Episode 1

S2E1 - Vandalism - Damnatio Memoriae - Delta Green Podcast

Published on: 24th March, 2026

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Patrick G - Handler and co-writer

Damnatio Memoriae Written by Hank Belanger

Music by Sam Winham - Listen to more of his jams.

Cast

Sam as Mull

Jimmy as Moorison

Jordan as Magpie

Nick as Miles

When a disgraced former agent surfaces at a university library to photograph a fake manuscript, Delta Green sends in a team to determine if he’s a senile old man or a genuine threat.

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Transcript
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All right, everybody, thank you for joining.

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uh We are gonna do something a little different right now.

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We have a guest handler named Patrick, and he's gonna be running us through a scenario he

helped write.

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And I'm super excited, because I get to play with my buddy Jordan, and I get to play with

two new people who will introduce themselves later.

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So Patrick, right over to you.

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Hey, so I'm very tempted to be like, hey, this is Patrick doing the news shit.

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Thank you.

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So we're going to be playing D'amnatio Memoriae, which is by Hank Bellinger.

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He wrote it for the 2025 Delta Green campaign jam.

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Pretty recently,

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And I think it's gonna be a lot of fun.

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Would you all like to also introduce yourselves?

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Sure.

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I'm Sam.

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I am a Taurus and I am the handler for Handle the Door.

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And I get to be a character, which sometimes I'm good at and sometimes I'm not.

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So, and then I've got my best bud, Jimmy, here.

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Hey, Jimmy here.

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I play with Sam on Hand on the Door.

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play FP and other characters, I think, for things that we haven't released yet.

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Glad to have you both here.

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Jordan, what do you got for us?

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Yeah, well, as you already covered, I am Jordan.

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I've been heard around here on Dead Letter Bureau a few times as Agent Dale Sandusky.

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We're doing something different today.

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All right.

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It sounds like a plan.

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Why don't we open with a short scene with each of you individually.

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It is December 29th, 2024, and you are receiving instructions for a meetup, for a briefing

in the usual way.

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And what do you think is the usual way for your character?

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Nick, how does Miles receive?

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Is it a dead drop, encrypted email?

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What's your jam?

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Yeah, he would definitely have a dead drop location.

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He goes on a morning run and checks this trash can that's behind a tree next to Stewart

Park in Seattle.

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He'll check every two days, but he's been doing it every day because it's been a while

since he's got a call and he finds a little something in that dead drop.

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Yeah, awesome.

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Sam, what does mull receive?

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ah Yeah, so Mole is super rich and lives in a big old mansion.

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He has kind of a hidden compound underneath the mansion that is strewn with items he's

bought off eBay.

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He likes to undercut and undersell people.

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Something only has value if he's taking it away from someone else.

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And he's got his own little phone line set up in there and he kind of monitors it.

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So I imagine that, you know, that evening or whatever he's...

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He gets some sort of call and he rushes out from dinner.

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Yeah, it's you pick up the phone and it sounds like a like a fucking modem.

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It's encoded.

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You have to like record it and run it through some software or some shit.

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Yeah.

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He's got this giant computer set up.

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He's like, shit.

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Just has to like throw it in there.

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Sure.

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Jordan, what do you think?

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How does Agent Magpie get his information?

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Yeah, I think there's a couple of Robins he's been tending to near his house.

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Their wings don't work so good and he's, you know, bringing them out a little bottle or

something and they're just chirping away.

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And before too long, he realizes they're short and long presses and it's Mars code and

it's spelling out a page or number and he gets a number from them baby Robins and he goes

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and drops it into a landline and does the deed.

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You

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Okay, alright.

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Love that.

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Thank

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Are they, are they mechanical?

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Well some people will tell you that birds aren't real and they're all a government

institution to begin with so I'll let you answer that one.

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Perfect, yes, Morse code pager number.

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You call the number on the pager.

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Morrison.

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uh Yeah, so Agent Morrison, his name is Chase Brown.

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He is an Olympic uh biathlon coach, so he doesn't compete anymore.

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But much like Agent Miles, he goes out and does like training every morning and he has

like a trail route that he always runs on.

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And there are trail markers and there are certain trail markers that he knows if they're

like, this trail is closed.

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He's like, I'm supposed to go down that trail.

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And when he does, he like finds

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There's like a rock or, I don't know, hole in the tree or whatever.

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He's like, yep, okay.

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And it's the message on there.

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And he's like, yep, great, cool.

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And then he finishes his route and just goes back and looks into what he's supposed to do.

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Yeah, perfect.

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That all sounds great.

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So all of you receive instructions on the evening of December 29th to 2024 that you are to

meet your case officer in Lake Union Park.

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December 30th, 9 a.m., the next day.

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And Miles, you have, you get this message while you're out running the morning before.

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What do you tell your family?

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Yeah, I probably get back before they're awake even.

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And I look in on my son and he's five years old sleeping in his room still.

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And I peek in to see if my wife's still asleep and she is.

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And usually what I do is I tell them that I have to travel for work, the Pacific Northwest

Lab and.

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They send me all over the Pacific Northwest to look at algae blooms.

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So it's a pretty easy story for the family.

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I think my wife suspects that there's something else going on, because I don't talk a lot

about work when I do travel for it.

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So I'm keeping an eye on that at home myself.

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Okay.

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And do you tell your wife anything?

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Do you tell her you're going to be gone?

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Yeah, I'll wait for her to wake up and then I say, honey, yeah, you know, hold up my

phone, have a fake email ready for it saying like, hey, I gotta go up to San Juan Island.

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There's a, sorry, what are they called?

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There's a Hab Algae Neurotoxin that's spreading a little bit and they want me to go take a

look at it.

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okay.

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Well, have fun on your trip.

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I hope you come home soon.

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you know I always do, so...

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Yeah.

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Mul, you, I believe you also have a family at home.

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How, how are you telling them that you're going to be gone for a little while?

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Yeah, I think Melanie and I are quite distant.

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So I don't think this is anything that she would necessarily not expect from me.

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And being a CEO, some small subsidiary of BlackRock, I think I travel quite a bit with

things.

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And prior to that, I was a corporate lawyer.

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So there's just a lot of travel, a lot of schmoozing and stuff.

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My son Atticus and my daughter Tiffany probably also don't really give a shit if I'm being

completely honest.

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We are obscenely wealthy and don't quite have the greatest relationships.

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So in my mind, I think when he realizes he's gonna have to leave like on that morning, he

wakes up in his separate bed and gets ready to go and drops a line to one of the like

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house staff that's there.

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And I was like,

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Yeah, I'm gonna be gone.

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And that's pretty much it.

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Although that's not the voice I was gonna do.

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The voice I was doing is, yeah, I'm gonna be gone.

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And then signs a little thing for Atticus and Tiffany for their school, whatever, and then

takes off.

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It's minimal amount of contact.

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Okay.

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How about you, Magpie?

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Who are your bonds, by the way?

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I don't think I have them here.

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So the the one I'd be checking in with here is somebody in my hometown who was kind of

like the the mother where my foreign dignitary parents were elsewhere.

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cross seas and things like that.

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Her name is Midge.

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She ran the convenience store and gave me my first job.

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And then the other one is somebody that I like worked the shift after me on the naval

vessel.

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Okay, but no immediate family, no...

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At least not that would be concerned with being told that I would be going.

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I am still just kind of like doing household chores and things like that around this

woman's store.

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And so she would need to find somebody to cover for me, but it's really like neither of us

tell each other what's going on.

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It's just like, should probably call Marco to restock the back kind of a thing.

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And she's like, yeah, I got it.

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Yeah, yeah, be safe.

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about you Morrison.

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yeah, with it being like late December, this is kind of primed by Athlon season.

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So you know telling my wife Sarah that I'm gonna be gone is like just kind of to be

expected.

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I think what's harder...

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go ahead.

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New Year's.

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Hey, biathlons every day, man.

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It's a lifestyle.

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So, but no, what I think I do, and this is probably, yeah, yeah, exactly.

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She knows.

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ah No, it's all good.

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I think the harder part is like my, like trainees.

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I think probably what I do is I just give them all a lanyard.

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with an air tag on it and I'm like, hey, I'm going to be gone for a couple of days.

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I need you to do at least 350 miles by the time I get back.

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I'm tracking you.

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You can do it.

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I believe in you.

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And I clap him on the shoulder.

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I'm like, you got this.

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Also keep your targets.

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I want to see how your shooting was too.

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And no faking it.

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I'll know if you walked up and shot the target from like five feet away.

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I love that you air tagged them instead of like a Fitbit.

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Yeah, you know.

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I want to know where they've been.

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I can check the routes.

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A Fitbit you can just run in place, pretend.

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Put it on your dog.

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Do they not have GPS now?

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Who knows?

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Not last year, so.

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Yeah, not in the biathlete community.

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That's new in the biathlete community for sure.

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Did anyone have New Year's plans?

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Biathloning.

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I don't celebrate Western New Year, so I celebrate, yeah, Lunar New Year.

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So I didn't really have any plans.

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No, I don't think I had any plans either actually.

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No, no, all of you, New Year's, alone.

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strikes me as a guy who would live for New Year's Eve, so...

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Yeah, I guess maybe what I was thinking about that, I take that back.

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He probably does have like plans, but they're all business related.

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Yeah, exactly.

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He's like gonna go to like three or four black tie events and is schmoozing amongst the

Washington upper crust.

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So yeah.

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Yeah, no, that all makes sense.

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I like it.

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December 30th rolls around the morning, sunrise, whatever.

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All of you make your way to Union, Lake Union Park.

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Are all of you on time?

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How are you getting there?

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punctual.

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Yeah, I would take public transit.

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would take the light rail in and then walk the rest of the way.

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And yeah, I would definitely be without a car, mostly.

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Yeah I'm without a car too, I'm on one of those hideous line bike scooters.

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If I can plague around the towns you might as well put them to good use.

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Yeah, I get dropped off in like, I don't know.

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I don't know anything about cars.

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I know anything about cars or guns.

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So like, I guess a Mercedes of some sort, you know, driver pulls up and lets me out.

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And then I just kind of signal to them.

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Yeah, just lets me go.

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And I'm like, don't tell anyone.

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Yeah.

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If you tell anyone about this, I will kill you.

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And then window rolls down.

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I don't actually know anything about off-roading, but I imagine that Agent Morrison shows

up in a very trail-ready vehicle with all of his supplies in the back.

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Yeah, okay.

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A jeep?

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Jeeps go off-road, right?

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I don't know.

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Yeah, you have a jeep.

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Hell yeah.

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It's one of the ones with angry eyes.

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Yeah, and I've got all the ducks lined up across the dashboard.

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G-bro.

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God, that's awful.

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There's probably so many stickers on the back of your Jeep.

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That's just ducks in the front, stickers in the back.

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That's fucking terrible.

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looked up the laws to know how much of my rear windshield I can cover and not get in

trouble.

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There you go.

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20%.

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Yeah,

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Awesome.

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Yeah.

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You guys get to the park all roughly around 9 a.m.

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and you spot your case officer, Agent Madison, sitting.

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It's fucking cold, but she's sitting on a bench like reading a newspaper, nursing a

cigarette and a cup of coffee.

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Madison, you've worked with her before.

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You've known her for a while.

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Mid-60s short, like

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iron gray hair.

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Pretty no nonsense as far as these things go.

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The rest of the park is pretty empty.

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December, late December in Washington, there's like some old dudes running.

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And that's about it.

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I think, I bet mole, once he clocks her, pulls up and sits next to her and is like,

Maddie, baby, how's it going?

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And kind of leans back, pulling out his iPhone to pretend like he's doing stocks or

whatever rich people do.

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It's going alright, Mo.

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We'll wait for everyone else to show up and then I'll brief you.

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Hey, whatever you want.

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Miles will walk up and just slowly he'll stand about two people's distance away, hands in

his pocket, kind of just looking around, surveying everything, looking over the lake

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behind the park, but he's there.

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Yeah, I think Morrison like parks his Jeep, gets out, walks over, does not stand back.

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He walks up behind Miles, puts one hand on his shoulder and is like, hey, how's it going

buddy?

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And then he reaches over and slaps Mull on the back and says, you got Angry Birds on that

thing?

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Don't pretend you're doing stocks.

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Come on now.

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You're not smart enough for that.

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my stocks here, buddy.

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Yeah, and I'll slide up behind and just say, there was a meanest crash just back that way.

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You should have seen it.

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The bloke got a full face of it straight in the pavement.

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Blam.

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you get a video?

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No, I wish.

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I got one of them GoPros used to keep it strapped to my head.

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Hmm, nice.

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What'd you use it for?

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see something terrible like that.

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Madison looks at you and then looks away.

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All right, everybody, we're all here.

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We've received an assignment from the higher ups.

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On the morning of December 27th, three days ago, Roger Douglas made an appointment to go

view a rare manuscript at the University of Washington from the Special Collections at the

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Allen Library.

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That afternoon, Roger arrived for his appointment, spent three hours, 40 minutes,

carefully photographing each page of the Pnukotic manuscripts.

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Two important facts about this.

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Fact one, the manuscript at the library is fake.

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Special Collections archivist Amy Harrold is a friendly and believes that she's been asked

to work with a covert FBI behavior profiling team.

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She's been asked to reach out whenever individuals request access to certain texts and in

some cases like this one, provide a doctored version.

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for the individual instead, which is what she has done.

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Fact two, Roger Douglas used to be one of our own.

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We cut ties with Roger in 2020 for mental decline, early onset dementia, it looks like,

which he is receiving ongoing treatment for.

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We are concerned that this is a warning sign that Roger

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intends to act against us and is collecting information, or worse, that Roger may already

be working for the opposition.

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And who is the opposition in this case?

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the opposition is the same as it always is.

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Four of you will be participating in Operation Mass Spec.

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Mass Spec consists of three action items.

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Action item one, determine Roger's interest in the manuscripts.

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If driven by the opposition, eliminate him.

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If he is a threat to our group or to secrecy, silence him in whatever way you judge

appropriate.

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Action item two,

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Surveil Roger to determine if there are any other actors involved in this research

project.

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If driven by the opposition, eliminate them.

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Otherwise, silence them as you see fit.

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Action item three.

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Confiscate his photographs and any other suspicious material for evaluation.

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If any of it proves immediately dangerous, destroy it.

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who's going to be the field team lead on this one.

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Morrison.

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Yeah, I'll do that.

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She hands you a smartphone.

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Excellent.

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It's got my number in it.

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It's not encrypted, but it is on a fresh SIM.

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So.

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Yeah, I've got.

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got a few more things for you and she hands Morrison a like an accordion envelope kind

with a little string it's got some some files in it

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The envelope contains contact info for Amy Harrold.

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It contains a key to storage unit 221 at storage space in Shoreline.

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It contains photographs of what is labeled as Roger from 2019.

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It appears to be an ID badge for NOAA Fisheries Law Enforcement.

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There's also a photograph of the same man.

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It's from a much higher angle, probably security camera.

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Older, rougher looking, shabby clothes.

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This one is dated from three days ago.

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It's also got his current address.

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428 WA 150 Chilin, Washington.

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And it seems as though Roger drives a maroon 2013 Ford Escape with the tags CPG 8243.

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Thank you, Madison.

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Is there a clock on this?

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Do we have a ETA?

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Not that we've identified, but if there are additional actors involved, there may be

something to do with the new year unknown.

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It seems suspicious to me, but we've had no confirmation or indication.

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any medical history to determine that he has dementia.

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uh Yes, there, and in the folder there are some, there's, he was dismissed from his job

for being unable to perform.

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He sued under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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There is a Freedom of Information Act request on the lawsuit.

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because it was a suit against a government agency.

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So that is where they pulled that information.

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got really messy here it looks like.

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Yes.

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Does the document say what he did or did you already tell us what he did for what is it,

NOAA?

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Yeah, um, fisheries law enforcement.

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Yeah, Miles would be Googling like that just to get a quick overview of it, yeah.

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and tell me what you find.

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tell, tell, tell the whole class.

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Hmm.

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It's putting that smartphone to use.

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Good job, bud.

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I remain on stocks.

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Yeah, it's a US Marine Resources law enforcement that helps ensure sustainable fishing is

being enforced.

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Okay, interesting.

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And he's out in Lake Chelan, okay.

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Yeah, so presumably boundary waters stuff, trawlers, that sort of thing, PT boat kind of

thing.

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I know we got the librarian or the historian's phone number, but the nature of this

manuscript, what he might have interest in, can you tell me anything about why anyone

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might have interest in the manuscript?

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That I do not have.

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I asked for that information.

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I was specifically denied it.

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I suggest you don't go looking down that avenue either.

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being that we have set it up as a honey trap.

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And so Amy Harreld, she's waiting for, does she think we are an FBI profiling team?

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She's not particularly waiting for anything, I don't think.

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She provided her report to who she believes is her handler, and that made its way to us.

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Gentlemen, what do you think?

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We go knocking on his door right out of the gate or do we talk with Amy?

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I don't think we have any reason to believe that he's back in eastern Washington if he was

just over here a few days ago, do we?

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Maybe.

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Yeah, I mean.

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a five hour drive, something like that?

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Three, okay.

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this security photo from just a few days ago does it have a location associated with it?

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Yes, that was taken from the, let me see, from the Allen Library at University of

Washington.

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With a background or having dementia, he, do we have any of his other medical records that

could tell us if he has like a caretaker or?

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No, I don't have any of that, but I could look into that and give you a call later.

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I can see what I can find.

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Yeah, next of kin, things like that would be helpful, especially if he trusted them with

some of the information we're trying to rein in.

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And I guess as I see it, we could go to his house and that would be kind of the direct

going at it hard.

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We might run into some stuff we might not, or we could go talk to Amy and maybe gather

some information first.

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It sounds like we're on a bit of a timeline.

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Do we just want to go in at it hard or do we want to gather a little info and then go at

it?

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Now seems to me like we've got a few things to look at on this side of the mountains

first.

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Yeah, that's what I'm thinking too.

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agreed.

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rather than spending a bunch of time driving around we make efficient use of the sort of

geographic layout of our points of interest

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I mean, the thing I'm concerned about is the believability of Mole being some sort of

profiler.

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But I think if we can get his suit scaled back a little bit, maybe get him uh a

windbreaker or something.

373

:

whoa, whoa.

374

:

Yeah, I guess that we haven't described what our people look like, we?

375

:

Or at least I didn't describe Mo.

376

:

now.

377

:

Yeah, so I guess I'll start if that's okay since it was referenced.

378

:

Mole is five foot 10, maybe five foot 11, has the widow's peak.

379

:

I'm really picturing Joe Bluth from Arrested Development.

380

:

Always wears a super expensive suit with a button up, no other jewelry or anything like

that.

381

:

Kind of that maybe wiry but somewhat fit.

382

:

Has veneers.

383

:

and is always shaking hands and schmoozing people.

384

:

Yeah, Agent Miles stands back from the crowd usually a little bit, gives himself some

distance, but as you can tell that he's well dressed.

385

:

You're probably wearing Uniqlo like Japanese streetwear that is done up to be more

business casual and is muscular under all of the clothes, wears extremely nice shoes, but

386

:

they're athleisure shoes so he can,

387

:

beat feet anytime something hits the fan.

388

:

But he has a serious look but soft eyes, I would say.

389

:

Yeah, Agent Magpie stands pretty sturdy at 5 foot 11.

390

:

He's a pretty strong lad.

391

:

Desperate pale.

392

:

One of those people you have to like look back at him.

393

:

You're like, ah, maybe he's albino.

394

:

Would it be rude to ask?

395

:

Yeah, it probably would.

396

:

But the hair is just so fair and the lips kind of like turn from pale white to a blush of

a pink and you can't even see a fine line around it.

397

:

He's dressed in some burnt

398

:

uh orange kind of like workman's trousers that clearly show they aren't worn enough to be

like actually put to use and and he's wearing like a ribbed tank top most of the time in a

399

:

the kind of way where you kind of expect that he's hoping someone should tell him that he

should put an extra layer on because it looks pretty cold out but he never will

400

:

you

401

:

Yeah, Agent Morrison.

402

:

Decently, physically imposing.

403

:

Not super huge.

404

:

He's like 6'1", so doesn't tower over people, but like not exactly short either.

405

:

Muscular, but like fit muscular.

406

:

He's also 52 years old, so he's kind of still got some of that like, you know, your skin

just gets loose when you get older, but he's fit.

407

:

He's wearing what looks like just kind of standard, like outdoor gear.

408

:

So he's dressed in layers, has like jacket on with like the rain resistant coating.

409

:

under that he's got on like long sleeves, maybe even like thermal undershirt.

410

:

he's got, like khaki, not khaki, but like the faux khaki hiking pants with like pockets to

keep all his stuff in, and like hiking shoes on.

411

:

Madison says, uh yeah, you know, I know a lot of you don't have wheels, so we did get you

something.

412

:

And she hands Morrison a car key.

413

:

Thank you, ma'am.

414

:

Which ones are ours?

415

:

She points over to the parking lot.

416

:

ah It's maybe four cars down from your Jeep.

417

:

It's a mini van.

418

:

You can see it from there.

419

:

Looks like maybe mid 2000s.

420

:

Hmm.

421

:

Ha!

422

:

Ooh.

423

:

All right.

424

:

Thank you.

425

:

bring this from home?

426

:

No, you didn't have to spare one of your private collection for us.

427

:

You spoil us,

428

:

funny.

429

:

we could have stole something.

430

:

you, Magpie.

431

:

Alright, well, no time like the present, and I walk over and unlock my Jeep, start moving

my gear from the Jeep to the minivan.

432

:

Yeah, you know, as you guys are walking over to the parking lot, as you're crossing the

street to get to the parking lot, there's one of those old jogger guys is crossing with

433

:

you.

434

:

while you guys are, you guys aren't really chatting on the way there, I don't think, but

as you walk just immediately in front of you, just inches from your face, he's,

435

:

A Ford F-150 pickup slams into this old man and he crumples.

436

:

The tires squeal and the Ford F-150 peels the fuck out, burning rubber and drives off.

437

:

Hmm.

438

:

The guy is just laying there, bleeding.

439

:

Yeah, I would run up immediately to the guy and like try to like grab his head and get him

even and then yell at Magpire Morrison to come look at him.

440

:

on my way over looking for vitals trying to stabilize

441

:

Yeah.

442

:

Who has first aid over bass?

443

:

All right.

444

:

You both can give me first aid if you like.

445

:

think while they're Mole pulls out his phone and starts dialing 911.

446

:

And it's like, we gotta get this taken care of so we can get on the road, guys, and kind

of does a finger wave.

447

:

I'd like sanity from all of you.

448

:

Yeah.

449

:

Ooh.

450

:

like the snapping that puts it over, right?

451

:

Just come on, come on, we gotta get out of here.

452

:

Yeah, like.

453

:

82 over 70 for miles.

454

:

Okay.

455

:

that's not going to do it.

456

:

This is a zero one sand loss for violence.

457

:

So check that box.

458

:

Yeah, I passed 22 under a...

459

:

whatever it is.

460

:

75.

461

:

Well, that's none for you.

462

:

78 on a 32 so

463

:

Okay, you lose a sanity.

464

:

You can't really spare that, but okay.

465

:

Yup.

466

:

you get 32?

467

:

Wait.

468

:

He took a background, probably, so, yeah.

469

:

I haven't ate power, because I rolled 1d4 down the line, and then have a, I took the,

whatever one of the unnatural things was, what man wasn't meant to know.

470

:

So I'm sitting pretty at a 32, which probably explains the snap, snap, let's go boys,

kinda, the energy.

471

:

Yeah, I think as this is all happening, can I do two things?

472

:

One, can I shout at Mo like, Hey, try to get that license plate and also just do like a

quick look around to see like, there anyone watching us in a weird way?

473

:

Like, is this a setup?

474

:

From Morrison, do you want to roll search or alertness for that and then mull?

475

:

That's alertness to have caught the tags on its way out.

476

:

Yeah, I'll do alertness.

477

:

It's a 38 under 80.

478

:

45 on a 20.

479

:

Oops.

480

:

Mul was looking at the old man.

481

:

Speaking of which, Magpie and Morrison, Morrison we'll get back to, is anyone watching in

a second?

482

:

Magpie and Morrison, how are your first aid checks?

483

:

6,880 over here.

484

:

Yeah, I passed as well.

485

:

Yeah, okay.

486

:

With two regular passes, you stabilize him.

487

:

He has multiple broken bones, spiral fractures.

488

:

You are concerned about internal bleeding, but you have brought him out.

489

:

You have not moved him and you've sort of straightened him out and you're waiting for the

ambulance to come.

490

:

Morrison, once you've made sure that this old guy

491

:

isn't going to die right now.

492

:

Yeah, you don't think anyone is watching you, but you're by the park, there's tall

buildings, it's totally possible that somebody was watching you out of one of the windows,

493

:

behind blinds.

494

:

You're in a public space, it's very hard to tell, but you don't see anybody with spy

binoculars on a balcony.

495

:

Yeah.

496

:

No obvious.

497

:

Yeah.

498

:

Now there's a crowd.

499

:

Nobody doing that with their hands.

500

:

There is a crowd now.

501

:

There's people screaming and talking loudly and doing the whole bystander thing while

Agent Mull, the psychopath, calls 911.

502

:

All right.

503

:

of, you took a thing, right?

504

:

uh Yeah, you.

505

:

uh

506

:

that which man is not meant to know or things that man's not meant to know.

507

:

Yeah.

508

:

you just took sanity damage.

509

:

Can you follow that up with another sand roll for me to see if you have an acute episode

right off the fucking bat?

510

:

Luckily, it's uh not gonna hamstring my character at all.

511

:

No, it, On a-

512

:

31.

513

:

no, you're feeling alright about this.

514

:

I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

515

:

can't spell it a cute without cute.

516

:

And that was pretty adorable.

517

:

I think mole is just on the phone.

518

:

He's like, we, um, we got a problem over here and doesn't really know how to interact with

the dispatcher at all.

519

:

So he's kind of like, where, where are we again?

520

:

Do I have an address?

521

:

Any of you.

522

:

Yeah, Miles would be like, we're right at South Lake Union and second.

523

:

So should be easy to find us.

524

:

There's a crowd.

525

:

Yeah, looks like there's a crowd forming.

526

:

Just follow that.

527

:

Okay, we'll send someone right away.

528

:

Please stay on the line.

529

:

the ambulance rocks up, paramedics jump out, put the guy on a stretcher board and load him

up and ferry him away.

530

:

So when I was, when in that interim time, could I have just grabbed his wallet quickly and

peeked at his ID and just kind of, yeah, great.

531

:

Let me see.

532

:

You can just tell me I know his name.

533

:

You don't have to make up.

534

:

name.

535

:

His name is Mark Sandberg.

536

:

He's got movie tickets.

537

:

Yeah, you know I'm gonna ask then.

538

:

What was he seeing?

539

:

have fucking said that.

540

:

I don't know what's fucking playing in December 2024.

541

:

I don't know why I said that.

542

:

He's got nothing.

543

:

The wallet is empty.

544

:

Fuck off.

545

:

tickets to one of the, how they bring old movies back.

546

:

It's a wonderful life showing somewhere.

547

:

Yes.

548

:

Thank you.

549

:

I haven't seen it, but.

550

:

You want to go after this?

551

:

3.

552

:

Sonic 3 is currently in theaters right now.

553

:

Well guys Should we go talk to Amy and I'm trying to like make sure there's no splats of

blood on my outfit as I'm collecting myself

554

:

Yeah.

555

:

Yeah, let's go see Amy.

556

:

When we get back in the van, can I just do like a quick check to make sure no one took our

stuff or messed with anything?

557

:

Yeah, give me, no, you have a decent search, right?

558

:

Yeah, you don't get a role.

559

:

Okay, cool.

560

:

your stuff seems unmolested.

561

:

Okay, sweet.

562

:

The minivan is not only is it old, it's also kind of like that matte gray black of spray

primer.

563

:

Hmm.

564

:

had really big plans for it at one point and then that vision died off.

565

:

Yeah, or it's stolen.

566

:

Hmm.

567

:

one or the other.

568

:

The faster we get through this, the sooner some Mormon youth group can get their bus back.

569

:

you

570

:

Yep.

571

:

Yeah, I am not used to writing in style like this.

572

:

I'll do you some good.

573

:

Yeah, when you say that, I open the door for you in motion, sir.

574

:

As it slides open slowly.

575

:

okay.

576

:

I just, yeah.

577

:

Just rip it open.

578

:

Mole, please.

579

:

I imagine it has one fixed smell, like something that was spilled in here one time and

it's gonna be like that forever more.

580

:

Yes, uh somebody spilled the milk from a McDonald's breakfast happy meal.

581

:

meal.

582

:

That's an awful smell.

583

:

smell with my five year old.

584

:

So I just get in, in the back.

585

:

I know I'm not driving me.

586

:

Is- Okay.

587

:

There's one.

588

:

One nose goes.

589

:

I definitely am in the passenger seat.

590

:

Not going to drive, but definitely want to be up in the front.

591

:

Yeah, I mean, I won't steal the the keys from coach, but I will offer if you'd like to be

a passenger today.

592

:

Uh, yeah, sure.

593

:

Yeah, I'll sit in the back with Miles.

594

:

Right, let's see what this baby can do.

595

:

and you gun it and it crawls up to the 25 miles an hour you're allowed to drive.

596

:

And so I intentionally didn't want to like open that accordion envelope while we were in

the park, cause I didn't know who was around.

597

:

But now that we're in the van and we're driving, I pull out whichever ones I think Mills

would be best at like analyzing.

598

:

like, Hey man, well we're riding.

599

:

Can you take a look at these and see if you can glean anything else from them?

600

:

Yeah, I'll start fumbling through them.

601

:

I have a bureaucracy of 40, so I guess I would be thinking, is there a pattern in this

paperwork that points to something we're missing?

602

:

We have his home location, we have, he was in Delta Green for a little bit, and then

somehow.

603

:

got into this mental decline period and could potentially be working with some sort of

opposition.

604

:

And I would just be kind of like trying to piece something else together, like a third

location or something.

605

:

Yeah, for sure.

606

:

Give me that bureaucracy.

607

:

You could also give me medicine if you want.

608

:

if you have it.

609

:

What about biochemistry?

610

:

Sure.

611

:

Okay.

612

:

I'll do my bureaucracy.

613

:

Okay.

614

:

42 over 40.

615

:

I'm gonna sift through them.

616

:

yeah.

617

:

Everything that Madison gave us is kind of on the surface, looks thorough.

618

:

They did a pretty good job.

619

:

I think we're just chasing down this first lead with Amy.

620

:

Do you think that I could take a look at the documents to enroll my bureaucracy?

621

:

Is that doable?

622

:

Or no?

623

:

Okay.

624

:

Yeah.

625

:

Miles, why don't hand it over, buddy?

626

:

And then grabs the pieces of paper.

627

:

Yeah, Miles is very used to this.

628

:

he's like, okay.

629

:

Yeah.

630

:

on a 70.

631

:

Yeah.

632

:

You do notice that actually buried in the legal documents, there is mention of Roger's

treatment.

633

:

Let me get that for you.

634

:

Yeah, way down at the bottom of one of the long ass depositions, you see that Roger has

been...

635

:

taking appointments at Lake Chelan Hospital.

636

:

the documents mention a Dr.

637

:

Irene Kramer.

638

:

but they don't actually have any information from her.

639

:

She was not involved in the lawsuit except she was named.

640

:

Yeah, looks like he was getting some form of something under Dr.

641

:

Irene Kramer.

642

:

I don't know.

643

:

It's a bunch of medical mumbo jumbo here, but uh been seen at Lake Chelan Hospital.

644

:

Chalane?

645

:

Chalane?

646

:

I don't...

647

:

I don't know.

648

:

Chalane!

649

:

it doesn't matter more How long have you lived here, dude?

650

:

Come on?

651

:

Well, first question is that a poor person area or a rich person area because mobile have

a very different response to that

652

:

but I do have a lake there.

653

:

Yeah, yeah, I'd get killed on the boardroom for that one.

654

:

Fuck that up boys.

655

:

And then I toss the papers behind me.

656

:

Yeah, I'll collect them, put them back in the envelope politely.

657

:

And yeah, I'll Google Irene Kramer and just see and hit Seattle in the search as well to

just see if she's local and had moved or something or still out in Lake Chelan.

658

:

Yeah, she's a therapist and a doctor.

659

:

She is still at the Lake Chelan Hospital as of the Book an Appointment with Us little

portal that you managed to dig up on your phone.

660

:

Oh, yeah, you're doing this on your personal cell phone or what?

661

:

I have an encrypted tablet that has 5G that I would use that's through the lab, but I know

how to mess with the VPN to like, yeah.

662

:

You got computer science?

663

:

Yes, I do.

664

:

I got a 60.

665

:

Alright, yeah, you surely do.

666

:

You've got an encrypted tablet from the lab and you fuck around with the VPN settings.

667

:

IT hates you, by

668

:

Yeah

669

:

Yeah.

670

:

Yeah, I won't be submitting a ticket to them, but I will be seeing if we're almost to Amy.

671

:

Yeah, it's a short drive, 10 minutes or so, think.

672

:

I've never been, yeah, yeah, yeah.

673

:

Magpie's in the hot seat, so what's the vibe?

674

:

chooses.

675

:

well, see here, I'm just like the paid help, I suppose.

676

:

I assume you have the aux.

677

:

come on, bud.

678

:

Now's your chance.

679

:

You've got the power.

680

:

You could kill us all with the turn of the wheel.

681

:

Well shoot, alright, if it's my big moment, then we're going with Cheryl Crowe.

682

:

winding road there baby yeah it's a you're the new guy right magpie

683

:

Yeah, I suppose so.

684

:

that

685

:

Well, you think he's gonna survive this one or do you think he's gonna end up like Magpie

before?

686

:

you mean smashed in that meat processing plant?

687

:

Yeah, probably the same.

688

:

No offense, Magpie.

689

:

No, that's fine.

690

:

When I go out, they'll call it getting magpied after this.

691

:

What's the spirit?

692

:

Go big.

693

:

I like you new magpie.

694

:

yeah your magpie school so

695

:

Great, now you're new, Magpie.

696

:

That's...

697

:

that is forever.

698

:

So new magpie, did you listen to Sheryl Crow a lot when you were younger or is this a new

found love?

699

:

Well she was always working her way onto the radio and I didn't have a chance to choose or

say nothing about it.

700

:

And I hated it then but it seems like it just kind of stuck.

701

:

grew on you.

702

:

Interesting.

703

:

Okay.

704

:

Yeah but mostly I know he would hate it.

705

:

You can see uh mole just like tapping his foot completely impatient as he's trying to use

his phone to connect to Bluetooth that's obviously not on this car.

706

:

It's far too old for that.

707

:

you keep connecting to like the cars on total right and left and you're like, which one is

it?

708

:

right, why the fuck does this keep changing?

709

:

And I'm just smashing my iPhone.

710

:

Yeah, there you go.

711

:

Yeah, you guys rock up to the, University of Washington.

712

:

I assume you're going, what, straight to go see Amy.

713

:

Yeah.

714

:

Yeah, I got my PhD here.

715

:

it's, sorry.

716

:

Yeah, she is a friendly and I got my PhD here.

717

:

So I know like a place to park that's out of the way and not like too conspicuous.

718

:

And we kind of wind through back pathways to where she was.

719

:

Yeah, you make your way to the Allen Library.

720

:

There's a librarian sitting behind, or an associate sitting behind the desk.

721

:

walk up, think we'll probably have our brief discussion about how we do things.

722

:

know I mean?

723

:

um So yeah, I'm not used to designing plans.

724

:

So we'll see how this goes.

725

:

So what do want me to do here?

726

:

I'm happy to use my golden pipes to woo whoever's at the front desk here.

727

:

But what are we doing?

728

:

we going in state agency?

729

:

Are we saying friend?

730

:

What do want me to say?

731

:

Hmm.

732

:

mean, she technically works with us, right?

733

:

But we don't want to be real conspicuous about it.

734

:

Hmm.

735

:

I don't know.

736

:

How y'all think she would respond if we pretended to return a book but put a note in it?

737

:

like the little card that they got to take out and punch to show you returned it.

738

:

Yeah, I think that's a good idea.

739

:

Do you have a book?

740

:

No, you look like you might.

741

:

Yeah.

742

:

OK.

743

:

Well normally when I go slip in secret notes to women that I don't know I'm hoping to get

their phone number.

744

:

We already got her a phone number.

745

:

What on earth are we asking her for?

746

:

You guys do have her contact info.

747

:

That's a good point.

748

:

Yeah.

749

:

I mean, that is a good question.

750

:

a call then?

751

:

Broke 10 minutes to call her.

752

:

Yeah, we can never meet us out front.

753

:

Yeah, I think the meeting is of less concern perhaps, but what on earth are we saying once

we got her there?

754

:

Agent Mole, what do you think?

755

:

What do you mean by woo her?

756

:

Like what can you do for us?

757

:

well, you would know that I am pretty good at laying it on thick with people.

758

:

We could get the story from her.

759

:

I think my concern was just if we had to get through any of her underlings or somebody

around her.

760

:

If we just want to call her, could put her on, hell, could put her on speakerphone in the

car if we wanted our own private little place.

761

:

Yeah.

762

:

I mean, I guess, you know, we want to know what Rogers like, did you notice anything

strange about him?

763

:

Was there anything she doctors these documents, right?

764

:

That she shows to people?

765

:

Was there anything in this one that was real versus what she doctored?

766

:

Did he say anything?

767

:

She having the idea where he's going?

768

:

Did he have any other appointments to look at other books?

769

:

Who else had looked at this book before?

770

:

That all sounds great, yeah.

771

:

think it's a good plan to just call her up.

772

:

That way we won't even be seen around her.

773

:

I'm a little concerned that if they see us, I don't know.

774

:

I know that that guy maybe died or whatever in front of us.

775

:

I'm a little concerned that there's somebody watching us already.

776

:

My hackles are raised.

777

:

Yeah.

778

:

All right.

779

:

Well, now or never.

780

:

And I pull out the, the new phone that I got from Madison and I dial up, Amy and put it on

speakerphone and wait for an answer.

781

:

Yeah, phone rings twice.

782

:

Ring ring, ring ring.

783

:

And.

784

:

click.

785

:

Hello, this is Amy Harreld, University of Washington.

786

:

Yeah, hey, Amy, it is.

787

:

Marcus Thompson, a member of the government, wanted to give uh a call to ask about a

couple things that may or may not have happened.

788

:

What's your persuade?

789

:

you say that wasn't a persuasive thing I just said there?

790

:

80.

791

:

gonna let that ride.

792

:

Great.

793

:

Uh, I heard you may have an encounter with somebody.

794

:

You want to give me the scoop?

795

:

yeah, sure.

796

:

What did you say your name was again?

797

:

Marcus Thompson.

798

:

And are you with the FBI?

799

:

Yeah.

800

:

Well, I'm not really comfortable discussing this over the phone.

801

:

I was told it was highly secret.

802

:

Do you have a way of providing identification?

803

:

Amy, you tough nut.

804

:

Would it be better if we met in person?

805

:

I'm gonna send some other people who aren't Marcus Thompson.

806

:

They work with me though, it's all cool.

807

:

yeah, yeah, sure.

808

:

I'm, I'm down in the Allen library right now.

809

:

do you want to meet like tomorrow or?

810

:

could we maybe find a place that kind of like what you're talking about with your concerns

about seeing identification, I'm a little concerned about a place that's so highly

811

:

camera-ized.

812

:

Is it possible that we can meet somewhere a little less public, maybe a coffee shop or

something across the street?

813

:

Sure.

814

:

Coffee shops are pretty public though.

815

:

Sure but no cameras, hopefully.

816

:

What did you say your name was?

817

:

Marcus Thompson.

818

:

Is this on speakerphone?

819

:

It is, yes.

820

:

I'm debating on whether or not I need to shut him up.

821

:

You just see me like holding my head like Okay, trying not to speak for him cuz I'm

polite, you know

822

:

I tap you on the shoulder and I'm like, Miles, step in.

823

:

Step in.

824

:

You got this.

825

:

Sub out.

826

:

Sub out.

827

:

Yeah, ma'am, this is agent Marrone and we are with the FBI.

828

:

Sorry, my friend here had a late night.

829

:

We've been, we took a red eye in from DC and we were wondering if we could just chat with

you quickly.

830

:

We're actually right outside.

831

:

We could find a little quiet place in the park away from the cameras and just really get

some Intel on, you know, an encounter you had.

832

:

few days ago.

833

:

Okay, do you want me to come out and meet you, I guess?

834

:

Please.

835

:

yeah, let me, let me grab my coat, I guess.

836

:

Just look for the spray painted van.

837

:

No, we're leaving the van and walking to a green space outside of the library.

838

:

Find the van that you least want to get into and then go to that one.

839

:

We'll be four men standing, sitting in the van.

840

:

Look for us.

841

:

One of them is wearing a tank top.

842

:

I'm sorry.

843

:

Correct.

844

:

Yeah, and I'll be I know I'll know that I'm just an ornament to moles like suit, but I

will go over there with you mole.

845

:

Everyone else can join if they want, but yeah.

846

:

any of you have any points in disguise?

847

:

golly no

848

:

mean, we have the bass 10, but that's it.

849

:

okay.

850

:

So none of you then have FBI windbreakers, I'm afraid.

851

:

tucked in a bag.

852

:

No.

853

:

Yeah.

854

:

nothing.

855

:

I would have my lab gear, potentially a lab coat, but that's probably not gonna get us

anywhere, so.

856

:

Mole, it's up to you, man.

857

:

You look like an FBI agent the closest.

858

:

Well that went over well, so I'm sure that this will go over well too.

859

:

I say, wait, hold on a second.

860

:

And I take a little bit of coffee that was clearly left in the van from before.

861

:

And I just like spill a little bit on the front of your suit.

862

:

Like, there you go.

863

:

Now you look like an FBI agent.

864

:

I'm like what the fuck, Morrison?

865

:

This suit, this is a $5,000 suit.

866

:

Then you could buy like a billion of them, right?

867

:

So what's the problem?

868

:

Yeah, small smile flashes across Mole's face as he contemplates buying a million suits.

869

:

Sure, sounds great.

870

:

I'm gonna go meet this Amy and then he just gets out of the car.

871

:

I'll join you.

872

:

All right, so what is Agent Moll's plan if she asks for ID?

873

:

You just going to bullshit her?

874

:

Yeah, I think probably.

875

:

I think that mole probably has access to, you know, the ability to get some form of ID

that probably doesn't hold up to scrutiny, but not now.

876

:

You know what mean?

877

:

He doesn't carry it on him or anything like that.

878

:

So I think he's probably just going to have to.

879

:

Shit, she heard my voice too.

880

:

yeah, great.

881

:

It's going to go great.

882

:

Someone, a woman comes out of the library.

883

:

She's sort of looking around.

884

:

It's pretty clear she's looking for someone, maybe 35, 40.

885

:

miles, that confident.

886

:

And then we get up out of the car and kind of stroll our way towards the lady.

887

:

I try to not loudly announce, but I say, Amy, that, Amy, is that you?

888

:

And then I extend my hand.

889

:

yeah.

890

:

Mr.

891

:

Thompson?

892

:

yeah, no, that, so that was an FBI test.

893

:

Pretty classic thing we do.

894

:

You passed.

895

:

had you let us come see you or come in the van, it would have been a problem.

896

:

I'm actually agent mole.

897

:

It's nice to meet you.

898

:

Uh, this is my compatriot agent miles.

899

:

Yeah.

900

:

Give me, give me persuade.

901

:

Give me your 80 persuade.

902

:

You can do it.

903

:

36 on an 80.

904

:

Yeah, she's so surprised by this.

905

:

Like, oh shit, what?

906

:

Are you for real?

907

:

oh, okay.

908

:

That she does not follow that up with the next question, which is, can I see some ID?

909

:

Nicely done.

910

:

Thank you.

911

:

It's nice to meet you.

912

:

I appreciate you coming out here and talking with myself and agent Miles.

913

:

We had a couple of questions we wanted to ask you.

914

:

What we heard that you had an encounter with an individual, uh Roger Douglas, does that

ring any bells?

915

:

Uh, yeah, yeah.

916

:

he's the guy I phoned in about,

917

:

Yeah, I believe so.

918

:

That's how we got on this case.

919

:

Yeah, what do you want to know?

920

:

Do you just want like...

921

:

Yeah, we're following up some, know, I'm really glad you sent something to us.

922

:

It was very helpful.

923

:

It's exactly what we needed.

924

:

we're trying to follow up on some leads on what he could have been doing at your fine

institution.

925

:

Wanted to know what was he like when, when he came into you, you had direct contact with

him.

926

:

That's, that's correct.

927

:

Hmm.

928

:

eh

929

:

the Special Collections archive room and...

930

:

Yeah.

931

:

Did you have to put in an actual request for that or what's the setup for that?

932

:

Yeah, he did.

933

:

uh Would we already have those documents of how he requested that or is that something we

don't do?

934

:

Okay.

935

:

web form for the university.

936

:

Would it be possible to get some information like that?

937

:

What, how he requested, what he requested, all of that.

938

:

Okay.

939

:

it's a web form.

940

:

exports to a CSV with the requested date, the book, the time, who's going to need it, and

for how long they're going to need it for.

941

:

Got it, okay, so not a whole lot of information.

942

:

We'd still like to see that if possible.

943

:

And what was he like when you brought him down?

944

:

Was he disheveled?

945

:

Did he look put together?

946

:

What was his vibe?

947

:

He was, his behavior was a little unsettling.

948

:

tell me more.

949

:

Well, I suspect he maybe had like something going on.

950

:

He seemed to be having difficulty.

951

:

remembering things.

952

:

He kept repeating himself a lot.

953

:

He kept consulting.

954

:

He had like the notes app in his phone for questions, but he kept repeating them.

955

:

He also was very jittery.

956

:

He was always moving a little shaky.

957

:

Kind of looking over his shoulder, I guess.

958

:

And any of those questions he was asking, were they all like what I would consider

standard questions, you know, like, where am I?

959

:

Is this a library?

960

:

Do you have books here or is it something outside of that?

961

:

It was more like, hi, I've got an appointment to see the manuscripts.

962

:

you?

963

:

Are we are we going there?

964

:

That sort of thing.

965

:

got it.

966

:

And then did he look disheveled, like he wasn't put together clothes, akimbo.

967

:

Yeah, he looked

968

:

rough.

969

:

Being that he was looking over his shoulder, did you have anybody in the same time as him?

970

:

Was there anybody else in the archives at that point?

971

:

No, the special collections room is used one patron at a time because we have to have an

archivist in there with them, with the book.

972

:

And any interesting reactions as he was flipping through and taking pictures?

973

:

Like any response that you remember being noteworthy?

974

:

Well, I mean, he took all, he took all those pictures, but I don't know if he, he didn't

seem like he was reading it.

975

:

It's in Koine Greek.

976

:

So I, not to like be classist or anything, but he didn't really look like the kind of guy

who could read Koine Greek.

977

:

Sure, they have a type, I get it.

978

:

Interesting.

979

:

Do we know what pictures he was trying to take?

980

:

Is it, I guess when you created this copy of the necotic manuscripts, correct?

981

:

Is that right, the falsified version?

982

:

Or how does that work?

983

:

well, this is, it's a, a doctored copy.

984

:

I removed a few pages and I changed some passages.

985

:

What we have is a 1993 research copy, non digitized, but, it was pretty easy to

mimeograph.

986

:

It was a mimeograph originally, so it seems legitimate.

987

:

I'm fairly good at what I do.

988

:

And do we have an idea of what parts he was taking a picture of at all?

989

:

Is that anything we could figure out or is that?

990

:

Every page, wow.

991

:

Okay.

992

:

300 or so photographs.

993

:

Okay.

994

:

weird question.

995

:

Any way or any contact we could uh follow up if we wanted to take a look at the security

footage of how he left?

996

:

Yeah, let me get you the number for campus security.

997

:

I don't know.

998

:

I don't know if they'll let you look at that, but I can get you the number.

999

:

Sure, that'd be helpful.

:

01:02:16,343 --> 01:02:17,286

Thank you.

:

01:02:18,287 --> 01:02:18,877

of course you could.

:

01:02:18,877 --> 01:02:20,201

Yeah, you guys are...

:

01:02:20,224 --> 01:02:21,687

I'm sure they'll let you.

:

01:02:22,716 --> 01:02:23,288

You're the FBI.

:

01:02:23,288 --> 01:02:25,154

I mean, look at us.

:

01:02:26,178 --> 01:02:27,380

I see.

:

01:02:27,643 --> 01:02:31,372

Miles, any other questions for this beautiful young woman?

:

01:02:32,373 --> 01:02:34,475

I I look at, go ahead.

:

01:02:34,475 --> 01:02:36,620

at you real funny when you say that.

:

01:02:38,279 --> 01:02:39,416

I don't notice.

:

01:02:39,777 --> 01:02:47,421

Yeah, I try not to blush a little bit noticing that she's a little put off by that

comment.

:

01:02:47,421 --> 01:02:50,323

And then and I look at a notepad.

:

01:02:50,323 --> 01:02:52,484

This is everything we had on our list.

:

01:02:52,484 --> 01:02:55,525

We appreciate your cooperation, Amy.

:

01:02:56,639 --> 01:02:59,382

Yeah, not a problem.

:

01:02:59,447 --> 01:03:00,349

Good luck.

:

01:03:01,350 --> 01:03:02,891

let me get you that number.

:

01:03:03,672 --> 01:03:17,132

And she dashes back inside and comes back out maybe two minutes later with a phone number

and an extension on a scrap of notebook paper.

:

01:03:17,634 --> 01:03:22,759

Great, yeah, I'll hand it over to Agent Mole and then head back to the van.

:

01:03:22,759 --> 01:03:23,551

Yeah, thanks again.

:

01:03:23,551 --> 01:03:24,743

We really appreciate it.

:

01:03:24,743 --> 01:03:27,409

If anything else happens or comes up, let us know.

:

01:03:27,409 --> 01:03:31,759

We'd like to know, you know, if he shows up again, it's of utmost importance.

:

01:03:31,759 --> 01:03:33,832

And then mole kind of turns around.

:

01:03:34,833 --> 01:03:36,250

Yep, she leaves.

:

01:03:37,251 --> 01:03:38,067

Hmm.

:

01:03:39,068 --> 01:03:42,915

Yeah, we'll relay that conversation to Agent Morrison and Magpie.

:

01:03:45,161 --> 01:03:47,549

Somebody want to call Campus Security?

:

01:03:49,225 --> 01:03:50,561

Yep, I'm on it.

:

01:03:51,563 --> 01:03:53,615

Ring ring, click.

:

01:03:53,615 --> 01:03:56,316

Campus security, how can I help you?

:

01:03:58,284 --> 01:03:59,966

I point to my agents.

:

01:04:01,313 --> 01:04:02,128

Hello?

:

01:04:02,946 --> 01:04:07,866

Hello, yeah, this is...

:

01:04:07,866 --> 01:04:10,849

can't believe I thought you were gonna talk.

:

01:04:12,023 --> 01:04:14,614

I have a whole list of fake names I'm gonna be using throughout this.

:

01:04:14,614 --> 01:04:16,826

So this is Tyler Bennett.

:

01:04:16,826 --> 01:04:20,589

I'm an FBI agent currently working on a case.

:

01:04:20,589 --> 01:04:32,008

We need some information about what could have been a break in entering in the area around

the library, Allen library exactly.

:

01:04:32,008 --> 01:04:34,469

Is it possible if we came into?

:

01:04:34,907 --> 01:04:37,764

review some of the security footage that's there.

:

01:04:38,864 --> 01:04:39,850

yeah.

:

01:04:39,850 --> 01:04:41,584

I don't, I don't see why not.

:

01:04:41,584 --> 01:04:42,450

Great.

:

01:04:43,451 --> 01:04:46,060

Are you supposed to get like a warrant for that sort of thing?

:

01:04:47,731 --> 01:04:50,750

Stares straight at Miles like help me

:

01:04:50,750 --> 01:05:00,264

Well, typically we can use interagency cooperation with campus security and usually not

have to worry about warrants.

:

01:05:01,427 --> 01:05:05,084

Unless you have a school policy that would get in the way.

:

01:05:05,084 --> 01:05:06,576

I'll ask my manager.

:

01:05:07,662 --> 01:05:08,476

Give me one second.

:

01:05:08,476 --> 01:05:09,323

Yeah, go ahead.

:

01:05:09,323 --> 01:05:13,022

Yeah, you can put him on the phone too if he needs to talk to any of us.

:

01:05:13,706 --> 01:05:15,208

He puts you on hold.

:

01:05:16,209 --> 01:05:18,126

Well, Lake Chelan guys.

:

01:05:18,170 --> 01:05:30,792

While we're on hold I look at mole and I say I Wanted you I wanted you to talk and use the

same name Because if they go and ask Amy it needs to be the same agent investigating You

:

01:05:30,792 --> 01:05:33,404

don't make up a billion fake agents

:

01:05:33,591 --> 01:05:40,196

Okay, and then you see his notes app in his phone, he like exit out of it just as a list

of names he's created.

:

01:05:40,196 --> 01:05:40,716

Got it.

:

01:05:40,716 --> 01:05:44,439

Yeah, that's smart, Morrison, that's why you're the leader, damn it.

:

01:05:44,619 --> 01:05:45,924

I put my phone away.

:

01:05:45,924 --> 01:05:47,165

get them next time.

:

01:05:48,166 --> 01:05:49,323

Can't win them all.

:

01:05:51,292 --> 01:05:52,575

Uh, yeah.

:

01:05:52,599 --> 01:05:53,242

Hello?

:

01:05:53,242 --> 01:05:53,733

Hello?

:

01:05:53,733 --> 01:05:53,886

do?

:

01:05:53,886 --> 01:05:55,431

Are we gonna tell them, nevermind.

:

01:05:55,431 --> 01:05:56,272

Shit.

:

01:05:58,558 --> 01:06:00,640

Yeah, hey, this is a FBI agent mole.

:

01:06:00,640 --> 01:06:05,367

I was hoping to talk to maybe a manager or somebody who can get me some security tapes.

:

01:06:05,545 --> 01:06:12,472

I, I, well, I just, I just talked to my manager and he said it was okay, but do you still

need to talk to him?

:

01:06:12,808 --> 01:06:15,448

Nah, that was kind of, I was escalating the situation.

:

01:06:15,448 --> 01:06:17,948

didn't need to, I'm backing off now, I appreciate it.

:

01:06:20,152 --> 01:06:21,361

What's your name?

:

01:06:23,569 --> 01:06:23,916

Mark.

:

01:06:23,916 --> 01:06:25,891

Hey Mark, we know these things are digital now.

:

01:06:25,891 --> 01:06:33,628

If I were to give you an email address, could you give me this timestamp to this timestamp

of the cameras on the Allen Library?

:

01:06:34,542 --> 01:06:36,364

uh Yeah, sure.

:

01:06:36,667 --> 01:06:38,228

What's the email address?

:

01:06:38,288 --> 01:06:46,755

Yeah, it is going to be jaunmiles at us.gov.

:

01:06:49,437 --> 01:06:53,950

All right, that was my criteria, ending in .gov.

:

01:06:53,950 --> 01:06:55,333

So there you go.

:

01:06:56,931 --> 01:06:57,970

Thank you, appreciate it.

:

01:06:57,970 --> 01:06:59,817

hell is John Miles?

:

01:07:01,389 --> 01:07:04,338

Yeah, that's me, I'm Agent Miles, so.

:

01:07:04,856 --> 01:07:10,706

No, sorry, that was me, Patrick, asking, where is this email going to go?

:

01:07:10,706 --> 01:07:14,170

No, he would have set this up like, so yeah.

:

01:07:14,170 --> 01:07:15,090

okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

:

01:07:15,090 --> 01:07:21,830

Is this on your lab network?

:

01:07:21,950 --> 01:07:23,270

Yeah, okay.

:

01:07:23,790 --> 01:07:24,870

Love it.

:

01:07:25,030 --> 01:07:26,350

Okay, yeah.

:

01:07:27,030 --> 01:07:30,230

I'll send that over shortly.

:

01:07:30,644 --> 01:07:32,361

Thank you, appreciate it.

:

01:07:43,270 --> 01:07:44,060

Yeah.

:

01:07:45,002 --> 01:07:51,487

Well, it does seem like all roads are pointing to Lake Chelan, but anybody else?

:

01:07:51,487 --> 01:07:52,638

Magpie Morrison.

:

01:07:52,638 --> 01:07:57,412

Any thoughts on what we've gathered so far?

:

01:07:59,369 --> 01:08:02,335

We do still have this key for the storage unit she mentioned.

:

01:08:02,335 --> 01:08:07,102

Hard to say what might be of value there but we are an awful lot closer to it.

:

01:08:07,644 --> 01:08:11,183

Yeah, again, let's be efficient with our space and time.

:

01:08:13,166 --> 01:08:21,176

Yeah, I'll wait for the security footage on the tablet as we're driving over to the

storage, like my storage or whatever it was called.

:

01:08:21,176 --> 01:08:21,976

Yeah.

:

01:08:22,929 --> 01:08:30,066

Yeah, it's like 15 minutes up, but my storage is 10 minutes away.

:

01:08:30,128 --> 01:08:31,108

So.

:

01:08:33,345 --> 01:08:33,820

beautiful.

:

01:08:33,820 --> 01:08:35,375

done this to myself.

:

01:08:35,499 --> 01:08:38,389

You guys get to the storage place, no email.

:

01:08:38,481 --> 01:08:47,797

While we're driving, can I just kind of pontificate out loud, Agent Morrison, you know,

he's thinking over what they told him about what Amy said and he's like, you know, this

:

01:08:47,797 --> 01:08:55,071

guy's looking over his shoulder and he can't read what he's taking pictures of and he's

taking pictures of everything.

:

01:08:55,081 --> 01:08:58,833

I mean, it seems like he isn't personally interested in this, right?

:

01:08:58,874 --> 01:09:00,136

Who's he doing this for?

:

01:09:00,136 --> 01:09:02,897

And if he got disappeared,

:

01:09:03,387 --> 01:09:05,998

by giving over a partially fake document.

:

01:09:06,240 --> 01:09:10,724

Maybe the stuff he turned the people over to pissed him off, because they knew it wasn't

real.

:

01:09:10,724 --> 01:09:11,905

But he didn't know.

:

01:09:14,213 --> 01:09:14,757

Maybe.

:

01:09:14,757 --> 01:09:15,860

I don't know.

:

01:09:16,568 --> 01:09:18,596

I'm just a biathlon coach.

:

01:09:18,817 --> 01:09:21,872

Yeah, no, you might be onto something there.

:

01:09:21,872 --> 01:09:29,964

Yeah, I would really love to get a hold of more medical records and get understanding of

his state of mind too.

:

01:09:31,513 --> 01:09:36,813

Yeah, and figure out where or how he sent this or what he did with all these pictures.

:

01:09:36,813 --> 01:09:39,387

It'd be good to figure if we could.

:

01:09:39,528 --> 01:09:42,053

But I guess that's probably closer to his house.

:

01:09:42,553 --> 01:09:44,606

Yeah, or maybe in the storage unit.

:

01:09:45,989 --> 01:09:46,751

true.

:

01:09:47,752 --> 01:09:49,989

Well, Agent Miles doesn't break into storage units.

:

01:09:49,989 --> 01:09:53,740

He looks keenly at Morrison and Magpie for that, so.

:

01:09:54,533 --> 01:09:55,363

Yeah

:

01:09:55,363 --> 01:09:56,722

got the key to it.

:

01:09:59,029 --> 01:10:00,092

It's true, yeah.

:

01:10:00,092 --> 01:10:01,895

Walking like I own the place.

:

01:10:03,400 --> 01:10:03,822

Yeah.

:

01:10:03,822 --> 01:10:05,464

I'm a science guy, guys.

:

01:10:06,289 --> 01:10:09,618

But hear me out, what if we did break into the storage unit?

:

01:10:09,618 --> 01:10:11,351

That could be pretty fun.

:

01:10:11,743 --> 01:10:12,835

Could be a good cover.

:

01:10:12,835 --> 01:10:14,118

It gets broke.

:

01:10:14,820 --> 01:10:17,188

Yeah.

:

01:10:17,188 --> 01:10:18,680

Yeah, agreed.

:

01:10:18,680 --> 01:10:25,421

out of it and go in clean first and then if we think we need to cover up something we

break in.

:

01:10:25,421 --> 01:10:26,412

Yeah.

:

01:10:27,694 --> 01:10:32,661

That way whenever the person keeping an eye on it comes knocking, it looks like it was

just a crime.

:

01:10:32,661 --> 01:10:33,862

Random attack.

:

01:10:33,862 --> 01:10:38,193

Maybe we break some of the other storage units too, so they don't know we were there for

this one.

:

01:10:38,193 --> 01:10:46,525

Now you're talking, we'll break into one of the other storage units, bust that up, we'll

call the cops, say there was a break in, or I'll hold onto that idea.

:

01:10:46,525 --> 01:10:48,567

We'll workshop it on the car right over.

:

01:10:49,109 --> 01:10:50,243

We're already there.

:

01:10:51,663 --> 01:10:53,670

because they're sitting in the parking lot.

:

01:10:53,935 --> 01:10:54,791

you

:

01:10:56,650 --> 01:10:58,083

yeah, alright.

:

01:10:58,126 --> 01:10:58,479

Here.

:

01:10:58,479 --> 01:11:01,774

it's more than two arm folds, you're coming in as backup.

:

01:11:01,843 --> 01:11:03,301

All right, I'll come in.

:

01:11:05,196 --> 01:11:07,679

Who's going in and who is not?

:

01:11:08,344 --> 01:11:15,778

I think I'm gonna open the door myself just cause I'm worried and if there's something in

there that's dangerous I want it to get me first.

:

01:11:17,099 --> 01:11:22,922

I probably got one of my glocks like tucked into my coat just in case cause I don't know

what's in here.

:

01:11:23,566 --> 01:11:31,202

So you're all going into this storage space is the brand name of this like storage locker

facility.

:

01:11:31,906 --> 01:11:33,951

Okay, yeah, think we would.

:

01:11:33,951 --> 01:11:34,942

Yeah, we would.

:

01:11:34,942 --> 01:11:39,960

And I would just be keeping an eye on cameras, just noting them where they are and stuff,

so.

:

01:11:40,257 --> 01:11:42,859

There are quite a few cameras.

:

01:11:42,859 --> 01:11:46,410

There's also a security guard right by the front entrance.

:

01:11:46,410 --> 01:11:48,502

You know, there's a loading dock around the back.

:

01:11:48,502 --> 01:11:58,356

There's a paper sign on the security guard's desk, like taped to the front of his desk

that says, please return our dollies, exclamation, exclamation.

:

01:11:59,719 --> 01:12:07,829

So this is a legit storage facility, not like just one of the crappy ones off the highway

that is like a used storage or whatever.

:

01:12:07,829 --> 01:12:08,670

Okay.

:

01:12:08,682 --> 01:12:10,935

Yeah, it's uh three stories tall.

:

01:12:10,935 --> 01:12:12,462

um

:

01:12:14,304 --> 01:12:15,138

for what that's worth.

:

01:12:15,138 --> 01:12:17,715

yeah, I look over at Magpie and I say, ready?

:

01:12:19,274 --> 01:12:20,694

yeah, lead the way.

:

01:12:20,694 --> 01:12:24,241

Alright, I think this is where new magpie becomes old magpie.

:

01:12:24,241 --> 01:12:26,084

Or maybe just regular madpie.

:

01:12:26,084 --> 01:12:27,607

Not madpie, magpie.

:

01:12:27,607 --> 01:12:28,628

Man, I'm gonna screw that up.

:

01:12:28,628 --> 01:12:29,960

Sorry, madpie.

:

01:12:29,971 --> 01:12:32,246

That's alright, we gotta shed it at some point.

:

01:12:32,246 --> 01:12:32,794

All right.

:

01:12:32,794 --> 01:12:34,879

love MadPie, that sounds great.

:

01:12:35,242 --> 01:12:36,095

Alright, let's roll.

:

01:12:36,095 --> 01:12:39,677

And I go up to the door, put the key in the lock.

:

01:12:40,874 --> 01:12:43,717

Yeah, padlock comes right off.

:

01:12:44,118 --> 01:12:46,061

And is it a pull up?

:

01:12:47,385 --> 01:12:48,667

Yeah, OK.

:

01:12:49,851 --> 01:12:53,298

Yeah, I stand a little bit off to the side, not center.

:

01:12:53,298 --> 01:12:55,622

Just lift it up and look in and wait.

:

01:12:56,244 --> 01:13:02,496

Yeah, it is a five foot by 10 foot cinder block box.

:

01:13:02,496 --> 01:13:04,717

It has wire rack shelving.

:

01:13:04,717 --> 01:13:07,219

There is stuff on the shelving.

:

01:13:07,219 --> 01:13:14,963

You see next to the door is a clipboard with a pencil and a piece of string on it.

:

01:13:15,964 --> 01:13:19,123

The piece of string is tied to the clipboard and the pencil.

:

01:13:19,123 --> 01:13:20,492

not a booby trap.

:

01:13:22,965 --> 01:13:30,677

And I think I'm gonna go searching through the first few boxes that looked like maybe

they've been interacted with recently.

:

01:13:31,024 --> 01:13:33,452

Sure, you want to take the left and I'll take the right?

:

01:13:35,596 --> 01:13:40,400

Nothing looks to be like particularly recently touched.

:

01:13:40,400 --> 01:13:43,031

There's a fine layer of dust on everything.

:

01:13:43,031 --> 01:13:56,174

You crack open a, one of those like plastic totes with the latch handles and inside is a

Kevlar vest, police, Seattle PD, two bullets in it.

:

01:13:58,587 --> 01:14:02,397

Like bullets like casings like that have been discharged.

:

01:14:02,397 --> 01:14:03,159

Okay.

:

01:14:03,159 --> 01:14:03,646

Yep.

:

01:14:03,646 --> 01:14:04,507

yeah.

:

01:14:05,510 --> 01:14:07,293

But it has not gone through.

:

01:14:08,294 --> 01:14:11,832

grab the clipboard and read it while they're looking in the boxes.

:

01:14:13,278 --> 01:14:18,367

It is a long string of letters, numbers, and dates.

:

01:14:18,367 --> 01:14:30,868

st,:

:

01:14:31,276 --> 01:14:32,208

Yeah.

:

01:14:32,850 --> 01:14:43,330

th,:

:

01:14:43,330 --> 01:14:47,950

The last entry was entered in:

:

01:14:47,950 --> 01:14:50,850

There are long gaps between the entries.

:

01:14:51,022 --> 01:15:03,610

Okay, if I were to look at this with my 50 accounting, would I be able to glean any

pattern to the dates or glean any information about what these like labels are, these D12

:

01:15:03,610 --> 01:15:04,659

labels?

:

01:15:05,012 --> 01:15:08,735

Yeah, I don't think you have to roll for this.

:

01:15:08,735 --> 01:15:15,110

You can see that there are sticky labels, numbered sticky labels on items.

:

01:15:15,110 --> 01:15:17,261

This is a check-in checkout list.

:

01:15:18,523 --> 01:15:19,403

Yeah.

:

01:15:20,405 --> 01:15:24,658

And you said the dates were like 99 to, what are the date ranges span?

:

01:15:25,256 --> 01:15:29,176

to:

:

01:15:29,796 --> 01:15:34,856

It's a venerable institution, storage facility.

:

01:15:37,694 --> 01:15:40,501

Rodgers used to be in the agency, right?

:

01:15:41,014 --> 01:15:42,526

Yeah, he was one of us.

:

01:15:42,526 --> 01:15:44,571

uh What years was he active?

:

01:15:45,572 --> 01:15:48,812

and:

:

01:15:49,358 --> 01:15:50,803

Great gas miles.

:

01:15:51,725 --> 01:15:55,490

He was discharged in:

:

01:15:55,490 --> 01:15:56,892

Is that what we've heard?

:

01:15:56,892 --> 01:16:00,135

So perhaps a bit more recent than this record indicates.

:

01:16:01,136 --> 01:16:03,031

He was a police officer, right?

:

01:16:05,442 --> 01:16:08,066

Eh, fish and wildlife or something of the sort.

:

01:16:08,066 --> 01:16:13,350

Law enforcement, certainly, but I'm not sure I would expect this would have belonged to

him.

:

01:16:13,350 --> 01:16:14,413

Yeah.

:

01:16:14,780 --> 01:16:15,681

Okay.

:

01:16:17,253 --> 01:16:22,160

Well, I guess we start looking through the other boxes, unless anyone has another idea.

:

01:16:22,361 --> 01:16:24,765

somewhat cautious about what we look through?

:

01:16:24,994 --> 01:16:29,394

I mean, if this is where he was storing things when he was active.

:

01:16:30,395 --> 01:16:31,711

Yeah, I mean.

:

01:16:34,155 --> 01:16:36,114

We're not the careful types, are we, Mo?

:

01:16:37,724 --> 01:16:39,462

Yeah, that was a fucking joke.

:

01:16:40,233 --> 01:16:41,315

Let's go.

:

01:16:41,796 --> 01:16:43,635

yeah, only one way to find out.

:

01:16:43,635 --> 01:16:45,467

Who found that vest?

:

01:16:46,752 --> 01:16:48,726

Coin toss between the two of us.

:

01:16:49,179 --> 01:16:56,447

Great, Morrison, you find on a shelf a pump action shotgun.

:

01:16:56,447 --> 01:17:03,072

It is in a bin underneath a heap of rubbery gas masks.

:

01:17:04,154 --> 01:17:06,256

Do you have uh a firearms?

:

01:17:06,256 --> 01:17:08,858

Oh, fuck, way over 30, right?

:

01:17:09,959 --> 01:17:12,231

The, yeah.

:

01:17:12,255 --> 01:17:14,441

The shells are black powder.

:

01:17:14,441 --> 01:17:18,663

This is a:

:

01:17:18,663 --> 01:17:21,588

Do not use modern shells in this.

:

01:17:22,006 --> 01:17:22,886

Gotcha.

:

01:17:24,480 --> 01:17:27,445

Are there shells nearby, like in boxes?

:

01:17:27,445 --> 01:17:28,105

yeah, yeah, yeah.

:

01:17:28,105 --> 01:17:33,337

There's two full boxes of Buckshot.

:

01:17:34,284 --> 01:17:39,858

Do I get the sense that like, it's not like all wet and ruined, like they're probably

gonna work?

:

01:17:41,405 --> 01:17:45,919

Yeah, your, they are in, they're shrink wrapped.

:

01:17:45,919 --> 01:17:51,201

It looks like one of them maybe got a little, like the cardboard is discolored.

:

01:17:51,201 --> 01:17:58,967

So moisture may have gotten in, but broadly this is a shotgun in good working order with

weird ammunition, but you've got the weird ammunition.

:

01:17:58,967 --> 01:17:59,747

Yeah.

:

01:17:59,747 --> 01:18:05,421

Um, Mull, you, find a footlocker chest.

:

01:18:05,421 --> 01:18:08,382

There's a handful of things inside of it.

:

01:18:09,263 --> 01:18:12,106

do you have, any sort of military sites?

:

01:18:13,527 --> 01:18:14,349

No.

:

01:18:15,124 --> 01:18:16,185

Does anybody?

:

01:18:18,002 --> 01:18:20,735

Morrison would be able, what's your military science?

:

01:18:20,735 --> 01:18:21,446

Buffer below 50?

:

01:18:21,446 --> 01:18:21,786

Okay.

:

01:18:21,786 --> 01:18:29,234

uh This is a Korean War era field desk.

:

01:18:29,234 --> 01:18:39,936

um There's note cards, like a Moleskine journal, pens, pencils, a knife, and a USB stick

inside.

:

01:18:41,216 --> 01:18:42,541

ah This seems out of place.

:

01:18:42,541 --> 01:18:44,215

I pick up the USB stick.

:

01:18:44,215 --> 01:18:47,955

Is there anything on it markings or label or anything like that?

:

01:18:48,286 --> 01:18:54,023

Something was written on it in Sharpie that has been studiously erased.

:

01:18:55,024 --> 01:18:59,675

Yeah, I would see that USB stick and say I can take a look at that if you want.

:

01:18:59,675 --> 01:19:01,880

yeah, sure, I don't know what to do with this thing.

:

01:19:01,880 --> 01:19:03,913

He tosses it to you.

:

01:19:04,581 --> 01:19:13,701

I don't typically search through things, so I think I'll just go back to the van where I

have my laptop and plug this in while they're looking in there.

:

01:19:13,701 --> 01:19:14,045

Yep.

:

01:19:14,045 --> 01:19:15,965

deal with that in a minute.

:

01:19:16,865 --> 01:19:21,204

The last thing you find in there is a knife.

:

01:19:22,283 --> 01:19:23,379

Nice, what's the knife?

:

01:19:23,379 --> 01:19:27,186

it any, it's just like a K-Bar knife.

:

01:19:28,574 --> 01:19:29,216

fixed blade.

:

01:19:29,216 --> 01:19:34,083

The three of you meandering through here find a handful of other things.

:

01:19:34,083 --> 01:19:38,228

There are two baskets full of industrial cleaning supplies.

:

01:19:40,166 --> 01:19:48,022

There is a 22LR pistol with three clips of ammunition.

:

01:19:48,022 --> 01:20:01,071

Among the, there's a lot of like junk, like old furniture, there's a wooden chair, like

stacked upside down on another wooden chair that somebody just like pushed in the corner.

:

01:20:01,071 --> 01:20:02,976

You do find a,

:

01:20:02,976 --> 01:20:11,061

neatly folded Catholic priests' ropes with a rosary and everyday clothes underneath it.

:

01:20:11,061 --> 01:20:18,206

And the final thing you find is a geologic map of the Pacific Northwest.

:

01:20:18,206 --> 01:20:25,212

Somebody has carefully, with a ruler and a red pen, drawn lines.

:

01:20:25,212 --> 01:20:26,736

across the map.

:

01:20:27,738 --> 01:20:28,907

Does anybody have?

:

01:20:30,590 --> 01:20:32,303

science geology.

:

01:20:34,185 --> 01:20:34,537

No.

:

01:20:34,537 --> 01:20:38,348

would accept a navigate at a minus 20.

:

01:20:38,505 --> 01:20:39,830

I do have Navigate.

:

01:20:39,830 --> 01:20:43,125

I got 50 so that'd be, I gotta beat a 30.

:

01:20:43,412 --> 01:20:46,507

ah I would also take survival at a minus 20.

:

01:20:46,507 --> 01:20:49,471

Both of those would be map adjacent.

:

01:20:49,471 --> 01:20:50,435

Okay, great.

:

01:20:50,435 --> 01:20:50,798

Terrific.

:

01:20:50,798 --> 01:20:52,823

I'd try a survival if I may.

:

01:20:55,372 --> 01:20:56,881

No good on a 49.

:

01:20:56,881 --> 01:20:57,493

Okie doke.

:

01:20:57,493 --> 01:21:03,281

The lines are drawn straight with a ruler, but they do zigzag in places.

:

01:21:03,281 --> 01:21:04,902

Looks like it was done in pen.

:

01:21:05,083 --> 01:21:05,523

That's it.

:

01:21:05,523 --> 01:21:06,634

That's what you got.

:

01:21:07,635 --> 01:21:09,376

Should we take some of this stuff?

:

01:21:09,376 --> 01:21:17,832

I mean back with us and see if we can't get Has our handler been I guess I could just say

as our handler been helpful.

:

01:21:17,832 --> 01:21:25,027

I would said something we could potentially get some help with from her or uh What's your

guys's read on Madison?

:

01:21:25,624 --> 01:21:26,978

Yeah, I think she's helpful.

:

01:21:26,978 --> 01:21:28,321

I take the phone.

:

01:21:28,321 --> 01:21:29,664

Here, hold that out for me.

:

01:21:29,664 --> 01:21:32,394

I snap a pic of it and send it to her.

:

01:21:33,777 --> 01:21:34,603

Nice.

:

01:21:35,384 --> 01:21:37,111

With the text, what's this?

:

01:21:39,250 --> 01:21:40,916

These Catholic robes are nice.

:

01:21:40,916 --> 01:21:44,116

I'll be taking these and he picks them up.

:

01:21:44,789 --> 01:21:47,164

Yeah, I knew those had your name on them.

:

01:21:48,110 --> 01:21:49,227

High fashion.

:

01:21:49,683 --> 01:21:51,989

Set that disguise skill to 11.

:

01:21:52,684 --> 01:21:53,477

You

:

01:21:53,667 --> 01:21:58,645

sorry, I'm not in the room anymore, but I would say take the Seattle PD stuff too, just in

case you need that shit.

:

01:21:58,963 --> 01:22:01,585

yeah, we should probably take like the guns and kind of everything.

:

01:22:01,585 --> 01:22:02,529

I'm cleaning this out, right?

:

01:22:02,529 --> 01:22:05,062

Are we looting this dungeon?

:

01:22:05,925 --> 01:22:06,403

Yeah.

:

01:22:06,403 --> 01:22:09,821

I say, uh, Hey mole, you any good with a shotgun?

:

01:22:09,821 --> 01:22:10,252

just kidding.

:

01:22:10,252 --> 01:22:12,127

And I handed over to magpie.

:

01:22:13,621 --> 01:22:15,219

bit safer this way.

:

01:22:15,245 --> 01:22:16,820

I think so, yeah.

:

01:22:19,094 --> 01:22:19,532

Yeah.

:

01:22:19,532 --> 01:22:22,855

tell, hey, Magpie, what's your firearms?

:

01:22:24,038 --> 01:22:24,685

Great.

:

01:22:24,685 --> 01:22:26,396

These are black powder shells.

:

01:22:26,843 --> 01:22:31,410

Great, yeah, I mean, does that strike me in a strange way?

:

01:22:31,410 --> 01:22:37,566

Like a Zode wouldn't be used in some sort of practical pursuit of putting people down.

:

01:22:37,566 --> 01:22:38,569

uh Correct.

:

01:22:38,569 --> 01:22:40,394

That's a weird choice.

:

01:22:40,394 --> 01:22:43,741

uh Somebody hand-packed these.

:

01:22:44,197 --> 01:22:54,162

Yeah, I mean, would I have any idea if these were like strictly for collectors, like going

to some sort of period fair or something like that?

:

01:22:54,381 --> 01:23:05,903

No, so this is a pump action, like Mossberg shotgun, the sort that you could buy at

Walmart in:

:

01:23:05,903 --> 01:23:12,077

And somebody has taken the time to modify it to accept these black powder shells.

:

01:23:12,280 --> 01:23:13,213

Yeah, alright.

:

01:23:13,213 --> 01:23:17,015

It's a strange proclivity, but okay.

:

01:23:18,083 --> 01:23:19,732

Yeah, not-

:

01:23:22,039 --> 01:23:22,985

useful.

:

01:23:23,488 --> 01:23:24,910

Yeah, okay.

:

01:23:24,910 --> 01:23:28,858

Most things except for the desk, I think we might as well move.

:

01:23:28,858 --> 01:23:32,563

Madison made sure we have ample space to carry all our gear.

:

01:23:34,273 --> 01:23:35,674

Yeah, she did.

:

01:23:35,696 --> 01:23:36,898

Even though that car is shit.

:

01:23:36,898 --> 01:23:39,220

Let's grab all this stuff and take it out.

:

01:23:39,762 --> 01:23:47,955

I think that's when Mole starts picking things up and manhandling, you know, pretty much

everything besides the desk.

:

01:23:49,980 --> 01:23:52,102

After it's kind of, oh go ahead.

:

01:23:52,343 --> 01:24:00,765

I was going say after it's kind of cleared out, can I do like a sweep just to be like,

there any like loose bricks in the wall, loose spots in the floor?

:

01:24:00,765 --> 01:24:02,030

Okay.

:

01:24:02,030 --> 01:24:03,174

Roll search.

:

01:24:04,638 --> 01:24:08,527

the twenty which is a pass twenty under sixty

:

01:24:09,188 --> 01:24:21,366

You do not find any, but what I will say you do find is you find that somebody has

carefully tilted the security camera in the hallway outside so that you're in a bit of a

:

01:24:21,366 --> 01:24:22,467

blind spot.

:

01:24:22,494 --> 01:24:23,410

Hmm

:

01:24:25,524 --> 01:24:26,712

I say thank you.

:

01:24:27,971 --> 01:24:31,750

Is anybody going to sign these out on the sheet?

:

01:24:32,688 --> 01:24:33,663

you know, ooh.

:

01:24:33,663 --> 01:24:37,403

That's very tempting with my 70 and accounting, I feel like.

:

01:24:39,189 --> 01:24:40,407

yeah, sure.

:

01:24:40,407 --> 01:24:42,384

I think I take the pencil and just write.

:

01:24:42,384 --> 01:24:44,795

I don't write our names, I just write a date and that's it.

:

01:24:44,795 --> 01:24:47,690

Yet there's no names on any of these entries.

:

01:24:47,690 --> 01:24:50,715

Also, these are done in numerous people's hands.

:

01:24:50,715 --> 01:24:52,116

Some of them are in pen.

:

01:24:53,117 --> 01:25:00,554

Yeah, I think even more so than I'm like, yeah, yeah, this is, you know, it's important to

keep good records amongst ourselves.

:

01:25:00,554 --> 01:25:02,569

And then he writes it down.

:

01:25:03,849 --> 01:25:04,681

Yeah, sure.

:

01:25:04,681 --> 01:25:13,023

We're going to cut back to Agent Miles in the car putting a mystery USB drive into his

personal laptop.

:

01:25:13,439 --> 01:25:14,674

Yeah, about that.

:

01:25:14,674 --> 01:25:15,987

I would definitely do it.

:

01:25:15,987 --> 01:25:17,267

yeah.

:

01:25:18,125 --> 01:25:18,739

Ha!

:

01:25:18,739 --> 01:25:19,817

Hell yeah!

:

01:25:20,991 --> 01:25:25,524

There is one file on the drive.

:

01:25:26,048 --> 01:25:26,990

It is...

:

01:25:26,990 --> 01:25:30,370

or is it, okay, I'm just kidding.

:

01:25:30,370 --> 01:25:31,270

Yeah, go ahead.

:

01:25:31,344 --> 01:25:32,200

You

:

01:25:32,268 --> 01:25:34,315

Get your free virus scan in there.

:

01:25:35,617 --> 01:25:42,057

:

:

01:25:42,057 --> 01:25:45,577

My guess is a date from:

:

01:25:46,277 --> 01:25:56,537

So I'm going to look around and curiosity is my thing and I'm just gonna play it and see

what I see.

:

01:25:57,538 --> 01:26:10,201

Yeah, the video features GoPro footage of a climber on a mountainside taking shelter in a

cave.

:

01:26:10,201 --> 01:26:17,229

They find that the cave is much deeper and deeper and deeper than they expected.

:

01:26:17,229 --> 01:26:20,051

They comment on this multiple times.

:

01:26:21,200 --> 01:26:24,122

the audio is strangely echoey.

:

01:26:24,122 --> 01:26:35,731

And then they see that the cave descends further into carved stairs that begin to spiral

lower and lower into the darkness.

:

01:26:35,731 --> 01:26:44,006

And just before the video ends, that darkness seems to sort of...

:

01:26:45,362 --> 01:26:46,325

Breathe.

:

01:26:52,545 --> 01:27:00,792

Yeah, Miles would be getting chills on his arm seeing that and then yeah, figured.

:

01:27:01,448 --> 01:27:02,657

Yeah, sorry.

:

01:27:04,036 --> 01:27:05,468

11, good.

:

01:27:06,354 --> 01:27:08,381

Critical success, zero.

:

01:27:08,505 --> 01:27:10,346

Yeah.

:

01:27:10,346 --> 01:27:25,905

Still very spooky to see and he would just roll it back again and watch that maybe tap

frame by frame as the happens and see if there's anything in the that he missed on the

:

01:27:25,905 --> 01:27:27,136

first glance.

:

01:27:27,842 --> 01:27:36,438

Yeah, it almost looks as though the whole darkness area is almost lensing out for that

fraction of a second.

:

01:27:36,438 --> 01:27:40,421

The GoPro has pretty good frame rate fidelity.

:

01:27:40,421 --> 01:27:54,372

You can advance this like very, very slowly and frame to frame nothing appears to be

changing, but the overall impression is of movement and breath.

:

01:27:54,976 --> 01:27:55,916

Okay.

:

01:27:56,457 --> 01:27:57,078

Damn.

:

01:27:57,078 --> 01:27:59,560

Okay.

:

01:27:59,560 --> 01:28:03,534

any like when the state, well, I don't, I wouldn't even think about this.

:

01:28:03,534 --> 01:28:04,325

So nevermind.

:

01:28:04,325 --> 01:28:05,346

Yeah.

:

01:28:05,346 --> 01:28:10,831

He would be very focused on that last bit looking and listening intently.

:

01:28:10,831 --> 01:28:11,910

So yeah.

:

01:28:11,910 --> 01:28:24,890

I think you, think Morrison, Magpie, and Mull all come back with like armfuls of junk as

Miles is scrubbing back and forth through the last half second of this little video over

:

01:28:24,890 --> 01:28:25,920

and over and

:

01:28:27,065 --> 01:28:28,369

Do you guys want to take a look at this?

:

01:28:28,369 --> 01:28:29,986

It's pretty weird.

:

01:28:29,986 --> 01:28:30,890

should.

:

01:28:31,058 --> 01:28:40,113

Who who okay, so this is gonna be a decision point of how In tune mole is with his own

Breakdown as an agent, I guess.

:

01:28:40,113 --> 01:28:41,294

Yeah fragility.

:

01:28:41,294 --> 01:28:42,474

I would say

:

01:28:43,028 --> 01:28:45,565

Who would you confide in, any of us?

:

01:28:47,572 --> 01:28:49,382

You've got Megalomania.

:

01:28:49,382 --> 01:28:50,143

Yeah, probably.

:

01:28:50,143 --> 01:28:51,564

probably not.

:

01:28:51,567 --> 01:28:53,370

Yeah, I think I look.

:

01:28:53,733 --> 01:28:56,209

I mean, quite honestly, I think I fucking look.

:

01:28:57,585 --> 01:28:58,572

I passed.

:

01:29:00,838 --> 01:29:01,601

Yeah, pass.

:

01:29:01,601 --> 01:29:02,940

53 on a 31.

:

01:29:03,545 --> 01:29:07,071

Okay, that is a point of sand loss.

:

01:29:07,071 --> 01:29:11,277

What do you think fucks you up about this?

:

01:29:11,439 --> 01:29:12,690

What don't you like?

:

01:29:13,691 --> 01:29:16,084

Or is it just like a physiological response?

:

01:29:16,084 --> 01:29:27,118

Yeah, I think it's more of a physiological response and specifically because again, mole

is unfortunately a lot closer to not break point breaking, but breaking than anybody else

:

01:29:27,118 --> 01:29:28,759

in the cell in our cell.

:

01:29:28,759 --> 01:29:29,189

Right.

:

01:29:29,189 --> 01:29:34,330

And as a megalomaniac, I think he is very out of touch with his own feelings.

:

01:29:34,330 --> 01:29:40,262

So I think these things hit him in physical waves of nausea, know, headaches, stuff like

that.

:

01:29:40,262 --> 01:29:42,732

And he's just like, Oh fuck, turn that off.

:

01:29:42,732 --> 01:29:45,403

And then he turns around and kind of like walks away.

:

01:29:46,211 --> 01:29:50,393

And the good news about that is that the megalomania is not gonna be me fucking shooting

you guys.

:

01:29:50,393 --> 01:29:52,734

I'm just gonna be insufferable.

:

01:29:52,734 --> 01:29:53,984

So yeah.

:

01:29:54,031 --> 01:29:56,816

Yeah, man, you made a face character.

:

01:29:56,816 --> 01:29:58,940

You were like, I wanna talk to everybody.

:

01:29:58,940 --> 01:30:00,442

And then you did this.

:

01:30:00,524 --> 01:30:03,937

Yeah, so I build characters kind of organically.

:

01:30:03,937 --> 01:30:06,699

It's my method acting.

:

01:30:06,699 --> 01:30:08,720

So I don't think about mechanics or rules.

:

01:30:08,720 --> 01:30:12,763

I just think about what the character would do and it's fuck everything up every time.

:

01:30:14,084 --> 01:30:16,265

Yeah, exactly.

:

01:30:16,265 --> 01:30:19,013

You're like, this is the most charismatic man on earth.

:

01:30:19,055 --> 01:30:20,907

I'm gonna be insufferable.

:

01:30:20,907 --> 01:30:21,788

Correct.

:

01:30:21,788 --> 01:30:23,252

Well, that's charisma to me.

:

01:30:23,252 --> 01:30:26,677

So this says something about me, I think, versus...

:

01:30:27,425 --> 01:30:27,883

uh

:

01:30:27,883 --> 01:30:30,610

humint is low enough, everyone likes you.

:

01:30:30,610 --> 01:30:34,545

Yeah, that is so true

:

01:30:34,947 --> 01:30:35,803

over here.

:

01:30:36,648 --> 01:30:47,597

while they're reviewing that, would probably, being that I've kind of set up my little lab

in this van already, I would have had my forensics kit out, ready to look at those photos

:

01:30:47,597 --> 01:30:55,640

and see if there's any like chemicals on them, anything strange, also potentially the map

now that they brought that out as well.

:

01:30:55,640 --> 01:31:02,383

And just, yeah, start analyzing that on a more of a scientific level rather than the

content of it.

:

01:31:03,061 --> 01:31:03,893

Yeah, for sure.

:

01:31:03,893 --> 01:31:06,586

What's your, you got science, geology?

:

01:31:07,736 --> 01:31:12,975

No, I have chemical engineering and biochemistry and chemical physics.

:

01:31:12,975 --> 01:31:17,507

navigate or survival at a minus 20 or a straight in at a minus 40.

:

01:31:18,643 --> 01:31:20,588

Yeah, I'll do that straight in.

:

01:31:21,590 --> 01:31:27,690

30 even and I'm looking for a 45 so pass

:

01:31:28,196 --> 01:31:29,014

Pass.

:

01:31:29,014 --> 01:31:30,132

Yeah,

:

01:31:32,071 --> 01:31:42,612

Yeah, these red lines are along all of the tectonic faults, and they go to and from most

of the volcanoes in the Pacific Northwest.

:

01:31:42,632 --> 01:31:44,033

Okay, so I'm looking at St.

:

01:31:44,033 --> 01:31:47,565

Helens Rainier Adams potentially.

:

01:31:47,565 --> 01:31:48,697

Okay.

:

01:31:48,697 --> 01:31:49,659

All right.

:

01:31:49,659 --> 01:31:56,865

Yeah, I'll relay that to the team saying like these are all fault lines connecting the

volcanoes in the area.

:

01:31:57,867 --> 01:31:58,793

Why?

:

01:32:00,828 --> 01:32:02,445

Yeah, good question.

:

01:32:02,445 --> 01:32:04,912

Let me call Roger here.

:

01:32:05,022 --> 01:32:08,124

Hey, Raj, what's going on with these crazy lines?

:

01:32:08,784 --> 01:32:09,751

Why are crazy?

:

01:32:09,751 --> 01:32:10,463

book.

:

01:32:10,463 --> 01:32:12,923

Um, do you think any of this...

:

01:32:12,923 --> 01:32:15,183

Where's Mount Denali in relation to any of these?

:

01:32:15,183 --> 01:32:17,079

I guess my character would know that, but I don't.

:

01:32:18,080 --> 01:32:22,939

Yeah, to my knowledge, no association to anything we've seen or heard so far.

:

01:32:23,015 --> 01:32:23,774

Yeah.

:

01:32:23,774 --> 01:32:24,270

Alright.

:

01:32:24,270 --> 01:32:24,641

Okay.

:

01:32:24,641 --> 01:32:26,363

So we have something to do with fault lines.

:

01:32:26,363 --> 01:32:26,764

And...

:

01:32:26,764 --> 01:32:27,814

Denali.

:

01:32:28,815 --> 01:32:31,360

I don't know, put that one in the brain bin for later.

:

01:32:32,361 --> 01:32:35,343

Yeah, not sure how that all adds up.

:

01:32:36,590 --> 01:32:40,170

Yeah, and just to clarify, Denali not on the map.

:

01:32:40,170 --> 01:32:41,543

Decidedly outside the bounds.

:

01:32:41,543 --> 01:32:42,847

Is that what we were just clarifying?

:

01:32:42,847 --> 01:32:44,510

Okay.

:

01:32:45,511 --> 01:32:46,326

Well...

:

01:32:48,103 --> 01:32:49,370

Where to next?

:

01:32:51,069 --> 01:32:54,356

You want to turn off that black light before I bring these Catholic robes in?

:

01:32:55,986 --> 01:32:57,711

Just better not know, innit?

:

01:32:58,708 --> 01:32:59,723

Click.

:

01:33:00,724 --> 01:33:02,974

Do you want to check the Catholic robes?

:

01:33:04,383 --> 01:33:06,891

I don't think I have the sanity for that.

:

01:33:08,154 --> 01:33:16,435

Yeah, I would pass them with my forensics kick really if we're camped out here and I have

it out, I would take a look at them quickly with my little flashlight.

:

01:33:17,354 --> 01:33:19,909

Blood only glows if you luminol it, right?

:

01:33:20,549 --> 01:33:21,662

I believe so.

:

01:33:22,074 --> 01:33:22,889

think that's right.

:

01:33:22,889 --> 01:33:24,122

We'll say yes.

:

01:33:25,123 --> 01:33:26,635

Then yeah, nothing happens.

:

01:33:26,635 --> 01:33:28,275

Okay, yeah.

:

01:33:29,575 --> 01:33:31,515

All right, these smell weird.

:

01:33:31,515 --> 01:33:32,335

That's what I'll say.

:

01:33:32,335 --> 01:33:34,751

And then I'll hand them over to you, Mo.

:

01:33:34,751 --> 01:33:36,480

fucking bleach still.

:

01:33:36,480 --> 01:33:37,256

Yeah.

:

01:33:38,158 --> 01:33:40,823

these gas masks, they seem like they've been used.

:

01:33:42,000 --> 01:33:48,846

no, but they're from the Cold War era, and those cartridges are questionable.

:

01:33:48,846 --> 01:33:49,189

Yeah.

:

01:33:49,189 --> 01:33:50,071

Okay.

:

01:33:50,909 --> 01:33:57,861

The rubber has not dry-rotted, though, so you could put one on, potentially.

:

01:33:59,097 --> 01:34:01,066

Okay, keep these handy.

:

01:34:02,067 --> 01:34:02,828

Yeah.

:

01:34:03,658 --> 01:34:04,414

Shall and.

:

01:34:04,414 --> 01:34:06,214

Yeah.

:

01:34:06,214 --> 01:34:07,830

were calling medicine?

:

01:34:08,901 --> 01:34:11,066

Agent Morrison sent a picture of the map.

:

01:34:11,228 --> 01:34:12,612

yeah, that's right.

:

01:34:12,612 --> 01:34:13,615

You get a text back.

:

01:34:13,615 --> 01:34:17,969

These are fault lines, and the R is the letter R.

:

01:34:19,397 --> 01:34:22,576

Okay, she must be busy.

:

01:34:23,578 --> 01:34:26,172

Well, I think we're going east, guys?

:

01:34:26,172 --> 01:34:32,883

Gonna hit I-90 out to Chelan or Magpie, you look like you're noodling something over

there.

:

01:34:33,579 --> 01:34:36,641

Well, the only thing I'm curious about is I don't know.

:

01:34:36,641 --> 01:34:41,285

We haven't gotten a lead on Douglas in the last three days, right?

:

01:34:41,285 --> 01:34:52,108

Just curious of maybe putting out feelers with anybody who monitors CTV channels or

anything else that might be able to help us get an idea of a current locale or at least

:

01:34:52,108 --> 01:34:55,190

where he went after the library.

:

01:34:55,190 --> 01:34:56,359

Seems like it might be helpful.

:

01:34:56,359 --> 01:34:58,333

from you, Agent Magpie?

:

01:34:59,317 --> 01:35:00,759

Or bureaucracy?

:

01:35:01,362 --> 01:35:02,102

Or...

:

01:35:02,730 --> 01:35:03,670

you tell me which one.

:

01:35:03,670 --> 01:35:07,430

I guess it succeeded on both of those.

:

01:35:08,050 --> 01:35:10,070

33 for bureaucracy.

:

01:35:10,431 --> 01:35:15,455

Yeah, um you've got his license plate number.

:

01:35:15,455 --> 01:35:24,364

If you can get somebody in the Washington Department of Transportation to check the toll

roads, you'll have a pretty good idea.

:

01:35:24,364 --> 01:35:25,956

Are there toll roads in Washington?

:

01:35:25,956 --> 01:35:27,186

Yes, right?

:

01:35:27,647 --> 01:35:29,228

Great, good enough.

:

01:35:29,929 --> 01:35:31,510

I have never been.

:

01:35:32,327 --> 01:35:33,312

Ugh, you're missing out.

:

01:35:33,312 --> 01:35:34,385

It's beautiful.

:

01:35:41,006 --> 01:35:34,791

mean, all right.

:

01:35:34,791 --> 01:35:43,712

Well, perhaps we just put in a call to somebody who, a contact that works in an office

somewhere and see if they can't get certain true footage.

:

01:35:43,902 --> 01:35:48,109

Yeah, Magpie, think that's a good idea, especially with him being, you know, having

dementia.

:

01:35:48,109 --> 01:35:59,023

I worry he may even like, you know, taking a fall somewhere confused, lost, found, maybe

dead at this point, you know, just tracing something.

:

01:35:59,023 --> 01:36:01,786

Cause it doesn't sound like he was all together when.

:

01:36:03,544 --> 01:36:05,088

Amy talked to him, right?

:

01:36:05,088 --> 01:36:08,996

So it's hard to imagine he's working in the world normally.

:

01:36:09,386 --> 01:36:16,574

Right, it could be, at a normal day, perhaps almost silver alert territory, but I don't

know if we want to get all sirens raised.

:

01:36:17,060 --> 01:36:19,268

Yeah, that's a good point.

:

01:36:22,060 --> 01:36:25,996

uh Miles, find anything on that security footage while we were driving over here?

:

01:36:25,996 --> 01:36:27,538

You spool through that?

:

01:36:27,813 --> 01:36:37,881

Yeah, I was just gonna say, I think that would be a starting point is looking to see which

way he went from the library and how he looked if they emailed it to me.

:

01:36:38,930 --> 01:36:43,604

uh You did get an email while you were uh scrubbing back and forth.

:

01:36:43,604 --> 01:36:44,478

Yeah.

:

01:36:46,892 --> 01:36:48,547

Yeah, anything of note.

:

01:36:49,786 --> 01:37:02,253

Well, they sent you the cameras from inside the library, which are mostly near the foyer,

the entrance way, and in the stairwells.

:

01:37:02,253 --> 01:37:07,194

They aren't any in like the main reading areas or in the stacks.

:

01:37:07,194 --> 01:37:08,875

um

:

01:37:10,874 --> 01:37:20,025

Yeah, you get from one of the sort of street cameras right outside the library, you get a

pretty good shot of him hopping into his car and heading south.

:

01:37:21,049 --> 01:37:23,851

Same car we already knew about correct same plate.

:

01:37:23,851 --> 01:37:28,615

Okay heading south um Mole Does this guy?

:

01:37:28,615 --> 01:37:34,048

Strike you is acting strange as he's walking to his car like anything you can pick up from

his body language

:

01:37:34,048 --> 01:37:35,728

Yeah, yeah.

:

01:37:35,888 --> 01:37:39,028

Would that be, would it be cool to roll a human to look to see?

:

01:37:39,028 --> 01:37:49,048

Specifically, think, yeah, I think like specifically what I'm looking for is A, that

behavior we were talking about before, him staring, him looking, and then B, just maybe an

:

01:37:49,048 --> 01:37:51,208

overall sense of where he's at.

:

01:37:51,208 --> 01:37:55,488

know, somebody with dementia could be able to drive, could not be able to drive.

:

01:37:55,488 --> 01:37:56,428

It's such a spectrum.

:

01:37:56,428 --> 01:37:59,068

It'd be good to get a sense of where he is.

:

01:37:59,708 --> 01:38:00,928

It's 60.

:

01:38:01,943 --> 01:38:03,689

Yeah, why don't you roll that for me?

:

01:38:03,689 --> 01:38:07,839

You're going to get some information regardless, but if you pass, you'll get some more.

:

01:38:08,128 --> 01:38:10,194

56 on a 60.

:

01:38:10,233 --> 01:38:11,348

That's pretty nice.

:

01:38:11,348 --> 01:38:15,441

Yeah, he is displaying all the behaviors that.

:

01:38:16,890 --> 01:38:19,032

ah Amy told you about.

:

01:38:19,032 --> 01:38:20,794

He is twitchy.

:

01:38:20,794 --> 01:38:23,576

He is visibly nervous.

:

01:38:23,576 --> 01:38:26,020

He's literally checking over his shoulder.

:

01:38:26,020 --> 01:38:31,790

He keeps looking back as if someone might be following him.

:

01:38:31,790 --> 01:38:32,706

He...

:

01:38:32,706 --> 01:38:33,686

Somebody...

:

01:38:33,867 --> 01:38:42,458

It's hard to tell what makes him do this, but while he's out on the sidewalk, he crouches

down really fast.

:

01:38:42,458 --> 01:38:43,960

almost like he's hitting the deck.

:

01:38:43,960 --> 01:38:47,904

Maybe somebody slammed a car door or a car backfired or something.

:

01:38:48,906 --> 01:38:52,888

He's walking without any trouble.

:

01:38:53,488 --> 01:39:03,796

He's not weaving and he's not stumbling, but he is shaking, jittery, and afraid.

:

01:39:05,829 --> 01:39:13,256

And to be clear, it's more that he looks like he's trying, he's looking around, you know,

is in this almost paranoid state.

:

01:39:13,256 --> 01:39:17,701

It's not that he's responding to like internal stimuli of things that aren't there, right?

:

01:39:17,701 --> 01:39:21,986

Like it's not like he's turning and looking and talking directly to something else or.

:

01:39:21,986 --> 01:39:33,653

he doesn't talk directly to something else, but he does respond to a stimulus that you do

not see out there in the street when he sort of crouches down.

:

01:39:34,233 --> 01:39:39,151

He only does it for a second and he gets back up and keeps going to his car.

:

01:39:39,151 --> 01:39:40,012

Right, right.

:

01:39:40,012 --> 01:39:48,228

But that's something where you could say, maybe PTSD and somebody slammed a car door or

something like that, as opposed to like, yeah, talking with like another person or

:

01:39:48,228 --> 01:39:48,665

something.

:

01:39:48,665 --> 01:39:49,037

Okay.

:

01:39:49,037 --> 01:39:55,855

does not seem to be in any way that you can tell delirious.

:

01:39:55,855 --> 01:39:56,443

Hmm.

:

01:39:56,443 --> 01:39:57,972

Okay, got it.

:

01:39:59,496 --> 01:40:01,702

If that is what you were, is that what you were looking for?

:

01:40:01,702 --> 01:40:02,063

Yeah.

:

01:40:02,063 --> 01:40:02,554

Okay.

:

01:40:02,554 --> 01:40:09,640

you know, because like when you see somebody who's like either having a psychotic break or

something and they're responding to something that's not there, they're talking to

:

01:40:09,640 --> 01:40:11,761

somebody else, they're having a conversation.

:

01:40:11,761 --> 01:40:13,039

It's not something like that.

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01:40:13,039 --> 01:40:17,044

no, his mouth is not moving when there is nobody around.

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01:40:17,445 --> 01:40:23,446

He's not talking to himself and he's not talking to anybody that you cannot see.

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01:40:23,579 --> 01:40:38,086

the car when it drives off erratic or takes off kind of smoothly is it okay yeah looks

like he was doing the same kind of thing I look jittery jumpy I'm not seeing anything else

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01:40:38,868 --> 01:40:40,398

you still drive too

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01:40:40,398 --> 01:40:46,768

Just imagine being just crazy enough that you get somebody called on you and now you're

being gang stalked.

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01:40:46,768 --> 01:40:52,216

So like you were paranoid before and then you get put on a list and now you're in it for

real.

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01:40:54,133 --> 01:40:56,640

Yeah, it's almost like he brought it upon himself.

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01:40:57,646 --> 01:40:59,213

I have to roll San.

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01:40:59,720 --> 01:41:00,182

Yeah.

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01:41:00,182 --> 01:41:01,383

Incredible.

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01:41:01,645 --> 01:41:07,934

Yeah, so anybody know anybody at the Department of Transportation that we can call?

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01:41:08,139 --> 01:41:09,784

Maybe Madison would know someone.

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01:41:09,784 --> 01:41:15,004

probably get a couple favors.

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01:41:15,004 --> 01:41:18,504

I know a couple people from my time.

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01:41:19,264 --> 01:41:22,149

I'd probably want to roll a bureaucracy for that if that's okay.

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01:41:22,149 --> 01:41:23,578

I, yeah, absolutely.

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01:41:23,578 --> 01:41:25,124

Give me that bureaucracy.

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01:41:26,125 --> 01:41:28,053

57 on a 70.

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01:41:28,188 --> 01:41:28,328

:

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01:41:28,328 --> 01:41:34,037

Yeah, one of your acquaintances, babysitter's dad works at WDOT.

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01:41:34,037 --> 01:41:35,359

Couple of phone calls.

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01:41:35,359 --> 01:41:37,832

What sort of information are you looking for?

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01:41:38,663 --> 01:41:48,307

ah I think specifically we're looking to see if there have been any reports of anything

having to do with this dude's license plate, right?

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01:41:48,307 --> 01:41:52,330

I think that's actually that's probably the biggest thing we'd be asking from Department

of Transportation.

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01:41:52,330 --> 01:42:00,173

And then I don't think we want to put, do you guys think we would want to put out

something specifically asking them to look for that?

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01:42:00,173 --> 01:42:04,156

Or I think that that's a little much, uh quite honestly.

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01:42:04,156 --> 01:42:06,023

attention that we don't want right now.

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01:42:06,023 --> 01:42:06,984

I think so too.

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01:42:06,984 --> 01:42:12,908

It's maybe something to keep in our pocket if we need to like, you know, catch up with

this guy at some point.

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01:42:12,908 --> 01:42:17,122

But I think at this point it would just be, has he had any run-ins with the law

specifically?

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01:42:17,122 --> 01:42:22,015

And then has that car been seen anywhere or any, you know, illegal activity?

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01:42:23,187 --> 01:42:26,718

No warrants out, no bulletins out.

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01:42:26,718 --> 01:42:29,495

What are you telling the WDOT manager?

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01:42:30,974 --> 01:42:33,695

Yeah, I should probably come up with more.

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01:42:33,695 --> 01:42:39,775

Yeah, think the stock is probably just that FBI looking at a case that crosses lines.

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01:42:39,775 --> 01:42:43,975

We're at FBI looking at a case that's crossing state lines.

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01:42:43,975 --> 01:42:45,755

It's pretty hush hush right now.

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01:42:46,756 --> 01:42:48,297

Seems pretty good to me.

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01:42:48,560 --> 01:42:55,672

Does Washington have toll passes that you can, yeah.

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01:42:55,672 --> 01:42:56,843

What's that called?

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01:42:57,442 --> 01:42:58,160

Good to go.

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01:42:58,160 --> 01:42:59,340

it the good to go?

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01:42:59,340 --> 01:43:00,467

Yeah, that's right.

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01:43:00,467 --> 01:43:01,547

Good to go.

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01:43:01,934 --> 01:43:08,480

you know, they had his good to go pay a couple of tolls on I-90 a few days ago.

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01:43:08,480 --> 01:43:11,282

Let's see.

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01:43:11,282 --> 01:43:13,856

Yeah, nothing since.

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01:43:13,856 --> 01:43:17,823

Nothing since the 27th.

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01:43:17,823 --> 01:43:19,886

And I'm assuming that was all westbound then.

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01:43:19,886 --> 01:43:22,852

So coming east from, okay.

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01:43:22,852 --> 01:43:25,064

Okay.

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01:43:25,064 --> 01:43:31,784

Oh, is the timing of that like he had come out towards where we are and then has now

returned back?

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01:43:32,290 --> 01:43:34,658

Uh, yeah, it seems that way.

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01:43:36,642 --> 01:43:37,186

Well, guys.

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01:43:37,186 --> 01:43:40,161

And how long ago was that toll coming back?

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01:44:27,466 --> 01:43:47,044

so he showed up for his appointment in the afternoon.

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01:43:47,885 --> 01:43:52,469

He spent probably two or three hours.

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01:43:52,469 --> 01:43:56,010

Oh no, we actually established that.

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01:43:56,791 --> 01:44:04,096

Two hours and 40 minutes taking photographs, got in his car and drove back.

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01:44:04,096 --> 01:44:09,818

So he arrived at 6 p.m., left at 8.40 and

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01:44:09,818 --> 01:44:13,350

drove for three hours and some odd minutes.

:

01:44:13,966 --> 01:44:16,816

So he's not wandering around Seattle or something like that.

:

01:44:16,816 --> 01:44:19,976

He's straight up back where as far as we can tell.

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01:44:20,546 --> 01:44:24,717

He had a clear and distinct goal in mind.

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01:44:25,719 --> 01:44:28,428

Well, all of that just to tell us what we already knew.

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01:44:28,428 --> 01:44:30,613

We gotta go to Lake Chelan, guys.

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01:44:31,098 --> 01:44:32,506

Yep, looks like it.

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01:44:32,506 --> 01:44:34,805

But hey, at least we know we're going the right direction now.

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01:44:34,805 --> 01:44:36,117

That's right.

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01:44:36,117 --> 01:44:37,606

Driver, step on it.

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01:44:38,138 --> 01:44:39,222

kitty up.

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As the arbiter of the game's reality, Nick presents a world where the Unnatural is not just a monster to be fought, but a complex, indifferent force with its own ancient logic. His scenarios are built around deep, interconnected lore, weaving together threads of rogue government agencies, alien biology, and human folly. He guides his players through investigations that are as much about uncovering terrifying truths as they are about the psychological and moral erosion of the agents themselves, ensuring that every choice has weight and every victory comes at a profound cost. His focus is on crafting a deeply immersive and unsettling narrative experience, where the true horror is often found in the quiet moments just before the storm breaks.