10: Consequence, Act I

ars PARADOXICA

Mischa Stanton

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2016

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Anthony Partridge has stumbled across a box full of tapes in Bill Donovan’s office. Spoilers: Bill’s had the whole town wired for years, and he’s recorded EVERYTHING. And that’s not all–he’s been blackmailing politicians, he manipulated Helen, and he’s bending the fabric of spacetime to keep himself in power. He doesn’t stop for breath, even when his health starts to fail. Is there anything Bill Donovan won’t do?

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

Featuring:
Rob Slotnick as Bill Donovan,
Reyn Beeler as Chet Whickman,
Kristen DiMercurio as Sally Grissom,
Robin Gabrielli as Anthony Partridge,
Susanna Kavee as Helen Partridge,
Charlotte Mary Wen as Penny Wise,
Dan Anderson as Hank Cornish,
Isabel Atkinson as Amelia Arnault,
Julian Mundy as Ivan Maraczek,
Eric Rafael Ibarra as Victor Lambert,
and Pete Lutz as J. Edgar Hoover,
as well as Amanda Bailey.

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

Transcript

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0:00.0	Previously on ARS Paradoxica.
0:02.8	My name is Sally Grissom, and I think I accidentally invented time travel.
0:07.8	Brain lesions, nerve damage, her symptoms look just like yours.
0:12.3	I don't have all the time in the world.
0:14.0	Figure it out. You understand that all of it was for the good of
0:18.0	O-DAR, for the good of all of us, and now he's dying.
0:21.0	You're not going to show up for your own wife.
0:24.0	Why won't you just let this go?
0:26.0	I'm gone Sally. I'm leaving.
0:30.0	We know what we need to do now.
0:32.0	We've always known. I'm going to Oh, October 28th, 1943. People years down the line are going to remember today, like the 4th of July,
1:19.0	the day we dig in our boot heels, the day we take our first step taking Europe back from the Nazis,
1:25.7	turning the tide in the Pacific and ending this war once and for all. Today's the day
1:30.8	we test Project Rainbow.
1:32.8	When President Roosevelt named me coordinator of intelligence,
1:37.5	he expected me to throw my weight around.
1:39.8	He wanted me to be the bully on the playground.
1:42.2	He wanted Wild Bill Donovan, but I guess old FDR hadn't caught on yet. This is the last war we will ever fight with bombs and guns and swords. War is moving into the shadows.
1:54.0	They thought I was crazy when I wired the whole town of Pulva with microphones,
1:59.0	but they won't be laughing when I've got dirt on everybody who's ever been within a three-mile radius of that place.
2:04.1	That's what they don't see. It won't matter who's got the biggest gun anymore.
2:09.2	You don't fire until that perfect shot comes along, when the target's exactly where you want them.
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