[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome into actual play entertainment presents episode two of Meridian, a short scenario for Delta Green published by ArcDream.
[SPEAKER_03]: My name is Dave and I am the handler.
[SPEAKER_03]: The guys are just a quarter inch too big.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're all in dice.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm so excited me this early morning.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, it could.
[SPEAKER_04]: Just a quarter inch.
[SPEAKER_03]: That inside joke.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, a big difference.
[SPEAKER_03]: That inside joke you go many ways and we'll leave that up to the imaginations of the listeners.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a bad idea.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is a bad idea.
[SPEAKER_03]: We can't go any further into it because I will take the fun out of it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Let's jump in, shall we?
[SPEAKER_03]: Just go straight into it.
[SPEAKER_03]: No need to move on that.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, yeah, or let's the fucking get into it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's early morning.
[SPEAKER_03]: We got shit to do.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's fucking place some delta green.
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you guys want to do it?
[SPEAKER_03]: You guys got a quick little recap of why you two
[SPEAKER_03]: What are the hell do you guys the religious task force investigating fraud?
[SPEAKER_03]: What a boring ass fucking gig.
[SPEAKER_03]: That too, joppelin.
[SPEAKER_03]: Was it Missouri?
[SPEAKER_04]: Joplin Missouri.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's right.
[SPEAKER_04]: Right on the border of four states are like right on the border of three with a fourth state really close by.
[SPEAKER_04]: There's like some sketchy wilderness nearby where people have been kind of.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, going missing.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it's kind of like off light.
[SPEAKER_03]: Who's jurisdiction does it fall on so shit's not getting done.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's kind of just like a big
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, let's like a red tape.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, that's not our job.
[SPEAKER_03]: Not our job.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a wilderness cave.
[SPEAKER_03]: So they're just bureaucratic nightmare.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, literally a bureaucratic nightmare without having four states trying to get involved and point the blame on everybody else.
[SPEAKER_04]: We've been going around town, asking questions about Daniel Boone Keeler.
[SPEAKER_04]: He's seemingly leading the Holy Light Ministries.
[SPEAKER_04]: He's this guy who used to have a terrible reputation, but has turned it around.
[SPEAKER_04]: And he had a couple months ago.
[SPEAKER_04]: He had a couple months ago.
[SPEAKER_03]: He had a couple months ago.
[SPEAKER_04]: He had a couple months ago.
[SPEAKER_04]: He had a couple
[SPEAKER_04]: It just happens and all the people that he saved except for this young lady.
[SPEAKER_04]: I believe her name is Gay Gottlieb that we're about to meet.
[SPEAKER_04]: They all have been turned around instead on the right path but none of them live here anymore.
[SPEAKER_04]: I find that really suspicious.
[SPEAKER_04]: They're all fixed but gone.
[SPEAKER_06]: And there wasn't there an uptick in missing people.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: I've taken missing people for sure.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I'm super curious about the lights in the sky at the ghost light bridge.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know what's going on there.
[SPEAKER_04]: Right, right.
[SPEAKER_06]: We also met his mother.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, a little lady with some dementia.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, she was weird and she kept members at the end.
[SPEAKER_06]: She kept saying that that weird phrase over and over again.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, yeah, I can't can't ever die.
[SPEAKER_06]: You can't ever die, Katty.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, she was like confused and incoherent when she was herself and then she would almost like switch to someone else briefly and say some weird stuff that was like not her voice or something.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it was weird.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was kind of her voice, but yeah, like Joe saying she'd be like, I've dementia and then she'd be like, you can never die, Katty.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, didn't seem to line up.
[SPEAKER_03]: We should have burned our house down.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know what?
[SPEAKER_03]: This might be the first house you've left.
[SPEAKER_03]: We'll go back.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, no, scenario's not over.
[SPEAKER_03]: We have one more thing to do.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, we're we're just IRS agents.
[SPEAKER_04]: We're we're investigating Delta Green.
[SPEAKER_04]: Browse.
[SPEAKER_04]: Right.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, fraud.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, I'm sorry that this church has no official address and and maybe embezzling funds.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, the most boring.
[SPEAKER_06]: Uh, thankless task ever.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sam wants his pennies.
[SPEAKER_06]: Um, we also have a white Ford tourist.
[SPEAKER_06]: So that's good.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_04]: Terry's hitting his head on the roof of the tourist.
[SPEAKER_04]: He really wanted an SUV for extra headroom, but Dutch is a bit of a cheap skate with the expenses.
[SPEAKER_03]: Got a spreadsheet out calculating.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm afraid this is what we can afford.
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: I always round up on the mileage, too.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: The FBI seems to have a very tight budget for their agents.
[SPEAKER_03]: How do you guys get it?
[SPEAKER_03]: You guys are going to put this right off the flowers.
[SPEAKER_03]: If that kind of red flag, go on these flowers that you brought Jennifer Johnson, who, you guys went out and met her husband and had some dinner with, he felt like she was kind of like, kind of figure out what you guys were up to and by the end of it.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, she doesn't really like you guys.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's fair.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're probably not very likable.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, a little bit try hard to maybe.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think we're just sad.
[SPEAKER_06]: This goes of our job, but I don't know.
[SPEAKER_06]: Sounds like something that's saying is going to happen.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, we'll find out.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's start it up then as you guys pull up to McDonald's on a side of state highway, forty three to meet Jennifer.
[SPEAKER_03]: Another case worker.
[SPEAKER_03]: And gay, when we call it gay, Gottlieb?
[SPEAKER_03]: Gott.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Weird, weird name.
[SPEAKER_03]: G-O-T-T-L-I-E-B.
[SPEAKER_03]: Gottlieb?
[SPEAKER_03]: Gottlieb, I think.
[SPEAKER_03]: Gottlieb?
[SPEAKER_03]: Thanks.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll make up for now, so we are done and should just get insulted that you guys can't see our name properly.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's actually Gooseye.
[SPEAKER_03]: How much did I get insane?
[SPEAKER_03]: But you guys, park and you see them sitting outside, and one of those standards concrete McDonald's round tables.
[SPEAKER_03]: Jennifer looks over, doesn't really smile and just kind of waves as you guys walk over.
[SPEAKER_03]: Flowers in hand, or you do it in the behind the back like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hello, as you pull up, then I saw the surprise.
[SPEAKER_04]: I feel like, is there an opportunity if I look around to... Do you have to roll for it?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, just shock them into a garbage can or leave them beside the car before Jennifer or Gay noticed that I have flowers in my hand?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, hundred percent.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Do we have to roll for it?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, let's make a lot of swirls.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, it's lighter hand.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, it's just lighter hand.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's just lighter hand.
[SPEAKER_06]: Is that what you want?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'll slide ahead.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't think there is a slide ahead.
[SPEAKER_03]: Damn it, my stealth skills.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, let's go to stealth.
[SPEAKER_03]: We want to just have a stupid role right at the beginning.
[SPEAKER_04]: Wish me luck there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just toss it in the dumpster over there.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's a thirty seven over ten on my stealth check.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, what are you trying to do?
[SPEAKER_03]: You're just going to go back to the car.
[SPEAKER_03]: Try the gentleman in the trash can.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I'm just going to I'm going to try to stealthily jam them in a trash can.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, you guys walk over, she waves you over and you, like, no, this is a terrible fucking idea.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you go over to the trash can and go to jam the men and they fall apart in your hand and you jam some men and they just fall all over the ground.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not like just scooping them up in jam and I'm in the trash can and you see Jennifer kind of like, what the fucking shoes says something to the other lady who says something back and they just look at you weird.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, the, all been pale, white girl with the lines and scars of her rough life.
[SPEAKER_03]: She doesn't even really look up.
[SPEAKER_03]: She seems very distinterested in this whole ordeal.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you guys, walk up in Jennifer.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's hello.
[SPEAKER_03]: And introduces you to, do I have a name?
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't have a name.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll just make one up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Introduces you to Julie McKay.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is, I, guys, this is Julie.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is Gaze Case Worker.
[SPEAKER_03]: um she's uh you guys are very lucky that she agreed to meet after she didn't have to do this she seems cold towards you guys have you had a egg make muffin yet this morning uh no we we just got here a few minutes ago no we we haven't had any haven't had any breakfast yet I'll be why they're looking at us weird
[SPEAKER_03]: Would you like one?
[SPEAKER_03]: Kay looks up, and doesn't make eye contact with you guys, but she looks at the case worker, and she's like, are these... No.
[SPEAKER_03]: These cops are gonna buy me breakfast, right?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, well, we'll buy y'all breakfast.
[SPEAKER_06]: My treat.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I think like, oh God, now I gotta expense this.
[SPEAKER_03]: No.
[SPEAKER_03]: There you go, I might have to round up on this, too.
[SPEAKER_03]: There goes your whole party, yeah.
[UNKNOWN]: Damn it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, I like quickly go over and just put like an order in for a bunch of like random breakfast items and come back.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, you go, uh, you go get in line.
[SPEAKER_03]: And make sure I save the receipt.
[SPEAKER_03]: First, you save the receipt.
[SPEAKER_03]: While you're, you're going into McDonald's, um, what's your names again?
[SPEAKER_03]: Dutch and what's your name, Terry?
[SPEAKER_03]: Terry Will.
[SPEAKER_03]: Dutch and Terry.
[SPEAKER_03]: Alright, Dutch goes into McDonald's at Terry, uh, you sit down.
[SPEAKER_03]: And the the case worker Julie looks over and she's like, yeah, I was I was told you wanted to you talk to gay.
[SPEAKER_03]: What do you mind if I ask a few questions such as what what's going on?
[SPEAKER_03]: Who who you are?
[SPEAKER_04]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_03]: I got to fill in a little bit from Jennifer, but I just wanted to this one to talk to you as well.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, go ahead with questions.
[SPEAKER_03]: You have who are you and why are you here and why would you like to talk to gay?
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm special agent Terry Wilton with the IRS.
[SPEAKER_04]: We're in town investigating the holy light ministries.
[SPEAKER_04]: There's been some issues with tax forms around addresses and we're trying to find the holy light ministries and we haven't been able to locate them.
[SPEAKER_04]: We just wanted to talk to Gabe because Jennifer here told us that she'd had some contact with the holy light ministries and maybe new Daniel Keeler personally.
[SPEAKER_03]: She looks up to you and for the first time she's made eye contact with you.
[SPEAKER_03]: She, um, you know what I'm saying?
[SPEAKER_03]: Before she's, she's got scars of a rough life.
[SPEAKER_03]: She's got, she looks at you suspiciously, you know, that, you know, she doesn't trust cops and people of your ilk.
[SPEAKER_03]: What do you want with Daniel?
[SPEAKER_03]: Are you, is he in trouble?
[SPEAKER_03]: He's a nice man.
[SPEAKER_04]: No Daniel's not in any trouble at all.
[SPEAKER_04]: We just honestly need to, you know, clear up some discrepancies on his tax forms and he has no address officially for the business of the Holy Light Ministry, so we just need to get the information in place so that the IRS isn't looking for Daniel.
[SPEAKER_04]: It'll probably be really convenient for him once we get this sorted out.
[SPEAKER_03]: Looking at her, you can tell she's got signs of like Matthews.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know like the bad teeth, the bad skin, the broken nails.
[SPEAKER_03]: being super thin, kind of like that, you maybe would have expected worse, but you can tell that there's definitely been some drug use in her past.
[SPEAKER_03]: She does, she goes kind of silent and then Julie is like, it's okay, you can talk to them.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think they mean the annual any harm.
[SPEAKER_03]: And she looks up and she's like, no, no, no breakfast.
[SPEAKER_03]: I want some money.
[SPEAKER_03]: I want some money if I'm going to talk to a cop.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that seems entirely appropriate.
[SPEAKER_04]: We often provide small amounts of compensation to people who are able to provide us with valuable information, so that's no problem at all.
[SPEAKER_04]: As you put their hand out, basically.
[SPEAKER_04]: What kind of information do you think you'd be able to provide that would be valuable?
[SPEAKER_04]: Unfortunately, I'm not able to just kind of go around and hand out cash and the hopes that someone might provide information.
[SPEAKER_04]: Maybe you could tell me a few things and then we'll worry about the funds.
[SPEAKER_01]: Which one to know about the Holy Light?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, just like as simply as like where are they?
[SPEAKER_04]: Like we didn't have an address.
[SPEAKER_04]: We don't even know where to go find Daniel.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's an old church.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's Southwest somewhere.
[SPEAKER_03]: Probably like a drive of an hour.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I don't really know.
[SPEAKER_03]: I didn't drive there.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it's in the woods.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's quiet.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it's dark.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's hard to find.
[SPEAKER_03]: I got to ride there with a, with a packie and Jessica.
[SPEAKER_03]: There are two kids that stay with Daniel.
[SPEAKER_03]: Brother Dan, as we like to call him.
[SPEAKER_03]: While you're talking to her and Dutch is in line, wait for McDonald's, there's someone arguing at the counter arguing that.
[SPEAKER_03]: That was where I gave you five cents change in you and you know, just like stupid petty arguing and you're like, oh, fuck.
[SPEAKER_03]: and your phone rings.
[SPEAKER_03]: What years is this?
[SPEAKER_03]: You have called display at this time.
[SPEAKER_03]: I can't remember what fucking year this is set.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like two thousand and seven.
[SPEAKER_04]: We're twenty and ten in here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, you look down and it is your IRS boss Rick Korky or Karam or whatever the fuck his name was.
[SPEAKER_03]: His phone in, own in Dutch.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, he's phone in me.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, okay.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Go far and usual.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: I said something about someone can't die.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_06]: She's crazy.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm a cat die, but she's talking about me to help me a little bit more about that.
[SPEAKER_06]: I couldn't really tell you, like she didn't remember her saying it after she said it.
[SPEAKER_06]: She didn't even know she said it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Like she said, can't ever die, catty.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_06]: It was weird.
[SPEAKER_06]: And ever die, catty.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, I asked for a McGriddle.
[SPEAKER_03]: She's sorry Ricky Siddler.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, no, I'm still here.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm still here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, okay, keep me posted.
[SPEAKER_03]: I give me, uh, give me a call when you figure out what's going on and if anything unusual pops up, uh, let me know, okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: First thing, this is the thing, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Take care of that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Cheers.
[SPEAKER_03]: Bye.
[SPEAKER_01]: Have a good time for me.
[SPEAKER_03]: Mean what?
[SPEAKER_03]: Bye.
[SPEAKER_03]: God damn it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Only hangs out the phone.
[SPEAKER_03]: You get up and do you place your breakfast order for everybody?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: You get your order and you come back out just as you hear Harry talking about that, about the money and the spend.
[SPEAKER_03]: You put down the breakfast and she, everybody, you know, normal, but the girl gay starts like grabbing it, like eating it pretty quickly.
[SPEAKER_03]: She's pretty hungry.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, I got you the, yeah, they're mine.
[SPEAKER_06]: You said what do you want?
[SPEAKER_03]: I want a couple more of these to go before we leave.
[SPEAKER_03]: I want to take some food with me.
[SPEAKER_04]: Sure, that's fine, gay.
[SPEAKER_04]: No worries at all.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, so she's, she's mowing the food and she, uh, so what, what do you want to know about about the Holy Light Ministries?
[SPEAKER_03]: I can, I can answer some questions, but I, I don't really know a lot.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was, I was there, I visited three months ago.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, that's totally fine.
[SPEAKER_04]: You mentioned Paki and Jessica were they other youths like yourself that had been helped by Brother Daniel in the past?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I met them at the the Ghostlight Bridge and They they took me for a drive.
[SPEAKER_03]: They, you know, I I needed somewhere to go and I talked to them and they talked about how Brother Dan had helped them.
[SPEAKER_03]: Though I went I went with them.
[SPEAKER_03]: They had a Jeep and we
[SPEAKER_03]: They drove me back, they drove me back to the old church.
[SPEAKER_03]: I didn't really, I didn't stay for long.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was only really there for a couple days.
[SPEAKER_03]: It wasn't really what I expected, you know, when I was a little reluctant to go up because they talked about the church and the ministries, but there was no prayer meetings, there was no like happy, happy singalongs, no like
[SPEAKER_03]: No chats with brother Dan about how he's trying to manipulate you into God and all sorts of that kind of stuff.
[SPEAKER_03]: There was none of that.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was a weird place.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was a little too quiet.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was a little too quiet for me.
[SPEAKER_03]: You'd be quite honest.
[SPEAKER_04]: Why was it so quiet?
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: I found myself.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, I would walk around.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's lots of trails in the woods, old trails and
[SPEAKER_03]: That's all really people did, but they would go along in the trails.
[SPEAKER_03]: They'd always be laughing, staring into the woods, jumping up and down, running dancing.
[SPEAKER_03]: The be quite honest when I first got there, I thought that they were high as fuck.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, I've used drugs before and I was kind of in withdrawal and I was, I asked a couple of the kids for some drugs because they seemed pretty high but it's so that they didn't need that stuff anymore and they got, they got their joy straight from, straight from God which I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think they were just hiding it and wasn't given it to me.
[SPEAKER_03]: They stuck to the story though.
[SPEAKER_03]: I never found anyone there with any drugs.
[SPEAKER_04]: Did you feel that you felt differently than the other people seemed to be when you were at the church?
[SPEAKER_04]: Or did you feel the same way they did while you were there?
[SPEAKER_06]: Actually, can you excuse me for one sec, and I'm just gonna stand up and remove myself from this conversation real quick.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, the gate has even looked up at you.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, but the two social workers kind of like, okay, that's fucking good.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm just gonna go get her some more food, you know, it sounds like she wants it.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I'm gonna like, remove myself, but I'm actually gonna phone Rick back.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Rick with me.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh no, wait, I'm Rick.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's what's going on, bud.
[SPEAKER_06]: Hey, uh, not much.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_06]: We're just talking to this kid that Dan had at his church.
[SPEAKER_03]: Super boring conversation.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, she's been to the, okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: Sorry, go on.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, she's not really giving us much, but um, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's just weird.
[SPEAKER_06]: It sounded like you were worried there when I was talking to you.
[SPEAKER_06]: You never really worried.
[SPEAKER_06]: Just something going on.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's quiet for a bit.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you're right.
[SPEAKER_03]: You did pick up.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's not asking like the, uh, totally defining thing in his, uh, you know, it's P-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F
[SPEAKER_03]: You sure?
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, we go back a long way as Rick, like you can tell me.
[SPEAKER_03]: Dan, whatever you need to tell me.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh wait, fuck, you're not Dan.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's got damn it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I can't get my name straight in this.
[SPEAKER_03]: Dutch.
[SPEAKER_03]: Alright, this is weird.
[SPEAKER_03]: Can I get a little extra?
[SPEAKER_03]: First swede or something?
[SPEAKER_03]: That was a handler fuck up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Not a, not a brick fuck up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you can roll per swede.
[SPEAKER_03]: He catches like that Dutch.
[SPEAKER_03]: Jesus Christ, I keep getting my names off.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sorry, but Dan's, uh, Dan's my counter-practor.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm just going to throw it off.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, uh, you sound stressed out there, Rick.
[SPEAKER_06]: Good boy.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, there's a lot going on, but press me.
[SPEAKER_03]: I just want to see all the cases.
[SPEAKER_06]: Maybe it's a human.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I'll just give that a shot.
[SPEAKER_06]: Maybe you can warm up, see if he has something to say.
[SPEAKER_06]: Where are we here?
[SPEAKER_06]: Let's see.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, a twenty three under fifty.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, there he definitely is.
[SPEAKER_03]: He doesn't seem to have
[SPEAKER_03]: The questions he's asking, like you say, don't have to pertain to the cut and dry case of why you're sent there of fraud.
[SPEAKER_03]: He, you, you press him a little bit.
[SPEAKER_03]: And he's just like, that.
[SPEAKER_03]: I just want to know if anything unusual is going on.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know it's, it's weird.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I know that, you know, you're, you're there.
[SPEAKER_03]: No checking the numbers, which is great.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I still want you to do that.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I also just,
[SPEAKER_03]: It's neat to know if anything weird is going on.
[SPEAKER_03]: Alright, can I trust you?
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not, I can't say anything else.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like you said, we know it's just for a long time, trust me.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, yeah, they trust you.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I'll let you know.
[SPEAKER_06]: Don't worry.
[SPEAKER_06]: Right away.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: Right away.
[SPEAKER_06]: Is there anything in particular?
[SPEAKER_06]: Like...
[SPEAKER_03]: No, just that it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Fucking weird.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Weird is weird.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: I gotta go in.
[SPEAKER_03]: I got my appointment with Dan the car contractor.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, yeah, he's just gonna jump on you and he's gonna tell you to come back twice every two weeks for the next three weeks about talking about fraud, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: I feel like these guys are just fucking nuts.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you're just scamming you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I should really just go to physio like a normal person and actually get some results and hit the gym, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm telling you.
[SPEAKER_03]: I started the gym yoga, but it's my sciatica.
[SPEAKER_03]: Anyways, I gotta go.
[SPEAKER_03]: I gotta go.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll talk to you later.
[SPEAKER_03]: See ya.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hey Dutch, Dutch.
[SPEAKER_03]: Be careful.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: You too.
[SPEAKER_02]: Cheers.
[SPEAKER_02]: Love you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Bye.
[SPEAKER_02]: Love you too.
[SPEAKER_02]: What?
[SPEAKER_01]: What?
[SPEAKER_03]: What?
[SPEAKER_03]: You're going in, you're getting some more stuff.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Gay asks you, Terry.
[SPEAKER_03]: What else do you want to know?
[SPEAKER_04]: Just a few details about some of the stuff that you've said.
[SPEAKER_04]: What you've said so far has been super helpful and we're definitely going to compensate you for your time and send you off with some food here.
[SPEAKER_04]: So thank you so much in advance.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you're going to give me some money, right?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, you bet.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: So you said that you met Packie and Jess at the Ghostlight Bridge.
[SPEAKER_04]: Is there a lot of young people you're age hanging out at the Ghostlight Bridge?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, no, it is a popular, it is a popular hangout spot.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, no people, people go there.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a little bit of a swimming hole.
[SPEAKER_03]: People go down there and just a little place to get away and not have a parent or a cop watch over you so you can kind of just kind of just chill in it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, that's not it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you guys know anything about the ghost light bridge?
[SPEAKER_04]: No, we were going to ask you about it.
[SPEAKER_04]: I was happy to hear that you'd been there before.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's another place that we don't know where it is.
[SPEAKER_03]: There is a light, there's a light that comes that appears above the forest.
[SPEAKER_03]: Can you tell us more about that?
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know, I saw it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I saw it that night.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'd taken some, and she kind of hesitates, and she likes to be like, no, no, no, it's okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Did you say I was going to give you any trouble?
[SPEAKER_03]: But I had some mushrooms, and I saw, I saw the ghost light.
[SPEAKER_03]: I saw it appear and everybody was kind of waiting for it, and they seemed mesmerized.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, the mushrooms, the mushrooms were hopping.
[SPEAKER_03]: The light in the sky and everything.
[SPEAKER_03]: Moving, it was amazing, actually.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was really amazing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Who was mesmerized?
[SPEAKER_03]: Everyone, it was beautiful.
[SPEAKER_04]: So were there so packy and Jess were there, you were there.
[SPEAKER_04]: Were there was the whole group people from the church or was it a mix?
[SPEAKER_03]: No, I didn't really know.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think there was anyone else really from the church state.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, no, I met packing Jessica and we talked and I ended up going back to the church with them, but no one else came with us.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was just us.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think there was really many other church people there.
[SPEAKER_03]: They said I was only really there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Don't be there for a few days, a couple days, even.
[SPEAKER_04]: Were you selected by Becky and Jessica for some reason?
[SPEAKER_04]: Or did you guys just hit it off as friends?
[SPEAKER_04]: Or was it after you saw the light?
[SPEAKER_03]: It was, well, we talked before, but it was after we saw the light.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, I think I didn't really have anywhere else to go.
[SPEAKER_03]: And they asked if I wanted to come back and me brother Dan and you know.
[SPEAKER_03]: They didn't really say too much.
[SPEAKER_03]: There was no pressure.
[SPEAKER_03]: There was no anything.
[SPEAKER_03]: I needed a place to stay.
[SPEAKER_03]: And even when I said I wanted to leave, there was no, no problem at all.
[SPEAKER_03]: No arguments, no trouble.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's nothing to distract you there.
[SPEAKER_03]: You sit there.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's nothing to lean on.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's just nothing to do.
[SPEAKER_03]: You just stand up with your own thoughts, and I just couldn't, I couldn't take it.
[SPEAKER_03]: And when I said I wanted to leave, they said no problem.
[SPEAKER_03]: They drove me back to town.
[SPEAKER_03]: No arguments, no trouble, no anything.
[SPEAKER_03]: Even brother Dan, he, there was nothing from him.
[SPEAKER_03]: He was, he was a nice man.
[SPEAKER_03]: He was very friendly, but he felt pretty distant from me.
[SPEAKER_03]: He was definitely, you need to be friendly or with some of the other kids.
[SPEAKER_03]: But maybe he could tell I, I wasn't going to stay.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: He was, he always seemed like he was trying to figure me out.
[SPEAKER_04]: How would you say you're different from the other kids?
[SPEAKER_03]: They all seem really super happy and like they said hi on God and I just they didn't mind sitting around and doing nothing and just walking in the woods and I I couldn't do it I couldn't do it I felt like
[SPEAKER_03]: It's too calm.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're in with your own thoughts.
[SPEAKER_03]: I felt like my brain was crashing in on itself.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's nothing to lean on.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nothing to distract you.
[SPEAKER_03]: I wasn't ready to handle all of that by us live.
[SPEAKER_04]: Did you have any reason to believe that they were actually high and not just high on God?
[SPEAKER_03]: One of the couple days I was there, I asked a few people for some drugs, and no one had any drugs, I'd never seen anyone take any.
[SPEAKER_03]: At first I thought they were just keeping it to themselves and not wanting to share, but, you know, like I even was kind of like trying to follow some people and see if they would go on hiding due drugs, so I get it on the action, but there was none of that.
[SPEAKER_03]: There was no drug use whatsoever.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nothing.
[SPEAKER_04]: What about at the Ghost Light Bridge?
[SPEAKER_04]: Was everyone high on mushrooms there?
[SPEAKER_04]: Or was that just you?
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: I found some in the field.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can pick mushrooms in the area, there's farms and all sorts of little wetlands and some of the mushrooms are pretty fucking bang on.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I just went and forged myself and found a few mushrooms.
[SPEAKER_03]: But you guys are, are you guys coughed like you're gonna go get people trouble there?
[SPEAKER_04]: No, like I said, it's really just an accounting error.
[SPEAKER_04]: We're with the IRS.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's about taxes for the church.
[SPEAKER_04]: We're just trying to find Daniel.
[SPEAKER_04]: I just, I'm curious about all the, I keep hearing about Daniel's incredible reputation.
[SPEAKER_04]: He seems to sort of have found God and turned his life around and now he helps lots of youth like yourself and we just want to make sure that we have all the facts in the case.
[SPEAKER_04]: So that's what I'm trying to figure out is like,
[SPEAKER_04]: You know, maybe Daniel, maybe brother Daniel wasn't able to help you quite so much, but he does seem to have been able to help a lot of other young people.
[SPEAKER_04]: I was wondering if you could just tell us a little bit more about that.
[SPEAKER_04]: How does he seem to be helping people?
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not sure because he didn't really, like you said, he was pretty destined for me and I'll be a little bit more honest.
[SPEAKER_03]: Jessica and Paki invited me.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was kind of having a bit of a breakdown, and they came over to console me.
[SPEAKER_03]: After seeing the light and when the mushrooms started to fade off, all these just bad things were hitting me in my mind, you know, like, and all of this, and she motions, like, to the world around.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, like, drugs, and I have no future.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm gonna end up dying on the streets.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was super low and I started crying and they came over and consoled me.
[SPEAKER_03]: And that's when they offered to take me to the church to have somewhere to sleep and eat.
[SPEAKER_03]: It didn't.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's lovely.
[SPEAKER_03]: They seem very safe.
[SPEAKER_03]: But if I don't know, if you want to try to find Dan, I think the best, I don't know how to get there, but I can tell you how to get to the bridge.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know how to get there.
[SPEAKER_03]: That would be great.
[SPEAKER_03]: Try the bridge, but
[SPEAKER_03]: You're getting it, everyone's gonna think your cops, or that you're someone's parents.
[SPEAKER_03]: No one's gonna trust you.
[SPEAKER_04]: Is Daniel the only older person at the church?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, there's a few people that are like in their teens, like a T-nineteen and stuff, but no one's.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, he's the only one that's older, he's the only like adult.
[SPEAKER_04]: Did he go to the Ghostlight Bridge?
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know, I've never seen him there.
[SPEAKER_03]: I've been down a few times to go eat mushrooms and smoke some weed.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I've never seen him there.
[SPEAKER_03]: I've seen packing Jessica there before.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I've never seen him.
[SPEAKER_04]: And does Daniel have lots of like buildings and I guess bunk houses or something for all the kids?
[SPEAKER_03]: No, they stay at the church.
[SPEAKER_03]: That you can come back and sit down anytime you get some more McDonald's and you have your phone call.
[SPEAKER_03]: Then you come back to this conversation.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, yeah, I'll come back and I just dump the bag in the middle of the table.
[SPEAKER_03]: She like takes it like brings it close to her.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know what else I can tell you guys, but I want my money.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's fine.
[SPEAKER_04]: I just don't worry about it, Dutch.
[SPEAKER_04]: I got this, Dutch, don't worry about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks for the breakfast.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not reaching my wallet, and I pull out the cash.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm just totally talking over Dutch, since he's worrying about it.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm about forty bucks.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm about the cash.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I'm holding my wallet in my hand, and I say, Dutch, gay here's been really helpful.
[SPEAKER_04]: She's actually giving us directions to the Ghost Light Bridge.
[SPEAKER_04]: How did you say we should try to get to there?
[SPEAKER_03]: It's about five kilometers west of the Oklahoma border.
[SPEAKER_03]: You just take highway forty three south.
[SPEAKER_03]: Turn west on highway sixty just past Sanica.
[SPEAKER_03]: Turn south on south six ninety road, which merges with east one sixty.
[SPEAKER_03]: Turn southeast about five more minutes.
[SPEAKER_03]: A look for an unmarked dirt road with a sign that says bridge out.
[SPEAKER_03]: You just kind of pull a pull off in there and park and you can walk down to it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, excellent.
[SPEAKER_04]: And if we find ourselves what seems like we're near the Holy Light Ministries, was there any obvious landmark or road signs that stand out to you in your mind?
[SPEAKER_03]: I didn't really pay much attention on the drive to be quite honest.
[SPEAKER_03]: I spent most of the time crying.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was pretty sad.
[SPEAKER_03]: And Jessica was with me and rubbing my back and giving me water and just... Just talking to me, I spent most of the time talking I didn't pay any attention.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not super far from there.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: And can you see the lights in the sky from the church as well?
[SPEAKER_04]: Do you only see the lights at the bridge?
[SPEAKER_03]: You see them from the bridge.
[SPEAKER_04]: And if you had to guess what are the lights?
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: Lots of people say different things.
[SPEAKER_03]: People say it's a UFO.
[SPEAKER_03]: People say it's a spirit.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't really know.
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe it's just a nature like Northern Lights.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't really know it moves a bit which is weird.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know what it is.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm just a fool.
[SPEAKER_04]: But you can't see anything other than light.
[SPEAKER_03]: You see the light come up from the forest and then it dances a little bit in the sky.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's beautiful.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's no sound.
[SPEAKER_06]: It comes with it.
[SPEAKER_06]: There's no sound.
[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you so much, Gay.
[SPEAKER_04]: I only have one more question for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want my forty bucks.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, no problem.
[SPEAKER_04]: I reach you into my wallet and I'm getting forty bucks as I'm asking her.
[SPEAKER_03]: She's the scene as you start.
[SPEAKER_03]: She's got her hand out ready.
[SPEAKER_03]: She wants it really bad.
[SPEAKER_04]: I hold the wallet so that she can't quite reach it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Like I'm not ready to quite hand it to her yet.
[SPEAKER_03]: That frustrates her.
[SPEAKER_04]: The children, the young people like yourself, that
[SPEAKER_04]: Go to the Holy Light Ministries.
[SPEAKER_04]: Don't ever seem to come back to town.
[SPEAKER_04]: You seem to be the exception.
[SPEAKER_04]: What happens to those kids?
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was only there for a couple of days.
[SPEAKER_03]: I've never met anyone from there in town.
[SPEAKER_03]: I imagine that they get their life together and they leave this shitty terrible place.
[SPEAKER_03]: I have nowhere to go.
[SPEAKER_03]: My life isn't better.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, I give her forty dollars.
[SPEAKER_03]: It'd be immediately like just full ton of puts in their pocket.
[SPEAKER_03]: Then it should be a rest of her McDonald's.
[SPEAKER_04]: If I was to give you a hundred dollars in total, is there anything that you would tell me?
[SPEAKER_04]: I got this touch.
[SPEAKER_04]: Do you have any valuable information that you've been holding back?
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm willing to pay for it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I want the money.
[SPEAKER_03]: Your hold to hand out again.
[SPEAKER_03]: Desperating greedy.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is, this is payment for valuable information.
[SPEAKER_04]: I've already paid you for your time.
[SPEAKER_04]: I need to know if you have something valuable and I will gladly pay for it.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know if you want me to roll on this or anything.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh boy, I rolled a fourteen under sixty.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, that's pretty good.
[SPEAKER_03]: It doesn't seem like she's holding anything back.
[SPEAKER_03]: It doesn't seem like she's like hesitant to not tell you something.
[SPEAKER_03]: You figure that you've probably got out of her what you would, and she just wants your fucking money.
[SPEAKER_03]: Did she try to make anything up or tell me something valuable at all?
[SPEAKER_03]: No, she just keeps asking for the money.
[SPEAKER_03]: I just gave it to her.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's give her the hundred bucks?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, she takes it.
[SPEAKER_03]: She puts it in her pocket, and she goes, um...
[SPEAKER_03]: She doesn't really say anything.
[SPEAKER_03]: She's what?
[SPEAKER_03]: And she just kind of reiterates the same things that she's already pulled you, but in a different way, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_03]: She's just trying to sound like she has something really.
[SPEAKER_03]: But you can tell with your skills and stuff that she's not saying anything else.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's the same, the same song and dance.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, thank you so much for your time.
[SPEAKER_04]: It was a pleasure meeting you.
[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, Jennifer and I can't remember the case.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm Julie.
[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you so much.
[SPEAKER_04]: Really appreciate setting up the meeting.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, no, no problem.
[SPEAKER_03]: I hope you get what you need.
[SPEAKER_06]: And Julie, if you could just sign this receipt for me, just... Oh, Dutch.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just leave it all after.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sorry.
[SPEAKER_03]: She signs, she signs receipt.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, I got it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_03]: I got it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now, I think that gate's been through enough.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you guys don't mind working at work in a leaf.
[SPEAKER_03]: And Julie.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, that sounds good.
[SPEAKER_03]: He picks up and she leaves and Jen hangs around for another minute.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: Jen, thank you again for dinner last night.
[SPEAKER_04]: It was lovely to meet you and your husband.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, no problem.
[SPEAKER_03]: She seems like she's just like, yeah, whatever.
[SPEAKER_03]: Fuck it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now listen, I just want to reiterate like, like, you've heard from gay herself that he's kids that they're not doing anything wrong there.
[SPEAKER_03]: I just want to reiterate, you know, like, I know you're here because you have to be and you're checking tax stuff or whatever the whatever your cover is.
[SPEAKER_03]: She kind of like squins at you when you say that, but he helps.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just remember that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, here you go.
[SPEAKER_03]: You have my number if you need me.
[SPEAKER_03]: And she turns.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's called towards you, guys.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: Thanks, Jennifer.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: She doesn't.
[SPEAKER_04]: She doesn't.
[SPEAKER_04]: She doesn't like that.
[SPEAKER_04]: She's Quincy.
[SPEAKER_04]: I elbow Dutch in the ribs when he says Jenny.
[SPEAKER_02]: What?
[SPEAKER_02]: Buck.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's just, he's concerned about her.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's going to be nice.
[SPEAKER_02]: A hundred and forty bucks.
[SPEAKER_02]: She just gave her.
[SPEAKER_02]: You and your family.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, receipts, man.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's go.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's going to come off your end.
[SPEAKER_06]: And you have to account for that because if that comes up on my end, my boss finds out about it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Of course I'm going to account for it.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm an IRS special agent.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's already in my spreadsheets.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, so it's, you guys what time do you guys meet?
[SPEAKER_03]: You guys met at ten in the morning, so it's probably, I don't know what, somewhere between the eleven and twelve by now you're there for a little while.
[SPEAKER_03]: There was some banter and small talk.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, what do you guys, what do you guys want to do?
[SPEAKER_06]: So she mentioned, um,
[SPEAKER_06]: Packing in Jessica, did you get their information?
[SPEAKER_06]: Terry?
[SPEAKER_06]: Did you ask her about Jessica just the first names?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, just she didn't know where the church was.
[SPEAKER_04]: She gave us directions to the bridge.
[SPEAKER_04]: So the church is near the bridge.
[SPEAKER_06]: You didn't ask where we could phone them or find them?
[SPEAKER_04]: No, no, I didn't.
[SPEAKER_04]: Maybe if you weren't in the McDonald's line up for an hour and fifteen minutes, you could have a couple of questions.
[SPEAKER_06]: Hey, the only reason she spilled the beans is because of the food that I got her.
[SPEAKER_03]: You talk anything about the phone call from Rick?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I guess.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, you didn't over here in my conversation, did you Terry?
[SPEAKER_04]: What conversation?
[SPEAKER_06]: With Rick on the phone.
[SPEAKER_04]: I didn't even know you were on the phone.
[SPEAKER_04]: When were you on the phone?
[SPEAKER_06]: When, uh, I excuse myself on the table.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, what happened?
[SPEAKER_04]: I was, uh, I was obviously talking to the ladies.
[SPEAKER_06]: Uh, he knows Rick, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: He's not both Ross.
[SPEAKER_06]: He just my boss or is he both your bosses?
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: Uh, well, well, you know, Rick, he's usually pretty levelheaded, but he seemed like super weirded out by this case.
[SPEAKER_06]: Like,
[SPEAKER_06]: Kind of like ominous like something weird is gonna happen something strange that he's not sure what it is.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's kind of bizarre.
[SPEAKER_06]: What did he say exactly?
[SPEAKER_06]: Just that he really didn't give me anything.
[SPEAKER_06]: He said he couldn't actually.
[SPEAKER_06]: Which is also a weird.
[SPEAKER_06]: Now that I think about it.
[SPEAKER_04]: He couldn't say anything.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: So he knows something classified that he can't share with us and he's worried about us.
[SPEAKER_06]: Sounds like it.
[SPEAKER_04]: That sounds brutal.
[SPEAKER_04]: We need backup or something.
[SPEAKER_06]: He said to give him a call of anything weird comes up.
[SPEAKER_06]: Do you think gay seeing those lights in the forest is something weird?
[SPEAKER_06]: Or is it just kids getting high on mushrooms weird?
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know maybe we should ask Rick.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right.
[SPEAKER_06]: Hang on a phone Rick.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah give Rick a shout.
[SPEAKER_06]: Does he pick up Dave?
[SPEAKER_03]: That's what's going on.
[SPEAKER_03]: So remember about five minutes ago, he said give you a call.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think weird happens.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a few more five minutes ago, but yeah, I'm in a middle of my just my power practice cracking my back.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh fuck Christ Something weird kind of happened.
[SPEAKER_06]: We met this kid that was going to the church okay Daniel's church and she said that she was
[SPEAKER_06]: All of these kids that were going there were like, frolicking through the forest, like they were high, but they said they weren't high.
[SPEAKER_06]: And then they said they saw lights floating in the sky at this special bridge called the Ghost Light Bridge.
[SPEAKER_06]: She said she couldn't explain it.
[SPEAKER_06]: So it's kind of weird, right?
[SPEAKER_06]: So I'm just giving you a call, let you know.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: You guys go to this bridge.
[SPEAKER_03]: Go to this bridge and see what's going on.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't.
[SPEAKER_03]: A bunch of stone to kids seeing lights in the sky.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: Check it out.
[SPEAKER_03]: Why can't you tell me?
[SPEAKER_03]: What's going on?
[SPEAKER_03]: You just Christ that... I told you to trust me on this.
[SPEAKER_05]: I know, but... Alright.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll trust you.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I don't really want to trust you.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know you're there to investigate the church, but I want you to go check this bridge out.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay?
[SPEAKER_06]: Really?
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm gonna check the bridge.
[SPEAKER_03]: Tell me what you see.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you see lights floating in the fucking sky,
[SPEAKER_03]: Then that's weird.
[SPEAKER_03]: But here's a bunch of kids.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Smoking weed and drink and seeing lights?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh no man.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, not fair enough.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you want to go?
[SPEAKER_03]: You find it where this church is?
[SPEAKER_03]: Is it got in the dress or anything?
[SPEAKER_06]: No.
[SPEAKER_03]: Where's the bridge?
[SPEAKER_03]: You got an address or directions for that?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: We know where the bridge is.
[SPEAKER_03]: Apparently the church isn't that far off from it.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, text me.
[SPEAKER_03]: Text me the directions to the bridge.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's weird, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm gonna go get a happy ending from this cover, Proctor.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, God.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's gross.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: I gotta go.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_07]: Love you.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I just hang up.
[SPEAKER_07]: Like... Here we go.
[SPEAKER_07]: What?
[SPEAKER_07]: I think like... Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: Uh... Did you hear that?
[SPEAKER_06]: Terry?
[SPEAKER_06]: Did you have it on speaker?
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, no, but my phone was really loud or the... I turned the volume away up.
[SPEAKER_06]: I turned the volume.
[SPEAKER_06]: I didn't hear any of it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: Uh... He wants us to go to the bridge.
[SPEAKER_04]: Alright.
[SPEAKER_04]: Let's go check out this weird-ass bridge.
[SPEAKER_06]: I just could get some more McDonald's.
[SPEAKER_06]: I actually didn't get any.
[SPEAKER_06]: She ate it all.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I noticed that you had two mech niggers, so... Yeah, I'm full, but is there any money left on your podium now?
[SPEAKER_06]: Actually, now there isn't me just getting the car.
[SPEAKER_04]: Sad and hungry.
[SPEAKER_04]: Territory drives through the drive through any.
[SPEAKER_06]: He buys Dutch some breakfast.
[SPEAKER_06]: He's Dutchy, so we're like this big grin on his face like he's an eight-year-old.
[SPEAKER_06]: Stoke that his dad got to McDonald's.
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you just bat a him into free lunch?
[SPEAKER_04]: I crumple up the receipt and I just chuck it over my shoulder to the back of the car recklessly.
[SPEAKER_03]: Looking back there, and you see a whole bunch of crumpled uppercuts.
[SPEAKER_03]: Is that provoke a sandy roll from Dutch?
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm gonna collect those later.
[SPEAKER_06]: Go through each one.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, so you guys are it's the afternoon.
[SPEAKER_03]: You guys go down to the bridge right away.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's right until she wants to do.
[SPEAKER_06]: No, no, we gotta go.
[SPEAKER_06]: No, that's it.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think we should prepare for a steak out, grab some food, and some coffees, and be ready for whatever, and head down there so that we can like check it out in the daytime, but then like steak it out to see who shows up at night from like a better location.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's a good idea to actually end the day time, right?
[SPEAKER_06]: We should go check it out in the day time, get the lay of the land, see how the night is going to be difficult for the first time, right?
[SPEAKER_06]: So that's a good idea.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's a good idea, Terry.
[SPEAKER_05]: Damn.
[SPEAKER_06]: We'll just go scope it out, maybe pick a spot where we could set up and then come back later.
[SPEAKER_06]: We're going to get start.
[SPEAKER_06]: Or should we just stay there the whole time?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I see we just stay there.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's just like go plan to be there for twelve hours if we need to and we'll just get one of those cheap styrofoam coolers and fill it full of salami sandwiches and we'll get some road coffees and just be ready to go.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, maybe we can try to find the church.
[SPEAKER_06]: She said it was kind of close by, right?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: Maybe we can just kind of go down some random roads around that area and see what we can see.
[SPEAKER_06]: See, we can see.
[SPEAKER_06]: Snoop around.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: Now we go to the grocery store.
[SPEAKER_04]: We get a bunch of supplies in case we get snacky.
[SPEAKER_04]: We buy one of those giant thermuses and get it filled to the brand with coffee and to coffee's to go.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_04]: And uh, what else do we need?
[SPEAKER_04]: Need a crossword puzzle or something Dutch?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, we also need like some flashlights.
[SPEAKER_06]: I guess I also have my thermal image goggles still.
[SPEAKER_06]: So that's good.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, we'll keep those handy.
[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, what a flash of brilliance that was.
[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, I have a flashlight on me.
[SPEAKER_04]: I have an evidence collection kit.
[SPEAKER_03]: When I sound like it sounds like you guys are ready to go for a staker.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's still fighting like we're like pencil pushing like tax officers.
[SPEAKER_07]: I know like we're so desperate for action.
[SPEAKER_04]: I've actually got a police radio with an earpiece and a throat mic.
[SPEAKER_06]: We're just so patheticly hoping for something interesting to have.
[SPEAKER_06]: We're trying to like manifest it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, we're just trying to manifest something cool to have and so bored.
[SPEAKER_03]: Are you guys taking the forty forty-five-minute drive?
[SPEAKER_03]: Follow the directions that you got from gay?
[SPEAKER_03]: And yeah, you keep driving and her directions are bang on.
[SPEAKER_03]: You see the unmarked dirt road that says bridge out sign.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you turn down and you go down the dirt road and you come to the A-basically the edge of a forest with a trail that goes in and there's
[SPEAKER_03]: Now two posts with the chain across it and another sign that says, bridge out.
[SPEAKER_03]: You see like three other cars parked there.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can see the bridge kind of from there through the trees.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a creek.
[SPEAKER_03]: You hear some people splashing around and swimming and a couple of people having some beers down by the water.
[SPEAKER_03]: It just seems like a nice place to go for a swim during the day.
[SPEAKER_04]: Does it seem like there's sort of one trail down to the main swimming hole or is it sort of like a large area with a bunch of places that you can hang out like can we kind of just casually walk by and find a spot to just watch people.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, hundred percent of just rolling.
[SPEAKER_03]: There'd be like a trail through the trees.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's pretty sparse.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not like a thick forest.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can see the trail that leads to the bridge, the bridge has got another chain across it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It says bridge out on it.
[SPEAKER_03]: But yeah, like dotted all down the creek, our places where people can swim.
[SPEAKER_03]: So there's not just one spot, you can go down and set up shop on the side of the creek, no problem.
[SPEAKER_04]: Is it kind of like messy and beat up and sort of like, you know, fire pits and empties and smashed glass everywhere or is it a little bit classier than that?
[SPEAKER_03]: I wouldn't say it's classy by any means.
[SPEAKER_03]: It definitely looks like it's a place that's quite frequented.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I like to think the kids take care of their local spot, like I used to.
[SPEAKER_03]: The platoes was my swimming hole when I was growing up.
[SPEAKER_03]: And we would make sure we took our empties out and didn't smash glass.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: So I would say it's, you know, there's the fear.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's definitely some fire pits here and there.
[SPEAKER_03]: But it looks well used, but also, I suppose, respected.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it's a popular place.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm gonna peek in the cars that are already parked there.
[SPEAKER_06]: Maybe write down their license plate numbers.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: They see this regular cops stuff.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yep, not.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's fair.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you don't see it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I guess I'm not a cop.
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't see a Jeep.
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't see any likes just like that says love God.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, there's some, the people give me some eyeballs as you guys walk around like they're, you know, like the distrust of the locals and like you look at these guys.
[SPEAKER_06]: Like, yeah, for sure.
[SPEAKER_06]: What about the bridge?
[SPEAKER_06]: Is it like a bridge that a car could drive on or is it like a pedestrian bridge?
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, it is ancient.
[SPEAKER_03]: built, fucking over a hundred years ago, for wagons, maybe early automobiles, but it's barely safe for foot traffic now.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thick rusty chain with a heavy padlock secures each end of the bridge.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's a shit bridge.
[SPEAKER_03]: You definitely could not traffic vehicle across it.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's like floorboards that are missing.
[SPEAKER_03]: People that, you know, they see some people that go over and across it and they're like super, you know, like you take your time and you're careful going across.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: But people go across it.
[SPEAKER_06]: They're only going across it just to get to like the other side of the river so they can like set up through a little bit.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, exactly set up a shop on the other side.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: So we just roll in there like hello fellow.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: Joplin.
[SPEAKER_03]: Joplin.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: You go to talk to anybody.
[SPEAKER_03]: Are you just kind of keeping to yourself?
[SPEAKER_03]: I bought one of things up.
[SPEAKER_06]: Baby, uh, I'll pull like my shoes and my socks off and like roll my slacks up to my knees and just kind of stand in the water holding the coffee.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's nice.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, nice and cool.
[SPEAKER_06]: Try to relax a little bit.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: Do it any of the people look like, like gay look, you know, like kind of rough, you know, maybe spend too many days on the street.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's kind of thing here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, no.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, nothing, nothing really like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: You figure that these are just, uh, no, just local use.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, you don't see any like, uh, for lack of a better term, anyone from, like, a street or anything like that, somebody's lived a hard one on the road.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, but like, nobody that might look like they're part of the holy light ministry.
[SPEAKER_06]: No, no one like that.
[SPEAKER_06]: Use setbers.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: You guys hang out for a little while during the afternoon, and there's some people coming go, but it's not super busy.
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't see anyone that looks like they'd be from the ministry, troubled you, anything like that.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's kind of like a nice local sum of all.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I was hanging out having some.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, having a lot of technique.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're see people like you go to light up a doobie and they see you guys and they like go down into the free.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's away from the the narks.
[SPEAKER_03]: And uh-huh.
[SPEAKER_03]: Smoked through heat.
[SPEAKER_03]: Shit like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: People are people are avoiding you.
[SPEAKER_03]: They don't trust you.
[SPEAKER_03]: They don't know who to fuck you iron.
[SPEAKER_03]: Shit like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, if you guys, you guys are gonna hang out till night.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let me know if there's anything special you want to do.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think maybe we should drive around the neighborhood, Dutch, what do you think?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, see what we can find?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I think we should duck down some of these roads maybe.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, see if we can find that church, is that what you're thinking?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I think maybe like kill some time wait for the sun to go down.
[SPEAKER_04]: Let me come back here and see if the action changes.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Before we leave, is there a good spot to scout out for like maybe a place to park the car that's in conspicuous or even like, is there a place where we could access it silently and stake out the ghost light bridge without anyone who is there at night noticing?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you could, I guess, park a little bit further away.
[SPEAKER_03]: You could park on the side of the road down the road a bit and then just kind of like run through the forest or like, the basically the parking area is just on the grass.
[SPEAKER_03]: as you get close to the trail you know what I mean.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it's up to you guys.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can arc further down the road so your vehicle is not there and run through the forest for fifteen twenty minutes or whatever you want to do.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's up to you.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can definitely do something like that.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay sounds good.
[SPEAKER_04]: For now let's jump back into car and take a little tour around the neighborhood and see what we can see what we can find.
[SPEAKER_04]: I guess we're looking for ghost light spin history signs and
[SPEAKER_03]: you know we could have done actually maybe I will actually talk to the one of the locals there someone who looks maybe the friend list maybe like a mom with some kids that are playing the water or something no mom and kids it seems to be mostly like teenagers who are there's like three groups of three or four teenagers okay all having to be here stuff like that so you can approach a group of teens there's no like family or anything like that
[SPEAKER_06]: Sure, I might as well.
[SPEAKER_06]: I just want to see if anybody knows where that church is.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, you approach, they're willing to let me know.
[SPEAKER_03]: You walk down towards a group of people and they're like, you know, they're just brum brum bunkers having some fun and they all kind of stop and they they wait for you to walk up and it's just like, three dude.
[SPEAKER_03]: What's up, buddy?
[SPEAKER_03]: You guys got, uh, goodbye smoke off you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah one guy goes over two is his jeans on the ground where she was our existence swimming and he pulls out a cigarette and he had to hand you a cigarette.
[SPEAKER_03]: I get a give him a dollar.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that's cool man.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's cool.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, we're done.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, no worries.
[SPEAKER_01]: No worries.
[SPEAKER_06]: You guys are really friendly around here.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's really cool.
[SPEAKER_06]: I like that back home where I'm from.
[SPEAKER_06]: Where are you from?
[SPEAKER_06]: Uh, I don't, I tell them where I'm from.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like Washington or over the fuck you for a little bit from where like yeah, maybe New York.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know there be such a grumpy shit from the big city.
[SPEAKER_03]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's crazy.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, it sounds intimidating a lot of people there There's intimidating, but it's worth it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Just check it out.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I never really went outside of Missouri What do you have you in this small little shit hole?
[SPEAKER_06]: Ah, and I have the lamest pencil pushing job ever.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's really boring.
[SPEAKER_06]: We got to track down these churches that haven't filed their paperwork properly, and it's the most degrading work I've ever done, honestly.
[SPEAKER_06]: I hate myself.
[SPEAKER_06]: Every day.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, that's heavy, dude.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, sorry, man.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just don't put it on either.
[SPEAKER_06]: Wow, it's not that great as we got to find this church, you know, because they're not going to get their their tax breaks and their benefits if they don't sign the right document.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I'm just trying to find apparently this is Dan Dan Keeler as a church around here.
[SPEAKER_06]: So have you heard of it?
[SPEAKER_03]: The church during that just rocked and looked at each other.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh man, I'm not a I don't go to church.
[SPEAKER_06]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
[SPEAKER_06]: Alright, well, enjoy your day and I just kind of leave.
[SPEAKER_04]: Just as he's saying goodbye to these guys, Terry kind of like slads up there and starts talking to them and it's like, hey, you guys ever seen anything weird in the sky around here?
[SPEAKER_04]: When the locals told us to come check out the river, they said there's lights in the sky here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah, no, that was horrible.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, the ghost light.
[SPEAKER_03]: They kind of, they call it.
[SPEAKER_03]: They kind of stop talking.
[SPEAKER_03]: They don't really trust you guys.
[SPEAKER_03]: This seems, can I get a, can I get a persuasion role from someone?
[SPEAKER_03]: I guess that would be from Terry.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, that's not going to cut it.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's a fifty-two.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, wait.
[SPEAKER_04]: No, I don't have any luck wrong game.
[SPEAKER_04]: Fifty-two over fifty.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, no, I've heard stories about it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I've heard stories about it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Tell you here to check out.
[SPEAKER_03]: He has a really pencil pusher's eye.
[SPEAKER_04]: Now, I'm just a bit of a nerd and I heard there was lights in the sky as he's asking.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, no, no, come back at night and check it out.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I don't really know too much about it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Maybe we will.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's see, and it'll just be quiet and eyeballing you guys up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's fair.
[SPEAKER_06]: Let's get out of your Terry.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's go.
[SPEAKER_03]: Enjoy the day guys.
[SPEAKER_03]: You too, gentlemen.
[SPEAKER_03]: Leave the swatches you leave.
[SPEAKER_03]: We'll go back this time.
[SPEAKER_03]: We really weirded those guys out Terry.
[SPEAKER_04]: You finally blame me for once, eh?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: Nice mint a dollar out of smoke.
[SPEAKER_04]: Damn it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Now he didn't take your money.
[SPEAKER_04]: You're good.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, he got that crisp dollar in your wallet.
[SPEAKER_03]: It crosses it off from his ledger pad.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, we should just go check out some of these back roads.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, we wait for something to go down.
[SPEAKER_04]: Let's drive around so we can find.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, you guys, you guys hop in.
[SPEAKER_03]: I cruise around to remember where you're going and just check out some of some backgrounds.
[SPEAKER_03]: You find a couple old dilapidated buildings.
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't find anything with any people.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nothing about the holy light ministries, no signs.
[SPEAKER_03]: You see a couple locals, you talk to them.
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't really get anywhere and you end up driving around for a few hours as it starts to get close to dusk, but it's more or less fruitless.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, well before dark, we're gonna head back and settle in somewhere a little farther down the road.
[SPEAKER_04]: Is it a one way in to this place where like if we parked farther up the road, everyone coming in and out would drive past us?
[SPEAKER_03]: You can, I guess you can come left or right.
[SPEAKER_03]: The dirt road itself is that they only way to get to it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, let's see what was that mean.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a major road.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I can't find my directions anymore.
[SPEAKER_03]: I say we just risk it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, let's just go in and stake it out, see what's going on.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, um, how close the dark do you guys go back like as it's starting to get the dust?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I think so.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, we think too much thinking.
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, do you guys get back the vehicles out where they're before?
[SPEAKER_03]: With, uh, Dutch and its license plate riding, those are all gone.
[SPEAKER_03]: Figure they're just there for the day.
[SPEAKER_03]: But there's like seven or eight cars there now.
[SPEAKER_03]: You feel it's definitely a more popular place at night.
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't see any creeps.
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't see any love God license plate.
[SPEAKER_03]: But you pull and park and there's definitely more people.
[SPEAKER_03]: These mean more people hanging out by their vehicles.
[SPEAKER_03]: Talking the smell of marijuana is pretty prevalent in the air.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it definitely seems like you guys pull and park and you just kind of size it up and see another car come in and park and you feel it's okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know what this place actually might get pretty busy in that.
[SPEAKER_03]: And again, there's no families, and all young people.
[SPEAKER_06]: So many vehicles that almost that we don't really stand out.
[SPEAKER_06]: No, that might be a people wouldn't really stand out now.
[SPEAKER_03]: You guys have, especially if Ford tourists.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_03]: Even if it's got like a, uh,
[SPEAKER_03]: Like a budget bumper sticker on the back from our being a rental car.
[SPEAKER_03]: Back in so no one sees that.
[SPEAKER_06]: I just rip it off.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm gonna rip it off.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, there goes your deposit.
[SPEAKER_06]: Um, do you think Terry, to be wait here in the car so it gets really dark?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Let's keep a low profile.
[SPEAKER_04]: But things develop a little bit.
[SPEAKER_06]: Do you think anybody would want to talk to us when we get down there?
[SPEAKER_06]: They're going to be kind of intoxicated, right?
[SPEAKER_06]: They might.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I don't think anybody's going to want to talk to us.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, we can wait to later and see what I think we're going to kind of put everybody on their heels as soon as we showed up.
[SPEAKER_06]: So is this like stealth?
[SPEAKER_06]: Are we going stealth?
[SPEAKER_06]: Are we going dark?
[SPEAKER_02]: My fucking nitrogen goggles?
[SPEAKER_02]: Dockety Houston.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my god, I pull him out of the bag.
[SPEAKER_06]: I got one on my head right away.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I think we definitely should.
[SPEAKER_04]: We should creep through the forest and find a way where we can just look in on this party a little bit.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, all right.
[SPEAKER_05]: I like it.
[SPEAKER_05]: I like it, okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm gonna make sure like I got my gun out, check it, cock it.
[SPEAKER_06]: You know, do all those things that like, cops do in movies.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Your montage, did you get ready?
[SPEAKER_03]: I'd like to try it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll think, shh, shh, all the duffle bags.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, power up the thermon imaging.
[SPEAKER_06]: Make sure it's working.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, totally.
[SPEAKER_06]: Flip it up onto my forehead.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, of course.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, yeah, okay, you guys go through that a few more cars pull in and there's probably like a couple dozen people there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Easy and they just- I have.
[SPEAKER_03]: Go off?
[SPEAKER_04]: Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt.
[SPEAKER_04]: I have a encrypted laptop that's connected to IRS networks.
[SPEAKER_04]: Am I getting a signal out here at all where I can use the laptop to check these license plate numbers?
[SPEAKER_03]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_03]: Lockroll.
[SPEAKER_04]: I can run it from a hotspot on my phone.
[SPEAKER_04]: Um, that's a fifty-three.
[SPEAKER_03]: You get, you have a signal, it's not great though.
[SPEAKER_03]: Not great.
[SPEAKER_03]: Things time out every once in a while.
[SPEAKER_03]: You'll be searching for one, and it'll time out if they fuck, go in, push enter again, then it pops up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's taken longer than it should.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, we were just sitting there killing time while Dutch was going over his expenses again.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I just keep trying to reconnect to the network.
[SPEAKER_04]: So if I can get any info on these license plates, numbers do anything.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nothing suspicious pops up.
[SPEAKER_03]: You get like a couple of them are registered to the young people, most are registered to parents.
[SPEAKER_03]: Everyone from the local area, nothing suspicious at all.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think we're ready to go to get start.
[SPEAKER_03]: And, you know, it starts, you know, dusk passes into actual nightfall.
[SPEAKER_03]: You see the people, they start to walk down towards the bridge, the groups, even everybody seems to go down that area.
[SPEAKER_03]: That way.
[SPEAKER_03]: You guys pull your stealth mission?
[SPEAKER_03]: Give me a roll.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh no.
[SPEAKER_03]: You want a stealth roll?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, you betcha.
[SPEAKER_06]: No.
[SPEAKER_06]: This isn't good.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is not good.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I wander into the forest wearing a dull gray suit with a canary yellow shirt and a blazer with a shitty tie and some leather shoes on and I rolled a seventy over ten.
[SPEAKER_03]: Over ten.
[SPEAKER_03]: Wow, at least it's not a fumble.
[SPEAKER_03]: What about that Dutch?
[SPEAKER_06]: Um...
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I'm like snap and twigs.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm like cursing.
[SPEAKER_06]: There's like bugs biting me.
[SPEAKER_06]: You know, I'm like, oh man, another bug.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I rolled an eighty seven over ten over ten.
[SPEAKER_03]: There you guys fucking just stealth monsters.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, yeah, you're going through.
[SPEAKER_03]: Twigs are snapping.
[SPEAKER_03]: You've got your thermal imagery and you pull it down and you look around and it's super bright as you turn and you see like three dudes smoking a doobies there and that you guys in the forest like oh fuck you guys are you guys aren't costs right if your cops you got to tell me are you a cop?
[SPEAKER_03]: We're role-playing we are not cops smoke this weed then they hands the doobie
[SPEAKER_04]: Terry Terry takes it and tries to like fake taking a hoop, but doesn't really fake it very well, and actually starts choke.
[SPEAKER_03]: They all day burst out laughing.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's never smoked.
[SPEAKER_03]: He can't be a cop if he smoked, but he's never smoked to it in their laughing.
[SPEAKER_03]: They can either hoot.
[SPEAKER_04]: Or pass it to Dutch.
[SPEAKER_06]: Um... I don't know if God would want me to smoke this right now.
[SPEAKER_03]: They laugh again.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh God invented it, man.
[SPEAKER_03]: God grows it on the planet, dude.
[SPEAKER_03]: I bet you got smokes.
[SPEAKER_03]: We got totally smoked weed.
[SPEAKER_03]: Did it devil smokes?
[SPEAKER_03]: And they just start like going on on a fucking stoner conversation about that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Can we just, can we just slink away from the conversation?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, totally.
[SPEAKER_03]: Because they passed on their dooby back and they're smoking weed.
[SPEAKER_03]: I hope the light comes out tonight, man.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, totally.
[SPEAKER_03]: That would be fucking rad.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, that's what we're here for, too.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, totally.
[SPEAKER_02]: Man.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, dude, you give me fucking weird vibes, dude.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I really smoke this weed.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll make you fucking cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: I did.
[UNKNOWN]: Remember?
[SPEAKER_03]: You saw me.
[SPEAKER_03]: And they're like, did you smoke it?
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know, man.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's pretty dark.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then I just keep walking away.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then I just keep walking away.
[SPEAKER_06]: And then I just keep walking away.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then I just keep walking away.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then I
[SPEAKER_03]: You guys go through the forest.
[SPEAKER_03]: Parable stealth.
[SPEAKER_03]: You see people all over the place.
[SPEAKER_03]: People are walking.
[SPEAKER_03]: You see people setting up camps so they look like they're all kind of getting around the bridge.
[SPEAKER_03]: They can get a good look into the sky.
[SPEAKER_03]: You hear people like murmurs talking about.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hope the light comes out tonight.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're doing the stealthy.
[SPEAKER_03]: You guys just like stealthy right here.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're doing the light out.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, everybody's there for the fireworks.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's not weird.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: No.
[SPEAKER_03]: Totally.
[SPEAKER_03]: You see people, what the light, the light, the light, and then like, oh no, and it's just like headlights as the another car pulls into the parking lot area.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then you see a pale violet, which kind of fades the green.
[SPEAKER_03]: And the whole hush falls over the crash as this light appears above the forest.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a change color, it's hard to tell.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a weird feeling when you watch it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It bobs it radically, it'll rise.
[SPEAKER_03]: goes down.
[SPEAKER_03]: Everyone just like just a posh over the whole the whole crowd.
[SPEAKER_03]: The erratic movements and shifting colors might be full of meaning, but behind your comprehension, if that makes sense, you get a weird feeling.
[SPEAKER_03]: Watching it almost, like if you're understanding something profound that you can't quite grasp.
[SPEAKER_03]: You guys kind of look at the crowd and you see that all the locals are, they stare as if they're hypnotized or understruck.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then you hear some whispering.
[SPEAKER_03]: The doesn't seem to be coming from anyone in particular.
[SPEAKER_03]: But just from around, our wildest streets made sense.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's folk in the outer dark awakens.
[SPEAKER_03]: We are all dying and dying, always dying in the light in the earth.
[SPEAKER_03]: And the whispers start to come from kind of like everywhere.
[SPEAKER_03]: They get a sanity roll.
[SPEAKER_06]: Whoa.
[SPEAKER_06]: I would like to think have my cell phone out and record it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: I rolled a forty.
[SPEAKER_04]: Aw, where is my sanity?
[SPEAKER_04]: Under sixty-five.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, you're good.
[SPEAKER_06]: I rolls seventy-four.
[SPEAKER_06]: No, that's not over sixty.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not like an over.
[SPEAKER_03]: You lose one point of sanity.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, really?
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Worth it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I loom in my concrete and steel burned like souls.
[SPEAKER_03]: You stare and pity me, but only he ever saw me.
[SPEAKER_03]: His weird whispers.
[SPEAKER_03]: The streets make sense.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's full.
[SPEAKER_03]: The whispers eventually fade, but you still know that people are still watching the light hypnotized.
[SPEAKER_03]: And they almost kind of like, slowly dance a little bit.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, they not excitedly.
[SPEAKER_03]: Everyone just seems all the locals seem to be filled with immense joy.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's almost like anyone who sees the light is just filled with energy and their high.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's kind of infusing people.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's weird.
[SPEAKER_03]: It doesn't seem to be affecting you the same.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, but all the locals seem hypnotized by it.
[SPEAKER_04]: So it is affecting us slightly.
[SPEAKER_04]: We did feel in effect.
[SPEAKER_04]: We are sort of experiencing something, but everyone else is a little bit more affected than we are.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hundred percent, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Everyone seems a little hypnotized and just...extatically happy.
[SPEAKER_04]: So Terry's a little bit of wear that this is going on and sort of like checking everyone and he's thinking about where is the sound coming from and he's sort of trying to decide if someone's got speakers planted around the woods and if it sounds like that or if it sort of sounds like this is ambient noise coming from everywhere.
[SPEAKER_03]: Ambient noise coming from everywhere.
[SPEAKER_06]: Like Terry thinks it's like a televangelist, like scam.
[SPEAKER_04]: Just, yeah, something like that, just trying to figure out how someone's like pulling a trick.
[SPEAKER_04]: Here, there's always an explanation, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: You hear another vehicle pull-up, and a couple of people come running down.
[SPEAKER_03]: Paki!
[SPEAKER_03]: Paki, the lights in the sky!
[SPEAKER_03]: Paki, it's there!
[SPEAKER_03]: And two people matching one of the matches, the description that you got from gay of, she gave you the description of, you talked about Paki and Jessica.
[SPEAKER_03]: This one looks and sounds like Paki and you've heard this other girl who doesn't match the description of the Jessica that you heard.
[SPEAKER_03]: But she refers to this guy's Paki and he comes running down the trail after and he's like, the lights in the sky and they're like, like, oh, and they just start watching it too and kind of get like that same, same kind of hypnotized look that everybody else has.
[SPEAKER_04]: Can we see the vehicle they arrived in?
[SPEAKER_03]: I know, you would see that you saw the headlights come in and they just came in parked in the grass like everybody else.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can go out and down the trail and take a look, go on.
[SPEAKER_04]: Should we wander over and check out these vehicles and maybe not stare at this light until we're completely hypnotized?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I feel like we look over each other and give like a nod.
[SPEAKER_06]: Like, yeah, let's go.
[SPEAKER_06]: Let's go.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: No one even pays like no one watches, even if you like brush by somebody they're just like staring up at the light with a big smile on their face.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just happy.
[SPEAKER_03]: You go down and you see a Jeep with the license plate love God.
[SPEAKER_04]: Do we as we get away from the area down by the river and down by the light, do we feel less affected?
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, yeah, yeah, a little bit.
[SPEAKER_03]: Not, not there staring at it.
[SPEAKER_03]: You definitely, you feel a little less effective.
[SPEAKER_03]: You do look back and even the trees blocked a little bit.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can't really see it from where you are.
[SPEAKER_03]: The bridge seems to be like a nice clearing over the forest.
[SPEAKER_04]: Can we still hear the whispers?
[SPEAKER_03]: No, the whispers have faded.
[SPEAKER_03]: They faded even a little bit before you left.
[SPEAKER_06]: Um, I want to look at that.
[SPEAKER_06]: Dude, we got to check it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Look at this is the Jeep.
[SPEAKER_06]: Love God.
[SPEAKER_06]: Going to the license plate.
[SPEAKER_04]: I go over and see if it's unlocked.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it's unlocked.
[SPEAKER_04]: Watch my sixth year, Dutch, and I jump in and I close the door.
[SPEAKER_06]: When it says, watch my sixth, I flip down the thermal imaging goggles.
[SPEAKER_06]: Ooh, nice.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm in the gloveee and looking around all over the vehicle.
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't really see anything.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, like an empty water bottle.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's got the license and registration.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like you ran the plate before.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's all registered to the mom's house.
[SPEAKER_03]: In Joplin.
[SPEAKER_03]: Seems legit.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's the kind of a beat up dirty Jeep.
[SPEAKER_02]: But this is Daniel's Jeep.
[SPEAKER_03]: Ready to register, too?
[SPEAKER_03]: It's registered to his mom.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like your name is Caroline.
[SPEAKER_03]: Caroline?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's right.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, I jump out and I close the door quietly.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: One thing that
[SPEAKER_03]: Dutch notices with a thermo imaging as you're like scanning in the crowd.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you look up.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know that the fart is everybody's farting.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's just a haze of marijuana smoke.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, you had that too.
[SPEAKER_03]: But you, you move around and stuff and you, you check it out and I know I said the trees are blocking a lot of the light or anything like that, but nothing in the sky registers.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you find that a little peculiar and you even look down at your phone at the playback or the pictures you took.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nothing.
[SPEAKER_04]: What?
[SPEAKER_03]: the light gives off no visual on the pictures and no heat signature interesting yeah you look back and you see like you start the camera and as you pan up you see all the people like looking in and you pass the bridge and get into the sky just a clear fucking sky staring up at nothing nothing really does work in mysterious ways
[SPEAKER_06]: This has creeped me out.
[SPEAKER_03]: You?
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm definitely gonna have to phone Rick.
[SPEAKER_03]: What are you guys, uh... Well, this is good to do.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's probably been the lights probably been in the sky for about half an hour now.
[SPEAKER_03]: Whoa, really?
[SPEAKER_06]: Just down the ground.
[SPEAKER_06]: Down the ground.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's a long time.
[SPEAKER_04]: And did it seem to just materialize or come up and out of the forest or come down to the forest?
[SPEAKER_06]: Are we able to, like, while they're all mesmerized, can you walk back?
[SPEAKER_06]: You know, kind of, look at the groups individually?
[SPEAKER_03]: It just appeared.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: It appeared, uh, sorry.
[SPEAKER_03]: It appeared low amongst the trees and then rose into the night.
[SPEAKER_06]: In any particular direction,
[SPEAKER_03]: It would have been directly south of you guys and you guys like kind of eyeballing it out and thinking about it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's probably like above deep woods about five or six kilometer south.
[SPEAKER_04]: So the light itself seems a fairway is a way.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it's not right over top of everyone.
[SPEAKER_04]: No, okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah, no, it's a fairway.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, so it's like often this.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, sorry.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, it's on just like dancing over their heads.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, no, it's off in the distance.
[SPEAKER_03]: Five or six kilometers.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's just a nice.
[SPEAKER_03]: The bridge has got a perfect way to the Greek Ocean.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's no trees.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a perfect view of it hovering in the sky.
[SPEAKER_04]: But the whispering sounded all around us.
[SPEAKER_03]: All around you, but it faded after about ten minutes or so.
[SPEAKER_03]: It wasn't there the whole time you saw the light and everyone was watching and everyone was like, oh, and then the whispering started.
[SPEAKER_03]: You guys were looking around and it couldn't tell if it didn't sound like it was coming from anyone.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was like it was like it said ambient whispering from all around you.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then after about ten minutes, the whispering faded.
[SPEAKER_03]: But everybody was still just mesmerized and looking around.
[SPEAKER_06]: The, uh, whispering faded in this at when I'm assuming Daniel showed up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Not Daniel Packy and the other check.
[SPEAKER_03]: Pack up.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, but they're, they're driving Daniel.
[SPEAKER_03]: They drive his G if yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, it doesn't seem like there was, there's no correlation between them showing up in the whispering stopping.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, Terry takes his cell phone out and he opens up the maps program and drops a pin.
[SPEAKER_04]: in the direction he tries to orient himself and look at where the light is and how it seems to be.
[SPEAKER_04]: A couple miles away or whatever.
[SPEAKER_04]: He tries to drop a pin where he thinks it would be on the map.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'll just save that for later when we start driving around again.
[SPEAKER_05]: Good idea.
[SPEAKER_06]: Terry, we need to... We need to stake out a spot where we can watch everybody leave.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I agree.
[SPEAKER_06]: And then we can follow that Jeep.
[SPEAKER_04]: Do you want to be in the car or do you want to be just sitting in the woods with the third mall watching everyone go by?
[SPEAKER_06]: No, I think we need to be in the car.
[SPEAKER_06]: You know, the seatbacks kind of down and back.
[SPEAKER_06]: So they can't see us.
[SPEAKER_06]: And you just watch people leave and kind of slowly pull out behind that Jeep again.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, maybe we could follow the Jeep back to the church.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's what I'm thinking.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, let's get the car turned around.
[SPEAKER_04]: Can we still stake it out while we're turned around?
[SPEAKER_03]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's no problem.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, so we're ready to follow the Jeep and we're just gonna watch everybody.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: You, I'm gonna make sure I rip the budget rental car sticker off the back.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm perfect.
[SPEAKER_06]: For sure.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, no sounds good.
[SPEAKER_03]: You, um, you go back and look.
[SPEAKER_03]: You guys are staying in the car, so after probably about an hour, you see the crowd starts to disperse, you figure the light is gone.
[SPEAKER_03]: And people just seem... filled with joy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Everybody is super happy, everything is fantastic.
[SPEAKER_03]: Kids kind of go off in their own little group, some people hang out and they start talking.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you watch for a while.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nothing crazy happens.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's some chatter and excitement.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then the two people from the Jeep, they get in the Jeep.
[SPEAKER_03]: A few people start to leave.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then eventually they get in their Jeep and fire it up.
[SPEAKER_03]: And back out, as they back out, see the love God.
[SPEAKER_03]: Lysus played and they start to drive away.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: We're following them.
[SPEAKER_06]: Right, Terry?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, we're doing it super.
[SPEAKER_04]: Incon-inconspicuously, we don't follow too closely.
[SPEAKER_04]: We don't immediately turn the headlights on and obviously follow the Jeep.
[SPEAKER_04]: But we're following them.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Can I guess what's your drive or stealth roles?
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's drive stealth again.
[SPEAKER_06]: Which one's better?
[SPEAKER_06]: I can drive drive.
[SPEAKER_06]: What's uh, like on a scale of wonder one hundred Terry.
[SPEAKER_07]: How good do you think you are?
[SPEAKER_07]: Driver, you put.
[SPEAKER_06]: How good do you think you are?
[SPEAKER_06]: Fifty-fifty.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: Me too.
[SPEAKER_06]: Roughly.
[SPEAKER_06]: Sometimes I'm good.
[SPEAKER_06]: Sometimes I'm not good.
[SPEAKER_06]: So yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: How about you know what you drive this time?
[SPEAKER_06]: I'll all the man this thermals.
[SPEAKER_06]: That sounds good.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, the thermal goggles.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: I need to give you guys a plus than on your roll.
[SPEAKER_03]: We'll make you give you plus twenty percent so you drive the seventy then.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, so I'm a little nice.
[SPEAKER_04]: I rolled a sixty four under seventy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh and I'm gonna drive with that with the headlight off since Dutch has the thermal imaging.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I'm like little left little right.
[SPEAKER_04]: A straight for a bit.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, yeah, you maybe you almost lose them in the dark, but the thermal imaging you pick them up again and you end up tailing them for a little while.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, after a while, I can turn the headlights back on and drive normally, but just to follow them right out of the dirt road, I did it in the dark with Dutchess help.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, it depends on where they're going.
[SPEAKER_06]: If they're going back to roads with street lights and stuff, then yeah, they might not notice us.
[SPEAKER_06]: There were just another car on the road with headlights, but if they're going down some back roads,
[SPEAKER_06]: We want those, those headlights off at the whole time.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: In the thermal goggles on.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right.
[SPEAKER_04]: I might need you to give me the thermal goggles while I drive when I turn the headlights back on.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm like pulling them out and then like put them like over your head.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, let's try some like for you right now.
[SPEAKER_04]: And then I can just flip the headlights off and go a thermal down and I can still see.
[SPEAKER_04]: Engage thermal vision.
[SPEAKER_07]: He'd reach this over and flips them down.
[SPEAKER_07]: Affirmative.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, you guys are really really sinkin' into this.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, the agent rolls.
[SPEAKER_07]: Dude, it's up for real now.
[SPEAKER_03]: Where do you get some for real?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Batteries at ninety percent, Terry.
[SPEAKER_07]: Roger that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Good luck with that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, you fall them for... Fuck, probably.
[SPEAKER_03]: Twenty minutes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Fifteen, twenty minutes.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not very, not very far.
[SPEAKER_03]: Are we heading to Zico down?
[SPEAKER_02]: They're all back roads.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're not going back into the city.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're going south.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Along and still all back roads.
[SPEAKER_03]: You see them up in the distance, too.
[SPEAKER_03]: They start to slow down and they turn into what you assume is like a drive.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: I stopped the car and just wait for a second.
[SPEAKER_04]: Can we see how far the drive it goes or the block by trees or what?
[SPEAKER_05]: Give me a let go.
[SPEAKER_05]: Only fuck came out.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's beating right now.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, that ain't good.
[SPEAKER_03]: Ninety-four.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, it's, uh, yeah, you figure you gotta get closer.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's definitely trees that are blocking you.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, I give a pause.
[SPEAKER_04]: I just hit the brakes for a second and give them enough time to kind of get out of sight and then I, with the lights off, follow.
[SPEAKER_04]: Take a hold on.
[SPEAKER_05]: Hold on, Terry.
[SPEAKER_04]: Stop.
[SPEAKER_04]: I stopped.
[SPEAKER_04]: Stop.
[SPEAKER_05]: Terry.
[SPEAKER_05]: Think about it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Is that a driveway up there?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Let's get out.
[SPEAKER_05]: We're gonna walk up.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, I turn the car around so that it's pointed.
[SPEAKER_04]: On our way out.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I park it on the side of the road.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Another montage is like the duffle bag and the trunk opening and you're getting all your shit.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then you're calculator and we look, we look over here at each other.
[SPEAKER_06]: Lock guys, not at the same time.
[SPEAKER_06]: Predator, watch.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Bigger notice to get handshake on the side of the road.
[SPEAKER_06]: You got the goggles, I got the flashlight, I got my gun, let's go.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right, let's roll.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, what's the plan, you guys like?
[SPEAKER_06]: I think we're gonna walk up to that driveway to the edge of it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: No flashlight, Terry is in the lead, he's leading on my hands on his shoulder.
[SPEAKER_06]: He's got the thermos, we can see in the night vision or whatever.
[SPEAKER_06]: And we're just gonna walk up to the driveway so we can see down the drive.
[SPEAKER_04]: Can we see any heat signatures at all looking into the property?
[SPEAKER_03]: But someone's behind a wall.
[SPEAKER_03]: You wouldn't necessarily heat to signatures.
[SPEAKER_03]: But they walk by a window and pick up.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's kind of how the shit works, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: I believe so.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's all right.
[SPEAKER_03]: But yeah, the, um, the here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Give me another luck roll.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just for something.
[SPEAKER_06]: Unless there's like, the insulation is like, unless like the walls like super thick.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: Right.
[SPEAKER_06]: But yes, more or less we wouldn't really see it until they walk through like in front of class or something or out in the open.
[SPEAKER_04]: Thirty-eight on the locker-all.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yes, Terry.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, so it's the moon.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not a super die.
[SPEAKER_03]: The moon is fairly bright in the sky.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a clear night as you look up to driveway.
[SPEAKER_03]: You with the thermo.
[SPEAKER_03]: You see a building.
[SPEAKER_03]: that back in the property bed and you see the Jeep and some heat signatures coming from it like the warm engine as it's parked on the side.
[SPEAKER_03]: I suppose without thermal goggles you'd see a little bit of actual light.
[SPEAKER_03]: Things you can make out the shapes and stuff in the dark.
[SPEAKER_03]: It looks like an old, dilapidated church.
[SPEAKER_03]: like windows have been busted out and boarded up.
[SPEAKER_03]: You catch a little bit of the sunlight.
[SPEAKER_03]: It looks like an abandoned and old abandoned church.
[SPEAKER_03]: And when you guys are doing your back roads, rips, you saw multiples of these throughout.
[SPEAKER_03]: Most of them, like half of them have fallen over it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm one hundred percent and an old abandoned building.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thermo vision.
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't really see anything.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then you see a couple of heat signatures locked by a window.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it's kind of broken up like the windows got slats on it, you know, as that makes sense.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you see a couple of heat signatures in there that walk back and forth and then you don't see anything.
[SPEAKER_04]: And there seems to be just this one main building.
[SPEAKER_05]: Jerry, I can't see shit.
[SPEAKER_05]: You got anything on the goggles?
[SPEAKER_04]: I can see that there's people inside.
[SPEAKER_04]: I can just see them through the slats and the window there.
[SPEAKER_04]: I can't make anyone out.
[SPEAKER_04]: Should we... Do the kids?
[SPEAKER_04]: It all... They look like... It's too hard to tell what the slats on the window.
[SPEAKER_04]: Just heat back there.
[SPEAKER_04]: Should we do a perimeter sweep?
[SPEAKER_05]: Terry, do we even need to be here right now?
[SPEAKER_05]: Like should we come back?
[SPEAKER_04]: We've located the address.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's kind of the key thing that we were here to do.
[SPEAKER_05]: We are terrible at stealth, Terry.
[SPEAKER_06]: We gotta be honest with ourselves.
[SPEAKER_05]: They might hear us come in, like I might trip over my own feet.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know, too curious for my own good.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think we should look around.
[SPEAKER_05]: I know, same here.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, we're gonna go follow a new tier.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, keep your hand on my shoulder.
[SPEAKER_04]: We're gonna go around to the right, keeping a very wide birth from the building.
[SPEAKER_04]: Is it like, is it a large clearing, or is there, like, woods up to almost the building, or how does it work?
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a bit of a clearing, but it's pretty thick woods around it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, so, I'd like to be a few trees that are stealth.
[SPEAKER_03]: You build out.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's lots of cover to hide.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then, yeah, not too far.
[SPEAKER_03]: Probably then, like,
[SPEAKER_03]: Bonnie's thirty feet and gets starts together to forest.
[SPEAKER_06]: I wouldn't say we're stealthy enough.
[SPEAKER_06]: Maybe we're human team up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're counting up.
[SPEAKER_07]: We're searching.
[SPEAKER_07]: We're counting.
[SPEAKER_06]: We're actually searching currently.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm searching.
[SPEAKER_06]: Are kind of searching, aren't we?
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you guys search?
[SPEAKER_03]: Up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Not yet a stealth role.
[SPEAKER_03]: Are you guys, are you stealthy?
[SPEAKER_03]: Are you just going to walk up the driveway like you're fucking book salesman?
[SPEAKER_04]: Now we're being kind of sneaky.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: I just, like, yeah, we're a guest for being sneaky.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, this is the problem.
[SPEAKER_04]: You can't see your holding my shoulder for vision.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm wearing heat sensing goggles.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, that's, that's sneaky.
[SPEAKER_06]: Can I ask questions to you?
[SPEAKER_06]: Are there lights on the exterior of this building?
[SPEAKER_06]: Or is it just pure moon light?
[SPEAKER_03]: Pure?
[SPEAKER_06]: Right now.
[SPEAKER_06]: So we're relying on stealth.
[SPEAKER_03]: One thousand percent.
[SPEAKER_06]: Can we combine our stealth score and roll one?
[SPEAKER_06]: No.
[SPEAKER_04]: I rolled a twenty six.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's still bad.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's not terrible though.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's not bad bad, but it's not under ten.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's thirty five.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, so you guys are both failed, but it's not the worst thing.
[SPEAKER_04]: The leaves are dry.
[SPEAKER_04]: The branches are snapping under our feet.
[SPEAKER_07]: You guys are going up to driveway or live.
[SPEAKER_07]: You've been here before.
[SPEAKER_07]: We know this feeling well.
[SPEAKER_03]: The same guys smoking away.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, what's going?
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you think the popes?
[SPEAKER_03]: No, so you guys.
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you, uh, are you guys going up to drive?
[SPEAKER_03]: Or are you like hopping the ditch going through the, the graph?
[SPEAKER_03]: What's your plan?
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, is there any kind of cover?
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't know, it's, it's what the Terry Terry is the one that can see better than you already know.
[SPEAKER_06]: I guess I have the moonlight, but let's sweep around.
[SPEAKER_04]: We'll go through this ditch, get into the forest, and we'll sweep around to the right, so that we're not too close to the building.
[SPEAKER_04]: That way we make a sound, it might just, so it might just think it's a deer or something.
[SPEAKER_04]: So a wide bird through the forest.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, full lap.
[SPEAKER_03]: You guys are, you guys go hop to the dead, over a broken dilapidated fence, and start to creep through the grass, watching the building.
[SPEAKER_03]: A couple of points snap, you guys say, ah fuck, okay, no, it's all right, we're good, we're good.
[SPEAKER_03]: Lock it up, Terry.
[SPEAKER_03]: Head down to shoulder, you're leading with the thermo imaging.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, you're going up along the peeping along the side of the forest, the egotone.
[SPEAKER_03]: Believe it's what it's called.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_03]: Watch in the building, intrigues snapping and you hear something from the forest.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you turn and with your night vision, you see two people kind of like preach down and once pointing over in your direction.
[SPEAKER_03]: And we'll see you next time.
[SPEAKER_00]: No.
[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, we're a big trouble, Dutch.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, big trouble.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, we're a big come from.
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