Speaker 1: If you're listening to this, I'm already dead or I've
Speaker 1: mysteriously disappeared. I don't know. Maybe I'm just being paranoid,
Speaker 1: but I've seen it happen twice, at least one dead,
Speaker 1: one missing. Also that rich and powerful men can keep
Speaker 1: their secrets. If your silence can't be bought, it'll be enforced.
Speaker 1: That's how these guys operate. These recordings contain everything I know.
Speaker 1: I made them throughout the investigation. They upload automatically to
Speaker 1: my cloud. I trust that someone will find them. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm Every Stevens with the Metro Sun Times, and everything
Speaker 1: you hear on these recordings is true. It comes from
Speaker 1: evidence I've seen, firsthand, interviews I've conducted. Please just follow
Speaker 1: the facts. Get the funk out of here now, I'll
Speaker 1: call the cops. I where to God? Okay, let go
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Speaker 1: m hm. Today is August twelve, and I'm still trying
Speaker 1: to decide what to do about this call I received today.
Speaker 1: I was at my desk on a deadline and trying
Speaker 1: to bang out this article on farm a price fixing
Speaker 1: m A pharmaceutical giant is on the ropes as a
Speaker 1: company whistleblower reveals new details in the unfolding price fixing conspiracy.
Speaker 1: Every Stevens, Is this the reporter who covered Wayne Leslie
Speaker 1: during his last Senate run? Yes, it is long time. Every.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, who is this? Well? The last time we
Speaker 1: bumped into each other, well, I guess I bumped into
Speaker 1: you and I could have been gentler. I never did
Speaker 1: apologize for that. I was asking a sitting that are
Speaker 1: a simple question, and you hip checked me to the ground.
Speaker 1: It wasn't meant to be so rough. That was just
Speaker 1: doing my job, So was I. Where's the apology? This
Speaker 1: is it? I'm retiring, cleaning out my desk. I guess
Speaker 1: you could say and found some things that might interest you.
Speaker 1: It's not my beat anymore. I know you're an investigations
Speaker 1: now and you know what I do. You're a fixer
Speaker 1: for Senator Leslie and men like him. Not at all
Speaker 1: curious what I have to show you. Fine, I'll send
Speaker 1: you a secure link. You can send anything in person.
Speaker 1: Fifth level of the parking garage at City Hall. Come along.
Speaker 1: Two years we were together. We told each other everything.
Speaker 1: But then all of a sudden she was acting. I
Speaker 1: don't know, man, it was weird. I got a head out, whoa, whoa,
Speaker 1: we are you going? I thought tonight was a little
Speaker 1: bit of the Benge and Boone and I asked to
Speaker 1: source or contential source. I don't really know. It could be.
Speaker 1: Come on, come on, I had this whole night plane
Speaker 1: we were going to order in. Maybe not wear many clothes. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: I gotta say, you're always working. Well I'm a reporter,
Speaker 1: so yeah, I know that. Okay, what's going on with you?
Speaker 1: You're like super short with me lately. We not do
Speaker 1: this right now? Please do what Chris. I'm looking into
Speaker 1: a story. That's what's going on. Okay, Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: it seems important to tell me about it. I can't.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't. Do you not trust me? I know,
Speaker 1: It's just it's a fucked up thing, and I don't
Speaker 1: want you trying to get involved, because I'll just screw
Speaker 1: it up. Chris, come on, I can't do this right now.
Speaker 1: I gotta go. Okay, I'm sorry. Yep, another solo night
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden she's like sneaking around
Speaker 1: And honestly, I feel awful saying this right now, But
Speaker 1: at the time I thought she was cheating on me.
Speaker 1: I did. I had no clue that she was going
Speaker 1: to this clandestine meet up with some goon, and she
Speaker 1: was right. I would have gotten involved. She should not
Speaker 1: have gone by herself, so stupid. Come on, where are you?
Speaker 1: H Okay, here we go, Drisco Avery, get in? How
Speaker 1: about you get out? You want to see what I have?
Speaker 1: You want this story? Get in? Well? Can you make
Speaker 1: this any less unnerving? A phone? You're jumpie? Your CD
Speaker 1: photos album named client work. Okay, this is explicit? Well
Speaker 1: it would be, wouldn't it if you can bring yourself
Speaker 1: to look closer. It's it's Senator Leslie and that's not
Speaker 1: his wife. That's not a woman, and that's not a
Speaker 1: Bible Lys thumping. So much for Captain conservative values. He
Speaker 1: paid you to make these go away. Gave the young
Speaker 1: man a generous monetary gift wrapped in an n d A.
Speaker 1: But the good Senator is not the only one keeps grolling.
Speaker 1: Is that guy Bergman Fragman and a sprightly young woman
Speaker 1: who is not his wife of twenty years tabloid mogul
Speaker 1: paying you to keep him out of the tabloids. It's ironic. Oh,
Speaker 1: in this guy, I know him, the first baseman, Pat Giles.
Speaker 1: My boyfriend's a big baseball fan, and here he is
Speaker 1: diving head first into this young lady's third base. So
Speaker 1: the people wanted to go public about the affairs, and
Speaker 1: you silence them. What's with the sudden attack of conscience.
Speaker 1: I have a wife too, as it turns out, I
Speaker 1: care very much, which she thinks of me very much.
Speaker 1: So you figure you a tone for being a thug
Speaker 1: until respect you sure and she comes back. There's more
Speaker 1: where that came from. I'll need more proof, you'll get it. Hey,
Speaker 1: let me send those to myself. I'll hold on to
Speaker 1: them for now. I know you guys can't pay sources,
Speaker 1: but maybe you can drum up some sort of licensing
Speaker 1: fee for these photos. I thought this was about cleaning
Speaker 1: up your act. Clean act isn't cheap I'll call you tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We should move fast before the good senator catches wind
Speaker 1: at this. Look, I'm a four term senator. People have
Speaker 1: said all kinds of things about me over the years,
Speaker 1: and when you're in the midst of a campaign, you
Speaker 1: can count on basios rumors coming up. As I understand it,
Speaker 1: whatever story Miss Stevens was investigating was so weak that
Speaker 1: own editor wouldn't even allow it to pursue it. You've
Speaker 1: got to be kidding me, you know me always the jokes.
Speaker 1: This is a massive scandal. Tom What have you got here?
Speaker 1: You've got Driscoes words. I've seen the photos and I
Speaker 1: believe you. But in case you haven't noticed, journalists aren't
Speaker 1: exactly getting the benefit of the doubt these days. Were
Speaker 1: usually their editors at least let them pull the thread.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you used that word thread. That's what this
Speaker 1: paper is hanging by. I've worked my ass off every
Speaker 1: day to make sure we're not another Twitter casualty. What
Speaker 1: do you think is going to happen when these three
Speaker 1: sue us for libel? He says, there's more clients, more lawsuits.
Speaker 1: It's not libel if it's true. Look, Avery normally I'd
Speaker 1: say check it out, see where it leads. But you're
Speaker 1: dealing with thux, You're meeting them in parking garages, you're
Speaker 1: putting yourself atsk, and this guy's asking for money. The
Speaker 1: whole thing smells bad. Drop it. Oh, the story was solacious,
Speaker 1: but it just didn't meet our journalist at criteria. When
Speaker 1: your only sources a fixer, you have no source. I
Speaker 1: wasn't trying to upset Avery. I was. I was trying
Speaker 1: to help her. She was one of the best, probably
Speaker 1: would have won a Pulitzer one day. That's a damn
Speaker 1: saying what happened to her. I wish I could tell
Speaker 1: you more, but you know, as much as I do.
Speaker 1: The word around the newsroom is that her and that
Speaker 1: boyfriend of her as we're having problems, so it might
Speaker 1: be worth looking into. Hey, babe, a little benje and bone,
Speaker 1: little bone and bene. No, stop saying that what you
Speaker 1: like the benge and bone. Look, I'm sorry, I've had
Speaker 1: a really shitty day at work. That Sucks'll tell me
Speaker 1: about it. Is it the little story you're working on
Speaker 1: was working on? I don't know anymore? What do you mean?
Speaker 1: You don't know what? What's the story. I just I
Speaker 1: can't get into it right now. Why not protecting my sources?
Speaker 1: What from me? I gotta take this. Hello, any word
Speaker 1: on that licensing fee not going to happen. Fine, forget it. Listen.
Speaker 1: I was talking to some of the girls. They're willing
Speaker 1: to come forward and be damned. Really, they'll go on record.
Speaker 1: Don't need good lawyers. If you can recommend anyone. Okay,
Speaker 1: If I'm gonna go down this rabbit hole with you,
Speaker 1: I need you to send me those photos so I
Speaker 1: can show my boss all of them with the other names.
Speaker 1: All Right, I'm on my way home. I'll do it
Speaker 1: as soon as I think. I gotta till someone's following you.
Speaker 1: Maybe it doesn't matter. I'm just around the corner. Drisco, Drisco. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's uh August and and uh and today I heard
Speaker 1: a man die over the phone. Car accident, accident. Somebody
Speaker 1: knew Drisco was giving his clients up. And if they
Speaker 1: knew he was talking, they knew who he was talking to.
Speaker 1: I'll return to family, I returned to common sense. I'll
Speaker 1: return to Jesus, my friends. If you reelect me as
Speaker 1: your senator, we can continue our mission to return this
Speaker 1: country to its glory days and remind everyone why we
Speaker 1: are one nation under God. Thank you very much, well,
Speaker 1: thank you all for coming. Oh, thank you, Eumerica. I
Speaker 1: have a lovely dress you have on, dear oh, Senator Leslie,
Speaker 1: Senator Leslie, Miss Stevens, I thought you no longer covered
Speaker 1: politics respectfully. I was glad to be free of you. Well,
Speaker 1: as long as we're both being respectful, i'd like to
Speaker 1: express my condolences for your loss. Steve Drisco. M hm, oh, yes,
Speaker 1: I heard about that tragic And what was the exact
Speaker 1: nature of your relationship with Drisco? You know he works
Speaker 1: security detail for us a few times, But to be honest,
Speaker 1: I really didn't know him that well. Just a coffee boy, right,
Speaker 1: And what about your relationship with the young man in
Speaker 1: that hotel room. You must have heard the old coffee
Speaker 1: boy was stopping that around you. People are sick by
Speaker 1: every one. Thank you so much for coming. You really lovely?
Speaker 1: Is that a new comment? Then? I heard something about
Speaker 1: this so called affair with that gentleman, but everyone knows
Speaker 1: that as a model of Christian conservatism, I would never
Speaker 1: be in such a situation and I will not have
Speaker 1: my character called into question by a member of the
Speaker 1: liberal media. God rest us soul. At first blushed. Drisco's
Speaker 1: clients don't seem to have any connection whatsoever. But the
Speaker 1: connection is actually a simple one. There are men with
Speaker 1: money and secrets from the gas studios. It's the Goss Live. Now,
Speaker 1: here's Guy Bragman with all the latest. Guys, what do
Speaker 1: you got for me? So I've got Kate Upton coming
Speaker 1: out of that new vegan joint downtown. All right, she
Speaker 1: got very lander with her. She's just with this girlfriend.
Speaker 1: But the friend is like super hot. All right, you
Speaker 1: know what that means. All right, let's cut there, Jesus Tyler,
Speaker 1: Kate Upton at a vegan place? Are you trying to
Speaker 1: fucking bore me to death? Look, get your camera and
Speaker 1: stake out that rubbin tug in kay Town seems to
Speaker 1: get a lot of celebrity traffic, right, go, be useful,
Speaker 1: Guy Bergman. I'm a reporter with the Metrosunt Times. Okay,
Speaker 1: then why are you with my paper? Not what this is? Yeah, paper, radio, TV,
Speaker 1: we do everything. Do you also hire fixers to squash
Speaker 1: stories about you? What are you talking about? You know?
Speaker 1: Stu Drisco heard of him. You hear he's dead. Yeah,
Speaker 1: shame convenient that all of his secrets died with him.
Speaker 1: Did you hear he kept copies of the photos of
Speaker 1: clients wanted to disappear. No honor amongst thieves. I guess. Look,
Speaker 1: this type of character seems a little low brown. Weren't
Speaker 1: the attention of a paper of the suntimes alleged stature. Well,
Speaker 1: we're not so much interested in him as we are
Speaker 1: his clients. Did you ever engage Drisco for any of
Speaker 1: his services? Is that on the record, No, this is
Speaker 1: Get the fuck off my set. Oh yeah, I remember
Speaker 1: that reporter. She snuck her way onto our studios, started
Speaker 1: nosing around. Not very cool, if you ask me, not
Speaker 1: very professional. We may have a good time, but it's
Speaker 1: still a serious place of business, and she comes at
Speaker 1: me with these scandalous rumors. I mean, leave it to
Speaker 1: the professionals. Kid, founder of tablet Empire, the Guss. He
Speaker 1: and wife Chaine are regularly spotted hope not being with
Speaker 1: the very celebrities they dig up dirt on. Dude. Hey, Hey,
Speaker 1: i'm working, I'm working, okay. By looking up Guy Bergman,
Speaker 1: I think it's Bregman. Actually Hey, tell me about this.
Speaker 1: Some Pat Giles guy. He's not much of a glove,
Speaker 1: but man, hell of a bat. He was running up
Speaker 1: the Rookie of the Year last season. Why what is that?
Speaker 1: Are they homer away this week? U nine game home
Speaker 1: stand starts tomorrow? But thanks, I've got to make a call. Avery,
Speaker 1: this is this is bullshit? Nice hit. That must be
Speaker 1: the swing that made you runner up for Rookie of
Speaker 1: the Year. Are you supposed to be here? That's a
Speaker 1: badge slicker. Look, you might have a press badge, but
Speaker 1: clearly you don't cover baseball. What makes you say that?
Speaker 1: First of all, you're talking to me during my bat
Speaker 1: and practice. I'm here to ask you about the n
Speaker 1: d A and want now the n d A that
Speaker 1: you got that woman to sign. Source who wouldn't come
Speaker 1: forward about your affair. I've seen the photos. Look, lady,
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about. Nobody knows what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. Why do you suppose that is I
Speaker 1: don't know? Bad information? So you deny you had an
Speaker 1: affair with a woman and then paid Steve Drisco to
Speaker 1: suppress the photos of you and she. Look, I'm a ballplayer,
Speaker 1: all right. I take pictures with people. It would be
Speaker 1: pretty difficult for her to get these particular angles from
Speaker 1: an autograph line. You want to show me these pictures
Speaker 1: you're talking about. I'd love to, but you or one
Speaker 1: of Drisco's other clients had him killed before he could
Speaker 1: hand them over to me. So ah, so this is
Speaker 1: just another one of those crazy conspiracy theories. No, I
Speaker 1: thought you used paper. People were supposed to be better
Speaker 1: than Twitter. We're really not. Baseball is a metal game,
Speaker 1: and being accused something like that it totally screwed my head.
Speaker 1: I went on an over hitless Streek after that and
Speaker 1: was demoted to the miners. So with this woman trying
Speaker 1: to mess with personal life and my job, I could
Speaker 1: see someone her dad, But I was on a rickety
Speaker 1: bus with no way, seeing the deadest summer, going to
Speaker 1: play a minor league game in front of maybe two
Speaker 1: people at the time. She was killed. So I'm so
Speaker 1: sorry if I can't she any light on what happened
Speaker 1: to her. Miss Stevens, and who are you? Can I
Speaker 1: come in? That's a stupid name, Please, I come bearing
Speaker 1: gifts from a senator leslie m. You don't look like
Speaker 1: you're a member of the good Senator staff. No, I'm
Speaker 1: a friend. What's up? I told you it's a gift.
Speaker 1: I couldn't even put it in a birthday card. Well
Speaker 1: you know these days the cards are almost as expensive
Speaker 1: as the gift. A ten dollar card. What fucking homework
Speaker 1: are you going to? Oh? And uh another gift? Ah
Speaker 1: an n d A. How do you know the girl
Speaker 1: who has everything? Here? The new fixer consultant, Maybe you
Speaker 1: should consult your client not to try and buy off
Speaker 1: a reporter. H Look, obviously these are unsubstantiated rumors that
Speaker 1: aren't fit for print in the first place. Otherwise you'd
Speaker 1: have already run the story, right, But another election is
Speaker 1: upon us and we don't want any destructions. So what
Speaker 1: do we have to do to make this go away?
Speaker 1: Take care of yourself. The last fixer ended up dead.
Speaker 1: Senator Leslie just sent his new fixer to try and
Speaker 1: buy me off. Still don't think this is a story
Speaker 1: money murder, politicians, video moguls, athletes. Oh I'm sorry, is
Speaker 1: this boring to you? It's chantilizing tabloid fodder, but it's
Speaker 1: unsubstantiated and it's not news. Speaking of tabloid fodder, I
Speaker 1: hear you're harassing guy Bregman. I believe it's Berkman. Wait,
Speaker 1: how do you hear that he called to complain about you?
Speaker 1: People sure are up in arms about a non story,
Speaker 1: wouldn't you if someone was going after you with these allegations.
Speaker 1: People don't drop on the loops of cash on your
Speaker 1: coffee table to squash allegations. Offering to buy your silence
Speaker 1: is not incriminating, then I'll keep digging. You'll stop digging.
Speaker 1: I told you to drop this, and you went rogue. Anyway,
Speaker 1: if you don't knock this off, you'll be looking for
Speaker 1: a new job, and the market does not look good
Speaker 1: for journalists right now. I understand Avia always upset with
Speaker 1: my decision, but it was for her own good, maybe
Speaker 1: as she actually listens. Well, who knows who actually killed her?
Speaker 1: That's for you to figure out. All I know is
Speaker 1: that everything I did I did the name of protecting
Speaker 1: the integrity of the newspaper. That's the job of needitor.
Speaker 1: If a story is no good, you kill it. This
Speaker 1: is Avery Stevens from Metros sometimes calling again. I saw
Speaker 1: a picture of you with a bunch of other volunteers
Speaker 1: from Senator Leslie's last campaign and well, I think I
Speaker 1: saw another photo of you recently that I'd like to
Speaker 1: talk about. Please call me. Hey, oh, miss Stevens, Sorry
Speaker 1: I didn't see there, Mr Bergman, Bregman, whatever, what do
Speaker 1: you want? Just doubt for a little stroll like yourself.
Speaker 1: But now that you mention it, how much you drop
Speaker 1: this whole hush money and the a story as a
Speaker 1: professional courtesy? Professional courtesy? Sure we're peers, after all, you're
Speaker 1: a tabloid rag. I work for a newspaper that's been
Speaker 1: around since the Suffragets. Don't call us Pierce. My tabloid
Speaker 1: rag can expose things in your life too. I'd be
Speaker 1: careful if I were you, or else you'll have me
Speaker 1: killed like Drisco. No, of course not. I'll just make
Speaker 1: you wish you were dead. Hello, Hi, um, every Yes,
Speaker 1: who's this evany I don't know if you remember me.
Speaker 1: I'm an intern at the Times. We talked in the
Speaker 1: kitchen one time, right, Yes, I remember. What's up, tiffany Um.
Speaker 1: I was wondering if I could talk to you about something.
Speaker 1: Maybe we could meet up somewhere. I'm sure I'll be
Speaker 1: back at the office in ten No. Um, not at
Speaker 1: the office somewhere off, m thanks for agreeing to meet
Speaker 1: me here. I just I didn't want to talk about
Speaker 1: this at the office. Sure, what's going on? I couldn't
Speaker 1: help over hearing the other day you're looking into that
Speaker 1: guy who paid women to keep quiet. There was one
Speaker 1: man in there as well. Really, yeah, politician, right, of course,
Speaker 1: what about it, Tiffany? I just thought maybe I should
Speaker 1: let you know that that guy gave me an indie
Speaker 1: design too. Just go, any aid you. Well, Actually it
Speaker 1: was more like, if you don't sign this, your career
Speaker 1: is over kind of thing. All right? Fuck? Who were
Speaker 1: you with? Who was he working on? Behalf of uh?
Speaker 1: Tom as in our editor Tom. Yeah, I'm sorry. Oh
Speaker 1: I'm so fucking stupidl No, No, you aren't. Fuckka. Well,
Speaker 1: now I know why Tom has been trying so hard
Speaker 1: to kill this story. He is part of the story.
Speaker 1: I suppose I could have guessed Tom the senator Bergman Bergman.
Speaker 1: They're all part of the old boys club in town.
Speaker 1: They all used Drisco to keep their secrets categorically false. Look,
Speaker 1: sometimes young interns developed these school girl crushes because I'm
Speaker 1: the boss, and they make up these relationships in their heads.
Speaker 1: I don't know what she told avery. But I'm a
Speaker 1: happily married man for over three decades. To suggest I've
Speaker 1: been unfaithful is crazy, simple as that. Okay, judging by
Speaker 1: the pacing now, it's probably not a good time to
Speaker 1: talk either. Then I need a drink. Look, you've been
Speaker 1: avoiding me. It's been a crazy couple of weeks. No, no,
Speaker 1: long before that. Yes, I have okay, good? Why you
Speaker 1: know why? No? No, I don't ave you barely pay
Speaker 1: attention to me. We haven't fucked in like, whike, come on,
Speaker 1: this hasn't been working for a while. Yeah, well, you
Speaker 1: know what that's breaking news to me. No, it's not.
Speaker 1: You've been wanting more than I can give you for
Speaker 1: a long time. We've been fighting. We haven't. I've been trying.
Speaker 1: I've actually been trying really hard to be nice and
Speaker 1: I've seen it. But the thing I've realized that I
Speaker 1: don't want to try, and that's not fair. Wow, wow,
Speaker 1: you know what? You know? What's not fair is that
Speaker 1: you've always cared more about your job than me. Kind
Speaker 1: of act. I don't know if it's that you're threatened
Speaker 1: by my career, your career, your career, babe, you're a
Speaker 1: typer really, why would I be threatened by some dumb
Speaker 1: little job. Wow, I guess that clears that up. You
Speaker 1: can go now, Avery, Please, we're good together, you know,
Speaker 1: tell me the truth. Tell it to me because I
Speaker 1: know you've been sleeping with someone else and you're just
Speaker 1: breaking up with me, So you can stop feeling like
Speaker 1: a little slut. I know it. Okay, Wow, I am
Speaker 1: so fucking done. Give me my house keeps back and
Speaker 1: get out such a bit ship the funk out, hey
Speaker 1: my key. Yeah. I was upset at the time, but
Speaker 1: I mean to be honest, I didn't take the break
Speaker 1: up very seriously. Look, we had broken up like a
Speaker 1: million times before, and she always took me back. I
Speaker 1: just figured she was just stressed with work and make
Speaker 1: up once things calmed down, and you know, and I
Speaker 1: got a call that she did she been killed. M hmm. Look,
Speaker 1: it just sucks because we had a really, really good thing.
Speaker 1: You know. I miss her, I really I miss Avery,
Speaker 1: and I don't know what to do right now. Hey,
Speaker 1: have you seen Tiffany Tiffany the intern, soft spoken blonde girl.
Speaker 1: Her cubicles cleared out. Oh yeah, she isn't here anymore.
Speaker 1: I hear she just stopped showing up for work. Well,
Speaker 1: did she come in to pick up her stuff for anything?
Speaker 1: Through herself off? And no, it sounds like she just
Speaker 1: went ay. Well, so people were like interns disappear all
Speaker 1: the time. They realized that this game is not for them,
Speaker 1: they moved back home. Whatever. But what I'm wondering is,
Speaker 1: did Tiffany disappear the way dress code did end? In
Speaker 1: my next? Hello? Hi, um, Avery, who's this the guy
Speaker 1: who'swing you messed up? Listen? If you're about to threaten me,
Speaker 1: you better take a number. No, no, no threats, listen.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to tell you off the record that
Speaker 1: will Um. You're right, Okay, I did cheat all my wife,
Speaker 1: but you're on the road for games a year. I mean,
Speaker 1: mistakes happen, but that's all. It was a mistake. And
Speaker 1: yes I did hire a fix here to keep re quiet,
Speaker 1: but again off the record. The center and the tabloid
Speaker 1: guy their season ticket holders, right, and we're talking after
Speaker 1: a game about how Drisco is going to reporter and
Speaker 1: and those two guys were talking about making him go away.
Speaker 1: Senator Leslie is the one that had the idea of
Speaker 1: making it look like a car crash. Anyway, I'm telling
Speaker 1: you all this so that you'll trust me, and so
Speaker 1: that you can do the story about those two, you know,
Speaker 1: and the payments and hit on Drisco. But please, I'm
Speaker 1: asking you to leave me out of it, all right.
Speaker 1: I'm a good guy. My wife's a good woman. But
Speaker 1: but our marriage has been on the rocks for a
Speaker 1: while now, and just just let me work things out
Speaker 1: with my wife. First of all, just saying off the
Speaker 1: record doesn't make something off the record. Both parties have
Speaker 1: to agree, so everything you just said on the record. Second,
Speaker 1: this isn't about you or your marriage or your swing.
Speaker 1: This is about silencing women and one man. I'm doing
Speaker 1: this story. Period. Well you did watch yourself. If you're
Speaker 1: listening to this, I'm already dead or I've mysteriously disappeared.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but I
Speaker 1: have seen it happen twice, at least one dead, one missing.
Speaker 1: Also that rich and powerful men can keep their secrets.
Speaker 1: If your silence can't be bought, it'll be enforced. That's
Speaker 1: how these guys operate. These recordings contain everything I know
Speaker 1: I made them throughout the investigation. They upload automatically to
Speaker 1: my cloud. I trust that someone will find them. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm every Stevens with the Metro Sun Times, and everything
Speaker 1: you hear on these recordings is true. It comes from
Speaker 1: evidence I've seen, firsthand, interviews I've conducted. Please just follow
Speaker 1: the facts. Get the funk out of here now, I'll
Speaker 1: call the cops. I swear to God. No go of
Speaker 1: my phone. Yeah, you've reached the end of the investigation.
Speaker 1: It's time to decide who you think Avery's killer is.
Speaker 1: Here are your suspects. Avery's boyfriend, Chris. I know you
Speaker 1: can sleep on with someone else, and you're just breaking
Speaker 1: up with me, so you can stop feeling like a
Speaker 1: little slut. I ait the politician, Senator Leslie. I will
Speaker 1: not have my character called into question by a member
Speaker 1: of the liberal media. The tabloid mogul Guy Bregman. I'll
Speaker 1: just make you wish you were dead. The baseball player
Speaker 1: Pat Giles. I could see someone in her dad or
Speaker 1: her editor, Tom. That's the job of an editor. If
Speaker 1: a story is no good, you kill it. We'll be
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Speaker 1: Now it's time to find out who killed Avery. Avery's
Speaker 1: killer was her boyfriend Chris. Chris had been feeling ignored
Speaker 1: and emasculated by Avery and had become paranoid that she
Speaker 1: was leaving him for another man. The time I thought
Speaker 1: she was cheating on me. Tell me the truth. Tell
Speaker 1: to me, because I know you've been sleeping with someone else,
Speaker 1: and you're just breaking up with me. So you can
Speaker 1: stop feeling like a little slut. I know it. Chris
Speaker 1: entered Avery's house and strangled her to death in a
Speaker 1: fit of jealous rage and insecurity. But something you may
Speaker 1: have heard just before Avery's death gave away the killer's identity.
Speaker 1: Give me my house keys back and get out. Chris
Speaker 1: had a set of keys to Avery's house, and if
Speaker 1: you listened closely, you could hear Avery's killer unlocking the
Speaker 1: front door before entering the house. Ship This episode was
Speaker 1: inspired by a true crime that occurred in Bulgaria in
Speaker 1: two thousand eighteen, when a journalist who was investigating corruption
Speaker 1: by government officials was found murdered. Many speculated that her
Speaker 1: death was part of a conspiracy to stop the investigation. However,
Speaker 1: it turned out that her death was not connected to
Speaker 1: her work, who was the result of a random attack
Speaker 1: while she was out for a jog. Her killer confessed
Speaker 1: to the murder and court and was sentenced to thirty
Speaker 1: years in prison. Avery was played by Katie McClellan, Chris
Speaker 1: by Patrick Kavanaugh, Drisco by Mark Engelhardt, Guy by Joe
Speaker 1: san Filippo. Tom was played by Brian Finney, Pat Giles
Speaker 1: and Tyler by Sterling Bowman. Senator Leslie by Richard Doyle,
Speaker 1: Tiffany by Lexi di Benedetto the Suit by Richard Tatum.
Speaker 1: The reporter and announcer were played by Cheryl tex Era.
Speaker 1: This episode of Solve was written and directed by Corey Serge.
Speaker 1: Executive produced by Corey Serge and Walt Palmer, Produced, recorded
Speaker 1: and mixed by Salt Audio, Edited and mixed by Zack Jurich.
Speaker 1: Sound designed by Zach Pino for Salt Audio. Original music
Speaker 1: and score by Noah Gersha and Jamie Scheffman at Salt Audio.
Speaker 1: Production Coordinator Liz Lamy, Casting by Romy Stuttman, Casting Assistant
Speaker 1: Daisy Laura. Recorded at Bang Zoom Studios. Next time on Solve,
Speaker 1: a popular social media star is murdered. I'm here at
Speaker 1: the Old Hollywood Hotel where twenty three year old influencer
Speaker 1: Eloise fam was found dead in the swimming pool this
Speaker 1: morn It's just about midnight, but thanks to jet lag,
Speaker 1: I am wide awake. Yes, it's true what they say
Speaker 1: about it being the city that never sleeps? But how
Speaker 1: did this trip of a lifetime turn into the vacation
Speaker 1: from health? All I'm saying is I want this vacation
Speaker 1: to be about us, you and me, Not you, me
Speaker 1: and your fans. It's all about what you want, Coop,
Speaker 1: no consideration of me. Tune in next week to find
Speaker 1: out