The end of the year is treated as a reset point - a moment where change becomes possible, responsibility is deferred, and progress is symbolically renewed.

This episode dismantles that assumption.

It examines how calendar boundaries are mistaken for structural interruptions, how New Year’s Eve absorbs accountability from the rest of the year, and how waiting is reframed as discipline rather than delay. It looks at why progress is mismeasured, why “starting again” feels relieving, and how continuity is quietly mistaken for failure.

After Episode 1 collapsed geographic distance, this episode collapses temporal permission.

Nothing resets at midnight.

What changes is whether anything actually moves.

This episode was recorded after the Bondi attack.

It examines what changes when violence enters a place that was ordinary, familiar, and trusted. For Australians, Bondi marks the moment where distance no longer holds - where violence is no longer absorbed through markets, policy, or news cycles, but enters everyday public life.

Written and read by Kyriakos Gold, this episode opens the series begins.

It offers no catharsis or resolution. It names what fractures when safety and distance can no longer be assumed.