Speaker 1: Mordeo is a production of I Heart Radio, Blumhouse Television
Speaker 1: and Crypt TV in association with Wolf at the Door.
Speaker 1: Some things in our lives are beyond our control, but
Speaker 1: still we all make choices. Too many of them turn
Speaker 1: into regrets. I guess all we left with is the
Speaker 1: hope that we still have time to set it right.
Speaker 1: This is yeah, whit job flat, No, no, no, she's gone.
Speaker 1: They took my daughter, took her. She said that, but
Speaker 1: Dale couldn't get past the defenses. This wasn't the more dioe.
Speaker 1: This was the ward. They took her, and now we're
Speaker 1: going to get her back. Okay, let me go, Hello Jocelyn,
Speaker 1: miss Marshall the librarian. My looking at you makes me
Speaker 1: feel like a sack of bones. Y'all grow up so fast?
Speaker 1: Has anyone told you you look just like your mother?
Speaker 1: Where are we? Who are all of you? Why did
Speaker 1: you bring me? Hit? Now? Nice? Slow down, one question
Speaker 1: at a time. You're making my old brain, Colonel. Let's
Speaker 1: start with the way years ago, before you born, before
Speaker 1: even I was born. If you can believe there were
Speaker 1: such a time, the people who lived near the Monongahela
Speaker 1: whispered about terrible creatures in these wounds. They were thought
Speaker 1: to have far reaching powers, powers that presided over life
Speaker 1: and death. The more dare so you, Heaven, let them
Speaker 1: leave you in the dark, good girl. For a long time,
Speaker 1: people lived in fear of the forest, of what may
Speaker 1: happen if you found yourself alone wandering through the trees,
Speaker 1: somehow lost. When you swore you knew your way home
Speaker 1: by then, of course, it was already too late. You
Speaker 1: were praying being chased by a predator. Back then, the
Speaker 1: townspeople thought if they were to give an offering to
Speaker 1: these creatures, they could form some sort of agreement. A
Speaker 1: human life given freely in exchange for safe passage wouldn't
Speaker 1: be missed, perhaps a haunter that strayed too far from
Speaker 1: his land, or maybe an undesirable of their own. So
Speaker 1: they came to this clearing here deep in the morn,
Speaker 1: and built this stone altar. Over the years, they've added
Speaker 1: these statutes away to honor their sacrifices. It worked for
Speaker 1: some time, but generation after generation the people grew weary
Speaker 1: of living under the shadow of death. That's when we
Speaker 1: the ward first came to be. All of you. You
Speaker 1: hunt the more del but they don't die how do
Speaker 1: you kill something that doesn't die. This war has been
Speaker 1: raging for a long time. We engineered our own ways
Speaker 1: of fighting back so we can live free from fear
Speaker 1: you have else where. I'm here. Someone hasn't been listening.
Speaker 1: This is the altar for the offerings, and tonight you
Speaker 1: are ours. Restrain her, get her up on the chair.
Speaker 1: I got it. You gotta do this. And was that
Speaker 1: my grandpa his police officer here? My mom? Are gonna
Speaker 1: come for me? Is that so? And my uncle I said,
Speaker 1: I won't let you hurt me, He'll come for me. Well,
Speaker 1: now with that, I completely agreed, because the ward isn't
Speaker 1: here for you. Only what are you doing? No one
Speaker 1: told me you were going to hurt the kid. I'm
Speaker 1: not a part of this. Just a little slice. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: don't come me. Come now, It's just a little blood,
Speaker 1: nothing to cry over. Now we wait for your uncle
Speaker 1: to save you. I hope he tears you to pieces.
Speaker 1: If you think he would spare you from the same fate,
Speaker 1: I'm afraid he'll only disappoint you again. Surround the perimeter.
Speaker 1: Don't let any of the others through, understood, Mother Marshall. Okay,
Speaker 1: fan out everybody, system, morality. Take up your position for
Speaker 1: the last time. I'm not a part of this. I'd
Speaker 1: like to see what it means when you are a
Speaker 1: part of something. I've got this one reading, brother reading.
Speaker 1: You don't outrank me out here, Detective here, I thought
Speaker 1: we're on the same side. Jesus Michelle, where the fund
Speaker 1: have you been around? Looks like I haven't missed the party.
Speaker 1: This is your doing. I didn't have a choice. You did,
Speaker 1: and you chose to hand over a child to save
Speaker 1: your own skin. I thought they'd take Ashley. I never
Speaker 1: thought you did what you had to do to survive Cat.
Speaker 1: Anyone who doesn't understand that is kidding themselves, or we
Speaker 1: don't want to understand because we're both sucking cowards. Here
Speaker 1: take this. I saw those old elephant guns before Isaia
Speaker 1: at the library. They're modified specifically for the more DAO.
Speaker 1: They carry charge bookshot rounds that send an electric pulse.
Speaker 1: It paralyzes them, but not for long. It's the best
Speaker 1: defense we have. No thanks. You can't be out here defenseless, Cat.
Speaker 1: I can't be here at all. I won't and neither
Speaker 1: should you. You can't leave. They won't let you, not
Speaker 1: until they have, Isaiah, I chose wrong machine. These people
Speaker 1: they don't care who lives or dies, even if they
Speaker 1: hide behind an oath that says otherwise. And maybe for
Speaker 1: the first time in my life, I realize some things
Speaker 1: are worth living with, something to consider before you. You
Speaker 1: said it yourself. Cat, don't walk away. They will find you.
Speaker 1: I will find you. I can take care of myself. Michelle.
Speaker 1: See around, M hand me those leaves with you. Isaiah. Oh,
Speaker 1: this is only gonna look nastier as it regenerates. Thanks,
Speaker 1: you're healing fast. I didn't heal this quickly. Well, practice
Speaker 1: makes perfect. How many times have you died? More than
Speaker 1: I care to remember? M Who are you? How did
Speaker 1: this happen to you? A lot like it happened to you.
Speaker 1: I'd imagine I was hunting in these woods with my
Speaker 1: dad a long time ago. We saw something in the woods.
Speaker 1: The rest is history. I guess what's your name? Harlow?
Speaker 1: Harlow Paine. M hmm. You said you've done this before.
Speaker 1: How many of you are there? How many of you
Speaker 1: have cured yourselves? Oh? Cowboy, I didn't say anything about
Speaker 1: a cure. I said I could help. How many? Just
Speaker 1: me there and others, and there will be more. But
Speaker 1: right now I'm what you've got. You cran to me
Speaker 1: like you had hope, like there was some real chance
Speaker 1: of getting rid of this. You're a liar, hey, fighting
Speaker 1: back the more day always isn't like dying. Okay, You
Speaker 1: don't get better at it. Your instincts get stronger, your
Speaker 1: sense is sharper, the hunger is more and more excruciating,
Speaker 1: and those voices, all of their voices, are so damn out.
Speaker 1: Your connection to all the rest of them will just
Speaker 1: grow deeper. This is a curse. You'll be paying for
Speaker 1: what you did for the rest of your life, and
Speaker 1: believe me, it's gonna be a long one. That doesn't
Speaker 1: mean you don't try to atone for it. You don't
Speaker 1: have to give in inevitable, not every more day, oh
Speaker 1: can be saved, but you you want to make things right,
Speaker 1: and that's what makes you different from the rest of them.
Speaker 1: You have a reason to fight it. To you, is
Speaker 1: it for something other than death? You mean you're not
Speaker 1: how to channel to pous Not really, I survive it,
Speaker 1: but you you have a strong will. I've never seen
Speaker 1: anyone fight the curse like you have. And if I
Speaker 1: can teach you how to control it, to surpass even
Speaker 1: my own abilities. You could change not just your fate,
Speaker 1: but all of ours. What if I'm just some guy
Speaker 1: who killed his brother, that I'm just some girl who
Speaker 1: killed her dad? Do you smell that? I know that
Speaker 1: scent blood? Not just any blood. I Saiah, you need
Speaker 1: to go. They found them, the ward that's sent. It's Justlyn.
Speaker 1: You need to go now. I don't understand. Why would
Speaker 1: Joscelyn be a part of this because you are now?
Speaker 1: Hurry if we can pick up the sin of her blood,
Speaker 1: so with others. Yeah, Jocelyn, Jocelynn Hope. Please. She shouldn't
Speaker 1: know we're out of here. If she knows, they know,
Speaker 1: we need to keep the element of surprise on her side.
Speaker 1: We should wait from back up that woman. She can
Speaker 1: help us. I'm not waiting, and I'm sure as he'll
Speaker 1: not leaving these woods without my daughter. What is that shaped?
Speaker 1: Quick down in the water. Find those rocks, Dear God,
Speaker 1: it's one of them. Stay quiet? What was she? There's
Speaker 1: another one of bass? He should be dead. What do
Speaker 1: you mean they should have sensed we were here? They're
Speaker 1: hitted somewhere. I know where they're going. Cat What are
Speaker 1: you doing here? I heard it Nesta as I was
Speaker 1: headed back to the lodge to find you. How do
Speaker 1: you know about the lodge? Listen, Ashley. I I made
Speaker 1: a mistake. I thought it was the right thing. What
Speaker 1: are you talking about? I followed that Nesta to the
Speaker 1: lodge from town. I told them you were here. I'm
Speaker 1: the reason they took her. Fucking Actually, don't. She's just
Speaker 1: a child. That's enough. Actually she's breaking. Let her go.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry fucking killed you. Yeah. I came to make
Speaker 1: this right. How could you possibly make this rot? They're
Speaker 1: using her as bait for Isaiah. They won't hurt her,
Speaker 1: at least I don't think so. But if things go wrong,
Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna save her either. They're not
Speaker 1: after me. Why would they be after you? It doesn't
Speaker 1: make any sense. They take an oath to protect human life.
Speaker 1: Putting her in danger goes against everything they believe in.
Speaker 1: What they say they believe in. You said you knew
Speaker 1: where the mare Dao are going. You can take us
Speaker 1: to her. Like I said, I'm here to make this right.
Speaker 1: Ship It's coming back, kids, blood fuck Me're we step
Speaker 1: the hill out of the water now. Michale, Come on,
Speaker 1: ear next to me, lean on me, Come here. We're good. Thanks.
Speaker 1: I told you to take a gun. You're all right,
Speaker 1: cap I think so? Yeah? I'm fine too, Thanks? What
Speaker 1: did you do to it? The shots give out a
Speaker 1: pulse to keep it subdued. But we gotta get out here.
Speaker 1: It'll wear off, and we need as many rounds as
Speaker 1: we can if we're gonna save Jocelyn. We there is
Speaker 1: no weed between us. You can't face what's ahead alone.
Speaker 1: You're going to cross the war to help save a
Speaker 1: little girl that doesn't sound like you, Michelle. I guess
Speaker 1: I realized some things aren't worth living with, all right.
Speaker 1: For the record, she stole that from me. Look, even
Speaker 1: with the four of us, we can't possibly take on
Speaker 1: the book Dayo and the Ward. No, but we can
Speaker 1: distract one with the other. If you draw the more
Speaker 1: DAO out, the Ward will be forced to disperse to
Speaker 1: keep them at bay. Then we can make our move.
Speaker 1: And how do we draw them out? Blood? Now? Wait
Speaker 1: just a minute, my plan, my blood. Now, let's go
Speaker 1: get your daughter. Hey, you're wasting your energy, dear, Why
Speaker 1: don't target Something's wrong? They're converging too fast. The rest
Speaker 1: of you join the perimeter. There's not enough of us
Speaker 1: I can handalyze. Theyah myself go, that's an order. You
Speaker 1: follow me there too strong, You can't fight them all.
Speaker 1: Not to worry pet only a little while longer. I
Speaker 1: suspect that they are really worth all this risk. I
Speaker 1: know what it seems like right now. You think I'm
Speaker 1: the enemy, cruel and heartless, but you don't understand what
Speaker 1: they are, what your uncle is. They're monsters, and like
Speaker 1: all monsters, they can only ever bring death and pain
Speaker 1: and loss, irrevocable loss. They killed someone he loved the
Speaker 1: more Deo deserved to be destroyed, and I will make
Speaker 1: sure that happens until my dying breath. You think I there,
Speaker 1: good to see you, punctual for once. Mr Williams let
Speaker 1: it go now said, get out of here. She wants
Speaker 1: to kill you. He knows that by now, Dear, don't
Speaker 1: you Izaiah? This whole time you knew You're not very
Speaker 1: good at hiding things. Isaiah, you never have been. Like
Speaker 1: I said from the start, You're honest, which is maybe
Speaker 1: why you've been caught every time. You haven't played by
Speaker 1: the rules. You have me. You don't need her any more. Release.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately you won't live to see her out of those chains.
Speaker 1: She goes. When you've shown me what you are, I can't.
Speaker 1: I don't have that kind of control over it. Perhaps
Speaker 1: you need a little coaxing. Then what are you doing?
Speaker 1: I'm giving you a little inspiration. She's got nothing to
Speaker 1: do with this. How cruel of me. Then each of
Speaker 1: you has your Yours is an anger or even desperation,
Speaker 1: like most of them yours, it's very specific shame. That's
Speaker 1: what drives you, Isaiah. And you feel shame. You can't
Speaker 1: save them, show you can't stop yourself from hurting them
Speaker 1: over and over. Don't talk to shame. That maybe all
Speaker 1: you were born to do with bring supper of course,
Speaker 1: of course, show me that shame, Isaiah, and I will
Speaker 1: free you from it just as it's more, and I'll
Speaker 1: send you back at hell where you belong. You've really
Speaker 1: stooped to a new level this time. Marjorie Harlow Payne
Speaker 1: should have known you bubble up from that swamp you've
Speaker 1: been hiding. And this we fight together now, kid to
Speaker 1: change our fate. How sind a man and prophetic, Poor Harlow,
Speaker 1: still trying to find yourself a little pupil to save you.
Speaker 1: When will you ever learn? They'll all fail, just like
Speaker 1: you've failed your teacher before you. This battle is bigger
Speaker 1: than you or I, Marjorie. It's a shame you won't
Speaker 1: live long enough to learn that lesson. You're threatening to
Speaker 1: kill me. I thought you didn't take lives anymore. I don't,
Speaker 1: but I can't speak for him. You didn't scream. They
Speaker 1: always scream when they turn. Now you die knowing he
Speaker 1: won't fail me, not this time. Goodbye, Marjorie. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: one step forward, three bloody steps back, I said, Jocelyn, No,
Speaker 1: can you hear me in there? Jocelyn, you can hear me?
Speaker 1: Can't you? You know who I am? Come back? I said, peace,
Speaker 1: come back. I O my gotta please. How I'm getting
Speaker 1: Michelle moll bradcasting Now? What got him on the ground? Mom? Mom?
Speaker 1: I got your kids? Hit her out of there now,
Speaker 1: I'm working on it. What about my mom should be
Speaker 1: right behind us, got it, Let's go. But the woman
Speaker 1: who helped us herlo she said, under those rocks, I
Speaker 1: can only see one of you. Come on, all right,
Speaker 1: they're clear. Hit him with everything you got, Michelle, my
Speaker 1: fucking pleasure, I'm out actually to run. We have to
Speaker 1: leave before wears off. What if I stay, he'll stay?
Speaker 1: Go now while he still can. We're not leaving you,
Speaker 1: jocolin shot. She won't forgive you for this. Maybe not,
Speaker 1: but he'll live long enough to understand why I did it.
Speaker 1: I promised to tell her. I love her every day. Ernest,
Speaker 1: come on, m if you can hear me in there,
Speaker 1: don't let her down. I think, don't you dare Hey,
Speaker 1: as you get out of here, I've got I say
Speaker 1: it's time he plays with someone his own size? How
Speaker 1: good are mine? They're retreating, Sister Williams, thank you, brother
Speaker 1: m hm, Mother Marshall. She's dead. We we didn't make
Speaker 1: it in time. You this is all your fault. You
Speaker 1: don't understand she was dead when we got here. I
Speaker 1: swear I just wanted to save my daughter. You have
Speaker 1: broken your road, sister. Now you must face the consequences here.
Speaker 1: Who Why are we stopped? I think we're in the clear.
Speaker 1: At least Joscelyn and the cat got away. I think
Speaker 1: they're safe. They should have reached the main road by now.
Speaker 1: I shouldn't have shouldn't have left actually behind she made
Speaker 1: up her man I should have been the one to
Speaker 1: stay behind the Facebook Son. There's no turning back. I'm sorry, Michelle.
Speaker 1: You were right about game, and I said, m maybe
Speaker 1: not completely. That's not your fault. You were doing what
Speaker 1: you thought was right. Today I saw what I've always
Speaker 1: seen in you, someone willing to do whatever it takes.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I doted you. I guess I had one
Speaker 1: round left. I'm sorry, cap I am, but you said
Speaker 1: it yourself. I'm willing to do whatever it takes. Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1: Y Our choices to find the past of our lives,
Speaker 1: some lead us towards the light, others into darkness, a
Speaker 1: darkness we must all now fight. We are at war
Speaker 1: in our battles, They've only just begun. H m hm.
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Speaker 1: Wolf at the Door present more Dale Executive produced by
Speaker 1: Jack Davis, Kate Krantz, Darren Brenda, Jason Bloom, Chris Dickey,
Speaker 1: Not Frederick and Alex Williams. Written by Caitlin Crab, directed
Speaker 1: by Alex Kemp. Produced by Toby Lawless, Winnie Kemp, Daniel Parsons,
Speaker 1: Co Producers, ben So Tech, Anthony Magnolo associate producer Federico Torrado.
Speaker 1: Starring j L. Fons Nicholson as Isaiah, Ashley Platts as Ashley,
Speaker 1: Olivia Lott as Jocelyn, Yvonne Angulo as Michelle, with performances
Speaker 1: by Tacy Adams, Ariella amar Jamie, Joseph kim Estes, Patty Wilkins,
Speaker 1: James Brewster. Sound designed by Dean Hovey. Original score by
Speaker 1: Christopher Kemp, Mixing by Mark Scarce, Edited by Fernando di
Speaker 1: Us Assistant engineer Noah's Sour. Recorded at Wolf at the
Speaker 1: Door Studios. Casting consultant Michelle LeWitt, Production assistants Haley mckeckney
Speaker 1: and Sophia gilbertele studio teacher Pearl Hika. Writing assistant Bill Hanson.
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