Speaker 1: Maxie Miles is a production of a typical artists and
Speaker 1: I heart radio. What is running through your head right now?
Speaker 1: Whoever took Riley, whoever he's running from, it might all
Speaker 1: be over tonight. If it has something to do with
Speaker 1: the mine, then it'll be too late for him to
Speaker 1: do any damage after the demolition and will have lost
Speaker 1: our chance to catch someone in the act. If it's
Speaker 1: Mr Beatie, whatever he was doing has a deadline of tonight,
Speaker 1: and I'm supposed to be tracking Ransom's files down, He's
Speaker 1: going to be tracking me down soon enough. Okay, So
Speaker 1: are you saying we should split up? Both take a
Speaker 1: different person on ross. There's still the mine. If the
Speaker 1: old mines get collapsed tonight, that means the project is
Speaker 1: moving forward. And if it really is as dangerous as
Speaker 1: Riley thought, we need to stop it, which is why
Speaker 1: you need to go to city Hall and try to
Speaker 1: find that environmental survey report. And what are you going
Speaker 1: to do? I'm going to go find Riley? How I
Speaker 1: need to go back to Mr Beatie's cabin, Max. I
Speaker 1: don't think that's a good idea. Either Mr Beaty will
Speaker 1: be there and I can just talk to him, or
Speaker 1: I can dig around more either way. I think Riley
Speaker 1: was there at one point. If he was, that means
Speaker 1: Mr Beatie is dangerous. Yeah, except you know exactly where
Speaker 1: I'm going. If something goes wrong, Mr Beati won't get
Speaker 1: away with it. That is not comforting. Okay, you go
Speaker 1: to city Hall, get the report, and then meet me
Speaker 1: at the demolition. Max, just please let me come with you.
Speaker 1: I can't be in two places at once. Ross. Please fine.
Speaker 1: If I don't see you in half an hour, I'm
Speaker 1: calling in the cavalry. I'll agree to that. Max. Take this.
Speaker 1: Are you expecting me to stab Mr Beatty if you
Speaker 1: were going out into the woods alone to track down
Speaker 1: a creepy old man, A pocket knife is the minimum?
Speaker 1: Thank you, Ross. Just bring it back to me, okay,
Speaker 1: I will, I promise thirty minutes yeh from a typical
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Speaker 1: You've chosen ending b the Lost Child? Riley Riley? Are
Speaker 1: you here? Mr Beatie? Riley? The Deffel is gone? Why
Speaker 1: is the defel gone? Okay? Think think the trunk. Come on,
Speaker 1: there's got to be a key around here somewhere. Oh,
Speaker 1: what do you have to lose. You need to get
Speaker 1: down here right now. I fixed your miss, but I
Speaker 1: need you to make sure that nothing else happens. We
Speaker 1: can't have this be ruined Patrick. Are you there? Mayor
Speaker 1: how Always? What are you? What? Mess? What did Mr
Speaker 1: Beady do? Maxine? My? What are you doing? Where's pet I?
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on. Mayorhow Oh, you need
Speaker 1: to go home and forget. We have a spoke young
Speaker 1: lady right now. Hello Mayor? How are you there? What
Speaker 1: in the world? Come on, Max, you have to do
Speaker 1: this for Riley. You can do this. Mr Beatie. Whoa, whoa, whoa,
Speaker 1: It's Max Maxine Miles. Maxine, Look, I'm sorry to just
Speaker 1: barge in here. What are you doing here? What? How
Speaker 1: are you here? Where's Riley Stevens? What? Just please tell
Speaker 1: me he's okay. I'm not Please don't Max, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to hurt you. Then, then why are you holding that?
Speaker 1: It's what I'm here for. Why do you need a
Speaker 1: pick axe? Because there's something I need to fix. Doesn't
Speaker 1: have something to do with may Or? How How do you?
Speaker 1: What are you doing here? Maxine Ross? And I found
Speaker 1: your duffel bag with all the Charleston shoes. What did
Speaker 1: you do with Riley? You? Is he okay? Just tell
Speaker 1: me he's okay. I don't know. What do you mean
Speaker 1: you don't know? Didn't you? I mean you took him,
Speaker 1: didn't you? Is that what you think? Well? Am I wrong?
Speaker 1: M I've made a lot of mistakes like kidnapped Riley? No? Fine, yes,
Speaker 1: I guess I did. Why two to try and bring
Speaker 1: back your son? What? No, that's not How do you
Speaker 1: even know about that? Miss Honeywell told me, yes, Lena,
Speaker 1: she's a kind woman. I thought it was pronounced Almana,
Speaker 1: right right, that's the name she's going by. Now, what
Speaker 1: do you mean you are? Miss Honeywell didn't always go
Speaker 1: by that name. What are you talking about? That's her
Speaker 1: business to tell, not mine. I'm the only one who
Speaker 1: remembered her from way back, and I'm not about to
Speaker 1: go betraying or trust. I know what it's like to
Speaker 1: want to move on from your past, your family. There
Speaker 1: was a climbing accident. John loved climbing. I'm sorry. That
Speaker 1: was a long time ago. That doesn't mean it doesn't
Speaker 1: still well. I'd imagine you're still sad about it. I
Speaker 1: think most people would understand why you'd want to to
Speaker 1: try and get him back in some way. It doesn't
Speaker 1: make it okay, but people will understand. But you have
Speaker 1: to tell us where he is now. I didn't take
Speaker 1: the Stevens boy because you reminded me of my son.
Speaker 1: I let him go because he reminded me of my son. Okay,
Speaker 1: then was it because of the Archers who owns this cabin?
Speaker 1: I do so, Warren Archer and his muscle didn't pay
Speaker 1: you to keep Riley quiet about his parentage. What are
Speaker 1: you on about? I have pretty solid proof that Riley's
Speaker 1: actually an Archer, which means he's set to inherit quite
Speaker 1: a lot if he wanted to make a claim, and
Speaker 1: you've got a stack of money in your bedroom. Slow
Speaker 1: down there, young lady. How do you know about that?
Speaker 1: Was it? Mr? Archer? No? It wasn't. Then why do it?
Speaker 1: And where is hate? I don't know why he didn't
Speaker 1: go running home right away when I let him go.
Speaker 1: I told him to lay low, and I didn't think.
Speaker 1: I thought he'd at least tell his parents he was okay,
Speaker 1: Mr Beatie, what happened? There's something wrong with the mine,
Speaker 1: something that could take down the entire project. Of course
Speaker 1: you do. And Riley knew too. That was the problem
Speaker 1: half found out. Riley was digging for evidence that the
Speaker 1: mind was dangerous and he couldn't have that. Hastings entire
Speaker 1: livelihood is counting on this project moving forward. That can't
Speaker 1: possibly be true. It's just a new mine. Hastings has
Speaker 1: been fine since the old one shut down. There's a
Speaker 1: lot you don't know about this town, Maxine. I refuse
Speaker 1: to believe that some environment poisoning pit in the middle
Speaker 1: of the woods is important enough to justify kidnapping someone.
Speaker 1: To certain people, anything is justifiable. I was going to
Speaker 1: lose my house, max this one too, and there they're
Speaker 1: the only things I have left of him. But what
Speaker 1: does that have to do? Was the one who asked
Speaker 1: me to do it? Not the Archers. I haven't paid
Speaker 1: my property taxes in years. I haven't able to afford to.
Speaker 1: But how is he cares? You know about the people
Speaker 1: in this town. So we made a deal? What kind
Speaker 1: of deal? When he needs something done that he can't
Speaker 1: do himself, he calls me that muscle you mentioned earlier. Well,
Speaker 1: Warren has a similar man, two men in fact, in
Speaker 1: his employee. But hell doesn't like relying on Warren for everything.
Speaker 1: So that's where I come in. And he just needed
Speaker 1: Riley to stay quiet, just for a little while. So
Speaker 1: you did kick that that night when Riley went missing.
Speaker 1: You went out that night and you you took him.
Speaker 1: I took him here, told him to stay quiet, stay
Speaker 1: put until all the contracts were signed and the old
Speaker 1: mine was demoed. What was the shovel in tarp four?
Speaker 1: I needed to get his bike out of you somehow.
Speaker 1: It was evidence. I couldn't just have it lying around.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, wait, how do you know about that? Anyway?
Speaker 1: Ross Teller, I knew that kid was spying on me. Well,
Speaker 1: I guess he was right to you. You're a kidnapper,
Speaker 1: and yet here you are standing in an empty cabin
Speaker 1: in the middle of the woods at night with me,
Speaker 1: and you don't seem scared of me at all. I'm not,
Speaker 1: And why is that? I don't know. I just never
Speaker 1: have been. I'm glad to hear it. Most of the
Speaker 1: other neighborhood kids run the other way when they see
Speaker 1: me coming. I know that. But you're I don't think
Speaker 1: you'd ever actually hurt anyone. Mr Beatty, Am I wrong?
Speaker 1: You're in no danger from me, Max, But that doesn't
Speaker 1: mean I haven't hurt people. Maybe not in the way
Speaker 1: you're talking about, but I've I've made a lot of mistakes.
Speaker 1: I think they're actually called crimes in this case. That's fair.
Speaker 1: But Riley was safe as houses the entire time he
Speaker 1: was here. Yeah, except where is he? I don't know?
Speaker 1: Come on, no, really, Max, I don't know. I let
Speaker 1: him go almost a week ago, and since then, I
Speaker 1: don't know where he's been. Okay, okay, so let me
Speaker 1: walk through this. You're in the mayor's pocket because you
Speaker 1: want to hold onto your house, so you kidnap Riley
Speaker 1: Stevens off the street to keep him quiet about the
Speaker 1: New Mind being dangerous. You keep him here and you're
Speaker 1: creepy pick axe cabin. But then let him go, telling
Speaker 1: him to stay out of the way and keep quiet
Speaker 1: about the fact that the New Mind is going to
Speaker 1: kill us all. It's really not as serious as it sounds.
Speaker 1: I'm not done. And instead of going home, Riley goes
Speaker 1: to hide out in the empty inn, where he runs
Speaker 1: away the moment he sees me. For some reason. Wait,
Speaker 1: unless he wasn't running away from me but from Allana
Speaker 1: Elena whoever she is. Maybe Riley didn't put those files
Speaker 1: in the ceiling at all. Maybe it was miss Honeywell,
Speaker 1: what files? What are you talking about? It? It's not
Speaker 1: important right now, I don't think, not until we find Riley.
Speaker 1: You said he was staying at the inn. That's good,
Speaker 1: that's safe, except he's not there anymore. And if I
Speaker 1: know Riley, he hasn't been lying low. He's probably been
Speaker 1: trying to put together more evidence about the mine. That's
Speaker 1: what I'm afraid of. So maybe he's on his way
Speaker 1: to the demolition to try and stop it. I hope
Speaker 1: that's true. I thought you wanted the mind to go forward.
Speaker 1: I want Riley to be okay. And if he makes
Speaker 1: a big scene at the demolition, AL won't try to silence.
Speaker 1: Do you realize how insane this all is, doing this
Speaker 1: much for some stupid money grubbing mine. That's not why
Speaker 1: I did it. I just wanted to keep my home.
Speaker 1: And you think that makes you any different from how
Speaker 1: you're both trying to hold on so tightly to what's
Speaker 1: always been that you can't see what could be. You
Speaker 1: love Hastings just as much as us, Max. I know
Speaker 1: you do. I've seen it your whole life. You've loved
Speaker 1: this place. Loving something doesn't mean never wanting it to change,
Speaker 1: and love love isn't love when it hurts other people.
Speaker 1: So let's go down to the demolition. If we hurry,
Speaker 1: maybe we can stop it. Ross should be there by now, anyway.
Speaker 1: I know he'll do everything he can to stop it.
Speaker 1: Ross Teller has been helping you out with this. He
Speaker 1: wasn't just spying on you for on and he was
Speaker 1: supposed to meet you at the ceremony. Yeah, he was
Speaker 1: going to city Hall first to get proof of the
Speaker 1: new Mind being dangerous. But I I saw him biking
Speaker 1: the opposite direction on my way here. What Yeah, nearly
Speaker 1: ran him over too, had to stop and yell at
Speaker 1: him for a minute, not that I ever mind doing that.
Speaker 1: Did he say where he was going? Well, we didn't
Speaker 1: exactly chat, but he certainly wasn't headed to the demo
Speaker 1: unless he was taken the long way around? Which way
Speaker 1: was he headed the same direction as me? But he
Speaker 1: cut into the woods earlier. I don't get it. Why
Speaker 1: would he do that? You know you're here? Of course,
Speaker 1: maybe he came to tell you something. Then where is he?
Speaker 1: I guess we got two kids? To find. Now, come
Speaker 1: on the demos only a mile and a half from here.
Speaker 1: If we want to cut up over the ridge, we'll
Speaker 1: see if we could spot him on our way. Okay,
Speaker 1: but what is the axe for? Well, I thought maybe
Speaker 1: I might have to do some some rescuing. Rescuing. I
Speaker 1: started to think, if Riley's free but didn't go back
Speaker 1: to his parents, maybe he got snatched again, and maybe
Speaker 1: maybe he'd be trapped somewhere, and you would need a
Speaker 1: pick axe, because, oh god, you think he's trapped in
Speaker 1: the old mines. It's where How said I should keep him.
Speaker 1: The first time around, I put my foot down so fast.
Speaker 1: I think How was worried I was going to step
Speaker 1: on him. But if you say Riley's been in the inn,
Speaker 1: then hopefully we don't have to worry about that. Wait,
Speaker 1: but if that's what How wanted in the first place,
Speaker 1: he called before you got here. What, Yeah, he called,
Speaker 1: and he said that he'd cleaned up your mess. No, No,
Speaker 1: that's not good. Why if Hal has cleaned it up
Speaker 1: without me, that means he's turned to his last resort.
Speaker 1: He would have called Warren and his scary looking men,
Speaker 1: not just scary looking Max. Why don't you tell me
Speaker 1: that how it called. I was a little focused on
Speaker 1: the fact that you were confessing to kidnapping Riley. Do
Speaker 1: you know where he called from? No, but I'm assuming
Speaker 1: he's at the demolition right now, So damn it. If
Speaker 1: he said Warren's Lackey's on Riley, He's in a lot
Speaker 1: more danger than he was before. We've got to move,
Speaker 1: all right, one of the higher elevation mine entrances. It's
Speaker 1: just up through these trees here. Do you really think
Speaker 1: that Warren would have had his men put Riley in
Speaker 1: a mind that's about to be collapsed? Do you know
Speaker 1: what this mining project means to the Archers? Minotaur Mining
Speaker 1: is set on getting their claws into this whole region.
Speaker 1: If the Archers have a staken that, they'll be richer
Speaker 1: than God. Wait a second, this is this is Ross's bike?
Speaker 1: What are you sure? Ross? Ross? Are you here? Ross? Ross? Wait?
Speaker 1: Is that? Where are you? It's not Ross? This way, Riley,
Speaker 1: It's coming from up there where the entrances. Riley, We're coming. Why.
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