Juno Steel and the Recipe for Disaster (Part 2) is an episode of the Penumbra Podcast in the Juno Steel Series. It is the sixth Juno Steel episode of season 5, and the tenth overall episode of the season.
Overview[]
When Juno Steel is accused of a crime he didn't commit, it's up to Detective Rita, Private Eye to save the day! Can Rita clear Juno's name?
Trigger Warnings[]
- Incarceration
- Sudden loud noises
- Violence and threats of violence
- Deception
Episode Summary[]
It's up to Rita to solve the case! She convinces the Raos to let her help improve their security, and questions them with Juno's instruction. Juno spends most of this episode in prison, being nostalgic for Hyperion City.
Toward the end of the episode, it's revealed that Peter Nureyev had manipulated Horace Rao into falling in love with him so he would help with the theft of Grandpappy's Recipe, promising that he would sell it and return so they would run away together. Juno knows that the promises Nureyev made him were genuine, but thinks about how unrealistic they were.
Cast and Crew[]
Cast[]
- Joshua Ilon as Juno Steel
- Kate Jones as Rita
- Craig Phillips as Horace Rao
- Eleanore Cho Fellerhoff as Melinda Rao
- Lydian Meloccaro as Skipper Rao
Crew[]
- Ginny D'Angelo as Head of Merchandise and Outreach
- Melissa DeJesus as Script editing team
- Harley Takagi Kaner as Co-creator, Head of Episode Development, Director and Sound designer
- Joelle Kross as Transcriptionist
- 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
- Jeff Wright as Graphic designer
Quotes[]
HORACE: More than anything else he stole my peace of mind. I thought I was happy, running this company, keeping Grandpappy alive in spirit. Then he said he loved me and it was just a hint of what I was missing, but I couldn't live without it. He'd sell Grandpappy's Recipe and then come back for me, he said. We'd run away together, he said.
He said he loved me, and it was like a dream... a long sleep I let him lull me into.
Part of me knew it was too good to be true. But after so long... so many years of such terrible weight on me... the dream of running away from it all seemed so sweet. I had to reach for it. Any of you would have done the same. I know you would.
MELINDA: Oh, Father. SKIPPER: Gramps.
JUNO (NARRATOR): As the Ruby sped out of Tyr's stratosphere I kept chewing on Horace Rao's words. "He said he loved me, and it was like a dream." And like a dream that promise had been intangible, impossible to grab hold of, and Nureyev had left Horace grasping at air and empty promises for the future.