ep 50 – Nicotine in the Redwoods

Detective Billy Armi finds Dave Michaels hanging upside down from a redwood branch, calmly negotiating zoning laws with a pinecone — and that's before the Bigfoot subcommittee enters the conversation. What follows is less an investigation and more a caffeinated unraveling of woodland reality, complete with stimulant-induced enlightenment, vibrating primates, apologetic trees, and a dominant male Bigfoot who becomes aggressively managerial after swallowing chewing tobacco, the can, and possibly Tuesday.

This is Episode 50 at its most absurd: geometry collapses, raccoons file paperwork, coffee is weaponized mid-air, and the redwoods evaluate everyone for accreditation. If you've ever wondered what happens when nicotine, espresso, and forest hierarchy collide under foggy Santa Cruz skies — this is the completely unhinged answer.

ep 49B – Death by the Berry Best- The Death of Rory

Rory in Watsonville is dead. Or standing. Or possibly cultivated. What begins as a murder involving a strawberry costume unravels into something far stranger — a field that hums, irrigation lines that chant, and berries that may be listening. When a poem from The Final Stanza challenges "the world's greatest detective — Billy Armi is acceptable," reality itself begins to shift. This isn't just a crime scene… it's agriculture gone metaphysical. And Detective Armi may not be investigating the field — the field may be investigating him.

ep 49A – Death by the Berry Best: The Signal Is Wrong- The Death of Rory

Rory in Watsonville is found standing in a strawberry field — upright, unwounded, and possibly cultivated. What begins as a murder investigation spirals into something far stranger as the crops begin to lean, irrigation lines hum in unison, and patrol radios recite a poem from The Final Stanza. The field breathes. The station glitches. And Detective Billy Armi may not be solving a crime — he may be part of the harvest.

UFOs and Hot Dogs- Improv Comedy Skit

What starts as a routine moment of confusion turns into full-blown panic when Billy and I realize we're aboard a UFO that smells unmistakably like hot dogs—and that we're not the guests, we're the entrée. As the truth sinks in, the improv spirals into alien logic, human denial, and the uncomfortable discovery that Earthlings may be a delicacy.

ep 48- The Dog-Faced Deed

When a loud, likable KSCO host and real estate lawyer, Dean Sutton, is found dead near the lagoon behind the station, Detective Billy Armi is pulled into a case that starts with property disputes and ends with something that refuses to be categorized, explained, or acknowledged out loud. As bizarre callers, shifting boundaries, and foggy silence surround the scene, Armi confronts a presence that looks almost human, behaves entirely too calmly, and seems far more interested in land lines than victims.

When hikers report fog that moves against the wind and signs of something impossibly large roaming Wilder Ranch, Detective Billy Armi is drawn into a mystery rooted in ancestry, memory, and land that remembers too much. What begins as whispers of a woolly mammoth becomes a chilling confrontation with history repeating itself—proving that some places don't want answers… they want witnesses.

This episode of 1080 After Dark breaks from tradition in the strangest way possible. Instead of a full murder-mystery, Episode 75 dives into a series of ultra-short scripts—tiny stories, abrupt turns, and ideas that probably shouldn't have been explored after midnight… but were anyway. Some are dark, some are absurd, and some end before they even feel finished. No answers, no explanations—just micro-mysteries and, frankly, other bad ideas.

Episode 45 – Santa Clause in Cold Blood: The Death of The Harbor Master

Christmas at the Santa Cruz Harbor turns deadly when the Harbor Master is found strangled with a string of Christmas lights. Detective Billy Armi — coffee cup fused to his hand and patience wearing thin — is called in to untangle a case that threatens to ruin the season. With The Final Stanza leaving mocking poems at the scene and trying to frame Santa Claus for murder, Armi follows a trail of clues through fog, fake snow, and holiday madness. The showdown at the breakwater delivers one of the strangest confrontations yet, ending with a poem only Armi could recite. Christmas is saved… but just barely.