Speaker 1: Valmont.
Speaker 2: The Black Raven Chronicles written by Jonathan Miller, produced at
FBL Studios in Charleston, South Carolina. Original compositions by Paul Flowers.
Speaker 3: H Tody can say, Are you.
Speaker 1: Good evening, Black Raven. I'm Chuck Town's hand.
Speaker 4: In hand, and I'm John England Latson standing in for
Monique Corner Sumrville our top story tonight. Black Raven police
are still investigating the latest in a series of strange
disappearances to strike our fair city. Newly appoint and Lieutenant
over the Special Investigation Division, Sarah Klein, refused to comment
about the reports tying the missing to a potential serial killer,
or whether the investigation had anything to do with increased
police activity at the Harbor Club this past week.
Speaker 1: Another News, Senator, Kenjie arrived in town this week to
make a big announcement from Slaymore Labs, the bioengineering firm.
The senator recently invested forty three million dollars in.
Speaker 3: I knew when I first met the fine men and
women here at slay More that this company would make history,
and today we are proud to announce an advancement in
gene therapy that may very well allow us to eliminate
cancer cells in the body without damaging the immune system.
Speaker 4: Thanks for the information, Senator. Slim More Labs is hoping
that after an eighteen month trial period, the treatment will
be available to the public by December of next year.
They promised that the treatment's costs will be a quarter
of chemotherapy.
Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of people will find that to
be a great relief after the break.
Speaker 5: Folks, this little lost puppy could get you ten thousand
dollars and as local prime Lord Chuckle Simon infected our
Black Raven Knights hockey team causing there's zero and seven loss.
Speaker 1: Stay tuned.
Speaker 6: So what do you think? Isn't this space great?
Speaker 7: Great? Afraid, honey, I think I'm going to need a
tennis shah just standing here.
Speaker 8: Really, look, I know it needs work, but the upstairs
space is large enough to fit my office and a
nice roomy two bedroom, two and a half bath apartment
with the study for you to do your.
Speaker 7: Studying in two bedrooms.
Speaker 6: What I can't think about the future.
Speaker 7: Okay, mister private eye, enough with that, Come join me
in bed.
Speaker 8: Yes, ma'am, I don't know who's more proud of you, babe,
me or your pops.
Speaker 7: Honestly, I'm starting to think it's you. How many odd
jobs are you gonna have to pull to cover that party?
Speaker 9: You through?
Speaker 6: It's covered.
Speaker 8: I sold some more stock to my uncle Dmitri. Now
I only own twenty four percent of Valmont International.
Speaker 7: Only twenty four percent. Well that's not even seven hundred
million anymore. You're too poor. Now you're gonna have to
get a real job. I can't support a broke trophy husband.
Speaker 6: A real job. Oh, I'll give you a real job.
Come here.
Speaker 7: I am an officer of the law.
Speaker 6: What does it matter who my clients are?
Speaker 7: It matters because when you get stopped and searched in
this van and I get called into my captain's office
and ask questions, He's not just any criminal. He's a
four time convicted bank robber and possibly a murderer, maybe worse.
Speaker 8: If I'm not breaking the law, I don't see a
problem doing some sidework for the guy.
Speaker 6: I swear.
Speaker 8: I can't believe the police believes the false press. The
guy's got a history, sure, but he paid his price.
And that truckload that was so oh suspicious It was
fucking children's toys for the orphanage. You're really gonna be
mad at a guy for delivering toys to kids.
Speaker 7: I can't do this anymore. You're hiding things for me.
You're taking risks with your life. A frank I could
have lost you.
Speaker 6: Tonight, Babe.
Speaker 8: Come on, I'm fine. Not a scratch on me, and
I helped stop a bad guy. Isn't that what you
do every night?
Speaker 7: I have training and backup, and I have enough sense
to use both. You're taking these risks almost on purpose,
and I know about the shakes, the nightmares. I see
your eyes start around. You need to get help.
Speaker 6: I told you, Sarah, I'm fine. I don't need any help.
Speaker 7: That's why I can't do this anymore.
Speaker 10: Drop it about time you woke up. I was bored.
I was about to start cleaning. Wait, you had time
to grab a gun, but not pants.
Speaker 6: I'll be right back. How the hell did you get
in here? You do know I could have shot you.
Speaker 10: You could have, but your finger was on the guard
and not the trigger. Or are you telling me you'd
have a three hundred year old vampire wait on your
doorstep while you're having dirty dreams?
Speaker 8: How the hell would you know what I'm dreaming? Not
saying I was dreaming something like that. But how would
you know?
Speaker 10: Pheromones they change when our brain chemistry changes, and dreams
definitely change brain chemistry. What was the dream about someone special?
If so, you should really tell them how you feel,
because this place says you're obviously.
Speaker 8: Lonely, not that it's any of your business. But I've
been a little busy and I haven't had time to clean.
Speaker 6: I'm not lonely.
Speaker 10: I'm three hundred years old, mister Valmont. I can tell
the difference between I don't have time to clean and
I haven't had company in Oh, I'd say three months, No,
wait four months? And she left angrily, it seems.
Speaker 8: How would you be able to no, you know what,
I don't want to know. Never mind, let's just focus
on getting to work.
Speaker 10: Can we do that, Yes, of course, But I'd suggest
you finally wash that coffee cup covered in dust over there.
It still has lipstick on it.
Speaker 8: Oh, yeah, I guess I hadn't paid any attention to it.
Speaker 10: Yes, let's go with that. Why don't you get dressed
so we can get started.
Speaker 8: Then it's like five in the morning. Where do you
plan to start this early?
Speaker 10: The morgue the morgue.
Speaker 8: I thought the victims were all infected with the virus
and being treated by Doc Johnson.
Speaker 10: They were, but now bodies are starting to turn up,
no infection, just dead. One was found just after midnight
near the port's authority. The police are still on the scene,
but I arranged for our friend to get us access
to the body.
Speaker 6: All right, We grabbed coffee in a bagel and go
see a dead body.
Speaker 10: Or coffee and bagels typical for viewing dead bodies.
Speaker 6: No clue.
Speaker 8: I've known vampires exist for about twelve hours, and now
I'm checking out dead bodies.
Speaker 6: This is a brave New world.
Speaker 11: Lady, Listen, it's a decline.
Speaker 9: I understand this is your jurisdiction, or you really should
just let us handle this investigation.
Speaker 7: Let you handle it. Your team has been in my
city investigating for three weeks. By what the reports for
my predecessors say, and so far things are only getting worse.
Did you see what was done to that body?
Speaker 9: Of course I saw. Why do you think I don't
want to risk any additional lives dealing with this thing?
You have maybe a quarter of the information that you
need to handle this. What your department told you barely
scratches the surface of what it's really going on out here.
Speaker 7: Oh really, well, then why don't you just read me
the rest of the way in and maybe I'll let
you into my crime scene.
Speaker 9: Agent, I can't make that decision. The information that you
want is considered top secret and a matter of national security.
So you see, it's much easier to just let us
handle the investigation from here on out.
Speaker 7: You think I'm going to just hand over a heavily
mauled body that was publicly discovered on the ports without
any rhyme or reason as to why other than it
has to do with the weird and macob things that
Special Division encounters. That's going to be a hard noe
for me. Agent. Now, if you want to work with me,
I will accept your assistance.
Speaker 9: Behind We'll assist with your investigation, but if it comes
to a point where I can take over, I'm not
going to hesitate to kick the Black Raven PD out
of the.
Speaker 7: Big Boys Club, like you're the first man to ever
threaten to kick me out of the boys club. Honestly,
maybe you need to add some girls, because the boys
Club is really just a sausage fest.
Speaker 6: Yoelt we found what may be a blood trail, but
it leads right into the water and then.
Speaker 11: Nothing.
Speaker 7: Okay, Agent, do you think the animal just carried the
victim in from the sea.
Speaker 9: It's more likely he came out into the water nearby.
Are there any large trains close to where the trail ends?
Speaker 7: Storm drains dump about three hundred yards to the south.
This trail is leading north.
Speaker 9: Then I suggest we find out what might be north
of here.
Speaker 7: Level with me. Have you ever seen something like this before?
Speaker 9: I have seen a lot of things in the tenant,
but no, I've never seen anything like this before. This way, ma'am,
I can give you about ten minutes of access. After that,
you two need to be gone.
Speaker 11: And please make sure mister Chuckles nose I cooperated.
Speaker 10: I appreciate your assistance. I will make sure mister Simon
knows how helpful you have been. Thank you.
Speaker 8: I swear I can't believe the power Chuckles has. Sometimes
it's kind of funny.
Speaker 10: Why do you call mister Simon Chuckles?
Speaker 8: You don't know the story? How do you not know
how Leslie got his nickname? Didn't you do any research
on who you were working with?
Speaker 10: Well, I mean, mister Simon was fully vetted years ago.
I know he has a criminal past, but there's nothing
in the file about as Moniker.
Speaker 8: As a kid, people would pick on him for being
a boy named Leslie. Kids are the biggest assholes on
the planet sometimes, and from the way I was.
Speaker 6: Told, the kids he grew up with were worse than that.
Speaker 10: I never understood why human children are like that. Vampires
don't become mean or cynical until we're at least fifty
or sixty.
Speaker 8: Technically, that's when all humans do it too, it seems so.
When Leslie got into middle school, he went to this
absolute hellhole called Beck Middle School. It was like half
a dozen elementary schools pouring into one school, which meant
about six times more asshole kids trying to bully a
small kid named Leslie. Then one day, Leslie walks up
to the biggest bully in the school, some guy called
Crazy Mike or something like. That kid had already earned
himself a rap sheet longer than Leslie's current one.
Speaker 6: Leslie walks up to.
Speaker 8: Him and two of his friends and just stares at
them until they say something to him. They start picking
on his name, and Leslie just chuckles quietly for a minute.
Then he picks up the biggest rock he can find, and,
while still chuckling, beats all three of the boys nearly
to death. It was brutal, nightmarish, and excessive. He was
still chuckling and smacking the broken bodies with that rock
after they went unconscious. Then he turned around and asked
if anybody else wanted to make him laugh.
Speaker 10: He planned the attack ahead of time, didn't he. He
planted the rock where it would be close to them,
and then waited for them to take the bait. Am
I right?
Speaker 8: He put the rock there a week before, and had
actually tried to get them to taunt him for three
days before they noticed him standing there quietly waiting. It
was all staged for him to show everyone who he
was in one simple show of strength.
Speaker 6: He told me, once.
Speaker 12: A friend wanted me. These fools, don't I realized that
I had Quamos a head. All of him play childish
games that candidate or checkers, lambocles, But I played chills.
It's a game of kings, and I always win when
I played.
Speaker 10: Wait did he steal that from a Denzel Washington movie?
Speaker 6: I asked him that. He said it was the other
way around, and didn't say anything else.
Speaker 10: Well that's interesting.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Leslie is a pretty interesting guy. It's why I
keep him as a friend.
Speaker 10: No, I mean here in the victim's mouth.
Speaker 6: Look, fangs. Was this one of you guys? I thought
it didn't kill vampires.
Speaker 10: No, these are brand new fangs. They've never been used.
This was a human who became a vampire, and recently
by the looks of it.
Speaker 8: So she started to turn from the infection before she
died from her wounds.
Speaker 10: It doesn't work like that. The infection would have healed
the body before it grew her fangs. Fangs are the
last thing to grow, and the process takes hours.
Speaker 8: So it killed her, waited to see if she changed,
and then killed her again, and.
Speaker 10: Then took the body somewhere public to be discovered and
cause panic.
Speaker 6: What does that mean?
Speaker 10: It means that we have to find it and kill
it quickly before things get worse.
Speaker 8: Okay, if we read the map right, this chamber up
here is where I was attacked, and.
Speaker 10: The others were discovered within three hundred yards of this
chamber in different directions. This must be the creature's hunting grounds.
Be alert.
Speaker 6: Oh, this time I'm going to be ready for that fucker.
Speaker 10: Honestly, you need a more elegant weapon. It breaks like this.
Speaker 8: I actually thought you had some kind of blueprints or
something in that case. The sword is a much better option.
Speaker 10: If you really thought that, then the case has done
its job quite well. Do you smell that?
Speaker 8: Yeah, it smells like it's coming from cheer behind you.
There's two of these assholes. Are you kidding me? That's
one way to disarm him, Kira.
Speaker 10: Now is really not the time for bad jokes. He's retreating.
Speaker 6: Ah, I got you, Kira, Yo, she beast bite this.
Come on, Kira, stay with me. Kira, Come on, kid,
wake up. Damn it. Okay, here, drink this then.
Speaker 10: You idiot. That's exactly why she's mad at you.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 13: I play the game of chances against my disbelief in
serch forheaden answers in the dark of decay streets, I
see the carcass Please series of Usful Joy.
Speaker 9: And con.
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