Speaker 1: Welcome to May's Mouth, a Ghostwax interlude. May's Mouth is
Speaker 1: set in the worlds of Ghostwax, but is a shade
Speaker 1: darker and contains graphic content. Listener discretion is advised. Episode three,
Speaker 1: Home Invasion.
Speaker 2: The home is so plain you almost can't see it
Speaker 2: amid the others around it, well maintained, non descript. There's
Speaker 2: something in the basement.
Speaker 3: Hun, time's a ticking on. Bus isn't gonna wait, and
Speaker 3: it'll be here any minute. I don't have time to
Speaker 3: drive you. I have errands to run. Gotta get to
Speaker 3: the Costco before it becomes a zoo. Breakfast is ready,
Speaker 3: sitting on the table, getting cold. There's my girl hurrying
Speaker 3: it up, but don't spill. Delivery just came, so I
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 2: describe notable features if you had to. The girl sits
Speaker 2: at a table at a white porcelain bowl full of
Speaker 2: red liquid.
Speaker 3: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day other
Speaker 3: than luncheon dinner. I crack myself up.
Speaker 2: The girl's gaze is strange and intense. She turns slowly
Speaker 2: to look out the front window. It's a sunny day.
Speaker 2: 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
Speaker 3: all morning. Maybe they like the neighborhood and are looking
Speaker 3: for properties. This is a great neighborhood. I'm not worried, honey, bunny.
Speaker 3: Maybe they're going to make an offer on our house.
Speaker 3: Happens all the time. It's a real seller's market. Housing shortage.
Speaker 3: Nothing to worry about you. Missing school is more fuss
Speaker 3: than anything they'll cause. Oh that's the bus. Eat up
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: to help you?
Speaker 4: Yes, we work for Midnight Snacks, the delivery service. We
Speaker 4: just wanted to ask you some questions about your experience
Speaker 4: with it, you know, so we can serve you better.
Speaker 3: Oh well, no, I don't think I have the time.
Speaker 3: Got to get to the costco before it turns into
Speaker 3: a zoo.
Speaker 4: It'll only take a minute. We just want to ask
Speaker 4: a few questions.
Speaker 3: No, no, I uh no, I am very happy with
Speaker 3: 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,
Speaker 5: 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
Speaker 4: 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
Speaker 4: 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.
Speaker 4: It's like it's just a room.
Speaker 2: It's no toys, no Jonathan Taylor Thomas posters or princess
Speaker 2: 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
Speaker 4: on that? Lady? M A lack of human stuff? Got
Speaker 4: 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
Speaker 7: sickest shit I've ever seen. What he's sick fox tote.
Speaker 7: I have a TV, of course we do.
Speaker 3: I watch soaps and prices right, and you people need
Speaker 3: to leave. You get out of here. You're making me
Speaker 3: all confused. You've got me all flustered. Things things aren't
Speaker 3: seeming right, and the things you are saying are making
Speaker 3: me upset. I try to be a gracious host. I do,
Speaker 3: but you just skidaddle, skidaddle. God Jesus, you people need
Speaker 3: to leave now. Whatever you think you were going to
Speaker 3: do here to day, you just forget that. It's a
Speaker 3: lovely day, a really nice, lovely day, and it should
Speaker 3: stay that way. So you should go. Just turn around
Speaker 3: and head back to the hole you slithered out of.
Speaker 3: I I'm sorry that wasn't polite. Just don't do anything you'll regret.
Speaker 3: Time's running out.
Speaker 4: Get a grip.
Speaker 3: We have questions, Well, if they are about the best
Speaker 3: velvet of sausage tip recipe. I can sure help you.
Speaker 4: Jesus Christ, look at me, Look at the gun in
Speaker 4: 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
Speaker 4: that stole from us, infected us. We've been after you
Speaker 4: people for a long time, and we are going to
Speaker 4: get some answers.
Speaker 3: Can I get you a snack?
Speaker 4: Should I hit her? Yeah? I feel like I should
Speaker 4: hit her. No, I don't think she's in there. Look
Speaker 4: 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
Speaker 4: I mean?
Speaker 6: We tossed the place right, there has to be something
Speaker 6: here has to be.
Speaker 7: We could cut her up, see what's in there? Maybe
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 7: let her finish the dishes.
Speaker 4: Maybe it's maybe it's like an act or something. Right,
Speaker 4: 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
Speaker 7: something that you know someone who does. I mean she
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 6: 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,
Speaker 2: tightly ceiling lid. Inside is red red liquid of an
Speaker 2: unusual hue. So strange, just sitting there between the mustard
Speaker 2: and the lettuce.
Speaker 6: It's what the hell is this? This is what they
Speaker 6: get delivered. Look at the stump on the top. It's
Speaker 6: the hell is it? It's I mean.
Speaker 7: It's from a deli. It's in the fridge, is it?
Speaker 7: It's food?
Speaker 3: Right, don't go fussing with that. We won't get any
Speaker 3: more of it for a while. Don't go spilling it
Speaker 3: or I'll be very cross. Oh fucking hell, god, what
Speaker 3: 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
Speaker 3: can run my errands.
Speaker 6: We've come a long way and done a lot of
Speaker 6: hurting to get some answers, and we aren't gonna stop now. Hey,
Speaker 6: 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,
Speaker 7: I will fucking shoot you, and you have to shut
Speaker 7: 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
Speaker 3: a nice day.
Speaker 6: Hey, it's fine, just come here.
Speaker 2: She blossomed like a flower, opening at the ribs, like
Speaker 2: a bloom of bone and skin and hooks, propelled forward
Speaker 2: by ragged strips of what had appeared to be a
Speaker 2: young girl. Wait wait, wait, even a big man looks
Speaker 2: like a doll. When flailed around fast enough, Molly felt
Speaker 2: something tremble inside her, something sizzled and changed. She gave
Speaker 2: 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
Speaker 3: good mix.
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Speaker 1: written and directed by Robert Knutson, production and editing by
Speaker 1: Aaron Schoenrock, with music by Colton war. This episode features
Speaker 1: Michael mcgeekon as Ben, Abigail Ramsdale as Molly, Adrian Northam
Speaker 1: as Fig, Ellison Cossett as Vicky, and Billy Joe Conns
Speaker 1: as Mom.