Speaker 1: Mordeo is a production of I Heart Radio, Blumhouse Television,
Speaker 1: and Crypto TV in association with Wolf at the Door.
Speaker 1: I used to know the difference between the fact and fiction,
Speaker 1: truth and untrue. But the thread separating our awakened lives
Speaker 1: from my nightmares it's fragile. If you pull it, the
Speaker 1: whole fabric of what you thought was real, it falls apart.
Speaker 1: This is Mardale. Come on, don't toward me. Last pack. Thanks,
Speaker 1: don't you quit? And then we burned a man's body
Speaker 1: and I became an accessory to murder you. Okay, No,
Speaker 1: I mean, Isaiah, you really expect me to believe any
Speaker 1: of this? I need you to believe it. Can't listen.
Speaker 1: I grew up in Salem, the Salem. I've heard some
Speaker 1: crazy ship over the years. But when we're talking about now,
Speaker 1: this isn't a ghost story. This is impossible. You don't
Speaker 1: think I know that. You don't think I know hive sounds.
Speaker 1: You don't think I've realized God, damn it. Sorry that's me.
Speaker 1: I should have never brought you here. Yeah, well I'm here. Now.
Speaker 1: Let's just start from the beginning again. You say you
Speaker 1: hear these voices, and then what everything conveniently goes dark.
Speaker 1: I swear, that's all I can remember before it happens,
Speaker 1: except what. I can't help you unless you tell me everything.
Speaker 1: The pain, it's the worse I've ever felt, even worse
Speaker 1: than the I d okay, So after the voices, after
Speaker 1: the blackouts, you just wake up to a trail of
Speaker 1: dead bodies. Usually find the blood first. Usually, God, how
Speaker 1: many people have you actually done this too? Just Paul,
Speaker 1: He's he was the first, only a few animals before that.
Speaker 1: What kind of animals there was a possible once? I
Speaker 1: think only founders till these episodes. I guess I don't know. Cat.
Speaker 1: If I knew, we wouldn't be in this fucking message.
Speaker 1: You gotta give me something, Isaiah, anything. I guess. It's
Speaker 1: worse when I'm tending, threatened, scared, and when I'm reminded
Speaker 1: of the woods of Gate. The last moment I spent
Speaker 1: with my brother. Yeah, just a love game. My leg stopped.
Speaker 1: We lost as it. We're head of dweast. Like you said,
Speaker 1: we'll run straight into the highway. If that was true,
Speaker 1: we would have made it five days ago. It's still
Speaker 1: following us and we need to keep moving. Let's say it.
Speaker 1: I can't hear it. What are you talking about? It's
Speaker 1: in my head? Whisps to me? Is it? Since the hell? Here? Hey?
Speaker 1: You need to keep it together. I cannot do this, Loan,
Speaker 1: I need you. What happens when you don't well? I'm
Speaker 1: too much of a burden. I leave no man behind ever.
Speaker 1: Come on, we'll keep heading these. Yeah, Isaiah? Is it?
Speaker 1: Are you? I'm fine, It's fine. Sometimes I can stop it.
Speaker 1: I don't know why do you think? And I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to be a dismissive dick here, but could this
Speaker 1: be some manifestation of PTSD? I'm a marine, I know PTSD,
Speaker 1: and as someone who is also a marine, I'm saying
Speaker 1: it's worth considering. What's more likely, Isaiah? That you have
Speaker 1: trauma that's screwing with your mind, or that you become
Speaker 1: something inhuman you can't contry roll. You think I could
Speaker 1: do something like that to Paul of my own bare hands.
Speaker 1: Maybe not your bare hands, considering the evulsion wounds. You're
Speaker 1: not listening, cat. Whenever I've become it completely takes over.
Speaker 1: I'm not me anymore. That's what scares me. I can't
Speaker 1: stop it. Who keeps conne it's my boss. I'm supposed
Speaker 1: to be at work an hour ago. The first day.
Speaker 1: You need to answer what you need to go to work?
Speaker 1: What am I gonna do? Pretend like I didn't just
Speaker 1: collect the man his body parts from the woods, answert
Speaker 1: the phone. Look, I don't know what to believe about
Speaker 1: what's happening to you, but I do know if you
Speaker 1: don't act like everything is pech keen, both of our
Speaker 1: assets are getting thrown into prison for the rest of
Speaker 1: our lives. You said yourself, there's no trail to us.
Speaker 1: There's always a trail. Think about it. Another person's gone
Speaker 1: missing and the town funk up who happened to be
Speaker 1: the sole survivor of a mysterious disappearance in the woods,
Speaker 1: is acting aloof skipping out on a new job you
Speaker 1: financially depends on scene with an out of town or
Speaker 1: who he puts up at the Bates Motel. Handsl and
Speaker 1: Gretel could find us. Answering, Isaiah, answer it, there's nothing.
Speaker 1: There's nothing. I understand what you're saying, But my husband's
Speaker 1: been missing for over two months, and the mortgage doesn't
Speaker 1: just stop me and do well. If the policy doesn't
Speaker 1: cover something, like this. What exactly does it cover? Hey mom, Mom?
Speaker 1: Why are the cops at Mr douglas house? What? I
Speaker 1: don't know? Can you turn your show down please? So
Speaker 1: so basically, you'll need his cold dead heart on a
Speaker 1: platter before we can make a claim. Something bad must
Speaker 1: have happened, Jocelyn, Please, I'm on the phone. And what
Speaker 1: if the police aren't willing to report a presumed death,
Speaker 1: there's nothing we can do. Of course, I want them
Speaker 1: to find my husband, so you know what, can I
Speaker 1: please talk to your supervisor. You've got an attitude problem
Speaker 1: that I don't enough happy to deal with this morning.
Speaker 1: Check the rear door and windows for signs of forest entry.
Speaker 1: I want to know if anyone was in this house
Speaker 1: besides Paul Douglas. Well, there can't let you go any
Speaker 1: further but having to Mr Douglas. Oh, we're just checking
Speaker 1: out his house to make sure there's nothing to worry about.
Speaker 1: It sounds like a lot of cops to just check
Speaker 1: out a house. You're Johnson right. My name is Detective Read.
Speaker 1: I'm working on your dad's case. I know I've done
Speaker 1: your parents and uncle a long time, since we we're
Speaker 1: your age. I know that too. I heard they didn't
Speaker 1: like you very much. Well, their grandpa, n Esto and
Speaker 1: I used to be partners who seemed to get along
Speaker 1: just fine. Hell special, do you think what happened my
Speaker 1: dad happened to Mr Douglas. I think they are two
Speaker 1: very different cases. They're both missing, though, aren't they. That's
Speaker 1: why these police are here. You're observing. I always was too.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you. Have you noticed anything weird around
Speaker 1: here lately? What do you mean? Could be small of things,
Speaker 1: anyone coming and going late at night, someone you know
Speaker 1: that may say one thing but does another. It sounds
Speaker 1: like you're trying to trick me into saying something I
Speaker 1: didn't know I needed to. Now I'm thinking I do.
Speaker 1: That's my mom. I should get back sure. Oh and Jocelyn,
Speaker 1: so how do your uncle for me? Said sneaking inside
Speaker 1: when the coast is clear? You don't understand why I
Speaker 1: had to come along. Look, I'll be back as soon
Speaker 1: as I can. You're the homicidal one, and somehow I'm
Speaker 1: stuck hiding on the floor of your dirty escar. This
Speaker 1: is bullshit, Mr Williams. I didn't expect this type of
Speaker 1: unreliability from you. Mrs Marshall, I apologize, save your energy.
Speaker 1: I'm too old for excuses and too tired for drama.
Speaker 1: But if it happens again, you're fired. Get it? Yes? Good? Now?
Speaker 1: This way? Is it always this dead? Closed for Labor Day?
Speaker 1: I thought we'd take advantage of the daylight to show
Speaker 1: you around the nooks and crannies, so you'll have to
Speaker 1: get used to being here alone after hours. Everything looks
Speaker 1: a little different in the dark. Layouts easy enough, four
Speaker 1: wings connected off the main section. It's an old building,
Speaker 1: so it'll creak and scare the but Jesus out of you.
Speaker 1: Old girls like her and me like to play tricks.
Speaker 1: These should get you to almost every door in the place.
Speaker 1: Gonna need a sturdy belt for all those never believed
Speaker 1: in the skeleton key of sorts. Nowhere to hide the skeletons.
Speaker 1: Huh Isaiah, it was a joke, kid, right, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: get this. Here is the surveillance room. Still got to
Speaker 1: keep a close eye. Only the front and back entrances
Speaker 1: record anything public funding for you, And what's behind that
Speaker 1: door down there doesn't matter. Haven't given you a key
Speaker 1: for the south wing yet? What's in there? We have
Speaker 1: some artifacts that are historical, don't worry about that. For now.
Speaker 1: You're welcome to any of the library's resources, as long
Speaker 1: as I'm not re catalog and in the morning obviously,
Speaker 1: no guests, coital or otherwise. Oh and you'll be armed,
Speaker 1: just a stun gun, of course. I bought it personally,
Speaker 1: for whoever I hired sheriff wouldn't approve one. But the
Speaker 1: internet shut did I think that about does it? It's
Speaker 1: no Smithsonian, but I think it means something. I hope
Speaker 1: you find it means something to you too. I'll try
Speaker 1: not to let you down, Mrs Marshall. I hope you won't.
Speaker 1: I really do. Nor thirty eight O one O two
Speaker 1: west eighty five h I'll be damned. All these roads
Speaker 1: lead back to the manonga Hilla. But why these exact coordinates, Michelle, Hey, cap,
Speaker 1: come take a look at this. Working on the Douglas case,
Speaker 1: and I found this notebook full of time stamps and coordinates.
Speaker 1: I think he was tracking something someone back to the
Speaker 1: forest almost every night for the past month, Michelle. The
Speaker 1: rest of it is written in some indigenous language. I
Speaker 1: think might even be a code or something. I guess
Speaker 1: he was something of a cons farishy theorist. Michelle I
Speaker 1: just came by to see those DNA results for myself
Speaker 1: from my son, right of course. Here, Uh, it's the
Speaker 1: full report. I sent the backpack to the state investigators,
Speaker 1: hoping they can help pinpoint the other said we couldn't
Speaker 1: identify strange. I thought seeing it for myself and make
Speaker 1: it easier, but it somehow makes me feel even worse.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, cap, Really, I had actually taken when you
Speaker 1: told her you haven't informed. I only called you because
Speaker 1: the results were inconclusive. I thought, as my mentor, as
Speaker 1: your mentor, this is my son, I know, I just
Speaker 1: my god, you wanted me to tell her? That's really
Speaker 1: why you called. Are you that much of a coward?
Speaker 1: Or you just that child? I didn't call her because
Speaker 1: the results were inconclusive, but I guess I should have.
Speaker 1: It was a lapse in judgment. Acting on your grudges
Speaker 1: is not a lapse in judgment, Michelle. It's a lapsing character.
Speaker 1: That's rich coming from you. Did you learn about character
Speaker 1: while downing a bottle of jim bean? You inform her
Speaker 1: today or I make a call to your father. Are
Speaker 1: you serious? I'm not some sixteen year old prom queen.
Speaker 1: I'm an officer of the law. Then act like it
Speaker 1: Jesus the last time I claimed through with the this Elbert.
Speaker 1: Then he gets with the beast. I'm loo getting tonight.
Speaker 1: I won't get so young. The cameras at the door,
Speaker 1: I recorded, and then I want to risky. No, I
Speaker 1: agree the seven is the better. I'm just wondering how
Speaker 1: anything in here is supposed to help us. Well, Mrs
Speaker 1: Marshall hired me. She said something that I can't shake.
Speaker 1: She said, our various survival depends on the history store
Speaker 1: in this place. I can't have been the first one
Speaker 1: and experience whatever happened out in the wood is right.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not the first one to have something
Speaker 1: follow me out. Somewhere in here. There could be answers.
Speaker 1: We just need to find them. Hi. There, you've reached
Speaker 1: Ashley's voicemail. Please leave a message, Ashley, It's Detective read Michelle. UM.
Speaker 1: When you get a chance, I'd like you to come
Speaker 1: down to the station. I have something important to discuss
Speaker 1: with you, and it's now a good time, Ashley. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I didn't mean to sneak up. One of the officers
Speaker 1: told me I could come back and the doors open. No, yeah,
Speaker 1: come in and have a seat. What brought you down here?
Speaker 1: I came into ask about Gabe's case. I guess to
Speaker 1: understand a little bit more about well about where we
Speaker 1: go from here, what ticks back next? Maybe. I know
Speaker 1: you keep saying that Hope is important, but the reality is,
Speaker 1: you know he's not here, and practically speaking, I don't
Speaker 1: know how long I can keep my life afloat on hope. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I have a point in saying all this, It's just
Speaker 1: it sounds so cold and calculated. Yeah, how did you?
Speaker 1: First thing I looked for was Gabe's life insurance policy
Speaker 1: spoke to motive in the case of foul play, no fans,
Speaker 1: but the spouse is usually the first suspect. But I
Speaker 1: suppose you found out they won't pay out on a
Speaker 1: missing person. I shouldn't have come. I don't even know
Speaker 1: what I'm asking for. Really, you're asking for answers. I'm
Speaker 1: asking you to tell me my husband is dead. Ashley.
Speaker 1: I was calling you to come down here because we
Speaker 1: found something. On the last search. I found something found.
Speaker 1: What we recovered a backpack. It had been significantly damaged,
Speaker 1: no contents inside, but what there was a large amount
Speaker 1: of blood. Blood. We we tested against the samples you
Speaker 1: provided from Gabe's belongings and it was match. This is
Speaker 1: the full report. H I came here to convince you,
Speaker 1: to plead you to say he was dead, but I
Speaker 1: never thought it was true. I thought I thought maybe
Speaker 1: still come back. Oh God, he's not coming back. He's not, Ashley.
Speaker 1: With the new evidence, I have enough to report Gabe
Speaker 1: as a presumptive death. This would help you get everything
Speaker 1: you need from his policy, but understand it would change
Speaker 1: the nature of this case to a potential homicide. Homicide
Speaker 1: you think someone did something to him. I can't say
Speaker 1: for sure, but there is a huge gap in what
Speaker 1: we know about what happened, and if I can be frank,
Speaker 1: my gut is telling me that there's only one person
Speaker 1: that can fill in that gap. You're talking about Isaiah. No,
Speaker 1: no way. He wouldn't do anything to Gape. He's not
Speaker 1: that kind of person. But he knows more than he's
Speaker 1: told us. And I need to know why this is
Speaker 1: low even for you, Ashley. If change in Gabe's case
Speaker 1: status means you're trying to pin this on Isaiah, then
Speaker 1: I don't want to beget any part of it. I'm
Speaker 1: not helping you destroy him all over again. And what
Speaker 1: if he does know something? To stop trying to stir
Speaker 1: ship up just so you can feel important, stay away
Speaker 1: from my family. UM wanted you show a cat. There's
Speaker 1: a whole sectional apex predators over here. I think that's
Speaker 1: worth anything. Cat here, Any luck on your end? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so. I'll come to you. I found a
Speaker 1: few books on this first settle that's here on a
Speaker 1: Chris Falls. It sounds like the mananga hell of Force
Speaker 1: was known for some which stuff I feel strivesly promising.
Speaker 1: What's that? Would you describe your thoughts as disorganized or erratic?
Speaker 1: I mean sure you have long periods of memory loss
Speaker 1: or disassociation. Seriously, what are you reading auditory hallucinations the
Speaker 1: feeling of being controlled? Let me see the diagnostic and
Speaker 1: statistical manual mental disorders. If addition, do you think I'm schinsophrenic? Now? No,
Speaker 1: but I think you should start accepting the possibility that
Speaker 1: you're not possessed by some evil entity that takes control
Speaker 1: of your body and makes some cute people. I'm not crazy.
Speaker 1: Mental illness is real, Isaiah, and what I've been telling
Speaker 1: you is real. Cats. Sorry, Gay, we've got the ration ration?
Speaker 1: What wait less ship? What day is it? I saw
Speaker 1: a patch Morrel's earlier. Once light hits, we can probably
Speaker 1: find something for breakfast. Bro, it wants us to start.
Speaker 1: God damn it. Could you knock it off with that ship?
Speaker 1: Don't I know? You hate me? Okay, what are you
Speaker 1: talking about? Na? No? No, I see you hate me
Speaker 1: for ridding you out to Dad. I think your old
Speaker 1: torch your life as my funk. But you're the one
Speaker 1: who stole my prescription pass. Yeah, using her deaf your
Speaker 1: old game. Our family needed that money. Ship. I hate
Speaker 1: you too sometimes you know that I hate what you did,
Speaker 1: and I'm glad that sent you the military school. You
Speaker 1: got exactly what was coming to you, and you stepped
Speaker 1: on that fucking bomb. Stop waste energy. You want to
Speaker 1: go game and said that you want to leave your wife,
Speaker 1: your daughter, You want to give up. They can smell
Speaker 1: your fear. I say, make you smell your anger, your weakness.
Speaker 1: You can't hide from them. Godemnica, we can hide, Bro,
Speaker 1: that's nowhere to hide. It's real. Cat, I'm not crazy.
Speaker 1: I never said you were crazy. Was that. It's coming
Speaker 1: from the back hall. Don't walk towards it. Would you
Speaker 1: go for help? I am help. Remember see a uniform?
Speaker 1: God damn it. Maybe you should give me your gun.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's nothing. It's not what we find I
Speaker 1: needed for you. This is the exact type of tense
Speaker 1: situation you're described as a trigger. Wait, this is just
Speaker 1: a stunt gun. You want to shoot me with a
Speaker 1: real one? This way? H Wait that's impossible. Oh God?
Speaker 1: What the door down the south wing is open? Did
Speaker 1: you forget to lock it? I don't have a key,
Speaker 1: but it was locked earlier today. This is security? Is
Speaker 1: there anyone down there? This is your last warning. I
Speaker 1: am fully armed and prepared to sue. Turning on the lights,
Speaker 1: main calm. No one has to get hurt. M There's
Speaker 1: no way, Jesus Christ. I'm gonna have a heart attack
Speaker 1: before thirty. I wonder how this got open? What is
Speaker 1: this place? Must be the historical society or car looks
Speaker 1: like Edgar had in pose with dream, So this stuff
Speaker 1: has to be centried on. I see what she meant
Speaker 1: by a thing irreplaceable? Who firearms? Batman? I've never seen
Speaker 1: a good old fashioned elephants gotten up close. These are antiques. Jesus.
Speaker 1: This leaves to amazement of something to steal. Doors, scratched
Speaker 1: and dented the ship. I say, y'all, come here. Now,
Speaker 1: look at this skull. These antlers aren't early as hell,
Speaker 1: No way, this thing is a deer though. Look at
Speaker 1: the size of the teeth. Predator for sure. Okay, there
Speaker 1: are drawings too, and almost human. Have you seen this?
Speaker 1: I sea, I say, yea true hid hill, open the door.
Speaker 1: Listen to me. Whatever you're feeling in in your head,
Speaker 1: hidea hidea oh my god saying, can't be believing. It's
Speaker 1: a lot. In the end, what helps us make sense
Speaker 1: of the world is we choose to unsee next time
Speaker 1: on more day. We can't run from this anymore. Take
Speaker 1: my gun, you shoot, and you don't stop. If I
Speaker 1: come for you, you take me out. That's in order.
Speaker 1: Everything was my idea. I say, you're moving here the
Speaker 1: fucking camping trip. I told him to God, please no.
Speaker 1: I heart Radio. Blumhouse Television and Crypt TV an association
Speaker 1: with Wolfe at the Door present or Dale Executive produced
Speaker 1: by Jack Davis, Kate Krantz, Darren Brandon, Jason Blum, Chris Dickey,
Speaker 1: Matt Frederick, and Alex Williams. Written by Caitlin Crabb, directed
Speaker 1: by Alex Kemp, Produced by Toby Lawless, Winnie Kemp, Daniel
Speaker 1: Person's co producers ben So Tack, Anthony Magnolo, Associate producer
Speaker 1: Federico Trago. Starring j L. Fons, Nicholson as Isaiah, Ashley
Speaker 1: Platts as Ashley, Olivia Lott as Jocelyn Yvonne as Michelle,
Speaker 1: with performances by Real Michael Scott, Tacy Adams, Ariella Amar Jamie,
Speaker 1: Joseph kim Estes, Patty Wilkins. Sound designed by Dean Hovey.
Speaker 1: Original score by Christopher Kimp, Mixing by Mark Scarce, Edited
Speaker 1: by Fernando Diaz, Assistant engineer Noah Sour. Recorded at Wolf
Speaker 1: at the Door Studios. Casting consultant Michelle LeWitt, Production assistants
Speaker 1: Hailey mckechney and Sophia Gilberto, studio teacher Pearl Hika, Writing
Speaker 1: assistant Bill Hanson. This podcast was recorded under a SAG
Speaker 1: after collective bargaining agreement. Mordeo is a production of I
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