Episode 01
Coldwater Lease
A rural trail-camera footage reviewer who stopped truly watching his clients' land months ago realizes one “hunting lease” was never about deer — it was months of a stranger patiently documenting his own house, laundered through his own habit of not looking too closely.
Wade reviews trail-camera footage for hunting leases across the Texas Hill Country — a gig-economy job of deer counts and buck scores that pays by the card and asks nothing of him but a glance. He tells you upfront that he'd let his standards slip to a rubber stamp long before any of this started, and that the account called Coldwater Lease seemed, at first, like nothing more than easy money: sixty dollars folded into an envelope, no name attached, more than any client had ever paid him to look at pictures of deer.
Then one card keeps coming back. The same forty-one motion triggers, the same buck standing at the edge of frame for the same forty seconds — except each time it returns, some small detail has shifted. A timestamp drifts. A shadow rotates further than the moon should allow. A branch that wasn't there is back in almost the same place, like someone noticed it was missing and rehung it. Wade tells himself it's a bad card, a clock going bad, a client with too much time on his hands.
It's the kind of wrongness that only shows itself to a man who finally decides to actually watch instead of skim — and by the time Wade understands what he's been rubber-stamping every month, he's already found out how close the property line runs to his own back fence.
Spoiler-light synopsis — the rest airs Tuesday and Friday nights.