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The apparent demanding efforts of the Officer to explain the machine to the Explorer is as an attempt to convince him to join in his plan to demonstrate to the New Commandmant that the machine is needed and just.

The Explorer's simple refusal however is enough to completely unravel the composure of the Officer who orders the immediate release of the Condemed man.

The most typical explanation of a machine from a pompous nepo brat in the history of forever. Also the demonstration of such injustice and inhumanity.

Soon the financial burden left by Gregor worsens to the point they begin selling off jewellery and begin to accept lodgers. The family growing weary and frustrated at this surreal situation begin to grow hateful towards Gregor. Soon they stop bringing food to him nor clean his room. Soon following some fateful events, his father laments that they must "get rid" of Gregor. As if fated, Gregor dies overnight.

The family begin life with Gregor as an insect. Initially only his sister seems willing to help Gregor by feeding him and cleaning the room. The family begin discussing finances and his father reveals he still has some financial instruments Gregor believed was lost in the fire that ravaged his father’s business and set him on his path as a travelling salesmen.

Metamorphosis - Gregor having unbeknownst to him turned into a beetle overnight, is shocked to find he has slept in an hour and half late. Afraid of the consequences that may be handed down to him at work, he attempts to hurriedly get dressed and onto the 7AM train. He is alarmed to hear that his chief clerk has arrived to query his condition.

The Judgement - The friend has the strongest connection to all the characters, so strong in fact that Georg feels panicked that his father manic acting may very well be his true form. Unsure on the ideological themes at play, maybe something on the consequences of your decisions and the concern you hold when you delay some of them.

Family background introductions

A locked room case. A three-fingered traveler arriving 2 days before the wedding. The murder taking place 2 days later on the day of the wedding.

Husband and Wife

Fusagi has Alzheimer's. Three years after his diagnosis he forgets his wife Kohtake; a nurse resigned to the fact that one day she will be caring for him as a nurse rather than as his wife. Fusagi has a letter that he has yet to give to his wife, however never has. Kohtake goes back in time to receive the letter. The letter is Fusagi's attempting to remove any carer guilt Kothake may have.

Yoshitaka was poisoned to death, trace amounts found in the coffee he was drinking. It is further found in the paper filter and coffee grounds. Ayane confines in Hiromi that she suspected she was the mistress. Hiromi reveals that she is indeed 2 months pregnant. Utsumi recruits Yukawa into the case because she believes Kusanagi is affected from personal feelings towards Ayane. Poison traces further found in kettle.

Hiromi's role as lover with Yoshitaka is uncovered by the detectives. Utsumi with this knowledge beginning to doubt the actions of Ayane in the context that she has knowledge of his affair with her student.

Ayane, a famous quilter whose works are valued at 1M yen who is unable to bear children, listens to her husband claim that a marriage is only a necessity to begin families. Yoshitaka a president of an IT company secretly is having an affair with Hiromi, Ayane's teaching assistant at her quilting school.

A letter entrusted to the Kumi the lady behind the counter. Addressed to the disowned sister whom is a regular at the cafe.

Allegations of June stealing Athena's work begin at an Asian literary festival. The attacks then turn to Athena and how she is essentially a leech radicalising her "culture for clicks".
June has the idea to create a website in order to grab the IP address of the twitter account at the centre of her scandal.

Greenhouse Productions comes for an informal coffee discussion on any possible future nuances that June would have for her film adaption. Afterwards a twitter attack on June and her apparent white-supremacy racism begins, which has her cowering in her apartment afraid that she her flesh will be ripped to shreds.

A 41 year old ex-army pawnbroker preys upon a desperate 16 year old orphaned girl.

Number 3 on the NYT bestsellers list. The obvious audience members questioning her appropriation of Chinese culture, but it is an intimate inscription moment with an elder whose a descendant of one of the Chinese Laborers that finally catalyses June's shame that it really was not a story a white person should have told.

The book is officially published, but not without its drama. A publishing assistant's instance on a cultural sensitivity reader, following with a passive aggressive apology and removal from the team. To find an unprofessional rating of 1 star on Goodreads. At the reading and Q&A session on publication day, June feels as if she's seen Athena's ghost, suddenly losing all her composure at the event.

Athena's manuscript edited and slightly rewritten by June is quickly highly acclaimed by publishing houses. Rights and thoughts for novels that previously were out of reach for June's debut are suddenly fixed clauses in the offers for the novel's auction.

Athena choked to death from her own pancakes. June the grieving friend turned thief of manuscript.

2 inversely successful writers whose friendship begins due to their assignments as room mates at Yale.

After discovering a worn out text and the ability to tune into a French radio station with a child learning program, Werner begins repairing radios around town from large high end systems of department heads to the state sponsored swastika stamped rudimentary ones of miners.

Lovers
Fumiko mad at Goro for leaving her and moving to America to his company's HQ. After a week, she goes back to the cafe after remembering its legend for time travel. After learning all the rules, Fumiko travels to the past coming to terms with her own feelings and learning new ones about Goro. Fumiko comes back with a new outlook for the future and eternal gratefulness to the cafe for the experience.

How Fumiko and Goro met; on a project from different companies. Fumiko was the project director and Goro a programmer. The project encountered a software bug that was estimated to take longer than their 1 week deadline to find, but Goro, whom disappeared from the team for 4 days and increasingly was becoming the easy scapegoat came back to announce he had found the bug.

Werner discovers a broken radio and after meticulously observing its parts determines that there are breaks in its coiled wire. After splicing and re-wrapping it, and connecting it to power the radio breathes life as he moves the tuning along the coil.

Marie-Laure's weekly training begins at the age of 7 and only a year later is she able to successfully walk them 6 blocks home. WW2 however is on the brink...

When the outcome you intended for cannot occur, yet you continue with the process anyway.

"Marralee Valley's police station...reception area was dim, painted the same dull industrial blue...Falk had been...wondering...if the colour was a deliberate choice...he felt certain now."

"[T]he wood fragments were long and thin...[w]hen he'd heard the car involved in the accident was blue, Falk had been picturing something different..[s]omething brighter, sportier. This was a dull flat tone"

Yeah nah yeah

Falk having a inkling that something was off when Joel showed him the video of the site where Dean fell. Raco pointing out when shown later that there was no shards from a headlight. That it had to be a frontal collision to cause such damage to the fence. Gemma inviting Falk for dinner. Zara believing that the reason Naomi is always around the vineyard is because of her dad, but later they both realise it's Shane.

Zara informing Falk that if Raco thought there was nothing in it, he wouldn't have such a large folder with files. Falk realising Joel is probably telling the truth due to his crush on Zara. Sam informing Falk that Dean pretty much did all the accounting for the town. Gemma telling him that she didn't give him her number because with their work life and locations, an interstate relationship was not desirable.