In the Shallows, the gun boat comes to a pier, where Kyle and Jake step off and follow the torches lit for directions towards the highway.
Jake: Guess this is it....so tell me; you going to miss him?
Kyle: Barnes? More or less...he was a good drill instructor, but he was too close to Ryder....closer to him than his own brother.
Jake: He kept on getting under your skin a lot..
Kyle: Yeah, he did.
Jake: Why?
Kyle: That's another time for later.
Jake: You know; I'm still your big brother....I'm here if you want to talk.
Kyle: I do....just later.
Kyle and Jake continue down the path and notice an army of Condemned, Brutes and Goliaths traveling down the highway.
Jake: That's gotta be the highway.
Kyle: Well, let's see where they're heading too.
Kyle prepares to follow the Condemned army, but Jake puts his hand on Kyle's shoulder.
Jake: Wait, Kyle...the old man said we have to follow the path that's off the highway.
Kyle: What? Why?
Jake: The prison camps. Like you said, we...we gotta check this out.
Kyle sighs.
Kyle: Look, man....we need to focus on what we came here for.....like I said; Merritt has probably seen women that look like Keera all the time. We have no idea if she's down here or not and everyone back at home is-
Jake: I have to go...look, you don't have to go with me, okay? I'll go check this out and you deploy the beacon.
Kyle: Goddamn it, Jake. That'll get us both killed. We need to get inside the Hive and activate the beacon for the A.O.W. This is it, man....this is what we've fought so hard to achieve.
Jake: Yeah? Well, Keera's what I'm trying to achieve. She's all I got, dude. She's my fucking wife, all right?! You'd do the same thing if it were Sarah.
Kyle: You're right. I would, but she'd want to worry about everyone else's lives instead of her own. Her sister.
Jake: I'm going to go find her....with or without you.
Kyle: So that's it, huh? You going to turn your back on me again?
Jake: I didn't turn my fucking back on you! Ryder took saw potential in you and took you!
Kyle: and you fucking let him, you asshole!....so the people we've fought with don't matter to you? The people who've died getting this far? Walter? Alexandria? Cameron? Barnes? ....they mean nothing to you?
A short pause.
Jake: Dad would be disappointed in us, man....I thought we were brothers, Kyle.
Jake begins to make his way towards the prison camp, before Kyle shuts his eyes and speaks to himself.
Kyle: I'm going to regret this.
Kyle opens his eyes and shouts to Jake.
Kyle: Jake! Hold up!
Kyle catches up to Jake.
Kyle: You know you're an asshole, right?
Jake: Runs in the family.
In Midtown Manhattan, Shawn and James are driving the A.O.W tank through the gates of Midtown Manhattan, before the Burton brothers, Merritt and the survivors exit. Sarah, Ashley, Caleb and Cassandra approach the tank as Cassandra hugs James.
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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...
