4.17 - Opposite Reactions

Our Fair City

Audacious Machine Creative

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.7 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Vice President Davenport and The Switcher attempt to put their plan to jump-start Dr. West and Dr. Caligari’s reactor, but are stymied by none other than Special Agent George Chamberlain. On the run from a psychotic madman with a badge and a gun, what hope do they, or indeed any Policies of HartLife, have of surviving this crisis?

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Our Fair City was originally released between 2011 and 2018.

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The Switcher— Jared Latore
Vice President Davenport— Ben Aldred
George Chamberlain— Jim McDoniel
Doctor Herbert West— Ryan Schile
Doctor Emily Caligari— Marsha Harman
Andrew Snidge— Frank Sjodin
Elizabeth Rourke— Tara Schile
Neal Henderson— Sebastian H Orr
The Voice of HartLife— Jeffrey Gardner

Written by David Rheinstrom. Narration written and performed by Ansel Burch. Directed by Jeffrey Gardner. Sound Design by Ryan Schile. Music by Stephen Poon. Elevator music by Frank Arban. Episode art by Jimmy Hasse. Produced by David Rheinstrom. 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.
0:30.6	When last we saw the traitor Davenport, he was in the company of the Switcher. The two of them were conspiring to siphon electricity at the power station, but when they arrived...
0:36.6	Ah! Ah!
0:38.3	...heart life is an old company, and George Chamberlain is an old-fashioned man. When Mr. Chamberlain was choosing his armaments
0:57.0	from a locker in a faraway room, he elected to take a box of storm matches and ten gallons of
1:04.2	gasoline. When the panels and papers of the power station first began to catch, corrode and
1:10.7	melt the thin lips of Chamberlain's
1:13.2	mouth curled involuntarily into a smile, an old smile. George Chamberlain is still wearing that
1:21.9	smile an hour later as he hunts the quarry he flushed with fire. Davenport flees through the tunnels. The immobile switcher slung across his shoulders. Come in, Davenport. Do you copy? I'm not falling for that, Chamberlain. What kind of chucklehead does he think I am? I don't know. How many kinds of chucklehead are there? Don't give me any more your lips, switcher.
1:46.0	But lips are any part of me, your daughter left untouched.
1:49.0	You know, Mom always said they were my best feature.
1:52.0	Help me find the access gate.
1:54.0	Where is that tip?
1:56.0	Is he...
1:59.0	Did he just leave his radio on?
2:01.6	Hey, you dummy, your mic is live.
2:06.6	He knows that.
2:08.6	He's blocking the channel so we can't call for help.
2:11.6	Or talk back to him.
2:13.6	He doesn't mean to hear our voices to know where we are.
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