Speaker 1: The control group depicts a nuclear catastrophe and the complete
Speaker 1: annihilation of the human race. Listener discretion is advised. Oh,
Speaker 1: you say anything to you about painkillers? There's aspirin in
Speaker 1: the first aid kit. I'm not talking about aspirin. He
Speaker 1: didn't leave some medicine or something. No, not that I
Speaker 1: know of. Your bag of things is there here? It is.
Speaker 1: I'm just just in vain. Can I get you some water?
Speaker 1: It would be great. Are you from around here? Oh?
Speaker 1: I was just passing through. You're from outside the valley?
Speaker 1: That's right before the accident. Did you hear any news
Speaker 1: about the attacks? Do you know if Atlanta was hit?
Speaker 1: I don't know anything about that. Jimmy doesn't have a
Speaker 1: radio in his truck before yesterday Monday. Did you hear
Speaker 1: anything about it on the news on Monday? Did they
Speaker 1: show pictures? I don't even know what day it is now,
Speaker 1: so how would I know? Come on, Mom, give her
Speaker 1: some time. It's just that we still don't know if
Speaker 1: for sure, how bad things are in Atlanta. What do
Speaker 1: you care about Atlanta? That's where my husband is. Wait.
Speaker 1: Noonan's not your husband. Were you you his daughter? No?
Speaker 1: He just brought us here. Noon, and brought you here too.
Speaker 1: That's right, speak of the devil. Act like I'm still unconscious.
Speaker 1: Don't let him know I'm awake. But why would we
Speaker 1: do that? Mom? You are you ladies decent? How's our patient? Fine?
Speaker 1: I think she's woken up? How to drink of water?
Speaker 1: She'll tell you anything. No, she's you've finally realize you
Speaker 1: need some rest. Your cod is all made up? Will
Speaker 1: be as quiet as possible. Actually, I'm not gonna stick
Speaker 1: around noon and I just come back to see if
Speaker 1: you like to take a little ride with me, Dory,
Speaker 1: Is it safe? I'll take Carey well, okay? Is it
Speaker 1: okay to leave? Becky here? Becky? You look after low rainforest,
Speaker 1: won't you. I guess that's a good girl. Quite a
Speaker 1: girl you got there, door. Yes, I'm truly proud of her.
Speaker 1: We will you be gone long? I don't know, maybe
Speaker 1: maybe an hour, Becky, Rebecca? Do you We'll be back
Speaker 1: in a little while, okay, Mother? So how will you
Speaker 1: know this nooning character? We don't know him at all?
Speaker 1: I just met him yesterday. M hm. You keep any
Speaker 1: money in here? Any weapons? Not that I know? Of food?
Speaker 1: And water? A radio? Now, before we begin today, I
Speaker 1: have a special favor to ask. What's that I think
Speaker 1: we don't know the world of good? Is there something years?
Speaker 1: Is there some reason to think? And what about this noon?
Speaker 1: And I want you to trust him and show your parents.
Speaker 1: My mom thinks we can trust him. And what about
Speaker 1: you doing this in a public you trust him? Or
Speaker 1: if you're by yourself in your own seller not hokey?
Speaker 1: To the many thousands of men and women who are
Speaker 1: bravely serving in our armed forces, not just the soldiers,
Speaker 1: but the hard working nurses, maybe you and me and
Speaker 1: government officials, we need to think about getting out of here,
Speaker 1: all of them working hard. What do you say to
Speaker 1: that these united I say, yeah, I've been repeating these
Speaker 1: words for years, but I'll be honest with you, these
Speaker 1: words never failed to touch my heart. And every great
Speaker 1: recite the pledge. Did you hear that? She said it right,
Speaker 1: said what touch my heart? So what's the big deal
Speaker 1: about saying touch my heart? That's a cute. That's a
Speaker 1: phrase she uses when she's trying to send us a message.
Speaker 1: Let's also do it for ourselves. What's the message? I
Speaker 1: don't know. Touching heart just tells us there is a
Speaker 1: message over your heart, and so we begin. I pledged
Speaker 1: allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
Speaker 1: and to the Republic, for which it stands, One nation
Speaker 1: under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I don't mean to get emotional. This is corny,
Speaker 1: even for Helen. You know what. I'm not sorry. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna see if I can get to the e o
Speaker 1: C and talk to her emotions as much as Jesus Stanley.
Speaker 1: If you can't go outside, durn't sure. If you, I'll
Speaker 1: take the eyewitness news car. Don't don't let me through,
Speaker 1: and I'll be joining you throughout the day, doing what
Speaker 1: I can to touch your heart the same way that
Speaker 1: you my broadcast family touch my heart. Any idea what
Speaker 1: she's talking about, But now let's check in with the
Speaker 1: Connal rad desk to get our radioactivity update AH. The
Speaker 1: following is an emergency alert bulletin from the United States Army.
Speaker 1: The American Meteorological Society is forecasting a warm frock from
Speaker 1: this up that may out from the YAH under the
Speaker 1: why are we stopping stations operating? You just need to
Speaker 1: rest my stations is on the air. Alternately for a
Speaker 1: few simes. Have you gotten any sleep since Monday morning?
Speaker 1: About me? As the broadcast passes for Wednesday, It's strange
Speaker 1: to see the streets so empty. Never in my life
Speaker 1: could I have imagined it. It's almost like the bombs
Speaker 1: have already gone off. This is all that's left. I
Speaker 1: keep thinking, maybe there's something, someone somewhere I could do
Speaker 1: to stop it. I can't stop something that's already happened.
Speaker 1: Bombs will follow, there's no going back. Jesus he will.
Speaker 1: I know he will. I can feel his hand upon
Speaker 1: us already. He's guiding and protecting hand You you want
Speaker 1: to know what I believed or yes, nitting. I think
Speaker 1: it's all part of God's will. I mean, if you
Speaker 1: are the true believer that then it can't be nothing
Speaker 1: but right, I suppose, and knowing that He's in command.
Speaker 1: Instead of fighting against his will, we should look for
Speaker 1: better ways to go along with it. Don't don't give
Speaker 1: up hope. It's sorrd for me to see happy ending
Speaker 1: in all this. That's cause you're looking at it all wrong.
Speaker 1: Instead of thinking it's the end of the world, think
Speaker 1: of it as a chance for a new beginning. The
Speaker 1: Garden of Eden all over again. Yeah. If things are
Speaker 1: bad and the worst of it ain't ain't even here yet.
Speaker 1: Any day now, there's gonna be a blanket of radioactive
Speaker 1: fallout that covers the ground like snow, killing everything it touches.
Speaker 1: But we saw this day coming, We was prepared. What
Speaker 1: if we hunker down, hide like rabbits and our little
Speaker 1: warring up on cross Mountain, and we abide until come
Speaker 1: the spring and we step out, you, me and Becky,
Speaker 1: like Adam and Eve into a new paradise. We'll rebuild
Speaker 1: this country and make sure she don't get broke again.
Speaker 1: Thank you for sharing that noon. And really, your faith
Speaker 1: is so strong it makes me dare to want to
Speaker 1: hope again. And uh what and we gotta repopulate it too, right,
Speaker 1: so you understand? Mm hmm, you see what I'm saying. Mmm,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I'm saying. We Uh, those of us
Speaker 1: are still alive. We're gonna have a responsibility to rebuild
Speaker 1: the population of this country. Is going to be the
Speaker 1: duty of every man and woman. I mean right, Yeah, dude,
Speaker 1: I'm a married I'm a married woman. I don't know
Speaker 1: where my husband is, what might have happened to him,
Speaker 1: But until I know for sure, I have to continue
Speaker 1: believing that he's still alive, and that means I couldn't
Speaker 1: begin to think about I'm sorry, I guess I guess
Speaker 1: I should have been more clear. I'm talking. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about Becky. Becky. Yeah. Wait, you thought you thought I
Speaker 1: was gonna pull some kind of oh, miss Langford. No, no, ma'am.
Speaker 1: I'm an honorable man. It's the way I was raised.
Speaker 1: I wanted to talk to you alone so I could
Speaker 1: be a proper gentleman. And you barely know her. Well, well,
Speaker 1: we're about being close quarters together, so there'll be time. Becky,
Speaker 1: my fifteen year old daughter, Becky. Now she's fifteen. Now,
Speaker 1: she won't always. Please just do me a favor and
Speaker 1: don't say anything not to me, and for God's sake,
Speaker 1: don't mention anything of this to Becky. Thank for. I've
Speaker 1: been thinking long and hard about this, and I've been
Speaker 1: doing some praying. My Bible. Then right there in Genesis,
Speaker 1: God said be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth.
Speaker 1: She's fifteen. That means legally speaking, we could have gotten
Speaker 1: married a year ago. That's what you're asking to marry her.
Speaker 1: Not exactly, not exactly. She's a little girl. Maybe to
Speaker 1: you she is. She'd probably always be a little girl.
Speaker 1: If you want to court someone, court Lorraine, who's to
Speaker 1: say I can't court Boe? What if we're going to
Speaker 1: replenish the earth, then it's gonna take a lot stop it.
Speaker 1: I'm giving Becky a wonderful opportunity. Ridiculous, don't you be stupid?
Speaker 1: You're not exactly in a position right now to be
Speaker 1: high and mighty. Now, if I pro create with Becky,
Speaker 1: i'd respect for her. Since you're her mother, I'd allow
Speaker 1: you to live in the shelter with us. And if
Speaker 1: I don't give my permission, well we couldn't rightly have
Speaker 1: you there unless you two believe in what we're doing.
Speaker 1: And what if I don't believe? What are you not believing?
Speaker 1: Not much of anything right now? This little mission it's
Speaker 1: full believers. Oah. So if you ben Becking are part
Speaker 1: of the mission and we gotta leave you behind, we
Speaker 1: can't let this world get contaminated by skeptics all over again. Broadcast.
Speaker 1: Hear that theards, the looters not on my ward. Now
Speaker 1: we don't have time together. We have to go there.
Speaker 1: If this is it the beginning of the end. You
Speaker 1: gotta believe in something, something besides smashing. When does the
Speaker 1: skin in applying something? If you're jealous, somebody's gotta better
Speaker 1: be it. Well. Nobody never gave me nothing. You don't
Speaker 1: see me ride and do no? Why not? Because I
Speaker 1: believe in something I seem a good Excuse me, miss Huntley, Yes, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: to see you Stanley. Oh, thank you Bergerie. Of course
Speaker 1: we got your message. You cued us right. You sent
Speaker 1: a message that you haven't got a story, a story,
Speaker 1: a news story, hard news. Late bridey wait wait started
Speaker 1: to beginning in Langford. Paraded me through the whole EO CNE,
Speaker 1: showing me everything, all their operations. He left me in
Speaker 1: the office by myself for a couple of minutes. I
Speaker 1: saw glassified Miranda here, what'll I figured you wouldn't believe me,
Speaker 1: so I brought you a souvenir Opal sixty five sixty
Speaker 1: five Operation Alert Jesus. But the point is life is
Speaker 1: going on as usual outside Eden Valley. You don't know,
Speaker 1: sty I saw it with my own eyes. What if
Speaker 1: the Soviets have taken what are you suggesting we do?
Speaker 1: Let's pretend we're real journalists just just for one day.
Speaker 1: Good ideas. I'll get Vance Norwood. What guys says my story? Oh,
Speaker 1: come on, Helen Vance as a journalist. If this story
Speaker 1: is really as big a journalist, don't get liberated on me.
Speaker 1: Helen didn't, would get inside the e O C. No,
Speaker 1: damn writing didn't. It's my story. I'm going to be
Speaker 1: the one to tell them from here. Hell, on the
Speaker 1: minute you say one word that they don't like, they're
Speaker 1: gonna pull the plug and send you straight to go
Speaker 1: back on the air Channel twelve. Channel twelve would lose
Speaker 1: our license in nuclear goddamn emergency. Stanley already calm down,
Speaker 1: don't hell me to calm down. I'm not telling you
Speaker 1: to calm down, right, I should be overcasting the test pattern. Yes,
Speaker 1: and and radio Hell, if we start broadcasting on a
Speaker 1: non emergency channel, feed you the information and and you
Speaker 1: go back to the station and put together a tape
Speaker 1: package with me telling the start. I'll get your photos, documents,
Speaker 1: a five minute piece and you can run it on
Speaker 1: a loop. Well, how will anyone know to tune in
Speaker 1: a Channel twelve or eleven sixty. It might take a
Speaker 1: while for people to notice. I got it. During my
Speaker 1: Civil Defense broadcast tomorrow morning, I'll just tell people to
Speaker 1: change channels. What could be something? Oh you have to
Speaker 1: do is press play. All right, ladies, you know the drill,
Speaker 1: only this time. Do it right so we don't have
Speaker 1: to come out here a third time. No more pushy
Speaker 1: footing around. Whoa look all you see? Who's coming? Who's
Speaker 1: this guy? Is that? You guys know this clown? A
Speaker 1: little pet? You can be anything I can do to
Speaker 1: help out? What kind of uniform is at r O?
Speaker 1: Kish caring fire milicious? Second amendments put the British on
Speaker 1: the top, put it back. I'm not suiting any housewife today.
Speaker 1: I'm block market with the hooking ladder. I reckon they're
Speaker 1: gonna cool things down, showing the hydrant. Call he knows where? Hey,
Speaker 1: Shay Henry from Nooning, Sir, are you ready to earn
Speaker 1: your stripes? Don't serve me. I'm a sergeant. You think
Speaker 1: you can help us clear the street, but I think
Speaker 1: big show, Sir. I got a dog. If you won't
Speaker 1: grab him, he's a cure sheepherd canine police trained should
Speaker 1: not bring him on a double. Get your back here
Speaker 1: before the fireworks start. Ah, sir aye aye, Sir God,
Speaker 1: would I give for some soldiers everything okay? Not okay,
Speaker 1: but but they're about to be great. Why are you
Speaker 1: taking that? No? No, no, no, no, you can't do that.
Speaker 1: These are our neighbors, they were given. These are friends
Speaker 1: of mine. My daughter and her school friends were there
Speaker 1: on Monday noon. At least leave me the keys and
Speaker 1: I'll monitored radio. We say, start reporting fall out. We'll
Speaker 1: need to get back up the mountain. Good here that
Speaker 1: roll off the windows while I'm gonna lock the doors.
Speaker 1: Don't let nobody take those keys from you. Hear me? Yes,
Speaker 1: yes or lots opinion on that truck. Be careful, keep
Speaker 1: your head down. Shouldn't take home, go back to Russia. World?
Speaker 1: Are you play? You can ask all the questions you
Speaker 1: want with a death sergeant books you and answer a
Speaker 1: few while you're out. Hands off me. Don't you touch
Speaker 1: our emergency supposed to get through here trouble. This is
Speaker 1: a pease action ship on peace ready on the hose,
Speaker 1: standing by, Open the hydrant, Open the hydrant? And what
Speaker 1: do you waiting on? Baptized? Bad ship and your street
Speaker 1: two days as are all going on against the window.
Speaker 1: I got the hell they are shot. Anybody close to
Speaker 1: that windows when you and Becky no, no, this has
Speaker 1: to stop, This has to stop. This is made O K. Carry.
Speaker 1: The Control Group is a production of My Heart Radio,
Speaker 1: written and directed by Brett Would, recorded and mixed by
Speaker 1: Rob gal featuring Test Malice Kincaid, Alexandra Vicken, Hannah Berman,
Speaker 1: Minka Wilts, Mary Kraft, Tim Habigger and Keith Brooks. Music
Speaker 1: composed and performed by Rob Gaal. The executive producer is
Speaker 1: Ben Bolin, Supervising producer Paul Deckett.