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Speaker 2: Look go with me. I can walk myself.
Speaker 3: Stop struggling.
Speaker 2: Where are you taking me? This is the dungeon, isn't it.
Speaker 2: It is a legit fucking dungeon. You're not putting me
Speaker 2: in there.
Speaker 4: You are not throwing me in some random room. Oh
Speaker 4: fuck you, Williams.
Speaker 2: Hey, hey, get back here. Can you at least turn
Speaker 2: on some lights?
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, this is a trick, like a psychological torture
Speaker 4: or something. They're not gonna leave me here. It's obviously
Speaker 4: some Geneva convention violation.
Speaker 3: Let me out.
Speaker 5: Oh maybe I could get my hand through this slot.
Speaker 2: On the door if it wasn't sealed shut. Come on,
Speaker 2: you can't leave me here. This is in humane.
Speaker 4: I swear I won't do anything else. Please, Okay, fine,
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, seriously, I'll never do it again, and I'll
Speaker 4: do whatever you asked.
Speaker 2: Me to do.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, They're just gonna leave me here. They're
Speaker 5: just gonna leave me here, and I'm gonna lose my
Speaker 5: fucking mind, dirt floor, stone walls, the Oh my god,
Speaker 5: is that mold? Oh not even a fucking mattress.
Speaker 2: It's like a morgue slab. Please, I don't belong here.
Speaker 3: No one's listening.
Speaker 2: Huh who said that? Hello? And now I'm hearing things?
Speaker 6: Food?
Speaker 3: Hi?
Speaker 2: Hi?
Speaker 3: Food?
Speaker 2: Can you? Can you turn on the lights at least?
Speaker 2: I can't see anything in here.
Speaker 5: And the tray just goes right on the floor.
Speaker 2: Gross, smells horrible, damn it.
Speaker 4: M try Hey, hey, I swear to God, I'll never
Speaker 4: try to escape again.
Speaker 2: Just please, don't don't keep me in here.
Speaker 4: Just say something, Please, just say anything, Please.
Speaker 2: Try, no, please come on? Try fine? You want the tray?
Speaker 2: Take it?
Speaker 6: Food?
Speaker 2: Oh god, more of this, you know what?
Speaker 3: I take it all back.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get out of here, and I'm gonna find
Speaker 2: you and I'm gonna kill you. How about that? Huh?
Speaker 3: You should probably eat. They're only going to feed you
Speaker 3: once a day.
Speaker 2: Hey, I hear you. Where are you? Are you real? Hello?
Speaker 3: But they're listening. Now if you want to talk, get
Speaker 3: closer to the wall.
Speaker 2: How about now that's better?
Speaker 3: Where are we You're in solitary? You can yell all
Speaker 3: you want, but they won't respond.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I figured that out. So there's really
Speaker 4: no way out of here.
Speaker 3: Just the door. When the slot opens, slide that tray
Speaker 3: out and they'll put more food on it. If you
Speaker 3: wait too long, you won't get another chance for a
Speaker 3: whole day.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure I want another chance.
Speaker 3: Tell me, is your tray made of metal?
Speaker 2: What your food tray? Is it metal? Yeah? It is?
Speaker 3: How fascinatingly careless?
Speaker 2: Did you try to escape too?
Speaker 3: I'm not here because I'm being punished.
Speaker 2: Okay, so why are you here?
Speaker 3: Do you believe that there are worlds between worlds?
Speaker 2: Worlds between worlds?
Speaker 3: If you really want to know the story may take time.
Speaker 2: Seems like we got plenty of it.
Speaker 7: Hm.
Speaker 3: It really all started as a game. I was in school,
Speaker 3: and you know, kids being kids. I just wanted to
Speaker 3: fit in.
Speaker 6: Five times in a row.
Speaker 2: Ready, monic, monic, monic, monic.
Speaker 3: Chicken shit.
Speaker 2: Whatever you do it, then I don't have to do anything.
Speaker 2: You're the chicken shit, chicken shit. No, you're the chicken
Speaker 2: shit whatever.
Speaker 7: Give me the money you made a bet.
Speaker 2: I'm not giving you anything. Almost you try it. Screw you.
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know what compelled me to do it.
Speaker 3: Maybe I just wanted to show up, make them like me. Manach, Monach,
Speaker 3: monoc Oh.
Speaker 6: Shit, Monach, tan't me.
Speaker 2: I was gonna do it, Monoch. See, you shouldn't have
Speaker 2: been such a little.
Speaker 3: And they were gone.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm, uhhh hmm. It was terrifying.
Speaker 3: I don't really know if I even processed what happened
Speaker 3: at the time.
Speaker 4: So so you're saying all of your friends vanished because
Speaker 4: you played Bloody Mary.
Speaker 3: No, not bloody Mary, something much better.
Speaker 2: Then where did they all go?
Speaker 3: I don't know. No one did. Eventually they stopped looking,
Speaker 3: but I didn't forget.
Speaker 2: And that's why you're here.
Speaker 3: Sort of.
Speaker 2: You tried it again, didn't you?
Speaker 3: Not until years later?
Speaker 2: You are such a freak.
Speaker 3: I probably should have just let it go. I know
Speaker 3: you hear me, weirdo, but I don't know.
Speaker 2: Nobody wants you here. You make everyone uncomfortable.
Speaker 3: Do you understand that she'd done this every single day
Speaker 3: for weeks?
Speaker 1: And what's the deal with your weird fucking sister.
Speaker 3: I guess I was just done.
Speaker 1: It is your entire family a bunch of freaks.
Speaker 3: I'd said it before I even realized I was speaking.
Speaker 3: Monoc monac. What the fuck are you even saying? Mana, Mana,
Speaker 3: Oh my god, why don't you just save us all
Speaker 3: the trouble? And mana, it was just like before suddenly
Speaker 3: she was gone, so was everyone else?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: I should sleep now?
Speaker 4: Oh okay, hey, so when did these weird lights turn off?
Speaker 2: Lights? Yeah?
Speaker 4: It was like it was like really dark when I
Speaker 4: got here. And now there's this weird blue light. I
Speaker 4: noticed it when I woke up.
Speaker 2: Your eyes have adjusted.
Speaker 3: It's the mold on the walls.
Speaker 2: Oh yuck. It's not radioactive, is it?
Speaker 3: Good night?
Speaker 5: Good night?
Speaker 2: Try now go.
Speaker 3: Foams. You'll start to feel when it's coming.
Speaker 5: Like a circadian rhythm type of thing.
Speaker 3: Maybe.
Speaker 5: I guess it's good to have something to keep track
Speaker 5: of the time.
Speaker 3: You know, I could get us both out of here.
Speaker 4: How are you gonna spirit me away with your boogeyman?
Speaker 3: The floor?
Speaker 2: The floor is completely solid, it's earth. So what we
Speaker 2: tunnel out?
Speaker 3: Just listen? Gather up some sand and try to pick
Speaker 3: out any big pieces.
Speaker 2: Just sand? Okay, okay, sand? Sure, now what put it
Speaker 2: on the tray? Okay?
Speaker 3: Now you need some water from the sink.
Speaker 6: Try food?
Speaker 2: Do we always get the same thing hmmm, I think
Speaker 2: so it's so mushy. I don't think I readstalled the standoff.
Speaker 4: So this game that you play, Mana, do you mean
Speaker 4: yeah that if you knew what was going to happen,
Speaker 4: why did you do it?
Speaker 3: At some point? I guess it became about something else.
Speaker 6: You're not going to want breakfast or anything?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 3: Cool?
Speaker 7: Well I'm going to take a shower, just like, take
Speaker 7: your time.
Speaker 3: But also don't you really can't stick.
Speaker 2: Around, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Okay? Good?
Speaker 1: Right, we both understand what this was.
Speaker 3: There was something so disgusting about him. I could smell
Speaker 3: him on my skin. People can be so cruel. When
Speaker 3: I walked in and saw myself in the mirror, I
Speaker 3: think I was crying. Hey, you're not about to take
Speaker 3: a piss while I'm in here, are you?
Speaker 6: There's a bathroom in the lobby you can use, you know,
Speaker 6: on the way out?
Speaker 3: Monarch, Hello, Monoch, are you saying something to me? Monoch? Mona?
Speaker 3: So survival he had hurt my sister.
Speaker 2: What happened? She was a lot more trusting.
Speaker 5: And fragile, and so he disappeared too. You're doing what
Speaker 5: I asked, Rubbin Mud on the tray good.
Speaker 3: Just keep going until you can't anymore, and start again tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Why am I doing this because.
Speaker 3: My tray is wooden?
Speaker 6: Try food?
Speaker 2: God, really is the same thing every day. How long
Speaker 2: have you been down here?
Speaker 3: This time a few months? I think it's hard to tell.
Speaker 2: And this isn't punishment for you.
Speaker 3: I suppose it is in a way, but that's not
Speaker 3: the intent. I am contained.
Speaker 5: Right contained. I don't think I can do this today.
Speaker 3: It's difficult to be down here. I know.
Speaker 2: I don't know how you've done it for so long.
Speaker 3: But it's nice to have someone to talk to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is, you know.
Speaker 3: I never believed in an afterlife until I started killing people.
Speaker 3: You asked me if I only did it for survival.
Speaker 3: I wasn't being completely truthful. I knew that it needed
Speaker 3: to be satisfied. Whatever it was it was speaking to me.
Speaker 2: Listen to me, old man.
Speaker 1: If we goddamn there, you come in here and ask
Speaker 1: for the same shit.
Speaker 3: We don't have the newspaper, Okay, we are never gonna
Speaker 3: have the newspaper again.
Speaker 1: Okay, no one buys it.
Speaker 2: I buy it.
Speaker 3: There's no more newspaper. I don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 3: Can you just pay for your coffee and leave already.
Speaker 3: Oh Jesus Christ, change, Really you fucking with me?
Speaker 2: Old man?
Speaker 3: I stood there at the door to the drink coolers,
Speaker 3: and I was there behind my reflection.
Speaker 1: Can you please just find another place to get coffee?
Speaker 1: Please just take it? Okay, just take the coffee, Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: Every day with a slow shit.
Speaker 3: Sometimes the world is just better off without certain people
Speaker 3: in it. Plus it was hungry Monoch, stupid old man
Speaker 3: Monoch mose people who reads the fucking moves people?
Speaker 6: Monoch Monoch.
Speaker 3: I guess you can figure out the next part. But
Speaker 3: there was something different this time.
Speaker 2: I felt loved, loved by who Monoch.
Speaker 3: It needed me in a way that nothing had ever
Speaker 3: needed me. With my sister I could never do enough.
Speaker 3: But with Mana I felt warm and cared about whatever
Speaker 3: Monoch was. We were connected. I could feel its joy
Speaker 3: and its satisfaction. It was sated, and it loved me
Speaker 3: for it. Do you know what it is to be loved?
Speaker 4: I'm I'm not sure. Actually, I hope that one day
Speaker 4: you will, so wait. Didn't anyone think that it was
Speaker 4: strange that the people near you were disappearing?
Speaker 3: Hm? Well, eventually I guess they did. They got greedy,
Speaker 3: greedy in your life. I bet there are people who've
Speaker 3: hurt you, hurt people you care about, people you watch
Speaker 3: do horrible things with impunity. You can think of a
Speaker 3: few people like that, can't you?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I can? Actually, I absolutely can.
Speaker 3: And what if they could just vanish, nothing left to find,
Speaker 3: gone forever, nothing to point back to you, just new
Speaker 3: life looking forward without them in it. What is that
Speaker 3: worth to you?
Speaker 4: Huh? Maybe everything that's right and people paid. I made
Speaker 4: the problems go away Monarch eight. And more than money,
Speaker 4: my reward was endless, warm love, pure and beautiful love.
Speaker 4: We had each other.
Speaker 3: It needed me as much as I needed it.
Speaker 2: My wrist hurts.
Speaker 3: That's okay, maybe it's time to rest for a bit.
Speaker 2: You still haven't really said why you're here.
Speaker 3: Because I let them use me, use you as a weapon,
Speaker 3: and you can assure if there won't be a trace left, right?
Speaker 3: That's correct? Okay, Okay?
Speaker 2: Aren't you curious what he did?
Speaker 3: No, they promised me that my sister and her family
Speaker 3: would be given safe harbor and escort at home.
Speaker 5: Home from where I'd rather not say.
Speaker 3: It doesn't really matter anyway, because they lied to me.
Speaker 3: It's always struck me how rich men love to lie
Speaker 3: now they love to meet in fancy hotels.
Speaker 7: The board is going to eat me alive. You know that,
Speaker 7: the shareholders too. I just need that one little weasel
Speaker 7: to get in line.
Speaker 3: I understand, Elsie.
Speaker 7: You know I tried to explain things, get him to
Speaker 7: change his mind. If he goes to the press, We're done.
Speaker 2: I'm done.
Speaker 7: This is a lot of money.
Speaker 3: Do you know what I find so interesting?
Speaker 2: What all of this money and all.
Speaker 3: Of this blood to build a legacy, and I can
Speaker 3: get down with just a whisper.
Speaker 7: That's quite a talent.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Too bad through the pockets now, daging strop it on time,
Speaker 1: And that is.
Speaker 3: How I got here.
Speaker 2: How long ago was this?
Speaker 3: M I forget how many years years?
Speaker 2: You've been down here for years? I thought you said months.
Speaker 3: They let me out sometimes when they need things done,
Speaker 3: and exchange my sisters to stay safe.
Speaker 2: But I miss her need things done like people.
Speaker 3: Yes, but it's been so long, I don't really remember
Speaker 3: the last time. Monarch is so hungry.
Speaker 2: How often do they let you out?
Speaker 3: Not enough?
Speaker 2: Not anymore.
Speaker 3: I can no longer feel it's love where it's warm,
Speaker 3: I feel cold and empty, and I know it's there,
Speaker 3: abandoned and hungry. It hurts.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: Tell me what does the tray look like now where
Speaker 3: you've been rubbing it.
Speaker 2: It's hard to tell in this light.
Speaker 3: Try to get it really close to the mold. I
Speaker 3: think it feeds off body heat.
Speaker 2: Okay, here we go. It looks like it's getting brighter.
Speaker 3: Can you see yourself? Yes?
Speaker 2: Perfect?
Speaker 4: Holy shit, you're gonna do the thing, aren't you?
Speaker 2: Tomorrow? This is so fucking crazy. I'm not ready to
Speaker 2: die though. Okay, I'm really not ready to die.
Speaker 3: Do you understand what to do?
Speaker 2: When the slot opens? Just shove it out like normal
Speaker 2: and then just close your eyes tight.
Speaker 5: Okay, swear this isn't gonna kill me too.
Speaker 3: You'll be on the other side of the door. It
Speaker 3: won't see your reflection. Just be ready.
Speaker 2: Try tray. It is.
Speaker 3: Monoch monoch, monoch, monoch, monoch.
Speaker 2: Monic.
Speaker 3: It's okay. I didn't let it take you.
Speaker 2: Wear them.
Speaker 3: Just breathe your back.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: I want to thank you for helping me, and I
Speaker 3: want to give you something, But what happened to this? Listen?
Speaker 2: I'll let you.
Speaker 3: Feed him, but you can only do it once, feed
Speaker 3: him only once. Remember that.
Speaker 2: But I don't have to go now.
Speaker 1: Wait, her eyes are open, She's still alive. We need
Speaker 1: to get her up to medicals now.
Speaker 7: Breach protocols elevated level six men, you understand level.
Speaker 1: Get her on her feet.
Speaker 3: Stop what Queery?
Speaker 7: The other one?
Speaker 1: I don't know, how did you survive this?
Speaker 7: Obviously she was allowed to man, what is she saying?
Speaker 3: What luck?
Speaker 7: That's what I think it is?
Speaker 6: Then allow me? Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: Days of Halloween Pennance starring Natalie Morales, Episode three, Confinement,
Speaker 1: written by Matthew Riddle, editing and sound designed by Noemi Griffin.
Speaker 1: Featuring the voices of Aaron Aster, Laura Shin, Rachel Rosenbloom,
Speaker 1: Steve B. Green, Joseph Whipp, Chris Jy, Alex Alex Bowling,
Speaker 1: Rafael Corkil, Jay Jones, and Noah Feinberg. Directed by Alexander Williams.
Speaker 1: Executive producers Aaron Mankey, Noah Feinberg, Chris Dicky, Matt Frederick
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Speaker 1: Producers Jesse funk rima Ilkali, Noemi Griffin, Chandler Mays and
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