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[Music: Melody of the Faerie Crocus]
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SFX: A CLOCK IS TICKING. THERE IS WATER RUNNING, DISHES CLINK, A KETTLE
RUMBLES BUT DOES NOT BOIL YET. A CUP IS PICKED UP A DRANK FROM.
0:00:28
[Music: Angel’s Serenade]
0:00:32
ELIOSE: Listen to me Ms. Casey, I would implore you, let me speak with Mr. Casey while the
experience is still fresh in his mind. And I'll let it be till I've got what I need to figure out who took
your husband.
0:00:43
MEABH: I appreciate your concern, but he just got back, I would hate to be a bugga bear to him.
He needs rest, he doesn't need a young girl barkin up his tree.
0:00:55
ELOISE: I would beg to differ, really, he needs to speak on this before it becomes wishy washy
nonsense.
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MEABH: Oh great lord give me the strength, I will not have you alone with my Husband, now
hop off it. And don’t you leave that contraption with him either, I’ve heard what you did at
Edwins.
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ELOISE: That was an honest mistake, Miss.
0:01:14
MEABH: An honest mistake that had Edwin down my throat for what you did.
0:01:17
ELOISE: Respectfully I am here to find the person who took your husband, is it so wrong that I
do just that?
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MEABH: Enough lip from you
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SFX: THE KETTLE WHISTLES, THE WATER STOPS RUNNING, HEELED FOOTSTEPS ON
WOOD. A KNOB IS TURNED. THE KETTLE STOPS WHISTLING/
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MEABH. What I need you to do is find the person who filled his mind with this hubba-ballu.
Because I will not have the neighbors filling his mind with nonsense.
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ELOISE: Who are these neighbors, it’s neighbor this and neighbor that but never–
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MEABH: They are not to be spoken of any further. You have seen his office, they have spoiled
him, like ants with sugar
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ELOISE: Well then I must simply apologize, I am as enamored with the truth as you are, I will
take my leave now.
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[HINGES CREAK CLOSE, LATCHES ATTACH, AND HEELED FOOTSTEP WALK AWAY AN
UP A SMALL SET OF STAIRS. THE CASE IS PUT DOWN ON CARPET, UNLACTED AND A
XLR IS PLUGGED IN, THERE ARE POPS OF THE MIC BEING HANDLED ONTO A META
SURFACE. THE MIC IS NOW IN A VENT. ALL VOICES HAVE A SLIGHT REVERBERATION
AND SOUND FAR OFF. DOWN THE HALL, A DOOR OPENS AND HEELED SHOES WALK
ON CARPET]
0:02:13
MEABH: Reuben, darlin, good morning, I’ve got you some lunch.
0:02:18
REUBEN: Hey there doll, it sounded like the house was comin down, what happened?
0:02:23
MEABH: Gosh, that girl really likes beating the dead horse, anyways I missed you.
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REUBEN: You were only down there for thirty minutes at the most.
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MEABH: Oh don’t pick on me, you were gone for days, where am I supposed to get my lovin’
from.
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REUBEN: I don’t know hun, you know it wasn’t on purpose.
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MEABH: I know, those dreadful neighbors got to ya before I could sweep you off your feet.
0:02:45
REUBEN: I'm not some blushing’ bride, I’m a man who is more than capable of taking care of
himself.
0:02:50
MEABH: Oh hush! If that were so you wouldn’t have been taken in the first place.
0:02:54
REUBEN: Meabh, doll, please just leave it.
0:02:58
MEABH: I will not! If those slimy little buggers did anything to you, I mean Gosh, Reuben, my
heart just couldn’t take it. All alone, without me there, it must have been dreadful.
0:03:11
REUBEN: Oh, christ on a cracker, don’t start with the water work, woman. It’s bad enough that
Edwin's crying wolf because I went for a walk.
0:03:20
MEABH: Reuben!
0:03:21
REUBEN: What? It’s true sweetheart. You and that old timer have been nothing but loons since
I returned, it’s time I said something about it.
0:03:30
MEABH: What happened to you out there? You were conspiring out there, weren’t you. You
talked with… with… those Faeries.
0:03:44
CROCUS: Ooh she IS on to him (snickers) Natheless have I pleyd some great game, natheles
had I you reu-reu.
0:03:53
MEABH: You’re the one coming back loony. We need to get to the church sooner than I’d
anticipated.
0:03:58
REUBAN: Well hold your horses, we don’t need to go to the church.
0:04:01
MEABH: Clearly we do!
0:04:02
REUBEN: NO! Meabh, listen. I want to stay at home and enjoy some time off, I’m exhausted.
My butt still feels like it’s stuck in the woods,Let me have some time in my captain's chair with its
nice soft cushions.
0:04:24
MEABH: I’ve already had Georgie call for the priest in town, you really ought to go listen atleast
to the bells.
0:04:29
REUBEN: The bells! Meabh you think I’ve been bewitched or Thralled! Other men would have
been taken if it was a Skoge-stra.
0:04:37
MEABH: Reuben you are being distasteful, arrogant, if we let this fester, you’ll only fall further. I
won’t lose you like Teddy lost Roselyn! it breaks my heart hearing you admit to this devilishness,
this evil! The neighbors are smart, smarter. If we play into their hands, I could lose you, lose my
husband, lose my dignity as a woman, for what is a woman with her husband. I’d be nothing but
a hussy, a broken down beauty with only the fantasy of a husband to cling to.
0:05:21
REUBEN: Will it put your frazzled mind at ease, if I went to listen to the bells at least.
0:05:27
MEABH: It would.
0:05:29
REUBEN: Then we’ll go the day after tomorrow.I just need one night in my own bed, with my
own sheets, next to my wife.
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MEABH: You mean that?
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REUBEN: Of course, whatever makes you happy.
0:05:45
MEABH: Oh thank you Reuben, such a devoted husband, reminds me of our first years
together. Don’t you remember how great they were, you were like a puppy licking my heels,
always there for me, always listening, you never fussed. I love you, darling.
0:06:11
REUBEN: I love you too, Meabh, now let's have supper.
0:06:14
MEABH: You break the bread tonight.
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REUBEN: Yes ma’am.
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[DRESS SHOES WALK OUT OF THE ROOM DOWNSTAIR, A DOOR OPENS,CLOSES, AND
DRESS SHOES WALK UP A SMALL SET OF STAIRS ONTO CARPET.]
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REUBEN: (MUFFLED) I hope she doesn’t find it here.
0:06:29
SFX: THE DOOR OPEN, THE DOOR HINGE SQUEAKS, AND AN ITEM JINGLES.
0:06:32
CROCUS: O! naughty boy! who yaft you that? O,twas me. How silly, ye kept that for all these
years.
0:06:44
REUBEN: hmm? A suitcase?
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[RECORDING POPS. EXTRA LENGTH OF SILENCE, THE RECORDING DEVICE POPS AND
ECHOS A KNOCK AS IT’S FIDDLED WITH. ECHOEY POPS OCCUR UNTIL THE
RECORDING TAPE IS CUT. THE RECORDING IS SPLICED HAPHAZARDLY, WITH ELOISE
TALKING.]
0:06:54
ELOISE: For the catalog, since I wont be doing an overview of info tonight. When I return from
my trip to the Library, I can only hope that this Recording will shed some light on the situation.Is
Reuben Safe.
0:07:04
CROCUS: Most certainly not.
0:07:07
ELOISE: What are these people hiding?
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CROCUS: They’ve been despitous jangle-resses, they hate play Of any joyous melody and
jaunt not with them.
0:07:16
ELOISE: How can I more expressly figure out who the culprit is, but not being able to talk with
Reuben is the most challenging item of my agenda.
0:07:25
CROCUS: Such a fonned little brain. I nayde in my five hundredth year of life to undur-stand
how ye think’en.
0:07:32
ELOISE: I’ll go out tonight, I’ve spotted Lottie going out each night with some bags, I need to
ask her about what happened when she found Reuben,should I need to bring these.
0:07:41
SFX: NAILS TAPPING ON A BOOK COVER
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CROCUS: By my command come to the great field. Come ye home Ellie, come ye to me; if ye
enter into my forest, I shall draw you by the skin of your hyde. but, deere, paraventure it liketh
you leste. Aye, that is the answer. This is what ye way-nen. We shall play, `bi cum-pahs. til we
dee-n, and thanne shall be victory. Whether ye consent-en?
0:08:13
ELOISE: Yes, I might as well. I’ll be at the library anyways, might as well return the books
Meabh gave me.
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[END POP. CUT TO ELOISE IN THE FOREST. AN OWL HOOTS, FROGS, CRICKETS, AND
THE WIND ALL FORM HARMONY TOGETHER. ELOISE’S HEARTBEAT CAN BE HEARD
LOWLY THROUGH THE MAGNETOPHONE.]
0:08:31
EDWIN: You just don’t quite seem to stop putting your nose in other people's business.
0:08:35
LOTTIE: I’m working, Mr. Hagan. If you please.
0:08:39
EDWIN: Well I do believe you are trifling with business that isn’t even of this world.
0:08:44
LOTTIE: I beg your pardon! I have been nothing but couth. Nothing but polite in this town, to its
people, since I got here last year.
0:08:51
EDWIN: Then act like it, I hate to admit this, but you are the only one who Takes so long, and
goes so far in these woods. Doing a job no lady should be doing.
0:09:03
LOTTIE: It’s the art of photography, I would say this is the perfect job for a lady.
0:09:08
EDWIN: Then you would be willing to accept the consequences.
0:09:10
LOTTIE: Consequences, for what!?
0:09:12
EDWIN: Consequences for luring Reuben away, and Roselyn, that sweet young girl should have
never been taken.
0:09:19
LOTTIE: Y’all were the ones to kill her. Putting her in a box and burying her six feet under, Y’all
killed her. I kept my mouth shut for so many months, and now you want me to do it again! I am
at my wits end, and lord help me when it runs out, and, and I will call the police.
0:09:34
EDWIN: That is enough ‘outta ya. We are a community, I have seen it before, letting one of
those scoundrels run amuck.
0:09:43
LOTTIE: Then keep it away from me, all I want is to take my photographs and go home, but you
keep putting wrenches in my daily schedule with this nonsense.
0:09:50
EDWIN: That's enough crazy talk, the town knows it was you who took them.
0:09:53
LOTTIE: It was not! You are just throwing your weight around as the eldest in the town, claiming
you know anything. My second home is in these woods–
0:09:58
EDWIN: So you admit it! Fairy, creature, monster. You admit it!
0:10:03
LOTTIE: You are insane! What normal human being would start a witch hunt like this! Causing a
fuss, and killing people because they spent a little time in nature–
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[SOUND OF BONES CRACKING. A BODY FALLS TO THE FLOOR. EQUIPMENT FALLS TO
THE GROUND AND RATTLES. ELOSIE RUNS AWAY AND HER FOOTSTEPS ARE FRANTIC
AND FADE OFF.]
0:10:18
CROCUS: See their wickedness Ellie, Rue, they are depraved, vile, lying animals. It’s time you
come home.
0:10:26
[THE RECORDING ABRUPTLY POPS AND THEN BEGINS AGAIN]
0:10:29
ELOISE: I saw it, I must not have seen it properly. I left this here.
0:10:32
[LEAVES RUSTLING, BUSH MOVES, TWIGS SNAPS.]
0:10:34
ELOISE: But it was, honest to God, the most gruesome thing I have ever laid my eyes on in this
line of work. He killed her. And oh Lord almighty on the cross. It’s still there, half eaten by
something or other. I can see bone, the red flesh.
0:10:52
CROCUS: A treat, fro me? fro me a morsel of flesh to satiate my growing hunger.
0:11:01
ELOISE: I have already phoned the police, they’ll come, come and drag these crooks,
gangsters, villains. How could this have happened? I can’t take my eyes away. Such a gorey
demise, and god rest her soul. Edwin, that coward, drew a gun on her. (SHAKY BREATH) They
want to stop me from finding what brings ruin to their town, by my hands I will find it.F
0:11:24
[RECORDING END POP.]
0:11:26
[Music.]
0:11:27
BRYCE P.: This concludes the analysis of tape #3. This evidence is integral to our ongoing
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0:12:29
BRYCE P.: Eloise McCrae and Crocus is voiced by Madison Mastroilli. Meabh Casey is voiced
by Bee Wipper. Reuben Casey is voiced by Brian Parker. Edwin O’Hagan is voiced by Cameron
Driggers. And Lottie Moloney is voiced by Jazmine Solla. “What Lies in Wait” is produced by
Arch Pingel and Yvianca Robinson, written by Arch Pingel, casted by Kelly Tanner, scheduled
and managed by Yvianca Robinson, promoted by Jarred Colls, engineered by June Ogden. This
episode was produced by June Ogden.