my pitch for do no harm season 2:
recently-murdered-by-ian ruben comes to consciousness to the waiting room in the afterlife. he tells his name to the spectral figure at what might be some kind of front desk, though everything’s a bit abstract right now. but he would find it comforting if there was a desk or something, so that’s what he’s choosing to interpret it as.
“maracado, marcado…” the spectral figure mutters. “first name ruben, did you say? …huh. are you sure?”
“yes, i’m sure about my own name” ruben says scornfully, then acquiesces to himself that he was also pretty sure he literally just died, and he was pretty sure he didn’t believe in an afterlife either. “well, it’s the only name i remember having, at least.”
“right…just let me get my manager.”
so then ruben’s anxiously loitering around for ages while more and more spectral members of afterlife staff mumble and shake what he chooses to interpret as heads and eventually the first spectral figure shuffles up to him.
“this is embarrassing for us,” it says. “ someone’s really biffed it on this one, haha. you’re not due here yet. you shouldn’t have even met ian price, you actually have a really long and fulfilling life left!”
“okay, that’s not really comforting now that i’m dead anyway.”
“oh, the infinite tapestry of the universe, you know how it is,” the figure says, and ruben nods, because being an anomaly in the fabric of existence is only one of the weirder things to have happened to him today.
anyway. they explain that jason never checked into the afterlife when he was due after he died as a kid like they showed in the finale. his souls been lurking around ian’s head since then, and ruben found himself just sort of too close in proximity and got caught in the firing line when the universe finally got around to untangling this particular knot, so that’s how he ended up here. oops!
and then season 2 is just ruben trying to science his way out of the afterlife and right the balance of the cosmos by kicking jasons soul to hell where it belongs and live out the rest of what was apparently supposed to be a very long and successful life.
its no stupider than what they woulda gone with and guaranteed 100% more ruben
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