for what? Come.
Well, well.
It's you again.
[car door closing.]
In fact, every time I see you, it's you again.
You're in a rut, you know that? Marcus thought it would speed things up since I knew the way here.
Oh, and I'm supposed to admire your bravery for coming back to a place and a person, that is to say, me, that caused you such terrible pain.
Is that it? No.
You're supposed to get in the car.
It's a long drive to St.
Louis.
Well, I ain't holding you up.
Shoot.
It's you and everybody else that's slowing down the march of progress.
I tell you, it's been like old-home week around here with you people.
What do you mean, "old-home week"? Oh, you don't know? Oh, so they were here on their own.
Oh, this is getting more interesting by the second.
If things keep going like this, I may have to start selling tickets.
Theo? Your pals were here.
Jeremiah and Kurdy.
Tweedle-dumb and tweedle-dumber.
Which is which? You make the call.
They were here? When? You have to tell me, please.
Oh.
Say it again.
For me.
Please.
(Jeremiah) What is all this, anyway? (Clarence) This is where our new memberslive and meditate and pray.
We welcome all those who believe as we do, those in need of our help.
Well, that's great, I guess.
Yes.
We have saved many a lost soul.
[whipping.]
[rattles.]
(Clarence) Simon is dead.
Our message was not delivered in full.
(Jeremiah) Excuse me, but you said when we got here you'd explain.
We're here.
Right.
What's this about? Who are you people? Brothers Whoa.
(Clarence) The old world died, because, like Sodom, it had become too corrupt to be saved, so God decided to wipe the slate clean and begin again from a place of innocence.
Suffer the little children to come unto me.
The children, the only ones who could be pure in an impure world, so the children of the world were spared the agony of the Great Death, and A very few of us.
(Clarence) No virus is 100 percent fatal to 100 percent of the population.
There will always be some with an immunity.
We who survived gathered together, because we believed we'd been spared for a reason, to bear witness to the rebirth of the new world, to prepare for the 2nd coming, when the world will be reborn as a paradise for a thousand years.
So what went wrong? We thought the apocalypse had run its course, that the time for rapture had arrived, but we were wrong.
The apocalypse is not yet over.
Through the acts of a few, the virus did not end as it was meant to end.
We have proof that the Great Death has returned.
[crickets chirping.]
[brakes squealing.]
(Theo) The brothers are up on Broxton road.
I hope you don't mind going alone, 'cause, uh, I got places to be.
[gravel crunching.]
(Clarence) Less than a year ago, we began to hear rumors that the Great Death had returned, followed by stories of whole towns being burned to the ground without explanation.
The burners.
We've seen 'em.
Well, at first, we refused to believe these stories.
I mean, people get sick and die for a multitude of reasons.
[sighing.]
And the world had been reborn, made new.
There was no reason for the Great DSeath to return.
And then, one of our order visited one of the towns that had been burned.
There was nothing, nothing to show why it had been burned.
And then he found I'm sorry.
It's Hard for me.
That is when we got word to Simon through one of our contacts in Clarefield, and arranged a meeting.
You sure this is the right place? This is where they said to wait.
Then where the hell are they? I don't know.
[bells clanging.]
What did they find? Oh, dear God.
I-it--it was the children.
Bury it.
Just do whatever you have to do.
Just--just take it away.
Wha-what? What did you see? I'll explain it to you on the way.
We have to warn the others.
We have to let them know.
Come on.
The first time the Great Death came, it took root in the hormones of adults.
But now, somehow, it has mutated, picking up traits from several common diseases like smallpox, measles With the result that now, though it moves more slowly than before, it may be capable of destroying all life as we know it.
I mean, young, old, it no longer matters.
What I don't get, what I don't understand, is if you had all this information, if you had proof, why didn't you just have Simon come here? Why--why would you meet him outside? We can only continue our work if our activities are not a threat.
If anybody suspected an alliance between our 2 groups, it could prove disastrous.
But there is no alliance.
What? I thought that's why you're here, that's why you were sent.
I mean, we had a message.
We just found out about you guys now.
No, no, that's impossible.
We had a message saying that we should do nothing un-until receiving further word, that it--it had all been arranged.
A message from who? A friend of Simon's.
He said his name was Lee Chen.
[sighing.]
That's why he tore the page out.
He knew Marcus would send someone here A.
S.
A.
P.
He didn't want us putting together what we know with what they know, because separately, we don't have enough information to do anything, but together-- Together, we got enough to fight 'em.
Clarence, in Simon's journal, it says that there is a direct link between here and a place called Valhalla Sector.
Do you know it? Well, yes, of course.
Why? Are you looking for it? [sighing.]
Only for the last 15 years.
Do you know where it is? Do I? N-no, but there is a small town near here called Millhaven.
It's one of their main transit points.
Have you heard of it? Yeah, Lee said there was nothing there of interest to us, so we shouldn't even bother with it.
Son of a bitch.
[car approaching.]
Go to Millhaven.
Go to the tavern, ask for Wylie.
He's one of us.
Will he be able to get me to Valhalla Sector? Well, yes, if that is what you want.
Yes, without question, Wylie can get you to the Valhalla Sector.
It seems your 15-year journey is almost over, but you will need something to prove that it was I who sent you.
Here.
Give him this.
[muffled groaning.]
Shh, shh, shh.
What are you doing here? - Let me go! - Shh.
Not until you answer my question.
I'm looking for someone.
Who? His name is Kurdy.
I think he's here with his partner, Jeremiah.
Jeremiah's here? Are you sure? - Yeah, I think so.
- No.
Dear God, no.
Were you part of the convoy? How do you know about the convoy? Did you break off from the convoy to come here? Yes.
We've got to hurry.
You've been followed.
Come on.
Let me go! I've got to get you away from here.
I've got to get you all-- Come on.
Run! [guns firing.]
[screaming.]
What the hell is that? Ah, they know you're here.
No.
No, no way.
Come on, let's go.
[guns firing.]
[bullets ricocheting.]
[groaning.]
[grunting.]
[guns firing.]
[grunting.]
[punching.]
[grunting.]
[guns firing.]
[gun cocking.]
[bullets ricocheting.]
[panting.]
Ah! [groaning.]
Kurdy! Elizabeth! No! [groaning.]
[car approaching.]
[tires squealing.]
[brakes screeching.]
Hurry! - (Jeremiah) You all right? - Oh, shit! (Ezekiel) Let's go! Come on! [Kurdy groaning.]
[guns firing.]
(Jeremiah) Hit it! (Jeremiah) Ezekiel, stop the truck.
Stop the fucking truck.
- Kurdy? - Oh, she's hit.
- Oh, how bad? - Oh, it's bad.
Let's go! They're gonna be after us! Look, she's been hit.
We gotta do something.
We gotta get her to Clarefield, man.
Somebody in Clarefield-- No, no, no.
not we, me.
She's hurt because of you and your goddamned quest.
(Kurdy) I'm taking her back! No, no.
No! You stay back! Stay the fuck away from her! And you stay the fuck away from me! I'm done, man.
I'm done with this and I'm done with you.
You are on your own! (Jeremiah) Dear dad, I've made up my mind.
One way or another, no matter what it costs, I'm finally gonna see you, face to face.
And when I do, we're gonna talk, 'cause the time for secrets is over.
As of right now, everything changes.
Everything.
original source: peritta synced and corrected: quinnell