Dimension 20 (2018-…): Season 20, Episode 8 - Five - full transcript

(tense yet whimsical music)
(stoats chittering)

(tense music continues)

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- Hello and welcome to
Dimension 20: Burrow's End.

I am your warren warden and
dungeon master, Aabria Iyengar,

and with me are my uncommon carnivores.

Say hi, uncommon carnivores!
- Hi, uncommon carnivores!

- I really am just running
out of stuff to say, guys.

I'm so tired.

- You're doing it beautifully.

(Brennan sings an inspiring song)



- This was a terrible
challenge I gave to myself.

(cymbals crashing)

- I did this in orchestra.

(all singing the inspirational song)

Four minute mile, baby! Roger Bannister!

- Yeah, let's go. Go get 'em pre.

- You can't expect us-

- That's what that movie's about!

It's about running a four
minute mile, Roger Bannister!

- I fell over at the end.
- Sports!

- Read a book!
- Read a book, watch a movie.

- Read a book about a movie you watched.

- Previously, our stoats found their way

deep into the bowels
of Last Bastion itself,



into Reactor Charlie,
where they found a puzzle,

and solving it, revealed
some sort of ceremonial pit,

at the center of which
lay the most clearest,

cleanest, highest concentrated amount

of what the people here call Light

and what you all know as the Blue

that you had ever seen before.

Unfortunately, old Nana Ava was lost

in the flipping of the floor,

and yet as a fight broke out

between our wonderful
family and the First Stoats,

Ava clawed her way back to life,

back into the fray, and
you all find yourselves

now standing deep down in that pit,

victorious, triumphant,
and with truly zero clue

of the ramifications of what you've done.

You have a giant, terrifying
dog that's your friend,

and I will say, at some point,
as the fight was wrapping up,

you lost sight of Sybil, who has fled.

- (gasps) Sybil!

- Just out of, like, I was dead.

- Did she at least take my present?

- Yes, she did not leave
the trachea on the ground.

- Viola looks down at what looks to be

a hat on a dead pope's head.

- You feel the word "miter"
echoing in your mind.

- We've skipped hat and gone straight-
- Straight to miter.

- We went sash to eye mask,
skipped hat, hit miter.

- We did do hat.
- Yeah, we did chant hat.

- We did chant hat. We did do hat.

- Because I saw the hooman

wearing a thing like an acorn top.

- Yes, yes, yes.

- When are we going to get to fascinator?

- That's season two, baby.

- Okay, so she's going to keep us alive

long enough for a season
two, this is good to know.

- Or we'll all be undead.
- Or?

- I'm going full church lady

and I'm going to take
the hat and put it on.

- Amazing.
- We're in charge now, y'all.

- Auntie V, you look
so good. Are you dead?

- Hey, Siobhan, real
quick? Go fuck yourself.

There is chai in my nose.

- I'm going to look and say, Mama,

what happened to you?

You went into the water and-
- And now I'm here, yes.

- [Brennan] Your heart's not beating.
- Mm-mm.

- How long has your heart
not been beating, Mama?

Before we got here?

Last winter? Winter before that?

- Who can say? It's not something
I normally keep track of.

But as far as I can tell, I went in there,

and now I am back out

with extra juice, as it were.

- It would be very helpful to know

our family's medical history,

as I am going to be bringing
more life into the world.

- If it helps, I think this is something

that's emerged as you exited the water.

I could tell that something had changed.

- And your eyes are so shiny.

- I look at you and blink.
They blink separately.

- I'm going to take your
hand and put it on my chest

so you can feel my heart beating.

- All right.
- Heart's beating.

- Tutu's still with us.

- Tutu?
- Tutu and Vi.

- Sorry, I didn't know
the name of your cop show.

(funky procedural theme plays)
- Sliding over the hood of a car.

(sirens wail and tires screech)

(music fades out)
- Ava, I know you don't like it,

but I do need you to make
an arcana check for me.

- That's a nat one.

My dice and I refuse to learn anything.

- My body is composed of tubes.

- There's a bunch of
squirrels inside of you

just pulling levers.

- You go into the Blue

and you come out filled with squirrels.

- Yep, that's what happened to the bear.

- Grandma has always been
one of the Country Bears.

- She's on Splash Mountain.
- Howdy!

- Yeah, you rolled a natural one.

I'm not going to do anything
bad, but you're vibing.

Everything you've said is
entirely internally consistent

within you, and I will stop
trying to make you know shit.

You and Jaysohn, my middle ones,

no, you're good, you're Gucci.

You rolled a 28 for what information?

- Investigation or arcana.

- What information?

- What has happened to my family?

Well, I want to know if I notice

the same thing that
Thorn does about my mom.

- Yeah, so making that an arcana check

instead of investigation
allows you to sort of open

your awareness to the magic and the Blue

in places and spaces, and
now that you've connected

with whatever this new strata and medium

with whatever this new strata and medium

in the world is, you look closely.

You look at your grandmother,
who shows more obvious signs

of whatever happening to her,

of whatever happening to her,

bringing her back from the dead.

Her eyes glow with the
purple-y Blue of the Light.

Then you turn your gaze
over to your mother

and look at her with fresh
eyes, and what you see

is the Blue suffusing
her in a different way.

Her heart still beats, but
that's because the Blue

squeezes the chambers of her
heart to replicate a heartbeat.

You see her mind still working.

Everything in the Blue here
hasn't just resurrected her,

but it has allowed her
to be herself again.

The same effect, but a
different kind of working.

Both of them are revenants.

- I think Thorn has been staring at Tula

ever since I kind of clocked
this, and then in this moment,

seeing you, I'm just
going to make eye contact.

You see it too?

- I just hold each of their hands.

- [Aabria] Your mother's warm as ever.

- Sweetie, is everything okay?

Okay.

Have I made anyone scared?

Okay.

I'm very sorry,

and it's nice to know

that this is something the Blue can do,

because it just did it for Mama as well.

It did it for Grandma.

- When did it happen to you?

- A long time ago.

I was walking

in the winter,

back to our burrow,

and the snow was very deep.

(wind rushing)
(footsteps in snow)

This was the winter that

we had lost Dad,

and I was walking, and I was walking.

The snow was very deep,

and I just got very, very tired

in the snow,

and it was very cold,

and I lay down for a moment,

and I did something very foolish,

which you should never do,

which is, I took a nap in the snow.

And when I woke up,

I couldn't move my arms or my legs,

and I was cold.

It was very, very cold.

I was colder than a block of ice,

and I knew that something wasn't right,

and the first thought
I woke up with was...

Was you.

You two, my sweet little babies.

I got very scared,
because I couldn't move,

and I thought, I have to get back to them.

And my heart started to
get faster and faster,

and as it got faster, I
felt my chest get warm.

(wind rushing)
(heartbeat)

It was so strange, I didn't
know what was happening, and...

(heartbeat continues)

Then I started to twitch, and
my chest started twitching,

my neck started twitching, and
I got more and more scared,

and my heart started beating,
and then that was warm blood.

You can touch my body. You can
feel that the blood is warm.

It warmed up my feet
and it warmed up my nose

and it warmed up all the parts of my body,

and I got up out of the
snow, and I ran home.

- Well, so why are you so
worried about us all the time

if we can't even die?

- That's what I'm worried about.

- You're worried about it all the time!

- [Brennan] That's exactly
what I'm worried about.

- We can't even die!
- The last thing you need

to be convinced of is
your own invincibility.

- But I am invincible!
- [Brennan] No, you are not!

- [Aabria] Tula.

I need you to make an
insight check on yourself.

- Could I also make one?

Not because I think that Tula's lying.

I just know that she has
a particular track record

of masking all of the truth

because she doesn't want
to worry or upset people.

- Sure, I need you to make
one deception check then,

and it's going to be for your
insight check for yourself

and then anyone that wants to
make an insight check on Tula.

Dang, look at this lack of trust.

- That's my sister!
- Look at this.

(chatter of players defending themselves)

Despicable.

- I got a 24 insight.
- Dirty 20.

- 21.

- 16.

- I got a nine.

- You just died.

- No idea what's going on
in your household at all.

- I only fool my mother.

- Honestly, the biggest flex ever.

- We're just going to keep it
from Grandma, but we all know.

- I think you're just
embarrassed because, you know,

it's that time of the month for her.

- Just hold up really quick,

because the thing I wanted
you to turn the eye inward on

is in the moments where you were recalling

what happened on that snowy day.

Your mind drifts back to
the thing that I don't know

if you've ever put words
to or ever really sat in,

how good it felt for a little bit.

You got to relax

and be at peace.

Why did you come back?

Geoffrey didn't come back.

- So, unbelievably,

my deception was a 13
and my insight was a 13.

The feelings surrounding that moment,

and for anyone who beat
the deception check,

nothing untrue got said,

but the words were all chosen
as carefully as possible

to not be lies,

and there's a lot that's
omitted from the story.

I have omitted my experience
of those events from the story.

All of those things happened,

and if you had been watching them,

they all would have happened like that,

and I think for myself,
when I go back to that time,

the number one emotion associated with it

is tremendous shame and embarrassment,

which is the emotion it would take

to never mention that to anybody.

- I think you watch, everyone
that made that check,

watches the flicker of emotional memory

with no words attached to it,

like a stutter or a jump in a bit of tape,

as Tula explains what happened to her.

- Oh, you're thinking about Geoffrey,

and how if...

Why didn't he get to come
back with all of this, right?

Maybe if you had been able
to give this power to him,

maybe he'd still be around.

- Maybe he is. We never
saw his body, right?

Maybe he's just out there,
and he's waiting for us,

and we can just go out and find him.

- Yeah, maybe, Jaysohn. Maybe.

- I don't think so.

- You're both old enough.

Your father was...

Your father was taken away from us

by the thunder on a cloudless day.

(distant booming)

It was in the early winter,

and he was in a place

too far from where we could get him.

It was during the winter when
we all had our white coats,

and he must have been
looking for something,

because he was near

a vantage point,

a place where you can poke your head up

to see for great distances.

But when you go to places
like that, you know,

when you can see a lot, a lot can see you.

- And if he'd gone out with
the rest of the hunting parties

or with other people or
maybe even with Tula,

he wouldn't have fallen so far away-

- Why don't you shut up?

- I-

- Why don't you just shut
up from time to time?

- [Erika] Well-
- Because I came to you,

in the winter.

I came to you when he was gone,

and I had no idea what to do.

I said, Geoffrey's dead.

I found him in the snow by the meadow.

You remember what you said to me?

- I said you should have
been there with him.

- That's right!
- That's not fair.

- He was a fool.
- That's not fair!

That's not fair at all!

She just poured her heart
out to us for the first time

in forever, why would you say that to her?

That's horrible, Mama!

I don't like that at all, I really don't.

- Well, I-

- You think he wanted to die?

You think he wanted to
go out there by himself?

- We never said you should
have been with Grandpa.

- [Rashawn] You won't even
tell us what happened to him.

- Ava, that same field
which Tula describes,

I went there with a whole crew,

a team of incredibly well-trained hunters

that could sniff out a
rabbit on the wind for miles,

and that cloudless thunder tore through us

like we were nothing but a blade of grass.

- Well, there's always
something you can do.

- There was nothing that we could do!

- You are so obsessed with
power and obsessed with control

that you have taken this whole family

and demanded that every bad thing

that has ever happened
to us was our fault.

If you were really strong,

you would be able to be
sad when bad things happen

instead of demanding that there was

something we could have done.

It is a big, big forest,
and we are just stoats.

- Well, I...

I have to believe that
there's always something

that you can do, because
if there's not, then...

Well, then we just really
don't have anything

to rely on, do we?

You all were relying on me, and when...

Just like Ken. Ken was relying on me, too.

And I failed him.

I failed him. I...

It could have been me. It
should have been me there.

- You didn't.
- I just had to...

Well, I...

- No, you didn't.

You didn't fail them.

- I don't...

Don't like thinking that there's

things that are out of our hands.

- Well, be that as it may,

and I know this is probably not
what everyone wants to hear,

but things are in our
hands to some degree now.

We have made a choice.

This warren is without its leader,

and we now

have to rise to the occasion.

We have to figure out
what is next to happen.

How we proceed from this
point onwards as a family,

but also as a warren, because right now,

whether we like it or not,
whether we agree with it or not,

whether we want it or not,
we have a responsibility

to every stoat in this
warren to have a plan.

- Give me a round of perception checks.

- Nat 20. About fucking time.

- 19.

- 23.

- 13.

- 16.

- Okay, kids.

I think you notice it moreso

in the giant, slumbering meat wolf

who's in the corner, has
almost fallen asleep,

and then you see sort of the nubs of flesh

where ears once were perk up,
and looks towards the door.

With a natural 20, you hear
a pair of footsteps coming.

- Really quick, what's the dog's name?

What are we naming the dog?
- MeatWolf. My new band.

- You're right, it's MeatWolf.

♪ MeatWolf ♪

♪ I would do anything for wolf ♪

♪ But I stoat do that ♪

- [Aabria] That's good.

- I hear-

- [Aabria] You hear a
pair of footsteps coming.

- One pair of footsteps.

- Two people.

- Four feet, or eight.

- Four feet or, dang,
very hard with stoats.

Two sets of bipedal-

- Two hearts.

- Oh god. One mind, can't lose.

- I'm going to go and
gently wake up MeatWolf.

- Yeah, MeatWolf is up and alert

and kind of looking,
and nuzzles, it's not...

(light whimsical music)

It's bone with bits of flesh
across the front of it.

- Can I offer it some of Pope Stoat?

- [Aabria] What do you offer?
- It's kosher.

- A finger.

- Okay, you snap off one of
the fingers of this stoat

- Okay, you snap off one of
the fingers of this stoat

and carry it over, and
kind of like the problem

with when you give a horse a mint,

you've got to flatten your fingers,

and you almost lose one of
yours as you feed MeatWolf,

(screeching)

who gives a little (huffs
affectionately) and nuzzles in,

leaving a trail of his own
viscera across your palm.

- Viscera!

- Can I very quietly go
and put my little paw

in my mum's paw and go, I'm sorry, Mum.

I'm sorry.

- Thanks, sweetie.
- I'm glad you're not dead.

I mean, you kind of are, but you're not.

I'm glad you're not.

- I'm going to do it too.
I want to be with Mom too.

- Hey, come here. I'm so
sorry you guys got scared.

I'm sorry.

- I'm sorry you got scared.

- You fought so well.

- Tula, sorry, hey,
there's someone coming.

We just need to do this in a minute.

- I want to walk towards
these people who are coming

and cast Command on them.

- Okay.

You begin the casting of this spell,

and as you round the corner,

you blast both Bennett
and Sybil with a Command.

Are you upcasting this
to target both of them?

- Yeah, if I heard more
than one pair of footsteps.

- Command them to do whatever they want.

- What's your command word? One word.

- I wanted them to state their business

before they approached us.

- One word.
- One word. I want y'all to...

- [Aabria] One word.
- What's one word? One word.

There are so many great words,
and the word I'm going to say

is coming to my brain
right now, and that is-

- Dance.
- Spill.

- Spill!

- Spill.

- Spill?

- It's "spill," Aabria.
She should've said dance.

(Siobhan singing a funky little tune)

- Okay, what's your spell save DC?

- My spell save DC is 12.

- 12?

- Spill.
- Gab.

- You round the corner,
and you can almost see it,

wearing this miter, this
symbol of authority,

it feels almost as though you
can watch the pulse of magic

leave you and slam into two people

who have only ever been your ally.

You watch it overtake them.

You watch the interaction of
will as you dominate them.

And Sybil just immediately
begins to burst out,

I went to go bring someone
that I thought would help!

I'm so sorry, I didn't know
what to do, so I figured

you couldn't be by yourself-
- If I knew it was you,

I wouldn't have done that.

- You see Bennett shake off the effect

and reaches into his
sash to find a weapon.

What have you done?

- We did what was necessary.
- You murdered the leaders-

- Who were going to drop a child.

- What I see is that you're
wearing a symbol of authority,

and sight unseen, you cast
offensive magic on me.

I don't know you!

- They killed Sybil!

And then my mum brought her back to life,

but they killed her!

- They were going to kill all of us.

- For what it's worth, you
guys were off in the corner

with the wolf, with your mother.

This happened in the hallway.

- Oh, in the hallway. Okay, great.

- If I hear voices, I'll go to join Viola.

- That's what Sybil told me,

but what I see is someone who showed up,

thought immediately that they knew better

than everyone here, murdered our leaders,

and sought to compel
me, someone I thought...

I was an ally,

and I haven't agreed with
everything they've done,

but I don't think you're
any different than them.

Thank you for saving Sybil.

I think you should leave.

- Well, we can't do that now.

I mean, they told us that we should,

we had to help save the warren.

- Who?
- Well, the leaders.

- Bennett's going to
attempt to push past you all

in the hallway to go
look into the reactor.

Do you allow him to pass?
- He's more than welcome to.

I'll look at him and say, Bennett.

- Tula.

- The First Stoats are not dead

because they were the
leaders of this place.

They are dead because they
cornered us in a dark room

and threatened violence.

If they had been coppers
or workers or whomever,

if they had held Sybil up by
the throat and spoken to us

with voices that communicated
a total disregard

for our lives, we would
have acted in the same way.

- They almost killed my
granddaughter, a child.

- They kind of killed my grandma.

- Yes, I'm very not alive.

- Make a persuasion
check with disadvantage.

- Okay.

That's going to be...

I'll throw the bonus action
Emissary of Peace on here,

so that'll be a 13.
(Aabria sighs)

- You see his expression
does soften towards you.

- (whisper) Because she's hot.
- Because she's hot as fuck.

You've got to say that
louder. We all know it.

You've just got to remind the audience.

- Because the stoat lady is bangin'!

- Is hot as shit. Smokin'.
- A sexy stoat vampire type.

- Dumb, thick undead stoat.

- Babies came out of there? Hachi machi!

- Everyone relax.

Mama keeps it tight,

but we don't have to talk
about that right now.

- Look at this butt!

She's had this butt since she was a child!

Look at that thing, golly!
- [Jasper] Are you twerking right now?

- I'll turn to Bennett and say,

I think you have every right to banish us,

and truth be told, I don't know

what we would do if we stayed here.

We don't have any disagreement.

We have no desire to change,

alter the community,

whatever Last Bast stands for-

- Tula, you have to see
what this looks like.

- I know what it looks like.

We've killed your leaders.
They attempted to kill us.

We're happy to be banished
or flee or whatever else-

- [Rashawn] Tula.
- (whisper) Can I say something?

- [Brennan] Yes, sweetie.

- You know they've fought people before?

- What? What do you mean?

- Humans have come before.

- We've pushed them back before.

- You knew that as well.

- Yes.

They've been getting closer.

They are moving their vehicles.

All of you hear vehicle, truck,

the bear that doesn't lift its legs,

all of it sort of clarifies in your mind.

They've been pushing in.

This was their warren.

We pushed them out, and
now for whatever reason,

they think it's safe to come back.

We've scared them off, harried them,

but we know they're coming
back in sufficient numbers.

That's what we've been preparing for.

I don't know why you are here,

or what happened.

I know what Sybil told me,

that the coppers came and got her,

that the First Stoats
were going to hold her

and all of you to account
for poking around,

and now they are dead

and you say that you would just leave.

You have broken the back of this warren,

and you just want to leave.

- I want to be clear.
I don't want to leave.

I want to stay and fight by the side

of every single stoat in this warren.

Now, these First Stoats

that have lived for 20 winters

and have grown sick and wretched-

- Hey!

- What? You mean to shout at me now?

In this moment, here?

Look around us, there
is nothing but death,

and all I can see is people squabbling!

- And that's at your hands!

- I understand, and I am
ready to take responsibility.

- Wouldn't that be a first?
- A first?

- Who did you talk to? What
do you know of any of this?

You've put some little clues together,

and you think you understand?

You were ready to cast judgment

on me coming around a corner.

You act before you think.

So yes, I will yell.

Because I am terrified right now.

- If you encountered a plan
like the one that's here,

you would react erratically as well.

The names of the dead aren't spoken.

Stoats walk on two feet

like the monsters they
seek to save us from.

People live in terror of the people

that are here to support their population.

Yeah, we don't have a
perfect plan to replace it.

We've been living in a
nightmare since we got here,

and we're just trying to get out.

- A lot of big words

for people who haven't spent
two nights here, but okay.

(Aabria sighs)

I am open to hearing your plan.

But if you try to cast magic

on myself or any of my people again,

I will react in the way I see is best.

- I think my aunt was afraid.

We've had our lives
threatened many times today.

- That's not an excuse.
- No, it's a reason.

- You are still very young.

- All right, well, it seems like you're

probably the next in command here,

so what would you have us do?

- No, no. This is on you.

- Yes.

So you'll let us do our thing, then?

- What would you do?

We don't know you.

You've destabilized our entire community,

and you speak as though you know better.

So then, go.

Be better.

You're wearing their hat.

If you want power so badly,

you have it.

I lay any information

that myself or the other
section heads know at your feet.

- I think that someone
who kills other beings

to absorb how they live

is something that wants power

more than any person I've ever seen.

- Lila.

Look at your aunt and say that again.

- She put a hat on.
- A very stylish hat.

- You killed the First Stoats,

put on a vestment of their power,

and then sought to control me.

How are you different?

- Well, we didn't know it was you.

- [Aabria] Sure.

- And they just tried to kill us.

- Sure.
- Like, really dead.

- We're speaking in circles.

- I think that the honorable
Bennett has a point.

If these stoats kill things
and take their power,

then we should probably not
kill them and take their power.

- It's a hat!

(rapid chimes)

It's a hat!

- [Brennan] Lila!
- [Aabria] Give me an arcana check.

- It's a magical hat!

- Is it a magical hat? I don't know!

A nat 20!

- You keep saying that,
and your understanding,

even as you look away and yell,

your eyes keep getting pulled back to it.

It is magic. It stores and holds power.

It's not just a hat.

- Okay, I didn't know that!

She also made a sash into an
eye mask! Was that one magical?

This one is just a coincidence, okay?

- [Brennan] I'm going to
look and say, sweetie?

- What does it do, then?
Maybe we can use it!

- I'm going to look and
say, I think that Bennett...

Listen, I love-
- Yeah, all right.

- You know I love you. I love you.

- She likes to decorate! For fuck's sake!

- I know, but sweetie, we
can all admit as a family

that it was not just
about how the hat looked,

it was also kind of
about what the hat meant.

- Yeah, well, he was a bitch!

- I know that the Stoat Pope was a bitch,

but we're going to focus on-
- The whole thing, you know,

we're dealing with our mother just now

and I just, you know,
there's a lot of emotions.

- There's a lot of emotions,
and I don't fault you.

In crisis, going for power makes sense.

I'm not going to fault you for that.

- Of course, we've got
a family to think of.

- I'm going to take the hat

and I'm going to throw it in the hole.

(Rashawn gasps)
- Oh, good idea.

(descending ringing)

- We don't need the hat.

- The hat hits the water,
everything flashes a bright blue,

and it is immediately consumed.

- (yelps) Oh, okay.
- [Izzy] Do I know what it did?

- No, no.
- Okay, well, I got a nat 20.

- You weren't paying attention to it.

- All right, so we have
the hat checked off.

My daughter has apologized
for Commanding you,

because she didn't know.
- Sure, sure.

- And what was the other one?

- [Rashawn] My extreme bad.
- [Brennan] You have no idea.

- Cool, as long as we
understand. That was really nice.

Okay, we can hug, yeah.

- I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry.

- Okay, cool, I was just trying to say,

the optics on it were kind of crazy.

- Exactly.
- And then I just don't like

being told what to do, and
other stoats have tried

to do that before, and I was
like, fuck that shit, you know?

- I don't like to be
told what to do either.

- [Aabria] So, cool.

You can make a different hat.
- [Brennan] It's hard,

because I think that there's this conflict

where people that don't
like being told what to do

try to get hats so that nobody
can tell them what to do.

- I think no one should have hats.

- But the way that they broadcast
that is by showing, hey,

I'll show you how come you
can't tell me what to do.

I'm going to tell you what
to do, and then it just-

- All right, so we're all in agreement

that hats are bad and we
should never wear them.

- No more hats, and Bennett,
this is huge for our family.

- No, I refuse!
(fist pounding)

I didn't even get a moment with the hat!

Not even a small, tiny
moment with the hat,

and now we're just going
to give them up forever?

- Honey, it's okay, it's okay.

We can get you a little-
- I do really like you.

We all really like you.

I think my mom wants to hook up with you.

We really had no idea!
- Lila!

- [Izzy] We're just really scared!
- [Brennan] Lila!

- We're just really, really scared,

and we think they were really bad,

and honestly, while we were killing them-

- Please stop talking.

I'm going to throw myself into the Light.

- No, no, no, no, no!
- We don't even have any-

- She really likes you, and
she's never liked anyone.

There was a guy in our old
warren, which we think is dead,

and Grandma really wanted
our mum to marry him-

- Oh my god, I'm blushing.

- [Siobhan] And she
was like, no thank you!

- Did you know about MeatWolf?

- Meat what?
- Do you know MeatWolf?

- Bennett, I'm sure you
have a partner. Do you?

I'm sure you do. This is so embarrassing.

- He's single!
- I mean-

- And head of a department!
- We got him back in.

- What kind of benefits
do you have at the warren?

- Throw the hat, a little bit of flirting,

we're back on the right track.

- I'm an easy bitch. We
could turn this around.

Bennett's going to take a knee

and put his hand on your shoulder and go,

okay, this might feel a little weird.

- (whisper) Are you going to kill me?
- No!

- Okay.
- No, I would never.

- Okay, you were just so mad a second ago.

- I was so mad because
I feel like you guys

didn't understand why I
was like, uh-huh, cool!

- I know, and sometimes-

- Then you just feel a
little pulse of Blue Light.

♪ I could have rolled better, I'm sorry ♪

- [Izzy] That's okay.

- [Brennan] Poor Thorn
is so fucking creased.

- You feel ripple, ripple,
ripple of Light push through you,

and you're going to get back 17 points.

- Ooh!

- Now, to answer your second question

before you go on again about your mother,

who is very lovely, and I
can't process that right now,

the wolf is different
than when I saw it last.

That is upsetting.
- One of the other beings

that was being tortured
by the First Stoats.

- So that was why we were scared.

Did you see that tail? That's so scary.

- Hey, Jaysohn, bud,

you've got to back off of
justifying a pretty brutal-

- We're going to let Bennett process

that we killed all four of his presidents.

- I just want to say that MeatWolf

actually did some of
the killing on his own.

- The meat wolf absolutely
did, and then I did the rest.

- [Aabria] Oh, okay.
- It was the meat wolf, also.

- Okay, okay.
- [Brennan] Bennett?

- I'm doing my best. Hi, ma'am.

- It's all right. Tula.

It's all right. Do you have...

I understand that the First
Stoats were your leaders,

but there are many leaders here.

You, Carter, Pep, Quentin.

There are a lot of people
here that actually know

how Last Bast is run, correct?

- Honestly, Ellen and Talia
were also really great, too.

- Yeah, and Simon's not very
good, but he can be replaced.

- Ellen? The copper?

- I don't know, they were really nice.

- The first copper that
we met was really nice.

Maybe not all cops are bad.

- Maybe we could reevaluate
what the coppers do.

- No, don't trust Ellen.
- Okay.

- Talia seems nice.
- I will say, honestly,

so I have a bunch of very
strong complaints and concerns

about the level of evil

amongst the First Stoats and their plan.

- Sure.
- As just sort of a note

for Last Bast, Simon's not
very effective as a teacher.

If I were to stay here long term,

educationally, I would love-

- I actually think he
was perfectly effective.

- And Meredith's a snitch.
- Meredith is a snitch,

and I'll snitch on a snitch.
- Snitches get stitches.

- Well, I think what my
daughter is trying to say

is that between you and
the rest of the leadership

who actually help run the
day to day of this place,

I'm sure you'll do just fine.

You're right, we're new.

- Whoa, whoa! No, no!
- We don't want to come in

and kill all your presidents
and then just bounce.

- Yeah, you killed all the presidents,

and now you're like, you can do it!

And that makes me want
to die in my body. Yeah.

- My grandma's dead.

- I'm dead in my body, yes.
- What?

- Can I do an intelligence check

to see if I can invent
democracy in this moment?

- Yes.

- I give you the help
action, because I can read.

- How'd you do?
- Well, it's an 11 minus 1.

- A vibe with a 10.
- What's the DC on democracy?

- 25.
- Wow, democracy's hard!

- Jaysohn, no head, empty thoughts.

- Could it be possible that...

I understand exactly what you're saying.

The situation I have
right now in this moment

is that perhaps, looking
down at these First Stoats,

do they seem like good, healthy stoats?

Right of mind, making
all the right decisions?

I think that perhaps there is a point

where a stoat is no longer a stoat

looking out for the best
possible things for other stoats.

- I don't know what you're talking about.

- I don't know either!
- The older that you get,

the better that you get,
the smarter that you get.

- Mama, can you read yet?

- I-

- Grandma doesn't need to read!

- Read is pretentious. I do not
care for it. - All I'm saying is-

- Lila can read for Grandma.

- I've learned a lot of things
from these two children-

- And me.
- I started off this journey

thinking that I was the
leader that knew everything,

and that blindsided me
to something horrific.

I was responsible for that
horrific thing happening.

I let that happen on my watch,
and I'm responsible for it,

and I won't let it happen again.

These four didn't listen,
they didn't understand,

and maybe, just maybe, we've
spoken a lot about hope

and a lot about survival,
maybe there is something else

that we can do that isn't
just pushing them back

and hoping that they don't come back

with a bigger and bigger
thing and scarier truck,

these things that will
end all of our lives.

Maybe there's a way that we can
go back out into the forest,

that it doesn't have to be terrifying

and filled with smoke and poison

and chipmunks inside of fucking bears!

- Oh, you have to look
out for the chipmunks.

- Yeah, they're really fucking nasty.

- They can all do that,
and it's not just bears.

It's bad.
- (under breath) What?

- I'm just saying, if perhaps we-

- I saw they were all in a
pig once, like a big boar.

- A pig is smaller than a
bear. I know, I've seen.

- Yeah, but...

Fair. I mean this one, they
were kind of mowing down-

- But I think Jasper's right.

- Jasper?

- Look, if you didn't
want me to fuck it up,

you wouldn't have had such a
whimsical, Redwall-ass name.

- You were hired for this season

because you have a British
accent and a whimsical name.

- Talent, not important.

- The fact that you're incredibly
good at telling stories

was coincidental.

- Thorn, you're saying
something important.

- I mean to say,

I don't want to impose myself.

I don't think my family
aims to impose ourselves.

We didn't want or elect
to be in this position.

We felt scared and in need of answers.

That's why we came down
here in the first place,

and it was at that point we were cornered,

and this is the result.

But the thing that I am saying

is that I was once terrified
too, and I made a mistake

because I didn't listen
to those around me,

and I looked at those four who came in,

and it is very clear that
they have not listened

to anyone but themselves for far too long.

And I think Ava brings
up a brilliant point,

which is, the heads of each department,

the stoats that we have
met who are brilliant,

I feel that if we listened,

if we went through the process

and understood what was coming

and didn't leave anyone
in the dark, no secrets,

that we maybe could forge a
better future for all stoats

rather than just these four
who have survived 20 winters,

because what I find to be
frankly unnerving is that,

why is there not more than four stoats

that have lived longer than 20 winters,

lived longer than four winters?

I see no one else.

- Do me a favor and make
a persuasion check first.

- [Jasper] Persuasion.

- As we invent saluting,
an idea of touching a hat,

the thing we know is the worst thing---

- That's where it came from!
- I want to be very clear.

Thorn has not said no to the hats.

- I think we can all agree that hats

are the worst thing that's even happened.

- I love the commitment.
Thorn's like, now wait a minute.

These guys suck, but let's not throw away

the concept of hierarchy.

- Whoa, whoa, whoa!
- Whoa, whoa!

- We've got to ease them
into democracy, everybody.

- A nice, slow easing.

- You know, for like 20 winters or so.

- Let me get a taste.

- And then we can talk
about democracy, eh?

Whew, okay.

36.
(Erika and Rashawn cackling)

- 36 on persuasion?
- Ya burnt.

- How is that possible?

- I have a plus nine, and that's a 17.

- That's the president.
- That's a 26.

- Oh sorry, did I say 36?

- I was about to go... (stammering)

I was about to be like, Tula gets it.

How do I join the Lukura?

- I am so sorry.
- You just cut a lightning bolt.

- Yeah, exactly.

- Whoa, too much, too much,
too much! I pull back to a 26.

- Back to 26, yeah. Way
to not tamp that down.

- Goddamn, this guy fucking rules.

- Okay, I see it.

- You see a visible softening

in Bennett's stature,

and he is nodding along as if
something has turned a corner.

Okay.

Hm, okay.

And before he responds to
that, give me an insight check.

- Wow, okay. Dirty 20.

- You see, as you rant about,

why have there not been more stoats

that have lasted 20 winters,

his eyes narrow just a little bit

as he goes, hm.

And you know that there's something there.

These four stoats, not quite right.

Okay.

Okay.

Now, I don't necessarily
agree with your methods.

- That's fair.

- But this is a chance

to bring more people in.

Sybil told me that you

heard a audio tape.

- Yes.

- That tape should be played for everyone.

- Dr. Winnebago, yes.

- Dr. Robert Wenabocker.

- Oh, you know him?

- We've found other clips.

- Do you have them?

- Would you mind sharing them with us?

- Yeah, we should share
them with everybody.

- With everybody, and
I should get a weapon,

because I really was good at it.

- You're gonna kill yourself, Jaysohn!

- I was good at it. I figured it out.

- And I feel like Dr. Robert Winnebaker

would be played by Richard Dreyfuss,

even though I know he's bad now,

but back in the day-
- Who is Richard Dreyfuss?

- Who is Richard Dreyfuss?

- Bennett asks you.

- It's 1982, everybody knows-
- Are you kidding me?

This is peak Dreyfuss, baby!

- Peak Dreyfuss, 1982.

- He doesn't like scary movies.

- It's not scary! (grumbling)

- Look, I saw the trailer,
and I just don't trust it.

- What about Close Encounters?

- We should have a movie night.

- Yeah, we should play the tape,

and we should also play some
movies on the projector.

- Let me be clear. I am all for openness.

But I do understand, because I have seen

the size of this population,
that when they are spooked,

it becomes very hard
to keep everyone safe.

So I will share this with you,

and then we can discuss amongst all of us

how and when we share this
information with everyone.

- Agreed.

- The last time a human got close,

people died not because
of anything the human did,

but the stampede.

- Because there's not
a way to really get out

unless you're going to your job.

We're kind of stuck here.

- I think we can leave, but
there's 2,000 stoats in here.

- Add a zero.
- (gasps) What?

- Two thousand zero stoats?

- Bennett bleeds to death.
Hemorrhages immediately.

- Can I try to just make her understand?

- Yeah! You, force
understanding onto your mother.

I don't know what that roll is.

- Can I give help and Guidance?
(Erika hollers and stammers)

- [Siobhan] Is it a one?
- A four.

- [Aabria] Nothing can
make her understand.

- Thank freaking god.

- [Jasper] Add a d4. I give you Guidance.

- [Siobhan] One of those,
and the advantage was a one.

- [Rashawn] Okay, 18.
- [Jasper] Come on.

- Mama, please.

Wait, I write, oh gosh.

- Pre-read.
- Pre-read.

Mama.

- [Aabria] And against
your better judgment,

your eyes slide across
the symbols, and you know.

You know that that means you!
- Look at it!

- [Aabria] You can read now!
- You are the scratches, Mama.

- Like when we used to make
shadow puppets on the wall.

- I wonder where you got that.

- Ava, think about it this way.

Think of all the passive-aggressive things

you could say to your daughters
even after you're gone.

- What is wrong with you?

- I'm going to make an insight check

opposed by Thorn's deception.

- [Jasper] Absolutely, Brennan. Let's go.

- That's a 29.

- I rolled a two. That's an 11.

- I'm just doing the thing I
do where I ramp up to attack

and I'm like, cool, I
have advantage if I want.

I have advantage.

- I look deep into Tula's eyes and I go,

that's for not telling me you were dead.

- Last will and testament.

- Don't forget the sound
mind and body part.

Sybil's walking you through basic-

- Sound mind?

- I'll say for the whole family to hear,

I'm talking to Lila, but
not keeping it to anybody.

The plan is to fight the humans.

Something kept the humans
away for 20 winters,

or very few came.

What did that?

- Well, you know, I really feel that...

I'm sorry, I don't want to
put words in your mouth.

- I have no response.
- Well, I don't know

why anybody is having so much of a to do

about killing these monsters

when I've seen

so many of them just keel over,

keel over just like
the ones in our burrow,

just like the Red Warren.
- The humans?

- Yes.

- When did you see humans keel over?

- I'm asking you for
stories of cool things dying

all the time, and you never even told us

about the humans keeling over and dying.

- Is this when you saw truck?
- This is when I saw truck.

Yes, they were in truck,

and they suddenly started
bleeding all over.

Yes.

- Oh yeah, like what
happened to the warren.

- Yes.
- What happened before that?

Was there anything that
might have caused that?

Did you hear thunder? Did
you smell something strange?

- What was the thunder without clouds?

- I want to know that, too.

- Gunfire.

(muffled explosions)

Thunder without clouds. A loud crack.

(distant explosion)

No light, no storm.
- What does it mean?

- We have a lot to show you.

- Can you show me gunfire?

- Can it make them all
go down at the same time

and bleed from their faces?

- No, that sounds like
something different.

You need to come with me. Do you...

Is there anything you have to do?

I have so much I need to show you.

- We need to rest, but not right now,

I suppose, if there's
important things to do.

- How about this? We have
to assemble some things.

I will go find the other
leaders of the sections.

Can you meet in...

Yeah, we know. We know you- the lab.

You showed them the lab.

Will you meet me in the lab in an hour?

- Yes.
- What's an hour?

It's okay, we'll figure it out.

- You know what, I'm going
to teach you to tell time.

We'll do it, yeah.
- We'll flash forward.

- A little walk and talk and explain time.

- Oh, that's it!

- I just take MeatWolf outside.

- [Izzy] Run free, baby!
- I take baby outside

so that he can go under a big shady tree

and I'll bring a rabbit over
to him so he can eat something.

I just want to take
care of sweet MeatWolf.

I'll just tell him, and if
you want to run and be free,

go run and be free, but if you're-

- Big, meaty lick, and
sort of lays down on you

with a paw on you.
- Oh, my sweet darling.

- Make a strength saving throw.

- You're just stuck there. I
guess I'll be here for a while.

- 11. Sweet baby!

- The tail just like-

- Yeah, the tail is ripping up dirt.

(tail whipping)
(soft roaring)

You see there's a couple,
hawks are taking off.

(hawk screeching)
(wings flapping)

The rabbit's screaming,
and a couple stoats

coming in from a routine
thing are like, oh no!

Leave her.

You are left for dead by stoats

who are like, that's not my fight.

- All right, baby, lift the
paw up. Lift up the paw.

I'll say, if you want
to stay and be nearby,

I'll make sure that you are plenty fed

and you don't have to go hungry,
but if you want to go off

and hunt and be free, you do that too.

Love you!

- One more big lick.

(flesh squishing)
(bones crunching)

- And I'll go meet the
rest of the family to go-

- As you go back inside,

MeatWolf gets up and
follows you back inside.

Oh, guess we're done outside!
- [Rashawn] It's imprinted on you!

- MeatWolf kind of whimpers a little bit

before you go all the way back in,

then trots back out and pees,
and then runs back inside.

- Just chunky, blood red pee.
- It's not great.

So as you move through Last
Bast, is there anything else

you want to do before you get to the lab?

- I would just very quickly
check in with Teedles

just to make sure that
they haven't been arrested

or killed or something.
- [Siobhan] Oh my god, yes.

- Sure, sure, sure.

You make your way over
to the yellow corridor,

up to their place,

and you actually see
Olliver is moving around.

There's no sign of Teedles,
but Olliver's in there.

Hi, boss. How're you doing?

- Oof, that's a really
big question right now.

- Sure, okay.
- A lot has happened.

- It's been a couple
hours. I have a watch now.

- Yeah, okay.

- You do see that on his sash now

is a little bit of copper wound around.

- Okay, good job.

- Thanks.
- Is Teedles okay?

- Oh yeah, Teedles is out
doing something. I don't know.

- Okay, I just wanted to make
sure that you were both okay.

We have a-
- Why are you asking?

Because it's been a very normal day,

and I feel like you are asking that

more because you want to tell
me what has happened to you

than wondering if anything
has happened to me,

because why would anything...

I went to apply for a job today,

so pretty simple.
- Okay, so-

- Yeah, there we go.

All right, sit down.
- We hop forward a full half an hour.

At the end I'm like... (hyperventilating)

- Okay, bud. Do you want some-

- I can't do this in front of the family,

because they all thing I'm
like, ooh, kind of together.

Leader, I know what I'm doing.

- [Aabria] I don't think they think that.

- [Jasper] Oh my god! (screams)

- I think you want them to think that,

and they don't really think
that as much as you want.

- Look, I know at this point

they probably don't think that of me.

- Auntie Vi, I love how much Uncle Thorn

just does exactly what you tell him to do.

- [Jasper] I'm fine with that.
- It's so cool.

- So you've killed...

You've decapitated the
leadership of this whole thing.

- Yes.

- You...

Okay, okay, that's so
interesting. Are you feeling-

- You stopped yourself from
saying something there, Olliver.

- Yeah, I did. What?
- What were you going to say?

- You want me to speak my mind?

- Speak your mind, Olliver.
- No.

- Olliver!
- That's not how this works.

- Olliver.
- What?

- [Jasper] Speak your mind.

- Okay, what's your plan?

- That's what we're going to figure out.

- A little pro tip, don't
do a bunch of mass murder

without having a little plan first.

Just a thought, because
now I'm a police officer.

- Hey, cool.
- I wanted to do Refit,

because they get to climb really high.

- I said this to Teedles!

- Way in the distance,
Tula goes, thank you!

- Wait, they get to climb really high?

You didn't tell me that part, Mum!

- They get to be at the tippy
top of this whole building,

and that's so cool.

- I said to Teedles,
you could've done Refit.

You could do Refit, if you want.

I'm not going to tell you
you don't have to do...

Listen, I appreciate-

- You know our whole kind of relationship

is you telling me what to do.

- Yes, but I told that to Teedles.

Teedles then tells you what to do.

That's where the issue is.

- I don't think you get to laugh at me,

because we all have met your wife,

who absolutely runs your shit.

- Oh, we're going to go there, Olliver?

We're going to go there?

- Yeah.
- Okay!

- Look, Teedles runs my
shit. Viola runs your shit.

- You just told me you
listen to what I do,

and now this is happening,
and do you know what, Olliver?

- What?

(Jasper screaming and snarling)

Fuck it, we're just doing a flat d20 roll.

There's nothing added.
- Oh, please!

- I got a 19. Suck my butt.

- Yes! I genuinely-
(Erika cackling at Jasper's low roll)

I honestly think Thorn literally flies in

and just lets Olliver beat the
shit out of him for a second.

He's just like, I need
this. (grunting in pain)

- He pins you down and
holds you by the throat.

Hey.
- Mm-hm?

- We both have our shit
absolutely locked down by women.

- Agreed!

- Yeah. No, no, I haven't
put my arm bar down.

That's still up, motherfucker.

Yeah, we're not going to
give each other a hard time

about that part, because we both like it.

Cool?
- Yes, we do.

- And I know I'm a little guy.
- [Jasper] Yeah.

- And I'll listen to what you say.

- [Jasper] Uh-huh.

- But if you come for
me, you'd best not miss.

Now do you want some fucking jerky?

- You have jerky?
- Yeah, I found some earlier.

They have a big ol' piece of glass,

and then they just dry
out some of the meat,

and it stays for a long time.

He just hands you some meat.
Cool, so what are you doing?

What do you need in this moment,

other than to have vented
just a lot of baggage on me?

Sounds really cool that
you told that Bennett.

Fuck that Bennett guy.

- Yeah, I was all like,
we can make a new future!

- Okay, that's fucking sick. Cool, thanks.

- I needed that. (sighs)

I think I could probably use, with...

Getting a bit of a, if you have any...

As Community Support, if you hear anything

about how people felt
about the First Stoats,

if we can kind of try to
have a full understanding

of people's opinions, that might help us

in airing out what is
going to be aired out.

- I'm going to ask you something,

and you're probably going
to have some thoughts after

that you're going to want to inspect,

and I'm just going to ask
that you not inspect them.

- Okay, well, that's...

Okay, I feel like you've really led me,

you know what I mean?

I'm going to do my best.

- Okay.

Do you just want intel?

Or do you want some words put out there?

Or do you want some words put out there?

Because, you know, you're
pretty popular wherever we go,

but sometimes it just takes a
little nudge from the homies

just to kind of push you
over the edge to trusted.

So are we finding out what
they think about the Stoats,

and maybe telling people

to not feel great about the First Stoats?

What are we doing?

- I'm trying so hard
for my entire worldview

not to collapse in this episode.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, it's
good, everyone likes you.

But sometimes, you know,
at first you come in,

and everyone's got a
lightning bolt on them,

and it's a lot, and we've
just got to get them there.

- I've got the message. Yeah, mm-hm.

- Getting the note?

- I think you know what to
do. And I'm going to leave.

- "You've got to nudge the homies."

is the best thing I've ever heard.
- This is a guy who just found out

that everybody around him
let him be a cult leader

because he really, really wanted to do it.

- We just think he's so sweet!

- There's such a scale
for his cult leader-ness.

Sometimes he hits really
big, but those dice

have maybe said that he's not
got a perfect track record.

If you give him time, he'll win you over.

- Got to nudge the homies.

- You see Olliver takes off immediately

and is beginning to move around.

Anything else anyone else wants to do

before we get to the lab?

- I might, if I ran into
Vi alone or if I ran into-

- There's enough time for you guys

to have prescient conversations,

I just wanted there to be a bit of rest

and whatever you need.
- Walking a little slower

as I become more swollen.

- [Brennan] Yeah, yeah.
- Kind of waddle.

- Are you just extremely
pregnant extremely quickly?

- I think so.
- Sure, okay.

No one Google the
gestation period of stoats.

- She decided it was time.

- I think I'll just look over and say,

do you think Mama's okay?

- I think that was the first
time that Mama has felt deeply,

- I think that was the first
time that Mama has felt deeply,

and I think for the first
time, she's actually scared,

that she could open herself up.

I don't think that she ever
thought that she would do that.

- I'm just going to lean
my head on your shoulder.

Thanks, Vi. I guess I knew you would.

I've just been quiet
about that for so long.

Hearing you say what you said... (sighs)

- I felt like I could never
step up until you did.

I never want to step on your
toes or try to outdo you

in any way, because you are the example

of the kind of stoat I want to be.

Oh, come on!
- [Brennan] No, no, no.

- I'm going to get so
dehydrated if I keep crying.

- You're the example.

- No, you are.

- Grandma, what's it like to be dead?

- Well, you know-

- You're cold.
- To be honest with you,

it's a lot like being alive but old.

- [Siobhan] Oh.
- Yes, you're cold.

There are parts that go missing, you know,

and nobody wants to touch you

because you look like
you're a weird consistency.

- I give Grandma a hug.
I'll touch you, Grandma!

- [Erika] Oh!

- [Siobhan] You're really cold.

- Well, maybe you two kids

can help warm up Grandma a little bit.

(Izzy and Siobhan breathing on Erika)

- [Rashawn] Hot kid breaths.
- Minty!

- Still minty.

- It's cold hot!

- Lila, I wanted to mention to you, too,

the plan that the First Stoats
have had this whole time

for all of Last Bast was for a big fight.

I think that's what they're excited for.

I think it's what Bennett
and the other leaders

of the different jobs are excited for.

I think it might be what your
Uncle Thorn's excited for.

But I also know

that whatever those humans are,

they're monsters.

I think probably they're
excited for a fight, too.

And I think something...

I think something had to have happened

to keep them away for so long.

And I just know you're very, very bright,

and if you were looking
for a mystery to solve,

finding out what it was

that kept the monsters
away in the first place

is maybe something worth solving,

because I don't think it was
an army of 20,000 stoats.

- That's a really smart idea.

- Wow, look at Mom.

Okay.

- Tell me if I'm overstepping
my human intelligence.

I think the doctor,

I think the doctor,

Robert Warmernargered?

- Dr. Oppenheimer.
- [Izzy] Dr. Oppenheimer.

- Wenabocker.
- Winnebago.

- Warby Parker.

- Dr. Warbyparker.
- Dr. Warby Parker.

Affordable glasses.

And stylish, too.

- And contacts!
- [Izzy] And contacts.

(swish)

- Sponsor us!

- We dodge sponsorships for five years,

and the first one is Warby Parker?

- This is going to be the
episode. Good job, everyone.

We're getting money this
time. Snickers for everybody.

- I think that whatever
he was dealing with

might have been what made them go away.

- Well, that's what
Bennett's going to show us.

These new recordings.

So if you hear them and
you sniff anything out,

then yeah, I would chase that down.

- The last tapes didn't smell
like anything, but yeah.

- Well, yeah.

Love you, sweetie.
- [Izzy] Mom?

- You both did such a
good job in that fight.

- Thanks, Mum. You did
a really good job, too.

That wolf was so scary,
and now it's your friend.

Can I ride the wolf?

- Yeah!
- I've got to say,

this wolf is just paws up

staring into your little room,

just blocking the light.

You just hear the screams of other stoats.

- See, this is the real
way we're going to get

the fucking command of Last Bast.

- Yeah, Thorn's going
to do this big speech,

this whole thing, and everyone's
going to be like, hmm.

And then the wolf steps out,
and everyone's like, hey!

- Anyone who feels our
authority might be illegitimate

can take it up with fucking MeatWolf.

- The wolf behind you,
and you're like, yeah!

- Everyone's clapping all of a sudden

and Thorn's just like,
oh wow, I did it again!

Look at me!
- No!

No!

- I'm sort of poking at
this snoot a little bit,

and I see if maybe,

I had a store of some of the strawberries

in the burrow, and maybe
he might like candy.

- He does that thing that dogs do

and very gently takes a tiny thing,

and then sort of drops it on the ground.

- Oh, he doesn't like candy.

- I take the rabbit ear
that I saved from earlier.

(Aabria snarling ravenously)

- Mom?
- [Brennan] Mm-hm?

- Are you okay?

- I'm having a Frito.

Fritos, the every time snack.

- Brought to you by Warby Parker.

- [Brennan] Brought to
you by Warby Parker!

- Was that just a Fritos bit, sweetie,

or did you want to do
something in character?

- No, I was, you know,
because you sort of told us

you died and came back to life.

- Yeah, so what, are
you dead forever? How-

- But you're alive in here.
- [Siobhan] What's going on?

- So I guess everything's great.

- I don't understand it at all.

Are you going to be alive forever?

Are you going to be our mum forever?

- Well, I'll always be your mom forever.

- I guess that's true, because
Grandma's really your mum,

even though she's old and you're old.

- Yeah, that's true. And
your mom's not that old.

I'm pretty young.
- Hmm...

All right.

Agree to disagree.
- [Brennan] Okay!

- Make a charisma check
for the background gag

of this dog smelling a dead stoat

and wanting to kind of ragdoll it.

- 12.

- Sort of grabs you and is
holding you in its teeth.

- MeatWolf! MeatWolf!
(Erika wailing)

- Drop it! Drop it!

Using my new mom voice.

- You always want to hint at mom voice.

You want to be like, mom voice
is right around the corner.

- I really don't want to.

Drop it. - [Brennan] I
really don't want to have to.

- I'm want to grapple it.
- Grapple the tongue?

- Grapple the tongue. We're roughhousing.

- Yeah, you know this dog is
now rolling around with you,

and then MeatWolf pops
back up again and is trying

to now shake off Ava, who
has grappled his tongue.

There's a look in this dog's eyes like,

this isn't on me anymore.

- Honestly, if you were
going to bite down,

you'd break your teeth.

You'd better just spit her out.

(soft roar)
(liquid gushing)

(Erika mimics the sound
of a stoat bouncing)

- Good thing your head is so hard.

- I would like to see

if there's any bones
or hard things around.

- As you look, we can come back to this.

- Yeah, sweetie.

The honest truth is, I really don't know.

I feel alive. I feel
like my heart's beating.

Yeah, you want to touch?

- I don't know why it would be different.

You've been dead this whole time.

- Well, I don't think I've
been dead this whole time.

- You've been dead for a really long time.

- I think that's a very
dramatic way to say-

- Are you dead, though?

- [Brennan] No, I don't think
I am. I think I came back.

- Yeah, you feel really
different than Grandma.

- Yeah.

- Yeah. Grandma's, like, dead dead.

You're just, like, died dead.

- Well, no.

I think that whatever happened,

what I remember

is that the first thing

that happened in my heart

was remembering you guys,

and so,

whatever happened, and
it's hard to understand it,

it was very scary in some ways,

but also, it was a long time ago.

And...

I know it doesn't make a lot of sense.

I know it's a little bit scary.

But...

I don't think I'm going anywhere,

and I think that the important thing

is that we're all together,

and if I knew more about why,

I would tell you.

You know, the Blue doesn't
affect us all in the same way.

You know, there are things
that Auntie Vi can do

that I can't do, and
there's things that I can do

that, you know, you guys can't do,

and there's things you can do
that I can't do, and I think-

- Yeah, Lila farted so
hard that a cloud came out,

'cause she farted.
- No, it wasn't toots.

- She tooted. That's what it was.

- [Izzy] It wasn't toots!
- It was a toot.

It was a big toot. That was Lila's toot.

- If it was a big toot, it didn't smell.

You couldn't see anything,

but it didn't smell like a big toot.

Jaysohn's toots smell.
(Siobhan gasps indignantly)

- Yeah, they do.
- So proud.

- Because he eats rocks
when I tell him to.

- He eats rocks? Don't tell
your brother to eat rocks.

- They actually taste pretty good.

I actually really like them.

- Well, don't eat rocks,
but other than that-

- As you guys are sort of
recovered and moved around

and had a couple conversations,
you know it's getting

about that time to head towards the lab.

It's like a 10 minute walk.
You were looking for bones.

- Yes.

- I'm going to say,
without a history check,

because god forbid I make
you think, couldn't be me,

you remember from your matronly walkabout

early in the morning that there was,

in addition to sort of the
big area where they're keeping

the elk, the rabbits, there's
also just a big midden,

and you've noticed that this
place, for all of the lives

stored within here, is incredibly clean.

- A what?

- A midden, a big pile of-

- [Brennan] Waste.
- [Erika] A dump.

- Yeah, it's usually organic waste.

- What a dump! As I go

ferreting around.
- Good one, Grandma!

- Are you going to go all the
way outside to go to the heap?

- Oh yes, well, if I have time.

- [Aabria] You have time
if you want to sprint out.

- Yes, especially while, you know-

- The dog will run you there.
- Yes, yes. Oh, yes!

Very good, so I go out and I find

some good, sturdy-looking rabbit bones

that I could use, and I load some onto...

Hold these!
(wolf huffing)

So I come back with some of them.

There's enough for me and for my daughters

and any, perhaps, you know,
just extra little bits, yes.

- For throwing?
- Oh, for protecting yourself,

because you know how when
you bite into a rabbit,

and it's hard on the inside?

We could be hard on the outside.

- Not me.
- Yes, not Jaysohn.

Not Jaysohn. Jaysohn's
hard enough as it is.

- Jaysohn has a very specific stat build

that means that having
rabbit bones on his outside

will make him less effective.

- You know that that
would make you so noisy.

- [Siobhan] So loud and so slow! - Keep
your body from its perfect movements.

- Well, I thought maybe you girls

could do with some

protection, not that you...

You seem to be doing quite
well on your own but, you know-

- Mama, thank you.

You still help us, and we're
glad that you're still here,

but we just want you to be
more feeling towards us.

It's not too much to ask.

- I'm going to take the rabbit bones.

I love you too.

I go hug my mom.

- Big lick.

(a single large rough lick)

- Wow, it got drier.

- Can I make an insight
check into my mother?

In a totally warm way,
I just want to know,

because I don't know,
I don't have the arcana

of what happened to me, but I
know hers is very different,

so I want to do, even if-
- I'm going to make it

either a medicine or make you roll arcana.

- [Brennan] I'll do medicine.
- Okay.

- Help action?
- [Brennan] Yeah, yeah yeah yeah.

- I get up into the three way hug.

- Second big lick. You
are covered in slobber.

- My skin is glowing.
- [Aabria] Yeah, it's really good.

- Thanks for the help action.
That's going to be a 26.

- Okay, what are you trying to suss out?

The differences between you?

- Yeah, the differences between us,

and the Blue that's making...

I don't have the insight that the Blue

is what's making my heart
beat, but I want to know,

because I think I just don't
want my mom to be cold.

I don't want her to be cold forever.

- I think with this, the
thing you understand is,

however the Blue brought you back

gave you back the things you needed.

The ability to move,

to be warm, to protect.

There is something
foundational about who you are

that restored that, in the same way that

this massive, radioactive pool

unmade and then remade your mother.

So there is just more of the, like,

this is a thing that has been rebuilt,

and because she does not value
the beating of her own heart,

the Blue did not value
making that a part of it.

- I knew I needed to be
warm when I got back.

- [Aabria] Yes.
- And she has not.

Holding my mom, I'm just going to go,

I was really cold, too, when it happened.

- Well...

I suppose I could

do with a little bit of heat.

Maybe Thorn is right, and it's all right

to learn things from
the younger generation.

- It's the best. It's the best.

- I frown harder to try to keep it in.

- My kids know so much
stuff that I don't know.

They can do incredible things.

- Okay, if you want to learn
from me, I've been waiting,

because I have some stuff to show you.

First of all, look at
this! I do a really basic-

- MeatWolf starts barking.

- Breakdancing, spinning on the floor,

and then doing the breakdancing,
I just did a breakdance.

- I punch him in the dick.

- (shrieks) That's cheating!

- There's no game!

- Those are two very good tricks, yes.

- MeatWolf starts
barking very, very loudly

as you guys get keyed up.

- Girls, I'm sorry.

I had to keep it together however I could

when your father passed.

I know I've always been very hard on you,

but look, you have such wonderful kids.

- She said sorry!
- No, we're in it.

- I just am always grateful
that someone but me

is crying in the dome.
- [Aabria] Truly, truly.

- I just got here! That's not fair!

- You're doing so good.
- [Aabria] You're doing so good!

- Whew!

- We're going to send this to Nestle

or whoever the fuck sponsors
us and get more money.

- We're not sponsored
by Nestle, they're evil.

- [Erika] But we'll take the money.
- I mean, I'll take the money.

- Oh my gosh, she said
sorry. That took me out,

Thank you.
- It's all right, it's all right.

I'm learning from the both of you

that it's all right to express-

- Jaysohn, Jaysohn!
(Siobhan slurping)

- Can I get a help action from my sister

on an insight check into my mom?

- Sure.
- In this moment?

- Is she sorry?

- [Aabria] Against your
persuasion or deception.

- Hilarious.

- The MeatWolf provides the help action.

- Okay, that's a 10.
- You can do it again.

- You already rolled quite well.

- That's a four.

- You should see these.

Low roll from Brennan.
- I rolled a 5, but that is a 15.

- [Rashawn] Werk.
- [Aabria] Womp.

- I'm just going to look at
my sweet little mom and go,

oh no.

Mom.

When you asked me,

"Where were you?"

were you saying that to yourself?

- Well, I...

I suppose...

No, that's too much! That's too far!

- It's okay, it's okay.
- That's too far! No, no!

I can't examine that yet.
- Cool bone, Mama!

- I need everyone to make
a dexterity saving throw.

- No, no, no! (screams)

- That's a 25.

- Dirty 20.

- You're able to leap out
of the way as MeatWolf

can sense the emotional panic,
grabs you and pulls you,

and just starts backing out of the room.

- It's all right, it's okay.

But from there, I say in
sort of a muffled voice,

(echoing) well I- maybe!

- It's like a megaphone.

This is a bone-mouthed
dog, it's so loud now.

- I have perhaps

felt like I could have
done something more,

or feel like I should have done something.

You know, when your father passed,

maybe if I'd been stronger or faster,

you know, then maybe he wouldn't have...

You know...

Had to leave you two. But...

I'm going to just take this
all very slowly, all right?

And I just... (sniffs)

Love you two.

- And it is blasted out loud.

- It's blasted out,
absolutely the entire warren.

- I love you!

Just the Sydney Opera
House of a dog's mouth.

- Meanwhile, crash zoom into
Ava's chest like the Grinch.

(Jasper mimics a heart beating just once)

One time, that's it.

- I jump down and give you a big hug.

- Thank you girls.

- You did everything. You
did everything you could.

It is not your fault, and I love you.

It was unlucky that we lost Dad,

and it was lucky that we had you,

and that's just how the world goes.

- I don't like thinking about luck,

because if things happen by chance,

then that means I have no control

over what happens to you two or your kids.

- It's really scary.

- Suddenly, Ava feels very small.

- Mom.
- Very old,

and very dry.

- I take some sashes and I
just wrap you up in them,

the longest, biggest infinity scarf.

- [Aabria] You're mummifying
your dry-ass mother.

- Just an infinity scarf of warmth.

- These people loved these First Stoats.

They were creepy as hell, so
we're going to mummify Grandma.

- Perfect.

Now the dog, who currently contains

three adult female stoats,
just sort of looks at you.

- Drop us!
- Drop us.

- Drop us!
- Drop us!

- Drop it, drop it! Drop it!
(light growling)

- Big paw out towards you.

(Aabria woofing)
- Ah, ah, ah, ah!

(Brennan, Erika, and Rashawn screaming)

- Brennan, Erika, Rashawn, if
you'd leave the dome, please.

- [Aabria] Yeah, please leave the dome.

- All right, all right.

- No, goes ahead and spits
you out on the ground.

- All right, then we should get some rest.

- Go to the meeting!
- Oh, it's time to go.

- That was it. That was it.

- Walking with Lila like,
ugh, so many big feelings!

- I know.
- Oh my goodness!

Ugh!

- Sweet, you make your
way over to the lab.

- I miss having our own room.
(Erika laughs)

- As you head to the lab, you actually see

that the lab door is wide
open with a rope ladder

sort of let down to let you
onto that central steel mesa,

at the top of which you
see Bennett, also Sybil.

You do see several other figures.

You recognize Carter and
Pep, and then a couple people

you don't recognize, Mal and Quentin,

and no one from Population
Support, very specifically.

- Teedles and Olliver are here?

- Teedles and Olliver are not here.

No one from Population Support is here.

Bennett says, thank you so much.

I'm going to get you all
acclimated to how clocks work.

I did say an hour, but it's totally fine.

I think you guys had
a lot of things to do.

You look moister than before,

so I'm sure, good for all of you.

Oh, the wolf is...

Okay, that's great.

Just, I guess, for the group,

hi, I'm Bennett.

- Hi, Bennett.
- I'm in charge of Resource Allocation.

This is Malin.

She runs Refit.

Carter and Pep are in charge of Defense,

and once we decide as a group

how we want to go about
disseminating this information,

where and when we will
loop in Population Support.

There is not a singular head for them,

so it's more of gathering some local leads

and getting them on board,
just a conversation.

But first things first.

I was talking with Sybil,

and she showed me the tapes
that she showed you, and...

I am not at the point

where I'm comfortable speaking
ill of the First Stoats.

However, it seems, now that
we've had some conversations,

that several of us over the winters

have discovered bits of information that,

when they were run up the
flagpole to the First Stoats,

information was not disseminated,
so now we are all talking,

and after a bit of work,

we can put together some information.

So we're all going to
listen to this all together.

- Okay.

- Okay.

Sybil, do the tape.

Sybil runs over, and you see,

has just sort of got big stacks of tape,

kind of fusses with them, puts
them in, and we begin again.

- [Wenabocker] I've actually
never used one of these before.

How does it- just gotta-

Hello, my name is Robert Wenabocker.

I'm the lead engineer here

at Warren Peace Memorial
Nuclear Power Plant.

Hey guys, give me five
minutes. I just got to log it.

The time is currently 18:48,

and at approximately 5:17 today,

this facility registered

a Loss Of Coolant Accident
in Reactor Charlie.

At 11:20, all plant personnel
were notified via intercom,

and of course-
(tape clicks)

Hello, this is Dr. Wenabocker.

It is 4/21/62 at 8:11.
(repeating alarm sounding)

The LOC logged on the
18th has proven difficult.

Our structural engineers have noted

significant integrity loss
surrounding Reactor Charlie.

Now, this integrity loss may
result in repeated incidents

of increased severity if left untreated.

We are not doing that.

We are handling things now
with the repair materials

on hand, and we should have this
remedied within the we-. (tape clicks)

(alarm continues, even louder)
I don't care, I want two
teams down there right now!

Following on the official urgent
materials request submitted

all signs, all signs are
pointing to sabotage.

This is a matter of national security!

If we can't fix this-
(tape clicks)

It is 2:22, two hours post order

of a full evacuation of Peace
Plant by Director Simms.

I stayed behind, since I'd already been...

I stayed in hopes we'd get
a call from the outside

with some idea on how to
avoid a full core meltdown.

But the cables on our comms are destroyed.

Chewed through.

You know, earlier this week,

my team joked that evil spirits
were behind all of this.

As a man of science, you know, I...

Hello?
(creatures chittering)

The facility has been
evacuated. You need to-

(tape clicks)

- And here, Bennett
takes a pause and says,

then the tape I found.

(Wenabocker hyperventilating)
(creatures chittering)

- [Wenabocker] There are five weasels.

I don't know how they're doing it.

I don't know what's happening.
(glass breaking)

No! No!
(creatures chittering)

(flesh tearing)
(Wenabocker wheezing)

(Wenabocker gasping for air)

They're all so

sneaky...

(recording cuts out)

(tape clicks)

- Goodbye.

- So in an interesting turn of events,

Brennan has left and the dome is mine.

Anyway-
(Rashawn shrieks)

- That's too fucking scary!

- [Erika] Kill us!

- They left. Interesting.

They'll be back.

- That is the scariest-
- (shrieks) Why did you-?

(shrieks)
- Why did you-?

- Don't be here! Don't be here, go away!

- Wow.
- Five stoats.

- She'll be back.
- So, that's it.

That's everything we've
found from Dr. Wenabocker.

I found that last tape

a year ago.

I didn't have the context.
I didn't know what it meant.

But I think...

I think I'm beginning to paint a picture.

Thoughts?

- Well, we're stoats.

Not weasels.

- Humans are stupid.

- Weasels are way bigger than us.

- Okay, I think we're getting
caught up on the weasel thing.

- Semantics.
- And maybe-

- Bennett, can I ask, has
there ever been record

of a fifth First One,

perhaps a "she"?

- The place where you were,

that's not the first time- most of us...

They were in the...

We call that Phoebe's Heart.

- Phoebe's Heart?

- It kind of looks like a heart
with a pool at the center,

and we've never known who Phoebe is.

It was just sort of a
name, like Warren Peace.

- Which one of the First Stoats...

I didn't hear it. Lila didn't hear it.

One of the First Stoats said "she."

- Yeah, "She'll be back."

- Speaker said it. "She'll be back."

- Speaker said what?
- "She'll be back."

- As you killed them?

- As Speaker was dying,
they spoke it to Thorn.

- What did they mean?

- I didn't get much of
a chance to follow up.

But that was the last piece of information

they felt it essential to impart on me.

- There is a mystery,

and the clues are here in Last Bast,

because

the First Stoats already existed

before whatever went wrong

with Doctor...

With the doctor-
- Wenabocker.

- [Brennan] Wenabocker.

- They did this. They
cleared out the warren.

- Which means that the source,

whatever it was,

the Blue had already escaped by the time-

- One of them said, one of
them said, one of them said,

"The thing that I made."

- Yes, that's right.

That they made the Blue.

- You see that Bennett is swallowing

a lot of, those motherfuckers.

Just, you're seeing a
bit of a turn in him,

and the other leaders here

are sort of catching the vibe very slowly

as Bennett just,

okay.

- Well, they didn't ever tell
you anything about Femur?

- Phoebe, Mama.

- Phoebe,

and about making the Blue,

and about a Fifth Stoat?

- No, so why don't we start
with what they told you

before you killed them?

- We've said it.

- That's pretty much the
whole entirety of it.

- They said that they were coming back,

and it was inevitable.

- [Jasper] She'll be back.
- She'll be back.

- Okay.
- I'm wondering,

the orders to perform
experiments on certain animals.

That came directly from the First Stoats,

to alter them in the lab.

- (sighs) I'll let Carter take this one.

One of the twin stoats kind of comes up.

We agreed

that it was important to
see which other animals here

could survive bigger exposure

to the Light, yes.

Everything in the Blue Woods,

it all extends out for 30
miles in every direction,

all of it touched by the Light.

Everything that's here now

is what survived then,

20 winters.

- 20 winters.

- When you say everything that's here

that survived, you mean the elk?

- The elk, the birds, the trees, us.

- [Jasper] But not the humans.
- We are all the things

that survived when the Light took over.

But we seem to be the only ones

that can exist this
close to it this easily

without further deleterious effect.

- What did the First Stoats say

about when the Light took over?

- It was kind of a story

about how we found the Light

and harnessed it and
made a home for ourselves

and a place where we could
be safe, and that the humans

would return someday,
but if we were diligent,

we could push them back and
keep ourselves safe forever.

The things they build,

and it's here that
Bennett sort of steps back

and the scale of what
stoats are and what they do

kind of brought your vision in,

but you see now, on the back of the wall,

sundry rods and bars and
strange angles of metal.

Everything you see back there

are the weapons that we found here.

We've changed the scale of some of them,

figured out ballistics,

the ability to throw a rock

faster than any arm could.

They create weapons,

they build and store and amass power,

and if they return, if they see who we are

and what we can do,
they will annihilate us.

- What happened when they came before?

- About a year ago,

a human showed up,

not all the way here,

but clearly up the road.

A road is like a flat river.

They're able to use
their trucks and get...

We saw one.

It looked like they were
looking for something, testing,

trying to see if it was
safe, what was changed,

and it was decided

that for the good of the warren,

for the best,

for Last Bast,

that that human never make their report,

from wherever they came.

We did what we had to do.

If they had any clue who we were,

what we are,

the fact that we can read their
writing, use their tools...

Imagine the warren that you all came from,

that you chased the rabbits from.

What if the rabbits came back
but they, too, could speak?

What if they had tools and weapons?

What if they could plan and plot?

That's not just the way of nature.

That is an existential threat.

- An egg...
- An egg threat, yes.

Yes, it's a threat to your very life.

- I don't know what that
is, but I don't like it.

It doesn't feel good.

- Those voices, they come
from before the Light.

- Yeah, I think so.

- I'm wondering whether
perhaps the First Stoats

were exhibiting some learned behavior.

What if the First Stoats were themselves

victims of experimentation with the Light,

and they then took it upon
themselves to free that gift

that they had been given,
to give it to all of us.

- When you said if the
rabbits were to ever come back

to the Red Warren, you
know, what would we do,

and they wouldn't be coming back,

because we killed all of them.

My mother and her mother
all cleared out the warren,

and there were no survivors.

- And Uncle Thorn had
a really clever badger,

who I honestly wanted
to make friends with.

- Thanks, Jaysohn.
- But, I mean, that is to say,

you took care of that one human scout.

I say that we should follow
them back to their warren.

- Pep gives you a little bit of a smirk,

a little bit of a nod.

- We have truck and MeatWolf.

- And a very big elk.

- And a weapon that I know how to use.

- And as Dr. Wenabocker said,

we are very sneaky.

- But I think

we were the bad ones to begin with.

I think the First Stoats caused that,

made Dr. Wenabocker scared in that tape

and made everything go
wrong and killed him.

- Yes, they did what they
had to do in order to ensure

the survival of them and the
other stoats around them.

- Lila, and Bennett comes
over and takes a little knee,

it doesn't sound good, so
I'm not going to lie to you,

but I can't help but think there
might be more to the story.

This is just what we've found,
but we don't know anything

other than what the First
Stoats deigned to tell us.

We don't know where they
stay here in Last Bast.

Maybe, if some very clever stoats

were able to find, everyone leaves-

- You never knew where they stayed?

- No.

- (whisper) Your map.
- Your map!

- Yeah, I'm going to look at my kids

and I'm going to kneel
down next to Lila and go,

I think you might be right.

If the rabbits that we ate and
drove out of the Red Warren

came back and could talk

and could reason

and could explain what they had lost,

I don't think I would blame them.

Can you look for clues and run around

and find out all the
things we can find out

here in Last Bast about the First Stoats?

- Yeah, but, I mean,

we're not going to stop
eating rabbits, though, right?

- No, we have to eat something,

but if a rabbit came up and said...

If a rabbit walked up
and dropped to its knees

and went, "What have you done?"

I think I would pause and maybe reassess.

- How fat is the rabbit?

- Jaysohn, if a rabbit ever looks at you

and says, "Please stop eating me,"

you stop eating that rabbit.

- Okay, if it says please, I will stop!

- Good.

- Let's go get Lukas.
- Yeah, let's go get Lukas!

- And as the kids get gassed up

to go find Lukas and find clues,

that's where we're going to end tonight.

- Oh my god!

- [Jasper] This is so good!

- We'll see you next
week for Burrow's End.

(Brennan yells like a Wookiee)

This is such bad things.

- If I was to summon this Blue,
this Light, from the earth,

I might be able to convince
the humans that there is

some other reaction, some
other accident incurring.

- I would like to speak
specifically to the coppers.

- If we're successful,

many, many stoats and many humans die.

- [Aabria] Oh my god.

- If there's a world where
none of that has to happen,

that's obviously something
we are required to try for.

- Power is in the stoats.
It's in all of us.

- We have a mission.

- It's, like, super secret and special.

- We don't speak Stoat. We speak Human.

(Izzy stammering nervously)

- Yeah, Grandma, that sounds really scary.

- Yeah, what if there's a human in there?

(rhythmic breathing)

- Humans can't get inside,
at all. It'll just be chaos.

- [Aabria] There might be
as many humans in the world

as there are stoats here.

- That might be a way to buy us some time.

- We should move now.

- Watch out, watch out,
watch out, watch out!

- For what?

- Oh.

- Ugh! Ooh.
- Oh!

- That was a lie.

- [Aabria] You feel a pulse
of energy emanating from you.

- The Blue!

- Something may happen
soon that will let me.

- What's worse than humans?

- Not all stoat folk are kinfolk.

- That's impossible!

- We need to lean into our skills

and help all of these lost stoats.

- I'm so sorry.

- [Jasper] This is not
the time to go full scary!

- Oh no, oh no!

(sirens blaring)

- Oh, I want to scream.
(sirens blaring)

They're here.

(ominous music)

(ominous music continues)