Scapegoat Studios

Cuts Both Ways

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Mary Shard is the only immigration lawyer for miles. Every morning she takes the elevator up to a rural asylum court presided over by an animatronic judge with a 10:30 tee-time, opposite a permanently-bored opposing counsel named Nipples McGee. Then one day a former client comes back to thank her — she won her own case overnight, with an AI tool that did the job in an afternoon. Cuts Both Ways is a 40-minute audio drama. A farce about asylum, automation, and what happens to the human in the room when the machines start doing the job slightly better than the humans we've stretched too thin. Fro...

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Cuts Both Ways - Teaser 1 25.05.2026 0:56

Mary Shard built her career fighting for people the system wants to disappear. Now she's got an edge: an AI that never sleeps, never misses a precedent, never lets a client's story slip through the cracks. It's the best asset she's ever had — until it starts winning cases she's not sure should be won. When the machine that's supposed to serve justice starts deciding what justice means, an immigrat...