Nightfall, in Midtown Manhattan, Cassandra is sharpening her arrow tips while Maya is singing on the guitar.
Maya: (singing) It's not your eyes. It's not what you say. It's not your laughter that gives you away. You're just lonely. You've been lonely too long. Oh, you're acting this in disguise. All your perfect delivered lines. They don't fool me. You've been lonely for too long.
Sarah approaches Cassandra.
Sarah: If you're still going to Dallas, count me in. We both have someone we care about in that sinkhole.
Cassandra smiles while outside Midtown Manhattan, Kyle, Jake, Shawn, who is carrying the unconscious Barnes and James are seen walking through the wasteland, before walking back to the settlement to rest. The Settlement Leader approaches Kyle's group.
Settlement Leader: You boys from Dallas?
Kyle: Yeah....anyone else make it back?
Settlement Leader: Afraid not, son...you're the first....
Jake: What about Woody? He was outside the sinking.
Settlement Leader: Haven't seen or heard from him either.
Kyle: shit....if it's alright with you, can we rest here? We'll need one of your trucks to get back home tomorrow.
Settlement Leader: Sure thing...whatever you guys need...
Kyle: Also, can we have this man guarded? He's dangerous...very dangerous.
Settlement Leader: even with one arm....
Kyle: even with one arm....
Later that night, Shawn, James, Jake and Kyle are seen resting near a campfire while Barnes is seen handcuffed to a pole. Kyle has nightmares of Walters', Cameron's and Nathans' deaths, before waking up.
Barnes: Bad dreams? I remember when I used to have them...I got used to them...Rick had them more than I did....when he was a kid, he would crawl into bed with me....scared of the monster in the closet...or under the bed.
Kyle: Where have you been since we took out Kronos?
Barnes: Ashdown.
Kyle: You were in Ashdown? So then what happened, where did those things come from?
Barnes: Who the hell knows, man? God? Maybe, he's up there gettin sick of humanity fucking the world up more than it already is...so he created a new breed of.....beings.....there's a facility a few miles from Midtown Manhattan....north...a year after you took us out, these doctors came in the middle of the night and snagged us...couldn't see where I was...but I was taken somewhere bad...only good thing about it was this arm...I can remember the logo if I saw it....he still alive? Nathan?
Kyle looks down.
Barnes: No....He's dead. Figured as much....his sisters still alive?
Kyle: Yeah...both of them.
Barnes: What about that old man? The one eyed one?
Kyle: What is this? You think that just because you helped us get out of that sinkhole and that monster, you and I are going to shake hands and put our past behind us? Fuck you.
Barnes: Hey, just trying to hold a conversation....there's a storm coming soon, Kyle...those creatures...those "Condemned"....they'll keep coming...people like you and me....we don't live happy lives...we don't get to settle down with wife...and kids...friends and family...those days are over....these are the days of Armageddon, son.
A short pause.
Barnes: You going to miss Walter?
Kyle: He was my friend....something you're not.
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Chronicles of the Apocalyse: Condemnation (2016)
ActionThree years after the defeat of Kronos, Kyle Desipich and his fellow survivors have been living a peaceful life, but it is suddenly threatened by a new enemy of mutants. Left with no choice, Kyle is forced to align with his brother, Jake, a military...
