We are on the edge of a global catastrophic disaster.
Human conflict.
Nuclear bombs.
Natural disasters.
Chemical and biological warfare.
Without warning, the world as we know it
can come to an end.
17 days ago,
these volunteers entered a 10-week experiment
designed to see if they can survive and rebuild
after a simulated global disaster.
Their world... constructed to mirror
what survivors could experience
if a viral outbreak left los angeles
and the rest of the planet devastated.
The volunteers' backgrounds and skill sets
represent a cross section of modern society.
Their new home...
a cordoned-off, 80,000-square-foot warehouse
near downtown los angeles.
An old manufacturing plant for something.
Inside, they've been provided
with limited tools, supplies, and food.
They have no electricity... no running water...
nothing.
...and no communication with the outside world.
As part of the experiment,
a gang of looters and thugs
will attempt to compromise
the colonists' resources and security.
Aah!
Yeah!
So far, the volunteers have focused on water...
all right!
...power...
...and creature comforts.
But... neglecting security
left them open to attack.
It's the end of days, baby!
How did they get up in the kitchen?
'Cause we didn't secure the back gate.
Now they must focus on protection...
...before a new threat...
no guns... to look.
...tears them apart.
You are not a genius.
That damn gym doesn't keep us alive!
You want to go to the mat and see how good the gym is?!
It's day 17,
and the colonists have suffered a restless night.
Eight hours ago, as part of the experiment...
...a crew of marauders set up a distraction in the yard...
...while two thieves breached
the colony's makeshift defenses in the back.
To simulate the fight for resources
in a real disaster,
two days of food were stolen...
yeah!
...shattering any sense of security.
Now the colonists must assess the damage.
This was...
our weakest spot over here.
We need to figure out what we're gonna do out in that yard.
After a time, the colonists may begin to believe
that any threat to their personal security
becomes a real threat to their long-term survival.
They'll try to protect themselves
as if their lives were truly in danger.
Anything happens to one of us,
it would be heartbreaking and sad,
so to keep the 10 of us safe,
to keep our food safe,
and to keep our water safe is a priority,
so security is up there... number one.
The marauders have instructions
to not physically harm the colonists.
But the colonists don't know that.
And even with precautions...
...accidents happen.
Vladie?
This is the one that almost hit you in the head, huh?
As far as weaknesses go, i mean, the truth of the matter is,
you could drive a truck into this place.
These people need to realize
that we can be attacked every night.
Although he regrets his six years behind bars
for drug trafficking,
contractor joey's jail time taught him about security.
I think my time in prison has prepared me for everything.
It's just a part of who i am,
so i'm just trying to analyze this place
and maybe add a little bit of that knowledge to it.
I'm working with what i can.
These projects need a foreman.
I need their help, but i've been saying this.
There's too much math. There's too much thinking.
There's too much crap that's going on.
And you know what?
If i fail on this, we're screwed anyway.
- We'll have to replan this. - You know, we can talk about a lot of this
and what happened and stuff like that,
or we get to work and do this.
I'm gonna kind of take the lead on something here today.
Oftentimes, a crisis or traumatic experience
will reveal who the true leaders are in any group.
What's on the board this week is security, okay,
and something i've wanted to have on the board for a while,
and i think we've been, you know, putting that off.
That's what we're doing this week. Okay?
So i'm appointing myself the boss on this,
plain and simple, okay.
Joey's stepping up to bat and saying, "you know what?
"I'll be the security guy. I'm the guy.
"I'm the one that's gonna do it. This is my main concern.
This is what i do."
I agree, because he was always discussing this
from the very beginning, from the very get-go.
As far as security goes,
there's really three parts that i see to it.
We need to secure the building better. Okay?
Two is weapons.
There are so many things in here we can use as weapons,
from bombs to, you know... to flamethrowers
to just basic, good old-fashioned,
friggin' shank,
broadsword, shields...
it's time to get back also to the dark ages.
Okay? 'Cause it works.
And then the third one is...
leilani, i know you've been working with some people
as far as self-defense.
We are most vulnerable when we are out there.
Okay?
That's... that's...
once we are secure in here, when we step out there,
that's when i honestly feel like we're at the most risk.
Okay, so i think we...
it's time to bust some
and let's get this place secured.
Without police or military,
survivors must defend their resources and their lives
by any means possible.
The colonists' plan is to divide and conquer
joey's list of security projects.
Over the next few days,
most of the group will focus on building weapons
while trainer leilani will build a gym
and take the lead on teaching self-defense.
Handyman mike and machinist john
will try to repair the broken-down five-ton truck
and turn it into an escape vehicle.
As part of the experiment,
the volunteers are confined to the warehouse compound.
But 10 days ago, they decided to repair the truck,
hoping it will drive them
out of the colony's bleak urban setting.
It's big enough to bring the stuff that we have,
because i'm not leaving some of this stuff behind.
It could carry all of us. Yeah.
We could make it be one bad battle wagon.
What they don't know yet
is that details of a possible escape route
will be revealed later in the experiment.
I know like i know like i know, this truck is gonna work.
I'm glad you have confidence in me,
'cause i don't.
Across the main warehouse,
john c. Does some inventory
before planning his first weapons build.
I want a couple of big projects that i need to own
that actually work to my own specialty...
my love of science.
And i was dreaming about a flamethrower idea
that i'm hoping to build.
If you were to light something at the end of a propane,
you could get a pretty good feather,
- but it won't go very far. - Right.
This will give a big puff of flame.
John's going to build a propane-fueled flamethrower
with the help of a solenoid valve
he found in the warehouse.
A solenoid valve is an electromechanical switch
that opens rapidly when charged with an electric current.
Hook up this barrel.
We want it long enough that you're able to jam it through a window.
We'll have a handle here with a trigger.
The business end of this thing will be out like that.
And you'll be able to kind of articulate it a little bit
and move it around
and hopefully fire it over the marauders' heads,
and if they don't back off, you fire it at them.
While john c. Works on the flamethrower,
engineer vlad is working on
an explosive weapons idea of his own.
This is going to be implemented
into a type of a bomb, if you wish...
...which would be normally like a claymore mine.
Unlike most bombs, claymores are directional.
This allows them to be positioned strategically
and fired safely.
And we're gonna put them into strategic areas.
A typical claymore mine
is filled with dangerous shrapnel.
But vlad's got a nonlethal recipe...
flour and water.
Remember... bread not bombs.
Bread not bombs. Bread not bombs.
You cannot have bread unless you have bombs.
You can't make bombs unless you eat bread!
Vlad's ready to test his design.
We're ready?
This is the ideal thing. Right like this here.
Watch this, everybody.
The gas is escaping, guys, so...
see?
"Oh, marauders!"
You guys be ready, okay?
Be ready.
We've been ready.
That was scary. Waiting for you to get ready.
The colonists are taking the security issue lightly...
but not joey.
While the rest of the group
makes fun of vlad's failed experiment,
joey grows more and more concerned.
Maybe they think it's secure.
It's not.
Because i've known guys
that have gotten out of fortresses
that kick the out of this.
And if you can get out, you can get in.
Coming up on "the colony"...
wow!
...an internal blowup...
you want to go to the mat and see how good the gym is?!
- Do you really want to go?! - Come on.
...and a new external threat.
Hey! You control his now!
Day 18 in the colony,
and self-defense instructor leilani
starts building a heavy punching bag
for her training room.
I would like to set up the room,
'cause i think everyone's going a little stir crazy.
I'm just trying to figure out something
where i can make it into a place
where they could start loosening up their muscles
that are probably getting so tight and inflexible.
After filling a nylon bag
with dirt from the yard,
she needs some chains to hang it with.
Ugh!
And there you have it.
My first sledgehammer break.
One down, five more to go.
Okay, one, two, three.
Yeah, get the heavy part there, george.
Okay, now set it down right here.
Set it down right here.
All right, now make sure this thing
- doesn't come swinging out and hits my ladder, either. - Okay.
Up, up, up, up, up, up, up.
Let go.
Oh, lord.
Finally have a punching bag,
something to get some of the tension and aggression out.
Geez!
Ah!
Yes!
Do it.
There you go.
Good.
Well, leilani did set up...
her little good-karma room.
I mean, maybe it's important to them to have a gym or whatever.
If that's what they need to float their boat,
then that's what they need.
We are building a flamethrower...
the weapon of doom!
With the main components
of john c.'s flamethrower in place,
the system must be tested for leaks.
Not fast enough?
John holds up a torch to the end of the barrel
to make sure the propane is getting through.
Flame on means the system is leak-free.
Next up... wiring up the solenoid valve.
In the shop, engineer vlad works
to salvage his makeshift claymore
by sealing the can with wax from a wick.
We're trying to make an airtight seal,
so we're burning it on the inside so it's gonna drip
and create its own seal for the detonator hole.
In the backyard, joey blocks off the entrance
where the intruders broke in two nights ago.
Then he and mike assess the strength of the yard wall.
I don't know if we want to make it
so we have no access to them
as far as firing things out.
We need access to see what's going on.
I think we do. I think we need, like, one or two accesses.
I was also thinking about this up here...
putting a ladder up here.
What the hell is that?
I didn't even see that platform.
The warehouse is 80,000 square feet
of cavernous rooms and tucked-away spaces.
Even after 18 days,
this elevated room has gone undiscovered.
How the hell did we miss this?
You know, there was stuff right underneath here.
We probably never even bothered to...
oh, my god.
If there's dead bodies, do not tell me.
Looks like a little room.
It's a room?
Yeah.
A regular room?
Somebody's living up here.
What's up there?
Looks like a little room.
What kind of room? A regular room?
Somebody's living up here.
We seem to have passed up a room that we didn't notice before.
There's a little bed.
There's a bed?!
The biggest find is a safe.
Somebody was up here. There's a bottle.
Hold it!
What? What?! Whoa!
What else did you find?!
I found a safe and two magazines.
I know there was a bottle of something.
No, there's...
don't make me come up there, joey.
It's good. Hold on.
Oh, sweet
this definitely is vodka.
Hey, hey, hey!
No way!
Whoo!
Anyone who drops that dies.
Vodka!
Oh, there is... there is something in there.
There is something in there.
Be careful with it.
It's a safe. I got it.
Watch out, allison. Why don't you just lower it down?
I got it.
- This is a cheapie. - It's a cheapie.
You could cut through the back.
You could hang this up like a picture.
There's six. Five numbers. We already know two of them, so...
the engineers see the safe
as a mathematical challenge.
But handyman mike has other plans.
Somebody give me a hammer.
It was a cheap safe.
Everyone argued for about a half an hour
what the best way to open it was,
and i just grabbed the damn thing.
I'm doing this methodically.
I'm not trashing anything.
Now, if you know about machining and machine screws,
you know that these are the ends of screws.
Okay?
It's screwed in from the other side.
I drill these screws out,
the whole mechanism flops through.
Don't need it now.
There we go. On the side.
See this, vlad? This is why you wouldn't use a sawzall.
See that edge right there?
What the hell's nothing!
Nothing. You guys are all...
whoa! Money!
Money that's just useless to us right now.
I'll take that, though. I'll take it.
Six, seven, eight, nine.
It's 1,000 bucks.
Basically, the money, is worthless to us
up to this point.
But what if it's not. Let's keep it.
Of course we'll keep it.
Okay, that's all i'm saying.
Just put the money away,
keep it safe in case we need it again.
Okay, let's hold on to it. Let's get back to work.
All right, back to work. Come on.
Computer engineer john c.
Takes a break from his flamethrower
to work on a new weapon, the taser.
So i've got this idea.
I found an old neon-sign transformer...
12,000 volts.
If i hook this up to this transformer,
very menacing-looking,
when you wave it around, it would burn and shock you
and probably take you down.
I do like this thing.
Ah! No, that's not that...
aah!
Feels bad, didn't it?
It's not fun. It's not fun.
It'll turn somebody away, don't you think?
Really hurt like hell, but it wouldn't kill you.
With the taser firing,
mike and john v. Work on the escape vehicle.
We need to start concentrating on that truck,
because being mobile is being secure.
Just getting out to where there's less people
and more of living off the land...
i was raised in the countryside.
Like, that's what i have in my mind.
The cylinder walls are so rusted,
it's frozen.
The pistons are frozen in the cylinders because of the rust.
We all ready to do a big, dumb monkey thing today?
We're waiting on you, buddy. Whatever you need.
Mike's plan is to use the weight of the truck
and its momentum to break the piston loose.
We're going forward.
Now we can push on the front of it.
All right, go.
We all tried to push the truck
to see if we could unseize the engine.
I'm still very eager to get that truck going,
'cause, you know, every day i spend here,
the more certain i am that we've got to get out of here.
Did it move?
The rusted piston is loose...
nothing.
...but the truck still won't start.
The truck is my personal anguish and nightmare.
The truck's motor is seized.
Mike, you're the man on this, man.
We got to do this.
There's no ifs, ands, or buts.
Kind of haunting or looming in the back of my mind
is the motor's cooked.
And there's no way of fixing it,
so... disappointment.
With the training room finished,
leilani continues her mission
to punch up the volunteers' self-defense skills.
You know as well as i do, without any practice
you lose the timing, you lose the reflexes.
I love personal training. I love fighting.
You can hit leg, body, head.
If there was anybody here
that i would be scared could kick anybody's butt,
it would be leilani.
You want to take your shins... more power.
Fighting's about protection.
Here.
Fighting's about... if it comes down to me or you,
i'm gonna make sure i'm okay.
Understand?
Our shins can take a lot more,
and it can knock someone out.
Good. Breathe out every time.
Good. Breathe out.
Now show that you're breathing.
Allison, over here.
All right.
I did not want to punch that bag,
because it looked like it hurt.
Good. And back in. Back to your face.
I look like an idiot.
No!
You know, your best offense sometimes
is defense.
Leilani is teaching us something very valuable.
And it's not just fighting.
She's teaching us to have confidence in ourselves.
Just making sure that people...
can protect themselves.
And that inspires me.
Okay, guys. You guys need to have a cheers.
It's our first bottle of vodka.
Oh. Okay.
First time i've ever drank vodka.
Sure.
Oh, she's getting more than i did.
Hey, everyone, dinner's served!
Let's move in here!
I know also no business at the table,
but i just want to say great friggin' job, everybody.
Everybody busted their
- i'm sorry if i was a little, you know... - no.
Well, okay, but i just wanted to say great, great job.
No, you're great. No, you are!
No, you are.
I'm just saying, it's not over.
We still got a lot to do,
but, you know, the machine is coming together.
We're getting well-oiled and working together well, i think,
so great job, everybody.
Thank you.
I think everybody did well today.
I think i got a lot out of them,
and i was very proud to be a part of all of it.
With the warehouse fortification almost complete,
everyone finally gets some much-needed rest.
A new day breaks on the colony...
...and the volunteers get into their morning rituals.
Good girl.
After breakfast, security detail continues.
This'll be great.
And this'll be wonderful.
Definitely gonna use the circular saw.
All right, let's roll.
Great. I got the bits.
We're good.
But on the streets outside,
an external threat approaches.
Joey, someone's beating on our door.
Just get everybody inside!
With their security projects unfinished,
the colonists are caught unprepared for an attack.
Hello?!
What do you want? Hello!
We come for you to do business!
We have chocolate! We make business with you!
It's not fight.
In a post-apocalyptic or a catastrophic disaster,
where banks are no longer and atm machines don't exist,
you're gonna need to trade or barter for materials.
How you doing? We come to do business.
What do you got?
As part of the experiment,
a team of gun-toting traders have been inserted
to test the colonists' ability to negotiate in trade...
we have chocolate! We have chicken!
...and to see how well they work as a team.
Is that a generator?
We have generator.
We have some water, and we have some canned goods.
That's about it.
Canned good... good. I like the canned good.
Some canned goods?
If you want to come in,
we can let you in through the yard.
I'm gonna close up, then we're gonna close behind me.
Give me two minutes.
Hold your friend. I'm gonna let you down there.
Let's go.
Two people... mike and me... are outside.
You shut behind us.
Start getting oranges and canned goods.
Let's not around too long.
When it happened, mike was the guy
who wanted in the bar fight with me.
He's the kind of guy that knows that, in a situation like this,
you have to be harsh.
Opening up.
What's your name? Gusta.
Gusta. Joey. Gift for you. Joey.
Yeah. We make good business with you.
All right. No problem.
The colonists have an opportunity
to acquire both necessary supplies and rare luxuries,
if they can handle the negotiations.
What are you looking at right away over here,
besides this genny?
You want this.
No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no.
What you want? I bring.
Necessary stuff, not comfort.
What for you necessary?
- Look it. - What's in here?
Fresh. For salad. You make salad.
Don't need salad.
I like the chicken. I like this generator.
I have a brand-new air compressor
right out of the box.
I'll throw that in a little bit
while we talk about this generator.
Got a brand-new jackhammer.
Brand-new, in the box still. In the box.
Must look.
Okay. Absolutely.
No, no, no, no. Everything.
Eye for eye.
Everything we do good business, huh?
We want to get the genny for the jackhammer and the compressor.
Okay. You want to do it?
We're gonna hook this up for you, okay?
There's no problem here. It's business!
Oh, for sake!
Who put this... it's brand-new!
The wheel come off!
You say new! That's not new!
Hey, michael! Michael!
I want the electrical run out
so this gentleman can see that it works, as well.
Put some power to it.
What's going on with the generator?
How far off are we?
What is this, man?
Can't you guys plug in an extension cord?
I'm also dealing with some idiots in there.
Ugh! Always. I know.
I have two.
We have many more.
Power to the cord.
Power will be on in a second.
Run the genny! Get your together!
And run the generator and shut up!
The power's on. It should be on.
Well, it ain't getting out to here!
The colonists have come to accept
the events that they are experiencing as real.
And therefore, the emotions and tensions
that they're experiencing are real.
"Oh, shut up."
That's what he said. "Shut up."
Why does he even want this out there?
I have no idea.
I come in here. I show truck.
But you have nothing.
You have big red thing not working.
They're trying to get that going
so i can show you that this works.
It's connected.
There it goes. There it goes.
My friend, it's working.
Generator works.
Check this out. Come here.
Ready? So you know it works.
You see this?
You know this. It's a computer.
Are we done with this, seeing that this works?
We're at 20. It's obvious it's new.
There... it's trying to go up.
We're already at 20, from zero. Okay?
So do we know this works?
Maybe. Okay.
And they're the two hottest heads here.
Right.
And we put them in charge of security, so it's all of us.
What do you mean?
We put joey in charge. He chose mike.
We have to go with it.
I put in truck. What you want?
You want generator?
I want the generator plus the gas for this and that.
Is that one deal?
And then we'll talk food for food.
We're talking tools for tools. Do you see how i'm doing this?
Show me jackhammer. Absolutely.
He's scoping the whole place out.
Of course he is. Exactly.
That's so ridiculous.
There you go.
I like it.
Okay.
Good weapon.
Take jackhammer.
Put in truck... jackhammer.
I thought we gave away a bunch of useless stuff.
A jackhammer... i'm not gonna be busting up
any concrete anytime soon.
Let them have it.
You take jackhammer and this, and the generator.
All right, now let's talk food.
Now we do food. Now we do number-one business.
It's yours. That's yours.
I would like some of my people... just some of them...
to come out and take a look.
Good. No, i want look.
I have a lot more people inside, but i'm gonna bring out...
smell it.
I'm not interested.
I'm gonna about eight people out. Bring it.
Hey! You control his now!
I would like some of my people... just some of them...
to come out and take a look.
Okay?
Hey! You control his now.
You control his now!
There will be eight... no guns... to look.
I want only eight people to come out!
Keep the others inside.
Please don't make them as nervous with that.
Point fine, but up here, please, my friend.
Everybody on this side so they can see us.
Okay? Everybody right here.
Okay, you're getting nervous.
This not my problem.
As of right now,
we're gonna get the generator plus some gas for it.
That's a done deal. We've already done that.
We traded for a 10-kilowatt generator,
which is, you know, an incredible godsend to us.
Things kind of went downhill from there.
Bring some flour.
Flour and salt.
You could have tortillas.
Don't tell him what he needs.
He's not making he's trading.
Flour, salt, baking soda, and some canned goods.
It was just too much commotion,
too many people grabbing this and that,
and, oh, happy times, let's all go up to the ice-cream truck.
It's not an ice-cream truck.
One thing i don't have... canned food.
That's what we're working on right now.
I have fresh. I don't have canned food.
Start bringing some canned food out.
Get some canned food out here.
Tell them not to package it up pretty with a bow on it.
Okay, here it comes.
Don't yell at me ever again. Not in front of anyone.
I apologize.
No inbreeding yelling anymore.
Who, me?
Yes, all of you. Don't yell at me.
I apologize.
Even in a simulated environment,
the presence of hostile outsiders
can actually cause very real tensions
within the group.
And tension can lead to real-life conflict.
Tuna.
It's our last one.
The colonists trade canned food
and other pantry items
for chickens, cooking oil,
and a box of toiletries.
But the traders push for one more thing.
You have orange?
I have some oranges.
Show me orange.
Let's hurry it up, please.
Very nicely.
We're gonna give them all of these?
Don't do too much. Yeah, we don't want to...
what the is taking so long?!
We can get more oranges.
Yes, we can, but that risks our...
yeah, i know. I know. It does.
Just pick the oranges up and carry them out.
That's not all the oranges.
All the ones that were bad on the table...
Iook, kids, oranges are for free.
Give them all the damn oranges and get what we really need.
We can get more oranges.
What are we getting? I don't care. We're gonna trade.
Show them a bunch of oranges,
and they'll give us what we want.
Keep going, keep going, keep going. We don't have that much.
Let's keep moving.
Who gives a they're oranges!
Then you go back there and get them!
Don't yell at me!
Do all that yourself!
I'm waiting a half an hour for oranges!
Don't yell at anybody, all right?! You understand?!
You walk up and down and get your own
just sitting there just pussyfooting around!
You're the
do you understand that?!
You bartered all our oranges and all this stuff for what?!
For what?! Give them the damn oranges!
You're bartering everything!
Give them everything for what?
Other perishable
oranges we can have.
You're really smart, mike!
How many oranges are we gonna flipping eat?
You are so smart!
You're running aren't you?
No, i'm not.
Obviously you seem to think that you are.
Well, maybe i am, then.
Well, maybe you aren't.
Well, i'm the big, dumb monkey,
so stop me.
Exactly! Keep calling yourself that!
And remind yourself, because you are!
Oranges. They're just free freakin' oranges.
"Why give them away?"
Because we got them on the side of the road!
He's got that we want.
I just don't understand it.
Shouldn't be giving away that much food, mike.
I don't freakin' get it.
No, mike. I don't know...
there's oranges.
Lots of oranges.
One orange.
What you want? What you want?
Bye-bye.
Okay.
Well done.
Whoo-hoo!
Let's kind of have a little discussion about today.
You know, i think we did well.
I mean, we traded well with stuff we didn't really need
for the generator, with the chickens,
and a number of things.
There was some screaming involved,
and, you know, some disrespect,
and that can't be had.
Well, i hear this all the time...
the whole, "we need to respect."
And there's always a couple people
that decide to disrespect.
And it's over and over again.
All right, guys,
we'll have good days and bad days.
So, are we gonna go... are we gonna have a new plan?
What's gonna be going on with security?
No more frivolous builds. Exactly.
No more, you know, "i want to build a table for the room,"
or, "i want a new floor in the gym."
...and who used your tools in the gym?
Relax. That's not what i meant.
You relax. You relax.
Don't you talk about the gym unless you knew how to build it.
Slow your roll.
I don't need to. No, you look.
You look. You did me... don't give me your crap.
'Cause you try to demean everyone here.
I'm so sick and tired of it.
You are not god. I'm not demeaning anybody.
You are not a genius.
That damn gym doesn't keep us alive!
You want to go to the mat and see how good the gym is?!
- Do you really want to go?! - Come on.
You try to demean everyone here.
I'm so sick and tired of it.
You are not god. I'm not demeaning anybody.
You are not a genius.
That damn gym doesn't keep us alive!
You want to go to the mat and see how good the gym is?!
- Do you really want to go?! - Come on.
Girl, you've been watching too many movies.
You've been watching too many movies.
No, you've been watching too many male-chauvinistic
if you want to take it to the mat,
let's take it to the mat,
and then you can see what a woman i am.
Don't demean me ever.
I'm not demeaning you. Or my gym.
I'm telling you that gym is not a priority.
It is not a priority. It's a priority to me.
Well, whatever it is, it exists now.
Did electrical save you? Did electric save you? No.
It exists now.
Self-defense saved me.
Okay, it exists now, and that's where we're at.
The traders' visit exposed a rift in the colony.
The temporary solution for the tension
is to get back to work.
Okay, watch out, morgan.
Is it still flaming? Yeah.
With all the parts assembled,
it's time to test the flamethrower.
Not enough volume.
You don't have enough voltage on your battery
to open up the valve.
Take the one out of the truck. It should be good.
John hopes a more powerful battery
will open the solenoid valve much faster
and release the propane gas in a burst
instead of a trickle.
Okay.
Yeah!
Hey. That wasn't bad.
Yeah. Try it again.
After reworking the seal on this claymores,
engineer vlad gathers the troops for another test detonation.
Let's try it again.
Yeah!
That worked.
It's working!
With the last of the weapons complete,
joey runs through his improvements
to the perimeter's fortification.
I would like to start on the side
where we last got attacked, okay?
We grabbed a bunch of chain link from out back.
This is gonna be a lot harder to breach than it was before.
This was a part of our breach the other night, as well.
And this is where they came up through... right here.
So, again, just a garbage dump.
Let's keep on moving here.
I basically put a board in between here and the wall,
and i zipped it in with some metal screws,
so that's taken care of.
Next, john c. Demonstrates the flamethrower
for security foreman joey.
Whoa!
Hey.
Okay. Now that's what i'm talking about.
Now you see? Yeah. Good job!
Just a little off the top.
This is huge for us. This is really good.
Two points, professor. Great job.
Morgan, it was fun working with you.
It was very fun working with you, too.
It feels very good to be working on the security stuff now.
I wish it wasn't an element of our life now,
but, you know, the last couple of weeks
have shown me that it really is.
I think our best security measure
is when we get that truck moving,
get out of here, and move into a place
where we could have a more sustainable existence.
I want to...
i don't know.
Let me look inside this damn thing.
We got fuel.
The butterflies aren't moving!
Internal-combustion engines
run on a mixture of gasoline and air.
The butterfly valves in the carburetor
regulate the amount of air going in.
If the valves are stuck shut, no air comes in,
and the engine can't run.
Is it moving? I hear it.
Yeah, it's opening.
You got it? You got it? Let's give it a try now.
Hang on. Let me just get the coil.
Ignition.
You are hot. We are hot.
That was it.
Yeah!
Oh, yeah!
Who's the big, dumb monkey now?!
It runs! It runs!
Who's yelling? Who's yelling?
Me! Who do you think is yelling?
You heard a motor running.
Take a guess which one.
Let's hear it one more time.
The carburetor was frozen shut.
Didn't check it. I checked everything.
I checked the ignition. I checked the valves.
We did a great job on the motor.
We didn't check the carb.
Gummed up, huh?
Gummed up? It's stripped off, solidly in place.
The butterflies weren't opening.
So how's the car gonna run with the closed butterflies?
I just jammed the screwdriver in there.
I... it. It was just all...
it opened up, and now we have...
did it start?
He just... yeah.
Purrs like a kitten.
So, that's it, kids. We got a running truck.
So, now...
good work, mike.
Now, what did i say before?
Let me get the damn thing running,
and then you guys can go nuts on it.
So, now, go nuts on it.
Joey, put a deck on it. Put your weapons on it.
Put your flamethrower on it.
Paint daisies on it.
I don't care! I'm gonna have it running now.
Whoo-hoo! Whoo-hoo! Awesome job, mike.
Clearly, security ultimately means getting out of this,
you know, downtown area.
It's never really... totally relaxed,
but we are more comfortable than we were.
I think the colony is pretty prepared for the next attack.
How well prepared? You never know.
Here's to the security.
Yay!
Next on "the colony"...
that looks like solar panels.
...a quest for solar power...
start disassembling the good ones.
This is a motor that hopefully is gonna drive those panels.
...and the experiment gets out of control
as violence erupts.
No!
Get him out!