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discretion advised. Ethan,

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Honey, we watch

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you athen Ethan,

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Ethan, baby, wake up? Call

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for help? Okay the fun

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fuck fuck Jeremy, there's

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no fucking service. Oh

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come on, Ethan, it's me, it's me,

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it's nano. Okay, baby, wake up? Did

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you find him? He won't wake up here?

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Let me don't don't don't touch him,

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okay, Just to make yourself useful

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and just go for help. Yes, Hello,

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this is Jeremy Bradshaw. I'm at Assan

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at Ledge in Freetown. Can you hear

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me? Freetown State Forest.

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There's a young boy here who seems to be injured.

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We watch you, you

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want you, you're coming,

1:03

Ethan, Ethan, baby,

1:06

can you hear me? Come here? At

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it here, let me stop

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not those animals. Dementary

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ethne No,

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no, yeah,

2:04

yeah, baby, yeah, baby, it's it's

2:06

me. No, no, yeah,

2:09

he's he's

2:11

gonna be okay, you'll

2:15

be okay. Yeah. Yeah.

2:19

It wasn't the fire out, Yes,

2:22

it was. What

2:54

did you do to him? He was

2:56

possessed? I exercised the spirit

2:58

from his body. Oh so

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now you're a priest. I told you.

3:03

I'm attuned to the spirits. I've

3:06

spent my whole life learning the specters and shadows

3:09

of this place. Your

3:11

grandson is not the first wandering soul

3:13

in the forest. I've said, right you,

3:19

thank you, I'm

3:21

sorry, thank

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you, You're

3:26

welcome here.

3:29

Yeah, the Hoskins.

3:32

How is he? When can we see him? He's all

3:34

right, you can see him in just a moment. He's

3:36

not all right. He was speaking in tongues

3:38

and covered in symbols Olivia. Physically

3:42

he's fine, a little dehydrated,

3:44

has some minor cuts and bruises. But you can

3:46

take him home tonight. Thank god,

3:50

Thank you. Dr Did

3:53

he say anything to you, um

3:56

no. He seems to still

3:58

be in shock. The only thing he

4:00

said was that it was happening again,

4:03

does that mean anything to you? I

4:07

don't know. Doctor.

4:10

You can go ahead and see him now. I'll

4:13

get started on the discharge papers and

4:24

m hmm. Don't you

4:26

want to go talk to him?

4:28

Ah? I don't know. Yes,

4:31

of course I do, but just I'm

4:33

just going to give family some time.

4:38

And you are family.

4:43

I'm blood, it's not not the same.

4:48

I'm glad the child is safe. Yeah,

4:52

thank you anytime, man,

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Truly, I am here to help.

4:59

That's really all you we're doing in the woods tonight. You

5:02

were helping. Of course,

5:05

where a small community, we have to look after one

5:07

another. And I'm better equipped

5:09

than most to deal with this particular danger,

5:12

the danger of missing children, those

5:15

who get lost in the untamed

5:17

places, right, because

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you're so attuned. Yes,

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Mr Bradshaw, I am,

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And you can gaze upon that fact with as

5:27

much derision as you like, but it is

5:29

just that a fact. And

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I don't need your approval, nor anyone

5:34

else's. I know myself and what

5:36

I'm capable of, and that is

5:38

all that matters. And

5:41

what are you capable of? Celeste?

5:44

And was right? Any time something

5:46

happens here? You and

5:48

your cabal of friends seem to

5:50

be right at the center of it. Why

5:54

was there a bonfire there tonight? What

5:56

were you all doing that wasn't

5:59

one of ours? No, you

6:01

seem pretty practiced at stoking it, almost

6:04

like you built it yourself. I

6:06

didn't stoke those flames, Mr Bradshaw.

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You know just as well as I that I was feed

6:11

away, tending to ethan. The

6:13

fire started anew on its own.

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That's not possible, of course. It is.

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Perhaps the wind picked up an ember,

6:21

pushed it into some dry kindling at the center,

6:23

or someone had left an incendiary

6:25

amongst the logs to cause confusion and fear.

6:29

That's what you'd say. Isn't it a perfectly

6:32

rational explanation for every single

6:34

event, even if you have to stretch

6:36

it over your memory of what actually happened,

6:38

like trying to fit a rubber band

6:41

around the world. Where's

6:46

Katie? I'm

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sorry she was

6:50

with you earlier. If you were really

6:53

part of the search effort, you'd know

6:55

you were supposed to be in pairs, and

6:57

so we were. But where

6:59

is now? She

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she got frightened? What did

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she get frightened of? So? Last you of

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the forest, Mr Bradshaw,

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Katie is she

7:13

isn't ready for the entire truth of Bridgewater.

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What does that mean? She's

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grieving morning a loved

7:20

one is what brought her and so

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many others to the gathering. You

7:25

are not a support group. We

7:28

are many things. Katie

7:30

wanted to contact her mother, That's why she joined

7:32

the gathering. Contact

7:34

as in to talk to her ghost,

7:37

talk with her ghost, commune with her spirit,

7:39

whatever you want to call it. I

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think being confronted with all those spirits

7:44

scared her, especially after what happened with her

7:46

friend. She's afraid of angering

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the souls that dwell within the forest.

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She's just not ready because

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she's okay, isn't

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she? She'll be absolutely fine.

8:00

Your grandson, on the other hand, I what

8:03

what what is wrong with him? Hey? An, he's

8:06

fine. Why don't you go check on him? Don't you

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tell me what to do? Fradshaw And

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I think he's right An. You should

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go be with your family. Okay,

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you shouldn't do that. Do what

8:24

scare her like that? She's already

8:26

gone through enough and even as fine you just heard

8:28

the doctor. That doctor doesn't know

8:31

what she is dealing with. They

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won't be able to take Ethan home tonight.

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Just you watch. I

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am watching you. Then

8:40

as ever, you are looking in the

8:42

wrong place. What

8:50

do you mean you're keeping him overnight at

8:52

request of the police. We've been asked. I can explain

8:55

this. We're

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dealing with a potential kidnapping case. Services

9:00

Hoskins. It's safest to have

9:02

Ethan here overnight for observation and

9:04

station a uniformed officer outside

9:06

his room. Do you think he's still in

9:09

danger. We're just trying to figure

9:11

out what's going on. We'd like to

9:13

interview him soon. If that's all right, Absolutely

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not. I will talk to him

9:18

and you can be in the room silently.

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Ah, Brad Shawn Becker the worst crime

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solving dueos since Bonnie and Clyde. Bonnie

9:26

and Clyde didn't solve crimes, they committed them

9:28

exactly. Well, excuse me

9:31

for being protective of my grandson, who,

9:33

if I recall correctly, I found

9:35

before the police did. Yes, well

9:37

done. Ms Becker. Roll very

9:39

glad that Ethan is safe. But this

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is an active investigation, and

9:44

you are a civilian. You either

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let me talk to him or you don't

9:48

talk to him at all. Fine,

9:53

Mom, it's all right, Shelly.

9:56

We're not going to scare him. We just need

9:58

to know what happened? Okay,

10:03

Okay, not you,

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Bradshaw Man. I

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was right there with you. You said this one

10:09

out. But it's

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all right, Ethan. You're safe now, I

10:35

know. I'm

10:37

I'm not scared. Then talk

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to me, baby, I'm not a baby.

10:42

Okay, Okay, you're right. I'm

10:44

sorry. You're tough as hell, and I know that

10:46

you've been through a lot, but we really need you to

10:48

tell us what happened. All

10:50

right. I don't know what happened,

10:53

Okay, just just talk me through the weekend.

10:55

Okay. You were camping with your boy Scout Troop.

10:58

Yeah, we've been

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camping in Freetown a lot. It's

11:03

not like I didn't know what I was doing. I know

11:05

you're a really good camper and

11:07

we go camping and hiking all the time.

11:10

You know that forest, yes, exactly.

11:14

And I'm like used to the noises

11:16

and stuff that the noises

11:19

well, you know, the birds and

11:21

animals and the trees and stuff. Forest

11:24

quiet, not house quiet, right, right,

11:27

right, I'm used to the

11:29

forest quiet. But some of the others

11:32

get scared. Like the first night

11:34

there was all this cracking and like

11:36

something skittering, and

11:39

like Mason, he's only ten

11:42

so he gets scared. You know, he

11:45

was really worried it was some kind of monster

11:47

because I guess his older brother

11:50

told him there was monsters in Freetown.

11:52

But you know better, Yeah, I

11:55

do, except

11:59

except yeah, can

12:03

you get him some water? Go on eveing?

12:08

Right? So last

12:11

night, yeah, yeah,

12:13

I think it was last night, Nana.

12:19

What day is it, honey? It Sunday

12:21

night, Sunday?

12:24

Okay, so

12:26

yeah, last

12:29

night, our second night it

12:33

mm hmm, Nana.

12:43

I know there aren't monsters, and

12:46

know that just bad

12:48

people. That's what you always

12:51

say. The only

12:53

real monsters are the bad people. That's

12:56

right. But I

12:59

don't even remember walking up to the ledge.

13:02

I just don't remember the

13:05

ledge. Yeah, above

13:07

the lake. People are on top of the ledge.

13:10

Yeah, Ethan, No,

13:12

no, no, we found you right next to the lake. No,

13:17

no, you couldn't. I was.

13:20

I was up there. I woke up there.

13:23

Okay, all right, let's just just to go back for a second.

13:25

Okay, let's let's talk about what happens Saturday

13:27

night. There were voices,

13:31

but they didn't they

13:35

didn't sound like people. No, they

13:38

weren't people. Did you see

13:41

something even? And

13:44

it was like what Grandpa used to talk

13:46

about Grandpa. Yeah,

13:50

Dad's dad, right,

13:52

Grandpapa Hoskins? Yeah?

13:56

Who else would I be talking about? No

13:58

one, Just keep going. Grant

14:02

used to talk about the puck watches. You know. Wait,

14:06

you're not walking up, so you wouldn't know.

14:10

They're like fairies,

14:13

except really mean. They've

14:15

got quills and spears and fire,

14:18

and they even tricked people into getting hurt. And

14:24

Nana, I

14:27

think I saw one you

14:30

saw puck watching. It was

14:32

talking to me, trying to get

14:34

me to go with it. Ah,

14:38

I don't know why I did. There

14:41

was these lights. I

14:43

could barely see past them. They

14:45

were big and so bright, and

14:48

then like a triangle,

14:51

and there was a person but

14:53

they looked wrong, and

14:56

at first I thought it was one of the other boys.

15:00

They were short, whoever it was, but

15:04

do you think it was a puck watching? It

15:07

was something something, and

15:10

it was saying, we

15:12

want you come here, So

15:16

I went. I wanted to. I

15:20

don't know why, but I wanted to

15:22

follow the lights. I'm

15:25

sorry, I know I shouldn't have. Oh,

15:27

honey, No, it's okay, it's okay. You didn't

15:29

do anything wrong. What's

15:32

the next thing you remember, Captain? Please, it's

15:35

okay. Ethan, please go ahead. I

15:38

don't I don't know. I'm

15:42

sorry now, I don't know. I

15:45

don't remember anything. It's okay, that's

15:47

all right. Really, you

15:49

were there in that woman,

15:51

that's all I know. You mean at

15:54

the lake by the fire. Yeah,

15:58

we sell the lights lights?

16:00

What what do you mean that the bonfire? No,

16:03

the lights? You saw them, right,

16:05

Nana? What what lights? Baby? All

16:07

around you? You and that woman, they

16:09

were floating lights. No, Ethan,

16:12

that there weren't any lights. I know what

16:14

I saw, Okay, okay,

16:17

I do believe you, Ethan.

16:21

Do you remember anyone else being around

16:24

tonight besides me and Celeste, that

16:27

the woman? Anyone? Um,

16:30

all right, I don't know, Okay,

16:34

that's okay, it's just honey.

16:38

Do you know how you got those symbols

16:40

on your arm? Symbols?

16:43

Mm hmm yeah you um, they

16:45

washed them off when they admitage you. But you had these

16:48

symbols all over your

16:50

arms. I did why

16:53

what do you mean we don't We don't know. I mean, we

16:55

didn't recognize them. Maybe maybe one of the

16:57

boys did it, you know, as a prank for

17:00

fun. They were written in blood. No,

17:04

honey, it's okay. What does he mean

17:06

blood. Who's blood? No,

17:09

it's we're just not sure, you

17:11

know. The police. The police is testing it now.

17:13

And what happens

17:15

to me, Nana? What happened?

17:18

You got lost, that's

17:20

all, baby, You just got lost.

17:22

Is it true the

17:25

stories you always told? Are they

17:27

true? Are there monsters

17:29

in the woods? They

17:33

no, Son, there aren't

17:35

any monsters in the woods. We

17:38

believe that you were kidnapped by a cult. Does

17:41

the gathering sound familiar to you?

17:43

The what? Nana?

17:47

What is he talking about? Nothing? He did,

17:50

honey, don't even listen to him, Ethan. The

17:52

woman who was with your grandmother, Celeste

17:54

Corey, did you recognize her, Captain,

17:58

I don't think so. She

18:01

didn't come to your camp and lure you away.

18:04

No, No, there

18:06

was no one there. But you heard

18:09

a voice, right, yeah?

18:13

What was it? A man's voice? Stopes

18:16

witness. I don't

18:18

know it was

18:22

it was whispering, and the

18:24

voice led you to the ledge. And

18:27

yes, I don't

18:29

know. I woke up and there

18:32

was a voice, and then I woke up again

18:35

and was on the ledge. M hmm. I

18:37

thought I thought I was dreaming,

18:40

but there were lights. How

18:43

did you get to the lake? I

18:46

don't know. I

18:48

don't know. Okay, scared,

18:51

Nana's okay, Ethan,

18:53

we are done, captain. We're

18:56

gonna let him rest, right,

19:01

Okaya, Nana?

19:12

Mm hmm, it's okay baby. I'm

19:15

gonna stay here with you. You're safe. Could you send

19:17

him my mom?

19:22

Yeah? Of course, how

19:39

was he? He's

19:42

all right. His

19:45

family is going to be with him tonight. So now

19:48

you you're not you're not staying m h I

19:51

uh.

19:53

I just wanted to give them some alone time. And

20:00

mm hmm do you? Uh? I

20:06

mean when when did uh

20:09

just spitch out? Rat Shaws? Where

20:13

where's Shelley's father? I

20:16

just I don't know. I mean you

20:19

you two don't seem very close, and you

20:23

never he's gone.

20:27

He's been gone for forty years. Right,

20:32

Sorry, you're

20:37

right, we're not close. I

20:40

messed up with Shelly.

20:43

I never wanted kids, but when

20:45

her dad, I

20:49

wasn't a good mother. But

20:51

I'm trying. Messed

20:54

up. We live too. She

20:57

seems to love you, you

21:01

know. I mean when

21:03

she was a kid, I was too obsessed with finding

21:06

out what happened to her grandfather. So

21:09

you know, I'm trying with Ethan, really

21:11

trying. He was

21:13

their miracle baby. They they

21:16

didn't think that they could have another one. And then I

21:20

don't see anything happened to him.

21:23

Well I safe now, mm

21:25

hmmm. And

21:40

forty years? Yeah,

21:47

what you

21:50

said? He's been gone for forty years, and

21:53

I think we should just go to sleep. Bradshot

21:55

has been one hell of a long night. You

22:01

knew he was waking up in the middle of the night. And

22:11

what do you want me to say, Jeremy,

22:16

how long? When?

22:21

Um? So?

22:26

That means huh

22:33

did my mom know? She

22:35

found out? And

22:37

so this whole time, all these years,

22:41

these decades, you

22:44

knew I still lived here. Yeah,

22:46

And I was going to tell you when you got older.

22:48

But then you moved out to California with your mom.

22:51

That was for college. And then

22:53

I came back. Why why did you come

22:55

back? What happened to you here? I know?

22:57

But why did you come back? Why would you

22:59

stay? I have family here,

23:02

so do I apparently talk?

23:07

Could you not tell me? How

23:13

could my own mother no tell me? She

23:15

didn't want to ruin the idea of your

23:17

dad, and neither did I. They

23:20

were going to get divorced. And then when

23:22

he went missing, we and

23:25

we both thought it would be kinder

23:29

to keep you in the dark. It's

23:33

like all I ever

23:36

am it's in the dark, and

23:39

try so hard to

23:43

know everything I can, and

23:46

I am still constantly

23:48

in the dark.

23:52

I am sorry. Oh fuck

23:55

you? Fuck you Anne.

23:58

You don't get to talk to me like that. Why

24:01

because you were sucking my dad? That

24:03

doesn't make you someone to me.

24:06

Don't make us sound tawdry. We

24:08

were together, we were in love.

24:11

I still am. Yeah.

24:13

Well, guess what, he

24:18

is dead. You dragged him

24:20

into your crazy theories and you encouraged him

24:22

to go out there and do something stupid and dangerous,

24:24

and now he's dead. Don't you blame

24:26

me for that. I told him never

24:29

to go out there on his own. We were doing

24:31

everything together. Oh you sure

24:33

were, weren't you. You were doing

24:35

everything together. When I woke up

24:37

and I realized that he was gone, I couldn't go after

24:40

him because I was watching you. So whose

24:42

vault is it? Really? What are you talking about? How

24:44

did my house not look familiar to you?

24:47

You stayed over sometimes when they

24:49

split up. Your parents decided that there

24:51

would be joint custody, especially when we found

24:53

out that I was so

24:57

we uh, we were trying

24:59

to make get comfortable for you at my house the weekend

25:02

your dad went missing. Your mom almost out of town visiting

25:04

a friend, you know, getting some space,

25:07

so we had you for the weekend. Well,

25:11

I don't remember

25:13

that. And we were all going to go for a hike

25:15

in Freetown. You

25:18

know. I used to join you guys on your Saturday.

25:21

I did them with Ethan now and he stays

25:23

in the same room she did when you were little,

25:26

Hope. No, those

25:28

hikes were always just the two of us.

25:36

Honey, you were just a kid. I'm

25:39

I'm not surprised that you don't remember.

25:42

Why are you lying to me? I'm

25:44

not Jeremy, not

25:47

anymore. But

25:51

you're telling me that it's my fault. It's

25:55

my fault that my dad is dead. But

25:57

he's not dead. When you shut up, Anne,

26:00

m he is dead. He's

26:03

as dead as you can get and

26:05

he's been dead for forty years. And I

26:07

am sorry you

26:10

never found anyone else,

26:13

But that's your fault. I'm

26:19

sure you were just trying to protect me, which is but

26:23

you know that was never your job either. But

26:28

um, you could have

26:36

I could have had you

26:41

should have told me. I

26:44

know I

26:47

have a half sister. M

26:50

hmm, what

26:54

does she know, no,

27:01

No, I never told her. She

27:06

asked about her dad so much, but I

27:08

had never told her. It's

27:12

one of the reasons why we're not so close. Is

27:17

that supposed to make me feel bad for you?

27:19

Know? These are the choices

27:21

that you made. And you can't

27:23

blame your ghosts, or your monsters, or

27:25

your cults. You can't blame the Bridgewater

27:28

Triangle for your unhappiness. Neither

27:34

can you. Well,

27:43

I'm glad either safe.

27:48

Oh my god, fuck,

27:55

he's my nephew. I

27:57

have a nephew and

28:00

a niece. I

28:04

don't think I could ever forgive you for this, Anna,

28:09

I know, I

28:16

know. Bridgewater

28:26

was created by Aaron Manky and written

28:28

and directed by Lauren Shippen, with

28:30

executive producers Aaron Manky,

28:32

Misha Collins, Matt Frederick, and

28:34

Alex Williams, supervising producer

28:37

Trevor Young, editing and sound

28:39

designed by Trevor Young and Matt Stillo,

28:41

and music by Chad Lawson. Starring

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Misha Collins as Jeremy Bradshaw,

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Melissa Ponzio as Anne Becker,

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Karen Sony as Vipen Corona, Lori

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Allen as Nancy Collins, Cheryl

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Umania as Officer Bautista, Victoria

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Grace as Katie Frank's Will Wheaton

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as Captain Haddock, Hillary Burton

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Morgan as Shelley Hoskins, Jonathan

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Joss as Joseph Hoskins, Sabra

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May as Olivia Hoskins,

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Samuel Marty as Ethan Hoskins,

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Kristin Bauer as Celeste, and

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Nathan Fillion as Thomas brad

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Shahn, with additional voice acting

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by Brigand Snow, Andrew Nowak,

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Julia Maurizawa, Jarvis

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Johnson and Brielle Bresnan, Kristen

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dem Curio, James Oliva,

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and Leron Amiel. Learn

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