12 | Closing Time

An old rivalry comes to a head. Corinne begins a new journey.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:19):
I do not know if I will survive this night,
and if I do, I do not know where to
run to next, or for how long I would need
to run. Someone approaches outside. I do not know if
it is Father Josiah or the devil himself. I suppose
I will find out soon enough.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Be brave, my children, and know that you.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Come from a line of holy warriors.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
I wish you well. I have no quarrel with you,
mister Havock, nor.

Speaker 4 (00:55):
I with you, Miss Abbess. But your father in law
must be punished.

Speaker 5 (01:02):
Please please, I take no join mister Morris, who please?

Speaker 6 (01:45):
It took me a long time to figure out that
there was a mind behind it, and even longer to
figure out who was causing all the pandemonium.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
And here you are, Marie. What the hell is he
talking about?

Speaker 6 (01:59):
Krinc Now, it's not every day that you get to
meet face to face with your ancestors. Well, don't leave
her in the dark, you horrible monster, say hello to
your granddaughter, Demarus.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
What wait, Demerius, Demerius, Abbess Havoc. This is between you and.

Speaker 6 (02:23):
Me, except that it isn't, is it? This is between
you and me and my business interests, and my wife,
your father in law, and your bloodline.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
We can end this here, step away from her.

Speaker 6 (02:37):
Well, if you'd like to end this here, why not
take a stake to the heart. I'll happily walk away forever.

Speaker 5 (02:46):
I thought not.

Speaker 6 (02:48):
You shouldn't have come for me, Demarus, But you people
never learn.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Leave her alone?

Speaker 6 (02:54):
Or else what You'll infect another of my factories, another town.
What do you do, DeMars?

Speaker 1 (03:00):
What the fuck is going on here?

Speaker 5 (03:06):
This incredible?

Speaker 6 (03:08):
Tell her?

Speaker 4 (03:08):
Demarus?

Speaker 6 (03:10):
Tell her?

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Their eyes burned with twin flames of hatred. I was terrified, confused,
frozen in place until I realized Josiah Abbas's kit lay
open behind the bar inches from where I stood. All
I had to do was reach for it, but I
couldn't so long as Jerry split his attention. A pleading

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glance to Marie de Maris, my grandmother, desperately trying to
telegraph my intention.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
I will tell her the truth that I was turned
into a monster by a man that I had done
no harm to Where Havoc, where was my transgression?

Speaker 6 (03:55):
You stood by and did nothing as Josiah tore through
the population as he made his way to my door.
You stood watch as he murdered my wife.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Your wife tore apart the fabric of this town.

Speaker 6 (04:07):
He was not in control of her faculty and.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Who was responsible for her actions. I took the brief
distraction as an opportunity and slowly reached for the case
and gently unlatched it.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Men like you have never taken responsibility for their actions,
and why would you. You're insulated from reality, and so
you barrel through the world like children, leaving disaster in
your wake, making victims of those with less power. Me,

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my sweet Noah, my children.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
You destroyed your.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
Own wife, a woman you claimed to love, a woman
who only wanted to live.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
But before I could get my hand around the stake,
jury Havoc had had enough. Faster than I could have imagined,
he lunged across the bar, raging and slammed into Marie,
both tumbling into a large table, flinging silverware and condiment
bottles to the floor. Two APEX creditors.

Speaker 7 (05:14):
Grappling for their lives fingernails and sharp teeth, tearing at
each other.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
As fast as I could.

Speaker 7 (05:20):
I grasped at the steak, felt a hept in my hand,
suddenly familiar, and bounded across the floor as Jury himself
attempted a killing blow.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
And I drove this step down into his back too
far a center. I missed the heart. He turned to me,
steak in his lung, a look of shock as blood
poured from his mouth. Before I could move away, a horrible,

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violent cough and a crimson flash filled my eyes no
mouth Before I could clear them. I felt his fist
across my child. I was out like a light.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
I didn't know what kind of music you'd like. Why
you've got a concussion. I wanted you to wait to
comfort because I fear the.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
News is bad. Dry Havoc escaped.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
He'll turn up again, but not here. He's done all
the damage he can. Sylvie is fine downstairs. Where am
I at my house?

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Outside of town. It wasn't easy to get you out.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
CDC was sweeping residences businesses for the infected. After the
violence at the hospital, they got serious about quarantining. This
will wind down now, the.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
News will speak of deadly illness.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
Without mentioning the vampirism they always do. Why panic the
public with something incomprehensible when you can chuck it up
to a bowler.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
What happened to me? You saved me, he had the
upper hand. You made sure he didn't use it.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
But you will pay the price. Blood everywhere your eyes
and throat. I'm afraid that there's nothing to be done.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
What does did he infect me?

Speaker 3 (08:02):
My God, you will not do this alone, not like
I had to.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
My God, what will happen to me? It'll be sudden,
the sickness, and.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
Then you will die, and then you will live. I
do not know how you will be when you wake
from that deeper sleep. I only know how I was,
and how others I've seen have behaved.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
How did it happen for you?

Speaker 3 (08:38):
There was so much fear, so much he had entered
so softly. He stood in front of me, a tall,
terrible figure covered in blood, all of my fears made
flesh standing in front of me. I have no quarrel

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with you, mister Havock.

Speaker 4 (09:07):
Nor I was you, missus abbess, but your father in
law must be punished.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
He moved as if in slow motion, more spirit than man,
and I was locked in place, my fate already sealed.

Speaker 4 (09:25):
Oh please, I take no join, mister Marris.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
And then all was dark.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
When I came to Havoc was gone, and I had
been moved to a bed. But I found no comfort,
just Father Josiah sitting at my bedside, weeping.

Speaker 5 (10:01):
Demror. Oh de Marius, I am so sorry.

Speaker 4 (10:06):
I have failed. I have failed all of us.

Speaker 5 (10:12):
The devil walks free, and I have murdered my child.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
My confusion was palpable. Havoc didn't kill me, then why
would he leave me alive? As if intuitting my thoughts
desire held out a crumpled piece of parchment, The crimson
lettering smeared but legible. It was a missive from Havoc.

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I shuddered as I read it.

Speaker 4 (10:49):
My dear eyes traveling that bess, it seems as though
we have reached a stalemate, you and I. You have
taken the singles things that I held dear, and so
doing destroyed your legacy. As a holy man, I do
not take losses kindly. I sought to murder you in return,
but instead leave. He was his parting gift before you.

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As De Maries, she is in the same precarious positions
that you found your son in. So choice is yours
with what to do with her yours in the hope
of salvation, Jordy Hervock.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
When I looked back up at Josiah, I was struck
first by his total transformation. Here before me was a
man I had revered, even feared.

Speaker 4 (11:49):
For.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
In his righteous determination. He had shaped this town from
a lawless, a moral frontier town into a thriving Christian community,
and burned it down.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
A striking figure, a force of nature.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
And here he was not simply brought low by bad fortune,
but destroyed entirely by forces beyond his control. His righteous
fury and fervor had been removed from him, leaving nothing
but this hollow man before me, a husk.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
More ghost than man.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
If I feared him before, I found in this Josiah
Abbess something more disturbing, A believer without anything left to
believe in.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
I searched his face.

Speaker 3 (12:49):
What could he be capable of now, in the final hours,
if Havoc had truly cursed me with vampirism, would Father
Abbis finish his own godly work your hon earth and me.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
As he had ended?

Speaker 3 (13:07):
Noah, My question was answered when he next spoke.

Speaker 5 (13:16):
When Noah was young, he was afraid of the water.
When he was very little, his mother and I had
taken him down to the river so that I could
cast a line. A rare day of leisure in this
hard scrabble life. Even the Lord took a day of
rest after creating the earth. Yes, I left Noah with

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his mother to play on the banks and stood by
the river's edge, the line in the water, to commune
with the Lord in this rare quiet way. The quiet
was interrupted to me by the threshing of a body
and water, and the screams of my Ruth. The child
had fallen into the water up river from me. I

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was able, without much effort to wade in and fish
him out, carrying him to shore. He was quite unharmed physically,
but I could see that he had the fear of
death in him. Suddenly he was in his eyes wide
with a horrifying revelation that his safety was not promised

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him in this world. Even if at that young age
he could not articulate it. I recognized it, and so
he carried it forward with him, And whenever business took
him by the river, he shuddered at the memory and
kept out of its waters until well into his adulthood.

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I did not forget the look of fear in his
eyes that morning. He gave me that look again recently,
except that it was not the river he feared. He
feared me, Demeris. Even in the midst of my holy

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war these last few weeks, I felt the sting of
his fear something deep inside me, beneath even my love
of God the Father, and me recoiled at it. I
did not listen to that heart of hearts. Instead, I
drove on until every route had been pulled, until Sepia

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Havoc lay dead and her infernal husband was driven from
this town. But at what cost to merce? I under
estimated Jury Havoc. He was no simple monster doing evil
for the sake of evil. He was no ancient of Satan.

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He was not a monster, just a very powerful creature
with his own interests in mind. And I know now
that there is nothing more dangerous than a rich man
who believes that he is right. Vampire or not. I

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will not kill you. You have done no wrong. I
simply ask that you do not create more misery with
whatever second life you have coming. If you are reborn
with any decency left in you, abstain from the baser instincts.

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I wish you well as for me, as for you.
I used to feel the Spirit speak to me in
the tree and fields. I felt him move in the
beams of our great church, in the sunlight that would
stream in through the windows, sitting in the pulpit that
I would preach my sermons from inbuing me with his power,

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his love. I heard him speaking from deep within me,
guiding my each, my heart, my hands. But he no
longer speaks. He left me when we exhumed the first body.

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What followed was all my own machination.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
Wait where are you going?

Speaker 5 (17:22):
You will need to leave this place, cut ties. Your
children aren't good hands with God fearing people. You must
not endanger them with the semi sickness that is to follow.
The only way for our bloodline to continue is without us.
I am cursed and have cursed you in turn. We

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mustn't continue to visit our sins on our children.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
But I don't know what to do. I can't, I
can't just I don't know.

Speaker 5 (17:56):
Father Josiah, you will find your way forward. Go with God.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
Where are you going?

Speaker 5 (18:03):
I'm going to make my peace with God. Farewell, child,
This world is yours now to grapple with. As Jacob
grappled with the angel, may'd give you its blessing.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
He was found by a parishioner the following day, hanging
from a beam above the pulpit. It took for a
man to get him down. He was buried in a
pauper's grave. There was no one to mourn him, and
I believe you know the aftermath.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
My diary found.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
The only page is missing those which exonerated poor father Josiah.
The town was named injury Havoc's honor after he left
a large bequest to the church, our name forever synonymous
with violence, semmetary. Havoc went on to continue the business,

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the business of slowly gathering power.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
What is it? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (19:40):
What there will be more? How do you feel like
I've got the flu coming on? Any hallucinations? Said an
anger panic.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
I know I'm dying.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
Yes, I can't pretend that it'll be pleasant. But you've
got something that I didn't when I was infected.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
What's that? Morphine? Lots and lots of morphine. What did
you do after you were left alone? I didn't know
what would happen.

Speaker 3 (20:16):
I just knew that when I was taken by the
madness of the blood fever, I didn't want to be
among people, and so I went deep into the forest
on the western end of town. I walked for as
long as I could, until finally the exhaustion and the
symptoms of my owness overtook me.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
I thought that I would freeze to death. First, the
nights were so cold, but the fever took that bear
from me. My bones shook and.

Speaker 3 (20:50):
My teeth chipped from shivering. But such a heat poured
forth from me, and when the hallucinations started. Cannot begin
to express how the shadows of the forest terrified me,
and the weakness, the madness, and then the quiet. You

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will know soon enough, the thrill that comes with walking
into your new life, the terror, the abject loneliness.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
The thirst. But you will have a guide.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
You're not alone as I was. I knew that I
must not interact with the living, not yet, not until
I found the way to control my thirst. I didn't
know how to hunt, but I knew that I could
go down to the river and with patience find fresh

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blood in the fish that resided there.

Speaker 1 (22:01):
And so.

Speaker 3 (22:02):
For a time I lived as a hermit. I was
always thirsty and had a source of blood that.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
Wouldn't draw notice.

Speaker 3 (22:12):
And when I felt strong enough had enough control over
my thirst, I slowly made my way back into town
under the cover of night, wrapped in a cloak stolen
from a clothes line, The hood pulled far over my head.
Noah had told me of his cash of currency, so

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as the town slept, I crept back into the church
for the first time since I had turned. I was
worried that perhaps God would strike me down if I
crossed the threshold, and a part of me very much
hoped that he would, That I would face his wrath

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and be ended on the spot. Yes, the Lord had
no further interest in me.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
I felt like a ghost.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
Haunting this place my family had built, which I'd spent
so much time watching rise from the bedrock, under whose
eaves my children had run and played. But it wasn't mine.
If it ever happened, I reached the spot Noah I

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had described, and with filthy fingers, pried at the loose floorboard,
finally pulling it free to find the package wrapped in
burl up, my sweet husband's parting gift. The promise of
a future, if only I could make one.

Speaker 6 (23:54):
I clutched to it.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
As I rose to leave.

Speaker 3 (24:00):
The silhouette in the darkness, A slight frame standing in
the open door to the outside, and she saw me.

Speaker 1 (24:12):
Is that missus Spaulding? Who's there?

Speaker 3 (24:16):
Mary Spalding, a neighbor. Our children had played together since birth?

Speaker 8 (24:24):
Who are you?

Speaker 3 (24:25):
It is no one a passerby interested in the recent bloodshed?

Speaker 8 (24:31):
Then begone. Enough misery has befallen this place. Allow the
dead to sleep in peace.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
What happened here? Nothing good?

Speaker 8 (24:40):
A madman committed the most heinous of crimes?

Speaker 1 (24:44):
Was it the rich man on the hill?

Speaker 8 (24:47):
He was the one to stop the madness, but not
before his poor sick wife was murdered.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
Who then was the madman?

Speaker 8 (24:58):
It was the Reverend Josiah Abbys. He used the cloak
of our faith is a costume. He murdered, enraged, he
brought fear to our town. He murdered his own son.

Speaker 1 (25:10):
Can you believe in?

Speaker 8 (25:12):
Poor de Maris ned herself somewhere, you know not where.
We only have her diary. She followed him to Havock's door.
But then her story ends. The following pages were torn out.
She must be dead, where else.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
Would she be? And what of her children?

Speaker 8 (25:32):
I expect that they will take up residence in the
abbess house. They have at least sane relatives to care
for them. The poor children, orphan carrying an infamous name,
What will become of them?

Speaker 3 (25:48):
I made a decision then that regretfully, would curse my
progeny for generations to come. Mary Spalding was a stupid woman,
but one who the others listened to. I did not
correct her.

Speaker 8 (26:07):
At any rate. It is not proper for you to
be here. This is a house of worship in this conversation.

Speaker 3 (26:13):
Is macab I thank you for taking time to tell
the tale.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
I will pray for the.

Speaker 8 (26:19):
Victims fairly well, and may God bless you.

Speaker 5 (26:26):
And you.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
Why? Why did you do it?

Speaker 3 (26:34):
Because the truth would have sent my children searching for me,
and there was not to be any good in that.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
And what could I do?

Speaker 3 (26:42):
A bloodthirsty bean thought dead? You see how people responded
the unknown. Now imagine years ago, before there was modern medicine,
modern science, nothing but paranoia and superstition. It was better
to mark with the shame of zelotry than the mark
of superstition.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
What did you do instead? I went and tried to
make a life.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
I learned how to care for the ill, thinking that
it would soothe my soul to do good. I stayed
in Boston so I was to remain close enough to
watch over my children as they grew.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
I watched my youngest board a.

Speaker 3 (27:25):
Merchant ship then disappear forever, and my oldest as he
stayed on in a town that cursed his name, and
I watched him struggle and fight and somehow grow and
raise a child himself. That I was bitter, so bitter,

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And as the years passed, I began to study the
man who had taken everything to study his business, to
learn its reach, its scope. When he ope and a
new office in Boston to manage maritime business in the Northeast,
I decided that it was time to strike the first blow.

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At night, I broke in, stole any information I could
about the inner workings of his company, and then I
burned it down. They used the information gleaned for the
next strike, sabotaging his ships in small ways so that
a mass would crack midway through a journey. Burning the

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factory down here and there. I knew these small things
wouldn't topple an empire. But in time I was able
to gather my own resources, pay agents to do damage
for me, hiring bloodites to storm his factories, stealing patented
inventions and giving them for free. It would be competitors

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in the twentieth century. It was as easy as sewing
to sent among these employees. You know, in many of
his factories, all you'd need to do is point out
their poor working conditions. Workers would take it from there later. Still,
now it's hackers, ransomware. Why the hell didn't you just
kill him?

Speaker 1 (29:09):
We've already died, darling. I wanted to take from him
everything else.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
Of course, you can only hide yourself away in chaos
for so long. I knew he'd figure me out eventually,
and so he came here to see what I would do.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
And what did you do? The man with the axe Bachmann?
It was you. You infected him.

Speaker 3 (29:46):
It's okay, Oh my god, there's so much blood.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
It's begun in earnest.

Speaker 3 (29:51):
What is coming is violent and terrible, but you will
not be aloneps.

Speaker 1 (29:57):
It's time for you to rest.

Speaker 3 (29:59):
I have something to help you, orphine mm hmm. It'll
reduce the pain and let you sleep for Now it
may not be terribly helpful at the end, it'll help
you get there with less than agony.

Speaker 1 (30:15):
Wait, this will help Bachmann. Dury wasn't lying. It was you.
You started all of this.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
Please, Raymond Bachman was no great loss, an abuse of alcoholic.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
He beat his children, you know.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
I first saw him yanking his five year old's arms
so hard in a park that the child's shoulder was
dislocated just there in public help. People intervened, the police
were called. He didn't see any charges. So I found
him at a bar A few days after. I seduced him,
took him home. I infected him and sent him after jury.

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Call it a welcome home gift.

Speaker 7 (31:00):
You you, Jimbo died.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
Barbara tom Stabana.

Speaker 7 (31:07):
You you have destroyed my home everything for petty revenge.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
Okay, that is enough. Dare rest Karen. Wait wait, don't
you feel a slight pinch? And with that the opioids
entered my system. I cannot speak much to my state
in the days to follow. How old do you think
she has? That moves fast? Few days? Will she suffer?

Speaker 3 (31:42):
Not if we keep her out like this?

Speaker 1 (31:44):
Hey? Hey, honey, not so must must.

Speaker 9 (31:50):
We're here, honey, do you need anything?

Speaker 1 (31:53):
Murder? You you must, honey, you monster. It's all over.
I do remember the nightmares vivid, and if there were
borders between them and the waking world, they were so
blurry as to be meaningless.

Speaker 5 (32:17):
Then I heard a loud voice from the temple, saying,
to the seven angels, go pour out the seven bows
of God's wrath.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
On the earth, next the mountains.

Speaker 5 (32:30):
Afterward, the gates of hell will open, and she will
be swallowed.

Speaker 6 (32:36):
Whole, as her father was before her, and his father
before him, all the way back.

Speaker 5 (32:42):
To the very beginning of her cursed bloodline. But this husk,
this shall She'll walk.

Speaker 1 (32:49):
The face of the earth, an empty vessel, forever trying
to fill itself with life.

Speaker 6 (32:56):
But life eternal will not be granted her such way
over years past.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
Pass the blood to the Master. Pass the blood to
the Master.

Speaker 3 (33:19):
It's going to be all right, Master, Your brain is
dying of feet.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
The blood the Master. That's what That's what he said.
That's what he said when he came towards us. It
made no sense until it didn't return the blood to
the Master. It was it was a frame. You tried
to it didn't work.

Speaker 7 (33:46):
He'll just move on. But the damage, the damage, all
of the dead point at you, you head monster, and
all of your plans just killed the last of us off.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
Shush you, shush, you did all all of this were nothing.
It wasn't for nothing. It wasn't nothing. He should have
sent you on to hell. You're no better than him.

Speaker 7 (34:11):
I will spend the rest of my time on this
earth making you pay, you monster.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
You okay, it's okay. To the end now, darling. It's
all blood.

Speaker 7 (34:22):
There's so much blood.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
I didn't, I didn't. Oh, they're all here, all of them.
Who Daddy in the corner, can't you see? I can't.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
But that doesn't mean he's not with you now, Mom.

Speaker 1 (34:48):
And Granny Dotty, her brother, David, Jimbo, Hey, Jimbo, you
all look so sad. I feel it coming. I feel it.
I feel it coming fast. Dad, Dad, Please stand next

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to me. I don't want to be alone. He was
as clear as day as he sat by my bedside,
so much younger than when I saw him last, The
way he looked when he used to carry me in
his arms. He brushed the bloody, sweaty hair from my face, smiled.

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I think I really screwed up. Shh, I'm here.

Speaker 5 (35:46):
He didn't screw anything up, kiddo. You did what you
could with what you had in front of him.

Speaker 10 (35:53):
It wasn't enough, honestly, sweet girl. It's seldom as it's
coming for me. It will be over so quickly, and
then what who you are next is up to you.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
Close your eyes.

Speaker 10 (36:15):
We will all be here to see you through.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
And he was right. In the gathering dark. They drew closer,
put their hands on me. My mother sat on the
other side, young beautiful Jimbo at the foot of my bed,
big and silly and comforting. And when the darkness finally came,

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it came like sleep comes to the weary, gentle, so gentle.
And then it was over. And then it began, Oh

(37:12):
my god, welcome back, Bud. How do you feel thirsty? Here?
Drink this? What is it?

Speaker 5 (37:24):
Blood?

Speaker 3 (37:25):
Of course, from where does it matter? It's pig's blood.
Got it from the butcher. Drink slow down, curry and
I get back, get back. I don't I don't want
to hurt you.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
You won't. You won't hurt her. I'll make sure of it.
What makes you think I'll keep you around here? Your conscience?

Speaker 3 (37:51):
You know you won't be able to control yourself.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
I want you to know de Marius. Once I have
full control, I will use it to end you. Hmm,
fair enough. What's going on out there in town? It's over?

Speaker 9 (38:12):
The governor sent him more National Guard, the fence came
in to run clean up it. It was pandemonium, a
massive fire. The hospital killed about a dozen.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
Was that you too, demeris Jesus Christ. There are no
loose ends, no one else out there to infect.

Speaker 9 (38:34):
No, No, they found most of the bodies, just one missing,
brother Ken's.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
So he's out there. We'll find him, don't You've hurt him.
He's innocent perhaps, but he's still dangerous. Oh you one
to talk? What about Jurie? No idea. No, he'll turn up.

Speaker 3 (39:01):
They'll want to question him, but I'll make it hard.
He's one of the richest men on the planet. He's
got lawyers, congressman, senators in his pocket, and a pr
machine that could put a positive spin on the Hindenburg.

Speaker 1 (39:14):
So what do we do. He's hurt so many people.
We take care of him our own way. And how's that?
You'll learn quickly? You're a hunter now, so will hunt.

Speaker 2 (39:36):
Havoctown was created by me Aaron Manke. The show was
written and directed by Nicholas Takowski. This episode was edited
and sound designed by Rima lk Ali, starring Jewels State
as coren Abbess, James Callis as Jerry Havoc, Felicia Day
as Sylvie, Harris Ray Wise as Josiah Abbas, Crystal Lee

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as Demeris, Robin Bludworth as jimbo'horn, David Calhoun as Jonathan
Avis Charlie, David Newell as Brother Ken, Gina Rikikey as
Sarah Beth Spalding. This season is directed by Nicholas Takowski,
with assistant directors Sarah Klein and Jake Diamond. Casting by
Sunday Bowling CSA and Meg Mormon CSA. Production coordinator Wayna Calderon.

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Our theme song was created by Chris Childs executive producers
Aaron Mankee, Trevor Young, and Matt Frederick, with supervising producer
Rima Lkali and producers Nomes Griffin and Jesse Funk. Havoctown
is set in the Bridgewater Audio Universe, which includes the
hit fiction podcasts Bridgewater and Consumed. Learn more about both shows,

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as well as Havoctown at Grimandmild dot com. And find
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