"She Warned the Mafia Boss“I Have Five Kids.”He Smiled“This House Is Too Quiet. — Transcript

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1. 0:00She warned the mafia boss, I have five
2. 0:02kids. He smiled, this house is too
3. 0:05quiet. The hallway went completely
4. 0:07silent when the guard saw what Roger
5. 0:09Albany was doing. The most feared man in
6. 0:11Maine, a man who made grown men go pale
7. 0:13at the Portland docks, was kneeling
8. 0:15beside a sleeping 7-year-old boy.
9. 0:18Slowly, he took off his expensive wool
10. 0:20coat. Gently, he laid it over the
11. 0:22child's thin shoulders. Then he looked
12. 0:24up at his guards. "Not a sound," he
13. 0:26whispered. Nobody moved. Just 1 week
14. 0:29earlier, his mansion had been so empty
15. 0:31you could hear a clock ticking three
16. 0:33rooms away. But nobody in that hallway
17. 0:35knew what the boy's mother was hiding,
18. 0:37or who was already watching the gates.
19. 0:39It was raining the afternoon Fiona
20. 0:41Prescott knocked on the door of Casco
21. 0:43Ridge. She was 30 years old, a widow
22. 0:45with worn suitcases and tired eyes.
23. 0:48Behind her stood five children, soaked
24. 0:50and quiet. Roger had buried his wife 6
25. 0:53years earlier, and the big house had
26. 0:54been silent ever since. Fiona had come
27. 0:57for a job, but before he could even look
28. 0:59at her resume, she swallowed hard. "I
29. 1:02have five kids," she said. "If you hire
30. 1:04me, they come with me." Every man in the
31. 1:06room expected him to send her away.
32. 1:09Instead, Roger looked past her at the
33. 1:11children standing in his marble foyer.
34. 1:13Declan, 14, watchful. Sylvie, 12,
35. 1:16clutching a sketchbook. Jonah, 10.
36. 1:18Little Peter, 7. And Minnie, 5, holding
37. 1:21a wilted daisy. Roger smiled. It was a
38. 1:24small smile, but nobody had seen it in
39. 1:26years. "Good," he said. "This house is
40. 1:29too quiet." Fiona went to work. She
41. 1:32fixed the bills, the schedules, and the
42. 1:33broken things nobody else bothered with.
43. 1:36One night, Roger found her at 1:00 in
44. 1:37the morning sewing a sick coworker's
45. 1:39work uniform so the crew would have them
46. 1:41by morning. "You could call someone
47. 1:43else," he said. "Someone else is sick,"
48. 1:46she answered. "Some things just need to
49. 1:48be done." Roger had no reply. That
50. 1:51night, upstairs, Fiona placed her late
51. 1:53husband's silver music box beside her
52. 1:55bed. She had no idea someone had been
53. 1:57waiting for exactly that. The weeks
54. 1:59passed and the house began to change.
55. 2:01Minnie left wildflowers beside Roger's
56. 2:04coffee every morning and nobody dared
57. 2:06remove them. Jonah followed him around
58. 2:08asking how cranes worked. Sylvie
59. 2:10secretly drew him smiling. Roger had the
60. 2:13picture framed and hung it in his office
61. 2:15without telling anyone. Only Declan
62. 2:17stayed distant. "Kindness is easy when
63. 2:19it costs nothing." he muttered once.
64. 2:22Then a man named Graham Northcott
65. 2:23arrived. He was polite, wealthy, and
66. 2:26honest. He asked Fiona to marry him. Not
67. 2:29for love, he said, but for safety,
68. 2:31health insurance, a real home, college
69. 2:33for all five children. Fiona asked for
70. 2:36time to think. Roger heard about it
71. 2:38before dinner. He could have ruined
72. 2:40Graham with one phone call. He could
73. 2:42have bought Fiona anything, but he
74. 2:44refused to make her choose out of fear
75. 2:45or debt. So, he said nothing at all.
76. 2:48Fiona mistook his silence for not
77. 2:49caring. She started packing. "Why do we
78. 2:52have to leave our house?" Minnie
79. 2:54whispered. Declan marched into the
80. 2:56garage and stood in front of Roger. "You
81. 2:58taught me that when something is worth
82. 3:00protecting, you don't run away. So, why
83. 3:02are you letting my mother leave?" Roger
84. 3:04had no answer. He didn't sleep that
85. 3:06night. The next morning, Fiona walked
86. 3:09downstairs pale as paper. The silver
87. 3:11music box was gone. Nothing else had
88. 3:14been touched. Not the cash, not the
89. 3:16jewelry, just that one box. Two days
90. 3:19later, a fire broke out in the equipment
91. 3:21garage. By sunrise, Roger discovered an
92. 3:24old company ledger had vanished from the
93. 3:26records room. A guard named Evan Pike
94. 3:28soon confessed that someone had paid him
95. 3:30to learn where Fiona slept and when her
96. 3:32children were away. Roger stood in the
97. 3:34wet ash and finally saw it. These
98. 3:36weren't accidents. Someone was searching
99. 3:39for something and they thought Fiona's
100. 3:40husband had left it behind. That's when
101. 3:43the children spoke up. Adults rarely
102. 3:45notice what children see. Declan
103. 3:47remembered two men at the fence. "If the
104. 3:49box isn't in her room," one of them
105. 3:51said. Someone moved it. Jonah had been
106. 3:54hiding behind a boiler panel when he
107. 3:56heard a whisper. Neil hid the copy where
108. 3:58the music still plays. Fiona went very
109. 4:01still. Her husband Neil had loved hiding
110. 4:03little surprises inside the things he
111. 4:05fixed. Then Peter frowned the way he
112. 4:07always did before saying something
113. 4:09everyone else forgot. Daddy made more
114. 4:11than one music box, he said. Sylvie has
115. 4:14one. They found it in a cedar trunk
116. 4:17wrapped in a yellow scarf. Roger carried
117. 4:19it to his desk and turned it under the
118. 4:21lamp. He noticed a tiny groove along the
119. 4:23bottom and slid the tip of a letter
120. 4:25opener inside.
121. 4:27Something clicked. A hidden plate slid
122. 4:29open. Inside, wrapped in oil paper, were
123. 4:32letters, photographs, invoices, and a
124. 4:34small storage drive. Roger and Fiona
125. 4:36read in silence. Neil had been an
126. 4:38inspection engineer. He discovered that
127. 4:41the safety parts on Albany cranes had
128. 4:42been secretly swapped for cheap ones,
129. 4:44and the money had vanished through fake
130. 4:46companies. He followed that trail for
131. 4:48months. It led to one name, Renaldo
132. 4:51Balouno, Roger's oldest adviser, the man
133. 4:54he called Uncle Renaldo, the man who
134. 4:56taught him to drive when he was 15 and
135. 4:58sat beside him at his father's funeral.
136. 5:00There was more. 11 years ago, Roger's
137. 5:03father had discovered the stolen money.
138. 5:05Days later, he died in a crane accident.
139. 5:08Neil's notes showed the broken part had
140. 5:10been replaced beforehand. It was no
141. 5:12accident. And Neil's car crash on that
142. 5:14rainy road 3 years ago was no accident,
143. 5:17either. Roger's voice cracked. Your
144. 5:20husband died because of my family.
145. 5:22Fiona placed her hand over his. It was
146. 5:24the first time she had touched him by
147. 5:26choice. "No," she said. "Neil died
148. 5:29because he did the right thing even when
149. 5:31he was afraid. So, we finish what he
150. 5:33started." She had said, "We." By
151. 5:35midnight, Roger sent copies to an honest
152. 5:37lawyer and a federal investigator and to
153. 5:40people he could not control. Renaldo was
154. 5:42running out of places to hide. But the
155. 5:44next morning, Peter's bed was empty. On
156. 5:47his pillow lay one note, "Give us the
157. 5:49evidence. No police." Roger felt every
158. 5:52dangerous instinct he had ever buried
159. 5:54come rushing back. It was Declan who
160. 5:56stopped him. "You told me to think
161. 5:58before I hit." the boy said. "So,
162. 6:00think." and they did. Jonah found an old
163. 6:03map of the estate. Sylvie remembered a
164. 6:05hidden service hallway. Minnie
165. 6:07remembered a black car turning north
166. 6:09toward the woods and the license plate
167. 6:11she had practiced saying. The map led to
168. 6:13an abandoned hunting cabin. Roger
169. 6:15ignored the note and called the state
170. 6:17police. Fiona was already in the garage
171. 6:19wearing her old wool coat. "That is my
172. 6:22son." Roger looked at her for a long
173. 6:24moment. Then he handed her a warmer
174. 6:26coat. "Then stay beside me." They found
175. 6:29Peter in the cabin wrapped in a blanket,
176. 6:31frightened but safe. He ran into his
177. 6:34mother's arms. Two hired men were
178. 6:36arrested. By midnight, Renaldo was
179. 6:38caught at a marina trying to leave Maine
180. 6:40by boat. Roger did not take revenge.
181. 6:44He wanted the truth spoken out loud in a
182. 6:46courtroom with his father's name cleared
183. 6:48and it was. Neil Prescott was finally
184. 6:50remembered as the hero he had been.
185. 6:52Three days later, the great hall of
186. 6:54Casco Ridge filled with cooks, drivers,
187. 6:56and housekeepers. Roger knelt in front
188. 6:59of Declan first. "I don't want to
189. 7:01replace your father, but if you let me,
190. 7:03I want to be someone you can call." "You
191. 7:05already are." Declan said. Then he knelt
192. 7:08before Peter. "If someday you want it,
193. 7:10could I be your father, too?" Peter
194. 7:12threw his arms around his neck. "I
195. 7:14thought you already were." Roger closed
196. 7:16his eyes. Then he stood and faced Fiona.
197. 7:19"I will never use my power to make you
198. 7:21stay, but if you choose to stay, I want
199. 7:23to spend my life becoming worthy of that
200. 7:25choice." She said yes. A year later,
201. 7:28Sylvie's drawings covered a whole wall
202. 7:30of Roger's office. Minnie's flowers
203. 7:32still sat beside his coffee and Peter
204. 7:34fell asleep every night in his chair at
205. 7:36the dinner table. The house was never
206. 7:38quiet again and sometimes a mansion
207. 7:41isn't empty because it lacks people.
208. 7:43It's empty because it's waiting for a
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