Speaker 1: Solve Presents Penance Part three. You must be Mrs Sharks.
Speaker 1: I was his mother, that's me. I caught him in
Speaker 1: the nick of time. We've induced a comma to keep
Speaker 1: his brain healthy. He's stable, but we won't know much
Speaker 1: more until we pull him out. Doctor, what happened to
Speaker 1: him was this poisoning? That's a possibility given his symptoms.
Speaker 1: Do you have any reason to suspend? You'll run the
Speaker 1: tests and find out we can, and we have. I'll
Speaker 1: notify you as soon as we know. My sale members
Speaker 1: written down here. Please call when you do. You have
Speaker 1: a cell phone. I came as fast as I could.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, sir, immediate family only he's the father. Interesting
Speaker 1: unit you three are? We've heard that. Yeah, I'll me
Speaker 1: with your son. I talked to my guys at Lancaster
Speaker 1: p D. Guess whose record got pulled? Kenny names Kenny Harper.
Speaker 1: He was arrested for possession with intent to distribute a
Speaker 1: few months back, and a sting that rounded up some
Speaker 1: other guys, including no Silas fucking Shruck. Looks like this
Speaker 1: amish angel is more streaked than he looks, not to
Speaker 1: speak ill of that. He's not dead. Terrence, did you
Speaker 1: get an address for Kenny lp D. Open up. You're
Speaker 1: playing cop dressed like that. I got this. Go grab
Speaker 1: me a coffee or something. Make yourself useful. Watch the tube, Raber.
Speaker 1: I'm still your boss. It's still no draft of years
Speaker 1: in my inbox. I thought I'd solve the murders and
Speaker 1: then write about them. Coffee. I'm going a coffin a bonnet.
Speaker 1: You're gonna lose that foot if you don't get it
Speaker 1: out of my door, Duchy, I'll move it just as
Speaker 1: soon as you tell me what your beef is with
Speaker 1: Sila Shrock. Silas kids like him find me, not the
Speaker 1: other way around. And hell if I'm going to turn
Speaker 1: down that's sure thing? What's there to be so sure of?
Speaker 1: Take a kid with the best work ethic in God's
Speaker 1: Green America and throw them into the land of the
Speaker 1: free and doped up. So you turn these kids into
Speaker 1: your personal drug mules. You're not one of them, how
Speaker 1: many it doesn't Maybe their time is limited. They make
Speaker 1: the most of it. So you get these boys working
Speaker 1: for you while they're out on rum Springer that's got
Speaker 1: a year to get it out of their sister. The
Speaker 1: most do. But Silas he had a hard time leaving
Speaker 1: it behind. Then the kids screwed up a drop ram
Speaker 1: with his tail between his legs. Back to clog country.
Speaker 1: I've been out a couple of stacks since Silas was
Speaker 1: poisoned last night. Ship. Yeah, and you've just given me motive. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: Silas and I we had beef, but it's settled. It
Speaker 1: didn't look settled yesterday. I called him last night and
Speaker 1: we talked it out. I was with Silas last night.
Speaker 1: He didn't have his phone on him. He was lying
Speaker 1: a bit of a life or death scenario. I assure
Speaker 1: you he wasn't. Then whoever's got his phone has more
Speaker 1: answers than I do. Look, Silas made some enemies in
Speaker 1: his ear on the town. My experience, the heart of
Speaker 1: these kids go on the outside, the rougher gets when
Speaker 1: they go back home. You're looking in the wrong neck
Speaker 1: of the wood spottet. Okay, is that your sweet ride
Speaker 1: out front? Yeah? So you've got a missing vehicle to report. Hey, hey, hey, hey,
Speaker 1: you're bad here home, sweet home? What is you doing?
Speaker 1: What have you never seen a car before? Rebecca? How
Speaker 1: is Silas? How did you whose car is this? Silas
Speaker 1: is alive? He's going to be okay. Oh thank god,
Speaker 1: Mother was right. You take him out of here and
Speaker 1: he lives. It's us. We are the curse, and the curse.
Speaker 1: You are not the curse. Doctors think he might have
Speaker 1: been poisoned. Poisoned, and Thomas too, all of them. Emma, listen,
Speaker 1: I need your help. Do you know where Silas kept
Speaker 1: his self dashed? He had a secret spot beyond the
Speaker 1: bent great Hoppin. I could walk and meet you there, Emma.
Speaker 1: I'm not supposed to get in a car with the shunned.
Speaker 1: What if father sees, I'll say I kidnapped you dead him?
Speaker 1: Are you sure you know how to drive? I've lived
Speaker 1: among the English for twenty years, Emma, so you have
Speaker 1: your license. Just tell me where I turn off. I
Speaker 1: can't believe I haven't said thank you yet. I made
Speaker 1: a phone call. That's all. You've saved the love of
Speaker 1: my life. Emma. Silas isn't who you think he is,
Speaker 1: not entirely. I I think Rumsbrenda changed him. I don't care.
Speaker 1: I just don't want to lose him. Believe me, I
Speaker 1: know how that feels that you'd give up anything for
Speaker 1: this love. But life is long and full of regrets.
Speaker 1: What is there for you to regret? You have an
Speaker 1: amazing life in the city, a real job, you can drive,
Speaker 1: just sort of what could you possibly miss about being
Speaker 1: back here family? He always kept it right here in
Speaker 1: this nook when it wasn't on him. You're sure positive
Speaker 1: we could try calling in. Do you have his number? No?
Speaker 1: If it's not here and he doesn't have it, someone
Speaker 1: else does? Nobody else knew he had it? Someone did,
Speaker 1: someone who couldn't risk the person they've poisoned calling an
Speaker 1: ambulance the moment symptoms showed. Do you think who ever
Speaker 1: has his phone poisoned Silas? I think whoever has that
Speaker 1: phone poison them all? Relax, it's my phone. Hello, Rebecca,
Speaker 1: it's Dr. Romesco. Silence remained steady. We'll keep him in
Speaker 1: the coma for now, but we got his toxicology report back.
Speaker 1: What did it come up with a lethal dose of solonine?
Speaker 1: Solanine a toxic compound founded potatoes? Potatoes? Okay, thank you, Dr?
Speaker 1: Was that about Silas? What was that about potatoes? That's
Speaker 1: how he was poisoned? Narrows down our list just about
Speaker 1: every person in Lancaster County. Rebecca, Wait, my mother's recipe.
Speaker 1: It couldn't be. No, it couldn't. Amity wanted me back
Speaker 1: to solve this, to save Levi. She and father don't
Speaker 1: hide their hatred for Silas much. This is not our parents.
Speaker 1: How can you be sure who was the last person
Speaker 1: alone with Silas yesterday? And who was the last one
Speaker 1: alone with his brother before he died? I'm pretty sure, King,
Speaker 1: Come on, sister, we better get you home. Comes the
Speaker 1: firing brigade, Come on out of that? Did Silas live
Speaker 1: through the night? Is beat the curse twice? Now? Potato poison?
Speaker 1: Be damned potato poison. How do you know miracles of
Speaker 1: the devil's modern medicine plus the Lord? Yeah, he really
Speaker 1: showed up this time. Ray birs, What is this vehicle? Oh?
Speaker 1: Of course it would be you bringing the evils up
Speaker 1: the outside world into our home. The evils of the
Speaker 1: outside world are what saved Silas. You mean the child
Speaker 1: has been saved? Why I suppose we do owe a
Speaker 1: debt of gratitude to that phone. Speaking of phones handed
Speaker 1: over hand, what over Silas's phone? Silas had a phone,
Speaker 1: and why would I have taken it? You poisoned him
Speaker 1: then stole his phone? As security, no survivors, no witnesses.
Speaker 1: It worked out for the other dozen boys. You think
Speaker 1: I'd inflict the tragedy of my own boy on another.
Speaker 1: You couldn't bear to watch a boy live up the
Speaker 1: life stolen from your own. No wonder they call you creeper, preacher.
Speaker 1: They know what you really are. I kept those boys
Speaker 1: close so they could live out the life my son couldn't.
Speaker 1: Holy one, and I've failed on every account, but I
Speaker 1: have not poisoned the soul. Hey bonnet, bitch, hay over
Speaker 1: my keys. Oh great, Rebecca's brought a friend. The rain's coming.
Speaker 1: Let's get inside. Warm up. I'm going to the stalls.
Speaker 1: I think I shall retire as well. I'm not through
Speaker 1: with you, preacher, cue by now sure, but I need
Speaker 1: you to do me a favor. First, What kind of favor?
Speaker 1: Silas's phone number? That's it. I give you his number,
Speaker 1: I get my car back. Easiest trade of your life. Here,
Speaker 1: dunka here. I don't know if you really are a
Speaker 1: dutchy or what, but you're one weird chick. Were six zero?
Speaker 1: Where's that coming from? Why do you have Silas's phone? Father?
Speaker 1: Why do you have Silas's phone? Why don't you get
Speaker 1: into that car and leave here. Rebecca. It's clear you
Speaker 1: never truly intended to come home. Let me see the phone.
Speaker 1: Tell tell me that it wasn't you. You didn't try
Speaker 1: to kill Silas. You you you didn't kill the others.
Speaker 1: They left us in the time of their own choosing,
Speaker 1: all of them, they're choosing. What the funk are you
Speaker 1: talking about? A right of passage before baptism? What so
Speaker 1: human sacrifices are new ritual Now boys are offered what
Speaker 1: they think is alcohol. If they refuse it, then they've
Speaker 1: been washed of their worldly urges. They're ready to join.
Speaker 1: And if they drink it, then it washes the world
Speaker 1: of them. Whose decision was this? The preacher, the church elders,
Speaker 1: I am the bishop of this church. The responsibility falls
Speaker 1: to me alone. I'm going to be sick. It should
Speaker 1: have been done long ago, had it not failed to
Speaker 1: predict the wickedness in these boys before God. This is
Speaker 1: about Joshua, of course, this is about Joshua. His influence
Speaker 1: on you crippled us, and I lost you. You don't
Speaker 1: get to make new coasts just because I became one
Speaker 1: to you, and I've sinned worse than any of those boys.
Speaker 1: That sin wasn't yours, it was mine. Why do you
Speaker 1: think I chose not to repent? Why I have stayed
Speaker 1: away until now? I prayed for your return? But should
Speaker 1: God not find it fit to bring you home to me? Now?
Speaker 1: I vowed that Emma would not grow up in the
Speaker 1: face of the same temptations. You did see it out.
Speaker 1: You didn't want to lose another daughter, so you started
Speaker 1: taking the sons. Then Silas comes back off at all
Speaker 1: hours with Emma. His baptism arrives along with your little test,
Speaker 1: and you're sure he'll be the one to drink, not
Speaker 1: his brother, but Thomas dies and now Silas knows you
Speaker 1: poison him to cover your tracks and keep him locked
Speaker 1: in your home forever. I let Silence leave. The phone
Speaker 1: was his unintended test. So we're cool. Yes, Kenny, I'll
Speaker 1: pay you back, but you gotta stop coming around here. Bishop.
Speaker 1: What's in your hand? So nothing? What's in the jar? Well,
Speaker 1: here's my phone. What should stop you from watching the
Speaker 1: world of me too? You've shown yourself to us long
Speaker 1: before you showed that phone. Rebecca, The outside can't give
Speaker 1: you what we will. You have a home here, a family,
Speaker 1: and what would you tell emity Levi? Levi is pure
Speaker 1: of heart. He the one exception. If you speak of this,
Speaker 1: we won't recover. Think of the piece here, Think of
Speaker 1: all we'd surrender if we let the outside in. That's
Speaker 1: the real poison. You are the poison. You are the poison.
Speaker 1: I'm protecting us. I returned those boys to God. It's
Speaker 1: penance and to thank Father. All this time you thought
Speaker 1: of me as the sinner. Rebecca, don't go, Rebecca, a
Speaker 1: self crucifixion, too painful to swallow, that a poison was
Speaker 1: doled out for others to swallow, and it's stead. This
Speaker 1: was a man so wrapped up in a war to
Speaker 1: God that he created one for himself, a vigilante demagogue,
Speaker 1: too crippled by spirit and foresight to anticipate the evil
Speaker 1: of his own design. Maybe this isn't about God at all,
Speaker 1: but the twofold mask of him, the higher Power. In
Speaker 1: the name of a father, we keep throwing up the line,
Speaker 1: praying for relief, order, reasoning, judgment, atonement. Once upon a
Speaker 1: time I asked my father for that, And now my
Speaker 1: only wish is that he never get exactly what he
Speaker 1: gave each of those boys. The peace, the sweet swallow,
Speaker 1: the nirvana of a guiltless death. You get all that. Damn,
Speaker 1: I see what you didn't want to wait until you
Speaker 1: reunited with your laptop. This is raw personal. He knocked
Speaker 1: this one out of the park. Rebecca. Yeah, thanks, we
Speaker 1: should be able to make deadline, have it tomorrow's paper.
Speaker 1: Just give me an hour with this and then I'll
Speaker 1: come get you. No, I'm gonna call a cab. I
Speaker 1: want to stop off at the hospital anyway, Silas is awake.
Speaker 1: I'll meet you there, and I just want to make
Speaker 1: sure you're good to print this. Like your father said
Speaker 1: the cops, the news cruise will all be descending on
Speaker 1: that place by morning. You okay with me? And the
Speaker 1: reason for that, I'm not the reason for any of this.
Speaker 1: Print the damn article, Terrence. Rebecca. Must you really leave
Speaker 1: so soon? Yes? I have some work to do back
Speaker 1: in the city. Thank you so much for your hospitality
Speaker 1: and for everything, Emity. Well, will you at least stay
Speaker 1: for dinner? No, I really can't come on, it's already
Speaker 1: on the table. Matthew. Would you like to say? Great?
Speaker 1: Why don't you go ahead? All right? Oh Lord, Almighty
Speaker 1: God in heavenly Father, We thank you for this food
Speaker 1: and for this opportunity to enjoy it as a family.
Speaker 1: We are grateful for our togetherness. We ask that you
Speaker 1: bless this house and the people inside who make it
Speaker 1: at home, to forgive us our sins and our misdeeds,
Speaker 1: and allow us the grace to forgive each other. In
Speaker 1: your name, me pray Hey Ben Amen. Rebecca Rayburn was
Speaker 1: played by Alice Lovek, Terrence by Blaine Gray, Matthew Rayber
Speaker 1: by Jim Hannah, Amity Raber by Carrie Kawa, Silas Shruck
Speaker 1: by Dmitri Todd, Preach Your King by Bradley Fisher, Kenny
Speaker 1: by Devon Matthew McKee, Emma Raber by Brady Ryder, Levi
Speaker 1: Raber by Chad Roberts, Mary by Arooned Stores. This episode
Speaker 1: of Solve was written by Shannon Riley, directed by Corey Serge,
Speaker 1: Executive produced by Corey Serge, Executive produced by Walt Palmer
Speaker 1: and Sterling Barnett. Casting by Daisy Laura. Audio production and
Speaker 1: post production by Salt Audio production manager Liz Lamay. Recording
Speaker 1: engineers Hope Brush and John Schmidt. Original music and score
Speaker 1: by Nathan Turchhon, Edited and mixed by Zach Jurich, Assistant
Speaker 1: editor Hope Brush sound designed by Eric Rachelson. Script supervisor
Speaker 1: Marilyn Miller,