PRICE OF SIN, Part 1: THE KISS

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[00:00:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome, thrillers, to Ominous Thrill. It's Jeff Schmidt, the maker of the madness here.

[00:00:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Quick note, this episode is part one of a three-part story.

[00:00:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Stick around for a tease of part two at the end of this episode.

[00:00:51] [SPEAKER_09]: Listen up, thrillers. Tonight's devious audio delight contains adult content and language, including graphic violence.

[00:01:05] [SPEAKER_02]: Ominous Thrill.

[00:01:28] [SPEAKER_13]: Why were we taught to fear the women they called witches, and not the people of faith who burned them alive?

[00:01:36] [SPEAKER_13]: I don't know who wrote that, but I'd totally go down on her.

[00:01:40] [SPEAKER_13]: Hey, my witches, it's Jezzy Triple Six.

[00:01:43] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm a witch, I'm a bitch, fuck you up until you die with my trashy attitude and my demons in the mood.

[00:01:48] [SPEAKER_13]: Listen up. You're not broken. You don't need to be fixed or saved.

[00:01:52] [SPEAKER_13]: Love yourself. Be proud. Be brave. Be difficult to shame.

[00:01:59] [SPEAKER_13]: Sorry, fam, been waiting on this. Back soon. Mwah!

[00:02:03] [SPEAKER_13]: Lara!

[00:02:04] [SPEAKER_13]: Well, you were gonna text me when you landed.

[00:02:06] [SPEAKER_13]: I did.

[00:02:07] [SPEAKER_13]: Oh shit, sorry. Was streaming.

[00:02:09] [SPEAKER_11]: Ah, what's Jezzy up to?

[00:02:12] [SPEAKER_13]: Outrage machine has lit up again. Needed to counter with some love.

[00:02:15] [SPEAKER_11]: Still don't know why you read the comments.

[00:02:17] [SPEAKER_13]: Know thy enemy.

[00:02:18] [SPEAKER_11]: If you must.

[00:02:19] [SPEAKER_13]: I must. How's Minnesota?

[00:02:21] [SPEAKER_11]: It's four.

[00:02:23] [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah.

[00:02:24] [SPEAKER_13]: Water freezes at 32. The human body is like 60% water. People are not meant to live in places that are four.

[00:02:30] [SPEAKER_11]: Is that your coastal elitism showing?

[00:02:32] [SPEAKER_13]: Please, I just ordered a blood burger from Flaherty's.

[00:02:35] [SPEAKER_11]: I thought you hated that place.

[00:02:37] [SPEAKER_13]: Their sweet potato waffle fries were calling to me.

[00:02:40] [SPEAKER_11]: Why not just get those?

[00:02:41] [SPEAKER_13]: There's a $30 minimum for delivery.

[00:02:43] [SPEAKER_13]: It's a 10 minute drive.

[00:02:44] [SPEAKER_13]: I'm three marks deep.

[00:02:45] [SPEAKER_11]: Wow, I leave town and you start day drinking.

[00:02:48] [SPEAKER_13]: It's seven.

[00:02:50] [SPEAKER_11]: So, what else you got going on tonight?

[00:02:52] [SPEAKER_13]: I'll probably just pop an edible, watch Terrifier or something.

[00:02:57] [SPEAKER_11]: At least the sequel had a story.

[00:02:58] [SPEAKER_11]: So much freaking story.

[00:03:00] [SPEAKER_13]: But it also has Sienna. You know she's on my sapphic hall pass.

[00:03:05] [SPEAKER_13]: And I wouldn't even have to slip her molly like in the movie.

[00:03:08] [SPEAKER_13]: So instead of her getting resurrected and beheading Art the Clown, she'd come over here and lick me cross-eyed.

[00:03:14] [SPEAKER_11]: Sienna, the character.

[00:03:16] [SPEAKER_13]: Yeah, full warrior costume, wings and everything.

[00:03:19] [SPEAKER_11]: Frighteningly specific.

[00:03:22] [SPEAKER_13]: So, what about you?

[00:03:24] [SPEAKER_11]: I'm just waiting on Craig.

[00:03:26] [SPEAKER_13]: No, your homo list. Who's on it?

[00:03:28] [SPEAKER_11]: I don't have that.

[00:03:30] [SPEAKER_13]: Sure you do. All men do.

[00:03:32] [SPEAKER_11]: Where did you hear that?

[00:03:34] [SPEAKER_13]: Waiting.

[00:03:36] [SPEAKER_11]: Fine, I'll play along.

[00:03:39] [SPEAKER_11]: I mean, if I have to pick.

[00:03:41] [SPEAKER_13]: You have to pick.

[00:03:43] [SPEAKER_11]: Jacob Elordi.

[00:03:45] [SPEAKER_13]: No way.

[00:03:45] [SPEAKER_11]: He's a beautiful man, no shame.

[00:03:47] [SPEAKER_13]: He's on my cis het list.

[00:03:49] [SPEAKER_13]: We totally have a three way.

[00:03:51] [SPEAKER_11]: What?

[00:03:52] [SPEAKER_13]: Any crossovers between our het and homo lists are insta three ways.

[00:03:56] [SPEAKER_11]: I don't have a homo list.

[00:03:58] [SPEAKER_13]: You do. Jacob.

[00:03:59] [SPEAKER_13]: One name given under duress is not a list.

[00:04:01] [SPEAKER_13]: But it's the start of something beautiful.

[00:04:04] [SPEAKER_11]: I have to think about it.

[00:04:05] [SPEAKER_13]: Yeah, you go back to your cold dark hotel room and think about it.

[00:04:10] [SPEAKER_13]: Shit. Now I'm hungry and horny.

[00:04:13] [SPEAKER_11]: Where the fuck is this food?

[00:04:14] [SPEAKER_11]: Good point though. We need a separate list for three ways.

[00:04:17] [SPEAKER_13]: You're such a dork.

[00:04:19] [SPEAKER_13]: Put the spreadsheet away and find a dark corner.

[00:04:21] [SPEAKER_13]: Talk nasty to me.

[00:04:23] [SPEAKER_11]: Craig will be here any minute.

[00:04:24] [SPEAKER_13]: Fuck Craig.

[00:04:25] [SPEAKER_11]: No thank you.

[00:04:26] [SPEAKER_13]: I mean, he's no Jacob Elordi but...

[00:04:28] [SPEAKER_11]: And I'm just joking about that by the way.

[00:04:31] [SPEAKER_11]: You'd actually hook up with Sienna and Jacob Elordi.

[00:04:33] [SPEAKER_13]: Now that's a three way I can work with.

[00:04:36] [SPEAKER_13]: Keep going.

[00:04:36] [SPEAKER_11]: I'm serious.

[00:04:38] [SPEAKER_13]: Wow, the cold is making you moody.

[00:04:41] [SPEAKER_13]: You're killing my lady boner. Not a fan.

[00:04:43] [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, well... sorry.

[00:04:46] [SPEAKER_11]: Whoa, joke.

[00:04:47] [SPEAKER_11]: I'm still getting used to your fluidity.

[00:04:50] [SPEAKER_13]: Well, maybe you just haven't met the right dick yet.

[00:04:53] [SPEAKER_11]: Wow, you're loose tonight.

[00:04:56] [SPEAKER_13]: Maybe.

[00:04:57] [SPEAKER_13]: Tell me a dirty story before Craig shows up.

[00:04:59] [SPEAKER_11]: I already confessed to Homo crush. It's your turn.

[00:05:01] [SPEAKER_13]: No, I told you about Sienna first.

[00:05:04] [SPEAKER_11]: Right, so it's your turn.

[00:05:06] [SPEAKER_13]: Shit. Well what do you want to know?

[00:05:09] [SPEAKER_11]: When you knew...

[00:05:11] [SPEAKER_13]: Knew...

[00:05:12] [SPEAKER_11]: You were queer or whatever.

[00:05:15] [SPEAKER_13]: You want to do this now?

[00:05:16] [SPEAKER_11]: You started it.

[00:05:17] [SPEAKER_13]: Fuck, I did.

[00:05:19] [SPEAKER_11]: Waiting?

[00:05:20] [SPEAKER_13]: Oh shit.

[00:05:21] [SPEAKER_13]: Okay, so it's freshman year. Douglas High.

[00:05:25] [SPEAKER_13]: I'm low-key dating this guy Ethan.

[00:05:27] [SPEAKER_11]: Ethan?

[00:05:28] [SPEAKER_13]: My first boy. Can I continue?

[00:05:30] [SPEAKER_11]: Sorry?

[00:05:31] [SPEAKER_13]: Anyway, there's this tunnel under the gym that leads from the locker rooms on one side to the classrooms on the other.

[00:05:37] [SPEAKER_13]: It's a shortcut.

[00:05:38] [SPEAKER_13]: The boys call it the shaft because of all the action they get down there.

[00:05:41] [SPEAKER_11]: So if boys call it the shaft, do the girls call it the hole?

[00:05:46] [SPEAKER_13]: It's a tunnel. We call it the tunnel. Stop interrupting.

[00:05:49] [SPEAKER_11]: Sorry.

[00:05:50] [SPEAKER_13]: So after gym class I'm taking the tunnel back to class side.

[00:05:53] [SPEAKER_11]: Can you call it the shaft? I am boy.

[00:05:56] [SPEAKER_13]: For fuck's sake. After gym I take the shaft back to class.

[00:06:00] [SPEAKER_11]: Thank you.

[00:06:01] [SPEAKER_13]: Anyway, this girl from my homeroom Judith is walking next to me.

[00:06:05] [SPEAKER_13]: We start shooting the shit. What do you have next? I have a free period. How about you?

[00:06:09] [SPEAKER_13]: Oh, the same. What you gonna do?

[00:06:11] [SPEAKER_13]: And I'm like, I'm going off campus to get some weed.

[00:06:14] [SPEAKER_13]: Then she grabs my arm and steps right in front of me.

[00:06:18] [SPEAKER_13]: She looks me in the eye and says, I want to kiss a girl.

[00:06:21] [SPEAKER_13]: And I'm like, okay. Which one?

[00:06:25] [SPEAKER_13]: Before I know it, she's pushing her lips into mine.

[00:06:28] [SPEAKER_07]: Shit.

[00:06:28] [SPEAKER_13]: And this is no pack. It is a full on kiss.

[00:06:31] [SPEAKER_13]: And then, I don't know, I light up inside.

[00:06:36] [SPEAKER_13]: Like a shiver that runs right through me.

[00:06:39] [SPEAKER_11]: And?

[00:06:41] [SPEAKER_13]: And I kiss her back.

[00:06:44] [SPEAKER_13]: And then I feel her hands grab my waist and pull me into her.

[00:06:48] [SPEAKER_13]: Hard.

[00:06:48] [SPEAKER_11]: Ooh, she's serious.

[00:06:50] [SPEAKER_13]: Oh yeah. She definitely had thought about this.

[00:06:53] [SPEAKER_13]: It was kind of beautiful.

[00:06:56] [SPEAKER_13]: Then, ladies, detach your faces! Coach Dunn rolls up on us.

[00:07:00] [SPEAKER_11]: Oh shit.

[00:07:00] [SPEAKER_13]: Judith? I know your father. This is not how you were raised.

[00:07:04] [SPEAKER_13]: Where do you belong?

[00:07:05] [SPEAKER_13]: Judith is horrified.

[00:07:07] [SPEAKER_13]: A free period, Coach Dunn.

[00:07:08] [SPEAKER_13]: Free periods are for study in the library. Get going.

[00:07:11] [SPEAKER_13]: So Judith runs off and then he turns on me.

[00:07:14] [SPEAKER_13]: I always knew you were funny.

[00:07:16] [SPEAKER_13]: We don't need your kind of trouble here.

[00:07:17] [SPEAKER_13]: Leave the girls alone.

[00:07:19] [SPEAKER_11]: Jeez.

[00:07:19] [SPEAKER_13]: And I get home and he called my fucking parents.

[00:07:22] [SPEAKER_11]: Dick move.

[00:07:23] [SPEAKER_13]: Colossal.

[00:07:24] [SPEAKER_13]: My mom is pissed because of course it's my fault.

[00:07:26] [SPEAKER_13]: Of course.

[00:07:27] [SPEAKER_13]: My dad freaks. He can't believe his daughter is a dyke.

[00:07:30] [SPEAKER_13]: And he makes my life miserable.

[00:07:32] [SPEAKER_13]: He sticks scripture everywhere, sends me to see holy men who try to fix me.

[00:07:36] [SPEAKER_11]: Shit. Sorry, I had no idea.

[00:07:39] [SPEAKER_13]: Total psychic nightmare.

[00:07:41] [SPEAKER_11]: So what happened to the girl?

[00:07:43] [SPEAKER_13]: Judith? Rumor was she got sent to private school.

[00:07:46] [SPEAKER_11]: So that one kiss, that was it?

[00:07:49] [SPEAKER_13]: In that moment, I knew.

[00:07:51] [SPEAKER_11]: Wow. I wish I had that kind of clarity about anything in high school.

[00:07:55] [SPEAKER_13]: Yeah. Well, it's taken years of clearly knowing I'm different for it to feel like a superpower.

[00:08:01] [SPEAKER_11]: The birth of Jezzy Triple Six.

[00:08:04] [SPEAKER_13]: Just trying to be here for others going through the same shit.

[00:08:07] [SPEAKER_13]: Fundies hate it. So I know I'm on the right path.

[00:08:11] [SPEAKER_13]: Finally. I'm so freaking hungry.

[00:08:17] [SPEAKER_13]: Thank you.

[00:08:18] [SPEAKER_11]: Okay. I'll let you eat.

[00:08:21] [SPEAKER_13]: Hold on. I got to check the burger.

[00:08:23] [SPEAKER_13]: And drum roll, please.

[00:08:29] [SPEAKER_13]: Bloody as hell. Shit.

[00:08:30] [SPEAKER_11]: You don't call it the blood burger for nothing.

[00:08:32] [SPEAKER_13]: What God level incompetence does it take to consistently fatally undercook me?

[00:08:36] [SPEAKER_13]: Are they trying to give me botulism?

[00:08:38] [SPEAKER_11]: I think you mean E. coli.

[00:08:39] [SPEAKER_13]: Whatever, Splainer. 35 bucks for this?

[00:08:42] [SPEAKER_11]: Send it back. Get a refund.

[00:08:43] [SPEAKER_13]: No shit.

[00:08:45] [SPEAKER_13]: Well, fuck me sideways.

[00:08:47] [SPEAKER_11]: If only I were there.

[00:08:48] [SPEAKER_13]: And marker on the bottom of the bag.

[00:08:50] [SPEAKER_13]: Confess your sins so he may cleanse you from unrighteousness.

[00:08:55] [SPEAKER_13]: You find that funny?

[00:08:57] [SPEAKER_11]: Yeah, it's like wannabe.

[00:08:59] [SPEAKER_13]: Wanna be creepy? Wanna be terrifying?

[00:09:01] [SPEAKER_13]: Wanna be what, Will?

[00:09:02] [SPEAKER_11]: No, like, what's that chain that Prince preaches shit on their cups?

[00:09:07] [SPEAKER_13]: I don't know because I don't eat at places that do shit like that.

[00:09:09] [SPEAKER_11]: You do now.

[00:09:11] [SPEAKER_13]: What does this even mean?

[00:09:12] [SPEAKER_11]: I think it means I can sin all over a sex worker tonight and just ask for forgiveness.

[00:09:16] [SPEAKER_11]: Pretty sweet deal.

[00:09:18] [SPEAKER_13]: Why are they entitled to push this shit into my house?

[00:09:21] [SPEAKER_11]: It's what they do. It's harmless.

[00:09:22] [SPEAKER_13]: No, it's not harmless.

[00:09:23] [SPEAKER_13]: You can laugh it off because you've never been a target of their supernaturally justified bullshit.

[00:09:28] [SPEAKER_11]: Wow. Time to back away from the comment section and pop that edible.

[00:09:31] [SPEAKER_11]: You're getting edgy.

[00:09:32] [SPEAKER_13]: Fuck you.

[00:09:33] [SPEAKER_13]: You know this shit burns me up and now you know why.

[00:09:37] [SPEAKER_11]: Hey.

[00:09:38] [SPEAKER_11]: What?

[00:09:39] [SPEAKER_11]: I'm sorry. But...

[00:09:41] [SPEAKER_11]: But?

[00:09:42] [SPEAKER_11]: Try not to get botulism.

[00:09:44] [SPEAKER_13]: Ha ha! Call me later, jerk.

[00:09:46] [SPEAKER_11]: It might be later, later.

[00:09:47] [SPEAKER_13]: She better not cost more than $200.

[00:09:49] [SPEAKER_11]: Alex spends it. And who says it'll be a sheet?

[00:09:51] [SPEAKER_13]: Yeah, right.

[00:09:53] [SPEAKER_13]: Later, sinner.

[00:09:59] [SPEAKER_13]: Confess your sins so he may cleanse you from unrighteousness.

[00:10:04] [SPEAKER_13]: Fuck this. Call Flaherty's.

[00:10:07] [SPEAKER_13]: Calling Flaherty's.

[00:10:14] [SPEAKER_13]: Manager, please.

[00:10:16] [SPEAKER_13]: Hey, Buzzy. Can I help you?

[00:10:17] [SPEAKER_13]: I don't know.

[00:10:18] [SPEAKER_13]: Can you explain why my well-done burger is bleeding like a prom queen who lost her plug on Leek Week?

[00:10:25] [SPEAKER_15]: I'm sorry?

[00:10:26] [SPEAKER_13]: Or maybe you can tell me why Confess My Sins is scrawled on the bottom of my takeout bag.

[00:10:33] [SPEAKER_13]: Waiting.

[00:10:34] [SPEAKER_15]: Please hold.

[00:10:40] [SPEAKER_13]: What is wrong with this meat?

[00:10:43] [SPEAKER_10]: Flaherty's, can I help you?

[00:10:44] [SPEAKER_13]: Are you the manager?

[00:10:45] [SPEAKER_10]: I'm the owner, Tim Flaherty.

[00:10:47] [SPEAKER_13]: Hi, Tim.

[00:10:48] [SPEAKER_13]: So once again, as in this has happened numerous times before, my well-done Flaherty's burger is swimming in blood. Why?

[00:10:55] [SPEAKER_10]: I'm sorry. I'm sure it was a mistake.

[00:10:57] [SPEAKER_13]: A mistake you make every time I order. Seems more like policy.

[00:11:02] [SPEAKER_10]: That would not be the case. How about a refund?

[00:11:04] [SPEAKER_13]: I'm hungry, Tim. I don't want a refund. I want food that won't make me shit out my own intestines.

[00:11:10] [SPEAKER_10]: Miss, I'm happy to make this right but please be more respectful with your language.

[00:11:15] [SPEAKER_13]: Your food could give me botulism and you're worried about language?

[00:11:19] [SPEAKER_10]: I honor the chance to make it right for you.

[00:11:22] [SPEAKER_13]: Let's move on to question two.

[00:11:25] [SPEAKER_13]: Confess your sins so he may cleanse you from unrighteousness is scribbled on my bag. Why?

[00:11:31] [SPEAKER_10]: Well, we're a family business.

[00:11:33] [SPEAKER_13]: And?

[00:11:34] [SPEAKER_10]: It's our family's faith to share his word.

[00:11:37] [SPEAKER_13]: Is it your family's faith to serve toxic meat?

[00:11:40] [SPEAKER_10]: No, of course not.

[00:11:41] [SPEAKER_13]: And call customers sinners who need to confess? You don't even know me.

[00:11:47] [SPEAKER_10]: We're all sinners in his eyes, Miss. We all need to confess.

[00:11:51] [SPEAKER_13]: Really? Okay, you first.

[00:11:54] [SPEAKER_13]: No, you sent this accusation to my house. You clearly wanted to have a conversation.

[00:12:00] [SPEAKER_13]: So what do you have to confess, Tim?

[00:12:05] [SPEAKER_13]: Let me guess. 10% of every dollar you make goes to anti-gay groups?

[00:12:10] [SPEAKER_13]: Or some white nationalist theocratic bullshit?

[00:12:17] [SPEAKER_10]: It was not the intention.

[00:12:18] [SPEAKER_13]: You expect me to be converted by this?

[00:12:22] [SPEAKER_10]: His word has delivered comfort to men.

[00:12:34] [SPEAKER_13]: Properly cooked. No preachy shit.

[00:12:38] [SPEAKER_10]: Of course. Just want to be a good neighbor. Should be there shortly.

[00:12:42] [SPEAKER_13]: Can't wait. Thanks.

[00:12:50] [SPEAKER_13]: Hey, my witches. Jazzy Triple Six.

[00:12:53] [SPEAKER_13]: God event.

[00:12:54] [SPEAKER_13]: I just bumped into some minor fun DBS and I'm like,

[00:13:00] [SPEAKER_13]: I can't tell who's a soldier in their war on us and who's harmless.

[00:13:05] [SPEAKER_13]: If there even is such a thing.

[00:13:07] [SPEAKER_13]: I just wish we didn't have to assume the worst and always be the bitches on guard with shields up, blades out, you know?

[00:13:15] [SPEAKER_13]: Okay. Hungry, tired, buzzed as fuck.

[00:13:18] [SPEAKER_13]: And rant. Be safe out there, my witches. Back soon.

[00:13:26] [SPEAKER_05]: Freedom of religion. Don't like it. Leave. You are the soul of this plaque.

[00:13:31] [SPEAKER_05]: You make it deal with its own darkness.

[00:13:33] [SPEAKER_12]: The charge is has you. You will burn. You will burn.

[00:13:36] [SPEAKER_05]: The price of sin is dying.

[00:13:46] [SPEAKER_13]: Please, please, please be edible.

[00:13:50] [SPEAKER_13]: Round two. Let's burger and waffle price.

[00:13:54] [SPEAKER_15]: Uh, yeah. Judith?

[00:13:57] [SPEAKER_15]: Hi, Lara. Wasn't sure it was you.

[00:14:00] [SPEAKER_13]: Holy shit. What are you doing here?

[00:14:06] [SPEAKER_13]: Special delivery. From Flarities.

[00:14:09] [SPEAKER_15]: Oh. Do you work there?

[00:14:11] [SPEAKER_15]: Can I come in?

[00:14:13] [SPEAKER_15]: Uh, Tim wanted me to make sure it's cooked the way you want it.

[00:14:17] [SPEAKER_15]: I promised him I would.

[00:14:18] [SPEAKER_15]: Sure. Come on in.

[00:14:23] [SPEAKER_13]: I can't believe this. I was just telling someone.

[00:14:26] [SPEAKER_13]: Here you go.

[00:14:27] [SPEAKER_13]: Thanks. No preachy shit. Good sign.

[00:14:32] [SPEAKER_13]: You were pretty offended.

[00:14:33] [SPEAKER_13]: Only thing I want crammed down my throat is crispy sweet potato waffle fries.

[00:14:38] [SPEAKER_15]: My uncle. He's old school.

[00:14:41] [SPEAKER_15]: Your uncle?

[00:14:43] [SPEAKER_15]: Tim. My father passed a few months back.

[00:14:46] [SPEAKER_15]: He left the restaurant to Tim and his boys.

[00:14:49] [SPEAKER_15]: They've been struggling, so I'm in town to help.

[00:14:52] [SPEAKER_15]: Sorry. I had no idea.

[00:14:54] [SPEAKER_15]: Thanks.

[00:14:56] [SPEAKER_13]: It's crazy you're here.

[00:14:58] [SPEAKER_15]: I know. You... look.

[00:15:02] [SPEAKER_13]: What? Oh, sorry. It's a me day. Wasn't expecting.

[00:15:07] [SPEAKER_15]: Amazing. I was going to say amazing.

[00:15:11] [SPEAKER_13]: Oh. Thanks. You too, actually.

[00:15:16] [SPEAKER_15]: Your hands are still so stunning.

[00:15:20] [SPEAKER_13]: Uh... thanks.

[00:15:23] [SPEAKER_15]: So what happened to you after...?

[00:15:26] [SPEAKER_15]: What verse did you get?

[00:15:28] [SPEAKER_15]: What?

[00:15:28] [SPEAKER_15]: On the bag. Which one did you get?

[00:15:31] [SPEAKER_13]: Oh, uh... hey, Sinner, confess your sins. Some shit like that.

[00:15:35] [SPEAKER_13]: Ah. That's the big one.

[00:15:38] [SPEAKER_13]: Yeah. A big hammer. Ah, sorry.

[00:15:42] [SPEAKER_13]: How's the burger?

[00:15:43] [SPEAKER_13]: Ah. Let's check.

[00:15:47] [SPEAKER_13]: Seems cooked. Gotta see inside.

[00:15:50] [SPEAKER_13]: Please.

[00:15:51] [SPEAKER_13]: Oh, fuck!

[00:15:53] [SPEAKER_15]: What?

[00:15:54] [SPEAKER_15]: Cooked meat shouldn't bleed like this.

[00:15:55] [SPEAKER_15]: I'm so sorry. Tim and I checked it before I left. It was perfect.

[00:16:00] [SPEAKER_15]: Is this for someone else?

[00:16:01] [SPEAKER_15]: I'm only delivering yours.

[00:16:03] [SPEAKER_15]: This is foul.

[00:16:05] [SPEAKER_15]: Let me make it up to you. Tim really needs the support right now.

[00:16:08] [SPEAKER_13]: Uh, no. No more Flaherty's for me. Thanks.

[00:16:13] [SPEAKER_15]: Lara?

[00:16:15] [SPEAKER_15]: Uh, yeah?

[00:16:17] [SPEAKER_15]: Please. Come with me to the restaurant. Whatever you want. On the house.

[00:16:23] [SPEAKER_15]: You don't have to.

[00:16:23] [SPEAKER_15]: I'll set you up at a private table. Free drinks. When you're finished, I'll call you a ride.

[00:16:30] [SPEAKER_15]: Judith.

[00:16:30] [SPEAKER_15]: Or I can drive you back myself. If you want.

[00:16:35] [SPEAKER_15]: Come on. VIP treatment.

[00:16:37] [SPEAKER_13]: At Flaherty's?

[00:16:39] [SPEAKER_15]: We have some drinks up our sleeves.

[00:16:42] [SPEAKER_13]: Okay. But only if you tell me what happened to you.

[00:16:49] [SPEAKER_15]: I... could be convinced to share.

[00:16:53] [SPEAKER_15]: Let's go.

[00:16:55] [SPEAKER_15]: Great.

[00:17:12] [SPEAKER_13]: So, Spillett. Where you been all these years?

[00:17:15] [SPEAKER_13]: All over. I travel. A lot.

[00:17:20] [SPEAKER_13]: Sounds fun. What for?

[00:17:22] [SPEAKER_05]: As his vickers take their place atop the seven pillars, we prepare this world for his arrival, accepting no compromise with the darkness for those taken by...

[00:17:34] [SPEAKER_15]: What the hell was that?

[00:17:37] [SPEAKER_15]: It's my uncle's car.

[00:17:39] [SPEAKER_15]: He listens to that?

[00:17:40] [SPEAKER_15]: So, how have you been?

[00:17:42] [SPEAKER_15]: Good. So really, what happened to you? There were rumors and...

[00:17:49] [SPEAKER_15]: What'd you expect?

[00:17:51] [SPEAKER_15]: And what was your contribution?

[00:17:53] [SPEAKER_13]: Me? Uh... nothing.

[00:17:57] [SPEAKER_13]: Nothing?

[00:17:57] [SPEAKER_13]: Not at first.

[00:17:59] And then?

[00:18:01] [SPEAKER_13]: After a while I told the truth.

[00:18:03] [SPEAKER_15]: Hmm. What was the truth?

[00:18:07] [SPEAKER_13]: I would say what happened, but not what it meant.

[00:18:13] [SPEAKER_13]: What did it mean?

[00:18:14] [SPEAKER_13]: It was... like a lightning bolt shooting right through me.

[00:18:21] [SPEAKER_13]: A lightning bolt. Good way to put it.

[00:18:24] [SPEAKER_13]: Yeah?

[00:18:25] [SPEAKER_13]: Yeah.

[00:18:27] [SPEAKER_15]: I always wondered.

[00:18:29] [SPEAKER_15]: Still, no single moment holds the entire truth of who we are.

[00:18:35] [SPEAKER_15]: Don't know. It was a pretty big moment.

[00:18:38] [SPEAKER_15]: More important is all the moments that came after.

[00:18:41] [SPEAKER_15]: So? What happened to you?

[00:18:44] [SPEAKER_15]: Did you ever think about me?

[00:18:48] [SPEAKER_15]: Uh... for a bit. Back then.

[00:18:53] [SPEAKER_15]: I checked on you.

[00:18:54] [SPEAKER_15]: You did? When?

[00:18:56] [SPEAKER_15]: When I knew I was coming back.

[00:18:57] [SPEAKER_15]: Why didn't you reach out?

[00:18:59] [SPEAKER_15]: We don't really know each other.

[00:19:03] [SPEAKER_15]: Yeah.

[00:19:04] [SPEAKER_15]: And I saw that our paths from that moment led us in... different directions.

[00:19:11] [SPEAKER_15]: Okay. How?

[00:19:13] [SPEAKER_15]: Well, you became Jezzy Triple Six for starters.

[00:19:16] [SPEAKER_13]: So you've been stalking me.

[00:19:18] [SPEAKER_15]: You're not exactly hiding it.

[00:19:20] [SPEAKER_15]: That I am not.

[00:19:21] [SPEAKER_15]: I take it Jezzy is short for Jezebel?

[00:19:25] [SPEAKER_15]: And Triple Six as well.

[00:19:28] [SPEAKER_13]: It's my superhero name.

[00:19:29] [SPEAKER_13]: The armor I use to inspire others to be brave, accept who they really are.

[00:19:35] [SPEAKER_15]: So you're a believer after all.

[00:19:37] [SPEAKER_15]: Oh. I wouldn't call it that.

[00:19:39] [SPEAKER_15]: You need to believe all that stuff.

[00:19:41] [SPEAKER_13]: Yeah, but I don't need a peeping deity threatening me with damnation to be a good person.

[00:19:48] [SPEAKER_15]: Many people do need that though.

[00:19:50] [SPEAKER_15]: They need it very deeply.

[00:19:53] [SPEAKER_13]: And then they need everybody else to need it too.

[00:19:55] [SPEAKER_13]: Isn't that exactly what you do with Jezzy?

[00:19:57] [SPEAKER_13]: No. I'm accepting people for who they are.

[00:20:01] [SPEAKER_13]: I'm not recruiting believers into a supernatural ideology.

[00:20:04] [SPEAKER_13]: That's what the fundies do.

[00:20:06] [SPEAKER_13]: Accepting, encouraging, recruiting...

[00:20:09] [SPEAKER_13]: It's hard to tell the difference.

[00:20:10] [SPEAKER_13]: No, it's not.

[00:20:12] [SPEAKER_13]: If they could just let me live in peace, I'd never even have to think about them.

[00:20:17] [SPEAKER_13]: But they don't, so...

[00:20:19] [SPEAKER_13]: There's no turning the other cheek to the darkness.

[00:20:23] [SPEAKER_13]: What?

[00:20:24] [SPEAKER_13]: Let's change the subject, yeah?

[00:20:25] [SPEAKER_13]: Okay, so...

[00:20:28] [SPEAKER_13]: What happened to you?

[00:20:30] [SPEAKER_13]: After the tunnel?

[00:20:31] [SPEAKER_13]: Yes, already.

[00:20:33] [SPEAKER_15]: My father was a very serious and devout man.

[00:20:37] [SPEAKER_15]: Mine too.

[00:20:38] [SPEAKER_15]: He believed I was tempted by the darkness that day in the tunnel.

[00:20:43] [SPEAKER_15]: He feared that without help, I'd give into it.

[00:20:47] [SPEAKER_15]: Be impure.

[00:20:49] [SPEAKER_15]: And my soul would...

[00:20:52] [SPEAKER_13]: Burn.

[00:20:53] [SPEAKER_13]: This is what I'm talking about.

[00:20:54] [SPEAKER_13]: It's abusive.

[00:20:56] [SPEAKER_15]: He was following his beliefs.

[00:21:00] [SPEAKER_15]: I was taken to a private school.

[00:21:03] [SPEAKER_15]: So the rumors were true?

[00:21:06] [SPEAKER_15]: It was called Ravenwood.

[00:21:10] [SPEAKER_15]: Never heard of it.

[00:21:12] [SPEAKER_15]: I was taught to have the spiritual strength to resist the most deviant temptation secular culture celebrates.

[00:21:19] [SPEAKER_13]: Oh, shit.

[00:21:21] [SPEAKER_13]: Conversion camp?

[00:21:24] [SPEAKER_15]: Not conversion, Lara.

[00:21:27] [SPEAKER_15]: Awakening.

[00:21:29] [SPEAKER_15]: The lightning bolt that struck us both that day...

[00:21:32] [SPEAKER_15]: It showed me the truth of who I am too.

[00:21:37] [SPEAKER_15]: So... you're out?

[00:21:39] [SPEAKER_15]: I did come out, actually. Yes.

[00:21:44] [SPEAKER_13]: Talk about burying the lead.

[00:21:46] [SPEAKER_15]: It was... quite special.

[00:21:49] [SPEAKER_15]: What about your father?

[00:21:51] [SPEAKER_15]: It took him time to adjust.

[00:21:53] [SPEAKER_15]: No one came out on his day.

[00:21:55] [SPEAKER_15]: For good reason.

[00:21:57] [SPEAKER_15]: Eventually, he saw I found my own path.

[00:22:00] [SPEAKER_15]: And we were closer than ever when he passed.

[00:22:03] [SPEAKER_13]: I never got that with my father.

[00:22:06] [SPEAKER_13]: Is he a believer?

[00:22:08] [SPEAKER_13]: Died three years ago.

[00:22:10] [SPEAKER_13]: Convinced I was damned.

[00:22:14] [SPEAKER_15]: The preachy shit on the bag?

[00:22:15] [SPEAKER_15]: Tim, he thinks soft-pedaling the word can change the world.

[00:22:22] [SPEAKER_15]: Why do they need to change the world?

[00:22:24] [SPEAKER_15]: They already run it.

[00:22:25] [SPEAKER_15]: And yet, the darkness is still so widely celebrated.

[00:22:30] Ugh.

[00:22:31] [SPEAKER_15]: It's not hard to understand how threatening that must feel.

[00:22:34] [SPEAKER_13]: This is what I'm talking about.

[00:22:36] [SPEAKER_13]: They'll never be happy until the whole world believes what they do.

[00:22:39] [SPEAKER_13]: And then, after they drive all this deviance into the shadows,

[00:22:42] [SPEAKER_13]: they'll turn on each other with purity tests.

[00:22:45] [SPEAKER_13]: Bet on it.

[00:22:47] [SPEAKER_13]: You're, uh...

[00:22:48] [SPEAKER_13]: Sorry.

[00:22:49] [SPEAKER_13]: I might have had a few drinks on an empty stomach,

[00:22:51] [SPEAKER_13]: and the shit triggers me.

[00:22:54] [SPEAKER_15]: Do you need to make a post?

[00:22:58] [SPEAKER_13]: No.

[00:22:59] [SPEAKER_13]: Jezzy is starving.

[00:23:01] [SPEAKER_15]: Let's get her fed.

[00:23:02] [SPEAKER_13]: Please.

[00:23:16] [SPEAKER_15]: Judith, how'd it go?

[00:23:17] [SPEAKER_15]: Let's roll out the VIP for Miss...

[00:23:20] [SPEAKER_15]: Oh, is it still Grissom?

[00:23:23] [SPEAKER_15]: It is. Quite the memory.

[00:23:25] [SPEAKER_15]: I have been stalking you.

[00:23:27] [SPEAKER_15]: Right.

[00:23:28] [SPEAKER_10]: Through here. Follow me.

[00:23:41] [SPEAKER_13]: No idea this room was back here.

[00:23:44] [SPEAKER_13]: For guests who prefer privacy.

[00:23:47] [SPEAKER_13]: Drink?

[00:23:47] [SPEAKER_13]: Oh, sure. Let's toss another one into my empty stomach.

[00:23:50] [SPEAKER_13]: Spicy Marg.

[00:23:51] [SPEAKER_13]: Coming right up.

[00:23:53] [SPEAKER_15]: Let's sit while they remake your food.

[00:24:00] [SPEAKER_15]: Still Grissom?

[00:24:02] [SPEAKER_15]: So...not married.

[00:24:04] [SPEAKER_13]: No, not for me.

[00:24:05] [SPEAKER_13]: I do live with a partner, though.

[00:24:07] [SPEAKER_13]: Will. What about you?

[00:24:09] [SPEAKER_13]: And where is Will tonight?

[00:24:11] [SPEAKER_13]: Uh, traveling. Work thing.

[00:24:14] [SPEAKER_15]: I don't mean to be forward, but...

[00:24:18] But...

[00:24:19] [SPEAKER_15]: I thought you were...

[00:24:21] [SPEAKER_13]: Queer?

[00:24:23] [SPEAKER_13]: Yeah. I like men too, so...

[00:24:25] [SPEAKER_13]: Oh. How does Will feel about that?

[00:24:28] [SPEAKER_13]: It's an ongoing adjustment.

[00:24:32] [SPEAKER_13]: We're CNM, so we just...

[00:24:33] [SPEAKER_13]: CN...

[00:24:34] [SPEAKER_13]: Sorry. Committed Non-Monogamous.

[00:24:37] [SPEAKER_13]: I don't understand.

[00:24:39] [SPEAKER_13]: Monogamy is the commitment.

[00:24:41] [SPEAKER_13]: Ah, no.

[00:24:43] [SPEAKER_13]: Ah, thank you.

[00:24:45] [SPEAKER_13]: We're committed as partners, but open to the fact

[00:24:47] [SPEAKER_13]: that we might want to hook up with other people.

[00:24:50] [SPEAKER_13]: We talk, have rules. It's a thing.

[00:24:53] [SPEAKER_15]: Scripture on the bottom of a takeout bag

[00:24:55] [SPEAKER_15]: is no match for that.

[00:24:57] [SPEAKER_15]: Hallelujah, sister.

[00:25:00] [SPEAKER_13]: Are you not partaking?

[00:25:02] [SPEAKER_13]: I'm working.

[00:25:03] [SPEAKER_13]: Isn't drinking on the job a perk of the food service industry?

[00:25:07] [SPEAKER_13]: Uh, sorry. I just...

[00:25:10] [SPEAKER_15]: I wasn't sure you'd recognize me when I got to your house.

[00:25:16] [SPEAKER_13]: Are you kidding?

[00:25:17] [SPEAKER_13]: I mean, I was caught off guard, but...

[00:25:20] [SPEAKER_13]: Me too.

[00:25:22] [SPEAKER_15]: Seeing you again brought me back to that day.

[00:25:28] [SPEAKER_15]: The tunnel.

[00:25:30] [SPEAKER_15]: Yeah.

[00:25:32] [SPEAKER_15]: I wasn't expecting that.

[00:25:35] [SPEAKER_13]: It was the last time we saw each other, so...

[00:25:38] [SPEAKER_13]: I still dream about it.

[00:25:40] [SPEAKER_15]: The tunnel.

[00:25:42] [SPEAKER_15]: Oh.

[00:25:44] [SPEAKER_15]: Had we not been interrupted?

[00:25:48] [SPEAKER_15]: Do you ever think about that?

[00:25:54] [SPEAKER_13]: Uh...

[00:25:55] [SPEAKER_13]: I guess I wondered.

[00:25:57] [SPEAKER_13]: Back then.

[00:25:59] [SPEAKER_13]: But hey, if not by Coach Dunn, then the jock's right behind him.

[00:26:03] [SPEAKER_15]: I always loved your hands, Lara.

[00:26:07] Um...

[00:26:08] [SPEAKER_15]: In homeroom, I'd watch you write.

[00:26:11] [SPEAKER_15]: I imagined you were writing to me.

[00:26:15] [SPEAKER_15]: Oh.

[00:26:15] [SPEAKER_15]: Uh, what you'd say.

[00:26:19] [SPEAKER_15]: How I'd reply.

[00:26:21] [SPEAKER_15]: The plans we'd make.

[00:26:23] [SPEAKER_15]: Where we'd meet after school.

[00:26:27] [SPEAKER_15]: Yeah.

[00:26:30] [SPEAKER_15]: What's the matter?

[00:26:32] [SPEAKER_13]: Judith, I'm sorry.

[00:26:34] [SPEAKER_15]: I'm not available.

[00:26:36] [SPEAKER_15]: You said you were.

[00:26:38] [SPEAKER_15]: Non-monogamous something, right?

[00:26:42] [SPEAKER_15]: Yeah.

[00:26:42] [SPEAKER_13]: I'm just not into...

[00:26:46] [SPEAKER_13]: this.

[00:26:49] [SPEAKER_13]: I see.

[00:26:51] [SPEAKER_13]: Like you said, we don't really know each other,

[00:26:53] [SPEAKER_15]: and that was so long ago.

[00:26:54] [SPEAKER_15]: So you tempt me.

[00:26:56] [SPEAKER_15]: What?

[00:26:57] [SPEAKER_15]: Like you did in the tunnel and then rechecked me?

[00:27:01] [SPEAKER_15]: Judith, I...

[00:27:02] [SPEAKER_15]: Did you ever regret that?

[00:27:04] [SPEAKER_15]: Regret?

[00:27:05] [SPEAKER_15]: Your choice.

[00:27:07] [SPEAKER_15]: What choice?

[00:27:08] [SPEAKER_15]: The darkness chose us in the tunnel that day.

[00:27:11] [SPEAKER_15]: What?

[00:27:12] [SPEAKER_15]: And then we had to make a choice.

[00:27:15] [SPEAKER_15]: Welcome it or reject it.

[00:27:17] [SPEAKER_13]: Wait.

[00:27:18] [SPEAKER_15]: You chose to welcome it.

[00:27:20] [SPEAKER_15]: Uh-huh.

[00:27:20] [SPEAKER_15]: With your online persona,

[00:27:22] [SPEAKER_15]: this life you claim to have with Will,

[00:27:26] [SPEAKER_15]: how you still toy with me after all these years.

[00:27:30] [SPEAKER_15]: You were just hitting on me.

[00:27:33] [SPEAKER_15]: You said you came out.

[00:27:35] [SPEAKER_15]: I did come out.

[00:27:37] [SPEAKER_15]: As saved.

[00:27:38] [SPEAKER_15]: Uh-huh.

[00:27:38] [SPEAKER_15]: Born anew in his light at Ravenwood.

[00:27:42] [SPEAKER_15]: You're appropriating coming out.

[00:27:44] [SPEAKER_15]: And here you are,

[00:27:46] [SPEAKER_12]: making me question all that.

[00:27:48] [SPEAKER_13]: What are you talking about?

[00:27:52] [SPEAKER_15]: What if you need to be saved too?

[00:27:54] [SPEAKER_13]: Oh, fuck this!

[00:28:00] [SPEAKER_14]: What...

[00:28:01] [SPEAKER_14]: What did you do to me?

[00:28:03] [SPEAKER_14]: I need to give you the gift I received

[00:28:07] [SPEAKER_15]: at Ravenwood.

[00:28:09] [SPEAKER_15]: You fucking roof-feed me?

[00:28:12] [SPEAKER_15]: You're going to feel so much love, Lara.

[00:28:16] [SPEAKER_15]: No!

[00:28:18] [SPEAKER_06]: So much love.

[00:28:20] [SPEAKER_06]: So much love.

[00:28:23] [SPEAKER_06]: So much love, Lara.

[00:28:26] [SPEAKER_06]: So much love.

[00:28:30] [SPEAKER_06]: So much love.

[00:28:58] [SPEAKER_15]: In that tunnel, Lara,

[00:29:00] [SPEAKER_15]: I was a helpless captive of the darkness,

[00:29:06] shamed and soiled with the unspeakable anguish

[00:29:10] [SPEAKER_15]: caused by your desperately wicked temptation.

[00:29:14] [SPEAKER_15]: Where am I?

[00:29:17] [SPEAKER_15]: Then he appeared and graced me.

[00:29:30] [SPEAKER_14]: Did that to you?

[00:29:31] [SPEAKER_14]: He pierced my sinful flesh

[00:29:35] [SPEAKER_14]: with the eternal blade of his light.

[00:29:40] [SPEAKER_14]: Who did that?

[00:29:42] [SPEAKER_14]: The darkness gushed from the slits he carved in me

[00:29:46] [SPEAKER_14]: like rivers of twisted sickness,

[00:29:51] [SPEAKER_15]: thick, viscous and black like oil

[00:29:55] [SPEAKER_15]: laced with the maggots of a host putrefied by sin.

[00:30:01] [SPEAKER_13]: Who cut you?

[00:30:06] [SPEAKER_15]: The darkness drained from me

[00:30:09] [SPEAKER_15]: into the smoldering embers of the sacrificial fire.

[00:30:16] [SPEAKER_06]: It screamed wretched cries as it boiled away

[00:30:20] [SPEAKER_06]: in a suffocating black mist.

[00:30:25] [SPEAKER_15]: That is your soul, he said.

[00:30:29] [SPEAKER_15]: It retreats to its sinful master

[00:30:32] [SPEAKER_15]: to burn for eternity,

[00:30:36] [SPEAKER_15]: as would have you.

[00:30:38] [SPEAKER_15]: But no more, he promised.

[00:30:42] [SPEAKER_13]: Let me go.

[00:30:44] [SPEAKER_15]: And in that moment, Lara,

[00:30:47] [SPEAKER_15]: naked, gashed and let out,

[00:30:51] [SPEAKER_15]: I was slowly, surely given new life.

[00:30:57] [SPEAKER_13]: You were abused.

[00:30:59] [SPEAKER_14]: Each of these scars is a beautiful testimony

[00:31:04] [SPEAKER_14]: to my rebirth.

[00:31:06] [SPEAKER_14]: They tortured you.

[00:31:08] [SPEAKER_14]: Thank you, Lara.

[00:31:11] [SPEAKER_14]: You tempt.

[00:31:12] [SPEAKER_14]: No.

[00:31:13] [SPEAKER_15]: No matter how much darkness he bled from me,

[00:31:17] [SPEAKER_14]: you tempt.

[00:31:18] [SPEAKER_14]: It didn't do anything.

[00:31:20] [SPEAKER_14]: No matter how many scars I bear,

[00:31:24] [SPEAKER_14]: you still tempt.

[00:31:27] [SPEAKER_14]: No.

[00:31:28] [SPEAKER_14]: How do you do that, Lara?

[00:31:29] [SPEAKER_14]: To do shit.

[00:31:31] [SPEAKER_14]: Do you want me?

[00:31:32] [SPEAKER_14]: Let me go.

[00:31:33] [SPEAKER_14]: Look at me.

[00:31:35] [SPEAKER_14]: No.

[00:31:35] [SPEAKER_14]: Touch me.

[00:31:36] [SPEAKER_14]: I know you want that.

[00:31:38] [SPEAKER_14]: No.

[00:31:39] [SPEAKER_14]: Feel where his light entered me.

[00:31:43] [SPEAKER_15]: No.

[00:31:47] [SPEAKER_15]: You see it now, don't you?

[00:31:50] [SPEAKER_15]: That I cannot be free of your vile temptation.

[00:31:53] [SPEAKER_15]: Stop this.

[00:31:54] [SPEAKER_15]: That I cannot have my rightful salvation at his side

[00:31:59] [SPEAKER_15]: until the darkness is bled from you too.

[00:32:03] [SPEAKER_14]: No.

[00:32:04] [SPEAKER_14]: Your rebirth is his precious gift.

[00:32:07] [SPEAKER_14]: Get away from me.

[00:32:11] [SPEAKER_14]: Let the darkness bleed from you.

[00:32:16] [SPEAKER_14]: Let his light enter you.

[00:32:20] [SPEAKER_14]: Your scars as mine, your screams as mine,

[00:32:26] [SPEAKER_14]: are testimony to him.

[00:32:29] [SPEAKER_14]: Once bound in darkness, we bind anew in his light.

[00:32:38] [SPEAKER_14]: He is with us.

[00:32:40] [SPEAKER_14]: Do you see him?

[00:32:43] [SPEAKER_14]: Confess to him, Lara.

[00:32:45] [SPEAKER_14]: Confess to me.

[00:32:47] [SPEAKER_14]: He is here for your testimony.

[00:32:51] [SPEAKER_14]: I...

[00:32:52] [SPEAKER_14]: We are saved.

[00:32:54] [SPEAKER_14]: Join me.

[00:32:57] [SPEAKER_14]: We are saved.

[00:33:00] [SPEAKER_14]: We are saved.

[00:33:04] [SPEAKER_14]: We are saved.

[00:33:07] [SPEAKER_14]: We are saved.

[00:33:08] [SPEAKER_14]: I am ready for my salvation.

[00:33:25] [SPEAKER_15]: I have bled her darkness.

[00:33:27] [SPEAKER_15]: I am ready to receive your eternal grace.

[00:33:33] [SPEAKER_14]: Judith, stop!

[00:33:35] [SPEAKER_14]: Deliver my salvation, Almighty!

[00:33:43] [SPEAKER_15]: Can you hear him?

[00:33:50] [SPEAKER_15]: It has to be you, Lara.

[00:33:53] [SPEAKER_15]: You betray his will.

[00:33:55] [SPEAKER_14]: You betray yourself.

[00:33:57] [SPEAKER_14]: Liar!

[00:33:58] [SPEAKER_14]: You lie to yourself.

[00:33:59] [SPEAKER_14]: Show her your light!

[00:34:02] [SPEAKER_14]: Show her!

[00:34:04] [SPEAKER_14]: You were abused, okay?

[00:34:09] [SPEAKER_14]: Forgive you.

[00:34:10] [SPEAKER_14]: Only he can forgive.

[00:34:11] [SPEAKER_13]: It's not your fault.

[00:34:12] [SPEAKER_13]: It's your fault!

[00:34:14] [SPEAKER_14]: They tortured you.

[00:34:15] [SPEAKER_14]: Your repentance is a lie.

[00:34:17] [SPEAKER_13]: You're fucking cutting me.

[00:34:18] [SPEAKER_14]: The blade of his eternal light was brought to your flesh by his precious hand.

[00:34:24] [SPEAKER_14]: Your hand.

[00:34:25] [SPEAKER_14]: His!

[00:34:27] [SPEAKER_14]: Judith!

[00:34:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Your hand!

[00:34:32] [SPEAKER_14]: I...

[00:34:35] [SPEAKER_14]: No.

[00:34:38] [SPEAKER_14]: He was here.

[00:34:41] [SPEAKER_14]: I felt him.

[00:34:45] [SPEAKER_14]: Show us your light!

[00:34:47] [SPEAKER_14]: Show us!

[00:34:53] [SPEAKER_14]: He has forsaken me.

[00:34:56] [SPEAKER_14]: I was too weak against your wickedness.

[00:35:01] [SPEAKER_14]: No one is here.

[00:35:05] [SPEAKER_14]: Enough with your wicked touch!

[00:35:07] [SPEAKER_14]: No, Judith!

[00:35:08] [SPEAKER_14]: No!

[00:35:08] [SPEAKER_14]: Take it!

[00:35:10] [SPEAKER_12]: Take the blade!

[00:35:11] [SPEAKER_12]: No!

[00:35:12] [SPEAKER_12]: End your sinful life and my suffering!

[00:35:15] [SPEAKER_12]: No!

[00:35:16] [SPEAKER_12]: Do it!

[00:35:16] [SPEAKER_12]: No!

[00:35:17] [SPEAKER_12]: Save me!

[00:35:17] [SPEAKER_12]: No!

[00:35:28] [SPEAKER_12]: Stay back!

[00:35:30] [SPEAKER_12]: Drag the blade across your throat.

[00:35:31] [SPEAKER_12]: Stay back!

[00:35:32] [SPEAKER_12]: He will wash away your wickedness.

[00:35:34] [SPEAKER_12]: Stay back!

[00:35:35] [SPEAKER_12]: Save us both!

[00:35:37] [SPEAKER_12]: I'm leaving.

[00:35:40] [SPEAKER_12]: What is thy will?

[00:35:41] [SPEAKER_14]: Tell me! What shall we do? What shall we do?

[00:35:51] [SPEAKER_02]: Where the fuck is this?

[00:35:54] [SPEAKER_02]: Hello? Help! I need help! Help me!

[00:36:15] [SPEAKER_14]: His command!

[00:36:18] [SPEAKER_12]: No, Judith!

[00:36:33] [SPEAKER_07]: This will shall be done!

[00:37:17] [SPEAKER_05]: Now we take solace, knowing that those lost today in his name will be replaced tomorrow.

[00:37:38] [SPEAKER_05]: For we take the long view, his view.

[00:37:44] [SPEAKER_05]: Day by day, we chip away at the wickedness.

[00:37:49] For his will shall be done. All else is sin.

[00:37:54] [SPEAKER_05]: And the price of sin is death.

[00:38:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Coming up next on Price of Sin, Part 2.

[00:38:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Chosen.

[00:38:13] [SPEAKER_02]: Whatcha doing out here? You wanna ride?

[00:38:15] [SPEAKER_14]: I need help. Do you have a phone?

[00:38:17] [SPEAKER_14]: Is Judith joining us again?

[00:38:19] [SPEAKER_14]: I called out to her. She wasn't there.

[00:38:21] [SPEAKER_14]: Miss, can you stand?

[00:38:23] No.

[00:38:24] [SPEAKER_08]: Trinity Reform is moving to the new location today.

[00:38:27] [SPEAKER_13]: She tried to kill me.

[00:38:28] [SPEAKER_08]: She probably got in her least arm.

[00:38:31] [SPEAKER_08]: I just survived that anyway.

[00:38:33] [SPEAKER_08]: And this world is being remade in his name.

[00:38:36] [SPEAKER_08]: You make a deal with the darkness?

[00:38:38] [SPEAKER_08]: From the Seven Pillars on down to our good work.

[00:38:41] [SPEAKER_13]: Back away from the woman!

[00:38:42] [SPEAKER_13]: I don't want trouble.

[00:38:43] [SPEAKER_08]: The future is his.

[00:38:46] [SPEAKER_05]: What could be more trouble than burning a woman alive?

[00:38:50] [SPEAKER_05]: What?

[00:38:51] [SPEAKER_05]: That's what you need to fear now.

[00:38:52] [SPEAKER_13]: From who? I need to know who.

[00:38:54] [SPEAKER_05]: Well, dump her in the pit with the others that didn't make the trip.

[00:38:56] [SPEAKER_05]: So you do not question when you are chosen.

[00:38:59] [SPEAKER_14]: He sees your wickedness.

[00:39:01] [SPEAKER_14]: Took Judith from our home while we slept and set her on fire.

[00:39:05] [SPEAKER_10]: How'd you get away with it?

[00:39:06] [SPEAKER_06]: Why is this happening?

[00:39:07] [SPEAKER_06]: Mary.

[00:39:10] [SPEAKER_06]: Stop.

[00:39:12] [SPEAKER_06]: You okay?

[00:39:13] [SPEAKER_05]: I see your shadow in there.

[00:39:15] [SPEAKER_13]: I just don't feel safe here.

[00:39:18] [SPEAKER_13]: Come over.

[00:39:20] [SPEAKER_13]: Hey, my witches.

[00:39:22] [SPEAKER_13]: Jezzy here.

[00:39:22] [SPEAKER_13]: If you can help me find out who is doing this and why, my DMs are open.

[00:39:27] [SPEAKER_13]: Be nice.

[00:39:28] [SPEAKER_13]: Your girl's been through some shit.

[00:39:30] [SPEAKER_00]: That's Price of Sin, Part Two.

[00:39:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Chosen.

[00:39:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Dropping October 10th.

[00:39:36] [SPEAKER_00]: This episode created, written, directed and sound designed by Jeff Schmidt.

[00:39:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Starring

[00:39:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Leah Voisey as Lara and Jezzy Triple Six.

[00:39:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Chelsea Krause as Judith.

[00:39:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Jonathan Cahill as Will.

[00:39:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Monterey Morrissey as Tim.

[00:39:54] [SPEAKER_00]: John D. Michaels as serious sounding man on the radio.

[00:39:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Additional voices listed in the show notes.

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[00:40:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Until next time, Thrill ya later.

[00:40:30] [SPEAKER_01]: Where fiction producers flourish.

[00:41:01] [SPEAKER_14]: Legally, I cannot stop you from teaching this class, but I strongly advise that you...

[00:41:05] [SPEAKER_14]: What?

[00:41:06] [SPEAKER_14]: You know what? If you want to tank your reputation, that's on you.

[00:41:11] [SPEAKER_05]: You don't believe a word I say about Antara, right?

[00:41:14] [SPEAKER_05]: You're right. I do not believe Antara exists.

[00:41:18] [SPEAKER_02]: I need to know. Is it real?

[00:41:22] [SPEAKER_02]: You came all the way to China to find out?

[00:41:24] [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, everyone get out right now. Now, Raquel, what the hell are you doing?

[00:41:29] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna cut my hand and you're all gonna feel it.

[00:41:33] [SPEAKER_02]: Ow!

[00:41:35] [SPEAKER_02]: See? I told you.

[00:41:40] [SPEAKER_04]: Modes of Thought in Antaran Literature.

[00:41:43] [SPEAKER_04]: An audio drama. Produced by Wolf of the Door Studios.

[00:41:48] [SPEAKER_04]: For more information, please visit WLFDR.com.