Episode 15: Sam’s Notes

Equals

  • Wakes up
    • What color do I want to wear today?
  • Going to work
    • SOS – Switched on syndrom
    • Works at Atmos
  • Work meeting
    • Art?
  • Lunch
    • Watching the launch
  • Event in the apartments
    • People hauled away
    • Packages?
  • At work
    • Defective Emotional Neuropathy (DEN)
    • SOS is an epidemic
    • He makes paintings of how things used to be
    • Someone falls from the floors above
    • That’s our first jumper in a while
    • Recent suicides
    • Nia is feeling things
  • The launch
    • Watching Nia
  • Eating dinner
    • His posture is different
    • Doesn’t want to do the puzzle
    • Not sleeping
    • Thinking in the shower
  • Speculative fiction is about the defectives on the peninsula
  • Silas is having dreams
    • Of jumping?
    • He freaks out
  • Silas goes to the doctor for a checkup
    • Meets Jonas who is stage 2 SOS
    • They talk about SOS like it’s a disease
  • Work
    • They remind you at every step what stage of SOS you’re at
    • Nia gives Silas an alibi
  • Lunch
    • The bee
  • Gets information and drugs for SOS
    • Problem genes
  • Crying at work
  • Bathroom
  • Stalking
  • Silas approaches Nia
    • Awkward conversation
    • Is this a date?
    • He’s trying to impress her with his illustrations?
  • Silas listens to Nia’s notes
  • Staff meeting
    • Silas spills his coffee and is outed with SOS
    • Nia suggests limiting Silas
  • Still stalking
    • Nia says she’s clean, but is she?
  • Bathroom rendezvous?
    • Let’s just stare at each other
    • TOUCH!
    • Alright, that was pretty intense
    • Talking about what she feels and how she deals
    • We can’t touch like this again
    • Kissing, that’s it, it’s over
  • Stalking again
    • Touching again
    • Boner?
  • Bathroom sex
  • Have you thought about killing yourself?
  • Health and safety is watching
    • OMG!
  • Silas stands Nia up in the bathroom
  • They talk about staying a part
  • Nia goes home and cries
  • Conception duty
  • Silas asks for a change of job
  • Nia introduced to the new guy
  • Silas works in the garden
  • I don’t want to hear new guy talk ever
  • They aren’t doing well apart
  • Jonas meets Silas
    • They go for a walk
    • Jonas made a connection a year ago that didn’t end well
    • She’s a Hider
    • Invites Silas to a support group
  • New guy Dominic is intolerable
  • Silas goes to the support group, well hidden
    • Fear of being caught
    • In the DEN, they encourage suicide
    • Being a hider reminds you of the value of living
    • SOS isn’t a disease, it’s who we are
  • Nia shows up at Silas’ place
    • She is not holding it together
    • Post coitus
  • Now they’re in a relationship, hiding all their contact from others
  • There’s a cure for SOS
    • Is it a kill drug?
  • Let’s talk about the cure
  • They want to go to the peninsula
  • Nia gets a conception summons
  • Nia is already pregnant
  • She’s hauled off like a prisoner
  • Silas goes looking for her
  • The support group is mobilizing
  • Bess gets Nia to Jonas and the others
  • Nia is now Eva
  • Nia escapes
  • Group is under threat
  • Nia runs to find Silas
  • The support group has been cured
  • Oh no… Nia is dead according to records
  • Silas has a breakdown
  • This is where cell phones would be helpful
  • Silas wants to jump
  • Silas finally goes home, but he’s gotten the cure
  • Next morning
    • The love is gone
  • They go on about their lives
  • Silas still remembers
    • He touches her
    • Does he feel it?