Episode 4 - Nathaniel McBride

**“***What do you want? Who are you?***”**
— **The Interviewer****, Season 1, Episode 3**

The Amelia Project is a secret agency that helps its clients by faking their deaths and setting them up with a brand new identity! In this episode we delve into a sprawling conspiracy that connects the death of Alan Rickman, the rise of UKIP, Matt Terry’s X Factor victory, Stephen Hawking’s latest warning about AI and learn the meaning of - sorry, you'll have to listen to find out!

## Episode Guide

### Next

Bubble Liquid
Behind the Scenes Bonus - How would you like to disappear?

## 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

The episode opens with a man replying to the voicemail with sneezing and coughing. Following that, The Interviewer is on the phone with Alvina, listing methods of faked deaths. When he hears a sneeze in the room he realises someone else is there and hangs up. After trying to contact Joey and Salvatore the man reveals that he knocked them out when he entered. His name is Nathaniel McBride and he works for MI5.

The Interviewer assumes he is there to arrest him, but it turns out Nathaniel is looking to be a client, independent of MI5. He has uncovered a conspiracy which seems to link various inane events together, although he rips the recording device out of the wall before he goes into details. He wants to reveal the information to the public, but needs to fake his death beforehand since MI5 will attempt to discredit him.
The Interviewer realises that the death has to be noble and sensational so that they cannot harm his reputation. The solution they come up with is a Bond style scenario where he valiantly prevents a thief (Joey) from stealing an important briefcase and dies during an ensuing chase.

### Epilogue

The Interviewer is on the phone with someone discussing Nathaniel. Although he doesn't go into details about the conspiracy because of the line being unsecure, it becomes apparent that the person on the other end of the call is already aware of it. They agree to meet up in a few minutes.

### Events Connected

**The following are the events mentioned in the episode that the conspiracy answers/links together:**

* Current uprising in Ethiopia
* Death of Alan Rickman
* Rise of UKIP
* Matt Terry's X Factor victory
* Steven Hawking's latest warning about AI
* Google
* Nick Cave
* Sliced beetroot
* The UK's terrible weather
* A secret meeting at Westminster in 1978
* Charlie Chaplin's stolen remains
* Algeria's general election in 1992
* Belgium's national airline going bankrupt in 2001
* Russia giving Ireland a 4-billion Euro loan in 2008
* The longest ever solar eclipse in 2010
* Malaysian Airlines Flight 370
* Election of Donald Trump
* Nathaniel's 3-year cold
* Zayn Malik leaving One Direction
* Death of Lady Di>

### Notable Events

* This episode is when we find out the names, previous lives, and faked deaths of Joey and Salvatore.
* This episode contains the introduction to MI5, but this appearance is not connected to later events.

## Quotes

**“***Activate Operation Jelly Bean***”**
— **The Interviewer**

**“***Tick tock, beam me up Spock... (UNDER HIS BREATH) Please beam me up, we have a demanding one on our hands...***”**
— **The Interviewer**

## Cast

* The Interviewer played by Alan Burgon
* Answerphone voiced by Julia Morizawa
* Nathaniel McBride played by Robert Cudmore

## Credits

This episode features Alan Burgon as The Interviewer, Robert Cudmore as Nathaniel, and Julia Morizawa on the answerphone. It was written and edited by Philip Thorne, story editing by Øystein U. Brager, directed by Alan Burgon, with music and sound design by Fredrik Baden. Recorded at Fife College. Production coordination by Julia C. Thorne. Thanks to A Scottish Podcast.

## Notes

* This episode was temporarily labelled episode 3 while the Elizabeth Barlow episode was off the feed.
* The phone conversation The Interviewer was having at the beginning of the episode is the other half of the conversation Alvina was having in Bubble Liquid.