Episode 1: Week 5

Static fades to low hum of pops and sizzles throughout the episode

Gabe:
Hello?

Can anyone hear me

Is anyone receiving this?

This is Gabriel Blythe.

I am alive, I am in the Salt Lake area.

I

Pause

Repeat

My name is Gabriel Blyth.

I’m in the Salt Lake Area

And I…
Am alive.

I can’t be the only one with two cents in their brain after what happened

Everyone is just shambling around

They’re just..

They’re just Mindless

I know I can’t be the only one who somehow missed whatever’s affected everyone else.

If you can hear this, you’re - you’re not alone!

Defeated sigh

Maybe you can’t respond right now.

It must have taken me a few weeks to set this damn thing up.

Just to read out to you or anyone else who might be able to turn on a radio.

Cause that’s what all the kids know how to do.

Set up a CB radio.

Sighs

So if you can hear me…

I think we need to meet up.

We’ll be strong in numbers

And its’ important that we find each other and stick together

Our chances of surviving what… whatever this miss is, only goes up if we work together.

If we find each other

I have some food.

Food that is gonna last awhile.
I can share. We can go out for more and watch each others back

Or

Chuckles

I’m not doing a good job of convincing you.

I am pretty good with tech stuff.

Anything I read I grasp pretty quickly

Not just computers and mobiles

But solar panels

Uhm

And generators

And

Laughs

Radios… ish

Uhm

Point is.
I have some useful skills and I’m sure I can’t do everything myself.
What strengths do you have?
Pauses

This is the part where you tell me something.

Jeez, Gabe.
Everything goes sideways in a couple of weeks and you’re already talking to yourself.

Great!

Clears throat

Just in case you can hear

Just case my words aren’t falling on deaf ears

For king and country, we need to stick together

If you can hear me.

Come find me!

I’m going to go out so that way I can be found!

Hopefully not by the

Searches for a word then sighs

What do we call them?

Scoffs

Never mind

I’m going to make it so you can find me.

But where?

All the films say you shouldn’t reveal your headquarters…

Hums thinking

OH!

Here we go.

I will be at the stadium.

Tomorrow.

Uhm

I think that’s Wednesday?

From noon to 18:00

Or maybe you don’t have a clock!

Of course

Power has been pretty inconsistent since…

Why do I have to be the one to come up with all these names

Sighs

All right.

Let’s go cliché

Electricity has been pretty much nonexistent since the…

Said with a flair of sarcasm

The Event.

So maybe I gotta figure

Maybe you can’t tell the exact time

According to this almanac

Uh about 18:00 is when we get sunset

So…

From about midday to sunset

And I just realized I sound like a total nob.

Sorry.

I shouldn’t assume you don’t have power

Or you don’t know when sunset is.

It’s a thing I do.

I don’t want my weird quriks to push you away.

I promise I have good…

Quirks too?

That seems like the dumbest thing anyone has ever said.

Sighs

Good thing it’s the end of the world.
Clearly my self esteem isn’t one of my strong suits.
But nothing we need to worry about right now, right?

Unless you’re a proper therapist and that’s your skill set which may not be the best-

Loud power down noise followed by a generator starts whirring up

Gabe:
ah Geeze

I haven’t talked in awhile and I drain most of my battery already

I should have written that script

OK deal with that later.
quick recap

I am alive

I’m not affected by

Again the worst name over

The Event.
I have electricity

I have food

And I figure our odds of surviving this are better if we work together.
So if you are alive

And that sounds really dismissive too…

Them

Anyways.
Salt Lake area stadium

From midday to sunset

18:00 hours or so

To-tomorrow

If it’s safe, make your way there.

We can meet up and work together and survive this…

If I call it, what is it makes it all too real

We can survive this situation

Yeah...

If I don’t get a response and I don’t see you.

I’m going to reach out again and again and again.

Maybe no one is hearing me yet.

But I can’t be the only one.

I sure as hell don’t wanna do this alone.

I’ll put this broadcast on repeat every day until I get a response.
I’ll keep trying every week

And will be monitoring the frequencies from 9 am to 11 am

So, if you’ve got something to say. I would love to hear another voice besides my own.

Sighs

Never thought I would get sick of myself so fast

You know, in the past I would have cherished-

Power down sounds followed by static.

After long pause morse code follows the broadcast.