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He just calmed down.

And did you go back to the party then and continue dinner partying for a while?

And he did too?

Yes, and he did too.

And then he seemed fine when I said goodbye to him.

He seemed calm, and I left and went home.

And then it was several hours later in the middle of the night that I got the call.

And it was his friend.

And he says, can I come over and sleep on your couch?

If I don't leave my house right now, I'm going to kill her.

He was in this state of fury, he said, and instead of hitting his wife, he smashed his fist into the bathroom mirror and then realized that he had to leave the house or he was going to do damage to her.

And so he says that and you're like, okay, yes, come over now.

Yeah, exactly.

Exactly.

Meanwhile, later that night on the other side of town, his wife went into hiding, literally disappeared for six months and didn't tell anyone where she was because she was terrified that he was going to kill her.

This story made us wonder, is David's friend, is he unusual?

Or does everybody at some point have something dark in them that just tiptoes out just from time to time?

Yeah.

This is Radiolab, and today we're going to get bad, so to speak.

We've done a good show.