The Black Tapes · Pacific Northwest Stories

Episode 209 - The Brothers of the Mount

July 5, 2016·37 min·3 clips

Simon Rees confesses to killing the Brothers of the Mount, hinting at bilocation and revenge.

The opening sounds rough on purpose. Alex Regan comes through before the clean narration takes over, with Richard Strand returning one of eleven calls from someone named Alex Regan while she restarts her own intro. Strand stays clipped. The pieces that follow point to someone standing over a bed, a five-day disappearance, and Alex's tired sense that the weirdness keeps stacking up. Then the ads land hard. Bombas and Stamps.com pull the case into donation counts, postage logistics, and a knowing aside about mysterious letters to Portland, Maine. When the story comes back, it does so quietly. A caller tells Alexandra that Amalia is in Russia again, trying to straighten something out with the government. Hiding did not suit her. She hired a lawyer, got on a plane, and the situation is apparently going better than expected. Still, no one sounds ready to relax. The update feels less like closure than one more piece shifting around Strand. Alex ends unsure. Some events seem tied to her, while others stay separate and refuse to show the pattern she keeps reaching for. The credits pull the fiction back to earth: Seattle, Vancouver, Pacific Northwest Stories, and Minnow Beets Whale return the episode to its produced frame. What sticks is the messiness. Calls, revised narration, sponsor breaks, international trouble, and half-heard claims sit beside each other without clicking into a neat answer. That is how the show works here. It lets the case breathe in the gaps, with Alex admitting how much she still cannot see.

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