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Speaker 1: This is unexplained, Season four, Episode four, Always Already Part two.

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Speaker 1: It had been two days since McEntire had so carelessly

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Speaker 1: followed the Maya Runa into the depths of the Amazon rainforest.

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Speaker 1: That night, having strung up a hammock on the edge

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Speaker 1: of the camp, he lay awake, replaying those words over

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Speaker 1: and over in his mind, some of us are friends.

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Speaker 1: How could the chief have communicated this without uttering a word,

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Speaker 1: let alone not speaking English? Did he have access to

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Speaker 1: an ancient form of communication, he thought, abilities that had

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Speaker 1: long died out in more contemporary societies. Or had McEntyre

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Speaker 1: merely picked up on a general sensibility and conjured the

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Speaker 1: thoughts on his own? What, then, did it mean that

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Speaker 1: only some of them were friends? McEntire awoke the next

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Speaker 1: morning with an acrid smell of burning rubber assaulting his nostrils.

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Speaker 1: He lifted his arm to check the time, but there

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Speaker 1: were gone too. Stumbling into the middle of the camp,

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Speaker 1: he found Red Cheeks and some fellow warriors of the

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Speaker 1: tribe standing around a fire, with a suspiciously dark plume

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Speaker 1: of smoke rising up from it, and on top of

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Speaker 1: it were his sneakers. McIntyre grabbed them, putting them, still scolding,

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Speaker 1: onto his feet As Red Cheeks and the others crowed

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Speaker 1: with laughter. McEntyre breathed deeply, doing his best to control

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Speaker 1: the anger now swelling up inside of him, as he

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Speaker 1: looked desperately for his camera, the one thing that justified

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Speaker 1: his stupidity at getting lost out there. Just then, the

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Speaker 1: chief appeared and approached him. I need to know what happened,

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Speaker 1: came the voice in McEntire's head. Many others had appeared

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Speaker 1: by now, crowding round the fire. The chief looked first

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Speaker 1: at Red Cheeks and then to Macentyre, before turning his

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Speaker 1: back and walking away. As the rest of the village

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Speaker 1: moved in behind him, Macentyre shouted out to them, but

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Speaker 1: nobody responded. It was not uncommon for tribes to ostracize

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Speaker 1: individuals to the point of invisibility. If they no longer

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Speaker 1: let that happen to him, so he began to jog.

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Speaker 1: He started slowly at first, on a steady line circling

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Speaker 1: Slowly the villagers began to take notice. Red Cheeks had

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Speaker 1: tightly gripped on a club. For a moment, Macentyre thought

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Speaker 1: he might attack him, but something was holding him back,

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Speaker 1: and then he saw the chief watching him. Hoping he

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Speaker 1: had done enough, Macentyre finally came to a stop. The

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Speaker 1: watched in complete amusement, he started to jog, also taking

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Speaker 1: the exact same line as McEntyre, but in the opposite direction.

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Speaker 1: He continued until he had completed the same amount of laps.

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Speaker 1: Then a thought came into Mcentyre's mind, the face of time,

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Speaker 1: and then he realized they thought he had been putting

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Speaker 1: stared again at McEntyre for a moment, then went back

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Speaker 1: returned to the fire and pulled the remains of his

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Speaker 1: as he knew it had now gone. Just then he

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Speaker 1: caught sight of something odd dangling from a branch. It

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Speaker 1: McEntire watched helplessly as it tore off the back and

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Speaker 1: Though he was relieved not to have been cut off

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Speaker 1: He slumped to the floor, exhausted. At the very least,

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Speaker 1: If he should ever make it out of there alive,

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Speaker 1: he thought. Just then, a girl he had decided to

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Speaker 1: he had left out by his camp when he first arrived.

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Speaker 1: He noticed her nails were now painted the same color too.

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Speaker 1: It was as if Macentyre's presence was already staining and

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Speaker 1: corrupting these people, a reminder perhaps of how quickly an

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Speaker 1: said Macentyre looked confused as they stood silently together. More

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Speaker 1: came the reply, Yes, thought McEntyre, This was why they

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Speaker 1: seemed so restless, and why they were starving themselves. The

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Speaker 1: the next few days, McEntyre began finally to adjust to

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Speaker 1: the sixth night, McIntyre woke in the dark. Then he

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Speaker 1: Moments later came the gnats, assaulting him from all over,

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Speaker 1: Finding the bush of thorns again, he soon located a

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Speaker 1: Though he found the practice objectionable, he realized too, with

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Speaker 1: back in the Maya Runa camp as shaman busied themselves

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Speaker 1: Walking round the village cautiously. He saw no sign of

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