The Whisperer in Darkness Episode 3

## Synopsis

Who were the other members of Amelia Fenner’s group? And what is a numbers station?

## Plot

The episode opens with another of Henry Akeley's audio tapes, made on 7th of May 2019. He narrates that the broadcast woke him from his sleep and he tried to 'cut in' but no-one responded. In the morning, a black car was parked outside his house, but drove away when he came outside. He notes that Walter Brown is still watching the house, but also left when he tried to talk to him.

Picking up where the previous episode ended, Kennedy Fisher turns off the radio and grabs kitchen utensils to confront the intruder battering the door. She lies to them that the police are inbound and asks them to step away from the door. When the intruder complies, she opens the door to find no one there. Terrified, she runs to her car and drives back to London without stopping. The next day she and Matthew Heawood talk about her experience, and agree that the broadcast was a numbers station. They note that there was a now defunct weapons testing facility nearby at Orford Ness that could have broadcast this, and they speculate whether it could have been the source of the UFO. They also wonder if a member of Amelia Fenner's group had had a disagreement with Henry and could be responsible for this a way of scaring him.

Kennedy goes to see Albert Wilmarth and plays him the recording of the previous night. He is relieved that Henry was not delusional. Kennedy shows him the newspaper article that they found in Henry's office, and he identifies the five people in the picture as Henry, Amelia, Thomas Marston: a man who killed himself five years ago, Walter Brown: Henry's neighbour who is known to the police, and another woman who Wilmarth knows works at a museum in Dunwich.

Matt, meanwhile, sees a contact of his named Ben at a club in Pall Mall, who used to work with the intelligence services, and asks him about the numbers station. While initially curious as Matt explains his reasoning, when Matt brings up the Rendlesham Forest Incident and Henry's disappearance Ben tells Matt he doesn't know anything, nor anyone who would, and politely bids him goodbye.

Traveling to the Dunwich Museum, Kennedy meets the woman in the photograph, Tania Radcliffe. She asks about Henry and Amelia but Tania claims she doesn't know anyone by those names. Undeterred, Kennedy goes to a nearby pub and calls on her hacker friend 'Slide' to search Tania's phone for evidence of her contacting Henry. Slide tells her that while his name is in her contacts there's no recent communication from him. Kennedy asks Slide to send the whole contact list, and spots Barbara Sayers' name on the list, which scares her. She spots Tania leaving the museum for lunch and follows her.

Two hours after his meeting with Ben, Matt gets a call from a mystery woman using a voice changer who claims to have information for him and asks to meet at Bloomsbury Square car park. When he arrives, he hears the woman's voice in the distance tell him that the numbers station is being broadcast from Orford Ness, and to look for the words 'Babalon' and 'Pleasant Green'. She warns him not to trust Kennedy before a speeding car bursts into the car park and interrupts the conversation.

Kennedy finds Tania standing at the top of a cliff. She asks Tania about Henry but Tania scoffs that she'll never find him because the people responsible are powerful, having caused the sinking of Dunwich to hide something coming into the town. She tells Kennedy that 'the truth is Babalon'. Kennedy reveals she knows she has been in contact with Barbara which causes Tania to go pale. Kennedy narrates that Tania then turns and walks off the cliff edge to her death.

## Cast, Characters, Crew

* Jana Carpenter as Kennedy Fisher
* Barnaby Kay as Matthew Heawood
* Mark Bazeley as Albert Wilmarth
* David Calder as Henry Akeley
* Ben Crowe as Ben
* Gabrielle Glaister as Tania Radcliffe
* Ferdinand Kingsley as 'Slide'
* Nicola Stephenson as Mystery Woman
* Edie Simpson as Child's voice

* Writer & Director: Julian Simpson
* Production Coordinators: Sarah Tombling and Holly Slater
* Sound Recordist and Designer: David Thomas
* Composer: Tim Elsenburg
* Producer: Karen Rose