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you

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We're gonna cut over to Del as a cow.

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Del, you are out at pasture under the hot Texas sun.

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It's been about a year maybe.

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I don't know.

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Could be longer.

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It's hard to tell time in this state.

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And there is a new guy on the farm.

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He's a little different than the other two that you've seen, which is a woman and a man.

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And he seems nicer.

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He...

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communicates a lot with the cows, comes up by and talks, he doesn't expect you to talk
back.

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You know, he just kinda shoots the shit with you.

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He seems to know what's going on here.

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One day though, a few days after he arrives, he brings out a massive 8x4 piece of plywood
and he has it on his back and he's kinda looking over his shoulder, just seeing if the

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other farmers are about.

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And he catches you behind one of the barns and sets it down.

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And in front of you, you have a, for lack of a better description, an Ouija board on
plywood.

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And he comes over and pats you on the head, scratches behind your ear.

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He says,

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Hey buddy, my name is Ben.

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Ben Kirk.

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And I think I know what's going on here.

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I know you're not just livestock.

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I made this so we don't have to guess.

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So first question, who are you?

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You

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Del has never had to come clean about being anything other than what he was before.

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So he pauses for just a second before revealing that he is in fact something other than
what he appears.

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And he will start to spell out, Del.

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On account of that is what he was first and foremost.

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Okay, okay, now listen, I don't know how much time we have.

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Is there anyone out there?

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Anyone you want me to send a message to?

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then he will begin to spell out Abigail.

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Abigail.

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Last name?

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Abigail Clemens.

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Got it.

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Alright, I can find a phone book when I get out of here.

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I can find her.

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What's the message?

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He will pause for a moment thinking about what words to write, especially considering how
goddamn long it takes to write one.

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I will type out, not gone, on hold.

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That's my whole message.

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Not gone.

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On hold.

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I'll get that to her.

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I promise.

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He walks over pats you on the head and he says

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I'm gonna try to get out of here.

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Soon.

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I don't know what happens when I make a run for it, but I can't stay.

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I've been telling the others.

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I told them to run when I run.

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I hope you're coming too.

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Yeah, there's kind of like a, you know, resolute head nodding, the tail gives us a swish
that thwacks a fly away, and there's a, you know, like an agreeing snort, and then he'll

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type out they, question mark.

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You mean who did this?

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Who put us here?

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I...

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I don't really know, Del.

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I was just...

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I was in a place, you know, one place, one time, and then I lost time, and now I'm here.

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Aliens, Del.

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I think we were taken by aliens.

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We were looking into flying saucers before I...

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you know, ended up here.

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Now I just want to get home to my wife.

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Alright.

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Be ready.

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He taps you on your side, picks up the plywood, walks over to another group of cows.

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All right, Agent Ryan, you are in the storage unit.

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It smells of stale air and dust, and there's a coppery tinge to everything.

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Arthur Finch is sitting across from you, and Handler Butterfield is cross-armed over in
the corner.

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Alright, what do you...

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What?

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What do you want from me?

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I want you to teach Finch everything you know.

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Finch looks up at you and has a strange, almost psychotic-looking smile with anticipation.

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Mmm, I remember that face.

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Brings chills down my spine.

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Not a face I thought I'd ever see again or really wanted to see again.

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Yeah, Butterfield walks over and gets low and says, well, if you and Dell had taken care
of the problem, then we would be having a different conversation.

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But we use what we have in front of us, and that thing is Finch.

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Well, it seems like we're not the only ones that didn't take care of a problem.

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Butterfield, I am happy to oblige.

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However, there's something I might want in exchange before I share my knowledge.

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And the thing that I desire the most is having more knowledge.

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And so I want you to tell me what you know.

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I know you know more than you've told us up to this point.

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And you know, I know

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that your ties to this probably go back pretty far and pretty deep.

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And yeah, so I want you to tell me what you know.

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Butterfield looks at you quizzically.

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You see a flash of anger across his eyes, maybe even, and then it relaxes.

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And he even touches his gun on his hip out of a habit, maybe.

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And then he pulls up a box that's there, screeches across the floor, sits down at the
table with you and Finch, and then he motions to Agent Johnson.

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who also called himself Agent Smith, so who knows what his real name is, who brings over
another set of earphones and puts them on Finch, and Finch just looks at you like a dumb

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dog.

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You want to know everything I know?

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Yeah.

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Well, I guess the biggest thing I can tell you is that somebody in the organization I used
to work for made a deal with whatever you called in.

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We used to call them the grays.

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We thought they were these strange organisms that had a little bit of human DNA in them.

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We weren't sure what to make of them, but they brought flying saucers and technology,
which we were willing to trade our own population for.

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Mmm.

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Okay, what are you expecting that will happen if I share this information with Finch?

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Like, why do you want me to do that?

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Well, Ryan, you were recruited for a very specific reason, and he motions for agent Smith
Johnson to give him a folder.

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And he pulls out a folder, opens it up, and it is your name on it.

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And he flips through it.

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There's your psyche val, things like that.

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And then he gets to a page where there was looks like an MRI or an X-ray and on it, he
just points below one of your molars.

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which looks to have some sort of alien implant in it.

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Says, well, Ryan, you were marked by them, which is why I pulled you in before Majestic
could.

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Now, the reason we brought you in on my behalf is personal, but you are an asset that I
would like to preserve, even if you've gotten a little squirrely with the team and maybe

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even tried to leak some information that you shouldn't be, which I'm willing to forgive
because of your

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It's special nature, and he points down at the implant again.

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We have no idea what this is, but we do know it's gray technology that they put in you.

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So we brought you in to experiment with you, I guess you could say.

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And part of that experiment turned into getting this song that Finch was onto and Karas
was trying to cultivate.

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And it looks like you've put it together.

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What?

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Who that you know made a deal and what was that deal?

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I don't know who made the deal.

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I know one of the people who must have been at the table during the Reagan administration,
and I've been looking for him.

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His name's Forrest Rall, and that son of a bitch is on my target list.

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And I've been trying to hunt him down, which is one of the reasons I want to talk to these
alien bastards so I can figure out where he is and put a bullet in his fucking head.

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Okay.

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Now, the personal element is, when I was a child, these things took my sister.

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And I spent my entire life getting closer and closer to the answer to that question and
thought that I was working for a team that was going to help me find those answers.

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Instead, I found out that they betrayed the American people and put her at risk.

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And they're the reason she was taken.

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They traded our people for the technology and knowledge that these aliens could provide
them.

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So what I need from you is to teach Finch.

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the chant because I don't want it to kill you if you do it again.

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And then I want him to bring them in and I want to have a conversation with them and then
they can go on their merry way or we can destroy them.

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You want to destroy them?

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It depends on what they have to say, Ryan.

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Okay, I will share the information that I have.

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Shumball along!

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kidding.

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Give it to him like that.

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Yeah, and Agent Smith in the corner who already had earphones on, pulls him open and kind
of like notices that the conversation's over.

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And then Butterfield scoots back and he's like, Ryan, is there anything else you want to
talk about before we get this done?

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will I be present for this ritual?

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I don't, I feel like I really don't have a choice, but also, uh, want to help, but also
have a lot of curiosity about this.

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yeah, I will, I will share what I have with Finch if you think that he can understand it.

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Yeah, his understanding is far beyond ours at this point.

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He's a raving madman, but I do know that he is expectant of whatever we're about to bring
here.

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I'll just like talk about like the arranging the symbols, right?

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And then hand him like a transcript of the chan...

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or maybe is that something I even have at this point?

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Yeah, you've written it all down and the symbols so you can give it to him.

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And in fact, it's emblazoned in your mind.

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Like you don't know if you could even forget it at this point.

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Okay, you don't want me to like, say the chant though.

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No, no, no, it's fine.

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So, but yeah, as you're doing it, his eyes are wide and he is trying to take it all in.

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The capillaries in his eyes seem like they're widening and they get redder and redder.

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And he starts to claw at the paper that you're um supplying him.

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And he kind of starts tearing some of it and tearing out around the symbols and then
holding out small little ripped up pieces of paper of the symbols and arranging them.

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in strange ways in front of you.

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You don't even understand what he's doing with it, but he seems to be trying to process it
in some way.

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And as you teach him more and more, it seems to escalate and he starts to cackle strangely
as he's understanding this more and more.

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He doesn't speak in any sense of English or any other language you've ever heard, but he's
whispering something under his breath.

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that is strange, and he starts to seize almost and sticks his hands on the table and you
see some of his fingernails pushing down into the table and they start to bleed around uh

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the fingertips and he starts tearing and one of his nails flips off from the pressure he's
putting on it and he starts to scream extremely loud.

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uh Agent Smith, who

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has been sitting in the corner, walks over to restrain him, and he holds him back and
holds his head back because it looks like he's about to bite his own tongue.

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And he Smith sticks a small piece of wood nearby in his mouth and he has a seizure.

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And then as he's seizing, Smith zip ties his hands and he looks at you and says, don't
worry, this happens.

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Yes, I'm fondly aware.

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And yeah, sitting in front of you now is Finch slightly seizing here and there and
flopping around on the ground and the file that Butterfield left there.

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And Butterfield has long since gone.

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Who knows what he's doing?

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Probably preparing something for later.

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um What do you do in your last night before you meet your maker?

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No, Finch and Agent Smith are with you.

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really like some food.

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It's been a long time since I've eaten.

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I also am looking around and don't see a comfortable place to sleep.

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So I need something set up.

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Yeah, Agent Smith, I'm assuming you're requesting this from him.

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Yeah, he pulls out a military-style cot and unfolds it, and there's a simple blanket on
it.

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It's fall, but inside of here, it's gotten hot with three bodies inside the storage unit.

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And he asks, what type of food do you want?

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Beans and milk.

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I'm just kidding.

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It means a milk it is.

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So, yeah.

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Okay.

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He's like, yeah, no problem.

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And he um looks over to Finch.

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He's like, don't cut his zip tie.

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If he wakes up and speaks to you, try not to listen closely.

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um And he opens a storage unit, closes it, and you hear it lock from the outside.

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Okay.

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You wait.

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Do you do anything with Finch there or?

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think I'm just kind of like sitting up on the cot and just like staring at him.

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And like kind of feeling bad for him.

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Kind of wondering if Del and I should have killed him.

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um But also like scared slash excited about what might happen tomorrow.

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Yeah, he kind of lays there muttering.

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You do hear some English and it's like, it doesn't make any sense.

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He says, they put a seed in you, I can hear it sing.

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They put a seed in you, I can hear it sing.

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You put the seed in me, it is singing.

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You put the seed in me, it is singing.

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And just muttering things like that over and over again.

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You hear him talk about the angels in the sky and the...

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creatures in space and he talks about Pluto, all just nonsense.

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um And you, you know, yeah, you do feel a sense of pity and you do wonder like what black
site was he put in after you gave him to Butterfield and what means of interrogation that

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Butterfield uh exude on him because, you know, he was crazy when you met him, but this
seems another level of insanity.

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Yeah, and I feel kind of guilty, I'm making him even more insane with some very serious
potential consequences tomorrow.

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Yeah.

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Agent Smith Johnson returns.

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You hear unlock, comes in, a pizza slides under before him and he ducks down under the
storage unit, gets in and hands you that.

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There's a small styrofoam container that has some black beans that are spiced in it.

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he...

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Yeah, ranch, ranch style.

224
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And he sets down and...

225
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let you eat.

226
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um Yeah, do you, you you, you fall asleep after a good meal and you do sleep lightly and
don't feel necessarily rested when you get up.

227
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Morning comes, your alarm goes off, Barone.

228
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Caroline, I imagine, wakes up naturally.

229
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She does.

230
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a logistical question.

231
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Was that perhaps a helplessness, Sanla?

232
00:17:19,382 --> 00:17:22,022
That's okay, but that would be my third.

233
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So have you hit your breaking point?

234
00:17:25,091 --> 00:17:27,919
Okay, so you can be adapted to helplessness in the future then.

235
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uh

236
00:17:28,935 --> 00:17:32,323
Okay, um, alright, simple as that.

237
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Um...

238
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Yeah, the day is ahead of you.

239
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Do you meet up in one of the rooms?

240
00:17:37,676 --> 00:17:38,556
Yeah, absolutely.

241
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You know, in fact, em I think I am up early, right?

242
00:17:43,308 --> 00:17:46,568
Perhaps, you know, still trying to go to sleep.

243
00:17:46,749 --> 00:17:51,800
And it's about an hour and a half before I had intended to get up and I'm tired of tossing
and turning.

244
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So I will be on the road.

245
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I am going to stop by lovely store downtown and pick up the freshly baked blueberry
muffins and some coffees.

246
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And we are going to start this day right.

247
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I'll be rolling back towards

248
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Barone's place with some pastries, and I'll just be collecting my thoughts until she
stirs.

249
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you

250
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You set out a spread, wait for Barone to come a-knocking.

251
00:18:18,763 --> 00:18:21,446
Barone, what is waking up for you this morning?

252
00:18:21,446 --> 00:18:35,335
Yeah, I think the mind shift over to I Am A Science Experiment now and you know having you
know these experiences with Karas and how scientists studied stuff and realized how much

253
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pen to paper you know means in tracking and recording.

254
00:18:38,897 --> 00:18:47,712
I think my you know morning experiment of like trying to get the day going is just
recounting all of the notes and starting her scientific method.

255
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on herself of having an hypothesis and testing and this and that and you know, thinking it
a little bit more critically.

256
00:18:53,975 --> 00:18:59,099
So I think her, her morning, you know, is, is rollover checker pulse.

257
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Thank God she's not dead.

258
00:19:00,921 --> 00:19:06,144
Remember about her shoulder mentally spiral for a little bit, come out of it and start
writing.

259
00:19:06,185 --> 00:19:16,924
So she'll, she'll jot her notes down and everything she could think of to what she's
things happening in the time of things, how, when she got shot, how long until she noticed

260
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the

261
00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:29,567
bullet in the coagulation of whatever this is around it and you know kind of writing those
down with timestamps and then get dressed for the for the day and grab a shitty cup of

262
00:19:29,567 --> 00:19:38,426
coffee made in the corner of this of this place and head over to Caroline's room and do
little little knock knock.

263
00:19:38,426 --> 00:19:40,909
Pleased to have you in, throw that shit away.

264
00:19:40,909 --> 00:19:42,090
Come and get one of these.

265
00:19:42,090 --> 00:19:44,073
The fresh one, piping hot.

266
00:19:44,073 --> 00:19:45,494
Come, sit, sit.

267
00:19:45,646 --> 00:19:46,386
thank God.

268
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I'll pop the top on this and just pour it on the ground, kind of right outside the front
door.

269
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And there's usually a trash can right inside the front door, so I'll toss it in the trash
can and like, oh, thank God, you got that black bean stuff.

270
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This was hardcore trash.

271
00:20:00,878 --> 00:20:07,259
And then I will tap that Joe and slap that slop right in my cup.

272
00:20:07,259 --> 00:20:08,603
Yeah, you have coffee.

273
00:20:08,603 --> 00:20:09,868
Go ahead, Caroline.

274
00:20:09,868 --> 00:20:14,485
I was just gonna say, you know how uh Pringles are not allowed to call themselves chips?

275
00:20:14,485 --> 00:20:17,100
They have to call them potato crisps, right?

276
00:20:17,100 --> 00:20:21,256
I imagine that that's the coffee equivalent of what you were drinking.

277
00:20:21,357 --> 00:20:24,922
Couldn't actually call itself coffee, it's just close enough.

278
00:20:25,540 --> 00:20:28,196
It's burnt bean liquid and you're like, yeah, fuck it, man.

279
00:20:28,196 --> 00:20:30,270
realize, same, same, whatever, that works.

280
00:20:30,479 --> 00:20:37,526
We get to the point where you're planning this cover-up or what to do next together and
you have some ideas.

281
00:20:37,526 --> 00:20:41,189
It's time to discuss those ideas and I'll throw some rolls your way.

282
00:20:41,390 --> 00:20:42,132
Great.

283
00:20:42,132 --> 00:20:55,490
Alright, so what I'm understanding is that we have a swatch of land out in the middle of
nowhere that we need to cover up and or deter people from rediscovering.

284
00:20:55,490 --> 00:20:56,940
Does that sound right to you?

285
00:20:56,940 --> 00:20:58,851
Yeah, definitely.

286
00:20:58,851 --> 00:20:59,711
with...

287
00:20:59,711 --> 00:21:10,136
I go ahead and I tell her all about the Verdant Path and the experiments and like, I'm
not, you know, holding any, any, you know, not putting any bars on any information as far

288
00:21:10,136 --> 00:21:13,717
as, you know, getting her up to speed with, hey, this is what is there.

289
00:21:13,717 --> 00:21:15,698
This is what needs to be solved.

290
00:21:15,698 --> 00:21:17,359
I want to survive and I know she does.

291
00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:19,860
So I'm going to kind of lay out the Verdant Path.

292
00:21:19,860 --> 00:21:25,930
There's this many, you know, bodies of the old kind of the Verdant Path that are out
there.

293
00:21:25,930 --> 00:21:35,336
I don't think I will get to like, Mikhail here in a second, but I think I, you know, say
house exploded, this is how big it was.

294
00:21:35,336 --> 00:21:39,298
And I bring her up to date with, you know, how infectious the swamp is.

295
00:21:39,298 --> 00:21:46,414
And that's if people go into those swamp, they are infected now and you flag, you know,
the biohazard as well.

296
00:21:46,414 --> 00:21:59,047
Okay, I will be taking notes and I will certainly prod to ask more about the level of
danger assessment because I am trying to think about how to appropriately expose people to

297
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this environment without putting them in an obvious harms way.

298
00:22:02,687 --> 00:22:13,901
And I will certainly be extra quizzical about the entity that you describe, the algae that
is kind of like seeming to cause this infection.

299
00:22:13,901 --> 00:22:16,682
On account of that seems to be kind of like

300
00:22:17,266 --> 00:22:21,569
an untapped lead that we might be able to explore for Butterfield.

301
00:22:21,569 --> 00:22:23,029
And so I'm curious about that.

302
00:22:23,029 --> 00:22:34,376
I think a lot of these things have kind of like intermingling, woven ties, but just to
kind of get the ball rolling, perhaps we just pitch what we do isolated with the cabin and

303
00:22:34,376 --> 00:22:36,697
start from there, see how it kind of flows out.

304
00:22:36,697 --> 00:22:45,662
What I had been thinking, I have, well, a man who is very well connected and he happens to
know many people who are in the landscaping business, if you know what I mean.

305
00:22:46,092 --> 00:22:59,239
I think that he could get some of his folks to bring in almost like field tilling
supplies, a mulcher and a tiller, and we are simply going to till that ground to high

306
00:22:59,239 --> 00:22:59,589
heaven.

307
00:22:59,589 --> 00:23:12,606
We're gonna grind stumps down and we're going to basically recycle that site into a
protected wildlife preserve, a wetland, uh something that is flagged with red tape on all

308
00:23:12,606 --> 00:23:13,157
sides.

309
00:23:13,157 --> 00:23:16,128
It doesn't actually have to be, but the...

310
00:23:16,226 --> 00:23:25,182
Curious thing about wetlands, suppose, is that, you know, once you make that assertion,
someone better be awful, awful sure that it is not before they go stepping over any

311
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boundaries.

312
00:23:25,732 --> 00:23:28,532
Otherwise they are going to be in all kinds of hot water.

313
00:23:28,532 --> 00:23:29,783
Yeah, no, right.

314
00:23:29,783 --> 00:23:30,764
Okay, yeah.

315
00:23:30,764 --> 00:23:33,066
uh Okay, connection lady.

316
00:23:33,066 --> 00:23:34,187
I'm into this.

317
00:23:34,187 --> 00:23:38,484
Yeah, let's bury that up in red tape all around.

318
00:23:38,484 --> 00:23:41,154
Give me a criminology plus 20.

319
00:23:41,294 --> 00:23:42,524
Alright, yeah.

320
00:23:42,524 --> 00:23:44,334
Yeah, okay, 46.

321
00:23:44,334 --> 00:23:47,156
Great, you make some calls and it's all set.

322
00:23:47,156 --> 00:23:48,217
That's all you know.

323
00:23:48,217 --> 00:23:49,929
That's all you need to know, right?

324
00:23:49,929 --> 00:23:54,583
Like these people aren't the ones who are gonna sit there and plan over the phone with
you.

325
00:23:54,583 --> 00:23:56,224
They say they can do it.

326
00:23:56,324 --> 00:23:58,636
You're gonna have to get some funds together for them.

327
00:23:58,636 --> 00:23:59,286
Hmm.

328
00:23:59,286 --> 00:24:00,047
I understand.

329
00:24:00,047 --> 00:24:01,547
Nothing comes for free.

330
00:24:01,668 --> 00:24:10,652
And I will, yeah, just kind of like on my side of things, the preparatory work is
procuring the barriers, right?

331
00:24:10,652 --> 00:24:21,738
Not real barriers, but like the whatever signage would be used to keep people off so that
they don't even get within like eyesight of the actual place where this all went down.

332
00:24:22,030 --> 00:24:23,943
It's absolutely no problem.

333
00:24:24,448 --> 00:24:24,920
Okay.

334
00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:25,210
Yeah.

335
00:24:25,210 --> 00:24:31,214
Well, on the order of magnitude of the funds that we are talking about, how serious are we
dealing with?

336
00:24:31,214 --> 00:24:34,934
You know, for a one-time thing, it's about a thousand bucks.

337
00:24:35,354 --> 00:24:42,574
Consistent, checking in on it, making sure people aren't going in and out, you're looking
at 5K for a year.

338
00:24:42,574 --> 00:24:51,059
Okay, 1K seems like a good starting point and that will kind of be what I will put myself
down for, I suppose, right?

339
00:24:51,059 --> 00:24:53,774
Pencil me in for the light treatment.

340
00:24:53,774 --> 00:24:55,840
Okay, yeah, no problem.

341
00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:58,578
Barone, you hope to never go out there again?

342
00:24:58,578 --> 00:25:01,156
Are you sending Caroline herself?

343
00:25:01,156 --> 00:25:02,378
Are you going?

344
00:25:02,378 --> 00:25:03,838
Yeah, man, fuck this place.

345
00:25:03,838 --> 00:25:09,240
um But no, I would not send Carolyn alone.

346
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:20,483
I think as a uh supporting stent of a human, knowing what did transpire here and when and
how, I think I'm serving as a spirit guide, if you will.

347
00:25:20,483 --> 00:25:31,056
So I'm very much not letting her go alone and walking her through this and that and where
the cabin is and where the splinters happened and refresh my memory.

348
00:25:31,056 --> 00:25:32,296
But we took

349
00:25:33,004 --> 00:25:40,642
bodies of Dell and Mikhail and put them down in the bunker before we had a heck of a time
trying to blow that, right?

350
00:25:40,642 --> 00:25:44,183
Yeah, you put all the bodies across as well.

351
00:25:44,384 --> 00:25:48,376
it's just this cabin is like a pile of stuff, right?

352
00:25:48,376 --> 00:25:48,826
Yep.

353
00:25:48,826 --> 00:25:57,310
And the crater where you blew up is just collapsed into like that like tunnel system and
it's just covered in dirt.

354
00:25:57,326 --> 00:25:57,909
Awesome.

355
00:25:57,909 --> 00:25:58,733
Great.

356
00:25:58,733 --> 00:26:00,398
I'll kind of point that out then.

357
00:26:00,398 --> 00:26:08,184
The Barone, you walk out from the swampy trees and their low hanging leaves.

358
00:26:08,184 --> 00:26:16,549
You can still smell the smoke from the explosion and whatever was left of out there
burning.

359
00:26:16,549 --> 00:26:23,294
And you get to the clearing where the cabin sat on the swamp, right?

360
00:26:23,715 --> 00:26:25,556
And there it is.

361
00:26:25,556 --> 00:26:29,016
That's a pile of sticks, untouched.

362
00:26:29,016 --> 00:26:41,829
There is a red-bellied woodpecker sitting on one of those sticks that is high up perched
off, and when you enter, it flaps off into the distance.

363
00:26:42,030 --> 00:26:46,031
Almost a testament to the one you lost out here.

364
00:26:46,071 --> 00:26:57,742
And you see the small pit where the ground has started to sink in, where the explosion was
when you tried to cover up the violence that happened here.

365
00:26:57,742 --> 00:27:05,362
Alright Caroline, well you're learning quite violently and quickly what all is wrapped up
in a job like this.

366
00:27:05,622 --> 00:27:17,662
I may have mentioned it before, but a very short time ago, a matter of hours by this point
in time, there actually used to be three of us down below here and I kind of head nod over

367
00:27:17,662 --> 00:27:26,742
to where the ground divots end, is one of my dear compatriots who lost their life to the
cause.

368
00:27:26,742 --> 00:27:27,802
He's...

369
00:27:29,658 --> 00:27:31,159
What a sweet friend.

370
00:27:31,180 --> 00:27:33,261
I'm terribly sorry for your loss.

371
00:27:34,102 --> 00:27:36,755
I didn't realize there were more of you at the outset.

372
00:27:36,755 --> 00:27:41,009
Um, in total, how many bodies are we dealing with?

373
00:27:41,009 --> 00:27:42,390
Is it just the one?

374
00:27:43,014 --> 00:27:46,376
No, no, it's not actually.

375
00:27:46,376 --> 00:27:47,137
Let's see.

376
00:27:47,137 --> 00:27:55,581
There's, uh there's Karas, who was the original person we uh came out here to talk to and
glean information from.

377
00:27:55,581 --> 00:28:03,086
There's Del, and I'm reaching out a real macabre olive branch here for this one.

378
00:28:03,086 --> 00:28:11,604
But I mean, I'm sure you know in the past 72 hours you have had as many guns pointed at
you as I've had pointed at me.

379
00:28:11,604 --> 00:28:20,868
and you haven't actually been shot by any and so you understand full well how deadly this
scenario and the people involved in all of this could be.

380
00:28:21,486 --> 00:28:22,109
That's true.

381
00:28:22,109 --> 00:28:25,067
You are winding me up for something fierce.

382
00:28:25,086 --> 00:28:35,832
I am indeed, and I am ashamed to say that sometimes some of the people who die may not
have deserved it and is more of a wrong place, wrong time scenario.

383
00:28:35,832 --> 00:28:42,406
Your dearest compatriot ranger, Mikael, also is down there.

384
00:28:42,406 --> 00:28:48,786
It was a scenario of him versus us and somebody does not get to survive.

385
00:28:48,786 --> 00:28:54,542
I am enlightened to say I am not uh the human being who

386
00:28:54,606 --> 00:29:00,749
Took him out of this world and um served up a death sentence to somebody who didn't
necessarily deserve it.

387
00:29:00,749 --> 00:29:11,144
As you may have well learned, teammate Ryan there seemed to take a couple things into his
own hands, and that unfortunately was one of them.

388
00:29:13,262 --> 00:29:16,941
Roll sanity for violence.

389
00:29:17,114 --> 00:29:18,414
Right, right, right, right.

390
00:29:18,414 --> 00:29:19,854
82, fail.

391
00:29:19,854 --> 00:29:23,352
Okay, give me a d6.

392
00:29:23,374 --> 00:29:24,162
Woof.

393
00:29:24,162 --> 00:29:25,378
Yeah, four.

394
00:29:25,378 --> 00:29:26,764
Are you going to project?

395
00:29:27,074 --> 00:29:29,775
No, I think this one just kind of comes out of nowhere.

396
00:29:29,775 --> 00:29:35,337
I think it catches me out of left field because I'm in kind of like, I'm in a different
mode.

397
00:29:35,337 --> 00:29:36,718
I am handling things.

398
00:29:36,718 --> 00:29:41,540
I am taking notes of items and to-dos and well, we got to handle that.

399
00:29:41,540 --> 00:29:45,781
And then this one just kind of derails me for a second.

400
00:29:45,922 --> 00:29:54,575
As I realized that like the adrenaline has pushed me through a lot of these things that
like maybe should have been painful, right?

401
00:29:54,575 --> 00:29:56,920
Like things that should have maybe given me pause.

402
00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:08,722
that I just put the blinders on and over the last six hours have just blazed my way
through and I am being forced to slow way the hell down in this moment and I do not like

403
00:30:08,928 --> 00:30:19,809
So you see Caroline's whole demeanor shift and slacken almost and turns pensive.

404
00:30:19,850 --> 00:30:22,523
Maybe there's tears coming to Caroline's eyes.

405
00:30:22,523 --> 00:30:24,074
Is Caroline the type?

406
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:32,796
think, yeah, she was absolutely touched by him in a way that, like, he wasn't playing the
same game that we were, right?

407
00:30:32,796 --> 00:30:41,322
Nor did he really know that that's a game that was being played and where it doesn't seem
right for it to have been incidental like that.

408
00:30:41,378 --> 00:30:44,643
Yeah, it almost sounds casual, right?

409
00:30:44,643 --> 00:30:46,767
Even Barone adding weight to it.

410
00:30:46,767 --> 00:30:51,003
Like, you know he came out here because he didn't want to lose his job, right?

411
00:30:51,003 --> 00:30:53,986
And if he didn't lose his job, he lost his entire life.

412
00:30:53,986 --> 00:31:02,491
Yeah, and I think there is a moment of like, well, we split these responsibilities right
down the middle.

413
00:31:02,491 --> 00:31:09,155
And so like, perhaps there was a, I prescribed this in some way.

414
00:31:09,155 --> 00:31:15,878
I dispatched him to his own demise, but I quickly wiped that away on account of this
weren't my fault.

415
00:31:15,980 --> 00:31:18,536
Yeah, you didn't pull the trigger, right?

416
00:31:19,618 --> 00:31:30,567
Yeah, think, Barone had, had been kind of like kneeled down hands in the dirt, um, ish and
you, you could see her form is, is slumped and decidedly defeated.

417
00:31:30,567 --> 00:31:33,179
This isn't like a, overcame an obstacle.

418
00:31:33,179 --> 00:31:44,158
is very much something weighing, weighing heavy on her, on her soul, both the, the coming
to an end of, of an innocent life and, you know, her teammate as well.

419
00:31:44,158 --> 00:31:49,532
You know, both of them, neither of them, you know, should necessarily have, have been in
the ground in her mind.

420
00:31:49,806 --> 00:32:02,006
With that realization, Barone, and kind of making meaning out of this a little bit and
finding an emotional catharsis, roll me a d4 and gain that back insanity.

421
00:32:02,740 --> 00:32:04,632
Oh, I'm so blessed.

422
00:32:05,675 --> 00:32:08,159
No, and it's a healthy four.

423
00:32:08,159 --> 00:32:10,542
I will absolutely take that.

424
00:32:10,542 --> 00:32:11,385
There you go.

425
00:32:11,385 --> 00:32:16,982
Are you able to cover up this scene, Caroline, or is this too much for you?

426
00:32:16,982 --> 00:32:22,904
I mean, I think it is fully within my intent for the the landscapers to be able to handle
this.

427
00:32:22,904 --> 00:32:24,495
This is the site that we were after.

428
00:32:24,495 --> 00:32:24,745
Right.

429
00:32:24,745 --> 00:32:32,228
And so the general tact, I suppose it's easy that since we have a divot in the ground
already.

430
00:32:32,228 --> 00:32:32,588
Right.

431
00:32:32,588 --> 00:32:35,409
Most things are going to be scraped into that.

432
00:32:35,409 --> 00:32:39,401
The bodies in particular will, like I said, be put through some sort of mulcher.

433
00:32:39,401 --> 00:32:42,372
They will be turned into smaller particulates.

434
00:32:42,372 --> 00:32:46,936
And then that holding pond of human fluid.

435
00:32:46,936 --> 00:32:54,090
will be filled with sewage so as to expedite the bacterial uh decomposition process.

436
00:32:54,090 --> 00:33:05,506
We will then be upturning all the earth in a large area, uh probably like 30 feet radius
beyond the confines of the cabin itself.

437
00:33:05,506 --> 00:33:14,781
then, yeah, like I said, maybe it's fertilizer, maybe it's just other sewage that makes
that kind of like, everybody is going to know that before they get to the barrier, they do

438
00:33:14,781 --> 00:33:15,982
not want to be walking that

439
00:33:15,982 --> 00:33:16,514
way.

440
00:33:16,514 --> 00:33:17,450
Nice.

441
00:33:17,714 --> 00:33:25,579
Yeah, you take all these notes down to pass on to your crew and you're ready.

442
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:29,292
Maybe this is the last time you get to be out here, Bron.

443
00:33:29,292 --> 00:33:30,333
Yeah, definitely.

444
00:33:30,333 --> 00:33:39,980
Hmm, I mean, I know I still have the head to deal with, but I think that's maybe a
violence that she doesn't want to necessarily deal with right now, especially out here in

445
00:33:39,980 --> 00:33:41,071
the middle of the daylight.

446
00:33:41,071 --> 00:33:46,995
I think that might be one of her home scenes is going out into nature and figuring out how
to deal with that.

447
00:33:46,995 --> 00:33:56,222
So I think I will leave it as is and not, you know, force any more violence onto this new
potential teammate, Caroline.

448
00:33:56,440 --> 00:34:03,554
So you both get back to the hotel or are you going somewhere else after a long day's work?

449
00:34:04,314 --> 00:34:09,797
you get back to the hotel and both of you roll up.

450
00:34:09,890 --> 00:34:11,054
SISTI on the dot.

451
00:34:11,054 --> 00:34:12,806
to 66 crit-

452
00:34:12,913 --> 00:34:22,018
Caroline, you get to your door and there's just a small cardboard box sitting in front of
it.

453
00:34:22,018 --> 00:34:29,964
Yeah, um, I will look at it for any sort of markings that might indicate that it came
through normal post or anything like that.

454
00:34:29,964 --> 00:34:31,708
No, just a box.

455
00:34:31,708 --> 00:34:33,966
Tape shut with scotch tape.

456
00:34:33,966 --> 00:34:41,528
Okay, I will push open my door and I will shove it in with my foot and I will set to
inspecting it.

457
00:34:41,528 --> 00:34:44,329
for own key role alertness as you're going back up there.

458
00:34:44,329 --> 00:34:45,150
Sure.

459
00:34:45,459 --> 00:34:47,358
Alertness 81.

460
00:34:47,358 --> 00:34:48,863
18 success.

461
00:34:48,863 --> 00:35:02,745
As Caroline kicks the box in and goes into her room, a Corolla with a single driver, can't
see them in the silhouette of the night, drives by, but you do recognize the car.

462
00:35:02,745 --> 00:35:03,982
uh

463
00:35:03,982 --> 00:35:06,425
was gonna say same Corolla from the other night then.

464
00:35:06,425 --> 00:35:11,011
So maybe this is information or next steps or anything like that.

465
00:35:11,011 --> 00:35:12,323
Okay, great.

466
00:35:12,323 --> 00:35:19,950
I think I will head up to Caroline's room and do just a little light knock as well.

467
00:35:19,950 --> 00:35:24,570
Yeah, in the box you both open it together or Caroline keeping this to herself, no?

468
00:35:24,570 --> 00:35:25,510
Yeah, sure.

469
00:35:25,510 --> 00:35:40,350
In the box is a piece of paper that says put everything here and then there's an address
and then there is a small key that is one of those circular keys with the little pin in

470
00:35:40,350 --> 00:35:43,502
the middle of it that you would find on a lock box.

471
00:35:43,502 --> 00:35:50,714
Great, I think that's the drop spot for delivery of all the materials we have collected.

472
00:35:50,735 --> 00:35:55,023
So I think that might be for me more than us collectively.

473
00:35:55,023 --> 00:35:56,865
Well, or us collectively,

474
00:35:57,336 --> 00:35:57,978
It's all you.

475
00:35:57,978 --> 00:36:01,612
If you know what to do with it, then I'll put you in charge.

476
00:36:01,612 --> 00:36:02,622
Alright, sounds good.

477
00:36:02,622 --> 00:36:05,744
Um, I don't think so.

478
00:36:05,744 --> 00:36:14,724
think, I think she knows this is the last time her hands are going to be on this and she
needs as much more info.

479
00:36:14,724 --> 00:36:23,131
So like before, when she was looking, she was looking for bio weapons and answers to
questions that, you know, somebody else needed for her to get.

480
00:36:23,131 --> 00:36:31,490
I think this is her opportunity to sleuth out any more information that she could use
personally to start her, you know, shift to.

481
00:36:31,490 --> 00:36:35,191
you know, science and uh discovering what's in herself.

482
00:36:35,191 --> 00:36:37,752
So I think it's not necessarily expected.

483
00:36:37,752 --> 00:36:38,452
Do this now.

484
00:36:38,452 --> 00:36:40,413
It did not say when to do this.

485
00:36:40,413 --> 00:36:43,073
And it is, you know, later in the night, it is dark.

486
00:36:43,073 --> 00:36:44,364
is the middle of the night.

487
00:36:44,364 --> 00:36:51,016
I think if she wants to be inconspicuous, she'd probably just drop it in a daytime, like
act like you're supposed to be there and people question you less type thing.

488
00:36:51,016 --> 00:36:59,264
So I think she would take the night to uh peruse Carras' stuff or anything pertaining more
to herself and

489
00:36:59,264 --> 00:36:59,745
learning.

490
00:36:59,745 --> 00:37:06,165
Like we've learned quite a bit and I had the ability to ask Keras a lot of things on my
own and have all that written down.

491
00:37:06,165 --> 00:37:10,210
But it's an extra thing to get her going on her next step of learning.

492
00:37:10,210 --> 00:37:16,520
Yeah, so you bring up the paperwork, you have the rod thing with you.

493
00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:18,243
Caroline, what are you doing?

494
00:37:18,243 --> 00:37:20,296
Are you gonna look through it too?

495
00:37:20,296 --> 00:37:21,828
Are you gonna allow that, Barone?

496
00:37:21,828 --> 00:37:26,154
Or are you going to just do something else or head off to bed?

497
00:37:26,830 --> 00:37:31,044
I don't give an opening as though I am asking for permission.

498
00:37:31,044 --> 00:37:34,412
Brunon, you can stop me, but I am acting as though I belong.

499
00:37:34,412 --> 00:37:35,643
No, absolutely.

500
00:37:35,643 --> 00:37:43,008
I think Barone's just happy not to be alone and have an assignment with somebody else to
lean on.

501
00:37:43,008 --> 00:37:46,791
I don't think she's going to build a wall and stop any information.

502
00:37:46,791 --> 00:37:53,415
If this person is helping me and we're making information trade, this person needs to know
what I know.

503
00:37:53,556 --> 00:37:58,559
She hasn't choked on all this information yet or had a panic attack or lost her shit.

504
00:37:58,559 --> 00:38:02,862
So I think there's a little bit of trust being built up decidedly quickly here.

505
00:38:02,862 --> 00:38:04,024
You start sifting through it.

506
00:38:04,024 --> 00:38:07,338
What s- What would your eye be looking for?

507
00:38:07,338 --> 00:38:09,491
You said more medical stuff.

508
00:38:09,491 --> 00:38:11,774
Do you have any medicine, Barone?

509
00:38:11,808 --> 00:38:13,678
I don't think I do.

510
00:38:13,678 --> 00:38:19,302
I know the type of stuff that I wouldn't know and I know the type of stuff.

511
00:38:19,542 --> 00:38:20,643
I guess that's the biggest thing.

512
00:38:20,643 --> 00:38:30,268
I know what I don't know so that anything that would be along the lines of seeming medical
enough and having to do with him studying this or if he had a personal journal of his

513
00:38:30,268 --> 00:38:35,330
notes and experiences himself that he had logged, that's more what I'm looking for.

514
00:38:35,374 --> 00:38:35,895
Okay.

515
00:38:35,895 --> 00:38:40,161
It's all personal and all fragmented, right?

516
00:38:40,161 --> 00:38:43,865
There are some research studies and stuff, but it's all over the place.

517
00:38:44,828 --> 00:38:47,111
He wasn't organizing it very well.

518
00:38:47,111 --> 00:38:52,588
Go ahead and just give me an intelligence times five.

519
00:38:52,590 --> 00:38:53,463
uh it's up.

520
00:38:53,463 --> 00:38:53,934
That's why.

521
00:38:53,934 --> 00:38:54,613
uh Cool.

522
00:38:54,613 --> 00:38:56,123
I'm looking for 65.

523
00:38:56,123 --> 00:38:57,327
Lots of rolling.

524
00:38:57,327 --> 00:38:58,481
65 on the dot.

525
00:38:58,481 --> 00:38:59,608
Get out.

526
00:38:59,608 --> 00:39:14,084
Okay, you're digging through and you were skeptical of the sodium bicarbonate thing, but
it does seem like if you were actually trying to give you that, which maybe he wasn't,

527
00:39:14,084 --> 00:39:22,547
that a blood transfusion in combination with a healthy dose of sodium bicarbonate would
cure this.

528
00:39:22,547 --> 00:39:24,608
You're not sure what the timeline is on that.

529
00:39:24,608 --> 00:39:25,679
Does it need to be now?

530
00:39:25,679 --> 00:39:29,710
Does it, you don't need to be, can it be a year from now?

531
00:39:29,792 --> 00:39:32,083
So there's no nothing on that.

532
00:39:32,083 --> 00:39:39,305
But if you were to get a blood transfusion with a strict regimen of that, you could
probably get this out of you.

533
00:39:39,305 --> 00:39:56,309
uh The thing that also comes up is his dreams getting progressively stranger and stranger
to the point where he believes he's on some astral plane in the middle of outer space,

534
00:39:56,429 --> 00:39:59,250
vibing with fungal

535
00:39:59,370 --> 00:40:13,173
frequencies in the stars and non-Euclidean fractals of light and different colors he's
never recognized giving him an immense amount of peace.

536
00:40:13,312 --> 00:40:17,236
Okay, so very clearly slowly circling the drain of insanity.

537
00:40:17,236 --> 00:40:22,382
Like this isn't good, something to keep in you that you're gonna have a peaceful thing
with.

538
00:40:22,382 --> 00:40:27,586
Like it's gonna eat you alive mentally and physically if it stays in you too long type
thing.

539
00:40:27,586 --> 00:40:29,811
Yeah, that could be a good assumption.

540
00:40:30,235 --> 00:40:33,002
Caroline, as you're looking through this, me bureaucracy.

541
00:40:33,056 --> 00:40:34,697
I have 80, no good.

542
00:40:35,170 --> 00:40:36,882
Writings of a madman, right?

543
00:40:36,882 --> 00:40:45,238
Like, you can't make any sense of it, but you will have to give me a sanity roll because
this is quite unnatural.

544
00:40:45,294 --> 00:40:46,978
Create Success.

545
00:40:46,978 --> 00:40:50,951
Alright, you don't lose any, but you also don't gain any on natural.

546
00:40:52,514 --> 00:40:53,215
Yeah.

547
00:40:53,215 --> 00:41:02,707
See, I keep going back to this idea that like she doesn't actually believe in anything
supernatural because it's all just got explanations, like bad explanations if you weren't

548
00:41:02,707 --> 00:41:05,294
very scientifically literate or something like that.

549
00:41:05,294 --> 00:41:05,755
Totally.

550
00:41:05,755 --> 00:41:07,301
Yeah, That's perfect.

551
00:41:07,301 --> 00:41:08,445
Barone.

552
00:41:08,445 --> 00:41:11,896
Yeah, that's what you can glean from it with a night looking at it.

553
00:41:11,896 --> 00:41:12,730
Man, great.

554
00:41:12,730 --> 00:41:13,383
No, that's awesome.

555
00:41:13,383 --> 00:41:17,439
That's way more than I thought I would get out of this, so I'm chuffed.

556
00:41:17,870 --> 00:41:19,954
Carolyn, anything else you would do looking at this?

557
00:41:19,954 --> 00:41:27,169
Like I kind of forced a bureaucracy, but I'll give you another pass at how you would be
thinking on this.

558
00:41:27,608 --> 00:41:34,364
Yeah, I don't know that I have a whole lot that I am poised to do.

559
00:41:34,364 --> 00:41:41,189
I think I'm really trying to get an understanding of what the, maybe the theme of the
operation is, right?

560
00:41:41,189 --> 00:41:51,248
Like I jumped in at a very strange point and we had like an instantaneous velocity, but it
wasn't necessarily congruent with the whole trajectory that we've been on.

561
00:41:51,248 --> 00:41:56,610
And so I'm trying to just understand where this little facet fits into the whole broader
scheme.

562
00:41:56,610 --> 00:41:58,700
Yeah, would you ask Barone that?

563
00:41:58,700 --> 00:42:10,180
Yeah, sure, think in an effort not to be like, annoying, like, you know, please tell me
the whole history of this, but like, you're just trying to naturally prod at details as,

564
00:42:10,180 --> 00:42:13,532
you know, unusual this and that's come up in the paperwork.

565
00:42:13,646 --> 00:42:15,186
No, yeah, I got it.

566
00:42:15,186 --> 00:42:17,806
Know where we've been to figure out where we're going type thing.

567
00:42:17,806 --> 00:42:19,246
No worries.

568
00:42:19,646 --> 00:42:31,666
So if you start over here, so this is probably pertaining to, then I kind of walk through
the steps of the things we realized and found out and what we were originally tasked with

569
00:42:31,666 --> 00:42:36,466
and what we completed and where we failed type stuff.

570
00:42:36,486 --> 00:42:42,766
Any of the gory, more fucked details, I don't think, but as much information as I can.

571
00:42:42,766 --> 00:42:51,054
pass across to get this person up to date to where if I need something specific, they at
least know what I'm talking about and so far so forth.

572
00:42:51,054 --> 00:42:53,625
Do you tell her about the aliens?

573
00:42:53,838 --> 00:42:55,622
you

574
00:42:56,610 --> 00:42:59,931
shit, do I tell her about the aliens?

575
00:43:00,272 --> 00:43:05,693
I, I think I probably, um, shoot.

576
00:43:05,693 --> 00:43:10,835
I think, I think I kind of brush over that with there were additional encounters.

577
00:43:10,835 --> 00:43:17,977
Um, I know that, you know, that like she said, this whole thing jump started into a chaos
shotgun to the face.

578
00:43:17,977 --> 00:43:20,797
Um, I think I kind of brush over that.

579
00:43:20,797 --> 00:43:23,148
And if she wants to ask more.

580
00:43:23,422 --> 00:43:34,700
you know, about more specificity with it, I think I will, but I think I just kind of leave
it as, and then there, you know, was a back and forth and something happened and, you

581
00:43:34,700 --> 00:43:36,702
know, leave it as an encounter rather.

582
00:43:36,738 --> 00:43:37,272
Yeah.

583
00:43:37,272 --> 00:43:48,599
And I think I ascertain that perhaps you are circling around something that you are
intentionally being vague with, but you haven't done that with very many things.

584
00:43:48,599 --> 00:43:51,214
And so I'm gonna let you keep that for now.

585
00:43:51,214 --> 00:43:54,341
Both of you, can you make an int times five?

586
00:43:54,382 --> 00:43:55,442
Sure.

587
00:43:55,522 --> 00:43:58,062
I got a 78 failure.

588
00:43:58,062 --> 00:44:00,786
Perun, why did Butterfield send you out here?

589
00:44:01,300 --> 00:44:16,710
The official reason was to silence Karas or get him to turn to our side so that he leaked
no more information either to the public or, um, you know, back to, um, this is going to

590
00:44:16,710 --> 00:44:18,174
make me sound like an idiot.

591
00:44:19,295 --> 00:44:23,517
Majestic, my God, back to back to majestic or to the public.

592
00:44:23,517 --> 00:44:26,537
So silence a leak was the official reason.

593
00:44:26,537 --> 00:44:28,788
What the real reason was beyond that.

594
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:31,874
You know, Barona's still piecing together, I guess.

595
00:44:31,874 --> 00:44:42,580
Yeah, Caroline, with that little bit of intent for Butterfield and the initial
conversation you had about, know, hey, we need to look into this guy, like we need to be a

596
00:44:42,580 --> 00:44:44,371
step ahead of him if that possible.

597
00:44:44,371 --> 00:44:47,892
You know, you have, you know, this, this is strange.

598
00:44:47,892 --> 00:44:49,524
It's in the middle of nowhere.

599
00:44:49,524 --> 00:45:00,810
There's a guy in a swamp and you get three professionals, you know, from what you've seen
sent out here just for him.

600
00:45:00,810 --> 00:45:09,187
He's kind of minding his own business from what you can glean from the operation, dealing
with stuff that you don't believe in, right?

601
00:45:09,187 --> 00:45:13,861
That, you know, so it's like, why not just let this old crazy guy be old and crazy out
there?

602
00:45:13,861 --> 00:45:20,866
So the whole thing is like a strange amalgamation of details to you.

603
00:45:21,663 --> 00:45:28,429
Enough so that I have to simply assume that we aren't told anything meaningful, I guess.

604
00:45:28,429 --> 00:45:29,190
Right?

605
00:45:29,190 --> 00:45:39,480
Like, there is enough fog of war that I understand that we are not in a decision-making
kind of position.

606
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:40,122
Right?

607
00:45:40,122 --> 00:45:45,816
I I just interpret it through that lens, my interactions with Butterfield thereafter.

608
00:45:45,816 --> 00:45:58,375
Yeah, one thing that does, based on your interaction with him and how he approached you
and his, you know, his, the ability that he has to think on his feet and utilize you,

609
00:45:58,375 --> 00:46:03,589
tells you that he is intelligent and that there's something else going on.

610
00:46:03,589 --> 00:46:06,821
There's something personal, right, about this for him.

611
00:46:06,821 --> 00:46:14,242
Like this, this guy, Karas, like this whole thing doesn't seem tactically sound.

612
00:46:14,242 --> 00:46:16,726
So there has to be some other personal angle.

613
00:46:16,726 --> 00:46:19,229
And do you have any accounting at all?

614
00:46:19,229 --> 00:46:20,192
You have none?

615
00:46:20,192 --> 00:46:21,976
attend the base 10.

616
00:46:23,252 --> 00:46:27,218
Knowing that, give me the base 10 plus 20.

617
00:46:27,218 --> 00:46:37,710
Okay, yeah, you can't make any connections here, so it's really, really tough to glean
anything from this, you know.

618
00:46:37,710 --> 00:46:38,470
Yeah, understood.

619
00:46:38,470 --> 00:46:39,450
I think that's fine.

620
00:46:39,450 --> 00:46:52,231
I think just getting an understanding of what questions are acceptable to ask and what
information are we provided with and how much knowing do are we really supposed to do is

621
00:46:52,231 --> 00:46:54,462
kind of what I am trying to level set.

622
00:46:54,562 --> 00:46:59,061
Yeah, seems like you're on your way to level set that, so...

623
00:47:09,486 --> 00:47:24,879
Yeah, you hear a car pull up on the outside and Agent Smith opens it up and you get in and
it's you and Butterfield in one car and it looks like Smith and Finch in another.

624
00:47:24,879 --> 00:47:31,845
One's a Crown Vic, the other is a Corolla and drive out and the car rides kind of a blur.

625
00:47:31,845 --> 00:47:35,578
Just the flat lands and some swampy bogs as you pass through.

626
00:47:35,578 --> 00:47:38,574
And about an hour later you stop and a

627
00:47:38,574 --> 00:47:43,476
tops of trees and you see a large clearing that stretches out before you.

628
00:47:43,636 --> 00:47:46,397
Butterfield and Finch get out of the car behind you.

629
00:47:46,397 --> 00:47:54,580
Finch looks calm, looks extremely calm, almost looks like he's lobotomized on an invisible
leash being pulled by Butterfield.

630
00:47:54,580 --> 00:48:00,490
And Smith, you know, gets out of the car and stands next to it and says, sit tight.

631
00:48:00,490 --> 00:48:02,662
In the car, you want me to sit tight?

632
00:48:02,712 --> 00:48:05,474
You can get out if you want, but I wouldn't recommend it.

633
00:48:05,474 --> 00:48:06,517
going over there.

634
00:48:06,517 --> 00:48:07,739
I'll sit tight.

635
00:48:08,543 --> 00:48:13,997
So can I see where they are going from where I am in the car?

636
00:48:13,998 --> 00:48:16,258
Go ahead and roll a...

637
00:48:16,258 --> 00:48:17,358
alertness.

638
00:48:19,048 --> 00:48:26,680
I am looking for 46 and I did not get it at exactly 50.

639
00:48:27,066 --> 00:48:31,308
Yeah, so you watch them walk out and they stop.

640
00:48:31,308 --> 00:48:37,651
Butterfield, you notice him kind of looking around and pointing.

641
00:48:37,651 --> 00:48:39,992
You don't really see who he's motioning to.

642
00:48:39,992 --> 00:48:41,432
Maybe it's Agent Smith.

643
00:48:41,432 --> 00:48:51,636
um But Finch goes down and sits down and Butterfield hands him just a stack of the small
pieces of paper he was ripping up with you.

644
00:48:51,636 --> 00:48:56,338
And Finch grabs them and starts arranging them around him in the dirt.

645
00:48:56,396 --> 00:49:01,894
And you can see this, it's about 30 feet away, so it's pretty close still.

646
00:49:01,894 --> 00:49:05,380
And you see him just arranging the symbols.

647
00:49:05,380 --> 00:49:07,336
Can you roll Sanity real quick?

648
00:49:07,336 --> 00:49:08,308
Mm-hmm.

649
00:49:08,308 --> 00:49:09,806
Looking for...

650
00:49:09,806 --> 00:49:11,906
53...

651
00:49:11,906 --> 00:49:14,018
61...

652
00:49:14,018 --> 00:49:24,265
Yeah, so you lose one sanity as you see him getting ready to bring these monsters back,
the ones who you made a pact with and killed your friend, Del.

653
00:49:24,265 --> 00:49:28,928
But yeah, out in the field, he raises his arms and he starts to chant.

654
00:49:29,249 --> 00:49:31,730
In the daytime, it does remind you of K'ras.

655
00:49:31,730 --> 00:49:36,994
It doesn't feel like it should be done during the day, but it is happening right here,
right now.

656
00:49:36,994 --> 00:49:39,035
And it's about 11 a.m.

657
00:49:39,055 --> 00:49:43,426
And your jaw explodes in a hot white pain.

658
00:49:43,426 --> 00:49:49,653
Like you felt this before in your whole body, but it is pinpointed to where that implant
was.

659
00:49:49,653 --> 00:50:00,604
Maybe you're just aware of it now that you know it's there, but you feel it and it's just
like a hot red needle poking you almost like you're getting a shot at the dentist.

660
00:50:00,705 --> 00:50:06,090
And your ears feel with a, your ears fill with a vibration.

661
00:50:06,114 --> 00:50:11,066
Hmm, can I hear anything or am I only hearing vibration at this point?

662
00:50:11,066 --> 00:50:19,413
Yeah, vibration, and you notice that Agent Smith isn't responding to anything, so it feels
like maybe only you can.

663
00:50:19,413 --> 00:50:29,221
You look at Butterfield and he's standing calmly, but Finch, his hands are raised and he's
shaking, almost seizing as he's singing the song you know all too well.

664
00:50:29,742 --> 00:50:39,594
But then through the windshield and through the side window, you see the slits in the sky
open, that purplish glow being...

665
00:50:39,594 --> 00:50:48,740
Accented by the sunlight, almost looks more of a pink in daytime, and you feel the air
around you turn cold.

666
00:50:48,740 --> 00:50:53,143
Then two shapes descend and you know them.

667
00:50:53,143 --> 00:50:59,908
They're the massive fleshes of alien thing that came down.

668
00:50:59,908 --> 00:51:03,170
Before there were three, but now there's only two.

669
00:51:03,170 --> 00:51:09,570
And you see pink, purplish fungus, and the buzzing starts to...

670
00:51:09,570 --> 00:51:11,946
happen over the radio of the car.

671
00:51:11,946 --> 00:51:13,190
It's just like I...

672
00:51:14,466 --> 00:51:15,368
You

673
00:51:16,135 --> 00:51:18,055
And it's ever-present.

674
00:51:18,055 --> 00:51:22,337
You see Agent Smith check his own sanity.

675
00:51:23,178 --> 00:51:27,259
Agent Smith starts to shake in front of you.

676
00:51:27,259 --> 00:51:33,082
You feel him pushing on the car and the car is getting lower as he's kind of sitting on
it.

677
00:51:33,082 --> 00:51:38,464
Obviously not keeping his cool and losing his grip out there.

678
00:51:38,464 --> 00:51:43,266
And Butterfield looks calmly as he seems to send down onto Finch.

679
00:51:43,790 --> 00:51:45,046
Do you do anything from in the car?

680
00:51:45,046 --> 00:51:45,856
You're just watching.

681
00:51:45,856 --> 00:51:58,653
I'm just watching and all my jaw is hurting and um just trying to keep it together and
really don't care to interact with these things at this time.

682
00:51:58,653 --> 00:52:01,334
So just trying to lay low.

683
00:52:01,474 --> 00:52:12,200
Yeah, you hear Butterfield's walkie-talkie come to life and he holds it up to the large
figure descending.

684
00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:16,243
The second one hangs back and he holds it to his ear.

685
00:52:16,243 --> 00:52:28,390
You think that they're speaking together through that and you start to hear on the radio
snippets of frequencies um as this thing is trying to tune in to be able to converse with

686
00:52:28,390 --> 00:52:29,510
Butterfield.

687
00:52:29,886 --> 00:52:46,655
You do notice that Finch is screaming in ecstasy as this thing has descended upon him and
the creature is holding in one of its tentacly crab-like octopi arms the all too familiar

688
00:52:46,655 --> 00:52:54,460
cylinder that you assume Del was, um I guess, extracted in and this one is empty.

689
00:52:54,460 --> 00:52:59,532
And Butterfield, as he's talking, he looks back and points to you.

690
00:52:59,592 --> 00:53:00,602
and and you

691
00:53:21,834 --> 00:53:24,405
Is it coming closer?

692
00:53:24,449 --> 00:53:25,793
Still staying.

693
00:53:26,010 --> 00:53:38,880
Yeah, it's still staying there conversing with Butterfield and you see him look back to
the alien and continue to talk to it and then he just points to Finch and Finch is sitting

694
00:53:38,880 --> 00:53:52,662
there in this elated position and almost in a snap of a finger the strange blade these
things hold comes out and it starts to carve into Finch's skull.

695
00:53:52,662 --> 00:54:00,889
Right down the middle, you see his face slacken, his two eyeballs fall out of his head as
his brain is extracted with ease.

696
00:54:00,889 --> 00:54:04,893
Anesturgical precision unlike anything you've seen on Earth.

697
00:54:04,893 --> 00:54:06,464
Give me another sand roll.

698
00:54:06,542 --> 00:54:07,442
Poof.

699
00:54:07,442 --> 00:54:08,882
Poor Finch.

700
00:54:09,422 --> 00:54:10,122
40...

701
00:54:10,122 --> 00:54:10,802
40.

702
00:54:10,802 --> 00:54:11,642
Exactly.

703
00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:12,572
Wait.

704
00:54:12,834 --> 00:54:13,134
Yeah.

705
00:54:13,134 --> 00:54:13,675
Pass.

706
00:54:13,675 --> 00:54:16,897
You still lose one from seeing this.

707
00:54:16,897 --> 00:54:24,483
And yeah, since you're able to hold it together, you see Butterfield backing away a little
faster.

708
00:54:24,484 --> 00:54:34,591
And he has a hand behind his back that's a fist like this as he's talking to this thing
and he's nodding his head.

709
00:54:34,672 --> 00:54:38,034
And then you see the fist open up.

710
00:54:38,104 --> 00:54:45,997
and then he takes a big step backwards and you see him fall into the earth through some
sort of trap that was dug here.

711
00:54:45,997 --> 00:54:55,000
It looked like it had dirt on it, but it was obviously fake because he just falls into
what looks to be like a little grave and disappears.

712
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:59,422
And then the tree line beside you erupts in gunfire.

713
00:54:59,998 --> 00:55:06,390
So I just duck because I'm like, I don't want any stray bullets coming my way.

714
00:55:06,390 --> 00:55:07,370
It's like pop, pop, pop, pop.

715
00:55:07,370 --> 00:55:09,743
You see tracers flying through the air.

716
00:55:09,743 --> 00:55:21,603
looks like since you're ducked, you're not sure, but it sounds like there's three to four
large guns, probably machine guns, firing and 50 cal rounds are shredding the air.

717
00:55:21,603 --> 00:55:30,050
And before you are able to duck, you see them honing in on what looks to be the two alien
things floating in the air.

718
00:55:30,070 --> 00:55:34,894
And it starts tearing one of them apart, the one closest to you.

719
00:55:34,894 --> 00:56:04,750
And then you lose sight as you get down, but you hear just a tch tch tch tch tch tch tch
tch tch tch t

720
00:56:04,750 --> 00:56:07,730
Yeah, I'm like, what the fuck is going on?

721
00:56:07,730 --> 00:56:14,242
And I look back, you know, to see if yeah, just looking back to see what's going on.

722
00:56:14,242 --> 00:56:21,808
Yeah, you look back and you see one of the Migos, the closest one, has slopped onto the
ground into a pile of sludge.

723
00:56:21,808 --> 00:56:26,571
The second one is getting hit and then you just see it phase out of nowhere.

724
00:56:26,822 --> 00:56:29,814
And go ahead and roll an alertness again.

725
00:56:31,374 --> 00:56:36,314
for 46 and of course not 65 again

726
00:56:38,112 --> 00:56:39,323
It's chaos, right?

727
00:56:39,323 --> 00:56:41,843
You're seeing tracers fly out of the forest.

728
00:56:42,044 --> 00:56:43,545
You don't know what's going on.

729
00:56:43,545 --> 00:56:51,068
You see that thing disappear and blink out of existence and then all the bullets stop and
it goes quiet.

730
00:56:51,068 --> 00:56:54,690
And the car slows down and Smith turns to you, like, is that it?

731
00:56:54,690 --> 00:56:56,030
It looks like we got him.

732
00:56:56,030 --> 00:57:00,212
And he starts crawling and looking behind him as well.

733
00:57:00,212 --> 00:57:04,254
And you see in the tree line, one of the...

734
00:57:04,254 --> 00:57:15,445
Soldiers who was in there come out, looks like standard military apparel, and holding a
large gun, you have no idea what type of gun it is with your firearms, but it's huge.

735
00:57:15,445 --> 00:57:20,189
And out of nowhere, he just gets ripped up into the sky.

736
00:57:20,890 --> 00:57:25,644
And Smith is like, oh, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, and hits the gas again.

737
00:57:26,648 --> 00:57:29,222
Shit, drive fast, get out of here.

738
00:57:29,222 --> 00:57:31,124
Must go faster, must go faster.

739
00:57:31,124 --> 00:57:41,873
um You look in the mirror maybe and objects appear closer than they seem and you see a
T-Rex coming down.

740
00:57:41,873 --> 00:57:56,565
No, what you do see is the light bending around the sky, much like the strange ship figure
you saw in the swamp during the um swamp monster's strange ritual fly over you being the

741
00:57:56,565 --> 00:57:58,038
only one who saw it.

742
00:57:58,038 --> 00:58:07,881
You now see it hovering above the forest and you see another soldier being plucked from
out of the trees straight up into the air and disappearing into the bottom of it.

743
00:58:07,881 --> 00:58:12,883
As it flickers and you see it is a silver, strange saucer shape.

744
00:58:12,883 --> 00:58:14,964
Smith is crying.

745
00:58:14,964 --> 00:58:22,668
He's not sobbing, but you notice that there tears coming from his eyes and he is
terrified, but still driving.

746
00:58:22,668 --> 00:58:24,033
Yeah man, hold it together.

747
00:58:24,033 --> 00:58:25,442
Just keep driving.

748
00:58:25,442 --> 00:58:29,988
Yeah, he's trying and he'll roll sand and he rolled an 80.

749
00:58:30,512 --> 00:58:32,803
Damn, these rolls.

750
00:58:34,798 --> 00:58:37,098
He is trying to keep it together.

751
00:58:37,098 --> 00:58:38,857
The tears are welling up.

752
00:58:38,857 --> 00:58:39,558
He's scared.

753
00:58:39,558 --> 00:58:41,358
He's starting to tremble.

754
00:58:41,358 --> 00:58:45,038
And out of nowhere, he hits something.

755
00:58:45,038 --> 00:58:51,438
Maybe it's a stump, maybe it's a ditch, but the car goes flying up and starts to turn
over.

756
00:58:51,438 --> 00:58:54,702
Can you roll me con times five?

757
00:58:54,702 --> 00:58:56,702
So looking for 6, dude.

758
00:58:56,722 --> 00:58:59,370
And I got an 18, finally.

759
00:58:59,370 --> 00:59:01,332
Okay, success.

760
00:59:01,493 --> 00:59:12,724
You don't pass out, but you are thrown down and you didn't have a seatbelt on and are
laying on the top of the car in the interior.

761
00:59:13,466 --> 00:59:17,270
You hear the wheels on the outside continuing to spin.

762
00:59:19,604 --> 00:59:25,706
as maybe his foot is still stuck or wedged on the gas, um, roll an alertness for me.

763
00:59:26,190 --> 00:59:33,130
Again, looking for a 46 and nope, 80 exactly.

764
00:59:33,250 --> 00:59:34,710
Wow.

765
00:59:34,798 --> 00:59:35,858
Alright, good session.

766
00:59:35,858 --> 00:59:42,061
uh So, yeah, you are just stuck in this car.

767
00:59:42,061 --> 00:59:52,106
You start to feel warm, stuff all dripping down from the, well, it would be the bottom of
the car usually, but it's the top of the car now.

768
00:59:52,106 --> 00:59:56,028
It's blood coming from Agent Smith.

769
00:59:56,228 --> 00:59:58,009
The windows are smashed out.

770
00:59:58,009 --> 00:59:59,870
Do you crawl out of the car?

771
01:00:00,536 --> 01:00:01,615
Is he alive?

772
01:00:01,615 --> 01:00:03,576
What kind of condition is he in?

773
01:00:03,576 --> 01:00:15,325
Yeah, if you want to take a second, you can look up at him and then you would notice that
he's just bleeding a lot from the top of his head and he put his seatbelt on quickly and

774
01:00:15,325 --> 01:00:24,214
is just hanging there above you um and blood's coming out of where his blood's coming from
out of his hairline.

775
01:00:24,214 --> 01:00:25,478
Is he alert?

776
01:00:25,478 --> 01:00:26,940
Is he conscious?

777
01:00:27,203 --> 01:00:28,164
Okay.

778
01:00:28,186 --> 01:00:31,362
Yeah, I'm gonna, I'm gonna crawl out of this car.

779
01:00:31,362 --> 01:00:34,192
Yeah, you crawl out, give me an athletics.

780
01:00:34,380 --> 01:00:36,310
Looking for 30.

781
01:00:36,376 --> 01:00:39,110
And I got a 49.

782
01:00:39,110 --> 01:00:40,174
46.

783
01:00:40,174 --> 01:00:40,734
Okay.

784
01:00:40,734 --> 01:00:42,865
Yeah, it's really hard to get out.

785
01:00:42,865 --> 01:00:45,657
Your leg feels jammed in there.

786
01:00:45,657 --> 01:00:55,061
You're about halfway out um and the car kind of slumps over under your weight trying to
get out and pinches your leg even more.

787
01:00:55,061 --> 01:00:57,612
Can you give me a dex times five?

788
01:00:57,678 --> 01:01:02,126
Looking at 55 and I got a 52.

789
01:01:02,126 --> 01:01:03,016
oh Let's go.

790
01:01:03,016 --> 01:01:04,307
All right.

791
01:01:04,307 --> 01:01:15,793
Yeah, before there's any damage done to your ankle, you are able to wiggle it out and um
you hear Agent Smith cough up blood and say, fuck.

792
01:01:16,934 --> 01:01:31,192
And he coughs up some gurgly mess in there and he kind of like looks out towards you as
you're crawling out and passes back out.

793
01:01:31,192 --> 01:01:32,043
Jeez.

794
01:01:32,043 --> 01:01:33,163
What do do?

795
01:01:33,705 --> 01:01:34,705
I'm looking around.

796
01:01:34,705 --> 01:01:37,007
Are these things nearby?

797
01:01:37,007 --> 01:01:38,809
What is it calm outside?

798
01:01:38,809 --> 01:01:39,948
What's going on?

799
01:01:39,948 --> 01:01:46,582
Yeah, there's this surreal calmness to everything as you look around.

800
01:01:46,643 --> 01:01:54,969
And the only thing you hear is the car tire continuing to spin as it's flipped over.

801
01:01:54,969 --> 01:02:02,414
You're surprised it hasn't stalled out being upside down, but it really has only been like
five seconds since you crashed probably.

802
01:02:02,474 --> 01:02:08,106
And yeah, the surreal calmness is all you really feel.

803
01:02:08,106 --> 01:02:16,076
And when you go to try to move again, you wonder if your back's broken, but you're
standing up, but you can't move.

804
01:02:16,076 --> 01:02:18,518
I'm standing up and I'm paralyzed.

805
01:02:18,518 --> 01:02:19,706
Yeah, you can't move.

806
01:02:19,706 --> 01:02:20,748
can't walk.

807
01:02:20,898 --> 01:02:23,062
can't move my hands, anything.

808
01:02:23,062 --> 01:02:27,066
Yeah, you try to blink even and your eyes are stuck open.

809
01:02:27,066 --> 01:02:31,424
ah Go ahead and give me a pow times five.

810
01:02:31,424 --> 01:02:36,396
I'm for 80 and I got a six, double six.

811
01:02:36,546 --> 01:02:42,050
Yeah, so you're able to stay conscious, but you are still paralyzed.

812
01:02:42,050 --> 01:02:44,372
And as you're like, what do I see?

813
01:02:44,372 --> 01:02:45,583
Like, what am I looking for?

814
01:02:45,583 --> 01:02:47,034
Why can't I move?

815
01:02:47,555 --> 01:02:55,106
You can move your eyes and you realize when you move your eyes, you look down, you are
starting to float into the sky.

816
01:02:55,106 --> 01:02:55,967
No.

817
01:02:56,971 --> 01:02:58,313
Not again.

818
01:02:59,596 --> 01:03:04,875
You're the Earth and are slowly floating up.

819
01:03:04,875 --> 01:03:09,113
It seems slow to you, but how you saw the soldiers being jerked up in the sky is your
guess.

820
01:03:09,113 --> 01:03:11,748
Your brain is playing a trick on you.

821
01:03:11,748 --> 01:03:13,390
Can you roll me San?

822
01:03:13,390 --> 01:03:14,750
Where is sanity?

823
01:03:15,650 --> 01:03:16,930
Oh yeah.

824
01:03:17,230 --> 01:03:18,250
51.

825
01:03:19,830 --> 01:03:21,838
69, dude.

826
01:03:21,838 --> 01:03:27,578
Okay, yeah, give me a D6 for sand loss.

827
01:03:29,438 --> 01:03:30,518
Okay, three.

828
01:03:30,518 --> 01:03:33,383
Do you want to project any of that or are you just gonna take it?

829
01:03:33,383 --> 01:03:37,036
I mean, at this fucking point, I'll just take it.

830
01:03:37,036 --> 01:03:39,120
I'd rather just go insane.

831
01:03:39,190 --> 01:03:49,415
Yeah, you're not to that point yet, but as you're being pulled up into this flying saucer,
you realize you're being abducted by aliens.

832
01:03:49,415 --> 01:03:52,297
And, you know, that seeps in.

833
01:03:52,297 --> 01:04:02,670
You know, what are the last few thoughts as you're trying to hold it together and can't
hold it together that Ryan has before he's pulled into an alien spacecraft?

834
01:04:02,670 --> 01:04:05,571
ah Well, I'm still alive.

835
01:04:05,932 --> 01:04:09,794
seem to, my brain still seems to be attached to my body anyway.

836
01:04:09,794 --> 01:04:17,698
um So there's a little bit of relief in that, but I'm thoroughly freaked out.

837
01:04:17,890 --> 01:04:26,570
I also am just like surrendering to the experience at this point, just out of there's
nothing I can do about it.

838
01:04:26,570 --> 01:04:28,335
I can't even move my hands.

839
01:04:28,335 --> 01:04:29,665
So.

840
01:04:30,392 --> 01:04:33,981
there's a little bit of surrender and peace in that as well.

841
01:04:34,316 --> 01:04:48,069
Yeah, I imagine a sense of awe too, where these forces and things are so beyond you that,
you know, it almost feels like a surrender that is welcome.

842
01:04:48,069 --> 01:04:48,750
Yeah.

843
01:04:48,750 --> 01:04:53,806
Absolutely, especially after everything I've been through up to this point.

844
01:04:53,806 --> 01:05:04,326
Yeah, you lose consciousness and are pulled into the deep dark recesses of an alien
spacecraft.

845
01:05:04,346 --> 01:05:06,746
And that's where we'll leave Ryan for now.

846
01:05:09,802 --> 01:05:12,639
In the morning, do you drive over to this address?

847
01:05:12,672 --> 01:05:23,350
Yeah, I think after getting what we can and, you know, a bit of a sleepless night digging
through papers, obviously she had to go to sleep at one point, but she's feeling a bit

848
01:05:23,350 --> 01:05:26,843
better than the previous evening going to sleep.

849
01:05:26,843 --> 01:05:38,690
think it is time to make the drop and check the box of I am a team member, you know,
playing ball to give myself more time and kind of move forward and find what's next.

850
01:05:38,690 --> 01:05:44,756
Yeah, you pull up a map and look and find out where this address goes to.

851
01:05:44,756 --> 01:05:48,539
It goes to what looks to be a mall, which is strange.

852
01:05:48,539 --> 01:05:54,785
And you drive up and you see the sign that says Great Plains Regional Mall, and it sits on
a highway.

853
01:05:55,186 --> 01:05:59,769
It looks kind of like a beached whale there, concrete skin peeling away.

854
01:05:59,770 --> 01:06:04,774
And this looks like it was built in the boom of the 80s.

855
01:06:04,874 --> 01:06:10,216
a monument to consumerism and prosperity that never reached Oklahoma fully.

856
01:06:10,416 --> 01:06:15,998
And the parking lot is just vast and cracked asphalt that has weeds coming out.

857
01:06:15,998 --> 01:06:17,869
This mall is abandoned and shut down.

858
01:06:17,869 --> 01:06:28,310
And you see some plywood covering an east entrance and it has a big ol' split in the
bottom you can get in, just poppin' on in.

859
01:06:28,310 --> 01:06:29,994
Yeah, yep, definitely.

860
01:06:29,994 --> 01:06:33,532
don't think there's necessarily any reason for red flags.

861
01:06:33,532 --> 01:06:35,035
And like, there's no other cars here.

862
01:06:35,035 --> 01:06:36,007
There's literally nothing.

863
01:06:36,007 --> 01:06:37,589
It's just a banded ass,

864
01:06:37,720 --> 01:06:48,972
Yeah, yeah, you get in and there's an old atrium that's more like a tomb now and the tiles
are checkered pink and teal and you know, there's no light.

865
01:06:48,972 --> 01:06:58,733
You're dealing with the sunlight coming in through the atrium top and you see chalk arrows
just pointing different ways.

866
01:06:58,733 --> 01:07:00,524
You're assuming you follow those?

867
01:07:00,610 --> 01:07:04,130
Yep, Nick, I sure do.

868
01:07:04,130 --> 01:07:10,692
I follow the creepy arrows in the abandoned mall out here by myself in my lonesome in the
dark.

869
01:07:10,692 --> 01:07:12,034
Yep, I do that.

870
01:07:12,034 --> 01:07:26,142
Yeah, you walk through and it does get darker and darker as you get into the cavernous
part of the mall and you see a, used to be a KB toys, the K is missing and the arrows

871
01:07:26,142 --> 01:07:27,963
point inside of there.

872
01:07:27,963 --> 01:07:40,620
There's like a trampled Power Rangers poster on the ground and it's just empty shelves and
there's an arrow that points around into a torrid door that looks behind.

873
01:07:40,620 --> 01:07:44,630
used to be behind cash registers, back.

874
01:07:44,630 --> 01:07:47,042
Do you just pop on into that door?

875
01:07:47,042 --> 01:07:57,896
Yeah, I think I'll just take a quick um glance around and do a slight hearing check to see
if she hears anything, you know, stranger out of the ordinary.

876
01:07:57,896 --> 01:08:01,658
then, yeah, I think she kind of just wants to get rid of this now, man.

877
01:08:01,658 --> 01:08:06,690
She wants to the relief of not having this on her conscience anymore and on her person.

878
01:08:06,690 --> 01:08:13,105
Yeah, you walk through and open the door and it's a small little room.

879
01:08:13,105 --> 01:08:14,816
Looks like an accounting room.

880
01:08:14,816 --> 01:08:16,338
Probably there was a table there.

881
01:08:16,338 --> 01:08:19,760
There's no chairs, very strangely laid out.

882
01:08:19,760 --> 01:08:28,547
And there is a massive door that's been unhinged from somewhere else leaning against the
wall.

883
01:08:28,547 --> 01:08:32,770
And behind it, you see a large gun safe.

884
01:08:32,840 --> 01:08:34,843
uh...

885
01:08:34,843 --> 01:08:37,146
Well, did not expect you here, okay.

886
01:08:37,146 --> 01:08:39,842
And then I'll, open the gun safe.

887
01:08:39,842 --> 01:08:44,250
You have the key for it, the lock, and it pops open.

888
01:08:44,250 --> 01:08:48,416
And the only gun in there is an old shotgun, just sitting there.

889
01:08:48,437 --> 01:08:51,912
And you're assuming this is where you deposit everything.

890
01:08:51,917 --> 01:09:00,676
Okay great, is there anything that says, hey take the shotgun, Barone, this is for you.

891
01:09:00,705 --> 01:09:02,496
what's your firearm skill at?

892
01:09:02,496 --> 01:09:04,770
Uh, my firearms is at 59.

893
01:09:04,770 --> 01:09:11,820
Okay, yeah, you pull it up, it's a pistol grip tactical Benelli shotgun, but there's
something engraved on the barrel.

894
01:09:11,820 --> 01:09:18,996
Okay, I will roll it over in my hand, check if it's loaded, then uh look at the barrel.

895
01:09:19,502 --> 01:09:20,188
It's not loaded.

896
01:09:20,188 --> 01:09:22,271
Yeah, you looked down the barrel.

897
01:09:22,271 --> 01:09:24,003
I just looked down the barrel.

898
01:09:24,003 --> 01:09:26,104
Gotta make sure this trigger works.

899
01:09:26,145 --> 01:09:28,407
Alright, well, Barone's dead.

900
01:09:29,449 --> 01:09:30,702
Next character.

901
01:09:30,702 --> 01:09:33,093
Dying during downtime would be crazy.

902
01:09:33,093 --> 01:09:34,479
Yeah, right.

903
01:09:34,774 --> 01:09:43,374
Yeah, on the barrel, the engraving reads, this machine will always bring death.

904
01:09:43,374 --> 01:09:45,854
I chuckled myself a little bit.

905
01:09:45,854 --> 01:09:50,634
Funny story, sometimes being a death dealer is more deserved, guess.

906
01:09:50,634 --> 01:09:51,574
Fuck me.

907
01:09:51,574 --> 01:10:02,232
And I'll grab it, roll it over, and I guess I will make the swap and put the files in
there, take the shotgun, and close it up.

908
01:10:02,232 --> 01:10:12,133
So do you put the, you have a leftover brain jar, you have your rod, you have uh other,
you have piece of the Torah still, I think.

909
01:10:12,133 --> 01:10:13,365
no, the Torah was taken away already.

910
01:10:13,365 --> 01:10:14,756
Was?

911
01:10:14,756 --> 01:10:20,140
Yeah, so just the brain jar really, and then the physical evidence that you collected plus
the rod.

912
01:10:20,140 --> 01:10:23,153
Yeah, I didn't actually tell him about the rod.

913
01:10:23,153 --> 01:10:27,237
um So he doesn't know it exists.

914
01:10:27,237 --> 01:10:33,142
Did I see any mention of the rod in the papers that I found?

915
01:10:34,524 --> 01:10:37,358
There was mention of the rod and of him building it.

916
01:10:37,358 --> 01:10:48,110
think he's just using it a power source and talking about how to convert it to, you know,
from the inherent energy that it holds to power his, like, lab and cabin.

917
01:10:48,110 --> 01:10:57,610
But if you wanted to keep it, easy enough to say that you detonated that little laboratory
before you found it, and was just, you know, a scrap heap after.

918
01:10:57,662 --> 01:11:01,465
I didn't realize you followed me in here, okay?

919
01:11:01,465 --> 01:11:03,216
Alright?

920
01:11:03,216 --> 01:11:07,659
I thought I was listening super well and I was not in any capacity whatsoever.

921
01:11:07,659 --> 01:11:09,580
Apparently I was just on the mission.

922
01:11:09,644 --> 01:11:12,514
It was you, I'm not there, it's all you.

923
01:11:12,514 --> 01:11:14,134
You hear Caroline's voice in your head.

924
01:11:14,134 --> 01:11:15,106
Yeah!

925
01:11:15,106 --> 01:11:15,637
Yeah, right.

926
01:11:15,637 --> 01:11:18,049
I'm like, man, I am going crazy.

927
01:11:19,512 --> 01:11:20,373
dip.

928
01:11:20,373 --> 01:11:22,726
He didn't ask about it because he didn't know about it.

929
01:11:22,726 --> 01:11:24,268
I didn't tell him about it.

930
01:11:24,268 --> 01:11:29,638
You put all the stuff in there and I presume you're keeping the rod for yourself or are
you putting it in there?

931
01:11:29,750 --> 01:11:35,514
I think I've fight with it for a second.

932
01:11:35,514 --> 01:11:49,344
But knowing that what's inside me has some reaction to this thing and that there may be
some codependency or some answer there, I think that's something she is definitely gonna

933
01:11:49,344 --> 01:11:51,286
sneaky, for sure.

934
01:11:51,286 --> 01:11:52,034
Great.

935
01:11:52,034 --> 01:11:56,340
Yeah, you leave and do you go home?

936
01:11:56,340 --> 01:11:59,024
Do you wait to see if Butterfield contacts you?

937
01:11:59,024 --> 01:12:02,329
Your guess was the last contact based on the note.

938
01:12:02,329 --> 01:12:03,660
Your job is done.

939
01:12:03,660 --> 01:12:04,560
Yeah, yeah.

940
01:12:04,560 --> 01:12:16,125
And I think, I think, um, I think Barona is ready for space and dropping off all of that
is, is literally getting rid of that weight from her physical back, but also getting a

941
01:12:16,125 --> 01:12:17,576
little bit of that weight off of her soul.

942
01:12:17,576 --> 01:12:25,509
And you know, she's happy to get it a bit behind her and she knows that there's plenty of
stuff to choke down in front of her about herself.

943
01:12:25,509 --> 01:12:31,621
And she also knows that, you know, if, if Delta green has something for you, they're going
to find you.

944
01:12:31,621 --> 01:12:33,602
So I think she, she,

945
01:12:33,742 --> 01:12:37,842
more or less washes her hand and counts her blessing that she's still alive.

946
01:12:37,922 --> 01:12:43,980
And I think now is the time to, you know, start her, start her trek on home.

947
01:12:43,980 --> 01:12:44,613
Yeah.

948
01:12:44,613 --> 01:12:46,681
Caroline, are you...

949
01:12:46,681 --> 01:12:48,749
What's home to you at this point?

950
01:12:48,749 --> 01:12:49,431
Where do you go?

951
01:12:49,431 --> 01:12:50,648
em

952
01:12:50,648 --> 01:12:54,600
Well, mean, home is somewhere between Alabama and Louisiana.

953
01:12:54,600 --> 01:12:59,766
But I do think checking in with family in Louisiana is what's called for.

954
01:12:59,766 --> 01:13:04,069
Tends to be a quieter time making the rounds down there.

955
01:13:04,309 --> 01:13:07,392
Perhaps though, with the...

956
01:13:07,392 --> 01:13:13,357
We were doing a little bit of Butterfield went off to do whatever it is that he intended
to do.

957
01:13:13,357 --> 01:13:15,178
I don't have a number for him.

958
01:13:15,178 --> 01:13:19,950
Is there any way that I might be able to run a call?

959
01:13:19,950 --> 01:13:26,902
uh through my connections and see if I couldn't find a way to get a letter to Butterfield.

960
01:13:26,902 --> 01:13:34,944
I would like to deliver him like a written recap uh of this message delivered to his door
where he wasn't expecting.

961
01:13:34,944 --> 01:13:39,811
Yeah, that would probably be home scene territory to unravel that bureaucracy.

962
01:13:39,811 --> 01:13:40,582
Okay.

963
01:13:40,582 --> 01:13:47,633
One thing you could do quickly is leave it with the stuff that Barone is dropping off.

964
01:13:47,633 --> 01:13:48,795
Like shove it in there.

965
01:13:48,795 --> 01:13:51,357
m

966
01:13:51,357 --> 01:13:55,618
I'll pass it to Barone as she is heading off for career duties.

967
01:13:55,618 --> 01:13:56,973
Yeah, makes sense.

968
01:13:57,020 --> 01:13:58,222
What's your letter say?

969
01:13:58,222 --> 01:14:00,046
uh It is very professional.

970
01:14:00,046 --> 01:14:08,961
is an itemized yet vague em detailed list of the outstanding loose ends.

971
01:14:09,196 --> 01:14:18,457
you writing him a cover letter and expousing your expertise during this and taking credit
where credit was due.

972
01:14:18,946 --> 01:14:22,744
Just uh shine a light on the things that deserve to.

973
01:14:22,744 --> 01:14:23,535
Beautiful.

974
01:14:23,535 --> 01:14:26,049
And then, do you head home home Alabama?

975
01:14:26,049 --> 01:14:28,081
Do you stay in a toka?

976
01:14:28,098 --> 01:14:30,044
Yeah, I'm heading home, home.

977
01:14:30,087 --> 01:14:31,934
Definitely back down to the south.

978
01:14:31,934 --> 01:14:34,060
We've got a fab bit of time, is that right?

979
01:14:34,060 --> 01:14:36,257
Yeah, you're not sure how much time?

980
01:14:43,724 --> 01:14:44,855
Really, Bob?

981
01:14:44,855 --> 01:14:45,466
Mexico?

982
01:14:45,466 --> 01:14:49,699
Yeah, I hear the humidity in Huacos is dreadful this time of year.

983
01:14:49,760 --> 01:14:53,463
Though I suppose the Federales ask fewer questions than the FBI.

984
01:14:53,463 --> 01:14:55,244
How'd you find me, Gavin?

985
01:14:55,265 --> 01:14:57,507
I'm the director of Project Garnet.

986
01:14:57,507 --> 01:15:00,989
I hold the receipts for the satellite you're currently bouncing off of.

987
01:15:01,570 --> 01:15:03,071
Five people, Bob.

988
01:15:03,071 --> 01:15:06,752
You left five people dead or disappeared in the Oklahoma dirt.

989
01:15:06,752 --> 01:15:07,733
And for what?

990
01:15:07,733 --> 01:15:15,236
To set a trap for entities that fold space-time using a half-blinded cell of rogue agents
and a sidekick on a leash?

991
01:15:15,236 --> 01:15:18,118
You don't dynamite a pond to catch a leviathan, Bob.

992
01:15:18,118 --> 01:15:21,290
You just scare off the big fish and cover yourself in mud.

993
01:15:21,290 --> 01:15:22,900
You fucking underestimated them.

994
01:15:22,900 --> 01:15:24,241
I got their attention.

995
01:15:24,241 --> 01:15:26,041
Yeah, you certainly did.

996
01:15:26,041 --> 01:15:29,423
But congratulations on breathing, I guess.

997
01:15:29,523 --> 01:15:31,514
Not many men walk away with their

998
01:15:31,514 --> 01:15:33,905
pulse intact in those situations.

999
01:15:33,905 --> 01:15:38,545
I lost $20 to a colleague because I bet you'd be vivisected by Dawn.

1000
01:15:38,766 --> 01:15:40,406
Give it a rest Ross.

1001
01:15:41,366 --> 01:15:42,646
She's alive.

1002
01:15:42,886 --> 01:15:44,147
Gavin, she's alive.

1003
01:15:44,147 --> 01:15:46,387
Bob, don't do this.

1004
01:15:46,787 --> 01:15:47,817
I felt it out there.

1005
01:15:47,817 --> 01:15:52,608
They fucking told me when they came down.

1006
01:15:52,728 --> 01:15:58,790
The language transmission or whatever it was, it wasn't just a noise, it was a ledger.

1007
01:15:58,870 --> 01:16:00,570
They keep them, Gavin.

1008
01:16:00,610 --> 01:16:03,231
They don't just harvest them and throw them away.

1009
01:16:03,231 --> 01:16:04,632
She's out there.

1010
01:16:04,632 --> 01:16:06,132
My sister's out there.

1011
01:16:06,132 --> 01:16:10,314
And I'm not gonna stop until I tear their sky down and find her.

1012
01:16:11,515 --> 01:16:13,215
That's touching, really.

1013
01:16:13,215 --> 01:16:14,956
A modern day Orpheus.

1014
01:16:14,956 --> 01:16:22,999
But if you keep thrashing around like this, Croft and the steering committee are gonna
have NRO Delta put a bullet in your head before you ever get off the fucking dock!

1015
01:16:23,300 --> 01:16:24,500
Let them try.

1016
01:16:24,500 --> 01:16:26,541
Croft is a fucking coward.

1017
01:16:27,021 --> 01:16:29,162
Before I go looking for Sarah...

1018
01:16:29,676 --> 01:16:32,148
I'm gonna clean house down here anyway.

1019
01:16:32,148 --> 01:16:34,210
I'm taking Forestrol off the board.

1020
01:16:34,210 --> 01:16:37,352
You gave me one of the names of the men who sold us out.

1021
01:16:37,352 --> 01:16:41,155
And now I'm gonna make him pay for the ink he used on the accord.

1022
01:16:41,155 --> 01:16:43,437
You're wading into the surf of a shotgun, Bob.

1023
01:16:43,437 --> 01:16:47,721
You shoot Forestrol, you're just going to make a splash, and only a splash.

1024
01:16:47,721 --> 01:16:50,003
Then what the fuck are you doing, Gavin?

1025
01:16:50,003 --> 01:16:57,449
Sitting on a shoreline, reading your reports in an air-conditioned office while they gut
us, while they take us, and tear us to pieces?

1026
01:16:57,449 --> 01:16:59,710
I'm chumming up the deep water.

1027
01:17:00,088 --> 01:17:02,640
You want to snag the man who signed the paper.

1028
01:17:02,640 --> 01:17:04,941
I want to drag the whole fucking boat down.

1029
01:17:04,941 --> 01:17:07,403
There are men inside who see the truth.

1030
01:17:07,403 --> 01:17:09,404
Men who realize this isn't a treaty.

1031
01:17:09,404 --> 01:17:12,707
It's a goddamn trot line and we're all the bait.

1032
01:17:12,707 --> 01:17:13,962
I'm quietly gathering them.

1033
01:17:13,962 --> 01:17:15,138
I'm finding their grievances.

1034
01:17:15,138 --> 01:17:18,951
I'm setting the hooks because humanity always comes first.

1035
01:17:18,951 --> 01:17:24,154
Aku, you're planting mutiny inside of the organization?

1036
01:17:24,154 --> 01:17:29,678
I'm planning a catch, but I need time and I need the steering committee to look the other
way.

1037
01:17:29,678 --> 01:17:30,635
you

1038
01:17:30,635 --> 01:17:32,335
So, go ahead.

1039
01:17:32,335 --> 01:17:33,836
Stay across the border.

1040
01:17:33,836 --> 01:17:35,317
Go after Forestroll.

1041
01:17:35,317 --> 01:17:37,138
Thrash in the shallows.

1042
01:17:37,138 --> 01:17:39,159
Exert your petty vengeance.

1043
01:17:39,159 --> 01:17:44,662
It'll keep Croft and his lapdogs busy chasing the ripples of Delta Green while I set the
real trap.

1044
01:17:44,662 --> 01:17:46,403
So be the bait, Bob.

1045
01:17:46,403 --> 01:17:48,124
Just do me one favor.

1046
01:17:48,124 --> 01:17:49,104
What's that, Ross?

1047
01:17:49,104 --> 01:17:50,505
Don't get netted.

1048
01:17:50,505 --> 01:17:56,668
Because if they drag you into a black site and start peeling off your fingernails, don't
mention my fucking name.

1049
01:17:56,668 --> 01:17:59,862
Because if you do, I won't just kill you.

1050
01:17:59,862 --> 01:18:03,357
I'll make sure you end up exactly where your sister is.

1051
01:18:04,051 --> 01:18:13,974
Something in the desert sky Lost time and I don't know why

1052
01:18:16,120 --> 01:18:19,436
American Conspiracy

1053
01:18:33,697 --> 01:18:34,666
Dead

1054
01:18:39,704 --> 01:18:40,459
you

1055
01:18:45,718 --> 01:18:48,096
Dead letter