Speaker 1: Hey, lethal listeners, tig Torres here stay tuned for the
Speaker 1: next episode of Lethal Lit. But first, a quick word
Speaker 1: from today's sponsor. Why is Tares? I think it's high
Speaker 1: time you and I had words, don't you? What did
Speaker 1: my aunt Beth feel like ten years ago when she
Speaker 1: was backed into this exact same corner. This is my
Speaker 1: last recording, This is how my story. I'm tig Torres
Speaker 1: and this is Lethal Lit. The lip killer stands revealed.
Speaker 1: Hollow Falls High history teacher and talent newspaper advisor Harry
Speaker 1: Levinson is the maniac behind the murders that rock this
Speaker 1: town a decade ago, as well as the new wave
Speaker 1: that hit just as I arrived. Who killed and framed
Speaker 1: my aunt Beth Torres the one person who got close
Speaker 1: to cracking the case. Good news, right, Not exactly, Sam Steiner,
Speaker 1: my aunt's partner, and I trekked out to this desolate
Speaker 1: cabin in the hopes of rescuing the mayor's daughter, Ella
Speaker 1: high Smith. Instead, we're trapped with Levinson and his creepy
Speaker 1: old bird mausoleum. From what little I can see in
Speaker 1: the dark, we're surrounded by stuffed birds and avian skulls.
Speaker 1: It's horrible. So this is how it ends for me
Speaker 1: and Ella? While Sam, poor Sam is bleeding out on
Speaker 1: the floor. It's over, Levinson. Don't you realize that this
Speaker 1: is the final act? We are aware we were meant
Speaker 1: to be a trres You're better for me as the
Speaker 1: original lid killer, and now you frame as the new legier.
Speaker 1: Poor young girl so tormented by her aunt's tragic fault
Speaker 1: that she's driven to madness. Sam, just stay put, I'll
Speaker 1: get us out of this. How sweet Death's old, spineless
Speaker 1: partner finally sheds his cowardly skin to be reborn a hero,
Speaker 1: dead hero Still, Sam, I thought I've been fairly clear
Speaker 1: in my note tig no sidekicks, Sam, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1: Steiner is dead. Ella's fever is ramping up. The convulsion
Speaker 1: should start soon, and then well it'll just be the
Speaker 1: two of us. So why just the one live bird?
Speaker 1: What is that a pigeon? That's clearly a dove. I'm
Speaker 1: thinking of naming her tat Over there, that's Anthony the Falcon.
Speaker 1: Next to him is Jake the Sparrow. And that porcelain
Speaker 1: owl over there that's my favorite of the entire collection.
Speaker 1: That's you named your dead birds after your victims. Of
Speaker 1: course I did. We're all one big, happy family. Here
Speaker 1: a collection of my greatest stories. But alas, it's time
Speaker 1: for this sequel to conclude. Just one bird left to go.
Speaker 1: You tried your best kick, but there can be only
Speaker 1: one Beth, and you, my dear, are not her? How's
Speaker 1: your Shakespeare? Kill me tomorrow, let me live tonight? It's
Speaker 1: a fellow, right, good, good, that's right, my young faces Temona,
Speaker 1: What do you, tig? Really? If you got the quote,
Speaker 1: you don't need me to explain further. It's time for
Speaker 1: the curtain to fall. What did you mean that there
Speaker 1: can only be one best? How well did you know her?
Speaker 1: Of course I knew her well. I had to put
Speaker 1: on the act when we spoke, didn't I the helpful,
Speaker 1: kind hearted teacher? But it was all smoking mirrors. You
Speaker 1: remember the mirrors, don't you take it? She still figured
Speaker 1: it out, she knew it was you. Let's not give
Speaker 1: her too much credit. She got as close as I
Speaker 1: wanted her to get, even if she disrupted my plan.
Speaker 1: I had my own contingencies, hence the romance. Oh, Tig,
Speaker 1: didn't you know I wasn't just your aunt Beth's occasional confidante. No, no,
Speaker 1: we were much more than that. If things went over differently,
Speaker 1: you might even be calling me Uncle Harry right now.
Speaker 1: Romance connects us all my day. Why, Vincent? Why kill
Speaker 1: all these people who cares about the white tig? You,
Speaker 1: of all people should know the world is full of
Speaker 1: dark and explicable things. It's time to end this, and
Speaker 1: I need to pose you just right. These presentations can
Speaker 1: be so time consuming. I thought you'd at least have
Speaker 1: some grandiose reason behind all of this. If not, what's
Speaker 1: the point? Killing for nothing just puts you on the
Speaker 1: same level with all the other aesthetic They were fools,
Speaker 1: each and every victim, from Mary Wazni after Sam Steiner,
Speaker 1: who's still inching towards Rigamortis right over there. They were
Speaker 1: all fools. I've spent years as a thankless teacher at
Speaker 1: that god forsaken school. My first few semesters they even
Speaker 1: had you teach remedial English. Can you believe it? Me?
Speaker 1: I have master's degrees in eighteenth century British literature and
Speaker 1: European history. Sure I had blemishes on my record, But
Speaker 1: had they bothered to ask I explain the new here
Speaker 1: I was forced to perform for kids who were guaranteed
Speaker 1: to flunk out anyway. Well, Leanderthals couldn't care less about
Speaker 1: the significance of the Count Shell and Lord of the Flies,
Speaker 1: or the dramatic differences between Shakespeare's tragedies and histories. No,
Speaker 1: they just wanted to have sex, get high, and skip class.
Speaker 1: But they were pawns in my own grand story. I
Speaker 1: gave their insipid lives meaning purpose. They weren't just zombies
Speaker 1: shambling through life anymore. They were people, characters with beginnings,
Speaker 1: middles and brutal, memorable endings and mean I was the writer.
Speaker 1: So what they didn't care about the work I was
Speaker 1: trying to teach them. That's fine. They had no choice
Speaker 1: in the matter. And you know what, my dear take
Speaker 1: there was a hello story, bloody, gruesome, full of twists
Speaker 1: and double crosses. Beggins would have been proud you are thick?
Speaker 1: Am I sick? Or am I the cure? I took
Speaker 1: out each and every one of those super rats, one
Speaker 1: by one, and all the while, no one except Beth
Speaker 1: came even close to finding out what I was up to.
Speaker 1: But even she was so, so very easy to manipulate
Speaker 1: a little Sherlocke and crusade trude quite acic. I could
Speaker 1: appreciate her romantic gesture at the very end if she
Speaker 1: could change me, But that didn't dampen the wave of pleasure.
Speaker 1: I felt well shooting them without her take, really throwing
Speaker 1: things around like some irate oddler in here. Sometimes, despite
Speaker 1: your best intentions, you turn into the teen scream queen,
Speaker 1: especially when you think someone's about to drag you to
Speaker 1: the trash. What get away from her? Loving Oliver? How
Speaker 1: nice to see you get a knife? No, no, you
Speaker 1: caught me, you little ingreat. What were you thinking? This
Speaker 1: is one of your comic books, Oliver? You're not there?
Speaker 1: Oh no, just your dumb owl statue. Beware, for I
Speaker 1: am fearless and therefore powerful. How's that for a literary reference, Harry,
Speaker 1: way to come to my rescue? Well, I didn't really
Speaker 1: get to save the day. Are you okay? I don't
Speaker 1: think I'll ever be okay again, But in that moment,
Speaker 1: there was hope, hope that this was all over. Carver
Speaker 1: and the cops stormed in a few seconds later, paramedics
Speaker 1: right behind. They took Ali and La to get some
Speaker 1: much needed medical attention. It was too late for Sam
Speaker 1: Ali showing up when he did really made for the
Speaker 1: perfect distraction. And now, at last it felt like we
Speaker 1: were getting to the end of this whole mess. The
Speaker 1: men who killed my aunt Beth was now finally going
Speaker 1: to jail. The news of Levinson's capture spread fast. The
Speaker 1: lip killer had been revealed and it wasn't Beth Torres.
Speaker 1: The haters got quiet, the conspiracy freaks felt validated, and I, well,
Speaker 1: I don't know how. I felt tired, unsure, but hopeful.
Speaker 1: This is Sarah Parks w h f Z News reporting live.
Speaker 1: Police have confirmed that Hollow Falls High teacher Harry Levinson
Speaker 1: has been arrested and will be charged in the recent
Speaker 1: lit killer murders, including that of former Ledger reporter Sam Steiner.
Speaker 1: Local teens tig Dores and Ella high Smith, daughter of
Speaker 1: Mayor Highsmith, were found alive at the scene. Authorities the
Speaker 1: loss of Sam that was a tough one. I didn't
Speaker 1: get to know the guy all that well, but he
Speaker 1: risked his life to save me. His death felt like
Speaker 1: like another piece of my aunt Beth was now lost
Speaker 1: to me. But I did what I set out to do.
Speaker 1: I think Aunt Beth would be proud and well, she
Speaker 1: can rest easy now you know I did this for her,
Speaker 1: for my family. The Tora's name has been cleared. After
Speaker 1: all the post arrest insanity and after Ali got out
Speaker 1: of the hospital with his knife wound bandaged up, we
Speaker 1: all reconvened at a Boila's house. This murder game is
Speaker 1: officially over. I still can't believe it was Levinson all along.
Speaker 1: How are you guys taking it? You knew him way
Speaker 1: better than I did. I am all about that rear
Speaker 1: view mirror and putting his toxic acid in it. He
Speaker 1: just I mean, I thought we knew the guy. You know.
Speaker 1: For now, I'm all about repressing the negative and celebrating
Speaker 1: with my awesome. I was so focused on catching the
Speaker 1: lick Killer that I didn't think about what we'd do after,
Speaker 1: or if there'd even be an after. Skip this moby track,
Speaker 1: tig For the love of God, everyone, we beat the
Speaker 1: lick Killer. Damn straight, we did, and we'll also you know,
Speaker 1: class over that hole me having a crush on to Okay,
Speaker 1: here's to Tick, who made it all happy. Yeah, cheers
Speaker 1: take Here's to you guys for being there when I
Speaker 1: really needed you. We did this together. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: of all of us, tig you are allowed to take
Speaker 1: the most credit, Drew. We all risked life and limb
Speaker 1: some of us more than others. But because of you,
Speaker 1: we brought down a mass murderer. Yeah, and you get
Speaker 1: to have the biggest I told you so. He rolled
Speaker 1: into the talent office and told us what you were
Speaker 1: gonna do, and you did it. Proved your aunt's innocence.
Speaker 1: That's so sick tick. He's right, TI did it. Thanks guys,
Speaker 1: it go ahead and order the pizza. I'll be back
Speaker 1: in a few I really wanted to celebrate with them,
Speaker 1: but I just couldn't, not yet, not while something was
Speaker 1: still missing. That new tape that Sam gave me saved
Speaker 1: us in more ways than one. But there are some
Speaker 1: things that are still bugging me. I think it's time
Speaker 1: we talked about the victim that brought us here in
Speaker 1: the first place. Beth torres here. She is on that
Speaker 1: final tape, just a few hours before her death. I'm
Speaker 1: about to head out to the crossing, but wanted to
Speaker 1: record this before I hit the road. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: I can handle driving and talking at the same time. Honestly,
Speaker 1: the lead killing referenced fahrenheit in that first note, So
Speaker 1: if this is his last kill all involved some serious flames.
Speaker 1: That dystopian novel features a lot of burning books, and
Speaker 1: the Crossing seems ripe for a forest fire. Mr bothered
Speaker 1: by that call from Anna Killdean calling for help, afraid
Speaker 1: for her wife, I have to go. I have to
Speaker 1: save her if I can. That night, Anna kill Dean
Speaker 1: had managed to briefly escape Levinson and get word to
Speaker 1: my aunt Beth that she was being held somewhere near
Speaker 1: a super creepy place called the Crossing. Aunt Beth didn't
Speaker 1: hesitate to try and rescue her, and that was what
Speaker 1: led to her death that night. That's the last recording
Speaker 1: I have of her. So I'm we're done. We've listened
Speaker 1: to everything. What are you still recording for? Hey? Come
Speaker 1: celebrate with us. I can't yet. I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: missing something like this woman who called my aunt on
Speaker 1: the night she died. Who was she? She was important
Speaker 1: enough for Steiner to mention her, and on this tape,
Speaker 1: my aunt Beth said, person, take not your aunt, tag,
Speaker 1: I got you the pineapple pizza, Travis. Do you wanted?
Speaker 1: How's it going in here? Trying to get her out
Speaker 1: of podcast mode. I have to make peace with my
Speaker 1: aunt in my own way. Okay, okay, in taken, I'm
Speaker 1: supposed to check in with the nurse about my stitches. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I'll catch up with you later. Sure, what's still bugging
Speaker 1: you about this? Do you remember the name Anna killed Dean?
Speaker 1: What my aunt said on Sam's tape? Who was she?
Speaker 1: I don't know. What do you want to do? I'm
Speaker 1: not sure. I don't want to be a drain on
Speaker 1: everyone's fun, but this is really important to me. You know,
Speaker 1: I'll know when it's done. After destroying a few pizzas,
Speaker 1: we decided to reconvene at the Star Diner for some
Speaker 1: caffeine and evidence analysis. Just take an Okay. I didn't
Speaker 1: piece all this together until I real listened to my
Speaker 1: aunt Beth's final recording for the hundredth time. Just give
Speaker 1: us the bad already. I'm having major caffeine withdrawal, all right.
Speaker 1: My aunt Beth name dropping Fahrenheit for one stuck with me.
Speaker 1: So I compared the evidence from her death to the others.
Speaker 1: The sense I got was that Levinson was in a hurry.
Speaker 1: He hadn't fully planned for Beth to show the handwritten
Speaker 1: note versus a typed one. The evidence of her being
Speaker 1: killed at the scene as opposed to being moved the
Speaker 1: Shakespeare reference instead of Bradberry. M hmm. The lig Hiler
Speaker 1: was usually so meticulous. This felt rushed and random. Then
Speaker 1: I pulled up a police report about a burn Jane Doe.
Speaker 1: Now I know I was right about what Anna Killed Dean.
Speaker 1: I feel like that name should mean something to me?
Speaker 1: And yet, yes, can I get an ice soy latte
Speaker 1: with two splendors? Sorry to continue? Anna Killdean was the
Speaker 1: woman my aunt Beth tried to save the night she died.
Speaker 1: Turns out they knew each other. Anna called Aunt Beeth
Speaker 1: while she was running from the lid killer from Levinson
Speaker 1: to ask her for help. Jesus. Obviously she didn't make
Speaker 1: it in time. But unlike all the other victims, Anna
Speaker 1: Killdean is still technically missing. But I dug around, and
Speaker 1: about six months after my aunt Beth's murder, there are
Speaker 1: police records that point to an unidentified woman who was
Speaker 1: found dead in the school library of a town about
Speaker 1: two miles from here. A tiny bird called gray Malkin. Anyway,
Speaker 1: the woman's body was burnt beyond recognition, So she that
Speaker 1: body must have been Levinson's Fahrenheit four. Still you think
Speaker 1: that's a little bit of a stretch. I did until
Speaker 1: I read the report Black Covee. Okay, so what I
Speaker 1: really asked for was crema package around the table by
Speaker 1: the ketchup if you want to get fancy yolo and
Speaker 1: all that. Oh God, this place is the best. So
Speaker 1: the report, what did it say? The here? Check out
Speaker 1: this part. The victim appears to have died from self immolation,
Speaker 1: Forensic evidence around the body suggesting she poured a nearby
Speaker 1: canister of gasoline over Did they really think someone would
Speaker 1: do that to themselves to keep reading? Also found near
Speaker 1: the body, it was a charred paperback book, badly damaged.
Speaker 1: A few interior pages remained legible despite the fire damage.
Speaker 1: The book was a copy of Rape Bradberry shaheits with one.
Speaker 1: In the novel, the old Woman sets herself on fire. Wait? Wait?
Speaker 1: What so the cops just thought this woman was having
Speaker 1: a little speculative fiction binge before setting herself on fire?
Speaker 1: Didn't they watch the news? The detective on the case,
Speaker 1: guy named Murray Lambsman, was a few weeks from retire
Speaker 1: meant he did the bare minimum and walked away. So
Speaker 1: Levinson burned her to death. Horrible. Okay, so it's another
Speaker 1: disgusting murder, which apparently is just another day around here.
Speaker 1: I mean, it totally sucks. But why should we care
Speaker 1: about her? She was debate. The lip killer used to
Speaker 1: drain my aunt, just like he used ella debate me.
Speaker 1: And after my aunt died the lip killer stopped. He
Speaker 1: went underground for a decade. So she's the Kaiser says that,
Speaker 1: like we know what that? Yes, exactly, she's the missing link.
Speaker 1: But it's not just that she was different. She wasn't
Speaker 1: a remedial student. She was a grown woman, divorced, lived
Speaker 1: a rough life on the fringes of society. She didn't
Speaker 1: grow up in Hollow Falls, meaning she didn't go to
Speaker 1: Hollow Falls high not your typical lit killer victim. What
Speaker 1: made Levinson veer off course to killer? And why? So?
Speaker 1: Not done? Damn it? I knew that celebration pizzas too hasty,
Speaker 1: So then what's our plan? Honestly there is no plan,
Speaker 1: But I know what I need to do right now
Speaker 1: to put this case to bed. I need to go
Speaker 1: to the crossing and say goodbye to my aunt. Beth alone.
Speaker 1: Uh is this really the best time? How old? She
Speaker 1: needs closures? She needs closure? All right, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 1: Do what you gotta do for you, and then we'll
Speaker 1: reconvene to tackle our next nightmare problem. I left Maximum
Speaker 1: Win with a few cleanup tasks, and then it was
Speaker 1: off to say my advice. Okay, so when I said
Speaker 1: I was going alone to the crossing, that wasn't exactly
Speaker 1: the truth. Wow, you were kid. This place is beyond creeping.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how it stacks up next to the
Speaker 1: old amusement park, But Hollow Falls that's where the lip
Speaker 1: Hler left his mark. He kind of passed through this
Speaker 1: tiny town and changed it forever. Hollow Falls is the
Speaker 1: big picture. But the Crossing, it's the boiling point. The
Speaker 1: cops found my aunt's body on the shore of this brook,
Speaker 1: under the branches of that willow tree. Her neck was snapped,
Speaker 1: but Levinson had clearly taken a time to dress her
Speaker 1: up in some vintage white dress. Staged like the others.
Speaker 1: I am incapable of my own distress. There is a
Speaker 1: willow grows aslant the brook. That's what the note they
Speaker 1: found with her body said. The cops never released it publicly,
Speaker 1: but we got to see it. They claimed it was
Speaker 1: their suicide. Note, Hey, that's right. Maybe this town is
Speaker 1: the problem, she said. He's going on about the birds
Speaker 1: above and the hole that runs underneath. Maybe this is
Speaker 1: just a pleading ground for killers. I don't know which
Speaker 1: which book was a mental look like Hamlet? Levinson saved
Speaker 1: one of the Shakespeare classics for my Aunt Beth, and
Speaker 1: it a girl named Ophelia goes mad and kills herself,
Speaker 1: allegedly by dropping from a willow tree into a waiting
Speaker 1: body of water. Jesus, he was planning a similar fate
Speaker 1: for me if you hadn't. What did he say to you?
Speaker 1: He called me his Desdemona. She was a character and Othello,
Speaker 1: she's strong, She pisss off her dad, but she's independent
Speaker 1: and fierce and like my aunt, like your aunt. What
Speaker 1: she's murdered by her lover. Oh sake, that's horrible. You
Speaker 1: sound almost surprised. What do you mean? Is this the
Speaker 1: part where you pretend to have no idea? Tig is
Speaker 1: that hit Ali? I fall for you and then you
Speaker 1: kill me the same way Levinson killed my heart. Levenson
Speaker 1: was so right. His literary theatrics are way too on
Speaker 1: the nose. I mean, if it were up to me,
Speaker 1: I would have killed you in a much more interesting way.
Speaker 1: So you were what his serial killer sidekick he wishes
Speaker 1: he's the past, I'm the future. My plans for you
Speaker 1: are better than anything that old hack could cook up.
Speaker 1: I'm still impressed you figured it out. I underestimated you,
Speaker 1: tig torres. That doesn't change how the story will play out.
Speaker 1: Hapless teen reporter dies in same tragic spot. Is her
Speaker 1: aunt hear that? That's your destiny? Calling, tig you've read
Speaker 1: Anna Karna right? Yes, she dies jumping in front of
Speaker 1: a train, Confused, angry, and betrayed. Sound like anyone we know.
Speaker 1: I can't believe Levinson was gonna kill you using a
Speaker 1: Shakespeare reference. My version will be so much more poetic. Holly,
Speaker 1: you don't mean this. You don't know anything about me.
Speaker 1: You breathe into this town thinking you understand us in
Speaker 1: our history, but you just bailed when things got too
Speaker 1: tough for you and your family. You know what happens
Speaker 1: to people like that, take leave when things get told,
Speaker 1: like what happened to Anna Kildean? What did you just say?
Speaker 1: I know she meant something to you. Know. This is
Speaker 1: I still know the fruit Levinson killed her for you,
Speaker 1: didn't he even though she wasn't one of his students,
Speaker 1: even though he had no reason to. I knew it
Speaker 1: was you, aally. It broke my heart over and over
Speaker 1: to think so, but I knew it was you. You
Speaker 1: didn't suspect anything. If you had, you wouldn't have climbed
Speaker 1: into my room that night begging to have sex. Get
Speaker 1: over yourself, boy, wonder that doubt was already there. You
Speaker 1: left clues all over the place. You just happened to
Speaker 1: be around when we discovered Tony's body. In the first clue,
Speaker 1: how you found that book so fast in the principal's office.
Speaker 1: How you let Ella get hit napps from the hospital.
Speaker 1: I wanted to believe it couldn't be you, but mhm,
Speaker 1: here we are. The evidence is the evidence. When I
Speaker 1: listened to that clip again, that's when I knew your plan,
Speaker 1: that you were going to try and recreate how my
Speaker 1: aunt died. I told when to tell you I was
Speaker 1: going to the crossing to get closure. So when you
Speaker 1: showed up here, all wide eyed and eager to be supportive,
Speaker 1: that's when I knew for sure you were going to
Speaker 1: try to kill me. You know what else is good
Speaker 1: about Anna, Karenina take It's simple. All it takes is
Speaker 1: a train and you if you broke open my stitches,
Speaker 1: m we're the same, you and I. You're still too
Speaker 1: busy chasing after order in a world that's just chaos
Speaker 1: and death. Life. That's not part of the game, though,
Speaker 1: is it? All? The game is what I make of it.
Speaker 1: Levinson Want You is disciple to cheat in the final round.
Speaker 1: Don't pretend to be in my head. Levinson saved me.
Speaker 1: He took me in when your stupid aunt tried to
Speaker 1: stop him, tried to save my That and a woman.
Speaker 1: She got what she deserved. They both did, and then
Speaker 1: I really got to learn from him. I was just
Speaker 1: waiting for the perfect moment, and it appeared like a
Speaker 1: gift when you came back to town. Tag. It was
Speaker 1: my time to shine, and I would have if he
Speaker 1: had hadn't kidnapped me. That wasn't his place. It was
Speaker 1: my turn, and you were mine. Sure Levinson helped a bit,
Speaker 1: but it was my chance to prove myself. But then you,
Speaker 1: you and I you and I want it was gonna
Speaker 1: be your turn eventually take You know how drama works,
Speaker 1: there needs to be a climax in epic conclusion. I
Speaker 1: needed to work myself up to it. If I was
Speaker 1: just another victim to you, Why did you risk yourself
Speaker 1: to save me from Levinston. Maybe it's because of the
Speaker 1: way you feel about No. I can do it. I
Speaker 1: can go through with it. You can't, though, can you? Allly?
Speaker 1: This isn't who you are. You're not Levinson, You're not
Speaker 1: a kill. Just shut up. You have no idea, there's
Speaker 1: no coming back. From the places I've been to, I
Speaker 1: figured you out. You're just a lost little boy, and
Speaker 1: you're not as strong or as smart as you thought
Speaker 1: you were. That now, what the hell I trust a
Speaker 1: love interest when you've got real friends. Paydacks starts now.
Speaker 1: You psychopath got you on tay he believe we ever
Speaker 1: considered you one of all. I had them record you
Speaker 1: while you admitted everything. Sure they were surprised, But like
Speaker 1: I told you, Ali, you're so damned lost, you just
Speaker 1: don't get it. There are still so many pieces lust
Speaker 1: on the board. Sh he's getting on the tracks because
Speaker 1: he's that crazy. I lolling. The police found no trace
Speaker 1: of Ali Price on the tracks, and there was no
Speaker 1: real evidence that he got out of the crossing either.
Speaker 1: But I know he's gone for now. That Ali had
Speaker 1: not only assisted Levinson and carrying out the second wave
Speaker 1: of lit killer murders, but had taken over the role
Speaker 1: was the kind of mystery you don't want to unravel.
Speaker 1: But now it's over, over right, and only a matter
Speaker 1: of time before the cops find him. You should know better.
Speaker 1: This is hollow fall, Listeners, Alie hurt me, He hurt
Speaker 1: people I cared about. It's only over when I find him,
Speaker 1: and when I do, he's gonna hurt. If this game
Speaker 1: is just starting, you better believe I'm gonna win that
Speaker 1: before I shut this off and stuff it in the
Speaker 1: mail too, Sam Babby, Mommy was right. Maybe it's not
Speaker 1: just about stopping the lick Killer. Maybe this Ton is
Speaker 1: the problem. He was my best student, my brightest, smartest boy.
Speaker 1: When the Iron Works closed, the jobs went away, and
Speaker 1: the town it got different. Seems you're not a nubie
Speaker 1: when it comes to the world of true crime, Tig Torres.
Speaker 1: I'm not your aunt, Tig. I'm not made up of
Speaker 1: the same stuff as she was. But you people are
Speaker 1: already listening to you anyway in case something happened to me.
Speaker 1: I love you, thanks for everything. Tell mommy I love
Speaker 1: her too, my brother, and oh that's worth so much.
Speaker 1: Kiss taking on the forehead and she'll do. Okay, get
Speaker 1: a spot sharp, Okay, day find out a week's past,
Speaker 1: and Hollow Falls is starting to creak back toward normalcy.
Speaker 1: When in Max are back working at the Talent I
Speaker 1: work there too. Now the new advisor seems nice enough.
Speaker 1: Levinson's heading to trial in a few months, and there's
Speaker 1: been no sign of Alley. So mission accomplished. Listeners, my
Speaker 1: aunt path was exonerated, so you could say I did
Speaker 1: what I set out to do. But too many more
Speaker 1: bodies have dropped, too much blood has spilled. The lid
Speaker 1: Killer turned into a story of two obsessed murderers, and
Speaker 1: only one of them is behind bars. Speaking of which, Hey, Ally,
Speaker 1: I know you're out there listening. Sometimes when I lay
Speaker 1: in bed in the dark, staring up at the ceiling,
Speaker 1: I think of that look I saw in your eyes
Speaker 1: that night at the crossing, that flicker of humanity. You
Speaker 1: might try to deny it, but it was there. It
Speaker 1: tells me I wasn't crazy to like you two fall
Speaker 1: for you. You were the first person I let get
Speaker 1: close that close. You remember the obsessive, manic attention to detail,
Speaker 1: the extreme fixation I had on saving Aunt Beth's reputation. Well,
Speaker 1: all that energy is pointed at you right now, Buddy.
Speaker 1: I'll find you soon, and in the meantime, I know
Speaker 1: you will be thinking about me too. I'm ting Taurus
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