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Speaker 3: I do not know if I will survive this night,
Speaker 3: and if I do, I do not know where to
Speaker 3: run to next, or for how long I would need
Speaker 3: to run. Someone approaches outside. I do not know if
Speaker 3: it is Father Josiah or the devil himself. I suppose
Speaker 3: I will find out soon enough.
Speaker 1: Be brave, my children, and know that you.
Speaker 3: Come from a line of holy warriors.
Speaker 1: I wish you well. I have no quarrel with you,
Speaker 1: mister Havock, nor.
Speaker 4: I with you, Miss Abbess. But your father in law
Speaker 4: must be punished.
Speaker 5: Please please, I take no join mister Morris, who please?
Speaker 6: It took me a long time to figure out that
Speaker 6: there was a mind behind it, and even longer to
Speaker 6: figure out who was causing all the pandemonium.
Speaker 1: And here you are, Marie. What the hell is he
Speaker 1: talking about?
Speaker 6: Krinc Now, it's not every day that you get to
Speaker 6: meet face to face with your ancestors. Well, don't leave
Speaker 6: her in the dark, you horrible monster, say hello to
Speaker 6: your granddaughter, Demarus.
Speaker 1: What wait, Demerius, Demerius, Abbess Havoc. This is between you and.
Speaker 6: Me, except that it isn't, is it? This is between
Speaker 6: you and me and my business interests, and my wife,
Speaker 6: your father in law, and your bloodline.
Speaker 1: We can end this here, step away from her.
Speaker 6: Well, if you'd like to end this here, why not
Speaker 6: take a stake to the heart. I'll happily walk away forever.
Speaker 5: I thought not.
Speaker 6: You shouldn't have come for me, Demarus, But you people
Speaker 6: never learn.
Speaker 1: Leave her alone?
Speaker 6: Or else what You'll infect another of my factories, another town.
Speaker 6: What do you do, DeMars?
Speaker 1: What the fuck is going on here?
Speaker 5: This incredible?
Speaker 6: Tell her?
Speaker 4: Demarus?
Speaker 6: Tell her?
Speaker 1: Their eyes burned with twin flames of hatred. I was terrified, confused,
Speaker 1: frozen in place until I realized Josiah Abbas's kit lay
Speaker 1: open behind the bar inches from where I stood. All
Speaker 1: I had to do was reach for it, but I
Speaker 1: couldn't so long as Jerry split his attention. A pleading
Speaker 1: glance to Marie de Maris, my grandmother, desperately trying to
Speaker 1: telegraph my intention.
Speaker 3: I will tell her the truth that I was turned
Speaker 3: into a monster by a man that I had done
Speaker 3: no harm to Where Havoc, where was my transgression?
Speaker 6: You stood by and did nothing as Josiah tore through
Speaker 6: the population as he made his way to my door.
Speaker 6: You stood watch as he murdered my wife.
Speaker 3: Your wife tore apart the fabric of this town.
Speaker 6: He was not in control of her faculty and.
Speaker 1: Who was responsible for her actions. I took the brief
Speaker 1: distraction as an opportunity and slowly reached for the case
Speaker 1: and gently unlatched it.
Speaker 3: Men like you have never taken responsibility for their actions,
Speaker 3: and why would you. You're insulated from reality, and so
Speaker 3: you barrel through the world like children, leaving disaster in
Speaker 3: your wake, making victims of those with less power. Me,
Speaker 3: my sweet Noah, my children.
Speaker 1: You destroyed your.
Speaker 3: Own wife, a woman you claimed to love, a woman
Speaker 3: who only wanted to live.
Speaker 1: But before I could get my hand around the stake,
Speaker 1: jury Havoc had had enough. Faster than I could have imagined,
Speaker 1: he lunged across the bar, raging and slammed into Marie,
Speaker 1: both tumbling into a large table, flinging silverware and condiment
Speaker 1: bottles to the floor. Two APEX creditors.
Speaker 7: Grappling for their lives fingernails and sharp teeth, tearing at
Speaker 7: each other.
Speaker 1: As fast as I could.
Speaker 7: I grasped at the steak, felt a hept in my hand,
Speaker 7: suddenly familiar, and bounded across the floor as Jury himself
Speaker 7: attempted a killing blow.
Speaker 1: And I drove this step down into his back too
Speaker 1: far a center. I missed the heart. He turned to me,
Speaker 1: steak in his lung, a look of shock as blood
Speaker 1: poured from his mouth. Before I could move away, a horrible,
Speaker 1: violent cough and a crimson flash filled my eyes no
Speaker 1: mouth Before I could clear them. I felt his fist
Speaker 1: across my child. I was out like a light.
Speaker 3: I didn't know what kind of music you'd like. Why
Speaker 3: you've got a concussion. I wanted you to wait to
Speaker 3: comfort because I fear the.
Speaker 1: News is bad. Dry Havoc escaped.
Speaker 3: He'll turn up again, but not here. He's done all
Speaker 3: the damage he can. Sylvie is fine downstairs. Where am
Speaker 3: I at my house?
Speaker 1: Outside of town. It wasn't easy to get you out.
Speaker 3: CDC was sweeping residences businesses for the infected. After the
Speaker 3: violence at the hospital, they got serious about quarantining. This
Speaker 3: will wind down now, the.
Speaker 1: News will speak of deadly illness.
Speaker 3: Without mentioning the vampirism they always do. Why panic the
Speaker 3: public with something incomprehensible when you can chuck it up
Speaker 3: to a bowler.
Speaker 1: What happened to me? You saved me, he had the
Speaker 1: upper hand. You made sure he didn't use it.
Speaker 3: But you will pay the price. Blood everywhere your eyes
Speaker 3: and throat. I'm afraid that there's nothing to be done.
Speaker 1: What does did he infect me?
Speaker 3: My God, you will not do this alone, not like
Speaker 3: I had to.
Speaker 1: My God, what will happen to me? It'll be sudden,
Speaker 1: the sickness, and.
Speaker 3: Then you will die, and then you will live. I
Speaker 3: do not know how you will be when you wake
Speaker 3: from that deeper sleep. I only know how I was,
Speaker 3: and how others I've seen have behaved.
Speaker 1: How did it happen for you?
Speaker 3: There was so much fear, so much he had entered
Speaker 3: so softly. He stood in front of me, a tall,
Speaker 3: terrible figure covered in blood, all of my fears made
Speaker 3: flesh standing in front of me. I have no quarrel
Speaker 3: with you, mister Havock.
Speaker 4: Nor I was you, missus abbess, but your father in
Speaker 4: law must be punished.
Speaker 3: He moved as if in slow motion, more spirit than man,
Speaker 3: and I was locked in place, my fate already sealed.
Speaker 4: Oh please, I take no join, mister Marris.
Speaker 1: And then all was dark.
Speaker 3: When I came to Havoc was gone, and I had
Speaker 3: been moved to a bed. But I found no comfort,
Speaker 3: just Father Josiah sitting at my bedside, weeping.
Speaker 5: Demror. Oh de Marius, I am so sorry.
Speaker 4: I have failed. I have failed all of us.
Speaker 5: The devil walks free, and I have murdered my child.
Speaker 3: My confusion was palpable. Havoc didn't kill me, then why
Speaker 3: would he leave me alive? As if intuitting my thoughts
Speaker 3: desire held out a crumpled piece of parchment, The crimson
Speaker 3: lettering smeared but legible. It was a missive from Havoc.
Speaker 3: I shuddered as I read it.
Speaker 4: My dear eyes traveling that bess, it seems as though
Speaker 4: we have reached a stalemate, you and I. You have
Speaker 4: taken the singles things that I held dear, and so
Speaker 4: doing destroyed your legacy. As a holy man, I do
Speaker 4: not take losses kindly. I sought to murder you in return,
Speaker 4: but instead leave. He was his parting gift before you.
Speaker 4: As De Maries, she is in the same precarious positions
Speaker 4: that you found your son in. So choice is yours
Speaker 4: with what to do with her yours in the hope
Speaker 4: of salvation, Jordy Hervock.
Speaker 3: When I looked back up at Josiah, I was struck
Speaker 3: first by his total transformation. Here before me was a
Speaker 3: man I had revered, even feared.
Speaker 4: For.
Speaker 3: In his righteous determination. He had shaped this town from
Speaker 3: a lawless, a moral frontier town into a thriving Christian community,
Speaker 3: and burned it down.
Speaker 1: A striking figure, a force of nature.
Speaker 3: And here he was not simply brought low by bad fortune,
Speaker 3: but destroyed entirely by forces beyond his control. His righteous
Speaker 3: fury and fervor had been removed from him, leaving nothing
Speaker 3: but this hollow man before me, a husk.
Speaker 1: More ghost than man.
Speaker 3: If I feared him before, I found in this Josiah
Speaker 3: Abbess something more disturbing, A believer without anything left to
Speaker 3: believe in.
Speaker 1: I searched his face.
Speaker 3: What could he be capable of now, in the final hours,
Speaker 3: if Havoc had truly cursed me with vampirism, would Father
Speaker 3: Abbis finish his own godly work your hon earth and me.
Speaker 1: As he had ended?
Speaker 3: Noah, My question was answered when he next spoke.
Speaker 5: When Noah was young, he was afraid of the water.
Speaker 5: When he was very little, his mother and I had
Speaker 5: taken him down to the river so that I could
Speaker 5: cast a line. A rare day of leisure in this
Speaker 5: hard scrabble life. Even the Lord took a day of
Speaker 5: rest after creating the earth. Yes, I left Noah with
Speaker 5: his mother to play on the banks and stood by
Speaker 5: the river's edge, the line in the water, to commune
Speaker 5: with the Lord in this rare quiet way. The quiet
Speaker 5: was interrupted to me by the threshing of a body
Speaker 5: and water, and the screams of my Ruth. The child
Speaker 5: had fallen into the water up river from me. I
Speaker 5: was able, without much effort to wade in and fish
Speaker 5: him out, carrying him to shore. He was quite unharmed physically,
Speaker 5: but I could see that he had the fear of
Speaker 5: death in him. Suddenly he was in his eyes wide
Speaker 5: with a horrifying revelation that his safety was not promised
Speaker 5: him in this world. Even if at that young age
Speaker 5: he could not articulate it. I recognized it, and so
Speaker 5: he carried it forward with him, And whenever business took
Speaker 5: him by the river, he shuddered at the memory and
Speaker 5: kept out of its waters until well into his adulthood.
Speaker 5: I did not forget the look of fear in his
Speaker 5: eyes that morning. He gave me that look again recently,
Speaker 5: except that it was not the river he feared. He
Speaker 5: feared me, Demeris. Even in the midst of my holy
Speaker 5: war these last few weeks, I felt the sting of
Speaker 5: his fear something deep inside me, beneath even my love
Speaker 5: of God the Father, and me recoiled at it. I
Speaker 5: did not listen to that heart of hearts. Instead, I
Speaker 5: drove on until every route had been pulled, until Sepia
Speaker 5: Havoc lay dead and her infernal husband was driven from
Speaker 5: this town. But at what cost to merce? I under
Speaker 5: estimated Jury Havoc. He was no simple monster doing evil
Speaker 5: for the sake of evil. He was no ancient of Satan.
Speaker 5: He was not a monster, just a very powerful creature
Speaker 5: with his own interests in mind. And I know now
Speaker 5: that there is nothing more dangerous than a rich man
Speaker 5: who believes that he is right. Vampire or not. I
Speaker 5: will not kill you. You have done no wrong. I
Speaker 5: simply ask that you do not create more misery with
Speaker 5: whatever second life you have coming. If you are reborn
Speaker 5: with any decency left in you, abstain from the baser instincts.
Speaker 5: I wish you well as for me, as for you.
Speaker 5: I used to feel the Spirit speak to me in
Speaker 5: the tree and fields. I felt him move in the
Speaker 5: beams of our great church, in the sunlight that would
Speaker 5: stream in through the windows, sitting in the pulpit that
Speaker 5: I would preach my sermons from inbuing me with his power,
Speaker 5: his love. I heard him speaking from deep within me,
Speaker 5: guiding my each, my heart, my hands. But he no
Speaker 5: longer speaks. He left me when we exhumed the first body.
Speaker 5: What followed was all my own machination.
Speaker 3: Wait where are you going?
Speaker 5: You will need to leave this place, cut ties. Your
Speaker 5: children aren't good hands with God fearing people. You must
Speaker 5: not endanger them with the semi sickness that is to follow.
Speaker 5: The only way for our bloodline to continue is without us.
Speaker 5: I am cursed and have cursed you in turn. We
Speaker 5: mustn't continue to visit our sins on our children.
Speaker 1: But I don't know what to do. I can't, I
Speaker 1: can't just I don't know.
Speaker 5: Father Josiah, you will find your way forward. Go with God.
Speaker 1: Where are you going?
Speaker 5: I'm going to make my peace with God. Farewell, child,
Speaker 5: This world is yours now to grapple with. As Jacob
Speaker 5: grappled with the angel, may'd give you its blessing.
Speaker 3: He was found by a parishioner the following day, hanging
Speaker 3: from a beam above the pulpit. It took for a
Speaker 3: man to get him down. He was buried in a
Speaker 3: pauper's grave. There was no one to mourn him, and
Speaker 3: I believe you know the aftermath.
Speaker 1: My diary found.
Speaker 3: The only page is missing those which exonerated poor father Josiah.
Speaker 3: The town was named injury Havoc's honor after he left
Speaker 3: a large bequest to the church, our name forever synonymous
Speaker 3: with violence, semmetary. Havoc went on to continue the business,
Speaker 3: the business of slowly gathering power.
Speaker 1: What is it? Yeah?
Speaker 3: What there will be more? How do you feel like
Speaker 3: I've got the flu coming on? Any hallucinations? Said an
Speaker 3: anger panic.
Speaker 1: I know I'm dying.
Speaker 3: Yes, I can't pretend that it'll be pleasant. But you've
Speaker 3: got something that I didn't when I was infected.
Speaker 1: What's that? Morphine? Lots and lots of morphine. What did
Speaker 1: you do after you were left alone? I didn't know
Speaker 1: what would happen.
Speaker 3: I just knew that when I was taken by the
Speaker 3: madness of the blood fever, I didn't want to be
Speaker 3: among people, and so I went deep into the forest
Speaker 3: on the western end of town. I walked for as
Speaker 3: long as I could, until finally the exhaustion and the
Speaker 3: symptoms of my owness overtook me.
Speaker 1: I thought that I would freeze to death. First, the
Speaker 1: nights were so cold, but the fever took that bear
Speaker 1: from me. My bones shook and.
Speaker 3: My teeth chipped from shivering. But such a heat poured
Speaker 3: forth from me, and when the hallucinations started. Cannot begin
Speaker 3: to express how the shadows of the forest terrified me,
Speaker 3: and the weakness, the madness, and then the quiet. You
Speaker 3: will know soon enough, the thrill that comes with walking
Speaker 3: into your new life, the terror, the abject loneliness.
Speaker 1: The thirst. But you will have a guide.
Speaker 3: You're not alone as I was. I knew that I
Speaker 3: must not interact with the living, not yet, not until
Speaker 3: I found the way to control my thirst. I didn't
Speaker 3: know how to hunt, but I knew that I could
Speaker 3: go down to the river and with patience find fresh
Speaker 3: blood in the fish that resided there.
Speaker 1: And so.
Speaker 3: For a time I lived as a hermit. I was
Speaker 3: always thirsty and had a source of blood that.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't draw notice.
Speaker 3: And when I felt strong enough had enough control over
Speaker 3: my thirst, I slowly made my way back into town
Speaker 3: under the cover of night, wrapped in a cloak stolen
Speaker 3: from a clothes line, The hood pulled far over my head.
Speaker 3: Noah had told me of his cash of currency, so
Speaker 3: as the town slept, I crept back into the church
Speaker 3: for the first time since I had turned. I was
Speaker 3: worried that perhaps God would strike me down if I
Speaker 3: crossed the threshold, and a part of me very much
Speaker 3: hoped that he would, That I would face his wrath
Speaker 3: and be ended on the spot. Yes, the Lord had
Speaker 3: no further interest in me.
Speaker 1: I felt like a ghost.
Speaker 3: Haunting this place my family had built, which I'd spent
Speaker 3: so much time watching rise from the bedrock, under whose
Speaker 3: eaves my children had run and played. But it wasn't mine.
Speaker 3: If it ever happened, I reached the spot Noah I
Speaker 3: had described, and with filthy fingers, pried at the loose floorboard,
Speaker 3: finally pulling it free to find the package wrapped in
Speaker 3: burl up, my sweet husband's parting gift. The promise of
Speaker 3: a future, if only I could make one.
Speaker 6: I clutched to it.
Speaker 1: As I rose to leave.
Speaker 3: The silhouette in the darkness, A slight frame standing in
Speaker 3: the open door to the outside, and she saw me.
Speaker 1: Is that missus Spaulding? Who's there?
Speaker 3: Mary Spalding, a neighbor. Our children had played together since birth?
Speaker 8: Who are you?
Speaker 3: It is no one a passerby interested in the recent bloodshed?
Speaker 8: Then begone. Enough misery has befallen this place. Allow the
Speaker 8: dead to sleep in peace.
Speaker 1: What happened here? Nothing good?
Speaker 8: A madman committed the most heinous of crimes?
Speaker 1: Was it the rich man on the hill?
Speaker 8: He was the one to stop the madness, but not
Speaker 8: before his poor sick wife was murdered.
Speaker 1: Who then was the madman?
Speaker 8: It was the Reverend Josiah Abbys. He used the cloak
Speaker 8: of our faith is a costume. He murdered, enraged, he
Speaker 8: brought fear to our town. He murdered his own son.
Speaker 1: Can you believe in?
Speaker 8: Poor de Maris ned herself somewhere, you know not where.
Speaker 8: We only have her diary. She followed him to Havock's door.
Speaker 8: But then her story ends. The following pages were torn out.
Speaker 8: She must be dead, where else.
Speaker 1: Would she be? And what of her children?
Speaker 8: I expect that they will take up residence in the
Speaker 8: abbess house. They have at least sane relatives to care
Speaker 8: for them. The poor children, orphan carrying an infamous name,
Speaker 8: What will become of them?
Speaker 3: I made a decision then that regretfully, would curse my
Speaker 3: progeny for generations to come. Mary Spalding was a stupid woman,
Speaker 3: but one who the others listened to. I did not
Speaker 3: correct her.
Speaker 8: At any rate. It is not proper for you to
Speaker 8: be here. This is a house of worship in this conversation.
Speaker 3: Is macab I thank you for taking time to tell
Speaker 3: the tale.
Speaker 1: I will pray for the.
Speaker 8: Victims fairly well, and may God bless you.
Speaker 5: And you.
Speaker 1: Why? Why did you do it?
Speaker 3: Because the truth would have sent my children searching for me,
Speaker 3: and there was not to be any good in that.
Speaker 1: And what could I do?
Speaker 3: A bloodthirsty bean thought dead? You see how people responded
Speaker 3: the unknown. Now imagine years ago, before there was modern medicine,
Speaker 3: modern science, nothing but paranoia and superstition. It was better
Speaker 3: to mark with the shame of zelotry than the mark
Speaker 3: of superstition.
Speaker 1: What did you do instead? I went and tried to
Speaker 1: make a life.
Speaker 3: I learned how to care for the ill, thinking that
Speaker 3: it would soothe my soul to do good. I stayed
Speaker 3: in Boston so I was to remain close enough to
Speaker 3: watch over my children as they grew.
Speaker 1: I watched my youngest board a.
Speaker 3: Merchant ship then disappear forever, and my oldest as he
Speaker 3: stayed on in a town that cursed his name, and
Speaker 3: I watched him struggle and fight and somehow grow and
Speaker 3: raise a child himself. That I was bitter, so bitter,
Speaker 3: And as the years passed, I began to study the
Speaker 3: man who had taken everything to study his business, to
Speaker 3: learn its reach, its scope. When he ope and a
Speaker 3: new office in Boston to manage maritime business in the Northeast,
Speaker 3: I decided that it was time to strike the first blow.
Speaker 3: At night, I broke in, stole any information I could
Speaker 3: about the inner workings of his company, and then I
Speaker 3: burned it down. They used the information gleaned for the
Speaker 3: next strike, sabotaging his ships in small ways so that
Speaker 3: a mass would crack midway through a journey. Burning the
Speaker 3: factory down here and there. I knew these small things
Speaker 3: wouldn't topple an empire. But in time I was able
Speaker 3: to gather my own resources, pay agents to do damage
Speaker 3: for me, hiring bloodites to storm his factories, stealing patented
Speaker 3: inventions and giving them for free. It would be competitors
Speaker 3: in the twentieth century. It was as easy as sewing
Speaker 3: to sent among these employees. You know, in many of
Speaker 3: his factories, all you'd need to do is point out
Speaker 3: their poor working conditions. Workers would take it from there later. Still,
Speaker 3: now it's hackers, ransomware. Why the hell didn't you just
Speaker 3: kill him?
Speaker 1: We've already died, darling. I wanted to take from him
Speaker 1: everything else.
Speaker 3: Of course, you can only hide yourself away in chaos
Speaker 3: for so long. I knew he'd figure me out eventually,
Speaker 3: and so he came here to see what I would do.
Speaker 1: And what did you do? The man with the axe Bachmann?
Speaker 1: It was you. You infected him.
Speaker 3: It's okay, Oh my god, there's so much blood.
Speaker 1: It's begun in earnest.
Speaker 3: What is coming is violent and terrible, but you will
Speaker 3: not be aloneps.
Speaker 1: It's time for you to rest.
Speaker 3: I have something to help you, orphine mm hmm. It'll
Speaker 3: reduce the pain and let you sleep for Now it
Speaker 3: may not be terribly helpful at the end, it'll help
Speaker 3: you get there with less than agony.
Speaker 1: Wait, this will help Bachmann. Dury wasn't lying. It was you.
Speaker 1: You started all of this.
Speaker 3: Please, Raymond Bachman was no great loss, an abuse of alcoholic.
Speaker 1: He beat his children, you know.
Speaker 3: I first saw him yanking his five year old's arms
Speaker 3: so hard in a park that the child's shoulder was
Speaker 3: dislocated just there in public help. People intervened, the police
Speaker 3: were called. He didn't see any charges. So I found
Speaker 3: him at a bar A few days after. I seduced him,
Speaker 3: took him home. I infected him and sent him after jury.
Speaker 3: Call it a welcome home gift.
Speaker 7: You you, Jimbo died.
Speaker 1: Barbara tom Stabana.
Speaker 7: You you have destroyed my home everything for petty revenge.
Speaker 1: Okay, that is enough. Dare rest Karen. Wait wait, don't
Speaker 1: you feel a slight pinch? And with that the opioids
Speaker 1: entered my system. I cannot speak much to my state
Speaker 1: in the days to follow. How old do you think
Speaker 1: she has? That moves fast? Few days? Will she suffer?
Speaker 3: Not if we keep her out like this?
Speaker 1: Hey? Hey, honey, not so must must.
Speaker 9: We're here, honey, do you need anything?
Speaker 1: Murder? You you must, honey, you monster. It's all over.
Speaker 1: I do remember the nightmares vivid, and if there were
Speaker 1: borders between them and the waking world, they were so
Speaker 1: blurry as to be meaningless.
Speaker 5: Then I heard a loud voice from the temple, saying,
Speaker 5: to the seven angels, go pour out the seven bows
Speaker 5: of God's wrath.
Speaker 1: On the earth, next the mountains.
Speaker 5: Afterward, the gates of hell will open, and she will
Speaker 5: be swallowed.
Speaker 6: Whole, as her father was before her, and his father
Speaker 6: before him, all the way back.
Speaker 5: To the very beginning of her cursed bloodline. But this husk,
Speaker 5: this shall She'll walk.
Speaker 1: The face of the earth, an empty vessel, forever trying
Speaker 1: to fill itself with life.
Speaker 6: But life eternal will not be granted her such way
Speaker 6: over years past.
Speaker 1: Pass the blood to the Master. Pass the blood to
Speaker 1: the Master.
Speaker 3: It's going to be all right, Master, Your brain is
Speaker 3: dying of feet.
Speaker 1: The blood the Master. That's what That's what he said.
Speaker 1: That's what he said when he came towards us. It
Speaker 1: made no sense until it didn't return the blood to
Speaker 1: the Master. It was it was a frame. You tried
Speaker 1: to it didn't work.
Speaker 7: He'll just move on. But the damage, the damage, all
Speaker 7: of the dead point at you, you head monster, and
Speaker 7: all of your plans just killed the last of us off.
Speaker 1: Shush you, shush, you did all all of this were nothing.
Speaker 1: It wasn't for nothing. It wasn't nothing. He should have
Speaker 1: sent you on to hell. You're no better than him.
Speaker 7: I will spend the rest of my time on this
Speaker 7: earth making you pay, you monster.
Speaker 1: You okay, it's okay. To the end now, darling. It's
Speaker 1: all blood.
Speaker 7: There's so much blood.
Speaker 1: I didn't, I didn't. Oh, they're all here, all of them.
Speaker 1: Who Daddy in the corner, can't you see? I can't.
Speaker 3: But that doesn't mean he's not with you now, Mom.
Speaker 1: And Granny Dotty, her brother, David, Jimbo, Hey, Jimbo, you
Speaker 1: all look so sad. I feel it coming. I feel it.
Speaker 1: I feel it coming fast. Dad, Dad, Please stand next
Speaker 1: to me. I don't want to be alone. He was
Speaker 1: as clear as day as he sat by my bedside,
Speaker 1: so much younger than when I saw him last, The
Speaker 1: way he looked when he used to carry me in
Speaker 1: his arms. He brushed the bloody, sweaty hair from my face, smiled.
Speaker 1: I think I really screwed up. Shh, I'm here.
Speaker 5: He didn't screw anything up, kiddo. You did what you
Speaker 5: could with what you had in front of him.
Speaker 10: It wasn't enough, honestly, sweet girl. It's seldom as it's
Speaker 10: coming for me. It will be over so quickly, and
Speaker 10: then what who you are next is up to you.
Speaker 1: Close your eyes.
Speaker 10: We will all be here to see you through.
Speaker 1: And he was right. In the gathering dark. They drew closer,
Speaker 1: put their hands on me. My mother sat on the
Speaker 1: other side, young beautiful Jimbo at the foot of my bed,
Speaker 1: big and silly and comforting. And when the darkness finally came,
Speaker 1: it came like sleep comes to the weary, gentle, so gentle.
Speaker 1: And then it was over. And then it began, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, welcome back, Bud. How do you feel thirsty? Here?
Speaker 1: Drink this? What is it?
Speaker 5: Blood?
Speaker 3: Of course, from where does it matter? It's pig's blood.
Speaker 3: Got it from the butcher. Drink slow down, curry and
Speaker 3: I get back, get back. I don't I don't want
Speaker 3: to hurt you.
Speaker 1: You won't. You won't hurt her. I'll make sure of it.
Speaker 1: What makes you think I'll keep you around here? Your conscience?
Speaker 3: You know you won't be able to control yourself.
Speaker 1: I want you to know de Marius. Once I have
Speaker 1: full control, I will use it to end you. Hmm,
Speaker 1: fair enough. What's going on out there in town? It's over?
Speaker 9: The governor sent him more National Guard, the fence came
Speaker 9: in to run clean up it. It was pandemonium, a
Speaker 9: massive fire. The hospital killed about a dozen.
Speaker 1: Was that you too, demeris Jesus Christ. There are no
Speaker 1: loose ends, no one else out there to infect.
Speaker 9: No, No, they found most of the bodies, just one missing,
Speaker 9: brother Ken's.
Speaker 1: So he's out there. We'll find him, don't You've hurt him.
Speaker 1: He's innocent perhaps, but he's still dangerous. Oh you one
Speaker 1: to talk? What about Jurie? No idea. No, he'll turn up.
Speaker 3: They'll want to question him, but I'll make it hard.
Speaker 3: He's one of the richest men on the planet. He's
Speaker 3: got lawyers, congressman, senators in his pocket, and a pr
Speaker 3: machine that could put a positive spin on the Hindenburg.
Speaker 1: So what do we do. He's hurt so many people.
Speaker 1: We take care of him our own way. And how's that?
Speaker 1: You'll learn quickly? You're a hunter now, so will hunt.
Speaker 2: Havoctown was created by me Aaron Manke. The show was
Speaker 2: written and directed by Nicholas Takowski. This episode was edited
Speaker 2: and sound designed by Rima lk Ali, starring Jewels State
Speaker 2: as coren Abbess, James Callis as Jerry Havoc, Felicia Day
Speaker 2: as Sylvie, Harris Ray Wise as Josiah Abbas, Crystal Lee
Speaker 2: as Demeris, Robin Bludworth as jimbo'horn, David Calhoun as Jonathan
Speaker 2: Avis Charlie, David Newell as Brother Ken, Gina Rikikey as
Speaker 2: Sarah Beth Spalding. This season is directed by Nicholas Takowski,
Speaker 2: with assistant directors Sarah Klein and Jake Diamond. Casting by
Speaker 2: Sunday Bowling CSA and Meg Mormon CSA. Production coordinator Wayna Calderon.
Speaker 2: Our theme song was created by Chris Childs executive producers
Speaker 2: Aaron Mankee, Trevor Young, and Matt Frederick, with supervising producer
Speaker 2: Rima Lkali and producers Nomes Griffin and Jesse Funk. Havoctown
Speaker 2: is set in the Bridgewater Audio Universe, which includes the
Speaker 2: hit fiction podcasts Bridgewater and Consumed. Learn more about both shows,
Speaker 2: as well as Havoctown at Grimandmild dot com. And find
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