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TRANSCRIPT | EPISODE 11

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NARRATOR


In October of 2011, 4 college students disappeared in the woods near Porter Township Pennsylvania while researching a documentary on children’s author Jakob Stanley. They remain missing to this day. Last month their recordings appeared online. In an effort to aid in the investigation, the families of those missing have agreed to release the following sound files. If anyone has information on those missing or the identity of the person or persons who uploaded these files, please use the contact information provided. Anything submitted may be used in future episodes. Certain materials referenced in this podcast, including the published works of Jakob Stanley, are currently protected under U.S. copyright law and may be redacted. For legal reasons, some names have been withheld and voices altered. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the podcasters and participants, and do not represent the official policy or position of the Iphigenia County Police Department of Porter Township Pennsylvania or its associates. This podcast contains adult themes and language. Listener discretion is advised.



SFX: Transition Sting



01:32.110


PROFESSOR WHITAKER


Time's up. Bryce. Folder labeled: “011 Rough Cut, Episode 11 - Tell Me a Story: The True Life of Jakob Stanley.”




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SFX: Mic cuts on. Inaudible mumbling, some words peek through.



AVERY


Well, listeners, if you haven’t guessed, we appear to have a flat tire.



[RJ laugh snorts.]



AVERY (CONT’D)


They’re not gonna help change this are they?



RJ


No.



AVERY


Great.



SFX: Mic cuts off.



SFX: Avery and RJ are sitting on the hood of the car as Chuck approaches. The mics are damaged from the rain and cut off and on.



02:31.570RJ


Microphone check, check, check. ...



RJ (CONT’D)


Aw, fudge... the mic’s messed up.



SFX: Chuck kicks the dirt.



AVERY


The prodigal son returns!



CHUCK


Yeah, yeah.



SFX: Chuck leans against the car.



RJ


We changed the tire.



AVERY


You’re welcome.



RJ


Where’s Tolen?



CHUCK


How would I know? I’ve been over there.



AVERY


Huh, he never came back this way.



CHUCK


Well, I didn’t see where he went.



AVERY


Neither did we.



RJ


It’s starting to get dark. Should we be worried?



CHUCK


He’s fine, I’m sure he...has to be... right over...



SFX: Chuck walks towards where Tolen stormed off.



CHUCK


Over here...



AVERY


Where else could he have gone? That doesn’t lead anywhere.



SFX: Chuck walks back to the car.



CHUCK


Leads to the woods.



RJ


Everything here leads to the woods.



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CHUCK


Oh, shit, what do we do?



RJ


Ah, we look for him.



CHUCK


But, that’s the only way he could have gone? We should find him right there.



TOLEN


Hey guys.



SFX: Tolen appears out of seemingly nowhere.



RJ


TOLEN.



AVERY


Where the hell were you?



SFX: Tolen opens the car door and sits in the driver seat with his legs out the door.



AVERY (CONT’D)


Ah, Tolen?



RJ


Where’d you go?



TOLEN


The ridge, over the quarry.



RJ


The one we were just at? Before the storm?



TOLEN


Yeah. Same place.



RJ


But how?



AVERY


Tolen? Earth to Tolen?



TOLEN


Yes, sorry, yes.



RJ


How did you come from the quarry?



AVERY


You would’ve had to pass us and we haven’t left the car.



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TOLEN


I followed the map.



RJ


What map?



TOLEN


The map from book one.



AVERY


The “Ferryman’s Map”? ... From "Under The Bed That’s Over My Head?"



TOLEN


Yeah, I took the “Sea Dragon’s Passage.”



CHUCK


What are you talking about?



SFX: Tolen pulls out the book and flips through the pages.



TOLEN


Here. It was hidden by underbrush, but I found it... There’s a small stone tunnel that leads to right under the ridge we were at. And then I just followed a series of cut stone steps that took me right up the side.The ridge sticks out so far you can only see the steps from underneath it.



AVERY


Holy shit.



TOLEN


It goes along with the poem The Water Was So Cold -



SFX: Tolen is interrupted by a low toned BEEP.



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NARRATOR


Unauthorized material redacted.



SFX: Low toned BEEP



SFX: The wind whips through the car.



TOLEN


After RJ brought it up, I started looking at it and... yeah.



RJ


I don’t even know what to say about that.



TOLEN


Uh...uhm... There’s more.



AVERY


What?



TOLEN


That map being real and the secret passage being real made me... review... some other things, in the other books... and I’m not feeling very well right now.



CHUCK


Just because that secret passage was real doesn’t mean he actually did ... We were just fucking around before, man?



RJ


Put in context though it’s pretty damning.



CHUCK


RJ. You are not helping. - Look, Tolen-



TOLEN


- No, she’s right. You were all right. Something’s wrong. ... I need your help. I think I might know where the unpublished manuscript is hidden. But, it means breaking back into Stanley’s house. - I know it’s asking a lot, but we have to find it. It’s the only thing that makes any of this worth it. So, what do you say?



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RJ


We’re with you.



AVERY


Yeah.



CHUCK


Yeah.



TOLEN


Okay. Okay.



AVERY


Uh, Tolen what other connections did you make from the books?



TOLEN


Well-



SFX: Tolen is interrupted by a low toned BEEP.



NARRATOR


Unauthorized material redacted.



SFX: Low toned BEEP



PODCAST INTRO SEQUENCE



NEWS ANNOUNCER


WN [BEEP REDACTED] TV New York.



MUSIC: [80’s NEWS INTRO THEME]



NEWS ANCHOR ‘83


If your child has been to a school book fair recently, chances are they came home with one of this author’s scary books-



MUSIC: [80’s SUNDAY TALK SHOW THEME]



SUNDAY MORNING TALK SHOW HOST ‘81


Our guest’s first anthology leapt to the top of the New York Times Best Sellers list -



MUSIC: [LATE NIGHT TALK SHOW INTRO APPLAUSE]



LATE NIGHT TALK SHOW HOST ‘86


- Thank you. Thank you! Over the past few years, he has become a household name -



MUSIC: [PODCAST THEME]



PUBLIC RADIO HOST ‘92


- Bridging the gap between Alvin Schwartz and Stephen King -



TV PREACHER


- The devil is among us, friends.



CONGREGATION


AMEN!



TV PREACHER


He’s among us, in the form of a writer. -



SUNDAY MORNING TALK SHOW HOST ‘81


- The book might have struggled during it initial release in 1977, but now “Tell Me A Story: Under the Bed That’s Over My Head”, has skyrocketed -



ALSC COMMITTEE REP


- So many parent organizations complained that his work was too sophisticated for children-



TV PREACHER


- He has infiltrated your homes, and your children’s minds-



PUBLIC RADIO HOST ‘92


- His second macabre anthology “Tell Me A Story: Moonless Sky and Other Friends” sold out from bookstores in mere minutes. Becoming a controversial -



NEWS ANCHOR ‘83


- Stanley's books ranked on the American Library Association’s “100 Most Frequently Challenged Books” from 1981-1993 -



TV PREACHER


- Stanley’s books promote disobedience, violence and the occult! Lord have mercy -



PUBLIC RADIO HOST ‘92


- The 3rd volume in his “Tell Me A Story” collection “The Floor That Creaks, the Closet That Speaks and the Tip Toes That You Walk On” was released in 1986 to mass acclaim -



ALSC COMMITTEE REP


- All that fussing, just made his work more popular -



TV PREACHER


- Check your children’s rooms, check their bookshelves, check their back-packs! -



YOUTUBER


- I do think his final book, released in ‘99, “TMAS: The nightmare, The Dream and the Places Between,” was by far his best work.-



PUBLIC RADIO HOST ‘92


- His work has been described as “subversive” and “dark,” I simply describe it as genius.



SUNDAY MORNING TALK SHOW HOST ‘81


- It is my pleasure to introduce -



LATE NIGHT TALK SHOW HOST ‘86


- Please welcome -



PUBLIC RADIO HOST ‘92


- Ladies and gentleman, please welcome -



SUNDAY MORNING TALK SHOW HOST ‘81


- Jakob Stanley.-



LATE NIGHT TALK SHOW HOST ‘86


- Mister Jakob Stanley.



PUBLIC RADIO HOST ‘92


- Author, Jakob Stanley.



[Applause.]



MUSIC: [POD THEME SYNTH]



AVERY/NARRATOR


Little to nothing is known about the life of this elusive author. And since 1999 Jakob Stanley seems to have completely dropped off the face of the earth. Until a short two-line obituary appeared in a small town paper, over a year ago.



TOLEN/NARRATOR


From BOO Labs and Red Cup Media, I'm Tolen Reid -



AVERY/NARRATOR


And I'm Avery Fischer, this is TELL ME A STORY: THE TRUE LIFE OF JAKOB STANLEY.



SFX: The mic pops on, it cuts in and out a few times. It is being manhandled as levels are adjusted. The volume fluctuates, the mics are still a bit damaged by the rain.



08:53.350


RJ


Microphone check, check, check. ... These batteries are about to die.



SFX: The house is a bustle of the team flipping through stacks of debris to make an easier pathway through the house.



AVERY


I found outlets over there and there.



RJ


Thanks. Chuck, can you-



CHUCK


I’m not leaving this window... But, I will play look-out.



RJ


Fair enough.



AVERY


Sorry for keeping the lights off, I know you don’t-



CHUCK


Look, I’m more afraid of drawing attention at this point, so don’t worry.



RJ


So, I’m gonna -



TOLEN


Yes, excellent, thank you.



SFX: The team continues to make room in the house.



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RJ


Uh. We are in Jane Stanley’s house. There was no need to break in, the door was unlocked. - I would have thought it would be closed off with police line, but it wasn’t. ... Uh, cops really tossed the place, so we are just moving some things to make it easier to get around. Uh... we’re here to search for Jakob Stanley’s unpublished manuscript. Tolen thinks there is a chance it might be here. But has yet to go into detail as to what exactly makes him so confident.



TOLEN


Okay, so hear me out. You said before, that the only drawings you saw in Stanley’s journals were like line drawings, right?



RJ


Yeah. They were kinda simple, but really ornate at the same time. Hard to describe.



AVERY


Up close they seem almost like just squiggles, but when you pull back the whole picture comes together.



RJ


It’s like he drew them by never lifting the pencil off the page.



TOLEN


Like the one in his final book?



AVERY


Oh shit.



CHUCK


Hell, even I know that one.



RJ


Yeah, it’s super unsettling.



AVERY


And it always stood out because it didn’t match any of the other illustrations in that book.



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RJ


I can’t believe we didn’t make that connection already?



TOLEN


The illustrations in his first 3 books were all different styles and done by different artists, so in context with his other work it’s easy to see how it could get lost in the mix.



RJ


So we’re thinking, Stanley must have drawn that one illustration himself.



TOLEN


And L.L. Randolph did the rest... in the last book, at least. I have it here, hold on.



SFX: Tolen starts rummaging through his bag.



AVERY


Oh, that shit’s burned into my brain. Full page... outline of a human body. Up to the neck, the body is underground, like a basement with the pipes as intestines. And the head is the house, and the top part of the head is tilted open, like it’s tipping its hat, and the hat is the roof... oh, wait.



TOLEN


YES! You get what I am saying?



SFX: Tolen finds the book and flips it open to the picture.



AVERY


Shit.



RJ


What?!



TOLEN


Look, look at the roof. Remind you of anything?



CHUCK


Oh damn.



TOLEN


That is the roof of this house. Alright, see the chimney, it's missing 3 bricks and has moss on the side, and right there, a lightning rod weathervane thing, but instead of it being a rooster or some shit, it is in the shape of the moon.



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AVERY


It’s this house.



RJ


That is definitely the roof of this house.



TOLEN


Now, look inside the tipping hat.



RJ


Which we’re assuming is the attic of this house.



TOLEN


Exactly.



AVERY


Oh, the creepy old man attic monster looking over its shoulder, about to attack.



TOLEN


Okay, but, here’s what I’m thinking. What if it isn’t turning towards us? What if it is turning away? So, okay. The way the lines are behind the figure, as if something is glowing behind him? Something important? Something he’s trying to hide? Couldn’t it be interpreted like that?



CHUCK


Maaybeee?



RJ


I’ll play along. And you think, this is supposed to represent Stanley hiding the manuscript?



TOLEN


Yes.



TOLEN


This illustration is in the final book he published, so well after the whole rejected manuscript thing would’ve occurred. AND it is the only full page drawing ever done by Stanley himself in one of his books.



RJ


We’ve gone a lot further on a lot less.



TOLEN


And the poem beside it-



SFX: Tolen is interrupted by a low toned BEEP.



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NARRATOR


Unauthorized material redacted.



SFX: Low toned BEEP



AVERY


Don’t need to hard sell, we’re here, might as well head up to the attic.



RJ


We just have to figure out how to get to said attic.



CHUCK


Once again, I’m not leaving this window, so y’all have fun with that.


SFX: RJ rummages through her backpack. We hear a walkie talkie being turned on.



RJ


Here. Let us know if you see anything.



SFX: RJ hands Chuck a walkie.



CHUCK


Copy that.



RJ


Shall we?



SFX: The mic cuts out.



SFX: The mic pops on accidentally, it cuts in and out a few times. The volume fluctuates, the mic is still rain-damaged.



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RJ


Is that it?



TOLEN


Here, help me... move this.



SFX: A slight moan of wind outside cuts through like a warning.



TOLEN


Well there it is.



SFX: The house creaks like it is issuing a second warning to not enter.



AVERY


I don’t think it wants us up there.



RJ


Don’t be a weenie.



SFX: The house creaks again with another ominous warning.



AVERY


Nope.



TOLEN


Who are you? Chuck?



AVERY


Fine, I’m Chuck, I’ll be Chuck all day long. No way.



TOLEN


Oh, come on.



AVERY


Uhg! Fine. Creepy-ass pull, flip down ladder... motherfucker.



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TOLEN


I think I can reach it if I stand up on the...



SFX: Tolen attempts to climb the pile to reach the hatch, but it all comes crashing down, slamming Tolen to the floor.



SFX: Walkie Beep.



CHUCK


(over walkie)


You guys okay?



SFX: RJ grabs the walkie-talkie. The walkie button clicks.



RJ


Yeah, We’re fine. Tolen just tried something stupid.



SFX: Walkie Beep.



CHUCK


(over walkie)


Copy that.



RJ


You need to use this pole thing with a hook to open it-



SFX: And with that the attic hatch springs open of its own volition with a violent snap, hurling the ladder down crashing on top of the pile beneath it. The team squeals with fright.



MUSIC/SFX: A creepy out of tune music box is heard faintly in the background.



SFX: Walkie Beep.



CHUCK


(over walkie)


You guys okay?



SFX: Avery grabs the walkie-talkie. The walkie button clicks.



AVERY


Yeah, we’re fine. But, I’m pretty sure the attic is going to try to eat us.



SFX: Walkie Beep.



CHUCK


(over walkie)


Copy that.



SFX: With several grunts of effort, Tolen slowly gets up.



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TOLEN


Let’s move this shit so we -



SFX: The mic distorts and pops off and back on.



RJ


Can’t see shit up here. Check, check, check. ... This battery is about to go too. Damn it-



SFX: The mic quickly cuts out and after a few beats it clicks back on.



AVERY


-Moving all this junk is taking fucking forever.



TOLEN


I’m getting rid of all of my possessions the second we’re back.



RJ


Amen. Screw stuff. Who needs stuff?



AVERY


I think I’m gonna convert to that “only wear one thing” thing.



RJ


Oh, I thought you already did that.



AVERY


Really?



TOLEN


I haven’t seen you in anything other than black jeans and a black hoodie since freshman year.



AVERY


It’s a navy blue hoodie, and I wear different t-shirts?



TOLEN


Oh. Okay.



SFX: The mic quickly cuts out and after a few beats it clicks back on.



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TOLEN


We’ve had to clear out a significant area in the attic to be able to move around.



AVERY


Uhg, what’s that smell?



SFX: The mic quickly cuts out and after a few beats it clicks back on.



TOLEN


Now... if we base our search on Stanley’s illustration, the manuscript should be somewhere near there.



AVERY


That leads straight into the eaves.



RJ


It’s not solid enough to walk out on.



TOLEN


Well, that’s where the manuscript is, so we’re gonna have to try.



SFX: The mic quickly cuts out and after a few beats it clicks back on.



AVERY


We need to stay on the beams.



TOLEN


Do I look like Gabby Douglas to you?



RJ


I’ll try. Let’s see if any of Mrs. Carter’s kinder gymnastics has retained itself in my body.



AVERY


I’ll spot you.



SFX: Avery and RJ cross to the eaves.



SFX: The mic quickly cuts out and after a few beats it clicks back on.



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TOLEN


There’s something... wooden-



AVERY


Everything is wooden!



TOLEN


It’s a box? It’s leaning, kinda tucked near that beam, to the left... see it?



RJ


I see it.



SFX: The mic quickly cuts out and after a few beats it clicks back on.



SFX: The beam creaks, RJ desperately reaches out to the wooden box.



RJ


Come here... you... little... mother... fucker.



TOLEN


Almost there.



SFX: The beam creaks.



AVERY


I got you, don’t worry.



RJ


So... close.



TOLEN


Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.



RJ


GOT IT.



SFX: The beam creaks loudly, Avery pulls RJ off of the beam with a grunt, guiding her back from the eaves. They slam back on to the solid floor of the attic.



TOLEN


YAS!



SFX: Tolen grabs the box from RJ and begins to shake it.



AVERY


Jesus, Tolen.



SFX: Tolen tries to open it, he cannot.



RJ


You’re not gonna be able to open that easy.



TOLEN


What, why?



RJ


It’s a Japanese puzzle box.



AVERY


Oh, I had one of those.



RJ


Yeah, so, it’s gonna take forever to get open.



[Tolen starts to laugh.]



AVERY


Tolen?



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TOLEN


Of course it’s in a puzzle box.



[Tolen keeps laughing.]



RJ


Tolen, you okay?



TOLEN


I’m fine. It’s, it’s - I’m great actually... because I am now 100% sure this is the manuscript.



AVERY


Okay?



TOLEN


And of course, of course, it would be in a puzzle box.



AVERY


Or, it’s just more hoarded junk?



TOLEN


NO. No way. It’s the right size and shape. And listen:



SFX: Tolen shakes the box and there is a slight knocking inside.



TOLEN


It even sounds right! There is a book in here. I can feel it.



RJ


That’s good enough for me.



SFX: Tolen struggles with the box, trying to make it open.



TOLEN


Just ... have to... figure... out... how-



MUSIC/SFX: A creepy out-of-tune music box is heard faintly, it seems to be coming from the puzzle box.



AVERY


Oh no.



RJ


Weird. Must be built into the box.



MUSIC/SFX: The music stops.



AVERY


Why does that sound familiar?



SFX: Walkie Beep, everyone jumps.



CHUCK


(over walkie)


Hey.



RJ


What?



CHUCK


(over walkie)


There’s a car coming up this way.



AVERY


What the fuck?



TOLEN


Shit, we gotta get out of here. I’m not losing this now that we found it.



AVERY


If we found it.



SFX: Walkie button click.



RJ


Can we make it to the car? Are they far enough away to not spot us?



SFX: Walkie Beep.



CHUCK


(over walkie)


Sure we could get to the car, but the second we turn on the headlights and/or drive right past them, we’re fucked.



TOLEN


So, we don’t put on the lights.



AVERY


There is one road. No headlights doesn’t make us invisible.



RJ


Maybe they will just keep going?



TOLEN


Took a wrong turn?



AVERY


What have I been saying since day one?



SFX: Walkie button click.



RJ


Where is the car now?



SFX: Walkie Beep.



CHUCK


(over walkie)


Uh, now the headlights are off. They are just sitting there right down the road.



18:02.910


AVERY


Can you tell who it is?



SFX: Walkie Beep.



CHUCK


(over walkie)


How the hell - What? No.



SFX: Walkie button click.



AVERY


I mean - it’s not the cops is it?



SFX: Walkie Beep.



CHUCK


(over walkie)


There isn’t a light bar across the roof, but I wouldn’t be able to tell from here.



RJ


Fuck. Why are they just sitting there?



SFX: The mic quickly cuts out and after a few beats it clicks back on.



TOLEN


So what if we drive over the back hill into the field, until we hit the fire road.



SFX: Walkie Beep.



CHUCK


(over walkie)


In the dark... without headlights?



AVERY


With a donut on the car?



SFX: Walkie button click.



TOLEN


Or, we just wait here until daylight so everyone can see us leaving?



RJ


We could wait them out, see if they leave?



SFX: Tolen shakes the puzzle box.



TOLEN


I am not losing this.



AVERY


Okay, okay. Can we take a breath here?



RJ


Yeah, we’re not thinking clearly. We haven’t slept in 2 days.



AVERY


And haven’t eaten since waffles-



TOLEN


Look, it’s gonna be daylight soon, if we wanna use the dark to our advantage it’s gotta be now. And I know I can find it.



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AVERY


Okay.



TOLEN


Okay?



AVERY


Are you 100% positive you can get us to the fire road?



TOLEN


85%.



AVERY


Shit.



RJ


Better than 84%?



SFX: Avery grabs the walkie-talkie back. The walkie button clicks.



AVERY


Ok, vote: stay here until daylight or fire road now?



RJ


Fuck it, fire road.



TOLEN


Fire road, Chuck?



SFX: Walkie Beep.



CHUCK


(over walkie)


I want out of this house immediately.



SFX: The walkie button clicks.



AVERY


Okay, so fire road, in the dark, with a spare tire it is-



SFX: The mic cuts out and back on.



SFX: The team has just opened the car doors and are quietly sliding in.



19:18.810


CHUCK


Oh, shit... can’t believe we are really doing this?!



TOLEN


Is that car still there?



SFX: They each quietly close their car doors.



RJ


I can’t tell from here.



AVERY


That’s good right? Means they can’t see us?



CHUCK


Dear God, I hope so.



TOLEN


Buckle the fuck up kiddies, it’s time to ride.



SFX: They all nervously buckle their belts. Tolen starts the car.



AVERY


Should you be driving Tolen? You seem a little wild-eyed right now.



CHUCK


Don’t look at me, I refuse to be behind the wheel for this... that way I can say you assholes took me hostage-



MUSIC/SFX: A creepy out-of-tune music box is heard faintly coming from the puzzle box.



CHUCK


What the fuck is that?



RJ


We think it’s coming from the puzzle box.



CHUCK


I hate this shit. I really do.



SFX: The mic quickly cuts out and after a few beats it clicks back on.



SFX: When the sound kicks back on, the car is already in drive and the journey through the dark fields has begun.



RJ


No one is following us.



AVERY


Go-go-go-go-go!



CHUCK


I’m gonna be sick.



SFX: The mic quickly cuts out several times. After a few beats it clicks back on.



TOLEN


When we get back I’m gonna call Wallace, set up that interview and then I say WE LEAVE!



CHUCK


Fuck the interview.



20:09.878


AVERY


Less talking, more focusing.



RJ


What about the cops?



TOLEN


Screw them. We have the manuscript! The only thing left that Whitaker wanted was the interview with Wallace -



AVERY


- Let’s just make it out of this first, okay?



RJ


Do you think Wallace could do it today?



AVERY


LESS TALKING, MORE FOCUSING.



TOLEN


Shit, was that the turn?



AVERY


You said you had this?!



TOLEN


I SAID 85%!



SFX: The mic quickly cuts out and after a few beats it clicks back on. The car engine is straining to cut through the field.



RJ


That’s it, over there!



AVERY


Oh, my God, we might actually make this.



CHUCK


Don’t jinx it!



SFX: The mic quickly cuts out and after a few beats it clicks back on. The car is now on the fire road humming along at a decent clip.



RJ


Can we celebrate now?



20:58.670


TOLEN


FUCK YEA WE CAN!



AVERY


Holy shit, we made it! We fucking made it!



CHUCK


I knew we’d make it, I told you.



SFX: They all celebrate.



SFX: The mic distorts the sound and clicks off.



SFX: The mic pops on accidentally. The team has just entered the Homestead.



RJ


Oh, God.



AVERY


Uhhhh, I’m still shaking.



RJ


Right?!



DEBBIE


Where the hell you been?



AVERY


Oof, don’t ask. We are starving, you have any bagels or snackies?



RJ


Oh! Did Loretta make those sticky buns? She said she... Is everything alright?



21:29.210


DEBBIE


Why don’t you take a seat.



RJ


What’s up?



CHUCK


Yeah, who died?



RJ


Are you okay, Debbie?



DEBBIE


Yea, yea... please guys, take a seat. Where’s Tolen?



RJ


He went to the room to call Wallace, set up an interview before we head out.



DEBBIE


You guys taking off?



RJ


That’s the plan.



DEBBIE


You guys give me a minute and sit for a sec.



AVERY


Debbie, we had a rough night and we really need to pack up and-



DEBBIE


SIT.



AVERY


Okay.



SFX: They all sit.



22:03.430


DEBBIE


They found Jane.



AVERY


Oh. Thank God! We were so... oh.



CHUCK


Shit.



RJ


She’s not okay, is she?



DEBBIE


Her body was found in the field near the fire road.



AVERY


But how? They searched there?



CHUCK


Yeah, and Tolen, Wallace and I walked that area like 80 times?



22:21.404


LIEUTENANT BRYCE


-Morning.



SFX: The team is startled by the sudden intrusion of Lieutenant Bryce, Trooper 1/BEEP, Trooper 2/BEEP.



DEBBIE


Whatcha doing here Bryce?



LIEUTENANT BRYCE


Miss Moyer, good to see you. Miss Álvarez, Miss Fischer and Miss Young, remember us, Lieutenant Bryce. Trooper [BEEP] and Trooper [BEEP].



AVERY


How could we forget?



LIEUTENANT BRYCE


And where is your Mr. Reid?



RJ


He’s in the room.



LIEUTENANT BRYCE


Y’all run up and gather Mr. Reid for me.



TROOPER 1/BEEP


Yes, sir.



SFX: Trooper 1&2 head up stairs to get Tolen.



DEBBIE


Bryce?



AVERY


Uh. What’s going on?



LIEUTENANT BRYCE


What’s going on, Miss Fischer, is that we need to have ourselves another little talk about Miss Jane Stanley.



AVERY


Oh, I don’t think so.



LIEUTENANT BRYCE


Oh, but I do think so. And no amount of calls from your Professor is gonna get you outta this one.



CHUCK


What is happening?



DEBBIE


Bryce you’re even dumber than I thought.



TOLEN


Avery, I got a hold of Wallace. I filled him in.



AVERY


What?



SFX: Trooper 1&2 walk Tolen into the room.



LIEUTENANT BRYCE


Well, Miss Álvarez, Miss Fischer, Miss Young, Mr. Reid, shall we?



SFX: Avery grabs the recorder and shoves it into her pocket, it rustles against the fabric.



23:18.090


LIEUTENANT BRYCE


Miss Fischer I might have been born yesterday, but I stayed up all night.



AVERY


What do you-



LIEUTENANT BRYCE


The recorder, Miss Fischer.



TROOPER 1/BEEP


Hand it over!



SFX: Trooper 1 grabs the recorder from Avery, but Debbie yanks it from his hand.



DEBBIE


I’ll take that.



TROOPER 1/BEEP


Now, ma’am-



DEBBIE


Don’t you “now ma’am” me!” ... I’ll put it in their room, and when you get a warrant, y’all be able to find it.



AVERY


Thank you Debbie.



TROOPER 1/BEEP


Now, ma’am-



DEBBIE


What I just say?



LIEUTENANT BRYCE


Boy, drop it!... Thank you, Miss Moyer.



SFX: They start exiting.



TOLEN


Deb.



TROOPER 1/BEEP


Move it, Mr. Reid.



TOLEN


Deb, Embry’s coming by, he can... He -



SFX: The mic distorts and clicks off.



23:56.150


PROFESSOR WHITAKER


End of folder labeled: “011 Rough Cut, Episode 11 - Tell Me a Story: The True Life of Jakob Stanley.”



NARRATOR


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24:38.470


ANNOUNCER


“Tell Me a Story: The True Life of Jakob Stanley” is a biweekly podcast produced by Sylvia, Whitaker. Please, rate, review and subscribe. If you have had your own unexplainable experience in Iphigenia County, Pennsylvania, we want to hear from you. Please submit your story via our website’s tip-line. - www.jakobstanley.com - stories may be featured in future episodes. Follow us on Instagram @JakobStanleyPodcast or on Twitter @InappropriateF. Episode 12 will be released Wednesday, September 21st.




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