Darkness on the Edge of Town, Pt. 5
The Once And Future Nerd
Glass & Madera
4.8 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2015
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
In this, the final episode of Chapter 9, Jen must confront a man from her past she was not expecting to see. Iorden’s civil war arrives on Bryce Riverfell’s doorstep whether he and his charges are prepared or not. And Arlene and Gwen change their course, now that Arlene’s singing has created some options for them.
“The Singing Sister” is © 2014. Lyrics by Zach Glass and Christian Madera, based on a traditional English folk song. Music by Anya Gibian.
We’ll be back on July 19 with the premiere of Chapter 10, the final chapter of Book 1! In the meantime, you can discuss anything about the show at www.reddit.com/r/onceandfuturenerd.
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| 0:00.0 | The Once and Future Nerd is independently produced. |
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| 0:26.6 | Book 1, Princes of Jordan |
| 0:29.6 | Chapter 9, Darkness on the edge of town. |
| 0:42.6 | Episode 5. |
| 0:53.6 | Daddy, I could have sworn it was going to be McCreary. What are you doing here? |
| 0:56.6 | In some ways, I've always been here. No, you haven't. You left. |
| 1:02.2 | See, you know that whatever poison you drank had a bunch of molecules that bonded to your spinal cord and crawled up your brain and connected all the wrong synapses. |
| 1:13.6 | So now your brain's combining things you already know just in new ways. |
| 1:18.6 | Like your dad knowing words like synapse, you were so much better in school than I ever was. |
| 1:24.6 | In other words, I can't tell you anything that part of you doesn't already know, which means |
| 1:30.2 | everything you see of me is part of you. So in that way, I never left. Yeah, but in the way where I'm |
| 1:38.3 | supposed to grow up with a dad and where mom's supposed to raise me with a husband? You did leave. |
| 1:45.0 | Are you going to try to tell me that deep down I was okay without you? |
| 1:48.8 | Because I wasn't. |
| 1:50.1 | No, I'm here to talk to you about the decision you've got to make. |
| 1:54.6 | Why are you the person I need to talk to about that? |
| 1:57.7 | You'll figure that out. |
| 1:58.7 | And why are we here? |
| 2:01.6 | You'll figure that out. Is that going to be your answer to everything? Am I on my own? |
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