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5 min readIn the season finale of Midnight Burger, Leif finds himself face-to-face with Mesok—the being he thought was dead—aboard a vast, impossible chariot drifting through the cosmos. Mesok is not dead. He is the creator of every property the crew has ever visited: the diner, the Paradise, the Stone Fox, the Bingo Hole. Each one began as a single point of light, folded dimensionally, then set free to find a home wherever people needed a place to gather. “I don’t decide what form they take,” Mesok explains. “I just sort of set them free.” The diner, it turns out, was his first creation—cramped, messy, full of too many ideas, but unforgettable. And the cow catcher Leif built and launched in a moment of rage? Mesok caught it. Leif forgot to arm it. “I know you did, Leif,” Mesok says gently. “I know because you forgot to arm it.”
The Third Brother
Mesok shows Leif his observatory, where they can view any point in history. He takes Leif back to the beginning of the universe, to the moment he first folded the properties that would become Midnight Burger. But Leif has heard this story before—from someone named Roman, who claimed to come from a time before time and space. Roman tried to kill Leif and his friends. Mesok’s face changes. He knows exactly who Roman is.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:00) **Advertisements and Previously On** - A series of sponsor reads for ESPN, American Airlines, and Samuel Adams non-alcoholic IPA, followed by a rapid-fire recap of the season's major plot points.
- 2 (03:34) **Leif Meets Mesok** - Leif wakes up on a strange ship to find his injured arm replaced by a synthetic one, and comes face-to-face with Mesok, a creator being who was thought to be dead.
- 3 (08:46) **The Purpose of the Creations** - Mesok explains that his creations are meant to be "change agents" that shake things up, but the change must come from within the universe itself.
- 4 (12:41) **The Mucklewains and Temporally Locked Intelligences** - Leif asks if Mesok created the Mucklewains, leading to a discussion about a mistake that created an entire civilization.
- 5 (14:48) **The Cosmic Windmill** - Mesok and his colleagues demonstrate a massive engineering project, a windmill the size of a solar system, harnessing energy from two black holes.
- 6 (17:44) **The Origin of Midnight Burger** - Mesok shows Leif his observatory, which can view any point in history, and takes him back to the beginning of the universe to see the creation of the diner.
- 7 (21:39) **The Revelation of Ti-Rok** - Leif connects Mesok's story of existing before the universe to the story of a being named Roman, revealing that Mesok has a brother.
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Show Notes
Leif - Tom Moorman
Meesock - Darius Pierce
Trinkett - Camille Smicker
Libuza - Shelly Darrington
Caspar - Joe Fisher
Frank - Benjamin Burdick
Phil - Edward Selvey IV
Steampunk Leif - Tom Moormon
Big Leif - Tom Moorman
Gloria - Siouxsie Suarez
Jeremiah - Lindsay Bowen
Fiona - Tess Segal
Canadian Leif - Tom Moorman
Kazi - Jessica Morris
Voon - Leeman Kessler
Teta - Aubrey Ferguson
Another Gloria - Siouxsie Suarez
Verge - Cat Blackard
David - Quintin Jones, Jr.
June - Melody Bridges
Peter - Joe Fisher
Slabz McTerpz - Joe Fisher
Effie - Julie Cowden-Starbird
Zebulon - Neal Starbird
Vodnik - Graham Rowat
Juggalo Leif - Tom Moorman
Kissaten Leif - Tom Moorman
Italian Leif - Tom Moorman
Pink! Leif - Tom Moorman
Intense Leif - Tom Moorman
Ginkgo Leaf Leif - Tom Moorman
Marguerites - Lauren Leblanc
Ink Using Ava - Finlay Stevenson
West Texas Ava - Finlay Stevenson
Swedish Ava - Finlay Stevenson
Deidre - Tina Case
Celeste - Cooper Shaw
Steve - Jessica Mudd
Doug - Keith Cable
Ex - Camille Smicker
Cass - Scottie Caldwell
O-Tahn - Finlay Stevenson
Tavrok/Tarvok - Ian Ferguson
Christina - Caroline Vuchetich
Written by Joe Fisher
Directed by Joe Fisher and Finlay Stevenson
Episode art by Ramsay Hong
Music:
Bleak - dreem
surreal - dreem
NIGHT - dreem
Stay This Way - Hanna Lindgren
Missouri Hoedown - Carl Myles and the California Haylofters
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