S04E02: The Interrogation

Summary

Bunker 8: S04E02 – The Interrogation

Date: July 7, 2026
Podcast: Bunker 8
Host: The Midnight Mystery

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Episode Overview

In this chilling, high-tension installment of the Bunker 8 audio drama, “The Interrogation” thrusts Jack—a battle-scarred Australian ex-soldier—into a moral and existential pressure-cooker. Grappling with a catastrophic outbreak inside the Antarctic facility, Jack faces his interrogators and is forced to reckon with the consequences of his desperate decision to release the “Catalyst," Violet. As Bunker 8 descends into chaos, characters confront impossible choices, buried guilt, and revelations about a time-traveling prisoner whose cryptic warning may determine the fate of everyone—and perhaps reality itself.

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Key Discussion Points & Plot Developments

Crisis and Containment Chaos

• [01:50–04:43]
  The episode begins mid-emergency: containment has failed, unknown hostiles have breached key levels, and security teams are overwhelmed.
  • Sigma Team radios in, revealing their weaponry is useless: “Standard rounds are not effective. Repeat, standard ammunition is not putting them down. Requesting heavy ordinance authorization. Control, they’re… they’re coming through the wall.” (Sigma Lead, 02:40)
  • Jack is restrained and desperate as Amira Harper and other scientists argue over whether he—blamed for the crisis—should be unchained.

The Weight of a Choice: Violet’s Death

• [03:18–08:51]
  Amira and a supporting scientist confront Jack with deep personal and ethical anger.
  • Jack is accused: “You’re the reason those alarms are going off, Jack.” (Unnamed Female Scientist, 03:23)
  • Jack’s defense: He acted because Violet, trapped for decades, asked him to let her go, but Amira had been working on a plan—a phased, safe extraction.
    • “I had a proposal on Maddox’s desk. 47 pages.” (Amira Harper, 05:30)
    • “Three years of fighting for funding, fighting for access… telling her I was going to get her out, that I had a plan… And now I’ll never know. She’s been gone for hours.” (Unnamed Female Scientist, 08:51)
  • Jack: “Then she made her choice.” (Jack, 10:36)
  • The scientists assert Jack ignored multi-year, peer-reviewed plans in a fatal act of impatience, but Jack challenges whether waiting was justified, given Violet’s suffering.

Proposals, Regret, and Moral Grayness

• [05:16–10:07]
  Long-standing resentment surfaces between those who tried to work within the system and Jack, who acted unilaterally.
  • “You were on the run, hiding, while I was inside this building doing the actual work of trying to save her. ... Each bunker transitioned individually with a fallback protocol.” (Amira Harper, 06:19)
  • Emotional weight: “You gave her nothing. You gave her an ending. I was trying to give her a future.” (Unnamed Female Scientist, 08:34)
  • Jack pushes back, arguing that Violet was fully aware and actively chose release—perhaps even death.

Proposal to Fix the Catastrophe: Time Travel?

• [11:04–11:38]
  Jack suggests using the “core” that once “moved [him] through time” to attempt to avert the disaster.
  • “The core… it moved me through time once. It can again. I go back, I find a way to fix this before the network collapses.” (Jack, 11:22)
  • Skepticism abounds, given the bunker’s condition and the experimental, dangerous nature of the technology.

Maddox Arrives: Personal Betrayals and Accusations

• [12:06–14:07]
  Maddox, Jack’s old commander and the architect behind Bunker 8, enters, furious over the deaths and collapse.
  • “I just lost 11 fucking people. I watched three of them get dragged through a wall...” (Maddox, 12:23)
  • The tense dialogue explodes into decades-old recriminations from Jack’s military past.
    • Jack: “You saved me. Dragged me out of one hell and threw me head first into a deeper one.” (Jack, 13:50)
    • Maddox: “I gave you purpose.” (Maddox, 13:59)
    • “You wanted machines. Don’t think. Don’t feel. Just get it done.” (Jack, 16:06)

Ethics of Command: What Makes a Good Soldier?

• [14:18–17:56]
  The debate shifts to the ethics of command, the value of human life, and what is required for survival.
  • “The Jack I trained would have...assessed the situation...looked at 7 billion people on the other side of that equation and made the tactical call…” (Atlas Operative, 17:21)
  • Jack resists: “The Jack you trained didn’t know any better...the one time I made a choice that was mine, not yours, not Atlas’s—you just can’t handle it.” (Jack, 16:46)
  • Maddox/Operative: “You didn’t make a tactical decision… You made an emotional one, and it’s going to get everyone killed.” (Atlas Operative, 18:12)
  • Jack: “I made the right one.” (18:21)
  • “Compassion in a man like you is the most dangerous thing in the world.” (Maddox/Atlas Operative, 18:23)

Revelation: The Prisoner from the Future

• [19:00–24:14]
  Maddox, battered, turns the conversation to the true nature of Bunker One—a prison for a mysterious time-traveler.
  • “Inside Bunker One, Atlas is holding a captive. A living, breathing human being. Not an entity, not a specimen...A man.” (Atlas Operative, 19:55)
  • “He told us everything he knew without being able to see a single one of us. We think the restraints are part of the mechanism. Whatever sent him back needed him locked down to do it.” (Atlas Operative, 20:48)
  • The prisoner, after arriving, could only write one message: “Jack must not return to Bunker eight.” (Atlas Operative, 22:27)
  • Now Jack’s presence and actions carry an existential threat according to the only survivor from a doomed future.

Jack’s Defiance & Closing Fallout

• [24:14–25:18]
  • Jack issues an ultimatum: “If that man’s warning means what you think it means, just kill me. Put a bullet in my head. I can’t go back to Bunker Eight if I’m dead. Problem solved.” (Jack, 24:17)

Aftermath: A Difficult Offer

• [25:18–27:09]
  • Field medic Connor patches up Jack, revealing knowledge of Jack’s request to return to Bunker Eight. In a final twist, Connor hints at a covert way to get Jack back—setting the next episode for an unthinkable gamble.
    • “I know a way to get you to Bunker Eight. But you’re going to have to trust me.” (Connor, 27:09)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Standard rounds are not effective… they’re coming through the wall.”
  — Sigma Lead ([02:40])
• “You’re the reason those alarms are going off, Jack.”
  — Unnamed Female Scientist ([03:23])
• “I had a proposal on Maddox’s desk. 47 pages… a phase transition plan to decouple Violet from the containment framework…”
  — Amira Harper ([05:30], [05:38])
• “You gave her nothing. You gave her an ending. I was trying to give her a future.”
  — Unnamed Female Scientist ([08:34])
• “Then she made her choice.”
  — Jack ([10:36])
• “You wanted machines. Don’t think. Don’t feel. Just get it done.”
  — Jack ([16:06])
• “Compassion in a man like you is the most dangerous thing in the world. Because you will burn everything down to save one person and call it mercy.”
  — Atlas Operative ([18:23])
• “Inside Bunker One, Atlas is holding a captive. A living, breathing human being… not a specimen… a man… He wrote one thing… Jack must not return to Bunker Eight.”
  — Atlas Operative ([19:55], [22:27])
• “If that man’s warning means what you think it means, just kill me… I can’t go back to Bunker Eight if I’m dead.”
  — Jack ([24:17])
• “I know a way to get you to Bunker Eight. But you’re going to have to trust me.”
  — Connor ([27:09])

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Important Timestamps & Segments

| Timestamp | Segment & Event | |:----------|:---------------| | 01:50–03:03 | Sigma Team fails to contain hostiles, panic spreads. | | 03:18–04:43 | Amira and scientists blame Jack, reveal previous plans. | | 05:01–08:34 | Details of the proposed extraction for Violet; argument over Jack's choices. | | 10:36 | Jack asserts Violet made her own choice. | | 11:22–11:38 | Jack proposes to use the core for time travel to fix the timeline. | | 12:06–14:07 | Maddox's arrival, direct confrontation, and accusations fly. | | 14:18–18:23 | Ethics of command, soldiers versus humanity, Jack and Maddox’s relationship. | | 19:00–24:14 | The secret of Bunker One, the time-traveling prisoner, and his warning. | | 25:18–27:09 | Connor, the medic, offers Jack a dangerous path forward. |

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Tone and Language

The episode’s dialogue is tense, raw, and emotionally charged, mixing military bluntness, despair, and flashes of bitter humor. Jack, Amira, Maddox, and others continually challenge each other’s motives and decisions in language layered with regret, anger, and a dogged search for meaning amidst horror.

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Summary Takeaway

“The Interrogation” is a bracing, tightly-wound episode filled with fraught ethical dilemmas, secrets of apocalyptic scale, and a searing examination of individual choice versus institutional orders. As the bunker falls apart—physically and morally—each character is forced to confront what they truly value and how much reality, sacrifice, and memory can be bent before breaking. The twist about the time-traveling warning and Jack’s unique survival sets up a classic sci-fi paradox with harrowing stakes for the next episode.

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For listeners seeking psychological complexity, chilling secrets, and relentless dramatic energy, this episode delivers at every turn.

Transcript

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[Sigma Lead]

They're through the secondary barrier. East corridor is gone. Fall back to junction seven. Fall back. They're not going down. Oh, God. It's got Henson. It's pulling him into.

[Jack]

Jesus Christ. Amira, how many floors up are we? God damn it, Amira, how many floors?

[Amira Harper]

Four. We're four levels above sub nine.

[Jack]

Okay, where's the nearest bulkhead seal located?

[Amira Harper]

Emergency bulkheads on every level. They should engage automatically during a breach should the system's under strain.

[Unnamed Female Scientist]

Everything's under strain.

[Amira Harper]

I don't know if they're holding.

[Sigma Lead]

Control, this is Sigma Lead. We've engaged three hostiles in sub level seven. Standard rounds are not effective. Repeat, standard ammunition is not putting them down. Requesting heavy ordinance authorization. Control, they're. They're coming through the wall.

[Jack]

God damn it, get me out of this chair.

[Amira Harper]

No.

[Jack]

Whatever's down there is coming up. Every minute you stand there thinking about it, those things are getting closer to us.

[Amira Harper]

And this is your solution? Unchain the man who's caused all of this?

[Unnamed Female Scientist]

You're the reason those alarms are going off, Jack.

[Amira Harper]

Every door that opens, every breach, every person who dies tonight, that's on you.

[Jack]

I know what I did.

[Amira Harper]

Then sit there and listen to the consequences.

[Narrator]

All personnel, lockdown is active. Sub six through nine security on sub seven fall back now. Specimens are contained for now. Bulkheads are holding. Report to emergency stations and standby.

[Unnamed Female Scientist]

It's contained.

[Amira Harper]

The bulkheads will buy us time while operations mounts a response.

[Jack]

Wait. I've heard those screams before.

[Unnamed Female Scientist]

Jack.

[Jack]

No. Oh, God, no. Tell me those aren't what I think they are.

[Amira Harper]

I know what they are.

[Jack]

If you know what they are, then you know what it took to put those things down in Bunker three. An anti aircraft gun. Not a security team. Not rifles. An anti aircraft gun. And now you're telling me there's more than one of those things in this bunker? Why the fuck are they here?

[Amira Harper]

Bunker 3 is a single operator site. You know that? One person to monitor, one person to contain. That's all the well allows. You've seen what happens when there's more than one person down there. We couldn't study the specimens on site, so we extracted a controlled number and brought them here.

[Jack]

You've got to be fucking kidding me, right?

[Amira Harper]

The containment network is in free fall. Every bunker in the system is showing signs of critical degradation. The cascade started the moment you disconnected her. And it hasn't stopped.

[Jack]

She wasn't a catalyst. She was a person. I. I know exactly what I did. Why didn't you?

[Amira Harper]

I had a proposal on Maddox's desk. 47 pages.

[Unnamed Female Scientist]

18 months of research.

[Amira Harper]

A phase transition plan to decouple Violet from the containment framework without destabilizing the network. Not a request, not a suggestion buried in a quarterly report. A real plan, peer reviewed by three

[Unnamed Female Scientist]

independent research teams within atlas.

[Amira Harper]

Simulated across every site in the network. Stress tested against nine different failure scenarios. I had sign off from two division heads. Maddox was the last signature I needed.

[Jack]

He wouldn't have signed it.

[Unnamed Female Scientist]

You don't get to decide that. You weren't here.

[Amira Harper]

You were on the run, hiding. While I was inside this building doing the actual work of trying to save her. The proposal outlined a 12 month decoupling process. Gradual reduction of the catalyst load across the network. Auxiliary containment systems brought online in stages. Each bunker transitioned individually with a fallback protocol. If any site showed instability.

[Unnamed Female Scientist]

It would have worked, Jack.

[Amira Harper]

Maybe not perfectly, maybe not cleanly, but

[Unnamed Female Scientist]

it would have kept the network intact. And it would have freed her. Alive, conscious.

[Amira Harper]

With a chance at something that looked like a life.

[Unnamed Female Scientist]

I was two weeks away from my final review with Maddox. Two weeks. And you walked into that chamber and

[Amira Harper]

ripped her out of the wall like none of it mattered.

[Unnamed Female Scientist]

Like nobody else had ever thought to try.

[Jack]

And what if it failed?

[Amira Harper]

It wouldn't have.

[Jack]

12 months. You sat in that room with her and you looked at what they'd done to her body and you thought, yeah, 12 more months of that. That's the plan. You've seen her. You know what she looked like. What the machine has done to her over the 60 years. And you were going to Ask her to hold on for another year while you waited for signatures? What if her body had just given out? What if she just made it to month 11 and had nothing left? What if the whole thing had reset and you just had to go back in there and tell her it was gonna be longer? How many times were you gonna tell her to hold on?

[Amira Harper]

At least it was something,

[Unnamed Female Scientist]

Jack. At least he'll find there was a way out that didn't end like this, with her dead and the network collapsing

[Amira Harper]

and those things tearing through the floors beneath us.

[Unnamed Female Scientist]

You gave her nothing. You gave her an ending. I was trying to give her a future. I spent three years on that proposal.

[Amira Harper]

Three years of fighting for funding, fighting

[Unnamed Female Scientist]

for access, fighting to get anyone in

[Amira Harper]

this organization to take it seriously.

[Unnamed Female Scientist]

Three years of sitting in that chamber with her, telling her I was going to get her out, that I had a plan, that she just needed to hold on a little longer. And now I'll never know. I will never know if it would have worked. She's been gone for hours. Hours.

[Amira Harper]

And I'm standing here explaining to the

[Unnamed Female Scientist]

man who killed her why it didn't have to happen.

[Jack]

Why didn't she tell me?

[Unnamed Female Scientist]

What?

[Jack]

I was in that chamber with her. We talked. And she asked me to let her go. That was it. She didn't say. Wait. She didn't say someone was trying to help her. She. She just asked me to let her go.

[Unnamed Female Scientist]

She was exhausted. She wasn't thinking clearly.

[Jack]

She was thinking clearly. I looked her in the eye. She said she was tired. That's all. Just tired.

[Amira Harper]

She knew about the plan. I told her myself. I sat with her and I explained every stage. She knew exactly what I was trying to do.

[Jack]

Then she made her choice.

[Unnamed Female Scientist]

That doesn't make what you did right.

[Jack]

Maybe not. But it was what she wanted. Send me back to Bunker eight.

[Unnamed Female Scientist]

What?

[Jack]

The core. It moved me through time once. It can it again. I go back, I find a way to fix this before the network collapses. Before any of this happens.

[Unnamed Female Scientist]

You don't even know if the core is still functional. Bunker 8 collapsed.

[Jack]

The bunker collapsed, not the core. That thing is still down there. I can feel it. The same way I felt it when it pulled me to 1952.

[Amira Harper]

You're asking me to gamble the last resources we have on a feeling.

[Jack]

You just told me every bunker in the network has collapsed and you've got nothing. I'm giving you something that's not my decision. Then find the person whose decision it

[Maddox]

is, you selfish piece of shit. Do you have any idea what you've done

[Maddox (alternate voice or emphasis)]

11 people.

[Maddox]

I just lost 11 fucking people. I watched three of them get dragged through a wall. I had to seal six levels of this building with my own people still inside because the things you let loose couldn't be stopped. That sound, that alarm. That's the sound of everything I've built falling apart.

[Maddox (alternate voice or emphasis)]

That's on you. That's what you did.

[Amira Harper]

Maddox,

[Maddox]

get out.

[Amira Harper]

He's still.

[Maddox]

Get out.

[Maddox (alternate voice or emphasis)]

I gave you everything. I pulled you out of the gutter after your discharge. You were nothing broken. Drinking yourself to death in some shithole apartment in Melbourne. I looked at you and I saw something worth saving. I put my name on the line.

[Maddox]

Told Atlas you could be trusted.

[Jack]

Yeah, you saved me. Dragged me out of one hell and threw me head first into a deeper one.

[Maddox (alternate voice or emphasis)]

I gave you purpose.

[Jack]

You gave me orders.

[Maddox]

Same thing for men like us. It's the same God damn.

[Atlas Operative]

Damn thing.

[Jack]

Men like us? Is that what you told yourself in Fallujah when you sent Brennan's squad into that compound, knowing half of them wouldn't come back?

[Maddox (alternate voice or emphasis)]

Watch your mouth.

[Jack]

Or what? You'll hit me again? Take your shot. You've been beating me since you walked through that door. And? And I haven't shut up yet.

[Maddox (alternate voice or emphasis)]

Keep talking

[Jack]

Karachi. You remember Karachi? Because I do. Every night, you sent four of us into a building you knew was compromised. Intel said it was clear. You knew it wasn't. You sent us in anyway because the objective was worth more than the team that operation. See, Porter was 23. I watched him bleed out on that floor. And you stood in that debrief the next morning and called it a success. What the fuck is wrong with you?

[Atlas Operative]

Porter knew the risks. The. They all did. Every man who walks through that door knows what they've signed up for. That's the job. You complete the objective or you don't come home. I don't lose sleep over men who died doing what they were trained to do.

[Jack]

Jesus Christ.

[Atlas Operative]

You actually believe that the mission matters more than any one person? More than Porter, more than you, more than me.

[Jack]

That's what you built. You didn't want soldiers. You wanted machines. Don't think. Don't feel. Just get it done. And if someone doesn't make it back, write it up and move on to the next one. You know what you made me, Maddox. You know exactly what you made me. And the one time I made a choice that was mine, not yours, not Atlas's. You just can't handle it.

[Maddox]

Your choice. Your choice. You had a mission.

[Atlas Operative]

You had orders.

[Maddox (alternate voice or emphasis)]

You had one.

[Maddox]

Job in this entire operation. And you torched all of it.

[Maddox (alternate voice or emphasis)]

He folded like a fucking recruit. What happened to you?

[Jack]

I grew a conscience. That's not a conscience.

[Atlas Operative]

That's weakness. Dressed up as principle. The Jack I trained would have walked into that chamber and assessed the situation, looked at the containment system, looked at the catalyst and looked at the 7 billion people on the other side of that equation and. And made the tactical call. He would have hated it, but he would have made it because that's what soldiers do.

[Jack]

The Jack you trained didn't know any better.

[Atlas Operative]

The Jack I trained was precise, disciplined, effective. This Jack, this version of you, is reckless, emotional, dangerous.

[Maddox (alternate voice or emphasis)]

You didn't make a tactical decision in that chamber.

[Atlas Operative]

You made an emotional one, and it's going to get everyone killed.

[Jack]

I made the right one.

[Maddox (alternate voice or emphasis)]

Compassion in a man like you is the most dangerous thing in the world. Because you will burn everything down to save one person and. And call it mercy.

[Jack]

Yes. Yes, I would.

[Atlas Operative]

Forget everything that just happened in this room. I need you to listen to me right now.

[Jack]

You've got my blood on your knuckles and you want me to listen?

[Atlas Operative]

The network has hours, not days, hours. So you can sit there and hate me or you can pay attention. Because what I'm about to tell you is the only thing that matters right now. Bunker One.

[Jack]

Bunker One. What about it?

[Atlas Operative]

It's not like the other sites, not built around an anomaly. It's a prison. One person.

[Maddox]

That's it.

[Atlas Operative]

That's all it holds.

[Jack]

Fuck me. You guys sure do love your prisons.

[Maddox (alternate voice or emphasis)]

One more smart arse comment and I

[Atlas Operative]

walk out that door and let whatever's downstairs finish what I started. You want to hear this or not?

[Jack]

Sure, why not?

[Atlas Operative]

Inside Bunker One, Atlas is holding a captive. A living, breathing human being. Not an entity, not a specimen.

[Maddox (alternate voice or emphasis)]

A man.

[Atlas Operative]

When he first arrived, he was transported here to Bunker Zero.

[Jack]

Who?

[Atlas Operative]

We don't know. We don't know his name. We don't know where he came from or when. We don't even know if where he came from still exists. What we know is that something in the future was bad enough that a man tore himself through time to get here and warn us. Not a message. Not a goddamn signal. A person, Flesh and blood, whatever the hell he lived through. Whatever is coming for us. It was bad enough that getting here was worse.

[Jack]

Do you know how far he came from?

[Atlas Operative]

No idea. Could be years, could be decades. When he arrived, he could still talk. Barely enough to tell us he was the last one. Everyone else, dead. Every single person. He arrived in a chair, bolted in hands, feet, feet. Eyes sealed shut by the metal bindings already in place. Think about that. He told us everything he knew without being able to see a single one of us. We think the restraints are part of the mechanism. That whatever sent him back needed him locked down to do it. Crust but the displacement, the side effects of the time travel. Burned whatever was left of his mind. It happened fast. Within minutes, he could barely form sentences. Within hours, he was gone. Incoherent fragments. Like watching someone disappear while they're still breathing.

[Jack]

So he can't tell you anything?

[Atlas Operative]

Not anymore. Our medical team found. Found enormous levels of radiation coming from inside his body. Not surface contamination. Coming from within. They couldn't keep him here. Too dangerous. So they secured him inside Bunker One. Been holding him there ever since.

[Jack]

So he's just sitting there.

[Atlas Operative]

He hasn't spoken a coherent word in a long time. But weeks after we moved him to Bunker One, one of our operatives got a pen and paper in front of him, and he wrote one thing, one message. Like it was the last clear thought left in his head. And he'd been waiting for someone to give him a way to get it out. Jack must not return to Bunker eight.

[Jack]

What? Of course. And you believe him?

[Atlas Operative]

I believe that this man lost everything. His world, his mind, every person he ever knew.

[Jack]

So this is why you haven't killed me yet. Not because I'm useful. Because you're scared of what happens if you don't send me back.

[Atlas Operative]

Don't confuse caution with fear. I'm not scared of you. I'm trying to stop the end of the goddamn world, and you're making it very fucking difficult.

[Jack]

I went through that core and came back with my mind intact. You know that. That's the only reason why I'm breathing right now.

[Atlas Operative]

Don't push it.

[Jack]

He came all that way. Lost everything getting here. And the one thing he held onto was my name.

[Atlas Operative]

He didn't hold onto it. He used it as a warning.

[Jack]

Doesn't matter what he wrote. If I'm the only one who can survive going back there, then I'm the only option you've got. The warning doesn't change that.

[Atlas Operative]

The hell it doesn't.

[Jack]

If that man's warning means what you think it means, just kill me. Put a bullet in my head. I can't go back to Bunker Eight if I'm dead. Problem solved. That's what I thought. Maddox.

[Amira Harper]

Maddo.

[Connor]

You look like hell.

[Jack]

Great. Whose turn is it now?

[Connor]

Easy. I'm Connor. I patch up whoever's left after the guards are Done with them.

[Jack]

Done with them? That's what they're calling it now, huh?

[Connor]

Just sit still and try not to bleed on me. Oh. Nose is. Orbital's intact, though. So whoever did this wasn't trying to blind you. Just wanted it to hurt. Breathe in for me. Deep as you can, Too. Cracked, maybe three. Nothing displaced, though. Prick knew what he was doing. Hurt you exactly as much as he wanted to. And stopped short of anything that had put you on a table. Scoring on the knuckles that sold. Years of hitting things or people. These marks on the wrists aren't from these chains. Someone had you strapped down somewhere else before you ended up here.

[Jack]

You're pretty thorough for a medic.

[Connor]

Just doing my job.

[Jack]

I've had worse.

[Connor]

Yeah, I know. You asked them to send you back to Bunker eight, right?

[Jack]

How. How did you know about that?

[Connor]

Word gets around. A few people heard what you said to Maddox after the Catalyst was killed.

[Jack]

And I know a way to get

[Connor]

you to Bunker eight. But you're going to have to trust me.

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