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Speaker 4: Our lead story today, Raymond Bachman, the man accused of
Speaker 4: driving his car into a crowd of people at the
Speaker 4: Havoc Township courthouse, has died today. Police are still investigating
Speaker 4: the cause of the incident. Bachmann's family could not be
Speaker 4: reached for comment.
Speaker 1: Okay, We're okay, We're gonna be okay. Say you're just
Speaker 1: living your life, obsessed with your bills and shit at
Speaker 1: work and what's for dinner for that party you have
Speaker 1: to go to for your best friend because you owe
Speaker 1: them one. You are immersed in the constant deluge of
Speaker 1: the day to day, swimming in it. It has always
Speaker 1: been and will always be life, normal, life, tedious and lovely.
Speaker 1: And then one morning, as you're bringing the garbage down
Speaker 1: to the street before heading off to work, boom wolf
Speaker 1: Man in your yard. Poseidon pops up from the sewers descend,
Speaker 1: bringing new revelations from on high. Blood drenched madman goes
Speaker 1: on a violent killing spree with a fireman's axe. What
Speaker 1: happens the next morning? Do you wake up at the
Speaker 1: normal time, go through your morning checklist, you brush your teeth?
Speaker 1: Do you floss? In this new reality? You cancel dinner plans? Dad?
Speaker 1: Your call has been forwarded to an automatic voice message system. Hey, Sylvie, uh,
Speaker 1: I think we keep the bar closed today out of
Speaker 1: respect for the dead day off? Okay, bye? How do
Speaker 1: you just sit with your coffee? In my head, I
Speaker 1: ran through the previous day, the same wall I made
Speaker 1: every day, the car careening around the corner, the bloodshed
Speaker 1: that followed, and then later that night, meeting my savior
Speaker 1: a second time, which you know didn't go great. Hello.
Speaker 2: I am Sylvie. I work here and I am.
Speaker 1: Friends with Krine. Oh god, I'm sorry. This is Sylvie. Sylvie.
Speaker 1: This nicely dressed man pushed me out of the way
Speaker 1: of a moving car and saved my life. And I
Speaker 1: never caught his name.
Speaker 5: All right, I'm Jury Jerry Havoc. Well, shit again, I
Speaker 5: quite a lot.
Speaker 1: Actually, which number are you?
Speaker 2: The fourteenth?
Speaker 6: Shit?
Speaker 1: There are a lot of you.
Speaker 2: Well what right?
Speaker 1: Right? Sorry? Jury Havoc. In the Flash, the fourteenth Sigon
Speaker 1: to the Havoc Empire for whom our town is named.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I suppose Karen. Yes, and do you have a
Speaker 2: last name? Krin?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's Abbess.
Speaker 5: No shit, yeah, of the famed vampire hunters. Tell me
Speaker 5: you're still out there every night digging up the dead.
Speaker 1: You're still out there breaking labor laws in your factories.
Speaker 1: Uh sorry, that was that was just that was way
Speaker 1: out of line.
Speaker 5: No, no, it was it was fair considering. I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: Let's start again, shall we. Hello karinn Abbess. My name
Speaker 5: is Jerry Havoc. I come in peace.
Speaker 1: Hmmm you want to drink?
Speaker 5: Uh no, I have to take a rain check. Actually,
Speaker 5: I just stopped by to drop off the phone and
Speaker 5: you know, introduce myself formerly.
Speaker 1: Hm, well, thank you.
Speaker 2: And I'll bid you ladies a good night.
Speaker 7: Good night, don't be a stranger.
Speaker 5: Oh and so you know, I've been trying very hard
Speaker 5: to get my house in order. The men whoever saw
Speaker 5: those labor violations that they've been terminated. I'm trying to
Speaker 5: do better than we've done in the past.
Speaker 7: Oh.
Speaker 1: I I was just reacting, you know, in a moment.
Speaker 2: I didn't mean no, no, no, no, no, it's okay,
Speaker 2: it's okay. You weren't wrong. Exactly.
Speaker 1: Well, just so you know, we gave up the vampire
Speaker 1: hunting business a couple of years back.
Speaker 2: Oh, good to know.
Speaker 1: It was dead. Anyway, that's terrible.
Speaker 2: Well i'll see you ladies around.
Speaker 1: You are horrible at flirting. Yeah, I'm gonna need another drink.
Speaker 1: You got it, mama, And I wasn't flirting, clearly stupid.
Speaker 1: A terrible day had led to a very involved evening
Speaker 1: of drinking, a long stumble home in the cold, and
Speaker 1: a fitful night of bad dreams and trips to the bathroom.
Speaker 1: The morning began, as such mornings usually do, with an
Speaker 1: almost operatic hangover. I was going to get so much worse. Dad, Hey, Dad,
Speaker 1: you awake, Dad. It's almost ten. We need to start
Speaker 1: getting rolling if we're going to make your appointment, Dad, Dad,
Speaker 1: Oh please please, oh god, oh god, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no. What happened? Did you fall getting out of bed?
Speaker 1: Your lips are blue? Can you hear me? Daddy? Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: I'll be right back. I'm gonna call the ambulance. Hello, Yes,
Speaker 1: I found my father on the floor. He's barely breathing.
Speaker 1: He's unresponsive. Eight one seven twin Oaks Drive, it looks
Speaker 1: like he tripped or collapsed or something. He's got cancer.
Speaker 1: This is his daughter, Corinne. Okay, please please hurry. Is
Speaker 1: there anything I can do? I followed to the hospital.
Speaker 1: All I could think about was how long he'd been there?
Speaker 1: An hour? All night? Why hadn't I checked on him
Speaker 1: when I got home? Hi? Yeah, my sorry, my father
Speaker 1: was brought in here by an ambulance. I lost track
Speaker 1: of them while like name in abbis No, your father's
Speaker 1: oh Jonathan Abos. He probably came in like five minutes ago.
Speaker 1: I got stuck at a light and I lost track
Speaker 1: of them.
Speaker 3: He's not in the system yet.
Speaker 2: I'll call you when he pops up.
Speaker 1: Okay, how long does it normally take?
Speaker 3: Depends on a lot of factors.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, horn So.
Speaker 1: Wait wait wait, there's nothing I can do. I'll call you.
Speaker 6: Please sit Corren Jimbo, Hey kid, everything okay?
Speaker 1: Uh? Well no, no, actually I I found dad this morning.
Speaker 1: Oh no, yeah, he was some got chimbo. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's happening. He was just he was
Speaker 1: just lying there.
Speaker 6: And hey, come here. Look your dad's a real fighter.
Speaker 6: You know that? Yeah? Yeah, hey, I ever tell you
Speaker 6: about the time Old Tom stabanaw got his blood up
Speaker 6: about the Pats and started trying to get into it
Speaker 6: with Pauli Shelton for wearing a giant's jersey. I was
Speaker 6: about to take a swing, and your dad, all five
Speaker 6: foot seven of him, took that goliath down with a
Speaker 6: single swing.
Speaker 1: Dad, my dad.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah. He stood over Old Tom made sure he
Speaker 6: could hear him, and then just said be polite. Really yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: he was just a James Horn. Yeah. Yeah, hold your horses,
Speaker 6: I'm coming. You. Let me and Barbara know if there's
Speaker 6: anything you or your dad need.
Speaker 1: Huh wait, I'm sorry, Jesus, what's going on? Why are
Speaker 1: you here? You all right?
Speaker 6: Yeah? I just uh the guy yesterday bit me and.
Speaker 1: It's Jesus, Jimbo. That looks terrible.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a little angry, for sure.
Speaker 1: Your whole arm is swollen.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Well, I just hope that guy wasn't rabid. No, no,
Speaker 6: that was a joke.
Speaker 1: Mister Horn.
Speaker 6: I said I was coming, you goddamn.
Speaker 1: Hoppy, jim You can't scream.
Speaker 6: Do not tell me what I can't do.
Speaker 8: I'm an officer the goddamn law security.
Speaker 6: Don't you dare call o goddamn rent a cop on me.
Speaker 1: You stupid Jesus Jimbough.
Speaker 2: I'm hot.
Speaker 1: I can't, Jimbo, your nose is bleeding.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, I'm so I'm so sorry. I just need
Speaker 6: to just sit shit.
Speaker 4: So if you need to sit down, jim we need
Speaker 4: a team. In Lobby three, a man's fainted.
Speaker 1: He's burning up, and for the third time in twenty
Speaker 1: four hours, I watched man being carted away. The look
Speaker 1: in his eyes in that moment had been feral. Spittle
Speaker 1: had flown from his mouth. If I didn't know him,
Speaker 1: I'd think he was capable in that moment of anything.
Speaker 1: Jimbohrn the sweetest man I'd ever met. When fishing with
Speaker 1: my father, we'd barbecued at his house. He threw Dad's
Speaker 1: retirement party when he'd handed the keys over to me,
Speaker 1: and still had coffee at the bar every morning, just
Speaker 1: like he had every day for the last thirty years.
Speaker 1: I needed to call his wife, Barbara. What would I
Speaker 1: tell her?
Speaker 8: Do I have the family of Jonathan Abbess?
Speaker 1: Here? Jonathan Abbess, Hi, Yes, I'm his daughter.
Speaker 8: Please follow me. Your father is stabilized, but he doesn't
Speaker 8: look good. He's dehydrated, and he seems to have hit
Speaker 8: his head pretty hard. Just here, Oh dad, the doctor
Speaker 8: will be back with you shortly.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I'm sorry, I'm just I'm so sorry about everything.
Speaker 1: The next few hours were a blur, you know the kind.
Speaker 1: Too much information, too fast, too many changes. When you're
Speaker 1: jarred so far off course in a single day, when
Speaker 1: you've lost the steady path, it takes time to reacclimate.
Speaker 1: They detests, took blood, scanned his head. All the while
Speaker 1: I kept looking for signs of life, fluttering eyelashes, a
Speaker 1: grunt of pain, a spare curse word. Part of me
Speaker 1: knew better, part of me just knew. Hours passed as
Speaker 1: they do. When I got tired of sitting, I paced
Speaker 1: his room, and I got tired of pacing there. I
Speaker 1: took to the hallways, and then in the lobby, look
Speaker 1: at you eating like a child. The hell? Hey, hey, Durie, Hey,
Speaker 1: oh hi, yes, Krink yes right hi. Sorry, I just
Speaker 1: I saw you across the lobby and what, oh it's nothing.
Speaker 2: You've got a little something on your teeth.
Speaker 1: A little Debbie. Sorry, I haven't eaten. I think I
Speaker 1: went feral vermint of there.
Speaker 5: Ah yeah, so everything all right?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I just Oh why you mean? Why am
Speaker 1: I in the hospital? Right?
Speaker 2: It's my father, your father? What happened?
Speaker 1: He's I don't know. I found him passed out this morning.
Speaker 2: Oh no, yeah, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Do they know what it is? Were there other symptoms?
Speaker 1: No, I'm well the cancer.
Speaker 2: Cancer Jesus again, I'm so so sorry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, me too. I was so wrapped up in everything
Speaker 1: yesterday that I I didn't check in on him until
Speaker 1: this morning.
Speaker 5: And well, I think that's understandable considering I mean, you
Speaker 5: were a taped by a man with an axe after
Speaker 5: he tried to kill you with his car.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I guess it's just it's not gonna make the
Speaker 1: guilt go away. You know what are you doing here?
Speaker 2: Me?
Speaker 5: I was meeting with the CEO about donation build a
Speaker 5: new wing.
Speaker 2: I don't know, something like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, just a new wing, maybe fleet of ambulances.
Speaker 2: Look, I've got to go. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Oh hey, sorry, I was joking. That seemed to keep
Speaker 1: pissing you off.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, it's not that.
Speaker 5: I just have to go, goodbye, goodbye.
Speaker 2: Would you like to have dinner?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Good, I'll be in touch.
Speaker 1: Okay, sure, just contact my assistant it's silly to say
Speaker 1: that you hate hospitals. Everybody hates hospitals. Everyone's visited a
Speaker 1: dying relative, or spent a week recovering from the accident
Speaker 1: or the surgery or the tumor, had needles pressed into
Speaker 1: their skin, tubes flow in and out of them, saw
Speaker 1: the terminal point where their hope ended and the science
Speaker 1: we built it on began. My mother died here in
Speaker 1: this place, of course, I thought of her when I
Speaker 1: walked the halls. I had my appendix out here. Not
Speaker 1: two years later, I entered inflamed and doubled over in pain,
Speaker 1: not sure I'd ever make it out again. But here
Speaker 1: I am. Now. My father was dying. I knew walking
Speaker 1: through the halls that he would meet his end here.
Speaker 1: I hate hospitals. Oh sorry, you surprise me.
Speaker 7: Oh sorry to startle you. I'll just be a minute here,
Speaker 7: all right?
Speaker 1: Are you family? Uh? Yeah, daughter?
Speaker 7: Ah, I see the resemblance.
Speaker 1: Hmm, it's not subtle. I'm krinn Marie. How's he doing.
Speaker 7: He's holding on?
Speaker 2: Hm.
Speaker 7: He's been fighting a long time, hasn't.
Speaker 1: He He has? We thought we'd had a beat, but.
Speaker 7: I know it's hard.
Speaker 1: You live nearby. Yeah, just over in Havoc.
Speaker 7: How is it Havoc?
Speaker 1: Oh, it's fine. Quiet. Mostly you're new to the area.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I just moved up from Boston, living over in Barnstead.
Speaker 1: Well, if you're a reveren habit coming to Dotty's, I'll
Speaker 1: buy you a drink.
Speaker 7: Might just take you up on that invitation. And what
Speaker 7: do you suppose that's about.
Speaker 1: Cops? About a dozen of them fanning out over the floor.
Speaker 6: Just keep everyone in that room for right now. We'll
Speaker 6: keep a couple of men on the floor here.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna go find out what's happening. Hang tit okay?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, Dad, Dad? No, no, no, no, sit still,
Speaker 1: sits still? Marie? Hello, no, no, Dad, the mask is
Speaker 1: giving you air. It's okay, sh It's okay. I'm listening.
Speaker 1: I'm listening.
Speaker 2: Bestroom, closset.
Speaker 7: Up?
Speaker 2: Black? What black? What box?
Speaker 1: Dad? It's okay, calm down, a black wood box in
Speaker 1: your closet, Dad, It's okay, it's okay.
Speaker 2: Mares.
Speaker 1: Demeris like like like my middle name. Yeah, okay, what
Speaker 1: what about it?
Speaker 5: Dad?
Speaker 6: Dad? Hey kiddo, good time, Jimbo.
Speaker 1: Hey, how you doing? Man?
Speaker 2: Ah?
Speaker 6: The sending me home gave me just a shipload of shots, antibiotics.
Speaker 6: Tiling off of the.
Speaker 1: Fever sounds fun.
Speaker 6: Yeah, listen, I'm I'm real sorry about early losing my
Speaker 6: temper and all.
Speaker 1: Oh, jim, don't worry about it. You were sick.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't know what happened. I I just sort
Speaker 6: of blanked out there.
Speaker 1: It happens.
Speaker 6: How's the old man?
Speaker 1: Not great, Jimbo, not great?
Speaker 6: He'll pull through. Don't you think I don't know this time?
Speaker 6: Well may I?
Speaker 1: Of course?
Speaker 9: Hey, you old bastard. I need you to hang in
Speaker 9: there a little longer for me. You still only fifty
Speaker 9: dollars on that Dodger's game. Never bet against.
Speaker 1: The sacks Man. Let me break your heart.
Speaker 6: What can I say? I'm a romantic.
Speaker 1: What the hell's going on out there? Jim saw the
Speaker 1: cavalry come rolling in?
Speaker 6: Oh shit, you will not believe this. So that guy
Speaker 6: that attacked you, Bachmann?
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, well he uh well he didn't make it.
Speaker 1: I heard on the news. How do you feel about that, Jimbo?
Speaker 6: You know, it's.
Speaker 9: It's you do things in the line of duty, you know.
Speaker 9: Don't worry about me, Krin. They'll send me right to
Speaker 9: the shrink tomorrow anyway. Bachman At some point this afternoon,
Speaker 9: someone walked into the margue snapped the mortician's neck. What
Speaker 9: I know, it's insane, but that's not the weirdest pot.
Speaker 1: That's not the weirdest part.
Speaker 6: Krinn. Someone pulled out Bachmann's body and well, they cut
Speaker 6: the heart out of it. What yeah, left it on
Speaker 6: the table with a scalpel sticking in it. In the mafia,
Speaker 6: that's a wanting Do.
Speaker 1: You think this is mafia?
Speaker 6: They'll do. I know. My last big case was about
Speaker 6: who was stealing cheese from Hannafa's and we never caught
Speaker 6: the son.
Speaker 2: Of a bitch.
Speaker 10: You have a feel like this something big coming, Clouds gathering,
Speaker 10: like you know, like when Bob's knee hurts before starm
Speaker 10: I do, well, I got that feeling deep in my bones.
Speaker 10: Something's coming.
Speaker 6: Anyway. You should go home, get some rest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've had today to eat. Is a Swiss.
Speaker 6: Cake roll man can't survive on Swiss cake alone.
Speaker 1: Right, take care of Jimbo.
Speaker 6: We'll pray for your boat.
Speaker 1: Thanks love to Barb.
Speaker 6: Buy now watch the skies you.
Speaker 1: Too, Dad, Dad? Oh my help help, I'm.
Speaker 3: Havoctown was created by me Aaron Mankey. The show was
Speaker 3: written and directed by Nicholas Tukoski. This episode was edited
Speaker 3: and sound designed by Jesse Funk, starring Jewels State as
Speaker 3: Corene Abbas, James Callus as Jerry Havoc, Felicia Day as
Speaker 3: Sylvie Harris, Crystal Lee as Demeris, Robin Bludworth as jimbo Horn,
Speaker 3: David Calhoun as Jonathan Abbas, with additional voice acting from
Speaker 3: Kanisha Johnson, Sasha Hatfield, David Davrees, and Aaron Mankey. This
Speaker 3: season is directed by Nicholas Tukoski, with assistant directors Sarah
Speaker 3: Klein and Jake Diamond. Casting by Sunday Bowling CSA and
Speaker 3: Meg Mormon CSA. Production coordinator Wayna Calderon. Our theme song
Speaker 3: was created by Chris Childs executive producers Aaron Mankey, Trevor Gunn,
Speaker 3: and Matt Frederick, with supervising producer Rima Lkali and producers
Speaker 3: Nomes Griffin and Jesse Funk. Havoctown is set in the
Speaker 3: Bridgewater Audio Universe, which includes the hit fiction podcasts Bridgewater
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