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4 The Scapegoat


The Liberator crew are in the market for guns. However the old president is still clinging on to the idea of regaining power, and there a video of Villa confessing to his crimes, but that’s not Villa…


It feels like a fairly normal set up, a contact the crew can buy the weapons from, a seemingly ordinary planet, the federation - or at least the old president lurking about and with that video of someone claiming to be Villa, is this a trap?


After a bomb explodes it turns into one of those stories where everybody is separated and nobody is sure whose still alive.


Each member gets to do something, some more than other perhaps, but it feels often the case where charter get sidelined since there’s no room for them to be in the plot.


The old president is trying to kill two birds with one stone, regaining power and discrediting the Liberator crew. Its something Tarrant has to argue with a citizen about - that they aren’t terrorists but freedom fighters. Villa comes face to face with his impersonator, and despite the impersonation, he isn’t too dissimilar to Villa, so much so that Villa sees himself and questions his life.


Toby Longworth acts in this, I’m more familiar with him form the later Hitchhikers radio series.


Its a good audio, does more than the average audio in this range.

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