01/21/2026 - "Swear Loyalty, Or Leave."

Start Of The Day.
Osvaldo was captured as result of a bounty.
Lang asks Saab, who's still in the shame pit, if he's ready to pledge loyalty to the marduk yet or spend another 24h in the pit.
Saab stands strong on his principles and pledges loyalty to NB alone. Lang puts planks of plywood over the shame pit.

Lang gets a call from a Russian lady named Molotov (alter ego of Cuddles) to meet to talk about Cuddles and her kidnapping JJ. Lang says he's going to investigate it.

Skipper says Besties are throwing a party at epsilon to cover up trying to dismantle the satellites on the roof. Lang says that's their job and to call the cops on them.
Skipper also says Dewey applied to NB. Lang says to auto-deny it.

Saab Swears Loyalty.
Queenie is standing up for Saab and wants to let him out. Lang is calling militia to arrest her.

Lang talks to Saab trying to convince him to change his mind, but is unsuccessful. Saab believes strongly in his principles. Lang has Saab read out the codex.
Lang threatens to exile Saab if he doesn't pledge loyalty to him before town meeting starts.
Saab finally says "I swear loyalty to the marduk" but Lang wants him to also say it on the mic. Saab says he's leaving and runs away.

Eliza calls saying if Saab leaves, she leaves. Lang yells that Saab can't follow instructions and he'd rather NB end than see it turn into a joke.
Lang calls Skipper saying to protect the gold.

Luciano found Saab at the ashen tree mauled by a kitty. Lang brings him back and gives him an opportunity to swear loyalty to the marduk on the mic.

Town Meeting.
Saab swears loyalty to the marduk. He also says he has a bomb (of love). He then kicks off the meeting.

Skipper is fined 50BBL for being late. Villager is fined 100BBL for shitting over the shame pit yesterday.
Lang gives a speech about the purpose of NB and keeping progress going.
Eliza talks about bombing LS with NB pamphlets.

All of NB are taking busses to the city to vote for Carmella for mayor. On the way there they talk about Justin Bieber having lyme disease.
Lang is very impressed with NB being deep. There are a lot of people awake.

Alien Sex Cult Probing Party.
Back in NB Lang and Saab talk. Saab asks him what's more important, gold or NB. Saab fully believes in the legacy of NB. Lang is saying he did that work himself.

Eliza says CJ told her that Saab on the mic said that he wanted to overthrow the regime in NB. Eliza didn't know that and apologized.
She says she has a tough time putting NB in good light due to the accusations like cannibals, alien sex cult probing parties, cop murderers and unhygienic maniacs.
Lang needs Eliza to trust him, because he trusts her and threatening to leave will do no good.

CJ says a few Babylonians are raising concerns about Saab who was saying Lang is compromised because of the Faceless.
CJ and Eliza go check out the Epsilon building after the Besties party.

End Of The Day.
Lang received a message from the Faceless tablet asking if Falcon is available for a mission. Buddha is ending soon, so not today.

Lang and Nancy chat about her reverse-engineering spice. Lang sends her to Skipper to steal supplies from the hospital together.
Based off of Luciano's visions, Nancy suggests prepping for doomsday.

Lang tells CJ to gather supplies to store all the gold in the tunnel.
He tells Saab a storm is coming and to build an ark.

Apple calls saying Miguel is hurt and Vidal can't bring him to the hospital. They're asking to be healed in NB. Lang allows it.

Lang talks to Luciano about protecting the gold. Thinking Saab and Queenie are suspicious.