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Sam as Mull

Jimmy as Moorison

Jordan as Magpie

Nick as Miles

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Imagine the terror of death that does not end with the grave.

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In the Roman mind, to live was to be remembered.

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To be forgotten was the true final annihilation.

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Damnatio memore was not just a simple execution.

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It was a forensic scrubbing of a human soul from the fabric of reality.

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It was a haunting state-sponsored gaslighting of the future.

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Imagine waking up to the sounds of hammers against the city walls, knowing that as your

blood cools, every record of your laughter, every decree you sign, and every monument to

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your existence is being systematically pulverized into dust.

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It's the horror of being unexisted, of having your face chiseled off a family portrait

until you are nothing but a gray smudge.

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A ghost denied even the dignity of a name.

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This wasn't just about removing a person.

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It was about mutilating the memory of everyone who had ever knew them.

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It was a violent, public amputation of history.

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When the Senate decreed this condemnation of memory, they were telling the citizens that

their eyes just deceived them, that the man that they had cheered for in the streets had

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never truly been there.

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There is a primal, existential dread in seeing a bronze statue, once a symbol of absolute

power, toppled and dragged through the mud to be melted down into chamber pots.

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Excuse me.

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Yeah, um, sorry, but this is, uh, bio 305.

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Uh, this must be the wrong lecture hall?

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Maybe?

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ah

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Okay.

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It is 3.30 now.

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Actually, you guys get there a little late since you had to do all that.

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is when 3.40, 3.30 rolls around, mull in the car, you got a text from Dr.

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Irene Kramer saying he has made his appointment.

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Do you think that we should just text her back and say, how does he look?

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Or do think we just show up?

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You know, if he's there for an appointment he's not been doing well, I don't want to spook

him.

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Maybe just ask her like, is he stable?

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Is now a good time?

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Yeah, I think I text back, he stable looking?

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Yeah, you get a text back.

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It says, stable, yes.

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See me after appointment, 430.

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I just sit back, I, okay.

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Can we real quick look around to see, since we put out, or we did like the tracking thing

with Department of Transportation, like do I see a vehicle that has his license plate?

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Right out front is his car.

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uh Model.

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For sure.

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You can tell me if I wouldn't have this, but as part of my intro, when I said I air tagged

all of my trainees and made them like do a certain number.

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Can I throw that in his vehicle?

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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How are you getting it into the vehicle?

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You know, I think I kinda like look around to see if there's anyone walking.

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I nonchalantly watch, walk over and then I, I don't know, maybe use my pocket knife to

like pop the gas door open.

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I unscrew the gas cap, stick it in like the top.

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You know how the gas cap has like the little like plastic ring?

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I like stick it in there and maybe just like, I don't know, use my gum.

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You know, or whatever.

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Basically just stick it in the gas cap somehow, put the gas cap back on.

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close the thing and yeah

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Not fucking around with the gas lid, that won't ever, like, have any problems.

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Sure.

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What's the, what is the parking lot look like?

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Are there a lot of people in there?

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Like, do you think we could potentially get like look into his car without being noticed

or and is it parked like?

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This is street parking.

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You are parked behind his car.

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No, you aren't parked at all.

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You're on...

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on two legs.

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Ah, do you think we...

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Should we try to look in his car, Or do you want to just...

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What do you want to do?

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I'm happy to ambush the guy.

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I don't feel like that's going to work super well.

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Yeah, I mean, I don't think we ambush him.

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Directives are we need to find out who he's working with, what he's doing, and talk to

him.

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Theoretically, we do need to capture, but I don't know, is jumping a guy in broad daylight

outside a clinic is necessarily a good way to go about things.

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ah

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Kramer had said that she felt like this was maybe a neutral territory for him.

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So he could also do it that way.

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My concern is that I think all my shit's going to fall apart immediately there because,

you know, I don't have any actual police stuff to back any of that up.

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Yeah, you know, maybe we ask her if she can talk to him about answering some questions for

us after, you know, after their appointment's done.

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Cause us just busting into his therapy appointment's probably not going to go well either.

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yeah, I don't think that's gonna work, oh whatsoever.

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Okay.

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uh

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I have a feeling he's gonna get somewhat aggressive if we approach really in any manner

from what I, you know, from talking with Kramer.

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Could I get alertness from both?

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You as a 67 on

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pretty sure.

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that box, mo.

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It's a pass.

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91 on a 21.

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that box.

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Morrison, while you guys are talking, there's a guy been watching you.

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Uh, there's a, it's a, he's, he's a guy in a ratty sweatshirt.

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He's wearing like, really torn up tennis shoes.

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He's got really long stringy greasy hair.

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He looks, maybe he's unhoused.

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He's got a really scraggly beard and he's been looking at you this whole time.

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Half a block?

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Hmm, okay.

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Is there something I can just step behind to break his line of sight?

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Yeah, you can like step behind this car.

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Okay, yeah I do that.

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And then I wait for like, I don't know, 30 seconds to see if he comes.

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Yeah, he does.

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He does.

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He walks up to Mul now that Mul is standing alone.

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uh I step back out and I say, hey friend, see something you like?

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Yeah, man.

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um listen.

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You gotta listen to me, man.

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I uh had a dream.

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I think I've been having it for a long time now.

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But I had it last night again.

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I only remembered it now, but I was supposed to come here.

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And when I come here, I can kill everyone.

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And when I do that, I feel better in the dream.

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But I don't want to do that.

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Yeah, I think that's a good idea.

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And I, can I do an ocular pat down search?

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He pulls out a gun.

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Let's do this.

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eh Could I with a human, do you think I could get a sense of is this brandishing a weapon

with the idea that he's just going to that he's uh committed to shooting?

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It's really, think my question, quite honestly, that's a 62 on a fucking 60.

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OK, well, there.

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I already spent my one luck.

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It really truly is.

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You wanna do human, Jimmy?

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Sure, mine's really poor, but I can try.

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I do not pass.

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hoodie front pocket.

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Yeah, he's holding a gun now.

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Saying, I've been alone.

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I was supposed to use this, but I don't want to.

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I think we see Mull say, hey friend, I know that you're probably going through something.

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I've been there before.

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I think it's really important to think through what you're about to do.

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We actually work pretty closely with some of our mental health associates here outside of

this clinic.

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We're pretty interested in helping people out.

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I'd be interested in hearing what's making you feel this way.

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You know, that's possible, but this violence isn't gonna stop it.

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What's gonna stop it is talking about it.

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And I think it's you and I and maybe my friend over here should sit down and put that gun

down.

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73 on an ADO, thank

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Yeah, he reaches the gun out towards you.

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peanuts.

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trading this and I just take the gun from you and like, know, remove all the ammunition

and just put it in my pack.

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the

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The safety was off.

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This guy had it off in his pocket.

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Thanks.

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Yeah, we're happy to help, friend.

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We're actually here to meet with Dr.

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Kramer, who is a therapist.

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So you've come to the right place.

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Do you think that we could set you up with her, maybe?

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She could get you talking?

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I'm gonna go home.

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uh Before you go, tell us a little bit about these dreams.

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Do you think talking about it would help get it out?

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told you.

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The dream's the same every time.

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I come here, I take the gun out, and I kill everyone.

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It's always the same.

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I live in Seattle.

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I spent my last few bucks getting ride shares over here, because I knew that if I followed

the dream, it'd be done.

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It's like, have you ever been stuck in a loop?

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And you just know if you complete that one action, if you finish that one, if it just puts

that last piece in place, you can just...

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it'll be over?

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Yeah.

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Yeah, it's that.

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Anyways, thanks.

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Sure, nice to meet you Mark, I'm Chase.

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Thanks, Chase.

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Hole has walked away.

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oh How we feeling about that?

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I'm worried he's gonna come back.

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He kind of explicitly said he would, so...

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Yeah.

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Actually, think as Hole is walking away, let me weigh out.

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I'm not very good at being somebody who's just like a giant dick, but that's how I wrote

this guy.

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So uh I kind of feel like Hole, as he's walking away, would maybe try to take a picture of

the guy, quite honestly, now that he's disarmed him.

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And feels like even if that were to piss him off, he would just come physically attack us.

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He knows we both are, or at least he knows he's carrying a weapon.

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Mortis, do you normally carry a weapon on you?

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I currently have three weapons on me.

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Two.

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Three.

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knives.

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think he'd be pretty safe feeling like we'll take care of this.

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So, oh, nice.

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Okay.

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Yeah, I think I see you take the picture and I'm like, yeah, all I could think to do is

pop him in the back of the head, but killing the guy in the middle of the street is

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probably not good, so better idea.

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Hmm.

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Yeah, I liked what you were doing, but this is a little cleaner, I think.

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Yeah.

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You gonna send that to the police?

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Yeah, at some point, I guess maybe we can run it through like uh the FBI's.

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I don't know, something.

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He's like, don't fucking know, man.

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I'm a corporate.

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Cool if any of were involved in the FBI.

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Yeah, that's really unhelpful to be a non-agent person.

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So that's a good learning point.

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Any of you.

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Any of you.

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Sucks to suck.

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I think you suggested it and we just chose to do different, so that's all.

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I'm a bike.

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yet.

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Yep.

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I can ski really fast and shoot really well and I don't know what the fuck else I do.

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Alright, well, ah yeah, we should probably let the police know that this guy was planning

to shoot up a clinic, so, you know.

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Yeah, we can maybe circle back on that after we finish talking with this Or figure out

what's happening with Roger Douglas again back to Roger Douglas.

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Do Did we I'm a little I'm honestly I'm a little nervous.

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He's gonna have a freak out here uh Well, I don't know about seeing guys he doesn't know

who we are but if we confront him about anything so

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He used to be with the program.

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ah it seems...

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you.

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He's going around, uh you know, doing program stuff.

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If he's got dementia, maybe he's trying to like complete some mission or he thinks he's

like, you know, out on an opera or whatever.

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Maybe if we just convince the doctor to let us talk to him alone a little bit and we tell

him like, hey, look, man, we're all on the same team here.

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Maybe we can fix this together.

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You know, I'm happy to try that if you think it's gonna work.

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I'm a little more inclined just to let him go and watch what he does now that we've got a

tracker on his car and that we know where he's going, quite honestly.

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But I'm happy to sit in a room with him and try to get some information from him if you

think it would help.

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Yeah, you know, I think with just the two of us being here and us not having a car,

probably not confronting him is the best way to go.

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We've got the tracker.

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We can find out where he went.

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We can get a little bit more information about what happened at his house whenever we

talked to Magpie and Miles.

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um

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And we can follow up with Kramer, she said she wants to meet the Doc.

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Yeah, exactly.

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So I think we just hang out here, maybe, you know, pop a squat in the waiting room or

whatever, see what happens.

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then after his appointment's done, we talk to the good doc.

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think, um, Mole is looking for like one of the newspaper dispenser things so that he can

have like a newspaper sitting up in front of him while he sits in the waiting room.

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just to kind of sit there.

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and, and then probably we just go in.

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I think I'd grab newspaper, um, be like, you okay just sitting here and waiting with any

Morrison?

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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You know, the dream thing's weird.

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You know, that guy was coming here to kill people.

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He said he was doing it because he had a dream.

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I'm kind of wondering if the girl at the gas station and the guy driving that F-150 in the

park didn't maybe, you know, have the same thing.

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Hey Jimmy, can I get a power check?

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Hey Sam, can I get a power check?

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17 which uh

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24, which is a pass on my...

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uh

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please proceed.

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I do think that, quite honestly, uh, Mole is like, hey, Morrison, I get it, but, uh, maybe

try not to think too hard about this.

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We got three things we need to get done, and the more you think about it, the worse off

you are.

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It's not like I've ever, you know, thought my way out of one of these things.

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So, I get what you're saying.

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I'm pretty happy that you're, you're doing this, but I feel like that's the dangerous

route to go down with all this.

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Yeah, that's the advice I just gave Miles before they left.

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So maybe I should listen to myself.

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uh know I just said I should follow my own advice, but uh I'm going to not follow it one

more time.

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One of our objectives was to find out who he might be working with.

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And I don't think he's working with these people per se, but maybe the same thing that's

happened to him has happened to them.

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Maybe there's a connection.

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Maybe we uh put a word into Madison and see if someone can track any

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you know, random acts of violence in other places around the area.

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Okay, think Mole like walks in.

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Seriously.

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right.

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Yeah, I follow you.

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I mean, I think he gives you a nod, but em I think Mo walks in.

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Did ever take the new cell phone back from whoever?

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I gave it to.

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I reckon you must die.

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Yeah, I probably just while we're sitting there in the waiting room I text Madison like

hey, you know put a word out for any acts of random violence.

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Let us know

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Yeah, like in the Seattle and the...

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Chalane area, yeah.

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You get a thumbs up emotion.

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Um, what's the waiting room like?

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Is it, what's the clientele?

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Is it higher end, not so higher end, a mix?

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What do think?

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Well, it's not really...

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It's by appointment only, so there isn't really anyone waiting.

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Expect the next patient is going to be in shortly before their appointment, but ah you are

halfway between sessions now, so it's just you.

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But it's a nice little place.

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It's cozy.

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There's no TV, but there are magazines.

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uh...

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next to comfy chairs

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Is there a front desk person that we would talk to?

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Yeah, sure.

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Yeah, I'm trying to think if there's anything we'd actually want to know.

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Morrison, do you think there's anything we could glean from this?

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don't, my sense is we should just sit here and kind of wait to see if we can get us see

him and

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Yeah, I was trying to think of the same thing.

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We've already got someone with a bunch of information who's waiting to talk to us and

willing.

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I guess we should probably talk about our story.

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She already knows you.

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Yeah, maybe I just sit out in the waiting room while you talk to her.

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I mean, I'm happy if that's what you want to do.

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Happy to go in there by myself and talk with her.

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You look at introduce you as my partner.

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Yeah, let's do that.

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I think hopefully she'll take that.

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Yeah, I think so.

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I was Officer Harrison, so...

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Um, yeah, I'll be Officer Linus.

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noise.

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We gonna good cop bad cop this situation or what?

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Maybe we just try to normal it, you know?

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Good cop, good cop goes a long way too.

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and

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Yeah, that's kind of what I'm thinking

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Uh, not sure you really know me then, Morrison.

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I- Not really, Miss Dial.

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I know it's not, I'm asking you to try, bud.

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I think he pulls out the paper and starts reading the paper waiting for to see if we can

get a catch of Roger Douglas I guess actually before we pause what for that I do think

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that like he puts up the paper and then puts it down and he's like It is it crazy to not

just fucking tackle this guy and take him with us I mean we had this the whole thing was

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we were supposed to figure out what's happening with him We have him in front of us.

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Is this

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You know, part of me wants to do that.

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Part of me also doesn't want to draw the attention of just tackling a guy in front of

everyone.

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And what are we gonna do with him?

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Drag him into his own car and drive off?

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I think Mole literally just looks at you and nods like, yeah, like is should we do that?

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Yes.

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It's two birds one stone,

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Correct.

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That's literally what I'm asking you here, Morrison.

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I feel like sometimes I make really stupid decisions, uh more so lately, so I'm just

trying to get a gauge here of how stupid that is.

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you know if we do that we probably won't be able to talk to the doctor.

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Um, if we tackle him, what's our story?

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He made a threatening move?

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Actually, I've got this extra gun.

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I could just plant it on him.

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He's got a gun!

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how we could.

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Now, I'm obviously the handler, but I have a question about your plan.

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Why aren't you just holding a gun to him and saying get in the car?

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Yeah, we could.

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That seems to

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you actually going to tackle him?

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It had crossed my mind to break into his car, sit in the back seat, and then when he gets

in, just pop up and put the gun to the back of his head.

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But it's probably hard for two dudes to do that.

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Yeah, maybe.

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did cross my mind that I do that while Mole stays here and talks to the doctor.

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But that further splits the party.

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Does Morrison say that out loud?

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Yeah.

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Moll is like, what the fuck, dude?

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You were holding out on me?

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That sounds fucking awesome.

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Why aren't we doing that?

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My name

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All right, let's do it.

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I just stand up I'm like and walk back out and I'm not sure how I'm gonna break into his

car though

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criminology.

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uh

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I don't have much in that.

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Jimmy into his car in broad daylight.

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Nope, I failed.

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39.

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Yeah, so you try-

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the code hanger trick, but you don't have a code hanger, so you thought maybe you could do

it with a shoelace, but it's really not working.

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oh

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Maybe have a second try to Jimmy DeLock on account his name is Jimmy Sure

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Why not?

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Oh.

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fuck, that's a six on a ten.

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Yeah, you know, the shoelace really just needed persistence.

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Yeah.

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That's what I'm saying, you just gotta try again sometimes, honestly.

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Just gotta try again!

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Yeah, you had a little noose on the end of the shoelace and you get it hooked around

the...

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Octave and you're just as surprised as Moe that this...

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uh

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Like you both look at each other like, huh

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Yeah, we high five.

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Yeah.

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uh Kind of retroactively

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56 on 70.

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uh

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So Mul is like sort of leaning there and like sort of stretching in front of the...

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He's got his newspaper and somebody comes up, it's like, what's going on?

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He's like, nothing, nothing.

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What's up

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I'm like, buy low, sell high.

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And I have my like, uh newspaper that I've like unfolded.

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Yeah, okay.

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Sure, you're in his car.

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And I guess is the stealth to not only like get in without being noticed but to like hide

behind the seat so that he doesn't sure okay just

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Do we just want, okay, I'm glad that this we totally changed the plan on Magpie and Miles.

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This is excellent.

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Am I going to be in there as well or should I go and wait for him and follow him?

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What do we think?

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I'll say that in character.

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Morrison, looks like you're pretty snug back there.

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Do you think I should go back in and watch and wait for him or it's, I don't know if both

of us are gonna fit back there.

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could pop the trunk and you could hide back there.

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This does prevent us from talking to the doctor though so maybe you stay and talk to her.

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I'll stay, I'll talk to the doctor.

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We'll, yep, that's a good plan.

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Be clear.

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No, yeah.

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Uh, yeah, so I think Mole walks back into the place and just sits again with his newspaper

and his watching, so...

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Alright, yeah.

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30 minutes tick by.

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The next appointment comes in.

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Morrison gets a text.

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It's from Irene Kramer.

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It says, come in.

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Come in.

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Hmm, uh I forward that text to Mole.

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Or you- yeah, you got mics on.

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You just say, now.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Okay.

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I think I get up and non-gelently stride to the door with my best business power kind of

posing and open How does he keep it so...

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casual.

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Yeah, you walk into room.

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It's got uh three large stuffed chairs.

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In one of them is a middle aged woman, um long black hair.

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And in the other is a rather scruffy man that you recognize as Roger Douglas.

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Hi, I'm Dr.

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Kramer.

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I believe we spoke on the phone.

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She stands up to shake your hand.

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The ultimate splitting the party and-

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It really is.

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uh

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Have Roger Douglas.

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um Hey Dr.

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Kramer, it's good to meet you.

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And who do we have over here?

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Oh, Roger, hi.

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And then I think I shake his hand.

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uh Is it okay if I sit down?

437

Yeah, please.

438

Give me a human.

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Yeah, I was trying to figure out a way if I could humint if she would like go along with a

lie, but I feel like that's a little too complicated.

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43 on a 60.

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Uh, Roger is staring at you pretty intently.

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Roger, it's, I wanted to sit down with Dr.

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Kramer here and have a discussion with you.

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em we, my number one goal here is to hear you out.

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And I hope that you understand that.

446

Um, it sounds like you're in a very difficult position and we were called because people

are worried about you.

447

And I, I wanted to hear what was going on with you.

448

I'm really here to help you with Dr.

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Kramer.

450

What's been going on lately?

451

Nothing unusual.

452

Nothing unusual, huh?

453

Yeah.

454

Kramer responding or Douglas responding?

455

No, that's Douglas.

456

Douglas says there's nothing unusual.

457

Mm-hmm.

458

Mm-hmm.

459

Yeah, you know, you look like, uh, you look like somebody I used to work with.

460

Really?

461

Yeah.

462

Who's that?

463

I do, I kinda have one of those faces if you know what I mean.

464

People see, who was that?

465

I'm someone I used to work with.

466

You know, you really remind we should chat after this, you know?

467

Sure, sure.

468

I'd love to chat right now.

469

I'd kind of like to hear you.

470

I know you said that nothing outside of the usual is happening for you.

471

No, I've been really sick.

472

I've got this thing going on, and he's looking at Irene.

473

I've got this thing going on, and mental health and all that.

474

It's more of the same.

475

Nothing has changed.

476

Nothing unusual has happened.

477

Yeah, I'm sorry it couldn't be more help.

478

No, that's okay.

479

You know, I'm trying to like, I'm really trying to measure out, because although I have a

lot of persuade and humane and stuff, I do not feel like Agent Mole is particularly in

480

tune with the emotional side of things.

481

If that makes sense.

482

He's far more like reading you for business reasons.

483

I think he can definitely get a sense that this person is not in a good space, but I

really don't know how much he would feel comfortable delving into something.

484

like that without Kramer uh stepping in.

485

Yeah.

486

So curiously are there any reactions perhaps that Kramer has that betrays the significance

of what Douglas is saying right like a commentary on how normal things are

487

Sure?

488

I get a sense of what Kramer's response to that is,

489

I, Kramer, really surprised.

490

Like re-prized.

491

I think that I may turn to Dr.

492

Kramer and say, Dr.

493

Kramer, is that, do you feel like everything's been about status quo for him at this

point?

494

Roger, you've been telling me about how much trouble you're in and how worried you are.

495

at this point, Roger is like shaking his head like, no, shush, this is fine.

496

And Roger says, OK, listen, I'm not comfortable with this.

497

I'm sorry.

498

I'll talk to either one of you alone, but I'm not going to talk to either both of you

together.

499

I'm sorry, I'm...

500

This is too much.

501

Dr.

502

Kramer, would it be okay if we sat here together a couple minutes?

503

And Roger, if you're comfortable with that, em I have some questions that, quite honestly,

I'd rather ask you alone if that's okay.

504

em Dr.

505

Kramer, if you step out, if you don't feel comfortable with Dr.

506

Kramer, that's totally fine too.

507

eh

508

Yuck.

509

Okay.

510

I'll be right on the other side of...

511

Well, I'll be in the waiting room, okay?

512

I'll be able to hear if anybody yells, so...

513

I think when Kramer, Moll does not stand up.

514

Moll's trying to very much portray like, cool, like we're just hanging out.

515

This is totally okay.

516

Let's Kramer get out of the room.

517

um And the minute she's out, I think he takes a different stance.

518

And that stance is he kind of leans forward.

519

He puts his hands together, almost like conspiratorial with him is what he's trying to

portray.

520

And he's like, hey, Roger.

521

I don't know what's going on with you man.

522

um What I do know is that I've been in position where I've been worried about maybe people

watching me and I want to help you.

523

You know me.

524

Yeah man.

525

What do you mean?

526

oh

527

We gotta go.

528

We gotta go.

529

We gotta go.

530

We gotta go now.

531

We gotta leave.

532

You gotta, listen, you gotta come to my house.

533

I have something to show you.

534

Come with me.

535

I think with hearing Mole knowing that he introduced himself as Officer Harrison, can I

get a humint on that?

536

I guess first off and then go ahead, I do think he's 23 on my 60.

537

He is looking real weird.

538

He's acting weird and you don't like it.

539

What are you looking to get from that human?

540

Um, my main thing is, do I feel like he is going to, uh, eminently cause me harm?

541

Um, or is...

542

Okay.

543

a three.

544

Holy shit, hell yeah.

545

3 is not going to do it.

546

Oddly enough.

547

I think that if he does not feel like that he's an imminent harm with this guy, um I think

he is probably, and hearing his own, his agent name, I think he's like, okay, I gotta go.

548

I'm happy.

549

You're taking me back to your place.

550

Is that right?

551

Knowing that A, Morrison is in the backseat and B, Miles and Magpie are at the house

currently.

552

I think he feels pretty comfortable being like, let's fucking go back there, man.

553

Like if some shit happens, we can do that.

554

Yeah, that sounds good.

555

um Does Kramer know about this?

556

And he kind of, you know, swirls his finger.

557

Yes, to a degree.

558

I gave her a uh dead man switch.

559

die.

560

uh Certain information will be released and I'm hopeful that it will ah help.

561

I'll tell you more.

562

We can't talk here.

563

Okay.

564

em With our, just, you, could, can Morrison hear this, do you think, or do you think I'd

have to like actively do something to get more-

565

I to actively do something, but I'll let you roll luck.

566

Okay.

567

And really, I am not even sure what I want.

568

That's a 16, so.

569

Part of me wants to say, like, stand down, Morrison, but another part of me is like, dude,

just fucking hide back.

570

If I- I would assume the way these things probably function is like I can't hear what he's

saying but I can hear what you're saying and I could probably glean the gist of what's

571

happening.

572

I was thinking like probably when you guys come get in the car I would let him sit and I

wouldn't like pop up gun to his head and say anything I would just point my pistol at the

573

back of the seat like roughly center mass so that if he tries anything I just blast him

through the seat.

574

Okay.

575

Yeah.

576

Yeah.

577

Roger.

578

That sounds great.

579

We're going to make it back to your car.

580

I'll let you take me there.

581

uh Back to your place.

582

It's safe there, right?

583

oh Okay.

584

Okay.

585

Okay.

586

Let's do it.

587

And then I think truly I think Moulk gets up and I think maybe in a show of knowing that

he with that human, he didn't see imminent danger.

588

I think he's trying to portray to some degree like

589

Okay, so he gets up first and starts walking and is like, let's go, you know?

590

Cool.

591

Okay.

592

When Kramer is on the outside, I guess, I think uh I'm like, uh Dr.

593

Kramer, uh Roger and I are gonna go have a discussion about everything that's gone down.

594

ah If you need to reach me, I'm happy to, you know, you know, anything.

595

I want to keep Roger safe.

596

I think this is probably the safest plan, just so you know.

597

Okay, well, if Roger is okay with this, then I am too, okay?

598

Okay, okay, and then I think we head to the call.

599

Roger gets in the car.

600

Yeah.

601

Roger gets in the front seat.

602

Do you happen to remember what your stealth check was, Morrison?

603

It does not matter.

604

I got a 96.

605

Not gonna do it.

606

Gets in the front seat and as soon as the door shuts, he starts talking.

607

He's talking about how like...

608

So I set up Dead Man Switch.

609

Will the there's there's too many heads and I can't handle it on my own.

610

I tried contacting the program, but you guys cut me off.

611

I'm so glad you're here.

612

This is I need your help.

613

We need I'll I'll show you everything.

614

It's it's you.

615

You need to trust me.

616

It'll be OK.

617

It'll be fine.

618

ah I'll I'll I'll show you when we get there.

619

And it it it it was.

620

You were there.

621

I think first, an attempt at kind of empathy, is repeating everything he's saying so that

it gets broadcasted as much as possible to Miles and Magpie so that they know.

622

know I mean?

623

Like he's like, when he says something like that, he kind of puts it back over.

624

you made a dead man switch.

625

Yeah, too many heads you say and we're heading back to your house and you're going to show

us that just so that everybody is on the same page with him.

626

ha- it, yeah.

627

It happened.

628

It happened.

629

What do mean?

630

What do you mean when you say I was I was there?

631

What's that?

632

Hello, legacy.

633

was when we...

634

It was there.

635

It was there.

636

You were there.

637

And, uh, does Morrison pop up at all during this?

638

Are you just gonna chill for the whole...

639

...dear drive?

640

Just imagine how much weirder it gets if you show off-

641

I know that's kind of what I'm like.

642

I don't want to like spook him You know, can I text mole and be like tell him I'm in the

backseat be like hey I don't want you to freak out but my partner's here, too

643

yeah, just so I guess full transparency here, because you have been pretty upfront with

me, we have somebody else here with us.

644

em another agent- They're here in the car with us.

645

Another agent.

646

you know, we didn't know what to expect.

647

You know you've been on these missions before.

648

You know you've done these things.

649

We did not know what to expect.

650

I understand you are in a bad place and we're truly trying to help you here.

651

So I would, I just, I'm trying to be as transparent as I can with you, And then we...

652

hand slowly reaches up and he sees it in the rear view and then I just wait

653

Uh, gimme alertness again, Mul.

654

Holy shit is 16 on a 21.

655

Hell yeah, his hand went to his side very quickly.

656

I think Mole is uh like, he doesn't like move to like disarm him at all.

657

He puts his hands like, I understand that this is scary and I understand who.

658

This is Agent Morrison behind me.

659

And I think because I think probably at this point, Mole is at least quasi has realized he

can potentially use this to his advantage.

660

Actually is what it is.

661

uh So this is Agent Morrison.

662

He's.

663

one of our guys.

664

You're aware?

665

Okay, so you know.

666

So, okay.

667

Can you elaborate on that?

668

Got it.

669

What should we call you, Agent?

670

Liam.

671

Nice to meet you.

672

Who's got the burner phone?

673

I do.

674

I do want to while we're driving, because we...

675

You've done all the transactions with Kramer from that phone, so she thinks it's your

phone.

676

I want to text her something to the effect of...

677

He's dead.

678

Target's done and then be like whoops wrong number

679

Yeah, no, something along the lines of like, ah the materials that he left with you may be

potentially dangerous.

680

We'll send someone to pick them up as soon as possible.

681

you don't get a response.

682

Yeah, I worried about that.

683

Yeah, you roll up to a house in front of a grade school.

684

There's an orchard out back.

685

uh He parks the car on the street instead of in the driveway.

686

what, if anything, do Agent Miles and I notice eh from the residents or nearabouts as they

687

up.

688

Give me alertness from the basement.

689

Yeah, is 89 good?

690

Is that a good?

691

87

692

Not- OHHHH

693

That's surprising to me because that is what I just rolled.

694

Check that box.

695

It's already checked for me.

696

How about you?

697

did- where has Miles been?

698

Sick.

699

Yep.

700

So I was thinking when we cut about or reading this mother Hydra thing and putting

together something about squid, Fosgene.

701

Were there any sand costs for that?

702

Yes.

703

Yeah.

704

Nick, before you do that, could I have one thing I think I would like to do when we're

getting out?

705

In that period of time when he's like opening his door and I'm imagining this and, Pedro,

tell me if this is wrong, I imagine he gets out in B lines a little bit waiting for us to

706

come around.

707

I do think that either myself or Morrison either, I mean, I think I would just quickly say

something like, somebody call Kramer and then like get out and try to like follow him

708

around to be the lead.

709

like his, you know, his handler basically, because I think that knowing that there was no

response, I would want to uh make sure that like something catastrophic hasn't happened.

710

Yeah.

711

Kramer, you mean.

712

Yeah, Kramer, Dr.

713

Kramer.

714

Yeah, I call.

715

Do we do the police scanner thing on this phone or can I do that on this phone?

716

Sure, but you're downloading an app onto a phone while you're walking into this guy's

house to have a conversation with him.

717

Yeah.

718

Yeah.

719

Hey!

720

On our little private network, however we've been communicating through walkie-talkies and

the like, has there been any heads up that these two are rolling our way- Yeah, alright.

721

I thought, Sam, you said that you like specifically-

722

know I would be the whole time like talking to him and like what I would be saying is like

so you know in between his ran Roger you live out here

723

on 45th Street uh

724

So you made a left on and like just like going through kind of that so you guys oh

725

Sir Wellow.

726

Yeah, we'll be trying to wrap that up and get to an easy exit if eh he's intent on coming

slamming in.

727

Is there anything we've been elbows deep in in the meantime searching?

728

depends on if you opened that laptop or not.

729

Yeah, he would have opened the laptop.

730

I interrupted your sand rule also, so sorry.

731

In which case...

732

Nick.

733

You...

734

Nick, there's two things you notice about this.

735

The first is there's a toggle switch manually installed on the side, drilled into the

machine.

736

Does it say Hunter Biden anywhere on the side?

737

It's just an important check, you'll understand.

738

Yeah, just in case.

739

Yeah, I don't know.

740

When I see that, my alarm bells would go off.

741

I'm paranoid about booby traps.

742

ah My alertness or my...

743

uh

744

I'll you roll computer science.

745

sure yeah let's see looking for under 60 got a 65 over yeah absolutely i'll spend my luck

yeah

746

Alright, uh that is positioned almost exactly over where a netbooks wifi card is.

747

Okay, yeah.

748

Is it off?

749

While it's off, I'll open it.

750

You open it up.

751

There's no login screen.

752

It just opens.

753

You get a driver error.

754

No Wi-Fi card detected.

755

The Wi-Fi turns on.

756

Crazy as dat.

757

Yeah, and I'm assuming the computer starts up or not.

758

computer was already on.

759

I just sent a little zip file in the chat.

760

If you want to unzip that somewhere on your computer and run the index.html

761

Yeah, in truth, for the record, I absolutely do not want to do this.

762

Uh, but as-

763

You do not have to.

764

Yeah, it's pretty sick.

765

I fucking love this.

766

Okay, wait is this Mylesnose Mandarin?

767

Yeah, he's Chinese language Mandarin.

768

Uh, you can just read this.

769

I don't know Mandarin, but when I clicked this button that just said English, it all

magically popped into a language I could read.

770

Don't auto-translate that, hey wait!

771

Okay, I won't, I won't.

772

It literally popped up and was like, do you want to turn this into English?

773

And I was like, yeah, why not?

774

My puzzle.

775

Okay, so this is like a...

776

it's a magic method relying on gestures to summon memories.

777

summon memories.

778

Yeah, my translator might be.

779

Do you have an English translation yourself or?

780

Uh, that is, uh, is definitely not to summon memories.

781

All right, regarding fuzzy memory here, I use a different translator.

782

Memory is an illusion.

783

The following is a magical method relying on hand gestures to negate that may negate

recollection.

784

Vague memories require no material components, but the gestures must be extremely precise.

785

Each gesture must be performed with in the correct rhythm and beat lasting the appropriate

duration.

786

The gesture must be completed with set.

787

Within seven seconds, passing through the head and flowing through the body, the first

gesture is made out of reverence.

788

The passage between memory and forgetting is the domain of laikisothos.

789

Therefore, we begin with a black right hand gesture, the sign of respect for the master.

790

The most difficult part of this gesture is the index and ring fingers.

791

The gesture must be held for less than a second.

792

Huh.

793

Do you me to read this whole thing?

794

You can if you like.

795

Hell yeah.

796

Yeah, the second gesture is to call upon the victim.

797

You must address the victim verbally.

798

You don't need to know their name, but you must address them verbally.

799

Raise your hand to your shoulder height, hold for two seconds, then make the gesture shown

in the image.

800

And it's holding down the ring finger.

801

The third gesture is drawn from top to bottom, held for little over three seconds.

802

Twist your wrist so that your palm is at a 50 degree angle to the ground.

803

The last gesture is a sweep.

804

It only lasts one second, and you must quickly flick your wrists.

805

And that's it.

806

The top should be links to home.

807

The rest of this is a, it appears to be a scrape of a Chinese blog about ritualism and

various other...

808

Hell yeah.

809

but it doesn't.

810

geometric gang signs is what we're getting at.

811

by Douglas, just practiced by him.

812

Yeah, okay, I'm definitely like taking notes down on this.

813

23 under.

814

Sounds good.

815

So anyways, you're elbow deep in that when the front door opens.

816

Yeah, um we- I would have gone to the backyard.

817

Well, no, I guess I would have- I would have been in the kitchen in the back.

818

Yeah.

819

Front door opens, and it's Roger Douglas followed by Morrison and Mull.

820

And I think you hear us loudly announcing ourselves, right?

821

Like, again, me just repeating what he says in a quite a bit louder than probably what

needs to be.

822

You have a beautiful entryway.

823

Yeah, a lovely front door.

824

Yes my shoes off.

825

Sorry

826

I would just know that like, it's, you know, like he's made a connection with you guys.

827

um And then just say, don't be alarmed.

828

um There are two other people here and I'll, unless Magpie took off, I don't think he did.

829

Then I'll step out.

830

Yeah, I didn't want to like talk over people, but I assumed when we like pulled up in park

and we're walking to the house, either Moll or I would have told him like, hey, there's

831

also two other agents in our cell.

832

They're meeting us here.

833

Yeah, I think so.

834

think that at this point, I'm like sucked in enough that I think I'm probably just gonna

be upfront with them about it and be like, Miles and Magpie are in there and we're gonna

835

just like let them know they're gonna come out slowly.

836

is easiest to break it that way.

837

Well, when he's got the four of you together, ah he detonates his vest.

838

No.

839

uh

840

You lose!

841

oh

842

He goes over to a shelf with a...

843

uh one of half a dozen banker boxes.

844

You all...

845

You were there.

846

With me.

847

We were there.

848

We were there on the island for High Low Legacy.

849

The four of you and me.

850

uh We went to San Juan Island for High Low Legacy.

851

We were sent there.

852

uh

853

You're saying high low legacy, is that right?

854

Key low.

855

Does this mean anything to me at all?

856

Um, do you look at the- he's trying to pass you, like, information, like, printouts and

shit from the bankers box.

857

He's pressing it, like, into your hands.

858

I don't know, I almost think I may pass it on to Morrison.

859

I may be trying to do the talking and be like, Hilo legacy, you say, yeah, let me more and

then he's just like, is, you know, trying to like pass it back.

860

extremely interesting.

861

What are you talking about exactly?

862

Maybe I do remember that.

863

I think I take it and I like, how much stuff is it?

864

I mean, is it like a stack of papers or?

865

It's just tons of shit.

866

The stuff at the top is about a murder on San Juan Island in...

867

2020.

868

I mean, I probably, if there's any kind of like titles or if it, this is me stealing a

little bit from real life, but like we review a shit ton of medical records and you kind

869

of get to the point where it's like, you just know from like the format of the page, like

is this something I care about or not?

870

And like anytime I get like, yeah.

871

And so if it's just all like standard stuff, I'm like, okay, this is just like police

reports or whatever, top page, top page.

872

reports, it's news reports.

873

It is about shit that happened on August 15th, 2020.

874

you're looking at it and and and Roger's talking and he's talking about how you guys were

there with him and you saw the thing and you were you were there when she she came here

875

now and you remember it.

876

And you were there for Operation Hilo Legacy.

877

That happened.

878

That existed.

879

You went to San Juan Island in 2020 with, as he was introduced to you, Agent Liam.

880

You recognize him.

881

He's much worse for wear, but you met this man for three days in August of 2020.

882

This is a weird question and I've never asked this I think before in a game.

883

But can I humint myself?

884

Or like do a power roll on myself?

885

Or whatever?

886

Which do you want?

887

Humint?

888

Take a shit.

889

Okay.

890

I'll do pow because my humint's terrible so.

891

ah That's an 82 which is a fail.

892

Fuck it, I'm gonna spin my luck to humint my or power roll myself because I want to know

what happens.

893

So 28.

894

Yeah, this is a thing that happened to you and you forgot about it.

895

This is...

896

It was ugly and bloody and terrible and you forgot all about it until just now.

897

And it's fucked up that you didn't remember this.

898

And the whole time he's talking about how like, Lorelei Jackson died and he's talking

about all these sh...

899

these...

900

Mass violence events that that every time he brings one up it sparks a memory But these

they did happen.

901

They didn't happen.

902

You don't remember them, but they you know, they did happen He's got the news articles in

front of you, but you kind of remember But it wasn't a big deal at the time, but also 50

903

people died It's and it was all over the news for a day, but maybe that's it

904

It's just Morrison's mentality that's getting tangled up in it.

905

Anybody looking at the papers who's experiencing this.

906

I do think that if Mole sees Morrison looking at the papers in distress, ah he's probably

going to be like, A.

907

Not look at them, quite honestly, and B.

908

ah Look at Douglas and be like, hey man, what's going on?

909

What the fuck is going on?

910

I'm here, I'm listening to you, this doesn't look good.

911

I'm telling the fuck is going on?

912

Morrison knows.

913

Morrison knows what happened.

914

Yeah.

915

Morrison was there.

916

You were there.

917

Magpie was there.

918

Miles was there.

919

And Morrison can remember because he's looking at it right now.

920

uh but my immediate thought is to pull a Doctor Who and get a magic marker and like write

on my arm every time I remember the thing when I'm looking at it.

921

You're absolutely allowed to.

922

Okay, do I assume I need to roll grip for this?

923

Okay, that's a three.

924

I'm apparently very cool with what's happening.

925

a point of grip.

926

Is anyone else- is- is- Morrison the only one looking at these?

927

mean, Miles would definitely walk over there and start grabbing things.

928

He's trying to pass these out to every- Oh.

929

just happens to be uh shunting them.

930

Yep.

931

Yeah, is, I think at some point watching reactions Mol's like, you guys know how fucked up

I am from that last mission we were on.

932

I need you guys to let me know if I can look at this or not.

933

Otherwise, I'm just going to keep an eye on Douglas.

934

No, no, and when he starts to hand it to other people after if I'm within my mind to do it

You can tell me if not Patrick I start to like grab them from other people and like no

935

these are These are are kind of weird my sense is that what he's saying is true and we

need to like probably not

936

You not want everyone else to remember Operation Hilo Legacy.

937

I don't want them to go nuts.

938

guess can I relate to them what I experienced?

939

like, he, when I look at these, I remember being there as though it happened.

940

And I sat here for a minute with myself and asked myself, do I feel like this is true or

do I feel like it's a dream?

941

And it feels like it's true, an authentic memory of a thing that happened.

942

So if you guys want to look-

943

recount the of- I'm sorry.

944

Yeah, no, that's fine.

945

Yeah, I would recount the events.

946

You recount the events of Operation High-Low Legacy?

947

Mm-hmm.

948

Yeah.

949

Okay.

950

Then, uh, two things happen.

951

The first thing that happens is I want a sand check from everyone.

952

11 under critical success.

953

Holy shit, a fucking 24 under my head.

954

yeah, everyone loses one point of sanity.

955

All that NOS holding you together.

956

Yeah.

957

All that and us.

958

And the second thing that happens is that we move into the second scenario of Demnatio

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Legacy rules.

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Yeah, I fucking love that.

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Love that's what do.

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Hell yeah.

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If there's time and you can tell me if not, I would probably also use the phone to like

snap pictures of it and send them to Madison and probably also ask like do you have

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records that we were there?

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Because even though I know it happened, I still am not.

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You absolutely send those pictures and texts to Madison.

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for sure blow up her life.