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All right,
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that seems to be on.
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This is Doctor
John Carnack, senior investigator,
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field unit, Department
of Experimental Oversight.
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Using a voice-to-text thingy to file
my observations on the set of experiment
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notification reports
I just had dumped on me.
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Okay.
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Okay. Top of the pile.
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University of North Dakota Energy
and Environmental Research Center.
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And,
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This is a joke, right?
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The Speculative Ambient Energy Group?
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Is this a band?
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Because if it is, it sounds like something
one of my exes would love,
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and if I sent it to her maybe she’d
talk to me again.
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Oh.
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Oh, shit. No.
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No, this is not a band.
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And this is not good.
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Where's the contact number?
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Shit.
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You have to get me on a plane
to North Dakota right now.
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And while I'm on the way,
you need to keep calling The Speculative
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Ambient Energy Group
at the University of North Dakota.
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And if that doesn't work,
just call the bloody Dean.
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They're about to run an experiment
that they really, really shouldn't.
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Sorry, yes, this is Tim.
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The signal out here
is practically non-existent.
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Our phones have been ringing all morning
but the connection doesn't go through.
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There is a landline, amazingly,
but nobody thought to get it reconnected.
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Right.
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What I was trying to say is don't wait up.
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I'm going to be back later than I thought.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, okay.
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It's just that
the setup has been a pain in the ass
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and we haven't been able to
call the university, so could you just--
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Shit.
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Lost the line.
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Okay, everybody.
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We are officially on our own out here
in the land that cell phones forgot.
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How are we doing?
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Faintly
unconvinced thumbs up from engineering.
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Okay. Analysis team?
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Okay.
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Wow, you people look way too happy.
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All right, let's power up.
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Well, well, this big
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old house on the edge of the prairie
just woke up in the 21st century.
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Great work, children.
We are up and running.
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So, let's get started.
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Away to your stations in the other rooms.
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And let's see what we can find.
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What the hell was that?
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You have to stop.
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Who the hell are you?
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Doctor John Carnack
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Department
of Experimental Oversight.
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The Department Of Midnight has no right to
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- wait, did you crash into my fucking car?
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Oh, is that your --
I just got that fucking car.
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Look, you have to stop what you're doing.
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You don't know what's going to happen.
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Yeah, that's the point of an experiment.
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For God's sakes, man.
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You're going to raise the dead.
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The Bellport Theater On The Air
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presents The Department Of Midnight.
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Created and written by Warren Ellis.
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Episode 104. The Red House.
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Starring James Callis and Nolan North.
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You're insane.
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It's been suggested.
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Are you Doctor Timothy Repton?
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Yes. And this is a dark matter experiment.
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Not dark magic.
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You really have no idea what you're doing.
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I know exactly what I'm doing.
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Yeah? Convince me.
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Why?
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Because FEMA are on their way
and whatever happens
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when they arrive is down to me.
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That's completely nuts.
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You're about to wake up a haunted house.
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All of you.
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Listen to me.
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Put your equipment down and go outside.
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I'm warning you.
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All right, all right.
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Give us the room.
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Everybody go back to your stations.
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I'm going to try to talk to you
calmly and reasonably.
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And then you can wait in your car
until a medical doctor arrives
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to check you over. Okay?
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You have to listen to me.
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You burst in here and tell me
we're bringing back the dead.
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I have to listen to that?
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Did you leave your tinfoil hat in the car?
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Maybe.
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Okay.
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Do you have any background at all
in fundamental physics?
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Maybe.
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How about experimental
music of the late 1960s?
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Excuse me?
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I like a very generalist approach.
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Indulge me.
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All right.
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Have you ever heard of a sound
recording called
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“I Am Sitting in a Room” by Alvin Lucier?
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Actually, I have.
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I had a girlfriend
who was very into weird music.
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So you've listened to it? Hell, no.
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All her music sounded like insects
fucking inside a box.
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I see why the relationship
is in the past tense.
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Alvin Lucier spoke some sentences inside
a room and tape recorded them.
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He then played the recording
while taping that.
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Then he played the second recording
while taping it.
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Over and over again.
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Sounds like a banger.
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What he found
was that the walls of the room reflected
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some of the sounds and absorbed others.
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Did those sounds vanish?
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No.
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They remained as information
embedded in the walls.
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Now. There's a theory that
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when the four forms of matter
we know degrade, they become a fifth form.
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Information.
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Low energy particles
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that drop out of sight and hearing,
like sounds absorbed by a room.
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That is what dark matter actually is.
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It's why dark matter takes up
85% of the universe
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- it's
the information shed off by everything.
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Yeah. I'm with you so far.
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So. I had the university buy
this abandoned old house
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in the middle of nowhere
for a very good reason.
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It's been continuously
but very lightly inhabited
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from the early 1700s until 30 years ago.
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People lived and died here on their own.
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Yeah Um...
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Not exactly on their own.
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No, no, no.
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This was a distant homestead.
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No big families.
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Probably only six people in the last 300
years died in this very room.
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Um...
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It's probably more.
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Really?
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Because I'm pretty sure
it was a dining room.
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Nobody bothered to find out
what this place is.
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Not even you.
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I just told you what this place is.
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And you never wondered why the university
could buy it for peanuts?
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I was just happy to have it.
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We could be onto something huge here.
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Oh, you have no idea.
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Look.
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Current theory suggests
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that very small amounts of energy
could spin dark matter back up.
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Convert it back into a form of matter
that radiates
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ordinary useful energy.
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This whole house is basically a clean room
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for very limited volumes of dark matter.
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Not a lot of information
has been shed off here.
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And it'll be in these walls.
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Okay. Now you're losing me.
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What if awakened dark matter generates
more energy than it takes to kickstart it?
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That right there is the magic number
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for energy production
- getting more out than you put in.
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You....you think you're making a power generator?
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What if every cemetery in the world
was a clean power source?
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You're serious?
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Dead people as ambient potential energy.
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Stick a bit of juice in them and they keep
giving back to their descendants.
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The power bank of Mom and Pop.
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Do you actually think that'll work?
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Honestly, no idea.
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But I secured three years more funding.
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All the people
you just bullied through to get in here?
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They'll get paid,
and they'll get their doctorates.
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And a unique CV.
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So what the hell?
It's worth a shot, right?
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My God.
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You're an idiot.
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And you are a very rude little man.
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Fuck you. I'm not little.
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But I'm the idiot who's kept you talking
while one of my people calls 911.
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To have you taken away in one of those
nice jackets with big heavy straps on.
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We can kill the rest of the time
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by you telling me how it is
that I'm going to raise the dead.
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You didn't read enough of the theory.
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You know about the theory?
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The Wardenclyffe papers, am I right?
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Right.
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Except
I threw out all the tinfoil hat bullshit.
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The people who wrote that started out
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from a reasonable place
but went straight down the spooky k-hole.
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The information doesn't transform
back into random matter or free energy.
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It goes through quantum changes.
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There are exotic effects.
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What effects?
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You need to not do this.
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You don't know what this house is.
But I do.
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Oh, please, Doctor Carnack.
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Show me your sinister realtor powers.
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It's the Red House.
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The Red House? Does that mean something?
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It was called the Red House
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because one family committed killings
here over 300 years.
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They even killed each other here.
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Creepy.
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But still a limited number of people.
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Maybe some good can come of it all.
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Well, what if those minds
are still in these walls?
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After hundreds of years?
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They'll just be a homogenous mass
of dark matter.
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There's no way we can kickstart
a coherent mind, Doctor Carnack.
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After hundreds of years? Sure. Maybe.
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But the last occupant of this house, Lyle
Kemp, known in the texts
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as Heart Eating Kemp,
with 32 confirmed kills to his name.
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He died in this room 30 years ago.
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30 years suddenly sounds a lot
closer than 300, doesn't it?
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This is all still lunacy.
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I would have agreed.
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Except that I've already seen
dark matter interact with human minds.
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This year.
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All I ask is don't
turn your equipment on yet.
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Let me show you my findings.
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Uh....
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What?
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We turned
it all on just before you arrived.
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Ungh! Ungh! Ungh!
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The door's jammed!
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Where's the kill switch
for your equipment?
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Outside.
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Oh, brilliant experimental procedure.
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Put the off switch out of reach.
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[ghostly voices]
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Must have just been the wind or something.
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A pressure change.
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Does that seem likely?
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Look, this was just supposed
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to be gathering enough numbers
to support the funding for my students.
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I wasn’t expecting anything
to actually work.
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I don't understand.
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Do you know how much money there is
in experimental energy generation?
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770 million
people still live without electricity,
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but energy consumption goes up 21%
per year.
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Companies are throwing obscene
amounts of money
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at anyone with any hare-brained scheme
to fix all that.
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I wanted some of that for my people.
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I thought you were a faculty head,
not a businessman.
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I'm a teacher.
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I do what I have to
in order to support my people.
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Ah! Why won't this damn door open?
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[ghostly voices]
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What the fuck was that?
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Your equipment
rigging is a fucking rat's nest.
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Where did you put your dark matter
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transformer pylons?
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All over the house.
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Connector hubs? Power cables?
262
00:12:16,135 --> 00:12:17,403
Fuse box? Something.
263
00:12:17,403 --> 00:12:21,073
Something in this room I can use to kill
the power to your shit, Doctor Repton.
264
00:12:22,241 --> 00:12:24,376
Oh, God.
265
00:12:24,376 --> 00:12:26,278
Everything sheds information.
266
00:12:26,278 --> 00:12:27,346
The encoding of events.
267
00:12:27,346 --> 00:12:30,249
It's like the universe backs itself
up to the cloud.
268
00:12:30,249 --> 00:12:31,684
Like you said.
269
00:12:31,684 --> 00:12:33,986
This house has memories of events
in its walls.
270
00:12:33,986 --> 00:12:36,989
[ghostly voices]
271
00:12:37,356 --> 00:12:40,359
Help me force
this stupid door, for God's sake.
272
00:12:40,493 --> 00:12:42,561
What's the surge protection
on your power network?
273
00:12:42,561 --> 00:12:45,431
How the hell would I know?
How would you bloody not?
274
00:12:45,431 --> 00:12:47,399
I don't do their homework for them.
275
00:12:47,399 --> 00:12:50,402
For Christ's sake!
276
00:12:50,503 --> 00:12:51,537
Get us out of here!
277
00:12:51,537 --> 00:12:53,939
Somebody!
278
00:12:53,939 --> 00:12:55,741
That never works. What?
279
00:12:55,741 --> 00:12:57,710
Yeah. Nobody ever comes when you do that.
280
00:12:57,710 --> 00:12:59,278
They go in the opposite direction.
281
00:12:59,278 --> 00:13:01,981
There's never any rescue. Sorry.
282
00:13:01,981 --> 00:13:04,950
You and I have had very different lives.
283
00:13:05,518 --> 00:13:08,521
You mean, when you call, people generally
come running?
284
00:13:08,788 --> 00:13:13,893
I mean, I come from a world where when you
call for help, people come to help.
285
00:13:14,527 --> 00:13:16,195
Must be nice on Mars.
286
00:13:16,195 --> 00:13:19,198
Doesn't sound like planet Earth at all.
287
00:13:19,265 --> 00:13:20,800
What are you doing inside those devices?
288
00:13:21,934 --> 00:13:24,069
I'm trying
to stop this from getting worse.
289
00:13:24,103 --> 00:13:25,171
[Something’s gone wrong!]
290
00:13:25,504 --> 00:13:28,073
Oh, God. Do you think my people are okay?
291
00:13:28,073 --> 00:13:29,008
Well, you tell me.
292
00:13:29,008 --> 00:13:32,011
Are we the only ones stuck in a room
with no windows?
293
00:13:32,344 --> 00:13:32,878
Actually?
294
00:13:32,878 --> 00:13:34,847
I think so.
295
00:13:34,847 --> 00:13:37,449
Then I think I heard them figure that out
296
00:13:37,449 --> 00:13:38,217
[student screaming]
297
00:13:38,217 --> 00:13:41,120
uh, some of them, anyway.
298
00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:44,123
You actually seem to know
what you're doing inside the equipment.
299
00:13:44,223 --> 00:13:45,391
Physicist.
300
00:13:45,391 --> 00:13:47,760
Side order of electrical engineer.
301
00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:49,094
In my old life.
302
00:13:49,094 --> 00:13:52,097
What's your new life? Scientific police?
303
00:13:52,097 --> 00:13:54,333
I think of myself as an anomalist.
304
00:13:54,333 --> 00:13:59,104
The intersection of edge-case science
and myth and folklore.
305
00:14:00,372 --> 00:14:03,375
This house was a real legend,
once upon a time.
306
00:14:03,409 --> 00:14:06,245
Literally
never heard of this Red House thing.
307
00:14:06,245 --> 00:14:09,114
Can you do what you're doing
faster, please?
308
00:14:09,114 --> 00:14:10,683
We're good at
forgetting things these days.
309
00:14:11,784 --> 00:14:14,253
Yeah. Social media damages transactive memory.
310
00:14:14,253 --> 00:14:15,855
The function that decides what information
311
00:14:15,855 --> 00:14:18,123
is important to store
and what can be thrown overboard.
312
00:14:18,123 --> 00:14:20,392
You don't remember the family
serial killer house down the road
313
00:14:20,392 --> 00:14:22,828
but you remember to play Wordle
in the morning.
314
00:14:22,828 --> 00:14:25,831
Heads full of fucking keyboard cats --
315
00:14:27,733 --> 00:14:30,736
You broke my machines
and managed to make the lights go out.
316
00:14:31,170 --> 00:14:32,638
Be more impressed.
317
00:14:32,638 --> 00:14:34,974
I just blew out your generator from here.
318
00:14:34,974 --> 00:14:37,977
No more power, no more weirdness.
319
00:14:38,110 --> 00:14:44,316
[ghostly voices]
320
00:14:44,516 --> 00:14:46,585
Unless, of course, the local dark matter
321
00:14:46,585 --> 00:14:49,588
already got enough of a jolt that it’s
self-sustaining now.
322
00:14:54,293 --> 00:14:55,661
Who's that?
323
00:14:55,661 --> 00:14:57,763
What? Who?
324
00:14:57,763 --> 00:14:59,431
Over...over there.
325
00:14:59,431 --> 00:14:59,999
There's a glow.
326
00:14:59,999 --> 00:15:01,400
Green and violet.
327
00:15:01,967 --> 00:15:03,002
Kirlian aura.
328
00:15:03,402 --> 00:15:04,236
What?
329
00:15:04,470 --> 00:15:07,473
Those are the colors of the human
electromagnetic field.
330
00:15:08,774 --> 00:15:10,142
You can see the figure inside it.
331
00:15:11,610 --> 00:15:13,045
Oh God.
332
00:15:13,045 --> 00:15:15,114
You're right.
333
00:15:15,114 --> 00:15:18,050
You're looking at an actual ghost.
334
00:15:18,050 --> 00:15:21,587
A resurrected human mind that laid dormant
in the structure of the Red House.
335
00:15:22,187 --> 00:15:22,888
Who?
336
00:15:23,989 --> 00:15:24,623
Um...
337
00:15:26,525 --> 00:15:29,094
I'd say it was Heart Eating Kemp.
338
00:15:29,094 --> 00:15:31,497
That's a meat cleaver in his hand,
isn't it?
339
00:15:31,664 --> 00:15:32,264
Um hm.
340
00:15:32,731 --> 00:15:33,966
Can he touch us?
341
00:15:34,133 --> 00:15:35,534
Uh...Probably not.
342
00:15:36,168 --> 00:15:37,436
[Heart Eating Kemp moaning]
343
00:15:37,436 --> 00:15:38,003
Bloody hell!
344
00:15:38,003 --> 00:15:39,438
Shit!
345
00:15:39,438 --> 00:15:41,273
Probably!?! Probably.!?!
346
00:15:41,273 --> 00:15:43,042
What am I, the sodding ghost whisperer?
347
00:15:43,042 --> 00:15:46,211
I don't know how to punch out
the ghost of a serial killer, Carnack.
348
00:15:46,745 --> 00:15:48,580
Hey, look at the floor.
349
00:15:48,580 --> 00:15:50,449
More of them.
350
00:15:50,449 --> 00:15:52,051
I don't think so.
351
00:15:52,051 --> 00:15:53,752
Not quite.
352
00:15:53,752 --> 00:15:55,587
They're laying down.
353
00:15:55,587 --> 00:15:58,057
He's seen them.
354
00:15:58,057 --> 00:16:00,292
Of course he has.
355
00:16:00,292 --> 00:16:01,894
They're what he's defending.
356
00:16:01,894 --> 00:16:04,096
Those are his victims. He's.
357
00:16:04,096 --> 00:16:06,765
He's defending his kills.
358
00:16:06,765 --> 00:16:09,001
They're moving.
[ghostly voices]
359
00:16:09,001 --> 00:16:11,804
Oh God, No!
[ghostly screams]
360
00:16:11,804 --> 00:16:14,373
I think I'm gonna puke.
[ghostly screams continue]
361
00:16:14,373 --> 00:16:19,745
[ghostly voices]
362
00:16:19,745 --> 00:16:21,847
Can you see that
line running between the figures, though?
363
00:16:23,248 --> 00:16:24,283
Like a stream.
364
00:16:24,283 --> 00:16:27,286
Or an umbilical. Same glow.
Like a circuit.
365
00:16:27,753 --> 00:16:30,356
All raised at the same time,
all connected together.
366
00:16:30,356 --> 00:16:31,457
Kemp too. Look.
367
00:16:31,757 --> 00:16:34,760
Look it's going through the wall.
368
00:16:35,127 --> 00:16:38,130
Whatever's in the other rooms
is linked to them, too.
369
00:16:38,330 --> 00:16:40,032
What does that mean?
370
00:16:40,032 --> 00:16:42,501
They’ll all go away at the same time?
371
00:16:42,501 --> 00:16:43,769
I don't know.
372
00:16:43,769 --> 00:16:46,271
This is a bit new to me, too.
373
00:16:46,271 --> 00:16:48,540
You said you'd seen something like this.
374
00:16:48,540 --> 00:16:50,075
What was done on that occasion?
375
00:16:50,075 --> 00:16:52,544
We disrupted it
with a big electrical discharge.
376
00:16:52,611 --> 00:16:53,078
Thing is --
377
00:16:53,078 --> 00:16:56,548
You just blew up the generator
and deprived us of electricity.
378
00:16:56,582 --> 00:16:58,884
Yeah, well, I didn't bloody know
this was going to happen, did I?
379
00:16:58,884 --> 00:17:01,887
I thought the point was that you did.
380
00:17:02,988 --> 00:17:04,156
Oh, no.
381
00:17:04,156 --> 00:17:05,557
Look.
382
00:17:05,557 --> 00:17:06,625
He's going to them.
383
00:17:06,625 --> 00:17:09,161
Don't look. Be a scientist.
Find the problem.
384
00:17:09,161 --> 00:17:12,164
We need to get out of here
and then close this place down.
385
00:17:12,331 --> 00:17:14,199
They're asking for help.
386
00:17:14,199 --> 00:17:17,603
He's going to kill them all over again
and they're asking for help.
387
00:17:17,636 --> 00:17:19,505
There's nothing you can do.
388
00:17:19,505 --> 00:17:20,973
They're already dead.
389
00:17:20,973 --> 00:17:23,575
That doesn't mean
they can't experience it.
390
00:17:23,575 --> 00:17:25,611
Over and over again.
391
00:17:25,611 --> 00:17:27,246
Their consciousness.
392
00:17:27,246 --> 00:17:31,316
For as long as this lasts, they're going
to keep on dying the way they first did.
393
00:17:31,350 --> 00:17:33,819
Keep your focus. It's the only way out.
394
00:17:33,819 --> 00:17:35,487
No it's not.
395
00:17:35,487 --> 00:17:38,323
They're asking for help.
396
00:17:39,324 --> 00:17:40,492
Wait.
397
00:17:40,492 --> 00:17:44,930
Disrupting it with electricity
because it's weak electromagnetic fields.
398
00:17:44,930 --> 00:17:46,999
Right? Right.
399
00:17:46,999 --> 00:17:49,568
How else can you disrupt electricity?
400
00:17:49,568 --> 00:17:50,869
Ground it.
401
00:17:50,869 --> 00:17:51,904
Brilliant.
402
00:17:51,904 --> 00:17:54,907
How? Slip
some rubber shoes on the bastard?
403
00:17:55,107 --> 00:17:56,642
There's a landline in here.
404
00:17:56,642 --> 00:17:58,544
Landlines were bonded to ground rods.
405
00:17:58,544 --> 00:18:00,612
Otherwise,
if lightning hit a telegraph pole
406
00:18:00,612 --> 00:18:03,615
it would travel down
the wire into the house.
407
00:18:03,982 --> 00:18:04,817
I didn't know that.
408
00:18:04,817 --> 00:18:07,286
We don't all live on TikTok.
409
00:18:07,286 --> 00:18:08,854
What's TikTok?
410
00:18:08,854 --> 00:18:11,156
Follow the phone line back into the wall.
411
00:18:11,156 --> 00:18:14,159
If we do this -- Just get it done.
412
00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:15,494
[ghostly voices]
413
00:18:15,594 --> 00:18:16,728
There!
414
00:18:16,728 --> 00:18:19,231
Now rip the line out of the wall
without busting it.
415
00:18:19,231 --> 00:18:21,867
Quick! Repton, they're already dead.
416
00:18:21,867 --> 00:18:24,870
I have no idea what you really are,
but I'm a teacher.
417
00:18:25,003 --> 00:18:27,606
When someone asks for help, you help them.
418
00:18:27,606 --> 00:18:29,208
Give me the end.
419
00:18:29,208 --> 00:18:32,311
If we do this, someone has to stick
this end of the cable into them.
420
00:18:32,344 --> 00:18:35,114
Well aware of that, Doctor.
There's going to be blowback.
421
00:18:35,114 --> 00:18:37,549
If that's what it takes. Give me that!
422
00:18:37,549 --> 00:18:38,484
Not your people.
423
00:18:38,484 --> 00:18:39,818
Not your place.
424
00:18:39,818 --> 00:18:42,821
And apparently,
you don't believe in rescuing people.
425
00:18:42,955 --> 00:18:44,289
This is my job.
426
00:18:44,289 --> 00:18:47,292
No. Rescuing people requires commitment.
427
00:18:47,693 --> 00:18:50,462
You with the cleaver? Come here.
428
00:18:50,462 --> 00:18:51,430
Leave him alone.
429
00:18:52,431 --> 00:18:52,931
Okay.
430
00:18:52,931 --> 00:18:54,700
That works.
431
00:18:54,700 --> 00:18:56,735
Come and get me instead.
432
00:18:56,735 --> 00:18:57,402
Come on then.
433
00:18:57,402 --> 00:19:00,405
You dead piece of shit!
434
00:19:22,427 --> 00:19:24,029
I'm fine.
435
00:19:24,029 --> 00:19:25,664
I'm fine apart from my hearing.
436
00:19:25,664 --> 00:19:28,000
I have no idea what you're saying to me.
437
00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:31,003
I'm just assuming you're asking me
how I am?
438
00:19:32,271 --> 00:19:34,239
Is Repton all right?
439
00:19:34,239 --> 00:19:37,242
We'll just nod or shake your head
or use sign language or something.
440
00:19:37,676 --> 00:19:40,479
Carnack, I've known you ten minutes
and I already hate
441
00:19:40,479 --> 00:19:44,149
the sound of your voice,
so maybe don't make it louder.
442
00:19:45,117 --> 00:19:47,252
I'm in enough pain as it is.
443
00:19:47,252 --> 00:19:48,020
Hands?
444
00:19:48,287 --> 00:19:49,121
Burned.
445
00:19:49,354 --> 00:19:51,023
And also these.
446
00:19:51,023 --> 00:19:52,291
Are those cuts?
447
00:19:52,291 --> 00:19:53,559
Cleaver marks.
448
00:19:53,559 --> 00:19:55,961
It's weird. They don't really hurt.
449
00:19:55,961 --> 00:19:58,864
If you look closer, I'm not even bleeding.
450
00:19:58,864 --> 00:20:00,132
Not properly.
451
00:20:00,332 --> 00:20:01,233
Yeah.
452
00:20:01,233 --> 00:20:02,167
Listen --
453
00:20:02,167 --> 00:20:04,636
People in the next county are listening.
454
00:20:05,237 --> 00:20:07,606
Whether they want to or not.
455
00:20:07,606 --> 00:20:08,340
Listen,
456
00:20:09,608 --> 00:20:12,110
I'm going to leave you my number.
457
00:20:12,110 --> 00:20:14,079
You might want to talk.
458
00:20:14,079 --> 00:20:15,347
Those marks...
459
00:20:16,648 --> 00:20:18,750
they might not heal well.
460
00:20:18,750 --> 00:20:20,953
You sound like
you know what you're talking about.
461
00:20:20,953 --> 00:20:21,653
I do.
462
00:20:22,221 --> 00:20:22,921
Well.
463
00:20:24,256 --> 00:20:26,525
I will.
464
00:20:26,525 --> 00:20:29,528
Thanks for calling FEMA in advance
and coming to our rescue.
465
00:20:30,229 --> 00:20:32,898
I didn't really, did I?
466
00:20:32,898 --> 00:20:35,467
You rescued yourself.
467
00:20:35,467 --> 00:20:37,102
My people are okay?
468
00:20:37,102 --> 00:20:38,604
They are.
469
00:20:38,604 --> 00:20:40,806
And are the things all gone?
470
00:20:40,806 --> 00:20:42,274
Is the house quiet?
471
00:20:42,274 --> 00:20:43,275
Yes.
472
00:20:43,275 --> 00:20:45,344
Good.
473
00:20:45,344 --> 00:20:47,879
Because it wasn't me
I was trying to rescue.
474
00:20:47,879 --> 00:20:49,982
Suppose not.
475
00:20:49,982 --> 00:20:52,017
How does it feel?
476
00:20:52,017 --> 00:20:53,986
Having done that?
477
00:20:53,986 --> 00:20:56,989
Like I did my duty of care.
478
00:20:57,356 --> 00:20:58,523
Hmm.
479
00:21:00,025 --> 00:21:02,261
I wonder what that’s like?
480
00:21:02,261 --> 00:21:05,264
I really do.
481
00:21:08,433 --> 00:21:11,436
Next time on The Department Of midnight.
482
00:21:18,377 --> 00:21:19,711
It's all right.
483
00:21:19,711 --> 00:21:21,513
It was only a flash bang.
484
00:21:21,513 --> 00:21:23,382
Where did that guy go?
485
00:21:23,649 --> 00:21:25,250
Somebody talk to me.
486
00:21:26,585 --> 00:21:29,588
This isn't
about going through your records anymore.
487
00:21:29,588 --> 00:21:32,958
That guy just ran off with a dark matter
attractor and set off a homemade
488
00:21:32,958 --> 00:21:35,961
flash bang on his bench
like a bloody student prankster.
489
00:21:37,262 --> 00:21:40,232
And he looked a bit old for that shit.
490
00:21:40,432 --> 00:21:42,200
Come on!
491
00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:45,203
Come on, somebody!
492
00:21:45,637 --> 00:21:47,973
This is Carnack
and this really isn't a good time.
493
00:21:47,973 --> 00:21:49,675
Hello there. John.
494
00:21:49,675 --> 00:21:50,609
Who's this?
495
00:21:50,642 --> 00:21:53,011
You just saw me, John.
496
00:21:53,011 --> 00:21:54,913
Did you like my little present?
497
00:21:54,913 --> 00:21:57,015
How'd you get this number?
498
00:21:57,015 --> 00:21:59,418
Oh, I've had it for years.
499
00:21:59,418 --> 00:22:03,422
Just never had a good reason to use it
until now.
500
00:22:04,890 --> 00:22:07,492
You really didn't recognize me? Hm?
501
00:22:07,492 --> 00:22:09,261
No, not in the slightest.
502
00:22:09,261 --> 00:22:12,531
I’m Tony Ridge from Wardenclyffe.
503
00:22:13,098 --> 00:22:14,366
I...I don't uh --
504
00:22:14,366 --> 00:22:15,734
Rejected
505
00:22:15,734 --> 00:22:18,170
from Wardenclyffe.
506
00:22:18,170 --> 00:22:19,004
Oh.
507
00:22:19,671 --> 00:22:22,674
Oh my God.
508
00:22:22,774 --> 00:22:24,509
Yeah...I do know your name.
509
00:22:24,509 --> 00:22:26,411
There you go.
510
00:22:26,411 --> 00:22:30,248
And I also know you ran out of the
emergency exit into the back stairwell.
511
00:22:30,248 --> 00:22:30,882
Shit!
512
00:22:30,882 --> 00:22:32,351
And you are heading down.
513
00:22:33,919 --> 00:22:36,922
I remember you, Tony!
514
00:22:37,723 --> 00:22:39,691
The Department Of Midnight
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00:22:39,691 --> 00:22:47,966
is produced by Warren Ellis, Brian Gucciardo,
Kevin and Diane Kolde, Fred Seibert.
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00:22:48,533 --> 00:22:51,770
Main title and credit narration
by Gildart Jackson.
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00:22:52,404 --> 00:22:56,208
Additional voices
by Vanessa Marshall and Fred Tatasciore.
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00:22:56,775 --> 00:23:00,979
Casting and voice direction
by Meredith Layne CSA.
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00:23:00,979 --> 00:23:04,549
Main title and score by Trey Toy.
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00:23:04,549 --> 00:23:07,619
Dialogue editors Kevin and Diane Kolde.
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00:23:08,253 --> 00:23:11,223
Recording coordinator Kathy Cavaiola.
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00:23:11,890 --> 00:23:15,293
Dialogue recorded at Salami Studios.
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00:23:15,961 --> 00:23:18,964
Lead dialog mixer Mark Mercado.
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00:23:19,564 --> 00:23:23,802
Assistant dialogue mixers
Jonathan Bradley and Chris Story.
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00:23:24,369 --> 00:23:28,306
Audio post-production
provided by Salami Studios.
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00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:32,210
Post audio supervisor Peter DiRado.
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00:23:32,811 --> 00:23:35,280
Sound design and editorial
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Paul Menichini M.P.S.E.
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Rerecording mixer Sean Jacobson.
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The Department Of Midnight
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is a production
of The Bellport Theater On The Air.
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All rights reserved.