Speaker 1: M Thirteen Days of Halloween, Devil's Night, a production of
Speaker 1: I Heart three D audio Blumhouse Television and Grimm and
Speaker 1: Mild from Aaron Mackey. Headphones recommended. Listener discretion advised. How
Speaker 1: how I You're be afraid? You have nothing to fear
Speaker 1: from me? What are you a friend? No? No, they
Speaker 1: were going to hurt you. You you killed them. I
Speaker 1: am sorry you had to see that, but I assure
Speaker 1: you those boys intent was to harm you. You would
Speaker 1: not be the first nor the last. There was no
Speaker 1: other way. You are real. There was a scarecrow, a
Speaker 1: cost to come. There is no time to waste. The
Speaker 1: night will only grow darker. I'm not going anywhere with you.
Speaker 1: Then I will at least show you back to the road.
Speaker 1: Come on, Arrow, Who are you? My name is Bezi level?
Speaker 1: Kind of name? Is that? An old one? And yours?
Speaker 1: I'm Max? This is Arrow? Yes, Arrow, a brave dog,
Speaker 1: very loyal. It's my best friend. What are you doing
Speaker 1: out here? Stephen saying everyone should stay indoors, that it's dangerous,
Speaker 1: and they are right. Halloween night is no time to
Speaker 1: be out, especially for children. There are things in the
Speaker 1: night that would love to get their bony hands on
Speaker 1: a boy like you. To that end, I offer my protection.
Speaker 1: I don't understand. It is a dangerous night, maybe the
Speaker 1: most dangerous of your life. I do not want to
Speaker 1: scare you, Max, But you have a long journey home,
Speaker 1: too long. You are skeptical of me, and that is understandable.
Speaker 1: But I said I would bring you to the road,
Speaker 1: and here we are. I will make the journey with you.
Speaker 1: It will not slow you down, and I will keep
Speaker 1: you safe. Thanks, no, thanks, aar, and I have got
Speaker 1: it from here as you wish. Got room for one
Speaker 1: more kid? Buys alll that's so well and got all
Speaker 1: night kid, I'm coming. You're bringing that mutton better sitting
Speaker 1: the back. Jeez, kid, what are you doing way out
Speaker 1: on the highway. You know what night it is, don't you? Yeah? Um,
Speaker 1: thanks for stopping. Are you heading into town? Sure? A
Speaker 1: shoot held up on a sales call over in sunny
Speaker 1: Belle lost track of time. Real foolish of me. Should
Speaker 1: have been home an hour ago. Last year vandals chased
Speaker 1: me off the damn road. This year, I'm ready for them.
Speaker 1: This is a W B r D Devil's Night bulletin.
Speaker 1: Hold on, we are receiving the first reports of a
Speaker 1: disturbance on Main Street. Mass suspects reportedly broke into Cooper's
Speaker 1: Parmacy at sunset, vandalizing the property and making off with
Speaker 1: a large quantity of candy and toilet tissue. If anyone
Speaker 1: has any information on these vandals, please reported with haste
Speaker 1: to the Bradberry Police Department. In the meantime, we must
Speaker 1: again implore all residents of Bradberry to remain indoors and
Speaker 1: off the streets. Disgusting, I tell you, goddamn outsiders. You
Speaker 1: know it's not our people doing this right, it's out
Speaker 1: of towners coming in disturbing our peace and order. How
Speaker 1: much you want to bet that whole town will be
Speaker 1: decorated by toilet tissue? I'm gone. They could say it's
Speaker 1: just our kids blowing off a little steam, But our
Speaker 1: boys do that on the football field, on the courts,
Speaker 1: on the diamond. These are degenerates from elsewhere, all worming
Speaker 1: their way in, and they won't stop with the pharmacy.
Speaker 1: Where did you say you were from Bradberry, sir? Well,
Speaker 1: if you were up to no good, you wouldn't tell me,
Speaker 1: would you just sit there all quiet with your mutt
Speaker 1: there and play the innocent, wouldn't you. That's how they
Speaker 1: played it. Last year. They played on my kind nature. Promise, sir,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to go strouble. I just need to
Speaker 1: get home. People think they're just hooligans coming in for
Speaker 1: a good time, you know, like they're just drunks or
Speaker 1: kids out on a wild tear. And yeah, yeah, maybe
Speaker 1: some of them are the real dangerous ones hid among them.
Speaker 1: That's what's insidious. Is it stuffy in here? They're out
Speaker 1: there waiting. Last year, I saw this girl on the
Speaker 1: side of the road, not far from where I just
Speaker 1: picked you up. Matter of fact, probably not much older
Speaker 1: than you. Real sweet, just done with duties on the farm.
Speaker 1: I assume, going home to have dinner with Mom and pop.
Speaker 1: Apple cheeked and dough ide and just real wholesome, Like
Speaker 1: if you looked up wholesome in the dictionary. Boom, there
Speaker 1: she'd be smiling out on she with her little white
Speaker 1: teeth and her eyes shining with all the glory of
Speaker 1: Christian God. She was the perfect baked Of course, I
Speaker 1: was gonna stop for her, pick her up, get her
Speaker 1: home to her parents. Red blooded American man. Goddamn it,
Speaker 1: when I see a girl like that out there trying
Speaker 1: to get home. I'm going to help her out. That's
Speaker 1: how they got me last year, a kid, and it
Speaker 1: ain't happening again. Un how is the other way. Let's
Speaker 1: call it a short cut. You can just let me out.
Speaker 1: Heren't dream of it, kid, It's just that my parents
Speaker 1: are expecting me. That's what she said, just like that.
Speaker 1: And I tell you I had every intention of getting
Speaker 1: her home. I'm not a monster. I'm a good man,
Speaker 1: a family man. Go to church every Sunday. I pay
Speaker 1: the tithe even on weeks when it's hard, and you
Speaker 1: know it's hard these days. Kid. Anyway, I was following
Speaker 1: her directions, telling her about my wife, my kids at home,
Speaker 1: all waiting on daddy. But I just couldn't let a
Speaker 1: girl like that alone on the side of the road.
Speaker 1: What's this another loss soul trying to hitch hike home?
Speaker 1: I suppose os shall we stop? I don't know we should.
Speaker 1: It's only Christian of us. I'll roll down the window, kid,
Speaker 1: don't be shy you. Hey, mr, I'm trying to get
Speaker 1: to town. I think I could get a live sure, buddy,
Speaker 1: always room for one more. Shut up? Sorry about my
Speaker 1: boy's boot. She's a good boy, but he's got the
Speaker 1: manners of a barn animal. I was just telling the
Speaker 1: kid here about my experiences last Devil's Night. Oh by
Speaker 1: all means little bit me in a row. So the
Speaker 1: girl that innocent little answer. She's given me directions to
Speaker 1: her house, right sort of out of the way from
Speaker 1: where I'm used to driving. But I'm not suspicious. Where
Speaker 1: should I be? I'm escorting a real life ethereal being home.
Speaker 1: What's the worst that could happen? I'll tell you. See,
Speaker 1: she turns me down this road, and when we're on now,
Speaker 1: I never had a reason to go this way. I'm
Speaker 1: not really familiar with it, so maybe I'm already a
Speaker 1: little on edge. Say what is that up ahead? Looks
Speaker 1: like a couple more hitch hikers. I guess we'd better
Speaker 1: pick him up. I fellas, I guess, so what how?
Speaker 1: Hey Mr? It's getting awful dark out here. Can you
Speaker 1: spare us a drive to town? Yes, sir, I'm afraid
Speaker 1: to walk with all these bad men causing man sure
Speaker 1: thinks sweetheart never could say no to a pretty face.
Speaker 1: Always room for a couple more. Everyone in we're just
Speaker 1: telling a story about another hitchhiker I picked up this
Speaker 1: time last year. Gosh, I love a good story. Seemed
Speaker 1: like it was just getting to the good part. Oh,
Speaker 1: please do continue, well, if you all insist. At this
Speaker 1: point in the story, I've got a goddamned four real
Speaker 1: angel of the Lord riding shotgun down this very road
Speaker 1: in this very car. And she's sitting there, real quiet,
Speaker 1: like she's expecting something. And I thought, is she afraid
Speaker 1: of me? So I reached over gently and I put
Speaker 1: my hand on her knee, and I whisper, he ki't
Speaker 1: you don't have to be afraid a little on me.
Speaker 1: She doesn't look at me, just stares straight ahead, her
Speaker 1: eyes suddenly full of terror. I look up and before
Speaker 1: I even really saw I swerve pure in state. The
Speaker 1: body just knows what to do. It was a pickup
Speaker 1: truck blocking the road right in my path, and I'm
Speaker 1: trying to clear it, and I lose control. Bam. We're
Speaker 1: in the ditch, engine smoking, the windshielders cracked. The girl
Speaker 1: nearly gone through the damn thing. She's groaning. I pulled
Speaker 1: her back. She had a nasty gash across her scalp,
Speaker 1: blood coming down her face, but her eyes were still sharp,
Speaker 1: and I thought, this kid will be okay, she'll be fine.
Speaker 1: I can just get her back to my place and
Speaker 1: bandage her right up, nurse her back to health. And
Speaker 1: then I saw five figures coming out of the apple
Speaker 1: trees on the side of the road, tall masked. As
Speaker 1: they moved the last of the twilight, glenned off something
Speaker 1: shiny in one of their hands. I didn't hesitate. I'm
Speaker 1: not stupid. I reached right into the glove box. I
Speaker 1: keep a loaded pistol in there. Go ahead, open her up,
Speaker 1: take a peek. Oh, I don't think i'd better open it.
Speaker 1: You see that gun? Yes, sir, these days, you know,
Speaker 1: you just can't take any chances reach in. I don't
Speaker 1: grab the gun, do it. That's not nice, Mr. Shut
Speaker 1: up back there, I'm talking. Don't look at them, look
Speaker 1: at me. Take the gun out of the goddamn glove box.
Speaker 1: I'll hand it to me, thank you. Where was I
Speaker 1: the man in the woods with knives? Did I say
Speaker 1: they all had knives? H? Well, I didn't hesitate. I
Speaker 1: was in the army. See in the trenches. You learn
Speaker 1: a lot there. I wasn't gonna let some punk outsiders
Speaker 1: get the jump on me. I got the gun and
Speaker 1: I sat back real quick. Some of the girl's blood
Speaker 1: had gotten on my hands, and I wiped it all
Speaker 1: over my face, so I looked like I was wounded.
Speaker 1: Make him cocky, think I was easy. Pray right. Then
Speaker 1: it works. See one of them makes right for the
Speaker 1: driver's side, goes to open the door. The others are
Speaker 1: all lined up right in front of the car like
Speaker 1: ducks in a row. The first one wrenches open the door,
Speaker 1: reaches into Grabby, never sees the muzzle, just feels it
Speaker 1: on his forehead, but it's too late. Blam. He flies
Speaker 1: back lands with a thud. And these other four of
Speaker 1: that day, as you get when you're not expecting something
Speaker 1: ship from the girls and figured it out, and she
Speaker 1: saw me go for the gun, so blam, blam, blam.
Speaker 1: I hit three more, two or dead right away. One
Speaker 1: topples over, screaming, maybe a gut shot, maybe a shoulder
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm all adrenaline at this point, but
Speaker 1: I see the last one is bolt right back into
Speaker 1: the orchard, and I tell the girl wait right there,
Speaker 1: and I bowled out after him into the field. He
Speaker 1: was stupid, sloppy, hid down in some brambles. But here's
Speaker 1: the thing. He was sobbing his sniffling led me right
Speaker 1: to him. He was laying their mask off, curled up
Speaker 1: and clutching himself and stinking a pass of teenager. For
Speaker 1: Christ's sake, he wailed some ship about please, Mr, don't
Speaker 1: kill me. I was just kidding around. Don't you know
Speaker 1: which devil's night I saw in his eyes? It was
Speaker 1: an act. He got bullet number five. Gosh, Mr, that's
Speaker 1: quite a story. Yeah, well it ain't done yet, so
Speaker 1: shut your mouth. I make my way back to the
Speaker 1: road with a fellow had winged and dragged himself up
Speaker 1: a pavement, attempting to make an escape on his belly.
Speaker 1: Poor sucker got it right the gut. I walk up,
Speaker 1: flip him over with my foot. What are you on?
Speaker 1: Another teenager? Zits all over his face, gawky, Adam's apple, everything,
Speaker 1: except he don't plead with me. Instead, he fixed his
Speaker 1: eyes up the road aways, where my shattered headlight illuminated
Speaker 1: a figure limping down the road. The girl kid tried
Speaker 1: to call out after her. You could barely manage to
Speaker 1: croak out a name, Sally, before I crushed his windpipe
Speaker 1: beneath my boot, Sally, he knew her. They were in coots.
Speaker 1: Might they not have just been schoolmates? Sure? Sure, of course,
Speaker 1: just old chums at school, right here at Bradbury High,
Speaker 1: getting malted milks at the soda fountain and holding hands
Speaker 1: at the pictures. You and I both know that ain't true.
Speaker 1: These were conspirators. She was one of them. They wanted
Speaker 1: what I had, and they were willing to kill to
Speaker 1: get it. All this time, ever since I picked her up,
Speaker 1: I'd been fooled into thinking she was some beautiful creature
Speaker 1: who needed protection, some perfect angel falling from the sky,
Speaker 1: perfect and innocent and pure American. My heart broke, just
Speaker 1: broke into a thousand pieces to learn that none of
Speaker 1: it was real. These boys, these monsters, hiding their evil
Speaker 1: intent behind masks, They were bent on destroying everything that
Speaker 1: made this town good. And this girl, this Sally, well,
Speaker 1: she was as bad as any of them, worse, in fact,
Speaker 1: more insidious, because she looked like the kind of girl
Speaker 1: you take home to meet your mother. She tricked me
Speaker 1: her face was a mask. I wanted to see what
Speaker 1: was behind it. I called out, hey, Sally, Sally. She
Speaker 1: didn't even give me the courtesy of turning around, just
Speaker 1: limping away fast as her injured legs could carry her.
Speaker 1: But I had one bullet left. It didn't take me
Speaker 1: long to catch up. Because of that night, I always
Speaker 1: have my gun on me, and I keep all six
Speaker 1: bullets loaded in the chamber in memory of Sally and
Speaker 1: her friends. And I won't be fooled again this year.
Speaker 1: I'm ready for you, for all of you. Well, what
Speaker 1: do we have here? Another hitchhiker? Open the door, kid, will, sir?
Speaker 1: Looks like you got a full car, nothing of the sort.
Speaker 1: This hound dog has been growling all night, and I
Speaker 1: think it's hard time he was out on his ass
Speaker 1: alongside this boy, his scram kid. I ain't got no
Speaker 1: more space for you. Hello, stranger, Well, who what menagarius
Speaker 1: souls do we have here? Excuse me? Thank your pardon, ma'am.
Speaker 1: Pardon my gaze, Oh, hadsome and charming. I was just
Speaker 1: talking about a hitchhiker. I picked up my HiT's all right,
Speaker 1: No boy going to be all right? Run boy, mats bad.
Speaker 1: Thirteen Days of Halloween, Devil's Night, starring Carter Rockwood and
Speaker 1: Clancy Brown. Episode two, The Highway, written by Nicholas Takowski,
Speaker 1: featuring the voice of Clayton Frowning. Editing and sound design
Speaker 1: by Jesse Funk, directed by Alexander Williams, Script supervision by
Speaker 1: Nicolas Takowski. Casting by Sunday Bowling C s A and
Speaker 1: Meg Mormon c s A. Production coordinator Wayna Calderon. Production
Speaker 1: assistants Zoe Shay and Amber Ferris. Animal recording by Ben James,
Speaker 1: closing theme by Rose Azerti Loyalty Freak music dot Com.
Speaker 1: Recorded at d G Entertainment in Los Angeles, California. Engineered
Speaker 1: by Gary Forbes and Jody Abbott. Executive producers Aaron Mankey,
Speaker 1: Noah Finberg, Chris Dicky, Matt Frederick and Alexander Williams. Supervising
Speaker 1: producers Trevor Young and Josh Than. Producers Jesse Funk and
Speaker 1: rima il Kali. Thirteen Days of Halloween was created by
Speaker 1: Matt Frederick and Alexander Williams and is a production of
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Speaker 1: from Aaron Makey. Learn more about the show at Grimm
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