THIRST S1E4: Duck!

Can't Tear My Eyes From You, Chapter 4: Duck!

The contestants play "The Newlywed Maim."

Cast:

Marge Dunn as Raine Randolph

Amanda Egbu as Georgia Whittaker

Eleanore Cho Fellerhoff as Holliday Murdock and Mom

Joshua Ilon as Dennis Cruz and the Canadian Soldier

Tooky Kavanagh as The Algorithm

Quinn McKenzie as Capote Whittaker

Melody Perera as Anouk Kalhara

Stefano Perti as Dennis Lang and the Sergeant Murder's Breakfast O's Announcer

Marc Pierre as Sergeant Murdock

Alexander Stravinski as The Host and Sergeant Murder

(Trigger warnings can be found at the bottom of this episode description and at the end of the transcript.)

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On staff at the Penumbra:

Ginny D'Angelo -- Head of operations

Melissa DeJesus -- Script editing team

Harley Takagi Kaner -- Co-creator, director, sound designer

Joelle Kross -- Transcriptionist

Grahame Turner -- Script editing team

Kevin Vibert -- Co-creator, lead writer

Ryan Vibert -- Composer and performer of original music

Jeff Wright -- Graphic designer

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Trigger warnings:

- Violence and gore

- Body horror

- Manipulation

- Abuse of authority

- Military violence

- Propaganda

- Sudden loud noises

- Sexism and objectification

- Profanity

- Spousal abuse

- Fascism

- Climate disaster

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