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Speaker 1: You were listening to Strawberry Spring, based on a short

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Speaker 1: story by Stephen King. See Edwards. You asked to see us.

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Speaker 1: Come back later if you're busy, Take a seat, make

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Speaker 1: yourself comfortable. I was just about to read the latest

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Speaker 1: copy of the New Sharon Times. I thought you might

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Speaker 1: care to join me. New Sharon Times, March Night. Henry,

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Speaker 1: you you're right here that five girls have all been murdered.

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Speaker 1: Gail Kerman, Charlotte Foster, Adele Perkins, Chelsea Spencer, and most recently,

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Speaker 1: Hannah Gray. Ages range from eighteen to twenty years old,

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Speaker 1: victims of New Sharon's very own Spring Heeled Jack. We

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Speaker 1: still have no leads, and the campus of New Sharon

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Speaker 1: remains open, a virtual hunting ground for a killer that

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Speaker 1: has a blood lust that can't or won't be satiated.

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Speaker 1: That last line, it might be my favorite. It's very poetic, Henry.

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Speaker 1: I don't know who's doing more damage at this point.

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Speaker 1: The two of you were Spring Heeled Jack. Either way,

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Speaker 1: it's left me no choice. I'm going to announce that

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Speaker 1: spring break will be moved up a week. I just

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Speaker 1: don't see any other way but to clear out the campus.

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Speaker 1: I need you to put that in tomorrow's paper, and

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Speaker 1: do me a favor, try to keep the editorializing to

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Speaker 1: a minimum. All I care about is making sure everyone

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Speaker 1: gets home safely. Can I quote you on that? Do

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Speaker 1: you want to graduate? Not what I was thinking. When

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Speaker 1: we are called in, some conversations come to an inevitable conclusion.

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Speaker 1: We scattered out at the office like frightened sheep before

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Speaker 1: a storm. We were going to be abandoning the campus,

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Speaker 1: handing over an empty and haunted legacy to police looking

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Speaker 1: for clues, and one dark specter leaving a trail of

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Speaker 1: death and sorrow in his wake. I can't believe it's

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Speaker 1: only been a few weeks since this all started. It

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Speaker 1: does seem like it's been forever since we were in

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Speaker 1: the name Spring Neo Jack. I walked with Anne, but

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Speaker 1: I felt very much alone. It was hard to believe

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Speaker 1: how much could change in such a short period of time.

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Speaker 1: Five women were dead, countless lives had been shattered, and

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Speaker 1: there was an exponential amount of damage that I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: begin to understand for years to come. The word inevitable

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Speaker 1: kept echoing in my head. Captain, It's it's me, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know what can I do for you? You're not

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Speaker 1: gonna want to hear this. But with the latest victim, yes,

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Speaker 1: that's her. This puts me in a terrible predicament. I

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Speaker 1: of the murders, or I or you can give me

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Speaker 1: and my man a chance to see this through. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if these kids. They have a hard enough

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Speaker 1: time getting to classes now worrying about a killer. I

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Speaker 1: think we all need a break. I need a break.

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Speaker 1: Listen to me. If you let them go home now,

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Speaker 1: we may never catch and bring hill Jack. You have

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Speaker 1: to give me a little more time. He's one of them.

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Speaker 1: I can feel any in my bones. I'm a cop

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Speaker 1: and sometimes cases get salt on a hunch, and I

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Speaker 1: have that hunch. I will catch him. Come hell or

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Speaker 1: I water Earl. You may be right. I can't imagine

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Speaker 1: what you're going through. I feel for you, I really

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Speaker 1: really do, not for me, But can I be frank

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Speaker 1: I I think you can use a break too. We

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Speaker 1: need a reset, all of us. If they all go home,

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Speaker 1: there will be no one left for him to kill.

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Speaker 1: For to catch. My mind is made up. I have

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Speaker 1: to go. Look. I am sorry for your loss. Closing

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Speaker 1: all goes away. It doesn't. It's not possible. What would

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Speaker 1: In my mind's eye, she's still standing there, and and

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Speaker 1: announcing an early spring break. Not much to do there,

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Speaker 1: The wind really picked up that day. The snow flurries

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Speaker 1: New Sharon was old, full of tradition, and in the

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Speaker 1: It was called out Chris, the kind of air that

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Speaker 1: got there. That's it, forever did it. It's harder to

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Speaker 1: how romantic. Where's the power out here too? Yes, there

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Speaker 1: get my side paper done before spar break. Early Trauma

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Speaker 1: and Childhood Development a study in coping mechanisms. That's a

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Speaker 1: lofty title, it is. But I need you to get

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Speaker 1: One night. Oh h that night that her moment had

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Speaker 1: Why aren't we bringing our boys home? It's not our war.

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Speaker 1: Old men are dying. Rachel slept soundly. There was some

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Speaker 1: Five women from murder in Cold Blood, no subspects, a

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Speaker 1: He'll mess up, won't Henry? What are you talking to me?

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Speaker 1: I couldn't tell if I was asleep, awake, or somewhere

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Speaker 1: I opened it. It was like opening Pandora's box. What

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Speaker 1: I read couldn't be put back. Subject Henry Denton, aged

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Speaker 1: His survival instincts are primeval. Over the last three months,

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Speaker 1: But you do think of Anne is more than a friend,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, But would you be willing to leave Rachel?

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Speaker 1: talking to? Huh? No one? I was reading. Oh my god, Henry,

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Speaker 1: you've been analyzing me this entire time. I haven't been

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Speaker 1: analyzing you. I've I've been studying you everything. You've overcome,

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Speaker 1: And now look at you. You've put yourself through college

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Speaker 1: and you're about to start in life. Life is me?

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Speaker 1: Are you mad? I don't know what I am. Maybe

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Speaker 1: I should read your paper and find out, Henry. I

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Speaker 1: These are all the files from the spring Hill Jack murders.

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Speaker 1: Make it stop, Henry. It looks like spring Healed Jack

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