Hey lovers, it's me, Rebecca Salone. It is 11
.35 and we're here with Dish the Dish, where
we have brunch, we talk about our lives, entertainment,
and we have a guest chef today. Hello, Mickey
of X. So, what is it that we're eating today?
Well, it's something I've been moved for recently.
Are you a quiche girlie? I am a quiche girlie,
yeah. Yeah, that's good, because otherwise you're
going to be real disappointed. Because today
I'm making a sausage and red onion sheet pan
quiche. It's really simple, it's filling, and
it tastes really good. Oh, we love that. So,
what is it that you want to dish about today?
Well, I was on the bus coming here, and I was
just wondering, do you watch a sitcom twice a
month? Yeah, no, I love that show, yeah. Yeah,
it's really good. And the lead actor's really
good in it as well. But I just want to talk about
the lead actor in it because the press is trying
to play him off like this bit of a ladies' man.
And, you know, there's all these pictures of
him with women and out to dinner in hotels and
stuff. Yeah, he's gay, though. Yeah, he's so,
like, clearly gay. And, like, it's okay, babe.
Like, we'll also accept him. Just come out. It's,
like, not the 90s anymore, you know? And he just
looks, like, so scared. I'll catch you later.
And I also think... Well, no, see, because I
think the same. I think the girl playing his
love interest, you know, she's a bit too good
at being, like, bitchy. Oh, my God, you can't.
We're going to get in trouble, actually. Well,
we can't be doing that. Well, listen, no. If
they didn't want us talking about him, then they
shouldn't have been famous, really. All right,
all right. We'll go into a song now. Oh, there's
also a new show, yeah, on our network called,
like, Illithin. So tune into that. Oh, actually,
speaking of Illithin, do you want to know some...
Do they have it? Yeah, no, they got a little
bit of drama. I can't really say. I've seen some
tweets. One of them is very angry on Reddit,
but we'll talk about it later. Anyway, this is
Hype Me Up by Paper Plastic. Another minute till
we s -s -sign off So if you're not with me, wait,
bye, bye, bye Babe, I got a third eye I don't
do receipts, I'm a witch Fill me up for my switch
I'm a devil in disguise The daughter's security
room slowly opens. It gets caught on the old
carpet, and the hum of a alive computer is a
welcome noise, and it knows this. So it says
hello with its little startup sound. Charlie,
as you step into the room, you feel a buzz on
your thigh. You get a notification. You get another,
and you get loads flooding in. So excited for
the new season tonight. Who do we think is going
to die in the first episode? Bringing back my
fave art, my fave best friends. Hopefully they
won't bring any more of the outside drama in.
The computer's light is the only light in this
room. And as you flick on the main light, a spotlight
shines above you. Fog bellows from the vents
of the computer and covers the whole room. You
are alone. Nothing but fog surrounds you. Then
it blinks, and the rest of the lights in the
room flick on. The fog escapes, it almost runs
away, and you are back in the room. River is
right behind you, but you feel like the aura
of the whole world has changed. It slipped into
something new, an ill -fitting suit that is made
just for you. I know everybody's excited about
the show. Tonight, and I am, I'm really excited
about the show. But I don't know. River, DMC's
like not... Like, yeah. He's not... He's not
my favorite, but he's not crazy, right? Like,
there's... He seemed really freaked out. I mean,
I get it, but the lights have come on, at least
in here. Yeah. I don't know about, uh... I don't
know about what's going on. But I do think that
maybe we might be close to the end of this thing.
The lights are coming back on. Fucking whatever
the knocking is, you know, we're going to deal
with it. There's a perfectly reasonable explanation.
And it probably has something to do with the
fact that people want to, like, razz us up before
we do our show. It's probably just a prank. Maybe
we can figure out who's, you know. Trying to
razz us up on the security cameras or something.
Yeah. This room is security office in name mainly.
It is a desk with a old, like, bigger computer.
There is a sign in. That you need to do, but
luckily there is a post -it note on the screen
that just says user password. And you type it
in. And then the computer opens. There's a small
application that says cameras. I click on it
and see what we see. There... is a kind of multi
-screen view of every room in this building.
It's the green room, the recording booth, this
room that you're in now, the writer's room, there's
the office, the hallway, but there are also three
cameras that are on the outside of the building.
The fog covers everything. The cameras can barely
catch more than a few meters past. the building
at all but you do see your cars unattended in
the car park but you see two figures that are
stood outside of the building they aren't next
to the door but they are looking at the front
door of the building okay i mean that right there
that's got to be it right that that's got to
be who's been messing with us what is it two
two these two motherfuckers right here they're
they're clearly standing right here outside the
building i mean there's nobody inside i mean
i looked in every other room uh okay can you
do they look familiar does it look like that
that person who was here before god what's their
name um the person who let everybody in um Well,
I mean, kind of not on these cameras. But you
know what? I mean, if it's like a well -meaning
prank, then I just I really don't have the energy
for it. And I really wish they would stop. But
if it's like a if it's like a malicious prank,
then I kind of want to just like go tell him
to fuck off, you know, and just have it be done.
I think that sounds fucking awesome to me. Okay,
great. I'm going to, like, walk out of the security
office. Is everything still normal out in the
hall? Like, is everybody else still here? Everything
is normal. You see Vic and DMC, who I don't know
if they're both in the hallway or if they're
in the recording booth. River follows behind,
close on Charlie's heels. She doesn't let her
out of her sight. Charlie is going to enter that
room and kind of, like, looks. eyes at vick and
dmc and then back behind her to river and then
is gonna do like a like a like a a buddy slap
on dmc's shoulder like a uh and it's like yeah
um um hey bud i don't i don't i don't know what
you experienced but i think i know the culprits
and they're they're right outside uh yeah no
i'm What do you mean? Well, no, the two, like,
pranksters or whatever are outside the building.
So I'm just going to go tell them to fuck off.
There are people here? You saw people outside?
Look, whatever they did, they're, like, right
on the cameras. We saw them on the cameras. It's
fine. What do they look like? I don't know. Not
much. It's really foggy out there. Just kind
of silhouettes. So. Vaguely creepy. Yeah. So
I'm just going to tell them to fuck off. And,
look, like, whatever's happened tonight. they're
clearly trying to whoever it is is trying to
mess with us and i i just i can't have that tonight
like this is just this is too big and important
for us it's it's it's honestly it's it's disrespectful
and it's uh i can't i can't have it so um i'm
sorry for uh this but just spare with me a minute
as you walk down the hallway When you're halfway
between the recording booth and the main doors,
you do hear a click ahead of you as the front
main doors of the building and open just slightly.
Oh, God. Yeah, no, I get it. And I'm going to
go up to the door and pull it open. You pull
it open. You see the car park out ahead of you.
And this incredibly thick fog, you see just slightly
the tree line. It's cold, smells musty and stale,
which is weird for outside. But you open the
door and it doesn't look like they're there.
Okay. I'm going to take a few steps out and just
like, you know. Losers, do you know how much
of a life you need to have? You could not possibly
pay me to stalk outside of some radio station
just to play a prank on the people recording
inside. I'm sorry, that is tragic. It actually
makes me want to cry. It actually makes me want
to start my life over again so that I could be
worth it. all of the effort you're putting into
bullying, because truly, sad. Disgusting. Is
the outcome good? Do you feel like you got what
you wanted? Your voice, you can just hear it
echo out into the open world. You instinctually
just turn to the rest of the group. River's standing
in the doorway behind Charlie. And as you turn,
Charlie gets jumped. What? Hard. Two figures
leap out of the fog, grab Charlie, and just start
wailing. Oh my god! It's like fists and fabric
everywhere. Charlie! It is a mess. River runs
and tries to tackle at least one of these people
who are wailing on her. You see like one hand
of Charlie's reaching out from... The fight telling
you to back off. As the pair of you, like, launch
yourselves out, these two assailants just bucket
back into the woods. Like, sprint, like, as soon
as there's any movement, when you get six, five
foot in front of them, they just, they bounce
immediately out. What the fuck? Okay, back inside,
back inside, back inside, come on. Yeah, I'm
helping Charlie up, um, yeah. Charlie scrambles.
Can I? Catch any, like, can I see their faces
or what they're wearing or anything? You can
give me a brains. Brains? Brains! You are going
for a 10. It is very foggy here. I got a 10.
Delicious. These assailants are, like, they are,
like, covered in a cloak. It's hard to pick out,
like, physical features. They are medium build,
both like extremely similar heights. Although
you're unable to get like the features of their
face, you can kind of see like a flash of clothes
of one of them underneath. And they have just
these like pretty heavy combat boots on. What
the f***? She picks up a rock and throws it after
them. You hear it like clatter and slide across
the ground. Fuckers. And then she's going to
go back inside after everybody else and close
the door behind her. Are you okay? What was that?
Holy shit, actually. Are you all right? Did they
hit you? What do you need? I'm going to go get
the first aid. Thanks. Yes. Uh, and, um, wait,
no, they did hit me. A lot, uh, in such a short
period of time. Uh, but yeah, uh, but I'm okay.
I'm, I'm fine. They didn't cut you anywhere or?
Uh, I don't. It didn't look like they had. They
didn't have anything, but my head, um, does.
Seem to be bleeding a little bit, but that's
fine. Rivers, like, got her hands on Charlie's
face and head and shoulders and torso, is just,
like, checking her over. As Charlie is explaining
this, just, like, panicked. Vic pulls out a flask
from, like, their back pocket and hands it over.
And a flask? Two bottles and a flask? I mean,
you gotta be prepared. You never know. I... I
didn't see what they looked - they were wearing
fucking cloaks. Like, cloak -ass cloaks. And
- and - and - and combat boots. Vic, did - is
there any chance that those - do you remember
the people that we had some problems with a couple
months ago? Yeah. The people who were, like,
stalking? Yeah, but I mean, nobody knows we're
out here. Only - You guys know. I haven't posted
about it. All I said was, oh, we're going to
be recording. That was it. I didn't say where.
I didn't say when. I mean... I mean, they know
who we got picked up by. Yeah, but this isn't
an official studio. How hard would it be to find
out information about... This is the best I could
do. But, you know, this isn't their place. I'm
just saying. It's... Maybe. I don't... I don't
know. I don't know. Charlie, did you see their
faces? Did they talk to you? Did they say your
name? Uh, no. Uh, no. They did not introduce
themselves. They did just sort of start punching.
Um... It's not... It's not a joke. I do know
that. Um... They didn't say anything. Uh, and...
They didn't let me get... A word or anything
in. They just sort of punched and hit and then
they... And then they ran. Did you do something?
They ran so fast. Yeah, I was going to fucking
kick their asses as much as I could. Yeah. And
DMC was there too. Speaking of DMC, you went
to go get first aid kit? Yeah. You try all of
the doors and all of them are locked. Like, doors
that weren't locked before are, as you know already,
because I imagine you've already tried some of
the doors. Yeah, everyone would hear periodically,
as I give up on a door. And you go to the security
office, and you try that door, and it is also
locked again. It has re -locked itself in the
time that it has taken you to check these doors.
That's the weirdest one. I'm going to go back
over to the group. Couldn't find any first aid
kits, and all the doors are locked again. What?
Locked? No. No. No. Fuck no. What do you mean?
No. The security office was just unlocked. You
were just in there. Y 'all were just in there,
and it's locked again. Maybe it might be an automatic
lock. Like, when you close this behind you, it...
That make sense for a security office? I guess.
But... Yeah, we wouldn't have a key to it. But
it opened before. It opened by itself. Somebody
was in there. They opened it. Well, sure. I mean,
it must have been those fucking pricks out there.
How could they have opened it and then gotten
all the way outside? In the time it took us to
go there? I mean, I don't see any of their...
There's only one hallway leading to the front
door. We would have seen them. I don't like this,
guys. This is fucked up. I... What were they
doing on camera? Were they, like, making faces?
Did they look like they were... Kind of just
looking at the front door. Like, just staring
at it. Maybe just... Maybe it was a prank? It
sounds like they were just standing there. I
think this is a prank. Okay, but Charlie, they
fucking hit you. Yeah. If it's a prank, it is
not. Like, this is not. A prank is, you know,
telling someone to look at the ceiling and something
about it saying gullible on it. That's a prank.
This is not a prank. This is fucked up. They
can't hit you. Listen, you know how I feel about
the cops, but I'll call them if you want me to.
I don't want to leave. But if this is how this
is going to go down, it's not fucking acceptable.
We can't stay here if it's not safe for everyone.
Devin, um... You didn't find a first aid kit,
right? No, I'm sorry. It's just the door's getting
locked. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. It's so distracting.
I don't... I'm scared. First, what happened to
me, and now these two... These two... I don't
even know. Devin, they're probably just, like...
They're probably just fanatics. They're probably
just, like... I don't know. You know... With
how the internet can be... I don't know. They
probably just... And, like, look, I'm fine. It's...
It's... It's... A flesh wound, right? Like, it's,
um... And we're inside now. It's bleeding, Charlie.
I know, I know, River. But, like, what are we
gonna do? Can we go in the green room? Just checking
out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's go in the green
room. See how bad it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Charlie'll kind of, like, like, understand that
everyone wants to, like, make sure she's okay
and we'll hop up on, like, a... The table. I
have a sewing kit in my pack if you need stitches.
Yeah, I mean... I... I don't... I... You're...
I... Will trust your judgment. God. Why is this
fucking happening? Well, I mean, it's kind of...
I mean, good thing that we're on radio, right?
Like... Why? Is that... Why? Why? Because if
we were alive, this would be unavoidable. And
also, like, we're not on camera, so this is no
big deal. Oh my god. Can everybody make me a
brains check, please? I need to fail a roll so
I can get a fucking adversity token. What are
we shooting for here, Robin? You start with three
adversity tokens every session, though, yeah?
This is gonna be... River, four. Vic, six. DMC,
eight. And Charlie, like, two. I rolled a four.
I got a four! Vic, how much did we get? I got
a four, and I'm trying to figure out if I should
spend two of my three adversity tokens now. Or
if it's more important to keep them for later.
Because I'll have four adversity tokens if I
leave this one alone. If you want. Does it relate
to the forehead? Yes. All right, then I'll spend
them because I'm looking right at it. Charlie,
what did we get? Six. People who succeeded. You
can't put a finger on it. You don't know what's
giving you this kind of gut feeling. But as you're
in the room, this green room that DMC is wary
of, and you're sat and all of this kind of adrenaline
is happening. Vic River. That's not Charlie.
What? What the fuck? Vic's fingers linger on
the forehead of this person in front of them.
River flinches back immediately. I think Vic
tries to keep it together and just sort of takes
a couple steps back towards DMC. We are going
to rewind the clock. Charlie, you get jumped.
This wail of force is hitting you as you are
in this mist -covered ground. And this fog...
almost seeps from the ground and envelops you.
This same feeling as you first stepped inside
a security office. And you fall into the fog.
You close your eyes for just a second. When you
reopen them, you are inside the security office.
The computer is in front of you. And... you can
see your friends pull someone out from these
attackers and into the entrance hall. River...
River, not funny, puts a hand to her head, which
is like... is bloody like with that same scar
why the fuck would you put me in here i just
got my ass kicked and like starts banging on
the door almost in response to banging you hear
someone try for the door and you hear dmc's voice
from the other side of it go can you find any
first aid kits And all the doors are locked again.
No one closed anything, right? No. No. DMC, you
freak. Open up. I am literally right behind the
door. You were just in there. Y 'all were just
in there. Maybe it might be an automatic lock.
Okay. Okay. Okay. I'll go back to the desk and
see if... I mean, I'll look at the monitors,
but I'm also going to look for, like... Maybe
there's a way to access the phone or access the
monitor, the PA or something. As you sit down,
there's another from your phone. Another notification
from a social media. Your eyes dart to it and
then dart to the screen in front of you. You
see River, Vic, Devin Michael Chorus. And you
also see yourself. But it's so obvious just from
a passing glance. That's not you. That's how
you look in a mirror. They look incredibly similar,
but that's not who you are. And it's obvious.
It's obvious to you. And in the back of your
mind, there's this feeling, this presence. They
can't even tell. I text River. I don't know who
you're with, but that's not me. I'm in the security
office. I send it with a million exclamation
points. You get the little notice of this could
not be sent, try again. She's gonna know. She's
gonna know. thinking this and you're watching
them you see that it's it's you but a bit less
serious a bit more carefree possibly and you
can listen to them talk they're all talking just
as this version of you is also talking back They
don't even know who you are. You hear it. It's
like a physical thing. Someone is saying it in
the room with you. Alright. Do you want to elaborate,
maybe? You try so hard to be you, but not even
your closest friends really know. you they all
have an idea of you in their head and then you
get another notification someone had a took a
picture with you like a couple years ago when
you just started doing the show just someone
on the university campus the the comment is oh
my god they are literally the nicest person ever
yeah i mean yeah i they think i'm super nice
i mean i'm nice I'm nice in, like, my way. I'm
nice. It's... You're, like... Whatever you are...
I'm concussed. I'm concussed is what's happening.
I... Okay. Okay. This is... I understand. I need
to... stop them in a cycle and whoever you are
whatever this manifestation is I don't have time
for it we have a show to do I don't have time
to be concussed and sure like people on the internet
don't get who I am and they don't know me I know
that I know they don't know me River knows they
don't know me. It's, that's all that matters.
That's fine. They, these people know me. DMC
doesn't know me. But, you know, we'll work on
that. But, um, yeah. Do you know you? You put
yourself forward as someone, but who is that
who actually has the right idea of who you are?
Is it you? You know, DMC said he saw someone
in this building. And to my knowledge, he didn't
get hit on the head. So we can have a chat. If
it turns out to be a concussion, then I will
just never have to tell anyone that we had this
chat. Ever. You feel a presence directly behind
you. I turn around. You see you. That same little
cut. That slight drip of blood. It's like looking
into a mirror. There. Exactly the same. They
might be a tad more anxious, but it's you. The
same, like, freckle placement. The same, like,
slightly chipped tooth that you got years back.
Okay. The fuck are you? What the fuck are you?
You get another notification buzz on your phone.
It's a response to the previous comment. Someone
saying, yeah, I met them at this convention that
they were doing. Charlie is a bitch. She's super
rude. What exactly? What is happening here? I
mean, what's going on out there? What is happening?
With my friends? What is happening with my friends
and Devil Michael Chorus? What is happening with
that situation out there? It just... Listen.
We... We did it, and we tried our best, but...
This... People... Make... Things of us. They
think they know who we are. And that's not it,
though. Right? We're different from that person.
This is a two -bit fucking imitation of me. Are
you kidding? Are you trying to do it to me? No,
I need - They can't tell, though. Horseshit,
they can't tell. River can tell. Don't give me
that. I don't even want to entertain you. I just
go back to the monitors to look. We cut back
to the room. River reaches forward and wraps
her fingers in the back of Vic's jacket and pulls
her backwards towards her. Sure. Are you okay?
Kind of freaking me out. Oh, no, it's no big
deal. Don't be freaked out. It's cool. I think
I have a tampon. Let me just look in my bag.
I'm going to keep... Great. I don't... I mean...
River just needs something. It's embarrassing.
You know, I'll fill you in later. Just can you...
Charlie, can you keep Devin busy while I speak
to River, please? No offense, DMC. You're just...
You're new. I don't... You're new blood. No pun
intended. Just give us a minute, all right? Wow.
Okay, I don't need to be a baby. Charlie, I've
seen this before. Just, like, can you follow
my finger? Just, I want to make sure you're not
concussed or anything. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
No problem. Okay. So you see that that's not
her. I don't know what it is. It looks like her.
But there's, like... Doesn't make sense. What
do we do with this? Do we just pretend that everything's
fine? What if it wants to harm us? What even
is it? When could it have possibly made the switch?
You saw outside. Wasn't it quick? It was like
one motion. I was touching her. Touching her
or touching that? I was... I don't know. I don't
know. I can't... Why does it look like that?
I don't know, but we can't, um... We gotta pretend
that that's just Charlie, okay? We just gotta
pretend until we can figure out where she is.
No, we can't just pretend. We can't just be around...
It looks... It looks exactly like her. What if
it's dangerous? That's not fucking... So what,
we just pretend? And we stay here for how long?
I don't know until she comes back. When? We don't
even know where she is. What if she's still outside?
Alright, alright, you're right. Do you want to
ask? I can ask if you want. She'll just think
I'm high if it's not serious. I... I don't know
what the right move is here. I'm going to put
feelers out. I don't want to freak Devin out.
Oh, yeah. I think we're a little bit too far
gone for that. Yeah. Hey, sorry about that. So,
you believe me, right, Charlie? Like, we're not
safe here. We're not... What happened to me?
What happened to you? It's... It's weird. Devin,
I don't think... I don't... I... I think it was
just a prank. I really do. You mean it's a prank?
You're pleading. I know. Some cultists are out
there in cloaks and they just decided to jump
you? Cultists? Devin, that's like something out
of the show. Who wears a cloak, Charlie? Who
wears a cloak? The cosplayers that come to all
of our shows. You're going to meet so many and
you're going to love them, Devin. They're going
to love you too. But no, honestly. it's just
gonna be like there there's so many and like
they're they're just overreacting to this big
news like we're just more high profile than we
used to be it's fine like this will heal and
I'll get like I'll get I'll file a police report
in the morning it'll it'll be I'll get you know
some sort of order protection or whatever it'll
be fine but we still gotta record the show and
like i don't want to like you know spoil your
entrance like we gotta we gotta make it special
charlie um i was wondering speaking of pranks
yeah do you remember that one uh that i played
on y 'all my first day on iflin do you mean the
the pizza prank yeah yeah do you remember um
i ordered but you had asked for... What kind
was it? Anything but Hawaiian? Because I don't
eat pineapple on pizza. Vic throws a look over
their shoulder at River. They had gotten a mushroom
and an onion pizza, not a Hawaiian. Yeah, that
was totally funny. I could have sworn it went
a different way, but, you know. my memory is
just going i'm i'm freaked out i'm scared you
know uh are you feeling are you feeling good
are you you're feeling yourself yeah i mean i
feel fine i guess like you know i feel a little
shook up but like i feel like we could still
do the show like i i mean yeah i don't i don't
think she's got a concussion everything checks
out it's like my head's fine um And this is just,
you know, a bruise. And, you know, we're on the
radio. It's not like anyone will know. So I think
it's fine. Vic types into the notes app on their
phone and kind of just slides it over to River.
The note says, do you just want to do it? Try
to record? River reads the note and then looks
up. at vic and you can see in her eyes that she
is afraid and she looks at dmc and she looks
at charlie or whatever looks like charlie sitting
on the stable and robin i would like to know
something i have an ability one of my strengths
is intuitive Which means that I can spend an
adversity token to ask the GM about my surroundings
and NPC or the like. And you have to answer me
honestly. River dials in to this whatever it
is wearing Charlie's face and is just trying
to figure out the way that she's talking. She
seems... So blasé. And she seems so honest. And
I just want to know if she genuinely believes
the things that she's saying to us, or if she
is trying to lie to us. River, it's fine. Don't
worry. I don't have to roll anything, Robin.
I just need to know if she's lying. They do believe.
They believe it all. They're not trying to lie.
This is... This is, for all intents and purposes,
Charlie. Yeah. Let's stay and figure this out.
And she, like, cuts her eyes to Vic very briefly.
We... Go back to the security room. Both of you,
Charlie and Charlie, watched everything that
just happened. I don't even want to hear you
fucking say it. Don't even talk to me right now.
No, I don't want to hear you talk about it. River
knew. River knew. And whatever, you're good at
- Whatever this is. But River fucking knew. Even
Vic fucking knew. I mean, like, Vic knew. What
do you mean? I'm good at this. I'm not doing
it. I have to assume that you're doing this.
Whatever you the fuck are. I'm not. I'm not.
I'm not. I didn't. I don't. Stop trying to mimic
me. That's not how I talk when I'm. like mad
that's how you're you're doing this badly you're
doing this badly and that's why and they they're
gonna know and they did know already and they're
gonna know and river's gonna know honestly fuck
you okay i'm not i'm not you i know but i am
you to someone yeah what do what Someone. To
who? That blasé one is you to someone. You are
not you to someone. This is... Those aren't,
but those, but the whole, but those aren't me,
though, and you. But they exist, though. They
exist because of what you do. You post... too
much and then people they they know you or they
think they do because of that and every time
that happens another one exists what the f all
right what the fuck are you actually trying to
do with me here are you trying to keep me here
forever so that you can take over my life and
like be my That's what, no, that's what I want
to know. This, this isn't a choice I'm making.
Okay. Look, look, look at your phone. Another
notification comes through. Someone posted a
minute and a half ago. Just met Charlie from
Our Eflin Life. She is way... more bubbly than
she appears on the show. I get it. They don't
get me. They don't know me. I get that. And,
like, I - I - Who am I fucking talking to right
now? Who are you? Like, who were you before you
jumped into a Charlie bodysuit? I didn't jump
into a Charlie bodysuit. Stop mimicking me. It's
fucking... Someone saw you. Stop trying to talk
like me. I'm serious. Just tell me who the fuck
you are. You tweeted that you were feeling bad
and anxious because of an episode. And someone
saw that. And I am that. Someone saw you post
online that you were very blasé. about some controversy,
and that's them. This is what happens when you
are just you, and this will keep happening forever.
You... you now can't... If you have a relationship
and someone sees your partner online and then
you break up, you... you will be a bad partner
to someone. Someone will see that and think,
well, they must not have been good enough. And
that exists. You can stop being friends with
someone, and you exist as someone who is not
a good friend. Thousands of people see you every
day. Every interaction that you have, that exists.
And that is someone, and it doesn't stop until
you stop. Every episode of the show, every tweet,
every Reddit response... every opinion on a movie.
Stop. Do you want me to stop? Is that what you're
getting at? You want me to stop being in the
public eye because you want me to be afraid of
all of these things that I've already been fucking
dealing with for ages now? That's it, though.
This fan base you you you get into so many arguments
online people think you're a fucking dick and
They will forever you can't change that It doesn't
matter how nice you are how how much good you
do you could you complain too much you're rude
And that's just it. You won't be able to change
their mind no matter how much work you do. And
that only ends when you are forgotten. So that's
your goal? Is that your goal? I don't understand
what the fuck you're doing here. I don't have
a goal. I'm just telling you what happens. Why
jump me in the parking lot and take over my body?
You were angry. You tweeted a very frustrated
thing. Very frustrated political opinion. Yeah.
And you didn't think to fucking do a coup against
the government? You came here instead and fucking
took it out on me personally? The fuck kind of...
You know what? What the fuck kind of spirit are
you? I don't... I don't understand what the fuck
is happening right now. But if this is real and
not a concussion... Then you're reading me all
fucking wrong. And Charlie's getting like increasingly
fucking angry and like flips the chair over and
like goes back to the desk of the monitors to
like look back at what's happened in the last
however many minutes she's been arguing with
herself in the fucking fake mirror to see what's
going on there. The rest of you, we've just caught
up. What is it that we've been doing? Did you
go to the recording booth? If it was unlocked.
Yeah. Yeah. The recording booth is unlocked.
The recording booth doesn't have a door. Oh,
okay. Actually, no. It's a recording booth. It
simply must have a door. This place is real shitty.
Yeah, it's bad. No, no, no. I see it as, like,
a... Open concept. It has a door with, like,
a very big window in it that then when you get
inside of the booth, there are, like, the recording
area where the people with the mics sit, and
that has huge, like, windows with all the everything
in it. So then the mixing person can be outside,
and then if something comes up, they can turn.
And then can put on cans. Are the lights back
on, all of them, Robin? Enough to see. A lot
of them did come on, and most of the tech works.
Actually, yeah, I'd say that they are back on.
It's a lit hallway now, yeah? A lit hallway and
a recording booth is lit up, yeah. Well, we planned
through most of our episode. So I think maybe
we have a few things to finish, but Charlie,
did you want to step into the booth? Oh, yeah,
yeah, yeah. I'll check the levels. Actually,
Dev and River, why don't you guys hop on? You
know, just do your mic checks. I'll make sure
your levels are good. I'm sure they are. And
then you two can just take it away and I'll just
kind of be chilling back here. Yeah, just chilling.
Yep. Yep. Okay. Say so. Yep. Okay. Devin, break
a leg. You know? Thanks. Okay. Just to clarify,
we're not going live yet, right? You will be
going live in about three hours. Okay. But you
can do pre -checks. Yep. Okay. This is our pre
-check. Okay. River, is there at any point a
time when she could say something to Devin and
Charlie would not hear? I would say that I could
volunteer that Charlie will put on some pretty
heavy headphones and, like, test the intro music
and shit like that. But if she's got a monitor
running to her headphones, then she'll probably
hear us even in the background. So can I get,
like, a split second of time? between when the
door closes and she sits down and puts the headphones
on that i have to say something to kappa you
can also mute if you're in the booth you can
just mute your mic like personally you can do
that uh but yes there is that split second as
well um i will say that charlie will be able
to see if you mute your mic but you can't do
it okay and if i'm sorry this is just extra clarification
if i mute my mic it's not gonna like pipe into
um like Out of headphone monitors or anything.
No one will hear... No. It's like, if you mute
your mic, it's just, like, muted for... Like,
the sound doesn't go anywhere. Can I see Charlie
through the fishbowl and see that she's not yet
seated, doesn't have her headphones on? Okay.
As soon as that door clicks shut behind me, I,
in my mind, we're already kind of turned away
from the fishbowl because we're heading to the
seats, our desks. And... attempting not to change
her posture, River looks at DMC and says, I need
you to keep your face normal. Something is wrong
with Charlie. I don't know what, but something's
wrong. We're trying to figure out what it is.
Okay? Okay. Other than the cut and other than
the bruise? Yes, beyond that. Something is different.
We're trying to figure out what it is. Okay.
Don't go anywhere alone with her. You think something
happened? Like... Okay. Don't go anywhere alone
with her. Okay. Wait, wait, wait. You left me
alone with her. I still had you in eyesight.
Okay. Okay. Okay. River walks around to the far
desk and is going to sit facing DMC. Okay. And
I'll sit down, sort of... River, you can tell
that a lot is happening in DMC's head, trying
to connect what's going on now with what happened
to him in the green room. He is unraveling. Deep
breaths. Yeah, okay. Deeper. Bowl of soup. Have
you ever done the bowl of soup? Bowl of soup,
I remember, yeah. Smell the soup. Broccoli and
cheese. Cool the soup off. Okay. Okay. How are
we going to do this? Well, I'm assuming at this
point, Charlie's probably sat down and put her
headphones on, right? Yeah. In that case, River's
like, Don't even worry about it. You just got
to bring what you brought that got you here,
bud. And we'll do it together and it'll be fine.
Okay? Okay. Yeah. And if you ever, hey, if you
ever get lost or confused, which I know that
you won't, but if you do, you can just throw
it back to me and I promise I got you. Okay?
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We got this. We did everything
together and I won't. I won't, I promise, I won't
steal anyone's thunder. I... Yeah, okay. Charlie,
what do you need from us? Yeah, um... Nothing,
yeah. Devin Michael Kors, steal whatever thunder
you need to steal. Take it away, be a fucking
star. Let's hear your mic check. Let's hear those
voices. Uh, this is... uh dmc check check dmc
this is the voice i'll be using how's that sound
charlie no yeah you sound like super buttery
and everything river give me a voice check You're
listening to 103 .9 Wizard Radio. Welcome to
my hour. If my first mistake on the new show,
I guess that means I have to die now. Nah, that's
a good one for the blooper reel, River. It's
no big deal. It is I, the Lady Imogen. Come to
cast spells and put curses on you with my kiss.
That's it. There's the Imogen we know and love.
All right. So we've got an Imogen in. We've got
a Devin Michael chorus in. The volumes look good.
Everybody sounds great. You know, Vic, how's
it sounding from all on your end? Did the levels
look good from your side? Vic takes a minute
to respond. They're sitting in the back of the
room with you. back to the wall just staring
at you. You can see the glow from their vaporizer
as they just sort of look at you and a little
bit of their face is lit from their screen other
than the lights that might be on in here. I imagine
it's relatively dim. And she sort of looks startled.
Oh, yeah. Everyone sounds great. Buttery is right
for DMC's vocals. And, you know, it's always
good to get an image in appearance. Yeah, it's
great. Okay, so, yeah, basically take me through
the show and I'll just kind of mark where my
changes are supposed to be. Just pretend I'm
not here. It's no big deal. Yeah, okay, so we
have, we're doing... four song breaks i believe
and we're gonna do those every um we're gonna
do them every uh 15 to 20. um so we should have
enough room for like entrance three main movements
closer and then we're done for the show um so
we can start with the intro and just do a quick
run -through and see how it goes from there.
We can just do bare bones for each of these little
segments that we've got, and I think that'll
be fine. Yeah, but remember, Shirley, I need
you to leave about 6 to 15 seconds at the end
for the promo. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, no problem.
Okay, all right, so cut six minutes off of that,
and everything should work out just about. Yeah,
we've got... Y 'all, is two hours a reasonable
amount of time for a radio show? Yeah, two hours
is healthy. For a specialist type of show like
you, two hours is healthy. Okay, so we have two
hours. Listen, I think the only thing really
left to do is run it. So why don't we do that?
Vic, are you... Can Vic hear me? She's got monitors
on. Vic, stick around with Charlie and just keep
an eye on everything because, I mean, I know
you've probably got more stuff to set up, but
I would love to get your opinion before we go
live. Just going to monitor everything. Just
keep an eye. Great. And Charlie, I'm going to
be bringing out probably, obviously, I'm going
to do... i'm gonna do lady imogen i'm probably
gonna bring out um grungle i'm probably maybe
gonna do um sir anthony and then possibly um
i i'm not 100 certain but there might be a little
bit of like the pixies in there um so just be
prepared for some volume changes um sure especially
with the pixies because i my voice get i know
it peaks a lot when I do those. Um, so yeah,
just be prepared for those guys. Okay, um, let's
fucking kick this thing off. Devin, you ready?
Oh, um, Vic, that, uh, could you just pass that
right over here? That, that cord? Yeah, yeah,
yeah. The end? There you go. Um, okay. Is it?
Oh, up on the wall over there, do you see a switch
up there? Could you just flip it? Yeah, yeah,
sure. Vic stands up and walks over to where the
switch is, but faces Charlie the whole time.
Right here? Yeah, perfect. Okay, good, good,
good, good, good. And then the, I don't want
to disturb Devin, but like right next to his
mic. Um, just don't even bother him. Uh, but
just, like, right next to him. Just, like, lean
over him and just, like, turn the, uh, turn the
thing, the knob, like, right to the left of his
hand there. You can't just tell him to do it
in the monitor? You've got him right there. No,
no, no. Don't bother him. Don't bother him. Um,
just, like, turn it, like, uh, just slightly
to the right. Just so it's, like, right past
the red line there. Okay, okay. Alright, good.
Um... Yeah, okay, that sounds good. Okay, great.
Everybody sounds great. So, yeah. Sounds like
it's gonna be good. It's gonna be a good episode.
You're really eager to take care of everybody
today. I mean, aren't I always? I mean to Devin.
I mean, well. Well. He's part of the show now.
So, yeah. I mean, just taking care of the show.
And he's, you know, part of that. Yeah, it's
not personal for you, right? Yeah. No. No, no,
no, no. I mean. It's personal to me in that he's
he's hosting the show and. This is the show is
exceptionally important to me, but, you know.
So calm. Almost almost perfect. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, I'd like to think so. Vic exhales a big
lungful of vapor. Kind of peers at you through
it. We've been doing this for a long time, you
and I. Uh, yeah? I've watched you do your work
for how many years has it been? Ooh, um... Like...
Four? Like four? Five? Four or five? Yeah. I
can't say I know you as well as River, but...
I know you. You know that, right? Yeah. Yeah.
Obviously you know me. Of course you know me.
I mean, like, we've known each other for ever,
and honestly, we've been through all of this
shit together. Yeah, and we'll go through more
together after this is done. Yeah, like, it's
totally fine. The show is going to go off without
a hitch, and... You and I are going to go through
so much together. Don't even worry about it.
Optimism. So, no tech gremlins today. Nothing
to swear about, nothing to curse about, nothing
to stomp all over the room about. No wires, no
missing zip ties for all your cables. Nothing.
You've got nothing for me today, Charlie? Vic,
I plugged every button into every socket. Everything
is good. You see, that's how I wish it would
go. Okay. I mean, I'll do that better each time,
but that's how it's gone today. Yeah, but, you
know, that might be how I wish it would go, but
it's not how it goes, Charlie. Not with you.
It's the one thing that I love and hate about
you as a producer. All right. All right, maybe
take that out on me when I fuck up next time.
But right now, everything's good. Everybody sounds
great. Everything's hooked into the right ports.
Everybody's coming through on the right speakers.
I mean, that I can tell. It seems like everything
is going good. So, yeah. You'll get to chew me
out next time. I promise I'll fuck up. Yeah.
You will. I don't... No, I don't... Okay. Let's
say that Vic and River do know that it's you,
which, you know, they've said. I don't... They're
still recording without us. Yeah. No, I know
they're recording without us because I suggested
it. And they know something's wrong. But it's
you who's happier. You don't bring that baggage.
I'm not happier. They like it more. No, I'm not
happier. I'm just not asking for anything. I'm
not... asking to make an appearance i'm not asking
to to see i'm not checking to see if my i'm gonna
be miked for this episode there's nothing i'm
not a part of this i'm just here easier to be
with and around then that's that's whatever you
are we are the same thing I just have a better
idea of what's going on. I'm accepting it. I
get it. People would prefer us to be like that.
And they do think that we are. You're too fucking
angry. And people see that and they immediately
switch off. Do you know how many people think
you're a conservative? Just because you're just
so angry all the time? You know how many people
just don't like you just because of stupid decisions
that you made? There's thousands of them. You
are a complete person in thousands of people's
minds and none of them like you. If anybody thinks
that, they're a fucking idiot. I am so... I am
angry and loud for, like, what the fuck? What?
Could you possibly even have meant by that? I
don't even know what I'm talking to or how I'm
arguing with you right now. But I have been,
yeah, I've been loud and angry on the internet.
And if someone reads that as fucking conservative,
they're not reading it good. You had a viral
tweet about how the Democratic Party isn't doing
enough. And people saw that and they're like,
oh. She must be this fucking conservative. Do
you know how many people blocked you? That got
40 ,000 likes. Yeah, I'm... You know, and that's...
And that's fine. People made TikToks making fun
of you. But I... But I stand... I agree with
that still to this day. It's not like I made
it in a fit of anger that I disagree with. I
am... I have these opinions. It's fine. Who the
fuck are you? You know what? Just because sometimes
I'm a passive little pussy, it doesn't mean that
I'm going to be that all of the time. So fuck
you. I grab the chair and I slab myself in the
head. They stumble back. Their hand kind of...
slides against the wall. You look up at you.
And this other you is looking you in the eyes
and is wide with shock. They look fine. And there's
a small trickle of blood. It comes slowly and
then all of a sudden, all at once. Your face
is streaked in it. You see that there is a huge
gash at the top of their head that you've just
opened. They blink really wide. This isn't your
show, though. People don't think you own it.
This is Rivers. They're the creator. You just
sit on the side. You know that, right? Like,
we could just go. I never fucking said it was
my... fucking show. All I ever wanted was to
just be recognized as a part of it with my best
fucking friend. Honestly, fuck you! And I just
bring the chair down on her again. Tell me something
else you think you know about me. It has nothing
to do with what I know. There's another vibration
on your phone and then strings of messages from
Twitter threads, Reddit posts, comments on episodes
about you being like slightly snippy, about how
good you are, about how much people want to be
your friends, about how much people think you
and River are dating and then you may have broken
up and how... it's good that you kept that working
relationship but then there's one episode where
you snapped at each other and that's interesting
so you clearly are not that good of friends yeah
i get it i get it everybody has a fucking opinion
but the people in that room are not the people
outside so stop fucking trying to make me think
that the people in this room are the people outside
The reason that there's a fucking difference
is because the people in this room actually know
me. And then there's Devin Michael Kors, who
will maybe one day fucking know me. You know
what? Fuck you. And I just with the chair again.
There is this like sickening crunch. The chair
hits at just a weird angle. You hear the pop
of an eye as the side of their head caves in.
They fall and are. dead you are looking at your
corpse the chair in your hand you can hear the
blood dripping from the corner of the chair that
you caught your own head in everyone else outside
you see charlie react they stumble a little in
their chair and their eyes are really wide open
as blood slowly at first and then all at once
starts trickling down from their head from a
gash that has just appeared whoa whoa whoa fuck
charlie after a few seconds a huge bruise hits
across the side of their face as they just kind
of jerk their heads to the side and a few seconds
later you see the corner of their head bust in
you hear a pop and they fall from the chair bloody
and bleeding And then, Charlie, you look at this
corpse, this modified version of you. You know
in your heart that it isn't actually you. But
when you look at it, you can see on its face
that it is just as scared as you are. The banging
on the door from the steel chair, like, like.
hitting against the door as hard as Charlie can.
You hear very ragged breathing, and then when
it stops, the door opens to your slam. Everyone
else, you hear the security door office just
bang open with a blast. Oh, my God. I fucking
grab anything nearby me that could be a weapon.
There's, like, heavy mic stands. Yes, 100%. I
grab a fucking mic stand. I grab a mic stand,
and I'm just, like, am holding it there and looking
to see what's coming down the hallway. I don't
leave the room. I drop the chair. I don't leave
the room. I drop to my knees. I don't leave the
room. What? Who is that? What? Who is that? Oh
my god, Charlie? Uh, River runs into the hallway.
And when she sees Charlie on her knees, still
bleeding, she's going to She, like, starts to
run and just says, Charlie! And then sort of,
like, pulls up short and looks her over and is
questioning whether this is really Charlie or
if this is another fuck -up. Devin Michael Kors
is fucking right. This place is fucking fucked.
We are so fucked here. okay yeah um yeah one
of you you are in the other room it's not i know
it's a corpse but they're fully dead their eye
the eye eye on the ground like is it's i i don't
what is going on um she like drops to her knees
in front of charlie and um does the same thing
that she did when she pulled body snatcher charlie
in through the door she just like touches charlie's
face and Pats her down to make sure that she
is okay. She doesn't have any wounds, but the
blood is the same. Her left eye is kind of bloodshot.
Just like it got blood in it. Stings a little.
Her face is covered in blood, but there's no
open wounds. Charlie, I'm so sorry. Just, uh,
just, just, um... grabs you on her shoulders
and, like, pulls you in close. River tries to
make it look like a hug. Like a normal human
hug. Okay, Charlie. I think I... I think I...
I think I killed someone tonight. And I'm gonna
look over. It's... Is it there? Charlie, as you
turn around, There is no body there. Meanwhile,
while they're having that conversation, it's
me and Vic in the booth. What happened? Did you
see anything? I was watching her. I didn't take
my eyes off of her. All of a sudden, there was
just blood running down her face. It was like
something struck her that I couldn't see, and
then her eye just went. Do you... Do you believe
me now? Something is hunting us. I haven't not
believed you. I know something is fucked up here.
I can feel it. Wait, you know? What is happening?
I don't know what it is. I just know something
fucked up is happening. I believe you. I know
you wouldn't fucking lie about something like
this. Oh my god. Oh my god. Okay. Vic, as you
look down at who is in your arms, there is nothing,
but your hands are covered in blood. And there
is a pool of it where her head should have been.
No, fuck this. Fuck this. No. Fuck this. Vic
stands up and just starts trying to wipe the
blood off onto their pants as they run into the
security room. Why? Why is this happening right
now? Maybe, yes, we have to leave, but I... If
we can just get far enough out to get... Some
reception. We can call someone to come and fix
this. We still have three hours. We still have
time. I have reception. I have it. Nothing's
going out. I tried to call the property manager.
Nothing. We just have to go. If you're making
calls and they're not going through, that means
there's no reception. What else does that mean?
It couldn't mean anything else. Look at the bars.
I have them. I have the bars. things are saying
maybe your phone is fucked up sometimes i don't
maybe it is do you want to try because i say
we get the fuck out of here and figure it out
later our fans will understand first dmc charlie
i don't want no no obviously not i'm just saying
we don't need to jump all the way to leaving
we can't just like leaving yes okay let's go
outside let's try and get somewhere where our
phones can get connection but we can't I don't
care if the fans will understand. We have to
do this. If we don't do it, we will never do
it. Okay, okay, okay, okay. How about this? We
don't leave, but we get out of the building.
I have enough room in my Jeep for all of us until
we feel like it's safe again. Yes, fine, yes,
fine. Maybe it's the mist. Maybe, I don't know.
Maybe we just wait for it to go away. That's
fine, that's fine, but... Dick. We can drive
back to the main road, but I'm not... I'm not
getting outside of three miles of this place.
Okay. Good. Fine. Thick river. My phone was going...
Off. The whole time. What the f - How? This is...
This is what I'm trying to say. It's fucked here.
So we're getting notifications from fucking the
Reddit page, but we can't get a... Okay. We're
going outside. But we're not going far. Just
far enough to get a fucking phone call off for
someone to come and take care of this. Like...
We have three hours. Who's gonna take care of
this? I... I don't know. Someone. I just, I feel
like who could we call that wouldn't be put in
more fucking danger, you know? Like, and, like,
what if we call someone and they come here and,
like, they wind up just trapped with us, too?
Like, I don't know. Or we could just fucking
bounce. Or we could do that. Or we could do that.
We've been recording this show at the school,
all right, at our college this entire time. I'm
sure they would let us pop by. Everybody knows
about us. It could be like the old days. We're
going to bounce? It doesn't have to be that difficult.
And leave these people hanging? Look, I don't
want to, but I just... I'm not asking for a lot.
I'm just asking that we take it one step at a
time. I don't know who's going to come here,
but even if it's a fucking ghost, it can't haunt
a bunch of people. If we get more people here,
maybe we can get a fucking priest for all I care.
I just... Can we just take it one step at a time?
Not blow... Just, like, blow out immediately.
I agree we should get out of here. I want you
to be safe. I want everybody to be safe. Yeah.
That's why I think we should go try and get connections
so that we can get a phone call off. Okay. Yeah.
Fine. No problem. Let's go outside. DMC, how's
your service? I pull out my phone. What do I
see? It's the same as everyone else's. You have
signal. Charlie's is weird because... refreshing
twitter and and reddit you are only getting connection
and updates from threads that you are that the
show is directly related to oh okay there isn't
like nothing else you can't get a for you on
twitter you can't check any website that isn't
in some way related to the show same same as
when i walked in We just have to be... We just
have to be careful. We can... We can recover
this. Just go outside. Yeah. Yeah. Back outside.
Okay. Good. Okay. Okay. Um... Sure. And this
time we're gonna fucking bring... I'm bringing
the mic stand with me. Yeah. No one's going to
jump anybody. Yeah. Yeah. And I'll follow suit.
I'll grab something just as I'll grab a mic,
like a mic, like one of the floor to the floor
mic stands. If this doesn't work. Don't fucking
hate me, but like we might as well just fucking
lock ourselves in here and record because I don't
I don't know. what i want to see i don't know
if i want to see what's next just one step at
a time okay let's go outside you step outside
or open the front door and it's the same deep
thick fog you see your cars in the car park they're
all still there untampered with What is it that
you'd like to do? DMC's got the keys to the jeep,
right? Yeah. I'll lead us over to the jeep. I'll
click the thing that unlocks all the doors and
open up at least the side that I'm on and just
hop in. Once we're all... Once we're all situated...
This is... This is better, right? Do you feel
like you can drive right now, Devin? Yeah. Yeah,
I think I... Yeah. Yes, I can. I can... You sure?
I can... I can drive. Okay, can you take us out
to the main road? Weird stuff happening is more
of an incentive to drive away from here, and...
Okay. And as I say that, I turn... The key in
the ignition. The car starts. Okay. All right.
Let's go. And where are people situated in the
car? Who takes shotgun? Who takes passenger?
Yeah. I'll take shotgun unless Vic wants to.
I feel like because you wanted to get to the
main road, you would take shotgun. Yeah, I'm
with you, Vic. I think Vic is behind DMC. River
will hop into shotgun. Okay. main road is like
a five minute drive it's so close you go off
down the one road that you can get in and out
of here and those five minutes pass the the the
the radio station falls into fog and there's
five minutes pass and you're driving in those
five minutes i i'm just checking the my back
mirror to see if uh No, just make sure Charlie
doesn't turn into, or like get burst into another,
I don't know, whatever we saw in the booth happening.
Just very careful. Those five minutes pass. And
then seven, eight, nine minutes. And the road
is longer than you remember. Far, far longer.
You can't see the radio station behind you, but...
God, was this road this long? Devin, can you
speed up? I... Yeah, I mean, I'm going... I'm
going 40 already. DMC, please, just, like, fucking
push on it. Like, I just really want to get the
fuck out of here. Yeah, but, like, there's a
turn... There should be a turn coming up. I don't
want to crash into the tree. We're looking for
the turn. We didn't miss the turn. We're looking.
Okay. I do speed up warily. It's 12 minutes past.
What the fuck is happening? There is no fucking
way. DLC, should we just fucking go back? Should
we just go back? Maybe we should just go fucking
back. Oh, my God. I don't want to go back. I
don't want to go back. I don't want to go back
either. Stop the car. Stop the car. Just stop
the car. And I slam the brakes. River opens the
door and gets out. We haven't even seen any other
cars. What? Can I see anything? Can she see anything
at all? Fog behind you, fog in front of you.
I take out my phone. I'm looking through it,
trying to make a call. Nope. Fuck! Damn it! What
is this?! Nick, do you have any, like, do you
have any, like, lights or anything? I mean, I've
got my flashlight on my phone. Okay, okay. I've
got one on my kitchen. I have an emergency set
in the back. Okay. We're being fucked with, you
guys. This is... I don't... This is beyond the
pale. River, River, get back in. Come on. I think
we need to go back. And she, like, grabs River,
like, her hands are on top of her head right
now, and she kind of, like, puts her hands on
top. of those. And like, breathes with her. I
don't like what I'm saying. But I think we can
turn back. Why is this happening? I don't know.
I don't know. Babe, I don't know. But I feel
like if we don't figure it out... We don't leave.
She... Looks so... She looks like she's just
being pulled in a million different directions.
Like, behind her eyes, you see a familiar expression
that is just like, she's spinning. Spinning,
spinning, spinning, spinning, spinning. But she...
closes her eyes, and is going to just, like,
move away from you and back into the car. Quietly
get back into the backseat. I put a hand on DMC
and give him a little squeeze, even. Hey, bud,
just... I'm sorry. I think we gotta go back.
Yeah. You put into reverse, to reverse your car,
a meter out. As soon as you do, the radio station
is right behind you. You hadn't left five foot
past the drive. It appears instantly. Yeah. If
this is my fault, I'm sorry. Vic, why would it
be your fault? There are - Vic, there - There
are plenty of people to point fingers at. But
the least of them is you, okay? It's not - On
you. Did any of those people tell you that this
place was haunted? No, no, no. I thought this
was okay for our budget. A slight improvement
from the college. Not as good as what we would
get eventually. I've lots of plans in the works.
I have people I'm talking to. I have connections
that I've found for us to make sure that we can
get a better place. This was going to be a one
-time thing. Maybe... A month we'd be here. A
month of shows. And then somewhere better. Somewhere
bigger. Somewhere... Somewhere that we deserve
to be. And... You don't deserve this. We don't
deserve this. DMC fucking doesn't deserve this.
How is this happening? How? I don't... I'm not
a control freak, okay? I just like things a certain
way. And they're not a certain way right now.
Vic, it's not... It's not your fault. Yeah, well,
if this place has something to show me, maybe
it'll show me that. I... I... Let's... You park
the car. Yeah. Okay. I am honestly sorry that
we all have to deal with this right now. I'm
really, I'm sorry that you all have to deal with
this right now. I don't know why this is happening.
I don't know where I took a wrong turn. But we're
going to figure this out. Because even if this
destroys everything that we've done so far, we're
gonna go out swinging. And we're gonna fucking
make them bleed. Charlie grabs your hand. Alright.
Okay. Okay. You know, I literally have a dagger
that has, like, silver in it. I know, and it's
at - I should've - It's at, I know. Like, I should've
- The one day. But what if - When would we ever
have known to fucking bring that shit? I bring
it to parties to pick up girls. I know, but we
knew it was just us here, so we didn't think
to... Haunted fucking radio station! She yells
at the radio station. Piece of shit radio station.
If y 'all don't want to come inside, I completely
understand that. No, I'm... I've seen what my
life looks like. After this, so let's see how...
And he notices what you look like. Yeah, I saw
some stuff, Charlie. Charlie's hand reaches back.
Like, there's, I imagine, one hand comfortably
in rivers. And, like, sort of an awkward but
welcoming hand reaches back for DMC's. He looks
at it, eye contact with you, looks at it again,
and then... reluctantly takes it. It is so sweaty.
It is so sweaty. Ooh, that's a clammy one. It's
clam. River also is gonna step towards DMC and
is going to put her hand on his shoulder. I'm
fucking sorry that I didn't believe you, DMC.
I wouldn't believe me either. It was still kind
of shitty of me. And I'm comfortable standing
in that. Let's... Let's go make this thing bleed.
Let's punch a fucking ghost. Sure. Vic? Yeah.
Yeah, make it fucking bleed. Alright. I'm going
first. I've got a fucking vendetta. Just don't
do anything stupid, okay? No promises. Uh, hey,
is the door pull or push? You don't know. It's
pull. It's pull? Alright, she's gonna look back
over her shoulder, make sure everybody's ready,
and then is going to... turn around and she'll
give a countdown. Three, two, one. And then she's
going to throw the door open and move in as far
as she can to make space for people behind her,
holding onto the mic stand with both hands. It
is exactly the way you left it. The chair is
halfway across the room. There are pools of blood
and handprints. There is music, softly, tenorly
playing. But there is one thing that is different.
It's that the door to the writer's room is slightly
ajar. Whatever the fuck this thing is, I'm pretty
sure I have personal beef with it. I've got personal
fucking beef with you. Well, I bet you do. She
steps forward down the hall. Charlie stays close.
Picks up everything that she can. And River focuses
on the doorway in front of her. And the table
beyond it. And the papers that are scattered
in the whiteboard. And more to herself. than
really anyone else. She just says, If I fucking
brought you here, I'm gonna take you out. Motherfucker.
Not like this. And she's gonna step into the
writer's room. Take the burden of silence If
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