24: Dilemma

ars PARADOXICA

Mischa Stanton

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The trial of Esther Roberts.

**WARNING: This episode contains stressful interrogation and hateful speech. Listener discretion advised.

Created by Daniel Manning & Mischa Stanton. Written by Danielle Shemaiah (with Daniel Manning, Mischa Stanton, Eli Barraza, Julian Mundy & Tau Zaman). Directed & Produced by Mischa Stanton.

Featuring:
Kristen DiMercurio as Sally Grissom,
Katie Speed as Esther Roberts,
Lia Peros as Petra,
L. Jeffrey Moore as Lou Gaines,
Preston Allen as Bridget Chambers,
Reyn Beeler as Chet Whickman,
and Dan Anderson as Hank Cornish,
as well as Alexander Danner, Donna Semel*, Dennis Connors, and Todd Faulkner as Allen Dulles,
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.
0:02.8	I'm in charge of our little operation.
0:05.6	I already have been for a little while now and I need someone I can go to who isn't generating more chaos.
0:12.6	Someone like you, Esther, this is an opportunity
0:15.9	to do some good.
0:17.7	Okay.
0:18.7	Oh God, they've got my timepiece!
0:21.4	An hour before the black cream went dark, Miss Roberts made a single document
0:25.3	transfer to an unknown address.
0:27.2	What was supposed to be some kind of quiet O-DAR hearing is becoming a grand, goddamn rigmarole.
0:33.0	We are in peak red scare and they're out looking for blood and all the signs point to Roberts and damn, if she wasn't responsible, who was?
0:41.0	Everything is a mess right now. I don't know how it could get any worse. Oh, It is our purpose and object to secure a jury that has no feeling, no bias, no prejudice as to either side of this controversy.
1:30.0	To put it another way, the minds of the jurors should be the same as a white sheet of paper with nothing on it with respect to this case.
1:39.0	And you should only take the testimony as it comes from the witnesses and from no other source.
1:44.0	Eddie your pacing again.
1:49.0	Huh, I never did send this.
1:51.0	Dear JW, I hope you've been well.
1:53.9	The weather in Colorado is still pretty unforgiving.
1:56.4	My mother always did say I was never meant to live in the countryside.
1:59.4	I suppose you and Penny don't have to worry about that wherever you are.
2:05.9	And screw you too.
2:06.9	Oh, honestly, I don't know what that is going to accomplish other than that awful burning
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