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Please. It is important.

Certainly.

Can I be of assistance?

No. Thank you.

This is an extremely

reliable model.

(TIRES SCREECHING)

The tank is full.

MELANIE:
Huh!

That's a good trick.

It was no trick. We do not lie.

We trust each other.

You guys take

the fun out of everything.

Where are we going?

I will take you to my

Healer in Fort Worth.

Even if your Healer agrees

to keep me inside you,

I'll still be a prisoner.

You will still be alive.

So will the people you love.

That Seeker is a lot of

things, but she's not a fool.

Sooner or later, she'll work

out where you're going.

We need a map.

I'll show you the way.

(JIVE MUSIC PLAYING)

(LAUGHS)

(SCREAMS)

What's wrong?

Are the memories too painful?

How do you think I feel?

I know how you feel.

That's the problem.

When you take the body,

the feelings come with it.

It's a package deal.

Where are we?

You tell me. You're the one

with the steering wheel.

You sent us

in the wrong direction.

You have been putting thoughts

in my head to distract me.

(TIRES SCREECHING)

The Seeker was right. You are

an unreasonable species.

I try to help you and

this is how you thank me.

We are going to Fort Worth.

No!

(TIRES SCREECHING)

(COUGHS)

Will it still work?

Not anymore.

Now what do we do?

We walk.

Which way?

You can go my way,

or you can go your own

way and kill us both.

You planned this.

I made a promise. I promised

my brother I'd come back.

How could I have

been so foolish?

I can never trust you again.

How do I know I can trust you?

I'm giving you

exactly what you wanted.

Taking you to my family

could get them killed.

We head east.

Come on.

Don't leave tracks.

Walk on the rocks.

Did you really think

you could beat me?

(PANTING)

Save the water.

We're gonna need it.

I need it now.

We've been walking for ages.

How do you think

you're going to find them?

My uncle had a cabin

out here in the desert.

We were heading

out here to join him.

If he survived.

It's farther than I thought.

I don't know how much

farther I can go.

We've walked too far

to walk back.

(CAR ENGINE HUMMING)

(TIRES SCREECHING)

JEB:
Melanie.

(GASPS)

Come on, girl.

Stay with me.

Uncle Jeb.

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

You found us.

Us?

Jamie? Jared? Are they here?

Are they safe?

MAN:
I told you I saw one.

Why did you give it water?

On account of it was dying.

MELANIE:
Uncle Jeb!

I'm in here!

Hold it, Kyle.

Why?

She's one of them.

Well, yeah, she surely is,

but she's also my niece.

Was.

I'm just saying

it's complicated, Ian.

I can make it simple.

Yeah, me, too.

MELANIE:
Aunt Maggie!

Aunt Maggie!

You don't fool us, parasite!

MELANIE:
Oh, God. They don't see me.

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