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Oh my god, what is

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Come on, come on this way?

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Oh when

1:05

I said, you run as

1:07

fast as you can want? Trust

1:10

me? Okay,

1:18

up, Jeremy

2:02

Son Son? Where are

2:04

you Dad? Jeremy?

2:08

Where are you? Dad? Got

2:11

in here? Jeremy follow

2:14

the sound of my voice. Come to me? Yeah?

2:29

Oh God, Dad?

2:35

And Dad?

2:41

Hey are you in there? Dad? And

2:45

and oh come on, God

2:48

forbid? They leave a fucking note? Why

2:51

didn't I charge my phone? Okay,

2:56

okay, okay, gon't frege out. Everything's fine, even though

2:58

you are talking to yourself off. Fuck

3:03

Dad, Dad?

3:09

What are you doing out here? Jeremy?

3:12

It's me, it

3:15

is are you okay?

3:17

Yeah? Yeah, I'm sorry. I

3:20

came out for some fresh air. Jeez,

3:25

I don't even remember falling asleep and I

3:28

woke up And did

3:30

you not hear me calling you? I

3:32

always hear you're calling me, Jeremy, what

3:35

do you mean. When I was

3:37

in that place, there were so

3:39

many times I heard your voice and

3:42

I would go looking for you, running

3:44

for what felt like hours, never getting anywhere.

3:49

It's so strange being back here at Dan's house.

3:52

I feel like my whole lifetime was spending those woods.

3:55

From here, they just seemed Yeah,

4:00

yeah, it don't look so scary in the

4:02

light of day, do they. No, they

4:05

don't. You

4:08

know, I never liked these woods.

4:11

I know it's uh, it's like a

4:13

tourist destination and

4:15

people like coming here in hiking and everyone

4:18

finds it so beautiful and

4:21

peaceful. But

4:23

any time I had to do research here, I just

4:27

dreaded it. Things.

4:30

Now, I know why you

4:32

remember getting lost? Ah,

4:37

No, not really, and and told me about

4:39

it, and I guess it brought back

4:41

some of it in bids pieces.

4:44

But I'm morema,

4:47

you know this is

4:50

that's where I lost you. I'm truly sorry,

4:52

Jeremy. I hope you know that about

4:54

losing you and then

4:57

getting lost myself. Yeah, I know. Hey,

5:01

I shouldn't have yelled at you about it

5:03

last night. I just, you know, it's

5:07

just a lot to deal with me. It

5:10

is, did sleeping

5:13

help at all, I have been able to close my eye.

5:15

I don't know, it's I'm

5:19

having this nightmare again. Actually I keep having

5:21

it. It's about that day, that day

5:23

when I went missing. Those were

5:26

the worst seven hours of my life. You

5:28

know, I wish I could remember them more.

5:31

When Anne told me, she

5:33

told me that apparently I said something about what

5:36

you're talking to me, and she was

5:39

I thought she was working crazy. But

5:41

now with you, you know,

5:45

I really wonder what happened that day,

5:48

what what could have happened? I

5:50

wish I knew too. I'm just

5:52

glad we got you back. You

5:55

know, it makes sense to me that you became a folklore

5:58

professor. Really when

6:00

we found you, well, like Anne

6:02

told you, you had this strange story about a little

6:04

great creature, and you were a bit different

6:09

after it seemed

6:11

older somehow, And

6:13

being a parent is just an exercise and watching

6:16

your kids grow up overnight. But this was I

6:18

don't know. You were very focused.

6:22

What do you mean focused? You kept asking

6:25

me to read you fairy tales. You

6:28

never really liked them at all much before. You actually

6:30

were never much for being read to it all. You

6:32

were always up playing in the dirt, I was such

6:36

an active kid. I remember

6:38

really looking forward to teaching you baseball,

6:41

playing catch with you. But after

6:43

we got you back, he just wanted to hear stories.

6:47

I just assumed it was because you got scared of the

6:49

outdoors. But now I wonder

6:52

you mean if I got fixated on fairy

6:54

tales and monsters because I lived through it. I

6:56

don't know. I don't remember when I first got interested

6:59

in all this stuff. I

7:01

guess I just always was. I've

7:04

spent my whole life reading about it. That's that's

7:06

the way it feels. Thank god you have you

7:08

had the knowledge to get me out. No, I

7:11

can't take any credit for that, because I really didn't

7:13

believe any of this stuff until last night. Even

7:17

now, it feels

7:19

impossible. I know

7:21

what you mean. H Um,

7:27

where's Anne? She went out for breakfast?

7:30

Refrigerators full of food. No, it's

7:32

not that she wanted to go to Pat's get my favorite

7:34

paroguis. Ah, you used to go

7:37

to Pats. I'd love that place. Did

7:39

you take me there? No? No,

7:41

not that I remember. It was always something

7:43

we would do on duty. Uh

7:46

what kind do you usually? I always get the cheese

7:48

and potato? About

7:50

that? That's my order to Really, that

7:54

must be a Bradshaw

7:57

trader, you get it. It

7:59

must be An always goes with the

8:01

sweet? Was the raspberry? Jam? I

8:03

never understood how she does that much sugar in the morning.

8:06

I'm sorry. I didn't mean

8:08

to. I

8:11

know it must be strange too. I

8:14

haven't even had a chance to ask you about

8:16

your mom yet. How's she

8:19

doing? Uh?

8:21

She's okay. She lives in California now. Really,

8:23

Yeah, we both moved out there when I was in college

8:26

and she

8:28

she's remarried. That's good.

8:31

Yeah, is it? I always

8:33

wanted her to be happy. You kind of

8:35

went about it a strange way. I know

8:38

I messed up. How

8:42

how long were you and

8:44

and going before mom

8:46

found out? Jeremy,

8:48

it wasn't

8:50

like that, No, because I seem to

8:52

remember you mom being very much

8:54

married when when Anne got pregnant.

8:57

You're angry with me, No, one,

9:01

I've just overwhelmed. I've learned

9:03

a lot of very surprising information in a very

9:05

short period of time, and I just need a second to adjust.

9:09

Yeah, I can relate to that. I

9:11

haven't been anywhere yet except the house

9:13

that's familiar to me, and I still feel like I'm on a

9:15

different planet. I don't even know who

9:17

the president is. Joe Biden, the

9:20

Senator. I guess he's actually president

9:22

elected technically, and you actual just happened

9:24

a few weeks ago. And who's got the job until January.

9:27

Oh, you don't want to know. Trust me. You

9:29

know it's okay.

9:32

If you're mad at me, I'm not okay.

9:36

Me and your mom were having problems before

9:39

anything ever started with Anne. We got married

9:41

too young. We

9:43

knew it wasn't going to work out. Probably

9:46

wouldn't remember any of that. We tried to shield

9:48

you from everything that was breaking between us. You

9:52

were so young. Yeah, I

9:54

don't regret what happened

9:56

with Anne. I fell in love. I

10:00

I'm in love with her still. I

10:02

don't know what that means now, but I

10:06

never stopped. I'm

10:09

glad that you've gotten to know her, that she's spending

10:11

your life. Coming out

10:13

of that place to see the two of you side

10:16

by side, I

10:19

don't think the situation is exactly

10:21

what you expect. Grubs

10:24

up, God,

10:49

where are we? I don't know. I

10:52

knew we were walking toward my nana's house before,

10:54

but now we're in a part of the woods. I

10:56

don't recognize I shouldn't

10:58

have taken us further in, and I just thought that maybe

11:00

if it was darker and there were more trees. I know you

11:03

did the right thing. Well, I definitely

11:05

couldn't lead us. Yeah, how

11:07

are you doing? I think the bleeding is

11:10

mostly stopped. We'll not dead

11:12

anyway. It's getting lighter

11:14

now, so we should be able to get out

11:16

of here soon find some help. But you're

11:18

not looking so great either. No, that's the thing

11:20

just it clipped me. You. You

11:23

bore the brunt of it. How

11:26

did you? I mean you

11:31

the thing would have chased us down and killed

11:33

us if you hadn't. I don't know about

11:35

that. How are you so calm?

11:37

How did you know what to do? Honestly,

11:39

I'm not sure. It's like

11:42

something in my brain just clicked on fight

11:45

or flight. I guess maybe.

11:48

I think it's safe to say I fit into the flight

11:50

category. Good thing too,

11:53

or it would have caught me right, And hey, I

11:56

doubt it. I mean, you were

11:59

unbelievable. Sure, I started

12:01

running first, but when it caught up and you reacted

12:04

so quickly, you knew exactly

12:06

what to do. I've just plaid a

12:08

lot of video games with even Okay, Olivia,

12:10

that was not a video game. Yeah,

12:14

no, ship, I

12:16

can't believe this happened to me. Again,

12:19

I probably would have died tonight if not for

12:21

you. Come on with him, and you're not giving yourself

12:24

enough. Wait a second,

12:27

I recognize that rock, Olivia.

12:31

Are you okay?

12:34

Is that your car? Yeah? So

12:38

we just went in an enormous

12:40

circle. Yeah,

12:44

all right, come on, then get it okay.

12:53

Mm hmm. I

12:57

forgot how good eating was. You really

12:59

didn't have to eat the entire time you were

13:01

gone. No eat,

13:04

drinks, sleep, none of it. I don't

13:06

understand how it works, but part of me is grateful.

13:08

Otherwise I probably would have wasted away in there.

13:11

And the boy you mentioned,

13:14

Alden, it

13:16

was the same for him. He was seven when he

13:18

went in, and by the time that I got out, he

13:21

was still seven forty years

13:24

So you felt,

13:27

you felt time passing, but your

13:29

bodies didn't. What

13:31

do you think, in Bradshaw? Well, I don't know.

13:34

It's some kind of dimensional pocket

13:36

that your consciousness could comprehend enough to know

13:38

the time was lapsing. If

13:40

it's really an in between, then

13:44

there's obviously something on the other side,

13:46

right, I'm sure of it. So then maybe it's a

13:48

wormhole, like a place where time has folded

13:50

over on itself and the other side

13:52

isn't isn't actually another

13:55

world, but it's another time, a time

13:57

in which monsters are real. I mean, you

13:59

know of the millions of years ago that were enormous

14:01

creatures roaming the earth, not just dinosaurs,

14:04

but bare dogs and giant

14:06

land sloths and things that

14:09

you know now sound made up. So

14:12

you think Thomas was in a wormhole that

14:15

connects our time with dinosaurs. You

14:17

can't say that, like, it's ridiculous. We are

14:19

sitting here eating baroghies with a man who's

14:22

been dead for forty years, no

14:25

offense. Oh, it's okay. I don't know the

14:27

appropriate amount of time to get used to any of

14:29

this, but I have a feeling

14:32

it's more than twelve hours. Yeah,

14:35

yeah, okay. Well, but

14:38

if it was something like a worm hole, why

14:40

would celeste ritual have worked? I

14:43

have no idea. Dad,

14:46

you said that boy um

14:49

that he went missing in nine that's

14:51

right, and you went missing in nineteen eighty, and

14:55

now I

14:59

would have thought things look like the Jetsons behind

15:01

so ever celested whatever,

15:03

the children of Titubate did was just

15:06

well timed. Um,

15:10

maybe it's it's just about that forty

15:12

year cycle. That doesn't disqualify

15:14

it from being magic. Look, I know,

15:17

and I'm open to any ideas at this stage,

15:19

but I can't exactly call anything unbelievable

15:22

now. I just want to make sure that we have our priorities

15:24

straight. I agree, which is why we need to work on

15:26

getting Alden out of there. No, that's

15:29

not what I meant. We don't know what

15:31

the in between might have done to you on a molecular

15:34

level. You haven't aged, and you seem in

15:36

pretty good health. But what if all the

15:38

time you missed is suddenly going to catch up with you

15:40

now that you're back. That doesn't matter, what, of

15:43

course it does. I'm not worried about me. I'm not

15:45

even sure how I was the one who got away when he'd

15:47

been there for much longer. I

15:50

don't know. You got lucky. Now,

15:53

there's a chance that Alden will get

15:55

lucky too, But in the meantime,

15:57

the meantime he's alone, Yeah, well

15:59

so was I.

16:02

I just mean one step at a time.

16:04

Okay, we can't

16:06

do anything if we don't know what the in between is,

16:10

whatever it is, whatever

16:12

might be on the other side. We have you

16:14

back now, Okay, that's

16:17

what's important. Thank you. Anna. You

16:19

know what I think. I think we've gone borrowing

16:22

quite enough trouble recently. As far as we

16:25

know, everything worked and

16:27

you get to live the next forty years of your life all

16:30

over again. I

16:32

understand that you're worried about this boy, okay,

16:36

but you have to remember that he's not alone. Celeste

16:38

is with him now. As much as that woman

16:40

frustrated me, she can

16:43

look after him.

16:45

Yeah. I guess. I

16:47

guess you're right. And there's

16:50

so much we have to

16:52

catch you up on. Jeremy was

16:54

telling me Senator Biden is going to be

16:56

president. How old is he? What

17:00

else? Did the Berlin wall fall? Actually

17:02

it did? Oh good?

17:04

A lot has happened in the last four years. I

17:07

know. I see that every time

17:09

I look at both of you, and we're going to tell you

17:11

all of it. No, not

17:14

all at once. Well, we

17:17

have time now, I

17:19

mean we actually, yeah,

17:22

we have time. All of this, all

17:24

of this nonsense is over. Yeah,

17:28

I mean I I want to figure it out. I

17:30

want to figure it all out one day and one

17:33

day probably write a book. That no one will ever believe.

17:36

But um, for now,

17:38

But for now, can

17:40

we just finish these parogies?

17:51

That's how real. I can't

17:53

believe it. I

17:55

mean, all those stories

17:57

that my nana's told me growing up. When

18:00

I was a kid, I thought it was

18:02

just very tale stuff, stories

18:04

to scare kids and are not wandering off, not

18:07

doing dangerous stuff in the woods.

18:11

When I got older, I realized

18:13

that she actually believed it all, and

18:18

I started to be scared of her

18:20

instead of the woods, because I

18:22

thought it meant something was wrong with her, but

18:25

she was sick or I

18:27

don't know. And then it just made

18:29

me sad because I

18:31

understood that she lost a friend

18:34

and she felt guilty and her mind

18:36

to do all sorts of things with guilt. But

18:40

she was right this whole

18:42

time. She was actually right. Hippen,

18:48

hippen, you're being uncharacteristically

18:51

quiet. Sorry, I'm

18:53

listening, I swear, I know. I

18:56

just still freaked hem,

18:58

are you not? Oh no, I'm deaf at lea,

19:00

still having a total meltdown. Just

19:02

also trying really hard not to crash the car right now.

19:05

I really think I should be the one driving

19:07

your herd and you patched me up. Well,

19:09

Okay, Nana is going to be so smug that she was

19:11

right about keeping a first aid kid in the car all

19:14

the time. Olivia, you still

19:16

might need stitches. And I'm fine, really,

19:19

and driving is helping me focus,

19:22

keeping my mind off you know, monsters

19:24

and stuff. You

19:27

telling me what you're thinking could also

19:29

do that. Are we

19:32

are we sure about what we saw?

19:35

What? I mean? It was a dog,

19:38

right? Yeah? Maybe it was just

19:40

some sort of I don't know, special

19:42

breed, a special breed of dog. That's

19:45

if we tall with three rows of

19:47

teeth. Yeah, right, I did notice

19:49

the multiple rows of teeth pretty

19:51

hard not to. But if that, if

19:55

that was real, then the thing

19:57

that attacked me was not an owl.

20:00

It just it doesn't make any sense, of

20:02

course it doesn't. That doesn't mean this

20:04

isn't happening. Having

20:08

a really hard time with us, aren't you. I've

20:11

spent the past six years studying

20:13

this stuff, but I never

20:15

thought it. I thought you believed, or

20:18

at least that you wanted to. I guess

20:20

there's a difference between believing

20:22

and seeing. Usually seeing

20:25

bring some degree of certainty and comfort.

20:28

Yeah, I don't think that's happening

20:30

for me. Hey,

20:32

Hey, what happened tonight was really

20:34

fucked up, but

20:37

you survived. We both

20:39

did. I ran and

20:41

you stayed to fight the thing, and I didn't

20:44

even I wanted to give you time to get

20:46

away. Keep trying to hit

20:48

it too would have defeated the purpose. You could have

20:50

gotten really hurt. Lived they

20:52

didn't, and now

20:55

we have matching monster scars.

20:57

It's pretty cool, right you.

21:00

You're sure about what we saw? Yes, I

21:02

mean I know my own mind and

21:04

it couldn't have made that up. So

21:10

whenever you're ready to dive headfirst

21:12

into holy sh it, holy ship,

21:14

monsters are real and I've lived to tell the tale.

21:17

Territory. No, Um,

21:20

I'll be right here for you. Thanks.

21:24

Come on, Let's get inside before the adrenaline

21:27

wears off and I start sobbing or something. Okay,

21:32

that's that's Jeremy's

21:35

car. That would explain why he wasn't picking

21:37

up at least spotty service. Yeah,

21:40

or he left his car here and he

21:42

and Anne walked to the lake. Let's

21:45

go inside before your brain has a chance to finish

21:47

that thought. Nana, Nana

21:50

live, Oh my god, thank god, you're all right,

21:53

my kid? What's going on? Wait?

21:57

Is s Ethan. Okay, yeah, yeah, he's he's fine,

21:59

Jesus to live. What happened? Are you okay?

22:02

I am fine? What are

22:04

you doing here? Professor Jeremy?

22:06

Are you all right? Yeah?

22:09

Are you bleeding? Um? I'm fine,

22:12

I think um, but it's

22:14

really Olivia, who is totally fine.

22:17

Yeah, don't look at where have you been? You

22:19

want to the lake to look for you. And when

22:21

we got there there were all these cops and what

22:23

happened to Celeste? We were worried that something Wait

22:25

wait, wait wait what happened? Was Celeste?

22:27

She's dead? She's

22:32

ah. We thought you knew? No,

22:37

no, um, we we we thought

22:39

she was. Ah.

22:42

It's a it's a long story. What we want

22:44

to hear it? Okay, but trust me, there's something

22:47

else? What is it?

22:49

As we were leaving the woods there, um,

22:53

who was that? Ah? This

22:56

is um? Hi, I'm

22:59

I'm I'm Thomas. Okay,

23:01

Thomas is a friend Thomas.

23:04

This is Olivia my granddaughter.

23:08

Oh yeah,

23:13

I'm I'm really glad to meet

23:15

you. Olivia. Yeah

23:18

you too. I mean wait,

23:21

have you met before? You look so funny?

23:23

Yeah? Do you own that new um coffee

23:26

shop downtown? You

23:29

haven't met? No, I oh

23:31

uh, it's just shops with

23:34

coffee, that's all they sell. Whoa, whoa, whoa, wha

23:36

wha Wait you're

23:38

Thomas Bradshaw. Wait

23:44

wait wait holy ship, as

23:46

in are you? Is

23:49

this? How? How is this? It's him?

23:52

It's him? Oh god, Hey,

23:54

whoa whoa, Easy there, Bubba, I

23:56

think I need to sit down. Good idea. Why

23:59

don't we all sit down? Wait? Wait, we know hold

24:01

on. This is Thomas

24:04

Bradshaw, like your old

24:06

partner, Thomas Bradshaw, the detective

24:09

who've been missing forty years ago, and it's now

24:11

standing in your kitchen looking, I

24:13

mean looking exactly like the photo

24:15

in his file from the fucking seventies.

24:18

If we can explain kind of you

24:20

were dead? Are you? Is

24:23

this some sort of Well no, I'm not

24:25

a ghost, I swear. I'm

24:27

just a man, just a regular

24:29

man who was trapped in a limital

24:31

dimensional space for forty years. That's

24:34

okay, Thomas, Honey, that's not really helping

24:36

the If you could

24:39

whoa whoa whoa? Wait you

24:42

you and you

24:44

were together? Okay? Oh

24:47

god, Jeremy, what you said yesterday?

24:49

Hey? Hey, can we all get can we just can we

24:51

get into this later? Please Olivia is your

24:53

niece, which means Thomas, what is

24:55

her grandfather? What live

24:58

honey? Um? Oh? What the a

25:00

fuck? Nanna? Was that? This isn't ever

25:02

how I imagine this going. I actually didn't even

25:04

know you existed. Oh well that makes two of us.

25:06

Yeah, but I'm so, I'm so glad

25:09

you do this. This is why yesterday you

25:11

were so you just found out,

25:13

didn't you. Yes, really honestly, which is

25:15

why I really don't particularly want to go through this whole thing again

25:18

right now? Please? Who is he back?

25:21

How did you keep this from us? Does

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mom know? No? What?

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Wow? She doesn't? Thomas?

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M guys?

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Sorry, hold on a

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beer Becker, it's Dr Edwards.

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Oh hey, Doc, that's a listen.

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Now is not really a great time, if you know

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what I mean, I won't keep you. But

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you know how you told me to ever call you as something

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strange came into the office. Yeah,

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well, have I got a doozy

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for you. This

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episode of Bridgewater was written by Lauren

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Shippen and directed by Brendan Patrick

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Hughes Assistant director Sarah

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Klein. Sound designed by Vincent de

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Johnny rema Il Kayali, Josh

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Thane, and Trevor Young, with music

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by Chad Lawson, starring Misha

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Collins as Jeremy Bradshaw, Melissa

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Ponzio as Anne Becker, Alan

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Tutick as Thomas Bradshaw, Karen

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Sony as Vipen Corona, Sabra

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May as Olivia Hoskins,

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Cheryl Umania as Officer Bautista,

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Will Wheaton as Captain Haddock, Tricia

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Helfer as the Legend Tripper,

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Stephen Guarino as Dr Edwards,

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Nandamisu Demba as Peyton

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Blake, Hilary Burton Morgan as

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Shelley Hoskins, Nicki McCauley

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as Celeste, Then Victoria Grace

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as Katie Franks, with additional

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voice acting by Greta Gould, Shelby

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Young, Adam oh Byrne, Monty

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Markham, char Lee Bergman and Tern

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Westbrook. Executive producers

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Aaron Mankey, Misha Collins, Lauren

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Shippin, Matt Frederick and Alexander

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Williams. Supervising producers Josh

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Thane and Trevor Young. Bridgewater

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was created by me Aaron Mankey and

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is a production of Grim and Mild and I Heart

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