Signals from the Other Side - Episode 1

*For the creatures, see Aliens.*

Recording tape of Morato Vertaler.

## Characters in the episode

* Alexandre
* Chico Albuquerque
* Dara Venturini
* Guilherme Santos
* Lírio Tellini

* † Adágio Magal Benza
* Alberta Magal Benza
* Calisto Besatt
* Kiko
* Luan Magal Benza
* Mamiza
* Mandy
* Stevan
* Vicente Santos

* Arnaldo Fritz (photo)
* Donisvaldo Magal Benza (video and photo)
* Jerson da Silva (photo and videos)
* Morato Vertaler (videos)
* Thiago Fritz (photo)
* Voytek Nowak (photo)
* William Bonantos (news)

## Creatures in the episode

* † Dark Crawler
* Centomorph (drawing)
* Doppelganger (silhouette and video)
* Fetilapus (drawing)
* Fummu (drawing)
* Interfloral
* Limiant (drawing)
* Macrobium (drawing)
* Memoflygian (drawing)
* Omatidius (drawing)
* Outsider (drawing)
* Rasthropod (drawing)
* Solinic (drawing)
* Spectra (drawing)

## Locations in the episode

* Café's Pizzaria
* Zucchini Farm

> And it's all here. Everything that you'll need. Now, I'll start to anal-...
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> Morato Vertaler
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**Aliens** is the first episode of Signals from the Other Side, the sixth season of the series Paranormal Order. It aired on October 29, 2022.

## Synopsis

The leader and mentor of a group of young people disappears, leaving traces of research on seemingly alien creatures known as Aliens. His tracks end up leading his disciples to the place where he disappeared, where they must be attentive to everything around them in order to understand what is happening and how to deal with the paranormal presence in the city.

## Summary

The paranormal doesn't come to our reality easily, but things have not always been like this. The year is 1997. The internet exists for less than 10 years in Brazil and the main source of entertainment in the country is free TV.

It's dawn. In the dark parking lot of the Café's Pizzaria, a busy little roadside pizzeria, a local employee takes out the trash, throwing the bag on top of others and soon after hearing a voice from someone behind. In the darkness, a silhouette of a man wearing a coat and cap, with a hoarse, aggressive voice. She tries to talk to him, realizing that this man leaves behind a trail of blood in his walk. At this time, Guizo enters the scene, using his camera. The man notices the presence and recognizes Guizo, trying to escape, but a van arrives in place, being driven by Chico, that truns on the lights, illuminating the man who reveals himself as a creature, who agonizes with the light.

Inside the van, along with Chico, Dara and Alexandre join him. Xande jumps from the van and, using his skateboard to get around, advances towards the silhouette. At the same time, Lírio jumps off a roof, using his sledgehammer, named "Leonora", to completely obliterate the creature with the help of Xande. The five gather in the parking lot, along with Mandy, the employee, who scared back into the pizzeria. The five talk about the moment and enter the pizzeria together, making a request to Mandy and then heading towards the two new arcade machines, Chico and Xande dispute a game of Furious Punches. They also notice the TV playing some shows and a soccer game, noticing a strange symbol as a broadcaster. Meanwhile, Dara sits at one of the tables, being attended by Vicente Santos, another employee of the pizzeria.

The five know their goal: to meet with Morato, the leader, mentor of the group and friend of the owner of the pizzeria, who had summoned them again in place, at midnight. Everything would be normal, except for the fact that it was already 1 AM, and Morato is never late. The group discusses the situation of the leader, while Vicente brings a pizza full of Gorgonzola cheese, at the request of Dara. During their stay, a redhead man, 20 years old, enters the place, asking for anything with caffeine, such as an 'Egernetic' or a coffee. The man identifies himself as Calisto, and shortly after talking to the group, he makes a strange plea in a low voice to Mandy, who leads him to the back door. The group separates, Guizo, Dara and Xande stay inside the pizzeria while Lírio and Chico enter the van again to pick some of the many devices present there to try to understand about the location of Morato.

They remember that Morato used one of Guizo’s websites to send his messages, and Chico, visiting the various accounts of Morato, sees that it was not online for a week. Meanwhile, the other three talk, when suddenly Guizo and Xande notice the furnace opening, while Mandy and Calisto pass by. Lírio and Chico return to the pizzeria, and Guizo tells them about the furnace. Upon seeing it open again, they call Mandy, asking her to explain about the furnace, not getting an answer seeing that she tried to dodge the questions.

At that moment, Calisto returns to the place, asking if the five knew Morato and asking the group to come with him. As they follow, they come across an office full of notes, boxes, papers, posters and cabinets. Calisto Besatt introduces himself again, claiming to be part of an organization and claiming to be Morato’s friend. He also talks about being a language expert and questions the group about the term *Dead man switch*. Calisto explains that Morato was investigating a case about *Aliens*, and that he kept the informations in a terminal, but the strangest thing was that the information sent a week ago was corrupted. The only file redeemable was a video, where he explains that maybe he was arriving at the heart of the matter, that several people were disappearing in the same place, a farm in the south of Minas Gerais, in the town of Varminho, and that everything his five disciples needed was in a folder with the symbol of the group. The whole video showed strange interference, with several strange cuts. Calisto explains that this was all that was left of him, as well as explaining about the paranormal, that the creatures appeared because of the Fear and even says that the five were very similar to Morato.

Chico begins to analyze the documents, seeing the list of missing people and realizing that most of them were a family. He also asks Calisto to send Morato’s video so it can be analyzed further. After saving all the necessary information, the group meets and decides to go straight to Granja Abobrinha, where Morato supposedly disappeared. The van trip lasts around 3 hours, with Xande sleeping the whole trip and the other four talking. However, during the trip, Dara and Guizo notice a black van chasing them.

While trying to record the van, Guizo realizes that the recording contains the same interference as Morato’s video, with several unknown symbols. Chico also looks at the recording and begins to rave, saying he saw something passing in the clouds. Dara continues accelerating the van, afraid they are being followed, and the black van follows them at the same speed. The suspect van switches tracks, standing next to them and hitting on them. Dara manages to hold the wheel with a lot of effort and sees the black van tooking a run on the road. Making a curve, inexplicably, the van disappears. Everyone is surprised and begins to argue if it was someone random or someone who did not want them there. They stop for a while on the road, and 20 minutes later they arrive at the Zucchini Farm.

Upon arriving there, the five enter the place, being greeted strangely by Luan Magal Benza, one of the farm family’s children, who was supposed to be missing. They talk a little with him, and Lírio even climbs on the tractor that Luan drove, but, by bad luck, he directs the tractor towards the group’s van, but Dara manages to dodge.

Meanwhile, Guizo begins to make one more recording to show Morato, realizing that some of the corn plants were burned for no reason. The farmer, Adágio Magal Benza, comes near the group and talk. Chico talks about them being a group of electronics that came to fix an antenna from the farm, but it is Guizo who, using a ritual, manages to get information from the farmer. Pretending to have a big beard, Guizo hears from Adágio that Morato left a tape that contained some instructions and something involving the time of 2 AM. After a brief conversation, Guizo asks about the burnt plantation, and Adágio says he knows nothing, and that maybe it was the neighboring farmer who caused all this by being jealous of his plantation. The group separates, Dara, Guizo and Chico go to park the van while Lírio and Xande help Adágio to get the burnt corn.

As they park, the three see one caramel mutt with a little outfit and a cowboy hat, barking at them. The matriarch of the family, Alberta Magal Benza, welcomes them, talking to Chico about Morato’s behavior and the use of the antenna. Guizo and Dara present themselves together, and Alberta explains where Morato worked, in addition to inviting the three to enter the house, telling them to feel welcome. As she leaves the house, the three are impressed by her physical bearing, soon after entering the residence.

Meanwhile, Lírio and Xande follow Adágio to see the plantation, and the farmer shows that these burn marks are not exactly random, but rather very specific, forming a kind of symbol. Alexandre identifies that this type of burn is the result of a paranormal interference, specifically the entity of Energy along with the Knowledge, forming sigils. He realizes that these symbols are similar to those being investigated by Morato, being symbols made by Aliens. They wonder and question about Adágio’s blinking eyes.

Chico, Dara and Guizo enter the house, noticing the local things, such as a cuckoo clock and a TV playing a drawing of a fox and an owl, announcing the next episode. Guizo notices several VHS tapes scattered, having the names "DEMO", another being "WELCOME", another being "1992", another being "The Object" and the last one having nothing. He recognizes the "WELCOME" handwriting as the one from Morato, and deducing that the son Donisvaldo does not leave the room, they decide to put the tape of "WELCOME" to play.

They see another recording of Morato, and Guizo starts recording at the same time. During the video, Morato introduces himself as someone from Satellite Tevelision, explaining about the antennas, radios and televisions, and that the antennas stop working after 2 AM, saying that if something is used, it can burn. He also dictates some instructions with the dog, talks about the water from the well, and says that this video should be passed to his companions. After the video, Guizo, Dara and Chico realize that the farmers, if they had watched the tape, should ask for some kind of identification for the group. The TV works again, alternating between the weather forecast and the missing persons' news.

Guizo abruptly puts the VHS tape with nothing written to play, and the three present begin to get low pressure. The tape features what appears to be a TV recording, with the watermark of the same broadcast station, but with a strange noise. Suddenly, several symbols begin to appear, shaking a little Dara and Chico, who also begin to hear a specific sound. The TV goes back to work, Dara and Chico explain about the strange symbols to Guizo, who says he just heard a noise from the TV. Chico says he felt the same as when he saw the black van. The three begin to check the tapes again, remembering that The Object is a movie. They decide to put the tape "DEMO" to play, where a recording of someone recording from the tree house touches. They see a kind of baffling horror film made by Jerson, one of the missing persons.

Meanwhile, Lírio and Xande arrive at the house after convincing Adágio to go fishing. They again watch the DEMO film and the WELCOME tape, and then decide to put the 1992 tape. They watch another home video of the family having fun during the June's Party around a campfire. One of the twins comes towards the person who is recording, asking if he can watch the horror movie, getting a negative answer and getting sad. The video cuts abruptly, showing Morato, who says there is a secret in the tree house, asking them to look straight. The video cuts again, for a scene dated 9/19/1997, a month before Jerson disappeared.

He records something passing through the window, but the video distorts again and ends. Guizo and Chico realize that this distortion of the video is similar to the same distortion of the footage that Guizo made of the black van. They play the tape again without writing anything, and Chico is again shaken by the symbols, which seem increasingly sharp to him. The group then decides to go to the tree house, while Chico runs to the van to get something. Upon returning, he hands a Tamagotchi to Dara as a gift. Lírio tries to climb the tree house, but breaks some boards, making it impossible for them to climb normally, forcing the group to climb through a rope and a ritual of Xande, who manages to take Dara to the balcony.

Xande is the second to climb there, while Chico and Guizo try next, but without success. Lírio, like a bull, climbs to the balcony using his strength, showing off to Guizo. They notice Luan passing with the tractor, who questions what they are doing and continues to drive along the way. A lot of time passes and everyone manages to climb up, seeing what seems to be a room with several scattered things, such as shelves, boxes and something that makes it clear what this room really is: several monitors showing terminals, a kind of laboratory.

Dara realizes that this is where Morato recorded the video, and sees several documents on the table, as well as various drawings of creatures. She sees on the wall the photos of the residents of the farm along with the drawings pasted, being intrigued by the drawing more to the right. Lírio pulls his binoculars to observe from the balcony the farm, seeing Luan walking with his tractor and Alberta treating the sick cow. Xande stealthily scares him, and he complains about his companion. They go back inside and find the others investigating the room, discovering that the drawings were made by Morato and these creatures were the Aliens he was looking for. Guizo investigates one of the shelves, seeing a larva that falls to the ground.

Chico realizes that the larva is not naturally biological, alerting the group about it. As they discuss what to do with this little creature, Chico borrows some items from his companions, coupling them in a kind of paranormal Energy scanner. When using it, the scanner indicates that in all directions there is paranormal manifestation. Chico also accesses one of the computers, seeing that he needs five inserts of something to work. He then takes the five ID cards of his companions and accesses the computer.

The first computer file seen are research notes made by Morato, saying that at least one Parasite Alien is present on the farm, defined as priority. They also find notes on mysterious people across the lake, mysterious signs elsewhere, need to check the well again, and a mention of a black van. Chico also sees the recordings of Camera 1, recorded two weeks ago, seeing Morato sleeping on the mattress in the corner. The camera distorts in the recording, showing a silhouette approaching the leader. The camera distorts again and there is nothing else there. In Camera 2, they see the recording of someone in a hoodie entering the tree house and using the computer yesterday. The group does not recognize the hooded person, and follows to see another camera. They see the recording from an outside camera, seeing the hooded person climbing into the treehouse the same way the group did. They recognize that the person wears sneakers.

They look at the last recording from another external camera, with the camera distorting for half a second, showing the black van leaning close and dozens of men in suits surrounding the farm. This lasts for 15 seconds, and everyone is surprised by this recording. Meanwhile, Guizo continues to investigate the larva’s trail, seeing that it stops near a bookcase. He finds a kind of secret passage, revealing a table with a computer, a camera, the folder that Morato held, and on the wall, various documents and photos of them interconnected with a drawing of a horrendous creature, in addition to the photo of Voytek, a formem team member. They open the folder, seeing documentation made by Morato about the Aliens, how to identify them, how to deal with them and their categories.

Everyone decides to go back to the van, and in the meantime, they read about the documentation. Chico realizes that there are several types of parasites, and tries to assimilate, along with Xande, these types with the characteristics of the farm people. They also argue over losing Voytek to an idiotic decision, and Xande then calls Calisto to inform him of the group’s discovery and that they will likely stay at the farm to investigate further. He then decides to go along with Lírio to talk to Adágio and try to analyze whether he exhibits the behaviors of a parasite, realizing that Adágio’s blood is green when he pricked his finger with the hook and that he does not recognize colors very well, mistaking red for green.

The two walk away from the man, who continues to fish, and Xande grabs Lírio on the way, frightened by what he had seen. They tell the group about the findings and Dara assimilates him to an interfloral parasite. The five begin to argue about what to do to extract the parasite from Adágio without the parasite being surprised, setting up a strategy to push it into the lake. Guizo approaches him, pretending to see something in the lake, while Xande uses a ritual to levitate something and Lírio runs toward him, but with no success, throwing him to the lake’s edge. Adágio leans his arm slightly into the river, having an agonizing reaction and starting to have total spasms. His fingers begin to distort and his head explodes, revealing tentacles in place. The group is facing the parasite that has just eliminated its host.

## Episode cast

* Cellbit - Game Master
* Carolinga - Dara Venturini
* Felps - Guilherme Santos/Guizo
* Gary - Lírio Tellini
* LJoga - Chico Albuquerque
* Guaxinim - Alexandre/Xande

## Trivia

* One of the arcades at Café’s Pizzaria features the game James Bones, with the image of a cat in a suit. This is a reference to the season’s colorist, Bonees, who uses a picture of a cat in a suit as his Discord profile picture.

## References

1. ↑ **Signals from the Other Side - Episode 1** (*watch on YouTube* at 1h15m47s)
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35. ↑ Twitter. Tweet from Bonees (October 29, 2022)