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Episode: S2 Episode 1: London

Author: Two-Up
Duration: 00:41:16

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+120 hrs from Lia Haddock’s abduction.

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Summary

In the premiere episode titled 'London' of Two-Up's podcast 'Limetown', the narrative delves deeper into the unsettling disappearance of over three hundred individuals. Characters reflect on their personal connections to this mystery, revealing emotional moments. The story intertwines Charlie Lattimore's anxious dealings in London, emphasizing the stakes involved in discussions around Limetown, particularly regarding a massive financial conspiracy. As the plot unfolds, it becomes apparent that confidentiality and communication restrictions are paramount for safety. Meanwhile, grim ethical dilemmas arise among task force members, particularly concerning the fate of Limetown survivors, underscoring the moral complexities of their involvement in this dark tale.

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00:00:01 Speaker_00
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00:01:23 Speaker_03
Good afternoon, Charlie.

00:01:31 Speaker_02
Tell me about your dreams. Tell me everything you remember.

00:01:39 Speaker_03
No? Do you not want to talk today? I can come back. I don't dream. Okay. So is it warm enough? In here for you? Are you finding the accommodations comfortable?

00:01:55 Speaker_13
Sure.

00:01:57 Speaker_03
The couch is new. Ish. The bed is not. I've had a chance to go through the first batch of tapes, so I'd like to start our larger conversation now. When would you say this first garnered your attention? Was it Leah's broadcast?

00:02:14 Speaker_14
No, that was a sideshow.

00:02:19 Speaker_03
So when would you say you first turned to- The Sincerely Sandra call. Okay. The Sincerely Sandra call.

00:02:35 Speaker_06
You still there?

00:02:36 Speaker_13
I'm here, Doug.

00:02:38 Speaker_06
I was just saying, I've been sober six months.

00:02:41 Speaker_13
That's wonderful, Doug.

00:02:42 Speaker_06
And, Abby, if you're out there listening, I just want to say how sorry I am. I love that cat as much as you did.

00:02:54 Speaker_13
She hears you, Doug.

00:02:55 Speaker_06
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to cry on your radio program.

00:03:01 Speaker_13
Never apologize for feeling too much, Doug. It's what makes life worth living. The happy times, the sad times. It's important to be honest with yourself.

00:03:15 Speaker_06
Thank you, Sandra. She always loved your show.

00:03:19 Speaker_13
No, thank you, Doug. My next call is coming from Leah in Sacramento. I see you've requested If You Could Read My Mind by Gordon Lightfoot. Such a lovely, haunting song. Who's this going out to, Leah? My uncle, Emile Haddock.

00:03:39 Speaker_13
And why is this song important to you two?

00:03:44 Speaker_11
Leah? You're going to find me in pieces if you don't do exactly what I say. I'm waiting for you at the bridge. You have 72 hours. Goodbye.

00:04:01 Speaker_03
Why did that get your attention?

00:04:03 Speaker_14
It got everyone's attention.

00:04:05 Speaker_03
Why did it get your attention?

00:04:07 Speaker_14
Because the resolve required to do something like that was admirable.

00:04:14 Speaker_03
Admirable?

00:04:15 Speaker_14
Yes. And the opportunity to hunt someone of that caliber was too much to pass up. Also, I got paid a lot of money.

00:04:24 Speaker_03
Ah. Always money. So that's when you went to London.

00:04:29 Speaker_15
So that's when I went to London. JFK Airport. Terminal 7. Two men have been standing near the emergency exit, watching me. They are dressed as custodians, or are custodians. They don't appear to be fixing anything. Otherwise, business as usual.

00:04:56 Speaker_03
You record these notes often. Any particular reason?

00:05:00 Speaker_14
I'm thorough.

00:05:02 Speaker_03
You're paranoid.

00:05:04 Speaker_14
That's interesting, coming from you. Why? I didn't chain myself to this floor. I'm being careful. You're being thorough.

00:05:15 Speaker_02
Here we are.

00:05:22 Speaker_14
Lobby of the Bridgemont building. Approaching the security desk.

00:05:28 Speaker_10
One second. Who are you here to see today?

00:05:31 Speaker_14
I have an appointment with Eugene Demeter.

00:05:34 Speaker_10
IDS?

00:05:34 Speaker_14
Yeah, sorry.

00:05:36 Speaker_10
IDS. What was your name?

00:05:40 Speaker_14
Charlie Lattimore.

00:05:43 Speaker_03
We could skip the elevator stuff and all the waiting around in the waiting room.

00:05:47 Speaker_14
Why are you playing these at all?

00:05:50 Speaker_03
I needed to be top of mind for you.

00:05:55 Speaker_16
Charlie? Yes? We're ready for you. Great. Do you want to help with the bag? That's alright. This way. You worked here long? Me? Maybe four months. Are you applying for a job? I am. Oh, amazing. Well, it's a great place to work.

00:06:20 Speaker_16
Lots of benefits and the location, obviously.

00:06:24 Speaker_14
Hi, Akshay.

00:06:24 Speaker_16
Hi. Hi, Nia.

00:06:26 Speaker_14
This is gonna sound so dumb, but I've been going on so many interviews. What exactly is it that you do here? IDS.

00:06:35 Speaker_16
A lot of things, mostly centered around events. Insurance, logistics, marketing, you name it. Anyway, we're going to put you two in here. And make sure Gene is on his way. He's not great at time management these days. Here he is. Good luck. Thank you.

00:06:57 Speaker_16
Hello.

00:07:02 Speaker_07
Nice to meet you in person. You are Charlie, right?

00:07:07 Speaker_14
I am.

00:07:08 Speaker_07
Good. I didn't want to get my wires crossed. Can you imagine me blathering on about Limetown and you're the wrong person? Um, look. Jean. I'm a little nervous talking to you. You're very intense.

00:07:24 Speaker_07
I'm going to be telling you things that I've never, ever in my life said to anyone.

00:07:28 Speaker_14
Jean, I would urge you to take your involvement in Limetown very seriously. I do. And from now on, be extremely selective in who you talk to about this. You think you can do that?

00:07:41 Speaker_07
Yes. And I'm not ignoring you. I'm just writing this down. Be selective.

00:07:48 Speaker_14
No, I also wouldn't write any of this down.

00:07:51 Speaker_07
Oh, God. That obviously goes without saying. I haven't really been getting a lot of sleep in the past few days. I might need you to hold my hand through this. It's all very new to me. Would it make sense for me to tell you who knows I'm involved?

00:08:10 Speaker_14
I think let's wait on that. What I would like to do first is come to an agreement about terms.

00:08:16 Speaker_07
Okay.

00:08:16 Speaker_14
And then maybe take this to a more private location to discuss the scope of your involvement in this thing.

00:08:22 Speaker_07
Absolutely. You want to talk about money?

00:08:25 Speaker_14
I would. Normally, this kind of thing would be more fluid, but considering the scope of this project, I'm going to need to ask for a considerable amount of money up front.

00:08:34 Speaker_07
That seems fair.

00:08:36 Speaker_14
I would need 1.2 million to get started.

00:08:38 Speaker_07
1.2 million pounds? Yes. To get started? Yes, hi Nia. What's going on?

00:08:50 Speaker_16
I'm sorry to interrupt. Someone's calling for you and they wouldn't take a message so... Who is it? Special Agent Marcy Gravis. She says she works for the Department of Homeland Security. Tell her I'll call her back. She said it's urgent.

00:09:03 Speaker_16
Tell her I will call her back.

00:09:06 Speaker_07
I'm in a meeting.

00:09:07 Speaker_16
OK. Thank you.

00:09:12 Speaker_07
I don't have... 1.2 million pounds.

00:09:15 Speaker_14
Correct. You have 1.5 million in this bank account. I'm leaving room for the fees.

00:09:20 Speaker_07
Well, that's... Look, okay, look.

00:09:24 Speaker_14
See, that money's for my kids. Well, I think if your kids had the choice between having that money and having their dad, they would choose the latter, I would hope.

00:09:33 Speaker_07
I understand what you do is very challenging. I do. Can't we just be reasonable and bring it down a little bit? Just to start. I mean, maybe we could just work our way up to that number.

00:09:45 Speaker_14
No, no, I'm sorry. That is the starting salary for having your life unfucked. If you're not willing to pay that, I can't take you seriously.

00:09:53 Speaker_07
But I am serious. Then say yes. I just feel really kind of majorly pressured here.

00:10:01 Speaker_16
Christ! Mr. Demeter, now there are some men here. They're from... Sorry, where are you from?

00:10:06 Speaker_07
Just tell them I'll be out in five minutes.

00:10:09 Speaker_16
Okay, I'll do it.

00:10:12 Speaker_07
I can't in good conscience give you that much money. Not without knowing what that money gets me.

00:10:17 Speaker_14
It gives you a chance. A chance to do what? A chance to not go to jail for the rest of your life because you're financially tied to the greatest American conspiracy of all time. I'm paying you my children's future for a chance.

00:10:30 Speaker_14
It's one more chance than you have right now.

00:10:31 Speaker_07
Oh, God. Look, I think we got off on the wrong foot here. I'm not a bad person. I didn't boil any people in acid. Oh! Damn! Okay. Okay. Okay. I'll withdraw the money today. You're hired. Okay. Well, congratulations then. You're a millionaire.

00:11:05 Speaker_07
And you haven't done anything yet.

00:11:07 Speaker_14
That's not true. I've already removed the single most incriminating piece of evidence from the equation.

00:11:19 Speaker_07
What am I looking at?

00:11:20 Speaker_14
Tapes. Lots and lots of tapes. The ones your former employer, Brenda Radowsky, a.k.a. Terry Falstaff, a.k.a. Lenore Dougal, sent to Leah Haddock's producer. The Oscar Totem tapes? Sure. To be clear, that's a bit of a misnomer. A lot of them are Oscars.

00:11:39 Speaker_14
Others are from after he died. Some are just nonsense, thrown in with the rest. It's not exactly a curated experience. What it is, really, is an insurance policy.

00:11:51 Speaker_14
Everything this individual hid away because she knew it implicated some very powerful people. And now, it's yours.

00:12:00 Speaker_07
You're giving these to me?

00:12:02 Speaker_14
Yes. Put them somewhere where no one will ever find them but you. Don't tell me where you keep them.

00:12:09 Speaker_07
Okay, but shouldn't you have them?

00:12:13 Speaker_14
I already pulled the audio off them.

00:12:15 Speaker_07
I don't understand. How do you have these?

00:12:19 Speaker_14
How isn't really a question you want to ask me.

00:12:22 Speaker_07
Right.

00:12:23 Speaker_14
But I think you'll find as we move forward that intercepting a package is a pretty small order of business for someone in my line of work. Grab that sheet of paper.

00:12:33 Speaker_07
Yes.

00:12:34 Speaker_14
I want you to write down three numbers. Mine, your wife's, your lawyer's. You're going to stick that in your pocket as the only people you talk to for the next week, okay?

00:12:44 Speaker_07
Is this a test? You said not to write anything.

00:12:48 Speaker_14
Eugene, just do what I say. And don't call them from your iPhone. Put that in a drawer and buy a burner. Do you know what a burner is? It's a cheap phone. Correct.

00:12:59 Speaker_14
As for Nia and Akshay and all the other people running around here with their heads cut off, they're all getting something called mandatory professional development. Say that with me. Mandatory professional development. We want them scattered.

00:13:12 Speaker_14
It's hard to put together a story if all the key players are in different locations. Sound familiar?

00:13:17 Speaker_07
He does, yes. What about the special agents?

00:13:22 Speaker_14
Who?

00:13:23 Speaker_07
The suits in the lobby.

00:13:25 Speaker_14
Oh, they don't know anything. What? They've been paying visits to anyone even vaguely connected to Fitzgerald and Butler.

00:13:32 Speaker_07
Well, they don't know anything.

00:13:34 Speaker_14
Not really. Well, you could have told me that. No, Gene, I don't think I could have.

00:13:40 Speaker_07
Mr. Demita? Go away, Akshay! Just leave me alone. Yes, sir.

00:13:49 Speaker_14
On the back of that, write this down, too. Pink Nori, 12 Camley Street, 1600 hours. That's where you're going to meet me. That's in half an hour? Yeah, Gene. We're on limetown time now. We don't really have time to burn.

00:14:01 Speaker_07
Okay. I'll make it work.

00:14:04 Speaker_14
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00:16:11 Speaker_03
At that point, did you think Eugene knew where Leah was?

00:16:16 Speaker_14
You said you listened to the tapes, right?

00:16:18 Speaker_03
Yes.

00:16:20 Speaker_14
So, you have the facts. Why bother with what I think?

00:16:26 Speaker_03
Interesting.

00:16:28 Speaker_14
Why is that interesting?

00:16:30 Speaker_03
No reason. Let's continue.

00:16:36 Speaker_15
Pink Nori, a few minutes after five.

00:16:39 Speaker_14
Jean Demeter is over an hour late. The only people in the restaurant are the waitstaff and an older white gentleman who is working on his laptop by the window.

00:16:49 Speaker_11
I'm going to give Jean another... You want more hot water?

00:16:54 Speaker_14
Sure, thank you.

00:16:55 Speaker_11
You still want to wait on food?

00:16:58 Speaker_14
I think that's my friend.

00:16:59 Speaker_07
I'm with her, thanks.

00:17:05 Speaker_14
Could you give us a minute? You all right?

00:17:11 Speaker_07
I don't know if I'm built for this. It was one thing when nobody knew. I just hope this all gets easier. I assume it gets easier. I mean, does it?

00:17:24 Speaker_14
Did you get rid of your phone?

00:17:26 Speaker_07
Yeah. I didn't have time to get the burner phone. But I told my staff to go home and await further instructions from me. Oh, and I bought the first cash payment. It's in the bag. You can look at it if you... Don't touch the bag.

00:17:45 Speaker_14
Okay. I need to ask you a couple questions. Shoot. Do any of the remaining 163 Limetown survivors know who you are? Would they recognize your name from a list or be able to pick your face out of a lineup? No. You're sure?

00:18:01 Speaker_07
I'm sure. I never interacted with them.

00:18:05 Speaker_14
That's good. Question number two. Do you know where Leah Haddock is? No. Do you know who took her?

00:18:14 Speaker_07
I do.

00:18:16 Speaker_14
You do?

00:18:18 Speaker_07
I do.

00:18:20 Speaker_11
Anything for you to drink?

00:18:22 Speaker_07
Yeah, I'll take one of everything. Sorry, only kidding. Let me look at the... Is this the drink menu? Sorry, do you have whiskey? We had beer. Yeah, yeah, beer's great. A single beer. Thank you. The man who abducted Leah Haddock is named Daniel Rasmuller.

00:18:48 Speaker_07
R-A-S-S-M-U-E-L-L-E-R.

00:18:53 Speaker_14
Okay. How do you know it was him? He told me. Before or after? Before. He confided in you?

00:19:01 Speaker_07
I guess you could call it that. Well, what would you call it? Not confiding. This guy is like the employee from hell. I don't say this lightly, but he's a deeply disturbed individual. Are you hungry?

00:19:17 Speaker_14
No. No, Gene. How is he your employee?

00:19:22 Speaker_07
It's complicated. By design. I was responsible for withdrawing the money and bagging it. He was responsible for delivering it to the people who needed it.

00:19:33 Speaker_14
The Limetown survivors?

00:19:35 Speaker_07
Yeah. I realized later.

00:19:38 Speaker_14
You didn't know you were paying Limetown survivors?

00:19:42 Speaker_07
I had no idea. It's not like someone sat me down and says, hey, you want to join the conspiracy. I was 27 years old. I was working as an associate at what is now IDS. It was called something else back then.

00:19:59 Speaker_07
I was just paying my dues, hoping to put a dent in my loans. And one day, out of the blue, someone says, hey, Brenda Radowski, Lenore wants to talk to you. Be at this hotel room in an hour. I'm like... Okay.

00:20:17 Speaker_07
Why does my boss's boss's boss, Brenda Radowski, a very accomplished person and highly respected individual, who everyone in our firm seemed to be scared of, want to talk to an associate? I'm nobody. But you don't question things too much, you know?

00:20:36 Speaker_07
You're conditioned to do what you're told. So I went. And when I got there, she was very nice, very welcoming. The whole reason I was there was framed as, this is the kind of things all the associates are doing. It's just a side job.

00:20:54 Speaker_07
So she sits me down, hands me a stiff drink and says, are you interested in making some money on the side? I mean, okay, what kind of money? She says, and I shit you not, this is what she told me it was. A botched class action lawsuit. Our fault.

00:21:15 Speaker_07
A total clusterfuck. So Brenda says my help was needed in making these giant annual payments to people all over the world. It was all very simple and straightforward.

00:21:29 Speaker_07
I'd get the list FedExed to me and on it would be the names and addresses and payment amount. And the date I was supposed to deliver this information to a third party. My partner. So, it's a two-person job.

00:21:43 Speaker_07
I take the money out, package it up, this other guy delivers it. I mean, obviously this is a highly unorthodox task she's giving me, but what do I have to lose? I mean, did it occur to me that maybe I was doing something that wasn't 100% legal?

00:21:59 Speaker_07
Well, daily. Did I ever think for one second that I was paying the people of Limetown to keep quiet about the existence of mind-reading technology?

00:22:13 Speaker_14
Not even once. So how did you find out you were paying survivors?

00:22:19 Speaker_07
Daniel told me. Like I said, the way it was set up. I'd never need to interact with him. I only needed to get the money to a certain place by a certain time. Where? The marina. There's a dock with a blue light at the end of it.

00:22:35 Speaker_07
It's just past the bathrooms. There's a boat called Richard's Folly. The back door would always be open, and I would drop it in the cabin. For two years, I did just that with no problem. And then one night, he was just there, sitting in the darkness.

00:22:54 Speaker_14
Why don't you describe this Daniel for me?

00:22:58 Speaker_07
Okay. Well, he's a very large man. You're gonna laugh, but the first time I saw him, I thought he was a kayak or something propped up against the wall. Then he started moving.

00:23:14 Speaker_07
The first time he talked to me, the first thing he said was that he had a secret he was keeping all to himself, and that he was tired of keeping it. Then he told me who the money was for.

00:23:26 Speaker_14
Why would he do that?

00:23:28 Speaker_07
I didn't ask. Excuse me. Could I get another one of these?

00:23:35 Speaker_14
Okay. So this Daniel guy does the job for two years after Limetown. He transports the duffel bags full of cash to the people he's supposed to. He gets curious who these people are and does a little digging on them. Maybe he asks one.

00:23:51 Speaker_14
And then something changes. He knows what he's a part of, and he decides he's going to spill the beans to you, the only other person in this conspiracy he knows.

00:24:03 Speaker_07
Well, that's possible.

00:24:05 Speaker_14
And you were unfazed, even once you knew these were Limetown survivors?

00:24:09 Speaker_07
Well, I wouldn't say that. Just not fazed enough to stop. Not that I could have. I tried once, in 2010. I had so much money already, and my daughter had just been born.

00:24:24 Speaker_07
It just felt like time to pass the torch, and I don't know, the only way I could think to end it was to tell the only person I knew who was in on it. Lenore, whatever her name was. At this point, she'd dropped off the face of the planet.

00:24:43 Speaker_07
So what did you do? I waited for him. I went to the boat with the money and I sat in the darkness. Just like he would. I waited. A few hours later, I heard it. The heavy creak of this massive man walking slowly down the dock.

00:25:14 Speaker_07
Like, like he had all the time in the world. I remember. He stopped at the door, the glass door that leads into the cabin. He's so big, he blocked out the light. He just waited there on the other side of the glass. He was looking in at me.

00:25:36 Speaker_07
He knew I was there. I don't know how he knew, but he knew. After what felt like maybe 10 years, he slid the door open so slowly. And he walked in, slides the door shut behind him. He says, and I'll never forget this,

00:26:13 Speaker_07
Do you want to know why I never go to the dentist? This is how he talks. Like, he's talking past you. Responding to something you never said. I didn't say anything. I was too afraid. So, he takes a step closer. Rattling the glass. Then he asks me again.

00:26:44 Speaker_07
Do you know why I never go to the dentist? I mean, he's nearly on top of me now.

00:26:54 Speaker_07
He says, one time I heard a story about a little boy named Kiernan who waited for his dentist in the dentist chair when some stranger snuck in and poured lye down his throat. Keenan's my son's name, if you didn't know that.

00:27:18 Speaker_07
So I don't remember exactly what happened after that, but I remember I left the money and he let me leave. But the assumption was that I would be wise not to get in the way of what he was doing. There would be dire consequences.

00:27:37 Speaker_07
I asked myself for years, Why would Brenda hire someone like this? That's when I realized that Daniel's job, it wasn't just about delivering the money. It was keeping people quiet, no matter what it took.

00:27:57 Speaker_14
Including Leah Haddock. So why abduct her?

00:28:03 Speaker_07
I don't know.

00:28:05 Speaker_14
Lenore, in her final conversation with Leah, seemed to think she'd be kidnapped at some sort of pond to get to a meal. Sure. Why would Daniel want a meal? Do they know each other?

00:28:15 Speaker_07
I don't know.

00:28:18 Speaker_14
I'm assuming you heard Daniel's threat to a meal on Sincerely Sandra. Be at the bridge in 72 hours or Leah ends up in pieces.

00:28:25 Speaker_07
I did.

00:28:27 Speaker_14
That stands at 57 hours and counting, by the way. Yeah, I'm very aware. So, what's his motive here? Daniel does a job for a decade, keeping Limetown survivors alive, paid, quiet.

00:28:41 Speaker_14
Leah starts broadcasting the story of Limetown for the first time, and so he attempts to shut the survivors up. He takes out Warren, then Max. But if your whole goal is to keep Limetown a secret, why not just kill Leah?

00:28:55 Speaker_07
I don't know.

00:28:57 Speaker_14
Clearly, in Daniel's mind, finding a meal is more important than Leah. It's more important than the story of Limetown being made public. It's more important than the secrecy of your entire operation.

00:29:11 Speaker_07
What does it matter? I'm just having a hard time seeing how doing a deep dive into this maniac's head is going to help protect me and my family. I mean, what exactly is our plan here?

00:29:26 Speaker_14
Our plan... is to make Limetown disappear.

00:29:33 Speaker_07
You're kidding. I'm not. With everything that's happened, your plan is to put the cat back in the bag.

00:29:40 Speaker_14
Yes.

00:29:41 Speaker_07
Well, doesn't that seem impossible?

00:29:44 Speaker_14
Only if you care about the well-being of the cat. Look, it has been 38 hours and 15 minutes since Leah Haddock disappeared. In that time, there's been this flood of information about Limetown. No one person can wade through it.

00:29:57 Speaker_14
There's 1,000 people every hour who say they know for sure who took Leah Haddock. Another 1,000 who say they know one of the survivors.

00:30:04 Speaker_14
And then you got another 1,000 who say they're 100% sure that the guy who works in the mailroom has the exact same voice as the guy who showed up at Leah Haddock's hotel room and banged his head against the door, screaming her name.

00:30:16 Speaker_14
Right now, everybody knows everything. So nobody knows anything. And that, Gene, is a good situation for us. Fifteen years ago, Limetown was the biggest story in the world. Five years later, it was just another Wikipedia article.

00:30:35 Speaker_14
Do you know why that happened? Guess. People moved on. Exactly. But people can only move on if you let them. The story can't be allowed to develop. It has to remain a mystery.

00:30:48 Speaker_14
If I do my job right, in five years, five months, people will be asking themselves, hey, whatever happened to that reporter that got abducted? Did anyone ever find her? Shrug. People, deep down, they want Limetown to be a mystery.

00:31:04 Speaker_14
That is what they love about it. So our goal here is to make sure that Leah Haddock and the person who abducted her are never seen or heard from again.

00:31:13 Speaker_07
I see.

00:31:16 Speaker_14
Do you? I don't deal in euphemisms, Gene. With your acknowledgement, I'm going to kill Daniel Rasmuller. And I'm going to kill Leah Haddock.

00:31:32 Speaker_07
And we don't... I mean, there are no other options. Not from where I'm sitting. And when it's done, me and my family will never have to worry about this.

00:31:47 Speaker_14
I don't believe in half measures, Gene. Last question. On the Sincerely Sandra call, the demand for Emil was to be at the bridge. Do you have any idea what bridge they could be referring to? I don't. Do you know who would?

00:32:01 Speaker_14
The implication is Emil would know where the bridge is. Who knows Emil well? Is that a real question?

00:32:10 Speaker_07
I mean, I don't know. Jesus! Alison Haddock, I suppose. The wife of his brother, Jacob. She's the only person in Emil's life who isn't missing or- Dead.

00:32:24 Speaker_14
Missing or dead. So, Alice and Haddock.

00:32:27 Speaker_07
You're telling me you're going to go talk to Leah Haddock's breathing mother and try to get the same information pretty much every law enforcement agency in the world is after?

00:32:38 Speaker_14
Yes, Gene. That is my plan. Now here's what you're going to do. You're going to go home, pack a couple suitcases, and get your family to Worthing. Do you know where Worthing is?

00:32:49 Speaker_05
Okay.

00:32:50 Speaker_14
Once you get there, there's a travel lodge called the Worthing Homestead. Room 22 is already booked under the name Harry Frost. Pay in cash. Don't do anything but stay in the hotel and wait for my call. Do you understand? Yeah, I think so.

00:33:04 Speaker_14
You think so or you do? I do. Then wait for my call.

00:33:12 Speaker_03
Was that the first time you'd heard the name Daniel Rasmuller?

00:33:15 Speaker_14
Yes.

00:33:16 Speaker_03
When on Oscar Totem's tapes did you first hear him?

00:33:19 Speaker_14
Why do you call them Oscar Totem's tapes?

00:33:22 Speaker_03
It's shorthand.

00:33:23 Speaker_14
But you know there were as many of Lenore's tapes mixed in as his.

00:33:26 Speaker_03
Yes. Apologies. We shouldn't forget Lenore. She was very thorough.

00:33:32 Speaker_14
Thorough, yes. I'm flattered at the connection you're attempting to make.

00:33:36 Speaker_03
So when did you first hear Daniel?

00:33:39 Speaker_14
After, on the plane ride home.

00:33:41 Speaker_03
Were you surprised with what you heard?

00:33:43 Speaker_14
Yes.

00:33:45 Speaker_03
Why?

00:33:46 Speaker_14
Because it was surprising.

00:33:47 Speaker_03
Charlie.

00:33:48 Speaker_14
I don't know what you want me to say.

00:33:50 Speaker_03
I just want your opinion, your thoughts.

00:33:52 Speaker_14
But you're only asking me questions you already know the answers to.

00:33:55 Speaker_03
I'm trying to understand your choices.

00:33:59 Speaker_14
You're just a boy wearing men's clothes. Just play the conference call. Get on with it.

00:34:09 Speaker_03
This is from 45 days before the panic. a conference call Lenore conducted from Limetown.

00:34:15 Speaker_04
Can you say that again?

00:34:20 Speaker_12
Who's outside? Can you mute your line? I said, as of this morning, half the town has the tech installed into their brains.

00:34:32 Speaker_04
That's a very big problem.

00:34:34 Speaker_12
Yes, Kelly, thank you.

00:34:36 Speaker_04
Jeez, that's a whale of a problem.

00:34:37 Speaker_12
Lucky for you, I solve problems. Complete eradication.

00:34:44 Speaker_04
Complete?

00:34:45 Speaker_12
Yes.

00:34:45 Speaker_04
Outside of the asset?

00:34:46 Speaker_12
Of course outside of the asset, Kelly.

00:34:52 Speaker_05
Is no one going to say anything right now? She just said we need to murder 300 people.

00:34:58 Speaker_12
Who is speaking?

00:34:58 Speaker_05
Rasmur. My name's Daniel, ma'am.

00:35:03 Speaker_12
Ah, the new leader of the task force. Welcome to the big leagues. Daniel, it's not polite to make subtext text.

00:35:15 Speaker_05
I'm not interested in being polite.

00:35:17 Speaker_12
This isn't up for discussion, Daniel. We have no other option and even less time.

00:35:22 Speaker_05
With all due respect, of course there are other options than mass murder.

00:35:25 Speaker_12
You're doing it again, Daniel. Think of how this plays out. Really think ahead. That's over 300 loose ends. We're trying to zip things up over here.

00:35:37 Speaker_05
What the fuck is happening right now?

00:35:39 Speaker_12
What are we doing? Our jobs, Daniel.

00:35:41 Speaker_05
There's a way to do this. You said half the town has the tech.

00:35:45 Speaker_12
Yes.

00:35:46 Speaker_05
That's an asset. That's the option of a long-term study in an organic environment. Hello?

00:35:58 Speaker_12
You're a smart man, Daniel.

00:36:01 Speaker_05
Wait, I'm lost. He's saying we keep the people with the tech alive to study the long-term effects. I think I can sell that. Is that an option?

00:36:11 Speaker_12
Theoretically.

00:36:13 Speaker_05
Well, that seems pretty good. So what would need to be done?

00:36:19 Speaker_12
Daniel, are you willing to claim responsibility for the survivors? And before you respond, let me explain what that means in basic English.

00:36:30 Speaker_12
It means until the day these 163 people die, after living long, full lives, they never speak a word of anything that's happened here. And if they ever do, then that is on you. That is your responsibility.

00:36:48 Speaker_12
And that means when I personally dig the mass grave, your unidentifiable corpse will be buried in all the rotting meat of your mistakes. Is that clear?

00:37:06 Speaker_05
Jesus, Brenda. I don't know about all that.

00:37:08 Speaker_12
Ken, stop talking. Is that clear, Daniel?

00:37:16 Speaker_06
Yes.

00:37:19 Speaker_12
Wonderful. Let's play it out. I'll start the Excel sheet.

00:37:24 Speaker_06
Great. Please be sure to CC me on any correspondence.

00:37:28 Speaker_12
Of course, Kelly. How could I forget you?

00:37:31 Speaker_04
Miss Radowsky, thank you for listening to reason.

00:37:37 Speaker_12
No, Daniel. Thank you.

00:37:45 Speaker_03
Daniel saved half the town. What a guy.

00:37:49 Speaker_14
Lenore was right. They should have tied up all the loose ends.

00:37:53 Speaker_03
You genuinely believe that?

00:37:55 Speaker_14
You can't honestly believe otherwise.

00:37:58 Speaker_03
Oh, I do. And I can.

00:37:59 Speaker_14
I would have appreciated working with her.

00:38:02 Speaker_03
She was quite a person.

00:38:04 Speaker_14
But she got old. And she got sloppy.

00:38:07 Speaker_03
She had a change of heart.

00:38:09 Speaker_14
Like I said.

00:38:13 Speaker_03
When did you hear the second Rasmiller tape?

00:38:17 Speaker_14
I don't want to hear the second tape again.

00:38:19 Speaker_03
Would you rather I pull your fingernails out?

00:38:21 Speaker_14
Yes.

00:38:23 Speaker_03
That's why we have to talk about it.

00:38:25 Speaker_14
Please don't play that.

00:38:27 Speaker_03
Were you listening alone?

00:38:29 Speaker_14
Stop.

00:38:31 Speaker_03
You do dream, don't you?

00:38:33 Speaker_14
Fucking stop.

00:38:35 Speaker_03
She never hears your screams, does she? Just turns the volume up. Stop! What surprised you most about the second tape?

00:38:47 Speaker_14
Please don't make me listen.

00:38:50 Speaker_03
This is important. This is the first time you knew. The first time you knew there was something after Limetown. Let's turn the volume up.

00:39:10 Speaker_06
Please stop.

00:39:25 Speaker_03
Are you ready to tell me where Leah Haddock is?

00:39:30 Speaker_14
I already told you. I can't tell you.

00:39:36 Speaker_03
Then we'll continue this conversation in a few days.

00:39:48 Speaker_14
Please at least leave the lights on.