The first 125 lines.
You drooled on me in your sleep.
And how long have you been up?
Forever.
I had bad dreams...
Hey!
Stop it! Why?
It's me.
Simon can't see you like that.
Well, he isn't here.
Yeah...
Where is he?
Maybe he's waiting to regroup on the gangway?
Huh?
Huh?
Back off, lady!
Look, I'm no good at this...
but I just saved your lives, and, well...
Hello.
I'm Amelia.
Ugh. You want eggs?
I'm making eggs.
Yes please!
Hazel!
Believe me, I don't enjoy asking for help.
But I need to understand this anomaly.
I appreciate your cooperation, Grace.
Wait. Your... your number just went down!
Did it?
When a number's this high, a stray digit here
or there doesn't really make much of a dent.
How many eggs do children eat?
Six n' a half!
That's how old I am!
Huh-unh.
Hmm... Six-ish burnt eggs.
Probably should've mentioned I'm not great at eggs.
Or...any food.
Nuh-uh, you make the best pancakes!
It pains me to turn down my first compliment in 33 years,
but we just met yesterday.
You've never had them.
I just know.
You and Alrick both.
What's an Alrick?
Hewas a person.
My person.
And I...
lost him.
I like you.
We're all here for you.
Heartwarming.
But this car is marked for ejection.
Time to go.
Not without Simon.
Ugh. Fine.
Simon, where are you?
Simon: Grace, fall back!
You were right not to trust her!
Whoa!
Simon!
Ugh...
Your belt!
You've taken our symbol!
What are you prattling on about?
You're corrupting the mark of the Apex!
You mean this sine wave?
It's a sound shield, pipsquirt.
Wait, is that why you all smeared lipstick on your face?
This mark represents the True Conductor,
a man with the highest number who wore a big black helmet
with a red wave on it.
Yeah, and if he wasn't imprisoned
by the False Conductor, One-One, he would eat you alive!
Tell me, so this man, he had a face with a symbol on it
and, let me guess...
A voice like this?
If anybody was a "False" Conductor,
it was yours truly.
You... you...
Seven years ago in the Pumpkin Car,
do you remember saving a girl?
No.
Look I can reminisce all day but we simply must be moving on.
Find me in the next car.
We have to leave!
She is notour ally!
I...
I don't think she's the enemy, either.
Yeah, she knows about turtles!
Simon, that voice, I haven't heard it since I was a kid...
that's what he... she...
sounded like when I first got on the train.
But Samantha told me she's -- Samantha?
You went back to The Cat?
Yes, but...
it's complicated...
Hey, it's okay.
I trust you.
But right now?
I need youto trustme.
Can 'ya do that, ponytail?
-Hey! -Ho! -Whoa!
-Ho! -Whoa! -Hey!
Brilliant.
It's reset.
We'll have to wait.
-Hey! -Ho! -Whoa-ho!
-Ho! -Hey!
So what do you think?
I think they're sticks.
They're robots.
Oh. My mistake.
-Ho! -Whoa! -Ho!
-Hey! -Ho! -Ho!
So, um...
you were the Conductor, huh?
Yes, and no.
I was a passenger, just like you...
but I didn't like how One did things.
Lies!
So I took control.
Tried to recreate my old life.
Failed.
Again and again and again.
Created things that never should have been.
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