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{On the black screen}

“Blackwater Ridge

Lost Creek, Colorado”

{The episode opens at a campsite; some small growls can be heard as the camera goes into one of the tents at the campsite, where inside some boys are playing video games}

Brad: Dude your cheating

Gary: No you just suck

{Back outside the growling grows louder, as the camera goes into the other tent where Tommy is recording a message on his cell phone}

Tommy: Hey Hailey, day six, we’re still out near Blackwater Ridge, we’re fine, keeping safe, so don’t worry, talk to you tomorrow.

{Brad gets tired of playing his video game, shuts it, and tosses it aside}

Gary: Hey, where ya goin? My moment of victory.

Brad: Nature calls. {He opens the tent door and goes outside and zips up the tent behind him. He goes to stand against the tree, and looks in the woods and sees the trees rustling. The camera cuts back to the inside of the tent as Brad screams as the monster growls loudly, and we are left to assume the monster ate him.}

Gary: Brad?

Tommy: Gary, what’s goin on?

{Gary opens the tent and sticks his head out to look around. The monster growls and pulls him out of the tent. Gary screams, and inside his tent, Tommy turns out the lantern he had on. We see shadows moving very quickly along the outside of Tommy’s tent, until it grows very quiet, and the monster slashes open his tent as Tommy screams, and the screen goes black.}

{On the black screen}

“Palo Alto, California”

Sam: {Walks up to Jessica’s grave with flowers.} I…um… {Sam laughs to himself} you always said roses were…were lame so I brought you uh {Sam stops and looks at the small picture of Jess that is on her gravestone and sighs and chokes back tears.} Jess…oh God…I should have protected you. I should have told you the truth. {As he goes to set the flowers on the stone, an arm reaches up out of grave and grabs Sam’s wrist (much like in Carrie) and Sam jerks awake in Dean’s car.}

Dean: You okay?

Sam: Yeah I’m fine

Dean: {Nods} Another nightmare?

{Sam clears his throat}

Dean: You wanna drive for a while?

Sam: {Laughs} In your whole life you never once asked me that

Dean: Just thought you might want to, never mind

Sam: Look man, you’re worried about me, I get it and thank you but I’m perfectly okay.

Dean: mmhmm

Sam: All right…where are we?

Dean: We are just outside of Grand Junction.

Sam: {Looks at a map} You know what? Maybe we shouldn’t have left Stanford so soon.

Dean: Sam we dug around there for a week, we came up with nothing. If you wanna find the thing that killed Jessica…

Sam: We gotta find dad first.

Dean: Dad disappearing, and this thing showing up again after twenty years, it’s no coincidence. Dad will have answers; he’ll know what to do.

Sam: It’s weird man. These coordinates he left us, this Blackwater Ridge.

Dean: What about it?

Sam: {Looks again at map} There’s nothing there, it’s just woods. Why is he sending us to the middle of nowhere?

{Sam and Dean drive past the National Forest sign that says, “Welcome to Lost Creek, Colorado”; they arrive at what appears to be the Visitors Center}

Sam: So Blackwater Ridge is pretty remote It’s cut off by these canyons here, rough terrain, dense forest, abandoned silver and gold mines all over the place.

Dean: {Is looking at the picture of a huge bear on the wall} Dude check out the size of this freakin bear.

Sam: And a dozen or more grizzlies in the area. It’s no nature hike that’s for sure.

Ranger Wilkinson: You boys aren’t planning on going out near Blackwater Ridge by any chance?

Sam: Oh no sir, we’re environmental study majors from UC Boulder, just working on a paper.

Dean: Recycle, man.

Ranger Wilkinson: Bull. You’re friends with that Hailey girl right?

Dean: Yes, yes we are, ranger {looks at nametag} Wilkinson.

Ranger Wilkinson: Well I will tell you exactly what we told her. Her brother filled out a backcountry permit saying he wouldn’t be back from Blackwater till the 24^th, so it’s not exactly a missing persons now is it? {Dean shakes his head} You tell that girl to quit worrying, I’m sure her brothers just fine.

Dean: We will. Well that Hailey girl’s quit a pistol, huh?

Ranger Wilkinson: That is putting it mildly.

Dean: Actually you know what would help is if I could show her a copy of that backcountry permit you know so she could see her brothers return date.

{Sam and a laughing Dean walk out of the building with the copy of the permit.}

Sam: What are you cruising for a hook-up or something?

Dean: What do you mean?

Sam: The coordinates point to Blackwater Ridge so what are we waiting for, let’s just go find dad. I mean why even talk to this girl?

Dean: I dunno maybe we should know what we’re walking in to before we actually walk into it.

Sam: What?

Dean: Well since when are you all shoot first ask questions later anyway?

Sam: Since now.

Dean: Oh, Really?

{Cut scene to Hailey’s house, where Dean is knocking on the door. Hailey opens the door.}

Dean: You must be Hailey Collins. I’m Dean, this is Sam. We’re rangers with the park service. Ranger Wilkinson sent us over, we wanted to ask you some questions about your brother Tommy.

Hailey: Let me see some ID.

Dean: {Holds up fake ID} Here ya go.

Hailey: {Looks at the ID through the screen door} Come on in.

Dean: Thanks

Hailey: {Looking at car}That yours?

Dean: Yeah

Hailey: Nice car

Sam: So if Tommy’s not due back for a while, how do you know something’s wrong?

Hailey: He checks in every day by cell. He e-mails photos, stupid little videos…but we haven’t heard anything in over three days now.

Sam: Well maybe he can’t get cell reception.

Hailey: He’s got a satellite phone too.

Dean: Could it be he’s just having fun and forgot to check in

Ben: He wouldn’t do that

Hailey: Our parents are gone; it’s just my two brothers and me. We all keep pretty close tabs on each other.

Sam: Can I see the pictures he sent you?

Hailey: Yeah {Opens pictures on a laptop} That’s Tommy. {Plays the video we saw him record earlier in the episode}

Tommy in video: Hey Hailey, day six, we’re still out near Blackwater Ridge, we’re fine, keeping safe, so don’t worry, talk to you tomorrow.

{Sam frowns slightly, at something he has seen in the video}

Dean: Well, we’ll find your brother, we’re headin out to Blackwater ridge first thing. Hailey: Then maybe I’ll see you there {Sam and Dean both give her a “look”} Look. I can’t sit around here anymore, so I hired a guide. I’m heading out in the morning and I’m gonna find Tommy myself.

Dean: I think I know how ya feel

Sam: Hey, you mind forwarding these to me?

Hailey: Sure.

{Cut scene to a local bar}

Sam: {Through this whole conversation, Sam pulls out newspaper articles out of a briefcase to show to Dean} So, Blackwater Ridge doesn’t get a lot of traffic, local campers mostly. But still, this past April two hikers went missing out there, they were never found.

Dean: Any before that?

Sam: Yeah In 1982, eight different people all vanished in the same year. Authorities said it was a grizzly attack. And again in 1959 and again before that in 1936. Every 23 years, just like clockwork. {Pulls out his laptop} Okay watch this. Here’s a clincher. I downloaded that guy, Tommy’s, video to the laptop. Check this out. {Sam plays the video frame by frame so you can see a shadow of something moving extremely fast outside the tent}

Dean: Do it again.

Sam: {Plays it again} That’s three frames. That’s a fraction of a second. Whatever that thing is, it can move.

Dean: {Hits Sam} Told ya something weird was goin on.

Sam: Yeah. I got one more thing. In ‘59 one camper survived this supposed grizzly attack. Just a kid. Barely crawled out of the woods alive.

Dean: Is there a name?

{Sam smiles and cut scene to inside the house that belongs to the survivor.}

Mr. Shaw: Look ranger, I don’t know why you’re askin me about this. It’s public record; I was a kid. My parents got mauled by a…

Sam: Grizzly? That’s what attacked them?

{Mr. Shaw pauses in silence, then nods his head}

Dean: The other people that went missing that year…those bear attacks too? What about all the people that went missing this year? Same thing? If we knew what we were dealing with, we might be able to stop it.

Mr. Shaw: I seriously doubt that. Anyways, I don’t see what difference it would make. You wouldn’t believe me, nobody ever did.

Sam: Mr. Shaw, what did you see?

Mr. Shaw: Nothing. It moved too fast to see, it hid too well. I heard it though, a roar, like…no man or animal I ever heard.

Sam: It came at night?

{Mr. Shaw nods}

Sam: Got inside your tent?

Mr. Shaw: It got inside our cabin. I was sleepin in front of the fireplace when it came in. It didn’t smash a window or break the door, it unlocked it. Do you know of a bear that could do something like that? I didn’t even wake up till I heard my parents screamin.

Sam: It killed them?

Mr. Shaw: Dragged them off into the night.

Mr. Shaw: Why it left me alive…been askin myself that ever since. Did leave me this though. {Opens collar of shirt to reveal his chest with three huge scars that look like they were made by three huge claws} There’s something evil in those woods. It was some sort of a demon.

{After the old man’s house}

Dean: Spirits and demons don’t have to unlock doors. If they want inside they just go through the walls.

Sam: So it’s probably something else, something corporeal.

Dean: Corporeal? Excuse me professor.

Sam: Shut up. So what do you think?

Dean: The claws, the speed that it moves, could be a skin walker, maybe a black dog. Whatever we’re talking about, we’re talking about a creature and it’s corporeal. Which means we can kill it.

{Dean opens his trunk, props it up with a shotgun, and puts some pistols in a duffel bag.}

Sam: We cannot let that Hailey girl go out there.

Dean: Oh yeah? What are we gonna tell her? That she can’t go into the woods because of a big scary monster?

Sam: Yeah

Dean: Her brother’s missing Sam. She’s not just gonna sit this out. Now we go with her, we protect her, and we keep our eyes peeled for our fuzzy predator-friend.

Finding dad’s not enough? {Slams trunk shut} Now we gotta babysit too?

{Dean stares at Sam}

Sam: What?

Dean: {Shrugs} Nothin. {Throws duffel bag at Sam}

{The next morning out by the mountains}

I’ll tell you again, I don’t think Ben should come

Roy

Look you’re paying me good money to keep everybody safe, I think Ben’s safest at home

{Sam and Dean pull up in the car}

Dean: You guys got room for two more?

Hailey: Wait, you want to come with us?

Roy: Who are these guys?

Hailey: Apparently this is all the park service could muster up for search and rescue.

Roy: You’re rangers?

Dean: That’s right.

Hailey: And you’re hiking out in biker boots and jeans?

Dean: Well sweetheart, I don’t do shorts

Roy: What, you think this is funny? It’s dangerous backcountry out there, her brother might be hurt.

Dean: Believe me, I know how dangerous this could get. We just wanna help her find her brother, that’s all.

{Cut scene to what looks like going down a well to Tommy and another boy (I think it is Gary) hanging from the ceiling by their hands. Gary looks down a tunnel and sees the shadow of a creature walking towards them. Tommy shuts his eyes tightly as he hears his friend scream as (we assume) the creature is ripping him apart, eating him}

{COMMERCIAL}

Dean: Roy, you said you did a little hunting.

Roy: Yeah, more than a little

Dean: Uhhuh…What kind of furry critters do you hunt?

Roy: Mostly buck sometimes bear.

Dean: Tell me, uh…Bambi or Yogi ever hunt you back? {Roy grabs him} Whatcha doin Roy?

Roy: {Puts a stick into a bear trap}You should watch where you’re stepping…ranger

Dean: It’s a bear trap.

Hailey: You didn’t pack any provisions. You guys are carrying a duffel bag. You’re not rangers so who the hell are you?

Dean: Sam and I are brothers, and we’re looking for our father. He might be here, we don’t know. I just figured that you and me, we’re in the same boat.

Hailey: Why didn’t you just tell me that from the start?

Dean: I’m telling you now. Besides it’s probably the most honest I’ve ever been with a woman. Ever. So we okay?

Hailey: Yeah, okay.

Dean: And what do you mean I didn’t pack provisions? {Pulls out a big bag of Peanut M&Ms}

{After hiking a bit more}

Roy: This is it…Blackwater Ridge

Sam: What coordinates do we have?

Roy: {Pulls out GPS} 35-111

Dean: You hear that?

Sam: Yeah, not even crickets.

Roy: I’m gonna take a look around.

Sam: You shouldn’t go off by yourself.

Roy: That’s sweet…don’t worry about me.

Dean: All right everybody stays together. Lets go.

Roy: Hailey, over here.

Hailey: {Runs to voice, and sees campsite with tents torn open and blood on them.} Oh my God

Roy: Looks like a grizzly.

Hailey: Tommy? {Takes off backpack} Tommy?!

Sam: Shh

Hailey: Tommy!?

Sam: Shhhhh

Hailey: Why?

Sam: Something might still be out there.

Dean: Sam! {Sam goes over to Dean} The bodies were dragged from the campsite. But here the tracks just vanish. That’s weird. I’ll tell you what…that’s no skin walker or black dog.

{Hailey picks up Tommy’s cell phone that has blood spattered on it and the back torn open and starts crying}

Dean: Hey, he could still be alive

Creature: Help!!! Help!!!

{The group immediately runs a way off}

Hailey: It seemed like it was coming from around here didn’t it?

Sam: Everybody back to camp.

{They run back to the torn up camp to find their supplies missing}

Hailey: Our packs

Roy: So much for my GPS and my satellite phone

Hailey: What the hell is going on?

Sam: It’s smart. It wants to cut us off so we can’t call for help.

Roy: You mean some one some nut job out there just stole all our gear.

Sam: I need to speak with you…in private. {Sam and Dean walk some distance away} Good. Let me see dad’s journal. {Dean hands it to Sam and he opens it} Alright, check that out {He points to a drawing of a figure that looks like the shadow pictured coming down the cave after Tommy and Gary}

Dean: Oh come on, Wendigos are in the Minnesota woods or northern Michigan. I’ve never even heard of one this far west

Sam: Think about it Dean, the claws, the way it can mimic a human voice.

Dean: Great. {Takes out the pistol} Well then this is useless

{Sam gives Dean back their father’s journal}

Sam: We gotta get these people to safety {Walks back to where they left the others} All right listen up, time to go. Things have gotten more…complicated

Hailey: What?

Roy: Kid don’t worry, whatever’s out there, I think I can handle it.

Sam: It’s not me I’m worried about, if you shoot this thing you’re just gonna make it mad. We have to leave now.

Roy: One you’re talking nonsense, two you’re in no position to give anybody orders.

Dean: Relax

Sam: We never should have let you come out here in the first place, alright? I’m trying to protect you.

Roy: You protect me? I was hunting these woods when your mommy was still kissing you goodnight.

Sam: Yeah? It’s a damn near perfect hunter. It’s smarter than you, and it’s gonna hunt you down and eat you alive unless we get your stupid sorry ass out of here.

Roy: {Laughs} You know you’re crazy right?

Sam: Yeah? You ever hunt a win- {Roy pushes him in mid-sentence}

Hailey: Roy!

Dean: {Intervenes} Chill out.

Hailey: Stop; stop it, everybody just stop. Look, Tommy might still be alive, and I’m not leaving here without him.

Dean: It’s getting late. This thing is a good hunter in the day, but an unbelievable hunter at night. We’ll never beat it, not in the dark. We need to settle in and protect ourselves.

How?

{COMMERCIAL}

{They have made a small campsite with a campfire, and Dean is drawing something in the dirt in parts of the site}

Hailey: One more time that’s…?

Dean: Anasazi symbols. It’s for protection. The wendigo can’t cross over them

{Roy laughs}

Dean: Nobody likes a skeptic, Roy. {Walks over to Sam on the edge of the campsite} You wanna tell me what’s goin on in that freaky head of yours?

Sam: Dean…

Dean: No you’re not fine, you’re like a powder keg man it’s not like you. I’m supposed to be the belligerent one, remember?

Sam: Dad’s not here. I mean that much we know for sure, right? He would have left us a message, a sign, right?

Dean: Yeah you’re probably right. To tell you the truth I don’t think dad’s ever been to Lost Creek.

Sam: Then let’s get these people back to town and let’s hit the road, go find dad. I mean why are we still in here?

Dean: This is why {Holds up their dad’s journal} …This book. This is dad’s single most valuable possession everything he knows about every evil thing is in here. And he’s passed it on to us, I think he wants us to pick up where he left off, you know saving people, hunting things. The family business.

Sam: That makes no sense. Why doesn’t he just call us? Why doesn’t he tell us what he wants; tell us where he is?

Dean: I dunno. But the way I see it, dad’s giving us a job to do and I intend to do it

Sam: Dean, no. I gotta find dad. I gotta find Jessica’s killer. It’s the only thing I can think about.

Dean: Ok, all right, Sam we’ll find them I promise. Listen to me, you’ve gotta prepare yourself. I mean this search could take a while, and all that anger, you can’t keep it burning over the long haul, it’s gonna kill you. You gotta have patience, man.

Sam: How do you do it? How does dad do it?

Dean: Well for one… them. {Looks over at Hailey and her younger brother} I mean I figure our family’s so screwed to hell; maybe we can help some others. Makes things a little more bearable. I’ll tell you what else helps. Killing as many sons of bitches as I possibly can.

Wendigo: Help me! Please! Help!

Dean: He’s trying to draw us out. Just stay cool, stay put, inside the magic circle.

Wendigo: Help! Help me!

Roy: Ok that’s no grizzly.

Hailey: It’s ok, you’ll be all right I promise. {Screams}

Sam: It’s here.

Roy: {Shoots at the wendigo several times} I hit it!

Dean: Roy, no! Roy! {Turns to Hailey and Ben} Don’t move. {He and Sam run after Roy}

Windego: It’s over here! It’s in the tree! {Windego reaches down from the tree and snaps Roy’s neck.

Dean: Roy!

{COMMERCIAL}

{In the morning, Sam is sitting against a hollow trunk of a tree playing with a bracelet he has on his watch (assuming it was Jess’s)}

Hailey: I don’t…I mean these types of things they aren’t supposed to be real.

Dean: I wish I could tell you different.

Hailey: How do we know it’s not out there watching us?

Dean: We don’t. But we’re safe for now

Hailey: How do you know about this stuff?

Dean: Kind of runs in the family.

Sam: Hey. So we’ve got half a chance in the daylight. And I, for one, want to kill this evil SOAB

Dean: Well hell, you know I’m in.

Sam: Wendigo is a –Indian word. It means evil that devours.

Dean: They’re hundreds of years old. Each one was once a man. Sometimes an Indian, other times a frontiersman or a miner or a hunter.

Hailey: How does a man turn into one of those things?

Dean: Well it’s always the same. During some harsh winter a guy finds himself starving, cut off from supplies or help. Becomes a cannibal to survive, eating other members of his tribe or camp.

Ben: Like the Donnor Party.

Sam: Cultures all over the world believe that eating human flesh gives a person certain abilities. Speed, strength, immortality.

Dean: If you eat enough of it, over years, you become this less than human thing. You’re always hungry

Hailey: So if that’s true, how can Tommy still be alive?

Dean: You’re not gonna like it.

Hailey: Tell me.

Dean: More than anything, a wendigo knows how to last long winters without food. It hibernates for years at a time, but when it’s awake it keeps it’s victims alive. It uh, stores them, so it can feed whenever it wants. If your brother’s alive it’s keeping him somewhere dark, hidden and safe. We gotta track it back there.

Hailey: And then how do we stop it?

Dean: Well guns are useless so are knives, basically {Pulls out a can of lighter fluid} we gotta torch the sucker.

{They start hiking through the woods, passing trees with claw marks and blood smeared on them}

Sam: Dean.

Dean: What is it? {He and Dean look around at the trees they are surrounded by. The branches are broken and all of them have blood and claw marks on them.}

Sam: You know…I was thinking…those claw prints…so clear and distinct, they were almost too easy to follow.

{Wendigo growls, and the group backs up, looking all around. Hailey backs into a tree, and blood begins dripping onto her shirt. She looks up in time to have Roy’s dead body to be nearly dropped on her (she rolls to the side right before he would hit her) and screams.}

Sam: {Runs over to her as Dean examines Roy’s body quickly.} You okay? You got it?

Dean: His neck’s broke. Okay run, run, run, run, go, go! {They all take off}

{Ben falls while trying to run away, and Sam runs back to him to help him up (the group is now split up- Ben with Sam and Hailey with Dean)}

Sam: Come on, I gotcha, I gotcha.

{The wendigo appears in front of Hailey and she screams}

Ben: Hailey!?

Sam: {Stops running, and picks up a white scarf (or something like it) that Hailey had been carrying, and looks around} Dean!!!

{COMMERCIAL}

Ben: If it keeps its victims alive, why would it kill Roy?

Sam: Honestly, I think because Roy shot at it, pissed it off.

Ben: {Finds a trail of Dean’s M&M’s and picks one up} They went this way {He hands the M&M to dean}

Sam: {Laughs} It’s better than bread crumbs.

{After following the trail, Ben and Sam come to an entrance to a tunnel that says “Warning! Danger! Do not enter. Extremely toxic material.” They enter under the sign that says “Keep Out No Admittance” They hear the monster growl, so Sam pushes Ben against the wall. They can see it coming down the tunnel towards them. Ben is about to scream, but Sam covers his mouth. They continue walking, once the wendigo takes a different tunnel. After walking a few yards, the floor boards creek and Sam and Ben fall through the floor into a pile of skeletons.}

Sam: Hey, it’s okay, it’s okay, it’s okay.

{Sam and Ben look up to see Hailey and Dean hanging from the ceiling. Sam runs over to Dean and Ben runs over to Hailey.}

Sam: Dean!

Ben: Hailey wake up!

Sam: {Grabs Dean and shakes him} Dean!

{Dean opens his eyes}

Sam: Hey, you okay?

Dean: {Winces} Yeah.

Ben: Hailey, wake up, wake up.

{Hailey opens her eyes}

{Sam gets Dean down and Ben gets Hailey down.}

Sam: You sure you’re all right?

Dean: {Face grimaces in pain} Yeah. Yep, where is he?

Sam: He’s gone for now.

Hailey: {Sees Tommy still hanging there and starts crying} Tommy.

{Tommy jerks his head up and Hailey screams.}

Hailey: Cut him down

{They cut him down}

Hailey: We’re gonna get you home.

Dean: {Is loading a gun in the corner} Check it out

Sam: Flare guns…those’ll work.

{Dean laughs and then twirls the guns. The four of them head down a tunnel, supporting a limping Tommy in the middle. The wendigo growls.}

Dean: Looks like someone’s home for supper.

Hailey: We’ll never outrun it.

Dean: {Looks back at the group} You thinking what I’m thinking?

Sam: Yeah I think so.

Dean: All right listen to me. Stay with Sam, he’s gonna get you out of here.

Hailey: What are you gonna do?

Dean: {Winks at Hailey and starts walking forward} Chow time you freaky bastard! Yeah that’s right, bring it on baby, I’m feelin good. {He continues yelling, but we can no longer make out what exactly he’s saying.}

Sam: All right come on. Hurry! {They follow Sam down the tunnel}

Dean: Hey! Hey you want some white meat bitch!? I’m right here!

{Wendigo growls by Sam, Hailey, and Ben}

Sam: Get him outta here.

Hailey: Sam, no.

Sam: Go! Go!

{Hailey and her younger brother start helping Tommy out of the cave}

Sam: {Pulls up the gun ready to shoot, looking down one way of the tunnel} Come on. Come on. A growl comes from the other side of the tunnel, and Sam turns to see the wendigo in his face. Sam shoots at it, but misses, and then runs down the tunnel after Hailey, Tommy and Ben.}

Hailey: Sam!

Sam: Come on, hurry, hurry, hurry. {Helps the group run to the end of the tunnel, closely followed by the wendigo.} Get behind me. {He body blocks the group.}

{The wendigo walks towards them, and lets out a loud roar}

Dean: {Comes up behind the wendigo} Hey! {He shoots the wendigo in the stomach with a flare gun. It bursts into flame from the inside} Not bad, huh?

{Cut scene to outside the ranger station, where an ambulance is loading up Tommy, and a policeman is interviewing Ben.}

Policeman: And the bear came back again after you yelled at it?

Ben: That’s when it circled the campsite; I mean this grizzly must have weighed 800-900 pounds.

Policeman: All right we’ll go after it first thing.

Hailey: So I don’t know how to thank you. {Dean stares at her} Must you cheapen the moment?

Dean: Yeah.

Ambulance lady: You riding with your brother?

Hailey: Yeah. [To Ben] Let’s go.

{Ben and Sam nod at each other and Hailey kisses dean on the cheek.}

Hailey: I hope you find your father. {She and Ben start walking towards the ambulance} Thanks Sam {They get in the ambulance and it closes up}

Dean: Man I hate camping

Sam: Me too

Dean: Sam, you know we’re gonna find dad, right?

Sam: Yeah I know…but in the mean time…I’m driving.

{Dean tosses him the keys; they get in the car, and drive away.}

[End Credits]