Great segue, boys, guys.

When last we left the runaways, Apex the Wild Man, Theo the combat medic, Louise the scavenger, and Alvin the mechanic.

They'd been signaled down by a man, taking shelter inside of an old museum near Cahokia Mounds.

The man appeared to be a tribal, who introduced himself as follows Chalk.

He led them to a town called Collinsville, where they found scared townsfolk shuddering their doors and windows.

After a brief conversation, follows Trach

managed to convince the townspeople, as well as a super mutant, to come and meet them.

This super mutant pointed them in Johan's direction, and the group set off after resupplying.

However, in the dead of night, as they drove through a dead forest, they encountered an alpha dead claw.

An alpha death claw who began to speak.

What wildness does this bit of the wasteland hide?

Find out on tonight's episode of Gateway.

And this large, incredibly so

reptile, one that you realize now that you've seen before

looms over you, the

stantest hint of

illumination from the headlights reflecting off of its pupils.

I know you.

As it speaks, Apex's stiff but stern demeanor kind of like shifts a little bit.

Like he's still very much on his guard and ready to lunge.

But the shock of that kind of like, the shock of it speaking kind of like shakes the fear out of him

you can talk you see its nostrils flare

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