When a Toronto teen suffers a panic attack at school, he escapes into the city's subway tunnels.

Underground, he discovers a hidden subculture thriving in the darkness.

I'm Chris Tawley here with Laura Mullen from CBC's acclaimed Play Me podcast, presenting Tunnel Runners, a thrilling new audio drama set beneath the city streets. Listen, wherever you get your podcasts.

This is a CBC podcast. Please be advised. This podcast contains explicit language and mature themes.

This is the Shadows.

Episode 3.

Sweater. Music Episode 3 Sweeter These young people

whirling around

confused and sick over the question of love,

they don't even know what love is.

Love is being there every day to make someone's life a little easier,

to keep someone warm, to hold them through the night,

to provide a barrier for them between their tender skin

and the brutal winds of the cruel city.

By giving and caring for, we feel we become a part of.

And in becoming a part of, we find the antidote for the greatest tragedy each human starts his life with.

The separation from mother.

We begin life, two, and one. A life inside of a life, two souls in one body, and then we're

alone. Well, in my case, it's the fracturing into a thousand different shapes being

contorted and violently twisted up into a thousand different shapes until I was finally developed with the utmost of craftsmanship into the perfect form.

In my case, it was that cruel blade that ripped me away from my original wear.

Gladys.

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