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Episode 2: Zero Hour

Ace Handley and The ApocalypseAPR 24, 2026 • 55 MIN • SEASON 1, EPISODE 2

At 2:17 AM, Maya Carter realized the signal wasn’t just being listened to.It was being tracked.When two men show up at her mother’s house asking for her by name, the line between obsession and reality collapses overnight. What started as a late-night discovery in a garage becomes something else entirely—something organized, precise, and already moving faster than they are.As Maya runs, the rest of the Null Seekers are forced to confront a possibility they’ve spent years joking about:What if the system was never dormant?What if it’s still running… and they just triggered it?But by the time they understand the scale of what they’ve touched, it’s already too late.Communications begin to fracture.Authorities contradict themselves.And somewhere far beyond their small town, something bigger than any of them has already been set in motion.They can still run.They just don’t know what they’re running from anymore.

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At 2:17 AM, Maya Carter realized the signal wasn’t just being listened to.

It was being tracked.

When two men show up at her mother’s house asking for her by name, the line between obsession and reality collapses overnight. What started as a late-night discovery in a garage becomes something else entirely—something organized, precise, and already moving faster than they are.

As Maya runs, the rest of the Null Seekers are forced to confront a possibility they’ve spent years joking about:

What if the system was never dormant?

What if it’s still running… and they just triggered it?

But by the time they understand the scale of what they’ve touched, it’s already too late.

Communications begin to fracture.
Authorities contradict themselves.
And somewhere far beyond their small town, something bigger than any of them has already been set in motion.

They can still run.
They just don’t know what they’re running from anymore.

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Ace Handley and The Apocalypse
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2 of 7
Season
1
Released
Apr 24, 2026
Runtime
55:05
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