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Speaker 1: we know, the myth of Sasquatch is one that can
Speaker 1: be found in many regions, such as um Well, the
Speaker 1: legend is primarily North American, with the majority of sightings
Speaker 1: occurring in the Pacific Northwest and Canada, but there have
Speaker 1: of course been um reports of sightings in our very
Speaker 1: own Bridgewater Triangle. Most of the descriptions of Sasquatch, or
Speaker 1: Bigfoot as he's sometimes known, describe this unnaturally tall ape
Speaker 1: like creature that's covered in hair and his red eyes.
Speaker 1: Um not red eyes, Nope. UM. Well, I guess I
Speaker 1: don't have to tell you what Bigfoot looks like, because
Speaker 1: we all know what Bigfoot looks like. Um. As for
Speaker 1: um sightings in this region we have, Does anyone know
Speaker 1: of any sightings in the in this region? Anyone? Yeah? Amy? Um, professor,
Speaker 1: did you hear about that missing boy over the weekend? Uh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I did? The missing boy? Yeah yeah, we were all
Speaker 1: talking about it before class. Apparently some kid went missing
Speaker 1: and they think it has to do with cold activity.
Speaker 1: Oh god, no, okay, what if it was another alien
Speaker 1: abduction like that hiker that went missing last week? Guys,
Speaker 1: that hiker. That hiker was found and so was the boy,
Speaker 1: but neither of them remember anything, right, How do you
Speaker 1: all know about this? It's a small town, sure is.
Speaker 1: So do you know anything about the boy? I know
Speaker 1: that he's fine, But that's like the fourth person to
Speaker 1: go missing and free town for us this year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: while people get lost in the woods. So yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: are we safe here? Come on, guys, you don't actually
Speaker 1: believe any of this stuff. You have to admit that
Speaker 1: there's some genuine questions to ask. Yeah, but this is
Speaker 1: what we've been talking about in class all semester. It's
Speaker 1: all just lower and rumor exactly. Let's get this back
Speaker 1: on task everyone. Come on, why don't multiple people report
Speaker 1: the same thing because internal life? Well, that was a
Speaker 1: dis esther. No, it wasn't that bad. Oh, it absolutely was.
Speaker 1: Thank you for covering for me, by the way. Oh,
Speaker 1: I didn't have to do a lot. They seem to
Speaker 1: have plenty to talk about. Oh god, hey, are you okay, professor? No, No,
Speaker 1: I'm absolutely not. Okay. What about you? How you doing.
Speaker 1: How's your head? And okay, um, I was gonna tell
Speaker 1: you Olivia brought me some soup yesterday homemade. Wow, that's
Speaker 1: so sweet. Yeah, yeah, it was really sweet. I mean
Speaker 1: having her be nice to me because I got attacked
Speaker 1: by an owl is how do I put it? Deeply humiliating,
Speaker 1: but hey, I'll take it, especially with everything that happened
Speaker 1: with her brother this weekend. Kind of amazed she even
Speaker 1: thought of me, you know, oh, speaking of how so
Speaker 1: wait are you too? Oh? I don't know. I hope,
Speaker 1: but I don't. I don't know. Um, it's been a
Speaker 1: weird couple of weeks, you know, uh, not counting on anything, right,
Speaker 1: But she's actually really really sweet and as smart and
Speaker 1: sharp and witty as as I thought. And yeah, you
Speaker 1: know she's a she's a queen. Yeah yeah, she's a
Speaker 1: Oh god what hip and she's my niece. Jeremy what
Speaker 1: what what do you? What are you? What are you
Speaker 1: talking about? Yeah? Katie? Hi, Mr Bradshaw, Professor, call me Jeremy, Jeremy, Ah,
Speaker 1: this is my my teaching assistant, whipping Corona. Hi, Kitty
Speaker 1: Frank's um professor. Can we discuss what we were just
Speaker 1: talking about? Katie, you want to come in and have
Speaker 1: a seat. I'm sorry to just drop in like this.
Speaker 1: That's okay, you don't okay after last night? God was
Speaker 1: not just last night. No, actually it was the night
Speaker 1: before last, right, Christ It feels like it's been a
Speaker 1: week and you got attacked this weekend, didn't you. How
Speaker 1: do you know about that? It's a small town and
Speaker 1: we're travel's double speed when it's something to do with
Speaker 1: the triangle. Great, I'm so glad everyone knows an owl
Speaker 1: beat me up. That's really the cherry on top of
Speaker 1: the concussion. It wasn't an owl. What There are things
Speaker 1: in that swamp, all sorts of things. Oh Jesus, I'm sorry, Katie,
Speaker 1: but we're really not interested in hearing any more of
Speaker 1: these crazy theories. Can you? Can you just tell me? What? What?
Speaker 1: What do you need? What are you doing here? I
Speaker 1: got spooked the other night. Yeah, so let's tell me.
Speaker 1: She was very gracious about it, far more than she
Speaker 1: had to be, especially considering, yeah, considering what I've been
Speaker 1: pushing her to include me in all the gatherings activities
Speaker 1: you mean, the secret midnight meetings. Yes, that's why Daniel
Speaker 1: and I went on that hike in the first place.
Speaker 1: I go on that hike every single Sunday afternoon to
Speaker 1: look at that pyramid rock and tried to decipher the symbols.
Speaker 1: Because celest won't tell you what exactly did they do
Speaker 1: with these midnight meetings. They commune right, my spirits exactly,
Speaker 1: And you want to participate in this. I want. I
Speaker 1: just want to give my mother peace. She died painfully.
Speaker 1: It was long and horrible, and she's still here. I
Speaker 1: know she is restless and angry, and I don't I
Speaker 1: don't want that for her. She never would have wanted
Speaker 1: to be a dark cloud over the world. She would
Speaker 1: have wanted to move on. I want to help her
Speaker 1: move on. And Celeste told you that she can do that. No,
Speaker 1: of course not. It's it doesn't work like that. I
Speaker 1: know what you're thinking. Maria thinks the same thing, even
Speaker 1: if you won't say it outright. You think that Celeste
Speaker 1: is a Charlatan praying on the vulnerable. Yeah, that's exactly
Speaker 1: what I think. That's just the case with most psychics
Speaker 1: and mediums, that they cold read someone just enough to
Speaker 1: convince them of their abilities, make themselves so necessary that
Speaker 1: someone will pay over and over again. It's simple psychology. Really,
Speaker 1: it's toxic and effective. Celeste isn't a psychic. She's not
Speaker 1: a witch or or anything else you're thinking of. She's
Speaker 1: just a woman who understands this place. No offense, Katie,
Speaker 1: But I understand this place. It actually might be the
Speaker 1: only thing I do understand. I have spent my entire
Speaker 1: life here, in the better part of a decade, studying it,
Speaker 1: and I can tell you it is a It is
Speaker 1: a unique place. To be sure, it's got an dreamly
Speaker 1: high concentration of sightings and claims of encounters, but that
Speaker 1: has to do with the history of the region and
Speaker 1: with self perpetuating myth. There is nothing that's actually paranormal
Speaker 1: going on here. Okay have you ever thought about leaving?
Speaker 1: You've been here your whole life, haven't you. I am
Speaker 1: a folklore professor. There is literally no better place to be. Mhm, Celeste,
Speaker 1: what have something different to say about why you're still here? Uh? Katie?
Speaker 1: Why did you get spooked? What happened? The forest is
Speaker 1: coming alive. The spirits are restless and dangerous. I think
Speaker 1: that's what attacked you the other day, avengeful spirit, not
Speaker 1: a giant black dog. I don't believe in monsters, all
Speaker 1: the big foots, the snakes, the puckwag. I agree with you,
Speaker 1: it's all nonsense, the errors of human perception. But spirits,
Speaker 1: you believe there our worlds beyond this one. I'm sure
Speaker 1: about that. And the veil between it's starting to be
Speaker 1: ripped open. That's why all of this is happening. Now,
Speaker 1: that's what Celeste says. She hasn't come right out and
Speaker 1: said it, but yes, that's what the gathering believes. Celeste
Speaker 1: is trying to keep things quiet, keep the peace. Wait,
Speaker 1: there's in fighting. Some of our members want to help
Speaker 1: open the veil, let all the spirits out. That's what
Speaker 1: the children of Tischiba were trying to do, open the
Speaker 1: gates of hell. It isn't hell. It's not that binary, Katie,
Speaker 1: Why are you here? It's Celest She's doing ritual tonight
Speaker 1: at the ledge. What kind of ritual? She's going to
Speaker 1: try to fix the terar? But I thought you said
Speaker 1: she wasn't a witch. She's not, but she I think
Speaker 1: something happened years ago. She blames herself for all the troubles.
Speaker 1: Now she thinks she's the only one who can fix it.
Speaker 1: What what does that have to do with us? You
Speaker 1: and the officer beck Are you're the only ones I
Speaker 1: trust to help her. If you know where she is.
Speaker 1: Why don't you just go and you stop her? Okay? No,
Speaker 1: I don't want to stop her. I just I'm scared, Okay.
Speaker 1: So Lesta is right, I'm not ready. I'm not ready
Speaker 1: to confront any spirits little and my mother's and I
Speaker 1: don't know what's going to happen tonight. So you want
Speaker 1: us to to protect her? Just you an officer Becker,
Speaker 1: you're the only ones Katie. Last time I checked, your
Speaker 1: girlfriend is an actual police officer. I think she'd be
Speaker 1: pretty capable of protecting Celeste from imaginary spirits. Why don't
Speaker 1: you talk to her? I don't want to put Maria
Speaker 1: in the middle of this, okay, But me and Anne,
Speaker 1: you'd be happy to put us in the middle of it,
Speaker 1: put us in the land of fire. I don't want
Speaker 1: to see Celesque get arrested. Okay. So you're expecting her
Speaker 1: to break the law of that? Please just go to
Speaker 1: the ledge tonight, help her. Well, it could be an
Speaker 1: interesting prologue for the book you have to bring Anne.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking to her, right now I don't care
Speaker 1: and the Woods won't. Either you and Anne have to
Speaker 1: go together or something something terrible is going to happen.
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Speaker 1: l P dot com slash Bridgewater. Jeremy, I wanted to say,
Speaker 1: let's not talk, okay, but please, Jeremy. Look, I only
Speaker 1: asked you to come with me because I think Celeste
Speaker 1: will only talk to both of us. We are not friends, okay,
Speaker 1: and we're not back on a case together. I just
Speaker 1: needed you today. That's it, got it? What was that?
Speaker 1: I don't know, probably a dog or something, or a wolf.
Speaker 1: I don't know a wolf. There is wildlife out here, Anne, Jeremy,
Speaker 1: let's just keep moving. The thing is, no, never mind,
Speaker 1: it's just what I don't understand is okay, let's just
Speaker 1: focus on what we're doing here. So that's fine with me.
Speaker 1: And what are we doing here? While a woman in
Speaker 1: a cult told me that she was worried about her
Speaker 1: spiritual leader and that we were the only ones that
Speaker 1: could help her, and you thought that sounded like a
Speaker 1: great idea. No, I don't know, An, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing because two
Speaker 1: weeks ago I didn't have anything of my father and
Speaker 1: now now I have his badge and an entire family
Speaker 1: that I didn't know about. But blood doesn't make family. Jareman,
Speaker 1: trust me? Trust you? Trust you? How dare you talk
Speaker 1: to me about family when you destroyed mine? Okay, it
Speaker 1: wasn't my fault that your parents marriage fell apart. I
Speaker 1: would stop talking if I were you. Your father made
Speaker 1: the exact same choices that I did. No, he didn't
Speaker 1: because he went out there alone and you just let
Speaker 1: him go out there alone. Oh my god, don't you
Speaker 1: think I know that? You think that that hasn't haunted
Speaker 1: me for forty years. This is exactly why no one
Speaker 1: wants anything to do with me. I've spent my whole
Speaker 1: life trying to find out what happened, and because of that,
Speaker 1: I couldn't have my family. You know, I would have
Speaker 1: done anything, anything to have Thomas back, but I couldn't
Speaker 1: even have that either. But you could have had me.
Speaker 1: You're not You're not the only person that lost someone
Speaker 1: In me and my mother, nothing was ever the same,
Speaker 1: and I never knew why, and now I know why.
Speaker 1: But we could have had each other, you and me.
Speaker 1: There's so many things I'm mad about and there's so
Speaker 1: many but that's like we could have had each other. Jeremy,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm so sorry. No, Jeremy, just let me get
Speaker 1: this out and behind you? Oh my god? What I
Speaker 1: come on? And wait? We have to follow them and
Speaker 1: we can't just know these are the same lights that
Speaker 1: Ethan saw. Yes, no, we have to find where they lead.
Speaker 1: Where did they go? Are we even sure that we
Speaker 1: saw those? Okay? Okay, okay, the ledge. Let's just get
Speaker 1: to the ledge. Wait do you hear that? Jeremy, be careful,
Speaker 1: it sounds like celest No, we don't know that there
Speaker 1: are no ghosts in here. Okay, and Jeremy, thank you
Speaker 1: for coming. You were expecting us. Of course you were invited.
Speaker 1: Oh right, of course, Katie manipulated me and you are
Speaker 1: not in trouble. You lured us here. Great, it's important
Speaker 1: that you be here for this. And what is this?
Speaker 1: The truth? Finally, the truth? Did you see the lights? Yes?
Speaker 1: I saw something. They led you here, didn't they? Can
Speaker 1: you just stop being cryptic and tell us what the
Speaker 1: hell is going on? It's happening again? What's happening again.
Speaker 1: You remember Anne, Forty years ago the veil between worlds opened,
Speaker 1: leaving us vulnerable to all sorts of creatures. Radshaw's right
Speaker 1: cut the craps of us. We were trying to protect
Speaker 1: the world, that's all we were doing. Who the gathering.
Speaker 1: We had nothing to do with the missing girl or
Speaker 1: the boy who went missing over the weekend. That boy
Speaker 1: was my grandson, and I am so glad that he
Speaker 1: is all right, that we were able to save him.
Speaker 1: There are dangerous forces at work, and you want us
Speaker 1: for what for some kind of ritual to close this
Speaker 1: imaginary door. No, you won't be able to assist. This
Speaker 1: is something I have to do alone. But I wanted
Speaker 1: you here as witness and to tell you the truth. Well,
Speaker 1: guess what. We are no longer interested in your ghost story. Okay,
Speaker 1: this isn't a ghost story. It's about your father. I
Speaker 1: left the badge what you It has been in my
Speaker 1: possession for forty years. When the trouble began earlier this year,
Speaker 1: I knew the veil was opening again. What trouble a
Speaker 1: higher number of sightings of disappearance as a general unrest
Speaker 1: here in the forest and in the swamp. We could
Speaker 1: feel it all of us, But I am the sole
Speaker 1: member who was here back then, all those years ago,
Speaker 1: I was able to recognize it for what it is.
Speaker 1: What does this have anything to do with Thomas? I
Speaker 1: wanted to place the piece of him that remained in
Speaker 1: this plane back where it belonged. Why did you have
Speaker 1: my father's badge? If you're making this up, I promise you, Jeremy,
Speaker 1: I am not. Why did you have it in the
Speaker 1: first place? Because I was there the night he plummeted
Speaker 1: to the ground from this ledge. He was come here
Speaker 1: closer to the edge, and do not fear me, Jeremy,
Speaker 1: You are not in danger here. That's rather the whole point.
Speaker 1: Forty years ago, I was standing on this ledge with
Speaker 1: members of the gathering, or at least that's who I
Speaker 1: thought they were. I was a young member then, still
Speaker 1: so excited to have an outlet for the connection I
Speaker 1: had always felt to this place. I was honored to
Speaker 1: have been invited to such a central ceremony. We were
Speaker 1: performing a ritual, trying to communicate with the dead. Beloved spirits,
Speaker 1: please move among us and speak through us. We welcome
Speaker 1: you with open minds and hearts. Had all started normally enough.
Speaker 1: But I should have known, by the leader's choice of
Speaker 1: words English as his vessel no less, that I was
Speaker 1: not among the pupil I had grown to love and trust.
Speaker 1: We called to you, spirits of the deep, great and powerful.
Speaker 1: It was the children of Titchiba trying to open the
Speaker 1: gates to the underworld, defiling everything that I and the
Speaker 1: gathering stood for. And it was beginning to work. They've
Speaker 1: been trying for months. The doors were left ajar, and
Speaker 1: a final, ultimate sacrifice was needed to swing the gates open.
Speaker 1: Did you hear that the spirits are here? Hear us, spirits?
Speaker 1: We prostrate ourselves before you. One of the members was
Speaker 1: prepared to throw themselves off the ledge. The blood sacrifice,
Speaker 1: the final key, the final lock on the door to
Speaker 1: the other world. Once I realized what was happening, I
Speaker 1: tried to stop it. Wait, no, you can't. You don't understand.
Speaker 1: This is powerful magic. You're dealing with spirits. We call
Speaker 1: to you stop shut her up the underworld. There were
Speaker 1: too many of them that believed. They thought I would agree,
Speaker 1: simply because I wanted to find a portal. But they
Speaker 1: were getting so close. The gates were opening. The lake
Speaker 1: was shimmering a portal forming above it, but we were interrupted.
Speaker 1: Step police, keep going, We call to you, spirits, stay
Speaker 1: right there. Thomas found us. The lights had lured him
Speaker 1: to the ledge, just like they brought you here tonight.
Speaker 1: And then, spirits, we call to you. Open the gates.
Speaker 1: Stop right now. He saw what one of the members
Speaker 1: was about to do, and he wanted to stop it. No,
Speaker 1: you don't have to do this. I will live in
Speaker 1: glory forever. Open the gates. Let your power pour out.
Speaker 1: There were too many of them, too strong and determined.
Speaker 1: He was just trying to stop someone from making the
Speaker 1: ultimate sacrifice. And instead we looked for his body for
Speaker 1: hours until the sun rose, but we never found it.
Speaker 1: But his badge was down there along the shore. He
Speaker 1: fell off this ledge. It was an accident, a horrible,
Speaker 1: horrible accident. No, no, no, it was fucking murder. He
Speaker 1: made the ultimate sacrifice, fell into the lake, into the
Speaker 1: portal that we had half opened. No, he didn't fall
Speaker 1: into a fucking portal. He fell to his death, and
Speaker 1: you never reported it, and you lied to the police.
Speaker 1: You lied to me. I needed to protect our work.
Speaker 1: The children of Titchapa were close. They were wrong, but
Speaker 1: they were close, knowing that the portal could be open,
Speaker 1: that proper communication between worlds could be established. It was
Speaker 1: too important, bigger than any single death. So, because you
Speaker 1: believe that the Bridgewater Triangle is some kind of fucking
Speaker 1: gate to the other world, you let a good man's
Speaker 1: murder go unsolved for forty years. For forty years, I
Speaker 1: didn't know what happened to my father. He wasn't murdered.
Speaker 1: Why leave the badge in the forest at all after
Speaker 1: all this time? Why because things need to be done,
Speaker 1: and I didn't want to leave before, being fully honest,
Speaker 1: And there's a chance now, there's a chance for him
Speaker 1: to find peace. What are you talking about? If his
Speaker 1: spirit had something to anchor to. When the portal is
Speaker 1: open again, which it will be soon, he'll be set
Speaker 1: free from the trap that he's been in. He hasn't
Speaker 1: been in a trap. He's been dead all this fucking time.
Speaker 1: He's been dead, jeer, And how are you not furious
Speaker 1: right now? After all of this, This is the answer.
Speaker 1: He's really gone. I've been trying to get him back,
Speaker 1: I promise you. But he's messages. I mean, he's been
Speaker 1: leaving me messages. Yes, the veil ist thin. There are echoes. No, no,
Speaker 1: that's not just the echo. He's not he's not. I mean,
Speaker 1: he can't be gone. He can't and it is over. No,
Speaker 1: I'm so so sorry. You don't get to be sorry.
Speaker 1: You and your group are responsible. He was just doing
Speaker 1: his job. Okay, try and understand. And because you refused
Speaker 1: to tell us the truth about what you were doing,
Speaker 1: it wasn't me. I didn't even know the truth of
Speaker 1: what was possible. Not then the truth. They weren't doing anything,
Speaker 1: and now you're not doing anything. The truth won't wait
Speaker 1: for you to believe it. Jeremy, it's happening again. The
Speaker 1: children of Titchyba were wrong. They weren't controlling if they
Speaker 1: were drawing the dark spirits out. But the portal, the
Speaker 1: portal wants to be open, The veil wants to be lifted.
Speaker 1: It's happening. It's Jeremy, and it's okay. Just just get
Speaker 1: back to the tree line, hold on to something. The
Speaker 1: storm will pass. He's right, This storm will pass. Things
Speaker 1: will be set to right. I am sorry about your father.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry you made an unwilling sacrifice. It was for
Speaker 1: not then, but it won't be now. What are you
Speaker 1: talking about the Hordle still needs blood to open, willing blood.
Speaker 1: Then everything will be in balance. It will all be
Speaker 1: a tune. Celeste, Celeste, Celeste will be failing and and
Speaker 1: I'm okay will oh Jesus, Celeste. She jumped, she jumped?
Speaker 1: Oh god she oh? Is she so last? Celeste? And
Speaker 1: can you see anything? No? No, it's this fog. Where
Speaker 1: did it come from? Who's there? Wait? Celeste? Where? Hello? No? Oh?
Speaker 1: I can't be Oh my god, Oh my god, am
Speaker 1: I really here? Is it? And is it you? Jeremy Dad?
Speaker 1: Bridgewater was created by Aaron Manky and written and directed
Speaker 1: by Lauren Shippen, with executive producers Aaron Manky, Misha Collins,
Speaker 1: Matt Frederick and Alex Williams, supervising producer Trevor Young, editing
Speaker 1: and sound designed by Trevor Young and Matt Stillo, and
Speaker 1: music by Chad Lawson, Starring Misha Collins as Jeremy Bradshaw,
Speaker 1: Melissa Ponzio as Anne Becker, Karen Sony as Vipen Corona,
Speaker 1: Laurie Allen as Nancy Collins, Cheryl Umania as Officer Bautista,
Speaker 1: Victoria Grace as Katie Frank's Will Wheaton as Captain Haddock,
Speaker 1: Hillary Burton Morgan as Shelley Hoskins, Jonathan Joss as Joseph Hoskins,
Speaker 1: Sabra May as Olivia Hoskins, Samuel Marty as Ethan Hoskins,
Speaker 1: Kristin Bauer as Celeste, and Nathan Fillion as Thomas Bradshaw,
Speaker 1: with additional voice acting by Brigand Snow, Andrew Nowak, Juliet Moritz, Alwa,
Speaker 1: Jarvis Johnson and Brielle Bresnan, Kristen de Mecurio, James Oliva,
Speaker 1: and Leron Amil. Learn more about the show over at
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