Episodes

Episodes of How It Ends by season

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## Trailer: How it Begins

### Writer

Stephanie Resendes and Micah Jones (episode transcripts by Evelyn Archer)

##### Trailer: How it Begins

> *"My name is Micah Jones. I live in Providence, RI. And I’ve never made a podcast."*
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> Micah Jones describes how and why she decided to make a podcast. She tell us that she moved to Providence, Rhode Island for college fifteen years earlier and "just never left".
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> Micah has suffered from severe nightmares for years, and now they're getting worse. Her therapist, Billie, has suggested countless times that Micah write down her dreams in order to work through them. Finally, Micah has agreed - but instead of writing them, she has decided to record them.
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> She describes a recurring dream she's had since she was a kid. In the dream, she's walking through the woods on a trail. Everything is calm until suddenly she's hit with an overwhelming feeling of being watched. The dream almost always wakes her up.
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> After her friends, Devon and Elia, catch her recording her retelling of the dream, they suggest using it as an opportunity to make her situation better by turning the recordings of her dreams into a creative project. Devon even offers his technical skills and access to his recording equipment. Elia asks Micah to let her read Micah's tarot cards periodically to see what the universe has to say about her life.
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> Micah invites the listener to follow along as she works to uncover the meaning of her dreams (and, finally, get some sleep).
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##### Episodes

* s1 e1: nolan jones
* tarot: the star, the moon, and the fool (post-e1)
* s1 e2: three little bears
* tarot: the hanged woman, the king of swords, and the two of swords (post-e2)
* s1 e3: north american monsters
* bonus: tell me your stories (post-e3)
* s1 e4: the avery
* s1 e5: the same room
* s1 e6: a call with Haden Blackman
* s1 e7: beyond the wall of sleep
* s1 e8: how long?
* bonus: everything is falling apart (post-e8)
* s1 e9: do you see?
* s1 e10: flash point
* epilogue: be careful

### Season 2

##### Season 2 Trailer: I Have to Know

> *"Someone doesn’t want me to know the truth. And maybe some things are better left alone. But not for me. I have to know."*
> A year ago Micah Jones started the How it Ends podcast to try to uncover the meaning of her dreams (and finally get some sleep). After someone broke into her house and left a threatening message, she realized that there's more on the line than just discovering the meaning of her recurring nightmares. Someone doesn't want her to know the truth.
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##### Episodes

* s2 e1: you don't remember
* s2 e2: what cheer?
* s2 e3: lost time
* s2 e4: the package
* s2 e5: schrade
* s2 e6: fox mulder, pet detective
* s2 e7: reappearance
* s2 e8: ursa major
* s2 e9: near misses, part 1
* s2 e10: near misses, part 2
* s2 e11: the messenger

##### Extras

* season 3 announcement
* seasons 1 & 2 supercut

### Season 3

##### Seasons 1 and 2 Supercut

This supercut episode was released in advance of Season 3 as a refresher for previous listeners and an introduction for new listeners. It captures key moments from all previous episodes.

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> Micah's dad, Nolan Jones, died when she was a kid. Micah finds boxes with the words "Nolan's Stuff" written on them. Inside the boxes were tapes with dates written on them, and on the tapes were old recordings of Nolan **[Episode 1: Nolan Jones] .** In a voicemail Micah's mom, Ava, leaves her, Ava relates a memory that unsettles her: the night he died, Nolan said "Don't let Micah see." Micah remembers seeing the same words before, and finds them written on the last page of her old copy of "The Berenstain Bears: The Spooky Old Tree". Meanwhile an old acquaintance from Micah's past, named Luke, reappears in her life **[Episode 2: Three Little Bears]**.
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> Elia reads the tarot for Micah and pulls the Hanged Man card. Elia believes the card's significance relates to Micah opening up about her dad and putting her discoveries out into the world - and that sometimes when we put something out into the world, the world gives something back **[Tarot: The Hanged Woman]**. Elia also pulls the Tower, the Queen of Cups reversed, and the Wheel of Fortune cards. The Tower signifies a time of change and chaos, and a corresponding upheaval of emotions to go with those changes, and warns that it may be time for Micah to reevaluate her surroundings. The Queen of Cups card, reversed, signifies that Micah is bottling up her emotions to her own detriment, and warns that she must lean on her friendships for support and find a way to release the energy of these bottled up emotions. Lastly, the Wheel of Fortune card portends forces outside of Micah's control coming to take hold of her life. Before Elia can explain the meaning of the Chupacabra, Micah becomes upset and leaves, promising to call Elia and Devon later. She arrives at home and finds that her house has been ransacked. Written on the floor are the words "You've been warned" [Episode 3: North American Monsters].
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> Luke tells Micah why he believed her as a kid when she returned from the woods off River Road covered in dirt and scratches and crying that "It saw me". Not long before that day, while walking in those same woods, he had encountered an unnaturally tall figure standing over him [Episode 4: The Avery].
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> Micah sits down with John, an old friend of Nolan's. He tells her about the camera and leather journal that Nolan always used to carry around. Micah doesn't remember the journal and hasn't seen one that fits its description, but John tells her that it had been a gift to Nolan from her and her mother. Micah decides to look for it, as well as the camera. John also tells her that he and Nolan had met up for drinks on the same day Nolan died, in the very bar where he and Micah are talking now **[Episode 5: The Same Room]**.
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> Haden Blackman tells Micah about discovering a small, dilapidated house with a barn in the woods while at summer camp as a kid. In the barn, corpses of rats had been hung from the ceiling by lengths of twine strung through their open eyeholes. Haden surmises from how desiccated the corpses are that the corpses have been there a long time [Episode 6: A Call with Haden Blackman].
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> While recording another episode of the podcast, Micah reads an email she received from a listener named Ben. He relates a story about being in the woods on a walk one day and hearing a voice nearby. He couldn't make out the words being spoken. While it hadn't seemed like a big deal at the time, he found that he was having recurring nightmares of being in the woods alone. Some time after his experience in the woods, his wife finds him sleepwalking in their backyard. She told him once he was awake that he had been staring into the darkness muttering a series of nonsense words such as "give", "of, "see", "return", and "kill".
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> While looking through Nolan's old shed again, Micah finds a box she somehow missed during her previous search. In the box she finds a number of life drawings made by Nolan, as well as the leather journal and camera John mentioned when they met up at the bar. The journal contains her father's scribbled notes, and the camera still has film in it. Micah reads one of Nolan's journal entries: "Been having trouble sleeping. Waking up a few times a week, really disoriented. Ava’s worried. She never misses anything, that woman. Other than that, things are good” [Episode 7: Beyond the Wall of Sleep].
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> Micah discovers Elia and Devon have been talking about her behind her back to her mother for at least a year or two. Luke joins the argument, and when Elia tells him he "doesn't get to talk right now," he tells her that if she keeps asking questions she'll "be next" [Episode 8: How Long?].
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> In her next recording of the podcast, Micah relays that some time after the argument Luke has disappeared and isn't answering Micah's texts and calls. Micah laments not having him to confide in. Someone has also broken into her car and stolen her dad's camera, including the film it still had inside. The feeling of being watched, which she had only felt during her recurring nightmare about the woods, is with her all the time now [Everything’s Falling Apart] .
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> Micah gets a voicemail from Officer Mark Schrade and meets him at his house. Schrade tells her that a camera was abandoned on the side of the road. He affirms that what killed her father was only an accident - a horrible one, but an accident nonetheless [Episode 9: Do You See?].
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> Micah is hanging out with Elia and Devon when she is visited by another long-lost acquaintance: her childhood best friend, Aimee. Aimee tells her that she believes Micah is on the path to uncovering something that the people around her want to keep hidden. When Micah tells her what Mark Schrade said about the accident, Aimee reveals to the group that Schrade and Luke have known each other for 20 years, and that Schrade's son, Tim, and Luke were best friends. Micah is overwhelmed by Aimee's revelations and asks her to leave. Aimee reveals one more bombshell - that Micah was in the truck with Nolan when the truck crashed, and that she just doesn't remember anymore [Episode 10: Flash Point] .
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> Micah receives a voicemail from Luke. He apologizes for disappearing, saying his intention has only been to help and protect her. He says he doesn't know when is the next time he'll be able to call, and that trying to find someone they can trust. He ends his voicemail with "Be careful" (Epilogue: Be Careful).
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> Micah asks Aimee what she expects her to do with the information she's been given. Elia tries to step in and protect Micah, tell Aimee that Micah "can't go through this again." Aimee replies that she thinks Micah has to, and Micah admits she can feel that what Aimee has said is true [Season 2 Episode 1: You Don’t Remember].
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> While talking about the night Micah came back from the woods terrified and covered in dirt and scratches, it becomes clear that there's a discrepancy between Micah's memory and Aimee's. Micah remembers being gone for no more than twenty minutes, maybe forty-five at the most. Aimee tells her, "Micah, you were gone for hours."
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> Later, Micah received a voicemail from an unknown phone number. She and Devon decide to listen to it, and they hear an exchange between Schrade and Luke. Schrade tells Luke he should be there, and Luke demands that Schrade tell Micah the truth. "If you don't, I will." Schrade realizes that Luke is recording their conversation, and the recording ends abruptly [Season 2 Episode 3: Lost Time] .
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> Micah finds a site with no content - just the URL "eatatjims.com" and a password lock.
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> Micah has a new dream. Instead of walking through the woods and experiencing the feeling of being watched, she hears a whisper that multiplies into two voices, then several voices, dozens of voices, hundreds of voices. Later, the group plans a surprise visit to Mark Schrade's house to confront him [Season 2 Episode 4: The Package]. When they arrive, it's Schrade's son Tim that opens the door. He tells them his father isn't available, and that they can't call him later. When Micah presses him, he says Mark Schrade is dead and slams the door.
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> Micah, Devon, and Elia regroup at Micah's house. That evening, Elia and Aimee discover that Micah is no longer in her room sleeping and the back door to the house is wide open. They wake up Devon and go looking for her. Their search leads them to the edge of the woods, where they find Micah sleepwalking and murmuring words they initially can't make out. As they lead her back to the house, the words become clearer: "It's in the trees...he's in the trees..."
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##### Episodes

* s3 e1: see no evil
* s3 e2: hear no evil
* s3 e3: speak no evil