Episode 3: Halifax

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Released: November 26, 2018 Duration: 49:28 Listen:https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-ku9dr-51ce0f9

Synopsis
+32 days 1 hr since Lia Haddock’s abduction.

Transcript
[sound of ping pong ball bouncing off the wall] [chain rattling]

[ping pong ball bounces away]

[chain rattling gets closer]

[door opens & closes]

[lights turn on]

Interrogator: I hope you like gingerbread cookies. Made it myself.

Charley: Did you really?

Interrogator: No.

Charley: Can you get me my ball?

Interrogator: If I held your ball hostage, would you tell me where Lia is?

Charley: Wouldn't that be somethin'?

Interrogator: [exhales] Alright. Let's talk about Maggie.

[Charley sighs]

Interrogator: After your meeting with Sylvia, what happened?

Charley: I went to Halifax.

Interrogator: But if your only lead was to go to Halifax, how did you know what to look for?

Charley: There's a reason I charge so much for my time.

Interrogator: Enlighten me.

Charley: In my line of work, you have to be able to access and perform record searches in your sleep. It was a 7-hour flight from Bordeaux to Halifax. I ran the usual searches – work permits, visas, tax filings – looked for anything remotely unusual, narrowed it down to a few hundred people who haven't recorded income in years, which itself isn't unusual, but one woman – her timing was perfect.

Interrogator: Maggie.

Charley: Correct. She was still filing tax returns, but her return said she wasn't making any money – at all. She didn't report any new income in 10 years so she must've been living off of whatever lump sum she got back in 2006. Who else lives off of lump sums?

Interrogator: Limetown survivors.

Charley: Bingo. It fit the timeline. Limetown went to shit in 2004. Something happened at the bridge 2 years later, and this woman started living off what was probably a BIG payout.

Interrogator: How could you be sure she was someone at the bridge?

Charley: I wasn't sure. I had a lead. I followed it. She only had a P.O. box listed so I went to that.

Interrogator: How many hours did you have left at this point?

Charley: From the moment I landed in Halifax, I was down to 17.

Interrogator: How did you know you would find your answers in time?

Charley: I didn't! Look. If you wanna stress yourself out, invite chaos into your life, make yourself less effective, all you have to do is focus on the things that are outside your control. I knew a Navy SEAL who used to diffuse bombs underwater. Do you know how he kept his cool? He focused on what was in his control. He only focused on the next step. As long as there was oxygen in his tank, and the bomb hadn't gone off, he could still diffuse it. As long as I had a lead, and I hadn't run out of time, the mission was still on.

Interrogator: So you went to her P.O. box?

Charley: Yes.

Interrogator: I heard you went on quite an adventure.

Charley: