The Gentleman From Hell |S1| Ep. 50

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Speaker 9 H.R. Hughes.

Speaker 9 Goddamn bastard.

Speaker 4 Utter monsters.

Speaker 11 From the sounds of it, they intend to mass-produce the Resonator, just like they did with that wretched machine they use for contacting the damned.

Speaker 13 Not to mention, with their kind of resources, there's no telling what they might be able to modify her to do.

Speaker 4 I don't know about the rest of you,

Speaker 4 but all I got out of that was they know how to reverse the effects of that fucking tape.

Speaker 4 Which means we've still got a chance to beat this.

Speaker 9 You've got a point. You two can't be working for them and circle the drain at the same time.

Speaker 13 That's why we figured you should take a crack at the letter. They don't know the resonator boosted your clairvoyance, which means you might uncover more than they intended.

Speaker 14 You just might be right. Let's see that awful thing.

Speaker 14 Patricia, could you please activate the resonator and turn it all the way up?

Speaker 13 You got got it.

Speaker 13 She's maxed out. Ready when you are.

Speaker 14 All right, let's see what you've been up to, Mr. Hughes.

Speaker 4 Take this to them, let them ponder their options

Speaker 4 and have you brought from your bustling city

Speaker 10 that which must be combined to see the deed done

Speaker 4 everything that is required is there in those boxes

Speaker 10 hope you be right

Speaker 10 for these are heavy ones

Speaker 4 Their marks sit like boulders upon their souls.

Speaker 10 They be down deep.

Speaker 4 It'll be no easy task to draw them up.

Speaker 4 I wonder, do you suppose a solder weighs more than a sparrow?

Speaker 4 When your time comes, you'll be drawn up with a spoon of thread and a slight breeze.

Speaker 10 Now, back to that city of yours, Mr.

Speaker 4 Hughes.

Speaker 10 There's real work to be done.

Speaker 10 We need to prepare for the ritual immediately, so we'll need to enter the mansion the moment they're gone.

Speaker 10 And

Speaker 14 they may be coming to check on our progress tonight.

Speaker 9 All of you know what will happen if they're...

Speaker 4 disappointed.

Speaker 14 Oh, I think you're right. I saw far more than they likely suspect.
The letter was written somewhere that was incredibly dense,

Speaker 14 hard for me to see through.

Speaker 14 I don't think I would have gotten much at all if it weren't for, well,

Speaker 11 recent developments.

Speaker 2 Did you see anything about what they did to us?

Speaker 14 I think so. They're planning for some kind of ritual to.

Speaker 9 What is it, Phil? What are they planning to do?

Speaker 14 They're trying to

Speaker 14 bring the solders up from hell.

Speaker 4 What did you say?

Speaker 9 Like how the sparrows were brought back?

Speaker 14 Hughes brought something to the sparrows in a box. Whatever's in it is vital to the ritual they plan to carry out.
More importantly, I know where they're keeping it.

Speaker 4 Where?

Speaker 14 The church here in Cold Sparrow. There are five of them inside.

Speaker 4 Cultists.

Speaker 14 Or at least there were.

Speaker 9 Then we need to get our asses over there and get whatever is in that box the fuck away from them.

Speaker 4 It'll be noon in less than an hour.

Speaker 9 Then we best be at it.

Speaker 4 All right, let's. Not this time.

Speaker 13 We don't split up, remember?

Speaker 4 I know, I know. We've stuck together since the beginning.
But this one's on Leon and me.

Speaker 4 We'll have to slip out and move through the woods quiet. Like

Speaker 4 this kind of thing takes training, and you three don't have it. Besides, if someone's watching the place, we need you here to make everything look like business as usual here at the Via's Mansion.

Speaker 9 This is the best shot we're ever gonna have. It's broad daylight, and they have no idea we're coming.
We can't let those fuckers go through with whatever they got planned.

Speaker 9 Or the next time it hits 3 a.m.,

Speaker 9 we may not be topside to C4.

Speaker 4 When,

Speaker 12 if it's got to be done, it's got to be done.

Speaker 13 I'll keep the resonator and the rest of the speakers on, just in case.

Speaker 14 I don't like this one bit, but I understand. You just keep each other safe out there.
You hear me?

Speaker 9 You know we will. And you three do the same.
Got it?

Speaker 11 We've got the rest of Fen's tape to listen to, so we'll be plenty busy.

Speaker 4 Come on, let's grab our gear and get going.

Speaker 4 We need all the daylight we we can get.

Speaker 9 Don't worry, Phil.

Speaker 9 We'll be okay.

Speaker 4 Promise me.

Speaker 4 I promise.

Speaker 13 I'll set up the tape recorder in here.

Speaker 12 I'll brew us some coffee and tea.

Speaker 14 I'm going to grab my purse.

Speaker 13 Your purse?

Speaker 14 It's where I keep my gun.

Speaker 5 I've reached the lobby, and everything is as above

Speaker 5 slick with putrescence and stink

Speaker 5 and ruin.

Speaker 5 I'm going to open the door that leads out of the building.

Speaker 5 I can barely see for all the fog.

Speaker 5 But I can see the outlines of the city all around me.

Speaker 5 It's the same, yet twisted.

Speaker 5 The sky is but a shiftless mass of darkest grey. The air is heavy and acrid.

Speaker 5 The stillness is palpable,

Speaker 5 like a like a vast grave.

Speaker 5 My car is covered in dust and seems as if it's been sitting here for years, abandoned.

Speaker 5 I guess I have no choice but to walk back to the mansion. Or perhaps I.

Speaker 5 Perhaps I ought find a place to hide and try to wait all of this out.

Speaker 5 I

Speaker 5 don't know. I just don't know if.

Speaker 5 I do know that my heart can't bear another encounter with those

Speaker 5 things.

Speaker 5 Whatever they were.

Speaker 5 The things that inhabit this place.

Speaker 5 That's not a very nice thing to say about people you don't even know.

Speaker 5 Who's there? Please. Please stay away.
I just...

Speaker 5 I just...

Speaker 5 You've nothing to fear from me.

Speaker 5 So,

Speaker 5 I'm barely even here anymore.

Speaker 5 Come out.

Speaker 5 Come out and show yourself.

Speaker 5 After referring to me as a thing,

Speaker 5 I'd rather not.

Speaker 5 If you want to see me, you can come over here yourself.

Speaker 5 I'm sitting here on the steps.

Speaker 5 I'm making my way across the street to a large, crooked brick house.

Speaker 5 Who are you talking to?

Speaker 5 No one. Just

Speaker 5 myself.

Speaker 5 I see now

Speaker 5 you likely belong here and have merely reached that point at which you've been merely forgotten.

Speaker 4 What

Speaker 5 do you mean?

Speaker 5 Oh my god,

Speaker 5 oh

Speaker 5 I can see that you are not in fact from here.

Speaker 5 Oh,

Speaker 5 You're far too

Speaker 5 intact.

Speaker 5 What?

Speaker 5 What happened to you?

Speaker 5 Your face?

Speaker 5 I suspect,

Speaker 5 though I'm by no means certain,

Speaker 5 that I'm in the process of being forgotten.

Speaker 5 Are you even...

Speaker 5 I mean...

Speaker 5 Are you even human?

Speaker 5 I was

Speaker 5 months.

Speaker 5 Now I don't know what I've become.

Speaker 5 That's not quite right, he said.

Speaker 5 I'm not

Speaker 5 becoming anything.

Speaker 5 I'm simply

Speaker 5 disappearing.

Speaker 5 Why?

Speaker 5 I was

Speaker 5 meaningless.

Speaker 5 A meaningless pattern built from dust and silence.

Speaker 5 My life produced nothing worthy of the soul it was etched upon.

Speaker 5 And now,

Speaker 5 I'm here,

Speaker 5 slowly fading,

Speaker 5 a small stain being scrubbed from an otherwise perfectly good soul.

Speaker 5 Then you're

Speaker 5 dead?

Speaker 5 Nothing dies.

Speaker 5 Uh...

Speaker 5 What's your name? Benjamin.

Speaker 5 Nothing truly dies, Benjamin.

Speaker 5 We're all in some phase of a process, whether we know it or not.

Speaker 5 And the city, why does it look so

Speaker 5 ruined?

Speaker 5 I'm sure I don't know.

Speaker 5 I suspect it doesn't warrant any exploration or engagements.

Speaker 5 Just a dreary backdrop for things slowly vanishing.

Speaker 5 So what are you doing, just sitting here, all alone?

Speaker 5 Trying to

Speaker 5 remember.

Speaker 5 No one wants to die, Benjamin.

Speaker 5 Do you remember your name?

Speaker 5 Uh

Speaker 5 hmm.

Speaker 5 Milton.

Speaker 5 I think.

Speaker 5 It's nice to meet you, Milton.

Speaker 5 Well, how nice of you to say.

Speaker 5 It's a pleasure to meet you, too.

Speaker 5 Would you like company on your walk to

Speaker 5 wherever it is you're going?

Speaker 5 I've been sitting here for quite some time,

Speaker 5 I think.

Speaker 5 Perhaps too long.

Speaker 5 Um, certainly. I'm headed back to my home.
A mansion at the end of the city. Or some bizarre approximation of it.

Speaker 5 Come, let us take the alleyways.

Speaker 5 We'll get there faster.

Speaker 5 A man of means, then?

Speaker 5 Only very recently, and much to my chagrin.

Speaker 5 Militin, that tower over there, what is it?

Speaker 5 It's hard to say.

Speaker 5 There are so many shapes in the mist.

Speaker 5 Some feel like memories, ghosts of thoughts that refuse to fade, lingering after the minds that once held them disappeared.

Speaker 5 For a moment, they drift into view, then vanish again.

Speaker 5 Are there other things here that

Speaker 5 don't fade away?

Speaker 5 Some of us have grown mad,

Speaker 5 which apparently presents the forces of forgetting with some difficulty.

Speaker 5 There are also those who have found some meaning here.

Speaker 5 A calling.

Speaker 5 Though I find that they're merely a different flavor of the previous type.

Speaker 5 And yet, there are others still.

Speaker 5 Those from below.

Speaker 5 They come and go as they please.

Speaker 5 Their sins making monsters of them all.

Speaker 5 Below?

Speaker 5 You mean

Speaker 5 hell?

Speaker 5 Yes, I suppose I do.

Speaker 5 Or, at the very least, it's another process.

Speaker 5 One that calls upon those caught within it to remember

Speaker 5 forever.

Speaker 5 What is this place? Where are we?

Speaker 5 This door leads to a tunnel that stretches beneath the city.

Speaker 5 It's better to avoid open spaces.

Speaker 5 I see.

Speaker 5 And why is that?

Speaker 5 I may not recall the exact reasons,

Speaker 5 but I do remember they were quite compelling.

Speaker 5 I suppose that's reason enough.

Speaker 5 It shouldn't be too much

Speaker 5 farther.

Speaker 5 What?

Speaker 5 Why are the knives hanging all over the place in here?

Speaker 5 Milton?

Speaker 5 I suppose I should

Speaker 5 tell you, Ben.

Speaker 5 My name

Speaker 5 isn't Milton.

Speaker 5 I don't actually remember what it was.

Speaker 5 Milton was just the name of the last shade I killed

Speaker 5 and devoured.

Speaker 5 His memories, his face.

Speaker 5 All mine now.

Speaker 5 And soon,

Speaker 5 yours will be too.

Speaker 5 I think I'll wear Benjamin rather nicely.

Speaker 5 No, stay back. Stay back, I said.

Speaker 5 why, why are you doing this to me?

Speaker 5 It's like I told you before, Ben.

Speaker 4 No one wants to die.

Speaker 9 According to the FBI canvassing photos, the church has a broken out cellar entrance. Should be an easy in.

Speaker 9 How do you want to handle anyone we might run into?

Speaker 4 Well, since they want us where we are, they ain't calling in any cops, so we can pretty much handle things however we want.

Speaker 4 If we can, I'd like to grab one, set him down for a little chat, like we did with Gaffney. That went down at night, and these ass holes are near unstoppable.

Speaker 4 I'm thinking we hold court in broad daylight, things might go our way.

Speaker 9 And if they don't, and things go sideways again, then there sides down one cultist.

Speaker 4 It's a win-win, if you ask me.

Speaker 9 I think that's the church over there on that hill.

Speaker 4 That's it, all right.

Speaker 9 Lucky us, its back is pressed right against the woods.

Speaker 4 I'm not seeing a car, and it's too far to see anything through the windows. Try the binos.

Speaker 9 Windows are all boarded up. Can't see a thing.
You wanna wait a while? See what happens?

Speaker 4 Normally, I'd like to case it out, but we ain't got the daylight to spare.

Speaker 9 I agree. Let's make our way around the back.

Speaker 4 There's the basement door. Still busted out.

Speaker 9 No guards?

Speaker 4 Cameras?

Speaker 9 Not even a string with some some empty cans on it.

Speaker 4 Cultas generally aren't all that bright.

Speaker 9 Don't we know it?

Speaker 9 Yeah,

Speaker 9 the hard way.

Speaker 8 All right, you head in.

Speaker 9 I'll cover you from here.

Speaker 9 I'm in.

Speaker 9 No sign of anyone

Speaker 9 on my way.

Speaker 4 There's another door down here.

Speaker 9 They got your back.

Speaker 9 Aw clear.

Speaker 9 Well, can't say I'm not surprised by the decorations.

Speaker 4 Yeah, same shit as before. Bunch of occult junks sitting under a lot of severed left arms dangling from the ceiling.

Speaker 9 Let's take a look at the uh occult junk.

Speaker 9 What is all this?

Speaker 9 Uh, from the looks of it, I'd say some of this stuff once belonged to the solder's. To take this, for instance, looks an awful lot like Luke's eye patch.
Though it's a bit singed.

Speaker 4 These are all bones.

Speaker 4 Think the sparrows had the fuckers dug up?

Speaker 9 Wouldn't put it past them. I'm guessing this ritual needs the solder's personal items to work.

Speaker 4 Doesn't get much more personal than using their bones.

Speaker 9 No, there's another pile over here. Let's check it out.

Speaker 4 You gotta be fucking kidding me.

Speaker 4 How the hell did they get a hold of my neurodisciplinary records? My own Facebook love?

Speaker 9 Or pictures of my dad.

Speaker 9 Wait a fucking minute.

Speaker 4 This is Emily's necklace, The one I gave her after Marlene and split up.

Speaker 4 She's always got it on.

Speaker 4 This.

Speaker 4 Let's dry blood on it.

Speaker 4 I swear, To

Speaker 4 fuck!

Speaker 4 If they hurt her! Mis, be quiet.

Speaker 11 You're gonna.

Speaker 9 Fuck, we gotta get out of here.

Speaker 4 I'm not going anywhere until I find out what they did to my little girl and my goddamn family.

Speaker 10 Put down the the gun, Mr. Rhodes.

Speaker 10 We don't want to have to hurt you.

Speaker 9 The ones with the guns call the shots, asshole. Now, all of you, get down here.

Speaker 4 You know who we serve.

Speaker 4 We cannot let you.

Speaker 4 You either. Tell me what you did to my boy.

Speaker 4 I'm sending you to hell ahead of schedule.

Speaker 9 Tell your buddies to get down here now.

Speaker 10 They have guns too, Mr. Oates.

Speaker 4 Did Did you fucking hear what I said? Tell me!

Speaker 4 We're not afraid to die, especially for them.

Speaker 9 Get your hand away from your pocket, pal.

Speaker 4 You give us no choice but to use force, mister

Speaker 4 I just turned your buddy's head into a canoe.

Speaker 4 So

Speaker 4 you gotta tell me what I wanna know?

Speaker 4 Or do you want the same haircut?

Speaker 10 They've killed Crispin. Fire only to incapacitate.

Speaker 13 We can't endanger the ritual.

Speaker 8 Mace, we gotta go.

Speaker 4 Fuck that. Mace, don't.

Speaker 4 You motherfuckers wanna dance! And let's fucking dance.

Speaker 4 We're outnumbered, come on.

Speaker 4 You go if you want. I'm staying.
I'm staying till every last one of these fucks.

Speaker 4 Mace, ah, you sons of bitches.

Speaker 4 I see him.

Speaker 4 You want some two asshole?

Speaker 4 Jesus,

Speaker 4 they're dead,

Speaker 4 all of them

Speaker 4 Fuck them

Speaker 4 You're hit

Speaker 4 Just wing me.

Speaker 4 I'll be fine. What about you?

Speaker 9 Grazed a couple of times.

Speaker 9 What the fuck did we just do?

Speaker 4 To a bunch who wanted to send us straight to hell?

Speaker 4 Who hurt my daughter?

Speaker 4 Those fuckers got off way.

Speaker 9 It's hard to imagine them letting this slide.

Speaker 4 I couldn't give a rat's ass much. Quiet.
Listen.

Speaker 4 I gotta get the fuck out of here.

Speaker 4 I'm going anywhere. Try to find out what they did for Emily.
The necklace? What?

Speaker 4 Emily's necklace.

Speaker 9 We'll bring it to Phil. She should be able to tell you what happened.

Speaker 4 Yeah, that could work. What are you doing?

Speaker 9 What we came to do. Grab in the shit they intended to use for the ritual.

Speaker 4 It's gonna have to be enough. Sounds like two vehicles.

Speaker 4 Maybe more.

Speaker 4 Alright, let's go.

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Speaker 3 Today's episode was written by Mark Anzalone and voiced by Stephen Zivick, Sam Stark, Aubrey Akers, Jesse Van Hove, Kelly Baer, Mark Anselone, Trenton Butt, and Harper Taysom.

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