The High | 4.3
Escaping DenverNovember 04, 2024x
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The High | 4.3

Torture proves to be ineffective on Noah so Harper pivots and tries a new tactic to get what she wants.

Sara, now armed with a special weapon, is determined to rescue Noah, but is sidelined by a demon from her past: addiction. 

Meanwhile, The Narrator is still on the run from The Collective because they know exactly who he is. 

CAST

Narrator – Mike Howorun

Noah – Brady Roberts

Sara/Harper – Greta Carew-Johns

Female Guard – Chelsea Green

Male Scientist – Justin Morrissette

Editing and Sound Design – Matthew Hall & Mike Howorun

Post Production Producer - Rob Johnston

Written/Directed – Mike Howorun

Produced by - Matthew Hall, Brady Roberts, Mike Howorun, Dila Velázquez

Created by Mike Howorun & Brady Roberts

Contact: escapingdenverpod@gmail.com

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[00:00:00] Escaping Denver, Batch 4, Episode 3, The High

[00:00:24] After those busy streets, the silence does take some getting used to.

[00:00:28] Some of you have been asking, so I'll say it.

[00:00:31] I'm good. Healthy. Alive.

[00:00:35] And Sarah has finally requested the ability to play music.

[00:00:39] Feels like a no-brainer.

[00:00:41] Even I've questioned why they hadn't recorded the song when they had the chance at the end of Batch 2,

[00:00:45] but then I remember Andres and the soldiers and the whole bomb thing

[00:00:49] and I realized that would have taken some supreme foresight.

[00:00:53] Batch 2 was crazy.

[00:00:55] Whatever they have to do to get her that song, Forbidden Fruit, they better do it quickly.

[00:01:01] Noah is at the mercy of Harper, who I am still trying to understand.

[00:01:05] I mean, what is she?

[00:01:06] I know, I know, evil, sadistic, twisted, yes, but did she come out this way?

[00:01:11] Can they just tweak the clone recipe and just, I don't know, add a little evil?

[00:01:16] Or is this conditioning after the fact?

[00:01:19] Like the clone plops out and goes to villain boot camp for a while?

[00:01:22] Or, scariest yet, what if Harper is just Sarah,

[00:01:25] but giving in to the darker side that was there all along?

[00:01:35] Spencer doesn't suit you, stranger.

[00:01:39] I pictured her heroic name.

[00:01:41] Hard R's and K's.

[00:01:43] Kirk.

[00:01:44] Eric.

[00:01:46] Hercules.

[00:01:47] Something with a kick.

[00:01:49] But what do I know?

[00:01:51] Maybe they're bluffing for my sake.

[00:01:54] Your number, this number, it might not even exist.

[00:01:58] But if you do exist,

[00:02:00] you must be wondering how and why I'm sending more messages.

[00:02:05] How is easy.

[00:02:07] They're fucking with me to the nth degree,

[00:02:09] and leaving me my phone is all part of it.

[00:02:12] The why is harder.

[00:02:14] Boredom, for sure.

[00:02:16] Habit, definitely.

[00:02:17] But it's something more.

[00:02:20] See, they think I'm going to spill the secrets I'm keeping from them.

[00:02:25] The secrets they think they can carve out of me.

[00:02:28] But they're wrong, stranger.

[00:02:30] Yeah, they'll get their pound of flesh and even my screams,

[00:02:34] but I'll never reveal all the key information I've already sent you.

[00:02:38] Codes.

[00:02:40] Names.

[00:02:40] Information.

[00:02:41] Everything before you heard Harper say your name is still a mystery to them.

[00:02:47] Do you hear that, Harper?

[00:02:49] You'll get nothing.

[00:02:53] But I'll hand it to you.

[00:02:54] You really know how to get under my skin.

[00:02:57] Sure, torture is there.

[00:03:00] Losing, regrowing, losing, regrowing.

[00:03:02] It's all so repetitive.

[00:03:03] But this, this is extra special.

[00:03:08] You see, stranger, Harper has not been successful at getting into my thoughts.

[00:03:13] No knife or saw for the steel trap, so she's begun messing with my head.

[00:03:19] Waking up in the same cell from when this all started.

[00:03:22] Same concrete, same glass wall.

[00:03:24] Hello?

[00:03:26] Sarah?

[00:03:27] Wake up.

[00:03:28] Time to face some eyeless dogs.

[00:03:30] Nothing.

[00:03:32] Same metal door.

[00:03:34] Even the same air conditioner from the early 80s.

[00:03:37] But you got the smell wrong.

[00:03:39] There's no musk.

[00:03:41] No mildew.

[00:03:44] This is a new cell.

[00:03:46] Made for the sole purpose of messing with my brain.

[00:03:49] It's like the torture isn't enough.

[00:03:51] Now I have to wake up each day and think I'm about to relive it all again.

[00:03:56] Solid move, Harper.

[00:03:58] Yeah, well played.

[00:03:59] I mostly feel lost in time.

[00:04:06] Like I'm still at the beginning and the end of the story.

[00:04:09] And getting to live the beginning again after knowing this end, you see it all differently.

[00:04:15] You know?

[00:04:17] Fresh eyes.

[00:04:20] I had glasses when this all started.

[00:04:23] They gave them to me again to sell the illusion, but I started with them.

[00:04:27] I got them a few years back for night driving and then slowly needed them during the day.

[00:04:33] Same frames.

[00:04:34] Nice detail.

[00:04:37] I don't even know when I lost them.

[00:04:40] The pair I started with?

[00:04:41] I can't remember losing them, but I clearly didn't need them.

[00:04:44] The same way I don't need these now.

[00:04:46] My eyes healed.

[00:04:48] As the rest of me did.

[00:04:50] No more scars, sore knees, or shitty eyes.

[00:04:56] I'm sorry your number was chosen.

[00:05:00] If you exist, then you should be running, which you already know.

[00:05:05] So I'm sorry.

[00:05:08] We didn't mean to pull you into our world.

[00:05:11] We were trying to get you to pull us out.

[00:05:15] You're in it now, though.

[00:05:17] Whether you like it or not.

[00:05:19] Whether you believe it or not.

[00:05:22] You're in it.

[00:05:25] Just don't let them scare you.

[00:05:27] I won't talk.

[00:05:28] Just follow the plan we had to take these bastards down, and maybe you can prove me wrong.

[00:05:34] Maybe Spencer is a heroic name.

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[00:06:43] Well, this puts me in an interesting position.

[00:06:46] I can confirm that Noah sent me the codes and names and plans, but then you'd feel like I've been lying to you.

[00:06:53] Controlling the story.

[00:06:54] Or I say that Noah is lying.

[00:06:57] That I know nothing.

[00:06:58] That the podcast is me showing everything I got, which of course means there's no reason to keep Noah alive.

[00:07:04] Here's what I will say.

[00:07:05] To both the collective and the internet sleuths alike, I have shared what I thought best told the story of what Noah and Sarah are going through.

[00:07:13] But at no point have I said I've shared everything.

[00:07:16] Now digest that in any way that suits you.

[00:07:35] Every time.

[00:07:37] Every damn time.

[00:07:38] It just leaves.

[00:07:39] Whoosh.

[00:07:41] Shake it off.

[00:07:42] Shake it off.

[00:07:43] Spoiler.

[00:07:43] We found the song and the ability to play it.

[00:07:47] Did we just connect my phone to the internet and download it?

[00:07:50] Of course not.

[00:07:51] That would have been too simple.

[00:07:53] We instead had to dig through decades of Lost and Found to find something suitable.

[00:07:58] Found a Walkman.

[00:07:59] Not a Discman.

[00:08:00] Not an MP3 player.

[00:08:01] Nope.

[00:08:02] A cassette-needing Walkman.

[00:08:04] But nonetheless, it fit the brief.

[00:08:06] Play music.

[00:08:08] They then had to search the digital assets they had access to.

[00:08:11] Pull them and through some kind of techno-MacGyvering resulted in my having a cassette recording of the Forbidden Fruit.

[00:08:18] Not the fanciest or most elegant solution, but it works.

[00:08:24] My analytical side wants to take the time to understand its effects.

[00:08:30] But there's no time for that.

[00:08:31] It's more of a loan-as-you-go kind of thing now.

[00:08:33] But my big question was how I don't hurt myself while exhibiting this power.

[00:08:42] You know, the strength needed to tear a man in half.

[00:08:45] It should have broken my own bones in the process.

[00:08:48] But it didn't.

[00:08:50] And I'm not even sore anymore from using the muscles.

[00:08:53] But tired.

[00:08:55] Drained, even.

[00:08:56] Like when the music plays, I'm invincible.

[00:08:59] And it's losing it that's exhausting.

[00:09:08] I used to get high.

[00:09:09] Big surprise.

[00:09:10] I'm sure I've mentioned it before in moments of weakness, but generally, I don't tend to share.

[00:09:16] But yeah.

[00:09:17] I used to get high.

[00:09:18] Was it a problem?

[00:09:20] Hell yes.

[00:09:21] I made choices that eroded the foundation of who I was.

[00:09:25] And I had to slowly watch myself crumble.

[00:09:28] Falling apart.

[00:09:29] Losing people.

[00:09:30] One by one.

[00:09:32] Friends.

[00:09:33] Ambitions.

[00:09:34] Stability.

[00:09:37] People say that the high must be so good for you to be willing to ruin your life.

[00:09:43] Willing.

[00:09:45] Anyway.

[00:09:46] The high was good, but that wasn't it.

[00:09:50] No.

[00:09:50] It was that everything outside of the high was shit.

[00:09:54] The high began to feel like the only good thing, which is fucked up.

[00:09:58] I know, but that's how it felt.

[00:10:01] The high never solved problems or erased my pain.

[00:10:06] And look, I preface with this because this song, this feeling, it does solve my problems.

[00:10:15] It does erase my pain.

[00:10:18] It makes me feel cocked back with endless potential.

[00:10:21] It's incredible.

[00:10:22] It's this feeling that makes me certain that I'll save Noah.

[00:10:26] Save myself.

[00:10:28] In truth, it makes me feel like I could climb out of this place.

[00:10:33] Like I feel, I feel feral.

[00:10:36] I don't know my limits yet, but honestly, I don't even feel like I have any.

[00:10:44] I still feel like me though.

[00:10:46] All the same parts, just working better.

[00:10:49] You know, lining up differently.

[00:10:50] And when it, when it leaves me, even though I'm just going back to normal, it just feels like it's stealing from me.

[00:11:05] Yeah.

[00:11:06] Yeah.

[00:11:06] Yeah, I hear it too.

[00:11:07] It's, it's unhealthy.

[00:11:11] But I'm not really in a position to fix that at the moment.

[00:11:14] I'd rather be a living, power hungry addict than a dead anything else.

[00:11:19] I mean, whatever they did to me, I'm going to use it against them.

[00:11:24] They treated me and who knows how many other people like guinea pigs.

[00:11:28] I don't know how they changed or how they died, but I know what I've become and they are going to be sorry for making me.

[00:11:39] I do have to ration my batteries though.

[00:11:42] The Walkman takes three double A's and that fun cult only gave me a handful.

[00:11:47] Yes, a handful.

[00:11:49] You know when someone hands you loose batteries that they're going to be garbage?

[00:11:52] You can't store them like they're nails or something and just toss them in a jar.

[00:11:57] They're...

[00:12:10] Quit it.

[00:12:11] I didn't think adults needed to be told not to tap the glass.

[00:12:15] Oh, they won't shut up.

[00:12:17] They're always this way when we feed them.

[00:12:19] It's normal.

[00:12:21] Well, this isn't exactly my normal.

[00:12:24] Okay, it's unnerving.

[00:12:27] A casual stroll along a metal walkway while monsters sing at us?

[00:12:31] I told you to wear the earplugs, but you said,

[00:12:34] I'm not afraid of noise.

[00:12:36] You said animal sounds, not creepy songs from the deep that make my knees hurt.

[00:12:43] I'm surprised you're able to move, to be honest.

[00:12:45] You think it's something they use for hunting, to lure and paralyze its prey.

[00:12:55] I guess I'm tougher than fish.

[00:12:56] We think it was for hunting us.

[00:12:59] Humans.

[00:13:00] That's fucked up.

[00:13:03] Oh, yes.

[00:13:05] But what?

[00:13:06] Humans got tougher?

[00:13:07] We think they hunted in packs.

[00:13:09] And the three we have here just aren't enough to be effective.

[00:13:13] Like wolfish?

[00:13:14] God no.

[00:13:15] Whales are already plenty wolfish enough for the ocean.

[00:13:20] Mermaids are different.

[00:13:21] I don't like you saying mermaids.

[00:13:23] These are mysterious blurs of hair and teeth.

[00:13:27] Ruins the perfectly beautiful version of mermaids I have in my mind.

[00:13:31] They're beautiful in their own way.

[00:13:34] You've seen them?

[00:13:35] I mean, beyond a glimpse.

[00:13:37] Of course I have.

[00:13:39] Did you think I just fed them?

[00:13:40] I'm a scientist.

[00:13:42] No judgment here, dude.

[00:13:43] I've just only seen you throw giant chunks of unknown meat

[00:13:46] into the dark, dark waters of a bunch of tanks.

[00:13:49] You call it science.

[00:13:53] I call it SeaWorld Nocturna.

[00:13:57] Oh, right.

[00:13:58] SeaWorld Nocturna is a pretty solid name.

[00:14:01] Right?

[00:14:03] Thought about it the other day when you said we couldn't turn all the lights on.

[00:14:06] Well, some of these creatures would never have naturally come in contact with sunlight.

[00:14:11] Hence the Nocturna.

[00:14:12] You're pretty smart for a guard.

[00:14:14] And you're pretty brave for a geek.

[00:14:18] Were you really coming down here alone before I started?

[00:14:21] Yeah.

[00:14:22] It's just one elevator in one hallway.

[00:14:25] Not exactly a pilgrimage.

[00:14:27] But we're 12 floors below the secured sectors of the facility.

[00:14:30] There could be anything down here.

[00:14:32] Considering I work with monsters in the dark,

[00:14:35] there's not much more for me to be afraid of.

[00:14:38] Fair.

[00:14:39] How long do you think I'll have the pleasure of your company?

[00:14:41] No idea.

[00:14:42] They said that the uncontrolled floors are becoming more dangerous.

[00:14:45] Yeah, because they're falling apart.

[00:14:49] Trust me, you're here because they need to check a box on their insurance.

[00:14:52] Not because it's any more dangerous than normal.

[00:14:56] Oh.

[00:14:56] So I can dip my foot in the water.

[00:14:58] Only if you want to die.

[00:15:01] That's it.

[00:15:01] Let's get out of Dodge.

[00:15:03] Oh, finally.

[00:15:05] Finally?

[00:15:06] What?

[00:15:06] Shit.

[00:15:07] Who doesn't love a narrow metal walkway above dangerous monster-filled tanks,

[00:15:11] but I'm eager to listen to something that isn't trying to paralyze me.

[00:15:20] Nearly fucked it when I strolled in here.

[00:15:22] Just waltzed through the doors and found myself on an upper balcony

[00:15:26] of a room, a mysterious space filled with giant water tanks.

[00:15:32] Most are beneath the sketchy walkway, but there are a few that go from the floor all the way

[00:15:38] to the ceiling, creating these enormous glass pillars.

[00:15:41] I immediately ducked down when I saw that there were people down there, and after a beat,

[00:15:45] I realised I should record.

[00:15:47] I mean, who were those two?

[00:15:49] The girls sounded like a guard or a soldier or something, and the guy was a scientist.

[00:15:53] I didn't get a good look at them, but I got the chist.

[00:15:56] Feeding time at the aquarium.

[00:15:59] Probably have a minute before getting interrupted again.

[00:16:03] Can you hear that?

[00:16:04] The animals?

[00:16:06] I don't know if the recording does them justice.

[00:16:08] It's a...

[00:16:09] It's a crazy sound that feels like it's coming from inside your head.

[00:16:13] It's wild.

[00:16:14] And the smell, it's...

[00:16:16] It's not your typical contained-smell aquarium.

[00:16:20] No, no.

[00:16:20] This place smells like the sea.

[00:16:23] Not fishy, but that smell that tickles your nose a bit.

[00:16:28] Ah, the stairwell on the other wall.

[00:16:30] I can get down to the metal walkways.

[00:16:32] Which is good, because the only door on my level was the one that I came through.

[00:16:39] Hmm.

[00:16:40] The water in the tanks is mercifully dark, so I can't actually make out what's in them.

[00:16:46] The ocean was scary enough already, with creatures I could name, let alone adding mermaids or whatever

[00:16:51] to the list.

[00:16:53] I am curious, though.

[00:16:55] I just can't help it.

[00:16:56] Not about mermaids, but about whatever is in that giant tank.

[00:17:00] I'm not saying it's like Kraken-level big, but that tank is easily a hundred feet tall and takes up about a quarter of the room.

[00:17:08] So big enough to hide just about anything.

[00:17:12] I keep thinking, in classic giant monster fashion, that I'm going to turn and see an eyeball that's taller than me.

[00:17:22] In fact, just to be safe.

[00:17:30] Whoa.

[00:17:32] That was weird.

[00:17:34] Did that register on your end?

[00:17:36] The noises, the creature noises or whatever, just stopped when I pressed play.

[00:17:41] I can barely hear the music.

[00:17:43] There's no way that they can from within the tanks.

[00:17:46] Still.

[00:17:47] Happened when I pressed play.

[00:17:51] What is it that Noah said about correlation versus causation?

[00:17:55] Correlation doesn't imply causation.

[00:17:58] The other way around, maybe?

[00:17:59] I don't know.

[00:18:01] I know I'm overthinking this, but what if I can control the animals with this song?

[00:18:15] As Noah would say, holy shit.

[00:18:22] Holy shit is right.

[00:18:24] I feel like in the world of cryptids and monsters, the ocean would be a treasure trove.

[00:18:29] Half of what we already know exists in the deep, dark corners of the ocean already look like aliens.

[00:18:34] I was curious if we'd find any evidence of that.

[00:18:37] I mean, proper evidence, not just loose creatures in the canals of the biodome cavern.

[00:18:42] Something big.

[00:18:43] Something that could take down ships.

[00:18:46] Whatever is in that giant tank might be exactly that.

[00:18:49] I'm with Sarah on this one.

[00:18:51] That the ocean is already scary.

[00:18:53] But unlike Sarah, I want to know about the monsters.

[00:18:57] I'm not going into the ocean anyways.

[00:18:58] The ocean feels like a great place to store them.

[00:19:01] Give me ancient dinosaurs or a sea full of tentacles over things I might actually run into.

[00:19:07] I can enjoy all of this from the safety of, well, wherever it is I'm hiding out.

[00:19:13] Now, can Sarah control the creatures with the song?

[00:19:17] I don't even want to dive into that till I know a little bit more.

[00:19:20] I mean, what I'd like to talk about is something that the guard said.

[00:19:24] She said there were 12 floors below the controlled sectors of the facility.

[00:19:28] And I get that the collective weren't the ones who built this facility,

[00:19:30] so there are miles of uncontrolled space that have yet to be taken back.

[00:19:33] I get that.

[00:19:34] And I also get that the giant tanks of water would be difficult to move,

[00:19:38] hence going down into the uncontrolled sectors to continue that research.

[00:19:41] But as we didn't see a bunch of scientists in the biodome caverns,

[00:19:45] does that imply that the scientists are able to continue that research elsewhere?

[00:19:49] A controlled lab or wherever to study the land creatures?

[00:19:53] Right?

[00:19:54] Am I jumping to conclusions here?

[00:19:56] They want to continue their research, and they're willing to go to the uncontrolled sectors to do it,

[00:20:00] and if they're not going to go down to the domes, that must mean that they have the creatures elsewhere.

[00:20:05] Right?

[00:20:07] Am I crazy?

[00:20:08] Or is this just causation versus correlation too?

[00:20:14] The light hasn't changed, and with no new injuries from which to gauge time,

[00:20:18] I honestly have no idea how long I've been here.

[00:20:21] Food comes at arbitrary times, mostly when I'm asleep, which is extra unnerving.

[00:20:26] Try as I might, I can't seem to stay awake.

[00:20:29] Even with the stress.

[00:20:31] Even with the lights.

[00:20:33] Even when trying my absolute best.

[00:20:37] I'm beat.

[00:20:38] So tired that even self-preservation doesn't keep me awake.

[00:20:42] And the games keep getting played.

[00:20:43] I break my glasses, I wake up with new ones.

[00:20:45] I ignore the food and drink, I wake up full and satiated.

[00:20:51] But, I was expecting this new tactic.

[00:20:56] Harper is laying down in the next cell.

[00:20:57] Of course, they want me to think it's Sarah.

[00:21:00] That this is all starting again.

[00:21:02] But no.

[00:21:03] I'm ahead on this one.

[00:21:05] This isn't going to work.

[00:21:08] It can't work.

[00:21:10] I won't let it.

[00:21:12] She's just laying there.

[00:21:14] Her back to me, so I can't see what I expect to be a shit-eating grin.

[00:21:20] Wake up.

[00:21:21] Let's do this ridiculous dance.

[00:21:24] Oh.

[00:21:25] And she stirs.

[00:21:27] Hello?

[00:21:28] Hello?

[00:21:28] Oh no.

[00:21:29] Where are we?

[00:21:30] What is this?

[00:21:32] I was just...

[00:21:33] But couldn't be...

[00:21:35] No.

[00:21:36] Cut the shit.

[00:21:38] Like I said, Sarah was a better actress than this.

[00:21:41] I don't know what you're talking about.

[00:21:43] Where the fuck are we?

[00:21:44] Yeah, you know exactly where we are, Harper.

[00:21:47] How do you...

[00:21:48] What is this?

[00:21:49] Who are you?

[00:21:51] Are we really going to do this?

[00:21:53] Fine.

[00:21:54] Who am I?

[00:21:55] I'm a regular Joe that you morons injected with something that makes me heal faster than even you know what to do with.

[00:22:01] Hence the new mind fuckery.

[00:22:03] I don't know what any of this means, Joe.

[00:22:05] What is this?

[00:22:06] It's not cute, Harper.

[00:22:08] Stop calling me that.

[00:22:09] By your name?

[00:22:10] By that name.

[00:22:11] So you kidnapped me and read my ID.

[00:22:13] Great trick.

[00:22:14] But if you really knew me, you'd know that's not my name anymore.

[00:22:19] Sarah?

[00:22:21] How?

[00:22:22] Wait.

[00:22:24] What do you remember?

[00:22:26] I was at the airport.

[00:22:27] Why am I answering that?

[00:22:29] You know exactly where I was, you creep.

[00:22:31] People will be looking for me.

[00:22:33] Big people.

[00:22:33] Tough ones.

[00:22:35] No, they won't.

[00:22:36] Shit.

[00:22:38] It's another clone.

[00:22:39] I can't hear you.

[00:22:41] Sarah, if you really just woke up here, I have some horrible news for you.

[00:22:46] This is the best part of what's ahead.

[00:22:49] What's ahead?

[00:22:50] I don't understand.

[00:22:52] We're captives.

[00:22:53] Both of us.

[00:22:54] No.

[00:22:55] No, let me out.

[00:22:56] Let me out.

[00:22:57] There's no use.

[00:22:58] There's no way out.

[00:23:01] That won't help either.

[00:23:02] Look at me.

[00:23:08] No.

[00:23:10] This is almost too easy, Noah.

[00:23:13] It takes the fun out of it.

[00:23:14] You bitch.

[00:23:17] Look around.

[00:23:18] I think you'll find that you're my bitch.

[00:23:35] This is incredible.

[00:23:36] The music really controls them.

[00:23:39] Like the whistle and the chupacabras.

[00:23:41] I don't know how to use it yet or even what's in the tanks.

[00:23:45] The water's too dark.

[00:23:45] Murky.

[00:23:46] I just see horrifying silhouettes from time to time.

[00:23:50] Sometimes similar to shapes I've seen.

[00:23:52] Whales or seals or whatever.

[00:23:54] But sometimes I just can't make sense of the shape I'm seeing.

[00:23:58] It's like a tangle of shadows.

[00:24:00] But I gotta know.

[00:24:01] I have to.

[00:24:04] What if the Loch Ness monster is down there and I have a chance to ride in victoriously on its back?

[00:24:10] It'd be epic.

[00:24:11] Worthy of my own mural in the cult church.

[00:24:15] I just have to see what's in the tank.

[00:24:17] Maybe if I splash the water it'll come close to the surface.

[00:24:21] I won't put my hand in.

[00:24:22] But I can be quick.

[00:24:23] I'd only do that if you want to lose your hand too.

[00:24:28] I know that voice.

[00:24:30] Or at least I think I know who it is.

[00:24:32] It's Tunnel Tarzan, right?

[00:24:34] I'll double back to batch one to confirm.

[00:24:36] But in the meantime...

[00:24:38] I don't know if it's the music or her success rate, but Sarah's confidence is uncomfortably high.

[00:24:44] She was gonna slap the water of the monster tank.

[00:24:48] I don't even get close to the screen when watching Jaws, let alone getting up close and personal with literal monsters.

[00:24:53] I mean, what kind of creature casts an inconceivable silhouette?

[00:24:57] If you have any idea, hit me up on EscapingDenverPod at gmail.com or post on Reddit at REscapingDenver.

[00:25:04] Thank you to CuriousCast.

[00:25:06] Thank you to you, the listeners.

[00:25:07] And thank you to my network of fellow Denver sleuths for keeping me safe and hidden.

[00:25:11] We'll be back next week with another episode of Escaping Denver.

[00:25:32] He's an exceptional assassin.

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