Speaker 1: Thirteen days of Halloween is from grim and mild blumhouse
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Speaker 1: Where are we going? Just ahead here do you abandoned factory?
Speaker 1: It's not abandoned. I have friends here, one of whom
Speaker 1: is retiring. I wanted to wish him well before he went.
Speaker 1: This was once the Crown Jewel Hartown. The family who
Speaker 1: ran it, the Warrens, came over with Rupert Inverness. It
Speaker 1: was on their ships that we sailed. James Early Warren
Speaker 1: was a very wealthy man, a man of industry. If
Speaker 1: inverness was the political backbone of this town, then Warren's
Speaker 1: money was the marrow that kept those bones healthy. He
Speaker 1: was cruel and terrible. He left the old country not
Speaker 1: as a religious pilgrim but as a man escaping crimes
Speaker 1: against his employees. He converted on the ship over at
Speaker 1: the behest of inverness. He was never a believer in
Speaker 1: the father. He wholly believed in money. To money he prayed,
Speaker 1: and I believe that the father allowed that as a
Speaker 1: necessary evil. You cannot build a cathedral without funds, after all,
Speaker 1: come m HMM, Wa't your stuff now sh oh, sorry,
Speaker 1: hello mother. How are you fine? Jimmy? Just fine. You
Speaker 1: can't be here all schmitty. Let Them Be. Hey, there,
Speaker 1: out of town a run. Don't get too many of
Speaker 1: your sort of passing through. Nice to have you. Where
Speaker 1: are my manners? I'm Jimmy. It's old, grumpish Schmidt. Welcome
Speaker 1: to Warren seacrafts. You're in luck. You've come on a
Speaker 1: historic day. We're just about ready to close up shop
Speaker 1: for good. It's my last day. I'm retired here. Let
Speaker 1: me give you a tour. We were just routing out
Speaker 1: the holes for this last batch of sixteen footers. Here look,
Speaker 1: oh h we machine is high quality illuminium. I know
Speaker 1: some shops use fancy computers for this, but boss man's
Speaker 1: got us doing it the old fashioned way with wooden molts. Belief,
Speaker 1: Schmidt made this one. You want to talk old fashioned?
Speaker 1: If you want to talk old fashioned, you come to
Speaker 1: the right place. Uh, Jimmy, could you get started reinforcing
Speaker 1: the bows? Sure thing. You'll have to part in my colleague.
Speaker 1: He's a little excitable. I don't get a lot of
Speaker 1: visitors here. Jimmy and I are the only two workers
Speaker 1: left my my family started this business about. I think
Speaker 1: it'll be about a hundred and fifty years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Charles Smith, warn the fifth. That's me and it's heyday.
Speaker 1: This was one of a yard full of factories. We
Speaker 1: employed most of the men in town and none of
Speaker 1: these little aluminium Jombo snow sailing ships. We made fishing
Speaker 1: boats and beautiful euters and sloops and you can see
Speaker 1: ourselves all throughout the bay and out to the horizon.
Speaker 1: But folks don't go in the water anymore. Sometimes I wish,
Speaker 1: sometimes I wish you look at the bright side retirement
Speaker 1: and I need your hands getting the gunnals in place,
Speaker 1: boss man, once it's wrapped up before supper time, uh,
Speaker 1: dawn release. Uh. There is no boss man like Jimmy says.
Speaker 1: I've been keeping this place running for the last twenty years.
Speaker 1: Who can remember? But a couple of times a day
Speaker 1: Jimmy climbs the stairs over there to those old officers,
Speaker 1: saying he's gotta check in with the boss man. I've
Speaker 1: been up there. It's just empty were. No one's up there. Jimmy.
Speaker 1: He comes off happy go lucky, but it's not over
Speaker 1: there anymore. Sometimes I wonder if I'd still be here.
Speaker 1: I wasn't keeping him around, like I was saying folks
Speaker 1: don't get in the water. Back when I was just
Speaker 1: a young man, just starting out learning the family trade,
Speaker 1: my granddad would host these big boat races. Hundreds of
Speaker 1: ships would line up to sail out of the bay,
Speaker 1: out around the island and on back. One year I
Speaker 1: started shifting. Something about the water here was different. The
Speaker 1: race that started like normal, but the folks it was
Speaker 1: like they lost control, like everyone forgot how to sail.
Speaker 1: Or maybe it was the currents. I remember standing on
Speaker 1: the roof of this building watching boat after boat after
Speaker 1: Oh so straight to to that island. Just ran to
Speaker 1: the boy sure to hear the screens carrying across the
Speaker 1: water and going under. Experienced sailors swimming for safety. I'M
Speaker 1: gonna get run over by the next ship as a
Speaker 1: random ground. By the time anyone was able to get
Speaker 1: a rescue ship monst the hole island had a wreath
Speaker 1: of destruction around it. Things were just never the same
Speaker 1: after that. Folks started avoiding the water. The new currents
Speaker 1: made fishing ear real herd and then and they started
Speaker 1: not making it back. We see some beach to on
Speaker 1: the island, but most just disappeared. Granddad was losing his
Speaker 1: shirt trying to keep this place open. So as a
Speaker 1: publicity starting, he and my dad made this big show
Speaker 1: out of taking one of their finest sailboats out. They
Speaker 1: had the papers and the town come out to see
Speaker 1: him off and they did the old race route into
Speaker 1: the bay to open water around the back of them.
Speaker 1: The you you know, I saw him off. I tried
Speaker 1: telling my dad not to go, but he told me
Speaker 1: something I'd never forget. He said trump, someone has to
Speaker 1: take on all this spear. Everyone has someone has to
Speaker 1: carry for him so they can be a little less afraid.
Speaker 1: He said he and Granddad were gonna do that and
Speaker 1: then he was off. We're going for three days like
Speaker 1: they just vanished. And they finally drifted back into the bay.
Speaker 1: There sales were just torn shreds and the rescue team
Speaker 1: he wouldn't even send a roboat out to get him.
Speaker 1: They were so scared. He stood out on the shore
Speaker 1: and waded into the boat ran aground. Granddad. It's gone,
Speaker 1: my dad. I couldn't remember nothing. Nothing. Do you understand?
Speaker 1: He didn't know his own name. I looked him in
Speaker 1: his eyes when they pulled him off that rack and
Speaker 1: he looked right through me like I was a stranger.
Speaker 1: My own father. I think you should get out of here.
Speaker 1: Oh Hey, are you leaving so soon? Don't, let's scare
Speaker 1: you off. Today is a great day here. Why don't
Speaker 1: you come upstairs eat the boss man, Jim, I don't
Speaker 1: think that's a good idea. Oh, nonsense, come on, which
Speaker 1: Matie can be appealed, but he means will. These closest
Speaker 1: thing I've got to family left around here and me.
Speaker 1: I think we're all about the other ones got, if
Speaker 1: I'm being honest, Schmittie, you scared me. How did you
Speaker 1: get time to go, Jim Schmidy, I don't I don't understand.
Speaker 1: Is this your funny way of seeing me off on
Speaker 1: my last day? Jim, you've been saying it your last
Speaker 1: day every day for the last twenty years. Charles, what
Speaker 1: are you talking about? I can't leave Tom that it's
Speaker 1: not yet paid. No, don't make me go, Schmiittie, please,
Speaker 1: please don't do this. I'm bagging you. please. Where are
Speaker 1: we going? Wait, Smitty, what are you doing to me? Work?
Speaker 1: We're like family. Please don't do this, Dude. Come on,
Speaker 1: we're like family. Please don't do this to me. How
Speaker 1: long have we known each other for? Don't make me go, Smitty, please, please,
Speaker 1: don't do this. He said. I'm can you do this?
Speaker 1: Please tell me. Someone's got to carry this way. Schmitty,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Shmitty, please, I'm sorry. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. I'm sorry. I'm seeing you around, Pty. Please,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm sorry. please. Yeah, what will happen Dan?
Speaker 1: Only the father knows. Everything returns to him. Yes, right,
Speaker 1: we all have our part to play in the father's story.
Speaker 1: My dear, it's not our place to question, but to
Speaker 1: act accordingly. Bad things happen to those who do not
Speaker 1: play their part, to people who fight the order, who
Speaker 1: do not pay their debts and the warrant family's dead
Speaker 1: was long, long overdue. He was a good man, maybe
Speaker 1: the only good man in his life. Come one last
Speaker 1: stop before the gathering, one last invitation to extend. Where
Speaker 1: are we going? We're going to the lighthouse to see
Speaker 1: my father. Ye, tomorrow, on thirteen days of Halloween, the lighthouse.
Speaker 1: I remember thinking that first poor fellow who ked up
Speaker 1: was lucky to be alive. We looked at mess who.
Speaker 1: That man was a priest as thoughts man of God.
Speaker 1: His color was still fixed in his shirt, but everything
Speaker 1: else was all shredded and threadbare. Beyond his clothes, even
Speaker 1: serrated fleshwood's bones broken in all kinds of were natural ways.
Speaker 1: But more striking, what's the state of his skin? Couldn't
Speaker 1: put my finger on it. What it seemed to just
Speaker 1: hang withered. Thirteen days of Halloween the factory starring Kathen to,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Bethany and lynd pierced lackey and Freddie Boyd written
Speaker 1: by Mike Johns with additional material by Nicholas Takowski. Sound
Speaker 1: Design and mixing by Rima Il Kali, engineering by violent Ferton,
Speaker 1: DUBWAY STUDIOS NEW YORK. Casting by Jessica Losa, created by
Speaker 1: Matt Frederick and Alex Williams, with executive producer Aaron Manky,
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