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ars PARADOXICA

25: Absence

ars PARADOXICA

Mischa Stanton

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The aftermath of the Roberts trial spurs ODAR’s inner circle to action. A hidden threat must be exposed, before all is lost.

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

Featuring:
Kristen DiMercurio as Sally Grissom,
Lia Peros as Petra,
L. Jeffrey Moore as Lou Gaines,
Preston Allen as Bridget Chambers,
and Reyn Beeler as Chet Whickman,
as well as Maxximillian Dafoe,
with special thanks to Isabel Atkinson.

Original music by Mischa Stanton and by Eno Freedman-Brodmann. Additional music used courtesy of the Free Music Archive.

Transcript

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0:00.0

previously on Ar's paradoxica.

0:03.0

An hour before the black room went dark, Miss Roberts made a single document transfer to an unknown address.

0:09.0

She's giving out secrets.

0:11.0

Just like that, what was supposed to be some kind of quiet O-DAR hearing is becoming a grand, goddamn rigmarole.

0:18.0

I can't get my head around how you add up all those zeros and come up with anything other than a question.

0:23.0

They have brought in every big hitter they could, uncovered every red mark in her ledger, and the worst part of it is that I can't say anything Cornish has said is entirely outside the realm of possibility.

0:35.0

I respectfully submit to the committee that this betrayal cannot be overlooked or undersold

0:41.0

and advocate not only for the removal of Ms Roberts from her position and her immediate termination

0:46.1

but for the disbanding of the gaping wound of an agency called the Office of Developed

0:51.8

Anomalous Resources. I'm going to The Oh, So, um, what is it, Petra? I don't really...

1:35.0

No, never mind I guess I'm just wondering what happens next she was

1:49.2

convicted by a military tribunal they'll do what soldiers do now as simply a question of when.

1:54.7

And how, I guess. Sorry. It's fine. I'm not mad at you. It's hard to describe

2:02.4

how I feel.

2:03.4

I get you.

2:05.0

Sally.

2:07.0

Yeah, sorry, Petra, were you saying something?

2:10.8

You're being really quiet.

2:12.4

Still here with us, Earthlings? Yeah, yeah, just processing.

2:18.0

Well, talk to us. You knew her the longest? I thought Bridget. No, just a couple of years in school. My history with Eddie

2:25.8

goes back the furthest, but you worked with her for almost a decade. You would know best if she...

2:32.0

No, that isn't fair putting that on you it's okay chambers it's natural I have

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