WEBVTT - 3 | Death in a Small Town 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:01.800 iHeart three d A. 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:06.400 For full exposure, listen with thatphones. 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:11.880 Havoctown is a production of iHeart Podcasts and Grim and 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:16.360 Mild from Aaron Mankey Headphones recommended. Listener discretion advised. 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:30.000 There's a vile sickness in Abbesstown. You must excite it, 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:36.320 dig into the deep earth, and cut it out by 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:40.600 any means necessary. And if you see the devil walking 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:43.600 around in sight of another man, be an enemy of 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:46.520 your very own brother. If you see the blood pour 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:49.440 forth from his flesh, you must cut out the very 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:54.760 heart of him, burn his body, and scatter the ashes 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:58.080 in the furthest corner of this town as a warning. 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:49.120 Jonathan Uh, my father. I've been to a lot of 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:56.320 these for my grandfather, Bill Abbas, my grandmother Dottie a 0:01:56.320 --> 0:02:05.920 couple of years later, my mom too young. I've been 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:09.799 a funerals for a lot of your families too. It's 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:13.840 a small town. That's God, it's good and it's bad. 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:20.440 And all of us, all the grieving ones, the ones 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:25.800 left behind, we all say the same thing. Right. He 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:31.079 was a complicated man, because how else do you sum 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:35.200 up a person's life? Now, he lived here, His entire 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:40.240 life was born a County General. Went to school at 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:46.160 Havoc Elementary and later Robert Frost High Go you Blue Devils. 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:52.760 He didn't go to college, and a lot of us didn't. 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.440 A lot of us stayed on at home after high school, 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:58.680 got jobs at the mill or with the police department, 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:04.720 raised families. That was Dad too. Met mom right out 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:08.840 of high school, fell in love, made a few mistakes together, 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:13.720 and boom took over Grandpa's bar, made it his own. 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:19.480 He was a good dad. Not too harsh, No, maybe 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:23.680 not harsh enough. He always said he was proud of 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:30.679 me mm pushed me to be my best, but never 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:35.000 made me feel less than if I failed. Only only 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:37.800 time I think I ever saw him disappointed in me 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:43.640 was when I left college after a couple of semesters 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:47.520 to help out at home. You know, my mom was sick. 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:51.880 He wasn't disappointed that I came home so much, but 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:57.440 I think he knew that I wasn't going back, and 0:03:57.480 --> 0:04:04.080 I think I think that broke his heart, because he 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:09.280 knew that I'd probably stay here in this place where 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:15.360 we sometimes aren't just people who live here now, because 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:19.599 they'd be thinking about the past, about who our family was, 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:24.400 not who we are who we can be. And of 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:27.840 course a lot of this is conjecture. He wasn't much 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:33.360 of a talker, I'm sure you know, but you still 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:41.600 knew where you stood somehow. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, okay. 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:46.239 Jim Avis was a good man. He was my dad. 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:53.680 He loved the people, He loved fiercely. He got all 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:59.960 of you drunk. There's no such thing as a curse. 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:06.119 Come out to Dottie's after we'll drink to that first 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:21.719 rounds on the house. Obviously, I'm not a public speaker, 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:25.520 and I hate it. But more than that, I hate 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:30.159 a bit after the service. The line, the line, always 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:34.200 the damn receiving line, people you barely know, offering their condolences, 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:39.039 bar our patrons, strangely sober in daylight, blinking their eyes 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:43.120 to adjust the occasional surprise he. 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:43.720 Laid me out. 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:47.400 Was you know, I've heard the story, never even saw 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:47.839 it coming. 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:50.279 Your father wasn't what you call it bluesy. 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:52.880 You know, he was a sweetheart. O. 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:56.360 You just don't want to cross it deserves it. 0:05:56.400 --> 0:06:00.839 Probably that was a prodigious drinker back then. See anyways, 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:04.520 I'll see you at the bobbin. Thanks for coming, mister Stavino. 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:06.920 Thank you're old enough to call me Tom now. 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:10.160 Now, Tom, you're holding up the. 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:14.600 Line, all right, that Bob, you uh get my regards 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:16.080 to Jimbo while he's hailing up. 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:20.040 We'll do. How is Jimbo barb you know. 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:23.680 Ornerie as hell? Yeah, he's been snippy with me, which 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:27.159 isn't like him, but we can talk about him later. 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:31.960 I'm so sorry about Johnny. You know, we used to 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:33.600 work together at the bar when we were just out 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:37.719 of school. Jimbo told me I had such a crush, 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:41.039 but he only had eyes for your mom. Of course, 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:44.080 then Jimbo came along brash. 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:46.880 We'll please send my love. Tell him first round is 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.160 on me when he gets back on his feet. Oh 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:50.839 my love, dear, Thanks Bob. 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:54.800 Hey, Hi holding up? 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:59.040 No, Sylvia, I need a drink. But this line seems 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:04.039 to keep getting longer. Easy, All right, burners, it's time 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:04.640 to wrap it up. 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:07.280 We're gonna go get pissed in Johnny's memory. 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:07.840 All right. 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:11.800 You can give her in your condolences while she's got 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:12.800 a drink in her hand. 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:18.560 Let's move, Thank you, ride or die hun. 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:25.840 You know he happened to be walking by when I 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.920 got a flat tire. He fixed it for me, but 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:31.320 you never heard such swearing. 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:33.880 Just laid me out on the floor right over there. 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:36.320 Didn't know what hit me, just sort of came to 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:38.800 covering in bers, running by my buddies. 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:41.160 And just started laughing his ass off. 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:44.559 You heard him laugh, right. He didn't do it often, 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:46.360 but the man cackled like a hyaena. 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:51.200 It was endearing, you know. This was what kept Dad 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:55.000 going through the hard gears. This was a good and 0:07:55.160 --> 0:08:00.160 proper sent off friend or foe. Everyone was welcome at Dottie's, 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:03.600 even the man who very timidly poked his head in 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:09.360 at this moment. Brother Ken, our towns eminent scholar on 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:13.520 sin and the wages thereof. Nobody was sure where he 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:17.480 came from. Nobody was sure where he went each night 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:22.200 after packing up his cardboard signs covered in prophecies and scripture. 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:25.840 But he always managed to be clean cut, and his 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:29.120 khakis and navy's sport coat were always clean, even if 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:33.920 a little threadbare in places. He was crazy, of course, 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:36.679 you'd have to be to stand on a street corner 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:39.200 and preached to deaf ears for so many years. But 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:44.520 he was dedicated. Ken had never walked into this bar 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:48.520 until this moment, and it's like it burned his lungs 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:51.559 to breathe the air. But he stood up straight when 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:55.960 he saw me and marched bravely across the bar, ignoring 0:08:56.000 --> 0:09:01.040 the quiet chuckles and leering eyes that followed him. Hello, Ken, 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:04.160 to what do I owe this honor? 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:05.679 Uh? 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:11.360 Your father? I wanted to pay my respects. Despite his vocation, 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:15.240 I believe that he was a decent man. He was 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:19.880 always very kind. He gave regularly so that I could 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:21.920 keep up the services for my parishioners. 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:25.520 Who are your parishioners. Thus, poor people walking by on 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:29.160 the street. Quiet, Tom, go on, ken. 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:32.520 He was very kind and very generous. 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:36.200 Hum I didn't know that he donated. 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:40.360 Well, that's the mark of a godly man. And when 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.600 you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, for 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:45.840 they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:50.160 at the street corners that they may be seen by others. Truly, 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:53.960 I say to you, they have received their reward. But 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:56.880 when you pray, go into your room and shut the 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.760 door and pray to your father who is in secret, 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:04.000 And your father, who sees in secret, will reward you. 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:07.960 That's Matthew he was good. I can see that he 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:11.280 instilled that in you. I was hoping that you would 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:12.440 allow me to lead a prayer. 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:19.720 Ah. Well, Dad wasn't religious, but you know, given the circumstances, 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:21.960 I think he'd happily accept that. 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:27.320 It is into your hands, Oh Lord, that we humbly 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:31.360 entrust our brother Jonathan Abbys in this life. You embraced 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:35.040 him with your tender love. Deliver him now from every 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:41.000 worldly evil and bid him eternal rest. The old order 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:45.680 has passed away. Welcome him into paradise where there will 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:46.640 be no sorrow. 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:55.720 Jimbo, Oh my god, Jim, Hey, are you okay? You're bleeding. 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:58.880 I didn't want to miss it. 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:03.480 Barbes said, yeah, I know what she said. Jimbo, your 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:07.120 eyes it's nothing now. I think you should go to 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:09.600 the hospital. Jim, Jim, your eyes are bleeding. 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:11.280 What are you looking at? 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:11.680 Ken? 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:13.040 What's he saying? 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:14.560 What are you saying? 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:18.440 Against itself? Is brought to desolation? 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:19.720 What the hell are you on about? 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:22.760 If Satan also be divided against himself? 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:24.800 How shall his kingdom stand? 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:25.520 Shut him up? 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:28.920 Because you say that I cast out devils through beels above, 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:33.360 and if I by beels above cast out devil's hair shut. 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:36.079 Therefore shall they be your judges. 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:41.520 Suddenly Jimbo was hands in his hair, screaming and slamming 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:44.080 his head on the counter. Ken managed to get up 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:46.640 and swing, but jim tackled him to the ground and 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:50.520 sunk to his teeth, right into Kim's shoulders. 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:56.720 She does not with me, it's against me. 0:11:57.280 --> 0:11:58.480 She that gathered not with. 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:10.920 Damn called the cops. 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:20.320 It was horrible, all of it. The blood was everywhere. 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:26.120 Jimbo Horn, a gentleman, raving and screaming as friends pulled 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:29.680 him from a battered Brother Ken, who continued screaming Bible 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:33.200 verses in his shrill, terrified voice. 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:35.600 But if I, with the finger of God cast out 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:38.320 the devils, no doubt the Kingdom of God has come 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:38.800 upon you. 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:42.960 By the time the authorities that arrived, both had been subdued. 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:45.800 Brother Ken had a nasty bite mark on his shoulder 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:55.120 and a broken nose. Jimbo was bleeding from everywhere, his eyes, nose, mouth. 0:12:55.320 --> 0:13:01.160 He was sweating it, just like Raymond Bachman had before him. 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:07.160 But what struck me was the eyes. Brother Ken's fearful 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:11.080 turned upward, looking for help from the Almighty to pull 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:18.880 him through Jimbo's wild, almost feral, murderous Jimbo Horn who 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:22.839 in decades on the force only discharged his firearm once 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:28.839 to save my life. A good gentleman, that's the word 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:34.920 anyone would have used. Gentle now suddenly a slavering beast. 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:39.959 They were taken to the hospital, Jimbo and handcuffs. Of 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:43.880 the officers were apologetic about it. He'd trained them both. 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:52.400 I'd called Barb to break the news. Hello, Barbs, it's Corinne. 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:59.760 Oh yes, actually, what did you do? 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:02.240 Is it kill somebody? 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:05.600 Listen? It's best that you let the guys tell you 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:06.319 the details. 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:10.080 Did he kill someone? 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:10.880 No? 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:12.160 Oh, thank god? 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:21.960 Did you think he would farm? 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:25.640 I'm so sorry. It's okay, I say old days for 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:28.080 you to listen to me. Blubber is not. 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:30.400 What happened. 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:34.320 He came home from the hospital the other day and 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:37.480 it's just well, he's he's not man himself. 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:41.760 It's it's like he's been possessed. In forty years of marriage, 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:44.840 he's never once raised his voice with me, and suddenly 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:49.520 he's screaming about everything. He's mad that I'm keeping him 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:53.360 in bed, But Krinny, he's had this fever and I 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:58.600 keep having to change the bedsheets because well they're red. 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:03.440 And then and this afternoon, I get back from your 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:06.000 father's service and Jim's taking a nap and I'm in 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:10.840 the kitchen when I hear this, I don't know, this scream, 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:16.040 like like a baby screaming, but somehow worse. And I 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:18.640 come up the stairs and he's sitting in the corner, 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:24.240 faced away from me, hunched over something. And when I 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:26.880 ask him what the hell happened, he. 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:30.120 Turns to me with this. 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:37.440 It was a snarl, crim like like a junk yard dog, and. 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:44.520 Arm what is it? 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:50.880 He's got the cat in his hands, and it's. 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:56.520 That he he killed the cat. 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:00.400 I didn't know what to do. I I should have 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:04.040 run off or called somebody, his doctor, the chief, anybody, 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:06.600 but I couldn't wrap my head around what was happening. 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:11.720 So I just said, Jim, did you kill the cat? 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:20.440 And what did he say? He shrugged, He shrugged. 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:25.520 And dropped it on the carpet like I used towel, 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:29.520 And he said he was going out for a drink 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:37.000 and he left, Karen, his eyes were all bugged out 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:37.840 and bloody. 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:40.880 Wait the cats or jimbows. 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:48.160 Jimbows, of course, Sampson. I mean, he was a good cat. 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:53.200 He didn't deserve to be mingled. He loved Jim, he did. 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:58.640 They were best friends. Sampson used to crawl into bed 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:00.960 at night and crawl up the side jim shoulder, right 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:03.640 in the curve of his neck. He flits there all 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:05.760 night long, only getting up when Jim did. 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:11.919 I'm so sorry, Barb. I think you should go to 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:15.239 the hospital. Okay, maybe you can tell the doctors all 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:19.399 the details. It's not like Jim, of course. 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:26.119 I'm just so scared, Barb. 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:33.600 If you need any Barb, Barb. I'd come straight home 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:39.200 to shower after everything, and to sit shell shocked by 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:43.760 the violence and loss over the last few days. I 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:46.239 barely had time to recover from one thing before the 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:50.399 next barrel through. I'd barely had time to process my 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:54.359 father's death. I'd spend so much time on his arrangements. 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:59.280 I hadn't had time to grieve, to start to sift 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:06.320 through the pieces, to process his last days. His last words. 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:15.600 Black wood black would box. 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:22.399 Shit. I hadn't thought of them since he died a 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:26.280 few days previous. It must have been important if it 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:30.760 was the last thing he'd said. Dad was never a 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:35.200 man of many words. He was careful with them, used 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:41.080 them sparingly, even occasionally to the detriment of our relationship. 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:45.639 He said, I love you, and that stood in for 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:49.680 a lot. We didn't talk about Mom much after she died. 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:54.439 We didn't talk about feelings. We didn't talk about his 0:18:54.560 --> 0:19:00.600 shortcomings or mine. So using up his last breath on 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:05.239 these instructions, and of course my middle name must have 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:10.199 some weight. He certainly didn't talk about the box that 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:14.600 I found on the top shelf of his closet. He 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:18.679 really buried the lead on that one. What in the 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:25.119 hell a black wooden box with an old iron clasp, 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:30.000 I mean antique the size of a bread box across 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:34.879 and lay it on the lid. I was not prepared 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:40.760 for what I found inside? What coming? 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:42.880 What the hell? 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:44.760 What the hell? 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:50.480 Hey, buddy, Sylvie, And look who I found pacing in 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:51.320 front of your house. 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:56.919 Hi. Hi, It's Murray. 0:19:57.760 --> 0:19:58.840 I was your father's nurse. 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:03.840 Oh yeah, I'm sorry. The last few days have been 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:06.160 a little bit of a whirlwind. 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:11.240 I'd imagine. I'm incredibly sorry for your loss, and I 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:12.040 am sorry. 0:20:11.800 --> 0:20:12.680 To show up uninvited. 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:15.640 I just seen that you were you were the only 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:17.520 one who came to visit your father in the hospital, 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:19.520 and I don't know. 0:20:19.480 --> 0:20:20.080 This was silly. 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:23.480 No, no, no, it's not. You thought I was alone. 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:27.040 A lot of assumption on my part. What was kind 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:33.680 of you? Come in? I rap bourbon, excellent, we'll get 0:20:33.680 --> 0:20:36.119 the glasses. Oh, none for me. 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:38.480 Thanks, I've got first shift tomorrow. 0:20:38.720 --> 0:20:45.000 Boo Sylvie. No, Hey, how did everything go? After I 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:45.520 left the bar? 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:51.200 I mean the cops hung around asking questions. I don't 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:53.600 think they could believe that Jimbo would ever attack anyone 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:56.879 over nothing much just bite a guy, I'm. 0:20:56.760 --> 0:21:03.280 Sorry, what a regular at my bar? When berserk sounds 0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:03.640 like it? 0:21:04.560 --> 0:21:06.760 Old Tom and Kit Baker were moaning that they got 0:21:06.800 --> 0:21:10.800 scratched up too trying to pull Jimbo off Ken, So 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:12.520 I gave them a couple in the house to clear 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:12.840 it up. 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:14.280 Hope that's okay. 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:17.600 Yeah, I trust your judgment, as you should. 0:21:18.480 --> 0:21:21.480 But anyway, the mood changed. 0:21:21.800 --> 0:21:25.040 Some of the old folks talking about winds shifting, signs 0:21:25.040 --> 0:21:26.640 of the times, normal shit. 0:21:27.680 --> 0:21:29.359 But they were rattled courin. 0:21:30.040 --> 0:21:32.719 Yeah I am too, right, so am I I mean, 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:35.840 shit has been crazy, and with your dad dying in 0:21:35.880 --> 0:21:40.840 the middle of it, I don't know anyway to Jonathan, 0:21:41.800 --> 0:21:44.400 God love him, he'd have had all this shit. 0:21:44.280 --> 0:21:45.040 Worked out quick. 0:21:45.760 --> 0:21:48.560 Truth to dad? 0:21:52.840 --> 0:21:55.440 So, uh, you're gonna keep us in suspense? 0:21:55.640 --> 0:21:58.240 Or what? 0:21:58.240 --> 0:21:59.159 What's in the box? 0:22:00.040 --> 0:22:02.120 Answer the door, clutching it for dear life, and your 0:22:02.119 --> 0:22:04.720 eyes haven't left it since you put it down like 0:22:04.800 --> 0:22:06.080 you thought it might bite you. 0:22:06.880 --> 0:22:10.840 Oh well, you're not going to believe this. 0:22:14.040 --> 0:22:16.160 What the hell am I looking at? 0:22:18.200 --> 0:22:22.560 Inside the box, lined with deteriorating red velvet, were the 0:22:22.600 --> 0:22:28.359 following items. A small crystal vial, a bible, its leather covered, 0:22:28.440 --> 0:22:34.800 dry rotted brass candlesticks, two half melted candles, a small crucifix, 0:22:35.600 --> 0:22:41.960 rosary beads, desiccated garlic, a small brass flask, two ornate 0:22:42.040 --> 0:22:44.720 matching pistols, the kind they used to use in duels, 0:22:45.320 --> 0:22:52.200 a wooden mallet, and finally, a simple wooden steak stained 0:22:52.240 --> 0:22:56.480 a dark brown on the sharp end. It had clearly 0:22:56.760 --> 0:23:00.960 been used at some point in the distant past. It's 0:23:01.040 --> 0:23:06.040 for vampires, well, I figured, given the family history. Oh, 0:23:06.600 --> 0:23:10.200 it's just a long story that I guess I don't 0:23:10.240 --> 0:23:13.080 know in as much detail as I thought. 0:23:13.680 --> 0:23:14.199 What's that? 0:23:14.440 --> 0:23:16.480 Be careful, careful? Ah nah, I'll. 0:23:16.359 --> 0:23:22.320 Be gentle it's a letter. It's signed by Josiah Abbis. 0:23:23.640 --> 0:23:24.800 We'll read it aloud. 0:23:25.480 --> 0:23:32.160 I will Jesus ahem, my dear grandson. There are many 0:23:32.200 --> 0:23:35.840 things between a parent and his progeny that go unspoken 0:23:36.040 --> 0:23:38.159 over the course of a lifetime. 0:23:39.600 --> 0:23:43.480 My time grows short even now. I can sense a 0:23:43.520 --> 0:23:47.200 shift in the wind over this village. The blind will 0:23:47.240 --> 0:23:50.800 be approaching soon to cut out the good eye that 0:23:50.880 --> 0:23:55.080 has led them through the darkness thus far. There's a 0:23:55.080 --> 0:24:00.600 little time for apology, But I fear I must make 0:24:00.680 --> 0:24:04.720 one to you, to your brother, for I could not 0:24:04.880 --> 0:24:09.040 save your parents from their fates, nor could I keep 0:24:09.080 --> 0:24:12.520 this great burden from you, so young and alone in 0:24:12.560 --> 0:24:17.160 this world. These things shall torment me long after death, 0:24:18.920 --> 0:24:22.760 and I well deserve it. I shall leave you with 0:24:22.880 --> 0:24:27.600 this sacred box. Hopefully, by the time that you receive 0:24:27.680 --> 0:24:31.960 this missive, its contents will no longer be necessary for peace, 0:24:32.560 --> 0:24:37.240 the Good Lord willing. But I fear, my good grandson, 0:24:38.240 --> 0:24:41.199 that the events which have unfolded in this town have 0:24:41.359 --> 0:24:44.639 not yet come to full fruition. And so it is 0:24:44.680 --> 0:24:50.320 with you I leave these holy artifacts, these histories, these 0:24:50.960 --> 0:24:56.600 consecrated weapons against the inferno. It is time for you 0:24:56.760 --> 0:25:00.520 to take up the family's great cause in this ending 0:25:00.600 --> 0:25:05.840 battle between God's holy warriors and the horrors of the infernal. 0:25:07.200 --> 0:25:12.200 There's a vile sickness in Abbess Town. You must excite it, 0:25:14.040 --> 0:25:18.280 dig into the deep earth, and cut it out by 0:25:18.320 --> 0:25:22.000 any means necessary. And if you see the devil walking 0:25:22.000 --> 0:25:24.960 around in sight of another man, be an enemy of 0:25:25.000 --> 0:25:27.880 your very own brother. If you see the blood pour 0:25:28.000 --> 0:25:30.800 forth from his flesh, you must cut out the very 0:25:30.880 --> 0:25:35.720 heart of him, burn his body, and scatter the ashes 0:25:35.800 --> 0:25:38.840 in the furthest corner of this town as a warning. 0:25:40.240 --> 0:25:44.879 You are God's warrior. Now they will not understand you. 0:25:47.080 --> 0:25:51.359 They will fear you. But this fear is your weapon 0:25:51.400 --> 0:25:55.360 as well. Wield it without mercy, and bring down its 0:25:55.359 --> 0:25:57.679 holy judgment upon any who stand in the way of 0:25:57.720 --> 0:26:08.920 your calling. God save this lineage. God save ABBA's Town. 0:26:11.400 --> 0:26:15.640 God save my own wretched soul for what I have 0:26:15.720 --> 0:26:16.840 done in his service. 0:26:23.359 --> 0:26:30.840 Wow, Shit, that's incredible. Was he insane? 0:26:31.840 --> 0:26:35.119 I mean they didn't call him a mad preacher for nothing. 0:26:35.920 --> 0:26:43.360 If you see the blood pour forth from his flesh, shit, Jimbo, Yeah, 0:26:43.840 --> 0:26:46.639 I mean that that that can't be connected. 0:26:47.600 --> 0:26:48.080 Why not? 0:26:48.640 --> 0:26:54.000 I don't know. And Demerius, my father's very last word 0:26:54.720 --> 0:26:57.320 was Demerius. What do you think he meant? 0:26:58.680 --> 0:27:02.800 I mean that's your middle name, right? Did he ever 0:27:02.840 --> 0:27:03.280 call you that? 0:27:03.720 --> 0:27:03.840 No? 0:27:05.440 --> 0:27:06.760 Oh, that's so weird. 0:27:08.400 --> 0:27:13.040 What did he do to demerish? What? 0:27:14.280 --> 0:27:14.560 I think? 0:27:14.560 --> 0:27:18.160 I know someone who can help us, help us, what, Sylvie, help. 0:27:18.000 --> 0:27:20.520 Us figure out how this is all connected? 0:27:21.400 --> 0:27:23.880 Oh, Sylvie, don't be ridiculous. 0:27:24.119 --> 0:27:26.800 No, come on, let me call. 0:27:26.640 --> 0:27:28.240 The guy, Sylvie. 0:27:28.960 --> 0:27:30.080 No, let me call him. 0:27:31.320 --> 0:27:33.320 Who is this guy you speak of? You have a 0:27:33.520 --> 0:27:34.840 historian in your back pocket? 0:27:35.320 --> 0:27:36.640 No, I wish. 0:27:36.880 --> 0:27:42.000 No, he studies folklore and he's cute too, not that 0:27:42.000 --> 0:27:45.280 that is important. I went to a lecture with that 0:27:45.320 --> 0:27:47.119 guy I dated who was in a weird shit and 0:27:47.160 --> 0:27:47.800 we ended up. 0:27:47.720 --> 0:27:52.320 Talking to him for a little afterward. I found his 0:27:52.440 --> 0:27:53.720 number a while back. 0:27:55.040 --> 0:27:56.680 Are you stalking him? No? 0:27:58.040 --> 0:28:01.600 Yes, but have the guts to call him, because just 0:28:01.680 --> 0:28:03.440 calling him out of the blue for no reason would 0:28:03.480 --> 0:28:04.040 be weird. 0:28:04.680 --> 0:28:07.480 But calling him about an old vampire slaying kid is 0:28:07.520 --> 0:28:08.159