This is a fan-transcribed script for Oxenfree, the 2016 game developed by Night School Studio.

It consists of the dialogue said by the characters, rather than the subtitles, due to dropped or added words, as well as misspellings in the subtitles. Because of the nature of a text script, this will not include positions of when characters interject over one another. For that, you will need to refer to the game or a playthrough.

This page is going to be huge when it's done. It may be split into sub-pages eventually, to lessen bulk.

CURRENT PROJECT: Integration of second route. No interactions (unless required for game advancement). New Game + will be its own page.

At the moment, there are no plans to notify whether or not a choice will lead to changes in character opinions of Alex; the current project will focus on simply transcribing all dialogue in the game.

This is not meant to be a replacement for playing the game; this is intended to be a full script for fan reference, as tracking down certain quotes, especially those locked behind certain dialogue options, can be a pain in the neck. If you have not played the game, play the game. You will not regret it.

You can purchase Oxenfree from any of these platforms or distributors:

• Steam
• GOG
• Humble Bundle
• Epic Games
• Microsoft
• Playstation
• Nintendo eShop

Style guide

Each line of dialogue is labeled and color-coded. Dialogue played over speakers generally will look like this; dialogue pertaining to The Sunken and possessed characters will look like this.

Choices for Alex's responses to people are represented with blockquotes, which contain resulting conversation. Conditions may apply for certain situations, represented with a blockquote and heading pertaining to said condition.

8 PM - Ferry

• REN: It used to be a military base.
• REN: Well, it used to be a ranching thing, then it was turned into an army thing, then it became a bird thing and a museum or whatever.
• REN: Henry Fonda stationed here, I think, for a bit, unless he was Navy.
• JONAS: Who's Henry Fonda?
• REN: Around Christmas time, this little breakfast place used to sell these amazing polar bear sugar cookies.
• REN: Man, those were good. And then one year, they changed the formula or whatever, and ruined it.
• REN: Alex? Hey. Still with us?
• REN: You haven't said anything for like ten minutes.
• REN: Mission control to Alex? This is Big Poppa. Do you read me?

MY MIND DRIFTED.

• ALEX: Yeah. Yeah, my... my mind drifted for a second.

I'M LISTENING.

• ALEX: I can watch the hypnotic rolling of the waves and listen to you at the same time.
• REN: Oh, okay. What did I say?
• REN: Little Miss "I Can See And Hear Things At The Same Time."

EDWARDS ISLAND

SOMETHING SOMETHING COOKIES?

UH, BIRD ISLAND OR WHATEVER.

• ALEX: Um... something about Bird Island or... pancakes? I dunno.
• REN: Perfect! You're right on the money.

YEAH, SORRY.

• REN: So you all moved in?
• JONAS: Um...Not--not really. I just got in this morning.
• REN: And how did her mom meet your dad, exactly?
• JONAS: [laughter] They met on vacation in Orlando? He got lost in a-- y'know, actually, I'm not even gonna tell this story.
• JONAS: It's really not worth it.
• REN: [laughter] Okay.

YES, PLEASE DON'T.

• ALEX: [chuckle] Yes, please don't. Let's not relive their meet-cute anymore than we have to.

NO, WHAT HAPPENED?

• ALEX: No, wait, what happened? I feel like I haven't heard this.
• JONAS: He got lost in some gardens, and he thought she worked there and, blah blah blah, they hit it off.
• REN: Aww, that's downright adorable.

• REN: And you guys just met tonight?
• JONAS: Yeah, I was, um... I'd been out of school... and the timing had just never worked out, so.
• REN: And what does that make you to her then?
• REN: A, uh, second cousin..?
• REN: I don't know how people math works.

A STEP-BROTHER.

• ALEX: He's my step-brother.
• REN: Oh yeah. I forgot that was even a thing.

JUST SOME GUY.

A ROOMMATE.

• REN: Well, at least you seem cool, right? Cool guy, cool hat... you get a cool new sibling, living right in your house.
• REN: Sharing your toothbrush... wearing your clothing... eating your food... smelling up your bathroom...
• JONAS: I, uh, have my own toothbrush.

NO, THAT'S WEIRD.

• ALEX: No, that's the weird part. I mean, isn't it li-- the concept of just getting a new sister like a puppy, isn't it kinda awkward?
• JONAS: [laughter] No, it's been totally bizarre CONTENT MISSING

SURE, WHATEVER.

• ALEX: Yeah, sure, whatever, I have someone to reach the food on the top shelf now.
• JONAS: Just happy to be on the team.

YEAH, IT'S NICE.

• ALEX: Yeah, no, it's a... nice perk, I guess. Unless you're like a pyro or something.
• JONAS: Just a klepto, so you're in luck.

• JONAS: So... how do you two know each other?
• REN: Oh, from way back when, like paleozoic! Grade school era. Young enough that I've seen her in a bathtub and it wasn't sexual at all.
• REN: I mean, we looked like little skinned potato blobs.
• REN: [laughter] And, to date, that's still what I think she looks like under her clothes.

AHHHHHH, STOP!

• ALEX: Aaaaah! Ren, why are you even talking about this?!
• REN: It's humorous! Right? It's just interesting, I think it's interesting.

BEST BUDS, CLEARLY.

HOW I'VE TRIED TO FORGET.

• ALEX: Ugh... it's so creepy now to think about.
• REN: Why?! We were babies! It's funny, that's all.

• TOUR GUIDE: Passengers, we'll be arriving soon. Check under your seat to make sure you don't leave behind any personal belongings.
• REN: "Check under your seat to make sure you don't leave behind any grandchildren."
• TOUR GUIDE: And if you picked up a complementary disposable radio, remember to tune into 102.3 at the various plaques. We encourage you to listen in to our Edwards Island Walking Tour and hear more about the fascinating events of this historical landmark.

WHO'S TALKING?

• CONTENT MISSING

HOW DO YOU KNOW THIS?

• ALEX: Uh, so... how do you know what--?
• REN: It's a recording. They always play it.

• REN: Oh, oh! We should get a quick picture, all of us.
• REN: This will be like the before shot.
• REN: They're on their way!

WHY?

• ALEX: Why? Shouldn't we wait until we get there, or at least meet up with the others?
• REN: No, no no--this is the core unit, anyway. The rest are like our guest stars.

GREAT!

• ALEX: Yeah, let's do it.

FINE.

• ALEX: [sigh] Fine. Just... hold the camera out, like, far. I don't... look my freshest right now.
• REN: It's true, Jonas. This is like B- Alex. Just for your, uh, calibration.

• REN: And it's Jonas..? Not Jonah?
• JONAS: Yeah. Jonas.
• JONAS: Like Jonas Salk?
• REN: Right, patient zero, AIDS guy.

IT'S BIBLICAL, RIGHT?

• ALEX: It's... um... Biblical, right? Or is that the lion guy..? ^{(Either a reference to this lion guy or this lion guy. Darius, Marcus... Jonas...)}
• JONAS: I think every name's Biblical, so... probably.

IT MEANS "OPPRESSOR."

• ALEX: Jonas. It means... "oppressor", right?
• REN: Yeah, but I mean my sign's Cancer, and... it's not like my hair is falling out or anything.

POSE FOR PICTURE

• REN: Here's good!
• REN: C'mon, Alex, join the fun!
• REN: CONTENT MISSING

...

• REN: There! Great! I'll magic erase all the warts out and stuff, so don't worry.
• REN: Hey, Alex. You brought the radio, right?
• REN: The little portable one?

OF COURSE!

• ALEX: Yeah, of course!
• REN: Perfect, can you pull it out a second?

WHAT RADIO?

• ALEX: What radio?
• REN: That little--you know, the little--it almost looks like a toy? The--oh--oh. Oh you're joking.
• REN: Just bring it out, will you?

...

• REN: There's the little guy.
• REN: Our high school has a radio station and Carly, she's a friend of ours, she's filling in because Reggie got mono from some track runner or something.
• REN: It doesn't matter. What matters is that she's gonna say something like... basically right now about our thing, so.
• REN: Tune it to 88.3 so I can tell her we heard it.

Tuning in...

• CARLY: --which I played cause that's song's been stuck in my head since I woke up this morning! But--oh! Oh, actually, it's a little after ten o'clock, which means my dear friend Ren and his buddies are probably just touching down on Edwards Island for the yearly bash on the beach, or... whatever we call it now. But anyways, I promised him that I'd play a song from his band, so... hope you're listening, Ren! Here are the Redheaded Bedwetters with "Baby Carrots".
• REN: [laughting] That's awesome!
• REN: I hope Christina with her Talent Show Judge face was listening.
• [ferry horn honks]
• REN: We must be getting close.
• REN: There's no radio reception on the island. I'm glad I got to hear it before it went totally kaput.
• JONAS: If we can't use it, why'd you bring it? Not just for the boat?
• REN: Um, no. You'll see. I--don't expect too much, but... nah, it'll be fun, I won't undercook it.
• REN: You'll see.

Main Street

• REN: Smell that clean air, boys and girls! Boy and girl. This ain't city livin'.
• JONAS: Yeah, um, anyone need a smoke? I have a full pack.
• REN: Uh--oh, uh, no thanks. I mean, I literally just said the clean air thing, so...
• JONAS: Alex?
• JONAS: You can bum one off me if you're empty.
• JONAS: I forget if you're a fellow addict.

YEAH, SURE.

NO THANKS.

• ALEX: Oh, uh, no thanks, I don't smoke. The last time I had one it... didn't go well.
• REN: Yeah, no, I didn't know it was "coughing with your whole body" really meant until I you dry heaving.
• JONAS: Okay, just checking.

• REN: Alright, my other friends should be up and around the bend...
• JONAS: Actually, that--I mean, I don't to be the guy to break us up already, but Ren, can you do me a favor?
• JONAS: Can I have like two real quick minutes with Alex for a second?
• JONAS: And, you can, you know. You can run up and meet your friends.
• REN: Uh, really?
• REN: Just... that's kinda...

WHAT'S WRONG WITH REN BEING HERE?

• CONTENT MISSING

IS SOMETHING WRONG?

• ALEX: Wait, is--is something wrong? What is it?
• JONAS: Nothing's wrong, nothing's wrong. It'll just take two minutes, super fast.

DON'T BE WEIRD ALREADY, JONAS...

• ALEX: Jonas, c'mon, I vouched for you sight unseen and you're already acting super weird.
• JONAS: And I appreciate the voucher, I do, and I'm not trying to seem weird, I just want two minutes alone, that's it.

• REN: Alright, but... [nervous laughter] Uh, look. I don't wanna go up by myself.
• REN: I mean, can't we just stick together? You're gonna have all night to say, like... whatever.
• JONAS: But since you wanna meet up with your friends anyway...
• REN: We're all gonna meet up with them. It's like a buddy system.

LET'S KEEP TOGETHER.

• ALEX: C'mon, Jonas, this is... let's just all go up. I don't wanna send Ren away like a... deer hound.
• REN: Yeah, it's fine. And you can talk to Alex later.
• REN: We're at like hour one here. You'll have ample family bonding time.
• JONAS: Uh... yeah, fine, sure. No problem.

I'LL HEAR WHAT JONAS HAS TO SAY.

• ALEX: No, it's... It's fine, Ren. Go on up ahead and we'll catch up with you.
• REN: Um... okay, I guess. Though this is a really strange way to start off, splitting up.
• JONAS: It'll be fast. Thanks, man.
• REN: I'll just be up the hill, in case... whatever.
• JONAS: Ren seems nice.
• JONAS: He's funny, you know.
• JONAS: Reminds me of a guy I know back home.

HE IS.

• ALEX: Yeah. I mean, he's harmless. But, yeah, he's nice.

HE ANNOYS ME.

WHAT DID YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT?

• JONAS: Listen. I just wanted to grab you ahead of time and say you've been... cool... about everything. and--
• JONAS: I guess, it's just, for me--I've never moved anywhere, and like, getting a new family at the same time, kinda feels like I'm skipping the training wheels.
• JONAS: Not that it's bad or anything. You and your mom have been great.

YOU MISS YOUR FRIENDS?

• ALEX: Yeah, I'm... sure you miss your friends.
• JONAS: Eh. There's not much to miss, to be honest.

WE'LL MAKE THE BEST OF IT.

• ALEX: Eh. We'll make do. Lemons, lemonade, however that goes.
• JONAS: An optimist. Oh, Christ.

STOP IT.

• ALEX: Oh, stop it.

AND PROUD OF IT!

• ALEX: [chuckle] Yeah, I'm an optimist and proud of it!

• JONAS: Oh, and thanks for setting up the attic for me.
• JONAS: It's cool how it's like a little bedroom. I was in the basement at my old house, so this is an improvement.

THAT WAS MIKE'S ROOM...

• ALEX: That was, um... that was Mike's room, actually... so... there wasn't that much to set up.
• JONAS: Oh. Oh, man... I'm sorry.
• JONAS: I... didn't mean to bring it up.

IT'S OKAY.

• ALEX: It's okay, you didn't know.

LET'S CHANGE THE SUBJECT

• CONTENT MISSING

NO PROBLEM...

• ALEX: Yeah, no problem. Any time.

WE DIDN'T SET IT FOR YOU.

• CONTENT MISSING

...

I HEARD YOUR MOM'S DEAD.

• CONTENT MISSING

NICE, UH, VIEW.

• ALEX: It's... nice at night, isn't it?
• JONAS: [chuckle] Yeah.

I HEARD YOU WERE IN JAIL?

• ALEX: I heard... um, I think from my mom, that... you, uh...
• JONAS: Went to jail?
• JONAS: Yeah, well... don't believe everything you hear.

• JONAS: We can... catch back up with Ren now, I didn't mean to take so long.

...

• REN: Hello, kids. Look, the other guys and gals must be further up, so... be quick now.
• REN: CONTENT MISSING

• REN: Okay, speed-read definition of Edwards Island: this is a tourist trap with shops and a beach.
• REN: Nobody lives here, except for some geriactric named Mrs. Adler. But, as God as my witness, we'll never mention her or any other old person's name again.
• REN: We are here to drink and be stupid, a tradition apparently started by bored retruits in the 1950s, who would sneak dates over from the costal towns.
• REN: They literally called it "trawling".
• JONAS: Uh huh...

HOW'D THEY PULL THAT?

• ALEX: Wait... how'd they pull that? Isn't, like, security an important thing in military bases?
• REN: Yes, but apparently the desire to have cheap sex with floozies will overcome all borders. It's the American way.

THAT'S KINDA GROSS.

• ALEX: Really. That's kinda gross.
• REN: Yeah, sex is gross. So disgusting, man, get a room you soldiers!

THAT'S KINDA CUTE.

• ALEX: Wow. That's actually kinda funny.
• REN: Yeah, it's like kids at camp or whatever.

• REN: So, to summarize: we are not allowed here after dark, the town is shut down, and we - the Camena High Junior Class - have come to commit improper acts.
• JONAS: [laughs] "Improper acts"... Alright.
• REN: Yeah, basically, CONTENT MISSING

ARE MORE PEOPLE COMING?

"IMPROPER ACTS?" LIKE WHAT?

WE'RE NOT ALLOWED HERE?

• ALEX: Wait, we're not allowed here after dark? So, like, what's our plan if we get caught?
• REN: We won't! I had to promise Karen I'd shovel her driveway all winter so she'd just look the other way.

• REN: And the other thing... is the weirdo caves.
• JONAS: "Weirdo caves"?
• REN: The whole reason Alex brought her radio is because when you go to the... it's like... the "front"--
• JONAS: The mouth?
• REN: The mouth of this particular cave, you can sometimes pick up frequencies to stations that don't exist.
• REN: You'll hear voices... or just... sounds. And they're impossible to CONTENT MISSING

NO WAY.

• ALEX: No way, c'mon...
• REN: Alex has always been a devout skeptic, even though the fourth grade field trip proved it without a shadow of a doubt.

I WASN'T THERE!

• CONTENT MISSING

WHATEVER.

• ALEX: Oh god, whatever.

CREEPY.

• ALEX: It's uh... it's pretty creepy... at least I've heard.
• REN: I did it once. It's amazing when it works.

THERE'S AN EXPLANATION...

• ALEX: No, there must be some kind of logical explanation. Like... like the rocks are somehow able to conduct lower frequencies or pick up broadcasts from further away or... something.
• REN: Or.. it's aliens.

• JONAS: So back up a second. Who's Mrs. Adler?
• REN: Her family, I think, like, owns or owned some of the island or something? She's been shacked in the same spot for like seventy years.
• REN: She's kind of what you'd call a local legend.
• REN: She has a house on the other side of the woods.

I CAN'T IMAGINE THAT.

• ALEX: I can't imagine living in the same exact house looking at the same exact walls for that long a time.
• REN: Well... it takes a certain someone. And, actually, you know what? Speaking of the opposite of those certain someones... drum roll please?

BEACH LIVING SOUNDS NICE.

• ALEX: Man... that woman won the life lottery. Seventy years of sleeping with the window open and smelling the ocean.
• REN: You'd be okay with never leaving?
• REN: Never leaving. Just there. All the time.

WHY WOULDN'T I BE?

• ALEX: Yeah..? Why wouldn't I be? If you're happy, you're happy. Why would you move?
• REN: Yeah! Why would you?

• REN: Jonas, did you know that a little birdy told me that our Alex here is thinking going state to college?
• JONAS: Oh really?
• REN: Yeah... so... don't CONTENT MISSING

SO WHAT IF I AM?

• ALEX: Alright, so... what if I am?
• REN: I dunno! So what if you are? I guess it's nothing, no big deal.
• REN: I just... if you are thinking of leaving, I just hope you're doing it... for the right reasons.
• REN: That's all. That's my whole spiel.

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

• ALEX: What the hell does that mean?
• REN: Nothing! Nothing, nothing at all. Do what you want, forget I said anything.
• JONAS: Thanks so much for bringing me out, you guys.
• JONAS: I can tell I'm gonna have a really good time.

I'M SORRY.

• ALEX: Ugh, I'm sorry. We'll stop.
• REN: Yeah this will be fun, don't worry. Even if Alex is a listless drifter ruining her own life!

A LITTLE BIRDY?

• ALEX: And did this little birdy tell everyone he did Susie Lyons, even though it was only over the pants stuff?
• REN: Uhhh...
• ALEX: Urgh! Just because Mark spends his Study Hall at the Advisory Board doesn't mean he's allowed to look through our submissions!
• REN: Look, Alex...
• REN: I just... if you are thinking of leaving, I just hope you're doing it... for the right reasons.
• REN: That's all. That's my whole spiel.

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

• ALEX: What the hell does that mean?
• REN: Nothing! Nothing, nothing at all. Do what you want, forget I said anything.

WHY DO YOU EVEN CARE ABOUT THIS?

• ALEX: Ren, why do you even care about this?
• REN: Oh, I dunno, maybe because you're my friend? And I'll miss you if you go? That's what a friend does! They miss the other person.
• REN: And I don't want you to regret anything. So, yeah. Nevermind.

I'D MISS YOU TOO!

• ALEX: Aww, Ren, ya big knucklehead. I'd miss you too, okay? But, for now, I'm not gone yet, and who knows what I'm gonna do, so...
• REN: Alright, alright.
• JONAS: Aww, you two are like kittens in a paper sack.
• REN: Eugh! What is that?
• JONAS: It's a saying.
• REN: No, it isn't.
• ALEX: [laughter]

THANK YOU, I WILL.

• CONTENT MISSING

WHY DO YOU CARE?

• CONTENT MISSING

I'M NOT EVEN SURE YET.

• CONTENT MISSING

NOT REALLY...

• CONTENT MISSING

• REN: The beaten path officially ends here. The beach is past the fence. I think Jerry told me that there's a way they used to get over there, but... I'm blanking on what it was.
• REN: But it's not--I mean, it can't be too difficult.

OH GOOD.

• ALEX: Oh. Perfect.
• REN: Well, just wait a minute and let me think.

THERE MUST BE SOMETHING.

• ALEX: Well, look, there must be something. I mean, if Jerry got over...
• REN: Yeah, exactly.

PUSH

• ALEX: I think the dumpster will get us over if it'll... budge.
• JONAS: Well, let's try it.

9 PM - Discovery Cliffs

• REN: Oh, uh, before we get there? I should--I should probably mention that--
• NONA: [laughing] Oh God.
• CLARISSA: [laughter]
• JONAS: Who's that?
• REN: That's--so, there's this girl. Nona.
• REN: She's... just this girl, and I'm totally into her, and I want her to be into me, so just--you know--just be cool, okay?
• REN: No pouting or complaining or anything, alright?
• REN: Deal?

BE COOL?

• ALEX: Be cool..?
• REN: Don't be like... just, how you can be sometimes.

RELAX!

• ALEX: Ren. Relax!

WHY WOULDN'T I?

• CONTENT MISSING

If... you spoke to Jonas

• REN: Oh, and okay, Jonas. Now that we're dumpster buddies, what was the thing that you said to Alex back there?
• REN: Do you have one of those vestigal tails or something?
• JONAS: Uh, it was nothing, really.

JONAS IS JUST NERVOUS ABOUT STUFF.

• ALEX: Oh, Jonas is just nervous about moving in with a strange girl in a strange town and fitting in every stupid cliche you can think of.
• JONAS: I'm not--that's not what it was, really. I just like to take the time to make proper introductions, that's all.
• REN: [laughter] Okay.

LEAVE IT ALONE, REN.

• ALEX: Just leave it alone, Ren, alright? You don't have to hear everything.
• REN: I don't have to hear everything, but I want to hear everything.
• JONAS: It's not a big deal, really, just forget about it.

If... you didn't speak to Jonas

• REN: Oh, what was the thing you wanted to say to Alex, Jonas?
• REN: You can just pretend I'm like a stray dog and can't understand.

YEAH. WHAT WAS IT?

LEAVE IT ALONE, REN.

• ALEX: Just leave it alone, Ren, alright? You don't have to hear everything.
• REN: I don't have to hear everything CONTENT MISSING

• CLARISSA: Reginald! I hear you over there!
• REN: Hey, guys.
• CLARISSA: Wait, I was saying... I was about to tell a story, what was it?
• NONA: About Brad's car?
• CLARISSA: Oh, well... that can wait.
• NONA: Hey.
• CLARISSA: We started a fire down the way, but Nona wanted to play beach nanny, so...
• NONA: I just wanted to make sure you guys saw where we were before it got too dark.

HI.

• ALEX: Uh, yeah. Hi.
• NONA: Hi.

THIS IS JONAS.

• ALEX: Uh, yeah. Everyone, this is Jonas. Jonas? Everyone.
• JONAS: Hey.
• NONA: Hi.

• REN: And Jonas, that's--
• CLARISSA: Who are you again?
• REN: Jonas.
• JONAS: That's Jonas.
• REN: He's Alex's new in town, fresh as a daisy step-brother.
• CLARISSA: Step-brother?
• NONA: Really?
• REN: Yeah, I know. It's a trip, right?
• JONAS: Uh... yep.

YEAH, SO BE NICE.

• ALEX: Yeah, this is his first night here, so everybody be on your best behavior.
• ALEX: Treat him as you would a scary dog. Palms out.
• JONAS: Heh. That's, um... I don't bite, it's fine.

I'M BABYSITTING HIM.

• ALEX: Yeah, you'd think he'd be a little old to need a babysitter, but. Here we are.
• REN: [laughs]
• JONAS: Yeah, if I don't have anyone to burp me, it becomes a real issue.

HE'S COOL.

• ALEX: Yeah, he's a... cool guy from cool North Valley, so... let's all try and show him a good time.
• JONAS: [chuckle] Just the beach and some beer will be enough, I'm sure.

• CLARISSA: Whoa-whoa-whoa-wait. You're Jonas. Jonas the step-brother.
• JONAS: Yeah. Um. What's your name again?
• REN: That is Clarissa, but she's--
• CLARISSA: How are you her step-brother?
• CLARISSA: Like, what does that even mean?
• JONAS: Um...

OUR PARENTS ARE MARRIED.

• ALEX: My mom married his dad, so... family law and all.

GUESS.

• ALEX: I'll give you three guesses.
• REN: [nervous laughter] Her mom's getting remarried, that's all. She's getting remarried to a guy and that's the guy's son, so... domino... effect..?

. . . . . . . . .

• JONAS: Uh--her mom... is marrying my dad? So. You know.

• CLARISSA: Yeah well I guess this is happening now! This is a thing that is happening, so... [sigh] Where's everyone else?
• REN: Nichole had that tennis thing.
• CLARISSA: And?

WHO ELSE WAS COMING?

• ALEX: Uh... who else was supposed to come?
• CLARISSA: Anyone? Everyone?

WE'RE IT.

• ALEX: There's nobody else coming. We're it.
• CLARISSA: What.

• REN: Clarissa, we... [chuckle] We took the last ferry. I thought more would show up, but--
• CLARISSA: Oh my God, it's just Alex and her new step-brother?
• CLARISSA: Ha, that's it. That's who you brought.
• CLARISSA: That's the group?

C'MON, I'M FUN!

• ALEX: Oh, c'mon Clarissa, I'm fun! I'm hip! I'm with it!
• CLARISSA: Listen to yourself.

WHO INVITED YOU?

• ALEX: Clarissa, seriously, who even invited you?
• REN: Uh. I did.
• CLARISSA: Ren invited Nona and Nona invited me. Though, begged me would maybe be the better way to put it.
• NONA: Uh--I didn't--I didn't really beg...

DON'T BE MEAN.

• ALEX: Clarissa, c'mon... Don't be mean, this is supposed to be fun.
• CLARISSA: [laughter] Who said I'm not having any fun? I'm having fun. This is like friggin' Candy Land, right now.

• JONAS: Wait, aren't you all like... friends?
• CLARISSA: I'm friends with Nona and I'm downgrading Ren to like a creepy neighbor.
• CLARISSA: And you I just met.
• JONAS: Yeah, I'm... getting the picture now.

WHAT ABOUT ME?

• ALEX: Hey. What about me?
• CLARISSA: What about you?

NEVERMIND.

• ALEX: MISSING CONTENT

I DON'T EVEN COUNT?

• ALEX: Oh. I get it, I'm not even on the spectrum.

WELL SORRY.

• ALEX: CONTENT MISSING

• REN: You see, Jonas, normally this is like a twenty deep rager. But... Pat had a party last weekend, and...
• NONA: Aaand a bunch of kids got caught teepeeing the school.
• REN: But this is great, right? We're on Edwards Island! Forget those losers who couldn't handle the weekend, who didn't think we could make it, who lost my invitation, who had to go on family--
• CLARISSA: Faster.
• REN: We've been hearing about this for years. And now, we're gonna do it.
• REN: This is gonna be amazing! Right?
• REN: Right? Right, guys?

YAY!

• ALEX: Yay! Awesomeness!

YEAH!

• ALEX: Yeah! The beach! Island stuff!

• REN: Yeah!

Beacon Beach

• REN: Fire! Man's great equalizer!
• JONAS: So, what's the, um... what's the, like, thing to do here?
• JONAS: Other than obviously go skinny dipping and get murdered by Jason Krueger^(sic).
• NONA: Yeah, I think it's just whatever.

LET'S EXPLORE!

• CONTENT MISSING

LET'S DRINK!

• ALEX: Yeah, let's just drunk. It's supposed to be a party, right..?

I'M UP FOR WHATEVER.

• ALEX: Well, I'm up for pretty much whatever, so...

• JONAS: Hey, where does that old woman live?
• NONA: Oh... you mean Maggie Adler?
• JONAS: Yeah.
• CLARISSA: Nowhere. She's dead.
• REN: What?
• CLARISSA: Yep, keeled over three days ago. It was all over the news.
• CLARISSA: Local news, anyway.
• CLARISSA: "Oldest living resident."
• CLARISSA: Her family's been moving back and forth on the ferry getting all of her crap.

BUMMER.

• ALEX: Oh. That's... sort of a bummer...
• CLARISSA: Yeah, well, we all gotta go sometime. In her case, later than sooner.

LET'S SEE HER HOUSE.

• ALEX: Hey, we could go see her house! It must be huge, she was rich as a--
• CLARISSA: No, we can't see her house, there's a giant fence and I don't wanna tear my jeans trying to climb it.

• CLARISSA: And to answer your previous question, Jonas? The "thing to do" is lay on the beach and drink 'til you can't remember where you are.
• NONA: And sometimes play Truth or Slap.
• REN: Yeah! Let's play that!
• REN: We can inagurate Jonas.
• REN: Ease him into the night's festivities.

WHAT'S THAT?

• CONTENT MISSING

ISN'T IT TRUTH OR DARE?

• ALEX: Isn't it, uh, Truth or Dare?
• REN: This is better than Truth or Dare, because nobody ends up licking someone's butthole.

• REN: You get asked a question. You have to tell the truth, but if somebody can prove that you lied, the accuser gets to slap you.
• REN: It's a good, uh... getting to know somebody game.
• NONA: Unless you lie a lot.

FUN!

• ALEX: Yeah! Fun! Any excuse to hit Ren.
• REN: Hey, I'm the truthiest truth who ever truthed a--
• CLARISSA: Alright, let's just get on with it!

HOW CAN YOU PROVE THAT?

• ALEX: Uh, how can you prove that somebody lied?
• REN: Heresay, rumor, conjecture... the usual.
• CLARISSA: Alright, let's just get on with it!

DO WE HAVE TO PLAY THIS?

• ALEX: I haven't played this since I was, like, ten. Can't we do something else?
• REN: C'mon, it's a good way to start out the night! One round?
• REN: It'll help everybody relax.
• CLARISSA: The booze will do that, too.

FINE, LET'S DO IT.

• ALEX: Fine, let's all smack the taste out of mouths, I guess.
• REN: Hurray!

I'LL JUST WATCH.

• ALEX: Maybe I'll just be an innocent bystander..?
• REN: Well... I guess if you really want.

• (This whole section is messy. I need to reorganize this, I think.
• NONA: Okay, so... first, we're gonna--
• CLARISSA: I'll start!
• CLARISSA: Ren!
• REN: Uh huh.
• CLARISSA: C'mon, fess up. You wanna go out with Nona, right?
• NONA: Clarissa!
• CLARISSA: Wait wait wait! I wanna hear his answer.
• REN: Uhhh...

GIVE HIM A BREAK.

• ALEX: Clarissa, c'mon, you're supposed to ask, like... "Have you ever stole something"... not super weirdo probing stuff.

If... you're playing

• CLARISSA: You'll get your turn after Reginald answers the question.

If... you aren't playing (I think?)

• CLARISSA: You ask probing stuff if you play the game right, Alex.

ASK ME SOMETHING INSTEAD!

• ALEX: Okay, that's--[sigh] Clarissa, you know what, ask me something instead. Anything you want.
• CLARISSA: Oh really? I thought you were just watching. ^{(Obviously dependant on previous options... will need to rework this.)}
• CLARISSA: You can't just jump in and out as your heart sees fit, dear.

OOH, GOOD ONE.

• ALEX: Oooh, man, you're good at this.
• JONAS: Well if being good means being kinda mean about it...

• REN: Look, it's tough to gauge. Uh, something like--
• CLARISSA: Bzzt! Enough stalling! I know you wanna sample the goods, now just say so.
• REN: No! I mean, I--I like her as a friend? Right? That's--I just like her as a friend.
• REN: That's all. She's cool. She's--she's just a friend.
• CLARISSA: Oh, yeah right!
• NONA: Okay, thank you Clarissa, CONTENT MISSING

HE'S LYING!

• ALEX: Oh, liar! Liar! He's lying! He totally likes her!
• REN: What--Alex, c'mon, what are you doing?
• CLARISSA: [chuckle] I knew it! You could CONTENT MISSING

NEVERMIND. I'M KIDDING.

HE TOLD ME HE LIKED HER!

• ALEX: He--you told me you liked her! Why'd you even try to cover--you knew I knew, I'm standing right here!
• REN: Because I asked you to be cool about it, and now you're being, like... whatever the complete opposite of cool is! Hot! But in a bad way!
• CLARISSA: Alright, Alex, you get first blood. Slap him like he stole something.
• REN: I can't believe this is happening.
• NONA: This really doesn't--

EH... I'LL PASS.

YAY!

• REN: Ow!
• ALEX: [laughs]
• CLARISSA: [laughs]
• JONAS: [laughs] Jeez, I didn't think you had it in you.
• REN: Yeah, she's full of surprises.

PRETTY HARSH, CLARISSA.

• ALEX: Let's ease off the throttle for the next one, okay, Clarissa?
• NONA: Yeah.
• CLARISSA: What? This game isn't any fun if you don't get a stomach ache.

OKAY, MOVING ON.

• ALEX: Alright. Great! Let's just move on.

• JONAS: Okay, it's Ren's turn, right? He gets to ask somebody something?
• REN: Alex, Alex, Alex!
• JONAS: [chuckle] Uh oh.
• CLARISSA: [laughter]
• REN: I just have to think about which nerve I want to so delicately pinch.

LAY IT ON ME.

ALEX: Oh please. Shoot, I can take it.

I DON'T WANNA PLAY...

TAKE IT EASY.

• ALEX: Okay. Uh, just... take it easy? Alright? ...'tis all in good fun..?
• CLARISSA: Hey! No partnering up to be pansies!
• REN: Silence!

• REN: Okay. Marry, Screw, Kill... me, Nona, and Clarissa!
• CLARISSA: What?!
• NONA: Why?!
• REN: It's fun! It's funny, I dunno!
• REN: And Jonas is family now, technically. So, he's excluded.

FIRST, I'D MARRY NONA.

• ALEX: Well..? I'd marry Nona... I like the quiet types.
• NONA: I'm flattered. I think.
• REN: [chuckle] Okay, you're going down the line.
• REN: Who'd you do the dirty with?

I'D SCREW REN.

• ALEX: I'd do Ren. We know each other the best, so it'd be... like, less weird? And you're in a band.
• REN: Yeah! I knew those bass lessons would come in handy!
• REN: Which, of course means that you'd strangle Clarissa in her sleep if you ever got the chance.
• CLARISSA: What a shocker.
• REN: [laughter]

SORRY...

• ALEX: Oh yeah... sorry, it just worked out that way, I swear!
• CLARISSA: Yes, I mean, why would you have any control over the words and thoughts coming out of our face?
• REN: Hey now, you can't control a sneeze. And I think this falls more in the realm of bodily function!

SHE GOT WHAT WAS COMING.

• ALEX: Eh, she got what was coming to her.
• REN: Yeah, I mean, you did shove her into the community pool in sixth grade.
• CLARISSA: I did, didn't I? I was a hilarious kid.

I'D SCREW CLARISSA.

• ALEX: Clarissa, obviously.
• REN: [laughter] Obviously. You're not gonna call her out on that?
• CLARISSA: No, I believe her. I mean, look at me.
• REN: And wait--wait that means you'd kill me?
• REN: Out of everyone here!
• REN: Your best friend!

SORRY...

YOU ASKED!

• ALEX: Hey, you wanted to know!

• REN: And I'm the only guy! This is misandry! Misandry, I say!
• JONAS: Okay, settle down.

I'D MARRY CLARISSA.

I'D MARRY REN.

• ALEX: Well, I think I'd marry you, actually. We know each other the best, so... not a lot of surprises there.
• REN: Perfect! Stay-at-home husband.
• REN: [chuckle] Okay, you're going down the line.
• REN: Who'd you do the dirty with?

I'D SCREW CLARISSA.

I'D SCREW NONA.

• ALEX: Nona. She seems like she'd be present and giving, unlike some people here.
• REN: Hey! I'm present! I wouldn't lose my place or nothing, scout's honor.
• CLARISSA: Ugh, god, this is such a horrible turn.
• REN: Which, of course means that you'd strangle Clarissa in her sleep if you ever got the chance.
• CLARISSA: What a shocker.
• REN: [laughter]

SORRY...

• ALEX: Oh yeah... sorry, it just worked out that way, I swear!
• CLARISSA: Yes, I mean, why would you have any control over the words and thoughts coming out of your face?
• REN: Hey now, you can't control a sneeze. And I think this falls more in the realm of bodily function!

SHE GOT WHAT WAS COMING.

• ALEX: Eh, she got what was coming to her.
• REN: Yeah, I mean, you did shove her into the community pool in sixth grade.
• CLARISSA: I did, didn't I? I was a hilarious kid.

• JONAS: So... Alex's turn?
• REN: Yep. Lady's choice. Alex gets to pick who to ask something of.
• CLARISSA: Oh, great. Here we go.
• CLARISSA: "What's your favorite stuffed animal?"
• CLARISSA: "Professor Snodgrass the Platypus Man."

NONA.

• ALEX: Um, Nona!
• NONA: [chuckle] Yes?
• REN: Alright, let's make, uh... make it something, uh... fun and easy now.

DO YOU LIKE REN?

UH, EVER PEE IN A POOL?

• ALEX: Ever, uh... pee in a swimming pool..?
• NONA: Ugh! No!
• CLARISSA: Super question! You're like an investigative journalist or something.

EVER MAD AT CLARISSA?

• ALEX: So, does Clarissa ever do anything that just, like, really annoys the crap out of you?
• REN: [laughter]
• CLARISSA: Think carefully now.
• NONA: Um... you sometimes tap your nails on things when you're, uh, bored.
• REN: [laughter]
• CLARISSA: What?! I barely do that!

THAT'S IT?

• ALEX: What, that's it?! C'mon! Didn't she get to like second base with your cousin or something?
• NONA: Hey!
• CLARISSA: He kissed me on the cheek when he was six, on the swings.
• REN: That counts!

HA!

• JONAS: Um... Nona, you're up?
• NONA: Oh! Uh... Clarissa. If you had to get a tattoo, what would it be?
• CLARISSA: Hmm...
• REN: A chick riding a motorcycle on fire.
• CLARISSA: She didn't ask you.

A DOLPHIN, RIGHT?

A BLACK SPOT. LIKE A MOLE.

SOMETHING EVIL.

• ALEX: A better question would be, "What would she get when the artist refused to draw two dogs eating a dead baby on her forehead?"

• CLARISSA: I'd get like... a little ampersand on my ring finger. I think I actually am gonna get that after I move out, so my parents can't say no.
• NONA: Neat.

JONAS.

• ALEX:Uhhh, Jonas.
• JONAS: [nervous laughter] Yeah?

EVER BEEN TO JAIL?

HAPPY WE'RE SIBLINGS?

LIKE OUR TOWN?

• ALEX: What do you honestly think about moving here?
• JONAS: [chuckle] Um, I like it, honestly. People seem nice? I mean, Camena's a crapload better than Westedge.
• REN: Is that where you're from?
• JONAS: Yeah, it's... less than great.

THANKS!

WHAT'S WRONG WITH WESTEDGE

• ALEX: What didn't you like about your hometown?
• JONAS: Everybody's a farmer or a banker, and... nobody did well in anything anyways, so it didn't even matter.
• REN: Just like here, except for the farming and the banking. And I guess the third one, too.

CAMENA'S NOT THAT GREAT.

• JONAS: Is it my question now, then?
• NONA: Yyyep.
• JONAS: Okay... Clarissa, um... last person you made out with.
• NONA: Oh. Uh...
• NONA: Maybe something else..?
• REN: Or, yeah, maybe... who's the last person you, uh, hugged? Instead?

WHAT'S WRONG?

• ALEX: What's the matter? It's an honest question.

THIS SHOULD BE GOOD.

• CLARISSA: Oh will you all relax? I've made out with people since... God!
• CLARISSA: Anyways, um... that would have to be Ryan Fiscer, two weeks ago in Iggy's den.
• NONA: I knew it!
• CLARISSA: Yeah, well, he was there, and I was tired.

CLARISSA.

• ALEX: Clarissa.
• REN: Oh boy.
• CLARISSA: Yes mum?
• JONAS: This is pretty fun just watching, I'll admit.
• REN: Well, wait.

WORST FEAR?

• ALEX: What's your worst fear?
• CLARISSA: That Santa Claus is really coming to town.
• REN: Seriously?
• CLARISSA: Dying with too many regrets, probably? I don't know.
• JONAS: That seems reasonable.

I GET THAT.

• ALEX: I kinda get that, actually.
• CLARISSA: Yeah, we're practically sisters. I can feel it.

OPINION OF ME?

HAVE A CRUSH ON ANYONE

• ALEX: Do you... like anyone? Like... like like anyone?
• CLARISSA: There's no one in school worth liking now.
• REN: C'mon!
• JONAS: Ouch.
• CLARISSA: So, no, I don't. But nice try!

• NONA: Clarissa's turn now.
• CLARISSA: Alex... you got a new brother. Pretty exciting.
• CLARISSA: I'm sure Jonas is excited? Or maybe... "excited" isn't the right word. Maybe a little overwhelmed with just everything, you know? Unsure...?
• CLARISSA: It's a lot to take in and adjust to.
• JONAS: I'm, um, fine with it, really.
• CLARISSA: Well, as fine as you can be, anyway, right?

HE SEEMS OKAY.

IS THERE A QUESTION HERE?

• ALEX: Is there, like, a question coming or what?

WHAT'S YOUR POINT?

• ALEX: What's your point, Clarissa?

• CLARISSA: I'm just saying what Jonas is already thinking, that statistics show if you get divorced once, you're probably gonna get divorced again.
• CLARISSA: Aaand the fact is your mom divorced your dad, so...
• CLARISSA: Let's put his mind at ease and hear why.
• JONAS: I don't--I don't really need to know the situation before. It's none of my business.

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

• ALEX: What are you talking about? What is this even... what does this have to do with anything?
• CLARISSA: Why'd your parents get a divorce?

GET TO THE POINT.

• ALEX: Okay, just... get to whatever point this is getting to.
• CLARISSA: The point, is... why'd your parents get a divorce?

THAT DOESN'T MATTER

• ALEX: Clarissa. Jonas is fine. He's not a scared puppy, none of that matters.
• CLARISSA: Well, let's hear why your parents got a divorce in the first place and we'll see if it matters.

• CLARISSA: Just so Jonas can hear it from you.
• JONAS: Clarissa, I don't really care why they got a divorce, just that Alex's mom is happy now.
• CLARISSA: But how can we be sure unless you know why.

[TRUTH] MY BROTHER DIED.

• ALEX: You know why. Michael... died and it broke everything and they couldn't handle it, the end.
• CLARISSA: Well, now you know, Jonas. Don't die and everything will be fine.
• REN: Okay, Clarissa, you--
• CLARISSA: What?
• JONAS: You guys, honestly, I think I'm pretty much ready to do anything else besides this game.

THIS ISN'T FAIR.

• ALEX: This isn't fair, like, at all.
• CLARISSA: Of course it's "fair!" Why'd your parents get divorced? I know you know why.

[TRUTH] MY BROTHER DIED.

• ALEX: My brother Michael died and it broke everything, and they couldn't handle it. The end.
• CLARISSA: Well, now you know, Jonas. Don't die and everything will be fine.
• REN: Okay, Clarissa, you--
• CLARISSA: What?
• JONAS: You guys, honestly, I think I'm pretty much ready to do anything else besides this game.

GO TO HELL.

• ALEX: Go to hell. That's my answer. Happy?
• CLARISSA: Yeah, I won the turn, of course I'm happy.
• JONAS: Alright, you know what? Let's just stop the game, okay? I think everyone's ready to do something else.

I QUIT.

THEY HAD... ISSUES.

• ALEX: [sigh] They had... it was just issues, like any other marriage, and they just couldn't get past theirs.
• CLARISSA: That's complete crap, I know you know why, specifically why, just come out with it.

[TRUTH] MY BROTHER DIED.

GO TO HELL.

• ALEX: Go to hell. That's my answer. Happy?
• CLARISSA: Yeah, I won the turn, of course I'm happy.
• JONAS: Alright, you know what? Let's just stop the game, okay? I think everyone's ready to do something else.

. . . . . . . . .

• CLARISSA: Silence counts as a lie, Alex.

[TRUTH] MY BROTHER DIED.

• ALEX: My brother Michael died and it broke everything, and they couldn't handle it. The end.
• CLARISSA: Well, now you know, Jonas. Don't die and everything will be fine.
• REN: Okay, Clarissa, you--
• CLARISSA: What?
• JONAS: You guys, honestly, I think I'm pretty much ready to do anything else besides this game.

THEY HAD... ISSUES.

• ALEX: [sigh] They had... it was just issues, like any other marriage, and they just couldn't get past theirs.
• CLARISSA: That's complete crap, I know you know why, specifically why, just come out with it.

[TRUTH] MY BROTHER DIED.

GO TO HELL.

• ALEX: Go to hell. That's my answer. Happy?
• CLARISSA: Yeah, I won the turn, of course I'm happy.
• JONAS: Alright, you know what? Let's just stop the game, okay? I think everyone's ready to do something else.

I QUIT.

• REN: Wait, let's--let's not stop like this! We should, like--
• CLARISSA: Game's over, Ren. I won! And to celebrate, I'm gonna sit on the beach and drink and maybe, if I'm feeling spicy, even take a nap.
• NONA: Maybe we could--
• CLARISSA: And that's exactly what Nona's gonna do, too.

WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM?

• ALEX: Man, what is your problem, Clarissa? Just what did we--what did I do to make you act like I ate the last piece of chocolate cake on your flippin' birthday?
• CLARISSA: Nothing, Alex. You did absolutely nothing.

FINE. BE THAT WAY.

• ALEX: Fine. Whatever, be Miss Pouty on the beach all night if you want, I'm not gonna let you ruin this for me.
• CLARISSA: I appreciate your permission to be pouty. Thank you.

YOU ARE SO ANNOYING.

• ALEX: Oh my god, you are annoying.
• CLARISSA: This isn't me being annoying, this is me being tired. There's a difference.

• NONA: Cheese!
• CLARISSA: If you guys and your scavenger hunt or playing ring around the rosey happen to find anything more interesting than a slowly dying starfish? You be sure to just let me know.
• JONAS: Super.

WE WON'T.

• ALEX: Uh, if we find anything more interesting than that, I think we'll be too involved in our own fun to come get you.
• CLARISSA: Well, wouldn't you know it, that's just fine by me.

WHATEVER.

• ALEX: [sigh] Whatever.

SURE THING!

• ALEX: CONTENT MISSING

• REN: Well I wanna inaugurate this bitch by checking out the caves. Nona! Wanna come?
• NONA: Uh... I mean, I would, but--
• CLARISSA: I'm very clingy, Ren.
• REN: [sigh] Fine. Jonas, you're a strapping young lad. Help boost me over the fence. The cave's just, uh, yonder.
• JONAS: And I guess you expect me to just jump over after?
• REN: Well like I said, you're a strapping young lad.
• JONAS: Okay, c'mon.
• REN: Where are you from again?
• JONAS: It's a small town near North Valley.
• REN: Oh yeah! Is it nice?
• JONAS: If you like bars on the windows.
• JONAS: Alex, you wanna check out the caves? Or...

MAYBE LATER.

• ALEX: Uh, in a sec, okay?
• JONAS: Yeah, just let me know.

SURE, LET'S DO IT.

• ALEX: Yeah, let's do it. Boost me up?
• JONAS: Yeah, c'mon.
• JONAS: C'mon, I'll push you over.
• JONAS: Whenever you're ready.

• NONA: [chuckle] Oh, oh! I forgot, we never talked about John.
• CLARISSA: Oh, what, their date?
• NONA: Yeah, he, uh... they went to that weird carnival?
• CLARISSA: How'd he even get Jenny out of the house?

JUMP

• JONAS: So... the cave... what's your bet? On a scale of one to ten, how weird's it gonna be?

ONE. NOT WEIRD.

• ALEX: I dunno. A one? Ren's pulled me into a closet to look at a broom he swore looked like Abraham Lincoln, so... adjust your expectations accordingly.

TEN. SUPER WEIRD.

• ALEX: It's Ren, so definitely ten. He gets excited easily, but... he has the concentration of a goldfish.
• ALEX: The fact that he keeps demanding we see it must mean something.

FIVE. WEIRD ENOUGH.

• ALEX: Hmm... probably a five? Weird enough to remember, but... not weird enough to tell anybody about it after.

• JONAS: [chuckle] Alright.
• REN: Hey. Clarissa seems to be her normal, annnoying self. Sorry about that.

IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT.

• ALEX: Eh, it's not your fault.
• ALEX: I think somebody dumped pig's blood on her in a previous life, and now she just wants to get ahead of the curve.
• REN: [chuckle] Yeah, probably.

ABOUT NONA...

• ALEX: Yeah... Ren... about Nona...
• REN: What? Did she say anything?
• REN: Because if she said anything you should tell me. Like... word for word.

GO FOR IT.

• ALEX: I think you should go for it.
• REN: Oh yeah?

GIRLS WANNA BE ROMANCED.

• ALEX: And girls like to feel, uh, wanted, you know? We wanna be romanced, we don't wanna play games.
• REN: Oh... alright. I see where your head's at.

WHAT'S HER DEAL?

• ALEX: Yeah, what's her deal anyway?
• REN: I don't know. That woman's perpetually on her period.
• JONAS: Ugh.

HAHA.

• ALEX: [laughter] ...okay.
• REN: It's true! Kind of.

I'M STANDING RIGHT HERE.

If... you don't tell Nona about Ren

• REN: Thanks for, uh... not... ratting me out to Nona during the, uh, the game.
• REN: I didn't think you would, but you know, you could've, and you didn't, so... thanks.

OF COURSE!

• ALEX: Well yeah, I mean, I wouldn't throw you into the deep end, or anything. Not like a certain person who yelled at Andrew Finnegan about a certain junior high dance right in the middle of gym class.
• REN: That was a joke. And he agreed, so, no regrets.

ABOUT NONA...

YOU OWE ME.

• (There is dialogue for tuning into the rocks without any sort of explanation. God damn it.)
• REN: Now. Who's ready to have their minds blown?
• JONAS: If you don't mean that literally...
• JONAS: I am..?

ME!

• ALEX: Me me me!

JUST TELL ME WHAT TO DO.

• ALEX: Just get on with it. What do I do?

WHATEVER.

• ALEX: CONTENT MISSING

• REN: Oh, wait, actually? I almost forgot.
• REN: Gonna take a little magic trip to cupcake town.
• JONAS: Those... look like brownies.
• REN: Brownie town.
• JONAS: No--nevermind, that sounds worse.

DON'T, REN.

• ALEX: C'mon, Ren... the last thing I want is to have to chase your frail, screaming body into the ocean because you want to pet a fish or something.
• REN: What--Jonas is gonna do it, too! Right? Jonas? Mi comida su comida? ^{(Translated: My food is your food?)}
• JONAS: Uhhh, no thanks. I'm with her on the whole... not flipping out and drowning myself thing.
• REN: Okay...

"MAGIC?"

• ALEX: "Magic?" What does that mean?
• REN: It means they're... "enhanced"... with certain... qualities.
• JONAS: Hmm. Well, maybe just don't eat too much...
• REN: No promises!

GIMME ONE.

• REN: Mmm. Delicious.
• REN: Okay so, see these little piles of rocks? The kids before us always leave 'em here so you know where to try and tune in the "signals".
• REN: So you're gonna wanna stand basically... right around here.
• REN: And just tune the dial left or right until you hearing some weirdness.
• JONAS: How will we know when it's...
• REN: You'll know. Trust me.

Tuning in...

• JONAS: Holy crap!
• REN: Wow it's even cooler than I thought it would be.
• REN: This is insane.

HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?

• ALEX: How--how is this... how can this be possible?
• REN: Maybe the tuning's, like, unblocking a weather balloon or something?
• JONAS: [chuckle] That doesn't make any sense.
• REN: Well it's just crazy, then, cause I don't know.

IT MUST BE... UH...

• ALEX: It must be... uh... like...
• REN: My running theory has always been like traffic reports from another galaxy, but... you know...

WHAT IS IT?

• REN: If you move around it kind of changes, too... I think. Like... over at this pile... here, come over here and try it.

Tuning in...

• JONAS: This is so cool.
• REN: I know!
• JONAS: Clarissa and Nona should see this, right? I mean--I know it's like weird with you guys or whatever for some reason, but--
• REN: They--they're fine where they are.
• JONAS: Okay, just what is Clarissa's issue with you two?

SHE DATED MY BROTHER.

• ALEX: She dated Michael for five seconds like three years ago.
• REN: It was for a couple of months a year and a half ago.

SHE NEVER LIKED ME!

• ALEX: Whatever! She never liked me, not even then!
• ALEX: I was always the little sister who got in the way, who she had to... climb in through windows to sneak around.

SHE SHOULD GET OVER IT.

• ALEX: She should just seriously get over it already.

SHE'S A MONSTER.

WHO CARES.

• REN: Clarissa's the kind of person who doesn't feel "full" unless she's pissed at somebody, so.
• REN: Oof. Brownies are kicking in... Did that make sense?

YEAH.

• ALEX: Yeah. It did to me.

ARE YOU OKAY?

KIND OF.

• ALEX: Kind of..? I got it.

• REN: Okay good.
• REN: Now, there's another cool spot, I think over here.
• REN: CONTENT MISSING

Tuning in...

• JONAS: God, it sounds... so...
• REN: Yeah, it sounds... uh...

SATANIC.

• ALEX: Satanic.
• REN: Not what I was going to say... but, close enough.

PAINFUL.

• ALEX: It sounds... like, painful.
• JONAS: Yeah.

SCARY.

• ALEX: It's... freaking me out, a little.
• JONAS: Yeah.

• JONAS: Wait, what was that?
• JONAS: There's like... this is gonna sound stupid, but there's, like, something in here.
• REN: Famous last words. Famous last words, I called it.

I SEE IT, TOO!

• ALEX: No, I see it too.

WHAT IS IT?

• ALEX: Uh, yeah... what is that?

• REN: I'm sure there is something in there. Like... a giant rabies-filled bat! Or... a maniac who wears mannequin wigs!
• JONAS: Or, it kinda looks like a pool or something? Like a fresh water one, maybe.
• JONAS: Let's check it out.
• JONAS: It's not that far in.
• REN: [laughter] Oh boy.

NO WAY!

UH... I DON'T KNOW...

• ALEX: Uh... yeah, I have this thing about crawling into strange, dark, wet places that may cave in at any moment.
• JONAS: It's not gonna--c'mon, I can see it from here, it's not that far. We'll be in and out.
• REN: [laughter] In and out.

YEAH WAY!

• ALEX: If it's a pool, that'd be cool. I--um... didn't mean that to rhyme.
• REN: [chuckle] Cool pool.

• JONAS: Fortune favors the bold
• REN: [chuckle] Bye.
• REN: MISSING CONTENT

JONAS! DON'T!

• ALEX: Jonas! Don't!

WAIT FOR ME!

• ALEX: Wait a minute! Jonas!

• REN: Well, I am... going to just rest against here! Because I think... shhh... I think I mismeasured the magic...

YOU MEAN BROWNIE?

• ALEX: I think you mean "brownie".
• REN: I think you mean... uh, yeah.

JUST REST.

HELP ME GET JONAS!

• ALEX: No, c'mon, get up, help me get Jonas before he hurts himself.
• REN: Uhhh... I don't think I can really... do anything right now, uh, at least for a few hours.

WHAT.

HOURS?!

• ALEX: Hours?!
• REN: Ya know. The stuff?
• ALEX: [sigh]

10 PM - The Cave

JONAS!

• ALEX: Jonas... Jonas?

COME BACK!

WHERE ARE YOU!

• ALEX: Jonas, where are you?

...

JONAS, SERIOUSLY!

• ALEX: Jonas, seriously, where are you?

I'M GONNA KILL YOU!

• ALEX: Errghgh, Jonas! Gonna friggin' kill you for this!

ARE YOU OKAY?

• ALEX: Jonas, are you alright?! Shout if you're, like, bleeding or something!

...

DIDN'T YOU HEAR ME CALL?

• ALEX: Didn't you hear me calling for you?

ARE YOU OKAY?

• ALEX: Are you okay?

WHY DID YOU RUN OFF?

• JONAS: Gah! Jesus, you scared me.
• (Alternate version if you don't say anything: Jesus, you scared me.

YOU SCARED ME!

• ALEX: Oh, I scared you? You scared me! I had no idea where you were.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

• ALEX: What are you even doing?

• JONAS: I'm sorry for going ahead. I thought--I thought I heard somebody down here, but you know... obviously there isn't.
• JONAS: But isn't this place incredible?
• JONAS: I mean, I don't even know how this... how this happens.
• JONAS: It's crazy.

IT'S BEAUTIFUL.

• ALEX: No, it's, uh... it's beautiful.

CAN WE JUST GO?

• ALEX: Yeah, sure, it's amazing, can we just like go now?
• JONAS: Wait wait wait. Gimme a second.

IT'S CREEPING ME OUT.

• JONAS: See? That's what I heard. It sounds like a person almost, right?
• JONAS: Kinda?
• JONAS: I don't know where it's coming from.

LET'S GET OUT OF HERE.

• ALEX: Okay, at this point, if we stay we're just idiots, right? We're just the horror movie morons the audience screams at to leave.
• JONAS: [chuckle] No... Maybe.

WHAT COULD IT BE?

• ALEX: What could that be? Echoes? Sounds of the ocean bouncing off the walls?
• JONAS: Beats me, I failed geology.

MAYBE IT IS SOMEONE.

• ALEX: Maybe it is someone, you ever think of that? Maybe it's the crazy guy who lives here and he's gonna eat out our stomachs.
• JONAS: [chuckle] Well, where is he, then? In which of these tiny air holes does he hibernate?

. . . . . . . . .

• JONAS:I guess it stopped.

• JONAS: [sigh] There was a light in here somewhere. I still wanna see what made it.
• JONAS: It must just be further in.
• JONAS: Let's try and find it before we go back.

LET'S GO, PLEASE?

• ALEX: Can we just go, please? I really don't like it here.
• JONAS: Yeah, okay. We can go. Lead the way.

I'M JUST SCARED.

THANK YOU.

• ALEX: [sigh] Thank you.

MY FRIENDS ARE WAITING.

...

• JONAS: Is this... this can't be the way we came in, right?
• JONAS: We must have... double backed the wrong way somehow?
• JONAS: Or...

OH MY GOD.

• ALEX: Oh my god. This is the way we came in.
• JONAS: Alex, c'mon, that's not possible. It's just... wall. Where's the crack we crawled through?
• ALEX: There's no other--this is it, Jonas, this is the way--if it's not here, then where, we didn't miss it!
• JONAS: I don't know where it is! I have no idea!
• JONAS: Let's just go back the other way. We got in, there has to be a way out.

NO THERE DOESN'T.

• ALEX: No, there really doesn't.

SURE.

WE'RE TRAPPED!

THERE'S AN EXPLANATION...

• JONAS: Just don't think... about... things.
• ALEX: [sigh]

YEAH, WHY NOT.

• ALEX: Well, seeing as how I crawled in here to get you, might as well make the most of it.
• JONAS: Yeah. And I mean, look... if it's cool, we can get the others, and if it's not, we'll just leave.

• JONAS: Wha--wow, how is that... did--did you see the floating, um, triangle light thing?

YES...

• ALEX: Um... yes.

WHERE?

• ALEX: No... where?
• JONAS: It's like in the... the air? Right there?

• JONAS: It must be like a... like a rainbow or, like a... reflection of light?
• JONAS: Those, um... exist, right?
• JONAS: Um, cave... triangle rainbows?

LET'S GO WITH THAT.

• ALEX: Sure, why not? Let's go with that for the time being.

DOESN'T LOOK LIKE IT...

• ALEX: It doesn't really look like a trick of light, Jonas. It looks like someone's science fair project just floating there.

UHHH, POSSIBLY?

• JONAS: I think this is all tied in to when you tuned in to those weird signals out there in the um... what am I trying to say--uh, I think that you tuned in this little guy somehow.
• JONAS: I think it's all the same thing.

COOL!

YOU THINK SO?

• ALEX: Really? Ya think?
• JONAS: Definitely.

NO WAY.

• JONAS: Try your radio. Maybe that's like a frequency or something.
• JONAS: Like, if it'll have an effect.

MAYBE LATER...

• ALEX: Maybe, uh... later
• JONAS: C'mon! Let's do it now.
• JONAS: Seriously, we're right here.

I WANNA LOOK AROUND FIRST.

• ALEX: Well, I wanna check some of this stuff out first. The glowing thing isn't going anywhere.

FINE.

GOOD IDEA!

• ALEX: Yeah, good idea. Maybe it'll dance or twitch or something.

• JONAS: Let's do it, c'mon. Radio time.
• JONAS: Alex, really. I wanna see what it's gonna do.

Tuning in...

• JONAS: Oh my God.
• JONAS: Is this--are you--is this--you? Are you doing this?

I THINK!

SHOULD I STOP?

• ALEX: Should--should I stop?
• JONAS: No! This is awesome!

YEAH!

Tuning in...

• JONAS: I can't even--like... what is... what's..?!

SHUT UP!

IS IT?

I KNOW!

• ALEX: I know, I--I know!

Tuning in...

WHAT THE HELL...

• ALEX: What... the...

JONAS...

• ALEX: Jonas..?

• THE SUNKEN: Hello. Dear. Tell everyone. Hello.

HELLO.

• ALEX: Uh... hello.

HELLO?

• ALEX: Uh... hello.

HI?

• ALEX: Uh... hi?

• THE SUNKEN: Sleepy. Time. Gal. Everything. Fine. Hope. Things. There. Same. Don't. Know. If. Leave Is Possible.
• JONAS: This... is insane.

WHAT?

• ALEX: What? Um, what are you--

WHO ARE YOU?

• ALEX: Uh, who... are--are you... who are you on the..?

I DON'T KNOW...

• THE SUNKEN: Listen. Bob tail. Shave tail. Sleepy. Time gal.
• THE SUNKEN: Is. Leave. Possible.

UH, SURE.

• ALEX: Um... yeah, sure, leave possible

MAYBE..?

• ALEX: Um... maybe..? But... I don't really...

I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN.

• ALEX: I...I--I don't know what you mean, so, I can't...

• THE SUNKEN: Bob tail. Leave. Children. My. Mothers. Will see them. Soon.
• JONAS: Alex!

JONAS!

AHHHHH!

• ALEX: Ahhhhhh!

WHAT'S HAPPENING!

• ALEX: What's--!

11 PM - Harden Tower ^{(This needs a lot of work... the phone call is horrible.)}

• JONAS: Alex! Alex!
• JONAS: Alex? Are you okay?
• JONAS: You alright?
• JONAS: I thought you were dead for a minute.

I'M FINE.

• ALEX: [sigh] I'm, uh... I'm fine. God...
• JONAS: You sure?

NO.

• ALEX: Not... um, really.

AS SURE AS I'M GONNA BE.

WHAT HAPPENED

• ALEX: Ugh... What happened?
• JONAS: That... is a very good question.

I THINK SO...

• ALEX: I... [sigh] think so? I don't know. God...

DO I LOOK ALRIGHT?

YOU OKAY?

• ALEX: [sigh] Are you okay?
• JONAS: Yeah, I think.

• JONAS: Look, I'm just gonna cut to the whatever--like, I don't know what exactly happpened back there.
• JONAS: But the sign says that's an old communications tower and I don't know about you, but I wanna climb that ladder, call somebody, and get the hell back home as fast as possible.
• JONAS: I don't want to be the party pooper here...
• JONAS: ...but the party just kinda... pooped itself.

BUT THIS IS EXCITING!

• ALEX: I dunno, this is kind of exciting... right?
• JONAS: Exciting? Alex, we don't--to think something's exciting, you kinda have to know what that something is first.
• JONAS: And we just got crapped out of the laser light show from hell, so...

YEAH, LET'S FIND OUT.

I GUESS YOU'RE RIGHT...

YOU BIG BABY.

• ALEX: Oh, c'mon, are you scared? Is that is? Ya scared?
• JONAS: Yeah, I'm scared, so far as I don't want to get hurt, or killed, and I don't want my new sister to get hurt or killed either!
• JONAS: Let's live to regret this, okay?

OKAY, FINE.

CHICKEN.

• ALEX: [the absolute worst chicken sounds you've ever heard, like, worse than The Room.]
• JONAS: That's more of a rooster, but I get it, I'm a chicken, thanks.

WAY AHEAD OF YOU.

• ALEX: No, I'm... way ahead of you. There's got to be some kind of emergency station, or way to get out without taking the ferry.

NOT WITHOUT MY FRIENDS!

• ALEX: We can't leave without my friends, okay?
• JONAS: Your--[sigh] Ren, sure, but does that list really include Clarissa?
• JONAS: I'm not saying leave her, but...
• JONAS: I just wanna get this whole escape thing moving.

SHE'S MY FRIEND.

MAYBE NOT CLARISSA...

WE CAN'T LEAVE ANYBODY.

• ALEX: We can't leave anybody behind. They're here somewhere, this is not--this is not a thing.
• JONAS: Okay, okay.

• JONAS: Oh, and not for nothing, I'm fine with a depantsing or whatever if the weather's right for it, but if this is some sort of prank or trick..?
• JONAS: I'm really, really not in the mood.
• JONAS: So... if it is, the time CONTENT MISSING

IT'S NOT A PRANK!

• ALEX: Jonas, what--you think I somehow teleported us here?
• ALEX: If I could do one-tenth of what happened back there, I wouldn't haze the new kid, I'd rob a bank!
• JONAS: Maybe that's your Wednesday.

I WOULDN'T DO THAT TO YOU.

I'M FREAKED OUT TOO!

• ALEX: Christ, I'm as freaked out as you are, Jonas, alright? I have a... splitting headache, and like... I feel like my fingernails are gonna shoot out of my hands.
• JONAS: Mine too.

• JONAS: Just cross your fingers the comm tower has a working walkie talkie or something.

CAN WE TALK ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED?

IT PROBABLY WON'T!

• ALEX: Any equipment it'll have will be like... eighty years old. I don't know if I trust that.
• JONAS: Even if it doesn't work, maybe we can get reception on our phones or something.
• JONAS: But it's right here, and I wanna try it.

WHERE'S EVERYONE ELSE?

• ALEX: Where's everyone else..? Ren, and Clarissa...
• JONAS: [sigh] I have no idea. I don't know if they even know that anything happened.

GENERATOR

• ALEX: The fence should be off now.
• JONAS: Great. But, um... don't take offense if I want to throw a stick at it first.

I WILL TAKE OFFENSE.

• ALEX: Well, I will and have taken offense at your not believing in my ability at flipping switches.

DON'T YOU TRUST ME?

• ALEX: C'mon, don't you trust me? The light turned off.
• JONAS: I trust you to, like, not hurt me on purpose or anything, but, you know, if the fence kills me on accident, it's not really about trust at that point.
• ALEX: [sigh]

• ALEX: Aah!
• JONAS: Aah! Jesus!

Phone

HELLO?

• ALEX: ...hello?
• REN: Alex?
• REN: Alex? Is that you?

REN?

• ALEX: Ren?!

YEAH. IT'S ME.

• ALEX: Yeah, it's me.

• REN: Oh, Jesus hoppin' Christ, thank Vishnu, I--you guys went into that hole and a bunch of stuff--I have no idea what happened, I just woke up like fifteen minutes ago.
• REN: I--I saw the light on in the, uh, the tower thing.
• REN: Hey did you know that it's named after after some guy named Dick Harden?
• JONAS: [stifles laughter]
• JONAS: It's still funny...
• (Alternatively: Really?

HOW ARE YOU CALLING US?

• ALEX: Ren, how are you calling us? Phones don't work here.
• REN: It's--it's a code, written on this... list here. But it's not a normal phone, I can't call out. I'm at, uh, the way station or whatever in the woods.
• REN: It's been like--like, just the worst thing ever. Just, Def Con Fushcia level terrible ever since you went into the cave.
• REN: Like, worse CONTENT MISSING

HOW'D YOU GET THERE?

• ALEX: Why--how did you get all the way out there? Did you just take off sprinting when I went after Jonas?
• REN: No, like I said, I must've, like, passed out or... I don't know how I ended up here!

ARE YOU OKAY?

• ALEX: Ren, are you alright? Like... phyiscally alright, cause I know mentally you're probably--
• REN: No! I am not alright! I mean, do I sound alright or do I sound not alright? I probably sound not alright, right?

JUST CALM DOWN.

• ALEX: Ren, just... calm down, okay? Breathe in through your mouth and out through your nose.
• REN: It's the other way around!

• JONAS: Wait, I--I--I think that's the other line.
• JONAS: Maybe it's like a night watchman or something, or they do like... check-ins maybe?

HOLD ON, REN. [SWITCH OVER]

• ALEX: Wait, Ren? Someone's calling on the other line. Just... hold on a minute. I'm gonna see who it is.
• REN: Okay, but make it quick, seriously.
• ALEX: Hello?
• CLARISSA: Oh Jesus Christ, Alex?! Why are you answering an--this, it says it's an emergency line, where are you right now?
• JONAS: Clarissa?
• CLARISSA: And Jonas is with you, of course he is.

WHERE ARE YOU?

• ALEX: I'm in the comm tower, Clarissa. Where are you?
• CLARISSA: I... I don't know, I'm somewhere in Fort Milner? I don't know why, I--I don't remember like the last hour.

GOODBYE, CLARISSA! [SWITCH OVER]

REN'S ON THE OTHER LINE

• ALEX: Okay, look, Clarissa. Ren's on the other line and sounding like he's about a stubbed toe from a total collapse, so if you're at least holding it together, then--
• CLARISSA: Wait wait wait, I... I'm at Fort Milner and I can't--I don't remember like the last hour and it's like, really scaring the crap out of me.
• CLARISSA: I'm trying to call somebody, but... I'm in a room with radio stuff that can--it says it can contact Camena but I don't--I have no idea how to make it work.

• CLARISSA: I'm trying to call somebody, but... I'm in a room with radio stuff that can--it says it can contact Camena but I don't--I have no idea how to make it work.
• CLARISSA: Can you just come over here and figure this out with me?
• CLARISSA: I don't care if you guys wanna stay, I just wanna get out of here.

WE'RE ON OUR WAY!

• ALEX: Yeah, sure, we'll be over there in a minute.
• CLARISSA: Okay, just... hurry, okay? There's, like... I dunno, I'm hearing stuff outside.

REN NEEDS MY HELP. [SWITCH OVER]

MEET US HERE INSTEAD.

• ALEX: No, just--come here instead. Fort Milner's all the way on the other side of the island.
• CLARISSA: Yeah, I know it is, Alex, but why would I go to the comm tower when there's a working radio that we can use to get help here?

• JONAS: Fort Milner looked huge on the map, do you know where the--
• JONAS: And it dies, ladies and gentlemen.
• JONAS: CONTENT MISSING

MAYBE REN'S STILL ON THE LINE?

• ALEX: Ren, are you still there?
• JONAS: Yeah. I guess that'd be too easy.

LOST THE CONNECTION?

• ALEX: I guess we... lost the connection? Somehow?
• JONAS: Yeah, that, or the triangle being we let in from space are eating her soul right now.

DON'T SAY THAT.

• ALEX: Please don't talk like that while I still have a lingering shred of composure.
• JONAS: Alright.

WE CAN ONLY HOPE.

• THERE'S SO MUCH TO FACTOR IN HERE SO I'M SKIPPING AHEAD LOL

• JONAS: So, wanna truck over to Milner first? See about that radio?
• JONAS: I mean, Clarissa can be a handful, but...
• JONAS: Gotta take the bitter with the sweet.

YEAH, LET'S DO IT.

REN SOUNDED BAD, THOUGH.

• ALEX: Ren sounded kinda... more out of sorts than usual? [sigh] I don't know.

• JONAS: Look, I'm gonna leave it up to you.
• JONAS: We can swing through the forest and nab Ren, or we can go to the fort and see what Clarissa's up to.
• JONAS: They're your people.
• JONAS: You can decide.

REN IN THE WOODS.

• ALEX: Ren needs us more. And he'd kill me if he knew we to see Clarissa first.
• JONAS: Sound logic.

CLARISSA IN MILNER.

. . . . . . . . .

• JONAS: Nobody wants to stay, Clarissa, but... you know that the radio works?
• CLARISSA: Yeah, how the hell do you think I called you guys?! I just can't--there's like a way or something to connect outside, but I'm not good with this stuff.

• JONAS: Fort Milner looked huge on the map, do you know where the--
• JONAS: And it dies, ladies and gentlemen.
• JONAS: It's like the CONTENT MISSING

MAYBE REN'S STILL ON THE LINE?

• ALEX: Ren, are you still there?
• JONAS: Yeah. I guess that'd be too easy.

• JONAS: So, wanna truck over to Milner first? See about that radio?
• JONAS: I mean, Clarissa can be a handful, but...
• JONAS: Gotta take the bitter with the sweet.

YEAH, LET'S DO IT.

• Uh, yeah. If we can connect to the mainland and get somebody over here, we should do it as soon as we can.
• JONAS: My thoughts exactly.

REN SOUNDED BAD, THOUGH.

• ALEX: Ren sounded kinda... more out of sorts than usual? [sigh] I don't know.

I'LL IGNORE IT.

IT'S BEEN A ROUGH NIGHT...

• ALEX: Ren, just... it's been a rough night, you know?
• JONAS: How'd you get this number?

HELLLPPP!

COMM TOWER SPEAKING.

• ALEX: Communications tower.

• (This is... skipped somehow, and left up to the choice in the previous version of picking. Hm.)
• JONAS: Look, I'm gonna leave it up to you.
• JONAS: We can swing through the forest and nab Ren, or we can go to the fort and see what Clarissa's up to.
• JONAS: They're your people.
• JONAS: You can decide.

REN IN THE WOODS.

• ALEX: Ren needs us more. And he'd kill me if he knew we to see Clarissa first.
• JONAS: Sound logic.

CLARISSA IN MILNER.

• JONAS: Alright, our rescuing duties have officially commenced. Let's get this done and off this rock like... the badasses we are.

WE ARE BADASSES.

• ALEX: Yeah. Righteous.

WE'RE NOT THAT BADASS.

• ALEX: We're just gonna walk through what amounts to a park to pick up some frightened children, Jonas. Don't get ahead of yourself.
• JONAS: Act as it. That's all I'm gonna say, act as if.

Epiphany Field

HOW ARE YOU DOING?

• ALEX: How are you... uh, doing?
• JONAS: Uh, fine, I guess. Why?

STUFF IS CRAZY, THAT'S WHY.

• ALEX: Uh, cause everything's crazy? You know? So, just making sure your shoes are still on their feet.
• JONAS: They are, they are.
• JONAS: How are you?

I'D BE BETTER.

• ALEX: Uh... could be better, but... we'll get through this and onto... bigger and better?

WHAT DO YOU THINK IS GOING ON?

• ALEX: So. Just curious, but um... what's your running theory?
• JONAS: Well, you played with the radio, a triangle came out, the triangle talked, hung out a little, then drowned us but not, and now we're here.

PRETTY LITERAL, THERE.

• ALEX: Yyyep. That... Those were the events.

AND WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?

• ALEX: Yeah, okay, but what does it all mean?
• JONAS: That's between you and your priest.

• JONAS: Good talk.

12 AM - Towhee Woods

• JONAS: I, um, didn't realize just how much woods there were.
• JONAS: This is, like, a... like a geniune forest.
• JONAS: With, like trees.

WANNA TURN BACK?

• ALEX: Wanna turn around?
• JONAS: No, no, I'm just saying, this is like... it's pretty sprawling, that's all.

HAHA. "SPRAWLING."

WE JUST STARTED...

• ALEX: This is, like, only the front door. Just wait.
• JONAS: Yeah, I thought it was just gonna be a park or something.

NOT OUTDOORSY?

• ALEX: What's the matter? Not the outdoorsy type?
• JONAS: Well if it's in a city with concrete and a little open-all-night pancake place, then yeah, I'm outdoorsy, in that I'm outdoors.

IT STRETCHES FOR MILES.

• ALEX: Yeah, it's, like, what, twenty square miles or something--it's like, half the island.
• JONAS: Yeah, I thought it was just gonna be a park or something.

THERE IS A PARK.

• ALEX: There is a park, but it's part of the woods.

WE JUST STARTED.

• JONAS: But I just wanna make sure, you know, that... we know where we're going?
• JONAS: ...we do know where we're going, right?

OF COURSE!

• ALEX: Yeah, of course!
• ALEX: It's just over the river and through the wood. Like the song.
• JONAS: Yyyeah, but in the song, the horse knew the way to carry the sleigh.
• JONAS: Through the white and whatever snow.
• JONAS: I think.

WHAT'S YOUR POINT.

YES, I'M THE HORSE.

• ALEX: Yeah, and in this particular scenario, I am the noble steed who will lead us merrily to grandmother's house.
• JONAS: And grandmother being...

REN.

• ALEX: Being Ren, right.

DON'T READ INTO IT.

IT'S AN IMPRESSION.

WE'LL BE FINE.

NOT IN THE SLIGHTEST.

...VAUGELY.

• ALEX: Um. Vaguely.

• JONAS: You know, this whole place really creepily reminds me of a park, or woods I guess, near where I used to live.
• JONAS: It's really kinda felt just like this.
• JONAS: It's weird.

PARKS ARE ALL THE SAME.

WHAT WAS IT CALLED?

• ALEX: Oh yeah? What was that one called?
• JONAS: Peabody, I think. I'm trying to remember the sign but like half the letters had fallen off so it spelled "Pea Pork."

• JONAS: My dad was really happy to move here, you know? He said that the schools were safer, less knifings per capita.
• JONAS: I guess he never considered the dangers of... whatever's happening right now.
• JONAS: But, you know...
• JONAS: Everything's got something.

YOUR TOWN SOUNDS HORRIBLE.

THIS IS OUT OF THE ORDINARY.

• ALEX: Yeah. We once had a mall Santa who was kidnapping kids... I think that's been so far the the scariest thing that's happened.
• JONAS: Well... I mean, to be fair, that does sound pretty scary.

Bridge Stand

• JONAS: Um... why is there a cable car here?
• JONAS: Couldn't they have just made, like... just like a normal bridge?
• JONAS: With wood... and slats.
• JONAS: That isn't hung by what looks to be... twine?

IT'S A BRIDGE FERRY.

• ALEX: It's not a cable car, it's a bridge ferry.
• JONAS: Bridge ferry?

IT'S AN ARMY THING.

• ALEX: Yeah, it's like an army thing, or... CONTENT MISSING

KINDA COOL, RIGHT?

• ALEX: Yeah, it's kinda neat, right? It's like going on a gondola ride.

DOESN'T LOOK SAFE...

• ALEX: Yeah, it doesn't really look... safe, does it?

IT'S NEAT!

• ALEX: Yeah, it's kinda neat, right? It's like going on a gondola ride.
• JONAS: I don't know if I'd say it's neat.

• JONAS: It looks... less than welcoming.
• JONAS: Or, at least it doesn't look very inviting.
• JONAS: Or, even on.

I THINK WE HAVE TO.

• ALEX: I dunno, I think we have to.
• JONAS: Oh, c'mon. It's the woods. There has to be like--I dunno, other dirt we can walk on to get to Ren.

REN NEEDS US!

• ALEX: Look, it's a little scary, but Ren needs us, so.
• JONAS: Yeah, yeah, I know, I know.
• JONAS: Alright... well, let's just see if we gotta take the, uh, conveyor... thing.
• JONAS: That's been rotting here since the invention of ovens.

MAYBE THERE'S ANOTHER WAY?

• ALEX: Maybe there's another way?
• JONAS: There has to be. I mean, it's the woods. There's no way to begin with. We make our own.

EXCEPT FOR THE GIANT PIT...

• ALEX: Well... yeah, Jonas, except for when there's a chasm.
• JONAS: Alright... well, let's just see if we gotta take the, uh, conveyor... thing.
• JONAS: That's been rotting here since the invention of ovens.

DOOR

• ALEX: "Power transfer station one six seven."
• JONAS: Okay, that's... a little strange.
• JONAS: Why wouldn't they lock it?
• JONAS: I mean, somebody should have locked it...?
• JONAS: Right?

NO NEED?

• ALEX: Uh, maybe there's no need? Like, there's nothing here to steal... or something?
• JONAS: Alright, I'll go with that, just cause... what else am I gonna do?

MONSTERS?

• ALEX: I dunno. Monsters?
• JONAS: Just monsters? That's your answer?

YEP.

• ALEX: For now.

THEY FORGOT?

• ALEX: Maybe the... guy in charge of the forest closet forgot?
• JONAS: Maybe. Or he's dead.

DON'T SAY THAT.

MAYBE.

• ALEX: Yeah. Maybe.

CIRCUIT BREAKER

• ALEX: I found the circuit breaker.
• JONAS: Wait--like the first thing it says is "beware of overload".
• JONAS: "Do not attempt restart without supervision."
• JONAS: Um...
• JONAS: So I don't know...

THE BRIDGE LOOKS DEAD.

• ALEX: Jonas, the bridge ferry looks pretty well and dead, so... I don't know how we do this without power.

I'LL BE OKAY.

• ALEX: I'll be fine. Just say what I need to do.

YOU'RE SUPERVISING, KINDA.

• ALEX: Terrific, you'll be my supervisor. Supervisor Jonas. So what does it say to do?

• JONAS: Just... let me do it.
• JONAS: That way, if something bad happens...
• JONAS: You know...

I CAN HANDLE IT!

OKAY, THANKS.

• ALEX: Uh, okay. Thanks.
• JONAS: No problem, it's just that you know... kind of your way around here, and you know Ren. If someone were to get electrocuted, it should be me, right?
• JONAS: It makes some kind of circus sense.

TRUE!

YOU'LL BE FINE.

• ALEX: I'm sure you'll be fine.
• JONAS: Alright... um... well, here goes nothing.

THAT'S SWEET, BUT NO.

• ALEX: That's very sweet, really, but. I'm not the type of sister you need to throw your coat on the puddle for, okay?
• JONAS: Okay, it's your barbeque.
• JONAS: If you're going to pull it CONTENT MISSING

MAIN SWITCH

...if Jonas threw the switch,

• JONAS: Uh--what's happening?
• JONAS: Why'd the lights go out?

YOU TELL ME.

I DON'T KNOW...

WHAT'D YOU HIT?

• ALEX: Which flip did you hit?
• JONAS: The only one! There's only one switch, and it's the one that says "Power" or whatever, I dunno why it didn't do what it should've!

...if Alex threw the switch,

• JONAS: Uh... what did you flip?
• JONAS: Cause it kind of did the opposite of what we wanted...

I FLIPPED THE ONLY ONE!

• ALEX: I flipped the--it's the only one, Jonas, what other switch could I even flip?
• JONAS: Well, good point.

DON'T BLAME ME!

• ALEX: Hey, don't play the blame game here. I did what it said. There's only one switch.
• JONAS: Okay CONTENT MISSING

I DON'T KNOW.

• JONAS: The lamp's flickering. Do you think it's like on... backup power now or something?

MIGHT BE.

MAYBE WE BROKE IT.

• ALEX: We might have just broken it. Ever think of that?
• JONAS: I did think of that, but it's not like it's our fault the door slammed shut, so... I dunno.

IT SOUNDS WEIRD, TOO...

• ALEX: It sounds like it's emitting some weird noise, too... right?
• JONAS: Yeah, a little.

• JONAS: For some reason it reminds me of the cave.
• JONAS: Let's just try and get the power on, alright? Everything about this is making my skin crawl.

Tuning in...

• JONAS: That's... that's--God I haven't this in forever. This is something my mom used to--
• JONAS: Aah!
• JONAS: I am so tired of this funhouse bull crap.

...

• JONAS: Uh...
• JONAS: Was that there before..?

NO...

• ALEX: I don't... think so...

THE DOOR OPENING IS WORSE...

WAS IT?

• ALEX: Was it?
• JONAS: I don't think so.

• JONAS: [sigh] What a night, huh?

WHAT A NIGHT.

• ALEX: [sigh] What a night.
• JONAS: Um, what does that mean?

WHAT DO YOU MEAN?

• ALEX: What do you mean "what does that mean?"

YOU SAID IT FIRST!

• ALEX: You said it first.

SORRY ABOUT THIS.

• ALEX: [sigh] Yeah. Sorry about this...
• JONAS: No no, I'm not um, I'm not saying it like it's anyone's fault...
• JONAS: It's nobody's fault.

NOT WHAT I EXPECTED...

• ALEX: [sigh] Yeah. Tonight's... not exactly what I expected.
• JONAS: Um, what does that mean?

WHAT DO YOU MEAN?

• ALEX: What do you mean "what does that mean?"

I'M AGREEING WITH YOU...

• JONAS: I'm just saying, this--this isn't anybody's fault, you know.
• JONAS: It just... happened.
• JONAS: Stuff happens.

IT IS YOUR FAULT.

• ALEX: Except, you know... it is your fault.
• JONAS: Me?
• JONAS: "I think I see a pool in there!" God.
• ALEX: If you hadn't jumped into that hole, like a friggin' badger...
• JONAS: Alright, I concede. This is... partially my fault.

THANK YOU.

YOU'RE RIGHT.

• ALEX: Yeahhh, you're right. Stuff happens.
• ALEX: It just sucks that the stuff that's happening is, like, really terrifying and annoying.

IT'S MY FAULT.

• ALEX: If I hadn't brought the radio and... hadn't tuned into that... whatever...
• JONAS: No, don't say that.
• JONAS: Well, actually you saying that saves me from saying that, so, thank you.

HEY!

• ALEX: [laugh] Hey!
• JONAS: [laughter] I kid, I kid.

CONTROLS

• ALEX: Hallejuah.
• JONAS: Praise the lord.

Campground

• JONAS: Well, will ya look at that. It didn't collapse.
• JONAS: That's one good thing that happened tonight.

YOU WERE EXPECTING IT TO?

• ALEX: So you're saying you were expecting it to.
• JONAS: I half was. But it didn't, so.

DON'T WORRY SO MUCH.

YAY.

• ALEX: Yep. Yay...

• JONAS: You used to come here a lot as a kid, right?
• JONAS: To the island, I mean.
• JONAS: I mean, that's what Ren made it sound like.

YES, WITH MY BROTHER.

• ALEX: Yeah. With my brother.
• JONAS: With Michael? Yeah? Like, with your mom and dad, or...

SOMETIMES.

• ALEX: Sometimes mom and dad, but... mostly just him and me.
• JONAS: Well that's cool. Like he's--like he'd be babysitting you and he'd bring you out here..?
• JONAS: That's nice of him.
• JONAS: Coulda just stayed home, you know.

WE WERE BEST FRIENDS.

• ALEX: It wasn't like that, we were, like, best friends. It's not like he was being forced to do it, he wanted to do it, we liked hanging out together.

I GUESS, SORTA.

WE WERE FAMILY.

• ALEX: It wasn't like--he wasn't being forced to watch me, we were family.
• ALEX: There's like a loyalty there, he's not--he wasn't being paid five bucks an hour...

• JONAS: Oh--I mean I didn't mean--yeah, yeah, of course.

WHO CARES NOW.

• ALEX: Yeah, but I mean, who cares now? It's not like I'll ever come back here again.
• CONTENT MISSING

YEAH, SURE.

• JONAS: Yeah, I can see this place being cool like, in the summer? Or even in the spring?
• JONAS: You got the park...
• JONAS: You got the Main Street shops...

I'M OVER IT.

IT'S PRETTY NICE.

• ALEX: Yeah... it's pretty nice. It can be pretty nice MISSING CONTENT

AFTER TONIGHT? NEVER AGAIN.

• ALEX: Yeah, well, after tonight? Douse it in gasoline and light a match, I am never coming back here again.

...

• JONAS: You used to come here a lot as a kid, right?
• JONAS: To the island, I mean.
• JONAS: I mean, that's what Ren made it sound like.

YOU ALREADY SAID THAT.

• ALEX: You... didn't you already say that?
• JONAS: Did I?

UHH... YEAH?

• ALEX: Uh... yeah..?

SOMETHING JUST HAPPENED...

• ALEX: Uhh... do you ever get deja vu? I feel like... like, didn't we just walk through here?
• JONAS: Huh. That's funny, I don't think we have.

• (Alternate string about Jonas' family vacations? idk)
• JONAS: Okay, yeah, tonight's like being trapped in a nightmare zoo, but, I dunno... you have memories here, right?
• JONAS: Jumpin' off the diving board with little Janie, and...
• JONAS: Eating ice cream with little Franklin...
• JONAS: Stringin' Christmas lights with CONTENT MISSING

WHOSE LIFE IS THAT?

I NEVER DID THAT!

• ALEX: [laughter] I never did any of that!

WHAT?

• ALEX: [chuckle] What?

• JONAS: All I'm saying is before tonight, this was a pretty cool place.
• JONAS: And you did stuff here, and it's a part of you, you know, it's a part of you, and... I just wouldn't want our first night out to, you know, wreck all of that.
• JONAS: For like, forever.
• JONAS: I just wouldn't want that.
• JONAS: I think it'd like genuinely depress me.

WELL, IT IS WRECKED.

YOU'RE INSANE!

MAYBE YOU'RE RIGHT.

• ALEX: Ugh, fine.I won't hold it against the island or... whatever. I won't hold it against you or the island. I'll keep my memories.
• ALEX: Happy?
• JONAS: Actually... I am. Thank you.

...

• JONAS: You used to come here a lot as a kid, right?
• JONAS: To the island, I mean.
• JONAS: I mean, that's what Ren made it sound like.

SOMETHING'S WRONG...

• ALEX: Something is... something's... wrong, we've already done this, like, twice.
• JONAS: Done what?
• JONAS: Cause I don't remember any of this.

WE'VE DEFINITELY BEEN HERE.

• ALEX: We have definitely been here before. This is... weird.
• JONAS: What's weird?
• JONAS: Cause I don't remember any of this.

STOP SAYING THAT!

• ALEX: Jonas, don't you hear yourself? You've already asked this twice.
• JONAS: I have?
• JONAS: I don't... really remember that, but...

• (There's an alternate version of the following options.)

YOU REALLY DON'T REMEMBER?

• ALEX: Jonas, seriously, you don't remember? You keep asking me if I came here as a kid a lot, again and again.
• JONAS: Um, okay? I mean, if you say so, but--wait, I don't even know what you're saying. What are you saying?

WE'RE GOING IN CIRCLES.

• ALEX: We're... [sigh] I think we're going in circles. We've seen these same damn trees, like, I don't know how many times now.
• JONAS: We just got off the tram thing, Alex, this is all new, so--I mean, what are you saying?

• JONAS: Are we lost?
• JONAS: Or is it something else, I mean...

WE KEEP REPEATING TIME.

• ALEX: We keep repeating this one moment for some... [sigh] reason. God, can't things stay normal for, like, two friggin' seconds?

WE'RE STUCK IN THIS AREA...

WHATEVER WE DID IN THE CAVE...

• ALEX: Whatever we did or opened in the cave must have like... screwed up... something, or... I dunno.
• ALEX: I don't wanna say, like, time, cause that sounds insane.

WE'VE ALREADY DONE THIS!

• JONAS: Well, it's more than a little troubling that I can't tell besides a, uh, headache I've only just noticed, but, okay, let's deal with this now! Sure.

BALL

• There is dialogue if you skip the ball interaction and walk past it and loop back. This time, the ball moves on its own, to call attention to it. Add this in later...? I guess?
• ALEX: This is, uh, new.

I HAD THE EXACT SAME BALL.

• ALEX: Huh, it's... it's kinda weird, I had the exact same kind when I was a kid.
• JONAS: Yeah, why would a toy company make two, right?

OH, SHUT UP.

HARDY HAR HAR.

• ALEX: Oh, love the jokes. Keep it up! See what happens.

SMELLS BAD...

• ALEX: It kind of stinks.
• JONAS: Yeah, it smells like it's been sitting in a diaper for a month.

KICK BALL

TAKE THAT BALL.

• ALEX: Take that, ball.

I'M WEAKER THAN I THOUGHT.

• ALEX: Huh. I need to drink more milk or something, jeez.

• JONAS: Umm...

WHO'S THERE?

• ALEX: Who's there?

WHAT..?

• ALEX: What..?

• JONAS: So, it's just...

KICK BALL

• JONAS: I'm taking a picture of the ball moving, not your kicking, just so you know.
• RADIO: Fetch... fetch... fetch... fetch... fetch... fetch...^{(I can't get a proper count of how many times they say fetch.)}

WHERE IS THIS GOING?

• ALEX: Uh... okay, I'd--I'd like to know where this is going!
• RADIO: Uh... okay, I'd--I'd like to know where this is going!

WHO ARE YOU?

• ALEX: Alright, who are you?
• RADIO: Alright, who are you?

THIS IS GETTING OLD.

• JONAS: Maybe don't... antagonize, whoever...

OKAY...

• ALEX: Oookay...

HA... HA?

• ALEX: Uh... [nervous laughter] Is--good one.

DON'T GET WEIRD NOW.

• ALEX: Uh, alright, let's not, um, make it weird now... radio people...

KICK BALL

• JONAS: I think they have a sense of humor.

DON'T WANNA PLAY?

• ALEX: Oh, what's that? Don't wanna play anymore?

HEY!

• ALEX: Hey, c'mon!

NOT NICE.

...

• RADIO: *Fetch.* *Fetch.* *Fetch.* *Fetch.* *Fetch.* *Fetch.*^{Again, may be innacurate count...}
• JONAS: Ugh, Christ!
• JONAS: Oh my god!
• JONAS: Alex, can you believe this?

MY HEART'S GONNA EXPLODE.

• ALEX: [sigh] My doctor's not gonna be happy with my blood pressure this year.
• JONAS: Yeah, mine neither.

THIS IS NUTS!

• ALEX: This is... crazy!

...if Ren first,

• JONAS: Alex... I think... we're dealing... with... ghosts...
• JONAS: Just a hunch...

NO CRAP.

MAYBE...

WHAT TIPPED YOU OFF?

• ALEX: Oh, yeah? What tipped you off? The messages? The ball? Or maybe it was the ghost--
• JONAS: The ghost that just burned itself into the rock? Yeah, that.

...

JONAS?!

• ALEX: Jonas! Jonas, where--where are you?

AGAIN?

OH NO.

...

WAIT, WHAT'S HAPPENING?

• ALEX: Whoa--wait, what--what's happening?

HOW AM I..?

• ALEX: How am I..? Is this... an optical illusion or something..?

• [Alternate Alex here]

MICHAEL'S DEAD...

• ALEX: But... Michael's... dead, how could I even..?

WHAT DO YOU MEAN?

WHAT ARE YOU?

• ALEX: What... are you. What's--

...

• JONAS: Wait, wait, we've... done this before...

UGH, AGAIN?!

• ALEX: Ugh, really? Again?

THERE MUST BE A WAY OUT.

• ALEX: Okay, uh... there's got to be a way out, or... [sigh]

BUT I KICKED THE BALL!

• JONAS: It's alright, we must have just missed, um... something.

DO YOU REMEMBER MORE NOW?

• ALEX: Are you--can you kinda remember more now?
• JONAS: It's... starting to stick, yeah. I mean, it's still sorta foggy, but... whatever, I'll deal with it.

I SAW ANOTHER VERSION OF ME...

• ALEX: I... um... it was... weird, you were gone for a minute, I did this--[sigh] I did the repeat thing again, and my reflection... talked to me.
• JONAS: Talked to you? What, uh... what did it say?
• JONAS: Or was it, like, anything you could even...

"DON'T TELL MICHAEL WHAT TO DO."

• ALEX: It said that I... shouldn't tell Michael what to do about Clarissa.
• ALEX: Which is, of course, totally useless advice for a doppleganger, since Michael's still totally dead.
• JONAS: You know, at some point this is all gonna make sense. I just hope it happens before we leave.

DOESN'T MATTER.

THERE BETTER BE...

TAPE PLAYER

• ALEX: Huh. this looks... it's like, super old, but... man, it's almost spotless. (Alternate: Huh. This is... it's just like the armoire in the cave. Super duper old, but in, like, new condition.)
• ALEX: It's one of those, um... Magnetophones, I think they're called. Or, some other reel to reel thing from the 40's.
• JONAS: Why would it be here?

...

• JONAS: You know, I didn't realize I felt like a... "pressure" in my head until right now.
• JONAS: Maybe you doing that "fixed" the loop.
• JONAS: But whatever you did helped something, I think.

BUT WHAT DID I DO?

• ALEX: Yeah, but making it sound right... did what?
• JONAS: I... I dunno. But it's like my allergies cleared up or something.
• JONAS: Let's just keep going and get Ren.

FEEL ANY DIFFERENT?

IS THE TIME THING FIXED?

...

GHOSTS, HUH?

• ALEX: ...ssso... ghosts, huh?
• JONAS: [sigh] Ghosts.

HAVING FUN YET?

• ALEX: So... Having fun yet..?
• JONAS: I'm so glad our families are uniting, Alex. This will be a grand adventure for the two of us.

UNLESS WE DIE.

• ALEX: Unless we die.
• JONAS: Unless we die, yes.

THIS IS REALLY INSANE.

• ALEX: This is really insane, Jonas, like the craziest thing that's happening to anyone right now is happening to us.
• JONAS: [sigh] True, but...

BUT?

• ALEX: Buuut?
• JONAS: Nah, I couldn't think of anything to say.

GO ON...?

• JONAS: What do you think they want?
• JONAS: The uh... the ghosts.

DO THEY WANT ANYTHING?

• ALEX: Do they have to want anything?
• JONAS: Just--most of the time, don't they, like--I mean, isn't that why they're trapped here or whatever? Because they didn't... do something they needed to in life, or...

THAT'S WHAT MOVIES TAUGHT ME.

• ALEX: I don't think our previous knowledge of movies and comic books applies here. Really.
• ALEX: But, fine.

JUSTICE, USUALLY.

• ALEX: I think it's usually, like, "justice", or something. Vengeance.
• JONAS: Yeah...

I DON'T KNOW.

• ALEX: I don't know.

• JONAS: I just hope they want to, like... play soccer every once in a while... and that's it.

...

• JONAS: Is that Nona..?
• NONA: D-d-don't--don't, okay, just don't move, okay? Don't come anywhere near me!
• JONAS: Nona...
• NONA: Just don't move.

WHAT'S WRONG?

• ALEX: ...what is it? What's wrong?

CALM DOWN...

IT'S US, NONA.

• ALEX: Nona? C'mon... it's us. You can see it's us, it's me and Jonas.

• NONA: This night has turned... banana bread, really fast, and I'm seeing things and forgetting things, and I've bumped into you once already.
• NONA: And it was horrible, so...
• NONA: We're gonna take CONTENT MISSING

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

UH OH, YOU'RE INSANE.

WE HAVEN'T SEEN YOU.

• ALEX: We haven't... this is the first time we've seen you since the beach.
• NONA: Be that as it may... I've seen an Alex.

• NONA: So, just, look, you're not going to talk about my grandfather. You're just gonna stand there, politely, and tell me if you've seen Clarissa.
• NONA: Cause... I've been looking.

...if Ren first,

SHE'S AT FT. MILNER

• ALEX: Clarissa's at--
• JONAS: No--no, we haven't, but we, uh, we're actually--we're looking for Ren right now. So, have you--have you maybe seen him?
• NONA: No, not Ren.

WE'RE LOOKING FOR REN.

NOPE!

• ALEX: Nope, haven't seen her.

...if Clarissa first,

SHE JUMPED OUT A WINDOW.

• ALEX: Clarissa--
• JONAS: No--no, we haven't, but we, uh, we're actually--we're looking for Ren right now. So, have you--have you maybe seen him?
• NONA: No, not Ren.
• NONA: Okay, well--
• JONAS: Hey, listen, Nona... you should come with us. That way we're not all, you know, separated.
• NONA: I'm not going anywhere with you.
• JONAS: Alright, okay. Hey, I get it, I do, I'm jumpy right now too, but... can you do me a favor?

LET HER GO, JONAS.

NONA, WAIT A SECOND.

• ALEX: Just--hold up a second, Nona, okay?
• JONAS: Yeah, can you just do us a favor?
• JONAS: Can you just... can you go to the comm tower and wait for us?
• JONAS: We got the lights on there, and...
• JONAS: It seems pretty safe.

CLARISSA JUMPED OUT A WINDOW!

YOU SHOULD COME WITH US.

• ALEX: No, Nona, you should really come with us, it's better to stick together.
• NONA: Better for who?
• JONAS: Nona...

FOR YOU!

• ALEX: For you! Who do you think I'm talking about?
• NONA: No.
• ALEX: [sigh]

FOR ALL OF US!

• ALEX: For everyone, for all of us!
• NONA: No.
• ALEX: [sigh]

YEAH, GO THERE.

WE'RE LOOKING FOR REN.

NOPE!

• NONA: Okay, well--
• JONAS: Hey, listen, Nona... you should come with us. That way we're not all, you know, separated.
• NONA: I'm not going anywhere with you.
• JONAS: Alright, okay. Hey, I get it, I do, I'm jumpy right now too, but... can you do me a favor?

NONA, WAIT A SECOND.

• ALEX: Just--hold up a second, Nona, okay?
• JONAS: Yeah, can you just do us a favor?
• JONAS: Can you just... can you go to the comm tower and wait for us?
• JONAS: We got the lights on there, and...
• JONAS: It seems pretty safe.

• NONA: And the comm tower is... where?
• JONAS: It's the cloudbuster at the edge of town. Can't miss it.
• NONA: And you. You're really you?
• NONA: Really?

YES, IT'S ME.

• ALEX: Yeah, Nona, it's me. Alex.

NO, I'M A ZOMBIE.

WHO ELSE WOULD I BE?

• NONA: Alright, bye.
• JONAS: That girl's a peach.

Relay Point

...if Alex flipped the switch,

• JONAS: Hey, just for me, I wanna know. Back at the bridge, why'd you flip the switch yourself?
• JONAS: You could have let me do it.
• JONAS: I'm just curious.

TO IMPRESS YOU, OF COURSE!

• ALEX: Oh, to impress you, of course! Why would I do anything except to delicately enhance your opinion of me?
• JONAS: [chuckle] Okay, alright.

ARE YOU STILL ON THAT?

I WANTED TO SEE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN.

• ALEX: Eh, I just wanted to see what would happen, to be honest.
• JONAS: ...alright.

...if Jonas flipped the switch,

• JONAS: Hey, just for me... why'd you let me flip the switch back at the bridge?
• JONAS: To be honest, I expected you to just bull ahead and do it yourself.

YOU WANTED TO.

• ALEX: Cause you wanted to, that's why. Pretty simple, really.
• JONAS: Alright.

I'M NOT GONNA PUT MYSELF IN DANGER.

DIDN'T WANT TO HURT YOUR FEELINGS.

• ALEX: I--just didn't want to hurt your feelings, okay? It's easier that way... with boys.
• JONAS: Alright, well, you don't have to do that with me, alright? Do what you want, I'm not gonna fret over it.

• JONAS: Okay, that must be the way station. And, actually, help me understand, why would an island need anything like that anyways?
• JONAS: Like, nobody's going anywhere.
• JONAS: Doesn't the whole thing just go in a circle?

MINERS.

• ALEX: Um, this was a... a mining island, before the war.
• ALEX: And the land, you know, as you can tell, it wasn't really conducive to most different ways of transport, so they... dug into the hills and laid down tracks and carted the coal by freight to the, um, the pier for the boats.

DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT.

IT'D BORE YOU.

• JONAS: Can I ask you something?

OF COURSE.

• ALEX: Yeah, of course.

UH... IT DEPENDS.

• ALEX: Um... it kind of depends..?

YES...

• JONAS: You think I'm kind of a slacker idiot, right?
• JONAS: Like, I wouldn't find any of this stuff interesting?

I THINK YOU'RE SMART!

• ALEX: [laughter] Jonas! I think you're smart. C'mon, what are you talking about?
• JONAS: Mmm... I dunno, I just sometimes get these, like, whiffs of... I don't know.
• JONAS: I can't think of the word for it.

DISDAIN?

STRESS, PERHAPS?

• ALEX: Maybe it's stress? Like, from what's going on? Right now?
• JONAS: You think I don't know stress? I know stress.
• ALEX: [laughs]
• JONAS: It's like... I dunno... Nah, it'll come to me.

SUPERIORITY?

WHAT DOES IT MATTER!

UH, YOU'RE AVERAGE...

• ALEX: Um... I think your smarts are probably about average? I'd guess? The national mean.
• JONAS: The national mean..? ...eh. Alright, I can live with that.

...

...if Ren first,

• REN: Oh man, thank God, I thought you were a werewolf.
• JONAS: Why would we be a werewolf?
• REN: I've convinced myself that's the issue here.

C'MON, LET'S GO.

GOOD TO SEE YOU'RE OKAY.

• ALEX: [sigh] Good to see you're okay. It's... bad out there.
• REN: No, I'm good. I'm just glad you're here.

YOU'RE LUCKY WE MADE IT.

...if Clarissa first,

• REN: Guys! Jesus, it took you forever to get here, what happened?
• REN: I've been scared out of my mind... hearing things?
• REN: Seeing things!

WE WENT TO CLARISSA FIRST.

• ALEX: We... went to Milner first. Clarissa was having a slow motion conniption, and, I dunno, it just seemed more pressing...
• REN: Oh my god, Clarissa can handle herself. I'm the one that needed a babysitter until I was fourteen!

HEY, WE CAME, ALRIGHT?

SORRY ABOUT THAT.

• REN: Do you have, like, any idea what's going on?

...

• JONAS: Okay, that must be the way station. And, actually, help me understand, why would an island need anything like that anyways?

DAMNIT.

• ALEX: Damn it, I think we're... we're looping again.
• JONAS: Oh. Oh, really? Man, it's... kinda weird that you can tell when it's happening and I can't. I mean, right?

WHERE'S REN?

JONAS, WE'RE STUCK AGAIN.

• ALEX: Ugh, Jonas, we're repeating the same... stuff again.
• JONAS: We are? Huh... it's kinda weird that you can tell when it's happening and I can't... right?

• JONAS: I mean, it's not like--I mean, I'm glad someone can tell, but...
• JONAS: It's just, strange.

MAYBE SOMETHING'S WRONG.

• ALEX: Uh, yeah, I dunno.I'd be worried about it if I were you, cause, believe me, it's pretty obvious.
• JONAS: Okay... Well, I don't really know what to do with that, but... fine. I'll worry about it. Thanks.

I'M WORRIED ABOUT TIME ITSELF.

YOU'RE JUST SLOW.

• JONAS: There's your boy.

REN, WE'RE HERE!

• ALEX: Hey, Ren! We made it, finally!

YOU'RE A GIANT IDIOT!

ARE YOU ALRIGHT?

• JONAS: Um... Ren..?
• JONAS: Ren!

WHAT'S THE MATTER?

• ALEX: Ren? [sigh] C'mon, what's... the matter?

SNAP OUT OF YOUR DRUG HAZE!

• ALEX: Seriously Ren, you can have a drug freak out on your own time. I don't have the patience to worry about you right now, so... c'mon, look alive here.

IS HE IN SHOCK?

• JONAS: What's he doing? Is he, like, sleepwalking?
• JONAS: I dunno how he, like, fell asleep during all of this...
• JONAS: But...

I DON'T THINK IT'S THAT.

• ALEX: I've seen sleepwalking, okay? Michael... sleepwalked and the worst he'd do is take his pillow into the hallway. This is like... something else.

IT'S THOSE DRUGS HE TOOK.

HE'S SICK OR SOMETHING.

TAPE PLAYER

• ALEX: I don't know if you... [sigh] remember, but the last time we got stuck we used one of these things to get out of it, so. I'm not just messing around right now.
• JONAS: Yeah, I remember, I remember. Kind of.

...

• JONAS: Hey, where'd Ren go?
• JONAS: He was... standing right there.

DIDN'T WE FIX IT?

• ALEX: I thought... I thought this would have fixed, like last time. Didn't it?
• JONAS: The time stuff? Yeah, I mean, I think--I think it did, I don't feel as foggy.

REN!

• ALEX: Ren! Are you still here?

OH NO.

...

• JONAS: Umm... crap.
• JONAS: I don't...
• JONAS: Maybe we shouldn't... um, go near him..?

WHAT'S HAPPENING?

• ALEX: Ugh, what's--what's happening to him?
• JONAS: I have no idea.

REN, CAN YOU HEAR ME?

• ALEX: ...Ren, can you... can you hear me?

• JONAS: I mean--I know they say don't move somebody with a spine injury, but it's like... we gotta do something...
• JONAS: Right?

THIS IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT...

• ALEX: Uh, this is a little different than a trampoline accident. He's, like, turning into the Star Child.
• JONAS: I know it's different, I know it's different. I'm just saying--we should do something.
• JONAS: I dunno what, but... something.

I'M NOT LEAVING HIM.

ANY IDEAS?

• ALEX: Yeah, um... any... thoughts on what we could do?
• JONAS: If I did have any thoughts on what would solve this, wouldn't that be a little weird?

Tuning in...

• JONAS: Whoa, is this--is that helping him or hurting him?
• JONAS: It's doing something, but...

HELPING, HOPEFULLY?

• ALEX: Helping him, hopefully, I dunno.

IT'S ALL I CAN THINK OF!

• ALEX: It's all I can think of to do!

...

• JONAS: Jesus, Ren, are--are you--
• JONAS: Oh God--
• THE SUNKEN: Hard. To. Talk. Through child.
• THE SUNKEN: Feels. Stretched. Better. Now.
• THE SUNKEN: Want hard to say. Need. Relief. Need powder.

WERE YOU IN REN?

WHAT ARE YOU?

• ALEX: What... are you?
• THE SUNKEN: In. Between. Fastened. But. Loose. Grounded.

JONAS!?

• ALEX: Jonas?! Where did you--
• THE SUNKEN: We are. Abounding. Not one. Silly blue hair.

• THE SUNKEN: But. Do not. Be. Scared. You. Are dolls. Would. Never. Plot. Hurt. You.
• THE SUNKEN: Can. Not. Hurt. You.

OH, GOOD.

• ALEX: Uh, well... that's--that's good.

CAN WE HELP YOU?

• ALEX: Can we... u, help you? Or...

CAN YOU HELP US?

• ALEX: Can you help us? We're... we're stuck here, and... we just wanna go home.
• THE SUNKEN: Home. Camena. We will go home. All of us.

• THE SUNKEN: Leave. Possible.
• (Another Alex here..?) (Um maybe? But I don't really) (Does this change?)
• THE SUNKEN: Grounded. By. Adler. Margaret.
• THE SUNKEN: Pretty. Little. Poppy.

MAGGIE ADLER?

• ALEX: Maggie Adler. That old woman? What does she have to do with any of this?
• THE SUNKEN: That. Old. Woman. Was Young. Once.
• THE SUNKEN: We. Were. Young. Once.

WE DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU WANT!

• THE SUNKEN: Sit Still. Bear Fruit.
• THE SUNKEN: Tag. You. It.
• REN: Aaaah!
• ALEX: Aaaah!
• JONAS: Aaaah!
• REN: Holy mother of God, you guys!
• JONAS: God, Ren!
• REN: Man, my heart's going like a hummingbird in a--in a car or something!
• REN: MISSING CONTENT

DON'T DO THAT!

YOU'RE ALIVE!

• ALEX: You're alive!
• REN: I am? I am!
• JONAS: Why was that a question at first..?

ARE YOU ALRIGHT?

• ALEX: Ren, Jesus... are you alright?
• REN: Yeah, just, give me a second. Give me a week.

• REN: Why--why is this? Why. Actually--thanks for coming, by the way.
• JONAS: Sure.
• REN: Why is this happening?!
• REN: I mean, I've been here! I've visited this place like fifteen times!
• REN: And before now, the worst thing that ever happened was, like... a kid would lose his shorts to the undertow.

WE SCREWED UP...

• ALEX: Um... we... kinda... did something... weird.
• REN: What--what do you mean?
• REN: Did you... Did you curse the island?
• REN: Did you curseCONTENT MISSING

IT WAS THE CAVE.

• ALEX: When we went into the cave.
• REN: We were all in the cave!
• JONAS: The deeper part of the cave.
• REN: The deeper part of the cave?
• JONAS: Just listen.

WE SAW THIS TRIANGLE...

• ALEX: [sigh] We saw this triangle... and I tried to tune it with the radio, and just... everything went all House of Horrors on us! ^{(There are SO many things this could be referring to... hmm...)}
• REN: Eesh. If we don't have our skin tomorrow, I'm blaming you.

WE TRIED TO TUNE THE RADIO...

IT WAS A MISTAKE!

IT WAS THE RADIO.

WE'RE JUST IN TROUBLE

• ALEX: We're in big trouble, Ren. Really big trouble, we need to call somebody or get a boat, but... we need to get out of here.
• JONAS: It's ghosts. She doesn't want to say it, but it's ghosts. And you were possessed by one.
• REN: [sigh] That doesn't... that doesn't seem like it'd be part of a healthy lifestyle.

THE ISLAND'S HAUNTED.

• ALEX: The island's haunted, Ren.
• REN: Like, haunted with memories, orrr elevators on their period haunted?
• JONAS: The second one.

• NONA: God, does anyone... is this thing working?
• REN: Nona..?
• NONA: If anyone can hear this, out there, in uh... whatever. I'm at the comm tower on Edwards Island.
• JONAS: Hey, she listened to us! Great!
• NONA: So, if anyone can--crap, what is this..? I'm trying to communicate with the--
• REN: Does she know how to even work that stuff?
• JONAS: Doesn't sound like it

CAN ANYONE WORK A RADIO?!

• ALEX: Ughghgh... Can't, like, anyone work a two-way radio?!
• ALEX: Didn't everyone have that, like, one trucker uncle who let them work the CB a few times for fun?!
• JONAS: Guess not.

UGH, IDIOT.

WE SHOULD GET TO HER.

• ALEX: [sigh] We should get back there before she freaks out and runs away again.

...if Ren first,

• REN: So... are we goin' back to the comm tower for Nona, or...
• JONAS: Eh, we should round up Clarissa at Fort Milner first.
• REN: Look, we'll split up. You guys do that... and I can go tend to the lovely damsel in distress in ye olde tower...
• JONAS: I wish you wouldn't put it that way, but...

YEAH, LEAVE US THE BAD ONE...

ARE YOU OKAY TO GO?

• ALEX: Can you... even make it there..?
• REN: Can I even make it there?!
• JONAS: Well you did just have a spectre wearing you like a suit.
• REN: And all that's left is a little indigestion, I'll be fine.

KEEP IT IN YOUR PANTS.

• ALEX: Just... keep it in your pants, okay?
• REN: No promises!
• REN: Actually, wait... that kinda sounds like I'm gonna force myself on her.
• JONAS: Yeah, I was just gonna say...

• JONAS: Alright, well, guess we're going that-a-way, so... we'll see you at the comm tower, hopefully with Clarissa.

GOOD LUCK!

• ALEX: Good luck!
• REN: [laughter] Right back atcha!

I BELIEVE IN YOU!

• ALEX: I believe in you!
• REN: [laughter] Right back atcha!

DON'T DO ANYTHING STUPID!

• ALEX: Don't do anything stupid!
• REN: Not a problem!

• JONAS: Milner, ho?

MILNER, HO.

• ALEX: Milner, ho.

...if Clarissa first,

• REN: I think that was our cue, then. It's kind of a shortcut back to the communication tower if we go through this fence.
• REN: Shouldn't take that long.

WHY DIDN'T YOU COME TO US!

I THINK IT'S LOCKED...

• ALEX: I think it's actually locked...
• REN: Not from this side. It's a little latch, I could see it from the window.

1 AM - Milner Outpost

...if Clarissa first, if Ren saved,

• REN: Oh man, you know what just jumped in my head just completely randomly? That show in the... uh, it was a horse ranch?
• REN: Or, a horse farm, but...
• REN: But that makes it sound like they have a little MISSING CONTENT

WHAT?

ARE YOU STILL HIGH?

• ALEX: Okay, are you still out of it? I shouldn't be paying any attention to this, right?
• REN: No, this is--I can't believe you don't remember this!

HORSE RANCH SHOW?

• REN: A year ago, out in Salem? We took over a stable and our band played and you--you ditched that test again, right? To--to bring us a new amp?
• REN: Cause during the soundcheck, we blew ours?
• REN: None of this is... sparking any synapses?

CAN'T RECALL.

• ALEX: Nope. Um... memory's pretty gloomy on this one.

WHY'D THIS POP INTO YOUR HEAD?

UH... SURE. WHAT ABOUT IT?

• JONAS: Wait, she ditched a test?
• REN: She had already blown off this, like, super important for school placement aptitude test once, and...
• JONAS: Why'd you do that?
• REN: Um, I think she was...
• REN: ...indisposed?
• REN: You know, I, uh, I can't even remember.

MICHAEL HAD JUST DIED.

• ALEX: Michael had just died, like, a month or two before..? And I... I dunno, I just wasn't in the quizzing mood.
• REN: But you know it's--whatever that's--that's not part of the story.

I JUST HATE TESTS.

• REN: Anyways, she was gonna retake it, and on the day of, I had to emergency call her way out in the--just picture, like, Little House on the Prarie.
• JONAS: I don't know what that is.
• REN: It's a--really? You don't know what Little House on the Prairie is?
• JONAS: Wait. You blew off an important to get him an amp?
• JONAS: Really?
• JONAS: That was... a thing you did?

I GUESS!

• ALEX: I guess! I mean, I don't really remember this at all, but... yeah, sure.

SEEMS STUPID IN HINDSIGHT...

FRIENDS ARE MORE IMPORTANT

• REN: And the funny part is, I'd taken that same test after dosing a bunch of cough medicine and I still aced it, so she woulda blown it out of the water.
• REN: And even knowing that? She still came out to help me.
• REN: That's awesome, right?

YOU DIDN'T TELL ME THAT!

OF COURSE YOU DID.

• ALEX: [sigh] Of course you did. One of these days, Nate's dad is gonna start keeping a tally of his medicine cabinet.
• REN: And I will rue that day, lemme tell you.

• JONAS: I dunno, I think you probably shoulda taken the test.
• REN: Really?
• REN: Even if at the time she didn't care?
• REN: How come?

WHY DO YOU THINK?

• ALEX: Hm. Why do you think so?

YOU HATE SCHOOL!

• JONAS: Listen, it's just... like, if I was good at what you guys are good at? Which is... being smart...
• JONAS: I wouldn't waste one of my few remaining test days... on a show in a barn.
• JONAS: No offense.
• REN: Hey, none taken.

I DON'T REGRET IT, REALLY.

I'M NOT THAT SMART.

• ALEX: [sigh] I'm not that smart, Jonas. There's nothing really to "waste" here.
• JONAS: If you say so.

WORDS TO LIVE BY!

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• JONAS: Ugh--what is that?
• CLARISSA: Can anyone hear me? Anybody?
• JONAS: Clarissa?
• CLARISSA: Damn it, is--is this working? If anybody can hear me, I'm at Fort Milner, in the, uh, I think--crap, I think in the gym or something..?
• JONAS: Well, she's around here somewhere.
• JONAS: I was worried honestly that she, um. Might have left.

SHE SOUNDED WEIRD.

SHE IS SO ANNOYING.

• ALEX: She is so annoying! God.
• ALEX: Even when, like, the craziest crap is swirling around like a friggin' poop tempest, she still finds a way to be annoying.
• JONAS: Well, that's a... that's a skill, at least.

SHE SOUNDED SCARED.

• ALEX: She sounded sorta scared... like, in dire straights, actual trouble right now scared?
• JONAS: Look, I think we can all be included in whatever definition of trouble there is, so...

• JONAS: Ren said something about... Fort Milner being decomissioned, right?
• JONAS: But... and hear me out... what if it wasn't?
• JONAS: What if they just said it was decomissioned...
• JONAS: And there's, like... still people, like, in there... like, doing stuff.

NO IT'S DECOMMISSIONED.

THEY'D HAVE MORE SECURITY.

• ALEX: I think if they had alien autopsies or... whatever you're suggesting is happening in there, we'd have been taken out by snipers about fifty paces back
• JONAS: Maybe... but listen. Like, what if...

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

• ALEX: What are you even talking about right now?

• JONAS: Just--what if all the stuff that's like, happened to us - the stuff we've been seeing - is like... the direct result of some government secret project?
• JONAS: Like... what if there's some, um... experimental, uh... program or something?

WHAT SECRET PROJECT?

• ALEX: Secret project? Like what? They finally harnessed the power of--
• JONAS: Mind control! Yeah, mind control, and they've, uh, made a mind control machine and, um...
• JONAS: And we've all been suffering like a collective mirage!
• JONAS: That's not that far-fetched.

IT'S REAL.

NOT BUYING IT.

I HOPE SO.

• ALEX: Yeah, that would be great, wouldn't it? If none of this has happened, it's just some kind of fever dream from an experimental Acid Trip Bomb.
• JONAS: I dunno about "great", but it'd be nice to know.

COULD BE, I GUESS.

• ALEX: Sure. I mean, I'm... kind of in no place to toss aside any reason for what's been going on, so... yeah, it's the government. Let's go with that.
• JONAS: It's just my going premise right now, so... I dunno, keep a tally.

NO WAY!

• ALEX: No way, Jonas! C'mon. Conspiracy theories are comforting, because, they... explain what can't be explained.
• JONAS: Well, there is an explanation. I mean, no matter how ridiculous, there is one.

WHATEVER.

IT'S NOT THAT.

• ALEX: And it's not that.

Tuning in...

• RADIO: Dinner time! It's never too late to make dessert! Not anymore--
• JONAS: [nervous laughter] What the hell is this?
• RADIO: Do you want to play a game?!
• JONAS: Alright, I know the answer's "no", but... we kinda do have to find Clarissa, so.
• JONAS: Let's just ignore the question, and...
• JONAS: Thank the weird radio men for the door.

SURE.

• ALEX: Sure.

WAIT, SERIOUSLY?

• ALEX: Wait. Seriously? Doors that open themselves have been, like, a really bad thing in my experience.
• JONAS: Oh, really? Even automatic doors like in supermarkets?

YES, EVEN THOSE.

• ALEX: Well, I got my elbow pinched in one of those one time, so yes, even those.
• JONAS: And I'm sure it was traumatizing, but we gotta go anyway, sorry.

I GUESS.

Facilities

• JONAS: Oh--no, no, no, no...
• JONAS: Don't be locked... C'mon...

UGH.

• ALEX: Uuugh... Really?
• JONAS: Yes, really.

CAN'T GO BACK NOW...

• ALEX: Well... we didn't really... need to go back anyway. Right?
• JONAS: Unless there's no way out, then yes, we might've.

• JONAS: Well, Clarissa got in through some other door, so... we should be fine. Hypothetically speaking.
• JONAS: Uh, speaking of which--she... dated Michael?
• JONAS: Is that right?

IT WAS HIS BUSINESS.

• ALEX: Hey, it was his life, you know, not mine. He could do whatever he wanted. I didn't mean to put it like that.
• JONAS: Yeah yeah, I got it.

ANNOYINGLY, YES.

• ALEX: [sigh] Yes. Quite annoyingly.

NOT FOR LONG!

• ALEX: It really wasn't--I mean, yeah, it was like for a few months, but... you know, that's nine weeks in the scheme of things. I've had rashes that lasted longer.

• JONAS: I mean, was he the type of guy that would... go for that... like, sort of thing?
• JONAS: I'm just trying to... I'm trying to picture it.

NO!

YOU'D HAVE TO ASK HIM.

• ALEX: Well, you know, you'd have to ask him what he was into, I guess.

WHAT SORT OF THING?

• ALEX: What "sort of thing"? What do you mean?
• JONAS: You know, like... intense, I guess, is the word I'm trying to find?

• JONAS: I mean, just from what I've heard of him, like that one story about the cops just straight buyin' him a beer?
• JONAS: Just what would like that see in her?
• JONAS: Like, at least at the start.
• JONAS: There must have been something, right?
• JONAS: Right?

SHE'S POPULAR AND "HOT".

• ALEX: It's not a trick question, Jonas. She's been the Homecoming Queen every year since she grew boobs. And he'd been the Captain of every sports team he'd ever played on.
• ALEX: It was pratically an arranged marriage.
• JONAS: Huh. Okay.

DON'T KNOW, DON'T CARE.

• ALEX: You know, Jonas, frankly, I don't really know and I don't really care, so.
• JONAS: Alright, hey, it's old news, I get that.

SHE'S KIND OF WILD.

• ALEX: Look, Jonas. Girls go for assholes, and guys go for psychos for the same stupid reason: they're interesting... for a while.
• ALEX: But that crap gets old fast.
• JONAS: Huh. Okay.

• JONAS: It's just, uh, interesting, I guess, to me.

WHAT TYPE DO YOU "GO FOR"?

• ALEX: What's your type? Blonde, right? Nose ring?
• JONAS: No, no. Tall... brunette... maybe a big hat. Red raincoat, lots of mystique...
• JONAS: Been around the world...

CARMEN SANDIEGO?

• ALEX: You're describing Carmen Sandiego.
• JONAS: ...oh yeah. You know, that kinda explains a lot.

IT REALLY WASN'T A BIG DEAL.

• ALEX: Look, it... really wasn't a big deal. That's all.
• JONAS: I believe you, I believe you.

ARE YOU INTO HER?

• ALEX: Ugh... are you, like, into her?
• JONAS: No!
• JONAS: Not at all.
• JONAS: Too bitter.

YOU CAN TELL ME...

• ALEX: Okay... but you can tell me if you are, that's what step-siblings are for: storing embarrassing secrets.
• JONAS: I'm not, but thanks for offering to be my Shame Vault.

...

• JONAS: Hey, that's--Clarissa!

CLARISSA, WAIT!

• ALEX: Clarissa! Hold up!

DON'T LEAVE ME HERE, JONAS!

...

JONAS!

• ALEX: Jonas, what happened? Are you alright?

WAIT FOR ME!

• ALEX: Jonas! Why do you always run off first? It's not a race!

DOOR

JONAS!

• ALEX: Jonas! Can you hear me?

ARE YOU OKAY IN THERE?

• ALEX: Jonas! Are you okay in there?

LEMME IN!

• ALEX: Jonas? Lemme in! I'm not in the mood!

LIGHT SWITCH

• JONAS: Testing testing, um, okay...
• JONAS: I can't--I can't hear anything outside at all but luckily this radio thing's working. Look, whatever.
• JONAS: Clarissa's not in here and it's just... a room, so like, riddle me that first of all, and then second of all, I can't get out.

HOLD ON, I'LL CHECK.

• ALEX: Uh, yeah. Hold on, I'll check.

JUST RAM IT!

• ALEX: Just put your back into it! Be a man here, Jonas, we got stuff to do.

THE DOOR ISN'T UNLOCKED?

• JONAS: Uh--I can't hear anything outside at all, but there's just a really weird lock here? Does anything out there explain what this is?
• JONAS: Ow. I'm okay.
• JONAS: You know, I thought it was dark out there, but lemme tell you, when you're trapped in a broom closet, it gets a lot darker.
• JONAS: You know, I never wanted to be a DJ.
• JONAS: And this isn't really enticing me to start, but... I can sorta see the appeal now, yknow?
• JONAS: But I'd be a horrible talk radio guy, like just giving opinions? I wouldn't really know what to say, really.
• JONAS: I wouldn't want to do it anyways, it'd be like a slow, horrible death by anxiety or something talking to all those listeners.
• JONAS: And they have to get up at like 3 AM, right? Those guys, those--those talk radio guys. To start at like five?
• JONAS: I'd be--I'd be like the late night, like the--the late night old CONTENT MISSING

...

UM, HELLO?

• ALEX: Hello? Are you--look, is someone there?

JONAS..?

• ALEX: Jonas? If--if you're still there, this would be a great time to say something!

• (Alternate Alex)

HIS MOM'S DEAD!

• ALEX: His mom's... dead, I know his mom's dead, what does--

HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?

WHAT IS THIS?

• ALEX: What... is this--what does this--what does this mean, who--who are you?

DOOR

• JONAS: Okay, what just happened..?
• JONAS: Cause that...
• JONAS: That sucked.

IT'S A ONE WAY LOCK?

ARE YOU OKAY?

• ALEX: [sigh] Are you okay? A little shaken up?
• JONAS: Well, we blew past nap time a while ago, but... yeah, I'm actually better than fine.

UHHH, A BUNCH OF STRANGE STUFF.

• ALEX: Uhhh... Clarissa ran in there, disappeared into the walls, and--
• JONAS: Yeah, I'm not really one to hate stuff, but I hated all of that.

CODES

• ALEX: Oh, here's the code for the--uh, for the padlock. 3-4-18.
• ALEX: It's on a list of... huh. They call codes, "cookies". Is that slang or something..?
• JONAS: I dunno, but we got the combo, so, great.
• JONAS: Hey, did I--did you see that? In--in the mirror?
• JONAS: The reflection.
• JONAS: It was... weird.

MY REFLECTION TALKED TO ME, EARLIER...

• ALEX: Uh, don't think I'm nuts or anything, but... my reflection kind of gave me like fatherly advice that made absolutely no sense when you were stuck just now, so...
• JONAS: Wait... seriously?

DON'T BUG OUT ON ME.

• ALEX: Oh god, don't start bugging out on me, please?
• JONAS: I'm not bugging out on you, I'm not a bug. Something... happened in the mirror, our CONTENT MISSING

WHAT HAPPENED?

...

IT SEEMS ALRIGHT NOW...

• ALEX: It seems alright now, I don't know. Maybe it wasn't anything.
• JONAS: Yeah. I'm not sure about that.

OKAY.

• ALEX: Okay. Make it... snappy. Get it?
• JONAS: I'm choosing not to get it.

DON'T DO ANYTHING DUMB NOW.

• ALEX: Okay, just... don't be, like, stupid now. I just don't want anything to happen because you decided to play around.
• JONAS: I'm not "playing", I just want to... I just want to try this real quick.

PADLOCKED DOOR

• ALEX: 3... 4... 18.
• ALEX: And... voila!
• JONAS: What was that?

WHAT?

• ALEX: What?
• JONAS: Maybe... maybe... maybe it wasn't anything.

I DON'T KNOW.

• ALEX: I don't know.
• JONAS: Okay, just... making sure.

UHHHH..

• ALEX: Uhh... you tell me.

• JONAS: [sigh] I'm... just gonna pretend it didn't happen, so...
• JONAS: Let's just carry on.

US Army Radio Communications School

• JONAS: Ugh... gonna hate to go out in that.
• JONAS: So, actually, um, before we press on, I've had to go pee for like a while now... so.
• JONAS: Since we're stuck, anyways...
• JONAS: I thought I'd...
• JONAS: You know...

NO.

• ALEX: No.
• JONAS: C'mon, it'll just take a second.

NO.

• ALEX: Nope.

GO IN THE CORNER!

• ALEX: Oh my god, go in the corner then!
• JONAS: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I know this is like, way too much too soon for us right now, but I'm gonna totally explode.

ARE YOU JOKING.

• JONAS: I'll force it out fast.

I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU.

• ALEX: I cannot at all believe you right now.

PLEASE DON'T.

THIS IS GREAT.

• ALEX: This is... [sigh] if the night needed a capper, this is it, right here. My vagrant new step-brother. Peeing on a rat.

• JONAS: Don't look at me!

...

UGH!

• ALEX: Ugh...

PEE QUIETER!

• ALEX: Pee quieter! It's like louder than the rainstorm!
• JONAS: I know, the uh, accoustics are... really carrying it. Sorry...

• JONAS: Clarissa!
• JONAS: Okay, that was definitely her!
• JONAS: What is she--is this just like a game to her or something?

CLARISSA, COME BACK!

• ALEX: Clarissa, come back! We came to help you, don't--ugh.

SHE MIGHT BE IN TROUBLE...

WHAT IS SHE THINKING?

• ALEX: What is she thinking? I mean, I'm freaking out too, but, like... relax, honey.
• JONAS: This might be like a Nona situation where she's just, uh, losing it a bit.

• JONAS: And y'know, it just occured to me--she could also be having, like, a Ren episode. A Renisode.
• JONAS: Possessed, or... whatever we wanna call it.

RED COULD BARELY MOVE.

• ALEX: But Ren... Ren acted like he was underwater. Guy could barely move.
• JONAS: Yeah, well, that's true.

IT'S OBVIOUS, YEAH.

• ALEX: Yeah, actually, it's kind of obvious that that's what's probably happening, isn't it?
• ALEX: Wasn't it in House on the Haunted Hill^(sic) where that posessed guy walked into a vat of blood?
• JONAS: I... really don't know.

NAH, SHE'S JUST BUGGING OUT.

• CLARISSA: Hello? Is this thing--is this--god, is this--is this going out, or... wait, I can... ugh, I can hear myself, that's not--god, just, is anybody--
• JONAS: Ugh, man, maybe she didn't see us, I don't know, but... whatever, she still has a radio, so, we still gotta get to her.

OPEN DOOR

...

Tuning in...

• ^{(Each question asked is followed by a countdown by the radio voice. Unless it has something variant, it will not be included in the transcript.)}
• RADIO: High in the Cascade Mountains of Washington, the Navy opens the world's largest radio transmitter! Its one million watts can flash a message around the world in a tenth of a second!
• RADIO: Hey, kids! Wanna play a game?
• JONAS: Ugh.

WHAT'S IT DOING?

• ALEX: What is it doing?

THE NAVY..?

CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS?!

• JONAS: Hangman..?
• RADIO: Be sharp and listen, mister!
• RADIO: This is going to tell the Classification Board a lot about what can be expected of you in the future.
• RADIO: How many questions will you be able to get in the alloted time?
• JONAS: Like, a test..?

THIS ISN'T HANGMAN!

WHY ARE WE BEING TESTED?

• ALEX: Hey--why are we being tested?! What did we do?

• RADIO: Here's a simple one to start, so don't hold your breath.
• RADIO: What is the name of the school you are standing in?
• JONAS: "School we're standing in?"
• JONAS: Isn't this--like a classroom?
• JONAS: I--I thought it was just, like, a fort.

FORT MILNER.

SCHOOL FOR ARMED SERVICES.

• ALEX: Uh... to School for... Armed Services?
• RADIO: [buzzer noise]
• RADIO: Our friends are finding this tough!
• JONAS: Gah-- ergh!!!
• THE SUNKEN: Do. You. Think. Us. Cruel?
• THE SUNKEN: Do. You. Think. Us. Callous?
• THE SUNKEN: We are not. Cruel. It. Is fair. This. Is Fair.

YEAH, YOU'RE BEING MEAN!

DON'T HURT JONAS!

• ALEX: I don't care! Just don't hurt--
• THE SUNKEN: We. Don't. Hurt. Playmates.

UH, NO?

US ARMY RADIO COMMUNICATIONS SCHOOL.

• ALEX: US Army... Radio Communications School.
• RADIO: That's the stuff, Charlie. Now you're swinging.
• RADIO: It all goes into your final rating. You want to get a good rating, don't you?
• RADIO: You want to be a good soldier?
• JONAS: Why the hell would we wanna be a good soldier?!

YEAH, SURE!

• ALEX: Yeah, sure! If that's--if that's what you want!
• RADIO: Excellent!

WHY DO YOU CARE?!

• ALEX: Why do you care what I want or don't want or--anything? I didn't come here for this!
• JONAS: Yeah, we really, really didn't come here for this!
• THE SUNKEN: Why should we care.
• RADIO: They didn't care!

NO, NOT AT ALL!

• ALEX: No? Not at all! I mean, why should I care about any of this?
• THE SUNKEN: Why. Should. You. Care.
• RADIO: They didn't care!

• JONAS: Ugh--Jesus--what is going on?

UGH, I'M GONNA BE SICK.

• ALEX: Ugh, feel like I'm stuck on a tilt-a-whirl...

THIS ISN'T FAIR!

• ALEX: Ugh, c'mon, guys, this isn't exactly fair now.

• RADIO: Just keep the pointer on the button. Question two...
• RADIO: What did the communications officers at Fort Milner call codes?
• JONAS: Who would know that?!
• JONAS: This isn't World War II!
• JONAS: Nobody calls anything anything anymore!

COOKIES.

• ALEX: You call codes... "cookies"..?
• RADIO: There. Now you're cooking.

CIPHERS.

CODES.

• (There's additional text if you lose but yeah. haven't lost yet.)
• RADIO: Coded radio transmitters have an important job! And you wouldn't want them to be unqualified.

UMMM, NO?

• ALEX: Uhhh, no. I mean... like any job, right?
• RADIO: Like anything! Right!

IS THIS LIKE A TRICK?

• ALEX: Okay, look. Is this a trick? Is whatever I'm gonna say gonna bite me in the ass no matter what? Because if that's the case, then--
• RADIO: Watch your language, young lady! There's no room for sass in in the armed forces!

SCREW YOU!

• ALEX: Oh, screw you, this isn't--

WHATEVER.

WHY WOULD I?

• JONAS: We are an island race...
• JONAS: And through all our times the sea has ruled our breaks.
• JONAS: But be wary, young ones.

JONAS?

• ALEX: Jonas..? Are--are you, uh... doing okay..?

LEAVE JONAS OUT OF IT!

• ALEX: [sigh] Alright, if I'm answering the questions, you can leave Jonas out of it, okay?

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

• RADIO: One last round and you've cleared your exam. Pencils ready.
• RADIO: How many officers died in the sinking of the USS Kanaloa?
• JONAS: For there will be other ships...
• JONAS: And other souls to sail them.
• JONAS: Above all victories, beyond all loss...
• JONAS: In spite of changing values and a changing world.

EIGHTY FIVE.

• ALEX: Eighty-five..?
• RADIO: Correct!

FIFTY THREE.

TWELVE.

• ALEX: Uh... twelve?
• RADIO: You're off, Bob. That's not gonna cut it.
• JONAS: Mmmph...

• RADIO: Ninety-seven brave men and women died on the USS Kanaloa: eighty-five officers; twelve passengers.
• RADIO: It all adds up to another fact for the classification board.
• RADIO: Just another fact, among many.

Tuning in...

• RADIO: "The United States Submarine Kanaloa is shown for the first time in Pacific waters patrolling for the enemy."
• RADIO: "Through the periscope, the commander looks out over the ocean surface..."
• RADIO: "Kanaloa was lost today, lost at sea, near--"

ARE YOU THE DEAD OFFICERS?

• ALEX: Is this... are you the dead officers? That sunk on the Kanaloa?

WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA TESTING ME!

WHY ARE YOU HERE?

• ALEX: [sigh] Why are you here? Was it something... we--
• THE SUNKEN: What. A. Question. Never. Left.

• THE SUNKEN: We. Are. The Sunken.

WHAT DO YOU WANT?

• ALEX: What--what do you want..?

WHAT ARE YOU?

• RADIO: "For the first time..." "For the first time..." "For the first time..."
• THE SUNKEN: Time. Just. Time.
• (Further Sunken dialogue here... "Don't. Panic. See You."
• JONAS: What..? I...
• JONAS: That was... not fun...

ARE YOU ALRIGHT?

• ALEX: Are you... feeling... better?
• JONAS: [sigh] I'm feeling, let's start with that.

JUST TAKE IT EASY.

COULDA USED YOUR HELP BACK THERE!

• ALEX: Yeah, I know you just went through, like, an event, or something? But I coulda really used your help back there.
• JONAS: [sigh] You are an evil person. ^{(May be tied to your performance.)}

• RADIO: "This has been United News, and than you for listening."

If... you failed the test

• JONAS: You could've, like... couldn't you have tried a little harder there?
• JONAS: I know it's not, like, your fault, but...

DON'T BLAME ME!

• ALEX: Oh, give me a friggin' break! Those questions were impossible, how can you expect me to--

I'M SORRY!

• JONAS: Wait... we lost, right?
• JONAS: The whole hangman got drawn.
• JONAS: So isn't there some, like, some sort of... penalty?
• CLARISSA: [screaming]
• JONAS: Clarissa!

CLARISSA!

I TRIED TO GET IT RIGHT!

I HOPE SHE'S OKAY!

If... you pass the test

• JONAS: This is just unbelievable.
• CLARISSA: Anyone! Can anyone just--
• JONAS: That's gotta be Clarissa.
• JONAS: Let's get her and get out of here, or use her radio and get out of here, but... let's just get out of here.

...

• CLARISSA: Clarissa's asleep right now. Be still so as not to wake her.
• JONAS: Um...

HUH?

• ALEX: ...huh..?

A JOKE..?

SHE'S CRACKING UP?

...

• JONAS: Cross your fingers...
• JONAS: Clarissa--

If... you save Clarissa first

• CLARISSA: Oh my god, you actually came.
• CLARISSA: I mean, it did take you... long enough, but... still. Good.
• CLARISSA: I've been sitting, fumbling around with this stuff...
• CLARISSA: I don't know how to work this crap.

I KEEP MY WORD.

ARE YOU ALRIGHT?

DON'T EVEN START.

• ALEX: Ugh... Okay, don't even start, Clarissa, we came, we're here. Be happy.
• CLARISSA: Alright. Don't get all... you know, but be honest.

• CLARISSA: Did you come for because I needed help? Or did you come because there was a radio?
• JONAS: Um, Clarissa...
• CLARISSA: I want to hear it from Alex.

YES, OF COURSE.

NO, OF COURSE NOT.

WELLLLL...

• ALEX: Well... I mean...
• JONAS: Yes, we wouldn've. We're not gonna leave you behind, okay?
• CLARISSA: You're a good boy, Jonas, but... watch out for that one.

• JONAS: Speaking of the radio... where is it?

If... you save Ren first

• There's alternate dialogue here..? Not sure what makes it play
• CLARISSA: Oh, well look at this, the Super Twins decided to grace me with their presence.
• CLARISSA: I thought maybe I wasn't good enough for a house call, doctor.
• JONAS: So are we MISSING CONTENT

WE'RE HERE NOW.

• ALEX: We came here, okay? We showed up, and--you know what? It wasn't exactly an easy walk, there were, like, obstacles.
• CLARISSA: Obstacles. Obstacles, okay, what ninja training ground kept you from showing up when I called, huh?
• CLARISSA: I mean, it's like a three mile spread.
• CLARISSA: That's like twenty minutes if you jog!

NOTICE THE GHOSTS.

• ALEX: Oh, I dunno, maybe all the ghosts that are shambling around, handing out tests?
• CLARISSA: Oh my god... Look, stuff has been... strange, I'll give you that, but let's not bungee jump into lunacy just yet, okay?
• JONAS: Okay, whatever, Clarissa, just--where's the radio?

HOW'D YOU EVEN GET HERE?

ALL THE LOCKED DOORS!

ARE YOU... ALRIGHT?

• ALEX: Um... are you alright?
• CLARISSA: I mean, yeah? Why?
• CLARISSA: Yeah, sure, my hair might be a little weird, but...
• CLARISSA: There's not a lot I can do about that.

YOU SOUNDED... DISTRESSED.

• ALEX: You just sounded... really distressed, that's all.
• CLARISSA: Well, I mean... I dunno. I'm fine now, so...

I GUESS YOU'RE OKAY.

YOU SOUNDED OFF.

DON'T EVEN START.

• JONAS: Alright, where's this famous radio?
• CLARISSA: I dunno, I can't get it to do anything I want.
• JONAS: Alex, wanna take a look at this?

RADIO

• ALEX: Yeah, no, this is... this is like a low frequency thing? It's just meant for the base, it won't... I don't think it can beam out.
• JONAS: [sigh] Really?
• CLARISSA: No, no no, isn't there a way to--
• RADIO: These officers who know your problems full and well will give you a friendly and sympathetic hearing...
• CLARISSA: Who is that?

...

• JONAS: Cross your fingers...

If... Clarissa saved first

YOU ALREADY SAID THAT.

UH OH.

• ALEX: Uh... Mm, CONTENT MISSING

SOMETHING JUST HAPPENED.

If... Jonas saved first

NOT NOW!

JONAS, WE'RE IN A TIME THING! ^{(Alternate option here if you have not been to Ren)}

• ALEX: Jonas, wait, we're in another... [sigh] we got looped again.
• JONAS: Crap! Well, uh, just keep me in the loop. ...I didn't mean to say that.

• JONAS: Clarissa!
• JONAS: Is there anything like--can we cut her down with something?!

NO!

CLARISSA!

WHY!

...

• JONAS: Cross your fingers...

HOLY CRAP.

• ALEX: [gasp] Holy crap.

OKAY...

• ALEX: [sigh] Okay...

• JONAS: What is it?
• JONAS: Is something wrong?
• JONAS: Or... not?

WE KEEP LOOPING.

• ALEX: We keep doing the same--we've--we've gone through this door like twice now, and it--it keeps--the events keep changing.
• JONAS: Are you feeling okay?
• JONAS: Cause...
• JONAS: I'm not really following.

IT'S FINE, IGNORE ME.

I'M NOT CRAZY!

• ALEX: I'm not nutso, Jonas, we've, like, done this, we've gone through this door and seen Clarissa twice now and we're about to do it a third time!
• JONAS: Okay, alright, I'm sorry, I believe that, you believe this, so alright, just keep me posted I guess on how... that... develops?

CLARISSA MIGHT BE DEAD...

• ALEX: Look, Clarissa might be... dead, in there.
• JONAS: Wh--why?
• JONAS: We just heard her.

NEVERMIND, IGNORE ME.

I'M NOT CRAZY!

• ALEX: I'm not nutso, Jonas, we've, like, done this, we've gone through this door and seen Clarissa twice now, and once, she was hanged, and we're about to do it a third time!
• JONAS: Okay, alright, I'm sorry, I believe that, you believe this, so alright, just keep me posted I guess on how... that... develops?

BRACE YOURSELF.

• ALEX: Hoo... just... brace yourself, okay?
• JONAS: Alright.

• JONAS: Clarissa?
• JONAS: I woulda swore she was... in here.

BETTER GONE THAN DEAD.

• ALEX: Better gone than dead...

CLARISSA?

• ALEX: Clarissa..?
• ALEX: [sigh]

• JONAS: Oh--maybe this was the--the thing--the radio she was using.
• JONAS: If we can get it to--I mean, she got it to kinda work, so...

IT'S NOT GONNA WORK.

IT ONLY BROADCASTS HERE.

• ALEX: Yeah, it--it only broadcasts within the... within a short space, it's not gonna do what we need it to.
• JONAS: Really? How do you know?

A HUNCH.

WE'RE IN A LOOP.

• ALEX: Jonas. We're in a loop. We already--just... it's okay, knock yourself out.

I JUST KNOW.

...

• JONAS: Clarissa..!

OH THANK GOD!

• ALEX: Oh, thank god, Clarissa, we saw--I saw you--

ARE YOU.. OKAY?

• ALEX: Clarissa, it's us, it's Alex. Are you... okay?

WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

• ALEX: Cl--Clarissa, what are you doing?

• CLARISSA: Alex. Don't worry.
• (Above dialogue AND the entirety of the dialogue before she jumps sometimes does not play. wat)
• (Radio talking undernath, but it's not subtitled? investigate)

...if Ren first,

• JONAS: She's like... she's like Ren was.

...if Clarissa first,

• JONAS: What is the matter with her..?

CLARISSA!

• ALEX: Clarissa, would you wake up?!

WHAT'S SHE DOING..?

• ALEX: What is she doing..?

WAKE UP!

• CLARISSA: There will be other ships... and other souls to sail them.
• JONAS: Oh my God--why would she do that?!
• JONAS: Why would she do that?!
• JONAS: We're--we're--we're not--it's not like we're--

SHE WAS LIKE, POSSESSED!

• ALEX: She--she was--she was like possessed! I--I just--

SHE KILLED HERSELF!

• ALEX: She killed herself. Oh my god, she just killed herself, they made her--

I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!

• ALEX: I--I can't believe this! I--I can't believe she would do that, over... I mean, things are--are bad right now, but you--you can't just!

• ALEX: I just--this is... Jonas, this is so horrible!
• JONAS: [sigh] I don't--I don't even know what to...
• JONAS: ...we... we should get to the others.
• JONAS: I--I... can't even imagine telling them.
• JONAS: Or... or how to tell them, I'm...

THEM!? WHAT ABOUT HER MOM?

• ALEX: I--I don't even know how I can tell her mom! I mean--we--she knows me, this can't--oh god, and just the fact that I'm the one who--who was here. [sigh] God.

I'M WORRIED ABOUT WHAT THEY'RE DOING!

• ALEX: "Telling them?" I just wanna--we have to round them up before anything else--before anything like this, like... I don't even--I don't even know what happened here, Jonas, if it's... if they're thinking of doing the same thing..?

• JONAS: We'll... [sigh] We'll figure it out.
• JONAS: This is unbelievable.

...

• JONAS: Wow.
• JONAS: Um, there's no way she got up from that, right?
• JONAS: Like, there's no way!
• JONAS: We both saw that happened, that was...

SHE'S ALIVE!

• ALEX: Oh my--[sigh] thank Christ, she's alive! Maybe she just... maybe she just twisted her--twisted something, or...
• JONAS: Alex, even if she fell feet first, she would've broken every bone in her body. How'd she just get up and walk away?

SHE'S... UHH..?

• ALEX: Wait, she--she's... uh... I can't think of the appropriate word here.
• JONAS: "Dead?" The word is "dead", she should be dead, Alex. I watched her. There was no breaking that fall, so... how'd she walk away?

SHE'S ALIVE?

• ALEX: Wait, she's... alive? How--how is... how is that possible?
• JONAS: I bet all the money in my pocket that no one could survive that. So, why isn't she here?

• JONAS: This... isn't possible, cause unless she's built of rubber...

GHOSTS?

• ALEX: Let's... just... put a pin in "ghosts" and say "until evidence proves otherwise."

HALLUCINATION?

• ALEX: Hallucination? Dual hysteria? I--I don't--I don't know, Jonas.

TIME LOOP?

• ALEX: We... did just go through a, uh, sort of a... temporal anomaly... A time... thing?
• ALEX: Maybe it screwed with what happened?

• JONAS: Well, regardless... good news..?

YES, OF COURSE.

• ALEX: Yes, Jonas, of course it's good news that Clarissa isn't dead. Christ.
• JONAS: That's not why I hesitated, of course it's good news if she's not dead. I'm just saying if.

YOU THINK SHE'S A ZOMBIE?

• ALEX: What, you think she's a zombie, now? Three seconds ago, you said she couldn't get up from that, now you're leaping right into "zombie".
• JONAS: I'm not saying she's a zombie, I'm saying we don't know what she is... currently.

WELL SHE'S NOT DEAD!

WE'LL SEE...

• ALEX: Yeah. We'll see...

Milner Outpost

...if Ren first,

• JONAS: [sigh] Let's just get back to Ren at the comm tower. Maybe he's had better luck than us at... anything?

...if Clarissa first,

• JONAS: Well... guess it's Ren time. Let's hope it's less eventful.

Epiphany Field

...Clarissa first,

• NONA: Mayday! May-- oh, crap, this isn't... Ren, this is just coming out the speakers on the roof thing, isn't it?
• REN: [chuckle] She's adorable, isn't she?
• NONA: Ugh, my god, is this what I sound like?
• NONA: How can anyone stand to listen to me all day?

YEAH, ADORABLE.

• ALEX: Yeah, those cheeks are just made for pinching.
• JONAS: Yeah, let's see how she is.

WHERE'S CLARISSA...

• ALEX: Alright... if Ren and Nona are in the Comm Tower... [sigh] just... where did Clarissa hobble off to?
• JONAS: Let's talk to Ren and Nona before we try and find her, cause... like, I dunno, maybe they know something we don't.

LET'S REGROUP UP THERE.

• JONAS: And, uh... also give my lungs a breather. My stupid chest's on fire for some reason.
• REN: Smoke will do that.
• REN: Yes. It will.

...Ren first,

• NONA: Mayday! May-- oh, crap, this isn't... Ren, this is just coming out the speakers on the roof thing, it's not--
• NONA: Ugh, my god, is this what I sound like?
• NONA: How can anyone stand to listen to me all day?

LET'S GO MEET UP.

• ALEX: Huh--well, now we know where the little moppets are.
• ALEX: Let's huddle up, see how they're doing.
• JONAS: Yeah.

WHERE'S CLARISSA...

• ALEX: ...alright. If Ren and Nona are in the comm tower... [sigh] just where did Clarissa hobble off to?
• JONAS: Let's talk to Ren and Nona before we try and find her, cause--like, I dunno, maybe they know something we don't.

THE IMPORTANT ONES ARE SAFE...

Harden Tower

...Clarissa first,

• NONA: Oh. Hey guys! I see you down there. And... without Clarissa... [sigh]
• NONA: Actually, I'm gonna stop talking, since this obviously isn't working, so... just come on up and you can... help or something.
• NONA: God, this stupid thing.
• REN: She doesn't sound good. Right?
• REN: She sounds a little off?
• JONAS: I don't know her well enough.

SHE SOUNDS NORMAL...

SHE'S PROBABLY SCARED.

• ALEX: She's probably at least a little scared.
• ALEX: She was freaked out when we ran into her, and... we still haven't found her best friend, so.

SHE'S TIRED, LIKE US.

...Ren first,

• REN: Hey! Hey, I--I saw you guys coming up from the tower! The Dick Tower!
• JONAS: I think you mean Harden Tower.
• JONAS: Please don't ruin that for me, it's all I have left.

HOW'S NONA?

• ALEX: How's Nona doing? We heard what I imagine was her first radiocast ever, earlier...
• REN: Yeah. No, she's... I dunno.
• REN: I mean, she's frazzled one moment, then that makes me frazzled, then she sees that I'm frazzled, so she, like, freezes up.

ANY GOOD NEWS?

• ALEX: Anything, uh, good to report? Besides that you're still alive, which I'm glad, you know, don't get me wrong.
• REN: Thanks? Um, yes, I am still alive, but, uh, no. Other than that, no.

HOW ARE YOU?

• ALEX: How are you? Um, still holding all your parts together? Emotionally?
• REN: Um, kinda. Some things are slipping their rotors a little, but, you know, whatever.

• JONAS: Any luck contacting somebody?
• REN: Nope. No luck to speak of.
• REN: Any honestly, I thought this week was gonna be a big karma dump.
• REN: I found like fifty bucks in the street and I knew who it belonged to, and I only spent half of it.

IT'S OKAY.

• ALEX: It's okay, it's... you tried. That's all you can do.

WE'LL COME UP WITH SOMETHING.

• ALEX: Well, we're all here now--well, I mean, except Clarissa, but we're mostly all here, and we'll come up with something.
• REN: I hope so.

HOW HARD HAVE YOU TRIED?

• REN: The stupid radio's been... what my therapist would call a "negative reinforcer." Just won't work right!

• REN: Just... I'm so glad I took that second brownie.
• JONAS: What.
• REN: It's kind of, you know.
• REN: It's just about to start doing it's thing.

PLEASE SAY YOU'RE JOKING.

• ALEX: Wait, second brownie? Ren, please tell me this is a joke, okay? This is a joke, right?
• REN: Mmm... why would this be a joke? I'm not joking.
• JONAS: Wait, you're not messing with us? You seriously took another one?

REN! YOU IDIOT!

• ALEX: We--Ren, we need you sober right now, we need you capable--I--how could you be so stupid?

WHEN DID YOU DO THAT?

• ALEX: When did you take a second one? How many do you even have?
• REN: I ate it right when we got back to the fields. I thought you noticed! ^{(Probably dependant on route.)}

• JONAS: Wait, you're not messing with us? You seriously took another one?
• REN: It was like--it was like half of one, alright? It's just to level me out.
• REN: It'll--it'll bring me back up, that's what it does.
• REN: If you're down, it brings you up!

YOU BETTER HOPE IT LEVELS YOU.

• ALEX: You better pray to whatever god scares you the most it does level you out, cause if this screws us up, you're on summer probation.
• REN: Don't say that, that's not... that's not nice.

WHATEVER YOU NEED, FINE

• ALEX: [sigh] Fine. If that's what it takes to get you through the night, then... okay. Great.
• REN: I don't need it. I just... needed it now.

I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU.

• ALEX: I cannot believe you! You're gonna keel over in like a purple haze while we try and save our lives.
• REN: I'm gonna be fine. Last time, I just ate too much. This was a gimme. It's baby food.

• JONAS: Ohh... God.

...

• NONA: This thing doesn't work.
• REN: Not getting anything?
• NONA: I'm getting something, but it's like... I dunno.

HI, NONA.

WHAT WON'T WORK?

• ALEX: What won't work? The, uh, radio?
• NONA: It, like, works, but...

YOU DID MORE THAN I COULD.

• ALEX: We heard you on the squawk box. When I tried it, I just got static and, a weird sound, so.
• NONA: That's about all that I'm getting.

• NONA: Uh... sorry I was like, weird earlier. But... hey, have you figured out what's going on yet?
• NONA: You have to know something. You've been like, out there.
• JONAS: Uh, yeah, we have.
• JONAS: Nona, it's sorta... really complicated.

IT'S BEEN GHOSTS.

• ALEX: It's been ghosts, Nona. Ghosts are going on.
• ALEX: The blackouts, the hallucinations? It's all been ghosts.

WE TUNED INTO SOMETHING IN THE CAVE.

• ALEX: Look, we tuned into something in the cave, and... it was like Gabriel sounded the trumpet, just--everything went bad.
• JONAS: And, uh, ghosts.
• REN: Yes CONTENT MISSING

YOU DON'T WANNA KNOW.

. . . . . . . . . .

• REN: It's okay, the blue streak version is it's ghosts. That's all. That's what's going on. Ghosts are going on. ^{(This needs to be double-checked.)}

• NONA: Ghosts? Really?
• JONAS: Yeah, and it would really help if you could just jump to the believing us part. It'd save a headache.
• REN: Oh! Oh, I got it. This is great, this is perfect, I know exactly what to do.
• JONAS: Do you?
• REN: Yeah, totally! It's Maggie Adler.
• NONA: Maggie Adler?
• REN: Yeah! She has a boat!
• REN: Had a boat. I mean, the boat's still there, but she's not, she's dead.

HER HOUSE IS BEHIND A GIANT GATE.

• ALEX: Her house--manor or whatever it is, is behind a huge gate.
• ALEX: You can see it coming up here from Main Street.
• REN: No, I know, but the keys to it are here, somewhat readily available.

EUREKA!

WHY NOT MENTION THIS BEFORE?

• ALEX: Ren, wh-- [sigh] You could have mentioned this at any point, I mean, we walked right past it!
• REN: I know! I'm sorry, but I've been like stewing in my own panic here for the last couple of hours.

• REN: My sister Allie worked at the Parks office in town. She had to deliver that old woman her mail every day. I know that they have the key.
• NONA: Okay, so, we go--
• JONAS: No no no, we are not--we are not gonna go with the plan--the first plan put forth by the group's resident burnout.
• REN: Hey, c'mon! I'm not a burnout.
• REN: Okay, so I ate like two brownies...
• JONAS: CONTENT MISSING

HEY, BACK OFF, JONAS.

WHAT OTHER PLAN IS THERE?

• ALEX: Well... and I'm not saying it's the best plan, but... what over plan is there really, Jonas?
• JONAS: Oh, I dunno. Fix the radio? Find Clarissa? Set fire to the mug shop?
• JONAS: And these are just off the top of my head.
• NONA: Yeah. I'm still worried about Clarissa.

WE CAN'T FIX THE RADIO.

SET FIRE TO THE MUG SHOP?

• ALEX: Wait--set fire to the mug shop?

WE DON'T KNOW WHERE CLARISSA IS.

• ALEX: But... we don't know where Clarissa is.

• JONAS: I'm not saying literally do that, I'm just--there's other things we can do.
• REN: [chuckle] But there isn't!

JONAS KINDA HAS A POINT...

• JONAS: Ren, understand it is completely your fault that we're in this to begin with.
• REN: What?!
• JONAS: And now you want us to trust you when things are really bad?!
• JONAS: You had Alex bring the radio, you brought us here!

C'MON, IT WAS NOBODY'S FAULT.

• ALEX: C'mon, Jonas, this is nobody's fault. Ghosts are never anybody's fault, certainly not ours!
• NONA: Yeah, guys. This isn't really, uh, productive.

IT WAS OUR FAULT.

• ALEX: Jonas, you know we tuned into that thing. We kicked the door open to... whatever this is.
• JONAS: Oh gimme a break, this night is like a--it's like a giant ugly misery stew that Ren's clearly been the chef of.
• REN: That's--what does that even mean?!
• NONA: Guys, c'mon.

IT WAS YOUR FAULT, ACTUALLY.

• REN: It should be obvious to even the cheap seats that you're the only new weirdo who throws this whole social harmony thing we go goin' on outta wack!
• REN: I mean, we all grew up with each other!
• REN: Alex knows she can trust me!

JONAS IS NOT A WEIRDO!

REN, IT'S OKAY.

EVERYONE CALM DOWN.

• ALEX: Guys! You know there's no television cameras here, right? Take the energy down a notch.
• JONAS: Alex, I am not putting my life in his hands!
• JONAS: This whole thing has been a complete joke to this guy! I--I can't believe you're even kind of defending him!
• NONA: Jonas.
• JONAS: I know you said that Ren is like, "harmless" or whatever, but I'm over giving him passes. And you should be too.
• REN: I don't need a pass from you. Alex is my best friend.
• JONAS: Yeah, and she could hardly muster two syllables CONTENT MISSING

DON'T SUCK ME INTO THIS!

• ALEX: Don't suck me into this tornado of--of whatever is happening right now!
• NONA: Just guys, please stop! We can--we can fight on the way home, after we get the boat, and--I guess if that's... even what we're doing.

I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT YOU'RE ARGUING.

• ALEX: Okay. You're arguing fifteen things at once now.
• ALEX: Do the plan, trust Jonas, leave Ren, like--pick a target? Or, better yet, just don't.
• NONA: Yeah.

GUYS! STOP IT!

• ALEX: Guys! Stop it, stop, the collective neuroses call a truce, okay?
• NONA: Yes, please?

• REN: Look, I don't care what Caveman Jonas says!
• JONAS: Wh--What is that?!
• REN: There is a boat, at Maggie Adler's house.
• REN: And the key to her house is back on Main Street.
• JONAS: And the backup plan for when this thing fails spectacularly is two of us have to stay here by the semi-functioning walkie talkie.
• REN: Fine by me! Alex has the radio. Are you okay to go into town?
• REN: Not that you--not that you wouldn't be okay.
• JONAS: She's fine, she's been using that thing like a machete the whole night.

YEAH, OF COURSE.

• ALEX: Yeah, it's not like--you know... I'm fine. Whatever, I'm ready.

ANYTHING TO GET OUT OF HERE.

• ALEX: Honestly? Anything to get me off this tower and away from this specific configuration of yelling people would do wonders for me right now.

• NONA: She shouldn't--you shouldn't go alone, we don't need like three of us up here.
• REN: Yeah, I'll totally go! It's my... like, brilliant idea or whatever.
• JONAS: Are you kidding me? Your food is gonna start kicking in any second. Beyond that, you're a completely unreliable basketcase!
• REN: I am not a basketcase! You, uh... meathead!
• REN: I'm eccentric!

STOP IT!

SHUT UP, BOTH OF YOU!

• ALEX: Just shut up! Both of you!
• REN: Sorry.

• JONAS: Okay, keeping in mind who you've been able to depend on the whole night to keep--
• REN: Yes, keeping in mind who you're tired of?
• JONAS: Keeping in mind who's taller... who do you want coming with you?
• REN: Yeah, your oldest pal.
• JONAS: Oh my god.
• REN: Or your new psycho step-brother.

REN.

NONA.

• ALEX: Nona? Wanna come with me..?
• JONAS: What?!
• REN: What?!
• NONA: Really? I mean... I guess.
• JONAS: *Why* are you making me shack with this guy?
• REN: This isn't-- it's my friggin' plan! It's wholly my idea!
• JONAS: We've been together the entire night, why switch it up now?
• REN: And then you CONTENT MISSING

BE QUIET!

WE'LL BE BACK LATER.

THIS IS WHY!

• ALEX: Why? This is why! Easiest question I've been asked all night.
• JONAS: This is a total punt, Alex.
• REN: Yeah, this isn't--
• JONAS: No, it's fine, this will be a good...
• JONAS: If you don't wanna take sides, don't take sides, but know: nobody's happy with this.
• REN: [angry sigh]

I DON'T CARE.

NONA IS HAPPY, RIGHT?

• ALEX: Hey, Nona's happy. You're happy, right?
• NONA: Um... sure.

JONAS.

• ALEX: Jonas? Let's go.
• JONAS: [sigh] Thank you.
• REN: What?! First you ditch me back in town to talk to this guy about God knows what, and now you're that stuff's gone crazy, you're still picking him over me?!
• REN: Him? Him. Him?!
• NONA: Ren, c'mon. It'll be fine. We'll watch the walkie talkie.

HE'S BEEN LIKE MY SIDE-KICK.

WE'RE STILL DOING YOUR PLAN.

• ALEX: Ren, we're still--we're still doing your whole plan you came up with. Who cares if you're on the home or the away team?
• REN: I wanna be on the Alex team, I wanna feel like--like--I wanna be, like, needed!
• REN: Just... [sigh] Just, fine, whatever, have fun you two!
• JONAS: This isn't fun, that's the point.
• REN: Oh, God, would you just shut up?
• NONA: Okay. Before things get stupid again? Good luck with the whole key thing. We'll be waiting, guys.

YOU ATE ANOTHER BROWNIE!

^{(Each route to Main Street will be contained in a tabbed segment. This may be changed later to separate pages, when sub-pages for each location are made.)}

Ren Nona Jonas

Epiphany Field - with Nona

• NONA: You know... I do remember you from Mr. Tuttle's class.
• NONA: You sit in the, uh, back... behind Jake. I just forgot. I'm sorry.
• NONA: [coughing]

DON'T APOLOGIZE!

• ALEX: Oh, hey, it's--it's nothing to be sorry about.
• ALEX: I don't talk all that much, so... I don't know why you would remember me.
• NONA: I'm also just, like, never there.
• NONA: It's... a loophole, where--I don't know if you know this, but if you ditch, you get a detention, and if you don't go to that, you get suspended.
• NONA: Buuut suspensions are like paid vacation, you can just do your work over.
• NONA: So...
• NONA: It's like... what's the point?

BUT YOU MISS THE CLASS!

• ALEX: But... you miss the class! Isn't that like the most important part? How do you even learn anything?
• NONA: Jenny, the TA? She lets me practive ballet in her studio.
• NONA: So... I learn jumping. That's enough.

WHAT DO YOU DO INSTEAD?

GOOD TIP.

• ALEX: Ah, nice. Good tip. Thanks, I'm gonna use that.
• NONA: Yeah, of course.

YOU SHOULD BE SORRY!

• NONA: Oh, and... don't tell anyone, but my birthday's in three days, and I'm having a thing, and you're invited.
• NONA: I think Clarissa's out of town, so...
• NONA: It shouldn't be a problem.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

CRAPPY WAY TO START IT, HUH?

• ALEX: Well, happy early birthday! In my family, we celebrates birthdays all week, so you're four days late. You gotta get into the mindstate.
• NONA: Thanks.
• NONA: I'm sorry. I don't even know why I brought it up.

WHY NOT TELL ANYONE?

• ALEX: Why didn't you tell us? We coulda made this more of a, you know, a birthday thing instead of just a beach bash or whatever.
• NONA: I... don't even know why I mentioned it now, really.

• NONA: That's not true. I was thinking about... well I'm worried about Clarissa and... well, I was thinking about my last birthday when...
• NONA: Actually, sorry, nevermind. This has nothing to do with anything.
• NONA: I'm just in a fog right now.

SAY WHAT YOU WANNA SAY.

• ALEX: No, c'mon, I wanna hear this. It was last year, your birthday... Go.
• NONA: Just--this was when Nicole was in her car accident, and... so of course we cancel and go visit her, and I'm not gonna pout about that. It's common decency, it's fine.
• NONA: But afterwards, after this totally emotionally draining night? Clarissa still came over and surprised me with this huge cake.
• NONA: And... we stayed up and watched all my favorite movies.
• NONA: And... she didn't have to do that.

CLARISSA DID THAT?

• ALEX: Wait. Clarissa did that? Clarissa. Our Clarissa.
• NONA: She's a good person, Alex, really, it's just... it's like she's had a pebble in her boot for a while that she just can't seem to get rid of.

THAT'S SWEET.

• NONA: Anyways, my birthday's in three days, and...

DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT.

• ALEX: It's okay, it's fine, we're all kinda in a daze right now.

• NONA: I just hope she's okay, that's all.

WE'LL FIND HER.

• ALEX: We'll find her, Nona. I'm not leaving without her.
• NONA: Ugh, yeah. I know.

DON'T WORRY.

PREPARE FOR THE WORST...

Discovery Cliffs

Main Street

• NONA: So... it's the Parks and Facilities building? That's... down a bit, right?
• NONA: If I'm remembering the right building, I don't think it's far.

YEAH, WE'RE CLOSE.

• ALEX: Yeah, we're... we're close.

...

• NONA: Clarissa!
• NONA: What are you... how did she get up there?
• NONA: What are you doing..?

SHE'S ALIVE!

HOW WERE YOU NOT KILLED!

• ALEX: Clarissa! How--how are you--how are you not dead right now? Like, swan dive out of a window empty pool dive dead?

WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?

• ALEX: Clarissa, where have you been? The last time we saw you, you jumped out a window! I mean, I thought--we thought you were dead!

• NONA: Clarissa! What--Alex, Christ, what's wrong with her?
• NONA: Clarissa? Can you... can you hear me?
• NONA: Alex, do you know what's happening? Is she--is she gonna be okay?

I HATE WHEN THIS HAPPENS!

CLARISSA, FIGHT THEM OFF!

• ALEX: Clarissa, wake up! Fight them off, take control of yourself! Um... hang in there, baby!

GHOSTS, WHAT DO YOU WANT?

• ALEX: Okay, just what do you guys want? This isn't--this has just really lost its charm, I have to say!

• NONA: Alex, ugh, please, can you just... I don't know what you can do, but can you just do something? Please, just try anything.
• NONA: Like... ugh.
• NONA: Clarissa?!

I'LL TRY.

• ALEX: I can... I'll... try, okay, I'll try.

THIS HAPPENED TO REN.

• ALEX: This happened to Jonas, too. It's... it's... I--I dunno, it's like when they wanna talk or something.
• NONA: Ugh, god...

WHAT DO YOU EXPECT ME TO DO!

• NONA: Clarissa? Can you... can you hear me?
• NONA: Alex, come on, just--please try and get her down, at least, please, somehow.

Tuning in...

• NONA: Clarissa, can you come down?
• NONA: Ugh, she just looks awful.
• CLARISSA: No!
• NONA: Aaah!
• CLARISSA: You think... you can control me?
• NONA: Clarissa...

NO...

ARE YOU... NOT POSSESSED?

I'M TRYING TO HELP YOU!

• ALEX: I'm--I'm trying to help you! This is--this will--
• CLARISSA: Help me? Help me, how will that help me?

this plays sometimes...

• RADIO: I was looking forward to seeing you.
• RADIO: Yes, I used to dream about something like this.

IT'S HELPED THE OTHERS!

• ALEX: It--it's helped the others! Ren and Nona, they've gone through the same--
• CLARISSA: Gone through what? They're children, they've gone through nothing.

• RADIO: When you're off, the little machine has no more heart than a brain.
• CLARISSA: No more heart... than...

...

IS SHE... OKAY?

• ALEX: Is she... okay? Or...
• NONA: She's... I think so. Clarissa, are you okay?

WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT?

• ALEX: Man... Nona, what was all that about?
• NONA: I don't know.
• NONA: Clarissa, are you alright?

• CLARISSA: [sigh]
• NONA: You scared the crap out of us!
• CLARISSA: I'm fine, I can... I'm fine.
• NONA: Okay... are you sure?
• NONA: Cause that didn't look great...

BACK TO NORMAL?

WAS THAT... YOU AT ALL?

DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED?

• ALEX: [sigh] Do you remember anything that happened?
• CLARISSA: [sigh] I remember... waiting in Fort Milner... and seeing you.
• NONA: That was a while ago.

• CLARISSA: How did I get here?
• NONA: You don't remember how you got here?

NO CLUE.

• ALEX: [sigh] The usual answer to any question tonight has been "I have no idea", and... sorry to say, but this is no different.

YOU WERE DEAD A WHILE AGO.

TIME LOOP THING?

• NONA: So... you're just blank.
• CLARISSA: No... I remember something. I remember you... with that radio...
• CLARISSA: And I remember feeling like you... were the reason all of this was happening.

...

• REN: Wait, it's Clarissa's turn already?
• CLARISSA: Yeah, it's my turn, what do you mean "it's Clarissa's turn already?"
• CLARISSA: I haven't even asked one question.
• CLARISSA: Everyone's asking me, I get to do the asking now.

WHAT'S GOING ON?

• ALEX: Wait, what's--what's going on? We're back at the... [sigh]
• NONA: It's Clarissa's turn.
• JONAS: Yeah, it's Clarissa's turn.

GUYS, THIS ISN'T REAL!

• ALEX: [sigh] Guys, okay I know you we're still playing Truth or Slap or whatever, but this isn't real, so--
• REN: Well, wait. Clarissa hasn't a chance to ask something yet, so...
• CLARISSA: Yeah.

ARE YOU CONTROLLING THIS?

• CLARISSA: And you of all people should know what my question is gonna be cause I'm not gonna waste it.
• CLARISSA: Alex. What did you do?
• CLARISSA: Explain why me and my best friend...
• CLARISSA: And your idiot best friend...
• CLARISSA: And your new step-brother are all screwed.

IT'S NOT MY FAULT!

• ALEX: You are not blaming me for this, Clarissa, this--this is so outside of logic, of reason, of--anything that could possibly be anticipated.

WE HAVE TO STICK TOGETHER NOW.

WE TUNED SOMETHING IN...

• JONAS: It's really not her fault, Clarissa.
• CLARISSA: Jonas, I'm sorry, but you don't know who you speak of, dear.
• REN: Clarissa, seriously, I can vouch for this, this isn't her fault.
• CLARISSA: It has to be her fault, of course it's her fault.
• CLARISSA: There's no other way this story goes.
• CLARISSA: She creates chaos, she's a storm chaser.

WHY?!

• ALEX: Why?! Why does it have to be my fault?
• CLARISSA: Why does it have to be your fault? Are you kidding me?

JONAS WAS THERE, TOO!

DON'T LISTEN TO HER.

• ALEX: Don't listen to her, okay? She's pissed at the world and she likes to take it out on me, and none of what's happening makes any sense anyway!
• JONAS: I'm not! It's not a--

• NONA: No, c'mon Clarissa, let's not do this right now.
• CLARISSA: You're gonna learn, Jonas, I swear to god. The town looks at her like she has a red letter tattooed on her frickin' forehead--
• JONAS: Clarissa...
• CLARISSA: --and the giant, lit-up Christmas tree reason why is that Michael is dead because of her.
• CLARISSA: Because of her!
• CLARISSA: Like, do you understand who you're living with?

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!

• ALEX: It would take a very sick person to see it that way, and I would love to hear the explanation!

SHUT UP!

• ALEX: Clarissa, just shut up! Look around, we're not at high school where anyone gives a crap about your pet miseries!

• CLARISSA: Michael was gonna leave town! He was free, he was outta here, until this one convinced him to take her swimming for one last... God knows what!
• CLARISSA: And he drowned!
• CLARISSA: He drowned in Horn Lake while this one could barely flap her arms!
• NONA: Clarissa.
• CLARISSA: Uuugh! She is a pox, Jonas!

THAT DOESN'T MAKE IT MY FAULT!

YOU'RE A HORRIBLE PERSON!

• ALEX: Urgh! You are completely insane! It's like all those after school specials that warn you about inhuman monsters were all secretly talking abou you!
• CLARISSA: Yes, the person who didn't kill her own brother is the monster in this picture, of course!

YOU WEREN'T THERE!

• ALEX: You weren't there! No one was there so how the hell would you know?!
• CLARISSA: Everyone knows! Everyone knows the freak sister who let her brother die while she clung scared to the bow line!

• NONA: Okay, I'm sorry, but enough. Clarissa, that's enough.
• NONA: It's too much right now, I can't... I can't believe-- Ugh!
• CLARISSA: She's--
• NONA: Seriously! Enough!

NONA IT WASN'T MY FAULT!

IT WAS AWFUL.

• ALEX: Nona, it was... awful, alright? It's still awful, and--and I--

DON'T THINK OF ME LIKE THAT

• ALEX: Nona, don't... just don't think of me like--

• NONA: I don't--just, Alex, this is none of my business, okay? None.
• NONA: But we came here to do a thing and that thing is gonna get us home.
• NONA: So let's get home.
• CLARISSA: No.
• NONA: Ugh, Clarissa, what are you--
• CLARISSA: All the outs in free...

...

• NONA: Hey--whoa. Man, do you ever--do you ever get deja vu?
• NONA: Jeez I just got a serious thing of goosebumps from one.
• NONA: Boy.

YES.

• ALEX: Yes. I have gotten and presumably will continue to get deja vu.
• NONA: [chuckle] It's so weird, it's like... cold mouse feet on your skin or something.

CONSTANTLY.

DON'T REMEMBER ANYTHING, I TAKE IT?

• ALEX: Uh, I guess you don't remember, like, anything that just happened... right?
• NONA: Um, to what "anything" are you referring?
• NONA: Exactly.

CLARISSA FREAKING OUT ON ME?

• ALEX: Clarissa, like, totally freaking out on me? Blaming me for... everything? More than everything?
• NONA: Like... like just now? Um, nope, I don't really remember that.

CLARISSA BEING POSSESSED?

• NONA: Okay, well, the office that we gotta try to get into is, like, right there, so... let's try and whatever our way in.
• NONA: We're gonna try--we're gonna try and get into the office thing, right? To get the key..?

TRY DOOR

• ALEX: Yep, this isn't budging.
• NONA: Um... I dunno about that. I think, yeah. I think we can just bust our way through, honestly.
• NONA: The lock looks pretty worn.

"BUST OUR WAY THROUGH?"

• ALEX: "Bust our way through..?" What is that supposed to mean?
• NONA: I think we should try it.

FUN AND PROFITABLE.

SHOVE DOOR

CROSS YOUR FINGERS...

• ALEX: Cross your fingers and hold your thumbs...

BOX

• ALEX: Uh... I think here's something.
• ALEX: It's another... pocket radio, I think. But it's like there's way more stations on the dial.
• NONA: Ooh, neato, here's another one. It says... they're "WAL radios?"
• NONA: "Wave Assisted Lock?" Whatever that means.
• NONA: Oh, duh. It says right here that each frequency is like a key to open the doors around here.
• NONA: So... they're like ID tags or something.
• NONA: It must work for the gate to CONTENT MISSING

AHH, COOL

• ALEX: Ahh, okay. Cool. Great.

LET'S GO THEN.

REALLY?

• NONA: Ooh, wait--wait, here's like a--wait. What is this..?
• NONA: "Personal effects of Margaret Dorothy Adler."

WHY WOULD HER STUFF BE HERE?

• ALEX: Why would her stuff be here..? Didn't her family, or like--hasn't her family been carting her things back to town?

LET'S NOT MESS WITH IT.

• NONA: No, we can start back, I just wanna... Okay, here.
• NONA: "To whom it should concern..."
• NONA: "This island, and its history, is a lie."
• NONA: Jeez. She didn't have fond memories of this place, did she?

WHAT COULD THAT MEAN?

• ALEX: What? What could that mean?

WHAT IS THAT?

• ALEX: What--what is that? Who--who's it for?
• NONA: "To whom it may concern". It says right here.

• NONA: "I have been compelled by both forces outside of my control and my own willful concern for the safety of others to conceal the many truths about Edwards Island."
• NONA: "But now, I feel any further inaction..."
• NONA: "...may carry a far greater risk."

FORCES OUTSIDE HER CONTROL?

"MANY" TRUTHS?

• ALEX: "Many truths?"

THE WELLBEING OF OTHERS?

• ALEX: "The safety of others"? If she's talking about turning into floating shapes, that ship has sailed.

• NONA: Shhh!
• NONA: "Inside, you'll find two WAL-equipped radios."
• NONA: "I have commandeered the old Cardinal Station, 140.1, and used it to relay clues to the nearby beacons buried throughout the area.
• NONA: "Find these beacons and the notes within..."
• NONA: "...and discover the true chronicle of the island."

SCAVENGER HUNT!

• ALEX: Ooh, scavenger hunt! [gasp] Scavenger hunt, scavenger hunt!
• NONA: [laughter] Wait, wait!

HUH? I'M CONFUSED.

• ALEX: Huh? What the hell is she talking about?
• NONA: It's like if we use these news radios, we can tune into 140.1 and hear, like, instructions that will lead to buried stuff. I dunno.

CHORES, YAWN.

• NONA: "To whosoever finds the material, know that I am discomfited in keeping it hidden, and ashamed for the lies I helped preserve."
• NONA: "But also know that I acted in what I felt were the best interests for all at the time..."
• NONA: "...and truly for the interest of time itself."
• NONA: "Margaret Adler."

WHAT A FIND!

NO WAY I'M DOING THIS.

THIS IS LIKE A MYSTERY NOVEL

• ALEX: [elated laugh] I've had--[gasp] I've seriously had, like, dreams about this! Finding a secret, digging it up, it turning out to be a mechanical unicorn?
• NONA: Yeah, we've all had the mechanical unicorn dream, but I think I'm ready just to go home, to be totally face up with you.

Discovery Cliffs

• NONA: [chuckle] Alex, why are you wearing that jacket? It's like seventy-five degrees and the sun is out, you know.
• NONA: And I thought you said you were gonna go swimming anyway...
• NONA: You bring a jacket, but you don't bring a swimsuit.

1 PM Last Year - Discovery Cliffs

HUH?

• ALEX: Huh? I brought the jacket becase I like the jacket. And, I never said I wanted to go swimming.
• ALEX: You just inferred it because I asked when the community pool opens.
• MICHAEL: [chuckle] I inferred it?

THE SUN ISN'T OUT!

• ALEX: The sun is not out, the sun is... I guess it barely came out, just now, but... See, this is when I get punished for watching the weatherman, he said it was gonna be like, overcast.
• MICHAEL: He said there was a chance for clouds.

IT'S... COLD?

• CLARISSA: Hey Michael, we... didn't bring drinks.
• CLARISSA: Did we?
• CLARISSA: I thought we said that we'd bring drinks.

MICHAEL?!

• ALEX: Wait--Michael?!
• MICHAEL: Uh... yeah?
• MICHAEL: What is it?
• MICHAEL: Did I almost... step on a crab or something?

ARE YOU A GHOST!

AM I STUCK IN TIME?

...

YOU'RE DEAD!

• ALEX: Y-y-y-you're dead.
• MICHAEL: I'm dead. I'm dead?
• CLARISSA: I think she's talking about the--
• MICHAEL: Oh, the--the car? No, they don't--listen. Mom and dad know. They don't care.
• MICHAEL: Well, I mean, they cared a little.
• MICHAEL: But they know I can fix a broken taillight.

NO, REALLY DEAD!

YOU WILL DROWN!

• ALEX: No, no no no no, just listen to me. You will drown. Not here, but at Horn Lake. Back at home.
• MICHAEL: You seem really confident. She seems confident, I'm a little nervous.
• CLARISSA: I would be.
• MICHAEL: Relax, Alex, I'm gonna teach you how to swim at the pool in the park, don't worry about it.

(Additional dialogue options, with the other two options.)

YOU DROWNED!

WHY AM I HERE?

• ALEX: Why--how--why am I here?
• MICHAEL: What, you don't wanna hang out at the beach?
• MICHAEL: There's stuff in town, but it's all boring knick-knack shops or whatever.
• CLARISSA: No, c'mon Alex, relax, we just got here.

NO, IN THIS TIME PERIOD!

• ALEX: No, I mean, in--in this... time period.
• MICHAEL: Oh jeez, you're hitting the existensial nostalgia trip already?
• CLARISSA: I get it, Alex, I woulda been happier in the seventies.
• MICHAEL: The seventies? That's like the worst time!

NO, WHY ARE YOU HERE?

NO, WITH YOU!

WHERE'S JONAS!

• ALEX: Where's--where's Jonas?
• MICHAEL: Jonas? Who's Jonas?
• CLARISSA: Is someone else coming?
• MICHAEL: Yeah, is that a friend of yours?

NEVERMIND.

• ALEX: Uh, just... [sigh] nevermind, I guess.
• MICHAEL: Okay Clarissa, take a note. Remind me to check the yearbook for a "Jonas" so I can make fun of Alex's secret boyfriend.
• CLARISSA: [chuckle] Noted.

• CLARISSA: Today turned out to be... a flawless day, it really did.
• MICHAEL: Yeah no, it did, it really did.
• MICHAEL: I wanted to bring a kite, but I thought you'd laugh at me.

THIS IS INSANE.

• ALEX: This is... really quite insane, what's happening right now. I'm just sorry that apparently nobody realizes how insane this is.
• CLARISSA: I know, right? Nobody really appreciates it when conditions are this good.
• MICHAEL: No, it is perfect ice cream and tennis weather. That is rare.

CLARISSA, DON'T YOU REMEMBER?!

• ALEX: Clarissa, doesn't this... don't you remember... we're all on the island? Nona's there?
• CLARISSA: I love Nona like a three-legged puppy, but she would shrivel up and die in the sun.
• MICHAEL: Oh yeah?
• CLARISSA: Yeah, she's better off at home, trust me.

UH... YEAH, THE PERFECT DAY.

• ALEX: Uh... yeah. Um, it... really is kinda ideal, actually.
• CLARISSA: Yeah, I'm like, right about to start sweating, but I'm not.
• MICHAEL: No, it is perfect ice cream and tennis weather. That is rare.

Beacon Beach

• MICHAEL: It's been a spell since we did something, right? I feel like I haven't talked to you in a while. How have you been?
• MICHAEL: What's been going on? How's classes? How's...
• MICHAEL: What's his face--Mr. Collins' English?

UH, IT'S BEEN FINE.

I'VE MISSED YOU.

• ALEX: Truthfully..? I've, um... I've--

I DON'T KNOW.

• MICHAEL: Ahh! Sorry, I think--yeah, I--[chuckle] I accidentally left my phone on the ferry, cause I do things like that.
• CLARISSA: Oh god, you idiot, go get it before it leaves!
• MICHAEL: When I get back, I wanna hear an Alex story!
• CLARISSA: [laughing]

I DON'T HAVE ANY.

• ALEX: I don't... have any, I don't think.
• MICHAEL: I don't believe you!

CAN'T I COME WITH?

• ALEX: Can't I just come with you?
• MICHAEL: I'll take two seconds! Think of something to tell me!

OKAY...

• CLARISSA: ...so...
• CLARISSA: [awkward laughter]

ARE YOU PAST CLARISSA?

• ALEX: If I were to ask you if you were , um... "Past Clarissa", that wouldn't make any sense to you, right?
• CLARISSA: "Past Clarissa?" Like... like am I past the name Clarissa, or...

NO, PAST AND FUTURE.

• ALEX: No, I mean, like--like there's a past, and a--
• CLARISSA: And a future? Okay, uh, a "Future Clarissa". Um... you're right, it doesn't make any sense.
• CLARISSA: Sorry...

FORGET IT.

DO YOU REMEMBER ANYTHING?

• ALEX: Do you... I guess you don't remember anything, right?
• CLARISSA: What am I meant to remember..?
• CLARISSA: I'm sorry, did I forget something?
• CLARISSA: I'm bad with... dates.

OUR ISLAND HORROR SHOW!

• ALEX: Our whole, like, island horror show! Ghosts and possessions and--and--none of this is jarring like anything loose?
• CLARISSA: If this is about Ren's movie, I mean... I told him I didn't want to do it. Half the script was an underwear scene, so... you know, no thanks.

FORGET IT.

• ALEX: Uh, forget it, it's alright.

ARE YOU PRETENDING?

• CLARISSA: Um, I'm glad we could all do stuff today. I'm glad you were cool with it, I mean.
• CLARISSA: I know you guys are really close and like... I know it can be annoying when somebody starts keeping all their time for their girlfriend or whatever.
• CLARISSA: So, I think it would be cool if we could, like, continue to do things together.

YEAH, I UNDERSTAND.

• ALEX: Yeah, I uh, totally understand. And, yeah, let's, uh, do stuff. You know.
• CLARISSA: Cool, cool.

IT DOESN'T MATTER.

NO, HE'S MY BROTHER, IT'S DIFFERENT.

• CLARISSA: Michael, uh.. He loves you, like, a lot. I'm sure you know that, but... he talks about you all the time.
• CLARISSA: [chuckle] "Oh Alex did this, and..."
• CLARISSA: "Alex let the frogs out in science class, isn't she hilarious?"
• CLARISSA: He just, uh... he thinks you're a cool girl.

I LOVE HIM, TOO.

• ALEX: Yeah, well... I love him too.

I KNOW ALREADY.

THANKS FOR TELLING ME.

• ALEX: Thanks for... telling me.
• CLARISSA: Yeah. Of course.

• MICHAEL: ...had to fight the skipper for it, but... he didn't reckon how many squats I can do.
• CLARISSA: What's it up to, six?
• MICHAEL: Only on burrito days.
• MICHAEL: On non-burrito days? It's like eight.
• CLARISSA: Glad you got it back, regardless.

THANK GOD YOU'RE BACK.

• ALEX: Oh, Jesus, thank god you're back. It's like an eternity sitting here with this one.
• CLARISSA: [laughter] Thanks a lot!
• MICHAEL: No, I know what she's talking about.
• CLARISSA: Hey!
• CLARISSA: I'm interesting! I'm entertaining.

SEE?

• ALEX: See? Even he can't keep it locked up.
• MICHAEL: Okay, alright, I was joking, don't salt the earth now.

THANK YOU.

SO, YOU LOVE ME, HUH?

CLARISSA AND I HAD A NICE CHAT.

• ALEX: Actually, Clarissa and I had a nice chat while you were away. Kinda sorry to see you back so soon, to be honest.
• MICHAEL: Oh really? I'm sure Alex sold you on how I lock her in the basement and treat her like a shaved monkey.
• CLARISSA: The version I heard was you trap her in the greenhouse.
• MICHAEL: Yeah, well, it changes month to month.

WE TALKED EX-GIRLFRIENDS.

NO, IT WAS FINE.

• ALEX: No, it was perfectly fine. Perfectly... amicable.
• MICHAEL: Amiable.
• CLARISSA: It means the same thing!
• MICHAEL: Alright! Sorry!

CLARISSA: So... I actually really want a cold... something, so I'm gonna run into town and get like a soda.

CLARISSA: Anybody want anything?

MICHAEL: Umm...

MICHAEL: No, I'm good.