Unlicensed S3 E1: Tiny Homes

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4.8 • 28.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Unlicensed, the first fiction show created by Jeffrey and Joseph since Night Vale, returns for a third season.

Lou Rosen and Molly Hatch are unlicensed private detectives, scraping by on whatever cases they can get from their little office on the fringes of LA County.

Reeling from a devastating betrayal and a major earthquake, this season finds Lou and Molly trying to rebuild their lives and evaluate their futures. But those futures might not be as long as they hope.

Lou and Molly start what appears to be a quiet case: a series of strange home break-ins all involving ex-employees of a defunct Long Beach stereo manufacturer. But this case will quickly bring them up against an opponent more ruthless and resourceful than they've ever faced before. Lou and Molly have always gotten by on their wits, but what to do when facing an enemy who can outmatch them in both wits and violence?

A cat and mouse game through the forgotten regions of Southern California, including a shady direct-to-video movie studio, the unglamorous workers neighborhoods of glamorous Catalina Island, and the distant remote parts of the desert, where help cannot reach you in time.

There will be grave danger. There will be deaths.

But maybe some things matter more than survival.

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0:00.0	Hello, I am so excited to announce the third season of Unlicensed, the LA detective show,
0:06.6	which is the first fiction show, Jeffrey and I, created together since Welcome to Nightfail.
0:11.2	I love Unlicensed so much, and we go so big in the third season. This one really goes for it.
0:17.0	What you're about to hear is the first of three episodes from this season that we will put on the Nightville feed.
0:23.4	But I would recommend starting unlicensed with the first season to see how the characters and their relationships grow.
0:28.7	We pay a lot of that stuff off in this season, so it's a journey worth taking.
0:32.8	You can listen to all three seasons right now within the span of a free audible trial, and I hope you do.
0:39.9	Fly north to San Pedro. Ah, ah, ah, don't look at the gun, look at where you're going. Keep us low
0:47.6	and fast, Captain. No one's getting hurt unless they need to be hurt. One of you, shut those kids up.
0:56.0	If I see your finger touch that transponder,
0:58.0	I have no problem crashing everyone on this chopper into the Pacific.
1:03.0	And you don't want that, do you, Captain? Unlicensed
1:17.6	Episode 1, Tiny Homes
1:21.5	This is a story about an ending.
1:29.3	But to understand that ending, we have to go to the beginning.
1:35.3	The Earth was created in a single day.
1:39.3	It was a long day.
1:41.3	Trillions of hours long. There was a lot to do that first day. There was the breaking apart,
1:50.8	the heating, the cooling, the spinning, the settling into an orbit a comfortable distance from
1:57.9	the sun. An atmosphere had to be constructed, and billions of hours
2:03.6	were dedicated to waiting for all of the chemicals that made up the air to settle into oceans,
2:11.6	or remain adrift as nitrogen and oxygen. All the while, the molten core of the earth,
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