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POUNDING ON DOOR

FARID: Jo! KNOCKING CONTINUES

Jo, it's me! KNOCKING

DOORBELL RINGS

KNOCKING Jo, can you let me in?!

Jo, I know you're in there. I see the lights.

Come on, Jo!

Jo!

Jo, I just wanna know that you're OK, please.

Fuck. OFFICER: Sir?

FARID: Is everything OK?

Is she hurt? OFFICER TISDALE: Sir?

- Whoa, whoa, whoa. Is Jo OK? - Stay back.

- Is she all right? - Hey, sir!

This is private property.

No, this is my girlfriend's house.

I'm just checking in on her.

I'll have to ask you to vacate the premises.

You're not listening. She might be in danger.

- She's not... - Listen to me, OK?

Somebody threatened her.

OK? She could be hurt. OK? She could be...

Look, I gotta talk to her.

KNOCKING She's fine, Mr Matar.

What?

Ms Quarry called us.

She told us that her ex-boyfriend

was outside the home,

threatening her, trying to get inside.

Would that be you?

POLICE RADIO CHATTERING This is ridiculous.

OK? I'm not leaving until I talk to her.

Jo! Jo, please...

This is Officer Tisdale requesting back-up

at 116 McArthur Road.

- Jo! Fuck! - I'll give you one last chance.

Jo, come on, Jo! Jo, it's me!

- Leave now! - Jo! Jo, come out! Please!

TISDALE: Hey! I fucking warned you.

HANDCUFFS CLICK

DISTANT SIREN

DISTANT CAR HORNS BLARE

'Hey, it is Wednesday, February 3rd. My name is Tom Power.

'My guest is Farid Matar, who is the co-creator'

and voice behind the hit true crime podcast Unsettled.

The first episode of the second season, "Briddus",

debuts a week from today,

and it tells the story of the Chaffey murders,

which took place in small-town Newfoundland in 1989.

Farid, thanks for being here.

Thanks so much for having me, Tom.

I am very much not a fan of true crime,

but I absolutely loved the first season of your podcast.

Your storytelling is beautiful, through soundscapes.

I couldn't stop listening.

Well, thank you. That's so great to hear.

Um, my co-creator, Jo, she does all the Foley work herself.

She's incredible.

You picked an interesting story here,

the Chaffey family - a couple and their three children

found brutally murdered at their home.

What happens to you when you deal with a story like that?

Uh... it was challenging. It was, uh...

hard fieldwork, that's for sure.

Yeah, Newfoundland winters are not easy.

You never really know what you're gonna get.

No, no. Yeah, but I'm really happy we pushed through.

It was an important story I really wanted to tell.

Why? Why the Chaffeys?

Well, initially, we were interested in this phenomenon

that was spreading throughout Canada in the '80s.

- Oh yeah, Satanic Panic. - Yeah,

and how it had the power to ignite the average,

rational thinking person's imagination so vividly

that they would start to believe in the occult, in the devil.

TOM: Yeah, I actually remember this

from when I was growing up in St. John's,

there were people who really believed

the devil was at work. FARID: Yeah, yeah.

And so, ordinary people are suddenly finding

these spiritual reasons for these different occurrences

that are happening all over Canada.

You know, they're treating each other suspiciously,

they're scared.

And what we wanted to know was, was this particular murder

that ruined a once prosperous little town

really the product of Satanism?

TOM: And?

And... FARID SIGHS

I think, at the end of the day,

this is a story of a man...

..Matthew Chaffey...

..who killed his entire family and then himself.

And we were way more intrigued by this than...

..superstition and fantasy.

What drives a man to annihilate his entire world?

To go against the very nature of his being,

and end his own life?

It's the more important conversation.

You know, it may have been 1989, but this is relevant now,

and it's imperative that we continue this discussion.

TOM: Of mental health?

Yeah. Mental health ignored.

TOM: Well, Farid, thank you so much for coming in.

Farid Matar is the co-creator

and voice of the hit true crime podcast.

'It's called Unsettled.

'Farid Matar was my guest in studio.'

WATER RUNNING

SOBS

PHONE RINGS

MARTHA'S ANSWERPHONE: 'You've reached Martha Quarry.

'Leave a message.' PHONE BEEPS

PIANO PLAYING 'GOLDBERG VARIATIONS'

PIANO CONTINUES

CONTINUES PLAYING

STOPS PLAYING

PHONE VIBRATES

Hello?

JO: 'I'm sorry.'

Jo?

I overreacted. You were only trying to help.

I fucked up.

'Do you forgive me?'

Jo, I...

JO: 'I'm sorry.'

I love you.

FARID: 'I love you, too.'

God, I miss you.

Oh, my God, I miss you. I have so much to tell you.

FARID: 'How are you feeling?'

Good. Better, I think. SIGHS

I mean, I feel sad for what happened to her.

FARID: 'Your mom?' And Rose.

Who's Rose?

FARID: 'She's my grandmother, Farid.'

She's my mother's real mother. I figured it all out.

She was raped, and it triggered her schizophrenia,

and then she got pregnant,

my family didn't know what to do,

so they just put her in a room upstairs in the attic,

and I found it, and then, they took her baby away

and they gave it to her sister, and they replaced it

with a fucking doll, and that baby...

she was my mom.

'And she was sick because her parents were sick.

'That guy, that rapist was sick, too.'

And my poor mom spent her entire life

not knowing why this was happening to her,

and her family could have helped.

They could have given her some sort of peace,

but instead they just... they just rejected her,

they just called her crazy.

My God, she was so alone, Farid, just like Rose.

And they both killed themselves

because they were sick, and they had no-one.

- 'Jesus...' - I know.

How do you know all this?

My mom told me. And Rose.

My mom left me those tapes. She could hear Rose, too.

'Jo...'

I heard Rose hang herself.

I can show you the mark.

Can I come there?

JO: 'Yeah. Yes, come. Oh, my God.

'I can show you my mom's tapes,'

everything that she put together, and the room.

My God, Farid, I can show you the room.

I think that this could be our next season -

my family, their crime, this secret.

What do you think?

'I will...'

be there in the morning, OK?

JO: 'No, don't be silly.

'Just finish up in Newfoundland and then come.'

'Hello?'

I'm not in Newfoundland, Jo. I'm back.

No, you're not. I just spoke to you.

'We haven't spoken in a month.'

Wait. What are you talking about?

FARID INHALES SHARPLY, SIGHS

Farid?

'I came to the house two weeks ago.

'I knocked on the door for ages.

'You wouldn't come out. You... you called the cops on me.'

Wait. What are you doing?

'You told them I was your ex-boyfriend

'and that you were scared for your life.

'They said, if I didn't leave, that they'd arrest me.

'Jo, I didn't know what else to do.

'Jo, you still there?'

Jo?

SIGHS

DOOR CREAKS

BREATHING UNSTEADILY

BANGING

No!

No! RAGGED BREATHING

LIGHT BUZZES

BREATHING SHAKILY

JO SOBS

STAIRS SQUEAK

LIGHT BUZZES

BUZZING STOPS, JO GASPS

FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING

BREATHING

Rose?

THUD, JO GASPS

LIGHT CRACKLES

GLASS BREAKS, JO CRIES OUT

RAPID BANGING

BABY CRYING

BANGING, BABY CRYING

JO HYPERVENTILATES

BANGING, DOOR KNOB RATTLING

BANGING

TAPE RECORDER CLICKS

MARTHA: 'Rose?

'Mom?

'I'm ready.

'They took me from you.

'A mother should be with her child.

'A mother should be with her child.'

JO SOBS

'I love you, Jo.

'Goodbye.'

TAPE RECORDER CLICKS

PILLS RATTLING

WINDSHIELD WIPERS WHOOSHING

'EILEEN AROON' PLAYS

# Far in the valley shade #

# I met a quiet maid

# Flower of the hazel glade

# Eil... #

FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING

DOOR CREAKS Jo?

Jo?

Jo?

STAIRS SQUEAKING

Hey, Jo?

Jo, you here?

Jo, it's me.

Jo!

JO!

JO: 'It's poison...

'these pills they want me to take.

'Medicine? Poison.

'It's them. I know it. They want the house.

'I saw them last night and the night before.

'They wait in the woods, watching.'

TAPE SPOOLS

'It's slipping from me. I've lost control.

'I go and I come back...

'I'm scared.

'It's starting to sink in, my mother's sadness.

'She gave me it, her hurt.

'I was born with her inside me.

'I was destined to repeat.'

FLOOR CREAKS

JO: 'I had no choice.'

TAPE RECORDER CLICKS

BIRDSONG

You're going to be OK, Jo.

ACCAPELLA VOICE: # When, like the early rose... #

CAR DOOR CLOSES

# Eileen Aroon

# Beauty in childhood grows

# Eileen Aroon. #

DOOR CLOSES

We set out tonight, together,

on this mission...

..and whatever the outcome,

whatever we may or may not find...

..I would like us all to remember

the strength that always walks with us,

strength that derives from our faith,

and strength that, if we allow it...

..may conquer all our fears.

Hold fast to your faith.

"I will not doubt, though all my ships at sea

"come drifting home with broken masts and sails.

"I shall believe the Hand that never fails

"from seeming evil worketh good for me..."

SEARCH PARTY: Beth?

MAN: Beth? WOMAN: Beth?

SEARCH PARTY: Beth?

MAN: Beth? WOMEN: Beth?

"...And though I weep

"because those sails are battered,

"still will I cry,

"while my dearest hopes lie shattered...

"..I trust in thee."

CHILD: I love you, Mommy.

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