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Caroline Valo check is on her way to work.

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Where does Caroline work right now?

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Well, unfortunately, she was just reassigned to a shithole known as Boggy Depot.

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She had to look that up a couple times to make sure it was real.

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On account that it doesn't sound real.

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But sure as shit, she's gonna make something of it.

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How long have you been on the job?

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Well, this particular position, well, since I clocked in grabbing bagels and coffee this
morning.

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Yeah, you have four coffees, two coffees, like how many coffees you've taken?

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Oh yeah, think it's full tray.

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Only two of them are spoken for, but we sure will need them throughout the day.

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I'm imagining you're reflecting on the project ahead of you as you're driving to the
station.

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The sun is starting to rise in front of you and you're on your way out there.

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What are you trying to accomplish out here?

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I don't know if you're familiar with the term polishing a turd, but that seems to be what
we have been set to task on.

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there is something of a turd in front of us.

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The confines of Boggy Depot State Park.

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I don't know if you've looked at the numbers recently, but they are not good.

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and if we want to procure any more funding or any more interest at all, we're going to
have to do something about this.

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Stain on a toke.

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you have quite the task ahead of you turning a turd into a diamond.

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Gonna have to squeeze really hard to get that done because this park does not see a lot of
visitors.

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Heat and pressure, heat and pressure.

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Exactly, heat and pressure.

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You roll up and you're driving under a canopy of oak and that familiar swamp smell enters
your nose.

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In the morning, it's not as bad as when the heat is baking it.

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And you see Ranger McKell's truck parked out there and in front of it, his headlights are
still on illuminating an empty car park where

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He used to have some ATVs and he's pacing back and forth.

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Yeah, under my seat, I pull out a tissue box that's full of like hospital shoe liners.

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I slip them on over my wedges.

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On account of the mud out here is as dirty as it smells.

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With a nose scrunched up as high as it can go, I sidle out of my sedan and I give a
friendly morning wave, very neighborly.

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coffee and bagels ready for Ranger McKell.

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Now the day has only just begun and already you look out of sorts.

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How might this have come to be?

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Well, I don't know, I just got here and the ATVs are gone.

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No, no, no that will not do she looks down at her gold little watch and says There's not
but seven hours until the contractors are scheduled to be here.

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What on earth do you mean by that?

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I mean, they're fucking gone.

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That's what I mean.

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I mean, look, and he opens his arms up, points to the empty car park, and yeah, you see
some tracks rolling out of there.

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he grabs his hair he's already sweating pulls his hair back and just squeezes his own head
and then starts to grab his elbows very nervously.

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Okay, right.

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Well, look, we have put an unconscionable portion of our miniscule budget on the line for
this.

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We are not going to squander it today, so we need to figure it out.

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gonna get fired, what do mean figure it out?

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Like, this is our ass.

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no, I know.

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Which is why they cannot find us in such a state.

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So how are we going to recoup what we seem to have just lost?

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Can you roll a persuade?

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No, no, theoretically I was built for this.

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Um, that's a 45, which is plenty low.

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you can tell he's getting activated and would be useless to you if he were in such an
emotional state and you coax him out of it.

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You see him calming down just knowing that he has some help and he's not alone out here.

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Yeah, we are not both going to sync today, not on this first day.

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We need to make a good impression.

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You're part of that.

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Okay, let's retrace our steps.

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Last time we used the ATVs, last person we saw skulking around the ATVs, usual suspects.

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What are we working with?

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I just, I fucking knew it when they were out here.

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They said they were making a video or something about Bird and the keys weren't missing
right after that.

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I didn't think anything of it.

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Thought I might've left them home, but I could swore I had seen them earlier.

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I just, I know it was that fucking video crew that came out here.

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There's no fuckin' birds in this neck of the woods.

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What on earth are they talkin' about?

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Okay, that does sound like the red-handed bandits that we oughta be chasin' down.

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Do you have any idea where they might be?

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Shit.

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Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, I do.

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When I was driving in two mornings ago, I could have swore I saw their truck parked at the
old Stardust.

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Hmm, what a shithole.

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All right, you got a description of this truck.

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I think it's probably best if you go checking out the known park entrances, canvassing,
some such, just like your daily rounds.

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if you get any whiff of them, you give me a call.

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But in the meantime, I'm gonna go shake down the stardust and see if I can't worm my way
into one of those rooms.

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Yeah, it was a big black Chevy truck.

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Nice one, V8.

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They could have, if they had a trailer, they could have taken them, but I'm gonna, yeah,
notes around here and see if I can find them.

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Maybe they're still out here.

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Okay, I think Caroline is going to walk back to where the ATVs had been parked and driven
and she's going to take a cursory look to see if there is any indication that they were

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driven off the property or if they were perhaps loaded into a trailer or some such.

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Yeah, go ahead and give me a search.

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43, which is less than a 50.

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So all right.

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you search around and you see it's apparent that they drove these into the swamp.

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They did nothing to cover their tracks.

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It looks like they went out the main road that they would have drove in at first.

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Okay, well they may be proficient thieves, but these biscuits are only half-baked.

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It seems they took off that way.

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Maybe start your search in that direction.

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I'm sure we can converge on them before appointment time.

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Well, I hope so because like I said, I don't want to get fired.

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I like this job, so.

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Yeah, and she will come over and comfort him, you know, kind of like breathing with him,
putting her hand on her on his shoulder.

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And she's going to say, look, now I'm the only one who knows this.

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We can't keep it under wraps for more than, I don't know, four or five days, but we got
plenty of time.

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So all we need to do right now is breathe, breathe.

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That's it.

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Yeah, he takes a deep breath, closes his eyes for a second.

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He's like, thank you, Caroline, thank you.

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I know you're new and this probably is a, well, shitty job for you, but it's all I got and
I appreciate you understanding that.

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Yeah, well, let's go make something of it together.

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And she will clap him on the shoulder and she is going to march straight back to her
sedan, pull its red polished door open and slip on inside.

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Yeah, you roll out and you're going straight to the Stardust.

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Yeah, yeah, she is looking for a managerial office, someone who would know the room
occupants.

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It is a shithole, you're right.

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And you know that the bottom floor has the office where the cashier or manager, whatever
it would be at this motel is, and you open it and there's just a bell there.

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No one's there though.

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Yeah, well I will wander on over and I will give a little peek behind the counter, see if
there is an obvious place where keys are hung on a rack and if it sounds like there is

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anybody skulking about in the back.

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Yeah, go ahead and give me alertness.

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which is not great but it is a critical success in this case

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Yeah, I mean, that's the one or two critical, one of the two critical successes you could
have got.

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yeah, you just quietly listen and you hear a TV humming, maybe in a back room, there's a
door there that's shut

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Your guess is that right over the counter about hip height is where the keys are hung.

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And in fact, you can see a reflection in a turned off TV behind the counter of some keys
hanging there.

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Is there a key for each room?

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Give me a luck roll.

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There is a key for each room, but there is a unmarked key that looks similar to the other
ones with no tag from it that is hung a distance away.

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little bit of a master skeleton key perhaps.

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I will snag that one and pocket it and maybe just quickly scan for a ledger to see if
there were any notes taken about who has booked into which rooms recently.

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Yeah, there is a ledger there and you go through it.

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There haven't been a lot of guests here You see entries for a Jeremiah, a Janine and
George.

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No last names, just those.

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Mm-hmm, couple of hoodlum names if I ever heard one.

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Yeah, I think that is a cluster of names similar to the group that Mikkel had suggested.

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They sound like a crew.

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So I will wander on out into the annex and see if I can't pinpoint their locations.

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Yeah, from the the receipt book that you found, you know that one of them had a room on
the bottom floor and two had a rooms on the top floor or the second floor.

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Okay, yeah.

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I'll have a look at the top floor rooms first.

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On account of maybe there are a few eyes on them.

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Yeah, you get to 201 and open the door and there are candy wrappers and chip bags, not
messily thrown around, but just sitting all over the bed, some in the trash, like somebody

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in here feasted on junk food.

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Hmm, my my, did a raccoon get in here?

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Alright, I will have a cursory glance around, But...

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I suppose I am looking for personal belongings, place where people would keep important
materials, anything that may have been left behind.

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There is nothing that you can see in the trash though.

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You do find some pretty dirty, like a dirty undergarment, like a, almost like a white tank
top that's torn, that has mud all over it and maybe blood.

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Hmm

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Alright, well this poor unfortunate soul has not had a nice time in Boggy Depot.

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I can see we have that in common.

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I will carry on to the next room.

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Yeah, roll your search for these two.

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With enough time, you will be able to find everything, but we'll do a roll to see how
quickly you can.

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Yeah, uh, 43.

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That is okay.

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The next room is pristinely organized.

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Like you get in there and it looks like no one has touched it.

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There's some indents in the bed where people have sat.

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It looks like somebody made the bed meticulously.

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And as you're searching around.

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hunting through things, there's nothing to be found.

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But you do get to the toilet.

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Maybe you have to piss, I don't know, right?

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But you open the toilet and there it is taped to the inside of the toilet seat is a bubble
wrap envelope that has a lump in it.

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my, my, what on earth are we doing here?

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I will take a pocket square out of my floral purple patterned suit coat and I will consign
myself to the idea that I will be parting ways with this when I am done, but I will

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sacrifice it to the greater good and I will peel that bubble wrapped container off.

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with that satisfying comes off of the tape that was used to fix it there.

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And yeah, it's a letter and it's being sent to the East coast, Virginia.

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Yeah.

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Okay, well, it may be a federal crime if you get caught, but I do not intend to, so I will
go ahead and read that letter.

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I'm very curious as to who it was destined for.

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you rip it open and read it.

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And it seems like somebody is writing it to their grandmother.

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And all it says is, grandma, I love you.

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Here's this, you know what to do.

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Very cryptic.

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that sweet?

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How did grandma earn a place of honor like the toilet?

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I may never want to know.

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Is there any other information as to the sender, as to the information they were trying to
get across?

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It is initialed RD on the bottom and

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the address line, it's to somebody in, your guess is the suburbs, a suburb in Virginia,
maybe around Baltimore, but it is addressed to Elaine Dwyer.

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What a lovely name.

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Sorry, so beyond the brief message, was there some sort of payload that was intended to be
along with it?

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Yeah, you see a roll of film, Kodak.

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inside the envelope you find a hastily scrawled note it looks like they're just these
strange symbols and some notes about a ritual and then some phonetic gibberish around it

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that has the word song below it

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Montugante, Bonante.

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Now, what on earth were they getting into over here?

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I'm gonna need a translator, but I wouldn't even know where to begin.

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most curious.

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We got an RD.

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Thank you very much, RD.

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you are my angel today.

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I will have another look around the room.

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looking for, this seemed to be like a point of congregation, perhaps, multiple people
sharing this room.

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So, I'm curious to see if there is anything in that communal space.

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And then I suppose I will go check the third room just to be thorough.

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Yeah, it looks fairly cleaned up.

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it's not like they had housekeeping that did it, but whoever was staying in this room
seemed to be very particular about how they kept their things.

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So like the bed looks remade, even though there's some dents from somebody sitting on it.

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There's no actual items.

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The trashes are empty.

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It seems to be possum proof, raccoon proof in here.

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Hmm, alright.

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yeah, to the bottom floor we go.

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m

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Go ahead and roll your human for the bottom floor.

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My my my.

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Boy the 40s are good to me today, 42.

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you get in here and it is another room that looks like it's been cleaned up.

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There's something about how the furniture is arranged though.

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It looks like whoever was in here was arranging every seat to be facing the door.

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It still looks nice, but...

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there's a strange feng shui as you enter that gives you the sense of paranoia, like
everything's facing the door.

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And in fact, there's one of the seats a little too close to the window angled toward the
door, or excuse me, angled toward the window.

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Yeah, I think I bristled for a moment, like the hair on my forearm stands up underneath my
silk shirt to the point where I realized that if this person were here waiting, they would

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have been waiting for me.

216
00:16:59,942 --> 00:17:08,453
And I imagine just the chemical reaction that would have been set off in their head when
they heard a lock clicking when it shouldn't have been clicking.

217
00:17:08,453 --> 00:17:10,658
and I count my lucky stars for today.

218
00:17:10,896 --> 00:17:12,942
Yeah, you can roll your sand for that.

219
00:17:13,831 --> 00:17:14,651
Thank you.

220
00:17:14,651 --> 00:17:22,288
I will make sure to narrate more vaguely in the future 47 40 be my lucky number

221
00:17:22,288 --> 00:17:23,740
Yeah, no sand loss.

222
00:17:23,740 --> 00:17:28,484
I guess you get the first signal that something bigger is happening here.

223
00:17:28,717 --> 00:17:33,281
Yeah, I think we were playing childhood games, breaking in here before.

224
00:17:33,281 --> 00:17:35,153
There was no, it was small potatoes.

225
00:17:35,153 --> 00:17:45,248
But the trail it is that I find myself on perhaps is a little more fraught than I realized
putting two and two together.

226
00:17:45,248 --> 00:17:46,782
Yeah.

227
00:17:46,782 --> 00:17:55,643
I would like to look through this room as well, but I think I am doing so hurriedly so as
not to be discovered upon this resident's return.

228
00:17:56,881 --> 00:18:00,483
Yeah, so go ahead and roll a search then since it's rushed.

229
00:18:02,184 --> 00:18:05,504
Yeah, 91, not so good.

230
00:18:06,097 --> 00:18:08,439
Yeah, nothing comes up specific.

231
00:18:08,439 --> 00:18:14,657
You do notice there are some just like metal shavings by one of the chairs at the feet of
it.

232
00:18:14,657 --> 00:18:20,271
Like somebody was sitting there with a knife doing something to metal, but that's about
it.

233
00:18:22,180 --> 00:18:26,504
curious, mildly intimidating, all the more reason to get the hell out of here.

234
00:18:26,504 --> 00:18:28,126
I did not find what I came for.

235
00:18:28,126 --> 00:18:30,127
Perhaps I found something better.

236
00:18:30,127 --> 00:18:34,231
cannot be sure until I understand what it is I am in possession of.

237
00:18:34,231 --> 00:18:42,383
I think I will leave a small recording device, a bug, in the bathroom of the fastidious
person.

238
00:18:42,672 --> 00:18:44,956
whose grandmother's letter I have poached.

239
00:18:44,956 --> 00:18:50,754
I'm not sure if it will be safe to return to retrieve such a thing, but it may prove
fruitful.

240
00:18:51,493 --> 00:18:53,922
Yeah, let's see here.

241
00:18:56,059 --> 00:18:58,377
Go ahead and...

242
00:19:00,046 --> 00:19:01,335
think here.

243
00:19:02,642 --> 00:19:05,339
Give me a intelligence roll.

244
00:19:06,141 --> 00:19:07,590
Yeah, all right.

245
00:19:07,590 --> 00:19:09,914
And then, yeah, that's enough, yeah.

246
00:19:10,314 --> 00:19:11,474
16.

247
00:19:11,878 --> 00:19:13,581
Any old person could do that.

248
00:19:13,610 --> 00:19:17,273
you look and you're like, this idiot hid this thing in the toilet.

249
00:19:17,273 --> 00:19:19,034
I found it, no problem.

250
00:19:19,034 --> 00:19:23,378
There's two things people need to do, eat and piss.

251
00:19:23,378 --> 00:19:25,480
And he didn't think of that.

252
00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:28,843
So you are able to find a good hiding spot for it.

253
00:19:28,843 --> 00:19:33,467
And you set it to flip on when sound enters the room.

254
00:19:35,260 --> 00:19:35,910
Mm-hmm.

255
00:19:35,910 --> 00:19:38,772
I blow it a little kiss as I exit the room.

256
00:19:38,772 --> 00:19:44,077
I make sure to leave the door just cracked as I found it uh into the bathroom.

257
00:19:44,077 --> 00:19:44,979
Yeah.

258
00:19:45,465 --> 00:19:46,727
Where to next?

259
00:19:48,066 --> 00:19:56,764
Well, I may not have seen everything that Atoka has to offer, but I have to imagine that
they have a one-hour photo, some such.

260
00:19:56,764 --> 00:20:01,499
Something to turn this roll into beautiful black and whites.

261
00:20:02,534 --> 00:20:03,718
Yeah, absolutely.

262
00:20:03,718 --> 00:20:05,813
You know where to go, right downtown.

263
00:20:05,813 --> 00:20:08,135
Vroom vroom, let's go.

264
00:20:09,642 --> 00:20:25,900
It's in the back of a pharmacy and there is a bright eyed gentleman there who is probably
in his 50s, has dark rimmed glasses, little hefty around the waistline and he's got a big

265
00:20:25,900 --> 00:20:26,920
guffawing laugh.

266
00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:33,598
You hear him bullshitting with one of the pharmacy workers and you approach and he gives
you a look.

267
00:20:33,598 --> 00:20:37,560
that is a disguised, lettrous stare.

268
00:20:38,228 --> 00:20:40,677
Well hello sugar, good morning to ya.

269
00:20:41,171 --> 00:20:50,708
Yeah, there's almost like an uncomfortable inhale, like a sound when he sees you and you
speak to him and he says, well, hello, darling.

270
00:20:50,708 --> 00:20:52,889
Need something developed?

271
00:20:53,672 --> 00:20:55,452
I sure do.

272
00:20:56,972 --> 00:21:07,872
All I can think of is when Ryan made me feel weird for making a joke when he said
developing fluids and now this guy is like developing fluids around his mouth.

273
00:21:07,872 --> 00:21:11,372
It's like I fucking knew there was something weird about that.

274
00:21:12,752 --> 00:21:13,812
Yeah.

275
00:21:15,332 --> 00:21:19,720
Well, it's unlike me.

276
00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:29,720
to be needing something of a rush order, but I'm afraid I simply cannot wait to have this
role developed, and it is the only one I've got.

277
00:21:30,060 --> 00:21:33,080
Would you be able to put your best man on the case?

278
00:21:33,940 --> 00:21:38,200
There's an extra, oh gosh, who on earth?

279
00:21:38,220 --> 00:21:40,032
Grant is on the 50, right?

280
00:21:41,308 --> 00:21:45,938
There's an extra grant in there for you if you're able to make it happen under 30.

281
00:21:46,940 --> 00:21:48,581
An extra grant, huh?

282
00:21:49,366 --> 00:21:50,342
Yes ma'am.

283
00:21:50,342 --> 00:21:51,981
And please, don't call me miss.

284
00:21:51,981 --> 00:21:53,266
My name is Caroline.

285
00:21:53,517 --> 00:21:56,597
Oh, nice to meet your acquaintance, Caroline.

286
00:21:57,777 --> 00:22:01,277
I see you bring a lot of sugar with you.

287
00:22:01,357 --> 00:22:03,497
May I ask what you're developing this for?

288
00:22:03,497 --> 00:22:06,037
Or are you paying me not to ask?

289
00:22:06,988 --> 00:22:09,513
Well, I am late for my nephew's birthday party.

290
00:22:09,513 --> 00:22:11,651
And I was supposed to do these a week ago.

291
00:22:11,651 --> 00:22:13,540
I told his mother I would have them.

292
00:22:13,540 --> 00:22:16,204
And it's a little embarrassing to show up empty handed.

293
00:22:16,204 --> 00:22:19,088
So I'm hoping you could maybe help me smooth this over.

294
00:22:20,962 --> 00:22:26,087
He takes the film from you and he says, oh yeah, yeah.

295
00:22:26,087 --> 00:22:30,732
Kind of pulls out his collar and walks back to the photo scanner.

296
00:22:30,732 --> 00:22:35,504
You see him start fiddling with it, feeding it into a machine.

297
00:22:35,504 --> 00:22:38,337
They don't do it by hand even in the 90s.

298
00:22:38,337 --> 00:22:44,606
So he has a special scanner and he sets it to start scanning the film and printing it.

299
00:22:44,606 --> 00:22:48,260
I'm assuming you want doubles and he throws you a wink.

300
00:22:49,079 --> 00:22:50,446
You read my mind.

301
00:22:50,658 --> 00:22:51,040
Yeah.

302
00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:52,022
where are you from, miss?

303
00:22:52,022 --> 00:22:53,565
I haven't seen you around.

304
00:22:53,935 --> 00:22:56,268
No, no, I am new to town.

305
00:22:56,268 --> 00:22:59,012
A lovely place, uh thankful to be here.

306
00:22:59,012 --> 00:23:06,500
I've just been stationed over at Boggy Depot State Park where I will be nestling in uh and
trying to make something of that place.

307
00:23:06,500 --> 00:23:10,283
You'll be sure to swing on by if ever you need to stretch your legs.

308
00:23:11,225 --> 00:23:13,798
Yeah, he looks down at his legs.

309
00:23:13,798 --> 00:23:15,711
He's probably pre-diabetic.

310
00:23:15,711 --> 00:23:17,963
He's like, oh, I sure will make my way out there.

311
00:23:17,963 --> 00:23:19,665
I used to go there when I was younger.

312
00:23:19,665 --> 00:23:24,058
It's a small little park, kind of podunk place, but you...

313
00:23:24,058 --> 00:23:26,531
Hodunk, that is the word, isn't it?

314
00:23:26,531 --> 00:23:26,962
Yes.

315
00:23:26,962 --> 00:23:30,025
Ma'am, he tells you to come in close.

316
00:23:30,026 --> 00:23:31,607
I have a little secret.

317
00:23:31,868 --> 00:23:33,550
Everything around here is podunk.

318
00:23:33,550 --> 00:23:38,005
I think, in fact, think Otoka made that fucking term podunk.

319
00:23:38,787 --> 00:23:43,628
Yeah, I think somebody told me that a toka is chock-tah for po-dunk.

320
00:23:43,628 --> 00:23:47,772
He cracks up, does some guffawing, pretty charismatic guy.

321
00:23:47,772 --> 00:23:53,115
Goofy to say the least, you just hanging out at the counter or you're gonna do something
else.

322
00:23:53,276 --> 00:23:59,900
I will, very much keep an eye on that roll of film uh as it is being processed.

323
00:23:59,900 --> 00:24:04,083
I want to make sure that I get back the prints that are associated with it.

324
00:24:04,083 --> 00:24:06,694
but I do not want to betray, my desperation.

325
00:24:06,694 --> 00:24:12,139
And so I will probably, you know, when the conversation cools off a little bit, I will
walk the aisles.

326
00:24:12,139 --> 00:24:15,731
but, chance and glance is back as often as I need.

327
00:24:16,153 --> 00:24:18,745
he continues to print them.

328
00:24:18,745 --> 00:24:21,770
You're walking around, typical Rite Aid fare.

329
00:24:21,770 --> 00:24:25,894
the, you you check back in at the counter.

330
00:24:25,894 --> 00:24:29,097
He is putting the photos in a sleeve.

331
00:24:29,121 --> 00:24:32,463
and loading them into two different folders for you.

332
00:24:32,463 --> 00:24:35,846
He pulls the negatives and puts that in an envelope as well.

333
00:24:35,846 --> 00:24:38,328
And he kind of comes over to you shaking his head.

334
00:24:38,328 --> 00:24:41,549
He's like, you said this is for your nephew?

335
00:24:41,899 --> 00:24:47,590
Well, unless I got the rolls mixed up, which would be a huge debacle on a daylight today.

336
00:24:49,271 --> 00:24:50,451
He looks at you serious.

337
00:24:50,451 --> 00:24:51,715
He's like, okay.

338
00:24:51,715 --> 00:24:54,558
Well, here you go, ma'am.

339
00:24:55,421 --> 00:24:57,465
And then slides it over to you.

340
00:24:57,465 --> 00:25:08,962
Yeah, she thinks twice before correcting him to Caroline once more, but something about
the gravity in his voice has turned her mind to other things, and she will thank him

341
00:25:08,962 --> 00:25:19,237
profusely, make good on her promise of the 50, and then she will scuttle her way back to
the vehicle to furiously snap open that envelope.

342
00:25:19,784 --> 00:25:24,504
Yeah, there are a lot of blanks at first, just blank pictures.

343
00:25:25,624 --> 00:25:32,704
And you get through them, you see a picture of what looks like to be Boggy Depot, Swamp
Land.

344
00:25:33,404 --> 00:25:37,224
It seems like they were taking a picture of a footprint or something.

345
00:25:37,764 --> 00:25:43,444
And there's a picture of a church from the outside.

346
00:25:44,456 --> 00:25:46,596
That's fine and dandy.

347
00:25:46,596 --> 00:25:50,376
You're like, okay, so they've been out here for a little bit.

348
00:25:50,376 --> 00:25:56,696
Then you see a picture of a severed finger on the bed.

349
00:25:58,856 --> 00:26:00,776
It's strange looking.

350
00:26:00,776 --> 00:26:06,456
The nail is not normal, but who knows how old and rotten it is.

351
00:26:06,456 --> 00:26:08,816
Go ahead and enroll Sanity for Violence.

352
00:26:09,980 --> 00:26:10,795
Yeah.

353
00:26:11,796 --> 00:26:13,607
89, not so good.

354
00:26:13,607 --> 00:26:15,157
Not what I was expecting either.

355
00:26:15,157 --> 00:26:15,742
oh

356
00:26:15,742 --> 00:26:16,528
Yeah.

357
00:26:16,528 --> 00:26:18,759
So do you want to project?

358
00:26:19,878 --> 00:26:21,210
Yeah, I think I do.

359
00:26:21,210 --> 00:26:24,682
I'm thinking of my mama and all the advice that she has given me over the years.

360
00:26:24,682 --> 00:26:25,953
It has served me very well.

361
00:26:25,953 --> 00:26:35,518
And, you know, she has certainly helped me to navigate the avenues that I ought not have
been in, but it weren't without warnings.

362
00:26:35,518 --> 00:26:43,515
And so, you know, the stern notion of like, well, you know, sometimes you just get what's
coming to you.

363
00:26:43,515 --> 00:26:45,193
Maybe you ought not have looked.

364
00:26:45,193 --> 00:26:48,034
It kind of bites deep into me today.

365
00:26:48,933 --> 00:26:56,650
Yeah, go ahead and roll a D4 for the projection and then give me a D4 for the sand loss.

366
00:26:56,809 --> 00:26:59,146
Four for the projection, three for the sand loss.

367
00:26:59,146 --> 00:27:05,709
Okay, so you still take four off your willpower and your bond regardless, but ah you do
not take any sand loss.

368
00:27:06,472 --> 00:27:08,835
You still flipping through those or you stopping there?

369
00:27:08,941 --> 00:27:10,054
absolutely not.

370
00:27:10,054 --> 00:27:13,160
I am flipping faster, if anything.

371
00:27:13,898 --> 00:27:24,355
the next picture there's a few pictures of the finger I should say and then the next one
is the top of a strange metal cylinder and then the next picture after that is

372
00:27:24,355 --> 00:27:26,917
three circles in the bottom of a cylinder.

373
00:27:26,917 --> 00:27:30,198
And then the one after that is a wider view of it.

374
00:27:30,198 --> 00:27:43,414
And what you see is glass fused to metal around a cylinder and inside there is a for lack
of a better term mummified looking brain suspended in the middle of this.

375
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:52,208
It's something that you think you would have seen in a science class, but there's
something alien about it to you.

376
00:27:52,208 --> 00:27:54,947
Go ahead and roll sanity again from the unnatural.

377
00:27:54,987 --> 00:27:59,947
Yeah, yeah, yeah, 36, okay this time.

378
00:28:01,099 --> 00:28:07,932
you followed the rabbit in the hole and you got your little taste and you can stomach
what's next, right?

379
00:28:07,932 --> 00:28:18,081
think maybe even the true crime books that I've been reading are shielding me from any
sort of unnatural conspiracy at this point.

380
00:28:18,081 --> 00:28:25,127
I think to myself, based on the clean and fastidious nature of that room, that man sure
could be a serial killer.

381
00:28:25,127 --> 00:28:31,593
It is quite possible that this is one of his deeds and he has taken a trophy to remember
his act by.

382
00:28:33,536 --> 00:28:35,557
you're not sure what to make of it.

383
00:28:35,557 --> 00:28:45,663
Ranger McKell could be in some trouble looking through these and you get through some
pictures of what looks to be a scroll of some type, just a long piece of paper.

384
00:28:45,663 --> 00:28:47,726
There's strange writing on it.

385
00:28:47,726 --> 00:28:51,274
I'm assuming Caroline hasn't encountered Hebrew in her time.

386
00:28:51,274 --> 00:28:58,685
Absolutely not, but I think she is going to look for any phonetical similarities between
the writings in the toilet and those on the photo.

387
00:28:59,661 --> 00:29:05,235
Yeah, when she's, you pull out the notes when you start seeing the pictures of the scroll.

388
00:29:05,235 --> 00:29:13,218
The text before but has been adapted and changed in strange ways and it gets more and more
chaotic.

389
00:29:13,218 --> 00:29:23,738
And you do start seeing some of the same symbols that were scrawled on this note from RD
and the text that they have photos of.

390
00:29:23,738 --> 00:29:30,582
And most of the rest of the pictures of this 36 roll of film are of different portions of
that

391
00:29:31,033 --> 00:29:32,374
R.D.R.D.R.D.

392
00:29:32,374 --> 00:29:35,297
What on earth were you cooking up down here?

393
00:29:36,988 --> 00:29:47,665
Okay, I don't know what it is that I have stumbled upon, but I feel uncomfortable as
though these people may be armed and dangerous.

394
00:29:47,665 --> 00:29:53,968
I would very much like to get to the bottom of what it were that they were.

395
00:29:54,510 --> 00:30:05,278
skulking about for, why it was they felt the need to steal these ATVs to begin with, but
well a swamp seems like a perfect place to hide a body if I'm being perfectly honest and

396
00:30:05,278 --> 00:30:11,353
so waiting out there to confront them by my little lonesome does not seem entirely
prudent.

397
00:30:11,353 --> 00:30:13,355
I think I would like to place a call

398
00:30:13,355 --> 00:30:20,262
to someone back home to see if they might be able to procure me an insurance policy of
sorts.

399
00:30:21,804 --> 00:30:25,969
Yeah, hard to say what to call him exactly.

400
00:30:25,969 --> 00:30:33,275
Cassius King is the first number in my speed dial and he is absolutely who I am calling in
this occasion.

401
00:30:33,971 --> 00:30:37,246
Yeah, and you go to a payphone or like, what do you?

402
00:30:37,564 --> 00:30:39,858
Yeah, I think a payphone is called for.

403
00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:41,709
Absolutely.

404
00:30:41,709 --> 00:30:43,713
Yeah, and tell me about Cassius.

405
00:30:43,713 --> 00:30:50,279
Yeah, Cassius is a long time friend and confidant and so much more than that.

406
00:30:50,279 --> 00:30:55,906
He keeps me in good supply when times are hard of a multitude of things.

407
00:30:55,906 --> 00:30:58,209
And he's a man who knows how to get stuff done.

408
00:30:58,209 --> 00:31:04,874
So I think I will trust him implicitly to handle this with the care that it deserves.

409
00:31:05,329 --> 00:31:06,220
Yeah.

410
00:31:06,444 --> 00:31:09,959
And is he a toka or where does he hail from?

411
00:31:09,959 --> 00:31:10,308
Yeah.

412
00:31:10,308 --> 00:31:13,092
No, he's down in the bayou, down in Louisiana.

413
00:31:13,092 --> 00:31:15,957
That is my hometown most of the time.

414
00:31:15,957 --> 00:31:20,454
yeah, he doesn't necessarily stick around in one place.

415
00:31:20,454 --> 00:31:23,796
A bit of a nomad, as it were.

416
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:29,274
ring, ring, Shit, hello?

417
00:31:30,597 --> 00:31:31,654
Cassius.

418
00:31:31,654 --> 00:31:34,084
Pleasure to hear that silky voice of yours.

419
00:31:34,084 --> 00:31:37,645
Baby, baby, baby, how are you?

420
00:31:37,645 --> 00:31:39,278
I'm in a bit of a pickle.

421
00:31:39,278 --> 00:31:42,485
Or I'm about to be or I could be, but I don't want to be.

422
00:31:42,485 --> 00:31:44,006
Which is why I called you.

423
00:31:44,792 --> 00:31:46,742
And what can I do for you, baby?

424
00:31:47,331 --> 00:31:52,515
Well, I got my hot little hands on something that ain't never should have seen the light
of day.

425
00:31:52,515 --> 00:31:59,301
And I can imagine a number of interested parties would be clamoring for it if they had the
right context and know how.

426
00:31:59,301 --> 00:32:01,503
And I'm inclined to hold on to it.

427
00:32:01,503 --> 00:32:06,106
But you know, the people that I'm going to see,

428
00:32:06,131 --> 00:32:09,492
I'm not sure if they'll be so pleased to see me if you know what I mean.

429
00:32:09,492 --> 00:32:13,093
And so I need a bit of an insurance policy.

430
00:32:13,093 --> 00:32:24,980
If perhaps I overnight these to you, you could have them on a dead man's switch to drop
them to the, well, some of the contacts you have.

431
00:32:24,980 --> 00:32:27,681
Didn't you have a cousin that worked for the newspaper?

432
00:32:29,486 --> 00:32:32,126
Yeah, I got some cousin who works for the newspaper.

433
00:32:32,126 --> 00:32:34,586
But hey, honey, honey, back up.

434
00:32:34,586 --> 00:32:36,046
Are you in any danger?

435
00:32:36,046 --> 00:32:39,426
I wouldn't want anything happening to that sweet little ass of yours.

436
00:32:40,663 --> 00:32:44,577
Well, I mean, you can't play if you don't put skin in the game.

437
00:32:44,577 --> 00:32:45,978
You know what I'm saying?

438
00:32:45,978 --> 00:32:56,684
Look, all I know is I'm here on this assignment in this hellhole day number one and into
my lap falls an opportunity to never have to mention the name of Toca again.

439
00:32:56,684 --> 00:32:59,017
I couldn't be more delighted.

440
00:32:59,017 --> 00:32:59,631
honey.

441
00:32:59,631 --> 00:33:00,333
Yeah, I know.

442
00:33:00,333 --> 00:33:01,657
I just has to ask.

443
00:33:01,657 --> 00:33:02,961
You know how it is.

444
00:33:02,961 --> 00:33:05,956
Yeah, well, you do goodbye me and I do goodbye you.

445
00:33:05,956 --> 00:33:07,556
That's the way it's always gonna be.

446
00:33:07,556 --> 00:33:09,293
have I ever not?

447
00:33:09,939 --> 00:33:10,980
That's what I'm saying.

448
00:33:10,980 --> 00:33:13,321
That's why you're my first and only call.

449
00:33:13,321 --> 00:33:24,881
I just need you to know that if I don't call back by Friday, you need to drop this into
your cousin's hand or whoever you think would pick up a story like this.

450
00:33:25,301 --> 00:33:29,721
On account of the world needs to know what I done found.

451
00:33:30,179 --> 00:33:32,201
I am so curious.

452
00:33:32,201 --> 00:33:35,745
You're being very vague and it is pushing all my buttons.

453
00:33:35,745 --> 00:33:39,849
So you're going to send me this and then if I don't hear from you when?

454
00:33:40,135 --> 00:33:41,292
Bye Friday!

455
00:33:42,119 --> 00:33:42,930
Friday.

456
00:33:42,930 --> 00:33:43,630
Okay.

457
00:33:43,630 --> 00:33:44,331
Okay.

458
00:33:44,331 --> 00:33:48,895
Now, you know I don't go off the calendar very well, so let me write this down.

459
00:33:48,895 --> 00:33:50,296
Can I get some PIN?

460
00:33:51,297 --> 00:33:53,334
Yeah, you're gonna wanna write this down.

461
00:33:53,690 --> 00:34:03,105
and then he grabs a pen he's like thank you thank you and writes it down it's like baby
you know what I got one of these things called a DVD player have you ever heard of them?

462
00:34:03,339 --> 00:34:04,254
Sure, honey.

463
00:34:04,254 --> 00:34:06,063
You are with the times.

464
00:34:06,063 --> 00:34:08,268
I got Scarface on DVD.

465
00:34:09,374 --> 00:34:10,326
When you coming back?

466
00:34:10,326 --> 00:34:11,699
When you coming down?

467
00:34:11,890 --> 00:34:13,392
Honey, that sounds like a date.

468
00:34:13,392 --> 00:34:16,335
Scarface, you know that's my favorite.

469
00:34:16,335 --> 00:34:19,679
Yeah, well, you know, it depends how this turns out.

470
00:34:19,679 --> 00:34:26,826
Could be tomorrow, could be in a month, could be never, depending on how this package
turns out.

471
00:34:26,826 --> 00:34:29,108
Well, you never know.

472
00:34:30,101 --> 00:34:30,863
I know the game.

473
00:34:30,863 --> 00:34:32,228
I know the game more than anybody.

474
00:34:32,228 --> 00:34:33,291
You know that.

475
00:34:33,291 --> 00:34:35,797
But hey, you stay safe out there.

476
00:34:36,329 --> 00:34:37,867
I always intend to.

477
00:34:37,867 --> 00:34:43,349
I don't want to have to come down there with Tito, James, and Taco and fuck some people
up.

478
00:34:43,917 --> 00:34:45,770
No, no, they don't want that neither.

479
00:34:45,770 --> 00:34:49,124
And I'm going to make sure that they know they don't want that.

480
00:34:49,356 --> 00:34:52,189
Which is why we're going to try the nice route first.

481
00:34:52,189 --> 00:34:54,681
We always try the nice route first, don't we?

482
00:34:55,006 --> 00:34:56,369
That's how you friends, baby.

483
00:34:56,369 --> 00:35:00,230
Mm-hmm, catch more flies with honey than vinegar.

484
00:35:00,542 --> 00:35:01,244
Indeed.

485
00:35:01,244 --> 00:35:05,999
Well, can't say I'm not worried about you, but I trust you.

486
00:35:05,999 --> 00:35:07,521
I know you're capable.

487
00:35:07,997 --> 00:35:08,419
Yeah.

488
00:35:08,419 --> 00:35:09,631
Yeah, I know.

489
00:35:10,743 --> 00:35:13,570
Okay, well, let me know if I need to bring the guns.

490
00:35:14,019 --> 00:35:16,389
Yeah, it's nice to hear your voice.

491
00:35:16,810 --> 00:35:18,930
Always nice to hear your voice, baby.

492
00:35:19,932 --> 00:35:23,041
So from here, what would Caroline do?

493
00:35:24,707 --> 00:35:29,070
Yeah, I think she is inclined to go touch base with Rangel McHale.

494
00:35:29,070 --> 00:35:37,689
He seemed to be not altogether directed in his focus, making sure that he is still on
course, seeing if there's anything that he has seen.

495
00:35:37,689 --> 00:35:40,433
Otherwise, well, I'm not going to go traipsing out into that swamp.

496
00:35:40,433 --> 00:35:42,174
I don't have shoes for that.

497
00:35:42,174 --> 00:35:44,256
But I think I would.

498
00:35:44,364 --> 00:35:48,382
post up at the next best spot to try and intercept our interlopers.

499
00:35:50,124 --> 00:35:59,975
you drive back to Boggy Depot State Park and there is a interchange between turning into
the park and then one that goes straight into trails.

500
00:35:59,975 --> 00:36:05,463
Ranger McKell is standing at that junction, leaning against his pickup truck.

501
00:36:05,463 --> 00:36:08,786
And as you drive in, he waves you down.

502
00:36:09,812 --> 00:36:12,336
Well hey there sweetheart, aren't you a friendly face?

503
00:36:13,289 --> 00:36:15,903
Yes, yes, um, hey, I found their truck.

504
00:36:15,903 --> 00:36:17,259
It's just right down here.

505
00:36:17,259 --> 00:36:25,235
I haven't found any of the quads yet, but I'm about to head out into the swamp to go find
them because the tracks are right here.

506
00:36:25,396 --> 00:36:26,137
Well, all right.

507
00:36:26,137 --> 00:36:27,439
I'm not on keys too.

508
00:36:27,439 --> 00:36:29,701
You were right about the Stardust, that had to be them.

509
00:36:29,701 --> 00:36:31,892
They didn't leave many traces of themselves.

510
00:36:31,892 --> 00:36:34,685
I'm not really sure who they are just yet.

511
00:36:34,685 --> 00:36:38,128
Say, would you consider them to be dangerous people?

512
00:36:39,129 --> 00:36:42,614
I mean the lady, I forgot her name, she was really friendly.

513
00:36:42,614 --> 00:36:49,860
We talked about the ATVs for some time and I mean she spilled coffee on me but you know,
accidents are accidents.

514
00:36:49,860 --> 00:36:55,164
I mean there was a small wiry old guy and he kinda was strange.

515
00:36:55,164 --> 00:36:59,728
The other one just looked like a dork so I didn't seem dangerous.

516
00:36:59,728 --> 00:37:03,911
They had a lot of gear with them though and they said it was camera stuff.

517
00:37:03,951 --> 00:37:07,634
I like why the fuck would they take my ATVs though?

518
00:37:08,048 --> 00:37:10,753
Just like, do not understand what's going on here.

519
00:37:11,528 --> 00:37:13,640
Bird hunters, I will never understand that hobby.

520
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:21,487
Okay, well, if you are intent to go out into the swamp, you're doing God's work, but I
just want you to be extra careful.

521
00:37:21,487 --> 00:37:28,052
Something about their room gave me the heebie-jeebies and I wouldn't want that to brush
off on you.

522
00:37:28,556 --> 00:37:35,577
If it's all the same with you, I think I'll wait here at the trailhead just in case they
come running back, make sure we split the difference.

523
00:37:35,577 --> 00:37:36,879
How's that sound?

524
00:37:38,804 --> 00:37:42,725
Yeah, I mean if they're dangerous, you you shouldn't wait here.

525
00:37:43,945 --> 00:37:46,808
well, I might not look like I have teeth, but I bite.

526
00:37:46,808 --> 00:37:52,654
And she will just pull the little snub nose out of her clutch, make sure that he knows
that, you know, she can handle herself.

527
00:37:52,654 --> 00:37:58,479
And she closes it back up with a crisp little snap and a tap tap on the outside.

528
00:37:58,479 --> 00:38:02,181
Probably not the first time that she has brandished that.

529
00:38:02,789 --> 00:38:14,304
Yeah, that reminds him he opens his truck door, leans over to the glove box and you see
him bend over, half of his ass is showing, these pants are too big for him, and he pulls

530
00:38:14,304 --> 00:38:20,197
out a pistol of his own and says, well, I guess I should go look for it, right?

531
00:38:20,197 --> 00:38:22,418
You think we should call the cops or anything?

532
00:38:23,656 --> 00:38:31,258
If you call the cops, they're gonna report this to your superiors and all of a sudden all
of our dirty laundry is out in the open.

533
00:38:31,258 --> 00:38:31,980
Shit.

534
00:38:31,980 --> 00:38:33,103
Shit.

535
00:38:33,103 --> 00:38:34,868
I'm sorry, I'm not thinking Caroline.

536
00:38:34,868 --> 00:38:37,012
I'm so fucking stressed out by this.

537
00:38:37,054 --> 00:38:41,017
Look, I don't think you should put yourself out any further than you have to.

538
00:38:41,017 --> 00:38:41,697
Be safe.

539
00:38:41,697 --> 00:38:43,719
Don't do anything rash or stupid.

540
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:46,321
You make sure you're back here by nightfall.

541
00:38:46,321 --> 00:38:48,702
We'll begin again tomorrow if we have to.

542
00:38:49,392 --> 00:38:53,249
Okay, again, I appreciate you, so I don't know what I'd do without you.

543
00:38:53,864 --> 00:38:54,684
Right, right.

544
00:38:54,684 --> 00:39:04,390
And she has been kind of trying to calm him and also nervously checking her watch because
three o'clock is coming up and we still do not have a way to get the contractors out to

545
00:39:04,390 --> 00:39:07,905
the site where we are going to be surveying.

546
00:39:07,905 --> 00:39:10,836
But she's trying not to make that Ranger McKell's problem.

547
00:39:10,836 --> 00:39:12,757
That's in her head for now.

548
00:39:13,963 --> 00:39:19,294
Yeah, he sets off, you see him disappear into the canopy of the swamp.

549
00:39:19,294 --> 00:39:23,743
Just has his pistol on his side and walks into God only knows what.

550
00:39:23,743 --> 00:39:25,185
And there you wait.

551
00:39:25,620 --> 00:39:27,784
Yeah, I think I say a little prayer for him.

552
00:39:27,784 --> 00:39:32,762
It doesn't really mean anything to me, but it seems like the right thing to do.

553
00:39:32,944 --> 00:39:34,545
On account he's a good boy.

554
00:39:35,144 --> 00:39:36,407
He is a good boy.

555
00:39:38,396 --> 00:39:40,640
Anything else you wanna cover is that feel that's good.

556
00:39:41,688 --> 00:39:56,277
I suppose in between the phone call and here I would have posted a bubble-wrapped envelope
of my own overnight airdrop to wherever Cassius said he was at the time.

557
00:39:56,277 --> 00:40:02,002
There's a trailer park where his mama stays, safest place like a PO box for him.

558
00:40:02,002 --> 00:40:15,358
But other than that, I think I am simply going to open up a little spread of cheese and
crackers and grapes on the hood of that pickup truck, because it's going to be a long day

559
00:40:15,358 --> 00:40:17,330
and there is not much to look at out here.

560
00:40:17,330 --> 00:40:19,042
I am painfully aware.

561
00:40:20,070 --> 00:40:25,364
Yeah, you open the spread, you have a little picnic as you wait.

562
00:40:25,651 --> 00:40:26,482
Hmm.

563
00:40:26,746 --> 00:40:27,408
Mm-mm-mm.