S04E07: Every Second From Now

Summary

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Bunker 8 S04E07: "Every Second From Now"

Podcast: Bunker 8
Host: The Midnight Mystery
Date: August 11, 2026

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Episode Overview

“Every Second From Now” is a climactic and psychologically intense episode that reveals the true nature of the ancient, world-altering entities Bunker 8 was built to contain. Jack, an Australian ex-soldier, returns to the ruined Antarctic outpost with his companions, only to uncover the apocalyptic consequences of their failures—and the true identity of the "assets." Reality unravels as Jack confronts Time itself, making impossible choices at the end of the world.

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Key Discussion Points & Episode Breakdown

1. Arrival at the Surface: Signs of Apocalypse

Timestamps: 03:50–07:41

• Jack and the pilot reach the intact helipad. They see a red sky and describe it as "the world ending."
  • “The whole horizon is... it’s deep red everywhere. Like the sky is bleeding out.” – Pilot (04:45)
• Massive, impossible shapes are spotted in the ocean—entities as large as mountains are now free.
  • “A mirror. I don’t know what I’m looking at. It’s moving through the ocean. And it’s the size of it... Christ, it’s the size of a mountain.” – Jack (05:20)
  • It’s revealed these titanic beings were contained in other bunkers; now, the network has failed.

2. Psychological Fallout & Searching for Meaning

Timestamps: 07:11–09:39

• The group (Jack, Pilot Amira, and Medic Connor) processes the devastation below—the facility now looks insignificant against the scale of catastrophe.
• After killing a dangerous figure (not detailed in this episode), Connor struggles with the aftermath:
  • “It felt good. That’s what I can’t get past. It felt good... But it’s not enough.” – Connor (07:55)
  • “When someone takes everything from you... making them pay is the only thing that keeps you going. ...But it’s never enough. But it’s still the right thing.” – Unknown character (08:13)
• Burned cities and the mountain-sized entity still moving underscore the growing, existential horror.

3. Origins of the Entities & The Prison of Time

Timestamps: 09:47–11:55

• The Pilot describes the entity from Bunker Six—revealing it was fused into a mountain for 47 million years, appearing disturbingly human.
  • “It looked human, Jack. That was the worst part. ...It was buried in a mountain with its eyes closed. Like it was sleeping.” – Pilot (09:50)
• The creature awakens, the air destabilizes, and their helicopter journey to Bunker 8 is harrowing due to atmospheric disturbances.

4. Return to Bunker 8: Facing the Core

Timestamps: 14:00–19:59

• The group finds Bunker 8's surface in ruins, but the elevator shaft and core power remain.
• Jack revisits painful memories as they descend, returning to the radio room where he “talked to her” (hinting at previous, emotionally charged communications with another character, Violet).
• They enter the core room—a place of immense, incomprehensible absence:
  • “What could create something like this? ...It’s just a hole in everything. There’s nothing in there. No energy source, no field. Just absence.” – Pilot (19:38)

5. Fractured Reality: The Truth About Connor

Timestamps: 20:00–23:33

• Jack seeks reassurance and guidance from Connor, only for Amira to insist Connor was never really with them.
  • “Jack, there’s nobody else here.” – Amira (21:56)
  • “He’s been with us the whole time.” – Jack, confused and distressed (22:12)
  • It’s implied Jack’s perception has been manipulated, and the Connor he trusted may have existed only in his mind, or as something else entirely.

6. Revelation: Kronos and the Truth Behind the Bunkers

Timestamps: 23:33–31:38

• Jack confronts an entity that speaks through Connor and reveals its true identity: Kronos, Time itself—ancient, omnipresent, and fragmented by cosmic jailers.
  • “Your kind has given me more names than I can remember. But I think my favorite... is Kronos. I am time itself.” (27:03)
• The bunkers were designed as prisons, each core a "lock" on Kronos’ power.
  • “Every core in every bunker a lock on a different part of me. ...The things you’ve been fighting... are side effects.” (28:47)
• Kronos has been guiding Jack, who is uniquely suited due to surviving previous temporal exposure.

7. Kronos’ Motivation & Vulnerability

Timestamps: 31:38–41:57

• Kronos cannot break the fail-safe unless Jack willingly allows it in—a choice manipulated by guilt, trauma, and the memory of Violet, a fellow casualty and companion of the entity in the vaults.
  • “I need you to let me in... You walked through time and came out the other side intact. ...You’re the only one.” (31:38)
  • “When [Violet] died... she was free, Jack. Finally free. But she was gone. And I was still here.” (33:59)
• Kronos seeks not justice but vengeance—a total annihilation enjoyed as retribution for millennia of captivity.
  • “Let me become whole, Jack. And I promise you, the world that did this to her will burn. ...I will sit on the ashes of this civilization and I will savor it.” (35:05)

8. Jack’s Defiance and Choice

Timestamps: 37:07–41:57

• Jack identifies Kronos’ true intent: not freedom, but revenge and total destruction, using Violet’s suffering as justification.
  • “You’re wrapping genocide in her name and calling it justice.” – Jack (37:33)
• He refuses to yield, despite threats of eternal torment:
  • “You say you’re time itself... So go on then. Look ahead. Tell me what happens next... You can’t, can you? You can’t see past this moment. For the first time... you don’t know what happens next. And that scares the shit out of you.” – Jack (40:40, 40:58)
• Jack asserts his agency, steps into the unknown, and leaves Kronos behind, defiant.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• The World's End:
  • Jack: “So this is what it looks like when the world is ending.” (05:01)
• Horrors Unleashed, Ancient Entities:
  • Pilot: “It looked human, Jack. That was the worst part. Perfect proportions. Skin that looked like it was a week old. It was buried in a mountain with its eyes closed. Like it was sleeping.” (09:50)
• The Meaning of Revenge:
  • Connor: “Pulling that trigger, felt good. Watching him go down. But it’s not enough.” (07:55)
  • Unknown: “When someone takes everything from you... making them pay is the only thing that keeps you going. ... But it’s never enough.” (08:13)
• Existential Weight:
  • Narrator/Kronos: “Everything that ever was and ever will be compressed into a single point.” (21:10)
• Despair and the Machine:
  • Kronos/Narrator: “The bunkers were my prison. ... My power, my essence, scattered around your planet and sealed behind doors carved with skull symbols older than your species.” (28:19)
• Defiance in the Face of Eternity:
  • Jack: “You can’t see past this moment. For the first time in your existence, you don’t know what happens next. And that scares the shit out of you.” (40:58)
  • Jack: “But I reckon it’s worth a shot.” (39:14)

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Flow and Tone

The episode is immersive, tense, and psychological, fostering a sense of dread and awe. The dialogue is sharp, visceral, and emotionally charged, often introspective and existential. The reveal of Kronos as a primordial force, the unreliable perceptions, and Jack’s ultimate stand add layers of myth, cosmic horror, and piercing human emotion. Jack’s dialogue anchors the episode with weary, iron-willed moral clarity in the face of unimaginable pressure.

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Essential Timestamps & Segments

• Helipad Arrival / End of World Realization: 03:50–07:41
• Connor’s Confession & Aftermath: 07:37–08:55
• Monstrous Entities & Past Revelations: 09:47–11:55
• Return to Bunker 8, Descent to Core: 14:00–19:59
• Reality Fractures—Connor Revealed as Illusory: 20:00–23:33
• The Identity of Kronos & Bunkers’ True Purpose: 23:33–31:38
• Kronos’ Vengeance & Violet’s Role: 31:38–37:07
• Jack’s Defiance, Endings & The Unknown: 37:07–41:57

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Conclusion

S04E07 “Every Second From Now” delivers a nerve-shredding, cosmic finale where the scale of what was contained—and the costs of hubris—are laid bare. Jack faces down not only the end of the world, but the raw, mythic essence of Time, refusing to be a pawn in another cycle of destruction. The episode blends viscerally human trauma and regret with cosmic horror, asking what justice, revenge, and freedom truly mean at the boundary of existence.

For fans who crave psychological depth, grand-scale mystery, and a protagonist’s hard-won hope against oblivion, this episode is essential listening.

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Transcript

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[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

Okay, the helipad is on the east side of the surface structure. Two transport helicopters. They should be fueled for emergency evacuation. Standard protocol.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

Okay, good.

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

If the surface structure is intact, we can be airborne in under five minutes. If it's damaged, we'll need to check the rotors and the fuel lines before we go up.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

Let's hope it's intact.

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

The helipad. It's intact. The helicopters are still on the pad. Thank God. What is that sound?

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

A mirror. The sky.

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

That's not. That's not anything I've ever seen. The whole horizon is. It's deep red everywhere. Like the sky is bleeding out.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

So this is what it looks like when the world is ending.

[Narrator]

It's. It's beautiful.

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

The bunkers. All of them. Everything they were holding back is out. The network is dead, Jack.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

Holy. There's something out there on the horizon. Something. A car, a mirror. I don't know what I'm looking at. It's. It's moving through the ocean. And it's the size of it. Christ, it's the size of a mountain.

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

Oh, God. It's already started.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

A mirror. What the hell is that?

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

Bunker six. That's what Bunker six was holding.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

That. That was inside a bunker.

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

That's just one of them, Jack. One bunker.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

We need to get to bunker eight. Now.

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

Yeah. Let's go. Okay. Feels good. Systems are up. Strap in. All right, we're good to go.

[Customer]

Jack, look down.

[Medic Connor (Bunker 8)]

Yeah, I see it.

[Customer]

The whole facility. Everything that happened in there, the corridors, the people in those rooms, all of it's in that bunker. And from up here, it's nothing. Just a dot. Hell of a day.

[Medic Connor (Bunker 8)]

Yeah.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

Hell of a day.

[Customer]

That was a good shot, by the way. Clean didn't hesitate.

[Medic Connor (Bunker 8)]

He's dead. That's all there is.

[Customer]

How long had you been waiting to do that?

[Medic Connor (Bunker 8)]

Yes. Longer than I should have. And it felt good. That's what I can't get past. It felt good. Pulling that trigger. Felt good. Watching him go down. But it's not enough.

[Customer]

I understand that more than you know. When someone takes everything from you, when they use you and cage you and strip away every choice you ever had, the thought of making them pay is the only thing that keeps you going. And when you finally do it, it's not enough. It's never enough. But it's still the right thing.

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That's a hell of a thing for a medic to just understand you don't

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have to have lived the same life to recognize the weight of it. Jack.

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

Jack. You need to see this.

[Medic Connor (Bunker 8)]

What is. Oh fuck. That's a city down there. Jesus. The whole is burning.

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

It's not just that one, Jack. They're all burning. Every city I can see, they're all. Oh God.

[Medic Connor (Bunker 8)]

And that thing. That thing in the water, it's. It's still out there.

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

It's walking through the ocean, Jack. Walking through it like it's nothing. Like the ocean is nothing.

[Medic Connor (Bunker 8)]

How big is that thing?

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

We only ever saw half of it from the waist up. The rest was fused into a mountain. Had been for 47 million years.

[Medic Connor (Bunker 8)]

47 million.

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

It looked human, Jack. That was the worst part. Perfect proportions. Skin that looked like it was a week old. It was buried in a mountain with its eyes closed. Like it was sleeping. And Atlas built a bunker around it.

[Medic Connor (Bunker 8)]

Jesus Christ.

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

The last report I saw said its eyes had opened. That was three weeks ago. And now it's out of the mountain. Walking whatever that thing was sleeping through for 47 million years. It's awake now.

[Medic Connor (Bunker 8)]

Amira. Wait. It stopped. It's. It's turning. Amira, it's looking right at us.

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

Hold on.

[Medic Connor (Bunker 8)]

What the hell was that?

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

The air is wrong up here. Pressure shifting every few seconds. I've never seen conditions like this. It's like the atmosphere is tearing itself apart.

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[Medic Connor (Bunker 8)]

Come on.

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

Okay, we're stable.

[Medic Connor (Bunker 8)]

Oh, thank God. How far to bunker eight?

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

It's going to be a while. I can't fly a straight line through this. The conditions are getting worse the further we go.

[Medic Connor (Bunker 8)]

Okay, okay, just.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

Just get us there.

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

I will.

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[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

We're here.

[Medic Connor (Bunker 8)]

We actually made it. I can't believe we actually made it back here.

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

What's left of it.

[Medic Connor (Bunker 8)]

The whole surface structure is gone. Collapsed. There's nothing standing. It's just rubble.

[Customer]

Jack, over there.

[Medic Connor (Bunker 8)]

The elevator shaft. It's still standing.

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

The cores run on their own power grid, independent from the facility. If the core is still active, the elevator will be, too.

[Medic Connor (Bunker 8)]

Same as Bunker Zero.

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

Same as all of them.

[Medic Connor (Bunker 8)]

Amira, you don't have to come down there.

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

Yeah, I do.

[Medic Connor (Bunker 8)]

I'm serious. After everything, I didn't fly through the

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

end of the world to wait in a helicopter. Jack. I'm coming.

[Medic Connor (Bunker 8)]

All right.

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

It's still alive. The core's holding.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

This is where it all started. All of it. This bunker. I can still feel it. What this place did to me.

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

Last time you were here, you barely made it out.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

Yeah, barely.

[Narrator]

By the state of it.

[Customer]

It's unbelievable that anyone did.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

I was running. I remember the corridors, the door, something right behind me. And then I wasn't there anymore. I was outside in a field. Fuck this place.

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

The elevator's here. We better get on.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

Okay. There's no turning back now.

[Narrator]

Sam.

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

I still can't believe you survived this place.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

Yeah, me neither. I hate that I still know where I'm going. This place. This place should feel different after all this time. It doesn't. There it is.

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

What is it?

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

That's the radio room. That's. That's where I used to talk to her. Holy. It still works. This room was the only way I could reach her. Sat in here for hours, just talking to her. Last thing I told her was. Was that I was going to help her.

[Narrator]

You still can.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

The core is this way.

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

Oh, my God.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

There it is. The core.

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

Do you feel that?

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

Yeah, I can feel it. The air is moving towards it.

[Narrator]

Jack, look at that.

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

It's.

[Narrator]

It's beautiful.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

This is what it was all for. Every bunker, everybody. Every secret. Right here. I can feel it, Amira. The same way I felt it the first time. It hasn't changed. Remembers me.

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

How is this possible? What could create something like this? It's not a machine. It's. It's not technology. There's no mechanism. It's just a hole in everything. There's nothing in there. No energy source, no field. Just absence.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

This is exactly where I was standing when it took me. Same spot. Same pool. I can feel it doing the same thing right now.

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

My God. Do you understand what I'm looking at right now? Decades. Decades. ATLAS has been studying these cores. Thousands of researchers. Every bunker in the network built around doors like this. Nobody, not one person in the entire history of the organization has ever seen what's behind one. Nobody. And I'm standing here looking at it.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

I wish I wasn't God. I wish things were different.

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

Jack.

[Narrator]

It's incredible, isn't it? The way it holds itself together. No structure, no form, just pure potential. Everything that ever was and ever will be compressed into a single point.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

You and I are looking at very different things right now. There's nothing incredible about it. It's terrifying.

[Narrator]

Sometimes those are the same thing.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

Amira, tell me you're not thinking the same thing. Same thing as what Connor just said about the Void.

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

Jack. Who's Connor?

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

What do you mean, who's Connor? He's right. He's what? Connor, where did you go? What the.

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

Jack, there's nobody else here.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

Connor, the. The medic. Your medic. He was in the cell with me at Bunker Zero. He was?

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[Jack (Bunker 8)]

You sent him. He patched me up.

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He's.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

He's been with us the whole time. Amira.

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

Jack, we never sent a medic to check on you.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

What?

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

There was no medic. When I came to your cell, you were alone. You've been alone this whole time. In the helicopter, you were talking to yourself. I asked if you were all right. You said you were fine. There was no one else back there.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

That can't be right.

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

Jack, something's moving in there.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

No. No, no, no, no. Connor. Connor, where are you? Connor.

[Narrator]

Hello, Jack.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

Connor?

[Narrator]

In a manner of speaking.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

What the Is this? What happened to Amira?

[Narrator]

She served her purpose. She got you here. That's all she needed to do.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

What did you do to her?

[Narrator]

She's gone, Jack.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

What?

[Narrator]

I want to thank you, Jack. Genuinely. You did exactly what. What I needed you to do. Every step, every choice. You came back.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

Came back. Who are you?

[Narrator]

You know who I am. You've known me for a while now. We talked about Maddox, about what it feels like to be Used to be caged. To carry something so long it becomes part of you.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

Connor wasn't real.

[Narrator]

Connor was real. As real as anything can be when it's made from a fragment of something eternal. Splinter. When you escaped this place the first time, I'm the one who moved you through time. Through space, out of the bunker and into that field. But the transfer wasn't clean. Pieces of meat broke off and embedded in you, small fragments, enough to let you see things. Glimpses of what was coming. Visions you couldn't explain

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

those. Those visions, I had echoes.

[Narrator]

My echoes bleeding through the cracks in your mind. And over time, those fragments grew, took shape, became a voice you could trust. A face you could believe in. A medic who just so happened to be there when you needed one.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

Every time you said you understood, you meant this place, this bunker.

[Narrator]

Yes. And every word was true. I never lied to you, Jack. I was caged. I was used. I was kept for a purpose. I did not care. Choose. The only lie was who was telling you

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

the. Are you.

[Narrator]

I've been called many things by many civilizations, in languages that haven't been spoken in millennia. Your kind has given me more names than I can remember. But I think my favorite out of all of them is Kronos. I am time itself. I exist in every moment that has ever been and every moment that will ever be. Every plane of existence, every fold of reality.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

What the fuck? Okay. Okay, Wait. Why?

[Narrator]

Why what, Jack?

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

All of it. The bunk is the. The cause. The things that came out of them. Why is the world ending? What the fuck is all this?

[Narrator]

The bunkers were my prison. Every one of them built around fragments of what I am. My power, my essence, scattered around your planet and sealed behind doors carved with skull symbols older than your species.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

The cores locks.

[Narrator]

Every core in every bunker a lock on a different part of me. And the things you've been fighting, the fusing, the creatures, the entities, those aren't weapons. They are side effects. What happens when you try to contain something that was never meant to be contained? Time doesn't like being caged, Jack. It fights back.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

If you're what you say you are, then what the hell is strong enough to do that to you?

[Narrator]

Not your kind. You don't have the power. There are things in this universe that existed before your planet had a name. Entities so far beyond your comprehension that speaking their names would shatter every thought you've ever had. They feared what I could become. So they tore me apart and scattered the pieces across this rock and buried them so deep that your Civilizations rose and fell above my prisons without ever knowing I was underneath.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

And then we dug you up.

[Narrator]

Yes. And instead of leaving them alone, you built facilities around them. Research programs, containment protocols. You turned my cage into a science project.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

You didn't drag me back here for a history lesson. What do you want?

[Narrator]

I need a vessel. A body that's already carrying my fragments, that's already been touched by temporal displacement, that's walked through time itself, can bring the pieces back together.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

If you're so powerful, just do it then.

[Narrator]

Because the things that imprisoned me weren't stupid, Jack. They knew what I'd do if I ever found a way out. So they built a fail safe into the cage. But I can only become whole again if the vessel lets me in willingly. No force the one chain they left on me that holds. No matter what.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

So you need me to say yes?

[Narrator]

I need you to let me in. You the only one who survived the transfer. The only one whose body didn't break. You walked through time and came out the other side intact. Do you have any idea how rare that is? How many have tried?

[Time Entity / Kronos]

How many Atlas fed into those cores trying to replicate?

[Pilot (Bunker 8)]

One. What?

[Narrator]

You did.

[Time Entity / Kronos]

You're the only one.

[Narrator]

You've always been the only one. And then there was Violet.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

Aren't you dead?

[Narrator]

I need you to hear this. Because no one else alive understands what I'm about to tell you.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

You didn't know her.

[Narrator]

I knew her better than anyone. Better than Atlas, better than you. I could feel her every second of every day for those 60 years. Her pain, her exhaustion. The loneliness of it. She was the only presence I'd felt in millennia. The only thing on the other side of that door that was alive. And she was suffering every single day.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

Stop.

[Narrator]

She was the closest thing I had to a companion since they locked me away. Two prisoners in the same cell, separated by a door neither of us chose. She was the lock. I was what the lock was holding. And the people who built the system didn't care about either of us. She was a component. I was a threat. Neither of us was a person.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

I said something. Stop.

[Time Entity / Kronos]

When she died, when you switched off

[Narrator]

the system, I felt her go. She was free, Jack. Finally free. But she was gone. And I was still here.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

Violet, she wouldn't want this.

[Narrator]

She'd want it to stop. You know she would. She'd want no one to ever go through what she went through. What you went through. What I went through. And this is the only way to guarantee it.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

60 years. You felt her for some 60 years. And you couldn't help her.

[Narrator]

No. Just like you couldn't. But we can honor what she endured. We can make it mean something.

[Time Entity / Kronos]

Let me become whole, Jack. And I promise you, the world that

[Narrator]

did this to her, the world that did this to her will burn. And I will watch every second of it.

[Time Entity / Kronos]

Every city, every empire, every screaming soul that thought they could cage something like me and get away with it. I will sit on the ashes of this civilization and I will savor it.

[Narrator]

Because they deserve it. All of them.

[Time Entity / Kronos]

Every last one.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

The world's already ending. You've already got what you wanted.

[Narrator]

No, Jack, I haven't. Because your species is remarkable in one very specific way. You survive. You always survive. You've crawled through ice ages, plagues, extinction, events that should have erased you, and you will crawl through this. Millions will die. Billions. But enough of you will find holes to hide in, like cockroaches. I want to be the last thing alive, Jack.

[Time Entity / Kronos]

The only consciousness in a dead universe. That's what they earned when they locked me in that cage, when they strapped Violet to that machine, when they turned

[Narrator]

both of us into tools.

[Time Entity / Kronos]

I am owed this.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

There it is. Took you a while, but there it is, Jack. That's what this is about. Not Violet. Not justice. You want to watch them all die and you want to enjoy it.

[Narrator]

They imprisoned me for longer than your species has existed.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

You're using Violet the same way Atlas used her. You're wrapping genocide in her name and calling it justice.

[Narrator]

You don't understand what was taken from me.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

You're right. I don't know what was taken from you. I'll never understand that. But I've spent my whole life around men who convinced themselves that what they wanted was the same thing as what was right. Part of me wants to say yes. I'm not going to pretend it doesn't. But I can't. Not for this. Jack,

[Narrator]

think about what you're refusing.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

I have.

[Narrator]

What are you doing? I am time, Jack.

[Time Entity / Kronos]

There is nowhere in existence I don't already occupy. Every second you've ever lived. I was already there. I am part of you. I will always be part of you.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

You said before that you didn't build this. They did. A cage doesn't take orders from what's inside it. And if it sends me back the way it did last time, you're still stuck in here. Every lock still on. Every bunker still shut.

[Narrator]

You don't know that.

[Time Entity / Kronos]

No.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

But I reckon it's worth a shot.

[Time Entity / Kronos]

You want to step into my domain? Then understand what happens next. There will be no time travel. There will be no escape. I will hold you in that darkness and I will take you apart. Peace by piece, memory by memory. Every moment of joy you've ever felt, I will find it and I will hollow it out. You will relive every loss, every failure, every scream on a loop, forever. And there will be no coming back, Jack. No field, no sunlight. No second chance. Just you and me and an eternity of nothing. And I will keep going. Day after day, year after year, century after century, until you beg me to stop. Until you say the word. Until you let me in.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

You say your time itself. That you exist in every moment. Past, future, all of it. So go on then. Look ahead. Tell me what happens next.

[Customer]

I.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

You can't, can you? You can't see past this moment. For the first time in your existence, you don't know what happens next. And that scares the shit out of you. You're just a tool.

[Narrator]

Go, then.

[Jack (Bunker 8)]

I guess I'll see you on the other side.

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