So let’s talk about what is professional today

we can flip the script by getting professional does not have shaped does not have limits. I’ve been a janitor have been a designer, I’ve been an executive just

like an ebb and a flow, Dad life, work life. It’s all life.

There’s work and there’s what works for you,

professionals, you professionals, us, it’s ours to define.

 

Will Riley 

If you’ve used LinkedIn or indeed for any period of time as a Vancouverite, you’ll know how many scams start with a job interview. For those of you not from here, I’m not just going “all employment is a scam.” Haha. I mean, that may be true. But right now I’m talking about a more concrete deception. A Merriam Webster definition of a scam with a job interview through LinkedIn as its structure, online job platforms are fundamentally built so that on one side, you’ve got people making 10 applications a day to postings they haven’t actually read. And on the other side, you’ve got recruiters rejecting 100 applications that they haven’t actually read either. And if you treat these platforms any other way, well, you’re simply not being serious. Are you sure you really want that job? Are you sure you’re really upper middle management, timber scammy operations are inevitable in this environment? Because people don’t pay attention. Yeah, a little. But mainly, it’s because in a world where you can write applications for six months, and not even get a rejection, email back. Scams take every resume they receive to interview. People will go to these interviews because they think rightfully, they’re due one. I’ve encountered more than my fair share of these scams myself. Recently, after I proposed a marketing tagline of if you don’t fly, Boeing, you’ve got a screw loose. I received some constructive feedback, and then found myself in a brief period of unemployment. I never fell for any scams when looking for work, per se, but I’ve had to encounter them with some frequency. These scams are fairly common in the tech economy right now. No doubt you’ve seen stories of new recruits, doing probationary remote work for a company and then being told we’re not hiring you so you’re not getting paid. But we do have the rights to everything you’ve produced in these last two weeks. I got targeted for one of these by a so called marketing firm. It was the most enthusiastic and complimentary email I ever received. The company was all congratulatory told me all the other competitors I managed to beat out for the physician told me how blown away they were by my portfolio. Yeah, man, let’s get in touch. Now there’s just one little thing we need for you to do. We’ve got this client who needs an MA thesis is amount of words written for them in about three hours from now can you spot us a favor? Greetings from Sarajevo, by the way. So that was a waste of time? Well, not entirely a waste. All my losses are lessons, as I say. Now, if an employer says they’re really impressed with me, and really wants me on their team, I now know that I can disregard them immediately. No legitimate business treats a prospective employee with respect and positivity. If I get an email from any employer, who doesn’t regard me like they’re a Mad Max Phil, with a knife on my throat go on. So why should I let you live? Recycling Bin immediately. Pro tip. Most of the time, these sorts of scams are totally remote. Like the time I took a phone meeting about a job assisting ESL students with their writing skills. They took an hour talking about nothing in order to wear me down before they finally told me Well, actually, I’d just be making minimum wage writing international students college essays for there wasn’t even an address for that outfit, it was totally untraceable. There’s a bit of a walk off at the end of that story. There’s a neat trick here. When they finally revealed that all my job would be was being an accomplice to sending cheating students straight into academic probation. I was understandably awkward about the whole thing. And they went, Oh, no, no, no, no harm. Lots of people are a little surprised at first, when they find out they’ll be writing essays from scratch. Don’t worry that we take no offense no problem, as if I was the one who done something wrong here by finding it out. So these are the remote scans the email only scan, they have a really low footprint and they’re really easy to get off the ground. The real production though, is when you try to run these Potemkin businesses and take interviews in a real world location. I’ve seen that multiple times. Although it may have been the same people each time. They just changed names and set up shops someplace else. I think they were trying to trick people into MLM schemes by initially posing as a more well known company and then going oh, that’s Just one of our high profile clients. We’ve got permission from them to use their names for this, but you’d be working for a wide range of different companies. I never quite got to the bottom of it, because they switch their name so often. One time, I actually got calls from two separate companies within a week of each other, only to discover they were both pseudonymous, telling me to come to the same basement in New Westminster for an interview, I know that at least hundreds of other young Vancouverites have been pushed through this annoying air SATs system. But let me paint a picture anyway. Most of the time you show up in front of the building for the interview, all business casual, like as you do, and you know, it’s fake just from looking at the place. They’re renting out the windowless storage cellar of a business above them. And it’s all lit by crummy tube fluorescence, you could turn around right then and there. But hell, you drove all the way out here. And it’s not like you’ve got anything else scheduled hell, it may still even be legit. Vancouver real estate being what it is, even McDonald’s will end up getting run out of a windowless basement any day now. And really, you probably drove to the interview with an uncanny feeling already telling you Yeah, none of this is legit. Actually getting called for an interview is so rare around here, that sometimes you just go for the sake of it, just to feel something. So you go into the waiting room. There’s like six other people there. All the chairs they’ve got in there are either the folding ones you rent for outdoor events are those $5 plastic deck chairs you get from Walmart, or both, you’ll look around the room. And you can just tell they set this all up within the last week. If they hadn’t, they wouldn’t have put a desk right in front of a door. They had to fix that IKEA bookcase, so it wasn’t crooked. And I mean, they’d have also put books on it. But then you and everybody else in the waiting room, gets to see a show. The receptionist picks up her phone and immediately starts berating the other person on the line. For reasons unknown. This is a company that prides itself on professionalism, she says, raising her voice. And this is the sort of behavior we just don’t find acceptable, we have a standard to maintain. And if you’ve got other ideas, well, then we’ve got other ideas about your future advancement in the business. This is simply unacceptable. Really, this is the first potential sign that this might actually be a real business. These guys have learned from the mistakes of the remote operations, no suspicious positivity bombs here. It’s just pure aggro without any definition or direction. They’ve made the place look miserable to work in from minute one, which is by far the thing that makes you figure it must be real. At least it would seem real if the phone had rung before the receptionist had picked it up. Or if the phone was plugged into anything. I mean, if you if you plugged that phone in, I mean, you’d have some real verse similitude going there. At this point, you really should just stand up and go. But you’re already there in the waiting room. He can’t just leave that to be incredibly rude to the fraudsters who went to all this hard work to get to here. So 20 minutes after the scheduled interview time, they let you go in to see the boss. That’s another trick. If they make you wait that long, it must mean that the manager is doing something important. It has to be a real company. If they big time you from square one, you go into the manager’s office though. First thing you notice is that the picture on the wall behind him came with the frame. It’s like a royalty free photo of a forest or something clearly has no significance to the guy who’s supposedly put it up. He finishes a phone call in front of you hanging up just as you enter the office. His telephone isn’t plugged in either. What happens once you sit down then is you’re essentially talked at by this guy for like a solid 15 minutes. I guess they don’t ask questions. They don’t talk about your resume. They don’t ask what are your strengths and weaknesses. They just talk about how big and important a business they are, how there’s clear paths of advancement, how they’re interested to see what you can do. But be forewarned, they have very high standards. The only thing they don’t talk about is what your actual job will be what you’ll actually be using this skill and experience they’re so interested in for at least this is how it’s supposed to go down. People don’t have the skill to maintain that sort of bluster solo for that long, not even podcasters within the first two minutes of this guy interviewing you he’s already forgotten what the name of the company is because it’s juggling so many pseudonyms at once. So you jump into the gap in conversation to ask him what the job entails and he start to mumbling something about multi level In marketing, and then he just sort of tenses up realizing the mistake he’s made, hoping you don’t know what those words mean. So you ask, Hey, you wouldn’t happen to be related to this other company, would you? I actually had an interview with him a few months ago. And this seems like a similar operation. And you know, without a shadow of doubt, the moment you say that, yeah, nothing legit is gonna come out of this.

 

Will Riley 

So now you have a good afternoon wasted. You finally stand up ready to go. But as you do, you start to realize, well, obviously, no real work is happening at this location. So why have you been hearing a whole cacophony of Office noises in the background? None of the phones have been plugged in. So why have you been hearing ringing noises in the background? You’ll lean up against the wall as you ponder this with a short Creek. The whole wall tumbles over flat like a movie backdrop. Behind the wall is nothing but a CD player that’s been running this whole time. The LCD display reads busy and mid level business office SFX brackets are royalty free. So you slowly step towards it. Don’t touch that the manager shouts grabbing your arm, you push them away. He’s surprisingly light. He falls over flat just like the wall revealing that he is in fact completely two dimensional. This entire time you weren’t even talking to a real fake amateur. He was just a cardboard stand D in the shape of your step over the rubble of the collapsed wall. And finally turn off the royalty free sound effects. There. Now that you’re finally free of all this nonsense, you open the door out of the office, only to find the outside of your own house. The fluorescent lit basement wasn’t even real. You realize you didn’t even leave your house today. They must have simulated your car ride here via some complex system of practical and visual effects. Back in the fake office, the unplugged phone begins to slowly you pick it up and put it to your head. Avoid voice comes out. muffled distorted, nearly in audible, but after a few seconds you realize you understand the words perfectly. They’re the words you’ve heard far too many times before.

 

 

Thanks for your interest in the position. Unfortunately, we’ve decided to go in another direction. Feel free to look at our LinkedIn page for new openings as agreed to in your probationary contract. We’ll be keeping possession of your afternoon. Best of luck nobody

 

Will Riley 

Well, on the bright side at the very least they sent you a rejection letter getting a rejection letter at this day and age is actually kind of rare. I guess they respect you to some extent

 

 

Danger Danger Danger Danger.

 

 

Danger hasn’t come out yet

 

 

so we’re gonna see danger

 

Will Riley 

more television. Yes, please. Hi everybody. Its infinite danger again. I’m well, before we get into things more video game news. Brink is doing very, very well. Right now. They’ve just reported that for the year of 23. They made about $4.4 million a day. And for reference that puts it just above Candy Crush, so Brinks doing gangbusters. It’s never been better. So I suppose them reporting that they’re accessing 75% of their staff was also inevitable. It’s showtime. It’s a video game company. It’s it’s what you do. You might as well argue with the hurricane still. They laid off all the bring staff with very generous terms. I saw the terms of the severance and I did like a little double take. I mean, they’re getting three free battle passes for break, like comped unprecedented unprecedentedly generous severance package. Danger Bay episode eight titled fish and chips production code two was zero 17 So we’re leaping back over to that second slate of episodes with this episode danger Bay has effectively unlocked a new genre. one more type of TV show to put on its video game. Weapon Quick Access mini wheel. We’ve got cop show we’ve got medical drama, we’ve got Western we’ve got Mystery Show we’ve got lifetime drama. Now we have international spy espionage thriller. The intro to this episode might be a little weird because this is by far the most familiar faces that we’ve seen so far. Both the director and the writer are people that we have seen before. We’ve got Alan Eastman directing again, Mr. Knight man himself. And on the writing staff we have Nancy Miller once again, Mrs. Saving Grace, this sort of allows me to bring up some interesting synchronicities between the two. I’ve talked about Elon Eastman’s career at length already. I mean, I guess I should mention, he directed a bunch of episodes of Andromeda, which, in the Vancouver TV scene, that’s basically how you get blooded into the industry. But studying for this episode, I realized that both Allan Eastman and Nancy Miller have worked on media that has worked as bootleg matrixes to confuse grandma’s at the Walmart threat matrix for Nancy Miller, which I talked about, on the Katy in the whale episode. Meanwhile, Alan Eastman worked for a show that was just called matrix.

 

Will Riley 

Now, to be fair to him, he made this way before the which housekeys made the matrix. This was released in 1993. But you can imagine DVD sales being what they are, you’ve got some real bootleg as fake looking DVDs, bunch of code on the box, you know, and it only has this name because they decided to give the main character the name of Stephen matrix,

 

 

Stephen matrix was a hitman. He killed people for a living, which

 

Will Riley 

is in turn just a rip off of command of Arnold Schwarzenegger his character in that movie as John matrix. I’ve always loved this naming trope because I don’t think that there is anybody in the world who actually has matrix as their last name. If they did, it would be rooted in French you get an actual realistic depiction of a character with that name and he’s walking around going ha ha save was his job not to leave the plot of matrix rackets. 1993 is not really anything particularly special. The main character, Steven, my tree I’m going to call him is a hitman. He gets shot and then experiences the afterlife.

 

 

Then someone tried to kill him and opened a door to a city between life and death than the hell he knew

 

Will Riley 

he’d Earth and then he comes back and he realizes, Oh, I gotta make sure I don’t go to hell. All the episodes are him. Using his Hitman skills to make good

 

 

in a place called a city in between half angels have devils guide him to people in trouble.

 

Will Riley 

Think of it as a more violent version of My Name Is Earl

 

 

once an agent of death, he must become a force for life. The

 

Will Riley 

main saving grace of this show actually is the fact that even my tree is played by none other than the man himself. Nick man, Cousteau,

 

 

Jeff Fahey, Nick min Cousteau.

 

 

I was drawn to the

 

 

within yourself. And Carol.

 

 

I know You the Messiah, Gary Busey one. Hi, Elaine.

 

 

I like Howie Mandel. And I pleased Margot Kidder and Nick min Cousteau. Do you think that I care about them? Corbin Bernsen Jessica Stephen, Mr. T. Neck man KUSA in the soul winning explosive thriller, tribulation judgment. Revelation. The book has been open,

 

Will Riley 

Nico demo, Antonio Masimo min CUSO, a well seasoned Italian Canadian actor who has been in lots of stuff, including the biblical Apocalypse movies, I just exserted here, this man’s Rolodex must be insane. He’s good at pulling this very severe look. And whenever he shouts his voice gets really raspy and angry and he made a killing basically playing as many villains as he could get his hands on for my money. The key man Cousteau performance to look for is in the acting tour de force that he did in captured your

 

 

environment. You can’t even you can’t even earn your own love and you’re

 

 

gonna go to jail for that. You’re gonna go to Jeff gee

 

 

I don’t know Paul you tell me there’s only the gym my entire life at stake maybe I should just bend over let everybody take a shot. I made myself Who I Am I made myself a man Why are you doing this to me? There’s just one thing that I want to say to you and that is fuck you

 

Will Riley 

the acting in a Nick manku Sell movie is always hit or miss. But the manku Sewing of every Nick man Cousteau movie is top notch regardless of the movie as expected matrix is successfully manku sewed. Last thing to say about matrix about my tree is well really the trivia is very scant, but it’s interesting. The two bits of trivia they attach here is that one. Carrie Anne moss is also in this TV show as well as the matrix movies. The other bit of trivia is that for some reason, they referenced it in Monday Night Raw in 93. I don’t exactly know the logic for that this episode of Monday Night Raw had a special subtitle WWE II Monday Night Raw colon, Elvis lives exclamation mark. I don’t know what that’s about. As for Nancy Miller, we’ve already talked about her at length. She’s very successful. She has been the showrunner for multiple shows, producing television producing movies now she’s making a whole bunch of money. Let’s talk about Cosby mysteries a little bit more.

 

Will Riley 

So Cosby mysteries, there was actually a period in which people thought that Cosby mysteries was going to be a hit. One of the people making the show was William Blake, who was somebody who worked on Colombo and Murder She Wrote, Nancy Miller getting a credit in the Cosby mysteries, wasn’t her slumming, and her getting the job was probably a vote of confidence in her skills. Nancy Miller’s episode is actually co written with William link for what this premise suggests somebody did actually try, but I don’t think that that person was Bill Cosby. And I’m just for the sake of talking about this show. I’m going to slightly put aside the crimes for two seconds here. The whole plot of this show is that Cosby plays a former New York City PD detective, and Bill Cosby’s character is retired, did he retire because he made enemies of the wrong people? No. Did he retire because he saw too much shit. And then the show is about, you know, just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in to do one more case. No, he retired because he won the lottery and he made $44 million, basically, meaning his character never actually has to do anything out of necessity. He is just solving crimes because he feels like it. It’s almost a weird self admission on Cosby part. Oh yeah, I won the lottery by doing the Cosby Show. Now I can just do whatever project I feel like just out of a total whim. Cosby mystery is isn’t really a mystery or drama show so much as 18 episodes of watching somebody comfortably retired. Everybody else thought that Cosby was checked out. Later on, people started complaining, this guy is so famous, but he did basically nothing to use that fame to advertise the show that he was starring. But I mean, for all the effort done by everybody other than Bill Cosby on the show that bears his name. Everybody else in the world sort of understood that this was just fodder for dismissive riffs and satires and parodies that didn’t really even need to watch the show to produce anything. I mean, fair enough. I still have not watched a single episode of Cosby mysteries myself. He got mentioned in The Simpsons more notably, though, was that there was an SNL sketch made at the time, it was basically what you’d expect, you know, there would be somebody saying, Oh, we got to solve this mystery. And then the guy playing Bill Cosby would just ramble about Jello pudding and Kodak, film, etc, etc. The main thing that made it different was that the guy who was playing Bill Cosby In this sketch was none other than Adam Sandler. No footage of this sketch exists anymore. I can’t exactly think why nationally broadcast footage of a white comedian playing a black guy. And the black guy, it turns out is also a sex offender. I’m not sure why you’d want to keep that from the world. The vast majority of shows that I referenced in these intros to these episodes, they all sort of come with the standing advice of maybe check out these shows. Maybe you’ll laugh at them. Maybe there’ll be something interesting about them. I can’t exactly say the same about Cosby mysteries, just given the new face own historical context. I suppose the one exception here is that you should watch the show if you’re a fan of Moses death. I forgot to mention that most def is in multiple episodes of this show. It’s just one of those things that can’t really be explained in any way. He’s just there

 

 

it’ll be around forever. And

 

Will Riley 

so that’s more new information about Alan Eastman and Nancy Miller. The thing is that this isn’t the entire writing staff of this show. The credits also mentioned that the teleplay is by HG burns. So, here’s what I know about HG burns. nothing there’s nothing I kept looking. There’s nothing about HG burns. This is literally his only credit, I can only assume it’s a pseudonym. But normally pseudonyms have at least one more credit to it. It’s not even like an Alan Smithee situation, because normally, you credit a whole bunch of movies to Alan Smith. It’s literally the only thing I have no idea please just don’t get mad at me. I don’t know who this person is. I don’t want to engage in all the conspiracy theories that everybody else in the danger Bay fandom has come about. He’s not Allen Dulles. Delos died in the 60s. So we know nothing about HG burns. But on the acting side of the ticket. Infinite danger listeners already know Steven Demopolis pretty well. He’s the psycho poacher.

 

 

Are you crazy?

 

Will Riley 

You’re scaring me. He’s the psycho poacher. He’s the child endangerment poacher. He was the one who was pointing a shotgun at children. In the first episode, they brought the Dave Coulier a psycho poacher to play somebody else in this episode. And they figured that nobody would notice because this was in their minds a second season episode, but the CBC had a different idea. And so now they’re so close together that you could just look at him and go oh, that’s the same guy. So the official name the script name for the point guns at kids poacher is poacher number two in episode one. Now he’s playing a character named gangster number two. This is the interesting thing about Steven Demopolis his career his resume has more roles name for a profession and a number than any actual character names. Despite the fact that he has many speaking roles in many TV shows. He got his big break playing guardsman number four in Rambo First Blood moved on later on to play judge number one played clerk crier complaining customer minister, arcade manager, fire chief workman. He was in Happy Gilmore and he played Italian guy, he played Dockmaster he played passenger number one, these are all speaking roles for what I can tell. This is actually sort of a common after effect of being an actual Vancouver native trying to work in the film and TV industry. In Vancouver, especially in the early days when the place was thought of by executives as little more than some nice location shooting, and a lot of good tax breaks. So much of the quote unquote talent was being imported into the city from either Hollywood Of course, or if it’s a Canadian production from the east coast from Toronto or Montreal or what have you. A lot of local actors, especially back then didn’t really get considered as anything more than a glorified set design. You come into work and there’s a real chance that the chair on the set costs more than your whole salary. The second major guest star in this show is a guy called Wayne Robson and he’s playing gangster number one. Yeah.

 

 

See, we weren’t hung up about possessions. Right? But oh, boy, those cops sure we’re talking about right possession, traffic.

 

Will Riley 

When Robson is a very specific type, he is that type of character actor who has looked 60 years old from the moment he turned 21. In fact, he actually died at 64. And I mean, that’s very early, but I can imagine his body basically went well. I don’t actually want to see what goes on past this. I got to 64 and I don’t know what exists past this point. I’ve been 64 for so long. He had a secret painting in his attic that was slowly getting younger and that’s what did him in at the end. He is like in his mid to early 30s In this show, and I can’t believe it anytime I say that. I mean he’s got this sort of I mean, the guy looks like Gargamel What do you want me to say? He’s made a very successful career for himself by looking like Gargamel. I’ll tell you that for free looking like Gargamel has allowed him to take care of his wife and kids. Wayne Robson was mostly a comedic actor in most of his life. He played a lot of cantankerous old coot types. He was in many, many episodes of red green, for instance, I was the

 

 

longest I blame me for losing your job because, you know, when she was carrying me, she gained a lot of weight, you know, and she got bigger than some of the tables. She was dancing.

 

Will Riley 

And like most PC actors of the 70s he was in. I’ll give you two guesses what movie I’m about to say here. McCabe and Mrs. Miller. However, when Robson is one of the few cast members in McCabe and Mrs. Miller, who impressed Robert Altman enough to be brought along to the True Pet Project, Popeye,

 

 

stead hangs out, looked at Step eight on the up and square and always out, and none of them gets nowhere.

 

Will Riley 

Murder, he plays chisel Flint, the pawnbroker because his voice has a particular timber

 

Will Riley 

there are a lot of voice acting roles in this resume. Angela Anaconda, Robo Roach really all the animated TV shows that were no child’s favorite, but was on air for long enough to lodge inside their heads. Interestingly, he was Professor calculus in the English dub of the Tintin animated series. How

 

 

do you do?

 

 

My name is Professor calculus Cuthbert calculus. I understand you’re off on a treasure hunt soon

 

Will Riley 

Tintin. I mean, you know, there’s an interesting thing that happened to me that had to do with European comics. Actually, you know, forget it. It’s it’s not really worth talking about. It’s not really important, and it doesn’t really have much to do with this besides

 

 

calculus. No gentleman, I’m ready to demonstrate.

 

Will Riley 

In other circumstances. I wouldn’t mention this role, but because Mr. T’s name has already been invoked in this episode once Wayne Robson played a named character in T and T.

 

Will Riley 

You putting him in a mystery show in which Mr. T played a partner in a private detective agency. If Cosby mysteries was a show that had somebody way too comfortable for their own good T and T is a TV show with an air of desperation about it. years after the A Team Mr. T was falling on hard times. Every American production company basically saw Mr. T as used up which by Canadian production standards made him fresh pickings. He is trying so hard in this show to rekindle his ATM success that even the introductory premise is built on him being accused of a crime he didn’t commit to

 

 

as Toronto was a city smart kids fighting his way off the street until he was framed for a crime he didn’t come in. Amy Taylor was a young crusading lawyer. She mounted an appeal a portrait of back on the street, this time in a suit and tie working as a private detective together. They are T N T.

 

Will Riley 

I’m going to come clean about one of the reasons that I mentioned in the show in the first place. I mentioned Mr. T earlier in the episode. Yeah. Wayne Robson is in it. Yeah. But I mean, he was only in one episode. Really. I’m bringing it up because I discovered that this TV show is actually still on the air. The reruns are still playing on Canadian cable. The producer and owner of TNT is global television, a Canadian company, which also owns the rights to the Adult Swim brand in Canada. So it was a cheap and easy thing to do to just plug TNT into their equip. Fill in programming block for sort of in ironic kick. Similar things happen to Adult Swim stateside I think years ago. Chuck Norris and the karate commandos was still on the air because of this this TV show. The Mr. T private detective TV show is still on television right now trying to make ad revenue. And I didn’t even find out that it existed until I started reading up the resume for the guy playing the role of gangster number one in danger Bay. This I think should tell you all you need to know about the efficacy of the Canadian branch of the Adult Swim brand.

 

Will Riley 

The cold open of the episode starts with Grant Roberts at the Vancouver Airport hanging around one of the airplane hangars. He is picking something up from the customs lady or the lady who is dealing with the storage in the airport. Thanks

 

 

for clearing this through so fast course. My pleasure.

 

 

I always get a kick out of seeing the shipments you guys bring in. I don’t mind telling you grant, this baby takes the prize for ugliness

 

Will Riley 

mentions that some animal is inside the container that he’s carrying here talking about how weird it looks or how ugly but I hear this and I think why you see carrying some endangered species. It’s just a styrofoam box. You wouldn’t carry an endangered species or anything like that in there. You would carry some Nova Scotia lobster that you bought from the duty free at the Halifax airport. If you’ve ever seen those street sellers who are like buying Costco packs of soda and then selling them for a little bit of a markup. It’s that sort of storage container like it’s the thing that you put the ice in before you put in your Canada dries or whatever. If you ever had a hot dog day or a pizza day or whatever at your elementary school, you’ve seen this styrofoam box before not exactly a secure way to transport an important Marine Biological find. Unbeknownst to grant there are two shady Men in Black who are watching him from a distance. The script refers to Steven Dimopoulos his character and Wayne Robson’s character here as gangsters, but I mean, we both know that that’s not true. I mean, they have poacher Vizion me, especially because we’ve seen what Steven Demopolis looks like when he’s playing a poacher. They’re both obviously uncomfortable not wearing their right and black plaid and they’re newsboy flat caps. They are just poachers, I mean, they may be higher up in the bureaucratic hierarchy of the poacher community. Grant Roberts finally secures the thin styrofoam box containing inexpensive and precious living being inside it and gets ready to drive off these two businessmen like poachers survey grants departure get into their own car proceed to put on rubber masks that are shaped like caricatures of people like it’s Point Break, and then they start tailing him it was crazy for me to see this. I mean, I understand these characters are trying to hide their identity and so they’re putting on masks but to specifically put on the exact same type of masks as Point Break, like seven years before Point Break Even comes out. It really threw me for a loop. As you can imagine when Point Break came out in 1991. The danger Bay people weren’t exactly happy to see somebody else making money off of their idea. So you know, went to court, lots of arguing but I mean, everything eventually got hashed out they figured out a solution and you know, everybody’s on good terms. The only thing that goes on now is that Chris crab has Keanu Reeves his power of attorney. also briefly when the movie was first released in Vancouver in order to make it more relatable to the average Vancouver audience. They changed the title from Point Break to point gray because I mean point gray I mean those are those are the rough streets in Vancouver when I watch point break myself I am a little conflicted because sometimes I watch and I go oh man, this movie is just such a rip off of danger bay but I mean the line between rip off and being part of the same genre is sort of thin is point rageous plagiarism or is it just one of the first early adopters of the aquatic crime thriller genre as invented by danger Bay? The one thing point ray does have over this episode of danger Bay is that for the masks, I can actually tell who the politicians are supposed to be genuinely can’t figure out who With these masks are supposed to be of in this episode the face on Stephen Demopolis. His mask is so characterized that it could be Pierre Trudeau just as easily as Renny Lovak. The faces are so stretched out that it has lost all ability to discern the two poachers have different masks. I’m pretty sure neither of them are Mulrooney. Pretty sure, neither of them are Joe Clark, I actually had to send some stills of this episode to somebody to ask them who do you think this is because I can’t make heads or tails of who this is supposed to depict. And eventually we came to the idea that one mask is Pierre Trudeau and the other is John Turner. And that really surprised me that somebody on the danger base staff would have a really strong opinion about John Turner to make a mask of them because taking recency bias into account. I’ve never known anybody to have any sort of opinion about John Turner whatsoever. So for the Americans in the audience, and indeed for most Canadians in the audience, because no Canadian remembers John Turner at all. Theoretically, it’s bad to explain Canadian politics as an analogy of US politics, but it is factually 100%. Correct. Ronald Reagan is Margaret Thatcher is Brian Mulroney, and thusly, John Turner is Tip O’Neill, maybe even a hyperdrive sort of Tip O’Neill because at least for all tip O’Neill’s equivocating, he feasibly had some sort of actual power. The thing is John Turner was technically the prime minister for three months there was Prime Minister between June 30 And September 17 of 1984. Evidently the three months that this episode of danger Bay was being filmed. There are a lot of Directorial Decisions in danger bay that show off the fact that this was filmed in the 80s. But there are even more things that demonstrate that it was filmed in 1984. Specifically, and with these rubber masks of Prime Minister John Turner, we’re not just talking about 1984, but three short summer months in the year of 1984. That’s how specific we’re getting. And I mean, most people understand John Turner’s Prime Ministership as being like a sacrificial lamb in effect, Pierre Trudeau knew that the tide was going against him, and it was time for him to go. So he just stepped down from being Prime Minister before he could have to deal with the splotch on his career of actually losing an election. And I mean, this sacrificial lamb type of thing. It does happen between both the liberals and the conservatives in Canada. Most people see the trade off between Brian Mulroney and Kim Campbell in exactly the same way. Well, it’s time for me to go Why don’t you quickly eat some shit for me before I walk out the door. The one difference with John Turner is that after he lost the prime ministership, after only having it for three months, the Canadian Liberal Party just went you know what, why don’t you just lead us for another six whole years? This is the Reagan era, it doesn’t really matter who’s going to be the leader of the opposition. Why not you? We all have loser stink on us right now. Why don’t you go ahead and do it, which is odd because the Canadian Liberal Party is usually known for making intelligent political decisions and being in touch with the electorate. Anyway, this is a very roundabout way to getting back to explaining how the two poachers, put on the rubber masks, and then start tailing grant Roberts with his fish in the trunk of his jeep with a big sticker on it that says keep cool. The music gets ominous as it swells, as the black sedan slowly follows grant Roberts revealing that for all this subterfuge of putting on these masks, they forgot to take their license plates off. I mean, you you can’t drive without any license plates like that would be illegal. On the other side of the theme song. Grant is still transporting this fish. He’s obviously traveling on some sort of cozy back road because there’s so many trees around them and the dudes in robber masks stop tailing him and start getting aggressive. They get up to him they start honking the horn and trying to motion him to pull over trying to threaten him. Grant hardly even acknowledges the fact that this is happening he doesn’t even really acknowledge the fact that they’re in masks. He just sort of awkwardly moves his hand like Nah No Go around. Go around. No, no, just just go around. Just go around me. I mean, I got delicate cargo Here you go around me. What’s all this honking about? I’m going the speed limit. You got a real weird face. Mr. The music indicates that this is some sort of an action scene because the dudes in the rubber masks are evidently trying to run grant off the road, but they’re driving in the classic Action style of this is an action scene. But I don’t want to actually risk damaging either of these cars because we got to do multiple takes the guys in the poacher sedan just wobble their wheel around and sort of and sort of get maybe within a foot of grants Gee grant is just going straight this whole time just ignoring that anything is actually happening. After all this light suggestion that one car might lightly tap the other car, the cops show up and they immediately get involved. And the dudes and masks sort of break off and start speeding away. Grant is still like totally baffled. He does not understand why any of this is happening.

 

 

Those guys trying to run me off the road.

 

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After that, Grant just goes right back to the aquarium. I find the whole thing doesn’t make sense. We get told totally off screen that the poachers in suits managed to escape the cops. What

 

 

did the police said they lost the car and they’d get back to me later than any more information

 

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they treated as an obvious thing that would happen given that it’s a TV show, but it also cements the fact that we probably already knew at this point that the Vancouver Aquarium is the far more competent law enforcement body. It is very difficult to explain just how unfazed grant Roberts is by being attacked by men and masks

 

 

said they lost the car and they get back to me later then any more information. Did you get that holding tank grinning? It

 

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really is like it never happened at all. It’s just one more inconvenience in his day. Oh boy, some guy dressed as the Prime Minister and nearly committed vehicular manslaughter on me. And on top of all that I only found out I was out of milk after I poured the cereal into my bowl. Some days are just ruined before they even start. Grant Roberts is able to ignore this attempt on his life because he’s so excited to reveal to everybody that the animal he’d been keeping in this styrofoam box that they use for really big Chinese takeout orders is an eel okay fella, you will be in your new home and no doubt he starts getting this eel ready for exhibition. Jonas says that the tank is already for the eel.

 

 

Did you get that holding tank ready? Yeah. Cleaned up myself. Oh,

 

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good grants delivery of Oh, good. It’s so sarcastic that it really does make grant seem like a debt. And I mean, that’s not the first time that’s happened. You

 

 

must be awfully proud of Jonah. Everybody at

 

 

school is Oh, yeah. So they tell me.

 

Will Riley 

Excuse me. Oh, good. Nicole has arrived at the aquarium with a friend in tow. They’re both curious about the eel as well.

 

 

Hi, dad. Hi, girls.

 

 

Did you enjoy your tour of the aquarium? Margaret Nicole’s

 

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friend here is named Margaret. Margaret makes sure to use exposition deftly to make sure that the audience knows that grant Roberts is cool,

 

 

actually, because right you do have the neatest job in the world. Jonah obviously

 

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has some sort of feelings for the Margaret character. He’s pretending that the eel has bitten off his finger in the clumsiest anti funny way. You could imagine that I’ll

 

 

get the Hey, wait.

 

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You just curls down his middle finger and puts it in front of the camera at the right angle. So it looks like it’s missing. That’s gross. This is Jonah’s idea of flirting. It’s a very nine year olds idea of what a cruel trick is. But of course, we have to remember here that there weren’t any television shows or even electricity in Vancouver until recently, these sorts of tricks were how you pick people up without fail. You learn to make it look like you’re pulling your thumb off and putting it back on again. I mean, at that stage, you’re basically Wilt Chamberlain. And that holds true here. Nobody else in the room thinks that this is impressive.

 

 

And Jada was funny, Gianna.

 

 

Yeah. So they tell me other

 

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than Margaret, the one girl that he did this trick for I suppose I should mention that this actress for Margaret is named Katherine fast. She’s sort of a unicorn here because danger Bay will be her only television role ever. Though she will be in two different episodes. She actually plays the same character in both of them. But officially it gets listed as two characters, because her character’s name is misspelled in the credits of one of them. She’s almost as off the map as HG burns now. I think she’s working for the province as a prosecutor but don’t quote me on that and don’t try and find out and ruin her privacy. Good God. I mean, she was on danger Bay, she is probably still living comfortably off of the six figure residual checks.

 

 

You want to take this box back to the storage room after I get him a check.

 

 

Can I do it later? You bet.

 

 

I can give you your allowance later to if you

 

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like, we finally get a glance at this eel. It’s pretty stripy and got these interesting quills on it. The way that the dialogue works here. We’re expected to think that this eel is ugly and that only grant really thinks that looks good, but I think pretty self evidently it’s cool.

 

 

So what do you think girls? Is Near beauty?

 

Will Riley 

Yeah, but it’s a different era. I mean, we weren’t really able to accept supposedly gross animals as cool until people were able to post pictures of them online with the caption me above them a quick but important argument here.

 

 

George, just a minute I want to work with you, George.

 

 

How’s the new exhibit? All the oh, he looks just

 

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fine. George Have you reconsidered ordering the Coulter counter grant Roberts a cost taken bags and he’s asking about something called a Coulter counter and stick in the mud. Dr. George Dunbar is unwilling, it’s too

 

 

expensive.

 

 

It’s a lottery the aquarium cannot afford but that’s an essential piece of equipment. George

 

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God Dennett, Roberts, you know how much money the precinct is spending over your little otter surgeries. You’re too close to this case, Roberts, putting you on the sea lion beat luck.

 

 

I’m late for lunch and appointment. Fundraising. See you later.

 

 

While you’re there, see about getting me a raise. I didn’t hear that.

 

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debate over the relative ugliness of the eel continues. Margaret and Nicole are still looking at the things swimming around in his tank.

 

 

He really is kind of ugly. I don’t know. I think he’s sort of

 

Will Riley 

neat. Now you see, this is exactly the sort of internet the line that people will go nuts over now.

 

 

It really is kind of ugly. I don’t know. I think you sort of need if you’ve got a

 

Will Riley 

Twitter account, and a big part of your brand is going like I’m a little goblin. I’m a little gremlin. I’m going goblin mode on Yeah,

 

 

it really is kind of ugly. I don’t know. I think you sort of need

 

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to just post this clip on a loop and just go like, Oh, it’s me really

 

 

is kind of ugly.

 

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I think he’s sort of like, Oh, I wish I had girls who talked about me this way. Thank you sort of need to guess or something along those lines on your phone during your lunch break. And I’d say you probably get a good 150 likes, by the time you finish the rest of your shift at the REMAX agency.

 

 

It really is kind of ugly.

 

 

He’s a real beaut, isn’t he? We get a bit

 

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more of an in depth explanation over what a color counter is and why grant Roberts wants one a

 

 

Coulter counter is an instrument that analyzes blood samples. It’s very expensive. Everyone around here could really make our lives a lot easier. You

 

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may remember that in the Kadian the whale episode there was some dialogue there was talking about the fact that the Vancouver Aquarium was taking all of the Orca whale blood samples and sending them off to a human hospital. You take the

 

 

osis blood to a human hospital.

 

 

Oh sure, Wales are people to

 

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their mammals. That wasn’t just like an educational moment it is now plot relevant. A Coulter counter is for blood samples and if they got a culture counter, then the Vancouver Aquarium wouldn’t need to go all the way to sending these samples off to a human hospital and waiting for the results. Even this early into danger bay we can already see evidence of the Vancouver Aquarium attempting to become a self sufficient body not reliant on any other sort of institution or agencies. A state within a state if you will. Later on, we get episodes about the Vancouver Aquarium developing its own power source, creating an independent agricultural system via some advanced aquaculture technology. Things like this. Nicole and the Margaret character are now leaving the aquarium. They’re headed home for the day. And we get just a little bit more exposition so that we know that grant Roberts is cool.

 

 

Your dad is so nice. Yeah, no. Give everything for tonight. Are you sure it’s all over him. That

 

 

is still over tonight. Yeah,

 

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it’s fine conversation turns to demonstrate that Margaret by 1984 standards is a little bit of a computer whiz. She’s one of those few people who’s got a laptop in the 80s. She’s carrying the computer in a side bag next to her the whole time my

 

 

portable computer. Part of me part of

 

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that laptop is huge. I bet it’s a real powerhouse. It might even have up to 500 bytes of RAM, just to doubly make sure that the audience understands that Jonah is interested in Margrete. There’s a brief scene where he just sort of weirdly slinks into his dad’s office to ask him monacolin market and everybody really understands what’s happening here. But grant still just sort of keeps coy about it and goes,

 

 

Oh, they’ve already left for the house. You can catch him if you hurry. And so he just

 

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sort of runs off trying to catch her. Grants reaction to Jonah’s interest in this girl is quite different from the tennis episode. Grant was really angry at Jonah for having a girlfriend in that episode because It got in the way of crucial fish experiments. But here it’s almost like a 180. I can only assume that grant knows Margaret A lot better than the previous girl. He probably knows her enough that he can go. Yeah, this one probably won’t trick my son into murdering guppies by his own hand out of some fealty to the burger shack.

 

 

We can’t cure what’s bad disease.

 

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We cut to some very nice footage of the interior of the Vancouver Aquarium. We get some very nice shots of the insides of some of these tanks. Most importantly, we see a mostly empty tank with some coral and some smaller fish going around with a little sign that says future home of the Moray eel the soundtrack during this little b roll a moment is incredibly lush

 

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that Chuck man Joanie is a real class

 

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however, this scene turns dark as we pan to the to escaped poachers just standing in the middle of the aquarium talking over their plans.

 

 

I sure don’t see nothing, which tells us something. How we should explain it to me.

 

 

So what do we do now?

 

 

When the EU is in the tank? The box is empty. Why don’t we just go get it? Be patient, my friend. Enjoy the fish. Turns

 

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out in this case, it was never the eel that was important to the poachers. Instead, it was this box that it came in this styrofoam box that comes to anybody’s door if they’re part of the frozen steak of the Month Club, for instance, the sort of box that refrigerated ingredients come in on a Hello Fresh subscription. We are now taken to the house on Roberts Island. This next scene is an example of danger Bay trying to sell the general populace on the idea of Vancouver. Here they’re trying to demonstrate that Vancouver is this cosmopolitan multicultural center. So we have a scene of the Robertson company enjoying a plate of exotic ethnic cuisine, the ethnicity and question being Italian Grant’s inside cooking dinner. He’s got canned tomato sauce in a pot on the stuff, which is what qualifies for oat cuisine in the early 80s. Boy

 

 

this year smells good. onion, tomato,

 

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Nicole and Margaret come into the room and they’re just doing the usual teen girl stuff. There’s like a light comic scene where grant is trying to tell Nicole to do this or that and she’s got her headphones on really loud so she can’t hear him blah, blah, blah. There’s a fun little bit of visual acting here. Grant gets a spoon of the sauce and gives it to Nicole to taste and she smiles and then very silently takes the drink that was already in her hand and just takes a little sip because she doesn’t want to actively say it’s no good. And then because they didn’t really know what else to do in this scene. Oh, I

 

 

forgot. This is a tossed salad regarded.

 

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Grant just starts juggling for no reason. Oh, this

 

 

is easy. Again, this

 

Will Riley 

is British Columbia in 1984. This is like the most entertaining thing anybody’s seen. Watching grant juggle is basically on par with the Super Bowl. And Jonah knows that because he gets jealous of the attention and starts trying to juggle himself not

 

 

bad. Now watch this.

 

Will Riley 

He starts juggling apples as well, and immediately eat shit.

 

 

That was pretty good. Jonah

 

 

needs some work

 

Will Riley 

Jonah, or at least he eats shit by standards of this TV show. he juggles them perfectly. And then he sort of messes up grabbing the last thing because he’s got two apples in one hand and he’s not able to grab the last one. A very common error but by the standards of Jonah in danger obey the prince of tennis himself. It’s a bit of an embarrassment.

 

 

needs some work, Jonah. Oh, good. Yeah. So they tell me. Excuse me.

 

Will Riley 

I’m just going to play this next short scene without touching it.

 

 

It must be fun being able to work at the aquarium. Yeah. And you can work there too. They have a great volunteer program for kids. Really? I don’t know anything about marine life. I’m sure they’re something your total wizard computers.

 

 

Dad’s got a computer in his office.

 

 

Yeah. And a nightmare. My office has never been Messier since they started transferring all my records into that computer. I bet Margaret could help you out. Oh, yeah. How would you like a job doing that? Really caught us tomorrow. Right after school sound to

 

 

Dr. Roberts. Dr. Robert, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank

 

 

you. Oh, thank you.

 

 

How long did it take you to to figure that out? Not too long.

 

Will Riley 

I’m going to fucking throw something. I’ve lived in Vancouver all my life having interacted with the Vancouver job market for most of my life now and I’m watching a 13 year old girl become an accountant within 30 seconds of conversation doesn’t even need to do a background check or send a list of references that is tomorrow right after school is down to I mean, there are plot contrivances that are convenient and there are plot contrivances which are made to infuriate you. Nowadays, of course, I’m a well known PR guru slash podcasting magnate, but I will be honest with you before then I had a postgraduate degree, and I had multiple jobs, which were just a buck or two over minimum wage that I only got in the first place because I quote, knew somebody. Well, I mean, I guess Margaret knows somebody, too. I’m supposed to feel good for these kids right now. But all I can think about was the times that I applied for jobs and said in my cover letter, I wrote my master’s thesis on that, and I wouldn’t even get an email in response. I mean, the whole experience of applying for jobs in Vancouver is well, I mean, there was this time that you know, it, it’s not really that relevant. It doesn’t really bear mentioning.

 

 

Thank you. Thank you. Thank

 

 

you. Thank you. Thank you. So

 

Will Riley 

the very next day, Margaret comes into work as the person doing the books for the curator of the whole Vancouver Aquarium grant shows Margaret the computer a tip see,

 

 

Wow, is that good? To Roberts with this computer I can do just about anything

 

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great to he doesn’t know much about the computer itself, so he can’t be much help computers are still new and unknown territory for many adults of the era. Disabled

 

 

people are so severely handicapped are the only parts of their body they can control properly or their eyes. Tonight we report on the eye control computer and we week Ray has blown up in Northern Ireland and is now blind and yet can use a specially adapted computer as efficiently as a sighted person and much more efficient in the mean. And don’t forget to put your physical decoder in position when the flashing white document has or better still one on video record this edition of database. And now something which unfortunately, Ray here will never see the world of computer graphics. Great.

 

 

Well, you can get started with these. Okay, I gotta go take care of my ear. See you later.

 

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In other internet the line who up taking care of a eel I gotta go take care of my ear. Margaret sits down starts tapping away the keys and first point of order starts committing financial crimes.

 

 

Okay, Dr.

 

 

Grant Roberts $100 Raise per week. authorized to start

 

 

now. Now for the culture counter.

 

 

Purchasing doesn’t even

 

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need to find like a file directory or anything like that. It’s just 10 commit crimes. 20 go to 1030. Ron Margaret means well, of course. But this is obviously like computer crime. And strangely enough, it’s a very early version of these kinds of stories. You’ve got to keep in mind that cliff stoles nonfiction book about computer espionage and all of that. It didn’t get published until like 1989, five years after this episode, which I suppose really does beg the question, What did HG burns know? What was he trying to tell us? Why did he tell us it’s via a pseudonym? Why did he go as far as to publish it in the most popular television show of all time? I mean, who is so I’m getting ahead of myself here. Finally, Grant moray eel is ready to go into his new home, we get some short footage of the eel getting dropped into the tank complete with all the rocks and seaweed and everything that we saw before. We sort of hold on the eel for a little bit. There you go, pal, your new home, got to outside of the tank and Jonah is wandering around the Vancouver Aquarium with like, a little volunteer name tag on him. And he gets stopped by the two poachers.

 

 

Excuse me, young man. Do you work here?

 

 

No, I just help out sometimes. But my dad’s in charge of all the animals. They’re trying

 

Will Riley 

to set their plan in action and get that box. They’re basically just trying to trick him into selling him the box that they want. We need a box. Let me explain our situation. Um, Jonah is pretty swiftly skeptical of these people. But he keeps listening. We’re going

 

 

to be moving soon. And we have an aquarium at home. We thought since you transport fish all the time. You might have something to ship them in.

 

 

Yeah, as a matter of fact, we got one in yesterday.

 

 

Perfect. Yeah, we’d like to buy it from him. save us a lot of time. A lot of

 

Will Riley 

time. A totally natural instinct. You know, I need to transport some fish. I’ll go all the way and by A ticket to the Vancouver Aquarium and find out what’s going on. I mean, like, if you paint as a hobby if you’re not going to the you feet see to buy your canvas and your paint. I mean, are you really buying real paint Wayne Robson pulls out of water bills from his suit pocket and tries to bribe Jonah.

 

 

We’ll be more than happy to pay for the box. Name your price, anything you

 

 

say, um, the aquarium doesn’t sell these boxes. They store them and use them over and over again as long as they’re not damaged.

 

Will Riley 

reuse it over and over. I mean, like it’s it’s Styrofoam I keep harping on about this, but it’s Styrofoam. It’s like the box that the cousin you don’t like at the family barbecue brings to store all his domestic beer in this is the Vancouver Aquarium you have a mandate to preserve all the ocean life. Why? Why are you using Styrofoam in the first place for anything? Do you guys hate the salmon poultry is that much that you’re trying to taint all of their catches with micro plastics,

 

 

I better talk to my dad for

 

 

don’t bother. I’m sure he’s much too busy. We’ll make other arrangements. Find a storage room course.

 

Will Riley 

Now normally, I think having an interaction like this would make Jonah swiftly go to his dad and say like, these are some weird guys who are up to no good in the aquarium. And I think he would have in any other case. But unfortunately, the ad break interrupts him so he forgets about it. And parenthetically, and other odd Burton Kali style scenario going on here between these two poachers. Let’s go get some oh, we’re hearing Oh, We’re roommates from two people who at the very least look like they’re in their 50s and 60s. That gives a bit of an impression, especially considering that this is like Vancouver in 1984, where the law of the land was basically just oh, just take a house. There are free

 

 

brothers. We’re going to be moving soon. And they’ve been living there forever. Other side

 

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of the ad break. We’re back on Roberts Island, we get a few bits of relationship guff going on. Margaret and Nicole are doing what I figured Nancy Miller decided was the girliest thing that you could do with a computer in 1984. And are doing a personality test.

 

 

Do you think you’re glamorous? Most definitely. Come on, Nicole. help tell the truth in these personality programs are the no good. Okay. I’m not glamorous, but I’m cute. I don’t know. I think he’s sort of neat. Yeah, I guess

 

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Jonah is still figuring out how to get a word in edgewise with Margaret without Nicole in the way

 

 

can I come in? No. We’re busy girl stuff.

 

 

Girl stuff.

 

Will Riley 

And so he realizes the main person he’s going to ask is his dad. Dad’s new breeding techniques. Oh, he comes down to his dad who is snoozing on the couch as classical music plays?

 

 

Do you understand women? And

 

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weirdly enough, Grant just drowsily gives him some quick advice for how to talk with the ladies

 

 

walk right up and talk to her son and never get anywhere with anybody just being silent.

 

 

I don’t know if I can keep talking for very long. Well,

 

 

why don’t you take her to a movie then and you won’t have to talk very much.

 

Will Riley 

Again total 180. From the tennis episode, you can very quickly see the difference in sensibilities towards women between ALF Harris and Nancy Miller. I wish I knew

 

 

what I wanted to be. That was my mistake. I mean,

 

Will Riley 

nobody can really tell what the sensibilities of Hg burns are the main way that we know that Margaret is not some sort of fish murdering harpy committing the sin of seeking emotional support from others.

 

 

Senator Roberts recommends

 

 

1. It’ll give me confidence.

 

Will Riley 

That’s where I went wrong is that we’ve had her loudly declare that grant Roberts is cool. Do you have the

 

 

neatest job in the world?

 

 

Your dad is so nice. Yeah, no,

 

Will Riley 

I think he’s sort of neat. That’s the main indicator of goodness or badness of girlfriends in this show so far. Whether or not you agree that grant Roberts is a real funky grandpa, even though we have already seen Margaret commit a crime in this episode. Now

 

 

for the culture, character

 

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purchasing, and no doubt she is going to learn some sort of lesson by the end we can tell that she is meant to be seen as somewhat sympathetic because she’s willing to commit a crime on grants behalf

 

 

Dr. Grant Roberts $100 Raise per week getting him

 

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a raise and getting him this volunteer culture counter. That’s the main way we know that she’s good. Granted, as I’ve said before, danger Bay opens itself up for multiple interpretations. Soon after grant gives this advice. He sort of perks up a little bit and has his eyes open. And he’s looking around as if he probably doesn’t remember saying this in the first place. Thanks. If you’re welcome back to the aquarium already, we’ve got some B roll of another orca show no doubt showing Bo Serafina and Hyak got to say a lot of fin droop on display, especially on Hyak. If you’ve watched any documentaries about orcas or aquariums, you probably know that that drooping dorsal fin really only occurs that frequently when you are in orca in captivity, but you know, I’m sure it’s fine. They’re doing everything they can. I’m sure it’s fine. I’m sure it’s fine. This B roll is really just to establish that grant is back at work. He’s looking at some paperwork as he comes in through the lab checks on Margaret doing her accounting.

 

 

Hey, 1971.

 

 

Boy, you

 

 

keep this up. You’re gonna have the whole 18 years done by the end of the week.

 

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And rather coyly Margaret just says,

 

 

while you’re out a delivery came for you. Yeah.

 

 

Wow.

 

 

That’s a counter counter.

 

Will Riley 

I really do love that getting this culture counter involved like no hacking scenes. All we hear is Margaret go, oh, I ordered the Coulter counter with the computer. Now for the culture counter purchase no firewalls or failsafes. It’s just the culture counters here now. Wow. Wow, wow. Like the standard for difficulty of hacking is already pretty low on television. And they basically dug underneath the barrel here. Hacking on TV is just always easy. Identity theft has the same level of frequency, whether you’re banging rocks together or doing complex calculations, actually, now that I think about it, this whole AI revolution, whatever we’re calling, it makes identity theft way easier today than it used to be. I mean, there’s all these people saying that I said all these horrible things about German people that the ruler calls to them to do copper mining or whatever, claiming that I said that they only glom on to the most forgotten and obscure television shows. I mean, I never said any of that. Honestly, I think it’s probably the Germans producing these fabrications in the first place. I don’t have any evidence for these claims. But I feel like it’s something that would be in their nature, like

 

 

don’t believe and he actually got it. He went out and he got me one. It’s not the one you want it the one I want it. That’s the top of the line.

 

Will Riley 

Broadly speaking, I feel like this scene is very weirdly stitched together. The moment anybody turns their back to the camera in this scene, their dialogue immediately switches to ADR and I mean the entire time in this shot Margaret is facing the computer so all her lines are ADR but grant keeps on flipping between having his voice echo with the room or sound like it’s coming from a sound studio after the fact George never does

 

 

anything like that. You don’t even have to flip this lid. That’s a counter counter sound when you want it. The one on one it that’s the top of

 

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the line, the prominence of the ADR makes a line that grant makes about the fact that Margaret looks like she’s sitting super low. It feels like it’s an ad lib of some sort. Because something else in the scene might have gone wrong to justify the after dub.

 

 

George never does anything like that. You know, we must have flipped this lid. When did that get here? You know, you look kind of short back there.

 

 

Are you comfortable? The

 

 

tables a little bit high? In the storage room get your question. I can find it good.

 

Will Riley 

But as you’ll see in a few moments, this seat cushion is actually plot critical. The suit poachers start poking around the rear warehouse of the aquarium looking for that box. Wade Robson peeks through a door that sort of ajar as he watches some employee come down the stairs and leave this custodian type really looks like maybe Alfred Molina falling on hard times. For that matter. When Robson looks the most garganelli that he ever does in this episode right here as he’s watching the custodian walks past and Wade Robson just slowly walks through the door peaks around and finally sees the vaunted styrofoam box before he can rush in and get it. He hears Margaret coming down the stairs looking for that seat cushion and he quickly retreats back to outside of the warehouse. Side. How can we get it out of here this place is crawling with people. For

 

 

half a million dollars we’ll find a way to be so crowded at night. Again,

 

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they’ve seen like two people. They make their decision to do the burglary at night where they’d have to deal with entire automatic burglary system rather than just one Alfred Molina Margaret’s now alone in the storage room and she’s looking cushions. At first she decides to go for a big stack of gym mats for some reason. What follows is a very good example of the difference between writing out action in a script and actually filming it. I’m assuming that the script in this episode says something like Margaret sees a stack of cushions on a high shelf. She tries to jump up to get at them but gives up it’s too high. Visually, however, this simply doesn’t translate. The shelf is like three times taller than she is. And the fact that Margaret thinks that she can get them if she just engages a Deus Ex high jump skill, it it makes her seem considerably dopey er than a flat description and a script would suggest like the cushions are seven meters above her and she’s just going I can get them. Looking for some sort of a booster Margaret takes the special secret box, she stands up on them to get at these cushions. And these special secret super important specially engineered pricey reusable not for resale styrofoam box, instantly caves in on itself. And inside of this broken box, she finds a stack of microchips, all of which are in this nifty little pill case, they were probably hid into some secret compartment in the lid or something like that. I think your Margaret needed to be explicitly written to be some sort of a computer whiz kid here because because in the mind of a TV writer circa 1984, most of them would expect a kid to look at computer chips and go wow, weird candy. Most TV writers in this era are taught very early on that characters should either be totally experts in something or completely ignorant. I assume because if a viewer is watching a TV show and a character with totally middle of the road intelligence is still smarter than you on a certain topic. It feels bad. Margaret grabs a few of these chips and off screen shows them to Dr. Roberts. The next thing we have is Hagan bags and Donnelly roads and some on introduced third guys standing around here with some undefined expertise in the matter of computer chips. i It’s never exactly explained what his deal is, other than he can provide exposition. They’re hanging out in a conference room as an orca whale swims by them in the windows, this man of unknown generalized authority who in the credits goes by the name of Ron the fatality. Again, there’s that ethnic Italian influence proceeds to regale Hagen bags and grant Roberts with some beautiful examples of Aedes tech Fantasia, he holds up these chips, which in higher definition just look like shiny stickers to me and tells them both that these are what is going to replace silicon chips any day. Now.

 

 

The lab guys have identified these as gallium arsenide microchips. These are the latest in computer technology. They’re, they’re faster, they cost less, their performance levels are better. Eventually they’re going to make silicon chips obsolete. These things are worth a fortune.

 

Will Riley 

Gallium Arsenide did not set the world on fire in the way that Ron Vitaly is telling us here. I mean, it almost did it was almost used in the Star Wars satellites. But many of the drawbacks of gallium arsenide as an electronic medium started to reveal themselves. Being able to conduct electricity really fast is not really the most important thing when you’re designing a chip gallium arsenide has way worse thermal conductivity, it’s way less accurate to work with. So all the chips have got to be bigger silicon chips can be designed at a way smaller scale with fewer imperfections. And that’s why they’re still widely used today. Imagine trying to fit like a gallium arsenide chip into like a Fitbit or something like that. It wouldn’t work that great. It’s applications are really niche. On top of that, try to imagine a scenario in which everybody is trying to make these mass produced mini computers and every worker on the factory floor has to work with arsenic day in day out. I mean, it’s not like Microsoft wouldn’t try it. But I mean, let’s just say that job would have a high turnover rate. Like I said, it almost got used for Star Wars and stuff like that. It’s really only working in places where the chips don’t have to be around other people. It’s not like gallium arsenide doesn’t have its holdouts. Of course Chris crab is very famously a big proponent of it, all the chips in the crab tech hyper vans, all of the Chris crab vape pens, those are all using gallium arsenide chips. He believes in the scientific ethos that danger Bay has created beyond the sort of retroactive comedy material here we do get some very crucial plot points in regards to why this sort of poaching operation is going down who buys these chips.

 

 

Mostly they’re sold through black markets to Eastern Bloc countries in the Soviet Union. It’s a way for them to obtain technology that they’re still years away from. Of

 

Will Riley 

course, you understand what this means. The poachers have been working with the commies the entire time. Are they an independent group with some sort of Soviet backing? Or are they some sort of puppet militia? We still don’t know how many poachers in this show have we encountered in these episodes so far without us knowing that they were actually engaged in secret deniable ops, on behalf of the other side of the Iron Curtain? How many salmon or horses do you have to steal before you’re promoted enough to get into contact with the European drop off? Another thing I like about this is that in most episodes of danger Bay, the final source of a conflict is usually left vague. So who was buying all those poach Falcon eggs? Well, we don’t know they were just shipping them overseas. Whereas overseas, we don’t know who is the big buyer for all of this out of season, Sam. And well, we won’t tell you any individual or powerful Corporation, we can’t really tell you that who is the pet food company that’s grinding up all this horse meat in order to feed

 

 

dogs, and they some of them are made into pet food, as well. I

 

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mean, we’re not going to tell you that we’d get in trouble if we told you that. But then we get to this episode, and they just point out a map and go, it’s the Soviets. It’s this group of countries, it’s their fault. Suddenly, something like specificity is back on the menu. One thing that isn’t particularly clear is why the Soviet Union wants these particular chips. I mean, I’m pretty sure that the Soviets understand that gallium arsenide is a thing at this stage. Is it what’s inside the chips themselves? That matters? We don’t really know. I mean, gallium arsenide is something that would have been publicly understood at this point, they wouldn’t be trying to take the chips, I think they’d be trying to take like whatever apparatus you use to make gallium arsenide chips, again, a very weird approach to secrecy in regards to computers in the 80s. They didn’t really seem to understand what information about computers was public or not, like, even with commercial, readily available computers, there would be a bunch of furor over whether or not the wrong people would get this, you know, Amiga in their hands. The Red Army wants your Amiga to launch nukes with it. A lot of this stuff, you could just get out of a catalog, but they were worried about the Soviets doing devious things with them. People would talk about the ZX Spectrum like it was a nuclear football or something. Do you

 

 

have the Zed at a central processing unit chip? How much is that? 600? Bayesian? There’s 1000. Thank you very much. So for two pounds, I have bought the central processing chip off the shelf for the Sinclair computer. And we are Thank you very much indeed, receipt, central processing chip, and change. No one’s asked me where I’m from. For all this nice ladies and gentlemen know I could be a Russian spy, exporting that bit of hardware to do something devious with it. And indeed, there have been reports that members of the Afghanistan resistance have been here to buy this kind of hardware to do exactly that. with it. It makes a bit of a nonsense, doesn’t it have the decision not to sell Sinclair computers in the duty free lounge or Heathrow in case they get into the wrong hands? Because for all we know, this may have already gone into the wrong hands.

 

Will Riley 

It is very much as if you said today Oh, the Chinese government wants your 4090s the ray tracing and it’s got military applications, they’re going to do war crimes with your ray tracing. Granted, I mean, with all of the AI images I see nowadays, I mean, what some of you people are doing with your 49 these they do probably count as war crimes. While it doesn’t have as many far reaching implications for the danger Bay lore. almost equally as strange is the poachers logistics for this smuggling plan to the Soviet Union. They were using this styrofoam eel box to carry the gallium arsenide chips because apparently security isn’t as tight for the transport of live animals. Normal

 

 

customer security is so thorough that these crooks are always looking for new ways to smuggle their stuff in like hiding

 

 

them in aquarium shipments where the security isn’t so tight, right?

 

Will Riley 

Beyond the fact that we’ve already had two episodes that have had to do with wildlife Customs Enforcement, it does seem to me that probably the movement of wild animals would have a little more scrutiny, not less, but it’s possibly a more common mode of transporting state secrets. Then I give it credit for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg famously transported all of the nuclear weapons secrets through the bill of a San Francisco pelican. I mean, it was a very big built on this pelican. They could fit a lot of secrets into it. I mean, why do you think Mata Hari had that snake all that time it wasn’t to dance with it. I mean, there was there was microfiche, and that snake, the danger Bay lore still gets even more complex in this relatively short scene moving past being a law enforcement agency or some sort of local military body. The Vancouver Aquarium moves on Are you engaging in Cold War espionage here? By setting up a stakeout? Possibly independently? Well,

 

 

whoever those guys were,

 

 

they’re gonna come back after that. No question. We’ll put the box back in the storage area and the trap will be set. Why haven’t they come sooner? Waiting for the right time maybe? Like tonight

 

 

and we’ll be waiting right? What? Just the three of us. Well, you can bring Grace if you’d like.

 

Will Riley 

More ambiguity as to the scope and reach of the Vancouver Aquarium here. Who is this Ron Vitaly guy. We’ve already seen that the Vancouver Aquarium through grant is able to tell various police officers and military officers what to do. But here this Ron Vitaly guy who apparently knows about international espionage who has the authority to set up a stakeout on these Sobia puppets of his own accord. He says he’ll get this stakeout ready at his office, but we don’t know where his office is go back to the office and set it up. He talks about it so casually. Is it like oh, is his office two doors down from this one? Is it inside the Vancouver Aquarium? Is he an aquarium employee?

 

 

Phillip guys have identified these as gallium arsenide microchips.

 

Will Riley 

We have no idea who he’s working for in this situation. Is he working for the government? Is he working for the police or the military? Is he an employee of the Vancouver Aquarium himself? Is he the guy running the Vancouver aquariums? International ops answers to these questions and more are never given to the audience because everybody in the Vancouver Aquarium already seems to know everybody else. Why are they letting the orcas watch and listen in on this conversation through the windows? Do they trust the orcas enough as agents of the Vancouver Aquarium here giving orcas access to computer secrets is a dangerous idea. You’re no doubt familiar with bank A to the Orca at the nine key Shirahama Adventure World exhibit who ran Japan’s largest piracy ring on Dreamcast titles because he didn’t take kindly to how Sega represented his species in Sonic Adventure one. The actor of this Ron Vitaly character I should mention is named Dana still who will be in for more episodes of danger bay after this. Like many danger Bay actors, he will transfer over to MacGyver after a while his highest profile role other than danger Bay Of course, will probably be double jeopardy, though he was also in omen for the awakening, which is a straight to television entry in the series. I bring him up because there’s another synchronicity with other characters that we’ve come across in our learning about danger Bay. One of the shows that I mentioned Don Davis was in was called The New Adventures of beans Baxter. Dana still was also in this program. He played the role of pumpkin man number one, this is another show that I’m never going to watch because it will ruin everything that I imagined this show is I’m never going to find out who beans Baxter is or why his adventures are new. I just like to imagine somebody at a job interview having to say the words. I played pumpkin man number one in The New Adventures of beans Baxter is just such a wonderful collection of words is a real cellar door of a sentence. So Mr. Seal things seem to be an order but I have to ask you what is going on with this particular gap in your resume? Oh, that yes. Well, you see, I was playing pumpkin man number one in The New Adventures of beans Baxter at the time. I see. After the gang at the Vancouver Aquarium decides to engage in an international incident. We quickly switch to a scene of comic misunderstanding.

 

 

Wow, this has been some day hasn’t been touring Madera by the way George thanks a lot. What are you talking about? I’d almost given up believing in miracles George

 

 

that

 

 

where’d this come from?

 

 

As if you didn’t know Oh, You’re not kidding it GEORGE You better

 

Will Riley 

believe I’m not kidding. Grant finally speaks with Hagen begs about the Coulter counter and he goes well obviously I never bought that and they quickly conclude that this was acquired through illegitimate means. Hagen Beggs is so confused that he starts making horse noises for a few moments what’s going on here?

 

 

I mean you didn’t order the call the caller

 

Will Riley 

well then who did and so all eyes turn to Margaret.

 

 

Did you use that computer Dora terracotta Carter. I just wanted to help you by breaking the law. You’re not only putting yourself in jeopardy, you put the aquarium in jeopardy as well.

 

 

I guess I didn’t think of that. Well,

 

 

maybe you better take a little time and think about it. Fired. We’ll talk about that tomorrow.

 

 

I’m sorry, Dr. Roberts.

 

 

I’m sorry to Margaret.

 

Will Riley 

Putting aside the sadistic glee that I’m getting from seeing somebody who got a job in 30 seconds get promptly fired. This must be a very strange chain of events from Margaret’s perspective. Three hours ago, she made a discovery of international importance like the kind of thing that makes countries change their foreign policy. But more importantly, the people at the aquarium are a little iffy on her bookkeeping practices, so she must go. Margaret shuffles out of the office looking very despondent, looking at her feet the entire time as she turns off the computer and grabs her bags. Then she stops and basically looks at the camera with big sad puppy dog eyes before she leaves as if she is not a big, big, big criminal. Nightfall finally comes to the Vancouver Aquarium. Everybody’s getting ready to confront these Soviet hirelings. All right, does everybody know what to do? There is some guy with a police hat hanging around in this scene. He doesn’t get any dialogue. He doesn’t actually do anything. And Ron is still there talking into a walkie talkie anything

 

 

happening out there?

 

 

Pretty quiet. Here

 

 

we are. I’d get undercover making

 

Will Riley 

very sure that nobody in the audience knows what his relationship to the Vancouver Aquarium is. There are people stationed outside but we do not know who they work for either.

 

 

Shouldn’t I have a gun or something? No, no, that won’t be necessarily GA.

 

Will Riley 

We are however, given a little bit of information in regards to the lifestyle and customs of poachers. What sort of ritual follows the act of poaching animals, what

 

 

time do these guys usually show up?

 

 

They seem to like the witching hour for some reason,

 

Will Riley 

and other points of debate within the danger base. And whether or not poachers being attracted to the witching hour is the result of their association with the archons of the hounds of perjury, whose dimensional sigil is of course associated with the hours of 3am and 4am. And then there’s a theory that it has to do with the unique poacher cranial symmetry, which makes them more attracted to dark spaces. I’m ambivalent on the matter cut to the outside of the aquarium where the black car of the poachers, which by now is probably in a police registry and still has its license plates on just casually drives up to someplace near the back of the Vancouver Aquarium. Wayne Robson is now wearing a black leather jacket which looks very unflattering on him. Maybe he borrowed it from Tony Manilow.

 

 

What do you think?

 

 

I think in about an hour we’re gonna have a half million dollars in our sweet little hands.

 

Will Riley 

The dialog basically reiterates that they are going to cede the Vancouver Aquarium tonight and get access to those chips. Even more relevant to my purposes, however, is that the dialog reveals that they gave the psycho poacher a gun a second time

 

 

you got your peace.

 

 

Never leave home without it.

 

Will Riley 

He’s already threatened to shoot a child once before why did they keep giving this guy a gun was Stephen Demopolis the only guy they could get with a license or something? Was he the only guy they could find with like a Canadian license to carry or something at least he’s traded in a hunting rifle for a 45 Steven Demopolis is the only guy who’s actually held a gun in this show. So far, not even the horse rustlers like the actual cowboys had any guns on him. Only Steven Demopolis gets to get a gun and he points his gun at kids 50% of the time.

 

Will Riley 

After a short ad break, the poachers car comes into the parking lot, the parking lot. But notably, they don’t actually have any footage of the car stopping or parking anywhere probably because even if you’re filming in the dead of night finding a parking space in Stanley Park is nigh impossible even in an alternate universe where these guys could steal all the computer chips and get off scot free. Somehow they would find a parking ticket on their dashboard. Anyway the folks at the aquarium start turning off the lights and slowly creeping up the stairs getting a glance at this warehouse to make sure that everything is a okay basically just waiting for the other shoe to drop as theoretically well funded. These poachers may be being under contract with the Soviets and all their method of breaking is incredibly low tech grant and Ron and Hagen bags. They’re all just curled up hiding as they watch Steven Demopolis just get a crowbar and smash a window

 

Will Riley 

and just reach through a hole in the window and just push a locked door open. Also when And Robson can just walk on through for what is supposed to be a tense heist sort of stakeout scene, one with Cold War implications no less. This is a decidedly low stakes scene in this show. The poachers are walking around through the Vancouver Aquarium warehouse. And that should be spooky. But I mean, we know the entire time that there are like three or four people in the corners watching them do it just getting ready to pounce, there’s effectively zero chance that these poachers are going to get these chips. There’s effectively zero chance that anybody in this scene is going to get hurt. Even considering that Steven Demopolis has a gun in his coat pocket. There are like all of these authorities around him. So yeah, the poachers find the styrofoam box. They’re grabbing at it and they realized that the lid is entirely broken.

 

Will Riley 

What is this phrase? And that’s when all the lights come on and the chase starts knowing he has been caught Stephen Demopolis I think he basically just forgets that he has a gun. He just runs away he leaves. Wayne Robson behind what follows is a, shall we say a very brief action scene. The actors sort of pair off Steven Demopolis runs off so he gets chased by Ron Vitaly, the younger actor. And then we have Donnelly Rhodes and Wayne Robson, the old director and the older looking actor, they have a less intense sort of fight scene. It’s not even that much of a fight scene and they’re just like grabbing at each other and rolling around and crushing a bunch of cardboard boxes. The lights are extremely low here so you also don’t get to see what’s actually happening in the fight scene conveniently enough, this time though, in the chase scene between Steven Dimopoulos and Dana still here because Donley Rhodes isn’t in the scene, we actually get to see somebody climb over a fence successfully. In fact, we get to see two people climb over a fence successfully. It’s a it’s a real treat. It doesn’t really work though. I mean, Steven Demopolis just immediately gets gassed from that whole ordeal and he’s just too tired and he gets caught and the cuffs are on him within like 30 seconds. Wade Robson folds just as easily Grant Robertson him they roll around for a few seconds over these cardboard boxes. Grant gets on top and he lifts his fist and even with the implication that somebody might get punched, Wayne Robson just immediately surrenders. But I mean in this episode that is basically poacher language here. Threatening to get within one foot of somebody’s car is just the same as actually crashing into them. And Wade Robson is treating this threat of getting one punch as being just as bad. All right. That’s the whole thing ends with a comedic exchange between grant Roberts and Hagen Beggs, who has been sort of cowering this entire time. Correct? Are you alright?

 

 

I’m fine. George. Thank you. Thanks for your help, George. Nothing,

 

 

nothing.

 

 

Have you seen your window?

 

 

Who did that?

 

 

Those winners cost $35.

 

Will Riley 

It’s a fun little period to put on the end of this sentence. I say just like a fun comedic stark contrast between the cowardly old and weathered 59 year old compared to the Spry active lifestyle of the 55 year old. Now that the Cold War aspect of this show is resolved. We got a very serious heart to heart scene about the risks of performing computer crime. And Margaret gets to express her guilt and express her contrition and try and make good for what she did. Naturally. They do it in a room that has an orca window. So the Orca gets to watch this tender moment as well. computer

 

 

crime is very serious. Barbara, do you realize that? Yes, sir.

 

Will Riley 

Basically, we’re mopping up the episode reminding everybody in the audience that computer crime is a bad thing to do. And you’re

 

 

also realized that the aquarium coding press charges. Yes, sir. I understand. You want to work with computers when you grow up? Do you think anyone would hire you knowing you’ve used the computer illegally? Nonetheless,

 

Will Riley 

here Dana Steele is winking at Donnelly roads over this whole thing. We know that some sort of clemency is going to be given after

 

 

Dunbar, Dr. Roberts. And what happens now is up to you. Well, she did have to uncover the smugglers

 

Will Riley 

George, but the weirdest thing is before we get to that forgiveness, Grant Roberts stands up sits real close to Margaret, and they have a little heart to heart about what she did concluding with the words.

 

 

Well, I think I know why you did what you did, Margaret,

 

 

you do.

 

 

And I want you to know that I think you’re my very A special friend to Oh, you’re my very special friend.

 

Will Riley 

Oh god. Oh no. Oh god. Oh. Oh, oh god. Oh god oh god. Oh no. Oh god.

 

 

No, whoa.

 

 

Oh no, no, no no no no no.

 

 

Special.

 

Will Riley 

Oh god. Oh no. Oh god oh god oh no no. special person. That is that is not how I would word that seat. No, no, no, no, no no. Like in the 2020s we might be trained to see bad stuff where there might be none just because of just because of all the bad stuff that’s happened in public I recently but I mean, but we’ve got this like late middle age guy getting real close to a tween and going, Oh, we’re special friends you and I knew, like if you just had Margaret get motivated by like, oh, yeah, I liked Dr. Grant Roberts. He has a cool job. I liked the aquarium. He’s my best friend’s dad, I want to help my best friend’s dad. But if you turn around and go like, Oh, we’re special friends. It just makes it real. So it even recontextualizes all of these Jonah’s scenes like the whole juggling thing. Not bad. Now watch this. It’s like Jonah juggling because he sees his dad is like some sort of competitor for her affections. I mean,

 

 

that was pretty good.

 

Will Riley 

Like this whole episode has become very retro, actively Freudian in the last two seconds. I do not like hearing this exchange between those two people of those ages that are unrelated like at all so. So after that little bomb is dropped inside of the audience’s brain. Margaret reveals that there’s one more thing that she needs to change about the cookbooks of the aquarium.

 

 

Can I guess I better go do something.

 

 

You have something else to do with my files.

 

 

Got to take out the raise I gave you what?

 

 

Well, I don’t think she really needs to do that. Do George

 

Will Riley 

grant hears it, he realizes Oh, well, that crime would be acceptable to me. Everybody laughs freeze frame, roll the credits. All in all, I’d say that this is one of the stranger episodes of danger bay that we’ve encountered so far. My descriptions of other episodes might make them seem stranger. But there’s just such a smorgasbord of contradictory and strange tones in this episode. But with the espionage and the tech Fantasia all cut through with this extra relationship subplot which has a conclusion that is less than pleasant to my senses. So the viewer, all tied together by a teleplay writer whose identity is a complete unknown here. But nonetheless, it is enjoyable as a thing to behold. There’s just so many moving parts in this episode that connect in the strangest ways that I mean, just how much a war is in this episode is really important, it makes it necessary viewer finally we get to learn about the Soviet poacher connection, we get to talk about the ambiguities of the authority structure in the Vancouver Aquarium, what departments or privileges it may or may not have. And in that regard, I suppose I can’t really fault anybody for being so obsessed over who the real identity of Hg burns might be. Going forward. It’s so crucial to understanding the future trajectory of danger bae, but we don’t even know who came up with these important points. As for myself, this may come off as hypocrisy given that I am a fiend to get as much information as I can from the danger Bay wiki. But I say that for the sake of a little bit of mystery in our lives, and for the sake of the privacy of the teleplay writer whoever they may be. I say that it’s for the best if we simply leave the identity of Hg burns as another Cosby mystery

 

 

now, how much does your apple type computer sell for?

 

 

Probably about half

 

 

the original?

 

 

Is it illegal? What you’re doing? I don’t know. What you mean you don’t know. Caught at it. Yeah.

 

Will Riley 

All right, that’s another episode in the tank. That’s another episode enjoying its new home casually swimming around in the tank. The episode is now enjoying a supper of dry flaked fish food in the tank. Now that I think about it, I probably should have mentioned that alongside brink. There’s a lot of firings going on at Ubisoft at the moment but that’s a little bit more up in the air if DMO has to be the person who gives the final stamp on those layoffs. Nobody knows where he is right now people figure that he must have fallen out of some employees pocket. He’s probably lost between two couch cushions somewhere at the moment. Well, we’re almost done for the day. The only thing that we need to do now is take a quick peek at what’s going on with danger Bay circa 2024. Nicole Roberts is attending a summit between the Canadian government the military and the Vancouver Aquarium discussing a strategic change in the sea urchin war. Suddenly the summit is interrupted when the security system in the Legislative Assembly goes berserk. Steel Doors descend over the exits as a mysterious purple gas emits from the vents. As the cowardly bureaucrats run around in terror. Nicole springs into action. I haven’t seen a crowd of people so terrified since a recent showing of the new elevated horror film from a 24 and Helmand productions, Nicole remarks. I’ve got to find whoever’s overriding the security bring up my heads up display. I’m hacking the mainframe, a sphere of screens and holographic keyboards emanates from Nicole’s cybernetic body. She starts hammering digital keys with superhuman speed as wireframe shapes UI windows, and very difficult math questions fly across the screen. A holographic representation of the attacker appears a giant red skeleton wearing a burglar mask brandishing a computer mouse at Nicole threateningly Damn, this guy’s good Nicole exclaims I pick the wrong week to quit cyber Somas but in the nick of time, Doc grant Roberts AI powered cyber ghost comes to the rescue. Can I lend a hand to Nicole? I’ve become quite the computer expert ever since I became a computer. He enters the holographic sphere and the two of them begin hacking simultaneously, furiously typing back to back. This programming battle is visualized by the holographic display as two giant hacking lasers clashing against each other moving back and forth between Nicole and the skeleton. Oh, Nicole, it seems like we’re evenly matched. Maybe if I was tied down by the limits of silicon like this hacker is Nicole boasts but I have the power of gallium arsenide. A big red button pops out the back of Nicole’s hand as she dramatically slams it down her hacking lasers double in size glowing a bright neon green as a blast through the digital skeletons defense like a knife through butter immolating it in cyber fire. The gas in the Legislative Assembly dissipates What a relief doc sighs wiping simulated sweat off his brow but why haven’t the steel doors opened yet? Because I haven’t let them Nicole whispers while I was hacking, I didn’t just turn off the gas. I also scraped as much data as I could from the source. This sort of job needed the sea urchins to have Inside Men. And now I know who they are. Nicole swiftly grabs the hair of Canadian UN Ambassador Bob Ray and pulls hard as the sophisticated rubber mask tears off his face revealing a mass of purple see urgent spikes. He’s an imposter Nicola cries out as three more members of parliament leapt towards her see her chin spikes now protruding from their faces. Nicole first performs a rotating high kick to Carla quatro, Minister of Sport and Physical Activity smoothly transitioning to a hip toss on the honorable Richie Valdez Minister of small businesses as one more imposter reaches for a gun Nicole tosses an ashtray at goodie Hutchings minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada opportunities agency seeing that defeat is inevitable. The sea urgent hunk Eli all cast a self destruction spell. They all dissolve into purple dust before they can be taken in for questioning. No matter. Nicole swiftly brushes through the dust collecting the cell phones from the pockets of the now empty business suits before they attacked. The imposters all got a phone call that can be traced back to an address in Peru. Peru is in league with the sea urchin God Of course, I should have known that Peru couldn’t be trusted. I always knew Peru was up to something the government really needs to be looking into the great Peru problem. Peru is a danger to the rules based international order. Peru has finally crossed the line. And it is high time that our government does something to reprimand it. It was a pretty amazing episode right? I mean, that was a twist that I did not see coming. I mean all of this technically was foreshadowed like 12 episodes back but I mean, I basically forgot about it until it resurged back right now. Chris crabs difficulties with Carla quatro have been well recorded, of course, seeing as she is Minister of Sport and Physical Activity, I’m sure you can imagine. He’s not too fond of her tennis policies at the moment. As for the Peru situation, I don’t really follow global politics that much. But I am glad to see that danger Bay is still willing to create commentary and influence on the geopolitical machine as it were. I mean, I don’t know anything about Peru politically. But I did discover something that did sort of shock me, did you know that Peru actually has access to the largest amount of arsenic in the world? I mean, arsenic is dangerous. I don’t think I actually trust a country like that having access to that much arsenic, it probably would be for the best if all that arsenic was in the hands of somebody more trustworthy and responsible. Anyway, that’s it from me today. Hope this podcast finds you well. Continue to spread the word about the podcast. I’m on social media as chasm k of k SMKV. Remember that if you’re ever in Vancouver, I’ve got two tours of Vancouver that you can access on the app questo I’ll see you very soon. danger comes from below.