Episode description
As the only clock that really matters ticks further and further down, The Chime find themselves facing one sealed door after another. But do the doors protect something precious or keep something dangerous locked safely away? AuDy makes one final attempt at convincing Maryland that the planet isn't a safe place. Mako finds too-brief refuge in the arms of another. Aria Joie’s investigation into Maritime Lapel leads her to a dark truth about someone close to her. And Cassander Timaeus Beranice walks alone into a large, dark room.
This week on COUNTER/Weight: Just Another Machine
What's the worst mistake you've ever made?
Opening
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Twenty five months after the September Incident.
It had to be more than a coincidence. A heavy transport of surplus rations re-routed to hungry refugees on Ionias; a rampant defence matrix on Archonic reprogrammed into a mobile laser light show; an assassination attempt on Vox foiled by a synthetic barista being remotely puppeted from halfway across the quadrant. Each event, like the others in recent memory, all shared his flare for the heroic and absurd. And that’s why Addax Dawn and Jamil Quartz-Noble of The Rapid Evening had finally tracked him down, to a Constellation Café on Counterweight.
AUSTIN (sternly, as ADDAX DAWN): Mr. Trig, how have you been?
KEITH (hesitantly, as MAKO TRIG): Err… I’m, like… I’m good… I’m OK.
AUSTIN (lightly, as JAMIL QUARTZ-NOBLE): You’ve been busy, certainly...
MAKO: I’ve just been hanging out, mostly, just doing my thing? Um, just thinking about stuff, doing a lot of thinking.
ADDAX: The thing is; we know what you’re capable of, and what you’re capable of is very impressive. It’s almost…
MAKO: Oh, thank god! Let’s talk about that; alright. I’ve been dying to talk about this, like: I’m really good at this stuff. At the stuff that I do.
JAMIL: We know.
MAKO: Yeah!
JAMIL: And we’d like to help you do more of it… For us.
MAKO: Will you keep telling me that I’m doing a good job?
ADDAX: Well, we’ll see how you do.
MAKO: OK… Alright!
ADDAX: I just... have one question for you. How exactly is it that you are on Archonic and Vox at the same time?”
Plot
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Cast
- Austin Walker
- Ali Acampora (Aria Joie)
- Keith J. Carberry (Mako Trig)
- Jack de Quidt (AuDy)
- Art Tebbel (Cassander Timaeus Berenice)