After seeing and hearing such strange sights from Mr. Corbitt's home, the Clark Brothers decide to pay their mother's kindly neighbor a visit. Is he the lovely neighbor that he seems, or does something monstrous lurk within him? What could he be hiding within his home?
Find out as we continue Mister Corbitt, a Call of Cthulhu adventure.
Starring
Spencer as Sebastian Clark
Dan as John Clark
Jeff as Barney Clark
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[00:00:03] Engage!
[00:01:04] And then he sort of disappears into the back of the house where the kitchen is.
[00:01:09] Um...
[00:01:09] He says, just one minute, I'll get some cutlery and some plates.
[00:01:14] Thank you, Bernard.
[00:01:16] And I'll... I'll trundle along behind me. I'm like, let me help.
[00:01:20] Oh, of course, of course.
[00:01:21] You walk through, um, a well-appointed dining room.
[00:01:25] Nothing seems, like, super used, but it's not dirty or dingy.
[00:01:30] It's just you have a very big house and only one man living in it.
[00:01:34] Anything like family pictures or...?
[00:01:37] Uh, yeah. Um, some family pictures. Yeah, for sure.
[00:01:41] Yeah?
[00:01:42] I recognize any of the ladies?
[00:01:45] Uh, no.
[00:01:47] You cowboy.
[00:01:48] Most of them are... most of the images are dated, so you would assume that they are older female.
[00:01:54] Um, older female relatives or friends.
[00:01:57] Um, you might see one photograph with Bernard and a young woman, but it's not, uh...
[00:02:04] It's definitely not the face that you feel that you saw.
[00:02:08] Um, he walks in, opens up the cabinet, grabs some forks and some plates.
[00:02:12] Try and make small talk.
[00:02:13] What do you... what do you do, Bernard?
[00:02:15] Besides gardening?
[00:02:16] Uh, yes. Um, I work in, uh, imports.
[00:02:20] Uh, my family has for about 40 years.
[00:02:23] Um, so...
[00:02:23] Lots of business trips all across the world to, uh, bring goods in, um, and then, you know...
[00:02:30] What sorts of goods?
[00:02:31] I... I deal in antiques and such. What...?
[00:02:34] Uh, yes, your mother had said that.
[00:02:35] Um, a lot of stuff from, uh, East India.
[00:02:39] Really?
[00:02:40] Southeast Asia.
[00:02:41] Interesting.
[00:02:43] The Orient might be the phrase that he uses.
[00:02:45] Mm-hmm.
[00:02:47] Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
[00:02:49] Yeah.
[00:02:51] So, where was the kitchen in relation, uh, to the, the front room?
[00:02:55] Uh, you had to walk through the dining room and farther back, so...
[00:02:59] Uh...
[00:02:59] So, okay.
[00:03:00] Dining room is right behind, so the, the kitchen would be in the northeast corner if north is up.
[00:03:05] Uh...
[00:03:06] Bernard, I couldn't notice in your, uh, your house layout similar to our mother's.
[00:03:10] Were...
[00:03:10] Did you...
[00:03:11] Were you guys here when this neighborhood was built?
[00:03:14] Oh, I've been here about, um, 15 years, give or take.
[00:03:19] Um, have you been here when the neighborhood was built?
[00:03:21] Probably not, but he would have moved in shortly thereafter.
[00:03:25] The neighborhood's not that old.
[00:03:28] Um...
[00:03:28] Was there any, uh, previous owners before you?
[00:03:31] Uh, there would have probably had to have been.
[00:03:34] No?
[00:03:35] No, maybe he bought it new.
[00:03:36] I bet he bought it new.
[00:03:38] So, I guess, technically, he would have been here when the neighborhood was built, I guess.
[00:03:41] I'm reneging on that a little bit, because I'm thinking about the picture of the house I have, and the picture of the house I have looks way too modern.
[00:03:47] So, just you here at the house, then?
[00:03:48] Ah, yes, yes.
[00:03:50] Uh, live alone, sadly.
[00:03:51] Um, the bachelor's life for me, I suppose.
[00:03:54] So, are we...
[00:03:55] So, we all follow...
[00:03:56] Yeah, I'll follow to the kitchen, too.
[00:03:57] Why not?
[00:03:58] Well, it wouldn't take long to get four plates and four dessert forks.
[00:04:00] Oh, yeah, okay, so we're back.
[00:04:01] Yeah, we're, we're, we're eating.
[00:04:03] Mm, well.
[00:04:04] Sort of very dantily eat some of the dessert while sitting on the, on the couch.
[00:04:08] Uh, you have that sparkle in your eye for anyone ever, Bernard?
[00:04:13] Oh, I don't know if your mother's ever, ever said, Tom, but I am...
[00:04:17] My mother?
[00:04:17] Oh, I see.
[00:04:19] I'm just kidding, Bernard.
[00:04:20] Ah, you, uh, uh, quite good.
[00:04:22] Huh, huh, um, huh.
[00:04:24] Um, what's funny about that?
[00:04:27] Oh, just...
[00:04:28] Feels like we're shaking this guy down.
[00:04:32] Jeff is upset about the last session, has decided to murder anyone that I come up with.
[00:04:40] He's suspicious.
[00:04:44] Are you familiar with Yithians?
[00:04:49] Next, you're gonna be asking if the room ends in right angles or not.
[00:04:52] Hmm.
[00:04:53] We haven't gotten to that yet.
[00:04:56] Uh, and it will be a bad day when we do.
[00:04:59] Um, no, I, I don't know if your mother's ever said, um, but I am in fact a widower.
[00:05:04] My wife died, um, about, uh, 14 years ago.
[00:05:07] Hmm.
[00:05:08] I know.
[00:05:09] Time heals wounds, but not, in my experience, ever completely.
[00:05:14] My condolences.
[00:05:15] Thank you.
[00:05:15] Yes.
[00:05:16] There's never been anyone quite like her, so...
[00:05:19] You didn't have any other family?
[00:05:21] Uh, no, actually, uh, um, I, it was, it was sort of unfortunate.
[00:05:25] I kind of lost my, uh, my father and, uh, my mother and my wife all within, uh, just a,
[00:05:31] just a span of a few years.
[00:05:33] Um, that's rough.
[00:05:34] It, it, it was a difficult time, but, um, as your brother said, time, time does heal things.
[00:05:40] And I, I'm happy while not having the family to be able to give back to the community in
[00:05:46] any way I can.
[00:05:47] It brings me great joy to bring vegetables and gorgeous flowers, um, to some of the lovely ladies
[00:05:54] and gentlemen up and down the street, um, since I don't have anyone else to give them
[00:05:59] to.
[00:05:59] Well, Bernard, I want to come, come honest with you.
[00:06:02] I'm, I'm a straight shooter.
[00:06:03] So I was walking out in front of your place the other day and I heard a lot of commotion
[00:06:07] from this house.
[00:06:08] I heard some crashing and some banging, some things breaking.
[00:06:11] And I thought I saw somebody in your basement.
[00:06:14] I did call the police and, uh, I think they did talk with you.
[00:06:17] I just wanted to let you know I was the one that did that.
[00:06:19] Well, I, I, I appreciate your honesty.
[00:06:22] Um, they, they, they, they had said as much implied as much.
[00:06:26] So, um, no, I think it's, it's good.
[00:06:29] Um, I understand you're, you're, you're, you're in town.
[00:06:32] Um, things are stressful.
[00:06:33] Um, you're, you're looking out for your mother in a very difficult situation.
[00:06:37] You've traveled halfway across the country.
[00:06:39] Makes, makes sense.
[00:06:40] But no, I can, I can assure you that there is, um, there's no one else here but me, but I
[00:06:45] do understand the, the desire to service and to be unable to change outcomes that you'd
[00:06:51] like to change.
[00:06:52] So, uh, no hard feelings.
[00:06:54] Sips tea awkwardly.
[00:06:58] Well, Bernard, you wouldn't mind if we cracked the bottle, would you?
[00:07:01] Uh, no, go ahead.
[00:07:03] Um, as though, as I said, I, I will, uh, I will have to excuse myself shortly.
[00:07:09] I will have a long day at the office tomorrow, but, um, I, as I said, it's, it's a challenge.
[00:07:14] So I'm glad for you boys and your mother would be as well for you to enjoy each other's company.
[00:07:19] I know you don't see each other all that much, so she's glad to have you all under one roof.
[00:07:26] Look, look, look, look, look, look.
[00:07:28] I saw you getting out of your car earlier.
[00:07:31] It seemed like you were having trouble getting some kind of package in the house.
[00:07:34] He looks at you quizzically.
[00:07:36] Looked like you fumbled it.
[00:07:37] Was everything all right?
[00:07:38] That's, that's the day and out front.
[00:07:40] Yes, yes.
[00:07:41] No, I've, I've, I've been home about an hour or so.
[00:07:44] Yeah, you got some packages out of your trunk and looked like you spilled something.
[00:07:48] I don't recall bringing anything in.
[00:07:51] Perhaps I did.
[00:07:53] Hmm.
[00:07:53] No.
[00:07:54] You see him sort of like absentmindedly like stare into the dining room.
[00:07:58] Then he kind of looks in the direction of the kitchen.
[00:08:00] Hmm.
[00:08:01] It's possible.
[00:08:02] It is, uh, it is rather late in the evening, but no, I'm, I don't know bringing anything in.
[00:08:07] Was it the mail?
[00:08:08] Oh, no, it was, it looked like Sunday.
[00:08:10] There wouldn't look like something wrapped in butcher's paper.
[00:08:12] I didn't go to the grocery today.
[00:08:14] Odd.
[00:08:15] You see him kind of get up and kind of, as he gets up, he kind of straightens everything
[00:08:19] and you know, sort of see him kind of put his hands on his hips and he kind of looks
[00:08:22] around as if he's expecting to see something, you know, sat at the foot of the door or on
[00:08:28] a table or something.
[00:08:29] Hmm.
[00:08:29] Odd.
[00:08:30] Odd.
[00:08:30] You know, while my brothers and I are taking up residence here with mom, if you need help
[00:08:35] with anything, we're available.
[00:08:37] Oh, well that's, that's very kind of you boys.
[00:08:40] Um, I'm glad to know that, uh, she's being well taken care of.
[00:08:44] Um, especially at this time.
[00:08:46] But no, I must say I have a fairly active schedule, uh, with the social club and, uh,
[00:08:53] otherwise I'm here most, uh, most, most weekends unless I'm out on a business trip.
[00:08:58] What is the social club?
[00:08:59] You mentioned it a couple of times.
[00:09:02] Oh, it's my, uh, my one vice.
[00:09:04] Uh, I guess you could say, um, it has a very cool name and I'm trying to, uh, it is a local
[00:09:17] businessman's club, but somewhere it gives the name of it and I love the name.
[00:09:21] So I'm going to try and find it, but you continue to talk amongst yourselves.
[00:09:28] I'm going to continue to scan the photos.
[00:09:30] Just see if anything pops out at me.
[00:09:33] Nothing that you wouldn't expect for the time period.
[00:09:36] And I mean, people probably didn't, don't have a lot of photos in 1920, but they would
[00:09:40] have some, uh, heading into the kitchen.
[00:09:43] I didn't see anything like butcher's paper or anything like that.
[00:09:47] Nope.
[00:09:48] Okay.
[00:09:50] Do we have a sense of where the egress is into the basement or?
[00:09:57] Uh, there is a door into the stairs, like right behind where you, right behind where
[00:10:02] you guys are sitting.
[00:10:03] You would presume that would be the basement entrance.
[00:10:06] Okay.
[00:10:06] How good is this wine we're drinking?
[00:10:08] Is this from home?
[00:10:09] Like a real, honestly, honestly, um, it's not that good.
[00:10:14] You didn't tell the audience, but apparently you are a French cowboy.
[00:10:16] So you decided you were a French cowboy.
[00:10:19] So honestly, um, it's, it's not that good.
[00:10:23] Sebastian's just playing it up.
[00:10:24] It's fine.
[00:10:25] Yeah.
[00:10:28] Not as good as the stuff from the home country.
[00:10:31] Ah, he is a, he is a highly regarded member of the men of industry.
[00:10:38] Ooh.
[00:10:39] That is a smokers club.
[00:10:40] Which is a, which is a local businessman's club.
[00:10:44] Uh, yes, we like to meet and, uh, discuss things that I'm sure average people would find quite tedious, but import taxes and, um, fees and brandy cigars and dixos.
[00:11:00] Well, it's not necessarily that type of a social club, but some do enjoy, uh, the club does have a diverse, uh, membership.
[00:11:10] Shall we say?
[00:11:11] It's the dicks, right?
[00:11:12] You like the dicks.
[00:11:15] Are we talking about Spencer's character again?
[00:11:20] Should've gone with Jeb.
[00:11:22] Yeah, yeah.
[00:11:23] Should've gone with Jeb.
[00:11:25] But if you say Jeb, you have to say it with an exclamation point all the time.
[00:11:28] Like, Jeb!
[00:11:29] Jeb!
[00:11:30] Yeah, I'm Jeb!
[00:11:32] Hey, Jeb!
[00:11:33] Come here.
[00:11:35] Lest anyone forget, that was Jeb Bush's, uh, run for president.
[00:11:40] His logo was just Jeb in bubble letters with a big bubbly exclamation point.
[00:11:46] Yeah, what did he say?
[00:11:47] He said, uh, please clap.
[00:11:52] When the, when, yeah, at a, at a speech, that's pretty funny.
[00:11:57] I forgot about that.
[00:11:59] He did say please clap, didn't he?
[00:12:01] Jeb!
[00:12:02] I think I'd rather be called Dick.
[00:12:07] Well, I do thank you gentlemen for a lovely evening.
[00:12:10] Um, uh, but I do apologize.
[00:12:12] I probably should retire for, um, work tomorrow.
[00:12:15] But, please feel free.
[00:12:16] Um, um, if the, uh, if the light is on and I'm home, you're more than welcome to, uh, uh, come over.
[00:12:22] I'll try and make a point to, uh, um, I've actually here.
[00:12:25] And you see him toddle off into the kitchen and he comes back with a, just the most gorgeous tomatoes and cucumbers and onions like, like, like prize, like fair prize winning like produce.
[00:12:40] And, uh, um, now your mother particularly likes the purple ones and he, he hands you a, you know, half a dozen stems that have just been pulled out of water.
[00:12:48] Awesome.
[00:12:49] Those are pretty nice.
[00:12:50] You got a garden out back?
[00:12:51] Uh, yes, uh, I, I do like to garden and I especially like to import, um, rare, uh, species of flower and plant them in the greenhouse.
[00:13:00] Wow.
[00:13:02] Well, uh, if you're on business and you, uh, ever need us to tend to your garden, we would love to.
[00:13:09] Barney's quite the flower delivery boy.
[00:13:11] If you want to send him up and down the street delivering flowers, right Barney?
[00:13:16] Yeah, sure.
[00:13:17] Anything to help out.
[00:13:18] Oh, that's very kind of you.
[00:13:20] I will, uh, definitely keep you boys in mind.
[00:13:23] But yes, your mother, uh, particularly loves the tomatoes.
[00:13:25] So I wanted to make sure that, um, my ripest half dozen or so made their way across the street.
[00:13:32] Very kind.
[00:13:33] I'll take them.
[00:13:34] Mm-hmm.
[00:13:36] And I guess why?
[00:13:37] Stab him with the pack.
[00:13:38] Stab, stab, stab, stab.
[00:13:40] Okay.
[00:13:41] As we're walking back across the street, you totally know he grew those vegetables and the remains of his dead wife, right?
[00:13:48] Oh, stop it.
[00:13:50] Bernard is fine.
[00:13:52] He may be a little eccentric, but someone who lost their entire family is bound to end up being quirky.
[00:14:01] I, I'm sure there's a perfectly fine explanation.
[00:14:03] I'm just saying I ain't eating those vegetables.
[00:14:05] No, look at these.
[00:14:07] They're great.
[00:14:07] He's got some weird imported plant out there that's brainwashed him and he's feeding body parts to it.
[00:14:12] I take a bite of the vegetable.
[00:14:14] Totally fine.
[00:14:15] Am I fine?
[00:14:17] It's, it's fucking delicious.
[00:14:19] Like, it's like.
[00:14:20] I offer.
[00:14:21] Try it.
[00:14:22] It's like.
[00:14:23] Mm-hmm.
[00:14:24] He bites into the tap, that tomato and it just juicy fucking like.
[00:14:29] Like what's the guy's name?
[00:14:31] Denethor?
[00:14:32] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:14:33] Uh, bursting.
[00:14:34] Yeah.
[00:14:34] Little tomato.
[00:14:35] Yeah.
[00:14:36] He's, he's, no, at this point it's, it's like Denethor.
[00:14:39] A hundred percent.
[00:14:40] I wonder how many times I've watched that eating scene.
[00:14:42] It has to be at least 29, 30.
[00:14:48] May he rip.
[00:14:50] I'm pretty sure that actor just passed away recently.
[00:14:52] I don't think John Noble died.
[00:14:54] Was it the other, was it the other king then?
[00:14:57] Uh, Kiefer Sutherland just passed away.
[00:14:58] I don't know.
[00:14:59] Donald Sutherland.
[00:15:00] Donald Sutherland.
[00:15:00] Yeah.
[00:15:02] Theoden?
[00:15:03] Theoden died.
[00:15:04] Not Denethor.
[00:15:05] Not Denethor.
[00:15:05] I hadn't heard that John Noble died.
[00:15:07] I don't know.
[00:15:07] I knew it was someone from, I knew it was one of those two characters, but I didn't know
[00:15:11] which one had died recently.
[00:15:13] One of them did.
[00:15:15] Apologies to Denethor.
[00:15:16] No, he's still around.
[00:15:17] Apologies to Denethor.
[00:15:18] It's clearly Theoden, uh, that apparently may he rip.
[00:15:23] You're a much better king.
[00:15:25] I don't know.
[00:15:26] I always remember John Noble from Fringe more than I do Lord of the Rings.
[00:15:31] I think it's that eating scene and that scene of throwing himself on the pyre.
[00:15:35] Those are just two iconic scenes that that dude got to have.
[00:15:38] But anyway, yeah, no, fine.
[00:15:40] The frickin' delicious, like just amazing tomatoes.
[00:15:44] I'm gonna make a salad.
[00:15:46] It's gonna be great.
[00:15:46] You go back home.
[00:15:48] Cool.
[00:15:49] I don't know.
[00:15:50] I watch for the lights to go out, but.
[00:15:52] Yeah.
[00:15:53] I mean, you see an upstairs light go on and as you watch after 15, 20 minutes,
[00:15:58] the upstairs light goes off.
[00:16:00] You see no other lights in the house.
[00:16:02] Big ass privacy fences or?
[00:16:04] No.
[00:16:05] Some hedges and trees in the back.
[00:16:07] Um, but like, since it's obviously across the street, you would just basically have to
[00:16:12] walk through his yard if you were trying to get in the back.
[00:16:14] But there are no fences.
[00:16:15] Okay.
[00:16:15] It's more privacy hedges and trees.
[00:16:18] Gotcha.
[00:16:19] I see my brothers staring out the window and I say, let it go.
[00:16:24] Help me finish this wine.
[00:16:25] Bernard's fine.
[00:16:27] I pour them a glass.
[00:16:29] Ooh, are those from Bernard?
[00:16:31] Oh, they're lovely.
[00:16:32] Put them in the, put them in the pink vase over there.
[00:16:34] Put them in, put them in water.
[00:16:35] They'll last longer.
[00:16:36] Of course, mother.
[00:16:37] I do it.
[00:16:38] Such a nice man.
[00:16:40] I know Bernard is the best.
[00:16:42] Uh, it's been such a good addition to this neighborhood.
[00:16:46] He brings a sense of community, which is so important.
[00:16:50] I love the guy who five seconds into the recording said, I'm not going to met a game.
[00:16:54] I'm not going to met a game.
[00:16:54] I'm not going to met a game is clearly selling.
[00:16:56] Do not investigate the guy you guys so dearly want to be.
[00:17:03] Yeah, I don't know.
[00:17:04] I think it's just been a shitty week and I'm ready to take something out on one of your
[00:17:07] characters.
[00:17:08] That's fair.
[00:17:10] That's fair.
[00:17:11] Bernard must die.
[00:17:13] Yeah.
[00:17:14] I just, I just want to hurt him.
[00:17:17] Yeah.
[00:17:19] I want the pain to last.
[00:17:21] You will not make me work overtime.
[00:17:24] Jeff, are you, are you alright?
[00:17:25] Is he like breaks the man's legs?
[00:17:29] You have to let me know if you want a killy one.
[00:17:30] This was not a killy one, Jeff.
[00:17:32] I can give you a killy one next time.
[00:17:35] It'll be a killy one if I decide it's going to be a killy one.
[00:17:38] That's fair.
[00:17:40] No, she seems very excited to have the fresh produce and starts talking about all the
[00:17:44] things that can be made with it.
[00:17:46] Yes, especially if you get the onions really early.
[00:17:49] They have just the most lovely crisp.
[00:17:51] I don't know how he does it.
[00:17:53] It's fantastic.
[00:17:54] I've never seen any flowers this vibrant before.
[00:17:57] They're gorgeous.
[00:17:58] Must be the fertilizer.
[00:18:00] Set down some more wine.
[00:18:04] He's a-
[00:18:05] Now, wait a minute.
[00:18:05] Do we have flowers or do we have tomatoes?
[00:18:07] Both.
[00:18:08] Oh.
[00:18:08] He sent you with flowers and vegetables.
[00:18:11] My mistake.
[00:18:13] Yeah.
[00:18:13] Cucumbers, right?
[00:18:14] Yeah.
[00:18:15] Onions.
[00:18:17] Cucumbers, onions, and tomatoes of which she definitely wants to make some sort of salad.
[00:18:21] She's talking about cucumber sandwiches.
[00:18:24] Like, she's very excited.
[00:18:26] Yes.
[00:18:28] I asked my mother, have you taken your medicine, mother?
[00:18:31] How are you doing with your pain?
[00:18:33] Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
[00:18:35] She-
[00:18:35] Check the morphine bottle.
[00:18:39] She hits that morphine and-
[00:18:42] Okay, how sick is mom?
[00:18:44] We haven't really discussed it, but like, not great.
[00:18:50] She's up and around, but this is the best day she's had since she's been home.
[00:18:53] She's basically been bedridden.
[00:18:54] She gets like a good hour a day.
[00:18:56] Okay.
[00:18:57] Oh, how long has your mother been this sick?
[00:18:59] Um, uh, it's been a pretty steady decline the last three or four years.
[00:19:04] How long has Bernard been bringing by all this produce?
[00:19:07] That's a good question.
[00:19:09] Three or four years?
[00:19:10] At least, if not longer.
[00:19:12] I mean, the man's been quite the gardener around here for ten or more years.
[00:19:21] Jeff's such a paranoid fuck and I love it.
[00:19:24] I don't even have to try.
[00:19:26] I just need to drop the seeds of a thread.
[00:19:29] This isn't even the house, right?
[00:19:31] Yeah, right.
[00:19:32] We haven't even gotten there yet.
[00:19:34] This is a spaceship from the planet Zebulon.
[00:19:37] Really? The mystery is actually over at the, at the wharf.
[00:19:41] You guys haven't even gotten there yet.
[00:19:44] I mean, I'm already assuming that the social club is a cult and...
[00:19:50] I want to play more slow burn stuff with you because you know who you're turning into, right?
[00:19:55] You're kind of turning into Daniel.
[00:20:01] Paranoid and giving fewer and fewer fucks.
[00:20:08] Chocolate break.
[00:20:09] It's only paranoid.
[00:20:11] If you're wrong.
[00:20:13] No, you can still be paranoid to be right.
[00:20:16] Gene Hackman, you have something they want!
[00:20:20] Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
[00:20:25] Unless anything happens, I'm going to go ahead and just move the narrative to the next day.
[00:20:29] So we're...
[00:20:30] We're to Monday, right?
[00:20:31] Yep.
[00:20:32] I think I would keep an eye out.
[00:20:34] Oh, I've been keeping an eye out.
[00:20:36] I'm up in the morning with my coffee looking across the street.
[00:20:39] I'm in the evening window with my coffee looking across the street.
[00:20:42] I mean, I think I'd be sitting, sitting out back, smoking a cigarette in the middle of the night, watching his yard.
[00:20:51] For any kinds of movement or anything like that.
[00:20:53] No signs of movement.
[00:20:55] You notice he pretty regularly leaves in the morning, 6.45, 7 o'clock.
[00:21:02] Comes back home in the evening between 6 and 7 o'clock.
[00:21:06] Maybe a little bit later.
[00:21:09] But I'm only advancing in a day or so.
[00:21:11] So you've only been there a week and you've really only been watching him, you know, sort of through the weekend.
[00:21:16] So you're not noticing a pattern other than the guy has work and maybe doesn't come right home after work.
[00:21:21] But he's not, like, out of a speakeasy till midnight either.
[00:21:25] No, he's hanging out at the social club with the cult.
[00:21:30] So, what are we doing?
[00:21:31] We're gonna be all super paranoid and, like, go check out the house while he's gone or...
[00:21:37] We're taking care of mom.
[00:21:42] Well, if we're snooping, I want to see this man's garden.
[00:21:45] I want to see how he grows such good produce.
[00:21:48] Such beautiful flowers.
[00:21:50] I'm a man of...
[00:21:51] What we need is an angle.
[00:21:54] Angles are bad, that's how they get you.
[00:21:57] Can't wait to throw a hound out sometimes.
[00:22:00] Fucking awesome.
[00:22:02] Hey, you guys remember when we were young, we used to play baseball all the time.
[00:22:06] Of course.
[00:22:08] Why do you say we go hit a few balls around?
[00:22:10] Well...
[00:22:11] I don't know if my arm is what it used to be.
[00:22:14] Shut up, Dick. Let's go.
[00:22:19] Baseball's still a relatively new sport in 1920.
[00:22:22] Like, I just think about the...
[00:22:25] Back when I played, you could still catch the ball in a hop and it wasn't out.
[00:22:32] If you've never seen shit from the dead ball era, it is fantastic.
[00:22:37] Yes, they absolutely had soak outs in early days of baseball.
[00:22:40] It was considered ungentlemanly to throw a change up or a curve ball, which of course I didn't call it by then those days.
[00:22:48] Um...
[00:22:49] Yes, I believe it is the prince...
[00:22:51] No, it is the president of, like, Harvard or something issued a thing about how ungentlemanly and unsportslike it was to attempt to deceive the batter by throwing what we would consider an off-speed pitch.
[00:23:06] It was...
[00:23:07] It was...
[00:23:08] It was...
[00:23:08] It was, uh...
[00:23:09] Ungentlemanly.
[00:23:10] And unsportslike to throw...
[00:23:12] Dare you, sir!
[00:23:13] Yeah.
[00:23:13] For the hurler to throw anything but his best at any given throw.
[00:23:19] Baseball's so fucking cool.
[00:23:21] Um...
[00:23:22] But yeah, anyway, uh, sure.
[00:23:23] Uh, clearly he has a bat because this miner clearly gets things by beating the shit out of people because I get a sense that he's more South Boston than he is, you know, archaeologist.
[00:23:35] Yeah, I have no idea why this guy has a 75 in archaeology.
[00:23:39] I...
[00:23:40] You're very, you're very, uh...
[00:23:42] You're as much of an archae...
[00:23:44] You're as much of a miner as the boondock saints were, like, house cleaners.
[00:23:52] Yeah.
[00:23:53] Yeah.
[00:23:53] Well, I'm a cowboy that's got 30 in electronic repair, so tell me how about that one.
[00:23:57] If you only ride mechanical bulls.
[00:24:02] Apparently I'm, uh...
[00:24:03] Although you have to remember we have played a lot of Delta Green lately, the scale for Call of Cthulhu is drastically different.
[00:24:10] So, like, a 30 is considered a dabbler.
[00:24:13] Ah.
[00:24:13] Like, you're not really considered an expert until you're, like, in the 70s.
[00:24:17] Anyway, out front...
[00:24:20] Um, anybody else around other than us out front?
[00:24:24] Uh, would you like someone around or not like someone around?
[00:24:26] I would like no one around.
[00:24:28] Sure.
[00:24:28] I mean, you...
[00:24:29] Yep, I don't think that that's a problem.
[00:24:31] Three men in their 40s playing baseball.
[00:24:34] How close are the houses?
[00:24:37] Um, they're on good...
[00:24:38] Like, how big are the lots?
[00:24:39] I mean, the lots are probably, like, half acre lots.
[00:24:43] Like, they're decent sized lots.
[00:24:45] Okay.
[00:24:45] Um, most of them have shrubbery or trees.
[00:24:48] Uh, a couple of them probably have fences.
[00:24:50] Um, but again, they're not so far away that you couldn't, you know, easily walk from one yard to the other kind of road.
[00:24:56] Would I know between, um, Margaret and Philip Sampson, uh, to our left and Thomas Hinckley to the right, would I know...
[00:25:06] Do they happen to work or are they home during the day?
[00:25:11] Um, the couple, what is Samson, right?
[00:25:13] Mm-hmm.
[00:25:13] I couldn't remember if it was Samson or Swampson.
[00:25:15] Samson.
[00:25:15] Um, uh, Samson, they have a kid and so she's probably at home with the kid.
[00:25:22] Um, the other guy is a bachelor and would not be home.
[00:25:25] He would be at work.
[00:25:26] So I'd relay that information to my brothers.
[00:25:29] We might want to, um, enter from the east side of the house.
[00:25:35] Thomas isn't home.
[00:25:37] You are very familiar with everyone on the block since apparently you've been here quite a bit.
[00:25:41] You do know that there is a neighborhood Snoop, uh, an old lady who lives a couple houses down on the same side as your mother.
[00:25:48] Um, who seems seemingly, even though she's in her seventies, knows everybody in the neighborhood and knows all the tea as the kids say these days.
[00:25:57] Um, a Miss Harriet Hart, age 73, classified in the book as local spinster.
[00:26:05] So she's two houses down on the same side as your mother.
[00:26:09] Okay.
[00:26:10] We could wait till that, uh, pardon me, old bag Harriet goes, I assume she goes grocery shopping.
[00:26:19] Oh, actually she has a, there's a woman, she has a, like a live in, um, maid.
[00:26:24] Um, what is that word?
[00:26:26] She's not really a maid so much as like, she's another old lady.
[00:26:30] She's another older lady living with an even older lady.
[00:26:33] Hmm.
[00:26:34] Yeah, they did have a word for that in the twenties or in the early 1900s.
[00:26:38] Like a live in companion kind of a, so it's like, what did they call her?
[00:26:40] It's like her, her younger friends living with her and also sort of semi taking care of her kind of a thing.
[00:26:45] Hmm.
[00:26:46] I don't know.
[00:26:47] Maybe we should talk to her.
[00:26:48] I want to use the word au pair, but that's not the right word.
[00:26:50] No.
[00:26:51] If she's that big of a snoop, maybe she knows something.
[00:26:54] Not a bad idea.
[00:26:54] Yeah.
[00:26:56] I was totally going to take his bat over there and knock out that basement window, but, uh,
[00:27:01] let's not get so hasty.
[00:27:03] Hmm.
[00:27:05] So what are you doing?
[00:27:07] I don't mind talking to Harriet.
[00:27:10] I'll, uh, bring her, I'll grab another bottle of mediocre wine and pass it off as nice.
[00:27:15] Fine.
[00:27:16] Whatever you want to do.
[00:27:17] Mm-hmm.
[00:27:17] I love how Spencer keeps specifying this 1910 wine because it's not illegal to have.
[00:27:24] I had it before.
[00:27:25] It was fine.
[00:27:27] Uh, you go over and knock on the door.
[00:27:30] Um, I also do the desserts too.
[00:27:33] You guys just have desserts out your ass.
[00:27:35] Yeah, of course.
[00:27:37] What?
[00:27:37] There's no TV, Cody.
[00:27:39] What the fuck else do you think these people do?
[00:27:42] Gardening and desserts and fucking, I assume.
[00:27:46] And war.
[00:27:47] Oh, we still do that.
[00:27:48] It's your mom, dude.
[00:27:49] That's the first thing.
[00:27:54] Um.
[00:27:55] Life's not been good to you, has it?
[00:28:00] Uh, um, an older woman in her fifties opens the door.
[00:28:05] Um, plain and practical.
[00:28:07] Uh, she's wearing an apron, um, a round and ruddy face.
[00:28:12] Um, cause she looks to be working exert, you know, she looks like she is exerted energy.
[00:28:17] She, she's covered in, you know, sort of stains and sweat.
[00:28:22] She's kind of got, uh, her hair is sort of like pulled back in a bun, but she's clearly been sweating and whatnot.
[00:28:26] And bits of her dark hair, um, are kind of popping all out from whatever sort of hairstyle she put them into.
[00:28:32] Um, you would know her as Mrs. Rebecca Wallace.
[00:28:34] Uh, she is, um, Miss Hart's live-in companion.
[00:28:40] Rebecca.
[00:28:41] Uh, good morning.
[00:28:42] Uh, Mr. Clark.
[00:28:43] Uh, pleasure, pleasure to see you again.
[00:28:45] Um, how is your mother doing?
[00:28:48] Not so well, but in good spirits.
[00:28:51] Oh, good.
[00:28:51] And we're here to just be with her.
[00:28:54] Of course, of course.
[00:28:55] I know that she's always talked, uh, highly of you boys, so I'm glad that you're all here.
[00:28:59] Uh, to what do we owe the pleasure of your visit?
[00:29:02] Well, we brought some, uh, delightful peanut brittle that my mother, who had a burst of energy made, and we wanted to share it with Harriet.
[00:29:11] And then I kind of show a little, cheekily show a little bit of the wine as well and say, and some, uh, a bit of, a bit of wine that we've stumbled across that is of a particularly good vintage.
[00:29:26] Uh, Miss Harriet, uh, will appreciate that, I'm sure.
[00:29:30] It says Miss Harriet's family has lived in and around the neighborhood since the colonial days.
[00:29:36] Which is just an interesting phrase to speak aloud.
[00:29:40] Yep.
[00:29:41] Which is not really that far off from the 1920s, if you really think about it.
[00:29:44] Mm-mm.
[00:29:46] 17, 1800s, yeah.
[00:29:47] It's not that far off.
[00:29:49] Not that far.
[00:29:50] A couple generations.
[00:29:51] But yes, um, uh, Miss Hart, um, uh, is that those Clark boys?
[00:29:57] Tell them to come in.
[00:29:58] And so you get escorted into a sitting room.
[00:30:01] Rebecca, please, some glasses and some plates.
[00:30:04] She's...
[00:30:05] Boys?
[00:30:06] A pleasure to see, uh, you.
[00:30:09] You too.
[00:30:10] How you doing, ma'am?
[00:30:11] Nice to meet you.
[00:30:12] Ah, well, old age keeps trying to kill me.
[00:30:15] I keep fighting it off day after day.
[00:30:17] Well, I hear...
[00:30:19] Shake the bottle.
[00:30:20] A little of this helps.
[00:30:22] So I've heard.
[00:30:22] I'm sorry.
[00:30:23] Oh, you don't partake?
[00:30:24] Uh, no, absolutely will.
[00:30:27] Rebecca comes in with the glasses and she sort of looks at you like, poor damn you.
[00:30:32] Yeah.
[00:30:33] She snatches it up quite quickly.
[00:30:36] Um, Miss Hart is known for being incredibly, uh, penny pinching.
[00:30:42] So she's going to take your free wine because she didn't have to pay for it.
[00:30:46] Gotcha.
[00:30:47] And she's going to make sure that, uh, it is subtly implied that she's keeping all the peanut brittle as well.
[00:30:52] So...
[00:30:53] Uh, so to what do I owe this pleasure?
[00:30:56] Would you like to hit her with a bat, Jeff?
[00:30:59] I haven't decided.
[00:31:01] Alright.
[00:31:02] Uh...
[00:31:02] If you don't mind, uh, us asking, we got some questions about our mother's neighbor, Bernard.
[00:31:07] Ah, Mr. Corbett.
[00:31:09] Yes, lovely, lovely man.
[00:31:11] Saved that paper boy's life one day.
[00:31:13] Did you know that?
[00:31:14] Crazy story.
[00:31:15] Paper boy?
[00:31:17] Yes.
[00:31:18] Struck by a car right outside the house.
[00:31:20] Poor boy was...
[00:31:21] Probably should have died in the road.
[00:31:24] What?
[00:31:24] He was in medicine, you understand, before he...
[00:31:26] Before he inherited his father's business.
[00:31:28] I did not know that.
[00:31:31] Ah, yes, he, uh...
[00:31:32] I believe he left school, um, to track down something, and then that horrible incident happened
[00:31:37] in India, and his father never came home.
[00:31:40] Um, but yes, a few years ago, that, uh, that, uh...
[00:31:45] What would she use?
[00:31:47] Scamp Rapscallion, um, dodging through here trying to deliver papers and got clipped by a...
[00:31:53] Passing mail truck.
[00:31:55] Roustabouts.
[00:31:57] Hmm...
[00:31:58] Mr. Corbett, uh, apparently quickly acted before the ambulance could get here, and I believe
[00:32:03] that's the only thing that saved the boy's life.
[00:32:05] Wow.
[00:32:06] What happened to the boy?
[00:32:07] Where is he at now?
[00:32:08] He still delivers papers.
[00:32:10] I'm sure he's...
[00:32:11] He'll be around in a few hours.
[00:32:12] Did you, uh, did you know his late wife?
[00:32:20] Hmm...
[00:32:22] Lynn Myers.
[00:32:24] Yes.
[00:32:25] Lovely girl.
[00:32:27] Shame.
[00:32:27] Even in this modern era that women can be taken at childbirth, it's horrific.
[00:32:32] Yes, it is.
[00:32:33] Didn't realize that she had passed a given birth.
[00:32:36] Ah, yes, um...
[00:32:38] Across the street, actually.
[00:32:39] Hmm.
[00:32:40] It was a real shame.
[00:32:41] Uh, Bernard would have been an excellent father.
[00:32:43] He would have been, uh, he was a good man.
[00:32:45] He was a good man, and his wife would have been a very lovely mother.
[00:32:49] Uh, but these things do happen.
[00:32:51] God save us all.
[00:32:53] God save us all.
[00:32:53] God save us all.
[00:32:54] She clearly downs the wine and pushes out the glass and suggests that it should continue
[00:32:58] to be filled.
[00:32:58] Reflexively fill it.
[00:33:00] I'd try to keep up.
[00:33:02] Ma'am, I hope you don't mind us asking, but...
[00:33:04] You don't know of anything unusual happening over there at that home that Bernard lives
[00:33:09] in, do you?
[00:33:10] Other than a well-to-do businessman, um, with a excellent living space, relatively new home,
[00:33:19] is unmarried, I find that the oddest thing of all.
[00:33:22] I told Rebecca if she was a bit younger, she should go over and knock on his door.
[00:33:27] How does Rebecca react to that?
[00:33:29] She sort of puffs, you know, puffs and steps out of the room.
[00:33:34] But yes, no, the oddest thing is that no one has decided to try and marry that man a
[00:33:39] second time.
[00:33:41] I'm sure he has plenty of money.
[00:33:45] Uh, yes, quite, as far as I know.
[00:33:47] Um, Corbett in...
[00:33:49] I think it's Corbett Importers of America or something like that.
[00:33:52] Um, is an incredible company here in Boston, as far as I'm aware.
[00:33:56] It's just that my brothers and I haven't been here long with Mother, and we've noticed some
[00:34:01] strange going-ons at his house across the street, and we're a little concerned about our mother's
[00:34:07] security.
[00:34:08] Hogwash.
[00:34:09] That's what I said.
[00:34:11] Bernard is just...
[00:34:13] I'm sure...
[00:34:14] We want to tread lightly here.
[00:34:17] We...
[00:34:18] We adore Bernard.
[00:34:20] And we're sure that everything's above board.
[00:34:23] But you haven't seen anything.
[00:34:25] No, no, no.
[00:34:27] The man has his social meetings, he's here on the weekends, he delivers excellent vegetables
[00:34:33] and gorgeous flowers to people up and down the road.
[00:34:36] My understanding is he gives to the policeman's fund, the local hospital.
[00:34:41] Quite a charitable... charitable man.
[00:34:43] Ooh, good on it.
[00:34:44] I hear not a bad word said about Mr. Bernard Corbett.
[00:34:49] Neither do we.
[00:34:50] Good.
[00:34:51] Well, chin-chin.
[00:34:53] The brittle.
[00:34:54] How do you like it?
[00:34:57] Excellent work.
[00:34:59] My compliments to your mother.
[00:35:00] Not generally paired with wine.
[00:35:06] How are we looking on the scale of bat to no bat, Jeff?
[00:35:10] Nah, I kinda like her.
[00:35:11] Oh, okay. Fair enough.
[00:35:13] Little do you know...
[00:35:15] I'm gonna fuck out though.
[00:35:17] Little do you know...
[00:35:19] The spinster...
[00:35:20] Is the one under the rubber mask.
[00:35:23] It was old Miss Hart all along!
[00:35:26] I've gotten away with it.
[00:35:28] Some bastard hadn't broke my knees with a baseball bat.
[00:35:31] Yeah.
[00:35:36] I mean...
[00:35:37] She will continue to gossip and drink all of your wine the longer you sit here.
[00:35:42] I bought a case of it.
[00:35:44] It's fine.
[00:35:45] Um...
[00:35:45] Um...
[00:35:46] Anything interesting come out of her mouth that she downs the...
[00:35:50] Oh, she'll tell you all about who's sleeping with who and whatever.
[00:35:54] Like, she is a veritable font of knowledge on who is doing what.
[00:35:58] Um...
[00:35:59] But you get no such dirt on Mr. Corbett.
[00:36:03] Has there been anybody else in the neighborhood who's come down sick?
[00:36:08] Uh...
[00:36:09] Long-term illness?
[00:36:11] Uh...
[00:36:11] She mentions a couple of other people on the block.
[00:36:14] Um...
[00:36:14] Elderly folks.
[00:36:16] Like myself.
[00:36:17] Um...
[00:36:18] No, none of them seem to have, um...
[00:36:20] My hearty constitution, she says as she kicks back the wine again.
[00:36:25] Um...
[00:36:25] Your mother, um...
[00:36:26] Of course.
[00:36:27] She sort of realizes she's made a faux pas and she covers it by...
[00:36:31] Um...
[00:36:32] Grabbing a piece of peanut brittle.
[00:36:34] But yes.
[00:36:35] No, no, um...
[00:36:36] No other illnesses.
[00:36:39] Um...
[00:36:40] Ah...
[00:36:40] Speaking of...
[00:36:42] Our beloved mother, we should...
[00:36:44] To make sure she's taking her medicine.
[00:36:47] Of course!
[00:36:48] As she reaches her arm out and sweeps several more pieces of peanut brittle across the table.
[00:36:51] Uh...
[00:36:51] I...
[00:36:52] I just...
[00:36:53] We actually brought the whole basket for you.
[00:36:56] And the basket as well.
[00:36:57] We thought you'd, um...
[00:36:58] Of course!
[00:36:59] That'll be an excellent place to store my...
[00:37:02] I was gonna say Tupperware, but that doesn't make any goddamn sense.
[00:37:06] She then begins...
[00:37:07] I store my boxes and boxes!
[00:37:08] It's just glass, man.
[00:37:09] She begins to yell at Rebecca about where to place the basket.
[00:37:14] And, uh...
[00:37:15] I...
[00:37:15] Obviously, I...
[00:37:16] I push the wine her way too.
[00:37:18] Of course!
[00:37:18] And give a little wink, a flirtatious wink.
[00:37:21] Uh...
[00:37:22] Ah...
[00:37:22] To be 30 years younger...
[00:37:25] You two...
[00:37:26] You three gentlemen and, uh...
[00:37:28] Please spend some quality time with your mother.
[00:37:31] If you have any more of that wine, feel free to drop by anytime.
[00:37:34] Of course!
[00:37:35] She is a pleasure.
[00:37:37] The old lady proceeds to get illegally trashed.
[00:37:40] I like her.
[00:37:43] So that was a way to spend Monday afternoon.
[00:37:47] Anything else you want?
[00:37:48] I thought it was morning.
[00:37:49] I thought we were getting drunk in the morning.
[00:37:50] Well, you've been drinking for a little while.
[00:37:52] Takes a while to get all the...
[00:37:54] All the blocks gossip.
[00:37:56] Yeah.
[00:37:59] Um...
[00:37:59] So, uh...
[00:38:01] I will just wanna kind of establish that since we got that interesting...
[00:38:05] Bit about the paper boy that I've been...
[00:38:08] Keeping an eye out.
[00:38:09] Yeah, you could see a kid, uh...
[00:38:11] Roam through, uh...
[00:38:12] With a dog.
[00:38:13] I assume that it's an afternoon or evening paper, probably.
[00:38:17] So...
[00:38:17] Does it happen to work out that we can catch him?
[00:38:21] Sure!
[00:38:22] You see a...
[00:38:23] A small boy, um...
[00:38:25] With sort of, um...
[00:38:26] Uh...
[00:38:27] I'm not sure what kind of dog it is.
[00:38:29] It says mongrel.
[00:38:30] So I imagine it's a decent sized dog.
[00:38:33] Um...
[00:38:34] Or just a...
[00:38:35] Probably not a retriever.
[00:38:35] Just a mutt.
[00:38:36] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:38:37] But it's a medium to large sized dog.
[00:38:39] Hey, and no offense to mutts.
[00:38:41] I have a mutt.
[00:38:41] I love mutts.
[00:38:43] But he's walking around tossing papers on the porches.
[00:38:45] With both arms.
[00:38:50] I see what you're...
[00:38:52] I do too.
[00:38:56] Um...
[00:38:57] Uh...
[00:38:57] Would I know this...
[00:38:59] This kid...
[00:38:59] By chance?
[00:39:00] Or...
[00:39:01] Do we get the paper?
[00:39:02] Uh...
[00:39:03] Yeah, no.
[00:39:03] So I paid him.
[00:39:04] What's his name?
[00:39:05] His name's Bobby.
[00:39:06] Bobby Linsky.
[00:39:08] Um...
[00:39:08] I flag him down.
[00:39:09] Bobby!
[00:39:10] I, uh...
[00:39:10] My mother, uh...
[00:39:12] In a fit of good health.
[00:39:13] Amidst, uh...
[00:39:14] Rough time.
[00:39:15] Made some peanut brittle.
[00:39:16] You want some?
[00:39:17] Oh, gee.
[00:39:17] Thanks, Mr. Clark.
[00:39:19] And I say, hey, we heard today, bud, uh...
[00:39:22] That you had a terrible accident while we weren't in town.
[00:39:25] How are you doing?
[00:39:26] Oh, oh, it's been a little while ago.
[00:39:28] But yeah, yeah, um...
[00:39:30] I was, uh...
[00:39:31] I was running along the street and got clipped by a truck right over there.
[00:39:34] And he kind of points just a little...
[00:39:36] Oh, I'm so sorry, buddy.
[00:39:39] Uh...
[00:39:39] We also heard that Bernard helped you out.
[00:39:42] Do you remember anything about that?
[00:39:43] I don't remember a lot, but I've decided that that's what I wanna do.
[00:39:47] I wanna help people when I grow up.
[00:39:48] I wanna be like Bernard and be a doctor.
[00:39:50] Buddy, you'll do such a good...
[00:39:51] I know he's not a doctor, but...
[00:39:52] Buddy, you'll do such a good job.
[00:39:55] Um...
[00:39:55] Do I get the sense that he has any more information on?
[00:39:58] Is he...
[00:39:59] How old is...
[00:40:00] No, I mean...
[00:40:01] No, here's the thing.
[00:40:02] What I meant by that...
[00:40:03] God damn it.
[00:40:04] What I meant by that was...
[00:40:08] My brain was going, uh...
[00:40:10] What age a kid is this?
[00:40:11] Because at a certain age...
[00:40:13] Twelve.
[00:40:13] Okay, okay, he might have some...
[00:40:14] Because, you know, you imagine a real little kid just being like,
[00:40:16] Oh, golly gee, sir, I don't really experience the world in a cognizant way.
[00:40:20] I just kinda float through things, cause I'm five.
[00:40:23] You know?
[00:40:23] He's a twelve year old who got clipped by a truck.
[00:40:26] Yeah, so...
[00:40:27] And he's clearly not from this part of town.
[00:40:29] Gotcha.
[00:40:31] He is helping his family get by by delivering papers.
[00:40:35] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:40:36] Makes sense.
[00:40:37] Gonna be hard to make his way through school.
[00:40:40] Yep.
[00:40:40] Probably not gonna be a doctor.
[00:40:41] But that's what he's...
[00:40:42] That's what his big plans are.
[00:40:44] G-golly willikers.
[00:40:45] Well, so I, uh...
[00:40:47] Um...
[00:40:48] Hey, and I...
[00:40:48] I have him...
[00:40:49] I call him...
[00:40:50] Yes, Mr. Clark.
[00:40:51] And I, um...
[00:40:52] I hand him fifty cents.
[00:40:54] I say, hey, Bobby, will you do me a favor?
[00:40:58] Okay.
[00:40:58] Could you just, uh, keep an eye on old Bernard's house?
[00:41:02] Sure.
[00:41:03] He's out of town a lot and we...
[00:41:05] Oh yeah.
[00:41:05] No, when he's out of town, he tells me to go, uh, go around the side and, uh, there's
[00:41:10] a place where I can store his papers.
[00:41:12] Oh, really?
[00:41:13] Yeah.
[00:41:14] Oh.
[00:41:15] Okay.
[00:41:15] Sometimes he'll ask me to...
[00:41:17] If he doesn't have anyone watching his house, he'll let me know and he'll have me store
[00:41:20] his mail so it stays dry.
[00:41:21] Oh.
[00:41:22] That's so good of you.
[00:41:23] Well, if you could just keep an eye out.
[00:41:25] We've seen some strange things over there.
[00:41:27] Nothing to worry about.
[00:41:28] But hey, buddy, if you see anything strange, will you let us know?
[00:41:31] You got it.
[00:41:32] Hey.
[00:41:34] It's like, come on, Basil!
[00:41:35] And the dog, uh, runs after him.
[00:41:39] I just wasted fifty cents.
[00:41:40] Dang it.
[00:41:41] Do you know what that is in today's money?
[00:41:43] That's like...
[00:41:44] I don't know, what is that?
[00:41:45] It's a decent bit.
[00:41:47] It's a decent bit.
[00:41:47] I'm paying for the kids' school.
[00:41:49] Two bits.
[00:41:49] Twenty bucks.
[00:41:51] Clever.
[00:41:51] We're talking about the days where you can get like pop for three cents or something.
[00:41:55] Right, right.
[00:41:56] It's wild.
[00:41:58] It's wild.
[00:42:01] Anything else you want to do?
[00:42:05] Well, Spencer wants to Leroy Jenkins this and just run into the front door.
[00:42:09] You can.
[00:42:11] That's an option.
[00:42:11] I told you to play baseball.
[00:42:13] Oops.
[00:42:14] That basement window got taken right out.
[00:42:18] I had to take out your front door to go in and get my ball.
[00:42:21] I'm so sorry.
[00:42:23] By the way, your house is now on fire.
[00:42:26] Oopsie poopsie.
[00:42:31] So what's...
[00:42:32] Did he say he had a greenhouse or was it just a garden?
[00:42:37] He has a garden and a greenhouse.
[00:42:39] Is it like a big glass greenhouse?
[00:42:41] Yeah.
[00:42:42] Yeah.
[00:42:43] You wouldn't be able to see it necessarily.
[00:42:46] I mean, if you kind of walk down the street and angle just right, you can see it's not entirely glass, but it's a wooden structure with a glass roof.
[00:42:57] Investigate the backyard?
[00:42:59] Yeah, sure.
[00:43:00] I mean, technically we're not breaking and entering in the house.
[00:43:05] Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do.
[00:43:14] My dad has some serious old man sneezes.
[00:43:20] All right.
[00:43:21] What are you doing?
[00:43:23] You do know he would probably be home in a bit.
[00:43:28] I...
[00:43:28] What day is it?
[00:43:30] Monday, right?
[00:43:31] Oh, it's the beginning of the week.
[00:43:32] Yeah.
[00:43:33] I think tomorrow.
[00:43:36] Oh, check the backyard tomorrow.
[00:43:38] Yeah, tomorrow I think I might do a little looksie.
[00:43:40] Yeah.
[00:43:40] And I think we should...
[00:43:42] I think it would make sense for me to find my way to this Titans of Industry or whatever the fuck this creepy group is.
[00:43:51] Cult.
[00:43:52] Cult.
[00:43:54] What is that they say in King of the Hill?
[00:43:56] It's like, is this where the cult is?
[00:43:59] And they're like, no, we're just an open group that believes in love and free.
[00:44:03] He's like, yep, this is where the cult is.
[00:44:10] I never liked watching that show, watching that show, but man, there's some really good like clips and moments.
[00:44:17] I had nothing wrong with the show.
[00:44:18] That's my purse.
[00:44:20] I don't know you.
[00:44:21] That's a solid one.
[00:44:24] Oh, Bobby.
[00:44:28] Yeah, I forget what there's some line about.
[00:44:30] Yeah, no, we believe in free speech and the expression of love or whatever.
[00:44:36] He's like, yep, this is a place.
[00:44:38] That was the one with the war vet in the wheelchair, wasn't it?
[00:44:41] Yeah.
[00:44:41] Yeah, I love that guy.
[00:44:42] His dad.
[00:44:43] No.
[00:44:45] Bobby as like the Dalai Lama character is a pretty, a pretty good bit.
[00:44:50] A pretty good bit.
[00:44:51] Yeah.
[00:44:51] Damn it, Bobby.
[00:44:56] Uh, so you want to wait until tomorrow then.
[00:45:01] Yeah, he's going to be home in a bit.
[00:45:02] Yeah.
[00:45:03] You would, you would presume so.
[00:45:04] I mean, you don't know the man's schedule, but you would presume so.
[00:45:07] Okay.
[00:45:08] We'll roll over into Tuesday.
[00:45:09] Okay.
[00:45:11] Jeff is out smoking a cigarette, watches the man drive away.
[00:45:16] Seven thirty in the morning.
[00:45:19] He drives himself.
[00:45:21] Yeah.
[00:45:22] This is not like an upper class, like people are going to necessarily have like home staff,
[00:45:26] but it's, it's, it's solid upper middle class, but you're not like.
[00:45:31] Seems like he could be, if he owns an import business, is there a, I know you don't have
[00:45:38] a storefront for an import business, but you have, but you have, yeah, I mean, you
[00:45:43] have warehouses.
[00:45:44] Yeah.
[00:45:44] Yeah.
[00:45:45] Um, is that something we could also add to our list of whatever you want to do?
[00:45:50] Yeah.
[00:45:51] Do a slow drive by.
[00:45:52] Yeah.
[00:45:53] If you want to.
[00:45:54] What do you want to do first?
[00:45:55] Check out the backyard.
[00:45:56] Okay.
[00:45:57] Check out the greenhouse and the garden.
[00:45:59] Sure.
[00:45:59] We're taking the bat.
[00:46:02] I'm taking the pocket knife.
[00:46:06] Um, so you do see, um, a pretty substantial, um, enclosed greenhouse space as well as a
[00:46:16] massive overflowing, like comedically abundant, um, garden.
[00:46:23] Mm hmm.
[00:46:24] A little path between the two and a little path leading to the house.
[00:46:27] Um, but yeah, it's a, it's like, it's like a third of the size of the house.
[00:46:32] The greenhouse is big.
[00:46:34] Um, how many entrances exits to, to the greenhouse?
[00:46:40] Just one door.
[00:46:41] Just one door.
[00:46:42] Yeah.
[00:46:42] So I have survival ranch and natural world 50.
[00:46:47] Mm hmm.
[00:46:48] Um, what I know if like what he's growing here should be growing this well naturally.
[00:46:56] Uh, it's an interesting idea.
[00:46:59] Um, what's your natural world score?
[00:47:02] It's 50.
[00:47:04] 50 is pretty good.
[00:47:05] Um, I would say that you are, it, it takes work.
[00:47:11] Like it's not overabundant to like, it makes you question, but it is somebody who is very
[00:47:19] closely cultivating their garden for specific reasons.
[00:47:22] Like it's, it's very, very, very well maintained.
[00:47:26] So given his schedule, he's spending all of his spare time out here pretty much.
[00:47:31] Yeah.
[00:47:31] Lots and lots and lots of spare time on this garden.
[00:47:35] Which as far as you know is consistent with what you've heard thus far.
[00:47:39] But we haven't actually seen him out here.
[00:47:42] No, but it is in the back of the house.
[00:47:43] So theoretically he could come out the back door and you may not know that he's here.
[00:47:50] Jeff wants to kill a mother fucker.
[00:47:53] I don't know.
[00:47:54] Just let it happen.
[00:47:55] You've already decided that the cult's in the greenhouse, rush on in there and find out
[00:47:58] what happened to Jeff.
[00:47:59] No, I'm sure the cult is at the social club.
[00:48:01] Oh, okay.
[00:48:02] Well, there's a weird imported plant that's getting brainwashed is in the greenhouse.
[00:48:06] Ah, I see.
[00:48:07] Oh.
[00:48:08] Are there, um, so interesting cause greenhouses generally have more glass, right?
[00:48:13] So this just says glass on the roof.
[00:48:14] You're telling me?
[00:48:15] Uh, on the roof, on the roof in the upper part.
[00:48:18] Like I don't, I think it's like, and again, this is just me not knowing if in 19, 20, whatever,
[00:48:25] if you would have the ability to have like a full on full glass greenhouse at, you know,
[00:48:30] I don't know.
[00:48:31] Right.
[00:48:31] I would assume that this is some sort of like converted thing.
[00:48:34] You know what I mean?
[00:48:35] Like, I don't know.
[00:48:36] So are there big windows that we can kind of?
[00:48:38] Yeah, there are probably big windows and like a, yeah, it's.
[00:48:41] What do we see when we peek inside?
[00:48:43] It looks like a jungle in there.
[00:48:44] Like it's a massive greenhouse of, of various exotic plants and everything else.
[00:48:50] No, actually it does say, uh, read something.
[00:48:55] Oh no.
[00:48:56] It doesn't say anything about darkness.
[00:48:57] So yeah, no, you're good.
[00:48:59] Brothers.
[00:49:00] You want to step in?
[00:49:01] Yeah, let's go.
[00:49:03] Right behind you.
[00:49:05] Um, I will take a natural world role.
[00:49:09] I don't assume any of you are botanists.
[00:49:13] 25 under 50.
[00:49:15] So half, that's a hard success, right?
[00:49:18] Yep.
[00:49:19] Okay.
[00:49:23] Um, so you, uh, the two of you walk in.
[00:49:26] Um, so, um, um, Barney and Jib, uh, walk in.
[00:49:32] Um, you see, like, I always imagined like, you know, when you go to the zoo and you open
[00:49:36] like the rainforest exhibit and it's just like, whoosh.
[00:49:40] Like this overrushing feeling of just.
[00:49:44] Humidity.
[00:49:45] Humidity and greenery and just this pungent waft over your nose.
[00:49:50] Like, yeah, there's like, and it's just, it's just green everywhere.
[00:49:55] Vines growing flowers.
[00:49:57] It's, it's, it's like, uh, any environment you've ever seen poison ivy and like, you know,
[00:50:02] like it's, it's just abundantly green.
[00:50:06] Um, Daniel, your character, uh, John, um, as John begins to poke around being familiar,
[00:50:12] he starts to notice some things.
[00:50:14] And so he sees, okay, here's some plants that I know.
[00:50:17] Um, and then you start to see some unusual stuff that shouldn't normally be grown in this
[00:50:23] part of the world or even in like this hemisphere.
[00:50:25] Um, you're seeing some specimens that you, you identify as stuff that are only available
[00:50:30] in remote parts of Asia, Africa, and South America.
[00:50:34] Um, so like some really rare stuff.
[00:50:37] Um, you also notice some stuff that appears to be incredibly dangerous.
[00:50:42] Um, most of the plants here produce, um, narcotic chemicals or toxins.
[00:50:49] Um, and he's, his collection includes such things as coca, cannabis, foxglove, nightshade,
[00:50:57] and you even see fly agaric mushrooms.
[00:51:02] Oh, uh, brothers don't, don't touch anything in here.
[00:51:05] Copy that.
[00:51:06] Not sure exactly what all this does, but I know some of this stuff is poisonous.
[00:51:09] And there is also plenty in here that you cannot identify.
[00:51:14] .