The Gentleman From Hell |S1| Ep. 19

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Speaker 13 I can still picture the day each of my kids was born, clear as the sun coming up, when all I needed to do to see the good in life was open my eyes.

Speaker 13 Those three days, they kept me from getting flattened by all the rest of them. I always figured they set me straight on how to see the world.
Like some kind of lens that gave me the real picture.

Speaker 13 But now, I'm wondering if I had it all wrong.

Speaker 13 Maybe they were just blinders, keeping me from seeing what was really going on, keeping me from seeing myself for who I really am. What I really am.

Speaker 13 Maybe I had a choice after all.

Speaker 13 Maybe I was just saving myself.

Speaker 13 If we'd have thrown our guns down, he would have killed them for sure.

Speaker 13 Am I just trying to duck the truth? I just don't know, but

Speaker 13 I do know one thing:

Speaker 13 this place

Speaker 13 doesn't let you hide anything.

Speaker 7 The contents of this particular letter, penned by one Veronica Mackay, a woman whose tale is arguably more outlandish than she herself, have given me pause on several accounts.

Speaker 7 Chief among these are the illusions that may tie in with the dire warnings of my late father, suggesting that there are enigmas that I must devote a year to unraveling.

Speaker 7 This is to say nothing of the other peculiar incidents I have encountered since inheriting my father's estate.

Speaker 7 Yet all must be weighed against the tell-tale signs of possible derangement, or outright deceit.

Speaker 7 Miss McKay, for all her apparent sincerity, has failed to elucidate matters with any real clarity.

Speaker 7 Her written account, so far as I can glean, merely reveals that she bore no great love for my family, a sentiment that may well have been mutual, and that she believes she heard chanting,

Speaker 7 my...

Speaker 7 my father crying out, even screaming. As for the rest of it, this so-called tri-phasic meditation, it appears patently unreliable.

Speaker 7 If it was intended to lend credibility to her words, I fear it has had precisely the opposite effect. How am I to reconcile such claims with reality, let alone with common sense?

Speaker 7 She should have known, given what she knew of my stance on such esoteric matters, that her presence here was ill-advised, indicating, I must admit, something of a lapse in her overall judgment.

Speaker 13 And yet, she did come.

Speaker 7 She crossed the ocean, ostensibly to warn me.

Speaker 7 If she harbors no hidden agenda, she must hold her convictions very strongly indeed.

Speaker 7 While I'm remiss to accept her tale upon faith, I am not, however, averse to investigating its veracity.

Speaker 7 The question now is, where to begin?

Speaker 19 Ah, the maiden voyage seems to be a success. A testament to your skill, no doubt.

Speaker 13 Thanks. Did you find a problem with the cameras?

Speaker 15 Yeah, drivers just needed to be reinstalled as all. Don't know what the problem was, but that seemed to fix it.
Should be all set now.

Speaker 13 All right, then. Let's hit the van and send her over the city.
See what we're dealing with.

Speaker 15 I'm sure she won't disappoint. This sucker's a state-of-the-art commercial drone.
It's got a 50-minute fly time. Hughes certainly wasn't cutting any corners when he picked it out.

Speaker 19 I'm glad you brought him up because I think it's high time we tell him about this cult. I know Miss McKay is suspect, but what she said was just a little too familiar to be discounted.

Speaker 19 And from the sounds of it, this cult isn't small, nor is it a recent development.

Speaker 13 we could be dealing with some sort of vast secret society here well at least it might have been 50 years ago lot can change in half a century yes it could have grown but that's neither here nor there the fact remains there's enough to present to hughes sure i can tell him but i don't know what good it'll do us i guess he could send us a private security detail but given the type of shit going on here who knows how well they hold up at the very least you could dedicate far more resources to the task of researching them.

Speaker 19 We have to drive miles outside of the city just to make a phone call.

Speaker 13 Yeah, I guess. I'm just paranoid about handing this off to him.
Any part of it.

Speaker 15 We aren't fighting for credit on a bust, Mace. This shit goes beyond all that.
I'm not seeing what the problem is here.

Speaker 13 It's not like that. It's just...

Speaker 13 Well, this whole thing's got me paranoid as hell.

Speaker 13 The deeper we get into this shit, the more I feel like we're getting played.

Speaker 13 I said you two, I'm not sure I trust anyone.

Speaker 13 Not even Hughes.

Speaker 15 That's gonna make working for the guy a little difficult, don't you think? We've gotta turn all this over to him at some point if we're gonna get paid.

Speaker 13 I know that, smartass. I'm just saying that Hughes doesn't know what we know.

Speaker 13 Who knows how careful he'll be with the shit we give him? These fuckers snap pictures of me and Phil, and we didn't have so much as a clue. And she's fucking psychic.

Speaker 13 We need to handle this like we got a mole on the loose. Everything stays in-house, and everything we turn over is just a bare minimum to keep ourselves on the case.

Speaker 19 When you put it like that, I can't say I disagree. Mr.
Hughes doesn't really know what's going on here. Not truly.

Speaker 19 It is conceivable he'd be careless and allow these people to become fully abreast of our progress and intentions.

Speaker 13 To be completely honest, I'm not even sure we figured out anything beyond what it wanted us to figure out.

Speaker 13 Just like that Polaroid, this place handed Ben's stash over on a silver platter.

Speaker 13 It knew we'd come across most of this shit.

Speaker 13 We need to get ahead of it somehow.

Speaker 15 We came across the tunnels ourselves, not to mention the brothers. I say we scored some points on our own.

Speaker 13 Maybe.

Speaker 19 If we can listen to that tape without incurring whatever malice it's almost certainly laced with, that would be a substantial point.

Speaker 13 Whoa!

Speaker 19 Easy, Mason. What's the rush?

Speaker 13 We're skipping the test flight over this city. We gotta start treating our little discoveries like crime scenes.
Work them while they're fresh.

Speaker 13 Christ, we found that tunnel days ago, and we've been doing everything else but seeing what's in the thing.

Speaker 15 I mean, that might have had a little something to do with the possibility of a cave-in, and a certain monstrous statue that seems to be able to knock people the fuck out whenever they get close to it.

Speaker 15 Oh, and then there was the little matter of having to chase down David Harmon.

Speaker 19 While I may be no expert, I don't believe crime scenes are generally haunted.

Speaker 13 Okay, okay,

Speaker 13 so we had some good reasons.

Speaker 13 But if we want to get ahead of this thing, we need to work faster. Like getting our asses down in those tunnels and looking around before they do something to make that impossible.

Speaker 15 If they hadn't already, yeah, you're the one driving.

Speaker 15 Okay, all the cameras a go,

Speaker 15 and I managed to patch the drone's audio through the van sound system, so we'll be able to hear everything in surround sound.

Speaker 19 What's that little window next to the camera feeds for?

Speaker 15 That's for the ultrasonic sensors and LIDAR.

Speaker 15 This thing comes fully loaded. Infrared thermal and motion detection.
It also came with some damn powerful LED spotlights. If there's anything down there, this thing should let us see it.

Speaker 19 You didn't forget my little contribution, did you?

Speaker 15 Sure didn't. Your little chunk of quartz is sitting comfortably in one of the drone's storage compartments.

Speaker 13 Perfect.

Speaker 19 Now, if something untoward were to happen, the crystal might absorb information I could later interpret.

Speaker 15 A sort of paranormal camera, huh?

Speaker 19 If it works, but yes, you could call it that.

Speaker 13 Okay, then.

Speaker 15 She's all locked and loaded and ready to go exploring.

Speaker 13 Before you take her down there, do a few circles around the area. Make sure we're all alone out of here.

Speaker 15 You got it. Here we go.

Speaker 15 Man, this thing really trucks. I just might have to get me one of these when this is all over.

Speaker 19 What's that there?

Speaker 15 It's uh

Speaker 13 squirrel.

Speaker 15 Didn't know the camera had that kind of zooming capacity. Good to know.

Speaker 15 All right, according to this, we are all alone.

Speaker 13 Okay, then send her in.

Speaker 15 We're through the door and heading down the stairs.

Speaker 15 Activating the spotlights

Speaker 15 and we're in

Speaker 13 take a look down. See if there's any tracks.

Speaker 15 Nothing besides our own tracks from last time.

Speaker 13 Other than that, just dirt and rocks.

Speaker 15 I'm gonna head to the spot where you saw the statue.

Speaker 15 Hmm.

Speaker 19 Looks like it didn't come back.

Speaker 15 Which tunnel do you want to hit next? Right or left?

Speaker 19 I think that's what the statue might have been there for.

Speaker 15 The left-handed king.

Speaker 13 So, is this place some kind of maze then?

Speaker 19 That or something designed as some sort of sacred specifications.

Speaker 15 Into the left tunnel it is.

Speaker 13 Hold on.

Speaker 19 There looks to be an open door down that tunnel.

Speaker 13 Right there.

Speaker 19 Hit it with the spotlight.

Speaker 15 You got it.

Speaker 15 Ah, yep. I think you're right.
I'll check it out.

Speaker 13 Well, look at what we have here.

Speaker 13 Looks like a huge storeroom. What could be in all those crates?

Speaker 15 I'm gonna snap some 4K pics with the still camera using the flash. Should make for crisper images than the screen grabs from the video.

Speaker 15 Pictures will come up on this monitor here. They're downloading now.

Speaker 13 What's in this pic right here, over in the corner?

Speaker 19 Hmm, looks like a crate filled with some kind of cylinders.

Speaker 19 Ah, shit.

Speaker 15 I was afraid of this.

Speaker 13 Afraid of what?

Speaker 15 All that dirt and stone is screwing with the connection to the drone. Gotta take it out of the room.
Signal was cleaner outside.

Speaker 15 Yeah, that seems to have done the trick. Just gonna keep going down this tunnel, see where it goes.

Speaker 19 What's that?

Speaker 13 Looks like light.

Speaker 15 Must be glass or something, reflecting the drone's light back at it. I'll switch over to the thermals.

Speaker 13 What's happening?

Speaker 15 Some kind of interference.

Speaker 15 Come on, you fucker, knock it off.

Speaker 19 It's not interference, it's presence.

Speaker 13 It's down there.

Speaker 19 I can feel it.

Speaker 19 Them.

Speaker 13 Them.

Speaker 13 yeah,

Speaker 19 they're down there

Speaker 13 screaming.

Speaker 19 Oh my god, what's been done to them?

Speaker 13 Don't, oh, please, don't.

Speaker 13 What the fuck just happened?

Speaker 15 God, everything's out. Even the fucking truck is dead.

Speaker 13 Phil?

Speaker 13 You good?

Speaker 19 Oh, I'm hardly good. But whatever that was, it stopped.

Speaker 13 What were you picking up on?

Speaker 19 Pain and suffering like I've never felt before.

Speaker 19 Like...

Speaker 19 Fuck!

Speaker 15 Oh, we got juice. Feed's coming back, too.

Speaker 15 Not getting anything from the thermals. Gonna switch to the spotlight.

Speaker 19 That's not where the drone was before the power was cut.

Speaker 13 No,

Speaker 15 it's not.

Speaker 13 Pan the camera around.

Speaker 15 On it.

Speaker 14 That's impossible.

Speaker 15 That's fucking impossible.

Speaker 13 You gotta be kidding me. It's on the inside of the Sada compound.

Speaker 19 Steal yourselves, gentlemen. We should know better by now.

Speaker 19 Nothing's impossible.

Speaker 19 Not here.

Speaker 15 It's inside that big communal room. The one where they all

Speaker 15 prayed.

Speaker 15 I'm gonna look around.

Speaker 15 In the corner, something moved.

Speaker 15 I saw it heading over there.

Speaker 15 What the fuck?

Speaker 19 Whatever that was, it ran through a door somewhere.

Speaker 15 I see it. It's the door that led deeper into the compound, where all the bedrooms were.

Speaker 15 Ah, fuck it. I'm sending it through.

Speaker 15 Where?

Speaker 15 Come on, this is bullshit.

Speaker 13 Can't be inside of the compound.

Speaker 15 Wherever it is, it's at night and outside. Those are trees and bushes.

Speaker 13 And those...

Speaker 15 Christ, they're corpses.

Speaker 13 They're all over the fucking place.

Speaker 13 Look at their clothing. Colonial.

Speaker 13 You

Speaker 13 don't think.

Speaker 13 Yeah.

Speaker 15 It's Isabel. Or at least it's supposed to be.
Right after the plague, I'm guessing.

Speaker 13 What the hell's even happening here? Why are we seeing this? I don't know.

Speaker 19 But I can feel it.

Speaker 19 Something horrible rising from below.

Speaker 13 Some of it feels...

Speaker 19 I don't know. Unliving.
A kind of wicked refulgence that wanders aimlessly.

Speaker 15 The feed's changing again. Looks like a hallway inside an old abandoned house.
Beat up hardwood floors, peeling wallpaper. I'm gonna push ahead, see what's down there.

Speaker 15 Looks like there's something on the floor up ahead.

Speaker 13 Broken teacup, maybe?

Speaker 13 Wait a minute.

Speaker 15 Could be a bedroom right ahead.

Speaker 13 No,

Speaker 13 yeah, I think you're right.

Speaker 13 Wait a minute.

Speaker 13 Shit, I think someone's in the bed.

Speaker 13 Please,

Speaker 13 no.

Speaker 15 They're sitting up.

Speaker 13 Please, please, no.

Speaker 7 Is that you?

Speaker 13 You're not her. You're not my mother.
Not my mother.

Speaker 13 Jesus. Phil, don't listen.
Leave me on. Pull the plug on the fucking thing.

Speaker 13 I can't.

Speaker 15 The goddamn thing's not responding.

Speaker 19 Did you finally remember my tea?

Speaker 19 You've been gone for so long.

Speaker 7 So...

Speaker 7 No!

Speaker 13 I'll shut the fucking thing off.

Speaker 15 Hold on, just give me a fucking second.

Speaker 13 Oh What the fuck turn off turn the fuck off

Speaker 19 You said it would take more than a dream

Speaker 19 Let me out

Speaker 15 It can't be shut down. We need to get her the fuck out of here.
Open the door

Speaker 13 feels like it's used shut. Please, let me out.

Speaker 7 I go through the glass.

Speaker 7 God damn it!

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