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ars PARADOXICA

Mischa Stanton

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2015

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Quentin Barlowe dies mysteriously, and all fingers point to Sally Grissom. To prove her innocence, Sally works through the night to create the TAP, a window through time, so she can see what really happened. But when she’s confronted by the widow June Barlowe, Sally may wish she had left well enough alone.

**WARNING: This episode contains depictions of gun violence. Listener discretion advised.

Created by Daniel Manning & Mischa Stanton. Written by Daniel Manning. Directed & Produced by Mischa Stanton.

Featuring:
Kristen DiMercurio as Sally Grissom,
Reyn Beeler as Chet Whickman,
Robin Gabrielli as Anthony Partridge,
Katie Speed as Esther Roberts,
Lee Satterwhite as Quentin Barlowe,
and Hannah Trobaugh as June Barlowe,
as well as Geoff Pictor,
with special thanks to Isabel Atkinson.

Original music by Mischa Stanton and by Eno Freedman-Brodmann.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Previously on Ar's Paradoxica.

0:03.0

My name is Sally Grissom, and I think I accidentally invented time travel.

0:08.0

We are rapidly approaching the town of Polvo, New Mexico.

0:11.0

And how long will I be kept there?

0:13.0

Win the war for us, and then we'll talk.

0:16.0

Cheat Wickman, nice to see you again.

0:18.0

I was there when you fell out of nowhere,

0:20.0

and it turns out what I know, what I saw, meant that I had a need to do something else.

0:26.0

If you're looking for a good reason to change the future, you're plumb out of luck, it's already happened.

0:31.0

But the little eyes make getting through to what we need that much easier. I'm going to be here. Oh, I would have thought that two years living in Palva would have left me jaded, that nothing

1:16.5

could surprise me anymore. God, I'm still having trouble putting it all together in my

1:20.7

head. I guess I should start from the beginning. One of the superconductive

1:25.1

coils had cracked during a power cycling test. Roberts and Wyatt were both off site for personal reasons,

1:30.6

so I had signed Barlow over to my team for an extra set of hands.

1:34.4

We were replacing the coil and Barlow was, damn it, I didn't do the intro thing, did I?

1:38.4

I'm going to start over.

1:41.6

Diary of Sally Grissom, September 21st, 1945.

1:45.0

I would have thought that two years of living...

1:50.0

So Donovan asks me, he says,

1:52.0

Electric guitars give me a headache.

1:53.8

Don't you go deaf with all that racket?

1:55.8

But it's not about preserving your hearing, man.

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