Nocturne Hall offers a peek at Season 1 along with a fast overview of ‘The Scourge from Carthage’ in advance of the ‘Flight of the Fallen’ debut.
The ideal way to get ready for the upcoming threat is to hit play on Episode 1. Torsten has endured plenty before Flight of the Fallen even starts.”— Marc Benjamin Langston, Dupont Investigations co-creator and showrunner.
As Season 2 of Dupont Investigations, Flight of the Fallen, launches on Tuesday, September 1, Nocturne Hall encourages newcomers to get up to speed with the entirety of Season 1, The Scourge from Carthage, available now on all major podcast platforms. The season consists of six episodes, each lasting between thirty and fifty minutes, so beginning with Episode 1 today provides enough time to be fully caught up before the premiere.
In The Scourge from Carthage, audiences meet Torsten Somersby, a detective whose extensive familiarity with the occult attracts cases that others refuse. Following the puzzling death of a good-looking tobacco heir, Torsten gets drawn into the young man’s difficult history and a centuries-old plot concealed beneath a 1936 Washington defined by dark secrets, the “District of Crime.” The first season has achieved over 24,400 IAB Tech Lab-certified downloads and received a mention from Washingtonian.
The series’ cold open appears in this release as a video: a young man overcome by madness, convinced he hears golden harp strings in the nighttime breeze, alongside his friend who hears nothing. This offers newcomers a brief introduction to the show’s tone, its portrayal of 1936 Washington, and the subtle unease that transforms the mundane into the supernatural.
For those seeking a more immersive entry point, the show’s visual case file provides a hand-annotated resource that organizes Season 1’s clues as Torsten himself might, covering the Steeples Tobacco empire and its heir’s unexplained death all the way to the Spanish Steps of Kalorama and the corridors of the Cairo Hotel.
“To be honest, the top method for preparing for the next threat is to start with Episode 1 and let the season take you along,” said Marc Benjamin Langston, Dupont Investigations co-creator and showrunner. “I still recall the feeling of completing that first season for the first time. I want fresh listeners to understand that Torsten has been through adversity before Flight of the Fallen even begins.”
Dupont Investigations is the creation of 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 an advocate for LGBTQ+ rights and mental health. Both creators are DC Arts and Humanities Fellows, acknowledged for their exceptional contributions to DC as a premier cultural capital, in fiction and popular-music 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 Season 1 Cold Open
