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Oh I know it's here. This is so fucked. We're just letting
her rummage through his personal things. Nobody has an expectation of privacy here.
It just doesn't seem right. You still have cop brain shake it off.
I agree, but there's something wrong with him. Well, there's something wrong
with all of us. I can fucking feel it. That's what you said
in Luca's room when we were rummaging around in his shit. We found a
bunch of recorders, didn't we He fucking invented them. Those were prototypes.
Nothing weird. Well, somebody put that thing in von Sid's gear. Chain
of custody is kat Luca Charlie? You yeah, think I tinkered one together?
And what hit it up? My ass? I live in a cell
with lights on me twenty four to seven. Just look, I'm only humoring
this because if it when you saw it, a chill ran down your spine.
Someone listening where they shouldn't be, because all your fancy anti eaves dropping
bullshit doesn't work on these things. And you realized what a huge, stupid
blind spot you'd left open hardly what would anyone even do with them? All
you can do is listen unless you can experience remembrances. They aren't anything.
Well, there you go. I'm not suggesting someone is trying to sell your
secrets to sixty fucking minutes. It's someone who just wants to hear you freaks,
be freaky there fucking yes, see, exactly like the one in Sid's
bag. What what do you mean? Look, idiots, there's a shitload
of them, Adriana, there's nothing there the fuck there aren't. She's nuts?
Is this a trick? You can go back in the light box for
a month? Show me put one in my hand. There's nothing here,
fucking here? Oh oh fuck hidden? What the hell? Yeah? There?
See, look at all of them. He's been making recordings. What
has he been capturing? He could have left them right out in the open
recording us. Okay, shit, I fucking knew it. No, we
don't know that it's anything sinister. So play one. No, no,
no, no, please, oh god, please don't make me, Please
just let it be over. I don't want it. I don't want it.
I don't want it corn? No corn, Now, it's a most
huh h sh my love, we believe in you. I can't please you
know this would not be easy. You knew that you cannot stop. Now
it's too late. Please don't make me. This is what your choice.
It is the right choice. None of this, none of it is veryal.
It's all just a vidyal. You choose to wake up just a few
steps from my lord, free yourself. Oh oh fuck, where is he?
I fucking knew it. I fucking knew it. You just didn't like
him? Where is he? Come back? Turn on? Fuck? No,
the labs, let's go. What is that smell? Curse? Fire?
Nobody move, don't move, master your fear. Your fear is flammable.
No sudden movements. Let it settle. It has faces, the fun
The fire has faces. Steady? Is it fucked up that? It's a
good warm? Okay, it's stopping. Don't fucking touch it. Oh,
dear god, what is that? Nash? What is that? No?
No, no, no, no. Julie Owen Owen is in trouble.
I think we're all in trouble. I think those are bindings, prisons for
horrible things. They are coming loose, Nigel, it's Charlie the over soul
got to him. The fucking what where is he in the labs with Owen?
That's it? It's giving way. Oh no, what the fuck does
that mean? He's fucking dead? Holy shit, no way, it doesn't.
He can't get close, Arelious, they're loose. Don't look at them.
Don't look McCall Kenzie, run what is happening? No, no,
no, no, you don't kind of skin come, don't go, don't
listen, don't look at them. Is this glass going to hold? Can
we stop? Fight them? It's too many, too many different kinds.
We just have to wait until help comes. Isn't everyone locked in the upper
chamber fighting for their lives to banish a glorious Oh no, look those found
the stairs. No, let me out of here. Stop. You just
have to wait until they go after softer targets. Then we break for the
big doors. Fuck you, my sister and Madge. There they are soft
targets. They are upstairs. Well, there's nothing we can fuck do about
that. They're thinning out. No, okay, I see a path.
Get ready to fight for your fucking lives. To the big doors. We
bar them behind us these hid you heard Nash. Fight for your fucking lives
and move. If someone falls, they fall, don't stop, Nigel.
Okay, okay, ready on three one two, three? Ah fuck,
let go keep moving. Ah my face, my face, Oh god,
ha come on, you never fucking listen. Welcome, Holy shit, holy
shit. Okay, keep it together, almost over, almost over, okay,
recorder, keep it running. Wants to hear. What did you do,
mister Rugan? I I don't know what happened. There was this explosion,
and I think Master Vaughan's ad is hurt. He's under the rubble back
there. I think I told him. I told him you were trouble.
I told him you wanted too much. I'm not sure. Maybe he was
the one that wanted too much. Maybe that's why he wouldn't listen. Quiet.
Come on, Luca and I. The two. He let it closest,
the two he leaned on both handsome, young vulnerable man. Shut your
mouth. How about you, mister Rugan? You a sucker for a pretty
boyface too? You a dirty old man like Uncle Sid Still alive? Yep,
good. I've got a lot more walls to smash you through before I
really start to hurt you. I'm going to peel you apart. I'm going
to get you to spill every bit and tell me how you did every step
and everyone who helped you strike a nerve. There you were with the Catholic
Church when I took you in, right, an inquisitor? Did you get
off on murdering all those witchy women, all those gay boys? Tell me,
does the smell of cooking flesh still get you hard? Maybe we'll get
the confession from your corpse. That ship has sailed. Prepare to meet your
god? Oh that's a great idea. Actually, why don't you and I
both bask in his presence? You know I liked doing I didn't want to
hurt him, but I fucking hate you, witch killer. This is going
to be violence. I can enjoy abomination. Give us get in, push,
get them shut, Nigel, stay with me. I can't seal the
door with one arm. The forms are too I don't know how to do
them with one hand. Push, push, goddamn it, Someone shoot out
those lights. I can't see here. Come on, help me. She's
strong, she'll hold the doors. Just don't shine any fucking lights over here.
Goddamn it. Nigel holds still. I can't get this belt tight enough
and you're gonna bleed to death. What is that where you're the courtyard?
It's the hive, shit, the fire. They know we are here.
They're coming through as soon as me and my shadow move. So go Nash.
What's the priority? Fontaid could still be alive. No, he can't
be. You shut up, Cat, Take Nigel to the courtyard. Nigel,
do you have enough left to disperse curse fire? If it really had
to? If I stay conscious, Kat, keep him fucking conscious, Margo,
can you fight? Yeah? My fucking shooting is gonna be shitit with
one eye? Yeah, good enough? Go had enough. I have something
to show you. Don't bother begging. I just need to catch a second
wind. Just look at this photograph. Doesn't she look so happy sitting there
by the piano. Look at that smile, so at peace? Doesn't she
remind you of home? Where? Did you? I don't you want to
be where she is, to be happy like she is. You won't get
away with this. I just have to go a little further. Then this
whole nightmare can be over. Your nightmare is just starting. You're never waking
up again. Boy, You old things need to retire, get a hobby
piano lessons. Don't you think that sounds nice? What a yes? What
the hell is going on in there? Don't try to stand. Every time
you move, blood is shooting out. What does that sound? Have the
flames reached the hive? No, adelaide is the rekindled is here. She's
soaking up the fire and she just killed one of those big things that looks
like a skinless dinosaur with her bare hands. So strong. Already, Von
sid did good work. Shut up with that past tense shit. His bindings
are broken. He would never not if he was still alive. Whatever,
leave me here if they find you. If they find me, it means
they got past the rekindled. And if they can do that, there's nothing
you or anyone else could do. Anyways, go after national jeers. Find
anyone still alive down there? Oh yikes, you've got one. Get moving,
Luca Owen, mh is is anyone there? Mm hmmm, Luca,
Luca, don't move, I'm coming there is that you? Luca? Aren't
you okay? What happened to? Oh? Oh oh, I'm so glad
you're okay. Fuck your rides stop not now, let's get out of here
my leg I don't think I could stand up here. Put wade on me.
Okay, little brother, up we go. Okay, what what did
you? Oh? Shit? Okay, my legs work. You can see
between us we are a functioning human. What happened Charlie? Something is in
his head or I don't know. He's fucking possessed or something he he did
this, yeah, or something with his face. I don't know. No
one could do, no one. He's he's possessed. He's being controlled by
something. Huh ohh. I don't think he is. Finally, fuck,
I've writ the fingernail off. Oh, I hate that. I hear footsteps,
stay Frosty, whoa, Hey, don't shoot Charlie. Put your fucking
hands over your head. Where is sid? I? I don't know what
happened, Charlie? Cut the shit. We found your collection of wax cylinders.
I just I was making memories. Save it on the ground. You
aren't following the dynamics, I said. Down. That's the last time I'll
ask. Just fucking shoot him. Yeah, big guy, you heard her.
Stop, don't take another step. Fucking shoot him? You shoot him?
I can't why, because I told you not to shoot my hands,
won't Margot shoot him. That's not how you tell someone to here like this,
Margot shoot Nash in the head. No, that's how you do it.
No, no, no, no, shit. That push is amazing.
Pathetur's made of sticks was extremely ready to bargain when I told him i'd
be sure to use it on the murderers who killed his favorite. No,
fucking, fucking you, fucking psycho. Save your breath. You're a dead
man. Keep saving it. That's right. Don't breathe now, don't breathe
ever again, Margot, Okay, vault the vault this way. Oh you're
busy, never mind, I'll find it. Try not to roll over to
your left. A lot of his skull is over there. Okay, we're
almost to the lab lobbies. That was a gun shot, right, it
was? But I mean only the Blades will have guns in the building.
Yeah, but what are they shooting at that? I? Uh yeah,
I heard it. It doesn't matter. We're getting out of here where I
oh, oh fuck, what is it? It's Nash and and cheers,
Oh oh oh oh fuck she's choking. She can't breathe. What why?
I don't know? Oh God, fuck for forward, get us forward.
Oh shit, I'm sorry I stepped on Margaret. What is it? Why
can't you breathe? Check her airway? There's there's nothing. Oh god,
please breathe. Breathe for her? What rescue breathing? Breathe in her mouth?
Oh fuck? Do I? Okay? I plug her nose? Not
too hard? Yeah, okay? Fuck she bitter tongue. There's a lot
of blood. Keep at it. The vault Is it working? I think
so? The vault. What did she say the vault? I think she
said the vault. Why what's in the vault? Something that can help us?
The vault? Okay, here we are Charles Baybridge. Oh hi,
you shouldn't be here. Yeah, I know, turn back. You're like
the librarian, right, yes, among other functions. Currently, I am
minding the vault. Okay, well I need to get in there. Let
me in. No, hmm, doesn't work on you. Whatever you are,
you are not getting passed. I mean, I am. I don't
think you were likely intended to succeed. They would have known this was as
far as you'd make it. I have spent all year listening and waiting and
planning. I've heard all kinds of juicy secrets. On the recordings, and
a lot more spilled out of the books and tapes. I've made a lot
of new friends, learned a lot of neat tricks, body and blood,
twist and roar. What once there was will be once more. Poor Charlie,
never pass, it's out of my fucking never pass. Come on,
come on, steady breathing. Okay, keep it steady. Don't think about
the eave doll or the warwolf or the giant goddamn worm. Fuck. If
you hyperventilate and pass out and fall down all these stairs, that will really
be embarrassing. Oh fuck, keep your shit together. Oh fuck, that
was new, somehow even more awful. Okay, Okay, don't run,
don't run. Fuck, don't piss yourself, don't forget to breathe, move,
move, cut cut. Oh shit, Luca, I'm oh pip,
Oh god. Margot can't breathe. We're we're taking turns breathing for her,
but she she keeps hitting us. She's trying to get us to go to
the vault, but she'll die if we leave. I can't see and Luca
can't walk. Margot, stop pulling my hair. Go God, damn you.
Why does she want us to go, Nash, It's it's too late.
Go. We do what she says. We can't. She's the highest
ranking person left standing. Do what she says. I'll stay. I'll only
slow you down. No chance they chance this word. Luca take her gun.
Pip help me get Luca on his feet. We move now. If
there's any chance that any of us, broken legg or no sight can stop
what's happening, then it's worth it. No other help is coming. It's
us, No Margot, just hang on. Move I I can hold on.
I can here at the edge of blivion? Are you I cleave to
you, my love? I will not let you fall. We will not
give in to my hunger, my monstrous nature. I will not devour you,
vasaied. I love you, but I am very disappointed. Please please
be quiet, my love. I have to concentrate. You are slipping ever
closer to my hungering teeth. You let go of all else, all else,
to grab hold of me. What horrors have been unleashed? What horrors
do you allow while you float here in the dark within time with me?
I do not care let it all burn? How dare you? I will
not concerent I new to nothingness. We have given this project enough. You
are a fine person, a fine man. You do not mean that I
am not a man. I am a monster. The old hunger wells up,
the urge to survive, to dominate, to invade, the bad old
waist the crown of the puppet masters, to split apart and crawl within.
I will not swallow your soul. I will not become my old self,
the writhing hunger, the brody marionette. I will not go back to that.
If that means that all is lost, then it is lost. We
love them. What is an oath in the face of love? What is
the point of an oath to protect those we love if it turns in on
itself and kills what we sought to preserve? Stop, do not ask this
of me. They are all that there are left, their home, carved
into smaller and smaller portions, levees raising and locks closed. It is difficult
and painful, but this is our home, our home, This is the
place we have made together, a second chance worth any cost. No Lord,
lo this is far enough. I will hold tight to you, regain
my strength, and then then my strange love from far away. You are
a fine man, kind strong, Please lo please a fine man who knoweth
the right thing is to strive what to will ate be without you, you
will be who our love made you. You will be who our love made
you. I can walk with all the dead, all the legion of ghosts
of the lost, but I cannot be haunted by you. If you are
not return to the circle, I will break. It may seem that way,
but I know you won't let me down. Now, my love,
please consume me. I simply go deeper within. I will make you strong,
Give you the power to fight for what who we love? Oh,
my love, I regret not a moment? Good Bye? What? What's
that? What is happening? All the gods in the sky? Focus,
Pip, Keep carrying him forward, Luca, distract him. I'm going to
hang back and come in hot. He was so taken with that knife.
Well he's going to get a good up close look at it now. If
you can distract him, No, keep going. If we can't stop him,
we just slow him down. We die trying to slow him down.
If we have to. Oh fucking great. Yeah, okay, Pip,
you got him, Yeah, okay, go never pass fun. Stop doing
that. You may not enter the vault. These walls I make are as
far as you grow. M I'm going to fly. I'm gonna find a
way in there. I'm gonna fucking kill you. Charlie, Luca, Luca.
I'm so happy to see you. I need your help. I can't
it keeps making walls and mazes and and and you're so smart, so good
with machines, and help help me get in there. I can save us.
I pulled you out of the rubble earlier. I really do like you
that a lot of this has been lies, but that's real. Do you
see do you see Pip? Oh? Yeah? Is she okay? Psychopath?
You did this to her? No, I mean it was her fault.
She lied to the cipher, she broke her contract, and I have
to You don't understand. Please please help me make Costa. Let us into
the vault. And I have this thing. If I can get it in
there, it will fix everything. We can be free from them. The
pumpsa want to help us. O. They feed on us. They live
in human bodies. They control our minds. No, no, they don't
that. They aren't like the others. Wake the fuck up. They eat
human souls. They are monsters from beyond the stars that live inside human brains.
They are puppet masters. They were, That's not who they are.
These are different. Yeah, These soul sucking, mind controlling body snatchers are
the nice ones, the ones that have us in a fabricated alternate universe and
conduct mass human sacrifice to enhance their powers, to keep us away from the
other monsters out there that are exactly like them, just in different shapes.
Don't be fucking naive. We aren't the original population of humanity. It's all
a fucking lie. It's a second timeline, a fucking giant Mandela effect,
and they give away parts of it New Mexico. It's not supposed to be
just a little strip. They sold it off to the other side, the
Black Forest, Buenos Aires, Venice, fucking Finland. You never even heard
of these places because they cut them out. Uh what do you They were
places, Luca. They sold them to the Red King, the Trumpet and
Pressipliss. Truly horrific, brutal monsters. Those places and all the people there
were sold to hell in peace treaties, sacrifices, then just forgotten. We
were talking about how how they do it, how they've been able to keep
it secret for so long. Well it hasn't been that long, because this
is somewhere else. I don't know when it switched. But we live in
a bottle. You aren't making any sense. Who cares which cosmic boogeyman?
We are in the world of just help me? You and I get everything,
and everyone else fuck everyone else. I will never be scared again.
I will never be pinned down and made to feel helpless ever again. I
will become the prince of fucking pain if I have to. But I will
not live in terror. And you don't have to either. Friends, hold
loon, fuck fuck you and tempore. Get away. God damn it,
Charlie, don't don't move, Charlie, just please stop. I really I
I liked you. I know I like you too. Just let just let
this be over. Let this just be a bad dream. I want to
wake up. Then just wake up. It can be over. I I
could just go to sleep. Yeah, I'm tired too. No no,
no, no, stop. Give me in the vault, get me in
now, or or I'll break the rest of cats bones and peel off the
rest of her skin. I'll stick my fingers into pip eye sockets and shake
and shake until she forgets you and herself and how to breathe. Oh,
oh, Charlie, what out? Fuck? What what was that? Oh
Charlie? Fuck? Was was that a bee? A phantoma? Ghost beak?
Fuck? It stung me. They sting people to spare them from horrible
death. Ah no, what what is that? It can't be real,
It can't be real. No, no, no, Charlie, don't fight
the stink. Just let it take you. It's trying to save you.
Will not be rod, this death will not be fro Luca, help me?
What is that? Cover your ears? Help me? Help me?
Wanted power, wanted to be free of fear. You will never fear again.
Here is my deay power, my gift to you, the old way,
the right way. Now comes a can of property not poled by love,
but flash proper and mastery. You and I, oh why help me?
Yeah h ah please please please not cover? Oh please, oh God,
please don't hurt us. Oh my dear boy, I am your friend.
That's hid something. Oh many things will be something new, fick.
We will man fail fail you, but please let us find it something new
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Tall Tales. Ghost Wax is written and directed by Robert Kannutsen, production and
editing by Aaron Schenrock. Our theme song is by Bo Hoover. This episode
features Robert Kannutsen as von sid And as Em, Aaron Schenck as Luca,
Stephanie Holsen as Pip, gailis Stell as kat Emily Battles as Margot and Jeers,
Tony Patten as Nash Faraday, Josh Esme as Nigel, Jennie beck Esme
as Adriana, Mark kar Kusha as Rugen, Atlas Gizzi as Kosa, and
Mitchell Brooks as Charlie. Intro music by Colton Warren