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July 21, 2021 26 mins

While Kat and Michelle scramble to keep their promises to Mrs. Marshall, Ashley interrogates Isaiah, desperate to know what happened to her husband in the Monongahela. But when Isaiah becomes too much for her to control, a mysterious Stranger becomes her only chance at survival. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mordeo is a production of I Heart Radio, Blumhouse Television
and Crypt TV in association with Wolf at the Door.
I'd move heaven and earth for you. I'd die for you.
I'd kill for you. I've said these things before, and

(00:21):
I meant them, but I didn't think i'd have to.
I came from a quiet laugh in a quiet town.
I thought the rest of my life would be quiet too.
Turns out I was wrong. This is damn. Where is he?

(01:07):
That's impossible. I locked it. He was in here. This
is disappointing, to say the least. Sister Morales, don't I'm
not a part of your fucking cult or whatever you are.
We clean, The bars are intact, so was the lock bar.
He didn't bust out. That means someone let him out.

(01:30):
I suggest you find out who did. Otherwise our agreement
to provide you protection will be in breach. I did
everything you asked. I followed through. This isn't on me.
We asked for Isaiah Williams, you delivered an empty cage.
Now without our protection, your oath to secrecy is suddenly deliveraged.

(01:53):
That puts me in a quandary cat We preserve our
secrecy at all costs that a threat one human life
means nothing when it comes to serving the greater good.
You're not above sacrifice, my dear. I've been forced to
assist many members of the ward into realizing the scene.

(02:18):
Then again, self sacrifice has never been a sentiment that's
come naturally to you. Tell me, how is it that
no other soldier saw the insurgent who shot you that
night at your post. The injury to your shoulder. It's
what sent you home from the war, was it not?

(02:38):
How do you know it? I know a whole lot more,
Miss Morales, find Isaiah or you will pay a heavy price.
Wake up, Issaiah, I know you're not dead. Welcome back. No,

(03:13):
why did you bring me in? The school was the
only place that they wouldn't find you right away? Figured
the gym would be easiest to you. Shouldn't have taken
me out. This was the only way I was gonna
get answers. I don't know what you think is going on,
but I promise you you don't understand. Listen to me.

(03:34):
These change won't do any good. You have to get
me back. It's not safe and why not? You just
have to trust me. Wow, even now, even when I've
got you cornered. Even when you think my life is
on the line, you still can't bring yourself to tell
me the truth. You wouldn't believe me if I did.
I didn't realize you had such little faith in me. Isaiah,

(03:55):
that's all right. I can't prepare Jesus. What are you
doing with that gun? Ashley? I know what you are, Isaiah.
I know the kind of monster you're becoming. Nah, I'm
the one getting answers this time. Listen to me. It
doesn't matter how big of a gun you have, it's

(04:15):
not going to protect you. Because you think you can't die, Ashley,
I can't. I tried well. Seems like I understand a
whole lot more about what you are than you do now.
I want to hear everything about what you did to Gabe,
all of it from the beginning, because if you don't,

(04:36):
I'm gonna make sure your last moment's heart like held. Jocelyn, Jocelyn, Hello, Ernesto,
who the hell are you? Once a stranger, now a friend?

(04:59):
Where's my and daughter? She's safe for now? What did
you do with her? There's that fire I've heard so
much about I see right, said, tell me where she
is now. Could you loosing your grip a bit? If
you kill me, then Joscelyn will die? Kidding? Your granddaughter

(05:31):
is five. You can call her when we get to
the car. I promise. I just needed to cut the
bullshit and get everyone on the same team real quick.
She was the only way to do that. I don't
know what game you're plan, but I want to see Jocelyn.
Isaiah's in danger and we need to find him. Who
are you someone who wants to save your son from what? Wow?

(05:55):
We've really got a lot to talk about. Don't we
tell me? Isaiah? What did you start with his arms,

(06:16):
his legs, head, stomach? Was his heart warm when your
teeth sunk into it? Because you feel it beating? To
let me go? Please tell me. I want to hear
you say it all right? Have it your Actually, don't

(06:51):
I have three more despair? Next time I'll aim for
something more than a lag you keep pushing, I won't
be able to stuff. I'm not afraid. Why do you
want to hear this? Because there is a reason why
you chose him, and I have to know why he
is my brother. I didn't choose him, I didn't be heven,

(07:12):
but it did. It's a pattern with you, I say it. Somehow,
some way, you find a way to hurt the people
that love you most. So you didn't murder, You didn't
rip him apart, you didn't tear into his body. You didn't.

(07:33):
You chose to do all of those things. That's why
you are what you are. That's why my husband is dead.
You want them, Damn you don't understand it. Most things
they took over I couldn't contruely Jesus, I'm saying, take
some responsibility for what's in your life. Just didn't bit

(07:54):
what you did. God, your coward. After all these years,
you're still running, turning your back on these things you
don't want to face, wondering where it all went wrong.
You never realized it. It's wrong, goddamn fault. Your mother
will be ashamed of you. You don't think I know that.

(08:17):
When we were growing up, I thought there was nothing
you couldn't do. You were as a Williams homecoming king,
baseball star, kind, charismatic, smart, funny, loyal, and you chose
me as your best friend. It made me feel special

(08:43):
and we talked about seeing the world. For me. It
was just a fantasy, could have been real with you.
You were the closest I ever came to something more. God,
I loved you. I don't think you ever knew that
what I did, I knew, Wow, just twisting the knife.

(09:07):
How couldn't be there like you wanted me to? I
tried to protect you, right because I was never good
at doing that myself. Truth is, I built you up
in my head and now I see you for who
you really are. Gave deserved the brother you could have been.
You sure as hell didn't deserve to die. Jocelyn, My

(09:30):
daughter deserved a family. You took that from her. I'm sorry.
It's too late for that. I said, way too fucking light.
Please no, I'll just make you worse. I'm all right, Poppy,

(09:57):
I'm safe. Where are you? I can't tell you, Jocelyn.
You will tell me this minute. I told her not
to say. Ah, what's wrong with you? My arm? Jesus
that fucking hurts. Give me that phone. Listen, jay Bird,

(10:19):
your grandpa's gotta go. Stay where you are, like we
talked about, We'll find them. I promise. Why did you
do that? We have to hurry. It's going south faster
than I anticipated get Jocelyn back on that phone right now.
I need to know where she might have taken Isaiah. Michelle,
what's she done? No, Ashley, where would she take your son?
Ashley wouldn't be anywhere near Isaiah. I can guarantee that

(10:41):
she knows Isaiah killed Gabe. What what did you say?
I'm sorry, I really am. This isn't the way anyone
should find out something like that. But Ashley knows, and
she's gone rogue. She's keeping him somewhere. I need to
know where you're lying. He wouldn't he could can was
pushed past the denial stage and get to anger. I

(11:03):
can use anger. Who are you and what makes you
think you know anything about my son? I just do
look her nest. So think about what Ashley's done the
past few days. She's displaced her child from their home,
left Joscelyn with her strange father in law for long
periods of time, all the while not telling you more
than you needed to hear. You're a cop. Let the

(11:25):
pattern speak for itself. She learned something, I saw something
the truth, and now she's out for blood. We need
to find them, or one of them will not be
alive come morning. I promised Joscelyn. I would bring them home.
I don't break promises. So think where would she take him?

(11:51):
Her nest where she wouldn't go home? The woods and
not after gave no, no, no? Think where was she? Bet?
I don't know, Like you said, it's clearly not something
she would have told me. God damn it. Vote right, Okay, okay?
I think what the school? I bet she's at the school.

(12:22):
And that's tough. And that's the Jocelyn It's cat opened
the door? Shit? Any luck? What are you doing here,
Deputy Douche? Do I know you know? But I know you.
You're the infamous Michelle Read and you are looking for

(12:44):
the Williams. It doesn't seem like they're here. And why
are you checking up on Ashley? I haven't heard from
her all day, but I'd make sure everything was all right.
It's what cops do, right, you're a real woman of
the law. I haven't checked the other house yet. You
want to ride rather take my own car? All right?

(13:07):
And escort? Then? Do I have a choice. We're going
to the same place, so I guess not, shall we perfect?

(13:30):
You look like you're in pain? Let me go ask me. No,
you need to take me back. No, I'm not gonna
get what you want either of us. Are you say
you want to die? Well, I don't believe it. It's
the only way to stop paying. So if I said
I can kill me, could you tell me what happened? God,

(13:52):
you can. When you transition, your body is in between
two states, a protected mortal shell and an mortal body.
It's weakened. It's then and only then that you become
vulnerable enough to die. How would you know something like that?
They told me all about what you are, how you

(14:12):
had to sacrifice Gabe to become one. What are you
talking about? You really don't know. Do you don't know? What?
They call you? The Moredo? The Moredo? We are right,
all right. It's a cursed from nature for crimes against

(14:35):
your fellow man. These things have been a part of
the mononga HeLa for years, living in secret. They said
you knew, They said you had to have known. That's
what was hunting us from the start. Us you Engabe.
First night we saw something in the woods that can

(14:56):
attacked us, taste us through the force. A trip on
my leg and I lost sight of game. And when
I found him Steford, he kept saying he could hear
them whispering to him, telling him he was going to die.
I tried to get him back. I told him you
were waiting for him, but we ran out of food
and water and gave He just kept slipping away. And then, uh, understand.

(15:22):
She can't understand. Don't understand. What tell me? One night
I can hear him talking to them. He said they
told him I was going to kill him, but I wasn't.
I I tried to tell him, I won't understand. She
can't tell understands. He took my knife. He attacked me.

(15:46):
He wanted to kill me, kill. It was weak, it
was it was heard. It was easy for me to
take the knife away from him, and the boys is
the same once. He'd been here all along, being killed,

(16:07):
gonna be to kill, will be killed, eat or be
eating killed killed. And next thing I knew, I was
covered in his blood. K was sticking into it's inside
with my bare handed out flash ball. I hate everything

(16:33):
down into his bones. There was nothing left running After that,
I ran, and I ran. Then not more than half
a mile, I found the road we had walked for days,
for weeks. I killed him less than a miles away
from leaving that for us. I'm supposed to believe you.

(17:00):
H that's it, that's what you want to do here,
that's the truth. I was weak and because of that,
my brother, your husband, it's going forever, and I deserved
to die. I'll say it. M H. Dor as the

(17:24):
door now, No, not take not right now? H h oh,
I can't. I know it. M M M. Houses dark

(18:37):
never bodes well. Try the door, so we illegal searching
seasons are in the DOO column. Just to be clear,
move mom, this is a terrible idea and you have
no clue what's in there? What exactly do you think
is in there? Listen, last door I found unlocked like this,

(18:57):
the guy ended up missing in his car at the
bottom of the lake and he happened to live right
across the street. That councilman, Paul Douglas. Yeah, fine, go ahead, detective.
I'll be right behind you after you. I'll check upstairs.

(19:22):
You take down here, or how about I'll wait for
you right here at the bottom of the steps and
you do your little com thing. Yeah about your away,
h Ashley Ashley, Jocelyn. No sign of anyone, know. There

(19:47):
are things seem to be in disarray, probably when they
packed to stay with her nest though, how did you
know they were staying over there? I spoke with her?
How much did she tell you? You're in over your
head your cats? Excuse me? If Ashley is missing and
Isaiah is gone, there's really only one answer. She's gonna
rogue on me. Well should be surprised. Really, Wait, what

(20:10):
are you talking about? I'm saying ash she's taken Isaiah
somewhere to save him or to kill him. I can't say,
but one thing's for sure. She's defected from the Ward's
orders and they won't take too kind of them. Shit,
you're one of them. Officially, I'm here to make sure
you deliver on what you promised. Unofficially, I could use

(20:31):
your help to track Ashley down. And why would I
help you do something like that? It's simple, Ashley has Isaiah,
we find Ashley, we find Isaiah, I get what I need,
and you get to live. Seems fairly straightforward. Really, why Ashley?
What happens to her when you find her? Don't get
all worked up. Let's just say I have plans for

(20:54):
Ashley Williams, and I can't afford to have them go
all right, and now neither you ha ha ha ha.

(21:24):
Oh almost out, You're almost out and should no, no, no, man,

(21:47):
you can make it. You can make it. Oh one break,

(22:11):
I'll say, Dolly, as he's been getting in her nest,
let's go. I can't hold him for the world. Get

(22:32):
in down, Welcome aboard. Yeah, yeah, I'll explain later, ready,
Jesus Christ, buckle up. I never thought I'd be here

(22:59):
wondering whether it's best I kill or I die for
the people I love. But now that I am, I
can say this for sure, I have no intention of
doing either. Next time on your day. War doesn't forget,

(23:35):
and they sure as hell don't forgive over. There's no
way I'll let you go out there alone. I'm sorry.
Oh sorry, Jocelyn, Jocelyn I Heart Radio. Blumhouse Television and

(24:08):
Crypt TV in association with Wolfe at the Door Present
Mordeo Executive produced by Jack Davis, Kate Krantz, Darren Brandel,
Jason Blum, Chris Dicky, Matt, Frederick and Alex Williams. Written
by Caitlin Crabb, directed by Alex Kemp. Produced by Toby Lawless,

(24:34):
Winnie Kemp, Daniel Parsons Co Producers ben So Tack Anthony
Magnolo associate producer Fererico Torrado. Starring j L. Fons, Nicholson
as Isaiah, Ashley Platts as Ashley, Olivia Lotte as Jocelyn,

(24:57):
Yvonne Angulo as Michelle, with performances by Tacy Adams, Ariella
Amar Jamie, Joseph kim Estes, Patty Wilkins. Sound designed by
Dean Hovey, Original score by Christopher Kemp, Mixing by Mark Scarce,

(25:20):
Edited by Fernando Diaz, Assistant engineer Noah Sour. Recorded at
Wolf at the Door Studios. Casting consultant Michelle LeWitt, Production
assistants Hailey mckeckney and Sophia gilbertele studio teacher Pearl Hika,

(25:41):
Writing assistant Bill Hanson. This podcast was recorded under a
SAG after collective bargaining agreement. Mordeo is a production of
I Heart Radio Blumhouse Television Crypt TV. For more podcasts
from I Heart Radio, visit the I Heart Radio app,

(26:02):
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