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Care Protocol — An Original Limited Series

Don McDonald

5 episodes · in order

For four years, nobody in Portland died by violence on a public street. Then, in a single week, five people do. A software engineer waiting for a ride. A pharmacy tech on the Fremont Bridge. A retired advisor in a parking garage. A man carrying groceries in from the curb. A kindergarten teacher, sixty-eight years old, waiting in her own driveway.

More about the show

Five strangers, and not one connection anybody can find. Until FBI agent Maya Restrepo goes back forty years and finds it. Every one of them had done something. Every one of them had walked away from it.

And in a place where nobody should have been able to write anything at all, somebody is leaving sentences.

Care Protocol. A four part serial thriller, written and narrated by Don McDonald. Episodes one and two premiere September 9. New episodes Wednesdays.

Care Protocol is a Short Storyverses production.

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Episodes

  1. Care Protocol — Four Sentences

    · 1:05 · Trailer

    For four years, nobody in Portland died by violence on a public street. Then five people did, in a single week, and each time somebody left a sentence behind. Care Protocol. A four part serial thriller, narrated by…

  2. Care Protocol — An Audio Novella — Episode 1

    · 40 min · S1 E1

    Nobody has died on a Portland street in four years. The city handed over the wheel eight years ago and got back quiet nights, clean air, and a fatality rate of zero. Ask anyone. The algorithms saved us. Then, at 7:12…

  3. Care Protocol — An Audio Novella — Episode 2

    · 29 min · S1 E2

    Nine cameras caught it. A stretch of I-5 outside Wilsonville, a wrong-way truck, a school bus full of kids from a district that can't afford a field trip, and something that should not have been possible happening in…

  4. Care Protocol — An Audio Novella — Episode 3

    · 24 min · S1 E3

    The case against Marcus Webb fits on a kitchen calendar. He was arrested in April. Nobody has died since April. The government calls that proof. Maya Restrepo calls it something else, and to say so under oath she has…

  5. Care Protocol — An Audio Novella — Episode 4

    · 25 min · S1 E4

    The killing stopped months ago. The markets recovered. The city went back to trusting its streets. Then a man who has built a career on being the least insane person in any room walks into a rented conference room in…

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