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This episode contains mature language and situations. To listener, discretion is advised.

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You wake to the sound of a
train, the clack clack clack of wheels

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in the distance. Is that the
sound of birds in a forest? No,

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it's angels in a choir? Or
is it demons from how It doesn't

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matter. You have no memory of
how you got here. All you know

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is that you are lost and that
now you belong to the Gray Rooms.

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Hello roomies, and welcome to episode
nineteen. We made it. Welcome to

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the final regular season episode for season
four. We really couldn't do this without

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the support from each and every one
of you, guys, from our loyal

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listeners, patrons, cast and crew. We think each and every one of

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you as you helped not only this
season, but in growing our show.

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And speaking of our show, we
got one final tale from the pen of

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Nick Monzolilo. Make sure you pick
your numbers, get your powerballs in place,

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do please enjoy episode nineteen. We're
fucked, We're completely fucked, balmed down.

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All we have to do is what
has anyone calmed down after being told

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to do? So? You tree
hugging elves are all the same. I

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wasn't the one who questioned him alone. You were impatient as always, Where

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were you management wants answers? And
you just disappeared. I ensured that our

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female get would no longer be a
problem. Yeah, well, if we

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didn't have the extra protections put in
place by the Alienist Lodge, they might

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have found a way to escape,
escape where further into hell. Seriously,

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we'll be lucky if management doesn't erase
our existence at this rate. We didn't

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exactly leave the big battle at a
good time. Balliol is going to be

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pissed when he binds out. I
should be summoning more demon spawn for use

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there, not here in the gray
rooms. And how the fuck did that

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bitch get her magic back. I
only meant to return some of her non

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essential memories. The very nature of
these rooms makes magic tricky at best.

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At least we still have the angel
contained. The roboman thinks he's his son.

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We need to keep Azrael away from
them. I all renew the wards

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on his chains. Then we'll take
care of our guests being loud there.

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That should hold until we deal with
our other problems. I'll help guide the

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one called Findlay. He'll lead the
group here. Then we can spring our

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trap. Call upon your ominions to
help motivate our guests. We're fucked.

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We're so fucked. I me and
the dog could pick you up after a

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drip through the doors. But I
still have understand how we're on the side

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of a mountain and still inside of
a train car. Jesus fuck. I

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thought soldiers paid attention to a little
details the last time. The train cars

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are pockets of an alternate reality,
a subspace, and we're in Hell.

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Sure science stuff. God, I
don't even know what system Hell is in

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whatever, huh. I don't think
our escape plans working. I'm not leaving

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about Daniel. There could be an
infinite amount of training cars we don't even

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know if your son's here. I
say, you let me try to manipulate

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the space, as your type of
energy could be very disruptive, unintended consequences

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and all that. But if you
think you can control it, he warner

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guy, Next time, before you
throw half a mountain, what did I

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say about control? You're going to
collapse for space with us inside it or

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worse. I'm sorry. It's also
coming back to me. This power sometimes

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kind of feels like holding a skillet
over stone. Over here, I found

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the passage to the next car Imani
fads for all our sakes, see if

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you can exercise just a bit more
restraints. I hate being nearer. When

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she uses her mojo makes me feel
like static inside of her radio. This

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is no This room is different from
the others. That's because it's been altered.

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So we're in a giant abandoned factory
at night. I wish I could

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talk to the madman who created this
place. Huh. They're keeping with the

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we're on a train motif. Feels
odd being in an open space, but

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I like out the window. Everything
is in motion. Technically, the spaces

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are in constant motion. Did you
hear change look they're at the end.

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I see someone. They're chained in
the wall. Daniel. Wait, something

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soft. It feels like someone's watching
you. You're my bit. Bring it

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on? Yeah, Hellosuck, watch
out. He's charged with a strange energy.

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I can see it glowing beneath his
skin. I don't think he needed

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your mask anymore. It was somewhat
restrictive. What the hell nice shopping your

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face on the sand. I think
it's about time we settle this. Care

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to tell me who paid you to
do it? Your mother, Queen Dandiana

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clar Who do you think su blind? Ammunition? Doc? Get down?

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That's a fay over, Daniel,
Daniel, stay there. I'm on my

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way, whole still all free thought. This was supposed to be your domain.

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It is. My mother will never
consoil with your kind. He wasn't

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the first job she's asking me to
do, ye royalty. They don't one

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like getting her hands dirty? J
Yeah, yeah, Christ call them in

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now, Zuck, bit like we
gotta go too much? Or lock?

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You're locked? Danielous who are you? Zuck? Are you okay? Or

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Spindley? Who is at the ground
zero of that last I don't think he

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made it shit rifle broke by.
I tried to save him, it was

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it was too much. Snot out
of it. You still need to find

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a seize place to lay all the
hell did the train survive all of that

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energy? Looks like most of it's
still intact, But we're there. Looks

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like part of a platform. I
don't like the look of that beast.

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There's only one door. Do you
think you're one? I'm thinking I don't

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know if it'll allow both of us
to enter. No time to test any

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theories. Go go go. The
Architect's gond be pissed that we let the

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angel free. Not as pissed as
Billy I was going to be. If

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we don't get back to the real
battle in that other realm. Do they

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both go through the door at the
same time? Is that dangerous? I

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don't really know. The rooms are
a unique place in the realms. It

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may be just a struggle of luck
we needed. Regardless, souls will continue

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to flow into the gray rooms,
and our guests will both be weakened on

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their return. Where'd Roboman go?
He was destroyed, along with most of

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our reinforcements. With Israel teleported it
back to the mount. The amount of

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energy needed to escape almost destroyed the
rooms. The girl the Imani saved everything.

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Yeah, but not everyone. Sorry
but not sorry about your beast.

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We need to return to the battlefield. Moth needs our assistants. I doubt

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your cousin needs anyone's help. He's
done just fine on his own, which

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worries me why he's reaching out.
Now, let's go. We can worry

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about the rooms later. Bring your
Vaylor, we may need him. Yeah.

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Sitting in a room with a two
way mirror was weird. I wasn't

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a criminal, but I couldn't figure
out why the mirror was in the room.

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The Connecticut State Lottery Mission had to
have its reasons. The meeting room

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walls were white with chipped paint,
and the table I sat at was a

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sheet of metal that distorted my reflection. The more I sat and looked at

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the mirror, the more I couldn't
light myself anymore. I felt like I

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was about to be punished for something. I had a sneaking suspicion that if

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I tried the handle on the door, it would be locked. I stared

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at the door and tried to ignore
the mirror. My husband, Paul,

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was a winner. We were winners, and this was probably standard protocol meant

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to keep them safe. Money had
never been night, but the idea of

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never having to listen to another client's
problems sounded nice. Paul had always talked

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about traveling. He kept a spreadsheet
on his computer of all the places worth

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visiting, with a sublist of reasons
why waiting in this room was a good

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thing. Our lives would be changed
forever once we left it. There were

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a con artists that would want to
scam us, long lost cousins and half

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forgotten friends trying to get in touch, and potentially even criminals looking to take

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what they can by force. Paul
had a lawyer all ready to go.

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The next time we returned to the
Commission office, we would sign the forms

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and get our direct deposit eighty million
after taxes. The Bland door swung open,

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and a man in a suit with
his hair slicked back, sat down

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at the table without a greeting.
Something about the way he walked, flexing

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and stretching his jacket and pants at
the seams gave me the impression that he

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wasn't used to wearing suits. Missus
DuPont, we have your husband in the

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other room. He's fine. I
just have a few questions we'd like to

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answer. Well, sure, and
please call me Helen. Helen. When

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and how did you meet your husband? We've been together for about eleven years.

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We met during a New Year's party, if you can believe it,

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during a New Year's party. And
how specifically did you meet? We introduced

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by a friend or the question was
a bit too personal, not to mention

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weird for a state lotto guy to
bring up to the wife of a winner.

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But I didn't mind answering. If
anything, I hoped they would move

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this silly process along faster. He
walked right up to me and started talking

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about the whale shark exhibit they had
gotten at the aquarium. I love aquariums,

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and his being so interested, not
to mention handsome really made him stand

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out. That is a little unusual, Is it not for a stranger to

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appear in front of you talking about
something you love? No? Not really.

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He wouldn't have become my husband if
I wasn't interested in what he had

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to say. Those sharks were a
big deal back then. Did anything else

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funny happen that night, missus de
Paul, Well, apparently he wasn't even

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invited to the party. It was
a work thing. He said that he

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was in the building after hours and
happened to crash it. He is an

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it guy, Am I right?
Yes, that's why he was in the

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building that night. And then the
thought came, did the commission think Paul

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cheated somehow like counting cards? Didn't
they think he was some kind of a

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hacker? Is my husband? Okay? He's an honest man if you're implying

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he didn't win fairly. Besides telling
them the DuPont family lawyer would be pissed,

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I couldn't think of a threat.
I hated the type of person who

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claimed to sue somebody when they didn't
get their way. This was just a

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big misunderstanding, if it even was
one at all. I'm sorry, missus,

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but if there is one thing you
leave this room knowing is that your

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husband is the furthest thing from honest
man. I had started to say something

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and then stopped. Would we still
get the money if I insulted this creasy,

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awkward man. Paul was being accused
of something and the lotto commission was

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trying to rob us of the winnings. My husband won fair and square.

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He obeyed the rules of the game. Sure, where is my husband?

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None of this made sense? Why
was he questioning me? Could they even

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do this? They didn't have any
real authority, did they. I knew

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they didn't need a badge to be
in charge. These guys were the ones

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with all of the money, and
they could do whatever they wanted. He's

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being asked a few questions the same
as you. Then we will return him

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after we go over our findings.
We should return you as well. With

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the money, ma'am, can you
tell me the odds of winning the lottery?

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What does that have to do with
anything? The odds of picking the

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correct numbers are the same as you
taking damn near every single person in this

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country, throwing them into some massive
field, and then the first one of

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them you walk up to is being
someone you know. I'll get struck by

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lightning a thousand times. This was
something my chain smoking keno playing grandmother used

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to say at family cookouts while she
worked her way through a stack of scratch

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tickets with her fingernails. Exactly the
lattle man sat back in his chair,

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His sports jacket slid aside to reveal
the black butt of a gun polstered at

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his waist. Just like that,
I stopped wondering if this was some kind

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of joke. I'll tell you a
secret. There is a way to be

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the odds that only a few people
managed to succeed in each year. Your

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husband is one of them. He
didn't guess the numbers, No, he

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did not. He knew each one
he punched in. Among many other reasons,

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he only purchased a single ticket.
Paul was never a gambler. I'd

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never seen him do a scratch ticket
or play the lottery. He joked about

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it, though, he joked about
it so much that I assumed he played.

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But Paul had never come home with
a single ticket for as long as

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I'd known him, until the day
he won. So you're not going to

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give us the money. Paul beat
the system, but he wasn't smart enough

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to get away with it. I
couldn't blame him for that. He did

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something that next to nobody else could
accomplish. I'd picked right, I'd chosen

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a winner, regardless of what he
had in his bank account. When did

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you first realize you were in love
with Paul? I'm not going to tell

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you that. What would he do
to me? The man didn't reach for

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his gun. He merely frowned,
a hint of sadness in his eyes.

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This is fuel benefit, missus Dupon. I'm trying to help you realize something

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at least in your favor, and
think of the answer. Take your time.

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I fell in love with Paul within
a month. If there was something

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to be said about somebody being so
perfect you couldn't imagine a life without them,

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Paul was it. He was everything
I'd ever dreamed of, everything i'd

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ever confess to my friends about hoping
to find the fear was finally realized.

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Paul was too perfect, molded just
for me, a customed portrait of a

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lover. He'd never even hinted at
being unfaithful, and sure we've argued good

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naturedly, but I've never screamed at
him. One of my colleagues had once

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told me it's healthy to fight with
your spouse. I really thought our marriage

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was better than everyone else's. Paul
Dupon pre calculated every reaction you would have

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since that New Year's at the party
where you met. These past eleven years

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may have felt random to you,
but they were not. I don't understand

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you, possibly never will. I
hope you can at least get an idea

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of what your husband has done.
To be honest, he doesn't love you.

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My husband loves me. I couldn't
imagine him not loving me. I

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was beginning to understand the idea that
he had lied. But how big of

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a lie was it? And how
long had it been going on? Your

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husband met you before you met him. He lived nearly an entire lifetime before

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you met him, and he seized
the opportunity to live another life again,

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using extremely rare technology. He lived
it again with notes, dates, addresses,

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and people. He wrote down a
lot of numbers, some of which

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he used for winning ticket. The
lotto man was insane. When you're being

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pranked by an insane person, it's
less of a prank and more of a

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horror show. I wondered if the
Latto man was going to hurt me.

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All I had was the chair I
sat on. I could try and swing

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it at him. I could try
and take the gun. He did seem

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awfully stiff and a mobile in that
sports jacket of his. Missus Japone,

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your husband has experienced the future.
He transported his consciousness back in time.

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We have a system in place to
catch people like him. He will not

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be harmed, but we cannot let
him leaves. That's not legal. I

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want to leave now. Your husband
broke a law that has not been written

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yet. This law has a statute
of limitations that last up to a century

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before and after the crime was committed. You may leave, but only to

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score you out. I got up
and the little man didn't react as I

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walked past him. As I approached
the door, the hairs on the back

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of my neck stood up as I
walked through the same gray and white corridor

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I originally came through. I was
caught as I passed an open door.

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My husband sat at a table with
three men sitting opposite him. The three

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suits were trained on him, watching
his every move, their weapons displayed at

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their hips. My eyes drifted back
to Paul, and he matched my stare,

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his eyes wide in horror. I'm
sorry. Paul had jumped to his

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feet, but the other men around
the table did react. The men turned

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to look at me with pity.
I do it all for you. Paul,

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who was usually so composed and calm, was now bursting like a ZiT.

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He was no longer the man I
knew, instead of the love I

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held for him. I felt only
pain and pity in my heart. It

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was the same pity you feel when
you look in on someone's life far from

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your own. Something about what the
Latto man had told me about Paul being

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too perfect formed a sour taste in
my mouth. Before I knew it,

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the Latto man came and ushered me
along the corridor. Before I could say

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a word to Paul. He did
the door for himself, even if he

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did love you. I know how
this sounds, but he was supposed to

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meet another man. He was supposed
to stunt a different family. And it

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seems like it doesn't matter anymore because
he went enjoying a life, but it

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was not supposed to be this way. He also a thousand lives just to

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pay his own selfishness. Please turn
into the next room. I should have

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known. We weren't walking toward the
front of the building in the way I

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had come in. This place was
a never ending maze of white walls and

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unlabeled doors. Turning the last corner, the Lotto man led me into a

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room with high ceilings and a spider
web of wires and pipes spiraling along the

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floors and walls. At the center
of the room, surrounded by two men

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in white lab coats, was what
could only be described as a giant mechanical

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spider. It was made of metal
with six long appendages. The machine had

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a series of straps at its center. They appeared to be made for locking

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a person in place. This machine
will bring you back to yourself on New

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Year's Day twenty ten. You'll be
painless, and you will not remember a

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thing. You will allow you to
live the life you will always made it

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to please. I don't want to
forget. I was happy before I came

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here. Paul is my husband.
Despite what he's done, He's changed from

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who he was when he met me. If he was acting, he became

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the act. There's nobody other than
the Paul I know, missus du Paul.

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I'm sorry, but you're lucky.
You're being given an opportunity. Most

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victims don't. Guests, people like
Paul who travel back do not always go

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for the lottery and make it obvious. They twist the whole world. They

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whim and never get discovered. We
do not even have an accurate statistic for

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the number of people robbed of lives
they were supposed to have I'm losing what

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made me happy. This right here
is making me a victim. I didn't

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believe this. I couldn't. This
was a mistake. Paul wasn't from the

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future. He couldn't be. But
then the Latto man drew his gun and

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I couldn't ignore the weapon approaching machine. We will strap you in. You'll

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hear a hum, and then you'll
get an honest READO. You might as

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well shoot me. Everything about myself
will die if I go back to who

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I was. I didn't even have
my license to operate back then. I'll

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never meet some of my friends because
of my life with Paul. You're killing

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someone who's been alive for eleven years, I know. I turned and finally

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saw it, the black eye of
the gun hovering over me, ready to

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blot me out. The weapon didn't
waver. There was nothing left that I

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could say to convince him of the
truth I knew about Paul. Instead,

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I turned and approached the machine.
The men in white lab coats, both

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nearly identical with their balding heads and
gray facial hair, strapped me in.

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I opened my mouth to say something
more, but then the world went black.

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I hated lying to the victims.
But what was the alternative? Tell

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them the whole truth right off the
bat. I'm sorry, madam, but

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because of interdimensional politics, your life
is fullfeit. Please follow me to your

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death. Cleaning up a timeline was
messy at best. I felt for Helen

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as I stared at the corpse trapped
into the interlocking muttle poles. I was

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thankful it was not my job to
carry out to the ens rat such a

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waste of life. Her mind was
free and the branching timelines were finally being

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cruned. At least that was what
I was told. At least that was

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what I told myself on the walk
back to interrogation room. For once there

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I would put a bullet in Paul
Upon's head. Then I would mop up

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the blood and dispose of the corpse
myself. Because Paul and the dirty cheaters

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like Paul ruined the world, to
the rest of us had to keep on

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living in. I just cleaned up
the messages they left in their wig.

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Luckless written by Nick Manjolilo, with
performances by Naya Dasso as Helen and the

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narrator, Harim Kronfley as a lotto
man, and Graham Rowett as Paul and

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Then the Wolves Came, written by
Arthur Runk, featuring performances by Brandon Green

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as Caliban, Danielle Ellett as a
money Jack, Carmichael as Finley, Jeff

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Clement as Zook, and Tanya Maloyevich
as Christ. Musical composition is by J.

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M. Scharff. Episode artwork,
web development in creative direction by Gassie

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Pertit. Social media on Patreon.
Management is by Brooks Bigley. Videography is

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by Hailescher, and audio engineering and
sound design is by me Jason Wilson.

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Time to go play my numbers and
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