This is unexplained Season 4, Episode 4, always already, Part 2.

It had been two days since McIntyre had so carelessly followed the Mayeruna into the depths

of the Amazon rainforest.

That night, having strung up a hammock on the edge of the camp, he lay awake replaying

those words over and over in his mind.

Some of us are friends.

How could the chief have communicated this without uttering a word, let alone not speaking

English?

But he had access to an ancient form of communication he thought, abilities that had long died

out in more contemporary societies, or had McIntyre merely picked up on a general sensibility

and conjured the thoughts on his own.

What then did it mean, but only some of them were friends?

McIntyre awoke the next morning, with an accurate smell of burning rubber assaulting

his nostrils.

He lifted his arm to check the time, but there was no watch on his wrist.

His camera and shoes were gone too.

Stumbling into the middle of the camp, he found red cheeks and some fellow warriors of

the tribe, standing around a fire with a suspiciously dark plume of smoke rising up from it.

And on top of it were his sneakers.

McIntyre grabbed them, putting them still scolding onto his feet, as red cheeks and the

others crowed with laughter.

McIntyre breathed deeply, doing his best to control the anger now swelling up inside

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