Playoffs Serial:
Trouble in Tucson
written & directed by Ryan Gowland
They came to the wrong place for a night out.
3 Episodes
Original Run: 2 eps, 3/16/19 - 3/23/19
Playoffs Run: 1 ep, 4/6/19
Summary: In a hotel room in Tucson, Arizona, new father Paul is freaking out over whether he can keep his infant daughter safe. His wife, Jen, tries hard to talk him down. She's also annoyed that he's wearing a hotel bathrobe, since its been worn by another man. Wouldn't it have been cleaned before they checked in? Well, no... because this isn't their hotel room. And the occupant - a dangerous man named Miller - arrives unexpectedly, confronting Paul while Jen hides. As Miller begins to strangle Paul, Jen sneaks up behind Miller - and expertly slits his throat. It turns out Jen and Paul are on a mission and Miller was their target. They had gotten out of the business, but took this one last job to get a college fund for their new child. As Jen finally gets Paul to calm down about the stresses of fatherhood, though, there's a knock at the door...
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Photos by Jessie Bias
Summary: The hotel security guard catches them in Miller's room and figures out they're coyotes - but it seems things are okay, because he's impressed with them and is a big fan. He says coyotes are usually like ninjas - nobody sees them - and this makes him the only person to see coyotes twice. Wait, twice? Jen is horrified to hear that several years ago, the guard say Paul shoot someone. As Jen and Paul prepare to leave, the guard draws his gun on them and apologizes - they're his heroes, but he likes money more. He ties them up and injects Paul with something that knocks him out. When he goes to get another syringe for Jen, she immediately slips her bonds - but before she can gather up Paul's inert form and get them both to safety... Miller wakes up. It turns out she wasn't as thorough about slitting his throat as she thought; his jacket had a Kevlar collar, and his throat was just nicked. He holds Jen and Paul at gunpoint...
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Photos by Jessie Bias
Summary: The standoff is interrupted by the arrival of Miller's colleague Chucky. Jen gets the drop on him, stabbing him in the back and taking his gun, but the turnaround doesn't last long and Miller has soon disarmed Jen again. When he learns who Jen and Paul were hired by, he makes an offer for them to work for him instead; if they refuse, he'll kill them. Before she can decide, though, the Hotel Security guard comes back- but it turns out he's the villain who hired Jen and Paul to kill Miller in the first place...
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Photos by Maddalena Calderon
Cast
| Carrie Keranen | Jen (Eps. 1-3) |
| Brendan Broms | Miller (Eps. 1-3) |
| Ryan Gowland | Paul (Eps. 1-3) |
| Andres Paul Ramacho | Hotel Security (Eps. 2-3) |
| Gilbert Martinez | Chucky (Ep. 3) |
