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Oblongata Station
Oblongata Station is where Donny tells his gang to meet "later tonight" to "make history" MEN E1·00:50:05.
Oblongata Station is the vast marble train station way down by the brainstem, with the reflexive switchboard MEN E2·00:53:47 MEN E3·00:34:05. In MEN_02 Max says a train was taken off the yard into a hangar out past platform nine MEN E2·01:02:34. In MEN_03 Brennan says the best path to the balls is Oblongata Station, where the party saw that switchboard MEN E3·00:37:53. In MEN_04 Ivana, Imelda and Anastasia reach it in the rain with shock troops at paddy wagons outside, and Brennan describes twelve sets of doors in a row and a glass octagonal security station MEN E4·00:01:52 MEN E4·00:06:31 MEN E4·00:23:24. Max calls it "the master switchboard for Oblongata Station" MEN E4·00:10:31. When the keys go in, the station sends couriers out to the musculature and nervous system MEN E4·00:19:04.
In MEN_05 Frank names the reflexive switchboard at Oblongata Station as one of the keyholes, and the party races there after Madam Loathing MEN E5·00:44:55 MEN E5·01:59:07. MEN_06 takes place there: a taxi pulls up in the wee hours and rain, with the trains pulled off the platforms MEN E6·00:08:46. Lance goes up into the clock tower MEN E6·00:09:48. A phone booth stands in a corner MEN E6·00:27:22.
By episode
MEN E1: The Big Guy
- Oblongata Station — train station; Donny: "meet me down at Oblongata Station later tonight" — 00:50:05
MEN E2: The Scattered Mind
MEN E3: F For Freezer
MEN E4: Grappling With Death
- Oblongata Station — rainy streets, paddy wagons with shock troops outside; inside "probably 12 sets of door in a row" with golden bars, a "Grand Central vibe", a glass octagonal security station over "double staircases going down towards the different platforms" — 00:01:52, 00:06:31, 00:23:24; adrenaline docks "gummed up" with embargoes or tariffs — 00:06:31; "the master switchboard for Oblongata Station. The reflex center of the brain" — 00:10:31; the station sends couriers to "musculature and the nervous system" — 00:19:04; named on the map frame — 01:11:29
MEN E5: Emergency Powers
- Oblongata Station — "the reflexive switchboard at Oblongata Station" — 00:44:55; Imelda, Ivana and Lance head there; Madam Loathing is bound there too — 01:59:07, 01:47:48
MEN E6: Case Closed
- Oblongata Station — the whole fight: a rail yard in the "wee hours of the morning", rain and storm, all trains pulled off and platforms empty, steam-filled marble colonnade with an upper deck, a station agent's box with the PA and the four-F console, a clock/bell tower where Lance stands, doors Stacy's car crashes through, steps down to the street, a phone booth in a corner — 00:08:46, 00:18:19, 00:09:48, 00:11:33, 00:27:22