Episode 3 - Elizabeth Barlow

**“***Prove you're the best... Call me.***”**
— **Elizabeth Barlow****, 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 reality a wealthy woman with an ambitious plan enters the agency… Can The Amelia Project fulfil her demands?

## 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

Elizabeth Barlow contacts The Amelia Project after being cheated on by her husband. While The Interviewer is at first bored by this case, asking Joey and Salvatore to remove her, after she explains what happened and how she wants to die he agrees to take it on. She tells The Interviewer that her now ex-husband embarrassed her by lying about being at home when she contacts him pretending to be working later, while in reality she is at home and has a surprise party planned. After their divorce, he brought her a Lamborghini and wanted to stay friends. Instead, she wants to make him suffer by seeing her die a gruesome death.

The Interviewer suggests they stage a suicide, but she turns down his initial suggestions as they all seem desperate rather than calculated. Her idea is for her to wrap a chain around a tree and her neck, then ring the doorbell and drive off in the car so that she gets decapitated. She wants to resurface as an investment banker so she can headhunt and then discredit her husband. This will make the women he cheated with, Tiffany, dump him, and so he will lose everything.

For payment, she gives him the keys to their house so they can strip it of everything valuable.

### Epilogue

We hear the plan for Elizabeth's death enacted.

### Notable Events

* Kozlowski is mentioned for the first time.
* Walter from the morgue is mentioned for the first time.

## Quotes

**“***One in a million find our number. More than half hang up before the beep. We get back to about one in ten.***”**
— **The Interviewer**

## Cast and Characters

* The Interviewer played by Alan Burgon
* Answerphone voice played by Julia Morizawa
* Elizabeth Barlow played by Samantha Lawson
* Tiffany played by Christine Thorne
* Rupert Barlow played by Alan Burgon

## Credits

This episode features Alan Burgon as The Interviewer, Samantha Lawson as Elizabeth and Julia Morizawa on the answerphone, with additional voice work by Christine Thorne and Alan Burgon. Written by Philip Thorne. Directed by Philip Thorne and Øystein U. Brager. Edited by Philip Thorne and Phil Anderson-Dyer. Music and sound design by Fredrik Baden. Recorded at Tongeber Studios with the assistance of Gabriel Geber. Thanks to Sirach Lotz. Huge thanks to Philip Anderson-Dyer and Ali Anderson-Dyer from Bunbury Banter Theatre company for consultancy.

## Notes

* This episode was originally listed as Episode 1. However, some time prior to January 18, 2022, this episode was delisted until further notice due to the creators not wanting to promote any harmful stereotypes or endorse transphobia.
	+ In the original ending, Elizabeth states she wanted to become a man so she could steal Tiffany from Rupert. This ending is no longer endorsed by the creators and is only notated here for historical purposes.
	+ The episode was later returned to the feed as episode 3 with an edited ending where Elizabeth has a hedge fund set up and headhunts her husband to her new company so she can have control over ruining his life.
* The episode's corresponding prologue was Prologue - Cocoa before removal.
	+ The episode's removal also prompted the removal of Chateau Lafite, the prologue for the original episode 2, due to the mentioning of the "Barlow job."

## References

1. ↑ Amelia Project Tumblr - *"Yes, we removed the episode due to concerns regarding harmful stereotypes. We neither wanted to endorse these nor spread any transphobia, so we removed the episode from the feed until further notice."*