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Speaker 1: where are you? Ethan? Hey, we're going to find him. An.
Speaker 1: I know, you know, I think about all the all
Speaker 1: the people that have gone missing here that you have found.
Speaker 1: I didn't find everyone I know, but you are going
Speaker 1: to find Nathan. I know it's gonna be okay. Yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: we are going to find him. I'm sure that, but
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean that things are going to be okay.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go over it again. They left for
Speaker 1: the trip on Friday morning. Everything was fine Friday, Saturday night,
Speaker 1: the trip. Woke up Sunday morning to find Ethan sleeping
Speaker 1: bag empty and cold. This morning. What Sunday morning is?
Speaker 1: This morning? It's only been a few hours after nine hours. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's been nine hours. Yes, and thank you. I'm aware
Speaker 1: that it is still Sunday. I'm a cop. Specificity is
Speaker 1: important to me, retired cop. Excuse me, if you're retired,
Speaker 1: if you can, if you care about specificity, I'm just
Speaker 1: sorrying all right, Jesus Christ Bradshaw my grandson is missing.
Speaker 1: You really think this is an appropriate time to give
Speaker 1: me some lip. I'm not trying. You're right, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm wound up. All right, it's been a
Speaker 1: stressful thirty six hours. Hey, how's it been doing. Oh,
Speaker 1: he's all right. I guess I'm glad I insisted on
Speaker 1: him staying at my place last night. I don't think
Speaker 1: waking up in an empty apartment in the middle of
Speaker 1: the night it would have been good for him. Nightmares,
Speaker 1: wake up screaming, Yeah, how do you know that the lights?
Speaker 1: That's what they do. The same thing happened to Thomas,
Speaker 1: even what my dad mm hmm. After he saw the
Speaker 1: lights and heard the voice for the first time, he
Speaker 1: didn't sleep a full night through for months. He'd wake
Speaker 1: up screaming. I don't remember that. I don't remember him
Speaker 1: ever screaming in the middle of the night. Wait, and
Speaker 1: when you say no, he was just really good at
Speaker 1: hiding things from you, not because he was trying to
Speaker 1: lie to you or anything. He just wanted to protected
Speaker 1: from the darker things. And I have a feeling that
Speaker 1: we have differing opinions about what the darker things were.
Speaker 1: I knew my dad. Okay, I knew that he worked
Speaker 1: on murders and kidnappings because he told me, and he
Speaker 1: told me all kinds of other scary stuff. But he
Speaker 1: was my dad, and so that made it all a
Speaker 1: lot less scary. He was protecting me, but he wasn't
Speaker 1: protecting me from sasquatch or aliens or any of that
Speaker 1: other nonsense that you seem to believe. Oh, come on,
Speaker 1: I don't believe in aliens. That's where you draw the line. Okay,
Speaker 1: what you believe in aliens? No, of course, Actually no,
Speaker 1: I don't believe in alien abductions. But yes, you know,
Speaker 1: in an infinite universe, statistically it makes sense that there
Speaker 1: would be aliens. Okay, of course, yes, the statistics rely
Speaker 1: on the precious numbers of it. All numbers are reliable,
Speaker 1: and yeah, so as hundreds of years of history, Jeremy,
Speaker 1: so are facts and bigfoot sightings are not history. Okay. Well,
Speaker 1: don't you think it's a bit strange that people have
Speaker 1: experienced the same things in the same spot for centuries?
Speaker 1: I mean, doesn't that tell you that there's something to
Speaker 1: all of it? Or almost people just lying. I never
Speaker 1: said that they were lying. I'm saying that humans are
Speaker 1: susceptible to narrative. People haven't seen the same thing for centuries.
Speaker 1: They've just experienced things that they can't explain and they
Speaker 1: don't understand, and then they latch on to whatever the
Speaker 1: most common story is that can fit around that. Great,
Speaker 1: So you agree that there are events that are unexplainable.
Speaker 1: Of course, there's plenty in the world that we don't
Speaker 1: have answers for yet, but most sightings or supernatural encounters
Speaker 1: can be explained by people in the past just not
Speaker 1: understanding science, or people being high or exhausted or mentally ill. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, So which one of those categories does vipp
Speaker 1: And fit into? And Vippin was scared and he was
Speaker 1: filled with adrenaline, and he's already inclined to believe in
Speaker 1: fantastical things, and that's a mental illness, isn't it? Believing?
Speaker 1: That is not what I said God, and every single
Speaker 1: little thing. I'm not going to apologize. I'm not for
Speaker 1: being rational and for treating my own discipline and my
Speaker 1: own work with serious thought. Oh, serious thought. Of course,
Speaker 1: this is all about serious thought. Of course it is
Speaker 1: That is my entire profession. And no, it isn't excuse me.
Speaker 1: Do you know why you're a folklore professor, Jeremy Oh?
Speaker 1: I can't wait. Please tell me. Okay, because you're a coward.
Speaker 1: You hide behind myths to learn everything about them so
Speaker 1: you don't have to face them head on. That is
Speaker 1: a ridiculous assertion. I don't Yeah, I don't think that
Speaker 1: you can call someone a coward for not believing in
Speaker 1: ghost stories. It doesn't work like that. Look at where
Speaker 1: you are, No, please, look at where you are. Look
Speaker 1: what's happened in the past two weeks. You can't deny
Speaker 1: that something's going on here that your book can't explain.
Speaker 1: I can deny that. In fact, I can offer several
Speaker 1: fact based explanations. Sweetie, all the facts in the world
Speaker 1: won't change the fact that you are terrified and you're
Speaker 1: not How could you not be terrified right now? There's
Speaker 1: a kid in the woods, your grandson who's missing. Don't
Speaker 1: you dare throw that in my face. Look, my dearest
Speaker 1: friend is lying on a couch with a bloody head,
Speaker 1: and there's potentially dangerous cult in the area. I don't
Speaker 1: need supernatural reasons to be stressed right now. There is
Speaker 1: plenty piling up in the real world, And none of
Speaker 1: those things are going to get better if you keep
Speaker 1: your head buried in the sand. And you're not going
Speaker 1: to find your grandson if you think that he's been
Speaker 1: taken by Puckwages. Well, thinking that hasn't slowed me down
Speaker 1: in the past. I am sure that hasn't helped. Well,
Speaker 1: I found you. What the hell are you talking about? Nothing?
Speaker 1: Just forget it? Just nothing, Athan Man? What do you
Speaker 1: mean you found me? You found me? I came to you.
Speaker 1: You went missing for a bit when you were a kid? Athan, What? No,
Speaker 1: I didn't Yeah, okay, sure, I'm sure you remember the
Speaker 1: seventies much better than I do, So I don't know.
Speaker 1: I actually don't know what you were smoking in the seventies.
Speaker 1: Oh please, what did I say about you giving me live?
Speaker 1: Tell me what you're talking about? Anne, I didn't realize
Speaker 1: that you didn't remember Okay. I always thought that you
Speaker 1: became a folklore professor because of what happened. I didn't
Speaker 1: you know. But when you you said that you didn't
Speaker 1: remember me from when you were a kid. And if
Speaker 1: you didn't remember me, then chances where you've forgotten everything
Speaker 1: else too, forgotten what else? And it makes perfect sense right,
Speaker 1: you're repressing the hell out of all of it. That's
Speaker 1: why you're so obsessed, and you know you just don't
Speaker 1: even realize it, rep saying what what happened to you? Oh?
Speaker 1: What happened to me? Please tell you? Got lost in
Speaker 1: the forest? This forest? Yeah right, I got lost once
Speaker 1: for about two minutes, but my dad found me almost immediately. No, no,
Speaker 1: that was just the first time they tried to take you.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, you got lost. You got genuinely lost for
Speaker 1: a whole afternoon. Really, how did that happen? I wasn't
Speaker 1: exactly taking myself on hiking trips. When I was five
Speaker 1: years old. I was with my dad. You were four, actually,
Speaker 1: and you were at my house. You were hanging out
Speaker 1: in the backyard while Thomas and I went over some
Speaker 1: case files, and something, something just lured you into the woods.
Speaker 1: I mean, why do you think your dad was so
Speaker 1: adamant about figuring out what was in here? His son
Speaker 1: was talking about floating nights and little gray faced men
Speaker 1: reaching out their hands. I mean he was, he was terrified.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about? Plug tookulately, That's that's what
Speaker 1: we think. I guess they don't like hurting little kids,
Speaker 1: because we found you seven hours later, happy as a clam,
Speaker 1: playing with some sticks, and I told you a story
Speaker 1: about a pub. Well no, I mean you didn't really
Speaker 1: know what to call it. You said it was a
Speaker 1: little man, that's all you said. But one of the
Speaker 1: sticks you were playing with had been sharpened into a
Speaker 1: sphere and not something a four year old could do. Wow,
Speaker 1: well that sounds like irrefutable evidence. You had nightmares for
Speaker 1: weeks and weeks something I got a hold on you
Speaker 1: and it just wouldn't let go. I don't remember having Well,
Speaker 1: I didn't have nightmares about that. Anyway. You know your
Speaker 1: dad weren't missing a year later to the day, So
Speaker 1: I'm guessing that's what your nightmares became about. Yeah they did.
Speaker 1: Wait wait, Anne, my dad not sleeping through the night.
Speaker 1: How did you know about that? How did you know
Speaker 1: about nightmares? My nightmares? What you said that he didn't
Speaker 1: sleep for months? Did he did he tell you that? Did?
Speaker 1: Did he tell you about me? And how else would
Speaker 1: I know? And it's getting dark, so we need to
Speaker 1: keep moving, Athan and athenh. It's probably just someone else
Speaker 1: from the search party. I don't know. Come on, come on,
Speaker 1: fuck Jesus Hello, what are you doing? Hello? Someone there?
Speaker 1: Can you? Can you please point your flashlight down? Jeremy
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Speaker 1: You're looking for the missing boy, aren't you. What are
Speaker 1: you doing the same, of course, but you're looking for Ethan.
Speaker 1: We wanted to be of service. Wait, your Marts's girlfriend, right,
Speaker 1: that's right. Well, why aren't you with her? Well? She right, yeah,
Speaker 1: she doesn't want the force to know that you're together,
Speaker 1: does she No, especially after what happened with Daniel. Well,
Speaker 1: it seems like anytime someone goes missing in this place,
Speaker 1: one of the weirdos is nearby. We're a tuned we
Speaker 1: can be of help. Oh my god, attuned. We're sensitive
Speaker 1: to the energies here, the spirits. Do you think energies
Speaker 1: are going to help you find Ethan? Oskins? Has your
Speaker 1: skepticism let you much aid in your search thus far?
Speaker 1: Come on, Anne, let's keep moving. You shouldn't be out
Speaker 1: here like this, and your girlfriend should have told you
Speaker 1: that you're lucky that we didn't report your little meeting
Speaker 1: the other night, and yet you did go out of
Speaker 1: your way to acquire the police file on me. Batista
Speaker 1: told you didn't she We don't keep secrets from each other,
Speaker 1: and you don't keep secrets from your cult. It's not
Speaker 1: a cult, you know. I have half a mind to
Speaker 1: report Batista. No. Please, She's good at her job and
Speaker 1: confidentiality is part of the job. So you don't have
Speaker 1: a bunch of police files just sitting in your home. Man,
Speaker 1: there's no privacy in this time. Not to mention, you
Speaker 1: coerced her into giving you confidential information about Celeste. Don't
Speaker 1: we have a more important task to focus on at
Speaker 1: the moment. You don't seem particularly bothered by us looking
Speaker 1: into your past. Why should I be? Did you find something? No,
Speaker 1: it seems that other than cult activity in the seventies,
Speaker 1: which was never proven to be criminal. Right, so your
Speaker 1: your record in Freetown is squeaky clean, as it should be.
Speaker 1: I have nothing to hide from those who seek the truth.
Speaker 1: That's no more true today than it was forty years ago.
Speaker 1: You were hiding something back then, and you're hiding something.
Speaker 1: Now what secret do you think I have? You and
Speaker 1: your friends, the other children? I told you I found
Speaker 1: that group abhorrent, completely against everything that the gathering stands for.
Speaker 1: But you all did some thing. Thomas new. He knew
Speaker 1: that you were messing with things that you could never
Speaker 1: hope to understand. And you think you can understand them.
Speaker 1: You think you're the one is going to selve the
Speaker 1: ancient secrets of this world, of the world's beyond. I'm
Speaker 1: going to solve something, So you just better hope it
Speaker 1: isn't whatever you've kept buried for four decades. Celeste, Yes, child,
Speaker 1: do you hear that? Oh? Dear, what what is it?
Speaker 1: The spirits? We've lingered too long? Okay, then let's get
Speaker 1: a move on. Jeremy, Hello, who's there? They won't answer you. Hey,
Speaker 1: all we can see are your flashlights? Whose art flashlights? Oh?
Speaker 1: Come on, who's there? Will you show your faces? Don't
Speaker 1: be hostile to the spirits, dear, you won't like what happens, Celeste.
Speaker 1: They're not spirits, Okay, it's a person. So someone is
Speaker 1: out there who's messing with us? Who are you? And
Speaker 1: what do you want? You want? You Oh my god,
Speaker 1: what is it? What? What are you saying? Everyone? Stay
Speaker 1: prefoc is still. Don't look into the lights, Katie, close
Speaker 1: your eyes, child, what the wait? Man, don't look into
Speaker 1: the lights. And whatever you do, don't listen to the voice. Man, man, god,
Speaker 1: damn it. Man. And are you okay? No? I am
Speaker 1: not okay. Those things got away again. What are you
Speaker 1: talking about? They've taken everything, because fucking place is taken everything. Man,
Speaker 1: it's okay. You gotta come down. Come no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no. Don't you tell me to calm down. Don't
Speaker 1: you have no you have no idea, you have no idea.
Speaker 1: What's going on here? We're all stressed, and it's dark
Speaker 1: and it's windy in this place is full of shadows,
Speaker 1: and I'm seeing it too. I get it in for
Speaker 1: fuck's sake, Bradshaw, open your goddamn head for once. What
Speaker 1: do you think just happened? What did you just see?
Speaker 1: I've I don't know. I saw lights and there was
Speaker 1: a voice, and it's all power of suggestion. I don't
Speaker 1: know all I've done for the past two days, and
Speaker 1: talk about lights and voices in the woods. Of course,
Speaker 1: I'm seeing that, right. And then you experience it yourself,
Speaker 1: and you think it's just it's just because you've heard
Speaker 1: a story. Okay, do you think that that that your
Speaker 1: mind is that malleable? I don't know, and I just
Speaker 1: think I am stressed and exhausted and scared for Ethan
Speaker 1: and oh no, no, no, you you don't get to
Speaker 1: be scared for Ethan. I am scared for Ethan. I
Speaker 1: am scared for him and Olivia and my daughter and me.
Speaker 1: But but you know who I'm scared for the most. You.
Speaker 1: Your stubbornness is gonna get you gone, just like it
Speaker 1: did with your father if he hadn't gone out alone
Speaker 1: that night, if he if he had just woken me up.
Speaker 1: I am telling you, what is happening again? That is
Speaker 1: what the message said? What what message? And Thomas's Thomas's message.
Speaker 1: He said that it's happening again. And something is broken here, Bradshaw,
Speaker 1: something it's just not right in this forestingmore. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: know it's full of coltson frank Ster's God knows what
Speaker 1: you really think that that's what it was? Some teenagers
Speaker 1: were flashlights? What else could it be? Reasonably realistically? What
Speaker 1: could it be? Have you ever seen anything move that fast.
Speaker 1: Do you think a flashlight can move on its own?
Speaker 1: I don't know a drone? What about the pattern? Okay?
Speaker 1: They were in the exact triangle that Vipen described. Can
Speaker 1: you explain that? I don't know? I can't. Everyone keeps
Speaker 1: asking me to explain everything. I don't know. And this
Speaker 1: isn't getting us anywhere. We just need to keep looking.
Speaker 1: Don't you think I know that? Well? We were prepared, Bradshaw,
Speaker 1: just just like you said. I was half out of
Speaker 1: my mind with worry when I said that there is
Speaker 1: no monstrous dog waiting to attack us. Okay, no, that's
Speaker 1: not what I'm talking about. Then what what are we
Speaker 1: unprepared for? For something to open and then never close?
Speaker 1: What does that mean? You? Watch? What the fund is that? Look?
Speaker 1: Someone's over there. There's someone over there on the shore. Hey, Hey,
Speaker 1: who's out there? Ethan? Ethan? Is that you? Who's there? Radshaw?
Speaker 1: Get the flashlight? Ethan? Oh? Even what shoe? Okay? Oh
Speaker 1: Jesus and look at his arms, Ethan? Are you honey?
Speaker 1: Are you all right? It's Nana wants you Anthan? Can
Speaker 1: you see us? Come here? Yeah? No, stop? He is
Speaker 1: My grandson. Athan Bridgewater was created by Aaron Manky and
Speaker 1: written and directed by Lauren Shippen, with executive producers Aaron Manky,
Speaker 1: Misha Collins, Matt Frederick and Alex Williams, supervising producer Trevor Young,
Speaker 1: editing and sound designed by Trevor Young and Matt Stillo,
Speaker 1: and music by Chad Lawson, Starring Misha Collins as Jeremy Bradshaw,
Speaker 1: Melissa Ponzio as Anne Becker, Karen Sony as Vip and Corona,
Speaker 1: Laurie Allen as Nancy Collins, Cheryl Umania as Officer Bautista,
Speaker 1: Victoria Grace as Katie Frank's Will Wheaton as Captain had
Speaker 1: Hillary Burton Morgan as Shelley Hoskins, Jonathan Joss as Joseph Hoskins,
Speaker 1: Sabra May as Olivia Hoskins, Samuel Marty as Ethan Hoskins,
Speaker 1: Kristin Bauer as Celeste, and Nathan Fillion as Thomas Bradshaw,
Speaker 1: with additional voice acting by Brigand Snow, Andrew Nowak, Julia
Speaker 1: Maury Sawa, Jarvis Johnson and Brielle Bresnan, Kristen de Mecurio,
Speaker 1: James Oliva, and Leron Amia. Learn more about the show
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