WEBVTT - 12 | Closing Time 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:05.720 I heard three d are the for fall exposure. Listen 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:06.400 with that phones. 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:11.880 Havoctown is a production of iHeart Podcasts and Grimm and 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:16.360 Mild from Aaron Mankey Headphones recommended. Listener discretion advised. 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:21.400 I do not know if I will survive this night, 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:24.640 and if I do, I do not know where to 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:27.240 run to next, or for how long I would need 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:32.199 to run. Someone approaches outside. I do not know if 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:36.440 it is Father Josiah or the devil himself. I suppose 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:37.680 I will find out soon enough. 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:42.760 Be brave, my children, and know that you. 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:46.440 Come from a line of holy warriors. 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:53.880 I wish you well. I have no quarrel with you, 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:55.840 mister Havock, nor. 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:59.639 I with you, Miss Abbess. But your father in law 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:00.639 must be punished. 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:08.319 Please please, I take no join mister Morris, who please? 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:47.720 It took me a long time to figure out that 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:51.000 there was a mind behind it, and even longer to 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:53.520 figure out who was causing all the pandemonium. 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:58.520 And here you are, Marie. What the hell is he 0:01:58.640 --> 0:01:59.280 talking about? 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:01.520 Krinc Now, it's not every day that you get to 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:04.960 meet face to face with your ancestors. Well, don't leave 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:10.080 her in the dark, you horrible monster, say hello to 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:13.119 your granddaughter, Demarus. 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:23.600 What wait, Demerius, Demerius, Abbess Havoc. This is between you and. 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:27.320 Me, except that it isn't, is it? This is between 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:30.680 you and me and my business interests, and my wife, 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:33.040 your father in law, and your bloodline. 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:36.720 We can end this here, step away from her. 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:38.640 Well, if you'd like to end this here, why not 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:42.360 take a stake to the heart. I'll happily walk away forever. 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:46.560 I thought not. 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:52.360 You shouldn't have come for me, Demarus, But you people 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:52.920 never learn. 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:54.560 Leave her alone? 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:59.040 Or else what You'll infect another of my factories, another town. 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:00.600 What do you do, DeMars? 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:03.000 What the fuck is going on here? 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:07.080 This incredible? 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:08.560 Tell her? 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:09.760 Demarus? 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:12.440 Tell her? 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:20.160 Their eyes burned with twin flames of hatred. I was terrified, confused, 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:25.840 frozen in place until I realized Josiah Abbas's kit lay 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:30.399 open behind the bar inches from where I stood. All 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:32.720 I had to do was reach for it, but I 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:36.600 couldn't so long as Jerry split his attention. A pleading 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:42.480 glance to Marie de Maris, my grandmother, desperately trying to 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:43.720 telegraph my intention. 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:47.920 I will tell her the truth that I was turned 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:50.200 into a monster by a man that I had done 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:55.200 no harm to Where Havoc, where was my transgression? 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:57.640 You stood by and did nothing as Josiah tore through 0:03:57.680 --> 0:03:59.640 the population as he made his way to my door. 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:04.040 You stood watch as he murdered my wife. 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:07.200 Your wife tore apart the fabric of this town. 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:09.320 He was not in control of her faculty and. 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:13.360 Who was responsible for her actions. I took the brief 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:17.400 distraction as an opportunity and slowly reached for the case 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:19.200 and gently unlatched it. 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:24.840 Men like you have never taken responsibility for their actions, 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:31.479 and why would you. You're insulated from reality, and so 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:36.160 you barrel through the world like children, leaving disaster in 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:39.800 your wake, making victims of those with less power. Me, 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:44.200 my sweet Noah, my children. 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:47.599 You destroyed your. 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:52.360 Own wife, a woman you claimed to love, a woman 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:54.000 who only wanted to live. 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:57.200 But before I could get my hand around the stake, 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:01.920 jury Havoc had had enough. Faster than I could have imagined, 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:06.280 he lunged across the bar, raging and slammed into Marie, 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:10.920 both tumbling into a large table, flinging silverware and condiment 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:14.280 bottles to the floor. Two APEX creditors. 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:18.480 Grappling for their lives fingernails and sharp teeth, tearing at 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:19.080 each other. 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:20.320 As fast as I could. 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:23.200 I grasped at the steak, felt a hept in my hand, 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:27.520 suddenly familiar, and bounded across the floor as Jury himself 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:29.320 attempted a killing blow. 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:37.000 And I drove this step down into his back too 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:42.839 far a center. I missed the heart. He turned to me, 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:48.040 steak in his lung, a look of shock as blood 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:52.320 poured from his mouth. Before I could move away, a horrible, 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:59.680 violent cough and a crimson flash filled my eyes no 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:04.200 mouth Before I could clear them. I felt his fist 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:08.000 across my child. I was out like a light. 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:27.840 I didn't know what kind of music you'd like. Why 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:34.800 you've got a concussion. I wanted you to wait to 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:37.160 comfort because I fear the. 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:42.920 News is bad. Dry Havoc escaped. 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:49.280 He'll turn up again, but not here. He's done all 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:56.479 the damage he can. Sylvie is fine downstairs. Where am 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:58.719 I at my house? 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:04.000 Outside of town. It wasn't easy to get you out. 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:11.120 CDC was sweeping residences businesses for the infected. After the 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:17.320 violence at the hospital, they got serious about quarantining. This 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:19.960 will wind down now, the. 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:21.600 News will speak of deadly illness. 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:26.960 Without mentioning the vampirism they always do. Why panic the 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:30.040 public with something incomprehensible when you can chuck it up 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:30.680 to a bowler. 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:40.200 What happened to me? You saved me, he had the 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:42.760 upper hand. You made sure he didn't use it. 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:51.240 But you will pay the price. Blood everywhere your eyes 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:56.000 and throat. I'm afraid that there's nothing to be done. 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:59.920 What does did he infect me? 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:06.600 My God, you will not do this alone, not like 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:07.120 I had to. 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:13.400 My God, what will happen to me? It'll be sudden, 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:16.640 the sickness, and. 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:23.120 Then you will die, and then you will live. I 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:25.040 do not know how you will be when you wake 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:27.880 from that deeper sleep. I only know how I was, 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:32.280 and how others I've seen have behaved. 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:35.040 How did it happen for you? 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:46.120 There was so much fear, so much he had entered 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:51.400 so softly. He stood in front of me, a tall, 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:57.320 terrible figure covered in blood, all of my fears made 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:05.480 flesh standing in front of me. I have no quarrel 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:07.160 with you, mister Havock. 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:11.480 Nor I was you, missus abbess, but your father in 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:12.680 law must be punished. 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:18.559 He moved as if in slow motion, more spirit than man, 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:24.840 and I was locked in place, my fate already sealed. 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:29.520 Oh please, I take no join, mister Marris. 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:38.720 And then all was dark. 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:48.080 When I came to Havoc was gone, and I had 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:51.680 been moved to a bed. But I found no comfort, 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:58.920 just Father Josiah sitting at my bedside, weeping. 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:05.280 Demror. Oh de Marius, I am so sorry. 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:10.800 I have failed. I have failed all of us. 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:19.160 The devil walks free, and I have murdered my child. 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:28.520 My confusion was palpable. Havoc didn't kill me, then why 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:33.960 would he leave me alive? As if intuitting my thoughts 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:38.760 desire held out a crumpled piece of parchment, The crimson 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:44.520 lettering smeared but legible. It was a missive from Havoc. 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:48.120 I shuddered as I read it. 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:53.560 My dear eyes traveling that bess, it seems as though 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:56.920 we have reached a stalemate, you and I. You have 0:10:57.000 --> 0:10:59.440 taken the singles things that I held dear, and so 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:04.920 doing destroyed your legacy. As a holy man, I do 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:09.520 not take losses kindly. I sought to murder you in return, 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:13.599 but instead leave. He was his parting gift before you. 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:18.240 As De Maries, she is in the same precarious positions 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:22.400 that you found your son in. So choice is yours 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:27.680 with what to do with her yours in the hope 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:31.040 of salvation, Jordy Hervock. 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:38.000 When I looked back up at Josiah, I was struck 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:44.720 first by his total transformation. Here before me was a 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:48.160 man I had revered, even feared. 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:49.360 For. 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:52.920 In his righteous determination. He had shaped this town from 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:58.359 a lawless, a moral frontier town into a thriving Christian community, 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:00.640 and burned it down. 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:06.320 A striking figure, a force of nature. 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:12.920 And here he was not simply brought low by bad fortune, 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:19.680 but destroyed entirely by forces beyond his control. His righteous 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:24.520 fury and fervor had been removed from him, leaving nothing 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:29.439 but this hollow man before me, a husk. 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:32.560 More ghost than man. 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:38.000 If I feared him before, I found in this Josiah 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:44.080 Abbess something more disturbing, A believer without anything left to 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:44.560 believe in. 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:48.160 I searched his face. 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:53.600 What could he be capable of now, in the final hours, 0:12:55.360 --> 0:13:00.680 if Havoc had truly cursed me with vampirism, would Father 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:05.600 Abbis finish his own godly work your hon earth and me. 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:07.880 As he had ended? 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:14.240 Noah, My question was answered when he next spoke. 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.560 When Noah was young, he was afraid of the water. 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:22.920 When he was very little, his mother and I had 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:25.120 taken him down to the river so that I could 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:27.880 cast a line. A rare day of leisure in this 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:31.360 hard scrabble life. Even the Lord took a day of 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:36.959 rest after creating the earth. Yes, I left Noah with 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:39.400 his mother to play on the banks and stood by 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:42.640 the river's edge, the line in the water, to commune 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:47.200 with the Lord in this rare quiet way. The quiet 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:50.440 was interrupted to me by the threshing of a body 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:53.480 and water, and the screams of my Ruth. The child 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:57.000 had fallen into the water up river from me. I 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:59.440 was able, without much effort to wade in and fish 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:05.920 him out, carrying him to shore. He was quite unharmed physically, 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:10.200 but I could see that he had the fear of 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:15.640 death in him. Suddenly he was in his eyes wide 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:19.320 with a horrifying revelation that his safety was not promised 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:22.720 him in this world. Even if at that young age 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:28.680 he could not articulate it. I recognized it, and so 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:32.840 he carried it forward with him, And whenever business took 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:36.720 him by the river, he shuddered at the memory and 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.720 kept out of its waters until well into his adulthood. 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:43.720 I did not forget the look of fear in his 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:51.480 eyes that morning. He gave me that look again recently, 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:57.320 except that it was not the river he feared. He 0:14:57.440 --> 0:15:03.920 feared me, Demeris. Even in the midst of my holy 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:06.760 war these last few weeks, I felt the sting of 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:12.320 his fear something deep inside me, beneath even my love 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:18.720 of God the Father, and me recoiled at it. I 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:21.440 did not listen to that heart of hearts. Instead, I 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:26.800 drove on until every route had been pulled, until Sepia 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:32.000 Havoc lay dead and her infernal husband was driven from 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:39.480 this town. But at what cost to merce? I under 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:44.760 estimated Jury Havoc. He was no simple monster doing evil 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:48.040 for the sake of evil. He was no ancient of Satan. 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:52.760 He was not a monster, just a very powerful creature 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:56.920 with his own interests in mind. And I know now 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:01.520 that there is nothing more dangerous than a rich man 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:08.840 who believes that he is right. Vampire or not. I 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:14.720 will not kill you. You have done no wrong. I 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:17.600 simply ask that you do not create more misery with 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:22.800 whatever second life you have coming. If you are reborn 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:28.440 with any decency left in you, abstain from the baser instincts. 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:33.760 I wish you well as for me, as for you. 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:38.000 I used to feel the Spirit speak to me in 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:41.880 the tree and fields. I felt him move in the 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:45.280 beams of our great church, in the sunlight that would 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:48.680 stream in through the windows, sitting in the pulpit that 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:52.720 I would preach my sermons from inbuing me with his power, 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:58.120 his love. I heard him speaking from deep within me, 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:05.760 guiding my each, my heart, my hands. But he no 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:12.399 longer speaks. He left me when we exhumed the first body. 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:17.480 What followed was all my own machination. 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:22.080 Wait where are you going? 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:27.360 You will need to leave this place, cut ties. Your 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:31.320 children aren't good hands with God fearing people. You must 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:34.320 not endanger them with the semi sickness that is to follow. 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:40.440 The only way for our bloodline to continue is without us. 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:45.760 I am cursed and have cursed you in turn. We 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:49.520 mustn't continue to visit our sins on our children. 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:53.600 But I don't know what to do. I can't, I 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:55.960 can't just I don't know. 0:17:56.200 --> 0:18:01.080 Father Josiah, you will find your way forward. Go with God. 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:03.240 Where are you going? 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:09.840 I'm going to make my peace with God. Farewell, child, 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:15.040 This world is yours now to grapple with. As Jacob 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:21.040 grappled with the angel, may'd give you its blessing. 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:34.280 He was found by a parishioner the following day, hanging 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:38.080 from a beam above the pulpit. It took for a 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:41.639 man to get him down. He was buried in a 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:47.359 pauper's grave. There was no one to mourn him, and 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:49.359 I believe you know the aftermath. 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:51.679 My diary found. 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:59.200 The only page is missing those which exonerated poor father Josiah. 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:03.120 The town was named injury Havoc's honor after he left 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:09.280 a large bequest to the church, our name forever synonymous 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:15.720 with violence, semmetary. Havoc went on to continue the business, 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:19.679 the business of slowly gathering power. 0:19:37.680 --> 0:19:39.000 What is it? Yeah? 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:45.240 What there will be more? How do you feel like 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:49.760 I've got the flu coming on? Any hallucinations? Said an 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:50.960 anger panic. 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:52.440 I know I'm dying. 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:59.639 Yes, I can't pretend that it'll be pleasant. But you've 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:02.160 got something that I didn't when I was infected. 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:08.960 What's that? Morphine? Lots and lots of morphine. What did 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:14.239 you do after you were left alone? I didn't know 0:20:14.240 --> 0:20:14.879 what would happen. 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:18.760 I just knew that when I was taken by the 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:21.840 madness of the blood fever, I didn't want to be 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:27.000 among people, and so I went deep into the forest 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:30.200 on the western end of town. I walked for as 0:20:30.240 --> 0:20:34.520 long as I could, until finally the exhaustion and the 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:36.320 symptoms of my owness overtook me. 0:20:38.960 --> 0:20:42.760 I thought that I would freeze to death. First, the 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:46.840 nights were so cold, but the fever took that bear 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:51.000 from me. My bones shook and. 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:55.399 My teeth chipped from shivering. But such a heat poured 0:20:55.440 --> 0:21:01.520 forth from me, and when the hallucinations started. Cannot begin 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:04.520 to express how the shadows of the forest terrified me, 0:21:06.520 --> 0:21:18.800 and the weakness, the madness, and then the quiet. You 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:22.040 will know soon enough, the thrill that comes with walking 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:29.399 into your new life, the terror, the abject loneliness. 0:21:28.680 --> 0:21:33.200 The thirst. But you will have a guide. 0:21:33.440 --> 0:21:37.760 You're not alone as I was. I knew that I 0:21:37.840 --> 0:21:43.199 must not interact with the living, not yet, not until 0:21:43.320 --> 0:21:47.159 I found the way to control my thirst. I didn't 0:21:47.200 --> 0:21:50.640 know how to hunt, but I knew that I could 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:56.800 go down to the river and with patience find fresh 0:21:56.880 --> 0:21:58.520 blood in the fish that resided there. 0:22:01.000 --> 0:22:01.360 And so. 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:07.359 For a time I lived as a hermit. I was 0:22:07.400 --> 0:22:10.520 always thirsty and had a source of blood that. 0:22:10.520 --> 0:22:11.479 Wouldn't draw notice. 0:22:12.840 --> 0:22:17.240 And when I felt strong enough had enough control over 0:22:17.320 --> 0:22:21.160 my thirst, I slowly made my way back into town 0:22:22.080 --> 0:22:25.840 under the cover of night, wrapped in a cloak stolen 0:22:25.920 --> 0:22:29.280 from a clothes line, The hood pulled far over my head. 0:22:31.200 --> 0:22:35.359 Noah had told me of his cash of currency, so 0:22:35.480 --> 0:22:39.320 as the town slept, I crept back into the church 0:22:40.840 --> 0:22:45.320 for the first time since I had turned. I was 0:22:45.320 --> 0:22:48.520 worried that perhaps God would strike me down if I 0:22:48.560 --> 0:22:52.320 crossed the threshold, and a part of me very much 0:22:52.400 --> 0:22:55.800 hoped that he would, That I would face his wrath 0:22:55.880 --> 0:23:02.680 and be ended on the spot. Yes, the Lord had 0:23:02.720 --> 0:23:03.840 no further interest in me. 0:23:06.480 --> 0:23:08.080 I felt like a ghost. 0:23:09.680 --> 0:23:13.880 Haunting this place my family had built, which I'd spent 0:23:14.000 --> 0:23:17.600 so much time watching rise from the bedrock, under whose 0:23:17.640 --> 0:23:23.560 eaves my children had run and played. But it wasn't mine. 0:23:24.480 --> 0:23:30.440 If it ever happened, I reached the spot Noah I 0:23:30.440 --> 0:23:37.040 had described, and with filthy fingers, pried at the loose floorboard, 0:23:37.960 --> 0:23:41.840 finally pulling it free to find the package wrapped in 0:23:41.920 --> 0:23:48.520 burl up, my sweet husband's parting gift. The promise of 0:23:48.560 --> 0:23:54.000 a future, if only I could make one. 0:23:54.680 --> 0:23:55.560 I clutched to it. 0:23:57.119 --> 0:23:58.400 As I rose to leave. 0:24:00.119 --> 0:24:05.040 The silhouette in the darkness, A slight frame standing in 0:24:05.080 --> 0:24:09.720 the open door to the outside, and she saw me. 0:24:12.240 --> 0:24:15.160 Is that missus Spaulding? Who's there? 0:24:16.560 --> 0:24:22.760 Mary Spalding, a neighbor. Our children had played together since birth? 0:24:24.880 --> 0:24:25.480 Who are you? 0:24:25.920 --> 0:24:30.800 It is no one a passerby interested in the recent bloodshed? 0:24:31.520 --> 0:24:35.520 Then begone. Enough misery has befallen this place. Allow the 0:24:35.600 --> 0:24:36.720 dead to sleep in peace. 0:24:37.560 --> 0:24:40.120 What happened here? Nothing good? 0:24:40.760 --> 0:24:43.320 A madman committed the most heinous of crimes? 0:24:44.240 --> 0:24:45.720 Was it the rich man on the hill? 0:24:47.000 --> 0:24:49.520 He was the one to stop the madness, but not 0:24:49.680 --> 0:24:52.640 before his poor sick wife was murdered. 0:24:55.440 --> 0:24:56.760 Who then was the madman? 0:24:58.080 --> 0:25:03.679 It was the Reverend Josiah Abbys. He used the cloak 0:25:03.720 --> 0:25:07.320 of our faith is a costume. He murdered, enraged, he 0:25:07.400 --> 0:25:10.440 brought fear to our town. He murdered his own son. 0:25:10.480 --> 0:25:11.840 Can you believe in? 0:25:12.000 --> 0:25:17.160 Poor de Maris ned herself somewhere, you know not where. 0:25:17.600 --> 0:25:20.720 We only have her diary. She followed him to Havock's door. 0:25:20.840 --> 0:25:24.640 But then her story ends. The following pages were torn out. 0:25:26.320 --> 0:25:28.640 She must be dead, where else. 0:25:28.400 --> 0:25:31.479 Would she be? And what of her children? 0:25:32.080 --> 0:25:34.480 I expect that they will take up residence in the 0:25:34.560 --> 0:25:38.400 abbess house. They have at least sane relatives to care 0:25:38.440 --> 0:25:44.280 for them. The poor children, orphan carrying an infamous name, 0:25:45.000 --> 0:25:47.280 What will become of them? 0:25:48.040 --> 0:25:52.879 I made a decision then that regretfully, would curse my 0:25:52.920 --> 0:25:59.119 progeny for generations to come. Mary Spalding was a stupid woman, 0:26:00.560 --> 0:26:04.639 but one who the others listened to. I did not 0:26:04.760 --> 0:26:05.480 correct her. 0:26:07.000 --> 0:26:10.000 At any rate. It is not proper for you to 0:26:10.040 --> 0:26:13.719 be here. This is a house of worship in this conversation. 0:26:13.280 --> 0:26:17.560 Is macab I thank you for taking time to tell 0:26:17.600 --> 0:26:18.040 the tale. 0:26:19.160 --> 0:26:19.879 I will pray for the. 0:26:19.920 --> 0:26:26.120 Victims fairly well, and may God bless you. 0:26:26.760 --> 0:26:27.160 And you. 0:26:31.560 --> 0:26:34.000 Why? Why did you do it? 0:26:34.840 --> 0:26:37.359 Because the truth would have sent my children searching for me, 0:26:38.440 --> 0:26:39.919 and there was not to be any good in that. 0:26:40.600 --> 0:26:41.400 And what could I do? 0:26:42.320 --> 0:26:47.640 A bloodthirsty bean thought dead? You see how people responded 0:26:47.680 --> 0:26:52.360 the unknown. Now imagine years ago, before there was modern medicine, 0:26:52.440 --> 0:26:59.600 modern science, nothing but paranoia and superstition. It was better 0:26:59.600 --> 0:27:02.160 to mark with the shame of zelotry than the mark 0:27:02.200 --> 0:27:02.960 of superstition. 0:27:04.920 --> 0:27:08.480 What did you do instead? I went and tried to 0:27:08.520 --> 0:27:09.080 make a life. 0:27:10.720 --> 0:27:13.679 I learned how to care for the ill, thinking that 0:27:13.720 --> 0:27:17.720 it would soothe my soul to do good. I stayed 0:27:17.760 --> 0:27:20.000 in Boston so I was to remain close enough to 0:27:20.040 --> 0:27:21.640 watch over my children as they grew. 0:27:23.760 --> 0:27:25.360 I watched my youngest board a. 0:27:25.320 --> 0:27:32.480 Merchant ship then disappear forever, and my oldest as he 0:27:32.560 --> 0:27:35.960 stayed on in a town that cursed his name, and 0:27:36.040 --> 0:27:41.040 I watched him struggle and fight and somehow grow and 0:27:41.119 --> 0:27:46.800 raise a child himself. That I was bitter, so bitter, 0:27:48.119 --> 0:27:50.359 And as the years passed, I began to study the 0:27:50.440 --> 0:27:55.639 man who had taken everything to study his business, to 0:27:55.720 --> 0:28:00.240 learn its reach, its scope. When he ope and a 0:28:00.280 --> 0:28:03.520 new office in Boston to manage maritime business in the Northeast, 0:28:04.680 --> 0:28:07.639 I decided that it was time to strike the first blow. 0:28:08.920 --> 0:28:12.880 At night, I broke in, stole any information I could 0:28:12.920 --> 0:28:17.040 about the inner workings of his company, and then I 0:28:17.119 --> 0:28:22.199 burned it down. They used the information gleaned for the 0:28:22.240 --> 0:28:26.080 next strike, sabotaging his ships in small ways so that 0:28:26.160 --> 0:28:29.920 a mass would crack midway through a journey. Burning the 0:28:29.960 --> 0:28:34.080 factory down here and there. I knew these small things 0:28:34.119 --> 0:28:38.000 wouldn't topple an empire. But in time I was able 0:28:38.040 --> 0:28:42.120 to gather my own resources, pay agents to do damage 0:28:42.160 --> 0:28:46.920 for me, hiring bloodites to storm his factories, stealing patented 0:28:46.960 --> 0:28:49.800 inventions and giving them for free. It would be competitors 0:28:50.640 --> 0:28:52.600 in the twentieth century. It was as easy as sewing 0:28:52.640 --> 0:28:55.600 to sent among these employees. You know, in many of 0:28:55.640 --> 0:28:57.800 his factories, all you'd need to do is point out 0:28:57.800 --> 0:29:02.440 their poor working conditions. Workers would take it from there later. Still, 0:29:02.680 --> 0:29:07.440 now it's hackers, ransomware. Why the hell didn't you just 0:29:07.600 --> 0:29:08.080 kill him? 0:29:09.440 --> 0:29:13.600 We've already died, darling. I wanted to take from him 0:29:13.840 --> 0:29:14.960 everything else. 0:29:16.640 --> 0:29:18.800 Of course, you can only hide yourself away in chaos 0:29:18.840 --> 0:29:22.720 for so long. I knew he'd figure me out eventually, 0:29:24.240 --> 0:29:27.760 and so he came here to see what I would do. 0:29:29.240 --> 0:29:36.800 And what did you do? The man with the axe Bachmann? 0:29:38.120 --> 0:29:41.920 It was you. You infected him. 0:29:46.240 --> 0:29:48.760 It's okay, Oh my god, there's so much blood. 0:29:48.800 --> 0:29:49.800 It's begun in earnest. 0:29:51.280 --> 0:29:53.960 What is coming is violent and terrible, but you will 0:29:53.960 --> 0:29:57.120 not be aloneps. 0:29:57.160 --> 0:29:58.200 It's time for you to rest. 0:29:59.320 --> 0:30:04.840 I have something to help you, orphine mm hmm. It'll 0:30:04.880 --> 0:30:08.800