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enjoy. There was nothing in there now and why I know, I know
why, and I think she did too. At the end, she knew
her time was coming. And so I'm guessing our compatriot here spotted the turrets
before they went in and gave her a noble death. Noble I could have
used astas for the cause. What about you, big guy? I looked
at his Uh poor, So he's taken some shots, right, how are
you looking? I'm all right, I'll live. Are you lying at a
character? No? All right? Pain is nothing new to me? No,
I did. I look around to see where it is we have to
go next, the next floor? I think that again. This is an
R and D room offices. So paulse you have no research nothing, not
anymore? All right? Just a question for uh RP purposes? Do do
replicants like have a memory chip or something like that? Uh No, there
is no memory tip. You are not mechanical in any way. You are
biologically engineered. Okay, yeah, there's there's obviously a mechanical process in engineering
your memories and things like that. But if you're an N eight, if
you're an N six, you do not have those. The only memories that
you have are the ones that you experienced upon wake forward. Okay, So
I I lean down to the body of I've read her name, Janie Janice,
I almost said Mavis. I leaned down a genesis body. Uh.
She has a and like an old worn ankerchief that she would use to like
wipe her eyes, wipe her nose, you know, just like an older
woman would have. And I grab it. I put it in my pocket.
I looked at to the others. Are we leaving her hair? We
can't bring her with us? No, but they can't find her high.
Then I rummaged through her trench coat and I see the one of the four
my follot offs that she made, and unceremoniously, I'm going to uh uncooked,
and I grab your wrist wine then, I I mean, if you
let me, I grab your wrist and I gently take the the molotov out
of your hand and I grab Janesi's body put it over my shoulder. I'll
do it. I'll do it. You don't have to to the uh the
entrance we made, all right, And I sat her down and I pour
the flammable liquid owner and I just looked down. You don't have to do
that. It's my job. It's not a job to me. And you'll
see him bowing his head and he's silent, and for everyone looking on,
it looks like he's saying a prayer. And then he looks up, takes
his lighter, lights her up. And the hope is that in this abandoned
section that we came through, that the sprinklers and alarms won't be triggered.
That's a good point, getting masters, do we roll to see if the
uh the fire suppression is trying to know uh if memory serves and chat,
I may call on you here. I'm pretty sure you have two banked free
successes, by the way, so yes, you can roll, or you
can use one of those. Also, just because I am the audience and
the audience is me in this moment, what do we see when Hodge is
praying? What about the two of you? How do you react to this
very human act? I don't think I moved when he took the moltop from
me. I'm watching him, but I'm still standing their hands in my pockets.
I'm enraptured by the process. I've sort of stopped everything else. I'm
just staring. As I walked out of the abandoned section. In order for
hopefully the smoke not to come through the hole, I grab a table or
a desk, I pick it up, and I put it in the front
of the hole to contain the smoke. I take a deep breath, straighten
my tie, I turn around and walk back to the group. I think
I'll notice that, like once my hands out out my pockets, I seem
to keep releasing my grip and tightening up again. I don't know. Maybe
perhaps it's a nervous stick or something, but otherwise I think my expression is
the same as it always has been this entire mission. Just me, what
were you doing? Lunching? Me? What were you doing? I was
putting a friend to rest, But what were you doing? Oh h that's
out a prayer to what whatever's listening? Yeah, I think we're here against
the will, the will of our maker. So well, these people are
not our maker, no more than their parents are their maker. We are
alive if there is a higher power. It's a higher power to both of
us. Okay, okay, well let's move. Huh, we don't have
time, but be honest soon. I look around, and I think I
want to try and use hm hm. Actually I don't think we found anybody
here, did we is an empty floor, right, just the turrets,
right. I think that here there is a lift, but it only takes
us to the web what and floor thirty two? I think so, I
mean, just okay, but yeah, I think I think you had just
rolled a ten to get up. Uh, I'll scroll through. I'm so
sorry. I don't have which floor you're on right now, but please continue,
I'll find it. Okay. So I think we're on floor thirty two.
I think that there is a lift here, and the building is strange
insofar is that like you would think that the one lift that been going from
the bottom all the way to the top. And sure there might have been
if we had the credentials. We did not, So we're taking like the
worker kind of like lifts and they're stagger based on exactly like you know what
permissions you have to go through the building. And well, we took a
shortcut to get here. In the first place. And the lift that we
have is one of a slightly higher I guess security clearance, but we already
up at floor thirty two. I think if we were to call this lift,
we would notice that this only goes up to floor thirty five. I
want to say, but it's strange because it's like it goes in thirty two,
thirty three, thirty four, and then A. But I know that's
the floor we need to get to. We get to go Roger, all
right. I walk inside and I don't think I need my biometrics, but
I just press the button that says A, and after a few seconds we
get up and the lift opens and ahead of us is unlike anything I think
anybody here has ever seen before, because it's not an office. I think
this room is about maybe two floors high, but it's not an office building.
They're no tables, they're no chairs. In fact, it looks like
we're outside. It's like we're in an arboretum right now. It's like a
garden with all these strange gen mod plants and crops and trees. It's a
garden. It's like the Garden of Eden, you know, like with a
strange statue in the center of a man that I don't know. So it
has the smells of the garden as well. Yes, okay, but it's
strange, ostensibly real. Right and ahead of us on the benches, one
man watching the lift looking at us. Yeah. Yes, he is looking
in your direction, and he has a curious look. But his body is
relaxed and he's waiting. I look directly to h r J. Yeah.
I look directly to r J, waiting for the fist on the chest.
I glanced back and looked at ahead, but I don't make the sign.
I look around and then cautiously approach. As you begin to approach, I
slowly begin to you, stand up, hands a little on my knees.
Maybe a slight sort of stretching groan comes out as I get up, and
I turned towards you, and I wait, I don't make the first move.
I'm staring at this guy, unblinking, untrusting, endless paths entwine and
choices you define. Oh. Hi. He begins to walk towards you with
a good amount of confidence, and he has his hand slowly reaching out towards
yours as it gets closer. Hi, I I did not reach out to
shake his hand. Oh that's all right, you're like, yes, you
may have seen my name. Well for the communications as barn Owl. I
believe you are aware of Finnic. You can say that. Yeah, I
am Sagan Read and it is a pleasure to meet you. Kids. Do
you have any weapons on you? Weapons? Oh goodness, no, but
you are welcome to look please, I can understand this is well, look
where we are. I begin to search. Do I find anything? Oh?
You find nothing? Little bits of paper. You'll find some candy in
one pocket? You can have that. What is it? It's candy,
it's sweet. It's not dangerous at all. If you'd like, I'll take
one myself and eat it, just so you can see. You can pick
which one as well, just so you don't think I'm trying to choose something
dangerous. And you don't have to eat it at all if you don't want
to. Candy will wry your teeth, yes it will, but you know
I think it's worth it. Look at you for too long of a pause,
and then I put peace in my mouth. Okay, isn't it good?
I can't taste it? Oh? Oh well, if we had more
time, I would go into a description. And I know you can't really
trust me completely, but I do hope you trust that it is really good
Strawberry, well close to strawberry. Okay, we need to go over some
a few Wait a minute, there there should be there is there not?
I thought there was four. I know there was communication about a number of
people, but maybe I read that wrong. He looks behind them at the
elevator to see if there's another person in there. Sorry to disappoint, she
couldn't make it. No disappointment, none at all. Okay, So let's
see here, level fifty two. Let's see. So I've had to do
a few little tricky things here and there. A MIMO went out recently.
There's some fervor on the higher floors. Getting through it might be a little
not tricky, but I will have to ask that you let me move forward.
First. I'll give you a signal or a word or something to let
you know that it's okay. Are not going to be taking the elevator,
not the one you came from, of course, that only comes here.
The one over there, That one goes up a few more floors. We're
not going to be taking that. There is a stairwell it's a sort of
a workers area just between Florida floor. It'll get us up a few we
can go through there, but I don't want to assume for you again the
badge or identification like that's obvious. Yes, yeah, you would see clipped
to my sweater, is it says Sagan read. There's a few different words
in there. It talks about a it's like an intellectual analyst, and it
it has a couple of little symbols underneath there that you may or may not
would indicate my level of security, which is fairly high. Are you a
known entity at Tyrell? Oh, like we have heard of you from papers
or anything. You if you ever looked into technical aspects of the process of
determining the awareness the intelligence level of replicants, which there would be an extensive
amount of filing for that, you would find that there there would be my
name would be in places where I would be taking I would have been taking
recordings of different things. I would have been doing psychological testing to a very
limited degree, trying to create which I would be known for, an almost
childlike test that we would give the replicants to see if they had a lot
of basic functionality within their understanding. I published some papers on an ems recombination,
and that's probably where the majority of mine. I'm going to use the
word fame, but it's not. It's it can be pretty dry to read.
I know who you are. Oh Alse does as well. Yes,
why would someone like you? We spent their lifetime, their career employed by
this company. Why was your turn? There was never a turn. You
are real, You are just as human. I I believed it as such
before I even started the process of trying to determine your intellect. You know
your emotional ranges, of which you have both. Just because somebody added a
few extra bits and bobs into you doesn't mean that you're not worthy of the
same respect as those that did the work. You are a person, and
not many see it that way. I don't know how to convey it to
people. I've tried using my numbers, my tests to show that there's only
so much I can advocate for you. After a while, it just it
made sense to help in a different way. I'm here. I couldn't sleep
at night knowing that there are so many people with no real rights, so
there was no turn. It's just who I am. That's how people should
be. I agree with everything you say except for one thing. I am
a person, but I am no human. I nod slowly to that.
Then you like this on oh, I was just going to say, you
like this distinction. It's not about liking, it's about what's the truth.
Then I will change how I can garize you. I don't have a right
to make that assumption, and I do apologize. So what are you?
I don't know if we've come up with a consensus on what we like to
be called. Of course, just not a human. I don't again,
I'm being called a replicant. That's what I am. Well, I allower
people who would take unverge at that. You know I do, but it's
your preference, it's not mine. Maybe for now we can just both be
colleagues and we can move forward together. Or you can call me Hodge.
Hodge, Hodge, I am very warm. If you could see how fast
my heart was beating, it's very fast. I shake your hand, I
put the other hand over it before I put that hand on your shoulder.
Hodge. That is a wonderful name. Very good, very good, Hodge.
Well again, Sagan, please call me Sagan. I'm pulse yes,
Pulse, of course you are, and we are running at a time.
Well that's a terribly long name, but I agree. We will take the
stairs. We will go ahead and head up. The stairs should be empty.
They are just not used. People are too lazy. So we'll go
ahead and do that. We'll get up a few floors. We can check
the doors as we go. I know that I have the ability to get
into a few of them, but the next couple levels get a little finicky
with the authorizations and the people that are allowed. It's just the nature of
the projects there. So we'll see how far up we can get. I
can't tell you that depending on where we are able to get into, I
should have a pretty good knowledge of where to go next. So think as
you lead us to the stairs, the audience or the camera pans back,
and you see everything here is synthetic in one way or another. Nothing is
truly the same as what is outside. If you were to go to a
park or a forest, it's all synthetic. It's all Tyrrell. The grass
towards the staircase is longer than the manicured lawn where the bench was that Sagan
was sitting. The blades themselves are long and thick, like stalks of asparagus.
As we walk towards the staircase, there are orchids, and you see
as Sagan leads the way, the orchids almost turn like sunflowers towards him.
But as we follow, the orchids do the same, but they change color
from this pure white to the alert red. The flowers themselves almost seem to
slowly withered and revert to bulbs. Don't mind the mood flowers there over engineered
bullshit, not an indication of anything. I get to the door and I
open it up. The staircase has a pretty simple layout. Five to six
steps landing, five to six steps landing, and so on. I begin
to take a step up the stairs, and then another and another. I'm
spry is a good word for it. Now that I'm on my feet,
I think the more I'm moving my muscles, the warmer they're getting. I'm
not going overly fast, and I'm not looking behind me either. I'm just
heading up. We get to the first door and I grab the handle,
jiggle it. Of course it's not going to open. I use my card
on it and it gives me a light, a green one and I say,
all right, so this is an option. Let's keep going and then
we head up. We probably head up. I'm gonna say three to four
floors, probably four by the time I'm getting a red light. I'll turn
to all three of you and say, all right, I know there's a
few more floors higher than this in this stairwell. And then it stops.
We can continue to see, but I'm not expecting it to work. The
little slide I have again, I have a few things that we can do,
but I won't be able to do it from these little security nodes on
the door. So how about we go back down one. We'll go in
to the thirty I think it was thirty fifth, thirty six. I'll have
to look again floor, and we'll just go from there. What do you
say? I rolled inside to see if you are being deceptive. I am
not to your your success, by the way, Yes, to your eye,
I seem genuine. Okay. Do you have any implants? Yes?
I do my eyes otherwise I'd be wearing glasses, a wonderful fashion statement,
but unnecessary. Mine were given to me so that I could be more relatable.
Well, I think they work. I lead them back down to the
door slide. I put my hand on his shoulder gently, and before we
go through another door, I look at him. I want to believe that
you're with us. You've said all the right things, and I I've heard
you. However, you need to trust each other and that goes both ways.
So I'm going to ask you if we could have your you're bad your
pass and use it with you present, but you'd let me hold on to
it, of course, and I take it off and I hand it over.
I mean, looking at the three of you, you'll be able to
move much faster than I anyway, So if something happens that'll that'll be good,
I will understand. I hope. Oh yes, I think this is
a good This is a good thing to bring up right now, the trust.
It is possible that we could run into some people. I might be
able to explain away a few things if you allow it, But that is
only if you allow it. However, if you are found out and there
is an opportunity to run, run, I am not here to run well
towards your goal, not away from it. And I'm under no misconceptions or
or misunderstandings when it comes to I know the choices I'm making here. I
know where they lead. One's in the ground and the others behind bars and
then eventually the grounds because they don't want someone like me being seen. This
is important. If I say run, I'm not telling you to leave,
but I hope you will listen. Leave me there, I put another candy
in my mouth. Okay you Oh, yes, is your cover so intact
as as far as you know, as far as I know. Yes,
So if we leave you you could lend back into the company. Yes,
oh you know, not that I would prefer it, but a stab,
wound or a bullet may sell it. I don't really want that to happen,
though, so if we could avoid it, i'd appreciate it. But
yes, I don't think anyone is aware. I don't think a bullet is
stab will be necessary. I feel I could pretty easily put you to sleep
without doing any damage. Well, I will trust you, so it goes
both ways. Yes, yes, I pat him on his very tall shoulder.
I was like, okay, all right, you'll open the door,
but I do want to be the first face in the door, if that's
okay. Just to what are we walking into? So this floor is it's
a bit of a manufacturing zone, but it's for these very specific components that
are used in testing devices. It is not necessarily sparse, but it is,
uh, you know, like there's not a lot of workers, but
there are a few people about. There's some rooms that have glass walls,
and you'll see some people behind there with a mask in a full body suit.
They really don't pay attention to anyone around them. I've tried to wave.
They don't, so we're likely to be okay here, boss, Yeah,
no FEEDI trust them. I don't, but I have no choice,
so yeah, let's go. I wave the card over and step back.
Okay, I opened the or I look in and there is a hallway that
seems to branch off of fair ways away. You can just see the beginning
of the glass walls, probably about fifteen yards into this very long hallway.
But for the most part it's empty. It's very sterile in here, a
very bright lights. There would never be any hiding for anyone in this space.
Okay, well, I don't see anybody. So the thing I like
to do is just walk forward with confidence, all right, So shoulders back
a little bit. Holes, Can you do that for me? Can you
put your shoulders a little bit back there, just out, not too much.
I want that chin. That chin needs to be almost perpendicular. No
excuse me, parallel, that'd be different. The floor, and we are
going to walk forward, the three of you just behind me, side by
side. If you can at your steps, does that sound okay? Yeah,
wonderful. Here we go. We start walking down the hallway. As
we go, our shoes will squeak, and the pattern of each footfall is
very noticeable. I would say that within the first step they seem to be
in. The three behind me have perfect synchronization. I'm not surprised, but
I do smile as we go. I don't even look at the glass windows.
I don't want to give any indication that I even care that they're there.
I know I'm supposed to be, so I walk forward until I get
the little turn. And when I do, there are a few doors that
look like office doors that lead to an elevator. And I stop once we
are at that turn, past the windows, and I look at the three
of them, and I say, all right, people do work there.
I'm not sure when their lunch break would be, but they're pretty steady in
there, so there's there's a Oh gosh, that's Kara right there. I've
had I've had lunch with her. She's Jim. I don't remember who's in
that room, but they are. They never leave. And then and he
starts naming off a few of them, because if any of them come out,
I'll do the talking. But I want you to trust me. If
you feel like something's amiss, you feel like you need to add something,
I trust you. When we get to the elevator, I should be able
to use it to bypass a couple floors. The next one I'm able to
get to is forty forty two, forty three. I can't remember. It's
fine, so shall we either way. As I'm walking down, I casually
begin to banter at them. You know what's interesting. I had an odd
dream last night. I was at my favorite noodle bar. They serve an
orange juice drink that is it's not great, but I have a good memory
and story behind it. It doesn't matter. But while I was there,
I remember feeling that there were all these cameras pointed at me. They weren't
taking pictures, they were just watching. It's a little unsettling, but it's
kind of the world we live in anyway, isn't it. Have any of
you had a dream maybe like that or maybe not. Of course I've had
a dream, sake, What are you talking about? Who have friends back
there? I think you do? They have clearance? Oh my gosh,
Jim John Jim, Jerry, Jerry, Jerry, Jerry, Hello Jerry.
I walk up to him and I give him the same handshake with one hand
on his shoulder. Jerry. I reached out to shake his hand and I
give the usual kind of like there's no energy in the shake. So he's
doing all the work and it's just not pleasant. Well, I mean it's
fun. You don't enjoy talking about dreams, and yes, these these three
are well. I can't talk about it. But it's been a long day,
Sagan. Oh sorry, sorry, you know we can just move on.
I don't want to, you know, bother you do seem a little
tired. Have you been eating enough? You don't you look a little there's
a power and he leans in really close to his face. Let's just say
it's been a long month, a long year, Sagan. Yeah, that's
fair. Have you gotten outside recently or to feel the rain on you or
something? You just locked away in there, or what are you getting here?
Man? You need to get outside? What do you mean? I
lean into r J and I say, Jerry is one of the people that
we need, all right. I look around. Is that Jerry is moaning
it? Saying? And how many people are in here? So as we're
standing here as of right now, it is just Jerry with us. He
is probable we're roughly twenty feet from the elevator. He just stepped out of
his office, and you looking around would notice that there are quite a few
other doors here. There's probably six or seven doors, probably eight total potential
of eight people that could be behind the or excuse me, seven other people
behind those doors. And there's really no way of telling. All right,
you should really have some candy. Hold on, get one, say not
again with your candy. I hate your candy. I'm diabetic. Well there's
no sugar in these. I mean, I am too. Didn't we talk
about that? I could have sworn? I am curious. Did I hear
in any in any way? I'm assuming I didn't hear Poulse talk to RJ.
I would have kept it very quiet, very quiet. Okay, So
yeah, I'm fishing around in one of my pockets and then I pull out
a little piece of candy. I'm like, you know, if you're not
going to go outside, you should at least, you know, have a
treat or something. And I'm unwrapping it. Just just one, really delicious
and there you go. Okay, you know these maybe sugar free, but
it will be the death would be me, no whatever, whatever, whatever,
Okay, well we have to continue on, Jim, so excuse me.
It's Jerry, Jerry, Jerry, Jerry. That's what I said.
Come on, sure you can, but not those not those three No,
with that clearance. Oh no no, no, they are with me.
My clearance should well no, wait wait a minute, wait a minute.
That should have been sent to you. Ye, you didn't get the memo.
I make the memos. I write the memos. Which memo? No
no, no, no, no, you don't write these memos. That
would be ridiculous. This is a clearance from the lower levels to the upper
levels. You should have gotten one. It would have been sent out a
few hours ago. I just checked my He spins around on his chair.
Huh. I'm looking quickly to RJ. I look at him, and then
I look to Hodge and I make the signal I don't see a let's see
as it should be. I will say that. Look around. Are there
witnesses as of right now? No? I okay. As as he gets
grabbed, he would have found a filed memo with their clearances. It was
something that Sagan needed a little help. But as he sees it, they
get grabbed. Sagan steps back but doesn't look too concerned. Oh, I
see, it's right, m What the hell man? I look at I
look at r J. I look at Sagan, waiting for the for What
did you next? I know I have I have a question or two.
What was the reason for this? I'm sorry to say. You nod?
I nod at you. Yeah, it's over, I cried. I squeeze
d is glassy shadow and he falls to the floor, crumpled on the floor.
I'm not sure if I'm following what's going on here? Why? Why
did you hurt poor Jim? We need clearance? Clearance? Will that?
And Jerry? Oh his eyes are required? That's that? Yes, well
you could have done it at different That's fine. I understand, I understand,
and this is important and and Sagan looks over to Jerry and shaking out
plastic. There's a there's a frown on Sagan's face because I I don't like
loss of life, but I understand the stakes. Here, do what you
need to do. I will be in, I will I will look out,
and I'm I'm standing waiting for anybody to potentially show up, you know,
walk out of their office to attack them with pleasant trees and kindness and
too much talking. I just have like a roll of garbage bag and I'm
just shaking one out. Where can I put him? Oh, let's see,
there's a there's a shoot. No, no, that that noh.
Sagan takes a second. He's he's not lost, but you can see him.
He closes his eyes and he's here's yeah, we're gonna have to take
him up with us at least a floor, all right, either way,
okay, all right, I think seeing Hodge pick up the body, you
you'll see Sagan definitely has a frown on his face, but he takes a
breath in, finds a very sturdy composure, goes, oh, move,
you are strong and they and he continues forward to the elevator. Have they
already taken Did you take his eyes out when I was not? So?
If you specifically said to bring the body with us. Then I would have
suggested, Hodge, you should break his legs so that we can fit him
in the garbage bag. Okay, and are we taking the stairs or the
elevator. Oh, the elevator goes up to a floor that will be quite
vacant, and then from there we'll be going on the stairs again. Wait
till we get him up there. I'll do that, all right. I
get us into the elevator and we're standing there as it's going up. It's
quiet, there's no elevator music, and I think that I turn to look
at each one of them, and I just want to see if there's any
sort of remorse. But I'm not expecting it. My facial expression hasn't changed
since the first time you saw me. Oh, not this one, nothing
from Hodge. This is business. I'm actually watching you. I smile at
each one in turn, and I hold uh my smile at pulse. It's
like it has been a busy day, hasn't it, Hopefully for the cause?
Yes, yes it is, yes, yes it is. It is
for the costs. And at that point the elevator none of us want to
do this good. I turn around towards the door opening. All right,
there are some trash shoots there should be. There was construction on this level,
and I'm looking around for it. I will actually if I could,
I would like to. I would like to roll for it, but I
don't have the Is it this one? Okay? Yes, I have one
available. I'm actually I'm looking around. It is cluttered in here. The
lightning is poor. There's debris on the floor. You can see that walls
have been put up in some places and torn down in others. It is
just a place in flux. I am looking around. I'm going to use
observation to see if I spot or remember where it is. And I don't
see it. Wait, roll that again? Did you? I thought I
did. This might be an issue. Oh I'm sorry. Put the name
in there and then hit enter first, so I know you're on the right
one. Uh here, let's see. Yeah, I might have the issue
because it still shows. Yeah, I'm seeing that as well. Here,
hold on, I got it. Oh yeah, nope, I see it
now. Okay, now do observation. Let me find it. Oh it
is. I'm not sure it's all right. There we go. I will
push this okay. So oh I'm sorry. Should I avoided? No,
No, you're going to push it for a more critical success because you've succeeded
with one. No, oh that was the push. Yeah okay, then
yeah, yeah, you're good. So you have the one success. Yeah.
So I begin I begin to scratch my head a little bit, and
I'm looking around, and then I go, oh, yes, so it's
over there. There's an orange square around a hole of sorts. You should
be able to put it in there. It'll go down to the trash.
It will be found eventually. We should be good for now though, And
then I just sort of step back. Then I'll take the eyes out.
Oh yes, I assumed we needed the body. Oh oh no, no,
no, no, no, I just I leaving it behind there.
It's a very clean environment that they have, these uh little contraptions that move
about. Something would have bumped into it. It would have been a whole
thing. Just good for us to sort of get rid of it for now.
Please put him down here, I do quickly and methodically, will start
to perform surgery. Remove another eye. Do these eyes match the color of
your eyes? Hodge? Oh? The eyes of the of Jerry. Let's
role for it some chaos. Oh, you were already doing it. Yes.
Are you going to be able to hold still? Is that a question?
Yes? Yes, lay down, please I do. I'll try to
be fast. I try and hold his head still as he did me.
Oh. Then begin to perform surgery first on Jerry to remove his it was
right or left eye? Or is hodge. I'm not sure if Hodge is
in nexus six or eight. I was just about to ask that I look
at you, and because it's in the right eye if I remember correctly from
twenty forty nine. Yet me, I will trust you because I thought it
was left But I'll trust you. I'll double check though, real quick.
You continue this, says look upen to the left YEP, I cover my
right eye and I take this one. Yeah, it is the right eye.
You are great. So you point to your left eye or to your
right eye. I point to my left eye, and I say this is
me. I keep it. It's your decision. Uh, quickly and cleanly,
sorry, quickly and cleanly. I'm going to remove Jerry's left eye then.
And it doesn't move, but you do see you see a WinCE at
the very least just like the And then I proceed to remove Hodge's eye and
make the transplant. It'll take a minute or so to get acclimated. You'll
need to roll for this or use one of your bank's successes. You have
to at the moment. Although I did just ask for a complication and you
provide your providing one or have already provided one. Correct, So that's you.
You actually have three now because every time you accept a complication you get
to bank an auto success. Even though I didn't outright say it on the
stream, I put it in the DMS and you guys took it so right.
I'll use one yep. So now you have two perfect ripped Jerry,
ripped Jerry, get on a floor for three. As I finish it,
I will try to gauge the reaction. I was saying, do I need
to have it installed or can I just have it to use it? Like
do I have to have the other eye put in or can I just take
it to use it. I believe you have to be able to look around
with the eye. That would make sense from a security standpoint in this alternate
reality. A future thing to me, uh, Sacan is queasy. It's
probably the the reaction is he's a little pale, and he's he's glancing over
at at the the body with the you know, empty socket, small grimace
every now and then, but also still fairly stable. Doesn't seem upset or
anything like that. Just it's gross. It's quick and clean. It's like
watching like a robot, if you've ever watched a robot, them testing out
medical robots like it's kind of I'm not going to go into detail, but
it's very clean and quick and precise. Yeah, precise. I would say
that Sagan would probably have a reaction to that as well. Another smirk,
And this was intrigue, just impress. And I put my glasses back on
and I take out Genesis handkerchief. I wipe under my eye. What does
it look like, Jenesis handkerchief. It's got ducks on it. It's like
a little like pale blue handkerchief with little yellow duckies, like rubber duckies on
it. At Tricks, I pull out a small bottle. I open the
top and I pull out two very small white tablets, so you know,
for the pain, and I just press them into his hand. I don't
really ask permission. I just give them to him, thank you. I
I want to take them, and I put them in my pocket and I
look at him. I appreciate that. Yeah, well I need I want
to be clear headed for what's to come. Oh, I will take those
after we're done. Good, they'll help, all right. Oh boy,
they've done a little bit of work here. Ah. I'm scanning around,
uh like to roll observation with this advantage because you can see Seguin is struggling.
I know that there is no and I will push this. Oh no,
no, no, this is this is the northern wall. Yeah,
that's the ring with disadvantage, thank you. No, this is this and
I continue to struggle. I'm going to be honest, I'm not sure where
that stairwell is. And I'm I'm looking around you in this room. Ah,
you notice one thing in this room, the entire floor, of course,
isn't this this room. We're going up a very specific location that has
very limited foot traffic, and we are in this in this in this section
that, as you mentioned before, ist cluttered has this garbage shoot is connected
to a larger portion of the floor. This I think you might recognize as
being kind of like the municipal side of it. It's it's it's basically you
know where trash and all things get moved in. You'll notice though, however,
there is one door. Well, it's a series of doors. Actually,
it's more akin to one of those things that you walk into at an
airport, you know, like it detects metals. However, question one for
you, Sagan, what is your designation here at Tyrol? Well, I'm
I am. I am a doctor, and I am the head of the
replicant Intelligence testing and and then I it's a it's a series of long cognizant,
cognitive and not. So there's and it would actually be on my badge
be a pretty long thing, all right, So I need you to roll
for me to see whether or not you know what this thing is. But
tell me how how is it that you would I guess ascertain what it is?
Like Again, it looks like one of those screens that you walk through
at an airport detect metals, but it's it's at of one frame, it's
maybe two mm hmmm mm hmmmm mm hmmm. I think this would be tech
right, a role too, all right, that's right to me, A
disadvantage advantage any of those. You're a doctor, right, I am a
doctor for replicants, or like I would say, give me a regular role,
a regular role and not disadvantage. Ah, that is A two,
a critical SI. You know exactly what this frame is, why it's not
quite a door before you. As you look at it again, you notice
on the side there are these four frames, these four vents, these four
ridges on each side of the frame. You hear the dull hum of energy
being passed through this thing. And just in case you had no idea what
this thing was, because again Tyrrell has so many, so many things like
this. You know, a fly the zips passed your ear towards this frame,
and in a fraction of a fraction of a second, you see the
frame glow red. You hear this harmonizing chirp, and the fly is gone.
You noticed for a second that those vents on the side, they now
glow slightly red. Odd because of your critical you know that this thing is
not only dangerous how and why it's dangerous as well. This thing is able
to determine whether or not you're human. However, it's not just that purely
human. To be able to enter this room and go beyond into the rest
of this building, you must not have any implants and you know what that
means for you. Well, this is going to be interesting. I get
that same bottle from before, and I take three of these pills, okay,
and I turn towards all of them. This is going to seem a
little silly, all right. I'm gonna have to stand in this doorframe and
my legs are going to be a little spread apart. And I know this
sounds ridiculous, but I'm going to need you to walk through, well,
crawl under my legs. Can all of you do that? What do you
want for it? Well, I'm just going to have to trust that you
can make yourself small enough. I I'm moving my hips. You see this.
This could be a little dangerous for you, and it will be dangerous
for me. But that is okay. We're going to sort of we're gonna
break the laser. That's what we're gonna do. And I can do that.
It's just and I'm I'm still trying to like limber up my knees as
much as I can. I'm trying to pull it up to my chest and
everything. Just I need you to not move me, okay, And I'm
I may be a little Oh, let's say upset when I'm in there,
but that's okay, Okay, hold on, I might have missed something.
Can you said? Like there are like lasers that we're trying to avoid the
door, and I actually start to explain this door. It's one of Tyrail's
more ridiculous but secure inventions. It scans and I'm pointing along one side and
this, this puts out energy and this I collects it. Okay, And
it is able to scan you. But it's not just a scanner. It
is essentially a high powered laser as well. And if it doesn't like what
gets scanned, it reacts. It will hurt you. It will cut you,
it could kill you. I should be okay, and I don't say
anything about my eyes or anything about the implants. I should be okay for
the most part, but you three won't be. So I don't trust myself
to turn this thing off. I don't know. Yes, this doesn't protect
me through this, I don't know. I look at the rest, probably
a pulse anyway to bypass this, I use the system. Imagine it's very
secure. I don't really know much about it, but I can tell you
that it is extremely deadly. Anyway, the lasers go back and forth between
the two that you saw both sides light up. The only way I can
assume that we can get through here and bypass it is to cut it off
and just stand in the middle. If you guys can just I know it's
silly, but if you can go under my legs while I stand there,
I should have the lasers cut off. They shouldn't re act poorly to me,
and you should be able to get to the other side. But I
don't want to make decisions, so please, I'm sure we can find other
ways if we need. Maybe, well, if this is what we're doing,
I suggest you should go first, since I'll be the most problematic is
that this time I remind you have two banked auto successes should you choose to
use them, otherwise you'll be rolling for it. I can dislocate your shoulders,
are you sure, yes, and we'll pull you through. Okay.
It might be difficult to pop them back into the socket, but I think
we can do it. I've done it before. You don't lift heavy things
without cracking more dislocating things from time to time. How do you want to
come it? I'm the smallest. I'll go through first. You need to
do this to me first before you go. Yes, all right, grab
onto the grab onto the door there, turn your body. I do,
and I am basically going to look at r J. And we're going to
try and sort of time things so that we sort of close the door hard
and shove Hodge as hard as we can. And you should know it'll take
time to heal, so I won't be at one hundred percent efficiency after this.
If it comes to physical combat, we don't have much of a choice.
Very well, use the other banked success, I think to do this,
so that will leave you with one banked success remaining. Mm hmm it.
And I will sort of follow through with r J to do this,
so and oh, go ahead. After his arms are out of the socket
and I've heard them decide how they're going to do this, I walk up
to this space. I close my eyes, but I'm not sure what's going
to happen. So I first put one hand on the door frame and then
the other hand on the other. No reaction, Yeah, it's not so
much. There's no reaction, but you hear a shuddering in the frame,
as if perhaps the if the camera was to look at the frame, it'd
be kind of like you know with the printer. The printer head reads to
like track where it needs to go. The second you put your hand there,
this track moves naturally naturally fast toys or your hand is and there is
a noise. I step into the frame with my eyes closed, and I
have no idea what it's about to potentially happen to my implanted eyes. We
got a role for that one, right, yeah, come on, I
mean you can. You're welcome to use your bank's success. I won't stop
you. Okay, no, no, I'm not sure what to roll for
this though. Let's think about it. We could either do a medical role
or I feel like it would be medical, right love tech, tech or
medical. I'll take either one of those. I'll give tech a shot.
And I stand there in the frame and I begin to open my legs out
to the edge of the frame. I'm expecting pain, but I'm not feeling
any. But I am shaking, all right. I think you hear the
readers of the frame move up and down frantically as you're standing in the frame.
This isn't standard procedure. People walk through this thing, this sensor,
this cleanser as your eyes are shut your eyelids, guiding the one thing other,
the one thing not quite human. You don't know what it is or
say, because of course, this is designed by Tyrrell to erase even the
sturdiest replicant in seconds. There is a heat behind your eyes, but no
pain. As we start to crawl underneath. I go through first, then
our jay follows. We pull Hodges by his feet through the laying down through
the opening, arms just kind of folded on top. How are we doing?
Hodges is almost through? Okay, I'm trying not to breathe or remove
or anything where we are. Okay, walk through, doctor, Okay,
I step forward. I opened my eyes and they're a little milky in color,
just a little bit. I recognize as soon as I open my eyes
everything is it's blurry. I'm looking directly in your eyes when you open them.
I think I could tell that you're facing towards me. That's about it.
We all made it through, almost all of us intact. Oh.
You see Hodge grab his dislocated shoulders arm with the other arm, puts it
over his head and then grab it behind his back. And you just hear
that. I'm just like feeling your back to make sure that it's back in
place. Those of you have never actually heard a shoulder getting popped back into
place. It's a very loud, wet sound. It's super gross, but
yeah, it's kind of So you hear this very one loud wet pop as
he puts it back in and he just takes a deep breath in and that's
it. Oh sa one more? Oh, time for the other. Do
you need help with this one? Oh? I was only impresionally did one?
Oh no, I think we think I did. I would have done
both. Well, then I couldn't have done the I couldn't have reset the
one by myself. Yeah, yeah, whatever, whatever made sense. Well
it makes sense to only do the one. Then we can only do the
one. But either way you'll be rolling with a disadvantage for any future physical
stuff or that uses your arms. So, I've never had a dislocated shoulder,
so I'm not sure how like mobile they are, but if I,
if I can, I'll flop it over my back and just point my back
towards them so they can pull on it. Yeah you can do that,
Okay, Yeah, you can absolutely do that. Okay to relocate it,
you mean yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. So that first
one it hangs there like a limp noodle, so until they put it back
in, and then I do the second one. Okay, No, I
try to do the second one, I can't. Yeah that makes sense.
Yeah, some help, oar jay sure, Yeah, you need good leverage.
Come from this angle, all right, and pull on the count of
three, one, two, three, okay, and then I'm going to
feel around the the shoulder making sure that it's back in place. Can you
move your arms? Yeah, they're not useless, but let's try not to
get into any situations where I need to use them if possible, no promises.
Yeah, Second, don't you try to mouth the worlds. I can
read your lips. I know you can. Okay. So I'm having a
little trouble seeing now. These top of the line pieces in my head should
healing their own time, but it will take time. Things are a little
blurry, so if you'll just make sure I don't trip over anything, I'd
appreciate it. And if you could see through Sagan's eyes, his field of
vision is very, very blurry. The light is coming at him in streaks.
Everything is fuzzy, and it is just past the point of fuzzy where
it's uncomfortable. Yes, he can make out a person shape, but judging
how to grab an arm or a hand or something like that is it would
be difficult and he'd probably miss trying to do that. His eyes are frantically
looking around, trying to get a hold of the situation as much as possible.
Well, we made it through that. Good job, everybody. I
think it's at this time that you leave some evidence behind, unless you would
like to. Oh, no, you don't have one left. Do you
just use them all? Yeah? Okay, so it's time for you to
leave. We had one left. Okay, you have one left. It's
time for you to leave some evidence behind, unless you want to use that
last one to say you don't leave any evidence here. I actually would say
that my handprints are all over this thing. I have imagined. Standing in
it would have caused a reaction with the security system, and that alert and
that notice would have pained. It is very possible someone will come this direction
to take a look to see exactly what happened. Okay, the frame would
also have logged usage. Yeah, I was going to suggest the frame logging
usage, but I do quite like Aaron. Someone is going to come down
here soon to check it out. So all right, all right, take
my hand, doctor, thank you. He grabs it sort of gingerly and
wits. I'm going to move with the doctor and proceed. I imagine that
the next area as considering we just went through very heavy securities, sort of
very very regular offices and such. What did we say that this floor was
so? Okay? Go on erin, Oh this is floor forty three.
Yes, what was this floor about? I can describe it for you if
you would like. You walk through this sensor, this screen, and you're
inside this room that's being suffused by pure white light scattered around neatly in rows.
You see steel metal slabs on the walls. There are hooks on the
walls. Their cabinets glass. On those slabs. You see what look like
dead bodies. Inside the cabinets, you see various parts. You see rains
and jars, the odd eye hands. You also see just freely standing,
just legs, arms, bits. It's equal parts a morgue and a chop
shop. Right pulse, you would recognize this as an R and D lab
of sorts. I will move to the nearest office and I will look inside
for a moment. You can see me taking a solid bit of time to
run something through my head, and then I say, the next elevator should
be up ahead. All right, I don't expect us to have too much
trouble with this one. I say, as after you pulse, I continue
down the hall towards the elevator. I follow, and once we get there,
I imagine that there's not exactly a any sort of security on the elevator.
We already went through the security to get to this It required to get
inside of access to get to this floor in the first place. The reason
was now the R and D. I agree, sorry, go ahead.
The reason why the back door had that censor was because, well, you
have workers coming in to take the trash in, and that's how they're able
to prevent anything proprietary from leaving. So yeah, we get into the elevator,
and I imagine that it's very limited, this one, in particular,
it's R and D. I have my hands out once we're in the elevator
and I find a pad and I say, all right, well, there's
a few floors we could go up this what we can't walk out of this
elevator higher than a floor there's a way too many people. We're going to
have to get off one floor up. If you can hit that, push
the button for the next floor. As we get off, This R and
D area looks like stark contrast to the previous floor, where the previous floor
had lots of body parts. I think this one is more technological, which
for a lot of people would be very uncomfortable given the blackout that's recently happened.
This is where a lot of the computers and things are here in Tyrel.
There's all sorts of large nineteen eighty style giant computers here, tape and
things like real to real things playing, you know, with data being transferred.
And there's a series of of of these large machines that you can see
through glass through the hallway, and then there's a a series of like loud
sort of printing noises like dot matrix printer noises that are going through and you
can maybe glancing through the glass and various offices can see large bits of data
being printed out. And it's genetic code, so you can see the various
bits of genetic code that are sort of being printed and then probably re scanned
in another machine. And this is probably something along the lines of the building
blocks floor. So when we get off, we can probably see several cameras
that are around. All right, Ah, okay, Segan has a bit
of a word look in his face as he's trying to trying to look around.
I I don't know if I can guide very well right now, since
you rolled three and I'm guessing that's rather quite spectacular. I think at the
point in time you'll start to feel pain behind your eyes. However, pain
is good. Oh it just oh, can't right eye. Okay, congratu.
Although tunnel vision is doing much better than your lefts right now. Oh,
all right, it's a little bit of a maze. But the the
tapes we moved from office to office, I mean to avoid the cameras we
should be able to there's and I look down, there's a little bit of
a path to our right, and it's like, okay, there are a
set of cubicles in that direction. I'm going in and take my I'm gonna
take my glasses off and actually try and hold them up just outside the elevator
to see if there's cameras right above. Yes, there are, or you
find whatever you find. Because that was clever. Yeah, absolutely, are
you kidding me? Let's see and there's I know there's a there's a set
of cubicles. They're not really used, they're just a leftover. If we
can get to those, it's a pretty good cover of movement and that should
lead to the far space. There is a cameras are cycling right now.
Oh the cameras. Oh yes, Oh, I'm so sorry. As soon
as they are turned, we will have to move quickly to the right.
You will see the series of cubicles. We should be able to. I
don't know if we'll be able to get there in time. I don't know.
There's cameras directly outside the elevator above. Is it is? It?
Does it? Is? It flowing to the left and then the right.
It's covered, but I can see it. It is moving to the right.
You're most likely wide angle. Pay attention. I'm going to step out
and walk over to the left. It might be motion tracked and I step
out and I've got my hand on the wall. I've got before you do
that. Oh yes, okay, does anyone have a light? Which LIGHTE
that'll work? I get both. I'm going to shine the light at my
glasses and reflect the light at the camera. Yes, also very clever.
I think that you should just go ahead. Do you have stealth capabilities pulse?
I do not. Okay, well, you're very fucking smart, so
I don't think you need them when you're this intelligent. So okay, I
won't make you roll for that. Okay. The camera should be blind,
at least for a moment. It'll take a moment for any auto corrections to
be made to the right, yes, now, yes, yes, and
follow, follow, and I hurry out and I'm I'm walking and I'm pointing
forward. I imagine the much you need to roll though you can't see,
and you're not a replicant, so like, yeah, you know, so
maybe some sort of movement or reaction role, which I don't think are very
good for you. There's mobility, mobility, yeah, yeah, you managed
to succeed one success, so I imagine that there's still I'm lagging behind.
But I'm I'm I'm pointing, and I'm like, it'll be a left you'll
you'll you'll see it, You'll see the cubicles, and then there's it should
be an open spot. You're just just and I'm trying to keep pace and
I've got my hand along the wall, but I am moving maybe not not
tripping, but my my, I'm I'm having a hard time moving forward at
a constant pace. Okay, Okay, okay, go everyone, I'm going
to keep the camera blind. We'll have to figure out something for the next
camera. Okay, and yeah, just trying to a head in that direction
towards the cubicles. It is pulse able to follow behind, making yes,
I will be sort of blinding the camera from behind. Sure, Okay,
So I'm trying to move quickly and probably hearing the footsteps of a pulse behind
as we're going. We would get to the cubicles, and as we do,
we'd be able to get into them. The cubicle themselves are to a
heigh level that we would have to crouch just in case anybody would walk in.
We would be taller than the cubicles themselves. They are unused, dirty
in places. It's just something that is there and just isn't really necessary,
especially after everything that's happened. So we begin to move through this little maze
of cubicles. I am trying to remember where the next camera is and communicating.
It's like I'm sure there's one against this far that wall. I'm sure,
I'm just not sure where it might be located. There is another elevator,
it might be above it, just like that. I'm just not sure
and still trying to guide them. Okay, I don't know if the light
will be able to be bounced from this angle. No, it won't.
If you take my invasion here and then you can bank a success, yes,
okay, any other ideas? So if we find there are two cameras
remaining, there's two. I'm trying to I'm trying to remember if there is
any power access. I'm trying to remember if there's I mean, there's not
much of a computer network to be said, in this sort of space.
These things are running on their own. Where are they in relation to the
elevator? I'm turned at or towards a pulse? Can you see there's one
right next to the elevator, and then there's one in the hallway leading up.
Do I know? And I believe I'll need to roll for this.
I'd like to roll either an insight or observation to determine if the next elevator
could potentially make us up more than a floor or two. Yeah, you
can roll for that. Okay, I'll roll, I'll roll insight actually for
this. Yeah, oh well, success, well done, well done.
The yes, it can. It can take you directly to floor fifty two
with your badge. There might be some further things, obviously, like the
eyes and things that you've already grabbed, that you will need to get the
item from that lab because you don't work in that lab. I think we
have to run. I don't. I don't think I can distract or turn
these I don't. I don't have any access, I have no running warrants.
Attention. There are people that work here, yes, grab that cart
okay, and the one that's full of the printer paper okay. And I'm
looking around for other personnel that I think are working here. We're kind of
like probably in one of these cubicles, and there's people walking around and stuff.
I imagine, And what I will say is that we can grab some
of the people that are working here, put on their clothing and walk right
past the camera with the cart. Okay, people that are working on this
floor, let me think, ah, or or do you still need this?
We don't know. I was told we will need several ways to pass
the biometric scanners. The eyes were the best. Okay, if push comes
to shove, I'm not very useful without what I was hired for. But
I can't give a distraction and get you guys where you need to go.
This is for the cause. And then I look at Hodge. But if
you don't have to die, that would be better. Well an auction.
If we can't find a way around it, can we not just smash the
cameras? That will alert attention? How soon it is? We can roll
for it. But it is late at night. You would have at least
a little bit of time. I will say that security room, where is
it? It can deal with that and then hopefully have time before they change
shifts. They group security. I roll for they group them for floors.
The closest is thirty seven. I don't think we can get back to thirty
seven from here? Can we? No? Ah, I I would like
to roll. I'm going to roll observation. Uh, I'm going to see
how much I can remember about this floor. Okay, but I know these
trash choots exist, like the one that was in the thing. They exist.
It is possible, but someone it's a one way trip. So see
if I can remember if there's any on the floor. Oh two, would
you like to remember if there was one? I honestly don't think there would
be. I think the security at this level has been and I think did
someone pick up stuff from Janice though? Yeah? I did. Okay,
go ahead and roll either tech or something to understand what Janie has h whoever
wants to roll it? Insider tech, insider tech, either one all except
I think maybe Hodge maybe the one for that? Yeah? Or do you
think jans related? Yeah, because he was at her body last? So
yeah, do you want to roll a Hodge? I don't want to.
I fucking suck at both of those things. Yeah, I know, but
I'll try tech. Okay, just straight roll. Yeah. Uh, I
was gonna say advantage. So why don't you just go ahead and push at
no cost? A nailed it, Okay, So I think what you can
do is Janis had made quite a few different style bombs and or smoke bombs
and or something that might maybe like set the sprinklers off that isn't smoke that
isn't right away. But there are a couple of different things in here.
Oh, why don't we even say there's also like a cool metal gear style
tech jammer bomb where you can like roll that and it will give you one
of those cameras. At least the tech jammer will give you one camera.
For another camera, you're gonna have to use like smoke or something like that
to obscure it. It's an e MP. Yeah. All of Jenese's things
were meticulously labeled, she said, yep, yep, yeah, but I
think she labeled them. She labeled them weird stuff. Right, So I
have shorthand yeah, yeah, yeah, but that's fine. You know what
this is. You can figure it out. Like tough grenade, Yeah,
it's one. I think the grenades are very much in Genesis style. So
to make that chef grenade because you roll that high tech. You put two
and two together as to how it is that it has to be done.
But it's not just one thing, but two. The first is the initial
like almost like a gas. The second is the accelerant that when it shatters,
the particles start to kind of like a sprinkle in the air, and
it's kind of like a like a chaff like it's almost like an electrical storm
inside like a dust cloud that takes out one of the cameras. I think
that's going to alert the other people on the floor. You said there were
how many personnel here? Two? I rolled off, Yeah, there there
should be two. They're not here, they should be further down that way.
Grenade is just a term. I think it's more of a smoke.
It's it's not like an actual function, or at least one of them.
The camera just goes out, So if they're looking at it, then yes,
it will raise suspicion, but they'd have to be looking directly at that
one at that yea more importantly, they won't see us. But that still
leaves one one last one. And for that one, if you were going
to use anything from Janics, it was going to be a little bit more
noticeable and would definitely attract some attention, Like it would either be smoke or
something like that. Can you throw that stapler at the camera and just tilted
it's surrounded by the security class And even if I would have to be very
hard, right, I can't throw much of anything right now? Well,
okay, if I can't remember, but if it does track movement, I
might be able to walk towards it and away from the elevator. If it
tracks me, it might give you enough time and then I can. Once
you're in, I'll just follow and come to the elevator. But I don't
know if it tracks movement, that is, if you're seen on cameras,
it's not. It's normal. Yes, yes, it would be fairly normal.
I don't think. Give it a test walk. Okay, I do
push the cart and we'll hide behind it. Oh yeah, all right,
there's no two angles. Now, you just have the buck one. Yes,
all right. You'll need to tell me if I'm going too fast or
too slow. All right, I squint my now slightly better right eye.
Okay, I do bump a cubicle before I straighten it up, and I
keep going. I start going forward. I throw the chaff out for the
first one. Very smart. Do you think that the way that you're walking
is obvious? That you can't really see that well? And I add,
in case a detective might be watching this footage later and puts two and two
together, that you're the one on the floor the other floor below. So
it really depends on any of the other three. If pauls Hodge or RJ
see me starting to veer and they correct it quickly, then no. But
if they don't and they allow me to bump a few times, and yet
it'd be very noticeable. I'm struggling. Does anybody think that they would be
cognizant of that? And trying to make sure it wasn't so obvious for him?
I would be Okay, then you can roll to see if you react
quickly enough. So some sort of dexterity or mobility, all right, okay
in that case, mobility nice all to one. Okay. I think that
I'm paying enough attention that even though I may skew left or right, that
could just easily be an older man that has a hard time just moving about.
So I try and make good time between where we were in the elevator.
Okay, perfect. So as we get to the elevator, I clumsily
touch for something to open it. I eventually find what I'm looking for.
I open the elevator, and then I stand there and I wait for them
to go inside, and I'm just listening. And once they're inside and knowing
the cameras, probably I'm going to make a ridiculous show of and I'm going
to let go of the cart and then go into the elevator. I'm just
gonna leave it. Yeah, I imagine we just kind of like crouch walk
right in. Yeah, I would have held it long enough until I heard
you all get in there. So just to be clear, you're making it
seem like it's one of those carts, like you know when you go to
the grocery store you can't take it off this floor and you're like, oh,
and then you leave it. Yeah. Yeah, I was trying to.
Yeah, I was making a show that I can't bring this with me.
It was probably a ridiculous thing, but being a doddling old man gets
you places. So I'm going to wait for them to get in to the
elevator and then I will also go in, dude, due exactly no elevator
music is ads, remember, horrific. I would like to say, I
would like to say that it is an ad, but it's to the tune
of Girl from Epanimo that it is a Okay, well, now I got
to make that ad by this now, and you'll get a discount. Somebody
clip it because I got to go make that a real ad now. Oh
good, Okay, So now what you're heading straight to the floor, Yeah,
wonderful. I don't I don't let anyone hit the button. Okay,
fi to your fingerprints are on it. Yeah, yeah, okay, see
and I have my hands over the thing, and I say, fifty two
is problematic. And I'm not even exactly sure what we can expect. Literally
when the doors open up, what you see is what we're going to get.
Okay. And I put my I put a thumb right in a slot
that I know would be there, and I'd wait for a little bit of
a beep and then I would pulse on this screen. There's there there no
no, no, no no, And then I'm like, no, that
was years ago. They don't screw There should be a pad. There's numbers
that was installed. I can't I don't know which one is fifty. And
I'm moving. Can you just got my finger? Please put my hand on
your shoulder and my other hand on your wrists to guide you. Great,
great, okay, and there we go. Okay, let me go up
on the fifty second floor, A crucible of innovation awaits you. A pallid
hum of neon tubes flicker quickly, akin to a visual Morse Code style dance.
The entrance, guarded by an army of faceless security cameras, grants access
only to those who bear the encrypted key of genetic identity. The lab itself
is an alchemical convergence of cutting edge machinery. These oscillating machines, with their
screens pulsating with the unseen language of cellular code, automated arms, nimble as
pickpockets, conduct silent experiments with the precision of a surgeon's scalpel. Each step
echoes in the hollowed corridors, where shadows slink across the polished linoleum floors,
concealing the precipice of moral ambiguity on which you now stand in the corner a
containment chamber, thrums, how are we looking? Do you see apil walking
around? As I know, there a few. There's a lot of cameras
and containment chamber okay, a lot of computers. Yes, we're all right,
Okay, at this point your knowledge might be a little bit better than
mine. I'm not quite sure what it is required here to get to what
you're needing to that monstrosity. I think at this point I'm just watching my
team. I'm acutely aware that they're waiting for me to do or say something.
But at the same time, so on. But also we have this
cuman. I think I asked him in this room, what do you know
of the night owl? That is a pretty deep question. I have a
concerned look on my face. Why do you know why we are here?
I believe, so tell me. There's just a little bit of pressure from
my hand on your shoulder. There is a danger, something that can't get
out, something you, something that would be the end for you, and
it can't exist. That's right where here to seize it destroyed with you if
we must. Yeah, I understand, But what are you asking me?
Hmm? I think the first time you see me smile. I'm just asking
if you know what you're getting yourself into, i'd hope. So I take
in a few slow breaths, I open my bad eye, which is still
bad. I search for r J's eyes, knowing that I'm not going to
be able to see them well, but I do attempt to look into them.
One of them is a little bit different than the other. Yeah,
you don't and probably shouldn't trust humans, no matter how altruistic or kind or
caring. It's dangerous to trust people you Actually, I think you have to
accept a level of risk when you do, no matter how familiar you may
be with them. I only know of what, and I gesture in a
direction what that is. But I know you better, at least I know
what you're capable of. Yeah, and what do you think I'm capable of?
I feel over and look. I try to find Hodge a Hodge's face
with my eyes. You're not human, and this company would say you're more
human than human, which would be offensive. All I know is that you
exist and you matter. I'm doing this because you exist and you matter.
Nothing should take that away. I think. I look at him for a
few more seconds before looking right, pasted him into our goal. Jim,
this night Owl, it's before us, right, it's visible, Yes,
yeah, that is correct. What's protecting it? What is stopping us from
grabbing it? Right now? It is sealed within like a vacuum, sealed
inside a case that's keeping it at the appropriate temperature. You will need to
probably get some sort of device. You've probably already thought about this. There's
probably something prepared for you in which to do so, to transport and put
it in here. But I just want to be very clear in this moment
for the audience as well. This night Owl is a it's research that was
being done on the END six is to extend their lifespan. This research led
to the N eights being able to live longer. The N six is they
weren't able to crack that, but for the N eights they were, So
that's what this is. However, the result of this research was also what
is called the night Owl, which is a pathogen, a deadly virus that
will kill replicants in sometimes under six minutes. It's incredibly deadly. So what's
being presented to you is the option to either destroy this or take it and
keep it with you with the replicant underground having the research. The benefits of
this would be that you would potentially be able to use that research to make
new replicants of your own, no longer being built by Tyrrell. You also
potentially have the option that that research will help unlock further lifespans longer than the
human lifespan. This research is integral for that, and I know this right,
Yes, Okay, Pulse Hodge, here's your time to shine. I
need you pulse to see if you can get through that first slave of security.
See there's arms holding that that viles shut. Once you get past that
defense Hodge. That's where you come in, buddy, muscles. You see
those arms there, those it's quite barbaric, but it is what it is.
I point to the pedestal. There are these pneumatic arms that, like
I believe, what it's there for is to smash the pathogen essentially, you
know, like it's this last line of defense to essentially, you know,
like to destroy the vial maybe perhaps even in the process injure or kill whoever
is trying to get to it if they don't access the think the way it's
supposed to. Hodge, I'm gonna need you to you ready, be strong
and you're Sampson all right, I'll do my best, because not for nothing,
I'm working on a couple of busted wings here. Hi, no,
buddy, I trust you. I will reach up to Hodge's head, which
is bald, and say Samson, I don't know if you know the story
well enough, but don't have enough hair. Sorry, I'm just making a
joke. And I look at him directly in the eyes and I go,
not a beer. Oh, okay, what are we doing with this?
What are we doing with what? What do you think we're getting the night
out out of here? I think he's asking what we're going to be doing
with the night out? Is that right? Yes? What do you think?
I think that's above our bay grade. I think you can ask all
the questions you like once it's out of here. That's all right. Muscles.
You saw Janice right you to her. You saw how she was at
the end, paying the confusion. We can end that. All of that.
We can put those restraints. There's limitations behind us. They were scared,
not jeanous, But the humans of us are potential. Think what we
can do if we're for given the time. That's what we're here. We
can do the one thing that's been denied to us. We can create our
own life, or we might wipe out what we have. Perhaps this pathogen
gets out of control. That's what pathogens do. Don't you think it's worth
the risk? I do, so do I? And we're making that choice
for everyone else, a choice to live. Yes, that's the cause.
If we don't take it, we have no choice. They'll use it that
much. I can guarantee what if we destroy it? No, you can't
you do that? Are a human? Yes, Hodge is right, We're
not human. Yes, I can taste things, but I can't taste everything.
I can feel things, but I can't feel everything. I can't feel
what you feel. I'm not a human. Your opinion doesn't mean anything.
It's our lives. Jan has died today. Now you hold on there.
My opinion does matter. I may not be the same as you, but
I'm here just like you are. I'm not trying to demand any sort of
respect, but my opinion matters. It's not your life, your decision.
You're one of three here destroying that. You don't know the benefits, and
life is risk. I've lived it long enough to tell you life is risk.
I can't tell you what's right or wrong. I can't tell you which
is the best choice. But I can't tell you that you don't get to
make it, because then you're just being a hypocrite as you tell me that
I can't make that decision. I don't know who's in charge of all of
you, but you represent a lot. You destroy that. You take a
choice away from everyone, and that's what that is. That it is taking
choice away. You can't destroy it if you talk to those that are in
charge of all of you, the ones pulling the strings, the ones figuring
it out, those in the underground, and they collectively decide that it is
good to destroy it. So be it. That'll be a decision of the
many that is representative of very few people that should have no right over your
lives. None. You let your own make that decision. You take that,
and you run very well. M So, after they're done talking,
I uh h, I take off my jacket, I take off my tie,
I take off my shirt, which I won't do. And and you
see Hodge turn around and face the containment where the night Owl is, and
you see surgically implanted into his back. It looks like a bomb. And
without turning around to face you, this is what I was here for.
I'm one of the last lines of N six. My life has been nothing
but pain. And as he says that you can see, like all the
scars and all the cuts and every year of him working lifting and sweating and
just doing powered manual labor, they're very pronounced. I was given a mission
and I intend to see it through. I'm sorry I didn't tell you about
it. Wait wait, wait, I'm going to walk over there and I'm
going to get the night out, and you are going to get Segan out
of here. The two things that I'm here for work are that and him.
And with those two things together, we might have a future where we
are free. But no one can continue this research. And in order for
that to happen, this whole floor has to go. And that is my
purpose. No, yes, Hodge, how long do you have? Hodge?
Hodge? I choose my death, and if I have to choose,
this will be it. And if there is another place we go, I'll
go there with my head eye come on, hotch, hotch. Wait wait,
I start walking, and if the cameras are pointed at me, that's
fine, it doesn't matter anymore. I will stumble forward towards him. I
will attempt to grab an arm. I'm not trying to stop him at all,
but I am stumbling forward to try and and I if I can,
I'll shove you back because I don't want you to be on camera. Just
w Hodge, wait, just just just turn around and down and I smile
at you, which is very weird. I I put my hand out past
the elevator. It's okay. Just and then my hand is out and it
goes to like the shaking motion. It's just please, it's okay. Who
knows maybe I'll see Janus again. I'll tell you, said I, you're
not human out the handkerchief when I pressed it into his hand. You're not
human. You're not human. You are a person. Okay, I know,
okay. And what's more, what's the best thing about being a person?
Choice? I'm giving that to all of us, all my eye and
I let the containment. You didn't scan me for this one, and it
and I grabbed the cylinder and uh I, uh no, it's not breakable,
right, they wouldn't put it in like breakable glass. I take the
cylinder, I throw it to pulse him. I throw it to him on
purpose. Choice. And then I touched tapped the back of my neck.
You have three minutes, and I said, where the container was? I
closed my eyes. Can I wait floor thirty seven? Floor thirty seven that
we need to get you there? We need to there. You can use
the shoot. Oh we've got a backtrack. We got to go. I
don't know how much. And I'm feeling for the panel and I hit the
button to go back down. I hodge see you on the other side.
There was a there was an eclipse next year. I would have liked for
you to see it. There's so much more to see. I guess we'll
do it for you, for the cause, for the cause. There was
a clause. Okay, I can't. I don't think I can. I
can't go as fast as as you two. I grabbed him by the shoulder,
and he well, he is now my back, Oh, stronger than
I look. Let's get going thirty seven, no time. Okay, So
well, this will go down to a floor forty four ish, no,
forty five, and then we'll have to go. I don't know if the
scanner works in the opposite direction, but it might. I can do for
you too. You were easy to get through. I can do that for
you. Once you get through, we'll continue. That's fine, and you
would see us without too much of an issue. We would get to the
floor with the cubicles and the data center. We would run out, ignoring
the cameras, knowing that there's going to be an explosion, but no idea
how big. We continue to go to the elevator. We get in the
elevator and start heading down a floor. We get out and we are backtracking,
and I'm guiding as best as I can. As we do. We
get to the scanner, I walk in. I'm doing this again, and
this time I feel my eyes burning. Go quickly and I wait for them
to go under my legs. I slide underneath them. I follow. Okay,
okay, all right, I wait to know I thirty seven has no
there's one here, and I'm I'm I'm oh, and I point towards the
wall. It's there's there's a shoot. There should be a shoot. It's
not going to be easy. Go go, go go. I don't know
what they do with me. I'm standing in the doorway still. Not before
you. Hodge said you're important. I don't know why you're coming with us.
All right. If they look at my eyes, they're going, okay,
you'll see it. It's got a bright orange tape around it. Okay,
okay, all right, all right, should be able. It's a
it's a middle back. The sides have a tarp of sorts. It's gonna
be dangerous. I don't know if I can go A pulse. Pulse,
you go in. I know you're strong. You've got the canister. You
go in first. You have to go down first. I give Pulse my
backpack. It has the container for the canister. I place it inside.
Give it back to you. Okay, I don't see any of this,
Okay, all right, Pulse goes first, and as soon as he's in,
if you're if you're above me, if you're strong enough, you should
be able to shoot me down. I can probably uh work my way on
top of yours. I think, just keep pressure with your back in your
hands and we'll just go down. Okay, you go, Pulse, you
go than him that I'll come after, yeh, all right, okay,
uh oh, keep your balance, I'm okay, all right, just lean
on me, uh huh okay, okay. This this shoots up at one
of the lower floors. From there, any elevator will take you down their
stairworlves as well, so it really depends. Again. I don't know how
big the bomb is. I think very strong enough to just go down this
chute almost mechanically, you know, like sliding down. I think at one
point you realize just how odd it is to fret for people as capable as
Pulses. And as you slip, or you might you might lose your owns
footing and land on his shoulders and he doesn't budge, and he's just going
down, and you go down with him slowly down the shoe extremely fast.
Hey, thank you, it's for taking me with you. I just want
you to know I'm proud of you. Everyone will be proud of you.
Yeah, you're proud of Haunch. Oh I am, You're proud of Janet
Jerry. I think after a while we end up wherever the shoot leads GM.
Where are we the shoot takes you can take you all the way down,
probably to the elevator that you used somewhat early on, and can take
you back down to maintenance, and you can escape that way. Do you
stop for anything else on your way out? Okay? Be lighted at the
shadows, I realize. I go to reach for my badge, but Hodge
hat it and quietly, but they'll hear. I say, well, I
wasn't going to need it anymore anyway. Right about that, they're coming with
us. Good good. You see Hodge sitting where the the canister was,
his head down, and you hear, yes, that's on purpose. You
picture him sitting where the canister was, and in that empty room where we
might be able to make our new start. You hear potch scene And now
the end is here, and so I face my final curtain, my friend,
I'll make it clear. I'll state my case of which I'm certain I've
lived a life that's fault. I traveled each and every high away and more
much more than this, I did it my way. Hello. This is
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