VHS 004: Two Types of People

## Cast

May Leigh Damage: Abigail Rose

Markeia McCarty: Achira Sampson

Luis Carazo: Lampwick

Michelle Nguyen Bradley: Juniper Song

Noxweiler Berf: Game Master

## Summary

The episode begins with another VHS message from Ten-Four. He shares that safe house 113 has been burnt to the ground, and someone appears to have mutilated the dead (a recounting of the events of VHS 001: The Beginning of the End and VHS 002: Ghosts of the Past). He tells the Enders that construction supplies are needed to rebuild 113, and that the medical supplies requested still hasn't made it to Bakersfield, but he is sending out a team to look for the supplies and any survivors.

We rejoin the survivors inside the gates of the Grey Ridge community, surrounded by hunting rifles and weapons and with only a quarter of the supplies they originally salvaged from 113. A man by the name of Sanderson asks about Sammy, the sick young man who has come with the group, and Abigail conveys that, while he and the old woman have accompanied them here, the survivors do not trust them or take responsibility for them. Dr. Maria Espinoza tells the group that, if they are to be accommodated, they must give up their weapons, and that they are expected to work. Achira makes it clear that she does not intend to give up her weapons, and that the Rag and Bone do not intend to stay the night, but simply to trade and leave. Sanderson takes the group to a side area where they can do their business and keep their weapons without entering the community proper.

Lampwick makes conversation with Dr. Espinoza about the two traveling strangers, telling her about how strange they acted when the group found them. Dr. Espinoza tells Lampwick that they will keep an eye on the two, but that he and his companions did the right thing bringing them to Grey Ridge. Juniper befriends and chats with Sunny, who tells her about Grey Ridge and mentions that she cares for twin children. Achira searches for covert trading opportunities, and talks with a man named Chuckwagon, who seems to be interested. Abigail makes conversation with Sanderson, who threatens to kill her and all of her companions if they cause any trouble.

Observing Lampwick, Achira and Juniper realize that he may be sick. Lampwick is hit with a wave of nausea, and vomits. Chuckwagon fetches the doctor. The group examines Lampwick for bites or claw marks, and thankfully finds none. Lampwick begins to feel a bit better.

We flashback to a scene in Lampwick's past. He infiltrates a hospice facility during a shift change with a syringe and gloves. Isabel has given him the information he needs to kill a man who has left his large fortune to her in his will. Lampwick enters the room of the man, who cusses him out. Lampwick slaps him across the face, leaving a large purple welt, before emptying the drug in his possession into the man's IV, killing him. On the way out, he chooses a new mark among the rich elderly patients of the hospice. Lampwick calls Isabel, who tells him he needs to disappear for a week, just to be safe. He does, and then finds that Isabel has disappeared on him with all of the money. He never hears from her again.

Abigail remembers saying her daily prayers in church, back when she was a Catholic nun, before the fall. A man named Father Stephens summons her to speak with Sister Judith, who is dying of lymphoma. Judith, a mother figure for Abigail, asks her to pray with her. Judith asks Abigail for forgiveness, and admits to not having told anyone or done anything when Abigail had come to her about abuse from a man named Father Walker. Abigail struggles to come to terms with this information. Judith asks if Abigail still has faith in her heart, to which Abigail responds, "Of course I do." Judith asks her to promise that she will never forget her power, as Judith had when she neglected to come forward about Father Walker. Judith falls asleep. Abigail smothers the dying woman with a pillow, killing her.

Juniper remembers a cold night with her sister Olive, sitting beside a small fire, not long after the incident at the hospital. They discuss leaving the Ender's Line, but worry about where they will find food. An older man named David approaches them and asks if he can share their fire for a little while. He offers to help the girls, and tells them he and his group have food. Juniper and Olive go with him to a small house full of around 15 survivors. The group is kind, and provides food and shelter. That night, David offers Juniper some pills to "help her to see more clearly." She pretends to swallow them. Olive, nervous about the group, convinces Juniper to steal their supplies and leave with her in the morning. Later, in the middle of the night, Juniper wakes to screams, and notices that Olive is not with her in the room. David has been murdered in the night with a pair of scissors. Clarisse, the other leader of the community, accuses Juniper of having killed him, and points a gun at her. Juniper escapes and searches for Olive, having decided that Olive must have killed David, but telling herself that she must have had a good reason. Juniper finds Olive, covered in blood. She tells Juniper that she was protecting her, and that David was going to make her take poison pills. The twins escape into the night with much of the community's supplies.

Achira remembers the day after she identified her brother Blaine's dead body. As she thinks about her vow to kill Blaine's girlfriend Saria, she reads a newspaper describing the fall of society and the dead rising from the grave. Achira goes to Saria's apartment, passing through the streets as the police and military and the people clash and fight. She arrives at the apartment Blaine and Saria had shared. Achira enters the apartment and confronts Saria, who is clearly very drunk. Achira tells her that she has come to take her somewhere safe, and Saria tells Achira that they are family, and that she loves her, regardless of the bad things Saria has done. Achira leads her out of the apartment and into the streets, and goads her into admitting to having cheated on Blaine. Saria rambles about how Blaine didn't take care of her, but how he was a good man. Achira leads her into an alleyway near the hospital that is infested with the risen dead. As Saria rambles about how Blaine was a doormat, she backs into the crowd of the dead. Achira lights a molotov cocktail and throws it into the crowd, telling Saria, "When you see him, beg. Beg for his forgiveness." Saria screams as she is overcome by the fire and the dead.

## VOD Link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9R-rkNgmSc