Red Eye

Red Eye

Air date	October 31, 2026
Writer	Kris Straub
Director	Kris Straub
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Red Eye is the second Special Presentation in the Local 58 series following CLOSE, both of which received a live premiere on Local 58's YouTube channel. Red Eye debuted in the wake of two other new Local 58 episodes, Breaking News and Blood of the Living Dawn, premiering exclusively on the horror-themed streaming platform Shudder after each's respective release was teased in social media posts containing Unix timestamps revealing when each episode would air. Red Eye ends with a third Unix timestamp teasing a release on Saturday, November 7, 2026 at 04:50:32 UTC, which turned out to be the premiere of In-Room Guide on Shudder.

Synopsis

AeroLux Airlines Flight AX113 is departing from Los Angeles International Airport at 11:45 P.M. PDT for a nearly 14-hour flight en route to Melbourne Airport. The pilot announces that there will be weather as they leave LAX, but clear skies the rest of the way as they project to arrive in Melbourne at 7:32 A.M. AEDT the next morning. The plane takes off from LAX with a waning gibbous moon in view as the plane heads toward Australia.

A blinking red light appearing to be another plane in the distance moves across the sky on a perpendicular route to Flight AX113. The pilot advises the passengers to remain seated with their seatbelts fastened in case the flight becomes a bit bumpy as the cabin crew will be coming down the aisle in the next 15 to 20 minutes with beverages. A passenger tries accessing some in-flight entertainment on their seat-back screen, only for all of the content to be unavailable.

The blinking red light appears again in the distance, only to freeze in place in the sky and stop blinking. The plane enters heavy cloud cover as the red light diffracts into a beam. Once the light disappears behind the clouds the plane begins undergoing heavy turbulence. The pilot advises that the passengers return to their seats as the moon appears to disintegrate into the sky starting from its darkened side.

Passengers begin screaming as the turbulence grows more intense. The pilot attempts to elevate the plane above the clouds to reach calmer air. Lightning bolts begin striking around the plane, frightening the passengers even more. The bolts start to resemble skeletal hands reaching towards the plane. Translucent streaks begin slowly raining down from the sky, culminating in a giant translucent hand descending upon the plane to grab it.

The video feed from the tail cam momentarily cuts out. When it resumes, the plane has been teleported into outer space heading directly towards a rapidly approaching moon. A piece of the left wing breaks off and floats into space as the pilot's speech over the intercom has become garbled. The plane eventually crash lands on the moon as a translucent red and white being moves toward the wreckage.

Trivia

• The title "Red Eye" is a double meaning for both the type of overnight flight the plane is embarking on as well as the mysterious red light in the sky that seems to cause the turbulence.
• The tail cam icon featuring an eye with a plane inside it is reminiscent of the logo for Panoptica Press, the publisher that T. Galbraith releases his books under.
• The flight number "AX113" is a reference to the A113 easter egg most commonly seen in Pixar movies.
• When the passenger first switches to the tail cam view, the symbols "L 5 8" can be seen on the airport runway.

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