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Thaddius seeks refuge from his struggling marriage by forming an online relationship with Sara, hoping for comfort and distraction. But when Sara recounts unsettling tales of seizures and kidnappings, he begins to doubt her true identity and wonder what lies behind the screen.

Thaddius & Sara is a programme classified as an episode. It is listed simply under the title “Thaddius & Sara” with the type noted as a programme and the genre identified as an episode. The story follows Thaddius, who turns to an online connection with a woman called Sara as a way of escaping the difficulties of his marriage. Their digital relationship offers him a temporary distraction, but the dynamic shifts when Sara begins to share disturbing accounts of personal seizures and episodes of kidnapping. These revelations cause Thaddius to start doubting Sara’s true identity. The unsettling nature of her anecdotes forces him to question whether the person he’s been speaking with is genuinely who she claims to be, or if there is something more concealed behind the screen. As his suspicion grows, the episode centres on Thaddius’s internal conflict: he is caught between the comfort he finds in the virtual bond and the unsettling reality of the stories Sara tells. The narrative tracks his struggle to reconcile his need for escape with the increasingly bizarre and alarming details emerging from their online exchanges.