WEBVTT 00:00.085 --> 00:07.548 [SPEAKER_00]: The timekeepers dilemma, true crime tales, workplace crime, passion, and running out of time. 00:08.609 --> 00:11.030 [SPEAKER_00]: The night shift has a different kind of silence. 00:11.910 --> 00:22.535 [SPEAKER_00]: During the day, offices are filled with voices, phones ring, printers run, people walk through hallways, but after midnight, everything changes. 00:27.752 --> 00:31.115 [SPEAKER_00]: And every sound seems to come from somewhere you can't see. 00:32.256 --> 00:37.661 [SPEAKER_00]: At 136 AM, security guard Thomas Reed heard a door slam. 00:38.622 --> 00:41.104 [SPEAKER_00]: He was working on a loan inside a distribution warehouse. 00:41.665 --> 00:43.367 [SPEAKER_00]: He checked the cameras, nothing. 00:44.468 --> 00:46.209 [SPEAKER_00]: He checked the loading dock, nothing. 00:47.691 --> 00:52.315 [SPEAKER_00]: Then his radio crackled, a voice whispered, don't come upstairs. 00:53.936 --> 01:01.361 [SPEAKER_00]: Thomas Frost, he knew the voice, it belonged to another employee, someone who wasn't supposed to be in the building. 01:02.402 --> 01:13.390 [SPEAKER_00]: Ten minutes later, Thomas was dead, and the company discovered that someone had spent months using the night shift to hide a crime worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. 01:14.631 --> 01:19.095 [SPEAKER_00]: Beginning, Thomas Reed had worked security for almost 11 years. 01:24.078 --> 01:25.099 [SPEAKER_00]: because it was predictable. 01:26.279 --> 01:27.460 [SPEAKER_00]: Thomas liked schedules. 01:28.341 --> 01:29.221 [SPEAKER_00]: He liked routine. 01:30.222 --> 01:32.943 [SPEAKER_00]: He liked knowing exactly when doors open and close. 01:33.844 --> 01:38.306 [SPEAKER_00]: His coworkers joke that Thomas could tell you to time without looking at a clock. 01:39.227 --> 01:41.448 [SPEAKER_00]: He called himself the human timekeeper. 01:42.889 --> 01:45.951 [SPEAKER_00]: Every night he walked the same route. 01:46.071 --> 01:47.672 [SPEAKER_00]: 1215 loading dock. 01:48.532 --> 01:48.672 [SPEAKER_00]: 1240. 01:50.194 --> 01:58.158 [SPEAKER_00]: warehouse floor, one o'clock, employee entrance, one thirty, upper storage, two o'clock, control room. 01:59.198 --> 02:00.619 [SPEAKER_00]: He had done it hundreds of times. 02:01.719 --> 02:09.443 [SPEAKER_00]: The end-time is noticed something unusual, inventory was disappearing, small quantities at first, then larger shipments. 02:10.383 --> 02:16.206 [SPEAKER_00]: The company blamed accounting errors, Thomas wasn't convinced, he started recording licensed 02:19.472 --> 02:21.534 [SPEAKER_00]: He compared them with shipping manifests. 02:22.154 --> 02:23.655 [SPEAKER_00]: One truck appeared repeatedly. 02:24.096 --> 02:31.341 [SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't scheduled, and it always arrived between one 30 and two A.M., Thomas reported it. 02:32.182 --> 02:34.043 [SPEAKER_00]: Management told him not to interfere. 02:35.564 --> 02:43.250 [SPEAKER_00]: Your security, his supervisor said, not inventory, Thomas nodded, but he kept watching. 02:44.251 --> 02:46.633 [SPEAKER_00]: One night, Thomas saw the truck again. 02:49.833 --> 02:54.857 [SPEAKER_00]: he wrote down the license plate, then he saw something that made his stomach titan. 02:55.838 --> 02:58.039 [SPEAKER_00]: And employee opened the warehouse door. 02:58.760 --> 03:03.504 [SPEAKER_00]: The employee was wearing a company uniform, but he wasn't scheduled to work. 03:04.364 --> 03:06.206 [SPEAKER_00]: Thomas checked the employee roster. 03:06.646 --> 03:08.908 [SPEAKER_00]: The name belonged to a warehouse supervisor. 03:09.768 --> 03:13.531 [SPEAKER_00]: Thomas immediately called his manager, no answer. 03:14.392 --> 03:15.993 [SPEAKER_00]: He called again, nothing. 03:18.825 --> 03:21.627 [SPEAKER_00]: before he could finish explaining the lights went out. 03:23.008 --> 03:24.669 [SPEAKER_00]: The warehouse went completely dark. 03:26.069 --> 03:29.431 [SPEAKER_00]: Thomas grabbed his flashlight, his radio crackle. 03:30.852 --> 03:32.994 [SPEAKER_00]: A voice whispered, don't come upstairs. 03:34.314 --> 03:35.575 [SPEAKER_00]: Thomas recognized the voice. 03:36.536 --> 03:38.077 [SPEAKER_00]: It was the warehouse supervisor. 03:38.697 --> 03:41.038 [SPEAKER_00]: The same man he just seen opening the door. 03:42.119 --> 03:46.862 [SPEAKER_00]: Thomas knew he should leave, but he had spent months tracking the missing inventory. 03:47.580 --> 03:50.402 [SPEAKER_00]: his passion for solving the mystery overwrote his fear. 03:51.582 --> 03:53.463 [SPEAKER_00]: He went upstairs the discovery. 03:54.804 --> 03:57.706 [SPEAKER_00]: Thomas found the supervisor standing beside several pallets. 03:58.146 --> 04:01.088 [SPEAKER_00]: The pallets were supposed to contain electronic equipment. 04:02.029 --> 04:03.269 [SPEAKER_00]: Instead, they were empty. 04:04.790 --> 04:06.151 [SPEAKER_00]: The supervisor turned around. 04:07.132 --> 04:09.333 [SPEAKER_00]: Thomas, what are you doing? 04:10.754 --> 04:11.954 [SPEAKER_00]: The supervisor didn't answer. 04:13.215 --> 04:14.356 [SPEAKER_00]: Thomas raised his radio. 04:17.192 --> 04:18.613 [SPEAKER_00]: the supervisor stepped toward him. 04:19.053 --> 04:19.333 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't. 04:20.574 --> 04:21.434 [SPEAKER_00]: Thomas backed away. 04:22.815 --> 04:27.137 [SPEAKER_00]: Then another person appeared, a second employee, the supervisor wasn't alone. 04:28.498 --> 04:29.719 [SPEAKER_00]: Thomas realized the truth. 04:30.159 --> 04:33.681 [SPEAKER_00]: The stolen merchandise wasn't disappearing because of an accounting error. 04:34.621 --> 04:37.083 [SPEAKER_00]: It was being removed during the night shift. 04:37.963 --> 04:43.766 [SPEAKER_00]: The criminals had been using company trucks and employee access cars to move inventory 04:46.541 --> 04:51.705 [SPEAKER_00]: Thomas had discovered them, and now he was the only witness. 04:52.906 --> 04:54.727 [SPEAKER_00]: The final minutes Thomas ran. 04:55.468 --> 04:58.450 [SPEAKER_00]: He made it halfway down the stairs before someone caught him. 04:59.070 --> 05:00.091 [SPEAKER_00]: His radio fell. 05:01.132 --> 05:04.795 [SPEAKER_00]: The last transmission was recorded at 151 AM. 05:05.495 --> 05:07.477 [SPEAKER_00]: The recording contained only breathing. 05:08.217 --> 05:10.819 [SPEAKER_00]: Then three words, there behind me. 05:13.969 --> 05:18.191 [SPEAKER_00]: Security footage show two employees leaving the building at 203. 05:19.752 --> 05:20.973 [SPEAKER_00]: Neither appeared injured. 05:22.514 --> 05:24.215 [SPEAKER_00]: Thomas was found later that morning. 05:24.615 --> 05:27.697 [SPEAKER_00]: The case immediately became a homicide investigation. 05:29.218 --> 05:31.079 [SPEAKER_00]: But investigators had won advantage. 05:31.559 --> 05:32.860 [SPEAKER_00]: Thomas had kept records. 05:33.580 --> 05:39.023 [SPEAKER_00]: Every truck, every plate, every unusual delivery, every strange timestamp. 05:40.335 --> 05:44.938 [SPEAKER_00]: His notebook became the roadmap that eventually exposed the entire operation. 05:46.278 --> 05:48.620 [SPEAKER_00]: The supervisor and his accomplice were arrested. 05:49.981 --> 05:53.943 [SPEAKER_00]: Investigators recovered stolen merchandise and uncovered months of theft. 05:54.823 --> 05:55.884 [SPEAKER_00]: Thomas had been right. 05:56.805 --> 05:58.586 [SPEAKER_00]: He had been watching the correct people. 05:59.546 --> 06:01.347 [SPEAKER_00]: He had collected the correct evidence. 06:02.348 --> 06:03.569 [SPEAKER_00]: He had followed the trail. 06:04.489 --> 06:06.730 [SPEAKER_00]: But he had made one fatal mistake. 06:10.578 --> 06:11.038 [SPEAKER_00]: He didn't. 06:11.959 --> 06:18.345 [SPEAKER_00]: Thomas' notebooks were eventually returned to his family on the final page, Investigators found one sentence. 06:18.845 --> 06:21.147 [SPEAKER_00]: Thomas had written it earlier that evening. 06:22.808 --> 06:24.069 [SPEAKER_00]: Something is wrong tonight. 06:25.250 --> 06:26.531 [SPEAKER_00]: Underneath it was a time. 06:27.592 --> 06:29.374 [SPEAKER_00]: 130 AM, he was right. 06:30.195 --> 06:34.298 [SPEAKER_00]: For years, Thomas had had watched the clock to keep everyone else safe.