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Her name, according to the closed captions, was Darcy. But the actress was listed as "Megan." She appeared in exactly seven episodes as a nurse at Erinsborough Hospital. She had no major storylines. She just handed Harold a clipboard in Episode 412, told Susan Kennedy to take a deep breath in Episode 418, and laughed at a joke Lou Carpenter made in Episode 425.

He spent the next week reconstructing her story. The character, Nurse Darcy Mills, had been hired to cover an actor’s sick leave. Her contract wasn't renewed. The producers lost the master tapes for two of her episodes. The actress, a woman named Megan Holloway from Brisbane, had quit acting in 2002 to care for her sick mother. She now lived in a coastal town called Shoal Bay, where she ran a bookshop.

He had every season of Neighbours from 1985 to 2003, meticulously organized by airdate. But Season 17 (2000-2001) was a wasteland. The official streaming services had grainy, cropped, VHS-sourced versions where Harold Bishop’s face looked like a watercolour painting left in the rain. But a private tracker had promised a miracle: an HDRip.

Leo did something he never thought he would. He bought a plane ticket.

And he had a hole in his timeline.