S04E04: The Breach

Summary

Bunker 8 S04E04: "The Breach"

Podcast: Bunker 8
Host: The Midnight Mystery
Airdate: July 21, 2026

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Episode Overview

In "The Breach," the tension in Bunker 8 reaches a boiling point as a catastrophic containment failure sets the stage for desperate choices and harrowing revelations. Jack, an Australian ex-soldier, is pressed for secrets he’s never shared, while the facility’s defenses begin to collapse amid a relentless assault by unknown and horrifying entities. The episode delves deep into themes of fear, trauma, hopelessness, and the nature of what’s truly lurking beneath the Antarctic ice.

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Key Discussion Points & Narrative Progression

1. Interrogation and Revelations

Scene: Amira attempting to free Jack ([03:55–08:46])

• Amira demands Jack’s full confession, believing he is withholding crucial information.
• Jack recounts his encounter with “the thing behind the core,” describing a sensation of insignificance rather than fear, as if standing before an ancient, sentient force.
  • Quote: “It was more like standing in front of something that's been there longer than anything has any right to be. And knowing it could feel me there, knowing it was aware of me. And I had no idea what that meant.” — Jack ([04:55])
• Jack reveals that after his escape and “the displacement,” he began experiencing precognitive flashes of the immediate future—fragments that always played out as seen and could not be changed.
  • Quote: “It wasn't like visions. Wasn't like I'd close my eyes and see the future or anything like that. It was... like fragments, these moments... Like someone showed me what was coming. And then I had to walk through it anyway.” — Jack ([05:56])
• The precognitive episodes suddenly ceased with Violet’s death, leading Jack to question if the future itself has become unknowable or has ceased to exist.

2. Escalating Panic: The Assault Begins

Scene: Marcus coordinates last-ditch defense ([11:30–15:13])

• Lieutenant reports the lower bunker intentionally flooded; hostile entities (“fusing,” “getting bigger,” immune to crushing pressure) now threaten structural failure.
  • Quote: “The water should be crushing anything alive down there. Yes, it should be, but it isn’t. Whatever these things are, the pressure’s not killing them. If anything, the reading suggest they’re getting bigger. The fusing is accelerating.” — Lieutenant ([11:50])
• Marcus orders deployment of all available weaponry at strategic chokepoints as microfractures spread in the bulkhead—defense is a matter of minutes.
• Personal moments: The young lieutenant is about to become a father; Marcus’ scars from long years dealing with horrors.
  • Quote: “Does it get easier knowing what's on the other side of the door?” — Lieutenant ([13:43])
    “No, you just get faster at deciding what to do about it.” — Marcus ([13:48])
• The bulkhead is breached; chaos erupts, alarms sound evacuations, and the last barriers start to fall.

3. Fight for Survival & Escape

Scene: Jack, Amira, Connor, and Maddox’s flight ([15:17–37:10])

• Amira recognizes immediate danger—the entities are surging through the facility. Jack is released and armed, determined to buy as much time as possible.
  • Quote: “I know what those things are. I know how they move. Let me out and I can slow them down. There’s no other option.” — Jack ([16:07])
• The group navigates battered corridors toward the only evacuation route—every detour, confrontation, and moment inches them closer to disaster.
• Jack’s injury is acknowledged; the group divides tasks: Jack clears threats, Amira uses her clearance for vital access.
• Vivid confrontation with the fused entities; a tragic, chilling interaction occurs as Jack is begged for mercy by a conscious, suffering victim unwillingly merged into the monsters.
  • Quote: “So much pain. I can feel them. All of them. Every single, single one of them is in here with me.” — Victim ([30:28])
  • Quote: “Suffering is energy, Jack. That's all it is. It doesn't mean anything... And right now you need to ignore the signal and keep walking.” — Connor ([32:15])
• Realization that the creatures have learned to track by sound; each gunshot increases their peril.

4. Desperate Calculations & Cliffhanger

Scene: The final push ([33:18–37:10])

• Jack calls Amira to coordinate her escape, but an entity lurks outside her room, halting her advance.
• Connor suggests using security feeds to devise a rescue, but time is vanishing; upper levels are rapidly being overrun.
• Jack vows to risk everything for Amira’s escape; she is essential to any hope of survival for the rest.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On facing the incomprehensible:
  • “It was more like standing in front of something that’s been there longer than anything has any right to be.” — Jack ([04:55])
• On precognition and helplessness:
  • “It all played out exactly how I’d seen it… like it was supposed to happen.” — Jack ([06:26])
• On loss and fatalism:
  • “What if it stopped because there’s no future left to see?” — Jack ([07:21])
• On leadership and trauma:
  • “Does it get easier knowing what's on the other side of the door?” — Lieutenant
    “No, you just get faster at deciding what to do about it.” — Marcus ([13:43–13:48])
• On the horror of fused victims:
  • “Whatever’s left of the people they were is trapped inside it.” — Maddox ([30:11])
  • “Please. Kill me. Me.” — Victim ([31:24])
• On suffering’s meaninglessness in crisis:
  • “Suffering is energy, Jack. That’s all it is. …And right now you need to ignore the signal and keep walking.” — Connor ([32:15])

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Timestamps for Critical Segments

• 03:55–08:46: Jack’s interrogation and revelations of precognition
• 11:30–15:13: Marcus receives bad news—defenses failing, breach imminent
• 15:17–18:39: Escape plan set in motion as bulkheads fall
• 24:25–27:34: Deadly corridor encounter; Jack is forced to kill fused, suffering entity
• 30:09–31:42: The full horror of the fused is revealed; profound moment of mercy denied
• 33:18–37:10: Final escape effort and cliffhanger as Jack risks all for Amira

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Tone and Atmosphere

The episode maintains relentless tension, punctuated by moments of bleak humanity. Dialogue is terse, haunted with dread, and marked by frayed nerves and resigned desperation. The characters face the limits of physical endurance and the erosion of certainty, as the Bunker systems—and their own confidence—collapse in the face of the unknown.

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Memorable Moments

• Jack’s confession about the core and the chilling possibility that “there’s no future left to see” ([07:21]).
• The brutal wisdom of Marcus, who admits experience never makes horror easier—only quicker to react ([13:48]).
• The victim pleading for death, evoking both disgust and heartbreak as Jack is forced to turn away ([30:28], [31:24]).
• Connor’s rationalist view of suffering as merely a signal to be overcome, not imbued with cosmic meaning ([32:15]).

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Summary

“The Breach” is a tense, character-driven episode, balancing the unraveling of personal and metaphysical mysteries with immediate, visceral peril. As Bunker 8’s physical and psychological defenses collapse, listeners are left pondering not just what the survivors will do next, but what is truly real in a place where reality itself is eroding.

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If you’re drawn to isolation horror, existential mysteries, and pockets of raw humanity amid disaster, this episode will not only unsettle but linger.

Transcript

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[Jack]

Okay, good. Then. Then get me out of this chair.

[Amira]

I'm working on it. But I need you to give me something first. Whatever you haven't told us, whatever you've been holding back, I need it now.

[Jack]

Holding back? You think I've been holding back? I've been in this chair since Violet. Amira, you and Maddox have had everything. What more do you think there is?

[Amira]

You tell me, because I think there's more. And we're running out of time. So whatever it is now,

[Jack]

what else do you want to know? The thing behind the core. You know it's there. You know what it feeds on. But that's not the same as knowing what it is.

[Amira]

No, it doesn't. We've been monitoring the energy signatures for years, and we're no closer to understanding it. But you stood in front of it. So what did you feel?

[Jack]

What did I feel?

[Amira]

Fuck.

[Jack]

I felt small. That's the honest answer. Not scared. I've been scared plenty of times down there. And. And this wasn't that. It was more like standing in front of something that's been there longer than anything has any right to be. And knowing it could feel me there, knowing it was aware of me. And I had no idea what that meant.

[Amira]

What do you mean, aware of you?

[Jack]

I don't know. But it wasn't random. Always knew it had to bring me back to 1952.

[Amira]

What else? What haven't you told us?

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[Jack]

After I got out, after the displacement, after I made it back, and everything

[Host]

that happened in Bunker three,

[Jack]

something changed.

[Amira]

Changed how?

[Jack]

I started. I started seeing things before they happened.

[Amira]

Go on.

[Jack]

It wasn't like visions. Wasn't like I'd close my eyes and see the future or anything like that. It was. It was like fragments, these moments. I'd be in the middle of something and it would hit me that I'd already seen it, already lived it. Like someone showed me what was coming. And then I had to walk through it anyway.

[Amira]

You're describing precognition.

[Jack]

Okay, call it whatever you want.

[Amira]

Could you change anything? The things you saw, could you alter the outcome?

[Jack]

No. That's the thing. It all played out exactly how I'd seen it. Every single time, like it was supposed to happen. That way, I'd see a conversation before it happened, the exact words, the exact moment, and then, days later, there it is. And I'm just standing there, knowing of all. Already seen this.

[Amira]

How long did this last?

[Jack]

Since I escaped Bunker eight. Started the moment I got out.

[Amira]

Are you still experiencing them?

[Jack]

No, I. I haven't felt any of them since.

[Amira]

Since when?

[Jack]

When Violet died. The moment she was gone, they stopped. One day I'm seeing pieces of what's coming, and the next, nothing. Just quiet.

[Amira]

You think she was the source?

[Jack]

I don't know. Maybe. Maybe the core was using her to reach me. Maybe it was something else entirely. All I know is. All I know is, when she died, it went with her. But there's something else I can't stop thinking about. I was seeing the future. Pieces of it. And then it just stopped. What if it didn't stop because Violet died? What if it stopped because there's no future left to see?

[Amira]

Then we'd better make sure that's wrong. The things you saw, did any of them show you this? This, the network collapsing, the bunkers failing? Any of what's happening right now?

[Jack]

No. Nothing about any of this. Whatever I was seeing, it stopped before the network started falling apart. I've got nothing for what's coming next.

[Amira]

So you had a connection to something behind the core. Something you can't classify. And after the displacement, you were seeing things before they happened. Until Violet died. Then it stopped. Yeah.

[Jack]

Yeah, that's it.

[Amira]

If something behind that core reached out to you once, there's a chance it does so again.

[Jack]

Yes, that's what I've been trying to say. So what happens now?

[Amira]

Now I work out how to get you to Bunker Eight before there's nothing left to save.

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[Marcus]

Marcus Status update.

[Lieutenant]

Flooding was carried out an hour ago, sir. Everything below level six is submerged. And it slowed them down, didn't stop them. Sonar readings are showing movement on the other side of the bulkhead. Multiple contacts. They're still active, still fusing.

[Marcus]

The water should be crushing anything alive down there.

[Lieutenant]

Yes, it should be, but it isn't. Whatever these things are, the pressure's not killing them. If anything, the reading suggests they're getting bigger. The fusing is accelerating.

[Marcus]

How long have they been pressing against it?

[Lieutenant]

Since the flooding completed. But it's not random, sir. It's not like they're just throwing themselves at it. The pressure readings are patterned, coordinated, like they're testing it, pushing in one spot Then another. Then another. Finding the weak points.

[Marcus]

They're learning.

[Lieutenant]

That's what it looks like.

[Marcus]

Stress readings?

[Lieutenant]

Climbing. Structural engineers flagged micro fractures in the lower seals 30 minutes ago. Small hairline, but they're spreading. The bulkhead was designed to hold against pressure from this side. Whatever's on the other side is pushing in ways the design didn't account for. How long it's going to hold, but not for long. Depends on whether they concentrate on the fractures. If they find them.

[Marcus]

They'll find them. Get heavy weapons stationed at every choke point between here and the stairwell. If this thing goes, I want a killzone. Nothing gets past level four.

[Lieutenant]

Yes, sir. What ordinance?

[Marcus]

Everything we've got. Standard rounds didn't work last time, so we use incendiary armor piercing whatever's in the armory. And get the secondary barriers reinforced. Weld them if you have to.

[Lieutenant]

Yes, sir. I'll get teams on it now.

[Marcus]

Something else?

[Lieutenant]

No, Sir. Just how long have you been doing this?

[Marcus]

Longer than you've been alive. Why?

[Lieutenant]

Does it get easier knowing what's on the other side of the door?

[Marcus]

No, you just get faster at deciding what to do about it. How old are you, Marcus?

[Lieutenant]

23, sir.

[Marcus]

Family?

[Lieutenant]

Wife.

[Maddox]

She's

[Lieutenant]

pregnant. Due in about six weeks.

[Marcus]

Go get those weapons stationed. And Marcus, stay behind the line. That's an order.

[Lieutenant]

Yes, sir. Sir.

[Marcus]

I hear it.

[Lieutenant]

We've got a breach at the lower seal.

[Jack]

Water coming through.

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Fall back.

[Marcus]

All units back to the secondary barrier.

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Weapons free.

[Amira]

They're through.

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Multiple contacts.

[Jack]

Keep moving.

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Don't stop. They're not going down. Sir. Behind us.

[Connor]

Marcus.

[Amira]

I'll need to move fast if the core is still active and you're right about it. Responding to. Attention all personnel. Containment breach detected on sub level five. Bulkhead integrity compromised. All non essential staff evacuate to designated safe zones immediately. Security teams report to defensive positions. This is not a drill. Repeat. Containment breach, sub level five. Evacuation protocols are now in effect.

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They're past level four. Weapons are stopping them. We've lost contact with the sub five team.

[Amira]

The bulkheads. They're through the bulkheads. That's the final barrier. They've broken through the last bulkhead. There's nothing else between them and us.

[Jack]

Amira, you need to get me out of this fucking chair right now. Jack, I know what those things are. I know how they move. Let me out and I can slow them down. There's no other option. Give me a weapon and I'll get you out of here.

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They're on level three. Repeat, level three.

[Amira]

That's two floors below us.

[Jack]

Then you've got about a minute to decide. Thank you.

[Amira]

Here.

[Jack]

Okay. Stay behind me. And whatever you hear, whatever you see, don't stop moving. Okay? I need you to wait here for a minute. I'm gonna check if the coast is clear.

[Amira]

Okay.

[Maddox]

The fuck?

[Connor]

Jack, you're out.

[Jack]

Connor. Amira? She. She let me out. This place is done. Connor. The bulkheads are gone. They're coming up through the facility.

[Connor]

I know. I've been listening to the radio chatter. Bunker zero's finished. I was coming to get you.

[Jack]

Shit. The alarms are out. We've still got light. But what happens when the power goes?

[Connor]

Everything opens. Every lock, every door, every barrier between us and them.

[Jack]

Okay. Okay. Do you know a way out?

[Connor]

There's a service tunnel on the east side of level one. Emergency evacuation route. Leads to a surface hangar. If it hasn't been overrun, there will be transport.

[Jack]

Okay. Okay. Okay. Good. Good. I need to go back and get Amira. Amira, we gotta get going right now.

[Amira]

Is it clear?

[Jack]

Yes. The surface hangar. Service tunnel on the east side of level one. We need to go now.

[Amira]

The evacuation route. Yes. That's the only way out now. But how did you.

[Jack]

There's no time for this. We gotta get moving. Stay behind me.

[Amira]

Move.

[Jack]

Keep moving. Stay close to the wall.

[Amira]

Jack, slow down. You're Shit.

[Jack]

It's okay. I'm fine.

[Amira]

You're not fine. You can barely breathe.

[Jack]

I can breathe. Wait. Hold here. There's a few soldiers up ahead.

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Section four is gone. Fall back to section three.

[Jack]

All right, clear. Move.

[Amira]

Left at the next junction, there's a stairwell that takes us up to level one.

[Connor]

She's right. It's left.

[Jack]

Left. Okay, got it. Go. Quickly.

[Amira]

Jack.

[Jack]

Kate. Going. Don't stop.

[Connor]

You all right?

[Jack]

Yeah, yeah.

[Narrator]

Just.

[Jack]

Just keep going.

[Connor]

Service tunnel is east side, straight ahead, then right at the end.

[Jack]

Okay. Okay. Stay close.

[Maddox]

Wait.

[Jack]

Connor, what is it?

[Maddox]

There's some of them up ahead.

[Jack]

Okay. Okay. Don't stop. Just move slowly.

[Amira]

What?

[Jack]

I said they're ahead of us. Be careful. Here. This room. Maintenance access. Reinforced door. One way in. Amira, I need you to get inside.

[Amira]

What are you talking about?

[Jack]

The service tunnel is between here and those things. I need to clear the path. I can't do that and keep you safe at the same time.

[Amira]

I'm not hiding in a cupboard.

[Jack]

Listen, you're the only one who can get me inside of bunk eight. The codes, the protocols, all of it. That's you. If you go down in some corridor. Because I'm trying to do two things at once. It's Over. For everyone

[Narrator]

here.

[Amira]

Take this. Channel 4. When the path is clear, you radio me. I'll run. If I don't hear from you in 10 minutes, I know you're dead and I'll make a run for myself.

[Jack]

Okay. Get inside. Lock the door. Don't open it for anyone.

[Amira]

I know what they are, Jack.

[Jack]

Then you know not to make a sound.

[Amira]

If you get yourself killed, I swear

[Jack]

To God, Jack, 10 minutes, you'll hear from me.

[Connor]

Just us now?

[Jack]

Yeah, just us. I need you to keep up. I really need your help here.

[Connor]

Service tunnels about 200 meters east, straight through the main corridor.

[Jack]

Okay. 200 meters. Might as well be two miles if those things are between us and the door. Have you had any combat training?

[Connor]

Some. Enough to handle myself.

[Jack]

Some.

[Connor]

Six months, basic infantry before I went into medicine. I can shoot, I can move. I'm not going to freeze on you,

[Jack]

okay? We've only got the one gun and a few rounds.

[Connor]

Then you keep it. You're the better shot, and you know how these things move. I'll watch your back.

[Jack]

If something gets close, I'll let you know.

[Connor]

Just keep moving, all right?

[Jack]

Stay tight. Call out anything you see. Let's go. Talk to me, Connor. What have we got?

[Connor]

Corridors clear ahead for about 30 meters. Junction at the end. After that, I don't know.

[Maddox]

Shit.

[Jack]

All right, stay close.

[Maddox]

How are the ribs?

[Jack]

Still broken.

[Connor]

You're compensating on your left side. You'll pull your shots from that angle.

[Jack]

Then I won't fire from that angle.

[Connor]

Clear.

[Maddox]

Left, Right side. Wait. Something

[Jack]

told you to set the table. I already set the table.

[Maddox]

You never listen. You never. It's not coming this way. Moving parallel.

[Jack]

Okay, good. We go straight. Quietly.

[Maddox]

Contact. 20 meters. Coming around the bend.

[Jack]

I see it.

[Narrator]

I'm doing it. I'm actually swimming. Can you see me? Mom, where are you?

[Jack]

Jesus.

[Maddox]

Don't think about it. That's not a person anymore.

[Jack]

Okay, we can't get through with that thing there. We need to take care of it.

[Maddox]

That sidearm won't do anything at range. You'll need to get close. Close enough that you won't miss.

[Jack]

Yeah, got it. I've handled these things before.

[Narrator]

Where's. Where's my mom?

[Jack]

I need to get closer.

[Maddox]

Holy.

[Amira]

Holy.

[Maddox]

Good shot.

[Jack]

Has to be the head. Point blank. Nothing else is working, but those shots echoed.

[Connor]

Everything in earshot knows where we are now.

[Jack]

Then we move fast.

[Connor]

They're behind us. Multiple. Moving fast.

[Jack]

How far to the tunnel?

[Connor]

100 meters, maybe less. Next right. Jack, ahead too.

[Maddox]

Fuck.

[Jack]

Can you get a look how many are there?

[Connor]

Two.

[Maddox]

No, three.

[Connor]

They're close together.

[Marcus]

Shit.

[Connor]

Side corridor. 10 meters back. There's a door.

[Jack]

Okay. We need to hide. Go.

[Maddox]

Help me. Is anyone there?

[Narrator]

Dad.

[Boost Mobile Advertiser]

We've got another one.

[Host]

Open fire.

[Jack]

Okay. It's moving away.

[Maddox]

They didn't know we were here.

[Connor]

They're hunting by sound.

[Jack]

But there's more of them than before. The Convergent. On where the gunshots were learning. I need to be careful when I shoot. I'll use it only when I have to.

[Connor]

The tunnel's close. 50 meters back out. Go right. Straight to the end.

[Jack]

50 meters. Okay. You ready?

[Maddox]

Yeah. Clear ahead. Clear.

[Jack]

Hold.

[Maddox]

Something on the left. Not moving. Just there.

[Jack]

It's against the wall.

[Maddox]

Go past it slowly. 20 meters, straight ahead. Doors at the.

[Connor]

It knows.

[Amira]

Move.

[Jack]

10 meters.

[Connor]

Door, now.

[Jack]

That's not gonna hold.

[Connor]

Doesn't need to. Just needs to slow them down. Service tunnel entrance is through here.

[Jack]

Now let's not stand around, let's go. It's quiet. Yeah, I don't think that's good.

[Maddox]

No, it's. It is not.

[Jack]

Where do you think they are?

[Maddox]

I don't know. But things that hunt by sound don't just stop making noise.

[Jack]

Wait. Do you hear that?

[Maddox]

Yeah, it's coming from ahead. Jack.

[Jack]

Yeah, I see it. Oh, God.

[Maddox]

They've nested.

[Jack]

Oh, God. They're still alive. All of them.

[Maddox]

They're not alive, Jack. Not in any way that matters. The bodies have been fused into the structure.

[Narrator]

Sure.

[Maddox]

Pulled apart and pressed back together. Whatever's left of the people they were is trapped inside it.

[Jack]

Connor. Wait.

[Narrator]

You're. You're not one of them.

[Jack]

No. No, I'm not.

[Narrator]

So much pain. I can feel them. All of them. Every single, single one of them is in here with me.

[Connor]

Jack, we don't have time for this.

[Narrator]

I can feel all of them. Every single one. They're pushing through me and I can't hold them back. What's happening to me? I'm scared. Please Kill me.

[Jack]

I'm sorry.

[Maddox]

Jack, we need to keep moving.

[Jack]

I know.

[Narrator]

Please, I'm begging you.

[Maddox]

Not enough to spare. You've got maybe eight rounds. There's still 50m of corridor between us and the tunnel. And you need every one of those bullets. You can't help them, Jack.

[Narrator]

Please. Kill me. Me.

[Jack]

I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.

[Maddox]

You did the right thing.

[Jack]

Don't you dare.

[Maddox]

I'm serious. The fused tissue in that state.

[Connor]

A single round wouldn't have ended it anyway. The neural pathways are distributed across the entire mass. You'd have needed to destroy the whole structure. It would have taken everything you had and it still might not have worked.

[Jack]

You're a fucking medic. Since when does a medic know how to break down the biology of something that shouldn't exist? She was still alive in their corner.

[Connor]

Suffering is energy, Jack. That's all it is. It doesn't mean anything. It doesn't have a purpose. People attach meaning to it because the alternative is unbearable. But it's just a signal, a chemical response. And right now you need to ignore the signal and keep walking.

[Jack]

Crust.

[Connor]

That's it. Service tunnel entrance.

[Jack]

It's clear.

[Connor]

Looks it straight run to the surface hangar from here.

[Jack]

All right. I need to get a mirror moving. Amira, it's Jack. Do you copy? Amira, come in.

[Amira]

I'm here.

[Jack]

Oh, thank God. Service tunnel is open. Out the door. Go right, straight down the corridor to the end. We'll be at the tunnel entrance. Get to us as fast as you can. And Amira, you're gonna see things on the way. Don't stop, don't look at them, just move.

[Amira]

Jack, there's something outside the room.

[Jack]

Shit. Okay. How close?

[Amira]

I can hear it. It's been there for the last few minutes, dragging the voices. It's right outside the door.

[Jack]

Is it trying to get in?

[Amira]

No, it's just there.

[Jack]

All right, listen to me. Stay put. Do not open that door. I'm gonna work out how to get you out. Just stay on the radio.

[Amira]

Hurry.

[Connor]

She's not getting to the tunnel with one of those things sitting outside her door.

[Jack]

No, she's not.

[Connor]

There's a security station back down the corridor. I saw it on the way through. If the feeds are still live, we can see what we're dealing with. Work out how to get her clear.

[Jack]

Okay. Okay. Okay. Let's go. Oh, God. There's way too many of them. I can't.

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[Jack]

It's gone. The whole bunker. There's nothing left. Where's Amira? Come on. Find a corridor. East side. Wait. Got it. That's the corridor.

[Connor]

One of them. Right outside her door. It's not hunting.

[Maddox]

It's just standing there.

[Jack]

Why does it know that she's in there?

[Maddox]

I don't know.

[Jack]

Shit. There's no way she can get past it. I need to draw it away from that door. The service tunnel, is it still clear?

[Connor]

For now, but look at how fast the upper levels are being taken. The tunnel feeds into a junction two levels up. Right now the junction's quiet, but the way these things are moving through the building.

[Jack]

How long?

[Connor]

Minutes, maybe less. Once they reach that junction, the tunnel's gone, the surface hangar's gone. Everything's gone.

[Jack]

Fuck. Fuck. Okay, okay. Then I go back. She's the only one who can fly us out of here. I draw that thing away from her door. She runs for the tunnel. We all get to the surface hangar before that junction closes.

[Connor]

You sure about this?

[Jack]

No. But it's the only option we have left.

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