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Speaker 2: This way, it's this way.
Speaker 3: Wait, it's coming from over here, so last, so last,
Speaker 3: come on, hurry there.
Speaker 4: Wait, dad, dad, Jeremy? Who's we have got to stop
Speaker 4: meeting like this?
Speaker 5: Oh it's just you?
Speaker 6: Wow? Am I already such old news?
Speaker 5: That is not what I meant.
Speaker 6: I just sorry. I thought you were bigfoot? Maybe what?
Speaker 4: Well, I assume we're here for the same reason, right,
Speaker 4: the attack on the campers, right, yeah.
Speaker 5: Right, right, I guess I should have expected to see you.
Speaker 6: Seems like you and your friends really dodged a bullet.
Speaker 6: Holy crap.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean the ground was torn to shreds, and
Speaker 4: from what they said about the dead camper on the news,
Speaker 4: that was Yeah.
Speaker 5: I'm starting to think that it was a bad idea
Speaker 5: coming back here.
Speaker 6: Wait did you did I what? No? Never mind that
Speaker 6: you're gonna think I'm nuts.
Speaker 5: No, Well, I think I think we're at the point
Speaker 5: where you should know that I'm the right audience for
Speaker 5: stuff that sounds nuts.
Speaker 6: I thought I heard a voice, I mean just now.
Speaker 6: But it wasn't you. It was a woman. I think
Speaker 6: you heard that. Yeah, yeah, you did too. What do
Speaker 6: you think it was?
Speaker 5: Or?
Speaker 6: I guess the question is who?
Speaker 5: Okay, so I recognized that voice, at least I think
Speaker 5: I did.
Speaker 7: Well, who is it?
Speaker 5: It's it's someone impossible. What do you mean the woman
Speaker 5: that I mentioned to you before, that the one who
Speaker 5: died in free Time? Yeah, it was her voice. What?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know it.
Speaker 6: Sounds crazy, crazy, remember right?
Speaker 5: No, right right?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't believe in ghosts. What is happening?
Speaker 4: Well, maybe it's some kind of mimic, something pretending to
Speaker 4: be her somehow.
Speaker 5: A mimic like like.
Speaker 4: What, well, you're the expert. But that's a thing, right,
Speaker 4: changelings and shape shifters.
Speaker 5: You know, I was just talking about shape shifters with
Speaker 5: my friend. Whatever attack the camper feels like the thing
Speaker 5: that we saw the other day, but some of the
Speaker 5: details aren't lining up. So we were thinking maybe there's
Speaker 5: something that can yeah, I don't know, transform in some way,
Speaker 5: which would explain all of the different kinds of attacks
Speaker 5: that have been happening lately.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you think it's all one creature.
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't know. I haven't actually gotten my eyes on
Speaker 5: anything except the Howler, and that did not feel like
Speaker 5: a shape shifter.
Speaker 6: This is all so strange.
Speaker 4: I mean, I've been feeling like things are off here,
Speaker 4: you know, but I haven't seen anything yet. So I
Speaker 4: think if I hadn't met you, I would think I
Speaker 4: was going completely batch it crazy these days.
Speaker 5: Well, I am happy that I've kept you saying. I
Speaker 5: have to say, it's funny. No. I was also talking
Speaker 5: to the same friend about how you're one of the
Speaker 5: first people that I've met in a long time that
Speaker 5: doesn't make me feel like I'm a total head case
Speaker 5: when I talk to them.
Speaker 6: Well, aren't we a pair, isn't it rich?
Speaker 4: We're just two middle aged weirdos wandering through the wilderness,
Speaker 4: one of us desperately trying to find a monster, the
Speaker 4: other one tripping over them all the time.
Speaker 5: And amazingly, that feels like the least of my problems.
Speaker 4: Are you saying there's more to your interest in all
Speaker 4: of this, more than just childhood obsession?
Speaker 2: Ah?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'd like to hear about it.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you're willing to talk about it, that
Speaker 4: is maybe maybe we could grab a drink sometime.
Speaker 5: Oh, I would actually really like that.
Speaker 6: You don't have to sound so surprised.
Speaker 5: No, I'm not. You know, I just don't have a
Speaker 5: lot of people to talk to about this stuff, or
Speaker 5: at least the people that I do have to talk
Speaker 5: to about it are all tangled up in it themselves.
Speaker 4: So well, it sounds like we'll be needing a few
Speaker 4: drinks then, yes, what's your poison.
Speaker 5: Let's get trashed.
Speaker 9: Okay, So I mean it sounds like it supports the
Speaker 9: shape shifter theory.
Speaker 2: Voice mimicry is so common.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but it's too common. I'm still not sure about
Speaker 5: the voice growing the ability to pull two people who
Speaker 5: were standing side by side in opposite directions.
Speaker 9: Maybe it was just run of the mill magic, something
Speaker 9: that messed with our perception.
Speaker 5: Well, whatever it was, we need to be more careful.
Speaker 5: We can't keep getting separated like that.
Speaker 2: We will always find each other, I promise.
Speaker 5: Well, I want to be prepared. I've texted Vippin and
Speaker 5: he's going to pull everything that you can about voice mimicry.
Speaker 5: But even with the added detail of it sounding like
Speaker 5: it was coming from two different places.
Speaker 2: We're looking at a lot of possibilities, still.
Speaker 5: So many possibilities. You know, it's funny. I always thought
Speaker 5: it was fascinating how no matter the location or the culture,
Speaker 5: human beings they come up with the same kinds of
Speaker 5: monsters over and over again. There are these, you know,
Speaker 5: culturally religiously specific ones, of course, but the basic idea
Speaker 5: of shape shifters, vampires, vengeful spirits. There are iterations of
Speaker 5: those all over the world. And now I think we're
Speaker 5: all those people actually just seeing the exact same thing
Speaker 5: something It's something real that they're actually seeing, and then
Speaker 5: they add the filter of their own cultural norms at
Speaker 5: the time that they saw it to shape the narrative
Speaker 5: of that entity.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 9: You really love this stuff, don't, all of the folklore
Speaker 9: and history?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I mean I used to, anyway, Now it feels
Speaker 5: like I just it feels very different. Now, it feels
Speaker 5: like it's a survival tool.
Speaker 2: WHOA, what happened here?
Speaker 10: Well it happened again?
Speaker 5: What what happened again?
Speaker 11: The creepy humming house shaking thing and happened to you
Speaker 11: guys the other night, this time with added spooky soundtrack.
Speaker 10: What there was music?
Speaker 2: Music? What kind of music?
Speaker 7: Oh, the kind that makes you feel like a killer
Speaker 7: clown is going to pop out at any moment.
Speaker 2: Killer clown.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it was classical, some kind of you know, string instrument.
Speaker 10: I think maybe a harp. Music was never really my
Speaker 10: strong suit, but.
Speaker 5: It was Wait wait what then? And why did that
Speaker 5: lead you to tear apart your living room?
Speaker 10: Well, it sounded like it was coming from inside the house,
Speaker 10: like somebody dn't a speaker somewhere?
Speaker 2: Oh, come on, you did this?
Speaker 9: Don't you think that you would have noticed if someone
Speaker 9: stuck a speaker cabinet behind your couch?
Speaker 5: That speakers can be really small now, like it's like
Speaker 5: everything else. But you don't You don't really think that
Speaker 5: somebody planted something here, do you? Oh?
Speaker 10: No, but that doesn't mean something didn't get in here anyway.
Speaker 2: You know, what do you mean?
Speaker 10: You came through the veil to our side, so I
Speaker 10: have a bunch of monsters, So was to say that
Speaker 10: something else couldn't have as well? I mean, I don't know, like.
Speaker 5: Like someone who came in and planted a tiny fairy
Speaker 5: speaker or a magic herb.
Speaker 7: And I told her it was unlike me.
Speaker 6: Come on, well then, the livey why are you helping her?
Speaker 7: Because what if it was coming from something that's already here.
Speaker 2: I don't follow.
Speaker 7: We were thinking about the voicemails, the ones you left Thomas.
Speaker 2: Right, voicemails.
Speaker 10: What we never asked you about it. When you were
Speaker 10: trying to speak to me, trying to get the word
Speaker 10: out about what was happening, it was coming through as
Speaker 10: messages on my machine.
Speaker 2: You weren't just hearing my voice.
Speaker 9: I just assumed that's how I heard Celeste, just a
Speaker 9: disembodied voice in the.
Speaker 11: Limital, right, But that's because there's nothing in the liminal.
Speaker 11: So somehow, when you were speaking through the veil, it
Speaker 11: was captured by an old message machine.
Speaker 10: Yeah, thank god too, because if I'd just been hearing
Speaker 10: your voice, people would have thought I was really off
Speaker 10: my rocker.
Speaker 5: You know, I think people thought you were off your rocker.
Speaker 10: Anywhere I am on my rocker, son.
Speaker 5: So wait a minute. So you think that the music
Speaker 5: was coming from something that you already owned, that it's
Speaker 5: from the liminal getting here somehow, I.
Speaker 10: Don't think it's from the liminal. I think it's from
Speaker 10: the other side.
Speaker 9: It would have to be from the other side. My
Speaker 9: whole time there, I never heard anything close to music.
Speaker 5: Well that doesn't mean that things haven't changed. I could
Speaker 5: Alden somehow be doing it. And are you sure? Are
Speaker 5: you both sure that it wasn't actually singing. It's not
Speaker 5: like the connection between here and the liminal is exactly
Speaker 5: like Crystal Clear.
Speaker 11: No, not singing. Okay, it was definitely instrumental in it.
Speaker 7: There's something so weird about it?
Speaker 5: What what? What could be weirder than it? Coming from nowhere?
Speaker 11: It was I don't know right, nothing sounded human, nana like,
Speaker 11: even if it was human instruments, it was like they
Speaker 11: were being played by something that wasn't It was.
Speaker 9: I'm badly played off key.
Speaker 7: No, that's not it. I can't explain it.
Speaker 10: It's more like, Uh, it came with a feeling, you know.
Speaker 10: I think that's what you're trying to get it right,
Speaker 10: Like a feeling.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it came with this feeling.
Speaker 2: Oh that can't be good.
Speaker 11: Well, hence trying to find some sort of reasonable explanation, you.
Speaker 7: Know, reasonable being an extremely relative term over here.
Speaker 5: Okay, did have you found anything?
Speaker 10: Nothing? How'd you fare in the swamp? Was it that
Speaker 10: thing that we saw kill the camper?
Speaker 5: Yes? Maybe it's a little unclear, but it is clear
Speaker 5: that something something is is definitely trying to communicate with us.
Speaker 5: Has So we heard Celestes voice.
Speaker 7: What what isn't she dead?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 7: And not in the limit A right?
Speaker 11: Okay, so we have no idea what we're dealing with here.
Speaker 10: Well what was she saying?
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 5: She was saying a bunch of stuff, trusting her uh
Speaker 5: and it happening.
Speaker 2: That would be better this time?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 10: What better?
Speaker 7: Okay, Well, that's good.
Speaker 5: She also said we want you and come here.
Speaker 10: Which is what Ethan said.
Speaker 5: That's right, Yeah, exactly the same thing.
Speaker 10: Yeah, maybe it was someone who got possessed in the
Speaker 10: same way that Ethan did.
Speaker 2: It wasn't a person.
Speaker 9: No, that voice was coming from two different directions.
Speaker 5: And it was definitely Celeste or her voice at least
Speaker 5: that I know.
Speaker 11: Okay, we don't really know what's on the other side yet.
Speaker 11: Maybe it was some kind.
Speaker 7: Of afterlife and Celeste's spirit is trying.
Speaker 10: To talk to you.
Speaker 5: I think that that would be the best option. Honestly,
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 9: Should we hold a say aunts or find a medium
Speaker 9: medium couldn't hurt.
Speaker 5: I have never done a SANDS before, but I guess
Speaker 5: I know the basics.
Speaker 10: I mean, I think we can probably find a medium
Speaker 10: in Bridgewater.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, we have to be careful because even if
Speaker 5: talking to the dead is possible, it doesn't mean that
Speaker 5: there aren't a whole shitload of scammers out there.
Speaker 11: A medium, a medium. We need to find the right medium.
Speaker 5: Yes, exactly, we need someone reputable. I mean, can't believe
Speaker 5: I'm saying that, But maybe I can try to talk
Speaker 5: to some of the other folklore folks and see a thing, no, not.
Speaker 11: A psychic, the right communication medium. Okay, think about it.
Speaker 11: Thomas was able to communicate through the answering machine, Celest's
Speaker 11: voice was coming through the swamp.
Speaker 7: There's no seeming connection between those things. Okay, so what
Speaker 7: if there is a connection and we're just not seeing it.
Speaker 5: Well, I think that describes a lot of what we're
Speaker 5: doing right now, right.
Speaker 11: Sure, yeah, but maybe there's a way to get more
Speaker 11: data to connect the dots. So, Alden, before you got here, Thomas,
Speaker 11: did he ever try to reach out? Did he try
Speaker 11: to contact someone over here?
Speaker 9: He was a scared seven year old trapped in another dimension.
Speaker 9: He definitely tried to call out for help.
Speaker 7: Okay, so maybe someone heard him, and if we figure
Speaker 7: out how they heard him, then we say.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, but how would we do that? They mean,
Speaker 5: this was eighty years ago. You know his parents are
Speaker 5: long dead, right, he had.
Speaker 7: A younger brother. Alden has a brother and he's still alive.
Speaker 7: What really I found him?
Speaker 11: When I was looking into Alden's story, I didn't think
Speaker 11: it was relevant. Honestly, it's not like we can tell
Speaker 11: him anything that would give him closure after all these years.
Speaker 11: And he was only five when Alden went missing, so
Speaker 11: he might not even remember it happening.
Speaker 10: But that doesn't mean he wasn't communicated with later exactly.
Speaker 11: You didn't start hearing Thomas's voicemails until this year.
Speaker 7: Who knows when he left them?
Speaker 2: Well, I was always calling out to you, Anne, always right.
Speaker 7: So maybe Alden's brother heard something he can't explain either.
Speaker 7: You think you would talk to us, well, I mean
Speaker 7: I think it's worth to try. And he's right here
Speaker 7: in Bridgewater.
Speaker 5: Hey, mister Jansen, I think thanks for agreeing to talk
Speaker 5: to us.
Speaker 8: Oh please call me Lee. Not every day I get visitors.
Speaker 9: It's really nice to meet you, Lee. I'm Thomas and
Speaker 9: this is Jeremy. Has your family mostly moved away?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 8: I never had children myself and my sister rest her soul.
Speaker 8: Her kids live up in New Hampshire and their kids
Speaker 8: are all grown now. So oh, they come and visit
Speaker 8: when they can. But there's not a lot in the
Speaker 8: way of entertainment in this place. So when they said
Speaker 8: there were two men here to interview me for a book,
Speaker 8: well that was just about me my day.
Speaker 5: Well, we're happy to hear that, although.
Speaker 8: Fish to be quite confused as why you want to
Speaker 8: talk to me.
Speaker 5: Well, i am a professor here at the local college,
Speaker 5: and I'm writing a book about the region, and specifically
Speaker 5: I'm looking at unsolved mysteries and the like. And I
Speaker 5: know that you have lived here your entire life. I have,
Speaker 5: and I also know that you have a personal.
Speaker 8: This is about all of them, isn't it.
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, I take it.
Speaker 9: You've been asked about him before a few times through
Speaker 9: the year.
Speaker 8: Every now and again, someone will get their heads stuck
Speaker 8: into all the missing person cases in Bridgewater, and my
Speaker 8: brother is one of that. It's kept folks interest, I
Speaker 8: think because he was so young and there was never
Speaker 8: any evidence at all as to what happened.
Speaker 5: I'm so sorry.
Speaker 8: Oh I don't remember. If that's what you're here for well,
Speaker 8: he was two years old older than me, and I
Speaker 8: barely remember him at all.
Speaker 2: That must have been hard for all of you.
Speaker 8: My family, we we didn't really talk about it. It
Speaker 8: was a it was a different time back then. But
Speaker 8: I also know that, well, losing your child isn't something
Speaker 8: you ever get over.
Speaker 5: And your parents, they did they ever have any guesses
Speaker 5: or talk to you about what might have happened?
Speaker 8: Well, they assumed he was kidnapped, like everyone else. What
Speaker 8: did you think? My sister, she was there right before
Speaker 8: it happened, and she always thought it was some kind
Speaker 8: of monster in the woods.
Speaker 5: I guess that would make sense when she was a
Speaker 5: child herself.
Speaker 8: Right, It's not a belief she grew out of.
Speaker 5: And And what what did you believe?
Speaker 8: I always thought there was something strange about this place,
Speaker 8: And based on the type of folk who have come
Speaker 8: to talk to me through the years, I know I'm
Speaker 8: not the only one. And I suspect you're not here
Speaker 8: to ask me about whatever official investigation took place back then.
Speaker 8: No we're not, so go on tell me whatever wild
Speaker 8: theory you have.
Speaker 5: We actually were wondering more if you had any theories
Speaker 5: or if there's anything through the years that you haven't
Speaker 5: been able to explain about it.
Speaker 8: You may have I seen my brother's ghost tracked down
Speaker 8: the monster that they did.
Speaker 9: We are not trying to make a mockery of your
Speaker 9: family's Tragedyly, we care about Alden his story.
Speaker 5: But I take it a lot of the people who
Speaker 5: have come to you through the years have just been
Speaker 5: looking for something sensational, right.
Speaker 8: That's a way of putting it.
Speaker 5: We don't want anything but the truth. And if that
Speaker 5: truth is that you have no memory of your brother
Speaker 5: and nothing of his life or disappearance to share at
Speaker 5: this point, then that's totally okay.
Speaker 8: What truth are you expecting to fly?
Speaker 2: What do you mean?
Speaker 8: Folks usually have an idea in their heads. You say
Speaker 8: you want my theory, but I'm betting you have one
Speaker 8: of your own.
Speaker 9: We we've heard of missing people being able to contact
Speaker 9: their loved ones.
Speaker 8: I've never seen his ghost, As much as some people
Speaker 8: might want to believe that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess we're not really talking about a ghost
Speaker 5: so much as I don't know. Did you ever hear
Speaker 5: of a voice of a voice that might have that
Speaker 5: might have.
Speaker 8: Sounded like all, then a ghostly voice is still a ghost.
Speaker 9: Not ghostly, No, it would have been It would have
Speaker 9: come from somewhere like an answering machine or a phone
Speaker 9: or some specific place.
Speaker 5: Or maybe any any kind of object that can produce
Speaker 5: a sound, right, I mean, as far as we know,
Speaker 5: be a record player or a radio, a radio, yeah, right,
Speaker 5: it could be a radio.
Speaker 8: Who are you people?
Speaker 2: Have you heard something?
Speaker 8: Me? Olden? He had a little radio on his nightstand.
Speaker 8: When I went to college, I took it with me
Speaker 8: and I've had it ever since.
Speaker 5: And you you heard something from this radio, something other
Speaker 5: than a broadcast.
Speaker 2: It used to act funny.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'd have it tuned to one of the usual stations,
Speaker 8: strong signal and all that, but it gets statically and well,
Speaker 8: strange sometimes strange. How you said other people have heard
Speaker 8: voices before of people who disappeared.
Speaker 9: Yes, well, we can't tell you more without violating people's privacy.
Speaker 8: But yes, I always thought I was imagining it.
Speaker 2: But you heard something.
Speaker 8: I don't know what it was. It sounded like a
Speaker 8: little boy, but I always I always thought it was
Speaker 8: interference from another broadcast. It was an old radio, and
Speaker 8: there were so many more stations than there used to be.
Speaker 5: When was this?
Speaker 8: Let me see it? Was that was at the Green
Speaker 8: Bank House. So the seventies, well, the eighties, maybe we.
Speaker 5: Do you still have that radio?
Speaker 12: Hello?
Speaker 10: Hey, Hippin, come in, Hey Vippin.
Speaker 12: Hey is Jeremy here?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 7: You just missed him?
Speaker 10: Yeah. He and Thomas went back to talk to Aldon's brother.
Speaker 10: Oh Lee, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 12: Olivia and I talked about it a little bit. I
Speaker 12: thought we agreed it wouldn't be good to tell him anything.
Speaker 11: No, we do, we do agree, But I realized maybe
Speaker 11: he could tell us something that maybe maybe Aldn tried
Speaker 11: to communicate with him the same way Thomas did with Anne.
Speaker 12: Oh smart, Uh, how are you guys doing after the
Speaker 12: whole earthquake thing? I texted him, You're not the only
Speaker 12: one apparently, I've missed quite the afternoon.
Speaker 7: Yeah, how was your coffee with Peyton?
Speaker 12: Illuminating? I'll tell you all about it. But you're okay?
Speaker 5: Really?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean we're okay, But I mean it can't
Speaker 11: be good that this is the second time it's happened.
Speaker 10: Right, Yeah about that. I don't think anyone should be
Speaker 10: staying here until we figure out what's going on. It
Speaker 10: could be dangerous.
Speaker 7: That's a good point. Yeah, we'll figure something out.
Speaker 10: You could stay with me.
Speaker 12: I mean I only have a couch, but I could
Speaker 12: sleep on that and you could take my bed. I
Speaker 12: really don't mind.
Speaker 11: I don't actually live here, remember, Oh right, God stupid,
Speaker 11: forget I said.
Speaker 7: Anything, no, no, thank you for that's a really sweet offer.
Speaker 12: And the offer extends to you too. I know Jeremy
Speaker 12: doesn't have a guest room either, but between the.
Speaker 10: Two of us, well, I think it might be time
Speaker 10: for us to go home with Live. But thank you?
Speaker 2: Really?
Speaker 5: Are you sure?
Speaker 10: I don't know how much longer we can hire Thomas
Speaker 10: from your mom live. I'm sure we could couch surf,
Speaker 10: but you know it's time.
Speaker 6: So about that?
Speaker 11: What Thomas hasn't talked to you about what? I look,
Speaker 11: Mom needed to know live, so I brought Thomas to
Speaker 11: see her and christ Well it was it was, I mean,
Speaker 11: it became fine.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 7: I explained everything and she and Thomas talked.
Speaker 11: So I don't know, I think she shouldmight be willing
Speaker 11: to have you this stay over.
Speaker 10: Would this be why maybe she's not returning any of
Speaker 10: my calls.
Speaker 7: Well, she's pissed Nana, and I think she has every
Speaker 7: right to be.
Speaker 10: Oh, Olivia, I am not okay with you going behind
Speaker 10: my back like this.
Speaker 7: Oh, and I'm not okay with you hiding my grandfather's
Speaker 7: identity for forty years. So yeah, I guess we're even.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I guess. So what should I expect then? Will
Speaker 10: she even let me into the house?
Speaker 7: Fifty to fifty chance? I mean, maybe a little higher,
Speaker 7: since it's it's just her.
Speaker 10: Right now, Ethan and your dad are still at his
Speaker 10: parents right.
Speaker 7: Yeah, for the next week at least.
Speaker 10: It gives us plenty of time to talk it out.
Speaker 7: Well that's optimistic.
Speaker 10: All right, I'm gonna go call your mom, make sure
Speaker 10: it's okay, and then pack a bag and just give
Speaker 10: me your phone what she'll pick up for you.
Speaker 7: Okay, So you're just leaning into her being kissed off
Speaker 7: at either.
Speaker 10: Well, it can't get any worse, can it.
Speaker 7: I mean, only one way to find out.
Speaker 12: So how do you actually feel about that?
Speaker 10: I don't know.
Speaker 11: I mean I do think my mom has settled down
Speaker 11: a little. But putting her and Nana and Thomas and
Speaker 11: I mean, let's be honest, probably Jeremy all in a room,
Speaker 11: it's going to be.
Speaker 12: Oh yeah, I don't envy that conversation.
Speaker 7: Does that offer to stay applied to escaping to yours
Speaker 7: just for an emergency drink.
Speaker 12: Yeah, definitely. I'm sorry about that. I didn't it was
Speaker 12: that was so presumptuous of.
Speaker 10: Me, Nippin.
Speaker 7: You weren't propositioning me. You were making a nice offer
Speaker 7: to a friend, you know, unless.
Speaker 12: No, no, no, I swear I was just friendly not
Speaker 12: to say that. I mean, you know, I think we.
Speaker 7: Would you like to go out on a date sometime?
Speaker 7: What what do you like?
Speaker 12: Yes, yes, definitely I would, Yes, that that.
Speaker 7: Would be great, good good.
Speaker 11: I mean not now obviously we're even like this week,
Speaker 11: because but after we stop the end of the world
Speaker 11: or whatever, then then.
Speaker 12: Maybe we'll go out to celebrate.
Speaker 10: Okay, perfect, all right, your mom's expecting us later.
Speaker 7: How'd that go?
Speaker 10: Well, she didn't yell at me, so so really bad.
Speaker 10: M hm, Yeah, this is gonna be very unpleasant. All right, Vivan,
Speaker 10: how is our favorite mystical leader?
Speaker 12: She was surprisingly forthcoming. Really yeah, she explained everything she knows.
Speaker 12: The Gathering is tasked with protecting our world from the
Speaker 12: other by keeping the gate closed through human sacrifice. Well,
Speaker 12: she said, volunteering.
Speaker 10: I'm sure she did.
Speaker 12: It'll be her in Virginia when the time comes, their
Speaker 12: leader goes into the liminal willingly, letting the person in
Speaker 12: there already move on.
Speaker 7: She signed up for that.
Speaker 12: Apparently she's a legacy, and I bet she's not the
Speaker 12: only one. The gathering is just the group here on
Speaker 12: the East Coast. There are what sounds like hundreds of
Speaker 12: other groups around the world doing the same thing.
Speaker 7: So a network of supernatural gatekeepers and literally, yeah.
Speaker 12: Literally, and sometimes that leads to stuff like the children
Speaker 12: of Tichiba, people going rogue and trying to harness the
Speaker 12: power of the Fay realm for themselves.
Speaker 7: What is that even possible?
Speaker 12: Peyton wasn't sure. She said there's a lot of magic
Speaker 12: over there that we still don't understand, and maybe someone
Speaker 12: could learn it, But she was pretty insistent on the
Speaker 12: fact that the Fey are not something to be controlled.
Speaker 10: Did it seem like she was interested in learning that
Speaker 10: magic herself.
Speaker 7: I don't.
Speaker 12: I don't think so. I think we can trust her.
Speaker 12: She clearly has a lot of respect for the other side.
Speaker 12: She doesn't think that she's more powerful than it, or
Speaker 12: that she could try and harness it the way that
Speaker 12: the children wanted to.
Speaker 8: Well.
Speaker 10: Respect isn't all that far from Reverend I mean when
Speaker 10: she got rid of the sasquatch, she sent it back
Speaker 10: instead of killing it, and always bugged me.
Speaker 12: She has killed monsters before, or well her dad did,
Speaker 12: I guess, but she didn't seem bothered by that idea.
Speaker 10: I just want us to be careful.
Speaker 8: Okay.
Speaker 10: It all feels a little convenient that she showed up here.
Speaker 11: Why isn't she filling in for Celeste? I mean that
Speaker 11: has to happen from gathering group to gathering group, right.
Speaker 12: She said they don't actually talk all that much, but
Speaker 12: that she knew something was wrong up here.
Speaker 10: Yeah, And my question is how It's not like Bridgewater
Speaker 10: went from having no paranormal sidings to having a bunch
Speaker 10: of them. I mean, how would she even know that
Speaker 10: things have gone wrong?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 12: Celeste always said she was attuned, right, Maybe they're taught
Speaker 12: to connect to the veil somehow feel it when it
Speaker 12: tears or gets thin.
Speaker 10: Well, that's what I'm worried about. That sounds like magic
Speaker 10: to me. And if Peyton has learned that Anne learned
Speaker 10: how to banish monsters back to the other side, then
Speaker 10: what else had she learned? What could she be hiding
Speaker 10: from us?
Speaker 7: I see that finding out about literal monsters that want
Speaker 7: to kill us has not made you less suspicious of humans, Nana.
Speaker 10: I'm just saying I think.
Speaker 7: We should be careful.
Speaker 11: Yes, yes, yeah, Oh that's Jeremy.
Speaker 7: They're done at the retirement home and headed to my house.
Speaker 5: Oof.
Speaker 7: Okay, looks like it's time to face the music.
Speaker 10: Hey, thanks for waiting for us.
Speaker 2: I didn't think it was a great idea to just
Speaker 2: knock on the door.
Speaker 10: Are you okay? You sure you want to do this?
Speaker 9: I think it's a good idea for us to stay
Speaker 9: somewhere else, and.
Speaker 2: She's really willing. I do want more time with her.
Speaker 5: Should I even be here for this? I don't want
Speaker 5: to overwhelm Shelley.
Speaker 11: I mean she's already been told all the really life
Speaker 11: shattering stuff, right, and it's not like she's never met you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but not as her brother.
Speaker 10: Okay, Hey, did you guys have any luquidly?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: We actually were able to borrow an old radio that
Speaker 5: he thinks he may have heard Alden through back in
Speaker 5: the seventies.
Speaker 7: Really, that's awesome news.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so we can try to communicate with the missing
Speaker 5: boy from the nineteen forties through a radio after we
Speaker 5: have this weird family reunion with my new half sister
Speaker 5: and my dad.
Speaker 8: Dad.
Speaker 10: All right, this is going to be fine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, this is gonna be fun.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 7: What are you waiting for?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 10: Should we knock? I have a key, but I don't
Speaker 10: know if that's the right thing to do.
Speaker 7: I live here. Oh my god, Hey Mom, we're home.
Speaker 5: Oh oh great, you're all here.
Speaker 7: Jeremy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well it's.
Speaker 7: You always said you wished you'd grown up with siblings.
Speaker 7: That is very helpful.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 7: Live Someone had to break the eyes, Shelley. I not
Speaker 7: ready to talk to you yet. So I look. I
Speaker 7: understand that you guys need a place to stay for
Speaker 7: god knows what reason, But Nana's house is haunted.
Speaker 2: Uh huh wow.
Speaker 7: Just because we're under one roof, it does not mean
Speaker 7: we're a family.
Speaker 1: This episode of Bridgewater was written by Lauren Shippen and
Speaker 1: directed by Brendan Patrick Hughes assistant director Sarah Klein. Sound
Speaker 1: designed by Vincent de Johnny Rima Ilkali Josh Thain, and
Speaker 1: Trevor Young, with music by Chad Lawson. Starring Misha Collins
Speaker 1: as Jeremy Bradshaw Melissa Ponzio as Anne Becker, Alan Tudik
Speaker 1: as Thomas Bradshaw, Karen Sony as Vipen Kurana Sabra Mae
Speaker 1: as Olivia Hoskins, Cheryl Umanya as Officer Bautista, Will Wheaton
Speaker 1: as Captain Haddock, Tricia Helfer as the Legend Tripper, Stephen
Speaker 1: Guarino as Doctor Edwards not Sue Dumbe as Peyton Blake,
Speaker 1: Hillary Burton Morgan as Shelley Hoskins, Nicky McCauley as Celeste,
Speaker 1: and Victoria Grace as Katie Franks, with additional voice acting
Speaker 1: by Greta Gould, Shelby Young, Adam O'byrn Monte, Markham, Charlie Bergman,
Speaker 1: and Tarren Westbrook. Executive producers Aaron Mankey, Misha Collins, Lauren Shippen,
Speaker 1: Matt Frederick and Alexander Williams. Supervising producers Josh Thin and
Speaker 1: Trevor Young. Bridgewater was created by me Aaron Manke and
Speaker 1: is a production of Grim and Mild and iHeart three
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