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Serial

The Captors

Serial

Serial Productions & The New York Times

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

4.581.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2016

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

What's happening on the other side of the door?

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0:00.0

Previously on cereal.

0:07.0

cereal.

0:08.0

Staking my hand out and I mean good grief if anyone was standing outside.

0:13.0

To cheer him up, we did this little dance.

0:18.0

I wonder how long my voice has been going on

0:25.0

the Pakistan and Afghanistan, the Taiwan bow to come home. Question like, you know, the officers on your face,

0:29.0

how do they get their prostitutes?

0:30.0

That's weird.

0:31.0

I thought he was kind of like a tall bad guy.

0:37.0

From this American life in W.B.E.C. Chicago, it's serial.

0:40.0

One story told week by week. I'm Sarah Canick.

0:45.0

The way Bo talks to Mark about his time as a prisoner,

0:49.0

it's almost as if it's divided.

0:51.0

There's year one, when he's gathering Intel, planning

0:54.4

escapes, focused on getting away, and then the rest of it. And the rest of it is

1:00.4

four more years, when his purpose is less sharp, his hope is bluer, there's less action.

1:06.9

Now he's got to endure. And that's in large part because after year one, after Bo's nine day escape, the Taliban put him in a cage.

1:16.0

And I immediately saw that there was no way I was getting out of that cage.

1:21.0

And this is a metal cage or a wood cage or what? Yeah this is like an

1:26.1

iron bar cage. Made for what purpose? For keeping me in it. Bo says it was six parts, four sides plus a top and a bottom,

1:37.0

made of quarter inch bars.

1:39.0

It was collapsible.

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