Delta Green: Ep5 “Hope and Prey”

⚠️ Content Warning: This episode contains strong language and dark themes, including references to violence involving children, graphic crime scenes, and ritualistic murder. Listener discretion is strongly advised.

The investigation in Yuma continues, and the deeper the team dig, the worse things become.

As concern grows over the disappearance of Lucy’s daughter, Hope, the agents begin tracing old connections back to the long-abandoned naval medical annex. Interviews with retired workers uncover fragments of unsettling information… though unfortunately, an alarming amount of it relates to ageing digestive systems and bowel movements.

Still, among the confusion and oversharing, the team begin piecing together a clearer picture of what may have happened.

And where Hope may have been taken.

Trading their battered sedan for a military Humvee proves to be one of the few competent decisions made so far, as the agents head out across the desert following a chilling phone call that points them toward the dead town of Mustang.

A place long abandoned.

Or so it should be.

Because when the team arrive, something feels wrong immediately. The streets are almost quiet. Many buildings stand empty. And beneath the silence, something unseen waits in the dark corners of the town.

Particularly at the old cinema.

Justin attempts to charm a nurse, Ross finally loses patience with the Handler, and Jo may have lost Hope entirely.

The truth is getting closer.

And it’s getting darker.