WEBVTT - Chapter 6: The Crossing 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.800 Hey, lethal listeners, tig Torres here stay tuned for the 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:07.080 next episode of Lethal Lit. But first, a quick word 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:17.760 from today's sponsor. Why is Tares? I think it's high 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:26.239 time you and I had words, don't you? What did 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:29.800 my aunt Beth feel like ten years ago when she 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:34.239 was backed into this exact same corner. This is my 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:41.320 last recording, This is how my story. I'm tig Torres 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:51.640 and this is Lethal Lit. The lip killer stands revealed. 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:56.360 Hollow Falls High history teacher and talent newspaper advisor Harry 0:00:56.440 --> 0:00:59.440 Levinson is the maniac behind the murders that rock this 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:02.800 town a decade ago, as well as the new wave 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:06.560 that hit just as I arrived. Who killed and framed 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:10.920 my aunt Beth Torres the one person who got close 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:16.920 to cracking the case. Good news, right, Not exactly, Sam Steiner, 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:19.880 my aunt's partner, and I trekked out to this desolate 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:22.680 cabin in the hopes of rescuing the mayor's daughter, Ella 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:26.840 high Smith. Instead, we're trapped with Levinson and his creepy 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:30.200 old bird mausoleum. From what little I can see in 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:34.160 the dark, we're surrounded by stuffed birds and avian skulls. 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:37.800 It's horrible. So this is how it ends for me 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:44.039 and Ella? While Sam, poor Sam is bleeding out on 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:52.160 the floor. It's over, Levinson. Don't you realize that this 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:56.360 is the final act? We are aware we were meant 0:01:56.560 --> 0:02:00.480 to be a trres You're better for me as the 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:05.480 original lid killer, and now you frame as the new legier. 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:11.000 Poor young girl so tormented by her aunt's tragic fault 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:18.679 that she's driven to madness. Sam, just stay put, I'll 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:23.600 get us out of this. How sweet Death's old, spineless 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:27.720 partner finally sheds his cowardly skin to be reborn a hero, 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:41.200 dead hero Still, Sam, I thought I've been fairly clear 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:46.160 in my note tig no sidekicks, Sam, I'm so sorry. 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:50.200 Steiner is dead. Ella's fever is ramping up. The convulsion 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:54.160 should start soon, and then well it'll just be the 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:58.960 two of us. So why just the one live bird? 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:05.000 What is that a pigeon? That's clearly a dove. I'm 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:09.000 thinking of naming her tat Over there, that's Anthony the Falcon. 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:12.359 Next to him is Jake the Sparrow. And that porcelain 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:15.960 owl over there that's my favorite of the entire collection. 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:22.560 That's you named your dead birds after your victims. Of 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:26.160 course I did. We're all one big, happy family. Here 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:30.840 a collection of my greatest stories. But alas, it's time 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:34.040 for this sequel to conclude. Just one bird left to go. 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:38.320 You tried your best kick, but there can be only 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:47.000 one Beth, and you, my dear, are not her? How's 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:51.000 your Shakespeare? Kill me tomorrow, let me live tonight? It's 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:59.280 a fellow, right, good, good, that's right, my young faces Temona, 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.840 What do you, tig? Really? If you got the quote, 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:06.000 you don't need me to explain further. It's time for 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:08.080 the curtain to fall. What did you mean that there 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:11.160 can only be one best? How well did you know her? 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:14.520 Of course I knew her well. I had to put 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:17.000 on the act when we spoke, didn't I the helpful, 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:21.080 kind hearted teacher? But it was all smoking mirrors. You 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:25.000 remember the mirrors, don't you take it? She still figured 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:28.520 it out, she knew it was you. Let's not give 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:30.800 her too much credit. She got as close as I 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:33.560 wanted her to get, even if she disrupted my plan. 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:40.480 I had my own contingencies, hence the romance. Oh, Tig, 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:45.520 didn't you know I wasn't just your aunt Beth's occasional confidante. No, no, 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:50.480 we were much more than that. If things went over differently, 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:53.920 you might even be calling me Uncle Harry right now. 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:01.280 Romance connects us all my day. Why, Vincent? Why kill 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:03.960 all these people who cares about the white tig? You, 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:06.240 of all people should know the world is full of 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:09.760 dark and explicable things. It's time to end this, and 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:15.080 I need to pose you just right. These presentations can 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:18.080 be so time consuming. I thought you'd at least have 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:21.680 some grandiose reason behind all of this. If not, what's 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:24.320 the point? Killing for nothing just puts you on the 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:30.560 same level with all the other aesthetic They were fools, 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:35.080 each and every victim, from Mary Wazni after Sam Steiner, 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:39.000 who's still inching towards Rigamortis right over there. They were 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:43.680 all fools. I've spent years as a thankless teacher at 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:47.840 that god forsaken school. My first few semesters they even 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:51.280 had you teach remedial English. Can you believe it? Me? 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:55.480 I have master's degrees in eighteenth century British literature and 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:58.560 European history. Sure I had blemishes on my record, But 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:02.120 had they bothered to ask I explain the new here 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:06.400 I was forced to perform for kids who were guaranteed 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:12.560 to flunk out anyway. Well, Leanderthals couldn't care less about 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:15.520 the significance of the Count Shell and Lord of the Flies, 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:19.720 or the dramatic differences between Shakespeare's tragedies and histories. No, 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:22.880 they just wanted to have sex, get high, and skip class. 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:31.080 But they were pawns in my own grand story. I 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:37.280 gave their insipid lives meaning purpose. They weren't just zombies 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:42.000 shambling through life anymore. They were people, characters with beginnings, 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:49.480 middles and brutal, memorable endings and mean I was the writer. 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:52.920 So what they didn't care about the work I was 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:56.320 trying to teach them. That's fine. They had no choice 0:06:56.760 --> 0:07:01.080 in the matter. And you know what, my dear take 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:07.480 there was a hello story, bloody, gruesome, full of twists 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:12.000 and double crosses. Beggins would have been proud you are thick? 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:16.800 Am I sick? Or am I the cure? I took 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:20.880 out each and every one of those super rats, one 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:25.520 by one, and all the while, no one except Beth 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:28.360 came even close to finding out what I was up to. 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:32.960 But even she was so, so very easy to manipulate 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:39.080 a little Sherlocke and crusade trude quite acic. I could 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:42.920 appreciate her romantic gesture at the very end if she 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:48.080 could change me, But that didn't dampen the wave of pleasure. 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:54.360 I felt well shooting them without her take, really throwing 0:07:54.440 --> 0:08:05.400 things around like some irate oddler in here. Sometimes, despite 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:09.080 your best intentions, you turn into the teen scream queen, 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:12.440 especially when you think someone's about to drag you to 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:19.320 the trash. What get away from her? Loving Oliver? How 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:26.120 nice to see you get a knife? No, no, you 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:30.160 caught me, you little ingreat. What were you thinking? This 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:32.880 is one of your comic books, Oliver? You're not there? 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:46.480 Oh no, just your dumb owl statue. Beware, for I 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:54.280 am fearless and therefore powerful. How's that for a literary reference, Harry, 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:02.200 way to come to my rescue? Well, I didn't really 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:09.400 get to save the day. Are you okay? I don't 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:14.000 think I'll ever be okay again, But in that moment, 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:20.640 there was hope, hope that this was all over. Carver 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:23.920 and the cops stormed in a few seconds later, paramedics 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:26.800 right behind. They took Ali and La to get some 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:31.680 much needed medical attention. It was too late for Sam 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:35.920 Ali showing up when he did really made for the 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:41.040 perfect distraction. And now, at last it felt like we 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:44.480 were getting to the end of this whole mess. The 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:49.320 men who killed my aunt Beth was now finally going 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:55.679 to jail. The news of Levinson's capture spread fast. The 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:59.599 lip killer had been revealed and it wasn't Beth Torres. 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:08.280 The haters got quiet, the conspiracy freaks felt validated, and I, well, 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:16.360 I don't know how. I felt tired, unsure, but hopeful. 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:21.760 This is Sarah Parks w h f Z News reporting live. 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:26.160 Police have confirmed that Hollow Falls High teacher Harry Levinson 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:29.160 has been arrested and will be charged in the recent 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:34.200 lit killer murders, including that of former Ledger reporter Sam Steiner. 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:38.199 Local teens tig Dores and Ella high Smith, daughter of 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:42.679 Mayor Highsmith, were found alive at the scene. Authorities the 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:47.000 loss of Sam that was a tough one. I didn't 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:49.280 get to know the guy all that well, but he 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:53.079 risked his life to save me. His death felt like 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:57.680 like another piece of my aunt Beth was now lost 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:00.800 to me. But I did what I set out to do. 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:07.719 I think Aunt Beth would be proud and well, she 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:11.640 can rest easy now you know I did this for her, 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:24.120 for my family. The Tora's name has been cleared. After 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:28.360 all the post arrest insanity and after Ali got out 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:31.319 of the hospital with his knife wound bandaged up, we 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:37.439 all reconvened at a Boila's house. This murder game is 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:41.839 officially over. I still can't believe it was Levinson all along. 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:46.480 How are you guys taking it? You knew him way 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:49.760 better than I did. I am all about that rear 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:53.079 view mirror and putting his toxic acid in it. He 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:55.760 just I mean, I thought we knew the guy. You know. 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:59.520 For now, I'm all about repressing the negative and celebrating 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:02.719 with my awesome. I was so focused on catching the 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:05.559 lick Killer that I didn't think about what we'd do after, 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:09.720 or if there'd even be an after. Skip this moby track, 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:12.000 tig For the love of God, everyone, we beat the 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:17.599 lick Killer. Damn straight, we did, and we'll also you know, 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:20.760 class over that hole me having a crush on to Okay, 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:26.079 here's to Tick, who made it all happy. Yeah, cheers 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:29.400 take Here's to you guys for being there when I 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:33.120 really needed you. We did this together. No, no, no, 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:35.400 of all of us, tig you are allowed to take 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:38.280 the most credit, Drew. We all risked life and limb 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:42.880 some of us more than others. But because of you, 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:45.840 we brought down a mass murderer. Yeah, and you get 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:48.560 to have the biggest I told you so. He rolled 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:50.560 into the talent office and told us what you were 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:53.840 gonna do, and you did it. Proved your aunt's innocence. 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:58.600 That's so sick tick. He's right, TI did it. Thanks guys, 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:03.240 it go ahead and order the pizza. I'll be back 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:07.719 in a few I really wanted to celebrate with them, 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:12.520 but I just couldn't, not yet, not while something was 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:16.680 still missing. That new tape that Sam gave me saved 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:20.360 us in more ways than one. But there are some 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:24.520 things that are still bugging me. I think it's time 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:26.599 we talked about the victim that brought us here in 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:32.000 the first place. Beth torres here. She is on that 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:37.920 final tape, just a few hours before her death. I'm 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:40.040 about to head out to the crossing, but wanted to 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:42.400 record this before I hit the road. I'm not sure 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:45.080 I can handle driving and talking at the same time. Honestly, 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:49.240 the lead killing referenced fahrenheit in that first note, So 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:53.000 if this is his last kill all involved some serious flames. 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:56.360 That dystopian novel features a lot of burning books, and 0:13:56.480 --> 0:14:01.160 the Crossing seems ripe for a forest fire. Mr bothered 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:04.600 by that call from Anna Killdean calling for help, afraid 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:07.559 for her wife, I have to go. I have to 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:11.840 save her if I can. That night, Anna kill Dean 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:16.079 had managed to briefly escape Levinson and get word to 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:19.200 my aunt Beth that she was being held somewhere near 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:24.160 a super creepy place called the Crossing. Aunt Beth didn't 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:27.960 hesitate to try and rescue her, and that was what 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:32.360 led to her death that night. That's the last recording 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:39.960 I have of her. So I'm we're done. We've listened 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:44.120 to everything. What are you still recording for? Hey? Come 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:48.960 celebrate with us. I can't yet. I feel like I'm 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:53.040 missing something like this woman who called my aunt on 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:56.200 the night she died. Who was she? She was important 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:58.640 enough for Steiner to mention her, and on this tape, 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:03.720 my aunt Beth said, person, take not your aunt, tag, 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:06.560 I got you the pineapple pizza, Travis. Do you wanted? 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:09.000 How's it going in here? Trying to get her out 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:12.400 of podcast mode. I have to make peace with my 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:16.680 aunt in my own way. Okay, okay, in taken, I'm 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:19.120 supposed to check in with the nurse about my stitches. Anyway, 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:25.120 I'll catch up with you later. Sure, what's still bugging 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:28.880 you about this? Do you remember the name Anna killed Dean? 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:32.680 What my aunt said on Sam's tape? Who was she? 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:37.360 I don't know. What do you want to do? I'm 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:40.520 not sure. I don't want to be a drain on 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:43.760 everyone's fun, but this is really important to me. You know, 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:49.920 I'll know when it's done. After destroying a few pizzas, 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:52.840 we decided to reconvene at the Star Diner for some 0:15:53.040 --> 0:16:01.680 caffeine and evidence analysis. Just take an Okay. I didn't 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:04.000 piece all this together until I real listened to my 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:07.160 aunt Beth's final recording for the hundredth time. Just give 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:10.920 us the bad already. I'm having major caffeine withdrawal, all right. 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:15.480 My aunt Beth name dropping Fahrenheit for one stuck with me. 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:19.520 So I compared the evidence from her death to the others. 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:23.200 The sense I got was that Levinson was in a hurry. 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:27.880 He hadn't fully planned for Beth to show the handwritten 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:30.960 note versus a typed one. The evidence of her being 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:33.880 killed at the scene as opposed to being moved the 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:38.960 Shakespeare reference instead of Bradberry. M hmm. The lig Hiler 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:45.000 was usually so meticulous. This felt rushed and random. Then 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:48.560 I pulled up a police report about a burn Jane Doe. 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:54.080 Now I know I was right about what Anna Killed Dean. 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:56.760 I feel like that name should mean something to me? 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:00.600 And yet, yes, can I get an ice soy latte 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:03.640 with two splendors? Sorry to continue? Anna Killdean was the 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:06.280 woman my aunt Beth tried to save the night she died. 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:10.440 Turns out they knew each other. Anna called Aunt Beeth 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:13.360 while she was running from the lid killer from Levinson 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:17.080 to ask her for help. Jesus. Obviously she didn't make 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:21.120 it in time. But unlike all the other victims, Anna 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:25.359 Killdean is still technically missing. But I dug around, and 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:28.359 about six months after my aunt Beth's murder, there are 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:31.520 police records that point to an unidentified woman who was 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:34.160 found dead in the school library of a town about 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:39.640 two miles from here. A tiny bird called gray Malkin. Anyway, 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:44.359 the woman's body was burnt beyond recognition, So she that 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:49.400 body must have been Levinson's Fahrenheit four. Still you think 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:52.639 that's a little bit of a stretch. I did until 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:58.520 I read the report Black Covee. Okay, so what I 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:01.639 really asked for was crema package around the table by 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:04.159 the ketchup if you want to get fancy yolo and 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:09.320 all that. Oh God, this place is the best. So 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:13.840 the report, what did it say? The here? Check out 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:19.159 this part. The victim appears to have died from self immolation, 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:22.520 Forensic evidence around the body suggesting she poured a nearby 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:26.200 canister of gasoline over Did they really think someone would 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:30.960 do that to themselves to keep reading? Also found near 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:34.160 the body, it was a charred paperback book, badly damaged. 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:37.639 A few interior pages remained legible despite the fire damage. 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:43.120 The book was a copy of Rape Bradberry shaheits with one. 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:47.120 In the novel, the old Woman sets herself on fire. Wait? Wait? 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:49.400 What so the cops just thought this woman was having 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:52.520 a little speculative fiction binge before setting herself on fire? 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:55.680 Didn't they watch the news? The detective on the case, 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:59.960 guy named Murray Lambsman, was a few weeks from retire 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:02.840 meant he did the bare minimum and walked away. So 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:07.560 Levinson burned her to death. Horrible. Okay, so it's another 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:10.680 disgusting murder, which apparently is just another day around here. 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:14.439 I mean, it totally sucks. But why should we care 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:17.240 about her? She was debate. The lip killer used to 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:20.800 drain my aunt, just like he used ella debate me. 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:25.119 And after my aunt died the lip killer stopped. He 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:30.119 went underground for a decade. So she's the Kaiser says that, 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:35.080 like we know what that? Yes, exactly, she's the missing link. 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:40.200 But it's not just that she was different. She wasn't 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:44.160 a remedial student. She was a grown woman, divorced, lived 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:47.359 a rough life on the fringes of society. She didn't 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:50.000 grow up in Hollow Falls, meaning she didn't go to 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:54.520 Hollow Falls high not your typical lit killer victim. What 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:59.440 made Levinson veer off course to killer? And why? So? 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:03.240 Not done? Damn it? I knew that celebration pizzas too hasty, 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:08.800 So then what's our plan? Honestly there is no plan, 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:11.600 But I know what I need to do right now 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:14.320 to put this case to bed. I need to go 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:17.800 to the crossing and say goodbye to my aunt. Beth alone. 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:22.240 Uh is this really the best time? How old? She 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:25.879 needs closures? She needs closure? All right, you're right, you're right. 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:28.120 Do what you gotta do for you, and then we'll 0:20:28.800 --> 0:20:33.080 reconvene to tackle our next nightmare problem. I left Maximum 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:36.720 Win with a few cleanup tasks, and then it was 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:41.320 off to say my advice. Okay, so when I said 0:20:41.359 --> 0:20:45.520 I was going alone to the crossing, that wasn't exactly 0:20:45.600 --> 0:20:51.199 the truth. Wow, you were kid. This place is beyond creeping. 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:53.119 I'm not sure how it stacks up next to the 0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:59.800 old amusement park, But Hollow Falls that's where the lip 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:02.760 Hler left his mark. He kind of passed through this 0:21:02.920 --> 0:21:07.240 tiny town and changed it forever. Hollow Falls is the 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:15.000 big picture. But the Crossing, it's the boiling point. The 0:21:15.119 --> 0:21:17.720 cops found my aunt's body on the shore of this brook, 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:23.280 under the branches of that willow tree. Her neck was snapped, 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:26.720 but Levinson had clearly taken a time to dress her 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:30.439 up in some vintage white dress. Staged like the others. 0:21:33.440 --> 0:21:37.879 I am incapable of my own distress. There is a 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:42.480 willow grows aslant the brook. That's what the note they 0:21:42.560 --> 0:21:46.400 found with her body said. The cops never released it publicly, 0:21:46.520 --> 0:21:49.560 but we got to see it. They claimed it was 0:21:49.640 --> 0:21:55.119 their suicide. Note, Hey, that's right. Maybe this town is 0:21:55.240 --> 0:21:58.399 the problem, she said. He's going on about the birds 0:21:58.480 --> 0:22:02.879 above and the hole that runs underneath. Maybe this is 0:22:02.960 --> 0:22:08.560 just a pleading ground for killers. I don't know which 0:22:09.280 --> 0:22:13.879 which book was a mental look like Hamlet? Levinson saved 0:22:13.920 --> 0:22:17.159 one of the Shakespeare classics for my Aunt Beth, and 0:22:17.320 --> 0:22:20.200 it a girl named Ophelia goes mad and kills herself, 0:22:20.520 --> 0:22:23.919 allegedly by dropping from a willow tree into a waiting 0:22:23.960 --> 0:22:28.600 body of water. Jesus, he was planning a similar fate 0:22:28.680 --> 0:22:32.480 for me if you hadn't. What did he say to you? 0:22:33.320 --> 0:22:37.240 He called me his Desdemona. She was a character and Othello, 0:22:38.400 --> 0:22:42.600 she's strong, She pisss off her dad, but she's independent 0:22:42.760 --> 0:22:48.280 and fierce and like my aunt, like your aunt. What 0:22:50.480 --> 0:22:55.600 she's murdered by her lover. Oh sake, that's horrible. You 0:22:55.720 --> 0:22:59.760 sound almost surprised. What do you mean? Is this the 0:22:59.800 --> 0:23:02.600 part where you pretend to have no idea? Tig is 0:23:02.680 --> 0:23:05.399 that hit Ali? I fall for you and then you 0:23:05.600 --> 0:23:08.360 kill me the same way Levinson killed my heart. Levenson 0:23:08.520 --> 0:23:12.480 was so right. His literary theatrics are way too on 0:23:12.600 --> 0:23:14.119 the nose. I mean, if it were up to me, 0:23:15.119 --> 0:23:17.560 I would have killed you in a much more interesting way. 0:23:17.840 --> 0:23:21.720 So you were what his serial killer sidekick he wishes 0:23:22.280 --> 0:23:26.480 he's the past, I'm the future. My plans for you 0:23:26.520 --> 0:23:29.000 are better than anything that old hack could cook up. 0:23:29.720 --> 0:23:32.560 I'm still impressed you figured it out. I underestimated you, 0:23:32.680 --> 0:23:35.680 tig torres. That doesn't change how the story will play out. 0:23:36.000 --> 0:23:39.840 Hapless teen reporter dies in same tragic spot. Is her 0:23:39.920 --> 0:23:46.199 aunt hear that? That's your destiny? Calling, tig you've read 0:23:46.200 --> 0:23:49.760 Anna Karna right? Yes, she dies jumping in front of 0:23:49.800 --> 0:23:54.520 a train, Confused, angry, and betrayed. Sound like anyone we know. 0:23:55.840 --> 0:23:58.720 I can't believe Levinson was gonna kill you using a 0:23:58.880 --> 0:24:02.800 Shakespeare reference. My version will be so much more poetic. Holly, 0:24:02.920 --> 0:24:05.080 you don't mean this. You don't know anything about me. 0:24:05.440 --> 0:24:08.119 You breathe into this town thinking you understand us in 0:24:08.200 --> 0:24:10.719 our history, but you just bailed when things got too 0:24:10.800 --> 0:24:12.600 tough for you and your family. You know what happens 0:24:12.640 --> 0:24:15.120 to people like that, take leave when things get told, 0:24:15.160 --> 0:24:18.600 like what happened to Anna Kildean? What did you just say? 0:24:18.880 --> 0:24:22.320 I know she meant something to you. Know. This is 0:24:22.680 --> 0:24:26.000 I still know the fruit Levinson killed her for you, 0:24:26.200 --> 0:24:28.960 didn't he even though she wasn't one of his students, 0:24:29.160 --> 0:24:32.359 even though he had no reason to. I knew it 0:24:32.480 --> 0:24:35.480 was you, aally. It broke my heart over and over 0:24:35.600 --> 0:24:37.760 to think so, but I knew it was you. You 0:24:37.840 --> 0:24:40.960 didn't suspect anything. If you had, you wouldn't have climbed 0:24:40.960 --> 0:24:43.960 into my room that night begging to have sex. Get 0:24:44.040 --> 0:24:48.200 over yourself, boy, wonder that doubt was already there. You 0:24:48.359 --> 0:24:52.280 left clues all over the place. You just happened to 0:24:52.359 --> 0:24:55.280 be around when we discovered Tony's body. In the first clue, 0:24:55.640 --> 0:24:58.600 how you found that book so fast in the principal's office. 0:24:58.800 --> 0:25:01.280 How you let Ella get hit napps from the hospital. 0:25:01.520 --> 0:25:07.560 I wanted to believe it couldn't be you, but mhm, 0:25:08.680 --> 0:25:12.720 here we are. The evidence is the evidence. When I 0:25:12.880 --> 0:25:15.840 listened to that clip again, that's when I knew your plan, 0:25:16.680 --> 0:25:18.840 that you were going to try and recreate how my 0:25:18.960 --> 0:25:22.520 aunt died. I told when to tell you I was 0:25:22.600 --> 0:25:25.720 going to the crossing to get closure. So when you 0:25:25.840 --> 0:25:29.679 showed up here, all wide eyed and eager to be supportive, 0:25:32.160 --> 0:25:35.040 that's when I knew for sure you were going to 0:25:35.119 --> 0:25:37.920 try to kill me. You know what else is good 0:25:37.960 --> 0:25:42.520 about Anna, Karenina take It's simple. All it takes is 0:25:42.600 --> 0:25:50.040 a train and you if you broke open my stitches, 0:25:51.000 --> 0:25:55.199 m we're the same, you and I. You're still too 0:25:55.280 --> 0:25:57.920 busy chasing after order in a world that's just chaos 0:25:58.280 --> 0:26:02.400 and death. Life. That's not part of the game, though, 0:26:02.560 --> 0:26:04.600 is it? All? The game is what I make of it. 0:26:05.280 --> 0:26:09.440 Levinson Want You is disciple to cheat in the final round. 0:26:09.480 --> 0:26:12.920 Don't pretend to be in my head. Levinson saved me. 0:26:13.320 --> 0:26:15.920 He took me in when your stupid aunt tried to 0:26:16.000 --> 0:26:19.120 stop him, tried to save my That and a woman. 0:26:19.400 --> 0:26:21.919 She got what she deserved. They both did, and then 0:26:22.000 --> 0:26:24.240 I really got to learn from him. I was just 0:26:24.400 --> 0:26:27.639 waiting for the perfect moment, and it appeared like a 0:26:27.800 --> 0:26:30.520 gift when you came back to town. Tag. It was 0:26:30.720 --> 0:26:34.480 my time to shine, and I would have if he 0:26:34.520 --> 0:26:37.080 had hadn't kidnapped me. That wasn't his place. It was 0:26:37.359 --> 0:26:41.359 my turn, and you were mine. Sure Levinson helped a bit, 0:26:41.600 --> 0:26:46.080 but it was my chance to prove myself. But then you, 0:26:48.080 --> 0:26:50.320 you and I you and I want it was gonna 0:26:50.359 --> 0:26:53.720 be your turn eventually take You know how drama works, 0:26:54.040 --> 0:26:57.480 there needs to be a climax in epic conclusion. I 0:26:57.600 --> 0:27:00.119 needed to work myself up to it. If I was 0:27:00.160 --> 0:27:02.640 just another victim to you, Why did you risk yourself 0:27:02.720 --> 0:27:06.639 to save me from Levinston. Maybe it's because of the 0:27:06.680 --> 0:27:09.399 way you feel about No. I can do it. I 0:27:09.480 --> 0:27:11.840 can go through with it. You can't, though, can you? Allly? 0:27:12.680 --> 0:27:15.720 This isn't who you are. You're not Levinson, You're not 0:27:15.840 --> 0:27:19.480 a kill. Just shut up. You have no idea, there's 0:27:19.560 --> 0:27:21.600 no coming back. From the places I've been to, I 0:27:21.760 --> 0:27:25.879 figured you out. You're just a lost little boy, and 0:27:26.000 --> 0:27:28.640 you're not as strong or as smart as you thought 0:27:28.720 --> 0:27:32.680 you were. That now, what the hell I trust a 0:27:32.760 --> 0:27:36.159 love interest when you've got real friends. Paydacks starts now. 0:27:36.280 --> 0:27:39.520 You psychopath got you on tay he believe we ever 0:27:39.600 --> 0:27:41.720 considered you one of all. I had them record you 0:27:41.840 --> 0:27:45.359 while you admitted everything. Sure they were surprised, But like 0:27:45.480 --> 0:27:48.720 I told you, Ali, you're so damned lost, you just 0:27:48.840 --> 0:27:51.640 don't get it. There are still so many pieces lust 0:27:51.680 --> 0:27:56.359 on the board. Sh he's getting on the tracks because 0:27:56.359 --> 0:28:24.960 he's that crazy. I lolling. The police found no trace 0:28:25.040 --> 0:28:28.000 of Ali Price on the tracks, and there was no 0:28:28.119 --> 0:28:30.400 real evidence that he got out of the crossing either. 0:28:31.560 --> 0:28:35.840 But I know he's gone for now. That Ali had 0:28:35.880 --> 0:28:38.920