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Speaker 3: I was very sick, just fever, but very heavy virus,

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Speaker 3: and I was alone and I couldn't contact anyone, like,

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Speaker 3: And I remember I had such a strong fever that

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Speaker 3: I passed over and I saw all all this goths,

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Speaker 3: all these like souls of people whom I had to terminate.

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Speaker 3: They all was standing in front of me and they

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Speaker 3: told me that's your time. We're taking you with us.

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Speaker 3: And I felt like I was lifted by them and

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Speaker 3: I went into the space. I reckon it wass a

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Speaker 3: said like stop, stop, stop, I can't do this, and

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Speaker 3: they said, well that's what you deserve. But then I

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Speaker 3: was another soul ghost and it said let her go,

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Speaker 3: and then it said to me, you you will be back,

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Speaker 3: but you have to complete your mission. You didn't finish

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Speaker 3: it yet, you have to go back and do it.

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Speaker 3: And then I woke up and the next day my

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Speaker 3: favor was gone to kill you. I'm really sorry I

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Speaker 4: I go tu like to you. Episode eleven, chapter twenty four, Fearless.

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Speaker 3: And then when I opened my eyes, I wasn't that

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Speaker 3: kind of like military hospital. But it wasn't really hospital.

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Speaker 3: It was just the big room in the building which

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Speaker 3: and some of them they wouldn't survive.

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Speaker 4: Aliyah was still on the border of Chechnya and Russia,

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Speaker 4: but further back from the front lines, recovering from her

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Speaker 3: I felt like I felt like she was like my mom,

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Speaker 3: you know, like kind of like she cared about me,

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Speaker 3: which it was nice that she she gave me this support,

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Speaker 4: After a few days, the doctor discharged Aliah, gave her

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Speaker 4: Alah thought about her friend and fellow soldier, Rashid, who

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Speaker 3: I didn't even know where he lived. I didn't know

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Speaker 3: and then at that point I felt guilty.

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Speaker 4: The train dropped the way off in her hometown, where

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Speaker 4: taken directly to a hospital to recuperate. Alone, with no

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Speaker 4: abusive colonel whose marriage proposal she rejected, and she wondered

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Speaker 3: I didn't want to believe that he would send me

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Speaker 3: there Ford. You know, I still couldn't believe. I still

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Speaker 3: he can just like send me to die. It's probably

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Speaker 3: a bad luck. That's what I was telling myself, and

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Speaker 3: I was struggling. I wanted to hear his I was

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Speaker 3: so curious, but at the same time, I was so devastated.

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Speaker 3: If you would really do this to just kill me.

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Speaker 3: And I decided to call him and find out. Downstairs

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Speaker 3: in the hospital, they had stationary telephone, and I remember

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Speaker 3: I had his cell number. I even remember it now.

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Speaker 3: I remember a lot of things about him. I remember

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Speaker 3: the date of his verse every single day of the year.

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Speaker 3: I remember that funny. So I called him and he

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Speaker 3: it was a long post and he said, so did

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Speaker 3: Did you become more obedient? And I asked him, did

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Speaker 3: So did you become obedient? He asked me again, and

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Speaker 3: I said, what do you want exactly? And he said,

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Speaker 3: the way he talked to me, like I was kind

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Speaker 3: of like a dog on the street. He's like, I'll

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Speaker 3: But I couldn't tell him fuck you. I wish I could.

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Speaker 3: I just said goodbye, and I hang up with the phone.

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Speaker 3: But straight away after this telephone call, I had them

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Speaker 3: feeling inside it. Christopholla was right. He did send me

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Speaker 3: there to die. And second, what shall I do now?

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Speaker 3: And then the hospital gave me the paper where they stayed.

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Speaker 3: Now you are recovered, and now it's time to go

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Speaker 3: back to work. Then they sent this referral to my department,

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Speaker 3: to my commander, and I came back home to my apartment.

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Speaker 3: It was really lonely and it was really empty. I

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Speaker 4: Part of that wish to no longer be here was

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Speaker 4: whose advances she'd rejected. And sure enough, as soon as

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Speaker 4: Leah was no longer on crutches, the nightmare with him resumed,

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Speaker 4: but this time it would have a different ending.

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Speaker 3: By that time, I already didn't have crunches, but I

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Speaker 3: still walked kind of like Limpin and my lieutenant general,

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Speaker 3: my commander, he let everybody leave and he said stay

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Speaker 3: I took all my papers and everything and I moved

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Speaker 3: he said, take off your blouse and I said, excuse me?

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Speaker 3: He said, take off your blouse. Like open new buttons. Oh,

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Speaker 3: don't worry, like why you like again, like a fucking vision,

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Speaker 3: I surprisingly for myself. I started to open some buttons,

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Speaker 3: and when I was opening, I was like thinking, what

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Speaker 3: exactly does he want? And I was in like this

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Speaker 3: like can you do it? You know, just to save ourselves.

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Speaker 3: But just like first two buttons, and he said, listen,

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Speaker 3: I said, inside of myself, do you know what if

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Speaker 3: I survived the war, I'll survive. Fuck you as whole.

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Speaker 4: In that moment, a Leah realized that the only power

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Speaker 3: I closed my buttons, I turn around and I walked

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Speaker 3: I was thinking, it will be the day when I

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Speaker 4: You'll see the aliah Rosa that had left for Cheshnia

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Speaker 3: Something happened with me after that war. I felt like,

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Speaker 3: I just felt it. I felt that moment and I said, like,

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Speaker 3: And that moment when the lieutenant general told me, like,

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Speaker 4: After standing up to her commander, a strong sense of

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Speaker 3: Morning I looked at his face and I always tried

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Speaker 4: That's because he was planning. The same thing is done

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Speaker 3: In the end of the reporting, our commander Lieutenant general

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Speaker 4: After selecting Lea for this mission, the commander that announced

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Speaker 3: So we had the tia of losers, basicly, but nobody

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Speaker 4: Chapter twenty five. The Mafia Estate.

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Speaker 5: The first half of the nineties was major gang wars, shootouts, explosions,

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Speaker 4: This is Joe Cirio, author of several books on the

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Speaker 4: Russian mafia and reportedly the only American to work in

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Speaker 4: the Organized Crime Control Department of the Soviet National Police.

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Speaker 4: Before we get into a Leah and her team's dangerous assignment,

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Speaker 4: I called him to better understand how the mafia works

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Speaker 4: in Russia, because it's nothing like in the movies. It's

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Speaker 4: worse in an appetite for violence, a lucrative international enterprise

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Speaker 4: stretching from Moscow to Israel to Thailand to the United States.

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Speaker 4: There have no qualms about murdering people.

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Speaker 3: If they have to kill you, they'll kill you. Absolutely.

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Speaker 4: Here's Joe Sirio again, explaining how the breakup of the

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Speaker 4: Shat Their main target was the leader of this gang, Vladimir.

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Speaker 4: This is the leader, a great danger to themselves. Aliyah

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Speaker 3: So he told me, I will bring you introduced you

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Speaker 3: And I couldn't say no because he's the boss of

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Speaker 4: In other words, he would be introducing Leah to their

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Speaker 4: Leah and her team went through one of Vladimir's high

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Speaker 3: His former classmates said that Vladimir was coming from a

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Speaker 3: And when we heard that story together, we have exactly

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Speaker 4: Although this had begun as a suicide mission, Eliah felt

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Speaker 7: Pre Suasion is the practice of gaining agreement with a

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Speaker 3: That's exactly what we decided to do for Vladimir. His

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Speaker 3: So I ask some of my friends girlfriends who looked

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Speaker 3: It's important because sometimes, like when you sleep, or you

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Speaker 4: In addition, whenever her fellow agents arrested prostitutes, Aliah would

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Speaker 3: Every time when I would check prostitutes in order to

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Speaker 3: That's it. So I literally started to carry in my

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Speaker 3: who was that good girl, but she needed money, so

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Speaker 3: she desperately needed his help. Somebody who will protect her

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Speaker 4: Eliah was now ready for the most dangerous seduction of

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Speaker 4: our life. Setting a love trap for a foreign official

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Speaker 4: comes with low consequences. If you're caught in your own country,

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Speaker 4: it's just a failed mission. But with criminals. If your

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Speaker 3: I was preparing for the most important meeting in my life,

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Speaker 3: and I knew that I will go to the club,

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Speaker 3: same as Vladimir and his brothers go almost every day.

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Speaker 3: And I knew exactly what table it would be, what bar,

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Speaker 3: do the first contact next Friday. And the commander said, okay,

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Speaker 3: I confirm you can go ahead. And we received the confirmation,

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Speaker 3: so you were ready to go.

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Speaker 4: Leah's story continues in episode twelve as she begins this

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Speaker 4: dangerous mission infiltrating one of the biggest drug gangs in

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Speaker 3: He started to kiss me, and I just forgot that

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Speaker 3: it was my job.

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Speaker 4: To die for is a production of Tenderfoot TV in

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Speaker 4: association with iHeart Podcasts. The show is hosted and written

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Speaker 4: by me Neil Strauss, with additional writing assistants by Tristan Bankston.

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Speaker 4: Executive producers are myself, Donald Albright, and Payne Lindsay. For

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Speaker 4: iHeart Podcasts, executive producers are Matt Frederick and Alex Williams.

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Speaker 4: Lead producer and editor is Tristan Bankston. Additional editing by

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Speaker 4: Miles Clark and Christian Brown. Supervising producer Tracy Kaplan. Consultants

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Speaker 4: include Nushin, Valiza Day, Chelsea Gooden and Jamie Albright. Artwork

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Speaker 4: by Byron McCoy. Original music by Makeup and Vanity Set,

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Speaker 4: mixed and mastered by Dayton Cole. Our theme song is

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Speaker 4: Killer Shangwi Law by Psychotic Beats featuring Pattiamore. Special thanks

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Speaker 4: to Aren Rosenbaub and the team at Uta Bech Media

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