Episode 9 - Whirlpool

Happy Halloween, everyone!

Who hasn't ever had to ask "Hold on, am I crazy?"

There's the way we think the world operates, the familiar set of assumptions we thought we could safely make. Discovering how wrong we were about all that is one of life's true horrors.

The 1980's was a freewheeling time, a safe space for footloose adventures. Anything was possible. But there was also always an unnamable darkness, patiently waiting, right at the door.

A tale of forgotten technology from early 1980's America.

The year is 1983. One man's thoughtless act of cruelty begets a persistent entity that can plot, target, and act.

During the dawn of acid rain and superfund sites, a disgraced lawyer takes a security guard job at an anomalous waste facility right on the edge of his hometown.

Sitting in front of his old Smith Corona portable typewriter, Dick Nash hammers out what he hopes to be the next Great American Novel.

Energy, matter, long journeys: past and present both finally spiral down to the zero point, a site of a perpetual ground-state energy.

During the height of America's fuel crisis, an out of work reporter catches a glimpse of cosmic darkness on a highway at night. In the modern day, the lawyer makes a startling discovery with help from a colleague.