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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, Linda, thank you, and I'm sorry. I mean,
Speaker 2: you're the dean.
Speaker 3: I should have called you earlier, and I'm sorry for
Speaker 3: not giving you the advanced notice because obviously it put
Speaker 3: you in a spot.
Speaker 2: But no, no, no, it's not exactly resolved.
Speaker 3: But I think the emergency part of the family emergency
Speaker 3: is over at this point. But anyway, Yeah, thank you,
Speaker 3: I appreciate it. No, no, no, no, no, I don't think
Speaker 3: a leave of absence is necessary. We caught up on
Speaker 3: quite a lot this morning, and I should be back
Speaker 3: on schedule by the end of the week.
Speaker 2: Oh really, who's the publisher? Oh well, that's fantastic. No,
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't have any completed chapters that I could share
Speaker 3: just yet, but I.
Speaker 2: How how soon do they want that? I could try
Speaker 2: to do that?
Speaker 3: So hold on, So just two or three sample chapters
Speaker 3: and outline whole book.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, okay, I'm going to get right on that.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you, Linda, Okay, bye.
Speaker 2: Jeremy, Hey you What are you doing here?
Speaker 4: Were you ever going to tell me that Celestia is dead?
Speaker 2: Shit? Can you please close the door?
Speaker 4: What the hell happened the other night? You were supposed
Speaker 4: to protect her?
Speaker 5: How exactly was I supposed to do that? You gave
Speaker 5: me nothing to go on. It was all set up anyway.
Speaker 5: You were never worried about her, of course I was.
Speaker 5: She didn't seem all that surprise to see us. You
Speaker 5: sent us there under false pretenses.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I may not have given you the whole picture, but
Speaker 4: I was concerned about what she was going to do.
Speaker 4: I knew she wanted you for the ritual, and I thought,
Speaker 4: I mean, okay, when she told me her plan, I
Speaker 4: just assumed you were an anchor for your dad, that
Speaker 4: she could help him pass over.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that is not what happened.
Speaker 4: So what did happen?
Speaker 2: What did she tell you she was going to do? There?
Speaker 2: The viil?
Speaker 4: It had been getting weaker and weaker for a long time,
Speaker 4: and she thought there was finally going to be a
Speaker 4: way to close it. She thought Thomas was stuck like
Speaker 4: he was holding the doorway open because he wasn't. He
Speaker 4: wasn't what willing sacrifice.
Speaker 2: So you knew you knew that my father had been
Speaker 2: murdered by the gathering.
Speaker 4: By the children of Titchuba. There were something else, something
Speaker 4: twisted and wrong, that is no, I didn't know until
Speaker 4: that night. She told me to come get you, to
Speaker 4: send you an an to her at the ledge. She
Speaker 4: she was going to push Thomas through, finally closed.
Speaker 6: The gate for good.
Speaker 4: But she she lied, didn't she that she could close
Speaker 4: the gate without anyone else getting hurt.
Speaker 2: I don't know what she was thinking, but yes, she jumped.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 7: Was she happy?
Speaker 2: Was she what?
Speaker 8: Not?
Speaker 4: Okay, maybe happy isn't the right word.
Speaker 9: But did she.
Speaker 4: Did she want to be doing it?
Speaker 2: I don't know, I think so. We tried to stop her.
Speaker 5: I tried to call out, I tried to pull her back,
Speaker 5: but there was the wind, and there was all this
Speaker 5: massive storm.
Speaker 2: And that it would happen very fast.
Speaker 4: What do you mean there was a store?
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was a storm. Don't you remember.
Speaker 4: I don't think there was a storm anywhere else?
Speaker 3: Right, of course, you should have told me, honestly, Katie,
Speaker 3: I didn't even it didn't occur to me.
Speaker 2: I mean, the last three days have been.
Speaker 3: I don't know how to begin to describe them to you,
Speaker 3: and I'm not going to so don't ask. I just
Speaker 3: I know that Celeste should have been more on my mind,
Speaker 3: but I feel like I haven't had a chance to breathe.
Speaker 3: I am sorry, she's gone me too. How did you
Speaker 3: find out I haven't seen in the papers anywhere?
Speaker 4: Well, they, I mean they called me. Yeah, I guess
Speaker 4: I was listed as one of her emergency contacts. They
Speaker 4: couldn't get a hold of any of the others, so
Speaker 4: eventually they hit my name on the list.
Speaker 2: Do you know who the others were?
Speaker 4: Other members of the gathering? I would assume once from
Speaker 4: other places, maybe people Celesti used to.
Speaker 2: Know, And none of them answered. Is this the end
Speaker 2: of the gathering? Do you think Celesti was the leader? Right?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: For our chapter at least. And things have been scattered
Speaker 4: the last few days.
Speaker 7: But I've heard read what.
Speaker 4: Celested, the sacrifice she made, it should have calmed everything down.
Speaker 4: But there's been whisperings of another chapter leader coming to
Speaker 4: Bridgewater to deal with the fallout.
Speaker 2: What fallout?
Speaker 4: I don't know. I mean, it's not over.
Speaker 2: Yet, is it.
Speaker 3: Honestly, Katie, I have no idea. I'm just trying to
Speaker 3: get back to my life and to I don't know,
Speaker 3: start getting to know that the.
Speaker 2: The new life that this whole situation brought me. Right. So, wait,
Speaker 2: who is this other leader?
Speaker 4: Someone from Virginia? The triangle down there.
Speaker 3: The historic Triangle, you know it? Yeah, of course, it's
Speaker 3: a very well known area in the folklore circles.
Speaker 4: Well, I guess that makes sense. More supernatural activity means
Speaker 4: more members of the gathering.
Speaker 3: And they're coming here because something went wrong with Celeste ritual.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 2: Do you know who it is?
Speaker 4: A woman named Peyton Blake. She's the youngest leader in
Speaker 4: the history of the gathering, apparently barely thirty, apparently very knowledgeable.
Speaker 2: Do you think you could give me her contact information?
Speaker 4: I mean, see what I can dig up. But I
Speaker 4: should tell you I'm not going to try to seek
Speaker 4: her out.
Speaker 2: Uh why not?
Speaker 4: Look, I joined the gathering as a way to process
Speaker 4: my grief about my mom, and maybe I don't know,
Speaker 4: maybe I started to believe some of it the longer
Speaker 4: I was part of it. But I'm in way over
Speaker 4: my head now and I'm not sure I want to be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know how you feel, but I'll try.
Speaker 4: To track her down for you. I mean, as much
Speaker 4: as I want to put all of this behind me,
Speaker 4: you might not.
Speaker 2: Be able to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Katie, I'm sorry you had to find out how
Speaker 3: to celast from the police, but you, I don't know.
Speaker 2: You can't expect me to be upfront with you, and
Speaker 2: you haven't been upfront with me.
Speaker 4: I guess that's fair.
Speaker 3: Maybe you and I could just try being honest with
Speaker 3: each other from now on. If this really isn't over,
Speaker 3: then I think we probably want the same things that
Speaker 3: to make sure that whatever's on the other side that
Speaker 3: you all are always talking about doesn't come out.
Speaker 4: Wait, did Sless make a believer out of you?
Speaker 7: After all?
Speaker 3: I think there is a lot more going on in
Speaker 3: the Bridgewater Triangle, and I originally thought let's.
Speaker 4: Just say that welcome to the club.
Speaker 10: Look, okay, I know that we don't always see I I,
Speaker 10: but Maria and I we want to help. I'm not
Speaker 10: going to go out of my way to get involved,
Speaker 10: but if you need people to help you, we're here.
Speaker 2: Thank you. But actually I think I'm good. I've already
Speaker 2: got a crack team on it.
Speaker 6: I'm telling you, the plaid is going to make him
Speaker 6: look like the original brownie towel man.
Speaker 7: Not now that the mustache is gone.
Speaker 6: Oh thank god, Hey, you're you're the.
Speaker 7: Immediately assumed you recognized him from that hipster coffee shop.
Speaker 9: It's the same.
Speaker 7: No, I think the mustache could have been a strong choice.
Speaker 6: Too strong, that had to go.
Speaker 11: I liked my mustad too bad.
Speaker 6: Hey, maybe you can grow a beard. Beards are so
Speaker 6: in it and it would cover your face more beard maybe.
Speaker 7: Hey, so is this what you expected for a granddaughter
Speaker 7: grandfather bonding?
Speaker 6: Oh right, you mean did I expect to be spending
Speaker 6: my Friday helping my dead grandpa who's only like eight
Speaker 6: years older than me shop for skinny jeans? No, not exactly.
Speaker 7: Well, Olivia is right, it's somehow still too brownie towel guy.
Speaker 6: Okay, the pants are good, though, way better than the
Speaker 6: bell bottoms.
Speaker 11: I never wore bell bottoms.
Speaker 6: Okay, Oh, try the button down and the sweater next. Hey,
Speaker 6: thank you for coming, by the way, I know this
Speaker 6: whole thing is super weird.
Speaker 7: Oh gosh, no, I am happy to do it.
Speaker 6: I just I wasn't sure I was ready for the
Speaker 6: full one on one with a total stranger i'm biologically
Speaker 6: related to.
Speaker 7: Yet trust me, I get it. I barely want one
Speaker 7: on one time with my grandparents, and I've known them
Speaker 7: my whole wife.
Speaker 11: What do you all right? What do you what do
Speaker 11: you think?
Speaker 7: WHOA?
Speaker 6: Holy shit? You look well.
Speaker 12: I can't look that ridiculous, can I? We had collared
Speaker 12: shirts and sweaters in the seventies.
Speaker 6: No, no, you look fine.
Speaker 7: You just oh you look just you look just like Jeremy.
Speaker 6: Really just like him.
Speaker 11: I mean it is creepy, all right, So no on
Speaker 11: the sweater.
Speaker 6: How do you feel about a Henley?
Speaker 11: I don't know, I have no idea.
Speaker 6: Great, try it on.
Speaker 11: That's a Henley.
Speaker 6: Okay, try it with that bomber jacket and the black jeans.
Speaker 6: So you're not so cozy with the other coronas.
Speaker 7: Oh no, I mean they're fine. I mean they're not
Speaker 7: super thrilled that I'm spending my life doing research on
Speaker 7: made up stories for children. That's what they say now.
Speaker 7: But you know how it is. They're old.
Speaker 6: Yeah, my dad's parents are kind of like that too.
Speaker 6: Never understood my dad working in tech, and so I
Speaker 6: understand me even less. How about your parents? Do they
Speaker 6: think it's all made up nonsense?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 7: Yeah, they're religious Hindu, which is how I was raised. Actually, actually,
Speaker 7: became really obsessed with religion when I was a teenager.
Speaker 7: I went to church and temple and the mosque, Buddhist centers,
Speaker 7: basically anything I could find. It drove them crazy.
Speaker 6: That is a lot. Did you ever settle on any
Speaker 6: of them?
Speaker 7: I still celebrate the Hindu holidays with them, but I
Speaker 7: don't know. I've always had a hard time believing in gods.
Speaker 7: The idea of a more powerful being having an effect
Speaker 7: on all of us just felt strange. Ideas about the
Speaker 7: soul or karma or universal forces, even magical creatures or
Speaker 7: monsters like those always made more sense to me. So
Speaker 7: I get Hinduism more than a lot of other religions.
Speaker 6: But none of it really feels right.
Speaker 7: Yeah, exactly. I guess that's what led me to all
Speaker 7: of the cryptozoology. I do think there's an explanation for
Speaker 7: most of the weird stuff that's happened in the world,
Speaker 7: for the miracles and the ghosts and the myths. I
Speaker 7: just think that maybe our scope of understanding it is limited.
Speaker 7: For some people, that leads them to religion, and for
Speaker 7: me it led me to what my parents consider bigfoot hunting.
Speaker 7: I've never been able to make them see that I'm
Speaker 7: just seeking out the same answers that they are with
Speaker 7: their faith. You know.
Speaker 6: Oh, I can totally picture you as a religion obsessed
Speaker 6: fifteen year old. Yeah yeah, well, I mean it's all
Speaker 6: kind of part of that historical narrative that you're always
Speaker 6: talking about. Right, So the stories that we tell ourselves
Speaker 6: in religious texts, you know, they aren't that different from
Speaker 6: the myths we make up to explain the unexplainable.
Speaker 7: See, you should talk to my parents for me. Oh okay,
Speaker 7: So I guess a lot of those things are explainable
Speaker 7: now because monsters are real.
Speaker 6: Well, I'll be sure not to mention that part to them, though.
Speaker 6: You know, you should probably ask me out first before
Speaker 6: you go introducing me to your parents.
Speaker 12: But I feel ridiculous, like I'm pretending to be Jim
Speaker 12: Morris or something.
Speaker 6: Oh maybe if you kept the shaggy haircut. But I
Speaker 6: think you look perfect.
Speaker 11: Really, I don't look anything like myself exactly.
Speaker 9: And hey, Jeremy, how are things at the university Little Rocky?
Speaker 2: They're okay. My Dean was weirdly not thrilled that I
Speaker 2: missed the last.
Speaker 3: Two days of classes without any morning, But I think
Speaker 3: I was actually able to smooth things over?
Speaker 9: Would you tell her?
Speaker 2: I told her truth that I had a family emergency.
Speaker 2: I didn't get specifics.
Speaker 3: I couldn't exactly tell her that my dad came back
Speaker 3: from the dead, and I didn't.
Speaker 2: Literally did not know what day of the week it was.
Speaker 2: But it's okay. Where is he?
Speaker 9: Oh, he's out with Olivia and Vippen.
Speaker 2: Why doing what?
Speaker 9: Shopping?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 9: Getting a haircut? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 9: The kids thought it might be a good idea for
Speaker 9: Thomas to you know, blend in a little bit more.
Speaker 9: I guess.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he might really like Olivia.
Speaker 9: I actually think she asked him to come along. I'm
Speaker 9: not sure she was ready to go out with Thomas
Speaker 9: on her own, but you.
Speaker 2: Know, yeah, juicy gossip.
Speaker 9: Yeah, how's he doing? Man? You saw him this morning, Jeremy,
Speaker 9: I mean.
Speaker 3: I know, I know, but I mean, hey, thank you
Speaker 3: for letting me crash on your couch.
Speaker 2: I think I'm just I'm not really ready to.
Speaker 9: Like you don't want to let him out of your side?
Speaker 9: I get it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, does he seem off to you at all?
Speaker 9: Off?
Speaker 3: How? I don't know, Like this morning, he was sort
Speaker 3: of still half asleep, and he seemed a little bit disoriented.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe he's just not a morning person. I no, he.
Speaker 9: Always liked mornings. Maybe he's just you know, he's just
Speaker 9: not used to sleep when yet or something?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: I guess that makes sense.
Speaker 3: I mean, like his food thing. His whole body has
Speaker 3: to be adjusting.
Speaker 2: M Jesus. Would that have been my room? What your
Speaker 2: guest room? Would that have been?
Speaker 3: That?
Speaker 2: That was gonna be my room, wasn't it?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, that was the plan. Shelley would have stayed
Speaker 9: with us in our room while she was a baby,
Speaker 9: and then you guys might have shared for a little
Speaker 9: bit before we could afford a bigger place.
Speaker 2: And then you never needed a bigger place?
Speaker 9: No I didn't.
Speaker 2: And what what happens?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: Where do we go from here?
Speaker 9: I have no idea.
Speaker 3: Does he get a job? Does he go back to
Speaker 3: working on the forest? Am I gonna fucking die before him?
Speaker 3: Or is he just going to disappear one day in
Speaker 3: two years from now? Because this is all just borrowed time?
Speaker 9: I mean, see, you're spiraling?
Speaker 2: How are you not?
Speaker 3: The man?
Speaker 2: The man you love is back? But man, he's forty
Speaker 2: years younger than you.
Speaker 9: Yeah, thanks, I noticed.
Speaker 2: I mean, how does any how does any of this work?
Speaker 9: I don't know. I mean, we did it. You know,
Speaker 9: we got him back. It's more than I could have
Speaker 9: ever hoped for.
Speaker 2: You don't feel like it's it's a monkey's paw or something.
Speaker 9: Well, sure I do. I mean I got them back,
Speaker 9: but I can't get the last four decades back to
Speaker 9: spend with them. Oh. We miss an entire life together,
Speaker 9: and I mean, you know, I know that we can't
Speaker 9: be together now, not really, but I mean there's no
Speaker 9: life for us. A build.
Speaker 2: Doesn't it like eat you up?
Speaker 9: Of course it does. But me coming to terms with
Speaker 9: the cruel irony of my situation is not the same
Speaker 9: as you waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Speaker 2: It's just a.
Speaker 9: If there's one silver lining to me missing out on
Speaker 9: my life, it's that the two of you have gotten
Speaker 9: yours ahead of you. I mean, you're the one that
Speaker 9: got robbed, Jeremy. I'd give up a lot more for
Speaker 9: you and Shelley to have time with your dad.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Shelley, what are you gonna tell her?
Speaker 9: I don't know, I don't know. I mean, Olivia doesn't
Speaker 9: want me to keep it from her. She doesn't think
Speaker 9: it's fair.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm inclined to agree, But what.
Speaker 9: If telling her I'm putting her in danger. I mean,
Speaker 9: there's still something roman around out.
Speaker 2: There, and maybe it's not our problem anymore.
Speaker 3: What Look, Katie Franks came to see me earlier, and
Speaker 3: she says, there's this new gathering leader who's on our
Speaker 3: way up from Virginia and maybe she can just take
Speaker 3: care of this.
Speaker 9: I'm not sure that we can rely on I'm stranger
Speaker 9: from another state to fix things here.
Speaker 2: I also met someone outside of Oakley Farms. You did?
Speaker 9: Why didn't you say?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I guess I just got distracted. It wasn't really much
Speaker 3: of anything. It's just another hobbyist. But she's part of
Speaker 3: this group of legend trippers who've all they've come to
Speaker 3: Bridgewater to look into all the strange stuff that's been happening.
Speaker 2: So maybe we can just like keep.
Speaker 3: An eye on them and hear about any other attacks
Speaker 3: and then just like, I don't know, just go from there.
Speaker 3: I I don't know. I just think that we can
Speaker 3: maybe afford to do a little outsourcing.
Speaker 9: Here, Okay. And if all of this really is the
Speaker 9: Fay Realm like Vipen and Olivia think. Doesn't that mean
Speaker 9: we're dealing with much bigger issue here?
Speaker 5: I don't know, maybe, but Fay myths are incredibly broad
Speaker 5: and until we have something concrete.
Speaker 11: And I know my.
Speaker 3: Dad wants to get Alden out and he wants to
Speaker 3: figure out what's going on with the in between but
Speaker 3: come on, it took us forty years to get him out.
Speaker 2: Don't you think we've done enough? Ah?
Speaker 6: Tassa pepper.
Speaker 7: Oh, here you go.
Speaker 12: So you really think that all of this the in
Speaker 12: between space? What happened to me? It's fairies?
Speaker 7: Yep, that's the working theory.
Speaker 11: I thought fairies were tiny and harmless.
Speaker 7: That's the modern Disney version of them. But the Fay realm, well,
Speaker 7: depending on when and where the myth is from, it
Speaker 7: can encompass so much.
Speaker 6: Oh exactly on the version that's small and impish, like
Speaker 6: luring children into the woods, that appears in so many
Speaker 6: different cultures, like fairies and hobgoblins in Europe, Puck wedgies here.
Speaker 7: Right, everyone using different language to describe the same thing.
Speaker 11: Okay, then which version of the myth do we think
Speaker 11: is correct?
Speaker 7: I don't think it's about one group of people getting
Speaker 7: it all right. It might be all true to some degree.
Speaker 7: I mean, it's like the Abrahamic religions, right. The God
Speaker 7: is the same across Christianity and Judaism and Islam, but
Speaker 7: a lot of the details are different.
Speaker 11: So what's the God in this situation? The one unifying thing.
Speaker 7: The fay Realm. I guess it appears basically in every
Speaker 7: myth tradition, just not always in the same way.
Speaker 11: The other side. That's what the gathering calls it, right, right,
Speaker 11: I think it's.
Speaker 6: A place where spirits are and the afterlife essentially.
Speaker 11: I guess the only other soul I saw it was
Speaker 11: all the It's not.
Speaker 7: Always just about the afterlife, though, Mount Olympus could be
Speaker 7: considered the other world, even though they had the underworld too,
Speaker 7: or Valhalla or reu Gujo, a Japanese land of dragons
Speaker 7: under the sea. There's actually a whole folk story about
Speaker 7: a man who went to reu Gujo for three days
Speaker 7: and then came back to his life three hundred years
Speaker 7: had passed.
Speaker 11: Sounds familiar.
Speaker 7: And that's not even including the liminal spaces, the river sticks, Purgatory,
Speaker 7: chinwit Bridge. Sometimes there are not even places but times,
Speaker 7: the day of the dead, all hallows, eve seances, even
Speaker 7: any place or time that connects this side to the
Speaker 7: other side, whatever the other side might be.
Speaker 6: So we think the in between space that Thomas was
Speaker 6: in was really like a halfway to the other side,
Speaker 6: like river sticks.
Speaker 7: It would make sense.
Speaker 11: Right where did you guys learn all this stuff?
Speaker 7: Well, I'm getting my PhD in it, so kind of
Speaker 7: have to know it all.
Speaker 11: But Olivia, you don't work in folklore like Jeremy.
Speaker 6: Right, No, but I have access to the Internet. Oh
Speaker 6: did Jeremy explain the Internet to you?
Speaker 12: It sort of honestly sounds just as made up as
Speaker 12: the favor realm or some idea of monsters coming over
Speaker 12: a kind of bridge, at least that stuff I've actually experienced.
Speaker 6: Don't worry, we'll work up to the dark web.
Speaker 7: What everything seems mysterious when you're first learning about it.
Speaker 7: We think of the Fey realm and monsters as something
Speaker 7: magical and impossible. But what if they're just another species
Speaker 7: that's just really different from ours, like those fish that
Speaker 7: live in the bottom of the.
Speaker 6: Ocean, another species that lives in another dimension with a
Speaker 6: bunch of supernatural beasts.
Speaker 7: I know, I know, it sounds far fetched. Your dead.
Speaker 7: Grandpa's currently dipping a French fry into his milkshake.
Speaker 2: So it's delicious.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, I can say if we say, I will
Speaker 7: never confirm that for myself.
Speaker 11: You're missing out.
Speaker 6: Wait, what does that make magic? I mean Celeste and
Speaker 6: the children of Titchubo were able to open up the gate.
Speaker 6: So there's something at work here.
Speaker 7: Whatever it is, magic or physics, we don't understand. It
Speaker 7: has to have rules. We just need to find out
Speaker 7: what they are.
Speaker 12: Okay, Well, we know that things happen on a forty
Speaker 12: year cycle, and that it seems to need two souls
Speaker 12: at any given time. There was someone with Alden before
Speaker 12: I appeared. He's always had someone with him until now.
Speaker 12: Celeste didn't get all the way through. She broke one
Speaker 12: of the rules. I broke them, and we have no
Speaker 12: idea what the consequences of that are going to be.
Speaker 6: Come on, but let's get out of here. If it,
Speaker 6: Ben will drop you off at years on our way,
Speaker 6: on our way to what to deal with some of
Speaker 6: the consequences.
Speaker 9: Jeremy, I don't think Thomas is going to see it
Speaker 9: that way. He feels responsible to all of them.
Speaker 5: I know that, But what about his responsibility to us,
Speaker 5: to himself. Well, we can't spend the rest of our
Speaker 5: lives trying to control the Bridgewater Triangle because it's out
Speaker 5: of control.
Speaker 9: Okay, how about starting with trying to learn more about it? Okay,
Speaker 9: don't you still have a book to write?
Speaker 5: Honestly, I don't even know how I'm supposed to write
Speaker 5: a book now. The entire premise of it was that
Speaker 5: people in the Bridgewater Triangle have this unique relationship to myth.
Speaker 5: They're spending centuries stealing legends from the Wampanoague and bringing
Speaker 5: legends to of their own, then mixing them together to
Speaker 5: create something particular to this place. How many times have
Speaker 5: I said this place? And it was all about urban
Speaker 5: legends influencing culture and vice versa.
Speaker 2: Except not da da.
Speaker 5: It turns out they weren't really legends at all, because
Speaker 5: people in the Bridgewater Triangle have been and are being
Speaker 5: attacked by real fucking monsters.
Speaker 2: By entire life's work is all bullshit. I've been made.
Speaker 5: Reality has turned me into a complete fraud. And on
Speaker 5: top of all of that, I'm the same fucking age
Speaker 5: as my father. I'm sorry, I just like I feel
Speaker 5: like I can't even breathe.
Speaker 9: Anne, I understand. I get that, Jeremy, I really do,
Speaker 9: I really do. But what about Alton? Okay, he is
Speaker 9: just a kid.
Speaker 2: I know, but for all we know, there is nothing
Speaker 2: that we can do about it.
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 9: But then what about the balance that Celeste was always
Speaker 9: talking about?
Speaker 5: If whoever whatever controls the triangle or the gate or
Speaker 5: the fucking in between whatever this is, isn't happy with the
Speaker 5: way things are.
Speaker 2: I am quite confident that they're gonna make it known.
Speaker 9: Okay, An, then don't you think we should get ahead
Speaker 9: of this?
Speaker 2: I don't understand what is this about? What is it?
Speaker 2: Why are you so eager to find more problems? Aren't
Speaker 2: you tired?
Speaker 11: Of course?
Speaker 9: Of course I am, Honey. This is what I do.
Speaker 9: I figure things out, you know, I mean I've fixed them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but as you were just talking about, and you
Speaker 5: missed your entire life because of it.
Speaker 2: That's not fair, really, it isn't.
Speaker 5: And you're right, my dad and I we have a
Speaker 5: chance now to really get to know each other.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, So why the rush, right? I mean, we
Speaker 9: can figure all of this out and then you can
Speaker 9: have that time. But I know that you'll both be safe.
Speaker 5: And I'm sick of trying to change things that I
Speaker 5: can't control. Do you really think that we can figure
Speaker 5: this out enough to fight against it? Celeste did the
Speaker 5: ritual wrong, We're definitely not going to do it right.
Speaker 2: We need to enjoy this while.
Speaker 9: We can, while we can.
Speaker 2: What if it takes him back?
Speaker 6: Wait?
Speaker 9: What?
Speaker 5: This is so much bigger than any of us, and
Speaker 5: I can't I can't wrap my head around it at all.
Speaker 5: And it was literally this was literally my job to
Speaker 5: understand all of this crap. But now it's th real,
Speaker 5: the cycle, the balance, the Faye realm, the goddamn dog,
Speaker 5: all in It's all so beyond.
Speaker 2: My scope that I don't even see the point.
Speaker 5: I don't see the point in trying what I do see.
Speaker 2: I see.
Speaker 5: I see a chance at a second chance, and for
Speaker 5: whatever reason, I'm getting that and having a dad, And
Speaker 5: until something happens that forces me to confront all of
Speaker 5: this other shit, that is what I am going to
Speaker 5: focus on.
Speaker 9: Jeremy is not going away again.
Speaker 5: Don't You can't say that you don't know that, And
Speaker 5: that is the whole point. None of us know anything.
Speaker 5: Celeste is dead, She's not somewhere else. So if everything
Speaker 5: is still fucked up that we have a ticking clock here.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, I just.
Speaker 2: What the hell? Power search? Earthquake?
Speaker 9: What get away from the windows?
Speaker 2: And what's happening? I don't know?
Speaker 5: And and what do we do? What do we do?
Speaker 3: I don't know?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 9: Do you hear that?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 3: Nothing?
Speaker 11: There's nothing? Are you sure this is a good idea?
Speaker 6: We have to rip the band aid off sometime, you know,
Speaker 6: especially if knowing everything could help her stay safe. So
Speaker 6: the sooner the better. But while she's working, well, I
Speaker 6: figure it lowers the freak out chances, trust me, okay,
Speaker 6: because banks are just nice and quiet.
Speaker 8: Knock knock, I have high honey, what are you doing here?
Speaker 6: Sorry for the unexpected drive by, but we were in
Speaker 6: the neighborhood.
Speaker 8: And did you finish whatever you're helping your nana with? Oh? Sorry, Hi,
Speaker 8: who's this?
Speaker 6: Mom? This is Thomas.
Speaker 8: Hello Thomas, I'm Shelley. I'm Olivia's mom.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, I know, so mom.
Speaker 6: This is Thomas Bradshaw.
Speaker 8: Oh hi, okay, Bradshaw is in Jeremy's brother. I didn't
Speaker 8: I didn't know he had a brother.
Speaker 6: Oh no, this is not his brother. So I'm just
Speaker 6: going to tell you some stuff, and I need you
Speaker 6: to know that I'm not messing with you live.
Speaker 8: What are you talking about?
Speaker 6: Does the name Thomas Bradshaw sound they get all familiar
Speaker 6: to you.
Speaker 8: That was Mom's old partner, right, the one who died
Speaker 8: well missing.
Speaker 11: It turns out I'm still very much alive.
Speaker 8: You Okay, I don't understand.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, right, So all that stuff Nana told you
Speaker 6: growing up about Bridgewater and how weird it is and
Speaker 6: how something happened to her partner, something that defied explanation,
Speaker 6: yeah that was all true. And so this is Thomas
Speaker 6: Bradshaw who went missing in nineteen eighty, except he wasn't
Speaker 6: so much missing as he was trapped in a magical
Speaker 6: dimension where time didn't really pass, which is why he
Speaker 6: looks closer to your age than Nana's, even though he's
Speaker 6: really old enough to be your father. And by old enough,
Speaker 6: I mean he is your father and my grandfather. So
Speaker 6: that's what's happening.
Speaker 7: What HI.
Speaker 8: With. I don't really understand what you're doing.
Speaker 12: I know it's a lot to take in from me too,
Speaker 12: and I know Anne would want to talk to you
Speaker 12: explaining everything, but I couldn't wait to meet you I've
Speaker 12: been waiting to meet you for.
Speaker 8: Forty No, no, you're crazy and you're here's some sort
Speaker 8: of scammer or a creep.
Speaker 6: But and then no, no, mom, this is real, Olivia.
Speaker 6: It is I promise, Shelley.
Speaker 11: You can ask me anything you want and I'll tell
Speaker 11: you everything that I can.
Speaker 8: Really. Okay, listen, I don't know what your game is here,
Speaker 8: but you are going to stay away from my daughter, Mom, Olivia.
Speaker 8: It's not your fault, honey. This man is clearly praying
Speaker 8: on you, and so I will now just stop it stop.
Speaker 8: You will get out of here right now, Shelley. Please,
Speaker 8: if you do not leave in the next five seconds,
Speaker 8: I am pressing my panic along.
Speaker 6: Oh my god, Mom, he's not trying to rob the.
Speaker 8: Place, and then the police will be dragging your sick
Speaker 8: predator asked to jail before you can blink. So you
Speaker 8: have options, Mom.
Speaker 11: Olivia, It's okay.
Speaker 8: I'll go fantastic, and if you so much as look
Speaker 8: at my daughter again, I won't wait for the police.
Speaker 8: Do you understand me?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Okay, just go worked.
Speaker 8: And animal, No, do not go near my mother.
Speaker 7: Mom.
Speaker 6: He's gonna go okay, and and you and I will.
Speaker 8: Talk I mean it, stay away from my.
Speaker 11: Family, Okay, I understand. I am so sorry for springing
Speaker 11: this on you.
Speaker 2: Shelley.
Speaker 11: I'm so sorry for so much.
Speaker 2: I don't understand. How is this happening?
Speaker 9: I don't know.
Speaker 2: This is not a natural quiet Dad, Jeremy, hey you okay?
Speaker 11: Well, actually I need to talk to both of you.
Speaker 9: We need to talk to you too. Something just happened.
Speaker 11: What do you mean, Wait, what's going on? Why is everything?
Speaker 11: Why can't I hear anything?
Speaker 2: We don't know. There was this earthquake and then everything
Speaker 2: went quiet inside.
Speaker 9: So we came out here and it was the same thing.
Speaker 11: An earthquake.
Speaker 2: I don't know that's what it felt like. It was
Speaker 2: it quiet when you were walking on I don't know.
Speaker 11: I wasn't paying attention really, so I guess I would
Speaker 11: have noticed. This is God, Wait, this.
Speaker 12: Happened before when you went missing, and you remember we
Speaker 12: were combing Freetown.
Speaker 9: For you and yes, and it was unnaturally quiet, like we.
Speaker 11: Were somewhere else, entirely the in between.
Speaker 2: How is that possible? You can't just wander into another dimension.
Speaker 11: Maybe we didn't.
Speaker 12: Maybe it wasn't about us going into the in between,
Speaker 12: but it was about it coming out to us.
Speaker 2: Maybe, ah, whoa dad? Hey you okay, what's going on?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Yeah yeah yeah, Thomas you okay.
Speaker 11: I'm fine. I just got a bit dizzy, dad, Dad.
Speaker 1: This episode of Bridgewater was written by Lauren Shippen and
Speaker 1: directed by Brendan Patrick Hughes Assistant director Sarah Kleine. Sound
Speaker 1: designed by Vincent de Johnny rema El Kali, Josh Thane,
Speaker 1: and Trevor Young, with music by Chad Law. Starring Misha
Speaker 1: Collins as Jeremy Bradshaw, Melissa Ponzio as Anne Becker, Alan
Speaker 1: Tudick as Thomas Bradshaw, Karen Sony as Vipen Kurana, Sabra
Speaker 1: May as Olivia Hoskins, Cheryl Umanya as Officer Bautista, Will
Speaker 1: Wheaton as Captain Haddock, Tricia Helfer as the Legend Tripper,
Speaker 1: Stephen Guarino as Doctor Edwards nand Misiu Dambe as Peyton Blake,
Speaker 1: Hillary Burton Morgan as Shelley Hoskins, Nicky McCauley as Celeste,
Speaker 1: and Victoria Grace as Katie Franks, with additional voice acting
Speaker 1: by Greta Gould, Shelby Young, Adam O'byrn Monte Markham, Charlie Bergman,
Speaker 1: and Tarren Westbrook. Executive producers Aaron Manke, Misha Collins, Lauren Shippen,
Speaker 1: Matt Frederick and Alexander Williams. Supervising producers Josh Thain and
Speaker 1: Trevor Young. Bridgewater was created by me Aaron Manke and
Speaker 1: is a production of Grim and Mild and iHeart three
Speaker 1: D Audio. Learn more about the show over at Grimandmild
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