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Good evening, everybody. Happy

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Friday, and welcome

1:15

to time for chaos. Who

1:18

are a few of these left? Who knows?

1:20

This could be the season finale? Probably

1:23

not. I think we have couple more. But

1:26

every episode, is so precious

1:28

now because there'll be a little break when

1:30

we get that that major cliffy

1:33

to end the season. Before

1:35

we jump in, because there are a lot to talk about, Anything

1:38

going on exciting

1:40

in your lives? Let's start with

1:42

you, Kate.

1:43

No. I am always mortified

1:46

at this top of every session when I

1:48

remember you ask a random question

1:50

and I don't have something prepared. Like, I don't

1:52

know what it's gonna be. and

1:54

I'm always worried if it's vague

1:56

and just really vague. Exciting.

1:59

Exciting.

1:59

It's really subjective. officially

2:02

started my new

2:04

job as a founding engineer at a company.

2:07

What does that mean? Like a day ago? Hell,

2:10

I'm one of the

2:10

first. Like, you work with trains? Yes.

2:13

Too too. Yeah.

2:15

I'm actually

2:16

the one that, like,

2:17

shovels the call. Cool.

2:20

Yeah. It's a sweet gig. That

2:23

sounds super cheap. Sometimes

2:26

I get to, like, too too, but

2:28

not all the time. Oh, right. That's

2:31

the next level of it. It comes with That's

2:33

doing it. to your engineers. Yeah.

2:36

No. What does this mean? You you were working

2:38

job, and then you you left that job, took

2:40

a little vacation, and then

2:42

you are starting this Founding

2:44

Engineer, layman's terms. What does that

2:46

mean?

2:47

It's like a startup that, like, we're

2:49

building the thing. It doesn't exist

2:51

yet. It's me and another engineer

2:53

and the CEO. And it's Wild,

2:56

Wild West. And yeah.

2:58

That sounds pretty high-tech. Are you gonna move

3:00

to Silicon Valley? No

3:03

apps. You

3:04

can build apps from anywhere. Can

3:07

you? Yeah.

3:08

Can you? Maybe

3:10

you can, so I can. Okay. I do

3:12

nothing about apps. How dare

3:14

you? How dare you know what? You just lost yourself

3:16

an app job. because I was looking for a

3:18

founding engineer. I just

3:20

told my wife this morning I said, honey,

3:22

we need a founding engineer for our app

3:25

that I will go with senior

3:27

engineer, I guess. No.

3:29

This is exciting. And so you you like your job.

3:31

That's that's nice. If you like your job, never

3:34

feels like work. Right?

3:34

Oh, yeah. Way better than big

3:37

fintech that I was

3:37

in before. Not my speed at

3:39

all. How long until you get

3:41

sick of this job?

3:43

I get it at least a couple

3:45

weeks.

3:45

Good. Oh, that's not bad. It's solid.

3:48

Do get lunch breaks? I

3:51

mean, depends. Yeah. Mhmm.

3:53

Sure.

3:55

Lunch break is key. Lunch

3:57

break. I'm

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assuming this is all remote work and you just make

4:02

your own schedule. Yes?

4:02

Yeah. I I just cut you whatever I want.

4:04

Good for you. Yeah. Good for you. Rob,

4:07

can you beat that? Can you beat founding engineer?

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No. There's nothing exciting

4:11

really going on here. I

4:14

have a couple stand up shows this weekend,

4:16

which I'm still not a hundred

4:18

percent comfortable doing, and I have

4:20

to write almost

4:22

twenty minutes worth of material between

4:25

right now. and Friday and Saturday.

4:27

So are you doing twenty or

4:29

thirty? I'm doing ten on Friday.

4:31

If you're in Denver, come on down to Rise

4:33

comedy. That's going down to the

4:35

giggle back. Come on down. It's a no

4:37

drink minimum, I believe. Yeah.

4:39

I have to do ten minutes there.

4:41

And then the next night, I mean, like, a it's

4:44

like a comedy debate thing. So I

4:46

actually have been given, like, a topic,

4:48

but I have to argue It's

4:50

like, I do four minutes, and then

4:52

the other person I'm debating on a on

4:54

the opposing topic does four, and then I

4:56

do another four, and then they do four. So I have to eight

4:58

for that, and ten for the other one.

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Well, that's exciting. Yeah. Do you that

5:03

sounds like you enjoy that more than the

5:05

straight standup. Yeah. because

5:07

at least it gives you some, like, parameters.

5:09

Like, for instance, so I have to do I did it

5:11

once before and it was sheep versus

5:13

wolves. So I'd argue why sheep

5:16

were greater than wolves. And

5:18

this one coming up is I have to argue strength

5:21

versus weakness. where

5:24

really I'm inclined to argue the opposite.

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But given my life,

5:28

but doing strength and

5:32

We'll see. I don't know. I don't know. I think I might wear a

5:34

track suit. I don't fucking know. I like it. And

5:36

why the dip in the sand up? because you were you were

5:38

an improv guy for a long year. Yeah. Yeah.

5:40

don't know, because it was always something that's

5:42

terrified me. And

5:46

because with improv, Ross gonna

5:48

test. You know, you're up there. you

5:50

got group people with you

5:52

and so there's a bit of a safety

5:54

net. With the stand up, it's

5:56

more terrifying and because it's just you and

5:58

also you've written it before

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or

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supposedly. I mean, people

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are going there assuming that you spent time on

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it. I suppose the improv is

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like, well, no one knows what the hell is gonna

6:09

happen. So I don't know. We'll

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see how it goes. Also, you know, when you're in the

6:13

acting writing game and you've got

6:15

nothing going on professionally, you need

6:17

something to distract you from that fact?

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Yeah. So you if you're like, well,

6:21

in five days, I have I mean, I've spent all

6:23

my time working on this one thing because it's

6:25

right in front of your face. that's

6:28

a good distraction. Keeps you busy. Yep.

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Well, hopefully, we'll have a show in Denver, and

6:33

we can time it with one of these performances.

6:35

Yeah. So I would love to see that.

6:38

Nora, what about you? You got

6:40

a new job?

6:41

I'm a

6:43

full time nerd. what I

6:45

do. I do have a few cool things

6:47

that are that are like

6:48

I said exciting. I

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feel as cool as next week's banter up.

6:53

It was next week. Okay. Is that to be decidedly

6:56

non cool. Oh, okay. Cool.

6:58

Was that not clear up to

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You know what? The parameters were

7:02

a little fuzzy. Okay.

7:04

Unfortunately, there's a

7:06

lot of, like, there's this, like, NDA

7:09

bubble that I gotta live in for a little bit.

7:11

Oh,

7:11

that is exciting. That

7:13

is so exciting. Yeah. But

7:15

There's a couple of things,

7:17

I guess, I can't like, I am excited about

7:19

that I can talk about.

7:20

Come on.

7:21

I got nominated for

7:23

the Gamehurst Awards in Tucan. categories.

7:26

I think I I don't

7:28

know if I officially set it during

7:30

the stream. I think it might have been mentioned

7:32

on, like, in chat or something but Well,

7:34

you're out there.

7:35

Yeah. I got I got nominated for

7:38

a cos player of the year

7:40

and for creative streamer of the year.

7:43

And everybody can vote So if you go on

7:45

the game hers dot com slash

7:47

vote, you can vote for

7:49

me. It's easy to check-in those categories,

7:52

and then it closes on the

7:54

twenty third, I believe. So

7:57

will that have been after this airs

7:59

or before this airs? should we just act like you

8:01

won for Friday? Give me a

8:04

second. Let's report two different versions.

8:07

We'll report two and be like Maybe next week. She

8:09

was an

8:09

honor to be validated. And then the second

8:12

one will be like, yeah, I knew what the whole

8:14

time. You're just

8:14

gonna buy. Like, I'm so sorry that you

8:16

won. Right. But

8:18

we have to do every possible combination like you

8:20

win one and not the other. You win the other one

8:22

and not one. Oh, yeah. We gotta

8:23

we gotta record it again. this is

8:25

exhausting. So, like, I'm so sorry that the servers

8:27

crashed. We have to we have to perform

8:29

during every variable.

8:30

And then the second thing is that they

8:34

announced finally, the all

8:36

Camarilla coterie

8:38

for New York finite season

8:40

two. That is gonna start on

8:43

September thirtieth on the World of darkness

8:45

network, and I'm very excited about that

8:47

because I play the worst

8:49

ventrue. Like, vyats, like, she

8:51

is a lot. She's

8:54

very, very

8:57

loud, a very loud person,

8:59

not Is this a

9:00

character you're bringing back? into vampire in

9:02

the master new character. All new character. All

9:05

new

9:05

character, which is exciting because Eve

9:07

who I played on LA by night --

9:09

Mhmm. -- was a character that was

9:11

written for me, based

9:13

on me, but by was written

9:15

by B. Dave Walters. Oh, yeah. So

9:17

that and then I came in to play that

9:19

person, and then she became a main character on the

9:21

show event. but this is like brand

9:23

spanking new character that I got to come up

9:25

with and so I get to be like absolutely

9:27

terrible and very eccentric

9:29

and I'm

9:29

very excited about it. That sounds like

9:32

vampire the master aide to me in New York by

9:34

night. Very exciting. But you're filming in

9:36

LA. So it's kind of you're kind of

9:38

a fraud. Totally. And we

9:40

filmed it and

9:40

we filmed it back in, like, March.

9:42

So I gotta, like, act surprised. Like, oh,

9:44

this is all happening, like, right now.

9:46

Question, do you get a lunch break? What's

9:49

that? I said, do you get a

9:51

lunch break waffle? Yeah. I was just

9:53

trying to We'll call back too much. I might win

9:55

a badger with kids. We we definitely do. We

9:57

definitely do it. Those are long buildings. Right.

9:59

Good.

9:59

the

10:01

Ross, you're

10:02

all excitement. According to your

10:04

Instagram, you've had quite

10:07

quite the last couple of weeks, sir.

10:10

Tell us about your exciting life.

10:14

Unfortunately, I'm not a collier on a

10:16

cool ass train, but I

10:18

I've had I've it's been a fun time.

10:20

Not all I'm seeing myself on camera. So

10:22

apparently, I'm getting into Robert

10:24

Crum lookalike contests,

10:26

but also I'm

10:28

a the in prod group that I'm

10:30

a part of called the enterprise Shakespeare company at a

10:33

show this past weekend and and We

10:37

had a very special guest. Noted

10:40

noted Experian actor, Sir

10:42

Patrick Stewart, joined Whoa.

10:44

I lost my shit when I saw that.

10:46

Why? Very cool. Yeah. But tell us

10:48

the story behind this, what you're able to tell.

10:50

Like, how did this happen. Was he just

10:52

wondering if I could do with a bunch of people

10:54

on stage? Yeah. I did not look

10:56

at the other faces in the door. I

10:58

think I liked it. You look closely. Yeah.

11:01

Yeah. How how did this happen? Well,

11:04

this was maybe the sixth time that

11:06

he's sat in with us. Oh.

11:09

We we just a

11:11

bizarre series of circumstances, we

11:14

met him almost

11:16

like eleven years ago now

11:18

back in Chicago. One of the guys and

11:20

I did a random show where he

11:22

was like like, a super special kind of, like,

11:24

m c, and we, like, cornered

11:26

him afterwards. And we're, like,

11:28

hey, we do this show. do

11:32

it. I mean, at least he's, like, we were, like, pitching

11:34

it, like, you wanna come see it. And he was,

11:36

and when and you could, of course, do it if you want.

11:38

He's, like, no. Think about it. And then, like,

11:40

cut to, like, two weeks later,

11:42

he's in

11:43

New York. We're in New York, and

11:45

he fucking showed up at the

11:48

theater shit. Yeah. And damp. Right.

11:50

Here it is. He's the bald

11:52

fuzzy ones. Yeah. Yeah. You

11:54

did not like that photo. Well,

11:56

guess what? I'm and liking it. You

12:00

know, that's the that's the economy. I I

12:02

enjoy it. But, yeah, like, he he

12:04

he we basically told him how the show

12:06

works, and he improvised,

12:08

I think, for the first time on stage,

12:10

like, not in a not in

12:12

a rehearsal with us. that

12:15

night was -- Wow. -- it

12:17

was, yeah, super super

12:19

blast and and we and he's done it

12:21

maybe five, six times since

12:23

then. Cool. Yeah. It it hadn't

12:25

been for a really long time. So it was really,

12:27

really lovely that he hopped in again,

12:29

but he's like the most gracious chill.

12:32

Like, down

12:34

to earth like

12:35

theater

12:37

dork imaginable.

12:38

It's great.

12:40

Just the first week here. Very cool. And

12:42

his sense of humor is dirty,

12:45

very nice, he's a little body,

12:47

a little bit friendly. one of my

12:49

favorite S and L skits is the the

12:51

erotic cakes. Yeah. Tim.

12:53

Now now now knowing now knowing him, I'm

12:56

like, could have been his pit. Shitting right around

12:58

us. Very cool. What

13:00

a cast? What a wonderful

13:02

group of people? I'm

13:04

gonna miss you guys between seasons. And

13:07

I may miss some of your characters between

13:09

seasons and years. looking really heavy

13:10

like this is the finale.

13:12

When they die, You know, I

13:14

just never know. I honestly The

13:16

way that this has gone since

13:18

we started at Bar

13:20

Cordano to now has

13:22

completely changed the way that I run

13:24

games. It's this game is forced to me

13:26

to do so. It's been a real

13:28

learning experience that I should about sometimes.

13:30

I think some people would find it very interesting. But

13:33

it it you cannot run this

13:35

game like other games. And so

13:38

I think one of the reasons it's really

13:40

sung over the past couple weeks

13:42

is not only are we all feeling more

13:44

comfortable with each other, But, like, the

13:46

game is is now being lifted

13:48

from the pages of the book.

13:50

You know, obviously, it's there's no

13:52

railroad here. You're not on tracks at all the way

13:54

you go. but I've

13:56

I've I've just been like the biggest fan of

13:58

this show the past few weeks as a viewer

14:01

watching it on Friday nights. And so I'm

14:03

excited to see how it unfolds. even though

14:05

I know some of the things that

14:07

may happen. Before we

14:09

started, like, before we went

14:12

live with the show, you guys were

14:14

just sharing information. And I said

14:16

that this is good this is good

14:18

stuff to talk about. So

14:20

before I let you kinda pick up on that

14:22

cover again. I just wanna give you a recap of

14:24

last week's episode because a

14:26

lot went down. And

14:29

the nature of this campaign is

14:31

like, and I tell you guys every week before your court, like,

14:33

take a look at those notes. There's stuff in there that,

14:35

like, didn't make sense when you got it,

14:37

that will make sense now, and there's stuff

14:39

that didn't make sense when you got it. that

14:41

will make sense five years from now.

14:43

Like, that's how the way the

14:46

information is layered throughout this

14:48

campaign. And it's really unlike anything

14:50

else. So being

14:52

a student of the campaign will

14:55

will help you as we go along. But let me give

14:57

you a little recap of

14:59

last week. Right now, as we start

15:01

today's game, it's Thursday, January twenty

15:03

second. You had a hell of

15:05

a Wednesday when you

15:07

decided to yet

15:09

again stake out the juju

15:11

house, a small shop, selling

15:13

African antiquities in

15:16

Harlem. There's something going

15:18

on at juju house. And

15:20

clearly, it has something to do with kidnappings

15:23

and murders that have been going on, not only

15:25

in Harlem, but all over the whole city,

15:27

murders that include the depth

15:29

of your dear friend. Jackson

15:31

Elias. At the moment,

15:34

there's a man named Hilton Adams,

15:36

a veteran of the Great War, a

15:38

former Harlem

15:40

Hellfighter. He is sitting in to

15:42

in sing singed prison on death

15:44

row awaiting a a

15:46

date with the electric chair,

15:48

old sparky. He was

15:51

arrested, tried, and found guilty of all these

15:53

murders, but now you felt

15:55

pretty confident before now you're

15:57

certain. that he was set up. And

15:59

you promised his wife, Millie Adams,

16:01

that you would do everything you can

16:03

to try and exonerate him. So you've been

16:05

trying to gather some sort of

16:07

evidence. But do you have

16:09

enough? What else do you

16:11

need?

16:13

Well, help let us a a

16:15

couple episodes ago, Carter lifted

16:17

a key from the

16:19

the shopkeep of Jeju Has he

16:21

had a key around his neck man

16:23

named Cylus Nekwane. When

16:25

you went back to the stakeout, you watched and

16:27

it appeared that that that missing key caused

16:29

a bit of a row between Cylus

16:32

and another man that you believed

16:34

to be Makanga Madari.

16:36

This is a man who Hilton

16:38

Adams discovered

16:40

was connected to all of

16:42

this in some way connected to

16:44

Jeju House because he followed him from

16:46

Jeju House to a speakeasy

16:49

nearby and it became very clear

16:51

very quickly that this is a man

16:53

you don't ask questions about.

16:55

See now you see him and silas have

16:57

this back and forth. maybe it

16:59

had to do with the missing key.

17:01

So Vaughan Lee as follows this

17:03

Wakanga Madaric breaks into his

17:06

apartment and finds a strange box

17:08

with this monsters, vases

17:10

replaced with a long tentacle,

17:13

opens it up, it has

17:15

three vials of unidentified liquid

17:18

inside. Meanwhile, Carter,

17:20

Margot, and Feirou's seize the opportunity

17:23

when you notice that Cyloistekwane

17:25

leaves as well to sneak into Jeju

17:28

House. It's empty, so you

17:30

think. You use the key that Carter

17:32

stole to sneak downstairs into

17:34

a secret chamber in

17:36

the floor. for

17:38

zombie like creatures.

17:41

Most likely, some of these

17:43

missing victims, they appear

17:45

to be just people of the

17:47

times wearing clothes of the

17:49

times except their their

17:51

their organs are hanging out and they have symbols

17:53

carved on their heads.

17:55

and there's no there there as

17:57

they attack you.

18:00

Carter rushes downstairs

18:02

after finding a

18:04

headband with a human tongue on it similar to the

18:07

headbands of Jackson

18:09

Allais' killers, except this one has

18:11

an actual mummified human tongue

18:13

also finds a weapon similar

18:15

to the weapons that they

18:17

used to kill Jackson.

18:21

You defeat the creatures, and

18:23

then you search this little alcove where you find

18:25

a bunch of different things. There's a a

18:28

chronometer on the wall. set to Greenwich

18:30

meantime. There's a lockbox

18:32

that Carter fails to pick

18:34

and and ends up destroying some of

18:36

the contents inside,

18:39

there'sceptors, there's robes, there's metal

18:41

claws, and the book Africa's

18:44

Dark Sex. the same book

18:46

that Jackson was looking

18:48

for when he had some

18:50

correspondence with Miriam Atright at

18:52

the Harvard University Weiner

18:57

library. A copy that went

18:59

mysteriously missing when you spoke to Miriam on

19:01

the phone. You take the book. Vaughan

19:03

returns. And then curiosity gets the better

19:05

of you and you decide to lift

19:07

this giant circular stone

19:09

slab on the floor.

19:11

to reveal a pit full of

19:13

this monstrous mound of

19:16

undulating flesh containing the

19:18

containing the the wailing heads

19:20

and faces of dozens upon

19:23

dozens of people. It, like,

19:25

slowly lunges for all of

19:27

you as it's wailing. as

19:29

as as Vaughn is

19:31

lost in this. His

19:33

sanity already on the brink, but you

19:35

run out of there dragging Vaughn

19:37

with you. It's

19:38

already early

19:39

in the morning at this point, so you don't get

19:41

a lot of sleep and you've got big plans for the

19:44

day. Margo heads up to Columbia

19:46

University. I just picked out of the air

19:48

to develop the photos that she

19:50

took, only to discover a

19:52

photo she doesn't remember taking

19:55

of her wearing this horrific,

19:57

like, cage mask

19:59

with three heads on top of it

20:01

that you found in the basement alcove.

20:04

left there. Ferrous tries

20:07

to contact Professor

20:09

Kowls at Miskatonic University

20:12

to try and figure out why Jackson was

20:14

so interested in this man's lecture when

20:16

he came to NYU sometime

20:18

before Jackson's death. The professor's daughter

20:21

answers in Stonewall. Feyros. Not

20:25

interested in letting you talk to her

20:27

dad. So Feyros calls

20:30

dad to see if maybe he can

20:32

work some magic and get

20:34

this professor on the phone.

20:37

Meanwhile, Carter and Vaughan head

20:39

over to Hell's Kitchen to meet with Erica Carlisle's

20:42

lawyer, a man named Bradley

20:44

Gray to try and secure a

20:46

with the late Roger Carlisle's sister.

20:49

Bradley says he'll see what he can do

20:51

because miss Carlisle is a

20:53

busy woman. She's in fact

20:55

hosting a one thousand

20:57

dollar a head charity

20:59

galah at the Carlisle Mansion

21:02

tomorrow night. Friday night, Vaughan

21:04

suggested perhaps he could buy

21:06

tickets to speed up

21:08

a meeting with her.

21:10

Finally, as Margo and

21:12

Feirou's reconvene in the lobby of the

21:14

Waldorf Astoria, the bellman tells them there's

21:16

a message for them, a message from

21:19

Rebecca Rosenberg to call her

21:21

back. So you call the New York Times

21:23

and reach miss Rosenberg who

21:25

tells you that Hilton Adams' wife

21:28

Mili Adams is

21:30

missing. And that

21:31

is where we left

21:34

last week's ebb

21:36

I looked it up afterwards. A thousand

21:38

dollars ahead is a lot of

21:40

money in nineteen ten. Yeah. That

21:43

is like ten thousand dollars

21:45

-- Oh, wow. -- which seems

21:47

like a lot. So I would say it would

21:49

be the equivalent of one

21:52

thousand dollars ahead. Yes.

21:54

So you you do that math, people

21:56

at home. Which,

21:59

frankly, with your credit rating above

22:01

ninety, I believe. Yes. That's right. It's

22:03

at ninety. At ninety is

22:06

something you could afford, I

22:08

think. If that is a route that you wanted to go

22:10

to, buy these tickets, you

22:12

could call up Ramsay and have him secure

22:15

these charity tickets and you could head to

22:17

the Carlisle mansion. If you don't

22:19

feel like waiting for Bradley Gray was a little noncommittal

22:21

as to when or if you

22:23

could get a meeting with

22:26

Erica.

22:26

Couple

22:28

other bits of

22:30

business, and I'm gonna leave it to you guys as I've talked

22:32

enough. One, the luck roll. We always I

22:34

always forget it. we're halfway through the app and

22:36

then we do the luck roll. Let's do

22:39

a luck roll here. See. And then while

22:41

you're doing that, I wanna mention

22:43

something. Vaughn,

22:46

when you saw

22:48

this wailing mass

22:50

of heads -- Uh-huh. --

22:52

that led to a sanity break,

22:55

it kicks in a new mechanic

22:57

that we have not seen

22:59

yet on the show.

23:02

This creature, whatever

23:04

it is, is arguably

23:07

a part of the Cthulhu Mythos.

23:09

And when that happens, when you have your

23:11

first real head on

23:16

sort of sanity break after seeing

23:18

something like this, you gain

23:20

five points in the Cthulhu

23:22

mythos score. when your

23:24

maximum sanity then

23:26

goes down by five. Oh.

23:28

So your current sanity goes then go by

23:30

down by five. That stays the same. but

23:32

your maximum. So like, you know, between sessions if

23:34

you go get psychoanalysis or

23:36

if you do these these, like, rewards to

23:38

get your sanity back, it now can

23:41

only go. five less for

23:43

whatever your maximum was before.

23:45

So you get that. Now arguably, you could have

23:47

had that when when you and Carter

23:50

face the Kari Siri, but I sort of

23:52

decided retroactively that they

23:54

weren't really necessarily part of the

23:56

Cthulhu Mythos. But this thing that you saw down

23:58

there is clearly

24:00

something otherworldly. So you

24:02

get a meet those score of five in your

24:04

max sand. I guess it was probably ninety nine,

24:06

that goes down to ninety four.

24:08

Okay. Talk to you about

24:10

these luck rolls. Who eats weed. Failed.

24:15

Nice. I did not succeed at

24:17

getting wait. No. You I'm supposed to

24:19

get over the luck. Right. Yeah. You wanna

24:21

fail. I

24:22

win. So You

24:24

win. I

24:25

get four more points of luck.

24:26

Yeah. Thanks.

24:28

Faireus? I also win.

24:30

I rolled an eighty two

24:33

over seventy five and gain

24:34

ten. Whipped. Your

24:37

fuck is out of control. Here's

24:39

the Kirk of it. I

24:41

got I I succeed.

24:43

I got seven points of luck. Okay.

24:45

Long story short. Listen. I don't know why

24:47

it's gonna keep you long here, guys.

24:50

What about you? I fail. My luck. Fail.

24:53

So you succeeded. By which

24:55

is by which I should say I succeeded.

24:58

Right. That's silly. Perfect.

25:00

One other thing about that Mitho score,

25:03

now whenever you

25:05

have a another whenever you lose sanity upon seeing

25:07

another Mithos creature, you'll

25:09

gain another one point in

25:11

the Mithos skill. and

25:13

your max sanity will go down by

25:15

one. And so like anytime you

25:17

have a sanity break when facing a

25:19

mythos creature, you're slowly going to

25:21

gain more knowledge of this other

25:23

world as your maximum sanity slowly

25:26

deteriorate. Steers away. I'm

25:28

trying to want a sanity break.

25:30

Well, you can just brag about it on your tombstone.

25:32

Just a little bit. You're brag about

25:34

it. Join your tombstone. And what is the

25:36

state of bonds wits right

25:39

now? because he was holding it together after a night

25:41

of sleep. And Yeah. You

25:44

were sedated, I believe. But That's

25:46

right. Carter. Right. And you woke

25:49

up, you know, feeling your version of

25:51

Ride is Rain. You obviously this

25:53

is not the first time that you've had a

25:55

break. but you did time over the years between

25:58

Peru and this

26:01

this journey in New York.

26:03

So maybe you've developed some techniques that

26:05

you can go back to once you woke

26:07

up with a clearer head. But

26:11

mechanically speaking now, anytime

26:14

you fail a sanity rule, you'll have another

26:16

episode now, and another episode

26:18

until we have another downtime.

26:20

So I would say you're, you know,

26:22

you seemed very calm when you're in that meeting

26:24

with Bradley Gray and Carter, but

26:27

there is this, like, simmering

26:29

constantly underneath where you could just

26:32

snap at any moment.

26:34

Yes. And

26:36

perhaps the the gang, if they fall throughout the

26:39

day they've seen, like, just hear, like,

26:41

little percussive

26:43

sounds and then over and seeing Von just

26:46

like pushing Rosary

26:48

beads through his through his

26:50

fist, staring off into the

26:52

middle distance. Speak.

26:55

Talk to me about some of the stuff you guys were talking

26:57

about pre app, nor you

26:59

were sharing some interesting things and you guys

27:01

were going back and forth And then

27:05

the way we left things was sort

27:07

of like Carter and Vaughan were

27:09

leaving the lawyer's office presumably.

27:11

and Margo and Freightroos, I think we're gonna go to

27:13

the tenant pool was the original plan to

27:15

be like, Here's the evidence. But,

27:17

you know, you guys can retcon and say, you

27:20

know what we're all gonna go? Or now I

27:22

wanna do this, but that was where you guys were

27:24

at before. Obviously, now you have

27:26

new information. Miley Adams is

27:28

missing.

27:29

So in the last

27:31

episode, Ferru's before making that

27:33

phone call was actually pouring over

27:36

her notes. And

27:36

i mean

27:38

so one of the things that she

27:41

does notice

27:42

now that going back after

27:46

seeing all things that we've seen over at Jeju

27:48

houses. That letter

27:51

that Amourne Desatt wrote to

27:53

Carlyle about derazner jar

27:56

was in Cairo with the Institute of Jackals who possesses

27:58

certain in

27:59

singular couriers. Are

28:03

they? Would they be in that ledger?

28:06

that Cara had

28:08

had taken.

28:10

So should

28:11

we look for and mister

28:13

Faraz Najjar in

28:15

or or

28:16

something about street Jackals, anything

28:18

that would could tie

28:21

Chiro back to

28:24

Jeju House.

28:25

the And

28:28

then we we had did establish that

28:30

the knives that were

28:33

found

28:33

were the same knives that

28:36

we that

28:37

that we used to murder,

28:39

our

28:39

friend, doctor Jackson Elias,

28:42

wore the knives that we saw.

28:44

Yeah. Carter found a very specific almost ceremonial

28:47

knife in Cylo San Juanese bedroom and

28:49

immediately you were like, this is the

28:51

same thing that those guys had that jumped out

28:53

the fires Yes.

28:55

i'm We're

28:58

still a still a loose thread that

29:00

we have not are trying

29:03

currently to assess

29:05

is the mysterious note that

29:07

was left to check the psychoanalyst

29:09

files. Carlyle

29:11

was seeing a psychoanalyst

29:13

about his dreams.

29:16

Perhaps

29:16

this is something that we

29:18

could have access to

29:20

the

29:20

his sister. We could

29:23

we

29:23

could still still need to

29:25

figure out what those papers were and what

29:28

information they could lead

29:30

us

29:30

to.

29:31

Yeah. And there

29:32

was also in

29:35

the in all the handouts and

29:37

stuff. There was some reference to some

29:39

other paperwork that he

29:41

that was probably in Carlisle's

29:44

safe that

29:47

we should probably look at, of course, now that

29:49

I'm referencing it,

29:52

Rolls Royce. There we go. It

29:56

was like a do we got like this you guys remember

29:58

we got like this huge thing that

30:00

was like a summary of

30:02

all of Carlisle's stuff. It was all

30:04

typed out. Nairobi. Nairobi notes.

30:07

Nairobi notes. And

30:09

who could forget the nairobi note? Okay. I

30:12

mean, national bestseller. True.

30:15

And there's, like, lists of all these people

30:17

that he interviewed, which

30:19

I course completely forgot about. But

30:21

I think within there is

30:23

some discussion about how he's

30:25

probably got. Or it was maybe one of

30:28

the other It's a great story.

30:30

Maybe one of the other Carter or

30:32

one of the other Jackson letters was

30:35

like, you know, I'll scrippled and was

30:37

like, gotta gotta get what's in the safe or

30:39

something like that. So It was the

30:41

mysterious note I think you're referring

30:43

to that said

30:47

after the psychoanalyst files.

30:49

They'll open the gate why, so the

30:51

power and the danger is real. They

30:53

many threads beginning. The

30:56

books are in Carlisle's safe. There it

30:58

is. Coming for me, will

31:00

the ocean protect? And

31:02

it didn't. We found a spoilage.

31:05

So Okay. Let him down. Boy, Larry.

31:06

Jackson was having dreams,

31:09

dreams like Carlisles that says in the

31:11

mysterious note, And I don't know if, maybe

31:13

Margo and Faevers were goofy discussing

31:15

this before they got the message from Rebecca.

31:18

But I

31:19

would say at this point,

31:21

Margo's gonna tell you, like, hey,

31:24

I know my

31:24

dreams. I've been telling you

31:27

it's mostly about Wild,

31:31

six.

31:31

That's my last

31:33

my last

31:34

dream. at

31:37

the end, Jackson

31:40

Elias was

31:40

in it just standing

31:43

next to me smiling very

31:46

calmly and his chest

31:48

was ripped open and the entrails.

31:50

They were spilling out just like

31:52

the people we

31:55

just

31:55

saw and there was a

31:58

symbol at on his forehead,

31:59

again, just like the

32:02

people And before I woke up,

32:04

he said he

32:07

reached out his hand to grasp

32:09

mine and said and to become

32:11

with me I got

32:15

And after the

32:17

last night, it's I

32:20

feel like maybe I might be

32:22

having the dreams that he

32:24

had and maybe that Carlisle

32:26

right

32:27

started having Monkey, we have to

32:29

be careful. We can't have

32:31

I can't

32:33

imagine having any of those things happen

32:36

to you. I

32:37

don't know, but no, the the

32:39

the moards that time goes on and we

32:41

we talk about the we

32:44

talk about the evidence and look back on

32:46

it, new information and new

32:48

eyes. I'm just seeing that these

32:50

dreams, I think I it's

32:53

all pointing to that.

32:54

So

32:56

connected. Must

32:59

be.

33:01

We're just It's just a

33:02

matter of finding out how we can

33:06

use

33:06

this to not

33:09

just to to

33:11

free

33:12

mister Adams, but this

33:16

can't keep occurring.

33:17

right

33:18

For all these

33:21

murders, all these Arvonne

33:25

and

33:25

Carter back at this point. You

33:27

guys

33:27

wanna be back? He can be back? Yeah.

33:30

Yeah. So I'll be back. You'll

33:32

be back. Yeah. because Margaret had to go all the way up

33:34

town to Colombia. You come in a little over one

33:36

thousand dollars is this terrible amount of money, oh

33:38

boy. Yeah. Then I think you can pull it off.

33:40

I think Mhmm. You guys really

33:43

atoms. I

33:43

feel like you're walking into the lobby just being

33:45

like, oh, sure. We spent a thousand dollars. Yeah.

33:47

Millie atoms just got

33:50

we just got a message from Rebecca.

33:52

She's been

33:53

she's gone. Quite what? Just disappeared.

33:55

Just

33:57

gone, just taken. What do

33:59

we do? feel

33:59

everything is happening all is once we don't have any

34:02

more time. We're running out of

34:04

time. If those

34:05

those Thosing bladder who

34:07

are running that Youtube house laid their hands

34:09

on her. Did you

34:12

did

34:12

you tell Rosenberg all

34:15

the evidence that we've collected? You have

34:17

the photos. Right? I

34:18

I yes. I have the photos and

34:21

she's kinda shuffling through them and maybe taking out

34:23

one and putting it to the side and hoping you don't see it. But it it it

34:25

it was just a message she left

34:27

us. We didn't speak with

34:30

her yet. to have enough bodies with how we found

34:32

them. Yes, do you want to see them

34:34

in right now and We don't even do it in

34:36

a

34:36

long day weekend.

34:38

Oh, I thought we were back in our room. Might have

34:41

found me. You guys had The

34:42

bay, are you guys gonna go up there? Let's

34:44

go back to the room. That was too much

34:46

information, and we that. The bellhole saw guy, but I

34:48

got there. Pictures alone. No. What

34:52

does that tell you? I told you to lay the

34:54

photos out on the ground

34:56

on our in our room. We if we

34:58

can show

34:58

the photos of how these

35:00

bodies were, it looks exactly how

35:03

how doctor Lias

35:06

was left and with the knives and

35:08

it it might be enough to

35:10

show that that it wasn't

35:12

mister Adams that

35:13

is connected to this House

35:16

somehow. Yes.

35:18

I'm afraid that

35:19

we we leak this

35:21

to us, Schosenberg. That might

35:23

provide us some leverage when we when we go and

35:25

speak to pool. If he won't

35:28

act, then We'll

35:30

we'll

35:30

tell them the papers already have it. The

35:31

papers will blow it up. Okay.

35:34

But

35:34

about the knife that you found,

35:36

could that be evidence that

35:38

we bring?

35:39

Yes. I

35:39

did. Sorry. It's

35:41

just like all this evidence we lay it out, if

35:43

we bring it to pool, is it something

35:45

we can that's definitive?

35:47

Certainly, this is it that the wounds created in the

35:50

other bodies there must be coroner's reports that

35:52

might rhyme with the

35:54

make of this particular

35:56

blade. Well, if they ever I mean, they never found those

35:58

bodies as so many

35:59

problems. There were only few

36:01

that were found and the rest disappeared. Yes.

36:03

Or did they actually find

36:04

some? Okay. Alright. Alright. I like what I like what we're

36:06

cooking up here. We got a we got a little still going

36:09

on. feel like pool would be

36:12

our direct most

36:15

swift action, right,

36:17

in terms of We tell him he immediately goes into the thing, show the

36:19

writers gonna, you know, have to write something that's gonna take a while.

36:21

We have to make sure the show's

36:23

book at least sees them. You

36:25

need another witness to what we've seen.

36:27

How about we invite them both up here

36:29

at the same time? Shouldn't we show

36:31

them all of these photos?

36:33

because Listen. I took a picture of

36:35

the room before and after to fight

36:37

the symbols of that body behind the

36:40

curtain. I also took a picture of

36:42

that monstrosity under the the

36:44

circle

36:44

thing before it started

36:47

crying. We could maybe leave

36:49

out some pods. I

36:51

said we lay it all out. Actually, the part that

36:54

implicates

36:54

us being there and

36:57

murdering undead. I

36:58

don't know if they're undead. I don't know what you call

37:00

them. My one thing

37:02

that pop that ambulates us in it. because

37:04

before photos,

37:05

we will we will shows

37:07

them. Okay. She,

37:08

like, puts all the gruesome ones Well,

37:10

we need to we need to show the bodies so that he can see that these

37:12

are these are the same people that we're

37:15

missing. Oh, yes. I mean,

37:17

look, I don't know how many people in pools

37:20

experience come to him with a bunch

37:22

of photos and they're like, here's the way that I

37:24

killed all these people.

37:26

Like, maybe Yes. Someone else in Prude's position

37:28

might think that you were

37:30

to blame, and you're showing your

37:31

little collection of trophies to them, fella.

37:33

So Oh, no. I

37:36

not think

37:36

about that. We're showing them that we

37:38

might be the killers now. This

37:40

is why I'm saying

37:41

we go to

37:44

the press. But the press will take so long. She'll sit there, she'll

37:46

tip type away and leave a note to

37:48

save millions

37:50

and atoms. and also her

37:52

husband could be fried at any moment.

37:54

He could go down today. And into the

37:56

bargain Robson's men and the fourteenth precinct gave

37:58

me a little bit of a shake down as I was on that

38:00

street last evening. they have their

38:02

eyes on us. Yeah. We meet we can't meet

38:04

him at the precinct. We gotta have we gotta meet him

38:06

at a maybe a nice

38:08

patisserie or some

38:10

sort of chucky cheese. Whatever. We

38:12

can't be at the precinct. You know what I mean? But

38:14

who is this Charles Cheese? Charles Cheese. Charles

38:16

Cheese? It's an idea I've been toying with.

38:19

Have you guys heard of pizza?

38:22

Anywhere? My wife has talked about it. Yeah. So

38:24

I was like delicacy. I definitely.

38:26

Yeah. You get these automatons

38:28

that are, you know, in the shapes of various

38:31

good creatures and maybe you put

38:33

a couple of guitars in their hands and I

38:35

don't know. It's something I'm workshopping. Sounds

38:38

like a future, just stick to stuffy and night bound when

38:40

you were doing telehealth. Just my god

38:42

telehealth. What I saw

38:43

last night was incomprehensible. What you just

38:45

said to me, that's

38:48

my brain beyond its limits. It's the horrors from Lima that we

38:51

that are from Peru that I've seen, that have

38:53

changed the way that I think about

38:56

everything. Man, Alright.

38:58

Listen. Tilly has. Mhmm. Yeah.

39:00

The do

39:01

you have the ledger still? Did you take it?

39:03

The

39:03

ledger still? Yeah. Because here it is.

39:06

Yes.

39:06

Reach into my pocket and

39:08

pull out an and probably large ledger

39:12

from it.

39:13

You look

39:14

for you wanna look for Nairobi?

39:16

Or what was

39:17

it? Well, yeah.

39:19

Well, anything from

39:21

Nairobi because possibly

39:23

trace it back to

39:24

the Carlisle expedition,

39:26

but it

39:27

was that

39:29

There

39:32

was that one note or

39:34

letter that Karl had received

39:36

speaking about AAA

39:39

person who procures singular Curios

39:42

as it were, the

39:43

a man by the name of

39:46

Farazna Joth from Cairo. I also woke

39:47

him up. While they're doing that, can I call chosen for

39:50

for remind me, did was the message that

39:52

Milli Adams has disappeared?

39:54

Was that eight telegram or was that a

39:56

phone call? I

39:58

feel like you guys called her. I feel like a guy was like, this is

40:00

for Vaughan. Could one of you -- Yeah. -- like she

40:02

called the hotel and left a message, I think. Yeah.

40:05

Okay. Then I would like to speak to her personally if

40:08

possible. You wanna call her on the

40:10

phone? Correct.

40:12

Yeah. Okay. And then,

40:14

meanwhile, you're looking at the ledger to see if

40:16

there's any connection to

40:19

what was the name? Furosneur

40:22

jar. Furosneur

40:24

jar.

40:28

Okay.

40:28

You look

40:31

through and give

40:34

me a spot hidden. Okay.

40:37

Either way or or. Either way, you both can

40:39

roll it. Okay. As we're

40:41

both, like, pouring

40:43

over this book.

40:48

ah

40:53

You must have gotten

40:54

it. Right? Please tell me. I

40:55

did. I rolled a sixty seven under

40:58

eighty,

40:58

so not just a regular

41:00

success. I failed.

41:06

Okay. You don't

41:08

see any reference to Faraj

41:12

Najjar, but you

41:14

do see

41:17

some some

41:20

references to Egypt --

41:21

Okay. -- here and

41:24

there, but nothing about

41:26

Farrah's Najjar. Anything related to Cairo?

41:28

It's been particular. Yeah.

41:30

It's like c, comma, Egypt. Most

41:33

likely Cairo just shipments

41:35

that were coming in

41:38

via Masa.

41:40

So

41:43

though Yeah. The name

41:44

that's tied to the name in the ledger. What

41:47

is the name in the ledger?

41:49

No, Nate. It's

41:51

just like a

41:54

date. and that

41:56

c comma Egypt via

41:58

mombasa. And you

41:59

see it you know,

42:02

every few months. So

42:04

it's

42:05

a regular shipment.

42:06

he added Mhmm. Okay?

42:08

It looks like it's coming

42:10

through Emerson imports as well.

42:12

Let's see.

42:13

Now is there like,

42:16

a a certain time of the month that

42:18

they expect the shipments from the beginning

42:20

middle and Looks

42:21

like it comes about some

42:24

sometime between the seven to ten

42:26

days into the month. Because

42:28

we could do

42:29

a stake out again and and

42:31

maybe a little heist. Mhmm.

42:34

Yeah. Beginning of February, everyone.

42:35

Mhmm. Meanwhile,

42:38

you call Rbecca

42:42

Schosenberg get through to everybody.

42:44

Hello. This is Rebecca

42:48

Schosenberg. Hello, miss

42:48

Rosenberg? Vaughan Villas, I believe,

42:51

we had the pleasure. Friend of the

42:53

late mister relax. Yes. Yes, mister Villas, you

42:55

you you received my

42:58

message. Yes. The unfortunate lady,

43:00

Adams, has now gone missing? Yes.

43:02

It's you know, I at first,

43:04

I didn't wanna get too worried, but

43:08

III had plans to get coffee with her

43:10

and I I called the

43:13

III went to meet up with her

43:15

and and she wasn't there and

43:17

I thought maybe was running late. I waited for a half hour or

43:19

so, and I happened to be in the neighborhood of the theater, so I

43:21

stopped by the the Lafayette Theatre just to see

43:23

if maybe she got tied up at

43:26

work and It

43:28

was there that they told me they haven't

43:30

seen her, and it's not like her to to

43:32

not show up for work.

43:36

And She

43:38

did. Is it is it their opinion

43:40

as well as yours that you disappeared

43:42

last evening? Sometime perhaps in in the last

43:45

twenty four hours. I mean, I haven't had any contact

43:47

with her since the back and

43:49

forth getting your appointment

43:52

with with Hilton at

43:54

Sing Sing. But we we we had, you know, we're we're

43:56

friendly with each other. I was going to meet with

43:58

her. And so, you

43:59

know, it's it's

44:02

unclear when but she hasn't

44:04

been to work the last couple

44:06

days. I didn't wanna

44:08

call the

44:10

the police. I I honestly didn't know who to call, but I knew you

44:12

were you were involved and

44:14

a a couple things.

44:16

One, I'm obviously concerned for her

44:19

this is this is this is very, very frightening,

44:21

and and and I I feel guilty in a

44:23

way, like, maybe I'm I'm the one that that

44:25

that brought this on her, but then I think,

44:28

like, why why her

44:30

did we did did someone

44:32

know that that she was

44:34

talking to us, to to you as well?

44:36

And then are you in danger? Am I in

44:38

danger? Yes.

44:40

Maybe this is just a simple and just misunderstanding.

44:42

III don't know. This isn't back.

44:45

you are very much in danger. And so what I'm about

44:47

to tell you right now, I would like you to forget

44:49

my name for the moment and

44:52

just take very sturdy hold of your nearest pencil

44:54

and write down everything that I'm

44:56

about to say to you. Does the

44:58

Hilton Adamensate is a very much Hold on. I gotta

45:00

get a

45:02

pencil. forty five minutes, but Come

45:05

here. Just Nobody has a chance

45:07

to hold on. It's a trimester.

45:12

Alright. I have the nearest thing to a pencil guy in.

45:14

Mister Adams is very much

45:16

not to blame for the murders.

45:19

And we have

45:21

found the epicenter of

45:24

these crimes circulated

45:26

around it. Retailer of Curios in Harlem that goes

45:28

by the name of the juju House, proprietor

45:30

Silas Nakhrani, an associate of his

45:32

name, Maconka

45:34

Mardari, seems to be running some sort of

45:38

spiritualist dark sect.

45:41

Jeju House? Jeju.

45:44

She she mentioned this

45:45

place to me

45:46

once. What does she say? I feel like

45:48

I'm, like, trying to listen all.

45:50

Oh, like, huddled around the phone.

45:53

she she she

45:56

she intimated once. It almost like I

45:58

almost felt like she let slip that

46:00

she had kept an eye on this place.

46:03

The associates of mister

46:06

Adams were themselves quite suspicious of

46:08

this place, and I shouldn't doubt mister Adams was

46:10

suspicious of us as well. my god. They

46:12

must have seen her. They must

46:14

know. They have their

46:15

eyes everywhere, Schosenberg. The fourteenth precinct

46:17

is corrupt and riddled

46:19

through and through. Roberson is being paid off and we have the books

46:21

to prove it. Is is the part of the

46:24

police involved with with all of

46:26

the kidnappings? I don't know if they're

46:28

involved in the kidnappings, but they're very much being

46:30

paid I think to keep their eyes

46:32

off the kidnappings and not to see them

46:34

prosecuted and

46:36

to railroads innocent fellows like Adam's into his current

46:38

predicament. Okay. What now

46:40

now what proof do you have? What hard

46:43

proof this this this all this all sounds like a lot, but

46:45

did you have do you have actual proof?

46:48

This is why I'm telling you to forget my name,

46:50

Rosenberg. I

46:52

have photographs. of the basement of the juju house in which you see.

46:56

Such things,

46:58

such horrors. that

47:01

they are doing down there, that you could not

47:03

conjure in your wildest nightmares. We

47:06

also

47:06

have the

47:08

blade, one of the blades of this gas

47:12

reorganization that

47:12

that has been used to commit some

47:15

of these dreadful murders. ritual

47:17

murder You have the

47:19

possible murder

47:20

weapon. I And say what

47:22

band? Tell her about the tongues.

47:25

as well as parking. I believe that

47:27

we well, everybody's crowded around that you

47:29

should really invent some sort of

47:31

dare I say speaker for put put

47:33

a speaker cone of some kind on the end of

47:35

this plastic thing.

47:38

When

47:38

we, when we, my my compatriots,

47:41

I walked over before she used to the light.

47:43

Yeah. Yeah. Everyone's accounted for here. We're gonna go around

47:45

the table. I'm sorry you've been quite rude. We've

47:47

got to meet. It's Carter

47:50

again. Hello. Yes. Moving from my left, then we have

47:52

a a Morgan South, then of course that. Well, you don't

47:54

know which way she's looking. She could be looking the same

47:56

way you're looking. If she was all looking to the

47:58

south, then

48:00

Well, you told me to forget your names, please. Just tell me about taking

48:02

my picture, Federal Japan, also here. Now

48:04

when we walked into the

48:06

horrid scene of mister Eli's being

48:09

slain that we believe we told you that

48:11

those were that we saw were wearing these

48:13

rather unusual headbands where we

48:15

found a night. of those. And what appears to be attached

48:17

to it is not a fong of flannel as we originally thought,

48:20

but a desiccated human

48:22

tongue.

48:24

Yeah.

48:25

in my pocket. She's just I'd be

48:27

tied to a coach.

48:29

She's just silent on the

48:31

other end.

48:33

Rebecca if

48:35

we we don't know who we're who to

48:37

go to with with this evidence

48:39

we have can feed

48:42

me top? You

48:44

just hear her go. Oh.

48:46

Should he found my pencil?

48:49

It was right in front

48:51

of me. The adults and me. No.

48:53

I'm sorry. I'm just this is a

48:56

lot of information

48:58

to take in. I here's

49:00

the thing. If I were to to

49:03

try and get my editor to approve

49:05

this. I I probably could. I'll I'll need to

49:07

see the the the photographs,

49:10

but we have and you can tell she's like like hiding under

49:12

this. We have to be very careful about

49:14

who gets this information because if

49:16

I were to

49:18

blast this on the cover of

49:20

the times. This could put us into further danger or other people.

49:22

If if if if miss

49:24

Adams is is is Oh

49:27

my god. I didn't even wanna say that she's if she is still alive.

49:29

If I mean, I hope she is still alive. We

49:32

could be putting her in danger by

49:34

blasting this. So So what

49:36

what what what do we do we have? Do we do we do we do we do we do we

49:38

know anyone at the play at the police you can

49:40

speak with? This sounds like there's no

49:42

reason on this. There is one person that

49:44

I believe we can trust within the organization of

49:46

the police. We'll take

49:48

this information to them and see if we cannot

49:50

have speedy action taken. But

49:53

if that is impossible, we have your promise that publication

49:55

shall follow swiftly after to grease

49:57

the wheels so to speak

49:59

of justice. Yes.

50:02

Yes. I mean, if nothing

50:04

else, it it sounds like this might be enough to exonerate

50:06

Hilton, but we don't wanna

50:08

get him home only to find

50:11

that he's coming home to nothing.

50:14

So do you do you want me to to go with

50:16

you to to to to talk to

50:18

the police?

50:20

What do you think?

50:22

I don't I feel

50:24

like we should

50:25

keep them separate. Yes.

50:28

We we

50:29

we wish to expose you as

50:31

little as possible. Alright. She

50:33

lives in work. Yes.

50:35

You pretend as though this call never

50:38

occurred. Take your notes, keep them

50:40

safe, keep them secret, give them

50:42

secret, keep them.

50:44

I don't should I even be going home tonight? Now I'm

50:46

I'm now I fear for my life. The things that

50:48

you're saying, if if if even half of them

50:50

are true, It's

50:53

they they they know. They must know. Yeah. I can't hurt

50:55

to not go home ever.

51:00

Alright.

51:00

There's a a

51:02

gentleman I can see. I

51:05

can we haven't

51:08

really spent night. Yeah. Well, it might be time to ramp that up.

51:10

Josie, it might be time to kind of,

51:12

you know, kind of string them along and then

51:14

hit Actually,

51:16

there's about I can get for a sec. However, it needs to happen. Tell me

51:18

more about this, Rebecca. We can get it Vaughn.

51:20

Give me the phone for a moment. No. No. No. No. It's fine.

51:24

I'll I'll I'll just sleep with

51:26

him, I suppose. You know what? That's my this

51:28

is my problem. I'll deal with

51:30

this, but you please be

51:32

safe. If

51:34

if if if if you find out anything about miss you have

51:36

to call me immediately, and and I will do

51:38

the same. I'm I'm I'm I'm standing by the

51:40

phone just assuming a Lafayette is gonna call me

51:44

and say, She's here. She fell asleep in a closet

51:46

or something. So just

51:48

be in touch. I will do the same. I

51:50

have all your notes. I will need these photographs.

51:53

as soon as possible. And

51:56

I hate to even

51:57

say this,

52:00

but

52:00

should anything happen to

52:02

you or to us, we need to make sure

52:04

this story gets out. So

52:07

get me the photographs.

52:08

much evidence

52:10

and information as you can, and

52:12

I will brainstorm a way to

52:14

bring this to my editor. Okay.

52:18

Tell us how it goes tonight too. Yeah.

52:20

You know, we'll see. We'll see you.

52:22

Alright. I'll talk to you later.

52:24

Okay. Bye. Bye.

52:26

I don't know why we're whispering. Bye. Bye.

52:28

But neither. Margo

52:30

made multiple copies of

52:33

each photo. Okay. So how do we

52:35

think we wanna, like, split them up so

52:37

we know that they're safe? Like, she would leave a

52:39

batch in the hotel room

52:41

or I say we put

52:42

oh, no. What's that?

52:45

Bring some to

52:46

pool. Right? Keep some here and then

52:48

we

52:49

can some need to go to pool and some need to

52:51

stay with us. I can take a message of each one

52:53

to him. There we go.

52:54

I have multiple copies of each. I

52:57

don't think I think we should callpool and see if he can

52:59

meet us somewhere or come here because

53:01

if anyone that's now

53:03

part of this group that

53:06

hit up on sees

53:08

anybody talking to him, photos,

53:10

I just feel like get him out of his

53:12

place of work, get him to a place

53:14

where we might not have eyeballs on us.

53:17

Yes. Who who who made the

53:19

best impression on pool? I

53:21

think it was me. Did

53:23

I know you were you were pretty you and fairies

53:25

were especially but

53:28

I think

53:30

he was that. Risk him. He doesn't

53:32

even like any of us. Yeah. Well, we don't wanna bring

53:34

him back here because

53:35

we can't risk anybody knowing

53:38

where it's staying no matter how much we think we trust them.

53:40

Alright. Let's do the classic

53:42

like central park bench.

53:46

Right. Talk. Yes. We don't look at each other. Look in different

53:48

directions. Park bench. Mhmm.

53:50

Classic Central Park bench

53:54

talk. Okay. You guys are around fifth Avenue. You could

53:56

meet fifty ninth Street

53:59

and

53:59

fifth right at the entrance of

54:02

the park. and set

54:04

up a rendezvous if he wanted to with the

54:06

tentacle. If he's even down for this -- Right.

54:08

-- right. Last he spoke

54:10

to Feirou's and Margo. He's like, you

54:12

know what? once you just Yeah. Why don't we

54:13

get better? I think we dangle a

54:16

little. We might have proof. We might

54:18

have proof about

54:20

ropes and and

54:22

they'll, you know, give him a little bit of give him a little taste. He might

54:24

like that. He's a good cop. He seems like, and

54:26

he doesn't take kindly

54:28

to bad cops. Yeah. Okay.

54:31

There

54:32

is one more thing.

54:34

We need to

54:36

probably

54:36

all look at together. and

54:38

Fayers

54:39

goes in pouring a round

54:41

of drinks

54:41

-- Mhmm. -- set them

54:43

on the table.

54:44

and then

54:46

Slaps down that old

54:48

Africa's dark

54:49

sex on the table.

54:52

Shigunk. No. This is wordy.

54:54

I don't know. Yeah. How big is this? Is this a

54:56

big book?

54:58

No.

54:58

I don't think it's too

55:02

huge. I still drop it dramatically. Yeah.

55:04

I think you should. Off a dust

55:07

comes out. Yeah. Actually,

55:10

I know it is it is pretty big. Yeah.

55:14

So you've got this thing.

55:15

Have you has anyone spent any time

55:17

with it yet? Or is No.

55:19

No. I thought we could

55:20

all do this together. He kinda

55:22

came home and came to bed. Well, let's be honest,

55:24

Faireus. You're the fastest reader

55:26

here. I'm sure you're back. background is

55:28

pretty much you can skim through this short circuit style. I guess

55:31

I could skim and paraphrase

55:32

for the last It's really

55:34

academic.

55:34

You

55:36

do that. You can stay and read and two people can go

55:38

to the park. Someone comes with me to the park.

55:40

In my muscle.

55:43

I guess it all depends

55:44

on the storyteller how much

55:46

information or the lore keeper, how

55:48

how much information there is to

55:51

expose

55:51

Well, I'm because we could split the party. Yeah. We

55:53

could split the party. I'm I'm just yeah.

55:56

Yeah. I mean, this is

55:58

something you can definitely

55:59

sit with. and hopefully learn

56:02

some more information.

56:03

A book this size would

56:05

take probably weeks to

56:08

fully absorb But,

56:10

you know, over the course

56:11

of six hours, you could you could really

56:13

dig in and find out, like, what is going why

56:15

is this book so important? Why was it

56:17

so important to Jack's Jackson, and

56:19

what is it doing in the basement of

56:21

juju house. Right. Stamped. Harvard

56:24

Weidner library.

56:26

And you spoke to me

56:27

about Snacks and Molbuz. Snacks and

56:29

Molbuz service. Or Remember when you spoke to

56:31

Miriam outright, she said that the that that

56:33

book just went missing one

56:36

day. Mhmm. And it was very mysterious, and there was this, like,

56:38

horrible smell in the area where

56:40

that book was. If you're ready for a

56:44

book spell, No. Smells She is

56:46

in place. Where we where

56:48

we found it

56:48

smell like wall bodies. Did

56:51

it smell like that?

56:52

they pretty much smelled of death

56:54

down there, but the book itself does

56:56

not smell of death. Okay.

56:59

Alright. How about

57:01

this? So I'll go with

57:03

Margo to talk to Robson.

57:05

I feel like Vaughan

57:09

could use a time out. Could use a little bit of a

57:12

break, but Vaughan could maybe also call and

57:14

let's get those party tickets. Girls, did we tell

57:16

you that we

57:18

might have You have a

57:19

party tonight? That's how about What? It's for intel,

57:21

but also for free

57:23

food. Are

57:24

he serious? Gabby. It's

57:27

that. It's that. What's her name? It's a Carlyle sisters house. Oh,

57:29

just to clarify that. Oh, just to

57:31

clarify that. That's tomorrow's name, which

57:33

is what I thought.

57:35

can't just casually say party at a

57:38

time like this. Well, I'm

57:39

talking about an investigative party.

57:42

Okay. And we should go and get all

57:44

dressed up. and we should go, and we should get in there, and

57:46

we should maybe break into a safe. I

57:48

don't know. We'll see what happens. Alright. Does

57:50

one get an

57:51

indication to this

57:53

Well,

57:56

like many things in the philanthropic set when

57:58

when nearly has to pay

57:59

for it. Yeah. So so one thousand plants. How is

58:02

it? One thousand plants.

58:04

Whoa. Are you mad?

58:08

Yeah. There must be

58:10

another way. We got Vaughan's pocketbook. And

58:12

by the way, we got this, like, war chest

58:14

that we can use in the interest of

58:16

the investigation we talk to you

58:19

know, once Yes. We

58:21

all got things from Peru,

58:23

but then we'd have to go and exchange

58:25

gold for money right now. And it's my mom and me

58:27

would take up time. I don't

58:29

know. Yes. Also, to be clear, is this party is this

58:31

at her place

58:32

or is this here in the city? It's

58:34

at

58:35

the Carlisle name. at the

58:38

Carlin Mansion and

58:41

yeah. After all, goats,

58:43

maybe we could Exactly.

58:45

Get into that safe. Have some

58:48

free shrimp. I'll go

58:50

into the party. Well, I'll go into the party.

58:52

Okay. Wonderful. Yeah. Yes. We

58:56

can receive bonuses like telling up how much

58:58

this is going to cost. Mom, baby. Don't worry about

59:00

it. What's god damn it. What's the guy what's

59:02

the the friend of For it. friend

59:04

of Jackson's the guy that

59:06

said we can access all this money? The

59:09

lawyer. The lawyer. He we

59:11

got a we got a bunch of money we can dip and do. Maybe

59:13

he can narrow this.

59:15

Yeah. Yes.

59:16

Perhaps perhaps perhaps he has him. Plus

59:19

think of how fun it'll be. mean,

59:21

we need to break. Millie Adams would want

59:23

this. So listen. Carter,

59:26

that's me. don't know why speaking in

59:28

the third person. Yeah.

59:28

So she's dead already. No. I'm sure

59:30

she's

59:31

totally happy and safe. I'm like harder. Again,

59:33

I did the third

59:35

person. And Margo, Let's go talk

59:37

to pool real quick. Vaughan, maybe you

59:40

confirm those tickets. Faireur's, you

59:42

do some quick

59:44

reading. Right. and and then we can veen. We

59:46

reconvene. I'll try to call pool and see if he

59:48

wants to

59:48

meet up in the park like a weirdo.

59:53

I

59:53

say all that, making sure that

59:55

everyone's comfortable with what I've just said and

59:57

feels okay doing all

1:00:00

that. Alright? Yeah?

1:00:02

Okay. Okay. Sorry. Sorry to take a

1:00:04

look. Okay. Cracker Cracker

1:00:06

Cracker Cracker Cracker, a

1:00:08

big thunder -- No. -- heel outside.

1:00:11

Maybe you've got like a balcony or

1:00:14

something in your hotel

1:00:16

room and the the

1:00:18

curtains just fly open

1:00:20

because it's cracked and little rain starts

1:00:22

getting in. Storm

1:00:24

starts outside as cargo

1:00:26

picks up the phone to call

1:00:28

the precinct down

1:00:29

in Chelsea to try

1:00:31

and reach pool.

1:00:36

This is

1:00:37

lieutenant Paul. Hello, lieutenant Paul.

1:00:39

This

1:00:39

is Marco from the

1:00:42

other day.

1:00:42

the other day

1:00:43

We we think so. Who who who who

1:00:45

is this? It's Marco

1:00:47

Saure. I I spoke with

1:00:49

you with Ferrous about see

1:00:51

Okay. Sounds good. The the investigation

1:00:54

with

1:00:54

Jacksonville. a lot

1:00:57

of investigations. You gotta you gotta

1:00:59

oh, wait. Jacksonville. Oh.

1:01:04

Yeah. What can I what can I do for

1:01:06

you? We

1:01:06

think we would like to show

1:01:08

you. We think we have evidence

1:01:10

that

1:01:11

you were looking for. Okay. Listen, last time we talked, I

1:01:13

think I made it pretty clear that we got proof

1:01:15

that Robson's on the

1:01:18

take You may lose this. telling sir,

1:01:20

we met once in an interrogation

1:01:22

robotics. Yeah. Miss Howard,

1:01:25

who is this? Takes the phone from

1:01:27

her hand. But give me one second. III

1:01:30

was pretty clear about this. I think you should

1:01:32

leave the police work to the police,

1:01:36

so Well, guess what? I got a lot of work for the police

1:01:38

to pour over.

1:01:40

We have evidence that ropes in,

1:01:42

who by the way, you told us

1:01:46

about is dirty.

1:01:46

We have

1:01:47

witnessed things, sir, that

1:01:50

you could not believe,

1:01:52

death -- Okay. -- death and death. --

1:01:54

future house and we've got it all

1:01:56

here. I got a stack. We got a stack of stuff.

1:01:58

We wanna show it to you. We want you to

1:02:00

succeed. Help us help

1:02:02

you. Let's see if you wanna

1:02:04

swing by the precinct. I've Alba.

1:02:06

Anybody in the fourteenth precinct? Look,

1:02:08

you know. You told us. Robson's not

1:02:10

to be trusted. He's got men

1:02:14

within men. Around

1:02:16

him? Always watching. You

1:02:18

gotta meet us somewhere neutral. You

1:02:22

have

1:02:22

evidence on

1:02:24

your person. Yes. Stid links, ropes

1:02:26

in to this and others? Yep.

1:02:30

And the murders and the disappearances.

1:02:33

Come on. Step on out. It's just starting to rain and

1:02:35

it'll be nice. Give me a charm or a

1:02:38

faster charm to shit out

1:02:40

of you.

1:02:41

minus

1:02:43

five. Forty

1:02:45

six under

1:02:48

seventy five.

1:02:50

Yeah.

1:02:51

Come on,

1:02:54

baby. I got

1:02:55

I'm gonna be

1:02:57

taking lunch soon. Where do you where do

1:02:59

you wanna meet? Whatever

1:03:02

was said earlier, I don't understand New York

1:03:04

City. Fifty nine properties. Okay. Fifty nine,

1:03:06

Jim, all the way in Chelsea. Isn't there some place

1:03:09

we closer to where I'm at. Whatever's got

1:03:11

a good Ruben.

1:03:15

the Alright. Science.

1:03:16

No. It's there's a

1:03:18

there's a deli on a on eighth

1:03:21

half, eighth half and thirty

1:03:23

seventh Street. Yeah. Meet

1:03:26

me there

1:03:29

at twelve thirty. I'll be there

1:03:32

from twelve thirty to

1:03:34

one fifteen. you got. Did you come at one sixteen and walk the door? No. You got something you wanna

1:03:36

show me, you come there. You're not gonna regret it. We're gonna blow

1:03:38

the doors right off this thing. You and

1:03:40

us together. Alright. I'll

1:03:42

see you there. Alright. And

1:03:43

that card returned to the boss like, we need money

1:03:45

for two ribbons. We also don't

1:03:47

have direct proof that Robson

1:03:50

is involved. I think

1:03:50

his name's in the ledger. Plus, Vaughan

1:03:53

and I saw him. WR14 is

1:03:55

in the ledger. Okay. That's the only

1:03:57

thing we have. Okay.

1:03:59

I had to get him to meet

1:04:00

us. I mean, look, once he sees

1:04:02

fucking photos of, you know, the

1:04:05

intestines and stuff, we got

1:04:07

him hooked. I'm still you. Well, we

1:04:10

can't

1:04:10

photoshop, but at that in nineteen twenty

1:04:12

two. So that's I'm so

1:04:14

very nervous to show him. So

1:04:16

those

1:04:16

photos. Since they've made We might walk out to

1:04:19

the deli

1:04:19

and handcuffs. I

1:04:21

would rather look Carter

1:04:24

has I've been doing

1:04:25

a lot of thinking here, guys. Alright. If

1:04:27

I go to jail, because and

1:04:30

it helps Somebody

1:04:32

else, if it helps Millie Adams, if it helps

1:04:35

Hilton Adams, I'll take

1:04:37

that bullet, man. Carter, Till

1:04:39

I'm saying that now we'll see over here. When they come

1:04:41

for me, I might run. What

1:04:44

isn't? Are we nicest

1:04:46

things ever? Are you monologuing? Yeah. To

1:04:48

myself, he's just looking out at the

1:04:50

lightning. This is

1:04:51

your time, Carter. You

1:04:54

see the good half of your reflection

1:04:56

in the two face? The

1:04:58

dark mirror. Yeah. A lightning

1:05:00

strike

1:05:01

reflects after next.

1:05:06

Let's let's take a

1:05:06

quick word from our sponsor. Oh,

1:05:09

yeah. Maul. What happens

1:05:11

next? Oh, boy.

1:05:13

Okay. So Carter

1:05:18

and Margo have a meeting with the

1:05:20

tenant pool.

1:05:22

between twelve thirty and one fifteen at a deli on eighth Avenue

1:05:24

in, when I say, thirty eighth and

1:05:27

thirty ninth Street. you

1:05:31

gotta figure out what you wanna

1:05:33

divulge there, how convincing you

1:05:35

can be to sort of have him take

1:05:37

up the cause here, and what

1:05:39

is is gonna be in this.

1:05:41

In the

1:05:42

meantime, Vaughan, while

1:05:45

you look over

1:05:46

and see Faireur is

1:05:48

just buried

1:05:50

in this book. Do

1:05:52

you

1:05:52

wanna try and secure tickets

1:05:55

to the Scala? We can borrow money

1:05:58

from this till that we have.

1:05:59

Part of part of me, I mean,

1:06:02

like, funds

1:06:04

the rational part of Von's brain that is going. It's like, what are

1:06:06

you? All of us going?

1:06:08

What it Should

1:06:10

all of us go?

1:06:14

when there's

1:06:14

so much to do when when one of the atoms is is gone. But

1:06:18

I I know I

1:06:18

might at least call the foundation and see

1:06:21

if I can get those tickets.

1:06:24

At least secure two

1:06:26

tickets. Resolute can. Yeah. I mean, come on

1:06:28

guys. Let's just think of the narrative pass Two

1:06:31

more available. All four

1:06:34

of us.

1:06:34

love all four of us to scoop

1:06:36

you away. We're good at a

1:06:39

shred of the steps. if

1:06:40

the rest of this campaign was just just hanging out at the party. You

1:06:42

can at the very

1:06:43

it should at the very least.

1:06:45

Get two tickets because

1:06:46

you don't wanna be like a single

1:06:50

person you'd stand out being aware to, you always need a

1:06:52

plus

1:06:52

one. Yeah. And by

1:06:53

plus one, she means plus

1:06:56

three. Probably, yes,

1:06:57

plus three, but again,

1:06:59

we've got this Till. We got all this money. He doesn't even have

1:07:02

to come out of your personal

1:07:04

account. It's a

1:07:05

matter of money. wealth of

1:07:07

foreign language. It

1:07:08

is sort of a matter of money.

1:07:10

I'd hate, you know, but

1:07:12

It's just better be a damned good cause. and

1:07:14

I'm in a okay. Yeah. I'll call call up.

1:07:16

Where in that would we would

1:07:18

be in the house where the safe

1:07:20

is. Yeah.

1:07:21

Yeah. Well, listen to some jazz.

1:07:23

Get that safe. Hopefully, and then

1:07:26

in that, miss Carl,

1:07:28

I will shows around what we need if we're on a call.

1:07:30

Mhmm. Break ins and that sort of

1:07:32

dirty business won't be necessary

1:07:34

at all. Is

1:07:36

there a number to call? Is there a foundation to

1:07:38

reach out to? Or Yeah. You could

1:07:40

call Ramsay, leave a message with him, and

1:07:42

then he'll get back to -- Right. --

1:07:45

with the number. for you to call them. Yeah. And tell him that we wanna

1:07:47

use some of that money foods.

1:07:50

Mhmm. Says Carter from

1:07:52

the subway. Bless us for charity. Yes.

1:07:56

Okay. -- write off.

1:07:58

I give

1:07:58

him a buzz.

1:08:02

Hello.

1:08:02

You have

1:08:04

reached in the

1:08:05

Carlisle foundation? Yes.

1:08:08

I've been

1:08:11

told,

1:08:11

and I I terrible

1:08:13

boar for being ever so late to to reach out to you.

1:08:16

But I hear this tomorrow

1:08:18

evening, there's to be a gala

1:08:21

And I do hope there's some

1:08:23

left my Four tickets

1:08:28

to do it's Gayla. This

1:08:30

is rather late, and it's not often where you get such a latecomer

1:08:32

buying four tickets down

1:08:35

as to

1:08:35

the Gayla. So

1:08:38

you are aware that

1:08:41

it is the nineteen

1:08:43

twenties equivalent of one

1:08:45

thousand dollars per head for

1:08:47

the scalar. Oh, yes. I'm quite aware. One one needn't be to

1:08:48

oh yeah i'm quite aware one wouldn't

1:08:50

needn't be too too sore

1:08:53

about it. III assure you, I'm good for it. You've

1:08:55

you can either I can either provide you a check or

1:08:57

even just call my man in New York

1:08:59

or London and You

1:09:02

can have the money ready for you in

1:09:04

whichever way you need it. But I'm talking about

1:09:06

this now. This is so desperate. I'd much

1:09:09

rather speak about what the foundation

1:09:11

is raising money for. Yeah. well, let

1:09:13

me raise money for all sorts

1:09:15

of charities. Tomorrow is going

1:09:18

particularly to and the young orphans in Brooklyn.

1:09:21

Brooklyn orphans. Yes. There's

1:09:23

a there's an epidemic,

1:09:26

you know. Brooklyn orphans.

1:09:28

And some some thing is

1:09:30

to be done. No. Look at all the colors. God bless their

1:09:33

little orphan hearts

1:09:35

too. Yes. And

1:09:37

what is your

1:09:39

name? My name is Reginald Smith. That's

1:09:43

right. You might

1:09:44

say

1:09:46

they changed it as ever this

1:09:48

island to Smith. Oh, and I

1:09:50

and I could tell I perhaps

1:09:53

to a fellow countryman here. how

1:09:55

how often the our mother tongue is mangled

1:09:57

by these colonials. So I understand

1:09:59

I understand

1:09:59

changing your your regal

1:10:02

and and and and prolific smise to the more

1:10:04

the more working like Smith. But

1:10:06

I thank you ever so much

1:10:10

for all this information. Now,

1:10:12

so that can be secured under the

1:10:14

name Villiers. Then I'll be I'll be seeing you tomorrow

1:10:17

evening. And how do

1:10:19

you spell that name? VILLIER

1:10:23

Hold on. I need to find a pencil. God, heaven.

1:10:28

Here's the the imperion of

1:10:30

all the seats. Port Vaughn is,

1:10:32

like, at the Brink and he has

1:10:34

to do with these nineties poops. Oh,

1:10:38

I have one right here.

1:10:41

Yes. You said Villas

1:10:43

c. v. Is it

1:10:45

a v old boy Yes.

1:10:48

Yes. Richard. Yes. This

1:10:50

v are a guy.

1:10:55

Dumileo, IEII don't

1:10:58

suppose miss Carlisle will be present for if if I want to pull her ear or is it

1:11:00

one? No, miss Carlisle.

1:11:03

present it all of

1:11:05

her galas. She

1:11:06

has a bit your

1:11:08

wallet.

1:11:12

Yes.

1:11:12

Now Reginald Man to Man. What what

1:11:14

would you say miss Carla's character is no

1:11:17

doubt she's a very virtuous sort

1:11:19

of being given to her blend

1:11:22

to be of this type. But, you know, if I'm

1:11:24

not even this is miss Karl, I

1:11:26

don't even know that. old boy.

1:11:29

Yeah. Only about reputation. We share friends in common, but I I

1:11:31

confess I've never had the pleasure.

1:11:34

No. Well, no. She's quite

1:11:38

the thigh cracker. I think you'll

1:11:40

find her company most pleasant if you can

1:11:42

squeeze a word in her with her edge

1:11:44

watch. She's

1:11:46

quite popular, you know, and she is the hostess

1:11:48

and the party, but I'm sure have

1:11:50

you flaunt the word words around

1:11:52

as you do with me. You'll get a

1:11:54

moment

1:11:54

to chat with her. You flatter, sir. You flatter.

1:11:56

Well, if she brings the firecracker,

1:11:58

I'll bring the mat.

1:11:59

Okay. So I don't

1:12:02

get it.

1:12:02

Well, I it

1:12:05

seems there the reservation's been made.

1:12:07

Yeah. We haven't found four

1:12:10

for Vaughn. Mister Villas,

1:12:12

you said? I assumed your name was Vaughn. You sounded

1:12:14

like a Vaughn, but I don't know if you

1:12:17

ever tell me of his name. You

1:12:19

I truly a profit

1:12:19

in a seer. You are mister Regional Smade. I

1:12:22

So I was wondering if you've

1:12:24

heard someone call me Smade in

1:12:26

so long. I feel like I'm

1:12:28

back home in

1:12:31

France. Well, this

1:12:35

has been delightful. So

1:12:40

just This is the longest conversation I've

1:12:42

had on there. Before you see most people

1:12:44

bought them, take it to the gala

1:12:46

months ago. Yes. As I terribly late.

1:12:48

I am I'm I'm purely a catastrophe.

1:12:50

A terrible caution. Oh, you must think of you a terrible beast. Yeah.

1:12:55

So suppose I just just show up to boost the lag

1:12:57

lag four little Vagabonds and we'll have all

1:13:00

flash my name

1:13:03

and enter the parting. Yes? Yes. It should

1:13:05

be quite simple. You know, it's black, tire fair, but I'm sure

1:13:07

you understand that. And, yes, your name

1:13:09

will be on there.

1:13:10

I have your bank information

1:13:13

here. And

1:13:15

should we run into any problems? Is there

1:13:17

a number that I could reach you at? Feel

1:13:19

free to reach out to me at this

1:13:22

number at the wall office studio boy. I think it was one of the

1:13:24

most doria. You're just

1:13:26

visiting miss Villas. Yes.

1:13:28

In town friendly

1:13:31

thrice, I can Mhmm. Well, perhaps

1:13:33

I will see you tomorrow

1:13:35

night and be there.

1:13:37

Thank you. Yes. Of

1:13:40

course. It's part of

1:13:42

the pads of working for the foundation. I get a free ticket. Well, mister Smyy, if all goes if

1:13:44

all goes well, if have our pads will

1:13:46

cross again, we could have more of this

1:13:50

Oh, I'm being reparting. It was a rather fun

1:13:53

interlude for this episode. Yes. Something

1:13:55

tells me that this is

1:13:57

a nice simmer before things really started

1:13:59

come to a boil. Yes.

1:13:59

Well, for the orphans, as they

1:14:02

say. Yes. For the orphans. Yep.

1:14:05

Yep. God save. hard save the Bluffton

1:14:08

orphan. See as far as the

1:14:10

party. Let's talk to her. Cheers, oh

1:14:12

boy. and

1:14:15

Reginald Smythe. I hope so. Miss

1:14:17

Brewer is, like, in

1:14:18

the room when this conversation

1:14:20

is happening. You're only hearing what

1:14:22

he's saying. like, Karen Vaughan

1:14:24

could switch into whatever. Like, he's

1:14:27

like he's unlocked some All

1:14:30

I can tell is it's not good. Ultimate version

1:14:33

of of a frequency that

1:14:35

only british people

1:14:37

here. favories is a little freaked out like and

1:14:40

already thinking about what favors

1:14:42

can she call in to

1:14:44

be dressed to the nines

1:14:46

to this thing.

1:14:46

I know that. because Vaughan's gonna have the clothes

1:14:49

for this. But Yeah. You and you can

1:14:51

even see Vaughan now, like, crossing over, like like,

1:14:53

opening up a huge, like, trunk that

1:14:55

he has and, like, pulling out

1:14:57

a couple of black ties. It's like, yes. Certainly if I haven't had them.

1:14:59

Yes. Mhmm. What who are you able to? jacket or

1:15:04

mhmm. Are we

1:15:05

all going to go? Oh, yes, you're wrong. I've got

1:15:07

four tickets there, you know. About to

1:15:10

about everyone's ward. a robe. I suppose that's but I suppose that we'll

1:15:13

have to dress themselves up a beard, whereas we get

1:15:15

a bit of the bum's rash.

1:15:18

Of

1:15:18

course. Yeah. So

1:15:21

I absolutely have the perfect ensemble for such

1:15:23

an occasion. Needn't

1:15:28

you worry?

1:15:29

Well, perhaps we can work in

1:15:31

if not, perhaps we can work in another little shopping interlude in the midst of saving all these people's lives. but

1:15:37

we But you We I'm

1:15:39

sure we'd of for Well, sure. But you I

1:15:42

don't wish to interrupt your

1:15:46

studies anymore. Learned anything

1:15:48

particularly

1:15:48

horrid from that book

1:15:51

of yours.

1:15:52

Funny things. Let us

1:15:54

address that. Yeah. Yeah.

1:15:56

So you've been,

1:15:59

we'll say, Margo, and Carter

1:16:03

have left and you're

1:16:06

really spending time with

1:16:08

this while Vaughan

1:16:11

is taking some time to gather himself and make these arrangements,

1:16:13

to go to the Carlyle

1:16:15

Gala tomorrow night.

1:16:18

And you've just been pouring over what appears to be

1:16:20

AAA travel lock

1:16:23

by a man named

1:16:27

Nigel Blackwell It's an odd mix of at first what

1:16:29

seems just like a

1:16:30

a travelogue, almost like a journal

1:16:36

of his time

1:16:36

he spent traveling

1:16:39

across Africa, but

1:16:41

as

1:16:42

you continue reading

1:16:44

and and pouring through it,

1:16:46

you see that it it also starts to talk about

1:16:49

source to talk about different ham

1:16:52

different ritual

1:16:52

practices.

1:16:55

He witnessed firsthand

1:16:56

he

1:16:57

during

1:16:59

his travels by groups in

1:17:03

Africa that over

1:17:05

time he starts to

1:17:07

refer to as cults. It

1:17:09

looks like

1:17:12

looks like his

1:17:15

notes were collected by someone

1:17:18

and turned into this book. There's no publisher listed on

1:17:20

the title

1:17:24

page. but it

1:17:26

it doesn't appear that blackwell himself had this book published. And

1:17:33

as you're digging through it, like it starts getting

1:17:35

stranger and stranger, the more you

1:17:38

pour through. And it seems

1:17:40

like things

1:17:43

that he were was seeing started

1:17:46

to weigh upon his

1:17:48

mind.

1:17:51

to the point where he he

1:17:54

talks about witnessing,

1:17:56

witness saying like

1:18:00

like, otherworldly anotherworldly

1:18:02

creature sort of appear during

1:18:07

one particular ritual. But it's

1:18:10

written like it

1:18:12

starts to be complete

1:18:16

incomprehensible madness. And it

1:18:18

starts to weigh on

1:18:20

you as well,

1:18:22

Farooz. Give me AAA deten role.

1:18:26

So I

1:18:28

rolled

1:18:29

a nine.

1:18:30

You're

1:18:34

you're reading this reading this and

1:18:36

the end you start

1:18:39

getting lost in the story that Blackwell is

1:18:43

recounting the the journal

1:18:46

and you kind of flash back to the time you spent in Peru and all things that

1:18:52

you saw there

1:18:54

and you in a way sort of project yourself into this travel pocket

1:18:57

when Blackwell

1:19:00

talks about you know,

1:19:02

hiding in bushes and watching these cult

1:19:05

practices go on.

1:19:08

You almost see

1:19:10

yourself in black well shoes

1:19:13

pushing aside branches and

1:19:15

watching. But in in this,

1:19:17

you also see yourself as

1:19:19

the members of the cult as well, and then you look

1:19:21

and you see it, all the members of

1:19:23

the cult are

1:19:26

you dancing, naked, around a

1:19:28

fire, singing to the skies,

1:19:30

but you're watching this while

1:19:33

also taking part

1:19:36

in it. and you lose

1:19:38

nine points of sanity. Good god. Yes. Yes. So

1:19:40

do you see? Gibraltar.

1:19:43

Do you see this? This,

1:19:46

this, this, this, this, it

1:19:49

is it is all connected. It's

1:19:51

it's not just it's not

1:19:53

just here.

1:19:54

It's just You can I guess

1:19:56

it's voyeuristic as it sounds.

1:19:57

You could just you

1:19:58

could you could

1:19:59

observe it, but you could

1:20:02

be right

1:20:02

there as part of it.

1:20:05

gross. And then

1:20:06

those those those those those creatures

1:20:07

those creatures are real.

1:20:10

Those creatures are real. the

1:20:15

real, and we can we can come

1:20:18

you

1:20:19

with energy. And

1:20:21

a siren flies

1:20:23

by and thawing you hear this.

1:20:25

This is the other worst person

1:20:27

to be put in this position.

1:20:30

Yes. I'm watching this. Just a Vonage

1:20:32

just a, like, one of the signal like,

1:20:34

a dangler cigarette just,

1:20:35

like, watching this. This

1:20:38

cooke. Good Lord, this screwball.

1:20:40

It's just like, no deer.

1:20:42

No deer. No deer. Fuck. Yes.

1:20:47

From these these these things that we've seen, these

1:20:49

things that we've seen, it's not

1:20:51

accidental. You could Yes.

1:20:52

as

1:20:54

I know we can. It's all part of a system. It's part of

1:20:57

a system and we could be a part of that

1:20:59

system and we could we could conjure

1:21:02

these things. there must be a reason that

1:21:04

these things are

1:21:05

that that that

1:21:07

these

1:21:09

people seek commune with these

1:21:11

creatures. Yes. Yes. Of course, nothing nothing in this

1:21:14

universe happens without God's

1:21:16

providence, understanding

1:21:18

it. but the powers of

1:21:19

evil are legion and

1:21:22

aligned against his design.

1:21:24

We have

1:21:25

seen it But but

1:21:26

which we know you and I and here I

1:21:28

put my hands on on your shoulders, we know

1:21:30

you and I that was on the

1:21:33

side of the angels. Yes. Yes. Yes.

1:21:35

What do you

1:21:36

think about purposes and all of

1:21:38

this one?

1:21:39

What? What would be

1:21:41

revealed in time? It there are times

1:21:44

when his ways are inscrutable.

1:21:46

But he has promised us

1:21:48

that death is not

1:21:50

the end. Yes? and I know it to be true you do.

1:21:52

Yes. And I take some

1:21:55

comfort in that. Come

1:21:58

home,

1:21:58

peel

1:21:59

off thunder. Right?

1:22:01

Yes. Yes. We will. We

1:22:04

will. We will find

1:22:06

we will discover all

1:22:08

the says

1:22:11

to hold this in the bee, we will

1:22:13

find

1:22:14

the

1:22:15

death.

1:22:18

the loose

1:22:20

This illusion. Cheers

1:22:20

to that old girl.

1:22:23

Cheers my friend. Perhaps we

1:22:25

should not tell the others.

1:22:27

Oh, no. Oh, no.

1:22:30

They'll

1:22:30

done. They'll done. Give

1:22:33

me an intelligence

1:22:35

role

1:22:37

now favors to

1:22:39

see if you fully understand. Sure. She was lost in

1:22:41

the room. say how many sanity did I lose? Nine Nine

1:22:44

sanity today

1:22:45

sanity.

1:22:48

many? That's over five in a session. What's the

1:22:50

max in a day? The max? Over five in a pop, you have

1:22:52

to roll an intelligence role

1:22:54

to see if you fully under

1:22:57

stand. Alright. You wanna you wanna

1:22:59

not hit this. Right? You wanna roll over? I wanna go over an intelligence

1:23:02

they're and intelligence role

1:23:03

role. you know, the pieces

1:23:06

are very high. She's too small of that. Yeah. I mean, this this this Oh. I

1:23:08

rolled in ninety five,

1:23:10

though. Jesus. In ninety five,

1:23:14

actually over eighty.

1:23:16

I really

1:23:16

wanted to, like, not do well on

1:23:18

this so that I could kinda lose

1:23:20

my

1:23:21

marbles a little bit. So what

1:23:24

happens? You don't have a bout

1:23:26

of madness. And how much sanity

1:23:28

do you have? I'm assuming

1:23:30

isn't one? Now

1:23:30

I have it because now I have a seventy

1:23:33

four.

1:23:33

Okay. So you're you're fine where it was

1:23:35

over five in one pop. You have

1:23:37

to roll that intelligence roll to see

1:23:39

if you fully understand what is happening, you

1:23:41

don't. You get so lost perhaps in the fiction

1:23:43

that you don't have a

1:23:46

break similar to what Vaughan

1:23:48

experienced They

1:23:50

saw the many faced creature

1:23:52

in the pit. Mhmm. This

1:23:55

is a

1:23:55

new mechanic that we haven't

1:23:58

experienced yet. you have encountered

1:23:59

your first Mihos tone. I really want

1:24:02

to lose my shit a little bit.

1:24:04

Yeah. Well, you just don't you

1:24:06

just don't Yeah. Don't worry. Yeah. And

1:24:08

losing the insanity. Like, it still lands

1:24:10

on you. You are not right.

1:24:12

And if you lose More today, you're

1:24:15

already you've already got nine stacked against

1:24:17

your one fifth of the day, which

1:24:19

could lead to a possible break. But with

1:24:21

the meet those tone, it's very, very interesting mechanic,

1:24:23

part of Kalakoothulu. I've never dealt with before

1:24:25

because I never played long enough to

1:24:28

do it. But when you

1:24:30

spend time doing an initial reading,

1:24:32

of a tone, there is an

1:24:34

automatic sanity loss as you are like now exposed to knowledge that

1:24:38

you should not have.

1:24:41

and then you get an

1:24:43

initial bonus now to

1:24:46

your cthulhu mythos scale. So

1:24:49

similar to what happened to Vaughan, you are going to have that happen to you. Every time is

1:24:51

different. this one, you get

1:24:54

plus two to your Mitho

1:24:56

score, and

1:24:59

your max sand goes down by two. Not your

1:25:01

current sand, but your max sand. So if

1:25:03

you were to just sit there

1:25:05

at, like, read domes all day

1:25:07

like these cultists do, you'd start your

1:25:09

maxanne gonna be like ten if you've

1:25:11

read enough of these. if

1:25:14

you continue reading this over time,

1:25:16

and and I can tell you how long it

1:25:19

takes, every book is like it tells

1:25:21

you, x amount of weeks, x amount

1:25:23

of months. time this can tell me, like, yeah, I'm I'm gonna do

1:25:25

that. Oh, I plan on it. Yeah. You will

1:25:27

gain more meet those

1:25:31

points and unlock whenever powers

1:25:33

this book may. Yeah. When can she start doing magic in science? That's what happens with academic

1:25:36

that she is. And

1:25:39

the

1:25:39

the the thirst for

1:25:43

I have to know what this

1:25:45

means. She would absolutely spend time

1:25:47

on this. And

1:25:49

you see symbols and stuff in

1:25:51

the book that looks like

1:25:53

it's been used recently

1:25:55

like someone needed this book

1:25:57

for not only information, but to do something. There's blood stained

1:25:59

on the pages -- Mhmm. -- fresh fingerprints. You can

1:26:01

see someone was using it, but you

1:26:03

look at it. and

1:26:07

it is nonsense. But maybe it won't be after

1:26:09

a couple months or a couple weeks when all

1:26:11

of a sudden. New

1:26:16

information clicks. and you start doing magic.

1:26:18

Yes. Oh, man. So you have your first mythos

1:26:22

tome, Africa's dark sex, but you pay a little

1:26:24

price in the meantime.

1:26:27

Worth it. Worth it.

1:26:29

still

1:26:32

raining on. And we see Carter

1:26:34

and Margo walking over to this deli on

1:26:37

eighth Ave. Maybe to

1:26:39

cross the ballastown. Yeah.

1:26:41

I wanna note that I the photos two piles, one them being the

1:26:44

pictures before.

1:26:49

the fight that I took of the room.

1:26:51

I'm not sure if I wanna show him like the other ones because but we'll

1:26:54

see how these first

1:26:56

ones

1:26:56

go. Right. You might need

1:26:58

to drop that if the conversation isn't going well. What about the picture of you with that mask

1:27:01

over your head? Where

1:27:03

did that one? Not

1:27:06

with me. That is probably

1:27:08

back at the hotel in the piles

1:27:10

of all the copies of my photos.

1:27:13

I think I might have made

1:27:15

one copy of

1:27:15

that. Mhmm. framed it. Is it

1:27:18

where we could find it? Yeah. Are you gonna go through my stuff? I feel like

1:27:20

she wouldn't jinx it

1:27:22

by taking it with her.

1:27:26

life. I

1:27:26

accidentally exposed it. Yeah. because

1:27:29

it could implicate her. So I feel like

1:27:31

she would leave it and maybe, like, try

1:27:33

to hide it in her drawers Man,

1:27:35

in in Vaughan's stores. Mom's

1:27:37

rent a Bond opening

1:27:40

floor. I was like This

1:27:42

photo of Marco. Yeah. My underwear.

1:27:44

Vaughn has been housing you all in the world of

1:27:46

Astoria in this beautiful one bedroom and just bought you

1:27:48

four thousand dollars worth of tickets

1:27:51

to a gala to Arnaud. to

1:27:55

save Brooklyn orphans. Godfather only

1:27:57

gave us five bucks for these

1:27:59

rubins fucking Cheesecake. Don't

1:28:01

spend his own one place.

1:28:03

oh, man. Five whole dollars. Five bucks. This is not gonna

1:28:05

split them. I mean, these rooms probably cost,

1:28:07

like, two bits. It is

1:28:10

very expensive in New York. I

1:28:12

bet that conversation right now. I bet they're having

1:28:14

just a a whale of a time. Those two. There's probably shit of chatter in a

1:28:16

way. I'm gonna have to be

1:28:19

out

1:28:19

here in the rain. So

1:28:21

comfy, snug up, whatever. Yeah. So

1:28:22

I was reading a

1:28:23

book, getting some tickets,

1:28:25

just gonna

1:28:28

out here

1:28:28

doing the hard work. I know.

1:28:30

We're finding everything else. Yeah.

1:28:34

Alright. Let's go in here. You

1:28:36

get out of the rain.

1:28:37

I imagine you took the cross town

1:28:39

bus to thirty fourth. You get out

1:28:41

in the rain, you go to

1:28:43

walk five blocks up

1:28:46

to thirty ninth Street, but

1:28:48

sure enough, there's the deli.

1:28:50

You go inside and it's classic

1:28:53

New York deli and that there's

1:28:55

a long counter with little stools that spin.

1:28:57

It's thin though with boots on the other

1:29:00

side, the Maybe

1:29:02

one or two tables up front, but it's kinda dark in there. And

1:29:04

if you look

1:29:07

in the back booth, you

1:29:11

see a lieutenant pool sitting there

1:29:13

eating a corned beef on

1:29:16

rye. He

1:29:18

sees you Oh, there he is. And that sandwich

1:29:20

looks bomb. But you want to

1:29:22

order a sandwich or as you can

1:29:25

do? Yeah. That's Okay. Come

1:29:27

on. You gotta try these ribbons

1:29:28

by the way. They've got sauerkraut on them. Have you

1:29:30

ever heard of sauerkraut? Do they get it's

1:29:33

got sauerkraut in Germany? No. No? Man, you guys gotta check

1:29:35

it out. Maybe we'll bring it over next time. Oh, okay. Oh, it's a

1:29:37

delicacy. I don't know where

1:29:39

it came from.

1:29:40

a delicacy and unaware came from

1:29:42

Oh, cool. Hey. Yeah. Get over here. Get over here.

1:29:44

Please sit sit sit down. So if I'm

1:29:46

being fed here a little earlier. Anyway,

1:29:50

you got you got twenty minutes

1:29:53

of my time. What's

1:29:55

what's going on? I hope

1:29:57

your mind is fully encased in that

1:29:59

skull of

1:29:59

yours because it's about to get blown

1:30:02

out the back of your head. Dips

1:30:04

this rye, can do a big

1:30:06

thing, a brown mustard, takes a bite, chases

1:30:08

it with some coffee. What do

1:30:10

you got? What if I told you? That

1:30:13

what if i told you juju

1:30:15

house in Harlem.

1:30:17

hi is the

1:30:18

epicenter of a crime wave that you've been investigating

1:30:19

for I don't know

1:30:22

how long, but a long

1:30:24

term. What

1:30:26

is what is Chu Chu House? It is

1:30:29

an African Curio shop that's run

1:30:31

by one silas nakwane, Now,

1:30:34

now

1:30:35

Hilton Adams, who as you

1:30:37

know, arrested, who as you know,

1:30:40

or rather supposed, is

1:30:42

innocent. He himself thought

1:30:44

that this place was

1:30:45

important in terms of the missing

1:30:47

people, the murders, even the murder

1:30:49

of Jackson Alliance. Did Ferruz

1:30:51

and Margo tell pool that you went

1:30:53

and spoke to Hilton Adams? I'm trying to

1:30:55

remember the timeline of events.

1:30:57

He did. tell him to be spoke to

1:30:59

him. Okay. Okay. He

1:31:01

puts a

1:31:03

sandwich down, lights up

1:31:05

a cigarette. the classic corned beef coffee

1:31:07

cigarette. BREO. Yes. Carter's mouth is just watering. He's just watching him. He's like,

1:31:09

it's really hard for me not to

1:31:11

order right now. pause

1:31:15

my story.

1:31:15

Margos, you wanna say anything? You wanna I

1:31:17

don't wanna you know. Thank you for meeting

1:31:19

with us.

1:31:20

We have a

1:31:23

couple items and photographs. we would

1:31:25

like to

1:31:25

share with you -- Sort of

1:31:27

grass. -- from the juju house. Now -- Okay. -- we may taken the

1:31:32

liberty of letting ourselves in to ginger

1:31:34

house while that was closed. She kicks you under the table. Ow. I mean, Ow.

1:31:39

Could we not? because

1:31:40

Alright. Alright. Listen. Before you go any

1:31:42

further, just understand. I'm a

1:31:43

policeman first. Should obviously have a

1:31:46

special interest in this in this

1:31:48

case, but

1:31:50

this isn't my case. All this investigation has moved up town to the fourteenth precinct.

1:31:56

So

1:31:57

Be careful what you're telling me

1:31:59

here.

1:31:59

We're putting a lot of trust into you. Just

1:32:02

consider us your vigilante c i's. Yeah. Well, I want your

1:32:04

friends. last

1:32:07

time when they were her and your other friend that this is something you

1:32:09

need to be very careful but you shouldn't

1:32:11

even be involved in.