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Previously, on Earth Abides.

Heather will finally

have someone her age to play with.

♪ Happy birthday Dear Heather ♪

Hey, Heather Bo-beather!

- Hey! - Okay, take those out.

We always know where you are, right? Next to Heather.

Stay right where you are.

- You hunt? - Don't you?

Only rocks.

Don't

fucking

do it.

We don't want anything.

Everyone wants something.

I was a resident surgeon

at UW Medicine in Seattle,

until there was no one left to treat.

You said essential items, right?

For me, medical supplies are.

Did you at least find one or two more bottles?

How about 200?

Evie, get Joey!

Someone, help! Please!

Please! Someone help us! Please!

Help!

There's too much blood.

Everyone, keep applying pressure

anywhere you see a bloom.

It's okay.

Come on. Come on.

Get this off. Get this off.

Okay, let's see what we're working with.

Jorge! Tourniquet over here. It's on the shelf.

Tie it above the elbow here.

Tie it like you're gonna break the bone, okay?

- All right. - There's too much blood.

It's okay. Everybody has more than it needs.

Jean? Get me that suture kit.

We're gonna take these one by one, okay?

One by one.

Yup, that's good.

He's not breathing!

No, no, no, no, no, Ish?

Ezra, oxygen, now!

- Ish? - 'Kay, 'kay, 'kay. Move!

Come on, Dad.

Okay, it's ready.

Okay, on the nose. Turn it around.

Yup.

- Slow pressure. Go. - Okay.

- Just like that. - Yeah.

- Every five seconds. Okay? - Yeah, yeah, okay.

He's breathing.

Emma, we got him.

Yeah, baby, come on, fight.

Yeah, you got this.

Fight, baby, come on, fight, fight, fight, fight.

He's breathing.

- Stay here. Stay. - Don't let go.

Come on.

Dad's gonna be okay, right?

He has to.

I feel useless.

Please, give me something to do.

After this,

the only thing left for any of us to do

is rest, and wait.

When you give so much of yourself to your partner,

you hope it's enough,

but I realize it doesn't matter how much I love him,

even over all these countless years.

It only matters whether or not

you save him.

Ish, I'm so sorry.

Is the patient awake?

All the time.

Okay.

Brace yourself.

I know.

How long before I can walk again?

Knowing you,

it'll be about six weeks too early.

I still cannot believe

a human being survived that attack.

All I did was lay on the table.

You did all the heavy lifting.

I'm a fake, Ish.

I flunked out of medical school my first year.

I was great

everywhere but the classroom.

But I've seen you.

All those stories I told,

they were just that. They were stories.

The truth is, I-I liked believing

I was more than I really was.

While all the real doctors were dying,

I chose to live a lie.

Impossibly, it never caught up to me

until you were right in front of me, and I knew.

Then I knew.

I knew me and my lie couldn't sew you back together.

But you did.

Ish, I have no idea how.

I do.

You finally caught up to the lie.

Dad's finally home!

Dad!

Wait, no, hey, hey, hey!

He'll be climbing those library steps soon, okay?

Love you. Love you. Love you. Love you.

Dad, when will you be able to play again?

Uh, the accordion or the piano?

You don't play piano or the accordion.

It's never too late to learn.

Bad joke. Dad's home.

Come on.

Mm.

Ow.

Please make sure you bring 'em to the library when I'm down.

Mm, don't you even start with me, Isherwood.

- It's important. - Mm, not as important

as teaching Heather how to set a trap,

or Joey how to freedive for abalone.

Did you have to catch the whole ocean, Joey?

They were jumping out of the sea.

Show-off.

But.

I did happen to get

your favorite.

A lobster.

I'll share it with you.

Nah, that's all right. It's all yours.

Next time you dive,

do it with Alex or Raif close by, all right?

Raif's too busy chasing Heather into the city.

Well, people need to stretch their legs sometimes, Jo-Jo.

Yeah, but do they need to stretch them together?

Oh, my God!

- No one's home. - Eh, I guess we can go in.

Why would you put holes in a table?

How do I look?

Kinda perfect.

I don't think that's how you do that.

50 pairs of shoes?

Am I missing something?

You only wear one pair at a time.

Oh, no, p-people in the olden times,

they had, um,

they had 50 feet.

I'll never understand the point of having all this stuff!

Well, I think it was just for fun, right?

Whoa!

This is Maurine's dream purse.

Heather, I've seen the past.

It's a blindfold.

Wait, I actually,

I remember this from the library with Ish.

You know, I wonder who built the pyramids.

And why?

I wonder what the rest of the world looks like.

We spend half our time keeping nature at bay here,

but everywhere else, it must be magical.

I mean, there's gotta be someone else, you know?

Somewhere.

What if we didn't have to wonder?

"We need to see what life is like

outside of all of Dad's routines."

She really said that?

For the record, she also blamed you for her wanderlust.

- Me? - Something about you

teaching her about the Vikings,

world geography,

pointing her towards a world

outside the bounds of San Lupo.

Fucking Vikings.

And she capped it off by saying

if we don't let her leave, she's gonna die here.

We're all gonna die here.

And that they'd be back before winter.

She promised?

I've never known that child to lie.

She did.

I'm not ready for her to go.

When you found me,

all those years ago,

I went with you, not knowing what was ahead.

And what have you always told our children?

All of life is learning.

Then let her learn.

Out there.

Heather Bo-beather.

Light as a feather.

Hey, after food and water,

these are your best friends out there.

Okay. Okay?

Okay, the gas

is treated with biocide.

- Yeah. - Right?

- Mm-hmm. - So keep it out of the sun.

- Okay, yeah. Yeah. - Yeah? All right.

Oh, how much range do we have on it?

Plenty.

Okay. All right, well, thanks, everyone,

but, you know, you can stop hovering now, okay?

Okay, no hovering.

Here's some bear spray.

Don't confuse it with hairspray.

Hopefully it works.

Maybe we try it on you to see?

Thank you. Thank you.

- Be safe. - Yeah, we will.

Okay, good.

Bye, sis.

Who kidnapped Alex

and replaced him with a real boy?

Remember how I taught you.

Dominant stance and dominant eye.

- And squeeze, don't pull. - All right.

I'm kind of in denial of the whole leaving thing.

- Well, we're gonna be back. - Okay.

Mom, you taught me how to clean a fish,

and how to bait a trap, how to use tree bark as soap,

and how to practice kissing on my wrist.

I've been paying attention, and I remember it all.

Well, take care of each other.

Okay.

Whatever you do, you stay north.

With, uh, winds blowing from the west, expect wildfires.

- Hey! - Hi.

Gonna hold down the fort while I'm gone?

- Yeah. - I love you.

I love you, Heather Bo-beather.

- Okay, you guys. - Have fun.

Love you guys.

You're the best thing I ever did.

Wait! You can't go yet.

Why not?

Gotta do our secret handshake.

We don't have a secret handshake.

That's how secret it is.

Come back, okay?

Okay. Bye.

- Love you! - Bye!

- All right, goodbye! - Love you!

- Love you! - Be safe!

Bye! -Bye!

You see the soil in here?

- Yeah. - What do you think about it?

It's dry.

That's right, it is pretty dry.

Usually we get more rain this time of year.

Yeah.

And our friends here are a little bit thirsty,

just like people.

Hmm.

Are you okay, Evie?

What's wrong with the sink?

Why have we never been here before?

When something always works,

sometimes you take it for granted.

That's a terrible idea.

Exactly.

How fucked are we?

Rome before the aqueduct.

Well, Jorge can fix anything.

Anything but the past.

See this patch up the rusted section of pipe?

This was the fix.

A Band-Aid on top of a bigger problem

that the water company probably never got around to.

But we're still getting some water.

Yes, Joey, but

we're at the mercy of city pipes.

How long?

Well, without rain, and the way it's been going,

a week?

If we ration.

Dad!

Hope you have a brilliant idea, son.

No.

But they might!

Hey!

Those are other people, just like us.

We don't know if it's safe.

What if they're stranded and need help?

How many do you think there are?

More than there are of us. Get in the car, Joey.

I've never met anyone new.

Joey's right. It's been at least 10 years

since we've seen another person.

Emma? Alex?

Can anyone hear me?

Shit. Joey! In the car. Now!

What did they look like? Did you talk to any of them?

Uh, no, we were too far for any details like that.

- Were you scared? - No, I was ready.

For what?

Just in case. We don't know if we were followed.

Let's get the kids inside.

We just saw trucks and then they drove away.

How many were there?

Fresh tire tracks will be easy to follow

if they heard you driving away.

If they want to find us, they will.

- Where's Alex? - On watch.

Ish, what if this is a good thing?

- It has been in the past. - Alex? Come down.

Whatever it is, we have to be prepared.

The odds of you all being there at the same time,

- maybe it's a sign. - Well, of course

we should talk to them. We have to talk to them.

We could go back out with everybody.

There's plenty of daylight.

Let's just get everyone safe first, okay?

Joey, in the house!

You left before we could talk at the reservoir.

It's not much, but it's part of our last supply.

We still have enough.

Consider it a peace offering.

Can help quench the thirst we all know is comin'.

My partner, Perry.

The canteen was her idea.

I'm not that poetic.

Hello, all.

Don't break two hearts.

Now you're stuck with us.

Friends for life.

At least in certain Balkan countries.

We thought we'd have enough water,

till the reservoir decided to empty itself out.

This mini drought.

"The Earth cries in a drought,

but it laughs in flowers."

Emerson.

A well-read man.

A good book never hurt anybody.

Unless it fell off a shelf and hit 'em in the head.

You have a young man in a watchtower.

What'd you think was coming to get ya?

We've had enough troubles to earn that watchtower.

Alex, come on down!

Is that your son?

He's as handsome as his dad.

You have kids?

Never been that lucky.

But I have friends.

They look out for me.

It's amazing.

Stunning, really, to see so many new people all at once.

We didn't mean to scare you.

In fact,

I was just about to go down for a chat at the reservoir when.

Ish isn't one to run to strangers.

It's okay.

Happy to run to you.

We learned how to dig wells in Nevada

when we found this abandoned outside of Reno.

I wasn't expecting that.

We were very lucky in the finding,

and we're happy to share that luck.

I'm Ish.

This is my wife, Emma.

Jorge, Molly, Jean, Ezra. My son, Alex.

Charlie.

These two gentlemen are Silas and Kori.

Arabella, Penny.

I call them Perry's bodyguards.

Backup singers.

And the rest,

I'd love to be able to introduce you over a meal,

if that's not being too presumptuous?

Welcome to San Lupo.

Our home.

Ice cream. Ice cream and pizza.

We must feel like such an intrusion on your Eden,

but to us, we feel rescued from the road.

Well, we are happy to have visitors.

I bet digging wells isn't easy,

even with the best equipment.

Oh, thank you very much.

You're good? Okay.

I learned that the hard way.

So, uh, how long do you suppose this will take?

What's your rock like around here?

Volcanic rhyolite, sandstone, shale,

and a thin layer of Moraga basalts.

Ish!

Coming through with the big-boy knowledge.

Well, Berkeley wasn't totally wasted on me.

Okay, well,

with our drill hammer and our 185-cfm air compressor.

Running 24 hours a day.

That's right.

We're probably tasting fresh water

in 72 hours.

"Hours"?

We forgot that was a thing.

Time forgets everything, ma'am,

except itself.

I thought you said Perry was the poet.

Ah. Well.

Every once in a while, a blind squirrel goes nuts.

So, what can we offer you in exchange?

Our people are hungry and tired.

We would certainly welcome all the fuel you could spare.

So that we can travel on when water's flowing here.

Yeah, we can provide that.

Sounds like we have a deal.

Sounds like we do.

Cheers.

- Cheers. - Cheers.

Excuse me, sir.

There we go.

Wanna give it a fling, Ish?

Whoa.

You made that look easy.

Yeah, it's heavier than it looks.

My arm's still damaged from the cougar attack.

Sorry.

There's a, uh hammer there.

Where? Oh, there.

Yeah, give him a hand.

It's okay. Every man has what he's good at.

How are you with a rifle?

Better than I am with a drill.

Beautiful. Let's leave this to the boys

and go kill us some dinner.

Shut up.

Where were you before the desert?

That's a big question.

I'm curious what you found out there.

Were there other communities like ours?

You know what I found?

Me.

There you are.

Fuck!

Clean shot.

And now we finish.

Doesn't take much to kill from far away.

The challenge is to do it when you're up close,

eye to eye.

Field dressing's never been my forte.

I've had lots of practice,

not just on deer.

Bison, cattle.

Ish, you should've seen your face.

Ha ha.

Thank you.

Where'd you get those scars?

What, these?

It's a few long stories.

You see, scars are God's math.

It's his way of keeping track

of how much more punishment a man deserves.

How much more mercy.

My dad survived a mountain lion.

And a rattlesnake.

Is that right? Look at you, Ish.

God's keeping really close track of you.

Here's to hoping he's done with me,

and I say that not believing.

Believing enough to hedge your bets, though.

I like that.

Cover every angle,

and they'll never catch you unawares.

You ever feel that you're so much

in the right place, the right time,

that your heart could just

tear right in half?

Let's hope the drill and the water table

feel that way about each other.

Yes.

The sooner a thirst is quenched, right, Ish?

Well, that's it for me.

Me too, but we can't thank you enough

for your help with the wells, Charlie.

Oh, hard work never hurt a man, ma'am,

unless he didn't want to do it.

Good night.

You are one hell of a host, Ish.

You really know how to make a man feel like he's at home.

"Home."

When all you've known is the desert,

a taste of home like this.

Almost feels like a mirage.

You ever wrestle with

why we're the only ones that made it?

There are two kinds of people,

the weak and the strong.

Those who found a way,

those who didn't.

What they left behind is ours,

so thank you

and next.

"Next."

That's the key.

Building on the knowledge from the past,

making room for whatever's,

whatever's next.

That's how we'll win in the end.

That is how we make it all the way back.

I like you, Ish.

That

I didn't see coming.

I was thinking maybe you can work with me today.

I wanna work on the well.

I think we're close.

I know you do, but why don't you put

that determination into helping around San Lupo?

The well isn't the only thing.

If Charlie doesn't find water, it might be.

Like your brother said,

it doesn't mean we stop trying something else.

"Like my brother said."

Whoa! Alex. Hold on.

I don't get it. I've always been here,

but I can't remember the last time

that you've wanted me to do anything with you.

It's always Joey.

I wanna do something with you now, both of you!

Why?

Alex? Alex!

I don't want you around him.

Wow, so you don't really want to work with me,

you just don't want me working with someone else.

Before we all die of thirst, I'm gonna go make myself useful.

What was that about?

I just want him to make smart choices.

Smart choices, or your choices?

Emma, I don't think we can trust Charlie.

I knew "new Ish" was too good to be true.

What's that mean?

Your constant antipathy towards visitors.

You did the same thing with Jorge, Ezra, Jean,

and Molly, who wound up saving your life!

You saw warning signs in all of them.

Okay, I was wrong.

Dead wrong, but I don't think I'm wrong about this, Em.

I get this feeling

that while he's digging into our ground,

it's to plant his own root and stay here.

- Can you hear yourself? - You saw the way

he looked at Evie last night. I know you did.

Okay, yes, and it was skeezy,

but he's a man.

Evie's beautiful.

Perry reined him in. It's not the first time

a man looked at beauty and got caught.

He also said something when everyone went to bed.

What did he say?

It wasn't just what he said, it was... it was how he.

The words.

He told me he liked me.

You are impossible.

Just because you don't want me to be right

doesn't mean I'm wrong.

You mean wrong again.

You just gotta wait for the drill to do the work.

It takes time.

Come on.

It's not working.

I'm telling you, it's not going in.

You think we should have hit water by now?

Ish,

you're either gonna have water or you're not.

Not every hole is a well.

We're down to only one now.

One is all we need.

Good?

All right. Let's go.

Come on, baby. Come on, baby!

Come on, baby. Come on, baby.

Open the fuck up.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!

No way. No way.

We did it!

- Whoo! - What'd I tell you, huh?

There we go!

Tomorrow, we're all getting wet.

Whoo! Told you!

Shale.

It's very porous, so water can move through it.

If it's a crack through there, you're in business.

Yeah, he's right. You know, you could take a bath.

Now we're smooth.

You going to the well, babe?

It's a well site, not a well yet, Em.

Well, if you're not, there's about a hundred things

I could use your help with around here.

It's nice not doing all the heavy lifting

for once, isn't it?

The mountain lion decided to take care of that

a while back.

You are still my strong-shouldered man.

I mean, wouldn't you rather be here with me

than out in that cruel bit of sun?

I remember when that invitation

would take us down the hall awful quick.

Sorry, Em. I just.

Have a good day, then.

Men! Thank God I'm not one.

You ready? It's the big moment, everybody.

Let's go!

♪ And so ♪

♪ Sally can wait ♪

♪ She knows it's too late ♪

♪ As she's walking on by ♪

♪ Her soul slides away ♪

♪ But "Don't look back in anger" ♪

♪ I heard you say ♪

Ishmael! Is that your full name?

Isherwood.

I've never heard that.

It's my mom's favorite poet.

Books were kind of her map and compass.

Well, books can't save us now.

Just blood, sweat, and beers.

Aw.

I'd kill for a cold Modelo right now, huh?

Uh, Jorge usually keeps a pack or two chilled.

I don't know if he has Modelo.

Hey!

- I heard you got beer? - Oh.

For a well-digger like you? Yes, we do.

Now you're stuck with us.

It's amazing.

So many new people all at once.

Charlie, that fucker, is here.

I can't believe I'm lost.

Great idea, Ish.

Take a walk in the woods. Clear your head.

Get eaten by wolves.

When are you coming home, sweet Raif?

I haven't had a cigarette in a thousand years.

These are terrible.

You should be glad you quit.

I smoked Viceroy.

Impossible to find.

Tastes like dark chocolate.

Yes, almost.

Dark chocolate that fell in a pile of ash.

That one, I quit.

You sure?

Oh. I have missed cigarettes every day since I quit.

I have hated booze exactly as much.

Can I tell you a story instead?

Mm-hmm.

Salt Lake, June 15th,

the summer your second album came out.

We hadn't had rain all year,

and then, during your last encore,

the sky just opened up.

I mean, it poured.

You took out a shot glass,

you filled it with rainwater.

Mm-hmm.

Put out a toast to the entire crowd.

Wow. Don't even think I remember that one.

That sounds cool.

Oh, it was. It was cool as hell.

One won't kill ya.

It might.

Dying ain't that bad.

Sometimes the hangover can feel like a resurrection.

Thank you for the cigarette and the memories, Charlie,

but it's time for me

to lay down next to my husband and wife,

and go to sleep.

Well, if you change your mind,

you know where to find us.

¿Todo bien?

You okay?

Solid as lava.

You know, once we get water

everything will go back to normal.

Will it?

Mom?

Where are you going?

Nowhere.

It's just your dad. He's, um,

went out for a walk, and it's getting late.

Can I come?

I'm old enough to help.

I know you are,

but it's the middle of the night,

and you are rockin' Pjs instead of search and rescue gear.

Search and rescue?

I'm joking.

Mwah. Come here! Mwah! Mwah!

Dad!

Ah, Jo-Jo.

- You okay? - Yeah.

Embarrassed. Cold.

Happy to see you guys.

Time for bed, Jo-Jo.

What? I want to hear the story.

Tomorrow. I promise.

Dad, you smell like a tree.

You're a tree.

What in the hell were you possibly thinking?

I'm really sorry, Em.

The fact that you're alive

means there's a small chance of forgiveness.

I got lost.

I tried to make it back before dark.

That's the first proper scare you've given me

since you didn't know how to deliver a baby.

I was 28.

I couldn't deliver a pizza.

I'm really pissed off, in case you didn't know.

You're the one that set up the "always in teams" rule.

I know! I know.

What were you looking for out that far?

Uh.

Myself, I think.

Classic Ish.

Had to get lost to find himself.

Ish, what happens if we don't find water?

I'm more worried about what happens if we do.

Cut it. Cut it!

♪ Slip and slide ♪

♪ The eye of your mind ♪

♪ Don't you know You might find ♪

♪ A better place to play? ♪

♪ You said That you'd never been ♪

♪ But all the things That you've seen ♪

♪ Slowly fade away ♪

♪ So I start a revolution From my bed ♪

Oh!

Hey! Might have taken

a little longer than we expected,

and we're down to our last mason bit,

but Daddy struck gold.

♪ Stand up beside the fireplace ♪

♪ Take that look From off your face ♪

Yeah!

Hey.

Grateful for your help, okay?

Grab whatever you need.

We had a deal, water for gasoline.

You earned it. We shook on it.

I don't remember shaking on it.

Maybe I like this place a little more than I admitted.

♪ So Sally can wait ♪

♪ She knows it's too late ♪

♪ As we're walking on by ♪

I could see everything slipping away.

Even all the love

is now under the guillotine

of Charlie's charm and charisma.

It feels primal now.

♪ So Sally can wait ♪

♪ She knows it's too late ♪

♪ As she's walking on by ♪

♪ My soul slides away ♪

♪ But "Don't look back in anger" ♪

♪ I heard you say ♪