Introducing: Agent Layla

Vienna Luke became an undercover police operative to figure out what really happened to her on the worst night of her life. Make sure you follow Personally, so you know when the series becomes available on September 20. https://agentlayla.ca/

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  This is a CBC Podcast.

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  One summer evening when she was 20 years old, something terrible happened to Vienna Luke.

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  Something happened between us. I can't figure it out. I don't know what happened, but I do know that it wasn't right, that it was a violation.

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  For a while, the truth about that night stayed secret.

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  He got to write the story.

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  And then my parents are basically believing his version of the events.

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  But then people started asking questions.

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  Why are you alone with this guy? And his wife's out of town? Who else knows about this?

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  She's like, well, you know, there's pictures, right? I started putting the pieces together. I thought this guy's no good.

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  I'm Jodi Martinson. And from CBC's Personally, this is Agent Layla. The story of how a victim, with help from her sister and the police, went undercover. How Vienna became a secret agent in her own case.

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  You think I'm going to play your same little game, but we got a new game. And I'm writing it.

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  Pull it out of me. Take control. You aren't the girl who got taken advantage of. You're the mom of two and we can do this.

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  The whole thing really was conditional on me.

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  How this undercover operation tested the limits of family bonds.

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  He wanted her to accept his explanation and forgive him and come for family Christmas.

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  He is the one who put his entire family in this situation.

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  We can't be the only ones that woke up and said, enough, you aren't who you say you are.

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  And about how for Vienna, the only way to deal with the events of that horrible night was to stare them straight in the face.

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  OK, let's get back to the night. And what actually, tell me what happened.

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  Oh, I put something in one of the drinks.

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  And I just kept using that phrase with her, like, you are taking your life back. Like, fucking right, I got this. And I am going to get the answer that I've been wanting.

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  My whole life has been like following my own internal voice, my internal knowing. And it's never led me astray. So I'm not going to start now.

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  I'm sorry. There's nothing more like life giving than just being like, hey, I get to tell the truth.

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  Agent for truth, agent for change, Agent Layla. Available now wherever you get your podcasts.

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  So bring it on. Let's go. Let's get a confession.

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