Hello again, this is Richard Thien showing up 25 years after I showed up to speak here at DEF CON for the first time to address the topic UFOs, misinformation, disinformation, and the basic truth. A lot has been happening since I made a talk about this subject eight years ago, which is on YouTube, and I'll refer to that subsequently, but I want to say that reality has filled K. Dick said, we'll not go away just because we refuse to believe in it, and what is happening right now is real. In fact, it's been real for a long time. So given all the hullabaloo about UAPs as we now call them in UFOs, what is happening? Well, for one thing, those videos are happening.  They're widely available on the internet. You've seen the tic-tacs and you've seen the videos from the 2004 Nimitz incident, and you've probably seen that object going in and out of the water on its way from U.S. territorial waters toward Cuba. Those are all very interesting and all over the web. So those videos and what they're getting people to say and think about are happening, and officials commented on them positively in public, which is a near first. So that's happening too. They're not making jokes about little green men or conspiracy theories, eh? In addition, Luis Elizondo and his narrative is happening, and he's telling the world that he left the UAP task force so he could bring his knowledge, his concerns into public debate. Now, this is where I would be showing you my second slide, which is a picture of Luis Elizondo, and no matter what we did and how many hours we spent, we could not get slides to insert themselves in this video using the software we had to use. So the slides that accompany this will be available on the DEF CON server as well as at my website, which is themeworks.com, T-H-I-E-M-E-W-O-R-K-S.com, and you can go there and see them. Now, I'll also send them to you by email in PDF PowerPoint or keynote, if you like. Now what is Luis Elizondo saying? He said to me a couple of years ago in a conversation that the conversation about UAPs used to be at the water cooler, low level, and now it is happening at the highest levels of the Pentagon. I can add that a former member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff confirmed that UFOs are real and have been observed and documented for a long time. Okay, so what's happening is UFOs are real. But those of us who have investigated this seriously and robustly and diligently and skeptically have known that that's been true for the last 70 years. But this time, the authoritative voice, if you will, 60 minutes, the New York Times, CNN, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, several senators, the head of NASA, they all constitute the quote-unquote authoritative voice, and instead of dismissing or ridiculing the rest of us for reporting what we know, they confirmed that they are real. So this CBS, with 60 minutes saying those things, is not Walter Cronkite's CBS decades ago, half a century ago, when he debunked UFOs as not worthy of investigation. And that did happen to be a time when the CIA and CBS and many other major media had secret contracts.  In our book, UFOs in Government, A Historical Inquiry, to which I'll refer again, because it's the gold standard for historical research into the subject. And we document that from the 40s to the 80s, using their own words, the government considered UFOs a security threat, and investigated what they might be on that basis. So what else has been observed, according to Alessandro? Well, that there have been many more documented sightings than the videos you have seen, and then the hundred and some odd incidents to which they refer. Many, many more documented sightings over the past 70 years. And he also affirmed that they enter and leave the atmosphere and travel with equalies, whether in space, or in the air, or underwater. And that the propulsion system, which we really shouldn't call a propulsion system, because it doesn't seem to propel, it's a means of translation, as it were, from one vector of space time to another. And the velocities they achieve, and their aerodynamics, are still pretty much beyond our understanding and capabilities, although I believe, and that's a belief, not a knowledge, that we are doing and have been doing everything we can to learn how to do that. Well, often when you observe UFOs, there's what we could call a warp snap. They blur. They don't simply go fast. They blur and go out of sight, or out of our space time, flying entirely, or into a different dimensional reality. Or they could be going so fast, from one point to another, without impacts of gravity, that they cannot be detected in motion by the eye or sensors. But our sensors are doing a good job of detecting them in other ways. The only alternative explanation in 1948 was that they were extraterrestrial, if they weren't Russian or they weren't ours. Now we can add multi-dimensional and time travel, which if I have time, I'll refer to, and so you know what I mean. So don't think of how things fly in the atmosphere. They don't fly. They don't action, reaction, propel one way and move another. They move in inexplicable ways, and often pilots report they seem to simply vanish. They are right in front of him, in the air, and simply disappear. So if they're not ours, and they're not Russian or Chinese, or from this planet, the only other explanation, however you frame it, is their off world. Now you can call as the report did, that last category, other, if you like, but we know what they mean, right, wink, wink, other indeed. So where are we? We're back to the twining memo, and we are back to what we were saying about this in public in the early 1950s. I'm going to pause this and get a map that is on one of the slides and show it to you so you can see what I mean. Okay, I'm back, and here is a map that was in Look Magazine in 1952, when there was a lot of activity going on, capturing everyone's attention. What you're seeing is a map of the United States, and those circles and names are all of the military bases where UFOs were reported by the government. Got it? You can find this map in more detail on the web. If you look up the article, Look Magazine, 1952 UFOs, and see the entire article. It's at Jan Aldrich's Project 1947 website. So that's what was happening, and the twining memo, to which I referred, was happening. The twining memo, if you do not remember that from your UFO studies, was written in 1947, and it was from Lieutenant General Nathan Twining to Brigadier General George Shulgun about flying discs, and he said, the phenomenon reported is something real. It is not visionary or fictitious. The reported operating characteristics, such as extreme rates of climb, maneuverability, and action, which must be considered evasive when cited by friendly aircraft and radar, this is all confirmed by multiple witnesses. That was 1947. So that's happening too, that what we said and knew in 1947 is being said again as if it is new because it is the authoritative voice making the statement. Now one of our colleagues and researchers, Barry Greenwood, co-author of Clear Intent, which is the term the CIA used to characterize UFOs prodding the defenses at military sites along the northern tier. He shared my surprise that the glum responses to the government report because there's some real gold there. The report notes that they're physical objects. Back in the 1950s, if you tried to look up flying saucer, which was a phrase that didn't exist yet, in the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, which documented all popular articles, you didn't find flying saucer, UFO. You found hoaxes and delusions. Well, things have changed because the report disclosed for the first time that those unusual flight characteristics to which Twining referred all those years ago have been documented by multiple sensors, including radar, infrared, electro-optical, our weapon seekers, and of course, visual. And the report confirmed that they constitute a flight risk. The report mentioned 11 near-misses, although one of our colleagues, Richard Haynes, has been gathering accounts of such encounters from commercial pilots and military pilots and has amassed in his catalog of some years ago more than 3,000 reports from them. So the report said far from getting out of the business of studying UFOs, which they claim to have done after the Condom Committee report and the end of Project Blue Book theoretically, the government has been keenly interested in UFOs, particularly when they're poking around military bases. And very soon after the report was released, Kathleen Hicks, Deputy Secretary of Defense, issued a memo for senior Pentagon leadership commanders of combatant commands and defense agency and DOD field activity directors to institute synchronized collection, reporting, and analysis of UAP to secure test and training ranges and essentially to create a new infrastructure for this activity. So that's some of what's happening now, but isn't it interesting that all these things are being reported, including these latest videos, without any context at all? No historical context. But there is, as I am saying, a historical context. And the researchers to whom I have referred and others have tirelessly documented for decades a great deal of what that historical context is. And we use data that's in the public domain. Open source intelligence is frequently much more helpful than trying to ferret out compartmented limited information. So let's look at what is really happening. Now this is where I would show you the slide of the cover of our book, UFOs and Government as Historical Inquiry. The main authors are Professor Michael Swartz, Professor of History, and the head of the former head of the Chemistry Department at AMD, the chipmaker, Robert Powell, who now heads up SCU, which is a scientific organization dedicated to really good analysis of these current cases. Well, our book had nearly 1,000 footnotes, and they all pointed to government documents and other primary sources so we could tell the story of those decades in the government's own words. I highly recommend it, of course, as required reading to begin to understand the context of what is being released now without any context at all. Because it was long ago that, for example, J. Edgar Hoover said in 1947, the flying saucer situation is not all imaginary. Something is flying around. And I've already quoted from the twining memos. Well, there's a ton more. I'm looking over here to see what time it is. And yeah, okay, we're good. There's a ton more of all that to adduce. But let's go beyond the fact of UFOs. The fact that they exist, the fact that they've been documented, to just name some of the documented impacts of UFOs. Here are some of the well-documented effects of which we know. Within a variety of contexts, the emanation of microwave energy from UAPs has been adduced. And UAPs have shown themselves capable of stimulating colored halos around themselves, largely from the noble gases in the atmosphere. In other words, they ionize nitrogen. And that causes the colors that are seen in relationship to the speed they go, which is determined by the power that they use, however they manufacture it. So when they hover, they're red, or red-orange. But as they accelerate, they go through other colors until they wind up going through yellow, green, and all the way to white and blue-white. And at the fastest speeds, they are a very, very intense blue-white. All of that relates very mathematically, very directly to the ionization of elements in the atmosphere around them. They have been documented to produce a dazzling white plasma on their surfaces, which is somewhat similar to ball lighting. They induce chemical changes in their presence. And they're detected as odors. They have turned off numerous times automobile headlights or engines by increasing the resistance of tungsten filaments. In other words, we can do some science with the effects that they produce. They have stopped internal combustion engines by increasing the resistance of the distributor points and suppressing the current in their primary windings. They have precipitated numerous times on planes and on the ground while gyrations of compasses and magnetic speedometers and rattling metallic road signs, which shake just like in the movie, Coast Encounters of the Third Kind. They have heated up automobile batteries by directly absorbing energy in the acid. And they have interfered with radio and television reception and transmission by inducing extraneous voltages in the coil of the tuned circuit or restricting the emission of electrons from tungsten cathodes. They have disrupted transmission of electrical power by an induced operation of isolation relays. They have desiccated small ponds and dried grass and bushes in the ground by resonant absorption of water molecules. They have charred or calcium, grass roots, insects, wooden objects, and landing sites. In other words, they leave burnt circles. They have heated by too many highways in depth and igniting volatiles gases. They have heated the human body internally, as microwaves do. They have caused people to feel electric shocks. And they have induced temporary paralysis in witnesses, numerous reports all over the world through time of moving toward a landed UFO or a hovering UFO and suddenly being unable to move, being conscious, volitional, but unable to move. In addition, medical experiments have shown that when pulsed at low audio frequency, the energy they emit was capable of stimulating the auditory nerve directly so that people have a sensation of hearing a bumming, humming, or buzzing sound. Okay, that's the end of that list. Those are the effects and some of the causes of them of which we have known for a long time that is part of the context. And then there were incidents long ago, again, back to 1952. I'm gonna read this one directly. At a distance of 130 miles to the northeast of Washington, DC, three different army radar units detected an object at 18,000 feet. The signal was strong. It remained stationary on radar for 30 minutes and then began to move. By the time it reached the edge of the radar scopes, it was traveling over 1,000 miles per hour. Their report went all the way to the Pentagon and the order came back that if another one came in, fire on it. After that first night, we loaded our 99 millimeter anti-aircraft guns, a rather unusual thing to do in a populated area, Washington, DC, right? And we also scrambled F-94 jet fighters from Aguaire Air Force Base. This was the time when Major General John Sanford, who was Chief of Air Force Intelligence, said, credible people have seen incredible things. Well, my slides and a few other details that you might wanna investigate on your own are the RB-47 case and the Minot URL. The Minot case as illuminated by Tom Turin, another colleague online. The RB-47 bomber was paced for hours by UFO, aircraft and ground radar and visual observation confirmed the event. You might find the details and how an explorer like Brad Sparks pursued the reality behind the reported effects. He wrote an article for the wonderful UFO Encyclopedia, the latest edition of which by Jerome Clark is just golden and you can see Brad Sparks article in the UFO Encyclopedia. Or you can go online to www.minotb52ufo.com minotb52ufo.com and see how Tom Turin has provided details of the Minot intrusion at the Minot Air Force Base, including detailed interviews with pilots, what they saw, what they said. This is a good place to start or you can look at the Lowering Air Force Base case from October of 1975. A FOIA listed 24 documents describing a V-52 bomber crew on the ground observing an object 300 feet away and five feet above the ground at that military installation. Or you can look at the document we received from the DIA by a FOIA request of the incident of Tehran Iran in September of 1976, which details a dogfight between fighters and the UFO. An Iranian general later spoke publicly at a press conference confirming the event and the reports from the DIA says the cases of the highest credibility.  Cases, cases, cases. Read them. Mike Swartz, our lead professor, said I believe no one can be a good student of ufology unless one reads lots of cases. Cases are all we've got. Read them, read them, read them. Some reasonable sense, not all analytical, then follows and what he's suggesting is as you peruse dozens, then hundreds, then thousands of cases from all over the world, you begin to get a feel like reading a tape in the stock market of hold or following the dots of any dynamic reality. You get a feel for what is going on on the basis of not just similarities but identical reports of effects and experiences from all over the world. You don't need 10,000 hours of case reading to do that, but you do need a lot of hours because there are so many cases and you begin to evaluate which ones you don't even wanna read. You prefer two witnesses or more, not single witness cases. You don't worry about lights in the sky, period, as if that's all UFOs are. Read the cases. Read them, read them, read them. Now, one of the things that happens during these encounters is there's something that we call strangeness because we don't know what else to call it. People do report missing time which can be caused by a number of things or finding yourself becoming conscious and far from where you had been when the encounter began or you were traveling a busy road, there was sounds of traffic or there were outdoor nature sounds, birds and insects and suddenly there's silence. It's like being in a bell jar. We don't know what's happening. Is it a warping of space time somehow or is it the impact of the phenomena on human consciousness? Because ultimately the impact of all of this on human consciousness, individual as well as societal is where we have to go because that's how it comes home to us. That's how it's important. Are there patterns? Well, you look for them but if there are patterns they seem designed to confuse us. You can't say that's clearly the intention or certainly the intention but they seem to act like deception operations because we can't identify an easy pattern except I think there's one that is incontrovertible. All of the intermittent reinforcement of UFO encounters over the past years has resulted in all of us knowing about UFOs. In other words, they were hoaxes and delusions 70 years ago. Now they're UAPs. We all know how to draw a UFO. Not all of the UFOs are looked the same but you know what I mean. You know what a classic UFO looks like. Prolonged exposure to intermittent reinforcement from manifestations in remote places, unusual places often and impossible to predict places has sensitized us to the fact of their existence and presence and has alerted us to the possibility and expectation of meaningful content. We don't call them meant from Mars anymore. So it's important to look at the cases. It's important to grasp what you can from them but it's important to understand that if you haven't done some of the homework and looked at the cases we have amassed, go to Project 1947 website, the Jan Allrich is done. Look at the Project Blue Book website. Look at all the work that we have done over 50 years of gathering documents. Barry Greenwood to whom I referred, I think the last time he counted he had 250,000 clippings on UFOs. It does help in this domain as in many others to be obsessive and compulsive because that produces results, it's a feature, it's not a bug. Well, are we the only ones concerned? No, I don't think so. China created the government-sponsored China UFO Research Organization or CURO under their Academy of Social Sciences to study UFOs or UAPs. There is a People Liberation Army Task Force dedicated to unknown objects that increasingly relies on AI technology to analyze its data. Of course, we're not the only one interested. If there's a security implication and if whoever susses out the sources of propulsion and maneuverability gets to it first, they own us. They own the planet. As indeed, whatever is behind this phenomena has made clear. As Vrindavan Ram said many years ago, we're up against something that is far superior in technology to what we thought. Well, China in effect by creating their own investigations as we know Russia has done for one time and others as well. They're really kind of saying what Jenny Randles tells us Alan Heineck, the astronomer associated with Project Blue Book in the Air Force, consultant said, when he was at the Pentagon and a general took him inside and said, Alan, do you really think we would ignore something like this? Well, no, no. We don't think they have ignored it and that's why we know this report is just the tip of the iceberg. It refers to a hundred and some odd events recently but knowing all that, knowing them has had a powerful impact on people over the years and it does impact how you think it's right or best to report out things that originally were unthinkable. Well, now with the authoritative voice speaking, so the rest of us who've been speaking for years can be heard, it's not unthinkable. It's more than thinkable, it's known. And some of the effects of knowing something that can be so impactful, so traumatic, it can be a major restructuring of how we think. It can mean a majoring restructuring of society hierarchically so that the pieces that we put together into how we believe we ought to operate will fundamentally change knowing we, let's say it, are not alone and are not the top of the food chain. Belief systems will stretch to accommodate new data. You know, the Roman Catholic Church said no problem if aliens are real, we'll just baptize them. That's a belief system stretching to accommodate new data or sometimes people double down on their original beliefs, you know that, that the more something is shown to be incorrect, the more people assert it to be true. The political situation is testimony to that. And when I've been giving speeches on this or on intelligence matters or things that are a challenge for people, I often hear someone say, I don't wanna know that. I don't wanna live in your world. Well, that's a choice people make to hunker down in their bubble, play golf, do whatever they do to distract themselves from what's a little more important than making power. And I don't wanna know that. Well, I've heard that enough to know that I do wanna know it. I need to know machine, I'm a curiosity machine and curiosity is generally considered to be a good and a sign of intelligence. Although, when I was doing a talk at Los Alamos and I was asking questions about their supercomputers, the respondent who didn't say much said, you know, curiosity is considered a good thing elsewhere. In here, it's not.  Well, how is this impacting people? Just ask Bill Nelson, who's now the head of NASA. You said when he was serving in the Senate, he saw a classified UAP data. Now, keep in mind that the report we've seen is seven pages and we are told that there were 70 pages and the rest was all classified. So we don't know what was in there other than that there were more details and more reports. Well, Nelson said, when he heard the reports, quote, the hair stood up on the back of my neck. He said he also spoke with some of the pilots involved in the incident and he said, they know they saw something. Well, the point of that is, when the head of NASA and the Senator hears a classified briefing and reports that the hair stood up on the back of his neck, it makes the hair stand up on the back of our necks because it adds to the implications of what we're discussing, the unknowns of what he did here and what we do know on top of what we have been able to fathom. So why would he say that? What else is not being said? How many classified pages of the report were not put out into the public? Well, we have hints, right, from the Senators who heard it. The former head of the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said, he was first briefed on UAPs nearly three years ago, long before 60 minutes did their little piece. And since then, he said the frequencies of these incidents only appears to be increasing. Today's inconclusive report is the beginning of efforts to understand and illuminate what is causing these risks to aviation in many areas around the country and the world. Marco Rubio, Senator and Vice Chair of the Intelligence Committee said for years, the men and women we trust to defend our country reported encounters with unidentified aircraft that had superior capabilities. And for years, their concerns were often ignored and ridiculed. This report is an important first step to catalog these incidents, but it is just a first step. We have endured ridicule from these authoritative voices for decades. I've said before, illusion, misdirection, ridicule. These are the three legs in the stool of covering deception. And they are used effectively by agencies which have resources that are so extensive that the normal human cannot imagine, ridicule. Lawyers have hold seminars in how to ridicule a witness to completely undermine their credibility so that nothing they subsequently said, even though it's the truth, matters. Those of us who have pursued information about this for all these years know the effects of ridicule. Well, what is the way forward? What are we going to do? Whether or not the military pursues UFOs in earnest, there has to be a civilian program. The military from the first has focused on the threat to security. But a civilian program can do science. Civilians, not just military, do science. And what UFOs really are, what they constitute, remains a scientific problem. It's not just a question of intelligence or counterintelligence. We need a study well designed to develop a strategy to test our hypotheses about what they are and distinguish among the different UAPs. This comes from Mark Rottiger, who is the head of the Kufo Center for UFO Studies. Mark is a very bright guy and he has worked in that area for decades and has shared the frustrations of not seeing the science supported that would enable us to do this. I mentioned SCU, you can look it up, Robert Powell, my colleague and co-author of UFOs and government. They have done analyses of recent incidents, including the ones we're talking about here, that are scientific. They use teams of scientists and that only report out in up to 200 page reports what they can verify is scientifically feasible and well documented. They approach it as a scientific problem and this is in contrast to how so many of the cottage industry of UFOites have pursued the problem, which is by hearsay their own misinformation because they don't know what they don't know or what they do know and their disinformation sometimes sponsored and intentionally designed. So it has to be a scientific problem for us to address in scientific ways. UFOs constitute an existential threat. It could be a threat to security in general.  The history of science is replete with the resistance humans mount against the truth when it threatens their belief systems and a superior technology like this invites disbelief and rebuffing it by saying, oh, that can't be true. But anytime I find myself saying that can't be true, I find it really pays to explore a little more. Don't forget that Richard Feynman said the keystone of advances in science is a fact that is also anomalous because it contradicts the belief system in which it doesn't fit. It has to be both. It has to be a fact. It can't be a non fact. And it has to be an anomaly. It has to be something that doesn't fit because then it prompts the question, well, if this is real, if this is true, if this is a fact, where does it lead us? What else must be true? If these reports all these years have been true, what does it tell us about covering deception operations? What does it tell us about how different government units operate as we document in our book? There's no one government. There's multiple government sectors. And they're often at odds with each other just as in the intelligence agencies. The couple of dozen of them. People are often pursuing a goal, but also highly or very much at odds with one another as well. Now, the security question is real because if one of our terrestrial adversaries figures it out first, we toast, right? We toast. Every major military advance from stirrups to bullets to guns on and on has given unsurmountable advantage to the one who got to it first. It's an existential threat too because it's a challenge to our societal beliefs. It's a challenge to our cultures and it's a challenge to our religions. Our religions are extraordinary resilient as we know. We continue to affirm religions formulated in the scientific worldview of 2000 years ago and successfully compartmentalize what we choose to ignore and what we choose to try to continue to affirm. But there does come a tilt. There does come a turning point which is why church attendance is so far down in America where people listen to nonsense and just can't stand it any longer. I'm not saying religions are nonsensical. I'm saying they become the excuse to say things which in the rest of your life you know you don't believe and you don't act on those things you say. You act on your true beliefs. Well, a challenge to those beliefs and the challenge to those beliefs all the way up to the level of cultural linchpins is a serious existential threat. And then of course there's the unknown. How do we deal with the vast unknown and realizing how tiny we are? Our galactic cluster, billions of galaxies with billions of planets in them. We know the universe is teeming with life. Easy to dismiss. Oh, where are they then? As if they should all be clamoring for our attention. Like I want my ant farm to pay attention when I walk into the room. It's not happening that way for good reason. We're not the top of the food chain. And if we're the apple of God's eye we're discovering that there are millions of apples on those very big trees. And as God loves all his apples, we're just one apple. It's always a challenge when we have siblings and we find out our parents love them too, right? Or as much as they love us. So what did make the hare on the back of his neck stand up? We wanna know. For him it was a challenge and a shock. I went through that myself years ago when I first got into this domain and began hearing credible reports from fighter pilots, people in intelligence, people in the military and just plain people who wanted to talk about what they'd experienced but which the authoritative voice had prevented from speaking loud, lest they'd be told they were drunk or crazy or ridiculed in other ways. The time for that kind of nonsensical ridicule is over. This domain has had debunkers, not skeptics. Those of us who pursue the truth of this have been skeptical in the extreme. It's valuable in a scientific consciousness. Debunkers are people who like committed atheists saying no, no, no. The way committed believers say yes, yes, yes. They're just as committed to know as a believer as to yes and just as foolishly wedded to their commitment which is based on emotional grounds, not on the rational grounds they put forth as the reasons they believe what they believe. Where are the debunkers now? When it's not us, investigators on our own who are advocating for the reality and the phenomena but the authoritative voices at all levels. Well, they're pretty quiet, aren't they? Where are the SETI people like Seth Chastain who's been debunking us with superior smirking for years? He's flailing about in the weeds because he would have an awful lot more to attack than the straw men and women SETI has invented in the pretense that their approach to discovering us to dress your life makes any sense at all. Well, I guess I'm gonna wind it up here by making a pitch for intelligence, clarity, passion, commitment and a radical willingness to open yourself to wherever the facts and the truth may lead. And today that's a difficult thing. The last slide has a picture of my latest book. I gotta pitch it, right? Mobius a Memoir. 25 years of my experience working with security and intelligence professionals has finally poured in to a single narrative. And it's a novel because as I often say, a deputy director at the National Security Agency said, you can't talk about what we talk about with you. You have to write fiction. Fiction is the only way you can now tell the truth. He was right. Well, 37 published short stories and now two novels later, Mobius a Memoir is the most truth I can tell in a narrative that's coherent, artful and includes that quarter century of deep listening to my colleagues. I encourage you to take a look at it. And we will soon, if it's not there now, be at the internet archive as a borrowable download in digital form one at a time as the rules go. But you can of course buy it in Kindle or print at a very reasonable price. Check out my website for it. I'm gonna repeat that HTTPS colon slash slash which we don't have to say anymore. Theme words, T-H-I-E-M-E W-O-R-K-S dot com. Once more, it has been a terrific privilege and a pleasure to be part of DEF CON 25 years after I first spoke here because this has been my home conference. A place where I'd never had to explain who I was because we all get it. We get who each other is straight up. And that's why we come back. So thank you for the invitation. Thank you for listening and thank you for being committed to exploring the system. It's all its complexity and intricacy. So you can take it apart and put it back together again in a way that works better. Thank you.


In this video, I recap all the events of Servant Season 1. If you enjoy it, remember to like and subscribe to keep up with our episode by episode breakdowns of Season 2. Enjoy the recap. On a rainy evening in Philadelphia, Leanne Grayson arrives at the Turner household. Dorothy Turner takes the new nanny on a tour of their home. As Leanne gets settled in her new bedroom, the couple discuss their first impressions. Sean thinks she's young, quiet, and weird. Dorothy likes the girl and worries about making a good impression. Sean gently reminds her that Leanne is staff. The next morning, the Turners get to know their new nanny. Leanne is an only child. Her long-term goals are to be happily married and raise children of her own someday. Leanne learns a little about Mr. Turner as well. Sean is a bon vivant or a consulting chef. I'm sure you and Jericho will form an instant bond, Dorothy says to Leanne. Later that night, Sean notices Leanne praying at her bedside. Then he stops in the nursery. He picks up a lifelike doll and carelessly lets it hit its head on the side of the crib. He holds it and cries. His sobbing falls on deaf ears through the baby monitor in the other room. The next morning, Leanne changes the doll's diaper, speaking to it as if it were a real child. Dorothy nervously prepares for work and to leave her son at home for the first time. She is a local newscaster. Once it's just Sean and Leanne, he explains the situation. The baby is a reborn doll. They lost their real child Jericho at 13 weeks when one day he simply did not wake up. Dorothy had a full psychotic break and this doll is the only thing that brought her back. Something her unlicensed quack recommended. Only Dorothy's father, brother, and now Leanne know that they lost Jericho. Leanne has no questions and continues treating the doll like a real child. While she is out taking it for a stroll, Sean snoops in her room, accidentally cutting himself on a cross she crafted. That night, he will find that same cross hanging over the doll's crib. Later in the master bath, Mrs. Turner tends to her mastitis while Sean unsympathetically watches. He tells his wife that he is uncomfortable with how religious Leanne seems to be. On the other hand, Dorothy is already impressed with the nanny and thinks they're lucky to have her. The next day, Dorothy's brother Julian stops by to see Sean. He is disappointed to hear Sean's assessment that the nanny is not particularly hot. He is also unsurprised that Leanne is nonchalant about the fake baby. After all, she's getting cash and free accommodation without even having to change a diaper. Sean reminds Julian of Natalie's advice that everything remains normal around Dorothy. No sudden movements or changes. Julian reminds Sean that Natalie is not a doctor, and he questions whether or not Dorothy will ever come back to her senses. That night, while Dorothy and Sean are out, Leanne snoops through Mrs. Turner's things, tries on some of her jewelry, and uses the master bath. Later, Leanne finds Dorothy in the master bath and learns of her mastitis. Without prompting, she helps relieve the blockage. The next day, Leanne leaves for an errand and asks Sean to listen for Jericho. While she's out, Sean hears the sound of a baby cough over the monitor. He heads upstairs and in the baby's crib. For the first time since Jericho's death, he finds a living, breathing infant. That night, a taxi stops at the Turner home to drop off Dorothy. Before paying the driver, she freezes in place and loses awareness until the cab driver's repeated requests wake her up. Dorothy is unfazed when she finds the living baby waiting for her and proceeds to feed it. In the kitchen, Sean demands to know from Leanne whose baby it is. It's your baby, she assures him, Jericho. Sean pays a visit to the nursery and in frustration, yanks down Leanne's cross, then shoves it into the garbage disposal. The next morning, Sean gets a splinter as he walks on the floor barefoot. As he stands the floor in retribution, Leanne notices the missing cross. Later, Julian arrives and Sean quietly sneaks him to the nursery where he reveals the living baby. Sean recounts what happened, explaining how he suddenly found the child in place of the doll. Julian tells him they need to check if any missing babies have been reported in the area so they can return the child to his family. Julian assures that he'll look into it and then heads to work. That night, Dorothy helps Sean remove more splinters that he somehow accumulated.  Meanwhile, Leanne makes another cross for Jericho. Dorothy's brother Julian arrives for dinner to celebrate his birthday. In private, Julian informs Sean that his PI friend Roscoe looked into missing babies and found none that matched Jericho's description. Julian suggests they need to consider a future where Dorothy never wakes up and for now, they need to keep up the charade, raising the baby as though he really is Jericho. Back upstairs, Julian suggests they invite Leanne to join them for dinner. Privately, he tells Sean he wants to meet this baby snatcher. As they eat the muscles Dorothy prepared, Sean comments that he literally can't taste them. Then he has a coughing fit and adds that he can't taste the wine either. As the fit worsens, Dorothy politely recommends Sean excuse himself. In the other room, he extracts a sharp piece of wood from his throat. He storms into the kitchen and breaks in half the offending wooden spoon, which splintered into Dorothy's sauce.  Julian joins them and Sean warns him not to touch Dorothy or make any sudden movements. Sean asks Dorothy if she remembers what happened to Jericho. Then the child's crying wakes Dorothy from her stupor and she goes to comfort him. In the middle of the night, Sean sneaks outside to meet Julian and his PI friend Roscoe. They tell Sean that they've discovered little info on Leanne, so they are planning on taking a trip to her hometown in Wisconsin to see what they can uncover. However, they'll need a photo of her to show people. Sean looks for the photo attached to her resume, but it is gone. So he hatches a plan B, creepily snapping a photo of her sleeping. After the sun comes up, Sean begins prep for an event he's catering when his assistant Toby arrives. Toby will need to taste everything they prepare as Sean explains his taste buds don't seem to be working. Once his eel delivery arrives, Leanne, Dorothy, and Jericho have joined them in the kitchen. Leanne watches in horror as Sean slams the eel on the counter, nails it to a board, and skins it all while it continues to squirm. Why won't it stop? She asks before fainting. Later, Sean gets a video call from Julian. He shows him Leanne's childhood home, severely damaged by a fire. Inside, he finds a cross on the wall, one that looks very familiar to Sean. That night, Sean and Dorothy decide to go out for a dinner date. First, Sean pays Toby extra to keep an eye on the house and Leanne. Before heading out, Sean and Dorothy share an intimate kiss while Leanne spies on them. Thinking she's alone, Leanne once again tries on some of Dorothy's jewelry and makeup. Downstairs, she's surprised to find Toby and invites him to have a drink with her. As they sip their wine, Leanne suggests they eat something. Toby digs through the fridge and Leanne picks up the last remaining living eel and slams its head on the counter. Toby sets two plates of hand-fried eel, but is interrupted by a knock at the door, where he finds Julian. Julian wishes him a good night and joins Leanne at the table. He attempts to intimidate her. If she's going to extort his sister, she'll have to go through him. Leanne cryptically asks if he was there that night. Julian leaves the table and she corners him, mimicking what she saw Dorothy do with Sean earlier. They're interrupted by Dorothy and Sean's return. Julian tells Sean he needs to show him something. He pulls up a video on his phone, which he and Roscoe filmed at a cemetery in Wisconsin. Sean watches as it reveals the graves of Stephen Grayson, Leanne's father, Laura Grayson, her mother, and finally a gravestone for Leanne Grayson herself. They were all killed in a fire. Julian suggests the nanny must be an imposter who stole Leanne's identity. Before he leaves, the two wonder what she might want. Does she want money? Is this blackmail? How much does she really know? With no answer is Julian leaves. In an earlier happier time, Sean's wife shows off her positive pregnancy test. They're going to name him Harry, which Sean writes on the test stick. In the present, he wakes to find a splinter on the back of his neck. Later that morning, Sean prepares lobster ice cream, though his ability to taste still eludes him. Later, while his wife is at work, he sneaks into Leanne's room and installs a camera in her wall. Dorothy returns and excitedly suggests she brings Jericho and Leanne with her to work the next day. Sean attempts to dissuade her. In the master bathroom, he continues saying that it's not the right time to share Jericho with the world. Finally, she relents and agrees. In the morning, Dorothy insists Sean break the news to Leanne that she'll be staying home, rather than visiting her at work. So he bluntly tells Leanne, it's not happening. Later, Sean shares his latest findings with Julian. He shows camera footage of Leanne, bringing Jericho to her room when she thinks Sean and Dorothy are asleep. Why would a nanny overstep like that? Sean theorizes that Leanne is the biological mother and she found the turners as a way to provide a good home for her son. Julian accuses Sean of wanting to keep the baby. And Sean responds, wouldn't you? Julian leaves as Leanne takes Jericho for a walk. Then Sean watches Dorothy on TV, reporting in front of a courthouse. In the background, he notices Leanne holding the baby. When she arrives shortly after Dorothy, Sean confronts her. She claims she happened to see the crowds and decided to watch, but didn't want to bother Dorothy, who looked busy. Sean is frustrated at her indiscretion while his wife is just sorry she didn't know Leanne was there. When Mrs. Turner asks if that was her first time on television, Leanne lies. Yes, Dorothy. Later that night, Leanne stops in the kitchen for a snack. She tries some of the lobster ice cream as Sean confronts her about that morning. If this is going to work, you're going to have to trust that I know what's best for Dorothy and for the baby, he tells her. She promises she'd never do anything to hurt Jericho, and Sean tells her never to call him that. To Dorothy, yes, but not to him, not ever. I thought you liked the name. Dorothy said you picked it out, Leanne responds. Sean tells her that it wasn't their first choice. He thinks of the drawer by their bed, full of pregnancy tests, each with another name. He tells Leanne about Dorothy's overactive immune system, which treated their unborn children as foreign entities. She killed them all. That's what she told herself. Sean explains, I don't want to put her through that again. So if there's a way, Leanne changes the subject, suggesting chocolate sauce for the lobster ice cream. This gives Sean an epiphany for how to properly serve the ice cream next time. Before Leanne leaves, he asks her, why us? I knew I'd be happy here. She responds. Once alone, Leanne grabs one of Dorothy's archived newscasts from March 11th, 2011. She watches Dorothy reporting from a children's beauty pageant. Dorothy briefly interviews one of the contestants, Leanne from Wisconsin. In the morning, Leanne finds Dorothy in a state of unawareness and wakes her. Leanne is left alone with Jericho as Dorothy is at work and Sean is pitching restaurants. After a walk with the baby, Leanne finds the front door open and hears someone in the house. She finds Toby working in the basement, though he claims to have come in through the side door. He shows her a box of crickets, part of Sean's next culinary project. After hearing a knock at the front door, Leanne welcomes Wanda and her daughter Olivia into the house. Wanda claims to be a neighbor locked out of her home. As Leanne entertains the unexpected guests, she assures Toby everything is okay and he leaves. Wanda asks if Leanne can watch Olivia for a bit while she takes care of something. Before leaving, Wanda warns Leanne not to feed Olivia, as she is allergic to everything. During a game of hide and seek, Leanne happens across an old yellow onesie in the basement. Then she hears a noise upstairs and finds Olivia, who claims to have seen a man run out of the house. Finally, Wendy returns and grabs her daughter. That night, Dorothy sends Leanne out of the house to pick up some coffee sponge cake. She returns, cake in hand, but learns it was simply a pretext for Dorothy and Sean to get some time alone in the bedroom. Disturbed by Mrs. Turner's manipulation of her, Leanne returns to her room and writes Dorothy's name next to a Bible verse before praying. The next morning, Dorothy finds a prominent cold sore above her lip. Later, Leanne visits the home she saw Wendy return to. However, a stranger answers the door. Wendy does not live there. In the Turner home, she again hears someone in the house and hides as the man sneaks out. She is unaware that this is Sean and Julian's PI, Roscoe. Her odd day continues, as Sean yanks the yellow onesie out of her hands, seemingly upset that Leanne found it. That night, Leanne finds a cricket in her tub. Then, she overhears Julian in the kitchen, trying to convince Sean to make things uncomfortable for her and drive her out of the house. Setting an example, Julian takes a label off a can of Leanne's favorite Campbell's soup and sticks it onto a can of dog food. She returns to her room and writes Sean's name next to a Bible verse before praying again. The next morning, she wakes to a room full of crickets and Sean to another large splinter in his neck. After helping to remove it, Leanne returns to her room and tapes her vent to avoid further cricket invasions. Though she spots one more critter, which she traps under a cup next to her television. In the kitchen, she opens what looks like a can of soup, but instead ends up with a pot of dog food. In the trash, she finds the evidence and learns she is the victim of a cruel prank. This upsets her. Then, Wendy and Olivia return. Leanne serves them some ice cream, not mentioning that it's made of lobster. Wendy wastes no time telling Leanne about another family she knows that would pay her more than the turners. Leanne refuses, then lets out her frustrations. I didn't know there was anything wrong with the onesie. What?  She wanted me out of the house she could have just asked. What are you talking about? The ice cream takes effect on the allergy-prone Olivia as she experiences anaphylactic shock. Wendy frantically searches for her daughter's pen, which falls to the floor. Leanne notes the pen but refuses to help as she questions Wendy. Who is she really? Panicking as her daughter struggles to breathe, Wendy admits that Julian hired her to pose as a neighbor, befriend Leanne, and encourage her to leave the turners. Satisfied, Leanne grabs the pen and injects Olivia. Saving her life after nearly ending it. That night, Leanne walks past the seemingly dead cricket next to her TV. As she commits a ritual of self-flagellation, the cricket behind her reanimates. On another rainy day, Dorothy takes Sean to the airport as he's heading out for a work trip. In the kitchen, Leanne opens the first letter she's received at this house. It's a postcard which simply reads, The doorbell rings and Leanne finds her uncle George has arrived. She introduces him to the baby. Dorothy returns home and is surprised to meet this stranger, though Dorothy welcomes him once she learns he's family of Leanne's. After introducing himself, George hands her a gift, a carving of a chef in reference to her husband's profession. It's Elm, George says, from a very special tree that grows in our field. Dorothy invites George to stay for dinner. As she prepares the meal, she has a call with Sean. He is surprised and concerned to hear about the strange guest. Dorothy is less worried and says she'll speak to Sean later. George leads a quick and quiet prayer before they eat. Dorothy watches as George rudely squeezes all the sauce out of her poultry. George is callous toward Leanne throughout the meal, but says there have been some issues at home and Leanne will be needed there. Dorothy's unhappy to hear this as she is hoping Leanne will stay with them. Then another unexpected guest arrives, Julian. Sean called him from Boston. When Jericho cries, Dorothy goes to check on him and at George's request, Leanne clears the table, which gives Julian and Uncle George a chance to speak. Julian asks George who he really is. He claims that he's just like Julian. It's a greater responsibility than people realize. He says, Julian joins Dorothy upstairs. She is frustrated at George's insinuation that their home isn't good enough for Leanne and she doesn't want him taking their nanny away. She rejoins George and Leanne downstairs who are preparing to leave for the train. But Dorothy insists they stay the night. As she prepares the couch for George, he tells her that a child's place is with their family. Dorothy responds that Leanne is hardly a child anymore. Then she visits Leanne and convinces her she needs to stand up to her uncle and tell him she wants to stay with the turners. And Dorothy has Leanne sign a contract, finally making their arrangement official. In the middle of the night, Julian is awoken by a sound upstairs. He checks the guest room and sees that George is missing. Then he wakes up Dorothy and lets her know that George has gone AWOL. Since the alarm didn't go off, he must still be in the house. Julian suggests they leave, but Dorothy insists she will not be driven out of her home by a stranger. As she searches the home, Dorothy hears Jericho cry and runs to check on him. Somehow he ended up on the floor and in the crib Uncle George has taken his place. Julian wants to kick him out, but Dorothy worries the lose Leanne if they do. Instead they leave him be, but Julian keeps watch over him. The next morning, when George tries to leave with Leanne, she tells him that she wants to stay. Very well then, he says, I'll bring your aunt May next time. You know you can't say no to her. Before finally leaving, George tells them this is a godless house. When Sean returns, Dorothy informs him she's scheduled a baptism for Jericho three weeks from Sunday. Before Sean can speak, Dorothy tells him, you're not going to talk me out of it. This is the perfect opportunity for everyone to finally meet him and see how perfect he is. In an earlier time, Dorothy sits nearly catatonic in her shower.  In the present, Natalie helps Dorothy de-stress. During their appointment, Natalie is shocked to learn that Dorothy hired a nanny. They wrap up their appointment and Dorothy decides not to schedule another appointment for the time being. Kinesiology has been a big help, but she feels she's entering a new phase of self-healing. She leaves for work and Natalie is shocked again when she hears the sound of a baby in the house. She goes to check on the child, but before she can confirm her suspicions, Leanne throws her to the ground and runs away with Jericho. Natalie unsuccessfully chases after her when Sean finds her and the two sit down to talk. Natalie assumes she was mistaken about what she heard and asks Sean why they hired a nanny for a doll. He explains that Leanne is playing along, but helps around the house with other things. Natalie tells him that things have gone too far and it's time to wake Dorothy from her delusion. Upstairs, Leanne finds a strand of hair she pulled from Natalie's head. She plays with it and watches Dorothy's latest news report on the epidemic of feral dogs roaming the city. Later, Dorothy lets Sean know she invited Natalie for dinner the following night so they can stay friends even though her services are no longer required. In the basement, Sean runs into Leanne. He tells her about Natalie coming for dinner and warns that if she so much as smells a dirty diaper in this house, it's all over. She agrees to act as a hostess for the night to help ensure Natalie stays in the dark about the baby. Before dinner, Sean and Julian meet in the basement. The two pool whatever cash they were able to collect without suspicion. 20 grand from Julian and a disappointing 8 from Sean. They hope this will be enough to fund the payoff that Julian assumes Leanne's Uncle George is looking for. Once Natalie arrives, they sit down for a meal of haggis, tatties, and neeps. She is surprised to see Dorothy, having shown no religious proclivities in the past, say grace before the meal. When Leanne heads to the basement to grab some wine, she is interrupted by a spontaneous cracking in the basement floor. Meanwhile, in the nursery, Sean stops Dorothy from bringing the baby downstairs. Neither of them notice the feral dog hiding in the room with their child. Outside, Natalie approaches Leanne and asks her how much Sean and Julian told her about what happened. I was the one they called. Natalie says she was the one who showed the two frightened men what to do. What did they do? Leanne asks. However, Julian finds them and interrupts. After washing up, Natalie hears a noise from the nursery. Inside, she finally sees the living child before getting chased out by the feral dog. She runs downstairs and Julian prepares to attack with a bottle. Leanne hears the beating from the kitchen and walks out to see the dog, now lying still on the floor. They call animal control and Julian speaks with Natalie outside. He tells her the baby is Leanne's, and she needs help raising it. Sean and Dotty are thinking of making a proper home for it. Going through all the legal steps involved, of course. Julian admits that Dorothy believes the baby is Jericho. Natalie is concerned for Dorothy, but Julian points out she's not the only one who needs help. After the show of vulnerability, the two grow close and she goes home with Julian. Though first, the feral dog springs back to life and runs off. Three days later, the turners head out for a television awards show while Toby takes Leanne on what he insists is not a date. This leaves Julian with the job of babysitting that night. However, once alone in the house, Julian visits the crib and in it, he finds a reborn doll. He frantically and fruitlessly searches for the living child. He calls Roscoe, who is spying on Leanne and Toby, confirming the baby isn't with them. He calls Sean, but doesn't get a chance to explain anything before Dorothy interrupts. After the unhelpful phone calls, Julian and Dorothy's father arrives unannounced. He is concerned after receiving an invite to Jericho's baptism. He isn't thrilled with the idea of, as he says, parading that sack of cloth in a church. Over a glass of wine, Julian's father shows him a photo of a baby that resembles Jericho. For a fee, they could have him and allow the child to assume the role of Dorothy's son, replacing the doll. Julian admits they've considered similar ideas and he'll run it by Sean. Then his father takes off. Outside, Toby walks Leanne home. When she leans in for a kiss, he dodges. She leaves dejected as Toby stammers an apology. Inside, Leanne picks up the doll from where Julian threw it. She once again treats it as though it were the real Jericho. Julian demands to know where the real baby is. She ignores him as she changes the doll's diaper. He persists and she continues to ignore him. He demands to know when Dorothy arrives in under an hour, what will she find in the crib? Jericho, she replies. He demands to know where Jericho is now and she tells him he's in the crib. Then she asks him a question. What did you find, Julian? When you came to check on them, what did you see? He offers her money in exchange for the child. As she ignores his pleas, he increases the offer to eventually reach his ceiling of 100 grand. She thanks him for babysitting and assures that she can take it from here. At his wit's end, Julian grabs a doll and holds it over the balcony, threatening to drop it. He counts down from five and when he gets nothing out of Leanne, he drops the doll. Just as he hears a baby cry out, he quickly catches it and figures the baby must be in the house somewhere. He heard it, but he still finds nothing. He makes noise, banging on a kitchen pot, calling for the baby, but he receives no answer. Leanne had asked him what he found. He remembers banging on the door and the window, but getting no answer. He remembers rotting meat on the kitchen table and flies. What else did he find? He calls out for the baby and eventually gives up. Upstairs, he finds Leanne praying and confesses to her, I was the first one here. He begins. Sean and Dorothy arrive. The doll has been replaced by the flesh and blood child. In the kitchen, Julian tells Sean that Leanne now knows everything. Upstairs, Dorothy asks Leanne to help take off her pearl necklace. Dorothy asks about Leanne's date with Toby and she says he doesn't like her in that way. Leanne tells Dorothy she was wrong and lets the necklace fly off her neck. Leanne watches Dorothy struggle to collect the pearls as she quietly picks one up and swallows it. Through an 11 hour labor, Dorothy gives birth to Jericho naturally and in their own home. Sean keeps the placenta in their freezer. After several weeks, he leaves on a work trip and Dorothy cares for their child. Over a video call, Dorothy laments the hot weather and having to care for Jericho alone. Sean suggests Julian step in for a change, but Dorothy suspects he's using again. One morning, on a particularly hot day, Dorothy dresses Jericho in a yellow onesie. They go shopping and she returns home with a trunk of groceries and her baby in the back seat. She puts the groceries away, she uses the bathroom, and the wind closes the front door for her. Dorothy plugs in a fan to cool the nursery and the empty crib within it. It's a hot day. The thermometer by the car shows 110 degrees Fahrenheit. She lies on the couch and hears silence on the baby monitor. Upstairs, she checks on the empty crib. Early one morning, Dorothy is woken by her car alarm. Leanne sits at the foot of her bed and lets her know the alarm has been going for 30 minutes. Dorothy shuts it off and the two of them notice she is fertile again. In the kitchen, Leanne cooks Mrs. Turner some breakfast as Sean returns from the fish market. He helps her put the finishing touches on the omelet. Before Leanne goes, he tells her, It wasn't a crime. Police said it happens more than you think, 40 times a year. It can happen to anyone. She leaves to deliver Mrs. Turner her breakfast. Leanne finds her trying on a bathing suit. Today's news report involves a pool and the producers want her in the water. However, Leanne hurts Dorothy's self-esteem with a backhanded compliment. Everyone knows you've just given birth.  Dorothy runs past Sean to the car and smells the fish she's preparing for delivery. Then vomits inside the windshield.  Then he collects a sample of the egg white omelet and freezes it next to Jericho's placenta. On that hot day, months ago, Dorothy leaves the empty crib and takes her child out of the car. She bathes with it. She places it in the crib. She carries it with her as she lets the delivery men into the house. They place a large hunk of meat on her table. Days pass and the meat rots. Dorothy hears Jericho cry on the monitor. Upstairs, she finds him motionless in the crib. Though the sound of his crying and her soothing him continue to play on the monitor. Dorothy looks at her son. She drops the monitor and her body shakes violently. Sean is expecting her to pick him up at the airport, but she ignores his messages. On a rainy day, Julian came to the Turner home and knocked on the door and the window, but got no answer. He found rotting meat on the kitchen table and flies. Upstairs, he found more flies. After another tasting for Sean, Leanne asks him, why did you stay with her after what she did? Because it was an accident, Sean explains. It was a mistake and people make mistakes, Leanne. She stayed with him for four days, just the two of them waiting for me to come home and help. If I'd been here, none of that would have happened. That was my mistake. Upstairs, Dorothy holds her child before Leanne snatches him away, telling Dorothy she's been sick. You don't want Jericho catching your bug. She says, do what's best for the baby. Dorothy leaves Leanne with her child. One morning, Sean bakes Jericho's placenta into some croquembouche. Later, Leanne and Toby prepare the house for Jericho's post-baptism reception. Sean, Dorothy, and the many other guests arrive. While entertaining the guests, Dorothy notices a little girl with a doll. Suddenly, the party is interrupted by Amber alerts from everyone's phones. Later, Dorothy meets the little girl and holds her doll, Pamela. For a moment, she recalls holding her reborn doll, then drops Pamela. Downstairs, Toby serves Jericho's croquembouche to the guests. Dorothy's work rival, Isabelle, thoroughly enjoys them. Meanwhile, Leanne searches for Jericho, finding him with her aunt May upstairs. May cryptically asks her niece what happened and what did she do.  May disagrees. God had a path. He wanted her to suffer, but you thought you knew better. May tells Leanne the house is changing her and she wonders what they've done to her little flower. Then Dorothy finds them and takes Jericho, but first notes how familiar the woman looks. Then May tells Leanne to come home and that when Dorothy wakes tomorrow, Jericho will be gone. Things will be as they were meant to be. Your hour servant may remind her not hers. In the basement, her uncle George finds Sean. Sean offers him 86 grand to leave them alone. He turns it down. Do you know who you welcomed into your home, Sean? George asks. He explains to Sean that after the fire, it was easier to let everyone believe they lost Leanne. So, George and May brought her to Pennsylvania and raised her. Leanne never stopped talking about Dorothy since the day they met. She thought she was so pretty and watched her on TV every night. He goes on. Leanne likes to please the people she loves and hurt the people she doesn't. When Sean wonders who the child is, George insists that he already knows the answer. Then George asks Sean what Leanne has done to him. He lists the ailments, splinters and a loss of taste. Finally, George tells Sean to ask for what he wants and he does. I want him to stay. Sean says, Jericho, I want my son back. At the reception, Dorothy's father gives a toast to the journey Sean and Dorothy have begun. The proceedings are interrupted by the arrival of police officers. They were given Mrs. Turner's name and address in connection with a missing child. They reunite Hannah, the girl with the doll, and subject of the earlier Amber Alert with her mother. After the cops leave, Sean is disturbed to learn he suddenly cannot feel anything. She's doing this to me. He pleads with Julian. Julian quiets him.  As the winds of a powerful storm begin, Sean tells Julian that he prayed for Jericho to return. He now believes the baby they've been caring for is truly his son. Julian leaves and Roscoe keeps watch. Outside, Roscoe finds Leanne's Aunt May staring at him. He gets out of the car and doesn't see George standing behind him. Later, as Toby leaves the house, he finds Roscoe's car abandoned. Dorothy staring at the cross around her neck suddenly remembers something. She grabs a DVD and watches an old news report of hers. A standoff between ATF agents and the Church of the Lesser Saints. The leader of this cult was May Markham, Leanne's supposed aunt. Dorothy goes to Leanne's room, but she has already left the house with her suitcase and a balloon. Then she runs to the nursery and for a moment recalls someone in a hazmat suit removing something from the crib. In the kitchen, Sean tests the extent of his sudden loss of feeling and watches as his hand burns above the stove. The standoff between ATF agents and the Church of the Lesser Saints comes to a head as smoke pours out of the building. The agents move in and there is an explosion followed by gunshots. Outside, Leanne walks down the street to a group waiting for her. They watch as she approaches her aunt and uncle. They all hug and huddle together. A police officer notices the impromptu gathering, but when he returns for a second look, they are all gone. Inside the house, Dorothy reaches into Jericho's crib and picks up a doll. And that's where season one wraps up. Let me know your favorite parts in the comments, what you're looking forward to in season two, and any theories you have on where this is all heading. Also, if you enjoyed this video, please go ahead and hit the like button, hit the subscribe button, and hit the bell icon to keep up with our episode by episode coverage in season two. Thanks for watching and see you on the next One Take.


So I'm an amputee who experiences a good deal of phantom pain and I often get asked when's it gonna get better. So it lost my life back in 2018 which is almost four years ago now and I can tell you conclusively many other forms of pain have changed, gotten better, gotten worse. Phantom pain has never moved an inch. There is no reduction. It's mostly unpredictable and kind of random throughout the day and it definitely hasn't gotten any better. There are things and surgeries which I've had that are supposed to kind of alleviate some of that reduce it but oftentimes if you have it you just sort of have it. So could it hypothetically heal as time goes on? Absolutely. Personally I would totally vote for that option but I'm not counting on it and while for some it can go away for many of us we're gonna experience it for the rest of our lives.


The new year is finally here in Yu-Gi-Oh! Massive Duel to celebrate Konami has given us one of the greatest events in the game of all time. 20-24 life points. Oh, wait, this might actually be pretty bad. That's right, in the first Extreme Duel they gave us 30 seconds to turn, and now in the new one we only have 2,024 life points to play with in every duel. Now, the two questions on your mind is how is the meta going to look like in this event, and how hard is it going to be to get those three wins? And that's exactly what we're going to find out in today's video. Now, of course, last time there was an Extreme Duel, I also used this deck, and it did not do me that good. I'm not going to lie. Let me just go first. Let me go first in case I can get that morphing jar play. Because we're celebrating 20-24, I don't actually need to hit the 6 to win. I just need to hit a 5. Oh, have y'all seen that Fenrir is getting limited to 1? That is sad for pretty much everybody, honestly. Fenrir is just in every deck except for me. I'm going to go ahead and play him and search my Fenrir right now while I still can. While I still can, I'm going to get my free plus. Alright, and since that was all they did, and that's all I have, I'm just going to set, set, and forget. Now, just because I got the special summon Fenrir doesn't mean I want my opponent to. I'm immediately going to shotgun Maxi. Like, not even care. It's out the window immediately. Nooo! Every time! I mean, hey, this is why I shotgun Maxi because if he was going to Ash Blossom it, he would have done it anyway. He would have done it anyway. Let's be honest. We probably won't activate that 6 as of yet. We'll keep that as a bluff just in case. But we have the Fenrir. We got to use Maxi, so we have an Ash Blossom in the graveyard. I'm feeling okay. You know, this is about as strong of an opening board as this deck can put out, and Mikanko, okay? Alright, well, we do have the Super Polly. You know, I don't know if there's any big targets here, but we'll have to, we'll keep an eye out. Alright, well, tough. Mikanko arrival. See, the thing is, I don't know what any of these cards do. I mean, he's got some cool armor on it. I'm not going to lie. That's pretty sick stuff. Oh, Nadir's servant. I cannot negate that. Alright, well, damn. Alright, top five to the deck to the graveyard. What do we got? Alright, I mean, two impurms, a couple spell cards, I don't think that was a big hit. I think that was, two impurms is crazy. Add a pre-prep. Damn, bro. That is crazy. Well, too bad you got your, you pretty much had all you needed. Ooh, if I'm going to, if I'm going to send them off to the graveyard, let me just do, but do I want to, but what if I want to hit like a Super Polly hit? Is it worth it? I don't think it's worth it. I'm just going to, I'm just going to get rid of two random cards just in case, just in case, just in case. See, I was thinking about doing that. Oh God. No, they actually got the Super Polly. It's over.  You are crazy. No, dude. No, dude.  Ow. Ow. Damn. Hey, you know what they say, when you're playing the dice deck, you're not always going to get the easy wins. Let's just cue back in for another. Ah, we win again, dude. I guess we just hit going second. Why not? Why not? Let's try going second. The thing with the dice deck is I, it's not like it's crazy good. So I don't know if I want to go first or second. I have technically board breakers in here. Do I just go second because of that? Let's try that. Ah, you know what?  Wait, is it my turn? Didn't I just hit going second? Am I crazy? What, what? Wait, I'm not, wait, what? All right. Well, I guess I'm going to go ahead and search it out. Wait, what? Dude, I'm so confused. All right. Well, play my two cards then and then my turn in shock and maxi. We've seen it before and I'll do it again and I'll do it again. In fact, why would you ever not want to go? Bro, Vanquish soul is so broken in this meta. If I, if I get down to a pinch, I'm just playing Vanquish soul and winning the most broken deck you could use in this format. Probably. Okay. All right. You can do that. That's, that's fine. What else do you have for me though? One pot of extravagance isn't enough to scare me off the hunch. Ooh. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Wow. You two have Fenrir. Crazy. Me too, man. Me too. Oh, they're psychic rover. What a beast. What a beast. Uh, if I just Book of Moon him, does he get anything? You know what? I will. Why not? Why not? Let's try it. Hey, get him out of here. Oh, we're getting pot. Didn't I just say this was broken in this game mode? Dude, come on, man. We're just trying to have a good time.  Honestly, let me just banish you while I can, but he's got the bounce and it's over and it's over. This is, we're about to see why I said that Vanquish souls was busted. We just have to surrender. We just have to surrender. Borger burn immediately kills us. This is how we're bringing, this is how we're celebrating 2024 guys. We're celebrating 2024 by burning guys, please guys.  Oh my bad. Bye bye. You got, you got me. You got me. I want another coin toss, please. Okay, I'll go first this time. Am I going to win every coin toss? I feel like this never happens when I know when I want to play. It only happens when I'm playing a deck that I don't personally get. Can I draw some dice cards? Most of the deck is dice cards. What are you doing? Oh my God, I'm pissed.  I know I'm getting Vanquish soul right now. I can, I can smell it in the air. Nevermind. That was, I was, I was picking up something else. Hey, that's one win though. That's one win, baby. All I need is two more. Hey, if I'm going second, I am immediately maxing. Immediate maxing. Let's see what you got. What you got shotgun? Oh, no response. No response. Anyway, are you playing Vanquish soul? Do you win? Oh, wow. We might be drawn a few cards here and we got dimension dice. There is still such a chance we get some wins. Okay, as long as people are all having a good time celebrating the new year, I think we have a chance if people aren't celebrating the new year, then we're kind of bone. Hey, let's get some special summons in here. Come on. Let's get some special summons in here. Oh, there we go. That's one. Count them. That's one linker Ebo. Boom. This guy links. Give me book of moon. Man, I cannot draw psychic rover to save my life or like the dice dungeon. Any of the good cards, please. All right, go ahead. I guess if you really want to, you can special summon. Like that's, I guess, you know, like whatever. Boom. Give me that emergency teleport. Yes. That's a good card, man. That is a great pickup. That is, no, please. I regret Maxi. Oh, damn. Well, there's my second win. Dude, this is barely, this is not going to be a video. My wins are coming off the back of surrenders. I need to at least get a psychic rover in here. You know, let me at least get a psychic rover in here. I didn't win. I don't get to decide my fate. Let's go. Thank goodness, dude. Oh, we got a dice dungeon in two. Oh, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.  Don't surrender. Hey, Shotgun Maxi always works. Now don't Borger burn me, please. And it's over. I told you this banquet shows is the cheapest deck in this meta, bro. I, I swear to you, 2024 life points, I get it. It's cute, but the Borger should be banned, bro. He's too good in this game mode. Oh, he didn't actually pick it up, but he did pick up an earth, which means he already has the Borger. He's doing earth fire. He's going to bounce right now. Earth fire. GGs, you got me. I shouldn't. I shouldn't. I should always go first. Look, he's going to Borger. Wait. Surely he has Borger at least. Why? Why are we waiting this long? You know what you're going to do? Small world. Are you going to small world into Borger? What? What do you get it? Curry car? Firecracker.  What? Wait, what? Oh, and there's Borger and then it's over. Wait, what was the point of the firecracker search, man? It's GG. Hey, did I tell you this was broken or what? And then there's firecracker. Hey, why didn't you just do that the Borger thing twice? And why did you take so long to do that? Happy 2024. Happy new year, I guess. I don't even know why I started in this extreme game mode, man. What were they thinking with this one? Like, I get it, dude. It's cute. It's cool. I don't think this is... I don't... It's not really anything, though, is it? If you want to win this game mode, Vanquish Souls is so busted. It is actually crazy. Actually, what if there's one? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. It's actually crazy. Actually, what if there's a rule that you can't play on your opponent's turn? That wouldn't make sense, though. I don't think that's actually real. I'm just trying to come up with a reason why he felt the need to run firecracker on me. Dice Jar. This is how we win. This is how we win. Dimension Dice. Oh, yes, baby. The greatest field spell in all of existence. Don't you dare, Ash Wossum. Don't do this to me. Yes, yes. Dimension Dice. Woo-hoo-hoo. And now we play that six. And now we set Dice Jar. And now we win the game, baby. And now we win the game. It's that simple, folks. Now he attacks him to Dice Jar, I flip that six, and I get to decide the fate. First of all, Shaka and Maxi every day of the week. Boom. Damn, tough. Well, we kind of knew he had that, but I mean, we'll take it. We'll take it. We'll take it. As long as he's not running Vanquish Soul, we just won this game. It's that simple. It is that simple, really. Come on. Come on. Come on. We know what's about to happen here. What kind of labyrinth are you running here? What's the shtick? I'm a little worried about getting popped with Dice Jar. That's true. I really need to draw a monster. Oh, God, this is bad. Ooh. Ooh. Oh, that's six, dude. We needed that. Oh, damn. We needed that so bad, Chet. That was our guarantee. Now we actually have to gamble, which, of course, I'm fine with. Go ahead. Hit me. Go ahead. The thing is you can attack me if you want. Oh, good. This game is going to be decided off here.  Oh, look where all your attack went. Yeah. Where did that attack go? You should still attack me, though. Yeah. Let's play some dice games. 2024. 2024. Two. Give me a six. Boom. Four. 2000. I only got 2000. They have 24 life points left. Oh, no. Oh, wait, wait. Mercy on my soul. Yeah. But that's all I needed, though. Now I'm going to heart of the cards a monster and we just win. This is going to be so sick. I'm going to heart of the card psychic rover and then I just win. Watch this. Prepare to be amazed. Superpoly. Hey, that counts. That honestly does count, though. Superpoly. I discarding one dimension dice. I'm able to fusion some in a monster. I mean, why would I not get Garura, right? Because I'm about to go crazy. Boom. Garura. Give me that and give me, um, all right. Defense mode. Garura. Wings of Resident Life. This is so sick, dude. Defense mode just in case. What do you got? What do you have to summon? What do you have to summon? That's so powerful, dude. We're starting Venom just the better choice, by the way. Oh, that is so wack. That is so wack, dude. I didn't know that. I made a mistake, man. Oh, damn. Damn. It was a simple mistake of going too early. I was just excited. Oh, damn.  All right. Well, we got another opening hand. I'm setting dice jar and I'm setting Book of Moon. And, um, honestly, I probably should have just played dice jar to Dimension Dice.  Reload. Okay. Okay. Played a bit of reload in 2024. I respect it. Maxi response. Oh, bro just decided to reload his entire hand. I see. I'm just now realizing reload mandates that you have all your hand go to the deck. This is magical mallet. This is not. Who is making that noise? What was that? Oh, it was him. What? Dude, that's what you waited that long to do. There ain't no way. How come everybody in this game running these thousand damage cards? Bro, relax. Relax. And there it is. Hey, why did that take 30 minutes to do? I see the meta. The meta for this game mode has rapidly deteriorated. The meta for this game mode is rapidly deteriorated. We started with Bikonko and we have now gotten to the point where I'm just getting Okaazi burn 90% of the time. And now I'm going to win my special summoning Fenrir in attack mode and hitting him in the face. GG.  All right. Well, that's my three wins, baby. Okay. All right. I think it's at minimum one glossy, by the way. One SR guaranteed. What? That's what I did this for armored bitron. Damn. Well, not really quick. Honestly, I just want to see like, I want to see what it would have been like if I actually used like an actual deck. I want to see what vanquish soul is actually capable of. I feel like it's just going to be every turn is a one turn kill, but I could be wrong. And then I wanted to try just the spell card burn that everybody else was doing. Okay. Turn one to celebrate 2024. And I actually didn't get it. And also I went second. So I'm probably dead. Anti. Each player reveals one card in their hand, takes 1,000 damage. Oh, no. No, an anti. You know, I have a five star. That's pretty good. Oh, I lost one of my fire types. Inflict a thousand points. Oh, no. I'm down to my last 24. Dude, stop mercy. We lived. We survived. Greatest game mode of all time. Get out of here. All right. Next. Can we do something else for next year's new year guys? Like I'm thinking, I'm thinking maybe we do like, oh, maybe you have a deck of a random 2025 cards or maybe you have like, I don't know, 2025, like a special summons, something dude, do anything else other than life points. I don't think this one's very fun.  Just not like very repeatable. Like it's like a one day thing. Also, I, I, I didn't draw the best hand. Also I'm going second. Going second in this is kind of a death wish. I'm not going to lie. Ash Blossom. Probably should have saved Ash Blossom. The meta in this has devolved so rapidly. It is devolved so rapidly. Oh, thank God I Ash Blossom. Nevermind. Damn. It is crazy out here. I swear to God, Vanquish Souls is the move though. I actually, I don't even believe that anymore. I really just think it's, it's playing burn spell cards. I can't believe there was a time in this video where I was like, man, I should probably go second. Dude, how would I have ever gotten to play? I'm drawing, I'm drawing too many of the real cards, man. I'm drawing too many of the real cards. I just have to, I have the small world now. Dude, just cause you wanted to go second, man, the game mode, bro, it's like people, it's like I got on when the game mode dropped, man. There's no way. Let me get one burger play, man. Man, I went second, man. Tell me it's not over the boss. Tell me, tell me it's not over, man. Wait, what? Are we actually playing Yu-Gi-Oh right now? Are we actually playing Yu-Gi-Oh right now in 2024? No way. Dude, this is sick. This is crazy, dude. This is unironically crazy. Let me get a special summon real quick. MX Saber in... Dude, are we actually playing? Are we really playing Yu-Gi-Oh right now? What is this? Okay. Hey, that's fine. Dude, we're actually playing Yu-Gi-Oh right now in a way. Also, I just now realized he called by my Maxi. I kind of forgot that. I don't know why. I know it responded to it with that Yu-Gi-Oh, but I've literally been looking at these special summons like, damn, I am eating. I am, in fact, not eating. What? Man, you could have just used the spell cards, man. Wow. What? Actually, no way, bro, did an 80-minute turn to do that.  Like, does that guy know that I wake up every morning? I deal with the same human struggle that we all deal with, and he decided to take his out on me. Real mature of you, man. Honestly, Konami, this is my last appeal, okay? I really do think this. For next year, can we just make it so you guys generate a random 2025 pool of cards and then every duel we just play with random cards that come off the top? I think that would be really fun and good. And also, I'm going second again, so please, Konami, please. Please never do this to me again. Please. Oh, Konami, please. Konami, you got to stop him. Konami, stop him right now. Konami, you got to stop him. Ow, ow, ow. Yeah. Wait, wait. Oh, we are so back. We are so back. Now, unless that's what, what could that be? Just desserts? If that's just desserts, I'm going to throw up, but I know it's not. Oh, yeah, it's so over, bro. Raisin? Yeah, guess what?  You thought you was slick. Raisin into... I don't care. I really don't care. I do not. I do not care. Oh, get him out of there. Get him out of there. No, what's this? No. No. No. I die for this. Damn. What? That is the strongest trump card ever made. That is the strongest trump card ever made. Konami, please. We got to do something different next year, man. Please. I'm just trying to have a good time, man. Please. Oh, a coin flip, please. Please. Okay. I think this is literally the perfect hand for what we want to do unless this gets negated. Let me get this Fenrir, bro. Let me get this Fenrir, bro. Let me get this Fenrir, bro. Just one Fenrir, bro. One Fenrir, bro. That's all I'm asking for. All I'm asking for is one Fenrir. Don't, don't do this. Don't do this. Don't do this. Don't do. That's fine. You can do that. That's totally okay. I totally respect that. I totally respect that. You will get one draw. It just won't be the one you think you're going to get. Fenrir.  Oh, yeah, dude. Where is he? Where is he? I told, hey, didn't I tell him? I told him. I told him. What did I tell him? I told him I was going to Borger Burnham, didn't I? Hey, welcome to 2024, bro. Listen, listen, bro. Welcome to 2024, man. Good night. Welcome to 2024. Thank you guys for watching. It's been a great video. It's been a great year of Yu-Gi-Oh. Great year on the channel. Thank you to Konami for the amazing way to celebrate the new year. And anyway, that's a, that's that main phase. So to all of us here at Yu-Gi-Oh Station, not actually Yu-Gi-Oh Station, no copyright. Anyway, why can't I use my effect? Are we just not going to allow me to play? Why can't I play? Oh, there it is. Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Good night, everybody. Good night. Thank you. It's been a wonderful video. I'll see you in the next one. Hit the outro music.  That is so dumb.