January 13, 2023 • 28 mins
Once one impossible thing has happened, it feels the world could come apart at the seams. Folklore professor Jeremy Bradshaw does his best to hold himself together after getting everything he's always wanted and having his entire worldview shattered in the process.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Who's there?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Who's there?
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Celeste?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Where? Hello?
Speaker 5 (00:27):
No?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
I can't wait?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Is this really? Is this really? My god? Am I
really here? Is that really you?
Speaker 6 (00:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (00:39):
Jeremy Thomas Thomas, And.
Speaker 8 (00:46):
I knew it.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
I knew it. I knew that you were still out there.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I knew you would find me.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
And how is this possible?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Jeremy song? Oh my god, look at you. I don't
I don't understand.
Speaker 8 (01:04):
I knew it.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I knew this can be all right?
Speaker 6 (01:08):
This is something, celest did You're he's solid, he's he's
How are you here?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Dad?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
It's me, It's really me.
Speaker 7 (01:23):
I never stopped looking, Thomas, and these past few months,
I thought that I could hear you.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
You know, I was really trying to listen.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I know, I know you'd never stop, never, never.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I'm just so sorry it took me this long. What
is all of this mean?
Speaker 9 (01:42):
Where?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Where have you been? How? How are you? How are
you alive? Are you alive?
Speaker 10 (01:49):
I'll explain everything, I promise, and has as much as
I can anyway, I'd.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Have to get out of this lake first. And five.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
What is that we.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Have to get out of here?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
But well, the last where is she the last?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
The last Celeste from.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Yes, from the old gathering case. Yeah, it's the last.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
She traded places with me? What means she must have
That's how I we have to go?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Now what we we? What?
Speaker 10 (02:21):
What?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
What?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
We all a blur? But I think I think, I
think I'm not the only one that got out.
Speaker 11 (02:43):
Okay, that's another dead end.
Speaker 12 (03:14):
One other incident of symbols relating to a lost person
in eighty years.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Why Ethan?
Speaker 12 (03:26):
Yeah, Olivia Nippin, Hey, sorry can I yeah?
Speaker 13 (03:34):
Yeah, yeah, come on in?
Speaker 8 (03:38):
What are you doing?
Speaker 9 (03:42):
You first?
Speaker 8 (03:43):
How how are you doing? How's Ethan? I heard about it.
Speaker 12 (03:47):
Yeah, it was He's okay, I mean no, he's not.
He's he's healthy though, he's safe. They let him out
this afternoon, and I don't know. My parents are still
in complete freak out.
Speaker 8 (04:00):
Yeah, they seemed a bit frazzled when they opened the door.
Speaker 12 (04:05):
My dad is taking Eathan to our grandparents in Winchester.
He needs a break from this whole place. I guess
my dad can work from wherever so they're just gonna
stay there for a little while until Ethan. Then we
still don't understand what happened. I've been scraping through message
board posts and digital archives and can't find anything recent
(04:28):
that's close to what happened to Ethan.
Speaker 8 (04:30):
So I just say, yay, I know, but he's safe,
and he's got his big sister and his grandmother on
the case. I mean, if anyone can figure it out,
it is the Becker Hoskins.
Speaker 12 (04:43):
Yeah, anyway, what's up? What are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (04:51):
Right, have you talked to Anne recently?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (04:56):
I haven't talked her since the hospital last night.
Speaker 8 (04:59):
Why, well, something kind of strange happened earlier. Okay, so
you remember Katie Franks.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Wow, I can't believe you still live here.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Once you learn about the modern housing market, you'll.
Speaker 10 (05:22):
Understand it looks different. I mean all the furnitures. I
also don't remember you being such a slob.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
Well, it has been a hectic few decades. Yeah, oh
my god, it's really cute. You're really here. It's been
decades since we lasted that decades, Thomas man.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Christ I'm an a woman now, I mean look at me.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
No, no, no, you're still beautiful. You're always beautiful.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
But I'm not who I was.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I don't think either of us are.
Speaker 10 (06:16):
Jeremy, my god, there's so much I want to tell
you things I've been waiting decades to tell you.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Ann and I.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
No, no, it's it's okay, I know about that.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
It's how did you you knew it was me?
Speaker 9 (06:34):
How did you know?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I mean, it's you're my son.
Speaker 10 (06:37):
Sure you're all grown up now, but I knew i'd
know you anywhere anytime.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
You're Jeremy. But you you look but what do I
look like?
Speaker 7 (06:50):
You look almost exactly the same, maybe a little ragged
around the hedges, but.
Speaker 9 (06:59):
You haven't aged.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Huh? I did wonder?
Speaker 9 (07:04):
Should should that disturb you just a little?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
But I don't know if I can complain about not
getting older?
Speaker 10 (07:11):
How exactly is this possible time worked differently over there?
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Oh well in that.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Case, okay, Jeremy man.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
How do we even know?
Speaker 9 (07:21):
How do we know that you are the real Thomas Bradshaw?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
What?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Yeah, you just come out of the fog.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
You're still thirty five, and you're talking about celestrating places
with you like it makes any sense, And then you
expect us.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
To believe that my father is not actually dead.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Jeremy, My father is dead. You are dead me, I'm not,
I never was. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
No, don't say you're sorry.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
Don't you say you're sorry because you can't say you're
sorry because you're not real.
Speaker 7 (07:54):
Okay, Jeremy, Jeremy, honey, after everything that we just witnessed,
you're still denying that there's something beyond our understanding going
on here. I mean, look at him, Look at him.
We are not hallucinating.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Oh do I know this isn't just a dream or
that you're not.
Speaker 10 (08:11):
Some trick that I'm not going to wake up tomorrow
and find that you're still gone.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I'm not going anywhere. I'm here.
Speaker 10 (08:19):
I mean, I barely understand how or why I was
able to get out, but I'm not leaving.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I'm here, Son, I'm here.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
You were dead. I lost you. You've been You've been gone.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
I know.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Fuck, I feel like I'm losing my mind.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I know the feeling.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
It's really you, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yeah, Jeremy, it is so.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
When you said time moved differently over there.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
You were inside that that thing that opened up above
the lake.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Yes, some kind of like a vortex or portal.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Shit, did Celeste really open it? Or wait?
Speaker 9 (09:09):
If she traded places with you, then she strapped now
like you were.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I don't know she was with you when you found.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Me, Yeah, right before and then she jumped. How did
you know that that's what what she was trying to
do right away? You knew that she was trying to
trade places.
Speaker 10 (09:29):
That's the only thing that makes sense. I guess something
else could have gotten me out, but I don't know how.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
And I remember her from before. She was there that.
Speaker 10 (09:36):
Night when you Yeah, and recently things have been getting thinner,
but between here and there, and I thought I heard
her trying to talk to me, trying to tell me
what she was planning.
Speaker 9 (09:51):
So Celeste was She wasn't lying, she was she wasn't
making any of it up.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
She really was trying to fix some kind of cosmic.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Tale more or less. Yeah, And you you.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
Think she jumped off a cliff and landed in where
wherever or whatever you've been in.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Worked for me? Well, to be fair, I was pushed Thomas,
Oh my god, that's probably not the best joke.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
No, no, no, I mean why not?
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Right?
Speaker 9 (10:20):
Like, why shouldn't my dad dad joke about.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
His own murder. I mean, if you can't joke about.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
That, then what can you joke about Jeremy.
Speaker 10 (10:27):
To be fair, I do think it was an accident.
It all happened so fast. I thought they were going
to hurt someone. But knowing what I know now, maybe
I should have played it differently. I've had a lot
of time to think about it.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
How should you have played it?
Speaker 10 (10:45):
I thought they were a crazy cult trying to sacrifice someone.
I didn't realize they were trying to go somewhere of
their own free will.
Speaker 7 (10:51):
Oh, you had it right, Okay, they didn't know what
they were trying to do either. I mean they were
trying to sacrifice somebody, some kind of blood rituals, open
up a gate to another dimension. You did the right
thing with the information that you had, Thomas.
Speaker 9 (11:07):
You did My god, that is such bullshit.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
What No, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
You should not have intervened.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
You You should have just let those nutjobs do whatever
it is that they wanted to do, and they should
have dealt with the consequences themselves.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
That wasn't an option. I had a job to do,
and you're.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
And did your job usually require confronting dangerous people alone,
going to a secret cult meeting without any backup and
without telling anyone.
Speaker 10 (11:32):
You try explaining to your captain that you need resources
to stop magical rituals in the woods and.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
See how that goes. Well, you should have tried.
Speaker 10 (11:39):
You think I didn't, Okay, hey, fellas, I was doing
everything I could to get to the bottom of what
was going on to protect my people before it was
too late.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Well, great job.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I'm not the one who needed to be protected. As
an officer of the law, I don't get that.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
Unshow, don't don't give me that you were some lone
wolf with no responsibilities.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
You're right, I did have responsibilities to the people of
this time.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
You had a responsibility.
Speaker 9 (12:02):
You had a responsibility to me and to Anne.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
You didn't even tell your partner.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
I mean, I know you had the opportunity, given that
you two were already together at that point.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
All right, let's just all what I'm not going to
tell me. Calm down, you're not pissed. I'm going to
tell you that I don't think that this is the time,
and that we can't exactly cast stones, considering we've been
doing the exact same withholding information from the authorities.
Speaker 9 (12:28):
Come on, fine, well we should.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Go to the police. Even if Celeste really is in
that other place.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
We need to file a missing person's report.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
No, no one can see Thomas.
Speaker 7 (12:41):
Not yet what and you know I am right, Jeremy,
Not until we can figure out how to explain all this.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
We don't know, right, We don't know how people react.
Speaker 7 (12:52):
Yeah, so call what Well, I can't do it. The
police know my voice to Ellen Thomas obviously yet so.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Right, yeah I can't.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
There's no service.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Landline in the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Okay, be right back. How are you feeling fine? All
things considered? A little less fine after.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
That?
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Well, you know he's processing emotions are running high.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
You really know him? Huh.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
I mean, we haven't known each other for very long,
but the time that we have spent together has been.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Intense.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
This isn't all what I was expecting.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
I can only imagine, But you seem I don't know.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
I would have thought. But you're you, you know, putting
together the pieces and cracking the jokes.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
It's really you after all this time, it's really you.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Don't worry.
Speaker 10 (14:10):
I had plenty of time to have the full mental breakdown, Thomas,
how long has that actually been? Based on the fact
that Jeremy is a fully Groman. I'm guessing quite a while.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
But forty years forty, Oh, of course it's forty.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I should have known.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
What do you all right, anonymous? To deliver it?
Speaker 6 (14:32):
I just hope they get there and find nothing that
would mean that she's alive, right and wherever you were, right?
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I think?
Speaker 6 (14:39):
So?
Speaker 9 (14:39):
Yes, okay, good, that's good because otherwise.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
Well, people have survived that fall before, Jeremy. I mean,
even if she didn't get through the portal, she could
be okay.
Speaker 10 (14:49):
Yeah, right, Well, if for some reason she didn't get through,
we have a much bigger problem.
Speaker 12 (15:17):
She didn't say anything else, just that she was worried
about Celeste.
Speaker 8 (15:21):
Yeah, that Celeste was trying some kind of ritual to
close the tear in the veil. It didn't make a
lot of sense, and I'm not sure why that would
be dangerous in the first place, but Jeremy still thought
it'd be a good idea to check it out.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Damn it.
Speaker 12 (15:35):
Nana still hasn't responded to any of my calls or texts.
Speaker 8 (15:38):
Oh, neither's Jeremy.
Speaker 12 (15:41):
If Celeste really is in danger, then they.
Speaker 8 (15:44):
Hey, I'm sure they're totally fine.
Speaker 11 (15:47):
If they're totally fine.
Speaker 13 (15:49):
Then why are the police here?
Speaker 8 (15:51):
Oh? God, come on?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Led to that sad of oaks?
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Whoa? This is an have seen?
Speaker 13 (16:01):
I'm gonna need you to step back.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
What happened?
Speaker 13 (16:03):
Who is that?
Speaker 8 (16:04):
We're the paramedics.
Speaker 13 (16:05):
They're grabbing a gurney.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
What happened?
Speaker 14 (16:07):
It seems there was some kind of accidents or someone
didn't get the help they needed.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
We don't know much.
Speaker 13 (16:13):
Someone jumped, that's unknown at this time.
Speaker 8 (16:15):
Who is it?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Is it?
Speaker 13 (16:17):
Look?
Speaker 14 (16:17):
I know the two of you have been caught up
in whatever's been going on, and I'm really glad that
your brother's okay.
Speaker 13 (16:22):
By the way, thanks, but this just got very very serious.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Maria.
Speaker 8 (16:28):
Whose body is that?
Speaker 13 (16:30):
Celeste?
Speaker 8 (16:31):
Corey? Celeste is she?
Speaker 13 (16:35):
She was already gone when we got here.
Speaker 8 (16:36):
Oh god, wait, have you seen anyone else?
Speaker 10 (16:39):
No?
Speaker 12 (16:40):
Have you seen anyone else?
Speaker 14 (16:42):
No, it's been a quiet one. The storm earlier cleared
everything out.
Speaker 13 (16:47):
Thank you, officer.
Speaker 8 (16:48):
Well we'll get out of your hair.
Speaker 13 (16:51):
Stay safe.
Speaker 8 (16:55):
What are you doing? Why didn't you ask about Anne
and Jeremy. We don't even know if they're okay.
Speaker 13 (17:00):
We were okay.
Speaker 12 (17:00):
What we do know is that they came to me Celeste,
who was now dead and they didn't stick around to talk.
Speaker 13 (17:07):
To the police.
Speaker 8 (17:08):
You think they what do you think they did something?
Speaker 4 (17:11):
They don't know?
Speaker 11 (17:12):
No, of course not.
Speaker 12 (17:14):
Nana doesn't like Celeste, but she helped Ethan, and Nana
wouldn't look. I don't know what happened here, but I
know my grandmother and if she saw something or knew something,
she would stick around to help the investigation.
Speaker 11 (17:29):
Even if she could get in trouble for it.
Speaker 12 (17:32):
So if she's not here, then she must have a
really good reason.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
Or something happened to her and Jeremy or.
Speaker 12 (17:38):
Someone, But there'd be signs of a struggle.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
If look at all this mud.
Speaker 12 (17:45):
There's a bunch of footsteps, but no signs of dragging
or body falling on the ground. Oh the hell, My
Nana has taught me a lot through the years, and
something about all of this doesn't feel right. Like Jeremy
and Nana had to leave for reason. Maybe they were
being watched, or maybe they saw something they could.
Speaker 9 (18:04):
Put them in danger.
Speaker 8 (18:06):
Maybe something chased them away.
Speaker 11 (18:09):
We need to find them.
Speaker 8 (18:10):
Where do you think they'd be and why wouldn't they
be picking up their phones?
Speaker 12 (18:13):
Well, if they're at Nana's the service there sucks and
they could walk there from here.
Speaker 8 (18:19):
Okay, so that's where we go.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
That's where we go.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
What do you mean a bigger problem?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
It has to do with the in between what it needs.
Every forty years.
Speaker 10 (18:34):
Something happens here, and I think we're still in the
middle of it, right, a forty year curse?
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Why not?
Speaker 9 (18:41):
That makes perfect sense.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
I'm going to try to explain the best I can do.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
You do you remember the last forty years?
Speaker 6 (18:48):
Have you been awake this whole time?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
I don't even know if that's the right question to ask.
Is that even the right question to ask?
Speaker 6 (18:55):
I have no idea what we're dealing with here, because
in all of my years of research, I cannot think
of anything that would create some sort of time travel.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
I don't think we're dealing with time.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Travel here research.
Speaker 9 (19:07):
I'm a folklore professor, so weird shit is sort of
my life.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
But this is okay, So then what we're.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
Dealing with here? God, what are we dealing with here?
If it's not time travel, then how are you? How
are you here looking like that magic?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I think, or something close to it. Magic.
Speaker 10 (19:28):
Look, we've always known this place is different, right, special,
and all the stuff you and I investigated all the
strange cases. We knew that we were just adding to
the pile of unsolved mysteries in the Bridgewater police files.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
And I think there's a reason for that.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
Yeah, the Bridgewater Triangle, it's a name that was given
to this region a few years before. Well you probably
wouldn't have heard of it at the time, but there
was this cryptozoologist. A lot of people now actually believe
that there is some kind of mystical in this region
that attracts monsters and paranormal activity.
Speaker 10 (20:04):
The Bridgewater Triangle, And that sounds about right, But it's
not this region that's attracting things.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
The region is an opening to something.
Speaker 9 (20:15):
That's exactly what Celeste was talking about too.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
She was saying that the veil was thinner here.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
She's right, but a veil between what between here and
what Thomas.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Where exactly were you inside that veil? I guess. I mean,
I don't know how to describe it.
Speaker 10 (20:37):
It didn't feel like I was gone for forty years,
but it did feel long enough.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
To expect to be an old man by the time.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
I got out.
Speaker 10 (20:43):
If I ever got out, you did I know? Celeste
was just trying to make things right, and I hope
it worked. But now she'll be trapped in there and
where there's things in there with you.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
You said you don't know what else got out and
out of where.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Out of whatever's on the other side of that in between.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Spirit, right, that's what Celeste.
Speaker 10 (21:05):
Thanks Spirit. I'm not sure. I never got to the
other side.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
I was just stuck.
Speaker 10 (21:13):
Sometimes it looked like freetown forest. Other times the fog
was so thick I couldn't see my own hands in
front of me, and it was like it was like
being in suspended animation. I never got hungry or thirsty,
but I was always tired, sapped of something like it
was feeding off of me, feeding off of you.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
It feels alive the in between.
Speaker 10 (21:39):
Every now and then I would see something out of
the corner of my eye, hear something breathing behind me,
but I never.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
But something changed a little while ago.
Speaker 10 (21:48):
I don't know if it was weeks or days or
hell even years ago, but the air was getting less oppressive,
the fog starting.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
To lift, the veil was getting thinner.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Yes, And so I tried to call out. I tried
to talk to you.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
I hurt you. I don't know how, but.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
I hurt you when you were in Freetown.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
No, on my answering machine, you were leaving me messages.
I could barely make out your voice on some of them,
but I know it was you.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
How is that possible?
Speaker 9 (22:16):
How could you be leaving messages from another dimension?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
You don't even have a cell phone?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
A what phone?
Speaker 9 (22:21):
Right, it's a it's a portable phone.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
That's a phone.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Yeah, Tom, Jesus Tom, you okay.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I mean, it's really been forty years. Forty that's such.
I mean, I knew it might be that long until
I could, but I really, I really didn't think about
what that would mean. Dad.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I'm just gonna wait, where are you going?
Speaker 2 (22:52):
I assume the bathroom hasn't moved.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Nope, just still down the hall.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I'll be right back right right of course. Sorry.
Speaker 8 (23:03):
Wow, oh wow.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
And this is also I mean, he's here, Yeah, he's
really here, and he's looking real enough to go pale
at the sight of a cell phone. And then, Jesus,
I yelled at him. I yelled at him for being irresponsible.
I was yelling, yelling at my own.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Dad for being irresponsible.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
It's okay, honey, he understands. You know, it's been weird
for all of us, and you know, but there's like
adrenaline crash coming for us. Who knows what you know?
Speaker 6 (23:33):
Yeah, yeah, yeah right, But then I don't know, like
I feel like I'm in some kind of dream here.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
No, No, he's really back, Jeremy. We caught him back.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
You know, everything in these past few weeks, even in.
Speaker 6 (23:47):
My most desperate, scared moments, I just never let myself
think that any of it could be real, because if
I let myself think that, then I could have hope,
and I.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I could not.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
I know, I know, I get it. You know, there
were times even when I thought having hope would kill me.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
But you knew, you knew it was all real.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
I knew that I seemed certain, But hope really is
all it ever was? I feel like I you.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Just walked out of the fog. We didn't even have
to like.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
Fight a giant black dog or anything.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Yeah that's true. Oh God, was that real?
Speaker 7 (24:32):
I mean, I think it's safe to assume that all
of it is Jesus, you know, we don't have to
worry about any of that stuff now and it's over.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Yeah, yeah, God, what Celeste did for us? I know,
does she have a family.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
I don't know, but we can find out.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
We could tell him, tell them what that their loved
one is in some inner dimensional purgatory.
Speaker 7 (24:56):
Maybe maybe, h there's a way we can get her out,
you know, I mean, we know where she's trapped.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
Maybe we can do it right this time.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
No, yeah, no, I think no, no, no, no. She
finally finished what she started forty years ago. She made
her choice to sacrifice herself to make things right. It's
not our problem anymore, and this is over. We we
don't need to know how to get her out.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Yes we do, because there was someone else in there
with me.
Speaker 8 (25:31):
Celeste. I can't believe she's I mean, what happened?
Speaker 12 (25:35):
I have no idea. Katie said she thought she was
in danger? Right, I mean maybe she meant that that
Celeste wasn't doing well, that she was at risk of
hurting herself.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Yeah, or or what.
Speaker 8 (25:49):
Okay, what if whatever she was trying to do the ritual?
What if it worked?
Speaker 12 (25:53):
What if it what you think she was trying to
perform some kind of human sacrifice.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (26:01):
I don't understand what is happening. I feel stupid for
even suggesting it.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
What was that?
Speaker 7 (26:11):
Hello? Is someone there, Olivia, we should hurry.
Speaker 8 (26:18):
Oh holy shit, Oh my god, what is that?
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Olivia Roun.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
This episode of Bridgewater was written by Lauren Shippen and
directed by Brendan Patrick Hughes Assistant director Sarah Kleine. Sound
designed by Vincent de Johnny rema El Kali, Josh Thayin,
and Trevor Young, with music by Chad Lawson. Starring Misha
Collins as Jeremy Bradshaw, Melissa Ponzio as Anne Becker, Alan
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To Dick as Thomas Bradshaw, Karen Sony as Vipen Kurana,
Sabra May as Olivia Hoskins, Cheryl Umanya as Officer Bautista,
Will Wheaton as Captain Haddock, Tricia Helfer as the Legend Tripper,
Stephen Guarino as Doctor Edwards, Nanda Misudmbe as Peyton Blake,
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Victoria Grace as Katie Franks, with additional voice acting by
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and Tarren Westbrook Executive producers Aaron Mankey, Misha Collins, Lauren Shippen,
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Who's there?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Who's there?
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Celeste?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Where? Hello?
Speaker 5 (00:27):
No?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
I can't wait?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Is this really? Is this really? My god? Am I
really here? Is that really you?
Speaker 6 (00:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (00:39):
Jeremy Thomas Thomas, And.
Speaker 8 (00:46):
I knew it.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
I knew it. I knew that you were still out there.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I knew you would find me.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
And how is this possible?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Jeremy song? Oh my god, look at you. I don't
I don't understand.
Speaker 8 (01:04):
I knew it.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I knew this can be all right?
Speaker 6 (01:08):
This is something, celest did You're he's solid, he's he's
How are you here?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Dad?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
It's me, It's really me.
Speaker 7 (01:23):
I never stopped looking, Thomas, and these past few months,
I thought that I could hear you.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
You know, I was really trying to listen.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I know, I know you'd never stop, never, never.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I'm just so sorry it took me this long. What
is all of this mean?
Speaker 9 (01:42):
Where?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Where have you been? How? How are you? How are
you alive? Are you alive?
Speaker 10 (01:49):
I'll explain everything, I promise, and has as much as
I can anyway, I'd.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Have to get out of this lake first. And five.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
What is that we.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Have to get out of here?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
But well, the last where is she the last?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
The last Celeste from.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Yes, from the old gathering case. Yeah, it's the last.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
She traded places with me? What means she must have
That's how I we have to go?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Now what we we? What?
Speaker 10 (02:21):
What?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
What?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
We all a blur? But I think I think, I
think I'm not the only one that got out.
Speaker 11 (02:43):
Okay, that's another dead end.
Speaker 12 (03:14):
One other incident of symbols relating to a lost person
in eighty years.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Why Ethan?
Speaker 12 (03:26):
Yeah, Olivia Nippin, Hey, sorry can I yeah?
Speaker 13 (03:34):
Yeah, yeah, come on in?
Speaker 8 (03:38):
What are you doing?
Speaker 9 (03:42):
You first?
Speaker 8 (03:43):
How how are you doing? How's Ethan? I heard about it.
Speaker 12 (03:47):
Yeah, it was He's okay, I mean no, he's not.
He's he's healthy though, he's safe. They let him out
this afternoon, and I don't know. My parents are still
in complete freak out.
Speaker 8 (04:00):
Yeah, they seemed a bit frazzled when they opened the door.
Speaker 12 (04:05):
My dad is taking Eathan to our grandparents in Winchester.
He needs a break from this whole place. I guess
my dad can work from wherever so they're just gonna
stay there for a little while until Ethan. Then we
still don't understand what happened. I've been scraping through message
board posts and digital archives and can't find anything recent
(04:28):
that's close to what happened to Ethan.
Speaker 8 (04:30):
So I just say, yay, I know, but he's safe,
and he's got his big sister and his grandmother on
the case. I mean, if anyone can figure it out,
it is the Becker Hoskins.
Speaker 12 (04:43):
Yeah, anyway, what's up? What are you doing here?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (04:51):
Right, have you talked to Anne recently?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (04:56):
I haven't talked her since the hospital last night.
Speaker 8 (04:59):
Why, well, something kind of strange happened earlier. Okay, so
you remember Katie Franks.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Wow, I can't believe you still live here.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Once you learn about the modern housing market, you'll.
Speaker 10 (05:22):
Understand it looks different. I mean all the furnitures. I
also don't remember you being such a slob.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
Well, it has been a hectic few decades. Yeah, oh
my god, it's really cute. You're really here. It's been
decades since we lasted that decades, Thomas man.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Christ I'm an a woman now, I mean look at me.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
No, no, no, you're still beautiful. You're always beautiful.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
But I'm not who I was.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I don't think either of us are.
Speaker 10 (06:16):
Jeremy, my god, there's so much I want to tell
you things I've been waiting decades to tell you.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Ann and I.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
No, no, it's it's okay, I know about that.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
It's how did you you knew it was me?
Speaker 9 (06:34):
How did you know?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I mean, it's you're my son.
Speaker 10 (06:37):
Sure you're all grown up now, but I knew i'd
know you anywhere anytime.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
You're Jeremy. But you you look but what do I
look like?
Speaker 7 (06:50):
You look almost exactly the same, maybe a little ragged
around the hedges, but.
Speaker 9 (06:59):
You haven't aged.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Huh? I did wonder?
Speaker 9 (07:04):
Should should that disturb you just a little?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
But I don't know if I can complain about not
getting older?
Speaker 10 (07:11):
How exactly is this possible time worked differently over there?
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Oh well in that.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Case, okay, Jeremy man.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
How do we even know?
Speaker 9 (07:21):
How do we know that you are the real Thomas Bradshaw?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
What?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Yeah, you just come out of the fog.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
You're still thirty five, and you're talking about celestrating places
with you like it makes any sense, And then you
expect us.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
To believe that my father is not actually dead.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Jeremy, My father is dead. You are dead me, I'm not,
I never was. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
No, don't say you're sorry.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
Don't you say you're sorry because you can't say you're
sorry because you're not real.
Speaker 7 (07:54):
Okay, Jeremy, Jeremy, honey, after everything that we just witnessed,
you're still denying that there's something beyond our understanding going
on here. I mean, look at him, Look at him.
We are not hallucinating.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Oh do I know this isn't just a dream or
that you're not.
Speaker 10 (08:11):
Some trick that I'm not going to wake up tomorrow
and find that you're still gone.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I'm not going anywhere. I'm here.
Speaker 10 (08:19):
I mean, I barely understand how or why I was
able to get out, but I'm not leaving.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I'm here, Son, I'm here.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
You were dead. I lost you. You've been You've been gone.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
I know.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Fuck, I feel like I'm losing my mind.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I know the feeling.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
It's really you, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yeah, Jeremy, it is so.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
When you said time moved differently over there.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
You were inside that that thing that opened up above
the lake.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Yes, some kind of like a vortex or portal.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Shit, did Celeste really open it? Or wait?
Speaker 9 (09:09):
If she traded places with you, then she strapped now
like you were.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I don't know she was with you when you found.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Me, Yeah, right before and then she jumped. How did
you know that that's what what she was trying to
do right away? You knew that she was trying to
trade places.
Speaker 10 (09:29):
That's the only thing that makes sense. I guess something
else could have gotten me out, but I don't know how.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
And I remember her from before. She was there that.
Speaker 10 (09:36):
Night when you Yeah, and recently things have been getting thinner,
but between here and there, and I thought I heard
her trying to talk to me, trying to tell me
what she was planning.
Speaker 9 (09:51):
So Celeste was She wasn't lying, she was she wasn't
making any of it up.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
She really was trying to fix some kind of cosmic.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Tale more or less. Yeah, And you you.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
Think she jumped off a cliff and landed in where
wherever or whatever you've been in.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Worked for me? Well, to be fair, I was pushed Thomas,
Oh my god, that's probably not the best joke.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
No, no, no, I mean why not?
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Right?
Speaker 9 (10:20):
Like, why shouldn't my dad dad joke about.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
His own murder. I mean, if you can't joke about.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
That, then what can you joke about Jeremy.
Speaker 10 (10:27):
To be fair, I do think it was an accident.
It all happened so fast. I thought they were going
to hurt someone. But knowing what I know now, maybe
I should have played it differently. I've had a lot
of time to think about it.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
How should you have played it?
Speaker 10 (10:45):
I thought they were a crazy cult trying to sacrifice someone.
I didn't realize they were trying to go somewhere of
their own free will.
Speaker 7 (10:51):
Oh, you had it right, Okay, they didn't know what
they were trying to do either. I mean they were
trying to sacrifice somebody, some kind of blood rituals, open
up a gate to another dimension. You did the right
thing with the information that you had, Thomas.
Speaker 9 (11:07):
You did My god, that is such bullshit.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
What No, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
You should not have intervened.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
You You should have just let those nutjobs do whatever
it is that they wanted to do, and they should
have dealt with the consequences themselves.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
That wasn't an option. I had a job to do,
and you're.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
And did your job usually require confronting dangerous people alone,
going to a secret cult meeting without any backup and
without telling anyone.
Speaker 10 (11:32):
You try explaining to your captain that you need resources
to stop magical rituals in the woods and.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
See how that goes. Well, you should have tried.
Speaker 10 (11:39):
You think I didn't, Okay, hey, fellas, I was doing
everything I could to get to the bottom of what
was going on to protect my people before it was
too late.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Well, great job.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I'm not the one who needed to be protected. As
an officer of the law, I don't get that.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
Unshow, don't don't give me that you were some lone
wolf with no responsibilities.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
You're right, I did have responsibilities to the people of
this time.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
You had a responsibility.
Speaker 9 (12:02):
You had a responsibility to me and to Anne.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
You didn't even tell your partner.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
I mean, I know you had the opportunity, given that
you two were already together at that point.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
All right, let's just all what I'm not going to
tell me. Calm down, you're not pissed. I'm going to
tell you that I don't think that this is the time,
and that we can't exactly cast stones, considering we've been
doing the exact same withholding information from the authorities.
Speaker 9 (12:28):
Come on, fine, well we should.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Go to the police. Even if Celeste really is in
that other place.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
We need to file a missing person's report.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
No, no one can see Thomas.
Speaker 7 (12:41):
Not yet what and you know I am right, Jeremy,
Not until we can figure out how to explain all this.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
We don't know, right, We don't know how people react.
Speaker 7 (12:52):
Yeah, so call what Well, I can't do it. The
police know my voice to Ellen Thomas obviously yet so.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Right, yeah I can't.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
There's no service.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Landline in the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Okay, be right back. How are you feeling fine? All
things considered? A little less fine after.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
That?
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Well, you know he's processing emotions are running high.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
You really know him? Huh.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
I mean, we haven't known each other for very long,
but the time that we have spent together has been.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Intense.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
This isn't all what I was expecting.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
I can only imagine, But you seem I don't know.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
I would have thought. But you're you, you know, putting
together the pieces and cracking the jokes.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
It's really you after all this time, it's really you.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Don't worry.
Speaker 10 (14:10):
I had plenty of time to have the full mental breakdown, Thomas,
how long has that actually been? Based on the fact
that Jeremy is a fully Groman. I'm guessing quite a while.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
But forty years forty, Oh, of course it's forty.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I should have known.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
What do you all right, anonymous? To deliver it?
Speaker 6 (14:32):
I just hope they get there and find nothing that
would mean that she's alive, right and wherever you were, right?
Speaker 2 (14:38):
I think?
Speaker 6 (14:39):
So?
Speaker 9 (14:39):
Yes, okay, good, that's good because otherwise.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
Well, people have survived that fall before, Jeremy. I mean,
even if she didn't get through the portal, she could
be okay.
Speaker 10 (14:49):
Yeah, right, Well, if for some reason she didn't get through,
we have a much bigger problem.
Speaker 12 (15:17):
She didn't say anything else, just that she was worried
about Celeste.
Speaker 8 (15:21):
Yeah, that Celeste was trying some kind of ritual to
close the tear in the veil. It didn't make a
lot of sense, and I'm not sure why that would
be dangerous in the first place, but Jeremy still thought
it'd be a good idea to check it out.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Damn it.
Speaker 12 (15:35):
Nana still hasn't responded to any of my calls or texts.
Speaker 8 (15:38):
Oh, neither's Jeremy.
Speaker 12 (15:41):
If Celeste really is in danger, then they.
Speaker 8 (15:44):
Hey, I'm sure they're totally fine.
Speaker 11 (15:47):
If they're totally fine.
Speaker 13 (15:49):
Then why are the police here?
Speaker 8 (15:51):
Oh? God, come on?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Led to that sad of oaks?
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Whoa? This is an have seen?
Speaker 13 (16:01):
I'm gonna need you to step back.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
What happened?
Speaker 13 (16:03):
Who is that?
Speaker 8 (16:04):
We're the paramedics.
Speaker 13 (16:05):
They're grabbing a gurney.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
What happened?
Speaker 14 (16:07):
It seems there was some kind of accidents or someone
didn't get the help they needed.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
We don't know much.
Speaker 13 (16:13):
Someone jumped, that's unknown at this time.
Speaker 8 (16:15):
Who is it?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Is it?
Speaker 13 (16:17):
Look?
Speaker 14 (16:17):
I know the two of you have been caught up
in whatever's been going on, and I'm really glad that
your brother's okay.
Speaker 13 (16:22):
By the way, thanks, but this just got very very serious.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Maria.
Speaker 8 (16:28):
Whose body is that?
Speaker 13 (16:30):
Celeste?
Speaker 8 (16:31):
Corey? Celeste is she?
Speaker 13 (16:35):
She was already gone when we got here.
Speaker 8 (16:36):
Oh god, wait, have you seen anyone else?
Speaker 10 (16:39):
No?
Speaker 12 (16:40):
Have you seen anyone else?
Speaker 14 (16:42):
No, it's been a quiet one. The storm earlier cleared
everything out.
Speaker 13 (16:47):
Thank you, officer.
Speaker 8 (16:48):
Well we'll get out of your hair.
Speaker 13 (16:51):
Stay safe.
Speaker 8 (16:55):
What are you doing? Why didn't you ask about Anne
and Jeremy. We don't even know if they're okay.
Speaker 13 (17:00):
We were okay.
Speaker 12 (17:00):
What we do know is that they came to me Celeste,
who was now dead and they didn't stick around to talk.
Speaker 13 (17:07):
To the police.
Speaker 8 (17:08):
You think they what do you think they did something?
Speaker 4 (17:11):
They don't know?
Speaker 11 (17:12):
No, of course not.
Speaker 12 (17:14):
Nana doesn't like Celeste, but she helped Ethan, and Nana
wouldn't look. I don't know what happened here, but I
know my grandmother and if she saw something or knew something,
she would stick around to help the investigation.
Speaker 11 (17:29):
Even if she could get in trouble for it.
Speaker 12 (17:32):
So if she's not here, then she must have a
really good reason.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
Or something happened to her and Jeremy or.
Speaker 12 (17:38):
Someone, But there'd be signs of a struggle.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
If look at all this mud.
Speaker 12 (17:45):
There's a bunch of footsteps, but no signs of dragging
or body falling on the ground. Oh the hell, My
Nana has taught me a lot through the years, and
something about all of this doesn't feel right. Like Jeremy
and Nana had to leave for reason. Maybe they were
being watched, or maybe they saw something they could.
Speaker 9 (18:04):
Put them in danger.
Speaker 8 (18:06):
Maybe something chased them away.
Speaker 11 (18:09):
We need to find them.
Speaker 8 (18:10):
Where do you think they'd be and why wouldn't they
be picking up their phones?
Speaker 12 (18:13):
Well, if they're at Nana's the service there sucks and
they could walk there from here.
Speaker 8 (18:19):
Okay, so that's where we go.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
That's where we go.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
What do you mean a bigger problem?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
It has to do with the in between what it needs.
Every forty years.
Speaker 10 (18:34):
Something happens here, and I think we're still in the
middle of it, right, a forty year curse?
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Why not?
Speaker 9 (18:41):
That makes perfect sense.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
I'm going to try to explain the best I can do.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
You do you remember the last forty years?
Speaker 6 (18:48):
Have you been awake this whole time?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
I don't even know if that's the right question to ask.
Is that even the right question to ask?
Speaker 6 (18:55):
I have no idea what we're dealing with here, because
in all of my years of research, I cannot think
of anything that would create some sort of time travel.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
I don't think we're dealing with time.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Travel here research.
Speaker 9 (19:07):
I'm a folklore professor, so weird shit is sort of
my life.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
But this is okay, So then what we're.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
Dealing with here? God, what are we dealing with here?
If it's not time travel, then how are you? How
are you here looking like that magic?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I think, or something close to it. Magic.
Speaker 10 (19:28):
Look, we've always known this place is different, right, special,
and all the stuff you and I investigated all the
strange cases. We knew that we were just adding to
the pile of unsolved mysteries in the Bridgewater police files.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
And I think there's a reason for that.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
Yeah, the Bridgewater Triangle, it's a name that was given
to this region a few years before. Well you probably
wouldn't have heard of it at the time, but there
was this cryptozoologist. A lot of people now actually believe
that there is some kind of mystical in this region
that attracts monsters and paranormal activity.
Speaker 10 (20:04):
The Bridgewater Triangle, And that sounds about right, But it's
not this region that's attracting things.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
The region is an opening to something.
Speaker 9 (20:15):
That's exactly what Celeste was talking about too.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
She was saying that the veil was thinner here.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
She's right, but a veil between what between here and
what Thomas.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Where exactly were you inside that veil? I guess. I mean,
I don't know how to describe it.
Speaker 10 (20:37):
It didn't feel like I was gone for forty years,
but it did feel long enough.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
To expect to be an old man by the time.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
I got out.
Speaker 10 (20:43):
If I ever got out, you did I know? Celeste
was just trying to make things right, and I hope
it worked. But now she'll be trapped in there and
where there's things in there with you.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
You said you don't know what else got out and
out of where.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Out of whatever's on the other side of that in between.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Spirit, right, that's what Celeste.
Speaker 10 (21:05):
Thanks Spirit. I'm not sure. I never got to the
other side.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
I was just stuck.
Speaker 10 (21:13):
Sometimes it looked like freetown forest. Other times the fog
was so thick I couldn't see my own hands in
front of me, and it was like it was like
being in suspended animation. I never got hungry or thirsty,
but I was always tired, sapped of something like it
was feeding off of me, feeding off of you.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
It feels alive the in between.
Speaker 10 (21:39):
Every now and then I would see something out of
the corner of my eye, hear something breathing behind me,
but I never.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
But something changed a little while ago.
Speaker 10 (21:48):
I don't know if it was weeks or days or
hell even years ago, but the air was getting less oppressive,
the fog starting.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
To lift, the veil was getting thinner.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Yes, And so I tried to call out. I tried
to talk to you.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
I hurt you. I don't know how, but.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
I hurt you when you were in Freetown.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
No, on my answering machine, you were leaving me messages.
I could barely make out your voice on some of them,
but I know it was you.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
How is that possible?
Speaker 9 (22:16):
How could you be leaving messages from another dimension?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
You don't even have a cell phone?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
A what phone?
Speaker 9 (22:21):
Right, it's a it's a portable phone.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
That's a phone.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Yeah, Tom, Jesus Tom, you okay.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I mean, it's really been forty years. Forty that's such.
I mean, I knew it might be that long until
I could, but I really, I really didn't think about
what that would mean. Dad.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I'm just gonna wait, where are you going?
Speaker 2 (22:52):
I assume the bathroom hasn't moved.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Nope, just still down the hall.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I'll be right back right right of course. Sorry.
Speaker 8 (23:03):
Wow, oh wow.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
And this is also I mean, he's here, Yeah, he's
really here, and he's looking real enough to go pale
at the sight of a cell phone. And then, Jesus,
I yelled at him. I yelled at him for being irresponsible.
I was yelling, yelling at my own.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Dad for being irresponsible.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
It's okay, honey, he understands. You know, it's been weird
for all of us, and you know, but there's like
adrenaline crash coming for us. Who knows what you know?
Speaker 6 (23:33):
Yeah, yeah, yeah right, But then I don't know, like
I feel like I'm in some kind of dream here.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
No, No, he's really back, Jeremy. We caught him back.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
You know, everything in these past few weeks, even in.
Speaker 6 (23:47):
My most desperate, scared moments, I just never let myself
think that any of it could be real, because if
I let myself think that, then I could have hope,
and I.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I could not.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
I know, I know, I get it. You know, there
were times even when I thought having hope would kill me.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
But you knew, you knew it was all real.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
I knew that I seemed certain, But hope really is
all it ever was? I feel like I you.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Just walked out of the fog. We didn't even have
to like.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
Fight a giant black dog or anything.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Yeah that's true. Oh God, was that real?
Speaker 7 (24:32):
I mean, I think it's safe to assume that all
of it is Jesus, you know, we don't have to
worry about any of that stuff now and it's over.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Yeah, yeah, God, what Celeste did for us? I know,
does she have a family.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
I don't know, but we can find out.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
We could tell him, tell them what that their loved
one is in some inner dimensional purgatory.
Speaker 7 (24:56):
Maybe maybe, h there's a way we can get her out,
you know, I mean, we know where she's trapped.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
Maybe we can do it right this time.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
No, yeah, no, I think no, no, no, no. She
finally finished what she started forty years ago. She made
her choice to sacrifice herself to make things right. It's
not our problem anymore, and this is over. We we
don't need to know how to get her out.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Yes we do, because there was someone else in there
with me.
Speaker 8 (25:31):
Celeste. I can't believe she's I mean, what happened?
Speaker 12 (25:35):
I have no idea. Katie said she thought she was
in danger? Right, I mean maybe she meant that that
Celeste wasn't doing well, that she was at risk of
hurting herself.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Yeah, or or what.
Speaker 8 (25:49):
Okay, what if whatever she was trying to do the ritual?
What if it worked?
Speaker 12 (25:53):
What if it what you think she was trying to
perform some kind of human sacrifice.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (26:01):
I don't understand what is happening. I feel stupid for
even suggesting it.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
What was that?
Speaker 7 (26:11):
Hello? Is someone there, Olivia, we should hurry.
Speaker 8 (26:18):
Oh holy shit, Oh my god, what is that?
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Olivia Roun.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
This episode of Bridgewater was written by Lauren Shippen and
directed by Brendan Patrick Hughes Assistant director Sarah Kleine. Sound
designed by Vincent de Johnny rema El Kali, Josh Thayin,
and Trevor Young, with music by Chad Lawson. Starring Misha
Collins as Jeremy Bradshaw, Melissa Ponzio as Anne Becker, Alan
(26:59):
To Dick as Thomas Bradshaw, Karen Sony as Vipen Kurana,
Sabra May as Olivia Hoskins, Cheryl Umanya as Officer Bautista,
Will Wheaton as Captain Haddock, Tricia Helfer as the Legend Tripper,
Stephen Guarino as Doctor Edwards, Nanda Misudmbe as Peyton Blake,
(27:22):
Hillary Burton Morgan as Shelley Hoskins, Nicky McCauley as Celeste, Then,
Victoria Grace as Katie Franks, with additional voice acting by
Greta Gould, Shelby Young, Adam o'byrn Monte, Markham, Charlie Bergman,
and Tarren Westbrook Executive producers Aaron Mankey, Misha Collins, Lauren Shippen,
(27:43):
Matt Frederick and Alexander Williams. Supervising producers Josh Thain and
Trevor Young. Bridgewater was created by me Aaron Mankey and
is a production of Grim and Mild and iHeart three
D Audio. Learn more about the show over at Grimandmild
dot com, slash Bridge and find more podcasts from iHeartRadio
on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen
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