Episode 1 Reflections Set 1
40 begins ten days after the baffling Event that has emptied the city. During that time, the CHARACTERS have assumed that they alone have survived. They have wandered the empty streets, searching for loved ones, neighbors—anybody– but to no avail.
CHARLOTTE: I don’t know when I left the house. The day after? The next day?
ABLE: I searched the neighborhood, from Arlington to Crenshaw. That took what–? Two, three days? Nothing.
On Ash Wednesday we acknowledge that we, too, are left behind. Somehow, through sin or dispassion, neglect or compulsion, we have lost our way. We are wanderers– abandoned, confused and isolated.
