1 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:11,119 Speaker 1: Introquest created by Michael Freiberg, a production of iHeartRadio and 2 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 1: Astro Media Listen with headphones for three D audio. What 3 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:38,879 Speaker 1: is it? Serious? Something else in desert? Either? I hear 4 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:41,440 Speaker 1: it too. It sounds like it might be a personnet 5 00:00:41,479 --> 00:00:44,160 Speaker 1: on the dunes. No way logo. We're the only ones 6 00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:54,400 Speaker 1: crazy enough to be out here on foot a serious weight? Ah, 7 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:03,880 Speaker 1: it is a person? Hey you? What are you doing 8 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:08,679 Speaker 1: out here? All alone? Trapped? I agree with serious. Something's 9 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:11,360 Speaker 1: not right. We should leave immediately. You're not going to 10 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:14,360 Speaker 1: answer me under whose orders? Huh? Or are you a 11 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 1: coward who can't speak for himself? Either? Don't get too close. 12 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:30,600 Speaker 1: You can't understand me, can you. There's a card pinned 13 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 1: to his college, The Institute of Advanced psycho Being grants 14 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 1: Patient two zero one outdoor walking privileges for good behavior 15 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:43,800 Speaker 1: and successful recovery from his condition, Signed Professor Adder. I 16 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:47,120 Speaker 1: wonder what his condition was? If this is considered successful recovery. 17 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 1: There's a map on the back with directions to the institute. 18 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:54,800 Speaker 1: He's clearly lost, and judging by the stadison, he must 19 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 1: have progressed as well. We need to bring him back. 20 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 1: You can't be serious if we don't him back to 21 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 1: the institute, he'll die out here. I don't think it's 22 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 1: a good idea. This could all be part of some 23 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 1: employ to lure us there. And who would construct an 24 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:11,280 Speaker 1: institute in the middle of a desert. There's only one 25 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:14,520 Speaker 1: way to find out five, but we must proceed with 26 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:34,320 Speaker 1: the utmost caution. Whoa This is it? The Institute of 27 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 1: Advanced psychobeeding. It's a sterile, gray, windowless building, not particularly welcome, serious, 28 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:44,520 Speaker 1: no trust. What if we just knock and leave him 29 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:47,640 Speaker 1: outside the building, they'll still appreciate the gesture. Come on, 30 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:49,760 Speaker 1: we've come this far. We've got to at least go 31 00:02:49,840 --> 00:03:01,079 Speaker 1: in serious never sea buildings like this before, whole machinery, 32 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:06,200 Speaker 1: electrical lighting, biometric access. I know some societies are progressed 33 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 1: more rapidly than others, but by any measure, this is 34 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 1: a far outlier. The advanced technology levels of this institute 35 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:17,160 Speaker 1: are rather unsettling. What are you saying, logo, Are you 36 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:21,800 Speaker 1: familiar with this stuff but only from books? It's certainly peculiar, 37 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:27,919 Speaker 1: like we're in another world. Hello, anyone here, we found 38 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 1: one of your patients lost in the desert. Welcome to 39 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 1: the Institute of advanced psychobean. Please remain in the lobby. 40 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 1: The professor will be out shortly. Boys speak, but nobody. 41 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:44,240 Speaker 1: It's an intercom serious. It allows for two way communication 42 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 1: without being physically present in the same space. What loud 43 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 1: ragging boys and walls? I don't know. Hello, I am professor, 44 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:04,160 Speaker 1: add Welcome to the institute. You must be the new arrivals. Actually, 45 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 1: we're just here to return a missing patient. We found 46 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 1: him walking down the wrong side of a doom. Very well, 47 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 1: my research associate. He will take care of him. Eva. Yes, 48 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:23,719 Speaker 1: Professor Rod, a free range patient found its way home. 49 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:28,080 Speaker 1: Return him to the atrium and revoke his privileges. If 50 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 1: he disobeys, you know what to do. Electro shock suppression 51 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:37,480 Speaker 1: and come back when you're done. I have another job 52 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:41,839 Speaker 1: for you right away, Professor. We're so glad to have 53 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:46,080 Speaker 1: you back, safe and sound. You had a s worried say, 54 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:48,520 Speaker 1: come on, I'm sure your friends will be happy to 55 00:04:48,520 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 1: see you. That's the problem with granting outdoor privileges. Here 56 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:08,200 Speaker 1: at the institute, our patients make great strides with their condition, 57 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 1: think they're cured and never want to come back. Of course, 58 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:17,000 Speaker 1: these pituitous privileges are all Eva's idea, some silly notion 59 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 1: about quality of life. What condition are you treating? Exactly? 60 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:27,920 Speaker 1: At the institute, we treat patients suffering from the most 61 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:38,320 Speaker 1: lethal condition plaguing humanity, Umbra, Umbra. Yes, believe it or not, 62 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 1: we're in the final stages of developing a cure. Really, 63 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 1: nois and war bag again. Either we're done here we 64 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 1: can cure for Umbra. Professor, I've returned patient two zero 65 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:56,440 Speaker 1: one to the atrium. What was the other job you 66 00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:59,440 Speaker 1: had for me? Please show our new patience to the 67 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:04,679 Speaker 1: waiting But they don't exhibit any symptoms. We're not sick. 68 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:09,640 Speaker 1: They should be free to goal. I mean the judge 69 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:18,400 Speaker 1: of that. Either cure for I'm bride. What are you 70 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:21,480 Speaker 1: waiting for? Eva joked to them with the electric kettle, 71 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:39,520 Speaker 1: bride and taste them already. What happens? Oh? No, our 72 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:45,480 Speaker 1: packs and saddle at this pieces they took him at 73 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:49,480 Speaker 1: the stars. At least they still have my amulance. They missages. 74 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:58,480 Speaker 1: This isn't the waiting room, it's a prison crapped Okay, 75 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:02,080 Speaker 1: I was wrong. Come into the institute. We have to 76 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:08,760 Speaker 1: get out of here. There's at least twenty prisoners here 77 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:11,080 Speaker 1: with us. If we all band together, we might be 78 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:15,280 Speaker 1: able to break out. Hello, I'm e three. These are 79 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:19,400 Speaker 1: right partners, serious and logo. We've been wrongly imprisoned. I 80 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:21,480 Speaker 1: imagine the same goes for you a lot as well. 81 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 1: This has a call to action. Together, you can rise 82 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 1: up and fight to take back our freedom. Who will 83 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 1: join me? Come on, There's no need to be scared 84 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:36,040 Speaker 1: any longer. This is the time you've been waiting for 85 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 1: ratings next door? Nay first, I'm very resident of holding 86 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:43,480 Speaker 1: cell too. I see you three. You got to sell 87 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:48,880 Speaker 1: to yourselves, lucky you ary? Why is everyone just resigned 88 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 1: to the floor of their cells. Don't you all want 89 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 1: to get out of here? Like us, We've made peace 90 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 1: with the fact that there's no hope of escape. This 91 00:07:56,680 --> 00:08:00,320 Speaker 1: is our home now. A word of advice, tipe down down, 92 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:04,720 Speaker 1: But we have to do something. They're listening. They're always listening. 93 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 1: If you don't stop, you'll just make things worse than 94 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:15,040 Speaker 1: they have to be good? Who's with me? Worse? Barret? 95 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:19,160 Speaker 1: How things get worse? If we behave well, they won't 96 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:21,920 Speaker 1: bother us until it's our turn for treatment. Buddy, we're 97 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 1: bad hat. It's a good boy, totty, be a good boy. 98 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:32,640 Speaker 1: He's battling nonsense to himself. He seems highly disturbed. What's 99 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:37,200 Speaker 1: wrong with him? You mean tiny totty good boy? Cotty 100 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:39,640 Speaker 1: good boy. He's been like that for a while now. 101 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:43,920 Speaker 1: Best to ignore it, avoid eye contact. Hat good boy? 102 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:51,800 Speaker 1: What bangs? That's someone we don't like to talk about. 103 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:55,560 Speaker 1: Fritz Fritz Rumor has it Rix was one of the 104 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:59,200 Speaker 1: institute's first patience, suffering from an especially bad case of 105 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:02,760 Speaker 1: umbre He had an extreme adverse reaction to treatment, worsening 106 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:06,600 Speaker 1: his condition. Supposedly, he's now locked up somewhere higher security 107 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:09,360 Speaker 1: and spends his days banging on the walls, waiting for 108 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:12,600 Speaker 1: the day he's released. Only the stars can save us 109 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 1: if Fritz gets out. But don't worry. That will never happen. 110 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:23,200 Speaker 1: But what if Fritz escapes? Try himself. You need to 111 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:26,559 Speaker 1: stand up against this injustice and we re freedom. Someone's 112 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:37,400 Speaker 1: coming with a loose with me trying to hear you out. 113 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:41,600 Speaker 1: Every move is under audio and video surveillance. No one 114 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:43,960 Speaker 1: gets helped the way they came in. Where are they 115 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:50,520 Speaker 1: taking him for an outburst like this? Isolation security either straw. 116 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:54,880 Speaker 1: He will be scared of isolation. That's what they all think. 117 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:57,520 Speaker 1: But until you're left alone in a dark room with 118 00:09:57,720 --> 00:10:00,800 Speaker 1: nothing but your thoughts you can't understand and the torture 119 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:04,120 Speaker 1: in there. All you can do is think and wait 120 00:10:04,679 --> 00:10:07,640 Speaker 1: and hope the end comes soon. What happened at the end? 121 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:31,360 Speaker 1: You break my happiness? No, they looked, let me else, 122 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 1: let me house, put me out of here. I'm here 123 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:49,120 Speaker 1: with you either, I'm always with you. Feel the walls 124 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:53,640 Speaker 1: close in on you, lose yourself to the deafening stillness, 125 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:59,679 Speaker 1: fade into the darkness that's last, alone with nothing but 126 00:10:59,840 --> 00:11:05,439 Speaker 1: your thoughts, the internal turns on them. Hear the blood 127 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:11,680 Speaker 1: burning through your veins, setting farneses gracing to your chest 128 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:17,839 Speaker 1: as your hearts blow, Tighten tighter, tw strips around the 129 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 1: lungs each breath to leave in your gassing for air. 130 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:27,040 Speaker 1: Listen to the pounding of your heart, louder and louder 131 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:34,439 Speaker 1: with every beat, rattling your ribcage, ready to plow. Neurons 132 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:40,320 Speaker 1: fight like flaes across your mind, bringing your ears. They 133 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:46,360 Speaker 1: cloud your senses as you lose yourself in dot feel 134 00:11:46,559 --> 00:11:53,880 Speaker 1: yourself fries above your body, floating in space, higher and higher. 135 00:11:54,040 --> 00:12:04,120 Speaker 1: To leave this world behind, only the heft of the grounds. 136 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:11,600 Speaker 1: Cry to your mouth, lost shot, unable to open hold 137 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:18,240 Speaker 1: the key to your helpless stop rise, squirmed and trapped 138 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:23,199 Speaker 1: against your grading team blocking your path, run to brainlief 139 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:29,160 Speaker 1: with no one take hear me, scream, choke an, unanswered breaths, 140 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:42,400 Speaker 1: as troubled thoughts, term violence, sid silence, just being injected 141 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:45,400 Speaker 1: with a high grade sedative. When it reaches the brain, 142 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:49,880 Speaker 1: your higher mental functions will suspend all activity, providing temporary 143 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:53,200 Speaker 1: relief and leaving you in a state of deep relaxation. 144 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 1: And here returned around your neck the amulet you were 145 00:12:57,320 --> 00:12:59,960 Speaker 1: calling for. I analyzed it in my lab and found 146 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:05,040 Speaker 1: no unique attributory irregularities. It's nothing special, just an ordinary 147 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:08,160 Speaker 1: old necklace. You can have it back. It's of no 148 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:23,200 Speaker 1: interest to me. How do we get out of here? 149 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:26,520 Speaker 1: You don't, There is no escape. Just be thankful your 150 00:13:26,559 --> 00:13:30,959 Speaker 1: friend eats antics didn't get us all in trouble. Must 151 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:35,319 Speaker 1: do something. Earlier, you asked, what's wrong with tiny Toddy? Well, 152 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:38,599 Speaker 1: he tried to break free once, made it all the 153 00:13:38,679 --> 00:13:40,959 Speaker 1: way to the exit. To teach him a lesson, he 154 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:44,360 Speaker 1: did a week in isolation. He's never been the seen since. 155 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:47,920 Speaker 1: Now a ground drone guards the waiting room's exit. To 156 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:50,920 Speaker 1: make sure there are no copycats. For your own good 157 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:55,599 Speaker 1: and ours. Don't do anything foolish except that this is 158 00:13:55,640 --> 00:13:59,640 Speaker 1: our fate. Serious, I don't know what he can do. 159 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:04,320 Speaker 1: Or cameras, cameras like watchguards. But I'm the ceiling constantly 160 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:07,640 Speaker 1: scanning the room. If Timmy Tommy wants escape shadow, there 161 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:12,959 Speaker 1: has to be white out local camera. Not look hit. 162 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:16,840 Speaker 1: You love me to hit. You need to stract groundcoll 163 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:20,440 Speaker 1: I comprehend your reasoning, but I refuse to risk injuring 164 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:29,920 Speaker 1: you serious? You know hurt? Serious? Now? Please can't no harder, 165 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:34,360 Speaker 1: can't harder? Okay, I'm really gonna go for it this 166 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:39,920 Speaker 1: time for either say now my hand? Serious? I think 167 00:14:39,960 --> 00:15:01,080 Speaker 1: you broke my hand. We don't get serious. Oh quick. 168 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:04,320 Speaker 1: The access card the card attached to the drugs. It 169 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:09,240 Speaker 1: functions like a piece or this sets pether must be 170 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:11,360 Speaker 1: in one of the isolation chambers on the other side 171 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:13,640 Speaker 1: of the room. Hurry and you're clear of the root 172 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:25,000 Speaker 1: eating cap isolation chamber door. They're all bolted shut with 173 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:27,160 Speaker 1: magnetic locks. There's another door at the end of the hall. 174 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:34,680 Speaker 1: Let's see where it leads. Also magnetic lead sealed this 175 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:41,160 Speaker 1: way open door comic. Serious, Wait, there's a warning high 176 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:44,680 Speaker 1: voltage keep out. I don't know if I stole no choice? 177 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:53,960 Speaker 1: A generator. Generator a machine that produces electric to power 178 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:58,720 Speaker 1: the institute. Huh, I have an idea how to open 179 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:02,080 Speaker 1: the doors. I can override the generator's circuit breaker and 180 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:04,800 Speaker 1: use this dial to increase it voltage, short circuiting the 181 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:07,480 Speaker 1: waiting room surveillance system and forcing open the locked doors. 182 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:11,080 Speaker 1: Free easier Stand at the entrance way and let me 183 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:17,320 Speaker 1: know if it's working right. I'm starting to raise levels anyway? 184 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:24,400 Speaker 1: Oh need more power? Lights blink? But need Okay, but 185 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:27,000 Speaker 1: we have to exercise caution. If we trip the breaker, 186 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:33,280 Speaker 1: degenerator will shut off completely. How about now is going dark? 187 00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:37,560 Speaker 1: More serious? It's going to max out. We shouldn't go 188 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 1: any higher. Our doors open, yes, identiz savers omen we 189 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 1: go save me fair? Not all right, but we have 190 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:57,760 Speaker 1: to be careful. With the cells unlocked. The other prisoners 191 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:00,320 Speaker 1: will be free as well. It'll be total pandimonium in there. 192 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:07,520 Speaker 1: Uh you want to stay in themselves? Ah? Either know 193 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:11,399 Speaker 1: in isolation chamber, whole rooms empty. They must have moved it. 194 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:13,440 Speaker 1: We'll have to take the door that leads further into 195 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:19,760 Speaker 1: the institute and keep looking. Get back, get back in yourself. 196 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:23,520 Speaker 1: You'll only bring more suffering. Tony Totty, Please, we need 197 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:25,240 Speaker 1: to get through the door, but we will playing nice, 198 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:30,480 Speaker 1: nice like good boys. Now still punish us twice, going ruin. 199 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:36,200 Speaker 1: You want to pop back in isolation? Never if you 200 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:49,040 Speaker 1: won't return to yourself, I'll bring you there myself, not 201 00:17:49,240 --> 00:18:00,840 Speaker 1: the isolation chamber, anything but this, okay? Shall we proceed 202 00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:19,320 Speaker 1: onward into the facility and find either ah, where am i? 203 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:24,280 Speaker 1: Professor adder, one of these things attached to my head? 204 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:29,760 Speaker 1: Patient has awakened, neural activity levels returning to normal. Let 205 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:33,359 Speaker 1: me here, let me ask. The process will run smoother 206 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:37,040 Speaker 1: if you relax. You experienced an acute umber attack in 207 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:40,080 Speaker 1: the isolation chamber. I've since had you transported to the 208 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:44,440 Speaker 1: operation room for further evaluation. You chain me to the 209 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:49,160 Speaker 1: surgical table for your own safety. I assure you connected 210 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:51,720 Speaker 1: to your scalp are electrodes that measure and record neural 211 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:56,040 Speaker 1: oscillation patterns to establish a baseline of brainwave activity. Your 212 00:18:56,119 --> 00:19:01,280 Speaker 1: results either are spectacular. I've never seen anything quite like it. 213 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:05,760 Speaker 1: Your electrical patterns are scrambled, and there's hyperactivity in the brain. 214 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:09,840 Speaker 1: Here an inversion of the delta and gamma brainwaves. It's 215 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:13,800 Speaker 1: like your subconscious mind has penetrated waking life. I'm not 216 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:17,880 Speaker 1: one of your science experiments. No, you're so much more. 217 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:22,080 Speaker 1: I've examined the minds of hundreds of patients suffering from umbra. 218 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:26,680 Speaker 1: My findings have always been middling at best. Allow me 219 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:30,639 Speaker 1: to explain how the condition functions. From a single mutated neuron, 220 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:34,680 Speaker 1: Umbra infiltrates the mind and spreads through the neural network, 221 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:39,280 Speaker 1: eliminating and rerouting pathways as it corrupts healthy brain activity. 222 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:45,320 Speaker 1: This is observed as personality changes, mental disorders, memory identity impairments, 223 00:19:45,359 --> 00:19:49,120 Speaker 1: and so on. The end result as always a complete 224 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:52,639 Speaker 1: corruption of the individual. Up to now, I've only been 225 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:55,680 Speaker 1: able to treat patients with a full reduction in brain activity. 226 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:58,840 Speaker 1: But if I could find a way to trace back 227 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:02,119 Speaker 1: umbra's manifestation to its root in the mind and localize 228 00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:05,080 Speaker 1: the point of origin, I could then isolate a source 229 00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:08,040 Speaker 1: of the mutation at the neuron level to effectively develop 230 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:11,200 Speaker 1: a cure. The answer is so obvious. Why haven't you? 231 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:15,880 Speaker 1: In all my patients? It was always too late. By 232 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 1: the time I evaluated them, their systems were already flooded 233 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:21,720 Speaker 1: with the umber melody, so I had no hope of 234 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:25,840 Speaker 1: finding the origin point. You, on the other hand, are 235 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:30,520 Speaker 1: an anomaly physically asymptomatic. You don't appear to exhibit any 236 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:35,840 Speaker 1: of the external symptoms, but under duress, your affliction manifests, 237 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:38,640 Speaker 1: and you show all the typical signs of the condition. 238 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:44,760 Speaker 1: You either are the key to finding the cure to Umbra. 239 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:51,359 Speaker 1: That can't be true. It is, but further research is required. 240 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:54,680 Speaker 1: I'll be subjecting you to internal imaging to obtain a 241 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:58,399 Speaker 1: clearer picture of your brain. Before I proceed, I'll need 242 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:01,400 Speaker 1: to remove from you any object items that may contain metal, 243 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:11,640 Speaker 1: starting with your amulet. No, please not again, that oh amulet, 244 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:16,119 Speaker 1: And don't worry. You'll have it back as soon as 245 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:20,000 Speaker 1: we finish the fats. As I guide you into the scanner, 246 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:40,359 Speaker 1: this won't hurt a bit. Beautiful plants like a dream world. 247 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:44,760 Speaker 1: It's some sort of indoor garden, rich with lushed floor 248 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:48,200 Speaker 1: and completely encapsulated in a glass roofed atrium at the 249 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:52,880 Speaker 1: center of the institute. Oh in corner, big fountain, indeed 250 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:56,720 Speaker 1: in ornate grand fountain, getting water high into the air 251 00:21:57,040 --> 00:22:00,840 Speaker 1: out of a handcrafted spout sheep like a serpent servants mount. 252 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:04,359 Speaker 1: I call this a utopia, except those people standing at 253 00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:08,119 Speaker 1: the other end of the garden appear rather lifeless. Maybe 254 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:16,680 Speaker 1: through garden calm they reach higher spirit. Play serious wrong, 255 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:19,760 Speaker 1: great role, Si man, They're just like the person we 256 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:23,680 Speaker 1: encountered out in the desert. Attention, all patients in the 257 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 1: rehabilitation Adriaan garden. Your afternoon medication will now be dispensed. 258 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:33,399 Speaker 1: Please stand by for distribution a serious it's ammaratively blended 259 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:35,840 Speaker 1: and not get caught or we'll never get either back on. 260 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:42,399 Speaker 1: It's an evil good afternoon and a warmhallo from your 261 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:48,520 Speaker 1: favorite caregiver. Oh you're all too sweet. I come bearing 262 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:54,520 Speaker 1: gifts pill to you. Bit anti help here you got one? 263 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:59,680 Speaker 1: Will you one for you? Open wide my heart? You 264 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:04,320 Speaker 1: look shipper today. Come on gather around, make sure you 265 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:10,520 Speaker 1: all get your medicine to feel better. Here's your phil 266 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:21,840 Speaker 1: sir ah and one poor serious No, you swallowed it. 267 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:24,680 Speaker 1: We have known you. What the effecture? What have you 268 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:31,119 Speaker 1: just done? Oh rbal outburst to patient appears to be 269 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:34,680 Speaker 1: a regressive treatment and effective. Please it's not what it 270 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:39,520 Speaker 1: looks like umbre delusions. Returning patient requires emergency intervention. No, no, no, 271 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:43,880 Speaker 1: I'm not sick. Highly combative will have to be subdued 272 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:46,000 Speaker 1: by electric shop. You can't do this to me. I'm 273 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:49,920 Speaker 1: not sick. I'm not sick. Stop resisting use of cattle 274 00:23:49,920 --> 00:24:03,280 Speaker 1: crowd required on. This is for your own good. This 275 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:08,080 Speaker 1: brain scan can't be correct. There should be massive cortical 276 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:12,800 Speaker 1: deterioration and cerebral confusions. But according to the image, the 277 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:20,040 Speaker 1: volume of brain matter has increased. Ha ha. There's even 278 00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:27,119 Speaker 1: significant remapping of neural networks in support of hyperactivity. Patient's 279 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:32,439 Speaker 1: mind has re architectured itself for optimal mental processing, peeping 280 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:38,240 Speaker 1: at heightened levels of consciousness rather than corrupt thou'st mind. 281 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:44,520 Speaker 1: Umbra appears to have enhanced it, But for what purpose? 282 00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:49,280 Speaker 1: How is it possible the patient coexists with umbra in 283 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:55,280 Speaker 1: a balance state of equilibrium, as anomaly must only be 284 00:24:55,359 --> 00:25:01,440 Speaker 1: temporary before it turns parasitic like the rest. Take a 285 00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:12,600 Speaker 1: bow either you are bound wonderfully a professor, what's that ault? Ah? Yes, 286 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:23,880 Speaker 1: your amulet return securely around your neck as promised. You've 287 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:27,800 Speaker 1: put me in a precarious situation. On one hand, your 288 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:31,520 Speaker 1: results are troubling. They go against all my prior theories 289 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:36,919 Speaker 1: and research of umbra and the mind, years of work discredited. 290 00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:43,000 Speaker 1: On the other hand, they're astonishing. They reveal the mind's 291 00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:47,320 Speaker 1: ability to adapt and even thrive with umbra, A paradigm 292 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:50,960 Speaker 1: shift and current understanding. If you think, if you can 293 00:25:51,280 --> 00:26:02,720 Speaker 1: understand umberfected science the human tool, you never understand. Of 294 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:08,040 Speaker 1: course I understand. Isn't it obvious? What drives me? I 295 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:16,840 Speaker 1: either suffer from umbra? No, your mind holds the key 296 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:21,040 Speaker 1: to the cure, and I must find it. I have 297 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:29,000 Speaker 1: to go deeper, search further, intracranial examination, a vivid section 298 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:33,800 Speaker 1: to get inside the skull. You will show me the 299 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:45,359 Speaker 1: neuron from which umbra emerges. It's the only way. What's 300 00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:48,640 Speaker 1: going on? Eva? I told you I'm not sick. Where 301 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:52,280 Speaker 1: have you taken me? The engine room? Engine room? It's 302 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:55,080 Speaker 1: whether reactor or creates the energy to drive the turbine, 303 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:57,399 Speaker 1: which are then converted by the generator to what is 304 00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:00,080 Speaker 1: the electricity power in the institute? But I'm not an 305 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:03,240 Speaker 1: efficient fuel source. I'm barely combustible. Why to bring me here? 306 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:06,040 Speaker 1: The only faith place we can talk? There are no 307 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:08,560 Speaker 1: cameras here, and the noise from the turbine next door 308 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:11,520 Speaker 1: masks us from audio surveillance. What do you want from me? 309 00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:15,640 Speaker 1: I want to help. I can't lie to myself any 310 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:18,639 Speaker 1: longer about the terrible things that go on here. I 311 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,320 Speaker 1: didn't mean for any of it, but I've been complicit 312 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:24,919 Speaker 1: through it all. Eva, what are you referring to? Professor Adder? 313 00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:28,720 Speaker 1: Is my father. Our home wasn't always this desert institute 314 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:31,359 Speaker 1: in a fire life through are members of a united 315 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:34,920 Speaker 1: coalition of the truth seekers, the Bereguard. When I was 316 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:38,520 Speaker 1: a child, we lived at headquarters on an uncharted island 317 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:41,760 Speaker 1: hidden in the middle of the Arabis Ocean. We worked 318 00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:45,479 Speaker 1: to narth like secrets, recover long lost truths, and develop 319 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:48,720 Speaker 1: a greater understanding of the world's true nature, all for 320 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:51,320 Speaker 1: the betterment of humanity, and all in pursuit of a 321 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:55,040 Speaker 1: single goal. What goal? We believe that Umbra is only 322 00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:58,800 Speaker 1: a symptom of a dying world, not the cause. There's 323 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:01,240 Speaker 1: something bigger behind it, and we were going to find 324 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:05,119 Speaker 1: out what. I still believe they will. Why'd you leave them? 325 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:09,680 Speaker 1: The veregard has zero tolerance for dissenters. In their eyes, 326 00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:12,760 Speaker 1: if you're not working towards the goal, you're working against it. 327 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:16,120 Speaker 1: When my mother fell ill to Umbra. She was considered 328 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:20,200 Speaker 1: a liability and exiled from the island. We watched her goal. 329 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:24,280 Speaker 1: My father never forgave himself for this. He grew obsessed 330 00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:27,320 Speaker 1: with finding a cure for Umbra. It became his life's work. 331 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:30,520 Speaker 1: Knowing the veregard would put an end to this distraction, 332 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:33,760 Speaker 1: we defected and built this research institute in the far 333 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:37,000 Speaker 1: reaches of the desert. What chain, Why the prison? My 334 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,560 Speaker 1: father's intentions were pure. He preached of finding a cure 335 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:43,360 Speaker 1: for Umbra, to end life's miseries and save the sick. 336 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:47,280 Speaker 1: I wanted to help and wanted to believe. When we began, 337 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:52,480 Speaker 1: we were treating ill patients, making real progress. Somehow, somewhere 338 00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:55,160 Speaker 1: along the way, he forgot what brought him here. It 339 00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:57,720 Speaker 1: was no longer about improving the lives of our patience. 340 00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:00,920 Speaker 1: It was success, no matter what the cost. To accelerate 341 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:04,320 Speaker 1: our findings and expand our research, my father began experimenting 342 00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:07,760 Speaker 1: on the healthy individuals against their will. I couldn't stop him. 343 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:11,280 Speaker 1: I'm only his assistant at best. I'd free a patient 344 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:14,280 Speaker 1: here and there under the pretense of Outford privileges. It 345 00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,760 Speaker 1: was never enough, though, I'm powerless to end this, but 346 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,440 Speaker 1: maybe I can write just one wrong and help you 347 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:23,840 Speaker 1: save your friend Ether. What the professor doing to him? 348 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:26,920 Speaker 1: He's been transported to the operating room for preliminary testing. 349 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:29,520 Speaker 1: There isn't much time until the procedure begins. We have 350 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,680 Speaker 1: to free him. You don't understand Ether's different. He suffers 351 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:34,200 Speaker 1: from umber it but has been able to suppress it. 352 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:36,360 Speaker 1: The professor will kill him. I'll get you to the 353 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:38,880 Speaker 1: operating room to get either back. Then the three of 354 00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:41,200 Speaker 1: you need to leave at once, or you'll never have 355 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:44,280 Speaker 1: the chance to get out again. Serious, my other friend 356 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:47,320 Speaker 1: took one of those pills. What were you thinking back 357 00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:50,800 Speaker 1: there with that stunt, pretending to be patients? Even if 358 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:54,160 Speaker 1: your acting was believable, which it wasn't. You really thought 359 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:56,960 Speaker 1: I wouldn't recognize you too soon after we met. Just 360 00:29:57,080 --> 00:30:00,800 Speaker 1: count yourself lucky with me who bout to you first? Yeah? Well, 361 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:03,880 Speaker 1: is serious going to be okay? It'll be fine. The 362 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,800 Speaker 1: patients take a staple of psychotropic pills throughout the day 363 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:10,240 Speaker 1: of that suppressed consciousness and maintain a comatose state. Results 364 00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:13,680 Speaker 1: like theirs. Take Moss. Serious, he's a big guy. He 365 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:16,640 Speaker 1: took one water soluble pill. It'll push right out of 366 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:19,240 Speaker 1: his system. At worst case, he gets a bit dopey 367 00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:22,160 Speaker 1: and sleeps it off. The atrium garden is perfectly safe. 368 00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:25,440 Speaker 1: The grass isn't even real. It's a synthetic rubber polymer. 369 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:30,200 Speaker 1: There's simply nothing to worry about. Okay, getting back to 370 00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:34,120 Speaker 1: either what's next? Reaching him isn't going to be easy. 371 00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:37,320 Speaker 1: Outside this engine room is the main corridor, which is 372 00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:40,120 Speaker 1: divided into two halves by a set of firebars. At 373 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:43,280 Speaker 1: the far end is the operator Okay, when the professor's 374 00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:45,640 Speaker 1: in the middle of a procedure, he restricts access to 375 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:48,040 Speaker 1: both the hall and the engines of the operating room, 376 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:51,760 Speaker 1: so nothing can disturb his work. Even my access is restricted. 377 00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:54,880 Speaker 1: But just outside the operating room. Also at the end 378 00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:58,240 Speaker 1: of the corridor is the control There I can deactivate 379 00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:00,760 Speaker 1: the restricted access so we can walk right through the 380 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:03,720 Speaker 1: operating rooms door to either. The control room must not 381 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:07,520 Speaker 1: be easy to reach either ereon quick study, there are 382 00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:09,640 Speaker 1: a series of alarm systems in place to alert the 383 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,960 Speaker 1: professor of any unauthorized activity in the hall. In the 384 00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:15,760 Speaker 1: first half of the corridor, there are cameras monitoring the 385 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:18,440 Speaker 1: area in the middle of this section, leading up to 386 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:21,960 Speaker 1: the fire doors infrared heat sensors detect unusual sights in 387 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:25,280 Speaker 1: non temperature. In the second half of the corridor, past 388 00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:28,120 Speaker 1: the fire doors, a rolling drove unent patrols the area. 389 00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:32,000 Speaker 1: It's equipped with audio, video and motion detection surveilance. If 390 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:34,440 Speaker 1: a trespasser is detected at any point in the hall, 391 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:37,280 Speaker 1: the system will trigger a full lockdown, stealing off the 392 00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:40,360 Speaker 1: perimeter and preventing us from reaching either in time. But 393 00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:43,400 Speaker 1: any human made system has flowed, there must be a 394 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:46,560 Speaker 1: weakness we can exploit three to be exact. In the 395 00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:49,560 Speaker 1: first section, the camera's roteemed, giving us the chance to 396 00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:53,120 Speaker 1: undetected if we timement rights. Okay, noted the second, there's 397 00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:55,400 Speaker 1: no surveillance. In the side rooms that bind the main hall. 398 00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:58,120 Speaker 1: We can use them to get past the infrared sensors. 399 00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:00,920 Speaker 1: Right after the stretch of infrared sensors in the first 400 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:03,560 Speaker 1: half of the hall and just before the fire doors 401 00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:06,360 Speaker 1: in the middle of the hall is my mechanics. In it, 402 00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:09,200 Speaker 1: I have tools to disable the rolling room that patrols 403 00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:12,720 Speaker 1: the second half before. Got it what. Finally, once we 404 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:15,760 Speaker 1: reach the control room, I can deactivate the security system 405 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:19,520 Speaker 1: and reinstate my access, allowing us to scan into the operator. 406 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:24,000 Speaker 1: How do you know? And the one who built it? Okay, 407 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,080 Speaker 1: now I'm watching the CONTs get ready to run out 408 00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:50,720 Speaker 1: the edgine ready go, you're freeing milt chap colors, Larry shape, 409 00:32:53,600 --> 00:33:28,200 Speaker 1: eyes dark or get light h now the bloom blind 410 00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:40,600 Speaker 1: body shared hard, heavy, shall feel light salt slash let 411 00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:55,240 Speaker 1: shah whiz me m hm. Jelly fish mean jelly fish 412 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:02,320 Speaker 1: need to go onto water or dry out land. He 413 00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:08,120 Speaker 1: bought corner when there is ocean from ocean, guard by 414 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:13,600 Speaker 1: sea serpent twelve under ocean surface from water gaps spray 415 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:20,840 Speaker 1: and I'm above. Must return to water, must deepen sea serpent, 416 00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:41,200 Speaker 1: must not drive out m can't man caught by something 417 00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:59,399 Speaker 1: we know some wandering art jellyfish shock, need to keep 418 00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:23,200 Speaker 1: craw richarn waters na ryer int request created by Michael Freiberg, 419 00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:27,520 Speaker 1: a production of iHeartRadio and Astro Media Executive Produced by 420 00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:30,919 Speaker 1: Michael Freiberg and I Heart Radio co produced by Adam 421 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:35,760 Speaker 1: Raimundo and Chelsea English. 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