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[0:29] Melanie Lavin: Where are we going? If you don't mind me asking.

[0:33] Gus Finch: Farther. Not a lot, but not a little. It's only 3 PM, but the light is already fading. Maybe we're just going further into the forest. The trees are getting more dense overhead. It's just a little further.

[0:48] Melanie Lavin: Hey, where are you from?

[0:50] Gus Finch: New York. The city.

[0:52] Melanie Lavin: Before that.

[0:54] Gus Finch: Why does there have to be a before?

[0:57] Melanie Lavin: Because I have eyes. I'm not like Clarice Darling. This is a Patagonia code. I was born in Wisconsin.

[1:05] Gus Finch: Racine.

[1:06] Melanie Lavin: I'm from Cleveland, Ohio. There's also a Cleveland, Tennessee, but no one ever assumes I mean that one, but I always clarify.

[1:13] Gus Finch: So you're from Cleveland.

[1:15] Melanie Lavin: Did you hear that?

[1:17] Gus Finch: Yes. We're getting closer.

[1:19] Melanie Lavin: Yeah, my mom. She always was a really good mom. I have friends with bad moms, so I know she was really, really great actually. She and Cassie had a lot of fights, but she always protected us. It's weird to like talk about her in the past tense, because I actually she might be totally fine. I think she is actually. I think I'd know. But my dad just said she like I think she just like wanted a better life. I think she was always trying to do stuff that made her life better and our life better. But it's hard to make three, four people's lives better, so she thought she just concentrate on her own.

[2:48] Gus Finch: Well, I always answer the phone. That's why I answered even though you came up, you know, unknown, and that's usually scammers. She could call. She's going to call, I think. And I can tell her all the cool stuff I'm up to.

[3:07] Melanie Lavin: Oh, my goodness.

[3:08] Gus Finch: Oh, may I hold morning in search of my love? She has grown. So tell me where is the sweet nature between the green dirt down by the ash road?

[4:01] Melanie Lavin: Let's go find Laura.

[4:03] Gus Finch: Who's Laura? You're not here to see Laura.

[4:06] Melanie Lavin: No, no, I am. I just I wanted to hear how you describe her. I don't I don't really know what to expect.

[4:18] Gus Finch: Laura saved my life. She saved everyone's life. Everyone you see here.

[4:26] Melanie Lavin: I see a lot of women. I see women washing clothing in a small stream. I see a wood chipper with the two trees logo rusty used for hanging washing. I see women in tents braiding each other's hair. I see myself. Does that help you?

[4:42] Gus Finch: In what way? Does it make you feel safe?

[4:45] Melanie Lavin: I guess it does. Yes, really. It does.

[4:48] Gus Finch: Then I'm sorry. I don't ever want to make another woman feel unsafe.

[5:09] Melanie Lavin: Just a little ways longer. I thought she might be here for the singing circle, but sometimes she goes farther into the woods to think, meditate.

[5:23] Gus Finch: So this is what is this? It's a place where you won't have to be afraid anymore.

[6:12] Announcer: Four of Split Valley features Paul Guyet as Soothing Male Voice, Keilly McQuail as Melanie, Michelle Beck as Steph, Owen Smith, Emily Batsford, Monica Lerch, and Sara Jane Munford as a Women's Chorus. Written by Caroline V. McGraw. Sound design by James Hansen. Directed by Eddie Prunoske. Original music by Luke Santy. Produced by Five on a Match.