Friday, Dec 25, 2020 • 55min
Christmas Special: Chimes at Midnight
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Be Advised: The following episode contains discussions and depictions of gaslighting, as well as tense, menacing situations and fantasy violence. Listener discretion is advised.
A woman struggles with loneliness and isolation while working as the caretaker for a magical castle at the North Pole - as well as protecting it from the mysterious forces who are trying to penetrate its defenses.
Starring Mary Kates Wiles as Katherine Cavalier.
Written and Directed by Gabriel Urbina.
Script Editing by David K. Barnes.
Sound Design by Zach Valenti.
Original Music by Alan Rodi. Featuring The Carol of the Bells, composed by Mykola Leontovych, arranged and performed by Alan Rodi.
Produced by Sarah Shachat, Zach Valenti, and Gabriel Urbina, along with Angel Acevedo, Jenn Schneider, and Amy Tanguay.
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The following episode contains discussions and depictions of gas lighting as well as tense, menacing situations and fantasy violence, listener discretion is advised.
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Kate
01:46
Hello? Hello, can you hear me? Am I getting through? We don't have a lot of time here, so you need to listen to me, You need to remember.
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02:04
There aren't many people left who celebrate Christmas the way we used to. With ghost stories. Amongst the modern peoples of the world, only the
Fae
still honor this tradition. Every December Twenty-Fourth, they gather around the fire and trade stories. Stories of what moves in the dark, forgotten corners of the world.Share
02:29
There's one story they tell more than any other. There's lots of different ways to tell it. But it always goes something like this.
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02:39
On a cold winter's night, it will find you. The Mask Maker. It will not look like a monster. It will have a face you know. A face you love. But beneath the surface? It's a monster. If you run, it will catch you. If you fight, you will lose. One way or another, the Mask Maker will take you back to its lair. And once it's there? It's going to steal you.
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03:16
All of you. It'll take your shadow. It'll take your face and your eyes, and your skin. It will take your thoughts. Your joy. Your spark. Who you are, who you were, and who you will be. And while it's taking you... it's going to take its time. And when it's done, a thing is going to walk out of that dark place. That looks like you. And sounds like you. And lives like you. Until it needs a new mask. And you stay behind. In the dark. A thing of mist and shadow. Forever.
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04:16
There isn't much time, but it isn't too late. You have to remember. You have to. While you still can.
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04:58
Long story short productions presents, Unseen.
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05:18
Christmas Special. Chimes at Midnight, by Gabriel Urbina.
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Kate
05:58
Okay, okay, you win. I'm awake... I'm awake! I'm awake and... and...
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06:19
It's Christmas. I'm awake and it's Christmas.
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06:30
Okay, okay. Let's do this.
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06:43
Where are we going to start today?
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06:52
Dear Chris. It's me, Kate. Merry Christmas. I'm sorry that your wayward girlfriend is once again absent for the holidays, but well, duty calls. It's hard to believe I've been here for almost two years already. I mean, okay. It's not as hard to believe is the fact that there's been a magical castle sitting on top of the North Pole for hundreds of years, but still.
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07:29
I get the business out of the way first thing in the morning. After all, it's why I'm here. Gotta keep the clock tower going. Gotta make sure it all keeps on ticking. After that... well, I can do whatever I want with the rest of my day. I know what I'm supposed to do. Keep up with my studies. Organize the archives. Work on my magic. But not today.
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08:08
Today's Christmas, so... screw it. I'm taking the day off to do all the stupid, cheesy Christmas-y things I want to. Ergo, I spend the morning baking gingerbread cookies.
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08:31
In the afternoon, I catch up on my decorations. I don't know how I got so behind on them this year - I haven't even gotten the tinsel up on my tree yet. I couldn't decide whether I wanted to go with a star or with a snowflake on top of the tree. Decided I'd flip for it. Star it is.
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08:56
I really could have used you being here. It takes me all afternoon to get the rest of the decorations up. The castle is very big, and it has a lot of rooms. One of these days I'm going to figure out what they all do.
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09:10
I think the hardest part of it is just how lonely it gets living up here all by myself in the North Pole. It'd be nice to at least be able to go outside and make some snowmen. I'd do it if... well, if I didn't have to keep the castle safe. Also, it's forty below out there. Right.
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09:40
There's this moment. In the library. Like... I think I hear this sound, and see something out of the corner of my eye. Like... Anyway. I'm imagining things. I spend the rest of the afternoon playing Christmas carols. I've been re-teaching myself how to play the piano. I think it's coming along.
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10:12
The evening's cozy. It's cold, even inside the Castle. So I put on my wooliest, itchiest sweater, make myself dinner and a big cup of hot cocoa, and just... plop myself down in front of the television. You'd be proud of me. I tuned in to the Old Time Black and White Movie Channel.
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10:31
Remember how skeptical I was that first Christmas we spent together?
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10:35
I hated the idea of spending Christmas watching old movies. Well... I'm a believer now. You did it, Chris. It just doesn't feel like Christmas if I don't watch whatever's playing on the Old Time Black and White Movie Channel. They were playing a weird one, though.
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10:58
I caught it late, so I didn't see what it was called. But it was all about this girl called Katherine Cavalier, and how she wanted to be a scientist. She had all these problems in school and went on all kinds of adventures to prove, I don't know. How smart she was. Or something, I don't know. It wasn't bad, I just didn't really see what it had to do with Christmas.
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11:29
And just like that, the day was over. I like to stay up late on Christmas, late enough that I get to here. Yeah, there we go. I miss you lots. I wish I could have spent this Christmas day with you, can't wait for all the Christmases that we'll get to spend together soon, very soon. I promise.
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12:12
I love you to the ends of the earth, signed Kate.
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12:43
All right, all right, I surrender. Mercy, please, would you just?
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12:59
I'm awake, I'm awake, and it's... it's Christmas. It's Christmas Day. Let's do this. Where should we get started today?
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13:39
Dear Chris. Season's greetings from your super long distance girlfriend. Can you believe it's already Christmas again? It feels like it was only yesterday when I wrote my last letter.
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13:57
It's been quiet here. Well, I mean, it's the North Pole, so how else is it going to be? I'm still keeping the clocks going.
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14:12
And I'm still letting myself take the rest of today off to just... lay about and be Christmas-y. Spent the morning making some profiteroles.
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14:26
Left the tree all the way to the last minute this year. Again. I couldn't decide whether I wanted to go with a star or with a snowflake on top of the tree. Decided I'd flip for it.
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14:40
Snowflake this year.
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14:44
I'm really behind on the decorations too, I don't know what I was doing all December. It took me three hours just to get all the wreaths up around the castle.
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14:59
At least I'm doing better at the piano. I think. It's nice to be able to play a bit of carols, even if there's -
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15:12
Is that the front door?
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15:29
Knock all you want. Knock yourself out. I'm not coming out, and you're not coming in.
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15:41
Not gonna work. There's twelve locks on that door, not to mention a great big oak bar standing in your way. The physics aren't on your side. You're not getting in. I have to do this. I have to keep the clock running.
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16:11
Well, all right then. Merry Christmas to you too.
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16:28
Had a brief... interruption this afternoon. Nothing the defenses couldn't handle. Still, I was glad to get to curl up, have some dinner, and watch the Old Black and White Movie Channel. And you know? It's funny. Remember that weird movie they were playing last year? They had another one on with the same character this year.
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16:54
Katherine Cavalier. I guess it must be a sequel, though, because she was Doctor Katherine Cavalier now. She was a little older. She wasn't in college anymore, but she was working as a physicist. And she was about to make some big discovery? Or something. It was interesting. Though I still have no idea what it had to do with Christmas.
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17:33
It was a good day. Christmas is always a good day. I just wish I didn't have to spend it alone. I wish I could spend Christmas with you. And we will. Soon. As soon as we can. I love you. To the ends of the earth. Signed, Kate.
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18:08
God, I hate you...
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18:45
Hey Chris. Merry Christmas. It's... still me. Your favorite long-absent girlfriend. At least I hope I'm still your favorite.
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19:04
The North Pole continues to be... well, the North Pole. I'm still here. Still making the clocks run on time.
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19:19
Still giving myself the rest of Christmas off. Still doing some Christmas baking cheesecake this year by the way.
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19:30
Still leaving the tree until the last minute.
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19:36
Oh, start this year. Still running around decorating every room in the castle, still-
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19:60
Didn't we do this last year?
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20:06
Oh yeah, that's right. We did. And it went about as well as it's going this year. Give it a rest. Look. I admire the tenacity. But at this point, you're just being stubborn. I'm here. I take care of the castle. I keep the clock's running. I don't care who you are. You're not getting through that-
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20:30
Oh, God! Oh my God.
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20:39
Who are you? What do you want here? No, no, no, no, no. Stop. Stop. Don't come a single step closer. If you do, I'm, I am going to-
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20:57
Stay, stay back. Stay away. You're not supposed to be here. No one is supposed to be here. Go. Please just go. Leave and-
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21:13
What? What was - what did you say?
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Dr. Katherine Cavalier
21:23
I said... I'm here to talk to you. And to make you realize why you shouldn't be here.
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Kate
21:35
What? What do you mean?
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Dr. Katherine Cavalier
21:41
Do you know who I am?
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Kate
21:42
What? No, of course not. You're just some crazy woman in a snowsuit and a mask.
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Dr. Katherine Cavalier
21:48
Try again a little harder. Are you watching closely?
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Kate
21:55
I don't understand. What are, Wait a minute... Doctor Cavalier? Doctor Katherine Cavalier?
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Dr. Katherine Cavalier
22:08
Some recognition. Good.
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Kate
22:11
From the movies?
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Dr. Katherine Cavalier
22:12
Okay. Less good. I can see this may be a bit of a... process. REFRICARO.
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22:29
There. That's better.
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Kate
22:35
How, how did you do that?
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Dr. Katherine Cavalier
22:40
I can do that and much, much more. But... for now... the only thing I'm going to do is get warm. Sitting room. Ten minutes. Bring a pot of tea.
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Kate
23:14
What are you doing here? What do you want?
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Dr. Katherine Cavalier
23:17
That's not the right question, Kate.
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Kate
23:20
How do you know my name?
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Dr. Katherine Cavalier
23:22
That's a much better question. Here's another one. What do you know about the Mask Maker?
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Kate
23:31
The what?
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Dr. Katherine Cavalier
23:32
Mask Maker. Ring any bells?
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Kate
23:41
It's a fairy tale, isn't it? Monster. Kidnaps people. Steals their life so it can impersonate them. Yeah?
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Dr. Katherine Cavalier
23:54
An admirably succinct summary of a remarkably thorny issue. Next question: why are you here? Why are you in this place?
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Kate
24:07
I take care of the castle.
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Dr. Katherine Cavalier
24:09
You're the caretaker? You make sure everything's in its place?
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Kate
24:14
Yes.
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Dr. Katherine Cavalier
24:15
Why? Why do you do this, Kate?
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Kate
24:21
Some, someone has to, someone has to keep the clock running. Someone has to protect it against intruders.
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Dr. Katherine Cavalier
24:29
Why?
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Kate
24:34
Because...
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Dr. Katherine Cavalier
24:38
You don't know, do you? And you don't know how it's possible that you don't know. After all, You've been here for a very long time.
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Kate
24:50
Yeah.
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Dr. Katherine Cavalier
24:51
Years and years. Or at least it seems like years, doesn't it? From your perspective, How did you get here, Kate? How did you end up living, on your own, in a magic castle at the top of the North Pole?
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Kate
25:15
I, I was selected.
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Dr. Katherine Cavalier
25:18
Why you? Are you an especially powerful magician?
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Kate
25:22
No…
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Dr. Katherine Cavalier
25:23
An expert? An enchanted machinery?
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Kate
25:25
No.
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Dr. Katherine Cavalier
25:26
Then why you?
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Kate
25:27
I don't know!
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Dr. Katherine Cavalier
25:32
Good. That's the first step.
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Kate
25:38
The first step towards what exactly?
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Dr. Katherine Cavalier
25:43
Towards understanding that your life doesn't make any sense.
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25:52
Where do they come from, Kate? The trees? You can't go outside, not even for a second. It's too dangerous. So how do you get your Christmas tree every year?
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Kate
26:07
I, I...
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Dr. Katherine Cavalier
26:11
Every year you write a letter. Where does it go? How does the letter get delivered?
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Kate
26:17
How do you know about that? How do you know about all of this?
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Dr. Katherine Cavalier
26:23
I know everything about you, Kate.
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26:28
I know you were born on the twelfth of May 1988 in Summit, New Jersey. From an early age, it was clear that you had both a fascination with and a facility for numbers. Your parents did everything they could to encourage your talents, as well as the Catholic faith you inherited from your mother, but they needn't have worried.
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26:48
Possibly the only thing that fascinated you more than math were questions of faith. You graduated from high school in two-thousand and six, attended Brown University, where you were a double major in quantum physics and comparative theology. Doctoral work at Cambridge University. Your thesis on the theological implications of the multiple worlds' hypothesis raised a few eyebrows, but eventually they gave you the degree.
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27:13
You were all set to start at a teaching position at Swarthmore when... well, something remarkable happened. You discovered that magic is real. You finally saw the world as it is. As it's always been. And the part of you that has longed to understand the marvels of the Universe just... grew three times in size. You became... a magical
Anthropologist
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27:47
And soon you were traveling the world, searching for strange stories and forgotten myths. Anything that might help you find the answers you've been looking for all your life. Anything to help you understand how God and magic and physics all fit together.
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Kate
28:12
I, I don't remember any of that.
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Dr. Katherine Cavalier
28:18
No, of course you don't.
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Kate
28:22
But no, wait, wait. How do I know you aren't lying to me?
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Dr. Katherine Cavalier
28:29
An excellent question. Let me counter with one of my own. Can you tell me what your last name is?
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Kate
28:38
Of course I can. It's a, it's...
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Dr. Katherine Cavalier
28:45
Exactly. Now, all of this brings us to the key question. Why can't you remember any of your life?
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29:00
Because your memories have been taken from you, Kate.
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29:07
You did find something. Something very old. You sought it out. You followed the myths all the way back to their source, thinking you might find some remnant. A ruin, or a fossil for a museum. Something you could take back to a lab to study. But no. The thing you found in its lair was alive. And real. And very, very dangerous.
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Kate
29:39
I'm. I'm sorry. I don't understand what was, what are you saying is happening to me?
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Dr. Katherine Cavalier
29:48
You've been captured, Kate. By a monster. A thing out of the fairy tales... which it seems to have a much greater basis in reality when they come from
Fae
sources. Something to make a note of in the future. The Mask Maker is hollowing you out, Kate. It's stealing every bit of you that makes you... you. Your memories. Your appearance. Your personality. Your power. Very soon, it's going to have all of you.Share
Kate
30:23
Okay, that's enough. This is absolutely absurd!
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Dr. Katherine Cavalier
30:28
Kate, you have to -
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Kate
30:30
No! I'm done listening to this. This nonsense. I don't know who you really are. But I've had enough of this. You are going to leave quietly, and I am going to go back, finish up my Christmas and finish writing my letter to-
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Dr. Katherine Cavalier
30:44
You and Christopher haven't been together for about five years now.
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Kate
30:50
Excuse me?
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Dr. Katherine Cavalier
30:52
You met in school, and you fell in love. You had many great years together. And then little cracks started to form. Little disagreements. You tried to just keep going. After all, you loved each other. Wasn't that enough? But eventually it just became clear. You wanted your lives to go in different directions. And neither one of you was willing to change course. Neither of you really wanted to put in the time to try. Until one day... you couldn't see a way out.
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Kate
31:37
No Chris and I were together and when I'm done, when I can get back, I thought that we might-
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Dr. Katherine Cavalier
31:46
However that sentence ends, it's not going to happen, Kate. The Mask Maker has just let you hold onto that feeling. To keep a version of that relationship. Without the pain. And the complications. As anesthetic. It's the same reason why it's made you think you're in a castle. See, it doesn't want to tear you away from yourself.
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32:08
It wants you to just let go. To not fight back. So it's trapped you in this phantasm. This glamour for your mind. In a world where every day is a day, you'll just... let be. Even the parts that don't make sense. Because it's warm. And pleasant. And everything outside is so, so cold. So you'll let go. Even as your life is literally flashing before your eyes.
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Kate
32:45
Oh, God. Oh my God. Those movies. The ones about your life... there're not movies, are they?
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Dr. Katherine Cavalier
32:57
No.
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Kate
32:58
They're.... what are they? Memories?
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Dr. Katherine Cavalier
33:02
Your memories, Kate. You're catching glimpses of them as they're extracted from your mind. And all of this? The castle, the letters, the Christmas? It's laughing gas. So you don't feel the drill.
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Kate
33:21
But then who are you?
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Dr. Katherine Cavalier
33:25
What, haven't you realized? I'm you, Kate. I'm the part of you that's you, that nothing can take away from you. I'm always going to be here for you.
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Kate
33:51
This, this is completely mental.
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Dr. Katherine Cavalier
33:56
Now you're catching on.
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34:04
We don't have much time. You need to listen to me, now.
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Kate
34:08
What? Why?
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Dr. Katherine Cavalier
34:09
Because you weren't wearing that reindeer sweater a second ago, huh?
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Kate
34:14
Oh, what the- where did that come from? How did I get it on?
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Dr. Katherine Cavalier
34:18
The phantasm is realizing that something has gone wrong. That some part of you that remembers who you really are has penetrated the defenses. So listen: none of this is real. You aren't really here. It's trying to get you back into the routine. Don't let it!
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Kate
34:34
Right, right, right.
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Dr. Katherine Cavalier
34:37
Fight the phantasm. Break the patterns, push the glamour far enough, and sooner or later it's going to snap.
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Kate
34:44
I don't know-
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Dr. Katherine Cavalier
34:47
You're Katherine Marie Cavalier. Remember that. And Katie? Remember this, too: if some monster wants to steal my life out from under us, it's going to have to pry it from our cold, dead hands.
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Kate
35:03
Right. I'm Katherine Cavalier... Katherine Cavalier...
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Dr. Katherine Cavalier
35:09
Good.
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Kate
35:12
So what now? What do we do? Dr. Cavalier?
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35:21
What? No! Hello? Are you there? Where did she go? Where did she -
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35:31
The... piano? How did I get here? What did...? Oh. I see. Is this how you think it's going to work? You think I'll just, what? Go along with it? Play some Christmas music? No. No more carols. Let me out.
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36:02
I said, let me out!
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36:10
Fine, be like that. You can play your own damn piano.
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36:36
God, why do I even open my mouth?
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36:48
Right, focus on what's real. No Christmas. Well, no Christmas tree, then.
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37:09
There. Tree down. That's better. What? Oh, are you kidding me? Stay down. No, there's a lot of things I can't do. But if there is something I can do, it is take some goddamn decorations down and have them stay down. All right, that's better. I guess next I'm gonna-
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37:53
What the, what am I doing? And ah yeah, okay kitchen. No, I am not making gingerbread cookies.
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38:06
I'm not making salt caramel pie, or
Eggnog
mouse, or... or chocolate-chip goddamn bunt cake! Why can I not remember who I am, but apparently still know every single Christmas dessert recipe? You can't make me. You can't make me frosty and cheery and Christmas- y, so you might as well give up! Because there's no way that I -Share
38:31
What? Goddammit, stop doing that!
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38:38
No TV. No Old Time Movie Channel. I don't care if I can't remember them, they're my memories. And you can't have them. It's my life! You can't have it!
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39:07
My name is Katherine Cavalier. I am Doctor Katherine Marie Cavalier! And I don't care how much of me, you've stolen. I don't care how much you've taken away. There's more of me where I came from.
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39:43
Hey again Chris. Sorry for the interruption there. So. I figured it out. Or I reminded myself of what was really happening. And now, I'm getting out of here. I got it all. In the end. If I just break things enough times, they stay down. I more or less destroyed everything that was even somewhat festive in the castle. But... I'm still here.
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40:19
And then I realized I was forgetting something. You know what that is?
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40:26
Screw this and screw this stupid letter. I'm done dreaming. I'm going to wake up now. I'm going to be back. And it's, it's going to be a new day. A different day. No more Christmas. And that's okay. That's okay.
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41:20
Okay, okay, okay, you're out. You're out. Breathe. Breathe. Breathe, breathe, breathe...
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41:40
I'm out of the castle. I'm back in the real world. Which means... this must be the Mask Maker's workshop. Okay. Get moving. Get somewhere safe. Get away from -
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Right. I'm strapped to this table, aren't I? That's... less than ideal. Okay. Think. Think. Strapped to a table. What's around you? What can you use to get free? Lots of shelves, filled with memory vials. Who knows how many of those are my memories... Can I still do magic?
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42:48
Unclear. Is there anything I can use to free myself, is there...?
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42:56
Oh. You're here... aren't you? Yeah, of course you are. I suppose you keep a close eye on all your... projects. Well, show yourself.
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43:28
You look like me.
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The Mask Maker
43:31
Yes.
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Kate
43:33
You sound like me.
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The Mask Maker
43:36
Yes.
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Kate
43:38
But not exactly like me. Not yet.
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The Mask Maker
43:44
All things in time.
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Kate
43:48
Why? Why me?
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The Mask Maker
43:52
Because this is what I do. Because you found me. You were smart and cunning and powerful. And now all of that will be mine.
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Kate
44:07
Yeah? That's pretty big talk for someone whose phantasm just got shattered. What happens now?
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The Mask Maker
44:16
Now you go back to sleep.
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Kate
44:18
Like hell I do.
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The Mask Maker
44:20
You do.
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Kate
44:22
And why is that because?
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The Mask Maker
44:26
Because it is better. Because you will be happier. No more uncertainty. No more doubt. No more cold days filled with questions that you will never be able to answer. You will be better here. You have warmth and the comfort of fog and shadow. Until you are nothing.
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Kate
44:54
No. I reject that. I am not nothing. I will never be noting. Some part of me knew that. Some part of me will always know that.
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The Mask Maker
45:07
No, you little fool. You're already no one. I took the things that make you who you are. I tore them out of you.
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Kate
45:18
No.
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The Mask Maker
45:19
I took them. They are mine. And soon you will be nothing.
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Kate
45:25
No. No. I don't care if it would be simpler. I don't care if it'd be easier. I'm not nothing. I will never be nothing. I'm a maker, and a thinker, I dream, and wonder, and get bored easily, and you can ever have the whole of me. I contain multitudes, and you can't have any. Now, give me back my memories and get out of my face.
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The Mask Maker
45:59
No, I took you. Your life is mine.
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Kate
46:09
Well, in that case, I'm gonna have to take it back.
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The Mask Maker
46:15
And how are you going to do that?
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Kate
46:19
TENNUMFERRO.
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46:29
Same way I've done everything I've ever done. I'm going to keep at it for long enough. Until I can figure out how to do the impossible.
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46:46
You're all right. It's okay. It's going to be okay. Now, let's figure out how to wriggle out of these restraints.
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47:32
Why did I think this was a good idea? Because, my dear Katherine, even though you got your memories back, you still never learn. And you love a grand gesture. But here in real life, things don't work out like in those old black and white movies.
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47:53
Sometimes you just sit at the coffee shop by yourself like a dope, and you never hear from-
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48:03
Oh my God. Hi. You... you're here. You're actually here. I, I was a little worried you weren't gonna come, honestly. No, no, no, Chris, wait, hang on. Can I just talk? Before you yell at me about not, you know, contacting you out of the blue after years? Because I'm just going to say things, okay? And afterwards, if you feel like it, you can turn around, and walk right out that door, and never see me again, okay?
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48:54
Okay. Well here goes. I know it's hard. This, this thing we do. And it's messy, and complicated, and, God, sometimes it feels like it shouldn't be? You know? Like, it shouldn't be this hard. That if you love someone, if you really love someone, then everything else should work out, right? That's all it should take. Because, I mean, the rest of life is so hard. It's so big, and complicated, and it takes so much time. And it's so easy to get lost in all of that.
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49:46
I know I did that a lot. I'd get lost. Lost in a project, or a job, or a mystery or whatever. And I'd only pay you any attention when I'd come up for air. When I could spare a moment. Because hey, it's fine. He loves me. I love him. It's fine. And well, when you think like that sometimes you don't try. Not as hard as you should. So I wanted to say that I'm sorry. I'm sorry I didn't try.
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50:39
And, I know it's not as easy as picking up and restarting. Because, well, see, everything I said about difficult and messy and complicated. I don't even know if we're the same people we once were. I don't know, maybe you're married, and have like an alarming number of kids now. And if you are, if you do, that's great.
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51:05
But it's Christmas. And if you're about to be alone on Christmas, don't. Just don't. Okay? I know it was tough before. But if you'd be willing to make some room in your life for me to try and be better, then I promise. I promise I'll give it my all. To the ends of the Earth. I think I'm ready for that now.
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51:59
So, what do you say? Can I buy you a coffee?
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This has been Unseen, by Long Story Short Productions, based on an original idea by Gabriel Urbina, with additional conceptual design work by Sarah Shachat. Today’s episode was written and directed by Gabriel Urbina, with script editing by David K. Barnes. It starred Mary Kate Wiles in the role of Katherine Cavalier. Original Music by Alan Rodi, with sound design by Zach Valenti.
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is produced by Sarah Shachat, Zach Valenti, and Gabriel Urbina, along with Angel Acevedo, Jenn Schneider, and Amy Tanguay. For more information on the Unseen World, please visit Unseen. Show. Thank you for listening.Share
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54:08
You're still listening, gorgeous. Hey Unseen producer Zach Valenti here with a quick ask first if you love the show, we'd love to know, please take a moment while it's still fresh to rate and review the show wherever you listen in particular, Apple podcast.
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Second, we decided to make this series to bring a little magic into a world. We felt could really use some, please share this episode with someone or some ones who brings magic to your life. You can tell them there's a message for them at the end of the episode.
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On behalf of whoever brought you here, you best believe I wouldn't have dragged you here If I didn't think the world of you excited to turn out about this together now that you've listened. I also wanted to shout out all 1,162 of our Kickstarter backers who made this show possible. If you weren't a backer but would like to support the show retroactively, please visit Unseen.
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Slash support. If you ever want to say hi, the show is on Twitter at Unseen dot show. Thank you so much to everyone who shared their kind words and incredible fan art. Alright, that's all for now. We'll be back December 31st with our Unseen New Year's special saved.
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