The Red House

The university bought a derelict house out in the middle of nowhere for this experiment.  When Carnack arrives to shut them down, everyone thinks he’s crazy, but he knows what the Red House really is. Starring James Callis and Nolan North.

The Department Of Midnight is produced by Warren Ellis, Brian Gucciardo, Kevin and Diane Kolde and Fred Seibert. 
Main title and credit narration by Gildart Jackson. 
Additional voices by Vanessa Marshall and Fred Tatasciore.
Casting and voice direction by Meredith Layne, CSA. 
Main title and score by Trey Toy. 
Dialogue editors Kevin and Diane Kolde. 
Recording coordinator Kathy Cavaiola. 
Dialogue recorded at Salami Studios. 
Lead dialogue mixer Mark Mercado. 
Assistant dialogue mixers Jonathan Bradley and Chris Story. 
Audio post production provided by Salami Studios. 
Post audio supervisor Peter DiRado. 
Sound design and editorial Paul Menichini, MPSE. 
Re-recording mixer Sean Jacobson. 
The Department Of Midnight is a production of The Bellport Theater On The Air. 
All rights reserved.

Transcript

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All right,

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that seems to be on.

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This is Doctor
John Carnack, senior investigator,

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field unit, Department
of Experimental Oversight.

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Using a voice-to-text thingy to file
my observations on the set of experiment

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notification reports
I just had dumped on me.

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Okay.

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Okay. Top of the pile.

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University of North Dakota Energy
and Environmental Research Center.

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And,

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This is a joke, right?

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The Speculative Ambient Energy Group?

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Is this a band?

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Because if it is, it sounds like something
one of my exes would love,

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and if I sent it to her maybe she’d
talk to me again.

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Oh.

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Oh, shit. No.

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No, this is not a band.

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And this is not good.

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Where's the contact number?

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Shit.

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You have to get me on a plane
to North Dakota right now.

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And while I'm on the way,
you need to keep calling The Speculative

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Ambient Energy Group
at the University of North Dakota.

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And if that doesn't work,
just call the bloody Dean.

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They're about to run an experiment
that they really, really shouldn't.

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Sorry, yes, this is Tim.

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The signal out here
is practically non-existent.

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Our phones have been ringing all morning
but the connection doesn't go through.

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There is a landline, amazingly,
but nobody thought to get it reconnected.

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Right.

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What I was trying to say is don't wait up.

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I'm going to be back later than I thought.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, okay.

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It's just that
the setup has been a pain in the ass

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and we haven't been able to
call the university, so could you just--

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Shit.

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Lost the line.

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Okay, everybody.

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We are officially on our own out here
in the land that cell phones forgot.

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How are we doing?

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Faintly
unconvinced thumbs up from engineering.

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Okay. Analysis team?

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Okay.

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Wow, you people look way too happy.

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All right, let's power up.

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Well, well, this big

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old house on the edge of the prairie
just woke up in the 21st century.

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Great work, children.
We are up and running.

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So, let's get started.

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Away to your stations in the other rooms.

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And let's see what we can find.

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What the hell was that?

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You have to stop.

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Who the hell are you?

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Doctor John Carnack

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Department
of Experimental Oversight.

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The Department Of Midnight has no right to

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- wait, did you crash into my fucking car?

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Oh, is that your --
I just got that fucking car.

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Look, you have to stop what you're doing.

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You don't know what's going to happen.

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Yeah, that's the point of an experiment.

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For God's sakes, man.

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You're going to raise the dead.

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The Bellport Theater On The Air

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presents The Department Of Midnight.

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Created and written by Warren Ellis.

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Episode 104. The Red House.

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Starring James Callis and Nolan North.

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You're insane.

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It's been suggested.

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Are you Doctor Timothy Repton?

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Yes. And this is a dark matter experiment.

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Not dark magic.

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You really have no idea what you're doing.

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I know exactly what I'm doing.

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Yeah? Convince me.

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Why?

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Because FEMA are on their way
and whatever happens

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when they arrive is down to me.

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That's completely nuts.

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You're about to wake up a haunted house.

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All of you.

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Listen to me.

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Put your equipment down and go outside.

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I'm warning you.

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All right, all right.

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Give us the room.

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Everybody go back to your stations.

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I'm going to try to talk to you
calmly and reasonably.

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And then you can wait in your car
until a medical doctor arrives

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to check you over. Okay?

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You have to listen to me.

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You burst in here and tell me
we're bringing back the dead.

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I have to listen to that?

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Did you leave your tinfoil hat in the car?

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Maybe.

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Okay.

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Do you have any background at all
in fundamental physics?

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Maybe.

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How about experimental
music of the late 1960s?

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Excuse me?

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I like a very generalist approach.

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Indulge me.

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All right.

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Have you ever heard of a sound
recording called

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“I Am Sitting in a Room” by Alvin Lucier?

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Actually, I have.

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I had a girlfriend
who was very into weird music.

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So you've listened to it? Hell, no.

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All her music sounded like insects
fucking inside a box.

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I see why the relationship
is in the past tense.

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Alvin Lucier spoke some sentences inside
a room and tape recorded them.

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He then played the recording
while taping that.

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Then he played the second recording
while taping it.

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Over and over again.

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Sounds like a banger.

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What he found
was that the walls of the room reflected

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some of the sounds and absorbed others.

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Did those sounds vanish?

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No.

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They remained as information
embedded in the walls.

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Now. There's a theory that

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when the four forms of matter
we know degrade, they become a fifth form.

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Information.

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Low energy particles

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that drop out of sight and hearing,
like sounds absorbed by a room.

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That is what dark matter actually is.

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It's why dark matter takes up
85% of the universe

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- it's
the information shed off by everything.

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Yeah. I'm with you so far.

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So. I had the university buy
this abandoned old house

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in the middle of nowhere
for a very good reason.

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It's been continuously
but very lightly inhabited

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from the early 1700s until 30 years ago.

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People lived and died here on their own.

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Yeah Um...

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Not exactly on their own.

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No, no, no.

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This was a distant homestead.

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No big families.

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Probably only six people in the last 300
years died in this very room.

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Um...

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It's probably more.

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Really?

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Because I'm pretty sure
it was a dining room.

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Nobody bothered to find out
what this place is.

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Not even you.

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I just told you what this place is.

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And you never wondered why the university
could buy it for peanuts?

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I was just happy to have it.

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We could be onto something huge here.

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Oh, you have no idea.

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Look.

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Current theory suggests

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that very small amounts of energy
could spin dark matter back up.

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Convert it back into a form of matter
that radiates

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ordinary useful energy.

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This whole house is basically a clean room

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for very limited volumes of dark matter.

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Not a lot of information
has been shed off here.

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And it'll be in these walls.

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Okay. Now you're losing me.

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What if awakened dark matter generates
more energy than it takes to kickstart it?

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That right there is the magic number

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for energy production
- getting more out than you put in.

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You....you think you're making a power generator?

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What if every cemetery in the world
was a clean power source?

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You're serious?

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Dead people as ambient potential energy.

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Stick a bit of juice in them and they keep
giving back to their descendants.

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The power bank of Mom and Pop.

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Do you actually think that'll work?

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Honestly, no idea.

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But I secured three years more funding.

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All the people
you just bullied through to get in here?

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They'll get paid,
and they'll get their doctorates.

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And a unique CV.

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So what the hell?
It's worth a shot, right?

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My God.

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You're an idiot.

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And you are a very rude little man.

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Fuck you. I'm not little.

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But I'm the idiot who's kept you talking
while one of my people calls 911.

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To have you taken away in one of those
nice jackets with big heavy straps on.

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We can kill the rest of the time

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by you telling me how it is
that I'm going to raise the dead.

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You didn't read enough of the theory.

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You know about the theory?

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The Wardenclyffe papers, am I right?

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Right.

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Except
I threw out all the tinfoil hat bullshit.

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The people who wrote that started out

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from a reasonable place
but went straight down the spooky k-hole.

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The information doesn't transform
back into random matter or free energy.

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It goes through quantum changes.

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There are exotic effects.

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What effects?

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You need to not do this.

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You don't know what this house is.
But I do.

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Oh, please, Doctor Carnack.

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Show me your sinister realtor powers.

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It's the Red House.

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The Red House? Does that mean something?

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It was called the Red House

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because one family committed killings
here over 300 years.

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They even killed each other here.

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Creepy.

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But still a limited number of people.

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Maybe some good can come of it all.

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Well, what if those minds
are still in these walls?

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After hundreds of years?

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They'll just be a homogenous mass
of dark matter.

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There's no way we can kickstart
a coherent mind, Doctor Carnack.

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After hundreds of years? Sure. Maybe.

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But the last occupant of this house, Lyle
Kemp, known in the texts

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as Heart Eating Kemp,
with 32 confirmed kills to his name.

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He died in this room 30 years ago.

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30 years suddenly sounds a lot
closer than 300, doesn't it?

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This is all still lunacy.

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I would have agreed.

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Except that I've already seen
dark matter interact with human minds.

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This year.

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All I ask is don't
turn your equipment on yet.

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Let me show you my findings.

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Uh....

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What?

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We turned
it all on just before you arrived.

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Ungh! Ungh! Ungh!

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The door's jammed!

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Where's the kill switch
for your equipment?

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Outside.

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Oh, brilliant experimental procedure.

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Put the off switch out of reach.

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[ghostly voices]

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Must have just been the wind or something.

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A pressure change.

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Does that seem likely?

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Look, this was just supposed

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to be gathering enough numbers
to support the funding for my students.

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I wasn’t expecting anything
to actually work.

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I don't understand.

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Do you know how much money there is
in experimental energy generation?

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770 million
people still live without electricity,

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but energy consumption goes up 21%
per year.

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Companies are throwing obscene
amounts of money

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at anyone with any hare-brained scheme
to fix all that.

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I wanted some of that for my people.

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I thought you were a faculty head,
not a businessman.

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I'm a teacher.

253
00:11:59,251 --> 00:12:02,254
I do what I have to
in order to support my people.

254
00:12:02,388 --> 00:12:04,523
Ah! Why won't this damn door open?

255
00:12:04,523 --> 00:12:06,025
[ghostly voices]

256
00:12:06,025 --> 00:12:07,993
What the fuck was that?

257
00:12:07,993 --> 00:12:10,563
Your equipment
rigging is a fucking rat's nest.

258
00:12:10,563 --> 00:12:11,797
Where did you put your dark matter

259
00:12:11,797 --> 00:12:13,432
transformer pylons?

260
00:12:13,432 --> 00:12:14,633
All over the house.

261
00:12:14,633 --> 00:12:16,135
Connector hubs? Power cables?

262
00:12:16,135 --> 00:12:17,403
Fuse box? Something.

263
00:12:17,403 --> 00:12:21,073
Something in this room I can use to kill
the power to your shit, Doctor Repton.

264
00:12:22,241 --> 00:12:24,376
Oh, God.

265
00:12:24,376 --> 00:12:26,278
Everything sheds information.

266
00:12:26,278 --> 00:12:27,346
The encoding of events.

267
00:12:27,346 --> 00:12:30,249
It's like the universe backs itself
up to the cloud.

268
00:12:30,249 --> 00:12:31,684
Like you said.

269
00:12:31,684 --> 00:12:33,986
This house has memories of events
in its walls.

270
00:12:33,986 --> 00:12:36,989
[ghostly voices]

271
00:12:37,356 --> 00:12:40,359
Help me force
this stupid door, for God's sake.

272
00:12:40,493 --> 00:12:42,561
What's the surge protection
on your power network?

273
00:12:42,561 --> 00:12:45,431
How the hell would I know?
How would you bloody not?

274
00:12:45,431 --> 00:12:47,399
I don't do their homework for them.

275
00:12:47,399 --> 00:12:50,402
For Christ's sake!

276
00:12:50,503 --> 00:12:51,537
Get us out of here!

277
00:12:51,537 --> 00:12:53,939
Somebody!

278
00:12:53,939 --> 00:12:55,741
That never works. What?

279
00:12:55,741 --> 00:12:57,710
Yeah. Nobody ever comes when you do that.

280
00:12:57,710 --> 00:12:59,278
They go in the opposite direction.

281
00:12:59,278 --> 00:13:01,981
There's never any rescue. Sorry.

282
00:13:01,981 --> 00:13:04,950
You and I have had very different lives.

283
00:13:05,518 --> 00:13:08,521
You mean, when you call, people generally
come running?

284
00:13:08,788 --> 00:13:13,893
I mean, I come from a world where when you
call for help, people come to help.

285
00:13:14,527 --> 00:13:16,195
Must be nice on Mars.

286
00:13:16,195 --> 00:13:19,198
Doesn't sound like planet Earth at all.

287
00:13:19,265 --> 00:13:20,800
What are you doing inside those devices?

288
00:13:21,934 --> 00:13:24,069
I'm trying
to stop this from getting worse.

289
00:13:24,103 --> 00:13:25,171
[Something’s gone wrong!]

290
00:13:25,504 --> 00:13:28,073
Oh, God. Do you think my people are okay?

291
00:13:28,073 --> 00:13:29,008
Well, you tell me.

292
00:13:29,008 --> 00:13:32,011
Are we the only ones stuck in a room
with no windows?

293
00:13:32,344 --> 00:13:32,878
Actually?

294
00:13:32,878 --> 00:13:34,847
I think so.

295
00:13:34,847 --> 00:13:37,449
Then I think I heard them figure that out

296
00:13:37,449 --> 00:13:38,217
[student screaming]

297
00:13:38,217 --> 00:13:41,120
uh, some of them, anyway.

298
00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:44,123
You actually seem to know
what you're doing inside the equipment.

299
00:13:44,223 --> 00:13:45,391
Physicist.

300
00:13:45,391 --> 00:13:47,760
Side order of electrical engineer.

301
00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:49,094
In my old life.

302
00:13:49,094 --> 00:13:52,097
What's your new life? Scientific police?

303
00:13:52,097 --> 00:13:54,333
I think of myself as an anomalist.

304
00:13:54,333 --> 00:13:59,104
The intersection of edge-case science
and myth and folklore.

305
00:14:00,372 --> 00:14:03,375
This house was a real legend,
once upon a time.

306
00:14:03,409 --> 00:14:06,245
Literally
never heard of this Red House thing.

307
00:14:06,245 --> 00:14:09,114
Can you do what you're doing
faster, please?

308
00:14:09,114 --> 00:14:10,683
We're good at
forgetting things these days.

309
00:14:11,784 --> 00:14:14,253
Yeah. Social media damages transactive memory.

310
00:14:14,253 --> 00:14:15,855
The function that decides what information

311
00:14:15,855 --> 00:14:18,123
is important to store
and what can be thrown overboard.

312
00:14:18,123 --> 00:14:20,392
You don't remember the family
serial killer house down the road

313
00:14:20,392 --> 00:14:22,828
but you remember to play Wordle
in the morning.

314
00:14:22,828 --> 00:14:25,831
Heads full of fucking keyboard cats --

315
00:14:27,733 --> 00:14:30,736
You broke my machines
and managed to make the lights go out.

316
00:14:31,170 --> 00:14:32,638
Be more impressed.

317
00:14:32,638 --> 00:14:34,974
I just blew out your generator from here.

318
00:14:34,974 --> 00:14:37,977
No more power, no more weirdness.

319
00:14:38,110 --> 00:14:44,316
[ghostly voices]

320
00:14:44,516 --> 00:14:46,585
Unless, of course, the local dark matter

321
00:14:46,585 --> 00:14:49,588
already got enough of a jolt that it’s
self-sustaining now.

322
00:14:54,293 --> 00:14:55,661
Who's that?

323
00:14:55,661 --> 00:14:57,763
What? Who?

324
00:14:57,763 --> 00:14:59,431
Over...over there.

325
00:14:59,431 --> 00:14:59,999
There's a glow.

326
00:14:59,999 --> 00:15:01,400
Green and violet.

327
00:15:01,967 --> 00:15:03,002
Kirlian aura.

328
00:15:03,402 --> 00:15:04,236
What?

329
00:15:04,470 --> 00:15:07,473
Those are the colors of the human
electromagnetic field.

330
00:15:08,774 --> 00:15:10,142
You can see the figure inside it.

331
00:15:11,610 --> 00:15:13,045
Oh God.

332
00:15:13,045 --> 00:15:15,114
You're right.

333
00:15:15,114 --> 00:15:18,050
You're looking at an actual ghost.

334
00:15:18,050 --> 00:15:21,587
A resurrected human mind that laid dormant
in the structure of the Red House.

335
00:15:22,187 --> 00:15:22,888
Who?

336
00:15:23,989 --> 00:15:24,623
Um...

337
00:15:26,525 --> 00:15:29,094
I'd say it was Heart Eating Kemp.

338
00:15:29,094 --> 00:15:31,497
That's a meat cleaver in his hand,
isn't it?

339
00:15:31,664 --> 00:15:32,264
Um hm.

340
00:15:32,731 --> 00:15:33,966
Can he touch us?

341
00:15:34,133 --> 00:15:35,534
Uh...Probably not.

342
00:15:36,168 --> 00:15:37,436
[Heart Eating Kemp moaning]

343
00:15:37,436 --> 00:15:38,003
Bloody hell!

344
00:15:38,003 --> 00:15:39,438
Shit!

345
00:15:39,438 --> 00:15:41,273
Probably!?! Probably.!?!

346
00:15:41,273 --> 00:15:43,042
What am I, the sodding ghost whisperer?

347
00:15:43,042 --> 00:15:46,211
I don't know how to punch out
the ghost of a serial killer, Carnack.

348
00:15:46,745 --> 00:15:48,580
Hey, look at the floor.

349
00:15:48,580 --> 00:15:50,449
More of them.

350
00:15:50,449 --> 00:15:52,051
I don't think so.

351
00:15:52,051 --> 00:15:53,752
Not quite.

352
00:15:53,752 --> 00:15:55,587
They're laying down.

353
00:15:55,587 --> 00:15:58,057
He's seen them.

354
00:15:58,057 --> 00:16:00,292
Of course he has.

355
00:16:00,292 --> 00:16:01,894
They're what he's defending.

356
00:16:01,894 --> 00:16:04,096
Those are his victims. He's.

357
00:16:04,096 --> 00:16:06,765
He's defending his kills.

358
00:16:06,765 --> 00:16:09,001
They're moving. 
[ghostly voices]

359
00:16:09,001 --> 00:16:11,804
Oh God, No!
[ghostly screams]

360
00:16:11,804 --> 00:16:14,373
I think I'm gonna puke.
[ghostly screams continue]

361
00:16:14,373 --> 00:16:19,745
[ghostly voices]

362
00:16:19,745 --> 00:16:21,847
Can you see that
line running between the figures, though?

363
00:16:23,248 --> 00:16:24,283
Like a stream.

364
00:16:24,283 --> 00:16:27,286
Or an umbilical. Same glow.
Like a circuit.

365
00:16:27,753 --> 00:16:30,356
All raised at the same time,
all connected together.

366
00:16:30,356 --> 00:16:31,457
Kemp too. Look.

367
00:16:31,757 --> 00:16:34,760
Look it's going through the wall.

368
00:16:35,127 --> 00:16:38,130
Whatever's in the other rooms
is linked to them, too.

369
00:16:38,330 --> 00:16:40,032
What does that mean?

370
00:16:40,032 --> 00:16:42,501
They’ll all go away at the same time?

371
00:16:42,501 --> 00:16:43,769
I don't know.

372
00:16:43,769 --> 00:16:46,271
This is a bit new to me, too.

373
00:16:46,271 --> 00:16:48,540
You said you'd seen something like this.

374
00:16:48,540 --> 00:16:50,075
What was done on that occasion?

375
00:16:50,075 --> 00:16:52,544
We disrupted it
with a big electrical discharge.

376
00:16:52,611 --> 00:16:53,078
Thing is --

377
00:16:53,078 --> 00:16:56,548
You just blew up the generator
and deprived us of electricity.

378
00:16:56,582 --> 00:16:58,884
Yeah, well, I didn't bloody know
this was going to happen, did I?

379
00:16:58,884 --> 00:17:01,887
I thought the point was that you did.

380
00:17:02,988 --> 00:17:04,156
Oh, no.

381
00:17:04,156 --> 00:17:05,557
Look.

382
00:17:05,557 --> 00:17:06,625
He's going to them.

383
00:17:06,625 --> 00:17:09,161
Don't look. Be a scientist.
Find the problem.

384
00:17:09,161 --> 00:17:12,164
We need to get out of here
and then close this place down.

385
00:17:12,331 --> 00:17:14,199
They're asking for help.

386
00:17:14,199 --> 00:17:17,603
He's going to kill them all over again
and they're asking for help.

387
00:17:17,636 --> 00:17:19,505
There's nothing you can do.

388
00:17:19,505 --> 00:17:20,973
They're already dead.

389
00:17:20,973 --> 00:17:23,575
That doesn't mean
they can't experience it.

390
00:17:23,575 --> 00:17:25,611
Over and over again.

391
00:17:25,611 --> 00:17:27,246
Their consciousness.

392
00:17:27,246 --> 00:17:31,316
For as long as this lasts, they're going
to keep on dying the way they first did.

393
00:17:31,350 --> 00:17:33,819
Keep your focus. It's the only way out.

394
00:17:33,819 --> 00:17:35,487
No it's not.

395
00:17:35,487 --> 00:17:38,323
They're asking for help.

396
00:17:39,324 --> 00:17:40,492
Wait.

397
00:17:40,492 --> 00:17:44,930
Disrupting it with electricity
because it's weak electromagnetic fields.

398
00:17:44,930 --> 00:17:46,999
Right? Right.

399
00:17:46,999 --> 00:17:49,568
How else can you disrupt electricity?

400
00:17:49,568 --> 00:17:50,869
Ground it.

401
00:17:50,869 --> 00:17:51,904
Brilliant.

402
00:17:51,904 --> 00:17:54,907
How? Slip
some rubber shoes on the bastard?

403
00:17:55,107 --> 00:17:56,642
There's a landline in here.

404
00:17:56,642 --> 00:17:58,544
Landlines were bonded to ground rods.

405
00:17:58,544 --> 00:18:00,612
Otherwise,
if lightning hit a telegraph pole

406
00:18:00,612 --> 00:18:03,615
it would travel down
the wire into the house.

407
00:18:03,982 --> 00:18:04,817
I didn't know that.

408
00:18:04,817 --> 00:18:07,286
We don't all live on TikTok.

409
00:18:07,286 --> 00:18:08,854
What's TikTok?

410
00:18:08,854 --> 00:18:11,156
Follow the phone line back into the wall.

411
00:18:11,156 --> 00:18:14,159
If we do this -- Just get it done.

412
00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:15,494
[ghostly voices]

413
00:18:15,594 --> 00:18:16,728
There!

414
00:18:16,728 --> 00:18:19,231
Now rip the line out of the wall
without busting it.

415
00:18:19,231 --> 00:18:21,867
Quick! Repton, they're already dead.

416
00:18:21,867 --> 00:18:24,870
I have no idea what you really are,
but I'm a teacher.

417
00:18:25,003 --> 00:18:27,606
When someone asks for help, you help them.

418
00:18:27,606 --> 00:18:29,208
Give me the end.

419
00:18:29,208 --> 00:18:32,311
If we do this, someone has to stick
this end of the cable into them.

420
00:18:32,344 --> 00:18:35,114
Well aware of that, Doctor.
There's going to be blowback.

421
00:18:35,114 --> 00:18:37,549
If that's what it takes. Give me that!

422
00:18:37,549 --> 00:18:38,484
Not your people.

423
00:18:38,484 --> 00:18:39,818
Not your place.

424
00:18:39,818 --> 00:18:42,821
And apparently,
you don't believe in rescuing people.

425
00:18:42,955 --> 00:18:44,289
This is my job.

426
00:18:44,289 --> 00:18:47,292
No. Rescuing people requires commitment.

427
00:18:47,693 --> 00:18:50,462
You with the cleaver? Come here.

428
00:18:50,462 --> 00:18:51,430
Leave him alone.

429
00:18:52,431 --> 00:18:52,931
Okay.

430
00:18:52,931 --> 00:18:54,700
That works.

431
00:18:54,700 --> 00:18:56,735
Come and get me instead.

432
00:18:56,735 --> 00:18:57,402
Come on then.

433
00:18:57,402 --> 00:19:00,405
You dead piece of shit!

434
00:19:22,427 --> 00:19:24,029
I'm fine.

435
00:19:24,029 --> 00:19:25,664
I'm fine apart from my hearing.

436
00:19:25,664 --> 00:19:28,000
I have no idea what you're saying to me.

437
00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:31,003
I'm just assuming you're asking me
how I am?

438
00:19:32,271 --> 00:19:34,239
Is Repton all right?

439
00:19:34,239 --> 00:19:37,242
We'll just nod or shake your head
or use sign language or something.

440
00:19:37,676 --> 00:19:40,479
Carnack, I've known you ten minutes
and I already hate

441
00:19:40,479 --> 00:19:44,149
the sound of your voice,
so maybe don't make it louder.

442
00:19:45,117 --> 00:19:47,252
I'm in enough pain as it is.

443
00:19:47,252 --> 00:19:48,020
Hands?

444
00:19:48,287 --> 00:19:49,121
Burned.

445
00:19:49,354 --> 00:19:51,023
And also these.

446
00:19:51,023 --> 00:19:52,291
Are those cuts?

447
00:19:52,291 --> 00:19:53,559
Cleaver marks.

448
00:19:53,559 --> 00:19:55,961
It's weird. They don't really hurt.

449
00:19:55,961 --> 00:19:58,864
If you look closer, I'm not even bleeding.

450
00:19:58,864 --> 00:20:00,132
Not properly.

451
00:20:00,332 --> 00:20:01,233
Yeah.

452
00:20:01,233 --> 00:20:02,167
Listen --

453
00:20:02,167 --> 00:20:04,636
People in the next county are listening.

454
00:20:05,237 --> 00:20:07,606
Whether they want to or not.

455
00:20:07,606 --> 00:20:08,340
Listen,

456
00:20:09,608 --> 00:20:12,110
I'm going to leave you my number.

457
00:20:12,110 --> 00:20:14,079
You might want to talk.

458
00:20:14,079 --> 00:20:15,347
Those marks...

459
00:20:16,648 --> 00:20:18,750
they might not heal well.

460
00:20:18,750 --> 00:20:20,953
You sound like
you know what you're talking about.

461
00:20:20,953 --> 00:20:21,653
I do.

462
00:20:22,221 --> 00:20:22,921
Well.

463
00:20:24,256 --> 00:20:26,525
I will.

464
00:20:26,525 --> 00:20:29,528
Thanks for calling FEMA in advance
and coming to our rescue.

465
00:20:30,229 --> 00:20:32,898
I didn't really, did I?

466
00:20:32,898 --> 00:20:35,467
You rescued yourself.

467
00:20:35,467 --> 00:20:37,102
My people are okay?

468
00:20:37,102 --> 00:20:38,604
They are.

469
00:20:38,604 --> 00:20:40,806
And are the things all gone?

470
00:20:40,806 --> 00:20:42,274
Is the house quiet?

471
00:20:42,274 --> 00:20:43,275
Yes.

472
00:20:43,275 --> 00:20:45,344
Good.

473
00:20:45,344 --> 00:20:47,879
Because it wasn't me
I was trying to rescue.

474
00:20:47,879 --> 00:20:49,982
Suppose not.

475
00:20:49,982 --> 00:20:52,017
How does it feel?

476
00:20:52,017 --> 00:20:53,986
Having done that?

477
00:20:53,986 --> 00:20:56,989
Like I did my duty of care.

478
00:20:57,356 --> 00:20:58,523
Hmm.

479
00:21:00,025 --> 00:21:02,261
I wonder what that’s like?

480
00:21:02,261 --> 00:21:05,264
I really do.

481
00:21:08,433 --> 00:21:11,436
Next time on The Department Of midnight.

482
00:21:18,377 --> 00:21:19,711
It's all right.

483
00:21:19,711 --> 00:21:21,513
It was only a flash bang.

484
00:21:21,513 --> 00:21:23,382
Where did that guy go?

485
00:21:23,649 --> 00:21:25,250
Somebody talk to me.

486
00:21:26,585 --> 00:21:29,588
This isn't
about going through your records anymore.

487
00:21:29,588 --> 00:21:32,958
That guy just ran off with a dark matter
attractor and set off a homemade

488
00:21:32,958 --> 00:21:35,961
flash bang on his bench
like a bloody student prankster.

489
00:21:37,262 --> 00:21:40,232
And he looked a bit old for that shit.

490
00:21:40,432 --> 00:21:42,200
Come on!

491
00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:45,203
Come on, somebody!

492
00:21:45,637 --> 00:21:47,973
This is Carnack
and this really isn't a good time.

493
00:21:47,973 --> 00:21:49,675
Hello there. John. 

494
00:21:49,675 --> 00:21:50,609
Who's this?

495
00:21:50,642 --> 00:21:53,011
You just saw me, John.

496
00:21:53,011 --> 00:21:54,913
Did you like my little present?

497
00:21:54,913 --> 00:21:57,015
How'd you get this number?

498
00:21:57,015 --> 00:21:59,418
Oh, I've had it for years.

499
00:21:59,418 --> 00:22:03,422
Just never had a good reason to use it
until now.

500
00:22:04,890 --> 00:22:07,492
You really didn't recognize me? Hm?

501
00:22:07,492 --> 00:22:09,261
No, not in the slightest.

502
00:22:09,261 --> 00:22:12,531
I’m Tony Ridge from Wardenclyffe.

503
00:22:13,098 --> 00:22:14,366
I...I don't uh -- 

504
00:22:14,366 --> 00:22:15,734
Rejected

505
00:22:15,734 --> 00:22:18,170
from Wardenclyffe.

506
00:22:18,170 --> 00:22:19,004
Oh.

507
00:22:19,671 --> 00:22:22,674
Oh my God.

508
00:22:22,774 --> 00:22:24,509
Yeah...I do know your name.

509
00:22:24,509 --> 00:22:26,411
There you go.

510
00:22:26,411 --> 00:22:30,248
And I also know you ran out of the
emergency exit into the back stairwell.

511
00:22:30,248 --> 00:22:30,882
Shit!

512
00:22:30,882 --> 00:22:32,351
And you are heading down.

513
00:22:33,919 --> 00:22:36,922
I remember you, Tony!

514
00:22:37,723 --> 00:22:39,691
The Department Of Midnight

515
00:22:39,691 --> 00:22:47,966
is produced by Warren Ellis, Brian Gucciardo,
Kevin and Diane Kolde, Fred Seibert.

516
00:22:48,533 --> 00:22:51,770
Main title and credit narration
by Gildart Jackson.

517
00:22:52,404 --> 00:22:56,208
Additional voices
by Vanessa Marshall and Fred Tatasciore.

518
00:22:56,775 --> 00:23:00,979
Casting and voice direction
by Meredith Layne CSA.

519
00:23:00,979 --> 00:23:04,549
Main title and score by Trey Toy.

520
00:23:04,549 --> 00:23:07,619
Dialogue editors Kevin and Diane Kolde.

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Recording coordinator Kathy Cavaiola.

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Dialogue recorded at Salami Studios.

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Lead dialog mixer Mark Mercado.

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Assistant dialogue mixers
Jonathan Bradley and Chris Story.

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Audio post-production
provided by Salami Studios.

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Post audio supervisor Peter DiRado.

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Sound design and editorial

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Paul Menichini M.P.S.E.

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Rerecording mixer Sean Jacobson.

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The Department Of Midnight

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is a production
of The Bellport Theater On The Air.

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All rights reserved.