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This way, it's this way.

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Wait, it's coming from over here,

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so last, so last,

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come on, hurry

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there.

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Wait, dad, dad, Jeremy?

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Who's we have got to stop meeting

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like this?

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Oh it's just you?

0:49

Wow? Am I already such old news?

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That is not what I meant.

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I just sorry. I

0:55

thought you were bigfoot? Maybe

0:58

what?

0:58

Well, I assume we're here for the same reason, right, the

1:00

attack on the campers, right,

1:03

yeah.

1:04

Right, right, I guess I should have expected

1:06

to see you.

1:07

Seems like you and your friends really dodged a bullet.

1:09

Holy crap.

1:10

Yeah, I mean the ground was torn to shreds, and from what they

1:12

said about the dead camper on the news, that was Yeah.

1:14

I'm starting to think that it was a bad idea coming back

1:16

here.

1:18

Wait did you did I

1:20

what? No? Never mind that you're gonna think I'm nuts.

1:23

No, Well, I think I think we're

1:25

at the point where you should know that I'm the

1:27

right audience for stuff that sounds

1:29

nuts.

1:30

I thought I heard a voice, I mean just

1:33

now. But it wasn't you. It was a woman. I think

1:35

you heard that. Yeah, yeah, you did too. What

1:38

do you think it was?

1:38

Or?

1:39

I guess the question is who?

1:40

Okay, so I recognized that voice,

1:43

at least I think I did.

1:44

Well, who is it?

1:45

It's it's someone impossible.

1:48

What do you mean the woman that I

1:50

mentioned to you before, that the one

1:52

who died in free Time? Yeah, it

1:55

was her voice. What?

1:57

Yeah, I know it.

1:59

Sounds crazy, crazy, remember right?

2:01

No, right right?

2:02

I don't know. I don't know.

2:03

I don't believe

2:05

in ghosts. What is happening?

2:07

Well, maybe it's some kind of mimic, something

2:10

pretending to be her somehow.

2:11

A mimic like

2:14

like.

2:14

What, well, you're

2:16

the expert. But that's a thing, right,

2:19

changelings and shape shifters.

2:20

You know, I was just talking about shape shifters

2:23

with my friend. Whatever attack the camper

2:25

feels like the thing that we saw the other day,

2:27

but some of the details aren't lining up. So we

2:30

were thinking maybe there's something that can

2:32

yeah, I don't know, transform in some way, which

2:35

would explain all of the different kinds of attacks

2:37

that have been happening lately.

2:38

Yeah, you think it's all one creature.

2:40

I don't know.

2:40

I don't know. I haven't actually gotten my eyes on anything

2:42

except the Howler, and that did

2:45

not feel like a shape shifter.

2:47

This is all so strange.

2:50

I mean, I've been feeling like things are off here, you

2:52

know, but I haven't seen anything yet. So I

2:55

think if I hadn't met you, I would think I was going

2:57

completely batch it crazy these days.

2:59

Well, I am happy that I've kept you saying. I

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have to say, it's funny.

3:05

No. I was also talking to

3:07

the same friend about how

3:10

you're one of the first people that I've

3:13

met in a long time that doesn't make me feel like I'm

3:15

a total head case when I talk

3:17

to them.

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Well, aren't we a pair, isn't it rich?

3:22

We're just two middle aged weirdos wandering through

3:24

the wilderness, one of us desperately

3:26

trying to find a monster, the other one

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tripping over them all the time.

3:30

And amazingly, that feels like the

3:32

least of my problems.

3:34

Are you saying there's more to your interest in all of this,

3:37

more than just childhood obsession?

3:40

Ah?

3:41

Yeah, I'd like to hear about it.

3:44

I mean, if you're willing to talk about

3:46

it, that is maybe maybe

3:48

we could grab a drink sometime.

3:50

Oh, I would actually really like that.

3:52

You don't have to sound so surprised.

3:54

No, I'm not. You

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know, I just don't have a lot of people to talk

4:00

to about this stuff, or at least

4:02

the people that I do have to talk to about it are all tangled

4:05

up in it themselves.

4:06

So well, it sounds like we'll be needing

4:08

a few drinks then, yes,

4:12

what's your poison.

4:13

Let's get trashed.

4:51

Okay, So I mean it sounds like it supports

4:53

the shape shifter theory.

4:54

Voice mimicry is so common.

4:56

Yeah, but it's too common. I'm

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still not sure about the voice growing the ability

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to pull two people who were standing side by

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side in opposite directions.

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Maybe it was just run of the mill magic, something that messed

5:06

with our perception.

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Well, whatever it was, we need to be more careful.

5:09

We can't keep getting separated like that.

5:12

We will always find each other, I promise.

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Well, I want to be prepared.

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I've texted Vippin and he's going to pull everything that you

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can about voice mimicry. But even

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with the added detail of it sounding like it was

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coming from two different places.

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We're looking at a lot of possibilities, still.

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So many possibilities. You

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know, it's funny. I always thought

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it was fascinating how no matter the location

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or the culture, human beings they

5:38

come up with the same kinds of monsters

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over and over again. There are these, you

5:44

know, culturally religiously

5:46

specific ones, of course, but

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the basic idea of shape

5:52

shifters, vampires, vengeful

5:54

spirits. There are iterations

5:56

of those all over the world.

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And now I think we're

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all those people actually just seeing

6:05

the exact same thing something It's something real

6:07

that they're actually seeing, and then they add

6:10

the filter of their own cultural

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norms at the time that

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they saw it to shape the narrative of

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that entity.

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Right.

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You really love this stuff, don't, all

6:22

of the folklore and history?

6:24

Yeah? I mean I used to, anyway, Now it feels

6:26

like I just it

6:28

feels very different. Now, it feels like it's a survival

6:31

tool.

6:33

WHOA, what happened here?

6:36

Well it happened again?

6:37

What what happened again?

6:39

The creepy humming house shaking thing and happened

6:41

to you guys the other night, this time with added

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spooky soundtrack.

6:45

What there was music?

6:47

Music? What kind of music?

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Oh, the kind that makes you feel like a killer clown

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is going to pop out at any moment.

6:52

Killer clown.

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Yeah, it was classical, some kind of you know, string

6:54

instrument. I think maybe a harp. Music

6:57

was never really my strong suit, but.

6:58

It was Wait wait what then? And why

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did that lead you to tear apart your living room?

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Well, it sounded like it was coming from inside the house,

7:04

like somebody dn't a speaker somewhere?

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Oh, come on, you did this?

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Don't you think that you would have noticed if someone

7:10

stuck a speaker cabinet behind your couch?

7:14

That speakers

7:16

can be really small now, like it's

7:18

like everything else. But

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you don't You don't really think

7:23

that somebody planted something here, do

7:25

you? Oh?

7:25

No, but that doesn't mean something didn't get in here anyway.

7:28

You know, what do you mean?

7:30

You came through the veil to our side, so

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I have a bunch of monsters, So was to say that something else

7:35

couldn't have as well? I mean, I don't know, like.

7:37

Like someone who came in and planted

7:39

a tiny fairy speaker or a magic herb.

7:41

And I told her it was unlike me.

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Come on, well then, the livey why

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are you helping her?

7:46

Because what if it was coming from something

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that's already here.

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I don't follow.

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We were thinking about the voicemails, the ones you left Thomas.

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Right, voicemails.

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What we never asked you about it. When

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you were trying to speak to me, trying to get the word

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out about what was happening, it was coming through as

8:02

messages on my machine.

8:04

You weren't just hearing my voice.

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I just assumed that's

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how I heard Celeste, just a disembodied

8:11

voice in the.

8:11

Limital, right, But that's because there's

8:13

nothing in the liminal. So somehow,

8:16

when you were speaking through the veil, it was

8:18

captured by an old message machine.

8:21

Yeah, thank god too, because if

8:23

I'd just been hearing your voice, people would have thought I

8:25

was really off my rocker.

8:26

You know, I think people thought you were off your rocker.

8:28

Anywhere I am on my rocker, son.

8:30

So wait a minute. So you think that the music was coming

8:32

from something that you already owned, that it's

8:35

from the liminal getting here

8:37

somehow, I.

8:39

Don't think it's from the liminal. I think it's from the other side.

8:42

It would have to be from the other side.

8:45

My whole time there, I never heard anything close

8:47

to music.

8:48

Well that doesn't mean that things haven't changed. I could

8:50

Alden somehow be doing it. And are

8:53

you sure? Are you both sure that it wasn't

8:56

actually singing. It's not like the

8:58

connection between here and the liminal is exactly like

9:00

Crystal Clear.

9:01

No, not singing. Okay, it was definitely instrumental

9:03

in it.

9:04

There's something so weird about it?

9:06

What what? What could be weirder than it? Coming from

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nowhere?

9:09

It was I don't know right, nothing

9:12

sounded human, nana like, even

9:14

if it was human instruments,

9:16

it was like they were being played by something that wasn't

9:19

It was.

9:19

I'm badly played off key.

9:22

No, that's not it. I can't explain it.

9:24

It's more like, Uh, it came with a

9:26

feeling, you know. I think that's what you're trying to

9:28

get it right, Like a feeling.

9:30

Yeah, it came with this feeling.

9:33

Oh that can't be good.

9:34

Well, hence trying to find some sort of reasonable

9:37

explanation, you.

9:38

Know, reasonable being an extremely relative term

9:40

over here.

9:41

Okay, did have you found anything?

9:43

Nothing? How'd you fare

9:45

in the swamp? Was it that thing that we saw kill

9:47

the camper?

9:48

Yes? Maybe it's a little

9:51

unclear, but it is clear

9:53

that something something

9:55

is is definitely trying to communicate with us.

9:58

Has So we heard Celestes

10:01

voice.

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What what isn't she dead?

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Yeah?

10:06

And not in the limit A right?

10:08

Okay, so we have

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no idea what we're dealing with here.

10:12

Well what was she saying?

10:13

I don't know.

10:13

She was saying a bunch of stuff, trusting her

10:16

uh and it happening.

10:18

That would be better this time?

10:20

Right?

10:20

What better?

10:22

Okay, Well, that's good.

10:23

She also said we want

10:26

you and come here.

10:29

Which is what Ethan said.

10:31

That's right, Yeah, exactly the same

10:33

thing.

10:33

Yeah, maybe it was someone who got possessed in the

10:35

same way that Ethan did.

10:37

It wasn't a person.

10:38

No, that voice was coming from two different

10:40

directions.

10:41

And it was definitely Celeste

10:43

or her voice at least that I know.

10:46

Okay, we don't really know what's on the other

10:48

side yet. Maybe it was some kind.

10:50

Of afterlife and Celeste's

10:53

spirit is trying.

10:54

To talk to you.

10:55

I think that that would be the best option. Honestly, I don't

10:57

know.

10:58

Should we hold a say aunts or

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find a medium medium

11:02

couldn't hurt.

11:04

I have never done a SANDS before, but I guess I know

11:06

the basics.

11:07

I mean, I think we can probably find a medium in

11:09

Bridgewater.

11:10

Well, yeah, we have to be careful because

11:12

even if talking to the dead

11:15

is possible, it doesn't mean that there aren't a

11:17

whole shitload of scammers out there.

11:20

A medium, a medium. We need to find

11:22

the right medium.

11:23

Yes, exactly, we need someone reputable.

11:26

I mean, can't believe I'm saying that, But maybe I can

11:28

try to talk to some of the other folklore folks

11:30

and see a thing, no, not.

11:32

A psychic, the right communication

11:34

medium. Okay, think about it. Thomas

11:37

was able to communicate through the answering

11:39

machine, Celest's voice was

11:41

coming through the swamp.

11:43

There's no seeming connection between

11:46

those things. Okay, so what

11:48

if there is a connection and we're

11:50

just not seeing it.

11:52

Well, I think that describes a lot of what we're

11:54

doing right now, right.

11:55

Sure, yeah, but maybe there's a way to get more data

11:57

to connect the dots. So, Alden,

12:01

before you got here, Thomas, did he ever try to reach

12:03

out? Did he try to contact someone over

12:05

here?

12:06

He was a scared seven year old trapped in

12:08

another dimension. He definitely tried to

12:10

call out for help.

12:10

Okay, so maybe someone heard him,

12:13

and if we figure out how they

12:15

heard him, then we say.

12:16

Okay, okay, but how would we do that? They mean,

12:19

this was eighty years ago. You know his

12:21

parents are long dead, right,

12:25

he had.

12:25

A younger brother. Alden has a

12:28

brother and he's still

12:30

alive. What really

12:32

I found him?

12:33

When I was looking into Alden's story, I

12:35

didn't think it was relevant. Honestly, it's not

12:37

like we can tell him anything that would give him

12:39

closure after all these years. And he was only

12:42

five when Alden went missing, so he might not even

12:44

remember it happening.

12:45

But that doesn't mean he wasn't communicated

12:47

with later exactly.

12:49

You didn't start hearing Thomas's voicemails

12:51

until this year.

12:53

Who knows when he left them?

12:54

Well, I was always calling out to you, Anne,

12:57

always right.

12:59

So maybe Alden's brother heard something

13:01

he can't explain either. You think you would

13:03

talk to us, well, I mean I think it's worth to try. And

13:06

he's right here in Bridgewater.

13:14

Hey, mister Jansen, I

13:17

think thanks for agreeing to

13:19

talk to us.

13:20

Oh please call me Lee. Not

13:22

every day I get visitors.

13:24

It's really nice to meet you, Lee. I'm Thomas

13:26

and this is Jeremy. Has

13:29

your family mostly moved away?

13:31

Well?

13:31

I never had children myself and

13:34

my sister rest her soul.

13:36

Her kids live up in New Hampshire and

13:39

their kids are all grown now. So oh,

13:41

they come and visit when they can. But

13:44

there's not a lot in the way of entertainment

13:46

in this place. So when

13:49

they said there were two men here

13:51

to interview me for a book, well that was

13:54

just about me my day.

13:56

Well, we're happy to hear that, although.

14:00

Fish to be quite confused

14:02

as why you want to talk to me.

14:04

Well, i am a professor here

14:07

at the local college, and I'm writing a book about the region,

14:10

and specifically I'm

14:13

looking at unsolved mysteries and the

14:15

like. And I know that you have lived

14:17

here your entire life. I have,

14:20

and I also

14:23

know that you have a personal.

14:26

This is about all of them, isn't

14:28

it.

14:29

Yes, yeah, I take it.

14:31

You've been asked about him before a

14:33

few times through the year.

14:36

Every now and again, someone will get their heads

14:38

stuck into all the missing person

14:41

cases in Bridgewater, and my

14:43

brother is one of that. It's kept

14:46

folks interest, I think

14:48

because he was so young and there was

14:50

never any evidence at all as to what

14:53

happened.

14:54

I'm so sorry.

14:55

Oh I don't remember. If that's what you're

14:57

here for well, he was two years old

15:00

older than me, and I barely remember him

15:02

at all.

15:02

That must have been hard for all of you.

15:04

My family, we

15:07

we didn't really talk about it.

15:09

It was a it was a different time back then.

15:12

But I also know that, well,

15:14

losing your child isn't something you ever

15:16

get over.

15:17

And your parents, they did

15:21

they ever have any guesses or

15:24

talk to you about what might have happened?

15:26

Well, they assumed he was kidnapped, like everyone

15:28

else. What did you think?

15:33

My sister, she was

15:35

there right before it happened, and

15:39

she always thought it was some kind of monster

15:41

in the woods.

15:42

I guess that would make sense when she was a child

15:44

herself.

15:45

Right, It's not a belief

15:47

she grew out of.

15:49

And And what what did you

15:51

believe?

15:54

I always thought there was something strange

15:56

about this place, And

15:59

based on the type of folk who have come to talk to

16:01

me through the years, I know I'm not the only one.

16:04

And I suspect you're

16:07

not here to ask me about whatever official

16:10

investigation took place back then. No

16:14

we're not, so go

16:16

on tell me whatever

16:18

wild theory you have.

16:21

We actually were wondering more

16:23

if you had any theories or if there's anything

16:25

through the years that you haven't

16:28

been able to explain about

16:30

it.

16:31

You may have I seen my brother's

16:33

ghost tracked down the monster

16:36

that they did.

16:37

We are not trying to make a mockery of your family's

16:39

Tragedyly, we care about Alden

16:42

his story.

16:42

But I take it a lot of the people who have come to you through

16:45

the years have just been looking for something

16:47

sensational, right.

16:52

That's a way of putting it.

16:53

We don't want anything but the truth. And if

16:55

that truth is that you have no memory of

16:58

your brother and nothing

17:00

of his life or disappearance to

17:02

share at this point, then that's

17:04

totally okay.

17:06

What truth are you expecting

17:09

to fly?

17:10

What do you mean?

17:12

Folks usually have an idea in their

17:14

heads. You say

17:16

you want my theory, but I'm

17:18

betting you have one of your own.

17:21

We we've heard

17:23

of missing people being able to contact

17:25

their loved ones.

17:27

I've never seen his ghost, As

17:29

much as some people might want to believe that.

17:32

Yeah, I guess we're not really talking about

17:34

a ghost so much as I

17:37

don't know. Did you ever hear of a voice

17:39

of a voice that

17:41

might have that might have.

17:43

Sounded like all, then a ghostly

17:45

voice is still a ghost.

17:46

Not ghostly, No, it would

17:48

have been It would have come from somewhere like an

17:51

answering machine or a

17:53

phone or some

17:55

specific place.

17:56

Or maybe any any kind of object that can produce

17:58

a sound, right, I mean, as far as we know, be

18:00

a record player or a radio,

18:03

a radio, yeah, right, it could

18:05

be a radio.

18:06

Who are you people?

18:08

Have you heard something?

18:09

Me? Olden? He had

18:14

a little radio on his nightstand.

18:18

When I went to college, I took it

18:20

with me and I've had

18:23

it ever since.

18:24

And you you heard something from this radio, something

18:26

other than a broadcast.

18:31

It used to act funny.

18:33

Yeah, I'd have it tuned to one of the usual

18:35

stations, strong signal and all that, but

18:39

it gets statically and

18:42

well, strange sometimes

18:45

strange. How you said

18:47

other people have heard voices before

18:50

of people who disappeared.

18:53

Yes, well, we can't tell you more without violating

18:55

people's privacy.

18:57

But yes, I

19:00

always thought I was imagining

19:02

it.

19:03

But you heard something.

19:05

I don't know what it was. It

19:08

sounded like a little boy, but I

19:10

always I always thought it was interference

19:13

from another broadcast. It was

19:15

an old radio, and there were

19:17

so many more stations than there

19:19

used to be.

19:21

When was this?

19:23

Let me see it? Was that was

19:25

at the Green Bank House. So the

19:28

seventies, well, the

19:30

eighties, maybe we.

19:34

Do you still have that radio?

19:59

Hello?

20:00

Hey, Hippin, come in, Hey Vippin.

20:02

Hey is Jeremy here?

20:03

Oh?

20:04

You just missed him?

20:05

Yeah. He and Thomas went back to talk to Aldon's brother.

20:08

Oh Lee, you know. Yeah.

20:10

Olivia and I talked about it a little bit. I

20:13

thought we agreed it wouldn't be good to tell him

20:15

anything.

20:15

No, we do, we do agree, But I realized

20:18

maybe he could tell us something that

20:20

maybe maybe Aldn tried to communicate with

20:22

him the same way Thomas did with Anne.

20:25

Oh smart, Uh,

20:28

how are you guys doing after the whole earthquake

20:30

thing? I texted him,

20:33

You're not the only one apparently, I've missed quite

20:35

the afternoon.

20:36

Yeah, how was your coffee

20:38

with Peyton?

20:40

Illuminating? I'll tell you all about

20:42

it. But you're okay?

20:43

Really?

20:44

Yeah, I mean we're okay, But I mean it

20:47

can't be good that this is the second time

20:49

it's happened.

20:50

Right, Yeah about

20:52

that. I don't think anyone

20:54

should be staying here until we figure out what's going

20:56

on. It could be dangerous.

20:58

That's a good point. Yeah, we'll

21:00

figure something out.

21:01

You could stay with me.

21:03

I mean I only have a couch, but

21:05

I could sleep on that and you could take my bed. I

21:07

really don't mind.

21:08

I don't actually live here, remember,

21:11

Oh right, God

21:14

stupid, forget I said.

21:15

Anything, no, no, thank you for that's

21:17

a really sweet offer.

21:19

And the offer

21:21

extends to you too. I

21:24

know Jeremy doesn't have a guest room either, but

21:26

between the.

21:26

Two of us, well,

21:29

I think it might be time for us to go

21:32

home with Live. But thank you?

21:34

Really?

21:36

Are you sure?

21:37

I don't know how much longer we can hire Thomas

21:39

from your mom live. I'm sure

21:41

we could couch surf, but you

21:45

know it's time.

21:46

So about that?

21:48

What Thomas hasn't talked

21:50

to you about what? I

21:54

look, Mom needed to know live,

21:57

so I brought Thomas to see

21:59

her and christ Well

22:01

it was it was, I mean, it became fine.

22:03

You know.

22:04

I explained everything and she and Thomas talked.

22:06

So I don't know, I think she shouldmight

22:08

be willing to have you this stay over.

22:10

Would this be why maybe she's

22:12

not returning any of my calls.

22:14

Well, she's pissed Nana, and I think she

22:16

has every right to be.

22:17

Oh, Olivia, I am not okay with

22:20

you going behind my back like this.

22:21

Oh, and I'm not okay with you hiding my grandfather's

22:24

identity for forty years. So yeah, I guess

22:26

we're even.

22:27

Yeah, I guess. So

22:30

what should I expect then? Will she even let

22:32

me into the house?

22:34

Fifty to fifty chance? I mean, maybe a little

22:37

higher, since it's it's just her.

22:38

Right now, Ethan and your dad are still at his parents

22:40

right.

22:41

Yeah, for the next week at least.

22:43

It gives us plenty of time to talk it out.

22:45

Well that's optimistic.

22:48

All right, I'm gonna go call your mom,

22:50

make sure it's okay, and then pack

22:52

a bag and just

22:54

give me your phone what she'll pick

22:56

up for you.

22:57

Okay, So you're just leaning into her being kissed off

22:59

at either.

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Well, it can't get any worse, can it.

23:03

I mean, only one way to find out.

23:08

So how do you actually

23:10

feel about that?

23:11

I don't know.

23:13

I mean I do think my mom has settled

23:15

down a little. But putting her

23:17

and Nana and Thomas and I mean, let's be

23:19

honest, probably Jeremy all in a room,

23:21

it's going to be.

23:22

Oh yeah, I don't

23:25

envy that conversation.

23:27

Does that offer to stay applied

23:29

to escaping to yours just for an emergency drink.

23:32

Yeah, definitely. I'm

23:34

sorry about that. I didn't it

23:36

was that was so presumptuous

23:39

of.

23:39

Me, Nippin.

23:40

You weren't propositioning me. You were making

23:42

a nice offer to a friend,

23:45

you know, unless.

23:47

No, no, no, I swear I was

23:50

just friendly not

23:52

to say that. I mean, you know, I think we.

23:55

Would you like to go out on a date sometime? What

23:58

what do you like?

24:00

Yes, yes, definitely

24:03

I would, Yes, that that.

24:04

Would be great, good good.

24:07

I mean not now obviously we're even like this

24:09

week, because but after we

24:11

stop the end of the world or whatever,

24:14

then then.

24:14

Maybe we'll go out to celebrate.

24:17

Okay, perfect, all

24:19

right, your mom's expecting us later.

24:22

How'd that go?

24:23

Well, she didn't yell at me,

24:25

so so really bad. M hm,

24:27

Yeah, this is gonna be very unpleasant. All

24:30

right, Vivan, how is our favorite

24:33

mystical leader?

24:35

She was surprisingly forthcoming.

24:37

Really yeah, she explained everything she knows.

24:40

The Gathering is tasked with protecting our

24:42

world from the other by keeping the gate closed

24:45

through human sacrifice. Well, she said,

24:48

volunteering.

24:49

I'm sure she did.

24:51

It'll be her in Virginia when

24:53

the time comes, their leader goes into

24:55

the liminal willingly, letting the person

24:57

in there already move on.

24:59

She signed up for that.

25:00

Apparently she's a legacy, and I

25:02

bet she's not the only one. The gathering is

25:05

just the group here on the East Coast.

25:07

There are what sounds like hundreds

25:09

of other groups around the world doing the same

25:12

thing.

25:12

So a network of supernatural

25:15

gatekeepers and literally, yeah.

25:17

Literally, and sometimes

25:19

that leads to stuff like the children of Tichiba,

25:22

people going rogue and trying to harness the power

25:24

of the Fay realm for themselves.

25:26

What is that even possible?

25:27

Peyton wasn't sure. She said there's

25:29

a lot of magic over there that we still don't

25:31

understand, and maybe someone could

25:34

learn it, But she was pretty

25:36

insistent on the fact that the Fey are not something

25:39

to be controlled.

25:40

Did it seem like she was interested in learning

25:42

that magic herself.

25:43

I don't.

25:44

I don't think so. I think we can

25:46

trust her. She clearly has

25:49

a lot of respect for the other side. She

25:51

doesn't think that she's more powerful than it, or

25:53

that she could try and harness it the

25:55

way that the children wanted to.

25:57

Well.

25:57

Respect isn't all that far from Reverend

26:00

I mean when she got rid of the sasquatch, she

26:02

sent it back instead of killing it, and

26:06

always bugged me.

26:07

She has killed monsters before, or

26:09

well her dad did, I guess, but she

26:12

didn't seem bothered by that idea.

26:14

I just want us to be careful.

26:16

Okay.

26:16

It all feels a little convenient that

26:18

she showed up here.

26:19

Why isn't she filling in for Celeste? I

26:21

mean that has to happen from gathering group to gathering

26:24

group, right.

26:25

She said they don't actually talk all that

26:27

much, but that she knew something was

26:29

wrong up here.

26:30

Yeah, And my question is how

26:33

It's not like Bridgewater went from having no

26:35

paranormal sidings to having a bunch of them.

26:37

I mean, how would she even know that

26:39

things have gone wrong?

26:40

Now?

26:41

Celeste always said she was attuned,

26:43

right, Maybe they're taught to connect

26:46

to the veil somehow feel it when it

26:48

tears or gets thin.

26:49

Well, that's what I'm worried about. That sounds

26:52

like magic to me. And if Peyton has

26:54

learned that Anne learned how to banish

26:56

monsters back to the other side, then

26:59

what else had she learned? What could she be

27:01

hiding from us?

27:02

I see that finding out about literal monsters

27:05

that want to kill us has not made you less suspicious

27:07

of humans, Nana.

27:09

I'm just saying I think.

27:11

We should be careful.

27:12

Yes, yes, yeah,

27:15

Oh that's Jeremy.

27:17

They're done at the retirement home and headed to my house.

27:20

Oof.

27:21

Okay, looks like it's time

27:23

to face the music.

27:30

Hey, thanks for waiting for us.

27:32

I didn't think it was a great idea to just knock on

27:34

the door.

27:35

Are you okay? You sure you want to do this?

27:37

I think it's a good idea for us to stay somewhere else,

27:40

and.

27:41

She's really willing. I do want

27:44

more time with her.

27:45

Should I even be here for this? I don't

27:47

want to overwhelm Shelley.

27:49

I mean she's already been told all the really

27:51

life shattering stuff, right, and it's not

27:53

like she's never met you.

27:55

Yeah, but not as her brother.

27:57

Okay, Hey, did you guys have any

28:00

luquidly?

28:00

Yeah?

28:01

We actually were able to borrow an old radio

28:03

that he thinks he may have heard Alden through

28:05

back in the seventies.

28:06

Really, that's awesome news.

28:09

Yeah, so we can try to communicate

28:11

with the missing boy from the nineteen forties

28:14

through a radio after we have this

28:16

weird family reunion with my new half

28:18

sister and my dad.

28:19

Dad.

28:20

All right, this is going to be fine.

28:22

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, this is gonna be fun.

28:24

Yeah.

28:26

What are you waiting for?

28:28

I don't know.

28:29

Should we knock? I have a key, but I don't know if that's

28:31

the right thing to do.

28:33

I live here. Oh my god, Hey

28:36

Mom, we're home.

28:37

Oh oh great,

28:40

you're all here.

28:43

Jeremy.

28:44

Yeah, well it's.

28:49

You always said you wished you'd grown up with siblings.

28:52

That is very helpful.

28:54

Thank you.

28:54

Live Someone had to break the eyes, Shelley.

28:58

I

29:00

not ready to talk to you yet. So I look.

29:03

I understand that you guys need a place to stay

29:05

for god knows what reason, But Nana's

29:07

house is haunted.

29:09

Uh huh wow.

29:10

Just because we're under one roof, it

29:12

does not mean we're a family.

29:19

This episode of Bridgewater was written by Lauren

29:21

Shippen and directed by Brendan Patrick

29:23

Hughes assistant director Sarah

29:25

Klein. Sound designed by Vincent de

29:28

Johnny Rima Ilkali Josh

29:30

Thain, and Trevor Young, with music

29:33

by Chad Lawson. Starring

29:35

Misha Collins as Jeremy Bradshaw

29:37

Melissa Ponzio as Anne Becker,

29:39

Alan Tudik as Thomas Bradshaw,

29:42

Karen Sony as Vipen Kurana

29:45

Sabra Mae as Olivia Hoskins,

29:48

Cheryl Umanya as Officer Bautista,

29:51

Will Wheaton as Captain Haddock, Tricia

29:54

Helfer as the Legend Tripper,

29:56

Stephen Guarino as Doctor Edwards

29:59

not Sue Dumbe as Peyton

30:01

Blake, Hillary Burton Morgan

30:04

as Shelley Hoskins, Nicky

30:06

McCauley as Celeste, and Victoria

30:08

Grace as Katie Franks, with

30:11

additional voice acting by Greta Gould,

30:13

Shelby Young, Adam O'byrn Monte,

30:16

Markham, Charlie Bergman, and

30:18

Tarren Westbrook. Executive producers

30:20

Aaron Mankey, Misha Collins, Lauren

30:23

Shippen, Matt Frederick and Alexander

30:25

Williams. Supervising producers Josh

30:28

Thin and Trevor Young. Bridgewater

30:30

was created by me Aaron Manke and

30:32

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