ASHES

Emma is relentless in her research and tries to involve the police, but in a strange twist a young police officer has a confession to make which opens a new path in Ashley’s pursuit leading Emma below ground where she discovers a city under the city. Is it real? She meets the keeper/guardian of the city, Dee, who explains the reason for its existence. Emma is highly skeptical but also fascinated when confronted with Dee’s solid and...

Emma (not her real name) introduces herself and tells us about how she overheard a conversation a while ago in Madison Square Park in Manhattan between a young man in a wheelchair and a strict looking young woman and how this conversation sent her on her current mission. She manages to interview this slightly strange young man, named W.C. and finds out about his peculiar roommate, Ashley, who disappeared on him. Emma is compelled t...

We meet Maddie and Lindsay, our hosts and fans of the podcast ASHES. Together, driven by their curiosity, they question some of the claims and events of the podcast and begin to sort fact from fiction in an effort to find out what really happened to Ashley.
Starting with the basics and to get a grip on the fundamentals of the universe, they interiew a Princeton professor, Tim Bard, who is a leading Cosmologist and Fluid Dynamic...

Maddie and Lindsay decide on a practical approach and visit THE STATION, one of the sights where Ashley disappeared. They talk to architect JETT MAURI, about a possible explanation and where to find an entrance into the "city under the city."
Dissatisfied with the fact that Ashley just vanished, they decide to question a famous illusionist DAVID BURTON, who makes people disappear for a living. He might know the answer...

Is reality based entirely on chemical reactions in our brain?
Maddie and Lindsay interview chemical expert Ryan Stoncram, who may have an answer as well as a sweet deal.
Perhaps talking to the people who were closest to Ashley will shed light on the mystery of her disappearance, but trying to find Bethany leads to Tewa Ansari and more questions than answers.
An unexpected caller from the past adds a further layer of ten...

Failing to trace Ashley, Lindsay and Maddie change course and try to find her closest ally, Drake. Even though nobody seems to have actually ever met him. They find ANGELA FARIA, a photographer's agent who more than just represented him.

Convinced that they have a lead, they ask DR. LARK about the fundamentals of the connection between Drake and Ashley, with an unexpected result.

Finally, since it all seems t...

When Dr. Chu comes back to, she is joined by 23. The plan worked; During Dr. Chu’s own P.A.T. they connected for a moment and 23 tracked her down to the underground laboratory. Together they unveil that Eden and Emerson have removed 23’s memory, because of her role in preventing them from developing a superior being. She had nearly achieved her goal and shut Eden down two years ago, unbeknownst that there was a back up located at C...

Dr. Jane Chu delivers Tess, 23’s daughter, into Elizabeth’s custody and eases the strained marriage, whereas at St. Vincent the pressure to deliver results for 23 is rising. While searching for more information about P.A.T. on Dr. Sermon’s tapes she discovers his stern warning about conducting no more than two P.A.T. session; the results could lead to total catatonia in the patient. Dr. Chu refuses to conduct any further sessions, ...

We learn more about Dr. Jane Chu and her strained relationship with Elizabeth, her wife, who is desperate to adopt a child. 23’s daughter, Tess could be the perfect candidate, as her mother is emotionally dissociated from her and doesn’t recognize her.

Wavering between Elizabeth’s happiness and her ethical obligation to cure a patient,  Dr. Chu tries another P.A.T. session with 23, but again, instead of recovering her own memory, 23...

While skimming through Dr. Sermon’s tapes for answers, Dr. Chu makes the crucial discovery that he invented a method to digitize electronic brain signals of his patients and eventually store them on a medium that was not yet invented at the time of his departure from St. Vincent. Is that what happened? Are Teresa’s, Valerie’s and Aura’s memories digitized and stored somewhere on a hard drive, Jane wonders, maybe even here at St. Vi...

Dr. Chu arrives at an abandoned, nondescript home in a residential area of the Hudson Valley, and is about to leave again, when she discovers an underground laboratory, where an AI named Eden, a sentient supercomputer, oversees a ground-breaking experiment. There are 18 cells and a tank with a gooey mass connected to the AI. Eden can talk and reveals a connection to Dr. Chu, who inadvertently created her moral profile years ago, wh...

Patient #23, a young girl suffering from dissociative amnesia is currently one of only five patients at St. Vincent Hospital, a financially struggling mental health sanatorium in the Hudson Valley. She was brought here, together with her little daughter Tess, whom she doesn’t recognize, after being found meandering the streets without memory of her past, lost and disoriented.

 Dr. Jane Chu, the caring and good hearted head therapist...