After the End

I'm so thirsty.

I'll get you more water.

When's the power coming back on?

The CDC is advising people to please,

stay away from crowded areas.

I ain't going back out there.

There's gotta be something for the burning.

Finally.

Red light's flashing.

Does that mean it's recording?

Yes, Mom.

How do I zoom? I'm pinching the side.

Oh, oh, don't pinch, don't zoom.

Give me that, just man the switch.

Okay.

Bop, bop.

Mom.

Okay, okay, I got it.

I got it.

- I'm ready. - All right.

Three, two one.

Oh, Addie.

It's so damn Christmasy I could just cry.

Addie, get over here and give your mama a hug.

No, no--

Can I open the one from Uncle Izzy?

I want to send this to him.

If that's the one you want to open

as your Christmas Eve gift.

"The more you know, the less need, Uncle Izzy."

Awesome.

Yeah, that's... that's great honey.

No, Mom, you don't understand.

You can't just go buy this at the store.

This is like the preppers' Bible.

Sweetheart, you're too young to...

I-it's okay to just be a normal kid.

If I act like everyone else,

I'm gonna end up like everyone else.

Right, right.

Well, we'll be happier than two clams in a pod

when you bug us outta here.

Wait, you ain't gonna take your mama with you?

It ain't like that.

It's just, I gotta be smart, you know.

It's harder to move quick with numbers.

You gonna leave your mama?

Repeat after me.

No, I will never leave my mama.

Out of these I need three quarts a day,

just for consumption.

I'll just say one gallon a day.

Seven gallons a week.

The more you know, the less you need.

The more you know, the less you need.

The more you know, the less you need.

Right, unless you need water!

About 400 miles as the crow flies.

Can't go through OKC though.

Yeah, there's probably still rats there.

Can skirt around the park, 40, 50 miles a day.

Five days.

To get to Uncle Izzy's, just over two weeks.

Yeah!

I--I can't.

Why do you gotta be such a dick all the time?

Why can't you just help me?

I've been good.

I've been good.

That's it.

What am I gonna d--?

I'm gonna die.

Hello!

Help!

Help.

Hey!

Hello?

Hello?

Hello?

Hello?

Are you like, real?

Are you like stupid?

Throw up your weapons.

Oh my God, did--did I shoot you?

Are you okay?

I'm fine.

Thank God, I'm sorry.

I thought-- I thought you were a--

A what?

I don't know.

Hello?

Are you gonna throw up your guns

or do you want to sit and rot in my punji pit?

Wha--what's a boonji pit?

Punji pit, it's a tiger pit.

There aren't no tigers in these parts.

So were you like trying to catch people?

Nope, just dumbasses.

I was shooting for a buffalo or a deer,

but you've gone and scared them all off

with your little firecracker show.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I--I don't know, I was trying to call for help I guess.

You find many people to help you these days?

You came didn't you?

I ain't here to help.

You know, you're tiger trap banged me up pretty good.

You wanna trade?

I've got food and water.

No, you don't.

You like books?

I'll trade.

I like guns.

Don't you got a gun?

Well?

Well?

Tough shit, the shotgun's mine.

Hello?

Hello!

Please, please don't go!

There's got to be something we can do.

Please!

Please don't leave me!

Help!

Where are the bullets?

Down here with me.

You want them, you're gonna have to pull me up with them.

Ya sick?

What?

You infected?

Don't seem like it.

But even if I was, wouldn't I say I wasn't?

Lift up your shirt.

I need to see if you got the stripes.

Higher and both sides.

How old are you, 15?

Your turn.

Oh, I'm--no, not--not like, I mean, no, not--

Thank you.

You're back.

The bow is mine, it's not for you.

Didn't want you to feel threatened.

Got my bullets?

Deal's a deal, no arguing that.

Who's arguing?

Although we never agreed on exactly

when I'd hand over my bullets.

My bullets.

Who's ever.

You an Indian giver now?

For now it seems safe for both parties, you know,

you hold onto the guns, and I hold onto the bullets,

fair and safe.

What happens when you sleep?

You wanna slit my throat when I'm asleep,

go right ahead.

We both know it ain't been three days,

for all you know, I could have the stripes.

And you'd never know where I buried the bullets.

Shit.

My name's Addison.

Must have not been riding on the roads long

if you're falling into pits.

How was I supposed to know

there'd be a pit covered with all this--

I only just got on the road.

I've been hunkered down for a spell.

How did you make it? Where were you?

I was visiting my dad on the OTSA

when it started breaking out in the coastal cities.

OTSA?

Oklahoma Tribal Statistical Area.

It's a BSPC term for reservation.

So you stayed there until the stripes came?

Till the neighbors did.

God damn people.

God damn people.

It's hard to wrap my head around it.

If I survived 'cause I was prepping

or I just could avoid folks, or I was--

Bullshit. You were prepping for this

before the stripes stared?

Well, yeah, I mean, Noah didn't build the arc in the rain.

I mean, I was prepping, but I wasn't...

I was thinking more financial collapse, super tornado.

I really wasn't prepared for the stripes.

Thanks for helping me.

I miss talking, you know, like back and forth.

What's your name anyhow?

Please don't kill me in my sleep!

Not a God damn peep, where did you bury the bullets?

I didn't bury them, that's all, I just--

Where?

I don't think it's a garden.

Don't look like it.

This fire was lit last night.

Your grasp of the obvious is staggering as always, Zeke.

What do you see, what do you say you saw?

What you wanna do, Fish?

We got time.