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: two hook Up.
Speaker 2: They've been watching the front of the deli all afternoon.
Speaker 3: Really, we've got movement. Pass me those binoculars. Someone's going in.
Speaker 1: Why are they showing up so late?
Speaker 4: What kind of hours are these.
Speaker 3: Well, these things don't follow our schedule. They're on another rhythm.
Speaker 3: That's it, Big Butcher, eleven o'clock.
Speaker 5: Look at the size of that fucker, meat Mountain. Lose
Speaker 5: your car keys and his neck folds ish.
Speaker 2: The figure Molly hones in on is comically large, his
Speaker 2: limbs and body oversized for his bald head. He looks greasy.
Speaker 6: How does no one find that suspicious?
Speaker 5: How it's that wavelength. I'm telling you, there's all kinds
Speaker 5: of stuff people just don't see, look past like their
Speaker 5: brains edit it out, even us.
Speaker 6: Maybe you. I'm observant, man, I pay attention.
Speaker 1: He thinks.
Speaker 5: So I bet we see more than most now that
Speaker 5: we've had the lids peeled back. But we don't see everything.
Speaker 5: No way you definitely don't. I keep trying to tell
Speaker 5: you you miss me all the time?
Speaker 1: Yo?
Speaker 5: How came I never get the binoculars.
Speaker 6: Because you drop shit?
Speaker 5: Can I bring something up?
Speaker 1: MANE?
Speaker 5: I wish you wouldn't doing the same thing every day
Speaker 5: expecting different results. What's that the definition of?
Speaker 4: I really think it's not. It's like a definition not
Speaker 4: the definition.
Speaker 7: Being all fucked up in the head is another one.
Speaker 5: Do we have any reason to think this will turn
Speaker 5: out any differently than the last three days, seven attempts,
Speaker 5: twenty hours and a partridge in a fucking pear tree.
Speaker 3: We have to keep trying, yeah.
Speaker 5: But do we have to keep trying the same thing?
Speaker 6: And what's your big move?
Speaker 8: Then?
Speaker 5: Okay, so what do we know? We know that this
Speaker 5: place says it's a deli, but it's not on any
Speaker 5: city records. You can't order from it on any website. Eh.
Speaker 5: When you go up to the door, it's locked. It's
Speaker 5: not a business. It's nothing. When we tipped off the
Speaker 5: cops that it's a drug front, nothing swatted the place. Nothing.
Speaker 5: Nobody can fucking see this place. It's called Yellow's Deli.
Speaker 5: Who's Yellow? A goddamn ghost? Right?
Speaker 6: Right? And yet delivery people come by at all hours.
Speaker 5: Show up at all hours, and take big packages away
Speaker 5: on scooters and bikes and shitty cars to where.
Speaker 4: We don't fucking know because we keep getting lost.
Speaker 6: When we follow them. We lose them every time.
Speaker 8: And if you're trying to tell me that's my fault,
Speaker 8: you're welcome to drive that. We can't imagine you have
Speaker 8: a license.
Speaker 5: No Christ, way would I. But yeah, we follow, we
Speaker 5: get lost, we lose them, something freaky, right, something unnatural? Okay,
Speaker 5: while we ship sailed for some of us. Fuck you
Speaker 5: continue so we can't get to wherever these people are going.
Speaker 5: But VICKI check your notes. Do we see repeats delivery people? Mmm?
Speaker 7: Yeah, thirty six deliveries, nine different people.
Speaker 5: But try as we might, none of us can pick
Speaker 5: up a delivery from there. Not certified on any of
Speaker 5: the door dashy food courier whatevers. But wow, these fucking drivers,
Speaker 5: they are checking their phones. I've been watching them. They
Speaker 5: pull up, check phones, Look at mister big butcher inside,
Speaker 5: look scared, checkphone again, go in. So it can only
Speaker 5: be one thing. Yes, it could be that they are
Speaker 5: part of some cults or group, or they're one of them.
Speaker 5: But I don't think so. They are so normal and
Speaker 5: they don't feel off. Molly doesn't get the pricklies from them.
Speaker 5: I think they are like us, but they have something
Speaker 5: we don't. They have I don't know, a contact or
Speaker 5: an app or something we don't not publicly available, right,
Speaker 5: They've got a way to get like chosen to pick
Speaker 5: stuff up here?
Speaker 3: M yeah, copy, So we walk, We nab one of
Speaker 3: them and ask lift the phone.
Speaker 5: Sure, or we could do it the easy.
Speaker 3: Way, which is walk.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 5: I was thinking, if someone is using an app to
Speaker 5: get these people witlessly involved, maybe we could too use
Speaker 5: an app.
Speaker 4: I mean, huh, you know, bruh, what the hell's that?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 5: You don't know, Queen?
Speaker 9: Why does that sound familiar?
Speaker 10: Jesus?
Speaker 3: Is that really the simplest way?
Speaker 5: What's simpler? I use it to get into people's houses
Speaker 5: all the time, isn't that right? Ben?
Speaker 8: Okay, that'll be plenty um. What No, he's lying, he's
Speaker 8: doing his lying thing.
Speaker 5: Oh did we mean nothing to you?
Speaker 1: Ben?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 6: Stop be done with this bit.
Speaker 3: Sick, isn't it.
Speaker 5: I thought you were an ally?
Speaker 3: No us this we are sick.
Speaker 4: We are fucked.
Speaker 11: We just keep on moving, swimming like fucking sharks, blooding
Speaker 11: our kills, meat in our teeth, We make jokes, watch movies,
Speaker 11: drink fucking soda.
Speaker 4: Fuck's sake, my shoes. What fucking murderers? His fucking face?
Speaker 11: Oh the last one she was what twenty?
Speaker 6: So what what do you want to do? Molly?
Speaker 8: You want to give up? You want to die. You
Speaker 8: want to be dead because you know, when the ache
Speaker 8: gets bad enough, you'll die. Hell, I've almost off myself
Speaker 8: half a dozen times waiting to find people with what
Speaker 8: we need.
Speaker 6: I'm not going to give up. I'm going to fucking
Speaker 6: find it.
Speaker 3: And what and then what?
Speaker 10: Whoa?
Speaker 5: Whoa?
Speaker 2: Guys?
Speaker 5: What I've got one Tommy twenty seven, six foot one.
Speaker 5: Oh he's pretty cute. Bonus.
Speaker 4: Wait that guy, the guy picking up from yellows right now.
Speaker 5: Yep, says two hundred feet. So yeah, well what do
Speaker 5: you do?
Speaker 3: Send him something?
Speaker 5: Okay, let's reel in a big one here. Someone take
Speaker 5: a hot picture of me.
Speaker 2: The rain let up, but it was a cold, dark night.
Speaker 9: Yeah, hello, it's me here for the sex.
Speaker 1: Jeez.
Speaker 2: Four seventeen, the lights in the hall were flickering. Fig
Speaker 2: wondered if there was a message hidden in their erratic
Speaker 2: patterns probably not.
Speaker 9: Hey, hey, wow, you're uh you look great?
Speaker 5: Thanks. I stole these clothes from some with great taste.
Speaker 7: Okay, well, come on in. You can steal some of
Speaker 7: my stuff if you want.
Speaker 5: If you've got nice stuff. Huh hey, not bad, little
Speaker 5: butch for my taste. But place looks good.
Speaker 10: Thanks.
Speaker 7: They uh, well, a lot of this is new TV.
Speaker 7: Those speakers lights over the island. The old ones were
Speaker 7: super ugly.
Speaker 10: And am I.
Speaker 5: Standing too close? Should I step forward or backward?
Speaker 7: I just I don't usually do this sort of thing.
Speaker 7: I mean, I bet everyone says that, but I really don't.
Speaker 5: Everyone says that too. It doesn't matter. Nothing matters.
Speaker 7: Yeah, hey, uh so would it be cool if we
Speaker 7: talk some first?
Speaker 5: Sure? Not like I have a van full of people
Speaker 5: waiting for me?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 5: And if I did have a mystery machine full of
Speaker 5: psychos out there waiting for me, I would delight in
Speaker 5: making them wait and think about all the unsavory things
Speaker 5: I'm doing.
Speaker 10: Do you have friends waiting for you? That's I mean,
Speaker 10: that's kind of weird, right.
Speaker 5: Well I don't have any friends waiting for me. Just kidding,
Speaker 5: but I am really weird though. That doesn't matter either.
Speaker 5: Nothing matters whatever I do or say, I just do
Speaker 5: and can and just keep doing, and no one ever
Speaker 5: stops me.
Speaker 10: Sure? Uh? Do you want to drink?
Speaker 5: See?
Speaker 10: Huh?
Speaker 5: Sure? What do you have open?
Speaker 10: I was having a whiskey, but I can do cocktails?
Speaker 5: Okay, no need, I like one and only one thing straight?
Speaker 10: Okay, gotcha.
Speaker 5: A little more there, cowboy?
Speaker 7: Can you really hear my accent? I've been working so
Speaker 7: hard to get rid of it.
Speaker 5: The past is pretty sticky, isn't it.
Speaker 10: Lack mold glasses.
Speaker 5: That's pretty good.
Speaker 10: So what do you do? Fig you a model?
Speaker 5: Let's not spoil things already.
Speaker 10: Sorry, sorry only fans.
Speaker 5: No, no, nothing as upstanding as that. I just take
Speaker 5: what I want, I do what I want, I kill
Speaker 5: when I feel like it.
Speaker 10: Pretty privilege is so real.
Speaker 5: You're brave to let me in. I honestly am always
Speaker 5: amazed at how horny wins over sensible. I once met
Speaker 5: up with this guy, so gorgeous but like cracked. He
Speaker 5: went on and on about how he was invisible.
Speaker 10: Huh.
Speaker 5: He said the world couldn't see him, that he moved
Speaker 5: through life just doing whatever he wanted. No one ever
Speaker 5: stopped him, and he could just do or say, or
Speaker 5: take or even hurt people, and he would just get
Speaker 5: away with it. He said. He hit a man in
Speaker 5: the face with a brick in the middle of a supermarket,
Speaker 5: shattered his jaw, sent his teeth flying into the piled
Speaker 5: up apples. Jesus yeah, and everyone just kept on. Walked by.
Speaker 5: A lady brushed one of the guys incisors off a
Speaker 5: red Delicious and put it in her bag.
Speaker 10: This is why I don't like meeting people.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you never know who's going to be a cannibal monster.
Speaker 10: He was a cannibal too.
Speaker 5: Oh I don't know, maybe, but I meant me, oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: I ate him and took his power. He was the
Speaker 5: first other person I met who had been touched by
Speaker 5: the maze. I just kind of knew. I felt a
Speaker 5: weird pull to him, and then I wasn't sure why.
Speaker 5: I just got this urge. I knew if I consumed him,
Speaker 5: i'd get what he had, that weird gift curse. No
Speaker 5: one would really see me, I thought, I wanted.
Speaker 7: That nice I think you got his good looks too.
Speaker 5: You don't need to keep complimenting me. I'm here, I'm inside.
Speaker 5: I plan to stay the night. Did that hurt.
Speaker 10: I mean I was raised right.
Speaker 7: Well, no, not really, but they did teach me to
Speaker 7: be complimentary of a date. At least, even if they
Speaker 7: do tell creepy stories about all, they did teach me
Speaker 7: that was worth.
Speaker 5: The dame shitty parents.
Speaker 7: They'd have to learn to dig upwards to get back
Speaker 7: to shitty.
Speaker 5: At least they didn't name you figment Jesus.
Speaker 10: That is a name, isn't it.
Speaker 5: Church of Universal Oneness?
Speaker 9: Huh hippies, Oh sure, did they love you?
Speaker 5: They did.
Speaker 7: Well, I'd forgive them for the name. Then could have
Speaker 7: been worse.
Speaker 5: Tell me.
Speaker 7: I didn't even slip up, no search history, getting caught
Speaker 7: in the back seat with a boy.
Speaker 2: Nothing.
Speaker 10: They just knew.
Speaker 7: I sounded like my brothers, acted like my friends. I
Speaker 7: didn't do anything out of line. The fear kept me
Speaker 7: straight as an arrow.
Speaker 10: But they just knew.
Speaker 7: I actually used to think this, and this is really stupid,
Speaker 7: but it's how I felt.
Speaker 10: I used to think God ratted me out.
Speaker 7: Huh yeah, So the only person, the only person I
Speaker 7: told anything too was okay. So after practice senior year,
Speaker 7: the damn kind of finally broke. I was in the
Speaker 7: locker room, keeping my eyes to myself, and my friend
Speaker 7: Brent Beckner came up to me, and I don't even
Speaker 7: remember what he said, but when he turned the light,
Speaker 7: the light just caught on the thin layer of sweat
Speaker 7: on his collarbone, And.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was like, fuck damn.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I pushed that shit down below my boots for
Speaker 7: so long. But watching this one little drop of water
Speaker 7: trace the side of his neck and around his collar
Speaker 7: and just wishing it was me, Does that make any sense?
Speaker 5: Oh so much sense. Wow, were bleeding all over.
Speaker 7: There was no denying it anymore. The closet was collapsing.
Speaker 5: Under the weight of Brent Beckner's perfect collarbone.
Speaker 10: Yeah damn.
Speaker 7: But I didn't tell anyone except I stayed up all
Speaker 7: night praying.
Speaker 10: I prayed for it not to be true.
Speaker 7: Just please, please, I'll do everything else right, I'll be
Speaker 7: the holiest motherfucker alive.
Speaker 9: Just don't let it be true.
Speaker 7: So when two weeks later I found a conversion therapy
Speaker 7: pamphlet on my bed next to a pack bag, I
Speaker 7: remember thinking.
Speaker 9: You fucker, I asked you for help and you ratted
Speaker 9: me out. I begged you and you turned me in.
Speaker 5: Well, I can confirm God is a ratfucker psychopath and
Speaker 5: you're bleeding a lot, aren't you.
Speaker 10: You've met God?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, a couple times.
Speaker 10: Well, if you see him again, ask him, what the hell? Man?
Speaker 5: Sure you're getting pretty pale?
Speaker 10: I mean, I'm not moping. I'm fine.
Speaker 7: I'm great, Like life has been a fucking mess, but
Speaker 7: so so much better that whole it gets better.
Speaker 10: Shit.
Speaker 7: I remember seeing that when I was a kid, and
Speaker 7: like laughing, I did a full milk spit take when
Speaker 7: this rich actor fucker told my hillbilly ass.
Speaker 9: Hey girl, it gets better girl, like.
Speaker 7: Maybe for you, but we all know that ground's not level,
Speaker 7: not ever so I mean, but.
Speaker 10: Fuck me right, it did get better. Shit got nuts.
Speaker 7: I pushed my dad down the stairs, grabbed the bag
Speaker 7: packed for my conversion therapy, and stole the car. I shit,
Speaker 7: I had never told anyone this, but I uh, I set.
Speaker 10: It on fire.
Speaker 7: I knew I couldn't keep it, but I set it
Speaker 7: on fire so they would never.
Speaker 10: Get it back. Is that bad?
Speaker 7: I just read this poem about spitte and like revenge
Speaker 7: being a poisonous weapon that only works on the wielder.
Speaker 10: What do you think was that to shut me up?
Speaker 5: No? I just wanted to kiss you. I told you
Speaker 5: I do whatever I want. Ever, since I ate that guy,
Speaker 5: I can just do whatever I want and get away
Speaker 5: with it.
Speaker 10: I think you just have a pretty face.
Speaker 5: People don't let you hurt them because you've got a
Speaker 5: pretty face.
Speaker 10: Sure they do. I'd let you hurt me. You did, Huh?
Speaker 5: I did? Do you feel I'd had?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I thought it was the booze and you it was me.
Speaker 5: The booze isn't helping thins the blood and you're really gushing?
Speaker 5: What what do you mean I stabbed you earlier? It's
Speaker 5: something important. I think I asked if it hurt, but
Speaker 5: you didn't say anything. You won't notice. I can't get caught.
Speaker 5: No one sees me do anything bad. I killed you
Speaker 5: ten minutes ago.
Speaker 10: That wasn't very nice.
Speaker 5: I told the people in the van outside I was
Speaker 5: going to They just stared at me. I honestly don't
Speaker 5: think it would have mattered even if they heard me.
Speaker 5: They wanted me to get it out of you, found
Speaker 5: out how they contact you, steal your phone, just you know,
Speaker 5: get it done. But but then you'll call someone about
Speaker 5: it or report it to someone or other, and it's
Speaker 5: just cleaner this way. Figuratively speaking, normal people can't catch me,
Speaker 5: can't stop me. Never know I do anything wrong, But
Speaker 5: I don't know about them, you know, and I don't
Speaker 5: know if it extends to my friends. Best not to
Speaker 5: risk it. Hey, what's your phone code?
Speaker 9: Wow?
Speaker 10: Am I so tired? Ah?
Speaker 7: What?
Speaker 5: It's zero three sixteen three sixteen funny?
Speaker 10: I feel kind of bad.
Speaker 5: Shh, Hey, come here. You won, Okay, you won. You
Speaker 5: got to be you, and you made your own life,
Speaker 5: your own way, and you were a really good person,
Speaker 5: I think, and you got to die young and pretty.
Speaker 10: I'm scared. Why am I scared?
Speaker 5: Look in my eyes?
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's better.
Speaker 5: You want to go to bed with me?
Speaker 10: Then what?
Speaker 5: You and I will have a really nice time while
Speaker 5: you stay conscious. He'll drift off to sleep happy. Then
Speaker 5: I'll probably eat some of your cheek and leg and
Speaker 5: head back down to see my friends, all covered in
Speaker 5: your blood and no one will notice or say anything
Speaker 5: about it, because the world is fucked and evil and
Speaker 5: broken and nothing means anything.
Speaker 10: Can I kiss you some more?
Speaker 5: I love that?
Speaker 7: Then I'm fine with it.
Speaker 2: It had started to rain again by the time fig
Speaker 2: got back.
Speaker 5: To the van.
Speaker 4: So have a nice time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I suppose no one wants to ask about all
Speaker 5: this bla blood smeared all over my face?
Speaker 3: Did you figure it out? How they get the deliveries?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 5: App on the phone midnight snacks.
Speaker 6: Oh fuck, speaking of snacks, I'm starving. You guys want
Speaker 6: to eat?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Very much so?
Speaker 4: Yeah sounds good fake huh oh no, I'm full.
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Speaker 1: Michael mcgeekon as Ben, Abigail Ramsdale as Molly, Adrian Northam
Speaker 1: as Fig, Ellison Cossett as Vicky, and Andrew Fisher as Tommy.