Speaker 1: Welcome to May's Mouth, a Ghostwax interlude. May's Mouth is
set in the worlds of Ghostwax, but is a shade
darker and contains graphic content. Listener discretion is advised. Episode three,
Home Invasion.
Speaker 2: The home is so plain you almost can't see it
amid the others around it, well maintained, non descript. There's
something in the basement.
Speaker 3: Hun, time's a ticking on. Bus isn't gonna wait, and
it'll be here any minute. I don't have time to
drive you. I have errands to run. Gotta get to
the Costco before it becomes a zoo. Breakfast is ready,
sitting on the table, getting cold. There's my girl hurrying
it up, but don't spill. Delivery just came, so I
filled the bowl all the way up. Rationing's over for now.
Speaker 2: A young mother, a girl in middle school. You couldn't
describe notable features if you had to. The girl sits
at a table at a white porcelain bowl full of
red liquid.
Speaker 3: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day other
than luncheon dinner. I crack myself up.
Speaker 2: The girl's gaze is strange and intense. She turns slowly
to look out the front window. It's a sunny day.
The girl doesn't speak, but the woman hears her and responds.
Speaker 3: Hmm, oh, I'm not sure who they are, been there
all morning. Maybe they like the neighborhood and are looking
for properties. This is a great neighborhood. I'm not worried, honey, bunny.
Maybe they're going to make an offer on our house.
Happens all the time. It's a real seller's market. Housing shortage.
Nothing to worry about you. Missing school is more fuss
than anything they'll cause. Oh that's the bus. Eat up
and get scootin. Oh jeez, yes, hello there.
Speaker 4: Hi mom. It's a lovely day, don't you think?
Speaker 3: Well, I suppose so. Is there something I can do
to help you?
Speaker 4: Yes, we work for Midnight Snacks, the delivery service. We
just wanted to ask you some questions about your experience
with it, you know, so we can serve you better.
Speaker 3: Oh well, no, I don't think I have the time.
Got to get to the costco before it turns into
a zoo.
Speaker 4: It'll only take a minute. We just want to ask
a few questions.
Speaker 3: No, no, I uh no, I am very happy with
the service.
Speaker 4: What do they bring you?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, you'll have to go very happy. Five stars.
Speaker 4: What are you?
Speaker 3: Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.
Speaker 5: Get your hands out the sink and up in the air,
VICKI check upstairs, fig check the back streets.
Speaker 4: Clear, he said, get your fucking hands up.
Speaker 6: Jesus, were you reaching for that knife?
Speaker 3: No? No, I wasn't, No, sir.
Speaker 6: What the fuck is with her?
Speaker 4: Stepford wife?
Speaker 6: Is there anyone else in the home.
Speaker 3: No, my husband is off at work.
Speaker 4: Lady, there's no husband. We've been watching you for three
days and you and your daughter are the only people here. What.
Speaker 3: No, and no, that's not true. He's he's just at work.
Speaker 4: She's fucking one of them. We fucking got one. We
got one day.
Speaker 2: Come upstairs?
Speaker 4: Is clear?
Speaker 7: The daughter's room, it's not right.
Speaker 4: What do you mean it's it's just a room. Huh.
It's like it's just a room.
Speaker 2: It's no toys, no Jonathan Taylor Thomas posters or princess
shit or anything.
Speaker 6: It's just like it looks like a prison cell.
Speaker 4: Jonathan and Taylor Thomas. How old I got any thoughts
on that? Lady? M A lack of human stuff? Got
an explanation what's your name?
Speaker 3: I'm uh, I'm will shoot. You've got me flustered.
Speaker 1: You don't know your name?
Speaker 3: Holy shit?
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, holy shit, we've got one.
Speaker 1: You don't have a name, do you?
Speaker 3: Well? I just get called mom around here.
Speaker 7: No one in the back. But I just saw the
sickest shit I've ever seen. What he's sick fox tote.
I have a TV, of course we do.
Speaker 3: I watch soaps and prices right, and you people need
to leave. You get out of here. You're making me
all confused. You've got me all flustered. Things things aren't
seeming right, and the things you are saying are making
me upset. I try to be a gracious host. I do,
but you just skidaddle, skidaddle. God Jesus, you people need
to leave now. Whatever you think you were going to
do here to day, you just forget that. It's a
lovely day, a really nice, lovely day, and it should
stay that way. So you should go. Just turn around
and head back to the hole you slithered out of.
I I'm sorry that wasn't polite. Just don't do anything you'll regret.
Time's running out.
Speaker 4: Get a grip.
Speaker 3: We have questions, Well, if they are about the best
velvet of sausage tip recipe. I can sure help you.
Speaker 4: Jesus Christ, look at me, Look at the gun in
my hand.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm looking. I just don't know why I'm seeing it.
Speaker 4: You are part of something. You are part of something
that stole from us, infected us. We've been after you
people for a long time, and we are going to
get some answers.
Speaker 3: Can I get you a snack?
Speaker 4: Should I hit her? Yeah? I feel like I should
hit her. No, I don't think she's in there. Look
at her eyes like a dead light bulb.
Speaker 1: Fucking creepy. Okay, so she's what a robot?
Speaker 6: A fake, she's camouflage.
Speaker 4: So if she doesn't know anything, then what then? What
I mean?
Speaker 6: We tossed the place right, there has to be something
here has to be.
Speaker 7: We could cut her up, see what's in there? Maybe
she's got some maze air.
Speaker 4: You want to murder our only lead?
Speaker 7: How is she a lead? She's twitching because we won't
let her finish the dishes.
Speaker 4: Maybe it's maybe it's like an act or something. Right,
Maybe maybe she's just fucking with us.
Speaker 6: I still think I should hit her.
Speaker 7: Rattle Occasionally she gives it off if she doesn't know
something that you know someone who does. I mean she
orders that.
Speaker 4: Hey, hey, hey, hey, look what she's done.
Speaker 6: I saw that she shimmied over the fridge like she's
blocking it.
Speaker 3: I just thought you all might like a snack.
Speaker 4: Fucking move, I fucking move. What the fuck?
Speaker 2: The container is plain, clear plastic but sturdy, with a thick,
tightly ceiling lid. Inside is red red liquid of an
unusual hue. So strange, just sitting there between the mustard
and the lettuce.
Speaker 6: It's what the hell is this? This is what they
get delivered. Look at the stump on the top. It's
the hell is it? It's I mean.
Speaker 7: It's from a deli. It's in the fridge, is it?
It's food?
Speaker 3: Right, don't go fussing with that. We won't get any
more of it for a while. Don't go spilling it
or I'll be very cross. Oh fucking hell, god, what
is it you're come fucking smelling?
Speaker 4: No, I'm fine here, thank you.
Speaker 7: A thousand with pennies fucking each other.
Speaker 6: I mean it's blood or some kind of I don't know, mate, water.
Speaker 3: Oh, don't be ridiculous.
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 6: Then?
Speaker 3: Time?
Speaker 4: What the fuck are you talking about mm hmm.
Speaker 3: I just want you people to go away so I
can run my errands.
Speaker 6: We've come a long way and done a lot of
hurting to get some answers, and we aren't gonna stop now. Hey,
did anyone hut the basement?
Speaker 4: I've got it.
Speaker 2: Mom opens her mouth, Jesus, cry, shut her the fuck eye.
Speaker 6: I can't shut the fuck cover her mouth.
Speaker 7: I am stop this thing not coming out of her mouth. Lady,
I will fucking shoot you, and you have to shut
her up.
Speaker 3: Oh god, I can't nick it.
Speaker 1: Shut up one.
Speaker 6: God, damn it. What the hell?
Speaker 4: What the hell?
Speaker 6: I was definitely an alarm.
Speaker 3: Honey, why aren't you at school? Shit, come here, such
a nice day.
Speaker 6: Hey, it's fine, just come here.
Speaker 2: She blossomed like a flower, opening at the ribs, like
a bloom of bone and skin and hooks, propelled forward
by ragged strips of what had appeared to be a
young girl. Wait wait, wait, even a big man looks
like a doll. When flailed around fast enough, Molly felt
something tremble inside her, something sizzled and changed. She gave
into it.
Speaker 4: Stop die.
Speaker 8: Hm hmm, fuck, sh my god, Oh.
Speaker 7: Please, what the fuck are you doing?
Speaker 3: Everyone seems stressed. Thought I'd make lemonade. I have a
good mix.
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written and directed by Robert Knutson, production and editing by
Aaron Schoenrock, with music by Colton war. This episode features
Michael mcgeekon as Ben, Abigail Ramsdale as Molly, Adrian Northam
as Fig, Ellison Cossett as Vicky, and Billy Joe Conns
as Mom.