WEBVTT - Chapter 22: The Deal 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:03.440 Bridgewater is a production of iHeartRadio three D audio and 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:06.760 Grim and Mild from Aaron Mackey. For a full exposure, 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:15.120 listen with headphones. Listener discretion advised. I want to help 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:20.000 Jeremy because you're special. So I want to offer you 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:24.520 a choice. Why what choice? You don't want to hear? 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:29.320 Why you're no? Okay, sure we can talk about that first. 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:32.479 I guess why would I help you? That's what you're 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:35.680 asking right? Sure to start, you know, now that the 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:38.840 shock has worn off, you seem remarkably calm for someone 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:42.560 talking to an ageless, magical being. Well, let's just say 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:45.200 I've learned to accept a lot in the past few weeks, 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:47.680 and this is just another thing to add to the pilot. 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:50.480 Well that's a little insulting. Oh, I'm sorry to hurt 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:52.720 your feelings, but I do have more important things to 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:55.760 focus on right now. Of course, of course your father, right, 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:59.640 what about him? Well, I know what he's thinking of doing, 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:04.440 I mean, so noble. How do you know that he 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:07.679 talked about it in my forest with that awful woman, 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:10.560 the one who gave you those ridiculous rooms. You mean, 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:14.240 the rooms that were meant to protect us, that you sabotage, 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:19.400 no sense of adventure. I'm almost disappointed. Jeremy must be 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:22.240 a real kick in the teeth. Huh, dear old dad 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:25.080 wanting to throw himself back into nowhere rather than stay 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:27.080 here with you. Oh, come on, if you've just come 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:30.360 here to mock no, no, no. Well, to be fair, 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:33.520 you came to me stomping through the woods shouting for 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:36.280 the faye. What exactly were you hoping to say to us? 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:39.000 I want to talk about the deal. Well, what a 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:43.280 lovely coincidence. I do too. I was about to come 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:46.240 looking for you myself before you very kindly brought yourself 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:48.800 to me. All right, then, I guess I will ask 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:51.560 another question. Why are you saying that I'm special? Well, 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:55.440 you see, I don't particularly like losing. From where I'm standing, 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:59.480 it seems like you've gotten exactly what you want for 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:04.200 the past several centuries. Sure, fine, the deal is, it's whatever. 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:08.280 But I get bored and you've got a very interesting energy. Jeremy. 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:11.960 When you were a kid, you believed, and you were 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:15.560 always wandering off where you weren't supposed to. You remember that, 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:18.760 don't you? Or have you forgotten that this isn't your 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:54.960 first time meeting the fair Realm up close. It was 0:02:55.040 --> 0:03:00.560 you when I was a kid. You try to lure 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:05.440 me away. No, here's the thing about that. Nothing lured 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:08.840 you over. You didn't have to be lured. What are 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:10.920 you talking about. I don't know if you were just 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.640 a naturally curious kid or just fucking lucky. But you 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:17.880 ran into a puckwagie just happened upon it. That doesn't 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:21.600 make any sense, I know, right, And then what's weird? 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:24.959 The thing tries to do its whole spiel, come play 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:29.239 with us whatever. That seemed good to you, so you followed. 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:32.800 And here's where it gets really weird. You came to 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:38.080 the other side just right on in. What what do 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:40.160 you mean? Yeah, you're not supposed to be able to 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:42.600 do that, but I don't know. I guess with the 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:45.480 timing of the veil being thinner and whatever magical activity 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:48.680 those weirdos were doing, something hinky was going on in 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:51.640 the Bridgewater Triangle and you just tripped right on into 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:53.960 our kingdom. You're telling me that I've been to the 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:57.800 Faye Realm. You spent a lovely afternoon there. I'm actually 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:01.240 kind of insalted. You don't remember anything about it. I don't. 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:06.000 This doesn't make any sense. Why why would you let 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:09.520 me go? I didn't. I wouldn't have been able to 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:12.320 take you back even if I wanted to. Okay, no, 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:14.800 that's a lie. I could have, but I didn't want to. 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:18.680 So I don't get to observe humans all that much, 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:21.400 not for longer than it takes to, you know, take 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:24.480 their lives. And I had just taken a girl, so 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:27.440 I wasn't really looking for another. But wait, wait, wait, wait, 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:29.520 there was that that kid that went missing from her 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:32.719 girl Scout Truth, the one that my dad and Anne found. Well, 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:39.039 they didn't find her exactly. Francine Markham Jesus, that was 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:42.320 her name, and now it's one of mine, And that's 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:46.080 this body. The story I told you about getting lost 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:48.239 and moving away when I was a kid was totally true. 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:52.839 So you've been living among humans for the past forty years. Well, 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:56.920 it's a little more complicated than that. That's the wonderful 0:04:56.960 --> 0:05:00.200 thing about changelings. The terms of our agreement with you 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:02.360 lot means we're not supposed to come over here and 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:05.200 kill a bunch of you, and we're not technically allowed 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:08.320 to take people outside of the willing volunteers but as 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:11.159 long as we don't do it too often, kids are 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:15.560 a little more flexible. Changelings are different because you're not 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:20.760 taking them, you're replacing it exactly. And sometimes the kids 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:25.719 get stuck and poor Alden, but mostly it works. It 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:28.960 allows us to circumvent the finer points of the deal. 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:32.120 Lets us be in our realm and this one and 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:36.440 not pass out from your little tricks, the inside out clothes, 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:38.800 the bells and so on. You mean it, lets you 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:42.520 break the rules that you made, rules that you broke 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:47.359 two without even trying. Imagine my surprise. I'm in a 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:51.080 new form, this twelve year old girl, and this kid 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:55.239 comes on through who I don't recognize here. I'm thinking 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:57.920 someone else decided to pull the old changeling act without 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:01.280 my explicit say so, wait, you mean I'm a no, no, 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:07.559 you're just you. That's what was so strange. And given 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:10.320 that you didn't come over to do anything malicious, I 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:12.720 thought it might be interesting to watch what the Faye 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:16.960 realm does to a living, full blown human Over the years. 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:20.760 That's never happened. But then Daddy called and you ran 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:24.400 on home, so he got me out. You just walked 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:27.760 right back over. You heard his voice, and it was 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:30.800 like the veil just lifted right up for you. Do 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:34.960 you know how frustrating that is? I've spent so much 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:38.960 of my existence waiting for tedious human years to get 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:42.760 back here. In between cycle resets, you don't get to 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:46.599 go anywhere unless you've recently taken a changeling, which we 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:50.360 can't do all that often. Besides, they don't last very long, 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:54.680 just a human lifespan. And here you were just waltzing 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:59.960 in and out, no problem at all? Why me? How? 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:03.360 I have no fucking clue. I've spent the past few 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:05.320 decades trying to figure it out, and the best I 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:09.720 can come up with is random chance mixed with a 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:11.880 strong connection between you and your father that kept you 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:14.800 tethered enough to your side to bring you back. Love 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:18.040 really was the solution all along? Then why wasn't I 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:19.800 able to bring my dad back from the limit all? 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:23.200 I don't know. We don't control that bit, so it's 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:27.600 hard to say. This is all wild magic, very unpredictable, 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:31.840 very capricious. And I are you telling me that I 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:34.400 can do magic? Is that because I went over to 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:40.840 the other side as a kid, or can anyone? No? No, no, 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:43.680 you can't do magic, but you just no human can. 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:48.080 It was me, obviously. I told half my little birdies 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:50.280 to go away and then sent over some warm tinglis, 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:54.440 basically mimicking the sensation of real magic as much as 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:59.320 your puny brain could take anyway. So then is there 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:02.720 a point to any of this? Why have you gone 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:04.960 through all this trouble? You know you are being quite 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:07.520 prickly for someone who wants something for me. If I 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:10.640 remember human stories about the fake correctly, being polite is 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:12.960 one of those big rules. What are you gonna do. 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:15.160 You're gonna set another thunderbird on me, trapped me in 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:17.400 a house. If you wanted me dead, you would have 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:20.640 done it by now. And you know what, I am 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:24.600 not the one who wants something here. Well, you might 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:27.000 not be magical, but I think you might want to be. 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:29.640 I think you do want to see what's on the 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:33.400 other side, and that interests me. That was your idea. Remember, 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:35.680 I was just giving a name to the feeling that 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:39.280 you were already having. I am a folklore professor, of course, 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:43.080 I'm interested in magical beings. I'm not sure that's all 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:46.439 it is. Here. You are talking to one such being, 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:50.080 and you're not asking a thing about me besides being 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:54.360 pretty rude. That's not very academic behavior. Like I said, 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:57.640 I have bigger things to focus on, which is why 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:01.880 I'd like to help. You'll understand I'm a little bit skeptical. Sure, 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:04.839 sure of course, but don't you want to at least 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:06.720 hear me out. I don't know. Are you willing to 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:08.880 renegotiate the deal to close the gate for good and 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:12.280 to let us live peacefully at our own separate world. 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:15.080 What do you think then? I don't really want to 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:18.000 know what you have to offer me. Would you even 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:21.360 really want that, Jeremy, for the gate to be closed 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:25.080 for good? Of course I would. You took my father 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:28.559 from you, kidnapped children, you killed them. But we've also 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:32.240 given you your whole life's purpose, haven't we. You couldn't 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:35.199 be a folklore professor if there was no folklore to teach. 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:38.080 I have operated my entire life until now under the 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:42.760 assumption that nothing I taught was real. There's millennia of 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:46.720 lore that I can lecture on without new monsters coming through. 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:50.160 But now you know it is real, you could find 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:53.000 out exactly which bits were true, how it all connects. 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:56.440 I've told you. I'm Faye and that Puckwudgies and the 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:59.360 Dover Demon are all real. That creature in Anne's house 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:03.679 that was a yokai all right here in the Bridgewater Triangle. 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:07.120 How is that possible? I don't know, and I'm assuming 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:09.160 that you're not going to just tell me. I think 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:11.080 you owe it to yourself to find out. Oh, don't 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:14.040 pretend to know me, don't I We've had a handful 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:16.480 of conversations and one of us was lying about who 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:18.480 they were the whole time. So no, I don't think 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:21.320 you know me. Come on, that's not fair. I think 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:26.040 we were clicking, I mean, becoming friends, weren't we. I 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:29.600 didn't know anything real about you, Sure you did. You 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:32.280 said you were a legend tripper, which you are not, 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:35.320 aren't I I spend a good deal of my time 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:38.800 chasing monsters around. You said you'd never seen anything paranormal. 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:42.480 I haven't where I'm from. All those creepy crawleys are 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:46.880 perfect on you. Stop stop stop twisting this around. You 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.360 tricked me. I don't know why. I don't know if 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:52.080 it was just for fun for you, I don't know. 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:54.520 And I don't know why you think I would be 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:58.160 interested in seeing your world? But you are not going 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:01.640 to trick me again. I thought maybe you needed a friend, 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:08.400 that's why it was fun. But well, I think you're 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:11.319 being pulled in all sorts of directions and it's become 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:14.200 impossible to know which way is up, and you want 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:17.040 to help orient me out of the goodness of your heart. 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:20.000 Maybe I need a friend too. I don't think that 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:22.640 we have the strongest foundation for a friendship, or maybe not. 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:26.360 But tell me when was the last time you met 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:30.320 someone you felt like you could actually talk to, who 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:34.560 understood you. Is this my choice then, to be your 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:38.520 friend or not? Not exactly. I want to give you 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:43.480 the chance to save your father. How I'm going to 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:46.920 tell you a secret now, Jeremy, a secret that's been 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:51.240 very well kept for centuries. I'm going to tell you 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:54.520 what happens when someone passes all the way through the liminal, 0:11:54.960 --> 0:12:00.120 as you call it. They don't die, not exactly. It 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:03.240 becomes nearly impossible for them to cross back out. Their 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:07.400 body wouldn't survive in this mortal world. That sounds an 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:10.079 awful lot like dying. I like to think of it 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:13.240 as eternal life. So you're saying that when the souls 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:17.040 have served their time, they go to heaven. No, I 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:20.800 don't know anything about all that stuff. God and the 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:23.079 Devil and all the rest. Could be real, could be 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:27.120 just humans confusing us for something else. I don't know, 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:32.080 and I don't particularly care to find out. But the Kingdom, 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:36.439 our kingdom is a kind of heaven, full of beauty 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:40.760 and magic and creatures you've never even heard of. You 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:43.840 loved it when you were there as a kid, and 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:47.719 I think you'd love it again. That's what happens when 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:51.400 humans pass through. They come to live with us in 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:55.800 the Kingdom forever. I thought you said humans didn't just 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:58.559 come over to the other side. By the time they 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:02.839 get there, they're not human anymore, just like the body 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:06.079 standing in front of you, all the changelings, your dad, 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:11.200 anyone who passes through becomes something else. And what if 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:12.560 they don't want to pass through, What if they just 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:15.080 want to die? Well, I'm sure we could arrange that, 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:19.200 but no one has ever wanted to die, not once 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:22.600 they've reached the other side. Problem is, this secret wasn't 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:25.400 really ever meant to be a secret. The knowledge got 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:28.120 lost on the way somehow, and it seems that that 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:31.000 caused lots of problems. Well, I don't know what you're 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:33.559 getting at. Well, no one ever said you had to 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:37.079 stay in the liminal. The deal was for two souls 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:40.200 every forty years to pass through the veil and join us. 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:43.679 Every forty years, we open the gate a little bit 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:48.360 more and we take a sacrifice and invite guests. Remember, 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:51.360 they have to be willing, which means we can't just 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:54.720 pull them through to the other side, and so people 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:59.200 get stuck. People get stuck. They could just continue to 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:02.280 walk through, go through the other side of the veil. 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:05.320 We don't need them to stay in the liminal until 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:08.400 the gate opens again. But no one can ever find 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:10.959 the other gate when they're inside. It's like they're in 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:13.320 a waiting room with two doors, and they're blind to 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:16.760 the second door. So you're telling me that this whole time, 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.120 my dad and Alden could have just gone through the 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:22.400 other door and lived in the Kingdom, and the Liminal 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:24.440 would have been empty for forty years, and that would 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:27.240 have been fine, according to the terms of the deal. 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:33.600 We're not cruel, Jeremy, we're not. We're particular. It's not 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:37.240 our fault. You're kind or terrible communication. Why can't you 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:41.560 just show people the door that's what I'm offering to you. 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:44.360 You go through willingly, and I tell you how to 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:47.240 get right into the kingdom. I can't trust you to 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:50.720 get lucky again. You can find that boy who's in 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:53.680 there already and taken through with you. I'll let that 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:55.840 count as two for this cycle. Give you a little 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:58.280 bit of a freebee. Why would you be giving me 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:04.360 this preferential treatment. I like you, Why on earth would 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:08.480 I trust you? You did before? Nothing's changed, of course 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:11.040 it has changed. I trusted the human I met, not 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:14.080 whatever you are, and you're right you were. You were 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:16.880 easy to talk to. I did feel a connection, but 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:21.880 that was all. It was all fabricated. You're angry with me, Yeah, 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:24.040 I'm angry with a lot of people right now. Why 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:30.800 why are you mad? Because I feel stupid, I feel duped. 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:33.880 I found you interesting. Now I'm being told it was 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:39.600 all a trick. Wait, you find me interesting? Yeah? I did, 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:42.480 And now that you find out I'm a being of 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:46.320 magic and myth, I'm less interesting. I found you interesting 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:49.400 in a way that I don't usually find people interesting. Okay, 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:52.640 Oh you know I have people in my life. I'm 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:54.960 not some sort of hermit. I didn't say you were 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:57.840 you kind of did. I said you needed a friend. 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:01.400 We can always use more friends. Well, there are people 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:04.840 who care about me and people that I care about, 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:09.680 But I don't know. I guess I don't normally meet 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:15.000 people who intrigue me. Never, No, not never. It's just 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:19.760 there have been people through the years, people who are 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:24.640 sweet and not a lot else, and they always wanted 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:28.880 more more than you wanted to give. I guess I'm 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:32.240 just picking. I'm not asking anything of you that you 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:35.280 don't want to give. Jeremy, now you're just asking for 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:38.720 my life. What's one human life? When you can live forever? 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:43.560 Is something so much more? Well? What would happen when 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:47.800 I'm over there? The learning never ends. You would be 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:52.760 treated as one of us. What are you doing? You 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:56.120 would be able to do magic over there, Jeremy magic 0:16:56.200 --> 0:17:02.480 you can't even dream of. Ah, Magic like this. A 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:08.040 broken wrist heal in an instant. This is the choice 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:11.679 I'm presenting you with, Jeremy. Come with me through the 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:14.800 veil and into the other side. All the questions you've 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:18.440 had your entire life will be answered, and you get 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:21.240 to save your dad in the process. I'd never see 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:28.399 them again, or Anne or Vibbin or Olivia or anyone true. 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:32.280 But come on, your connections to people are tenuous at best. 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:36.560 You know that which you could give all those relationships 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:40.119 meaning by saving the people you love. Isn't that the 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:42.680 best thing you could do for them? Give them a 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:46.080 chance to live, Give them a chance to live without me, 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:49.800 with the knowledge that you are alive and well somewhere else, 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:53.879 and that you gave them their lives. They'll love you 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:57.320 for that more than they could ever you stayed. How 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:00.119 do I know that you're telling me the truth? You 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:03.480 have done nothing but tricked me. I'm telling you the truth. 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:07.359 I've been telling you the truth this whole time. You 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:10.680 just have to open your eyes and see it. Isn't 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:13.800 that what this has all been about, the evidence of 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:16.439 the truth in front of you this whole time? But 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:20.080 you never believed it, not until you saw your father. 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:23.320 I didn't have any proof until then. But did you 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:26.479 really need it? What do you think would have happened 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:29.240 if you'd believed it all earlier? Do you think you 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:33.080 could have saved him sooner? Don't let skepticism keep you 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:38.080 from doing the right thing again, Jeremy, you can trust me. 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:00.600 I just think he should be back by an He 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:04.239 just needs a little space, Thomas. We don't hear from 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:06.160 him in the next half hour, we'll give him a call. 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:13.800 Are we making completely the wrong decision? Anne? I don't know. 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:17.800 I really don't. If you tell me you don't want 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:20.040 to do this, I will support you one hundred percent. 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:23.040 We'll find another way. You know, we don't have that time. 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:26.240 We don't know that. No, we don't know for certain 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:29.760 that you couldn't survive here. No, I know it. I 0:19:29.800 --> 0:19:35.080 can feel it in my bones. Are you really okay 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:37.640 with this? Do you truly understand what you're giving up? 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:44.800 I've I've made so many mistakes, Thomas. I've had a 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:51.480 lifetime fault with mistakes. Are you saying no? Oh no, no, 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:56.800 not you never hear you? You, Jeremy Shelley, Those were 0:19:56.840 --> 0:20:00.440 the best choices I've ever made. But I think I 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:05.440 was given these gifts. You know, I squandered him and 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:11.560 no I did yes, And I can never get that 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:17.280 time back. But you could what I want to do this, Thomas. 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:20.000 I owe this to my family, to this place, to you, 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:23.800 to myself to do this. I want to make things right, Okay. 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:26.280 I want to protect the people that I love, but 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:31.640 you maybe you've done enough and I could go without you. 0:20:31.640 --> 0:20:37.280 You know, think about it. You're still You're still so young, Thomas, 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:40.800 and even if you're sick, you could at least spend 0:20:40.800 --> 0:20:42.480 the rest of your life here. I mean, have a 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:46.680 little joy before you go. My best years there behind me. 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:51.160 And I could die tomorrow. We have no idea. Yeah, 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:53.600 but you're not dead yet. I mean, even if you are, 0:20:54.320 --> 0:20:57.600 if this world really is rejecting you, then at least 0:20:58.560 --> 0:21:02.199 it'll all be over right. But in the meantime, you 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:06.480 could you could live another month or a year. I mean, 0:21:06.520 --> 0:21:10.800 we just don't know, no, and I won't let you. 0:21:11.320 --> 0:21:15.800 Oh okay, well, since when have you been able to 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:19.679 tell me what to do? Please let me do this 0:21:19.760 --> 0:21:23.439 for you. Let me give you the family that I 0:21:23.520 --> 0:21:26.080 spent my life keeping at a distance. I mean, I 0:21:26.280 --> 0:21:31.639 ruined my chance, but you you haven't ruined yours. I 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:36.000 don't want to do this without you, okay. I mean 0:21:36.040 --> 0:21:40.520 I've been without you for so long. I know, I know, 0:21:40.960 --> 0:21:44.159 but maybe maybe we don't get to be together. No, 0:21:45.640 --> 0:21:49.720 maybe we have been given this beautiful family, but we 0:21:49.840 --> 0:21:52.879 have to you know, we have to take care of 0:21:52.920 --> 0:21:56.439 them at different times in different ways you've been thinking 0:21:56.480 --> 0:21:58.960 about this. I was just trying to find the right 0:21:58.960 --> 0:22:01.760 way to bring it up. I knew that when we 0:22:01.800 --> 0:22:06.000 told Jeremy that I'd have doubt. You deserve to be 0:22:06.040 --> 0:22:08.960 with your son, Thomas. So to you, he's not mine. 0:22:10.080 --> 0:22:13.520 He was once and then I abandoned him. Okay, I 0:22:13.640 --> 0:22:16.680 lost you and I abandoned him. You know you can't 0:22:16.680 --> 0:22:25.240 do the same. I know. No, we're not doing it, Thomas. 0:22:25.880 --> 0:22:28.680 I appreciate what you're trying to do for me. Anne. 0:22:29.800 --> 0:22:32.400 I love you so much for it. But it's all 0:22:32.440 --> 0:22:37.639 a mood point. It needs two souls. Maybe not it 0:22:37.720 --> 0:22:41.879 did when you went in because Alden was already in there. No, 0:22:42.480 --> 0:22:46.080 I would take good care of him, Thomas. I swear 0:22:46.160 --> 0:22:49.720 to you, No, you can't do that. I can't do 0:22:49.760 --> 0:22:53.000 that to him. I made a promise, I know, and 0:22:53.040 --> 0:22:56.040 you will keep that promise. But remember what you said 0:22:56.040 --> 0:23:00.159 to Jeremy that you wanted to buy him time, And 0:23:00.240 --> 0:23:02.560 that's what I am doing. I am buying you time. 0:23:03.160 --> 0:23:05.359 I'll look after Alton while you figure out how to 0:23:05.400 --> 0:23:08.240 help us cross over, and then close the gates for 0:23:08.280 --> 0:23:11.840 good and you can really get to live while you 0:23:11.920 --> 0:23:21.919 still can. Please Thomas, Jeremy, Jeremy. Guys, Peyton, what are 0:23:21.920 --> 0:23:26.480 you doing here? Where's Jeremy? He's out for some air? 0:23:27.000 --> 0:23:30.520 Why they told him they're going into the liminal good? 0:23:31.359 --> 0:23:35.120 That's one problem solved. Well do you know where he went? 0:23:35.200 --> 0:23:37.119 He's not picking up his phone. He just went for 0:23:37.160 --> 0:23:41.720 a walk around the block. His car isn't here. What 0:23:41.720 --> 0:23:46.040 what's going on? What's wrong that friend of his? I 0:23:46.160 --> 0:23:49.280 don't know what her deal is, but she is bad news. 0:23:49.880 --> 0:23:53.600 What do you mean she's the one who's summoned the birds. 0:23:54.520 --> 0:23:56.639 I don't know how she knew the right room or 0:23:56.640 --> 0:23:59.360 why she did it. But if Jeremy is with her 0:23:59.440 --> 0:24:03.440 right now, then we have a big problem. You think 0:24:03.440 --> 0:24:06.480 she'd hurt Jeremy, no offense, but it is not Jeremy. 0:24:06.520 --> 0:24:10.119 I'm worried about. What are you worried about? I think 0:24:10.920 --> 0:24:15.399 whoever that legend tripper is, she's trying to open the 0:24:15.480 --> 0:24:28.200 gate for good. Are we even sure this is where 0:24:28.200 --> 0:24:31.040 he would come? If he's not here yet, he will 0:24:31.119 --> 0:24:34.199 be soon. How do you know? Can't you feel that 0:24:35.080 --> 0:24:40.600 something is unsettled? Yeah? This is all feeling really eerily familiar. 0:24:40.960 --> 0:24:44.040 Jeremy would he wouldn't try to go in himself. Would 0:24:44.040 --> 0:24:47.960 he No, no way, Are you sure? Because I think 0:24:48.000 --> 0:24:51.000 he would do a lot to save Thomas. If he 0:24:51.080 --> 0:24:54.199 goes in, he goes in as long as he's willing. 0:24:54.480 --> 0:24:59.440 Problem solved. No, no, not problem solved. But if he's 0:24:59.440 --> 0:25:03.879 trying to help that woman do something extremely stupid, I don't. 0:25:04.000 --> 0:25:07.240 I don't think Jeremy would open up our world to chaos. 0:25:07.840 --> 0:25:10.160 Do you agree with your girlfriend that he'd do anything 0:25:10.240 --> 0:25:20.639 to save his dad? Yeah, well then we better hurry live. Yeah, 0:25:20.720 --> 0:25:23.040 I need you to do something for me, Honey. What 0:25:23.240 --> 0:25:27.040