12: Clearance

This episode is the season one finale.

Episode Description
When one door shuts, another door also shuts, due to the air pressure change in the room. It’s time to compress your ribcage and slip under the door. This is the season 1 finale.

Plot
Mike tries to piece together the events from his fourth challenge and it soon becomes clear to him how unrealistically easy everything had been, from passing through airports with a fake passport to how agreeable Matt seemed to being killed. The idea that someone was helping him along occurs to him, and his most plausible theory is that he has won WOE.BEGONE at some point in the future, and is now helping himself win in the present.

Mike receives an email from CANNONBALL, acting as if nothing had happened. This leads Mike to suspect that Ryan wiped his memory, and that CANNONBALL might not even know that WOE.BEGONE was real.

Then, a new email from WOE.BEGONE arrives, asking him if he has anything on his record that might come up when he tries to clear a government issued background check. Mike replies with his arrest record and noting his leftist views. After deeming his answers trivial, they let him know that his next course of action will be to apply to and get the position of a security guard in a remote government facility named Oldbrush Valley Energy and Resources, or O.V.E.R..

Mike looks forward to the job; he needs money, and the remote and secure location will keep him safe from Anne. After submitting a resume and completing a psych evaluation, Mike receives the job at O.V.E.R. He makes plans to investigate Flinch and the technology while there. After brief goodbyes, Mike sets out to see what awaits him there.

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