WEBVTT - Episode 10: Everyone Eventually Becomes a Crab 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:04.080 The Hookup is a production of iHeart Podcasts, Blumhouse Television 0:00:04.120 --> 0:00:07.880 and Amber twenty. Listener discretion is totally advised. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:21.959 Love the Lutch concierge. Yeah, the ice machine on the 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:31.760 sixth floor. Can you send someone? 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:35.160 Oh I love you too, Princess. 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:40.840 Yeah, yeah, I'm coming home real soon. No, No, of course, 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:43.800 Mommy and I still love each other. Mommy's just a 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:46.040 little upset at Daddy right now because. 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:52.479 Oh, she told you that. Well, that's not completely true. 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:57.720 It's nope, no, Princess, it's pronounced autoerotic asphyxiation. 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:03.520 October six, twenty twenty three, perhaps better known as the 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:10.080 night Santy disappeared, and exactly one year ago today, Well, well, 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:13.920 Santy must have been referring to my unblemished maidenhood, or, 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:18.160 as of that very moment, a recent lack thereof, I mean, 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:21.200 at least as far as he knew. Truth was, when 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:24.080 Santy and I were on hiatus a couple weeks prior, 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:28.760 I had sex with someone else, Wade, which not great, 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:31.520 I know, but the whole thing was incited by Santy's 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:34.000 refusal to be exclusive with me. So it's not like 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:41.039 I did anything wrong, right, It's just now that Santy 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:44.000 and I were back together, and this time exclusively. I 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:45.680 wasn't gonna let Wade ruin. 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:47.119 It anyone home. 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:50.080 Oh sorry, what'd you say? 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:52.400 I asked? If you feel any different? 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:56.000 I always feel different. 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:00.880 I'm gonna grab eyes for the champagne. Why don't you 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:05.760 get showered here, Sticky, it's your stick. 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:10.560 I would very shortly come to regret that my last 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:13.920 words to Santy were it's your stick. A lot of 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:18.040 regrets stemmed from that moment, actually see as traumatic missing 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:20.760 persons events tend to do. That night at the Ludlow 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:23.800 Lodge set off a chain reaction of bad shit, the 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:27.000 first Domino and a Rube Goldberg of self sabotage and shame. 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:30.480 This entire hunt for Santy has been one depraved act 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:35.040 after another. No lie nor betrayal is off limits. So 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:38.040 I wonder sometimes if that night had played out differently, 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:41.720 and I was there to help Santy when whatever happened happened, 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:45.800 would I still have become this person I'm ashamed of? 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:50.560 I used to think not right up until earlier today, 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:53.639 when Wade mentioned something that I'm shocked and embarrassed, I 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:56.919 didn't already know it was the whole crab mentality thing, 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:00.000 the idea that crabs sabotage each other escaping from a bucket. 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:02.440 You know, if I can't be happy, no one can. 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:07.919 Wade was right by the way I exercised crab mentality 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:11.600 on the regular, And then that reminds me of something else, 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:14.919 something that I declare with great woe is the final 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:20.400 arthropodic wisdom. I have to impart. Everyone eventually becomes a crab. 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:23.280 Uh huh, you should panic. 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:32.720 The term carsonization was coined in the early twentieth century 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:37.720 to describe the natural tendency for sea specimens to evolve 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:42.800 into crabs. Indeed, biologists have traced the origin of many 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:48.720 existing crab species back to entirely different crustaceans, begging the 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:56.840 question why to crabs hold the key to some evolutionary advantage? 0:03:57.400 --> 0:03:59.840 Full disclosure. I was like ten when I saw that 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:02.920 nature special so grain of salt. 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:06.240 Damien, your parents both love you, and you weren't the 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:08.040 cause of their divorce at all. 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:12.720 But I'm pretty sure I'm remember incorrectly. Anyway. The point is, 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:16.000 my crab mentality was not born from what happened to 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:19.040 Satya that night, but rather it was the evolutionary role. 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:22.119 I was born to play the role. We're all born 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:26.479 to play. See. We can try to be other things, detectives, 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:30.640 were wolves, lovers, but it will always come to an end, 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:34.919 because everything comes to an end. And when it does, 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:38.520 when that post coital glow has faded, and that lingering 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:42.080 popper's head rush becomes a headache, you can finally see 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:47.200 things for how they are. It isn't love, it isn't purpose, 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:49.200 it's not even truth. 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:50.840 It's just. 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:56.880 A hookup. And as I was about to learn, no 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:59.960 amount of showering can wash your hands of a bad. 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:02.719 Right. 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:13.280 Yeah, ah, yes, the hookup brewery. 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:16.680 What are you all doing? 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:20.680 He's getting away, I said, fatties him. The hookup. Water flooding. 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:25.000 The factory has risen almost to my neck, and I 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:28.280 can't see a ton except Santy. A sheet of metal 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:30.120 drifts between us, resetting my view. 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:38.280 Not Sandy Mittello, David, It's okay. I've got you up here. Wait, 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:39.800 help us up. 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:40.640 Take my hand. 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:44.400 I'll hoist you guys over the railing Miteo, come on, 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.320 thanks shit Sandy. 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:51.559 Nope, not Santy Wade. 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:52.440 This is Matteo. 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:53.440 Hold agg sit. 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:55.920 You look just like Sandy. 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:59.960 Yeah, I've heard Pa, Teo and Wade in the same room. 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:03.360 It's not something I ever expected or wanted. 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:06.280 What's going on? Where are we. 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:10.279 A bridged version? This is where they manufacture the hookup. 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:13.440 Someone knocked over the popper brewing tanks which are flooding 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:15.359 the facility. 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:16.760 Here Masca. 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:20.800 Oh and remember Elias fum werewolf. He is the mastermind 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:23.640 behind this all. Also like a werewolf. I use the 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:25.920 metal notification sound to shake you all from the hive 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:33.880 minds influence. Excuse me, the polycules influence Minni Gerkin, Charcuterie 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:35.680 whore for twenty. 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:39.640 Why are you liking them? That's right? 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:43.799 Something about the metal alert tone disrupts the polycules neural link. 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:45.720 Dimo help me. 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:47.800 It's PM Peter. 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:50.800 Look on the opposite ledge and he's with the guy 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:52.200 from the campus Chipotle too. 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:54.440 The Chipotle guy is gay. 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:55.839 I knew it. 0:06:57.279 --> 0:06:59.279 Wait, are you good to round up the rest of 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:01.200 the goons and them out through the labyrinths? 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:04.720 Copy that what I'm not leaving. 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:06.720 Mateo, do do not do the. 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:12.280 I'm sorry, but this lucid moment you're having it's fleeting, 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:14.000 remember right. 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:16.600 It's safer for everyone if we're not here. When we 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:21.760 revert unless unless unless you make. 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:22.480 It so, we don't. 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:26.440 I crane my neck upwards to the catwalk, following Matteo's gaze. 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:28.520 A Lie is still strapped into the hook. 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:29.160 Up neural gateway. 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:32.800 The neural gateway device, it's what allows Alias. 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:36.600 To control us. Mateo, come on, we have to move. 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:40.800 And Matteo, I meant what I said before. 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:42.760 I am gonna find a way. 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:46.040 To reverse this. I know you believe you will. 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:50.240 I didn't want to hurt Matteo's feelings, but destroying the 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:56.440 Hive mind control console was kind of a given, Elias. 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:59.960 You can't get unstrapped without your polycule man servants. 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:02.800 Kind of a design thought. 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:03.400 Don't you think? 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:06.080 What did you do to them? Why won't they listen 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:06.320 to me? 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:10.640 You don't know all this how the Metal Alert temporarily 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:13.320 frees the goons from your influence. It doesn't turn them 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:18.200 gay again, but it makes them autonomous briefly, Metal the 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:22.880 dating app. You're not really behind this? Are you not alone? 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:23.320 Anyway? 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:25.000 I'm not telling you shit? 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:26.680 Hurst right? 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:27.200 Right? 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:30.559 So then if something were to happen to your entire 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:34.760 supply of the hookup, that'd be fine for you. There's 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:39.200 no one you say answer to the only reason I 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:43.599 ask is I've been doing a lot of Popper's research lately, understandably, 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:47.800 and I've learned that the primary components alkol nitrate is 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:55.320 extremely flammable. So if I were to just, for example, 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:58.959 drop this lighter down into that flooding popper water. 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:03.480 God do that? You have no idea what they'll do 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:04.000 to you. 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:08.400 Oh you think you've seen horrors here in your. 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:13.080 Little town, Well use flash boyo, Ludlow Hills. 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:14.559 Is only the trial run. 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:21.240 I didn't exceeded expectations. 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:24.840 Who is they? Do you mean the ashcroft In lit Foundation? 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:32.800 Miasthma, my asthma, That's what they're really called. 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:36.320 Ashcroft In That is a shell up front to gain 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:37.040 access to. 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:40.480 Students like me, students to oversee the BATA rollout of 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:41.120 the hook. 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:43.240 Up students like you and Santy. 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:45.400 You like a dog with a bow, and boyo, Santi, 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:49.559 there's Santy that maybe Santi shouldn't have asked so many questions. 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:00.280 Oh you beat me up a you like they are 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:03.800 gonna turn your insides into your outside. 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:08.880 Okay, this has been fir. 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:13.520 No, no no, no, no, no, no, don't do that. 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:19.439 Damen Damien, Damien I will fucking flatten you. 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:29.880 You're cute when you're flustered. WHOA wasn't fully expecting that 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:30.320 to work? 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:39.920 No, No, this isn't harrow is supposed to be. 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:47.600 This isn't what I meant about that pathetic. This is 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:50.920 the man behind the curtain, the guy who killed Santy 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:53.640 to win the miasma grant, the dude who have distributed 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:58.400 conversion mind controlled drugs throughout Ludlow Hills. He looks so 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:05.600 a not small enough. You know, earlier, when I was 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:07.960 buying this bottle of the hookup, I had to purchase 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:10.760 another item to get the bottle free, so I grabbed 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:14.360 the nearest thing, which just happened to be this red 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:18.480 silicone ball gag. Yeah, get wait for me, get away 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:18.760 from me. 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:24.200 Better wrap this up anyway. I'm glad I got the 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:25.319 larger size gag. 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:28.079 I doubt the smaller one would completely block air flor 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:29.720 to your metas. 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:42.040 Alright, and that's my cue. 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:46.840 But but what happens when a crab does escape? This 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:49.840 whole tired metaphor rests on the status quo of no 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:53.320 crab ever letting another out. But if somehow one of 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:56.160 them does get to freedom, well then what does he 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:58.520 scutter away and leave the crabs and the bucket to 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:05.600 their miserable cycle of fate. No, he doesn't, come on, 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:08.079 don't need you choking on your own tongue. 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:10.760 What's going on? 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:13.440 I'm getting us out of here before the building collapses. 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:16.600 You might be a murderer, Elias, but I am not. 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:23.480 I'm so confused. Whoa, whoa? But oh my head, I'm 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:28.920 I always wondered what the cup felt like? 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:31.280 And what's the verdict? 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:35.080 I'm not worth to come down. 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:40.560 Maybe everyone does eventually become a crab, but that doesn't 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:41.960 mean we stay crabs forever. 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:42.640 Now. 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:45.080 I think the Nature Special left that part out for 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:48.520 some people. Maybe this hardened crab mentality is the end 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:53.240 of evolutionary road. But I'm not some people, and I'm 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:56.679 not done evolving. With all this behind me, I might 0:12:56.720 --> 0:13:00.160 become a prawn or a krill, or heck, maybe in 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:00.640 a top. 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:05.080 What are we doing, Damien. 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:07.840 End of the line. I wasn't about to let you 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:10.199 burn in there, but you're still gonna answer for all this. 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:13.880 So shame though, shower time in prison is going to 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:15.719 be so much less enjoyable. 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:15.960 Now, Damien. 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:18.760 I'm sorry, Please come back. 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:20.640 Demian. 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:30.400 Okay, maybe I'll always have a little crab in me 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:35.240 when you boil it down. There are really only two 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:38.400 types of people. There's the ones who unpack their clothes 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:40.800 into the hotel room drawers when they arrive, and there's 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:44.240 the ones who live out of a suitcase. I'd always 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:47.080 been the latter, mostly because the shit I've gone through 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:51.360 has been well a lot to unpack. But in the 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:55.280 spirit of what doctor Wiley calls healthy coping strategies, and 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:58.920 with a full two weeks of process, I think it's 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:03.839 finally time to unpack. Last year, Elias and Santi became 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:06.680 unwitting pawns and a conversion popper scheme run by the 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:10.400 elusive Miasma Corporation, although it may be more accurate to 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:14.559 call Elias a witting pawn. Ensuring he'd received the research grant. 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:21.880 After graduation, Elias killed his only competitor, Santy. That feels 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:26.120 really extreme, but I guess when you factor in Elias's 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:27.640 other quirks. 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:29.200 I didn't agree to. 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:31.320 Make the hookup because I hate being gay. 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:34.440 I did it to be the only. 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:38.240 Gay what it makes a little more sense. Santy stood 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:42.720 between Elias and his ambition on the topic of elias. 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:45.680 I don't totally know the latest there. Last I heard 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:49.040 he's being charged for something arson adjacent, but any evidence 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:52.360 of the hookup was destroyed in the fire or removed 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:55.840 from it. Ah, here's a detail I may want to 0:14:55.960 --> 0:15:01.960 iron out before I tuck it away. Santi specifically, where 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:08.040 is he? Where is his body? Some detective work hunt. 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:10.960 And yes, I know the elephant in the room is 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:14.920 my asthma Core, the mysterious organization behind the Ashcroft Inlet 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:19.480 Foundation and by extension, the hook on them. Unsurprisingly, there's 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:22.640 nothing about them online, and I'm working on digging deeper, 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:26.960 but really it's not a top priority right now. I 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:30.600 just can't keep putting myself in danger, not for Santy, 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:34.680 not for anyone. I used to think he needed me, 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:39.360 that I was Santy's only chance of rescue, but that 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:42.560 was never the case. I mean, without this mystery to 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.160 consume me, all I'd be left with this past year 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:47.640 was the remaining men in my life, which is a 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:53.120 historically grim demographic. I mean, even now, take Mateo, even 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:56.160 though he's been hive, mind free and completely autonomous since 0:15:56.200 --> 0:16:01.560 I incinerated the link up device, sexuality didn't revert back 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:08.160 Like all the other former goons, Mateo is still straight. Also, 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:11.880 like the other former goons, Mateo doesn't talk to me much. 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:16.120 I did see him yesterday at the library. I would 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:16.720 have said hi. 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:17.800 Except. 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:24.120 Intermediate Marine Science, Advanced Seismic Oceanography, seaweed and other aquatic 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:24.920 jump scares. 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:27.120 No. I'm serious, Mateo. 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:29.560 I didn't know when you asked me to hang if 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:31.440 it was just like a study aid or. 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:36.240 A day daid. Matteo was with a girl my freshman 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:38.280 year Ra Actually Meg. 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:44.200 Honestly I wasn't sure either. But something about you, Meg, 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:47.840 You're an enigma, like. 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:49.880 The thing you used to clean out your butt. 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:51.720 Do you hear something? 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:56.600 P and Peter finished his semester at Crestwick and returned 0:16:56.600 --> 0:17:00.800 to Cape Town. Shockingly, he doesn't keep in touch. Prize 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:07.440 be to good getting me out of that Hellescype Town. 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:10.360 One former hookup goon doesn't hate me at. 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:13.800 Least save me in Come in, come in, Hey, thanks 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:14.560 for meeting me here. 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:15.800 I appreciate it. 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:16.720 Not at all. 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:21.959 I love the Ludlow Lodge, great memories here fire. If anything, 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:26.160 bell Boy has been quite apologetic. I keep telling him 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:26.679 it's fine. 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:29.399 He wasn't himself which is why I feel like this 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:32.760 could be like a great opportunity to start fresh, you know, 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:35.640 new sexuality, new me, and soon new apartment. 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:40.280 Ah, hence the boxes. Yeah, I'm donating most of it. 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:42.480 So if you want anything from the gay stuff pile, 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:43.240 feel free. 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:48.120 Okay, I'll bite come again the gay stuff pile. 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:50.640 Well yeah, I mean, since the hookup turn me straight, 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:52.280 I don't have any use for my gay shit. 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:55.640 Have a look if you want mmm. 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:59.560 Mmmm mm hm oh yeah I should. 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:06.240 That's gay. Hey I remember these you're tossing your medieval 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:07.400 weapons boxer briefs. 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:09.040 Yeah, pretty kay right. 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:12.240 Besides, they're not even mine. Some dude left them here 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:13.440 after we screwed a while back. 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:14.880 Jesus you kept them. 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:17.400 They've got battle access Bro. 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:21.560 Really though, I've started to think bell Boy only apologizes 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:24.760 so much and hopes it'll reciprocate and apologize for stabbing 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:27.520 him with a starfish, which I won't. 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:33.639 I just like really value the value of an apology, 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:36.720 you know. I mean, I'm falling down these sorry so 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:41.760 you can heal apologies, help us heal, Bro. 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:46.000 The thing is I kind of have been healing. I 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:48.680 mean it could be thanks to Bell Boy's apologies, but 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:54.000 I think it's more likely something else, Doctor Wiley. I 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:58.400 haven't been honest. Oh yes, the truth is that guy 0:18:58.480 --> 0:18:59.720 Santi I told you about. 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:03.800 We didn't break up like I said, he went missing. 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:09.240 Yes, I know, hhmm, Damien, it's a small town. Of course, 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:11.880 I knew about the Crestwick student named Santi who went 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:14.439 missing exactly when you said your Saunty broke up with you. 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:22.600 So all this time you were just, oh my god. 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:24.600 Do you want to try this again from the. 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:29.480 Top, And so I did. I finally told doctor Wiley everything, 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:33.720 and this time just the facts. The villagers gathered in 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:36.320 the town square, drenched in the blood of their massacred 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:41.639 chickens werewolf. The town crier screams. That's kind of been 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:44.920 the motif of the month. Truth. Like I said earlier, 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:48.080 this entire half baked investigation has really just been a 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:51.680 series of lies and deceptions. Every step I've taken and 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:54.160 every man I've touched has been a means to an end, 0:19:54.560 --> 0:20:01.160 simply an undercover's mission to gather intel. Until now, See, 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:04.959 there is this one guy who makes opening up and 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:10.640 being honest feel really doable, and despite my crippling fears, 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:15.760 the real Damien Hurst hasn't deterred him yet. So who 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:17.840 is this mystery? Gentleman I've been seeing? 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:20.240 Why are you going through my drawers? 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:20.960 Wait? 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:25.440 Honestly, the drawers are an accidental prop I was using 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:28.200 in a mental metaphor to work through my thoughts. 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:31.399 You should have just said you're sniffing my underwear. It 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:34.840 would have been less weird. Although if I were a 0:20:34.840 --> 0:20:38.880 big shot Veronica Martian tier detective like you, babe, I'd 0:20:38.920 --> 0:20:40.200 probably have a lot to work through too. 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:44.320 Not even what do you mean? Well, I didn't really 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:47.879 solve anything, did I? I mean we only found the 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:51.199 brewery because of the ads Metal was sending me. I 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:54.639 never figured out why the metal alert sound temporarily disrupts 0:20:54.680 --> 0:20:58.359 the polycule's influence. Honestly, what part of this did I solve? 0:21:01.040 --> 0:21:05.080 What if I'm just not a good detective at my core? 0:21:05.760 --> 0:21:09.240 Maybe I'm just not cut out to be an investigative journalist. 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:15.320 I always thought it was obvious you're Scooby. You don't 0:21:15.320 --> 0:21:18.320 have to set the traps or make the plans. You 0:21:18.359 --> 0:21:22.080 just have to derail them until you, in some roundabout way, 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:24.119 arrive at the right conclusion. 0:21:25.119 --> 0:21:26.439 I'm on the fence about that comment. 0:21:26.760 --> 0:21:30.000 Hey, since you seem to know your way around my dresser, 0:21:30.400 --> 0:21:32.359 can you grab me a pair of boxers? We're gonna 0:21:32.359 --> 0:21:32.960 be late for the game. 0:21:33.880 --> 0:21:35.960 I'll bet you head the Crustaceans lose again. 0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:39.120 I planned on getting head from you tonight either way, 0:21:39.200 --> 0:21:42.560 but sure deal, bib Oh, and will you click on 0:21:42.600 --> 0:21:45.199 the electric kettle too, it's gonna be a rama night. 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:47.800 Careful you don't trip on the cord. 0:21:48.560 --> 0:21:50.919 I know my credibility takes a hit when I end 0:21:50.960 --> 0:21:54.479 up dating guys that I previously declared the Antichrist. But 0:21:54.520 --> 0:21:58.119 maybe I misjudge waited first, or maybe my initial assessment 0:21:58.160 --> 0:22:00.560 was correct and I've since gotten worse and met him 0:22:00.560 --> 0:22:05.760 at his level. Either way, I think he makes me happy. 0:22:06.880 --> 0:22:12.600 These underwear which ones? Oh, medieval castles get your voice? 0:22:13.119 --> 0:22:14.879 If you like the medieval theme, there should be a 0:22:14.920 --> 0:22:17.480 pair with knights in there too. There used to be 0:22:17.560 --> 0:22:18.960 a third pair in the set. 0:22:18.760 --> 0:22:20.680 With medieval weapons print. 0:22:21.359 --> 0:22:23.800 Yeah. I think I left them at a guy's place. 0:22:23.800 --> 0:22:27.040 Though, if Wade and bell Boy were at any point 0:22:27.040 --> 0:22:30.320 hooking up, then isn't it possible it was Wade who 0:22:30.400 --> 0:22:32.920 left the medieval weapons boxer briefs at bell Boy's place? 0:22:34.160 --> 0:22:36.159 And even though bell Boy had an alibi at the 0:22:36.160 --> 0:22:39.240 time of the disappearance, an accomplice could still have used 0:22:39.240 --> 0:22:42.560 his motel employee perks to pull off the murder. Perks 0:22:42.840 --> 0:22:46.480 like precise knowledge of the building CCTV dead zones, dang 0:22:46.960 --> 0:22:51.880 you good. Perks like access to the normally locked dumb waiter, which, 0:22:51.920 --> 0:22:54.359 if we trust the vision MATEO pulled from the polycule, 0:22:54.560 --> 0:22:57.439 we know Santi's body was at some point stored inside. 0:22:57.640 --> 0:23:06.439 May perks like keys to our Oh it was you, Wade, 0:23:07.400 --> 0:23:10.320 you killed Santy. 0:23:10.880 --> 0:23:13.800 I deny it, but I don't want to keep lying 0:23:13.800 --> 0:23:15.920 to you. Hey, hey, you're okay. 0:23:15.880 --> 0:23:16.520 Don't touch me. 0:23:17.760 --> 0:23:18.439 How did you know? 0:23:19.040 --> 0:23:20.280 Are you working for my asthma? 0:23:21.000 --> 0:23:23.600 No? I really don't know anything about them. 0:23:24.160 --> 0:23:26.800 Oh really, I'm supposed to believe you just killed Santy 0:23:26.840 --> 0:23:27.840 in a crime of passion. 0:23:31.440 --> 0:23:36.000 I liked Santi, I really really liked him, and I 0:23:36.040 --> 0:23:39.439 knew that he didn't feel the same. I used to 0:23:39.440 --> 0:23:41.359 wonder if maybe he was just the type of person 0:23:41.440 --> 0:23:46.479 who didn't show his feelings until he met you, and 0:23:46.520 --> 0:23:48.720 then I saw in his eyes, just from the few 0:23:48.720 --> 0:23:55.360 times he mentioned Damien Hurst, that he really really liked you. Granted, 0:23:55.480 --> 0:23:57.600 I also got that message when he broke things off 0:23:57.640 --> 0:23:57.879 with me. 0:23:59.240 --> 0:24:02.200 So a few days later you followed him to the 0:24:02.240 --> 0:24:03.760