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June 2, 2021 28 mins

Isaiah Williams can’t separate his nightmares from reality. After disappearing in the Monongahela Forest with his brother Gabe, Isaiah emerged from the woods the lone survivor. Now, while attempting to return to a new normal with his family, Isaiah finds that harrowing events continue to haunt him –- a dark secret from deep within the woods won’t let him rest.

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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.
What is this? What am I doing? Oh? All right?

(00:25):
M hm hm shot, this is really happening. This is
really me. This is shi Jocolin. I need your side

(01:13):
back to one in five minutes. Come on, the girl,
it's just a dream man. You've got blood in your shirts.
Jesus Christ, join, blood all over your shirt? Oh ship,

(01:37):
it's just old paint stains. Throw me that hoodie away. Thanks,
It's coffee everywhere. It's gonna put your mom over the edge,
paper towels by the mat wave. Thanks, you're excited. Can't
you tell about this? Who dressed my mom picked out?

(02:00):
It's supposed to tell everyone. I'm button? Uh, come on,
I distinctly remember seventh grade was at least less miserable
than six. Lasa Carrigan said, the boys get sweaty and smelly.
To the lazy Karrigan, They're only gonna get sweatier and smellier. Cross,
you're weird of goods there. Dad probably gave you better

(02:23):
pep talks on your first day of schools. Jocelyn shoes on.
Let's go on. Relax, they're slip on, then go slip
them on. M I swear she didn't get the assass
from me or your brother. Don't sell yourself too short,
Ashley ship a luncheon. I forgot actually packed something for you,

(02:53):
just a couple of P B and j's, but should
do the trick? Oh? Thanks? Sorry? What was this? Not? Okay? No,
it's it's fine. Jocelyn said, it's something Gabe dead. I
thought it would be helpful, and it is helpful. It's okay, really,
thank you. I imagine it's strange living here without him.

(03:18):
But you don't have to walk on eggshells around us.
I don't want to be a burden. You made it
out of those woods alive, Isaiah, make no mistake. We're
thankful for that. Shoes on, backpack on. Now? Can we
get this over with nice attitude? Missy? Whatever? Can we go?

(03:43):
Good luck today at your interview? You too? That's cool?
I mean, oh, and you might want to check for
the aftermath in those pbjs. Looks like you've got some
strawberry jelly on your neck. Mom h I say I

(04:04):
had another count that last night? Is he okay? Shut out?
That's all this blood come on us there. I'm not

(04:33):
dragging you the whole way byr bitch, askar carry what
was that? I'm coming gay all right, check the glove
box for the GPS. GPS always following trails fourteen miles
to the first site. This is some of rode and

(04:55):
realize your idea of a brother bonding trip when involved
trying to kill me. Funny, Glad the court didn't beat
that out of you. It makes me a cripple, though,
so it's always thanks for the consideration. If you don't
want to do this, let's turn back now because that no,
I'm not dealing with that whole weekend. You sound like mom.

(05:15):
That's because you're still picking fights like a little bit yass.
We're teen miles into the Bermuda. Try and go to
the northeast. Huh, it's good. No, I'm gonna enjoy proving
those stories of yours are full of ship there. Listen,
all right, play your games, but if it goes down,

(05:37):
I'm leaving your ass beyond brother or no, brother, don't worry.
Like you said, I'm probably full of ship. Cho God damnit,

(06:00):
maybe I can burn it. How the hell do you
start this like that? I guess hey there, neighbor. A

(06:21):
little early to fire up the grill, isn't it? Hey, Paul,
what you're cooking? Nothing? Just swapping the propane tank and
start turning my keep around here before I actually decided
to kick me out. Something I can help you with.
I heard you coming home last night. Trucks louder than hazies.
Notice something when you pulled in? What what was that

(06:47):
the tail lights out? Left side? Did you get that fixed? Oh?
Left side? Got it? I'll take care of that. Something
to matter? No, just I'm ringing in my ears. You
gotta stop burning that candle with both vans stretch as
a killer. Where are you coming from so late? Anyway? Damn,

(07:12):
I gotta run job interview. I'm sorry, of course, but
before you go, you might want to check out nothing
in the grill. It smells like it's burning. Yeah, just
keep walking on. Here we are first day of school.

(07:45):
I just think two years will be in the same building.
Are you sure you don't want a picture? Y'all look
so pretty? Nat, I'm okay. Hey wait, so uh, I
know today might be hard. Some kids might wanna ask
about dad, but you don't have to talk about it.

(08:08):
Not if you don't want to, I know, all right, good,
But if you want to talk about it, you can.
It's up to you. Mom. I got to go have fun,
knock their socks off. Love you two. Bug. Oh there

(08:38):
you are, come on in, I said, I want to
thank you for considering me for the position. Mrs Marshall,
Oh hush. I've been looking for an overnight god for
some time, someone trustworthy, not like those mcnathan boys, liars,
the lot of them. Frankly, when I sold the name
Isaiah Williams, I was over the moon. Yeah, I don't

(09:03):
think I forgot that other worldly fastball. Hit ninety as
a sophomore, most strikeouts in the state, first one I
ever had hopes for something big. It seems like another life. Then,
of course you hit a bumpy road after your mother
and all a damned shame. Gigi was a rare angel. Now,

(09:30):
don't worry. I wouldn't trust you if you hadn't fallen
apart after something like that. Sign of a good heart
letting tragedy hit you wear at shot sit. You became
an army boy after that, didn't you. That's where you
got that limp. Shouldn't get in the way with any

(09:51):
of the work here. Nah, If locking doors and mopping
floors are easy enough for these old bones, you'll finish
in half the time. Isn't it over kill hiring a
full time guard at a library in the town as
small as this. Between the artifacts we store and the
Historical Society archive, I don't take any chances. Once they're lost,

(10:15):
they're gone forever. So you really think people were breaking
here for this stuff. Elk Credge Falls dates back to
the first English colonists. That's why you have pretentious legacy
ass hats like the Reed family. Michele read still the
detective on your brother's case. Ah, yeah, she is a

(10:37):
viper without any venom. That one means she bites twice
as hard. I'll argue with you on that. Honest and
tactful I like that anyway. As I was saying, Elk
Ridge Falls has a long history, and that history is valuable.

(10:59):
Not honetarily maybe, but what's past down is important. Our
very survival depends on it. Oh dear, I'm not talking
about those racist statues. To hell with those bigots. I'm
also not talking about the kind of history they teach

(11:20):
at those fancy schools. That's an appetizer at best. I'm
talking about the nitty gritty corners of what we choose
to leave behind, the threads of truth we disguise in
the stories we tell each other, the darkest corner of

(11:41):
ourselves we turn away from. You know, the darkness I'm
talking about, first your mother, now you and your brother
out there in the wilderness, all that time, a loan,
afraid memories you wish you could forget. I live by

(12:09):
the darkness as much as the light. I respect it's
equal power over us, the way it takes hold and
grows like a weed, digging its roots inside of us.
Until are you feeling okay? I say you're the pale
as death? Who WHOA? Are you all right? Just a

(12:38):
little dizzy? I guess damn heat air conditionings out and
Marty has been waiting on a part since Jesus was born.
I should go. Let's get you a glass of water.
I'm fine, really, I just have to pick my knees
up from school. It's barely new. No, I really have

(12:59):
to go. If you say so, I'll see you Monday, though,
bright and early, to show you the ropes round here. Yes,
the Monday. Thank you Mrs Marshall. Thank you still by

(13:27):
time by Friday, spare packets on the front table. Thanks Ashley.
But I survived freshman history while ago two disks behind,
you have memory, serves Michelle on duty detective read. Is
there news about Gabe? No? Sorry, nothing new came about

(13:49):
to tell you. We're doing a sweep in the Manonga
Hilla today, west of the river. You think you'd have
gone that far. We've exhausted the initial search area. No
choice but to expand. Okay, good, Then your father in
law will be there. I'm sure he will be, and
I will be picking up my daughter at school. I
didn't mean to imply that we're on the same side here, Ashley.

(14:14):
We both want to know what happened to Gabe. How
are you and johceon doing? Been hearing things around town?
What kind of things? Nothing bad, per se, Just that
things have been difficult after losing my husband. Yeah, I'd
say things been pretty difficult. He's still a missing person's case.
Don't underestimate hope, and look, I have study hall duty.

(14:37):
Is there something else you need, Michelle? No, I'll let
you get to it. Oh. Actually, and to ask, how's Isaiah?
Since he came back. He's recovering, at least he seems
to be. He still doesn't remember any more details about

(15:01):
I think he's trying to put it behind him. I'm
sure he is. I'll call you if we find anything. Hm,
No one, Hey, you got any more change down here? Thanks?

(15:30):
Trying to keep something out, neighbor trying to keep something in,
pom As she's saying you again, there was are a
lot of change working on a project for the house. Right.
You know your brother, he wasn't a very handed guy.
He didn't even own his own drill. My old man

(15:50):
used to say a man can't run a home if
he don't know how to build it. And his wife, Ashley,
she's quiet the home. Where are you getting that? Oh?
I don't mean anything by just locker room talk, you know, No,
I don't. Are you're gonna be able to load all
those with your leg and on? Man, I can manage.

(16:14):
I guess I'll see you around a neighborhood. I'm sure
you will have a good day. Paum All right, what's
your space? And everyone? We passed the perimeter half my

(16:34):
back in the show. Just a little further. Storms are
rolling them too. We've got time. I know I'm not
your partner anymore, but little advice. Respect your fellow officers.
Time talk, if games alive? Every second count. It's been
eight weeks. Both of us know better than the believis.

(16:57):
It's okay, haven't failed. Let's regroup. We double back in
the morning over Nobody just vanishes into thin air. What
am I missing? I wish you knew years on the force,

(17:19):
and I can't even find my own son. They found something?
Talk to me ready. Rokey's got one looks like a
backpack slashed to hell? What that looks like? It's covered
in one? Nobody moved. We're coming to you. Sorry you guys.

(17:54):
I promise this is the last cast role from the Neighbors.
Not entirely were what's in this one? But it was
pretty easy. So m hmm, Isaiah, how the interview go?
Oh um? She offered me to job. That's great? Really, congrats?

(18:19):
What about your first day, Jocelyn? How'd it go? Fine?
Just fine? Nothing else to share? No, come on, there's
got to be something any new friends? The appy excuse
if you're finished? Mh I'm gonna talk to her. Let

(18:46):
me try be my guests? Go away? Mom? What about
your grumpy uncle, how sorry any time? What? Anytime? You

(19:08):
want to start talking? I don't want to talk. Sure, okay,
it's just the kids at school. They've been mean to you, No,
the opposite, their own nasts to nass, holding doors open

(19:30):
and let me skip in line at lunch and stuff.
And I never wanted to talk to me, not really,
I see. I kept thinking it's gonna be my whole laugh,
everyone smiling with nothing to say. That happened to me

(19:50):
when my mom died. It was like if they said
the wrong thing, I cried or scream or or whatever else.
I ain't want to deal with it. I remember wishing
they're just teasing bullet me, but at least feel normal.
If my dad doesn't combat, it's never gonna be normal again.

(20:14):
Is it the normally? You remember? No? But the good
news is this part ends. They'll be back to pushing
you into your lockers and giving you swirlies in no time.
You know, Boo didn't have his own line now, right.
The point is life will move on, and I think

(20:34):
that's the hardest part sometimes, making peace with the fact
your life keeps going. Sometimes I dream about what might
have happened to my dad. I think I must have
been scared, will be scared in the woods when you

(20:56):
thought you were gonna die, I told you to grab
the GPS. Now we stuck out here in the dark.
Don't you dare blame this on me. I'm not the
one who left behind. Fuck you, I didn't even want
to do this. Coom by your eagle scout. Bullshit. Hey,

(21:19):
I gave you anol really, because if I didn't come,
it would just be Isaiah the funk up backing out
on his perfect brother. Man, that's bullshit. Look what was that?
Probably just said adm Man. Yeah, big animal, bro, stop panicking,
all right, we're not lost. If we heard duties, well

(21:40):
rose straight into County Road. There that is again, you
hear that? Whatever? Man, it's probably just a dear So
I need you to stop acting like a little baby.
D I damn hey if I'm down here, ah, hey, hey,

(22:18):
I'm here. I don't unclass there. You're sweating in your face.
It's a zel. What's happening to you? Stay here, justin,

(22:41):
don't move you understand me, Leave me along, Jesus, I said, look,
class ship, I gotta go. Wait, but keep goings, don't stop.

(23:11):
You can do this be quiet ship. I told you

(23:37):
you gotta fix that tail life, neighbor, Paul, were you
following me? Trucks louder than haighties. You've got to get
out of here now, moving muscle more and I'll shoot
your knee. Cops out. What the funk are you doing?
Those chains won't hold you, not long anyway. What No
one's what they see, Isaiah, especially not you. You may

(23:58):
have walked into these woods to human, but you walk
down something else. I don't know what you're talking about,
my Paul. You need to leave. They say it's the
worst pain a man can feel. Your bones breaking, skin
tearing off your body, fangs growing in your mouth, and
those handlers splitting right through your scalp. Show me. I

(24:22):
sad so much you become must Him must story. Good bye,
man Ship. Come on, you fucking thing. Fuck me head

(24:54):
if you can hear me, If you're still in, we're
coming for you. We're coming for the more Day. What

(25:23):
is this? What am I doing? Oh m hm hmm,
stop stop, this is really happening. This this really me?

(25:56):
Next time on more Dale. You're the one who dry
me into this raging dumpster fire. I'm not stopping until
we find the rest of that body good whole days
where those stories are true, the sequencing doesn't match any

(26:23):
known species human or otherwise. I Heart Radio, blom House
Television and Crypt TV in association with Wolf at the
Door Present Mordo Executive produced by Jack Davis, Kate Krantz,

(26:45):
Darren Brandel, Jason Blum, Chris Dicky, Matt Frederick and Alex Williams.
Written by Caitlin Crab, directed by Alex Kemp. Produced by
Toby Lawless, Winnie Kemp, Daniel Pearson's co producers ben So Tech,

(27:07):
Anthony Mgnolo, Associate producer Federico Torrado. Starring j L. Fons
Nicholson as Isaiah, Ashley Platts as Ashley, Olivia Lott as Jocelyn,
Yvonne Angoulo as Michelle, with performances by Real Michael Scott,

(27:31):
Tacy Adams, James Brewster, Kim Estes, Patty Wilkins. Sound designed
by Dean Hovey, Original score by Christopher Kemp, mixing by
Mark Scarce, edited by Fernando Diaz. Assistant engineer Noah Sour

(27:53):
Recorded at Wolf at the Door Studios. Casting consultant Michelle LeWitt,
Production assistants Hayley mc Keeckney and Sophia Guilberto, studio teacher
Pearl Hika, Writing assistant Bill Hanson. This podcast was recorded

(28:13):
under a SAG after collective bargaining Agreement. Mordeo is a
production of I Heart Radio Blumhouse Television, crypt t V.
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