Speaker 1: The Seventh Daughter contains scenes of realistic violence and graphic sexuality.
Speaker 1: It is intended for mature listeners. Have you come seeking knowledge?
Speaker 1: Do you wish to know the truth? Allow me to
Speaker 1: show you. Close your eyes and follow the sound of
Speaker 1: my voice. Allow it to lead you further into the past.
Speaker 1: When I remove my blindfold, you may look into my eyes.
Speaker 1: Don't just look at them, look through them, and you
Speaker 1: will see what they have seen, and all my secrets
Speaker 1: will be revered. The Seventh Daughter h m hm ye.
Speaker 1: From the moment she was born, the seventh child of
Speaker 1: her mother, all of them girls, it was obvious that
Speaker 1: this child was special. No child's future ever seemed to
Speaker 1: shine so bright. She was given the finest education, but
Speaker 1: somehow possessed knowledge that even her tutors had not yet attained.
Speaker 1: She had an uncanny ability to commune with animals, and
Speaker 1: loved nothing more than to wander the shadows of the
Speaker 1: forest or to pick among the stones of the village cemetery.
Speaker 1: Pandora wears a blindfold not so she cannot see you,
Speaker 1: but because her eyes bear the imprint of that dreadful tragedy.
Speaker 1: She carries with her the gaze of Lucifer. To look
Speaker 1: deeply into Pandora's eyes is to see reflected in their
Speaker 1: depths the means of your own death. And for this
Speaker 1: reason is the band of white lace wrapped around her
Speaker 1: eyes soul. Without further ado, allow me to present to
Speaker 1: you the youngest and most brilliant clairvoyant ever to call
Speaker 1: forth spirits from the veil of the beyond, the seventh Daughter, Pandora.
Speaker 1: This evening for your spiritual gratification, Pandora will offer a
Speaker 1: demonstration of her mental prowess. She will call down from
Speaker 1: the heavens, or up from the abyss, the wisdom of
Speaker 1: the spheres, and will provide you with answers to the
Speaker 1: questions that have burdened you, no matter how serious, And
Speaker 1: to prove that her wisdom is a gift from the
Speaker 1: spirits that dwell in the ether that surrounds us, she
Speaker 1: will provide these answers, specific detailed answers, without having been
Speaker 1: asked the question, wait, how could I possibly do that?
Speaker 1: I invite those among you with a pressing spiritual need
Speaker 1: to write it on one of these slips of paper
Speaker 1: and seal it in the envelope. The ushers are moving
Speaker 1: among you to distribute them. We only ask that, as
Speaker 1: a token of your sincerity, you enclose a single coin
Speaker 1: in the envelope with your question. Any coin will do,
Speaker 1: though no copper police. It may be good for conducting electricity,
Speaker 1: but we've found that the spirits traveled more effectively through
Speaker 1: precious metals. These envelopes will remain sealed in full view
Speaker 1: of the audience and will only be opened after she
Speaker 1: has answered the questions. I'm going to provide answers. That's
Speaker 1: right before or I've read the questions, Yes, exactly, But
Speaker 1: you'll read the questions and communicate to me. We'll use
Speaker 1: the alcohol trick. Swab it on the outside so the
Speaker 1: paper becomes transparent and I can read the card inside. No,
Speaker 1: I don't see how I can do it. Then, like
Speaker 1: all good ducker in it is astonishingly simple. The secret
Speaker 1: is the first question is a phony, but all the
Speaker 1: other questions are real. All it requires is the brief
Speaker 1: assistance of one stick in the audience. So we now
Speaker 1: have a stack of envelopes. They are shuffled, and one
Speaker 1: is brought to you. You press it between your palms
Speaker 1: as if you're praying over it. Bow your head, close
Speaker 1: your eyes. Now provide an answer. Wait, what answer? It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Just answer a question, any question. So help me, God,
Speaker 1: if you ever give an answer that in front of
Speaker 1: a house. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm just confused. I
Speaker 1: just okay. Answer. I called down the spirits of the
Speaker 1: heavens and asked them to make me a fount of wisdom,
Speaker 1: dislike the thirst of your lonely souls. I feel the
Speaker 1: angels beginning to stir. I feel their breath upon my neck.
Speaker 1: I hear their whispers in my ear. What do they
Speaker 1: tell you, child? How Howard Howell? Mr Howell? And what
Speaker 1: do the spirits wish to tell? Mr? Howell? I am
Speaker 1: in a place of darkness, a tiny space. There's a
Speaker 1: shiny disk here, thicker than a gold coin, but just
Speaker 1: as precious. The shiny round object is hanging from a
Speaker 1: gold chain. It is hidden inside a wall in a kitchen.
Speaker 1: That is what Mr Howell wishes to know. Then our
Speaker 1: stick stands up and says, my name's Howel, Mr Howe.
Speaker 1: Did you submit a card to Pandora? I did open
Speaker 1: the envelope. Pandora, read the Gentleman's question, andorra if you
Speaker 1: please read the Gentleman's question the question on the card,
Speaker 1: But it's impossible. Not the question on the card. I'm confused.
Speaker 1: You already made up an answer. Now make up the
Speaker 1: question where can I find my granddaddy Earl's pocket watch?
Speaker 1: Did you write that? Mr Howell? I did? I did?
Speaker 1: May I congratulate you on the recovery of your missing item?
Speaker 1: You may be seated. The stick sits down and you
Speaker 1: go on to the next one. Now what do I
Speaker 1: do for the duration of the evening? You provide answers,
Speaker 1: then questions for as long as the coins keep arriving.
Speaker 1: So if we use the stick to put over the
Speaker 1: first question, where do I get the second question? You
Speaker 1: already know the second question, I do? You still haven't
Speaker 1: figured it out. You're holding it in your hand. The
Speaker 1: first question you received from the audience when you pretended
Speaker 1: to read where is my grandfather's pocket watch? What did
Speaker 1: that paper actually say? Oh? It said? It said what
Speaker 1: is the capital of Wyoming? Signed Thomas Underwood? So you
Speaker 1: throw that envelope away. Will the volunteer please place a
Speaker 1: new envelop and Pandora's hands there you go. Hold it tightly,
Speaker 1: my dear, concentrate, my child, Allow yourself to be a
Speaker 1: vessel for the spirits and tell us child, the answer
Speaker 1: to the question concealed in the envelope. Chyenne Shane. So
Speaker 1: you understand that you always answer the question that came before,
Speaker 1: but you pretend to be answering the one you've just
Speaker 1: received but not yet opened. And it's the stick by
Speaker 1: taking credit for the first question that allows you to
Speaker 1: see the questions before you provide the answers. But what
Speaker 1: if we get a question that I can't answer, find
Speaker 1: a way, don't want to answer. If you need help,
Speaker 1: speak to me in code. I'll try to respond. An
Speaker 1: envelope has been placed in your hand, Pandora, reveal to
Speaker 1: us now the truth that someone is searching for. My
Speaker 1: vision is clouded. There's a darkening of the heavens. That
Speaker 1: is my baby in heaven. So that the beacon of
Speaker 1: that's the question. Bow your heads and close your eyes,
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, and to let the prayers of this
Speaker 1: congregation always heaven. It's star is shrouded. Oh, my dear child,
Speaker 1: there's no loss more painful than that of someone who
Speaker 1: has lost someone precious. Come along, dear, allow the truth
Speaker 1: to reveal itself. There is among you in the audience one,
Speaker 1: who is I think it should fa an answer. To
Speaker 1: relieve Pandora from the disturbance in the ether, I suggest
Speaker 1: that we allow her to open this envelope and the
Speaker 1: question in this envelope it's a hoax? What is it?
Speaker 1: It's quite all right, my dear. I'm sure they meant
Speaker 1: no harm. We can simply open. Then someone among you
Speaker 1: feels that pretending to have lost a child is an
Speaker 1: amusing way of testing my abilities, Well, I'm afraid your
Speaker 1: test has failed, and I demand that you show yourself
Speaker 1: and face your shame. Are you that much of a coward?
Speaker 1: Show yourself, scoundrel, coward? I'm no coward, Yes, you not?
Speaker 1: I who is deceiving these fine people being no curtain,
Speaker 1: not until this fraud is exposed. If you're going to
Speaker 1: put on a show for these good citizens, you can
Speaker 1: do better than that. Give them a real show. Why
Speaker 1: don't you start by getting out of these? Don't you
Speaker 1: dare touch her? Let's see you get out of these,
Speaker 1: your little witch. The girl's not an a statement, and
Speaker 1: she's not a psychic either. You'll be given the key
Speaker 1: when you are willing to drop to your knees and
Speaker 1: beg for it and confess your sins. You see, ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen, my name is hard Dean. I have come
Speaker 1: here at the request of my brother, the Great Podiny,
Speaker 1: who stand some more Chascape at the Riveling Theater on
Speaker 1: Saturday evening. It has been Houdini's personal crusade to rid
Speaker 1: the world of those who would betray the trust of
Speaker 1: good honest Americans. Violinist, geese sharp, are you crazy? Do
Speaker 1: it and hold it as long as you can. You'll
Speaker 1: know when to stop. Well, what do you have to
Speaker 1: say for yourself? Please? I didn't mean any horn. You
Speaker 1: a little todd deceiving good honest people with your devilish tricks.
Speaker 1: Please let me explain. I'm going to destroy you, tear
Speaker 1: you to rippons, and everyone in this theater is going
Speaker 1: to watch and when I'm finished their little plot. But
Speaker 1: before you do, it's important that I show you something.
Speaker 1: When I take off my blindfold, you can look into
Speaker 1: my eyes and see that I'm telling the truth. Lucifer Scape,
Speaker 1: you needn't be afraid afraid. Now you can look look closely.
Speaker 1: Don't look at my eyes, look into my eyes, look
Speaker 1: through them. Do you see it? See what? Give it
Speaker 1: a moment passed through the brown eyes flecked with green.
Speaker 1: Look for a face reflected in the dark pool beneath.
Speaker 1: You see a face there, don't you? Is it my
Speaker 1: left eye or the right? You must concentrate to see
Speaker 1: it with both eyes. Whose face is that reflected in
Speaker 1: the pool? Is it the left or the right? The
Speaker 1: left or the right. You're sinking like a stone asleep
Speaker 1: in the deep. The stone will slide through the depths
Speaker 1: until eventually it settles on the bottom. Tell me, mister Harden,
Speaker 1: will you do anything your brother, the common magician tells
Speaker 1: you to do? If your brother Houdini told you to
Speaker 1: jump off a bridge, would you do it a little louder? Please?
Speaker 1: Would you do it? No? No, of course not. But
Speaker 1: what about me? If I told you to step off
Speaker 1: a bridge, would you do it? Leave your burden of
Speaker 1: disobedience behind hardin? I command you? Now rise up and walk?
Speaker 1: Start walking. That's keep walking for the lights. Stop. That's it,
Speaker 1: Just like that. It's terrifying, isn't it, Standing on the
Speaker 1: ledge looking out into all that darkness, the wind embracing
Speaker 1: your face. But the guilty must be punished, mustn't they Yes,
Speaker 1: the water will be cold Harden very cold. When you
Speaker 1: first penetrate the surface, it will push the breath from
Speaker 1: your lungs, and unable to breathe, you'll sink, sink like
Speaker 1: a stone, and no one, not even Big Brother, will
Speaker 1: be able to save you. Well, what are you waiting for? Goodbye?
Speaker 1: Yah oh and Mr Harden take these to the bottom
Speaker 1: with you. Any breathe are Roughie? Andy? Mm hmm, mother,
Speaker 1: mm hmmm mm hmmm. Can you feel it's all around now? Yes? Please?
Speaker 1: Why are you hiding your face? And I can't look
Speaker 1: at it? It's too powerful to burn me alive. I
Speaker 1: don't not harm you if you treat it with the
Speaker 1: proper respect for trying. Would you like to feel it
Speaker 1: our love? Would you like to learn what? If you
Speaker 1: can't teach you? Yes, then you must allow it to
Speaker 1: come inside you. You must un out it to consume you.
Speaker 1: But they don't understand what it is. No, you cannot
Speaker 1: understand what it is. It is beyond the rension. But
Speaker 1: if you are willing you to under yourself choice, it's frightened.
Speaker 1: I don't think I care. You are stronger than you know.
Speaker 1: Raise your faith from the fog blind? No, No, only
Speaker 1: if you open your eyes, Will you begin to see
Speaker 1: where we have got to? Just lay her there. It's fine,
Speaker 1: she's fine, just overcome by the heat. Thank you. We're
Speaker 1: deeply grateful. What did you do out there? How did
Speaker 1: you know? You? You crucified that bastard right in front
Speaker 1: of everyone. I don't know. I just felt it, and
Speaker 1: and then I knew if I could get him to
Speaker 1: focus on me. No, there must be an explanation if
Speaker 1: it was someone else, maybe but Houdini's own brother. No,
Speaker 1: I didn't know what else to do. Maybe he felt
Speaker 1: sorry for you. That must have been it. Didn't realize
Speaker 1: how young you were until he got on stage, and
Speaker 1: then he saw you had a change of heart. That
Speaker 1: has to be it. I don't know a man like
Speaker 1: that doesn't just lie down and allow himself to be
Speaker 1: publicly humiliated. No, they're up to something. I think it
Speaker 1: was me? What you I think I did it? Excuse me? Yes,
Speaker 1: my card. My name is fried Hair Albert one shrink
Speaker 1: not sink. Perhaps you've heard of me. No, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: but you'll have to excuse us. Pandora is under tremendous strain.
Speaker 1: I'm a physician. The girl's fine, just over note I'm
Speaker 1: a physician engaged in psychical research. I assist certain prominent
Speaker 1: members of society in locating authentic mediums and spiritists. That
Speaker 1: is a very noble calling. I wish you every client
Speaker 1: of mine, a very important person who would be quite
Speaker 1: interested in engaging your the girl Pandora for a private sitting.
Speaker 1: I'm sure of it. Oh would he or she? I'd
Speaker 1: rather not? She I beg your pardon, your client as
Speaker 1: a woman. Ah, You see, the truth just flows through her.
Speaker 1: It's hard to believe, but Pandora has ways of knowing
Speaker 1: without thinking. Has the girl ever performed a cabinet sitting?
Speaker 1: She has, but I no longer allow her to do
Speaker 1: so because of the extreme physical toll it takes on her.
Speaker 1: You see for yourself the price she pays with her
Speaker 1: body and soul. Money she has performed the seance. That's
Speaker 1: it's successful. Successful. A last time Pandora did a cabinet sitting,
Speaker 1: the clocks in the room chimed thirteen and then suddenly stopped.
Speaker 1: The table wrapped like a hammer, and teleplasm poured from
Speaker 1: every opening of her body, like a fountain of life
Speaker 1: cascading down her body. How soon could she perform I
Speaker 1: told you she's so weak she shouldn't be performing here Nightly.
Speaker 1: Person has to eat. We can't all sponge off of
Speaker 1: prominent members of society. As much as we'd like to
Speaker 1: help you with your research, we're in no position to
Speaker 1: donate our services, no matter how noble the cause. She
Speaker 1: has been probed by physicians and prayed over by ministers,
Speaker 1: and none of them can explain her gift. All they
Speaker 1: can do is acknowledge their They have never seen anyone
Speaker 1: quite like her. They are mystified. They don't know what
Speaker 1: to do, and what can we do? What can we do?
Speaker 1: We have no choice. I help the girl regain her strength.
Speaker 1: We trudge back to the theater and earn our crusts
Speaker 1: of bread. It wouldn't take long. It's a twenty minute
Speaker 1: cab right from here. In the evening, we would have
Speaker 1: to cancel a performance. I can offer money. What you understand?
Speaker 1: If I pay you, then that reduces you to hied entertainers.
Speaker 1: Is there anything wrong with being an entertainer to question
Speaker 1: the integrity of the girl's motives? You see what I mean?
Speaker 1: M hm. That is quite a dilemma, isn't it. Well?
Speaker 1: We wish you the best as you try to work
Speaker 1: that out. May I speak to her? I'm afraid not,
Speaker 1: but if I could just it's more to take a moment, broke.
Speaker 1: You have my card, yes, I do, thank you. The
Speaker 1: current is catching you. You feel it tugging at your legs,
Speaker 1: starting to pull you downstream. You can struggle against the
Speaker 1: current if you want to buy a little time, but
Speaker 1: you'll exhaust yourself. You could try to swim for sure,
Speaker 1: get out of the water and swear never to get
Speaker 1: back in, or or let the current carry you. Navigate
Speaker 1: the waters and prepare for the whirlpool that's waiting downstream.
Speaker 1: I didn't think it would happen so quickly. Neither did I,
Speaker 1: but you exceeded my expectations. It's time that we stopped
Speaker 1: trying to find Corbo. He'll soon find us. It's time
Speaker 1: to begin thinking about what we're going to do once
Speaker 1: we reach him. We me you no reason to be apprehensive.
Speaker 1: There are still things I have yet to teach you.
Speaker 1: H m hmm. You don't open for another two hour.
Speaker 1: I was told to come here. How Stone open for
Speaker 1: another two hours? Okay. I was given this card and
Speaker 1: asked to come here right Go around to the service
Speaker 1: entrance and ring the bell. Look at the card. Mr
Speaker 1: Houdini himself ring the bell. Someone will see you up now,
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you. Look, lady, the lobby don't open
Speaker 1: till five. You want to get in, you go around back.
Speaker 1: It's not what you think. Please take this card and
Speaker 1: send my regrets to the gentle Wait there, all right,
Speaker 1: Come on a visitor for Mr Houdini. Send her in
Speaker 1: a hello, Mrs Rose Rose? Is that your first or
Speaker 1: last name? It's my professional name, sort of like Houdini.
Speaker 1: Rose is Rose is Rose. Then I invited you here.
Speaker 1: May I get you anything? T I'm fine? Thank you?
Speaker 1: Is the girl with you? No? I try not to
Speaker 1: involve her in the business of our business. Wise, very wise, Well,
Speaker 1: I wanted to speak to you for several reasons. First,
Speaker 1: to apologize for the way my brother interrupted your performance.
Speaker 1: Was he not acting under your instructions? Yes, but he
Speaker 1: can be ah bit over zealous. I hope there are
Speaker 1: no hard feelings. Secondly, I wish to compliment you and
Speaker 1: the girl on the way you manage the situation. Marvelous. Truly,
Speaker 1: most performers would have fled the stage, but she didn't.
Speaker 1: She stood up to him. When I perform my escapes.
Speaker 1: I have to be prepared for any eventuality. No matter
Speaker 1: how thoroughly I rehearse or train myself physically, something can
Speaker 1: and often will go wrong, and when it does, I
Speaker 1: have to figure out a way to overcome it. There's
Speaker 1: no time to think. It has to be instinctual. If
Speaker 1: that instinct fails me, I die. Pandora has that very instinct,
Speaker 1: and it's something that cannot be taught and learned. She
Speaker 1: always maintained the illusion. She's not like other performers. Indeed,
Speaker 1: she is not pandora professional name. I take it like Hoodini.
Speaker 1: I would like to ask Pandora, through you, as her representative,
Speaker 1: if she would be interested in a long term opportunity.
Speaker 1: What do you have in mind. I'm interested in having
Speaker 1: her become part of my act. I was thinking she
Speaker 1: could perform her mentalist act as sort of a prelude
Speaker 1: to mine. It's a basic mind reading, preferably without asking
Speaker 1: for alms, and then afterward I would come on stage
Speaker 1: and reveal the secrets of how her wonder as are performed.
Speaker 1: The public is very interested in the exposure of the
Speaker 1: spirit medium, so you want to try and expose her,
Speaker 1: humiliate her, night after night, do what your brother was
Speaker 1: unable to. If Harden had wanted to expose and humiliate her,
Speaker 1: he would have, so why didn't he Because when she
Speaker 1: faced him down on that stage, he recognized her talent
Speaker 1: as a stage performer and decided that she would be
Speaker 1: more valuable to us with her reputation intact. Rather than
Speaker 1: devalue her in front of six hundred people, he opted
Speaker 1: to humiliate himself. I should think that the girl owes
Speaker 1: him a debt of gratitude. We owe him nothing. Harry
Speaker 1: Hudini invites you to his dressing room, apologizes to you compliments,
Speaker 1: you offers you an opportunity most illusionists would give their
Speaker 1: right arms to have, and you respond with contempt. We
Speaker 1: could guarantee six months of bookings out of the year,
Speaker 1: and you might mention to her that I'll be returning
Speaker 1: to Hollywood this summer to make another moving picture. You
Speaker 1: would be invited to accompany her as her chaperone. Thank
Speaker 1: you for your hospitality and your offer, but I'm afraid
Speaker 1: i must decline. We are currently weighing an offer from
Speaker 1: another individual, one who appreciates Pandora's talents, actually believes in her.
Speaker 1: Oh no, You're not going to let her get mixed
Speaker 1: up with believers, are you. I didn't raise Pandora to
Speaker 1: perform as a fake. You yourself said she has a
Speaker 1: talent that can't be taught. That's right, nor can it
Speaker 1: be bought. I see you'd rather sell her on a
Speaker 1: street corner. Yes, we've been watching you for some time.
Speaker 1: On whose behalf? Are you trying to procure her? Your
Speaker 1: own or someone else's procure her? I'm hoodie me on
Speaker 1: whose behalf but my own? Would I possibly be asking
Speaker 1: a certain blackbird? Perhaps black bird? What is that supposed
Speaker 1: to mean? I'll see myself outs rose one moment plays
Speaker 1: the whole seventh thought of business, considering the blackbirds proclivities.
Speaker 1: You'll permit me to ask, is this really something you
Speaker 1: should be involving Pandora in? Are you actually concerned about
Speaker 1: the girl's well being? Shouldn't someone be goodbye? Mr Houdini? Oh,
Speaker 1: and I do have one favor to ask. Could you
Speaker 1: see your way to choosing a different song to introduce
Speaker 1: her act? You see asleep in the deep is well?
Speaker 1: It's my song? Lord lord, Oh, I must now replace
Speaker 1: my blind hold as my vision begins to fade. Your
Speaker 1: own senses will gradually return, return to the warmth in
Speaker 1: the light of your own reality. The Seventh Daughter is
Speaker 1: a production of I Heart Radio, written and directed by
Speaker 1: Brett Wood, recorded and mixed by Rob Gal, featuring Mica
Speaker 1: Wilkes as Rose and Elizabeth Hunter as Pearl. There you
Speaker 1: may now open your eyes