Adrenaline: The Understudy

ADRENALINE is a collection of Realm’s most riveting thrillers, mysteries, and crime stories. Every season, a new audio series will bring you to the edge of your seat — and keep you there. With episodes dropping weekly, you’ll never be without something to keep the adrenaline flowing.


Current Season: The Understudy


How far would you go to protect your daughter? Carolyn, Bronnie, Elise, and Kendall are bound together by one thing—their four daughters are best friends at the highly competitive Orla Flynn Academy for the Performing Arts. Last year the foursome exploded because of brutal bullying between the girls, but they've since forgiven each other. The mothers, however, haven’t been able to move on. When new threats surface and "accidents" begin to happen—just as a mysterious new girl enters the scene—the mothers take matters into their own hands. But they will have to risk their own secrets being exposed if they stand a chance at uncovering the truth.


Looking for more thrills, crime, and mystery? Just pick any season to start:


Season 1: The Triangle

Season 2: Outliers, narrated by Rory Culkin

Season 3: Memory Lane, written by Sara Shepard (Pretty Little Liars)

Season 4: Overleaper, starring Thora Birch

Season 5: Low Life

Season 6: Echo Park, starring Harry Shum Jr.

Season 7: Ninth Step Murders

Season 8: The Signal

Season 9: Greeting from Salton Sea

Season 10: Dead Air

Season 11: False Idols

Season 12: Chinook, starring Sanaa Lathan & Kelly Marie Tran


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The Signal, E8
Evan Bell brings historian Norman Thorne back as his guest on UFOs Tonight to debate alien abductions with Dr. Elsa Braunschweiger; Swan, Phillips, Becky and Timmy encounter a UFO on a deserted road.
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The Signal, E7
Rosemary and Colonel Sobek combine spycraft and eroticism during a liaison at a highwayside motel; Phillips opens up to Becky; Swan quizzes Timmy on “insect people”.
24 min
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The Signal, E6
Swan abducts Timmy, leaving Becky and Phillips by the side of the road; Evan Bell interviews historian Norman Thorne on UFO phenomena throughout history.
25 min
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The Signal, E5
Becky wheedles information on Timmy’s whereabouts out of the ward Matron while, at the same hospital, Swan interrogates Dr. Foley about the type of patients being secretly lobotomized; Becky attempts to hijack Swan’s car.
28 min
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The Signal, E4
Swan interrogates a nearly-senile Russian defector about the legendary “dead man’s switch”; Becky finagles her way into a government-run psychiatric hospital where Timmy is being held.
25 min
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The Signal, E3
Dayton, Ohio radio talk show host Evan Bell—of UFOs Tonight—interviews an astrophysicist regarding the origin of the bizarre recorded signals being broadcast around the globe; Swan’s crafty handler, Rosemary, attempts to turn Colonel Sobek into an agency asset.
29 min
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The Signal, E2
Becky, a gutsy Kansas farm girl, unable to stop her young brother’s abduction by government men, goes in pursuit while Swan plays potentially lethal mind games with his newly assigned driver, Phillips, a WWII army vet and sniper.
22 min
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The Signal, E1
Swan, an enigmatic spook from a mysterious intelligence agency, pays a visit to Colonel Sobek at his Air Force base office—which is the beating heart of the U.S. government’s secret UFO project—to probe for Classified information.
23 min
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Introducing Adrenaline: The Signal
A sci-fi spy thriller from the writer of the #1 Podcast OUTLIERS. In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, an enigmatic CIA operative investigates the source of a mysterious shortwave signal—generated either by Russian double agents/spies and their handlers or originating from extraterrestrial aliens/UFOs, or both—and systematically tracks the source in order to disrupt the possible activation of a thermonuclear “dead man’s switch.” At the same time, a plucky young woman fights to rescue her younger brother—who has the ability to see alien “insect people”—from the clutches of ill intentioned “government doctors,” while a dogged radio host in Dayton, Ohio uses his UFO-focused show to expose ongoing government-sanctioned conspiracies to hide the fact that extraterrestrial aliens not only exist, but are already living amongst us. The Signal is a Realm production, written by Casey Wells. Listen Away.
2 min
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Ninth Step Murders, S2 E1
Emma and Miyako race to solve a bizarre poisoning as the Nakajima-kai’s influence in Tokyo spreads.
64 min
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Ninth Step Murders, S1 E10
“Our job is to solve murders.” As terrorists and the Chinese army attack in Tokyo, Emma and Miyako must decide what really matters.
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Ninth Step Murders, S1 E9
A deadly attack threatens to tear Tokyo’s fragile peace to shreds.
82 min
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Ninth Step Murders, S1 E8
When a man obsessed with body modifications attacks his girlfriend, he says his hand has a mind of its own. Yeah, right. Right?
81 min
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Ninth Step Murders, S1 E7
A politician is dead. Two of her colleagues were caught on tape saying they wanted to kill her. Case closed. Right?
77 min
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Ninth Step Murders, S1 E6
The child of a Chinese diplomat disappears, and Emma and Miyako are on the case, with a little unwanted help from the other side of the drone curtain.
82 min
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Ninth Step Murders, S1 E5
Miyako and Emma must untangle whether a man who shot a woman on the street is a defector, or a murderer.
82 min
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Ninth Step Murders, S1 E4
Power failures are a fact of life in post-war Tokyo. But now, someone is waiting in the dark.
94 min
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Ninth Step Murders, S1 E3
A powerful corporate chairman crashes to his death on a Tokyo sidewalk. Is it suicide? Or murder?
84 min
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Ninth Step Murders, S1 E2
A severed arm leads Miyako and Emma into the world of extreme body modders, with a side dish of organized crime.
99 min
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Ninth Step Murders, S1 E1
In a city divided by war, a Tokyo cop and a US peacekeeper are brought together by murder, missing guns, and politics way above their pay grades.
94 min
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Introducing Adrenaline: Ninth Step Murders
Ninth Step Murders is a Realm production, written by Malka Older, Curtis C. Chen, Jacqueline Koyanagi, and Fran Wilde. Listen Away.
1 min
97
Echo Park, E9
In the midst of clone protests and police counter-action, James and Terrance come face to face with the murderer.
43 min
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Echo Park, E8
In a shocking turn of events, the murderer is finally revealed.
41 min
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Inside the Making of Echo Park starring Harry S...
What was it like working with Harry Shum Jr. and how did he come up with those voices? What was the process in the writers room? Enjoy this behind-the-scenes look at Echo Park with writer Curtis C. Chen and Director Pun Bandhu.
37 min
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Echo Park, E7
James sobers up and manages to go back to work, where shocking new information brings the true source of the danger to light.
33 min