The Gentleman From Hell |S1| Ep. 40

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Speaker 24 I figured our one and only Latin translator might be able to use a bit of coffee, especially since said translator is always bringing me tea.

Speaker 25 Thanks, Phil. I don't know about the coffee, but I sure could use the caffeine.

Speaker 25 Been a while since I slept, and reading Latin doesn't exactly keep the old eyes open.

Speaker 24 I think all of us might be up for a world record for staying awake longer than any human should.

Speaker 25 The good news, if you want to call it that, is I'm pretty sure I figured out why the priest was such an asset to the sparrows, and why the cult was combing through genealogy charts.

Speaker 24 Oh, I'm not sure I want to know, but go ahead.

Speaker 25 Here, listen to this.

Speaker 25 On the mysteries of the blood and the creation of familiars. The passage of infernal powers through blood is a matter of degrees.

Speaker 25 Specific mortals who share with us a bloodline and contain an appropriate share of darkness may be utilized as our puppets.

Speaker 25 One might feel this fact as truly as one detects one's extremities, and calling out such dupes a mere application of will.

Speaker 25 However, take heed, the thinner the blood, the weaker the hold we might exercise.

Speaker 24 So Gafni was telling the truth. He really didn't have a choice.
That's why they were searching through genealogies. They wanted to see who could be used as a familiar, a slave for the sparrows.

Speaker 25 It could also explain all the influence influence these creatures seem to have, especially if some of them descend from royalty.

Speaker 25 With so many powerful families linked to older ones, it makes a lot of sense.

Speaker 24 I wonder what Edgar meant by an appropriate share of darkness.

Speaker 25 I took that to mean a perspective familiar's intrinsic weakness. Moral weakness, I mean.

Speaker 24 He talks about it as if it were a function of biology, like a person is either born with some degree of darkness or they aren't.

Speaker 25 So much for free will, I guess.

Speaker 24 Leon, about what the priest said.

Speaker 25 Uh, I'm alright, Phil. Really?

Speaker 24 Are you sure? It's perfectly acceptable if you weren't. I know I wasn't.

Speaker 25 This might sound a little morbid, but I was kind of relieved by what she said.

Speaker 24 I don't understand.

Speaker 24 You were

Speaker 24 relieved?

Speaker 25 I left all that behind me a long time ago, and yes, it took a lot of counseling, but I'm on the other side of it now. And the witch didn't know it.
That's what gave me a little bit of hope.

Speaker 25 That she wasn't infallible, that she could fuck up.

Speaker 3 Hmm, I could have sworn I said something to that effect a while ago.

Speaker 25 You did.

Speaker 25 But this was the first time I saw it for myself. Felt it.
Some things just have to be appreciated directly, you know?

Speaker 24 No offense taken. But just for the record, I do occasionally know what I'm talking about.

Speaker 25 Well, you're the only reason we've made it this far, and we all know it.

Speaker 24 I'm not exactly sure just how far we've made it, but I'm glad you think so.

Speaker 25 I'd say we've come a long way since we first got here.

Speaker 25 For example, we finally know something about the sparrows, that their uncle was the one who taught them witchcraft, likely behind their mother's back.

Speaker 24 We still don't know who the sparrow's father was, where the name originated. I can't help but wonder where he fits into all of this.

Speaker 25 I think I've got a pretty good idea about what happened to him, if not who he was. Call it an agent's intuition.

Speaker 24 I'm listening.

Speaker 25 It's pretty simple. Given all we know, I'd say old Uncle Edgar wanted the Sparrow kids from the jump to secretly raise with his fucked-up beliefs.
So, as I see it, there was only one way to do that.

Speaker 24 Kill Mr. Sparrow, whoever the poor man happened to be.

Speaker 25 Exactly.

Speaker 25 And I'd bet the horned guy the villagers saw with the Sparrows that night they were discovered doing all kinds of weird witch shit was none other than Edgar, all dressed up for a night out with the devil, or, you know, whatever Satanists get up to with their little shindigs.

Speaker 24 Well, I can see why you rose so quickly through the ranks of the FBI, ex-Special Agent Oates.

Speaker 25 It's progress, but not enough to keep us from having to hole up here once the sun goes down.

Speaker 24 Unfortunately, down is a direction we're getting all too used to, especially now.

Speaker 25 Well, we recovered the drone, so we can at least see where the elevator goes without checking it out ourselves. Not that we don't already already have a good idea.

Speaker 24 Before we do any of that, I want to read the crystal I retrieved from it. If there's even so much as a scintilla of useful information in there, it'll be worth the migraine it'll cost me.

Speaker 25 I suppose it's useless at this point to ask you to wait and not overdo the vision thing, huh?

Speaker 3 It is.

Speaker 25 Well, in that case, we should head downstairs to see where things are at. It shouldn't take that long to attach a speaker to a drone.

Speaker 28 Okay, that's done it. She's equipped with the chime and ready to go exploring.

Speaker 26 I can't even imagine what she might show us.

Speaker 27 Well, if we're lucky, it'll show us something we can use to our advantage.

Speaker 28 And if we're not lucky,

Speaker 27 we cut the cable to the elevator and call it a day. Simple as that.

Speaker 26 You know, there's a certain amount of charm to your straightforwardness that I've come to appreciate.

Speaker 27 My mother always said the simplest answers tend to be the right ones.

Speaker 29 Your father didn't happen to be William of Ockham, did he?

Speaker 3 Who?

Speaker 28 Never mind.

Speaker 28 Just a little philosophy joke.

Speaker 27 The only philosophy I really connected with was:

Speaker 27 don't trust nothing that smiles too wide, moves too fast, or smells too sweet. And if you want peace, go to church.

Speaker 3 You want the truth? Look under the floorboards.

Speaker 28 I'd say this qualifies as looking under the floorboards.

Speaker 29 Way under.

Speaker 27 How far below this place do you figure the resonator can reach?

Speaker 28 Well, we know that at 75% output, the field went to about the elevator. Given all the mist we saw rolling out of it.

Speaker 28 At max power, and depending on the strength of whatever resistance it might encounter, a conservative guess would put the edge of the field at maybe another 30 to 50 feet down.

Speaker 3 If the rumors prove true, and what we think is down there,

Speaker 26 then there's no telling what might happen. But could be channeled through the drone, and what effects it might have on us.

Speaker 28 We're going to watch from right next to the resonator, with both the portable units maxed out.

Speaker 3 I mean,

Speaker 28 we're going to be as safe as we can be.

Speaker 27 Perfect timing.

Speaker 9 The drone's ready to go.

Speaker 27 We're just ironing out the last details.

Speaker 24 Before we launch it, I want to get a read on that crystal I sent with it last time. We need to know as much as we can before we start poking around beneath the mansion.

Speaker 26 But didn't the drone only explore the tunnels beneath the cemetery?

Speaker 24 It did, but someone, or something, clearly wanted to mislead us about what was going on down there. Sure, that incident happened in a different spot, but these tunnels all seem connected.

Speaker 24 Whatever's beneath the cemetery could just as easily be right into the mansion, too.

Speaker 28 A little foresight before we start poking unknown horrors with a stick is probably a good idea.

Speaker 25 Well, I guess we're ready whenever you are. But if something starts to seem off, drop that crystal like a hot potato.
Agreed?

Speaker 24 Agreed. Now let's get on with things.

Speaker 24 Would someone kindly bring me the small box over on that shelf and empty it here, right in front of me? Just be careful not to touch the crystal as it slides out.

Speaker 27 You got it.

Speaker 27 Here you go.

Speaker 24 It's best left untouched by one in all till I read it, lest it gets imprinted with information that it didn't acquire from the tunnels.

Speaker 24 Anyway, I believe it's time to see what ended up on the cutting room floor.

Speaker 3 Okay,

Speaker 24 I'm seeing what the drone saw.

Speaker 24 It's moving through the tunnels.

Speaker 26 I...

Speaker 24 I can hear it screaming below me, as if it's reaching up from a great depth.

Speaker 3 Just like before,

Speaker 24 when the drone initially began exploring.

Speaker 24 It's entered the temple where all the paintings and statuary are.

Speaker 24 And now it's passing the room where we found the box's files, but

Speaker 18 what is it though?

Speaker 24 Something.

Speaker 24 Yes, something has taken hold of the drone.

Speaker 24 Something invisible. It's

Speaker 24 it's dragging it through the tunnels farther and faster.

Speaker 25 Are you okay?

Speaker 3 I'm fine.

Speaker 24 It's getting pulled straight down.

Speaker 6 The screams, they're getting louder.

Speaker 3 It's being dragged deeper.

Speaker 18 There are things,

Speaker 3 presences, hundreds of them, all around the drone.

Speaker 3 I can barely see through all the screams. They're so loud.
They're blinding.

Speaker 24 The imagery's changed. I'm not sure what's happening.

Speaker 3 I think the drone is laying on the ground in the tunnel somewhere.

Speaker 25 Phil, can you hear me?

Speaker 3 I'm okay. I...

Speaker 24 I was just momentarily overwhelmed. I'm far more thick-skinned than when all this began.

Speaker 28 Did you see the same thing you saw the last time we were all down there?

Speaker 24 Uh, yes and no.

Speaker 24 It's hard to explain. Uh, the best way I can describe it is that it felt like a storm.
An incoherent nightmare of pain and suffering. Similar to last time, only less defined.

Speaker 24 And the presences I felt desperate and hopeless. There was something else, too.
I could feel it. Pacing back and forth, impatient, waiting.

Speaker 24 Waiting for us.

Speaker 24 Hello?

Speaker 27 Yes, and thank you so much for returning my call, Mr. Keene.

Speaker 25 I see.

Speaker 3 Yes.

Speaker 27 Thank you again.

Speaker 3 Goodbye.

Speaker 27 That was the Ingersol's lawyer. He hasn't spoken to him for some time, and he has no idea where they might be.

Speaker 26 Well, not to give up hope and change gears. The sheer volume of data that this Dr.
Raglan sent you may more than make up for your missing hopefuls, provided any of it can be validated.

Speaker 26 I've been combing over it most of the night, and she's laid out a very compelling case for a sizable conspiracy, if not the existence of people returned from hell.

Speaker 3 That said,

Speaker 26 Nicole Petrie was, like Ed Veers,

Speaker 26 reported dead years ago.

Speaker 26 And Martin Yarrows went missing only about six months before Raglan snapped his picture at that doomed celebration.

Speaker 27 I also discovered something.

Speaker 27 While it was hard to make out, let alone translate, the audio of the ritual beneath the abbey you cleaned up, I was able to discern a few words.

Speaker 26 From the look on your face, I'm guessing they weren't particularly good words.

Speaker 27 Not hardly. The first word, or rather, name, I was able to make out was Zezor, another spawn of the damned.
That name was coupled with the phrase, undone by rising waters.

Speaker 26 Undone by rising waters?

Speaker 26 Could it be a reference to the Great Flood?

Speaker 27 That's exactly what I'm thinking, Lenore. What if we're seeing two kinds of horrors?

Speaker 27 The damned themselves and their...

Speaker 27 children.

Speaker 27 Creatures that harken back to before the flood.

Speaker 26 It might explain why there's two distinct and oddly reoccurring themes to these beings.

Speaker 26 The deep holes, or rather the black ladders, and the odd chambers they seem to drag out of the earth.

Speaker 27 What we dragged out of the mouth of that dormant volcano back on the island.

Speaker 27 I can't stop thinking about it. I wonder if it was one of them.

Speaker 3 One of the spawn.

Speaker 27 When we found it, that massive casket, its rough stone surface had been worn down, removing any symbols or writing we might have found.

Speaker 27 Whatever warnings that might have been there were long erased. Maybe we would have been less bold, less foolish, if we'd known what we were about to release into the world.

Speaker 27 Maybe more of us would have survived.

Speaker 26 I don't think scary imagery or cryptic writing would have dissuaded a team of scientists from pursuing the find of the decade.

Speaker 26 Dad, there was no way you could have known what was going to happen.

Speaker 3 It's just that simple.

Speaker 3 I know.

Speaker 27 What about the videos she included in the jump drive? The one labeled interview.

Speaker 26 I couldn't get the damn thing to play, so I downloaded another player that might do the trick.

Speaker 24 Let's see if it works.

Speaker 3 Seems like that tip the trick.

Speaker 31 Okay, what you're about to see is an interview I conducted with someone who claims to have first-hand knowledge of the cult of the damned.

Speaker 31 For their safety, I've gone to great lengths to conceal their identity. I want to assure you that I've thoroughly investigated their account and have found no reason to doubt its credibility.

Speaker 31 And if you followed me this far down the rabbit hole,

Speaker 31 I suspect you won't either.

Speaker 31 Now, as we're keeping all elements of your identity a secret, why don't you just tell me what you know about the apartment building?

Speaker 18 I lived in that apartment building for years. Got to know a lot of folks there.
It was like this little community, you know? Cozy, friendly.

Speaker 18 But But all that changed the day that woman moved into apartment 26.

Speaker 18 Right from the start, something felt off about her. Gave me the creeps.
The way she'd just sort of glide through the halls at night, barely making a sound, always watching, never just glancing.

Speaker 18 It was like she was studying people.

Speaker 18 And her voice, God, it sounded sweet. But not in a good way, like sugar-coating something sour.

Speaker 18 And things started happening. I knew it was her.
A lot of us did.

Speaker 18 But first came this god-awful smell, like rot, maybe sulfur. It was everywhere.
Then came the bugs.

Speaker 3 And this building?

Speaker 3 It wasn't the kind of place you'd find bugs. It was clean, decent.

Speaker 3 But suddenly they were crawling out of the damn walls.

Speaker 3 Worst of all, were these patches. These weird spots of decay.
The walls, floors, even the ceiling. Bits would just start rotting, like meat left out too long.

Speaker 18 The wood or plaster or whatever would get all dark and wet and a smell. It was like the actual building was decomposing.
Hmm.

Speaker 31 Did anyone ever have these spots checked out? A carpenter or some kind of repairman?

Speaker 18 Quite a few people complained about it. Especially the folks living near the lady in apartment 26.
That's where most of the weird stuff seemed to be happening.

Speaker 18 As far as the maintenance men could tell, it was some kind of mold spreading through the building. They brought in a cleaning crew, but no matter how much they cleaned or sprayed, it didn't help.

Speaker 18 It just kept getting worse. That's when things really started to get strange.
See, there was this wing of the building that was off-limits.

Speaker 18 There was a fire a while back, and they were still in the middle of renovating it. Most of it was still scorched and water-damaged.

Speaker 18 Anyway, people started seeing the lady from 26 slipping past the barriers, disappearing into the blackened corridors. And she wasn't always alone.

Speaker 18 She'd be with other people, these weirdos, all dressed in black, always at night, real quiet like they didn't want to be seen.

Speaker 18 That went on for a while, but it hit another level when we all started hearing weird noises coming from the basement and from the parts of the building that were off-limits.

Speaker 31 Didn't anyone alert the landlord or even the police?

Speaker 18 I don't think anyone ever called the cops, and the landlord only showed up once, supposedly talked to to the woman, but nothing ever came of it.

Speaker 18 From what I heard later, he refused to come back to the building after that, just handled everything online. Then out of nowhere, the woman in 26 was gone.
No moving truck, no boxes, nothing.

Speaker 18 She just vanished. Left the door unlocked, too.

Speaker 18 A few of us got curious and decided to go take a look inside.

Speaker 18 The whole apartment was covered in that rot, floor to ceiling. It was like stepping into the decaying guts of something huge and dead.
There was no way that whatever that woman was up to was normal.

Speaker 18 But what was strangest of all was what we found in the part of the basement that had been damaged by the fire, and apparently where the woman and her friends were gathering.

Speaker 18 The concrete floor had been torn up, and underneath were these stone stairs that went almost straight down into the darkness.

Speaker 18 I still have nightmares of the sounds we heard coming up from it. How we all ran for our lives.

Speaker 18 I moved out the very next day, and I'm glad I did, because I heard strange things about the people who still live there.

Speaker 31 Strange in what way?

Speaker 18 I guess a bunch of people started sneaking down to that hole. Folks I'd known pretty well the whole time I lived there.

Speaker 18 A friend of mine who left not long after I did told me the whole building changed after that thing with the lady from 26.

Speaker 18 People started acting weird, creeping around at night, holding these strange little gatherings. Supposedly, even the landlord got into it.

Speaker 18 She said he stopped all the repairs on the damaged wing and started filling it with weird statues and other creepy, occult-looking stuff.

Speaker 18 But the part that really got to her and made her finally leave was the animal sounds she started hearing at night.

Speaker 18 She said it sounded like something big was prowling the halls. Now, I don't know if I believe her or not, but she swore it sounded like

Speaker 18 a lion.

Speaker 18 And get this: she said one night it came right up to her door and started sniffing around.

Speaker 18 The part I just can't wrap my head around, she told me it started whispering to her through the door, telling her to let it in.

Speaker 18 Let me

Speaker 3 in.

Speaker 25 Okay, the drone is inside the elevator, and there's been no interruption of the video feed. Let's see what's down there.

Speaker 28 All the resonators are at full blast.

Speaker 3 I don't know if I can watch.

Speaker 27 Just be ready for anything.

Speaker 9 We haven't been ready yet.

Speaker 3 What the?

Speaker 25 It only went down one level.

Speaker 27 What's down there?

Speaker 25 Taking her out of the elevator now.

Speaker 25 Just some big broom carved from stone and some really weird-looking machine.

Speaker 26 What the hell is that thing?

Speaker 25 Hold on, let me turn on the headlight and zoom in.

Speaker 28 See that pile of cassette tapes next to the machine? This must be what they've been using to make those recordings. The device that doesn't use wax cylinders.

Speaker 27 Yeah, I can see the speakers and the slot for the tapes and whatnot.

Speaker 25 Gonna tape and photograph the hell out of this room. I want every inch of it mapped out if we have any notions of going down there.

Speaker 28 Ugh, that's the last thing I want to do.

Speaker 24 But I am curious about that machine.

Speaker 30 Could tell us a lot about why the hell, and maybe more importantly, how the hell they do what they do.

Speaker 26 I can't say I wouldn't be interested to know how and where the supernatural intersects with the Newtonian laws governing solid machinery.

Speaker 24 And I suppose it would be a huge missed opportunity for me not to do a reading on the machine, but we should all reflect upon the wise words of Alexander Pope.

Speaker 27 And what did he say?

Speaker 24 No place so sacred from such fops is barred. Nay, fly to altars, there they'll talk you dead.
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

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