[SPEAKER_03]: This season of 5 GM's in a trench coat deals with themes of loneliness, loss, the paranormal, growing older, confrontation, parental pressures, reconciliation, teenage genannigans, illusions to being people of color in the 80s and hope.
[SPEAKER_03]: Listener discussion is advised.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, listen in as my friends take turns leaving stories through the table top game of their choice Hey, hello everybody and welcome to five GMs in a trench coat season five from inside the tent We look over the
[SPEAKER_00]: Top of a
[SPEAKER_00]: kind of blacked out vehicles that drives in the light of the sun kind of gleams off it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we swoop in and peer through the window and maybe the first glimpse of these two characters we get is that of which they see each other when they glance in the mirrors, not directly looking to each other, not directly making eye contact, but rather quick stolen glances in a rear view mirror
[SPEAKER_00]: Connie, could you describe what your character looks like?
[SPEAKER_09]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_09]: I have a very vital question.
[SPEAKER_09]: Are we driving this vehicle like is this our company vehicle?
[SPEAKER_09]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_09]: We're not being show-furt.
[SPEAKER_09]: Excellent.
[SPEAKER_09]: So we pushed through the tinted windows of a 1967 Dodge Coronette with a custom black paint job silver rims and dangling from the rear view mirror.
[SPEAKER_09]: We see prayer beads clacking against each other and the entire interior, the upholstered leather
[SPEAKER_09]: and in the driver's seat with one hand on the 12 and the other reaching into a bag of crisps between them and the passenger seat is Jack Ting.
[SPEAKER_09]: Ta, looks hung over even when they're not.
[SPEAKER_09]: Uh, they have this haggard scowling face with these dark eye circles underneath those piercing sharp black eyes.
[SPEAKER_09]: They have short black hair shaved on both sides and jelled carelessly to keep out of her eyes.
[SPEAKER_09]: Uh, ta has these broad shoulders abundant muscles, various piercings on thot of face.
[SPEAKER_09]: And those eyes, again, they are black as freshly spilled ink and twice as accurate.
[SPEAKER_09]: They are sharp there.
[SPEAKER_09]: piercing they look like they're lancing right through you.
[SPEAKER_09]: And on the left side of their head, we see a tattoo of a serpent coiling around Jack's left ear starkly visible against medium brown skin and the shaved sides of their head.
[SPEAKER_09]: And the body of that serpent actually sneaks down, past the starch-white collar of Tau the shirt, which Tau wears underneath a wrinkled, rather lint-covered black and jacket.
[SPEAKER_09]: And their shirt is unbuttoned all the way down to their peckline, revealing a set of thick ropes of top surgery scars, peeking through.
[SPEAKER_09]: And right now, the radio is blasting cutting crew.
[SPEAKER_00]: amazing.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we get this amazing scene of a EAS agent not quite conforming to the typical day-to-day from what we've seen from these agents thus far.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is our first moment of naming them.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've seen blacked out forwards.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've seen basic simple cars.
[SPEAKER_00]: We have seen
[SPEAKER_00]: and in work shoes we have not seen so much character and yet for a possible federal agent there's so much character here and who is in the other seat next to them.
[SPEAKER_05]: First we see Nines asks because they are up on their knees in the passenger seat reaching behind the seat into the back of the car, rummaging behind the driver side, throwing cups and old bags, uh, used paper, napkins, and you hear a little voice go, I can't find my tie, Jack, I thought you said you packed it.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_09]: I did.
[SPEAKER_09]: I did pack it.
[SPEAKER_09]: Did you chop?
[SPEAKER_09]: Did you check the shopping bag?
[SPEAKER_09]: The shopping bag?
[SPEAKER_09]: With shopping bag.
[SPEAKER_09]: The one not filled with trash.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh Have even going through the trash bag?
[SPEAKER_09]: Yes?
[SPEAKER_05]: Just get back over here.
[SPEAKER_05]: Take the wheel off.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, and nine brings himself back into the passenger side immediately with ease like a long familiar habit taking the driver's side steering wheel and looking out at the road with big You're a decent Strangely unnerving Agonizing pink eyes
[SPEAKER_05]: If you stare into them for too long, it's like they start to fracture, like they become pits of stained glass with cutting edges and sharp sides, but otherwise as we pull out of those sharp intense eyes for a moment, nine looks rather unassuming, if a little...
[SPEAKER_05]: cute and endearing.
[SPEAKER_05]: They're short, maybe five foot four on a good day, slender butch with this medium-toned white skin and stark bone-colored hair.
[SPEAKER_05]: Cut in this
[SPEAKER_05]: Herb hasered Bob with too long braids that run from the back of their head, and there is a strong jaw, handsome nose, thick brows, and a warm smiling expression that plays at the hazy edges of nine's body.
[SPEAKER_05]: And as they tip their head and look upward at Jack, a pair of butterfly wing earrings, clock against their ears and as their hair kind of snaps back into place so to speak, we catch a glimpse of small earplugs in their ears.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, just hold on to this.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: Which way are we going again?
[SPEAKER_09]: Just straight.
[SPEAKER_09]: Just hold it straight.
[SPEAKER_05]: Don't stop stop stop stop I think it's interesting if you follow the lines this way It makes the car a little bit more fun.
[SPEAKER_05]: No, we're not in the UK stop.
[SPEAKER_09]: We have to stay on the right side of the
[SPEAKER_00]: as nine pools is swaying the wheel something I refer to as making the car dance uh... there's just most of uh... as as nine is just kind of swaying between uh... different lanes the thing is is that on many interstates in between most of the america's there's nobody and there's nothing
[SPEAKER_00]: And there's wind whipping and bits of gravel from uncapped roads.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hit the side of the car every now and again, and the continues as you lament to nine.
[SPEAKER_00]: To cease the Tom Fulary.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yet, I think that there's something for you nine that is...
[SPEAKER_00]: freeing about the motion of a vehicle in which it doesn't have full linear control.
[SPEAKER_00]: The sleigh is nice, uh, it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Almost in the sense are in the way that children and babies like to be sung around and picked up and tossed because it's good for the development of their equilibrium.
[SPEAKER_00]: Whatever this is, is centering for a moment, and then you're yanked out of it at the yelling of your co-agent.
[SPEAKER_00]: And technically, you're superior as they are the one that carries the drives of the car and carries the briefcase.
[SPEAKER_09]: probably it's just Jack undoes their seat belt with a click as you kind of like sway the wheel side to side while they're admonishing you, ties digging through the back seat.
[SPEAKER_09]: Now their ass is all up on the seat.
[SPEAKER_09]: It kind of like leans back against the horn and move that on the front.
[SPEAKER_09]: as this car suites on this like kind of dusty country road.
[SPEAKER_09]: And then they finally grab what they were looking for, return back to the driver's side seat, and they thrust a black tie in your hands.
[SPEAKER_05]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_05]: Nine immediately drops.
[SPEAKER_05]: They just let go of the steering wheel before you even put your hands back on it to take their tie.
[SPEAKER_05]: They're already wearing one against a crisply pressed white stark
[SPEAKER_05]: shirt and a finely pressed lint rolled black jacket.
[SPEAKER_05]: They consider the tie in their hands and almost match it against the one that's tied up nicely against their neck.
[SPEAKER_05]: What do you think, Jack?
[SPEAKER_09]: What?
[SPEAKER_09]: Jack looks occasionally, still trying to keep their eyes on the road, but every time they're face flashes in your direction, the expression of dismay gets deeper and deeper, what?
[SPEAKER_09]: What do you mean?
[SPEAKER_09]: You already had a title?
[SPEAKER_05]: This is my Tuesday time, but today's technically Wednesday.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh my god, then where are your Wednesday tie?
[SPEAKER_09]: You get so weird about your ties of the week.
[SPEAKER_09]: I know, but I already put on my Tuesday tie.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, it's not Tuesday anymore.
[SPEAKER_09]: And you've made me superstitious about it, so just put on the Wednesday tie.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm gonna keep the Tuesdays high.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh my god, something bad's gonna happen.
[SPEAKER_09]: Nine and it's all gonna be your fault.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's all I've thought anyway.
[SPEAKER_00]: And almost like clockwork with the something bad's gonna happen and it's all gonna be your fault.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your satellite phone agent approved and given to each car.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's in the center of your vehicle.
[SPEAKER_00]: Begins a loaf thrum.
[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't ring.
[SPEAKER_00]: bringing what alert people.
[SPEAKER_00]: It vibrates and meets a frequency that you're on.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you feel it in your body the way you feel when a train goes by and the night a little too far for you to hear but your bones rattle as you know you're getting some kind of call that has to do with your actual job.
[SPEAKER_09]: Uh, Jack goes, oh shit, and kind of like quickly snatches a bag of chips off of the satellite phone.
[SPEAKER_09]: Kind of like wipes off some crumbs from the top and picks it up.
[SPEAKER_09]: Is there a speaker phone function?
[SPEAKER_09]: Um, I'll say yes.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay, sure, then she like jabs at it.
[SPEAKER_09]: Accidentally presses mute, but then like goes, oh damn shit.
[SPEAKER_09]: And then like presses the right button.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yo, you've got agent, ting on the line.
[SPEAKER_00]: Agent.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm here too.
[SPEAKER_09]: Thank you for yes and nine nine's here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, of course nine is not driving.
[SPEAKER_09]: I am I haven't gotten my license yet have not been letting nine I feel like the implication of
[SPEAKER_05]: your statement there is the nine was driving no no there are feet have not been on any of the pedals only last night when we were coming home from the bar so there wouldn't be any duis well and that was just it was just back to the hotel we will not be issuing another vehicle to either of you if this one were to be damaged understood I could I'd like this one a lot
[SPEAKER_00]: We appreciate your ability to be on the road as frequently as you are.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we have a job for you.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_09]: All right.
[SPEAKER_09]: Now we're talking.
[SPEAKER_09]: What kind of job?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, how close are you to Idaho?
[SPEAKER_09]: Jack looks out the windows at nothingness.
[SPEAKER_09]: Just this country expands.
[SPEAKER_09]: We might be in it already.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wonderful.
[SPEAKER_00]: So asset containment, um, lost an asset in between losing and reclamation, typical, people see things, however, there appears to have been on the heels of having seen things, a handful of civilians engaged with one of our agents in, well, I suppose about a fistacubb
[SPEAKER_09]: Fisticuffs.
[SPEAKER_09]: That means punching.
[SPEAKER_09]: A fight.
[SPEAKER_09]: I know what that means.
[SPEAKER_09]: Nine.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's just such a rather uncool way of saying it.
[SPEAKER_09]: So you're telling me asset containment, the so-called big dogs of ease, they screw the pooch, huh?
[SPEAKER_09]: Need us to clean it up?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: It would be for the betterment of ease if the two of you felt so inclined.
[SPEAKER_00]: uh... we already have the civilians uh... in a holding cell in cat gay uh... hey listen sir uh... is billi-nourcist involved in this screw up because of so i've got some pre-mo water cooler talk for him next time we're in HQ it not of my purview to give away whether or not billi f billi is involved uh... all right all right all right you can talk about it at your leisure once the job is complete
[SPEAKER_00]: three civilians.
[SPEAKER_00]: Mainly, I need you to focus on a single one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I, I worry she's the squeaky wheel.
[SPEAKER_09]: Understood.
[SPEAKER_09]: Make that squeaky wheel shutter at the punchy punch.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do what you must agents.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, thank you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then just immediately hangs up to escape whatever this is.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, nice, okay, I've been fishing for some action.
[SPEAKER_09]: Hmm, sounds good to me.
[SPEAKER_09]: Great.
[SPEAKER_09]: Alright, should be pretty easy.
[SPEAKER_09]: Go in, wipe some memories, get out.
[SPEAKER_09]: Maybe all in time for dinner.
[SPEAKER_09]: What assets do you think they lost?
[SPEAKER_09]: Honestly, I guess we're gonna find out when we go, you know, crack some skulls together, but I'm willing to put my money on a Sasquatch.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_05]: It didn't sound like a Sasquatch through the phone.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, it didn't sound like anything.
[SPEAKER_09]: Our hand learned and say anything about this.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, you know, but the way he talked around it, you don't think it could be a mothman, do you?
[SPEAKER_09]: A Nessie?
[SPEAKER_09]: Should I pack my swim trunks?
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't think there's a lot of watering holes in Idaho.
[SPEAKER_05]: No, I don't think you need your swim trunks, but if you want to wear them, I mean, that's fine with me.
[SPEAKER_09]: No, I guess.
[SPEAKER_09]: No, that would be weird.
[SPEAKER_09]: That would be odd.
[SPEAKER_05]: You'd have to wear your tie, though.
[SPEAKER_05]: on my bare body above the swim trunks?
[SPEAKER_05]: Nine gets a distant and hazy look in their eyes.
[SPEAKER_05]: They blink a few times and then just rest their head against the passenger side window and look out into the Idaho distance.
[SPEAKER_05]: A dream playing out in front of their eyes is the do so.
[SPEAKER_00]: The dream plays out and there's something haunting about driving through nothing.
[SPEAKER_00]: For those of us who have driven through any of our larger states, our middle states, it truly is uncanny, the amount of nothing that is in the Americas.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that drive goes by so quickly.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a drive you've made before likely.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just state to state, it's your job.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I would like,
[SPEAKER_00]: nine.
[SPEAKER_00]: How do you remember things?
[SPEAKER_00]: How does nine remember things?
[SPEAKER_00]: Is it physical?
[SPEAKER_00]: Is it sent?
[SPEAKER_00]: Is it a full breakdown of a scene that they lived?
[SPEAKER_00]: Is it a misremembering of a scene and a misremembering of that misremembering?
[SPEAKER_00]: From the last time you misremembered it.
[SPEAKER_00]: What is it that you feel when you
[SPEAKER_05]: nine remembers first in sound.
[SPEAKER_05]: No, that's not quite right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Nine remembers first.
[SPEAKER_05]: in vibration.
[SPEAKER_05]: The thing that makes sound, the tremors that run through the air like a distant, what is that color?
[SPEAKER_05]: No sound, no light, no memory.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, memory.
[SPEAKER_05]: It always starts in sound for nine.
[SPEAKER_05]: And they can remember the sound now of laughter.
[SPEAKER_05]: A sound they have had heard in some time.
[SPEAKER_05]: from the driver's side seat, the sound of cranks being pulled and numbers flashing up, bright ding ding ding ding.
[SPEAKER_05]: The sound of coins falling into a slot, the sound of music playing in the background.
[SPEAKER_05]: The sound of somebody saying, I pronounce you now, married.
[SPEAKER_05]: They remember the desert.
[SPEAKER_05]: Lost Vegas.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's what it was called.
[SPEAKER_05]: They remember one of the happiest days of their life.
[SPEAKER_05]: As they look out at this similar, beautiful, in its emptiness.
[SPEAKER_05]: Because it's not really empty, is it?
[SPEAKER_05]: It's all light sound color memory, stone, dust, grit, plant, animal, hawk.
[SPEAKER_05]: Human.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's all there, isn't it?
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's kind of the perfect space for nine to be in.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is open to the sound and not just the sound, but like you said, the vibrations of, well, everything.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think you're lost in those moments of laughter and coin, clatter and lights, all vibrations, but all perceived differently.
[SPEAKER_00]: And as you're lost in those, there's a sudden weight of vibrations, three vibrations that
[SPEAKER_00]: the three of these vibrations of three of these minds that you are picking up on, that are yanking you out of whatever your moment was, are sad and confused yet happy and confused and they're so intensely intertwined.
[SPEAKER_00]: The only time you see
[SPEAKER_00]: Intertwinededness like this when it comes to the way you feel other vibrations 9 is when you meet siblings who are attached to the hip not just siblings who live together with siblings who played together constantly and played for 10 siblings who made up their own languages because their wavelengths are so close that it's almost as if they think the same.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's almost like they, the way you pick up vibrations, pick up each other's vibration.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not everyone's just each other's just a small group.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this small group is leaking their thoughts and emotions outside of what you now see as you kind of come to and play yourself out of memories that are not yours.
[SPEAKER_00]: Memories that are cold and biding that burn your cheeks.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're pulled out of again memories that aren't yours and you see the outside of a police station where you know you're headed.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, we're here.
[SPEAKER_05]: As you say, uh, we're here.
[SPEAKER_05]: Nine straightens up as though they did not hear you at all and goes, ah, we're here.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, yep.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_09]: All right.
[SPEAKER_09]: You look good.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm just going to check.
[SPEAKER_09]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_09]: And Jack brings down the visor at a bunch of old like unpaid parking tickets fall down and like an orange cascade onto their lap.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, and they slide them you're open.
[SPEAKER_09]: Kind of like check their teeth.
[SPEAKER_09]: We are not going to have another broccoli tooth incident at this police station.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm going to tell you that.
[SPEAKER_09]: I like broccoli too.
[SPEAKER_09]: All right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Remembering wifeing an entire police stations memories of a broccoli tooth incident is definitely one of those moments of like Was that an abusive power and is like no is the broccoli tooth incident?
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, and as nine said, we like broccoli tooth your teeth are clear The two of you sit for a moment and prepare for your next job
[SPEAKER_09]: Alright, I'm gonna have to get my and limb from the trunk and I'm gonna talk to the officers, you know, up front, you can just kind of hang back while I do my thing.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, sounds good.
[SPEAKER_05]: Great.
[SPEAKER_05]: Nine immediately unclips the like unclips their seat belts and opens the passenger side door steps out and starts walking into the building.
[SPEAKER_09]: Wait, hold on, hold on, oh, damn it.
[SPEAKER_09]: They kind of like trip over all these tickets and stagger out of the driver's side door but the trunk having popped at this point.
[SPEAKER_09]: So they're kind of torn between following nine into the police station and going and grabbing the briefcases.
[SPEAKER_09]: Just don't do anything without me.
[SPEAKER_09]: OK. And they run to their trunk.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so as your as agent jack is running to get the two tools of your use and nine agent nine walks towards the store, you're swiftly cut off by nine, I think it surprises you in the sense that typically you're pretty aware of what other people around you, especially when they get this close because everyone has vibrations and everything vibrates and everything moves and everything has sound.
[SPEAKER_00]: And for whatever reason, it didn't, you know, when a subway radar like the little blip that blip didn't occur to you until you were already looking at a face and it's just an officer in.
[SPEAKER_00]: Finally fitting, police officer closed nothing, a namoring about them, aside from the fact that they're wearing kind of tipped cowboy boots and a cowboy hat.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, hello there Agent.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a pleasure.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm assuming you're here to talk to the kiddos, yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: fantastic.
[SPEAKER_00]: We see the kiddos are some friends of mine, and it's not necessarily my space space and over here, but I had it my way, they wouldn't be in the cells.
[SPEAKER_00]: And well, the officers here are a bit more about business.
[SPEAKER_00]: And, uh,
[SPEAKER_00]: I just hope that, well, Agent, you're going to be a little more, finally tuned with the kiddos than like a scalpel unless like a hammer, if that's, and I'll pause while I mean that your above my pay grade, I don't really know what your job is specifically, but I just hope that you show them a bit of grace.
[SPEAKER_05]: This whole time, nine has just been staring with their big, freaky, broken eyes.
[SPEAKER_05]: And the longer that this person looks at them, the more disconnected the edges of nine's body come to reality, it's kind of like looking into an eclipse.
[SPEAKER_05]: You don't realize it's going to hurt until you're doing it until you look away.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think he's looking at you and the thing is is that there's humans who look with intensity because their gaze tends to be fierce and will often deter or at least help in their interactions with other humans with other people and he is doing that and he doesn't realize just how much to his detriment this might come.
[SPEAKER_00]: Agent Jack, would you mind giving me a role to remember something?
[SPEAKER_09]: Me?
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_09]: What, uh, Sasha'd I use?
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I'll let that be up to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this is to remember, like, an aspect of another job, um, that you've done within recent, um, years.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know, brains is always pretty good for an area like that, but we also have... Maybe grit?
[SPEAKER_09]: yeah i would i would say grit or brains would probably be our best like bread and butter area there i'll grab a grit roll actually it is my better stat and also i think jack stores those memories in the body more so than the mind of all of the job she's been on so that's going to be it's not good that's going to be a four total
[SPEAKER_00]: for total.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you recognize this officer, this man standing there.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you don't know from where you think that you might, and maybe you even like palm a once like struck area, like maybe you got punched.
[SPEAKER_00]: I got punched here one time.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, interesting.
[SPEAKER_09]: I was thinking that Jack wasn't in the building yet.
[SPEAKER_09]: They're still kind of fumbling by the trunk.
[SPEAKER_09]: So this is kind
[SPEAKER_00]: So nine and jack are you're both still outside nine guys right before entering the building as this Police officer has Kind of interjecting himself into what nine is probably putting together is not really his business This police officer is not from this county or even from the state
[SPEAKER_00]: You would pick that up.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, from just looking at kind of their uniform and their their little badge He for whatever reason has invested interest in with the the kids similar to you for whatever reason I see okay Jack sees this from like the street level as nine of several steps ahead Maybe even on the steps that leading up into the precinct building and Jack's brow furrows as they slammed It jumped down with both briefcases in hand.
[SPEAKER_09]: They let on a do I know you?
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, yeah, he's brawl for us and I'm gonna go and do a quick roll for him Do I will do I know you you know, I'm not sure sometimes I forget people because I you know Had a little bit too much of whiskey the previous night sometimes I remember people because you know my tit starts hurting when I look at him She sock me this is
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's the thing, sometimes I remember bodies but no faces.
[SPEAKER_09]: I think that's weirder than what I said, man.
[SPEAKER_00]: I could say I suppose my brain, my brain's been scrambled, uh, and full of times, I guess.
[SPEAKER_09]: Ah, I see, I see, whatever that means.
[SPEAKER_09]: And yeah, we're here.
[SPEAKER_00]: You two know that she's not saying that on purpose, like she knows his brains actually been scrambled.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just one of those things that happens a lot.
[SPEAKER_00]: With relatively intelligent people, is that they just throw out, like, oh, my brain got scrambled, because I'm losing bits, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: They truly think that there's something like, natural going on, you're like, ah, that's what it is.
[SPEAKER_09]: And Jack no longer looks like concerned anymore, like they slink back into their easy, natural gauge that an alley cat might have as they approach nine and this guy.
[SPEAKER_09]: And they say, listen, buddy, I hear Sudoku.
[SPEAKER_09]: It does wonders for the agility of the brain.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, uh,
[SPEAKER_00]: I should start doing that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've been doing the the word puzzles a bit, but the number is the number is throwing me off I get nervous.
[SPEAKER_00]: I won't lie.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not a man for the numbers But I think I think maybe that'll help with the the bit of scrambling I suppose like I was telling your Your team right here as they turn back to where nine Was a few seconds ago.
[SPEAKER_05]: They're gone.
[SPEAKER_05]: They're inside
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, yeah, they'll do that and they're less a teammate and more so like a partner not like a romantic Partner like a work partner and I mean not that we I mean we were kind of not really I mean we were married by accident not accident.
[SPEAKER_09]: We got hitched Vegas, but then we got unhitched not Vegas
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, so whatever you whatever you say partner, and he like tips his hat and kind of just like takes space.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just takes space for whatever that is.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, right Handle out one like a champ jack like a champ No, I Damn it they're ready in the building.
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, see you around nine You uh, you come in and I think that you move almost
[SPEAKER_05]: You know, in a weird way, unnoticed by the officer, but also in not so weird away as sometimes you're not paid attention or not paid any mind by certain types of people, it's the confidence of nine seams like they know exactly where they're going and is just exuding confidence has the tie, has the suit and they're just walking through like they owned the place.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and so, as you walk through, like you own the place, you see a, in the corner of two brick walls, two long brick walls is a cell with a lone girl in it, would you like to describe yourself?
[SPEAKER_03]: How long have you been here at this point?
[SPEAKER_00]: So, this is exactly where we left off last time, and so I would say, made, I believe it was like an hour.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, I just wanted to make sure for my description.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I think what you see often the distance is this small, statureed girl by the looks of the side of her face, that she has propped up against the wall behind her.
[SPEAKER_03]: She doesn't look any more than 19.
[SPEAKER_03]: her hair is teased up so high all around although i think right now it's slightly like droopy because the hairspray is giving but she has this otherwise shortage bob which is deceiving given how much hair she has teased her eye makeup is smudged probably looks like there's been a few tears shed from the looks of the mascara running down her face
[SPEAKER_03]: I think right now she has her eyes closed.
[SPEAKER_03]: Her outfit is fairly put together, like she has some thought behind it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a purple colored shirt, a black tuxedo vest over it.
[SPEAKER_03]: All hastily tucked under a black tool skirt.
[SPEAKER_03]: On one hand, she has a black lace fingerless glove, but it's absent on the other hand.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then these sort of white-freely socks that's folded over, and some black-marry jains, as she's just sitting there with her eyes closed, and her back against the wall.
[SPEAKER_06]: Nine?
[SPEAKER_05]: First comes past and even if your eyes are closed, you can hear these like very light foothalls in the hallway outside of the holding area that you've been put in.
[SPEAKER_05]: And nine actually approaches the opposite wall that has, I think, a bulletin board on it.
[SPEAKER_05]: And for a moment they stop in front of it, prop their hands up on their hips and look to their head back and forth, sway for a moment.
[SPEAKER_05]: And they see something interesting, disco balls, lights, roller blades, free blades on Wednesdays.
[SPEAKER_05]: that sounds fun.
[SPEAKER_05]: And they take it off the wall, just kind of rip the whole poster down, even though they're a little like phone numbers.
[SPEAKER_05]: They rip the whole poster down, kind of folded up very neatly into a few pieces and put it in their pocket.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then they turn all the way around like a big swirling motion to come and look at you, because this is the residence, the feeling,
[SPEAKER_05]: vibration, the memory, the sound that they were resonating with in the car.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's something here, a piece of that harmony that sings out and connects with their own harmony, I think, in a way.
[SPEAKER_05]: And nine kind of tips their head on the outside, looks at you, steps forward, a little closer and then goes,
[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, I think with that one eye sort of shoes open and my head turns to look at you, and then I think there's this look of just utmost confusion of like me.
[SPEAKER_05]: I like your shoes.
[SPEAKER_06]: You want to get out of here?
[SPEAKER_03]: Thanks.
[SPEAKER_03]: And when I look at nine, they look like, okay, in comparison to all the other suited individuals we've seen, does nine look like that?
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, they look like they belong to the same company.
[SPEAKER_00]: But nine is so far deviated.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I think, as you're looking at nine, the door swings open behind nine, you see an additional agent and both are so far deviated from the norms of what you've seen up to this point.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, it'd be like if you got pulled over and instead of a German shepherd with a vest, it was like a poodle, like pink, like fringes with the vest and it's like, well, there's like the same thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, they could do the same thing, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: But that's a poodle, not German shepherd.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's one of those is like, well,
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, like they're the same, the same, but they ring a different bell in your mind.
[SPEAKER_09]: Interesting.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay, if I may actually, I think that Jack is probably held up at the front desk doing like the actual paper work of signing in like has not gotten to the holding selling at all yet.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, just right.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so you're going to sign here.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to sign here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you not have a partner?
[SPEAKER_00]: You have a partner that we were told to.
[SPEAKER_09]: Why is everyone so obsessed with my romantic life?
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, I guess like, no, but I'm also not looking.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wait.
[SPEAKER_00]: like work partner.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, no, I'm not here alone.
[SPEAKER_09]: I do have my coworker work related partner here.
[SPEAKER_09]: Actually speaking of which did you see them at all in the station?
[SPEAKER_09]: They came in before me.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, I.
[SPEAKER_09]: White hair freaky eyes.
[SPEAKER_09]: Makes you feel fuzzy when you look them for too long.
[SPEAKER_00]: Partner doesn't ring any bells.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll.
[SPEAKER_00]: Someone see if there's someone with white hair in here and I know you hear like a bit of shuffling like how'd you get back here?
[SPEAKER_00]: Huh?
[SPEAKER_00]: How'd you get back here?
[SPEAKER_00]: How'd Was it door open?
[SPEAKER_05]: Uh, nine is hiding a set of key if it's okay a set of keys behind their back That they lifted on the way in Well, are you you're you're with you with the agent of front?
[SPEAKER_05]: We've been together a long time.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll trust.
[SPEAKER_00]: like, like, work together?
[SPEAKER_00]: I, not my business.
[SPEAKER_00]: You do your thing and walks away.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, escape it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just, I can't get out of here.
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you've hidden those keys and I knew it.
[SPEAKER_05]: My brings the keys back out from behind their back to reveal to Clim, and kind of makes a big show of wiping the sweat off their forehead and like flicking it to the side and goes, Phew, close one.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then they start unlocking the holding cell that you're in.
[SPEAKER_03]: Why are you trying to get me out of here?
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, I want to talk to you.
[SPEAKER_06]: You... Couldn't just have a conversation with me this way.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think it's strange to have a conversation with my daughters.
[SPEAKER_06]: And besides, you look very sad.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, I guess I'll come talk to you.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, sounds good.
[SPEAKER_05]: That has this very affable way about them.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think that is like strangely reasonable in a very like, resonant way that doesn't exactly make logical sense, but makes a lot of emotional sense.
[SPEAKER_05]: And it's very straightforward in its like, almost brutal honesty.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, no, I think I think you still get the sort of slight hesitation from clump as she watches you like unlock the door and we'll just like sit there for a second and then we'll get up and be like, all right, take me to your questioning room or whatever.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, and nine starts leading you back toward the door outside, and I think we probably like right as Jack has done signing the release paper work, nine comes up with Clem at their side to the front desk.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, there you are, they've been shouting all over for it.
[SPEAKER_09]: Wait, is that the, did you, what did you, there's paperwork, nine, there's paperwork, there's red tape, we have to cross, there are teas, we have to do the thing and dot the eyes and Okay, whatever, that's fine, just sorry, she didn't run that to the court.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, don't worry, this is Agent Jack, she's only mean on the outside, what?
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm not mean what is that mean means she's soft on the inside.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm not soft either.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay, listen just I guess you're the kid that that guy outside was talking about damn you really are just a kid guy with a cowboy hat Cop cowboy hat cowboy boots.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, yeah, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_09]: Does he?
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't know you just get a gut feeling, you know what I mean about these sorts of people But anyway, listen next time some kids roll up around here and she's addressing again the front desk person
[SPEAKER_09]: Maybe just like cut them some slack.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay, because you're what like 11, 12, like how old are you?
[SPEAKER_09]: 18, 18, God, rude.
[SPEAKER_09]: They look younger and younger every year.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's so she's an adult.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's adult consequences.
[SPEAKER_09]: We'll come on at 18, my frontal lobe was barely to pull up.
[SPEAKER_09]: Today, teen hells, I was working at the bowling alley, shining shoes and drinking moon shine and getting in fist-to-coffs with a bunch of patrons out back in the alley way when they were trying to skimp out on their shoe polishing fees.
[SPEAKER_09]: You think I should be thrown in jail for that?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: And why would you say fist-to-coffs?
[SPEAKER_00]: Who says fist-to-coffs?
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know, handlers, I guess.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think as this altercation begins, nine nods puts like a gentle hand on Clevver's shoulder and starts leading the both outside.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you're just gonna question her outside and we'll bring her back in when you're done with your jurisdiction and here or not that's not a promise what do you mean and I think they start to like kind of like hold on who are these agents like what's going on as you've now gotten about like halfway to the car nine
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, and it grabs something and he's like, yeah, and he had to take it just just call this just call this number if you want to report me Okay, and just use my full name Jack Ting and in the meantime We're gonna take our uh charge and get out of here.
[SPEAKER_09]: All right here.
[SPEAKER_09]: You go have a good day, sir Take two of these in the morning and she flips And off with both of her hands and don't call me as she turns and hustles out of there and on the business card You see one eight hundred go fuck yourself
[SPEAKER_00]: Stop them and like two officers like get up.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's start walking for the Rapidly moving towards the door as you know The trash is I Judgerald will right for need
[SPEAKER_03]: Is this the room you guys are questioning me in because you could have just said car, you know, I was thinking that out a little hungry can we get hamburgers?
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe after we lose these cops on our team and we can grab a hamburger at a nice diner and get the talk at this point you've taken off and two squad cars are not far behind you I would like some kind of role from my driver
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh my god, absolutely, um, actually, because I'm an adult, we get to take a skilled app link, uh, and I technically have it filled it out yet.
[SPEAKER_09]: Could it be a skilled app giveaway?
[SPEAKER_00]: I think, absolutely.
[SPEAKER_09]: I think this app is not infrequently.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, just pissing cops off me like, well, see you later, yeah, so I'll say you quickly begin kind of pivoting on different maneuvers and going in and out of like different like backroads I would like I think a role again on on your choice, but I'll give you two of your dice that you will learn that
[SPEAKER_09]: Technically, I guess it flight probably makes the most sense, but based on the way that Jack drives, it's nasty.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's mean, like she's doing Tokyo drifts.
[SPEAKER_09]: She's like going down alleyways and knocking down cans.
[SPEAKER_09]: She's almost running over little ladies and using them as like using her body to like block the cocks walk ours behind her.
[SPEAKER_09]: So I'd like to pitch either a fight or a bit or even brawn for this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just because I loved the descriptions of using little old ladies as like leverage to pivot, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll go in.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll let grit go.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're digging deep.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're you're driving like a fast, you're you're Vin Diesel
[SPEAKER_09]: Yes, yes, I'm Vin Diesel yet.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay, so I have a plus one because I'm an adult and another plus three because of my skill right.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, so that's a plus four Oh nice.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's a nine amazing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so you it takes a bit of time.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're not great drivers like they're not doing high speed chases all the time But they are cop cars.
[SPEAKER_00]: They have their sirens on.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's pretty easy to
[SPEAKER_00]: all the cars stop.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of space in which they're able to get past.
[SPEAKER_00]: Eventually, you manage to, I think, hit around a red light where there's a handful of cars that have been piled up waiting for this red light to go.
[SPEAKER_00]: And as you pivot it, they kind of get stopped at the line of cars and have to hit a five point turn to try to get around these cars and you manage to kind of co-stop just into the city.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nothing, it's a small city, but they'll probably be looking for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would like for Klemmer 9 since you're not driving to give me actually both of you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would like for you to give me a brain's role.
[SPEAKER_05]: Whoa, I had a 12.
[SPEAKER_05]: I forgot what a D10 looked like.
[SPEAKER_05]: I used my percentile dice, and I was like, oh my god, a 20 is a 2, plus one, a 3.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah, so on on a on a three agent nine, I think you're so focused on like, wow, agent jacks are really good.
[SPEAKER_05]: And they're also like sitting backwards again and trying to talk to Clem as this Chase is going down.
[SPEAKER_05]: They're like, hi, my name is agent bump bump bump bump.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then I can throw around a little bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just look.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just caught some like You don't have to do that and on a 12 for you claim you're trying to balance looking back and repeatedly like oh my god We're in a chase like ops with going on the second time today Like in time today you're looking back at these agents like are you really agents and on you're like third look back You see the as you're coasting away these cop cars like our hitting pivots
[SPEAKER_00]: And then you see an old black Cadillac kind of roll up and just roll it's window down and just kind of flick open a The briefcase and the cop cars stop moving just completely like whoever's driving them And they're they're not neutral.
[SPEAKER_00]: So they like roll into the cars in front of them two.
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't notice this as you're driving in You're trying to do your job to some capacity while also getting thrown around and
[SPEAKER_03]: you don't see anybody in them, you just see this black car and you see the cop cars and all the other cars of the lights kind of all begin like rolling and bumping into each other as like feet are let off the brakes oh gosh yeah I think I start like frantically padding my hands and I'm like you guys have to go we have to keep moving I don't know what you've been doing driving but you have to do more of that please
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, let me just try to keep not moving.
[SPEAKER_09]: What do you think I'm doing here, kids?
[SPEAKER_09]: Sitting on my ass?
[SPEAKER_09]: With my thumbs stuck on my ass?
[SPEAKER_09]: On my ass?
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't think so.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like I said, she's only angry on the outside.
[SPEAKER_05]: Don't let it bother you.
[SPEAKER_05]: I find it rather charming.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm angry on the inside too.
[SPEAKER_05]: She's a little angry on the inside.
[SPEAKER_03]: It seems like it's more than just a little, I, I'm, where are you guys taking me?
[SPEAKER_03]: Hamburger's.
[SPEAKER_09]: Burger joint.
[SPEAKER_09]: Burgers run into the city.
[SPEAKER_09]: Come on.
[SPEAKER_09]: Let's dust this small town.
[SPEAKER_09]: But my friends are back there.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're friends?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh yeah!
[SPEAKER_03]: There were there were three of us.
[SPEAKER_03]: There were three of you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Why did you just take me?
[SPEAKER_09]: Honestly, I forgot.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, I honestly, I forgot too.
[SPEAKER_09]: I forgot that there were more of you.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, listen kid, we're just gonna talk to you at this burger joint and then we'll drop you back off here where you can hopefully get your friends, okay?
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: As you're driving, just driving to find a burger joint, maybe you have a little map up.
[SPEAKER_00]: You do see closer than a burger joint, kind of right next to you is the roller rink.
[SPEAKER_00]: You stole a thing for it night.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know how much you're drawn to the disco roller rink, but you are near it.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's like a signal beam into 9's brain.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think they're like they're almost in the middle of talking, like starting to prep you for the interview, introducing, and then their eyes catch onto it, and you can see those big freaky eyes pull away from you and like toward the window, and they like almost watch for it.
[SPEAKER_05]: They put both of their hands up against the glass.
[SPEAKER_05]: Turn!
[SPEAKER_05]: There it is!
[SPEAKER_05]: What?
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay, okay,
[SPEAKER_09]: As a half of the car almost starts to come off of the pavement and it hits the ground again as we make this tight right turn Right into the parking lot of the roller rink and jack slams on the brakes
[SPEAKER_09]: a blink.
[SPEAKER_05]: Are you serious?
[SPEAKER_05]: They've got half of a blade today.
[SPEAKER_05]: And nine takes the paster out of their pocket, unfolds it, and points a few times.
[SPEAKER_05]: And 50% off milkshakes if we buy more than one pair of blades.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, okay, I guess it's fine.
[SPEAKER_09]: And technically, we could order burgers here.
[SPEAKER_09]: Is this how it's like with you guys all the time?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: I guess I can't say you don't have milkshakes.
[SPEAKER_09]: All right, there we go.
[SPEAKER_09]: And she takes her foot off the brake and eases this car into a parking spot.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, yeah, amazing.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the three of you make your way into this roller rink.
[SPEAKER_00]: the lights and like that with the glowing bits floor right the carpet that you know is dirty but you can't quite prove that it's dirty and the way in which these colors bounce off of everything check you
[SPEAKER_00]: remember intense lights you don't remember things in frequencies maybe the same way that nine does and you don't feel things of it because he's the way the nine does but maybe that's the thing nine in a capacity has shared with you but how do you remember lights you remember flashing lights and and glaring and gleaming and the chaos of a roller rink at the cast of a biggest strip
[SPEAKER_00]: in a fond way, in a fondness, or do you remember it in the way you remember the taste of shitty decisions the next morning?
[SPEAKER_09]: It is the deep fondness of it.
[SPEAKER_09]: The lights of the Vegas strip that reflects off of nine bright freakishly in eyes, the lights of the casinos that are everywhere, the lights of the church, the chapel they got hitched in.
[SPEAKER_09]: And even though the next day was
[SPEAKER_09]: Blurry, and her turn head, there was still the light of seeing 9's head, hallowed by the rising sun in their shared hotel room, as she came to on the carpeted floor, and 9 came to on this huge king-sized bed, both of them wearing each other's clothes, somehow.
[SPEAKER_09]: So there's actually a lot of deep genuine fondness for that memory, though it also is got accompanied by the memory of a headache, a deep pounding headache.
[SPEAKER_09]: And less fondly, the cold industrial and notalium glare of the lights of that divorce attorneys office, as a two of them sat next to each other and hashed out the details of their separation.
[SPEAKER_09]: Something that Jack felt like well, she needed to do.
[SPEAKER_09]: Right?
[SPEAKER_09]: I mean, they got hitched.
[SPEAKER_09]: It was silly.
[SPEAKER_09]: There was no reason for it.
[SPEAKER_09]: So they should break up, right?
[SPEAKER_09]: They should get a divorce.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's the adult response.
[SPEAKER_09]: We'll logical thing to do.
[SPEAKER_09]: And when they'd asked nine about it, well, nine did what nine always did.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_09]: If that's what you want.
[SPEAKER_09]: and Jack assumed that's what they wanted, because they said that's what she wanted, so that's what they wanted, right?
[SPEAKER_09]: So the divorce went through, oh, she paid out the ass for those attorney fees.
[SPEAKER_09]: And now here they are.
[SPEAKER_09]: and she slides into a sticky booth of the disco link.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you remember with fondness, but a fondness that stinks, and you slide into the sticky booth, Clim, they're so odd, but they're not odd in the way that when you look at something and
[SPEAKER_00]: It's uncanny and unsafe, and your brain is like, maybe we should distance ourselves, but they're odd in a way that's sad.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're odd in the way that the first two summers, you spent at summer camp with your friends are.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're, they are not unlike you just so close to being able to capture whatever that feeling is, but they have not, and like you possibly will not.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that you as a perceptive child is children are so incredibly keen to adult emotions because that's the only way that they can stay safe, especially when you have adults in your life who are so fickle about the way in which you exist and communicate that you cool into that, that maybe they want the way you want and maybe they won't have the way you
[SPEAKER_03]: I think I sort of do that thing, you know, where you use your hands to guide yourself into a booth and I look at my hands and I feel them and they're sticky and I'm like, oh god, why did I do that?
[SPEAKER_03]: And then I look up at both of you.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is an odd place for an interview.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I guess if you want to talk, I may answer.
[SPEAKER_09]: All right, better than a holding cell.
[SPEAKER_09]: Here, as she pulls out some wet wipes.
[SPEAKER_09]: She just has on herself because she knows who she is as a person and she like hands you, if you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, thank you.
[SPEAKER_03]: This boost is disgustingly sticky.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I like wipe off my hand.
[SPEAKER_09]: This place is nasty.
[SPEAKER_09]: But also got a fun, colorful.
[SPEAKER_09]: OK, so we didn't really get to introduce ourselves in the car slashed or we've got a way moment.
[SPEAKER_09]: But I'm Jack, Jack Sing, Agent Sing, you can call me Jack or Agent Sing, whatever it doesn't really matter, and this is, well how let them introduce themselves.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm 9, Agent 9.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm nice to meet you both, I think.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm Clementine, I like Clementine personally, but whatever you want to call me.
[SPEAKER_09]: Great.
[SPEAKER_09]: Clim, it is.
[SPEAKER_09]: So we're here because we're following reports of an incident that may or may not have happened earlier today that you mentioned.
[SPEAKER_03]: The incident should insidents, you know?
[SPEAKER_03]: Incident's incident.
[SPEAKER_05]: Nine elbows, jack a little bit in the side.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, we're getting.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well listen, we're not here to punish you or to make your life any more difficult than it has to be.
[SPEAKER_09]: Think of what just happened between you and your friends and the creature that you may worry not.
[SPEAKER_09]: I have seen as a big spill.
[SPEAKER_09]: right it was just okay not necessarily anyone's fault and we're the cleanup crew we're here to make that spill go away better for everyone involved right you don't have to get all sticky or feel bad about what happened during the spill and everyone's lives get to keep on living but what does that mean i'm uh i'm like in mince words with your kid we might have to
[SPEAKER_09]: recall the spill depending on what happened during the spill.
[SPEAKER_09]: So it's in both of our best interests to just be completely honest with each other.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll jump in really quickly.
[SPEAKER_00]: So when Agent Jack says that, Clim, thank you, scan the room and then a little more keenly.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you do see that Agent Jack has two brief cases.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're not the same color as the ones you've seen before with other agents, or what you can assume now might be agents.
[SPEAKER_00]: But they nonetheless still are brief cases that they do have little names and scribed on them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, yeah, they're just like on the other side.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like they're just like named items.
[SPEAKER_09]: One of them is a gray leather briefcase.
[SPEAKER_09]: Just like a regular size, normal looking briefcase, but on one side of it, you can see the name and blazing myosotus.
[SPEAKER_09]: And then the other one is a slightly smaller briefcase.
[SPEAKER_09]: Only about the size of a large book, and inscribed on its side is limonium.
[SPEAKER_09]: Almost like it's linoleum still wrong, but limonium.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, I don't know if, if I like that all that much, um, I like my brain, like I know what happened was, was bad, but you don't have to get rid of it.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think nine turns and looks at Jack with these, with these big freaky eyes now kind of rimmed with a little bit of empathy and sadness and they blink up at Jack.
[SPEAKER_05]: She said about something.
[SPEAKER_09]: What, what are you sad about, kid?
[SPEAKER_09]: Is it just the prospect of getting your memories wiped?
[SPEAKER_09]: What is that weird?
[SPEAKER_09]: That's such a weird thing to ask.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, is it everyone's weird?
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay, and anyone that tells you that you're not weird?
[SPEAKER_09]: You're mad.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, okay, fun.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, maybe I'm on Jack's foot under the table.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then puts their hands up, their elbows up on the table and leans over to climb into, look at them a little bit more clearly with those big freaky eyes.
[SPEAKER_05]: Why don't you just start at the beginning?
[SPEAKER_06]: Like.
[SPEAKER_06]: How far, as far as makes sense.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, okay, so I'm on a road trip with my friends who are back at the police station.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to college and my dad suggested it would be a great idea if I went on a road trip with my friends across the United States because he did that when he was a kid, the summer before he went to college and he likes to say that it's the best time he ever had in his life.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, so we've been doing that and all admit,
[SPEAKER_03]: We've seen a few weird odd things on our road trips so far, but it wasn't anything like we couldn't handle.
[SPEAKER_03]: And so we came to Idaho because I was hungry and we had just been camping in Washington.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I like potatoes and we're trying to hit all the states so it's not like a great idea And so we went to this place and there's this lady She kept talking about slimy slim, but her name is charlie, but she likes the name slimy slim I think and Not to be a great idea to like fishing because I like fishing because there's something weirdly calm about
[SPEAKER_03]: Cast your line out and waiting for a fish and then getting a tug and then really in in and then it wasn't a catch And then you do do all over again.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's something really calm about that anyways, so One of us suggested we bred to the boat.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't remember which one of us and then we got a boat and Things went really wrong and bad at that point and there were stuff in the water
[SPEAKER_07]: I can't believe you were right.
[SPEAKER_07]: You should have brought your swim trunks.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_07]: I know, I really should have.
[SPEAKER_07]: Damn it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, I guess it must have been an essay.
[SPEAKER_07]: Or something like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: She kept calling it Slimy Slim.
[SPEAKER_03]: I guess I'm the name that they like.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: But did something happen with slimy slim?
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I didn't see anything out there.
[SPEAKER_03]: We were jokingly, we caught a few fish while we were out there.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I took some photos and I don't, and she like, paths herself.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't have those photos on me anymore.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think I left it.
[SPEAKER_03]: before I did the thing.
[SPEAKER_03]: There was a photo I took of my friend, and there was a face behind it, and then there was stuff something in the water, and then there was a body in the water.
[SPEAKER_03]: and then my other friend fell over into the water and that was a whole thing and then I was in the water and the water was bad.
[SPEAKER_03]: It made me feel cold and bad and heavy and bad.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then we got out of the water, um, and then there were, God, these guys that I keep seeing, they're little like you.
[SPEAKER_03]: No.
[SPEAKER_03]: But not like you exactly.
[SPEAKER_03]: I, uh, acquisitions.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're running around.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's a containment.
[SPEAKER_09]: They have a name.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, they think they're so great.
[SPEAKER_09]: Walking around.
[SPEAKER_06]: More like asshole.
[SPEAKER_09]: He talks, I know, right?
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, you're a good judge of character.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, they have, they have these like briefcases and things like that, and she kind of like, eyes the ones that you have.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, mine limb, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: One of them started running towards us, and they did some weird stuff with time, I think, or something.
[SPEAKER_03]: I haven't entirely made sense of it yet.
[SPEAKER_03]: There hasn't been enough time for me to think about it enough.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, with that, you too would know that if there's something odd happening with time, uh, it tends to be a machine not unlike one of yours, uh, it's a simple record player in air quotes, um, that is stored inside of a brief case, uh, and usually, um, depending on the radius at which it plays it causes the, um,
[SPEAKER_00]: the seizure of signals from the brain to the rest of the body, so it just kind of locks people into place, and it just, it technically, it shouldn't be used for more than like 10 to 30 seconds, but you're aware that some agents go outside of the recommended means.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it pretty much just causes people so like say you're standing or sitting right where you are if this thing We're open and used it can have it open and used you guys could get up and walk away and climb would be here and then Once you were gone and the music was far enough away or this the free go through it's far enough away Climber to come back to and to climb no time ahead of past you guys have just disappeared And so you're aware that it's it is from your agency and Then we
[SPEAKER_03]: time was weird and stopped maybe I don't know but like I know I still saw everything that happened and then I think one of them realized to that I knew that something had happened and then started running at us mm-hmm
[SPEAKER_03]: and we were trying to tell the lady in the shop who gave us the fishing rods and everything that we were sorry that we broke the fishing rod and we were going to pay her a little extra and then the guy came in and was like going to do a bunch of stuff and he was reaching to his jacket pocket and I made him throw a rocket him.
[SPEAKER_03]: I made him throw a rocket him.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know, he scared me.
[SPEAKER_03]: and then the lady had a gun and then they got really bad really fast and then we all ran out and then we were trying to get away and then he followed us and then one of my friends started charging up a gun, the suit and then and they got into an altercation.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think you called it up this, the cuffs.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I was in the driver seat and they managed to get away somehow.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know it was holding and they hopped in the car and then we started driving and then before you knew it the weird cowboy guy police officer showed up again and that's how we got here.
[SPEAKER_06]: I see.
[SPEAKER_06]: You have good instincts.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't think it's like just when guys and suits run at me.
[SPEAKER_06]: Good instincts.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I suppose the thing is that the guys and suits, we probably know them, but we're all the little different, and we all have different jobs, but ultimately all of us are just trying to keep the balance of this world.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, listen kid, there's stuff in this world.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_09]: Beard stuff.
[SPEAKER_09]: You mentioned seeing weird things on your road trip so far.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: Those things are real.
[SPEAKER_09]: They might not be exactly as you know them from the stories.
[SPEAKER_09]: Or they might be.
[SPEAKER_09]: But they're out there and some of those things are dangerous.
[SPEAKER_09]: Some of those things just want to be left alone.
[SPEAKER_09]: Some of those things might even.
[SPEAKER_09]: have enough intelligence to hatch their own plans and do their own things.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like giant birds.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: Have you seen a giant bird?
[SPEAKER_03]: Like like huge bird.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like think of a big bird and then think of it bigger.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was really big bird.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, now she's seen a lot of stuff.
[SPEAKER_07]: She's seen a lot of stuff.
[SPEAKER_09]: Like a lot of stuff probably like a walk right.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, definitely.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay, right.
[SPEAKER_09]: So it was in the fact that you're still here and alive, frankly is an achievement in and of itself.
[SPEAKER_09]: Good job.
[SPEAKER_09]: And yeah, things.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yes, you should actually feel really proud.
[SPEAKER_09]: A lot of people don't even see one of these things and live to tell the tale of it.
[SPEAKER_03]: So what happens now?
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, did anyone die during your altercation?
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, there was a body in the lake, but the body in the lake, I think, was already dead for a while.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, okay, okay.
[SPEAKER_09]: Did you or your friends kill anyone?
[SPEAKER_09]: No.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay, did any of the people in suits kill you or your friends?
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, and she like, looks at her hands.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm still alive, I think.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, you are.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: All right, well, it's sounding to me, nine, that maybe what happened here was just a casual altercation.
[SPEAKER_09]: So minimal invasive miss is required in the protocol we implement.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yes, nine is not in a long very much so.
[SPEAKER_09]: I have no idea what that means.
[SPEAKER_09]: Jack had a leans a bit conspiratorally over the very sticky counter and says, that means we're trying to paper work and loophole our way out of having a racer memory skid.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_09]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: You're welcome.
[SPEAKER_09]: Does that sound accurate to you as well, subject of this interview?
[SPEAKER_09]: Yes, okay, we just have some paperwork.
[SPEAKER_09]: You need to sign essentially like a non-disclosure agreement Okay, I'm guessing that you're not gonna tell random people what you saw.
[SPEAKER_09]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: Nine Can you give me a role for whatever it is that you Use to feel frequencies or to experience frequencies and experience sound
[SPEAKER_05]: I absolutely can.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm gonna use my charm for that because I think it's a very social heart-based activity, which is going to be an 18 on the die.
[SPEAKER_00]: that's so good.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the worst part about it being so good is the horror that sets in for you when you recognize that every frequency that you felt, every warm feeling and a bit of excitement of kids who skip school on a Wednesday, rollerblading, people enjoying nachos and hanging out
[SPEAKER_00]: had filled you with brightness and all of those vibrations, even the vibrations here cease to reach you and your for a very rare moment, truly alone, you have to be with yourself for a moment and
[SPEAKER_00]: You're, I think, almost blinded by that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, it's this, like, you're, like, focusing on, it's almost like if you're vision went for a second.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so you're focusing on, like, go, there's something wrong.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I'm not picking up the right tunes.
[SPEAKER_00]: And a hand kind of goes over Clim Shoulder as another agent sits down and looks it.
[SPEAKER_00]: U-H-A-Jaxing.
[UNKNOWN]: Nope.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jack, we're not just letting people go, are we?
[SPEAKER_09]: Do I know this person, like, do they have a name?
[SPEAKER_00]: Hush, like, you do, yes, and they do.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you've had a handful of runs with this, uh, this agent specifically.
[SPEAKER_00]: So they are agent, uh, type NTA, IPAN.
[SPEAKER_00]: They are so human that they're not human at all.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, their face is perfectly proportional and perfectly very mannequin-esque.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they are the, like,
[SPEAKER_00]: opposite of of this like looking at a beautiful eclipse that that nine is there truly the opposite uncanny of that and it's looking into something that I don't want to be looking back at me and um and again it's agent type n's uh well agent type n I didn't even notice you come in you enjoy rollerblading
[SPEAKER_00]: No, I enjoy doing my job and really quickly the two of you would know that the specific title of his job is there the AOE section of your guys' company and it is asset and obstacle eradication.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, Agent Typen, what's AOE doing here?
[SPEAKER_09]: This is our jurisdiction, and I believe it's our responsibility and within our power and means to decide the appropriate path forward.
[SPEAKER_00]: Surely, it tends to be, I just fear that you're going to go a little too light.
[SPEAKER_00]: And, well, if I'm being honest, agents,
[SPEAKER_00]: When you don't do your job people love to look for more answers and then I have to do my job.
[SPEAKER_00]: And frankly, like I said, I like doing it, but I just want to remind you, we fill a niche, each of us.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, here you go with a niche thing again.
[SPEAKER_03]: Is your mood of putting your hands on people's shoulder?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I'm sorry, Young Lady.
[SPEAKER_00]: This conversation doesn't concern you.
[SPEAKER_03]: But you have your hand on my shoulder, so... Well, you're a flight risk.
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't know that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't know that, even your friends have assaulted an agent already.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, okay, listen, listen, listen.
[SPEAKER_09]: Let's just de-escalate here as nine would say, nine...
[SPEAKER_09]: Nine.
[SPEAKER_05]: Nine has very quietly and very slowly brought their hands up to their ears and has squeezed their eyes shut and I was like pressing their fingers into their ears.
[SPEAKER_05]: and they're completely still.
[SPEAKER_05]: They don't look well and I think even the physical reality of this person, air quotes, starts to fizzle at the edges.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like whatever that halo that iridescent eclipse of them is, starts to brighten on the edges, starts to become a little bit sharper and a little bit more devastating, a little bit more intense.
[SPEAKER_09]: and Jack immediately, like all of that rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
[SPEAKER_08]: What's going on?
[SPEAKER_08]: Are you hearing something?
[SPEAKER_08]: Or is it something not getting heard?
[SPEAKER_08]: No, I'm not hearing anything.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jack, um, you might want to get a hold on your partner.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would hate for an asset that have to be exterminated here.
[SPEAKER_09]: What?
[SPEAKER_09]: There's no asset here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not currently, but the little phrase
[SPEAKER_09]: You are out of line.
[SPEAKER_09]: Agent Typen.
[SPEAKER_09]: Agent 9 is a part of our organization just as much as me, and just as much as you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Agent 9 is an asset where I'm gonna disguise.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's lucky that they even get to participate in anything we do here.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's rude.
[SPEAKER_00]: Who's talking to you, young woman?
[SPEAKER_03]: Again, you have your hand on my shoulder, so I'm in the conversation.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, that's a fair dig from Klem, nice one.
[SPEAKER_09]: But listen, nine doesn't behave like this unless there's something wrong going on outside of this.
[SPEAKER_09]: I've only seen them reactously when we've been near other similar assets, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: You see him kind of begin to smirk.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, certainly, you would say that, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: What's that in your partner?
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, of course, they're my co-workers, they're worth teammates.
[SPEAKER_09]: We watch each other's backs.
[SPEAKER_09]: I know them, okay?
[SPEAKER_09]: There's no one here that knows them as well as I do.
[SPEAKER_09]: You don't know what you're talking about.
[SPEAKER_09]: Maybe the reason why they're acting so weird is because you're here intruding on our job.
[SPEAKER_05]: So why don't you beat it?
[SPEAKER_05]: I think as this conversation is happening, nine in the seat next to Jack has very slowly open to their eyes and I think the iris itself has started to fracture and is almost drifting outward in their eye, like the stained glass that makes up their eyes is like floating upward and outward, like it's suspended in the strange kind of gravity and they make eye contact with you,
[SPEAKER_05]: And they don't say anything.
[SPEAKER_05]: No noise comes out of their throat, but you can see the mouth, the words.
[SPEAKER_05]: Rock.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, so...
[SPEAKER_03]: I think I look back at nine.
[SPEAKER_03]: almost with that same look of confusion that you saw earlier when you first saw me in the holding cell.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, but that very quickly goes away as I kind of like, I think I want to try to like quietly go in my pockets and like,
[SPEAKER_03]: see if I can like if what's going on over there is there to into the conversation if I can maybe grab something from my pocket.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think that you can.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that Aiden Jack is a bold enough force to keep Aiden Typen focused at least like it's not Aiden Typen's not some like unstoppable force Aiden Typen can get punched in the face and say it's very like
[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, so you're able to bring your pockets about being noticed.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, I just want to grab something and just kind of hold on for a second.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, so as this moment escalates, I think everyone here begins to feel or hear the rush of blood in your ears.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if any of you have ever hit your head really hard and just hear your blood moving.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's everyone's our faces begin to get hot.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a high tension moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: Agent Jack, can you give me a grit or brain rule on trying to figure out what exactly Type-Aance play is here and why your partner is so off.
[SPEAKER_09]: I can, absolutely, give that to you.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay, that is a five.
[SPEAKER_00]: A five's not terrible.
[SPEAKER_00]: A five would be bad for like a civilian doing this, but given that you're wealth of knowledge and that you work in this is, Typen is clearly making some kind of play and it is not a mistake that,
[SPEAKER_00]: something's going on with your partner while Typen has shown up, um, um, but while all that's connected suddenly there's like a sound of like hitting a mic and just everybody get to the floor it's time for the disco hour and then, um,
[SPEAKER_00]: All of the frequency rushes back into you, nine as whatever was occurring, is drowned out by the blasting of music over the speakers and Typans going to make a move for free.
[SPEAKER_03]: I, at that same moment, I'm gonna grab Jack and Nine's hands and go, oh my god, disco hour and go for an opening of the ring.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, Jack will absolutely go with Clim and like use this distraction as an attempt to try to get away from agent type down.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_00]: Give me a flight.
[SPEAKER_09]: Can we assist?
[SPEAKER_09]: Can we help?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I think you can, so I'll give this up to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: So for each of their assistants, you can either get a plus two or you can save it in reroll if you roll poorly.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll take the plus two.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so you'll get a plus four in total.
[SPEAKER_03]: That'll be a nine.
[SPEAKER_00]: So Typen is quick.
[SPEAKER_00]: He bolts towards you and like to his feet fast.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think it's this, his steps are odd and uncanny in the way that like they close distance.
[SPEAKER_00]: Very much quicker than us.
[SPEAKER_00]: His gate would kind of betray, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: But you managed to get into this mini crowd.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's not truly that many people.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a Wednesday.
[SPEAKER_00]: but there are still I would say 20 plus people on in the ruler rank that have now just kind of moved out for disco hour as the ball started.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is chaos incarnate people are having a good time, you're scared and stressed that you've made it to the floor and Typhane stops just right at it just looking at you guys kind of skate in and begin circling the outside just walking around kind of
[SPEAKER_09]: Can we say that we have roller blades on that we go?
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, we first came in and they were literally on our feet.
[SPEAKER_00]: I kind of figured that nine was so excited that this was the thing that was going on while you talked with it like roller blades were getting put on.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, absolutely.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think now that the frequency is back and the disco is blasting over whatever thing had gotten into and on to and in between nine's body mindset their eyes blink the iris comes together again like it just pulls itself back together They shake a little oh I that was bad that was weird.
[SPEAKER_05]: I didn't like that at all.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, what was that?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, are you okay?
[SPEAKER_05]: I felt a little weird.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm not gonna lie to you, come
[SPEAKER_05]: I like humans, I like humanity a lot, but you know those strange things that you see sometimes?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm one of them.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: But, you know what, I think...
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, you're pretty cool.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, thanks.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think you're pretty cool too.
[SPEAKER_05]: And the thing about that is, you know, you're on this trip with your friends and the fact that you have lived so long and seen so many things and only gotten to trouble now really does mean that you take care of each other.
[SPEAKER_05]: And there's something to that.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I think that if we were to take away all of the things that you've experienced, wouldn't really give you the experience that you were looking for on this trip with it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I guess you're right.
[SPEAKER_03]: What are we gonna do about?
[SPEAKER_03]: And I like point at the agent, what that guy?
[SPEAKER_03]: This is all happening while we're skating, right?
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, we're like, I'll just skate and talking.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay, I need you all to know that Jack cannot skate.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, she's like stopping on the ring and trying not to fall, which is why she hasn't spoken yet.
[SPEAKER_09]: And she's like, just kind of scooches, holding her body tight as a rod, just like scooches forward from momentum itself.
[SPEAKER_09]: The, listen.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'll form a distraction with time K while that's happening the two of you can tell out of here, okay?
[SPEAKER_09]: What about the car?
[SPEAKER_09]: I can't drive.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh No, Betsy, um
[SPEAKER_09]: Just I could try to run as far as you can and I'll pick you up in Betsy.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, what what about The briefcase is they whisper really loud like with the hand away from club, but you can still hear it just fine Dang it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm gonna distract type-in grab the briefcases run out get into Betsy and pick you up wherever you are when you're outside
[SPEAKER_03]: That seems like a lot of steps.
[SPEAKER_09]: I know what's already been true.
[SPEAKER_09]: Sometimes, hey, when you're doing what we do, you gotta learn how to improvise with a little bear piece of a plan behind you.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, what I mean?
[SPEAKER_03]: What if, what if one step does it work?
[SPEAKER_03]: Then we kick your ass in.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: They look at, I think, uh, nine a jack and a look at each other.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm back at come.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, I guess I think I trust you guys, so I just tell me what to do.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, nine.
[SPEAKER_09]: You can leave this kid.
[SPEAKER_09]: And I'm gonna go do something I should have done a long time ago.
[SPEAKER_09]: And she tries to look cool, but she's just stopping.
[SPEAKER_09]: Let's take her away.
[SPEAKER_09]: Over to where Typan is circling the ring.
[SPEAKER_08]: Hey, Typan!
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, Aden Jack.
[SPEAKER_09]: Ugh, just, I've got a bone to pick with you.
[SPEAKER_09]: I've got something I need to rub.
[SPEAKER_09]: Can you like come into the ring or something because this is just, this is it working?
[SPEAKER_00]: Surely.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he walks into the ring just towards you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have shoes on because that's what thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he just kind of looks at you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Aden Jack, are you the distraction?
[SPEAKER_09]: What?
[SPEAKER_09]: No?
[SPEAKER_09]: What distraction?
[SPEAKER_09]: No, I just, I've got something that I've been meaning to say to you, you know, since the day we first met.
[SPEAKER_09]: Remember that day?
[SPEAKER_09]: Remember when I, you know, got onboarded by recruitment, and then we got to meet all of the different departments.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, asset, you know, acquisition.
[SPEAKER_09]: And oh, hey, how cool is it?
[SPEAKER_09]: Hey, hey, you with your fancy schmancy weapons and your training and whatnot.
[SPEAKER_09]: And I'll never forget that, and look, you gave me like I was a piece of shit stuck to the bottom of your shoe.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't say I remember that, but then again, I don't tend to think about you that often.
[SPEAKER_00]: Have you not begun to wonder where my partner is?
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a newbie, but he is quite hungry.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, the girl had friends, right?
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, look at this.
[SPEAKER_09]: And she's gonna suck her punch him into the face as hard as she can.
[SPEAKER_00]: Amazing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, give me give me a fight roll.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll let you yeah, just go in and roll me a fight and we'll see how this goes Can I am I allowed to add my protective here?
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, I protect ourselves specifically doing this as cover.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay, cool.
[SPEAKER_09]: Come on big body.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's my deets going to be big body That's an after 19.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, yes, yes, that's a 22
[SPEAKER_00]: you typically would be so incredibly outclassed by someone in this position.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, they're all skilled combatants, they're all skilled things like this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Their whole thing is killing things.
[SPEAKER_00]: And maybe it's that you're on roller blades and you truly think of you as lower than him
[SPEAKER_00]: and you see that!
[SPEAKER_00]: his eyes kind of just go white for a moment as you have a second to do whatever else you're attempting to do as he's gathering himself not unlike nine again there is this the phrase at the seams there's something off and whatever's just below beneath that surface or beneath beneath the veneer is close and so it's taking a moment of composure while you do whatever you're
[SPEAKER_09]: Hmm, question for you, why are agents unaffected by their own tech?
[SPEAKER_09]: Like is there something that shields us from it?
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, typically you put, you put earbuds in.
[SPEAKER_09]: Ear buds.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's not it.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's all we need.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay, lovely.
[SPEAKER_09]: So in that case, uh, as soon as she socks him in the face, she knows this is the point of no return.
[SPEAKER_09]: You like cannot assault a fellow agent without their ring-support or try to be, you know.
[SPEAKER_09]: And all this stuff's been adding up, but then there was Vegas and then the divorce and
[SPEAKER_09]: Man, she just doubled into this, and this is a pouring out of her, like, vocalist.
[SPEAKER_09]: She's saying this, I just doubled into this, because I hit a fucking Sasquatch on the I-95.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay, and it was this, or have everything in my brain erased.
[SPEAKER_09]: So, consider this my resignation, or maybe I'm gonna force you to fire me, because I do want this severance.
[SPEAKER_09]: Bye!
[SPEAKER_09]: And she's gonna, like, stumble out of the rinks, still in the skates, completely ignore her two brief cases, so she can buy herself more time, and go, like, shouting at nine and climb,
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, go!
[SPEAKER_09]: It's in the car!
[SPEAKER_09]: Niki!
[SPEAKER_00]: Ah!
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so you rush to the car.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think there's some kid who's like, hey, you got to pay the, you have to leave the skates and you guys are out of the day.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they're gone.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I think right before the punch connected, nine knew what was coming.
[SPEAKER_05]: They could see it play out in their mind and they had grabbed a clam and taken us back over to the table.
[SPEAKER_05]: shoved both brief cases into Clem's arms and was like here you hold these And is dating us out toward the door Okay So the thing about those is that I technically can't use them because like I said asset But you know what I think you can and you know what they might come in real handy right now So I'll do it, okay, okay, okay
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, all right, do I open them?
[SPEAKER_05]: You're gonna start by opening them.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, both of them.
[SPEAKER_05]: Um...
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know what?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, I think so, because of them.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, now what?
[SPEAKER_05]: So the first one, Connie, would you like to describe what's in your briefcase?
[SPEAKER_09]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_09]: And the one labeled Myosotus, as soon as you pop it open, a song starts to play.
[SPEAKER_09]: It like emanates out from a record player that is like kind of like soldered into the interior of his briefcase.
[SPEAKER_09]: And this song will cause folks around you who are not wearing earbuds to freeze up and becomes susceptible to persuasion.
[SPEAKER_05]: And as I think you've served to flick it open,
[SPEAKER_05]: Nine reaches into their ears, pulls out these tiny ear buds and puts them into your ears.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, and I think it's that thing of like being able to hear all sound and then all of a sudden it's all muffled.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then I was speaking to you louder than I should be.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, okay, what do I do now?
[SPEAKER_06]: Focus on the guy.
[SPEAKER_06]: His name is Taipei.
[SPEAKER_05]: They got to grab one of your arms, no focus, with your brain, we'll do it together.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I think as nine is looking at you, when they take their ear buds out, that same etchous sketch quality to the edges of their body comes back, but it's a little bit brighter, it's a little bit more intense.
[SPEAKER_05]: And the more and more you look at them, asset, all of these words, not entirely human, they're not entirely human.
[SPEAKER_05]: Continuing, continuing, continuing, it's like the harmony of your mind, the sonic wave that you produced that nine was able to tap into on the way to you, the memories, whatever it is you see, the voices of your friends.
[SPEAKER_05]: the voices of your father telling you to go on this road trip in the first place.
[SPEAKER_05]: The sound that you made when you got your college acceptances, the sound of the car starting up the sound of your friends, the playlists that you've made together, the summers that you've shared.
[SPEAKER_05]: They all start to collide.
[SPEAKER_05]: They all start to drift into the Boogie Wonderland.
[SPEAKER_05]: They all start to get tied up into, what is that the sound of slot machines?
[SPEAKER_05]: What is that, like, a priest?
[SPEAKER_05]: Is someone getting married right now?
[SPEAKER_05]: It's like,
[SPEAKER_05]: The memories and the sound, the mind, the song that lives inside your soul, it's like our minds start to collide, they become one, they fuse, like two branches of a river forming, like two harmonies and a song starting to sing together.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I have a special ability, which is essentially telepathy, which allows me to share information between willing parties.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, if you are so willing in this moment, almost like in mind space, you can see Nine and you can see yourself in this weird like meta-textual look like looking from a different direction like seeing shrimp colors right the shrimp color version of you and nine
[SPEAKER_05]: pushing the music, pushing this sound, pushing this memory wiping song into the mind of Typen.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so I think in this moment it's like this weird thing, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: Where she's like consciously like, yeah sure.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, yeah, I'll help you because you're telling me to do this thing.
[SPEAKER_03]: But subconsciously, we've had this weird like,
[SPEAKER_03]: me be our hour and a half together and a lot of weird things have happened but also a connection has also happened and it's subconsciously that thing of like yeah I trust you because you haven't let me astray and you've been honest so far so she is going to willingly help you push this thing, this mind-wiping thing but she doesn't quite understand towards this age
[SPEAKER_00]: So as the two of you push this music, I think in a way you use your telepathy, the frequencies to kind of coast into the mind of Typen.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it is not without risk.
[SPEAKER_00]: Unablemines are hard to work with, and Typen's is perhaps the most unwilling of minds.
[SPEAKER_00]: cold, and it is perhaps the most uncanny thing you've ever seen, even in your existence nine, that every single part of his thoughts and his frequencies are.
[SPEAKER_00]: caged away and locked away so perfectly compartmentalized that they don't even squeak.
[SPEAKER_00]: They don't even eke out a frequency.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just the main thought that was the single job that he's on right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you just, you hear Typen just, well, okay, nine, I hope for your sake that I don't remember any of this.
[SPEAKER_05]: Me too.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm sorry to have to do this to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: don't be sorry.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you managed to help this thing amplify into the mind of Agent Typen as the three view, then have another paused moment to possibly escape.
[SPEAKER_00]: Typen is
[SPEAKER_00]: appears to be out of commission, he's frozen, not unlike the people who care of these songs often.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have a question for you though, Atenjack.
[SPEAKER_00]: Did you have your earbuds end?
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you keep them at all the time?
[SPEAKER_00]: Would you have put them in?
[SPEAKER_00]: Or is this a moment where you didn't think you were going to be using it?
[SPEAKER_09]: Not at all the time, but any Asian always has like multiple sets of earbuds on them all the time and like when they realize what's happening behind them They quickly fish through their like pockets throughout if you like randomly stir-read of chips and they like pop to bright orange Uh, earbuds that you might find at a rock like a punk rock concert like into lasers
[SPEAKER_00]: you perfectly in sync all three of you managed to escape this moment but the looming threat of there's a second agent and there's two kids still in holding has occurred to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: What exactly do you want to do?
[SPEAKER_09]: Ah, damn it!
[SPEAKER_09]: He's got a partner!
[SPEAKER_09]: And apparently this partner's really eager and doing something with your friends back at the precede.
[SPEAKER_09]: What do you mean?
[SPEAKER_09]: There's always two of us.
[SPEAKER_09]: Asian's always working pairs.
[SPEAKER_09]: Damn it, how could I always say the buddy says something?
[SPEAKER_09]: Aw, man.
[SPEAKER_09]: Something like that.
[SPEAKER_09]: We're supposed to hold each other accountable.
[SPEAKER_09]: Watch each other's backs, all that stuff.
[SPEAKER_09]: But look, TyPath is not going to stay down for long.
[SPEAKER_09]: Nine.
[SPEAKER_05]: Are you good?
[SPEAKER_05]: Nine touches their ears, dobs a little bit.
[SPEAKER_05]: Pulse out a little bit of bright pink blood.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then goes, yep, I'm good.
[SPEAKER_05]: Jack?
[SPEAKER_05]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Thanks for having me back.
[SPEAKER_05]: And nine comes forward and wraps them in a little hug.
[SPEAKER_05]: Very quick, very brief, and then throws their arms off and goes, okay, we should probably drive you back so you can go save your friends, right?
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, yes, yes.
[SPEAKER_09]: Come on.
[SPEAKER_09]: and Jack's gonna still wearing skates, skate, haphazardly out of the disco rink and into the parking lot.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think I, I think at that moment, I like realize I've been talking way louder than I should be.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm like, oh, nine, uh, and I think I'll take earbuds.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thanks.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're welcome.
[SPEAKER_03]: Grab the briefcases!
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, um, and I closed the one that I was using.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I imagine once we were done, I would have closed it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, and I think I opened the other one and started to, or it started doing things, and I didn't actually fully open it, and I just was like, close and then I swoop them both up.
[SPEAKER_03]: I still don't fully understand these things, but okay.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'll explain all the way, and Jack seems a little flush to maybe from the fight, maybe from that sudden tight hug, from nine, as they kind of like slam the driver side door, shot, and you scoot into the back seat, and nine comes into the passenger side.
[SPEAKER_09]: Screaming burning rubber as they peel out of the disco, uh, Rink, and they say, the one that you just opened, well you figured out what that does, make people susceptible to persuasion, helps you know.
[SPEAKER_09]: Replace their memories with other memories.
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't even see.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's what we would have used on you.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, the other one.
[SPEAKER_09]: The smaller one.
[SPEAKER_09]: There's a headset in there.
[SPEAKER_09]: Goes over someone's eyes, ears, mouth, nose.
[SPEAKER_09]: It's also used to take away memories, but wholesale.
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, we can kind of like, like suck it out of you.
[SPEAKER_09]: Like if you're a juice box, we suck all that juice out of you.
[SPEAKER_09]: And we store it somewhere else.
[SPEAKER_09]: That's bad.
[SPEAKER_09]: I know, yeah, it's kind of ethically dubious and at this point, she's like tearing through red lights and like smurfing around old ladies and whatnot, like, uh, her again, damn.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, you, just, uh, right, and the three of you are discussing the, like you said, morally dubious aspects of, uh, of your jobs and your tools.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you've probably hit some back road that you're aiming to take is like a straight shot to the precinct to where the her clumps friends are being held and clump you see off in the distance the last unicorn writing kind of perpendicular to you heading your way with two two people in the front
[SPEAKER_03]: I think I like, I slam the both of your front seats, and I'm like, that's the van, the van, the unicorn on the front, that's my friends.
[SPEAKER_09]: What?
[SPEAKER_09]: They broke it up.
[SPEAKER_09]: No, I guess.
[SPEAKER_09]: Very convenient for us.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay, hold on.
[SPEAKER_09]: and she kind of peels off of like the the country road and onto whatever piece of field the this van is trundling through and like from a bird's ivy it's like you know someone peeling off from that main through fair into this like whatever corn field or whatever making our way through the tall grass heading toward the van got to get if this is almost like a mad max moment through this open plane
[SPEAKER_09]: She like rolls down the driver's side window and goes, hey, I'm like leans on the horn a lot, like beep, beep, beep, beep, trying to get the driver's attention.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so the driver kind of skirts it to the side saying that it's the two of you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think you see, um, Zeke driver.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Clocking.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, like, and the door slides open, um, and you see, kind of a little, like, blood trickling from his head, um, uh, the officer, uh, John, who'd been helping guys out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Get in, and he kind of just, like,
[SPEAKER_03]: What?
[SPEAKER_03]: A what?
[SPEAKER_03]: I, um, I think at that moment, it's that sort of weird thing of like looking back at you guys and being like, I, uh, uh, hear your brief cases, um, and she's like hastily taking off the skates and it's like, can it, is it okay if I leave this in a bag of seat, I'm gonna leave these near back seat.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's so funny.
[UNKNOWN]: Um,
[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, thank you for this, and for not wiping my memory, it's so easy, I guess, for other people to just do that, so I appreciate you not, I hope you make it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I hope you make it and if she like rumbling through her pockets for stuff and pull out probably like a abusive paper and an eyeliner pencil that I carry around and I hastily like scribble my emergency numbers that I have and I like hand it to them.
[SPEAKER_03]: I guess if you're ever on the road and you need help and I'll hand the the note
[SPEAKER_09]: I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I
[SPEAKER_09]: I don't know what it is, maybe it's the fact that I just punch a douchebag in the face that I wanted a punch for a really long time, maybe it's the fact that I just quit my job.
[SPEAKER_09]: Maybe it's the fact that this is our second car chase at a day, or the fact that I am once again unemployed, but listen kid, no one can ever tell you who you are only you can.
[SPEAKER_09]: All right, for the longest time, I thought I was just a failure and then I met, and then I met nine.
[SPEAKER_09]: And I made me realize that whatever accomplishments I had, whatever trophies I put in my dusty little cabinet, whatever position I claim, whatever cool title, that doesn't matter nearly as much as how I treat other people.
[SPEAKER_09]: And how I think about myself.
[SPEAKER_09]: So just don't let your dad or anyone else tell you what you're supposed to do.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay, good.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thanks, I think, I think night is right.
[SPEAKER_03]: You are a little soft on the inside.
[SPEAKER_03]: What?
[SPEAKER_03]: Told ya.
[SPEAKER_09]: No, no, I'm heart, heart is steel.
[SPEAKER_09]: Heart is steel.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm so excited.
[SPEAKER_05]: Nine puts their finger up to your lips, Jack, to silence you for a moment.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then reaches back into their pocket and pulls out one of their earbuds.
[SPEAKER_05]: The special, like, beautiful, strange steel loop and puts it back into your hand,
[SPEAKER_05]: Are you sure?
[SPEAKER_05]: Just in case you need it.
[SPEAKER_05]: And the thing I like so much about humans and being human is that not everything is perfect.
[SPEAKER_05]: If you can't make a plan, make a dance instead.
[SPEAKER_05]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_06]: I keep wearing those cool shoes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, you should probably jump into that man.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, you should go in and invest in some earbuds for real.
[SPEAKER_09]: They keep coming out for you.
[SPEAKER_09]: Okay, try to do the thing that you're gonna do.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, okay, good to know.
[SPEAKER_03]: We'll try to go get some, thank you guys.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, good to know.
[SPEAKER_03]: We'll try to go get some, thank you guys.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, good to know.
[SPEAKER_03]: We'll try to go get some, thank you guys.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, okay, okay, okay, good to know.
[SPEAKER_03]: We'll try to go get some, thank you guys.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, good to know.
[SPEAKER_03]: We'll try to go get some, thank you guys, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, as you say that you do see another a black Cadillac coming up, which you have to assume is likely Type-in's a partner and they're not hot on the tail, but they're on their way and so you're aware of that
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, all right, a Cadillac?
[SPEAKER_09]: Well, that's seeking out Ron, one of those slow mobios any day.
[SPEAKER_09]: Come on, Nine.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: So our groups disperse the two of you are two no longer agents, but partners.
[SPEAKER_00]: kind of guide towards this Cadillac to get their attention and I think that two carchases enough we don't have to narrowing a third car chase.
[SPEAKER_00]: I do think the two of you at least for this moment make it out of this part of Idaho.
[SPEAKER_00]: What if
[SPEAKER_09]: I think we find ourselves at the end of this, just as we found ourselves in the beginning, driving down a stretch of country road.
[SPEAKER_09]: Except this time Betsy has a snorleys crash on one side of the paint job from the various car chases and what not that's happened.
[SPEAKER_09]: And she's late, but she's still rolling down this road, calmly and smoothly and quickly.
[SPEAKER_09]: And inside past the Tinted Windows, we see Jack, one hand on the 12 o'clock as always, the other hand digging into a bag of chips.
[SPEAKER_05]: and we see nine's ass as they are digging through the back seat.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm going, you know, I really think we could do something with all these roller blades.
[SPEAKER_05]: We have so many sets now.
[SPEAKER_05]: We have three sets.
[SPEAKER_05]: One of them is a child side set.
[SPEAKER_05]: How, what, what do we even do with all of these?
[SPEAKER_05]: We could, we could sell them.
[SPEAKER_05]: We could throw them at people.
[SPEAKER_05]: We could use them to roller blade down at our wedding again.
[SPEAKER_05]: We could attach them to cats and see what happens.
[SPEAKER_05]: Wait, all that happens?
[SPEAKER_05]: Hold on, wait, wedding, wait.
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, there's a lot of bad that I want to interrogate it as I can, but what did you say about a wedding?
[SPEAKER_09]: Oh, nothing.
[SPEAKER_09]: And Jack takes her foot off the gas and just lets Betsy go coast coast until she stops in the middle of this country road.
[SPEAKER_05]: And looks over at you.
[SPEAKER_05]: Nine looks a little bit like a cat who's been caught doing something rather naughty.
[SPEAKER_05]: They're kind of like pressing both of their forefingers together just to see the strange way that the bone and the skin moves.
[SPEAKER_05]: And it's a desperately avoiding eye contact with you.
[SPEAKER_09]: Did you?
[SPEAKER_09]: Did you actually want to get divorced?
[SPEAKER_05]: No, I like to be married to you.
[SPEAKER_05]: We were only married for eight and a half hours, but those were some of the happiest eight and a half hours of the time that I've spent pretending to be human.
[SPEAKER_09]: So, you like me?
[SPEAKER_09]: Like that?
[SPEAKER_09]: Was that not clear?
[SPEAKER_05]: And then I was just as you, and nine smiles, and kisses you back, should we go to Vegas again?
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, that's the complete opposite way that we're driving, but uh, yeah, let's do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we, like we did before, uh, pan away from this
[SPEAKER_00]: All black vehicle as it kind of drives off into wherever it's going.
[SPEAKER_00]: Vegas, maybe.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of frequencies and a lot of lights and a lot of sounds in Vegas.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's not a lot that you can do about the fact that type-handed people like him exist in that space.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's beyond you guys at this moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you can at least for the time being
[SPEAKER_00]: exist in spite of it and and hope that you don't run into them.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's what we're going to end this.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll close out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks everybody for participating.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think if you've listened to five games in a trench coat, thank you so much to our lovely guests.
[SPEAKER_00]: Would you like to plug yourselves and do all that fun stuff?
[SPEAKER_09]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_09]: Yeah, thanks so much for having us on.
[SPEAKER_09]: Uh, I have been Connie Chong, Prano's Vicki and she, the person playing Jack.
[SPEAKER_09]: Uh, I am the game master and creative director for Trans Plainer RPG.
[SPEAKER_09]: Woo!
[SPEAKER_09]: Which is an all-transgender people of color led dark fantasy actual play channel telling stories set in and original non-colonial anti-orientalist and multi-vers We stream Saturdays at 8pm U.S. Eastern time on Twitch and all of our vads are available to be Looks at on our YouTube channel at trans-plainer RPG But if you're more of an audio listener, you can listen to our entire backlog wherever you pod your casts at trans-plainer RPG and I'll pass things over to see
[SPEAKER_05]: Thank you so much and thank you to the amazing 5 GM's crew for having us on this is an absolute treat I can't thank you enough for letting me play another silly little guy.
[SPEAKER_05]: My name is C I use they them pronouns You can find me making very trans very gay art all across the internet at C plays RPG Generally speaking, Connie already did the trans planner plug, but you can always find me over there making very queer
[SPEAKER_05]: very trans stories with the person I love most in this world.
[SPEAKER_05]: So thank you so much for having me letting us be silly, not human and gay.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah!
[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you, bye!