175 - One Hundred Seventy Five

Breaker Whiskey

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[TRANSCRIPT]

[click, static]

(whispering)

Someone…someone’s here.

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It’s not Harry, I know Harry’s footsteps, I know the shape of her shadow, and this is not her. I don’t…

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I’m in my closet. They’re—whoever they are—they’re still moving around the house, quiet and slow, like they’re…

(a hushed laugh) Well, it’s like they’re casing the place. They’re moving like I used to back when I was robbing penthouse apartments.

And maybe—I mean, I had the thought that maybe it was Pete or something, but—

I mean, it’s a person. Even if my instinct to waking up to someone moving through the house like they didn’t want to be heard was to hide, it’s still a goddamn person. There is someone else in this world and they’re alive.

And I was about to risk it, was about to go out there and see who it is and introduce myself but the closer I got to my bedroom door…

I caught a whiff of something. A—a cologne or a…I don’t know, but it…my stomach fell to the floor. Because I know that smell, it’s burned in my brain for the rest of my life but there’s no way—

[click, static]

Except if I’m right…then I’m in danger. If I’m right, then whatever is going on with Harry might be a lot worse than I thought.

I need to get out of here.

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