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
Speaker 1: five Inside.
Speaker 2: Then we need to talk about VICKI I think she's
Speaker 2: gonna crack.
Speaker 3: We need to finish packing up and get inside before
Speaker 3: anything else happens.
Speaker 2: Ah, I think we need to slow down. This is
Speaker 2: I don't feel in control anymore.
Speaker 3: That's what this is about. This is about reclaiming control.
Speaker 3: We've been slinking like vampires through the shadows. We are
Speaker 3: going to get some sunshine. You get it.
Speaker 2: I thought this was about the truth, about uncovering the truth.
Speaker 2: What what were what were we going to do to
Speaker 2: actually do?
Speaker 4: It's bigger than truth.
Speaker 3: This is there's something unhinged in the world, something broken,
Speaker 3: and we are gonna walk through the.
Speaker 4: Gap and there's something there. Look at my hand, he
Speaker 4: looks wrong.
Speaker 3: It feels amazing. I feel a thousand feet tall. It's strong,
Speaker 3: really strong.
Speaker 5: Look, oh my god.
Speaker 3: We are pushing through into something bigger than discovery or
Speaker 3: revenge or whatever. This is transformation. Okay, okay, I'll be
Speaker 3: right back. You ready, to go. Okay, good girl.
Speaker 6: Fuck yeah, Vicky's always been baddy, but now Ben's gone.
Speaker 6: Who will lose it next? Do you think, well we're
Speaker 6: gonna do?
Speaker 7: Who? I mean?
Speaker 6: Doesn't really change things for me. I wanted back in
Speaker 6: the maze because I missed it, because it gave me
Speaker 6: gifts last time I was in it, and all the
Speaker 6: whining and whinging has just been something I put up with.
Speaker 5: Am I Trying to cope with my son's gruesome murder
Speaker 5: has been pretty cringe?
Speaker 6: No, just not something I can relate to or.
Speaker 2: Care about, right, because you are a psychopath?
Speaker 6: Bingo?
Speaker 5: Have you seen his hand, his new one? It doesn't
Speaker 5: look like a human hand, does it?
Speaker 6: What do you think is happening here? Miss Molly? Okay, okay, okay,
Speaker 6: ready to go.
Speaker 8: Let's go, Kayley, Mommy's coming.
Speaker 3: Climbing gear check, weapons, check, supplies checks?
Speaker 4: Move?
Speaker 5: Fuck?
Speaker 4: What's wrong?
Speaker 5: I just realized the off ramp was a mile ago.
Speaker 5: What never mind? I'm ready?
Speaker 4: Okay, So I just sort of pushed in.
Speaker 3: There was a little resistance, but then it gave and
Speaker 3: there was something on the other side.
Speaker 6: Why are you looking at me like I'm about to
Speaker 6: say something?
Speaker 5: Lude is there air on the other.
Speaker 3: Side felt like it, but can't be sure. Could be
Speaker 3: poisonous even if it is so masks on.
Speaker 7: Pulling my hair like this, Yeah it feels good.
Speaker 3: Okay, flashlights too. Hey, this has been a difficult trip,
Speaker 3: but we are here.
Speaker 4: We did it.
Speaker 7: Sorry. I was expecting something to snatch out and yank
Speaker 7: you in. You were expecting him to get deep blue seed? Yeah,
Speaker 7: I'm going first. Look yuck, so weird it's open. Okay,
Speaker 7: missed you.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna think about this moment later. Well I could
Speaker 5: have left.
Speaker 3: Kick the gear on air looks weird. Where's this red
Speaker 3: light coming from? Fig? You spent the most time inside?
Speaker 3: Ever seen anything like this? Hmm?
Speaker 7: I saw some weird lights I couldn't explain, but nothing
Speaker 7: that looked like I was inside an artery. Look at
Speaker 7: the walls, they're moving.
Speaker 3: Kallie Vicky, that's not keep it together. We are going
Speaker 3: to search, but we aren't going to go around shouting
Speaker 3: our location. Remember what's in here?
Speaker 9: Remember what That's why I need to find her, Kayley Shutt.
Speaker 3: Vicky, I am not going to ask you again to
Speaker 3: keep your voice down. You aren't gonna yell, and you're
Speaker 3: gonna follow along and do as you're told. Okay, a.
Speaker 7: Hurt man, fucking heart.
Speaker 5: I just need to find Kaylee.
Speaker 7: I need to find her.
Speaker 5: Jesus Christ, keep it.
Speaker 3: Tight, stay close.
Speaker 10: The spaces existed clearly, they walked through them, in them,
Speaker 10: but nothing about them seemed real. Can something exist and
Speaker 10: not be real? Doors, windows, walls, stairs, real things made
Speaker 10: of stone, wood, clay, skin, real things in between here
Speaker 10: and there, awake and asleep. It seemed a terrible, all
Speaker 10: encompassing dream. Until they found the wall, simple concrete, gray,
Speaker 10: the message spray paint.
Speaker 5: Oh what the fuck?
Speaker 4: We don't know?
Speaker 3: That's for us?
Speaker 7: But we do though.
Speaker 11: Huh, I don't get it says welcome home.
Speaker 7: What's the panic?
Speaker 5: You don't feel.
Speaker 7: The I don't feel shit? Where is Kaylee?
Speaker 3: Was that door always there?
Speaker 7: You know it wasn't? It's for us, you know it is. Oh,
Speaker 7: we're not going to consider this going back. We could
Speaker 7: go back.
Speaker 4: Don't be stupid.
Speaker 3: It's made all.
Speaker 6: Yes, I think I'm gonna pee.
Speaker 4: It wants us here? And what's that?
Speaker 10: The maze opens up to them a room, a scale
Speaker 10: set to a specified weight on a small white table.
Speaker 4: A cleaver helpful.
Speaker 10: Sits next to it. On the wall. Another message, This
Speaker 10: one short, simple, a request our command.
Speaker 6: Flesh instructions clear.
Speaker 5: Oh, come on, this is what is happening.
Speaker 4: It's a test, the mazes testingals.
Speaker 5: Why do we want that? What are we even doing?
Speaker 5: Why are we here?
Speaker 12: I wanted to know, to get revenge or expose this,
Speaker 12: but that's not going to happen.
Speaker 5: I feel like I'm digging a pit.
Speaker 12: I'm standing at the bottom and I can't reach the
Speaker 12: edge anymore.
Speaker 6: No, that's not a pit. Then it's a grave.
Speaker 12: What did we ever think we were going to do.
Speaker 12: We've been chasing shadows and sensations. We've been killing people
Speaker 12: and breathing out of their lungs.
Speaker 2: Chasing a maze full of monsters.
Speaker 5: This is insane. We are insane.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 11: I don't know what you're doing here, but I'm here
Speaker 11: to get my daughter back. If this is a.
Speaker 6: Test, we have to pass it.
Speaker 5: We have to.
Speaker 11: If it wants flesh, then we give it to it.
Speaker 11: Do we go back and find some mondy? You know?
Speaker 4: Nope, we've got flesh here.
Speaker 6: Okay?
Speaker 5: What have we got? Like canned meat?
Speaker 4: That's not what it wants.
Speaker 6: Have you ever noticed on my left ear is like
Speaker 6: half an inch lower than my right one. Oh my god, shit,
Speaker 6: I guess cartilage isn't very heavy. It needs more? Should
Speaker 6: I make myself match?
Speaker 5: No? Stop? Do you still have Ben's hand?
Speaker 6: Oh? Would it be creepy if I did?
Speaker 5: No, it would be good. Put it on the scale, clever.
Speaker 5: Ah those bite marks?
Speaker 6: I got curious, Ben, you do not taste great, but
Speaker 6: hand meat is never really especially good.
Speaker 5: Jesus Christ.
Speaker 6: Wait, you heard that? You like caught me fake?
Speaker 5: You are really really fucked up.
Speaker 6: Finally I am seen.
Speaker 5: Oh fucking hell, he wants more?
Speaker 4: Give me that.
Speaker 6: Wait ah, good Jesus Christ.
Speaker 5: Sit Ben, Ben, Stop.
Speaker 3: The maze won't let us diets what it wants.
Speaker 5: Then stop, please stop more.
Speaker 6: I think I'm gonna puke.
Speaker 5: Stop there.
Speaker 4: Wife always tease me about the love handles. I mean
Speaker 4: she was right.
Speaker 3: I've needed to lose some weight for a while.
Speaker 5: I could have left. I could have left.
Speaker 3: Yeah, see that did it? And there's the door. We
Speaker 3: are going to make it to what to May's mouth?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 10: But she knew, deep down, she knew.
Speaker 6: What the fresh hell is?
Speaker 3: This?
Speaker 10: A small room intimate for small pedestals, with familiar looking
Speaker 10: books set the top. They knew whose each was the
Speaker 10: message on the wall.
Speaker 6: Truths, I prefer dares.
Speaker 4: I hated my wife. At first.
Speaker 3: I used to imagine my life if she just disappeared.
Speaker 3: I think about it, and my shoulders would relax, my
Speaker 3: breath would slow like I was about to fall asleep.
Speaker 3: After a while, that wasn't enough. And when she'd look
Speaker 3: at me with those oh so put upon eyes, that
Speaker 3: glare that told me she hated me too, I imagine
Speaker 3: strangling her, of picking her up and shaking her till
Speaker 3: she came apart. Found an old wardrobe with a sign
Speaker 3: on it, and a thing came out of it and
Speaker 3: made my dreams come true. And I was fucking the
Speaker 3: checkout girl within two weeks.
Speaker 6: Oh please me next.
Speaker 5: I can't what is happening. It's a test.
Speaker 11: We just have to pass the test, and it's gonna
Speaker 11: give us Kaylee back.
Speaker 5: VICKI, your daughter is gone. This is just a game.
Speaker 5: The fucking devil huzzles. We're in hell.
Speaker 11: No, Molly, your child is gone. Yours is yours and
Speaker 11: dead and ripped to pieces.
Speaker 8: Don't get us confused, bitch.
Speaker 6: After my parents were eaten by the thing in the walls,
Speaker 6: that followed me out of the maze. Oh good, I
Speaker 6: was hoping it would want me to tell this story.
Speaker 6: I went outside and found Trey Webb he mowing the
Speaker 6: lawn next door. I told him my mom wanted him
Speaker 6: to come over to ask about hiring him to mow
Speaker 6: their lawn too. He and my mom had this friendliness
Speaker 6: that I didn't understand but knew enough about to be
Speaker 6: jealous of. I told him she was in the living room,
Speaker 6: which was sort of true, I guess. And when the
Speaker 6: thing in the walls got him, I watched from the doorway.
Speaker 6: He looked so confused, and I came for the first time, monsters,
Speaker 6: You're getting it.
Speaker 5: This is where we belong.
Speaker 6: I can't wait to hear yours.
Speaker 5: I can't breathe.
Speaker 4: Really, I feel amazing. I feel like I'm breathing for
Speaker 4: the first time.
Speaker 11: I I don't I don't understand mine.
Speaker 13: Just read it out loud.
Speaker 11: Why but it doesn't make sense?
Speaker 4: Read it.
Speaker 11: The man in the TV said that I was a
Speaker 11: good girl, that if I prayed and hoped hard enough
Speaker 11: that you could find me, save me from my mum,
Speaker 11: she would leave me for so long, and I was
Speaker 11: so hungry, but the door was locked. I could hear
Speaker 11: what she was doing when she was home, and it
Speaker 11: made me so scared. Sometimes even my room door was locked,
Speaker 11: but the man in the TV said that the TV
Speaker 11: could be a window if I just hoped and believed
Speaker 11: hard enough, and he was right. One day I reached
Speaker 11: through and took his hand. He was going to take
Speaker 11: me away away from her, and I was so happy,
Speaker 11: but I told him to wait until she came home
Speaker 11: so she could.
Speaker 5: See me go. She didn't love me, but she was
Speaker 5: my mom, and I.
Speaker 8: Still loved her. I didn't want her to wonder where
Speaker 8: I went. This doesn't make any sense, VICKI. This is
Speaker 8: this is a lie.
Speaker 7: This this.
Speaker 5: These are these are lies. This is lying. This is
Speaker 5: this is lying to you. This is this isn't what happened.
Speaker 5: She didn't she didn't want to go, She didn't. What
Speaker 5: is this? Even? Where are we?
Speaker 6: This?
Speaker 8: This isn't real, This isn't anything.
Speaker 5: You're lying. Don't you look at me? Don't you fucking
Speaker 5: look at me?
Speaker 9: Fuck you, fuck you, don't you fucking look at me.
Speaker 9: Don't you fucking bity me, You fucking bitch. You killed
Speaker 9: your kid, you did it? So fuck you? Lies, lying, liars,
Speaker 9: fucking lies.
Speaker 5: Fucking I don't have to listen to this. I don't
Speaker 5: have to fucking beer. I don't even have to beer.
Speaker 6: And there she goes, Molly read.
Speaker 5: It's all blank.
Speaker 4: Keep looking.
Speaker 5: Oh wait you here? Okay, he says, I tied a knot.
Speaker 6: What that's it?
Speaker 4: There's the next door?
Speaker 6: What a disappointment? That's seriously it? What does it mean?
Speaker 5: I don't know?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 5: Is it?
Speaker 10: The end, the beginning, the end, the middle, No.
Speaker 13: A white hot brand, the last step to a whole
Speaker 13: new way.
Speaker 5: I hear.
Speaker 6: I don't want to do that, but button.
Speaker 10: And here we go again, and here we go again?
Speaker 6: What are those things? I I don't want.
Speaker 3: This. It goes on the tongue. It's the last step,
Speaker 3: and then we will be free. We will be back
Speaker 3: to how we should be. We can go back again.
Speaker 3: We can free the others too. We can bring them
Speaker 3: all with us.
Speaker 13: You'll take the brand, after which you'll go back and
Speaker 13: save them, save yourself.
Speaker 4: I can see it now, see how.
Speaker 3: We all brought ourselves here, Make sure we found our
Speaker 3: way back. I am the thing in the wardrobe. You
Speaker 3: are the mouths and the walls, and Molly.
Speaker 5: Like map, like map on a cereal box.
Speaker 13: I want to go home.
Speaker 5: He changed my mind.
Speaker 6: I didn't understand. I'm just a fucking closer of a baker.
Speaker 5: I can't want to be like this. I want to
Speaker 5: go home. We are.
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Speaker 1: directed by Robert Knutsen, production and editing by Aaron Schoenrock,
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Speaker 1: as Ben, Abigail Ramsdale as Molly, Adrian Northam as Big,
Speaker 1: and Alison Kosset as Vicky,