Episode 75: In Love and War

History retold breaks Boden as the weight of its violence rocks his and the others’ sheltered lives. Now, they fight to return to the Lucy with the hope of home. With Liana missing, the residents of Brise Soleil evacuate, leaving Ramulus and Kyla intent on finding her. At the Well, Marlowe awaits Sam as questions mount about Finley and her creative abilities.

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SPEAKER_11 0:31

How do we know we want to mess up? What about defiance and reliance? Those people followed blindly. Yeah, but then dominance! The great earthquake that killed so many because of Roy! But he changed, Bo. Yeah. Too late. Our own grandfather, Reed, refused to follow truth. Then we should be thankful. For what? That dad does. What about salvation? Just another plan to destroy people. And our other grandfather helped.

SPEAKER_02 1:00

According to mom, he changed too.

SPEAKER_11 1:01

A little late.

SPEAKER_02 1:05

Regret is a heavyweight burden. A burden we all bear.

SPEAKER_11 1:09

Not you.

SPEAKER_02 1:10

You're a robot. A robot with years of mistakes loaded into my memory.

SPEAKER_11 1:16

So what now? People keep finding ways to hurt each other and inventing things to do it. I mean, look around. Someone had to make this and imagine this. A craftsman and a creative. Who's next? It won't be you. How can you be so sure?

SPEAKER_00 1:39

Because we know you, Bao. You know the truth. And you believe the truth. Hard to screw up a machine when the wires are going in the right direction. Just look at Bucket. And compare him to the sovies who gave up hours ago trying to reassemble our wires. Bowden, this place is a monument.

SPEAKER_02 1:56

Not only to those who died here, but also as a reminder that without the restraint of the truth, abominations are possible. Agnes.

SPEAKER_11 2:07

Can we get back into the beyond? Don't let me forget this place. I won't. Come here. Love you.

SPEAKER_02 2:22

Well, gentlemen, it's been ten hours since we've last had a sound. Shall we risk it? Let's do it. We'll race to the river and board your ship. Assuming it's still in one piece.

SPEAKER_12 2:35

Now you're gonna make me cry.

SPEAKER_11 2:40

Ready? Let's do this.

SPEAKER_04 3:19

I can help Ramulus!

SPEAKER_09 3:21

I believe you, Lily, but we'll take care of it.

SPEAKER_04 3:23

Oh, don't die, Ramulus!

SPEAKER_09 3:25

I I appreciate that, Ruth. Thank you. That's sweet.

SPEAKER_04 3:27

Can I have a hug, Ram? Ooh, me too. And me!

SPEAKER_09 3:30

Let's just do a big one all together.

SPEAKER_10 3:33

Okay, great. Now, uh, there's your cable car. Your parents are already on the other side of the river.

SPEAKER_04 3:38

We have to wait for our bags.

SPEAKER_10 3:39

No, no. Someone will bring them to you.

SPEAKER_04 3:41

I think we should wait.

SPEAKER_10 3:43

I'll bring them.

SPEAKER_04 3:43

We'll wait. We don't want you to be alone!

SPEAKER_10 3:45

Look, is that the beast?

SPEAKER_03 3:50

You should be ashamed of yourself.

SPEAKER_10 3:53

Tyla! What are you doing out of bed?

SPEAKER_03 3:56

I don't take naps.

SPEAKER_10 3:57

You're kind of gruff for a peacemaker.

SPEAKER_03 4:00

Ow.

SPEAKER_10 4:01

Punchy. But slow?

SPEAKER_03 4:05

Maybe not. How's the evacuation going?

SPEAKER_10 4:10

Slow.

SPEAKER_03 4:10

Any word on Liana?

SPEAKER_10 4:12

No, no one's seeing her or Elsie. And there's no one searching right now because everyone's leaving, except for a handful of the council.

SPEAKER_03 4:18

Where is that girl?

SPEAKER_10 4:19

I know she's safe. She's tough, Kai.

SPEAKER_03 4:22

Tougher than both of us. Okay, how can I help?

SPEAKER_10 4:26

Go lie down and get your strength back. I'm going on another search tonight, don't worry.

SPEAKER_03 4:30

By yourself?

SPEAKER_10 4:31

I think I can handle the jungle. What's the word on Banyan Place? They're all checked in and ready to go. Status on the bridges?

SPEAKER_03 4:39

All clear.

SPEAKER_10 4:39

How would you know?

SPEAKER_03 4:40

You weren't my first stop. I've been searching too.

SPEAKER_10 4:44

You heard her. They're all yours. Move them out.

SPEAKER_01 4:48

Groups one through three. Make your way to the bridges. Remember, all goods are bags over 10 pounds.

SPEAKER_12 5:18

She's gonna look more beautiful!

SPEAKER_00 5:24

Let's go, Bucket!

SPEAKER_02 5:27

I spent centuries preserving that history, hoping one day humanity would return for it. And in one day, it's destroyed.

SPEAKER_11 5:40

I guess you're the history now.

SPEAKER_02 5:45

I think we're clear. Then it's time.

SPEAKER_00 5:49

Stop lagling that!

SPEAKER_11 6:04

What got the helm? I've got the helm, Psy. You get the engine Mrs.

SPEAKER_06 6:22

Goodwin. Yes, Finley. Can you play another song? I'm having trouble sleeping. Something happy like these smilings?

SPEAKER_05 6:31

Of course. I see you went picking flowers today.

SPEAKER_06 6:35

Do you think Sam will be mad?

SPEAKER_05 6:37

Mad at you? With those dimples? Unlikely.

SPEAKER_06 6:41

I like the lights. They're hypnotic, aren't they? What?

SPEAKER_05 6:46

You can't look away.

SPEAKER_06 6:47

They remind me of my dreams.

SPEAKER_05 6:50

I wish my dreams were as colorful as those flowers. They can be. Well, but we can't determine our dreams.

SPEAKER_06 6:56

It works for me. That's why I place the smilings around my bed. Oh, I'm going to have a great dream tonight.

SPEAKER_05 7:03

Well then, may I borrow a few from my room?

SPEAKER_06 7:06

Yes, please. That makes me happy.

SPEAKER_05 7:09

Do you like it here at the well? Yes. I do too.

SPEAKER_06 7:13

But don't you miss your home? Sometimes. Thanks for playing your cello. Maybe you can teach me?

SPEAKER_05 7:25

How about tomorrow by the falls?

SPEAKER_06 7:27

Oh. I'm not supposed to go there.

SPEAKER_05 7:30

Well, I don't think a trip to the falls is going to hurt you. After all, Elion created them. We'll do it before your father gets up. What do you say?

SPEAKER_06 7:40

Deal.

SPEAKER_12 7:53

Let's shake. We're ready! Pulling away!

SPEAKER_00 8:11

And we're off! No more waste bands! No more death machines. And no more.

SPEAKER_02 8:19

Oh no. Please, please don't tell me one of you still has that user port coin. Vote in?

SPEAKER_11 8:28

I left it in that room where we got the weapons. You saw me put it on the desk.

SPEAKER_00 8:32

Don't look at me! Sai?

SPEAKER_12 8:35

Sai?

SPEAKER_02 8:36

Well, I have the kind for safekeeping and all. You should have left it alone. It was designed to sync with the sovereign network. Its homing protocol will give every Soviet within 15 miles our location. But as long as we're on the ship in the river, they can't get wet, right?

SPEAKER_12 8:51

Yes, but the bridges! What? Don't you remember the bridges that we crossed under on the way here? Sai, we've got to lose the coin. Now we were promised to be well compensated for this venture. But this coin is all we have to show for it. What about bucket? We've got a new friend. Lose the coin, cousin. Look, on the shore, the machines! They're following us to those bridges up ahead.

SPEAKER_02 9:36

Sovereign's critical thinking is not as fragmented as I thought. We can't survive a swim, but maybe a fall. I expect a whole swarm of machines to smother us from above as we pass under the bridges ahead. What if we port? We can zoom past them.

SPEAKER_12 9:58

Sai? It's such a little homeless thing, isn't it? Sai! I'm all rolling already!

SPEAKER_02 10:11

And now we have a chance. Loading your ideas not half-back. We approach at normal speed, then accelerate just before the bridge. If I steer the ship, can you fore clear anything that drops out of the sky? I'm ready. Captain Sky on my mark.

SPEAKER_11 10:34

I can see them. There's hundreds of them.

SPEAKER_02 10:38

There are some machines that can look so angry. Ready your weapons. Now we fight. Well we die. Let's do it.

SPEAKER_07 11:00

Almost Almost.

SPEAKER_11 12:42

Get off.

SPEAKER_12 12:50

Crikey. I forgot my gun. Sorry, lad. I always forget about that gun under my seat. For emergencies, in case things all go to smoke, you know.

SPEAKER_00 14:16

Oh, I can't feel my thing.

SPEAKER_12 14:22

Always forget about that gun.

SPEAKER_11 14:25

You okay there, Maggie? Your left cheek looks deep fried.

SPEAKER_12 14:33

Reggie, would you mind dumping all these scrap metal of a board?

SPEAKER_02 14:36

Pleasure.

unknown 14:37

Hold it!

SPEAKER_02 14:38

I'm missing an arm! No one starts dumping until we find my left arm. Wait a minute.

SPEAKER_11 14:44

Without the coin, how are we gonna find our way back to the wall of water?

SPEAKER_00 14:48

We're lost! I wouldn't say that. Don't forget this little guy. You're compass. Yeah, I told you it would come in handy. I made notes along the way. I think I could find our way back home, James.

SPEAKER_11 15:01

Lead the way, Reggie.

SPEAKER_03 15:21

What are you doing here?

SPEAKER_10 15:22

I could ask you the same question.

SPEAKER_03 15:24

I thought you didn't know where this place was.

SPEAKER_10 15:26

When Liana was little, she liked to fall off the map every once in a while. We humored her and pretended not to know. I'm just trying to see if she had another secret idle that I don't know about.

SPEAKER_03 15:44

That was such a luck, I'm guessing.

SPEAKER_10 15:47

But I did learn something.

SPEAKER_03 15:50

Really? What?

SPEAKER_04 15:53

So let me ask you something. If you had all your dreams come true, what would they look like? Liana would a ramp be in them? Honestly? Yes.

SPEAKER_03 16:08

It doesn't sound like me.

SPEAKER_10 16:11

You're right.

SPEAKER_03 16:12

What does that mean?

SPEAKER_10 16:13

What do you mean?

SPEAKER_03 16:14

What are you surprised about?

SPEAKER_10 16:16

I've just never heard you talk about dreams.

SPEAKER_03 16:18

So I can't have feelings? Now you're laughing at me?

SPEAKER_10 16:22

I've just never heard you talk about your dreams before.

SPEAKER_03 16:25

Oh.

SPEAKER_10 16:26

You're always so dedicated to your work. I wondered if you even had them.

SPEAKER_03 16:30

Of course I had.

SPEAKER_10 16:31

Or if there was even room in your life for another person. Well, I I mean Because I have dreams too.

SPEAKER_03 16:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 16:39

And you're in them.

SPEAKER_03 16:42

Ram. I don't know what to say.

SPEAKER_10 16:46

You don't have to say anything.

SPEAKER_03 16:47

If I don't, you'll think I'm cold or unemotional, and I I that I don't feel the same way about you that you do about me, and then after all of this craziness is over and we go back to our lives, we'll be stuck with this really awkward moment in time. Well, if I'm rambling, it's because I have a good reason to ramble.

SPEAKER_10 17:03

I didn't mean to make you upset.

SPEAKER_03 17:05

I sound upset. No, I'm not upset. It's just that I don't want to go back to the What are you saying? My dad asked me to think about what I really wanted in life.

SPEAKER_10 17:15

I just I'm sorry, Kai. We don't have to talk about it.

SPEAKER_03 17:19

If you don't shut up, I'll banish you.

SPEAKER_10 17:21

You definitely take after your dad.

SPEAKER_03 17:24

True. But every once in a while he's right.

SPEAKER_10 17:29

What do you mean?

SPEAKER_03 17:30

When you love someone, you can't do life alone. I know. It's the worst time to be talking about this. Your sister's still out there in this beast and you're in charge.

SPEAKER_10 17:41

I don't want to do life alone either.

SPEAKER_03 17:43

What?

SPEAKER_10 17:45

You heard me.

SPEAKER_03 17:46

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 17:48

So this?

SPEAKER_03 17:57

I've been hoping you do that for a long time.

SPEAKER_10 18:00

Glad you never banished me. So what will happen if I continue to play with me? Any more deep thoughts from Miss Brandon?

SPEAKER_03 18:09

Did not hit that button.

SPEAKER_10 18:11

Oops.

SPEAKER_04 18:12

My fingers like Was that Elsie? How did she get out? She never goes out in the rain. What was that? I've heard that before. Do you think? Elsie, let's go!

SPEAKER_10 18:30

Wait a minute. That was the beast?

SPEAKER_03 18:33

Yes. What's wrong?

SPEAKER_10 18:34

I was working in the lab the other night and I heard that sound come from Protest's office. Something he was listening to.

SPEAKER_03 18:39

Well, maybe someone recorded something when it was loose in the jungle.

SPEAKER_10 18:43

Then why? When I knocked on his door, did he not share the information with me?

SPEAKER_03 18:46

You think he's more involved?

SPEAKER_10 18:47

What do you think?

SPEAKER_03 18:48

He has a history of lying.

SPEAKER_10 18:51

I think we need to pay the beetle a visit.

SPEAKER_08 19:05

Ready to take off, Sam? More than ready. Sam? Yes, Arcus. Is anything wrong? You seem worried? Yes, I think I'm in a constant state of worry. How long until we arrive at the well? Oh, a few hours. Should be a smooth, quiet ride. It's just us. Good. I like quiet. Ellion, I hope I'm not too late.

SPEAKER_01 19:47

Episode 75, In Love and War, was written by Colton Grillier and Chris Nelson. Featuring the voice talents of Rendell Kellum, Mark Howison, Garrett Lewis, Logan Paulson, Jamie Clutier, Stephen Dean, Joshua Prentice, Madeline Dury, Jennifer Eaton, Ezra Hersick, Becca Kellum, Chuck Bennett, Ashley Banker, Timmy Williamson, and Joshua Nicholson. Sound design by Sam Lee. Music by Seth Norris. The Encounter is written, performed, and produced by Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. Visit us online at encounterseries.com.