Speaker 1: Bridgewater is a production of I Heart Radio three D
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Speaker 1: we watch you athen Ethan, Ethan, baby, wake up? Call
Speaker 1: for help? Okay the fun fuck fuck Jeremy, there's no
Speaker 1: fucking service. Oh come on, Ethan, it's me, it's me,
Speaker 1: it's nano. Okay, baby, wake up? Did you find him?
Speaker 1: He won't wake up here? Let me don't don't don't
Speaker 1: touch him, okay, Just to make yourself useful and just
Speaker 1: go for help. Yes, Hello, this is Jeremy Bradshaw. I'm
Speaker 1: at Assan at Ledge in Freetown. Can you hear me?
Speaker 1: Freetown State Forest. There's a young boy here who seems
Speaker 1: to be injured. We watch you, you want you, you're coming, Ethan, Ethan, baby,
Speaker 1: can you hear me? Come here? At it here, let
Speaker 1: me stop it? What do you do wash? Knock this animals,
Speaker 1: nuke altivented knock dose animals, admitary so list knock this animals,
Speaker 1: knock outovented knock those animals a dmitary th spot no
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Speaker 1: admitary admitary ethne No, no, yeah, yeah, baby, yeah, baby,
Speaker 1: it's it's me. No, no, yeah, he's he's gonna be okay,
Speaker 1: you'll be okay. Yeah. Yeah. It wasn't the fire out, Yes,
Speaker 1: it was. What did you do to him? He was possessed?
Speaker 1: I exercised the spirit from his body. Oh so now
Speaker 1: you're a priest. I told you. I'm attuned to the spirits.
Speaker 1: I've spent my whole life learning the specters and shadows
Speaker 1: of this place. Your grandson is not the first wandering
Speaker 1: soul in the forest. I've said, right you, thank you,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, thank you, You're welcome here. Yeah, the Hoskins.
Speaker 1: How is he? When can we see him? He's all right,
Speaker 1: you can see him in just a moment. He's not
Speaker 1: all right. He was speaking in tongues and covered in
Speaker 1: symbols Olivia. Physically he's fine, a little dehydrated, has some
Speaker 1: minor cuts and bruises. But you can take him home tonight.
Speaker 1: Thank god, Thank you. Dr Did he say anything to you,
Speaker 1: um no. He seems to still be in shock. The
Speaker 1: only thing he said was that it was happening again,
Speaker 1: does that mean anything to you? I don't know. Doctor.
Speaker 1: You can go ahead and see him now. I'll get
Speaker 1: started on the discharge papers and m hmm. Don't you
Speaker 1: want to go talk to him? Ah? I don't know. Yes,
Speaker 1: of course I do, but just I'm just going to
Speaker 1: give family some time. And you are family. I'm blood,
Speaker 1: it's not not the same. I'm glad the child is safe. Yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you anytime, man, Truly, I am here to help.
Speaker 1: That's really all you we're doing in the woods tonight.
Speaker 1: You were helping. Of course, where a small community, we
Speaker 1: have to look after one another. And I'm better equipped
Speaker 1: than most to deal with this particular danger, the danger
Speaker 1: of missing children, those who get lost in the untamed places, right,
Speaker 1: because you're so attuned. Yes, Mr Bradshaw, I am, And
Speaker 1: you can gaze upon that fact with as much derision
Speaker 1: as you like, but it is just that a fact.
Speaker 1: And I don't need your approval, nor anyone else's. I
Speaker 1: know myself and what I'm capable of, and that is
Speaker 1: all that matters. And what are you capable of? Celeste?
Speaker 1: And was right? Any time something happens here? You and
Speaker 1: your cabal of friends seem to be right at the
Speaker 1: center of it. Why was there a bonfire there tonight?
Speaker 1: What were you all doing that wasn't one of ours? No,
Speaker 1: you seem pretty practiced at stoking it, almost like you
Speaker 1: built it yourself. I didn't stoke those flames, Mr Bradshaw.
Speaker 1: You know just as well as I that I was
Speaker 1: feed away, tending to ethan. The fire started anew on
Speaker 1: its own. That's not possible, of course. It is. Perhaps
Speaker 1: the wind picked up an ember, pushed it into some
Speaker 1: dry kindling at the center, or someone had left an
Speaker 1: incendiary amongst the logs to cause confusion and fear. That's
Speaker 1: what you'd say. Isn't it a perfectly rational explanation for
Speaker 1: every single event, even if you have to stretch it
Speaker 1: over your memory of what actually happened, like trying to
Speaker 1: fit a rubber band around the world. Where's Katie? I'm
Speaker 1: sorry she was with you earlier. If you were really
Speaker 1: part of the search effort, you'd know you were supposed
Speaker 1: to be in pairs, and so we were. But where
Speaker 1: is now? She she got frightened? What did she get
Speaker 1: frightened of? So? Last you of the forest, Mr Bradshaw,
Speaker 1: Katie is she isn't ready for the entire truth of Bridgewater.
Speaker 1: What does that mean? She's grieving morning a loved one
Speaker 1: is what brought her and so many others to the gathering.
Speaker 1: You are not a support group. We are many things.
Speaker 1: Katie wanted to contact her mother, That's why she joined
Speaker 1: the gathering. Contact as in to talk to her ghost,
Speaker 1: talk with her ghost, commune with her spirit, whatever you
Speaker 1: want to call it. I think being confronted with all
Speaker 1: those spirits scared her, especially after what happened with her friend.
Speaker 1: She's afraid of angering the souls that dwell within the forest.
Speaker 1: She's just not ready because she's okay, isn't she? She'll
Speaker 1: be absolutely fine. Your grandson, on the other hand, I
Speaker 1: what what what is wrong with him? Hey? An, he's fine.
Speaker 1: Why don't you go check on him? Don't you tell
Speaker 1: me what to do? Fradshaw And I think he's right An.
Speaker 1: You should go be with your family. Okay, you shouldn't
Speaker 1: do that. Do what scare her like that? She's already
Speaker 1: gone through enough and even as fine you just heard
Speaker 1: the doctor. That doctor doesn't know what she is dealing with.
Speaker 1: They won't be able to take Ethan home tonight. Just
Speaker 1: you watch. I am watching you. Then as ever, you
Speaker 1: are looking in the wrong place. What do you mean
Speaker 1: you're keeping him overnight at request of the police. We've
Speaker 1: been asked. I can explain this. We're dealing with a
Speaker 1: potential kidnapping case. Services Hoskins. It's safest to have Ethan
Speaker 1: here overnight for observation and station a uniformed officer outside
Speaker 1: his room. Do you think he's still in danger. We're
Speaker 1: just trying to figure out what's going on. We'd like
Speaker 1: to interview him soon. If that's all right, Absolutely not.
Speaker 1: I will talk to him and you can be in
Speaker 1: the room silently. Ah, Brad Shawn Becker the worst crime
Speaker 1: solving dueos since Bonnie and Clyde. Bonnie and Clyde didn't
Speaker 1: solve crimes, they committed them exactly. Well, excuse me for
Speaker 1: being protective of my grandson, who, if I recall correctly,
Speaker 1: I found before the police did. Yes, well done. Ms Becker.
Speaker 1: Roll very glad that Ethan is safe. But this is
Speaker 1: an active investigation, and you are a civilian. You either
Speaker 1: let me talk to him or you don't talk to
Speaker 1: him at all. Fine, Mom, it's all right, Shelly. We're
Speaker 1: not going to scare him. We just need to know
Speaker 1: what happened? Okay, Okay, not you, Bradshaw Man. I was
Speaker 1: right there with you. You said this one out. But
Speaker 1: it's all right, Ethan. You're safe now, I know. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm not scared. Then talk to me, baby, I'm not
Speaker 1: a baby. Okay, Okay, you're right. I'm sorry. You're tough
Speaker 1: as hell, and I know that you've been through a lot,
Speaker 1: but we really need you to tell us what happened.
Speaker 1: All right. I don't know what happened, Okay, just just
Speaker 1: talk me through the weekend. Okay. You were camping with
Speaker 1: your boy Scout Troop. Yeah, we've been camping in Freetown
Speaker 1: a lot. It's not like I didn't know what I
Speaker 1: was doing. I know you're a really good camper and
Speaker 1: we go camping and hiking all the time. You know
Speaker 1: that forest, yes, exactly. And I'm like used to the
Speaker 1: noises and stuff that the noises well, you know, the
Speaker 1: birds and animals and the trees and stuff. Forest quiet,
Speaker 1: not house quiet, right, right, right, I'm used to the
Speaker 1: forest quiet. But some of the others get scared. Like
Speaker 1: the first night there was all this cracking and like
Speaker 1: something skittering, and like Mason, he's only ten so he
Speaker 1: gets scared. You know, he was really worried it was
Speaker 1: some kind of monster because I guess his older brother
Speaker 1: told him there was monsters in Freetown. But you know better, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do, except except yeah, can you get him some water?
Speaker 1: Go on eveing? Right? So last night, yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it was last night, Nana. What day is it, honey?
Speaker 1: It Sunday night, Sunday? Okay, so yeah, last night, our
Speaker 1: second night it mm hmm, Nana. I know there aren't monsters,
Speaker 1: and know that just bad people. That's what you always say.
Speaker 1: The only real monsters are the bad people. That's right.
Speaker 1: But I don't even remember walking up to the ledge.
Speaker 1: I just don't remember the ledge. Yeah, above the lake.
Speaker 1: People are on top of the ledge. Yeah, Ethan, No, no, no,
Speaker 1: we found you right next to the lake. No, no,
Speaker 1: you couldn't. I was. I was up there. I woke
Speaker 1: up there. Okay, all right, let's just just to go
Speaker 1: back for a second. Okay, let's let's talk about what
Speaker 1: happens Saturday night. There were voices, but they didn't they
Speaker 1: didn't sound like people. No, they weren't people. Did you
Speaker 1: see something even? And it was like what Grandpa used
Speaker 1: to talk about Grandpa. Yeah, Dad's dad, right, Grandpapa Hoskins? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Who else would I be talking about? No one, Just
Speaker 1: keep going. Grant used to talk about the puck watches.
Speaker 1: You know. Wait, you're not walking up, so you wouldn't know.
Speaker 1: They're like fairies, except really mean. They've got quills and
Speaker 1: spears and fire, and they even tricked people into getting hurt.
Speaker 1: And Nana, I think I saw one you saw puck watching.
Speaker 1: It was talking to me, trying to get me to
Speaker 1: go with it. Ah, I don't know why I did.
Speaker 1: There was these lights. I could barely see past them.
Speaker 1: They were big and so bright, and then like a triangle,
Speaker 1: and there was a person but they looked wrong, and
Speaker 1: at first I thought it was one of the other boys.
Speaker 1: They were short, whoever it was, but do you think
Speaker 1: it was a puck watching? It was something something, and
Speaker 1: it was saying, we want you come here, So I went.
Speaker 1: I wanted to. I don't know why, but I wanted
Speaker 1: to follow the lights. I'm sorry, I know I shouldn't have. Oh, honey, No,
Speaker 1: it's okay, it's okay. You didn't do anything wrong. What's
Speaker 1: the next thing you remember, Captain? Please, it's okay. Ethan,
Speaker 1: please go ahead. I don't I don't know. I'm sorry now,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't remember anything. It's okay, that's
Speaker 1: all right. Really, you were there in that woman, that's
Speaker 1: all I know. You mean at the lake by the fire. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we sell the lights lights? What what do you mean
Speaker 1: that the bonfire? No, the lights? You saw them, right, Nana?
Speaker 1: What what lights? Baby? All around you? You and that woman,
Speaker 1: they were floating lights. No, Ethan, that there weren't any lights.
Speaker 1: I know what I saw, Okay, okay, I do believe you, Ethan.
Speaker 1: Do you remember anyone else being around tonight besides me
Speaker 1: and Celeste, that the woman? Anyone? Um, all right, I
Speaker 1: don't know, Okay, that's okay, it's just honey. Do you
Speaker 1: know how you got those symbols on your arm? Symbols?
Speaker 1: Mm hmm yeah you um, they washed them off when
Speaker 1: they admitage you. But you had these symbols all over
Speaker 1: your arms. I did why what do you mean we
Speaker 1: don't We don't know. I mean, we didn't recognize them.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe one of the boys did it, you know,
Speaker 1: as a prank for fun. They were written in blood. No, honey,
Speaker 1: it's okay. What does he mean blood. Who's blood? No,
Speaker 1: it's we're just not sure, you know. The police. The
Speaker 1: police is testing it now. And what happens to me, Nana?
Speaker 1: What happened? You got lost, that's all, baby, You just
Speaker 1: got lost. Is it true the stories you always told?
Speaker 1: Are they true? Are there monsters in the woods? They no, Son,
Speaker 1: there aren't any monsters in the woods. We believe that
Speaker 1: you were kidnapped by a cult. Does the gathering sound
Speaker 1: familiar to you? The what? Nana? What is he talking about? Nothing?
Speaker 1: He did, honey, don't even listen to him, Ethan. The
Speaker 1: woman who was with your grandmother, Celeste Corey, did you
Speaker 1: recognize her, Captain, I don't think so. She didn't come
Speaker 1: to your camp and lure you away. No, No, there
Speaker 1: was no one there. But you heard a voice, right, yeah?
Speaker 1: What was it? A man's voice? Stopes witness. I don't
Speaker 1: know it was it was whispering, and the voice led
Speaker 1: you to the ledge. And yes, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: woke up and there was a voice, and then I
Speaker 1: woke up again and was on the ledge. M hmm.
Speaker 1: I thought I thought I was dreaming, but there were lights.
Speaker 1: How did you get to the lake? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Okay, scared, Nana's okay, Ethan, we are done, captain.
Speaker 1: We're gonna let him rest, right, Okaya, Nana? Mm hmm,
Speaker 1: it's okay baby. I'm gonna stay here with you. You're safe.
Speaker 1: Could you send him my mom? Yeah? Of course, how
Speaker 1: was he? He's all right. His family is going to
Speaker 1: be with him tonight. So now you you're not you're
Speaker 1: not staying m h I uh. I just wanted to
Speaker 1: give them some alone time. And mm hmm do you? Uh?
Speaker 1: I mean when when did uh just spitch out? Rat Shaws?
Speaker 1: Where where's Shelley's father? I just I don't know. I
Speaker 1: mean you you two don't seem very close, and you
Speaker 1: never he's gone. He's been gone for forty years. Right, Sorry,
Speaker 1: you're right, we're not close. I messed up with Shelly.
Speaker 1: I never wanted kids, but when her dad, I wasn't
Speaker 1: a good mother. But I'm trying. Messed up. We live too.
Speaker 1: She seems to love you, you know. I mean when
Speaker 1: she was a kid, I was too obsessed with finding
Speaker 1: out what happened to her grandfather. So you know, I'm
Speaker 1: trying with Ethan, really trying. He was their miracle baby.
Speaker 1: They they didn't think that they could have another one.
Speaker 1: And then I don't see anything happened to him. Well
Speaker 1: I safe now, mm hmmm. And forty years? Yeah, what
Speaker 1: you said? He's been gone for forty years, and I
Speaker 1: think we should just go to sleep. Bradshot has been
Speaker 1: one hell of a long night. You knew he was
Speaker 1: waking up in the middle of the night. And what
Speaker 1: do you want me to say, Jeremy, how long? When? Um? So?
Speaker 1: That means huh did my mom know? She found out?
Speaker 1: And so this whole time, all these years, these decades,
Speaker 1: you knew I still lived here. Yeah, And I was
Speaker 1: going to tell you when you got older. But then
Speaker 1: you moved out to California with your mom. That was
Speaker 1: for college. And then I came back. Why why did
Speaker 1: you come back? What happened to you here? I know?
Speaker 1: But why did you come back? Why would you stay?
Speaker 1: I have family here, so do I apparently talk? Could
Speaker 1: you not tell me? How could my own mother no
Speaker 1: tell me? She didn't want to ruin the idea of
Speaker 1: your dad, and neither did I. They were going to
Speaker 1: get divorced. And then when he went missing, we and
Speaker 1: we both thought it would be kinder to keep you
Speaker 1: in the dark. It's like all I ever am it's
Speaker 1: in the dark, and try so hard to know everything
Speaker 1: I can, and I am still constantly in the dark.
Speaker 1: I am sorry. Oh fuck you? Fuck you Anne. You
Speaker 1: don't get to talk to me like that. Why because
Speaker 1: you were sucking my dad? That doesn't make you someone
Speaker 1: to me. Don't make us sound tawdry. We were together,
Speaker 1: we were in love. I still am. Yeah. Well, guess what,
Speaker 1: he is dead. You dragged him into your crazy theories
Speaker 1: and you encouraged him to go out there and do
Speaker 1: something stupid and dangerous, and now he's dead. Don't you
Speaker 1: blame me for that. I told him never to go
Speaker 1: out there on his own. We were doing everything together.
Speaker 1: Oh you sure were, weren't you. You were doing everything together.
Speaker 1: When I woke up and I realized that he was gone,
Speaker 1: I couldn't go after him because I was watching you.
Speaker 1: So whose vault is it? Really? What are you talking about?
Speaker 1: How did my house not look familiar to you? You
Speaker 1: stayed over sometimes when they split up. Your parents decided
Speaker 1: that there would be joint custody, especially when we found
Speaker 1: out that I was so we uh, we were trying
Speaker 1: to make get comfortable for you at my house the
Speaker 1: weekend your dad went missing. Your mom almost out of
Speaker 1: town visiting a friend, you know, getting some space, so
Speaker 1: we had you for the weekend. Well, I don't remember that.
Speaker 1: And we were all going to go for a hike
Speaker 1: in Freetown. You know. I used to join you guys
Speaker 1: on your Saturday. I did them with Ethan now and
Speaker 1: he stays in the same room she did when you
Speaker 1: were little, Hope. No, those hikes were always just the
Speaker 1: two of us. Honey, you were just a kid. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised that you don't remember. Why are you
Speaker 1: lying to me? I'm not Jeremy, not anymore. But you're
Speaker 1: telling me that it's my fault. It's my fault that
Speaker 1: my dad is dead. But he's not dead. When you
Speaker 1: shut up, Anne, m he is dead. He's as dead
Speaker 1: as you can get and he's been dead for forty years.
Speaker 1: And I am sorry you never found anyone else, But
Speaker 1: that's your fault. I'm sure you were just trying to
Speaker 1: protect me, which is but you know that was never
Speaker 1: your job either. But um, you could have I could
Speaker 1: have had you should have told me. I know I
Speaker 1: have a half sister. M hmm, what does she know, no, No,
Speaker 1: I never told her. She asked about her dad so much,
Speaker 1: but I had never told her. It's one of the
Speaker 1: reasons why we're not so close. Is that supposed to
Speaker 1: make me feel bad for you? Know? These are the
Speaker 1: choices that you made. And you can't blame your ghosts,
Speaker 1: or your monsters, or your cults. You can't blame the
Speaker 1: Bridgewater Triangle for your unhappiness. Neither can you. Well, I'm
Speaker 1: glad either safe. Oh my god, fuck, he's my nephew.
Speaker 1: I have a nephew and a niece. I don't think
Speaker 1: I could ever forgive you for this, Anna, I know,
Speaker 1: I know. Bridgewater was created by Aaron Manky and written
Speaker 1: and directed by Lauren Shippen, with executive producers Aaron Manky,
Speaker 1: Misha Collins, Matt Frederick, and Alex Williams, supervising producer Trevor Young,
Speaker 1: editing and sound designed by Trevor Young and Matt Stillo,
Speaker 1: and music by Chad Lawson. Starring Misha Collins as Jeremy Bradshaw,
Speaker 1: Melissa Ponzio as Anne Becker, Karen Sony as Vipen Corona,
Speaker 1: Lori 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 brad Shahn,
Speaker 1: with additional voice acting by Brigand Snow, Andrew Nowak, Julia Maurizawa,
Speaker 1: Jarvis Johnson and Brielle Bresnan, Kristen dem Curio, James Oliva,
Speaker 1: and Leron Amiel. Learn more about the show over at
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