YellowBrickRoad (Yellow Brick Road) (YellowBrickRoad)

Reporting from station eight

at 1100 hours, recorded this the 10th of October

in the year 1940, case file 64708NH90.

Subject is the last remaining citizen

and only survivor among the missing

numbered so far at 257, 257.

This matter is to be classified until further review.

Gentleman, quiet please thank you.

Sir, why was your town abandoned

and how did you come to be the only one remaining?

- I walked. - And you were the

only one to return, why is that?

The others all dead.

I couldn't (static buzzes) I left them on the trail.

- Subject has his hands over his ears

in great pain, sir, sir, what is it that you hear?

What is it you hear sir?

Am I the only one here?

No sir, I'm also here.

I'm not too late am I?

We close in two minutes.

Thank God.

- You hear about Friar, New Hampshire that old road?

Yes.

- Two forms of photo identification if you would.

Mr. Barnes, what you're asking for

there are certainly those who would prefer

you didn't have it.

I understand that.

I'm completely positive you're about

to add to my collection of letters

explaining the supposed gray areas of public domain and--

- You should think more optimistically

Mr. Barnes, all yours, case files,

the photos and the numbers.

Holy God.

Furthermore, I'm to apologize

for all the years of inconvenience to you and to your wife.

They probably don't really mean it.

I mean it.

Enjoy your picture show Mr. Barnes.

Excuse me.

Hello?

We're drinking.

You're drinking.

You're a teacher now Kenny, you drink.

Just pour it Walter.

- Guess that decides the common misconception

that you can't do what you love, you resort to teaching.

I don't know where I was going with that.

Because it seems like that's what happened.

Then pour me a drink.

I'm really gonna miss you guys.

I don't know what the hell I'm gonna do.

So how about we drink to throwing it all

out the goddamned window, screw the job.

Screw Walter's tenure.

What happens if we could do another book?

He has it.

No, he doesn't.

So now it's real.

- Mr. and Mrs. Barnes this is Jerry

up at the New Hampshire offices.

We did get word that your proposal has gone through.

I can't say anyone around here is too excited about that.

The ranger we'll be providing you with

will not have firearms on with him, so neither should you.

Best of luck on your trip.

- Who the fuck do you think you are?

Stay the fuck out.

Don't come here.

We're not gonna talk to you.

We can't get away from people like you.

Fuck--

Does all this scare you?

In a good way.

Are you gonna be terribly disappointed

if we get all the way out there

and get a vague, unpublishable story

and some pictures of some bones?

Yes.

And I won't be terribly disappointed.

That's what I thought.

I love you by the way.

We do that yet today?

I love you more.

- Now under the influence of a tasteless,

but fast-acting poison.

Okay, day one, pretty simple.

Today's all about packing up and shipping out.

We'd like to be on the trail by noon,

make as much ground as we can before dark.

So why don't we make like it's summer camp

and do the whole you know the drill.

I'll go first, my name's Melissa Barnes,

I'm co-authoring this thing and I take point in the field.

- I'm Cy Banbridge, here from the forestry service.

It was required, but I've been feeling ready for this.

Daryl Luger, I do maps.

Erin Luger, we do maps.

There have been no new maps

of the south or the north since like turn of the century,

so my sister and I get to be the lucky ones.

- We're psyched. - We are.

- Jill Bateman, Teddy and Melissa's intern.

- And just got the med kit and the training

to go with it, so she can help with

any blisters, aches and pains.

Intern's got the painkillers.

All right, Walter Myrick.

I teach behavioral psychology.

I'll be giving you guys some tests daily

and reporting them on this little camera,

but you know no release forms, no stress,

just look however you look.

Ow.

Bright light early morning, I know,

but I take lots of them. - It's true.

- Fantastic. - Right, Teddy Barnes,

co-author, photographer literally.

The story of Friar fascinates me.

Look, I don't know if we'll find

all the answers out there,

but I can tell you that we have been blessed

with the opportunity to take a legend

and turn it into recorded history.

Pancakes, pancakes.

Hey.

Hey.

- Okay, I'm gonna ask you a series of questions

and I want you to just answer honestly okay?

Not too much thinking, sound good?

- Okay, just go ahead and ask your quiz there.

What's your name?

I already oh I got you Cy Banbridge.

Where are you right now?

Parking lot.

Good enough.

What smell do you associate with the color red?

You gotta be kidding me, cherries

I'm thinking cherries I guess.

What does that mean?

- It means that you don't have brain damage.

There we go, all right.

- Hey. - You keep the GPS.

Right near here, this way.

Here?

- According to this and the numbers you gave me,

the trail ends right here.

That thing's broken.

- Sweet. - Those numbers are accurate.

Well do you see a trail?

We--

We're looking for a trail here.

- Are you like retarded hikers or something

because you're in a movie theater?

- Hold on a second buddy. - Hey fuck you Egon.

Tickets are eight dollars, so 56 smackers for all seven,

will you be joining us at the movies today?

Hey, you're awesome.

Come on, this isn't happening.

We're leaving.

What are we watching?

Something to do with guns and tits

and the end of the world.

Nobody will talk to us.

It's okay.

I'm not one of the angry ones, just jealous.

Why is that?

You get to walk the road.

Except we don't.

There is no road, right?

Coordinates were a sham somehow.

Led us right here that's why

we walked in here like assholes.

Did someone tell you all not to talk to us?

My grandfather gave me this job.

He owned it a while before he got cancer in his throat

and died, that was last year.

He was friends with the guy who owned it way back when,

back before everybody walked.

- Your grandfather was here in '39 and '40?

- Every other weekend on logging trips yeah.

I've gotta change the reel.

- Now wait a minute-- - Before the movie starts

or we don't paid.

Look.

Reach down right side in the back,

left over from the old dais, Gone with the Wind,

original print, I shit you not.

That second one is the Oz movie.

I found it left in the projector.

It won't run, it's worn to shreds

from all the times they put it through the machine.

Hey I didn't you could use me a source or anything did I?

Okay, I don't have a lot of money.

- You go something better, you got a fucking expedition to--

You gotta be kidding me.

Listen, I got my own hiking gear.

I can cook.