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Solve Presents Penance Part two. Come on, come on, come on, Terrence,
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you won't believe this, just mustard, we won't wait to lunch.
You were right. There is a story here. It's more
than just one dead boy. Tell me they dropped dead overnight.
No foul play, no disease, no nothing. People are calling
it a curse. Twenty years in the works. Is a
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journalist gold river? When you win the precious, so better
around me. I need their death certificates to make out
a common cause. I can did go up? Where's your
shovel going to be? In the meantime? You don't trust
my process? Didn't you say? Your dad was, the town,
the bishop? Not much trust they're at present? Then you
better get back to where there was wait Terrence, Amity,
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I didn't see you. You don't have to hide that
thing from me. I know you didn't return to repent.
How much did you hear? Oh? I wasn't trying to snoop. Really,
I'm so glad you've shown it all. The son's about
to go. Why don't you gather your stuff and come
stay with us. I'm settled in Mary's. It would mean
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a lot to your father, would it he'd never say
as much, but I know it would only one way
to find out. Even the horses tense around me. No,
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it's there, knowing you read my coldness for what it
really is. That's sad fear. Best I can guess. You
show up with no warning, no reasoning, like no time's
passed this boy father, Thomas, Yes, what do you really think?
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I think it's all in God's plan. He has the
same plan for all thirteen dead boys who told you
Mamma's got a flair for full disclosure. You have a
son now, don't you want to stop this? These boys
all died within days of returning from the room. Springer.
If there's a common denominator, it's the outside world. You
want to stick your nose inplace. Look from whence you came? Okay,
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I will. But in the meantime, Yes, and that he
said I could stay with you. You want your home back,
I want your trust back. I don't think I could
lose you twice. If you want to come home, you
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know what to do. Get yourself to the preacher. Preacher King,
do you do you think he could be responsible for
any of these deaths? Are you suggesting he threw a
hex on the town. Something a little more literal. We
he acts with those boys. He mourns each boy as
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his own. Why his son was one to pass? I
suppose I will see you at the house, sister. So
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you're a night owl like me, it's the excitement of
having you here. I'm excited too. I've never had a
sister before. We can stay up late and whisper secrets
to each other in the dark. Girls, bedtime upright and
early tomorrow. The Lord has blessed us. It's caused for celebration.
My roof, my candles out, Sister. Yeah, I'm so happy
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your home. Happy to be home. Hey, Terence, after a
mild holiness hangover, I'm headed to the preachers now to
atone something off with this guy. Apparently his son was
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one of the cursed boys. I'll update you in a bit.
I whipped up some of my special hash if you'd like.
Thank you, but I'm not hungry. Please. That dresses size
for an adolescent. Eat up. I'm amazed you have an
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appetite after the service yesterday. I've had a lot of practice,
to be frank, We're lucky it wasn't two coffins. Given
Silas's temperament. Do you think he's a bad apple? Not
by your standards. No, but you shepherded in a few
spoiled barrels in your wake. We've been picking up the
pieces since I shaped a whole generation of morals from
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the edge of this cursed town. Curse. Mm hmm. It's
the devil's speech, but maybe there's truth to it. Piety
can't protect I never seemed to learn, even from up close,
up close. You were with Thomas when it happened the
night before, helping prepare for their baptisms. So Silas was
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there too. Shame birthday, Shame baptus. They walked home together.
We never saw the other half alive again, and the the
other doesn't. You had a front row seat for their
final moments too. I'd forgotten your charming predilection for trouble stirring.
Your atonement still proves elusive. That's why I came. Father
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sent me here for you to finalize it. And why
would I do that? You're the preacher. That's what you
do only if I ordered the excommunication, which did I
put forth the action? But of course I was the
one to catch you in action. I don't need a
history lesson on that day. Apparently you do. Your father
made the ultimate call to shun you that day. He
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couldn't heat. You'd better pray Emma has a stronger moral
fiber in light of your shared cuts of cloth. I
bet he doesn't. Where are you running off too? To
find the boy who broke this curse? I'd like to
know how he did it. Hey, Terence, the preacher could
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be promising, weird phrase for a potential pedophile, but he's
definitely pathological. Okay, I'm at a piece and I've got
a him. I swear to look right, and so it's
probably tooth your legs. Let's see you try to raise
a barn then, Hey, hey, Pontiac crec hands off his suspenders.
That's not what they're intended for. What are you gonna do?
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Duchy called the cops on me? How would you manage that?
We don't you know those duchies have telepathic powers. The
boy gives me what he owes. I'm gone you okay, baby, baby,
I don't want you roped into this. It's nothing. Hey,
it's not nothing. You gotta stop tracking me down here, dude,
I got appearances to keep up. You got twenty four
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hours don't make your kind and reliable to me class.
Wait I was stop running, or I'll tell father? What
am I becoming? What did the guy want with you?
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That's just Kenny. He's harmless. I met him when I
was on rum Springer or whatever. It doesn't matter. Does
it have anything to do with your brother Thomas and
I are We're different. He was the good one. I'm
the good enough one. His rum Springer was spent church
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chopping in mind was spent. Well, we've been pen pals
little year he was away. It started off friendly, but
but can you blame me? Look at her. You've been
a catalyst for all sister teenagers, allowing ourselves to act
like teenagers. I haven't even been around though. People talk.
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All there is to do around here almost all. Did
you see anything off that night with your brother? Anything unusual?
Rebecca be gentle? Not my strong suit says he died
in his sleep like every other boy asked Swaller is
to say? While there is to say, or all you're
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willing to, is there a difference? Can you tell me?
I think I've told you enough. Ship, don't worry, I've
got myself unto Yeah, who do you have to call.
We've best get going anyway, silas coming to dinner. I
am father told me you and Preacher King crowded atonement dinner.
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It will be a ship time, I do not doubt,
but will all be together? But excuse me, well, I
but Terrence, God, it's so loud over there, I can't hear.
I got to depict Hello the death certificate, Oh glorious
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causes influenza for all thirteen yep? And what's weirderre? The
dates are all over the map. What healthy kid quots
with a flu outside of the flu season? Not any
I know. But flu symptoms are what like nausea, fever, chills.
Why is a new kid getting fit? No? No, I'm saying.
Flu symptoms also sound a lot like poisoning, right objection conjection? Well,
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if it is poison, where's the well? And why only
these boys any in help? And Father dearest, he's pointing
the finger back at us. Each of these boys died
days after returning from the rum springer. In his mind,
the outside world is the common denominator. That's a big
gass pool to pluck from. You got anything more specific? Actually, yes,
there's this Lancaster asshole names Kenny drives a red Pontiac sunbird.
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He's got an extra grind with silas the surviving brother.
What about creepy preacher? Name is Jonathan King. Look at
the names on your desertificates. You've got Abraham King. That's
his son. Hang on an it. Abraham is the earliest day.
He was the first of the thirteen. Yes, ma'am. So
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if the preacher's son did happen to die of the flu,
the cruelty of that kind of God might send a
holy man into a vengeful rage. Exactly, he's coming over
for dinner. I'll sniff out his vengeful potential. Excellent, I'lphe
of LPD knows any kids. Blessing day, Miss Raber, what
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are you doing praying? Well, we'll need it for tonight. Well,
we've got Levi and silast about it. The man up
in case my company doesn't do the job. If flattery
can infect the integrity of a single man in our rounds,
it is Preacher King. Is that flower talk for a
kiss ass Rebecca behavior? So help me, I promise, really
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I do. How long has it been since we've hugged
a long time? Father? The preacher told me something odd
today about the boys about you. He said you were
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the one to make the final call on me, that
you could have chosen different, reverted the decision whenever you wanted. Oh,
since he's lying about that, what else could he be
lying about? I thought of you every minute and missed
you even more. There's a life here you couldn't You
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wouldn't have if I had stayed. But you're here to
stay now? Isn't God good? This is delicious amity? Now
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I see why Matthew can't find his suspenders over his belly.
Uh not a problem for your leave, though, strong beer
rye to be that age? Uh, Silas is here too,
fairly more legal than you dode. Rebecca. Have you told
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your family why you've invited me here? Didn't I? Why
to Tom? Of course, which I do, hallelujah. You seem
awful jolly about it. But it's a serious thing, the
admission of sin, a choice you chose against twenty years ago,
the stubborn teenagers you take a lifetime to break in, Right, Bishop,
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it was put all on her and that wasn't right.
We were flawed too in our handling of it. Maybe
more so, who's atoning for what? Now? Because if I recall,
Rebecca was the one who had premarital in a course
in broad daylight in my field, don't get any ideas,
then refused to repent and instead ran away with our prize, Joshua.
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I don't think that warrants any apology on our and
Joshua should have been held to the higher ethical standard
as the man, not my daughter father. He was the
one back from rom Springer. He was the one corrupted
from the outside. This insistence that it was all my
Rebecca's idea and there for her blame to absorb. That
was the wrongest something and a shameful one. You don't
just cut off evil. You find the rue of it
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and you cast that away instead of casting a young
girl right back into the depths of it. She could
have repented. Then she's repenting now. I'm sorry, man, but
you're acting like the last straw with her was the
very first. Rebecca has been trouble since since the day
I was born. Oh, dessert, desert, anyone, amity, I'd love
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the recipe for this, of course, let me fish it
from the cupboard. Anyone here? Nope, what's that, sonar? We
are my secrets. The potatoes you won't find any as
good outside town. This is your recipe. You wrote it
my original, yes are excuse me? Well, I gather we've
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overstayed our welcome silas. Let me walk you home. No,
I um, you live so close. I'm so out of
your way. Don't be absurd. The sun slow. I don't
want that ruffian in the red car stocking you down again.
Where did I put you? Oh? We yep night? Fuck me.
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Handwriting is a perfect match. I wash you dry. It
works for me, Amity, Can we chat? What is it? Dear?
You wrote this letter to my paper? No, I mean
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I can explain exact handwriting match to your recipe. So
explain that. Explain what what's in your hand I didn't
mean any trouble. I was trying to prevent more of it.
You sent this to Rebecca. I found one of her
her stories in your dresser one of my articles. Matthew
had it cut out. I don't know where he got
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it or how any of this works, but I do
know that if someone doesn't look into this curse from outside,
it will keep on. I refused to lose my boy
to heaven like the rest of them. The outside is
the cause, not the solution. Can't you see that I
sent it to Rebecca. I sent it to one of us.
She is not one of us. You don't really think that, father?
Did you only come back here because of this letter?
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Answer me? Originally yes, but I don't want to hear it.
I didn't know I would come back and feel I
feel what sweetheart? Seggers, Come quick, what's going on? It's Silace.
He collapsed just now on the loan, Silas, Stylus, what's
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wrong with him? We need to call an ambulance. Stylas.
Do you have your phone? Ship? Where is she going?
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Tell me? I don't see what I'm seeing in your hand.
I'm calling you use that phone? You give up your
right to exist here with us? Hi, I need an ambulance.
Why are you next of Kim? Sure? Yeah, I'm the mother.
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Take care of him? Is he stable? Rebecca? Yes, yes,
I'm here. I turned it down. Why would I still
be punished? What do you mean? Turned what down? Silas?
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We're losing him, Silas. M Rebecca Raber was played by
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Alice Lovek, Terrence by Blaine Gray, Matthew Raber by Jim Hannah,
Amity Raber by Carrie Kawa Silas Shrock by Dmitri Todd,
Preacher King by Bradley Fisher, Kenny by Devon Matthew McKee,
Emma Raber by Brady Ryder, Levi Raber by Chad Roberts,
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Mary by a Rooned Stores. This episode of Solve was
written by Shannon Riley, directed by Corey Serge, Executive produced
by Corey Serge Executive produced by Walt Palmer and Sterling Barnett.
Casting by Daisy Laura. Audio production and post production by
Salt Audio production manager Liz Lamay. Recording engineers Hope Brush
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and John Schmidt. Original music and score by Nathan Turchon,
editing and mixed by Zach Jurich. Assistant editor Hope Brush.
Sound designed by Eric Rachelson. Script supervisor Marilyn Miller