[SPEAKER_05]: Welcome into actual play entertainment presents episode 12 of Operation Blackstar, a Delta Green campaign with some pre-written shit and some of our shit and whatever else falls in and fills in the gaps.
[SPEAKER_05]: My name is David.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm the handler and a long time you're rolling dice as always.
[SPEAKER_05]: Are my Joe and Kurt?
[SPEAKER_05]: Gentlemen, how are you?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, you're in well.
[SPEAKER_05]: Very good.
[SPEAKER_05]: We are good.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I'm doing all right, man.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm doing all right.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm excited to have a, a weekend morning session.
[SPEAKER_05]: Coffee and Delta green is always a nice combination.
[SPEAKER_05]: Right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, about that and not having to, like, great way to wake up early the next day to go to work.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, no.
[SPEAKER_05]: Stay in a play trying to record during the week when we're all so busy.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: No, it's fun.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's more casual.
[SPEAKER_06]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, right on.
[SPEAKER_05]: So home scenes with Delta green.
[SPEAKER_05]: which is what we did last episode, which are, which we're pretty funny.
[SPEAKER_05]: We get to find out a little bit more about the characters and all that kind of stuff.
[SPEAKER_05]: So it's, it's enjoyable to do this.
[SPEAKER_05]: Before I throw you in the next meet grinder.
[SPEAKER_05]: Now it's not a meet grinder.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's not right for Delta V. More of like a psychological mind grinder.
[SPEAKER_06]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_05]: Why grinder is good.
[SPEAKER_05]: Mind grinder.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'll do you throw you back into the mind grinder.
[SPEAKER_05]: We'll copy right that.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: mind grinders.
[SPEAKER_05]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, um, does anyone have any movies they want to talk about or any witty banter?
[SPEAKER_05]: Or should we just get into the quick everybody everybody name your four favorite movies.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's always Mike that comes up with it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Always trying to delay things.
[SPEAKER_04]: I listen to way too much of a certain podcast.
[SPEAKER_05]: Just fast forwarding through all the.
[SPEAKER_05]: So, we'll stick true to our roots and we'll just fucking get right into it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Just fucking play the game, man.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, so we're not listing our favorite movies, okay?
[SPEAKER_02]: No, we're not.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was right.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, it's okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: No.
[SPEAKER_05]: So we'll start by getting into the head of one of the characters and finding out some more right now.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's the scene opens above what looks like a small village in Afghanistan or somewhere in the Middle East, war torn with crumbling buildings
[SPEAKER_05]: It looks like American soldiers, as you can see from this aerial view, positioned around building in a town square.
[SPEAKER_05]: The camera comes down and focuses on one soldier in particular in bomb disarment gear, I don't know the fancy word for it, they're hurt lockers, bomb diffusel, what did I say disposal?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, no.
[SPEAKER_05]: Tell me about that.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, no, we'll go with yours.
[SPEAKER_05]: We focus in on a man dressed in bomb, the fusel gear, the hurtlocker style, the big helmet, and the all the padded armor, the full flat jacket, the full, the full gear, thick cane in Afghanistan.
[SPEAKER_05]: The camera spans down to him and he starts to see through his eyes as the radio crackles.
[SPEAKER_05]: Bravo team in position.
[SPEAKER_05]: Everyone ready.
[SPEAKER_05]: Waiting on your signal.
[SPEAKER_05]: And you're looking to go.
[SPEAKER_05]: You see your team.
[SPEAKER_05]: You say good to go.
[SPEAKER_05]: Your team starts to move forwards.
[SPEAKER_05]: No, they're a little hunched in their little.
[SPEAKER_05]: They're gun crawl like to call the duty towards the building.
[SPEAKER_05]: We do following up behind.
[SPEAKER_05]: As they get close, they go up against the door.
[SPEAKER_05]: Line up along the wall.
[SPEAKER_05]: You give them the motion to open.
[SPEAKER_05]: They smash in the door and they go in all tactically, and you can hear doors and other part of the building being broken in as teams from multiple entrance points are going in.
[SPEAKER_05]: I want to immediately as the doors breached.
[SPEAKER_05]: The last guy going in in front of you, you see him stop, and he like, he holds his head for a second, kind of shakes it.
[SPEAKER_05]: She sees a few of the other guys pause as well, and you tear also in your head.
[SPEAKER_05]: Just like a sound that you can't even really describe.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's not audible.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's not words.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's almost just like a sound of something infiltrating into your mind or into your brain.
[SPEAKER_05]: Just almost like a slight like a, you know when you're like your ears are ringing, but not quite.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's hard to describe, but it's, right, definitely new to you.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: Your team enters the building with you following.
[SPEAKER_05]: They start to spread out and go to the building, securing and you're here.
[SPEAKER_05]: Room, clear, clear.
[SPEAKER_05]: You hear everybody giving the sign.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then some of the people you expect to hear from, you don't really hear anything from.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's just silence.
[SPEAKER_05]: You look over even at one of your buddies and he's starting to take off some of his head gear.
[SPEAKER_05]: And he just looks around, confused.
[SPEAKER_02]: On the radio, I say, alpha team report, everybody check in.
[SPEAKER_02]: and looking for each one of them to sort of report that they're still online.
[SPEAKER_05]: You know there's there's three teams.
[SPEAKER_05]: We'll say your team Bravo.
[SPEAKER_05]: Over you yeah, there'll be Alpha Team Bravo team and then we'll say your team see your chart that you're the last ones in as that's the detonator.
[SPEAKER_05]: Alpha, okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: Alpha checks it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Alpha team checked clear.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's out of the building clear.
[SPEAKER_02]: You don't hear anything.
[SPEAKER_02]: Bravo team, you check in, you check in too.
[SPEAKER_02]: We got something going on with Charlie here.
[SPEAKER_05]: Bravo team doesn't check in right away and then you hear one of them come on.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't What we've we've got something and he just is stammering and not really making any sense Bravo team repeat over It's it's clear Something's going on in Simpson He's he's put his gun down.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's not really responding to anything
[SPEAKER_05]: You hear them kind of, some muddering and some shouting from another part of the building.
[SPEAKER_05]: One of your guys grabs you on your shoulder beside you and it's one of your... one of your dudes you've been with for a long time.
[SPEAKER_05]: And he... We found the entrance.
[SPEAKER_05]: We found the entrance to the basement.
[SPEAKER_05]: We're moving.
[SPEAKER_05]: And you look over and you see that they found a trap door.
[SPEAKER_05]: One of your guys is taking off its head gear, two of the other guys have opened the trap door.
[SPEAKER_05]: Johnson what are you doing put your gear back on no response from YouTube it doesn't even see you to in the hole They nod and they go down they go down into the hole Okay, I go up to Johnson and I grab him by the shoulder and I shake him on my Johnson get your head gear back on get in the game He looks up at you and just like he looks past you and he just stands there non-responsive
[SPEAKER_02]: I get on the radio, and I'm like, Kain Bravo team, I need to change traction for change.
[SPEAKER_02]: We found it.
[SPEAKER_05]: We've got it in the basement.
[SPEAKER_05]: What is it?
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm on my way.
[SPEAKER_05]: You go down the steps into there, and as soon as you land at the bottom, it feels like that sound in your head gets intense.
[SPEAKER_05]: And starts to rack you.
[SPEAKER_05]: You see two of your teammates up front with their guns pointed at.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's almost like an earn on an altar and you see some symbols and some stuff on the wall that you don't recognize.
[SPEAKER_05]: One of the guys you're with takes a couple steps back and you see him unload his gun, he drops a full clip and loads another clip and loads his gun and he unloads again and loads again that he just keeps reloading his gun.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, and he starts freaking out.
[SPEAKER_05]: The other guy drops his gun at front of you and you feel this intense fear and just evil coming from the urn and altar in front of you down there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, how far away from it?
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm still like 20 feet away kind of thing.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I'd say it's like the other 30 feet away.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, so one of my, I came in with three guys.
[SPEAKER_02]: One of them still at the top of the stairs.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's not doing good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now we're at the bottom of the stairs.
[SPEAKER_02]: Another one of them is obsessively reloading his gun for no reason.
[SPEAKER_02]: What's the third guy doing?
[SPEAKER_02]: He's just staring, moderating.
[SPEAKER_05]: We need to kill it.
[SPEAKER_05]: We gotta kill it.
[SPEAKER_05]: And he starts like looking around the room, like he's looking for threats that he's starting the panic.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, I take two steps towards the urn.
[SPEAKER_02]: Does the sound get worse?
[SPEAKER_02]: Is this like, this parable feeling gets worse?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, it's hard.
[SPEAKER_05]: Can I get a power roll from you?
[SPEAKER_05]: An 18.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's a good roll.
[SPEAKER_05]: You push it.
[SPEAKER_05]: You push it down and go through.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, what are your guys pushes by you when he starts to go up the ladder Fractically looking back over him like he's he's seeing ghosts or monsters or something and he starts freaking out Okay, I order I go Anderson Bradley up the stairs get the fuck out of here grab Johnson go with you And I get on the radio, Bravo team.
[SPEAKER_02]: We've got a problem.
[SPEAKER_02]: I need you to collect my team at the top of the stairs There's something wrong with them coming get them
[SPEAKER_05]: No response from Bravo, too.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, are my guys responding to me as I'm trying to send them out?
[SPEAKER_05]: The one guy who's obsessively reloading slowly starts backing away.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's not responding to you super well.
[SPEAKER_05]: The other guy's upstairs and gone like he's starting to freak the fuck out.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, um, can I try to corral this guy towards the stairs a little bit?
[SPEAKER_05]: Is he able to be directed as he has a new crown towards stairs and he just keeps He's even went through like pretty much his ammo.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's just dropping bullets and clips on the ground fumbling with his gun Starting to freak out.
[SPEAKER_05]: You got to do something.
[SPEAKER_05]: We got to do something
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, I'm starting to freak out myself.
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like overcome with fear.
[SPEAKER_02]: This ringing in my ears is really starting to get to me.
[SPEAKER_02]: I shoe him up the stairs.
[SPEAKER_02]: And for a second, I try to move as far away from the earn as I can inside that room, just to sort of give myself a little bit of a breath.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do I get any relief as I back off?
[SPEAKER_05]: Not really.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's starting to get worse down here.
[SPEAKER_05]: The longer you stay down.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Cain thinks about his training for a second.
[SPEAKER_02]: this is his role the team got him in here he's got a stop this uh... he's not really sure what to do he looks at the earn and he just sort of tries to press on i just try to like walk towards the earn as i go up as i cover like ten or fifteen feet what happens
[SPEAKER_05]: You know, with your good power, you definitely, you push, and you just keep walking, walking towards it.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's almost like you're pushing on like a force, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_05]: Where you like start to squint, and you've got one arm up like you're pushing through an invisible barrier or force that's trying to keep you away.
[SPEAKER_05]: As you get closer, it becomes more intense.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, I just commit myself to it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just kind of grit my teeth and sort of push through, just trying to see if I can get there, see if I can endure, I want to get to the earn and maybe try to smash it or see.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, you were all the good, good power role.
[SPEAKER_05]: You get up to it and you see the earn and an altar.
[SPEAKER_05]: It looks like there's even,
[SPEAKER_05]: There's just a lot of shit you don't understand and get.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's scribbling on the wall.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's scratches on the wall.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's a box that looks like it's locked at the base of the altar.
[SPEAKER_05]: You even have a hard time of your visions even getting a little blurry, but you get right up to it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, as I get all the way up there, there's a little table that the urn is on and in front of the urn is this like green polish stone and for some reason it really catches my attention and I reach out and grab it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, you reach out and put your hand on it.
[SPEAKER_05]: I need you to make another.
[SPEAKER_02]: It feels warm when I touch it as soon as I touch it, it feels like it's.
[SPEAKER_05]: Can I get another power roll from you?
[SPEAKER_05]: 16.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: You put your hand on it and your eyes wide and as you stare at it, as soon as you touch it, it feels warm and you get a rush through your body, rush into your brain of these visions that you don't even understand just like quickly flicker by like flicker through your mind and you shake your head and you take your hand off.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you start my able to, I feel compelled to possess this rock, am I able to put it in my tactical
[SPEAKER_05]: You'd go to lift it off and it's ridiculously heavy and it warming it almost feels like it's attached to the altar like it's one.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like there's an energy or a force there that won't let you.
[SPEAKER_05]: Take it, you start to hear shouting upstairs and it cuts onto the radio and it seems to be cutting in and out like just in their parents.
[SPEAKER_05]: Sprit, brother, what do you?
[SPEAKER_05]: Some shouting and it starts to cut in and out and you can hear footsteps above you running on the wooden floor.
[SPEAKER_02]: shit.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, uh, Kane's kind of getting desperate because he feels like whatever is happening from this occult.
[SPEAKER_02]: Earn here is really starting to affect the team and I don't know what's going on upstairs.
[SPEAKER_02]: I try to like, can I pull the rock off the table or flip the table?
[SPEAKER_02]: It all seems like it's sort of forced down.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, it does, unnaturally.
[SPEAKER_05]: You feel you should be able to just push it over.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's, it's not, it's not
[SPEAKER_02]: solid marble or handcrafted and you know what I mean like you figure like okay I can't just push the shit over okay cane thinks that to himself and out of sheer stubbornness and belligerence like digs his hands in underneath the edges of the table and squats underneath it like he's gonna just flip the table as hard as he can and he just puts every bit of effort that he has into it does anything I've been no it barely moves if anything you hear some shouting from the hole behind you
[SPEAKER_05]: Vick, we gotta go!
[SPEAKER_02]: Hurry up!
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, Vick, shout.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, you roll the grenade over towards the table.
[SPEAKER_05]: Just easy roll, easy for you.
[SPEAKER_05]: You're as we've come to know from past episodes, grenades are your thing.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's a grenade expert, 99 in the ring.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, 99 in the grenade.
[SPEAKER_05]: You roll it right up and start to climb the ladder and as you get up, the explosion, though you can feel like the dust in the rock from the explosion, like kind of hit on the back of your legs and your boots as you camp her up the whole.
[SPEAKER_05]: And as soon as the explosion happens,
[SPEAKER_05]: There's a loud ringing in your ears, and you just start to hear gunshots.
[SPEAKER_05]: As you look up in one ear, guys, is unloading into the room just seems at nothing.
[SPEAKER_05]: Ah, shooting you hear more gunshots outside.
[SPEAKER_05]: It seems that people are just, you don't know what they're firing on, but pretty much everyone in your squad and in the straight.
[SPEAKER_05]: The strike teams that came in with you are just shooting.
[SPEAKER_05]: Your buddy pulls you up and you get up to ladder and you go out to the back door and you see one of your guys mow down two of your soldiers.
[SPEAKER_05]: They all just be shooting at each other.
[SPEAKER_02]: Only fuck.
[SPEAKER_05]: Do I seem like a target?
[SPEAKER_05]: What's everyone just shooting?
[SPEAKER_05]: No one's looking at you yet.
[SPEAKER_05]: A Jew in your guy just standing there.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's like, what the fuck?
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's get the fuck out of here.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is one of my guys.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is like Bradley or Johnson or whatever.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, this would be Johnson.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, Johnson, with me and we try to like slip out the back door on the other side of where the humbys were or something so that we're not in the line of fire.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, you guys start to run, you're getting shot at, you point towards the door.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, sorry, you guys start running, you turn the corner and you see one of your, one of your guys from the alpha team standing there and he just starts unloading towards you guys.
[SPEAKER_05]: Louie, no, it's us, friendly fire.
[SPEAKER_05]: You're trying to swim up, you can see the surface right above you and you're trying to swim in your in your suit, and you can't swim in your big suits, you start pulling at the buckles, pulling it everything, trying to get your helmet off.
[SPEAKER_05]: It takes like three minutes to get out of that fucking suit.
[SPEAKER_05]: Hold your breath.
[SPEAKER_05]: Give me a powerful for you, for me.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've never been much of a swimmer a 17, the dice are hot.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, you start to feel like you're floating.
[SPEAKER_05]: And you start to go up and you feel something grab at your legs and you look around.
[SPEAKER_05]: The vision is through your visor.
[SPEAKER_05]: You can't see anything, but there's stuff there.
[SPEAKER_05]: Something goes by quickly and you turn your head and look the other way.
[SPEAKER_05]: You feel something grab me at your legs and you've also feel a pain in your side and you look down and there's a shard of that rock.
[SPEAKER_05]: that you blew up.
[SPEAKER_05]: You'd even realize it's from the explosion.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's lodged in the top of your leg.
[SPEAKER_05]: You breech down and you pull it in your hand, feels warm, and you just stop panicking, and you start to sink as you get pulled down into the water, and you wake up gasping in your bed.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like shoot straight up and bad like sit up all the blank.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's been kicked off and I'm just completely Dredged and sweat.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's the middle of the night.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's still dark.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's like a light from the street light outside shining in and I'm just sort of like What the the night bed you always have you felt since Grover's fell up then worse That was fucking intense.
[UNKNOWN]: I
[SPEAKER_05]: They get, it's, it's always about your experience in Afghanistan and when shit goes crazy.
[SPEAKER_05]: You dream sometimes aren't near as bad, but ever since Grover'sville and since seeing my Glocklin, my Glocklin himself, it's just everything seems to be way more intense.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's unreal.
[SPEAKER_02]: I reach across to the the the the bedside table beside me and I open the drawer and pull out the shard that you were talking about and it's kind of a sharp-ish, polished, east of stone and I've actually been carrying that around with me for probably.
[SPEAKER_02]: 15 years now, because that dream you were talking about actually happened to me in Afghanistan, that thing was actually stuck in my leg I've been keeping it around and I don't know if it's real, but in my mind every time something spooky It's going on something occulty is going on that thing seems to be warm So so that wasn't all all dream like that was some memory Yeah, that was a memory only could Afghanistan part really happened.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's crazy man and you have the shirt
[SPEAKER_02]: And now I keep it in my pocket every day.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Cool.
[SPEAKER_05]: You hear your phone ring?
[SPEAKER_02]: Your landlight.
[SPEAKER_05]: What do you think of me?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_02]: The phone doesn't ring very often.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm still sort of in dream shock.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I can feel the sleep hormones just surging through my body.
[SPEAKER_02]: Still, I let it ring a few times.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just keep ringing.
[SPEAKER_05]: It stops.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't have an answer, machine.
[SPEAKER_05]: It stops right here.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just sitting in bed still, not quite ready to answer the phone.
[SPEAKER_05]: To take on the world, let's cut to, say, okay, I'm a little freaked out.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm gonna get some kind of weird dream scenario I know too.
[SPEAKER_05]: Standing in a wooded remote area, looking at,
[SPEAKER_05]: a small metal box that you pull out of a bench seat, old abandoned trailer.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, crazy.
[SPEAKER_05]: So it's full of like, Biles and paperware.
[SPEAKER_05]: It looks like it's, it's files, paperwork photos.
[SPEAKER_05]: Right on the top, you see, is a thick manilla folder that stamp classified.
[SPEAKER_05]: The pages are misaligned as your flip-through.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's like photocopies of photocopies.
[SPEAKER_05]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_05]: It's grainy and it's shitty.
[SPEAKER_05]: Most of it is heavily blacked out and redacted.
[SPEAKER_05]: We see it's a central intelligence agency personnel record.
[SPEAKER_05]: Subject.
[SPEAKER_05]: Adolf Leppis, and then there's some...
[SPEAKER_05]: more redacted CIA.
[SPEAKER_05]: CIA.
[SPEAKER_05]: A service prior U.S. MC Scout sniper Vietnam Theater.
[SPEAKER_05]: It talks about operations, most of it again is redacted.
[SPEAKER_05]: You see, one that operational record includes involvement in redacted, redacted, special project redacted.
[SPEAKER_05]: All sorts of redacted shit in there.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's a psychic valuation, talks about his low empathy, a typical emotional profile.
[SPEAKER_05]: He talks about how he's an asset, a train sniper, 63 confirmed kills in some battles, like he's one all sorts of awards.
[SPEAKER_05]: It talks about an incident in Cambodia in 1969, civilian presence unconfirmed, derous, and engagement that lasted 11 minutes.
[SPEAKER_05]: It talks about leptis being there, basically everything went sideways, again, heavily redacted.
[SPEAKER_05]: One of the pages in a bright red stamp, it just stamped no form, NOF-O-R-N in capital letters.
[SPEAKER_05]: there is a letter in there.
[SPEAKER_05]: Requested per request of the steering committee member redacted.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's all that stuff on just lepises is record and what he's done through the military.
[SPEAKER_04]: And yet a lot of it's redacted.
[SPEAKER_04]: So it's like it's clear that he was a US soldier question mark, sniper, but he got involved in all of these redacted operations.
[SPEAKER_04]: And this is a CIA file, does that mean that he was a CIA agent or the CIA have a file on lefus?
[SPEAKER_05]: She was an agent.
[SPEAKER_04]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_05]: She was in the Marine Corps, but yeah, he was he was CIA.
[SPEAKER_05]: You keep flipping through in the next, the next stack of papers.
[SPEAKER_05]: These are cleaner papers, crisper edges.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's staple through with a heavy gauge pan, marked secret or con.
[SPEAKER_05]: What you can see again, a lot of it heavily redacted, but what you find in there is a death certificate basically for leppis, subject, leppis, aid-off, status, deceased, cause of death, helicopter crash, and the border of louse, no remains recovered, waste statements classified.
[SPEAKER_05]: Dessertifricate signed by Redacted Date Redacted.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's a floor in talks.
[SPEAKER_05]: Immediately reassigned to Enaro Delta under Special Access Directive Redacted.
[SPEAKER_05]: Clearance updated, the steering, capable, more stuff redacted, new designation, recommended for integration into Redacted.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's all these files about it looks like his death quote aren't quote.
[SPEAKER_05]: You know he's not dead obviously you've seen him.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: It seems like they've faked his death and then brought him into like the shadows of the government.
[SPEAKER_04]: Right, right, right.
[SPEAKER_04]: And the CIA were super active in the Vietnam War, right?
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, that's that, oh my god, what movie was that now?
[SPEAKER_04]: Like El Gibson?
[SPEAKER_04]: where they were like flying, they were flying like supply planes back and forth through Lousen, Cambodia around Vietnam, right?
[SPEAKER_04]: And moving things illegally that way and they're involved in the drug trade and everything.
[SPEAKER_04]: Wow, okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: Crazy, so he's an XCA.
[SPEAKER_05]: You keep flipping through.
[SPEAKER_05]: You find a bunch of like glossy black and white sheets of paper.
[SPEAKER_05]: Some of them look like I've been cut out, but it is pictures surveillance photos of Leppis in various angles.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's obviously Hermes got the three gold teeth.
[SPEAKER_05]: You'll see like ID confirmed stamped on some of the pictures one of the pictures in the background You notice people standing around with large helmets almost like comically oversized
[SPEAKER_05]: What?
[SPEAKER_05]: I thought it was a cake.
[SPEAKER_05]: Pictures in him, like a lot of the pictures, black choppers, all of the stuff that you saw at the barred.
[SPEAKER_05]: Just all sorts of stack of surveillance photos.
[SPEAKER_04]: Can I pick out any locations that would seem recognizable to me at all?
[SPEAKER_05]: No, no nothing seems recognizable.
[SPEAKER_05]: You keep flipping through, there's more forms, you find one that is an NRO Delta field proficiencies sheet.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's basically a training report on Lapis.
[SPEAKER_05]: Again, a lot of it redacted, it stamped, restricted, talks about his proficiency in MP5s, M21 precision rifles, all sorts of snipers.
[SPEAKER_05]: His CQB rating is exceptional, extreme, exhibits extreme calmness, under pressure, adapts immediately under pressure, suppresses normal emotional responses during operations, specialized training encountering interrogation, covert entry, asset removal, useful for tasks, requiring discretion and finality.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's all sorts of stuff about.
[SPEAKER_05]: His training.
[SPEAKER_04]: NRO Delta.
[SPEAKER_04]: Does the Delta and NRO Delta refer to Delta green, like does that seem like a Delta green file from back in the day or?
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, it's kind of the split.
[SPEAKER_05]: And you can ask, perhaps when you get someone with some more information, a fine room.
[SPEAKER_05]: A bit more, but it's an arm of the government.
[SPEAKER_05]: A shadowy arm.
[SPEAKER_05]: A shadowy arm of the government.
[UNKNOWN]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, is there anyone less trustworthy than a XCIA agent with extreme skills who has a fake death?
[SPEAKER_04]: No, this is So bad as it gets.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's like big bad territory here.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh my god, and we've already met him.
[SPEAKER_05]: You find some press clippings.
[SPEAKER_05]: These are articles real cutout articles taped like country paper some of the yellow some of them are yelling some of them are crisp
[SPEAKER_05]: The first one you read is Defense Consultant found dead in hotel.
[SPEAKER_05]: Now it talks about how he had a heart attack in this mat, but you see notes on the paper about ligature, marks, and consistent with hanging.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh crap, that's what he did to shutter, too.
[SPEAKER_05]: And it's the bottom.
[SPEAKER_05]: You found another one that says Air Force analysis dies unexpectedly.
[SPEAKER_05]: And it talks about how a highly fractured classic throat compression, strangulation.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's all these notes that are called calling card.
[SPEAKER_05]: The articles referring to it as like heart attacks or suicides, but you see handwritten notes about the things that you say, you say, relate to it's calling card, you see like lepis question mark underlined.
[SPEAKER_05]: Some of the videos was another one at contractor collapses during routine meeting footage gap 32 seconds long, you see that note written on it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Lepis question mark circles.
[SPEAKER_05]: All three are in this.
[SPEAKER_05]: Describe different deaths and important people just die, but they're all obviously killed the same way, but it was covered up.
[SPEAKER_04]: Only crap, who had all these files who put all this together?
[SPEAKER_04]: Is there any indication at all?
[SPEAKER_05]: No indication of anything.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_05]: You flip to another page and it looks like it's a a personnel summary.
[SPEAKER_05]: And the picture of the corner of the headshot, you recognize as parish.
[SPEAKER_05]: What?
[SPEAKER_05]: From Grover's Bell, and it says Lieutenant Colonel Marcus Keane, officially killed helicopter crash 1992.
[SPEAKER_05]: Body Unrecovered Due to Trained.
[SPEAKER_05]: OSI Internal File Sealed.
[SPEAKER_05]: And you see it, again, lots of redacted stuff on it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh my God.
[SPEAKER_05]: You find another one.
[SPEAKER_05]: You flip under and you notice the picture.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's a boil.
[SPEAKER_05]: major Thomas Rork.
[SPEAKER_05]: Pluto section text the goal dossier Chris Formatting.
[SPEAKER_05]: This guy was an engineer it looks like for something called Pluto Sector.
[SPEAKER_05]: officially deceased in 1994, Electrical Mile Function incident.
[SPEAKER_05]: Cascut closed due to family request.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Talks about how he's got skills in advanced systems, immigration, counter-measure designs.
[SPEAKER_05]: Again, another best certificate, fake deaths for these markets.
[SPEAKER_05]: Lieutenant Colonel Marcus Keene, who you know is Parich.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, and Major Thomas War, who you know is Boyle.
[SPEAKER_04]: Are there any other...
[SPEAKER_04]: Um, are there any other files like that in there of people that maybe we haven't meant yet?
[SPEAKER_04]: But... No.
[SPEAKER_05]: Whoever put this together for you handpicked, left us and these two obviously.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I got to get in touch with Daringer about this because like, who else would know that... these are the agents that we came into contact with in Grover's film.
[SPEAKER_04]: Crazy.
[SPEAKER_05]: You see another sheet of paper?
[SPEAKER_05]: That looks like it's a memo, again, heavily redacted, but it talks about Leppis being cited in Grover's film, and basically recounts
[SPEAKER_05]: your incident with him about how he came to clean up a majestic, a majestic site, a majestic laboratory.
[SPEAKER_05]: It doesn't necessarily, it doesn't mention my go, and all that kind of stuff that it just talks about how he was cited in Grover's Will doing cleanup talks about his status being active, his threat level, extreme, do not pursue without authorization.
[SPEAKER_05]: Everything is heavily
[SPEAKER_05]: One of the things you can kind of decipher as you read that hasn't been redacted properly, it says, seek containment before and then redact it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Seek containment before you also find another little small collection of photos of what looks like corpses, autopsy photos of the Garrett.
[SPEAKER_05]: like just to show again that it's his car card and you see a picture of shutter.
[SPEAKER_05]: What in a hospital bed are unconscious but same thing examining his neck and taking pictures of it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Damn.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh man, it like okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: So, Saint
[SPEAKER_04]: St. just kind of sits there, it closes the box, and I just want to make a thing in the box.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, wait, people before he does this, then.
[SPEAKER_04]: What?
[SPEAKER_05]: You see, it's a one-half sheet of plain paper.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's typed out.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's no heading, no classification stamp, no anything.
[SPEAKER_05]: And on it, it says echo in capital letters.
[SPEAKER_05]: Echo, pending analysis, unresolved potential.
[SPEAKER_05]: Correlation with project violet tear not confirmed.
[SPEAKER_04]: Violet tear, like tearing paper, violet tear.
[SPEAKER_05]: Ter, T, E, A, R. Yeah, OK.
[SPEAKER_05]: and then the last thing at the bottom of the box is it's written in it's a handwritten note that says burn after reading okay can you send me the text to that note or read it again three times i can copy it all down so last note this note is separate this is basically this refers to the whole box oh burn after reading okay
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, okay, so you see St, he's like sitting on the, uh, the step of the camper van, you know, and he's got the box open and he's like leaving through all this stuff and, and some of the files he's like taking out and put on the ground next to the box and, you know, he, he thought that he would maybe go back home to, or but he couldn't resist the urge, so he's, he's looking at all this stuff, and he reads that he's got a, he's got a burn all of this.
[SPEAKER_04]: And he kind of Yeah, he pulls at a cigarette and lights it and he sort of starts to puff on it kind of Absent mindedly kind of forgets about it along ash falling into the dirt and he's just sort of staring off into the woods
[SPEAKER_04]: And he flicks the butt and packs everything back into the box and takes the box back to his 1978 Brown Cadillac coupe and drives back home with it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Nothing burned so far.
[SPEAKER_04]: No, no, no, he's not going to burn it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Damn, he's really thinking about how he should have though, but no, he's going to, he's going to take it back.
[SPEAKER_04]: In his mind, he's like, I'm gonna take it back.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to synthesize all the information and then I'll burn it and then I'll burn it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Can I get an alertness for all from you as you drive the way?
[SPEAKER_04]: Ah, son of a bitch.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_04]: Why, Dave?
[SPEAKER_04]: Um, all right.
[SPEAKER_04]: Find my skills here.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love that you took a moment to rationalize why you're not burning the fire, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh my god, I got super high alertness.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, 42 under 71.
[SPEAKER_05]: You are very confident there's no one around.
[SPEAKER_05]: No one's.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, I was just, yeah, I liked those little things.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's you failed and I would have been like, huh?
[SPEAKER_05]: And then you'd be like, wait, what?
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, cool.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, well, let me some feel a little bit better.
[SPEAKER_04]: He really did like look around and make sure he was in the clear.
[SPEAKER_04]: So yeah, he's gonna head back home.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, no one's watching, no one's on anything.
[SPEAKER_05]: You're the only one within fucking miles.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, he gets back home pulls into the driveway.
[SPEAKER_04]: He notices that Mrs. Clampett's garbage cans aren't back in off the side of the road yet.
[SPEAKER_04]: So he gets out of his car and goes over and halts her trash cans around to her back step.
[SPEAKER_05]: And what if I'm really heavy?
[SPEAKER_04]: The hell?
[SPEAKER_04]: He opens it up.
[SPEAKER_04]: He's like, why didn't they?
[SPEAKER_05]: Let's cut to Ray Merrick.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, fucks it.
[SPEAKER_05]: No, I'm just joking.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm just joking.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I'm just joking.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm just joking.
[SPEAKER_05]: If you open it up, she's got nothing.
[SPEAKER_05]: She's been putting a lot of compost in the garbage.
[SPEAKER_05]: So it's heavy.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right.
[SPEAKER_04]: So the garbage hasn't been taken yet?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, the garbage hasn't been taken.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, I'll leave it for now.
[SPEAKER_05]: You think you realize that it's the garbage day is not for two more days.
[SPEAKER_05]: And she's loose in her mind.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, and I'm losing my mind, too, because I should know that as well.
[SPEAKER_04]: But I just got back from operation.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I'm a little off.
[SPEAKER_04]: She's my, yeah, I give my head a shake and go in and the horn of the cup of coffee.
[SPEAKER_05]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, let's go to Ray Merrick, sitting at your, I guess the sitting at your desk will keep it in present day.
[SPEAKER_05]: So it's late, you've told your, uh, protege a Cortez to basically kick rocks and you've kicked her off.
[SPEAKER_05]: What seems to be this?
[SPEAKER_05]: large, large news story that's coming through the wire that will be broken the morning basically of all these people dying in Grover'sville, how the hospitals in the area are overrun and basically the CDC and the military has closed off Grover'sville and it is, it is.
[SPEAKER_05]: No one's going in and out of that place right now.
[SPEAKER_05]: You had a sanity check last time.
[SPEAKER_05]: about what's going on.
[SPEAKER_05]: What's going through is his head, you're back into what are the real world.
[SPEAKER_05]: You're finding out all that shit about Grover's fell.
[SPEAKER_05]: Are you still you just still wear a scarf everywhere?
[SPEAKER_05]: They cover up your shirt.
[SPEAKER_05]: You're throat?
[SPEAKER_01]: No, at least you maybe like a black turtleneck.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, um yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think he's probably just in shock from the
[SPEAKER_01]: From that mission and he's you can already kind of tell that the someone's already spun this right like Some sort of Yeah disease or would you would you call it like a it's Dave?
[SPEAKER_05]: But there were they're saying it's an avian flu.
[SPEAKER_01]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_01]: Flu taken over growers.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, he's like, okay, someone's already spun this
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I know my hands are clean.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's nothing that's going to trace it back to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's probably just going to sink into his work and try to regain some sort of sanity.
[SPEAKER_05]: You're just a little knock on your door and it's Nick, Nick Tartine.
[SPEAKER_06]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's your producer guy.
[SPEAKER_05]: Is he your boss?
[SPEAKER_05]: You're his boss, right?
[SPEAKER_05]: But he's like you're dude underneath it?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Uh, Ray, Ray, can I sit down?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I just wave him in and I don't want to talk more than I have here.
[SPEAKER_05]: Right.
[SPEAKER_05]: He sits down and the stuff like a Grover feels crazy.
[SPEAKER_05]: We're we're getting ready to send someone down from what we've heard.
[SPEAKER_05]: No one's going in and out.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's no information.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's no nothing.
[SPEAKER_05]: We just keep getting this talk at the flu.
[SPEAKER_05]: I just talked to I just talked to Cortette.
[SPEAKER_05]: Sheer.
[SPEAKER_05]: You're pulling her off of everything, you're just, you want me to send it to DMV, is that what you want?
[SPEAKER_05]: She's super awesome.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, just some of the stuff that she's been produced in is just not up to...
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just, this not doesn't read just the standards, you know, of what we're looking for here, and it realized that she's got some work to do still.
[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, when I came into this industry, I didn't just get thrown onto these big, big stories, you know,
[SPEAKER_05]: cut your teeth and make a name for yourself on and show that you could actually write um yeah no that's uh on it you know on the boring stuff yeah no it's certainly proven that you had earned your stuff I thought she was on a pretty good trajectory man you've been pumping her tires for a while just seems uh it seems like but hey man you're the boss you know you're shit well we'll get her off that is there uh
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I don't really know what else we can do about this.
[SPEAKER_05]: You got me, uh... About her?
[SPEAKER_01]: I can care less.
[SPEAKER_01]: But this is just focus on this story.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a big story.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's back to me a little quiet for a second.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, he's like, yeah, okay, what, uh, what should we run?
[SPEAKER_05]: We just run everything spill it right there.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think everybody else is going to do that, and we just try to keep up, or we should try to find out more.
[SPEAKER_05]: What language would we take here?
[SPEAKER_01]: Angle, we don't even know the story yet, so we got to send some people down there.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're poking around asking, you know, the regular question set up a camera on the corner of the city square, and there were freaking, whoever our best-looking person is in front of it and give him a microphone and just start blabbing away, I guess, you know, the same old disaster story.
[SPEAKER_01]: We've done it a million times, just do it again, all right?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, yeah, okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, no, that sounds great, I'll get right on it.
[SPEAKER_05]: He gets up to police.
[SPEAKER_01]: I take like a swig of like water and maybe like, it's like a mix of water and like peptal bismal helps us throw it a bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that is sounds disgusting.
[SPEAKER_05]: The end of there been garot it before, so maybe that sounds delightful.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, like you like.
[SPEAKER_01]: holes open his drum pulls out this like mirror and he pulls down his turtle neck and he just like checks out the wound and uh it's buck bleeding again.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wow he pulls out this guy's and like dabs it, pads it, puts another piece of tape on and pulls the turtle neck up kind of like fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff fff
[SPEAKER_05]: I feel sorry for.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, well, let's jump ahead a little bit.
[SPEAKER_05]: Let's go.
[SPEAKER_05]: I want to stick with Merrick.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, we'll go to America.
[SPEAKER_05]: You're at your computer, again, still.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's been, let's say it's been 10 days.
[SPEAKER_05]: The news about Grover'sville, it's national news.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's all over the place.
[SPEAKER_05]: Imagine that would be international news, a town of.
[SPEAKER_05]: of you know a few hundred people getting the avian flu and all dropping again but then you know 24 hours people freaking out lots of lots of hush around it lots of hysteria the usual stuff when there's hysteria in the public demands answers in the government just ignores you and doesn't give you any answers.
[SPEAKER_01]: So out of character what did
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, so what was the outcome that?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, it's 10 days later, there's this EVM flu.
[SPEAKER_01]: So like, we not licensed some people down, just to cover it, we took some like stock footage and some, you know, we sent a report down with a camera, we like basically sell that to like the bigger,
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, news channels because we're just like, we're, um, uh, uh, journalistic magazine.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, but we, you know, we sell footage to, like, CNN or like, a controller.
[SPEAKER_01]: When they can't send someone down or whatever, we just go down.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_01]: As a backup.
[SPEAKER_01]: But, like, so we've, we got some footage.
[SPEAKER_01]: We got some stories.
[SPEAKER_01]: We poked around a bit, like, what did, what was the outcome?
[SPEAKER_01]: Dioca did that like a thousand people die or something?
[SPEAKER_05]: They'll come.
[SPEAKER_05]: It talks about how
[SPEAKER_05]: 300 confirmed dead there's lots of the main stream media a lot of it is has been redacted even when it comes to you guys and you guys have felt your soldier footage and done stuff about that any of the footage there has been recorded footage of black helicopters in the area the places completely shut down no one going in and out no answers no anything.
[SPEAKER_05]: All footage of military black helicopters, they were not showing that on any of the national media.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's been kept very much as a contained flu, an avian flu.
[SPEAKER_05]: that has been contained, you know, they could spend the nonsense about how it was a amputated strain.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's no risk to the public.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's died off and burned itself out.
[SPEAKER_05]: You know, they're doing all sorts of stuff for that.
[SPEAKER_05]: You have the usual mask mandates and people fighting about that and freedom, convoys and all that kind of shit and people demanding answers.
[SPEAKER_05]: But nothing really comes from it.
[SPEAKER_05]: But even you being in the new cycle know that this has been super tight-lept even more so than before you're not no one when you send your team down.
[SPEAKER_05]: No one's even allowed fucking anywhere close to Grover'sville.
[SPEAKER_05]: That whole area has just been shut down with military checkpoints all sorts of stuff.
[SPEAKER_05]: You obviously know a little bit more about the dark
[SPEAKER_05]: But it's been very much kept under wraps and just repeating the same key points, all the major news, repeating the same thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that sort, like the information that's coming out of it, like you said 300 people died.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
[SPEAKER_01]: So like are those just numbers that we were fed from say like a military checkpoint when they sent out their PR person to give us 100%.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, 100%.
[SPEAKER_01]: So those numbers seriously backed up with facts.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're just like fed to the media.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, everything you feel everything is calm on a memo that has been fed to you.
[SPEAKER_05]: This is what this is what is happening.
[SPEAKER_05]: There hasn't been you haven't been allowed to interview anyone from Grover's
[SPEAKER_05]: You haven't been allowed to do shit all your, you're kept at a, like, your, your buddy, uh, Tartine, whatever his name is, he keeps raising things like, man, this is, like, they're keeping us even further away.
[SPEAKER_05]: Then, like, remember when they had, you know, that shit back in, in 89, when we worked on that, we were at least allowed to talk to people from the town and get close here, we're, we're stopped, you know, five kilometers away, we're not allowed to anywhere close.
[SPEAKER_05]: he keeps talking about how there's there's something more but you know he wants to to chase that and break the story and find more but he's like man this is tight-lipped as as fuck okay so I guess yeah Merrick would try to like convince him to just kind of give it up like yeah you know the government's just gonna do what they do so and yeah it's just move on
[SPEAKER_05]: He's been like, hey, check this out.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's rumblings of this.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's not making anywhere.
[SPEAKER_05]: Most of it are just saying it's conspiracy theorists and fucking idiots and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
[SPEAKER_05]: But he directs you to an old website, just banter board, people posting and commenting.
[SPEAKER_05]: None of it's gaining traction.
[SPEAKER_05]: This is where the lunatics gather and barf their nonsense onto this new thing called the internet.
[SPEAKER_05]: And he points to posts by a Frank Caracola.
[SPEAKER_01]: from Phenometx, talking about, I chuckle to myself.
[SPEAKER_05]: And it's basically post about the FBI wasn't Grover's real leading up to this disaster.
[SPEAKER_05]: This isn't what the government wants you to believe it is.
[SPEAKER_05]: There is some sort of FBI cover up and it's just him writing articles.
[SPEAKER_05]: That aren't, I guess, theoretically correct.
[SPEAKER_05]: Ish, you guys weren't really FBI.
[SPEAKER_05]: But he talks about Murl's shut eye.
[SPEAKER_05]: He talks about being assaulted by the FBI.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm about being held hostage.
[SPEAKER_05]: He basically barfed out everything that you guys did to these, to these poor.
[SPEAKER_05]: These poor people.
[SPEAKER_05]: But again, it's not getting traction.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's got people commenting on you.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like, we knew it.
[SPEAKER_05]: The government conspiracy and all this kind of jazz and you chuckle as,
[SPEAKER_01]: I go to the comments, I scroll down, go to the comments, and I just type in like, they're always watching dot dot dot.
[SPEAKER_05]: What would you, what's your Locked Name?
[SPEAKER_05]: You're here, you're still live Locked Name.
[SPEAKER_01]: Scratches wrote 69.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, piano wire.
[SPEAKER_05]: Piano wire, 420.
[SPEAKER_05]: That'd be hilarious.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's funny.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's interesting.
[SPEAKER_05]: So he's you're just trolling Frank on line now.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, that's pretty hilarious.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's like you can't get away from this guy.
[SPEAKER_05]: We just get away or fucking for 20 guys, this guy's.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, he's just leasing his shit on the other hand.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh my god, that's fucking funny.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to, yeah, I don't want to, yeah, he'll probably.
[SPEAKER_01]: Go nuts if I give him any more.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I should, maybe I could type in like, did you check the back of your van or something?
[SPEAKER_01]: Ha ha ha ha.
[SPEAKER_01]: Did you check, did you check the undercarriage of your van for tracking devices or something?
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh yeah, that'll make his eyes go wide.
[SPEAKER_05]: I love it.
[SPEAKER_05]: I love America.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's just like, oh, I can fuck with this guy now.
[SPEAKER_01]: Get, give him a chuckle when he's kind of this.
[SPEAKER_01]: More or less depressed on everything that's happened to him.
[SPEAKER_01]: Or last few days.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, yeah, and he just goes like he's kind of the yeah, he's the editor and chief.
[SPEAKER_01]: I guess.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he's yeah, so how would he also has to do like the boring work, too?
[SPEAKER_01]: So he's go he goes back to like, yeah, yeah, doing doing like invoicing and stupid shit.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, the shit that everybody hates.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I got it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, what about your relationship with Lina over this over the 10 days, two weeks?
[SPEAKER_05]: Like you cut her off the job of you just being cold to where still freezing her out of everything.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, like her score is a lot.
[SPEAKER_05]: So she's she's furious at you for taking her off.
[SPEAKER_05]: This what she felt could have helped her.
[SPEAKER_05]: You're stifling her career.
[SPEAKER_05]: You're holding her back.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't well, yeah, and like she would have also probably.
[SPEAKER_01]: Doug way too deep and probably exposed what was actually going on like she's probably too good right and has too much Gumption you know too much energy and too much determination so that was also a reason why he didn't want to send her down there Right, but you still you're keeping her busy on the medial boring ship.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, there's an uptick in
[SPEAKER_01]: or bumper, you know.
[SPEAKER_01]: A rear bumper incident in the city and it's probably an article on that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, people don't know how to drive.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm rear-endered as see.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's something there.
[SPEAKER_01]: I tell you, of course, it has.
[SPEAKER_05]: Keep digging.
[SPEAKER_05]: You find it very cold towards you, obviously.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like you say, your, she feels your stifling her career.
[SPEAKER_01]: Your bond score of one is playing out in real time as... Yeah, like I mean, the coffee pot, you know, the coffee maker, and I...
[SPEAKER_01]: We go to reach for at the same time and I go, go ahead, and she just like turns around a while.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, she would just leave.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I didn't want coffee right there anyways.
[SPEAKER_01]: After the next mission, she'll probably get fired, and yeah, that'll be done.
[SPEAKER_01]: That'll be end of that.
[SPEAKER_05]: That'll be, yeah, the next mission, yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, one more point you can eat, sir, for.
[SPEAKER_05]: State, let's go to you over for these next couple weeks.
[SPEAKER_05]: So first off,
[SPEAKER_05]: Let's get a Sandy to check as the Grover's Phil News breaks.
[SPEAKER_04]: I got ya okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: 50.
[SPEAKER_04]: 3.
[SPEAKER_04]: Under.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, under.
[SPEAKER_05]: Lee, this guy.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, fresh and new.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, no.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not.
[SPEAKER_02]: 53.
[SPEAKER_02]: Over.
[SPEAKER_02]: 51.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_02]: Felix St. gets an advantage on this role.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's a pretty salty vet.
[SPEAKER_05]: No.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's no dentist.
[SPEAKER_05]: No.
[SPEAKER_02]: Definitely might.
[SPEAKER_05]: I might get to my helplessness.
[SPEAKER_05]: Not in violence.
[SPEAKER_05]: You lose three sanity.
[SPEAKER_05]: Is that one hits you pretty hard?
[SPEAKER_04]: Rapp.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't like people that much.
[SPEAKER_04]: But it is like deeply troubling to him that something of that scale can be just like swept under the rug like that.
[SPEAKER_04]: He feels like super troubled by that.
[SPEAKER_04]: And just the scope of majestic 12 and how much they're able to influence.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, just whatever one understands both reality basically.
[SPEAKER_04]: But yeah, I could totally see that hitting him.
[SPEAKER_04]: Really hard.
[SPEAKER_04]: He drinks a lot of bourbon that night.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh wow.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it goes to the closet and opens an unopened bottle of Jim Beam and... ...just the bull polishes it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Alright, and let's, uh, and you've been working on your first aid skill.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I have.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm gonna save, uh, I'm gonna save Kurt's character next.
[SPEAKER_04]: Um, it goes for what you have to sell it and it's going on.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's like no, it's the plus 30 right?
[SPEAKER_04]: They've you know plus 30 for taking first anchors.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh At least no, I believe it is a 1-D-4.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's what I'm trying to do.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's it
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, well, good luck Kurt.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a, hey, that's a, what is that like it could be 20% increase on what you already have?
[SPEAKER_01]: That's not bad it could be even more than that.
[SPEAKER_01]: It would be more than that.
[SPEAKER_01]: It would be more than you got.
[SPEAKER_05]: Almost nothing.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Let me check in this.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think he's just house rule that it's like a plus 30.
[SPEAKER_05]: No, I don't like the idea of a poster.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I was thinking that you wouldn't roll for it.
[SPEAKER_05]: So since you were actually spending this time that, I'll just give you the maximum, give you four.
[SPEAKER_04]: Max four, I love that.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: So four to your first aid.
[SPEAKER_05]: Thank you, sir.
[SPEAKER_05]: Anything else you want to touch upon in these, in these couple weeks?
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, in a couple of weeks, in a couple of weeks, I will say that St. has gone through all of the material.
[SPEAKER_04]: Do you ever burn any of it?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: So this is what I'm saying.
[SPEAKER_04]: I copied all down after making like,
[SPEAKER_04]: notes about everything.
[SPEAKER_04]: The photos are the last thing that he burns.
[SPEAKER_04]: He really wants to keep those, but in the end they don't really provide any clues or anything that he can actually use.
[SPEAKER_04]: You know what what Saints beginning to
[SPEAKER_04]: Besides, for himself is that he wants to kill eight off, Lepus.
[SPEAKER_04]: He's going to, he's gonna find him, and he's gonna kill.
[SPEAKER_05]: Nice, we can't let him just obsessed him up with him.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's just it, and it's like, it's not even necessarily vengeance.
[SPEAKER_04]: You know, although he likes shudder and he's glad he's alive, but just the he feels like he needs to cut the head off the snake.
[SPEAKER_04]: And he doesn't know anyone any higher than lefas, he's sure that there are like leaders in government that are higher up than lefas, but lefas is the highest target he has.
[SPEAKER_04]: aiming to do.
[SPEAKER_04]: So he spends like three weeks like in a crazy, you know, room off of his basement that has, you know, pins.
[SPEAKER_03]: The pin bars?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: And strings everywhere.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, conspiracy theory, like where was Lefus?
[SPEAKER_04]: How, you know, timelines and all of it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: And then he takes everything and he burns it in a burn barrel in this back here.
[SPEAKER_04]: Awesome.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Let's go to, uh, scent.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's get a sandy check first off too to see how this oh yeah when the news news about Grover's Well, this so called avian flu break 23 man.
[SPEAKER_02]: I am rolling rocks right now 23 Okay, so you pass so you lose one They lose one sanity.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, all right.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm down to 38 Oh, I need everybody to before I forget everybody except for
[SPEAKER_05]: No, let's have, okay, everybody can restore some willpower from this down time.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm gonna give Saints, you can do 2d6, shutter can do 2d6, and Cain does 1d6, okay?
[SPEAKER_02]: Directed.
[SPEAKER_02]: I missed them.
[SPEAKER_02]: What does feels appropriate?
[SPEAKER_02]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_05]: You can restore 2d6 willpower over these three weeks, because you're... You're...
[SPEAKER_05]: I willpower the max.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yours is that max, okay, perfect.
[SPEAKER_05]: What about your America, you're doing better?
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, it was at three.
[SPEAKER_01]: So now it's at 11.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm worried about you there, Kayne.
[SPEAKER_01]: You were at- But my max is 12.
[SPEAKER_02]: Fair enough.
[SPEAKER_02]: Perfect.
[SPEAKER_05]: So, Kayne, you were at 1.
[SPEAKER_02]: And now you're at.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I was down to 1.
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll power left.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just rolled a 2 on my D6.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, I'm up to 3 now, which seems appropriate, because... Kayne's not really doing that well.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, he's not.
[SPEAKER_02]: He is not sleeping.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's always had insomnia, but now this new disorder of the nightmares is making it really bad, so that when he does sleep, it's not good sleep and he shoots up.
[SPEAKER_02]: in the middle of the night sweating and he's terrified and he's not really getting the rest that he needs and it's getting complicated because he is in intelligence and so he won't seek psychological help won't talk to anybody and he's just trying to get some sleep and he's a workaholic so
[SPEAKER_02]: you can't really do any research you would really love to know what's going on with the my go but again he works in intelligence he's not about to go use military facilities or an open internet connection and start googling stuff when he's trying to keep his intelligence cover and start researching this delta-green project so he's going a little stir crazy because he can't sleep and he can't work
[SPEAKER_02]: He's kind of stoic and private about these things, so he keeps it quiet.
[SPEAKER_02]: He goes back and checks in on Nathan, my old warp of that buddy, Nathan O'Reilly.
[SPEAKER_02]: We had a bad fight before, so I go and straight things up with him and make sure that he's doing okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: But over the days, you know, to pass the time, I just kind of start obsessively working out.
[SPEAKER_02]: Cain has access to a number of military facilities so I sort of just go to different locations and I do a bunch of firearms training And I'm just working out all the time to try to get through the stress and process things I end up Catching up with a bunch of really fit dudes on a base who are doing the Murphy challenge and sort of get into that for a while and to start obsessively doing Murphy challenges every day for For the last two weeks or so
[SPEAKER_05]: You know, I'll let you, if you want to add a D4 to your firearm skill, that's what you've been training on.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I would love to add it.
[SPEAKER_05]: What about you, Merrick?
[SPEAKER_05]: Is there anything that you, uh, I didn't give you an option to build or work on a skill or anything while you're going to this or something?
[SPEAKER_05]: You want to increase?
[SPEAKER_05]: This is like our level up.
[SPEAKER_05]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know if this is right way to do, but I like it.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, spent most of it in the hospital recovering and, and shitty not his employees.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, maybe there isn't much training going on.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm not sure.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, let me think about that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Troy, while you're thinking about that, I just wanted to note, uh, to mention that Kane has been working out so hard that he's actually having a hard time pulling his tactical pants up over his quad muscles.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right now.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if that gives me a D-4 to any of my skills or not, but... Value lose.
[SPEAKER_02]: The Murphy challenges are paying off.
[SPEAKER_05]: You gotta go shopping.
[SPEAKER_05]: You gotta buy new pants.
[SPEAKER_05]: Quads are too big for them now.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think you're timeline-busting again, too.
[SPEAKER_04]: Is there a Murphy challenge in 1995?
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't think we're all you and you are.
[SPEAKER_05]: He invented it.
[SPEAKER_05]: We do whatever we want.
[SPEAKER_02]: I met Murphy himself on the space.
[SPEAKER_02]: He invented it while we were working out together because our workouts weren't hard enough.
[SPEAKER_05]: Every time we say something, Mike fiercely Googles to make sure that the time flies.
[SPEAKER_05]: You guys, geese and Murphy's and we are pretty sure.
[SPEAKER_03]: We also admitted the geese.
[SPEAKER_05]: We're just trend centers man.
[SPEAKER_04]: I love this.
[SPEAKER_04]: And this hurt locker scene in like 1980s Afghanistan.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hell yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: So it's a charm.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah man, that's that's how we're all.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe I could just say that Mary either worked on some flexing his bureaucracy muscles and his journalism muscles.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_01]: Even from his bed in the hospital, he was sending out maybe letters, not really emails, I guess at that time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, okay, um, and phoning people and trying to, well, you're still trying to run the company.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, the only thing I can think of is that.
[SPEAKER_05]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, you picked one ad for it, too.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm cool.
[SPEAKER_05]: That 100%.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: Cool.
[SPEAKER_05]: One last question before we jump to the next part of the cave.
[SPEAKER_05]: Your Claire Fontaine your bond is constantly tries to get a hold of you.
[SPEAKER_05]: Do you eventually touch base with her?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I definitely would.
[SPEAKER_02]: I would reach out and call her to say hello or answer the phone or whatever.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you know, over two weeks, you would definitely be able to get a hold of me.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, she, one of the times she phones, you answer and she's immediately just starts with like, what the hell?
[SPEAKER_02]: What's up, high-clear?
[SPEAKER_05]: Are you not gonna talk to you in ages?
[SPEAKER_05]: Are you okay?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm doing great.
[SPEAKER_02]: How to do a little work trip and then now I'm back and just catching a little bit of downtime.
[SPEAKER_05]: Work trip, where did you end up going?
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, just down south.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just a couple days in and out, no big deal.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you hear about that shit and Grover'sville, Tennessee?
[SPEAKER_02]: That is terrifying.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, isn't that insane?
[SPEAKER_02]: The, uh, avian flu, I hope they've got it contained.
[SPEAKER_05]: I know, right?
[SPEAKER_05]: It just, uh, it happened so fast.
[SPEAKER_05]: I never heard anything about it, never heard anything like that before.
[SPEAKER_05]: No, that's crazy.
[SPEAKER_05]: I need, I need to be honest with you, back.
[SPEAKER_05]: You don't, I get worried about you.
[SPEAKER_05]: I need you to, I need you to, to check in with me more.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, I can do that.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've just been a little focused on a new work project, you know?
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not brushing you off.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's, you know how it is.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you brought me into the intelligence world, some of this stuff?
[SPEAKER_05]: I just can't talk about it.
[SPEAKER_05]: I know, but you also, we both know that this world is crazy and dangerous and that you can't get through and along.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's why I got you, right?
[SPEAKER_05]: How have you, I assume she knows about your nightmares and all your terrifying things?
[SPEAKER_02]: uh... she doesn't know about the nightmares because that develops on this campaign she knows that i suffer from insomnia and i've never had it slept well since afghanistan and she would know so when you do sleep you have nightmares now yeah exactly
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, good time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, she would know about some weird stuff that went down in Afghanistan.
[SPEAKER_02]: I probably wouldn't have been totally honest with her.
[SPEAKER_02]: She just would have known that I did some weird stuff in Afghanistan, and then she helped bring me into the intelligence field as sort of a career transfer.
[SPEAKER_05]: Right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, we don't have to roleplay the whole thing out, but she basically gives you like your, you guys, you lost a little bit.
[SPEAKER_05]: You projected on to her.
[SPEAKER_05]: She feels like you're brushing, you're brushing her off.
[SPEAKER_05]: And you know that she feels that like like it is with your buddy.
[SPEAKER_05]: You, you can't function properly without her.
[SPEAKER_05]: So she needs to check it out.
[SPEAKER_05]: And she's giving me like the, it's like the big sister vibe or whoever you guys is relationship would work.
[SPEAKER_05]: But she seems not angry, but worse disappointed in you.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's ironic because I'm disappointed in Nate for not taking care of himself and taking advantages of all the things that I've done to set him up But I totally blow her off and act like everything's fine I don't want to get into it because she knows me well and if I start talking about any of the problems that'll just blow the lid off the whole thing and so I just
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you know, basically, and lip service, and yeah, and do you know that she knows that?
[SPEAKER_05]: And that she's frustrated and you know how it goes until she'll reach out to you.
[SPEAKER_05]: The last thing she says to you is, you know, are you, are you leaving anytime soon again?
[SPEAKER_05]: Are you home for a while?
[SPEAKER_02]: Right now, I don't have any plans to go anywhere.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, will you talk to that?
[SPEAKER_05]: That psychologist I talked about, they can help you with these things.
[SPEAKER_05]: She did wonders for me.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's, you know, like, her colleague.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a, yeah, is it like an official channel or an unofficial channel?
[SPEAKER_05]: It's official.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm a little bit worried about putting anything on the books.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm a little bit worried about putting things not on the books to be honest.
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like talking about the same conversation.
[SPEAKER_02]: Dangerous.
[SPEAKER_05]: You need to figure this out.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: Let's talk in a few days.
[SPEAKER_05]: Let's go for lunch.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right.
[SPEAKER_05]: We'll talk soon.
[SPEAKER_04]: And you know, thanks for the call.
[SPEAKER_05]: You know, she, you, she has a conversation disappointed.
[SPEAKER_05]: So let's jump to you.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, quickly, I get to realize something.
[SPEAKER_05]: But there's something we didn't, what's I call just not invented in 1997?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, no, I hate to bring it up, but that learning of a Grover'sville made me hit my breaking point.
[SPEAKER_05]: I was like, just a breaking point, come on.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, you don't 48, 48 of 48, my breaking point.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, so you're breaking point for growers.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, how do you, because yeah, now we can talk disorder and stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_05]: This is, since I'm, this is your downtime, so this, this fucks with you.
[SPEAKER_05]: How does, how does it manifest in you?
[SPEAKER_05]: What does, what changes with Sam?
[SPEAKER_04]: Huh.
[SPEAKER_04]: I didn't have much time to actually think about this because I was listening to that cool role play you did with the current.
[SPEAKER_04]: Um, okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: So what would happen?
[SPEAKER_04]: So he, so he's, he's learning about what happened in Growersville.
[SPEAKER_04]: He's, I think, okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I think that he's angry, like angry furious, like he starts.
[SPEAKER_04]: like raging around his house with how majestic 12 can get away with doing this stuff and basically like cleanse a whole community, you know like Sam remembers driving past an elementary school.
[SPEAKER_04]: And he remembers driving past, you know, a mom pushing a stroller, right, and two old guys sitting on a bench, even if they were like cameras at that time.
[SPEAKER_04]: Like the idea that all these people are just dead now because of majestic 12s.
[SPEAKER_04]: Activities?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I think that he's...
[SPEAKER_04]: He's kind of lost it in a way that he doesn't use it.
[SPEAKER_04]: He's always a very, very in-control person.
[SPEAKER_04]: And for him, like, he kind of looks around after a half an hour of putting his foot through a door and throwing all the photos and pictures and shit off of the mantle piece.
[SPEAKER_04]: Um, and throwing the the gym beam bottle against the wall and having it smash everywhere, and uh, yeah He just feels like really really shaky and and freaked out and angry like he's never been before So I think he's gonna have a little bit of a Like he's just prone to snapping in a way that he wouldn't he wouldn't normally be Does that make sense?
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, yeah, yeah, no totally.
[SPEAKER_05]: I like it I like it.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's on on edge
[SPEAKER_05]: Let's go to America, as you pull into work on a normal day, and you go in, and the person, oh, you guys, you can have a, like, a front desk reception this, I suppose, huh?
[SPEAKER_05]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_05]: Who's, who's the receptionist?
[SPEAKER_05]: Boy girl.
[SPEAKER_05]: Um...
[SPEAKER_05]: Tally.
[SPEAKER_05]: Sally?
[SPEAKER_01]: He's been there from the beginning.
[SPEAKER_05]: I've grizzled old vet of the front desk world.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and she's like super friendly, hard-a-gold.
[SPEAKER_01]: Awesome.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, like really chatty with everybody that comes in.
[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, treat everybody with respect until they, you know.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't reciprocate.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, you come in, you know, you say you're your good morning and she stopped you and says, uh, oh, oh, sorry, right.
[SPEAKER_05]: There's a, there was a man waiting here for you.
[SPEAKER_05]: He's, uh, he's in his office.
[SPEAKER_05]: He flashed a badge.
[SPEAKER_05]: So I had to let him in, but he, he says he needs to talk to you and he has, uh,
[SPEAKER_05]: uh... it didn't need to talk to you about something important so he like i said i tried to make them make him wait out here but once he flashed a bad jackad a little nervous and that he's in your office right now waiting for you he says he's just gonna stay until you get here he's been there for for almost 20 minutes now what do you look like south uh... he's just a he's just looks like a normal normal man he's got to get deep sunken eyes he was uh...
[SPEAKER_05]: If he was weird, he was fidgeting with a zip-o with a whole time talking to me.
[SPEAKER_05]: If he said his name, it looks down at the door.
[SPEAKER_05]: He says his name is Brian.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, sure it is.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks, Al.
[SPEAKER_05]: Wait, what it is, bad to say.
[SPEAKER_05]: I didn't really take a look at it.
[SPEAKER_05]: He just kind of flashed it quickly and it made me nervous.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I love you, but he's Christ.
[SPEAKER_05]: What am I supposed to do when they start flashing badges?
[SPEAKER_05]: You tell them to eat shit outside.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, but you know I don't tell people to eat poop?
[SPEAKER_05]: That's awful.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of a slap, slap the counter.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, thanks Alan, I walk in.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm an idea who it is, Darren Durr.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, the zip-o, what she says the zip-o, it gives it away.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just nervously pull up on my, uh, turtle neck.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm still wearing those turban legs, I don't know, I don't know, I think she's about, yeah, just anxious about.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, it's like maybe like a, like a nearest twitch now and I think about Grover'sville.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, they're just kind of pulled, pulled up a bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pull it right up over your mouth.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and I walk up, I guess he went and found my office.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, he's in, he's in your office enjoying a nice warm cup of coffee.
[SPEAKER_01]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_01]: I walk in through my suitcase on the couch.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't need to close the door.
[SPEAKER_01]: What did he say his name was?
[SPEAKER_01]: Brown.
[SPEAKER_05]: I have Brian.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's all she said.
[SPEAKER_05]: Brian.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Good morning.
[SPEAKER_01]: Brian.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I throw my suitcase on the couch.
[SPEAKER_01]: Close the door.
[SPEAKER_05]: He doesn't even seem Dave laughs.
[SPEAKER_05]: He doesn't laugh.
[SPEAKER_05]: He stains completely stone-faced.
[SPEAKER_05]: You need to close the door.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Close it.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm close that part.
[SPEAKER_05]: How's the How's the neckests don't ask don't ask just get cut to the chase Brian Are we safe to speak here?
[SPEAKER_01]: I haven't had the room swept for surveillance in about 10 years, so I hope so He looks erratic get your jacket then we're going for a walk Hey, uh, reach into the my desk and pull out the pack of smokes.
[SPEAKER_01]: I haven't there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, what's your human I think it's pretty good
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, 61.
[SPEAKER_05]: A 61's not bad.
[SPEAKER_05]: He seems nervous and agitated.
[SPEAKER_05]: He still seems like he's his, it's danger, he's, it's his calm, you know, he's calm and direct as well, but something about him seems off, he seems a little bit nervous.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like you're, your joke what haven't had the room swept, you kind of even took that a little serious.
[SPEAKER_05]: And he's like, yeah, we need to walk that, get your coat, he gets up and put on his coat.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I kind of give him like a side eye glance, recognizing that he's a bit nervous.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, you guys leave, you go down the road to like a little new stand and get a, I get a coffee and start walking.
[SPEAKER_05]: The if you flew out of Groversville.
[SPEAKER_05]: Nice, nice little cover up, I.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I guess it's, I don't know, kind of uncreative, but whatever, did the job.
[SPEAKER_05]: He walks with you and takes a few steps.
[SPEAKER_05]: Again, he seems very calm and direct, like I said, it's danger, but he's definitely, you know, he's watching everything.
[SPEAKER_05]: Every, like, car that drives by is making an eye contact with the person, every, you're going to stop light and he's looking at everybody.
[SPEAKER_05]: And you guys walking across road, you're going to a park, you start walking through a park where there's not near as many people.
[SPEAKER_05]: I just got words from a friendly on an Air Force base in the Brasca.
[SPEAKER_05]: We've tracked majestic to the Air Force base and they're pulling everybody back in.
[SPEAKER_05]: We're going to go find out why they're there.
[SPEAKER_05]: And we'll see you next time.
[SPEAKER_01]: No way.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh-huh.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
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