Some podcast episodes let you escape the present. This one drags history’s ugliest threads into the open, and the showrunners aren’t apologizing for it. Dupont Investigations just dropped its fourth episode, and the new installment uses a late-night knock on a boarding house door to pull back the curtain on a painful chapter of American governance.
Episode 4 of Dupont Investigations, Flight of the Fallen, is streaming now on every podcast platform. The story picks up after a bestial face appears at Rowena Nesbit’s window, sending occult private investigator Torsten Somersby and his partner Nigel Clemmons rushing through the rain to check on Kurt Feuerstein, Nigel’s young friend whose family name may have made him a target.
At Kurt’s boarding house, the pair meets his landlady, Ida Tate, played by Tatyana Ridgeway, who also supported the season’s casting. Ida is not welcoming to two strangers on her stoop at that hour, and she has little faith that police will treat her fairly. Her late husband served as a federal appointee under President Taft until Woodrow Wilson’s administration stripped him of his post, a plot point grounded in a real stretch of Washington history when Black officeholders were systematically pushed out of government. What Ida knows about her quiet young boarder—and the views he mostly kept to himself—hands Torsten his first clue that there’s a purpose behind the killings.
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“Some of the themes in this episode may sound familiar, but that’s only because racial disparity and white supremacist ideology sadly persisted long after 1936,” said Marc Benjamin Langston, Dupont Investigations co-creator and showrunner.
New listeners don’t need to catch up to jump in. Season 1, The Scourge from Carthage, spans six episodes, and Season 2 has been streaming since its September 1 premiere. Across both seasons, Dupont Investigations has surpassed 26,000 IAB Tech Lab-certified downloads and continues to climb. Flight of the Fallen runs six episodes, with new installments dropping every other Tuesday through the November 10 finale.
Dupont Investigations comes from Washington, DC-based co-creators and showrunners Marc Benjamin Langston (he/him), a long-form writer and attorney, and Bryce Bowyn (he/him), an electropop musician and advocate for LGBTQ+ rights and mental health. Both are DC Arts and Humanities Fellows, recognized for their contributions to the city’s cultural standing.
Additional Media Resources:
● Explore the show’s hand-annotated visual case file to meet the world of the series
● Online press kit with hi-res artwork, the full cast list, and synopses: nocturnehall.com/dupont-press
● Follow @nocturnehall on Instagram for previews and cast reveals
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Why it matters: This episode doesn’t just advance a mystery—it anchors a supernatural thriller in real historical injustice, reminding listeners that the forces driving its plot are not pure fiction. By weaving documented racial exclusion into a genre story, the show makes a case for using entertainment to keep uncomfortable truths in public view.
