00:00in the humid air of 1784 savannah the scent of salt marsh mingled with secrets elias thorn was
00:08the proprietor of the finest tavern in the georgia colony to the public a pillar of the community
00:15but inside he was crumbling seeking a cure for his racing heart and night terrors elias turned
00:22to dr silas vain a man of cold eyes and expensive tastes their sessions began professionally but
00:31the intimacy of bearing one's soul soon curdled into something far more dangerous elias began
00:37funneling the tavern's profits into silas's pockets buying silence buying affection but silas had
00:46expensive tastes that could never be satisfied you are a broken vessel elias give me the boar
00:54and i shall keep your secrets safe on august 12th the town awoke to find silas's cottage empty
01:01a fisherman discovered a body in the marsh wearing silas's ring the trial was the talk of the colony
01:08witnesses testified to seeing elias rowing toward the marshes the prosecution called him mad he
01:15offered no defense elias thorne was hanged on a tuesday his last meal was bred from his own kitchen
01:23when the jury returned guilty he simply whispered i deserve this following his execution the deed to
01:31the gilded boar passed to a distant cousin from charleston named arthur stern but something was wrong
01:38his hands were smooth not a laborer's hands and on his left pinky a pale circle where a heavy ring
01:45had once sat the truth was far darker than a simple murder the body in the marsh hadn't been silas
01:53it was a nameless traveler killed and dressed it wasn't elias who had killed silas it was silas who
02:01had killed elias dr silas vain now stood behind the bar of the man he had sent to the gallows
02:07he hadn't just taken elias's life he had stepped into it
02:12he had stepped into it
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