THE FINAL CUT

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[00:00:53] OMINOUS THRILL

[00:02:00] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm A.J. Roberts.

[00:02:02] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm Janet Scofield.

[00:02:03] [SPEAKER_06]: And today we're talking with Lacey Ridgway, senior producer of podcasts at BDC Media.

[00:02:09] [SPEAKER_06]: Lacey is credited with inventing the hottest new trend in true crime, inspired by Lacey.

[00:02:14] [SPEAKER_06]: Welcome.

[00:02:15] [SPEAKER_03]: Thanks, A.J.

[00:02:16] [SPEAKER_03]: Happy to be here.

[00:02:17] [SPEAKER_06]: So tell us the story about how you came up with Inspired By.

[00:02:20] [SPEAKER_03]: It was born out of frustration.

[00:02:22] [SPEAKER_03]: We'd spend months working stories that had compelling elements only to find they

[00:02:26] [SPEAKER_03]: didn't tick all the boxes needed for a full-length audio series.

[00:02:29] [SPEAKER_06]: And how often did that happen?

[00:02:31] [SPEAKER_03]: All the time.

[00:02:32] [SPEAKER_03]: People love to say truth is stranger than fiction, but that's because we'd spend months finding

[00:02:37] [SPEAKER_03]: the stories that actually were.

[00:02:38] [SPEAKER_03]: So I decided to take elements from the abandoned stories and create Inspired By.

[00:02:43] [SPEAKER_14]: That's where you pass on fictional versions of people's stories as true crime, but they're

[00:02:48] [SPEAKER_14]: not true, right?

[00:02:49] [SPEAKER_14]: They're inspired by the truth, Janet.

[00:02:52] [SPEAKER_14]: Like it says on the tin.

[00:02:53] [SPEAKER_14]: How do you feel if the tragedy of someone you loved were retold through your salacious

[00:02:58] [SPEAKER_03]: fictionalizing?

[00:03:00] [SPEAKER_03]: Interesting choice of words.

[00:03:01] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm using the stories my colleagues discarded for not being salacious enough and I'm...

[00:03:07] [SPEAKER_03]: Like your sister, Jessica, for example.

[00:03:09] [SPEAKER_14]: What?

[00:03:10] [SPEAKER_14]: Would Jessica's troubled and tragic life be good material for an episode of Inspired

[00:03:15] [SPEAKER_14]: By?

[00:03:15] [SPEAKER_14]: This is not what I...

[00:03:17] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay, let's take a breath here.

[00:03:19] [SPEAKER_06]: Janet sits on a very high throne sometimes.

[00:03:21] [SPEAKER_06]: It's called journalism, A.J.

[00:03:22] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay, Janet.

[00:03:24] [SPEAKER_06]: Lace, let's talk about your latest hit, Stapard Ladies Night.

[00:03:27] [SPEAKER_06]: All right, now this one has me riveted and I have to ask...

[00:03:30] [SPEAKER_03]: Uh, yeah, let me wrap this up.

[00:03:32] [SPEAKER_08]: Rephrase, I need a minute.

[00:03:33] [SPEAKER_08]: Now.

[00:03:34] [SPEAKER_03]: Hey, I'm getting called away.

[00:03:35] [SPEAKER_03]: Can we...?

[00:03:36] [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, we can pick it up later, of course.

[00:03:38] [SPEAKER_03]: Great.

[00:03:42] [SPEAKER_03]: Justin, time.

[00:03:43] [SPEAKER_03]: What's up?

[00:03:44] [SPEAKER_08]: I put Stuart on leave.

[00:03:46] [SPEAKER_03]: Finally!

[00:03:47] [SPEAKER_03]: So what does this mean for Senior VP?

[00:03:48] [SPEAKER_08]: Well, that's some naked ambition.

[00:03:50] [SPEAKER_03]: Like you haven't been worried about it since the rumors started.

[00:03:52] [SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.

[00:03:53] [SPEAKER_08]: Well, I'm in crisis mode now.

[00:03:55] [SPEAKER_08]: I need to story whisper.

[00:03:56] [SPEAKER_08]: Can't.

[00:03:56] [SPEAKER_03]: My plate is full with the...

[00:03:57] [SPEAKER_08]: I need you to take over Stuart's project.

[00:03:59] [SPEAKER_03]: That fucking genre fiction thing?

[00:04:01] [SPEAKER_03]: You know that's not my jam.

[00:04:02] [SPEAKER_08]: Give me a break, Lace.

[00:04:03] [SPEAKER_08]: True crime is genre for people who think they don't like genre.

[00:04:06] [SPEAKER_08]: And inspired by his almost all fiction.

[00:04:08] [SPEAKER_08]: Inspired by true shit.

[00:04:09] [SPEAKER_03]: Not totally made up out of thin air shit.

[00:04:11] [SPEAKER_08]: So make it inspired by something true.

[00:04:14] [SPEAKER_08]: Or license something you can adapt.

[00:04:15] [SPEAKER_08]: But no big names.

[00:04:17] [SPEAKER_08]: It needs to be cheap and fast.

[00:04:19] [SPEAKER_08]: And it needs to be a hit.

[00:04:21] [SPEAKER_03]: You promoted Stuart despite all the rumors.

[00:04:23] [SPEAKER_03]: And now that he shit the bed, you come to the woman you passed over with the impossible

[00:04:26] [SPEAKER_03]: ask of making a cheap fast hit?

[00:04:29] [SPEAKER_08]: It's not like that.

[00:04:30] [SPEAKER_03]: Isn't it?

[00:04:31] [SPEAKER_03]: What's in it for me?

[00:04:32] [SPEAKER_08]: Besides keeping your job?

[00:04:33] [SPEAKER_03]: I can replace BDC faster than BDC can replace me.

[00:04:36] [SPEAKER_03]: Want to test that?

[00:04:37] [SPEAKER_08]: You know how many hunger producers I got?

[00:04:39] [SPEAKER_08]: Calling?

[00:04:39] [SPEAKER_03]: Try it.

[00:04:40] [SPEAKER_03]: You need a hit, Grant.

[00:04:41] [SPEAKER_03]: Not the time suck of running noob camp.

[00:04:44] [SPEAKER_08]: Okay, what?

[00:04:45] [SPEAKER_03]: What?

[00:04:45] [SPEAKER_03]: Senior VP.

[00:04:46] [SPEAKER_08]: No way.

[00:04:47] [SPEAKER_03]: Stuart's creepy shit is legend.

[00:04:48] [SPEAKER_03]: He should have never been in line for Senior VP.

[00:04:51] [SPEAKER_08]: He has more experience.

[00:04:52] [SPEAKER_08]: And…

[00:04:52] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm jerking off in front of the interns.

[00:04:54] [SPEAKER_08]: Hey, I'm dealing with it.

[00:04:55] [SPEAKER_03]: Years too late.

[00:04:56] [SPEAKER_03]: I do this.

[00:04:57] [SPEAKER_03]: Senior VP is mine.

[00:04:59] [SPEAKER_03]: It's even a good look for you when news about Fondlegate gets out.

[00:05:01] [SPEAKER_08]: Can't.

[00:05:02] [SPEAKER_08]: Pending a full inquiry.

[00:05:04] [SPEAKER_08]: Bullshit.

[00:05:05] [SPEAKER_03]: You know he's done.

[00:05:06] [SPEAKER_08]: I don't.

[00:05:08] [SPEAKER_08]: But you deliver a hit on time, on budget.

[00:05:12] [SPEAKER_08]: Senior VP is on the table.

[00:05:15] [SPEAKER_03]: No, guaranteed.

[00:05:16] [SPEAKER_03]: You're something else.

[00:05:17] [SPEAKER_03]: Don't make it seem like a favorite grant.

[00:05:18] [SPEAKER_03]: I earned this.

[00:05:19] [SPEAKER_08]: Prove it.

[00:05:20] [SPEAKER_03]: Again?

[00:05:21] [SPEAKER_08]: Make the hit.

[00:05:22] [SPEAKER_03]: I need my team.

[00:05:23] [SPEAKER_08]: I can't cripple other shows for this.

[00:05:25] [SPEAKER_08]: You can have Kim.

[00:05:26] [SPEAKER_03]: Valentine?

[00:05:27] [SPEAKER_03]: She's been here what, a month?

[00:05:28] [SPEAKER_08]: Look, she's smart, ambitious and begs to be on your team.

[00:05:31] [SPEAKER_03]: Great.

[00:05:32] [SPEAKER_03]: A fucking groupie.

[00:05:34] [SPEAKER_08]: Make it work.

[00:05:36] [SPEAKER_08]: Clock's ticking.

[00:05:36] [SPEAKER_08]: I need your pitch with a beat sheet in 48.

[00:05:38] [SPEAKER_03]: Are you trying to make me fail?

[00:05:40] [SPEAKER_08]: Pressure is how the magic gets made.

[00:05:44] [SPEAKER_08]: Isn't that what you tell all the interns?

[00:05:48] Asshole.

[00:05:53] [SPEAKER_03]: Kim Valentine.

[00:05:56] [SPEAKER_03]: Hi.

[00:05:56] [SPEAKER_03]: Got your shot.

[00:05:57] [SPEAKER_03]: Follow me.

[00:06:03] [SPEAKER_03]: Close the door.

[00:06:04] [SPEAKER_04]: Thank you so much.

[00:06:08] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm a big fan of your work and I look forward to...

[00:06:10] [SPEAKER_03]: Steward's out.

[00:06:11] [SPEAKER_03]: So it's true.

[00:06:13] [SPEAKER_03]: Senior VP is mine, but I need help.

[00:06:14] [SPEAKER_03]: Can you help?

[00:06:15] [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yes.

[00:06:17] [SPEAKER_03]: Find me source material for an original episode of this fiction thing.

[00:06:21] [SPEAKER_03]: Delightful frights.

[00:06:22] [SPEAKER_03]: Sure.

[00:06:23] [SPEAKER_03]: I can hit the top literary agents for horror authors and...

[00:06:26] [SPEAKER_03]: A bit off the rack, don't you think?

[00:06:28] [SPEAKER_03]: What?

[00:06:28] [SPEAKER_03]: You lobbied to be on my team.

[00:06:30] [SPEAKER_03]: Why?

[00:06:31] [SPEAKER_03]: I...

[00:06:32] [SPEAKER_03]: I want to learn from you.

[00:06:34] [SPEAKER_03]: Why?

[00:06:36] Because...

[00:06:37] [SPEAKER_03]: I want to be you.

[00:06:39] [SPEAKER_03]: I want to run this whole thing one day.

[00:06:42] [SPEAKER_03]: I don't even run this whole thing.

[00:06:44] [SPEAKER_03]: I...

[00:06:44] [SPEAKER_03]: Yet.

[00:06:45] [SPEAKER_03]: Right.

[00:06:46] [SPEAKER_03]: Find me dark, edgy, subversive fringe of culture shit.

[00:06:50] [SPEAKER_03]: Stuff only five people know about.

[00:06:52] [SPEAKER_04]: Sure, but...

[00:06:53] [SPEAKER_03]: That's not really our house style.

[00:06:56] [SPEAKER_03]: House style is my job.

[00:06:57] [SPEAKER_03]: It'll take some time.

[00:06:59] [SPEAKER_03]: I need five names by 8 p.m.

[00:07:01] [SPEAKER_03]: Oh.

[00:07:01] [SPEAKER_03]: Welcome to the grind, Kim.

[00:07:02] [SPEAKER_03]: You good?

[00:07:03] [SPEAKER_03]: Yes.

[00:07:04] [SPEAKER_03]: I won't disappoint.

[00:07:05] [SPEAKER_04]: Promise.

[00:07:16] [SPEAKER_04]: Lace, did you get my email?

[00:07:18] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:07:19] [SPEAKER_03]: Amazing.

[00:07:20] [SPEAKER_03]: Two minutes past deadline.

[00:07:22] [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, sorry.

[00:07:24] [SPEAKER_03]: Let's see what you got.

[00:07:26] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh...

[00:07:27] [SPEAKER_04]: Emily Fern.

[00:07:27] [SPEAKER_04]: Lots of published works.

[00:07:28] [SPEAKER_04]: One of Bram Stoker.

[00:07:29] [SPEAKER_04]: Next.

[00:07:30] [SPEAKER_03]: Really?

[00:07:32] [SPEAKER_03]: Uh...

[00:07:32] [SPEAKER_03]: Malcolm Ladd.

[00:07:33] [SPEAKER_03]: Great P.O.V.

[00:07:34] [SPEAKER_03]: With a bunch of creepypastas that got no traction.

[00:07:36] [SPEAKER_03]: When I said sources only five people know,

[00:07:38] [SPEAKER_03]: I wasn't being literal.

[00:07:40] [SPEAKER_04]: Sorry.

[00:07:42] [SPEAKER_04]: Okay.

[00:07:43] [SPEAKER_04]: SV Malin.

[00:07:44] [SPEAKER_04]: How do I know that name?

[00:07:45] [SPEAKER_04]: He had a bestseller in 89 and then vanished.

[00:07:48] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[00:07:50] [SPEAKER_03]: Bones of Lily.

[00:07:52] [SPEAKER_03]: Read it when I was a kid.

[00:07:53] [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, no.

[00:07:54] [SPEAKER_03]: To mainstream?

[00:07:55] [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.

[00:07:56] [SPEAKER_03]: I found the paperback at a garage sale my mother dragged me to.

[00:07:59] [SPEAKER_03]: Paid a nickel for it.

[00:08:00] [SPEAKER_03]: Any good?

[00:08:00] [SPEAKER_03]: What's good to a seven-year-old?

[00:08:02] [SPEAKER_03]: He hasn't published anything since.

[00:08:03] [SPEAKER_03]: It was the right kind of dark, though.

[00:08:06] [SPEAKER_03]: About this guy.

[00:08:08] [SPEAKER_03]: Lester or something?

[00:08:10] [SPEAKER_03]: Anyway, his wife and prized son are killed in a convenience store robbery.

[00:08:15] [SPEAKER_03]: Unless they're so wracked with grief he imprisons his teen daughter Lily,

[00:08:19] [SPEAKER_03]: he breaks her bones so she can't run away.

[00:08:21] [SPEAKER_03]: Damn.

[00:08:22] [SPEAKER_03]: He's so desperate to have another son.

[00:08:25] [SPEAKER_03]: He repeatedly rapes Lily to get her pregnant.

[00:08:28] [SPEAKER_03]: She eventually does, but it's a girl.

[00:08:30] [SPEAKER_03]: And this goes on for years as told through her diaries.

[00:08:34] [SPEAKER_03]: Lester kills the infant girls and tortures Lily as punishment.

[00:08:38] [SPEAKER_03]: Lily finally gives birth to a boy.

[00:08:40] [SPEAKER_03]: Lester is so overwhelmed with joy at the sight of his newborn son,

[00:08:45] [SPEAKER_03]: he doesn't even see Lily.

[00:08:47] [SPEAKER_03]: She wraps the umbilical cord around his neck and strangles him to death with it.

[00:08:52] [SPEAKER_03]: You read that when you were seven?

[00:08:55] [SPEAKER_03]: Might have been eight.

[00:08:56] [SPEAKER_03]: Shit.

[00:08:57] [SPEAKER_03]: Malon's perfect.

[00:08:58] [SPEAKER_04]: He never published again.

[00:09:00] [SPEAKER_04]: How'd you find him?

[00:09:01] [SPEAKER_04]: The publisher of his old short severed flesh set up a funding page for him.

[00:09:06] [SPEAKER_04]: He needs 50k for cancer treatments.

[00:09:08] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm lovin' this.

[00:09:09] [SPEAKER_04]: What?

[00:09:10] [SPEAKER_04]: That's leverage.

[00:09:12] [SPEAKER_04]: You don't know if he still writes.

[00:09:13] [SPEAKER_04]: Set up a call.

[00:09:14] [SPEAKER_04]: They said he's off the grid.

[00:09:16] [SPEAKER_04]: No phone, no internet?

[00:09:18] [SPEAKER_04]: Writes longhand by mail.

[00:09:21] [SPEAKER_04]: I don't have time to mail letters.

[00:09:22] [SPEAKER_04]: Where does he live?

[00:09:24] Uh...

[00:09:24] [SPEAKER_04]: Mailing is Darwin, California.

[00:09:26] [SPEAKER_03]: Where the hell is that?

[00:09:28] [SPEAKER_03]: Just outside of Death Valley.

[00:09:30] [SPEAKER_03]: Five hour drive.

[00:09:31] [SPEAKER_03]: Text me the address, I'm off.

[00:09:33] [SPEAKER_03]: What now?

[00:09:34] [SPEAKER_03]: That's such a long shot.

[00:09:35] [SPEAKER_03]: This is giving me the feels.

[00:09:37] [SPEAKER_03]: Dig into Malon's history and find me backups,

[00:09:40] [SPEAKER_03]: but obscure and dark, like Malon.

[00:09:43] [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, I'll keep digging.

[00:10:19] [SPEAKER_03]: Sadist house in the desert?

[00:10:34] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm looking for SV Malon.

[00:10:37] [SPEAKER_03]: No Malon here.

[00:10:38] [SPEAKER_03]: Since when?

[00:10:39] [SPEAKER_10]: Not the mayor, Lee.

[00:10:48] [SPEAKER_03]: Mail is addressed to SV Malon.

[00:10:51] [SPEAKER_10]: Blame the post office.

[00:10:53] [SPEAKER_03]: Mr. Malon, my name is Lacey Ridgway.

[00:10:55] [SPEAKER_03]: I wanted to talk about how we can help each other.

[00:10:57] [SPEAKER_10]: Don't need help.

[00:10:58] [SPEAKER_03]: I want to hire you to write.

[00:11:01] [SPEAKER_10]: Don't write, Lee.

[00:11:03] [SPEAKER_03]: Since when?

[00:11:03] [SPEAKER_10]: Your trespassing.

[00:11:05] [SPEAKER_10]: Leave before I shoot you in the gut right through this door.

[00:11:07] [SPEAKER_03]: I think you do.

[00:11:09] [SPEAKER_03]: Right.

[00:11:10] [SPEAKER_10]: Five seconds.

[00:11:11] [SPEAKER_03]: I read Bones of Lily when I was a girl.

[00:11:14] [SPEAKER_03]: It was amazing.

[00:11:19] [SPEAKER_10]: Wasn't meant for little girls.

[00:11:22] [SPEAKER_03]: Well, hello, Mr. Malon.

[00:11:24] [SPEAKER_03]: What?

[00:11:25] [SPEAKER_03]: Bones of Lily made me want to be a writer.

[00:11:27] [SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, great.

[00:11:28] [SPEAKER_10]: You said your piece, leave.

[00:11:30] [SPEAKER_03]: There's no way you could write something like that

[00:11:32] [SPEAKER_03]: and then just stop.

[00:11:35] [SPEAKER_10]: The fuck you know?

[00:11:35] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to pay you to write a short story for me.

[00:11:39] [SPEAKER_10]: Don't write?

[00:11:40] [SPEAKER_10]: You hear me?

[00:11:41] [SPEAKER_03]: I did.

[00:11:42] [SPEAKER_03]: I just don't believe you.

[00:11:44] [SPEAKER_03]: $5,000 for one short story.

[00:11:50] [SPEAKER_10]: Who the fuck are you?

[00:11:51] [SPEAKER_03]: Lacey Ridgway from BDC.

[00:11:53] [SPEAKER_10]: You come all the way out here in your fancy car

[00:11:55] [SPEAKER_10]: with your fancy shoes from what LA to insult me with $5,000.

[00:12:00] [SPEAKER_10]: Looks like you could use it.

[00:12:01] [SPEAKER_10]: Don't know shit.

[00:12:02] [SPEAKER_03]: Go back.

[00:12:03] [SPEAKER_03]: $5,000 covers your next treatment this Friday, right?

[00:12:06] [SPEAKER_03]: 30 minutes is all I need.

[00:12:08] [SPEAKER_03]: No.

[00:12:08] [SPEAKER_03]: I traveled all this way.

[00:12:09] [SPEAKER_10]: Didn't ask you out here.

[00:12:10] [SPEAKER_03]: 20 minutes.

[00:12:11] Two.

[00:12:12] [SPEAKER_03]: 15.

[00:12:13] [SPEAKER_10]: Five.

[00:12:13] [SPEAKER_03]: 10.

[00:12:14] [SPEAKER_03]: That's all I need.

[00:12:15] [SPEAKER_10]: Five and the clock started when you asked for 30.

[00:12:17] [SPEAKER_03]: I'll show myself in.

[00:12:26] [SPEAKER_03]: So, how long have you been out here?

[00:12:28] [SPEAKER_10]: Four minutes 30.

[00:12:29] [SPEAKER_10]: Gonna waste it on small talk?

[00:12:31] [SPEAKER_03]: No.

[00:12:32] [SPEAKER_03]: $5,000 cash for an original short.

[00:12:34] [SPEAKER_03]: As dark as bones of Lily.

[00:12:35] [SPEAKER_10]: Gonna make me repeat myself for four more minutes?

[00:12:38] [SPEAKER_10]: I don't.

[00:12:42] [SPEAKER_03]: What's in here?

[00:12:44] [SPEAKER_10]: Private, three minutes.

[00:12:45] [SPEAKER_03]: How do you know that?

[00:12:46] [SPEAKER_03]: There's no clocks in here.

[00:12:48] [SPEAKER_10]: Two minutes.

[00:12:48] [SPEAKER_03]: Your clock is running fast.

[00:12:50] [SPEAKER_10]: It's my clock, 145.

[00:12:53] [SPEAKER_03]: So what's your deal?

[00:12:54] [SPEAKER_03]: You kill the game with bones of Lily and then stop?

[00:12:57] [SPEAKER_03]: Makes no sense.

[00:12:58] [SPEAKER_10]: Was a one-off.

[00:12:59] [SPEAKER_10]: You done.

[00:13:00] [SPEAKER_03]: Ah, writer's block.

[00:13:02] [SPEAKER_03]: I get it.

[00:13:03] [SPEAKER_03]: I was a writer too.

[00:13:04] [SPEAKER_10]: Was, huh?

[00:13:05] [SPEAKER_03]: Turns out my thing isn't coming up with original ideas.

[00:13:08] [SPEAKER_03]: It's making other people's ideas better.

[00:13:10] [SPEAKER_10]: Another leech.

[00:13:12] [SPEAKER_10]: Final minute.

[00:13:13] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm not leaving in a minute.

[00:13:14] [SPEAKER_10]: Then leave now.

[00:13:15] [SPEAKER_03]: I see what this is.

[00:13:16] [SPEAKER_03]: Big desk in the middle of the room.

[00:13:18] [SPEAKER_03]: No distractions.

[00:13:20] [SPEAKER_03]: You write.

[00:13:21] [SPEAKER_03]: Admit it.

[00:13:22] [SPEAKER_10]: Time's up.

[00:13:23] [SPEAKER_10]: Get out.

[00:13:23] [SPEAKER_03]: I want you to sit down at this big, beautiful desk

[00:13:26] [SPEAKER_03]: and write me an original dark and devious malon.

[00:13:29] [SPEAKER_03]: 2,500 now.

[00:13:30] [SPEAKER_03]: 2,500 when it's done.

[00:13:34] [SPEAKER_10]: A million writers in LA.

[00:13:38] [SPEAKER_03]: And I'd have to rewrite them all.

[00:13:40] [SPEAKER_03]: But you, Mr. Malon.

[00:13:42] [SPEAKER_03]: Rocked my seven-year-old little heart.

[00:13:44] [SPEAKER_03]: So give me a dark and twisty short, based on something true.

[00:13:49] [SPEAKER_10]: Something true, huh?

[00:13:51] [SPEAKER_10]: Okay.

[00:13:53] [SPEAKER_10]: Imagine this.

[00:13:55] [SPEAKER_10]: A no-talent young woman.

[00:13:57] [SPEAKER_10]: Overly ambitious.

[00:13:58] [SPEAKER_10]: Too cute for her own good.

[00:14:01] [SPEAKER_10]: She drives her luxury car deep into the desert

[00:14:03] [SPEAKER_10]: to harass a man who just wants to be left alone.

[00:14:07] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, I get it.

[00:14:09] [SPEAKER_10]: Her arrogance gets to be too much for him.

[00:14:12] [SPEAKER_10]: He walks to the bookshelf, pulls out a book.

[00:14:15] [SPEAKER_10]: It's old, tattered, like this one.

[00:14:20] [SPEAKER_10]: Bones of Lily, the one she said she liked.

[00:14:23] [SPEAKER_10]: He offers to sign it and send her on her merry way.

[00:14:27] [SPEAKER_10]: And just as she lets her guard down,

[00:14:30] he smashes the book into her dumb fucking face.

[00:14:34] [SPEAKER_10]: Oh, twist. Love it.

[00:14:36] [SPEAKER_10]: She drops to the floor, dazed and petrified as hot blood pours down her face.

[00:14:42] [SPEAKER_10]: He leans over and smashes her again.

[00:14:44] [SPEAKER_10]: Smash, smash, drenching the pages in her gorm.

[00:14:48] [SPEAKER_03]: Is that supposed to be me? I'm flattered.

[00:14:50] [SPEAKER_10]: He drags her body to the backyard

[00:14:52] [SPEAKER_10]: and kicks her into a pit he'd already dunk.

[00:14:54] [SPEAKER_10]: Convenient.

[00:14:55] [SPEAKER_10]: There she'll sit in the smoldering desert sun.

[00:15:01] [SPEAKER_10]: The buzzards and vultures descend,

[00:15:03] [SPEAKER_10]: picking her crushed up face clean of every smelt of meat.

[00:15:07] [SPEAKER_10]: Bit by bit they devour her rotting flesh

[00:15:10] [SPEAKER_10]: until there's nothing left but bones.

[00:15:12] [SPEAKER_10]: And I'll call it Bones of Lacy.

[00:15:19] [SPEAKER_03]: Bravo. Nice improv.

[00:15:22] [SPEAKER_03]: You kind of skipped right to the third act,

[00:15:24] [SPEAKER_03]: but still pretty effective.

[00:15:26] [SPEAKER_10]: It's the only true story I have to tell if you don't leave.

[00:15:29] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. Here's my rewrite.

[00:15:31] [SPEAKER_03]: The young woman, she's incredibly smart, ambitious,

[00:15:35] [SPEAKER_03]: and let's face it, fucking hot.

[00:15:36] [SPEAKER_03]: She fights off the old man, which isn't hard to do,

[00:15:39] [SPEAKER_03]: because he's built like a rotting twig.

[00:15:41] [SPEAKER_03]: She knocks him down and grabs that book.

[00:15:44] [SPEAKER_03]: Her favorite from his spathetically small creative output,

[00:15:47] [SPEAKER_03]: she climbs on top of his frail carcass,

[00:15:50] [SPEAKER_03]: pushing the book into his weakened chest.

[00:15:52] [SPEAKER_03]: She makes it really hard for him to breathe.

[00:15:55] [SPEAKER_03]: He gasps and gasps for breaths.

[00:15:57] [SPEAKER_03]: She will not let him have.

[00:16:00] [SPEAKER_03]: And just as he drifts closer to his final breath,

[00:16:03] [SPEAKER_03]: she leans in real close.

[00:16:07] [SPEAKER_03]: And with a sexy whisper you know he loves,

[00:16:10] [SPEAKER_03]: she bumps the offer to $7,500.

[00:16:17] [SPEAKER_03]: And he accepts.

[00:16:19] [SPEAKER_10]: Write the damn thing yourself.

[00:16:21] [SPEAKER_03]: I can't invent shit out of thin air.

[00:16:23] [SPEAKER_03]: I need a prompt.

[00:16:25] [SPEAKER_03]: Like the short you're gonna write me.

[00:16:26] [SPEAKER_10]: So you'll take my story and muck it up with your LA bullshit.

[00:16:30] [SPEAKER_03]: I need to mainstream it, yeah?

[00:16:32] [SPEAKER_03]: People say they love the darkness,

[00:16:33] [SPEAKER_03]: but only as long as the exit sign is clearly fucking lit.

[00:16:37] [SPEAKER_03]: That's my superpower.

[00:16:38] [SPEAKER_10]: So you make commodities you can peddle to idiots.

[00:16:41] [SPEAKER_03]: God, no wonder you flamed out.

[00:16:43] [SPEAKER_10]: You don't know shit.

[00:16:44] [SPEAKER_03]: You wrote a hit that rocked my seven-year-old world.

[00:16:46] [SPEAKER_03]: And nothing since.

[00:16:48] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm here to bail you out.

[00:16:49] [SPEAKER_10]: If you knew anything, you'd run right outta here.

[00:16:51] Ha ha ha ha.

[00:16:53] [SPEAKER_03]: Prove it.

[00:16:55] [SPEAKER_10]: Ha ha ha.

[00:16:57] [SPEAKER_10]: Okay.

[00:16:58] [SPEAKER_10]: I'll write you a story.

[00:16:59] [SPEAKER_10]: And you'll do what all no talent hacks do.

[00:17:03] [SPEAKER_10]: And then, then, you'll know the truth.

[00:17:07] [SPEAKER_03]: All right.

[00:17:08] [SPEAKER_03]: Just so we're clear it needs to be new.

[00:17:10] [SPEAKER_03]: None of the old shit I know you got stashed away in this dump.

[00:17:12] [SPEAKER_10]: Knew it is.

[00:17:13] [SPEAKER_03]: At least 30 pages? No more than 60.

[00:17:15] [SPEAKER_10]: Come back tomorrow this time.

[00:17:16] [SPEAKER_03]: Really? Okay.

[00:17:19] [SPEAKER_03]: Email me here.

[00:17:20] [SPEAKER_10]: No computer, no internet, no signal.

[00:17:23] [SPEAKER_03]: Are you kidding?

[00:17:24] [SPEAKER_10]: I write longhand.

[00:17:26] [SPEAKER_03]: What is this? The 1800s?

[00:17:28] [SPEAKER_10]: 1600s, actually.

[00:17:29] [SPEAKER_03]: You're gonna make me deal with 30 handwritten pages.

[00:17:33] [SPEAKER_03]: This time tomorrow.

[00:17:34] [SPEAKER_03]: Better not be shit.

[00:17:35] [SPEAKER_10]: It'll be more than you can handle.

[00:17:37] [SPEAKER_03]: You go from I don't write to I'm going to blow you away in five minutes.

[00:17:41] [SPEAKER_03]: Nice to know your ego is intact.

[00:17:43] [SPEAKER_10]: Ain't about ego.

[00:17:47] [SPEAKER_03]: People who say it isn't about ego

[00:17:49] [SPEAKER_03]: always have the biggest fucking egos.

[00:17:52] [SPEAKER_10]: Such a wisdom.

[00:17:54] [SPEAKER_10]: What are you, 24?

[00:17:55] [SPEAKER_03]: No.

[00:17:56] [SPEAKER_03]: But I'll be back in 24.

[00:17:57] [SPEAKER_03]: Don't waste my time.

[00:18:17] [SPEAKER_03]: Desert Peach Motor Lodge.

[00:18:19] [SPEAKER_03]: Gotta spend the night.

[00:18:20] [SPEAKER_03]: It's the closest place to Malin's that has a signal.

[00:18:23] [SPEAKER_03]: What's up?

[00:18:23] [SPEAKER_04]: I got some clarity on Malin's history.

[00:18:26] [SPEAKER_04]: Thought you should know.

[00:18:27] [SPEAKER_03]: I got Malin writing.

[00:18:28] [SPEAKER_03]: Do I need to know whatever this is?

[00:18:30] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I think you do.

[00:18:32] [SPEAKER_04]: Fine. What?

[00:18:33] [SPEAKER_04]: After Bones of Lily, Malin's publisher

[00:18:36] [SPEAKER_04]: paid it $100,000 advance for his next novel.

[00:18:39] [SPEAKER_04]: Five years later, he had delivered a single word.

[00:18:44] [SPEAKER_03]: At least I only gave him $3,700.

[00:18:46] [SPEAKER_04]: They gave him a month to deliver a draft

[00:18:48] [SPEAKER_04]: or they'd sue for breach of contract.

[00:18:50] [SPEAKER_03]: A week later, he delivered a 700 page

[00:18:52] [SPEAKER_03]: handwritten draft called Shepherd's Fury.

[00:18:55] [SPEAKER_03]: So what's the point?

[00:18:57] [SPEAKER_03]: They had edits, but Malin refused to make changes.

[00:19:00] [SPEAKER_03]: Mr. Ain't about ego.

[00:19:02] [SPEAKER_03]: He said he was done writing that he lost an eye over it.

[00:19:05] [SPEAKER_03]: It had to stay exactly as he wrote it.

[00:19:08] [SPEAKER_03]: He does have an eye patch.

[00:19:09] [SPEAKER_03]: So the publisher hired Thomas Cain to do the rewrite.

[00:19:12] [SPEAKER_03]: Am I supposed to know that name?

[00:19:14] [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.

[00:19:14] [SPEAKER_04]: But Cain stopped the rewrite complaining the work

[00:19:17] [SPEAKER_04]: was making him violently ill.

[00:19:19] [SPEAKER_03]: What is with these guys?

[00:19:20] [SPEAKER_04]: And then he went off the deep end

[00:19:22] [SPEAKER_04]: and started acting out events from the story.

[00:19:26] [SPEAKER_04]: Like...

[00:19:26] [SPEAKER_04]: It was about a man convinced he was being poisoned by his wife.

[00:19:30] [SPEAKER_04]: The wife denies it, but he keeps getting sicker.

[00:19:33] [SPEAKER_04]: One night, he confronts her

[00:19:35] [SPEAKER_04]: and when she tries to leave him...

[00:19:36] [SPEAKER_03]: Guilzer. Trophy as fuck.

[00:19:38] [SPEAKER_04]: But he keeps getting sicker.

[00:19:40] [SPEAKER_04]: He wants to get the poison out of his body.

[00:19:43] [SPEAKER_04]: So he grabs the pen he had been writing with

[00:19:45] [SPEAKER_04]: and stabs himself in the stomach

[00:19:48] [SPEAKER_04]: over and over until the holes are big enough

[00:19:51] [SPEAKER_04]: to reach inside and pull out his own intestines.

[00:19:54] [SPEAKER_03]: He throws them all over the floor

[00:19:56] [SPEAKER_03]: trying to get the poison out of his body.

[00:19:58] [SPEAKER_03]: Is this the story or Cain?

[00:20:01] [SPEAKER_03]: Uh... yes.

[00:20:02] [SPEAKER_03]: Are you fucking with me?

[00:20:03] [SPEAKER_04]: No. Cain died.

[00:20:05] [SPEAKER_04]: The publisher took the project to other writers,

[00:20:07] [SPEAKER_04]: but they all turned it down.

[00:20:08] [SPEAKER_04]: They said it was a curse.

[00:20:10] [SPEAKER_04]: It was never released and Alan vanished.

[00:20:14] [SPEAKER_03]: Fuck. This is amazing.

[00:20:16] [SPEAKER_03]: What?

[00:20:16] [SPEAKER_03]: His last story drove a man to murder his wife

[00:20:19] [SPEAKER_03]: and cut himself open.

[00:20:21] [SPEAKER_03]: What will the first SV Malin story in decades do to you?

[00:20:25] [SPEAKER_03]: Marketing is gonna love this.

[00:20:26] [SPEAKER_03]: Lace, this is serious.

[00:20:28] [SPEAKER_03]: He's got like, bad juju.

[00:20:30] [SPEAKER_03]: Can you even say that anymore?

[00:20:32] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm not kidding.

[00:20:33] [SPEAKER_03]: He's been out there alone for what?

[00:20:35] [SPEAKER_03]: 30 years? Who knows what he's...

[00:20:36] [SPEAKER_03]: Stop. A stiff breeze could knock him over.

[00:20:39] [SPEAKER_03]: My biggest fear is that he won't deliver a single usable sentence.

[00:20:43] [SPEAKER_03]: I pick up his story tomorrow.

[00:20:45] [SPEAKER_03]: I'll call you then.

[00:20:46] [SPEAKER_04]: Okay, Lace. Be careful.

[00:21:10] [SPEAKER_10]: Got money?

[00:21:11] [SPEAKER_03]: Let me see the pages.

[00:21:13] [SPEAKER_10]: Over there.

[00:21:19] [SPEAKER_03]: Parchment? Are you serious?

[00:21:21] [SPEAKER_10]: That's enough money.

[00:21:23] [SPEAKER_03]: I need to check this isn't 30 pages of all work and no play.

[00:21:25] [SPEAKER_10]: You're gonna have to trust...

[00:21:27] [SPEAKER_03]: You sat on a 100k advance for five years and I...

[00:21:29] [SPEAKER_10]: Delivered the novel. Money.

[00:21:32] [SPEAKER_03]: Why did it take five years?

[00:21:33] [SPEAKER_10]: Creating is harder than adapting. You should try it.

[00:21:37] [SPEAKER_03]: No thanks.

[00:21:39] [SPEAKER_03]: Pages?

[00:21:43] [SPEAKER_03]: The final cut.

[00:21:45] [SPEAKER_03]: Ugh, shit title.

[00:21:46] [SPEAKER_10]: As much as you disgust me...

[00:21:48] [SPEAKER_10]: Charming.

[00:21:48] [SPEAKER_10]: I ain't a total bastard.

[00:21:50] [SPEAKER_10]: So I'm gonna warn you once.

[00:21:52] [SPEAKER_10]: Don't change a word.

[00:21:54] [SPEAKER_03]: Is that what you told Cain?

[00:21:56] [SPEAKER_10]: How did you know about that?

[00:21:58] [SPEAKER_03]: Due diligence.

[00:21:59] [SPEAKER_03]: Nasty shit.

[00:22:00] [SPEAKER_10]: Well then you already know.

[00:22:02] [SPEAKER_10]: Why'd he do it?

[00:22:03] [SPEAKER_10]: I thought he was smarter than what was on the page.

[00:22:06] [SPEAKER_03]: How'd he lose your eye?

[00:22:07] [SPEAKER_10]: Made the same mistake.

[00:22:09] [SPEAKER_10]: Like you will, I'm betting.

[00:22:10] [SPEAKER_03]: Who did it? Dealer?

[00:22:12] [SPEAKER_03]: Bookie?

[00:22:13] [SPEAKER_10]: Me.

[00:22:15] [SPEAKER_03]: Bullshit.

[00:22:16] [SPEAKER_10]: Gouged it out myself.

[00:22:18] [SPEAKER_10]: With that pen.

[00:22:19] [SPEAKER_03]: Let me see.

[00:22:20] [SPEAKER_10]: Ugh.

[00:22:21] [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, not your empty eye sockets, psycho.

[00:22:24] [SPEAKER_03]: The pen.

[00:22:25] [SPEAKER_10]: Uh-uh-uh.

[00:22:26] [SPEAKER_03]: Let me see.

[00:22:27] [SPEAKER_03]: Why?

[00:22:28] [SPEAKER_03]: You make it sound mysterious.

[00:22:29] [SPEAKER_10]: I did not.

[00:22:30] [SPEAKER_03]: The pen with your gouged out eye on it?

[00:22:32] [SPEAKER_03]: You did.

[00:22:33] [SPEAKER_03]: Show me.

[00:22:33] [SPEAKER_10]: You know what they say about curiosity?

[00:22:35] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's skilled to the cat.

[00:22:37] [SPEAKER_03]: Not leaving until you show it to me.

[00:22:39] [SPEAKER_10]: Ugh.

[00:22:42] [SPEAKER_10]: That's gorgeous.

[00:22:44] [SPEAKER_10]: Looks are deceiving.

[00:22:46] [SPEAKER_10]: Seems old.

[00:22:48] [SPEAKER_10]: Dates to the late 1600s.

[00:22:50] [SPEAKER_03]: And how do you know that?

[00:22:52] [SPEAKER_10]: I just... know.

[00:22:56] [SPEAKER_10]: It was used by a scrive for the church of Saint Pierre, France

[00:23:00] [SPEAKER_10]: to translate text of an ancient occultist group into the church archives.

[00:23:05] [SPEAKER_03]: Is this the story I just bought?

[00:23:07] [SPEAKER_10]: No.

[00:23:10] [SPEAKER_10]: In 1668, a great fire destroyed the town of Aux-Saint-Lenis, France.

[00:23:15] [SPEAKER_10]: Killed hundreds of people.

[00:23:18] [SPEAKER_10]: Okay.

[00:23:18] [SPEAKER_10]: This pen was the only thing to survive.

[00:23:22] [SPEAKER_10]: You see here?

[00:23:24] [SPEAKER_10]: The engraving boiled up a scar.

[00:23:27] [SPEAKER_10]: Its provenance.

[00:23:29] [SPEAKER_03]: How do you even have this?

[00:23:31] [SPEAKER_10]: It was a gift.

[00:23:32] [SPEAKER_10]: Came at a time I thought was my darkest.

[00:23:36] [SPEAKER_13]: After Lily?

[00:23:37] [SPEAKER_10]: Five years, I had no words.

[00:23:41] [SPEAKER_10]: Then this.

[00:23:44] [SPEAKER_10]: And endless words.

[00:23:46] [SPEAKER_03]: You wrote Shepherd's Fury with that?

[00:23:48] [SPEAKER_03]: No.

[00:23:48] [SPEAKER_03]: The novel came as a ready?

[00:23:50] [SPEAKER_10]: Enough story time.

[00:23:53] [SPEAKER_03]: You wrote this story with that?

[00:23:55] [SPEAKER_10]: I'll show you out.

[00:23:56] [SPEAKER_03]: That thing has to be worth...

[00:23:59] [SPEAKER_03]: Why don't sell it, get your treatments, move out of this dump?

[00:24:02] [SPEAKER_10]: I'm letting its words walk out with you.

[00:24:06] [SPEAKER_10]: That's risk enough.

[00:24:07] [SPEAKER_03]: Its words?

[00:24:09] [SPEAKER_10]: Last time I tell you, don't be smarter than what's on the page.

[00:24:14] [SPEAKER_03]: But what if I actually am?

[00:24:19] [SPEAKER_03]: Have a nice life, Virgil.

[00:24:38] [SPEAKER_04]: What'd you get?

[00:24:39] [SPEAKER_04]: You are not ready.

[00:24:40] [SPEAKER_04]: Try me, I love horror.

[00:24:42] [SPEAKER_03]: Oh shit, its hand written?

[00:24:44] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, with a rare as fuck fountain pen if you can believe that.

[00:24:48] [SPEAKER_03]: That's cool.

[00:24:49] [SPEAKER_03]: That's passive aggressive.

[00:24:50] [SPEAKER_03]: He wants to make it hard to change.

[00:24:52] [SPEAKER_03]: He's real clear about not changing the words.

[00:24:55] [SPEAKER_03]: Like he was with Kane.

[00:24:56] [SPEAKER_03]: He's sensitive on that topic.

[00:24:59] [SPEAKER_03]: The final cut?

[00:25:00] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, let's some classic 80s slasher vibes.

[00:25:04] [SPEAKER_03]: Anyway, it's about a girl named Sylvia Grace who is plagued by horrible visions.

[00:25:09] [SPEAKER_03]: She believes she's possessed by evil spirits trying to escape her body.

[00:25:14] [SPEAKER_03]: Ooh, I'm sensing body horror.

[00:25:17] [SPEAKER_03]: You're scaring me.

[00:25:18] [SPEAKER_03]: To older brothers, rubbed off.

[00:25:20] [SPEAKER_03]: Anyway, her family tries to help and sends her to a priest.

[00:25:24] [SPEAKER_03]: The priest believes her.

[00:25:25] [SPEAKER_03]: So he performs special prayer sessions coaxing her into a trance.

[00:25:30] [SPEAKER_03]: He says it's like an exorcism, but he's really GHB-ing her and...

[00:25:35] [SPEAKER_03]: Oh shit.

[00:25:36] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, Sylvia becomes increasingly distraught and the spirits get louder and louder.

[00:25:42] [SPEAKER_03]: She believes the only way to release them is to cut them out.

[00:25:46] [SPEAKER_03]: That's like Kane.

[00:25:48] [SPEAKER_03]: At that point it's just relentless self torture porn until...

[00:25:51] [SPEAKER_03]: She makes the final cut.

[00:25:53] [SPEAKER_03]: Calls her family together, tells them she wants to set her evil spirits free

[00:25:58] [SPEAKER_03]: and slices her own throat in front of them.

[00:26:01] [SPEAKER_03]: The coda has Sylvia's younger sister hearing the voices too.

[00:26:04] [SPEAKER_03]: Is any of that true?

[00:26:08] [SPEAKER_03]: It rings similar to...

[00:26:11] [SPEAKER_03]: My sister, Jessica.

[00:26:13] [SPEAKER_03]: What?

[00:26:14] [SPEAKER_03]: Not the priest shit but...

[00:26:17] [SPEAKER_03]: The inner demons, the self harm.

[00:26:19] [SPEAKER_03]: Oh no, Lace.

[00:26:21] [SPEAKER_03]: She had a lot of issues.

[00:26:24] [SPEAKER_03]: Substance abuse, street life, abusive partners.

[00:26:28] [SPEAKER_03]: She'd get help and then relapse.

[00:26:31] [SPEAKER_03]: Repeated does in times.

[00:26:34] [SPEAKER_03]: In the end...

[00:26:36] [SPEAKER_03]: She cut her own throat.

[00:26:40] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm sorry.

[00:26:43] [SPEAKER_04]: How could Malyn know that?

[00:26:45] [SPEAKER_03]: Dunno. I mean her story is findable for anyone looking for it but...

[00:26:49] [SPEAKER_03]: Malyn's off the grid so...

[00:26:52] [SPEAKER_04]: I have a few backup writers to meet.

[00:26:53] [SPEAKER_03]: It's too late. We're stuck with this.

[00:26:56] [SPEAKER_04]: How are you gonna happy ending that?

[00:26:59] [SPEAKER_03]: Malyn doesn't develop Sylvia's backstory,

[00:27:02] [SPEAKER_03]: he just treats her as a prop to make it all about the evil spirit so...

[00:27:07] [SPEAKER_03]: I'll lose the priest shit and give her child a trauma.

[00:27:09] [SPEAKER_03]: Daddy issues always works.

[00:27:12] [SPEAKER_03]: That's a crutch, but...

[00:27:15] [SPEAKER_03]: Let's say dad is abusive,

[00:27:16] [SPEAKER_03]: kills Sylvia's mother and goes to prison.

[00:27:21] [SPEAKER_03]: Sylvia gets bounced around foster care

[00:27:23] [SPEAKER_03]: and lands with a horrible family that takes as many girls as possible for the money.

[00:27:29] [SPEAKER_03]: They abuse Sylvia for sport, telling her she's cursed and evil.

[00:27:34] [SPEAKER_03]: We'll play it as supernatural from Sylvia's POV,

[00:27:36] [SPEAKER_03]: but the real monster is this batshit crazy family.

[00:27:41] [SPEAKER_03]: We gotta lose the cutting though, right?

[00:27:45] [SPEAKER_03]: The lured shit for sure, but I'll keep it and treat it as a trauma response to her abuse.

[00:27:52] [SPEAKER_03]: I'll add a mentor who saved Sylvia from a suicide attempt.

[00:27:55] [SPEAKER_03]: Let's call her... Mandy.

[00:27:57] [SPEAKER_03]: Oh my god that movie was insane.

[00:28:00] [SPEAKER_04]: What?

[00:28:01] [SPEAKER_04]: Nick Cage, Andrea Rizbro, Ponies, Cosmonies.

[00:28:04] [SPEAKER_04]: I have no idea what you're talking about right now.

[00:28:06] [SPEAKER_03]: Are you okay?

[00:28:07] [SPEAKER_03]: No, I'm itchy as fuck.

[00:28:10] [SPEAKER_03]: Anyway, with Mandy's help Sylvia is finally able to face her demons.

[00:28:14] [SPEAKER_03]: She becomes a crisis counselor where she helps save other troubled girls.

[00:28:19] [SPEAKER_03]: A survival story?

[00:28:21] [SPEAKER_03]: The inspired by version I would have wanted for Jessica.

[00:28:25] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[00:28:26] [SPEAKER_03]: Incredible.

[00:28:28] [SPEAKER_03]: We'll tag it with a PSA for the self-harm crisis line and...

[00:28:32] [SPEAKER_03]: I'll finally get that fucking promotion I deserve.

[00:28:35] [SPEAKER_03]: Shit. I just watched you do that.

[00:28:38] [SPEAKER_03]: Well, that's how the sausage gets made. Christ, what is with this itch?

[00:28:41] [SPEAKER_03]: Did you get bit by something?

[00:28:42] [SPEAKER_03]: I must have.

[00:28:44] [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, outline that for tomorrow's meeting, top priority on it.

[00:28:47] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm so excited to be working with you on this.

[00:28:50] [SPEAKER_04]: Tomorrow's meeting is gonna be amazing.

[00:29:05] [SPEAKER_03]: Good morning everyone.

[00:29:06] [SPEAKER_03]: Hello.

[00:29:07] [SPEAKER_07]: The women of the hour.

[00:29:08] [SPEAKER_07]: We're all looking forward to this.

[00:29:09] [SPEAKER_03]: Great. Kim just sent you the pitch to follow along.

[00:29:14] [SPEAKER_03]: This is a dark and twisted story of Sylvia Grace,

[00:29:18] [SPEAKER_03]: a vulnerable girl who was driven to the brink of self-destruction

[00:29:22] [SPEAKER_03]: when she mistakes her abusive environment for supernatural evil.

[00:29:30] [SPEAKER_07]: Please.

[00:29:33] [SPEAKER_03]: We will follow Sylvia's story as the newest girl

[00:29:40] [SPEAKER_03]: to arrive at the Kemp Foster family after her father...

[00:29:47] [SPEAKER_03]: He just died.

[00:29:51] [SPEAKER_03]: The Kemp's have quite the nefarious operation going.

[00:29:55] [SPEAKER_03]: A dozen girls.

[00:30:01] [SPEAKER_07]: You all right, Lise?

[00:30:03] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, I'm good. I'm all good.

[00:30:06] [SPEAKER_03]: Shortly after Sylvia arrives,

[00:30:08] [SPEAKER_03]: the Kemp's are visited by an auditor for social services who...

[00:30:17] [SPEAKER_02]: And so they kill the auditor and lash out at Sylvia,

[00:30:23] [SPEAKER_02]: abusing her, telling her she's cursed.

[00:30:25] [SPEAKER_02]: She's brought you all to their homes.

[00:30:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Get them out! Get them out!

[00:30:31] [SPEAKER_02]: Lise!

[00:30:35] [SPEAKER_08]: What?

[00:30:36] [SPEAKER_08]: Lise, you're bleeding.

[00:30:38] [SPEAKER_02]: What?

[00:30:40] [SPEAKER_04]: Lise, hey, let's take a break, okay?

[00:30:43] [SPEAKER_08]: Go. Get yourself cleaned up.

[00:30:45] [SPEAKER_04]: Come on. Come with me.

[00:30:54] [SPEAKER_04]: You really clogged yourself. Let me clean this up.

[00:30:56] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

[00:30:57] Okay.

[00:30:59] [SPEAKER_02]: What happened?

[00:31:01] [SPEAKER_02]: You don't remember?

[00:31:03] [SPEAKER_02]: No. It felt like...

[00:31:06] [SPEAKER_02]: bugs.

[00:31:07] [SPEAKER_04]: Shit.

[00:31:11] [SPEAKER_04]: Lise, total confidence, okay?

[00:31:14] What?

[00:31:15] [SPEAKER_04]: Are you on anything?

[00:31:16] [SPEAKER_04]: I totally understand.

[00:31:18] [SPEAKER_04]: Look, Kim.

[00:31:19] [SPEAKER_04]: No.

[00:31:20] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm just asking.

[00:31:21] [SPEAKER_04]: With all the pressure of this project and...

[00:31:23] [SPEAKER_04]: No. Okay?

[00:31:24] [SPEAKER_04]: No.

[00:31:25] [SPEAKER_04]: I think the bleeding stopped.

[00:31:28] [SPEAKER_04]: Finally.

[00:31:31] [SPEAKER_03]: You okay?

[00:31:32] [SPEAKER_03]: Shit.

[00:31:33] [SPEAKER_03]: I gotta get back in there.

[00:31:34] [SPEAKER_03]: However you wanna play this, Lise.

[00:31:35] [SPEAKER_03]: I got you.

[00:31:36] [SPEAKER_03]: Okay?

[00:31:37] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. Thanks.

[00:31:42] [SPEAKER_08]: Lise, hey.

[00:31:44] [SPEAKER_03]: Hey!

[00:31:44] [SPEAKER_03]: Lise, are you okay?

[00:31:46] [SPEAKER_03]: Fine, Grant. Just allergic reaction,

[00:31:48] [SPEAKER_03]: new moisture either.

[00:31:48] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, same thing happened to me last year.

[00:31:51] [SPEAKER_03]: It was not fun.

[00:31:53] [SPEAKER_08]: Oh, okay.

[00:31:54] [SPEAKER_03]: Let's get back to the pitch.

[00:31:56] [SPEAKER_08]: I postponed it until tomorrow.

[00:31:57] [SPEAKER_08]: You what?

[00:31:58] [SPEAKER_08]: Lise, I had no idea what the hell was going on.

[00:32:00] [SPEAKER_03]: Are you trying to sabotage me?

[00:32:01] [SPEAKER_08]: What?

[00:32:02] [SPEAKER_03]: VP. My promotion.

[00:32:04] [SPEAKER_08]: Shit, Lise. No.

[00:32:05] [SPEAKER_08]: I need this to work as much as you do.

[00:32:07] [SPEAKER_03]: Great.

[00:32:09] [SPEAKER_03]: Come on. We're finishing. Now.

[00:32:11] [SPEAKER_08]: No. False alarm.

[00:32:13] [SPEAKER_08]: We'll pick it up tomorrow.

[00:32:14] [SPEAKER_08]: Details to follow.

[00:32:15] [SPEAKER_02]: What the fuck, Grant?

[00:32:17] [SPEAKER_08]: Go home, Lise.

[00:32:18] [SPEAKER_08]: Get some rest.

[00:32:19] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't need rest. I need to...

[00:32:20] [SPEAKER_02]: I can totally handle things here at Lise.

[00:32:22] [SPEAKER_02]: Really.

[00:32:24] [SPEAKER_03]: Get some rest.

[00:32:26] [SPEAKER_03]: 9 a.m. tomorrow.

[00:32:28] [SPEAKER_03]: I want everyone back in that room.

[00:32:30] [SPEAKER_08]: Checking at 7.

[00:32:31] [SPEAKER_08]: We'll figure it out.

[00:32:49] [SPEAKER_03]: See, Sylvia...

[00:32:50] [SPEAKER_03]: Sylvia runs through the hall.

[00:32:52] [SPEAKER_03]: Caught off guard of a voice.

[00:33:03] [SPEAKER_03]: But...

[00:33:03] [SPEAKER_03]: Man, get out!

[00:33:10] [SPEAKER_16]: Get...

[00:33:11] [SPEAKER_16]: Get out! Get out of me!

[00:33:14] [SPEAKER_16]: No, no, no, no, no, no!

[00:33:16] [SPEAKER_16]: Get out!

[00:33:16] [SPEAKER_16]: Get out!

[00:33:17] [SPEAKER_16]: Get out of me!

[00:33:20] [SPEAKER_16]: We're seeing this!

[00:34:06] [SPEAKER_04]: Hey!

[00:34:07] [SPEAKER_04]: Looks like you're making progress.

[00:34:10] [SPEAKER_03]: What the fuck are you doing here?

[00:34:11] [SPEAKER_03]: Here to help.

[00:34:12] [SPEAKER_03]: Team Lise!

[00:34:13] [SPEAKER_03]: I didn't ask you to come here. You need to leave.

[00:34:16] [SPEAKER_03]: What's wrong?

[00:34:17] [SPEAKER_03]: Uh, nothing.

[00:34:18] [SPEAKER_03]: Leave now.

[00:34:19] [SPEAKER_03]: You're bleeding again.

[00:34:21] [SPEAKER_03]: No, don't.

[00:34:21] [SPEAKER_03]: Let me see...

[00:34:22] [SPEAKER_02]: Stop it.

[00:34:23] [SPEAKER_02]: Lise, you're cut. What's happening?

[00:34:25] [SPEAKER_04]: I...

[00:34:26] [SPEAKER_02]: I can't explain it.

[00:34:28] [SPEAKER_04]: You did this.

[00:34:30] [SPEAKER_04]: There's...

[00:34:30] [SPEAKER_04]: What?

[00:34:31] [SPEAKER_04]: Never mind.

[00:34:32] [SPEAKER_03]: Lise, what?

[00:34:34] [SPEAKER_03]: Bugs, okay?

[00:34:36] [SPEAKER_03]: Thousands of bugs are crawling inside of me.

[00:34:39] [SPEAKER_03]: I can see them.

[00:34:40] [SPEAKER_03]: I can feel them under my skin and I...

[00:34:41] [SPEAKER_03]: I had to cut them out.

[00:34:43] [SPEAKER_03]: Shit.

[00:34:44] [SPEAKER_04]: You didn't take anything?

[00:34:45] [SPEAKER_03]: Even by accident.

[00:34:46] [SPEAKER_03]: I don't have time for this.

[00:34:49] [SPEAKER_04]: Lise, this is just like pain.

[00:34:52] [SPEAKER_04]: Christ, Kim, really?

[00:34:53] [SPEAKER_04]: It's very similar.

[00:34:55] [SPEAKER_04]: Let me help.

[00:34:57] [SPEAKER_04]: I can transcribe.

[00:34:58] [SPEAKER_04]: Kim, stop.

[00:34:59] [SPEAKER_04]: I won't change anything.

[00:35:01] [SPEAKER_03]: No, this has to be me.

[00:35:04] [SPEAKER_03]: I can't work here now.

[00:35:05] [SPEAKER_03]: I have to focus.

[00:35:06] [SPEAKER_03]: What is all this stuff for?

[00:35:08] [SPEAKER_03]: Let go.

[00:35:08] [SPEAKER_03]: Knives?

[00:35:09] [SPEAKER_03]: Go home, Kim.

[00:35:10] [SPEAKER_03]: A blow towards Lise.

[00:35:11] [SPEAKER_03]: What the fuck?

[00:35:12] [SPEAKER_03]: I need to stiff the ending.

[00:35:14] [SPEAKER_03]: Lise, you're scaring me.

[00:35:15] [SPEAKER_03]: That's pressure, Kim.

[00:35:16] [SPEAKER_03]: Get your shit together.

[00:35:17] [SPEAKER_03]: Me?

[00:35:19] [SPEAKER_03]: Where are you going?

[00:35:30] [SPEAKER_03]: It's Lise E. Ridgeway.

[00:35:32] [SPEAKER_03]: I stayed there a few nights ago.

[00:35:33] [SPEAKER_03]: Whatever you want, Tom.

[00:35:34] [SPEAKER_03]: It's gone.

[00:35:35] [SPEAKER_03]: No, I need a room for tonight.

[00:35:37] [SPEAKER_03]: First come, first served.

[00:35:39] [SPEAKER_03]: Just hold one.

[00:35:40] [SPEAKER_03]: I'll be there in an hour.

[00:35:41] [SPEAKER_03]: Don't hold rooms.

[00:35:43] [SPEAKER_03]: Thanks.

[00:36:03] [SPEAKER_03]: Silvia crawls under the bed.

[00:36:05] [SPEAKER_03]: Terrified.

[00:36:07] [SPEAKER_03]: Madeleine Kemp taunts her.

[00:37:03] [SPEAKER_04]: I see.

[00:37:05] [SPEAKER_02]: Open the door.

[00:37:23] [SPEAKER_02]: Careful.

[00:37:25] [SPEAKER_02]: What the fuck did you do to me?

[00:37:28] [SPEAKER_10]: Did it to yourself like I knew you would.

[00:37:31] [SPEAKER_05]: Let me in!

[00:37:34] [SPEAKER_10]: You changed the words.

[00:37:36] [SPEAKER_10]: Now you gotta pay like all of us.

[00:37:38] [SPEAKER_03]: Prius prus.

[00:37:39] [SPEAKER_03]: Let me in!

[00:37:40] [SPEAKER_10]: Stop that!

[00:37:42] [SPEAKER_03]: Where's the pen?

[00:37:43] [SPEAKER_10]: Can't help you now.

[00:37:44] Lise, get the pen.

[00:37:46] Let me have it.

[00:37:49] [SPEAKER_03]: Where is it?

[00:37:53] [SPEAKER_10]: I finally got someone to serve.

[00:37:55] [SPEAKER_10]: You're jealous, you ruts.

[00:37:57] [SPEAKER_03]: You think I deserve this?

[00:37:59] [SPEAKER_10]: I thought you were smarter than what's on the page.

[00:38:01] [SPEAKER_10]: Kill him.

[00:38:02] [SPEAKER_10]: Get the pen.

[00:38:02] [SPEAKER_10]: The pen.

[00:38:03] [SPEAKER_10]: Give it to us.

[00:38:05] [SPEAKER_10]: Must?

[00:38:06] [SPEAKER_10]: Give it to me.

[00:38:07] [SPEAKER_10]: I kept it caged up here for 30 years.

[00:38:10] [SPEAKER_10]: Not letting it out now.

[00:38:11] [SPEAKER_10]: You're choking me.

[00:38:12] [SPEAKER_16]: No.

[00:38:13] [SPEAKER_16]: Get out!

[00:38:14] [SPEAKER_16]: Get out!

[00:38:17] [SPEAKER_16]: Get out!

[00:38:19] Prius!

[00:38:19] [SPEAKER_16]: Please!

[00:38:20] [SPEAKER_16]: Please stop!

[00:38:26] [SPEAKER_05]: It's in here, isn't it?

[00:38:29] [SPEAKER_05]: Open it!

[00:38:30] [SPEAKER_05]: It's using you!

[00:38:31] [SPEAKER_05]: Kill him.

[00:38:32] [SPEAKER_05]: Get the pen.

[00:38:32] [SPEAKER_05]: Shut up!

[00:38:33] [SPEAKER_05]: Open this door!

[00:38:34] [SPEAKER_05]: It'll kill you.

[00:38:35] [SPEAKER_05]: It needs me.

[00:38:36] [SPEAKER_05]: It needs your suffering.

[00:38:38] [SPEAKER_05]: Shut up.

[00:38:39] [SPEAKER_15]: Out of the way.

[00:38:50] [SPEAKER_05]: Stop.

[00:38:55] [SPEAKER_05]: Stop!

[00:38:56] [SPEAKER_05]: Get in that pen and everything you've written with it.

[00:38:58] [SPEAKER_05]: Last chance.

[00:38:59] [SPEAKER_05]: Getting this thing out of me.

[00:39:00] [SPEAKER_05]: Please stop.

[00:39:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Kill him.

[00:39:02] [SPEAKER_05]: Prussia's gone.

[00:39:09] [SPEAKER_16]: Holy shit.

[00:39:36] [SPEAKER_04]: Lace, what happened?

[00:39:39] [SPEAKER_04]: Oh no.

[00:39:45] He's...

[00:39:46] [SPEAKER_04]: gone.

[00:39:47] [SPEAKER_04]: Tell her to get the pen.

[00:39:53] [SPEAKER_04]: No service out here, Lace.

[00:39:57] [SPEAKER_04]: And...

[00:39:58] [SPEAKER_04]: you've lost a lot of blood.

[00:40:01] [SPEAKER_04]: Don't.

[00:40:02] [SPEAKER_04]: Don't.

[00:40:03] [SPEAKER_04]: Don't.

[00:40:06] [SPEAKER_04]: Lace.

[00:40:08] [SPEAKER_04]: Don't.

[00:40:09] [SPEAKER_04]: What?

[00:40:14] [SPEAKER_04]: Lace.

[00:40:15] [SPEAKER_04]: The pen.

[00:40:18] [SPEAKER_04]: Pen.

[00:40:19] [SPEAKER_04]: Malin's pen?

[00:40:21] [SPEAKER_04]: No.

[00:40:23] [SPEAKER_02]: No, don't.

[00:40:24] [SPEAKER_04]: It's okay, Lace.

[00:40:26] [SPEAKER_04]: It's okay.

[00:40:27] No.

[00:40:29] [SPEAKER_04]: I promise.

[00:40:32] [SPEAKER_04]: I'll find it.

[00:40:39] [SPEAKER_04]: I'll find it.

[00:40:55] [SPEAKER_06]: Aminus Thrill presents...

[00:40:58] [SPEAKER_06]: The Final Cut.

[00:40:59] [SPEAKER_06]: Created, written, directed and sound designed by Jeff Schmidt.

[00:41:05] [SPEAKER_06]: Starring...

[00:41:06] [SPEAKER_06]: Juliana LaBarbiere as Lace.

[00:41:09] [SPEAKER_06]: Catherine Ballantyne as Kim.

[00:41:13] [SPEAKER_06]: Ray Lasker as S.V. Malin.

[00:41:17] [SPEAKER_06]: David Patrick Reigns as Grant.

[00:41:20] [SPEAKER_06]: Owen McEwen as Kane.

[00:41:24] [SPEAKER_06]: Marianne Stanek as Janet.

[00:41:27] [SPEAKER_06]: Lisa Stanley as Motel Operator.

[00:41:31] [SPEAKER_06]: And Cherrie Weshard as The Voice.

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[00:42:09] [SPEAKER_06]: Sure I can't get you a drink?

[00:42:13] [SPEAKER_06]: Uh...

[00:42:13] [SPEAKER_06]: I... um...

[00:42:16] [SPEAKER_12]: They'd had a moment, hadn't they?

[00:42:18] [SPEAKER_12]: That afternoon when Garrett had smiled just like this,

[00:42:24] [SPEAKER_12]: warm-eyed and amused in a way that made Tony want another cigarette,

[00:42:28] [SPEAKER_12]: but also want to step forward and...

[00:42:30] [SPEAKER_12]: Okay, what are you writing? Ah!

[00:42:34] [SPEAKER_07]: New Text Post on Thursday, May 21st.

[00:42:38] [SPEAKER_11]: Title.

[00:42:40] [SPEAKER_11]: Why YOU should be watching Selkirk.

[00:42:44] [SPEAKER_13]: So Selkirk fandom,

[00:42:46] [SPEAKER_13]: who wants to read my 5,000 word essay Garrett last name,

[00:42:50] [SPEAKER_13]: Secret Werewolf.

[00:42:53] [SPEAKER_11]: I'm Kate, by the way.

[00:42:57] [SPEAKER_11]: They kiss?

[00:43:00] [SPEAKER_11]: I think I lucked out when I found Selkirk.

[00:43:04] [SPEAKER_11]: Because if I'd loved something else,

[00:43:06] [SPEAKER_11]: I would have made friends and I would have been able to read a ton of great stories.

[00:43:13] [SPEAKER_11]: But this way?

[00:43:14] [SPEAKER_11]: I met you.