SPEAKER_01 1:05

We're going intercessor phase now?

SPEAKER_07 1:08

Absolutely. We must be decisive.

SPEAKER_01 1:12

Decisive, yes, but are we certain?

SPEAKER_07 1:14

I thought you'd learned by now that sometimes one must go on without the other. We can't have it all.

SPEAKER_01 1:22

I understand that well enough. I just don't see what you see in this matter.

SPEAKER_07 1:28

The incoming foot traffic at that one quadrant's greenhouse and warehouse exceeds that going out. And we have reports that the workforce seems different in its methods every time the place is inspected. Even though the records are the same.

SPEAKER_01 1:43

Not extraordinarily suspicious, but I suppose it warrants further inspection.

SPEAKER_07 1:48

Ada, Ada, you used to be so much more vigorous. But now so tame.

SPEAKER_01 1:57

Well, you don't exactly want to be skipping across a tightrope now, do you? I fear our tightrope is fraying.

SPEAKER_07 2:03

If you're talking about our leverage over assurance and the rebels there, I assure you we've only tightened our hold. We're walking steadier than ever, and I think this green complex in the North Quadrant holds the key to our own little rebels here. You know what to do, of course. I know of what to do. Ada. A bit of advice in case your beautiful steel trap of a mind is going places. Yes. Stay above them to survive. No one is assured anymore.

SPEAKER_01 2:35

I know, I know.

SPEAKER_07 2:37

Well then!

SPEAKER_13 2:53

Shaft! Get out of there! I got you. Almost shaft! Come on the ledge! Shaft!

SPEAKER_14 3:40

Hey! Hey, lass! Oh! Oh! Let me just turn you over here.

SPEAKER_13 3:50

No, it can't be. Sage! Sage! Get out here! Camden, keep it down! Appearances, remember? What is it? Who is have you got another bed and more supplies on you? I I think so. We can't just let anyone in though, you know that. It's not just anyone, Sage.

SPEAKER_14 4:14

I'm fairly certain we've got ourselves a gearlock.

SPEAKER_03 4:29

So about the guide, he's not well. I remember he was blind-ish, except to the visions of the veil. The what now?

SPEAKER_10 4:37

The guide isn't called the guide for nothing, Quill. He always sees beyond our eyes, beyond our place, even beyond our time.

SPEAKER_03 4:44

Psychic, huh? Crude way of putting it. No, more like our living book of guidance. Is he now? No one else can see what he sees. Now wait a minute. I came through here once and we approach his sanctuary. Quiet!

SPEAKER_05 5:00

Please, after you. Think he can smell me?

SPEAKER_10 5:04

Well, please be quiet. I don't remember the incense smelling this bad. And why is there so much smoke?

SPEAKER_04 5:16

We've started making a new type of incense from the guide's visions. We have to burn it at all hours of the day, day and night.

SPEAKER_10 5:23

Well, you should at least open the tent flaps every once in a while.

SPEAKER_02 5:26

That would cause the visions to fade, Poppy.

SPEAKER_10 5:30

It's Willow.

SPEAKER_02 5:31

I'm sure it is.

SPEAKER_05 5:32

It can't be for real.

SPEAKER_02 5:34

Great guide! The peace of the mist be upon you! And also with you. The guide, I presume? Ah, the minister returned. Ah, you remember me, huh? Still full of questions yet bereft of answers, I see.

SPEAKER_10 5:55

I promise you we come in nothing but peace.

SPEAKER_02 5:58

I remember you too, a divergent sister.

SPEAKER_10 6:02

Yes, well.

SPEAKER_02 6:03

Have you returned to your people then?

SPEAKER_10 6:05

Only to tell them that I've learned the truth. And to warn you.

SPEAKER_02 6:09

One thousand miles on your home path keeps you straight. But a single step off of it, and you could lose yourself.

SPEAKER_05 6:15

Cut out the poetry and listen to us. Well, you have access to the mist. An amazing tool of Ellions, and you treat it like a reality switch to flip on and off at your pleasure. Well, no more! Your lives are in danger now. Salvation's up to something right under us, and they have smoke on their side and the instant. Oh great!

SPEAKER_11 6:38

And what did you?

SPEAKER_05 6:43

I have Elion.

SPEAKER_11 6:48

What has Elion brought to you? You have nothing to show but fam. You'll do best to reconsider your future.

SPEAKER_10 7:11

So what? So we can cower in the ground like rats? You'd like that, wouldn't you? First all to hide in an artificial world while your smoke rocks away the real world around us? Elyon's power is so much greater than that. Willow, stand back!

SPEAKER_05 7:25

I've got this. Look out. Come on, man. I can't see.

SPEAKER_10 7:43

What's happening? Damn it!

SPEAKER_11 7:47

Oh, Elliot. With a mere wave of my hand, I wouldn't do nothing. Do you think you have to think of me? Just because Elion taught you a few great.

SPEAKER_10 8:06

Let him go. It's okay. It's over now.

SPEAKER_15 8:14

What? what have you done? What did you do to my vision?

SPEAKER_10 8:19

It was a lie.

SPEAKER_15 8:21

No.

SPEAKER_10 8:22

And it was all you had, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_15 8:24

Willow.

SPEAKER_10 8:25

You you used the mist. And I.

SPEAKER_02 8:29

Heresy.

SPEAKER_10 8:30

No. Just the power that's true, unlike your vision. Don't you all see just how real and close Zerug is? You've only welcomed him here with the smoke.

SPEAKER_15 8:43

No, not the sensor!

SPEAKER_10 8:47

It's mist or smoke, guide. You can't live with both. That goes for us all. The smoke is only mist from the other plane of life.

SPEAKER_02 8:56

Isn't that just called death? It is as essential as the mist. They can cohabit if we accept them equally. It wasn't until you came here that this spirit of some sort emerged from something perfectly good and wise. You have incurred the very curses upon this sacred place that we worked so hard to avoid. What is she doing?

SPEAKER_04 9:22

Willow? What's happening? Something's growing.

SPEAKER_10 9:27

What? I call it a lily. Can smoke do that? Create something new and pure without taking over? Well, that's Elion for you. And that's us. We won't force our warnings on you, but you can see his power and decide for yourself to follow Elion.

SPEAKER_04 9:46

We can't just follow, Willow.

SPEAKER_02 9:48

We must learn first. And ponder. There's nothing to learn or ponder, except who shall come with me as my misting counsel. Come if you want the way of enlightenment eternally yours. Attendants, come, guide your guide and be blessed by the mist.

SPEAKER_10 10:08

No, wait, where are you going? You don't understand. There won't be any turn or even any time for pondering. You're all in danger. We have messages from Elion himself about what to do and how to work together, right, Quill? Wait. Quill? Quill!

SPEAKER_03 10:28

He's gone.

SPEAKER_12 10:45

Easy now. Don't move and calm down. This will make things easier for the both of us. Hey! I've got her!

SPEAKER_09 10:51

Let go of me!

SPEAKER_12 10:54

Almost! There we go. Hips back in place. Good, isn't it? I took the liberty of cleaning other ones. Minor abrasions and bruises are all that's left on you. I hope you don't mind.

SPEAKER_09 11:08

Who wants to know?

SPEAKER_14 11:10

Believe me when we say we're friends, Briar Gearlock.

SPEAKER_09 11:16

You're Terran.

SPEAKER_14 11:17

I and a friend of Alion. Here's me, Mark on my arm. If you don't rightly believe me.

SPEAKER_09 11:26

I don't understand it, and I still don't believe.

SPEAKER_14 11:29

You know what this is? This tree. I have it, too. We all do. This should be the Blaylock tree. Gift to Alien's creators. And we're the remaining from old assurance. Come at your service below.

SPEAKER_09 11:52

Wait. You're you're the 300.

SPEAKER_14 11:56

So you have heard of us. Well, that's about what we tally to, I I still don't.

SPEAKER_09 12:06

What do you know? The mist. My cat. Gone.

SPEAKER_14 12:14

Believe us now, lass.

SPEAKER_09 12:16

What did you say your name was?

SPEAKER_14 12:19

Name's Camden. This here is Sage. Welcome to our refuge. Or, as we more lovingly call it, deliverance. We take the hidden remnant down here up to the surface. Because something's a coming. And we're taking you home too.

SPEAKER_09 12:40

If you could tell me where that is anymore.

SPEAKER_14 12:43

Oh, I uh uh now listen, las, I uh I didn't mean to I'll be fine.

SPEAKER_12 12:49

Briar. I know what happened at the main station. You have a home here. As long as you need it.

SPEAKER_14 12:58

It's not your forever home, but uh then again what place ever is. Let's uh now let's show you around a wee bit uh before the next group of refugees comes in.

SPEAKER_09 13:10

Alright.

SPEAKER_12 13:12

I think we'd best begin with the garden, huh?

SPEAKER_09 13:15

I like that.

SPEAKER_00 13:23

Ugh, I've counted the specks on the ceiling like three times already. Nurs Nurs! I'm not gonna lie here all day! Ugh. One spec, two specks, spec constellation. But mom?

SPEAKER_07 13:45

Check again, sweetheart.

SPEAKER_00 13:47

Dad!

SPEAKER_07 13:49

Now come on, we gotta move fast and careful. Not just now, but always.

SPEAKER_00 13:54

But why?

SPEAKER_07 13:56

Because we're the most wanted in salvation.

SPEAKER_06 14:19

Episode 52, Deliverance, was written by Jordan Jarrett. Featuring the voice talents of Joshua Reed, Caleb Towns, Corinne Keene, Jonathan Bullock, Mark Howison, Kara O'Brien, Chris Nelson, Christina Simpson, Vincent Sadler, RJ Schaefer, Madeline Nelson, and Sam Van Fossen. Sound design by Caleb Lindevalsen. Music by Mark McDowell. The Encounter is written, performed, and produced by Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. Visit us online at encounterseries.com