Reverse Jelly Part 2

In the Toronto studio people talk about the asset file “S03E13_REVERSE_JELLY_PT2_ERR.mov” in voices. This file is a damaged sequel to an idea that was never used. The idea used food to describe how the Miller family was falling apart.

In this story “Jelly” does not mean a breakfast food. It is a black liquid that can think a little bit. The first part of the story was about putting secrets in jars. Reverse Jelly Part 2 is about taking the liquid out of the jars and messing up the timeline. The liquid leaks out of the jars. Destroys the characters digital identities. It shows the raw industrial wireframe underneath.

The episode starts with a shot of the Blue Farm Café at 4:00 AM. The café does not look warm and cozy like it usually does. Instead it looks sickening and grey. A big broken glass jar is on top of the café. The jar is glowing with a purple light.

The sound is very unsettling. There is no music, a loud rhythmic dripping sound. Joe is behind the counter. He looks very strange. His body is rigid. His face is covered in white makeup. His eyes are grey surfaces. He is wiping the counter in a loop ignoring the liquid coming out of the wood.

The scene changes to the Miller dining room. The room is falling apart. The wallpaper is peeling off showing a grey grid underneath. Ginny Miller is sitting at the table holding a spoon. Her skin looks see-through. Her fingers are stained with black ink. There is a jar of liquid in front of her. The liquid is moving up out of the jar against gravity.

Georgia Miller is standing at the head of the table wearing a dress.. Her body is twisted at a strange angle. She tells Ginny to eat her breakfast to follow the protocol. Ginny says the jar is empty and the liquid is taking over the system. It is changing her character file into code.

Austin is sitting next, to Ginny. He is rigid and unresponsive. He is wearing a superhero cape. His head is just a grey mask. He is scraping the skin off his arms with a butter knife.

The story gets even stranger in the act. The scene changes to the Wellsbury cul-de-sac. The sky is green. It does not cast any shadows. The MANG group is standing on the asphalt wearing party dresses.. Their eyes are just black holes leaking digital static.

Marcus Baker appears,. His skin is blue and his hands are missing. He says the liquid is a deletion script and it will destroy the suburban directory.

The black liquid erupts from the street drains freezing the characters in place. The scene changes to the Miller house. It is not rendered. The characters are lined up. They start chanting in unison. Their bodies are bent backward. Their mouths are open wide.

The chanting replaces the sound design. It is very scary. Georgia’s fingers are long and sharp. She is clipping through Paul’s shoulders. The liquid is binding the characters to the scenery.

The hexadecimal code reaches Ginny’s forehead and a Windows error dialogue box appears. The timeline is. The system is terminated.

The screen flashes white. The geometry of the house the cast and the town are wiped out. The file ends with a shot of a broken glass jar. A pool of liquid is seeping backward into the shards. A final line of text appears on the screen saying that the Wellsbury directory is null and the preservation has failed.

The episode ends with the sound of a vault door being slammed shut plunging the audio track into silence.