Speaker 1: MMMM. Hi. I'm Brett Wood, the writer and director of
Speaker 1: The Seventh Daughter, and it's my pleasure to present the
Speaker 1: first of three bonus episodes. In the first two of
Speaker 1: these episodes, I'll be sharing scenes that got left on
Speaker 1: the cutting room floor m M. Originally The Seventh Daughter
Speaker 1: was designed to have thirteen episodes, but during the editing process,
Speaker 1: we decided on a more streamlined structure for the show
Speaker 1: to remove some of the digressions that tended to slow
Speaker 1: down the linear action. Even though there was good reason
Speaker 1: to remove them, I can't help but still miss some
Speaker 1: of these detours because they sometimes provided historical detail as
Speaker 1: well as some additional motivation for the character's actions. This
Speaker 1: episode is recommended for those who have listened to the
Speaker 1: entire series already and still have it somewhat fresh in
Speaker 1: their minds. I'll present the scenes in chronological order and
Speaker 1: briefly described the context in which they originally appeared. Now.
Speaker 1: I don't think any of this will radically change the
Speaker 1: dramatic effect of The Seventh Daughter, But for those super
Speaker 1: fans who enjoyed briefly inhabiting the world of Rose, Pearl
Speaker 1: and Corbeau, these return trips to steal city should be
Speaker 1: a welcome treat. I'm not yet yet today that is
Speaker 1: not McCauley, But I am giving you a gift that
Speaker 1: is almos as valuable as life itself. I'm following a
Speaker 1: demonstration of the wonder Child. I will reveal to you
Speaker 1: the sauce of Amirs and give once more life your
Speaker 1: full vigor and energy. We're floored, Troyo as it did
Speaker 1: when you are? Are you to? Sixteen? Episode two, Lotus
Speaker 1: Blood focuses on Pearl's preparation for performing a street corner
Speaker 1: medicine show. I'll hang the torches, did you fill them
Speaker 1: with gasoline? Yes? I did. Unpack the jars and line
Speaker 1: them up across the front of the table, yes, ma'am,
Speaker 1: just like last time. And make sure the two headed
Speaker 1: calf and the tape worms are out front where people
Speaker 1: can see them, yes, ma'am. And then hide out. Hide
Speaker 1: out behind the banner, and change into your dress while
Speaker 1: I drum up the crowd. I'll be back in two
Speaker 1: hours for the wagon. You need anything else? Did you
Speaker 1: did you chalk the wheels? Yeah? You said you're going
Speaker 1: to pay me a night for the rest, and I
Speaker 1: will just give us a chance to work in the
Speaker 1: longer version performs a second time after having been sugar
Speaker 1: talked by the Pinkerton. Having grown overconfident in her skills
Speaker 1: and distracted by the predatory man, she quickly loses control
Speaker 1: of the performance. What do I odd between my arms now?
Speaker 1: It's difficult to see. It's impossible to see calm because
Speaker 1: it is invisible. It is priceless. Yet every man owns
Speaker 1: his share. He can save it, he can spend it,
Speaker 1: You can waste him. Just tell me bandor But he
Speaker 1: can never get more than God has allowed him to have.
Speaker 1: A rich man cannot buy it from the poor. The
Speaker 1: poor cannot sell his share to another. Sometimes Pandora's vision
Speaker 1: surprised as even me. I was order in a pocket watch.
Speaker 1: But through the power of Lata's blood, she saw the
Speaker 1: true essence of what the mex hachannical time peace represent. Amazing?
Speaker 1: And what do I have in my hoard now, my dear?
Speaker 1: A flower? A caronation from a gentleman's lapel. Yeah, what's
Speaker 1: the concentrate, my dear, don't be distracted by the attention
Speaker 1: of all these admirers. Tell me again what I all
Speaker 1: did in my hand? Is it a walking stick? A
Speaker 1: walking stick, but the silver cat. Apparently someone did not
Speaker 1: kick a lot as blood this afternoon. Let's have a
Speaker 1: fresh start. What do you have there? A newspaper? Yes,
Speaker 1: let me hold that now, Pandora. Allow the image to
Speaker 1: crystallize in your mind and tell me what I a
Speaker 1: limmians is? Pandora? Is it? It is a pin from
Speaker 1: the hat of the dark haired woman. I'm afraid, child.
Speaker 1: What do you strike a child that away? Don't touch poll?
Speaker 1: Could you allow that to happen? All you have to
Speaker 1: do is sit there and say a dozen words? And
Speaker 1: where did you learn that awful dog one? I'm sorry
Speaker 1: when I tell you, hey, you are you still interested
Speaker 1: in this one? After that little performance? No saying hey,
Speaker 1: give me a hundred dollars and she's yours? What fifty?
Speaker 1: Take her off my hands? Give me fifty and you
Speaker 1: can have her. I'll throw in the dress. Please. Definitely
Speaker 1: not the woman I thought you were. And if you were,
Speaker 1: and you're not anymore, I see you're around China Rose.
Speaker 1: This scene of the Medicine Show Gone Wrong never really
Speaker 1: worked as well as I hoped it would, so I
Speaker 1: was happy to remove it. But much to my chagrin,
Speaker 1: removing the second Medicine show necessitated the removal of another scene,
Speaker 1: one that I liked very much between Rose and Pearl
Speaker 1: in the apartment after the show. How are we supposed
Speaker 1: to eat if you make foolish mistakes like that? The
Speaker 1: alphabet code? You can't even comprehend that our supply of
Speaker 1: medicine is gone, we've barely enough left for doesn't work
Speaker 1: harder we can. You're supposed to pay for the wagon, Massaria.
Speaker 1: Know how much those specimen jars cost, not to mention
Speaker 1: what goes in them. No, of course you don't, But
Speaker 1: you'll find out because you will replace them. You'll pay
Speaker 1: for the jars, and you will go to the slaughterhouse
Speaker 1: to get the freaks to put inside them. Not me, you,
Speaker 1: I will. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Fix my pipe, destroy
Speaker 1: us everything we worked for, and no chance of ever
Speaker 1: accomplishing anything. God damn it. Hall Pearl here, lie back
Speaker 1: and let me hold the pipe for you. You'll feel better.
Speaker 1: I feel better. How am I supposed to feel better
Speaker 1: when I'm being robbed and beaten all over again, over
Speaker 1: and over again. M hmm. You can't win in this world,
Speaker 1: no matter how much you plan and how hard you work.
Speaker 1: They won't let you. It's okay. We'll find a way.
Speaker 1: I'll work hard, I'll try my best. We'll survive somehow. No,
Speaker 1: I'm sending you back where you belong, among the believers.
Speaker 1: You're sending me back m first thing in the morning.
Speaker 1: M hmm. This is no place for the likes of you.
Speaker 1: I should have known. What about her act? You mean
Speaker 1: my act? I'll manage. Maybe I'll just hire a trained monkey.
Speaker 1: At least a monkey can hold its tongue. So you'll
Speaker 1: just find another girl, Yes, someone older, prettier, more mature,
Speaker 1: someone whose mind hasn't been sullied. I won't go. You
Speaker 1: can't make me, can't I No, you can't. I've wasted
Speaker 1: so much time on you already. I'm sorry, pearl. You're
Speaker 1: strong willed, but you're weak to the core. You're useless
Speaker 1: to me. Don't say that allowing yourself to be distracted
Speaker 1: by a man ross. During the performance tonight, you said
Speaker 1: we were going to perform the word apostle. That's right,
Speaker 1: you were spelling a different word. M hm m hmm.
Speaker 1: What word did I say? You spelled a P O C. No,
Speaker 1: you're wrong. What were you spelling? Bloody paint? Goods, So
Speaker 1: at the end of that episode we find out that
Speaker 1: the disastrous performance may not have been entirely Pearl's fault,
Speaker 1: but sabotage Rose's way of keeping Pearl in line. But
Speaker 1: Pearl knows that Rose sabotaged her, so the relationship thickens.
Speaker 1: Episode four, Asleep in the Deep is one of my favorites,
Speaker 1: and a pretty big piece of it was removed before
Speaker 1: the series was released. We began the episode after the
Speaker 1: passage of many months, with Rose and Pearl on stage
Speaker 1: at a variety theater store me the night and the
Speaker 1: waves roll high, its bravely the ship rod Hawk White,
Speaker 1: the light husbands, Sol cry prease all the salt bad.
Speaker 1: They're on the dicky to the start, too hot, beating
Speaker 1: and hot. She why siddeds th most deed. But in
Speaker 1: the longer version we hear an entirely different origin story
Speaker 1: for Pandora. She had one origin story for the medicine
Speaker 1: show that she was raised in the Orient, but in
Speaker 1: the music Hall she has been transformed into a daughter
Speaker 1: of Royalty. The reason this was removed is because we
Speaker 1: dwell so long in the fictional origin story that we
Speaker 1: thought listeners may have gotten confused. About where we are
Speaker 1: in the main frame of the narrative. If this were
Speaker 1: a film or a television series, the visual style of
Speaker 1: this fraudulent flashback would have helped orient the viewer, But
Speaker 1: on radio it was harder to bracket this as a
Speaker 1: false narrative within a larger fiction. Anyway, Kititon, it happened
Speaker 1: three years ago when Pandora was in her eighth year.
Speaker 1: Born to parents of wealth and means, she lacked nothing.
Speaker 1: I was a midwife at the time. I attended her
Speaker 1: mother during the birth, and it was I who brought
Speaker 1: her into this world. From the moment she was born,
Speaker 1: the seventh child of her mother, all of them girls,
Speaker 1: it was obvious that this child was special. No child's
Speaker 1: future ever seemed to shine so bright. She was given
Speaker 1: the finest education, but somehow possessed knowledge that even her
Speaker 1: tutors had not yet attained. She had an uncanny ability
Speaker 1: to commune with animals, and loved nothing more than to
Speaker 1: wander the shadows of the forest or to pick among
Speaker 1: the stones of the village cemetery. There she seemed most
Speaker 1: at peace. Born in Russia, her mother had been a
Speaker 1: mystic and had been a spiritual consultant to the most
Speaker 1: influential heads of Europe. Her father was an American diplomat
Speaker 1: and had accepted a post in London. But then three
Speaker 1: years ago the family, Pandora's mother and father, and her
Speaker 1: six older sisters all set sail together for Britain, but
Speaker 1: not Pandora. The child had fallen ill with pneumonia, was
Speaker 1: suffering disturbing visions, and the family doctor insisted she delay
Speaker 1: her voyage. Her parents and sisters had no choice but
Speaker 1: to go on ahead, and so they left Pandora with me,
Speaker 1: with the plan that we would follow. Two weeks later,
Speaker 1: when Pandora was told of these arrangements, she became hysterical, inconsolable.
Speaker 1: She begged her parents not to go. It was more
Speaker 1: than a child's fear of separation from her parents. It
Speaker 1: was something much worse. Pandora saw their fate and warned
Speaker 1: them of their impending doom. I heard the screams in
Speaker 1: the night when she witnessed nightly visions of her family's fate.
Speaker 1: It was I who marked the cold sweat from her
Speaker 1: body as she lay trembling in horror. Mommy day, please
Speaker 1: listen to me. If you go on his chiselthing, Terrible's
Speaker 1: going to happen to you. But what called an eight
Speaker 1: year old child possibly know such things. If you go
Speaker 1: on that voyage, you're all going to die was now
Speaker 1: be known. But we know that Pandora's premonitions of death
Speaker 1: and suffering were accurate. We know that the mother, the father,
Speaker 1: the six older sisters all boarded the ship on May first,
Speaker 1: bound for London. We all know the name of the ship,
Speaker 1: the ship that was spotted by a German U boat
Speaker 1: ten miles off the coast of Ireland. We know that
Speaker 1: more than one thousand souls perished in the frigid depths
Speaker 1: of the Atlantic air. When they plunged into the water,
Speaker 1: they were wrapped in one another's arms. My father was
Speaker 1: a strong swimmer and he tried to keep them afloat,
Speaker 1: but the sinking ship created a whirlpool that set them
Speaker 1: all down into the blackest steps of the sea. We
Speaker 1: know what happened to her family because Pandora witnessed it.
Speaker 1: All my sisters held hands from oldest to youngest like
Speaker 1: a daisy chain, all dressed in white pinafores. The youngest
Speaker 1: of the six, Rebecca, was the last, and as she
Speaker 1: was pulled down down into the abyss. Her hand was outstretched,
Speaker 1: reaching up towards the surface, open empty, the hand that
Speaker 1: I would have held had I been there. Any breath,
Speaker 1: Heart are ross deep and kno deep. So we w
Speaker 1: and yes that is Minca Wilts performing her own vocals.
Speaker 1: I really hated to lose this next scene because it
Speaker 1: allowed the still invisible Corbo to start sinking his fingers
Speaker 1: more deeply into our story. Having declined Houdini's offer of work,
Speaker 1: having declined Albert von shrank Natzing's request to perform a
Speaker 1: cabinet sitting, Rose and Pearl find that someone is interfering
Speaker 1: with their efforts to make a living. Even in pop.
Speaker 1: Rose say, pop who took us off the Plaquet's Jules
Speaker 1: finally giving us the bill and we to charge just
Speaker 1: a second, Rose, Juels needs to speak to you. Fine,
Speaker 1: have him come up to room dressing rooms locked Rose,
Speaker 1: Just would you just just right here a minute? Were you?
Speaker 1: How do you expect the girl to get take a second?
Speaker 1: Here he comes, now, jus come into my office. Someone
Speaker 1: reported her act to the police. The police send someone
Speaker 1: out and they said it violates an ordinance against fortune telling. Nonsense,
Speaker 1: it's mentalism. Not Fortunately, all the same. She can't do
Speaker 1: her act on that stage. She can perform magic for
Speaker 1: the entire audience, but can't you know, single out audience members.
Speaker 1: Typically she's not a magician. All right, listen, we'll figure
Speaker 1: out another act demonstrations of her her communing with the spirit.
Speaker 1: Right well, until you do, she cannot go on that school.
Speaker 1: We got served an injunction, Rose, So if she goes on,
Speaker 1: we get shut down. You know, we get taken to court,
Speaker 1: not you the theater. I've already talked to the owners,
Speaker 1: and we're just not willing to take that change. When
Speaker 1: did this happen this morning? It was Houdini? Probably jealous bastard.
Speaker 1: Show me the injunction. There's no name on it except
Speaker 1: the judge that signed off on it and the clerk
Speaker 1: who delivered it. Here. You want to know more, you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to go down to city Hall. Rose. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: but it's out of my hands. You can go up
Speaker 1: to your dressing room and you can clear out any
Speaker 1: of your belongings. Otherwise we'll put it in a trunk
Speaker 1: for you. Such a gentleman, Come on, Pandora, who would
Speaker 1: want to keep us from performing? The egotist Houdini can't
Speaker 1: tolerate competition, even from a child. But I'm not so
Speaker 1: sure it was him. You've captured the attention of other
Speaker 1: would be suitors. Shrank, shrink, and whoever shrank is working
Speaker 1: for Corbo. Possibly, But even if this isn't Corbo, it
Speaker 1: will be soon. The current is catching you. You feel
Speaker 1: it tugging at your legs, starting to pull you downstream.
Speaker 1: You can struggle against the current if you want to
Speaker 1: buy a little time, but you'll exhaust yourself. You could
Speaker 1: try to swim for shore, get out of the water
Speaker 1: and swear never to get back in, or or let
Speaker 1: the current carry you. Navigate to the waters and prepare
Speaker 1: for the whirlpool that's waiting downstream. I didn't think it
Speaker 1: would happen so quickly. Neither did I, but you exceeded
Speaker 1: my expectations. It's time that we stopped trying to find Corbo.
Speaker 1: He'll soon find us. It's time to begin thinking about
Speaker 1: what we're going to do once we reach him. We
Speaker 1: me you no reason to be apprehensive. There are still
Speaker 1: things I have yet to teach you. Okay, time for
Speaker 1: one more, right, This one's really cool. You remember an
Speaker 1: episode five Paradise we met Trudy the chorus girl I
Speaker 1: Told you I Sing, who was invited by Baxter to
Speaker 1: have a private date with Corbo and he is looking
Speaker 1: for someone to provide him with inspiration. Oh like an
Speaker 1: artist model, where she is eventually schooled in the rules
Speaker 1: of sex magic and given a sound thrashing. But then
Speaker 1: we get this, where are we going? Where are you
Speaker 1: taking me? Shut up and sit there? Did I hurt
Speaker 1: your ad? We need to go to the police or
Speaker 1: the hospital. I need to go to a hospital. I
Speaker 1: think if I need to take you to a hospital,
Speaker 1: I'll take you to a hospital. You don't need to
Speaker 1: go to a back my legs. Fifty dollars for tearing
Speaker 1: up my body like that, I won't be able to
Speaker 1: work for We trust me. You got off easy, come back,
Speaker 1: he says, come back, and we'll make it a hundred.
Speaker 1: If that's when it gets fifty, I can't imagine. What
Speaker 1: do you do for a hundred? You don't know the
Speaker 1: half of it. A hundred. He wasn't serious. Do you
Speaker 1: think he was serious? Do you really think he'll pay
Speaker 1: me a hundred dollars if I go back another time? Oh,
Speaker 1: he'll pay he'll pay I love the Baxter character. I
Speaker 1: wanted her to come off as that kind of Mannish
Speaker 1: woman whom you see in Hollywood and German films of
Speaker 1: the nineteen twenties and thirties, sort of a visual shorthand
Speaker 1: to suggest lesbian you know what I'm talking about, the
Speaker 1: woman who dresses in a man's suit with slicked back hair.
Speaker 1: But then I wanted to show that there's more to
Speaker 1: her than a stereotype, and that maybe she's not just
Speaker 1: a procureur for Corbo. If given the opportunity to record
Speaker 1: a season two of The Seventh Daughter, you could be
Speaker 1: assured that we will hear more from Baxter. I hope
Speaker 1: you're enjoying drilling deeper into the world of The Seventh Daughter.
Speaker 1: Please come back for the remaining two bonus episodes. The
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