Speaker 1: Hey, lethal listeners, tag Torres here stay tuned for the
Speaker 1: next episode of Lethal Lit. But before we dive into
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Speaker 1: the line from the scene of the latest victim. In
Speaker 1: a recent blue of death, there has rocked the community
Speaker 1: of Hollow Falls. This time, the DJFPD have lost one
Speaker 1: of their own, Detective Jake Lane. Okay, take take now,
Speaker 1: It's not the time to lose control all of us.
Speaker 1: Blood Doris, Hey, Doris, it's me Carver. Are you hurt.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I'm just trying to process. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be Okay, Take Can you tell me what happened?
Speaker 1: I heard entire squealing, but I couldn't really see the car.
Speaker 1: By the time I got to him, he was in
Speaker 1: the road, all bent and bloody. Damn it, I'd warned him,
Speaker 1: got too close. What he was a good cup, a
Speaker 1: bit of an opportunist, but the best partner right had
Speaker 1: in years. You hang around here long enough, you know
Speaker 1: the type. They either move on to bigger cities with
Speaker 1: bigger challenges, or burnout fast. Jake. He wanted to correct
Speaker 1: this case so badly. I wanted to be the hero,
Speaker 1: but this lid killer isn't just a crazy person, It's
Speaker 1: an infection on this tab. All right, let's clear this scene.
Speaker 1: Hine was one of ours people. Let's do right by him.
Speaker 1: It's over, it's all ending. I'm tig Torres and this
Speaker 1: is lethal lit. Detective Lehane, our one friend in the
Speaker 1: police department, is now dead. But if you've been listening
Speaker 1: to this podcast, you know his death was no random accident.
Speaker 1: Lehane was run over by the lip killer, which means
Speaker 1: we've lost our only supporter inside the police department, just
Speaker 1: as the murderer is starting to evolve. In the original killings,
Speaker 1: the books or clues left at a crime scene would
Speaker 1: point back to the murder itself, But this time he
Speaker 1: called it in advance, dropping clues about the Great Gatsby
Speaker 1: to us. In Lehane before the murder. Was he taunting us,
Speaker 1: showing off that he knew exactly how we'd react, how
Speaker 1: Lehane would try to take matters into his own hands.
Speaker 1: M it's in these dark moments that people have to
Speaker 1: step up. I know Aunt Beth did. She just didn't
Speaker 1: have anyone she could count on. If she had, she
Speaker 1: would have made it to the finish line and solved this.
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm so close to cracking the case.
Speaker 1: I just need that one last break to figure it out.
Speaker 1: It's so frustrating. Everything in Hollow Falls is on lockdown.
Speaker 1: I'm at home on suggested bedrest. Detective Carver had me
Speaker 1: checked out at the hospital, but they said I just
Speaker 1: needed sleep. In the last twenty four hours, my friends
Speaker 1: and I have been terrorized, injured, and kidnapped. Max and
Speaker 1: I both survived and encounter with the lip killer, while
Speaker 1: Detective Lahane did not. So Needless to say, Detective Carver
Speaker 1: isn't letting any of us out of her sight, not
Speaker 1: even Ella. If we want to meet, we've got to
Speaker 1: slip past the black and white it's stationed outside our houses.
Speaker 1: But the upside of being in solitary lots more time
Speaker 1: to think, and two things stick out. First, the murder
Speaker 1: of Detective Lehane was rushed. The lid killer only had
Speaker 1: time to make the broad strokes, no note, no elaborate staging.
Speaker 1: Is he worried because we're getting close to catching him
Speaker 1: or is it just part of a more complex plan?
Speaker 1: La Um, what's up? Is everything? Okay? I'm in the
Speaker 1: middle of recording the podcast. I know how he boards
Speaker 1: and it is do you mean? But lunch is on
Speaker 1: the table and I don't cook for ghosts. Okay, I
Speaker 1: made your favorite. I'll be down in a few minutes. Okay,
Speaker 1: remember what the police lady said, did he the the
Speaker 1: energy around us? He's dark? The flock is so sick.
Speaker 1: You have to rest the care of yourself. I get
Speaker 1: it be down soon. Stop please, all the murdered talk
Speaker 1: when there's really nice, as I was saying. Second thing
Speaker 1: that sticks out now that I've basically memorized all of
Speaker 1: the ant Bath tapes, I know they cover most of
Speaker 1: the victims Amudola, del Canto, Senior Wosniac, except for one
Speaker 1: there's a missing death. But um, check this out. I've
Speaker 1: listened to these tapes more times than St. Vincent's latest,
Speaker 1: and I'd never heard this before. Benefits of spacing out
Speaker 1: and leaving the file playing until the end by Ray Bradberry.
Speaker 1: That's important. But the pieces aren't adding up, and as usual,
Speaker 1: I'm running at a tape. Sam, if you hear this,
Speaker 1: I go down. This is on you. I'm counting on
Speaker 1: you to finish this in the event that I can't.
Speaker 1: Fahrenheit is a major clue. Why Well, in all the
Speaker 1: books my aunt mentions in our tapes, each one is
Speaker 1: lined up with a victim except for this one. So
Speaker 1: why would she name drop just the Bradberry book here?
Speaker 1: Because it was a message to herself and to her
Speaker 1: only other hope, her partner, Sam Steiner. If we're missing
Speaker 1: a piece to this puzzle, there's a good chance hollow
Speaker 1: Fall's favorite ba lt loving hermit might have it. Sorry,
Speaker 1: Ailauroavia will have to wait. I've got a craving for
Speaker 1: some old school diner food dig We've been sitting here
Speaker 1: for like yours, I feel gray hairs forming when and
Speaker 1: I are outside the Star of Diner entering our three
Speaker 1: of our steakout. We managed to ditch our security detail.
Speaker 1: Aboila and her homecooked food make for the perfect distraction.
Speaker 1: So now we're sitting here and when's Mom's car? Hoping
Speaker 1: for another glimpse of our elusive bigfoot, Sam Steiner, So
Speaker 1: when are we going to talk about you and ali
Speaker 1: um the day after never? We're on a steak out here.
Speaker 1: We don't have time to like gossip tig. We're on
Speaker 1: a steak out. We've literally got nothing but time to kill.
Speaker 1: Are you uncomfortable talking about having sex with Ali? What? WHOA? No?
Speaker 1: Just I'm gonna be real with you, Tig. I like you.
Speaker 1: At first. I thought I got a vibe off of you.
Speaker 1: But what kind of vibe? Like good into chicks vibe?
Speaker 1: You get that right? Some people are gay? Of course
Speaker 1: I get that. I'm from New York. I know all
Speaker 1: types of people. Okay, sure you really got that vibe
Speaker 1: off of me that I was into girls. It doesn't
Speaker 1: matter girls boys, by pan, that's your business to figure out.
Speaker 1: All I'm saying is if you're feeling Ali, that's cool.
Speaker 1: If you're just into dudes, also cool. But if you're
Speaker 1: confused about whether you're into girls, yeah, I'm here to help. Um.
Speaker 1: I don't really know what to say to all that,
Speaker 1: but I guess thanks. When a tig rull in your window?
Speaker 1: Oh ah, hey Sam, honey, running into you here? Get
Speaker 1: up follow me. After our pulse rates returned to normal,
Speaker 1: Sam led us to his trailer, which is the place
Speaker 1: you live when you don't want anyone to ever visit.
Speaker 1: He offered us some tea, which we hoped would come
Speaker 1: with a side of more tea. I saw you guys
Speaker 1: hovering outside the diner hours ago. I was wondering when
Speaker 1: you would get the guts to come to me directly.
Speaker 1: What you were playing hard to get, unstoppable when there
Speaker 1: was something or someone she was after. She was like
Speaker 1: a machine, steely, I'd focus. She set up all these
Speaker 1: clues for us to follow, each of which has led
Speaker 1: back to one of our tapes. I know she was
Speaker 1: pointing me in a direction for a reason, but I'm
Speaker 1: just not sure which vague notes and clues an easy
Speaker 1: roadmap to follow? MO that that that doesn't sound like
Speaker 1: that style. I get that she's probably your hero, and
Speaker 1: you've put around this this pedestal bit. What are you
Speaker 1: trying to accomplish by just following along? Are you bringing
Speaker 1: anything if your own to the table. Why are we
Speaker 1: talking to this guy again? You're full of it, Sam.
Speaker 1: I know I'm not my Aunt Beth, And yeah, maybe
Speaker 1: following her clues looks like I'm just retracing her steps.
Speaker 1: But what's your excuse? Why do you give up? There's
Speaker 1: another tape, isn't there? Who told you that? It's the
Speaker 1: only explanation for the gap in Aunt Beth's narrative? And
Speaker 1: like you said, she's not the type to leave loose ends.
Speaker 1: Maybe I was quick to judge you. After all, the
Speaker 1: best reporters pushed through. They they learn what to do
Speaker 1: when their investigation hits a roadblock, the backtrack. Right. So,
Speaker 1: my aunt mentions the book Fahrenheit for early on as
Speaker 1: one the killer used for inspiration. But yet none of
Speaker 1: the six murders include her own line up with that book,
Speaker 1: which makes me wonder if there's still another tape and
Speaker 1: another murder out there, and if there's anyone who could
Speaker 1: have it, it's you. In your research, so far have
Speaker 1: you come across the name Anna Killedean. I've held onto
Speaker 1: this for a decade since that day. Let it go
Speaker 1: there to the crossing alone? Where were you that night?
Speaker 1: I was a desk jockey, the reporter who could work
Speaker 1: the phones. I was a writer. I wasn't the guy
Speaker 1: to pound the pavement. I mean that, that's why we
Speaker 1: made such a good team. I wanted to help, but
Speaker 1: there's no way I could follow into that place. It
Speaker 1: just wasn't me out. He was just scared. So what
Speaker 1: if she was such a good friend of his and
Speaker 1: her was in danger, then why didn't you want me
Speaker 1: to explain myself to you? Here? Take the tape, do
Speaker 1: something with it. When Sam handed me the tape, I
Speaker 1: felt an electric shock. This could be the key to everything.
Speaker 1: My aunt Feth wasn't killed because she was annoying the
Speaker 1: lip killer. She was killed because she was close to
Speaker 1: figuring out who they were. And the only other person
Speaker 1: who knew how close she got was Steiner, who's here
Speaker 1: hiding evidence in his dingy cave just because he never
Speaker 1: had the courage to take the next step. So let
Speaker 1: me get this straight. You've had this tape all along
Speaker 1: and didn't tell anyone. You didn't think it could be
Speaker 1: useful to solving her more. I listened to it, I
Speaker 1: did research, even talk to people interested in the case
Speaker 1: to who the Murder of Crows? So you know about
Speaker 1: the group? Yeah, yeah, I mentioned a few, but about
Speaker 1: what was on there to some of them. I did
Speaker 1: as much as I could, but I couldn't crack it,
Speaker 1: and I couldn't give it to the cops. They would
Speaker 1: have just buried it. So I said on it. I'm
Speaker 1: not your aunt. Take I'm not made up of the
Speaker 1: same stuff as she was. But you people are already
Speaker 1: listening to you. You've created a movement with that podcast
Speaker 1: of yours. And you put that to good use. That's
Speaker 1: why you should have it. That's such a cop out, dude.
Speaker 1: So who else knows about this tape? Anyone else besides
Speaker 1: the crew? I don't think so, And what I told
Speaker 1: them was too vague to really pass on to anyone else.
Speaker 1: I do know that Beth was seeing someone off and
Speaker 1: on at the time of her death. But and Beth
Speaker 1: had a secret hook up when No, Seriously, this is
Speaker 1: a big clue. What if she was Pillow talking Sam?
Speaker 1: What did she dish to you about her man? Look,
Speaker 1: she was my friend, but tib Beth kip those parts
Speaker 1: of her life very prevant. Well, we can figure out
Speaker 1: the logistics of my aunt's social life later. So that's it.
Speaker 1: You remain here in your hideout while you let other
Speaker 1: people do the dirty work for you. Again, it's not
Speaker 1: like that, and come with us, help us. This is
Speaker 1: your chance to help us catch this killer. You owe
Speaker 1: it to my aunt Bath. What do you want from me?
Speaker 1: Nothing's changed. I'm still same scared piece of crap I
Speaker 1: was ten years ago. Okay, I can't help you. Do
Speaker 1: you want my blood on your hands too? I think
Speaker 1: it's about time you two left. I didn't have time
Speaker 1: to hold Steiner's hand. I needed to know where he stood.
Speaker 1: Either he was helping us or he was holding us back.
Speaker 1: It was time to move on without him. And then
Speaker 1: finally we listened to the long lost tape and everything changed.
Speaker 1: It's the end of the road for the lit Killer.
Speaker 1: All of the clues he's been leaving up until now,
Speaker 1: the literary references, the obnoxious messages, the choices of victims.
Speaker 1: They've painted him into a corner. Anna kill Dean is
Speaker 1: the key. The exceptions always proved the rule. Killed Dean's
Speaker 1: been listed as missing for weeks and shame Army. I
Speaker 1: never considered her part of the case. She didn't fit
Speaker 1: the victim profile until I was reading over some of
Speaker 1: Steiner's notes and came across her photo and realized I've
Speaker 1: met her before. Our connection, the person we both knew
Speaker 1: and common sent a chill through me. The call sealed it,
Speaker 1: her voice, the fear echoing through the line. It has
Speaker 1: to be her. I know what I have to do now,
Speaker 1: I know where I need to go. Before we could
Speaker 1: process what we'd heard, the lit Killer reared has left
Speaker 1: uphead again. Just take a listen to Ali's message. Take
Speaker 1: It's me, it's alwis listen. Ella is missing. She was
Speaker 1: here at the hospital with us checking in on Max,
Speaker 1: if you can believe it. But now she's gone, and
Speaker 1: Carver's piste about you, and when slipping away to take
Speaker 1: there was another clue left here. So if you could
Speaker 1: get yourself down here, I need to see you. I
Speaker 1: need to see that you're safe, and seriously would have
Speaker 1: killed you to answer your freaking phone when and I
Speaker 1: are walking back into Hollow Falls General ready to reconvene
Speaker 1: with the here you are. What the hell happened? Allie?
Speaker 1: How did elegant? I don't know. We were just in
Speaker 1: here chilling with Max, and she stepped out and then
Speaker 1: she was gone. I hate that. I'm now worried about her.
Speaker 1: Is Max? Still? I'm still here a girl. Don't worry
Speaker 1: about me. These men's are killing my focus, though, So
Speaker 1: don't be offended if I is so down. Can we
Speaker 1: really trust Carver's guards if they couldn't even keep an
Speaker 1: eye on one blonde girl who never shuts up, it's
Speaker 1: a fair question. I'm sorry. I know I messed up.
Speaker 1: I shouldn't have let anyone wander off alone. But you know, Ella,
Speaker 1: she's so irritating, and she just keeps talking. So it's
Speaker 1: not your fault, Dolly. You said you found something, a clue. Well,
Speaker 1: the cops snagged the actual clue, but I managed to
Speaker 1: take some pictures of this book. Joseph Conra has a
Speaker 1: heart of darkness. One of the pages was marked, and
Speaker 1: this passage was highlighted. Here let me scroll, yeah, here.
Speaker 1: But his soul was mad being alone in the wilderness,
Speaker 1: it had looked within itself, and by Heavens, I tell you,
Speaker 1: it had gone mad. I don't know what that's supposed
Speaker 1: to mean. But of course there's also another freaking note.
Speaker 1: I took a picture of that too. Give me your phone.
Speaker 1: I'll read it. Yeah, give her your phone. The news Titans,
Speaker 1: and it requires your attention. Take no cops, no high
Speaker 1: school newspaper cronies. Ass Finales are for heroes and villains.
Speaker 1: If you have truly succeeded where your aunt failed, you'll
Speaker 1: know where to go. If not, did anyone much care
Speaker 1: for the mayor's daughter? Anyway? He's taunting me, goading me
Speaker 1: to see if I can figure out his stupid clues,
Speaker 1: if I can measure up to my aunt Beth. Take
Speaker 1: you don't have to do. I know where to go. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we'll go now. The lid killer made it clear
Speaker 1: I can't bring friends or the police, and I can't
Speaker 1: put you guys at risk like I did Max. Distract
Speaker 1: the guards as long as you can. Okay, I'm going
Speaker 1: in alone. No, No, you're not. Sam, creepy diner, dude, brute,
Speaker 1: smelling flesh. I need to square things with you with Beth.
Speaker 1: I can't sit back and let everything happened around me.
Speaker 1: All right, let's roll, Sam, you're with me. I'll fill
Speaker 1: you in on the way. How are you going to
Speaker 1: get past our new BFFs out there on a guard
Speaker 1: by the elevator. Hey, no, you won't let us come
Speaker 1: with you, but you'll let this guy. Ambeth trusted him.
Speaker 1: He was a old partner, now he's mine. No, this
Speaker 1: is total b s. We were your partners. Ohly, we
Speaker 1: can't let her do this. No, no one asked me,
Speaker 1: But this plan could totally use some work. The liad
Speaker 1: killer said, no, friends, no police. He doesn't know Sam's
Speaker 1: back in play, so technically I'm still going on his terms,
Speaker 1: just with backup, which is more than my aunt had.
Speaker 1: Come on, Sam, let's go I'll call you guys when
Speaker 1: we have something. Remember, distract and delay. Heart of Darkness
Speaker 1: is about obsession, mental nous, and the quote unquote differences
Speaker 1: between civilized people and savages. The main character, Charles Marlowe,
Speaker 1: is a dude dealing in ivory who's headed down the
Speaker 1: Congo River. If you haven't read the book, it's also
Speaker 1: kind of like that movie Apocalypse Now And if you
Speaker 1: haven't seen that either, I guess just think about what
Speaker 1: it would be like to go on a trip to
Speaker 1: meet up with a guy whose mental state was a
Speaker 1: question mark. My detective work has brought us to the
Speaker 1: Silko River, which empties out into Lake Deloia, a once
Speaker 1: popular camping site. I figure, if we have any hope
Speaker 1: of finding Ella, it'll be here. I didn't think we'd
Speaker 1: be taking a through the woods exactly. Well neither did I.
Speaker 1: But I think following the Silko will get us to
Speaker 1: where we can. Oh God, what was that? I don't know?
Speaker 1: Come on, hello, are you there? Wait till phone. No,
Speaker 1: it's it's a what you're talking She's close. Let's go.
Speaker 1: After following Ella's voice for what seemed like an eternity,
Speaker 1: we came across a cabin, Ella, are you in here?
Speaker 1: It's tig We can hear you. Look, there's a closed
Speaker 1: door at the end of the hall there. Hello, we
Speaker 1: got you, We're here. Help me on t That worked through.
Speaker 1: That's how curse died. Heart of Darkness. The memory flooded
Speaker 1: my mind as we worked to free Ella. My dad
Speaker 1: and Aunt Beeth discussing Heart of Darkness over dinner one
Speaker 1: night with aboila how the school had just voted to
Speaker 1: ban it. My aunt she had a friend, a teacher
Speaker 1: who had included the novel in his curriculum. Anyway, Okay,
Speaker 1: free's let's get out of here. Someone's coming. Can you
Speaker 1: carry Ella? All the clues had been right in front
Speaker 1: of us. I missed them. Aunt Beth missed them. Sam
Speaker 1: missed them. Who else was in that murder of Crow's
Speaker 1: Club with you? Sam? Not a lot of people had
Speaker 1: blood cantil kids, Highsmith. Who else he's been here in
Speaker 1: this time? This is the place? He need us? Take
Speaker 1: Get behind me, No, get Sam, run, Jake Ellen. Sam.
Speaker 1: I'm Darbings in email for you. The last time we talked,
Speaker 1: I said some words I didn't mean and I'm not
Speaker 1: mad at you. Okay, I'm sorry I understand you want
Speaker 1: made for this. If you get this and I haven't
Speaker 1: heard from me, I love you too, Sam. You're part
Speaker 1: of my family. I don't please send my love to
Speaker 1: Mamma and my brother and my sweet niece Tig. I
Speaker 1: hope this is just no a dramatic paranoia. But if
Speaker 1: there's a chance I can save someone, save Anna, Killdean,
Speaker 1: I have to try. I hear you. I know you're
Speaker 1: still out there. No running off after this murder? H Harry?
Speaker 1: Do you mind if I call you Harry or do
Speaker 1: you prefer Mr Levinson? Always the former? Thank you for asking.
Speaker 1: I think it's high time you and I had words,
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