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Speaker 1: Oh my god, what is that? Run? Come on, come
Speaker 1: on this way? Sevenutes too fun, We're just come on
Speaker 1: over here. Okay, okay, and lost track. We're fine, We're hidden.
Speaker 1: We got away. Oh when I said, you run as
Speaker 1: fast as you can want? Trust me? Okay, up, Jeremy
Speaker 1: Son Son? Where are you Dad? Jeremy? Where are you? Dad?
Speaker 1: Got in here? Jeremy follow the sound of my voice.
Speaker 1: Come to me? Yeah? Oh God, Dad? And Dad? Hey
Speaker 1: are you in there? Dad? And and oh come on,
Speaker 1: God forbid? They leave a fucking note? Why didn't I
Speaker 1: charge my phone? Okay, okay, okay, gon't frege out. Everything's fine,
Speaker 1: even though you are talking to yourself off. Fuck Dad, Dad?
Speaker 1: What are you doing out here? Jeremy? It's me, it
Speaker 1: is are you okay? Yeah? Yeah, I'm sorry. I came
Speaker 1: out for some fresh air. Jeez, I don't even remember
Speaker 1: falling asleep and I woke up And did you not
Speaker 1: hear me calling you? I always hear you're calling me, Jeremy,
Speaker 1: what do you mean. When I was in that place,
Speaker 1: there were so many times I heard your voice and
Speaker 1: I would go looking for you, running for what felt
Speaker 1: like hours, never getting anywhere. It's so strange being back
Speaker 1: here at Dan's house. I feel like my whole lifetime
Speaker 1: was spending those woods. From here, they just seemed Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it don't look so scary in the light of day,
Speaker 1: do they. No, they don't. You know, I never liked
Speaker 1: these woods. I know it's uh, it's like a tourist
Speaker 1: destination and people like coming here in hiking and everyone
Speaker 1: finds it so beautiful and peaceful. But any time I
Speaker 1: had to do research here, I just dreaded it. Things. Now,
Speaker 1: I know why you remember getting lost? Ah, No, not really,
Speaker 1: and and told me about it, and I guess it
Speaker 1: brought back some of it in bids pieces. But I'm morema,
Speaker 1: you know this is that's where I lost you. I'm
Speaker 1: truly sorry, Jeremy. I hope you know that about losing
Speaker 1: you and then getting lost myself. Yeah, I know. Hey,
Speaker 1: I shouldn't have yelled at you about it last night.
Speaker 1: I just, you know, it's just a lot to deal
Speaker 1: with me. It is, did sleeping help at all, I
Speaker 1: have been able to close my eye. I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's I'm having this nightmare again. Actually I keep having it.
Speaker 1: It's about that day, that day when I went missing.
Speaker 1: Those were the worst seven hours of my life. You know,
Speaker 1: I wish I could remember them more. When Anne told me,
Speaker 1: she told me that apparently I said something about what
Speaker 1: you're talking to me, and she was I thought she
Speaker 1: was working crazy. But now with you, you know, I
Speaker 1: really wonder what happened that day, what what could have happened?
Speaker 1: I wish I knew too. I'm just glad we got
Speaker 1: you back. You know, it makes sense to me that
Speaker 1: you became a folklore professor. Really when we found you, well,
Speaker 1: like Anne told you, you had this strange story about
Speaker 1: a little great creature, and you were a bit different
Speaker 1: after it seemed older somehow, And being a parent is
Speaker 1: just an exercise and watching your kids grow up overnight.
Speaker 1: But this was I don't know. You were very focused.
Speaker 1: What do you mean focused? You kept asking me to
Speaker 1: read you fairy tales. You never really liked them at
Speaker 1: all much before. You actually were never much for being
Speaker 1: read to it all. You were always up playing in
Speaker 1: the dirt, I was such an active kid. I remember
Speaker 1: really looking forward to teaching you baseball, playing catch with you.
Speaker 1: But after we got you back, he just wanted to
Speaker 1: hear stories. I just assumed it was because you got
Speaker 1: scared of the outdoors. But now I wonder you mean
Speaker 1: if I got fixated on fairy tales and monsters because
Speaker 1: I lived through it. I don't know. I don't remember
Speaker 1: when I first got interested in all this stuff. I
Speaker 1: guess I just always was. I've spent my whole life
Speaker 1: reading about it. That's that's the way it feels. Thank
Speaker 1: god you have you had the knowledge to get me out. No,
Speaker 1: I can't take any credit for that, because I really
Speaker 1: didn't believe any of this stuff until last night. Even now,
Speaker 1: it feels impossible. I know what you mean. H Um,
Speaker 1: where's Anne? She went out for breakfast? Refrigerators full of food. No,
Speaker 1: it's not that she wanted to go to Pat's get
Speaker 1: my favorite paroguis. Ah, you used to go to Pats.
Speaker 1: I'd love that place. Did you take me there? No? No,
Speaker 1: not that I remember. It was always something we would
Speaker 1: do on duty. Uh what kind do you usually? I
Speaker 1: always get the cheese and potato? About that? That's my
Speaker 1: order to Really, that must be a Bradshaw trader, you
Speaker 1: get it. It must be An always goes with the sweet?
Speaker 1: Was the raspberry? Jam? I never understood how she does
Speaker 1: that much sugar in the morning. I'm sorry. I didn't
Speaker 1: mean to. I know it must be strange too. I
Speaker 1: haven't even had a chance to ask you about your
Speaker 1: mom yet. How's she doing? Uh? She's okay. She lives
Speaker 1: in California now. Really, Yeah, we both moved out there
Speaker 1: when I was in college and she she's remarried. That's good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: is it? I always wanted her to be happy. You
Speaker 1: kind of went about it a strange way. I know
Speaker 1: I messed up. How how long were you and and
Speaker 1: going before mom found out? Jeremy, it wasn't like that, No,
Speaker 1: because I seem to remember you mom being very much
Speaker 1: married when when Anne got pregnant. You're angry with me, No, one,
Speaker 1: I've just overwhelmed. I've learned a lot of very surprising
Speaker 1: information in a very short period of time, and I
Speaker 1: just need a second to adjust. Yeah, I can relate
Speaker 1: to that. I haven't been anywhere yet except the house
Speaker 1: that's familiar to me, and I still feel like I'm
Speaker 1: on a different planet. I don't even know who the
Speaker 1: president is. Joe Biden, the Senator. I guess he's actually
Speaker 1: president elected technically, and you actual just happened a few
Speaker 1: weeks ago. And who's got the job until January. Oh,
Speaker 1: you don't want to know. Trust me. You know it's okay.
Speaker 1: If you're mad at me, I'm not okay. Me and
Speaker 1: your mom were having problems before anything ever started with Anne.
Speaker 1: We got married too young. We knew it wasn't going
Speaker 1: to work out. Probably wouldn't remember any of that. We
Speaker 1: tried to shield you from everything that was breaking between us.
Speaker 1: You were so young. Yeah, I don't regret what happened
Speaker 1: with Anne. I fell in love. I I'm in love
Speaker 1: with her still. I don't know what that means now,
Speaker 1: but I never stopped. I'm glad that you've gotten to
Speaker 1: know her, that she's spending your life. Coming out of
Speaker 1: that place to see the two of you side by side,
Speaker 1: I don't think the situation is exactly what you expect.
Speaker 1: Grubs up, God, where are we? I don't know. I
Speaker 1: knew we were walking toward my nana's house before, but
Speaker 1: now we're in a part of the woods. I don't
Speaker 1: recognize I shouldn't have taken us further in, and I
Speaker 1: just thought that maybe if it was darker and there
Speaker 1: were more trees. I know you did the right thing. Well,
Speaker 1: I definitely couldn't lead us. Yeah, how are you doing?
Speaker 1: I think the bleeding is mostly stopped. We'll not dead anyway.
Speaker 1: It's getting lighter now, so we should be able to
Speaker 1: get out of here soon find some help. But you're
Speaker 1: not looking so great either. No, that's the thing just
Speaker 1: it clipped me. You. You bore the brunt of it.
Speaker 1: How did you? I mean you the thing would have
Speaker 1: chased us down and killed us if you hadn't. I
Speaker 1: don't know about that. How are you so calm? How
Speaker 1: did you know what to do? Honestly, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: It's like something in my brain just clicked on fight
Speaker 1: or flight. I guess maybe. I think it's safe to
Speaker 1: say I fit into the flight category. Good thing too,
Speaker 1: or it would have caught me right, And hey, I
Speaker 1: doubt it. I mean, you were unbelievable. Sure, I started
Speaker 1: running first, but when it caught up and you reacted
Speaker 1: so quickly, you knew exactly what to do. I've just
Speaker 1: plaid a lot of video games with even Okay, Olivia,
Speaker 1: that was not a video game. Yeah, no, ship, I
Speaker 1: can't believe this happened to me. Again, I probably would
Speaker 1: have died tonight if not for you. Come on with him,
Speaker 1: and you're not giving yourself enough. Wait a second, I
Speaker 1: recognize that rock, Olivia. Are you okay? Is that your car? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So we just went in an enormous circle. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: come on, then get it okay. Mm hmm. I forgot
Speaker 1: how good eating was. You really didn't have to eat
Speaker 1: the entire time you were gone. No eat, drinks, sleep,
Speaker 1: none of it. I don't understand how it works, but
Speaker 1: part of me is grateful. Otherwise I probably would have
Speaker 1: wasted away in there. And the boy you mentioned, Alden,
Speaker 1: it was the same for him. He was seven when
Speaker 1: he went in, and by the time that I got out,
Speaker 1: he was still seven forty years So you felt, you
Speaker 1: felt time passing, but your bodies didn't. What do you think,
Speaker 1: in Bradshaw? Well, I don't know. It's some kind of
Speaker 1: dimensional pocket that your consciousness could comprehend enough to know
Speaker 1: the time was lapsing. If it's really an in between,
Speaker 1: then there's obviously something on the other side, right, I'm
Speaker 1: sure of it. So then maybe it's a wormhole, like
Speaker 1: a place where time has folded over on itself and
Speaker 1: the other side isn't isn't actually another world, but it's
Speaker 1: another time, a time in which monsters are real. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know of the millions of years ago that were
Speaker 1: enormous creatures roaming the earth, not just dinosaurs, but bare
Speaker 1: dogs and giant land sloths and things that you know
Speaker 1: now sound made up. So you think Thomas was in
Speaker 1: a wormhole that connects our time with dinosaurs. You can't
Speaker 1: say that, like, it's ridiculous. We are sitting here eating
Speaker 1: baroghies with a man who's been dead for forty years,
Speaker 1: no offense. Oh, it's okay. I don't know the appropriate
Speaker 1: amount of time to get used to any of this,
Speaker 1: but I have a feeling it's more than twelve hours. Yeah, yeah, okay. Well,
Speaker 1: but if it was something like a worm hole, why
Speaker 1: would celeste ritual have worked? I have no idea. Dad,
Speaker 1: you said that boy um that he went missing in
Speaker 1: nine that's right, and you went missing in nineteen eighty,
Speaker 1: and now I would have thought things look like the
Speaker 1: Jetsons behind so ever celested whatever, the children of Titubate
Speaker 1: did was just well timed. Um, maybe it's it's just
Speaker 1: about that forty year cycle. That doesn't disqualify it from
Speaker 1: being magic. Look, I know, and I'm open to any
Speaker 1: ideas at this stage, but I can't exactly call anything
Speaker 1: unbelievable now. I just want to make sure that we
Speaker 1: have our priorities straight. I agree, which is why we
Speaker 1: need to work on getting Alden out of there. No,
Speaker 1: that's not what I meant. We don't know what the
Speaker 1: in between might have done to you on a molecular level.
Speaker 1: You haven't aged, and you seem in pretty good health.
Speaker 1: But what if all the time you missed is suddenly
Speaker 1: going to catch up with you now that you're back.
Speaker 1: That doesn't matter, what, of course it does. I'm not
Speaker 1: worried about me. I'm not even sure how I was
Speaker 1: the one who got away when he'd been there for
Speaker 1: much longer. I don't know. You got lucky. Now, there's
Speaker 1: a chance that Alden will get lucky too, But in
Speaker 1: the meantime, the meantime he's alone, Yeah, well so was I.
Speaker 1: I just mean one step at a time. Okay, we
Speaker 1: can't do anything if we don't know what the in
Speaker 1: between is, whatever it is, whatever might be on the
Speaker 1: other side. We have you back now, Okay, that's what's important.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Anna. You know what I think. I think
Speaker 1: we've gone borrowing quite enough trouble recently. As far as
Speaker 1: we know, everything worked and you get to live the
Speaker 1: next forty years of your life all over again. I
Speaker 1: understand that you're worried about this boy, okay, but you
Speaker 1: have to remember that he's not alone. Celeste is with
Speaker 1: him now. As much as that woman frustrated me, she
Speaker 1: can look after him. Yeah. I guess. I guess you're right.
Speaker 1: And there's so much we have to catch you up on.
Speaker 1: Jeremy was telling me Senator Biden is going to be president.
Speaker 1: How old is he? What else? Did the Berlin wall fall?
Speaker 1: Actually it did? Oh good? A lot has happened in
Speaker 1: the last four years. I know. I see that every
Speaker 1: time I look at both of you, and we're going
Speaker 1: to tell you all of it. No, not all at once. Well,
Speaker 1: we have time now, I mean we actually, yeah, we
Speaker 1: have time. All of this, all of this nonsense is over. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I I want to figure it out. I
Speaker 1: want to figure it all out one day and one
Speaker 1: day probably write a book. That no one will ever believe.
Speaker 1: But um, for now, But for now, can we just
Speaker 1: finish these parogies? That's how real. I can't believe it.
Speaker 1: I mean, all those stories that my nana's told me
Speaker 1: growing up. When I was a kid, I thought it
Speaker 1: was just very tale stuff, stories to scare kids and
Speaker 1: are not wandering off, not doing dangerous stuff in the woods.
Speaker 1: When I got older, I realized that she actually believed
Speaker 1: it all, and I started to be scared of her
Speaker 1: instead of the woods, because I thought it meant something
Speaker 1: was wrong with her, but she was sick or I
Speaker 1: don't know. And then it just made me sad because
Speaker 1: I understood that she lost a friend and she felt
Speaker 1: guilty and her mind to do all sorts of things
Speaker 1: with guilt. But she was right this whole time. She
Speaker 1: was actually right. Hippen, hippen, you're being uncharacteristically quiet. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm listening, I swear, I know. I just still freaked hem,
Speaker 1: are you not? Oh no, I'm deaf at lea, still
Speaker 1: having a total meltdown. Just also trying really hard not
Speaker 1: to crash the car right now. I really think I
Speaker 1: should be the one driving your herd and you patched
Speaker 1: me up. Well, Okay, Nana is going to be so
Speaker 1: smug that she was right about keeping a first aid
Speaker 1: kid in the car all the time. Olivia, you still
Speaker 1: might need stitches. And I'm fine, really, and driving is
Speaker 1: helping me focus, keeping my mind off you know, monsters
Speaker 1: and stuff. You telling me what you're thinking could also
Speaker 1: do that. Are we are we sure about what we saw? What?
Speaker 1: I mean? It was a dog, right? Yeah? Maybe it
Speaker 1: was just some sort of I don't know, special breed,
Speaker 1: a special breed of dog. That's if we tall with
Speaker 1: three rows of teeth. Yeah, right, I did notice the
Speaker 1: multiple rows of teeth pretty hard not to. But if that,
Speaker 1: if that was real, then the thing that attacked me
Speaker 1: was not an owl. It just it doesn't make any sense,
Speaker 1: of course it doesn't. That doesn't mean this isn't happening.
Speaker 1: Having a really hard time with us, aren't you. I've
Speaker 1: spent the past six years studying this stuff, but I
Speaker 1: never thought it. I thought you believed, or at least
Speaker 1: that you wanted to. I guess there's a difference between
Speaker 1: believing and seeing. Usually seeing bring some degree of certainty
Speaker 1: and comfort. Yeah, I don't think that's happening for me. Hey, Hey,
Speaker 1: what happened tonight was really fucked up, but you survived.
Speaker 1: We both did. I ran and you stayed to fight
Speaker 1: the thing, and I didn't even I wanted to give
Speaker 1: you time to get away. Keep trying to hit it
Speaker 1: too would have defeated the purpose. You could have gotten
Speaker 1: really hurt. Lived they didn't, and now we have matching
Speaker 1: monster scars. It's pretty cool, right you. You're sure about
Speaker 1: what we saw? Yes, I mean I know my own
Speaker 1: mind and it couldn't have made that up. So whenever
Speaker 1: you're ready to dive headfirst into holy sh it, holy ship,
Speaker 1: monsters are real and I've lived to tell the tale. Territory. No, Um,
Speaker 1: I'll be right here for you. Thanks. Come on, Let's
Speaker 1: get inside before the adrenaline wears off and I start
Speaker 1: sobbing or something. Okay, that's that's Jeremy's car. That would
Speaker 1: explain why he wasn't picking up at least spotty service. Yeah,
Speaker 1: or he left his car here and he and Anne
Speaker 1: walked to the lake. Let's go inside before your brain
Speaker 1: has a chance to finish that thought. Nana, Nana live,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, thank god, you're all right, my kid?
Speaker 1: What's going on? Wait? Is s Ethan. Okay, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's he's fine, Jesus to live. What happened? Are you okay?
Speaker 1: I am fine? What are you doing here? Professor Jeremy?
Speaker 1: Are you all right? Yeah? Are you bleeding? Um? I'm fine,
Speaker 1: I think um, but it's really Olivia, who is totally fine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't look at where have you been? You want to
Speaker 1: the lake to look for you. And when we got
Speaker 1: there there were all these cops and what happened to Celeste?
Speaker 1: We were worried that something Wait wait, wait wait what happened?
Speaker 1: Was Celeste? She's dead? She's ah. We thought you knew? No, no, um,
Speaker 1: we we we thought she was. Ah. It's a it's
Speaker 1: a long story. What we want to hear it? Okay,
Speaker 1: but trust me, there's something else? What is it? As
Speaker 1: we were leaving the woods there, um, who was that? Ah?
Speaker 1: This is um? Hi, I'm I'm I'm Thomas. Okay, Thomas
Speaker 1: is a friend Thomas. This is Olivia my granddaughter. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm really glad to meet you. Olivia. Yeah you too.
Speaker 1: I mean wait, have you met before? You look so funny? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Do you own that new um coffee shop downtown? You
Speaker 1: haven't met? No, I oh uh, it's just shops with coffee,
Speaker 1: that's all they sell. Whoa, whoa, whoa, wha wha Wait
Speaker 1: you're Thomas Bradshaw. Wait wait wait holy ship, as in
Speaker 1: are you? Is this? How? How is this? It's him?
Speaker 1: It's him? Oh god, Hey, whoa whoa, Easy there, Bubba,
Speaker 1: I think I need to sit down. Good idea. Why
Speaker 1: don't we all sit down? Wait? Wait, we know hold on.
Speaker 1: This is Thomas Bradshaw, like your old partner, Thomas Bradshaw,
Speaker 1: the detective who've been missing forty years ago, and it's
Speaker 1: now standing in your kitchen looking, I mean looking exactly
Speaker 1: like the photo in his file from the fucking seventies.
Speaker 1: If we can explain kind of you were dead? Are you?
Speaker 1: Is this some sort of Well no, I'm not a ghost,
Speaker 1: I swear. I'm just a man, just a regular man
Speaker 1: who was trapped in a limital dimensional space for forty years.
Speaker 1: That's okay, Thomas, Honey, that's not really helping the If
Speaker 1: you could whoa whoa whoa? Wait you you and you
Speaker 1: were together? Okay? Oh god, Jeremy, what you said yesterday? Hey? Hey,
Speaker 1: can we all get can we just can we get
Speaker 1: into this later? Please Olivia is your niece, which means Thomas,
Speaker 1: what is her grandfather? What live honey? Um? Oh? What
Speaker 1: the a fuck? Nanna? Was that? This isn't ever how
Speaker 1: I imagine this going. I actually didn't even know you existed.
Speaker 1: Oh well that makes two of us. Yeah, but I'm so,
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you do this. This is why yesterday
Speaker 1: you were so you just found out, didn't you. Yes,
Speaker 1: really honestly, which is why I really don't particularly want
Speaker 1: to go through this whole thing again right now? Please?
Speaker 1: Who is he back? How did you keep this from us?
Speaker 1: Does mom know? No? What? Wow? She doesn't? Thomas? M guys? Sorry,
Speaker 1: hold on a beer Becker, it's Dr Edwards. Oh hey, Doc,
Speaker 1: that's a listen. Now is not really a great time,
Speaker 1: if you know what I mean, I won't keep you.
Speaker 1: But you know how you told me to ever call
Speaker 1: you as something strange came into the office. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: have I got a doozy for you. This episode of
Speaker 1: Bridgewater was written by Lauren Shippen and directed by Brendan
Speaker 1: Patrick Hughes Assistant director Sarah Klein. Sound designed by Vincent
Speaker 1: de Johnny rema Il Kayali, Josh Thane, and Trevor Young,
Speaker 1: with music by Chad Lawson, starring Misha Collins as Jeremy Bradshaw,
Speaker 1: Melissa Ponzio as Anne Becker, Alan Tutick as Thomas Bradshaw,
Speaker 1: Karen Sony as Vipen Corona, Sabra May as Olivia Hoskins,
Speaker 1: Cheryl Umania as Officer Bautista, Will Wheaton as Captain Haddock,
Speaker 1: Tricia Helfer as the Legend Tripper, Stephen Guarino as Dr Edwards,
Speaker 1: Nandamisu Demba as Peyton Blake, Hilary Burton Morgan as Shelley Hoskins,
Speaker 1: Nicki McCauley as Celeste, Then Victoria Grace as Katie Franks,
Speaker 1: with additional voice acting by Greta Gould, Shelby Young, Adam
Speaker 1: oh Byrne, Monty Markham, char Lee Bergman and Tern Westbrook.
Speaker 1: Executive producers Aaron Mankey, Misha Collins, Lauren Shippin, Matt Frederick
Speaker 1: and Alexander Williams. Supervising producers Josh Thane and Trevor Young.
Speaker 1: Bridgewater was created by me Aaron Mankey and is a
Speaker 1: production of Grim and Mild and I Heart three D Audio.
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