With another boy fighting for his life, Rebecca must find out if the killer is from the outside world or within the Amish community itself.
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Solve Presents Penance Part three. You must be Mrs Sharks. I was his mother, that's me. I caught him in the nick of time. We've induced a comma to keep his brain healthy. He's stable, but we won't know much more until we pull him out. Doctor, what happened to him was this poisoning? That's a possibility given his symptoms. Do you have any reason to suspend? You'll run the tests and find out we can, and we have. I'll notify you as soon as we know. My sale members written down here. Please call when you do. You have a cell phone. I came as fast as I could. I'm sorry, sir, immediate family only he's the father. Interesting unit you three are? We've heard that. Yeah, I'll me with your son. I talked to my guys at Lancaster p D. Guess whose record got pulled? Kenny names Kenny Harper. He was arrested for possession with intent to distribute a few months back, and a sting that rounded up some other guys, including no Silas fucking Shruck. Looks like this amish angel is more streaked than he looks, not to speak ill of that. He's not dead. Terrence, did you get an address for Kenny lp D. Open up. You're playing cop dressed like that. I got this. Go grab me a coffee or something. Make yourself useful. Watch the tube, Raber. I'm still your boss. It's still no draft of years in my inbox. I thought I'd solve the murders and then write about them. Coffee. I'm going a coffin a bonnet. You're gonna lose that foot if you don't get it out of my door, Duchy, I'll move it just as soon as you tell me what your beef is with Sila Shrock. Silas kids like him find me, not the other way around. And hell if I'm going to turn down that's sure thing? What's there to be so sure of? Take a kid with the best work ethic in God's Green America and throw them into the land of the free and doped up. So you turn these kids into your personal drug mules. You're not one of them, how many it doesn't Maybe their time is limited. They make the most of it. So you get these boys working for you while they're out on rum Springer that's got a year to get it out of their sister. The most do. But Silas he had a hard time leaving it behind. Then the kids screwed up a drop ram with his tail between his legs. Back to clog country. I've been out a couple of stacks since Silas was poisoned last night. Ship. Yeah, and you've just given me motive. No, no, no, no. Silas and I we had beef, but it's settled. It didn't look settled yesterday. I called him last night and we talked it out. I was with Silas last night. He didn't have his phone on him. He was lying a bit of a life or death scenario. I assure you he wasn't. Then whoever's got his phone has more answers than I do. Look, Silas made some enemies in his ear on the town. My experience, the heart of these kids go on the outside, the rougher gets when they go back home. You're looking in the wrong neck of the wood spottet. Okay, is that your sweet ride out front? Yeah? So you've got a missing vehicle to report. Hey, hey, hey, hey, you're bad here home, sweet home? What is you doing? What have you never seen a car before? Rebecca? How is Silas? How did you whose car is this? Silas is alive? He's going to be okay. Oh thank god, Mother was right. You take him out of here and he lives. It's us. We are the curse, and the curse. You are not the curse. Doctors think he might have been poisoned. Poisoned, and Thomas too, all of them. Emma, listen, I need your help. Do you know where Silas kept his self dashed? He had a secret spot beyond the bent great Hoppin. I could walk and meet you there, Emma. I'm not supposed to get in a car with the shunned. What if father sees, I'll say I kidnapped you dead him? Are you sure you know how to drive? I've lived among the English for twenty years, Emma, so you have your license. Just tell me where I turn off. I can't believe I haven't said thank you yet. I made a phone call. That's all. You've saved the love of my life. Emma. Silas isn't who you think he is, not entirely. I I think Rumsbrenda changed him. I don't care. I just don't want to lose him. Believe me, I know how that feels that you'd give up anything for this love. But life is long and full of regrets. What is there for you to regret? You have an amazing life in the city, a real job, you can drive, just sort of what could you possibly miss about being back here family? He always kept it right here in this nook when it wasn't on him. You're sure positive we could try calling in. Do you have his number? No? If it's not here and he doesn't have it, someone else does? Nobody else knew he had it? Someone did, someone who couldn't risk the person they've poisoned calling an ambulance the moment symptoms showed. Do you think who ever has his phone poisoned Silas? I think whoever has that phone poison them all? Relax, it's my phone. Hello, Rebecca, it's Dr. Romesco. Silence remained steady. We'll keep him in the coma for now, but we got his toxicology report back. What did it come up with a lethal dose of solonine? Solanine a toxic compound founded potatoes? Potatoes? Okay, thank you, Dr? Was that about Silas? What was that about potatoes? That's how he was poisoned? Narrows down our list just about every person in Lancaster County. Rebecca, Wait, my mother's recipe. It couldn't be. No, it couldn't. Amity wanted me back to solve this, to save Levi. She and father don't hide their hatred for Silas much. This is not our parents. How can you be sure who was the last person alone with Silas yesterday? And who was the last one alone with his brother before he died? I'm pretty sure, King, Come on, sister, we better get you home. Comes the firing brigade, Come on out of that? Did Silas live through the night? Is beat the curse twice? Now? Potato poison? Be damned potato poison. How do you know miracles of the devil's modern medicine plus the Lord? Yeah, he really showed up this time. Ray birs, What is this vehicle? Oh? Of course it would be you bringing the evils up the outside world into our home. The evils of the outside world are what saved Silas. You mean the child has been saved? Why I suppose we do owe a debt of gratitude to that phone. Speaking of phones handed over hand, what over Silas's phone? Silas had a phone, and why would I have taken it? You poisoned him then stole his phone? As security, no survivors, no witnesses. It worked out for the other dozen boys. You think I'd inflict the tragedy of my own boy on another. You couldn't bear to watch a boy live up the life stolen from your own. No wonder they call you creeper, preacher. They know what you really are. I kept those boys close so they could live out the life my son couldn't. Holy one, and I've failed on every account, but I have not poisoned the soul. Hey bonnet, bitch, hay over my keys. Oh great, Rebecca's brought a friend. The rain's coming. Let's get inside. Warm up. I'm going to the stalls. I think I shall retire as well. I'm not through with you, preacher, cue by now sure, but I need you to do me a favor. First, What kind of favor? Silas's phone number? That's it. I give you his number, I get my car back. Easiest trade of your life. Here, dunka here. I don't know if you really are a dutchy or what, but you're one weird chick. Were six zero? Where's that coming from? Why do you have Silas's phone? Father? Why do you have Silas's phone? Why don't you get into that car and leave here. Rebecca. It's clear you never truly intended to come home. Let me see the phone. Tell tell me that it wasn't you. You didn't try to kill Silas. You you you didn't kill the others. They left us in the time of their own choosing, all of them, they're choosing. What the funk are you talking about? A right of passage before baptism? What so human sacrifices are new ritual Now boys are offered what they think is alcohol. If they refuse it, then they've been washed of their worldly urges. They're ready to join. And if they drink it, then it washes the world of them. Whose decision was this? The preacher, the church elders, I am the bishop of this church. The responsibility falls to me alone. I'm going to be sick. It should have been done long ago, had it not failed to predict the wickedness in these boys before God. This is about Joshua, of course, this is about Joshua. His influence on you crippled us, and I lost you. You don't get to make new coasts just because I became one to you, and I've sinned worse than any of those boys. That sin wasn't yours, it was mine. Why do you think I chose not to repent? Why I have stayed away until now? I prayed for your return? But should God not find it fit to bring you home to me? Now? I vowed that Emma would not grow up in the face of the same temptations. You did see it out. You didn't want to lose another daughter, so you started taking the sons. Then Silas comes back off at all hours with Emma. His baptism arrives along with your little test, and you're sure he'll be the one to drink, not his brother, but Thomas dies and now Silas knows you poison him to cover your tracks and keep him locked in your home forever. I let Silence leave. The phone was his unintended test. So we're cool. Yes, Kenny, I'll pay you back, but you gotta stop coming around here. Bishop. What's in your hand? So nothing? What's in the jar? Well, here's my phone. What should stop you from watching the world of me too? You've shown yourself to us long before you showed that phone. Rebecca, The outside can't give you what we will. You have a home here, a family, and what would you tell emity Levi? Levi is pure of heart. He the one exception. If you speak of this, we won't recover. Think of the piece here, Think of all we'd surrender if we let the outside in. That's the real poison. You are the poison. You are the poison. I'm protecting us. I returned those boys to God. It's penance and to thank Father. All this time you thought of me as the sinner. Rebecca, don't go, Rebecca, a self crucifixion, too painful to swallow, that a poison was doled out for others to swallow, and it's stead. This was a man so wrapped up in a war to God that he created one for himself, a vigilante demagogue, too crippled by spirit and foresight to anticipate the evil of his own design. Maybe this isn't about God at all, but the twofold mask of him, the higher Power. In the name of a father, we keep throwing up the line, praying for relief, order, reasoning, judgment, atonement. Once upon a time I asked my father for that, And now my only wish is that he never get exactly what he gave each of those boys. The peace, the sweet swallow, the nirvana of a guiltless death. You get all that. Damn, I see what you didn't want to wait until you reunited with your laptop. This is raw personal. He knocked this one out of the park. Rebecca. Yeah, thanks, we should be able to make deadline, have it tomorrow's paper. Just give me an hour with this and then I'll come get you. No, I'm gonna call a cab. I want to stop off at the hospital anyway, Silas is awake. I'll meet you there, and I just want to make sure you're good to print this. Like your father said the cops, the news cruise will all be descending on that place by morning. You okay with me? And the reason for that, I'm not the reason for any of this. Print the damn article, Terrence. Rebecca. Must you really leave so soon? Yes? I have some work to do back in the city. Thank you so much for your hospitality and for everything, Emity. Well, will you at least stay for dinner? No, I really can't come on, it's already on the table. Matthew. Would you like to say? Great? Why don't you go ahead? All right? Oh Lord, Almighty God in heavenly Father, We thank you for this food and for this opportunity to enjoy it as a family. We are grateful for our togetherness. We ask that you bless this house and the people inside who make it at home, to forgive us our sins and our misdeeds, and allow us the grace to forgive each other. In your name, me pray Hey Ben Amen. Rebecca Rayburn was played by Alice Lovek, Terrence by Blaine Gray, Matthew Rayber by Jim Hannah, Amity Raber by Carrie Kawa, Silas Shruck by Dmitri Todd, Preach Your King by Bradley Fisher, Kenny by Devon Matthew McKee, Emma Raber by Brady Ryder, Levi Raber by Chad Roberts, Mary by Arooned Stores. This episode of Solve was written by Shannon Riley, directed by Corey Serge, Executive produced by Corey Serge, Executive produced by Walt Palmer and Sterling Barnett. Casting by Daisy Laura. Audio production and post production by Salt Audio production manager Liz Lamay. Recording engineers Hope Brush and John Schmidt. Original music and score by Nathan Turchhon, Edited and mixed by Zach Jurich, Assistant editor Hope Brush sound designed by Eric Rachelson. Script supervisor Marilyn Miller,