WEBVTT - 8 | A Terrible Thirst 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:02.120 iHeart three d are the. 0:00:03.920 --> 0:00:04.920 For full exposure. 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:06.519 Listen with headphones. 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:11.879 Havoc Town is a production of iHeart podcasts and Grimm 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:16.440 and Mild from Aaron Mankey Headphones recommended listener discretion advised. 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:33.640 Jim Hello, this is missus Horn. 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:35.919 All right. 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:40.080 What do you mean he's missing? 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:42.040 How is he missing? 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:47.280 He's dead in the morgue? Did you misplace him? Well, 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:49.560 I'm sorry. I just don't understand. 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:49.879 How he could. 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:51.360 But how can you? 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:55.320 Look? I appreciate the call, but what exactly are you 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:57.880 going to do to rectify this. You've already told me 0:00:57.880 --> 0:00:59.960 that I can't have him back until after the autopsy. 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:01.080 Now you're telling me. 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:07.559 He's he's what up and run off? Now you listen 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:24.039 to me? Hello, Hello, God, damn it, I'm coming. Hold on. 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:16.760 Corne, who's there? Hello? No, No, Hello, it's you're dead. 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:19.120 They said you were dead. 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:20.000 I was. 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:28.920 I'm not now Jesus, Jimbo, can I come in in 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:35.720 the shadows? He looked normal, like himself, like my dad's buddy, 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:40.600 good old Jimbo. Jimbo, the steady, the kind, the regular 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:45.679 Joe Jimbo who liked fishing and fiddling around the garage 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.880 and war movies and a million other things that men 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:52.360 of his generation turned to in late middle age. His 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:57.240 voice and his presence were well worn grooves in my life. 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:04.480 But this was all wrong. This Jim stepping closer so 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:08.280 that the street light fell across his face, his normal face, 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:12.400 with his normal smile, wearing his slacks and a button 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:15.720 up shirt, his loafers on my porch like he'd been 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:16.720 a million times? 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:18.680 Can I. 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:27.160 This sweet, normal Jimbo horn with his normal dead man smile. 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:32.160 It was the eyes. There was something in the eyes, 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:36.360 something off that I couldn't quite place, something that set 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:40.000 every nerve in my body on edge, something that made 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:43.880 my brain scream no, no, no, over and over. But 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:48.880 then that thing in me, that lifelong practice of being polite, 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:54.720 so much of a habit that I just spoke without thinking. Uh, 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:56.680 of course, Jimbo. 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:04.200 Shit, after you thanks. 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:07.600 That the kitchen you know where it is all put 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:08.880 on coffee. 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:12.440 Coffee isn't necessary. 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:20.880 Sit Sit, Jim, I'll stand, Jim. I'm going to be honest. 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:24.080 This is this is scarying the shit out of me, 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:27.320 Like I wish you'd just at least sit so I 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:30.280 could stand on the far side of the kitchen island 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:31.080 while we spoke. 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:37.320 Okay, fair enough, I don't want to scare you. What's 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:38.320 that on the counter. 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:45.839 It's just an old keepsake box. What's inside keepsakes? 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:53.520 Huh? Place feels different, doesn't Yeah? With your dad going 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:56.919 it feels bigger, emptier. 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:03.480 Yeah, it does. What the fuck is going on, Jimbo? 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:06.159 You're dead. 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:12.880 And yet here you are. I was as surprised as 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:13.800 you are, kid. 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:17.839 So talk what happened. 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:20.320 It's a long story. 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:23.240 Well, I can make the time to listen to a 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:25.400 story about a man coming back from the dead. 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:30.840 Fair enough. I don't remember a lot after I went 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:35.680 into the hospital. The illness, it blurs everything. It was 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:37.960 like having a hot knife in the middle of your skull, 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:41.800 and I couldn't focus a hole of thought. It was 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:45.520 just pain and a howl and sort of rage. I 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:49.080 don't know. I was never a violent man, Karen, but 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:55.360 I wanted to hurt, to destroy, to kill that street preacher. 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:58.640 I remember getting my hands on him. I wanted to 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:03.560 press my fingers through him. Remember, want to feel his 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:08.359 skin give way, this strong need to press through his 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:11.200 muscle and his veins, and get my hands into his 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:14.960 visra to tear him apart and sell by self, and 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:21.919 then well, it just flashes. After that, I had moments 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:27.679 of clarity, of course, fear, remorse, sadness, the rage, eating 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:33.400 it all, pressing against the insights of my skull, hot, feverish. 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:39.479 And then there is a light, like everyone says, I 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:43.680 could see it coming from far above me, so far 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:49.280 up above the hospital ceiling, above the clouds, out beyond 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:56.760 the sun. Even was overtaken everything. It was warm, it 0:06:56.839 --> 0:07:03.000 was beautiful, everything they tell you, all of it. I 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:06.960 could feel myself begin to float, could feel the warmth 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:10.560 overtake me. I don't know, like I was back in 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:19.800 the womb. It sounds crazy, but I was pulled back high. 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:22.840 The light retreated a pinprick, and then it was extinguished, 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:26.560 and all of the warmth and goodness went with it, 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:32.880 and I was alone in this icy darkness, sized Jesus Christ. 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:36.600 I was a lone Karin, more alone than I've ever been. 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:40.400 And I've been alone when I was a little kid. 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:43.480 My mom died, and it felt like being ripped from 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:47.720 the world, like nothing could reach me, like I'd never 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:48.840 feel love again. 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:55.640 This was so much worse, Jesus Jim. 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.760 And then I found myself back in the body. I 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:02.560 was in the cabinet in the morgue. That feeling was 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:07.080 still there with me, but I recognized it now, really 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:10.600 recognized it for what it was. 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:13.920 When was it? 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:22.000 It was a terrible, terrible thirst, deep painful, like every 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:25.200 cell in my body was screaming with it. I had 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:28.160 crossed an infinite desert and was parched. 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:34.079 And so I went looking to quench it. I managed 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:37.400 to push my way out of the Morguel locker. I 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:40.760 wasn't alone. There was a body laid out covered in 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:45.200 a sheet. That preacher, the one I heard dead on 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:48.760 the table. I never thought about him in life. 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:51.920 You know, besides a couple of noise complaints here and 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:56.079 there when he was on a tear, But besides being batshitt, 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:59.640 you know, he was harmless. So I left him alone 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:03.040 for years, maybe telling him to keep it down a little. 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:08.240 But there was something sad and kind about him that 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:11.800 I guess I always sort of admired, so I always 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:17.480 just let him be. But here he was dead like 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:22.920 me because of me. Any guilt I felt was cut 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:26.880 short by the cutting thirst. And there was a water 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:28.920 cooler in the room, and at first I moved toward it, 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:33.920 but the thought of drinking it repulsed me, confused me. 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:38.559 Even that confusion was shot lived, because before I had 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:42.240 a chance to react, someone walked in. He was way 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:44.640 on a face shield that I think must have fogged up, 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:47.520 because I don't think that he registered me right away. 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:52.360 But I registered him even halfway across the room. I 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:56.320 could smell him, feel the heat of his body. I 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:59.200 could sense to the flutter of the pulse of blood 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:04.520 in his vein. And what's more, my teeth they suddenly itched, 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:09.920 burned my gums as if they were shop and I 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:20.320 understood the thirst. What are you doing stretching? How are you? 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:29.680 I flew at him, knocking him over. Finally I was 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:31.840 able to grab a hold of his hair, and with 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:35.480 as much force as I could must slammed his head 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:36.200 into the tile. 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:41.240 I didn't have time to be horrified. I didn't even think. 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:44.240 I just scrambled at his mask and collar. 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:49.920 And sank my teeth into his neck. I can't fully 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:54.400 describe it, the relief, the warmth of him entering me 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:59.520 and spreading outward, tingling in my fingers and toes, and 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:05.160 the world well just became God again, and I felt 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:09.080 like me for the first time since Bachmann came to town 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:15.360 with his axe. Don't look at me in that way, Corin, 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:18.760 Did you kill him? 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:19.600 Jimbo? 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:24.080 I did, well, there was nothing else I could do. 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:30.160 The thirst korn when it takes you, it takes all 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:35.560 of you, replaces every impulse you have, and makes you 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:40.360 a starven animal, makes you insane. When I was young, 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:43.840 I used to read stories about people who survived disasters 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:48.960 or war. Couldn't get enough of it. Crazy stuff. A 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:52.679 man riding a tank through the Iron Curtain to escape 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:57.480 the Red Army, people who survived plane crashes, murder attempts. 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:00.280 One of them was about a Navy officer who ship 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:02.920 went down in the Second World War and how he 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:06.840 managed to live for two weeks on a piece of scrap, 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:09.560 an old crate or something out in the middle of 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:13.560 the ocean. His small supply of water ran out, and 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:17.440 so he drank his piss, and then when he got desperate, 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:21.960 finally drank sea water, which just dehydrate you more. See, 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:24.360 kidneys can't handle that much salt, so it tries to 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:27.280 flush it out. You lose more water than you drink, 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:32.040 so you vomit. You get delirious. Eventually, if you don't 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:35.480 get enough regular water to balance it out, you die. 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:40.600 This sailor he got saved before he died, but he 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:47.600 went insane, literally insane with thirst. I can't tell you 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:52.800 how I know, but this was worse. But when I 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:59.360 drank from that man, it went away completely for a while. 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:02.640 What happened next, Jimbo. 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:06.680 Next, I cleaned myself up and found a pair of 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:09.560 scrubs that fit me from a locker, and I walked 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:13.360 right out of the hospital. It's funny, you know. I 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:16.559 walked right by a couple of boys I worked with 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:19.080 on the foss. They didn't even look up at me, 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:23.440 like it didn't register who I was, just another doctor 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:26.960 walking the halls of the hospital, even with though shoes on, 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:32.560 looking like shit warmed over. Nobody cast me a funny look. 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:36.920 So I walked right out the door and I made 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:40.679 my way home, went barefoot, kept off the road as 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:44.319 much as possible. It was cold, and you know how 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:47.360 far the walk from that hospital and into town is, 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:54.800 But I wasn't cold, never got tired. I felt impervious 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:59.400 to it all. I felt strong, energetic now right out 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:04.160 of the bar, senses heightened. I could feel the animals 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:08.040 and the trees. Watching As I passed, I could sense 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:10.760 the people in the cars that would go by. The 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:12.960 colors of the world were sharper. 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:18.360 And with each step I could feel it return, the hunger, 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:24.160 just a little whisper in my ear at first. By 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:27.400 the time I returned home it was a scream. 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:39.280 Hello, God, damn it, I'm coming. 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:53.160 Hold on, hello, han Uh, I'm really standing here. Uh, 0:14:55.720 --> 0:15:01.360 your dad, rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated. 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:05.920 Jim, Jim, is it really you? 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:12.040 Jim, Jim Jim, Oh my god, you're icy cold. 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:15.480 It's freezing out. Can we go in? 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:16.440 Uh? 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:25.880 Of course, Oh my god, Jim, Oh my god, go 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:31.480 get some warm clothes on. I'll put on coffee. Oh oh, 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:33.800 we need to call the hospital. They called just now 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:41.840 to tell me that you're missing. Oh God, They're going 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:46.480 to be so embarrassed. Jesus, how could they have pronounced 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:47.000 you dead? 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:51.360 Well? Why don't we hold off on, Colin. It will 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:53.440 take a while to untangle all of this. 0:15:53.920 --> 0:16:04.600 Of course, get warm, Oh my god, jem my gym, 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:08.080 Oh my gim, Oh my gym, God, how good this is. 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:10.080 Thank God. 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:17.720 I'm gonna get dressed. Of course. 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:21.480 Go I'll be in the kitchen. I'm going to get 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:24.280 the coffee and the warm fire. 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:31.480 I can't quite describe the strange feeling I got walking 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:35.960 through my house. It didn't feel like mine anymore. It 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:40.920 felt like a perfect reproduction of my house, or perhaps 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:44.800 a museum of a dead man's time on earth. But 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:48.200 it was no longer mine. Maybe it was still Barber's, 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:52.440 but the James walker Horn who owned this home and 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:57.400 came back to it every night, no longer existed. I 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:00.680 think that's when it fully sank in as they walked 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:04.240 into the bedroom and peeled off the hospital scrubs and 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:08.000 opened the drawer on my old mahogany dresser and put 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:11.520 a dead man's clothes on this new body. I was 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:15.800 no longer James or Jim or Jimmy or Jim bow. 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:20.320 I was no one's son, no one's husband. When I 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:25.119 looked in the mirror, I couldn't see any trace of him, 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:28.720 just clothes hanging on this new body, someone different, looking 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:34.960 out the eyes and examining himself and Couren. He was so. 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:42.600 Thirsty, and in the kitchen I could smell her through 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:46.520 the freshly brewed coffee. Last week's dinner dishes forgotten in 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:51.119 the sink. The smell of her pushed all the others away. 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:55.440 I wanted her, Barbara. 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:57.800 Ah, you scared me. 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:05.520 Oh, jim My, jim My sweet husband. 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:07.639 I thought i'd lost you. 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:14.800 Shoh, it's all okay. I'm here now, Okay. 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:18.600 I didn't know if you'd want a beer or coffee 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:21.960 or what. So why don't you say it? I'll serve you. 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:25.800 I think I'll stand if it's all the same. 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:28.479 I guess you've been lying down for a while, haven't you, 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:29.920 Poor Jim? 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:32.280 Do you want me to make you something to eat 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:34.320 that won't be necessary? 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:38.280 I just can't believe it. I mean, they said you died. 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:41.600 We're gonna have words with those doctors. I'll call my brother. 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:43.840 I'll bet there's a malpractice lawsuit in all of this. 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:51.720 Are you okay, Jim? I am great, Bob, you just 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:53.960 seem different. 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:57.960 Well, I did just come back from the dead. 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:06.480 I suppose that would change a man. Are you sure 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:07.840 you don't want something to eat? 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:09.800 I'm not hungry. 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:17.320 Oh well, gonna go grab a sweater from upstairs. 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:20.040 It's a little chili. You want me to turn up 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:21.200 the thermostat. 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:25.359 It doesn't matter, you're so cold. 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:27.600 Jim. 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:31.439 There was a moment there when old Jimbo came rushing 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:38.800 back into my head. Get away, He said, you love her, Bob, Bob. 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:44.480 I think, Oh, don't worry about the beer, Jim, I'll 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:44.919 clean it. 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:47.520 No, Bob, I'd better go. 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:51.240 No, no, don't go, Jim. 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:56.840 I think I'm having trouble being close to you. I'm 0:19:56.880 --> 0:20:00.000 afraid I've hurting you. 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:02.840 What do you mean hurt me? 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:07.080 I'm still sick, Barbara. I'm sicker than I was before. 0:20:07.160 --> 0:20:12.560 I think, Honey, why don't you go lie down. I 0:20:12.560 --> 0:20:14.760 can call the doctor. Maybe they have some medicine. 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:19.000 No, I should just get out of here, Jim, Jim, 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:22.520 get off of me, Barbara. But it was too late. 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:25.960 Her heart was beating too fast, too loud, and I 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:27.200 could smell. 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:29.960 It in the air, the iron and a blood, the salty, 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:44.159 sweet taste of my tongue, and then my teeth was 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:47.840 suddenly in a neck, that neck I kissed so many 0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:52.200 times in the past, and the rush of relief, the 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:56.080 flood of joy into my system. I'm feeling more vital 0:20:56.160 --> 0:21:00.320 with every hot spurt of blood in it. And then 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:04.320 the sudden repulsion of myself as I drained the life 0:21:04.320 --> 0:21:04.760 out of her. 0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:32.000 Jim, bow, did you did you kill Barbara? 0:21:33.000 --> 0:21:39.159 No? But I came awful close. She's still alive, I think, so, 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:41.040 I hope. 0:21:41.040 --> 0:21:44.800 So should I go check on her? 0:21:45.560 --> 0:21:51.919 No, don't reach for the phone, even to call an 0:21:51.920 --> 0:21:58.360 ambulance for her. I'll make sure she gets help later. Jim, 0:21:59.400 --> 0:22:00.919 what's in that box corn? 0:22:01.840 --> 0:22:02.199 Nothing? 0:22:03.200 --> 0:22:04.840 You'll hover and like it's something. 0:22:05.920 --> 0:22:11.359 It's insurance against what I don't quite know. 0:22:12.960 --> 0:22:15.760 I'm sorry, Corin for what. 0:22:16.040 --> 0:22:19.560 Jim, I'm just so thirsty. 0:22:21.119 --> 0:22:24.440 I'm just so goddamn thirsty. 0:22:26.240 --> 0:22:30.520 And then chaos. It happened so quickly, faster than a 0:22:30.520 --> 0:22:34.000 man of his eyes should Jim Horn lunged at me, 0:22:34.640 --> 0:22:37.320 catching my shirt sleeve in and pulling me tight against 0:22:37.400 --> 0:22:42.440 him his freezing, frenzied flesh. And then he backed away, 0:22:43.760 --> 0:22:46.760 clutching a sucking hole in the center of his chest, 0:22:47.359 --> 0:22:53.040 dark blood gushing out, his eyes, almost feral, an animal dying, 0:22:53.920 --> 0:22:58.560 His mouth twisted in hatred, two sharp fangs bared at me, 0:22:58.720 --> 0:23:03.240 and then he was still. It was then that I 0:23:03.280 --> 0:23:08.919 felt it in my hand, warm and sure, Josiah's wooden steak. 0:23:14.320 --> 0:23:18.720 It's truly incredible how quickly the numbness sets in when 0:23:18.760 --> 0:23:23.040 your world is altered beyond belief, the loss of a 0:23:23.119 --> 0:23:27.359 loved one, being laid off from a lifelong job, finding 0:23:27.359 --> 0:23:31.000 out that vampires are real, and then killing one in 0:23:31.040 --> 0:23:34.560 the same instant. I had to move to do something, 0:23:34.840 --> 0:23:38.360 to be anywhere but here. I grabbed the stale pack 0:23:38.359 --> 0:23:40.280 of cigarettes from the back of the spice cabinet, where 0:23:40.280 --> 0:23:43.360 I'd hidden them from Dad over the years. I walked outside. 0:23:43.400 --> 0:23:50.040 I didn't even think to close the door. No Jesus, 0:23:50.160 --> 0:23:58.280 tastes like shit. Corin. Who's there, Marie? Oh my god, 0:23:58.320 --> 0:24:02.600 I'm so sorry. I oh, oh no? What uh are you? 0:24:04.000 --> 0:24:08.360 Is that blood there was? Are you hurt? 0:24:08.440 --> 0:24:08.520 No? 0:24:08.680 --> 0:24:11.800 Here, let me see Marie. No, no, no, it's not 0:24:11.960 --> 0:24:12.399 It's not me. 0:24:12.600 --> 0:24:15.359 Is there is there someone else here in your house? 0:24:16.040 --> 0:24:19.520 Yes? Yeah, okay? Can I go in and check? 0:24:19.760 --> 0:24:19.960 Yes? 0:24:20.119 --> 0:24:27.000 Yeah, okay, okay. I waited for the telltale scream. It 0:24:27.040 --> 0:24:32.919 didn't come. Instead. Did he scratch you, bite you? Did 0:24:32.960 --> 0:24:34.680 you get any blood in your eyes or your mouth? 0:24:35.520 --> 0:24:35.800 Karen? 0:24:35.960 --> 0:24:38.600 I need you to think no, uh uh no, he 0:24:38.880 --> 0:24:42.040 didn't hurt me at all. I mean probably bruised my 0:24:42.200 --> 0:24:47.520 arms and I twisted my ankle a little bit. Okay, Okay, 0:24:47.520 --> 0:24:52.840 you're Okay, then, Marie, there's a dead fucking body in 0:24:52.880 --> 0:24:55.800 my house. A body that was already dead got up 0:24:56.119 --> 0:24:59.240 and came to my house and tried to drink my blood. 0:24:59.280 --> 0:25:02.800 I am very, very goddamn far from fucking Okay. 0:25:02.640 --> 0:25:03.960 Okay, okay, I'm sorry. 0:25:04.000 --> 0:25:04.840 I'm sorry. You're right. 0:25:04.960 --> 0:25:09.240 That is a lot to process. What are you? 0:25:09.240 --> 0:25:10.359 What are you even doing here? 0:25:11.240 --> 0:25:11.480 Well? 0:25:13.800 --> 0:25:19.080 I had a message for you, of what a message? Yeah, okay, 0:25:19.119 --> 0:25:19.439 what's that? 0:25:20.400 --> 0:25:21.920 Well, it's not gonna make any sense. 0:25:22.359 --> 0:25:25.000 What is it? Who's it from? 0:25:25.160 --> 0:25:29.879 It's from Ken McLean who he was. He was an 0:25:29.880 --> 0:25:31.879 indigent that was brought in last week. I think he 0:25:31.920 --> 0:25:34.320 was attacked by the dead man in your kitchen. 0:25:34.960 --> 0:25:37.280 Brother Ken the street preacher. 0:25:37.760 --> 0:25:40.400 Yes, yes, he uh well, he did scream a few 0:25:40.400 --> 0:25:46.119 Bible verses when he came back. Came back, yeah, Kreen, 0:25:46.280 --> 0:25:49.280 like the man on your floor came back from the dead. 0:25:50.840 --> 0:25:52.680 He sat up and walked out of. 0:25:52.600 --> 0:25:56.000 The morgue and happened on my floor, where he was 0:25:56.040 --> 0:25:57.960 then tackled by the National Guard and chained to a 0:25:58.000 --> 0:25:58.800 bed for observation. 0:26:01.160 --> 0:26:01.800 Yeah. 0:26:02.200 --> 0:26:05.400 Yeah, well, at least he seemed relieved to be tied down, 0:26:05.520 --> 0:26:10.399 but he was suffering. I was sent into checking vitals 0:26:10.400 --> 0:26:14.800 and his heart was beating, but he was as cold 0:26:14.800 --> 0:26:15.320 as a grave. 0:26:16.280 --> 0:26:17.760 Only was chattering Bible verses. 0:26:17.800 --> 0:26:18.520 He said your name? 0:26:19.359 --> 0:26:19.919 Oh? 0:26:20.520 --> 0:26:25.480 When I pressed him, he said that you'd. 0:26:23.680 --> 0:26:26.600 Know what to do, that it was in your blood. 0:26:27.800 --> 0:26:30.919 What was the Holy spirit? I don't know. 0:26:31.000 --> 0:26:35.399 He said your family killed vampires. Okay, sorry, that is 0:26:35.600 --> 0:26:37.680 absolutely not funny given the circumstances. 0:26:38.440 --> 0:26:44.480 You mean, the dead vampire in my kitchen. Yeah? What 0:26:44.560 --> 0:26:45.720 are they gonna do to Ken? 0:26:47.560 --> 0:26:51.159 I don't know. They'll probably take him somewhere more secure, 0:26:52.119 --> 0:26:54.199 but I think that things are getting ready to get 0:26:54.240 --> 0:26:55.000 even more scary. 0:26:55.920 --> 0:27:01.680 I'm not sure about you, but I'm already scared as shit. Jesus, 0:27:01.680 --> 0:27:03.840 What the fuck am I gonna do? Do you have 0:27:03.880 --> 0:27:04.640 someone you can call? 0:27:05.880 --> 0:27:07.399 Family, a close friend? 0:27:07.640 --> 0:27:11.919 What about oh God, Sylvie? Yeah? Uh huh? I mean 0:27:12.200 --> 0:27:15.639 should I call the cops? Cops? What are they gonna do? 0:27:15.800 --> 0:27:15.919 Well? 0:27:15.920 --> 0:27:17.639 I don't know the CDC. 0:27:18.760 --> 0:27:21.880 I can call the contact person. They'll send someone over, 0:27:21.960 --> 0:27:24.359 but they're gonna want to bring you in. Look. If 0:27:24.400 --> 0:27:26.840 I was you, i'd get in your car and drive 0:27:26.920 --> 0:27:28.399 away from Havoc for a few days. 0:27:29.440 --> 0:27:31.680 Check in with me tomorrow. I'll give you any news. 0:27:32.200 --> 0:27:36.720 That's incredibly nice of you. Won't you get in trouble. 0:27:37.320 --> 0:27:39.320 I'll say I was checking in on you and found 0:27:39.320 --> 0:27:39.960 the door open. 0:27:40.840 --> 0:27:44.679 No, no, I need to be here, No, no, listen 0:27:44.720 --> 0:27:44.960 to me. 0:27:45.920 --> 0:27:48.280 I've been at the hospital for a while and I 0:27:48.320 --> 0:27:50.800 have never seen the sort of anxiety that I've been 0:27:50.840 --> 0:27:55.119 seeing there. It's not just the staff, the CDC, doctor 0:27:55.160 --> 0:27:59.800 is the National Guardsman. Nobody's seen anything like this illness. 0:28:00.400 --> 0:28:02.960 I mean, nobody's used to the dead rising from the grave. 0:28:03.000 --> 0:28:03.600 They're scared. 0:28:04.640 --> 0:28:08.840 Look, something is happening here, something big and sudden that 0:28:08.920 --> 0:28:12.800 none of us can really understand. There will be more 0:28:12.840 --> 0:28:15.719 death karn and the response to it by the government 0:28:15.800 --> 0:28:19.639 will be swift and will absolutely make it worse. And 0:28:19.680 --> 0:28:21.480 I have a job to do here, so I can't leave. 0:28:21.640 --> 0:28:24.560 But you can so get the hell out of town, 0:28:25.200 --> 0:28:30.040 far away. Hide in a motel because this place it's 0:28:30.040 --> 0:28:30.960