1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:13,320 Speaker 1: Hm, I am the fairy man. 2 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:21,640 Speaker 2: The human spirit is my business. Their madness, their passion, 3 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 2: the wonderful and monstrous ways they burn out their brief candle. 4 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 3: I regret to tell you that very many American lives 5 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:35,480 Speaker 3: in love. 6 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:40,400 Speaker 1: Was heard to shut from the car. 7 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:43,599 Speaker 3: He's dead, whether he rebird to president. 8 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:48,519 Speaker 4: For four hours, people must get up and go. If 9 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 4: I am here in the in between, to collect their 10 00:00:57,080 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 4: spirits and carry them to what comes next. 11 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 2: This road is not on any map. 12 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:12,200 Speaker 4: It spans the thresholds between their most forbidden desires and. 13 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:14,639 Speaker 2: Their greatest fear. 14 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:20,560 Speaker 1: All I ask for. 15 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 4: In payment is a tale and accounting of their lives 16 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:29,960 Speaker 4: and the great temporary that is the land of the living. 17 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:36,520 Speaker 2: These are their stories. This is. 18 00:01:38,240 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 5: The passage. 19 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:31,080 Speaker 4: It's the morning of May two, nineteen seventy, to a pleasant, 20 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 4: crisp spring day. 21 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 2: In Washington, DC. 22 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:46,240 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a cloudless blue sky. To defeat an invisible monster, 23 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:52,360 Speaker 4: My next passenger became the monster. It was in his DNA, 24 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:58,960 Speaker 4: after all, in the very code of his nation. America 25 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:07,320 Speaker 4: was born out of resistance, resistance to tyranny, having suffered 26 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:10,320 Speaker 4: that of a king. But it took no time for 27 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 4: the defenders to become tyrants themselves. Oppression is the byproduct 28 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 4: of fear, a force perhaps more dangerous than any ideology 29 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:27,640 Speaker 4: or any public enemy. Fear is an infectious paranoia that 30 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:32,160 Speaker 4: in America led to a government terrified by its own citizens. 31 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 4: My next passenger, j Edgar Hoover, built an army to 32 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:44,800 Speaker 4: spy on those citizens, an entire agency and behavior spies 33 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 4: and thought police. He was brought up here at the 34 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 4: heart of this modern world, born on January the first, 35 00:03:54,160 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 4: eighteen ninety five, as if created divinely, chosen for a purpose. 36 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:06,120 Speaker 4: He believed himself to be a great defender of the 37 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 4: American way. Well perhaps he was, but that way has 38 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:19,159 Speaker 4: frequently been fraught with self sabotage. His infectious brand of 39 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 4: paranoia permeated the whole of American life. His suspicious mind 40 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:29,320 Speaker 4: saw a great many threats on the map. But were 41 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:34,160 Speaker 4: his actions justified? What secrets did he protect in life? 42 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:40,239 Speaker 4: And what truth has he taken with him into death? 43 00:05:05,279 --> 00:05:05,440 Speaker 5: Who? 44 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:25,160 Speaker 3: Who? 45 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:27,719 Speaker 1: Or what are you? 46 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:33,600 Speaker 2: I'm here to provide you passage. 47 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:39,560 Speaker 3: Oh, I see it was my heart, wasn't it. It 48 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:44,000 Speaker 3: was only a matter of time. I suppose I gave 49 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:47,560 Speaker 3: my heart to my country day in and day out, 50 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:51,720 Speaker 3: over and over, protecting it from a world of invisible, 51 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:56,480 Speaker 3: insidious threats hiding in the dark, protecting it more than 52 00:05:56,520 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 3: once from itself. It puts a straight on you. 53 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 2: I'd be delighted to hear all about it this way. 54 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 3: Please, where are we going? 55 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 2: Well, that's to be determined. 56 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 3: What do you want to know? 57 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:26,320 Speaker 2: Just the truth? The truth, your truth? Please go on. 58 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:33,440 Speaker 3: Most people can't be trusted with the truth. No, someone 59 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:37,800 Speaker 3: must guard that flame. You have to control the narrative. 60 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:42,000 Speaker 3: See otherwise the sacred flame is snuffed and the battle 61 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 3: is lost before it has even begun. The truth is 62 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:52,640 Speaker 3: more valuable and precious than life itself. Did I break laws? Perhaps, 63 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:58,120 Speaker 3: but only in pursuit of a greater good, probable cause 64 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:02,719 Speaker 3: that's the achille heel of this great nation. To combat 65 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 3: the true evil of this world, one must evolve beyond 66 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:10,000 Speaker 3: the constraints the masters of this world would impose. Public 67 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 3: ideas of good and bad are at best tinplate rationalizations. 68 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:17,200 Speaker 3: While they may seem solid enough in the light of day, 69 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 3: they are no use beyond the light, in the great 70 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:25,680 Speaker 3: darkness where the monster's hide. They, the public and my enemies, 71 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:29,640 Speaker 3: called me paranoid. They said, I was jumping at shadows, 72 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:33,000 Speaker 3: and in a very real way, they were each correct. 73 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:37,120 Speaker 3: They slept and woke from one day to the next, 74 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:41,320 Speaker 3: and I kept them safe, even as they fought tooth 75 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 3: and claw for information they could never fully understand. There 76 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 3: have always been threats, you see, far beyond the assassins 77 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:57,440 Speaker 3: or the gangsters, far beyond the reds, far beyond the 78 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:01,239 Speaker 3: hippies and the agitators and the bumbling spot eyes, threats 79 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 3: even worse than the bomb. For no sense in standing 80 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:17,240 Speaker 3: on ceremony, Let's be off. Oh right, you want to 81 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:28,640 Speaker 3: know the truth, that's my price. Fine, I'll tell you 82 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:39,200 Speaker 3: a secret, perhaps the singular great secret. The monsters are real, 83 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:46,640 Speaker 3: thank you. 84 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:52,439 Speaker 1: So this is it? 85 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 3: Then the car where they shut him. You know, I 86 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:04,400 Speaker 3: never liked Kenneth. His soul had an odd shape, all 87 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:07,600 Speaker 3: hard in the wrong places, all soft in the places 88 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:11,400 Speaker 3: that matter. But if, as you said, now is the 89 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:17,800 Speaker 3: time for confessions, my friend, I confess I have always 90 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:22,040 Speaker 3: wanted to ride in this car. I've seen it before, 91 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:27,960 Speaker 3: who hasn't, the slick blue Lincoln Continental nineteen sixty one. 92 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:31,680 Speaker 3: Never thought myself much of a car man, But all 93 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:37,480 Speaker 3: things considered, it's nice to ride like a president just once. 94 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:43,560 Speaker 3: Here we are at the end, and I must be dead, 95 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:53,679 Speaker 3: And so what it's odd in life? I never confessed 96 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:59,080 Speaker 3: I was an emperor of the dark, and it was 97 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:03,360 Speaker 3: everyone else who, by hook or by crook came within 98 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:10,880 Speaker 3: my domain and confessed their sins to me. Worrid just 99 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:11,319 Speaker 3: came to. 100 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:12,360 Speaker 1: Us a minute ago. 101 00:10:14,120 --> 00:10:19,800 Speaker 3: President Kennedy is dead. He was shot an assassined at 102 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:23,320 Speaker 3: the intersection of Ellman Houston Street. Oh, turn it off. 103 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:29,200 Speaker 3: He wasn't the first US president gun down. Hell, he 104 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:32,520 Speaker 3: wasn't the first gun down in this century. The first 105 00:10:32,559 --> 00:10:35,280 Speaker 3: in this century was done in by a goddamned anarchist. 106 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:37,839 Speaker 3: I was just a boy when it happened, and I'd 107 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 3: been at war with radicals ever since. Did I want 108 00:10:42,679 --> 00:10:48,640 Speaker 3: Kennedy dead? Of course I wanted him out of the office, 109 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:52,240 Speaker 3: one way or another. I had been director of the 110 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 3: FBI since that idiot wore short pants. But I did 111 00:10:55,760 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 3: not see him as some grand nemesis. He was an annoyance, 112 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:04,240 Speaker 3: a buffoon's strolling late on the stage long after the 113 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:10,160 Speaker 3: great tale began. Now his father, Joe, there's a man 114 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:15,000 Speaker 3: for you. He understood the red threat, but his coddled 115 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:17,760 Speaker 3: sons were too busy fucking their way through the society 116 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:22,800 Speaker 3: pages to bother with the business of leadership. Am I 117 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:30,680 Speaker 3: glad he died, you're asking, Yes, Yes, I suppose I am, 118 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:34,240 Speaker 3: but only in the way you'd be happy a neighbor's 119 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:37,360 Speaker 3: dog died if the neighbor let the dog bark at 120 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:42,480 Speaker 3: all hours of the night. And so we held the 121 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:46,400 Speaker 3: funeral and went about the business of grown men, keeping 122 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:51,640 Speaker 3: our fragile American experiment afloat. This wasn't my first presidential burial. 123 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:56,080 Speaker 3: One grows inured to such things after a time, and 124 00:11:56,160 --> 00:11:59,800 Speaker 3: we had bigger concerns in the pageantry of presidents. Those 125 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:02,600 Speaker 3: and go to keep the American public in their place, 126 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:08,000 Speaker 3: content distracted. The idea of a president allows the lower 127 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:12,760 Speaker 3: classes a sense of participation, and with rare exception, that 128 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:17,400 Speaker 3: is all a president should or can do. The real 129 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:21,920 Speaker 3: work the true leavers of power, those are not for 130 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:28,480 Speaker 3: the common I do know why he died, why he 131 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:32,880 Speaker 3: had to be removed from the board. By that point, 132 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 3: i'd say all of us did. I may never be 133 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:39,760 Speaker 3: sure who did it, but I do know why the 134 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:47,680 Speaker 3: events transpired. There is a a war, you could call 135 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:55,679 Speaker 3: it a secret conflict, one that began far before my time, 136 00:12:57,080 --> 00:13:01,600 Speaker 3: perhaps before the time of modern man entirely, and this 137 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:04,280 Speaker 3: war continuous to. 138 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:10,120 Speaker 5: Day born All Oh, no, my. 139 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 3: Friend, no before that you're talking about. Yes, the greatest failure. 140 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:30,000 Speaker 3: The first man in space is Soviet. God, are the 141 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:35,599 Speaker 3: reds crewed? We almost went public with all their earlier failures. 142 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:38,640 Speaker 3: It would have been more accurate for them to say 143 00:13:38,679 --> 00:13:41,560 Speaker 3: the Gagarum boy became the first man to reach space. 144 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:45,440 Speaker 3: In return, and this still would not have been entirely 145 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:49,199 Speaker 3: the truth. The Soviets had that hammer on their flag 146 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:53,080 Speaker 3: for a reason. From their perspective, every problem looked like 147 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:56,520 Speaker 3: a nail since the days of their first empires. They 148 00:13:56,600 --> 00:13:59,640 Speaker 3: knew they had only two resources. They're vast wastes of 149 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:05,240 Speaker 3: job graphy and a surplus of people. And that is 150 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:09,840 Speaker 3: not a condemnation. In fact, I would say this is 151 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:14,080 Speaker 3: the genius of the Soviet mind. One almost has to 152 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:16,560 Speaker 3: envy them, and I grant them no small measure of 153 00:14:16,559 --> 00:14:20,480 Speaker 3: grudging respect in this regard. Where we in the West 154 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:24,920 Speaker 3: hold countless meetings and debates and protests and polls, the 155 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:30,480 Speaker 3: Soviet throws bodies at the problem, from the Ottomans to Napoleon, 156 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:35,360 Speaker 3: from Kursk to Stalingrad. The Russians never shied from giving 157 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:41,280 Speaker 3: the butcher its due. I would never say that publicly, 158 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:46,360 Speaker 3: of course, Yet we owe much of the modern world 159 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:50,880 Speaker 3: to their unspeakable capacity for sacrifice. We in the West 160 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:54,760 Speaker 3: pay for our sins in gold and treasure. The Soviet, 161 00:14:55,000 --> 00:15:02,840 Speaker 3: the Russian, has always and only paid in blood. So 162 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:05,640 Speaker 3: it would come as no surprise they did the same 163 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:09,200 Speaker 3: when we finally set our sights upon the stars, and 164 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:11,720 Speaker 3: we spent a great deal of time covering for them 165 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:16,440 Speaker 3: in those early days. That might sound odd, no, given 166 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:18,960 Speaker 3: how we all fought with such desperation to helm the 167 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:25,479 Speaker 3: wheel of power. But let me tell you this, Ferryman. Secrecy, secrecy, 168 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:31,280 Speaker 3: and revelation are addictive. Learning one's secret only accelerates the 169 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:36,040 Speaker 3: effort to learn the next, and eventually, inexorably, that addiction 170 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:42,560 Speaker 3: leads to ruin. We listen, we learn, we use. We 171 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:46,480 Speaker 3: weaponized our knowledge then, as now to our advantage we 172 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:49,360 Speaker 3: knew we must. It would, after all, have been naive 173 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:53,040 Speaker 3: to assume others were not doing the same. I already 174 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:56,560 Speaker 3: possessed the libraries and the post. I had the fingerprints 175 00:15:56,560 --> 00:15:58,640 Speaker 3: and the telephone records, and a vision of a world 176 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:01,960 Speaker 3: wherein every person of my reckon or not would submit 177 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:05,000 Speaker 3: their secrets to me such that I could further protect 178 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:10,080 Speaker 3: them from themselves. I suppose this may seem small to you, 179 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:16,120 Speaker 3: but you must understand control is more than a lock. 180 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:21,440 Speaker 3: It is also a key. We sought and seek to 181 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:25,320 Speaker 3: build not only the doorknob, but the door itself, the 182 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:28,240 Speaker 3: house in which the door is held, the world upon 183 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:31,800 Speaker 3: which that house is built. In this, at least, those 184 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:42,200 Speaker 3: who come after me will find further success. They must. 185 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:50,880 Speaker 3: We had made certain breakthroughs in this endeavor, and even 186 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:56,200 Speaker 3: then our eyes extended across the globe, we encountered strange, 187 00:16:56,640 --> 00:17:06,320 Speaker 3: disturbing wonders, eye witness infernal, inexplicable things. Our sources indicated 188 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:10,480 Speaker 3: that during the years leading up to Gagarin's flight, fully 189 00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:13,199 Speaker 3: half of all the Red Space launches made with failure, 190 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:18,520 Speaker 3: usually on the launch powder within seconds after ignition. This 191 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:21,520 Speaker 3: reminded me of a game my Soviet counterparts played during 192 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:25,800 Speaker 3: the Wars. They crouched in bunkers, surrounded by enemies and horror, 193 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:29,520 Speaker 3: and they knew surviving the bombs would only consign them 194 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:34,560 Speaker 3: to the slower death of sarvation. Some had survived Leningrad, 195 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:41,560 Speaker 3: do you understand. So they would put a single precious 196 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:46,120 Speaker 3: bullet in a revolver and spin the chamber. They took 197 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:49,880 Speaker 3: turns putting the gun to their heads and pulling the trigger. 198 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:58,560 Speaker 3: The winner, they reasoned, wouldn't have to stick around and 199 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:09,200 Speaker 3: see what happened next. The Red space program naturally echoed 200 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:12,840 Speaker 3: those lessons. I do not know how many of those 201 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:17,000 Speaker 3: so called cosmonauts got shot out into the darkness. Most 202 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:20,600 Speaker 3: were probably farm boys in the beginning. I imagine they 203 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:24,440 Speaker 3: used prisoners and slaves. It's what I would have done. 204 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:27,840 Speaker 3: I do know the Reds did not plan for most 205 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:30,800 Speaker 3: of them, perhaps any of them, to return. It was 206 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:32,639 Speaker 3: all for the greater good of the Union, as they 207 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:37,240 Speaker 3: saw it, and our side. We could not have a 208 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:42,520 Speaker 3: word of this reaching the American public. Again, one secret 209 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:47,880 Speaker 3: leads inevitably to the next. Some young men in Italy 210 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:52,439 Speaker 3: caught panicked signals from late stage experiments. As always, the 211 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 3: Reds grew sloppy in their desperation. We tracked the signals 212 00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:06,760 Speaker 3: as well. Of course, in strange quiet moments, I wondered, why, 213 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:10,879 Speaker 3: what could it be, this unknown thing to make the 214 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:16,800 Speaker 3: Russians throw bodies at the sky. Those poor Italian boys 215 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:21,480 Speaker 3: little more than children. They did not understand the stakes 216 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:26,359 Speaker 3: the sheer depth of the waters in which they unknowingly swam. 217 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:32,840 Speaker 3: Two things became clear. First, it is best to discredit 218 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:35,320 Speaker 3: rather than to suppress information that. 219 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:38,000 Speaker 2: The first of the state is to recognize its enemy. 220 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:40,840 Speaker 3: Make a man a crackpot, and to the public he 221 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:44,880 Speaker 3: is only another countless lunatic. Yet bring him down too harshly, 222 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:49,960 Speaker 3: too visibly, and he becomes a martyr. His story, like 223 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 3: an infection, grows contagious. He can spread across the world. 224 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:57,920 Speaker 3: One must poison the tree at the root, if possible, 225 00:19:58,119 --> 00:20:03,440 Speaker 3: the seed. This was not an original sin. Yet our 226 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:10,280 Speaker 3: second learning informed everything. After these cosmonauts were returning to Earth, 227 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:34,720 Speaker 3: and they did not return alone, I hand delivered a 228 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:41,159 Speaker 3: package to the Kennedy boy, no guards in person. I 229 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:45,919 Speaker 3: wanted to see his face. I wanted to watch his 230 00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:51,040 Speaker 3: face as he learned the horror of it all. I 231 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:56,040 Speaker 3: feel an almost sexual thrill even now at the memory 232 00:20:56,080 --> 00:21:01,760 Speaker 3: of his ashen expression. We had little success placing assets 233 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:05,880 Speaker 3: behind the iron curtain. Luckily, our British friends were old 234 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:08,560 Speaker 3: hands at the game, and so it was they who 235 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:14,439 Speaker 3: first brought us whispers. This is how it always starts 236 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:17,960 Speaker 3: nothing more than rumor's third hand gossip. By the time 237 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:20,000 Speaker 3: the Brits reached out to us, they had lost a 238 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:24,120 Speaker 3: baker's dozen of agents. Each disappeared without a trace, somewhere 239 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 3: in that Red country. I did not understand the signals. 240 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:35,920 Speaker 3: The intelligence did not square with anything I had encountered previously. 241 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:40,600 Speaker 3: That I can admit. I wasn't sure at first what 242 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:46,280 Speaker 3: we were seeing. Cities simply vanished. There were stories again 243 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:49,520 Speaker 3: at that point, only stories of the Reds putting whole 244 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:55,000 Speaker 3: villages to flame, every man, woman, child, animal and building. 245 00:21:56,440 --> 00:22:00,679 Speaker 3: By this time we had the Corona satellite program. This 246 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:03,919 Speaker 3: initiative gave us eyes across the world. We did not 247 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 3: tell our British friends our game had rules, but with 248 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:13,560 Speaker 3: their corroborating information, we examined those blurred satellite photographs. Anew 249 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:19,200 Speaker 3: villages in the hinterlands of the USSR were there one 250 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:25,280 Speaker 3: day and gone the next. At first, these areas simply disappeared. 251 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:29,440 Speaker 3: Later we would learn this meant the Reds were burying 252 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:34,000 Speaker 3: the rubble. As things got out of hand. The Soviets 253 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:38,240 Speaker 3: grow sloppy, they always did. By the next year, you 254 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:41,360 Speaker 3: could see patches of black on the snow visible from 255 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:44,639 Speaker 3: lo low Earth orbit, smudgy streaks of it, as if 256 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:49,040 Speaker 3: someone had rubbed charcoal across a blank canvas. I could 257 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:55,719 Speaker 3: sense in these strange aerial rorschaks a growing desperation. And 258 00:22:55,800 --> 00:23:00,720 Speaker 3: then we found it. The British sent us a short 259 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:05,480 Speaker 3: piece of film smuggled from rural Kazakh country, and god 260 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:08,520 Speaker 3: knows how they got a hold of it. The Russian 261 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:12,960 Speaker 3: satellites were landing, but what came out of them was 262 00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:17,639 Speaker 3: not a surviving cosmonaut. I am not a man given 263 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:21,520 Speaker 3: to exaggeration, so I will not attempt to describe the 264 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:26,240 Speaker 3: entity as more than what I witnessed in that footage. 265 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:29,600 Speaker 3: The film appeared to be from a type of motion 266 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:34,040 Speaker 3: camera common to Soviet propaganda arms. It is reasonable to 267 00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:37,920 Speaker 3: assume the Reds recorded this footage for release only after 268 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:41,840 Speaker 3: they had successfully returned a man from space, so this 269 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:44,520 Speaker 3: must have been a recording of the first such attempt. 270 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:51,040 Speaker 3: From what we could gather after consulting with several American experts, 271 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:57,680 Speaker 3: the entity appeared to be some mixture of marine invertebrate 272 00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:01,720 Speaker 3: and what we hung this world would recognize as fungi. 273 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:07,520 Speaker 3: We pulled in a few disgraced micologists leveraging evidence of 274 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:13,600 Speaker 3: their political or sexual leanings. One man speculated the entity 275 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:18,440 Speaker 3: reminded him of the Amanita Bisporeghera, a type of puffball 276 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:27,280 Speaker 3: mushroom known amid enthusiasts as the Destroying Angel. Oddly appropriate, 277 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:33,199 Speaker 3: we later terminated each civilian with knowledge of the film. 278 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:37,879 Speaker 3: I explained the situation to the Kennedy boy in a 279 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:41,280 Speaker 3: low voice as he watched the clip. I informed him 280 00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:44,719 Speaker 3: we had consulted with the best minds on offer and 281 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:47,720 Speaker 3: ensured they would not pass their knowledge on to our rivals. 282 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:51,720 Speaker 3: I took great pains to emphasize what we must assume. 283 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:56,480 Speaker 3: We were unprepared. Britain owned the pieces of the puzzle 284 00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:59,720 Speaker 3: we were now attempting to solve, which meant the Soviets 285 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:04,720 Speaker 3: must likewise be much further along. He did not listen. 286 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:11,080 Speaker 3: Presidents never do. Instead, the fool, he asked how many 287 00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:15,840 Speaker 3: casualties were projected. I gave him rough estimations for each landing, 288 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:20,600 Speaker 3: summarizing a ballpark total. He demanded we contact our colleagues 289 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:23,119 Speaker 3: on the other side of the curtain through the usual 290 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:27,600 Speaker 3: tensely official channels. The idiot, as if I had not 291 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:35,720 Speaker 3: already bypassed the silly, gelded routes. I demurred. He directed 292 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:40,600 Speaker 3: us to play the clip again. It lasts all of 293 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:44,639 Speaker 3: forty three seconds. I noted, we must also assume the 294 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:47,880 Speaker 3: British had likely only given us part of the recording. 295 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:54,199 Speaker 3: That is what I would have done. And still we 296 00:25:54,400 --> 00:26:08,080 Speaker 3: played it again and again, simply sat there staring. By 297 00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:11,080 Speaker 3: this point in the evening, he had already consumed his 298 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:15,200 Speaker 3: regimen of dope and pharmaceuticals, so I have no real 299 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:20,000 Speaker 3: idea what he was thinking, but at least he watched. 300 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:26,320 Speaker 3: I then offered him a folder of older photographs, combined 301 00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:30,199 Speaker 3: with several obscure academic works on early Sumerian astronomy that 302 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:33,400 Speaker 3: had in the past few months acquired a new and 303 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:38,600 Speaker 3: terrifying relevance. The academics responsible had all passed away long 304 00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:42,960 Speaker 3: ago or been safely imprisoned in particular asylums, where they 305 00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:46,240 Speaker 3: drew with their own shit and blood, the same obscure 306 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:50,800 Speaker 3: constellations over and over again along the fabric of their 307 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:58,159 Speaker 3: padded walls. The Kennedy boy pushed these documents to one side. 308 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:04,240 Speaker 3: He demanded play the footage again, this time without sound. 309 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:11,119 Speaker 3: In the last few seconds before the camera falls to 310 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:16,480 Speaker 3: the ground. You can see the fungal growths burst, dispersing 311 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:21,800 Speaker 3: some sort of spore. As it ends to the right 312 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:23,840 Speaker 3: of the frame, you see what I imagine to be 313 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:32,240 Speaker 3: the cameraman's forearm sprouting similar growths to those of the 314 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:40,720 Speaker 3: the entity emerging from the craft. The Kennedy boy sat silent, 315 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:46,120 Speaker 3: and I let that silence ride out between us, the 316 00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:50,760 Speaker 3: horrors of the film casting silver shadows across his haggard 317 00:27:50,840 --> 00:28:01,200 Speaker 3: face in the darkness. We have to go public, he said, 318 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:09,240 Speaker 3: and would brook no descent. The President is the President 319 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:15,920 Speaker 3: and his word is law. I knew then, with some 320 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:24,359 Speaker 3: small measure of regret, this boy will die. We all knew. 321 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:31,400 Speaker 3: We all knew there was something up there. I had 322 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:35,680 Speaker 3: long since contacted my friends over the curtain. They gave 323 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:41,800 Speaker 3: no reply. The space race continued, satellites seemed to hold 324 00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:47,560 Speaker 3: no issue. Whatever it might be, this thing, this entity 325 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:51,840 Speaker 3: out there in the ink. It seemed solely interested in 326 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:57,560 Speaker 3: our species, and the Reds, may God damn them, once again, 327 00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:01,040 Speaker 3: threw bodies at the problem. To this day, I'm not 328 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,640 Speaker 3: sure what they did to contain the gagar and entity, 329 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:08,040 Speaker 3: nor to what degree it cooperated. Before everything collapsed. Our 330 00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:10,840 Speaker 3: own program, the human element of it had always been 331 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:15,000 Speaker 3: a sham. As we took every opportunity to sabotage those endeavors. 332 00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:18,120 Speaker 3: We were like children standing on a shoreline emptying an 333 00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:26,160 Speaker 3: ocean with buckets. Corona satellites failed, each Western asset passed 334 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:32,680 Speaker 3: the curtain, one by one disappeared. Our few remaining scholars 335 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:34,960 Speaker 3: tore their eyes out and ate them rather than read 336 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:38,640 Speaker 3: the reports from the astronomers, who had earlier eaten their tongues, 337 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:42,800 Speaker 3: removed their eyelids and pulled their teeth. The astronomers no 338 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,760 Speaker 3: longer spoke. They rolled their teeth on the ground like dice. 339 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:52,240 Speaker 3: They bowed at strange times toward unknowable directions. Our special 340 00:29:52,280 --> 00:30:00,200 Speaker 3: little asylum reached full occupancy. Eventually we burned the these 341 00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:06,160 Speaker 3: asylums to the ground, with those poor academics inside, anything 342 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:13,200 Speaker 3: to stop the chanting. On April twelfth, nineteen sixty one, 343 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:18,680 Speaker 3: the body of Yuri Gagarin returned, seemingly whole and unharmed. 344 00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:26,240 Speaker 3: But Gagarin and the entity were one. Later we would 345 00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:29,360 Speaker 3: learn we were not the only group delving into ancient texts. 346 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:34,880 Speaker 3: Khrushchief leveraging clandestine assets in the Middle Eastern Theater, had 347 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:39,160 Speaker 3: acquired some means of communication with the entity. I cannot 348 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:43,600 Speaker 3: speak from expertise here, but from what I understand, some 349 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:49,640 Speaker 3: Eldrich dialect of Near East got through to it. Certain words, spells, 350 00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:52,680 Speaker 3: you could call them, had a limited power of compulsion. 351 00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:58,240 Speaker 3: It possesses something like intelligence, though so alien as to 352 00:30:58,280 --> 00:30:59,960 Speaker 3: be incomprehensible to the human mind. 353 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:00,240 Speaker 5: Mind. 354 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:07,080 Speaker 3: While it obeyed requests to perform in carefully curated public events, 355 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:12,960 Speaker 3: it displayed erratic, unpredictable tendencies. For every surviving record of 356 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:17,560 Speaker 3: a public appearance by Gagarin, there are another dozen were 357 00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:20,840 Speaker 3: in the entity sport, and, as one officer later put it, 358 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:26,800 Speaker 3: ate the minds of everyone within range. By the time 359 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:32,760 Speaker 3: my Russian friends replied, they sent only two words in English, 360 00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:41,520 Speaker 3: help us. We were too late. The Russians had made 361 00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:47,160 Speaker 3: their covenant as their own academics went insane, studying calculations 362 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:51,000 Speaker 3: and branches of physics innimbical to human thought. The Reds 363 00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:54,719 Speaker 3: found a brutal, efficient solution to hold up their end 364 00:31:54,760 --> 00:32:01,800 Speaker 3: of the bargain. Gulags became farms. First they exposed the prisoners. 365 00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:07,560 Speaker 3: Then they fed the guards and soldiers to the fruiting spores. Third, 366 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:12,920 Speaker 3: those gods, families, as well as surrounding villages. A story 367 00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:15,560 Speaker 3: about a nuclear disaster was all one needed to keep 368 00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:22,560 Speaker 3: things quiet. They reportedly achieved one promise, the entity would 369 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:27,560 Speaker 3: not infest other astronauts. It was already here, and so 370 00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:32,000 Speaker 3: no current use in returning to the dark Man could 371 00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:36,840 Speaker 3: if it wished, go to space, for all the good 372 00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:42,280 Speaker 3: it would do, say, And so the war branched two fronts. 373 00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:47,680 Speaker 3: One group, led by Kennedy, attempted to create an outpost 374 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:50,520 Speaker 3: on the Moon in the hopes of guarding against those 375 00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:56,160 Speaker 3: things of the outer dark. The other, our loose confederacy 376 00:32:56,200 --> 00:33:00,520 Speaker 3: of scientists, spymasters and scholars, sought to kill the thing 377 00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:04,800 Speaker 3: we called Gagarin. I don't know who got to Kennedy first, 378 00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:10,520 Speaker 3: someone working with me or something sent by the entity. 379 00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:15,120 Speaker 3: I suppose it doesn't matter. 380 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:15,520 Speaker 5: Now. 381 00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:19,960 Speaker 3: Many died, some by their own hand, and we could 382 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:26,640 Speaker 3: not blame them. The entity sensed you, and I'll blast 383 00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:29,720 Speaker 3: her a notion away, and it whispered to you in 384 00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:36,960 Speaker 3: the night. But we finally figured it out. The answer 385 00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:43,520 Speaker 3: came from a suicide note. A physicist amid a seizure 386 00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:48,960 Speaker 3: scrawled the equation with her blood as her temperature. Plummeted. 387 00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:53,800 Speaker 3: From what I understand, her blood later caught on fire 388 00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:59,560 Speaker 3: during a particularly extraordinary lunar eclipse. We learned the Reds 389 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:03,720 Speaker 3: had their own asylum program, which I had anticipated but 390 00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:08,480 Speaker 3: had not at that point confirmed. Their asylum in a 391 00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:15,560 Speaker 3: forgettable suburb of Saint Petersburg. Burned to the ground. After 392 00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:20,719 Speaker 3: the fire, you could still read her blood driven into 393 00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:26,160 Speaker 3: the stone of the ruins. We had finally found a 394 00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:32,200 Speaker 3: way to injure it. I stood there in person when 395 00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:39,640 Speaker 3: we took it down. The official story is a plane crash. 396 00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:45,360 Speaker 3: On March twenty seventh, nineteen sixty eight. The Gagarin entity 397 00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:50,040 Speaker 3: was destroyed via the detonation of a low yield nuclear device. 398 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:58,359 Speaker 3: While not successfully obliterating its physical frame, the radiation had 399 00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:02,560 Speaker 3: a sterilizing effect on the creacher such that its spores 400 00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:07,000 Speaker 3: could not disperse, allowing a group of soldiers close enough 401 00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:14,040 Speaker 3: to eventually finish the job. Fifty brave men at the 402 00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:19,560 Speaker 3: cost of their own lives. Those men whose names I 403 00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:28,960 Speaker 3: never know are heroes. It spoke to me as its 404 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:34,320 Speaker 3: body failed in English. 405 00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:43,239 Speaker 6: It aped my own voice the thing, the entity. It 406 00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:48,759 Speaker 6: smiled that famous Gagarins smile, And it said to me 407 00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:51,399 Speaker 6: I like it here. 408 00:35:53,200 --> 00:36:01,480 Speaker 3: Whoever they call you, I'll see you soon. See the 409 00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:06,759 Speaker 3: smile of frozen rict as a caricature held fast. I 410 00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:12,040 Speaker 3: watched it burn, and I wondered as I watched what 411 00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:18,759 Speaker 3: had spoken? Was it me? Why did it speak in 412 00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:24,640 Speaker 3: my voice? Was it in my thoughts? Had it eaten 413 00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:30,319 Speaker 3: my mind as it had countless others? Ironoia again, my 414 00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:35,520 Speaker 3: critics will say from their safe, smug, warm and ignorant fiefdoms. 415 00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:40,120 Speaker 3: Yet the pawn mocks the movements of the bishop, forges 416 00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:42,560 Speaker 3: forward one step at a time, and never sees the 417 00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:54,320 Speaker 3: chessboard from above. I've thought about that moment a great deal. 418 00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:01,360 Speaker 3: Can you be haunted by a moment? Can it become 419 00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:05,680 Speaker 3: a ghost all its own? I believe it can. I 420 00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:10,520 Speaker 3: have labored with middling success to save mankind from that 421 00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:18,799 Speaker 3: dark forest. I spent years reading, researching what the thing 422 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:22,320 Speaker 3: might have pinned, what it wanted. 423 00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:28,640 Speaker 5: What it wants? And I have failed. 424 00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:42,000 Speaker 3: This is my confession. Each time a new launch occurred, 425 00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:47,440 Speaker 3: I trembled in the night, and so, arriving at the darkness, 426 00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:53,760 Speaker 3: now I must consign myself to that great majority. I 427 00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:57,480 Speaker 3: hope my last thought will be of something kind and 428 00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:00,319 Speaker 3: not the damning certainty that kept me away from the 429 00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:04,520 Speaker 3: night sky for more than a decade. We are truly 430 00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:16,759 Speaker 3: not alone. The monsters are real one day, one year, 431 00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:21,720 Speaker 3: one century of the next. This will be our ruin 432 00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:36,160 Speaker 3: no time like the present, I suppose, no stars, no purgates, 433 00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:42,800 Speaker 3: whereas the you know, the heaven, the hell. 434 00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:49,680 Speaker 2: All of that seems h this is your stop. 435 00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:57,719 Speaker 3: You're just going to leave me here, of all the 436 00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:00,400 Speaker 3: goddamn things. M hm. 437 00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:15,440 Speaker 2: No, I told you, little liber I told you I 438 00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:18,800 Speaker 2: will see soon you'll join me. 439 00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:24,000 Speaker 3: Yes, I am the last line of defense. I am 440 00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:25,000 Speaker 3: the great opposition. 441 00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:25,680 Speaker 5: No more. 442 00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:31,160 Speaker 2: You are now an extension, you one of a million 443 00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:34,560 Speaker 2: hungry tenders. 444 00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:38,719 Speaker 3: No, no, take me back, driver. 445 00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:40,800 Speaker 1: Everything depends on. 446 00:39:57,120 --> 00:40:01,319 Speaker 4: Perhaps Hoover was merely responding and real time to marvelous 447 00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:07,960 Speaker 4: threats beyond human understanding. Perhaps he was mankind's great savior. 448 00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:14,560 Speaker 4: He certainly believed that the numbers who died needlessly, both 449 00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:19,040 Speaker 4: in service to Gagarin's monster and those in service to 450 00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:25,080 Speaker 4: Hoover's mad desire to win, may beg to differ, as 451 00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:29,799 Speaker 4: did all of the others who faced him and lost. Well, 452 00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:35,640 Speaker 4: it's uh, it's not for me to judge. It is 453 00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:39,160 Speaker 4: merely my job to carry him on to the next 454 00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:49,720 Speaker 4: realm and listen to his passage. 455 00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:59,440 Speaker 7: The Passage stars Dan Fogler as the Ferryman. This episode 456 00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:03,359 Speaker 7: features Stuart Skelton as Jay Edgar Hoover. Written by Ben 457 00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:06,640 Speaker 7: Bohlan with additional writing by Dan Bush and Nicholas Dakoski. 458 00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:11,759 Speaker 7: Our executive producers are Nicholas Dakoski, Matthew Frederick, and Alexander Williams. 459 00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:15,000 Speaker 7: First assistant director, script's supervisor and production. 460 00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:16,040 Speaker 2: Coordinator Sarah Klein. 461 00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:20,920 Speaker 7: Music by Ben Lovett, additional music by Alexander Rodriguez. Casting 462 00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:24,160 Speaker 7: by Sunday Bowling Kennedy and Meg Mormon. Editing and sound 463 00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:27,400 Speaker 7: designed by Dan Bush, Dialogue editing and sound mixing by 464 00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:32,000 Speaker 7: Jan Campos. Additional sound editing by Racket Sound. Our supervising 465 00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:35,560 Speaker 7: producer is Josh Than. Created by Dan Bush and Nicholas Dakowski. 466 00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:38,279 Speaker 7: Produced by Dan Bush. The Passage is a production of 467 00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:53,600 Speaker 7: iHeartRadio and Cycopia Pictures.