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Speaker 2: I stick my.
Speaker 3: Plus I think less be a clown there, kicks.
Speaker 4: Mustiche Please pray remember me, Please pray remember me?
Speaker 5: Look my God, please.
Speaker 2: Please themselves. Patta Hi.
Speaker 5: My name is Sarah Simmons. I pick up random phones
Speaker 5: and decided to go on terrifying adventures no matter what.
Speaker 5: Look at me if we make it out of here.
Speaker 5: I promised to go see Man of La Mancha.
Speaker 6: When not if? And that means we need to figure
Speaker 6: out this tunnel shit.
Speaker 5: We also need to figure out our level of crazy shit.
Speaker 5: Because who hears a noise deep inside a dang tunnel
Speaker 5: and says, hey, I'll follow you into the dark. It's
Speaker 5: like we're CUTI trying to hail an actual death cap.
Speaker 7: Whoever or whatever that was came in or out through here.
Speaker 5: Correct, which is maybe why we shouldn't.
Speaker 7: And it knew we were here.
Speaker 5: Yes, and that also plays into my assessment. But it
Speaker 5: didn't attack us yet.
Speaker 7: Nah.
Speaker 6: If this was the same thing that's been killing and
Speaker 6: it had us cornered in a building, why wouldn't it
Speaker 6: Hell us.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Maybe it wasn't that hungry. We're not its type.
Speaker 7: I don't know where do these tunnels go?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 7: What's behind the church behind? Yeah, we're on a hill.
Speaker 7: Where does it and what's on the other side?
Speaker 5: I don't know. Actually, well then we're going in. Oh
Speaker 5: a pham flashlight. Well that's definitely all we'll need.
Speaker 6: Wow, Gordon, I'm sensing you don't think we should go
Speaker 6: down there?
Speaker 5: Whoa nos Domas would be proud? What gave it away?
Speaker 5: Was it me saying hey, I don't think we should
Speaker 5: go down there over and over again?
Speaker 7: Or do you want the nightmares to stop? Yes?
Speaker 5: Of course?
Speaker 7: Do you want to figure this shit out?
Speaker 5: Obviously?
Speaker 7: The answer to the story is this way.
Speaker 6: You can come with me, we can protect each other,
Speaker 6: or you can turn around, go upstairs to your Quasimodo
Speaker 6: loft and just look the other way while more shit
Speaker 6: is bound to happen either way. And I mean this
Speaker 6: in the nicest way possible. I need you to make
Speaker 6: up your fucking mind.
Speaker 5: Stat Okay, let's go fuck yeah. But to be clear,
Speaker 5: you made like seven literary references in thirty seconds.
Speaker 7: And that's kind of my thing.
Speaker 8: Right, Albert Let's see how much you cocked this up.
Speaker 9: Test one, Test one too. Hello, it's not gonna talk
Speaker 9: back to you, Albert, just making sure fots lady wants
Speaker 9: everything recorded.
Speaker 7: Boss lady.
Speaker 10: Good to see the pyrodynamic is gender specific?
Speaker 1: Twit?
Speaker 9: Okay, you can just sit here?
Speaker 7: Fine, all right, let's see what else?
Speaker 5: Hello? Huh hello, Albert.
Speaker 9: Close the door so the tape can't hear me what
Speaker 9: I don't understand?
Speaker 7: What come on, you, bloody Anti.
Speaker 9: Close the door so the tape can't hear me what
Speaker 9: I don't understand? Just close it, avery, Go I'm supposed
Speaker 9: to be locked up.
Speaker 3: It's not safe.
Speaker 5: It's not safe, Obert.
Speaker 7: We're in a police station.
Speaker 4: Where am I supposed to go?
Speaker 2: Huh no? No, just.
Speaker 7: What the hell was that?
Speaker 9: Go to the old spot in the woods.
Speaker 5: Okay, what if I don't want to Abrey, I'm wanting
Speaker 5: you gad out O. Hold on, where's your plubbed in? Jesus,
Speaker 5: I just realized something. What I don't know Will?
Speaker 7: Why would you need?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 5: Come on, Gordon, I'm serious. We're twenty thousand leagues under
Speaker 5: a sea of white people who we'll have no idea
Speaker 5: what to do with my books? Nice or my clothing.
Speaker 6: I'm sure everything will be donated to someone who will
Speaker 6: appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, you're saying I'm gonna die.
Speaker 7: We're fine.
Speaker 5: What if your battery dies.
Speaker 7: I'm a journalist.
Speaker 6: If you don't think I have three backup batteries for
Speaker 6: situations like this.
Speaker 5: Wait is that light? Oh, sanctuary? I feel like we've
Speaker 5: been trapped underground for days.
Speaker 6: It was like fifteen minutes, yes, but it felt like
Speaker 6: how fuck shit?
Speaker 5: You okay?
Speaker 7: Yet a little tweak? Oh?
Speaker 5: What what the hell.
Speaker 7: Is that wick? What's it doing down there?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: I see where we are? So this tunnel comes out
Speaker 5: to the backside of Andersen Hill, hence the name of
Speaker 5: the library in these woods. The Bruder for us, as
Speaker 5: in Yep, the Bruders go way back, like Pilgrim back
Speaker 5: or whatever. The Danville version of that is minus Plymouth rock,
Speaker 5: but plus these bricks, which are oh what you see here?
Speaker 5: And I can't believe they go so far up, but
Speaker 5: it all makes sense. Sorry I'm rambling. So these these
Speaker 5: are the lines from what we call a colonial drain,
Speaker 5: and Danville historically has some of the oldest in the country.
Speaker 7: Drain like sewer.
Speaker 5: Oh sort of back in the day they build these
Speaker 5: underground like think of brick rooms deep down near reservoirs
Speaker 5: of water like wells and rivers, and then they'd connect
Speaker 5: them so they can access fresh water as well as
Speaker 5: catch rain water and check this romans be damned. They
Speaker 5: even build systems to take wastewater away. Sorry, are you
Speaker 5: asleep yet?
Speaker 7: Almost plumbing? Got it?
Speaker 5: I mean that's minimalization at its best.
Speaker 7: Good welcome to being a woman.
Speaker 5: Oh what? I will address that later. But look at
Speaker 5: this up here.
Speaker 7: Those huge rocks near the tunnel exit.
Speaker 5: Yeah, looks like they sealed off the tunnel, closing it
Speaker 5: off from the woods.
Speaker 7: Massive.
Speaker 6: You'd have to get a backo in here to move
Speaker 6: that mm hmmm.
Speaker 5: And there's literally no way anything could fit down here.
Speaker 7: Not to mention, there aren't any machine tracks anywhere.
Speaker 5: And also here's the fucked up part. Yeah, the rocks.
Speaker 5: Who was broken from inside of the tunnel. Whoever or
Speaker 5: whatever or whatever moved and broke these folders did so
Speaker 5: from inside the tunnel.
Speaker 6: That's fucked up, yes, but it doesn't necessarily mean something
Speaker 6: was trapped inside a mountain and then decided to break
Speaker 6: through and start killing people.
Speaker 5: Necessarily, all good, fierce suage.
Speaker 6: I'm just saying we found an entrance to those tunnels.
Speaker 6: Whoever was inside the library.
Speaker 5: Did as well, not helping.
Speaker 6: What's to say there aren't other entrances and exits to
Speaker 6: the library.
Speaker 7: No, we got to figure out what the deaths have
Speaker 7: in common?
Speaker 5: Can we just keep walking? Maybe away from the tunnel entrance?
Speaker 5: Thank you? So what do they have in common? They
Speaker 5: all live and.
Speaker 6: Beside that, I think they all live in Danville. Sure,
Speaker 6: but if that was the case, then I'd buy some
Speaker 6: connection between Aaron and Buster. But a Fonso, as you said,
Speaker 6: just moved here a few years ago.
Speaker 5: And it's not gender specific, it's not ah specific. Aaron
Speaker 5: was eighteen, Afonso thirties and Buster was arp ish.
Speaker 7: Wait what's that?
Speaker 5: What's what? Don't touch it?
Speaker 7: It's a backpack? What it's empty?
Speaker 5: That's because this stuff was spilled out over here.
Speaker 8: Ah.
Speaker 5: Fuck another journal. It's soaked and all the incas run.
Speaker 5: But look at the initials on the cover.
Speaker 7: Abe Avery murder.
Speaker 6: Fuck.
Speaker 7: Okay, wait wait what does that mean?
Speaker 5: It means we're about to find Avery's happy in body
Speaker 5: just like the others, which means we're probably gonna be.
Speaker 6: Oh no, hold on, it can mean that, sure, but
Speaker 6: think about it. Maybe that was him in the library.
Speaker 6: He could have found the entrance already opened, or heard
Speaker 6: the phone. Maybe found the entrance into the library.
Speaker 5: He knew about the phone erin.
Speaker 6: Yeah, kids, crush, small town, look around, slim pickens.
Speaker 5: Oh so we're all just kind of.
Speaker 7: Slimming, Gordon. Focus, we have a story to get.
Speaker 5: Here, all right, focus and focus, And.
Speaker 6: Yes, there is the possibility that he could have been
Speaker 6: abducted by something not human whatever awesome.
Speaker 5: So options are one, fuck, that's weird. Two you thought
Speaker 5: that was weird? And three run.
Speaker 7: Yeah that's about right.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, I mean run, what run? Who is
Speaker 5: that or what? I have no idea, but it was
Speaker 5: coming from the tunnel area.
Speaker 7: Where are we going?
Speaker 2: No, hold on, I'm coming.
Speaker 7: Them, suck grab my hand hand, Yes you can't.
Speaker 5: My leg is stuck in this fucking rot of tree.
Speaker 2: Just go what.
Speaker 7: No, you're crazy, I'm coming down there, stupid.
Speaker 5: Just get back and find match. She'll at least keep
Speaker 5: you safe.
Speaker 2: She sure well.
Speaker 5: Jesus, those sumax sneaking up on us.
Speaker 2: I'm just doing my job.
Speaker 7: What the hell are you two doing all the way
Speaker 7: out here?
Speaker 5: It's a long story.
Speaker 7: You know I almost shot you a cab. Am I right,
Speaker 7: easy there, Love, I'm on your side. She is sorry, No,
Speaker 7: none taken.
Speaker 10: I have a feeling that two of you being out
Speaker 10: here has.
Speaker 7: Something to do with Avery. How did she also looking
Speaker 7: for him?
Speaker 6: We found what we think is his bag and some
Speaker 6: supplies back up there by the tunnel tunnel we can explain.
Speaker 5: We can also help on witch Gordon. Who was those
Speaker 5: stuck inside a tree?
Speaker 10: Didn't I tell you both not to do anything stupid?
Speaker 5: Garden?
Speaker 10: You look very stupid right now?
Speaker 7: Come on, give me your hand.
Speaker 5: I feel like I just had a one night stand
Speaker 5: with a five hundred year old tree. Oh, I feel gross.
Speaker 5: I feel gross. Hey, thanks for the blanket, Max. Also,
Speaker 5: why am I the only one in.
Speaker 6: The backseat because the adults are talking in the front.
Speaker 6: Relax and elevate that leg.
Speaker 5: I see you two are getting along.
Speaker 6: He's great when he's not talking, which seems to be
Speaker 6: working right now.
Speaker 7: What did you give him?
Speaker 10: Just some pain meds for the stiffness he's bound to
Speaker 10: have in a few hours? Did you need any I
Speaker 10: notice you scraped your ankle up a bit.
Speaker 7: Nah, I mean no, thank you? And about that acab business, earlier.
Speaker 7: I'm sorry, I didn't mean to.
Speaker 10: No offense taken and trust me, any American insult you
Speaker 10: can think of, let's just say it feels in comparison
Speaker 10: to what it went through coming up.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, the worst day I've had here in three years
Speaker 10: was still not as bad as once I'd moved from
Speaker 10: Scotland to Scotland Yard.
Speaker 7: Ouch, what happened?
Speaker 10: Career path obsession happened?
Speaker 5: I was so close.
Speaker 10: Scotland Yard loves to publicize every chance they have about
Speaker 10: how their police force is almost seventy percent women.
Speaker 11: We'll find the stats everywhere and Tuobe recruitment adverts in
Speaker 11: the Mirror, online adverts, etc. Seventy percent impressive, right, But
Speaker 11: what they don't tell you is that number includes all staff,
Speaker 11: so they're including secretaries, volunteers and everything in between.
Speaker 10: Oh and here's where it gets real ripe. The more
Speaker 10: you climb up the ladder, the more almost impossible it
Speaker 10: becomes to be a high ranking Scotland Yard employee, constable,
Speaker 10: the lowest ranking police officer. That seventy percent female number
Speaker 10: just became thirty.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 10: And let's keep going, sergeant about a quarter or female
Speaker 10: and inspector, which is where I was supposed to be
Speaker 10: out of almost thirteen hundred dyes in London, about two
Speaker 10: hundred and sixty are women, so twenty percent a fire
Speaker 10: cry from seventy love. What happened, Like I said, obsession
Speaker 10: with wanting to prove I could climb, I had a
Speaker 10: case and I went too far. But of course I'll
Speaker 10: rationalize in my head. I went deep off the books
Speaker 10: and did some things that I wish I could take back.
Speaker 10: The press found out which should never have happened.
Speaker 7: But these things seem to happen when.
Speaker 10: You're trying to join an old boys club. Before you
Speaker 10: know it, I was dismissed.
Speaker 7: I'm doing your jam for.
Speaker 10: Trying to do too many jobs, because that's the way
Speaker 10: they set it up. Work too little and they shit
Speaker 10: can you for being lazy.
Speaker 7: Work too hard and.
Speaker 10: They'll knock you down a peg so you don't make
Speaker 10: them look lazy.
Speaker 2: They lose, lose.
Speaker 8: That's terrible, and I assume for you familiar My dad
Speaker 8: was a copper and my granddad was a fence so
Speaker 8: it was pretty binary in the choice, as I had.
Speaker 7: No regrets, How did you end up here?
Speaker 10: Temporary peace of mind thought, I get away in the
Speaker 10: newer England would do me right. But as I'm sure
Speaker 10: you know, that bug never really dies, does it, Which
Speaker 10: is why I get it when, even though I've told
Speaker 10: you not to try to get whatever the story is,
Speaker 10: you just keep turning up.
Speaker 7: And for the record, I'm not recording so off the record.
Speaker 10: Technically, I appreciate that, and I appreciate you and Sleepy's
Speaker 10: efforts here, but you're going to have to.
Speaker 7: Be a bit more careful.
Speaker 6: We keep trying but to be honest, and we have
Speaker 6: no way of not sounding foolish here.
Speaker 7: But there's something pretty fucked up.
Speaker 6: Going on in Denville, and I don't know if it
Speaker 6: can be explained by anything.
Speaker 7: Earthly.
Speaker 10: Earthly yeah, like aliens and killing people.
Speaker 6: Maybe not little green men, aliens, ghosts.
Speaker 7: Honestly, we're still trying to figure that out. We did
Speaker 7: some research. No, what did you hear anything? I just said, what?
Speaker 10: No more research, No more spooky ghost stories or alien abductions.
Speaker 10: You're young, You've got everything ahead of you. It's not
Speaker 10: the story. You're looking for something else, and ironically, until
Speaker 10: you find it the story, it will eat you alive. Besides,
Speaker 10: I have an officer I may have to rest, and
Speaker 10: a fugitive to track down, so I don't have the time.
Speaker 6: All right, sleepy up and Adam.
Speaker 2: What I'm fine?
Speaker 5: Just a little oh.
Speaker 6: Okay, easy there, Banister Ald on the side.
Speaker 5: Of the car, the gangly brit who broke the four
Speaker 5: minute mile like seventy years ago, a Roger Banister joke.
Speaker 5: Now in this economy.
Speaker 10: All right, as much as I'm impressed with your Yuki
Speaker 10: sports knowledge, let's get you in wrapped up and out
Speaker 10: of here.
Speaker 3: Thirty one years, Max. What we don't know if it's
Speaker 3: aliens or ghosts or whatever the fuck you want to
Speaker 3: call it, but we do know that people have been
Speaker 3: disappearing from Danville every thirty one years for the last
Speaker 3: four hundred years.
Speaker 5: And guess what.
Speaker 7: This year is your thirty one. It's happening again. What
Speaker 7: did you say it's happening?
Speaker 5: I've heard that before.
Speaker 1: Consumed Episode nine Silence written by Carlos Folia, editing and
Speaker 1: sound design by Jesse Funk, Starring Rachel Rosenbloom and Arturo Castro,
Speaker 1: with Ruth Connell, Sam Rod, Genevieve Pedalaki, Benjamin Stockholm, Charlie
Speaker 1: David Newell, Mike Korich, Anna East Fairweather, Junior, Alabby, Alma Martinez,
Speaker 1: Tracy Martin, Laura Shine, George Vincent, and Rafael Corkill. Directed
Speaker 1: by Alexander Williams, Assistant director Trevor Young, Casting by Sunday
Speaker 1: Bowling CSA and Meg Mormon CSA. Production Coordinator Wayna Calderon.
Speaker 1: Music by Carlos Folion. Consumed The season one score available
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Speaker 1: Executive producers Aaron Mankey, Carlos Folia, Matt Frederick and Alexander Williams.
Speaker 1: Supervising producers Trevor Young and Josh Thain. Producers Noami Griffin,
Speaker 1: Jesse Funk, and rima Ilkeli. Recorded at This Is Sound
Speaker 1: Design Studios, Herbank, California, engineered by ross Errono, Eastside Studios, Austin, Texas.
Speaker 1: Engineered by Austin Sisler and Aras Creative In Sound Ohi, California,
Speaker 1: engineered by Ken Aros. Consumed was created by Carlos Folia,
Speaker 1: inspired by the novel by Aaron Maykey. Consumed is the
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