Speaker 1: Tomorrow's Monsters as a production of My Heart Radio, Flynn
Speaker 1: Picture Company, Psycopia Pictures and Upper Room Productions. It made
Speaker 1: as Michael Corb right, Michael Coleman, Yeah, yeah, how do
Speaker 1: you want to pay? The one has been already transferred
Speaker 1: the money to the city or to open count of
Speaker 1: shares to the Sheriff's office on now, Yeah, you can
Speaker 1: wait outside. They're bringing him down now. That's when it
Speaker 1: all started. Michael had been arrested a few times before,
Speaker 1: usually just for public drunkenness. The corps always went soft
Speaker 1: on Michael because it was a fair it's of the country,
Speaker 1: it's time. It was worse. He was charged with gross
Speaker 1: negligence and discharging a firearm in public. Luckily came to
Speaker 1: his senses and dropped the gun before the corps took
Speaker 1: him out. I felt helpless and I felt exhausted. The
Speaker 1: feeding that time was running now and the next school
Speaker 1: would be from from the Morgue. I couldn't bail him
Speaker 1: out anymore. Something got to change. He stepped out of
Speaker 1: the cinder block jail house and looked around sheepishly. I
Speaker 1: couldn't stand the siph him. Michael over it now, fuck
Speaker 1: me let's say, man, I'd never get out of here.
Speaker 1: You know, this guy kept telling me. Why couldn't look? Look.
Speaker 1: This guy walks into a bar right orders to drinks
Speaker 1: Michael decision. So the boston says, why the two beers?
Speaker 1: Am I right? The guy says, I've got a brother
Speaker 1: that's stationed in Damascus, and each night we ordered two
Speaker 1: drinks so that we can still drink together. About me,
Speaker 1: it's a joke, bro, I promise you you love it.
Speaker 1: Just I don't want to hear each night to drinks
Speaker 1: one for him, went for his brother until not right now.
Speaker 1: Until one night the guy walks in and he only
Speaker 1: orders one beer, all right. So the bartender gets quiet
Speaker 1: and he says, oh, man, bro, I'm sorry, I feel lost.
Speaker 1: Drinks from the house. So the guy says, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: my my brother's fine. I just quit drinking. That's fine, okay, No,
Speaker 1: no, no no, I've got one. I've got one. I've got one.
Speaker 1: Guy gets a call from his brother if he's locked
Speaker 1: up in jail and his brother has to borrow twenty
Speaker 1: five k to baby's ass out at three in the morning.
Speaker 1: Are you silent now? Yeah, it's not funny. It's not
Speaker 1: a joke man, Okay, Mine, all right, all right, I
Speaker 1: messed up. I was just you know, I was just
Speaker 1: were you doing? I was just killing rats, right, I
Speaker 1: was just killing rats, but with a gun, bro, I
Speaker 1: wasn't hurting anybody, all right. I used to do it
Speaker 1: all the time in the desert, talking practice on the rest. Okay, Man,
Speaker 1: I know what stupid with God? Man? Sometimes I I
Speaker 1: can't do ship it here? Man? Are you still going
Speaker 1: to those v amiens? Jack? Come on, man, that place
Speaker 1: is juiceless? Michael, Michael, what are you talking about? What?
Speaker 1: Obviously need help. They have programs to help you readjust
Speaker 1: they have doctors. You should be coming. You should go down. Man.
Speaker 1: There's no appointments Jack, none. But we're you talking about.
Speaker 1: We're talking about the h They can't they can't help me.
Speaker 1: What What the hell are you gonna do? Where are
Speaker 1: you gonna go? H? What about mom? I can't go
Speaker 1: back home for a while. Look, I was I was thinking,
Speaker 1: all right, just hear me out, man, just just hear
Speaker 1: me out. All right. This is this guy I know,
Speaker 1: buddy of mine named David. You're telling me about this,
Speaker 1: this this thing, this this this this program. I don't
Speaker 1: know prom so it pays like two K a week
Speaker 1: for like six weeks. All right, free food, nice room
Speaker 1: to some doctors. Medical evails. And they even have a
Speaker 1: strength and and and they're specifically looking for combat trained veterans.
Speaker 1: So like a program for treating PTSD. No, it's a
Speaker 1: it's a clinical trial, right for some for some research
Speaker 1: or some new drug. I don't know who drunk? Look
Speaker 1: here next, corp FDA approved Phase two protocol designs after
Speaker 1: a rigorous special assessment. I mean, where is this medal?
Speaker 1: I don't know? It could be good. Get me off
Speaker 1: the street for a while. Look look look at this
Speaker 1: part right here. Goal is to developing mind application using
Speaker 1: thought ware based nano technology to regulate hormones and reverse
Speaker 1: the effects of mental fatigue and stress related sleep deprivation. Um,
Speaker 1: it's a controlled environment, right, Maybe help me stabilize my thoughts.
Speaker 1: Phase two includes human trials with specific sample groups such
Speaker 1: as patient stide it was with PTSD or suffering from
Speaker 1: psychological and emotional damage caused by sexual soul, warm dan, crime,
Speaker 1: and and other tumors. What what do you think? Why
Speaker 1: are you asking me? Man? Come on, Jack, you know
Speaker 1: this stuff right, You're you're a bio engineer, didn't you, So,
Speaker 1: so what do you think. Look, I think it's great.
Speaker 1: What Yeah, it's like you said that this could be good.
Speaker 1: It's a controlled environment. This is great for you. Man.
Speaker 1: It was a lie. I knew the next core clinical
Speaker 1: trials were a bad idea. I knew they were going
Speaker 1: to use Michael as a guinea pig. So under normal circumstances,
Speaker 1: I would have told Michael to stay the hell away.
Speaker 1: I would have told him that the only thing crazy
Speaker 1: doing target practice on rats in an Earlley Way in
Speaker 1: downtown Oakland and broad daylight was volunteering his brain to
Speaker 1: some Silicon Valley startup so they could load it up
Speaker 1: with nan nights and keep him awaken. Definitely, But right
Speaker 1: then I couldn't think of anything better for me than
Speaker 1: Michael being someone else's problem. What don't you stay at
Speaker 1: my place tonight? I'm driving to the trial in the morning. Michael.
Speaker 1: Huh A place tonight? Michael? Yeah? Yeah, no, Um yeah, man,
Speaker 1: that's yeah, that's cool. All right, good. Next morning I
Speaker 1: drove Michael to the trial. Who was the last time
Speaker 1: I swear in my life? M h I'm still on
Speaker 1: the road, still somewhere in Nebraska. Outside my window of
Speaker 1: the American Midwest tress by continuously. The stream of energy
Speaker 1: feels and dust at neither horizon glows with a light
Speaker 1: spilling from distant cities. It feels like I'm frozen inside
Speaker 1: of a massive machine clockwork in constant motion around me.
Speaker 1: Other times, it feels like my brother is here too.
Speaker 1: You want to tell your joke, like his ghost is
Speaker 1: along for the ride on this journey across America. I
Speaker 1: imagine him in the back seat telling one of his
Speaker 1: bad drugs. Her grief is like a curse. Your brain
Speaker 1: glitches against the cognitive absence, the missing information that loved
Speaker 1: one no longer present, and your brain compensates, fills the
Speaker 1: void with patterns. I know these are a music nations,
Speaker 1: but he's getting harder to dismissed him as such. When
Speaker 1: I was a kid, I split my time between England
Speaker 1: and the States. I'm wanted to keep me in secondary
Speaker 1: school back in the UK, so I lived with my
Speaker 1: grandparents and I would visit Mom and Michael on holiday.
Speaker 1: Michael and I had different fathers. Both of them were
Speaker 1: mostly absent from our lives, but my father would at
Speaker 1: least keep in touch and making appearance a few times
Speaker 1: a year. That's not much, but it's not nothing. I see,
Speaker 1: I knew my father loved me, even if he was
Speaker 1: ill equipped to be a full time parent or Michael's
Speaker 1: father was different at a series of ship jobs that
Speaker 1: he lose with an almost comical regularity. Guessing that way,
Speaker 1: he was dependable when he lived with us for a
Speaker 1: few years before my mother divorced him, which took far
Speaker 1: too long. Michael was only three. After that, he would
Speaker 1: take Michael every other weekend for a few more years,
Speaker 1: until Michael turned six. His dad took him camping for
Speaker 1: his birthday, and on the morning of their second day
Speaker 1: in the woods, Michael woke up alone. In this ten
Speaker 1: he waited for his dad to come back. Waited all
Speaker 1: day and all night. His dad never came. Eventually, Michael
Speaker 1: hyped back to the road, scared and alone. His dad's
Speaker 1: car was gone. Michael never saw his father again. You know,
Speaker 1: I think it's quite clear that Michael blamed himself. I
Speaker 1: think he grew up thinking something was wrong with him,
Speaker 1: that he was on lovable. Unfortunately for Michael, I was
Speaker 1: the next best option for a male role model. But
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm trash I couldn't help but explay
Speaker 1: his weaknesses. It was a lifelong time and then it
Speaker 1: made for a dangerous relationship. You know, my mom used
Speaker 1: to scream at me, are you trying to kill your brother?
Speaker 1: Maybe I was. This is one of the last recordings
Speaker 1: of him. Michael, how are you feeling all right? Sleep?
Speaker 1: All right? Man? Definitely whatever you gave me knocked me
Speaker 1: out at these cots. They remind me of the Army
Speaker 1: um in base camp. I learned how to turn it
Speaker 1: all off over there, so you know, I'm going to
Speaker 1: administer your first stances from the trial. Doesn't hurt. It's
Speaker 1: a video of Michael getting these first throws of shines
Speaker 1: three months later. Ready, yeah, let's do it. He was
Speaker 1: dead Friday, March hours. Test subject oh five A Michael Corbyn.
Speaker 1: The other person that you hear in this video is
Speaker 1: dr Abby Reynolds. Here's exposure number one sixty two five
Speaker 1: p r F five seconds. Yes, forward, deep breath. I
Speaker 1: went to see you four days ago and three two
Speaker 1: and it's January four ten am. I just arrived at
Speaker 1: this Meryton House free clinic North for the Sea. The
Speaker 1: interress was on the envelope. Max gave me the one
Speaker 1: that he instructed me to deliver to dr Abby Reynolds
Speaker 1: when they had a check inside for two hundred thousand
Speaker 1: less made after her. Maybe I can get some answers
Speaker 1: out of her, and I see how this classes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm looking for a dr Abby raynams Regni. He was personal,
Speaker 1: have a seat, I'll I don't know. I took a
Speaker 1: seat and crowded way around the room was packed mothers
Speaker 1: with six children, and people sniffling and bleeding. And afterwardmit
Speaker 1: through the way, my head was pounding. I feel around.
Speaker 1: I tried to focus on the window, the world outside,
Speaker 1: and that's the first time I saw it, the gray
Speaker 1: van and all the gas powered forward tinted windows. Maybe
Speaker 1: he used to be blue or green, but he's got
Speaker 1: of pain and faded to a dull grade. This van
Speaker 1: keeps circling the parking lot outside the clinic. It slowed
Speaker 1: down each time it passed by. That's how I knew
Speaker 1: that my grain was coming next. I've suffered severe migraines
Speaker 1: since I was a boy. That the triggers are all different,
Speaker 1: lack of sleep, poor diet, staring at the screen for
Speaker 1: too long because I and I saw multiple doctors but
Speaker 1: none of them had any clue, and I realized that
Speaker 1: if I wanted to find out what what's wrong with
Speaker 1: my head, I would have to diagnose myself. I had
Speaker 1: my own brain. That's what led me to buy an
Speaker 1: engineering and neuroscience. Eventually I discovered there were others like
Speaker 1: me that I have a rare neurological syndrome that causes hallucinations,
Speaker 1: sense redistortion, and panic attacks. Every time it's different except
Speaker 1: for one symptom. I call it the replay. And when
Speaker 1: this replay happens, I experienced repeating patterns. It's not deja
Speaker 1: It's more like a fever dream, like I'm stuck in
Speaker 1: a loop, suspended in the moment of time. Perhaps I
Speaker 1: see a dog almost getting run over by the same
Speaker 1: all three times in a row, while distinctly recall finding
Speaker 1: my lost keys in the launch room right before I
Speaker 1: find my lost keys in the launitary room. In this case,
Speaker 1: it was a great van that just kept passing by
Speaker 1: outside of the window next to where I we're seeing.
Speaker 1: Can I help you, Dr Reynolds? Yes? If Dr Reynolds
Speaker 1: had my braceh accent, if she knew who I really was,
Speaker 1: there's no way in hell she'd ever taught to me,
Speaker 1: you work for Max Fuller, correct, So I had to
Speaker 1: convince her that I was someone else, not anymore. Some
Speaker 1: moving more Three were you're still receiving payments from X corp?
Speaker 1: Or is that hush money? Who are you? We're investigating
Speaker 1: the next corps of the code of Conduct? And for
Speaker 1: other safety concerns. What concerns the human trials, Dr Reynolds,
Speaker 1: specifically the you to deeper instants, lack of post trial
Speaker 1: therapies awards those were offered to the subjects. Look, I
Speaker 1: need to see some I need to see some ideas
Speaker 1: reporting the admission of critical data from the previous round
Speaker 1: animal testing PRESUMA will be so that Max Floyd could
Speaker 1: green light human trials in the first place. And that
Speaker 1: would be where you come in, Dr Reynolds. I need
Speaker 1: to see credentials. Martin Bowman h A. I work with
Speaker 1: Nick Batty and we know about the rats. Dr Reynolds.
Speaker 1: People are always more compliant in person. It's also useful
Speaker 1: to draw for real names. Martin Bowman and Nick Bay
Speaker 1: were real. Bey was the head of the h e A,
Speaker 1: the Human Enhancement Administration. I had that these undivided attention.
Speaker 1: I a lie to do was offer her a way out.
Speaker 1: Dr Reynolds. This doesn't have to get ugly now. You
Speaker 1: wanted to do the right thing. We know that. But
Speaker 1: I definitely need your compliance if and to continue with
Speaker 1: you in good faith, and we need you to help
Speaker 1: piece some things together, put an end to all this
Speaker 1: before anyone else gets hurt. Give me an hour, my
Speaker 1: lunch break. There's a diner a mile up the road.
Speaker 1: We can talk there. M h okay. January four, dr
Speaker 1: Abbey Reynolds has agreed to meet me at this dinner
Speaker 1: down the street from the clinic where she works. She's
Speaker 1: twenty five minutes late. And that's weird. Fan pass the
Speaker 1: same gray fan with the tending wind a sweet it's
Speaker 1: the same one I saw it. Okay, I think I'm
Speaker 1: being followed. I know I'm being paranoiable. Why wouldn't that be?
Speaker 1: And here constant time, your knowledge, good timing. I was
Speaker 1: about to leave a nice place. Can I get you anything?
Speaker 1: This golfee? You should try the strawberry rubar pie. It's great. No, no,
Speaker 1: thank you? Okay, what specifically do you want to know? Well,
Speaker 1: we need to know what happened with the shut eye
Speaker 1: product between the animal testing and the human trials. It
Speaker 1: it had been the most promising advance any of us
Speaker 1: had seen up to that point. After a shitty a
Speaker 1: few months, we couldn't find the right mix to make
Speaker 1: it do what we needed it to do, and what
Speaker 1: did you need it to do? Work? We needed for
Speaker 1: shut Eye to keep its subjects awake and alert without
Speaker 1: any notable effects. The first couple of rounds of trials nothing,
Speaker 1: I mean nothing except a bunch of lab rats with
Speaker 1: heart palpitations. Finn and Max were beside themselves. We argued
Speaker 1: about whether even bother with a fourth trial, but Finn
Speaker 1: insisted calmly yes, he's next corpse lead engineer. And it worked.
Speaker 1: Max and Finn made an upgrade to the nanite sequencing,
Speaker 1: and it worked like a charm at first. What happened
Speaker 1: next it was disturbing. I'm listening. The rats became agitated.
Speaker 1: They began repeating these odd behavior patterns, some running in circles,
Speaker 1: others moving incessantly from one side of the cage to
Speaker 1: the other. Some nod at the cage lining until their
Speaker 1: teeth broke. Then one of the rats, the one we
Speaker 1: called Algernon, he was the alpha. He just sat there,
Speaker 1: staring into space for hours until he snapped. Snapped. I
Speaker 1: came in that morning and realized some of the animals
Speaker 1: had showed their own paws and tails off blood everywhere,
Speaker 1: and then Algernon. He was still sitting there, motionless, staring
Speaker 1: at his own reflection, and I opened the blinds. As
Speaker 1: soon as the daylight hit the cage. Algernon started charging
Speaker 1: the glass, slamming his head into it, repeatedly attacking his
Speaker 1: own reflection. Everything a rooted quickly after that. They began
Speaker 1: attacking each other. IM terminated this rounder testing eating each other.
Speaker 1: This is alive. I've never seen anything like this. That
Speaker 1: was at two forty hours without sleep. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: We euthanized them, discarded the remains, and then we had
Speaker 1: the meeting. Finn was pretty horrified too, but it wasn't
Speaker 1: as concerned about the broader implications. He thought that there
Speaker 1: was enough there to continue on, maybe tweak the product
Speaker 1: and begin new trials by new rats. I think he
Speaker 1: was under extreme pressure. I think Max and Finn had
Speaker 1: been funneling their own money into this phase and they
Speaker 1: were underwater, so Finn was optimistic by default. Maybe move
Speaker 1: on to chimpanzee. Something closer to humans anatomically. He said,
Speaker 1: what about Dr Berkley, What does she have to say
Speaker 1: about all this cass She agreed that we needed a
Speaker 1: more complex subject, something about a cognitive line that rodents
Speaker 1: couldn't cross, but that humans could. So sleep disruption caused
Speaker 1: different issues and rodents than it did in humans. Everyone
Speaker 1: had their theories. I was against it, I told them so.
Speaker 1: I told them it was cruel. What about Max? I
Speaker 1: think I actually had Finn seeing my point of view
Speaker 1: before Max stepped in and he convinced a team to
Speaker 1: do another trial. Yes, he said that he thought we
Speaker 1: were ready for chimps, humans humans after what happened with
Speaker 1: the rats. He said that we would hedge our bets,
Speaker 1: play it safe, that that we wouldn't go anywhere near
Speaker 1: the threshold that we'd taken the rats. Three hours was
Speaker 1: too much. We all knew it was. We had made
Speaker 1: a breakthrough. It was so big, and after we'd worked
Speaker 1: so hard hard, we were so close. But there was
Speaker 1: something else going on with Max. What he was different?
Speaker 1: His face, his voice, What do you mean like I
Speaker 1: said of him? You've never seen No, No, it was physical, primal.
Speaker 1: His pupils were dilated his His eyes were like black holes.
Speaker 1: The way he looked at me, he had this almost
Speaker 1: a smile, a hideous kind of smile on his face.
Speaker 1: It wasn't Max, I'm not following. Why did he do something?
Speaker 1: But I was scared you know what he might do? Okay,
Speaker 1: he scares your applied him threat shirt. But that doesn't
Speaker 1: change the fact that you went along. No, I didn't
Speaker 1: look at human trials. No, what could happen? I made
Speaker 1: Finn swear that he wouldn't take things as far Finnce
Speaker 1: war to me news war news war two. Dr Reynalds
Speaker 1: hippocratic oath. Look, if you want answers, you need to
Speaker 1: talk to him, not me. Tomorrow, Jessa April night, Michael Corbin.
Speaker 1: These people were under your care in next corporate. Now
Speaker 1: they are all dead. So what now? Let me settle
Speaker 1: up and then we can discuss next steps. You know,
Speaker 1: blackmail is a federal offense. Docs Reynalds, we can protect you.
Speaker 1: As I stepped to the register and forced myself to
Speaker 1: take a deep breath on the number one rule the
Speaker 1: corn is not to let emotions interfere. Nah. Never let
Speaker 1: him read you as a confidence game with his time.
Speaker 1: It was personal my brother was dead, and I almost cracked.
Speaker 1: Remember as I swiped the page, my handle was shaking
Speaker 1: another piece of strawberry Rybard pie. The girl please, I
Speaker 1: made a bill and waited for the guy to put
Speaker 1: my slice of Pierre to go box. That was it.
Speaker 1: They are played back this recording and timed it out.
Speaker 1: I was gone from the table for exactly three minutes
Speaker 1: and thirty seven seconds. When I came back to the table,
Speaker 1: she was gone. The purse was lying on his side
Speaker 1: on the floor because metics and keys spitting out into
Speaker 1: the aisles. Her raincoats still there, dripped over her now
Speaker 1: vacant chair. But she was gone, hard ship man. Then
Speaker 1: I saw it right. What the message was? Rearing a
Speaker 1: lipstick on a white blade? What's this box? First line
Speaker 1: box happy, next line abby n C, next line a
Speaker 1: LG for the advice of other indecipherable markings? How is this?
Speaker 1: Dr Reynolds was trying to tell me something before she
Speaker 1: ran off time ship Oh the vander vand Van de
Speaker 1: Van the great fan sitty h plea overrighte man, you areverrighte.
Speaker 1: Get out of the way, Get the hell out my way. Go.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow's Monsters, starring John Boyega as Jack Locke, Darren Chris
Speaker 1: as Max Fuller, Marley Shelton as Cass Berkeley, Clark Gregg
Speaker 1: as Walter Fuller, saw and Guja as David Truesdale, Nicholas
Speaker 1: Takowski as Finn Connolly, Claire Bronson as dr Abbe Reynolds,
Speaker 1: David Chen as Michael Corbin, su Hila Eltar as Jenna,
Speaker 1: Victor Rivera as Eddie Binder, Robert Pralgo as Agent Batty,
Speaker 1: Steve Coulter as Senator Berkeley, wrote A. Griffiths as Rainy Webb,
Speaker 1: with additional performances by Helen Abel, Jason Williams, Michael Anthony,
Speaker 1: Robin Bloodworth, and Teresa Davis. Our first assist and director
Speaker 1: is Michael Monty. Our second assistant director is Sarah Klein.
Speaker 1: Sound and music by Ben Lovett. Additional sound design and
Speaker 1: editing by Benjamin Belcolm, Justin Riboski and Mike Reagan. Casting
Speaker 1: by Jessica Fox thig Been. This episode features the song
Speaker 1: through the Eyes from the album Mirages by Michelle Nobler.
Speaker 1: Our executive producers are Scott Sheldon, Shelby Thomas, Alexander Williams,
Speaker 1: and Matthew Frederick. Written by dan Bush and Nicholas Takowski.
Speaker 1: Created by dan Bush and Conald Byrne, Directed by Dan Bush,
Speaker 1: Produced by both Flint dan Bush and John Bleega. Tomorrow's
Speaker 1: Monsters is a production of Igheart Radio, Flynn Picture Company,
Speaker 1: Psychopia Pictures, and Upper Room Productions. For more podcasts from
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