THIRST S1E15: Base, Part 2

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🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Can't Tear My Eyes From You, Chapter 15: Base, Part 2.

Missed connections and some unexpected bonding.

Cast:

Marge Dunn as Raine Randolph

Amanda Egbu as Georgia Whittaker

Tooky Kavanagh as The Algorithm

Quinn McKenzie as Capote Whittaker

Stefano Perti as Dennis Lang

Marc Pierre as the TVU Announcer

Stewart Evan Smith as Taylor Kelley

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-Depictions of pornography, including images that may be interpretable as coercive/sexual assault

-Sudden loud noises

-Large bodies of water

-Violence and threats of violence

-Use of weapons (knives)

-Some descriptions that may trigger germaphobic reactions (mold, etc.)

-Deception and gaslighting

-Scenes resembling cult indoctrination

-Large and dangerous animals

-Abuse of power and authority

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0:00.0	Can't tear my eyes from you, Chapter 15.
0:06.8	Base, Part 2.
0:23.3	Put your back into it, Whitaker.
0:27.3	After all the time, you wasted, who knows where, we've only got like an hour 40 in here.
0:30.4	Well, you could help me push this open.
0:31.5	I'll pass.
0:33.6	I think I pulled something somehow.
0:37.3	Maybe it was when you were swinging that jabbling around.
0:39.4	Yeah, we were all swinging spheres around, remember?
0:42.3	Yes, but only one of us was doing it to run away. Let's see.
0:42.4	Fenton.
0:42.5	Texts are in section H.
0:44.8	Looks like it's this way.
0:46.0	Ah.
0:50.7	You know, it didn't occur to me until now,
0:53.4	but aren't we doing significant damage to these texts by cutting the backup generator? Without temperature and humidity control, things like... I don't see why we should care. Jordan clearly didn't, whoever he was. What do you mean? Check the request log. Further down you go, the more requests get denied. Clearly, he was doing something they didn't like, or they wouldn't have cut him off. Renegade, that's something that two Jedediah Jordan's have in common anyway.
1:16.5	But how can you be so certain our Jedediah and the scholar are two different people?
1:22.3	Look at him? Ours is late 40s, Max. The guy you found is from like 60 years ago. That's impossible.
1:29.3	Dennis, not two days ago we watched a man waste away at high speed because he was eaten from the inside by what appeared to be several thousand butterflies, all of which disappeared into thin air soon after.
1:39.3	I think possibility is going to have to become a much more flexible concept for us very quickly.
1:44.2	Look, Whitaker, it just isn't rational to be thinking. I'm beginning to think you need to review what rational actually means if you're going to use it so often, Dennis. It's not rational to ignore what you see just because it doesn't line up with the reality. Oh, look, it's Section H, which means we can stop talking about your stupid bullshit and get to work. Let's see. Be careful. What the hell is wrong with it?
2:02.6	It's covered in this fuzzy shit. Looks like mold. Whatever systems were keeping these books preserved, they haven't been doing their job very well. What kind of paper grows mold? Wet paper. But this is probably vellum. Paper is made out of wood pulp.
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