Speaker 1: Solve Presents Penance Part one, Holding my breath hair Terrence. Well,
Speaker 1: all I can taste here is your math, Rebecca. It's
Speaker 1: clever jargon covering up naked stats. Sorry, if I couldn't
Speaker 1: make city council holding fatigue sexy enough for you, give
Speaker 1: me a bigger bite. I'll show you a better scoop.
Speaker 1: Glad you said so, I've got here handwritten letter we
Speaker 1: received this morning postmark from an Amish town. You may recognize.
Speaker 1: I wonder where they got our address. A letter reads
Speaker 1: a lot like you try anonymous in style or signature,
Speaker 1: both dream source material. It tells of a young man
Speaker 1: returning from his rum springer. That's like an army spring break, right,
Speaker 1: a mild analogy. Rum springer is a year of no
Speaker 1: consequences on the outside before baptism nails you down for good. Well, anyway,
Speaker 1: one week later, the kid kicks the bucket, just shy
Speaker 1: of eighteen. If we print an obituary, his family is
Speaker 1: not likely to read it. It's not a no bit.
Speaker 1: There's a story here, see for yourself. Letter writer says
Speaker 1: the death is mysterious, no cause anyone can name. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: with the Amish, there's no autopsy, no cause, no story,
Speaker 1: at least not for me. This can only be your story.
Speaker 1: I've lived in Pennsylvania my whole life. I've seen the
Speaker 1: shunned return. I didn't come to my senses and leave Terence.
Speaker 1: I was excommunicated. Do I need to spell out the
Speaker 1: rude Latin for you? If you want a shot at
Speaker 1: the big leagues, investigated pieces, verticals and undercover stint is
Speaker 1: the best way in. And this would be the easiest
Speaker 1: chamillion of your career. Sure, just crawl back to a
Speaker 1: town that spit me out as a minor break two
Speaker 1: decades of silence with my father. Easy? Yeah, thanks, but
Speaker 1: no thanks. The funerals in two days. Sleep on it.
Speaker 1: I'd drive you there, help with any additional research. Oh,
Speaker 1: you'd really do that for me? Did this is Rebecca Ramer?
Speaker 1: Shoot it or lose it? You have no new messages?
Speaker 1: Fighting broke out overnight between rival factions along the Israeli
Speaker 1: Syrian border. Screw it, morning, sunshine. Did you spotify Amish
Speaker 1: hands for our drive? I thought it would pick you up.
Speaker 1: Let's just go backt light. We've got more buttons than
Speaker 1: bonnets these days, not much to pack. Hey, you can't
Speaker 1: smoke in here. You deprived me of this one joy
Speaker 1: before throwing me to the wolves are horridly wolves. You've
Speaker 1: never met my father? What about your mother? I'll trained
Speaker 1: midwife managed to climb me out before my mother passed. Jeez,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. So you and your dad lost your mom
Speaker 1: and then each other. Funny thing. Much loyalty is rooted
Speaker 1: fifty ft in the ground like no wider than haystraw.
Speaker 1: You think cancel culture is bad, one misstep in Amish
Speaker 1: country and you are cast off. Makes mean tweaks seemple point. Hey,
Speaker 1: maybe this will be a good thing, reconnect with family.
Speaker 1: I don't have a family. This is a job. So
Speaker 1: where's your first stop? Well, I can't go to my
Speaker 1: father's dressed like this, basic harlot. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: find out who wrote that letter. First take the hard copy.
Speaker 1: Handwriting might come in hand. Okay, this place hasn't changed,
Speaker 1: almost like they condemned that kind of thing. I'm a
Speaker 1: phone call away if you need anything, anything you hear, Yeah,
Speaker 1: best I proceed on foot from here. Blessed day. Raber. Wrong,
Speaker 1: we go wrong, we go pop out. We'll spin you
Speaker 1: in his bag. Coming Rebecca Raper at my doorstop Sunday surprise.
Speaker 1: Were you seen walking over here? I'd venture no, but
Speaker 1: that likelihood on these texts higher the longer I stand
Speaker 1: at your door and blue jeans. Of course, Come in,
Speaker 1: Come in. I've prayed for this, me too, you know me,
Speaker 1: big time prayer, fake some holiness for me. Kids. This
Speaker 1: is mother's oldest and dearest friend, Rebecca. Hello, they're as
Speaker 1: beautiful as you described in your letters. Speaking of letters,
Speaker 1: I need to ask you about something um in private. Yes, certainly, come,
Speaker 1: let's get you a change of clothes. All right, that's up?
Speaker 1: What is this forbidden drop by all about? You want
Speaker 1: the undergone answer always, I'm an assignment. We got an
Speaker 1: anonymous letter into my paper about the boy who just passed.
Speaker 1: It's beyond digestion. One of the shlock twins. Just kids, really,
Speaker 1: he was a twin. Do you think there could have
Speaker 1: been any foul play? You're asking if the boy could
Speaker 1: have been murdered? Whoever wrote this certainly think so, honestly, Rebecca.
Speaker 1: Not everything has to be a damn story. We'll get
Speaker 1: the mouth on you do influence. I'll be it from
Speaker 1: a distance. Can you think of anyone in town who
Speaker 1: might have written this letter, I couldn't guess. But if
Speaker 1: you want to have access to everyone in town all
Speaker 1: in one place, the funeral, Yeah, I know, but I
Speaker 1: can't come close to that church without repenting, Mary, more
Speaker 1: like you can't come close to repenting without that church. Well,
Speaker 1: in that case, how about those humbler threads. My closet
Speaker 1: is all yours. You are an angel, and I brought
Speaker 1: you a little something. What is it? Battery powered? Too
Speaker 1: hard to find nowadays? You are trouble. I never learned
Speaker 1: crowded procession, and you forget the comforts of community. Everyone
Speaker 1: will be out today to support the Schlocks in their
Speaker 1: time of Greek, including your father while he is the
Speaker 1: town bishop. That would make sense, yes, but with a
Speaker 1: few other additions. I dare not mention it in our
Speaker 1: letters for a risk of upsetting you. But he remarried
Speaker 1: after you left. Amity a widow from the town over. Oh,
Speaker 1: she's quite amiable, biddingly I'll be the judge of that.
Speaker 1: She has her own son. LEVI a bit of a brick.
Speaker 1: What can you do? And also get your st last
Speaker 1: horses out of my lane. Hey, Craig, is our funeral
Speaker 1: procession making you laid for your pedicure, stupid dudgy. What's
Speaker 1: with the asshole in the Pontiac? Not an isolated incident.
Speaker 1: I'm afraid that Englishman has always been a problem. We're
Speaker 1: almost there. You'll do well to start minding your language.
Speaker 1: You should you doing here? Are you okay? Fina? Your father?
Speaker 1: Good dog? Good Mariah ship? I think I changed my mind.
Speaker 1: We've come this far. No, Rebecca, Hello, Father, Hello, Bishop,
Speaker 1: we'll be inside. Come on, kids, it's you and you dressed. Yes.
Speaker 1: Time has warmed me to tradition. I suppose what are
Speaker 1: you doing here? I came here to repent, Father, repent
Speaker 1: what I thought you'd be glad. I'll be glad when
Speaker 1: I sniff out the truth behind this little stunt, said
Speaker 1: Jesuster was followers, please excuse me, Bishop Thomas Schluck, A
Speaker 1: beautiful boy taken too soon or perhaps right on time?
Speaker 1: Are you a g standard? Now? They are? When it's
Speaker 1: the Craper Preacher service, preacher King, we call him there.
Speaker 1: He tends to form close bonds with the boys. Worse
Speaker 1: hardships had stung our shores, and they are sure to again.
Speaker 1: God asks us not to search for the div in
Speaker 1: order in this but to trust that there is one,
Speaker 1: especially when it tastes as tenuous as ever. Yes, he
Speaker 1: was really just a boy. You didn't so sad so
Speaker 1: one morning he was just found lying on the ground.
Speaker 1: You'd have to ask Silas the twin. Yes, he's the
Speaker 1: one who found on this There he is now talking
Speaker 1: to the preacher. Well, the intros now are never Rebecca,
Speaker 1: be delicate. You know me best not to concern, and
Speaker 1: you went out of respect for your brother, understood, sir Silas.
Speaker 1: My condolences. Thanks, Sorry, who I thought I spotted you
Speaker 1: in the pews, Rebecca or nonrepenter? Hello, Silas, meet Matthew's
Speaker 1: long lost daughter. The bishop has another daughter, another daughter.
Speaker 1: I should go find my parents. Nice to meet you, Rebecca.
Speaker 1: Peace out or with you or whatever. The boy's got
Speaker 1: a curious grief in him. Some do it sounded like
Speaker 1: you were close with his brother. You'd find none as
Speaker 1: pure as pious? Was that still the case when he
Speaker 1: came back from his rum? Springer never the most? So
Speaker 1: what's this line of questioning? You didn't even know him? No,
Speaker 1: certainly not like you did. Mm hmm. If you'll excuse me, Rebecca, Uh,
Speaker 1: oh my, you are our Rebecca, aren't you? I'm Amity,
Speaker 1: though I don't presume you've heard of me. She hasn't,
Speaker 1: not until very recently. It's nice to meet you, Amity.
Speaker 1: And this here's LEVI say hello, Hello, Matthew, Rebecca. This
Speaker 1: is our daughter, Emma. What a pleasure it is to
Speaker 1: meet you, sister. We've heard such things. I can only
Speaker 1: imagine you've done more than just that from what I
Speaker 1: can gather. Sorry, where are my manners? You'll come back
Speaker 1: with us for lunch. I wouldn't impose, we insist. She
Speaker 1: hasn't repented yet, Emity, she's still family girl. Come on,
Speaker 1: my mamma, you know what? Sure I could eat m apologies.
Speaker 1: The seller isn't a bit of a state as with
Speaker 1: my father, your parents. Your father's in shock at warm.
Speaker 1: Here take these cans? Wow? Is it possible? But I
Speaker 1: actually missed can beats. The rest of us are thrilled
Speaker 1: beyond our wits. Emma, though she's a bit boy crazed
Speaker 1: as it is. So if you could just, you know,
Speaker 1: keep an eye on your influence, that would be that
Speaker 1: would be just peachy. Dear Lord, thank you for this food,
Speaker 1: but thank you most of all for the fresh company
Speaker 1: we keep in the eating of it. Our long lost
Speaker 1: child of God returned to us, and am Rebecca. I
Speaker 1: want to know all about so many things. What it
Speaker 1: feels like to put contact lenses in It blows my
Speaker 1: hair back, really, I mean when I bit doubt and
Speaker 1: the sorcery that is a hair dryer. Rebecca doesn't want
Speaker 1: to talk about the very world she just left behind forever, now,
Speaker 1: does she? We They the English are just like you
Speaker 1: and me, but with one eye on the devil at
Speaker 1: all times. Matthew, I'm not hungry. I'm going to the barn. Oh,
Speaker 1: don't mind your father. We'll have you squared away with
Speaker 1: the preacher and all will be well in no time.
Speaker 1: He seems up to his eyeballs already with grief. Thomas
Speaker 1: sounded like a very special young man, him and all
Speaker 1: the others. The others. Mother's talking about the curse. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: did you say curse? It started before I was born.
Speaker 1: Even cow boys healthier than horses gone overnight in the
Speaker 1: same way Thomas's death marks unlucky thirteen. Oh my god, gosh,
Speaker 1: if you could, Rebecca. Um. Some believe that acknowledging the
Speaker 1: curse at all just continu is the madness so Mom's
Speaker 1: the word on a dozen dead teenagers. There's nothing to
Speaker 1: be done. These boys dropped like flies. No one can
Speaker 1: think of any good reason. Maybe it's nature telling us.
Speaker 1: I don't know what. With Thomas gone, there hasn't been
Speaker 1: one young man to reach his baptism in the past,
Speaker 1: at least since I came to town. Obviously, with LEVI
Speaker 1: were sensitive to it. Silas is alive and wrong the
Speaker 1: one beacon you're saying, Silas is the only boy in
Speaker 1: this town who has lived to see his eighteenth birthday
Speaker 1: in two decades. Call it a curse if we must, though,
Speaker 1: all that black magic talk does is rid us of
Speaker 1: any responsibility to get to the bottom of it, which
Speaker 1: we will because we must. Yeah. Rebecca Raber was played
Speaker 1: by Alice Lovek, Terrence by Blaine Gray, Matthew Raber by
Speaker 1: Jim Hannah, Amity Raber by Carrie Kawa, Silas Shrock by
Speaker 1: Dmitri Todd, Preacher King by Bradley Fisher, Kenny by Devon
Speaker 1: Matthew McKee, Emma Raber by Brady Ryder, Levi Raber by
Speaker 1: Chad Roberts, Mary by a rouned Stores. This episode of
Speaker 1: Solve was written by Shannon Riley, directed by Corey Serge
Speaker 1: Executive produced by Corey Serge Executive produced by walp Omer
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 Turchon, Editing and mixed by Zach Jurich, Assistant
Speaker 1: editor Hope Brush. Sound designed by Eric Rachelson. Script supervisor
Speaker 1: Marilyn Miller