05: Midnight
ars PARADOXICA
Mischa Stanton
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2015
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Sally is drunk, locked in a broom closet and the town is about to explode. But it’s hard to invest in the future of Polvo when projects are getting cut left and right, and Intelligence Agent Hank Cornish is closing up the town for good. Can Sally and Jack pull off one last miracle? And how can Bill Donovan use that miracle to his advantage?
Created by Daniel Manning & Mischa Stanton. Written by Daniel Manning. Directed & produced by Mischa Stanton.
Featuring:
Kristen DiMercurio as Sally Grissom,
Rob Slotnick as Bill Donovan,
Robin Gabrielli as Anthony Partridge,
Susanna Kavee as Helen Partridge,
Katie Speed as Esther Roberts,
Zach Ehrlich as Jack Wyatt,
Dan Anderson as Hank Cornish,
Eric Rafael Ibarra as Victor Lambert,
Julian Mundy as Ivan Maraczek,
and Hannah Trobaugh as June Barlowe,
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 | So this is the first trial of the Tachion Activity Projector, the TAP. |
| 0:21.0 | You built a window through time out of a television? |
| 0:26.0 | Quentin is shot by June's bullet. I invent the TAP, setting up the conditions for the grieving widow Barlow to come in and cause her own undoing. |
| 0:33.0 | This isn't what it looks like. |
| 0:35.0 | It looks to me like you're a spy. |
| 0:37.0 | If you're looking for a good reason to change the future, you're plumb out of luck. |
| 0:41.0 | It's already happened. I'm going to So, Okay, diary, Sally Grissom, December 21st, 1945, and time is 1226, 1226, that can't be right. |
| 1:32.0 | I need to reset my watch watch I guess that it's about |
| 1:34.9 | quarter half past nine I'm in the maintenance room there was a backup power |
| 1:40.3 | supply here but it hasn't been recharged and I don't know how many weeks so the |
| 1:44.2 | time piece could only hurt me back a few hours. Unfortunately not until after |
| 1:48.7 | everything was in boxes. The time piece doesn't move your position relative to Earth, so now I'm locked in a broom closet. |
| 1:56.0 | Everyone else is at the Christmas party. They don't know that they've been fired yet, |
| 2:00.0 | and they definitely don't know that the town is going to burn to the ground in about two hours. |
| 2:05.5 | And I'm supposed to be trying to fix it by now, but I am stuck in this stupid closet. |
| 2:10.0 | As long as I'm here, I might as well go through the catastrophe we're trying to avoid. |
| 2:18.3 | It started at the party a couple hours ago, or maybe not |
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