The next cycle. It's early morning; the sky is a dark shade of blue as the sun hasn't even started to rise yet.
Inside the cave the fire barely burns, mere small flames; Beth sleeps a few feet away.
Matthew wakes up. He sits up to stretch and looks around. He stops wen he realizes no one else is awake and quietly gets up. He makes his way to Bill quietly, passing Dave who has his mug nestled against him.
"I love you, Thag. Never leave me..." Dave mumbles in his sleep.
"And I'm the weird one," Matthew whispers to himself.
Finally at Bill, Matthew picks up the FASA jumpsuit and puts it under an arm. He then leans in and gently shakes Bill.
"Biiilllll ... Biiilll ... wakey wakey, Bill."
Bill starts to toss around some and make incoherent sounds as he comes to, "Ooohhh ... Ayla..." he opens his eyes, "Ewah. What do you want, spazisovan?"
"Bill, everyone's still asleep," Matthew whispers.
"How I envy them," Bill whispers back. "Why are we whispering?"
"Bill, I want to go outside."
"You know the sky gods will punish us."
"The sky gods have to go to sleep, too, right? And being the sky gods, they probably sleep in really really late. I figure if we leave now, we can go to the waterfall and enjoy the scenery, then get back about when everyone starts to wake up."
"I don't know..." Bill ten sits up, "Wait - we can beat everyone there and help ourselves to any fruit or fish we want. No leftovers. And I can make my moves on the Cave Bear chick; I hear she bathes there nude early mornings. Yeeesss..." Bill quietly and carefully stands up.
"And we can wear those sky god costumes," says Matthew.
Bill begins to quietly tip toe with Matthew, "Even better; what chick would turn down a sky god?"
Matthew hands Bill the FASA jumpsuit. He then reaches down and picks up Joe's from Joe's sleeping spot, which Joe snuck away from Beth, with Joe in a deep sleep by the nearby cave wall where he stayed yp late completing the smeared record of the mug.
"I'll wear Joe's. He wussed out, said he changed his mind and cared more about completing the Garrelli 11," says Matthew.
They put the jumpsuits on.
"Matthew, you've made a brave and bold choice. I don't look down upon you as much as before."
"Thank you, Bill."
"When you put on the kin of a sky god, you leave this cave a little less Denisovan and a little more neandrethal. Others will think twice about clubbing you and taking your stuff."
They both slowly remove the boulder from the entrance.
"It didn't stop you from clubbing them and taking their stuff."
"Matthew, being a sky god it is both my perogative and my duty to club impersonators."
"I didn't think about that."
"I know. You smell that? That's the smell of freedom, my friend. But only if you're bold enough to disobey Dave. Can you do that?"
"Yes I can," Matthew whispers more loudly.
"Good. Use Joe's club; might still be some predators out there. And carry the empty water pouches; we'll fill 'em up and then say the sky gods left me a gift," Bill says as they silently walk out.
"It is an honor to carry these for you, Bill."
"I know. I think we covered everything."
"Yep. Mr. James said all we had to do tomorrow is meal prep'," says Matthew.
Their whispers grow too faint to hear as they walk into the pre-dawn hours, while at the cave, the Boulder of Life remains off to the side.

CUT TO: A montage scene slightly slowed down and set to the classical music work "Spring" from The Four Seasons by Vivald.
Matthew, in all his hideousness, prances about the flowers as Bill flirts with the Cave Bear chick. Matthew splashes around under the water fall while Bill and Ayla make out naked in the water. Next we see Bill and Ayla doing it in the soft high grass as Matthew collects fruit. Finally, the sun already up for somewhere over an hour, Matthew feeds Bill grapes while also filling up a rodent pouch in the water; Bill pets Ayla's hair while snuggled up against him.
It crossfades into Bill and Matthew exiting some woods vi a well-worn path. Matthew has both hands full and Bill smokes.
Matthew looks happy as they start passing caves, and neandrethals look away in horror and making disgusted grunts at the sight of Matthew.
"Oh, Bill - I feel so alive! If this is what it feels like to disobey Dave, I should disobey him more often!"
"Don't worry, I can teach you how."
They round the mountain bend to their cave; many cavemen are standing around talking.
"Hum, something juicy has happened," says Bill.
As they approach the cave, the crowd gets thicket; it clears some as they see Matthew and move out of the way.
"Bill, you've got your own welcoming party."
Bill puts his smoke stick down and looks serious, "I think they're at our cave. Get out of the way, you neandrethals!" he shoves them.
"Everybody: Sky god coming through! Move it or lose it, people!"
Cavemen clear out of the way.
"Ugg, Bill."
"Ugg, lookout Thag. What's happened here? Catherine?" Bill nears the entrance, "Catherine?!"
"Bill, Tiny Arms come back. It not go well for your clan."
Thag stands at the cave entrance as Bill and Matthew enter.
"Catherine, it's Bill, you can come out now!"
As there is no reply, he looks around and sees no body parts stream about readily, with the walls and area splattered in blood.
"We find part of the one you call 'Joe', at front of cave; must have gone for club, but we no find his club."
Matthew quickly drops Joe's club behind some rocks and coyly walks away from it; everyone focusing in the scene and not what Matthew was carrying.
"Bill - Beth's bob sells!" Matthew shouts.
"Eeewww, and here's part of Mr. James; obviously too much for Tiny Arms to finish off."
"I think I found what's left of Lisa. Yeah, that looks like her elbow all right," says Matthew.
Bill look around the cave, picking broken items up and dropping them.
"Catherine?" Bill asks with obviously low optimism.
Thag turns around, "Go back to caves! Nothing to see here! Nothing to see here! Slagathor - what you look at? You no seen cave massacre before? Go back to cave!"
Thag disperses the cavemen away from the cave to give Bill and Matthew privacy.
"Oh, good news, Bill - I found Catherine."
"Really?"
"Yeah. Over here, over there, over on that side. Oh - there's some of her hair; still has those purple flowers she loved in it."
"Oh," Bill says extremely disappointed. "Save the hair."
Matthew looks around and says in a sad voice, "Bill, what are we going to do?"
"I don't know," Bill says, sitting down on one of the big rocks around the fire, "Found Dave."
"You sure?" asks Matthew.
"Yep," Bill points.
We cut to the body part as we hear Bill's voice describe it.
"There's his hand still holding onto the mug."
The view cuts back to Bill and Matthew.
Bill shakes his head from side-to-side in stunned disbelief, "What ... how did this happen?"
"Who knows," Matthew looks around and then spots the Boulder of Life, "Ohhh, oh Bill - looks like Dave must have forgotten to close the cave off. Yeeeaaahhh, that's what must have happened."
"Why Dave? Why?" Bill says aloud.
Matthew looks at the fire, which is still smoldering, "Bill, look - they were cooking something in turtle shell on the fire."
"What is it?" Bill asks with his hands over his eyes.
"Some kind of brown water; smells like those beans Beth traded for. Here - I'll go get the mug so you can try it."
Matthew gets up.
"Hey - if Dave is no longer around, I no longer have to listen to him. I am going to lick so many rodent skins!"
"Oh, sky gods," Bill says in a low voice through his fingers.
"Well, Bill," says Matthew as he struggles to free the mug, "I guess it's up to you and me to re-populate the cave."
Bill momentarily looks up, "Oh, sky gods," he says even louder and more depressed.
"You'll have to get all the beauty sleep, 'cause apparently no matter how much sleep I get, I just get uglier."
"Oh, sweet merciful sky GODS," Bill puts his arms out in frustration and looks up at the ceiling.
"I can't seem to move Dave's fingers," Matthew grips the forearm - where it's severed off at - and shakes it and smacks it on the ground.
"They've already stiffened; just snap them like twigs."
"Got it."
We then hear the fingers breaking as Bill rubs his face and finally puts his hands down.
"And I was going to ask Cave Bear chick to move in with me; she won't move in with me now - she'll think I've fallen out of favor with the sky gods."
"Here it is," says Matthew as he walks to the turtle shell, "Still looks clean; I guess Dave didn't have a chance to try it yet," he then scoops up coffee with the mug and hands it to Bill.
"Thanks," Bill says apathetically. Grasping the handle, he moves the mug around, "Huh. That's actually kind handy. I guess if Joe was still alive I'd apologize to him. About that - not his weird two names," he then takes a sip of the coffee.
"How is it?"
Bill grimaces, "Ugh," he sips again.
"Ah. That bad?"
"Hum," he then takes yet another sip, "Say..." his face starts to light up, "Saaayyyyy ... oh. Oh yeah."
"So, then it's good?"
"I think so..."
"You look happier."
"I'm actually feeling pretty good. This must be the elixir of the sky gods."
"Save some for me," says Matthew.
"I'll try."
"Well, I better get cleaning up the cave before the smell of body parts attract predators and vermin."
"You do that," Bill comments back, using the mug to signal agreement.
Bill just sits there drinking coffee and doing nothing else while Matthew tosses small body parts at the front of the cave. He then drags the remaining chunk of Mr. James by.
"Bill, did you see any of Milos lying around?"
"Come to think of it, no. Hey - where is Milos?"
CUT OT: Milos riding atop the head of a T-Rex as the T-Rex strides through a large grassy clearing.
"Wuuu! WUHUHU! WHOAHOHOOO! Giddy up! Giddy up! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!"