The Night Shift: 1

Case Closed

Macmillan

True Crime, News

4.1 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Tune in for the first episode of Season 11 of the Case Closed podcast, where we're serializing the audiobook edition of The Night Shift by Alex Finlay. It’s New Year’s Eve 1999. Y2K is expected to end in chaos: planes falling from the sky, elevators plunging to earth, world markets collapsing. A digital apocalypse. None of that happens. But at a Blockbuster Video in New Jersey, four teenagers working late at the store are attacked. Only one inexplicably survives. Police quickly identify a suspect, the boyfriend of one of the victims, who flees and is never seen again. Fifteen years later, more teenage employees are attacked at an ice cream store in the same town, and again only one makes it out alive. In the aftermath of the latest crime, three lives intersect: the lone survivor of the Blockbuster massacre who’s forced to relive the horrors of her tragedy; the brother of the fugitive accused, who’s convinced the police have the wrong suspect; and FBI agent Sarah Keller who must delve into the secrets of both nights—stirring up memories of teen love and lies—to uncover the truth about murders on the night shift. Twisty, poignant, and redemptive, The Night Shift is a story about the legacy of trauma and how the broken can come out on the other side, and it solidifies Finlay as one of the new leading voices in the world of thrillers. We’ll release two new episodes every week beginning April 10th! Make sure to subscribe to Case Closed to get notified each week as episodes drop. We don't want you to miss anything. Be sure to listen or download by May 22nd so you can hear the whole story. Can't wait until next week? You can find The Night Shift wherever audiobooks are sold.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Case Closed.
0:06.0	You're listening to The Night Shift by Alex Finlay,
0:09.6	narrated by Caddy McLean,
0:11.8	Brittany Presley, Gary Tiedeman, and Devin Hales.
0:27.0	Prologue. New Year's Eve, 1999.
0:42.0	The night was expected to bring tragedy. Plains falling from the sky. Elevators plunging to earth, world markets collapsing, a digital apocalypse. But Y2K was an otherwise typical Friday night at the Blockbuster video in Linden, New
0:50.0	Jersey. Steve had been store manager for six months now, and it was sure as shit a step
0:56.5	up from his last job at the Taco Bell, where his clothes always smelled of cooked meat
1:02.6	and grease, and where cadres of drunken teens arrived loudly around 11 until he kicked
1:09.6	them out at 2 a.m. Here, they closed at 10, sharp.
1:16.2	The customers were polite. Tonight, mostly couples looking for a rom-com or something scary.
1:24.2	They didn't call Steve pizza face on account of his acne, didn't mock his uniform or leave
1:31.1	smashed and charitos all over the floor. His employees were better here, too, more or less.
1:38.2	The night shift included four sweet, albeit mischievous teenage girls. All juniors are seniors, like the Taco Bell
1:47.0	hooligans. Hell, like Steve himself only a few years ago. But somehow, the girls treated him
1:53.6	like he was their embarrassing dad. After only a few months on the job, he truly felt for their
2:00.3	real fathers.
2:02.2	"'Can I go on break?' Mandy said, shoving a VHS cartridge into the store's machine.
2:08.3	It was the bane of the job, proof that nobody read the be kind please rewind stickers on the tapes.
2:17.6	Steve studied the long checkout line, the new girl, Ella, fumbling at the register next to him.
2:24.2	We close in half an hour, he said, exasperated. Can't you wait? I need you to take register three.
2:31.6	But Stevie, Mandy said, lowering her voice to a whisper, I have girl issues.
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