The Control Group

Built on a foundation of historical relevance and structured by a kind of dream logic, THE PASSAGE is an immersive, psychological, 3D audio experience that invites listeners to explore the collective American psyche from the perspective of its most legendary souls. This is an ongoing audio series penned by a brilliant and diverse pool of writers and performed by an unforgettable cast of character actors. Each week THE PASSAGE takes us on a ride into the land of the dead, traveling with the Ferryman as he collects the recently disembodied and delivers them to the hereafter. Each week we meet another illustrious American spirit and listen as they tell their extraordinary and often terrifying tale in an attempt to influence the Ferryman’s final destination— be it a comfortable place of eternal light, a haunted purgatory of regret, or one of the nine rings of hell. Listen here or on the iHeartRadio app. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Becky (Allie Ficken) and Loraine (Rachel Frawley) attempt to escape from the bunker on Cross Mountain. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the Civil Defense Emergency Command Center, Wayne (Tim Habeger) reveals a secret weapon to TV personality Helen Huntleigh (Mary Kraft). Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The already strained relationships of Dorrie and Wayne Langford (Tess Malis Kincaid, Tim Habeger) and their daughter Becky (Allie Ficken) are completely upended when emergency announcements warn the U.S. is under Soviet nuclear attack. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Somerhill convenes a meeting at the abandoned Founder's Mansion. Dr. Hayes is challenged to demonstrate the effectiveness of his radical treatments by performing a type of experiment that, under ordinary circumstances, is forbidden in scientific research.

Following the incident at the Dixie Hotel, Dr. Hayes returns to Central State Hospital just as its orderly operation is interrupted. In defiance of Dr. Hayes, Verdrey attempts to hide Karen where the hospital’s darkest secrets are kept.

Somerhill receives word of Hayes’s revelation from both the proud doctor and a rogue agent, who is furious at having been exposed. Unsatisfied with Hayes’s explanation, Verdrey begins to investigate the identity and purpose of the S.I.H.E.

Karen spends days confined to a "sleep room." Somerhill encourages Dr. Hayes to become more aggressive in his therapies, just as Verdrey begins to question Hayes's methods. Charlotte is released.

Dr. Hayes realizes he must cultivate more ambitious therapies if he expects to win the fiscal support of a large research group. Long term patient Charlotte grows jealous of the doctor’s obvious fascination with the new patient, Karen.

Encouraged by a private research group, a doctor at a mental ward sheds his ethical restraints in an effort to pioneer a new form of mental cleansing.