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The White List
Seventeen numbers. Two false identities. One signature that cannot be taken back.
- ~175 min
- 11311 words
- 48 scenes
- 16 branch points
- 5 endings
- Calder Vale, 8-9 October 2026
37 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
At 7:12 on a wet Thursday in Calder Vale, large-animal vet Fenn Rook signs seventeen cattle out of a herd she has tended for twelve years. The order is lawful, the disease risk is real, and the signature is required before her coffee has cooled. By noon, the animals on the white list will be gone. By night, Fenn will learn that two of their identities were false. Aldercombe's 186 pedigree Calder Reds belong to Martin Vale, sixty-one, the third generation of his family to breed from the same line. Compensation pays table value for cattle removed under disease control. It does not pay for future milk, unborn calves, a clean market status or the October cheque that keeps the bank outside the gate. Across Crow Cut, neighbour Nell Harrow has twice offered to take two heifers and twice been refused a movement licence. Before dawn she stops asking. Fenn's junior colleague will not countersign the list. His reason is worse than cowardice: he deliberately made two identities on the original test record false, trying to save the last daughters of a foundation cow. One animal removed that morning was not the animal associated with the test reaction. The animal that was has already entered Nell's mixed yard. Correcting the record expands the restriction. Concealing it makes Fenn's own licence the mechanism of whatever comes next. The White List is an adult procedural tragedy about animal disease control, professional certification and the price institutions can name versus the value they destroy. Sixteen consequential choices track Fenn's record, the farm's survival, the colleague she protects, the neighbour who trusted her, the processor buying her practice and every statement carrying her name. Five endings differ in who owns the damage. None gives the herd back.
Content notice7 topics · tap to review
- animal death and livestock disease control
- graphic aftermath without instructional killing detail
- professional coercion and false certification
- financial distress and loss of a family farm
- betrayal by a trusted colleague
- alcohol use and grief
- no explicit sex; all characters are adults
Cast
- F Fenn Rook protagonist; large-animal vet and Official Field Veterinarian, 38 no portrait yet
- M Martin Vale third-generation keeper of Aldercombe Farm, 61 no portrait yet
- S Sion Marr junior veterinary surgeon, 29 no portrait yet
- E Ezra Pike licensed livestock removal contractor, 46 no portrait yet
- N Nell Harrow tenant farmer at Harrow End, 44 no portrait yet
- D Dr Anja Venn Animal Health Directorate Veterinary Inspector, 53 no portrait yet
- M Mara Bell majority owner of Barrow & Rook Veterinary Practice, 57 no portrait yet