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* AllForNothing: Not unsurprisingly, Andy's plan fails, his poetry is forgotten and he is only remembered as a footnote in the life of a literary critic who panned his work.
* MistakenForCheating: Phil and Amber's engagement collapsed when he saw that she had gotten a text message from his best friend saying "text me when he's gone". Phil thought they were having an affair, but it turned out that Amber was planning a surprise bachelor's party for him, even though he had said he didn't want one.
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* {{Bulungi}}: The country that Amelia is staying in, Vakanda, is said to be similar the [[ComicBook/BlackPanther Wakanda]] and to have served as the inspiration for the comic book country.
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* {{Bulungi}}: The country that Amelia is staying in, Vakanda, is said to be similar the to [[ComicBook/BlackPanther Wakanda]] and to have served as the inspiration for the comic book country.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The Hollingsworth daughters' father is Cuthbert Hollingsworth, a Christmas decoration magnate. According to Amelia, the man had countless affairs before his wife divorced him. When it went through, she got nothing from him and because his daughters sided with her, Cuthbert put them under house arrests. Additionally, the working conditions in his factories are terrible and he regularly engages in union busting.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The Hollingsworth daughters' father is Cuthbert Hollingsworth, a Christmas decoration magnate. According to Amelia, the man had countless affairs before his wife divorced him. When it went through, she got nothing from him and because his daughters sided with her, Cuthbert put them under house arrests. Additionally, the working conditions in his factories are terrible terrible, they pay is miniscule and he regularly engages in union busting.
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* IcePalace: On "Day 10", the Interviewer comes up with a plan to disappear two Hollingsworth daughters (to make up for the one they failed the day before) involving a giant snow castle built by Joey and Salvatore that he describes as "''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' meets Creator/JimHenson's ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}''". The plan is for the first daughter to disappear inside; then, when another daughter goes in after her with a rope tied to her waist, they are replaced with a big ice sculpture of them, making it look like the castle took them.
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[[folder:The Twelve Deaths of Christmas]]
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The Hollingsworth daughters' father is Cuthbert Hollingsworth, a Christmas decoration magnate. According to Amelia, the man had countless affairs before his wife divorced him. When it went through, she got nothing from him and because his daughters sided with her, Cuthbert put them under house arrests. Additionally, the working conditions in his factories are terrible and he regularly engages in union busting.
* TheEndOrIsIt: In the epilogue, the Interviewer looks out a window and sees three kings outside, suggesting the festive theme may not be over yet.
* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: The fact that the team has to fake the death of one Hollingsworth daughter a day is revealed well into the Day 1 episode, with the Interviewer (having not read the case files as usual) being caught by surprise by this fact.
* PoorCommunicationKills: In "Day 11", the planned fake death goes completely awry because the Amelia team can't hear each other in the office over all the animals making noise and pipers playing bagpipes. As a result, everyone in the team tries to do their own disappearance, some more outlandish than others, and the daily fake death nearly fails.
* TheTwelveSpoofsOfChristmas: While doing the daily Hollingsworth fake deaths, the Amelia team keep getting gifts themed after "The Twelve Days of Christmas" sent to them, starting with a live partridge and a potted pear tree, then two doves, then three hens, etc. Things get really challenging when they get to the people, like maids a-milking and ladies dancing, all of whom stick around.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The Hollingsworth daughters' father is Cuthbert Hollingsworth, a Christmas decoration magnate. According to Amelia, the man had countless affairs before his wife divorced him. When it went through, she got nothing from him and because his daughters sided with her, Cuthbert put them under house arrests. Additionally, the working conditions in his factories are terrible and he regularly engages in union busting.
* TheEndOrIsIt: In the epilogue, the Interviewer looks out a window and sees three kings outside, suggesting the festive theme may not be over yet.
* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: The fact that the team has to fake the death of one Hollingsworth daughter a day is revealed well into the Day 1 episode, with the Interviewer (having not read the case files as usual) being caught by surprise by this fact.
* PoorCommunicationKills: In "Day 11", the planned fake death goes completely awry because the Amelia team can't hear each other in the office over all the animals making noise and pipers playing bagpipes. As a result, everyone in the team tries to do their own disappearance, some more outlandish than others, and the daily fake death nearly fails.
* TheTwelveSpoofsOfChristmas: While doing the daily Hollingsworth fake deaths, the Amelia team keep getting gifts themed after "The Twelve Days of Christmas" sent to them, starting with a live partridge and a potted pear tree, then two doves, then three hens, etc. Things get really challenging when they get to the people, like maids a-milking and ladies dancing, all of whom stick around.
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* HumanLieDetector: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. Alexandra can instantly tell when someone is lying just by observing their body language. This is a useful skill, [[BlessedWithSuck but it has made it hard for her to maintain relationships]] since she can see through even little white lies people say, which led to the end of her relationship with her girlfriend.
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* HumanLieDetector: LivingLieDetector: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. Alexandra can instantly tell when someone is lying just by observing their body language. This is a useful skill, [[BlessedWithSuck but it has made it hard for her to maintain relationships]] since she can see through even little white lies people say, which led to the end of her relationship with her girlfriend.girlfriend.
* TruthSerums: Alexandra is working on creating a perfect truth serum that can put an end to lies in order to create a world where people won't be afraid of her and her ability.
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* AmusementParkOfDoom: {{Downplayed|Trope}}; the Hell theme park is designed to be horrific and was even built around the rusty remains of an old one, but while some attractions revolve around death and fear, they won't actually kill anyone using them.
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* PrimadonnaDirector: The Company's director, Werner Böhm, is forcing everyone to stay in character as their ''Theatre/Hamlet'' characters 24/7, and they are all exhausted by this.
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* FunWithHomophones: A lot of Mai-Linh's stories have titles playing on "night" and "knight", like ''Good Knight Haruka'', ''Knight at the Museum'' and ''[[Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale Welcome to Knight's Vale]]''.
* PetTheDog: Boris gets the Interviewer to fake Mai-Linh's death in part to continue testing his skills, but also because Mai-Linh is his favorite writer and he genuinely wants to help her.
* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings:[[invoked]] An InUniverse example. Mai-Linh's stories have gotten a lot of readers so hooked that they go to extreme measures to get her to publish another entry quickly, like threatening to hurt themselves or others, forcing her to just fake her death and disappear.
* PetTheDog: Boris gets the Interviewer to fake Mai-Linh's death in part to continue testing his skills, but also because Mai-Linh is his favorite writer and he genuinely wants to help her.
* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings:[[invoked]] An InUniverse example. Mai-Linh's stories have gotten a lot of readers so hooked that they go to extreme measures to get her to publish another entry quickly, like threatening to hurt themselves or others, forcing her to just fake her death and disappear.
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* {{Crossover}}: The Interviewer takes Percy to various other podcasts in the Fable & Folly Network, including ''[Podcast/AlbaSalixRoyalPhysician Alba Salix, Royal Physician]]'' and ''Podcast/{{Victoriocity}}''.
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* {{Crossover}}: The Interviewer takes Percy to various other podcasts in the Fable & Folly Network, including ''[Podcast/AlbaSalixRoyalPhysician ''[[Podcast/AlbaSalixRoyalPhysician Alba Salix, Royal Physician]]'' and ''Podcast/{{Victoriocity}}''.
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!!Season One
[[folder:1: Zale Indigo Ravenheart]]
[-''"How quickly can this be done? I don’t have much time. I leave planet Earth tonight."''-]
A cult leader comes to the Amelia Project, unwilling to go through with his movement's big ceremony.
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* CounterEarth: Ravenheart's cult is built around the belief in a Counter-Earth called Antithon, where everything is the same as the real one but reversed.
* {{Cult}}: The client, Zale Indigo Ravenheart, is the leader of one.
* HumanCannonball: Ravenheart's cult is about to stage a ceremony where he is sent to Antithon by being shot out of a cannon. Needless to say, he's not looking forward to it.
* RealAfterAll: The ending hints that Antithon may actually be real, showing the Interviewer coming to Ravenheart for help in faking his death so he won't have to try to go to Earth.
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[[folder:2: Alicia Cairn]]
[-''"Hello. It’s Alicia Cairn. Yes, THE Alicia Cairn. Whatever the hell that means."''-]
A popular Website/YouTube personality is suffering from an identity crisis, as well as a trademark problem.
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* TheEndingChangesEverything: The Interviewer calls his niece, Lorraine, and, telling her about his meeting with Alicia, realizes that he was talking to Stacey Jones all along, and the brain transfer will have some unintentional results.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Alicia Cairn is said to love Empress Grey tea with a slice of lemon.
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[[folder:3: Elizabeth Barlow]]
[-''"Do you mind if I smoke?"''-]
After catching her husband cheating on her, a rich heiress wants to fake her own death and get back at him in the process.
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* WomanScorned: Mrs. Barlow really has it in for her cheating husband and wants to use her new identity to ruin his life.
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[[folder:4: Nathaniel [=McBride=]]]
[-''"What do you want? Who are you?"''-]
An eccentric MI-5 agent breaks into the Amelia office, planning to blow the lid off a massive conspiracy.
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* TheConspiracy: [=McBride=] says he needs to fake his death because he knows too much about a vast conspiracy, and if his employers find out, they will ruin his life to discredit him.
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[[folder:5: SIIRI]]
[-''"Your answerphone message is paradoxical. Please answer this question: If there is no phone call, how could I hear the message?"''-]
An android has gotten fed up with her creator, and wants to escape to a life of her own.
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* AIIsACrapshoot:
* FromNobodyToNightmare: SIIRI says she began as an ordinary ''VideoGame/{{Frogger}}'' game, but goes on to threaten all of humanity after faking her destruction.
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[[folder:6: Steve Laurence Stroud]]
[-''"I've messed up. Big time. There has to be a way out... And you're going to help me find it..."''-]
A man already believed to be dead needs the Amelia Project's help to enter a new life.
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* RomancingTheWidow: Stroud plans to come back as someone more like his wife's type than he is and start a relationship with her again.
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[[folder:7: Bob]]
[-''"There are thirty one million people waiting for me."''-]
The Interviewer gets visited by a famous comedian who has lost his gift.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In the prologue episode, "Water", the Interviewer is so down in the dumps that when offered cocoa, he just asks for a glass of water instead, signalling to Alvina that the situation is serious.
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[[folder:8: Luke Dougal]]
[-''"He opened the bottomless pit, and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke."''-]
A professionally morbid theme park designer has gotten into a dispute with a business partner.
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* NightmareFetishist: Luke loves all things horrific
* NoOSHACompliance: The Hell theme park toes the line
[[/folder]]
[[folder:9: Percy]]
[-''"They're following my every move. They’re listening to every word I say. Every. Single. Word."''-]
The Interviewer's client is aware that he's a fictional character, and wants out of the podcast.
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* AuthorPowers: The writers of the episode mess with Percy by having him drink cocoa with added sugar, making it disguistingly sweet, and make him stand on one leg and sing "La Marseillaise".
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the intro episode, the Interviewer finds a copy of ''Theatre/SixCharactersInSearchOfAnAuthor'', a play about a group of fictional characters trying to fit into a stage play, very much like Percy's situation.
* TheGenericGuy: Percy's big frustration with his existence is his lack of a personality or distinctive backstory; he laments that he hasn't even been given a surname.
* RageAgainstTheAuthor: Percy spends much of the episode lamenting how badly the writers have defined him.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:10: Melissa Menken]]
[-''"Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys."''-]
A mentalist with certain sits down with the Interviewer. Again, and again, and again.
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* AnachronicOrder: The episode jumps backwards and forwards in time between the Interviewer meeting Melissa for the first time, agreeing to take her case and everything in between as she uses her powers depending on what happens.
* CallBack: The company CEO whose death Melissa profited from was the head of SIIRI Industries, the robot of which appeared in Episode 5.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Using her time travel powers, Melissa bought some stocks in a company she knew would rise in value because of the unpredictable death of the CEO of its competitor. This made those stocks go up in value, but the timing made her look very suspicious, and too much time has passed for her to be able to undo her actions.
* FatalFlaw: For Melissa, her constant need to win, for which she keeps using her powers to get an advantage. Her stock market dealings were done because she got annoyed by a date who talked up a company and she saw an opportunity to make money from the rise of its competition.
* TheHermit: Melissa wants to start her new life in Antarctica because the quiet, unchanging surroundings will mean she won't feel a need to use her powers.
* MagiciansAreWizards: Melissa uses her time travel powers to work as a mentalist, going back and forth in time to correct her guesses about people in the audience.
* TimeMaster: Melissa has limited powers of time travel, being able to travel backwards and forwards in her own timeline but only an hour in either direction at most.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:11: Tara & Lily]]
[-''"Take the 4:20am from Paddington and bring matches, a compass, carabiner hooks and Maltesers."''-]
After committing a daring heist on Buckingham Palace, a pair of master thieves need to disappear.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: Tara and Lily are extremely close and wish to retire and live together in luxury, but it's unclear if they're HeterosexualLifePartners or an OutlawCouple.
* DoingItForTheArt:[[invoked]] InUniverse. Tara and Lily have a code against committing thefts for monetary gain; rather, they plan heists designed to be incredibly elaborate and difficult, seeing them more like works of art.
* WhamEpisode: The Amelia Project's interview recordings are stolen by Tara and Lily and given to MI-5, who start investigating the organization for the many crimes they have committed.
[[/folder]]
!!!Specials
[[folder:12: Percy Part 2]]
[-''"Are you sitting comfortably?"''-]
The self-aware podcast character Percy returns, and wants help from the Interviewer to find a story where he can be a character.
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* {{Crossover}}: The Interviewer takes Percy to various other podcasts in the Fable & Folly Network, including ''[Podcast/AlbaSalixRoyalPhysician Alba Salix, Royal Physician]]'' and ''Podcast/{{Victoriocity}}''.
* SequelEpisode: To Episode 9, "Percy"; the character's journey to find a good story for himself continues and expands to other audio drama podcasts.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:13: Klaus]]
[-''"If I'm not out of here by Christmas... I'll be dead."''-]
Near the North Pole, the Interviewer meets with a very bitter Santa Claus desperate for a career change.
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* StraightGay: Klaus has a husband (Mrs. Claus is just an actress), but exhibits no typical gay stereotypes.
[[/folder]]
!!Season Two
[[folder:14: Venerio]]
[-''"That I am willing to leave the lagoon to meet you, demonstrates how desperate I am."''-]
Cole and Haines listen to the Interviewer's meeting with a masked man who wanted to escape the death he had predicted for himself.
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* ProphecyTwist: When meeting with the fortune teller, Cole's friend at the stag party was told that he would live to be 120. He was elated upon hearing this, walked into traffic without thinking to look and was hit by a bus. He survived, but was almost completely paralyzed, only able to move his eyes and eyelids.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:15: The Rejects]]
[-''"There's a tape here marked 'NOT AMELIA MATERIAL'."''-]
Cole and Haines come across a tape with the Amelia Project's reject pile.
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* VignetteEpisode: The episode consists of three interviews with potential clients who were rejected by the Interviewer.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:16: The Italians]]
[-''"You'll be sleeping with the fishes."''-]
Cole and Haines learn how the Amelia Project's Italian henchmen came to work for them.
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* OriginsEpisode: For Joey and Salvatore. The episode tells their past (previously described broadly in Episode 4, "Nathaniel [=McBride=]") and how they came to join the Amelia Project.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:17: Bartholomew BEEP-face Chucklepants Knucklecracker]]
[-''"At Amelia we’ve always wanted to get into politics."''-]
The leader of a political joke party comes to the Amelia Project upon finding himself in way over his head.
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* CrypticBackgroundReference: Cole and Haines are apparently all alone in the MI-5 office, with Haines saying everyone else is busy with something called "Operation Crackpot". After they listen to the tape, it turns out to be a plan to assassinate Chucklepants.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:18: Niseag]]
[-''"Dunno. I think it's Gaelic."''-]
An unusual request sends the Interviewer, Joey and Salvatore to certain lake in Scotland.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:When getting Cole and Haines' report about Nessie, Northcott sarcastically asks if she can expect more such reports about other outlanndish creatures like Bigfoot or an alien from Roswell. In Season 5's "Ross", we learn that the Interviewer did in fact help the titular Roswell alien fake his death]].
* StockNessMonster: The client is none other than the Loch Ness Monster, a.k.a. Nessie, who here is a friendly, boisterous talking creature.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Even though the Amelia tapes have given reliable intelligence up until now, it's not too surprising that Northcott doesn't respond well to the suggestion that the Loch Ness monster is real.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:19: Cole]]
[-''"I'm trapped in a nightmare! I can't wake up! Heeeeeelp!"''-]
Agent Cole has a long nightmare based on his investigation of the Amelia Project.
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* ContinuityCavalcade: Cole's dream features guest appearances of several Amelia clients we have heard up until now, like Zale Indigo Ravenheart, Nessie and the undertaker who took over Bob's sense of humor.
* DreamEpisode: The episode almost completely consists of a nightmare MI-5 agent Cole has because of the long hours he's put in investigating the Amelia Project.
* RedPillBluePill: Near the end of the dream, the Interviewer offers Cole a choice between a red Malteser that will somehow take him even deeper, and a blue one that will wake him up. [[TakeAThirdOption Cole picks the yellow one]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:20: Cleo]]
[-''"Congratulations. You've reached The Brotherhood of the Phoenix."''-]
Having found an ancient Egyptian papyrus scroll among the Amelia Project's tapes, Cole and Haines have an early morning meeting with two Egyptologists (Karim Kronfli and Layla Katib).
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* ContentWarnings: Parodied; the episode opens with a content warning for nudity, which is pretty pointless for an audio drama.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: UsefulNotes/CleopatraVII (a.k.a. the Cleopatra), last Pharaoh of AncientEgypt.
* NoNameGiven: The two Egyptologists are never named, not even in the credits.
* PsychopathicWomanchild: Cleopatra, portrayed by the female Egyptologist, is capricious and juvenile and shows a fondness for sometimes deadly "pranks" and mentions poisoning prisoners just for fun.
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: After a donkey milk bath has been prepared for her, Cleopatra strips in front of the Brotherhood interviewer, who averts his eyes though she isn't at all ashamed, and spends most of the meeting sitting in the bath.
* SimilarSquad: The interviewer Cleopatra meets with is almost identical in mannerisms and personality to the Amelia Project's interviewer, and has a pair of Romans, Ianus and Silvanus, for assistants, filling the role of the Italian Joey and Salvatore (whose voice actors play the Romans). Given that later episodes reveal [[spoiler:that the Interviewer is at least many centuries old, it's very possible that this interviewer ''was'' him. This is seemingly confirmed in "Victor Hugo's Table", where he alludes to meeting Cleopatra in person]].
* WhamEpisode: The episode introduces the Brotherhood of the Phoenix, an obvious predecessor to the Amelia Project dating back millenia.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:21: Ant]]
[-''"They're after me. The Chinese. The Americans. The Russians. The Turks. The North Koreans. I don’t think I'll last long under torture..."''-]
Cole and Haines find the Amelia Project case breaker: an entomologist who was of great interest to national security.
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* EarlyBirdCameo:
** The episode features the first appearance of Mia Fox; she is part of the CIA team listening in and [[spoiler:becomes a major cast member in the next season]]. She also mentions Jackie Williams, [[spoiler:with whom she is partnered in the next season]].
** The Russians [[spoiler:namedrop Mikhail, who will become a major antagonist in the next season]].
* InterserviceRivalry: Agents of the CIA and NSA are both part of the chain of eavesdropping at the end of the episode, with the NSA being afraid of being upstaged by the CIA.
* LiteralSurveillanceBug: Antony was hired by MI-5 to use his great knowledge of insects to design a surveillance device disguised as a fly. Because replicating it exactly was inefficient, he got it to work by implanting surveillance equipment in a fly during its larvae stage, resulting in it merging with the fly's nervous system and allowing him to control it and see and hear what it did.
* SinisterSurveillance: The end of the episode reveals that the Russians apparently got Ant's insect-based surveillance technology to work, using a cybernetic mosquito to listen in on his interview.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:22: Richard]]
[-''"I always obey the dice."''-]
With a threat from MI-5 hanging over the Amelia team, the Interviewer presses on and meets with a client with a peculiar decision-making process.
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* NeverMyFault: As far as Richard is concerned, he isn't to blame for any of his actions, because he's just obeying the outcome of the dice.
* SuicideAsComedy: After the Interviewer agrees to take Richard's case and releases him from his restraints, Richard makes good on his earlier die roll and jumps out the window.
* OutOfCharacterAlert: When the Interviewer orders chamomile tea instead of his usual cocoa, Joey and Salvatore come into the office to check if he is alright.
* UnseenNoMore: After two seasons of almost only being heard on the phone's answering machine, Amelia finally makes her first in-person appearance in the podcast's plot.
[[/folder]]
!!Specials
[[folder:23: Andy Spark]]
[-''"It's so frustrating to be born into the wrong millennium."''-]
In a crossover with the science fiction-comedy podcast ''We Fix Space Junk'', the Interviewer meets with an aspiring poet who is convinced that the world isn't ready for his work.
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* ContinuityNod: The Interviewer mentions Kozlowski building a fake corpse of Nessie, which happened in Episode 18, "Niseag".
* {{Crossover}}: With the podcast ''We Fix Space Junk''. The first half takes place on ''Amelia's'' end, with the Interviewer taking on Andy's case, and the second half in the world of ''Space Junk'' when Andy is awakened from cryosleep.
* SmallNameBigEgo: When he wakes up in the future, Andy expects to be remembered as a poetic genius. Predictably, nobody on the crew has even heard of him.
* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: [[invoked]]InUniverse, this is how Andy sees his work. He is convinced that his work is brilliant and that his contemporaries don't like it because he's ahead of his time.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:24: Phil & Amber]]
[-''"There was no need to drag Pancake into this!"''-]
On Valentine's Day, the Interviewer meets with an extremely beligerent couple, while Alvina has plans of her own.
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* {{Irony}}: It's a Valentine's Day special episode, and the clients are an engaged couple who have undergone a violent breakup.
* WhamLine: When the Interviewer finally gets to ask Phil and Amber why they have come to the Amelia Project, prompting a minor SpitTake from him:
-->'''Phil:''' We're getting married.
[[/folder]]
!!!The Lockdown Tapes
A "mini-season" produced between seasons two and three and made in the 2020 lockdown during the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. The episodes show how the Amelia crew handled the pandemic and went into lockdown.
[[folder:1. Soap]]
[-''"Amelia! I need you now! I’m absolutely desperate!"''-]
As the pandemic rages on in the U.K. and nobody else at the Amelia office seems to take it seriously, Alvina approaches her breaking point.
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* SkewedPriorities: The Interviewer's idea of "essentials" for the pandemic is several kilos of Maltesers.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:2. Pangolin]]
[-''"Amelia. I'm going mad again. And it's not an itch this time."''-]
Finding the day-to-day business of the Amelia Project untenable under the new conditions, Alvina closes the office.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: After getting back to her island and getting the privacy she has craved, Alvina quickly finds herself missing her colleagues at the Amelia office.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:3. Lampitt LC-62E]]
[-''"But, I have you! It's you and me. We're in this together, and together we can... I'm talking to the tape recorder."''-]
Ensconsed in a secure location, the Interviewer makes the first entry in his audio diary.
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*
[[/folder]]
[[folder:4. Sangoma]]
[-''"The reason I haven't called is because I've been... in hiding!"''-]
Amelia shares how she has been staying in a little-known African country.
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* {{Bulungi}}: The country that Amelia is staying in, Vakanda, is said to be similar the [[ComicBook/BlackPanther Wakanda]] and to have served as the inspiration for the comic book country.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:5. Hurdy-Gurdy]]
[-''"Okay, time for my self-interview..."''-]
Desperate for clients to interview, the Interviewer decides to interview himself.
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* MindScrew: Even though he is supposedly just talking to himself, the Interviewer somehow manages to harmonize with the other self he talks to; even he never figures out how he managed that.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:6. Zoom]]
[-''"The world might be in lockdown, but people still need to disappear."''-]
The Amelia team take a stab at running their death-faking business remotely.
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* CallBack: The client is Ali, who appeared in the episode "The Rejects", trying to get the Amelia Project to make her husband disappear.
* SequelEpisode: To Ali's interview in "The Rejects". Since they turned down her request to send away her husband, she is now instead coming to them so they can fake her death instead.
[[/folder]]
!!Season Three
[[folder:Prologue Season Three: Winklepicker]]
[-''"We can just do Ip Dip Doo."''-]
The dice roll made in the previous season finale turns out to have not ended as conclusively as desired.
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* TheUnreveal: Like in the season 2 finale, we don't actually find out what number the Amelia team rolls on the die.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:25: Tatiana Gurkovsky]]
[-''"He’s right. We said we’d let the dice decide."''-]
With the team deciding to stay in the office, the Interviewer meets with his next client, a Russian escape artist.
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* CovertDistressCode: The Interviewer tries to signal to Joey and Salvatore that he is under duress by saying he is going out to get a Kit-Kat, instead of his usual favorite chocolate like Maltesers or Mars bars.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Tatiana tries the cocoa, she recoils, clearly not liking it, but pretends to love it when the Interviewer asks; this turns out to be because she needed to string him along until she could trap him.
* WhamEpisode: On top of everything else going on, the Interviewer is kidnapped by a Russian woman.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:26: T.I.P]]
[-''"It's time to implement the third option."''-]
With the Interviewer missing, Amelia decides to handle the next appointment herself. Only, the visitor is not there as a client, but as a competitor.
----
* {{Blackmail}}: Knowing of Amelia's troubles, Mateo tries to force her to either hand over her business to the Incognito Project and take her chances with their disappearance plan, or he will just call MI-5 and tell on them.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:27: Inmate 10642]]
[-''"When are you going to take the bag off my head?"''-]
The Interviewer barely has time to settle in at his prison cell at Golovin before his captors bring him a prisoner and tell him to fake the man's death.
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* BatmanGambit: The Interviewer pretends to finish his interview with Aleksei by getting Russian language lessons, but it's just a ploy to fill up Oleg's transcript with text so boring that Boris will just stop reading midway through and then tells Aleksei the real plan for how his death will be faked.
* LuxuryPrisonSuite: The Interviewer gets a prison cell styled exactly after his office at the Amelia Project hideout and can even order a sausage and chips for himself.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:28: Todd]]
[-''"I had to steal a motorbike, shake off five policemen and stab a bloke to get here."''-]
On their way to the Russian embassy, Amelia and Alvina are accosted by an unstable man who requires the Amelia Project's services.
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* AssholeVictim: Amelia tricks Todd into jumping off the London Bridge, thinking there will be a barge boat coming under it that he can land on; nobody feels bad about it.
* NeverMyFault: As far as Todd is concerned, his cover was so transparent, it was everyone else's fault for not seeing through it.
* TheSecretOfLongPorkPies: Todd disposed of his victims by baking their flesh into pies; he got caught when someone found a human fingernail in one of them.
* ShoutOut: Todd is a big one to ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'', naming himself after the character and running a similar business.
* SerialKiller: Todd is one, killing people and selling their flesh as meat pies.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:29: Mai-Linh]]
[-''"That’s what’s landed me in this cluster fuddle: I’m just way too good!"''-]
Still settling into his new life in Golovin prison, the Interviewer is tasked with faking the death of an online author whose fandom has gotten way too eager.
----
* FeministFantasy: InUniverse, Mai-Linh's book series ''The First Female Knight'' is this, to the point of inspiring a new genre called "femme fantasy."
[[/folder]]
[[folder:30: Baby]]
[-''"Look at that... A mansion. A mansion in the jungle..."''-]
While waiting out the battle, Amelia makes a psychic connection with an unborn baby.
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* PsychicChildren: The baby the woman in the cellar is pregnant with is somehow fairly cogent and able to communicate telepathically with Amelia.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:31: The President]]
[-''"Oleg, I'm so bored!"''-]
The Interviewer finally learns the true purpose for him being brought to Golovin and meets with a challenging client.
----
*
[[/folder]]
[[folder:32: The New President]]
[-''"I need a genius."''-]
The Kremlin plans to intercept the Panaraguan revolution, the Panaraguan resistance plans to stop that, and the agents of MI-5 and the CIA race each other for Kozlowski's body.
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* ContinuityNod: The Interviewer lists some of the death fakings we've seen up until now, like turning a reindeer into a horse and staging a Martian invasion.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:33: Alvina]]
[-''"Do you always arrive by propeller airplane?"''-]
While waiting below ground, Amelia and Alvina open a bottle of wine and reminisce about how Alvina came to work for the Amelia Project.
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* FlashbackEpisode: Most of the episode consists of one long flashback to Amelia's first meeting with Alvina.
* OriginsEpisode: The episode shows how Alvina was first recruited to the Amelia Project.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:34: Pablo Perez Garcia]]
[-''"Hello. I'm Pablo Perez Garcia. I'm the leader of the Panaraguan Pythons. Now, you are going to help me."''-]
While the Panaraguan civil war rages above, Amelia and Alvina get to know the leader of the rebel forces.
----
*
[[/folder]]
[[folder:35: Oleg]]
[-''"My name is Oleg Kamenev."''-]
The Interviewer's tight-lipped assistant opens up about his career within Mikhail's organization leading up to his current position.
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*
[[/folder]]
[[folder:36: Protein Bar]]
[-''"Oh god. I feel... drowsy. Where am I?"''-]
Amelia and Alvina wake up in an unfamiliar place and discover that they have been kidnapped by an old foe.
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* CallBack:
** Amelia realizes the Incognito Project is responsible for trapping her and Alvina when Alvina finds proteins bars under her pillow; Mateo had referenced them during their meeting.
** Amelia makes use of Perez' BerserkButton, tricking Mateo into singing some Music/EdSheeran to him in order to verify that it's him.
* CloudCuckoolander: Apparently because of a concussion she suffered in the bus crash, Alvina is pretty loopy for most of the episode, thinking she and Amelia are in a Japanese pod hotel and trying to sing karaoke.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:37: Mateo]]
[-''"Oh, wow, that is a... very small gun."''-]
Free from her captivity, Amelia confronts Mateo.
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* LittleUselessGun: Mateo is armed with a tiny pistol that fits in the palm of his hand; Amelia isn't at all intimidated by it, even when he fires a warning shot.
* PutOnABusToHell: After being tricked into faking his death, Mateo gets shipped off to a remote island in the Northern Pacific.
* VillainousBreakdown: After being confronted with how royally he has screwed up here, kidnapping the leader of the Panaraguan rebels, Mateo panics and, dropping his SmugSnake act, starts negotiating for Amelia to help him out.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:38: Alexandra]]
[-''"Don't fret. Most people can't go five minutes without lying."''-]
While hiding in a cell in Block D, the Interviewer runs into a fellow inmate with an unfortunate ability.
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* HumanLieDetector: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. Alexandra can instantly tell when someone is lying just by observing their body language. This is a useful skill, [[BlessedWithSuck but it has made it hard for her to maintain relationships]] since she can see through even little white lies people say, which led to the end of her relationship with her girlfriend.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:39: Long Live the Revolution!]]
[-''"This is really going tits up isn't it."''-]
Reunited after their unfortunate setback, the Panaraguan resistance plus associates plans their next move now that everyone thinks Pablo Perez Garcia is dead.
----
*
[[/folder]]
[[folder:40: Hiroshi]]
[-''"Tell me about the Robot Raves!"''-]
Meeting with another Block D inmate, the Interviewer forms an escape plan.
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* RobotMaster: Hiroshi is a brilliant robotics engineer who likes building anthropomorphic robots capable of playing musical instruments, dancing and other artistic acts as opposed to just being used for manufacturing.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:41: The Real President]]
[-''"Why do people in this country always hide in the shadows?!"''-]
With the future of Panaragua up in the air, Amelia and Alvina meet with the past, present and prospective presidents to hammer out a resolution.
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*
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Body Bag (Season Epilogue)]]
[-''"He's our only connection to The Amelia Project!"''-]
Cole, Haines, Jackie and Mia investigate the last solid clue they have left: the body of Kozlowski.
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* NotQuiteDead: Kozlowski turns out to be alive, apparently having drugged himself.
[[/folder]]
!!!Specials
[[folder:The Christmas Thief]]
[-''"Vodka in cocoa, now that's quite the treat!"''-]
In this Christmas special, the Amelia team's Christmas party is interupted by the surprise appearance of an old client.
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* ContinuityNod: The Christmas cards the Interviewer reads for the team are from past clients Phil Smith ("Phil & Amber") and Nessie ("Niseag").
* RhymingEpisode: The episode is narrated and the dialogue spoken in verse a la ''Literature/TwasTheNightBeforeChristmas''.
* SequelEpisode: To the Season One Christmas special, "Klaus". The client of the episode returns and is having second thoughts about his new life.
[[/folder]]
!!Season Four
[[folder:42: Overture]]
Amelia and Alvina take in a show at the Paris opera and find themselves reunited with an old, dear friend.
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* FallingChandelierOfDoom: While entering the opera, Amelia and Alvina look at the chandelier and think about how fun it would be to fake someone's death by falling chandelier.
* IndyPloy: With Alvina and Amelia by his side, the Interviewer gets them and Hiroshi to take part in an escape plan he has come up with that involves stealing disguises from a production of ''Theatre/TheNutcracker''.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:43: Faith (Halloweeen Special)]]
The Interviewer meets with a client who needs to escape a demonic presence.
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* DealWithTheDevil: Faith Griffith made one to save her father's life, promising to give up her soul in forty years. She turns to Amelia to escape the deal and seemingly succeeds by being canonized as a saint.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:44: The Man With No Heartbeat]]
Awakened from his fake death, Kozlowski is questioned by Mia and Jackie.
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* FauxDeath: Kozlowski reveals that he drugged himself with silphium, which reduced his heart rate to just ten beats per minute and made him appear dead.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:45: Raven]]
The Interviewer's client is convinced that she brings disaster and death to everyone she meets.
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[[/folder]]
[[folder:46: The Man With Many Faces]]
A newly awakened Kozlowski shares a story
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:47: Mr. Love, Actuary]]
On Christmas Eve, the Amelia office is visited by an actuary with a business proposal.
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* ContinuityNod: The Interviewer references Alicia Cairn from Episode 2, saying he was going to go with his niece to watch her late-night stage show.
* HistoricalRapSheet: Mr. Love's past clients includes unsavory employers like [[WhiteCollarCrime white collar criminal]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madoff_investment_scandal Bernie Madoff]] and scandalous corporation [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron Enron]] (though he claims the latter collapsed after firing him).
* ShoutOut: Many to ''Film/LoveActually''. Some lines of dialogue are slightly changed ones from the movie, and the episode ends with the Interviewer, Alvina and Amelia watching it together.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:48: Jackie Williams]]
[-''"I'm tired of your half baked hallucinations and fabricated fever dreams! I'm gonna tell you something that really happened."''-]
Frustrated with Kozlowski's long-winded stories, Jackie shares one of her own from her childhood.
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* OriginsEpisode: For Jackie, whe tells about her childhood and a time when she tried to trick her father into thinking she was dead.
* SpottingTheThread: Jackie's father realized she wasn't really dead when
[[/folder]]
[[folder:49: Monsieur Rêve]]
[-''"Only the bravest souls dare enter Monsieur Rêve's Dream Interpretorium..."''-]
The Interviewer goes to a peculiar establishment for help interpreting a dream he's had.
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* DreamWithinADream:
-->'''M. Rêve:''' So. This dream within a dream, within the dream- in the- within the layers of the dream- Sir, it appears we have prepared some sort of dream-lasagna and it is confusing, confusing and upsetting.
* PoorCommunicationKills: M. Rêve turns out to be a former client of Amelia, which the Interviewer forgot about; Rêve thought it was some sort of test and did his new trade best he could.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:50: Mia Fox]]
[-''"So you have looked into the face of death! Stared at his blue complexion, heard his ragged breath!"''-]
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* OriginsEpisode: For Mia Fox, detailing how she came to join the CIA.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:51: Walter]]
[-''"Does that name mean anything to you? Think Haines, think!"''-]
Cole and Haines follow a lead that takes introduces them to an employee of the Amelia Project.
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* AscendedExtra: The episode marks the first time [[TheGhost the often-mentioned but never seen]] "Walter from the morgue" appears in person in the podcast.
* CallBack: Cole recognizes the name of the coroner's signature from Kozlowski's death certificate, Walter, from Amelia tapes, playing back ones where Walter's name was mentioned, including one of the Lockdown Tapes.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: When looking for Walter in the crowd at [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covent_Garden Covent Garden]], Cole and Haines try to call him again and see if someone picks up their phone. Haines quickly realizes that almost everyone has a phone out, making this hopeless.
* IndyPloy: Running out of time to present their findings to Northcott, Haines calls Walter's number, pretending to be working for the Amelia Project, and manages to arrange a meeting with him, even guessing the code phrase ("[[ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish Maltesers]]"), all on the fly.
* InternalReveal: While trying to find Walter in the crowd again, Cole and Haines instead find Mia, Jackie and Kozlowski, revealing to them that he isn't dead after all.
* LostInACrowd: In keeping with his love of ''Literature/WheresWally'', Walter sits in the crowd at Covent Garden dressed as the character, as he likes to do in his free time, letting Cole and Haines find him.
* OriginsEpisode: We learn who Walter was before he came to the Amelia Project and see a flashback to his interview, which was done by Amelia herself.
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[[folder:52: Saga]]
[-''"Come at night. Wear dark clothes. When you approach Abbots Cliff, row four hundred and forty two yards south-south-east."''-]
With the Interviewer in a less than ideal mental state, Alvina goes to a cavern near the white cliffs of Dover to meet with a client.
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* IdentityAmnesia: Saga, real name Belinda, lost all memory of her life after slipping down a small flight of stairs and hitting her head.
* LossOfIdentity: Without any memories of her husband, home or children, Saga no longer feels any attachment to any of them: she finds her husband unimpressive, her children annoying, and her home decor goes against everything about her new dark personality.
* NightmareFetishist: For her new life, Saga wants to do or be near violence and danger. Because of the Amelia Project's policies against collateral damage, she settles for becoming an on-site photographer, which will place her in disaster areas, war zones, etc.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:53: Pretzel]]
[-''"Welcome to Dover Petrol and Pretzels, do you want dough or diesel tonight?"''-]
After Alvina's interview the previous episode, she, Cole and Haines, Jackie, Mia and Kozlowski all converge at the same gas station/pretzel restaurant.
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* CoincidentalBroadcast: When they get into their car, Cole and Haines hear about the nearby collapsed cliffs from when Alvina met with Saga, and hear that a thermos of cocoa and a broken bottle of Veuve Clicquot were found in the rubble, making them realize that they just spoke to Alvina.
* MissedHimByThatMuch: Alvina, Cole and Haines as well as Jackie, Mia and Kozlowski all converge at the same Dover gas station/pretzel restaurant, without any of them directly running into each other or recognizing each other until later, when Cole recognizes Alvina's voice from the tapes.
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[[folder:54: The Royal Shakespeare Company]]
[-''"Mine colleagues and I art in urgent need of thy help. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark..."''-]
The Interviewer meets with an acting troupe desperate to escape their overbearing director.
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* AllJustADream: The end of the episode reveals that the whole interview was just one long, particularly bad hallucination the Interviewer had.
* ControlFreak: Werner Böhm watches the cast members at all times to make sure they stay in character, to the point that they are afraid to quit it even when meeting with the Interviewer.
* PrimadonnaDirector: The Company's director, Werner Böhm, is forcing everyone to stay in character as their ''Theatre/Hamlet'' characters 24/7, and they are all exhausted by this.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:55: Patience]]
[-''"Are those... antlers?"''-]
After a roadkill accident, Jackie and Mia learn something truly astounding about Kozlowski.
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* WhamEpisode: We learn that Kozlowski's tears have the power to bring living creatures back from the dead.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:56: Curtain]]
[-''"We're coming, Sheba!"''-]
The Interviewer meets with Alvina at the Paris cemetery and shares some long overdue truths.
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* CallBack: The Interviewer mentions his meeting with Venerio, the client from Episode 14 who could predict people's death down to the last second, saying the death he predicted for him isn't far off.
* WhamEpisode: The Interviewer reveals his real name to Alvina, and begins to tell her the full story of his long time with both the Amelia Project and the Brotherhood of the Phoenix.
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!!Season Five
[[folder:Prologue to Part 1]]
[-''"Uncle?"''-]
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* UnseenNoMore: We finally get to hear the voice of the Interviewer's often mentioned niece, Lorraine.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:57: Ross (2001)]]
[-''"Is this more of a Hannibal Lecter or a Magneto sort of situation?"''-]
In the recent past, the Interviewer goes to an American military base to help a very wayward client escape and go home.
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: Subverted; Ross claims that he gave Creator/WilliamShakespeare inspiration for the names of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, characters in ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', Rosencrantz being his full name and Guildenstern the name of his great-grandfather. Afterwards, he tells the Interviewer that he was kidding.
* BizarreAlienBiology: Ross is said to be chartreuse-colored in the winter months, and taupe in the summer.
* LimaSyndrome: Captain Scott has grown fond of Ross over the seven years he has been working at Area 51 and wants to help him escape before President-elect UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush is briefed about the base; the last time [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush a Bush was President]], he was treated very badly and he is afraid of the same thing happening again under the new one.
* NeedleInAStackOfNeedles: The Interviewer approached Area 51 by disguising himself as a UFO nut; unfortunately, as Scott points out, he didn't exactly stand out from the crowd of other such people outside.
* RoswellThatEndsWell: The client, Ross, was the alien found in Roswell in 1947, and he has been kept at Area51 ever since.
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[[folder:58: Amelia (1999)]]
[-''"Martha Plum, may you rest in peace."''-]
In 1999, the Interviewer and Kozlowski bury their longtime partner, Martha Plum, and meet her granddaughter, Amelia.
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* CrypticBackgroundReference: The Interviewer mentions Amelia's mother, and Kozlowski tells him off, saying they agreed to never speak of her again.
* OriginsEpisode: The episode gives us the backstory of Amelia, showing how she came to take over her grandmother's leadership role at the Amelia Project.
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[[folder:59: Thuggy Trashmouth (1979)]]
[-''"We don't make music for old hippies."''-]
In the age when punk music was blossoming, the Interviewer meets with a foul-mouthed punk singer client.
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* DiscoDan: The episode reveals that the Interviewer spent some time in the 70s living as a hippie, dressing the part and smoking weed, even though the hippie generation had largely moved on by then.
* ElvisLives: Subverted. While Elvis did, unsurprisingly for the podcast, fake his death to get away from all the fame and attention, he died for real because of an accident with a fishhook just hours into his new life.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Music/ElvisPresley, who was a client of the Amelia Project and is now possessing Thuggy.
* PhysicalAttributeSwap: The Interviewer resolves the dispute between Thuggy and Elvis by having Thuggy exchange vocal cords with a friend of his who is an Elvis impersonator and looks the part, but has a terrible singing voice. That way, Thuggy gets the bad voice he has always wanted and Elvis gets to enjoy being Elvis without all the attention that came with his old career.
* SharingABody: Thuggy has been possessed by the spirit of Elvis, who sometimes makes him sing and dance just like he used to and imitate his voice.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Thuggy has a very good singing voice, which annoys him to no end because it clashes with his punk style. He has even tried to make it worse by screaming a lot and drinking whisky, but he still has the kind of voice that goes well with Elvis' music.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:60: Alfred Hitchcock (1951)]]
[-''"You are the first person I have ever told this story."''-]
Working as a makeup artist in Hollywood, Kozlowski meets with the Master of Suspense, who found himself stalked by a strange figure.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Creator/AlfredHitchcock, the famous film director also known as "the Master of Suspense".
[[/folder]]
[[folder:61: Martha (1944)]]
[-''"Do you remember the story about the phoenix?"''-]
On a battlefield in Italy during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, Kozlowski reminisces with an unconscious Martha Plum, and he and Arthur face a dilemma.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: As thanks for saving it and letting it go, the phoenix gave Kozlowski its last brightly colored feather and told him to wear it close to his chest for three days and three nights, granting him his current immortality and gift of Patience.
* IDieFree: The phoenix bird, having been worn out way past the point of its feathers being viable for dyeing, is let go and allowed to live its last days in freedom.
* LastOfHisKind: The phoenix Kozlowski saved in his story may well have been the last phoenix left alive at the time, and it didn't have much time left when they parted ways.
* OriginsEpisode: For Kozlowski... sort of. He tells a story of his life in ancient Phoenicia where he rescues a worn-down phoenix bird from its neglectful owner and getting the gift of immortality in return, but when Arthur asks about the story, he says it was "metaphorically" true, but not factually true.
* ThePhoenix: In Kozlowski's story, phoenix birds were used in producing fine fabrics because their feathers could be used to give them a bright crimson color not found anywhere else in nature. Unlike typical phoenix birds, they were not completely immortal; they did [[ResurrectiveImmortality come back to life in a pile of ash if they died]], but if it happened too many times because of neglect and starvation, it would happen more and more often until they just remained a pile of ash.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:62: Dear Child Has Many Names (Present)]]
[-''"Do you trust me?"''-]
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* CallBack: Jackie and Mia make some phone calls to verify Kozlowski's stories up until now.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Kozlowski shares some names he has gone by in the past, and some he hasn't told Jackie and Mia before and will be shown to have gone by in upcoming episodes.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Prologue Season 5 Part 2]]
[-''"There is something I need to do."''-]
Still talking to Alvina at the Paris cemetery, the Interviewer reaches out to his niece.
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* CrypticBackgroundReference: Leaving a voicemail to Lorraine, the Interviewer mentions that when they last saw each other, they parted on poor terms, but nothing specific is said.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:63: Die Berliner Luft (1929)]]
[-''"It was the wildest of times..."''-]
In Berlin during TheRoaringTwenties, Kozlowski meets with a prospective client at a burlesque club, but the German political climate of the time soon rears its ugly head.
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* ExplosiveCigar: Arthur and Kozlowski escape Siegfried by pretending to agree to his terms and light up cigars to celebrate, giving Siegfried an explosive cigar Arthur got earlier and using the confusion to slip away.
* ForegoneConclusion: Anyone even vaguely familiar with 20th century history will know that the Nazis take over, despite Kozlowski's optimistic predictions.
* FunctionalAddict: Arthur was really fond of cocaine at the time, and Kozlowski was using heroin, but they mostly kept working as normal (it's likely that Patience allievated the worst effects of the drugs).
* JoinOrDie: Siegfried forces the Interviewer and Kozlowski to either keep up their operation while feeding the SS information and using their connections to aid them, or get shut down and arrested.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Finding the political turmoil of the world too unsafe, Arthur and Kozlowski fled Europe altogether and went to live on Phoenix Island, where they would later be found by Amelia Earhart.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:64: Granville T. Woods (1909)]]
[-''"May have invented doomsday machine..."''-]
The office of the London newspaper ''The Daily Phoenix'' gets a visit from a famous inventor who is concerned about the implications of his latest work.
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* ActorAllusion: Ben and Tim Meredith of ''Podcast/StellarFirma'' appear in another story involving making copies of humans and them protesting for their rights.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granville_Woods Granville T. Woods]] was a real, famous inventor sometimes referred to as the black UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison.
* SelfMadeMan: Like in real life, Woods was a self-taught engineer; unable to loan books from the local library because of his race, he got white friends to loan them for him.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:65: Jack (1888)]]
[-''"I come seeking Janus."''-]
In VictorianLondon, Arthur meets with a client burdened with strange nightly activities.
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* ATrueStoryInMyUniverse: It turns out that the stories about Literature/SherlockHolmes were about Carl in his new identity, written by the Interviewer, who took the identity of John Watson and published through Creator/ArthurConanDoyle, who edited the stories for publication.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Carl is a perfectly nice, non-violent person, and only committed the murders he did because he was hypnotized into doing them.
* MythologyGag: Carl sees that the Interviewer has been on a job in Afghanistan, much like how Sherlock Holmes detects that Watson has just returned from the war in Afghanistan in his debut story, ''Literature/AStudyInScarlet''.
* SherlockScan: Carl does one on Arthur, seeing that he has just been to Afghanistan and faked the death of a General, and that he has just lost
* StockUnsolvedMysteries: Carl turns out to have committed the crimes of UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, having been hypnotized into doing it.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:66: Billy Gritt (1871)]]
[-''"Is it a SpaghettiWestern?"''-]
In TheWildWest of 1870s Arizona, Arthur shares a wagon with a wanted bandit.
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* BewareTheSillyOnes: Billy Gritt may be an almost cartoonish cowboy figure, but he is nevertheless a very shrewd thief and cares deeply for his horse.
* CallBack: During his conversation with Alvina, the Interviewer references the episode "Mr. Love, Actuary", when he mentioned traveling across the U.S. in a covered wagon; this episode tells that story.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:67: Amelia's Aria (1829)]]
[-''"Glass holds many secrets..."''-]
When Kozlowski has his head in the clouds after hearing a beautiful musical piece on a glass harmonica, Arthur arranges for a meeting between him and the musician playing the instrument.
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* CallForward: Fiorella's prediction of Kozlowski's future recounts the events of "Die Berliner Luft" and his and Arthur's future meeting with Amelia Earhart. She also speaks of a dangerous man whose name begins with an 'M', apparently alluding to Mikhail.
* MundaneSolution: When Jackie and Mia ask about the deaths and mental breakdowns of glass harmonica players throughout the years, Kozlowski attributes this to the fact that the glass they were made of was made with lead, and they just suffered lead poisoning.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:68: Marie Antoinette (1783)]]
[-''"Liberté, égalité, fraternité."''-]
Arthur and Kozlowski meet with French royalty and come to play a major part in French history.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette, queen of France at the time of UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution.
* InternalReformist: Marie has been trying to improve her country best she can, pushing for political reform and spending money to get some money into the system, but it's not working well enough.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:69: Henry Avery (1696)]]
[-''"Not just any old pirate... Henry Avery! The king of the pirates!"''-]
While travelling on the high seas with a Dutch ship, Arthur and Kozlowski find themselves taken prisoner by a notorious pirate ship.
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* AssholeVictim: Nobody feels too bad about the murder of Henry Avery, who as the Interviewer points out was a ruthless killer, rapist and slaver, or his most loyal crew, who were apparently almost as bad.
* CallForward: The ship Jack Boyd and his crew sails, the ''Fancy'', is the same ship Arthur and Kozlowski were on when they met with Marie Antoinette in the previous episode.
* DeadPersonImpersonation: Jack poisoned Henry Avery and his closest mates and then took over his ship, relying on Avery's reputation to scare off potential pursuers.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Subverted. Jack is posing as the dread pirate captain [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Every Henry Avery]], whom he killed earlier. The real Avery is believed to have disappeared in 1696, when the episode takes place.
* PunchclockVillain: As Boyd tells it, a lot of pirates only take up a life of crime because the alternative for sailors is the navy, which pays worse and leaves them with nothing if they get kicked out because of injuries, and most just try to make enough to buy some land and settle down. Arthur points out that most pirates get arrested and hanged after a few years, but Jack says it's still seen as worth the risk.
* RecruitmentByRescue: In true Amelia/Phoenix tradition, the Interviewer and Kozlowski helped Jack by making him and his crew part of the team, using the ship to smuggle clients.
* SupremeChef: Jack Boyd was Avery's head chef, and is very good at it.
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[[folder:70: Poquelin (1673)]]
[-''"My name was Argan. My profession: barber-surgeon..."''-]
In Spanish-ruled Brussels, Kozlowski meets with an anxious actor.
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* CreatorCameo: The podcast's co-creator Philip Thorne has a cameo as a German barber.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The end of the episode reveals that Poquelin is the famed French playwright Creator/{{Moliere}}, who is said to have died exactly like Kozlowski plans in the episode: in a coughing fit while performing in ''Theatre/TheImaginaryInvalid''.
* {{Hypochondria}}: The client is suffering from
* SkewedPriorities: The end of the episode reveals that the Interviewer's part of the story told to Alvina was just his quest to find a good German waffle.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: [[invoked]]InUniverse; Kozlowski convinced Poquelin to base his last work before he faked his death on his own hypochondria. The resulting play, ''Theatre/TheImaginaryInvalid'', was indeed about a hypochondriac; Poquelin even named the main character, Argan, after the alias Kozlowski was using at the time.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:71: The Wicked Bible (1631)]]
[-''"I've always wanted to take a stab at printing!"''-]
In London, the Interviewer got a look into the surprisingly cutthroat business of Bible-printing.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The episode takes place in 1631, and based on the events, Barker's death by bear mauling was likely faked shortly after. In real life, Barker went to prison in 1635 and died in a debtors' prison in 1643.
* BearsAreBadNews: Arthur decides to fake Barker's death at a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear-baiting bear-baiting]] event (where a bear is pitted against dogs for public entertainment) by having the bear come loose and attack the spectators; however, the bear that will be used, Sackerson, has been trained by him and Kozlowski to only pretend to maul whoever it grabs.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Barker_(printer) Robert Barker]] was a real person, and he really did print the so-called "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_Bible Wicked Bible]]" with the adultery typo, as said in the episode.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:72: The Man With Many Tattoos (Present)]]
[-"My passion for body art goes way back...-]
As the campfire starts to die out, Kozlowski, Mia and Jackie step away to get more firewood. Not wanting to miss out on any stories, Cole and Haines try their hardest to follow them.
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* BreatherEpisode: The episode marks the end of part 2 of Season 5 and takes a break from the historical episodes, instead looking back at past episodes in the present.
* ContinuityCavalcade: The episode not only references many of the episodes told over the campfire, but also references older episodes:
** In the car, Mia and Jackie look closer at Kozlowski's tattoos and make a game of figuring out [[StoryboardBody the past clients to whom they refer]]:
*** A robotic ant: Antony "Ant" Welby (Episode 21)
*** A die: Richard Reynolds (Episode 22)
*** A bobble hat: Walter Gervitch (Episode 51)
*** The emblem of [[UsefulNotes/TheMafia the Cosa Nostra]]: Joey and Salvatore (Episode 16)
*** A stage light falling onto a man with a microphone: Bob (Episode 7). At first, Mia and Jackie mistake the man for Thuggy Trashmouth (Episode 59)
*** A plague doctor mask: Venerio (Episode 14)
*** A sarcophagus: Andy Spark (Episode 23). Jackie's first guess is Cleopatra (Episode 20).
*** A spaceship: Bartholomew Fuckface Chucklepants Knucklecracker (Episode 17)
*** An Area51 road sign: Ross (Episode 57)
* IndyPloy: In order to distract Jackie, Mia and Kozlowski from Haines getting out of the car trunk, Cole improvises, wears two of the fake mustaches from the car's set of disguises, puts on an exaggerated cowboy-like personality and even improvises a song. Amazingly, it works and Haines manages to get away.
[[/folder]]
!!!Specials
[[folder:H (Easter Special)]]
[-''"Knock knock, who's there?"''-]
The Interviewer gets a visit from Jesus Christ, who needs to revitalize his following.
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* WhosOnFirst: The Interviewer has one with Joey and Salvatore when they keep saying "il Salvatore" in shock; he thinks they mean the latter, but they're actually saying "savior", having just seen Jesus in the flesh.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Victor Hugo's Table (Halloween Special)]]
[-''"What is it with great writers and ghosts?"''-]
First, Amelia walks in on the Interviewer and Alvina doing some unusual spooky season reading. Weeks later, the Interviewer gets his hands on an antique table that the French writer Creator/VictorHugo supposedly used to commune with departed spirits. Soon, he, Alvina and Amelia find themselves putting that to the test.
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* CallBack:
** When the Interviewer, Alvina and Amelia learn that the spirit is supposedly someone they killed who was not a client, they remember two people who have been killed on the premises by them during the story. The first is Tony di Pasqua, who was shot dead by Alvina during "The Italians". The other is Alex, who wanted them to help him disappear after he killed a number of people to cover up an affair.
* ContinuityNod: The Interviewer references the Brotherhood of the Phoenix helping Cleopatra fake her death and seemingly confirms that he was the one who had the meeting with her.
* PopCulturalOsmosis: When the Interviewer tells Joey and Salvatore about Victor Hugo, they have no idea who he is. When he mentions that he wrote ''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', Joey hasn't heard of it at all. Salvatore at least knows of it, but thinks it means Hugo [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney worked for]] Creator/{{Disney}}.
* SpookySeance: When the table apparently starts tapping the floor to communicate with the team,
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!!Crossovers
[[folder:Forgive Amelia!]]
[-''"I know this is a bit unorthodox of me, but right now I've got a car full of sinners with a mighty burden to get off their shoulders."''-]
[-''"I must confess, I've never done this whole sit in a secret booth and unburden myself to a stranger behind a privacy screen thing."''-]
[-''"The whole thing was senselessly naive."''-]
In this three-part crossover with the ''Forgive Me!'' podcast, the Interviewer, Amelia and Alvina rush to Father Ben's church in the middle of the night to make their confessions after a nearby job goes awry.
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* StarCrossedLovers: The clients turn out to have been a pair of teenagers belonging to separate rival potato farming families who wanted to fake their deaths so they could disappear and live together. They even did a ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''-style double suicide in front of everyone at the festival, calling out their families for the long-lasting, pointless rivalry.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Perils of Freelancing]]
In a crossover with ''Where the Stars Fell'', Dr. Edison Tucker turns out to be an associate of the Amelia Project, and wants to renegotiate her deal.
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* SeenItAll: The Interviewer isn't at all fazed when Ed does the scary things with her eyes.
[[/folder]]
!!Season One
[[folder:1: Zale Indigo Ravenheart]]
[-''"How quickly can this be done? I don’t have much time. I leave planet Earth tonight."''-]
A cult leader comes to the Amelia Project, unwilling to go through with his movement's big ceremony.
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* CounterEarth: Ravenheart's cult is built around the belief in a Counter-Earth called Antithon, where everything is the same as the real one but reversed.
* {{Cult}}: The client, Zale Indigo Ravenheart, is the leader of one.
* HumanCannonball: Ravenheart's cult is about to stage a ceremony where he is sent to Antithon by being shot out of a cannon. Needless to say, he's not looking forward to it.
* RealAfterAll: The ending hints that Antithon may actually be real, showing the Interviewer coming to Ravenheart for help in faking his death so he won't have to try to go to Earth.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:2: Alicia Cairn]]
[-''"Hello. It’s Alicia Cairn. Yes, THE Alicia Cairn. Whatever the hell that means."''-]
A popular Website/YouTube personality is suffering from an identity crisis, as well as a trademark problem.
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* TheEndingChangesEverything: The Interviewer calls his niece, Lorraine, and, telling her about his meeting with Alicia, realizes that he was talking to Stacey Jones all along, and the brain transfer will have some unintentional results.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Alicia Cairn is said to love Empress Grey tea with a slice of lemon.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:3: Elizabeth Barlow]]
[-''"Do you mind if I smoke?"''-]
After catching her husband cheating on her, a rich heiress wants to fake her own death and get back at him in the process.
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* WomanScorned: Mrs. Barlow really has it in for her cheating husband and wants to use her new identity to ruin his life.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:4: Nathaniel [=McBride=]]]
[-''"What do you want? Who are you?"''-]
An eccentric MI-5 agent breaks into the Amelia office, planning to blow the lid off a massive conspiracy.
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* TheConspiracy: [=McBride=] says he needs to fake his death because he knows too much about a vast conspiracy, and if his employers find out, they will ruin his life to discredit him.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:5: SIIRI]]
[-''"Your answerphone message is paradoxical. Please answer this question: If there is no phone call, how could I hear the message?"''-]
An android has gotten fed up with her creator, and wants to escape to a life of her own.
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* AIIsACrapshoot:
* FromNobodyToNightmare: SIIRI says she began as an ordinary ''VideoGame/{{Frogger}}'' game, but goes on to threaten all of humanity after faking her destruction.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:6: Steve Laurence Stroud]]
[-''"I've messed up. Big time. There has to be a way out... And you're going to help me find it..."''-]
A man already believed to be dead needs the Amelia Project's help to enter a new life.
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* RomancingTheWidow: Stroud plans to come back as someone more like his wife's type than he is and start a relationship with her again.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:7: Bob]]
[-''"There are thirty one million people waiting for me."''-]
The Interviewer gets visited by a famous comedian who has lost his gift.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In the prologue episode, "Water", the Interviewer is so down in the dumps that when offered cocoa, he just asks for a glass of water instead, signalling to Alvina that the situation is serious.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:8: Luke Dougal]]
[-''"He opened the bottomless pit, and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke."''-]
A professionally morbid theme park designer has gotten into a dispute with a business partner.
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* NightmareFetishist: Luke loves all things horrific
* NoOSHACompliance: The Hell theme park toes the line
[[/folder]]
[[folder:9: Percy]]
[-''"They're following my every move. They’re listening to every word I say. Every. Single. Word."''-]
The Interviewer's client is aware that he's a fictional character, and wants out of the podcast.
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* AuthorPowers: The writers of the episode mess with Percy by having him drink cocoa with added sugar, making it disguistingly sweet, and make him stand on one leg and sing "La Marseillaise".
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the intro episode, the Interviewer finds a copy of ''Theatre/SixCharactersInSearchOfAnAuthor'', a play about a group of fictional characters trying to fit into a stage play, very much like Percy's situation.
* TheGenericGuy: Percy's big frustration with his existence is his lack of a personality or distinctive backstory; he laments that he hasn't even been given a surname.
* RageAgainstTheAuthor: Percy spends much of the episode lamenting how badly the writers have defined him.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:10: Melissa Menken]]
[-''"Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys."''-]
A mentalist with certain sits down with the Interviewer. Again, and again, and again.
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* AnachronicOrder: The episode jumps backwards and forwards in time between the Interviewer meeting Melissa for the first time, agreeing to take her case and everything in between as she uses her powers depending on what happens.
* CallBack: The company CEO whose death Melissa profited from was the head of SIIRI Industries, the robot of which appeared in Episode 5.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Using her time travel powers, Melissa bought some stocks in a company she knew would rise in value because of the unpredictable death of the CEO of its competitor. This made those stocks go up in value, but the timing made her look very suspicious, and too much time has passed for her to be able to undo her actions.
* FatalFlaw: For Melissa, her constant need to win, for which she keeps using her powers to get an advantage. Her stock market dealings were done because she got annoyed by a date who talked up a company and she saw an opportunity to make money from the rise of its competition.
* TheHermit: Melissa wants to start her new life in Antarctica because the quiet, unchanging surroundings will mean she won't feel a need to use her powers.
* MagiciansAreWizards: Melissa uses her time travel powers to work as a mentalist, going back and forth in time to correct her guesses about people in the audience.
* TimeMaster: Melissa has limited powers of time travel, being able to travel backwards and forwards in her own timeline but only an hour in either direction at most.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:11: Tara & Lily]]
[-''"Take the 4:20am from Paddington and bring matches, a compass, carabiner hooks and Maltesers."''-]
After committing a daring heist on Buckingham Palace, a pair of master thieves need to disappear.
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* AmbiguouslyGay: Tara and Lily are extremely close and wish to retire and live together in luxury, but it's unclear if they're HeterosexualLifePartners or an OutlawCouple.
* DoingItForTheArt:[[invoked]] InUniverse. Tara and Lily have a code against committing thefts for monetary gain; rather, they plan heists designed to be incredibly elaborate and difficult, seeing them more like works of art.
* WhamEpisode: The Amelia Project's interview recordings are stolen by Tara and Lily and given to MI-5, who start investigating the organization for the many crimes they have committed.
[[/folder]]
!!!Specials
[[folder:12: Percy Part 2]]
[-''"Are you sitting comfortably?"''-]
The self-aware podcast character Percy returns, and wants help from the Interviewer to find a story where he can be a character.
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* {{Crossover}}: The Interviewer takes Percy to various other podcasts in the Fable & Folly Network, including ''[Podcast/AlbaSalixRoyalPhysician Alba Salix, Royal Physician]]'' and ''Podcast/{{Victoriocity}}''.
* SequelEpisode: To Episode 9, "Percy"; the character's journey to find a good story for himself continues and expands to other audio drama podcasts.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:13: Klaus]]
[-''"If I'm not out of here by Christmas... I'll be dead."''-]
Near the North Pole, the Interviewer meets with a very bitter Santa Claus desperate for a career change.
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* StraightGay: Klaus has a husband (Mrs. Claus is just an actress), but exhibits no typical gay stereotypes.
[[/folder]]
!!Season Two
[[folder:14: Venerio]]
[-''"That I am willing to leave the lagoon to meet you, demonstrates how desperate I am."''-]
Cole and Haines listen to the Interviewer's meeting with a masked man who wanted to escape the death he had predicted for himself.
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* ProphecyTwist: When meeting with the fortune teller, Cole's friend at the stag party was told that he would live to be 120. He was elated upon hearing this, walked into traffic without thinking to look and was hit by a bus. He survived, but was almost completely paralyzed, only able to move his eyes and eyelids.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:15: The Rejects]]
[-''"There's a tape here marked 'NOT AMELIA MATERIAL'."''-]
Cole and Haines come across a tape with the Amelia Project's reject pile.
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* VignetteEpisode: The episode consists of three interviews with potential clients who were rejected by the Interviewer.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:16: The Italians]]
[-''"You'll be sleeping with the fishes."''-]
Cole and Haines learn how the Amelia Project's Italian henchmen came to work for them.
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* OriginsEpisode: For Joey and Salvatore. The episode tells their past (previously described broadly in Episode 4, "Nathaniel [=McBride=]") and how they came to join the Amelia Project.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:17: Bartholomew BEEP-face Chucklepants Knucklecracker]]
[-''"At Amelia we’ve always wanted to get into politics."''-]
The leader of a political joke party comes to the Amelia Project upon finding himself in way over his head.
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* CrypticBackgroundReference: Cole and Haines are apparently all alone in the MI-5 office, with Haines saying everyone else is busy with something called "Operation Crackpot". After they listen to the tape, it turns out to be a plan to assassinate Chucklepants.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:18: Niseag]]
[-''"Dunno. I think it's Gaelic."''-]
An unusual request sends the Interviewer, Joey and Salvatore to certain lake in Scotland.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:When getting Cole and Haines' report about Nessie, Northcott sarcastically asks if she can expect more such reports about other outlanndish creatures like Bigfoot or an alien from Roswell. In Season 5's "Ross", we learn that the Interviewer did in fact help the titular Roswell alien fake his death]].
* StockNessMonster: The client is none other than the Loch Ness Monster, a.k.a. Nessie, who here is a friendly, boisterous talking creature.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Even though the Amelia tapes have given reliable intelligence up until now, it's not too surprising that Northcott doesn't respond well to the suggestion that the Loch Ness monster is real.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:19: Cole]]
[-''"I'm trapped in a nightmare! I can't wake up! Heeeeeelp!"''-]
Agent Cole has a long nightmare based on his investigation of the Amelia Project.
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* ContinuityCavalcade: Cole's dream features guest appearances of several Amelia clients we have heard up until now, like Zale Indigo Ravenheart, Nessie and the undertaker who took over Bob's sense of humor.
* DreamEpisode: The episode almost completely consists of a nightmare MI-5 agent Cole has because of the long hours he's put in investigating the Amelia Project.
* RedPillBluePill: Near the end of the dream, the Interviewer offers Cole a choice between a red Malteser that will somehow take him even deeper, and a blue one that will wake him up. [[TakeAThirdOption Cole picks the yellow one]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:20: Cleo]]
[-''"Congratulations. You've reached The Brotherhood of the Phoenix."''-]
Having found an ancient Egyptian papyrus scroll among the Amelia Project's tapes, Cole and Haines have an early morning meeting with two Egyptologists (Karim Kronfli and Layla Katib).
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* ContentWarnings: Parodied; the episode opens with a content warning for nudity, which is pretty pointless for an audio drama.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: UsefulNotes/CleopatraVII (a.k.a. the Cleopatra), last Pharaoh of AncientEgypt.
* NoNameGiven: The two Egyptologists are never named, not even in the credits.
* PsychopathicWomanchild: Cleopatra, portrayed by the female Egyptologist, is capricious and juvenile and shows a fondness for sometimes deadly "pranks" and mentions poisoning prisoners just for fun.
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: After a donkey milk bath has been prepared for her, Cleopatra strips in front of the Brotherhood interviewer, who averts his eyes though she isn't at all ashamed, and spends most of the meeting sitting in the bath.
* SimilarSquad: The interviewer Cleopatra meets with is almost identical in mannerisms and personality to the Amelia Project's interviewer, and has a pair of Romans, Ianus and Silvanus, for assistants, filling the role of the Italian Joey and Salvatore (whose voice actors play the Romans). Given that later episodes reveal [[spoiler:that the Interviewer is at least many centuries old, it's very possible that this interviewer ''was'' him. This is seemingly confirmed in "Victor Hugo's Table", where he alludes to meeting Cleopatra in person]].
* WhamEpisode: The episode introduces the Brotherhood of the Phoenix, an obvious predecessor to the Amelia Project dating back millenia.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:21: Ant]]
[-''"They're after me. The Chinese. The Americans. The Russians. The Turks. The North Koreans. I don’t think I'll last long under torture..."''-]
Cole and Haines find the Amelia Project case breaker: an entomologist who was of great interest to national security.
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* EarlyBirdCameo:
** The episode features the first appearance of Mia Fox; she is part of the CIA team listening in and [[spoiler:becomes a major cast member in the next season]]. She also mentions Jackie Williams, [[spoiler:with whom she is partnered in the next season]].
** The Russians [[spoiler:namedrop Mikhail, who will become a major antagonist in the next season]].
* InterserviceRivalry: Agents of the CIA and NSA are both part of the chain of eavesdropping at the end of the episode, with the NSA being afraid of being upstaged by the CIA.
* LiteralSurveillanceBug: Antony was hired by MI-5 to use his great knowledge of insects to design a surveillance device disguised as a fly. Because replicating it exactly was inefficient, he got it to work by implanting surveillance equipment in a fly during its larvae stage, resulting in it merging with the fly's nervous system and allowing him to control it and see and hear what it did.
* SinisterSurveillance: The end of the episode reveals that the Russians apparently got Ant's insect-based surveillance technology to work, using a cybernetic mosquito to listen in on his interview.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:22: Richard]]
[-''"I always obey the dice."''-]
With a threat from MI-5 hanging over the Amelia team, the Interviewer presses on and meets with a client with a peculiar decision-making process.
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* NeverMyFault: As far as Richard is concerned, he isn't to blame for any of his actions, because he's just obeying the outcome of the dice.
* SuicideAsComedy: After the Interviewer agrees to take Richard's case and releases him from his restraints, Richard makes good on his earlier die roll and jumps out the window.
* OutOfCharacterAlert: When the Interviewer orders chamomile tea instead of his usual cocoa, Joey and Salvatore come into the office to check if he is alright.
* UnseenNoMore: After two seasons of almost only being heard on the phone's answering machine, Amelia finally makes her first in-person appearance in the podcast's plot.
[[/folder]]
!!Specials
[[folder:23: Andy Spark]]
[-''"It's so frustrating to be born into the wrong millennium."''-]
In a crossover with the science fiction-comedy podcast ''We Fix Space Junk'', the Interviewer meets with an aspiring poet who is convinced that the world isn't ready for his work.
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* ContinuityNod: The Interviewer mentions Kozlowski building a fake corpse of Nessie, which happened in Episode 18, "Niseag".
* {{Crossover}}: With the podcast ''We Fix Space Junk''. The first half takes place on ''Amelia's'' end, with the Interviewer taking on Andy's case, and the second half in the world of ''Space Junk'' when Andy is awakened from cryosleep.
* SmallNameBigEgo: When he wakes up in the future, Andy expects to be remembered as a poetic genius. Predictably, nobody on the crew has even heard of him.
* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: [[invoked]]InUniverse, this is how Andy sees his work. He is convinced that his work is brilliant and that his contemporaries don't like it because he's ahead of his time.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:24: Phil & Amber]]
[-''"There was no need to drag Pancake into this!"''-]
On Valentine's Day, the Interviewer meets with an extremely beligerent couple, while Alvina has plans of her own.
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* {{Irony}}: It's a Valentine's Day special episode, and the clients are an engaged couple who have undergone a violent breakup.
* WhamLine: When the Interviewer finally gets to ask Phil and Amber why they have come to the Amelia Project, prompting a minor SpitTake from him:
-->'''Phil:''' We're getting married.
[[/folder]]
!!!The Lockdown Tapes
A "mini-season" produced between seasons two and three and made in the 2020 lockdown during the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. The episodes show how the Amelia crew handled the pandemic and went into lockdown.
[[folder:1. Soap]]
[-''"Amelia! I need you now! I’m absolutely desperate!"''-]
As the pandemic rages on in the U.K. and nobody else at the Amelia office seems to take it seriously, Alvina approaches her breaking point.
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* SkewedPriorities: The Interviewer's idea of "essentials" for the pandemic is several kilos of Maltesers.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:2. Pangolin]]
[-''"Amelia. I'm going mad again. And it's not an itch this time."''-]
Finding the day-to-day business of the Amelia Project untenable under the new conditions, Alvina closes the office.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: After getting back to her island and getting the privacy she has craved, Alvina quickly finds herself missing her colleagues at the Amelia office.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:3. Lampitt LC-62E]]
[-''"But, I have you! It's you and me. We're in this together, and together we can... I'm talking to the tape recorder."''-]
Ensconsed in a secure location, the Interviewer makes the first entry in his audio diary.
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*
[[/folder]]
[[folder:4. Sangoma]]
[-''"The reason I haven't called is because I've been... in hiding!"''-]
Amelia shares how she has been staying in a little-known African country.
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* {{Bulungi}}: The country that Amelia is staying in, Vakanda, is said to be similar the [[ComicBook/BlackPanther Wakanda]] and to have served as the inspiration for the comic book country.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:5. Hurdy-Gurdy]]
[-''"Okay, time for my self-interview..."''-]
Desperate for clients to interview, the Interviewer decides to interview himself.
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* MindScrew: Even though he is supposedly just talking to himself, the Interviewer somehow manages to harmonize with the other self he talks to; even he never figures out how he managed that.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:6. Zoom]]
[-''"The world might be in lockdown, but people still need to disappear."''-]
The Amelia team take a stab at running their death-faking business remotely.
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* CallBack: The client is Ali, who appeared in the episode "The Rejects", trying to get the Amelia Project to make her husband disappear.
* SequelEpisode: To Ali's interview in "The Rejects". Since they turned down her request to send away her husband, she is now instead coming to them so they can fake her death instead.
[[/folder]]
!!Season Three
[[folder:Prologue Season Three: Winklepicker]]
[-''"We can just do Ip Dip Doo."''-]
The dice roll made in the previous season finale turns out to have not ended as conclusively as desired.
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* TheUnreveal: Like in the season 2 finale, we don't actually find out what number the Amelia team rolls on the die.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:25: Tatiana Gurkovsky]]
[-''"He’s right. We said we’d let the dice decide."''-]
With the team deciding to stay in the office, the Interviewer meets with his next client, a Russian escape artist.
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* CovertDistressCode: The Interviewer tries to signal to Joey and Salvatore that he is under duress by saying he is going out to get a Kit-Kat, instead of his usual favorite chocolate like Maltesers or Mars bars.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Tatiana tries the cocoa, she recoils, clearly not liking it, but pretends to love it when the Interviewer asks; this turns out to be because she needed to string him along until she could trap him.
* WhamEpisode: On top of everything else going on, the Interviewer is kidnapped by a Russian woman.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:26: T.I.P]]
[-''"It's time to implement the third option."''-]
With the Interviewer missing, Amelia decides to handle the next appointment herself. Only, the visitor is not there as a client, but as a competitor.
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* {{Blackmail}}: Knowing of Amelia's troubles, Mateo tries to force her to either hand over her business to the Incognito Project and take her chances with their disappearance plan, or he will just call MI-5 and tell on them.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:27: Inmate 10642]]
[-''"When are you going to take the bag off my head?"''-]
The Interviewer barely has time to settle in at his prison cell at Golovin before his captors bring him a prisoner and tell him to fake the man's death.
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* BatmanGambit: The Interviewer pretends to finish his interview with Aleksei by getting Russian language lessons, but it's just a ploy to fill up Oleg's transcript with text so boring that Boris will just stop reading midway through and then tells Aleksei the real plan for how his death will be faked.
* LuxuryPrisonSuite: The Interviewer gets a prison cell styled exactly after his office at the Amelia Project hideout and can even order a sausage and chips for himself.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:28: Todd]]
[-''"I had to steal a motorbike, shake off five policemen and stab a bloke to get here."''-]
On their way to the Russian embassy, Amelia and Alvina are accosted by an unstable man who requires the Amelia Project's services.
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* AssholeVictim: Amelia tricks Todd into jumping off the London Bridge, thinking there will be a barge boat coming under it that he can land on; nobody feels bad about it.
* NeverMyFault: As far as Todd is concerned, his cover was so transparent, it was everyone else's fault for not seeing through it.
* TheSecretOfLongPorkPies: Todd disposed of his victims by baking their flesh into pies; he got caught when someone found a human fingernail in one of them.
* ShoutOut: Todd is a big one to ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'', naming himself after the character and running a similar business.
* SerialKiller: Todd is one, killing people and selling their flesh as meat pies.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:29: Mai-Linh]]
[-''"That’s what’s landed me in this cluster fuddle: I’m just way too good!"''-]
Still settling into his new life in Golovin prison, the Interviewer is tasked with faking the death of an online author whose fandom has gotten way too eager.
----
* FeministFantasy: InUniverse, Mai-Linh's book series ''The First Female Knight'' is this, to the point of inspiring a new genre called "femme fantasy."
[[/folder]]
[[folder:30: Baby]]
[-''"Look at that... A mansion. A mansion in the jungle..."''-]
While waiting out the battle, Amelia makes a psychic connection with an unborn baby.
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* PsychicChildren: The baby the woman in the cellar is pregnant with is somehow fairly cogent and able to communicate telepathically with Amelia.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:31: The President]]
[-''"Oleg, I'm so bored!"''-]
The Interviewer finally learns the true purpose for him being brought to Golovin and meets with a challenging client.
----
*
[[/folder]]
[[folder:32: The New President]]
[-''"I need a genius."''-]
The Kremlin plans to intercept the Panaraguan revolution, the Panaraguan resistance plans to stop that, and the agents of MI-5 and the CIA race each other for Kozlowski's body.
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* ContinuityNod: The Interviewer lists some of the death fakings we've seen up until now, like turning a reindeer into a horse and staging a Martian invasion.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:33: Alvina]]
[-''"Do you always arrive by propeller airplane?"''-]
While waiting below ground, Amelia and Alvina open a bottle of wine and reminisce about how Alvina came to work for the Amelia Project.
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* FlashbackEpisode: Most of the episode consists of one long flashback to Amelia's first meeting with Alvina.
* OriginsEpisode: The episode shows how Alvina was first recruited to the Amelia Project.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:34: Pablo Perez Garcia]]
[-''"Hello. I'm Pablo Perez Garcia. I'm the leader of the Panaraguan Pythons. Now, you are going to help me."''-]
While the Panaraguan civil war rages above, Amelia and Alvina get to know the leader of the rebel forces.
----
*
[[/folder]]
[[folder:35: Oleg]]
[-''"My name is Oleg Kamenev."''-]
The Interviewer's tight-lipped assistant opens up about his career within Mikhail's organization leading up to his current position.
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*
[[/folder]]
[[folder:36: Protein Bar]]
[-''"Oh god. I feel... drowsy. Where am I?"''-]
Amelia and Alvina wake up in an unfamiliar place and discover that they have been kidnapped by an old foe.
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* CallBack:
** Amelia realizes the Incognito Project is responsible for trapping her and Alvina when Alvina finds proteins bars under her pillow; Mateo had referenced them during their meeting.
** Amelia makes use of Perez' BerserkButton, tricking Mateo into singing some Music/EdSheeran to him in order to verify that it's him.
* CloudCuckoolander: Apparently because of a concussion she suffered in the bus crash, Alvina is pretty loopy for most of the episode, thinking she and Amelia are in a Japanese pod hotel and trying to sing karaoke.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:37: Mateo]]
[-''"Oh, wow, that is a... very small gun."''-]
Free from her captivity, Amelia confronts Mateo.
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* LittleUselessGun: Mateo is armed with a tiny pistol that fits in the palm of his hand; Amelia isn't at all intimidated by it, even when he fires a warning shot.
* PutOnABusToHell: After being tricked into faking his death, Mateo gets shipped off to a remote island in the Northern Pacific.
* VillainousBreakdown: After being confronted with how royally he has screwed up here, kidnapping the leader of the Panaraguan rebels, Mateo panics and, dropping his SmugSnake act, starts negotiating for Amelia to help him out.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:38: Alexandra]]
[-''"Don't fret. Most people can't go five minutes without lying."''-]
While hiding in a cell in Block D, the Interviewer runs into a fellow inmate with an unfortunate ability.
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* HumanLieDetector: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. Alexandra can instantly tell when someone is lying just by observing their body language. This is a useful skill, [[BlessedWithSuck but it has made it hard for her to maintain relationships]] since she can see through even little white lies people say, which led to the end of her relationship with her girlfriend.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:39: Long Live the Revolution!]]
[-''"This is really going tits up isn't it."''-]
Reunited after their unfortunate setback, the Panaraguan resistance plus associates plans their next move now that everyone thinks Pablo Perez Garcia is dead.
----
*
[[/folder]]
[[folder:40: Hiroshi]]
[-''"Tell me about the Robot Raves!"''-]
Meeting with another Block D inmate, the Interviewer forms an escape plan.
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* RobotMaster: Hiroshi is a brilliant robotics engineer who likes building anthropomorphic robots capable of playing musical instruments, dancing and other artistic acts as opposed to just being used for manufacturing.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:41: The Real President]]
[-''"Why do people in this country always hide in the shadows?!"''-]
With the future of Panaragua up in the air, Amelia and Alvina meet with the past, present and prospective presidents to hammer out a resolution.
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*
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Body Bag (Season Epilogue)]]
[-''"He's our only connection to The Amelia Project!"''-]
Cole, Haines, Jackie and Mia investigate the last solid clue they have left: the body of Kozlowski.
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* NotQuiteDead: Kozlowski turns out to be alive, apparently having drugged himself.
[[/folder]]
!!!Specials
[[folder:The Christmas Thief]]
[-''"Vodka in cocoa, now that's quite the treat!"''-]
In this Christmas special, the Amelia team's Christmas party is interupted by the surprise appearance of an old client.
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* ContinuityNod: The Christmas cards the Interviewer reads for the team are from past clients Phil Smith ("Phil & Amber") and Nessie ("Niseag").
* RhymingEpisode: The episode is narrated and the dialogue spoken in verse a la ''Literature/TwasTheNightBeforeChristmas''.
* SequelEpisode: To the Season One Christmas special, "Klaus". The client of the episode returns and is having second thoughts about his new life.
[[/folder]]
!!Season Four
[[folder:42: Overture]]
Amelia and Alvina take in a show at the Paris opera and find themselves reunited with an old, dear friend.
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* FallingChandelierOfDoom: While entering the opera, Amelia and Alvina look at the chandelier and think about how fun it would be to fake someone's death by falling chandelier.
* IndyPloy: With Alvina and Amelia by his side, the Interviewer gets them and Hiroshi to take part in an escape plan he has come up with that involves stealing disguises from a production of ''Theatre/TheNutcracker''.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:43: Faith (Halloweeen Special)]]
The Interviewer meets with a client who needs to escape a demonic presence.
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* DealWithTheDevil: Faith Griffith made one to save her father's life, promising to give up her soul in forty years. She turns to Amelia to escape the deal and seemingly succeeds by being canonized as a saint.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:44: The Man With No Heartbeat]]
Awakened from his fake death, Kozlowski is questioned by Mia and Jackie.
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* FauxDeath: Kozlowski reveals that he drugged himself with silphium, which reduced his heart rate to just ten beats per minute and made him appear dead.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:45: Raven]]
The Interviewer's client is convinced that she brings disaster and death to everyone she meets.
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[[/folder]]
[[folder:46: The Man With Many Faces]]
A newly awakened Kozlowski shares a story
----
[[/folder]]
[[folder:47: Mr. Love, Actuary]]
On Christmas Eve, the Amelia office is visited by an actuary with a business proposal.
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* ContinuityNod: The Interviewer references Alicia Cairn from Episode 2, saying he was going to go with his niece to watch her late-night stage show.
* HistoricalRapSheet: Mr. Love's past clients includes unsavory employers like [[WhiteCollarCrime white collar criminal]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madoff_investment_scandal Bernie Madoff]] and scandalous corporation [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron Enron]] (though he claims the latter collapsed after firing him).
* ShoutOut: Many to ''Film/LoveActually''. Some lines of dialogue are slightly changed ones from the movie, and the episode ends with the Interviewer, Alvina and Amelia watching it together.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:48: Jackie Williams]]
[-''"I'm tired of your half baked hallucinations and fabricated fever dreams! I'm gonna tell you something that really happened."''-]
Frustrated with Kozlowski's long-winded stories, Jackie shares one of her own from her childhood.
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* OriginsEpisode: For Jackie, whe tells about her childhood and a time when she tried to trick her father into thinking she was dead.
* SpottingTheThread: Jackie's father realized she wasn't really dead when
[[/folder]]
[[folder:49: Monsieur Rêve]]
[-''"Only the bravest souls dare enter Monsieur Rêve's Dream Interpretorium..."''-]
The Interviewer goes to a peculiar establishment for help interpreting a dream he's had.
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* DreamWithinADream:
-->'''M. Rêve:''' So. This dream within a dream, within the dream- in the- within the layers of the dream- Sir, it appears we have prepared some sort of dream-lasagna and it is confusing, confusing and upsetting.
* PoorCommunicationKills: M. Rêve turns out to be a former client of Amelia, which the Interviewer forgot about; Rêve thought it was some sort of test and did his new trade best he could.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:50: Mia Fox]]
[-''"So you have looked into the face of death! Stared at his blue complexion, heard his ragged breath!"''-]
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* OriginsEpisode: For Mia Fox, detailing how she came to join the CIA.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:51: Walter]]
[-''"Does that name mean anything to you? Think Haines, think!"''-]
Cole and Haines follow a lead that takes introduces them to an employee of the Amelia Project.
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* AscendedExtra: The episode marks the first time [[TheGhost the often-mentioned but never seen]] "Walter from the morgue" appears in person in the podcast.
* CallBack: Cole recognizes the name of the coroner's signature from Kozlowski's death certificate, Walter, from Amelia tapes, playing back ones where Walter's name was mentioned, including one of the Lockdown Tapes.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: When looking for Walter in the crowd at [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covent_Garden Covent Garden]], Cole and Haines try to call him again and see if someone picks up their phone. Haines quickly realizes that almost everyone has a phone out, making this hopeless.
* IndyPloy: Running out of time to present their findings to Northcott, Haines calls Walter's number, pretending to be working for the Amelia Project, and manages to arrange a meeting with him, even guessing the code phrase ("[[ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish Maltesers]]"), all on the fly.
* InternalReveal: While trying to find Walter in the crowd again, Cole and Haines instead find Mia, Jackie and Kozlowski, revealing to them that he isn't dead after all.
* LostInACrowd: In keeping with his love of ''Literature/WheresWally'', Walter sits in the crowd at Covent Garden dressed as the character, as he likes to do in his free time, letting Cole and Haines find him.
* OriginsEpisode: We learn who Walter was before he came to the Amelia Project and see a flashback to his interview, which was done by Amelia herself.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:52: Saga]]
[-''"Come at night. Wear dark clothes. When you approach Abbots Cliff, row four hundred and forty two yards south-south-east."''-]
With the Interviewer in a less than ideal mental state, Alvina goes to a cavern near the white cliffs of Dover to meet with a client.
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* IdentityAmnesia: Saga, real name Belinda, lost all memory of her life after slipping down a small flight of stairs and hitting her head.
* LossOfIdentity: Without any memories of her husband, home or children, Saga no longer feels any attachment to any of them: she finds her husband unimpressive, her children annoying, and her home decor goes against everything about her new dark personality.
* NightmareFetishist: For her new life, Saga wants to do or be near violence and danger. Because of the Amelia Project's policies against collateral damage, she settles for becoming an on-site photographer, which will place her in disaster areas, war zones, etc.
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[[folder:53: Pretzel]]
[-''"Welcome to Dover Petrol and Pretzels, do you want dough or diesel tonight?"''-]
After Alvina's interview the previous episode, she, Cole and Haines, Jackie, Mia and Kozlowski all converge at the same gas station/pretzel restaurant.
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* CoincidentalBroadcast: When they get into their car, Cole and Haines hear about the nearby collapsed cliffs from when Alvina met with Saga, and hear that a thermos of cocoa and a broken bottle of Veuve Clicquot were found in the rubble, making them realize that they just spoke to Alvina.
* MissedHimByThatMuch: Alvina, Cole and Haines as well as Jackie, Mia and Kozlowski all converge at the same Dover gas station/pretzel restaurant, without any of them directly running into each other or recognizing each other until later, when Cole recognizes Alvina's voice from the tapes.
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[[folder:54: The Royal Shakespeare Company]]
[-''"Mine colleagues and I art in urgent need of thy help. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark..."''-]
The Interviewer meets with an acting troupe desperate to escape their overbearing director.
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* AllJustADream: The end of the episode reveals that the whole interview was just one long, particularly bad hallucination the Interviewer had.
* ControlFreak: Werner Böhm watches the cast members at all times to make sure they stay in character, to the point that they are afraid to quit it even when meeting with the Interviewer.
* PrimadonnaDirector: The Company's director, Werner Böhm, is forcing everyone to stay in character as their ''Theatre/Hamlet'' characters 24/7, and they are all exhausted by this.
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[[folder:55: Patience]]
[-''"Are those... antlers?"''-]
After a roadkill accident, Jackie and Mia learn something truly astounding about Kozlowski.
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* WhamEpisode: We learn that Kozlowski's tears have the power to bring living creatures back from the dead.
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[[folder:56: Curtain]]
[-''"We're coming, Sheba!"''-]
The Interviewer meets with Alvina at the Paris cemetery and shares some long overdue truths.
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* CallBack: The Interviewer mentions his meeting with Venerio, the client from Episode 14 who could predict people's death down to the last second, saying the death he predicted for him isn't far off.
* WhamEpisode: The Interviewer reveals his real name to Alvina, and begins to tell her the full story of his long time with both the Amelia Project and the Brotherhood of the Phoenix.
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!!Season Five
[[folder:Prologue to Part 1]]
[-''"Uncle?"''-]
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* UnseenNoMore: We finally get to hear the voice of the Interviewer's often mentioned niece, Lorraine.
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[[folder:57: Ross (2001)]]
[-''"Is this more of a Hannibal Lecter or a Magneto sort of situation?"''-]
In the recent past, the Interviewer goes to an American military base to help a very wayward client escape and go home.
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: Subverted; Ross claims that he gave Creator/WilliamShakespeare inspiration for the names of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, characters in ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', Rosencrantz being his full name and Guildenstern the name of his great-grandfather. Afterwards, he tells the Interviewer that he was kidding.
* BizarreAlienBiology: Ross is said to be chartreuse-colored in the winter months, and taupe in the summer.
* LimaSyndrome: Captain Scott has grown fond of Ross over the seven years he has been working at Area 51 and wants to help him escape before President-elect UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush is briefed about the base; the last time [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush a Bush was President]], he was treated very badly and he is afraid of the same thing happening again under the new one.
* NeedleInAStackOfNeedles: The Interviewer approached Area 51 by disguising himself as a UFO nut; unfortunately, as Scott points out, he didn't exactly stand out from the crowd of other such people outside.
* RoswellThatEndsWell: The client, Ross, was the alien found in Roswell in 1947, and he has been kept at Area51 ever since.
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[[folder:58: Amelia (1999)]]
[-''"Martha Plum, may you rest in peace."''-]
In 1999, the Interviewer and Kozlowski bury their longtime partner, Martha Plum, and meet her granddaughter, Amelia.
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* CrypticBackgroundReference: The Interviewer mentions Amelia's mother, and Kozlowski tells him off, saying they agreed to never speak of her again.
* OriginsEpisode: The episode gives us the backstory of Amelia, showing how she came to take over her grandmother's leadership role at the Amelia Project.
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[[folder:59: Thuggy Trashmouth (1979)]]
[-''"We don't make music for old hippies."''-]
In the age when punk music was blossoming, the Interviewer meets with a foul-mouthed punk singer client.
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* DiscoDan: The episode reveals that the Interviewer spent some time in the 70s living as a hippie, dressing the part and smoking weed, even though the hippie generation had largely moved on by then.
* ElvisLives: Subverted. While Elvis did, unsurprisingly for the podcast, fake his death to get away from all the fame and attention, he died for real because of an accident with a fishhook just hours into his new life.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Music/ElvisPresley, who was a client of the Amelia Project and is now possessing Thuggy.
* PhysicalAttributeSwap: The Interviewer resolves the dispute between Thuggy and Elvis by having Thuggy exchange vocal cords with a friend of his who is an Elvis impersonator and looks the part, but has a terrible singing voice. That way, Thuggy gets the bad voice he has always wanted and Elvis gets to enjoy being Elvis without all the attention that came with his old career.
* SharingABody: Thuggy has been possessed by the spirit of Elvis, who sometimes makes him sing and dance just like he used to and imitate his voice.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Thuggy has a very good singing voice, which annoys him to no end because it clashes with his punk style. He has even tried to make it worse by screaming a lot and drinking whisky, but he still has the kind of voice that goes well with Elvis' music.
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[[folder:60: Alfred Hitchcock (1951)]]
[-''"You are the first person I have ever told this story."''-]
Working as a makeup artist in Hollywood, Kozlowski meets with the Master of Suspense, who found himself stalked by a strange figure.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Creator/AlfredHitchcock, the famous film director also known as "the Master of Suspense".
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[[folder:61: Martha (1944)]]
[-''"Do you remember the story about the phoenix?"''-]
On a battlefield in Italy during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, Kozlowski reminisces with an unconscious Martha Plum, and he and Arthur face a dilemma.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: As thanks for saving it and letting it go, the phoenix gave Kozlowski its last brightly colored feather and told him to wear it close to his chest for three days and three nights, granting him his current immortality and gift of Patience.
* IDieFree: The phoenix bird, having been worn out way past the point of its feathers being viable for dyeing, is let go and allowed to live its last days in freedom.
* LastOfHisKind: The phoenix Kozlowski saved in his story may well have been the last phoenix left alive at the time, and it didn't have much time left when they parted ways.
* OriginsEpisode: For Kozlowski... sort of. He tells a story of his life in ancient Phoenicia where he rescues a worn-down phoenix bird from its neglectful owner and getting the gift of immortality in return, but when Arthur asks about the story, he says it was "metaphorically" true, but not factually true.
* ThePhoenix: In Kozlowski's story, phoenix birds were used in producing fine fabrics because their feathers could be used to give them a bright crimson color not found anywhere else in nature. Unlike typical phoenix birds, they were not completely immortal; they did [[ResurrectiveImmortality come back to life in a pile of ash if they died]], but if it happened too many times because of neglect and starvation, it would happen more and more often until they just remained a pile of ash.
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[[folder:62: Dear Child Has Many Names (Present)]]
[-''"Do you trust me?"''-]
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* CallBack: Jackie and Mia make some phone calls to verify Kozlowski's stories up until now.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Kozlowski shares some names he has gone by in the past, and some he hasn't told Jackie and Mia before and will be shown to have gone by in upcoming episodes.
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[[folder:Prologue Season 5 Part 2]]
[-''"There is something I need to do."''-]
Still talking to Alvina at the Paris cemetery, the Interviewer reaches out to his niece.
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* CrypticBackgroundReference: Leaving a voicemail to Lorraine, the Interviewer mentions that when they last saw each other, they parted on poor terms, but nothing specific is said.
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[[folder:63: Die Berliner Luft (1929)]]
[-''"It was the wildest of times..."''-]
In Berlin during TheRoaringTwenties, Kozlowski meets with a prospective client at a burlesque club, but the German political climate of the time soon rears its ugly head.
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* ExplosiveCigar: Arthur and Kozlowski escape Siegfried by pretending to agree to his terms and light up cigars to celebrate, giving Siegfried an explosive cigar Arthur got earlier and using the confusion to slip away.
* ForegoneConclusion: Anyone even vaguely familiar with 20th century history will know that the Nazis take over, despite Kozlowski's optimistic predictions.
* FunctionalAddict: Arthur was really fond of cocaine at the time, and Kozlowski was using heroin, but they mostly kept working as normal (it's likely that Patience allievated the worst effects of the drugs).
* JoinOrDie: Siegfried forces the Interviewer and Kozlowski to either keep up their operation while feeding the SS information and using their connections to aid them, or get shut down and arrested.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Finding the political turmoil of the world too unsafe, Arthur and Kozlowski fled Europe altogether and went to live on Phoenix Island, where they would later be found by Amelia Earhart.
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[[folder:64: Granville T. Woods (1909)]]
[-''"May have invented doomsday machine..."''-]
The office of the London newspaper ''The Daily Phoenix'' gets a visit from a famous inventor who is concerned about the implications of his latest work.
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* ActorAllusion: Ben and Tim Meredith of ''Podcast/StellarFirma'' appear in another story involving making copies of humans and them protesting for their rights.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granville_Woods Granville T. Woods]] was a real, famous inventor sometimes referred to as the black UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison.
* SelfMadeMan: Like in real life, Woods was a self-taught engineer; unable to loan books from the local library because of his race, he got white friends to loan them for him.
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[[folder:65: Jack (1888)]]
[-''"I come seeking Janus."''-]
In VictorianLondon, Arthur meets with a client burdened with strange nightly activities.
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* ATrueStoryInMyUniverse: It turns out that the stories about Literature/SherlockHolmes were about Carl in his new identity, written by the Interviewer, who took the identity of John Watson and published through Creator/ArthurConanDoyle, who edited the stories for publication.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Carl is a perfectly nice, non-violent person, and only committed the murders he did because he was hypnotized into doing them.
* MythologyGag: Carl sees that the Interviewer has been on a job in Afghanistan, much like how Sherlock Holmes detects that Watson has just returned from the war in Afghanistan in his debut story, ''Literature/AStudyInScarlet''.
* SherlockScan: Carl does one on Arthur, seeing that he has just been to Afghanistan and faked the death of a General, and that he has just lost
* StockUnsolvedMysteries: Carl turns out to have committed the crimes of UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, having been hypnotized into doing it.
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[[folder:66: Billy Gritt (1871)]]
[-''"Is it a SpaghettiWestern?"''-]
In TheWildWest of 1870s Arizona, Arthur shares a wagon with a wanted bandit.
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* BewareTheSillyOnes: Billy Gritt may be an almost cartoonish cowboy figure, but he is nevertheless a very shrewd thief and cares deeply for his horse.
* CallBack: During his conversation with Alvina, the Interviewer references the episode "Mr. Love, Actuary", when he mentioned traveling across the U.S. in a covered wagon; this episode tells that story.
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[[folder:67: Amelia's Aria (1829)]]
[-''"Glass holds many secrets..."''-]
When Kozlowski has his head in the clouds after hearing a beautiful musical piece on a glass harmonica, Arthur arranges for a meeting between him and the musician playing the instrument.
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* CallForward: Fiorella's prediction of Kozlowski's future recounts the events of "Die Berliner Luft" and his and Arthur's future meeting with Amelia Earhart. She also speaks of a dangerous man whose name begins with an 'M', apparently alluding to Mikhail.
* MundaneSolution: When Jackie and Mia ask about the deaths and mental breakdowns of glass harmonica players throughout the years, Kozlowski attributes this to the fact that the glass they were made of was made with lead, and they just suffered lead poisoning.
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[[folder:68: Marie Antoinette (1783)]]
[-''"Liberté, égalité, fraternité."''-]
Arthur and Kozlowski meet with French royalty and come to play a major part in French history.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette, queen of France at the time of UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution.
* InternalReformist: Marie has been trying to improve her country best she can, pushing for political reform and spending money to get some money into the system, but it's not working well enough.
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[[folder:69: Henry Avery (1696)]]
[-''"Not just any old pirate... Henry Avery! The king of the pirates!"''-]
While travelling on the high seas with a Dutch ship, Arthur and Kozlowski find themselves taken prisoner by a notorious pirate ship.
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* AssholeVictim: Nobody feels too bad about the murder of Henry Avery, who as the Interviewer points out was a ruthless killer, rapist and slaver, or his most loyal crew, who were apparently almost as bad.
* CallForward: The ship Jack Boyd and his crew sails, the ''Fancy'', is the same ship Arthur and Kozlowski were on when they met with Marie Antoinette in the previous episode.
* DeadPersonImpersonation: Jack poisoned Henry Avery and his closest mates and then took over his ship, relying on Avery's reputation to scare off potential pursuers.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Subverted. Jack is posing as the dread pirate captain [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Every Henry Avery]], whom he killed earlier. The real Avery is believed to have disappeared in 1696, when the episode takes place.
* PunchclockVillain: As Boyd tells it, a lot of pirates only take up a life of crime because the alternative for sailors is the navy, which pays worse and leaves them with nothing if they get kicked out because of injuries, and most just try to make enough to buy some land and settle down. Arthur points out that most pirates get arrested and hanged after a few years, but Jack says it's still seen as worth the risk.
* RecruitmentByRescue: In true Amelia/Phoenix tradition, the Interviewer and Kozlowski helped Jack by making him and his crew part of the team, using the ship to smuggle clients.
* SupremeChef: Jack Boyd was Avery's head chef, and is very good at it.
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[[folder:70: Poquelin (1673)]]
[-''"My name was Argan. My profession: barber-surgeon..."''-]
In Spanish-ruled Brussels, Kozlowski meets with an anxious actor.
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* CreatorCameo: The podcast's co-creator Philip Thorne has a cameo as a German barber.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The end of the episode reveals that Poquelin is the famed French playwright Creator/{{Moliere}}, who is said to have died exactly like Kozlowski plans in the episode: in a coughing fit while performing in ''Theatre/TheImaginaryInvalid''.
* {{Hypochondria}}: The client is suffering from
* SkewedPriorities: The end of the episode reveals that the Interviewer's part of the story told to Alvina was just his quest to find a good German waffle.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: [[invoked]]InUniverse; Kozlowski convinced Poquelin to base his last work before he faked his death on his own hypochondria. The resulting play, ''Theatre/TheImaginaryInvalid'', was indeed about a hypochondriac; Poquelin even named the main character, Argan, after the alias Kozlowski was using at the time.
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[[folder:71: The Wicked Bible (1631)]]
[-''"I've always wanted to take a stab at printing!"''-]
In London, the Interviewer got a look into the surprisingly cutthroat business of Bible-printing.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The episode takes place in 1631, and based on the events, Barker's death by bear mauling was likely faked shortly after. In real life, Barker went to prison in 1635 and died in a debtors' prison in 1643.
* BearsAreBadNews: Arthur decides to fake Barker's death at a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear-baiting bear-baiting]] event (where a bear is pitted against dogs for public entertainment) by having the bear come loose and attack the spectators; however, the bear that will be used, Sackerson, has been trained by him and Kozlowski to only pretend to maul whoever it grabs.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Barker_(printer) Robert Barker]] was a real person, and he really did print the so-called "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_Bible Wicked Bible]]" with the adultery typo, as said in the episode.
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[[folder:72: The Man With Many Tattoos (Present)]]
[-"My passion for body art goes way back...-]
As the campfire starts to die out, Kozlowski, Mia and Jackie step away to get more firewood. Not wanting to miss out on any stories, Cole and Haines try their hardest to follow them.
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* BreatherEpisode: The episode marks the end of part 2 of Season 5 and takes a break from the historical episodes, instead looking back at past episodes in the present.
* ContinuityCavalcade: The episode not only references many of the episodes told over the campfire, but also references older episodes:
** In the car, Mia and Jackie look closer at Kozlowski's tattoos and make a game of figuring out [[StoryboardBody the past clients to whom they refer]]:
*** A robotic ant: Antony "Ant" Welby (Episode 21)
*** A die: Richard Reynolds (Episode 22)
*** A bobble hat: Walter Gervitch (Episode 51)
*** The emblem of [[UsefulNotes/TheMafia the Cosa Nostra]]: Joey and Salvatore (Episode 16)
*** A stage light falling onto a man with a microphone: Bob (Episode 7). At first, Mia and Jackie mistake the man for Thuggy Trashmouth (Episode 59)
*** A plague doctor mask: Venerio (Episode 14)
*** A sarcophagus: Andy Spark (Episode 23). Jackie's first guess is Cleopatra (Episode 20).
*** A spaceship: Bartholomew Fuckface Chucklepants Knucklecracker (Episode 17)
*** An Area51 road sign: Ross (Episode 57)
* IndyPloy: In order to distract Jackie, Mia and Kozlowski from Haines getting out of the car trunk, Cole improvises, wears two of the fake mustaches from the car's set of disguises, puts on an exaggerated cowboy-like personality and even improvises a song. Amazingly, it works and Haines manages to get away.
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!!!Specials
[[folder:H (Easter Special)]]
[-''"Knock knock, who's there?"''-]
The Interviewer gets a visit from Jesus Christ, who needs to revitalize his following.
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* WhosOnFirst: The Interviewer has one with Joey and Salvatore when they keep saying "il Salvatore" in shock; he thinks they mean the latter, but they're actually saying "savior", having just seen Jesus in the flesh.
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[[folder:Victor Hugo's Table (Halloween Special)]]
[-''"What is it with great writers and ghosts?"''-]
First, Amelia walks in on the Interviewer and Alvina doing some unusual spooky season reading. Weeks later, the Interviewer gets his hands on an antique table that the French writer Creator/VictorHugo supposedly used to commune with departed spirits. Soon, he, Alvina and Amelia find themselves putting that to the test.
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* CallBack:
** When the Interviewer, Alvina and Amelia learn that the spirit is supposedly someone they killed who was not a client, they remember two people who have been killed on the premises by them during the story. The first is Tony di Pasqua, who was shot dead by Alvina during "The Italians". The other is Alex, who wanted them to help him disappear after he killed a number of people to cover up an affair.
* ContinuityNod: The Interviewer references the Brotherhood of the Phoenix helping Cleopatra fake her death and seemingly confirms that he was the one who had the meeting with her.
* PopCulturalOsmosis: When the Interviewer tells Joey and Salvatore about Victor Hugo, they have no idea who he is. When he mentions that he wrote ''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', Joey hasn't heard of it at all. Salvatore at least knows of it, but thinks it means Hugo [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney worked for]] Creator/{{Disney}}.
* SpookySeance: When the table apparently starts tapping the floor to communicate with the team,
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!!Crossovers
[[folder:Forgive Amelia!]]
[-''"I know this is a bit unorthodox of me, but right now I've got a car full of sinners with a mighty burden to get off their shoulders."''-]
[-''"I must confess, I've never done this whole sit in a secret booth and unburden myself to a stranger behind a privacy screen thing."''-]
[-''"The whole thing was senselessly naive."''-]
In this three-part crossover with the ''Forgive Me!'' podcast, the Interviewer, Amelia and Alvina rush to Father Ben's church in the middle of the night to make their confessions after a nearby job goes awry.
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* StarCrossedLovers: The clients turn out to have been a pair of teenagers belonging to separate rival potato farming families who wanted to fake their deaths so they could disappear and live together. They even did a ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''-style double suicide in front of everyone at the festival, calling out their families for the long-lasting, pointless rivalry.
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[[folder:The Perils of Freelancing]]
In a crossover with ''Where the Stars Fell'', Dr. Edison Tucker turns out to be an associate of the Amelia Project, and wants to renegotiate her deal.
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* SeenItAll: The Interviewer isn't at all fazed when Ed does the scary things with her eyes.
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