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Never take a job from this SECRET organization · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Today's story is about a chance encounter between two men
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  Speaker 1: in Canada. Now, at first, these two men hit it
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  Speaker 1: off and became fast friends. But as time wore on,
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  Speaker 1: it became very clear that both men were keeping secrets
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  Speaker 1: from the other, and eventually those.
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  Speaker 2: Secrets were exposed.
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  Speaker 1: get into today's story. Even in late two thousand and three,
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  Speaker 1: a twenty two year old man named Michael Bridges sat
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  Speaker 1: down in the stands of a professional hockey game in Calgary,
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  Speaker 1: which is a major city in Canada. And as he
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  Speaker 1: sat there, staring out at the rink waiting for the
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  Speaker 1: players to file in, he thought to himself how amazing
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  Speaker 1: it was that he was here right now.
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  Speaker 2: He couldn't believe how lucky he was to be here.
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  Speaker 1: So Michael lived about seven hundred miles away in a
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  Speaker 1: city called Brandon, which is also in Canada. And for
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  Speaker 1: the last year, Michael's life had gone really badly. He
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  Speaker 1: was struggling financially and in between jobs. He'd gone through
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  Speaker 1: a recent terrible breakup, a lot of his friends had
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  Speaker 1: sort of vanished from his life, and so for the
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  Speaker 1: most part, he was sort of sad and lonely all
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  Speaker 1: the time. But then he'd won a sweepstakes that he
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  Speaker 1: had only entered on a whim and gotten an all
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  Speaker 1: expenses paid trip to Calgary for this hockey game, and
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  Speaker 1: so it felt like finally something good was happening in
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  Speaker 1: his life.
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  Speaker 2: Michael was about to flag.
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  Speaker 1: Down a vendor and order himself a beer when this
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  Speaker 1: guy he didn't know, the stocky guy with a mustache,
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  Speaker 1: walked in and sat down right next to Michael, and
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  Speaker 1: before Michael could say anything, this guy looked at him
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  Speaker 1: with a big smile in his face and he said, Man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm so excited to be here. I won this ticket
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  Speaker 1: in a sweepstakes, and Michael was like, dude, me too,
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  Speaker 1: And so right away these total strangers just totally hit
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  Speaker 1: it off, and before long they were chatting about their lives.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, Michael, who over the last year, you know,
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  Speaker 1: most of his friends had sort of disappeared in his life,
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  Speaker 1: it was great to have a guy that just seemed
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  Speaker 1: to get him. And so the time flew by, and
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  Speaker 1: Brock must have felt the same way about Michael, because
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  Speaker 1: as the hockey game ended, Brock asked Michael if he
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  Speaker 1: wanted to, you know, keep the party going and go
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  Speaker 1: together to a strip club right down the road, and
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  Speaker 1: Michael was like, yeah, let's do it. And so the
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  Speaker 1: two new friends left the hockey game together they went
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  Speaker 1: to the strip club, and as soon as they got there,
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  Speaker 1: Michael began to notice something odd about Brock, or at
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  Speaker 1: least something he hadn't noticed before, and that was that
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  Speaker 1: even though Brock appeared to be very blue collar, sort
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  Speaker 1: of like Michael was, Brock appeared to have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of money. I mean, he was leaving these huge tips
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  Speaker 1: for all the bartenders, and he was paying for he
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  Speaker 1: and Michael's drinks round after round.
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  Speaker 2: Brock was paying for all of it.
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  Speaker 1: And then also Brock had this huge wad of ones
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  Speaker 1: and bills that he had that he was basically throwing
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  Speaker 1: at all the dancers, and Michael, who was caught off
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  Speaker 1: guard by this, gladly accepted Brock's generosity. I mean, at
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  Speaker 1: this point, given Michael's financial struggles, he could not have
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  Speaker 1: afforded even a normal night out let, alone a lavish
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  Speaker 1: one like this. And so as the two men stood
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  Speaker 1: at the bar towards the end of the night, Michael
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  Speaker 1: thanked Brock for making this such a fun night, and
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  Speaker 1: he said he really didn't want to leave and go
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  Speaker 1: back to his hometown of Brandon, you know, seven hundred
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  Speaker 1: miles away, because he was having so much fun here
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  Speaker 1: with Brock. But when he said that, when he said Brandon,
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  Speaker 1: Brock stopped and he's like, wait a minute, Brandon, I'm
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  Speaker 1: moving to Brandon for work. And when Michael heard this,
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  Speaker 1: he was ecstatic. I mean, he was thinking this was
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  Speaker 1: going to be a one off thing, that he would
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  Speaker 1: likely never see Brock again, despite how cool this guy was.
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  Speaker 1: But now it seemed entirely possible that if they were
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  Speaker 1: living in the same town, they could be actual friends.
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  Speaker 1: And so Brock told Michael that, hey, if you help
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  Speaker 1: me find an apartment in your hometown once I moved there,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I can repay the favor by helping you get
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  Speaker 1: some work. And so Michael, he took one last look
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  Speaker 1: at that big water cash in Brock's hand, and he
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  Speaker 1: looked up at him and he said deal. A couple
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  Speaker 1: of months later, in early December of two thousand and three,
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  Speaker 1: Michael rode in the passenger seat of Brock's car as
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  Speaker 1: they made their way down a road in Brandon. The
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  Speaker 1: two had just had lunch together and Brock was driving
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  Speaker 1: Michael home when suddenly Brock's phone rang, and when Brock
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  Speaker 1: answered it, Michael could tell right away, just from the
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  Speaker 1: tone of Brock's voice that he was speaking to his boss.
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  Speaker 1: So Ever, since that hockey game, Michael and Brock had
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  Speaker 1: become friends. Brock had moved to Brandon, and Michael had
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  Speaker 1: helped him find an apartment, and in exchange, Brock had
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  Speaker 1: made good on his promise and had helped Michael find
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  Speaker 1: some work. In fact, he had gotten him a few
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  Speaker 1: odd jobs with the company that he Brock worked for. However,
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  Speaker 1: these jobs were not what Michael expected them to be
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  Speaker 1: based on his first impression of Brock. In reality, he
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  Speaker 1: felt like these jobs were kind of shady. Brock had
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  Speaker 1: asked Michael to start to live these packages all over town.
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  Speaker 1: But he warned Michael to never look inside of any
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  Speaker 1: of these packages. Now, at first, obviously Michael had been
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  Speaker 1: very unsure about taking Brock up on these jobs. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it was pretty clear that whatever Brock was doing was
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  Speaker 1: you know, questionable or maybe even illegal, like what's going
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  Speaker 1: on with these packages? But you know, Michael thought back
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  Speaker 1: to that huge wad of cash that Brock had at
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  Speaker 1: the Strip Club in Calgary, and it just seemed like
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  Speaker 1: he was throwing money around, and Michael wanted money like
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  Speaker 1: that too, and so he thought, you know, what's the harm.
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  Speaker 1: And so ultimately Michael agreed to deliver one of these packages,
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  Speaker 1: and when nothing bad happened, he began delivering more. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Michael still had no idea what he was actually delivering.
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  Speaker 1: He had heeded the warning and was not looking inside
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  Speaker 1: these packages. Instead, he had sort of accepted the shadowy,
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  Speaker 1: mysterious stuff that Brock was doing was just sort of
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  Speaker 1: part of being friends with Brock and working for Brock,
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  Speaker 1: and so he had.
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  Speaker 2: Just gone along with it.
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  Speaker 1: And also, Michael genuinely needed the money. He really could
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  Speaker 1: ford to just stop working. So as the two men
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  Speaker 1: continued down this road in Brandon. Michael just continued to
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  Speaker 1: sit quietly in the passenger seat while he listened to
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  Speaker 1: Brock speak to his boss. And at some point in
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  Speaker 1: this conversation, Brock looked very resigned and just said, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'll take care of it right now. Then Brock abruptly
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  Speaker 1: hung up, and without saying anything to Michael, he just
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  Speaker 1: pulled a U turn and began speeding in the opposite direction.
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  Speaker 1: And then a couple of minutes later, Brock pulled into
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  Speaker 1: this parking lot of the Cdy Hotel. And then before
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  Speaker 1: Michael could ask, like, what are we doing here, Brock
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  Speaker 1: turned to him and said, you stay here. And then
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  Speaker 1: Brock got out of the car and he marched over
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  Speaker 1: to the door of this motel and began to knock.
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  Speaker 1: And Michael, he's in the car watching this, having no
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  Speaker 1: idea what's going on, and he sees the motel room
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  Speaker 1: door that Brock knocked on. It suddenly opened and there
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  Speaker 1: was this woman who was inside the motel, and from
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  Speaker 1: Michael's perspective, it seemed like she was very startled to
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  Speaker 1: see Brock, and then she began trying to shut the
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  Speaker 1: door on Brock, but Brock. He reached out and he
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  Speaker 1: began pushing on the door to keep it open, and
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  Speaker 1: the two of them began and yelling at each other,
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  Speaker 1: and Michael, you know, he can't hear what they're yelling about,
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  Speaker 1: but clearly, you know, they're having some sort of heated
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  Speaker 1: argument here. And at this point, Michael began looking around,
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  Speaker 1: you know, hopeful that nobody was witnessing this. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they could get in some serious trouble here. And then
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  Speaker 1: Michael turned his attention back to Brock and this woman,
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  Speaker 1: and he watched as Brock raised his fist and punched
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  Speaker 1: this woman square in the face, and she instantly crumpled
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  Speaker 1: to the ground. And Michael, like, he has no idea
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  Speaker 1: what to do here, and so he just sat there
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  Speaker 1: as Brock climbed on top of this woman who's laying
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  Speaker 1: on the ground, and he began repeatedly punching her over
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  Speaker 1: and over again until Michael could see blood all over
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  Speaker 1: her face. And then Brock, who seemed totally unfazed, slammed
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  Speaker 1: the motel room door and calmly walked back to the car,
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  Speaker 1: hopped in the driver's seat, and drove off without saying
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  Speaker 1: anything to Michael, and Michael just sat quietly for this ride.
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  Speaker 1: He really had no idea what to even say. Now,
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  Speaker 1: he already knew that Brock must be involved in some
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  Speaker 1: sort of criminal enterprise, and in virtue of Michael delivering
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  Speaker 1: those packages for him, he was also involved in whatever
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  Speaker 1: this organization did. But up until this point, up until
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  Speaker 1: seeing this beating take place, Michael had sort of assumed
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  Speaker 1: that whatever Brock was involved in couldn't be that big
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  Speaker 1: of a deal. I mean, certainly they weren't hurting people.
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  Speaker 1: But now Michael realized he had been terribly wrong. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: Rock pulled up in front of Michael's house, and for
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  Speaker 1: the first time he spoke. He turned to Michael and
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  Speaker 1: he said, don't tell anyone what you saw. And Michael
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  Speaker 1: just nodded his head and said, yeah, I won't. And
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  Speaker 1: then Michael got out of the car and he rushed
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  Speaker 2: Okay, back to the story.
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  Speaker 1: About a week later, Michael was at his home when
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  Speaker 1: his phone rang, and when he looked at the caller ID,
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  Speaker 1: he saw it was Brock, And at first Michael couldn't
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  Speaker 1: help but feel like he didn't want to pick up.
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  Speaker 2: The call, but he knew he would have to.
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  Speaker 1: Despite what had happened the previous week at the motel,
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  Speaker 1: Michael had not said anything to anyone. However, you know,
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  Speaker 1: being loyal to Brock did not make him feel any
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  Speaker 1: better about it. In reality, Michael felt like at this
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  Speaker 1: point he was in too deep with Brock and he
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  Speaker 1: had no idea how to get out again, even though
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  Speaker 1: at this point he kind of wanted to. But for now,
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  Speaker 1: Michael had made the conscious decision to simply act like
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  Speaker 1: everything is the same, everything is normal, you know, So
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  Speaker 1: he didn't raise any red flags with Brock, and so
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  Speaker 1: he ultimately picked up the phone. Brock didn't say hello
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  Speaker 1: or ask Michael how he was doing. Instead, he just
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  Speaker 1: told Michael that he had another delivery for him. If
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  Speaker 1: Michael was still committed to this job. Now, Michael knew
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  Speaker 1: the right answer here would be to turn this down
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  Speaker 1: and not continue to go down this rabbit hole and
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  Speaker 1: get deeper in deeper in with Brock.
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  Speaker 2: But at the same time, you know, Michael.
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  Speaker 1: Was worried if he refused this job that he might
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  Speaker 1: be put in danger, like he saw what Brock was
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  Speaker 1: capable of, you know, is that going to happen to
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  Speaker 1: him if he turns this down.
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  Speaker 2: And then on top of that, Michael needed the money.
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  Speaker 1: And so after a tense silence, Michael told Brock that yes,
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  Speaker 1: I'm still committed and I will do this delivery. Brock
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  Speaker 1: said that was very good, and he also told Michael
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  Speaker 1: that he and the boss were very impressed with Michael's silence,
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  Speaker 1: and then Brock hung up. Now, Michael did appreciate the compliment,
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  Speaker 1: but at the same time, it really did not change
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  Speaker 1: his situation at all. I mean, he was still in
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  Speaker 1: way too deep here and didn't know what he was
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  Speaker 1: going to do, and so reluctantly he grabbed his keys
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  Speaker 1: and headed out to his car to go pick up
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  Speaker 1: this next package. Two months later, in early February of
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and four, Michael and Brock sat inside of
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  Speaker 1: a diner and Brandon eating a meal together. Things at
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  Speaker 1: this point had basically gone back to normal. Michael was
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  Speaker 1: regularly delivering packages for Brock, and the two of them
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  Speaker 1: were meeting for meals like this fairly often, where Brock would.
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  Speaker 2: Always put the bill.
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  Speaker 1: But today, as Michael sat there staring at Brock, he
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  Speaker 1: could tell something was different. Brock seemed really agitated, like
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  Speaker 1: something was on his mind. He kept tapping his hand
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  Speaker 1: and kind of fidgeting in his seat, and eventually Michael
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  Speaker 1: asked Brock like, hey, are you okay, And to Michael's surprise,
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  Speaker 1: Brock kind of lit up and he was like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm okay. In fact, things are more than okay. I
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  Speaker 1: actually have an offer for you that could potentially change
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  Speaker 1: your life. Brock again told Michael that he and the
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  Speaker 1: Boss were seriously impressed with Michael's work so far, not
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  Speaker 1: just the fact that he kept silent about the motel incident,
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  Speaker 1: but also they knew Michael clearly had not looked inside
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  Speaker 1: of any of those packages, and so collectively this proved
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  Speaker 1: that Michael was dependable and loyal. And so he told
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  Speaker 1: Michael that what he wanted to do was introduce Michael
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  Speaker 1: to the Boss because he thought maybe the Boss would
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  Speaker 1: take a liking to Michael and move him up in
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  Speaker 1: the organization, maybe give him a more managerial role like Brock's,
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  Speaker 1: where the role was more prestigious and had more responsibility
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  Speaker 1: but critically came with higher pay. After hearing this, Michael
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  Speaker 1: felt both excited and nervous. He was excited because he
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  Speaker 1: wanted nothing more than to make the kind of money
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  Speaker 1: that Brock did, and after working with Brocknow for several months,
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  Speaker 1: Michael had become kind of desensitized to violence and danger.
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  Speaker 1: He realized he could put his morals aside if it
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  Speaker 1: meant he would never have to be financially insecure ever again.
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  Speaker 1: But the thing that made Michael nervous was meeting the boss.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he really didn't know much about who this
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  Speaker 1: guy was. All he knew is he was perfectly prepared
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  Speaker 1: to resort to violence if people wronged him, and so
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  Speaker 1: Michael knew how critical it was to stay on this
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  Speaker 1: guy's good side. But as all these conflicting thoughts were
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  Speaker 1: swirling around Michael's head, Brock said something else. He said
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  Speaker 1: before he would actually take Michael to meet the Boss,
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  Speaker 1: Michael had to pass one more test. Michael would have
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  Speaker 1: to prove that he was capable of more than simply
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  Speaker 1: delivering packages and keeping secrets. Basically, he needed to prove
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  Speaker 1: that he could be as cutthroat and brutal as Brock was.
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  Speaker 2: After saying this, Brock just kind of.
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  Speaker 1: Leaned back and stared at Michael, studying his reaction, And
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  Speaker 1: at first Michael really didn't even know what to say
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  Speaker 1: or do. He was like, Okay, is Brock expecting me
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  Speaker 1: to come up with some sort of way that I
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  Speaker 1: can demonstrate this. Do I need to come up with
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  Speaker 1: a test myself and do it? Or is Brock about to.
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  Speaker 2: Give me some assignment? Like what's going on here?
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  Speaker 1: But then before Brock could say anything else to clarify
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  Speaker 1: this whole situation, Michael had this epiphany. He suddenly realized
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  Speaker 1: that he already had the proof he needed to demonstrate
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  Speaker 1: to Brock and to the boss that he could basically
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  Speaker 1: handle anything they threw at him. Before meeting Brock, something
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  Speaker 1: truly awful and just totally messed up happened in Michael's life,
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  Speaker 1: and Michael had persevered his way through it. And so
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  Speaker 1: Michael was thinking to himself, if he just told the
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  Speaker 1: story of what happened to Brock and to the boss,
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  Speaker 1: it would be convinced that he was their guy. And so,
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  Speaker 1: feeling very confident, Michael looked Brock right in the eye
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  Speaker 1: and he told him about his past. And as he
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  Speaker 1: told the story, Brock's eyes went wide, and by the
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  Speaker 1: end of the story, when Michael finally finished up, Brock
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  Speaker 1: just said, Okay, yeah, you're ready to meet the Boss.
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  Speaker 1: The meeting with the Boss was scheduled for a few
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  Speaker 1: days later, and on that day, Michael showed up to
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  Speaker 1: this fancy hotel in a nearby city, and when he
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  Speaker 1: walked into the lobby, he saw Brock was sitting there
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  Speaker 1: waiting for him. When Brock saw Michael, he smiled and
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  Speaker 1: stood up gestured for Michael to come over, and then
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  Speaker 1: the two of them walked upstairs to a particular hotel room.
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  Speaker 1: But when Brock unlocked the hotel room door and the
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  Speaker 1: two men went inside this lavish suite with this gorgeous
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  Speaker 1: living room and an amazing view, Michael looked around and
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  Speaker 1: realized it was empty, and he said to Brock, like,
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  Speaker 1: where's the Boss, And Brock said, the Boss doesn't wait
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  Speaker 1: for anyone. People wait for the Boss, and so to
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: sit down, he'll be here soon. And so Michael said okay,
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: and he took a seat and tried to stay calm,
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: but in reality, he was very nervous. I mean, all
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: this cloak and dagger stuff was really putting him on edge.
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  Speaker 1: He also knew he had to impress the boss when
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: he got here, because if he did, he would have
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: like this new lease on life, this big promotion. He'd
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: be getting paid so much money. But if he didn't,
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: if he failed to impress the boss, not only would
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: he potentially be out of a job and back to
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: sort of poverty, but also he could be in real
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: danger here. And so, as Michael is sitting there showing
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  Speaker 1: all the signs that he's totally nervous, Brock, who was
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: in the room just kind of standing there, looked over
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  Speaker 1: and could sense, you know, his friend clearly is on edge.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: And so he said, hey, Michael, here we go. Why
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: don't you just run me through your story one more time,
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  Speaker 1: like a dry run before you meet the boss.
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  Speaker 2: Get yourself ready.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: And so Michael, who at this point was so anxious
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: he was happy to be doing anything other than just
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: sitting there quietly, quickly agreed to the idea and went
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: through a story one more time, and right as he
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: finished his story, there was a knock on the door,
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  Speaker 1: and so Brock said, Okay, he's here.
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  Speaker 2: Are you ready?
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: And Michael's like, yeah, I'm ready.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: And so Brock walked over to the door, took.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: One more look at Michael, opened it up, and when
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: Michael looked outside and saw who was out there, he
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: knew immediately he had made a terrible mistake. It would
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: turn out the last several months of Michael's life was
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: one big lie. That's sweepstakes that Michael had won that
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: got them the tickets to the game in Calgary, that
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: wasn't real. Somebody had set that up just so Michael
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: could meet Brock. Those packages that Michael was delivering for Brock,
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: they were not sensitive. It was just packages that contained flour,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: like cooking flour. And that woman that Michael watched Brock
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: beat up at the motel, she was acting and so
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: was Brock. Nobody got hurt in that entire altercation. And
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: the blood that Michael saw on her face, well she
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: had blood capsules hidden in her mouth that she popped
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: to make it look like she actually got beat up. However,
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: there was one thing that was absolutely true about the
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: last few months of Michael's life, and that was that
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Brock really was involved in a secretive organization, and Brock
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: really did want to bring Michael inside of it. It's
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: just that the organization was not the criminal enterprise that
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Michael thought it was. Instead, it was the Royal Canadian
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Mounted Police, and Brock was an undercover officer running an
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: elaborate sting designed entirely to get Michael to confess to
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: his crimes, which he did while secret cameras inside of
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: that hotel room recorded every single word he said.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Michael's crime was murder.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Two years earlier, his girlfriend, Aaron Chorney, had tried to
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: break up with him, and he'd been so mad about
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: it that he attacked her, wound up strangling her until
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: she fell unconscious, and then he drowned her in the bathtub.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: And so this was the story he told Brock and
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: intended to tell the Boss to convince them that he
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: was their guy, that he was tough and could do
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: anything they wanted. He basically was telling them, hey, guys,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: I'm literally a murderer. And so when they heard that
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: knock on the door in the hotel room and Michael turned,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: expecting it to be the Boss, well, instead, he saw
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: a whole bunch of police officers coming into the hotel
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: room to arrest him for that murder that he confessed to.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Aaron's body was ultimately recovered from the dump site where
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Michael had left her, and she was given a proper burial.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: As for Michael, he was convicted of her murder and
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: sentenced to life in prison. Thank you so much for watching.
• 19:31
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