Speaker 1: Solve Presents Penance Part two. Come on, come on, come on, Terrence,
Speaker 1: you won't believe this, just mustard, we won't wait to lunch.
Speaker 1: You were right. There is a story here. It's more
Speaker 1: than just one dead boy. Tell me they dropped dead overnight.
Speaker 1: No foul play, no disease, no nothing. People are calling
Speaker 1: it a curse. Twenty years in the works. Is a
Speaker 1: journalist gold river? When you win the precious, so better
Speaker 1: around me. I need their death certificates to make out
Speaker 1: a common cause. I can did go up? Where's your
Speaker 1: shovel going to be? In the meantime? You don't trust
Speaker 1: my process? Didn't you say? Your dad was, the town,
Speaker 1: the bishop? Not much trust they're at present? Then you
Speaker 1: better get back to where there was wait Terrence, Amity,
Speaker 1: I didn't see you. You don't have to hide that
Speaker 1: thing from me. I know you didn't return to repent.
Speaker 1: How much did you hear? Oh? I wasn't trying to snoop. Really,
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you've shown it all. The son's about
Speaker 1: to go. Why don't you gather your stuff and come
Speaker 1: stay with us. I'm settled in Mary's. It would mean
Speaker 1: a lot to your father, would it he'd never say
Speaker 1: as much, but I know it would only one way
Speaker 1: to find out. Even the horses tense around me. No,
Speaker 1: it's there, knowing you read my coldness for what it
Speaker 1: really is. That's sad fear. Best I can guess. You
Speaker 1: show up with no warning, no reasoning, like no time's
Speaker 1: passed this boy father, Thomas, Yes, what do you really think?
Speaker 1: I think it's all in God's plan. He has the
Speaker 1: same plan for all thirteen dead boys who told you
Speaker 1: Mamma's got a flair for full disclosure. You have a
Speaker 1: son now, don't you want to stop this? These boys
Speaker 1: all died within days of returning from the room. Springer.
Speaker 1: If there's a common denominator, it's the outside world. You
Speaker 1: want to stick your nose inplace. Look from whence you came? Okay,
Speaker 1: I will. But in the meantime, Yes, and that he
Speaker 1: said I could stay with you. You want your home back,
Speaker 1: I want your trust back. I don't think I could
Speaker 1: lose you twice. If you want to come home, you
Speaker 1: know what to do. Get yourself to the preacher. Preacher King,
Speaker 1: do you do you think he could be responsible for
Speaker 1: any of these deaths? Are you suggesting he threw a
Speaker 1: hex on the town. Something a little more literal. We
Speaker 1: he acts with those boys. He mourns each boy as
Speaker 1: his own. Why his son was one to pass? I
Speaker 1: suppose I will see you at the house, sister. So
Speaker 1: you're a night owl like me, it's the excitement of
Speaker 1: having you here. I'm excited too. I've never had a
Speaker 1: sister before. We can stay up late and whisper secrets
Speaker 1: to each other in the dark. Girls, bedtime upright and
Speaker 1: early tomorrow. The Lord has blessed us. It's caused for celebration.
Speaker 1: My roof, my candles out, Sister. Yeah, I'm so happy
Speaker 1: your home. Happy to be home. Hey, Terence, after a
Speaker 1: mild holiness hangover, I'm headed to the preachers now to
Speaker 1: atone something off with this guy. Apparently his son was
Speaker 1: one of the cursed boys. I'll update you in a bit.
Speaker 1: I whipped up some of my special hash if you'd like.
Speaker 1: Thank you, but I'm not hungry. Please. That dresses size
Speaker 1: for an adolescent. Eat up. I'm amazed you have an
Speaker 1: appetite after the service yesterday. I've had a lot of practice,
Speaker 1: to be frank, We're lucky it wasn't two coffins. Given
Speaker 1: Silas's temperament. Do you think he's a bad apple? Not
Speaker 1: by your standards. No, but you shepherded in a few
Speaker 1: spoiled barrels in your wake. We've been picking up the
Speaker 1: pieces since I shaped a whole generation of morals from
Speaker 1: the edge of this cursed town. Curse. Mm hmm. It's
Speaker 1: the devil's speech, but maybe there's truth to it. Piety
Speaker 1: can't protect I never seemed to learn, even from up close,
Speaker 1: up close. You were with Thomas when it happened the
Speaker 1: night before, helping prepare for their baptisms. So Silas was
Speaker 1: there too. Shame birthday, Shame baptus. They walked home together.
Speaker 1: We never saw the other half alive again, and the the
Speaker 1: other doesn't. You had a front row seat for their
Speaker 1: final moments too. I'd forgotten your charming predilection for trouble stirring.
Speaker 1: Your atonement still proves elusive. That's why I came. Father
Speaker 1: sent me here for you to finalize it. And why
Speaker 1: would I do that? You're the preacher. That's what you
Speaker 1: do only if I ordered the excommunication, which did I
Speaker 1: put forth the action? But of course I was the
Speaker 1: one to catch you in action. I don't need a
Speaker 1: history lesson on that day. Apparently you do. Your father
Speaker 1: made the ultimate call to shun you that day. He
Speaker 1: couldn't heat. You'd better pray Emma has a stronger moral
Speaker 1: fiber in light of your shared cuts of cloth. I
Speaker 1: bet he doesn't. Where are you running off too? To
Speaker 1: find the boy who broke this curse? I'd like to
Speaker 1: know how he did it. Hey, Terence, the preacher could
Speaker 1: be promising, weird phrase for a potential pedophile, but he's
Speaker 1: definitely pathological. Okay, I'm at a piece and I've got
Speaker 1: a him. I swear to look right, and so it's
Speaker 1: probably tooth your legs. Let's see you try to raise
Speaker 1: a barn then, Hey, hey, Pontiac crec hands off his suspenders.
Speaker 1: That's not what they're intended for. What are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: Duchy called the cops on me? How would you manage that?
Speaker 1: We don't you know those duchies have telepathic powers. The
Speaker 1: boy gives me what he owes. I'm gone you okay, baby, baby,
Speaker 1: I don't want you roped into this. It's nothing. Hey,
Speaker 1: it's not nothing. You gotta stop tracking me down here, dude,
Speaker 1: I got appearances to keep up. You got twenty four
Speaker 1: hours don't make your kind and reliable to me class.
Speaker 1: Wait I was stop running, or I'll tell father? What
Speaker 1: am I becoming? What did the guy want with you?
Speaker 1: That's just Kenny. He's harmless. I met him when I
Speaker 1: was on rum Springer or whatever. It doesn't matter. Does
Speaker 1: it have anything to do with your brother Thomas and
Speaker 1: I are We're different. He was the good one. I'm
Speaker 1: the good enough one. His rum Springer was spent church
Speaker 1: chopping in mind was spent. Well, we've been pen pals
Speaker 1: little year he was away. It started off friendly, but
Speaker 1: but can you blame me? Look at her. You've been
Speaker 1: a catalyst for all sister teenagers, allowing ourselves to act
Speaker 1: like teenagers. I haven't even been around though. People talk.
Speaker 1: All there is to do around here almost all. Did
Speaker 1: you see anything off that night with your brother? Anything unusual?
Speaker 1: Rebecca be gentle? Not my strong suit says he died
Speaker 1: in his sleep like every other boy asked Swaller is
Speaker 1: to say? While there is to say, or all you're
Speaker 1: willing to, is there a difference? Can you tell me?
Speaker 1: I think I've told you enough. Ship, don't worry, I've
Speaker 1: got myself unto Yeah, who do you have to call.
Speaker 1: We've best get going anyway, silas coming to dinner. I
Speaker 1: am father told me you and Preacher King crowded atonement dinner.
Speaker 1: It will be a ship time, I do not doubt,
Speaker 1: but will all be together? But excuse me, well, I
Speaker 1: but Terrence, God, it's so loud over there, I can't hear.
Speaker 1: I got to depict Hello the death certificate, Oh glorious
Speaker 1: causes influenza for all thirteen yep? And what's weirderre? The
Speaker 1: dates are all over the map. What healthy kid quots
Speaker 1: with a flu outside of the flu season? Not any
Speaker 1: I know. But flu symptoms are what like nausea, fever, chills.
Speaker 1: Why is a new kid getting fit? No? No, I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Flu symptoms also sound a lot like poisoning, right objection conjection? Well,
Speaker 1: if it is poison, where's the well? And why only
Speaker 1: these boys any in help? And Father dearest, he's pointing
Speaker 1: the finger back at us. Each of these boys died
Speaker 1: days after returning from the rum springer. In his mind,
Speaker 1: the outside world is the common denominator. That's a big
Speaker 1: gass pool to pluck from. You got anything more specific? Actually, yes,
Speaker 1: there's this Lancaster asshole names Kenny drives a red Pontiac sunbird.
Speaker 1: He's got an extra grind with silas the surviving brother.
Speaker 1: What about creepy preacher? Name is Jonathan King. Look at
Speaker 1: the names on your desertificates. You've got Abraham King. That's
Speaker 1: his son. Hang on an it. Abraham is the earliest day.
Speaker 1: He was the first of the thirteen. Yes, ma'am. So
Speaker 1: if the preacher's son did happen to die of the flu,
Speaker 1: the cruelty of that kind of God might send a
Speaker 1: holy man into a vengeful rage. Exactly, he's coming over
Speaker 1: for dinner. I'll sniff out his vengeful potential. Excellent, I'lphe
Speaker 1: of LPD knows any kids. Blessing day, Miss Raber, what
Speaker 1: are you doing praying? Well, we'll need it for tonight. Well,
Speaker 1: we've got Levi and silast about it. The man up
Speaker 1: in case my company doesn't do the job. If flattery
Speaker 1: can infect the integrity of a single man in our rounds,
Speaker 1: it is Preacher King. Is that flower talk for a
Speaker 1: kiss ass Rebecca behavior? So help me, I promise, really
Speaker 1: I do. How long has it been since we've hugged
Speaker 1: a long time? Father? The preacher told me something odd
Speaker 1: today about the boys about you. He said you were
Speaker 1: the one to make the final call on me, that
Speaker 1: you could have chosen different, reverted the decision whenever you wanted. Oh,
Speaker 1: since he's lying about that, what else could he be
Speaker 1: lying about? I thought of you every minute and missed
Speaker 1: you even more. There's a life here you couldn't You
Speaker 1: wouldn't have if I had stayed. But you're here to
Speaker 1: stay now? Isn't God good? This is delicious amity? Now
Speaker 1: I see why Matthew can't find his suspenders over his belly.
Speaker 1: Uh not a problem for your leave, though, strong beer
Speaker 1: rye to be that age? Uh, Silas is here too,
Speaker 1: fairly more legal than you dode. Rebecca. Have you told
Speaker 1: your family why you've invited me here? Didn't I? Why
Speaker 1: to Tom? Of course, which I do, hallelujah. You seem
Speaker 1: awful jolly about it. But it's a serious thing, the
Speaker 1: admission of sin, a choice you chose against twenty years ago,
Speaker 1: the stubborn teenagers you take a lifetime to break in, Right, Bishop,
Speaker 1: it was put all on her and that wasn't right.
Speaker 1: We were flawed too in our handling of it. Maybe
Speaker 1: more so, who's atoning for what? Now? Because if I recall,
Speaker 1: Rebecca was the one who had premarital in a course
Speaker 1: in broad daylight in my field, don't get any ideas,
Speaker 1: then refused to repent and instead ran away with our prize, Joshua.
Speaker 1: I don't think that warrants any apology on our and
Speaker 1: Joshua should have been held to the higher ethical standard
Speaker 1: as the man, not my daughter father. He was the
Speaker 1: one back from rom Springer. He was the one corrupted
Speaker 1: from the outside. This insistence that it was all my
Speaker 1: Rebecca's idea and there for her blame to absorb. That
Speaker 1: was the wrongest something and a shameful one. You don't
Speaker 1: just cut off evil. You find the rue of it
Speaker 1: and you cast that away instead of casting a young
Speaker 1: girl right back into the depths of it. She could
Speaker 1: have repented. Then she's repenting now. I'm sorry, man, but
Speaker 1: you're acting like the last straw with her was the
Speaker 1: very first. Rebecca has been trouble since since the day
Speaker 1: I was born. Oh, dessert, desert, anyone, amity, I'd love
Speaker 1: the recipe for this, of course, let me fish it
Speaker 1: from the cupboard. Anyone here? Nope, what's that, sonar? We
Speaker 1: are my secrets. The potatoes you won't find any as
Speaker 1: good outside town. This is your recipe. You wrote it
Speaker 1: my original, yes are excuse me? Well, I gather we've
Speaker 1: overstayed our welcome silas. Let me walk you home. No,
Speaker 1: I um, you live so close. I'm so out of
Speaker 1: your way. Don't be absurd. The sun slow. I don't
Speaker 1: want that ruffian in the red car stocking you down again.
Speaker 1: Where did I put you? Oh? We yep night? Fuck me.
Speaker 1: Handwriting is a perfect match. I wash you dry. It
Speaker 1: works for me, Amity, Can we chat? What is it? Dear?
Speaker 1: You wrote this letter to my paper? No, I mean
Speaker 1: I can explain exact handwriting match to your recipe. So
Speaker 1: explain that. Explain what what's in your hand I didn't
Speaker 1: mean any trouble. I was trying to prevent more of it.
Speaker 1: You sent this to Rebecca. I found one of her
Speaker 1: her stories in your dresser one of my articles. Matthew
Speaker 1: had it cut out. I don't know where he got
Speaker 1: it or how any of this works, but I do
Speaker 1: know that if someone doesn't look into this curse from outside,
Speaker 1: it will keep on. I refused to lose my boy
Speaker 1: to heaven like the rest of them. The outside is
Speaker 1: the cause, not the solution. Can't you see that I
Speaker 1: sent it to Rebecca. I sent it to one of us.
Speaker 1: She is not one of us. You don't really think that, father?
Speaker 1: Did you only come back here because of this letter?
Speaker 1: Answer me? Originally yes, but I don't want to hear it.
Speaker 1: I didn't know I would come back and feel I
Speaker 1: feel what sweetheart? Seggers, Come quick, what's going on? It's Silace.
Speaker 1: He collapsed just now on the loan, Silas, Stylus, what's
Speaker 1: wrong with him? We need to call an ambulance. Stylas.
Speaker 1: Do you have your phone? Ship? Where is she going?
Speaker 1: Tell me? I don't see what I'm seeing in your hand.
Speaker 1: I'm calling you use that phone? You give up your
Speaker 1: right to exist here with us? Hi, I need an ambulance.
Speaker 1: Why are you next of Kim? Sure? Yeah, I'm the mother.
Speaker 1: Take care of him? Is he stable? Rebecca? Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I'm here. I turned it down. Why would I still
Speaker 1: be punished? What do you mean? Turned what down? Silas?
Speaker 1: We're losing him, Silas. M Rebecca Raber was played by
Speaker 1: Alice Lovek, Terrence by Blaine Gray, Matthew Raber by Jim Hannah,
Speaker 1: Amity Raber by Carrie Kawa Silas Shrock by Dmitri Todd,
Speaker 1: Preacher King by Bradley Fisher, Kenny by Devon Matthew McKee,
Speaker 1: Emma Raber by Brady Ryder, Levi Raber by Chad Roberts,
Speaker 1: Mary by a Rooned Stores. This episode of Solve was
Speaker 1: written by Shannon Riley, directed by Corey Serge, Executive produced
Speaker 1: by Corey Serge Executive produced by Walt Palmer and Sterling Barnett.
Speaker 1: Casting by Daisy Laura. Audio production and post production by
Speaker 1: Salt Audio production manager Liz Lamay. Recording engineers Hope Brush
Speaker 1: and John Schmidt. Original music and score by Nathan Turchon,
Speaker 1: editing and mixed by Zach Jurich. Assistant editor Hope Brush.
Speaker 1: Sound designed by Eric Rachelson. Script supervisor Marilyn Miller