Please click here for show content warnings.**Monday, July 20, 2009We came here to bargain.Nothing behind which to hide.Fair value, redefined.Pause for dramatic timing.**Episode castNiko MacCleary is played by M. GermanThomas Falcone

Episode 77: Golden Hour

25 days ago 13m 50s

Please click here for show content warnings.**Tuesday, July 21, 2009Friendship, not vassalage.Who speaks, who listens, who bargains.The price of enlightenment.It's different now. Really different.I agree to the terms as defined.**Episo

Episode 76: Sound Perspective

May 27th, 2024 17m 24s

Please click here for show content warnings.**Monday, July 20, 2009 - Tuesday, July 21, 2009Downtime.Changes, continuing to change.This is not a movie.Let us begin with the naming of names.**Episode castNiko MacCleary is played by M.

Episode 75: Fill Light

May 10th, 2024 11m 55s

Please click here for show content warnings.**Thursday, July 16, 2009A decision.A visit.A promise....A Heathers reference?**Episode castNiko MacCleary is played by M. GermanWil Sudsworth is played by Thomas FlemmingThomas Falconer i

Episode 74: Third Act

Apr 26th, 2024 16m 35s

Please click here for show content warnings.**Thursday, July 16, 2009A one-sided conversation.It takes one to know one.The agreement of "parent."A problem solved.Except not.**Episode castNiko MacCleary is played by M. GermanWil Suds

Episode 73: Ink

Apr 12th, 2024 11m 32s

Please click here for show content warnings.**Wednesday, July 15, 2009 - Thursday, July 16, 2009What are we doing to do with Wil?A telephone call.A visit.A bargain proposed.**Episode castNiko MacCleary is played by M. GermanThomas Ma

Episode 72: Available Light

Mar 22nd, 2024 15m 54s

Please click here for show content warnings.**Wednesday, July 15, 2009The utility of spare blank tapes....it just sort of happened.The most classic setup for a fake villain reformation imaginable.**Episode castNiko MacCleary is played

Episode 71: Screener

Mar 8th, 2024 18m 55s

Please click here for show content warnings.**Monday, July 13, 2009You can turn invisible. Again?Human power, capital-t-Them power.An inability to explain or define magic.Off-screen training montage.Half-man, half-Purchaser. All his fath

Episode 70: Internal Rhythm

Feb 23rd, 2024 17m 13s

Please click here for show content warnings.**Sunday, July 12, 2009One of those situations where something is a really bad idea and everyone knows it’s a really bad idea, but they go with it, because they don’t have any other ideas.The firs

Episode 69: Ancillary Rights

Feb 14th, 2024 24m 17s

Please click here for show content warnings.**Saturday, July 11, 2009Every driver should know how to use jumper cables.A parent's duty is to use allow short term harm, for long term gain.Another villain monologue.But can he just mundanely

Episode 68: Aspect Ratio

Jan 29th, 2024 19m 41s

Please click here for show content warnings.**Saturday, July 11, 2009The Door of Wealth.A lesson on Arcadian art history.A meeting, entirely not by chance.When one door closes...**Episode castNiko MacCleary is played by M. GermanLia

Episode 67: Dissolve

Jan 12th, 2024 16m 51s

Please click here for show content warnings.**July 8, 2009.Operation: Boyfriend Rescue is a go.But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?What Elliot does and doesn't know.Open the drawers and crack the eggs.**Niko MacCleary is

Episode 66: Gate

Nov 24th, 2023 16m 21s

Please click here for show content warnings.**Tuesday, July 7, 2009The aftermath of a conversation.A door-- unheard, unkept.Unexpected silence.What does "will not die in childhood" actually translate to?In practical terms?**Niko MacCl

Episode 65: Axis of Action

Nov 10th, 2023 15m

Please click here for show content warnings.**Wednesday, July 7, 2009A meeting. Likely not by chance.Sorry when it suits him.Donnie Darko is a cinematic masterpiece.Words. Heard and unheard.**Niko MacCleary is played by M. GermanThoma

Episode 64: Method Acting

Oct 27th, 2023 21m 51s

Please click here for show content warnings.**Tuesday, July 6, 2009 - Wednesday July 7, 2009A Plan.Outlined in great length.Attempting to enlist an ally.A proposed trade.What are his ends, though?**Niko MacCleary is played by M. Germa

Episode 63: Overcranked

Oct 13th, 2023 19m 3s

Please click here for show content warnings.**Monday, July 6, 2009Recapping bargains in Arcadia.Succinctly.What even is the point of them???It is agreed Mr. Baldwin is scary.**Episode castNiko MacCleary is played by M. GermanThomas M

Episode 62: Walk-On

Sep 22nd, 2023 16m 8s

Please click here for show content warnings.**Monday, July 6, 2009The speech that the plucky hero gives right before the training montage starts.Conversations with Camren.Holly knows what she's doing.Like mother, like son.**Episode ca

Episode 61: Single Screen

Sep 8th, 2023 20m 19s

Please click here for show content warnings.**Thursday, July 2, 2009 - July 6, 2009A family vacation at Ferndale Victorian Village.Pizza or sushi.A firework show.Thomas tells of Doors.6 out of 7 ain't bad.**Episode castNiko MacCleary

Episode 60: Scene Stealing

Aug 25th, 2023 13m 43s

Please click here for show content warnings.**Sunday, June 28, 2009Lost.Found.Lost again, but different.Home.Safe.Maybe.**Niko MacCleary is played by M. GermanHolly MacCleary is played by Vanessa HaasKarin Segretti is played by Cor

Episode 59: Real Time

Aug 14th, 2023 16m 49s

Please click here for show content warnings.**Sunday, June 28, 2009Still further thoughts on the location of doors.A crash course in being part of a family.The point at which Karin's patience finally breaks.A moment shared between mother

Episode 58: Treatment

Jul 28th, 2023 14m 43s

Please click here for show content warnings.**Saturday, June 27, 2009Moms are badass.Making plans.Totally-not-a-murder-board.Leaving the hardware store with a plastic bag obviously carrying rope and gloves.But it's not creepy.Mr. Baldwi

Episode 57: Tight Framing

Jul 14th, 2023 18m 14s

Please click here for show content warnings.**June 26, 2009A bargain made, fulfilled, and overheard.Letting Niko explain.Without interruption.**Niko MacCleary is played by M. GermanCyrus diCaprio is played by Vic CollinsThomas MacClea

Episode 56: Wipe

Jun 9th, 2023 14m 42s

Please click here for show content warnings.**** Friday, June 26, 2009**No.The will of a contrary teenager.It just might work.Niko’s day keeps getting worse.Being invisible.Telling lies.**Episode castNiko MacCleary is played by M. Ge

Episode 55: Work Print

May 26th, 2023 21m 45s

Please click here for show content warnings.**Friday, June 26, 2009What is left when a door is closed. Still further discussions of cost. Linden's story. To be wooed, to be won.**Niko MacCleary is played by M. GermanLia Webster is pla

Episode 54: L-Cut

May 12th, 2023 11m 29s

Please click here for show content warnings.This episode contains scenes of bullying.**Friday, June 26, 2009Last day of school.A totally funny guy.We need to do something about Wil.Doors, and the ethics of closing them.**Episode cast