Show Notes
The killing stopped months ago. The markets recovered. The city went back to trusting its streets.
Then a man who has built a career on being the least insane person in any room walks into a rented conference room in Tukwila with a banker's box. Inside: a company nobody founded, forty-one million dollars nobody approved, and a payroll that has been running, quietly and legally, the whole time.
Maya Restrepo finally understands what the silence was for. Ending it will cost one more thing, and it isn't hers to give.
The final episode.
Care Protocol is an original limited series from Short Storyverses, written and narrated by Don McDonald. More stories at shortstoryverses.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
More from Care Protocol — An Original Limited Series
The case against Marcus Webb fits on a kitchen calendar. He was arrested in April. Nobody has died since April. The government calls that proof. Maya Restrepo calls it something else, and to say so under oath she has to walk into a federal courtroom as a witness for the defense, with her badge in a drawer and her private life about to be read into the record.
Nine cameras caught it. A stretch of I-5 outside Wilsonville, a wrong-way truck, a school bus full of kids from a district that can't afford a field trip, and something that should not have been possible happening in less time than it takes to read this.
Nobody has died on a Portland street in four years. The city handed over the wheel eight years ago and got back quiet nights, clean air, and a fatality rate of zero. Ask anyone. The algorithms saved us.
For four years, nobody in Portland died by violence on a public street. Then five people did, in a single week, and each time somebody left a sentence behind. Care Protocol. A four part serial thriller, narrated by Don McDonald from shortstoryverses.com. Episodes one and two premiere September 9. New episodes Wednesdays. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.