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Chapter 8: “Hell of a night for a girl like that.”

Published Aug 25, 2021, 2:31 PM

Dover gets a new intel. Sean gets suspicious. Cassie and McKayla get to the heart of the matter. 

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Aftershock is a presentation of our Heart Radio and Nomadic Engine. Previously on Aftershock. You snuck up on us, Mr Marsn and I been scout in the island. You seem to found yourself. Then real estate. We'd like to share it with you. Thank you. No, you didn't let him finish. I think i've heard. Where are your fucking manners? Girl? Where your manners? A little tweaker saw no bot can't be nice to these people. These people, no manners. These people like a plague covering the earth. Sometimes rarely I think someone can be immune. Only one person who went to that island didn't get sick, private and it's you, So in a way you're lucky. But your bunk mate seems to have caught it from you anyway, which means that you are still a carrier, which is unlucky because it means you are a danger to everyone else, and it's my job to keep everyone safe. Tell me about the tips with the knife form. Look, you have to be close up to do that kind of damage, not to mention determined. And I want to know who on that island had that kind of monster inside. Oh my god, you saved yourself. Oh my God, you're covered in wood, so are you? Michaela? See what do we do? What do I do? Get Wayne and we get rid of the body right now and we don't tell anyone ever. All right, let's make this quick. MICHAELA might freak out if she wakes up and you're not there. She's exhausted and she's a teenager. I don't think she'll be up for hours yet. I'll have a night for a girl like that, for anyone. I've never disposed of a body, I mean a live one, one that was a lot of firsts since the quick. I'd love to go back and time. Mom. You can't think like that. I just mean it'll make you crazy. I'm serious. Yeah, fair Karen's camp seems quiet. I mean I just hear maybe one person coughing. Maybe things have calmed down. Maybe morning? Uh? Hello, anyone up? Thank God, I've been waiting for you. You have to get me out of here. What's wrong? It sounds quiet? Quiet, It's there's hardly anyone left. We lost half a dozen people as night. What it's got to be the water man. I'm telling you, I haven't had anything in the spring, not one drop. But everyone who has they're gone. It's just just the worst possible way. Who's that cough? That's Francis. He said he didn't drink this, bring water, but he's like delirious. How long has he been like this since last night? What have you done for him? Hey? Man, don't come at me. Okay, I've been hauling the dead to the cave all night. What happened to let the dead bury? The death? Didn't prepares for this. This isn't utopia, it's hell's dying. You're not grateful to be alive. Still, the Great Guru and the sky saved you so far. Shouldn't he be light and incense or something? Hey? Wait, hey, whatever do to you? Man? I gave you water to share with everyone, enough to keep you all safe. Where is it? It's in your tent right You and Francis kept it for yourselves. So how about you crawl back in your hole while I go check on Francis. Jessie, please take me with you. He's right, whatever is going on here, you're not bringing it anywhere near our camp. But me count to three now and you're gonna go back into your tent or I will make you wish to Almighty God. You had. I will not give you a warning and I will not repeat myself. Cassie, for the love. You don't know what it's like to I hate this. I'm gonna go talk with Francis. Wait Wayne through his tent. The sickness doesn't seem airborne. I don't know. I want to help if I can, but you stay further off. Mikayla needs you. And if I'm wrong, why do you want to go to him? Everyone's died, but we haven't seen it happen. We keep finding dead bodies, maybe talking to someone or hearing them whatever. I don't know. Maybe it'll help. Okay, I'll come, I'll just I'll stay back. All for one and one for all? Oh Jesus, Francis you in there? Wade? Sound like ships? Do you need water? Swallowing? Is worth anything? Outside? It's like, Uh, there's morphine in the go back? Should I get it? We have morphine? I found it early this morning. I was looking for looking for what tampons? So should I bring him the morphine? He was willing to let his friends die first, so we let him suffer. We allocate limited resources to those who deserve. Doesn't that feel like playing god? It's society. Not everyone gets everything. Do you really think that he's the best use for him? No, me, neither. We're still here. I'm scared. I know, I'm tired. I can spell it. It tasty song. It tastes like like those bodies one spilled. Don't think about it. Listen to the wind and the waves. Let it bide. I don't want to go like I can't do that. Man breathing its fire. It won't be long. This moves fast, and you'll be hit peaceful Friday. Oh yes, Captain's hallway behind me? Do you see it? I do, sir. No one's allowed in, you understand, yes, sir, No one. But that's the infirmy down there, sir, it is What if someone comes in sick? You radio for me. I will handle it. A lot of people have been getting sick. I've got it under control. No one is allowed down that hall under any circumstances. I am giving you permission to discharge your side arm if necessary. What about out? Can I let folks out? No one is coming out coming, and they don't look so hot. No, sorry, some royally scruty uppies. We got out there almost enough to make you feel bad. For him, Tesla Peloton, Starbuck, High Horse Partners. Who's the crazy one? Now important to understand the reports have been either intentionally or accidentally inaccurate. The real numbers are in the hundreds of thousands, and no one on our hand network has reported seeing a firefighter in days. So let's but not panic guys. Okay, they're not coming to help, so not up here at least good news for the coastal folks, though, we've gotten confirmation of the femous shelter on Catalina Island for those able to make it off the coast. The rumors are true. Rations, water stations, uh shelters, medical assistants are all up and running. With luck, this refugee center won't be overall. I believe there's a coastguard courting around it. But we're hearing that every legitimate refugee is being accepted. For now. We're to the stupid though, they're shooting on site if you come armed, So to all the Rambos who still think you can blast your way out of this down Chassie would love this? What would I love? Oh? There you are? What did you two go so early to check on Karen's camp? More dead a bunch last night, and Francis won't last another day. It's so bad. I've never seen anyone like that. This place, this island, it's not right. What do you mean. There's an island way north in the Pacific Bowen. Native people up there never lived on it, refused, said it was cursed. Believe that. Tell me this place doesn't feel cursed to you. It feels fucking cursed to me. Hey, how are you feeling this morning? None? I and just can't. Yeah, no, thank God? Tell you what. Let me get us something fresh or breakfast. We'll be lunched by the time I'm back. But let's have a proper meal, and then I want to talk story about whether it's a good idea to stay here. What are you considering abandoning the calls no sense fighting for cursed land. Only white people do that. It's not cursed. There's a bug I don't run its course. Then Paradix This many dead people. Some of them may decide to stay too, ghosts. We call them night marchers. I've heard them. No, the island is not big enough. You want to heap how and leave the Hawaiian Kingdom to me? Be my guest I'm staying but mm hmmm, I'm going fishing. I'm going to scout another beach if I can look at places to launch. We'll talk about this when i'm back. Who we hope? What if she's right? Yesterday? That man, that's not a curse? That was that was a nightmare. But it's over? Is it? Speak of the devil? What calm? Now? Is sunsetting? This? Let me do the talk quick, michay. Let's show me your hands. We need to make sure they're clean, cleaned up last night. We're fine, don't second, I can't do this. Okay, Why don't you go wait in your test? I'm okay. Really if you don't feel fine, good, let me do the talking. Yes, fine, Sean, good morning to you there. Staying here now, we are your safety and numbers. What can we do for you? You got any coffee? Mm hmmm? It ran out? I'm fred, of course it. I'm looking from the old man. He's not with you. Oh, here's gone. But I came in last night. I've been checking him since sun up. There's blood blood, yeah, what makes you think it's your father? There's not a damn thing. I'll supleed on this island. It's no game. A few people with the other camp are sick. Maybe they have you seen my pops? I'm afraid not. Are you feeling okay? I've been up all night looking for him. I brought that water with you. There's a spring and find it yet I have, yeah, figure blood. It goes past there and an open cliff. So so Pops wanted this campaign, and here you are and here he ain't. I'm not sure what his knife is missing and the filet if we brought over that lives on the cutting board, on the crate by the propane stove. You know, Pops isn't a real stickler for doing every camp the same way. That way in the dark at night, you don't bang into ship when you're going out for a piss, and it scares the game away that much noise and night. So my pop's he he's got a system, and that that knife has been in that spot in every camp we've made my whole entire life. And it's fucking missing, and he's missing, and there's blood gung the funk? Was that gung? Sounding like law and order? Man? There's no conspiracy here. I'm sorry you can't find your father. You want to help look you for him. Yeah, maybe his dementia kicked in. And what I mean, dementia is common in older people. She doesn't know what she's talking about, Yes, she does. How do you know my papaz demension? It's an assumption, but it sounds like it may be right. So so you you talked to my father yesterday? Girl? You came to her camp. I'm not fucking talking to you. You girl? After we left here, did you talk to my papa about you? Back up out of her face? Look, how about that fucking level everyone called. She's gonna answer me. That was an accident. What was yesterday? I went to see him, Caleb be quiet, and he did it meant to rate He thought I was your mom? Oh what do you mean? He tried to force himself on her and you. I didn't need to. I was scared and I fucking bitch, I'm gonna tear your fucking are now what? Oh god, damn it off, bab Come to give him space, like breathing, just a little watch it. He's bloody, stay clear. Oh my god, is he just knocked out? He'll wake up, but he won't last long. That cough. Yeah, and he wasn't dear any of the other folks who got sick. So it's the water for sure. Stay back. He split his knuckles. That blood could be contagious. You're clean? Well yeah? Why do you think it took me so long? God? Damn it? Good? Do you go tie him up down there when on the rock and some until this virus does his thing? Do you I mean to help you carry him away from camp? No, it's all right, I'll drag him little ship some meth waist only wags a thing. How's your I'm too emped up to tell. How's it look? Let me see the other side. Why are you looking at me like that? There's blood? Shawn's what his his knuckles where he hit you? Is it a lot? It's right in the cut? What does that mean? I I don't know, Yes, you do. It means I'm infected? Right? We don't know that Sean has he was coughing. He drink the water. But maybe it's not contented, Cassie. Shawn's infecting, and so am I Eddie's private where's the file? It's on your desk waiting on your secure line. Were at the fives? I did? Sir? What does it show. It's marked ies only, so you didn't read it, no, sir, and it's encoded. Nice to know who to trust, Sir. I smells private. And if I don't hear your boots leaving down the hall, I will consider it an active mutiny. Yea, sir, I'm sorry. I came as quickly as I could. I open the file. These are the blood test results from your two detainees, Cassandro Wallace and Well. Take a minute to devote it. God, damn it, oh good in it, thinks Mark. I wish I was wrong on this. You're not. You know what to do. Enttainment has been unsuccessful thus far under the circumstances. I'm asking for the Malawi protocols. Do you remember them? It's a draw attention not in this ship show. Do what you have to. We'll clean it up. Just keep us away from civilians. We'll do when it is over, I can fly you out east if you wanted to sit down with one of those counselors. Funk off, sir, okay, then checking after speed. God's be attention all crew. I repeat attention, All crew reported oh six hundred tomorrow to the boiler room for a briefing. All hands required, no exceptions. Oh six tomorrow briefing in the boiler room. Are you comfortable? Yeah? Yeah, I f fine, actually good. I mean, my cheekerts. But can I get you? When he asked every minute for the last I just I just want to help. I know you can't. I know. I'm so sorry, sweetheart. I mean, it's not your fault. Yeah, it is. You're here because of me, and I promised your father. Was he mad at me when he died? Why I am? I said, I said some really mean things to him before I took the boat. He wasn't upset with you? No, no, of course not. I mean he thought about reporting the boat stolen to the coast guard? Really or is a joke? Maybe? But maybe not. Though he was strong, It's good he didn't dialog. All he cared about my last moment? Was you? Well? Tell him me dried, you know, to keep me safe? Oh? Thanks? Wow, I'm going to die. Yeah, I mean we're all gonna die, but this is I don't want to go out like those folks in the camp. You aren't even coughing yet, will you. I'm scared of the pain. There's morphine in the medical kit that your dad packed really Yeah, I don't know where he got it, but he said that all the medics carried it overseas. Wha he talked to you about his time in the surface some I I know it broke something in him. His time overseas and being away from you when you were so young was hard on him, but it was the best way that he had to support you and your mom. He never talked to me about it. He wasn't proud of his time in the Middle East. Mom thought that's why he was so distant from her. I don't think he blamed her, No, no, nothing like that, just that something was never the same after that. You know, yeah, what, no, nothing, Come on, Cassie's it's really the time to keep things from me A fair Sorry, I'm just no. Look, he's your father. I don't want to change your opinion of him. Oh you could never. I love him no matter what. That's how he loved me. But I do want to know the broken parts he never showed me those. Listen, having kids, it's about giving. You get more than you give. It's rewarding. How do you know I have hundreds of kids, Well, they're definitely not yours. That's the point none of you are ours, right, you're a loan for eighteen years. And then what we want to say that children make us whole, that they heal the broken parts of us, and they can, right we begin, we can become better people so that you get the parents you deserve. But also also we give, and we give, and we pour ourselves into And then what do you do. Believe right, you're supposed to, that's what we raised you to do. But you've given all this and and and now this place that you poured all your love, this focus you had on your kid. What's left? And you're at see a bit right with it, with a lot of time to look at yourself. And so someone who accepts your broken parts and your fears and your mistakes, someone who's not going anywhere, someone who's yours rather than your kids shouting they hate you, when you turn out to be a human being instead of the superhero they grew up with. That's it, exactly. That's who your dad and I were to each other. Was he happy? I mean if we laughed a lot, dad did. Yeah, we had a similar sense of humor. I guess I didn't even know he could have a sense of humor. Why couldn't that be my mom? I don't know. We aren't in charge of who we love. I missed her. I wish she was here now, Oh, honey, of course you do. I mean it like destroyed my mom. She didn't she didn't stay with him to do the right thing. She she loved him, and we knew better. Your dad and I. It was selfish. That's all there was to it. I mean, not entirely. He showed up here, Dad, He used to say, life is about showing up. Wow, you made it so easy. Okay, you're welcome. Hm. My dad believed in forgiveness. He told me it was one of the most powerful things a person could do. I'm not asking you to forgive me. Ask my mom. Okay, when I'm gone, tell her, tell her all of it. Maybe she'll understand. Maybe it'll make sense to her, and then tell her you're sorry in person. That might help. Okay, I'll I'll try and find her. I don't know where she was in the quick kid, of course, I know. I promise. I really hope that goes to real because I really really want to be there for that conversation. Are you sending me into the lions stand mh. I'm asking for you as much as for her, Cassie, if you can make this right, and I think it'll be good for you too. Hm. I want to ask you if you need anything again, but the morphine? Will it? Will? I? Is it enough to overdose? I don't know. I don't know how much is too much? Okay, then then let's say this once I'm coughing up blood, Just give me all of it, okay, Okay, I don't want to not make me do it myself. Your dad sent me here to take care of you, and you did your best. Now send me home to him before it gets unbearable, okay mm hmm okay, okay, Well, meantime, can we eat like all the chocolate? Yes? Yes, that we can do for sure? Who's that? Hey? Can I get a hand with these? Wade waite? Hey, I'll grab some fish. This bug is big, fucking damn a canny Kika. Where hey, bro, where are you going? Camp? Is that away? Sneaking? Sneaking? Mm hmm? Anti leg gonna follow you, Holly boy, You let a look about you like you're the curse on the Silent after Shock Episode eight stars Sarah Wayne Calley's as Cassie Wallace, David Harbor as Wayne Sharp, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Mark Dover Tati, Gabrielle as MICHAELA Annesley, Janelle Parrish as Lele Hua Masters, Austin Emilio as Sean Tipps, and Russell Hornsby as CEO. Additional cast includes Henry Noble as Reservist Number one, Conrad Goody has Reservist Number two, Mike Peeblers Reservist number three, Stephanie Sheay his Islander Number one, Aaron Goodson is Francis Eric Tovel as Ham Radio Operator Number one, and Michael Carter as Ham Radio Operator Number two. Aftershock is created by Patrick Carman, Sarah Wayne Cally's and Ben Haber. Written by Sarah Wayne Cally's, directed by Sarah Wayne Cally's, sound design, scoring and mixed by Jeff Schmidt. Original score composed by Emily Rice. Aftershock is executive produced by Ben Haber, Mark Ramsey, Sarah Wayne Kelly's and Patrick Carman. Executive produced by Salmon al Rashid, Sam Frohman and Simmons Fraser. Executive produced by David Harbor. Executive produced by Jeffrey Dean Morgan Executive produced by Paul Anderson and Nick Pinella for Workhouse Media. Executive produced by Noel Brown for I Heart Radio. After Shock was produced during the COVID nineteen pandemic and was mostly recorded remotely out of the performers and producers homes. Additional recordings were at Bandwagon in Los Angeles, Hyperbolic Audio in New York City, which Shop Studios in Vancouver Island, Canada, on One Audio in Berlin, Germany, and Boutwell Studios in Birmingham, Alabama. After Shock is a presentation of iHeart Radio and Nomadic Engine in association with Cardinal Productions, Mark Ramsey Media and Workhouse Media. For more podcasts from my Heart Radio, visit the iHeart Radio app, Apple podcast Us, or wherever you get your favorite shows.

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