Juno Steel and the Embrace of Ice (Part 2) is the second episode of The Penumbra Podcast season 4. It was released October 12, 2021.
Overview[]
Seventeen years apart, two hot pursuits get hotter.
Trigger Warnings[]
- Isolation
- Dark and claustrophobic spaces
- Sudden loud noises
- Violence; implied torture and death
- Discussion and use of firearms
- Discussion and use of alcohol and cigarettes
- Deception / lying
Episode Summary[]
In the present, Juno Steel and Puck Falco approach the abandoned mineshaft they suspect the missing child may have gone to.
17 years earlier, Juno and Diamond Hijikata buy clothes and go undercover "on a date" at the restaurant whose staff knows Captain Hijikata as mob boss "Ms. Shot." Juno loudly asks where the restroom is as a cover to investigate the restaurant's back room, where he discovers a note addressed to himself and receives a phone call from Ms. Shot. Her voice is obviously Hijikata's, but she denies her identity and threatens and belittles Juno. He realizes that her people have been keeping Sonny, the waiter who let her identity slip a previous night, tied up in an adjacent room, but is too late to stop him from being moved by hovercycle. Juno takes off running.
Back in the present, Juno muses that it would be easier to let go of the career and marriage he didn't get to have, if only nobody else had gotten hurt in the battle between himself and Captain Hijikata.
Cast and Crew[]
Cast[]
- Joshua Ilon as Juno Steel
- Chelsea Ruscio as Puck Falco
- Josephine Moshiri Elwood as Diamond Hijikata
- Regine Vital as Captain Hijikata
- Bob Mussett as Sonny
- Lydian Meloccaro as Detective Parsons
Crew[]
- Kat Buckingham as Head of Merchandise and Outreach
- Alice Chuang as Head of Design
- Melissa DeJesus as Script editing team
- Harley Takagi Kaner as Co-creator, Head of Episode Development, Director, Sound designer
- Ellison Estephan as Promotional artist
- Noah Simes as Production manager
- Grahame Turner as Script editing team
- Kevin Vibert as Co-creator, Head of Operations, Lead writer
- Ryan Vibert as Composer and performer of original music
- Recorded by Mertz at The Bridge Sound & Stage
Quotes[]
DIAMOND: If you want to outwit my mother, you'll need to think from every possible angle. Trust me. It took me fifteen years to figure out how to sneak out of the house without her catching me. Without a disguise, we're sunk. Ooh, or what do you think of the blue?
HIJIKATA: (THROUGH COMMS) Detective Steel. Glad we finally got the chance to talk. JUNO: Captain H? HIJIKATA: See, there you go again! That's exactly the kind of thing I wanted to talk to you about. Cuz the thing is, stranger, you seem to be under some odd impression that you and I have met before, and so I just wanted to set the record straight. We've never met. And if you're a smart little lady, we never will. I don't think that'd work out too good for you.