1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:03,000 Speaker 1: Maxie Miles is a production of A Typical Artists and 2 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:10,239 Speaker 1: I heart radio. I think I know what happened. Excuse me? 3 00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:16,120 Speaker 1: Is someone here ship? Hello? Come on, we gotta get 4 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:26,440 Speaker 1: out of here now, let's go down the backstairs. Hello. 5 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:30,280 Speaker 1: Why are we hiding from Miss Hommy Will? Because she's 6 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:32,680 Speaker 1: dating Ransom, so she'll want to give these files back 7 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:34,640 Speaker 1: to him. But I can't let Ransom find out that 8 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:37,159 Speaker 1: Riley was the one to steal them in the first place. What. 9 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:39,960 Speaker 1: I'll explain everything, but we've got to get out of 10 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:50,480 Speaker 1: here first. From a Typical Artists and I heart radio. 11 00:00:50,920 --> 00:01:17,440 Speaker 1: You're listening to Maxie Miles. Yeah, this is chapter nine. 12 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:21,840 Speaker 1: The choice, and the choice in question is yours. By 13 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:24,280 Speaker 1: the end of the episode, you'll have heard three possibilities 14 00:01:24,319 --> 00:01:27,280 Speaker 1: for what happened to Riley, and next week you'll have 15 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:30,360 Speaker 1: to decide which one you think is the truth. Be 16 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:33,200 Speaker 1: careful what you choose. Follow the wrong lead and there 17 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 1: could be devastating consequences. H Okay, what the hell is 18 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 1: going on? Nex? What did you just figure out this 19 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:59,560 Speaker 1: birth certificate? I think Riley is Ransom Sun What? But 20 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 1: that does what? I mean? I mean how I don't 21 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 1: know what it has to do with why Riley is 22 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:08,560 Speaker 1: missing yet, if anything at all, But it explains so much. 23 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 1: It does. I never got to the tavern to talk 24 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:13,839 Speaker 1: to the foreman. Ransom stopped me on my way there 25 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:15,959 Speaker 1: because he woke up in his office with his father's 26 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:19,240 Speaker 1: safe broken into and no memory of anything beyond dinner 27 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:22,760 Speaker 1: last night. So naturally he has a love child. No, 28 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:27,080 Speaker 1: just hear me out ross, Okay, okay, I'm listening. He 29 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 1: wanted help to find the files. Yeah, well, good job, then, 30 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:33,440 Speaker 1: I guess, And he was going on and on about 31 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:35,800 Speaker 1: this girl he was in love with when he was fifteen, 32 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 1: who moved away suddenly, never to be heard from again. 33 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:41,880 Speaker 1: Do you think she was pregnant, Yeah, I do, and 34 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:46,840 Speaker 1: a teenage pregnancy out of wedlock. The Archers would have freaked, exactly. 35 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:49,400 Speaker 1: They would have sent her away and locked up the 36 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:52,040 Speaker 1: proof and tried to bury it. Okay, okay, I can 37 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:53,959 Speaker 1: believe that Ransom Archer had a kid when he was 38 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 1: a teenager. But why the hell do you think that 39 00:02:56,639 --> 00:03:02,079 Speaker 1: person is Riley? First off, our arch are for Riley 40 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:05,079 Speaker 1: or for Ransom. It true would be like Ransom to 41 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 1: name a baby after himself. This certificate is for a 42 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:14,400 Speaker 1: baby born June eleventh, Ninete Riley's birthday, and there's a 43 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:19,120 Speaker 1: some kind of legal form here. It looks like there's 44 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:22,120 Speaker 1: some water damage or something, but I think that's Martha 45 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:26,839 Speaker 1: Stevens's signature. Do you think Riley knew that ransoms his dad? 46 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:30,120 Speaker 1: I don't know, but I think he would have stolen 47 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 1: these files for a reason. We know he had some 48 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 1: sort of fight with his parents. I wonder if he 49 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 1: found out he was adopted. Maybe that's why he wanted 50 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:42,160 Speaker 1: to go to Berlin. This birth certificate is for the 51 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 1: hospital there, which is why nobody in Hastings seems to 52 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:47,880 Speaker 1: know about it. This would have been a huge scandal 53 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:49,720 Speaker 1: at the time. Yeah, and it's not like it was 54 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 1: that long ago. Fourteen years isn't long enough for Hastings 55 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:57,600 Speaker 1: to stop talking about anything, right, Okay? So Riley finds 56 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:00,160 Speaker 1: out he's adopted, and it goes to city Hall out 57 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 1: for the school paper, but to look up the birth records, 58 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 1: and he doesn't find his. So he decides he wants 59 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 1: to go to the only other possible place that anyone 60 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:11,960 Speaker 1: is born around here. But if he was trying to 61 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:15,440 Speaker 1: go to Berlin, why steal these files? And how would 62 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 1: he have known where to look in the first place. 63 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:21,040 Speaker 1: Maybe maybe Honeywall still the files it is her in 64 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 1: but why what motivation would she have had. I don't know, 65 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 1: you're the one who actually knows her. Maybe it's got 66 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 1: something to do with the land deeds, Like maybe miss 67 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:34,359 Speaker 1: Honeywell is trying to prove that the Maplethorpe property is 68 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:37,800 Speaker 1: actually bigger than the current maps show. She seemed super 69 00:04:37,839 --> 00:04:40,200 Speaker 1: interested in the history of the town when she got here. 70 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:43,000 Speaker 1: It is right next to the old Archer apothecary, and 71 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:45,559 Speaker 1: the maple Thorpes and the Archers were basically the only 72 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:48,280 Speaker 1: two families and Hastings for a while. I wouldn't be 73 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 1: surprised if there was a lot of overlapping real estate. 74 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:53,720 Speaker 1: We should look through all the land needs later, but 75 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:57,719 Speaker 1: it's hardly the most present concern, right Riley, you said 76 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:00,599 Speaker 1: you'd figured it out, well. I figured out Ransom his mystery, 77 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 1: not Riley's. And even that I know the where of 78 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:07,440 Speaker 1: the stolen files, but not the why or who if 79 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:10,920 Speaker 1: Riley was the one to take them. Even with that, 80 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 1: there's still too many unanswered questions why Riley has been 81 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:18,560 Speaker 1: hiding his back back. Mr Beaties phone call Riley's eavesdropping 82 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 1: in city Hall. Speaking of let's go through what you 83 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:25,120 Speaker 1: learned again, Hal said, Riley asked him about the harvest festival. 84 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:28,719 Speaker 1: They talked about the new mining project, but nothing major. 85 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:31,240 Speaker 1: And then miss Honeywell came in and when Hal was 86 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 1: showing her out, he saw Riley looking through the public 87 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:37,000 Speaker 1: Works office when the foreman wasn't there. Except Honeywell said 88 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 1: that as she was leaving she saw Riley eaves dropping 89 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 1: on someone's office. So someone's lying, yeah, but who, well, 90 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 1: who do we trust? Less? I'm a little less inclined 91 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:55,440 Speaker 1: to believe Honeywell after after what we had a weird 92 00:05:55,720 --> 00:06:01,080 Speaker 1: conversation right before I saw Riley. Something feels off about her, 93 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:04,200 Speaker 1: which is how I've always felt about How. And let's 94 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:06,800 Speaker 1: say How's known the whole time about the mining project 95 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 1: and hasn't said anything. It would be the end of 96 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:11,800 Speaker 1: his mayoral career if it came out, And of how 97 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:14,720 Speaker 1: new that Riley had that information, it would be enough 98 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:16,000 Speaker 1: to want to keep him out of the way for 99 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 1: a while. Once the old mine has collapsed, the Archers 100 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:20,680 Speaker 1: and minute Our Mining are on the hook for the 101 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:23,200 Speaker 1: new one. They can't back out of the contract. Then 102 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:27,080 Speaker 1: Hastings gets a major windfall, making How look amazing and 103 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:34,400 Speaker 1: the detonation is in forty minutes. Wait did how mention 104 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 1: when the decision was made to move the demolition up Ah? 105 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 1: He said the board of trustees had an emergency meeting 106 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,520 Speaker 1: Friday night. That's why he couldn't help with the search 107 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:45,920 Speaker 1: party they sent out in the area. We found Riley's backpack, 108 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:49,839 Speaker 1: which was Thursday night. Remember what Mr Beaty said that 109 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:52,880 Speaker 1: he'd get it done by Sunday night. Do you think 110 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 1: he was talking about the demolition. No, that's just it. 111 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:58,840 Speaker 1: He couldn't have been not if it was decided on 112 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:02,800 Speaker 1: Friday night. So what was he talking about? And who 113 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 1: was he talking to? Okay, I've got a crazy theory. 114 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:10,360 Speaker 1: This is going to be about how Mr Beati is creepy, 115 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:15,640 Speaker 1: isn't it. Mr Beatie went somewhere the night Riley went 116 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 1: missing with a duffel full of Riley's favorite candy. Mr 117 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:21,720 Speaker 1: Beatie has a cabin in the woods. You're making him 118 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 1: sound like a grim fairytale villain. Just listen. Mr Beaty 119 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:27,280 Speaker 1: lost his son when he was Riley's age and is 120 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:29,680 Speaker 1: according to several people in Hastings, it's one of those 121 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:33,120 Speaker 1: people you considered generally unstable. So, yes, you said, Miss 122 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:35,560 Speaker 1: Honeywell said it too. She said he was in pain, 123 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 1: and people in pain do desperate things like kidnapped someone. 124 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:42,960 Speaker 1: Maybe it didn't start that way, but maybe I don't know. 125 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:45,200 Speaker 1: Maybe Riley was down in the dumps about his parents 126 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:48,160 Speaker 1: and Mr Beatie was feeling sad about his son. Well, 127 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:52,040 Speaker 1: Riley had been helping Mr Beatie out right, So they 128 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:55,680 Speaker 1: get to talking and realize they relate on stuff, and 129 00:07:55,720 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 1: then Mr Beady just doesn't let him go. I know 130 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:07,240 Speaker 1: it sounds nuts, No, no, it doesn't. Actually, it explains 131 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:10,160 Speaker 1: the Duffel bag, why Riley's backpack was in the woods, 132 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:14,080 Speaker 1: doesn't explain the shovel in tarp. But no solution explains 133 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 1: everything right, all right. The way I see it, there 134 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:23,880 Speaker 1: are three distinct possibilities. One, Riley finds out that he 135 00:08:23,960 --> 00:08:26,920 Speaker 1: was adopted and his parents never told him. He runs 136 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:29,240 Speaker 1: away to Berlin to find out who his birth parents 137 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 1: are and gets lost in the woods, loses his backpack 138 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:35,600 Speaker 1: and his money, finds his way back to town, but 139 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 1: doesn't want to face his parents yet, so he hides 140 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:41,359 Speaker 1: out in the inn. And he runs from you because 141 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 1: because he was embarrassed because he was scared, maybe because 142 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:49,600 Speaker 1: he just wasn't ready to talk to anyone yet. Or 143 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:54,560 Speaker 1: maybe maybe Ransom did something and then sent you to 144 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:58,520 Speaker 1: dig up the evidence. Mm hmm. Maybe it was his 145 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 1: dad more in our shirt is known to be ruthless, 146 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:03,559 Speaker 1: and if he's the one who covered up the pregnancy 147 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 1: and the adoption in the first phase, oh my god, 148 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:10,440 Speaker 1: what what is it? Guys? The guys at city Hall earlier, 149 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:13,320 Speaker 1: I knew I recognized them. I think they work for 150 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 1: war and Archer. Really, yeah, remember when he opened that 151 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:21,959 Speaker 1: ski resort a while back. Those guys were definitely there. Uh. 152 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:25,800 Speaker 1: There's lots of reasons that Warren would send people to 153 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:30,320 Speaker 1: City Hall, but the timing is definitely weird. Maybe that 154 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:34,160 Speaker 1: cabin in the woods is actually the Archers, and Beatty 155 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:37,719 Speaker 1: is a part of it somehow. Well, that's option two. 156 00:09:38,679 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 1: Riley has been helping Mr Beaty out around his cabin. 157 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:44,160 Speaker 1: You said you never saw Riley working on his house, 158 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:46,640 Speaker 1: so the stuff he was doing for Mr Beatie must 159 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 1: have been at a secret cabin. The secret cabin we're 160 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:51,400 Speaker 1: not even sure is his. You see why I think 161 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:54,680 Speaker 1: Mr Beatie's creepy. Now, all right, so maybe he is. 162 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:58,280 Speaker 1: Maybe he got attached to Riley, and when Riley got 163 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:00,960 Speaker 1: into a fight with his parents, he offered Riley a 164 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:04,760 Speaker 1: place to stay, but then he just kept him there, 165 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:07,079 Speaker 1: And the stack of money and the phone call we 166 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:12,120 Speaker 1: everhard was about something else entirely. Maybe it really does 167 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:15,079 Speaker 1: have to do with the Archers. Maybe Warren paid him 168 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:18,000 Speaker 1: to kidnap Riley keep his true parentage a secret, and 169 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:22,800 Speaker 1: Riley escaped and didn't immediately go to the Sheriff. I 170 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:28,840 Speaker 1: don't know. It all just sort of fits. Nothing's clicking completely. 171 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:33,600 Speaker 1: We're missing something huge here. Well, what's the third path? 172 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:39,680 Speaker 1: The mine? Right? The mine? Riley is doing an article 173 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:42,400 Speaker 1: for the school paper about Hastings and finds out that 174 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:45,120 Speaker 1: the mind is going to poison everyone, and instead of 175 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:49,800 Speaker 1: going to Mr Combs, he confronts How, who had no 176 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:54,040 Speaker 1: idea about it, and then freaks out and threatens him. 177 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:57,360 Speaker 1: That's so hard to imagine. I don't know. How has 178 00:10:57,400 --> 00:11:00,560 Speaker 1: always been obsessed with making Hastings the best it can be. 179 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:03,800 Speaker 1: I think he'd go pretty far to protect it. So 180 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:09,280 Speaker 1: Riley then hides from How and by extension, the Sheriff. 181 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:11,960 Speaker 1: But why would he run away from me when I 182 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:14,400 Speaker 1: saw him at the end. I could have helped him. 183 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:17,840 Speaker 1: He should have known that you love Hastings and how 184 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:20,880 Speaker 1: Maybe Riley thought you wouldn't believe him. But I'm the 185 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 1: one who is constantly trying to convince people to care 186 00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:27,000 Speaker 1: about the environment. The New Mind being poisonous is exactly 187 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:32,120 Speaker 1: the kind of smoking gun I would love to wait. 188 00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:37,080 Speaker 1: Maybe that's it. What's it? We found out about the 189 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 1: issues with the Mind a full day ago, and we 190 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:41,800 Speaker 1: haven't told anyone. You're the one who didn't want to 191 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:44,959 Speaker 1: I know, I know. I'm not accusing you of anything. 192 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:48,720 Speaker 1: That's my point. We haven't told anyone because we don't 193 00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:51,720 Speaker 1: have proof. All we have is some notes in a 194 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:55,240 Speaker 1: teenager's notebook. Plus we don't know who we can trust. 195 00:11:55,640 --> 00:11:58,360 Speaker 1: So you think Riley was in the same spot. Whatever 196 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:01,600 Speaker 1: Riley is doing, whatever a kind of trouble he got into, 197 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:05,760 Speaker 1: whatever he's hiding from. Maybe he's still in it. Maybe 198 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:10,280 Speaker 1: he's looking for that proof Ransom's files or the environmental 199 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:14,400 Speaker 1: impact report. If he's really an archer, or Mr Beatie 200 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:16,880 Speaker 1: is really a kidnapper, or the Mind is really going 201 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:19,679 Speaker 1: to poison the water, and Riley is the only one 202 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 1: who knows, then he doesn't just have an expose for 203 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:26,840 Speaker 1: the school paper. He's got something that will seriously affect 204 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:29,360 Speaker 1: a lot of people in Hastings. And Riley is a 205 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:35,360 Speaker 1: good journalist. He takes it seriously like you. Yeah, like me. 206 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:38,920 Speaker 1: He wouldn't go running to the sheriff, or to the mayor, 207 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,880 Speaker 1: or to anyone until he knew exactly what he was 208 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:45,440 Speaker 1: talking about. So you don't think he was kidnapped. You 209 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:50,560 Speaker 1: think he's been lying low. I'm I'm not sure. I 210 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:53,280 Speaker 1: know that I saw him at the end. The shoelace 211 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:56,600 Speaker 1: you found is solid evidence of that, and it seemed 212 00:12:56,640 --> 00:12:59,199 Speaker 1: like he was there of his own free will. But 213 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:02,000 Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that's where he started. You mean maybe 214 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:04,160 Speaker 1: he was there hiding from someone who put him in 215 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:06,760 Speaker 1: danger in the first place. I don't think Riley would 216 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:09,760 Speaker 1: leave his backpack with his notebook full of information in 217 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:13,800 Speaker 1: the woods unless he was running from something or someone, 218 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:16,720 Speaker 1: a notebook that we still haven't shown anyone. I thought 219 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:20,480 Speaker 1: you didn't care about breaking rules, Ross, I don't, not really, 220 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:24,280 Speaker 1: But this isn't skipping class. His notebook. The shoe lays 221 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:28,440 Speaker 1: everything we've put together. It's still evidence in a missing 222 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:33,920 Speaker 1: person's case. So we need to tell the sheriff or someone. 223 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:37,800 Speaker 1: But we don't know who's involved yet. I thought you 224 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:41,280 Speaker 1: at least trusted Mr Combs. I do. But if we 225 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:43,480 Speaker 1: don't do this right, then someone might get away with 226 00:13:43,520 --> 00:13:47,520 Speaker 1: a crime. And Wiley, we still don't know where he 227 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:50,440 Speaker 1: is or what's going on. So then what do we do? 228 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:53,800 Speaker 1: We have to think, like Riley, we need more information 229 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:56,760 Speaker 1: before we start accusing anyone of anything. How do we 230 00:13:56,800 --> 00:14:03,360 Speaker 1: do that? How long until the demolition? Thirty minutes? Everr take? Okay, okay, 231 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:07,560 Speaker 1: that's enough time, Enough time for what to confront someone 232 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:11,040 Speaker 1: who I haven't decided yet. Give me a second. Are 233 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:13,040 Speaker 1: you telling me that you're just gonna waltz up to 234 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:15,360 Speaker 1: someone and ask them if they've committed any felonies or 235 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:18,240 Speaker 1: had love children? And someone knows where Riley is, and 236 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:20,320 Speaker 1: the fastest way to figure out what's going on is 237 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:23,800 Speaker 1: to find Riley. That's what this has always been about. Oh, 238 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:26,880 Speaker 1: I see, so you are going to confront a kidnapper. 239 00:14:27,160 --> 00:14:29,320 Speaker 1: I thought we agreed that we weren't sure if Riley 240 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:31,680 Speaker 1: was kidnapped. I think we can agree that Riley is 241 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:33,640 Speaker 1: in trouble, and it's a bit concerning how little you 242 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:36,000 Speaker 1: seem to care about getting into trouble yourself. I've already 243 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:37,960 Speaker 1: been grounded for the rest of time. How much worse 244 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:41,080 Speaker 1: can it get. I'm not talking about that kind of trouble, Max, 245 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:43,200 Speaker 1: I'm talking about the kind where you pissed the wrong 246 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:46,480 Speaker 1: person off and they ruin your life or something much 247 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:51,080 Speaker 1: much worse. What are you talking about the Archers? How 248 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:54,520 Speaker 1: between the two of them, they own this town. If 249 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:57,760 Speaker 1: they wanted to destroy your uncle's career or ruin your 250 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:02,400 Speaker 1: record at school, they could. And Mr Beatie He's already 251 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 1: lost a lot in his life. People who don't have 252 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:07,520 Speaker 1: anything left to lose, or people you don't want to push, 253 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:11,880 Speaker 1: don't be ridiculous. I'm serious. Max. We're dealing with someone 254 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:15,040 Speaker 1: powerful or unhinged enough that Riley has been hiding out 255 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:17,200 Speaker 1: for almost two weeks to stay out of their way, 256 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:19,480 Speaker 1: and if I don't find him soon, something much worse 257 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:21,320 Speaker 1: could happen. But why does it have to be you? 258 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:24,280 Speaker 1: Because as we've established, we don't know who we can trust. 259 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:29,760 Speaker 1: Do you trust me? What do you trust me? Max? I? 260 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:37,840 Speaker 1: I yes, I do. I trust you, really really, really 261 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:42,400 Speaker 1: really good? Can trust that trust that? I'm just trying 262 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:45,160 Speaker 1: to keep you safe. I don't need you to protect me. Ross. 263 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:48,200 Speaker 1: I know you don't. I know that that that you'd 264 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:53,440 Speaker 1: be fine without me. If anything, I've been dragging you down. No, No, 265 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:56,720 Speaker 1: that's not true at all. I would have never figured 266 00:15:56,760 --> 00:15:59,720 Speaker 1: out any of this without you. I meant what I 267 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:02,240 Speaker 1: said the other night. But you would have kept running 268 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:05,920 Speaker 1: in those woods forever. You would have confronted Mr Beatie 269 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:08,880 Speaker 1: right then and there in his cabin. Maybe I keep 270 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:13,680 Speaker 1: you grounded or less afraid, but maybe I actually just 271 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:19,400 Speaker 1: hold you back. And that's what scares me. Max. You 272 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:22,800 Speaker 1: don't know when to stop. Ross. You don't have to 273 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:25,480 Speaker 1: come with me. I don't want you to do anything 274 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:28,360 Speaker 1: that you don't want. That's not the point, then what is? 275 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:33,360 Speaker 1: You really don't get it, do you? I don't care 276 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:36,640 Speaker 1: what happens to me, Max, I mean, yeah, if I 277 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:39,360 Speaker 1: had in my way, i'd stay in this treehouse all day, 278 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:42,440 Speaker 1: every day and never do anything remotely exciting. I don't 279 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:46,760 Speaker 1: think that's true, But I can't stand the idea of 280 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:55,960 Speaker 1: something happening to you. Ross. Clap is that Joe? No, 281 00:16:56,240 --> 00:17:00,480 Speaker 1: it's just your mom. Where does Joe think you are? Right? Now? Here? 282 00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:04,640 Speaker 1: But not from long? Max? Ross The demolition is going 283 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:07,359 Speaker 1: to begin any moment now. If there's a time to 284 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:11,240 Speaker 1: figure this out, it's tonight. Okay, what do we do? 285 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:13,520 Speaker 1: Not we max? If you think I'm going to sit 286 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:16,280 Speaker 1: this one out, it's not that I need you to 287 00:17:16,320 --> 00:17:19,480 Speaker 1: go to City Hall? Why because we don't have time 288 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:22,719 Speaker 1: to do both both. What what is running through your 289 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:26,720 Speaker 1: head right now? Whoever took Riley, whoever he's running from, 290 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:30,080 Speaker 1: it might all be over tonight. If it has something 291 00:17:30,119 --> 00:17:32,080 Speaker 1: to do with the mine, then it'll be too late 292 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:34,520 Speaker 1: for him to do any damage after the demolition, and 293 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:36,760 Speaker 1: will have lost our chance to catch someone in the act. 294 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:39,879 Speaker 1: If it's Mr Beatie, whatever he was doing has a 295 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:43,240 Speaker 1: deadline of tonight, and I'm supposed to be tracking Ransom's 296 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:47,320 Speaker 1: files down. He's going to be tracking me down soon enough. Okay, 297 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:51,040 Speaker 1: So are you saying we should split up both take 298 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:54,480 Speaker 1: a different person on ross? There's still the mine. If 299 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:57,119 Speaker 1: the old mines get collapsed tonight, that means the project 300 00:17:57,240 --> 00:17:59,679 Speaker 1: is moving forward. And if it really is as dangerous 301 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:02,000 Speaker 1: as right we thought, we need to stop it, which 302 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:03,879 Speaker 1: is why you need to go to City Hall and 303 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:07,280 Speaker 1: try to find that environmental survey report. And what are 304 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:12,960 Speaker 1: you going to do. I'm going to go find Riley 305 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:17,159 Speaker 1: and now what happens next is up to you, the listener. 306 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:20,080 Speaker 1: There isn't one chapter ten, but three. You can choose 307 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:22,360 Speaker 1: for Max to confront Ransom Archer, to go to Mr 308 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:25,159 Speaker 1: Read's cabin, or race to accuse the mining company. But 309 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:28,000 Speaker 1: be careful what you choose. There is a right answer, 310 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:30,919 Speaker 1: but whatever the majority of the audience chooses, whether it's 311 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:33,480 Speaker 1: the right answer or not, will become the official ending 312 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:36,199 Speaker 1: of season one. Maxie Miles was created by Lauren Shippen 313 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:38,560 Speaker 1: and Its Production of A Typical Artists and I Heard Radio. 314 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:41,240 Speaker 1: This episode is written and directed by Lauren Chippen. Dialog 315 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:44,040 Speaker 1: getting in sound designed by Mercy Owing of Hemla Creek Productions, 316 00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:46,960 Speaker 1: with editing assistance from Lauren Davis and Melissa Ponds. It 317 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:49,639 Speaker 1: featured Jordan Cob as Max and Miles maxa Follow as 318 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:52,600 Speaker 1: Ross Teller and Jack and Landgraph as Ms Honeywell. 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