In Ohio, the Myrmidon is parked outside the valley as Kyle and Caleb prepare to leave for their recon. Rachel and Moses approaches Kyle.
Rachel: Kyle, can I come with you?
Moses: Me, too?
Kyle: I know you want to help, guys, but I need you to stay here and help watch over Cassandra. Can you two do that for me?
Rachel looks at Moses, then shakes her head yes as she hugs Kyle.
Rachel: Come back safe.
Kyle laughs.
Kyle: Definitely planning on it, kid.
Kyle turns to Moses.
Kyle: Moses, stay with Rachel, okay?
Moses: Yes, sir.
Kyle and Caleb enter the railcar as they drive through valley. Shortly after, Cassandra is coughing in her room as James is tending to her.
James: Hey, babe....it's going to be okay. Kyle and Caleb are going to check out the area, then you're going to be okay. The valley's going to heal you. You'll see....then we're gonna live that fantasy we talked about. Our toes in the sand....our son in our hands...sitting on a rock...looking at the waves and the sun.....
Sarah sits in her room, before Rachel sits down with her.
Sarah: You okay, kid?
Rachel: I don't know.....Cassandra....I know we didn't have a good start, but....she helped me conquer my fear of water.....and if James--
Sarah: Hey, sweetie....it's not going to come to that, okay? She's going to be okay....
Rachel sheds a tear, before wiping it.
Rachel: Yeah...you're right....
Sarah sighs.
Sarah: So, you and Moses, huh?
Rachel smiles.
Rachel: Yeah.....
Sarah: He's cute....and he's a nice boy...I see why you like him.
Out in the valley, Kyle and Caleb are enroute through the valley.
Caleb: Well, this place is definitely suitable for us.
Kyle: Let's hope it's suitable for Cassandra....for her health.
Caleb looks back, noticing Kyle in thought.
Caleb: You okay?
Kyle: How could I let this happen?
Caleb: Oh, don't do that, man. Don't go and blame yourself.
Kyle: Cassandra's my responsibility. You all are.
Caleb: That doesn't mean you have to blame yourself just cause something bad happened...plus, need I remind you that Cassandra is still alive. You still have a chance....and with a bit of luck, maybe this place will give us all a new chance; a new start. She's definitely going to love it out here....here and James.
Kyle: So, what's been making you want a woman so much?
Caleb: I guess...over the past few years since seeing you and Sarah, James and Cassandra....Shawn and Jenny....even Joseph and Margaret....makes me want that.
Kyle: Wonder how she's doing. Margaret, I mean....
Caleb: Well, with a loss like Joseph...I mean, can't imagine losing someone you loved partially eaten....
Kyle: You know he was bitten before the Sanctuary, right?
Caleb: I know. Doesn't make it right, though?
Kyle: Yeah....
Caleb: And Marcus.....he wanted to forget what happened with Selene.
Kyle: He did....
Caleb looks around the valley.
Caleb: Look at this place! It's amazing! I bet if we spend a week here, it won't just cure Cassandra, it will make that scar on your face go away.
Kyle laughs.
Kyle: If only....
The railcar encounters bumps on the train track.
Kyle: Jesus! This is one bumpy ride!
Caleb: Think this track seems to be fixing to slide down.
Kyle: Let's hope it can hold our weight....
Caleb: We should hail the Myrmidon and tell them they have to take the other road.
Caleb contacts the Myrmidon.
Caleb: Come in, Myrmidon, this is forward recon! Do you hear me? Over!
James: Myrmidon here., reading you loud and clear! Over!
Caleb: James, this track won't hold the Myrmidon, take the main one. Over!
James: Damn it...This one requires repairs, this will hold us back...
Kyle: Yeah, but regardless, the plan stands. We'll rendezvous at the dam.
James: How's the situation there?
Caleb: The current situation is fucking beautiful, James. Cassandra is sure gonna love it here! Over!
James: Well, I'm glad to hear that! Over! Myrmidon over and out!
Kyle: So, here's the plan so far; get to that dam, check it out quickly, and call them over.
Caleb: Just take a look at all of this beauty! Do you want them to see it sooner?
Kyle: I do...but I still can't shake a feeling-Oh, fuck! Caleb!
Kyle points to a rockslide up ahead that destroys the tracks and causes a derail.
Caleb: Shit!
The railcar crashes into the river, causing Kyle to be thrown into the current, which carries him wildly, forcing him to take off his backpack. Kyle then swims to the surface.
Caleb: Kyle!
Kyle slams into a boulder, which knocks him out. Kyle is drifting and drowning in the river, but suddenly, a figure jumps into the river and pulls him out. Meanwhile, Caleb makes it to shore, but is held at gunpoint by two men, dressed in weird forest like armor.
Caleb: Uh.....hi.
At the river, the figure, an African-American woman with dreads, wearing forest armor and a skeleton mask, pulls Kyle to shore.
Elizabeth: Jesus, you're heavy!
Elizabeth performs CPR, pushing onto Kyle's chest, attempting to get the water out of Kyle's chest.
Elizabeth: Shit...breathe. Fucking breathe!
Outlander: My Queen! Where are you? Did you find anything?
Elizabeth takes off her skeleton mask.
Outlander: My Queen, we must hurry! We've got to check the shore right down the lower rapids!
Elizabeth: Nothing here! Coming!
Elizabeth slams both her hands on Kyle's chest, finally getting the water out. Kyle coughs out the water.
Kyle: Jesus! Fucking hell!
Elizabeth: Good....our guys caught your friend. Blonde guy....but I can tell you two are not bandits. I'll help you out, if you don't do anything stupid. Gotta run now. Just stay out of sight and you're good.
Elizabeth runs off, picking up her skeleton mask.
Elizabeth: Catch you later!
Kyle: Hey...wait...
Kyle drifts back into unconsciousness. Back at the Myrmidon, James, Shawn and Chris attempt to contact Kyle and Caleb.
James: Kyle! Caleb! Do you copy?
Shawn: Nothing....
James: No.
Chris: I think the railcar might've crashed.
James: We might have to send a scouting party to go look for them.
Shawn: No, we all heard Kyle. Just him and Caleb out there for right now. We have to wait for their word that it's all clear.
Back in the valley, sunset, Kyle awakens to find a deer sniffing him. Kyle groans, then raises his hand up at the deer.
Kyle: Get out of here.
The deer runs off as Kyle gets up, and then looks around.
Kyle: Goddammit....my fuckin backpack.
Kyle then attempts to contact the Myrmidon, through the radio.
Kyle: Myrmidon? Do you copy? James? Sarah?
Kyle walks up to a pair of houses, where he finds a crossbow, standing on the statue.
Kyle: Well, this'll help me out in the meantime.
Kyle equips the crossbow, looking around finding corpses with notes saying "rapists" or "bandits". As Kyle pushes through a gated door, an arrow with a note wrapped it hits the side.
Kyle: Shit!
Kyle takes the note off and reads it as it reads. "Bandit, get lost or pay the toll with your life!".
Kyle: Well, this is a nice little note.....
In the Outlands lair, Caleb is sitting in the holding cell just as Elizabeth walks in.
Elizabeth: As you said, your friend was in the river.
Caleb stands up.
Caleb: Is he alive?
Elizabeth: Easy. Yes, he's alive.
Caleb: Did you bring him with you back here?
Elizabeth: I didn't sorry....but we don't know you people.
Caleb: I told you already; we're not bandits. We came here on a train....my friend and I were scouting on a railcar, when we derailed.
Elizabeth: Yet you come here armed.
Caleb: Yes...for protection. We...we haven't had any luck the past few months and the last three factions were not so nice....they were literally batshit crazy.....plus, we have a friend who's in need of medical assistance. Do you have anything that could possibly heal anything tuberculosis? Like the forest air?
Elizabeth sighs, before turning out the window.
Elizabeth: Fortunately not...the air here won't be enough to heal your friends affliction...and I'm afraid the outlands is becoming inhabitable.
Caleb: What are you talking about?
Elizabeth: There is a dam east from here. It's bound to crack at any moment....plus, the radiation has given birth to a lot of creatures....there's even a mutated bear roaming around this area.
Caleb: Fuck.....
Elizabeth turns to Caleb.
Elizabeth: What's your name?
Caleb looks up to Elizabeth.
Caleb: Caleb Michaels.
Elizabeth: And your friend? The other man I pulled from the river with the scar on his face.
Caleb: Kyle.
Elizabeth: Kyle? Kyle Desipich?
Caleb: You know who he is?
Elizabeth: Of course...everyone in the Outlands has heard of Kyle Desipich and his triumph over Kronos. Your friend sounds like a brilliant man. Who is it that is sick with TB?
Caleb: Cassandra. My friend.
Elizabeth: I'm sorry.....I can tell you're good people by the way you're trying for her that you're good people.
Caleb: Who are you?
Elizabeth turns back to Caleb.
Elizabeth: My name is Elizabeth. Queen Elizabeth.
Caleb raises an eyebrow.
Caleb: Queen Elizabeth? Are you the leader here?
Elizabeth: Yes....the Outlanders, that's we call ourselves, they needed a leader...and they gave me the title of it.
Caleb: Well, I'm honored to meet a queen for the first time.
Caleb stands up and bows. Elizabeth laughs.
Elizabeth: We're not that type of kingdom.
Caleb: Well, I'm just honored that your not a shoot first and ask questions later type of fraction.
Meanwhile, Kyle continues making his way across the forest, eventually running into three Outlanders, who step down from the tree.
Outlander: Halt, trespasser!
Kyle: "Halt"? Who the fuck says "halt" anymore?
Outlander: Do not mock us, outsider....for you are in the presence of Queen Elizabeth.
Outlander: Run off, before we make a scarecrow of you.
Outlander: Even one of you outsiders is too much for us today.
The three Outlanders walk off, before Kyle ponders.
Kyle: What the fuck was that? Medieval wastelanders?
Kyle sneaks through the Outlanders and manages to sneak up the rooftop of a building that has a zip line that connects to the ground below. Knocking out one of the Outlanders in the area, Kyle uses the zip line to get across, but is stopped by a knot in the zip line. Kyle sighs.
Kyle: Well, shit....
The zip line breaks, causing Kyle to fall in the broken road.
Kyle: Fuck!
Kyle clings onto the broken piece of the road. Kyle pulls himself, only to spot a pack of wolves up ahead.
Kyle: Shit...wolves....
Suddenly, the wolves are scared off by a giant mutated bear, which chases after the pack of wolves.
Kyle: Well.....that's good to know. I'm so fucked.
Kyle climbs back up to the forest level of the broken road. Kyle then slowly walks through forest, avoiding the wolves. Eventually, the wolves spot Kyle, before chasing him. Kyle reaches a cliffside and climbs up the ladder on the cliffside. He then walks down the cave in and slides down to the lower forest level, but Kyle is suddenly pulled into a rope. Three Outlanders then approach Kyle caught in the rope.
Kyle: Fucking hell!
Outlander: Hey, we caught another one.
Outlander: Bad day for you, bandit!
Kyle: Goddammit! I'm not a bandit! For fucks sake!
Outlander: We'll let Queen Elizabeth decide your fate!
Kyle: "Queen Elizabeth"?! You gotta be shitting me! What the fuck kind of name is that for a leader?
Outlander: Do not insult the Queen, outsider!
Two other Outlanders appear, one of them carrying Kyle's backpack.
Outlander: Hold on, Darry! I'm the one that made the trap! I should be the one who gets the credit by Queen Elizabeth.
Outlander: Uh, no. You two don't deserve the credit.
Outlander: We let you catch the other outsider! That's not fair!
Outlander: Yeah, plus, you already caught an outsiders backpack!
Kyle: Yeah, my fucking backpack! Also, what did you two do to my friend?!
Outlander: Silence, outsider!
Kyle: These people are such fucking weirdos....
As the Outlanders argue over Kyle's fate, suddenly, the mutated bear sneaks up, sniffing Kyle as he is caught in the trap.
Kyle: Uh...fellas...fellas....FELLAS!
One of the Outlanders turn and his eyes widen.
Outlander: Shit! It's the bear!
The Outlanders open fire on the bear, which uses its tentacle to impale a few of the Outlanders. The Outlander carrying Kyle's backpack is clawed in the abdomen, but manages to throw a molotov at the beast, setting it on fire, before it sprints away. With the Outlanders and the bear gone, Kyle takes the opportunity to free himself. Kyle drops out of the trap.
Kyle: Well, shit....where's that asshole who had my backpack?
Kyle follows the blood trail of the fatally wounded Outlander, finding him bleeding out.
Outlander: Shit...you got out of the trap. That means you're dangerous.
Kyle raises his hands, cautiously approaching the fatally wounded Outlander.
Kyle: Easy, buddy....I didn't just wound you now. The bear did.
Kyle points at the backpack.
Kyle: That backpack. That's mine.
Kyle takes the backpack and puts it around his shoulders.
Outlander: Goddammit...fucking backpack. I got greedy...I got...
Kyle: Greedy....Now, where's my friend? The other outsider you caught?
Outlander: He is alive....Queen Elizabeth hasn't killed him if that's what you're wondering.
Kyle: And where's this Queen Elizabeth?
Outlander: Our village is further inland....
Kyle: Well, I better make sure your people know that I didn't do this.
In the Outlander village, Caleb and Elizabeth continue to talk.
Elizabeth: So, tell me, Caleb Michaels. Where do you travel from?
Caleb: Uh....I'm originally from Canada, but I've been all over the place. Midtown Manhattan....Out in the East....and Washington D.C....but where I'm coming from recently Vegas....my people and I have not had a good few months on the road. It was fucking brutal....
Elizabeth: You sound like a man who's seen a lot of adventure, Caleb Michaels.
Caleb: Uh, you know, you don't have to call me by my full name; you can just call me Caleb.
Elizabeth: So tell me about your friend; Kyle Desipich.
Caleb: Kyle's a fucking great leader and good friend.....the things he and I have lost...as well as everyone else has.
Balthazar: My Queen!
Balthazar, a Caucasian-American man carrying an axe, approaches the two.
Balthazar: There is a man who has one of our people! An Outsider!
Caleb: Kyle!
Caleb, Elizabeth and Balthazar approach the front entrance of the camp where Kyle is carrying the dying Outlander.
Outlander: Stop right there!
Outlander: Stop trespasser!
Kyle: Easy! Easy!
Elizabeth: Darry!
Elizabeth carries Darry, who clutches his bear mark.
Elizabeth: All of you, stand down!
Caleb: Hold on! He's with me! He's with me! He's my friend!
Kyle: Caleb! You're alive! Did these people hurt you?!
Caleb: No. No, they haven't!
Elizabeth carries the dying Darry.
Elizabeth: Darry? What happened?
Darry: The fucking bear....this man...he...he carried me all the camp. He's one of the good guys.....
Darry dies to his wound as Elizabeth and Balthazar mourn as do the rest of the Outlanders. Elizabeth turns to Kyle.
Elizabeth: You must be Kyle Desipich. Leader of Caleb's people.
Kyle: Uh...has he told you much?
Elizabeth: He has told me a lot. That your friend, Cassandra, is sick with an affliction similar to TB.
Kyle: Yeah....she fell in a radioactive bunker and was infected.....her lungs were affected bad. Do you have any medicine?
Elizabeth: I'm afraid not.....
Kyle: Well, what about your forest environment? Will that help at all?
Caleb: Uh, Kyle....I kind of already asked and Elizabeth told me that there's not really any type of way to heal Sarah here.
Kyle: Fuck!
Elizabeth: You must really love your wife to be doing this for her. I envy that.
Caleb: Well, as a little kid said, envy is not a good thing.
Kyle: No, it is not.....
Kyle turns to Elizabeth.
Kyle: Elizabeth.....
Balthazar: Hey, while you're in our midst, you will address her as Queen Elizabeth.
Kyle: Uh....Queen Elizabeth. My friend and I need to get back to our train. Is there any way you can help us?
Elizabeth looks at Caleb, then at Kyle.
Elizabeth: Of course.....I will escort you both to the dam in the morning. You have shown mercy upon my people...but we have trouble, though as you've noticed.
Kyle: You mean the bear?
Caleb: Bear? What bear?
Kyle: Some giant mutated bear is roaming around these parts....it's what killed that Darry guy and his friends.....
Elizabeth: No, but there's these bandits for the last few days....terrorizing our people...even killing them.
Kyle: So, you'd like our help to take care of these bandits?
Elizabeth: If you can....you and your friend here seem capable of handling the likes of these people.
Kyle sighs, before turning to Caleb.
Caleb: They could've killed us, you know? Right on sight.....plus, these people are not like the Ravagers or the fanatics....
Kyle: We've got to get back to the Myrmidon. To Cassandra.....she needs us.
Caleb: I know, man.....but this woman could've let us drown....but she didn't. Least we can do is help her with these bandits.
Kyle: We're not getting anything out of this, though.
Caleb: You're not...but I am.
Caleb stares at Elizabeth.
Kyle: Oh, god....
Caleb: What? She's a leader....she's cute.....she's brave.
Kyle: She's the leader of people who dress like they live in medieval times.
Caleb: Yeah, there's that....
Kyle: She also where's a skull for a mask.
Caleb: Yeah....there's that, but....I mean....Look, dude do me this solid. For me.
Kyle sighs.
Kyle: Fuck it....but how the hell do we contact the Myrmidon from here? I mean, I doubt these people have a radio.
Balthazar: Actually, we do.
Kyle and Caleb turn to each other.
Kyle: You do?
Elizabeth: Yes, we do....we're not savages.