Evening, y'all. It is the last week of July, it is ninety-one degrees at nine o'clock at night, and the air conditioner in this house is losing an argument with the Louisiana summer. Before we do anything else, Scriven wants me to play you a voicemail.
Her name is Suzanne. She has listened to every recording twice, and she is driving to Las Vegas to look at the tunnels under the Strip. I have thought about that call more than I would like to admit. I sit in a home study and say things into a microphone, and somewhere in Arizona a woman I have never met is packing a car because of something I said.
So we stopped recording for a while. There were things I had not told you, and tonight's episode needs them. Afterward my producer went through every file we have ever published, and she found something I do not have a good word for.
I will tell you only this: the microphone goes both directions. Listen when you have a quiet hour, and tell me what you would have done.
Recorded July 30th, 2019.
THE TRILOGY
The Pattern Files is the evidence file. The story is Don't Think Me Evil, a trilogy by Elwood West. Book One, Confession, is available now at dontthinkmeevil.com.