SECRET IN SILVER FALLS

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[00:00:39] Listen up thrillers, a quick note.

[00:00:42] Tonight's D.V.S. audio delight contains adult content and language, including graphic

[00:00:47] violence.

[00:00:49] April 1984 Silver Falls, New York.

[00:01:01] Oh come on, Stase.

[00:01:09] You got into the one school you really wanted.

[00:01:12] Because only one is for me.

[00:01:17] The other is for them.

[00:01:23] It's embarrassing.

[00:01:25] Oh, now you have to share.

[00:01:28] Trevor maybe?

[00:01:30] Trevor.

[00:01:31] Don't tell.

[00:01:32] Stase.

[00:01:33] Stase.

[00:01:34] Stase.

[00:01:35] My lips are sealed.

[00:01:36] Promise.

[00:01:37] Square.

[00:01:38] So what microwave treat awaits tonight?

[00:01:44] It's Sunday.

[00:01:45] So they might have actually used the oven.

[00:01:49] Wow.

[00:01:50] Spansy.

[00:01:51] Full report at three periods tomorrow, and you've got to show me the Trevor news.

[00:01:55] Oh, Morgan's the goal.

[00:01:58] Gotta go now, Stase.

[00:01:59] Bye.

[00:02:00] Later.

[00:02:14] Can you get the dishes, please?

[00:02:16] Sure, Mom.

[00:02:19] Hmm.

[00:02:23] Shaking bake.

[00:02:24] Again, it's good and it's quick.

[00:02:27] You could put another hungry man in the microwave.

[00:02:30] Ha ha.

[00:02:31] Too funny, Dad.

[00:02:32] Stase's parents both work too, and they still like cook.

[00:02:37] This is cooking.

[00:02:39] Okay.

[00:02:40] So, we have 30 days to make a deposit on tuition.

[00:02:50] Mm-hmm.

[00:02:52] And we have to make travel plans settle your housing and then...

[00:02:56] Yep.

[00:02:57] So, MIT, right?

[00:03:02] Morgan, can you stop sketching?

[00:03:06] We're trying to talk to you.

[00:03:08] Brown.

[00:03:09] I thought we settled this.

[00:03:12] MIT, engineering.

[00:03:14] You settled that.

[00:03:15] I want to join the art program at Brown.

[00:03:18] You can still keep your art interest on the side.

[00:03:21] Art interest?

[00:03:22] Dad, this is all I think about.

[00:03:25] It's all I want to do.

[00:03:26] We know, darling.

[00:03:28] Your talent is obvious.

[00:03:29] Right.

[00:03:30] It is.

[00:03:31] I had a similar choice to make when I was your age.

[00:03:34] So you've said Morgan, your scores.

[00:03:36] They're so smart.

[00:03:38] And art...it's just not a career.

[00:03:41] If I'm so smart, my art can be whatever I make of it.

[00:03:44] Same with engineering.

[00:03:45] Who knows where I can take you?

[00:03:46] Oh really?

[00:03:47] Like you too?

[00:03:48] Morgan.

[00:03:49] You're both agreed up the ass and living in this potent town surrounded by resentful

[00:03:53] hits, stop that.

[00:03:54] Don't disparage our work or the people here.

[00:03:58] Not everyone is like that.

[00:03:59] Tell me this is where you expected your degrees would land you.

[00:04:03] Hmm?

[00:04:04] Here?

[00:04:05] I'm the choice to be here, Morgan.

[00:04:07] For the top secret government lab, blah blah.

[00:04:10] Everyone in town knows what you do at Maple.

[00:04:12] Morgan.

[00:04:13] Atomic power propulsion.

[00:04:14] Big whoop.

[00:04:15] Why be all James Bond about it?

[00:04:17] You know we can't talk about the work.

[00:04:19] Why couldn't you find the work in New York City or Boston or any other place living in

[00:04:24] 1984 instead of 1954?

[00:04:26] That's enough.

[00:04:28] We only want the best for you.

[00:04:31] Yeah.

[00:04:33] Long as it's the same as what was best for you, right?

[00:04:36] You'll have more choices with an engineering degree.

[00:04:39] You can always keep art as a hobby like you.

[00:04:43] That's right.

[00:04:45] Hmm.

[00:04:46] So when's the last time you sketched anything?

[00:04:48] Not for work.

[00:04:49] Morgan, that's not fair.

[00:04:51] Fair?

[00:04:52] What's not fair is for you to expect me to be like you.

[00:04:55] I love my-

[00:04:56] Whoa!

[00:04:58] What was that?

[00:05:00] Sounded like a transformer blue down the street or-

[00:05:03] Sounded further away.

[00:05:05] Could be kids setting off M80s or a car backfire.

[00:05:09] Should you call someone, the police or-

[00:05:12] I hate to busy the line if someone really needs help.

[00:05:15] She's right.

[00:05:16] Just call it in.

[00:05:17] Call the police?

[00:05:18] Are you sure?

[00:05:19] Daniel.

[00:05:20] Okay, okay.

[00:05:23] Morgan, are you okay?

[00:05:24] Yeah.

[00:05:25] Just startled.

[00:05:26] I guess.

[00:05:27] I know.

[00:05:28] Me too.

[00:05:29] It's okay.

[00:05:30] Yeah.

[00:05:33] Ah, mine's busy.

[00:05:35] Guess others are calling it in.

[00:05:37] Okay, well, we can talk about college later but we need to talk about it soon.

[00:05:42] Okay?

[00:05:43] Mom, nothing is going to change my-

[00:05:45] Shit!

[00:05:47] That wasn't a transformer.

[00:05:49] No, too big.

[00:05:50] What's happening?

[00:05:51] Not for a honey, just stay calm.

[00:05:53] Okay?

[00:05:54] It sounded far enough away so-

[00:05:55] Maybe the TV will have something.

[00:05:57] Try the radio, the new station might have it sooner.

[00:05:59] Right.

[00:06:04] Damn it, Morgan!

[00:06:05] How many times have I told you to put this back the way you found it?

[00:06:08] Sorry.

[00:06:09] I must've forgot.

[00:06:12] I knew where it's reports of a series of booming sounds in silver falls.

[00:06:16] We have no official confirmation but the reports indicate police activity in the vicinity

[00:06:21] of the Mitchell-Atomic Power Labyrinth.

[00:06:24] You're calling.

[00:06:25] Should we go in?

[00:06:26] No!

[00:06:27] It said police were near the lab, not at the lab.

[00:06:30] They'll call us if they need us.

[00:06:32] Yeah, okay.

[00:06:33] This isn't like three mile island, isn't it?

[00:06:35] No, no honey.

[00:06:36] It's not a power station.

[00:06:37] It's-it's not the same.

[00:06:38] I'll try the police again.

[00:06:40] Try the lab. Maybe someone there can tell us something.

[00:06:42] Yeah, okay.

[00:06:45] Okay, while your dad's doing that, let's clean up, okay?

[00:06:48] Just keep our money.

[00:06:49] Shit!

[00:06:50] You're sure this isn't a bell down?

[00:06:52] Morgan, stop it. You know better.

[00:06:54] The-the lines just went dead.

[00:06:57] Nothing!

[00:06:58] Well, maybe there's more news.

[00:07:05] The station was right there.

[00:07:06] Did you change it?

[00:07:07] No, I just turned up the volume, swear.

[00:07:11] Let me try.

[00:07:16] Listen.

[00:07:17] Oh shit!

[00:07:19] Who could that be?

[00:07:21] Maybe see authorities.

[00:07:26] Daniel, look.

[00:07:28] I'll tell you.

[00:07:29] Not good.

[00:07:30] Not good!

[00:07:31] Morgan, stop. They're just scared.

[00:07:32] But why are they here at our house?

[00:07:34] I'll handle it.

[00:07:37] Daniel, be careful.

[00:07:40] It's Ned from down the street.

[00:07:43] Hey, Ned. How can I help you off?

[00:07:47] You, um...

[00:07:49] Hear them blasts?

[00:07:51] Yeah, kind of hard to miss.

[00:07:53] Right. Any idea what that was?

[00:07:57] No, no. I thought maybe a power transformer blew up.

[00:08:01] Yeah.

[00:08:03] Maybe a power transformer blew up.

[00:08:05] Yeah.

[00:08:06] Maybe a power transformer blew up.

[00:08:08] Yeah.

[00:08:09] Maybe a power transformer blew up.

[00:08:11] Yeah.

[00:08:12] We all still got power though, so...

[00:08:16] Right.

[00:08:17] New saying it's out there at Maple.

[00:08:20] The atomic labs.

[00:08:22] Oh really?

[00:08:23] Well, our radio isn't that-

[00:08:25] That's where you work, right?

[00:08:28] You and, um...

[00:08:30] Nicole, yeah.

[00:08:32] We both worked there.

[00:08:34] Right.

[00:08:36] So we came to the right place.

[00:08:38] See?

[00:08:39] Ned, um...

[00:08:41] I'm not sure I can help you with-

[00:08:43] So what was it?

[00:08:45] Then blasts.

[00:08:47] Um, I'm not sure exactly.

[00:08:49] Because we're all a bit worried here.

[00:08:51] With blasts and atomic labs and all.

[00:08:55] Oh, well, uh...

[00:08:57] You don't have to worry about that.

[00:08:59] Is this gonna be like that three mile island thing?

[00:09:02] The meltdown?

[00:09:03] No, no, not at all.

[00:09:05] We were just explaining to our daughter that it's not a power station.

[00:09:08] You know, we've been pretty accommodating to you all.

[00:09:11] Whatever it is you're doing out there.

[00:09:15] Damn mosquitoes!

[00:09:17] Come on earlier every year.

[00:09:19] Is everything okay, Dan?

[00:09:21] Yeah, yeah, we're fine.

[00:09:23] Just, uh...

[00:09:24] Just catching up, Ned, right?

[00:09:26] So now, we need you to return the kindness.

[00:09:30] Tell us what's really going on in our pound.

[00:09:34] We-we don't have any information.

[00:09:36] The way I see it.

[00:09:38] You know what they do out there at the labs.

[00:09:41] That means you can tell us what's happening.

[00:09:44] Ned, it's a government facility so...

[00:09:47] Even if I have-

[00:09:49] Well, my government doesn't keep secrets from citizens.

[00:09:53] Just enemies.

[00:09:55] Okay.

[00:09:56] But that's not really how it works.

[00:09:59] Are you saying we're the enemy?

[00:10:01] I'm-I'm not saying that.

[00:10:03] It just-

[00:10:04] Gotcha!

[00:10:05] You're the-

[00:10:06] Shit.

[00:10:07] Ned, how that we go inside...

[00:10:09] You and me.

[00:10:10] You can tell me what's happening.

[00:10:12] And then I can tell all these fine folks

[00:10:15] there ain't nothing to worry about.

[00:10:17] I-I don't have answers to share with you.

[00:10:21] I insist.

[00:10:23] Ned.

[00:10:24] Go on, maybe a short bit.

[00:10:27] If you're helpful.

[00:10:29] Let's go.

[00:10:35] Oh shit.

[00:10:37] What's going on?

[00:10:38] Stay calm now.

[00:10:39] No need to get fast.

[00:10:41] The enemy boy going close that door.

[00:10:47] You too.

[00:10:48] Go sit on the couch over there.

[00:10:49] Ned, please.

[00:10:50] Let's just talk about this for a second.

[00:10:52] And you.

[00:10:53] Sit down right there.

[00:10:55] Keep your hands out on the table where I can see them.

[00:11:00] What's this thing?

[00:11:03] TV or something?

[00:11:05] Uh, no.

[00:11:06] That's a computer.

[00:11:08] Computer?

[00:11:09] In your house?

[00:11:11] It's for Morgan's homework and our work.

[00:11:14] So does this thing know what's going on out there?

[00:11:17] Uh, no.

[00:11:18] No, it would-it would need the phone line to connect in the-

[00:11:20] The line is-

[00:11:21] And last.

[00:11:22] It's nuclear, innit?

[00:11:24] It-it's not likely so-

[00:11:26] I don't think so, no-

[00:11:27] Ain't that your job?

[00:11:28] Thinking?

[00:11:29] We're not at the lab.

[00:11:31] And we haven't been able to get information on the radio or-

[00:11:34] How do you-

[00:11:35] How do you go out all of a sudden?

[00:11:37] Something's in the air.

[00:11:38] Am I right?

[00:11:40] It's possible there was some kind of interference in the ionosphere.

[00:11:44] Listen, talking to you.

[00:11:46] Just be quiet while the men talk this out.

[00:11:48] It's just real right now?

[00:11:50] Honey, please.

[00:11:51] Listen to your mama, girl.

[00:11:53] It-it's fine, honey.

[00:11:54] It's fine.

[00:11:55] I don't know what's happening these days.

[00:11:58] In my house, women know their place.

[00:12:01] Sorry.

[00:12:02] It-it's just-

[00:12:03] When I was growing up here,

[00:12:05] y'all knew your place.

[00:12:07] Call it progress now.

[00:12:10] You know, when that bastard Governor Mitchell sold a bill of goods on putting that lab here,

[00:12:16] and all the jobs it'd make for Silver Falls,

[00:12:19] what he didn't say was how it would flood our town with all these newcomers,

[00:12:24] Indians, the Asians,

[00:12:27] you.

[00:12:30] And here you are hiding things, dangerous things,

[00:12:36] from the good people that made this place their home for decades.

[00:12:41] It ain't right.

[00:12:46] Listen, we're not hiding anything.

[00:12:49] We don't know what's happening.

[00:12:51] Really?

[00:12:52] Nothing popping into that big brain of yours?

[00:12:55] We don't have any real information.

[00:12:57] We can only guess.

[00:12:59] It best you start your guessing then.

[00:13:04] Hey, are you okay?

[00:13:07] Can I get you some water?

[00:13:09] Sit back down!

[00:13:12] I got scared people out there.

[00:13:14] And here you are.

[00:13:16] Cool as a cucumber.

[00:13:18] We're being cool, man,

[00:13:20] because we don't know where or what those noises are.

[00:13:24] Explosions!

[00:13:25] Admit it!

[00:13:26] We don't know that exact...

[00:13:27] Stop treating me like I'm stupid!

[00:13:30] We know it was at the plant.

[00:13:32] It's a lab.

[00:13:33] Whatever it is, you're experimenting without there.

[00:13:37] Are you sure I can't get you some water?

[00:13:41] Tell me what you did to my town

[00:13:45] or the little one gets a new hole.

[00:13:47] No!

[00:13:48] That's okay, honey.

[00:13:49] Please, point the gun back here.

[00:13:52] Okay?

[00:13:53] Back at me!

[00:13:54] Look at me!

[00:13:55] You make this happen!

[00:14:01] It's your fault!

[00:14:03] It's all your fault!

[00:14:06] Wow!

[00:14:10] Morgan, be careful!

[00:14:12] I got it!

[00:14:14] What the hell?

[00:14:18] What's wrong with him?

[00:14:19] Man!

[00:14:20] Man!

[00:14:21] Who the hell am I?

[00:14:22] He's choking.

[00:14:23] Damn, let him be...

[00:14:25] Oh my God!

[00:14:28] What is that?

[00:14:31] Damn you!

[00:14:32] Oh, shit!

[00:14:33] Daniel!

[00:14:34] Are you okay?

[00:14:35] Oh my God!

[00:14:36] He put me to the land!

[00:14:37] What is that thing?

[00:14:39] We have to leave now.

[00:14:40] Let's pick one outside.

[00:14:41] It's all your fault!

[00:14:43] You have to go away!

[00:14:44] Morgan, get back!

[00:14:45] It's all your fault!

[00:14:48] Morgan, I hit it!

[00:14:50] Come on!

[00:14:51] Where?

[00:14:52] For basement.

[00:14:53] No way!

[00:14:54] It's the safest place.

[00:14:55] We have to go.

[00:15:01] Come on!

[00:15:02] Oh, your fault!

[00:15:12] Over here.

[00:15:14] The bite?

[00:15:15] How bad is it?

[00:15:16] I'm fine.

[00:15:18] It's small.

[00:15:19] Just a scratch.

[00:15:20] What is that thing?

[00:15:23] I don't know, it happened too fast.

[00:15:25] We all just saw that, right?

[00:15:27] Yes, darling.

[00:15:28] We did.

[00:15:29] Right Nicole?

[00:15:31] Nicole?

[00:15:33] What?

[00:15:34] Any ideas?

[00:15:35] I can't say.

[00:15:37] Are you serious?

[00:15:38] You can't say because you don't know.

[00:15:40] Mom!

[00:15:43] I think...

[00:15:44] Nicole?

[00:15:46] Do you know what that is upstairs?

[00:15:48] I've never seen it reaction.

[00:15:51] Like that?

[00:15:53] What are you talking about?

[00:15:54] Shit.

[00:15:55] Shit.

[00:15:56] Shit.

[00:15:57] That bigoted piece of shit was right.

[00:15:59] You're hiding things?

[00:16:01] For God's sake, what is going on right now?

[00:16:04] I can't...

[00:16:06] I can't...

[00:16:09] It's national security.

[00:16:11] What?

[00:16:12] We're cleared!

[00:16:13] Above your level.

[00:16:14] Above my...

[00:16:16] We have the same clearance.

[00:16:18] No.

[00:16:19] No, Daniel.

[00:16:20] We don't.

[00:16:21] What?

[00:16:22] Since when?

[00:16:24] Since we came here.

[00:16:26] It's why I chose to come here.

[00:16:39] Mom.

[00:16:41] Mom, what are you talking about?

[00:16:46] Come over here.

[00:16:51] So... explain?

[00:16:54] All right.

[00:16:56] I've been working with an object.

[00:16:59] What kind of object?

[00:17:01] In 78, a meteor came down in the Arctic.

[00:17:05] The US had been tracking it and sent a research and recovery team.

[00:17:09] But when they got to the site, the Soviets were already there,

[00:17:12] flag planted fully armed.

[00:17:14] There was a conflict and the Soviets shot in Americans.

[00:17:18] Oh shit!

[00:17:19] So the US responded with our own armed team.

[00:17:23] There was a standoff of swords in the Arctic for months.

[00:17:26] But in the end, both sides agreed to split the meteor equally.

[00:17:31] And the US had the media?

[00:17:35] Is here and so far?

[00:17:37] At Mitchell Lab.

[00:17:39] Yeah.

[00:17:40] I can't believe this.

[00:17:41] Why?

[00:17:42] It contained a new radioactive element, not on the periodic table.

[00:17:46] It changes things rapidly, radically.

[00:17:50] Holy shit, Nicole!

[00:17:51] Oh my work is based on it.

[00:17:53] So what...

[00:17:55] They're making weapons out of it?

[00:17:57] My role is exploring propulsion opportunities, but most likely...

[00:18:01] Yes, that too.

[00:18:03] You dragged us to this shit hole town to make bio-weapons?

[00:18:07] It's not bio, it's atomic.

[00:18:09] And I'm not making weapons.

[00:18:10] Listen, you've never seen anything like this.

[00:18:13] It's the opportunity of a lifetime.

[00:18:15] Nicole!

[00:18:16] Stop!

[00:18:17] Just...

[00:18:18] Stop!

[00:18:19] So how do these hicks know about it?

[00:18:21] They don't know anything.

[00:18:22] They're just making up stories.

[00:18:24] Well, none of their stories is more fucked than what's in our kitchen right now!

[00:18:29] I know.

[00:18:31] I can't believe you never told me any of this!

[00:18:35] Please, Daniel, you know how this works.

[00:18:37] So what do we do?

[00:18:38] How do we kill it?

[00:18:40] I don't know.

[00:18:42] What do you mean you don't know?

[00:18:44] Hey...

[00:18:45] I'm feeling great.

[00:18:47] What's wrong?

[00:18:49] Daniel was happening to talk to me.

[00:18:51] It's...it's like...

[00:18:53] No, Dan!

[00:18:55] We're the no-stay back!

[00:18:58] You can't help.

[00:18:59] Daniel, stay with me!

[00:19:00] Stay with me!

[00:19:03] Don't let this happen to me!

[00:19:04] No!

[00:19:05] Dad, please no!

[00:19:06] We're finding a way out of this.

[00:19:07] Have to go.

[00:19:08] No!

[00:19:09] Daniel, please!

[00:19:10] There has to be another way!

[00:19:12] Don't let me turn...

[00:19:13] Like that!

[00:19:14] They can't...

[00:19:15] Please!

[00:19:16] Mom!

[00:19:17] We have to get help!

[00:19:18] Come on!

[00:19:21] No, dear.

[00:19:22] Your father's right.

[00:19:24] Give me the gun.

[00:19:25] No!

[00:19:26] I won't let you do this!

[00:19:28] It's the only way, please.

[00:19:30] Give it to me.

[00:19:31] I'll be both.

[00:19:33] So much!

[00:19:34] It's okay.

[00:19:35] Work it.

[00:19:36] I love you.

[00:19:37] I'm sorry.

[00:19:39] I'm sorry.

[00:19:42] No, look away.

[00:19:44] Mom, don't do this!

[00:19:46] Look away, sweetheart!

[00:19:48] I love you, Daniel forever!

[00:19:50] Mom, stop!

[00:19:51] Don't!

[00:19:56] No!

[00:19:57] No, no!

[00:19:58] I'm sorry, sweetheart.

[00:20:02] I'm sorry.

[00:20:03] I'm sorry.

[00:20:04] I'm sorry.

[00:20:05] I'm sorry.

[00:20:07] I'm sorry.

[00:20:11] It's still alive.

[00:20:13] Stay away from it.

[00:20:17] Hey!

[00:20:18] Returning your home for sheltered one.

[00:20:20] Returning your home for sheltered now.

[00:20:26] Down here!

[00:20:27] Down here!

[00:20:33] Are you going to crime?

[00:20:34] That's right.

[00:20:35] I need to get into the shelter.

[00:20:37] All the mid-seems going down.

[00:20:39] We should have been Daniel.

[00:20:41] Oh.

[00:20:42] I'm going around the front.

[00:20:44] Meet me there.

[00:20:45] No, wait!

[00:20:46] Shit!

[00:20:47] Mom?

[00:20:56] Shit!

[00:20:57] Shit!

[00:20:59] Mom!

[00:21:08] We need to get to the shelter.

[00:21:10] What about the police car out front?

[00:21:12] It should be running, right?

[00:21:13] We have to get to it.

[00:21:14] We have to try.

[00:21:16] Come on.

[00:21:27] Hold on.

[00:21:28] Okay.

[00:21:35] Okay, it's clear.

[00:21:39] Wait!

[00:21:40] Morgan, we don't have time.

[00:21:42] My sketchbook!

[00:21:43] I can't leave it.

[00:21:47] Okay look, the driver's door is open. Do you see that?

[00:21:50] Yeah, yeah.

[00:21:51] I want you to run as fast as you can to it.

[00:21:54] Get in and slide right over to the passenger side.

[00:21:57] What about you?

[00:21:58] I'll be right behind you, okay?

[00:22:00] Okay.

[00:22:01] Yeah as fast as you can.

[00:22:03] Mom!

[00:22:04] I love you.

[00:22:05] Go now!

[00:22:21] Mom!

[00:22:22] Come on!

[00:22:25] Good grief.

[00:22:28] Hi!

[00:22:29] Hurry up!

[00:22:30] Help!

[00:22:31] Don't leave me up here!

[00:22:32] We can't help her?

[00:22:33] I have a doctor!

[00:22:36] We're leaving.

[00:22:43] I can't believe this is real.

[00:22:44] See you, Bill.

[00:22:45] Now, okay?

[00:22:46] Yeah.

[00:22:47] Yeah.

[00:22:49] Car 3.

[00:22:50] Car 3, this is in search report.

[00:22:52] I think that's us.

[00:22:53] Car 3!

[00:22:54] This car!

[00:22:55] Car 3, I repeat.

[00:22:57] Oh, are you going to answer them?

[00:22:59] Car 3, meet them.

[00:23:01] This is in search for you there over.

[00:23:04] Maybe they can help.

[00:23:05] I don't think so, honey.

[00:23:06] Mom!

[00:23:09] This is Car 3.

[00:23:11] Car 3, police speaking.

[00:23:14] This is Nicole.

[00:23:16] Ryan.

[00:23:17] Can you tell me what's happened?

[00:23:19] Where is all the information?

[00:23:22] He's gone.

[00:23:24] What do you mean, gone?

[00:23:26] He didn't make it.

[00:23:28] I can't reach any of my office to go up the shelf.

[00:23:31] Do you know where they are?

[00:23:32] Oh, shit!

[00:23:34] Mom!

[00:23:35] No.

[00:23:36] You should go home.

[00:23:38] Be with your family.

[00:23:39] Miss, you need to bring up a troll carton of the station right now.

[00:23:43] I'm going home.

[00:23:44] I can't.

[00:23:45] I'm sorry.

[00:23:46] Go.

[00:23:47] Be safe.

[00:23:48] Okay, be safe.

[00:23:49] Does that mean all the police are...

[00:23:52] Probably.

[00:23:53] Yeah.

[00:23:54] Oh, shit!

[00:23:55] Are we going to turn into those squid things?

[00:23:59] Oh, Morgan, honey.

[00:24:01] Your dad, he got bit.

[00:24:02] You're not bit, are you?

[00:24:04] I don't think so.

[00:24:06] No.

[00:24:07] What about Ned?

[00:24:08] What bit?

[00:24:10] I'm not sure.

[00:24:14] Where are we going?

[00:24:16] Uh, the shelter.

[00:24:17] It's another 10 miles or so.

[00:24:19] You know this could happen, didn't you?

[00:24:22] Morgan, it's science.

[00:24:24] There's always the chance of accidents and stakes.

[00:24:27] Mistakes?

[00:24:28] Like choosing to live here?

[00:24:30] If not me, then someone else.

[00:24:32] It's just how it works.

[00:24:33] But we wouldn't be here right now.

[00:24:35] And dad would still be alive!

[00:24:38] Yeah.

[00:24:39] I know.

[00:24:42] I know.

[00:24:44] Why?

[00:24:45] Why did you need to work on that stupid rock anyway?

[00:24:49] I just had to.

[00:24:52] I was drawn to it like you are with art.

[00:24:55] I can't explain it. It just is.

[00:24:58] I was never going to feel that about engineering, especially not now.

[00:25:03] How about you scan the radio, okay?

[00:25:06] Yeah.

[00:25:09] There's nothing.

[00:25:13] How is that possible?

[00:25:16] See if there's a short wave.

[00:25:18] Yeah, there is.

[00:25:21] Lower.

[00:25:23] Tone lower.

[00:25:26] I'm not getting anything.

[00:25:30] Wait, wait, put that back to where it was.

[00:25:33] The tone.

[00:25:35] Okay.

[00:25:37] This?

[00:25:39] Mom?

[00:25:42] We don't have much time.

[00:25:44] Mom, what are you doing?

[00:25:46] We have to get as far away as possible.

[00:25:49] Why?

[00:25:50] What is that?

[00:25:52] Turn it off.

[00:25:53] What is that some kind of code?

[00:25:55] Yeah.

[00:25:56] For what?

[00:25:58] Extreme emergency event.

[00:26:01] From the lab?

[00:26:03] Your lab?

[00:26:04] The media, the expulsions must have disperseed it.

[00:26:09] What does that mean?

[00:26:11] It means what happened to your dad is happening everywhere.

[00:26:15] Oh shit.

[00:26:18] So, what happens now?

[00:26:22] Well, containment.

[00:26:25] Like what?

[00:26:26] Roadblocks?

[00:26:27] No.

[00:26:29] Armed jets.

[00:26:31] They're probably already launched from Hancock Field in Syracuse.

[00:26:34] They're going to bomb us?

[00:26:36] They have to raise the area to stop it from spreading.

[00:26:39] How far from Maple, a 25 mile radius at least?

[00:26:44] How can they do that?

[00:26:45] Everyone lives here.

[00:26:46] What about all the people?

[00:26:48] That's why we need to get as far away as fast as we can.

[00:26:51] What about Stacy?

[00:26:53] All my friends?

[00:26:54] More can listen.

[00:26:55] Only 10 more miles, okay?

[00:26:57] We have to keep moving and...

[00:27:01] Mom?

[00:27:02] Mom!

[00:27:03] I'm here.

[00:27:05] I'm okay.

[00:27:08] Are you okay?

[00:27:10] Yeah, yeah.

[00:27:11] You had something.

[00:27:13] Something hit us.

[00:27:17] Is that a bear?

[00:27:27] What was it?

[00:27:37] Stay perfectly still.

[00:27:41] Okay, don't make a sound, okay?

[00:27:44] Okay.

[00:28:45] Good job, honey.

[00:28:48] You did great.

[00:28:51] Is everything like that now?

[00:28:56] You stated...

[00:28:58] Yeah, it will be if they don't stop it.

[00:29:01] We have to get back on the road.

[00:29:04] Shit.

[00:29:07] Shit!

[00:29:08] Come on, stop!

[00:29:10] Shit, shit!

[00:29:11] Come on, stop!

[00:29:12] It's fine!

[00:29:13] Shit.

[00:29:14] We can run.

[00:29:17] We have to.

[00:29:21] Mom!

[00:29:24] We have to run!

[00:29:27] No, honey.

[00:29:28] There isn't enough time.

[00:29:30] Yes, we can.

[00:29:31] We have to.

[00:29:32] We can't just sit here.

[00:29:34] Come on.

[00:29:39] Morgan, stop!

[00:29:41] Mom, please!

[00:29:42] Come on, hurry up!

[00:29:43] Come back!

[00:29:44] Come back, honey.

[00:29:45] Get in the car!

[00:29:49] What are we doing?

[00:29:52] We don't have much time.

[00:29:54] We can still get away!

[00:29:56] Morgan...

[00:29:59] What?!

[00:30:02] Here.

[00:30:04] I sketchbook.

[00:30:06] Listen to me.

[00:30:09] I was wrong.

[00:30:11] Mom, I know how much you love this.

[00:30:14] Your art.

[00:30:15] We don't have to do this.

[00:30:17] I need you to hear this.

[00:30:20] I want it to follow my art too.

[00:30:23] But I was too afraid.

[00:30:25] So I chose what I thought was safest.

[00:30:28] Mom!

[00:30:29] And then I projected my old fears onto you.

[00:30:31] I'm so, so sorry, sweetheart.

[00:30:36] Look, look, do you remember drawing this one?

[00:30:39] Your face was glowing.

[00:30:41] I was so proud of you.

[00:30:43] You captured it beautifully.

[00:30:46] I love to tell you we're looking at each other.

[00:30:49] The day says March 3rd.

[00:30:52] The day I got accepted.

[00:30:54] Yeah.

[00:30:55] And Brown.

[00:30:57] I love you, Mom.

[00:30:58] I love you so much, Morgan.

[00:31:04] Try.

[00:31:05] Try the car.

[00:31:06] Please, Mom.

[00:31:07] Try!

[00:31:08] Okay.

[00:31:10] Okay.

[00:31:16] Yes!

[00:31:17] You did it!

[00:31:18] You did it!

[00:31:20] Let's go!

[00:31:21] Yes!

[00:31:28] Yes!

[00:31:29] Yes!

[00:31:30] Yes!

[00:31:31] Yes!

[00:31:32] Yes!

[00:31:33] Yes!

[00:31:34] Yes!

[00:31:35] Yes!

[00:31:36] Yes!

[00:31:37] Yes!

[00:31:38] Yes!

[00:31:39] Yes!

[00:31:40] Yes!

[00:31:41] Aminus Thrill presents Secret in Silver Falls.

[00:31:46] Created, written, directed and sound designed by Jeff Schmidt,

[00:31:50] starring, Trefina Wade as Nicole,

[00:31:54] Exania Scott as Morgan,

[00:31:56] Oscar Jordan as Daniel,

[00:31:59] John D. Michaels as Ned,

[00:32:02] Additional voices from Logan Digma as Stacey,

[00:32:06] Maghanda Marie as Dispatcher,

[00:32:08] Crawford Roberts as Radio Announceur,

[00:32:11] Meredith Nudo as Pleading Mother.

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[00:32:51] Look!

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[00:33:01] It looks like the teams are arriving for this season of Soul Survivor.

[00:33:04] Live action role players will find...

[00:33:07] I'm Sequoia.

[00:33:08] I'm Murna.

[00:33:09] Great trick it is.

[00:33:10] We agreed to just call me Skynesdale.

[00:33:12] I'm Cool.

[00:33:13] Hannah.

[00:33:14] To Bill.

[00:33:15] I need the feathers for my errors.

[00:33:17] Sequoia, maybe you need to grab some things.

[00:33:19] It's out smart.

[00:33:20] Oh my god!

[00:33:21] What?

[00:33:22] Not again.

[00:33:23] No, don't, no!

[00:33:24] No!

[00:33:25] Facing fate.

[00:33:26] Black Knight.

[00:33:27] Available at FacingFate.com and on Apple Podcasts.

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[00:33:32] Or wherever you listen to podcasts beginning June 14th.

[00:33:35] I don't know if I want to live anymore.

[00:33:37] I just want it to end.

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