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Season 1 – Episode 8 – Part 5
The end is here. Out of the ashes, the players left standing look towards the road ahead – and it is one fraught with challenges.
Can two disparate groups band together to successfully thwart a common enemy? Or is that enemy too powerful – too ruthless – too determined – to be stopped?
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Season 1 – Episode 8 – Part 4
Maria makes a stand.
Panic strikes the Dwellers. The boys have come down charging from the mountain – horror, horror on the horizon. Fire rains from the sky. And all that stands between the scraps of society and annihilation is one determined y…
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Season 1 – Episode 8 – Part 3
This is the big one.
Paul and his angels spill into the streets of the Republic, bearing arms and determined to destroy the Citadel – the source of electricity for the city. Meanwhile, Saul, the master of the shadows, has his own designs. The stage is set for a mighty war, and no one will be unscathed in its wake.
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Season 1 – Episode 8 – Part 2
Victory is at hand for Richard and the New Republic. The coordinates of Prophet and the Dwellers is known. A ship is deployed, a bottle of scotch is opened, and a rare thing – music – is turned on.
But a shadow lurks behind this puppetmaster, and even as Richard watches his greatest plans unfold, our heroes and heroines must unite if they are to survive the Republic’s strike.
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Season 1 – Episode 8 – Part 1
The stage has been set for an incredible battle. John Prophet is locked up, awaiting his fate at the hands of the Dwellers’ justice. Their “BOL” in rural Maine seems far, far away from the troubles afflicting old New York, but this feeling of safety is about to be annihilated. Because in an open field, as a band plays fiddle and Marc and Luke watch the stars, a darker shape looms on the horizon…
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Season 1 – Episode 7 – Part 4
While John is pulled off by the Dweller warriors to face his fate, in the Republic, things get interesting.
One of John’s surviving Rebels comes to Saul, offering a secret. Saul, intrigued, learns a bit more… and protects what needs protecting. The stage is set for a great battle.
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Season 1 – Episode 7 – Part 3
Prophet tells his story. We learn of the City of Corinth – of what became of the ashes that were New York City after the Breaking and of… The people that came next. The promise of glory, the promise of a return, and the secret hand dealt by the powerful.
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Season 1 – Episode 7 – Part 2
Luke and Maria follow Marc to see a little deeper under the layer of Dweller society – the mushroom logs, the buckskin, the horse sheds that make up daily life. Just as three youths are finding common ground in a strange world, Prophet is dragged ou…
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Season 1 – Episode 7 – Part 1
With horrors behind them and uncertainty ahead of them, Luke and Maria must come to terms — the road without each other is too frightening. Meanwhile, they have a new friend, one of the Dwellers who shows them beneath the surface of a world that has existed nearby to them their whole lives that they’ve never seen.
While the youths bond, Prophet is dragged before the Dwellers and Refuge alike to confront his actions. Prophet makes one last plea, telling the story of his battles with the Republic and the dangers that confront everyone and makes a poignant case: do these angered tribes unite against a common enemy, or destroy the man who has wronged so many to get this far?
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Season 1 – Episode 6 – Part 5
Prophet’s men have been lost without their leader. With Saul, they have found a refuge, but… Saul’s intentions are grander than anything they imagined. And more terrifying. This week, we learn the nature of the dark man.
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Season 1 – Episode 6 – Part 4
Caitlin, healer and matriarch for the Dwellers, has taken the case of John Prophet to heart. The rasping, winded, infected man is at death’s door, and Maria and Sam stand outside it, listening. As they wait, the past comes out to haunt them all in a way they never expected.
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Season 1 – Episode 6 – Part 3
Ever since the dramatic performance in the Chapel, Lucian’s world has been a little inside-out. Amos mysteriously disappeared during the service, and now, the righteous come up to his ear whispering of dark times to come. Will Lucian stand up to serve Jesus – and the man who claims to be his voice – or risk being left behind in the coming holy war?
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Season 1 – Episode 6 – Part 2
As quickly as the fury raged, it has passed, leaving only coal and ashes in its place. The Dwellers and the Refuge stand at an impasse – where to go now that blood has spilled? A courageous young girl holds the hope to a new union, as she pleads for the life of a fugitive from Chad, patriarch of the Dwellers.
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Season 1 – Episode 6 – Part 1
Rage burns in David’s blood, as hot and incendiary as the coals which lit the crops of The Refuge into a blaze that may leave his people hungry as the brutal winter comes on. As David and his buddy Chris careen on the biodiesel powered ATV “Moby,” Sam, John and the youths land on shore nearby, and realize that a terrible and preventable tragedy is coming on.
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Season 1 – Episode 5 – Part 4
Zeke wears a new uniform, which fits uncomfortably. Richard waxes on the greatness of the world that was – this is an attempt to teach the…
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Season 1 – Episode 5 – Part 3
Amos and Lucian arrive at the home of the Believers – a group of evangelical survivalists who seem just a little too friendly. But after being fed and welcomed with open arms, they step into the Chapel. It is there, that one is Cleansed.
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Season 1 – Episode 5 – Part 2
Amos wakes on a train after a night of grim dreams, but his nightmares aren’t over – he is far from his home, on a train headed to the home of a religious group called the Believers. Lucian is at his side for the journey, and Paul assures them that everything is going to be just fine. There is bread and honey in the land of the Believers. But why are their arms so wide open in a world where basic decency can mean your death?
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Season 1 – Episode 5 – Part 1
In the wake of the nightmare that was Tully’s barn, Sam appears ready to go to battle. But there is no battle left, and no chance to help but to mop up the mess. Marc, a wounded young warrior from the Dwellers, keeps his lips tight about his homeland and his plight, but it’s clear there are few options left but to plow forward
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Midseason Memo
With this small bit of breathing room, I’ll take the opportunity to speak a bit about the journey thus far and what’s in store. There are three more episodes to go before Season 1′s finale in October. The eight scripts for Season 2 sit on my desk, and the stars are beginning to align for another fall production season…
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Season 1 – Episode 4 – Part 4
The horror of Tully’s barn not far behind her, Maria wakes with a start in a truck somewhere in the lot of the ‘doomsday fortress’ out in the backyard. It’s a new day, but the horror of the night before lingers close, and as John snoozes, Maria can’t help but take one more look inside. What secrets did Tully keep?
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Season 1 – Episode 4 – Part 3
On their way crossing through a barbed-wire laden, wrecked car ravaged, hydro-mill spinning savagery of a homestead, John and Maria were separated and Tully the pig man threw Maria into his barn. Only a small gate stands between her and Tully’s snarling, hungry beasts. Is there any escape from this nightmare?
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Season 1 – Episode 4 – Part 2
Lucian’s hands are bloody, and his spirit broken. He is in the “Soup” – the sewers of Corinth – and meditates on his place in this fallen world. But, a voice from the darkness call hims, and a ray of hope still shines…
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Season 1 – Episode 4 – Part 1
Having made her decision to continue on the journey, Maria follows John’s direction and steers their canoe downriver. But evils lay before them in this torn land. In a bleak homely homestead in the woods, amidst stacks of rusted up junk cars and a hodge-podge hydro-mill, Maria and John encounter a monster – one that walks on two legs. Can they survive a horror of this hopeless age?
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Season 1 – Episode 3 – Part 4
All that’s left of the Refuge are smoldering ashes, but in the darkest hour, David swears they will revenge – even as his men plead that he rebuilds. Vengeance is felt in the ragged lands of the Republic, too, where Lucian is pushed to his point of breaking. This meek man proves that he’s still fierce beneath the surface.
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Season 1 – Episode 3 – Part 3
Maria heads deeper into the forest, looking for an object John has stashed away that will unlock the next stage of the journey. John poses a question to her that forces her to put everything on the line. Will Maria step through the door that John has opened?
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Season 1 – Episode 3 – Part 2
The Refuge has been ravaged by the Dwellers, and Maria and John trek deeper into the woods. In the Republic Saul appears, working his games, paraded before the council of the Republic who are all to eager to dole out prizes after the greatness of ‘C-Day.’ Zeke awakens from a nightmare only to find himself in deeper…
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Season 1 – Episode 3 – Part 1
Dawn is a dim glow on the horizon of the Refuge when savage cries echo from the horizon. Moments later, the chalky rain-starved land turns into an inferno that David and his motley survivors must stop at all costs. Further down the river, Prophet collapses into a heap and Luke runs off looking for help. As Prophet flits in and out of consciousness, he pushes Maria to make a decision that will change the path of everything to come.
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Season 1 – Episode 2 – Part 4
Zeke has been restored to the sewers, but the remaining rebels loyal to John are distraught. With hope lost, a figure from the shadows offers a new deal… While in the Refuge, strange shapes are on the morning horizon.
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Season 1 – Episode 2 – Part 3
There is cheering, parading, fanfare in the streets. The Republic celebrates the downfall of John Prophet, calling him oppressor and turning on the electricity of a machine called the Citadel. In the shadows of this celebration, a dark figure has allied John Prophet’s lost soldiers to rescue Zeke. Zeke has been held by the Republic, in hopes that he can reveal John Prophet’s destination. But it soon grows clear that Zeke’s loyalty may be bought.
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Season 1 – Episode 2 – Part 2
When they arrive, claiming freedom from the tyranny of darkness, no one decries the Republic. These soldiers, with their guns and ships, are turning on electricity and promising freedom. There is music, parades, fireworks. No one sees the looming shadow behind them. No one sees that behind their promises of good will, lies an iron fist.
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Season 1 – Episode 2 – Part 1
Far from the safety of the Refuge lies the City of Corinth, a broken place that once called itself New York. From the ashes, John Prophet emerged, uniting disparate groups and pushing out rival gangs. The city lay in – well, not quite peace – but a state of sanctity for some years, before a new force entered: The Republic. But is the Republic all that its proponents claim it is?
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Season 1 – Episode 1 – Part 4
It has only been a few hours since John Prophet crashed into the bucolic off-grid Refuge, but already the world that Maria and Luke have known has been turned upside down. David rushes to see a new force emerging in hot pursuit of Prophet – the woods-wise Dwellers, who approach with burning fury in their eyes.
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Season 1 – Episode 1 – Part 3
Maria and Luke have grown up knowing only the austerity of The Refuge. With John Prophet suddenly crashing into their lives, what will they make of this mysterious stranger and the storm of danger that surrounds him?
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Season 1 – Episode 1 – Part 2
John Prophet has appeared like a whirlwind in the off-grid “Refuge” in rural Maine. David, who is the leader of a hardscrabble band of survivors, looks dubiously at the man who abandoned them 15 years ago. Sam is no happier to see him, and though the man is wounded and sick, they attempt to extract answers.
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Season 1 – Episode 1 – Part 1
Fifteen years have passed since the “Battle of Bangor,” the brutal assault on a small Maine city that set off the shattering of Northern New England during The Breaking. Since then, David and Sam have lead a ragged group of refugees and set up home at an abandoned airforce based dubbed “The Refuge.” And far south, John Prophet has continued his battle for freedom.
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The Cleansed – Episode Zero
Some time in the not so distant future, the world as we know it is starting to unravel. The United States is mired in unwinnable wars, gas is scarce and the transportation system grinds to a halt. Homegrown terrorists take out the electric grid. Food is strictly rationed and distributed by the military. As citizens grow increasingly angry with the government, martial law is called in to maintain peace.
And then things really start to get bad.
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