We're taking it down a few hundred degrees for this Prank Encounter.
Welcome to Cryo-Storage Industries,
the fake cold storage facility
where mysterious things have a tendency to thaw out.
We've come up with a story that centers around Dr. Ivan Pearlman,
an eccentric professor in anthropology,
whose most recent discovery during an excavation in the Arctic
has made its way to this very storage facility.
Unfortunately, even a tenured professor doesn't make enough to pay the bills.
And unless Ivan can cough up the cash to pay his storage fees,
Cryo-Storage Industries will continue to refuse him access
to his prized possession.
But Cryo-Storage Industries are having their own problems keeping the lights on,
or, in this case, keeping the freezers cold.
And a recent rash of mysterious power failures
have made the temperatures rise in the office.
Now the doctor's discovery is on the brink of thawing out,
and what was once lost to time, encased in ice,
may soon be breathing new life,
or in this case, new death in these hallways.
So tonight, we've got two unsuspecting targets
who have been recruited to help get to the bottom
of this bone-chilling situation.
First up is Kandacy,
who's been brought into the Cryo-Storage family
and will be assisting a fellow employee, Darryl,
with the day-to-day operations of the facility.
Our second target, Brian, has been enlisted by Ivan
on an important mission to help get his discovery
out of the storage facility.
But what Brian and Kandacy don't realize
is that the company Cryo-Storage Industries isn't real,
and everyone they're about to meet are all actors.
And everything they do will be caught on hidden cameras.
Now, Kandacy and Brian have never met,
but when they do, things will start to heat up.
Will the professor's prized possession get the best of Kandacy and Brian,
or will cooler heads prevail?
-First of all, thank you for coming. -No problem.
-My name's Darryl. -Nice to meet you.
Uh, this is the Cryo-Storage Industries. Have you ever heard of us?
I have not.
Okay, basically,
-people store valuables here. -Mm-hm.
[Darryl] Anything, really.
It can be valuable personally, monetarily.
-Mm-hm. -But it has to be below 32 degrees.
But it has to be below 32 degrees. What happens at below 32?
Freezes.
There you go. So let me sort of explain to you
what's gonna be happening today,
-some of your duties. -Okay.
-We're having temperature fluctuations. -Okay.
The equipment is not operating at potential,
so we'll have to go in, check on units.
-Okay. -Ensure everything's operating properly.
Okay.
All right. Let's check in on Brian.
[whirring]
And your name is Brian?
-Brian, yes. Ivan? -Ivan. Nice to meet you.
[speaks Russian]
-What's that? -[speaks Russian]
-It's how we say, "Nice to meet you." -Oh, okay. I gotcha.
All right, I need you to do some things for me.
-Okay. -So today, we're close to my cold storage.
-Okay. -Where I keep my prize
that I brought back from Siberia.
-Yeah. -Have you been to the Arctic?
-I've never been there. -We were excavating.
And, uh, I made a find of a lifetime.
-Really? -Yes. I've been in Iceland for many years.
This time, I find, I think, what could change…
Maybe change evolution.
-Uh, is-- is what-- -What? Really?
Yes.
We have everything here,
from scientific equipment…
-We could have a celebrity's wedding cake. -Mm-hm.
In one of the units… Do you know that streaming service Netflix?
-Mm-hm. -They used to, uh, ship out DVDs.
All the frozen DVDs. They froze them.
-Wow! -[scoffs]
Did he just say that?
Can you think of anything that you might wanna freeze?
Uh… Wow.
Probably something very old that's probably, like, withering away.
So something like that, but…
I'm not supposed to share this, but there is a celebrity,
uh, who's a client of ours.
They have frozen their cat.
Oh! I didn't wanna say animal. I didn't wanna sound too creepy.
-Why? Is that creepy to you? -Yeah, I think so. [chuckles]
Yeah. Like, what-- what's your line that you cross?
-Like, "I will not freeze this." -Bodies… maybe.
But then again, it…
Well… you bury it or you freeze it…
Right.
But you preserve it for it to eventually thaw out,
and what happens?
[chuckles] Great question, Kandacy.
That's what science is working towards. We're--
We're trying to take the technology that the tree frog uses.
-Mm-hm. -All right, stand by with the monitor.
They basically inject their bodies with a type of antifreeze.
-Okay. -It stops the heart.
They're still alive. Like, they're a frozen thing.
And when the summer comes and the spring comes, they thaw out,
-and the frog, the tree frog, thaws out… -[snarling]
…and goes back-- back to living.
So that's like, sort of, science trying to imitate nature.
Mm-hm.
Okay, let's show Kandacy the list.
Now, there should be a list… Oh, right here.
This is our list of delinquents.
These are people who have not paid their bill.
Mmm. Okay.
I need your help.
-Okay, absolutely. -Okay? The cold storage people…
-Um, Darryl… -Darryl.
He does not like Ivan.
-Okay. -Okay.
We-- I-- I may be-- I may be too pushy.
Yeah, people say I'm not nice.
You seem nice to me. I think they're crazy.
People are crazy in America. Everyone.
-People are crazy in America. -They are.
-Fist bump. -Fist bump.
-Yeah. I got you. -See it? And so we hid…
I have not been paying my bill there for some time,
-because I am out of pocket here. -Mm-hm.
They need to pay their unit in full before they can have access to their unit.
-Right. Okay. -Okay?
They won't let me in until I pay.
-Right. -So I give you a check to pay my bill.
Yeah, yeah. Absolutely.
I will send you to-- to talk to Darryl.
-Talk to everyone at the cold storage. -Okay.
-With some information to go into my unit. -Okay.
To get my prize.
Okay. Yeah, absolutely. I'd be happy to help with that.
Uh, after-- after we get my prize,
then we have to meet, uh, some of my colleagues.
-Okay. -I am going to do a small presentation.
This could be worth… How you say?
-The slang. How you say? -Money. Moolah!
-[both] Moolah! -Moolah!
-Cash, dough! -Cash, dough.
-[laughing] Yes! -Dough. Dough.
-Like, "dough"? -Yeah. Dough.
-[Ivan] Dough. -[Brian] Yes.
-[Ivan] Dough. -[Gaten] Okay.
Brian and Ivan are on their way.
Let's have Kandacy meet her new supervisor.
-Hi. -[Darryl] Hi. Oh, that's Brenda.
-Will you, uh… let her in? -[Kandacy] I will.
[Darryl] 7890.
[bleeping]
-[Darryl] Hi! -[Brenda] Hello.
-[Kandacy] Hello! How are you? -Hi. Nice to meet you.
-Have a seat. Glad to have you here. -[Kandacy] Thank you.
So, what has, uh, Darryl told you about the place?
-Um, this is Cryo-Storage… -Mm-hm.
…where you guys keep personal items.
-Very valuable items. -Valuables.
-Okay. -[Brenda] Celebrity items.
-Told her about the cat. -Names-- Oh. Did…
He didn't tell you who it was, did he?
-He didn't tell me the name. -No, we can't do that.
-Well, I'm very happy to have you here. -Thank you!
I think you'll be able to learn a lot.
-You can help Darryl out. -Mm-hm.
-And we're good today? -[Darryl] Yeah.
-Yeah. -No problems tonight, right?
We-- we gonna be…
-[laughs] -Okay. I'm glad I've got you here.
-Another set of eyes and ears. -I got you.
-We had a rough night last night-- -[Kandacy] Yeah.
No issues. And, you know, I think last night was a-- it was a Terry issue.
-Oh. Terry. -So… Yeah.
-I have to have a conversation with Terry. -Yeah.
-[Brenda] Okay. -Okay?
All righty. Well, I'll be back down to visit you guys.
-Okay. -I'm going up to… seven.
-All right? All right. -Okay.
-[bleeping] -[lock clicks]
-[Darryl] Yep. -All right.
She knows the codes and everything.
I think you'll do fine.
-[Darryl] Right? -Thank you.
-Nice to meet you. -And you.
All righty.
-Oh, my God. Terry and I… -Mm-hm?
From the beginning, it's been like…
-Oh, so you're all family. -Like oil and water.
-[laughs] -Hey, uh, Terry to base.
-Kandacy. -Hey, uh, just wanna let you guys know,
I'm in the 800 block,
and, uh, I found another seal failure.
-What unit? -Unit 829.
We have a frost buildup, a seal leak.
This is what we had last night, these type of things.
I've, uh, managed to regulate the situation. Uh…
-Put a temporary seal on it. -Fishing for a compliment.
Do not feed into it. Copy you, Terry.
Oh, my gosh.
All I'm doin' is fixing other people's problems all day long.
Yeah, yeah… throwing me under the bus.
-Hey. Terry! -[laughs]
All right, let's cut back to Brian.
Let's have Ivan give him the checklist about the storage unit.
So, when we get to storage…
-Here is unit number. -Okay.
-You can have this. -Unit number 949? Okay.
Hey, uh, Terry to base.
Kandacy.
I'm getting a weird read on 949.
Seems like possible, uh, seal leak.
Would be helpful if someone could lend a hand. I'm really running around.
-Okay. -Okay. Got it.
-Let's go do a visual check. -Thank you.
Room temperature, uh, 27 degrees… Below 27 degrees Fahrenheit.
-Below. Below. -Okay.
-It cannot come above! -Okay.
-Cannot come above that. -Cannot.
[Darryl] Eh, 946…
-949. -Okay, yeah. Right here.
-So… 3121, star. -[bleeping]
-[lock clicks] -[loud bleep]
[alarm beeping]
It's a little elevated.
-All right. -Uh, crate sealed tight.
-Must be sealed tight. -Very tight.
Now we need to get a visual unit.
-[hissing] -Okay.
Oh, I see this box is open.
Yeah, I do too.
Is this…
I-- I understand this is, you know, a-- a personal thing, but is there…
Is there any danger in this?
In this?
-No! No, no. -Yeah. Okay. No, I was just wondering.
"Boxes should not be open."
All right. Let's show her what's in the crate.
-I'm gonna just open it up. -Okay.
Okay.
-Okay… -Is that a arm?
-There's a body, too. -[gasps]
-Hold on. Let me see. -A body?
Do y'all normally keep stuff like this in here?
No, this is not normal.
All right, let's go. Okay, just go ahead and lock this.
[alarm beeping]
-[door seal hisses] -[bleep]
-[lock clicks] -[Kandacy] Got it.
[Darryl] Let's get out of here. Let's get back to the office.
[alarm bleeping]
Okay, looks like Brian and Ivan have arrived.
-Get ready for the collision. -[whirring]
Okay. Here-- here is the…
Here is the check, $8,000.
I got this.
-[Ivan] Smile. -[Brian chuckles] Okay!
All right, grab a pen. Let's start that report.
So, Brenda likes details. So what did we see?
[doorbell chimes]
Someone's here.
-[Darryl] Is that a client? -[Kandacy] Mm-hm.
What's your access word?
Uh, Lebedev.
Okay.
-Okay, so I'll go grab him. -Okay.
-[Darryl] Hey, how's it going? -How's it going?
-Good, good. -My name is Brian.
-Darryl. Nice to meet you. -Good to meet you.
All right, they're about to collide. Let's get ready.
-This is Kandacy. Go ahead. Have a seat. -Hi.
-How are you? -Thank you.
-Nice to meet you. Kandacy. -Brian. Good to meet you.
-Good to meet you. -Good to meet you.
[Darryl] Okay.
Um… So, I'm-- I'm here for Ivan.
I-- I've brought the check,
-I mean, to-- to pay for the crate here. -Okay.
And I also was just gonna go ahead and verify
that the crate is still here and everything.
-Okay. -So, um, unit number 949.
-949… -[Darryl] Uh… Is that the one we were…
[Kandacy] Mmm…
I think we should tell him.
-Uh-- -[Kandacy] Okay.
Well, we did a check on unit 949 earlier,
and the temperature was set at 39 degrees.
And there was a block of ice inside of a crate.
The crate was kind of open, and it was kind of melting a little bit.
Um, I had noticed inside the crate that there was an arm.
He saw a body. I'm not really sure.
What exactly did the professor say that you…
he has in that unit?
Uh-- He-- he didn't really tell me.
He just… He-- he found something in the Arctic. Um--
He-- he said he found a discovery. He thought it could change evolution.
So you're telling me there's a actual, uh, living thing in there?
I don't know. I don't know. I just… I just met him today.
He just said to make sure the crate was there.
I know as much as you guys do.
So should we go do a visual… check?
[Kandacy] Okay.
Pass lock. I'll get it.
[bleeping]
-All right. -There you go.
-Okay. -All right, after you.
Thank you. Thank you.
-Down this way? -All right.
Yeah.
Okay, things are about to get nuts. Everybody in position. Let's get ready.
-[Darryl] So this is, uh, 949. -[Kandacy] Mm-hm.
Um… The lock is… open…
What's that?
-[Kandacy] Uh… -Okay, hold on a second.
What…
Uh-- It was a arm in the box.
I know. Connected to a body.
Where is it at?
[Darryl] Call Terry.
-Kandacy to Terry. -Go for Terry.
So the crates that had the block of ice with the arm in there,
um, it's no longer in here.
Did you by any chance move it, or know where it went?
The temperature is now at 55 degrees.
Um, it says "cold system failure."
[Terry] Okay, I need you not to panic, but I need you to head back to HQ.
This is an emergency. We're heading into lockdown. Over.
Let's go. Let's go.
-Let's go. Okay? -[Brian] What's goin' on?
[Darryl] Come this way.
-[Terry] What's going on? -[Darryl] Okay.
-What? Okay-- -[Brian] What's going on?
I feel like I'm running around putting out fires. I mean, you guys… [sighs]
What is going on?
-It was-- -Rob, I'm gonna need your help over--
-Oh, no! -Oh!
Fucking shit! Shit!
-What was that? -You tell me!
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
Kandacy to Terry.
-[radio static] -[Terry wailing]
-Sit down, sit down, sit down. -Kandacy to Brenda.
-Oh… -Wait, wait, wait, wait.
We can't be serious right now. This is really happening?
Like, is this really happening?
Guys, this is Brenda. Brenda to base. What's happening?
Okay, Brenda, something's goin' on.
I'm not quite sure what's happening.
All I know is somebody is runnin' around here…
snatchin' up your employees.
All right. I'm comin' to check on it.
Seriously, guys, I… What's goin' on?
[Darryl] Um, I don't know, but we're the only ones in this unit.
What did he bring back?
-Like, I'm not understanding. -He wouldn't tell me. He--
He said it was something that might affect evolution.
-I really don't know. -Affect evolution?
-Like what? -I keep-- He wouldn't give me info.
-He told me to come here-- -Somebody… This girl just got snatched up.
Like, what… I mean, they freeze stuff here,
but I didn't think they freeze human bodies.
He said somethin' about freezing cats.
-I don't know anything-- -He never told me about that. No idea.
[screaming]
-[Kandacy] Oh! -[Darryl] Aah!
-[roaring] -My--
-[roaring] -[Kandacy screams]
What the hell is goin' on here? What the hell is goin' on here?
-Okay. -[doorbell chimes]
-Somebody's at the door. -It's-- it's Ivan.
What's going on? I heard screaming!
Um, we can't let nobody in right now.
There is a huge situation going on.
We'd like for all our clients to stay outside.
Is Brian in there?
I-- I don't know-- I don't know what's going on.
It-- it melted.
-What melted? What melted? -It melt… The crate wasn't sealed tight.
My crate? Is she okay?
-She? I-- -Uh, she?
-Let me in! -We can't let anyone in right now.
-Let me in! I must see her! Let me in! -We can't let anybody in, Mr. Ivan.
-Let me in! -I'm sorry…
-Somebody-- -[Brenda screaming]
-He just got in. -He just got in.
-Hey! What's going on? -They--
They had an error… The temperature.
It wa-- it wasn't under 27 degrees.
In fact, right now, it's… It was at 55.
Fifty-five!
What was inside the storage unit?
My discovery! You let it go to 55?
Okay. Um…
Earlier it was froze. Then it… Everything melted.
And the next thing you know, somethin' just came out and took…
the other lady and swung her that way.
What did she look like?
Is she beautiful?
-Beautiful? -It-- it moved like-- like a… cave girl.
-I don't know. -[Ivan] Is she beautiful?
No! It was creepy!
I will take care of it!
Take care of what?
[Brian] Should we call 911?
[alarm blaring]
[rattling]
[Ivan yelling]
[roaring and screeching]
-[screaming] -Oh, Jeez!
-Whoa! -Oh, shit, oh, shit, oh, shit, oh, shit!
-[Brian] What the hell? -Oh, my God. What the shit?
-[Brian] What the hell? -What is going on, bruh?
Like, I don't understand…
-[Ivan yelling] -[snarling]
-[Darryl] Aah! -[Kandacy screams]
-[growling] -[yelling]
-[Ivan groaning] -[Missing Link snarls]
[sighs]
Oh, my God, I cannot believe this is happening right now.
All right, guys. Send in the patrolman. I'm goin' in.
[siren whoops]
I cannot believe this. Like, is this really happening right now?
F-415, disturbance.
"Cyro" Storage.
I don't know what's going on.
-Some crank-- -Relax. Something ran over there.
It's some crazy lady, runnin' around, snatchin' people up. Like--
I don't know what was in there,
-but something ran over that way. -Relax. Everything's under control.
[gasps]
-Okay, just calm down. -Look!
It's a 415. Okay…
-Hey! Behind you! -[whimpering]
-[Darryl] Behind you! -What is going on?
-[growling] -Behind… No, behind you!
-Sir, relax. Everybody, stay calm. -Behind you! No, no, no!
-Behind you! -It's coming--
-[Brian] Oh! -[whimpers]
[snarling]
Oh! Oh, my God!
Oh, God. Oh! Hurry.
[Brian] Who is this?
-Who's there? -[Darryl] Who's that?
Wait. Can I-- Can I get into my unit?
[gasps]
Yeah, I could tell… Hey, stop it. No, stop it.
I could…
You're being pranked!
[Kandacy laughs]
-Oh, my God. I cannot believe this. -You're on Prank Encounters!
Oh!
Oh, my gosh, let me let you in this door
-because I don't understand. -[bleeping]
-[Gaten] Yeah. -[Brian] Hey.
-[Darryl] Oh, no! -[laughter]
-Hi! -[Gaten] Hi!
[Brian] I was so confused!
What in the world were y'all thinkin'? Like…
Did you know anything about this?
-No, I didn't know anything-- -[Gaten] I'll explain that.
Let me explain the show to you.
Would it surprise you that you were the only two being pranked today?
-Oh, my-- -The only two that were not in on it.
-Everybody else you saw was an actor. -[Kandacy] Everybody else knew.
This is ridiculous. I honestly thought
I was at a real storage facility,
where people really freeze their valuables.
-[Gaten] Well, yeah. -Good job!
[laughs]
How did she come through the ceiling?
I honestly, like… It felt like I was out of my body.
I was confused, 'cause I was like, "There's no way this is real."
-[Gaten] No way it's real. -You were confusing me.
'Cause I was like, "She seems genuinely terrified."
-So it was like… -[laughing]
Kandacy, Brian, I wanna thank you for being on my show, Prank Encounters.
-It's an honor. -A round of applause.
[Kandacy] Thank you. Thanks. Thank y'all.
-Y'all were amazing. -[Brian] You guys were great.
I can't believe this is real.