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ASHES is a serial podcast set in a world ravaged by a pandemic and climate change, where the future is searching for Ashley who may hold the key to civilization’s survival. For more information go to: www.ashespodcast.com. In SEASON 2 “I KNOW ASHLEY”, Maddie and Lindsay, two fans of the podcast ASHES, unite to find Ashley and to solve the mystery of what really happened to her and to Emma, Drake and Dr. Lark. Could there really be future human beings living amongst us, searching for the key ...
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Patient #23, a young girl suffering from dissociative amnesia is currently one of only five patients at St. Vincent Hospital, a financially struggling mental health sanatorium in the Hudson Valley. She was brought here, together with her little daughter Tess, whom she doesn’t recognize, after being found meandering the streets without memory of her…
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We learn more about Dr. Jane Chu and her strained relationship with Elizabeth, her wife, who is desperate to adopt a child. 23’s daughter, Tess could be the perfect candidate, as her mother is emotionally dissociated from her and doesn’t recognize her. Wavering between Elizabeth’s happiness and her ethical obligation to cure a patient, Dr. Chu trie…
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Dr. Jane Chu delivers Tess, 23’s daughter, into Elizabeth’s custody and eases the strained marriage, whereas at St. Vincent the pressure to deliver results for 23 is rising. While searching for more information about P.A.T. on Dr. Sermon’s tapes she discovers his stern warning about conducting no more than two P.A.T. session; the results could lead…
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While skimming through Dr. Sermon’s tapes for answers, Dr. Chu makes the crucial discovery that he invented a method to digitize electronic brain signals of his patients and eventually store them on a medium that was not yet invented at the time of his departure from St. Vincent. Is that what happened? Are Teresa’s, Valerie’s and Aura’s memories di…
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Dr. Chu arrives at an abandoned, nondescript home in a residential area of the Hudson Valley, and is about to leave again, when she discovers an underground laboratory, where an AI named Eden, a sentient supercomputer, oversees a ground-breaking experiment. There are 18 cells and a tank with a gooey mass connected to the AI. Eden can talk and revea…
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When Dr. Chu comes back to, she is joined by 23. The plan worked; During Dr. Chu’s own P.A.T. they connected for a moment and 23 tracked her down to the underground laboratory. Together they unveil that Eden and Emerson have removed 23’s memory, because of her role in preventing them from developing a superior being. She had nearly achieved her goa…
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S2 Episode 4: Preservation + Acceleration
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Failing to trace Ashley, Lindsay and Maddie change course and try to find her closest ally, Drake. Even though nobody seems to have actually ever met him. They find ANGELA FARIA, a photographer's agent who more than just represented him. Convinced that they have a lead, they ask DR. LARK about the fundamentals of the connection between Drake and As…
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Some clues may seem irrelevant but prove invaluable and Maddie and Lindsay leave no stone unturned. They ask renowned New York theatre critic BEN BENTLEY about his interpretation of GAST, the play Ashley wrote and tried to stage. In a last ditch effort, they interview a psychic medium, REBECCA ROSE, whose vision may reveal more than both Maddie and…
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Pulling all leads together, Maddie and Lindsay come face to face with a single possible explanation as to what happened to Ashley, where she is, and who the main suspect behind her disappearance must be. If proven correct in their assumption, the consequences will change their own lives beyond anyone's imagination....including yours!…
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We meet Maddie and Lindsay, our hosts and fans of the podcast ASHES. Together, driven by their curiosity, they question some of the claims and events of the podcast and begin to sort fact from fiction in an effort to find out what really happened to Ashley. Starting with the basics and to get a grip on the fundamentals of the universe, they interie…
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Maddie and Lindsay decide on a practical approach and visit THE STATION, one of the sights where Ashley disappeared. They talk to architect JETT MAURI, about a possible explanation and where to find an entrance into the "city under the city." Dissatisfied with the fact that Ashley just vanished, they decide to question a famous illusionist DAVID BU…
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Is reality based entirely on chemical reactions in our brain? Maddie and Lindsay interview chemical expert Ryan Stoncram, who may have an answer as well as a sweet deal. Perhaps talking to the people who were closest to Ashley will shed light on the mystery of her disappearance, but trying to find Bethany leads to Tewa Ansari and more questions tha…
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Emma (not her real name) introduces herself and tells us about how she overheard a conversation a while ago in Madison Square Park in Manhattan between a young man in a wheelchair and a strict looking young woman and how this conversation sent her on her current mission. She manages to interview this slightly strange young man, named W.C. and finds…
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Emma does her research and begins to interview two close friends, Bethany and Jeanna, who used to run with Ashley back in the days. But instead of finding answers she comes across more questions that lead her towards more research feeding her curiosity.By andreas
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She finds the theater where Ashley worked and interviews Stam, the producer and director and Rosa his partner and actor, who were the last ones who saw her. Paying close attention, Emma begins to see a pattern emerging in Ashley's story, but it is far from usual and contains many strange occurrences. Was Ashley mentally challenged? Emma begins to h…
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Emma is relentless in her research and tries to involve the police, but in a strange twist a young police officer has a confession to make which opens a new path in Ashley’s pursuit leading Emma below ground where she discovers a city under the city. Is it real? She meets the keeper/guardian of the city, Dee, who explains the reason for its existen…
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Emma has passed out and does not remember how she got to the windowless basement where she wakes up and is confronted by her rescuer, a guy named: XTC. She turns the tables on him and interviews him. He leads her to meet Dr. Lark whom Emma has met before and who knows Ashley. The townhouse itself holds a vital clue in Ashley’s whereabouts as does E…
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Emma feels she has solved the mystery but everything is different and nothing seems to be what it appears to be. Emma is driven to follow her intense curiosity to the concluding finale where Ashley together with all the answers must be hiding even if she risks her own life in doing so. In the end we learn about an ancient prophecy and how the end i…
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