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work
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[Music]
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hey hey detective
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what are you doing no I found something great was it alcohol god no i just got
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the wind knocked out of me i think I know how to break the contract with the dark man what exactly does that mean
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everything going back to normal uh all right uh I found some more information
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on Detto and the patients there are some seriously strange things going on here
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i'm pretty sure two of the patients are dead and maybe even the clerk oh yeah i kind of just gave up on worrying about
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that well just keep your eyes open I suppose what were you doing again jeremy made a
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pact with the dark man to keep all the madness locked inside Detto all right I'm going to break it i just
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have Where is it where's the talisman it's around your neck
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i worry detective don't i'm fine i worry that you're not much help on this case
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at least you're a good distraction trust me you're getting your money's
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worth at this rate I'm an absolute bargain
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he must first acknowledge psychological trauma in order to proceed the lying
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must stop so we can break through the barriers of selfdeceit fine
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just what this evening needed some ambiance
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i need the key
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got to be around here somewhere he wouldn't leave this house i don't know what to think anymore you running into
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that detective fella who is he can he be trusted i think he one of the good guys
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or you know like us will he be all right with her coming praise the mother
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he don't even know about all that let go
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just calm down it ain't time yet god it hurts as far as I can tell Detective Comi
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seems to be solving problems not causing them just be ready in case he starts
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anything
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christ what the hell was that
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[Applause]
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we must have faith that Jeremy's pact with the dark man is a bluff if we are
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lucky our visitors will find him and prove it's all nonsense before nightfalls what is true is our attempt
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to call on her too many things have happened for this evening to be in vain
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think of Jack and Cassandra even Perosi whose circumstances I can't understand
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grace is a goat without horns she knows it and will play the role you must talk
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to your brother Batiste i worry that he will fail us mrs thompson
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emily will have to die can't let him ruin our plans
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i think Dr gray might be in there perfect time to snoop around his office though he knows this place i don't want
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to run into the orderly right now not sure I can trust them
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lunacy and the Estarte artist colony a monograph by Yel Klene in early 1909 the
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old Deretto plantation outside of New Orleans was turned into an artist's
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colony three famous European artists rented the house and the surrounding
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land from the owner the Leoo family the colony was chiefly run by Sebastian
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Cortez who was playfully dubbed the captain by his collaborators William Argus and Hinrich Castle the colony
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existed for 6 years until one day all 12 members disappeared without a trace it
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is widely believed that their disappearance is connected to the disastrous hurricane that passed through
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on September 29 1915 but nothing truly supports this claim what is known is
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their frequent participation in New Orleans nightife their love for hosting parties and their elaborate
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contributions to the Mardigra parades as the pirates of Ponchartin
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accounts of their lifestyle can be found in almost every gossip column it can effectively be summed up as care-free
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and bohemian in late June 1909 the name Astarte first
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appeared in the newspapers cortez said the name came to him as he was painting
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there is never any claim to knowing about the ancient Phoenician fertility goddess with the same name before this
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time his fellow colonist Henrik Castle did know because he later produced
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sculptures that show clear references to ancient idols of the goddess
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it's impossible to know for sure how this name suddenly made an appearance but it is interesting because of
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Deretto's history
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even the name Deretto is the Greek name of a Syrian fertility goddess in the
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case of naming the plantation Derettto was certainly not an accident we know
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that Eliah Pigford intended to build a temple for his cult for he had distributed pamphlets two years prior to
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the purchase of the land advertising his intentions his followers were estimated to be
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almost a hundred men and women mostly sailors maroons and cinjun when the
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plantation was built to outsiders Detto registered as an ordinary slave
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plantation which enabled Pigford and his flock to remain hidden for decades the
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official story is that the cult lasted until 1862 when the Union army came and
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burned down the plantation and scattered all who lived there following the Civil
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War new people started to congregate in the ruins of Duretto to invent a new
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fertility goddess the Shoub Nigarath as much as Darto is a particular name to
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have heard of it's not entirely uncommon among the learned aarte is equally known
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and could have been subconsciously chosen by well- read artists shou Nigarath is on the other hand very
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uncommon almost impossible that anyone in Louisiana would have heard that name
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the name is referenced only in rare books like unnikin kulin and the
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necronomicon and is believed to be a bastardization of Arabic words meaning
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pertaining to the dark young the few paragraphs printed on the goddess are so
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upsetting that no one in their right mind would want to build a religion resting on such qualities the shube
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niggarath cult was hard to get rid of but it is believed that despite the police jailing and killing several
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cultists over the years the main culprit in the cult's demise is the cult itself
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which seems to line up with every instance of cult activity on Detto's grounds when Captain JW Norton of the
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Union Army arrived he described the people at Detto as malnourished and maniacal
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as much as the army tried to save them they fought back with fervor as if
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nothing was going to stop them from slowly destroying themselves while the disappearance of the Astarte artist
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colony remains a mystery the recurring motif seems to suggest that their fate
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involved lunacy and a hunger for self-sacrifice to that fertility goddess
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with a thousand names
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what are you doing
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mrs thompson I understand the last week has been busy under these circumstances
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I find it important to remind you that Detto's concerns are not a public matter
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nor is it something that should upset you please continue your excellent work and don't spend a thought on the death
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of Perosi or more importantly the suicide of Cassandra Borugard they
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should mean nothing to you or the staff i rely on your loyalty and trust that
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your close kinship with the Tabois siblings will keep Detto's secrets hidden dr gray
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wow
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heat
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heat
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there must be a spare key to Dr gray's office in here somewhere
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i need the key
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i need the key
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i can't leave i got a job to do
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detective Comi I'm terribly sorry that my niece has pulled you into this mess
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please with all my blessings take her away from this cursed place i have
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destroyed that Eater of Worlds and locked it away in the attic and retreated to a place of hiding tell
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Emily I'm safe tell her all the lies you can think of to make her listen take her
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back to Norland sincerely Jeremy
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brother I need you to trust me this is the most important moment in our family's history i know you have doubts
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and that the terrible Mama Loa told you lies i would never betray you i promise
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lahi
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detective Ki good to see you again solved the case yet
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i'm trying hey Grace you okay oh she is just peachy detective are you
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looking forward to the feast of St john Grace I can't wait kids ain't it great
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what exactly are you planning for tonight oh not much we eat we drink we pay
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tribute to the wishing tree in the conservatory the usual
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then why all the excitement there is just something about tonight
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something's different i think we all feel it besides we got ourselves some
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new words for the prayer thanks to your buddy Jeremy she'll come and turn the world inside
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out and things will begin again that sounds strangely threatening you
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should come
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oh god damn it Grace stay put for once
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i better hold on to these wouldn't want them to get lost
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hello
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hello
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h I need the key
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no no
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surprisingly neat maybe I've been selling that old barfly short
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sometimes I think this place makes me worse that Deetto might be my grave a coffin made
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of ostentatious architecture a Taj Mahal for the drunken deep wrist
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there's something about Detto something about Dr gray like we all pretend that
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we're here to get better when in fact we are here to be forgotten
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looks like McCarthy has something hidden inside
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what is this
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this is my room i belong here
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i know that number where's that from i did this
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i wrote that i know the combination i carry it with
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me
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all right time to get Jeremy out of that contract so we can get the hell out of here something tells me I'm going to
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have to put my talisman to use
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detective I have made many discoveries in my case the child we want is safe
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thanks to good people like me and you we're so similar but you don't see all
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the things I do to find your man Jeremy you also need to look for the girl it
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has always been that way the young deliver us all you should have a look in
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my room there's a piece of the puzzle you will need take care now my coffee
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how long have I been here
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looks like McCarthy has something hidden inside
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why would McCarthy lock this up was he trying to keep Grace from completing the shape if so couldn't she have just made
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another drawing what the hell happened in here
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[Applause]
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come on
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[Music]
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man
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huh what
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this looks familiar how am I back at the office jeremy's never been here
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that's me isn't it
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how long had it been since I drowned myself in drink and depression it had all felt so peaceful slipping away into
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oblivion a welcoming dark voice wrapped around my mind like a heavy blanket it turned off
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suddenly as I woke up from the sound of my office door closing shut a messenger had left a telegram from Mrs saunders
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she had a lead on where to find her husband and her kidnapped daughter
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god I used to drink so much back then when was this exactly what case was I
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working
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[Music] i remember this case some kid got taken
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by her father headed out of state but he had made a mistake by selling a painting that his wife actually cared about to a
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collector named Thornhill to fund his venture that's how I tracked him down at least I think so
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[Music]
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i can't go that way
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thornhill wasn't a bad man but he had principles keeping him from handing out information on his fields so he needed
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some convincing
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well every case can't be squeaky clean
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mr saunders had sold a valuable painting to Thornhead hoping the money would carry him to wherever he was going the
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painting now leaning on an easel in Thornhill's bedroom had a certain mesmerizing gloom that seemed to call
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out to me telling me I was needed for something important i felt myself
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falling into the painting only being brought back by Thornhill thrusting an
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address to a hotel St george into my hand and asking me to get the hell out
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i don't remember this at all but I can't say it didn't happen
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[Music]
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[Music]
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okay
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heat
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[Applause]
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[Music] i'm running out of bullets
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[Music]
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i can't go that way
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[Applause]
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on my way to the hotel the more gang caught up i owed them money a lot of it
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i can't remember what for probably some dumb gambling debt growing in size for each payment missed i punched one of
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them out i sent the others packing a stupid back
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[Music]
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heat heat [Music]
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[Music]
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heat heat [Music]
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i found it in the hotel ledger i recognized the handwriting of the signature Ted Striker it was him i could
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feel it it was the kidnapper I was hunting i put on my knuckles and hurried up to his room
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something about that name Ted Striker rings a bell feels vaguely familiar
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i recognize this room but I didn't catch up with them here i must have followed them but where
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[Music]
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[Music]
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that's right he was running away ditching his old life and marriage in New Orleans to find something better in Tallahassee and he took his daughter
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with him against the will of the mother that's why she hired me but I stopped him i caught up with him at the Pearl
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River Bridge pearl River this is where I caught up
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with them this is what the dark man wanted me to revisit but I'm still not
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seeing it what am I forgetting
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[Applause]
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[Applause]
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[Applause]
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[Applause]
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[Music] oh no was her all along
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i can't believe I didn't recognize you i looked a little different back then I suppose
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is any of this real how do you mean this day just
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so much is happening i can't I think I've lost my head
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do you need me to apologize i mean
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I am sorry i don't think I can even begin to
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explain you You're just a kid Grace i'm really sorry i didn't mean for it to happen lies
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more lies no really i thought I was being a good guy by handing you over to your mother i
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didn't know i I couldn't have known that she wouldn't care about you
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i don't know how this works what is this for
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some form of admission of guilt maybe acceptance it's what the dark man wants
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i guess we just watch my father die again then you think he's alive i know
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he is he's down there scared that he won't be able to get out that he will
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drown with his daughter again what are you saying we got to save him we do it
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yourself i'm down there with him remember
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can I really save them this all happened so long ago
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i have to find a way to get down there i have to see it with my own eyes
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there was a boat at the house where I entered if I can raise the bridge I should be able to get to the car
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this must be where the bridge is operated
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nothing's happening it's like something's holding it back
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there we go we should be able to pilot the boat
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[Music]
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[Music]
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come on
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come on
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huh
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heat
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come on
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come on
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come on come on come on
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hugh
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[Music]
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oh what
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my god ky are you okay don't leave me alone
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what the hell have you been doing what's going on here look at this mess i'm I'm
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sorry Mrs thompson don't make me kick you out of this house now get out
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hey detective mr karnby I'm really worried about you i'm okay i just need
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to catch my breath for a moment
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this place it's there are some very disturbed figures
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around here and I don't think it's just the patients i've been reading some things about how Detto has a deranging
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effect on people i think it might explain things what
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just take it easy okay i'm going to go find a way into Dr gay's apartment i
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want to know what he's hiding emily don't worry i think I'm close i'm
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going to set everything right just be careful
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you get
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Jeremy knew that the only one who could help him now was the guest in room
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number three the room seemed to have been empty for so long but that wasn't
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allowed to be true the story needed to be different to include something from
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the outside he would bring the guest back to room 3 and show them what was in
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that safe 913 but those were not the right numbers
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that was the combination for the safe in the clerk's office
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hello
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hello
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i don't have the combination for this but maybe Jeremy did
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it worked
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the last guest in the empty room suffered from severe maladaption
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i must write this down because if I understand the condition sufficiently it could make me deny this fact at a later
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date and there is reason for me to think I may come to suffer the consequences
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from this dysfunction as some who came in contact with the guests seemed to
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adopt a new world view in which everything was predetermined but broken
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upon accepting this world view some memories became unmanageable and later
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rejected i do not know what this means i cannot
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even remember the fate of the guest i think they were simply misplaced one day
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and forgotten just like all documents pertaining to
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this guest they have all been destroyed or they never existed in the first place
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who wrote this there has never been a guest in the empty room
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hold
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on
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i think Dr gray might be in there perfect time to snoop around his office then
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dr gray's office all to myself let's see if we can figure this guy out
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i have finished tidying up Miss Bogard's belongings i will leave it to you to
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contact her agent and have them collect her things i found one of Grace's
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drawings she might want back along with this key in her room which I believe
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you've been looking for mrs thompson
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this is where McCarthy is hidden my favorite young it's very important
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dearest Dr manzetti I find myself in a losing battle with my patient as I've
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disclosed in my previous letter his delusions have him completely captured
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it's bad enough that he is torturing himself with paranoia but his madness turns out to be quite persuasive to
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others effectively laying the ground for mass delusion i am writing to you in
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hope that you can give me some guidance beyond my ambition to avoid devastating surgery on my patient I have grown
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worried about my own defenses the words of my patient are deranged yet they
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often resonate with something primitive within me i have tried photographing his
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brain with X-rays it was surprisingly difficult to get good results dark
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blotches on the plates kept obscuring all details my patient looked at the bad
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plates and cried out in terror telling me the dark areas was the shadow of the
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worm eating him from inside i could not see anything out of the
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ordinary i hope this is a sign that my mind is not as receptive to the madness as I had feared after further inquiry my
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patient described the shadows inside his mind as some kind of cathonic monstrosity that wants to undermine his
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sanctuary this is clearly a reference to a place he calls Teroa a sort of library or
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convent that works as a psychological haven with this imaginary haven
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threatened by this cathonian he has now constructed another less pleasant hiding
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spot lately he has been bringing up a metaphor of a steamboat that has run
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ground that he feels like he needs to start the engines and reverse but he is
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afraid that the hole in the hull would cause the whole ship to sink i've been
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watching him turn this metaphor into reality for the last week he knows it's made up but he is doubling down trying
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to make it a real memory i feel certain that this is my chance to break through
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the barriers of his selfdeceit
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[Music]
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there's something missing [Music]
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[Music]
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it's blocked
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it's blocked
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[Music]
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[Music]
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i need the key
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radiography patient Jeremy Hartwood date June 14
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1930 plates jeremy's skull proved difficult to capture properly partial radioraphs
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worked best a complete picture of the brain can be assembled by piecing three plates together
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observations even when looking at an assembled version a shadow covers significant
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parts of Jeremy's brain possible tumor but more likely that the equipment is
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failing jeremy reacted strongly to the pictures and claimed to see a giant clay
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worm eating and displacing his memories notes while this exercise has left me
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nowhere closer to an answer I feel confident that a Birkhard labbotomy
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should sever all necessary parts
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hypothetical psychosurgery based on the ideas by Birkhard and the St petersburg
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research could end up saving Jeremy's mind severing the connections around the
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frontal lobe would certainly solve most mental afflictions the procedure would
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be brutal in performance as well as in efficiency an ice pick pushed through
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the edge of the eye and into the skull would untether the nerves like Alexander
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cutting the Gordian knot as this would likely leave Jeremy in a very different condition all other paths should first
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be explored the medical instrument I would need for this labbotomy is missing and I should
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have waits order a new one
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how did the flag
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work so hard
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too dark [Music]
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don't mind if I too
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that's better
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why does this keep happening what am I supposed to do
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[Music]
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[Music]
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huh
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and we're back here well perfect time to have a look around this place
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[Applause]
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no is this This is where Jeremy's hiding right hello is anyone there
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jeremy I need help wait can you hear me i'm stuck in the mud and the fire is
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taking me where are you the motor is dead i can't do anything more hang on
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Jeremy i'll figure something out i'll get the boat running
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[Applause] oh shit
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the boat's wedged itself right into the bayou if I get the motor started I could try reversing back into the river
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[Music]
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[Music]
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looks pretty weak i just need something to break it
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this definitely needs fuel
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[Music]
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heat heat
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[Applause] heat heat
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heat heat
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[Music]
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heat heat
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heat heat
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[Music]
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heat heat
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[Music]
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heat
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heat
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are you ready to tell me what happened to me i tucked a rope around my neck and then
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I strangled all the life from my body are you under the impression that you
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die yes no i was supposed to die
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what does that mean that you were supposed to die
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i'm the catalyst i had to die to make the story
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what story did you Jeremy 30 years ago Reap needed me to die
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you're not making any sense jeremy
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find your focus hey I cheated everyone
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i didn't play my part hey I escaped my doom my destiny again find your focus
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hey I'm right here what the hell is going on now everything is wrong nothing is in play hey I'm right here calm down
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Mr con what do you want did Were you Were you not talking to Jeremy
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right now i haven't seen Jeremy all day are you all right detective no actually
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I don't I don't think so well maybe i'm going to go look for Jeremy
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good let me know if you find him
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that was Jeremy's selfdeceit a steamboat stuck in the mud i'm not going to pretend I understand any of that what a
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bunch of psychoanalytic nonsense
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wow
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yes
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[Music]
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detective am I glad to see you lock the door will you i don't think Dr gray would appreciate us snooping around
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what's going on here this feels so strange
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have you found anything what yeah uh yeah i've seen some things okay let me
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know if there is anything you want to talk about
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there's a book missing
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what did you do i was just rearranging the books well come on let's check it
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out
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i think I'm beginning to understand dr gray is dealing with some kind of mass delusion
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what were you saying about mass delusion detto seems to have a deranging effect on people living close by it has a
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history of creating cults devoted to some nature goddess even the name Detta refers to the cult existing here before
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the civil war detta was the name of an ancient fertility goddess worshiped in Syria dr gray and his friends however
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seem to prefer the black goat of the woods with a thousand young or
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Shubnigroth and that name can only have come from my uncle's twisted mind
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good to finally meet you Mr hartwood i'm here on the behalf of your brother Phillip you were expecting me weren't
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you yes you're from Detto no that's right i just wanted to ask you a few
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questions to see if there is anything I can do to help you and your family okay i understand you're full of
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imagination you make up a lot of things I suppose and you obsess over them
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blurring reality and fiction sometimes do you want to tell me about
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the dark man no no I I don't that's all right perhaps there is something else
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you can tell me something you know to be made up but you hold dear
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juan john who's John no juan Luis
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wait there a moment here take a look is he oh he is the
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author it's a magnificent book life changing
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even the real one is long dead but I like to think of him as my my
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It's a magnificent book life-changing even the real one is long dead but I
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like to think of him as my my friend my most beloved friend
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i see do you often do this fantasize about people you read about
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no no well there is Jacob who is Jacob
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turn to the last page oh it's a newspaper article the prisoner
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of ice Jacob Van Ostart is he also your
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beloved friend oh no doctor not at all he is the fire
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that fights fire yes I think it's clear your overstimulated imagination this mania
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needs to be tempered for you to live a normal life i know your family calls it the heartwood curse but I want you to
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know that there is nothing supernatural about your condition it's all inside your head and with that I'm very
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qualified to deal with in time you will be cured
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in time in time yes in time we will exercise all your
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demons all the dark men a
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please Mr hartwood calm yourself what happened oh don't you worry your little
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head about it Miss Hartwood your uncle and I just had our first breakthrough
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that mark on the floor looks like calisman positions but from which direction should I look at it
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the snake dagger a monograph by Yel Klene in Ludvik Prin's book on pagan
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rituals called the mystery of the grave as translated by Nicholas Vahi there are
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several references to a sacrificial dagger called the snake dagger it has
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long been thought of as a poor translation of the original text that it would be more appropriate with worm
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dagger from the Latin vermis quilt this seems natural following the recent
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consensus that the original title of prince's book the vermis mysteries should literally translate to the
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mystery of the worm however this would take away from Vak's great effort at
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translating the underlying meaning of the words and revealing several cultural beliefs while Prince certainly was using
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the term worm as a symbol or synicti for death and the dead which is made clear
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by the contents of the book in the case of the dagger we shouldn't be too hasty to dismiss his translation
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reading through Vahi's correspondence with his patron it appears that he had more than just the Latin text at his
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disposal vahi had dug up prince living relatives and uncovered several
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cross-referenced historical texts and an actual snake dagger the dagger was dated
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to the early middle kingdom of Egypt and had such a clear shape of a wave that
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Vahi considered calling it the sinosoidal blade knowing the full story
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it seems prudent that he chose to translate it as snake and not worm there
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are several reasons why this choice of word helps us understand the pagans that Prince's book attempts to describe
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the symbolic value of the shape becomes more apparent when reading about the use for the dagger in the passage of
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possession and exorcism we find the snake dagger poisons the poisoner within
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the victim and is therefore pacified where the literal text would tell us
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that the warm dagger trumps the demon possessing the victim it tells us nothing of their reasoning only that
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somehow this dagger wins against the demon like it had the better hand in
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poker vahi's translation allows us to follow the underlying logic to the
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ritual magic that is being performed poison the poisoner sounds like fighting
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fire with fire that to hurt the demon possessing its victim the priests would
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have to fight back with a power that is known to the evil they are fighting the
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snake dagger is therefore not only a good way to describe its form but it also helps us understand how it could be
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thought of as a useful tool for exorcism finally it also helps us understand the
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relationship to lunacy that it was thought of as something poisoning the mind rather than controlling it what is
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also interesting to note is that the possessed are always considered poisoned
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in their head and not their heart the snake dagger always went to the eye of
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the possessed leaving them partially blind if they had the good luck to survive
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[Music] huh has that been there this whole time
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[Music]
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hello Detective Conv who is this jeremy
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jeremy is with the dark man you can't save him well I've done
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everything he wanted so far and there's just one more thing on the list i expect him to keep his promise and return
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Jeremy unharmed get out detective while you still can
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[Music]
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[Music]
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you okay you look a little frazzled just stupid telephone i know i tried calling
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the police earlier the telephone is completely dead it's not Yeah no the
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telephone isn't working
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miss Hartwood I think you're going to want to see this is there something in the closet yeah
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there is you don't see the very obvious gate leading to whatever Jeremy's madness is serving up next i don't
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understand are you making some kind of fashion metaphor i'm sorry i don't have time for this can you just tell me what
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you're doing you don't see this
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it's fine it's fine catch you later are you going inside the closet yeah you got
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a problem with that no do what you think is right detective sorry I didn't mean
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to goodbye Miss Hartwood
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[Music] heat
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[Music]
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heat
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[Music] we found the ancient Stellarium perched
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on a cliff facing the Arctic Ocean after a day of sailing due north of the Eskimo
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encampment jacob Vanoshat was our most keen member of the expedition he had been chasing
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down the source of a peculiar type of crystallized metal present in several sacred items among the natives on the
1:39:18
northeast coast of Greenland the site was a remarkable find for any
1:39:24
explorer and we were all enraptured in our search for enlightenment and meaning
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the surviving architecture seemed almost unearly in origin and astonishingly
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sophisticated the metal Jacob was searching for was abundant almost ubiquitous
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we were so taken by our find that we were surprised by the sun falling below the horizon
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as we quickly picked up our gear ready to head back to our camp Jacob von Otat
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declared that he wanted to stay he was adamant
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we begged him to reconsider the night would be getting colder by the hour and
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we feared for all our safety jacob refused threatening us with
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violence if we wouldn't leave him alone as the snowfall turned heavier we left
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him there on his own the next day the weather became worse
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and we had to spend hours enforcing our shelter as our tents became increasingly useless
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the group had written off Jacob thinking he must be dead i had an urge to make
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one final attempt to save him so I headed out as darkness fell with a
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handful of flares and headed toward the coast and up the climb
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towards the Stellarium that's when I saw him transfixed by a
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burning sky that celestial lantern
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jacob keeled over and let out a painful shriek that struck me with such fear and
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pity he was crying in agony for the cold weather had ravaged his flesh i called
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out to him and he turned to face me his vacant stare held me in place like a
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needle through a butterfly and he said "You must leave now Hashtan
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go and never come back." And so her left
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Heat
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[Music]
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heat
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heat
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heat
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heat
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heat
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[Music] heat
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heat [Music]
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hey you what are you doing here what is this place
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turn back detective you're not wanted here whoa take it easy
1:43:41
i'm not your enemy oh you're wrong detective you're wrong
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[Music]
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[Music] of course the Taurus i figured you wouldn't want your stars aligned Jeremy
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maybe that is what you need to temper that meeting of yours
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[Music]
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heat heat [Music]
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[Music]
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heat
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[Music]
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heat
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fuck sake stay back
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no oh shit
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no
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heat [Music]
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[Applause]
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jeremy
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we did everything aren't you happy stupid charlatan what
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more do you want from me you want me to lose my mind
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oh my love doctor Baptist
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jesus what are you thinking stop it
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