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SCENE 1

SFX: Recorder shuffling sounds

CHRISTINE: [vomiting sounds]

NICHOLAS: -on, it’s on, don’t worry!

SFX: tape clatters on the floor.

CHRISTINE: God. Damnit. That really, really sucks. It’s like having to shit out something from
your throat.

NICHOLAS: I’m… sorry Christine.

CHRISTINE: Yeah, well… this better not be some sort of deal you struck with the goddamn
payphone or whatever. Because it really sucks that I’m the only one doing this. And you’re going
to have to clean up the goddamn seawater!

(A beat)

NICHOLAS: Of course. And… I could possibly get you some ice cream for you throat? Or… I
could check father’s records, see if there was some ritual to… heal it, perhaps?

CHRISTINE: Yeah, sacrifice three bunnies on the stump of an oak tree to stop moderate to
severe throat irritation. Ugh, whatever, let’s just listen to the tape.

SFX: Picks up the tape and begins to put it in

CHRISTINE: You think… whoever’s listening is gonna respond?

NICHOLAS: We can hope.

CHRISTINE: Yeah

SFX: Press play

DAN: Everything matters. Everything is important. You must be purified.

CHRISTINE: Wait, was that it?

SFX: Tape plays again.

NICHOLAS: I… believe so
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CHRISTINE: I threw up for that?

NICHOLAS: I don’t think it’s nothing, Christine-

CHRISTINE: Ugh ‘you must be purified’? That’s some zodiac killer bullshit!

NICHOLAS: I think listening to the tapes he sends...

CHRISTINE: that I vomit out-

NICHOLAS: that you vomit out - is part of the ritual. That it purifies us. Like the water. Perhaps
it’s part of the… added difficulty, due to your...

CHRISTINE: Drowning. [sighs] Fine. Do you know when we’re going to get our totally normal
Amazon packages?

NICHOLAS: Probably tomorrow.

CHRISTINE: Awesome. Really excited to wait for the package to arrive.

TAPE BREAK 1

SFX: Cheesy public radio gong, similar to ATC or Marketplace

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END TAPE BREAK

SCENE 2

CHRISTINE: -just one box?

NICHOLAS: Please, the recorder isn’t set up yet.

SFX: Shuffling

NICHOLAS: There.
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CHRISTINE: Fine. So… are we going to open… whatever weird bullshit we got through the
United States Postal system?

NICHOLAS: Would you like to do the honors?

CHRISTINE: Sure.

SFX: Box opening

(A beat)

NICHOLAS: Well...

CHRISTINE: It’s drugs.

NICHOLAS: Are you… certain… perhaps-

CHRISTINE: Drugs.

NICHOLAS: How exactly did this get through the mail?

CHRISTINE: I mean… it’s not actually that hard to get drugs through the mail, dude. Like, long
as you seal them properly.

NICHOLAS: Oh.

CHRISTINE: Yeah, those drug sniffing dogs ain’t shit. They’re cute, but they’re bad at their jobs.

NICHOLAS: I was not aware of that. Wait… why exactly do we have a package full of drugs?

CHRISTINE: Uh… we should probably read this.

SFX: Christine unfurls a note

CHRISTINE: This is just like… an internet address?

NICHOLAS: I’ll put it in my phone

CHRISTINE: You’re not worried about weird magical viruses?

NICHOLAS: If you can’t trust a handwritten note in a package full of drugs, what can you trust?

CHRISTINE: Good point.

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SFX: iPhone sounds

NICHOLAS: it’s pulling up the-

COLLAGE: (Series of janky clips) Deliver the drugs to the addresses they are labeled with. As
payment, you may take the substance in the gold foil package. That will be necessary in the
completion of your ritual. If you attempt to open the gold foil package without delivering the
drugs, there will be consequences. Goodbye.

SFX: iPhone turning off

NICHOLAS: Damnit!

CHRISTINE: Dude, your phone OK?

NICHOLAS: Yeah… yeah… it’s turning back on. So… perhaps we could go back to the
Payphone? Or we could-

CHRISTINE: What?

NICHOLAS: Instead of becoming drug mules?

CHRISTINE: Uhhhh… I’m totally fine with “becoming” a drug mule. Don’t worry about it.

NICHOLAS: Oh.

CHRISTINE: You want to come with, or…

NICHOLAS: If you… would like me to-

CHRISTINE: Nah dude, I think I got this one.

NICHOLAS: Thank you. Uh, do you… need anything from me?

CHRISTINE: Just the recorder. Shit, I hope they’ll be cool with me recording them… they…
probably won’t be.

NICHOLAS: Oh, if you don’t think we should-

CHRISTINE: Nah, nah, I’ll just explain that it’s magical BS. They’ll be fine with it.

NICHOLAS: How… do you know this isn’t an… ordinary drug… event.
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CHRISTINE: Well, it’s not a drug event, because nothing’s a drug event, that’s not a phrase
anyone uses you goddamn square, and I know this isn’t an ordinary drug event because no one
would go through this must trouble to transport regular drugs. Plus, pot doesn’t have little flakes
of living darkness in it. See?

SFX: Drugs shaking

NICHOLAS: Ah. So…

CHRISTINE: I’ll be fine. Names and addresses are on the packages, I’ve already got a
messenger bag. I’m good. Don’t open the golden pouch while I’m gone.

NICHOLAS: Understood.

SFX: Recorder turns off

TAPE BREAK 2

TAPE BREAK BEGINS MUSIC: Short song

TAPE BREAK ENDS

SCENE 3

CHRISTINE: Hey, uh, I’m looking for a Penelope Winthrop?

SUSPICIOUS LIBRARIAN: Are you a student?

CHRISTINE: Uh, sure, yeah, let’s go with that.

SUSPICIOUS LIBRARIAN: Hmmm… because not many students are interested in our wax
cylinder collection, and I’m certain I remember most of them.

CHRISTINE: Well, you know, memory’s fallible and shit.

SUSPICIOUS LIBRARIAN: That may be the case, but-

SFX: Shuffling as Penelope approaches

PENELOPE: Oh, there you are! Mrs. Mortimer, I was just looking for…

CHRISTINE: Christine

PENELOPE: Yes, she’s bringing some important preservation materials for my research.
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CHRISTINE: Lots of wax. For the wax cylinders.

PENELOPE: [laughs nervously] What a great joke… Christine. So funny, follow me!

SFX: The two run off

SUSPICIOUS LIBRARIAN: No running in the library!

SCENE 4

PENELOPE: [whispering] You have the… what I bought, right?

CHRISTINE: Yeah, right here, I’ll-

SFX: Duffel bag rustling

PENELOPE: No, no! Wait until we get to my section

SFX: More walking

SFX: Library sounds

SFX: Door opening, closing

PENELOPE: Alright, basically no one comes to the wax department, so we should be ok to talk.

CHRISTINE: Cool

SFX: Duffel bag opening, Christine takes out a pouch

PENELOPE: My name’s Penelope, by the way.

CHRISTINE: Awesome. Here you go Penelope.

SFX: Christine hands pouch over to Christine

PENELOPE: Ahhh, it’s perfect! Thank you so much!

CHRISTINE: Cool, happy to help, now I should probably-

PENELOPE: Wait, the website said you’d supervise.

CHRISTINE: What?
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PENELOPE: Well, this is a little bit… (stage whisper) outside my comfort zone, and the website
said that this would be supervised by, and this is an exact quote, an expert in matters of the
occult.

CHRISTINE: Really. It said that.

PENELOPE: Well, you’re involved in this (stage whisper) super secret magical thingy, that’s
why you’re recording everything, right? It said you would be recording everything.

CHRISTINE: It said that? I mean… of course it said that. Yes. That’s accurate.

PENELOPE: Is it the philosopher’s stone? Like Harry Potter? Wait, you don’t have to tell me.

(A beat)

CHRISTINE: Please don’t wink at me.

PENELOPE: But you’ll stay here and just… watch after me, right? The other deliverywoman just
left and… (stage whisper) sometimes they get mean.

CHRISTINE: Who gets mean, Penelope?

PENELOPE: The… it’s tough to explain. Here… listen

SFX: Goes to her computer

CHRISTINE: It’s alright, you don’t have to.

SFX: Mouse clicks

(A beat)

PENELOPE: Sorry, University computers… slow. Alright, here’s a cylinder I digitized on my

fourth day here.

MUSIC: Plays a short, happy song

CHRISTINE: Cool.

PENELOPE: And here’s something I recorded in my third week.

MUSIC: Song’s warped, disconcerting, shifted from the previous song.

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(A beat)

PENELOPE: It’s the same song!

CHRISTINE: I’m guessing the cylinders don’t, like, warp like that.

PENELOPE: Exactly! No they don’t.

SFX: Penelope gets up from her chair

PENELOPE: Over here, this is the main troublemaker.

SFX: Penelope walks over to the cylinders and pulls one out

PENELOPE: There, ”Humans for Scale”. All the other cylinders around it get minds of their own,
and when I move “Humans for Scale”, the same thing happens!

CHRISTINE: So… how do you know the drugs will help?

PENELOPE: Oh, this whole (stage whisper) service is easy to google. Not easy easy, most
everyone thinks it’s kind of a joke… but I thought what’s the harm and submitted a request. And
it sort of worked last time… though the deliverywoman wasn’t nearly as nice as you. I think I got
the measurement wrong, the cylinder, it kind of screamed at me.

CHRISTINE: Well, I’m sure my presence will help.

PENELOPE: Exactly! Alright, let’s get started

SFX: Penelope removes the wax cylinder

CHRISTINE: How old is that thing?

SFX: Penelope sets the equipment up

PENELOPE: Over a century! Now just to… it’s a bit complicated to set up.

CHRISTINE: Where do you… sprinkle the stuff, I guess?

PENELOPE: Oh, directly into the horn. Ready to start?

CHRISTINE: Sure...

MUSIC: Song begins to play, it’s weird and creepy and disconcerting
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CHRISTINE: Should you start...

PENELOPE: Not yet

MUSIC: Song gets even creepier

PENELOPE: Alright now

SFX: Drugs are sprinkled into the phonograph.

MUSIC: Song gets noticeably cheerier and more mellow

MUSIC: Song ends!

PENELOPE: We did it!

CHRISTINE: [laughs] Don’t know how I helped but… sure. Yea us.

PENELOPE: Oh, it’s important to have someone to talk to. Sometimes I think the songs act out
because they’re lonely, you know. A whole century cooped up, having to sing the same song…
it would get to anything.

CHRISTINE: Yeah, that sounds about right. Well, I’ve got to get going...

PENELOPE: Oh, oh sure, uhm, if you’re ever in the area and want to hear some weird sounds,
well… you know my name

CHRISTINE: Uh, yeah. Bye.

SFX: Tape recorder turns off

SCENE 5

SFX: Tape weirdness

MUSIC: Weird electronic dance music

SFX: Dance party sounds?

JEROME: -were looking for me?

CHRISTINE: You’re Jerome? JEROME?

JEROME: Who wants to know?

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SFX: Recorder’s jostled

CHRISTINE: Yo dickface, watch where you’re dancing! And I’m Christine!

JEROME: What?

CHRISTINE: Christine!

JEROME: Oh yeah, the, with the stuff. Do you have it, the stuff I mean?

CHRISTINE: Yeah dude, that’s why I’m here

SFX: Opening up the duffel bag

JEROME: Oh man, this is perfect! Just what the doctor ordered. Hey, yo, uh, Christine, are you
cool?

CHRISTINE: I didn’t hear you?

JEROME: I said, are you cool?

CHRISTINE: No Jerome, in this particular instance, I am not cool.

JEROME: Oh. Well… sorry…

SFX: Putting drugs into a misting spray

CHRISTINE: Wait, what is that?

JEROME: What?

CHRISTINE: What is that?

JEROME: Fog Machine! A special fog machine. Yeah, if you’re not cool, you should probably
get going!

CHRISTINE: Shit. Get out of my way, assholes!

SFX: Bumping, jostling

JEROME: Alright everyone, you’re all going to get lit as hell.

SFX: Dancers cheer

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SFX: Fog machine thing goes off

CHRISTINE: Goddamnit

SOUND DESIGN WEIRDNESS: So, for this instance, I’m thinking the music gets weird, dancers
heartbeats get louder, breath gets louder, in the distance, animal noises are heard. We hear
Christine’s footsteps, she goes

CHRISTINE: What the

SOUND DESIGN WEIRDNESS: faintly, but for the most part, this is just a short, weird, aural
soundscape. Full free to go full audio magic, point isn’t to do anything specific, it’s just to have a
weird little interlude, until

SFX: Door opens

SFX: Sounds of the New York night, cars honking, etc.

CHRISTINE: [sighs] Well… shit

SFX: Christine turns recorder off

SCENE 6

SFX: Tape weirdness

SFX: Knocking on door

CHRISTINE: Hey-

SFX: Door opens

BRO 1: Yo, lady’s here with the magical weed!

BRO 2: Yeah! Get that Harry Potter shit!

BRO 3: Baller!

CHRISTINE: Uh, here you go

SFX: Drugs are handed off

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BRO 1: You’re a lifesaver, bro. Yo, if you want to chill with us, we’re always open to having a
beautiful-

CHRISTINE: I’m good.

BRO 1: Alright, Hunter out!

SFX: Door closes

CHRISTINE: Well… ok.

SFX: Recorder is turned off

SFX: Tape weirdness

SCENE 7

SFX: Tape turns on

SFX: Coffee shop/bookstore sounds

CHRISTINE: Are you Jeanette Jeffreys?

JEANETTE: [laughs good naturedly] It’s what it says on my name tag.

CHRISTINE: Cool. Well, I’ve got a package for-

JEANETTE: Oh wait, oh my god, are you the witch? You’re the witch, right?

CHRISTINE: Dude, I’m just delivering a package

JEANETTE: Back room, back room

SFX: They go to the back room of the coffee shop, should be mechanical grinding sounds

CHRISTINE: So, you gonna dose people’s coffees or what?

JEANETTE: No, no, this is a… personal interest. I was hoping… alright, ever since I read Harry
Potter-

CHRISTINE: Dude, Jeanette-

JEANETTE: Just listen, ever since I read Harry Potter, I have waited for some sort of sign. A
letter from Hogwarts, a real spell, something, anything that would-
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CHRISTINE: Jeanette! Jeanette!

JEANETTE: Yes?

CHRISTINE: Just don’t.

JEANETTE: I… but I want to learn from-

CHRISTINE: I get it. I really do. Whatever you’re thinking this is… it’s not that, OK? Jeanette,
why’d you order… whatever you ordered?

JEANETTE: I wanted to… you know… see things. How things really are.

CHRISTINE: You know how you can do that?

JEANETTE: How?

CHRISTINE: Shrooms. You don’t need to get messed up in weird shit to have a magical
experience OK? I’m going to give you a phone number… you got a pen?

JEANETTE: Uh, yes.

SFX: Christine writes something down

CHRISTINE: OK. Text Rachel, she’ll hook you up. Don’t flirt with… actually flirt with her if you
want to, up to you. Take some shrooms, have an awesome experience, throw whatever you
ordered into the trash, OK?

(A beat)

CHRISTINE: Don’t get involved in this shit unless you have a very specific goal, do you
understand?

JEANETTE: Fine.

CHRISTINE: Good. And don’t let Rachel rip you off, ok? An eighth is fifty bucks at most.

SFX: Footsteps

JEANETTE: I…

SFX: Tape turns off

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SCENE 8

SFX: Tape weirdness

SFX: Sound of an echoey, empty building

CHRISTINE: Yoooo… anyone in here?

SFX: Crash

KATHY: Wait. Who are you? Stay right there, don’t move

SFX: Footsteps

CHRISTINE: Yeah dude, not moving, I’m just here to...

SFX: Crash

KATHY: Stupid! Building! It’s always the architecture that turns against you.

CHRISTINE: You OK?

KATHY: I’m fine, I’m fine. Wait, do you think I’m not fine? Do I not look fine to you?

CHRISTINE: Yeah, ugh, you look great. Hot as hell.

KATHY: It’s the hair isn’t it? Got tired of waiting for rain in order to wash it, easier to just chop it
off.

CHRISTINE: I respect that. I shaved my head in college.

KATHY: Awwwww, you’re sweet… what’s your name by the way, you look like a… Victoria?

CHRISTINE: Christine. And you’re, uh… Kathy Quinn?

KATHY: Got it in one. And… oooooooh… you’re recording, aren’t you? Aren’t you? Are you
really going for it? The big one? I mean, you could be recording a stupid little podcast, but that
would be so boring.

(A beat)

CHRISTINE: Uh, yeah. So, anywho, I’ve got-

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KATHY: [laughs] You’re braver than I am. So, what brings you to my humble abode? (stage
whisper) I’m guessing it’s to do with the mic you’re holding.

CHRISTINE: Nah, I got the package you ordered. You did, you know, order a package?

KATHY: Oh yes, yes I did. Can I see it?

CHRISTINE: Uh… yeah.

SFX: Christine hands Kathy the package.

CHRISTINE: You can actually, you know, have it. Since you ordered it. So… anyway… I’m

SFX: Footsteps

KATHY: That wasn’t the only reason you came here, was it?

CHRISTINE: It… kind of was... so...

KATHY: You’re the woman who opened the door, aren’t you?

CHRISTINE: I…

KATHY: Don’t worry, my lips are sealed. And I think it’s exciting. Everyone fascinated by you.
Following your movements with interest.

CHRISTINE: That’s, you know, one way to look at it.

KATHY: I have something to show you, drowned woman! Follow me!

SFX: Footsteps

CHRISTINE: Uh...

KATHY: Watch out for the metal, most of it’s rusty. And don’t worry, I’m going to help you! Why
do you think you’re here?

CHRISTINE: I…

KATHY: Follow me or I will be extremely cross.

CHRISTINE: O… k.

SFX: More footsteps

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KATHY: Up the stairs

CHRISTINE: What… is this place?

KATHY: Oh, just a fun little warehouse. Bit of a 70s throwback. Back when New York was real
and dangerous. Everyone had a lot of fun back then, eating each other’s hearts, or so I hear.

SFX: Footsteps

KATHY: And voila!

SFX: Tarp being pulled off

SFX: Strange hum

CHRISTINE: Nice… collection. Definitely not obsessive at all.

KATHY: I know, I know, it’s nothing compared to your father’s, he was really something. Still, so
many tapes!

(A beat)

KATHY: Hey, want to hear something cool?

CHRISTINE: Uhm, I

KATHY: I’m going to take that as a yes.

SFX: Rummaging

KATHY: And here… we… are. Don’t worry, it’s related to your current predicament. Do you
want to do the honors? Just put the tape in the big boxlike thing. I had to convert it to a tape
format, it makes it easier to listen to.

CHRISTINE: Uh… sure.

SCENE 9

TAPE starts

MUSIC: Shitty/creepy theme starts to play

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MICHELLE: The following podcast contains descriptions of death and violence. This show may
not be suitable for young listeners.

MUSIC: Opening montage music starts, think Stranglers opening, quick cuts

TV REPORTER: Four bodies were found in the Losanavo cave today-

COWORKER: -came into the office, like normal, but he never left-

LOCAL: -there was this… fear over the town, like a mist-

POLICEMAN: -they were decomposed, basically skeletons-

TV REPORTER: -there was no way in or out-

OTHER LOCAL: -you hear stories about the caves, growing up in the town-

SCIENTIST: -we’re at a dead end, we can’t wrap our minds around it-

TV REPORTER: No one knows what happened.

SFX: The “no one knows what happened” is repeated a few times until it transitions to…

MUSIC: Creepy, atmospheric theme, think up and vanished

MICHELLE: From RLR productions in Brooklyn, this is No One Knows What Happened. I’m
your host, Michelle Hardvan. Five years ago, Clementine Energy was drilling in the Ohio
foothills, looking for natural gas. Greg Gearson has supervised digs for more than fifteen years.
And for him, the day started like any other.

DRILLER: (in an interview) Yeah, it was just, a normal job, the suits had already done an
inspection, we cleared the area, it was normal, you know.

MICHELLE: (narrating) Except… it wouldn’t be normal for much longer.

MICHELLE: (in an interview) Can you tell me… what you found?

DRILLER: (in the interview) Yeah, so… we were drilling, and we hit an air pocket, pretty normal,
but we decided to stop for lunch. And, well, there are these little cameras on the drill, they help
us tell what type of minerals we’re actually digging through. And, well, I just glance on the
camera…

(A beat)
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MICHELLE: And what did you see?

DRILLER: I saw a skull

MUSIC: Creepy theme goes to overdrive

MICHELLE: A skull, hundreds of feet belowground. But it wasn’t just a skull…

SFX: Excavation sounds

MICHELLE: When it was all over, four separate bodies would be excavated. Four separate
bodies. They were all found in a small cave hundreds of feet belowground. And there’s another
thing, the cave? There didn’t appear to be any way in… or out.

MUSIC: Go all out on the creepy theme.

MICHELLE: I think everyone’s fascinated by unsolved mysteries. It’s human nature, to be

excited by them, especially when there’s no obvious explanation. In this podcast, I’ll be trying to
find out exactly what happened to those four people trapped in that cave. Four people that didn’t
know each other and had absolutely no reason to be where they ended up. What does their
story say about human nature? About the importance of mystery in modern life? About the
myths we tell ourselves? About the economic deprivation of rural America? We’ll find answers to
all of those questions and more.

COWORKER: Reggie was… he was passionate about the company. That’s the first thing that
stood out to me.

MICHELLE: The first body police were able to positively ID was Reginald Banner. An IT
specialist from Atlanta, he oversaw cyber security for Kemli Dynamics, a Fortune 500 company
from...

SCENE 8a

KATHY: Here’s the boring bit, gonna fast forward through it

CHRISTINE: Are you sure...

KATHY: Here we go

SFX: Tape fast forwards

SCENE 9 (continued)

MICHELLE: because police didn’t just find bodies in that cave… they also found a radio.
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MUSIC: End theme for podcast

MICHELLE: I’m Michelle Hardvan, and this is No One Knows What Happened, an RLR
production. If you like the podcast, I’d really appreciate it if you could leave a review on iTunes,
it helps get the word out.

SFX: Tape static

MICHELLE: -Use promo code LATESTAGECAPITALISM, all one weird, for 75% off. We’re also
supported by Stamp.com. Stamp.com, for when you only need one stamp. No one Knows What
Happened is executive produced by Regis P. Winthrop III, our sound designer is Lindsay
Wallace, and our production assistant is Gina Henderson. Our interns are: Alice Wilcox, Anita
Dunn, Willie Burt, Debra Hebert, Matthew Adkins, Landon Flynn, Lisa Hoffman, Addison
Hutchinson, and Jacob Stark. Remember No One Knows What Happened… but we’re going to
find out.

SFX: Podcast stinger

(A beat)

SCENE 10

KATHY: You know he’s looking for you, don’t you?

CHRISTINE: How do you know that?

KATHY: You opened a door, Christine. Anyone can come through.

(A beat)

CHRISTINE: Tell me everything about Aleister. You need to tell me.

KATHY: Do I? I know that he’s… grown… since the cave. He’s started to build something
beautiful. Something it would be wondrous to behold. Are you… interested in seeing it?

CHRISTINE: No.

KATHY: A wise choice. Most likely. But I know more things, Christine. For a while I thought that
it was all about a radio station, but it’s so much bigger than that! So much more… complex. But
you probably want to know more, don’t you? About the ritual, about how to protect yourself,
about your father. Wanting to know more. It’s like a disease. Don’t worry, I have it too.

CHRISTINE: Are you going to tell me?

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KATHY: The answers don’t exist within my brain, they exist within your father’s house. His
domain.

(A beat)

CHRISTINE: Kathy...

KATHY: I know, I know, you’ve looked in your dad’s archive, but you haven’t looked with me. I’m
really good when it comes to this stuff, and all I’d ask for in return are just a couple of your dad’s
tapes. Three at the very most.

(A beat)

KATHY: Please. I’m very curious.

CHRISTINE: I don’t… I don’t think so. I’m sorry.

KATHY: Are you sorry? Are you really.

(A beat)

KATHY: Well… let me know if you change your mind, ok. I’ll be here. Waiting.

(A beat)

SFX: Tape turns off

SCENE 11

CHRISTINE: -anything on Kathy Quinn?

NICHOLAS: Did you…

CHRISTINE: Turned the recorder on, yeah, just in case there’s anything important.

NICHOLAS: Not… an extraordinary amount. But she was in an episode of ‘Real Life
Reimagined’,

CHRISTINE: Is that a podcast?

NICHOLAS: Yes. I don’t exactly like it, but I’ve listened to every episode. Anyway, during the
segment, she was obsessed with searching for this lost radio signal. She heard it once and
devoted her life to trying to hear it again.
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CHRISTINE: Did she ever find it?

NICHOLAS: No, at least not that I know of. She doesn’t have much of an internet presence,
aside from the podcast episode.

CHRISTINE: I mean, I wasn’t expecting her to have an Instagram. Didn’t seem like the type.
Check out my creepy abandoned warehouse, hashtag blessed. How about the drugs?

NICHOLAS: Ah yes, Nicholas Waters, expert on illicit drugs. No.

CHRISTINE: Yeah, I’ve never seen anything like them. So… what do we do now?

(A beat)

NICHOLAS: I...I’m not sure.

CHRISTINE: Kathy’s weird as hell, but she’s an option? And there’s always the payphone. I’d
be down to take a personality quiz.

NICHOLAS: I don’t...

CHRISTINE: Nick?

NICHOLAS: How… committed are you to seeing this through? Now that we know… what our
opposition is.

(A beat)

CHRISTINE: Dude, are you kidding me?

NICHOLAS: No, no-

CHRISTINE: I goddamn drowned! I just spent the day delivering product! For free. What the hell
kind of a question is that?

NICHOLAS: I apologize.

CHRISTINE: Damn right.

(A beat)

CHRISTINE: How about you?

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NICHOLAS: Yes. It’s… been a bit more difficult than I expected… but yes. I’m still… curious.

CHRISTINE: So… what brought this up?

NICHOLAS: There may be… something I failed to mention.

CHRISTINE: What?

NICHOLAS: Probably best not to record this.

SFX: Tape recorder turns off.