In this meditation on choice, memory, and annihilation, we follow Nathan Collom, a Surface Warfare Officer shaped by the early trauma of loss.

The moonlight that once fell over the Congo in the final moments of an ivory trader's life finds its way into the USS Lake Erie's Combat Information Center.

The past and future collapse into a single question:

What does it mean to press the button?

And what does it mean not to?

This episode explores paralysis and inevitability, fate and redundancy, duplication and disposable identity. It asks whether destruction is ever about ideology, or whether it is something more intimate, more personal, more haunted.

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