Episode 9 - Percy

**“***They're following my every move. They're listening to every word I say. Every. Single. Word.***”**
— **Percy, Season 1, Episode 9**

The Amelia Project is a secret agency that helps its clients by faking their deaths and setting them up with a brand new identity! What’s today’s client’s dilemma? Listen and find out!

## Episode Guide

### Next

Semi Skimmed Milk
Out Of Office

## Summary

*The following is a summary written for this wiki. It only hits the major points of the episode and, as such, should not be used as a substitute for listening to the episode as intended by the creators.*
### Main Story

Percy contacts The Amelia Project due to being an underdeveloped fictional character in a podcast, and wants to escape his podcast for something better. When The Interviewer pinches him it does not hurt as he wasn't written with enough nuance to feel pain. Percy is resentful over not having any control over his actions, for instance having his cocoa with three sugars. He thinks his writers are untalented and has a tense relationship with them. The Interviewer suggests he must be somewhat grateful to them, but Percy isn't fooled as he points out the writers just wrote that The Interviewer said that. Percy is jealous that The Interviewer gets to be a recurring character with nuance, since he will cease to exist once the episode ends.

The Interviewer tells Percy that they can arrange for him to get into the mind of a better character, and Percy insists that it be anything but a new podcast. The problem comes with making him disappear, as any solution they come up with will have been written by the writers. The Interviewer reveals that the idea for the episode actually was planted in the writer's minds by The Amelia Project. They finally escape the episode by forcing the writers to admit the story is written into a corner, and that there is no satisfying ending to it. Once the episode is ditched, Percy will be free from it. They outwait the writers until the ending theme tune starts playing.

### Epilogue

Øystein mocks the name Percy, and Philip points out that Øystein didn't write the episode, he did. When Øystein protests differently, Pip points out that he's writing him right now, including the incorrect Norwegian. Øystein comments that Pip's laptop is almost out of battery, and when Pip goes to reply the episode abruptly ends.

## Quotes

**“***I’m a fictional character in a podcast.***”**
— **Percy**

**“***Come to think of it, what is my name?***”**
— **The Interviewer**

**“***Of all the episodes I could have appeared in, it’s this self indulgent pile of shit. It’s like living up the writer’s arse.***”**
— **Percy**

## Cast and Characters

* The Interviewer played by Alan Burgon
* Answerphone voiced by Julia Morizawa
* Percy played by Tom Middler
* Joey played by Gianluca Iumiento
* Salvatore played by Ravdeep Singh Bajwa
* Øystein U. Brager as himself
* Philip Thorne as himself

## Credits

This episode features Alan Burgon as The Interviewer, Tom Middler as Percy, Gianluca Iumiento as Joey, Ravdeep Singh Bajwa as Salvatore and Julia Morizawa on the answer phone. Written and edited by Philip Thorne, directed by Alan Burgon, music and sound design by Fredrik Baden. Recorded at Tongeber Studios with the assistance of Gabriel Geber.

## Notes

* Episode 12 - Percy Part 2 is a continuation of this story.