[1.10] The Woman Who Knows it All

Published Jan 14, 2022, 2:10 PM

In our season finale, we bring you the culmination of Tracy’s tortured ordeal. Teaming up with Sonia and Jasmine, they are on a mission to find the Penanggal and stop it for good. But in doing so, they will soon realize that there are more dangers abound, more dangers that come out After Dark.

This episode stars Lauren Sim, Bright Ong, Mehr Dudeja, Serene Chen, Tan Rui Shan, Rachel Chin, Azura Farid, and Shahid Nasheer. Production and direction by Danny Koordi, screenplay by Karl Gan, editing, sound design and mixing by David Chew, with assistance by Gareth Fernandez, Gabby Peng, and Nadarajah Bhairavan.

The overall story takes influence from “Shroud: Jinn”, as written by "Dina Damanhudi" and first published on Wattpad.com.

Finally, the After Dark podcast is an original Mediacorp production developed in partnership with Wattpad Studios, and recorded at IMDA Pixel. Your executive producers are Barry Toa and Sapna Angural from Mediacorp,  and Aron Levitz, Eric Lehrman, and Dexter Ong from Wattpad. Reproduction of any material associated with the podcast is strictly prohibited without the express written consent of Mediacorp.

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Does this thing

have a name?

What are we dealing with here?

It goes by many names

actually.

But over here

when they need

we call this

banana angle

beth

go

hunter of pregnant women.

She came after one of my relatives too,

a distant aunt

but Otto helped her. He told her what to do to keep this creature away.

Sharp glass along the window.

It cuts up her intestines if she tries to enter.

So that's why it couldn't get to me. Previously

there was shattered glass and balls on the floor. But the moment you left your circle of protection, she attacked

to try again

protect your windows or

close them. No,

I don't want to run or hide or lock myself inside anymore.

My husband's right.

I can't live like this.

Enough is enough

people can

not you. She wants

huh?

Oh

what do you mean?

It's not looking for you but

mm hmm.

My baby.

Yeah.

She wants my child.

Oh my God. Is there anything else we can do? What do we do to kill it?

Kill it.

Oh.

Oh Saya, that's difficult.

Many people are there to bertha. It's not easy.

Tell us.

Mm hmm.

We have to try if there's any way to get rid of it for good.

Mm hmm.

Okay. Okay.

Yeah.

Welcome to after dark. A brand new horror audio drama podcast brought to you by Mediacorp. In our season finale. We bring you the culmination of Tracy's tortured ordeal.

Teaming up with Sonja and jasmine they are on a mission to find the pentangle and stop it for good? But in doing so, they will soon realize that there are more dangers abound, more dangers that only come out after dark

Tracy.

Is that you are you okay? Is the baby okay?

What happened? She's safe for now. Mr Tan

also worried, you know, I came back and I saw this mess. I saw the broken bowls in the kitchen. I called the police and they said you were with her.

Well at least you called Jazz.

I'm fine now. Where were you? And why didn't you pick up your phone?

Um I was in the office finishing the contracts. We just

we just closed the client.

And so you turned off your phone? It was one a.m.

I mean, okay. You know what? Never mind forget about that.

What the heck happened here?

There was

a robbery.

What?

Yeah. You see all this broken glass. The robber did all of this going through your house, but your wife she hid in the bathroom so she was safe. No,

I thought you were hallucinating again. Like that stupid floating head that you keep blabbering on

about. Excuse me

sir. We've done the preliminary assessment and it seems pretty routine so far.

We just need your wife to continue assisting us with the investigation.

Okay. I see.

Thanks. Officer

Gavin

do you mind going downstairs to get some breakfast for us

for Inspector chan and mr

Are you sure you don't need me to be around or anything?

Yeah. I think I'm in good hands.

Okay. I'll be back soon I guess.

Mhm.

Seriously? You live with this guy? Yes. I've got some tricks I could teach you. Not now. Fine. Fine. At least he takes instructions. Well. Nice story about the robbery by the way. Yeah. Keep this between the three of us. But that's the official line that we're going with. Alright wait you're covering this up.

It's nothing against you Tracy. You'd be surprised at how often strange things happen and how ill adapt our system is and handling them. So we get creative in order to get the resources we need. You're starting to sound like your old partner. Hold on. There's others who know about these things.

Only a couple of them. But yeah.

One of the perks of being an inspector is you get to choose your team. And these two guys that have picked to be with me, they've had similar experiences with uh these kind of strange robberies let's say.

So they assist me on these cases and the dispatch team knows who to call. Yeah but this one is quite straightforward. The pentangle doesn't just go for any pregnant woman.

She goes for isolated ones that she's personally targeted.

So Tracy.

Do you have any idea on who it could be?

You mean someone who would personally target me?

Yeah.

Most likely someone you know or someone who's been to your house before and knows where you live?

Uh

Well I haven't really thought about it like that but now that you mention it

there was someone,

I think her name was Daphne.

She's my husband's new assistant at work. So she's been to your house before. Yeah my husband asked her to send me some food

and were you alone at the time?

I was well if she knows that you're at home alone almost the entire day she could be the pentangle.

What the heck is your problem?

Oh

hi Mrs Tan morning Daphne. Hi. MS Lynn my name is Inspector Sonia and this is my consultant. Miss Jasmine share one. Hello?

Hi.

Um what's going on?

Apologies for the intrusion but if you don't mind we'd just like to ask you a few questions. What about did something happen? Well there was a robbery and mrs Tan's apartment. Oh my God Mrs Tan are you all right? I'm fine. Daphne, thank goodness.

Wait so what

are you doing here? MS lin. Where were you between the hours of nine and 11 p.m. Last evening.

Excuse me

Why are you asking me this? It's just procedure. MS lin

I had nothing to do with any robbery.

Do I really have to answer that?

I mean if you've got nothing to hide why wouldn't you?

I don't really know if I should say MS lin? The better you cooperate the better our chances of finding the culprit? Do you understand. Fine.

I was out

drinking

drinking. Is there anyone who can verify that?

Um

Yeah.

Mr Tan

what? Seriously? No no no no not like that. I mean I was drinking with the client. The high net worth one. He told you right. They finally accepted our new proposal and we went out for drinks to celebrate.

But Mr Tan left early.

He did

why? He said he didn't want to drink so much anymore.

He said that you were angry with him and that he wanted to spend more time with you.

Mrs Tan. He really does love you a lot you know?

But sometimes he finds all these reasons to avoid going home and I don't know why

was that why you came to my house? I

I only wanted to check up on you I swear

because there's been rumors going on in the office that you're going crazy or something. Ah

Right.

So where did mr Tango? We know he didn't hit home until much later.

I believe he went back to the office to draft out the contracts for the client and you stayed at the bar the entire time. Yes I was with the client. You can call the restaurant and ask them.

We will do just that.

Thank you for your time. MS lin.

Okay I've checked to the bar and they corroborate Daphnis account. She was there the whole night but she could have paid the bar to cover it up. Right.

No,

I don't think she's lying.

I don't think Daphne is the mango.

Seriously?

Yeah,

I mean what she says is true.

I haven't exactly been the easiest person to live with. Hey, please sis everyone has their own flaws.

Don't beat yourself up. Okay.

When I was pregnant I once asked my Iran to get me only only at two AM every night without fail for a week.

You know how hard that is to find at night?

The baby does what the baby does.

Speaking of babies, don't you have to be at home to take care of Rayon. Don't worry. La is handling it. I sent him to get groceries, pick up Reagan after his kindergarten, then take him out to the park for the day

so we can work on this together. Yeah.

Your book of spells is really that helpful. Huh? Spells

you mean like black magic?

Black magic is relative

spells are spells. It depends on what you use them for.

Oh

sorry

it's okay.

I know what you're going through

at first. My husband also didn't believe me when I told him that my helper was using her black magic in our home. Really? Yeah. Yeah.

My imran. I tell you he can be so full of it sometimes. At least. Your husband sounds like he respects you.

Well

I mean I used to be his boss. C good start already for you. But just because two people work well together. Doesn't mean that they can raise a family. Right?

I mean

I used to be the one that Gavin confides in and that's how our relationship started.

But these days

he turns to his assistant instead.

Hey, if you want, I know a couple of things that can help you.

What do you mean? Just some simple stuff, little rituals here and there. Make Gavin a little nicer.

Make the bedroom a little more fun.

Could help when the baby comes along.

Um,

I'm not so sure about that.

You know, I used to be very skeptical about these things myself

for the longest time. I've always thought that what happened with my aunt and what my arto does

that all of it was just superstition, old folk customs that they couldn't bear to let go.

But when I came face to face with it myself,

I realized that there is a lot more that goes on in this world that people aren't aware of.

Things that we glossed over in our busy lives.

Things that we conveniently lets slip in between the cracks.

Things that only come out after dark. You may think they won't harm you. But that's not the case.

These creatures will hurt us the moment they get a chance.

I used to always say

always prepare yourself

and now I can't agree more.

I see.

So anyway,

back to the pressing matter of the flying octopus. Hit monster going after you.

You don't think deaf needs the pentangle. No,

I mean I don't like the fact that she knows so much about me and Gavin.

But it doesn't mean that she would hurt us. So if she's not the girl, can you think of anyone else? Anyone that you recently came in contact with?

Mm hmm.

I guess the only other person would have to be madame. Hien.

She came over to our house not too long ago madam.

She runs her own TCM shop in our block.

It's quite well known. And she's been around for a while. Well there we go. We got another lead.

But no, it can't be her.

I mean

she's helped so many mothers deliver their babies in this neighborhood.

She even helped my mom deliver me.

And did your mother have a brush with the pin angle as well?

I

Mhm.

Can't be,

can it?

It doesn't make any sense.

Tracy. Sometimes bad people turn out to be good and other times good people turn out to be the ones who want to harm you the most.

But she helped me.

She she was the only one who believed in what I said and I wonder why it wouldn't hurt to at least check it out. Right.

But if she is indeed the pentangle then I don't think it will do us any good to just barge into her shop.

We're going to need a plan.

Mhm.

Yeah.

Good morning.

It's usually. Hello Tracy. Look at you So healthy and glowing. Ah what is your due date morning madam. Hen. Morning Mrs go. Uh Should be quite soon I think if all goes well

and

is everything okay with you?

Yeah I've been sleeping much better actually. Oh really? Ah Give me some of the tonic claire I think I also need help with my sleep these days. I watched too many k dramas you know then I would recommend it for sure. Mrs cho

Speaking of which I'm just dropping by to stock up on some more of course of course let me go and get it.

Oh

what about your friends? Do they need anything?

Oh right I should probably introduce them madam. Hinn Antigo this is sonia and jasmine.

They're here because we're moving in to help Tracy.

Mhm.

Moving in. Yeah I'm a midwife and I know little martial arts Tracy. Your friends. Very nice hall. Yeah. Well we heard Tracy telling us how difficult it is to be alone when her husband is working so late.

So as a good girlfriend we thought we'd come right in and keep her company.

Right

right.

That's good to hear

mothers need all the support they can get. Yeah

like they always say it takes a village to raise a child. Always good to have friends that can help one nowadays. Being a mother is not easy you know. I know. Right tell me about it

by the way madam. Him if you don't mind my asking what time do you usually close?

Mm hmm.

Around six every day.

Last night as well.

Mm Last night I didn't feel too good. So I went home a little bit earlier.

About 5:30 I think. I see.

And how long have you been helping mothers in this area?

I'm sorry. Why are you asking me this all of a sudden?

Just curious. You know I can recommend this place to other friends of mine who are pregnant too.

I owe you don't have to worry about experience. La. She knows everything one been there done that shot more than 30 years already. Plus you see she still looks so young and beautiful. And so you know her medicine confirm work one. Ah

you came to get some more tonic. Right?

Just the same as before.

Yes. Please let me go and get it then.

Excuse me. Sonia Jasmin.

Hey, don't forget about me. I need to watch my k drama.

Yes. Yes. How can I ever forget about you?

Mhm.

Okay.

Everyone is in position

now we wait.

Are you sure this is going to work

to be honest.

Not really.

But it doesn't look like you have much choice now, does it?

Yeah,

by the way,

how do you even know Inspector Sonia in the first place? Sonya?

Mm hmm. It's a bit of a weird story. But if I remember correctly, she called me out of the blue About a year ago.

Really? Yeah. I think this was a few months after the incident I had with my helper.

Apparently she had heard of the stuff I was doing to help other women with their own strange cases. Seems like a lot of them. Huh? Yeah.

Too many if you ask me.

So, Sonja needed help with a case of hers. Right.

And I offered my quote unquote consultation services, not cheap. Mind you

speaking of which, I am expecting a fancy dinner from you after we're done with this. Okay.

So

of course,

but

I mean

weren't you scared at all? Me scared please.

I've seen enough to know that our own normal life can be scarier and much more complicated than anything supernatural.

I mean, have you ever dealt with hordes of angry parents as a teacher before?

I can't even bear just thinking about it.

Yeah,

I can't imagine.

But

there must have been some crazy cases that you've worked on right,

like, don't you ever fear for your own life

that you might,

I don't know suffer an occupational hazard or something.

Well

to be honest, most of the cases that I worked on haven't been too big of a problem.

Small curses, straightforward spells, easy fixes, you know.

But that case that Sonya brought me on now that was scary.

But I'll leave that story for another day.

You still owe the one about your helper. Don't even get me started on

Jasmine.

Do you hear that?

Yeah,

it's here

Tracy?

Listen to me. We're gonna make it out of here. Okay,

Okay.

Mhm.

Jasmine to Sonja.

Jasmine to Sonja. Over Sonia speaking over

target, spotted

operation is underway.

Roger that.

Alright, listen up, Daniel paul. What we're looking for is a headless body. When the pentangle detaches her head, she leaves her body behind and this is her only weakness. We find it. We laced with glass shards so that when her head reconnects, the glass kills her from the inside. Got it.

So we just need to find a normal one's body. But without the head. That's right.

Got it,

sonya. She's here. All right, This is it. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.

Jasmine stay strong Tracy. Don't let it know that. You're afraid. He's getting closer.

We have to wait for Sonia's signal

intestines. You see them right? They look like they're heavy.

Oh God,

wait a minute. Wait Tracy. I

I don't think that chest.

Wait Tracy Tracy. What's wrong? Are you in pain way? Think. I think my water just broke. Shit.

Mhm.

Thank you.

This is it

on my count

one.

True.

Three.

But But no sign of the target anywhere,

madam him.

Aren't you guys friends?

This is the reason. You close your shop early. You running gambling then? I'm not gambling. I'm not gambling. Don't arrest me. But aren't you the you know, angle, angle. What's that? Wait then, why do you know so much about the mothers here. Hello. that's my job. Right. I used to be a midwife lately.

These mothers called me and asked me for help.

What's up K. Po like mrs go

wait

what did you say?

Justin

go I repeat. The target is mrs Tracy. Oh God you're hang in there sis.

Oh God. Oh my God.

What do we do? What do we do? What do we do?

Where are you? This is bad, this is bad. Come out.

I can smell your baby your delicious.

Come on. What do we do? What do we do? Come on, think think think

are you still there? What's going on? Ship? Ship ship

captain. Hello.

Please

please don't have me.

He didn't do anything to deserve this.

And you brought your friend along.

Just get away from us. You freak. I thought you looked familiar. I remember you from a long time ago.

Was it

your honor

and that stupid dare speak about them like that or what?

Who's gonna save you? Now get back Tracy.

Keep backing away

back. I'll save every drop of a little bit more.

I'll make sure I finish what I started with your mother. Don't listen to her trace.

Keep moving backwards jasmine. Or at the end. That's right

nowhere and try.

I'm sorry but who said we were running away.

Come get it, you crazy old witch.

You come in the dark, preying on vulnerable mothers and taking away their babies. I hope you rot in hell this is over.

Just one.

She's gone.

She's got a ship. Right come on come on let's get you to a hospital.

Oh my God

look at her. She is so adorable.

Kind of looks like you know.

Well then she better learn to sing like her dad too.

Baby girl. You're the sweetest in the world.

Don't be silly.

Seriously. Look he's even got the pipes for it.

Hi yo there the little serotonin.

Hi. Just us. Oh it's you guys. We didn't scare you. We got you some goodies. Thanks.

Uh Babe.

Oh right right okay. Um Let me get all of you some refreshments.

Thanks kevin

be back soon.

Not better. You got him in line as if I would let him miss the birth of his own child.

So did you find anything? Well we located Mrs goes flat but by the time we got there it was empty. Just little trails of blood all over

and a bathtub full of vinegar.

It's what she uses for her ritual.

Other than that. Nothing. No sign of her. No one's seen her recently.

Looks like she just disappeared.

But I mean at least you're safe. Right. You've given birth. The baby is healthy. Mrs Gold won't come after you anymore trace. But she'll go after someone else.

Another mother. Another innocent child.

We need to find her. We need to end this nightmare once and for all

about that.

I got some bad news for you trace.

When I told my arthur about this, he mentioned that there's more in the region maybe even all across Asia.

You're kidding.

I did a little digging myself. And apparently there have been numerous similar instances. Various been angles, various creatures of the night hunting and killing for many years now.

So what?

We don't do anything.

We just let these monsters keep going after innocent people. Uh in your case you just had a baby. So yeah, please.

But

we'll figure something out in due time for now. You need to rest. All right.

So that this adorable little girl here gets all the love and attention that she deserves. I you know. I know. So cute. Right.

Mommy, don't go chasing scary flying octopus. It's okay. All right, fine, fine.

Who's a cute little baby girl? That's right, you are.

So anyway,

I guess

this is it for now. Yeah.

Yeah, I guess so. Thank you so much for all your help without you. Me and little Sarah here probably wouldn't have made it. Don't mention it.

Just part of the job. Right, jess. Hey, speak for yourself

our dear Tracy here still owes us a fancy dinner. What do you say? Sonja wagyu steak lobster. Gotta be at least two michelin stars. Right guys, please. Gavin is already busy enough as it is. I told you my consultation doesn't come cheap. Right.

I need to support my family too, you know. Alright jess. That's enough. Fine. Fine. I'll just jot it down in my little book of spells.

That reminds me don't you still owe me the story of your helper. Oh yeah, nearly forgot about that.

I warn you first that it's gonna be a long one. Not like I got anywhere else to be right. Is it a good idea to be sharing this chest? Hey, this is a good lesson for her and her husband. Okay. And what helps their relationship helps little sarah and it's so facto helps their family.

So strap in trace.

Where do you want me to begin from the beginning please? As if we just met, I want to know the whole story as if we just met. Huh? Let's see,

jeez, you're such a drama queen. Just start already. Alright, alright, so impatient. Are you okay? Here it goes.

Hi,

my name is Jasmine.

I'm 34 and I'm a stay at home mom.

Mm hmm.

Mhm.

Thank you for listening to this episode and this season of after dark. We are currently working to develop the second season and are looking forward to bringing you more stories and horrors through 2022. As always, if you want to listen to all our previous episodes, you can follow the podcast on the me listen app

Spotify, Apple podcasts or google podcasts,

episode 10. The woman who knows it all was produced and directed by Danny Cordy. Screenplay was written by carl gone, editing, sound design and mixing by David chiu with assistance by gerardo, Fernandez, Gaby Pang and Nadarajah by Ravan.

The overall story takes influence from Shroud jinn as written by Dina Doorman Hoodie

at first published on what Pat dot com. The cast for episode 10 features Lawrence Sim as Tracy right on as Gavin mayor Dude asia as daphne, serene, Chen as madame as Antigo Rachel Chin as Sonya

as a refereed as Jasmine and Shahid bashir as the Bmo.

Finally, the after dark podcast is an original Mediacorp production developed in partnership with weapons studios and recorded at I. M. D. A pixel. Your executive producers are Burrito and Sapna Angara from Mediacorp and Aaron Levitz eric Lohman and dexter wrong from what pad

reproduction of any material associated with the podcast is strictly prohibited without the express written consent of Mediacorp. Thank you again for tuning in to the season of after dark.

Mhm.

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