POST-PRODUCTION CONFESSIONAL
CLOSE QUARTERS
SEASON 4
EMBER REED: CHIEF STEW
PRODUCER
We’d like to go back to the night of your date with Eli.
EMBER
I’m sure you would.
PRODUCER
As you can probably imagine, that episode was when everything really shifted for the crew. You weren’t very forthcoming with talking head footage on the boat, so we were hoping we could get some of your thoughts now.
EMBER
Any idea of why I wouldn’t have been keen to do interviews after that night?
PRODUCER
Because you felt guilty?
Ember laughs, shakes head.
EMBER
Of course I did, but even guilty people have their shot at a fair trial. That wasn’t the case for me. You all decided to make me the villain.
Ember shrugs.
EMBER
So, that’s who I became.
Now, I was buzzing.
Not a drop of alcohol in my system, and yet every nerve was alive as I casually walked around the corner of the building and into the small alley, gathering my hair in my hands and fanning my neck like I was innocent.
As if I didn’t know who was storming after me.
As if electricity wasn’t prickling my skin in anticipation of what he’d do once he reached his target.
It was sick.Iwas sick.
And yet I wouldn’t have taken the remedy even if there was one.
The fabric tie fastening around the waist of my dress pulled taut, yanking me to a stop just as I disappeared in the shadows of the dimly lit alleyway. I didn’t gasp as I turned. I didn’t even try to act surprised.
I was humming, ready for the fight.
And when I saw Finn’s tight jaw, everything inside me lit up like a firework show.
“You’re actually fecking kidding, right?”