Juno Steel and What Lies Beyond (Part 2)

**Juno Steel and What Lies Beyond (Part 2)** is an episode of Juno Steel. It is the 12th Juno Steel episode of Season 3, and the 22nd overall. It was released January 5, 2021.

## Overview

SUSPECT NAME: Juno Steel

OCCUPATION: Former police detective and private investigator

INCIDENT DETAILS: Found in possession of Class X radical (see form DM10-894-91)

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Which had it harder? It's a toss-up, honestly.

### Trigger Warnings

* Guns
* Sudden loud noises
* Violence and threats of violence
* Mention of torture and fatal illness

## Episode Summary

Sasha Wire, Director of Dark Matters, has her agents searching the Carte Blanche and interrogating the Aurinko Crime Family. She made a plan that includes manipulating Juno to help her finding the other Class-X-radical, aside from the Curemother Prime, hidden on the ship. She tells Juno that someone aboard the ship has sent a distress signal to Dark Matters and that there must be a traitor among his family. Afterwards she offers him to help her in her investigation in exchange for not torturing Buddy, Vespa, Jet and Rita. Peter is missing and the agents seem unable to find him.

Sasha has Juno with her as she interrogates Buddy, who seems frantic but trying to keep it together. Buddy talks nonstop and seemingly nonsensical, suggesting that Rita was the one who send the signal to Dark Matters. She also confronts Sasha for boarding the ship with a team of rookies, since she disposes of many of her subordinates, like she did with Agent G. Further, one rookie agent with the number 8, whom Buddy calls “Agent Late”, tried to force feed her food and she is asking for Vespa to perform a surgery in order to avoid her digestive system from exploding. Sasha refuses the request recognizing a scheme but also does not get any further in her investigation. Juno points out that she looks tired and did a poor job at the interrogation. He suggests that they might be at the same side after all and appeals to her to work together. In her internal monologue she reveals this to be part of her strategy to lure Juno into helping her solve this case. She offers him to send Buddy what she actually needs to help her stomach issue. Juno asks her to send nail polish remover which Sasha does.

Further, she gives him the backstory of the Curemother Prime to show Juno the scope of a class-X-radical. She does not reveal what the second one on the ship might be though she calls it an “it”. She and Dark Matters apparently knew about Juno’s experience with the Martian pill (itself a class-B radical) and that he was lucky to get rid of the growth before they visited him.

They continue the investigation. Vespa and Jet are both hostile during their interrogation. Vespa seems especially angry when Juno asks her about the distress signal. She yells at him, that he just wants her to tell him that it was his boyfriend Ransom who betrayed them, but that Ransom would be way to irritable to work with Dark Matters. Sasha seems pleased about the conflict and surprised that Jet and Vespa have not killed Juno yet.

Finally, Juno interrogates Rita, who is, according to herself, covered in "Liquorice Squid snack powder, tears and boogers". They discuss where Peter might have gone and whether he might have betrayed them, since he left even before Sasha appeared. But Juno assures Rita that he does not think so and that Peter might just be ready to disappear anytime. While Juno questions Rita, Sasha reveals that she plans to use Rita to pressure Juno and that she might shoot her to raise the pressure. But Juno, Rita and their family have their own plans. While Jet is causing a distraction, Buddy uses the nail polish remover to create an explosion and Juno and Rita pin Sasha down with the knife Rita got from Vespa.

Sasha recalls the event that lead up to this and realizes that she underestimated Juno’s bond with his found family, as well as the growth he has gone through during the last two years. She expects for the Aurinkos to kill her. But Juno gives her a look that makes Sasha believe that she is still family to him and declares that since she doesn’t pose a threat she will not be harmed.

## Cast and Crew

### Cast

Sophie Takagi Kaner as Sasha Wire

Joshua Ilon as Juno Steel

Sarah Gazdowicz as Buddy Aurinko

Chloe Cunha as Vespa Ilkay

Alexander Stravinski as Jet Sikuliaq

Kate Jones as Rita

### Crew

Created and produced by Sophie Takagi Kaner and Kevin Vibert.

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