Speaker 1: Maxie Miles. It's 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 talk to Ransom. You think he took Riley?
Speaker 1: I think he knows a lot more than he's letting on.
Speaker 1: He said his dad would want to be in town
Speaker 1: for the demolition. And if there's anything I know about
Speaker 1: Warren Archer, it's that he'll do anything to protect his family. Okay,
Speaker 1: you go to city Hall and get the report and
Speaker 1: then meet me at Archer's archery. Okay, Max, be careful,
Speaker 1: you too, I'll see you soon. From a typical artists
Speaker 1: and I heart radio. You're listening to MAXI Miles. You've
Speaker 1: chosen ending a the Stolen Inheritance. Hello, Hello, Ransom, Ransom
Speaker 1: ship Ransom. Yeah, I'm here. Are you okay? Yeah, I'm fine,
Speaker 1: I'm fine. What are you doing here? Um? You asked
Speaker 1: me to look into whoever stole your files? Remember, right, right,
Speaker 1: right right? Sorry, I'm a little It's been a strange day.
Speaker 1: Any day that starts with waking up somewhere you didn't
Speaker 1: fall asleep is bound to be a little strange. That's
Speaker 1: very true. But did something else happen? Oh? You mean?
Speaker 1: Was waking up groggy in this office with an empty
Speaker 1: safe and no memory of the night before, just the
Speaker 1: beginning of my Why? Yes, yes it was Ransom. What happened? Well?
Speaker 1: My father called an hour ago in a complete panic
Speaker 1: about some family document or other, demanding that I find
Speaker 1: it right away. What kind of document. He said he
Speaker 1: needed everything from the safe from Naturally, I couldn't tell
Speaker 1: him that everything in the safe is gone. So here
Speaker 1: I am trying to scrounge up something from that year
Speaker 1: and the rest of this junk without even knowing what
Speaker 1: I'm looking for. And on top of that, I've been
Speaker 1: calling a Lanna all day. I even went to the
Speaker 1: inn earlier, and I haven't been able to get a
Speaker 1: hold of her, which makes me think that I ruined
Speaker 1: things with her last night, just like I ruined my
Speaker 1: chances at getting my father to finally trust me again.
Speaker 1: And now I'm talking to a twelve year old about
Speaker 1: my problems, like the stable adult that I am for
Speaker 1: the last time I'm fourteen. Well that's not as comforting
Speaker 1: as you think, Ransom. I've found your files? What how? Where? What? You?
Speaker 1: You really don't know what was in them? I told
Speaker 1: you my father never gave me the code for the safe.
Speaker 1: He said i'd get it when he died. She couldn't
Speaker 1: come soon enough. The girl you were telling me about
Speaker 1: this morning, Sherry. Yeah, what about her? What happened with her?
Speaker 1: Why did she leave? I don't know. She never told me.
Speaker 1: She just left and you really never heard from her ever? Again? No,
Speaker 1: why what does this have to do with anything? What
Speaker 1: do you know about Riley Stevens? I told you Max,
Speaker 1: I don't know anything. I don't know where he is.
Speaker 1: But why did you say you'd drive me up and
Speaker 1: down Route three oh two? What? At first you said
Speaker 1: you'd drive me to Berlin, which makes sense because half
Speaker 1: the town has been gossiping about Riley running away there.
Speaker 1: But then you said you'd drive me up and down
Speaker 1: Route three o two. Why? I don't know, I misspoke
Speaker 1: except Riley's backpack was found right off of Route three
Speaker 1: o two. It was, and that's not public knowledge. Then
Speaker 1: how do you know? I'm me right, I'm the one
Speaker 1: who found the backpack actually, which makes me think that
Speaker 1: if Riley was trying to run away to Berlin like
Speaker 1: some people think, he would have taken a serious detour,
Speaker 1: which you seem to know. I must have heard something
Speaker 1: or you know something. Look, Riley is your friend, right,
Speaker 1: and he's like you. He'd do anything to get to
Speaker 1: the bottom of something, right. Well, after Walts said that
Speaker 1: they had a theory that Riley ran away, I started
Speaker 1: to think that maybe he went digging and there's an
Speaker 1: environmental surveyor person. I don't know. All that land and
Speaker 1: mining ship bores me to death. So what does this
Speaker 1: have to do with Riley? There's something wrong with the
Speaker 1: new mining project. I'm not sure what exactly, but it's
Speaker 1: poisoning the groundwater. What How on earth do you know that?
Speaker 1: Because Riley knew he was writing an expose about it
Speaker 1: for the paper. Yeah, that's what I feared. You heard
Speaker 1: about Riley's article and I thought maybe he decided to
Speaker 1: go straight to the source track down the whistleblower my
Speaker 1: father buried in the evidence. But if Lee could talk
Speaker 1: to the expert directly, and then when he called, I mean,
Speaker 1: I assume that's what made my dad fly off the handle.
Speaker 1: The why he'd want me to find paperwork from is
Speaker 1: beyond me. Ransom. I don't think your dad is worried
Speaker 1: about Riley's article. I don't think you realize how big
Speaker 1: a deal this project is to my dad to Hastings,
Speaker 1: to have that ruined by a nosy kid. No, I know,
Speaker 1: but I don't think those were the files your dad
Speaker 1: was calling about. What do you mean, Max, what's in
Speaker 1: the file? Do you do? You know the Stevens very well?
Speaker 1: Not any better or worse than anyone in Hastings. They've
Speaker 1: been here as long as you've lived here, right, I
Speaker 1: guess why do you remember when Riley was born? I
Speaker 1: wasn't exactly paying attention to what couples and Hastings were
Speaker 1: having kids when I was in high school or ever.
Speaker 1: What does this have to do with anything? You really
Speaker 1: don't know, do you, Max? I found this in the
Speaker 1: ceiling of one of the guest rooms at the Inn.
Speaker 1: I think I think Riley may have taken it. What
Speaker 1: are you talking about? Is it Riley? Very much not
Speaker 1: in Hastings. I'm not totally sure what happened, but Riley
Speaker 1: has been hiding out in the Inn and I thought
Speaker 1: he'd left. But maybe I just don't know why else
Speaker 1: these would have been in the inn. But why would
Speaker 1: Riley want to wait? Is this? Max? What is this?
Speaker 1: I think I think Riley is your son. What the
Speaker 1: fact that Riley was fighting with his parents, Sherry leaving unexpectedly,
Speaker 1: the fact that Riley was asking about Berlin before he
Speaker 1: went missing, It all adds up, and then the smoking gun.
Speaker 1: His birds are to a kid, our Archer born in
Speaker 1: n to a Sherry Mason in Berlin, hospital. Jesus, she
Speaker 1: never told you. She didn't. But your father, that bastard
Speaker 1: all this time, he knew he kept this from he.
Speaker 1: Do you realize what this means, Max? That Riley is
Speaker 1: set to inherit the entire Archer fortune. I have a son,
Speaker 1: a son, and I mean he's going to want anything
Speaker 1: from you. Ransom? What No, No, that's not Why do
Speaker 1: you assume that I could have done things differently? Max?
Speaker 1: For the past fourteen years, I could have I do.
Speaker 1: My father was obsessed with his legacy, with the Archer name,
Speaker 1: but this I never thought he would keep this from me. O,
Speaker 1: my god, how did he even do it? What did
Speaker 1: he say to Sherry that would make her think that
Speaker 1: I wouldn't was the one who told her to hide it?
Speaker 1: Who arranged the adoption? It's sure as hell, seems like it.
Speaker 1: And for what to protect the Archer family fortune from
Speaker 1: a single mother with two daughters. Cherry's mom was a
Speaker 1: good person, and her older sister wasn't even around. She
Speaker 1: was in college by the time that we And to
Speaker 1: think that my dad thought they would be some kind
Speaker 1: of some kind of I don't know, gold diggers. And
Speaker 1: now now he's missing. So I can't even I mean,
Speaker 1: does he know you said he took the file? So
Speaker 1: he must have. God, what he must think of me.
Speaker 1: I don't know what Riley knows or doesn't know. I'm
Speaker 1: still something here, Still isn't fitting if you didn't drive
Speaker 1: Riley out of town? Wa Is that what you thought?
Speaker 1: That that I had something to do with Riley going missing?
Speaker 1: I I wasn't sure. Max. Come on, I know that
Speaker 1: I'm not well liked in this town, but I'm not
Speaker 1: a kidnapper. No Ransom, That's not what I'm saying. And
Speaker 1: what are you saying? Just that if your own father
Speaker 1: would hide your son from you for fourteen years to
Speaker 1: protect the Archer line, it's not a huge leap to
Speaker 1: think that Riley finding out the truth would be a
Speaker 1: big problem for your family. Oh my god, you're right,
Speaker 1: But that's that's not he wouldn't. My father is a
Speaker 1: lot of things, but a kidnapper isn't one of them.
Speaker 1: He he's not even in the state. Are you absolutely sure?
Speaker 1: If he was asking about files from how else would
Speaker 1: he know these files went missing? If you didn't tell him,
Speaker 1: he must know that Riley Ransom? Ransom, Dear, are you here? Alana?
Speaker 1: Max What are you doing here? I was just helping
Speaker 1: Ransom out with something. Oh what's that? Oh it's some
Speaker 1: family stuff. I Alana, where have you been? I've been
Speaker 1: trying to get ahold of you all day. I had
Speaker 1: some business to attend to. What's in the file? Ransom? Dear?
Speaker 1: Could you give Ransom and I a minute alone? Um? No,
Speaker 1: I'm the one that found his stuff, so I feel
Speaker 1: like I should at least you. You're the one who
Speaker 1: was upstairs. What you broke into my inn? What? No?
Speaker 1: The door was open? And wait a second, it was you?
Speaker 1: What was her? Could someone explain to me what's going on?
Speaker 1: It wasn't Ryley. He's not the one who broke into
Speaker 1: your safe. Seems like everyone was right about you, Maxine,
Speaker 1: you really are too clever for your own good. Alana,
Speaker 1: not Alanna? Actually Elena, Elena Mason? What do you not remember?
Speaker 1: Sherry Ransom? My sister. He ruined her life. Does that
Speaker 1: not ring up bell at all? Right? This wasn't about
Speaker 1: the mine at all. It was about the archer. My
Speaker 1: arrival in town wasn't exactly a coincidence. The Maplethorpe's have
Speaker 1: been lifelong family friends, so when Mrs Maplethorpe decided to retire.
Speaker 1: I saw the perfect opportunity, the perfect opportunity for what
Speaker 1: for my family to finally get what's ours. You may
Speaker 1: have wanted to shove Riley in with the rest of
Speaker 1: your family secrets, but he deserves a cut of the
Speaker 1: Archer fortune as much as you. Ransom. You you knew
Speaker 1: this whole time. You knew. Oh please, you're trying to
Speaker 1: tell me you didn't. You broke my sister's heart, Sherry,
Speaker 1: How how is she like? You? Care? I do? He
Speaker 1: didn't know, miss Honeywell Ms Mason, whoever you are, I
Speaker 1: knew before him. Yes, speaking of I'd like to have
Speaker 1: back what you stole from me, Max, you mean what
Speaker 1: you stole from Ransom. You've been hiding Riley this whole time,
Speaker 1: and you what No, I haven't. He was in your inn,
Speaker 1: your ghost, you asked me, of all people to invest
Speaker 1: I know, I thought that was Ransom trying to find
Speaker 1: some way to steal the in out from under me.
Speaker 1: The Archers have tried to make claim to that property
Speaker 1: dozens of times over the years, and it was Riley.
Speaker 1: I saw him that that's impossible, It couldn't have been
Speaker 1: it was. It was him. He's the one who's put
Speaker 1: Riley in danger. I barely knew the kid. Well, that's
Speaker 1: very unsurprising considering the Archer history of distant fathers. You
Speaker 1: think I would have let Riley go his whole life
Speaker 1: without knowing the truth. My father betrayed me. Your father
Speaker 1: drove my family from this town and hid any proof
Speaker 1: that Riley was an Archer. The Stevens don't even know
Speaker 1: who Riley's parents are. They don't and he'll pay for that,
Speaker 1: I promise you, Oh, I know you will. Once I
Speaker 1: make this entire horrible business public, the Archer name won't
Speaker 1: have such a shine to it anymore. Sherry, know that
Speaker 1: you're doing this. She never was the vindictive type. Don't
Speaker 1: pretend to know her. Don't pretend to know how I
Speaker 1: felt about her. You weren't even here. In fact, I
Speaker 1: regret every day. Why because you would have stopped her
Speaker 1: from getting involved with the Archers. Yes, that's exact be
Speaker 1: what I would have done. Everyone shut up. Look, I
Speaker 1: get that this is a lot for both of you.
Speaker 1: But if you weren't keeping Riley at the maple Thorpe
Speaker 1: and he didn't run away, then where is he? Your father.
Speaker 1: How would he have known about the files going missing?
Speaker 1: I called him to tell him I finally had the
Speaker 1: proof I needed. He thought he was being clever hading
Speaker 1: the birth certificate from the public record, taking the hospital's camp.
Speaker 1: You never saw Riley eavesdropping on the marrit all, did you?
Speaker 1: You knew he was looking for the birth records? Well,
Speaker 1: we were there for the same reasoned to me. I
Speaker 1: was trying to help Riley. Well you have it. He
Speaker 1: was doing fine before you got here, Like you have
Speaker 1: any idea stop. Neither of you have any idea where
Speaker 1: he is? Do you? You've been too busy trying to
Speaker 1: protect what you have or get revenge. And meanwhile my
Speaker 1: friend is still missing. Max. What the hell was that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: The old mine shit. Father is gonna skin me for
Speaker 1: missing it. It's the projects definitely going forward now that
Speaker 1: will please him. Your father is never going to see
Speaker 1: a penny of that mining money, if I have anything
Speaker 1: to say about it. Alana, the Archers aren't going to
Speaker 1: get away with things this time. Ransom. I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to get away with anything. Who is that the Max? There?
Speaker 1: You are theo What are you doing? Your uncle? He's
Speaker 1: he's looking at everywhere for you. Why, what's wrong? Is
Speaker 1: he okay? Yeah, yeah, he's fine. But you were supposed
Speaker 1: to be with Ross and now Ross is missing. What
Speaker 1: what are you talking about. I was on my way
Speaker 1: to city Hall to meet with my dad for the
Speaker 1: demolition and Ross passed me on his bike. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: was going to city hall too, That's not where he went. THEO.
Speaker 1: What he said he knew where Riley was. That Friley
Speaker 1: had to be in the minds, that's where he went.
Speaker 1: What what do you mean, I don't know. He didn't
Speaker 1: stop to chat, just told me to tell my dad
Speaker 1: had talked to Warren Archer that his goons took Riley.
Speaker 1: What what did your dad say? He's looking into it.
Speaker 1: That's why your uncle freaked out too. THEO. When was this?
Speaker 1: When did you see Ross? Like twenty minutes ago? Oh
Speaker 1: my god? If he was in those mines, oh no,
Speaker 1: oh okay, okay, I'm sure he got out in time. THEO.
Speaker 1: They just demolished half of the woods. If Ross and
Speaker 1: Riley were in there, that then Max? What did I do?
Speaker 1: Thank you for think to season one of Maxie Miles
Speaker 1: and for being a part of the investigation. As we
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