S1:E54 – M: is for Maeth Pel

We keep the detergents behind the counter. We ask for. It's kind of on the honor system here. The individual uses are a fiver.

$5.

Yeah. They're limited supply. Once they're gone, they're gone. We have the rates ever so often as we went up.

Fair.

I hope you're okay with Cuddlebrand because that's what's left.

I guess needs must.

Walk up behind me. So.

Yeah, I was gonna say, like, looking at the room that he's in, is there a door to somewhere else that we can't get to? Are there stairs? Stairs? Like, is there anything to imply that there's some other exit from this room besides the one Mel's standing in?

There's another door.

Okay.

Opposing the door that you're talking to.

Him through is the employees only room. The only door that splits off of the rest of the laundromat.

There's clearly a couple restrooms. And you can see they've got like this used to what it would use. It would have used to have been a. Like a waiting room. Slightly comfier chairs, TV in the corner, Ancient well read magazines.

Are there security cameras in the laundromat? No, we don't see any in here.

Can I come up to Mo and keep her from having to pay $5 for a single?

Yeah, I was. I was with her over there. I was going to walk up behind her and you know, like, hey, Mel, did you find any of the soap? I'm gonna look over and say, oh, hey, how's it going?

You know, it's going another day in the laundry game.

What's he doing at his desk? Is there like cameras or is there.

Like, he's got, you know, paperwork in front of him?

Okay. I didn't know if there was like multiple screens or anything. This is the new security room.

Can you see from the office, like, into the main room? Is there a window there or is it literally just an enclosed room?

It's just an enclosed room.

That's weird.

Yeah. Otherwise you would have seen him through the window.

Well, it's true. I just. I don't know. It's hard to watch.

And you said that there was another room that leads out of here.

Does it lead to a closet? Does it lead to a room?

It's not an outside door. I mean, we know from our position that that door doesn't. Is not an extra door outside.

No.

Okay.

Yeah, we said we've seen the blueprints, so.

So I guess on the other question.

I think so, yeah.

In terms of the layout that we've seen. Is there a back door to the laundromat? And if there is, can you see it from the main laundromat?

There is a back door because they had it guarded.

Yeah, that's right.

And you don't see it from the laundry area.

Okay.

So there's a very good chance that the door to that office is somehow tied to the back door, Though there might be other things in the middle.

Who knows?

But we're not.

We also know that this was a soda fountain, like, old school style. So they had, like, ice cream and stuff in here. So there's a chance for kitchen areas that have been repurposed.

You.

You're confident. You can't. You don't. You have not seen the entire layout of this.

Anyway, he says he's got. He's got some snuggle.

No, no, because that's an actual brand.

Sorry. He's got cuddles.

Oh, okay.

But it's five bucks a box.

Five bucks a box.

I mean, I get it. It's limited supply, but maybe we don't need fabrics.

I'll give you folks a hefty discount, and you can do laundry for free for a year. If y' all want to run to Omaha real quick and get us some more to. To detergent.

What in the world makes you think there's still detergent in Omaha?

There's got to be more than there is here.

That's true. You know, I. I get it. I get it. Mel will just cough up the fiber.

Yeah. You can just toss it in the drawer over there, and you'll see the detergent. I'm willing to trust you folks. It is. I know how to find you if I need to. You're from out of town. You're staying at the hotel. Yeah.

Correct.

Well, if it's all right with y', all, Folko, you go ahead and do your laundry. I'm gonna go back to my job.

Yep. Sorry. I didn't mean to bother you. I apologize. I literally was not expecting you to be in here. And she backs out the door. Oh, it says in place only. I totally missed that.

Just for future reference there, young miss, that. That sign means stay out.

Thank you. Thank you. I did not read before I opened the door. That was. That was my bad. My bad. Have a lovely day.

Bye. Bye.

You hear the door click.

As you close it?

Well, he seems nice.

$5 freaking laundry.

So in the laundromat that we're at is there. So we've. We've got the employees only office. We've got.

Let's say that's opposing the main door.

Right. And then we've got the bathrooms. Are there any other doors, hallways that we can.

There's a waiting room with a tv, comfy chairs, and you can see into it. It's got windows, so that in theory you could check your machine. Okay. But that's about it.

That's it.

There's maybe.

And we can't get to the back door from this.

You don't see it?

We can't see. So the. The one on the opposing door that she saw is that. Or could that be the back door?

You don't think so?

You don't think that's the back?

It looks like an interior door.

Got it. Okay. All right.

Are all the washing machines and drying machines in working order?

Is there anything else in the secret.

We're looking for a secret door in a broken down washing machine.

None of the washing machines are propped against a wall to be. Yeah.

What about the dryers?

Back to back. Assassin.

Okay.

Okay.

Darn. No secret washers.

No secret washer. Wow.

I hope I had something Was gone.

While the washers are running on the noisy cycles. This is what I want to like. We might be able to get in here at night without getting caught.

They have four security guards for laundromat.

I know, but we might better get by them. But once we hit the bank, we're gonna get recorded. Once we hit the bank, it's on. So I don't think we're ready to try the bank yet.

Do you think the back door is guarded during the day here?

I don't know. We can go walk by.

Go for a little walk, say while our machines are running. Emery wants to like.

Hey, Mel, you want to do some stretching?

I do. Let's do laps around the building. First one to 50 wins. And Mel takes us sprinting around the building.

Can ours be cumulative between all of us?

Oh, I'm not running. No. Hell no.

Damn it.

So most of these buildings are usually flat roofed and there's usually an access to do things like do the air conditioners or whatever. I think I can get us to the roof. Actually, let me rephrase it. I know I can get us to the roof. Pretty sure we could do it without getting caught. So if we get to that, we could probably drop in here at night and look around, snoop around. Mike says I think we might be able to get in somehow to the bank as well. Well, but once we hit the bank, we're gonna be Recorded. And we've lit the match when we hit the bank.

Agreed.

So we might be able to hit this one tonight if we're careful about not breaking things.

Okay.

And we might be able to snoop in here without getting caught. But the bank. And I'm pretty sure Monta Rouge's is. It's lit.

Those are bridges.

So on one of her trips around back of the building, does Bel notice anyone guarding the.

God, I swear, if you say on your left, I swear.

You don't see anybody else.

She doesn't say on your left, but as she passes, she goes. Bring.

Bring.

High knees. Jake or James.

You almost said my name wrong. I'm not doing high knees.

Jacob, you too.

Jacob's keeping pace.

Damn, you're getting good, kid.

Yeah, he's keeping my bake.

Showed up by a child.

Trust me, it happens every day.

Yep.

Go on. High knees. You can do it, Heinies. Elliot, you're not even trying.

Hell no, I'm not even trying. Are you dumb?

Where's. Oh. Oln's not snapping. And he's washing the washing machine, isn't he?

He's probably laying on several of them, just taking a nap.

I'm just staring into the abyss of a spinning washer.

And we didn't even have to drug him.

We put him on guard duty.

Watch the clothes, make sure no one steals it. Shit. Costs somebody some money. Awesome.

Now I want to wait till Claudette goes to bed, sneak out of the inn, come in here, and try to break into the laundromat and snoop around. That's what I want to do. That's what I want to do.

And put our laundry through the dryer.

Okay.

That first.

Yes.

You guys get the laundry switched over to the dryer. Poured to tears as everybody ever in a laundromat is. Somehow, nothing is as enjoyable in a laundromat.

Do you have any tubes?

Go fish.

Dang it. This is so much more harder when a kid cheat.

No.

The one benefit of being in a town that.

Yeah, you guys actually can winkle fish. About that time see the front door open, and in walks Bonaventure. Oh, well, it's our intrepid detectives.

Yeah, we had to take a laundry break.

Fair enough. Fair enough. Investigation can be some dirty work.

Yeah, Everything is just, like, so dusty.

Yeah.

And it's been a long time since we've had access to regular laundry machines, so it's kind of nice to get things actually clean.

Fair.

We're enjoying the regular laundry.

Water in the river is.

Doesn't Quite do enough.

No.

Absolutely. How is you folks's investigation going so far?

She doesn't have any twos.

Not particularly.

Everyone reports the same thing and no one knows anything else.

What. What did you find on your investigation? You have any idea what. Where, what happened?

No. My guess is it sounds like some. Some. Some folks was having a hard time regulating emotion. Some of them hurt some folk and it sounds to me like they thought it was just best to remove themselves from the situation. It's a lot harder to hurt people you care about if you're not around them, right?

Well, that's true.

They don't know about the boxing method.

Did anybody?

That could mean you're a monk. That could mean so many different things.

Now if you have a feeling, you put it in a box.

Oh, I thought you meant like boxing. Like you punch a gun.

Those are the few that when you can't put them in a box.

Did anybody at the Gates ever see anybody go out?

None of them reported. I mean aside from the excitement we had the other night, none of my men have reported that.

Okay. Yeah, we haven't had a chance to talk to them yet. We've been talking to the families, trying to find out.

I pieced together the stories before everyone went missing and get an idea of what was going on.

So what's your guys conclusion so far?

No one knows a lot about much of anything.

Well, this second that's not how you actually feel.

Are you sure about that mouth? 10. 10? 17 total. Jesus Christ. Hey, I. It rolled a 10.

Okay.

17 total.

Is that the case there, young miss?

I just learned that there's a brand of laundry detergent called Cuddles and it's freaking expensive. But it smells great.

It does smell good, man. I will. Dare I say it makes your laundry very soft.

Well, ours is still in the dryer, but I can tell you it smells wonderful.

Well, I guess I got my hopes up too high there that the new traveling detective detective agency wasn't able to do any better than my men were.

Yeah, unfortunately at the moment we've got nothing.

It's early days.

You guys were very thorough.

And this is only the second day we've been looking into it. And yesterday we had the naming ceremony so we weren't able to spend the whole day.

I'm sure the third day is the jump. That's when you'll crack the case.

Might be. You never know.

You seem skeptical. Like you don't think we can do it.

Inside. Check.

Go for it.

At this point she's playing coy but in a friendly way.

22.

He didn't believe what shit he's saying.

Yeah, he don't believe you wouldn't have died.

I have not lied to him. There's a lot I don't know about a lot of things. And that laundry detergent smells amazing.

He believes that.

Not $5amazing.

No, no. You can't have everything.

I've stolen three.

Well, regardless, you know, doing our best to help out in town where we can has been better than doing nothing while we wait for our horses to finish being reshod.

Right?

That's fair. That's fair. That's right. You guys got. Eli. Eli's there taking care of your horses, ain't he?

He is, yeah.

Good man. Good man. I did wanna let you folks know, just as a reminder. We kind of had a rushed into conversation the last time right after I dropped. After we departed from Mr. Moul to Rouge. We do have a very strict curfew of the time. I said lights out. Also quite strict. I would recommend you folks not be out after dark.

Can I do anything again?

Is he implying that he knew that we were out the other night?

You don't need an inside check for that.

Yeah, I think we can all convey.

That message adequately once you get some.

I just wanted to double check.

I mean dark is like 9 and curfew is like 10:30.

It's kind of hard. I don't have a timepiece anymore.

I'm just saying blocks out at 10:30.

Oh. Oh shit. I messed that up. Sorry. I may have been doing rounds around the hotel. My bad. I like late night exercise. Makes you feel perky.

And I'm sure you need assistance with that.

You should meet me when I don't get enough exercise.

No.

Ward.

I was surprised to hear apparently a member of your own party has gone missing.

She has? Yeah. Edna May. You met her. She led us to Port larouche's house.

That kindly older lady, the one that we actually we invited to town.

It's giving us more incentive to look for things, but dead end.

I, I, I wish you nothing but the best. I'm trying to find. I'm surprised you folks didn't alert constantly.

We talked, we talked to the guard that was.

We talked to the guards on the ramp.

We did our best.

Yeah, we talked to the guards that were out and then we went and told Monsieur Montrou.

I kind of assumed that. Sorry, my friends filter to you through either one of those sources, but guess.

We'Ll have to talk to my men then.

We didn't avoid you. We just didn't see you.

Well, just want to make sure you folks know I'm ready and available to help you out if you should need anything during your investigation.

We appreciate that.

Thank you.

Did like if this is. I'm not making this up. Didn't we tell the innkeeper to go tell the guards to go look for somebody running away with.

We did. Yeah.

Edna.

Did your men come up with any leads? Did they see anybody that night?

My man ain't they apparently didn't tell him shit.

Yeah, maybe I've heard through the. Through the chain here is it sounds pretty much like the exact same as all the other missing women.

That somebody broke in the window, beat somebody up, kidnapped him out the window and then ran away. And you haven't. Your men have.

Can you give me a description of the folks that did this to you?

They jumped me from behind. I didn't.

Jumped him in the high behind and beat him unconscious? No, I don't. Didn't see him.

Huh.

It's a flurry of. Flurry of fists.

And if that's the case, it doesn't sound like the same as the others at all. If your theory is running is that the others have ran away, moved themselves from town. We know for a fact that Edna got kidnapped.

Distinct fists. I think it was more than one person.

More than one people punched you in the face from behind you in the dark. In the dark.

Yep.

He's got the bruises to prove it.

Yeah. No do it to himself.

Oh, there's there. I think there was one let. We were like patching up over on the shoulder like.

Yeah. No, he. I've slept since then. I'm a really good healer.

We're. We're not face damage.

Not so much.

Based on that difference in the MO we're not sure that Edna's disappearance was connected to the others.

Well, that might be. You know, folks like to take advantage of situations and I mean I don't think anybody in this town really keeps to themselves much. Everybody knows the details of the girl's disappearances.

She also didn't fit any of the description of any of the other people that disappeared. And she hadn't been to Mort de Rouge.

Except for dinner.

Except for dinner. So. I mean that is an outlier already.

You think that going to mortar rouges is part of the problem?

I didn't say that. It's just something that they all had in common that she didn't.

It's part of the pattern of people seeking help for issues they're facing.

Gotcha. Okay. I was scared for a second.

Oh, no, certainly not. He's a delightful man. Sorry, I think I'm kind of toast.

You're not supposed to eat the soap. You're not from that generation. You're not supposed to eat those Slurpee little pies.

You know, it's powdered. It's powdered and, you know, sometimes it just gets up your nose and.

Oh, you're from that generation.

You know, I think. I think I need to step outside.

We did a pretty thorough walk around of the property and there weren't no footsteps outside. I'm not sure. I don't. Quite frankly, I have no idea how they got out that window.

I thought you said you didn't know about Edna being stolen. I knew.

I approached you. You guys haven't talked to me about it yet.

Well, no, we assumed everybody else told you that's how chain of command works. I'm so confused.

That's the soap.

Probably.

Well, if anything else should happen to come up, feel free to let me know. I'm happy to assist you in whatever way I can.

I'm sure if we find out anything else, you'll be one of the first to know.

I'm sure. Well, you folks have a good rest of your afternoon.

You as well.

Thank you.

And you guys finish your laundry?

It's clean and dry.

It's pretty soft.

It's soft and smells.

Better be for $5.

I think Ms. Gwadette perhaps sold this out.

Well, that's not a shocker. I don't know how she knew we left, though.

Yeah. NAT1 stealth didn't take us away.

I didn't NAT1 anything. I had a three.

Someone tripping down the front step steps didn't give us away at all.

She probably didn't hear the squeaky floorboards of us going back up to our rooms.

That's. You know, that's what it is. She didn't hear us shin ourselves on that stupid top step.

She's right outside that those stairs. She probably hears the squeak every time somebody comes up or down.

So tonight we all jump out our bedroom windows.

Cause that went so well the last time we yeeted ourselves out a window.

You know, you come to me for a ideas not good ideas.

This is my concern. That wasn't even a thinly veiled threat. They're watching us at this point, so.

I don't know if we have enough time for.

I think I ate him more than Laroi.

That's tough.

Yeah. So we need to Move. But at the same time, I don't know. I think we'll get caught if we run around tonight.

Should we lay low tonight?

God, I don't want to. Every day makes it harder to find people.

Yep.

I don't want to, but I don't know how we can get out.

Also, how are you doing in the zappy stuff?

Honestly not that great. I don't like being here. And I really feel like the longer we're here, the more I'm in danger.

Yeah, that's fair. I respect that.

That's totally fair. We. We could just bail.

What if we just.

I can't leave. They're kidnapping people and likely using them for a pack.

I think you're right. But I also don't want you to be one of the people.

I don't either.

And I will leave them so that it doesn't happen.

Just remember, if you get caught, there is no spoon.

There is no spoon.

Uh huh. Hooked up to a battery. You know what?

Matrix.

I was making a matrix reference. Okay, sorry. Somebody got it.

For fearless producer on the edge here.

Me out.

Took a minute.

Full frontal assault. Okay, just fuck it. Let's just. Guns blazing.

I like that plan. That's usually where our plans end up being. Anyway.

Hit the bank tonight.

You know what? If he likes it, I don't like it anymore.

Shut the fuck. Oh no. This must be bad.

James is on board. Oh no.

Well, but the other piece of that too is that as long as these people are in power here, they're going to continue doing this shit.

Oh yeah, because their horsemen are out everywhere.

Okay, here's my thing. We already know they're watching us, which means that they're going to be aware of anything that we do. So we're absolutely going to get caught doing it. So it has to be successful or we become part of the missing people. While we blow it up, how do we make sure that we can escape? Like, you know, we do the thing, we hopefully punch some guys and then we ride off into the sunrise. How do we make sure we can do the last bit?

I mean, throwing this magical hammer is worked pretty well so far.

We could go straight after Monta Rouge.

I mean, I was talking logistics.

Well, this is. We can go after Mount Rouge himself and take him out. Now. I don't know how. I don't know. I don't know if one of the other Cajuns will just take over. I don't think we can take the whole bunch.

Also, there's the slight possibility that with the Whole naming ceremony thing. Most of these people got hoodooed into thinking that the town town name was whatever the heck is the not Carson. Who knows what other mind stuff they did to us. Yeah, because that magic stuff that happened was a heck of a lot just for that the thingy to shift and people to forget the old name.

Yeah, I mean I was originally thinking hit the bank and I'm guessing that's where the people are that have been kidnapped. We don't know that. But we're going to get one shot and that's it. We're going to hit the bank. We're going to find what we're going to find. Hopefully the people are there, we can release them. I don't know how we can do anything about Monta Rouge at that point because we're going to have to take them and anybody that wants to go and just bail.

How many people do you think is total with the elc?

Our counts at like five.

Okay.

Each one.

Each.

Well, we were told. We were told all of the LC.

At one point and we don't know that. We don't know that the people that have went missing are still alive. We don't know that.

We don't know that.

I mean, it's very possible that it's not that they're collecting more people to continue feeding the power grid, it's that they've burned out the previous ones.

That's my worry, honestly.

What about this new world order has been lovely to you? I mean, let's just assume the worst then be pleasantly surprised.

Yeah. So what are we planning? Would it just be better to just go over and ask for an appointment to talk to Mortar Rouge and then.

Bash his skull in when we get there?

Oh, I wouldn't do an appointment. I'd sneak into his mansion at night, stab him in his sleep.

I don't know. Why can't we just walk in there and bash him skull in the middle of the afternoon?

Now you got all knocked.

I think we're outnumbered.

They have guards, but they have more at night. Because untoward things only happen at night. Not when you have an appointment at 2pm on a Thursday.

Again, we run into these.

They have guards and they're watching us.

We kill the guy that's in charge.

The middle of the day is unexpected.

It is unexpected.

I can tell you. I've never robbed a store in broad daylight.

Yeah, but it did sound like they have more guards at night than they do during the day.

I mean, I'm not saying it's a Good idea. I just don't have a better one at the moment.

I'm just worried about fallout from the other Cajuns and the town folk who may or may not be hypnotized.

I still don't understand why the town folk are just going along with all of this. There's more of them than there are the Cajuns. And my experience with small towns is they can use support. Pretty mean disdain to drum anybody out of town.

Let me say it again. Who may or may not be hypnotized.

I mean, if. Maybe it's being created by that magic rock. And if we break the rock, it breaks the spell.

Yep.

Break the rock's in the spell. Yeah.

He had some kind of old book too. Some kind of spellbook looking thing. Kind of like dude with pants. Gruber. Gruber.

Thank you. You're gonna have to help me out here, spicy pants. Gotcha. I guess the other thing is there's a slight chance that if we did manage to successfully break into the bank, we might find most of the Cajuns down there doing whatever nefarious things they do after curfew.

If hanging upside down like a bunch of.

If we get into the bank and if the people are powering the power like we expect, if we get them unhooked, it should shut the power off, which should throw the town into utter chaos. That would give us a better opportunity to go hit Leroy in the middle of that chaos. Most of us can see in the dark. I don't know if they can or not. I don't have the answer. These are just the possibilities as I see them. Yeah, we can do some of them, but we'll have to pick. I'm. I. If I thought waiting would give us better chance, I'd say let's wait. But I don't see windows. I don't see waiting gonna help.

Yeah.

Oops.

Sorry.

I'm just concerned that if.

If.

If they're watching us and we're wait like says. I mean, we can lay low for a week and maybe the suspicion will lift. But I. That I don't want to do that.

Till the next person goes missing.

Exactly. The longer we wait, the more chance that somebody else goes missing.

Which has been about one person go missing every two weeks or every week since the power. Every week since the power came back.

Back on.

That's closer to a week.

And so you're very aware of somebody who may or may not, you know.

Well, I mean, my thought is, is that they just took Edna May the night before Last. So in theory we have another five days before they might want to take somebody else. And that somebody else is basically just guaranteed to be Emery at this point. Yeah, they might not blown up yet, but they might not realize that. But we do. I'm at 802 K. I'm fine.

I'm fine.

I think if we do hit the bank and try to get people out first, we need a place for them to go while we try to take advantage of the chaos.

That's true. I don't know where.

I don't know of a safe place.

And if we do it at night, it's harder to get them out of town because there's the guards at the gate too. That's just a thought.

But what about the not impossible but the thought?

The what?

The kids. What they call themselves.

Not the KG group.

Yeah, the cool kid group.

What about him?

What about what's his face?

Skyler?

Is that his name? Yeah. Wasn't he wanting to help? Maybe we can keep him in his house once we get him up and shelter him there.

I mean.

Well, I'm sure he doesn't live alone. I'm sure he lives with his folks. But Ashton, that might be a place to shelter him though.

I mean, Ashton might be game for it.

Yeah, well, one of them hopefully is her daughter or.

And we know her address.

You know what?

We draw attention somewhere else and. And they break into the bank.

No, what if they draw attention to breaking into city hall to do shenanigans and then we break into the bank.

If we find the missing people, we might be able to turn the entire town against Leroy. If we can find the people. We might could. That might be enough to turn the tag.

You know, actually I just had a crazy idea. Which totally means we're not going to do it.

But we're listening.

We're listening.

Okay, stupid idea. What if we attack the bank?

Now that's a terrible idea.

Then no.

The only two guards are the teddy bears. The only Cajun that we may have to deal with is what's his face? Tall, dark and creepy. And everybody's currently awake and cognizant. And if we get down there, find the people, bring the people back, then we have proof. Ta da. The people were kidnapped by this asshole.

What if we can't take Lalibear?

We can take Lolibear.

We can take Lolibear. We killed a demigod. That guy does not look like a demigod.

I don't know. For some reason I feel like I can't punch the broadside of a barn today. My key's all off.

I've been in and out too much. My ideas are terrible. Never mind. Don't worry about it.

Smash now, smash later.

I'm always smashed now. Always.

That's not the worst idea.

What?

That is not the worst idea.

We know the bank has a back door we don't have the key to.

But quite frankly, we're going to do a bank robbery to break into the bank. We know where the key is. We already have looks around. We already have the combo. We know how to get the key that will keep her from suspicion because we're literally going to rob her. We can go down, open it up. If we can bring the group out, that should.

We can hold her at gunpoint. And I'm pretty sure she'd be more than willing to hand over the key right now.

Yeah, no, exactly. That's not the most awful idea.

He keeps saying it and it keeps being true.

If we can come marching up out of that boat with the missing people, we can turn the townspeople.

The two things. I have two concerns. One is we do have to incapacitate Lalibear.

That's.

Oh, no, he'll be number one.

Yeah. Number two is the spooky magic spellbook.

If we. If we can get the townspeople against the Cajuns.

My concern is that the spellbook will keep. If he can cast magic at them. They did some magic the other day, like yesterday. If he. If they've done something to keep them under control.

I don't know.

We might not be able to turn the town's fault.

I don't know that they have, though, because Ashton referred to the town as Mayeth Pel. But she's obviously still very much against the Cajuns.

That's true.

Yeah. So it's not full hoodoo.

And now it's quite possible that they've like implanted a sleeper spell and then they'll just randomly.

How do we get people's attention to. I'm pretty sure, see the missing girl.

If we come parading up and down the middle of the street in the middle of the day, which is why that's not the worst idea. You can't hide that.

Yeah, you can't hide it.

There's plenty of people walking up and down the street.

We've all known, hey, we found missing people.

Come go tell. Everybody in town knows that they're missing. That's why that's not the worst possible idea. Because it'd be easier to do that in the middle of the day than it would be the middle of the night.

Agreed.

I hate that. You're right.

I'm with you. I'd like to get the spellbook before we did that. But I don't know how to get in and out of there. Because if we get caught.

We did. On a logistics standpoint, out of character here. We've done our third action for the day. What time of day is it approaching right now?

It's getting pretty close to past dinner. Getting close to dinner. I'd say so. You know, the bank's closing in the relative.

The other option is that we lay low tonight and do this tomorrow morning.

Okay. Oh, I. But we still haven't solved the spellbook problem.

Correct.

We don't have the.

This is my view. Break into the bank, steal the key, take out Lolibear, open the vault, hopefully find the people, parade them out, get the townsfolk mad in that chaos. Get up to the mansion and then try to take the spell book.

Yeah. Because they're all going to be busy trying to deal with the chaos that we'd totally be able to get the spell book that way.

Pitchfork mob.

Exactly.

Pitchfork mob.

As an aside.

And we can use the.

We can tell the kids if we are doing this tomorrow, that gives us a little bit of time to talk to. To Skylar and the CKG and maybe get them to get more people.

Yeah.

And we can use them to help rile people up.

Yes.

Because the kids aren't going to be.

Affected by the people. To get more people that. It's still Carson in like around city hall, maybe. So that when we come out of the bank there's more people that. See, that's fair.

We could ask. But I don't know how the teenagers would. I. I don't know. It's a good idea. I just don't have a good story.

On how even if it's the young people in town, some of the people, like, I don't know, we just tell them like, hey, there's gonna be something.

Really interesting at the bank invite.

It doesn't have to be at the bank. Everything's right near each other on that street.

Hey, just tell Skyler and he can rally the troops that way because he's willing to help as long as we get. What's that?

That's what I'm saying.

Yeah.

Yeah.

See if they can get.

I got you. I like that.

Out into the street so that it is more visible for the less chance.

Of getting information out. I think catch Skyler first thing in the morning and Basically say, hey, get your friends. Get as many people out at Main street in the next hour as you can possibly get out. Whatever. Tell them there's going to be a big rumble on the street and you guys don't want to miss it.

Shenanigans.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's the best plan.

I. I think that we should not. I'm sorry. Phrasing in my own head.

We should not sleep in separate rooms. Is that what you were going to say?

I was gonna say we shouldn't sleep alone tonight. Wait, that's not where I'm going at this point.

Should. Totally.

I just mean, like, we should.

Yeah.

Like, we should at least pair off that way or triple or whatever, but we need to. That way, if some. If something happens and somebody goes missing in the night, it's not the next morning when we find out.

You're absolutely right. We need to stay together on watch.

I know. Because I'm the reason for this. If you see something or hear something, wake everybody up.

See something, say something. Got it. I know this one.

Or hear something, because I sure as.

Fuck didn't see it.

We should. Yeah, no, we should stick together, because I don't want to run the risk that we're obviously under suspicion. I don't want to run the risk that somebody goes missing during the night. I mean, we think it would be Emery, but they don't actually know that. They've seen James do magicky things. Maybe it'd be at least one person did.

Yeah, in the fricking Laundromat, of all places.

I still don't understand the guards on the Laundromat. I'm still absolutely baffled by this, but.

I suspect that there's a way from the Laundromat into the bank, and it's in the rooms that we can't find. But since we've decided to go full frontal assault, who cares?

Yeah, that's it.

I can't. That's. That's the best plan I can come up with. All right, so it's James's fault if this doesn't work.

Okay.

We're gonna blame the whole thing on James. If this.

It was my idea, so, yeah. If it failed, then it was.

Friendly reminder, we are all out of beans.

I still got a bag of tricks, though. Perfect.

Yeah.

Now that's chaos. I got a hole in my pocket.

So you guys formulate your plan, make it back to the inn. Vibes in the inner.

We quietly formulate our plan in a place where other people probably aren't overhearing.

Us.

You're in a pocket dimension during this conversation.

Perfect. We're in the middle of the park next to the water feature.

There you go. There you go. Make it back to the end. Vibes are the same. Maxine's back working the bar. She definitely, you know, she clocks you. Wish you a good evening. Same handful of people are at the bar as have been every night. You guys make it up to your rooms at the appropriate time. Room, rooms, whatever.

Yeah, we all bunk with Ulnock. Cause he got the big one.

He'S taller, he gets a bigger room. You have a perfectly good night's rest. You wake up to a crack of thunder in the morning. It's raining pretty good outside. Steel your nerves for the conversation you're about to have with Skylar. And that's where we end this episode.

The day started with a crack of thunder. I.