The show also gives us our first glimpse inside the secret CRM city.
That’s easier said than done.
The first flash we see is a younger Silas sitting in the back of an ambulance.
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His hands, which are sprinkled with blood, can’t stop shaking.
He lashed out at a man, punching him over and over again, crying as he did so.
This may have been his father, though it’s not explicitly said.
The kids wake up to Hope speaking over the walkie.
She instructs them to make their way to an office building situated in front of the hurricane siren.
Silas still can’t bring himself to attack anyone, even if that someone is an empty.
He comes across an empty that he mistakes for the plaid-shirted man in his dreams and instinctively attack.
But when Silas realizes it’s just an empty, he pauses.
Silas doesn’t want to attend Monument High, though Felix says that option is always open to him.
Instead, he wants to work with his uncle.
He still ends up at Monument High, working as a janitor and cleaning the floors.
In the present, the kids make it to the office building and scour for any supplies.
When Iris asks if he misses his parents, he quickly snaps back “no!”
A moment passes and he clarifies, “sometimes.”
Silas believes he knows why Hope left in the night to go towards the siren.
The crank, however, is busted.
So, she has to take the machine apart and put it back together.
She’s able to manually rev up the siren, which allows the others to run towards the exit.
We later learn his late mom’s unfinished manuscript is inside and he hopes to finish it one day.
Even though she left clues so Felix could follow, she did so only to confirm they stayed alive.
She didn’t want Iris to look at her differently and she blames herself for the incident.
As they head out to continue their journey, Iris cozies up with Silas.
She bandages his hand and he shares his blanket, draping his arm over hers.
A poster on Kublek’s wall reads, “Self-indulgence at this time is helping the enemy.”
While looking over a map of some kind, Kublek receives a visitor: Sgt.
He feels guilty for how the CRM exterminated the Omaha colony.
The official narrative is that they were neutralizing a threat.
She feeds him soup while they wait for a knock to come at the door.
Though he would be transferred to a more labor-oriented position.
Barca doesn’t believe he’ll ever be ready to return to service.
If that’s truly the case, Kublek says he will never leave the complex.
It doesn’t work.
Instead, she sits alone and cries.
