Later at night, Margaret is restlessly sleeping, before she wakes up and rubs her eyes. In the morning, Margaret visits the armory with a young African-American woman guiding her.
Margaret: Sorry to wake you like this, Chloe.
Chloe: No, no, it's cool. I'm usually up anyway. I have a cup of coffee every day when the shit hit the fan. The brain gets so wired.
Margaret grabs her silenced sniper rifle.
Chloe: I found an old cell phone from the old days. Keep it in my pocket hoping that one day it'll ring....Hey, if you happen to get a boar, could I have the leg?
Margaret looks up, raising her eyebrow.
Chloe: To make some stew for the party tonight, you know?
Margaret: Party?
Chloe: Yeah....it's to celebrate and welcome new people. Gives people a chance to meet you all.
Margaret: Sure, Chloe.
At the Berrington gate, a guard opens it for Margaret, just as two men on horses with deer strapped to the back of their horses, one Caucasian-American and one African-American, enter inside the walls of Berrington.
Ryan: Hey, you're new.
Margaret: I am.
Bryan steps off from the horse and approaches Margaret.
Bryan: I'm Bryan.
Bryan turns to the bald African-American man.
Bryan: This is Connor. We do the runs.
Connor: How do you do?
Bryan: You going somewhere?
Margaret: Just out to clear my head.
Connor: Everything good?
Margaret gives a look.
Margaret: Yeah...
Later on in the woods, Margaret sets up pictures in front of her, before shooting a picture. She then looks around.
Margaret: Goddammit....
Margaret shoots another, before looking around, finding nothing.
Margaret: Fuck.....
In a PTSD moment, with Marcus's voice in her head, Margaret shoots the rest of the pictures.
Margaret: Shit! Shit! Fuck!
In Berrington, Kyle, Sarah, Cassandra and Laura are having a meeting.
Kyle: You're having me as a lead sheriff?
Laura: Yep...and Sarah will be your deputy with her being your wife. I thought I'd be fit for you both. The two of you will have weapons. You patrol, walk the wall, watch out for the kids. If there's a fight, you solve it and people will listen to you.
Sarah: Because we're the authority.
Laura: Because they believe in this, honey. Because I'm telling her this.
Laura hands two sheriff badges to Kyle and Sarah.
Laura: A cop used to live here, but he died on a run.....I wanted to make sure that these badges didn't go to waste. There will be government and order which is why Cassandra is here. There's going to be a sheriff department here....it will be like the old days. People will feel safe knowing that there's a police force, government and order. Real lives. It might be horses and mills, but-
Laura notices Kyle's expression.
Laura: What? Does it sound like a pipe dream?
Cassandra: No....
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Chronicles of the Apocalypse: Across the Ruins (2024)
ActionSet months after their losses both of homes and loved ones, Kyle and what remains of his group must travel across the wasteland in a brutal and bloody journey to find a new home. R for Strong Bloody Post-Apocalyptic Violence, Disturbing Images, Per...
