Judgement

In the season one finale, John Carnack faces the board of the Department of Experimental Oversight, interrogated by a prosecutor.  Now he must be held accountable for his actions.  And for the sins of his own past. Starring James Callis and Carla Gugino.

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. 
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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Iris Ash
Are the recorders switched on? Yes? May I commence? Very well. We are convened in a forensic disciplinary tribunal of the Department of Experimental Oversight. My name is Doctor Iris Ash, and I am the independent prosecutor assigned to this process. In this process, the subject of disciplinary trial is entitled to explain their actions. The assembled tribunal board is entitled to ask, through me, whatever questions are required to assess the veracity of the subject's claims.

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Iris Ash
For the record, please: your name, sir.

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John Carnack
Doctor John...Doctor John Carnack.

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Iris Ash
Do you know why you're here today, Doctor Carnack?

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John Carnack
Oh, I may have accidentally blown up a research station.

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Narrator
The Bellport Theater On The Air presents The Department Of Midnight. Created and written by Warren Ellis.

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Narrator
Episode 106. Judgment. Starring James Callis and Carla Gugino.

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Iris Ash
Now. I have been briefed on your work experiences. I'd like to quickly review them.

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John Carnack
You haven't talked to Human Resources, have you?

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Iris Ash
I have.

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John Carnack
Yeah...uh, don't trust Soylent Green.

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Iris Ash
This year alone, Doctor Carnack, you have, in what I consider a fairly high-handed fashion, flooded a very expensive lab facility with ferro concrete.

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Iris Ash
You burned down a private home, apparently unconcerned as to whether anyone was inside it at the time. You have also, and I'd like some clarity on your report here - you claim to have used a taser on a ghost?

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John Carnack
No.

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Iris Ash
But it says here you tased a ghost. I presume this is a joke.

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John Carnack
No. I tased the man the ghost was inside at the time.

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Iris Ash
...I see.

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John Carnack
You didn't take your briefing materials very seriously, did you?

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Iris Ash
I'm a physicist, Doctor Carnack. I work with the rational.

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John Carnack
So do I.

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Iris Ash
I repeat: “tased a ghost.”

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John Carnack
Is this farce intended to establish that I'm delusional?

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Iris Ash
Are you?

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John Carnack
Well, I wouldn’t know if I was, would I?

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Iris Ash
I see. That's going to be your attitude.

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John Carnack
I don't have an attitude. I have questions.

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Iris Ash
Such as?

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John Carnack
Well, were you really fully briefed? Have you understood my job, role, mandate in the Department? Are you even cleared to read unredacted reports? Sorry, why are you walking up and down like you're auditioning for a gig on Law and Order?

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Iris Ash
I'm frustrated, Doctor Carnack. I've been briefed. I've read the reports.

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Iris Ash
I understand your job. But you seem to think that you have carte blanche to do harm.

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John Carnack
I prevent harm.

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Iris Ash
People died in that explosion at the Slade Research Station, Doctor Carnack. It’s hard to put a witty spin on that, isn't it?

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John Carnack
I regret those deaths.

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Iris Ash
So there is a human inside there after all. I thought I might be talking to something that was the ghost of a scientist.

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John Carnack
Sorry. What's that supposed to mean?

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Iris Ash
Responsibility, Doctor. Carnack. When you enter a research area, you have responsibility. It's what the privileges of experiment and oversight are built on. And that goes beyond your basic job description. It speaks to your character.

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John Carnack
Wow. So we're going straight to I'm a shitty person.

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Iris Ash
Let's stay professional.

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John Carnack
As soon as you start being professional.

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Iris Ash
Excuse me?

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John Carnack
No. If you read the report, you know the Slade Research Station was already in meltdown when I arrived. The situation was on the verge of spreading to surrounding towns. I'll allow that I had to take extraordinary steps, but there wasn't time to ask for second opinions, nor to wait for help.

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Iris Ash
The situation being, in your opinion?

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John Carnack
It's technical.

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Iris Ash
I'm qualified.

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John Carnack
It involves dark matter.

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John Carnack
Of course it does.

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John Carnack
What’s that supposed to mean?

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Iris Ash
The majority of the cases you investigate involve dark matter, don't they?

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John Carnack
Well, those are the cases assigned to me by the Department.

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Iris Ash
You don't sift through and select them?

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John Carnack
I go where I'm sent.

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Iris Ash
You're saying you don't cherry pick them?

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John Carnack
I have particular fields of expertise. The Department knows how to select my workload.

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Iris Ash
But you left the field of dark matter research.

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John Carnack
I did.

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Iris Ash
You were one of the acknowledged world experts in the field.

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John Carnack
I wouldn't go that far.

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Iris Ash
But you, in fact, did go pretty far. As far as to write theses on the subject.

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John Carnack
I did publish a little.

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Iris Ash
And you held back quite a lot.

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Iris Ash
Nonetheless, the holdbacks have had a surprisingly wide circulation.

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John Carnack
Not my doing.

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Iris Ash
Who is the author of the document collection generally known as the Wardenclyffe Papers, Doctor. Carnack?

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John Carnack
The names were redacted from the papers prior to their leakage.

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Iris Ash
Who's the author, Doctor Carnack?

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John Carnack
Well, the papers seem to have had many contributors.

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Iris Ash
You wrote the Wardenclyffe Papers. Yes or no?

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John Carnack
I'd like to take a break.

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Iris Ash
Hey. It's me. You were absolutely right. He is arrogant and nowhere near as smart as he thinks he is. No, no, the plan is still the same. If I push him, he will lose his shit. If he loses his shit in front of the tribunal, they'll stop protecting him and we can get the lawyers in. I've got this.

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Iris Ash
So. The Wardenclyffe Papers. You wrote them.

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John Carnack
Largely.

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Iris Ash
And application of theories and processes found in the Wardenclyffe Papers have led to the majority of cases you've investigated in the past few years, yes?

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John Carnack
I don't know about the majority. But some, certainly.

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Iris Ash
The majority, then. You released the papers, and now you clean up after the people who used them.

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Iris Ash
Isn't that a little like setting fires in secret and then rushing in to put them out so you can be the hero?

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John Carnack
Oh, I don't think that's fair.

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Iris Ash
Well, then perhaps you've dedicated your life to cleaning up the oil spill you released before it kills all the little birds. What happened at Wardenclyffe, Doctor Carnack?

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John Carnack
We're not here to talk about that.

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Iris Ash
Something happened at Slade Research Station to cause your actions. I was wondering if the situation at Slade reminded you of something.

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John Carnack
No.

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Iris Ash
So what happened at your research unit at Wardenclyffe? To set my mind at ease, tell me it was nothing like what you encountered at Slade.

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John Carnack
The Department has all my records. You can refer to them. I'm not here to talk about that.

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Iris Ash
Actually, yes you are. We are here to determine today whether or not your actions are appropriate. Whether or not you are mentally equipped for your role in the Department. What happened at Wardenclyffe?

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John Carnack
Yeah, I don't have -

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Iris Ash
I think your methods are unsound. I think they tie back to the events at Wardenclyffe four years ago. If you don't think I am fully briefed? Brief me. On the record.

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John Carnack
Well, that's absolutely not going to happen.

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Iris Ash
What happened at Wardenclyffe?

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John Carnack
You don't have the right -

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Iris Ash
What happened at Wardenclyffe?

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John Carnack
You can't just -

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Iris Ash
What happened at Wardenclyffe!?!

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John Carnack
I killed people. Okay.

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Iris Ash
What happened at Slade Research Station!?!

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John Carnack
Well, they were going to do it againI It was going to be Wardenclyffe all over again!

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Iris Ash
You killed people at Slade too!

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John Carnack
They killed themselves!

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Iris Ash
Did you or did you not lock the doors of Slade after making your escape?

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John Carnack
My escape?

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Iris Ash
Did that not lead to the deaths of thirteen people?

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John Carnack
Oh, look, they were already dead.

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Iris Ash
Thirteen people trapped inside a fire you started. Do you know their names? How many people died at Wardenclyffe? Do you know their names?

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John Carnack
All of them!

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Iris Ash
Really? I do wonder.

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John Carnack
Why are you letting her talk to me like this, please?

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Iris Ash
Don't address the board. Address only me.

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John Carnack
Well, this is starting to feel like something other than the tribunal I agreed to. The members of the board -

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Iris Ash
Are here in an observational role only. I am here at the request of the office of the Secretary of State.

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John Carnack
I see. I think I'd like to take another short break.

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John Carnack
Hello, Soylent Green. Just listen. You do me a favor and I'll make sure you never have to deal with me again. How does that sound?

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Iris Ash
Feeling better?

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John Carnack
Small bladder.

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Iris Ash
Oh, I'm sorry about that.

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John Carnack
Well, perhaps you run a 5K to raise awareness of the condition one day.

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Iris Ash
What was the nature of your work at Wardenclyffe?

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John Carnack
Here we go. Um...I theorised that dark matter is in fact the fifth form of matter. I began testing dark matter attractors and realized that the iron pylon and dome that Nikola Tesla built in Wardenclyffe in 1901 was a perfect shape.

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John Carnack
The university bought the land and we had the research station constructed there. It was at Wardenclyffe that we detected and exposed the fabric of dark matter. And everything went wrong. And people died. The end.

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Iris Ash
I think there was a little more than that before the end. And a little more after.

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John Carnack
Oh?

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Iris Ash
The papers, Doctor Carnack. Who released them?

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John Carnack
I don't know.

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Iris Ash
So it was - it was an accident? Another one? Or did you redact all the names and put them into circulation?

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John Carnack
I told you it wasn't me.

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Iris Ash
Who was it? Who were the other primary authors?

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John Carnack
Well, one is permanently hospitalized in a mental health facility. One went walkabout, and I've since heard that they live off the grid now.

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John Carnack
One vanished entirely, I'm pretty sure they're dead. And the last one died right in front of me at Wardenclyffe. But since the scene was attended by all kinds of recovery services and investigators?, Frankly, anyone could have gotten hold of our documents. And that's the problem.

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Iris Ash
How so?

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John Carnack
It's not a complete reporting of the theories or the findings.

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John Carnack
It's like - it's the very embodiment of a little knowledge being a dangerous thing. If you have the right background, you can elaborate and evolve the things we came up with. But the papers aren't a full accounting. You'll never know. The real tripwires in the processes until it's too late.

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Iris Ash
So in a sense, you did set the fires that you've since been putting out.

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John Carnack
I suppose that's true.

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Iris Ash
Doctor Carnack, what exactly did happen that day in Wardenclyffe? For - for the record. So we all know what we're talking about.

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John Carnack
Oh all right, Doctor Ash. So we all know what we're talking about because I don't intend to ever sit through another one of these comedies.

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Iris Ash
Watch your tone.

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John Carnack
Objection. Your honor!

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Iris Ash
I'll allow it.

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John Carnack
Sustained!

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John Carnack
I love Law and Order. So. What happened at Wardenclyffe was an experiment in identifying activating and interacting with dark matter. Making contact with the fifth form of matter and reading out the information encoded in it.

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Iris Ash
Very dramatic. The stuff of biographical movies starring Benedict Cumberbatch.

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John Carnack
Well, at least he won't have to learn a new accent, will he?

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John Carnack
So, things went, went bad on the third night.

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Iris Ash
How bad?

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John Carnack
All the dark matter in the area immediately surrounding the station went live. We. We were not prepared for that.

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Iris Ash
What does “go live” mean in this context?

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John Carnack
Okay. You all remember the example for space time? A stretchy rubber sheet. You put a heavy ball on it, sheet dents, and that illustrates how planets distort space time, right? So imagine that sheet as - I don’t know - a pond liner.

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Iris Ash
Oh, wow. Stunning use of technical language.

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John Carnack
Thank you. And dark matter is the layer of the silt that sticks to that liner. And it rubs and grinds over the years and degrades the liner. And then one day, some idiot comes along, churns it all up, and it gets thinner and thinner.

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John Carnack
It becomes a thin place.

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Iris Ash
You've referred to thin places in your reports.

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John Carnack
Yes. I believe they occur naturally. And the effects associated with them explain many of our myths and legends, folklore, ghost stories. Look, eventually there's a tear and it stops being waterproof. On our side, reality as we know it leaks out. And whatever's on the other side leaks in.

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John Carnack
We spent three days churning up the silt with everything we had. On the third night, all the silt lit up and burned through the liner.

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Iris Ash
And what does that mean?

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John Carnack
It means the dark matter contains every ghost and every goblin we ever hid from, and what's under it is worse. I know that because I saw it at Wardenclyffe that night.

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John Carnack
It came out.

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Iris Ash
This is meaningless.

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John Carnack
All the dark matter in and around the Wardenclyffe experimental station activated in an extremely energetic manner and the immediate environment became deleterious to life.

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John Carnack
And that's how your sister died.

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John Carnack
What?

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John Carnack
Doctor Ash - yes, I made a phone call. You seemed just a little too enthusiastic about all this. Your sister was Doctor Sophia Bond. Ash is your married name. Sophia was one of the technicians at Wardenclyffe. She died there. I'm sorry. I wonder. Did the board here know about your personal connection to my previous experience?

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Iris Ash
Well, it's. It's simply not relevant.

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John Carnack
If you say so. Yeah, if you say so. Anyway, afterwards, I happened to see a lecture by a writer on folklore named Olivia Sigsand. She died recently, by the way. It led me to reframe the theories I was working on, and that led me to my work here.

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Iris Ash
How did your work at Wardenclyffe relate to what happened at Slade?

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John Carnack
What we did at Wardenclyffe got out in the form of the papers. They seem to find their way to the wrong hands. A lot.

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Iris Ash
Oh, the wrong hands. Everyone is an evil science villain and you are the wandering hero.

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John Carnack
I got to Slade much too late. Their experiments had been running for several days. The research team were pretty much gone.

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Iris Ash
No - they weren't gone. They were right there. They were alive when you arrived.

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John Carnack
No. No, not really.

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Iris Ash
We recovered CCTV footage. A lot of it was marred by electromagnetic interference, but we can clearly see people moving around prior to your arrival.

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John Carnack
Those people, they weren't um - they weren't really inside their bodies.

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Iris Ash
Oh, stop lying, for Christ's sake.

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John Carnack
Could you see what they were doing?

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Iris Ash
Their jobs.

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John Carnack
No. The effects that were manifesting inside Slade were being um - how do I describe to you - um - worshiped by the people trapped inside. There was exotic field activity that was puppeting their bodies around. Whatever came through the thin place? It was seeking to activate a wider region of dark matter. To create a much larger thin place.

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John Carnack
My only comfort about the situation at Slade is that the people who died there, died before I did anything.

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Iris Ash
Really.

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John Carnack
I'm afraid so.

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Iris Ash
All of them.

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John Carnack
Yes.

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Iris Ash
Well. Someone who was once very, very close to me worked at Slade. As a chief scientist. And I saw him on that CCTV footage. He looked completely normal. But he was one of the people sealed inside Slade when the explosion you engineered detonated.

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Iris Ash
And don't even think of telling me you're sorry. Instead, tell me this. Everyone at Wardenclyffe died or went insane. Everyone at Slade just died. And yet here you are. Continuing to be protected from any prosecution by the Department. No matter how many people die and no matter how many crimes you commit. And that needs to stop. Today.

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Iris Ash
And I think you know that, Doctor Carnack. Tell me you know that.

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John Carnack
I regret every loss of life. But what I'm trying -

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Iris Ash
You are not trying. You are succeeding. You are succeeding in killing other people for your weird bullshit ideas and emerging unscathed.

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John Carnack
Unscathed?

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Iris Ash
Here you are. Not not not not a scratch on you. The bodies of people beloved by their families all arranged at your feet.

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John Carnack
Unscathed?

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Iris Ash
Unscathed. And this department is just enabling you to keep killing people and to keep harming people like me. What do you say to that?

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John Carnack
Unscathed!?!

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Iris Ash
What? What are you doing?

00;18;09;08 - 00;18;11;09
John Carnack
Showing you how fucking unscathed I am.

00;18;11;10 - 00;18;13;24
Iris Ash
Please don’t take off your shirt, Doctor Carnack.

00;18;13;27 - 00;18;14;29
John Carnack
Did they never do this on Law and Order?

00;18;14;29 - 00;18;27;16
Iris Ash
Please Just put your shirt back on. Oh! Jesus. What is that?

00;18;27;18 - 00;18;32;28
John Carnack
You're a scientist. You seem to have all the answers here today. Why don't you tell me?

00;18;33;01 - 00;18;40;20
Iris Ash
But I - I don't know. It looks like you were attacked by a b... I don't know. A wild animal? A bear?

00;18;40;21 - 00;18;43;02
John Carnack
No,

00;18;43;04 - 00;18;49;04
Iris Ash
I - I don't understand. That looks very recent. What does this have to do with today's issues?

00;18;49;05 - 00;18;51;01
John Carnack
Because it happened at Wardenclyffe.

00;18;51;04 - 00;18;55;01
Iris Ash
Oh, that was years ago. That wound clearly hasn't healed.

00;18;55;04 - 00;19;15;11
John Carnack
No. It hasn't. It's never closed properly. It won't fully scar over. It leaks some kind of black fluid. Sometimes I have to wrap it up with several feet of bandage so it doesn't drench my shirt.

00;19;15;13 - 00;19;58;03
John Carnack
I - I don't understand. Some things came out of the dark matter at Wardenclyffe. One of them did this to me. Just a sideswipe. While I was trying to drag someone out of harm's way. When I hit the other side of the room, I saw that I'd been trying to drag away half a person. And Sophia Bond was missing from the abdomen down. She was already dead. It was very quick for her. For others....Not so much. You see, I - I know I'm not a hero. Not even close. I've caused a lot of pain and a lot of loss of life.

00;19;58;06 - 00;20;17;03
John Carnack
I'm a stupid, callous piece of shit most of the time, and on my good days I'm just a piece of shit. My penance. The - the job I need to do. Is to try and make sure what happened to her, and your friend at Slade, doesn't happen to anyone else.

00;20;17;06 - 00;20;24;06
Iris Ash
You still need to be stopped. Wherever you show up, people die. It has to stop.

00;20;24;07 - 00;20;38;11
John Carnack
Yeah. Go on then, stop me. Stop me! But this here? What happened to me? That is the absolute least you can expect to happen to other people If dark matter experiments continue to proceed unchecked. It's the absolute least you can expect to happen to you.

00;20;38;13 - 00;20;43;11
John Carnack
This has happened to me. Then, sure. Stop me. Take this away from me.

00;20;43;12 - 00;21;07;14
John Carnack
Let me crawl away and die with as much peace as I can muster. But don't ever. Ever. Tell me that I emerged unscathed.

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Narrator
The Department Of Midnight is produced by Warren Ellis, Brian Gucciardo, Kevin and Diane Kolde, Fred Seibert. Main title and credit narration by Gildart Jackson. 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.

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Narrator
Audio post production provided by Salami Studios. Post audio supervisor Peter DiRado. Sound design and editorial Paul Menichini M.P.S.E. Rerecording mixer Sean Jacobson. The Department Of Midnight is a production of The Bellport Theater On The Air. All rights reserved.