3.8- Family Matters
Our Fair City
Audacious Machine Creative
4.7 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In which Nathan Rourke has a little heart-to-heart with Vice President Davenport, and a little foot-in-mouth with Erin.
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Our Fair City was originally released between 2011 and 2018.
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Nathan Rourke — Clayton Faits
Vice President Davenport— Ben Aldred
Erin Davenport — Abby Doud
The Voice of HartLife— Jeffrey Gardner
Written by Clayton Faits. Narration written and performed by Ansel Burch. Directed by Jeffrey Gardner. Sound Design by Ryan Schile. Music by Stephen Poon. Illustration by Jeffrey Gardner. Created by Clayton Faits.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight's broadcast is brought to you by the company you depend upon for all of your greatest needs, Heart Life. |
| 0:10.2 | These stories are true dramatizations from our fair city's glorious history. |
| 0:15.6 | So listen and remember, heart life, all the life you'll ever need. |
| 0:31.6 | In our fair city, there are many ways to find information to which one is entitled. There is, however, a great deal of information to which a policy has no right. |
| 0:36.6 | They are denied access to this through a series of personalized password. |
| 0:42.1 | For our young friend Nathan Rourke, this most basic protection has become all too easy to |
| 0:47.6 | circumvent. |
| 0:48.9 | On his path to HeartLife's darker side, he has gone deeper within the shadows of the corporate machine than anyone |
| 0:56.4 | with his test scores ought to be. |
| 0:59.2 | Yet the benevolent directors do not often stop at good enough. |
| 1:03.6 | They strive for perfection in everything when our Fair City is at stake. |
| 1:20.3 | Often the next stage of computer terminal security involves firewalls, network security, |
| 1:25.5 | and finally the Management of User Reference District Emergency Response Office may be called. |
| 1:29.4 | Okay, now, uh, local protection down, and I can get this door open. Ah, administrator privileges. |
| 1:32.5 | Only on rare occasions will the security parameters dictate calling the authorized terminal users down. |
| 1:40.8 | Computer trouble, Mr. Roque? |
| 1:43.3 | Yeah, uh, I was just trying to fix it. |
| 1:45.0 | You know, sometimes if you shut them down and then try starting them up again, they work. |
| 1:50.0 | I shut it down. Go on. See if it restarts. |
| 1:59.0 | You don't get to leave here unless you are working. |
| 2:01.3 | You agreed to these conditions. |
| 2:03.0 | Follow them and you get that spot at the academy, a future with the company, the gold watch and everything. |
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