In The Dark | EP 1 | Saskia's Story
Betrayal Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
iHeartPodcasts | Glass Podcasts
4.6 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
When Saskia wakes up in the middle of the night, she sees something she can never unsee. In the Season 5 premiere of Betrayal, a hidden life begins to surface.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast, guaranteed human. |
| 0:04.5 | Hi, everyone, Andre here. I have some exciting news to share. |
| 0:09.4 | ABC has turned Betrayal Weekly into an eight-episode anthology, which means each episode |
| 0:15.6 | features one of your favorite Betrayal Weekly stories. You'll get to see the people involved, |
| 0:21.9 | hear from people who have never spoken before, and actually see where the story took place. We are so proud and excited to |
| 0:28.9 | share it with you all. It's called Betrayal Secrets and Lies, and you can watch it every Sunday at 10 p.m. |
| 0:36.8 | Eastern Standard Time, 9 p.m. Central. |
| 0:39.9 | Please check it out. |
| 0:46.3 | On the morning of October 28, 2018, |
| 0:50.2 | Saskia woke up in the same bed she always did. |
| 0:53.9 | It was the bed she'd shared with her husband for years. |
| 0:57.5 | She felt her regular cotton sheets around her, and she opened her eyes to the same white ceiling. |
| 1:05.5 | But this morning was different, because the night before, Saskia had seen something. I told myself, |
| 1:15.3 | this is really important and I need to remember anything that I can. In the middle of the night, |
| 1:21.3 | she awoke in a haze to find her husband on his laptop. His face was a glow in the light of his screen. |
| 1:29.8 | What was on that screen, she knew, would change her life forever. |
| 1:35.6 | I was so out of it. It was like I was in a dream, but I also knew that this was really serious. |
| 1:43.6 | I told myself, you have to remember this. |
| 1:47.2 | I just knew. |
| 1:49.8 | And I passed back out. |
| 1:52.8 | In the morning, she could still picture it. |
| 1:55.9 | Flashes of one image ran through her mind. |
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