Speaker 1: Mordeo is a production of I Heart Radio, Blumhouse Television
Speaker 1: and Crypt TV in association with Wolf at the Door.
Speaker 1: We think we know ourselves better than anyone else. Or
Speaker 1: maybe that's a lot. Maybe I'm the only one who
Speaker 1: can't see what I truly am. This is made. I
Speaker 1: can only drive so fast, Isaiah, Sorry, just how far
Speaker 1: are you? I'm an hour out an Okay, you got
Speaker 1: the right place, scrappy, I will tell Yeah, dude, you
Speaker 1: told me. I'm sorry. I say what exactly am I
Speaker 1: driving into? I'll explain when you can't. I can't anyway
Speaker 1: I see. So if I get a ticket, your pain,
Speaker 1: Josh Lend Gianna Williams get down from that roof right now.
Speaker 1: I'm not going. There's nothing wrong with me. Dr Larson
Speaker 1: just wants to help. If you have questions or feelings
Speaker 1: you don't understand. I understand everything just by that makes
Speaker 1: one of us. Then you know I go to therapy too. Well.
Speaker 1: I didn't say there wasn't anything wrong with you. If
Speaker 1: you come down here, I promise I will go inside
Speaker 1: and call Dr Larson. Came first, then I'll come down.
Speaker 1: H Y. I want the forensic details on my backpack
Speaker 1: on my desk the minute we have them. I wasn't
Speaker 1: playing non sitting on him. Detective. Well, then we won't
Speaker 1: have a problem, won't we. Drunk ass hill billy, A
Speaker 1: few bourbons never made anyone a drunk gass Michelle Reid,
Speaker 1: though the moonshine does make him a hell billy. Mrs Marshall,
Speaker 1: I apologize. I didn't expect anyone in my office. It's
Speaker 1: fine workplace. Aggression is a cruel bedfellow of nepotism. What
Speaker 1: can I do for you? Mrs Marshall was hoping for
Speaker 1: a wellness check on a friend of mine, Paul Douglas.
Speaker 1: Wellness check. The man's been meat me at lose for
Speaker 1: coffee the past forty years without fail. This morning he
Speaker 1: didn't show up well. As you pointed out, nepotism seems
Speaker 1: to have made wellness checks a little bit on my
Speaker 1: pay grade. Paul Douglas was a significant contributor to your
Speaker 1: father's election campaign, if I recall, it would be a
Speaker 1: shame if his own daughter didn't take care of this
Speaker 1: town like the Sheriff's office promised, especially its most avid supporters.
Speaker 1: Not that financial entanglement has anything to do with protecting
Speaker 1: and serving now does it? Of course not, so you'll
Speaker 1: check in on Paul top of my list. Good, something's wrong,
Speaker 1: Detective read. I can feel it in my bones. Wow.
Speaker 1: Really getting a new appreciation for the term ship home
Speaker 1: four five six b schnook thumbs. I'm home. Hi, you
Speaker 1: look like hell quick inside? Oh there, soldier pregnant with
Speaker 1: my own piss? Here? Do they even have flushing toilets
Speaker 1: in the dumb? Do you? You don't want to go
Speaker 1: in there? Jesus? Yeah? I can smell that much from here.
Speaker 1: You should see a doctor about that. Just sit down, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, okay, So how do I explain this? Dude?
Speaker 1: Get ahold of yourself. I haven't seen you this jittery
Speaker 1: since Depth Sergeant Sasquatch threatened to kick your ass the
Speaker 1: second night on base. I don't even know where to start, Isaiah,
Speaker 1: it's me. I got you. I just drove five miles
Speaker 1: to hear whatever it is you're about to tell me,
Speaker 1: So spit it out. Maybe it's better I'll show you
Speaker 1: in the tone in the bag. Yeah, what the fuck?
Speaker 1: What the bush? It's not what you think. A garbage
Speaker 1: back full of bloody body parts inside the cheap motel
Speaker 1: isn't what I think. I know. It looks bad. It
Speaker 1: looks bad. I didn't know who else to call. When
Speaker 1: people say they bury a body for you, it's just
Speaker 1: the same. They don't mean it literally. I'm sorry. You're
Speaker 1: the only one I could trust, the only one I
Speaker 1: knew who would hear me out when I said I
Speaker 1: didn't do this? Then who did? Whatever it was? I
Speaker 1: think it lives in the woods. What yay? Kay? Come
Speaker 1: out gay? I say, gay, I'm pried. He talked to
Speaker 1: my brother. I'm over here. Okay, I got you, ship,
Speaker 1: I say, it fucking cut my leg. Get the flash light.
Speaker 1: It's in my backpack over there, got it? Sure? What
Speaker 1: is it? Is it bad? I say, it's a bad
Speaker 1: You got a first aid? Make a partment. No, don't
Speaker 1: work on the bucket. That's gonna hurt you. Okay, you're
Speaker 1: ready up? No, no, look time from the time. Hey, hey,
Speaker 1: listen to me if you are not gonna die. We
Speaker 1: said it came out here. Whatever attacked me, It wasn't
Speaker 1: a bo it wasn't appeared. It was bigger said where.
Speaker 1: The whole stories are true. So come on, those old
Speaker 1: stories are full of ship. Remember right now, you just
Speaker 1: gotta stay with me, Gabe. I calmed down brief, Okay,
Speaker 1: focus on me good, and that's what the joss work.
Speaker 1: So you saw something in the woods when you were
Speaker 1: out there with your brother, and then it came back
Speaker 1: again and killed this Paul guy. You know that sounds
Speaker 1: like total bullshit, right? I swear all. I remember seeing
Speaker 1: Paul in the woods and when I woke up, What
Speaker 1: am I gonna do? If you really think you didn't
Speaker 1: do this, maybe it's best to go to the police.
Speaker 1: A black man with a known record and around the
Speaker 1: mangle body parts of a white city council member. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sure they will totally accept that. I woke up
Speaker 1: and he was like, this story, Come on, Cat, And
Speaker 1: why should I accept it? Because you know me? Cat,
Speaker 1: You know me. I know that you're always the best
Speaker 1: of us overseas, and I know I wouldn't be alive
Speaker 1: today if you weren't. But I also know there's a
Speaker 1: dead body in the bad type that you can't explain.
Speaker 1: God damn it. What's the craft? They fetus simplify? Always loyal?
Speaker 1: But you didn't buy into indoctrination. I don't, but I
Speaker 1: believe in paying my debts. You save my ass in couple,
Speaker 1: I save your ass now, then we'll be square. Thank you,
Speaker 1: don't thank me yet. First things first, we need to
Speaker 1: get rid of all this. I said. We have two options,
Speaker 1: Burnham or Buryham. We can't do that. I guess we
Speaker 1: could think I'm in the river too little riskier. No,
Speaker 1: I mean we can't get rid of them yet? Why not?
Speaker 1: This isn't all of them? When's that says? Supposed to
Speaker 1: be home? I thought he'd already been here. We're gonna
Speaker 1: have a movie marathon. I'll only be gone a few hours.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure there's enough time for a marathon. There
Speaker 1: are eight Fast and Furious movies, and he promised we've
Speaker 1: watched them all together. Fast and Furious. Absolutely not. Why
Speaker 1: not let's table the discussion of the objectification of women
Speaker 1: until Isaiah can hear it too. M Why don't you
Speaker 1: like a Glasia? What are you talking about? Of course
Speaker 1: I like him sometimes maybe, but not all the time.
Speaker 1: I've known your uncle a while, and even when we
Speaker 1: were kids, he was just hot and cold, meaning meaning,
Speaker 1: mind your own business. Each popcorn m This is the
Speaker 1: last place I remember. It's right off the county road.
Speaker 1: You sure someone didn't see you. It was dark. Doesn't
Speaker 1: mean no one did that is truck. Yeah, okay, one
Speaker 1: problem at a time. I found most of them over here.
Speaker 1: We're missing a leg, left leg and a head copy
Speaker 1: head and left legs still, m I A you try
Speaker 1: to clean up buried the blood in the dirt. Got
Speaker 1: some showcasings over here. I think you had a rifle
Speaker 1: with him. We shouldn't leave them behind. There are some
Speaker 1: drag marks here. It looks like they head east back
Speaker 1: into the woods. Oh no, don't let your dick shrink
Speaker 1: on me. Now we have to go in there. We
Speaker 1: don't have a choice. I know, cat, but listen, the
Speaker 1: thing that did this it's dangerous. That's why I have
Speaker 1: all twelve inches of this serrated beauty. You're the one
Speaker 1: who dragged me into this raging dumpster fire. I'm not
Speaker 1: stopping until we find the rest of that body. Come on,
Speaker 1: Mr Douglas, ok Ridge falls p d. You really didn't
Speaker 1: need to join me, Mrs Marshall. Paul's one of my
Speaker 1: oldest friends. If there's something the matter, I want to
Speaker 1: know about it. Huh, doors unlocked, that's unusual, I take it.
Speaker 1: Man built his own bunker in the basement. It's more
Speaker 1: than unusual. He must have left in a hurry. Mr
Speaker 1: Douglas got a request for a wellness check. You want
Speaker 1: to be sure you're all right. You take down here,
Speaker 1: I'll look upstairs. Mrs Marshall, please wait outside, Mr Douglas.
Speaker 1: What the hell? What is all this? September four? Subject
Speaker 1: and row Subject trailed to north thirty eight oh one
Speaker 1: oh two? West cops really can't help, Snoop? And can they? Nothing? Upstairs?
Speaker 1: Did notice his truck's missing, though, So this isn't the
Speaker 1: last place he's been. You're probably right, Lord, haven't seen
Speaker 1: a huncle junk radio like that since we cleared out
Speaker 1: my Daddy's shipped thirty years ago. Oh what'd you find that?
Speaker 1: Not sure? Looks like a log of some kind, dates, times, coordinates,
Speaker 1: like he was tracking something could be incollegible, that one
Speaker 1: always acting like the head of the damned c I
Speaker 1: A probably went sniffing around and found himself some trouble. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but what kind of trouble? I'm not the detective, he am.
Speaker 1: I some of this looks like it's written in code,
Speaker 1: more likely some obscure bygone language. Paul was into that crap.
Speaker 1: He minded in Latin. You know Latin. Nothing screams inferiority
Speaker 1: complex more than a Latin minor. These entries start August one,
Speaker 1: what about Probably a coincidence, it's just August first was
Speaker 1: when we found Zaiah Williams. Excuse me, read, I'll be
Speaker 1: right there. No, I want to see it myself. Thanks
Speaker 1: for coming, Hernesto. I wouldn't have called, but you don't
Speaker 1: have to convince me to spend time with my granddaughter. Hi,
Speaker 1: Poppy Jocelyn. Wow, look at you all growing up in
Speaker 1: the blink of an eye? Can you tell mom that
Speaker 1: she still thinks I need a babysitter. He's not a babysitter.
Speaker 1: He's here to hang out with you while you're gone.
Speaker 1: It sounds like a babysitter than me. I smelled popcorn.
Speaker 1: Does that mean win for a movie night? If you
Speaker 1: like born PG stuff. She's got Barenta blocks up, maybe
Speaker 1: a board game? Then great? Why don't you go choose
Speaker 1: something and set it up for Poppy? Whatever? She's a spitfire,
Speaker 1: a't she? Hm? You know that if it came around,
Speaker 1: I'll only be gone a few hours. I just didn't
Speaker 1: want her to be alone. Considering well, everything where you headed.
Speaker 1: I have a grief counseling group, mats Over and Randolph.
Speaker 1: I see, I used to go to Randolph myself for group.
Speaker 1: Not exactly the same kind of guess, but take your time.
Speaker 1: The nice thing about being retired. I don't have anywhere
Speaker 1: else to be, because if you did, you wouldn't be here.
Speaker 1: That's not what I meant, Ashley. I wasn't a good
Speaker 1: father to the boys, I mean after Gigi passed, But
Speaker 1: I want to do better now. I owe that much
Speaker 1: to Gabe, and frankly, so does Isaiah. M hm, No,
Speaker 1: you don't get to say that tonight's side. Isaiah has
Speaker 1: been there for Joscelyn. You haven't. I'll be back as
Speaker 1: soon as I can. Where was this thing going? We're
Speaker 1: pretty deep in I think we should turn back. It's
Speaker 1: nearly dark. Come on, Isaiah, there's no turning back from this.
Speaker 1: What were you doing in the woods in the first place?
Speaker 1: What do you mean You said you blacked out, but
Speaker 1: you were already out here after everything with Gabe, I
Speaker 1: think this would be the last place you'd ever want
Speaker 1: to come back to. So why were you here? It's
Speaker 1: a simple question, Soldier Jesus ship well with found his
Speaker 1: leg what's left of it? Look at these nasty non
Speaker 1: marks because some bear had a hearty lunch. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: back this up, check the rest of the area. Okay,
Speaker 1: Oh god, m h m hm. Now your friend, that's
Speaker 1: his head up there. It's goddamn head, Yeah it is.
Speaker 1: What is this place? It looks like an altar of
Speaker 1: some kind. You need to get out of here. Kay?
Speaker 1: Is there a history of cults in these woods? This
Speaker 1: feels very culty? Alright, alright, let me get his head
Speaker 1: in the back. Oh he was an ugly fucker. M
Speaker 1: almost got it? Need to be so dramatic? Oh god, okay,
Speaker 1: got it? Did you see that ship there? Hey? Are
Speaker 1: you sorry? We need to leave now? Okay, we're gone,
Speaker 1: come on, mhm two three, and I went again. Either
Speaker 1: you're really lucky? Well I really suck at this game.
Speaker 1: My dad was always lucky too. I bet you miss him.
Speaker 1: That's what everyone keeps telling me. I'll be right back,
Speaker 1: set up another Sure, I got nothing else to do, Michelle, Hi,
Speaker 1: cap got the results from the backpack. I thought you
Speaker 1: want to know, all right, you're not going to believe this.
Speaker 1: Diagnostics found two sets of DNA they're confirmed. Both were
Speaker 1: complete samples, fully intact. But the first sample yielded no results.
Speaker 1: So they're not in the system. That's what I figured.
Speaker 1: Two turns out they're not in any system. The sequencing
Speaker 1: doesn't match any known species human or otherwise. Can you
Speaker 1: use the other sample? Maybe? Does she shed some light
Speaker 1: right the blood cap? It's escapes blood match cap. You're
Speaker 1: still there? Have you informed Dashly? No? I wanted to
Speaker 1: hear what you thought of the results. She should hobby
Speaker 1: you coming. I need to go on, Michelle. I know
Speaker 1: it doesn't seem like it, but this is good news.
Speaker 1: Good news. It means I found something. There's something in
Speaker 1: those woods, and whatever it is, God to your son.
Speaker 1: We have to keep cooling. Okay, you need to rest
Speaker 1: that leg just until don These blankets will help prevent
Speaker 1: you from going into shock. Here laid out, you're gonna
Speaker 1: be okay, I promise. Oh no, no, this is a steak.
Speaker 1: I'll keep watching all right. Start thurning that out here.
Speaker 1: We're gonna start running out full soon. Let me worry
Speaker 1: about that. It's still out there. It's my nuts. Listen
Speaker 1: to me. No, No, I'm gonna get you out of this.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get us out of here. I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: you back to your family. Stop making brother, can't keep
Speaker 1: that's that? Think not to just go to sleep. We'll
Speaker 1: be fine until morning. Let's say it scared T know, Bro,
Speaker 1: I am too. You really suck at climbing fences. I'd
Speaker 1: like to see you climb a fence after getting your
Speaker 1: leg man, go buy an I D enough with the
Speaker 1: guilt chip already here, all right, empty the bag because
Speaker 1: I'm a landfill kind of Bobby and stumps. Would you
Speaker 1: want to go digging around in here? Cops don't either
Speaker 1: unless they have to, and they don't have a reason
Speaker 1: to expect he's here. Take these fires. You'll need to
Speaker 1: take the teeth out if they do find something. Even
Speaker 1: a partial jaw can be compared against dental records. I
Speaker 1: want it all burn, better safe than sorry. M his
Speaker 1: mouth stuck close. Try asking nicely. We'll have to stay
Speaker 1: watching burn. Then burry whatever is left and spread the
Speaker 1: ashes around the yard. Why do you know all this? Step? Mom?
Speaker 1: Number three was an I D Channel junkie. Damn it's done.
Speaker 1: That's the last two lighter fluid honors are yours? We
Speaker 1: did it? Yeah, we did and now that my debt
Speaker 1: is paid, you're gonna tell me why you've been lying
Speaker 1: to me all day. You're gonna tell me the truth,
Speaker 1: every goddamn bit of it. What do you do when
Speaker 1: your instincts failure and you fear all that's left inside
Speaker 1: you as darkness, all consuming, pitch black darkness? Do you
Speaker 1: turn away from who you are? Do you walk into
Speaker 1: the night? Next time? On more Dale, it's my head
Speaker 1: whispers to me, is that this isn't from the hell here. No, no, wait,
Speaker 1: he wouldn't do anything to game. He's not that kind
Speaker 1: of person. Hie the hill, Open the door, Listen to
Speaker 1: me because it's real. I Heart Radio. Blum House Television
Speaker 1: and Crypt TV in association with Wolfe at the Door
Speaker 1: present Mordeo. Executive produced by Jack Davis, Kate Krantz, Darren Brandel,
Speaker 1: Jason Blum, Chris Dickey, Matt Frederick and Alex Williams. Written
Speaker 1: by Caitlin Crabb, Directed by Alex Kemp, Produced by Toby Lawless,
Speaker 1: Winnie Kemp, Daniel Parsons, Co producers, Ben So Tack, Anthony Mgnolo,
Speaker 1: Associate producer Federico Torrado. Starring j L. Fons Nicholson as Isaiah,
Speaker 1: Ashley Platts as Ashley, Olivia Lott as Jocelyn Yvonne Angulo
Speaker 1: as Michelle, with performances by Real Michael Scott, Tacy Adams, Ariella,
Speaker 1: Amar kim Estes, Patty Wilkins. Sound designed by Dean Hovey,
Speaker 1: Original score by Christopher Kemp, Mixing by Mark Scarce, Edited
Speaker 1: by Fernando Diaz, Assistant engineer Noah Sour. Recorded at Wolf
Speaker 1: at the Door Studios. Casting consultant Michelle LeWitt, Production assistants
Speaker 1: Hailey mckeckney and Sophia Gilberto, studio teacher Pearl Hika. Writing
Speaker 1: assistant Bill Hanson. This podcast was recorded under a SAG
Speaker 1: after collective bargaining agreement. Mordeo is a production of I
Speaker 1: Heart Radio Blumhouse Television Crypt TV. For more podcasts from
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