13 characters: Announcer, Hardcase, Misty, Officer, Vang, Kruck, Peterson, Rosita, Shweshwe, Minnie, Gunman, Orderly, Officer Two
Click on a character's name to get their lines highlighted.
Hardcase (114 lines, 2173 words, 55.07%) - [John Gaunce] Mack Hardcase. A shell of a man, remembering glory days that weren't real, not knowing how to face his future.
Misty (1 line, 4 words, 0.1%) - [Steff Knappe] Misty L'Quil, trying to come to terms with being human.
Minnie (14 lines, 205 words, 5.2%) - [Mel Crochemore] Doctor Minnie Moreau is a researcher at Monolith-Eigen Laboratories.
Rosita (21 lines, 380 words, 9.63%) - [Roo Ryder] Widow of Ray Lotus.
Peterson (12 lines, 151 words, 3.83%) - [Alex Foott] Psychologist.
Orderly (1 line, 12 words, 0.3%) - [Nicc Fury] Orderly at Land Park Psychiatric Hospital.
Gunman (17 lines, 303 words, 7.68%) - [Cecil Sykes] Unhinged gunman.
Officer (14 lines, 208 words, 5.27%) - [Kaley Lynn] City of Sacramento police officer. Calm, professional, bored. [complete]
Officer Two (1 line, 8 words, 0.2%) - [Sam Lumo] City of Sacramento police officer.
Kruck (10 lines, 149 words, 3.78%) - [Richard N] President of the United States, Joe Kruck. Democrat, elected 2036 and staring at a likely defeat in 2040 and the hands of his most powerful political rival Senator Mary Ives (R-NV). [complete]
Vang (7 lines, 96 words, 2.43%) - [Kate J White] Martha Vang, CEO of Monolith-Eigen.
Shweshwe (9 lines, 113 words, 2.86%) - [?] Mel Shweshwe, an author who specializes as a ghost writer for celebrity autobiographies. Direct, cynical, has no illusions about anything or anything, and ready to make a profit by churning out the lies people want to read.
Announcer (3 lines, 144 words, 3.65%) - [Paul Knierim] Announcer. [complete]
Script format: Margined | Marginless (for phone viewing)
1 Announcer: Trigger warning -- this episode contains suicidal ideation.
2 SOUND: phone rings, pickup
3 Hardcase: Hello?
4 Misty: [coughing] Help, sir! Help! Gas!
5 Hardcase: [alarmed] Misty? Hello, Misty, are you there?!
6
Hardcase:
[narration] A terrible thing to hear -- the woman you love being gassed by terrorists. But it was more familiar than anything else since I'd been awakened. It was a call to action, a call for a hero to step up.
But how could I, an old man in a wheelchair, a stranger to this world, answer that call? I gave it a try -- I rushed over to Misty's apartment. Nobody answered my knocks. The door was locked. I wasn't strong enough to force it open. So I sat outside the door like an idiot and dialed the city police on my phone. And then sat there almost an hour until they arrived.
7 SOUND: Misty's apartment
8 Officer: You say you were on the phone with her?
9 Hardcase: That's right.
10 Officer: And she smelled gas?
11 Hardcase: She SAID gas, and she was coughing on it.
12 Officer: I don't smell anything.
13 Hardcase: I do, there's a definite odor.
14 Officer: Well, I'm still getting over a virus. I don't smell much.
15 Hardcase: So what are you going to do?!?
16 Officer: Calm down, Mr. Hardcase. I'll check if there's evidence of a gas leak, a broken pipe or something. And I'll have PG&E send a rep over. Meanwhile we'll keep the windows open.
17 SOUND: Officer walking around looking at things, Hardcase wheeling beside for rest of scene
18 Hardcase: This isn't some accidental gas leak, Misty was ABDUCTED!
19 Officer: Do you have any evidence for that, Mr. Hardcase?
20 Hardcase: She was pleading desperately for help on the phone!
21 Officer: But she could've been doing that because of a gas leak. You didn't hear kidnappers on the phone, did you?
22 Hardcase: Well, no... but then where IS she if she wasn't abducted?
23 Officer: Maybe she fled somewhere to get away from the gas. We like to check out the simple explanations first before we get into wild conspiracy territory.
24 Hardcase: She would've called me back.
25 Officer: Have you called her?
26 Hardcase: Of course. No answer. Look, she's not just some random person. She's Misty L'Quil, one of the four most prominent targets on this planet!
27 Officer: You folk sure have high opinions of yourselves, don't you?
28 Hardcase: She was already targeted by the bombing at Monolith-Eigen back in February! And I was briefly kidnapped by Union for Humanity after that!
29 Officer: Look Mr. Hardcase, you might be right. But all this terrorist stuff, it's way above my pay grade. I'm just gonna write my report, and then if the FBI think there's cause for it they'll take over.
30 Hardcase: I want to help, I NEED to help.
31 Officer: [laughs]
32 Hardcase: I'm being serious here!
33 Officer: Well seriously, the best way for you to help is for you to stay the hell out of it and leave it to the professionals. Last thing we need is you getting yourself hurt or abducted.
34 Hardcase: [narration] So this is what I've become -- a hindrance to be laughed off. I wasn't okay with leaving it at that. I took it up with the Monolith-Eigen CEO...
35 Vang: What does this have to do with me?
36 Hardcase: Your company created us, you're responsible for us!
37 Vang: You're independent now, you have to take responsibility for your own security. I mean, maybe there's something specific we can help with, you're free to ask...
38 Hardcase: I want you to help get Misty back!
39 Vang: Monolith-Eigen doesn't employ a private army, or any investigators. I can only refer you to the police.
40 Hardcase: They won't talk to me! I can't even find out if the case is still with the Sacramento Police Department or got transferred to the FBI!
41
Vang:
Well...
I could ask the President to talk with you.
42 Hardcase: There's a President of Monolith-Eigen?
43 Vang: The President of the United States.
44 Hardcase: That's more like it!
45 Vang: I can't guarantee he'll agree to even talk with you. I have a line of communication with him, but not a lot of pull.
46 Hardcase: Thank you for trying.
47 Vang: You ARE important to us.
48 SOUND: music for title sequence
49 Announcer: QuietPlease dot org presents Beyond Awakening. Starring John Gaunce as Mack Hardcase. Episode 15, The Final Sacrifice.
50 Hardcase: [narration] Couple days later I got the call.
51 SOUND: phone rings, pickup
52 Hardcase: Hardcase here.
53 Kruck: Hello Mr. Hardcase, this is Joe Kruck, President of the United States. I'm told you wanted to speak with me.
54 Hardcase: Mr. President, I'm in the dark here. I saw on the news that Union for Humanity took credit for abducting Misty and say they're holding her...
55 Kruck: Rest assured we're taking this seriously. I've got the FBI on the case, just came out of a briefing on that.
56 Hardcase: Have they figured out where she's being held?
57 Kruck: They think so.
58 Hardcase: So you'll be ordering a raid?
59 Kruck: We need to explore peaceful avenues of resolution first.
60 Hardcase: Peaceful, with terrorists who've repeatedly bombed and kidnapped us and want us all dead?
61 Kruck: They have a list of demands, and your deaths aren't on it.
62 Hardcase: What IS?
63 Kruck: The closure of Monolith-Eigen, the outlawing of similar future uses of dead bodies, and legislation that'll confer you a new status.
64 Hardcase: New status?
65 Kruck: Below that of human citizens. You'll have to have human sponsors who take responsibility for your actions and monitor your movements.
66 Hardcase: You're considering this?
67 Kruck: If I order a raid, Misty could easily be killed... along with a lot of other people.
68 Hardcase: And if you sign over our rights without a shot, what's the point of living?
69 Kruck: We could stall them quite a while by playing along, the legislative process is slow.
70 Hardcase: The longer they have her, the more chance someone in their organization can't resist killing her. And the more demands they'll add. This is a moment that calls for strong decisive leadership, a firm hand... I've been in your shoes, I know.
71 Kruck: Thank you for your thoughts Mr. Hardcase, I'll consider them.
72
Hardcase:
[narration] Apparently I still have Captain Hardcase's knack for persuasion. President Kruck ordered the raid the next day. And I felt horrible when I heard 6 agents died and another 4 were hurt, all for nothing as the terrorists moved Misty to another location. I felt as if I'd ordered the FBI agents to their deaths myself -- a reminder of times I'd sent crew under my command to their deaths.
I was relieved when Senator Ives secured Misty's release a few days later. She promised to pursue Union for Humanity's interests, but she's only one Senator and she was going to do that anyway. So I was relieved. But also ashamed to be so helplessly sidelined for the whole thing. I felt I should've been out there taking the risks others took. But this body, it just doesn't allow that. Misty, Erhardt, Blackburn... they returned to pretty much normal human health, but not me.
73 SOUND: therapy room
74 Peterson: Do you feel left behind, seeing your crew recover faster than you?
75 Hardcase: I feel... wasted. I can't be the man Captain Hardcase was. And I can't be the man Ray Lotus was, no matter how much Rosita tries to see him in me.
76 Peterson: I think you should spend more time with Rosita Lotus.
77 Hardcase: Why?
78 Peterson: She's someone who cares about you.
79 Hardcase: Only because of Ray.
80 Peterson: Mack, I think you're haunted...
81 Hardcase: Huh?
82 Peterson: You're haunted by the spectre of Ray Lotus.
83 Hardcase: [sarcastic] So you're saying I should've saved myself the trouble of apologizing and patching things up with you and just hired an exorcist instead?
84 Peterson: Metaphorically haunted. By the guilt of living in the body of this stranger you don't know.
85 Hardcase: Humph.
86 Peterson: Rosita is your opportunity to get to know Ray Lotus, to make him a friend instead of a stranger. Learn who he was, how similar or different you are, and you can banish his ghost.
87 SOUND: quick transition
88 Rosita: Thank you for inviting me.
89 Hardcase: I'd come to you, but it's difficult with the wheelchair, and I've been so tired.
90 Rosita: You shouldn't be living alone. I don't know why they didn't move the four of you into one house together, would've been so much better for you.
91 Hardcase: I prefer to live alone.
92 Rosita: Is that your independent streak, or self-punishment?
93 Hardcase: Rosita... tell me about Ray Lotus.
94 Rosita: What would you like to know?
95 Hardcase: Just, what was he like?
96 Rosita: Ray was a force of nature. He created two companies before he turned 20, seven more later. He had charm like you wouldn't believe, not just romantically but he could charm any venture capitalist out of their money. Just with his way of speaking, with the way he'd look into someone's eyes, it didn't matter what he was saying. But when he spoke, everyone listened. He'd churn through friends, making them easily then moving on easily. He had two wives before me too, maybe he'd have moved on from me if we'd had a few more years. He was always chasing the next adventure, the next challenge.
97 Hardcase: And that's what killed him in the end?
98 Rosita: Yes, he was driven to take risks and it caught up with him on that dive off Catalina.
99 Hardcase: Sounds like quite a man.
100 Rosita: Not all that different from what I've read about your backstory, Captain Hardcase.
101 Hardcase: I wish I were capable of a hundredth of what Captain Hardcase did, or Ray Lotus did.
102 Rosita: You have that same capacity for greatness, it's just your circumstances don't allow you to express it.
103
Hardcase:
[narration] I thought about that a lot. Was there anything on this Earth I could do to change my circumstances, to allow me to become the person I needed to be? I couldn't see how.
Rosita was a dilemma. She cared for me, and she was the one person who could give me the most hope, could help me change my circumstances the most. But she loved me -- well, she loved Ray really -- and I loved Misty. How would it be fair to her to bring her deeper into my life for my own benefit, knowing I couldn't give her what she really wanted?
104 Rosita: It's my choice, Mack.
105 Hardcase: But how is it any good for you? I've told you my feelings...
106 Rosita: Let ME worry about that. Move in with me.
107 Hardcase: [taken aback] Move in with you?
108 Rosita: Why not?
109 Hardcase: I'd be a burden.
110 Rosita: That's MY problem.
111 Hardcase: I'll... think about it.
112 Hardcase: [narrator] I didn't intend to think about it, really. I only intended to make her stop asking without making her feel rejected out of hand. The whole thing with Rosita was just awkward. But my ghostwriter Mel Shweshwe was excited when she somehow manipulated me into bringing it up -- I don't know how she does that, she just has a way of getting you talking.
113 Shweshwe: I LOvE this thing you're developing with Rosita!
114 Hardcase: It's my life, Mel. It's not something I'm developing for your book.
115 Shweshwe: What is your life if not the development of material for your autobiography? And a love triangle, that's just classic.
116 Hardcase: Love triangle?
117 Shweshwe: Rosita loves you, you love Misty, Misty... uh...
118 Hardcase: ... loves no one. So that's not a triangle. And Rosita doesn't love me, she loves Ray Lotus and imagines she loves me.
119 Shweshwe: Whatever, every story needs some romantic friction like this.
120 Hardcase: Even when it's doomed?
121 Shweshwe: ESPECIALLY when it's doomed.
122 Hardcase: I don't want you dragging Rosita into some drama you're inventing.
123 Shweshwe: You just let me write it first. If you want to make cuts then you, me and the publisher can discuss that when I'm done.
124 Hardcase: I get final say on what's included.
125 Shweshwe: Of course, of course, you will, trust me.
126 Hardcase: [narration] I was beginning to realize a bit too late that I probably shouldn't trust Mel Shweshwe any further than I could throw her... and in my decrepit state, I couldn't even lift her. And I shouldn't have trusted my agent LeVar, or what he told me about that contract we signed with the publisher. I'm new to this planet, how was I supposed to know everybody'd just be looking to take advantage of me? Everybody except Rosita... but then again, she was just using me to create the illusion of bringing her dead husband back to life.
127 Shweshwe: Are you alright, Mack? You don't look well.
128 Hardcase: Just haven't been sleeping well.
129 Shweshwe: You should see your doctor, just to be on the safe side. Can't have you dying before I write your story, can we?
130 Hardcase: Okay, I will. Tomorrow.
131 Hardcase: [narration] Regular doctors probably wouldn't know what to make of something like me, so I went back to Monolith-Eigen to have Minnie check me out. At least being a freak meant I could cut through the bureaucratic process most Americans suffered and come in without an appointment and get personalized attention right away.
132 SOUND: hospital
133 Hardcase: Doctor, I'd swear I'm actually getting WEAKER instead of stronger over time.
134 Minnie: Let's run a few quick tests.
135 Hardcase: [narration] And the few quick tests became more slower tests which became MRIs which became several biopsies.
136 Minnie: [worried] Mack... you've got the body of a man a lot older than you are. A lot older than Ray Lotus was.
137 Hardcase: Death wasn't kind to me.
138 Minnie: No, it wasn't.
139 Hardcase: So are you just going to insult me or are you going to tell me specifically what's wrong?
140 Minnie: A lot of things are wrong. Your kidney function is marginal, if you're not careful you could end up on dialysis. Your liver is shutting down. Your heartbeat is weaker than last time we checked.
141 Hardcase: Can you fix it?
142 Minnie: I can put you on the transplant lists, but you're not going to get priority over people who are... you know...
143 Hardcase: Not undead?
144 Minnie: I don't know why your organs are shutting down, so it might just happen again with transplants anyway. It's ironic, people said we should've donated your organs when you were brain dead, and now we're talking about giving you donor organs.
145 Hardcase: I'm not laughing.
146 Minnie: I'm sorry.
147 Hardcase: How long do you think I have? Assuming no transplants.
148 Minnie: I can only give you a ballpark guess, you could pull through whatever this is and live for decades or you could be dead tomorrow...
149 Hardcase: But what's your ballpark guess?
150 Minnie: If the deterioration continues at pace, a month or two.
151 Hardcase: Okay.
152 Minnie: Are you really okay?
153 Hardcase: Of course not. Minnie, will you promise me just one thing?
154 Minnie: What is it?
155 Hardcase: Don't tell anyone. I don't want my crew finding out.
156 Minnie: But... they're going to notice the changes, your weakening...
157 Hardcase: No they aren't.
158 Minnie: Don't you want to spend time with... with the people closest...
159 Hardcase: I'm not going to intrude on their lives or become an invalid for them to dote on. I want them to remember me as I was, and I want to remember THEM without frowns on their faces. Promise me, Minnie.
160 Minnie: As your doctor, I'm not allowed to release your medical information without your consent.
161 Hardcase: Good.
162
Hardcase:
[narration] What do you do when life throws you that final curve ball and you know you've had it? Captain Hardcase would've clung to hope, asked Minnie to keep running batteries of tests, asked Doctor Erhardt to keep throwing chemicals together until one combination proved to be the magic elixir. But that's fiction. When you're a protagonist of a story, things always break your way in the end and the unceasing confidence in the face of overwhelming odds is justified by past experience.
But this is my real life. I've been here long enough to know that things don't always work out in the end, hope doesn't work miracles. Fictional people are puppets of an author, but real people are puppets of chance blown about in the breeze.
There was one person, just one person, who I felt I needed to tell the news. And she came to see me before I got around to asking her over.
163 Rosita: Your friend Doctor Erhardt has been dreaming about his predecessor's family.
164 Hardcase: He's not my friend.
165 Rosita: Have you had any glimpses of Ray Lotus in your dreams?
166 Hardcase: My dreams are of my ship, my crew, my brother. I don't remember any that were on Earth.
167 Rosita: Maybe in time...
168 Hardcase: Look, the damage to each of our brains was different. Your husband probably just isn't in here.
169 Rosita: But there's a chance...
170 Hardcase: I'll let you know the moment I remember anything. But, Rosita... I'm afraid there probably isn't much time.
171 Rosita: You're sick, aren't you? You don't look well.
172 Hardcase: I'm probably dying, of nobody knows what. My body is just shutting down. I might have a month or two.
173 Rosita: Fate really is cruel, I'm going to lose you twice.
174 Hardcase: I'm sorry. Maybe it's for the best that there's nothing of Ray in me, so he doesn't have to die again.
175 Rosita: I suppose that's one way of looking at it. So what are you going to do?
176 Hardcase: What CAN I do?
177
Rosita:
You can move in with me.
Move in with me. Let me take care of you.
178 Hardcase: You still want me to, even knowing I'm dying? Why?
179 Rosita: I didn't have a chance to do that for Ray, when he died out there in the ocean. I guess for me this might be a chance to heal and find closure by helping his body pass as gently as I can. And just being there to see it, to see the process... with Ray it was just he was there with me at the peak of his life one moment and then a husk on life support the next time I saw him.
180 Hardcase: Well... even if his body hasn't been much use to me, I owe Ray that much.
181
Hardcase:
[narration] You'll notice I said I owed it to Ray, not Rosita. That's how I feel about it. Ray Lotus would've wanted me to grant his widow the closure she's seeking. I'm not sure if I owe Rosita herself anything, because I think everything she's ever done for me has been because of Ray and not because of me. It's a little odd to say I don't owe anything to the woman who's taking me into her home and dedicating her time and energy to taking care of me at the end of my life... but that's how I feel.
There was actually one more person I told about my prognosis, but I don't think of him as a person so much as a tool for self-reflection.
182 SOUND: therapist's office
183 Peterson: Confronting our own mortality is the hardest task each of us has in our lives.
184 Hardcase: I confronted my mortality more times than I can count, in that other life. As a Captain in the Galactic Confederation I was ready to die every day. And it only made me stronger. For life to be worth living, you have to be willing to die for something. But that was different. It always meant something.
185 Peterson: How do you feel about the uncertainty, not knowing how long you've got left?
186 Hardcase: Pretty crappy. This is so senseless and random. I've been wondering if I should take control of it in whatever little way I can, at least choose my own time and place and method.
187 Peterson: You've been thinking about suicide?
188 Hardcase: I believe suicide, like any other major life decision, should be entered into carefully with a clear mind and careful planning.
189 Peterson: You've been making plans?
190 Hardcase: Extreme sports are the way I'd like to go -- maybe free-climbing a sheer cliff face -- but my body doesn't allow that. There's painless gasses, but I have to ask myself if a gentle painless exit is right for a life like mine.
191 Peterson: Stay right there, Mack. I have to make a quick call, then I'll be back with you in a few minutes.
192
Hardcase:
[narration] I trusted Doctor Peterson. Or, no -- it wasn't trust, it's more like I forgot there'd be consequences for everything I said aloud in that room. I shouldn't have done that. They're always trying to get you to open up, telling you to just speak your mind freely, but you have to remember to never actually turn off your filter when it comes to certain subjects.
I never got home from that session. There was a man waiting to take me to Land Park Psychiatric Hospital. Mandatory 72 hour hold. It's how they make sure you can't kill yourself.
193 SOUND: psych hospital chaos
194 Hardcase: [narration] It's hell, absolute hell. A sea of desperately unhappy people. No privacy. Nothing that could make a sane person want to live. Even sleep is impossible, because you've got a roommate who doesn't know how to shut up.
195 SOUND: more moderate noise of night chaos, some muffled bangs and murmurs
196
Gunman:
I'm persecuted because I know things, things they don't want to get out.
Do you know what they did to my brother? Huh, do you?
197 Hardcase: No.
198 Gunman: They put him away for life on trumped up charges. Just snatched his whole life away and he rots in a federal prison. But they won't get me, they won't get me that easily.
199 Hardcase: Looks like they've got you.
200 Gunman: Oh they thought they had me, but they can't hold me. My release is tomorrow morning.
201 Hardcase: Congrats.
202 Gunman: [talking fast and emotional] You don't care, do you? Nobody cares! I could put absolute proof, dump absolute proof at your feet and you wouldn't even read it. People like you, like everyone else, are why this world is the way it is. Self-absorbed, striding about in fine suits never thinking to look into the eyes around you, or afraid what you might see, the snake in the grass, the predator in the tree, no time for humanity among the elite, no pity for those you trample on, ants you squish, you call yourselves educated but you can't read the simple truth in front of your nose, not even if it were on the inside of your eyeballs, you'd close your eyes and scream to make it go away because you can't understand--.
203 Hardcase: FOR THE LOVE OF GOD SHUT UP! SHUT UP AND LET ME TRY TO SLEEP YOU MANIAC!
204 SOUND: door rattles and opens
205 Orderly: Mack, if you yell like that again I'm going to sedate you.
206 Hardcase: [narration] This is a world gone mad. The less said about those three days, the better. I pretended all thoughts of suicide were banished from my mind, so that I could be released. Rosita came to pick me up and moved me into her house. I was recording a final message for my crew, just in case there wouldn't be another opportunity, when there was a knock at the front door. Rosita had gone out for groceries, so I went to open it.
207 Hardcase: Coming, coming!
208 SOUND: opening front door
209 Gunman: Hey there, roomie.
210 Hardcase: You! How did you find me?
211 Gunman: You talk in your sleep. You talk about the Chimera, about being the famous Mack Hardcase.
212 Hardcase: I didn't realize you'd let me GET any sleep.
213 Gunman: Once I knew who you were, I knew I had to follow you home when you were released.
214 Hardcase: What for?
215 SOUND: clothing shuffle, cocks gun
216 Hardcase: Oh. Well, thank you for waiting until Rosita was out. Are you going to shoot me?
217 Gunman: That depends on President Kruck.
218 Hardcase: Does it?
219 Gunman: I want him to pardon my brother.
220 Hardcase: You're not Union for Humanity?
221 Gunman: No.
222 Hardcase: You're not against my existence, against AI?
223 Gunman: Couldn't care less about you or AI. But everybody knows President Kruck likes you people.
224 Hardcase: Huh. I guess everyone has their own story they're the hero of.
225 Gunman: Well don't get any heroic notions or I won't hesitate to kill you.
226 Hardcase: You'd be doing me a favor.
227 Gunman: Huh?
228 Hardcase: Whatever your brother did, I think he should stay in prison. And you should join him.
229 SOUND: wheels into gunman, brief tussle
230 Gunman: [alarmed] Ow! Stop that! Get off! Stop!
231 SOUND: three gunshots
232 Hardcase: [dying noises]
233 SOUND: police siren in distance drawing closer
234 Gunman: [panicked realization of being left holding no cards] Shit! Shit shit shit!
235 Hardcase: [weakly dying] You really didn't think this through...
236 Gunman: [panic] Don't die, don't die!
237 Hardcase: Sorry... [dying noises]
238 SOUND: police car pulls up
239 Gunman: I give up! I give up!
240 SOUND: officer walks over
241 Officer: Ambulance is on their way.
242 Officer Two: Tell them not to hurry, this one's dead.
243 SOUND: end theme
244 Announcer: Beyond Awakening episode 15, The Final Sacrifice, was written and produced by Paul Knierim. It starred John Gaunce as Mack Hardcase. Also featured were Roo Ryder as Rosita Lotus, Cecil Sykes as the gunman, Kaley Lynn as the main Sac PD officer, Mel Crochemore as Doctor Minnie Moreau, Alex Foott as Doctor Peterson, Richard N as President Kruck, ? as Mel Shweshwe, Kate J White as CEO Martha Vang, Nicc Fury as the orderly, Sam Lumo as the other Sac PD officer, and Steff Knappe as Misty L'Quil. This is Paul Knierim. Music licensed from Joel Steudler and creative commons zero and public domain sources. To learn more about Beyond Awakening or support the show, go to quietplease dot org slash awakening.