Where Beyond the Gates
revolved around a VHS board
game (younger readers may
need to ask your parents), in
Sequence Break it’s a stand-up
arcade game (again, ask your
parents - this is all making me
feel very old) that causes the
trouble here. Williamson is Oz,
a millennial who toils away hap-
pily fixing old arcade games for
a small company that sells them
on to collectors. The work brings
Oz small pay but great joy, and
he tinkers with his machines with
the care of a veterinarian coax-
ing a foal from a pregnant mare.
It’s a job with as much future po-
tential as that of a pager sales-
man though, so it’s no surprise
when his boss (Lyle Kanouse)
breaks the news that business is
going nowhere and he’s shutting
up shop in a month’s time.
After hearing the bad news, Oz
heads to a local bar and gets
wasted, unaware that his boss
has been murdered by a myste-
rious hobo who leaves a brown
envelope at the shop. While
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