Speaker 1: Mordeo is a production of I Heart Radio, Blumhouse Television
Speaker 1: and Crypt TV in association with Wolf at the Door.
Speaker 1: I wonder if you forgave me in the end. If
Speaker 1: you did, I wish you would come back and teach
Speaker 1: me how to forgive myself. This is asked. Have you
Speaker 1: even go away? Not now? Are you you? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I had a night to sharpen this knife, Isaiah, So
Speaker 1: I'll ask you again. Are you you? Yeah? Yeah? Thanks
Speaker 1: so to have it. Yes, I'm fine physically anyway. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna need some electro shock therapy to burn that out
Speaker 1: of my brain. What did you see? What? I don't know.
Speaker 1: You pushed me out of the room and then I
Speaker 1: ran came back when the door stopped pounding. Waited another
Speaker 1: hour before getting you out. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well now we know one thing. What's that? Whatever is
Speaker 1: happening to you? It's real? Hey mom, morning bug. I'm
Speaker 1: staying home today, so you'll need to take the bus.
Speaker 1: What are you doing? Just a little housekeeping, packing up
Speaker 1: some stuff for storage? Dad stuff? Yeah, he's dead, isn't me.
Speaker 1: I'm here, Josh. I want to be honest with you.
Speaker 1: We might never know what happened to Dad? Sometimes we
Speaker 1: don't get answers no matter how much we want them.
Speaker 1: But I do know one thing for sure. I know
Speaker 1: that you and I we're gonna be okay and knowing
Speaker 1: or not knowing, because we're gonna look out for each other.
Speaker 1: And I think that's pretty special, two girls taking on
Speaker 1: the world together. Do you need help? Okay, I'll grab
Speaker 1: some of the things from the closet. You want to
Speaker 1: get that top drawer. I'n't a junk in here, so
Speaker 1: even get me started. Hey, I found a letter of something.
Speaker 1: I promised to cook every meal and let you take
Speaker 1: care of the spiders. We would never great with gender roles. Mom?
Speaker 1: What is this? I promise not to shish you when
Speaker 1: you ask questions and movies, and never again correct you
Speaker 1: when you sang the wrong lyrics to have songs. These
Speaker 1: are our wedding vowels. I promised the adventure, and I
Speaker 1: promised surprises. I promised mountains, and next did he give
Speaker 1: you all those things you tried? What's the stay here?
Speaker 1: Damn it, Isaiah? That you asy scared me? Scared you?
Speaker 1: Why are you sneaking around? And where have you been?
Speaker 1: I just got off from Mark. We haven't seen or
Speaker 1: heard from you in days and all the other hours
Speaker 1: of the day, and we're living here and then you're
Speaker 1: keeping tives on. It doesn't. But look my vorpal blade
Speaker 1: went snicker snacked, Yeah, you kill a careful with that thing, Jocelyn.
Speaker 1: Can you give me a sec with your uncle? It's
Speaker 1: your line? Next he left it dead and with its
Speaker 1: head he went glumphing back right, Jaberlwaukee. I borrow this
Speaker 1: null this sort from the prop room, like it the
Speaker 1: talent show from my drama class. You remember, right, dude,
Speaker 1: you said you go on stage with me. Of course
Speaker 1: you remembered. You have to come. I can't do this
Speaker 1: dumb Jabberwaukee routine alone. Promise He'll be there, Isaiah. I promise,
Speaker 1: of course. See now upstairs, bug shower, you will be there,
Speaker 1: won't you sure? I just I really need to go.
Speaker 1: You don't live in a vacuum, Isaiah. Joscelyn, she picks
Speaker 1: up on everything. She can feel your absence. She might
Speaker 1: not want to show it, but this performance is really
Speaker 1: important to her, and what's important to her is important
Speaker 1: to me. I told you I'll be there. I say,
Speaker 1: what's going on with you? I don't think you're fine,
Speaker 1: and no one expects you to be, not after what
Speaker 1: you went through. But I don't appreciate you taking off
Speaker 1: for days at a time, not telling us where you
Speaker 1: are or when we'll see you next. We're all dealing
Speaker 1: with this in our idea, what I'm dealing with. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I really have to go. Isaiah. You live in here.
Speaker 1: It's been good for Joscelyn. But you're warm, welcome, cool
Speaker 1: as a minute, it's not too I make myself clear,
Speaker 1: I understand, I understand more, don't you know? All right,
Speaker 1: y'all good, you're ready, Thank you all for coming. My
Speaker 1: name is Detective Michelle Reid, and we're here to address
Speaker 1: two missing person cases in the area, one of whom
Speaker 1: is city councilman and Paul Doudlas. As of a four
Speaker 1: last night, we recovered Mr douglass vehicle out of Sherwood
Speaker 1: Lake of the tack we received from a local fisherman.
Speaker 1: In not of this new evidence, the e f p
Speaker 1: D has reason to suspect that Paul Douglas's disappearance may
Speaker 1: not be of his own volition. If anyone has any
Speaker 1: information regarding Mr Douglas's last known whereabouts. Please call our
Speaker 1: crime Stopper's tipline. Even the smallest detail may provide us
Speaker 1: with much needed answers. In regards to the connection to
Speaker 1: Gave William's recent disappearance, we have no reason to suspect
Speaker 1: that two are connected at this time. However, we will
Speaker 1: be reinvestigating any leads in this case to make sure
Speaker 1: no stone is left unturned. On behalf of the entire
Speaker 1: force and the Sheriff's office. We want to ensure the
Speaker 1: members of this community that we are doing everything in
Speaker 1: our power to keep you safe. Cat let me in.
Speaker 1: What took you so long? Actually caught me sneaking out?
Speaker 1: Had to side step a little look at this breaking news.
Speaker 1: Last night, we recovered Mr Douglas as meta. We did
Speaker 1: find it eventually, right but down the road eventually, not
Speaker 1: this soon, not before we had any of this figured out.
Speaker 1: It's a far cry from finding a body. We're in
Speaker 1: the clear for now. You obviously don't know, Michelle really
Speaker 1: like I do. We're playing with fire here and I'm
Speaker 1: anna ticking time bomb. As it is, it's getting worse.
Speaker 1: I don't qualify what happened in the archives as it
Speaker 1: getting any better. I used to have more time. The
Speaker 1: intervals are growing shorter. We need answers because books are
Speaker 1: getting us nowhere. Settings of werewolves and sasquatch. These are
Speaker 1: fairy tales. Kind of the problem. When I only leaves
Speaker 1: our conspiracy theories and you told me everything about the woods,
Speaker 1: you're not holding anything back, Isaiah, Yes, everything. Then I
Speaker 1: think we only have one choice. We need to coax
Speaker 1: it out of you. We have to see what we're
Speaker 1: dealing with and what happens if I do something to
Speaker 1: someone else. I have no control. Better the devil we
Speaker 1: plan for than the one we don't. No better, no
Speaker 1: devil at all. We don't really have that option doing Isaiah.
Speaker 1: You brought me here because you trusted me, right, so
Speaker 1: trust me. I think I know how we can get
Speaker 1: our answers and live to do something about it. Hold on, Ashley,
Speaker 1: what are you doing here? Isn't it a school day?
Speaker 1: I need your help, Ernesto. Is everything all right with Joscelyn?
Speaker 1: It's not Joscelyn, it's Isaiah. Well, you said you wanted
Speaker 1: to do better. This is how you can start. Come in.
Speaker 1: If I'm being honest, I don't know how I'd be
Speaker 1: able to help, you know, better than me. You've been
Speaker 1: through this before. I think I think he's dealing again.
Speaker 1: What makes you think that he hasn't been coming home.
Speaker 1: It started as a few late nights, but now we
Speaker 1: don't see him for days at a time. He's a
Speaker 1: radic temperamental. I've heard rumors of him coming and going
Speaker 1: from Green Pine Montoe. He doesn't have access to anything.
Speaker 1: I got rid of all g O prescription pads. It's
Speaker 1: not pills this time. Maybe it's something worse. Actually, it
Speaker 1: may be best I stay out of it. Me being
Speaker 1: there may only make it worse. I think Isaiah could
Speaker 1: be in real trouble. Last time I spoke to Michelle Read,
Speaker 1: I felt like she was trying to intimidate something out
Speaker 1: of me. Are you saying she threatened you? She said,
Speaker 1: if she presumed Gabe dead based on the blood sample
Speaker 1: from the backpack, it would mean that Gabe's case could
Speaker 1: be considered a homicide, and that the primary suspect in
Speaker 1: that homicide is Isaiah. No, you mustn't misunderstood. Now. Michelle
Speaker 1: can be tough, sure, but she searched as hard for
Speaker 1: Isaiah as she has for Gabe. I didn't misunderstand well.
Speaker 1: Even so, she doesn't have any evidence and support any arrest.
Speaker 1: She'll have evidence if she finds him dealing drugs. I
Speaker 1: know she was your partner. I know that means you
Speaker 1: put your life in her hands. But we're talking about
Speaker 1: Michelle here, and she don't like to look. And if
Speaker 1: that means using anything she can find against Isaiah as
Speaker 1: an admission of something, she will not hesitate. And what
Speaker 1: if he did do something? Do you really believe he
Speaker 1: could her? Nast though, I came to you because if
Speaker 1: it's between Isaiah and Joscelyn, I will choose my daughter.
Speaker 1: And I know that, no matter how far he pushes
Speaker 1: you away, you want to be there for your son.
Speaker 1: This could be her chance to prove that to him,
Speaker 1: Hell to everybody, Isaiah. When the tale gave ya, this
Speaker 1: feels wrong. What's wrong is that they let me walk
Speaker 1: out of there with half a dozen of these things
Speaker 1: pets for it's my ass innocent animals. It's either the
Speaker 1: cute little bunnies or a cute neighbor boy, Billy. I
Speaker 1: think we can live with a few rabbits. Of course,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, but it's a theory. We think. It
Speaker 1: feeds every time it comes out right, So this is
Speaker 1: bait one oh one. We lure it out by its
Speaker 1: stomach like blood in the water and jaws or a
Speaker 1: taco bellm. You're a high school so I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to kill one of these first. As me. You're gonna
Speaker 1: have to do more than kill it. They're gonna need
Speaker 1: to like kill it. Okay, I kill it. I use
Speaker 1: the rest to create a trail of little snaky snacks
Speaker 1: as you make your way to the woods. My dad
Speaker 1: and I used to use deer bait like this every
Speaker 1: hunting season. I'll be a safe distance away, snap some
Speaker 1: pictures in maybe we can get a clue as to
Speaker 1: what we're dealing with. There's got to be a safe way.
Speaker 1: Why not just trap me somewhere like what happened in
Speaker 1: the archive. That door barely held you back, and I'd
Speaker 1: rather have room to run instead of being cornered somewhere.
Speaker 1: This is reckless. You're trying to control something completely out
Speaker 1: of our death. We have no idea of this thinct
Speaker 1: what I'm capable of. We can't run from this anymore.
Speaker 1: We have to confront it head on, no matter how
Speaker 1: terrifying it is. Take my gun, you shoot, and you
Speaker 1: don't stop. If I come for you, you take me out.
Speaker 1: That's in order. I don't need all the marine theatrics,
Speaker 1: but thanks now. I feel like there's have a dick
Speaker 1: for loading this one this morning. Now here, sit tight
Speaker 1: with bugs, bunny. I'll let you know when the beats
Speaker 1: say chinnap soldier. I think this will work. That makes
Speaker 1: one of us m mhm. We put Isaiah down here
Speaker 1: in the basement. I didn't really have a spare bedroom.
Speaker 1: I'm hoping there's something we can use proof to approach him.
Speaker 1: Barely looks like he's living here. He's been slowly taking
Speaker 1: his things, probably so he can stay away longer periods
Speaker 1: of time. Those boxes are his. I was surprised with
Speaker 1: Gabe agreed to take him in. Where else would you
Speaker 1: have gone? He could stay with me? We both know
Speaker 1: that wouldn't have happened. I'm not over his dead body.
Speaker 1: It was good to you to let him stay where
Speaker 1: his family, and also I thought maybe he could because
Speaker 1: what it's nothing. There's another box behind you. You know.
Speaker 1: If I've learned anything from years or holding things in it,
Speaker 1: it's that I wish I hadn't, especially when there's someone
Speaker 1: they're willing to listen. Gabe and I we We're in
Speaker 1: a weird place. Jocelyn was pulling away from us, started
Speaker 1: slipping in school. I felt like I was failing, and
Speaker 1: Isaiah coming back sounded like a way to feel like
Speaker 1: I could do something right. He was a project test.
Speaker 1: If I could get Isaiah and gave back together, maybe
Speaker 1: I could keep my family from falling apart. There's no
Speaker 1: shame in fighting for your family. Actually, crap, he's home. Quick,
Speaker 1: close up the box, h mom, Boppy, what are you
Speaker 1: doing down here? Josh? I thought you were staying at
Speaker 1: school until the show. I forgot my sword. Are you
Speaker 1: guys going through Uncle Isaiah's stuff or something? No, No,
Speaker 1: of course not. I just some of my delicates got
Speaker 1: mixed up in the wrong laundrobin. Mean your bras? Why
Speaker 1: would probably be helping you look for your bras? Oh no,
Speaker 1: I wasn't. We were talking. I followed it down here. Okay,
Speaker 1: you before terrible liars, But I'm gonna be late. So
Speaker 1: let's find your sword and I'll take you over school.
Speaker 1: M hey, k, the deed is done. What it's often,
Speaker 1: I just sent you the pain start there and if
Speaker 1: all goes according to plan, we'll have some very incriminating
Speaker 1: photos of you by this time tomorrow. All right, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I know how painful the transition is for you.
Speaker 1: It's not that I just I want you to know
Speaker 1: that I love you. You what not like I love you?
Speaker 1: You're my best friend. And if I don't view, I
Speaker 1: just drung up that rabbits in the middle of the
Speaker 1: fourth ring. If that doesn't say I know you, tune
Speaker 1: and I don't know what. Okay, stay safe, all right,
Speaker 1: always do fuck you kidding me? I officer. This is
Speaker 1: about that tail life. I have an appointment to get
Speaker 1: that taken care of later this week. Not why I'm here, Michelle. Hello, Isaiah.
Speaker 1: I'd like you to come down to the station. I
Speaker 1: have a few questions i'd like to ask. I'm busy, Michelle. Listen.
Speaker 1: We can do this the easy way or the long
Speaker 1: and painful way, but both end up with you at
Speaker 1: the station. So how about you just make things simple
Speaker 1: and follow me in. Maybe we should go backstage. I'm
Speaker 1: sure miss Cole was lining you up. I'm waiting here, Gosla.
Speaker 1: Your mother's right. He'll be here, he promised. Where are
Speaker 1: you as are here? You want some water. What am
Speaker 1: I doing here, Michelle? In lot of recent advance, I'm
Speaker 1: re interviewing witnesses in your brother's case. And as far
Speaker 1: as witnesses go, you're pretty much the top of the
Speaker 1: list for being a witness. This looks a lot like
Speaker 1: an interrogation room. Let's go over your account of what
Speaker 1: happened in the minonga Hella. I already told you everything. Now,
Speaker 1: you got spooked by an animal, ran got separated, and
Speaker 1: that's the last time you saw him. That's right, m
Speaker 1: You know Paul Douglas. Yeah, neighbor guy, a little nosy.
Speaker 1: But who isn't around there? I've been asking around. It
Speaker 1: seems like you may have been the last one to
Speaker 1: see him. Klin's hardware. I don't remember. You're not looking
Speaker 1: too good, Isaiah. Something the matter a little up. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you what's happening here, Isaiah. Three people have
Speaker 1: gone missing under my watch. Only one came back, only
Speaker 1: you came back, and somehow you've been the last person
Speaker 1: to see the other two. Now, call me crazy, but
Speaker 1: I'd like to know why that is. So we're going
Speaker 1: to start from the beginning, and this time you're not
Speaker 1: going to leave anything out. I can't go out there.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna look like an idiot acting out the Jabberwaukee
Speaker 1: inn No jabberwaoukee, Josh. The point of the poem is
Speaker 1: that nobody knows what it means. The jabberwaoukee is whatever
Speaker 1: we imagine it is. So go out there and imagine it,
Speaker 1: and you'll make the audience imagine it too. Now, Gold
Speaker 1: Malcolm to head, h we'st brilliant? Uh? And the slither
Speaker 1: tones tis did greet? And where the Jabblwaukee? My son?
Speaker 1: The jaws that bite the cloths that catch this show
Speaker 1: is fucking stupid. Hmm. Jocelyne, anything now, Isaiah? What's that?
Speaker 1: Oh God? This is it? All right? Isaiah? Now and
Speaker 1: give Cad a big smile. Taste christ don go please, No,
Speaker 1: that's impossible. They are sounds like Joslys finally cocked down?
Speaker 1: What you doing? Pack andiza a ship? I thought, which'n
Speaker 1: to help him? I made it very clear as long
Speaker 1: as it was good for Jocelyn, I'd be on his side.
Speaker 1: He promised me he wouldn't hurt her. You're upset with
Speaker 1: her for her? I get it, but no, you don't
Speaker 1: get it. You don't get it. It was my idea.
Speaker 1: Everything was my idea. I say, you're moving here the
Speaker 1: fucking camping trip. I told him to go. It was
Speaker 1: my fault. It's still muff off. I keep feeling them.
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't keep feeling them. What is that?
Speaker 1: It's a wedding ring? What would I say? Have wedding ring?
Speaker 1: Mountains and marvels. That's the inscription. What does that mean?
Speaker 1: It's a promise for this life and the next. I
Speaker 1: know because we had it inscribed on both of our rings,
Speaker 1: mine and Gabes. All I wanted to say is that
Speaker 1: I'm sorry all this time. I thought I was to
Speaker 1: blame for you even out that door, for you not
Speaker 1: walking back through it. But maybe I'm not the one
Speaker 1: to blame, am I maybe I've been wrong about everything
Speaker 1: from the start. Next time onward day? Sure? Just what
Speaker 1: happened in the woods? Isaiah? Hey? Hey, what do you
Speaker 1: have my knife? This is what I am. This is
Speaker 1: what I would call? Who is this? I Heart Radio,
Speaker 1: Blomhouse to Television and Crypt TV and association with Wolfe
Speaker 1: at the Door Present Mordo Executive produced by Jack Davis,
Speaker 1: Kate Krantz, Darren Brandel, Jason Blum, Chris Dickey, Matt Frederick,
Speaker 1: and Alex Williams. Written by Caitlin Crabb, directed by Alex Kemp,
Speaker 1: Produced by Toby Lawless, Winnie Kemp, Daniel Parsons, Co producers
Speaker 1: ben So Tack, Anthony Magnolo, Associate producer Federico Torrado. Starring
Speaker 1: j L. Fahns, Nicholson as Isaiah, Ashley Platts as Ashley,
Speaker 1: Olivia Lott as Jocelyn Vane as Michelle, with performances by
Speaker 1: Real Michael Scott, Tacy Adams, Ariella, Amar kim Estes, Patty Wilkins,
Speaker 1: Tracy Rooney. Sound designed by Dean Hovey. Original score by
Speaker 1: Christopher Kemp, Mixing by Mark Scarce, Edited by Fernando Diaz.
Speaker 1: Assistant engineer Noah Sour Recorded at Wolf at the Doors Studio,
Speaker 1: House casting consultant Michelle LeWitt, Production assistants Hayley mckegney and
Speaker 1: Sophia Gilberto, studio teacher Pearl Hika, Writing assistant Bill Hands.
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