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You pull off the main road, your tires crunch over loose gravel or maybe broken glass.

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Who knows?

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This isn't the greatest motel in the world.

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There's a sad rusty sign that has half a grin of neon still lit.

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The other half is a sickly pink that...

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used to probably be a different color.

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The parking lot is a battlefield of old defeats.

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There's cracked asphalt everywhere.

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There are weeds that sprout from those cracks and there are a few cars scattered
throughout.

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You pull up and park, going straight to your rooms.

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What's the plan?

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Yeah, I mean, we got the lion's share of a day left and I think we ought to figure out how
to orient on that.

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Maybe everybody take five, get cleaned up, and then we meet in Ryan's room.

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How's that?

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Yeah, yeah, sounds good.

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I'll meet you there in five.

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I just need a second.

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I don't need too long.

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You each get to your rooms.

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It's not a key card, it's an actual key.

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You open the door and the air inside of your room is, it's air conditioned at least, but
it is also very musty.

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Like it's a hotel room that has seen a lot of action in the past.

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There's a stale sense of cigarette.

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smoke on everything now that it's sunlight and you're able to see the entire room.

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The smell is there too, but you would almost prefer the cigarette smell to the cheap air
freshener that they're running through these rooms and you get cleaned up.

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Agent Barone, your leg is quite wounded.

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You have some duct tape and gauze over it right now.

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How are you cleaning that up?

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Yeah, I think first things first off comes the boots off comes the pants.

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I'm just gonna take a quick body shower To be able to look all the way around the room
wound and see if it you know is spreading or looks pretty crazy without any material

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around it whatsoever and then once I Do that I'll start getting back dressed up again.

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Do we I know I had a first-aid kit in the back of our truck, correct?

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Yeah, yep.

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I have a first aid kit.

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Now that we're back at the car, I'm going to back somewhere where I could do it after said
shower.

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I think first thing is to do my best at first aid on it before I try and cover it back up.

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I don't want to be conspicuous with just a wound, you know, bleeding through my pants.

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So obviously a clean pair of pants.

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you get into the shower and you start washing the filth off of your body or covered in
mud.

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The bathroom is lit like a morgue.

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The light flickers on and off.

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There's a pale green to the bathroom with how the tile is colored.

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The dripping sound of the sink continuously enters your ear when you stick your head out
of the shower, but blood comes off of you, mud, and it's a mix of nasty

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Materials going down the drain you get out it's cleaned up where the you found the finger
stuck in your leg Still has some blood coming out of it But using your first aid skills,

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which I believe is 10 % right?

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Okay, 34 With a 34 and some time about a half an hour You're able to actually patch
yourself up pretty good.

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Go ahead and roll yourself a d4 and get that back in hit points

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Okay.

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let me roll that.

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Okay.

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Rolling a D4.

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A four.

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Okay.

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Yes.

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There you go.

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So you're starting to feel a little better as you're laying down or not laying down, but
sitting on your bed maybe or one of the cheap chairs there, you start to feel a little

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like queasy and lightheaded.

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Can you give me a pow times five roll?

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or pow time is 5, so I'm looking for 55.

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and I got a 003, so a three.

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Yeah, you feel like maybe you're getting a fever or some I don't know, it's hard to say,
like your throat's a little sore, but you're able to kind of work through that and push

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through that feeling of an onset of some sort of like cold or something.

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And you get dressed in some clean clothes.

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and are ready to go.

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Let's jump over to Agent Ryan.

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Agent Ryan, in your room, what are you doing?

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Putting all my stuff down and I'm just like kind of sitting on the edge of my bed.

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You know when somebody kind of like nervously is like shaking their leg, that's what I'm
just doing, sitting there waiting for them to come to my room.

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Cool.

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So you're just sitting there waiting for them.

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You're still filthy.

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You're gonna get cleaned up at all.

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It doesn't even cross my mind.

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Okay.

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All right, Dell.

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I think it's mostly...

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things to be prepared enough if we need to turn on our heels and go back out again.

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So it's like cleaning the muck out of a rifle barrel.

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is ensuring magazines are topped up.

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It is, you know, a cursory, like, clean of the face, with filth still on the fingers so
that, like, you have muck streaks that just then re-dry, you know, kind of like uh some

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sort of urban cheetah.

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Yeah, and then I will go on out to assess the rest of the crew.

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Urban Cheetah, I love it.

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You get out.

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Barone is taking some time in there.

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You're in there with Ryan first.

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Anything you wanna talk to with Agent Ryan before Barone gets in there?

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Yeah, well, I think we probably have enough on our hands that there better be an answer
out there somewhere, right?

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Like we send these off to a lab, get them expedited, see what resources Butterfield can
pull together in the area, but surely one of these has to mean something to somebody.

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Yeah, I agree.

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think somebody else should probably call him back though.

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I don't think he wants to hear from me again.

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yeah, don't worry, I wasn't asking.

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OK, sounds good.

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Yeah, I just I really hope Aron gets here soon.

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I just really want to see that finger.

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Yeah, hey, um...

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Sitting across from you, like it's strange for you to be more disheveled than I am after
we've just taken a moment to clean up.

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And like your priorities seem a little out of whack.

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And I think I am just kind of like watching you fiddle as yourself and trying to get an
idea of like how much of yourself you seem a little preoccupied.

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I just, I'm having some regrets about leaving the swamp.

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just, I don't know, I just, I'm kind of feeling torn in a couple different ways and I
don't know how to like shake this feeling that I have about really just wanting to get

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closer to these things and document more of it.

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I can sure understand the good itch of a mystery, but for the life of me, I can't
understand what it is you would do if you got out there, right?

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Like those things go back into whatever it was they come out of.

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I don't think you're chasing them, do you?

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I don't like your odds.

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I mean, I don't know.

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I mean, think that's the thing is like, it's the unknown.

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I want to know where they came out of and what they're doing out there.

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Yeah.

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Ryan, and I understand that, and I do too, believe me.

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I, you know, there's only so many things that could drive a man into this line of work.

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And that sure as hell makes my list, but...

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think in order for us to make any sort of progress, meaningful progress at all, it might
be necessary for us to take some steps laterally in order to make progress forward first.

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If you know what I mean.

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Like maybe if you take a couple deep breaths, center yourself and reassure yourself that
like nobody's running from this swamp.

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Like we all see our destiny leading back there.

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It's just.

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Maybe gonna take a time to get there first.

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Think you can work with that?

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Yeah, I think so.

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I'm trying really hard.

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I, I just felt really uneasy, so.

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What you got planned to feel uneasy about?

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know, I just wanna, I think it's important we check in.

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Before you can connect any further, Agent Barone finally makes her way over and you have
some materials that I assume you wanted to look through.

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Yep, definitely.

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So, Barone sluggishly moves through the door, limping a little bit.

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hey gents, sorry about that.

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It took a little bit longer to clean up than I thought.

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There was a gaping hole in my leg from a finger and she pulls out the finger and tosses it
onto the bed, wrapped up in one of those rags that she wrapped it up in.

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Just like, oh, that's right.

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I have a bunch of other things.

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And she dumps out her bag onto the bed to create this, you know, spread.

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of artifacts that they found, including the brain that's wrapped in a bunch of things.

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And toss the tour onto the bed next to the picture.

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She's like, well, I think we have a couple things to talk about here.

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Yeah, as you toss the finger, I think Del is going to reach for it, probably with enough
dexterity to catch it, but rather than with any intent to catch it, is going to try to

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intentionally miss but watch Ryan's reaction.

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I mean, I'm also trying to go for these things immediately as well, especially the finger,
because I haven't had a good look at it.

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So when you catch it, I just look at you.

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m

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No, I'm not catching it.

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I want to see how frantically you try to catch it instead of me.

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Yeah, that's not a good sign.

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I'll let you look at it, but like, I assume the only reason you don't feel me boring into
the back of your head is because your attention is all consumed by what's in your

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Yeah, absolutely.

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I'm also pulling out my camera and like snapping pictures of all the stuff that we found.

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Yeah, definitely.

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Barone's gonna, gonna side eye Dell and kind of give the look of like, Hey man, like I, I
saw that too.

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Like what the hell?

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Ryan, are you all right?

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You're right there.

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You, we, we have these things.

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These, these are ours now.

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They're not going anywhere.

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Um, are, are you okay?

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You haven't cleaned up literally at all.

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I've been gone for a good 30 minutes and she looks at Dell and Dell's

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cleaned up and back to normal and she's cleaned up herself and she looks back at Ryan.

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Oh yeah, I haven't had a chance yet, but I plan to do that later.

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I just haven't seen the finger yet, closely.

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So I just really wanted to see the finger.

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Yeah, definitely.

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I feel free to take a second.

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We're all here.

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When you're done looking at that, you could at least go wash your face.

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uh Del and I can hang out in here and give you a minute.

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In a minute, I will.

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Yeah, yeah, sure.

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What are you looking for on the finger?

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I'm just looking at it and I'm taking pictures of it.

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Okay, you have all of this stuff laid out on the bed.

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The finger's close to you, Ryan, and your snapping pictures.

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You've opened the window, so there's sunlight coming in since it's almost afternoon.

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It's quite bright, so you're able to a, you're able to get good lighting on all of these
items.

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and any deeper investigation we'll have to roll for.

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Okay, I'm not really deeply investigating it.

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I have taken the pictures that I wanted, had a look at it, and I put it back down on the
bed.

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feel like we had relatively thoroughly examined the brain jar previously, right?

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To relatively minimal results.

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I guess I'm feeling like my conclusion is that...

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We need some other expert to get another layer deeper on this stuff.

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Agreed.

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Can I have a memory recall on how big is the brain?

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Like is it human ish size?

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It's a human brain, undoubtedly human, but it is dried up.

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So it looks like it's mummified almost, and the brain stem looks like it's stuck to
something at the bottom of this cylinder.

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Can we investigate the cylinder to see what it might be attached to and if it has any
significance?

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Yeah, of course.

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Do you want to use a forensics kit on it?

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Yeah, I think so, yes.

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Go ahead and roll your forensics.

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Got it at 59 out of 64.

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You pull out your kit and are...

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First looking at it in a general way and you hit it with a black light.

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You can only see the filth on the outside with it.

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From the inside nothing comes out.

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You even dust it for prints.

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looks like there are fresh prints which are probably your prints.

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and there are some older partial prints on the steel part of it, but the glass seems
completely clean and you stick your finger on it to make a print and then dust it and it's

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not there.

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This doesn't feel like normal glass or it doesn't react like normal glass when you're
using it.

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There are three what look to be holes, but when you look in them, they are solid.

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and it feels like some sort of steel in there.

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It's a little different color than the other ones, but it is very solid.

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uh

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and it doesn't look like it opens.

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There's no sort of like electrical element to it at all.

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Yeah, there's no power whatsoever,

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uh...

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snapping more photos of this as well, JFYI.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, it looks like you got that covered.

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Um, to me, it looks like that's sealed up.

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Like you would seal up, um, some type of a biohazard or something that's, infectious.

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Would you, would you say that's, that's right, Del, Ryan?

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I mean, the way that there's a plug in the bottom and it seems like it's all sealed up,
like maybe even a vacuum inside, strange as it may be, it makes me think of a light bulb.

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Interesting.

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Okay.

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All right.

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Well, a thought is something this unique in a town, you know, maybe there's some
historical knowledge or a note of a contraption like this around.

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I don't know who would, you know, keep track of something like that or have any more info,
but there might be a log of the building of this case, if anything, you know, here in town

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somewhere.

225
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gotta be honest, I think if we go ask in ordinary citizens if they have any knowledge
about like a well-known brain in a jar, those people probably will not see sunrise.

226
00:14:43,122 --> 00:14:53,011
I think we need to be rather careful about how far knowledge of this artifact gets out of
our control.

227
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that's fair.

228
00:14:53,701 --> 00:15:01,318
My plan was to walk to the old lady in the diner who gave us that that sweet sweet pie and
be like, hey, I got stabbed in the leg.

229
00:15:01,318 --> 00:15:04,450
Here's a finger from a water thing and we have a brain in a capsule.

230
00:15:04,450 --> 00:15:05,661
Have you seen that?

231
00:15:05,661 --> 00:15:06,462
No, Dell.

232
00:15:06,462 --> 00:15:07,062
Of course.

233
00:15:07,062 --> 00:15:07,453
Yes.

234
00:15:07,453 --> 00:15:08,203
No, for sure.

235
00:15:08,203 --> 00:15:12,847
I was going to keep it, keep it low and not, you know, show all of our cards.

236
00:15:12,847 --> 00:15:19,734
No, but maybe it's a unique enough item that, you know, it doesn't, you know, say

237
00:15:19,903 --> 00:15:23,440
Made in Boggy Depot on the bottom or anything, but I don't know.

238
00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:29,733
Maybe there could have been a lock, but at the same time, yeah, keeping it low I think is
the name of the game.

239
00:15:29,733 --> 00:15:33,719
Does the bottom of it look like it could attach to something else?

240
00:15:33,719 --> 00:15:41,364
Yes, the ports, for lack of a better term, the three holes look like they should connect
to something else.

241
00:15:41,364 --> 00:15:47,359
OK, I think it may make sense to try to figure out what this probably connects to.

242
00:15:47,359 --> 00:15:51,134
I think, like Dell was saying, it sort of reminds him like a light bulb.

243
00:15:51,134 --> 00:15:53,938
Maybe it turns on if you plug it in.

244
00:15:53,938 --> 00:15:54,398
Cool.

245
00:15:54,398 --> 00:16:02,524
I think like I would, I would have thought of turning the thing over, even though I just
said, look at the bottom and say made in blog, bloggy Depot.

246
00:16:02,524 --> 00:16:11,770
I think knowing that it connects to something, we at least have something that we're
looking out for now in a valve type contraption.

247
00:16:11,770 --> 00:16:19,494
rolling that through my head, Barone says, well, I think we at least have enough to, to
make a report for now.

248
00:16:19,494 --> 00:16:21,315
We're not going to get any more answers.

249
00:16:22,068 --> 00:16:27,291
Sitting here in this room, but maybe we could ask somebody I think I should go make that
phone call really quick

250
00:16:27,291 --> 00:16:31,291
Yeah, you know, maybe take a little more time than Ryan did last time.

251
00:16:31,291 --> 00:16:32,214
Be thorough.

252
00:16:32,214 --> 00:16:33,306
Right, no for sure.

253
00:16:33,306 --> 00:16:43,046
I should definitely act like a competent human being and she sides eyes Ryan just a little
bit and she's like, I'm gonna I'm gonna use a payphone not inside this room.

254
00:16:43,046 --> 00:16:44,708
I guess that's a good question.

255
00:16:44,846 --> 00:16:46,593
I'm clearly like, whatever.

256
00:16:46,593 --> 00:16:49,773
And I like get up and like go into the bathroom and close the door.

257
00:16:49,773 --> 00:16:57,507
Okay, do we have access to, well I guess we have quarters in our pockets and there's
there's assumedly a payphone right around here somewhere, correct?

258
00:16:57,507 --> 00:16:58,850
Yeah, there's a payphone.

259
00:16:58,850 --> 00:16:59,551
It's a hotel.

260
00:16:59,551 --> 00:17:01,143
There's one by the office.

261
00:17:01,648 --> 00:17:09,218
Okay, I'm gonna look over at Dell, give a little shrug and say, alright, I'll be back in a
minute.

262
00:17:09,499 --> 00:17:13,655
You watch Ryan, that's, I don't know, I don't know what's up with that.

263
00:17:13,655 --> 00:17:15,726
It feels like my only job today.

264
00:17:15,726 --> 00:17:17,451
Hey man, don't take that job lightly, alright?

265
00:17:17,451 --> 00:17:19,575
We kind of only have each other right now.

266
00:17:19,875 --> 00:17:23,290
No, no, I'm concerned about him.

267
00:17:23,632 --> 00:17:27,037
I don't really know what's going on, but something's got into him.

268
00:17:28,014 --> 00:17:37,351
Alright, well you keep an eye on him, I'll keep an eye on you and then he'll have to keep
an eye on me and we have a trifecta going and I'll slap him on the shoulder and walk out

269
00:17:37,351 --> 00:17:38,614
the front door to make the phone call.

270
00:17:38,614 --> 00:17:47,932
You get down, you walk down a set of stairs right by the office past a humming soda
machine and you get to the pay phone.

271
00:17:47,932 --> 00:17:51,094
There's obscene graffiti all over it.

272
00:17:51,094 --> 00:17:57,298
The phone book is ripped out and the receiver has things carved into it.

273
00:17:57,298 --> 00:18:05,705
But you put your coins in, dial his pager, hang up, wait for a call back and that call
comes pretty quickly.

274
00:18:05,943 --> 00:18:06,797
About a minute.

275
00:18:06,797 --> 00:18:07,328
Hello?

276
00:18:07,328 --> 00:18:08,675
uh Butterfield, sir.

277
00:18:08,675 --> 00:18:10,473
I'm calling to make a report,

278
00:18:10,473 --> 00:18:12,170
Agent, is this Barone?

279
00:18:12,712 --> 00:18:13,897
this is Barone.

280
00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:18,403
Okay, I spoke with Ryan earlier.

281
00:18:18,403 --> 00:18:20,345
It was a bit of a non-conversation.

282
00:18:20,345 --> 00:18:24,789
Do you have more to report or is this gonna be another turkey shoot?

283
00:18:25,260 --> 00:18:37,655
uh No, sir, I Definitely have have more to report and maybe a more cohesive story as well
So we've come we've come across some some stuff and uh in the need of some maybe some more

284
00:18:37,655 --> 00:18:44,070
resources so Just to let you know last night we came across Some transients if you will

285
00:18:44,962 --> 00:18:49,826
we found some people in a ghost town that were unassuming and didn't really cause any
problems.

286
00:18:49,826 --> 00:18:57,792
We chose to hang out there and put ourselves up, up in a, in a corner to stay safe and
watch over the swamp.

287
00:18:57,792 --> 00:19:02,267
Cause on our way in, sir, we saw some crazy

288
00:19:02,267 --> 00:19:06,519
you know, microbiology stuff that, you know, didn't quite sit right.

289
00:19:06,519 --> 00:19:09,592
And we took our time in the swamp, in the swamp sir, overnight.

290
00:19:09,592 --> 00:19:17,965
Um, it appeared to be a, UFO, passed over the top of us and headed back towards the swamp
area.

291
00:19:17,965 --> 00:19:19,797
in the morning we collected our things.

292
00:19:19,797 --> 00:19:21,419
Agent Barone, slow down.

293
00:19:21,419 --> 00:19:24,585
Okay, you saw a UFO and some other things.

294
00:19:24,585 --> 00:19:28,749
What evidence or analysis do you need or support do you need?

295
00:19:29,342 --> 00:19:43,363
a number of things sir we were also assaulted by for the lack of better terms swamp
creatures sir in our possession we have a Torah we have a picture that of townspeople that

296
00:19:43,363 --> 00:19:51,843
we need information on we collected under the floorboards in the church we collected a
brain in a sealed capsule

297
00:19:51,843 --> 00:19:55,177
and I have one of the fingers from one of the beans.

298
00:19:55,177 --> 00:20:00,163
We know there is one swamp bean at large and they are very dangerous sir.

299
00:20:00,163 --> 00:20:09,473
And if I could uh make a package for a runner or a pickup and get this stuff looked at, I
think that would be extremely helpful sir.

300
00:20:10,217 --> 00:20:10,664
Okay.

301
00:20:10,664 --> 00:20:13,582
Is the brain in liquid?

302
00:20:13,582 --> 00:20:15,636
It does not appear to be in liquid, sir.

303
00:20:15,636 --> 00:20:20,304
It appears to be a vacuum, and it is self suspended in the vacuum.

304
00:20:20,304 --> 00:20:26,886
Well, it's suspended on something, but it's not bouncing around or moving, and there does
not appear to be liquid.

305
00:20:26,886 --> 00:20:27,330
Okay.

306
00:20:27,330 --> 00:20:30,678
I will call somebody and where are you?

307
00:20:30,678 --> 00:20:33,673
ah Yeah, no sure what's the name of this motel that rat?

308
00:20:33,673 --> 00:20:34,830
Let's see.

309
00:20:34,988 --> 00:20:36,395
we decide a name on it?

310
00:20:37,388 --> 00:20:39,733
This is the Stardust Motel.

311
00:20:39,733 --> 00:20:46,765
We are located at the Stardust Motel at 123 Main Street here in Boggy Depot, sir.

312
00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:55,285
Okay, I will send somebody down and see, but this brain thing.

313
00:20:55,285 --> 00:21:00,372
has it tried to communicate with you in any way?

314
00:21:00,372 --> 00:21:01,672
Ooh, that's a good question.

315
00:21:01,672 --> 00:21:02,033
don't...

316
00:21:02,033 --> 00:21:05,875
communications in terms of words, no.

317
00:21:05,875 --> 00:21:17,970
But when we entered the church and were digging up the floorboards, there was, want to
say, infectious powder or substance in the air that put me off kilter a little bit, sir.

318
00:21:17,970 --> 00:21:23,873
But it has not spoke telepathically otherwise or made communication, sir.

319
00:21:24,541 --> 00:21:28,946
Okay, so what I'm gonna need you to do is keep that brain with you.

320
00:21:28,946 --> 00:21:34,990
Do not leave it somewhere where anybody but an agent or somebody read in can find it.

321
00:21:34,990 --> 00:21:41,277
That thing should be considered extremely unnatural and dangerous until we know more about
it.

322
00:21:41,277 --> 00:21:43,279
And you said you have a Torah.

323
00:21:43,279 --> 00:21:45,321
Now I'm one for Sunday school.

324
00:21:45,321 --> 00:21:45,877
uh

325
00:21:45,877 --> 00:21:48,534
ah But I believe that is a Hebrew Bible.

326
00:21:48,534 --> 00:21:51,323
Why is that of concern?

327
00:21:51,323 --> 00:21:54,487
ah Because it was in the same hole where we found this brain sir.

328
00:21:54,487 --> 00:21:55,649
I believe they're connected.

329
00:21:55,649 --> 00:21:57,711
Unfortunately, nobody here can read it.

330
00:21:57,711 --> 00:22:03,027
So there's some explanation or some information here and you know knowledge is power sir.

331
00:22:03,942 --> 00:22:07,825
You said you had a piece of this monster that attacked you.

332
00:22:07,825 --> 00:22:15,682
If you have any of the aforementioned fungus, put this all aside for me and we will send
somebody over there to pick it up.

333
00:22:15,682 --> 00:22:22,406
But the brain itself, unless you are handing it off to another agent that needs to be with
you, do you understand me?

334
00:22:22,406 --> 00:22:24,328
Yes sir, sounds good.

335
00:22:24,328 --> 00:22:29,145
We'll turn over a roll of film catalog and everything as well for development if you can.

336
00:22:29,145 --> 00:22:34,496
Okay, and anything else before I get on the phone and try to get somebody down there.

337
00:22:35,194 --> 00:22:39,584
Uh, no sir, I'm the only one who's uh, banged up a little bit and I'm, I'm doing alright.

338
00:22:39,584 --> 00:22:40,946
I think we're set.

339
00:22:41,416 --> 00:22:50,763
Okay, and that call that Agent Ryan made earlier today was ridiculous, but my reaction was
a little over the top.

340
00:22:50,763 --> 00:22:53,346
And I would like you to pass on my apologies.

341
00:22:53,346 --> 00:23:01,571
As Del and Ryan already know, sometimes I can lose my patience and I'm trying to do that
much less, even with...

342
00:23:01,571 --> 00:23:02,742
my coworkers.

343
00:23:02,742 --> 00:23:08,908
So tell Ryan that I apologize for any thing I said that might have hurt his feelings.

344
00:23:08,908 --> 00:23:14,142
But if he calls me like that again, I cannot promise I will not get angry.

345
00:23:14,712 --> 00:23:21,306
I heard loud and clear, On that note, now that you mention it, agent Ryan is, is acting a
little strange.

346
00:23:22,127 --> 00:23:24,348
nothing that I don't think Dell and I can handle.

347
00:23:24,348 --> 00:23:25,178
We are a team, sir.

348
00:23:25,178 --> 00:23:26,889
And we should be able to lean on each other.

349
00:23:26,889 --> 00:23:34,762
But if I have anything further to report on agent Ryan specifically, that was out of line
as far as our stance on him as well, sir.

350
00:23:34,762 --> 00:23:41,125
Okay, and to be clear, Agent Ryan is to be protected at all costs.

351
00:23:41,157 --> 00:23:43,306
yes, yes, yes sir, yeah.

352
00:23:43,306 --> 00:23:44,326
thank you.

353
00:23:44,326 --> 00:23:46,447
Just wanna make sure that's clear.

354
00:23:46,448 --> 00:23:48,370
Agent Dell knows that as well.

355
00:23:48,370 --> 00:23:51,212
His skills are very hard to come by in what we do.

356
00:23:51,212 --> 00:23:56,314
If anything were ever to happen to him, I would be very disappointed in the team.

357
00:23:56,435 --> 00:23:58,407
But if you were to deem...

358
00:23:58,407 --> 00:24:05,204
that something, if he needs to be retired, that needs to be handled by me and me alone.

359
00:24:05,204 --> 00:24:05,786
yes sir.

360
00:24:05,786 --> 00:24:07,250
Great, I'm glad we can understand each other.

361
00:24:07,250 --> 00:24:10,630
I will send somebody over there as fast as possible.

362
00:24:10,630 --> 00:24:14,411
If you leave, remember, take the brain and then he just hangs up.

363
00:24:14,411 --> 00:24:15,273
Okay, great.

364
00:24:15,273 --> 00:24:23,552
Verone pulls the phone away from her ear, looks at it a little strangely and hangs it back
on the receiver and heads back to the room.

365
00:24:23,552 --> 00:24:25,804
Agent Ryan, what have you been doing?

366
00:24:26,596 --> 00:24:27,555
taking a shower.

367
00:24:27,555 --> 00:24:33,005
you get out of the shower, Dell is there, Barone just walks in.

368
00:24:33,005 --> 00:24:35,480
Where to now, ladies and gentlemen?

369
00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:46,289
Yeah, so I think I've been marking up the map that we had, just trying to roughly put down
some coordinates or waypoints or paths that we think we trod.

370
00:24:46,930 --> 00:24:53,007
So that when team rejoins, it feels like we have a tactical map of the situation for the
next half.

371
00:24:53,007 --> 00:24:54,230
All right, Barone walks in.

372
00:24:54,230 --> 00:24:56,723
Del, anything happen with Agent Ryan?

373
00:24:57,708 --> 00:25:00,071
Nah, I I assume he's taking your advice.

374
00:25:00,071 --> 00:25:02,133
Smart thing you've done all day.

375
00:25:02,414 --> 00:25:04,076
Smelled like a fish.

376
00:25:04,674 --> 00:25:13,932
Well apparently he's a much smarter than a fish and quite an asset Butterfield made it
clear to apologize to agent Ryan on his behalf and

377
00:25:13,932 --> 00:25:22,361
You know, I'm sure Gary means well, but if it's all right with you, like maybe today just
isn't the day for that.

378
00:25:22,361 --> 00:25:27,126
I'm not sure he's really ready to hear what you have to say.

379
00:25:27,126 --> 00:25:28,727
You understand what I mean?

380
00:25:29,494 --> 00:25:31,287
Yeah, I do.

381
00:25:31,287 --> 00:25:33,150
I'll keep it to myself just a little bit.

382
00:25:33,150 --> 00:25:37,698
it was imperative to Butterfield that we uh protect Ryan at all costs.

383
00:25:37,698 --> 00:25:41,463
And she shrugs a little bit like, hey, that was weird.

384
00:25:41,498 --> 00:25:48,864
Yeah, well, I mean, I guess consider this little bit of, you know, confidentiality in that
effort.

385
00:25:48,864 --> 00:25:54,509
For whatever reason, I think that might go to his head on a day like today.

386
00:25:54,509 --> 00:25:57,370
Butterfield telling him he might have been right.

387
00:25:58,078 --> 00:26:02,324
I just, I don't know if that's something we can afford is all I'm saying.

388
00:26:02,531 --> 00:26:04,231
Yeah, alright, fair.

389
00:26:04,851 --> 00:26:07,971
Let's let Ryan clean up a little bit and let him wallow.

390
00:26:07,971 --> 00:26:11,951
Maybe tomorrow morning or something I'll let him know.

391
00:26:12,111 --> 00:26:13,611
Yeah, herd, herd.

392
00:26:13,902 --> 00:26:14,237
What's?

393
00:26:14,237 --> 00:26:22,133
they're having this conversation, I walk out of the bathroom and I'm kind of tallying my
hair off and I'm like, what are you guys talking about?

394
00:26:22,837 --> 00:26:23,869
you

395
00:26:23,869 --> 00:26:25,412
Agent Ryan, you look spry.

396
00:26:25,412 --> 00:26:26,644
uh Welcome back.

397
00:26:26,644 --> 00:26:29,541
We, we are just about to try and figure out what's next.

398
00:26:29,541 --> 00:26:34,801
And I'll turn around towards Dell and see what he's been working on, on the bed there.

399
00:26:35,539 --> 00:26:38,834
Yeah, usually, some of my best thoughts come to me in the shower.

400
00:26:38,834 --> 00:26:41,425
Do you have any sparks of brilliance, Ryan?

401
00:26:42,456 --> 00:26:46,120
Well, I'm kind of curious about this brain connecting into something.

402
00:26:46,120 --> 00:26:48,132
I'm very curious about that.

403
00:26:48,132 --> 00:26:51,806
I don't know exactly where we would go to find something like this.

404
00:26:51,806 --> 00:26:54,949
But that's definitely been on my mind at this point.

405
00:26:54,949 --> 00:26:57,881
Did Betterfield have any advice on that?

406
00:26:58,741 --> 00:27:00,441
Not really, uh, oh, sorry.

407
00:27:00,441 --> 00:27:01,121
Yeah, of course.

408
00:27:01,121 --> 00:27:09,721
Uh, so I made my report to Butterfield and I may have bungled it just a little bit, but at
least I got the information across.

409
00:27:09,721 --> 00:27:19,201
Um, we're going to be sending everything with a, with a runner, um, including, uh, Ryan,
if we could, um, pop that film out there as well to send it to get developed, it doesn't

410
00:27:19,201 --> 00:27:21,081
do any good just sitting in that camera.

411
00:27:21,081 --> 00:27:26,367
Um, but we're going to turn all the, all those things over, um, to a runner who's, uh,
who's coming by here.

412
00:27:26,367 --> 00:27:35,594
pretty soon em as far as the brain goes you don't have to worry we're keeping that on us
at all points in time from here forward and I turn and look over at the brain.

413
00:27:35,594 --> 00:27:38,958
Oh, wait, they're gonna take my film out of my camera?

414
00:27:38,958 --> 00:27:40,563
Well, I mean, they're not going to take it.

415
00:27:40,563 --> 00:27:41,606
We're going to give it to them.

416
00:27:41,606 --> 00:27:43,682
The film doesn't do anything being just film.

417
00:27:43,682 --> 00:27:47,202
needs to be turned into pictures and cataloged for information, right?

418
00:27:47,202 --> 00:27:51,410
I mean they have the assets, what do they need the film for?

419
00:27:51,756 --> 00:27:55,426
Well, they're not taking the brain, so they'll definitely need the brain.

420
00:27:55,426 --> 00:27:59,435
Well, a picture of the brain rather, not the brain itself, because we'll have the brain is
what I meant.

421
00:28:00,010 --> 00:28:00,748
I see you.

422
00:28:00,748 --> 00:28:02,327
you got extra rolls, right?

423
00:28:02,327 --> 00:28:03,980
And all this stuff is just sitting here.

424
00:28:03,980 --> 00:28:10,315
I bet you could snap a spare picture and have an extra copy in your pocket if you were so
concerned about it.

425
00:28:10,610 --> 00:28:12,105
Okay, that's a good idea.

426
00:28:12,105 --> 00:28:12,779
Thank you.

427
00:28:12,779 --> 00:28:14,010
Yeah, okay.

428
00:28:14,010 --> 00:28:26,973
Well, while Ryan is kind of trying to settle himself, busying himself with that task, you
know, I'll consult Barone on kind of like what you think the most pressing strategic

429
00:28:26,973 --> 00:28:28,715
maneuvers we could make are.

430
00:28:28,715 --> 00:28:35,341
I mean, it's hard for me to sit idly by every moment that passes feels like an opportunity
and...

431
00:28:35,593 --> 00:28:41,197
That swamp is vast, but boy it sure feels bad not having eyes out on that ritual site.

432
00:28:41,197 --> 00:28:51,304
I am curious to see if we've put a uh dent or a ding in their operation or if it's even
right to be calling it an operation.

433
00:28:51,304 --> 00:29:00,273
I have so many goddamn questions and I don't see any way of answering them lest we stray
back into that swamp there.

434
00:29:00,273 --> 00:29:02,819
You know, I actually have no qualms with that.

435
00:29:02,819 --> 00:29:04,845
I think we should 100 % go back.

436
00:29:04,845 --> 00:29:06,390
What time did that ritual happen?

437
00:29:06,390 --> 00:29:08,293
Who was awake during that time?

438
00:29:08,443 --> 00:29:09,055
It was me.

439
00:29:09,055 --> 00:29:11,000
It was late at night, early morning.

440
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:14,427
I think it was 4 a.m., if I'm remembering correctly.

441
00:29:15,338 --> 00:29:16,579
4 a.m.

442
00:29:16,579 --> 00:29:25,579
when you saw the craft and Dell first heard it around 1 30 a.m.

443
00:29:25,579 --> 00:29:27,259
It started around 1 30.

444
00:29:27,259 --> 00:29:28,259
Yep

445
00:29:28,284 --> 00:29:29,525
Yeah.

446
00:29:29,868 --> 00:29:30,379
All right.

447
00:29:30,379 --> 00:29:32,976
I mean, so it sounds like, she looks at her watch.

448
00:29:32,976 --> 00:29:33,989
What time is it right now?

449
00:29:33,989 --> 00:29:35,227
1230.

450
00:29:36,019 --> 00:29:39,899
Well, it looks like we definitely have some time.

451
00:29:39,899 --> 00:29:46,179
I don't know about you guys, but sleeping on that floor last night didn't do me a whole
heck of a lot of good.

452
00:29:46,179 --> 00:29:48,739
think we know a runner's coming.

453
00:29:49,659 --> 00:29:52,859
I agree we should probably go back.

454
00:29:52,859 --> 00:29:56,079
I do have these still and she holds up the keys to the ATVs.

455
00:29:56,079 --> 00:30:04,659
Maybe we wait for the cover of darkness, borrow these ATVs and make our way back in to see
if

456
00:30:05,382 --> 00:30:12,216
You know, if the chanting's still happening, if that one that got away is really the only
one, or if there's more, I'm...

457
00:30:12,216 --> 00:30:16,574
After a little bit of rest, I think we could probably head right back into it, if you're
all right with that.

458
00:30:17,412 --> 00:30:21,916
Yeah, I think the timing of that sounds just right.

459
00:30:21,916 --> 00:30:26,798
Yeah, how about you both go ahead and get a head start on your rest.

460
00:30:26,798 --> 00:30:32,700
I'll take our cachet, wait up for the runner, and I won't be far behind you.

461
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:39,652
We all get together for dinner around dusk and put things into motion.

462
00:30:40,447 --> 00:30:44,816
And I'm rummaging through my bag and I hand you the roller foam.

463
00:30:44,816 --> 00:30:47,820
I've never been more skeptical of something so innocuous.

464
00:30:47,820 --> 00:30:48,701
Yeah.

465
00:30:48,701 --> 00:30:49,701
Okay.

466
00:30:50,523 --> 00:30:58,954
When I take the bag of everything, I am curious to have a little look at that algae if I
could.

467
00:30:59,889 --> 00:31:01,230
Yeah, what are you looking for?

468
00:31:01,952 --> 00:31:13,485
Yeah, I think, you know how they have like those, a couple of cups, like little whiskey
cups with the little paper doily kind of things over the top at the hotels.

469
00:31:13,485 --> 00:31:17,294
I'm gonna take the doily off and kind of use it like a Petri dish.

470
00:31:17,294 --> 00:31:25,489
I'm gonna put the algae down in the bottom and then break the sides off the other one and
kind of almost seal it on the top.

471
00:31:25,489 --> 00:31:29,470
And I'm gonna take a couple little pieces of different things.

472
00:31:29,470 --> 00:31:30,898
A little bit of food.

473
00:31:30,898 --> 00:31:42,155
a bit of hair, skin, a leaf, little things and kind of like put them around the perimeter
with the organism in the middle and see if there happens to be any sort of interaction

474
00:31:42,155 --> 00:31:46,018
with the environment as though it's drawn to one of these stimuli.

475
00:31:46,873 --> 00:31:49,711
Great, is any metal in there?

476
00:31:49,711 --> 00:31:52,811
yeah, surely there's a little bit of everything.

477
00:31:53,012 --> 00:32:05,484
you put out maybe a shell casing that you had collected and it is drawn under the Petri
dish, your makeshift Petri dish.

478
00:32:05,484 --> 00:32:08,498
It leaks kind of over towards that metal.

479
00:32:08,498 --> 00:32:09,551
very curious.

480
00:32:09,551 --> 00:32:17,474
When it gets to the metal does it seem to have any sort of interaction with it or just
almost like a magnetic attraction?

481
00:32:17,707 --> 00:32:25,725
If you let it touch the metal, will fully get onto the metal and then it just kind of sits
there and shimmers.

482
00:32:26,569 --> 00:32:31,518
no sort of seeming interaction at the barrier between being and bullet.

483
00:32:31,518 --> 00:32:34,402
Yeah, nothing other than a magnetism.

484
00:32:34,402 --> 00:32:39,366
You just see it go on the metal and it's a slow go.

485
00:32:39,366 --> 00:32:45,471
It's crawling almost imperceptibly at first, but over time you see it fully get on there.

486
00:32:46,590 --> 00:33:00,314
almost imagining like the look of one of those ferrofluids like a slowly undulating you
know almost like sea cucumber looking blob I assume it's much much much smaller than that

487
00:33:00,816 --> 00:33:02,840
okay I mean I

488
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:09,869
it might look like that under it, but you just kind of see the particles slowly move over
and then go on to the casing.

489
00:33:09,869 --> 00:33:15,253
I suppose I will scribe down a note for whoever I'm sending this off with.

490
00:33:15,253 --> 00:33:20,596
I mean, I guess I'll share findings with group two.

491
00:33:20,596 --> 00:33:23,660
Like, hey, y'all noticed this thing doing anything funny?

492
00:33:23,660 --> 00:33:28,683
Any strange interactions you had being in that water coming out?

493
00:33:29,003 --> 00:33:31,384
This stuff seems to...

494
00:33:31,719 --> 00:33:34,267
I know, still be alive and kicking.

495
00:33:35,022 --> 00:33:44,568
no, Dell, think I was far more worried about the alien in the water directly in front of
me trying to kill me than watching the algae that was in the top of my binoculars.

496
00:33:44,568 --> 00:33:47,642
So, no, I just collected it, my guy.

497
00:33:47,913 --> 00:34:00,229
Well, I guess that seems prudent, but what you fail to understand is that we haven't yet
ruled this out as an alien that was also in front of you and potentially posing mortal

498
00:34:00,229 --> 00:34:00,640
threat.

499
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:03,384
That's all that I'm currently chasing.

500
00:34:03,384 --> 00:34:08,477
Brown's face has just gotten she's like well fuck me, Del, we all have something to learn
here.

501
00:34:08,477 --> 00:34:10,458
I am sorry about that.

502
00:34:10,458 --> 00:34:12,339
That is a very good point.

503
00:34:12,339 --> 00:34:18,462
I think I just need a little rest and I'll slap him on the shoulder again and be like um
thanks for watching that.

504
00:34:18,462 --> 00:34:24,493
I'm gonna you know hit the hay for a little bit and hopefully be right back at it with
some coffee of course.

505
00:34:24,493 --> 00:34:25,531
Hey, yeah, sorry.

506
00:34:25,531 --> 00:34:26,378
Sorry to disturb.

507
00:34:26,378 --> 00:34:27,463
Just seemed weird.

508
00:34:27,806 --> 00:34:30,923
No, yeah, thanks.

509
00:34:31,126 --> 00:34:35,226
And I'll head off to my room and go for a nap.

510
00:34:35,836 --> 00:34:38,498
And I'm down to keep talking about the algae.

511
00:34:38,498 --> 00:34:48,528
I have been wondering about that myself, especially with the fungus in the church that was
kind of spiraling and leading into the hole.

512
00:34:48,528 --> 00:34:50,760
There's definitely some connection.

513
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:58,047
I've been thinking between the algae, the fungus, and whatever it is that we've seen.

514
00:34:58,047 --> 00:35:06,209
Yeah, I'm with you and that's not entirely comforting given the span of Earth between
those two points, right?

515
00:35:06,209 --> 00:35:13,860
If there is connection, if there is a being capable of spanning that space, that concerns
me.

516
00:35:13,860 --> 00:35:15,202
Yeah, I agree, obviously.

517
00:35:15,202 --> 00:35:22,153
I'm curious of what sort of reaction this algae or fungus would have to.

518
00:35:22,153 --> 00:35:23,414
destruction.

519
00:35:24,236 --> 00:35:31,885
If we did try to light it on fire, for example, what would be the consequence of that?

520
00:35:32,728 --> 00:35:41,304
Yeah, I think maybe that's the exact kind of thing that the laboratory would be able to
provide us with test results for.

521
00:35:41,304 --> 00:35:49,811
Since we have such a small sample, maybe they would be able to judiciously partition it
out and issue tests of that kind of nature.

522
00:35:49,811 --> 00:35:51,993
Hopefully it'll go that far.

523
00:35:52,153 --> 00:35:53,927
Remains to be seen, I suppose.

524
00:35:53,927 --> 00:35:55,006
Agreed, yeah.

525
00:35:55,006 --> 00:36:00,814
Ryan, or Agent Ryan, are you going to be sleeping or taking a nap?

526
00:36:01,494 --> 00:36:02,934
I think I should.

527
00:36:02,934 --> 00:36:04,354
I'm definitely going to try.

528
00:36:04,354 --> 00:36:05,114
Yes.

529
00:36:05,686 --> 00:36:16,056
Okay, Agent Barone and Agent Ryan, since you're taking a nap, go ahead and roll a con
test.

530
00:36:16,056 --> 00:36:18,699
So it's con times five, constitution.

531
00:36:19,748 --> 00:36:30,883
sure yep I'll go first con times 5 I'm looking for 75 % is my con score we get a 29 so
success

532
00:36:30,883 --> 00:36:34,312
roll a d6 to give that back in willpower.

533
00:36:34,355 --> 00:36:36,058
Agent Ryan can do the same.

534
00:36:36,882 --> 00:36:40,563
Yeah, I failed at 79 out of 60.

535
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:43,422
Okay, you won't gain any willpower, but you are rested.

536
00:36:43,422 --> 00:36:48,849
So your mental disorder of obsession starts to let up a little bit.

537
00:36:48,849 --> 00:36:53,394
With the rest, you feel much more relaxed and less anxious about it.

538
00:36:53,425 --> 00:36:54,346
Okay.

539
00:36:54,770 --> 00:36:57,106
So my sanity is still the same.

540
00:36:57,106 --> 00:36:57,588
Sorry.

541
00:36:57,588 --> 00:36:59,333
It's still the same.

542
00:36:59,333 --> 00:37:00,124
Okay.

543
00:37:00,345 --> 00:37:00,688
All right.

544
00:37:00,688 --> 00:37:01,170
Thank you.

545
00:37:01,170 --> 00:37:04,954
Agent Barone, as you're laying down, you get to sleep no problem.

546
00:37:04,954 --> 00:37:06,035
You are exhausted.

547
00:37:06,035 --> 00:37:09,878
Give me another pow times five.

548
00:37:10,838 --> 00:37:12,538
short sounds good.

549
00:37:12,538 --> 00:37:21,809
Pow times five we are looking for 55 we got a 92 we got a failure

550
00:37:21,809 --> 00:37:24,093
You wake up extremely warm.

551
00:37:24,093 --> 00:37:26,374
You are covered in sweat.

552
00:37:26,374 --> 00:37:31,039
Your chest has droplets of the sweat all over it.

553
00:37:31,039 --> 00:37:32,541
Your scalp is sweaty.

554
00:37:32,541 --> 00:37:33,883
You feel feverish.

555
00:37:33,883 --> 00:37:37,366
And your stomach is churning from hunger.

556
00:37:37,417 --> 00:37:38,198
Okay, great.

557
00:37:38,198 --> 00:37:42,043
Yeah, I will get up and look at the clock.

558
00:37:42,043 --> 00:37:43,426
What time is it about right now?

559
00:37:43,426 --> 00:37:44,039
It's about four.

560
00:37:44,039 --> 00:37:44,890
oh

561
00:37:45,806 --> 00:37:51,814
Okay, so do I still have a couple hours before we know we're gonna be meeting up or do I?

562
00:37:51,814 --> 00:37:52,355
Yeah.

563
00:37:52,355 --> 00:37:55,400
Shit, mean, I need something and I'll...

564
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:56,721
Is there a mini bar?

565
00:37:56,721 --> 00:37:57,983
What's in the room?

566
00:37:57,983 --> 00:38:01,728
Is there any snacks that I could just grab and house down?

567
00:38:01,898 --> 00:38:06,217
Yeah, there's a vending machine that has chips and candy bars in it.

568
00:38:06,773 --> 00:38:07,415
all of it.

569
00:38:07,415 --> 00:38:11,173
Yep, I go with chips, candy bars, slim gyms.

570
00:38:11,173 --> 00:38:17,447
get three slim gyms and sheepishly take it back to my room and go to town.

571
00:38:17,447 --> 00:38:19,609
You're eating and eating and eating.

572
00:38:19,609 --> 00:38:20,890
It's a lot of junk food.

573
00:38:20,890 --> 00:38:25,354
You don't feel satiated by it though, but you feel full.

574
00:38:25,354 --> 00:38:30,557
But there's just like this hunger that's hard for you to put your finger on.

575
00:38:30,557 --> 00:38:31,313
All right.

576
00:38:31,313 --> 00:38:32,962
Man, maybe some coffee.

577
00:38:32,962 --> 00:38:36,536
I'll heat up some coffee and have myself a cup of joe.

578
00:38:37,411 --> 00:38:38,803
Yeah, it's great.

579
00:38:38,803 --> 00:38:40,385
Feels nice going down warm.

580
00:38:40,385 --> 00:38:44,069
Wakes you up a little bit, but still very hungry.

581
00:38:45,778 --> 00:38:50,906
Alright, I'll note the time that it kind of started and uh shuffle that away.

582
00:38:50,906 --> 00:38:52,706
I know that it'll be a bit.

583
00:38:52,706 --> 00:38:58,145
Maybe I'll just try to lay back down knowing that we're going to get zero sleep this
evening.

584
00:38:58,145 --> 00:39:00,849
I'm just going to try to ignore it.

585
00:39:00,849 --> 00:39:06,178
it's nothing's calling to me and I've tried what I could think of, I'm going to just try
to ignore it.

586
00:39:06,544 --> 00:39:09,898
Cool, yeah, you lay back down to go to sleep.

587
00:39:09,898 --> 00:39:11,740
Agent Ryan, over to you.

588
00:39:11,740 --> 00:39:16,427
You sleep well and you are asleep the entire time.

589
00:39:16,427 --> 00:39:21,353
There is this dream that comes to you of that chanting.

590
00:39:21,353 --> 00:39:24,287
Can you roll me intelligence times five?

591
00:39:24,287 --> 00:39:29,458
Yes, I got zero zero eight.

592
00:39:29,458 --> 00:39:34,242
All right, that chanting echoes and echoes and echoes in your dream.

593
00:39:34,242 --> 00:39:40,708
It's like one of those vivid dreams where you're roller skating or something as a kid.

594
00:39:40,708 --> 00:39:44,191
And when you fall down in your dream, your legs jerk in your sleep.

595
00:39:44,191 --> 00:39:46,522
But it's that chanting in your head.

596
00:39:46,522 --> 00:39:50,855
You swear you hear it next to you and you start.

597
00:39:51,556 --> 00:39:57,961
to make a connection directly to Arthur Finch and his notebook.

598
00:39:57,961 --> 00:40:05,688
Some things you took a picture in there, some of the words seemingly match up to the
phonetics of the chant.

599
00:40:05,688 --> 00:40:12,385
Not exactly, but there is some sort of connection there that you haven't seen before.

600
00:40:12,385 --> 00:40:14,513
and I realize this as I'm waking up.

601
00:40:14,513 --> 00:40:16,944
Yeah, you would put it together as you're waking up.

602
00:40:16,656 --> 00:40:23,726
I imagine there is some conflicting thoughts with how much you've been looking into this
case, but also really wanting rest.

603
00:40:23,726 --> 00:40:25,859
Like, what are you thinking right now?

604
00:40:25,859 --> 00:40:35,580
I am so tired and I close my eyes and I just take a deep breath and I'm like, oh, this
feels so good to lay down.

605
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:39,577
My body hurts so bad and I haven't slept for so long.

606
00:40:39,577 --> 00:40:48,444
as you're laying there, yeah, there's just something about Finch's work that keeps nagging
at you.

607
00:40:48,444 --> 00:40:56,393
You feel like you've put together this chant and the sound of it feels cohesive in your
head, right?

608
00:40:56,393 --> 00:41:03,059
It feels like it is all coming together for you, but there's just like this missing piece.

609
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:05,340
OK.

610
00:41:05,660 --> 00:41:16,480
Yeah, as I'm really trying to get some sleep here, my head just keeps spinning in like a
million different directions.

611
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:18,560
And I just need some sleep.

612
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:20,400
I just have to get some sleep.

613
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:22,020
Please just go to sleep.

614
00:41:22,020 --> 00:41:23,100
Oh, I'm so tired.

615
00:41:23,100 --> 00:41:25,180
It feels so good to lay down.

616
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:30,900
I want to be my best self when I meet back up with Del and Barone and.

617
00:41:31,064 --> 00:41:40,490
I don't want to disappoint them and I want to help them and I want them to help me and I'm
so tired, I'm so tired.

618
00:41:40,490 --> 00:41:41,733
my God, I can't stop thinking.

619
00:41:41,733 --> 00:41:43,933
I just need to look at the laptop.

620
00:41:43,933 --> 00:41:49,369
I just need to know more about what is in that.

621
00:41:49,369 --> 00:41:50,129
diary.

622
00:41:50,129 --> 00:41:52,371
What was he documenting?

623
00:41:52,371 --> 00:41:55,973
I cannot stop thinking about what he might be documenting.

624
00:41:55,973 --> 00:41:59,709
I remember there was some symbols when I was skimming through it before.

625
00:41:59,709 --> 00:42:04,389
I remember some information about the chance.

626
00:42:04,389 --> 00:42:05,427
god, the chance.

627
00:42:05,427 --> 00:42:08,770
There's just something so familiar about those chance.

628
00:42:08,770 --> 00:42:09,770
What?

629
00:42:10,126 --> 00:42:13,766
There's gotta be something more, more information.

630
00:42:13,766 --> 00:42:15,766
I need more information.

631
00:42:15,766 --> 00:42:16,966
No, no, no, no.

632
00:42:16,966 --> 00:42:18,106
I need to sleep.

633
00:42:18,106 --> 00:42:19,386
That's what I need.

634
00:42:19,386 --> 00:42:21,926
Go to sleep, Brian.

635
00:42:22,582 --> 00:42:31,588
You can look at the files anytime, just get some sleep, go eat some dinner with Del and
Barone, be a normal person.

636
00:42:31,588 --> 00:42:33,410
Everything will be just fine.

637
00:42:33,410 --> 00:42:36,122
No, I gotta get more information.

638
00:42:36,122 --> 00:42:37,454
need to look.

639
00:42:37,454 --> 00:42:39,456
What were those drawings?

640
00:42:39,456 --> 00:42:42,709
That chant, I just can't get it out of my head.

641
00:42:42,709 --> 00:42:44,030
Why is it so familiar?

642
00:42:44,030 --> 00:42:46,761
Have I heard it before?

643
00:42:47,462 --> 00:42:49,123
Where did it come from?

644
00:42:49,405 --> 00:42:51,155
Did Arthur know about it?

645
00:42:51,155 --> 00:42:52,745
I have to get up.

646
00:42:52,745 --> 00:42:54,279
I must look at my laptop.

647
00:42:54,279 --> 00:42:55,994
I have to get, okay, I'm getting up.

648
00:42:55,994 --> 00:42:56,566
I'm getting up.

649
00:42:56,566 --> 00:42:57,628
I'm looking at my laptop.

650
00:42:57,609 --> 00:42:58,086
Okay.

651
00:42:58,086 --> 00:43:09,078
I usually keep everything in a secret folder on my laptop as well so that I can access it
whenever I want, which is a lot.

652
00:43:09,922 --> 00:43:11,593
Great, yeah.

653
00:43:11,593 --> 00:43:16,376
Go ahead, open up your laptop, which is with you, and you look at it.

654
00:43:16,376 --> 00:43:27,606
And yeah, this does have the candor of some of Finch's ramblings when he would sketch
pictures that would devolve into strange text.

655
00:43:27,606 --> 00:43:35,586
that text would phonetically spell out some of the words that you are here, you were
hearing in the swamp.

656
00:43:35,919 --> 00:43:38,290
And what are these words?

657
00:43:38,290 --> 00:43:41,694
Yeah, go ahead and give me another int times five.

658
00:43:41,766 --> 00:43:43,824
3D zero out of 80.

659
00:43:43,824 --> 00:43:44,206
Alright.

660
00:43:44,206 --> 00:43:45,447
One smart motherfucker.

661
00:43:45,447 --> 00:43:52,389
What you can make out is Yakni Shito Napase Hakta Ili.

662
00:43:52,389 --> 00:44:07,239
And in the documents that we recovered from Arthur Finch's, I think it was like a mobile
home or something, was there any sort of dictionary or any sort of writings that would

663
00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:09,381
help me translate this?

664
00:44:09,354 --> 00:44:14,788
Go ahead and roll in a natural plus 30%.

665
00:44:15,530 --> 00:44:21,406
Okay looking for 46 and I got 33.

666
00:44:21,406 --> 00:44:32,837
with your critical success of 33, you're able to put together whatever this ritual was
that Arthur was creating.

667
00:44:33,078 --> 00:44:37,423
You start seeing a pattern in the symbols.

668
00:44:37,423 --> 00:44:42,737
The somatic element of the chant was inspiring feelings that you had never felt before.

669
00:44:42,737 --> 00:44:54,053
From the church to hearing the chant, there has been something going on inside you in your
subconscious and your subconscious starts pointing you to the symbols that are relevant to

670
00:44:54,053 --> 00:44:57,405
this chant and you start to make a catalog.

671
00:44:57,405 --> 00:44:58,986
Are you writing this down anywhere?

672
00:44:58,986 --> 00:45:00,747
Are you committing it to memory?

673
00:45:00,747 --> 00:45:06,750
Like how are you digesting these cryptic symbols that Finch had been scrolling?

674
00:45:07,172 --> 00:45:15,259
Yeah, I have a notebook and I just rip a page out of the notebook and I just start
scrolling, scrolling, scrolling everything.

675
00:45:15,259 --> 00:45:15,988
Yeah.

676
00:45:15,988 --> 00:45:21,084
you end up with a page just as insane as Arthur Finch's writings.

677
00:45:21,084 --> 00:45:32,631
You look at it, it is in your handwriting and how you would draw, but it is disturbingly
similar to what Finch was making.

678
00:45:32,631 --> 00:45:34,484
Go ahead and roll sanity for me.

679
00:45:34,484 --> 00:45:36,104
All right.

680
00:45:36,304 --> 00:45:39,704
Sanity, Sanity, where are you?

681
00:45:40,124 --> 00:45:46,265
OK, looking well, my current sanity is 62, I got a 27.

682
00:45:46,743 --> 00:45:59,825
You still lose one just from being associated, your psychological profile, mirroring
Finches, and you're not a dumb person, Ryan, but maybe you are the next Arthur Finch.

683
00:45:59,825 --> 00:46:01,337
Maybe you're going insane.

684
00:46:01,337 --> 00:46:08,164
Maybe someday you'll find yourself at home surrounded by insane ramblings and.

685
00:46:08,164 --> 00:46:08,485
m

686
00:46:08,485 --> 00:46:10,136
dead alien next to you.

687
00:46:10,136 --> 00:46:12,739
Probably not, but the thought does occur to you.

688
00:46:12,739 --> 00:46:17,502
You're able to catalog these symbols and hum this chant in your head.

689
00:46:17,502 --> 00:46:22,366
You know exactly what you would need to do to complete whatever work this is.

690
00:46:22,366 --> 00:46:30,086
Yep, and I take that piece of paper and I wad it up and I toss it into my pocket.

691
00:46:30,689 --> 00:46:33,294
Yep, you have it with you next to your heart.

692
00:46:38,504 --> 00:46:41,867
Dell, you collect all this evidence.

693
00:46:41,867 --> 00:46:43,603
Where are you waiting for this runner?

694
00:46:43,603 --> 00:46:56,095
Probably after these two go to bed, I go down to the office and I get a fourth room that
is across the way and has a window that points over towards our little cluster of rooms.

695
00:46:56,095 --> 00:47:04,055
And I wait for somebody who pulls into the parking lot looking towards the room numbers
that Agent Barone would have given them.

696
00:47:04,963 --> 00:47:05,453
Yeah.

697
00:47:05,453 --> 00:47:07,394
This is a dead hotel right now.

698
00:47:07,394 --> 00:47:08,464
It's the middle of the week.

699
00:47:08,464 --> 00:47:10,675
Not many people passing through.

700
00:47:10,876 --> 00:47:23,173
a brown, old crown Victoria pulls in, parks, and the driver sits there looking around at
all the rooms, gets out, is wearing a...

701
00:47:23,173 --> 00:47:34,411
coat that's a little too heavy for the heat here is sweating and he pulls out a cigarette
nervously lights it and starts to walk up the stairs to where Barone had said the rooms

702
00:47:34,411 --> 00:47:34,741
were.

703
00:47:34,741 --> 00:47:36,201
Do you stop him?

704
00:47:37,049 --> 00:47:48,829
Yeah, I'll uh, well assuming there's nobody else around, I guess I will unceremoniously
walk out to meet him and I'll say something stupid and cryptic that sounds like it's

705
00:47:48,829 --> 00:48:01,809
supposed to be a uh passcode for a secret society like the mantis stalks at midnight and
just wait for him to like realize that I'm bullshitting and then pass it over.

706
00:48:02,372 --> 00:48:06,257
Yeah, he looks at you and kind of like shakes his head.

707
00:48:06,257 --> 00:48:11,063
He's like, what the fuck are you talking about?

708
00:48:11,063 --> 00:48:11,627
The mint.

709
00:48:11,627 --> 00:48:14,842
mean, this is like clearly the guy, right?

710
00:48:14,842 --> 00:48:16,553
Yeah, I'm the fucking guy.

711
00:48:16,553 --> 00:48:21,293
Okay, sure, yeah, yeah, yeah.

712
00:48:21,293 --> 00:48:22,365
Yeah, yeah.

713
00:48:23,125 --> 00:48:32,851
Yeah, he comes over and he says, yeah, a Butterfield sent me, sent me to this crack of the
ass place to pick up something from you and take it over to the university.

714
00:48:33,596 --> 00:48:40,780
Yeah, yeah, I'm not really like trying to waste his time as when we meet like, you know,
I'm ready to exchange it.

715
00:48:40,780 --> 00:48:45,993
Yeah, I'm just fucking with him because I think it's funny that we're like secret agents.

716
00:48:45,993 --> 00:48:48,084
That's still like a crazy thing to me.

717
00:48:48,084 --> 00:48:51,165
Like that's only happens in the movies, you know?

718
00:48:51,504 --> 00:48:53,584
Yeah, yeah.

719
00:48:53,904 --> 00:49:02,324
He, when his coat comes open, you see a badge and it's oddly an NYPD badge.

720
00:49:02,324 --> 00:49:05,644
He says, sure, let me see that.

721
00:49:06,064 --> 00:49:15,135
He said that you had a piece of paper or a Torah and some mud or something and a fucking
finger.

722
00:49:15,135 --> 00:49:18,003
Yeah, I mean there might be a couple other goodies in here.

723
00:49:18,003 --> 00:49:21,351
If you need them in your manifest, I'm sure you can just check it out.

724
00:49:21,351 --> 00:49:23,626
Yeah, there's all kinds of good stuff we found.

725
00:49:23,971 --> 00:49:25,492
Manifest real funny buddy.

726
00:49:25,492 --> 00:49:26,843
We don't fucking do manifest.

727
00:49:26,843 --> 00:49:34,951
Okay, I'll get this over there and was I was told to stick around until the lab had
results and bring them back to you Should I bring them here?

728
00:49:34,951 --> 00:49:36,432
Well tentatively, yes.

729
00:49:36,432 --> 00:49:43,668
Is there somewhere I could contact to give you an updated waypoint if there's a more
appropriate drop-off locale?

730
00:49:43,668 --> 00:49:45,729
I don't mean to be wasting your time.

731
00:49:46,101 --> 00:49:48,128
sure, sure, here, here's my pager.

732
00:49:48,128 --> 00:49:49,482
The name's Agent Smith.

733
00:49:49,482 --> 00:49:53,152
Agent Smith, how simple and unominous.

734
00:49:55,421 --> 00:49:56,976
Well, thanks for making the drive.

735
00:49:56,976 --> 00:49:58,227
Johnson, right?

736
00:49:58,227 --> 00:50:00,879
So, yeah.

737
00:50:00,879 --> 00:50:01,280
Great.

738
00:50:01,280 --> 00:50:07,134
Okay, I'm gonna take this shit and I'll get ahold of you if I need to and you got my
pager.

739
00:50:07,134 --> 00:50:08,704
All those things you said are true.

740
00:50:08,704 --> 00:50:10,350
Pleasure doing business with you.

741
00:50:10,649 --> 00:50:11,690
Yeah, it's been a real pleasure.

742
00:50:11,690 --> 00:50:12,040
Okay.

743
00:50:12,040 --> 00:50:16,312
And he walks out, opens the trunk, puts all the stuff in the trunk.

744
00:50:16,312 --> 00:50:19,853
You see him put it down very gingerly.

745
00:50:19,853 --> 00:50:26,659
it's anachronistic to his personality, like how like careful he does this.

746
00:50:26,659 --> 00:50:28,790
He almost looks scared doing it.

747
00:50:28,790 --> 00:50:33,133
Gets in the car, turns it on, backs out, gets on the highway and takes off.

748
00:50:33,133 --> 00:50:34,634
And we're about...

749
00:50:34,888 --> 00:50:36,361
That's the plan, right?

750
00:50:36,361 --> 00:50:44,255
So yeah, I have to run a quick errand first, but after that, I mean, I'm planning on being
there right on time.

751
00:50:44,255 --> 00:50:47,750
Okay, well, mean, I figure I'd come with you.

752
00:50:47,750 --> 00:50:50,723
I gotta go pick up some takeout or something.

753
00:50:51,226 --> 00:50:53,325
Take out what we're gonna eat together.

754
00:50:54,047 --> 00:51:03,189
Well, I mean, yeah, if we're all going in to sit down somewhere, if we wanted to just, you
know, reside in the comfort of our own place, I thought maybe I could bring something back

755
00:51:03,189 --> 00:51:03,582
this

756
00:51:03,582 --> 00:51:03,902
sure.

757
00:51:03,902 --> 00:51:06,174
I just have something to drop off at the mailbox.

758
00:51:06,174 --> 00:51:07,148
But yeah, that's fine.

759
00:51:07,148 --> 00:51:08,381
You can come with me.

760
00:51:09,121 --> 00:51:09,512
Yeah.

761
00:51:09,512 --> 00:51:09,962
All right.

762
00:51:09,962 --> 00:51:10,473
No trouble.

763
00:51:10,473 --> 00:51:16,361
I, you know, Butterfield just extra concerned about you said something to Barone about not
letting you out of our site.

764
00:51:16,361 --> 00:51:22,328
He seems extra protective after, you know, the shouting match you had this afternoon.

765
00:51:22,489 --> 00:51:24,381
I think he feels bad about it.

766
00:51:25,347 --> 00:51:25,838
really?

767
00:51:25,838 --> 00:51:27,690
no, I mean I...

768
00:51:27,690 --> 00:51:29,705
Yeah, he was pretty mean to me.

769
00:51:29,705 --> 00:51:33,909
But, you know, I wasn't thinking clearly.

770
00:51:33,909 --> 00:51:36,441
So I understand his frustration.

771
00:51:37,182 --> 00:51:45,960
Okay, alright, well yeah, don't take it personal or nothing, but you know, we can't have
you wandering with dangerous folks about.

772
00:51:46,595 --> 00:51:48,493
Okay, well let's just walk down the street here.

773
00:51:48,493 --> 00:51:50,794
There should be a drop box right down the street.

774
00:51:50,794 --> 00:51:51,068
Yes,

775
00:51:51,068 --> 00:52:01,499
Yeah, you guys roll You're able to drop off a package or a letter Whatever you're dropping
off into the mailbox unless Dell tries to stop you

776
00:52:01,757 --> 00:52:04,230
but I am curious about the contents.

777
00:52:05,070 --> 00:52:06,636
it's just something I'm sending to my grandma.

778
00:52:06,636 --> 00:52:08,703
I'm just sending her a letter saying hi.

779
00:52:08,703 --> 00:52:09,474
Yeah, okay.

780
00:52:09,474 --> 00:52:20,615
I mean, I'm simply going to be looking for visual cues that would betray that fact, but I
am not inclined to, you know, police your mail.

781
00:52:21,572 --> 00:52:23,631
He loves rolling his human intelligence.

782
00:52:23,631 --> 00:52:26,752
All right, let's see if he can get it

783
00:52:27,079 --> 00:52:28,576
new session, new role,

784
00:52:28,576 --> 00:52:32,356
I'm up to 18 dude, I'm so fucking good at this.

785
00:52:32,936 --> 00:52:36,236
Oh, 004, big when it counts.

786
00:52:36,657 --> 00:52:37,539
Yeah.

787
00:52:37,539 --> 00:52:39,843
Yo, let's go!

788
00:52:39,843 --> 00:52:40,537
I'm gonna go.

789
00:52:40,537 --> 00:52:46,619
Yeah, so Agent Ryan, what about your body language betrays that a little bit?

790
00:52:47,431 --> 00:52:51,393
I'm holding it close to my chest.

791
00:52:51,393 --> 00:53:00,332
I don't want Dell to get his hands on what I am sending or have a close look at it.

792
00:53:00,332 --> 00:53:04,792
My plan is to cruise up to this drop box and dump it in pretty quickly.

793
00:53:04,792 --> 00:53:15,343
Okay, so I will stop maybe 40 feet away from the drop box and as you quickly pace on
towards it, I'm just gonna say, you know what the minimum penalty is carried for

794
00:53:15,343 --> 00:53:19,166
disseminating private information like that.

795
00:53:19,166 --> 00:53:20,653
Private information like what?

796
00:53:20,653 --> 00:53:23,313
Man, I don't know what you got.

797
00:53:23,313 --> 00:53:24,940
I don't need to know.

798
00:53:24,940 --> 00:53:26,742
It's not important what it is.

799
00:53:26,742 --> 00:53:30,327
It's that you got it and what you're inclined to do with it.

800
00:53:30,709 --> 00:53:34,153
Can you help me understand what it is you're trying to do here?

801
00:53:34,468 --> 00:53:38,367
I am sending a letter to my grandmother.

802
00:53:38,367 --> 00:53:49,357
I haven't seen her in a very long time and I just wanted to let her know that I am okay
and I just really miss her, okay?

803
00:53:49,357 --> 00:53:51,136
Ryan, you got me fucked up.

804
00:53:51,136 --> 00:53:52,829
You want to try that again?

805
00:53:52,965 --> 00:53:55,336
I don't understand what the interrogation is about.

806
00:53:55,336 --> 00:53:57,219
I am sending a letter to my grandma.

807
00:53:57,219 --> 00:53:57,861
The end.

808
00:53:57,861 --> 00:53:59,954
And I just keep walking towards the drop box.

809
00:53:59,954 --> 00:54:06,258
I'm sorry, I believe you've made this a bureau affair and I'm going to pull out my pistol
and cock it.

810
00:54:06,258 --> 00:54:08,039
shit, okay.

811
00:54:08,621 --> 00:54:09,861
What do you do?

812
00:54:10,423 --> 00:54:11,645
What do you do, Agent Ryan?

813
00:54:11,645 --> 00:54:13,347
And I kind of hear it, right?

814
00:54:13,347 --> 00:54:14,689
But my back is to him.

815
00:54:14,689 --> 00:54:19,276
So I turn around and I'm like, what are you doing?

816
00:54:19,276 --> 00:54:21,239
I don't understand why you don't believe me.

817
00:54:21,239 --> 00:54:29,063
Yeah, I mean the pistol is pointed clearly not at Ryan, but at the post box, right?

818
00:54:29,063 --> 00:54:34,688
Like that is the line and Ryan should know that clearly by body language alone.

819
00:54:34,688 --> 00:54:38,630
And I'm not interested in the conversation.

820
00:54:38,630 --> 00:54:41,773
Ryan is now in charge of his own decision.

821
00:54:41,773 --> 00:54:45,270
Man, you really don't want me to say hi to my grandma.

822
00:54:45,270 --> 00:54:46,250
OK.

823
00:54:46,552 --> 00:54:48,095
I guess we'll play it your way.

824
00:54:48,095 --> 00:54:52,344
And then I stuff the letter into my pocket and start walking back towards the hotel.

825
00:54:52,344 --> 00:54:59,647
Yeah, you vaguely hear me mumbling something about a leash as we're on our way back.

826
00:54:59,647 --> 00:55:13,291
pistol is quickly holstered and you get the impression by the frustrated look on Dell's
face that he did not enjoy resorting to setting a boundary with you like that.

827
00:55:13,291 --> 00:55:16,897
That was not his intended course.

828
00:55:16,897 --> 00:55:20,847
Yeah, I regret letting you know that I had an errand to run.

829
00:55:20,847 --> 00:55:22,765
So that won't happen in the future.

830
00:55:23,688 --> 00:55:26,499
Ryan, you get back up to the hotel room.

831
00:55:26,499 --> 00:55:29,481
Barone, what have you been doing in the meantime?

832
00:55:30,302 --> 00:55:38,043
Man, I think trying to trying to go back to sleep and get some rest after downing a whole
cup of hot gel probably didn't Bowed well for her.

833
00:55:38,043 --> 00:55:49,940
I think she steps out of out of her room the complete antithesis of the last time they saw
her, you know Peppy and stepping out of a room, you know pumped and ready to go for the

834
00:55:49,940 --> 00:55:50,110
day.

835
00:55:50,110 --> 00:55:54,443
I think she's dragon She looks pretty haggard her her

836
00:55:54,443 --> 00:56:04,368
braid is is frayed even though she you know obviously tried to take care of it just a
little bit but she's not looking too great and she's gonna have her have her backpack on

837
00:56:04,368 --> 00:56:09,639
and step out of the room and head towards uh whose room did we decide we would get
together in was Adele's

838
00:56:09,639 --> 00:56:13,027
We were in Ryan's before, presumably, because he was showering.

839
00:56:13,060 --> 00:56:22,288
yeah, so I'll be uh walking towards Ryan's room and I'll see everybody and you know toss
like a Low energy like hey, how's it going?

840
00:56:22,649 --> 00:56:23,850
Hey, how's it going fellas?

841
00:56:23,850 --> 00:56:27,012
Uh, del thanks for uh, thanks for let me get some rest man.

842
00:56:27,012 --> 00:56:34,001
I appreciate it though I'm not sure it did any good and my face is pallid and Not not
looking super hot

843
00:56:34,587 --> 00:56:45,421
Yeah, um, I s- if this is right after that altercation, I assume Ryan has kind of just
like stomped by a shade, grumpier than usual.

844
00:56:45,421 --> 00:56:49,942
And yeah, I'll remark that, you know, I...

845
00:56:50,823 --> 00:56:56,484
Silly as it sounds, I'm afraid that might be the last bit of rest we can afford for a
while.

846
00:56:56,484 --> 00:57:03,026
This old boy is getting leaky, if you know what I mean.

847
00:57:03,674 --> 00:57:07,423
I don't think we can afford to let him out of our sight.

848
00:57:07,423 --> 00:57:12,195
If it wouldn't be unbecoming, I'd put him on a chain, but it's metaphorical for now.

849
00:57:12,195 --> 00:57:13,938
Right, interesting, okay.

850
00:57:13,938 --> 00:57:18,901
well while you're watching him, you might as well uh, watch me a little bit closer as
well.

851
00:57:18,901 --> 00:57:30,950
I I didn't get much sleep and for some reason have ravenous hunger for obviously not slim
gyms and snickers and definitely not coffee, but I'm not, I'm not doing too hot either.

852
00:57:30,950 --> 00:57:36,474
Uh, so maybe keep your eyes split if you can, but yeah, I'll help you watch Ryan as well.

853
00:57:36,474 --> 00:57:47,935
Yeah, I mean, that's no great concern, but the fact that you're, you know, in state of
mind to talk about it plainly with me gives me a bit of comfort.

854
00:57:48,403 --> 00:57:52,577
Hey, gotta be a team player, I don't want to be the weak link here by any means.

855
00:57:52,577 --> 00:57:58,143
maybe I'll play nice with him see if I can get any more information.

856
00:57:58,143 --> 00:58:02,597
honestly, we're both, well, we're all kind of under a little bit of stress here.

857
00:58:02,597 --> 00:58:06,711
So maybe he's not, and I don't know.

858
00:58:06,711 --> 00:58:08,002
I guess we'll find out.

859
00:58:08,013 --> 00:58:11,257
Yeah, I mean, I am for sure the bad cop.

860
00:58:11,257 --> 00:58:14,262
You might as well see if you got room to be a good

861
00:58:14,262 --> 00:58:16,005
Tell you what, Del, I definitely do.

862
00:58:16,005 --> 00:58:18,928
have enough room to be the good cop, hopefully most of the time.

863
00:58:18,928 --> 00:58:28,008
And I'll give him a little nod and tuck myself into uh Ryan's room to check off the meetup
spot and start heading out to dinner.

864
00:58:29,547 --> 00:58:33,872
Agent Ryan, you've stormed back into your hotel room and gone straight to the bathroom.

865
00:58:33,872 --> 00:58:36,094
You still have your bubble wrap letter.

866
00:58:36,094 --> 00:58:37,015
What do do?

867
00:58:37,488 --> 00:58:42,963
So I make another copy of the symbols.

868
00:58:42,963 --> 00:58:48,929
I just quickly doodle them down on a piece of paper, fold up the piece of paper.

869
00:58:48,929 --> 00:58:51,149
I also.

870
00:58:51,199 --> 00:58:54,252
Previously gave Dell a roll of film.

871
00:58:54,252 --> 00:58:58,616
However, that was a brand new roll of film.

872
00:58:58,616 --> 00:59:00,938
I have not taken any pictures on it.

873
00:59:00,938 --> 00:59:15,182
So the pictures that I have taken and have cataloged, I quickly take that roll of film,
put it into an envelope, and then I write my grandmother a message as well.

874
00:59:15,803 --> 00:59:17,603
A, happy birthday.

875
00:59:17,603 --> 00:59:18,315
I love you.

876
00:59:18,315 --> 00:59:20,884
I'm sorry I didn't get to call you.

877
00:59:20,884 --> 00:59:28,492
But also, if anything happens and you don't hear from me, I'm hoping that this package
will find it to you.

878
00:59:28,492 --> 00:59:30,133
You know what to do with it.

879
00:59:30,133 --> 00:59:31,286
Love you, Ryan.

880
00:59:31,286 --> 00:59:32,248
Beautiful.

881
00:59:32,248 --> 00:59:40,015
And you are able to get that on your bubble wrapped manila envelope and you're able to
hide it.

882
00:59:40,015 --> 00:59:42,624
Yep, under the toilet lid it goes.

883
00:59:42,624 --> 00:59:45,251
and there it stays until somebody discovers it.