To prepare for the upcoming danger, simply start with Episode 1. Torsten has already endured plenty before Flight of the Fallen kicks off.— Marc Benjamin Langston, Dupont Investigations co-creator and showrunner.
With Flight of the Fallen, the second season of Dupont Investigations, set to premiere on Tuesday, September 1, Nocturne Hall is encouraging new listeners to get up to speed on the entire first season, The Scourge from Carthage, now streaming on all major podcast platforms. The season is made up of six episodes that run between thirty and fifty minutes, so beginning with Episode 1 today leaves plenty of time to be fully caught up before the premiere.
The Scourge from Carthage presents Torsten Somersby, a private detective whose extensive knowledge of the occult brings him cases that others refuse to handle. After a handsome tobacco heir dies under mysterious circumstances, Torsten is drawn into the young man’s troubled history and an age-old conspiracy concealed beneath a 1936 Washington full of shadowy intrigue, the “District of Crime.” The debut season has achieved more than 24,400 IAB Tech Lab-certified downloads and was featured by Washingtonian.
Included in this release as video is the show’s cold open: a young man caught in delirium, convinced he can hear golden harp strings in the night air, alongside his friend who cannot hear them. For anyone encountering the show for the first time, it offers a quick initial taste of the series’ voice, its 1936 Washington, and the quiet dread that transforms the ordinary into the supernatural.
Listeners seeking a more immersive entry point can check out the show’s visual case file, a hand-annotated companion that organizes the evidence from Season 1 in the way Torsten would keep it—from the Steeples Tobacco empire and the mysterious death of its heir to the Spanish Steps of Kalorama and the halls of the Cairo Hotel.
“Honestly, the best way to brace for the next menace is to press play on Episode 1 and let the season carry you,” said Marc Benjamin Langston, Dupont Investigations co-creator and showrunner. “I still remember how it felt to finish that first season the first time through. I want new listeners to know Torsten has been through the mill before Flight of the Fallen even begins.”
Dupont Investigations comes from Washington, DC-based co-creators and showrunners Marc Benjamin Langston (he/him) and Bryce Bowyn (he/him). Langston works as a long-form writer and attorney. Bryce Bowyn is an electropop musician and advocate for LGBTQ+ rights and mental health. Both creators are DC Arts and Humanities Fellows, recognized for their outstanding contributions to DC as a world-class cultural capital, for their fiction and popular-music work respectively.
Additional Media Resources:
● Video with this release: the Season 1 cold open of Dupont Investigations
● Online press kit: nocturnehall.com/dupont-press
● Follow @nocturnehall on Instagram for cast reveals and previews
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Dupont Investigations S1 Cold Open
