You heard the rumors about what he did back in Omaha?
He should be in jail.
Hey, Silas.
-Hi, Iris. -My sister's throwing a Feast Day rager.
Tomorrow 10 pm, storage room C-12. You should go.
You're new, I never see you out.
Go.
Okay.
Hey, it's okay
Hi.
Hello, hi.
-Madame President. -Yes?
-I got the Student Council banner. -Thank you, Madame Vice President.
-Ready to do some welcoming? -We're gonna welcome the hell out of them!
[man] Hey, Iris.
Oh!
Think we'll need those?
[woman] Prob won't need 'em, but we should have 'em.
-We behind the barrier but you never know. -Tryin' to scare her or what?
-Don't think I could if I tried. -No, you can't.
It's cool you're doing this, kid.
Just doing my part.
-Alright everybody, let's get goin'. -Alright.
[man] Get the gates.
Dammit!
[empties grunting and rasping]
[car accelerating]
[empty rasping frantically]
[empty snarling]
Hold in place until they get here.
[passengers chatting and laughing]
[no sounds except birds twittering]
[helicopter overhead]
Dammit! Bye, Mom.
[sniffling]
-I worked on this all night. -Damn, hold on.
I don't know what happened.
-Was the Student Council office locked? -No.
[helicopter whirring]
My sister happened. I can fix it.
Lt. Col. Elizabeth Kublek of the Civic Republic Military.
Felix Carluccci, Snr Security Officer, Campus Colony of Omaha.
People call me Huck. Long story.
So is it just the CRM here?
There was talk of government officials, but Maj. Gen. Bill balked at civilians.
And we could only spare one helicopter for the trip.
So you're stuck with me as the sole envoy of the Civic Republic.
Your Monument Day holiday, though, is wonderful.
And I feel honored to, uh—
Commemorate it with you.
I'm sure you're tired. It was probably a long trip.
-From wherever it is you're from. -It was.
[empties snarling]
It's okay, we can take care of it.
[empties snarling]
The helicopter has another stop
before it'll circle back.
We fire charges to scatter the sound. We won't draw any more.
We're quite good at this. Wherever we're from.
"The Civic Republic 'us'"?
We're the same. Portland, Omaha, the Civic Republic.
The Alliance of the Three, that's what it's about.
We're all in this together, right?
Right.
Hey.
-Silas, right? -Yeah
Did you see me sneak out of that bus?
Yeah.
Could you not tell my sister you saw me, you know, stow away?
-Yeah. -Cool.
Listen, I'm having a Feast Day rager. Tomorrow night, storage room C-12, at ten.
Be there.
Good talk, Silas.
[helicopter overhead]
[door closing]
-Hey. -Hey.
-You made me dinner, you're my hero! -Aw!
-You workin' on your speech? -Yup.
[soft country music playing on radio]
-You good? -Of course, totally.
Eat.
-So you're not good? -No, I'm good.
I am totally good. But this is screwed up, Hope.
-The Civic Republic— -You mean the secret nonpublic republic?
We don't know where they are, what they do.
-You were fine with them before Dad left. -I'm not anymore.
-They sent us a soldier, we sent them Dad. -Yes, our dad is with them.
He's sharing his knowledge so that others can work towards some sort of cure.
-Which means the crap you pulled— -Was hilarious.
I stopped unrolling it once we got to "sucks".
-Wait, "sucks" or "ass"? -Oh yeah, "ass".
We stopped at "ass".
Did you poison my food?
Oh yeah!
-Sign Felix's card. -You do know he hates me, right?
-Felix doesn't hate you. -He totally hates me.
Another reason you should sign it.
For Dad.
It's really good.
Why don't you draw and paint? Forget science and AP and volunteering.
Drawing and painting won't put an end to reanimated necrotic matter.
Did you check the cabinet today?
Nothing.
Again.
I told him not to go. No, I screamed at him not to go.
So screw it, I did what I could.
It's celebration before commemoration. You're coming to my party.
There is no escape.
-This speech might just kill me first. -Screw that.
You're coming
Grin, girl.
Tomorrow night we rage.
Representatives of our home city of Omaha
and the Alliance cities of Portland and the Civic Republic.
Citizens, teachers and students.
We say that it's called Monument Day because we're all monuments to the past.
We survived, and the rest didn't.
We found safety, and the rest didn't.
We live.
We live for the rest who didn't.
I live for my mom who died that night ten years ago today like so many others.
And I live for my father who is far away doing work that will one day aid us all.
We're ten years in now... ten years...
I was a little kid.
I barely remember the night the sky fell, let alone what the world was like before.
We still live behind walls, and the dead still have this world.
And with everything that went away.
With everything and everyone we lost, some people think it can happen again.
Some people think what we have can't last. Some can't believe.
But I'm certain of our city and alliance with Portland and the Civic Republic.
And I am certain of what's ahead.
We are monuments to the past.
But everyone here, all of you, you are the future.
We are the future.
I'm sure of it.
Happy Feast Day, people.
Hope you've been writing in your journals.
Today on Feast Day we celebrate life.
Tomorrow on Monument Day we remember what we lost.
Who we lost.
How we got here and who got us here, because for most of us it came at a cost.
We should be the monument we want to be regardless of the past.
That's what you should be writing about.
[lecturer] Ahem.
What kind of monument will you be, Elton?
I would like to be complete.
Aware and kind.
I don't want to be afraid ever again but I know I probably will be.
I'd like to see what this world is now, like my parents spent their lives trying.
I also hope to be much, much taller.
[quiet chuckling]
Do you want to stand tall like the Washington Monument?
Or sit comfortable and confident like the Lincoln Memorial?
[lecturer] Think about it, write it down.
[Iris] Hope.
[rattling of bottles]
[news on TV]
So what if I brewed a little bit of illegal alcohol?
This is a lifetime supply, Hope.
And here I thought with your dad gone you were getting your act together.
But nope.
Hey, we still haven't heard anything from him yet, right?
It's been months.
Lemme ask you somethin'.
Why do you do what you do when you have what you have?
What are you doing here, Felix?
What am I doin' here?
Well, your dad gave me a life.
Somethin' I can be grateful for.
Even if that means trying to get you to stop pullin' this crap that you do.
[door opening]
Iris!
Thank God!
My rights are totally being violated.
-Felix, she doesn't need to be in there. -Well, you see, I need a family member.
To sign for her. Pending an appearance before the CCC.
You know, those are the rules.
-Hmm. -Yeah.
Oh, you are a family member. Dad gave you guardianship while he's gone.
Yeah.
How could I forget somethin' like that? Hmm!
It's almost like I wanted you to just...
Think about what you did.
[keys jangling]
[Hope] Felix is the worst guardian ever!
-[Hope] What was Dad even thinking? -Checked the cabinet, still nothing.
[Iris] He'd say making that much alcohol shows a solid grasp of chemistry.
Let's get the hell outta here.
It's Hope and Iris Bennet.
Right?
-Lieutenant Colonel. -Call me Elizabeth.
-[Iris] You know who we are? -Of course, I recognized you earlier.
I just didn't want to say anything in front of everyone.
I wanted to thank you both for your sacrifice.
On behalf of the Civic Republic. Being away from your father can't be easy.
As you know this first science exchange is critical for the alliance.
For the future of the planet.
But I can see you know that.
I do.
And I've heard you're pursuing biochemistry and immunology.
Taking after your father. Thanks again.
-Oh, gotta do it. -Uh-huh.
And you?
One of your security personnel filled me in.
Seems you had quite the distillery going. That's also impressive.
-So how did you— -You know what?
I'm good. I don't need to listen to this crap.
Thank you.
-Lieutenant Colonel, I'm so sorry. -It's okay.
I am not.
Sorry.
-Hope, what the hell? -You don't trust them either.
Hi.
-I know you don't. -Yes, I do, why would you even—
Because you've been having nightmares every night since Dad left.
Are they about Dad?
-I don't know what you're talking about. -Cos we don't talk about stuff like that.
Not what went on, not what goes on.
Here's what just happened.
That bitch comes at me and I have to listen to what she says?
Screw that.
She is part of the reason we're never gonna see Dad again.
Deep down inside, you know that.
I gotta go.
[beeping, whirring]
[TV playing in opposite apartment]
-Hi, Dr K. -Iris, hello, come in.
These doors are only supposed to be hard to open once you're dead.
But I do like that they consider me slightly dangerous.
Well, you do bore people to death on a regular basis, so...
Smartass, get in here, thank you.
Sit down.
It's the same thing. I see myself stumbling around dead.
I wake up, I start thinking about all the stuff I have to do.
-So I get up and I do it. -Hmm.
[soft classical music playing]
How's the tea?
It's good.
-I come here for the tea. -Uh-huh.
[Dr K chuckling]
You come here because you keep trying to cure your trauma in 15 minutes or less.
How's that goin'?
Still haven't talked to her about it, huh?
Talking to your sister honestly about what happened.
About how you feel about what happened. It'll help.
This is our first Monument Day on our own, you know, with my dad being gone.
It's just us, you know. I didn't want to right now.
But you wanna stop having these dreams so you can sleep.
-So you can get more done. -Yes, I have got a lot to do.
I'm not here to enhance your productivity. I'm here to help you be the best you.
It's not like we've never talked about it.
Talked about what?
Oh, you know.
-You know. -Tell me like I don't.
It was chaos that night.
We were trying to get to the campus. To safety.
[empty gnashing]
There was a woman, she was pregnant.
[empties gnashing]
We wanted to help her but we couldn't.
We lost her because the sky was falling.
[heavy object falling, explosion]
-And our mom died... cos of... -Not because of the plane crash.
-Tell me why. -It was empties.
It was later that night.
It happened right in front of Hope.
She saw it happen, she was all alone.
-And I should have been there. -Iris.
What happened that night, the reason you weren't there for her.
It's defined who you are today.
-[Iris and Hope screaming] -Come on, go!
[explosions, screaming and groaning]
I was scared.
I just froze up.
Me and my dad got separated from Mom and Hope.
Leo!
And that's the last time I saw my mom.
You feel like you didn't do enough then.
So now you have to do everything for everyone.
I'm building a better future.
Iris, I think you're dreaming you're dead because you are neglecting you.
You are not dating, you are not—
-You're not pursuing your art. -I told you I don't have time for that.
Your head is so far up the future's ass, you've completely abandoned the now.
There are 9,671 people here. That is too many people to be living for.
[coughing]
Ah.
I've been thinking about the end lately for obvious reasons.
Our lives are more precious than ever.
You don't want to wind up in my position.
And realize you haven't used the years for yourself.
-So how do I live for myself? -Talk to your sister.
Let go of all that you have been holding onto for her.
It's all I got.
Other than after that it's your life.
Only you can figure out how to give it meaning.
It's got a helmet! Knock it back!
[Hope yelling with each strike]
All that booze.
Really thought you'd get away with it?
I almost did.
Too bad I don't know anyone super cool at security.
They could have given me a heads up.
Even if I could have, you make the wine, you serve the time.
How come you never talk about your life in the city?
Wasn't there long.
I like it better here.
-That's insane. -Why is that insane?
The city's like ten times bigger and cooler than this place.
You know there's over 100 miles of crap between us and them.
You know that, right? If you're even thinking of—
I am thinking about going. One way or another.
It's all gonna be gone by the time I'm old enough to go see it by myself.
We're gonna be gone.
Everybody is torqued up about rebuilding, but it's so pointless.
You really think the world's gonna end?
I know it is.
It's not even about the empties.
I mean, it is, but it's about the people.
People are shit.
People turn.
It's just the odds.
Just is.
It ain't it is what it is.
I think it is what we're gonna make it.
And that's my blowline.
[instructor] Everybody get low in your horse stance.
Repeat after me and punch forwards.
[all] We are the masters of our fate! How do we form our fate?
[fear, clamor]
Hope, we have to go home.
Okay? It's the only way out.
[empties snarling and rasping]
Health! Friendship!
Honesty!
[empties hissing and rasping]
[empty growling]
[Hope whimpering]
[empties snarling and rasping]
[empties snarling and roaring]
Integrity!
[instructor] Attention: bow.
[knock on door]
[door opening]
-Iris? -Oh, hi.
Oh, I didn't, we were just, uh...
We were at the janitor's office and saw you walk by.
And, uh, Elton found an Easy-Bake Oven. We made cake.
-Ah, thank you, but, uhm. -Hey, Iris.
Hey, guys.
You have the cabinet open. With our classmates here.
When did it...?
It must have come earlier today.
His safety isn't assured?
Your dad's sending messages?
You can't say anything.
We won't.
How do we know you won't?
I sneak out.
-Out... there? -Regularly.
It's how I found the Easy-Bake oven. That's why I wear the suit.
It's a TuffyStitch. "Kids can wear 'em, kids can't tear 'em".
Durable clothes from the 90s, biteproof.
I know from controlled experiments.
Anyway, I go out there looking for something that I lost.
I want to see how our world is changing.
Now you have my secret.
And I have yours.
I won't tell.
That message could mean a lot of things.
It could mean nothing. The CR has been very upfront—
There were more helicopters.
Elizabeth said they could only spare one but there were five.
-Some of them had shipping containers. -You were out there?
-Why the hell didn't you— -Who cares.
The CRM is bad and our dad's in trouble.
Only one person can help us help him.
[Felix] Thanks for helping me tag those empties.
I like it out here.
[empties rasping]
And if painting empties helps Dr. Bavolar study their migration patterns
I'm happy to do it.
[empties rasping]
-"It's important work". -It is, that's why I do it.
Yeah, that's one reason.
[empties rasping]
You thrive on the unglamorous because you're trying to prove yourself.
-Wow, I thrive on the unglam— -After what your parents did to you?
-Yeah, I think so. -Pshaw!
-[Huck] Man! -Alright.
You're the only one around here who doesn't realize you're aces.
Will sure as hell thought so. I'm sure he still does.
Don't think I didn't notice you wearing his jacket.
Hey, he left it at my place before he shipped out.
-So what are you gonna do? -You miss him.
I mean, he's off who knows where, protecting the girls' father.
-I mean, what's the— -You miss him.
-You can say it. -Yeah, I do.
I really do, okay?
-Felix? -What?
Your folks dealt you a bad hand. I just want you to be happy.
You deserve it. That's all I'm trying to say.
-So happy birthday, bitch! - Felix you copy ?
-Yeah, Izzy, go for Felix. - Hope Bennet wants you, says it's urgent.
The science exchange with the CR is about building trust.
This is the first time they've let anyone inside their borders.
Wherever the hell their borders are.
He's violating the Four Corners Agreement by even sending us these messages.
-We talked about it before he left. -So what?
He could be in danger, Felix.
-We have to tell someone or check on him. -He told us not to say anything.
We don't know what the CR would do if they found out.
-But he's such an idiot. -He's probably the smartest person alive.
He told us not to say anything to keep you safe, alright?
I promised him that I'd keep you safe.
Whether or not he's in trouble we have to trust in his security detail.
In your boyfriend.
Will is head of your dad's security detail because he can handle himself.
He can fight his way out of anything if he has to.
I'm sorry.
We don't have any other choice
Hope.
Hope, come on. Would you please talk to me?
Hope, stop!
"My safety not assured."
-That's what it said. -It might have said that.
But it's letters and numbers.
-It could be radio static. -How can you not see this?
They are bad people, Iris.
-And they have our dad! -Are you talking about us?
The Civic Republic?
One of your alliance partners?
How are we bad, exactly?
Come on, tell me.
You don't let anyone in or out.
You won't let people communicate with your people, or vice versa.
You don't tell anyone where you are, and you have our dad.
I have a daughter.
She's a bit older than you guys. She's a soldier in the CRM.
She's away from me a great deal.
That makes me scared sometimes.
Then I remember that she's helping to protect the Civic Republic.
She's helping us with the Alliance of the Three.
She's taking that risk to help us eventually bring this world back.
And that makes me brave.
We have to be brave in this life we have. Simply to exist now.
I'm...
I'm going to tell you something so you can trust me.
Something that will make me need to trust you.
Your father is teaching in a Civic Republic research facility.
In New York state.
So this...
This is a coded map.
So it doesn't show you where in New York.
But that watermark and that stamp will show certain people
that I gave that to you and told you.
If those certain people found that out, I would certainly go to jail.
We have those.
-Are you for real? -I am.
I also might be a bit drunk. How did you learn to make champagne?
I read a book in the Ag library—wait, Felix gave you my alcohol?
Well, he said it was a generous gift from the Campus Colony.
You really are your father's daughter. You both are.
I saw that when I landed. You with your banner, you flipping me off.
How does that make us like our dad?
You're brave.
-How'd you get out there when she landed? -I rode in the luggage compartment.
-You're an idiot. -"I am my father's daughter".
[girls aping Kublek's accent]
I also need a drink and the bitch in black has all my alcohol.
-Dad left a bottle of brandy behind. -[Hope] Yes!
[Hope] Maybe that was more than one drink.
Hope, we slept through it.
-[Iris] It's bad. -Yeah.
-[Iris] What do we do? -Nothing.
[Hope] There's nothing we can do.
So we just deal.
We hope.
And we wait.
Your speech is in an hour.
If it means anything, I think...
I think Dad will want you to.
[TV playing in opposite apartment]
Dr K?
[TV playing in opposite apartment]
[soft classical music looping]
[TV playing in opposite apartment, soft classical music looping]
[Dr K rasping]
[Dr K gnashing and snarling]
[Dr K gnashing and snarling, audio fading into silence]
And the message I am here to deliver on behalf of the Civic Republic
on this your 10th Monument Day, is one of solidarity.
The Civic Republic stands with Portland, with Omaha
and with you, the Campus Colony.
You have loaned us your greatest mind.
Dr Leo Bennett.
Who will bring other great minds on a journey to create the science
that will bring this world back.
And it's trust we've built that allows this to happen.
No one has given us more trust than Leo's two daughters.
And it's my honor now to introduce one of them.
She is Monument High Student Council President
and future scientist, Iris Bennet.
[applause]
Representatives of our...
...of our...
[crowd murmuring]
I have these dreams that I'm dead. I don't talk about them.
The person who was helping me, she's gone.
And the last thing she told me is that it's up to me now.
I guess that's growing up.
When the person in charge of your life is... you.
When I'm in these dreams, phew.
I feel like I've always been in them, like I was never alive.
Like I never made it to now, let alone the future.
The night sky fell I was just a little kid.
And I just jumped to living for the future.
Think a lot of us did.
And what I figured out.
I have to start with now.
And I think now starts with the truth.
And the truth is...
I don't trust you.
I don't know who you are, I don't know what you're doing.
You will.
Your father does.
But someday you will understand.
That's just not good enough.
Science is about finding the truth, not just deciding on it.
And that—that's hard, that's scary.
Because it means admitting that we don't have all the answers.
And we don't know what we'll find when we're looking for them.
Someone once told me that I'm brave.
That I have to be.
So I'm gonna keep working in the now to find it.
For me.
For the Civic Republic.
For Portland.
For all of us.
Happy Monument Day.
[crowd murmuring]
[Iris] He didn't ask for help but he might need it.
-And that's enough. -Enough for what?
Enough for us to go and help him somehow.
[Hope] Are you serious?
Felix won't go, okay, not with us here to protect.
And Dad's message isn't going to make him.
It's us, we have to do it. We know where he is.
-So we go? Just us? -Uh-huh.
If things were like before this would still be crazy.
No one else is gonna do it.
I know you're scared.
I am too.
But I can't look away anymore.
I can't lie.
And I know you can't either.
I froze that night.
But I'm not freezing anymore.
Seeing Mom die...
-Shouldn't have gone through that alone. -Iris.
I'm glad you didn't have to see it.
-[screaming] -Look out! Watch out, baby!
[screaming]
[screaming, smashing, alarms going off]
[chaos]
It's okay.
[pandemonium]
Mom!
-The truck! We can take it. -Seems you're the one saving me, baby.
[explosion]
Come on!
Stay!
Stay where you are!
[in a panicked stammer] I'm taking the truck!
[in a panicked stammer] I'm gonna go find my family!
Listen, I'm not gonna hurt you, okay?
My husband and my other daughter, they could be right behind us.
-We can all go together, okay? -I can't wait anymore, I'm sorry!
-I can't wait! -Please!
Mom?
Mom!
[Hope's mom gurgling]
Mom!
Mom! Please, Mom!
I'm right here, Mom!
[sirens]
-I'm sorry! -Mom...
[explosion]
I'm glad you didn't see it.
I'm glad you didn't have to see any of it.
-So you're in? -We could die.
We could live.
When we get there, what are we—
When we get there.
We'll be different.
We'll be ready
We know a way out.
So how do you know where to go?
Elizabeth gave us a map to gain our trust. He's somewhere in New York.
You're gonna go?
All that way?
-[Elton] It's 1,100 miles on foot. -[Iris] We've already mapped it out.
To get there before it gets cold you'll have to keep a good pace.
We will.
Have you seen an empty up close before?
I've been training how to kill them.
-If you're trying to talk us out of it— -Sorry.
I'm not trying to talk you out of it.
I'm trying to talk you into letting me go with you.
Me too.
[Iris] Why?
Well, you need help.
And I'd like for the time I have left on this earth to mean something.
And full disclosure here, I just want to see what's out there.
Before we're gone—before I'm gone.
Plus I know karate.
Why do you wanna come?
I don't wanna be who everybody thinks I am here.
[birds and insects chirping]
[Huck] Marco Voci from the physical plant says his nephew's missing.
-[Huck] It's the big kid? -[Felix] Silas.
And Elton Ortiz from the independent dorm is gone too.
-[Huck] Hah. -What?
I was training her to fight the dead.
Just tryin' to help her in my own way.
[Huck] Listen.
[Huck] If they left together, they gotta be headed for Omaha.
- That's where she said she wanted to go. -[Felix] No.
[Felix] No, I know where they're goin'. They'll never make it.
[Felix] They'll die.
[crows cawing in the distance]
[frogs croaking, crickets chirping]
[clanking]
What is it?
It's, uhm, a horn—from a triceratops.
It's mine.
It's what I've been going out looking for.
I lost it a long, long time ago.
Supposed to be a gift for my sister.
You had a sister?
My mother was pregnant with her the night that... things went bad.
We weren't together.
I never saw her again.
I'm sorry.
Don't be.
My mother would say the wind always wins. That is, nature decides.
And it obviously decided.
Hey, guys, you comin'?
Go ahead, I'll be right there.
We should get going, Felix is gonna be coming for us.
So much cooler than the dummy I was training with!
Sorry, you got my hand-me-downs.
Don't be—gave it a bit of an upgrade.
[Iris] Oh, hell yes!
Whoa! Ha!
Let's see what discoveries await us, shall we?
[Hope] Gonna tell me what you've been writing in your sketchbook?
[Iris] Stuff I've been thinking about. Doing stuff, about living in the now.
And guess what? I didn't dream last night.
[empty rasping and hissing]
[empty rasping]
Wait, I'll do it.
[empty snarling and growling]
I want to.
I brought us out here.
You sure?
-Because I can do it. -I know.
The truth is the words I say to myself.
[empty snarling]
And the truth is
I don't know how this is going to work out or if it even will.
[empty snarling]
But I'm finally living for me in the now.
Searching for my own truth.
And you know what?
[empty snarling]
Feels good!
[empties wheezing]
[firing, stabbing]
[empty rasping and wheezing]
[empty wheezing]
Yes?
We've searched every building on campus and the surrounding areas.
We can't find her.
[empties wheezing] [firing, stabbing]
Good.
[empties wheezing] [firing, stabbing] s and the surrounding areas.