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A seasoned sheriff investigates a dead body in the woods and calls on an old pal, a medical examiner, to help piece together a series of chilling events.
Stars: F. Murray Abraham, Glynn Turman, Luke Roberts
Director(s): David Prior
Writer(s): David S. Goyer, Michael Shea, Guillermo del Toro
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00:10A shooting star crossing the vast and different night sky, perhaps carrying an answer to that
00:18age-old question, are we alone in the universe? Recorded on a mother's device, stained with
00:27blood and death? The answer is a decidedly terrifying no. Our story today is The Autopsy and its director, David
00:39Fryder.
00:57.
00:58.
03:44Hey, what the fuck is that?
03:53I don't know.
04:20I don't know.
04:49I don't know.
05:32I don't know.
05:45I don't know.
06:10You're so thin.
06:13I could use you for a whip.
06:15What's your secret?
06:16Eh, you know, biology.
06:18Carl, it's good to see you.
06:20You too, Nate.
06:21It's been too long.
06:21Here, give me that.
06:24Must be exhausting.
06:27Did you eat?
06:27I could send someone.
06:29I could send someone.
06:30No, no.
06:30Coffee's just fine.
06:34How's Emma?
06:35Well, she's well.
06:38How are the kids?
06:39It's an empty nest almost.
06:42It's an empty nest almost.
06:43Thank God.
06:45You're in Cindy.
06:46She's in love.
06:48Nate Jr. wants to be a lawyer now.
06:51Uh-uh.
06:54You sure I can't get you something to eat?
06:57Why don't you tell me what's going on?
06:59What'd they say in Montague?
07:01Not too much.
07:03Ten men dead.
07:05Nine men.
07:07And one inhuman son of a bitch.
07:11What would you call a man who...
07:16As bad as that?
07:20What's Waddleton gonna do?
07:22Uh-huh.
07:24It is the position of the coroner's office,
07:26workman's compensation law being clear,
07:29that death benefits shall only accrue to dependents of those
07:33whose deaths arise out of the course of their employment,
07:37not merely in the course of their employment.
07:42Death by lunatic that is not obtained.
07:45He just about ordered me
07:47to find cause for a second autopsy in the city.
07:50No, that's for the mutual talking.
07:53Certainly it is.
07:54And they've bought every election he's ever stood.
07:56If they had their way,
07:58the families wouldn't see a dime to bury them in with.
08:01It's unconscionable.
08:03What am I gonna find, Nate?
08:05Was there a bomb?
08:07The investigators concluded
08:08that there was strong, presumptive evidence of a bomb.
08:13That's the best they could do?
08:15Mm-hmm.
08:18And what do you think?
08:20I think I'm cursed.
08:22Cursed?
08:23Yeah.
08:25For laxity and uselessness.
08:29The innocent get punished, and everything is just dust.
08:35I think I'm cursed by the Lord.
08:37I truly do.
08:38Nate, I've known you 40 years.
08:41From the bottom of my heart, you're not that special.
08:45That's ego.
08:47Who are you to claim special qualities of sin from the rest of us?
08:51If you're cursed, we're all cursed.
08:56And I meant that in the nicest possible way.
09:04You're right.
09:05I'm getting maudlin.
09:07Mm-hmm.
09:13Carl, this is one of those nightmare specials.
09:19The kind you never get to the bottom of.
09:22Tell me what happened.
09:26Two months ago,
09:29a man came up missing.
09:34Ronald Hanley,
09:36a real worker, family man.
09:38This vanishes without a trace.
09:42About a week later,
09:43that lady ran the laundry man,
09:45and she disappeared still.
09:48Six people,
09:50just over a month,
09:51disappeared.
09:53This way!
10:02My deputies and I,
10:04we might as well have stayed in bed all the good we did.
10:09Hey, Sheriff, we're getting nothing out of Western Leg,
10:12even if we pull some of the volunteers...
10:13Over here!
10:14They found something!
10:17Eventually,
10:19they found a body.
10:39Open it! What are you waiting for?
10:58It wasn't animal work.
10:59No.
10:59It was knife work.
11:01No.
11:03It was knife work.
11:04No.
11:04All the edges,
11:06butchered, clean.
11:07But butchered meat will bleed,
11:09even after you drain it.
11:10There wasn't one goddamn drop of blood.
11:14It was pale as fish meat.
11:17A cache there?
11:19Yeah. Yeah.
11:21Like you might put a-a pot roast in an ice box
11:24for making sandwiches.
11:26One more.
11:28His arm over here.
11:30That's it.
11:31Okay. Wrap him up.
11:33Clam him back up on that tree.
11:35Yes, sir.
11:36You men? You hunters?
11:38Yes, sir.
11:39All right. Consider yourself posse comitatus.
11:43Whatever left there will be back for it.
11:45I need one of you.
11:47Jim Dodge, sir.
11:49Dodge?
11:49Yeah.
11:51Stake out that ridge over there.
11:53See? Yeah. And, uh...
11:55Owens.
11:56Owens.
11:56Owens.
11:57Need you to cover that area south there.
12:00All right?
12:01I think the better spot's over there, sir.
12:03It's a better view of the path there.
12:05Yeah, well, okay.
12:06Obviously, I've got the right man for the job.
12:09You guys will take first watch.
12:11Lars, Davis, give these men your jackets.
12:14It's gonna get cold tonight.
12:15Give them a couple of radios, too.
12:17I took the film to be developed.
12:20Gave the prints to Sophie to have a telex to every county in the state.
12:25Okay?
12:25We're going into town.
12:26Anything happens, anything at all, don't do a thing.
12:29Just observe.
12:30Okay?
12:31We'll be back in five hours.
12:33Then I pierced and I spit and went right back.
12:37Go ahead, Frank.
13:11Dodge.
13:15Dodge, can you hear me?
13:21Come in, Dodge.
13:29Motherfucker.
13:52No sign of them at all.
13:56I wanted to chew nails and break necks.
14:01Next morning, I got a call from the sheriff over in Rake Hill.
14:04It says our corpse resembled a man named Abel Doherty,
14:09a mill worker over at Conwood.
14:12He'd been missing, too.
14:15He was last seen at a bar called Trucker's Tavern
14:18during that onion snow we had.
14:37Maggie's bar, my girl.
14:39With ice.
14:41Got it.
14:41And a hams to back it up.
14:43Right on.
14:44Truckers.
14:50Hey, Travis!
14:52Phone!
14:53Sykes?
14:57Excuse me?
14:58Eddie Sykes?
14:59What the hell are you doing here?
15:02I'm afraid you got me confused with some other body.
15:04My name's Joe Allen.
15:05What the hell?
15:05It is your Eddie Sykes.
15:08We've been working together at Conwood for a coon's age.
15:11Where the hell you been?
15:13You either had too much or not enough, my friend.
15:16I was supposed to go angling for Steelhead two months ago,
15:18but you never showed.
15:19Steelhead? I would have showed.
15:22But you didn't.
15:25Who is it you think I am again?
15:30I thought we was friends.
15:32Yeah, of course we are.
15:34Where'd you go, Eddie?
15:36I mean, you just stopped.
15:37Like I said, I'm Joe Allen.
15:41You're confused.
15:45Why are you doing this?
15:48I'll tell you, but not here.
15:52Somewhere quiet.
15:53We don't want these yokels hearing, do we?
15:58It's a secret.
16:00Now we're friends, aren't we?
16:04Good friends.
16:07I mean, you said so, didn't you?
16:10Maybe we can be best friends.
16:12Yes.
16:14I knock your beer onto the floor.
16:18Beast Locked.
16:20Call me your friend.
16:24Ask me to drive you home.
16:27Home?
16:29Do it now.
16:31Yeah.
16:42Shit, man.
16:44What have you done?
16:45Maybe you need a ride.
16:46No.
16:47Let's have your keys you did.
16:50Come on.
16:55I'll drive you home.
17:12Sykes.
17:14Was an itinerant worker.
17:16He was reported missing nine months ago.
17:19Told a buddy of his he was going hiking in the woods.
17:23Wanted to check out a media shower.
17:39Never came back to work.
17:42Week later, he shows up in Bailey under the name of Joe Allen.
17:58Understand you've got a Joe Allen staying here?
18:01Oh, what?
18:01Yes, but he's at work right now, but you're welcome to come in.
18:06Mr. Allen!
18:10Sheriff's Department.
18:12Coming in.
18:22Hey.
18:23Is your mom a few units here?
18:26No.
18:27Not enough for you.
18:28Time to pick you dry.
18:51You know, that was good.
18:53But I'm still hungry.
18:55Yep, so am I.
19:26What is this?
19:27I'm sure I don't know.
19:30He said that I saw him bringing it in,
19:33and he said he got it in the woods.
19:39In the woods?
19:40That's right.
19:42He found it during that meteor shower.
19:45I hate it.
19:47It smells, and it's got hairs on it.
19:50I asked him to toss it in the bin,
19:51but he gave me such a look.
20:00Isn't there a shift change coming up at Braddock?
20:03About ten minutes.
20:09Lawrence, this is Craven.
20:11Meet me at the Braddock Forks Mine, on the double,
20:13and muster whatever deputies you can.
20:15And Sophie, call ahead.
20:17Suspect is a miner named Joe Allen,
20:19or possibly Edward Sykes.
20:21Soon as you get there, lay down a perimeter
20:23and keep him buttin' the hell up.
20:25talking.
20:41We got a Joe Allen
20:44who can do the here thing.
20:46Lie down there?
20:48The side piece.
20:49Think I'll fix it over there?
20:51Take it out.
20:52Take it out.
20:52Look at the side piece.
20:54Take it out.
20:54Look, look, look, look, look, look.
21:06Look, look, look, look, look, look, look.
21:13Look, look, look, look, look, look.
21:13Hey, Sheriff.
21:18It's him right there, Sheriff.
21:21Go at him.
21:23Hey, you freeze!
21:24That's him, hold it, hold it.
21:27Hey, hey!
21:33Get him!
21:35Hey, hey!
21:49Which way?
21:58What the hell are you doing?
22:01What the fuck are you doing up there?
22:03Damn!
22:04Feel the exits!
22:07Hey, hey! Stop that damn elevator!
22:11Get him back up here!
22:12You're heading for the 260!
22:13Get him back up here!
22:16I don't give a shit!
22:17Get him back up here!
22:18Get another way out of there!
22:19How much can we get out of there?
22:21Out of the way, out of the way!
22:41Please...
22:59You think Alan sent off the explosion?
23:01Must have.
23:03Maybe it was intentional.
23:04Maybe it wasn't.
23:06Maybe it has something to do with that damn ball of his.
23:10No trace of that could we find, though.
23:14What I can't figure out is how did he know that thing was in my car?
23:19He could have made it to the tree line.
23:21Instead, he fetched that damn trophy of his.
23:26Knowing that he was boxed in.
23:29That doesn't make any sense.
23:35Listen, Carl.
23:40I can't ask you to.
24:06How far is the river?
24:09About a hundred yards or so.
24:11Good runs this time of year.
24:14I'll take you if you want to go as soon as we get through with this mess.
24:19I'd like that.
24:25Carl.
24:27What's going on?
24:33I have stomach cancer.
24:36Six months left, they say.
24:40Jesus.
24:41It's okay.
24:43It's how it goes.
24:45No point complaining.
24:51You've made your peace with this thing, then?
24:54What's the alternative?
24:55Can't do anything about it.
24:58We're all in the same conveyor belt, Nate.
25:02Some of us fall off a bit sooner than the rest, but we're all heading for the same destination.
25:09It could happen.
25:35Yeah.
25:41Davis, this is Dr. Winters.
25:43Dr. Winters, Sheriff, everything's ship-shape inside.
25:46How low did we get that temperature?
25:4836.
25:49It won't go no low or some kind of leak.
25:51That should be cold enough.
25:54We brought a table from the meat plant and a bunch of gurneys.
25:56Thank you, Deputy Davis.
25:58Just fine.
25:59You can get on back.
26:00Be here set up.
26:03I'm sorry that we don't have a real facility.
26:06Look, I'm going to generate it down from the mine and some work lights.
26:22I know it's not ideal, but it'll work.
26:30We got you set up as best we could there.
26:34The phone's not hooked up, but there's a pay phone down at the gas station.
26:40I couldn't have asked for anything more, my friend.
26:46You ready to see him?
26:58I told my deputies to give you a head start with the clothes.
27:05Seems like they only got as far as the boots, I'm afraid.
27:09I'll have to thank them.
27:14Oh, except this guy.
27:18No one wanted to touch him.
27:21Fucking animal.
27:23Having crazy thoughts with this thing, Carl.
27:27Let it lie, Nate.
27:32You need to go to sleep.
27:34Yeah, maybe you're right.
27:36I don't know.
27:37I just didn't want to leave you with this.
27:39Are you sure you're up to this?
27:41Take off the badge and lie down.
27:44I'll be lucky to get through more than just a few of them tonight.
27:47I'll press you into service in the morning.
27:52Okay.
27:55Good night.
28:22This is Dr. Carl Winters, reporting pathologist
28:25from the Montague County Coroner's Office,
28:28recording my preliminary remarks
28:30on the ten decedents of the Braddock Fort mine incident.
28:33This recording is for you alone, Nate.
28:36My attack report will serve as the official record.
28:38The main cluster of decedents
28:41was uncovered 30 yards from suspect Allen.
28:44Decedents Jackson and Brady
28:46were found proximate to Allen.
28:48A man named Miller was found alone
28:50between the two groups.
28:52If any of the bodies contain bomb fragments,
28:56it would be this one.
28:58I'll start with Miller.
29:24Come on.
29:26Come on.
29:27There.
29:28There.
29:33There.
29:55I apologize for the indignity, my friend.
29:59If it's any comfort, I'm right behind you.
30:03Or love may come and tap you on the shoulder
30:08Some starless night
30:11And just in case you feel you wanna hold her
30:16You'll have a pocket full of starlight
30:24Catch a falling star and pull the star
30:28Never let it fade away
30:33Catch a falling star and pull it in your body
30:37Save it for an end
30:39Me again, Nate?
30:40Despite autobuses and putrefaction,
30:43I see signs not inconsistent with asphyxial death.
30:47But I'll also examine him internally
30:50To establish a baseline
30:54If I see anything anomalous on the other externals,
30:57Well, we'll cross that bridge if we come to it
31:16There is blood-tinged mucus, expressed no doubt during his final agony.
31:26Dirt under the fingernails
31:28Split
31:30Presumably from clawing at the earth
31:37My apologies, Mr. Miller
31:39Follow me
31:40Spirit in the wood
31:43Take away the pain
31:45Make the body ripe
31:47And alive again
31:49I see me low
31:52I see me low
31:54I see me low
31:56Spirit in the heart
31:58Let the blood flow past
32:00Spirit in the heart
32:02Let the beauty last
32:04Keep the hope alive
32:09The lungs exhibit subchloral ecchymosis
32:12Consistent with extreme blunt force trauma
32:15Probably the explosion
32:21The right half of the heart is distended
32:24And engorged with dark blood
32:25Along with the right coronary artery
32:28This is good, Nate
32:30I see signs of respiratory distress
32:32Concussive trauma
32:34Nothing says bomb to me
32:36Nothing to prevent a finding of death by crush asphyxiation
32:40Nothing for Waddleton to salivate over
32:47Somewhere there's misery
32:54Somewhere there's misery
32:56How far
33:04Somewhere there's misery
33:20Run. Get out. Now.
33:26Run from what?
33:39Run.
34:06New external, Nate, one Walter Lou Jackson.
34:10Per your photos, Jackson was unearthed next to Alan.
34:16Nate, I keep thinking.
34:19What if the explosion wasn't a botched escape attempt?
34:23What if that sphere wasn't a bomb?
34:28What if the sphere's destruction was Alan's actual air?
34:33Not escape.
34:53I found a small wound at the bottom of Jackson's sternum.
34:59His deep seems to curve through the diaphragm toward the heart.
35:17Forgive me, friend. My curiosity necessitates opening you up.
35:37The tract of the wound does lead to the heart.
35:40The lungs and heart are shrunken and abnormally pale.
35:45Completely drained of blood.
36:05The air is a skeleton.
36:06The air is a skeleton of the heart.
36:07The air is a skeleton of the root of the ground.
36:08It's clean, it's clean, it's clean.
36:09The air is burnt too much, it's clean.
36:16I pick an energy near the house next to the years.
36:17The air ismänticum.
36:30Let's go.
36:56Let's go.
37:34There's no blood in Brady either.
37:42Let's go.
37:46Jackson.
37:47Brady.
37:52Alan.
37:54Alan.
37:55Alan.
38:05Alan.
38:07Alan.
38:07Alan.
38:07Alan.
38:19Alan.
38:20Alan.
38:29Alan.
38:32Alan.
38:42Alan.
38:43Alan.
38:43Alan.
38:44Alan.
38:46Alan.
38:54Alan.
38:55Alan.
38:55Alan.
38:55Alan.
38:56Alan.
39:01Alan.
39:06Alan.
39:08Alan.
39:08Alan.
39:11Alan.
39:15Alan.
39:18Alan.
39:21Alan.
39:22Let's go.
39:52Let's go.
40:24Let's go.
40:55Let's go.
41:05Let's go.
41:16Let's go.
41:18Let's go.
41:20Let's go.
41:48Let's go.
42:12Let's go.
42:22Let's go.
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42:35Let's go.
42:36Let's go.
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42:41Let's go.
42:57Let's go.
42:59Let's go.
43:02Let's go.
43:17Let's go.
43:21Let's go.
43:24Let's go.
43:26Let's go.
43:26Let's go.
43:35Let's go.
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43:41Let's go.
44:03Let's go.
44:16Let's go.
44:22Let's go.
44:24Let's go.
44:39Let's go.
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44:43Let's go.
44:47Let's go.
45:02Let's go.
45:06Let's go.
45:09Let's go.
45:15Let's go.
45:18But I've grown since then.
45:21Oh, how I have grown.
45:23We will have to make an incision.
45:27You're going to use your puppet here to pluck you out.
45:31But once he's dislodged you, won't he go limp and drop you?
45:38I am quite more familiar with your physiology than even you, Doctor.
45:43I know what I can and cannot cut.
45:49The most supreme adaptations are purchased at the cost of inessentials.
45:53Our hosts already carry structures for sight, sound, smell, locomotion.
45:58It'll be quite redundant to carry those capacities ourselves.
46:02So we travel light.
46:04No quaint fins, stalks, feathers.
46:08Terminating in hooks, suckers, or little digits.
46:12We've no use for any of it.
46:14For we have transcended.
46:19Have I amused you, Doctor?
46:22You are truly self-deluded.
46:24You're stalling for time.
46:27It's already too late.
46:28You really don't see it, do you?
46:31See what?
46:32You're jealous.
46:35Absurd.
46:36You have no senses of your own.
46:38You have to steal them from others.
46:41We have inhabited men for millennia.
46:43We have caused great nations to fall.
46:48We have shaped the...
46:49You've stolen everything you ever had.
46:51You are nothing but a thief and murder, a parasite.
46:54You're pathetic.
46:56You're nothing but cancer with a big mouth.
47:00Your friend, the sheriff, will come soon.
47:03Son of...
47:04I believe.
47:05He will make a fine first meal for us.
47:09His flesh will nurture our body,
47:11and your anguish as we consume him will nurture my soul,
47:15to say nothing at all of his.
47:20Now, where will we begin?
47:23You know, it's a curious problem.
47:25With careful flensing of the superior and inferior extremities
47:29leaving the primary arteries intact,
47:32a man can live for hours.
47:34Oh, you can harvest meat all the way to the coaxial region before he dies.
47:39He offers up his pain, along with his protein.
47:43Finally, we can harvest the arteries at our leisure.
47:45But, of course, the flesh of the extremities is tough.
47:51Now, aside from the rump,
47:53the organs are most toothsome.
47:56But bring death much faster.
47:59You think about it.
48:01Let me know what you prefer.
48:03Either way,
48:04as I use your hands to haul forth his smoking entrails
48:08and your mouth to guzzle them down,
48:10the repeated orgasms that we will have with your loins
48:15will be astounding.
48:18You called yourselves our livestock.
48:22But you're so much more.
48:25Oh, I could have been two weeks out of Brady and Jackson,
48:28if that was all.
48:29But I reinvested half the energy their blood gave me
48:33to keep their brains alive.
48:36That way, I could whisper directly into their eighth cranial nerves
48:40just to make sure they understood everything
48:43that I was doing to them.
48:46And Eddie Sykes.
48:48Oh, yes.
48:49He is here with us right now.
48:51Mute and powerless
48:53as I disembowel him.
49:02You're forgetting something.
49:05I forget nothing.
49:08Your arrogance makes you stupid.
49:11What have I forgotten, sweet doctor?
49:14Never mind.
49:18I will know every thought in your head
49:20in just a few moments.
49:23All your memories,
49:25your senses,
49:28your fear,
49:30your suffering.
49:34All mine.
49:45All mine.
49:48All mine.
49:49All mine.
50:22Oh, my.
50:46Sykes knew you'd be blind and deaf once you were out of him, you sadistic bastard.
51:05There must be a way, not to survive, but...
51:43There must be a way, not to survive, but to survive.
51:52There must be a way, not to survive, but to survive.
52:08There must be a way, not to survive.
52:47There must be a way, not to survive, but to survive.
52:53There must be a way, not to survive.
52:57There must be a way, not to survive.
53:26What have you got?
53:27We're communicating through my eighth cranial nerve now, right?
53:32Where am I?
53:34You're in your new home, but you won't be occupying it for long.
53:39There's been some vandalism, I'm afraid.
53:42No audio.
53:42The lights don't work.
53:43You'll also find the neighborhood a bit quiet.
53:47I can still make you move.
53:52We will await your friend's arrival.
53:54And when he comes close, I...
53:57I should mention the plumbing has a terminal leak.
54:03We only have a few more minutes before I bleed out.
54:09I will live.
54:16I will live.
54:18I will live.
54:21Wouldn't you like to know what you forgot?
54:23I would know what you forgot.
54:25The whole time you were forcing poor Sykes to slice himself up,
54:29you were being recorded.
54:31No.
54:32My tape machine was running.
54:33No, no, no, no, no.
54:35The tape ran out a while ago.
54:37But I'm sure the portion that's left
54:40will make for interesting listening
54:42when my friend arrives.
54:46Let me out!
54:48Let me out!
54:50Let me out!
54:53Let me out!
55:22Let me out!
55:24Let me out!
55:27Let me out!
55:28Let me out!
55:29Let me out!
55:32I gotcha hey the antennas left.
55:51I am so right.
55:53Or what is reporting pathologist from the Montague County corner of Robertson?
55:57I'm leaving this recording for you alone, Nate.
55:59My typed report will serve as the official record.
56:48I'm leaving this recording.
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