Episodes

  • Episode 8: Electricity

    Episode 8: Electricity
    Jun 11 2026
    The satellite station's power fluctuates in ways the manual doesn't cover. Lights flicker in the hotel. Somewhere in the circuitry, something is listening, learning, and beginning to play.

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    7 mins
  • Episode 7: Interrogated

    Episode 7: Interrogated
    Jun 10 2026
    Constable Bigby arrives from Kawakawa to ask questions about the body on the beach. His investigation is thorough in some places and conspicuously shallow in others. Someone in town is already managing the narrative.

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    7 mins
  • Episode 6: Recognition

    Episode 6: Recognition
    Jun 9 2026
    Mata sees something in the stranger that the prophecy foretold. Queenie, the iwi matriarch, watches from the shore. Recognition is not always a welcome thing.

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    6 mins
  • Episode 5: Identified

    Episode 5: Identified
    Jun 8 2026
    The dead woman has a name, a history, and a connection to the satellite station that nobody at Koestler wants to talk about. Thompson starts asking questions. The answers don't match.

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    6 mins
  • Episode 4: Dead Body

    Episode 4: Dead Body
    Jun 4 2026
    Karen finds a body washed up on the beach below the satellite station. The town's morning routine shatters. Thompson is beginning to suspect that the "problem" Koestler Industries sent him to fix is considerably worse than a faulty dish.

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    6 mins
  • Episode 3: Car Trouble

    Episode 3: Car Trouble
    Jun 3 2026
    Thompson's rental breaks down on a back road, and a seventeen-year-old mechanic named Mike is the only help for miles. In a town with a satellite station on the hill and no mobile signal, isolation takes on a new meaning.

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    6 mins
  • Episode 2: Warning

    Episode 2: Warning
    Jun 2 2026
    The locals seem friendly enough, but Mata, the town's priest, has a quiet word with the newcomer. Something in Te Irirangi doesn't want Thompson here, and something else very much does.

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    6 mins
  • Episode 1: Arrival

    Episode 1: Arrival
    Jun 1 2026
    An American on holiday receives a fax from his employers about a "problem" at a remote satellite station in New Zealand's far north. Thompson drives into the coastal town of Te Irirangi expecting a routine fix. The town has other plans.

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    6 mins