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Speaker 1: Jeremy because you're special. So I want to offer you
Speaker 1: a choice. Why what choice? You don't want to hear?
Speaker 1: Why you're no? Okay, sure we can talk about that first.
Speaker 1: I guess why would I help you? That's what you're
Speaker 1: asking right? Sure to start, you know, now that the
Speaker 1: shock has worn off, you seem remarkably calm for someone
Speaker 1: talking to an ageless, magical being. Well, let's just say
Speaker 1: I've learned to accept a lot in the past few weeks,
Speaker 1: and this is just another thing to add to the pilot.
Speaker 1: Well that's a little insulting. Oh, I'm sorry to hurt
Speaker 1: your feelings, but I do have more important things to
Speaker 1: focus on right now. Of course, of course your father, right,
Speaker 1: what about him? Well, I know what he's thinking of doing,
Speaker 1: I mean, so noble. How do you know that he
Speaker 1: talked about it in my forest with that awful woman,
Speaker 1: the one who gave you those ridiculous rooms. You mean,
Speaker 1: the rooms that were meant to protect us, that you sabotage,
Speaker 1: no sense of adventure. I'm almost disappointed. Jeremy must be
Speaker 1: a real kick in the teeth. Huh, dear old dad
Speaker 1: wanting to throw himself back into nowhere rather than stay
Speaker 1: here with you. Oh, come on, if you've just come
Speaker 1: here to mock no, no, no. Well, to be fair,
Speaker 1: you came to me stomping through the woods shouting for
Speaker 1: the faye. What exactly were you hoping to say to us?
Speaker 1: I want to talk about the deal. Well, what a
Speaker 1: lovely coincidence. I do too. I was about to come
Speaker 1: looking for you myself before you very kindly brought yourself
Speaker 1: to me. All right, then, I guess I will ask
Speaker 1: another question. Why are you saying that I'm special? Well,
Speaker 1: you see, I don't particularly like losing. From where I'm standing,
Speaker 1: it seems like you've gotten exactly what you want for
Speaker 1: the past several centuries. Sure, fine, the deal is, it's whatever.
Speaker 1: But I get bored and you've got a very interesting energy. Jeremy.
Speaker 1: When you were a kid, you believed, and you were
Speaker 1: always wandering off where you weren't supposed to. You remember that,
Speaker 1: don't you? Or have you forgotten that this isn't your
Speaker 1: first time meeting the fair Realm up close. It was
Speaker 1: you when I was a kid. You try to lure
Speaker 1: me away. No, here's the thing about that. Nothing lured
Speaker 1: you over. You didn't have to be lured. What are
Speaker 1: you talking about. I don't know if you were just
Speaker 1: a naturally curious kid or just fucking lucky. But you
Speaker 1: ran into a puckwagie just happened upon it. That doesn't
Speaker 1: make any sense, I know, right, And then what's weird?
Speaker 1: The thing tries to do its whole spiel, come play
Speaker 1: with us whatever. That seemed good to you, so you followed.
Speaker 1: And here's where it gets really weird. You came to
Speaker 1: the other side just right on in. What what do
Speaker 1: you mean? Yeah, you're not supposed to be able to
Speaker 1: do that, but I don't know. I guess with the
Speaker 1: timing of the veil being thinner and whatever magical activity
Speaker 1: those weirdos were doing, something hinky was going on in
Speaker 1: the Bridgewater Triangle and you just tripped right on into
Speaker 1: our kingdom. You're telling me that I've been to the
Speaker 1: Faye Realm. You spent a lovely afternoon there. I'm actually
Speaker 1: kind of insalted. You don't remember anything about it. I don't.
Speaker 1: This doesn't make any sense. Why why would you let
Speaker 1: me go? I didn't. I wouldn't have been able to
Speaker 1: take you back even if I wanted to. Okay, no,
Speaker 1: that's a lie. I could have, but I didn't want to.
Speaker 1: So I don't get to observe humans all that much,
Speaker 1: not for longer than it takes to, you know, take
Speaker 1: their lives. And I had just taken a girl, so
Speaker 1: I wasn't really looking for another. But wait, wait, wait, wait,
Speaker 1: there was that that kid that went missing from her
Speaker 1: girl Scout Truth, the one that my dad and Anne found. Well,
Speaker 1: they didn't find her exactly. Francine Markham Jesus, that was
Speaker 1: her name, and now it's one of mine, And that's
Speaker 1: this body. The story I told you about getting lost
Speaker 1: and moving away when I was a kid was totally true.
Speaker 1: So you've been living among humans for the past forty years. Well,
Speaker 1: it's a little more complicated than that. That's the wonderful
Speaker 1: thing about changelings. The terms of our agreement with you
Speaker 1: lot means we're not supposed to come over here and
Speaker 1: kill a bunch of you, and we're not technically allowed
Speaker 1: to take people outside of the willing volunteers but as
Speaker 1: long as we don't do it too often, kids are
Speaker 1: a little more flexible. Changelings are different because you're not
Speaker 1: taking them, you're replacing it exactly. And sometimes the kids
Speaker 1: get stuck and poor Alden, but mostly it works. It
Speaker 1: allows us to circumvent the finer points of the deal.
Speaker 1: Lets us be in our realm and this one and
Speaker 1: not pass out from your little tricks, the inside out clothes,
Speaker 1: the bells and so on. You mean it, lets you
Speaker 1: break the rules that you made, rules that you broke
Speaker 1: two without even trying. Imagine my surprise. I'm in a
Speaker 1: new form, this twelve year old girl, and this kid
Speaker 1: comes on through who I don't recognize here. I'm thinking
Speaker 1: someone else decided to pull the old changeling act without
Speaker 1: my explicit say so, wait, you mean I'm a no, no,
Speaker 1: you're just you. That's what was so strange. And given
Speaker 1: that you didn't come over to do anything malicious, I
Speaker 1: thought it might be interesting to watch what the Faye
Speaker 1: realm does to a living, full blown human Over the years.
Speaker 1: That's never happened. But then Daddy called and you ran
Speaker 1: on home, so he got me out. You just walked
Speaker 1: right back over. You heard his voice, and it was
Speaker 1: like the veil just lifted right up for you. Do
Speaker 1: you know how frustrating that is? I've spent so much
Speaker 1: of my existence waiting for tedious human years to get
Speaker 1: back here. In between cycle resets, you don't get to
Speaker 1: go anywhere unless you've recently taken a changeling, which we
Speaker 1: can't do all that often. Besides, they don't last very long,
Speaker 1: just a human lifespan. And here you were just waltzing
Speaker 1: in and out, no problem at all? Why me? How?
Speaker 1: I have no fucking clue. I've spent the past few
Speaker 1: decades trying to figure it out, and the best I
Speaker 1: can come up with is random chance mixed with a
Speaker 1: strong connection between you and your father that kept you
Speaker 1: tethered enough to your side to bring you back. Love
Speaker 1: really was the solution all along? Then why wasn't I
Speaker 1: able to bring my dad back from the limit all?
Speaker 1: I don't know. We don't control that bit, so it's
Speaker 1: hard to say. This is all wild magic, very unpredictable,
Speaker 1: very capricious. And I are you telling me that I
Speaker 1: can do magic? Is that because I went over to
Speaker 1: the other side as a kid, or can anyone? No? No, no,
Speaker 1: you can't do magic, but you just no human can.
Speaker 1: It was me, obviously. I told half my little birdies
Speaker 1: to go away and then sent over some warm tinglis,
Speaker 1: basically mimicking the sensation of real magic as much as
Speaker 1: your puny brain could take anyway. So then is there
Speaker 1: a point to any of this? Why have you gone
Speaker 1: through all this trouble? You know you are being quite
Speaker 1: prickly for someone who wants something for me. If I
Speaker 1: remember human stories about the fake correctly, being polite is
Speaker 1: one of those big rules. What are you gonna do.
Speaker 1: You're gonna set another thunderbird on me, trapped me in
Speaker 1: a house. If you wanted me dead, you would have
Speaker 1: done it by now. And you know what, I am
Speaker 1: not the one who wants something here. Well, you might
Speaker 1: not be magical, but I think you might want to be.
Speaker 1: I think you do want to see what's on the
Speaker 1: other side, and that interests me. That was your idea. Remember,
Speaker 1: I was just giving a name to the feeling that
Speaker 1: you were already having. I am a folklore professor, of course,
Speaker 1: I'm interested in magical beings. I'm not sure that's all
Speaker 1: it is. Here. You are talking to one such being,
Speaker 1: and you're not asking a thing about me besides being
Speaker 1: pretty rude. That's not very academic behavior. Like I said,
Speaker 1: I have bigger things to focus on, which is why
Speaker 1: I'd like to help. You'll understand I'm a little bit skeptical. Sure,
Speaker 1: sure of course, but don't you want to at least
Speaker 1: hear me out. I don't know. Are you willing to
Speaker 1: renegotiate the deal to close the gate for good and
Speaker 1: to let us live peacefully at our own separate world.
Speaker 1: What do you think then? I don't really want to
Speaker 1: know what you have to offer me. Would you even
Speaker 1: really want that, Jeremy, for the gate to be closed
Speaker 1: for good? Of course I would. You took my father
Speaker 1: from you, kidnapped children, you killed them. But we've also
Speaker 1: given you your whole life's purpose, haven't we. You couldn't
Speaker 1: be a folklore professor if there was no folklore to teach.
Speaker 1: I have operated my entire life until now under the
Speaker 1: assumption that nothing I taught was real. There's millennia of
Speaker 1: lore that I can lecture on without new monsters coming through.
Speaker 1: But now you know it is real, you could find
Speaker 1: out exactly which bits were true, how it all connects.
Speaker 1: I've told you. I'm Faye and that Puckwudgies and the
Speaker 1: Dover Demon are all real. That creature in Anne's house
Speaker 1: that was a yokai all right here in the Bridgewater Triangle.
Speaker 1: How is that possible? I don't know, and I'm assuming
Speaker 1: that you're not going to just tell me. I think
Speaker 1: you owe it to yourself to find out. Oh, don't
Speaker 1: pretend to know me, don't I We've had a handful
Speaker 1: of conversations and one of us was lying about who
Speaker 1: they were the whole time. So no, I don't think
Speaker 1: you know me. Come on, that's not fair. I think
Speaker 1: we were clicking, I mean, becoming friends, weren't we. I
Speaker 1: didn't know anything real about you, Sure you did. You
Speaker 1: said you were a legend tripper, which you are not,
Speaker 1: aren't I I spend a good deal of my time
Speaker 1: chasing monsters around. You said you'd never seen anything paranormal.
Speaker 1: I haven't where I'm from. All those creepy crawleys are
Speaker 1: perfect on you. Stop stop stop twisting this around. You
Speaker 1: tricked me. I don't know why. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it was just for fun for you, I don't know.
Speaker 1: And I don't know why you think I would be
Speaker 1: interested in seeing your world? But you are not going
Speaker 1: to trick me again. I thought maybe you needed a friend,
Speaker 1: that's why it was fun. But well, I think you're
Speaker 1: being pulled in all sorts of directions and it's become
Speaker 1: impossible to know which way is up, and you want
Speaker 1: to help orient me out of the goodness of your heart.
Speaker 1: Maybe I need a friend too. I don't think that
Speaker 1: we have the strongest foundation for a friendship, or maybe not.
Speaker 1: But tell me when was the last time you met
Speaker 1: someone you felt like you could actually talk to, who
Speaker 1: understood you. Is this my choice then, to be your
Speaker 1: friend or not? Not exactly. I want to give you
Speaker 1: the chance to save your father. How I'm going to
Speaker 1: tell you a secret now, Jeremy, a secret that's been
Speaker 1: very well kept for centuries. I'm going to tell you
Speaker 1: what happens when someone passes all the way through the liminal,
Speaker 1: as you call it. They don't die, not exactly. It
Speaker 1: becomes nearly impossible for them to cross back out. Their
Speaker 1: body wouldn't survive in this mortal world. That sounds an
Speaker 1: awful lot like dying. I like to think of it
Speaker 1: as eternal life. So you're saying that when the souls
Speaker 1: have served their time, they go to heaven. No, I
Speaker 1: don't know anything about all that stuff. God and the
Speaker 1: Devil and all the rest. Could be real, could be
Speaker 1: just humans confusing us for something else. I don't know,
Speaker 1: and I don't particularly care to find out. But the Kingdom,
Speaker 1: our kingdom is a kind of heaven, full of beauty
Speaker 1: and magic and creatures you've never even heard of. You
Speaker 1: loved it when you were there as a kid, and
Speaker 1: I think you'd love it again. That's what happens when
Speaker 1: humans pass through. They come to live with us in
Speaker 1: the Kingdom forever. I thought you said humans didn't just
Speaker 1: come over to the other side. By the time they
Speaker 1: get there, they're not human anymore, just like the body
Speaker 1: standing in front of you, all the changelings, your dad,
Speaker 1: anyone who passes through becomes something else. And what if
Speaker 1: they don't want to pass through, What if they just
Speaker 1: want to die? Well, I'm sure we could arrange that,
Speaker 1: but no one has ever wanted to die, not once
Speaker 1: they've reached the other side. Problem is, this secret wasn't
Speaker 1: really ever meant to be a secret. The knowledge got
Speaker 1: lost on the way somehow, and it seems that that
Speaker 1: caused lots of problems. Well, I don't know what you're
Speaker 1: getting at. Well, no one ever said you had to
Speaker 1: stay in the liminal. The deal was for two souls
Speaker 1: every forty years to pass through the veil and join us.
Speaker 1: Every forty years, we open the gate a little bit
Speaker 1: more and we take a sacrifice and invite guests. Remember,
Speaker 1: they have to be willing, which means we can't just
Speaker 1: pull them through to the other side, and so people
Speaker 1: get stuck. People get stuck. They could just continue to
Speaker 1: walk through, go through the other side of the veil.
Speaker 1: We don't need them to stay in the liminal until
Speaker 1: the gate opens again. But no one can ever find
Speaker 1: the other gate when they're inside. It's like they're in
Speaker 1: a waiting room with two doors, and they're blind to
Speaker 1: the second door. So you're telling me that this whole time,
Speaker 1: my dad and Alden could have just gone through the
Speaker 1: other door and lived in the Kingdom, and the Liminal
Speaker 1: would have been empty for forty years, and that would
Speaker 1: have been fine, according to the terms of the deal.
Speaker 1: We're not cruel, Jeremy, we're not. We're particular. It's not
Speaker 1: our fault. You're kind or terrible communication. Why can't you
Speaker 1: just show people the door that's what I'm offering to you.
Speaker 1: You go through willingly, and I tell you how to
Speaker 1: get right into the kingdom. I can't trust you to
Speaker 1: get lucky again. You can find that boy who's in
Speaker 1: there already and taken through with you. I'll let that
Speaker 1: count as two for this cycle. Give you a little
Speaker 1: bit of a freebee. Why would you be giving me
Speaker 1: this preferential treatment. I like you, Why on earth would
Speaker 1: I trust you? You did before? Nothing's changed, of course
Speaker 1: it has changed. I trusted the human I met, not
Speaker 1: whatever you are, and you're right you were. You were
Speaker 1: easy to talk to. I did feel a connection, but
Speaker 1: that was all. It was all fabricated. You're angry with me, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm angry with a lot of people right now. Why
Speaker 1: why are you mad? Because I feel stupid, I feel duped.
Speaker 1: I found you interesting. Now I'm being told it was
Speaker 1: all a trick. Wait, you find me interesting? Yeah? I did,
Speaker 1: And now that you find out I'm a being of
Speaker 1: magic and myth, I'm less interesting. I found you interesting
Speaker 1: in a way that I don't usually find people interesting. Okay,
Speaker 1: Oh you know I have people in my life. I'm
Speaker 1: not some sort of hermit. I didn't say you were
Speaker 1: you kind of did. I said you needed a friend.
Speaker 1: We can always use more friends. Well, there are people
Speaker 1: who care about me and people that I care about,
Speaker 1: But I don't know. I guess I don't normally meet
Speaker 1: people who intrigue me. Never, No, not never. It's just
Speaker 1: there have been people through the years, people who are
Speaker 1: sweet and not a lot else, and they always wanted
Speaker 1: more more than you wanted to give. I guess I'm
Speaker 1: just picking. I'm not asking anything of you that you
Speaker 1: don't want to give. Jeremy, now you're just asking for
Speaker 1: my life. What's one human life? When you can live forever?
Speaker 1: Is something so much more? Well? What would happen when
Speaker 1: I'm over there? The learning never ends. You would be
Speaker 1: treated as one of us. What are you doing? You
Speaker 1: would be able to do magic over there, Jeremy magic
Speaker 1: you can't even dream of. Ah, Magic like this. A
Speaker 1: broken wrist heal in an instant. This is the choice
Speaker 1: I'm presenting you with, Jeremy. Come with me through the
Speaker 1: veil and into the other side. All the questions you've
Speaker 1: had your entire life will be answered, and you get
Speaker 1: to save your dad in the process. I'd never see
Speaker 1: them again, or Anne or Vibbin or Olivia or anyone true.
Speaker 1: But come on, your connections to people are tenuous at best.
Speaker 1: You know that which you could give all those relationships
Speaker 1: meaning by saving the people you love. Isn't that the
Speaker 1: best thing you could do for them? Give them a
Speaker 1: chance to live, Give them a chance to live without me,
Speaker 1: with the knowledge that you are alive and well somewhere else,
Speaker 1: and that you gave them their lives. They'll love you
Speaker 1: for that more than they could ever you stayed. How
Speaker 1: do I know that you're telling me the truth? You
Speaker 1: have done nothing but tricked me. I'm telling you the truth.
Speaker 1: I've been telling you the truth this whole time. You
Speaker 1: just have to open your eyes and see it. Isn't
Speaker 1: that what this has all been about, the evidence of
Speaker 1: the truth in front of you this whole time? But
Speaker 1: you never believed it, not until you saw your father.
Speaker 1: I didn't have any proof until then. But did you
Speaker 1: really need it? What do you think would have happened
Speaker 1: if you'd believed it all earlier? Do you think you
Speaker 1: could have saved him sooner? Don't let skepticism keep you
Speaker 1: from doing the right thing again, Jeremy, you can trust me.
Speaker 1: I just think he should be back by an He
Speaker 1: just needs a little space, Thomas. We don't hear from
Speaker 1: him in the next half hour, we'll give him a call.
Speaker 1: Are we making completely the wrong decision? Anne? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I really don't. If you tell me you don't want
Speaker 1: to do this, I will support you one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: We'll find another way. You know, we don't have that time.
Speaker 1: We don't know that. No, we don't know for certain
Speaker 1: that you couldn't survive here. No, I know it. I
Speaker 1: can feel it in my bones. Are you really okay
Speaker 1: with this? Do you truly understand what you're giving up?
Speaker 1: I've I've made so many mistakes, Thomas. I've had a
Speaker 1: lifetime fault with mistakes. Are you saying no? Oh no, no,
Speaker 1: not you never hear you? You, Jeremy Shelley, Those were
Speaker 1: the best choices I've ever made. But I think I
Speaker 1: was given these gifts. You know, I squandered him and
Speaker 1: no I did yes, And I can never get that
Speaker 1: time back. But you could what I want to do this, Thomas.
Speaker 1: I owe this to my family, to this place, to you,
Speaker 1: to myself to do this. I want to make things right, Okay.
Speaker 1: I want to protect the people that I love, but
Speaker 1: you maybe you've done enough and I could go without you.
Speaker 1: You know, think about it. You're still You're still so young, Thomas,
Speaker 1: and even if you're sick, you could at least spend
Speaker 1: the rest of your life here. I mean, have a
Speaker 1: little joy before you go. My best years there behind me.
Speaker 1: And I could die tomorrow. We have no idea. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you're not dead yet. I mean, even if you are,
Speaker 1: if this world really is rejecting you, then at least
Speaker 1: it'll all be over right. But in the meantime, you
Speaker 1: could you could live another month or a year. I mean,
Speaker 1: we just don't know, no, and I won't let you.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, well, since when have you been able to
Speaker 1: tell me what to do? Please let me do this
Speaker 1: for you. Let me give you the family that I
Speaker 1: spent my life keeping at a distance. I mean, I
Speaker 1: ruined my chance, but you you haven't ruined yours. I
Speaker 1: don't want to do this without you, okay. I mean
Speaker 1: I've been without you for so long. I know, I know,
Speaker 1: but maybe maybe we don't get to be together. No,
Speaker 1: maybe we have been given this beautiful family, but we
Speaker 1: have to you know, we have to take care of
Speaker 1: them at different times in different ways you've been thinking
Speaker 1: about this. I was just trying to find the right
Speaker 1: way to bring it up. I knew that when we
Speaker 1: told Jeremy that I'd have doubt. You deserve to be
Speaker 1: with your son, Thomas. So to you, he's not mine.
Speaker 1: He was once and then I abandoned him. Okay, I
Speaker 1: lost you and I abandoned him. You know you can't
Speaker 1: do the same. I know. No, we're not doing it, Thomas.
Speaker 1: I appreciate what you're trying to do for me. Anne.
Speaker 1: I love you so much for it. But it's all
Speaker 1: a mood point. It needs two souls. Maybe not it
Speaker 1: did when you went in because Alden was already in there. No,
Speaker 1: I would take good care of him, Thomas. I swear
Speaker 1: to you, No, you can't do that. I can't do
Speaker 1: that to him. I made a promise, I know, and
Speaker 1: you will keep that promise. But remember what you said
Speaker 1: to Jeremy that you wanted to buy him time, And
Speaker 1: that's what I am doing. I am buying you time.
Speaker 1: I'll look after Alton while you figure out how to
Speaker 1: help us cross over, and then close the gates for
Speaker 1: good and you can really get to live while you
Speaker 1: still can. Please Thomas, Jeremy, Jeremy. Guys, Peyton, what are
Speaker 1: you doing here? Where's Jeremy? He's out for some air?
Speaker 1: Why they told him they're going into the liminal good?
Speaker 1: That's one problem solved. Well do you know where he went?
Speaker 1: He's not picking up his phone. He just went for
Speaker 1: a walk around the block. His car isn't here. What
Speaker 1: what's going on? What's wrong that friend of his? I
Speaker 1: don't know what her deal is, but she is bad news.
Speaker 1: What do you mean she's the one who's summoned the birds.
Speaker 1: I don't know how she knew the right room or
Speaker 1: why she did it. But if Jeremy is with her
Speaker 1: right now, then we have a big problem. You think
Speaker 1: she'd hurt Jeremy, no offense, but it is not Jeremy.
Speaker 1: I'm worried about. What are you worried about? I think
Speaker 1: whoever that legend tripper is, she's trying to open the
Speaker 1: gate for good. Are we even sure this is where
Speaker 1: he would come? If he's not here yet, he will
Speaker 1: be soon. How do you know? Can't you feel that
Speaker 1: something is unsettled? Yeah? This is all feeling really eerily familiar.
Speaker 1: Jeremy would he wouldn't try to go in himself. Would
Speaker 1: he No, no way, Are you sure? Because I think
Speaker 1: he would do a lot to save Thomas. If he
Speaker 1: goes in, he goes in as long as he's willing.
Speaker 1: Problem solved. No, no, not problem solved. But if he's
Speaker 1: trying to help that woman do something extremely stupid, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think Jeremy would open up our world to chaos.
Speaker 1: Do you agree with your girlfriend that he'd do anything
Speaker 1: to save his dad? Yeah, well then we better hurry live. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I need you to do something for me, Honey. What
Speaker 1: is it? I think, I think whatever is about to happen.
Speaker 1: I have a feeling that this is this is gonna
Speaker 1: be app Okay, this is going to end today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so I need you to tell your mom what
Speaker 1: happened and that I love her, Nanna. I thought we
Speaker 1: were gonna have my time that I could say goodbye.
Speaker 1: You don't have to do this, I do, you know,
Speaker 1: I do. I never should have told my mom about Thomas.
Speaker 1: I thought you were sure that she deserved to know.
Speaker 1: She did it, But she shouldn't have ever met him live,
Speaker 1: because now she's met her dad live. I'm going to
Speaker 1: go in alone. What I've told Thomas to stay. Nana,
Speaker 1: it's okay, it's okay, okay. Just give Ethan a huge
Speaker 1: hug from No Nana. You can't do this. I won't
Speaker 1: let you, all right, Joel. The lake is just ahead.
Speaker 1: We're sure that's where they'll be. I'm not sure about anything,
Speaker 1: but we have to start somewhere. There he is, Jeremy, Jeremy, Dad,
Speaker 1: Get away from him. Dad, what are you doing here?
Speaker 1: I mean it, you step away. She's Louise. Everyone is
Speaker 1: so touchy today. Dad. You shouldn't be here, Jeremy. This
Speaker 1: woman she can't be trusted. She knew that the ruin
Speaker 1: would open the veil. She's been lying to you. I know,
Speaker 1: you know. She's a change link. She's Faye. Wait what
Speaker 1: she's actually called me? Francine. Good to meet you, Jeremy.
Speaker 1: What the hell is going on? Francine and I have
Speaker 1: made a deal, h you just what? Not binding just yet?
Speaker 1: So you know, if you could give us a sesse
Speaker 1: stay back, Jeremy, what did you do? We've had it wrong. Okay,
Speaker 1: people don't have to stay in the liminal. They can
Speaker 1: pass through to the other side. Oh no, what are
Speaker 1: you talking about? She explained everything. The deal was made
Speaker 1: for two souls to pass through, and people have been
Speaker 1: getting lost. They've not been going to the second door. Second,
Speaker 1: there is no second door. Excuse me, there is. Actually
Speaker 1: you don't talk. I know, Dad, I know how to
Speaker 1: find it, and I am going through and I will
Speaker 1: find Alden and we will both go into the Kingdom. Kingdom.
Speaker 1: This is not happening, Dad. You have to let me
Speaker 1: do this. You think this this thing is telling you
Speaker 1: the truth. She's nothing to gain from this. She is
Speaker 1: not lying. Yemmy, come on, you're smarter than this. You
Speaker 1: know the fake can't be trusted. Rude. They have motivations
Speaker 1: that we know nothing about. They're playing this game on
Speaker 1: a different scale. This is not a game, Jeremy. I'm
Speaker 1: going your what me and your dad agreed. He's going
Speaker 1: to stay and I am going to go. I'll take
Speaker 1: care of Alden and if what this woman is saying
Speaker 1: is true, I'll take him through and you stay here
Speaker 1: with your dad and you find a way to make
Speaker 1: him healthy or just enjoy whatever time you have. We
Speaker 1: didn't agree. Oh yeah, that's not going to work for
Speaker 1: me anymore. What well, you've agreed to go, so I
Speaker 1: think we should just stick to that. What do you
Speaker 1: want with my son? You know, if you would just
Speaker 1: let him stay lost the first time, we wouldn't even
Speaker 1: be in this situation. What the hell does that mean?
Speaker 1: Jeremy is of interest to us? Hey, cover me. I'm
Speaker 1: about to do something very stupid. Why is he of
Speaker 1: interest to you? Well, we're flattered that he finds us
Speaker 1: so interesting. Hey, I could find you interesting. Come on, Jeremy,
Speaker 1: you know it should be me. Don't be a martyr.
Speaker 1: Can everyone just stop for a second. If none of
Speaker 1: us are willing, then it won't work and you will
Speaker 1: have to renegotiate the deal. That's not really how it works.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't do that if I were you. You really
Speaker 1: shouldn't be messing around with magic. You don't understand what
Speaker 1: are you doing to him? He was being very sneaky
Speaker 1: carving rooms. Oh fippen, Yeah, you knew that wouldn't work.
Speaker 1: Very valiant, try though, you broke my arm bones heel.
Speaker 1: I thought you said you weren't going to hurt anyone.
Speaker 1: It was self defense. He was trying to banish me.
Speaker 1: Fair enough, Jeremy, Well this has been interesting. Sorry, that
Speaker 1: was a lie. This kind of human drama is so exhausting.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you do it so much, but
Speaker 1: we should get going, Jeremy. You have to let me
Speaker 1: do this. Dad. Did you just watch what she did
Speaker 1: to your best friend and you still want to go
Speaker 1: with her? Bibbin is fine? This is our best option. No,
Speaker 1: it isn't. I'm going alone. No. I promised Alden I
Speaker 1: would get him out. Yeah, and you will. Oh, screw Alden.
Speaker 1: Alden is not your son. I am Jeremy, Jeremy, and
Speaker 1: I know that doesn't mean very much anymore, which is
Speaker 1: why I am doing this. You all clearly don't need me, Jeremy.
Speaker 1: That's not true. This is the best thing I can do.
Speaker 1: This is how I can be most useful. This is
Speaker 1: what I'm good for. No can get off of me. No,
Speaker 1: you're not going, Jeremy. Do you not let me go?
Speaker 1: I will. You'll let me go and keep him down, Okay, Dad? No,
Speaker 1: I love you, Jeremy. No, I love you so much.
Speaker 1: Being your dad is the most important thing in the
Speaker 1: world to me. No, Dad, I will always love you.
Speaker 1: Don is so quaint now, Jeremy. The doorst openness, and
Speaker 1: your dad would never want you to walk through it.
Speaker 1: You know that. But it's not finished. Live, Nana, tell
Speaker 1: the mom and Ethan that I love them. Nana. No,
Speaker 1: it's okay, Live, it's okay. Ethan hug for me. Jeremy,
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. God, damn it, this isn't over. It's done.
Speaker 1: It's done, Jeremy, it can't be. No, I'm sorry. I've
Speaker 1: got you, I've got you. Is that thing gone? I
Speaker 1: think so? She said? Do you think she'll be back?
Speaker 1: The deal is for two souls. She might still be
Speaker 1: able to come over here in that form, but she
Speaker 1: can't do anything more, not now, but eventually. We'll worry
Speaker 1: about that another day. Okay, right, Ben, all the monsters
Speaker 1: might still be out there. We're not done yet. And
Speaker 1: what she do to me? Do you mean she healed
Speaker 1: my wrist? I think it? God, I felt like she
Speaker 1: did something to me. It wasn't myself, wasn't I No, No,
Speaker 1: you weren't. I think I think maybe she was messing
Speaker 1: with your head somehow. You know, I want I really
Speaker 1: wanted to go. I know I didn't mean that that
Speaker 1: stuff what I said. I know, I know that I
Speaker 1: know what it too. You think my dad knew? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he knew. I should I have I wish
Speaker 1: I told him he's God's God. Listen, we should get
Speaker 1: out of the forest. Hello, h Uncle Tommy? Is that?
Speaker 1: Where does uncle Tommy? Where am I holden? Holden? Hey? Lee? Profession?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I wasn't expected to show you again. I
Speaker 1: know this is unexpected, but there's something I need to
Speaker 1: tell you. How did that radio work out for you?
Speaker 1: It worked out well? Really? U really well? Actually, if
Speaker 1: it's hard, I'd like to hang onto it for a
Speaker 1: little while. Of course I've got no use for it anymore.
Speaker 1: Are you hoping to talk to more ghosts? Kind of
Speaker 1: want to lend it to a friend. Actually, she's got
Speaker 1: some stuff happening down in Virginia that she could use
Speaker 1: little little help with. All. The radio is yours? Thanks, y.
Speaker 1: That's not why you're here, though, is it? Now? I
Speaker 1: I brought someone to see you. Oh yeah, it's Thomas
Speaker 1: with you now now. Um Thomas had to uh he
Speaker 1: left Bridgewater. Oh I'm sure to hear that. Yeah, me too,
Speaker 1: but he really wanted to bring someone back to see you. Ah,
Speaker 1: is this your son? No? This is um? Hey? Can
Speaker 1: you can you come a little closer? Lee? Lee? You
Speaker 1: got so Oh what? Really, it's really him Oh. This
Speaker 1: episode of Bridgewater was written by Lauren Shippin and directed
Speaker 1: by Brendan Patrick Hughes Assistant director Sarah Klein. Sound designed
Speaker 1: by Vincent de Johnny Rima Ilkali, Josh Thane, and Trevor Young,
Speaker 1: with music by Chad Lawson. Starring Misha Collins as Jeremy Bradshaw,
Speaker 1: Melissa Ponzio as Anne Becker, Alan Tudik as Thomas Bradshaw,
Speaker 1: Karen Sony as Vipen Krana, Sabra May as Olivia Hoskins,
Speaker 1: Cheryl Umania as Officer Bautista, Will Wheaton as Captain Haddock,
Speaker 1: Risha Helper as the Legend Tripper, Stephen Guarino as Doctor
Speaker 1: Edwards Nandamisu Dembe as Peyton Blake, Hilary Burton Morgan as
Speaker 1: Shelley Hoskins, Nicki McCauley as Celeste Than, Victoria Grace as
Speaker 1: Katie Franks, with additional voice acting by Greta Gould, Shelby Young,
Speaker 1: Adam O'Byrne, Monte, Markham, Charlie Bergman, and Teren Westbrook. Executive
Speaker 1: producers Aaron Manky, Misha Collins, Lauren Shippin, Matt Frederick and
Speaker 1: Alexander Williams, supervising producers Josh Thane and Trevor Young. Bridgewater
Speaker 1: was created by me Aaron Mankey and is a production
Speaker 1: of Grim and Mild and iHeart three D Audio. Learn
Speaker 1: more about the show over at Grimm Andmild dot com,
Speaker 1: slash Bridgewater and find more podcasts from iHeartRadio on the
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Speaker 1: favorite shows, and as always, thanks for listening.