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enjoy. Yeah, I'll take a I'll take an order of noodles please,
coffee coffee for me? Okay, what kind of noodles would you like?
Uh? I'll just bring you over some breakfast noodles, okay, sirrup,
yeah, okay, okay, all right, my head off, I'm far
too cheery. Look, how are you doing? All right? Yeah,
no, I'll be all right, I'll be all right. I'm all right.
Coffee's gonna help. So how are you doing? What do you mean?
Oh? I don't know you you know, this case is, it's
big. There's a lot going on. You get enough, slate. Just
want to make sure you're you're keen and focused. I'm fine, good,
Sorry, I'm late. Hi's waitress. Excuse me? Excuse me? Miss?
Yeah? Yeah, Hi again? How are you? I'm doing great?
How are you doing? Could I get a fresh cup of coffee?
I don't want the one that's been sitting there four hours on fresh cup coffee
okay, I can do that for you. Thank you, thank you so
much. All right, Sorry, sorry, I didn't mean to. No
worries up. How disheveled? Does sound my look? Or is she?
Yeah? Some was still wearing the dress? Yeah? Did we do now?
How much? Is yeah? Great question, that's a great question.
Well, let's think I would say, would you have spare clothes? Spare
clothes in my car? Okay? Because I I don't think I really would.
I mean, I know that I've done cloth and change on the job
because I've stayed there so long. So yeah, I probably would have extra
clothes in the car. So I got this his own. I don't know
how to shovel I would I would, look, Can I roll for it?
Absolutely? You don't have to roll for it just because it. Successes
are extremely hard in this system. But if you want a little bit of
chaos, which is my favorite thing also, then let's roll for it.
I'm here for what roll ooh stamina? Yeah? Why not? Yeah,
let's do it? Yeah? Oh god? Okay, all right, oh
wow, okay, then just doesn't look dishoveled at all. All right?
The rollover? Have the stick of gum there fresh as a daisy, you
know it looking feeling, smelling good. Yeah, I'm uh got some good
sleep last night. So I guess that'll do it for you. Yeah,
I think with with that role, uh, that changes my line of questioning.
So I look over at her and just uh you you know it's his
skiff right behind you. So I know you were a little late, but
oh yeah, he's been sitting there smoking. Yeah you've been there. Good.
I'm just silent. All right. Okay, So I guess now that
we're all here, we should sort of go over everything that we've each been
doing. And uh, I look over at Galen, yuh looking at talking
all right? All right, Well, so we went to the Tyrell Corporation
yesterday. Okay, there was something going on, not one hundred percent sure
I caught there was a lot of activity. Now there wasn't in the ground
floor, at least in the lobby. Uh took a while for the oh
what was her name, Galen? Uh care And yeah, yeah, she
took her a while to get to us. She's the functionary, the go
between for uh on public relations for Tyrrell. You probably have seen her on
various reports and things. So we uh she led us to a little place
sit and talk. But like I said, there was all this activity going
on. I didn't see it specifically, but if I had to guess,
they were trying to burn files for what. I don't know, but that's
a guess. When we talked to her, she gave us the name Clark
at one point, liaison at the office there to talk to. She was
also being sort of I'm not really I'm not going to say misdirecting, but
she referred to Galen by officer and as opposed to a detective. I don't
know if that was a slip, but then I think she'd referred to Clark
as a detective or officer or something like that. And you have to forgive
me because my head's still hurting a little bit. But I don't know if
she was getting at There was a point where she was a little, well
more than a little uncooperative. We tried to push her for some information,
get a little bit more information on our suspect, but she was sort of
closed off. And I'm not quite sure why you think it was like misdirection
Again, maybe I don't know. I don't know what she was going for.
I mean, normally I don't know if we've had that much problem with
Tyreel in the past, have we narrator, have we had a problem with
Has the LAPD had a history or anything with with Tyrell? Would I know
that a history? What do you mean by history? Well? Have they
been cooperative when certain events have happened? If things are taking place, do
they normally answer our questions promptly and efficiently in exactly the amount of time that
is expected? They never go above and beyond, but they're never late enough
that it's considered unprofessional. Okay, So they're just kind of skimming between yep,
unacceptable and acceptable. Okay, But they've been as cooperative, they've been
cooperative, especially since the blackout, right okay, hmm. So yeah,
I mean that's sort of where we're at right now. We're uh, we're
looking at getting up with this uh this Clark, see if we can uh
follow that a little bit. But I know we'd talked about going to holding
as well. But I guess before we get to that, how did how
did the Electric Dreams go? Well? Uh, certainly not according to plan
Skiff. Why don't you why don't you take this one and then I'll finish
it off. M m all right. While the plan was go there case
the joint, see what was what, what kind of a place it is?
It works there? Who goes there? We went there on the hunch
that our bomber or whatever, Tyson Brenzo, was associated with somebody there or
something there, And I'm going to trust that what I'm about to say stays
with us. That doesn't make any doesn't hold any weight for the case or
we're looking for anything like that, at least I don't think it does.
But while I was there, but Selma can attest to this, I I
saw someone that I that I thought I knew from one hundred years ago.
But I mean it might as well. Ben, you look like you saw
a ghost. Seemed like it when I when I was a kid, I
had a friend. I grew up poor, so I did what I had
to do, or what I thought I had to do to survive, mostly
just pick picking pockets, finding food and trash cans and that kind of thing.
But I had a friend that I met, and she seemed like she
came from a different cast of society. And she saw me digging in the
trash one day and asked me what I was doing. I told her,
and we just got to talking to and we became friends, you know how
kids make friends easy, and then time passes. We see each other pretty
frequently, and one day she showed up out of the blue at my shitty
dump of an apartment and she was standing outside the main entrance of the apartment
building, just was standing there like a goddamn tulip burn on in between the
seams of the sidewalk. I asked her what the hell she was doing in
this part of town. She said, I'm going away, not coming back.
And then she stopped and said, before I do, I want to
tell you the truth about me. I'm a replicant, she said, and
I'm going to die soon. And I didn't know much about that being a
kid, that kind of thing. Since then, I mean, that's kind
of what got me into being a got me to this point of being a
blade runner. Was uh, that strange relationship I had when I was a
kid. When I saw her last night, she was a little more grown
up, but I saw her. And I've spent years looking into whether or
not there are child replicants, if they ever came out. That nothing zero.
I honestly, for the past few years, shit for the past decade
at least, I told myself that she was lying, it was all a
dream, never happened, all of those things until last night it was her.
And the funny thing is, I feel like maybe someone slipped me something
because I asked the bartender who that was, and he acted like he didn't
see her. She was standing right there. She's not something you someone you
ignore or you don't notice. You notice her, and he acted like he
never saw anything. And then I asked for a drink, and out of
the clear, blue fucking sky, he handed me a drink that smelled like
her. And I'm not asking you to believe me. I don't even know
if I believe it myself. But you're my partners, and you deserve the
truth. And that's the truth of what happened to me last night. And
I don't know where to go from here. I've just been I can't even
think about the case right now, and I'm sorry, I owe you that,
but gonna I'll look into it on my own time, and I'll do
my level best to not let this affect the case and my work on it.
So I just want to take this one day and say I'm sorry.
I I'm not one to believe in fate, but you know, coincidences are
what they are. Y'all were out of place. That was a specific sort
of direction given to us dealing with the case involving replicants, and you're saying
you may have seen one. Am I hearing that right? I'm sorry said
that again, y'all went to Electric Dreams. Yeah, because we're chasing down
replicants and you're saying you may have seen one. I don't know what I
saw. I'm just telling you what I saw. I'm not sure if it
was real. She I forgot to mention that she went around a corner and
I went after. That's when I left Soma. I went after, and
she seemed to disappear. It was a dead end. So bartender didn't say
anything. He didn't act like he did hm. But he gave you a
drink that smelled blacker. He served me a drink that smelled like I can
only describe it as autumn. It smelled like the fall. What was a
drink called? He called it her name Vagonnya. I'm looking over at Galen
at this point. If I'm losing my mind, you guys, you need
to let me know, but that it seems so rare. Now, that's
more of a lead than that's a lead, if anything. I mean,
that's so appointed. There is one more thing, Now, where did I
see this haiku? It saw it on the fish tank, right, Yeah,
okay, I saw something. I saw some writing. I didn't see
all of it, but I caught a glimpse of what. I don't know
what it was. It was the last line of what seemed like a poem.
And all I can make out was what's this journey mine? And if
that rings any bell with y'all, let me know. But it's connected to
my hallucin nation or something or whatever happened somehow? What's this journey mine?
Have you tried running that through any any type of search, anything that might
be a common poem or maybe some some long dead poet I would have.
I got nothing. Well, for what it's worth, I believe you.
I don't think you can make that face and then not follow your impulse.
So I'm sorry I left you again. It's just well, you know,
you don't have to apologize. My night was unfortunately not quite as reflective.
I'm sorry to say it, but after you left, I got drunk and
lost my badge in my wallet. So that's where I'm at. So you
left your badge, I mean it's probably at Electric Dreams right now. Did
you go to try to pick it up yet? I mean, I'm I'm
just telling y'all that I think it's probably there. Well, let's go get
it. Then after we leave, when when, well, right, when
when does that place open up? I think it's seven? All right,
we got a couple hours. Well, they probably got a day crew that
sets up and cleans before they open the doors, So actually beforehand it fell
out. Maybe there's loss and found. I don't know. All I can
tell you is that I'm sorry for it, and I feel like a fool.
I thought, you know, why not let loose a little bit after
Skiff is gone. The least last thing I'd like to do is look like
I'm looking for something after he gets up and leaves. I wasn't trying to
be suspicious. I was trying to be inconspicuous, and unfortunately I have one
too many, so that's on me. But it was fun. I mean,
I had a It was fun. You know. I don't know if
i'd say it was worth it, but you know, I got served a
drink called what was it? Electric Sunset? And I actually I talked to
uh. I talked to my friend last night, told him about it crashed
at his place. He seemed to know something about it. So I also
brought this and I kind of reached into my pocket. I scribbled this down
on this napkin. Here. This is I believe what was in that bomb,
or this is at least what my friend was able to dig up over
the night, because I know he was probably hard at work on it.
Yeah, wall each that you're saying that this is what they're trying to get
rid of. I believe. So all right now if i'm if I'm correct
this, it looks like a language and I'm really not. Can you pull
that little away from the light. It's just a little too bright? Just
oh yeah, sure, sorry, sorry, yeah, no, that's better,
Thank you? Sorry? Is that better? Yeah? Thank god,
Bob. I'm sorry. Keep forgetting he went to the damn hospital. You
should be resting. You should should I rested. I'm fine, okay,
look at me, I'm fine. Yeah, all right, all right,
okay, So I'm thinking that this part here, maybe there's a pattern here.
I'm you know, running it through a couple uh language algorithms. Maybe
maybe Japanese, but I'm not certain about that. So thoughts on this anybody.
I mean, I'm seeing it's and pieces that might be repeating patterns or
I don't know, that's odd. Yeah, I could just be house written
out. I mean, it's almost like what it's gibberish, right, I
don't know. I mean, I mean, yeah, it's Japanese characters,
but it's not like it's not making sense or at least the way. I
don't know, it's a bit much it is. I'm thinking we presented to
holding at some point, along with pretty much everything else we've got. You
mentioned you a copy of that, by the way, Oh yeah, absolutely
I can. I can print it out for you, or I'll just send
it to you. Can I send through the K Yeah. I was just
gonna say, you can actually take a picture of what he did with the
K I A and then you can specifically send it to only them, or
you can upload it to these you know, I think L A, p
D main frame. It's up to you. For now, I'll specifically send
it to Bob Skiff and Galen. So that's for y'all. You were mentioned
at the Tyrol Corporation. She was talking, Can I can I send a
message to uh Natalie the clerk at the lp L A p D dispatch with
now, No, Natalie is the records lady, analyst. That's right.
Yeah. Uh, I'm gonna send her a message with the line from the
Haikupa and see if she can can you cross reference these and see if this
line is in this uh Kittagana. What time is it right now? Five
o'clock? Yeah, you get her voicemail, but you know she's she works
the graveyard shift, so she'll probably be in in a couple hours, so
she'll get it. Yeah, I'll just leave it in her inboxing, she's
Natalie is an officer, not an officer, but she's an analyst in the
LAPD, so she works with you guys. She doesn't do field work.
I'm trying to keep some notes here because the names are starting to get lost
in my head. Yeah, no, I had to. I had to
pull up my note sheet, Like, Okay, Natalie is clerk in LAPD
record Okay, that's the one. Uh. Well, wow for good to
sort of present when we have so far, I mean it's sort of a
well, I wanted to ask you. Actually, you mentioned there was a
name someone that Tyrell gave you. He said, Clark. Clark. Yeah,
Clark. He's an inner. It's a liaison of sorts. I suppose
I've not had dealings with them, so I think I think I'm gonna know
who this is. In fact, I'm pretty sure i've worked with this person
before. I mean, if we're thinking of the same person, Clark Sorrier
Clark. Yeah, he actually left me a voicemail not too long ago.
Uh do you play it? How are you playing it? How long?
I mean for a while. I'm so sorry. You do have another one?
Oh, as soon as you open to play the old one, you
do see that you have another one. So coincidence, there's actually a new
one from the same person. You know what. I gotta get y'all up
to speed, So I'm gonna play the first one that I got sent,
and then if y'all are okay with it, we'll listen to this together because
I think this could be pertinent information. Okay, so yeah, I'll play
it both, beginning with the previous one. Okay, before we Before we
play it, you know why he's sending these to you? Selma. Yeah,
yeah, I can only imagine how he's feeling right now. But we
were we worked on a case together. I think I might have mentioned it
to you, Skiff, but uh, Clark did something that eventually ended up
being not to not to by the book, and he asked me not to
include it on my report and I did, and that was that was tough
on our relationship, I think. And so I haven't heard from him in
months, and this was actually the first voicemail I got. What I'm thinking
now is we listened to this voicemail as a team, because as much as
I'd like to trust him, I'm just I'm just not sure what's going on
yet, and I could really use the extra pair of ears and analysis.
All Right, what was the one we all listened to previously? I did,
Galen and Bob here the first one? Yeah, I Relia, you
played it here. Actually, last time you were here, you played that
one for everybody, so they did hear We'll forget my memory. Then we've
already heard heard that first one. Well, so yeah, I suggest playing
it again. I want to hear this. Okay, all right, yeah,
okay to the next one as well. Yeah, let's try and pace
this together, so I'll play the previous one. Hey, So I mean,
hi, Selma, seems like I caught you in a bad time because
you're not picking up. But you you know that already because you're listening to
this message. And yeah, look, I'd start this over if I could,
but I can't, so I'm just gonna push through. I'm working on
the predictive model, the algorithm, and I've made a couple of breakthroughs,
but I'm I'm gonna stop wasting your time and just cut to the chase.
I know that you're gonna have questions, but I can't answer any of them
right now, not on this line, So focus up. I need you
to look into a name for me to name is a Vary Tricks That is
a very A A v A r I Tricks t r i XS previously listed
as a vendor for diyrel. Please don't ask me what they were vending.
That's what I'm hoping you might figure out. If you're gonna ask why I
don't do this myself, the short answer is I can't get to the office
right now because I'm out in the field. Following up on another lead side
note, please don't ask me why I'm in the field. Whatever you scrape
an avari, we will swamp nose later by something more secure. You gotta
trust me when I say this is important. Lt asks I'm hungover or I'm
buried under a stacademic discs. I do not need wellness check, am I
well check? I'm very well? All right. I that's my cue.
I gotta go wish me luck. So I guess after that I have a
new one, all right. I mean, you make a good point,
a skiff. I'm not entirely like I think I know why the Sawyer would
be contacting me, but I also am this could be some information. It
obtains to everybody, including both of y'all that just went to Tyrell. If
I had to guess, it would be because you're one of the most above
board tops on the precinct. I suppose maybe yes and no. I mean,
I don't think I'm someone that is known to skirt around anything. I've
tried to be a truthful officer and be honest and forthcoming, and I think
some of that changed a little bit with Sawyer. So all right, I
think changed with Sawyer. I'm sorry, how do you think it changed with
Sawyer? You know what happens when somebody does one thing and does another thing,
and you see them do the other thing and they say, please,
don't mention this to anybody else. That's got to be conflicting, especially to
somebody that's just trying to abide by the law. It's conflicting when you've known
that person for a while. It's conflicting when that bridge burns over and you're
wondering what the hell you did wrong. It feels not great. I'll tell
you that much, Galen. And I might be by the book, but
I rely a lot on instinct as well, and I can tell you something's
up and it doesn't feel good. So that's why i'd like to share this
with you. Does that pass your check? I'm not sure yet. Well,
I'll play this, and I suppose you can just make up your own
mind. So I'm gonna play the voicemail. Hey Selma, it's me.
I need to speak with you urgently, but not on this line. There's
an uplink cafe in Sector five called Silver Sheen. I got a private room
booked. Ask for Thomas Hardy and they'll let you through. Don't blow me
off this time. You really need to hear what I've got to say,
and if you bring anybody, just just make sure it's people you can trust
with your life and mind. Am I crazy? Or did that just trail
off? Yeah? Can I roll connections to see how much I know about
Silver Sheene or if I don't sure? Absolutely? What was that name?
Thomas Thomas Thomas Hardy Okay, goddamn ca Okay connections one success and one one
that's amazing. Okay. You know it's an uplink cafe, which basically gives
people access to the terminal. But again, since since the blackout last year,
it's kind of surviving only on the hope that I don't know your data
will suddenly come back. People who are trying to rebuild their own personal kind
of information, probably from analog records, and then they're using the terminal to
type through or very very basic communication with each other. It's not like the
Internet that we know today. We basically in the world of Blade Runner,
they spend about ten years without the Internet after having it, and then they
get it back, but now it's not that time, so it's it's basically
like old school forums back in like nineteen ninety eight nine. If anybody was
around then, you know it's angel fly. Yeah, angel fire. It's
like that. It's like, yeah, bulletin boards. It's not really it's
not really like we we think of it now or very connected. But you
can hide information still in certain places if you have the right access. Okay,
I think I'll go along about it like a reputation or part of town.
It's in sector five, which is where the LAPD is located as well,
so it's not like in a super scary district, relatively safe if you're
thinking about the safety of your partner. You know, it doesn't have a
reputation for being a criminal hub, but it also doesn't really have a reputation
for being like the most popular place either. It's it would be a good
place to do a meet up like this. I think you would recognize that
that's a good one. It's one of those places where you're like, oh,
yeah, I fucking forgot about that place. I forgot that even existed.
People still use that place. It's like it's one of them. What
did you call it? Not internet cafe? Would you call it an upplint
link cafe? Yep, there we go, Okay, up blink cafe.
I've heard of it. It's an up blank cafe, no real reputation,
just a place to check the boards. It's in Sect five, so not
a bad neighborhood, just kind of one of those places that you you pass
by, you kind of know it's there, but you don't remember it's there.
You know, a good place for meetings, all right, I mean
I think this would probably be if you want to go alone. Wait a
minute, they didn't you want to go alone? I do? Can we
be in your ear? That why you're doing it? Though? I don't
want you going in there without any kind of backup. Yeah, maybe maybe
in the air. But Sawyer is smart, he'll know he know if Sawyer's
there. We don't even know if he's going to be there or he's gonna
lucky guy to some other place. That's true. I mean, there's only
one way to find out, right, So I'm Sawyer predicted you'd bring people
with you. Why go along mess with a prediction? I guess if you're
never predictable, people can't pinion. Do you not trust this person? No?
I just said I don't trust this person like them? Man, I
know, I'm I mean in a violent way. Do you feel like they
would get physical with you, or they would pull the gun on you.
Do you feel like they are a danger to you? No, I do
not tell you what probably expecting other people. I'm your partner, won't look
suspicious if I go with you. We'll have what was the name of your
team massive? Well, I have Team Mastiff waiting in a spinner outside,
ready to come in if need be. Does that sound reasonable? Yeah?
All right. I just feel better if someone was there with you. I
mean, that would be keeping it a little more honest. Yeah, we'd,
we'd we'd basically be telegraphing that it's not just me. You're going to
be on the ground. Excuse fair enough? All right, Partners have to
watch each other's back. Yeah, agreed. Any sign of trouble, any
if we see it, if you see it, either way, say it.
We got a word, the good word. M I'm not good at
stuff like that. Pineapple, all right, you guys, hear pineapple?
That means ship went sideways. We need you right away? All right?
Pineapple? That's fine? I mean when are you when? Don't y'll say
pineapple? You know you're not a lot of people use it as a safe
word. See, that's right, Galinos. So so, uh, I
suppose what do we do? Then we're just gonna go talk to whole about
all this. Well, first up, i'd like to Dreams. You can
get your goddamn badge back. Yeah, my badge, Rent. That wasn't
until seven. And I know I'm only saying that because it's been a week
since we did a session. No, I you wanted to go early,
That's right, That's right. That's they're probably setting up cleaning up. Like
I know any of every bar I've ever worked in there that they're there at
least an hour if not too early, especially a club like that, they
probably need to you know, check stock. Blah blah blah. Yeah,
all right, say we'll meet you there that that at Sheen in an hour?
Sure, all right, sounds good? All right, I get up
with holding soon. You know that, right, don't I know it?
Yeah? I say, after we do this meeting, assuming all of us
are still alive, not to jinx it, but and report report what we
found to uh to Holden. Do we know when Captain Holman is on shift?
That's a very good question. I think he probably works like the evening
or the I think he works the evening shift, but naturally, when you're
working that shift, it often bleeds over into graveyard. Those you guys are
blade runners. But yeah, I think you can see him usually in the
late afternoon through the We have a few hours. Yeah, still, ye'll
probably catch him. Yeah, oh quite a few right, Graveyard doesn't begin
till eleven pm, so he's probably gonna be there for a while yet here,
Yeah, so shift if we can. All right, Okay, well,
I'm gonna leave some cash here on the table for my coffee, and
then I guess we're gonna head out. Okay, I'm gonna finish my coffee
orders, let me do my noodles. Yeah, good luck, we yep
you too. We'll catch up later. Bye bye, and you two leave
together, Skiff and Selma. Right, okay, we're gonna stay with the
other team, just to hear what hot goss they got. I think I
wish I had this as a prop, by the way, because I'd be
loudly slurping the noodles. I've got a soup in front of me, but
it's not noodles. I'm so upset. I just went off of instinct,
like you know, it's all reality, but also kind of futuristic, and
so I imagine that like noodles are so incredib popular, but we also have
like, I don't know, French toast breakfast noodles. Let people get now
sounds gross, but I know this sounds ridiculous. I was just gonna as
a pun. I was just gonna say, oh, egg noodles, but
yeah, yeah, yeah, just like but I just think, you know,
I don't know, there's probably weird food that they that they serve,
you know, and this is Little's Diner, so it's got a little bit
of a I don't know, So if you're expecting like ramen noodles, that's
not what you get. You get these weird like breakfast noodles and their syrup
on the side, even though you said no, not on them. But
she brings it anyway, just in case you changed mind. Always think that
stuff's too sweet. I'm looking over at his syrup and his uh, his
untouched syrup, and then I think I imagine sitting a fairly easy silence for
a little bit as he's eating, and I'm sipping on my coffee, waiting
for him to get a good a good amount into him before just not looking
at him, but saying that was odd, wasn't it. Oh? Yeah,
we have Skiff who may have seen a replicant, but isn't too confident
on what they saw. We got Selma getting drunk, losing her stuff,
and having some sort of odd connection to what is definitely a person of interest.
But they're also being very forward with the information. Am I seeing that
wrong? Am I seeing it sideways? Like? I don't think you're seeing
it sideways, Bob. There's a philosophy that one of the best ways to
keep a secret just to be really upfront about many aspects of it, and
you don't tell the whole truth, but you give enough information throw people off.
It's a manipulative way to live, but it works all right. I
don't know if that's what Selm is doing. I have to be honest with
you. She throws me for a loop, she throws you through a loop.
We sounds shit, rise, Bob been. We've been working together for
a while now. I think it's fair to say. And I'm pretty sure
you you know this is I. I I rely on how you read people.
You're good at it. You know you're good at it. So yeah,
I'm surprised there's a there's something there and I can't find it. I
don't necessarily distrust the two of them. I will say that the first things
they said here today were shocking, but I didn't feel that Skiff was spinning
us some sort of tall tale to garner sympathy. No, Skiff looked genuinely
upset, okay, and in Selma looked agitated, but not aggressively more Oh
boy, what is that? Confused? Maybe I got the sense that whatever's
going on with this Clark fellow, there's a level of concern that she has
for the individual. Am I seeing that wrong? I don't know if it's
protective necessarily, but her wanting to go in by herself is just I rubbed
me wrong at first. Steal does I don't understand it either. We're going
to be in here, so we'll have to wait and see. You know
my philosophy, Bob, wait and see. Always give people the opportunity to
tell you something that they don't want to tell you. Just let them talk.
People want to be heard. It wants you to listen, and more
often than not, they'll give something up that they don't want to. It's
strange, but I think people can't have silence at least some people, even
if it means, well, you might incriminate themselves, it's less painful than
the silence regardless. What do you make of the child a replicant thing?
I mean, there's been those sort of rumors around for years and years,
you know, the very very rich spending their money through back channels to get
something you're not supposed to have. So when he was talking about some child
that was well to do by the way they look, I don't know how
far fetched that would have been with him saying that he's seeing somebody that is
a grown up version of that. And we know that the technology exists and
has for a while for them to be able to do all sorts of things
when they're creating these things, So it's not it's not out of the ram
a possibility that, yeah, he had a friend and she was replicant that
knew she was going to die. How fucked up is that to be?
It? That's what the next six has had to deal with. They knew
when they were well, they didn't know exactly when they were going to die,
but they knew that they were going to die. I'll be honest with
you, I don't really have sympathy for it. But there's a special sort
of evil to create something that is a child with a short fuse on it.
That's Bob. How do you think these replicans feel? I don't.
I don't think that they do any more than mimic what they are given.
But I don't know why. Let's think about it. You say it's a
special kind of fucked up make child replicant one that's probably going to die soon.
Nexus sixes. They didn't have memories. What's the difference between them and
a child? Just the way that they look. Ah, I don't know.
Listen, Bob, if what s Gift said happened happened, and I
think that he definitely believes that it did. Just to be clear, we've
already seen evidence the tyroll as multiple copies of various replicants. What's to say
they haven't made a copy of his friend because she is in the mold?
All right, think about it for a second. The NEXTUS sixes failed,
tyro lost all kinds of money, million lawsuits, million problems, and now
the Act passes. They need to save money wherever they can, at least
if they still want to be in the business of making replicans. You saw
what was going on after that act passed, all howls breaking loose in tyroll.
So I give Karen Yen a lot of credit. She kept it together.
See you're saying, why reinvent the wheel when they have a bunch lying
around? Of course, it's got to cost them more money to make a
new replicant than an old one. Where's all this leading? Do you think
we've got some replicants identical in league with each other to some degree for some
sort of plot that involves a few levels of destruction of what looked to be
garbled in Japanese characters without any real meaning behind them, at least from what
I can gather, they doing, how would they do this? And how
many more are involved? We need to know more about the nextas eights.
I don't think we know enough. We don't know what they're capable of,
but judging from what we saw with Frenzo, they're a different breed, Bob,
we don't know enough, but we do know how to recognize them.
Now. They sent all that information off to the Lapdud. Hopefully Selma took
a look, but who knows. She was probably well indisposed. You know
what, bothers me the most. There's no easy, at accessible records of
what they look like. Well, that's what they said. The black I
was for. I wanted to wipe the slate clean. Puts us on the
back foot, probably the same reason they tried to take out the records at
the LAPD. What are you thinking, Bob, not really uncomfortable. Is
gonna get a lot worse before it gets better. I know, it's just
not as straightforward as I. Uh. I'm used to just focus on what
we know. Yeah, yeah, that's that's good. One step at a
time. M do we walk out of there, the little out of Little's
Diner? I uh throw the keys to sell muh okay, I throw the
he's a selma. You drive all right? Just uh? I had a
thought and I want to I want to see if I can make any connection
here. So I got to make a call while while you drive to uh
electric streams. Okay, now get in the car. I kind of adjust
my glasses. Oh fuck, migrain, sorry, take a second if you
need it. Take all okay, I can see all right? Are you
all right to drive? Yeah? Yeah, all right, you'll be fine.
Sometimes it just come to go, okay, okay, Well, if
you need to just hit the autopilot whatever. Yeah, I just didn't do
that. I don't know. It could be good for my mind to do
something, all right, and I kind of input electric dreams into the autopilot.
Pull out my spinner, hop in the passenger seat. Call up Natalie.
Oh she's not she's not on shift yet. You can root to her
directly if you want so. You can call this patch and say you need
to speak to her directly, or you can leave a message up to you.
I don't want to bother at home. I'll leave all right. This
is this is beside the case, so it's not it's not imperative, so
I'll leave your message. Let me see there we go. All right,
Natalie, it's a skiff. I was hoping you could look something up for
me. Uh. I want you to cross reference the name Vanya v A
Nya and see if it has if there's any relation that you can see to
past cases, maybe even if you have extra time, newspaper headlines, anything
like that in a relation to Tyrell, Tyrell Corporation, uh of Ari,
Trixis, or just replicants in general. If you could do that for me,
I swear to God, I will get you a whole pie next time.
Either way, if you can or you don't want to do it,
just let me know. Thanks. Hold well she comes up with anything,
She's worth the whole bakery at least to me. Do I sound crazy?
Not really, I've a or crazier. Just hearing those words come out of
my mouth, just retelling that story from God thirty years ago, just just
hearing them made me feel like, who the fuck is gonna buy this?
And I'll tell you, I'll swear a stack of Bible said, that's exactly
what happened. That's what I saw, what happened in my childhood. Like
if it's not real, it felt real, but I was if especially at
the bar. That was one of this one of the eeriest, strangest things
I've ever experienced. The bartender just didn't know anything but seemed to know something.
I don't know, Skiff, I've never seen your face like that,
and we've worked together for some time, so I'm trying not to worry you.
I mean, I'm still I'm still a cop. I still got my
head on my shoulders. But right well, I can't say I'm not worried
for you. Let's let's say I'm concerned. I'm concerned, but I am
here for you and I'm not gonna let you do this alone whatever it is.
I'm a partner and I'm going to be there for you, and and
that includes taking your word. I believe you, Especially with that drink.
I mean, that seems almost too much of a coincidence. Don't you think
it does? Too good to be true? And I didn't want to bring
it up in front of them, just in case you had a bit more
fun last night than you wanted to tell about it. Well, I know
those clothes, that's your go bag. That's true. That's true. I
did have a good time, but I you know, it felt good to
unwind. And that's I think what felt so bad about it, knowing that
I had lost some really important stuff. So I made a friend named bertrand
I'm not even sure if he was a friend, but I was just talking
to him all night like like I belonged there, you know, like I
was just free to be whatever, do whatever, just because I was drunk.
It was almost like I just got this this new lease. I have
been drunk like that in a long time. I really have not let myself.
Huh fured looking away. You seem to be kind of good looking,
but I mean, you know, a couple of drinks and facial features start
to uh morph. Now we are talking about what I think we're talking about.
Right? Did you you got lucky last night? Right? Oh?
No, no, you know, I wish, but uh, I I
suppose I have my guy. It was at Bills. That's why I was,
oh, not even know that was skiff. I didn't go home last
night. I was. I was at Bills. Well, I couldn't sleep
a because I just lost my badge and my wallet. B I needed to
talk to somebody and I needed to I needed I needed a friend. And
I also had some information that I felt. You know, I'm always working,
so I thought it would be good for the case. But I passed
out and Bill Bill found that out actually with them with a new uh information
that we just got that code. I don't know, just so so strange
looking. I don't know what it is. But or did he come on
empty? No, I think that's what he got. He said, this
was all you know, he left me and know what he went on to
work. But nah, no, I actually got pretty unlucky. So unfortunately,
but it it was, you know what, The gin was good,
so I'm not entirely mad about it. Hopefully, hopefully everything will still be
in there, but I can't. I can't guarantee that either. So all
right, well let's say we're here. Let's uh, well, why don't
you let me go first, because I'm the one with a badge this time.
Yeah, probably for the best there, all right? All right?
When we pull up with no problems to the place, yep, we get
out. The only question I have for you in this moment is how are
you dressed? Selma? You said you had a change of clothes, but
yeah, you look like yep, I just got on a regular outfit.
I've got like five outfits. Narrator, Okay, got it? Yeah,
okay, yep. And you're going in not really undercover, You're going in
as police officers, right, yeah, just to be quar Yeah, I
think you know the jig is up. They probably figured that out once they
got I'm a badge. Whoever it is, if it is even in Lost
and Found, I'm not even sure about that. At this point, We're
just gonna go in handle it, uh, And I'm just gonna have to
see what happens. Okay, all I will say is that I'm glad that
Skiff is here as as as backup, because in cases could could get ce
D. You never know. Yeah, that's true. We're gonna go ahead
and have you guys roll observation. You can choose to roll together. It's
not super intense, and I just want to see what you see as you're
approaching and coming inside. All right, Oh wow, amazing. Okay,
so the door is the front door is locked. They don't open until like
ten. But I think we're gonna go ahead and say that because you rolled
observation and it was a critical success for those listening, So it's two successes.
We're going to say that somebody was here earlier, even though they told
you to come at seven. I will say, somebody's here super early and
they catch you, catch their attention and they you know, they open the
door for you, and or they opened the door a crack and I pull
out my badge and oh, flip it up. Uh last night, and
she might have left a couple of personal items here. We just want to
know if you guys picked them up. Oh sure, we're not here on
official LAPD business. I just Okay, I just wanted to show you that
we're legit. Great, great, and what's the name? I don't move
to open the door. A little bit further now, I think in today's
day and age, in the dystopian world that is blade runner, I think
this is common. And it doesn't strike you as super odd that you've flashed
your badge. And everybody, at least in this area is not going to
open the door unless you have a warrant. But it's not necessarily striking you
as odd. Everybody does that. So okay, and what items did you
leave, miss It was a wallet and a badge, police badge under the
name Selma Whittaker. Okay, okay, I'll be right back. And they
close the door, lock it, and then head back in to go look
and uh, I really hope and I look at as soon as they close
the door and lock it, I look at some and I go, I
really hope we don't have to come back and me impolite about this, me
too, But it might come to that. So because I know I wasn't
just to let you know pb I was under the I was a skiff is
under the it's the assumption or actually I am excuse me, under the assumption
that a badge is one thing, but it has to be matched to the
person wearing it, so like, in order for them to make use of
it, they have to have time with it. If they want to make
it like a forgery or something, they have to have time with it,
or get someone that looks like me, or it looks like Selmo so and
so forth. So I'm not worried yet. That's why it's been kind of
nonchalant a little bit. Yep, okay, yeah, okay, I see
where your concern is coming from. Yep, yeah, okay. So it's
a couple of minutes and then they come back unlock the door. But they
do have something in their hand, which I think is your badge and your
wallet because they are separate, and you do you have your badge inside your
wallet? Yeah, okay, so yeah, then it's the Then it's all
one piece, and you can see that they have it in their hand.
Yeah I did. I didn't actually, and they pass it through the door.
Look at you hand it to you. Okay, was that that zero
stell throat? By the way, maybe you're trying to hide that badge.
No, that's that's not Natalie's role actually from earlier. But yeah, so
they hand the badge to you and then they wait before shutting the door.
Is there anything else I can help you officers with? I think that's all
for now, Thank you so much. For there is one other thing?
Oh sure, I was here last night and uh, there was a bartender,
and I described the bartender. He looked like this of this tall.
How long has he how long has he worked here? I have this written
down, so let me double check before I say something incorrect. That's Derek,
and and I think they immediately look upset that they said the name of
the person because you're police officers, but they said it without thinking, and
there's just momentary like, oh shit, I shouldn't have said that. About
two years. Okay, so he's been here a while then, yeah,
okay, wise, did he do something wrong? No, no, he
made me a spectacular drink last night. I just I was just wondering if
he was a uh just a prodigy, or he's been here a while.
Oh yeah, no, he's Yeah, he's been here a while. He
makes great drinks. He's very good at what he does. Yeah, well
I guess uh, And I looked directly at them, and I am looking
directly at them to see if there's going to be a reaction, and I
say the following, well, thank you for your uh forgetting that badge back.
I guess I uh as I'm going to continue on this journey mine insider
manipulation. Holy shit, that was clever as fucking oh my god. You
can have advantage just because that was fucking sick. Okay, all right,
advantage on manipulation. You said, manipulation or insight. Either one you get
a slightly different narrative emotion and manipulation is what's the difference. Well, so,
manipulation is when you're kind of like either lying or which is sort of
kind of what you're doing. You're doing a little bit of manipulation, but
you might get something that they don't want to reveal to you, whereas insight,
as you're getting their emotional state or their emotional reactions. That's what I'll
do that, I'll do the advantage of manipulation, okay, and go for
it. Three successes. Okay, I think they drop something. I think
the reaction is, you know, very strong, almost visceral. I would
say, yeah, So I think that what do they have on them though,
maybe the keys, yeah, because they were locking it. So I
think they just immediately drop the keys. They look at you. They could
maybe even stumble back a little bit and then oh, I'm so sorry,
I'm so sorry. Oh it's quite right. Yeah, like I bend over
to help them, like no, no, no, that's fine, I
got it, thank you, thank you, thank you. I shouldn't have
to do that, I got it, surly. I'm usually grave. What
is this person dressed as a bartender? Cocktail bar back, bar back,
So they probably have got like, you know, the all dressed in all
black, but they've clearly their sleeves are rolled up, their hair is tied
back, probably into a low ponytail, and they have been you know,
they've got like smudges and dirt and stuff on their face and their hands theyve
been lifting crates and stuff in the back. So yeah, and yeah,
they stumble around with the keys for a minute and then stand back up and
go, Yeah, since I was in the scene, you said Derek was
his name, right, Yeah, Derek was the name that they dropped for
the bartender. Yet. Uh so I'm just writing this down and I actually
have an image for what this person looks like if you give me a second
to grab it, Okay, I'll pull that up and I'll drop that in
there for you guys in a minute. But in the meantime, yeah,
they go ahead and uh take a second to compose themselves. Not only with
your three from minut manipulation. Not only did they react in this way,
but you they will no longer make eye contact with you. Really for longer
than a second. You have terrified them. I look at I look directly
at their eyes, even though their eyes are not faced at me, and
I go, Did I say something wrong? No? I just realized I've
I've forgot to do a proper close up tomorrow, and I'm gonna have anxiety
until I go in the back room and check and make sure that nothing has
melted or gone bad. I left the freezer unlocked. Sorry, Yeah,
you don't want to food straight up or melt or anything. Yeah, straight
up? Lie? What was your name again? Ursa? Uh? Are
they lying? No? But they they they hesitated because they wanted to give
you a fake name. But they're too flustered not to give you their appropriate
name. All right, Ursa, Yeah, you're a bear? Huh.
All I'd like to be. I guess, thanks for the thanks for the
wallet, and badge. Have a great day, so glad you enjoyed your
time. Come back again, or don't? They locked the door and then
leave. I don't have to ask if you saw that? Do I saw
him? You do not. I don't know what that was, but uh,
well that's point number one in my constrain. There's some bigger there's some
bigger fish to fry here, skiff that you know that, right? They
look terrified, Yeah, terrified, like down to the bones. You ever
read Watership Down, oh, a long time ago in school. I think
you know that word thorn, the scared, most scared you can be.
You're just frozen. Yeah that was tharn. That's what I just saw,
real dear and headlined stuff. All right. Also a little odd to get
that back so easily. I'm just gonna say, I I thought it was
gone. Check it, see if it's been tampered with, and then like
that, I take a look and sound my wallet. Okay, right,
go ahead and rule for me. It's gonna be either observation tech or let
me just look at the sheet here. What are our options? Observation tech
or stealth? I will do an observation role. Okay, if everything looks
neat in order. Honestly, it doesn't even look like it was you know,
it wasn't rifled through or anything. Somebody opened it, maybe looked at
your name and the thing else that has been touched. Wow, I'm surprised
they didn't even they didn't even take my my free coffee car and everything is
still here. Wow, I'm just yanking your chain. I don't think that's
the most important thing in my wallet right now. I'm just glad the badge
is here. Oh no, if you're up to your free one yet,
No, no, I'm at nine. That's the thing. You know,
they only get They give you ten ten, which I think that's too much.
But you know, I'm at nine right now. On the way,
get one, get one free. You know what, Let's do it.
Let's do it because there's everything here. Everything is a counter for skiff ways
that I mean, there's a place that has a reputation they want to maintain
it. Fucking with a police badge is not gonna kindly go well for them.
Well, I'm just so if someone did mess with it, they're professional
at least well maybe, I mean, maybe it fell out. Maybe maybe
someone didn't take it. Maybe I just misplaced it. I don't know.
Well point is, everything's here, but now they know we're cops. Well
all the same. I think, on the way to get this coffee and
on the way to uh the Sheen Silverchine, we should call in to the
office and see if anybody's been it, if it pinged anywhere suspicious. Oh
if the badge did. Yeah, oh clever, yep, I'm a good
cop. Yeah, there are holy shit. Okay, so you guys are
headed too. Sorry, I was making some notes. You are now headed
to the uplink cafe, but you're calling the office in the meantime or what's
the plan now? Oh? Yeah, did Oh that's right. You didn't
pay your tab? Oh oh, I completely forgot. I think it was
just so much he actually got Yeah, oh no, she she definitely did.
Yeah. Okay, that's fine. Then that's I mean, I definitely
did. Yeah, everybody forgot here. So if I can remember this maybe
I don't know, should I remember this? You can if you want to,
if you think that you would. I mean, it's only been a
night for you, it's been a week for us. So yeah, you
were that I'm glad you're here. I was just there, and you know,
I think I was really more just worried about whether or not I was
actually going to get my wallet and bad back and everything intact. I think
that kind of like shook me a little bit, like why is this all
still here? We could do roll a random one D four and that's how
many shors it takes you to fucking go? What oh ship? Yep,
that sounds good to me. You said, one D four? Yeah,
okay, in an hour. You're gonna be in an hour when we're already
away. Yeah, that's how it works. Okay, well, at least
I mean at least you got it like at five, right, like you
could still come back to pay your tab at seven or whatever. Yeah,
yeah, swing back, Okay, all right, Okay, I guess i'll
remember that later. All right. So we're on our way to Silver Sheen.
Okay, okay, okay, So dispatch, Uh, yes, that's
right, I'm Southern Dispatch, right, I think, so, yep,
yes, it's a dispatch. How can I help you? Yeah? Could
you run a trace on the Selma Whitaker's badge, see if it's pinged off
any place from uh let's see last night at midnight till right about now.
Yep, one second, please hold, I'm gonna do it. I apologize
in advance, but I have to. There is no hold music in this
dystopian reality. It's just as hold on. I'll do it for you,
right. Yeah. The whole music is the oh, dystopian future. We're
already there the future. For anyone who recognized I did start singing the Doug
themes and which I'm now gonna somehow make that into an ad for next week,
well that's meta. That's meta, by the way, because Doug,
all the sounds were from a person just using their mouth making yeah, like
yeah, the theme. Okay are you are you still there? Okay,
detective, I'm not seeing anything. Okay, okay, thanks, yep,
absolutely, bye bye. I don't say back to cheerful. Well you heard
the lady so shocking shock. But that is suspicious gift, That's what I'm
saying. It's totally suspicious. Who would who would have a wallet with a
free coffee in it almost and not take anything out? I would I would
be listen, listen, listen, listen. I'm overthinking it. How do
I picture you're civilian? And you find a cops batch that me personally,
I would not fuck with it. That's true. I probably mess with it
either it's it's too much heat for what I like? What I what would
I even do with it? I mean, I might like, like,
you know, knock on a door or to maybe scare some people. But
like, other than that, you don't want dad that we got resources that
can trace it to a location and stuff like that. You know, it
would seem pretty dumb unless you were a a well experienced professional. So you
got nothing to worry about from the morons. But I suppose it's possible that
some professional happened to be there within the you know, however, many what
let's see, thirteen hours, fourteen hours since then, since you dropped it.
I don't think you got anything to worry about. But but that's said,
that's said, oh Russian adage trust of verify. M hmm. When
we hit the next time we hit the HQ, haveing missed you new badge?
And you see, remember that's a good idea. So that way if
they ping the old one, we know it's not you. It's just so
strange. I mean, what you told me doesn't add up. What they
gave me doesn't add up. I mean, I'm I'm not expecting honesty,
especially after what had happened with her drink. I'm not expecting this to be
an honest establishment in any capacity. I just I simply have something that is
telling me, oh, I'm with you there. I just don't know.
I don't know, skiff. I want it to be connected, you know,
but it could have just fallen out. I don't know. But usually
I'm pretty good about that stuff. So just give me a black coffee if
you would. Oh sure, let me go ahead. Hello, Yes,
hi, how are you? I'd uh, I'd like hang on a second.
I'm sorry, use me one one second. Yeah, you're just looking
at the at the shoot type the person I am, and didn't even think
about it. Can I get a what's that right behind you? Okay?
Well, thank you, thank you for that. I appreciate that. Could
I get a large, uh cuddly monkey. I'm sorry Corporo sized. We
call it Corpo sized, corp Corporo size, sorry corporal size, cause the
monkey roll his eyes with ten core martialized Selma Lake flaxen Well Corporos size cuddling
monkey with marshmallow fluff and hold the chocolate sprinkles, and you just had a
coffee. You just want a coffee? Yes, I would like a Corpo
sized black coffee please. Okay? And is that Corpo size or just Corporo
jumbo whatever the free one gets me? Oh yeah, we've got a free
a free coffee. Does that? Does that also come in Corporo size or
limited medium? Yeah, that's a medium skiff for you. Oh so you
have Corporo size and medium and media doesn't have a fancy name. What do
you mean? No, it's medium, ma'am. No, don't worry about
this man, Thank you, we will take We'll take a medium black coffee.
Thank you, and U corpor size cuddly monkey with marshmallow, hold the
chalk sprinkles. Okay, okay, Oh absolutely, remind me never to go
above fifty to get a coffee again. Yeah, exactly, they're uping near
fifty two level. Okay, here you go, enjoy, all right,
thank you, I detective bye bye. Now all right, here is your
coffee. I'm sorry it's not Corporo sized, but it's free. Well now,
hold on a second, really quick, did she say detectives because she
knew you you're in a cruiser. So the cruisers says, we're detected.
Okay, okay, I was like, was that was no los Like with
as a gyth is like there's something puzzling. Each each level takes the care
of their own so it's not out of the you know, it's not too
crazy. Sure, okay. I sip my coffee. All right, it's
pretty good Stordium. See, I'm glad. I'm glad you like their coffe
They have pick they have good, good black coffee. And she SIPs she
has like a little it's like a pink I'm sorry. I sip there's a
pink straw coming out of it and it's real large and it's like one of
those straws I has, like the spoon at the end, and I just
kind of like rifle it through the whip cream and I sip it like real
loud, like a little kid like in a theater, like I tried to
put it. Indeed, I kind of like on our way to the car,
like we have a coffee, and on the way to the car,
I kind of like gently shove her, like if she's gonna go towards the
driver's side, I gently shove it's like I'll drive, I'll drive you drive
like, oh you okay, thank you, because I need two hands for
this. This is the Corpo size, and good god, I'm surprised.
I'm surprised. You didn't surprise he didn't upgrade that to CEO size. You
know that we have you know that we have people that take Okay, okay,
sorry, sorry, I stole that one from our discord. By the
way, I just didn't want to take credit for it. That was a
good joke anyway. So yeah, I hop in and uh, I do
the equivalent of not trying to make a scene, but I drive fucking fast.
Yeah, okay, drive role please. Yeah, I'm glad I get
to make use of this. Put points in it. Oh wait, driving
is on there? It is? Okay what oh should have the spinner listed?
If you don't, that's okay, we can vehicle tab. Oh I
do not see it. Okay, that's okay. I guess I don't have
it. Listen. I I didn't know I had to do that. It's
like a weapon. I didn't know. Yeah, that's all right, all
right, I know that one of the other sheets has it. So let
me just take a peek. Here shift log vehicle here we go, Oh
yours? Has it? Hold on? Yeah? Perfect? Thank you?
Maneuverability and armor d n C. Okay, yep, I got that.
Okay, So here's what I'm just gonna take a quick screenshot so that you
can add it in. Uh there's I don't see a plus button. You
just click on it furth of five and it'll uh oh you just okay?
So that do I? So I don't like put a description anywhere of the
vehicle. No you don't, okay, okay, cool. Now if I
roll maneuverability, it'll it'll take into account the A I have in driving.
Yes, it adds you're driving plus the vehicle. Yeah, that's why we
ll it on the vehicle tab yet perfect. Then I will roll maneuverability.
I'm guessing right, and there's only that our vehicle arm so yeah, okay,
heck yeah, okay. So not only do you get there really quickly,
but it's very skilled driving. And y'all have to remember that this is
Blade Runner all reality future where you know you're not just driving on one lane
right, You've got above and to either side and below you right, because
these cars fly and they're up on the fifty first floor, and now they're
heading probably somewhere around thirty or twenty for this cafe. So there's it's it's
impressive, is what I'm saying. Okay, so you head to the cafe
and y'all park. Do you see the other two in their vehicle? You
want to pull up and have a moment to talk to them? Or are
you gonna, yeah, we want to meet, Like, I'll probably just
radio like, yep, okay, let's go about five minutes out. We'll
see you guys there and if we look around, I'm just wondering, like,
if we see them, we'll drive up. Ye. If I have
to radio them and ask where they are, then I will well go ahead
and roll up. Observation one of you go ahead? Sell all right?
Double D twelves what I call you? Double D? Let's go double D?
Oh oh heck? Yeah? Okay, So then what about the two
of you and Team Mastiff. Are you did you try to like hide where
you were parked or did you just come up and park or is it going
to be a contested role? Is kind of what I'm asking. That's a
good question. I mean, I don't know, so we're we would be
noticeable. I mean these vehicles are obviously police vehicles, right, so I
don't think we would make ourselves too seen if possible? Is this is this
place on on like the ground level? No, it's around floor. Let's
just say it's on floor thirty six. Should maybe we should be ground level
close to the building. I don't know what do you? What do you
think, Galen? Where do we part? Uh? We're probably in an
alley, yeah, I on between buildings? Some police lights off? Yeah,
if we see them flash lights? Okay, so then you guys don't
really you see them? Selma, you roll to success? Absolutely, you're
good to go. Okay, But what I do need is I need Sawyer
to roll observation for me. You can have advantage. Okay, you guys
can continue Holy farts, Yeah, okay, then that's a four those successes,
because that's yeah, because if you get a ten, you get two
successes, so that's a ten twelve too, Holy believe I said he was
smart? Okay, that's out of character soul. Okay, do we roll
up next to them? Are we within top? Absolutely? Yeah? Yeah,
you guys saw no problem? Hello? Hello, how did uh?
How to go at the do you get your stuff back, I did all
of it. Wow, yeah, that's it's been a good Samaritan or something
fifty to fifty on that one. It's hard to say that with a straight
face, isn't it. But it doesn't look like anything's missing. I called
into dispatch, see if the it picked off anywhere suspicious. Nothing, nothing's
missing, not even coffee card and I even coffee and I cheers them.
Everything in the exact same in the same spot. Bob. It wasn't even
It's like no one even opened it. So I'm you know that that that
alone was confusing. However, when I uh talked to the person of the
door, ah Ursa looked like a bar back. I mentioned the uh the
line of the haikup that I told you guys about this journey mine. If
if deer in the headline it was a person, it was them dropped what
they were holding, scared out of their mind when I said that. So
there is something going on, and I am trying to get over how happy
I am. I'm not crazy, but I saw what you saw. You
said that there was some other lines though that you could make out right exactly.
This was seemed like either because if it's if it's poetry, is what
it seemed like to me. It's either the first line or the last line
of like a haikup because of the syllables. Right, all right, We're
gonna have to see if we can get back and and get the rest of
that. I feel like it's oh yes, my friends, that's this is
the same area that when when you followed that this person and you couldn't find
them. This is where that was. This this hack, this line written
in like a hidden kind of you know, like if you write something in
avisible ink and you you know, you put it under a light or you
heat it up and the ink shows up. It was like that, but
with like higher tech, you know, like like how you'd mark a well,
now I would know about the eyeball marks, right, like there's new
technology, but I would I would know about it. You guys saw it.
So I did send a memo, okay out to the department. That's
up to you whether or not you read that. That was after our conversation
Tyrrell. So it's been about a day. Yeah, yeah, I would
have. I would have read it and I would have like put it together
that it might be like so this I'll just arp it out and with what
you send that memo you sent, I'm thinking, hey, that sounds scarily
familiar, like similar to what I saw. I'm not sure if it's exact,
but man, it sent up the hackles on the back of my neck.
Uh. Did we check out a device? I think we were going
to, right, we did. We did take one, I believe,
yeah, because I don't think we were just gonna want Yeah, we didn't
just like pocket it, but I think we did have a quick discussion about
you asked for one. Yeah, if I remember correctly, I asked you
if you guys were gonna what you were going to do with that, and
that's what you had said, so well had don't we Isn't it like a
mechanical thing in the game where you had to spend like points to get it?
You do? Yep? Yeah, okay, which let me go ahead
and do that. Actually, I would say that I would have picked it
up, so and you have to return it basically at that end of every
shift. So it's not something that you get like all the time. You
know, you don't get to yeah, like I spent my promotion poicing to
rent this thing or yeah, well then I'll say that at the at the
beginning of what would have been this shift, I would have gone before we
even got to the you know, the noodle bar, I would have requisitioned
it. So, however many promotion points it is, I'll go ahead and
minus that, we'll probably say it's one or something else that's fairly easy to
get off of the list because it's sort of new information and they were just
able to give you one that was in the Morgue right question for our wonderful
gmtart do you do you want us to requisition stuff on the fly or do
you want us to requisition stuff before. I don't mind you requisitioning it on
the fly, as long as it makes sense that you would have brought it
with you. Otherwise you have to go back to pick it up, because
it's not a thing that can just materialize in front of you. But personally,
i'm you know, whether it's my ADHD or what. But like sometimes
I'll be like, oh, my character definitely would have remembered to do that,
but I didn't put it on my sheet the beginning of the session,
So then I'm fucked over and I don't want to do that to you.
So if it makes sense that you would have been like, oh, yeah,
obviously we would have brought one. Then yeah, you have one.
Just take the points off of your thing. It's the old D and D
eating thing, like, yep, I would have eaten. Even though I
didn't say yeah, yeah, I would have to tell you I'm breathing as
whole. Yeah you're dead, all right, so we're breathing. Fuck you.
Sorry, I'll reach into the back and I'll pick up the device and
I'll show it over to them. So we were able to get this when
we went to go check in the morgue. We had to use this in
order to see the UH serial number on the on the replicant. So we
have one. Might if I take a look at that. No, it's
fine, I hadn't. I just hold out my hand and like like pull
the trigger or whatever to see does it? Does it like go toec Yeah,
I think so, because it's sort of I'm trying to remember how it
looks in the film, and I flash, yeah, like a stroke like
a mini blue strobe. Yeah, yep, so that's exactly what it does.
And then I had it's like the size of a pen or like I
guess, like an extra marker, sharpie marker or something. So it's not
a tiny but you know, it's the one in twenty forty nine is like
the size of like a personal voice recorder. Yeah, so then okay,
then ours is probably going to be clunkier and bigger than that. So I
retract my previous statement because that's like twenty five machine from you. Yeah,
and I pull it to the wind. I'm just gonna say, it's like,
you know, it's big, bigger than a bigger than a handheld recorder.
Johnny Katz from from the Chat. He's like as man in Black,
if I saw I just like pop it. I'm like, oh ship,
I forgot my birthday? Yeah, I I I definitely in my head,
I had, uh remember the old eighties, Uh brick cell phones like that
sort of clunky size. That's what I think that fits. Yeah, so
that's what I take, so very monitor and I take a snapshot real quick.
Yeah, but I take it. I do the thing, it just
on my hand, just to see, and I hand it back to him
and I go that, I bet that would work. I bet that would
work. I bet that's how they read that. That fucking visible ink.
We can we can head that way at some point. Yeah, but are
you are y'all ready for for this? Yeah? Well yeah and you sure,
yeah, we got it. I think it's more of a gotta do
it sort of thing. Don't want to, but I have to. So
pineapple, right, that's gonna be the go word. If anything goes terribly,
we'll just say pineapple. Uh. Now, how do we want to
do this? Who gets the the inner ear thing? Do we want y'all
to be listening or what's happening with with that? Are you just going to
be out here watching if anything goes bad or we'll be in your ear?
Okay, we'll stay out of sight for now, but okay. Yeah.
So basically, like the idea is that we keep keep the line open so
uh, their line is so they can hear what's going on and talk back
to us. I need be okay, Skiff, you're ready, yes,
ma'am. I'm all fueled up on my corporo size. Oh excuse me,
my medium sized coffee. Just your medium gesture medium and she tosses or I
excuse me, I toss it in the receptacle. All right, I'm all
sugared up. Let's do this, all right, and we make our way
towards the entrance of Silver Sheene. Okay, and you're going in together or
just Selma is going in not together. We're grown in together, all right.
There's none of the nights to do to like ready my weapon, right,
it's always just ready to go. I'm always just ready to go.
Yeah, but go ahead and roll me. Another observation as you enter in
here. Okay, go ahead, double dy, oh my lord? Yeah.
Ok have you ever been here before or have you been to an uplink
cafe? Selma, yes you haven't. Okay, Okay, you have not
this one, but I have. Okay, So the standard everything in here,
I think you do a very quick assessment for danger, for possibility for
I don't know, something I guess to be maybe the infrastructure. Actually,
because you're a tech, you're an analyst, so maybe you take a look
around to be like, Okay, first of all, this place is legit.
Second of all, I have gathered the you know, points of entry
and exit, and you do notice that there are because Sawyer did say on
the call that he had reserved a private room, so you immediately glanced to
where those are towards the back. So you are going to have to pass
some people to get there. But on first glance you do not see him
anywhere in here. So if he is here, it would be probably in
a private room, I think would be your assumption. Okay, but you
do see, uh, there is a very helpful person at the at the
counter at the front where they basically like your reception desk sort of okay,
like a hostess thing. Heather, I'm here to uh here to have made
a friend, should be under sawyer. I I kind of nudge her,
like as soon as I here is a sorry, I kind of nudger real
quick and I go, I'm sorry. She's just thinking about her cousin.
We're here looking for Thomas Hardy. Oh all right, of course, I'm
so sorry. I don't know why. That's all right. Yeah, we
just went through a big funeral. So that's that's where I had that.
Right now, I'm so sorry for your loss. Nope, you know that's
right now. That's all right, Thank you so much. I love you.
I'm glorious. Oh I fucked up. Let me make it worse.
I look at Bob. I didn't even say anything, but in my head,
same thing I'm looking at gaining okay, all right, you'll be in
room nine all the way back to the right, second door after the turn.
Okay, great, thank you so much. Have a good time.
Yep. And I like, as we're going, I just put my hand
on her shoulder and I say really quiet, like deep breath now rat.
So you know that went fine. I'm sure. Oh yeah, no,
totally covered. We're fine, We're good. Okay, okay. So when
you go through and you enter into the private room, there is nobody here,
but there is a terminal and basically as you come in, you shut
the door. I kind of imagine Skiff doing this out of habit where he's
just looking around the room. He looks under the table to make sure there's
no wires or anything weird, and it's probably just something he's doing second nature.
But you don't see anything like that. But Selma, the moment you
kind of like look at the terminal and you're kind of looking around it,
it turns on and it is it is active. It's kind of like it
was asleep and then now it's away. Can you kind of got close or
brushed the mouse or something like that? Yeah, okay, huh, what
does it say on the terminal. Now we're like, we're alone in here,
right, Yep, there's nobody else in here. Okay, So then
I start talking to the boys in the car. Yep, okay, Yeah,
looks like we got a loan terminal. No one's in here, a
person. What is on the screen on the terminal? You see on the
screen, yes, fuck yeah, it's a scroll of text. You see
commands being punched in remotely through some kind of dossbox, and it looks like
an asky representation of a small bird in flight, floating in the corner of
the screen. The first thing you hear, after a brief boast of static
and the hum of interference, is a sound of keys clattering as my voice
cuts underneath boot cycle spin and up uplink is clear, backlink is go.
Video feed clean ish, audio feed check check sounding good. I think,
how about some poetry, make sure these speakers work. I learnt upon a
Coppas Gate when frost was spector gray and Winter's drugs made desolate the weakening eye
of day? Do you know that one? I can't say that I do?
Actually maybe do I? Thomas Hardy Darkling Thrush courtesy of our namesake Today.
Oh I see well. I can hear you just fine, which is
good. I thought my ears were glitching again. How you been. I'm
trying to think if that's where Lyne is. I'm not going to I've been.
I've been. We go with you. His name's Skiff, he's my
partner. I trust him. You said if I was going to bring anybody
that I should trust him. I'm just a little like two finger like salute.
Sorry, my camera's on the fritz. Apologies for that. That's all
right. Anything that you're seeing with me right now is just kind of very
garbled. It's it's good to hear your voice. And I'm glad you're okay.
I mean okay as in the sense that you're here here talking about with
me right now. Here's a relative term in it. Yeah, So,
uh, what else did you bring? I look at Skiff. I'm waiting
for some kind of facial confirmation. We got two people just in case this
all went sideways. We weren't sure what to expect, so we got two
other people listening in on the call. But that's it. So you're aware
of what's been going on. There's been bombs, bomb threats, explosions,
people have died we are on edge right now, and I be both right.
I mean, if any of this ain't self indicative anyway, Right,
well, I'm here and I just want you to know that whatever you feel
comfortable saying, I'm here to listen. Well, I figure I've given you
a bit of a run around, So I'm gonna let you ask one question
that I'm gonna ask mine, and then we'll get into the rest of it.
Okay, okay, what do you need to know right now? Right
now? Where have you been spending most of your time? I've been spending
most of my time following somebody else around better part of five weeks. It's
not a great answer, but okay, it's the truth. And if you're
gonna ask me, truth and trust are the only currencies that matter right now?
Fair enough? Am I am I to understand? I mean, I
know this is another question. Do I you don't want me to know who
this person is? Oh, I'm gonna tell you no worry about d Okay,
Well, in fact, I'm pretty much gonna tell you everything. I
got nothing to hide from you right now. Okay, Shoot, well,
my question is what did you dick up on avar tricks? Realistically? I
don't think we found anything on Avari Tricks. That name did not come up
with as matching any sort of identity. But when we yeah, got out
of it was that I be some sort of anagram of uh uh tricks,
which is I'm sure you know a species of owl or a genus of owl,
and uh it just happens to be coincidentally on the Tyrrell Corporation logo.
Hows huh uh huh. That's funny, you know what, that's actually really
obvious when you pointed out like that. Okay, should I start from the
worst news and we're going backwards there? You know what? Yeah, you
probably already know this or your guests, and then I figure your brain's running
wild as mine. As there's a leak in the department. Yeah, I
don't know where it is. I don't know at what level it is.
Look, I heard about the bomb scare. Yeah, did we lose anybody?
Not the second one. No, the first one went off. We're
still tallying U. But that wasn't an apartment building. The one of the
police station never went on, right, We did have an injury apprehending the
replican who was planning it or making it, setting it up. The replican
died. One of our officers got cracked in the head pretty good, but
no casualties. Now, well we did have a Yeah, the replicant did
kill uh Betsy, Betsy uh uh mad Mildred. There you go, the
replicant did kill Mildred the medical examiner on his way to the supply room where
the bomb was planted, or the records room. I took a very long
pause at hearing this and take a very deep breath. All right, did
you did you find what they were trying to destroy? Yeah? Actually I
was able to salvenge a little bit of it. And I kind of reach
into my pocket and I have a hard copy here, But I wonder if
there's not a way that I can just show it to you. You don't
got to show it to me. I wrote it, you wrote it.
If you're gonna set a tripe, you need some cheese. Right, What
does it say? It says a lot of things, uh, things that
I'm going to tell you in much clearer language, So I can give you
the English version of it if you really want it. But it's intentionally a
little vague. It was just in case. Well, for one, I
wanted to see who came out of the woodwork sniffing at it. And on
the other I was hoping that if I went missing, that you might find
it. Well, mission accomplished. I've been trying to decipher it, interpret
it, but it really doesn't appear to be anything that I'm familiar with.
So, Sawyer, I can only assume that at this point you must really
need my help. Yeah. So I don't know if you I don't know
if you know this, but I was elected as departmental laison for Terrell,
part of the database restructuring or reconstruction. I should say, okay, congratulations,
Yeah, i'd save the parade noted. Look, when I first took
the let's call it the second pass, I had to go over everything a
second time, double check make sure all the hard copies were intact, that
nothing was getting garbled. So I went through everything again and I found something
that I've never seen before. A call sign, a replicant call sign that
I'm not familiar with. All right, nexus six and six EMS. Oh,
I don't know how familiar you are with the designations. I'm actually not
sure if I'm that familiar. I think I probably would be, just because
I am a laid runner. You can roll for it if you like.
I think that you are definitely familiar with the basics. But if you roll,
if we can give you some extra stuff okay, which not roll for
that, That'll be some form of knowledge, either tech or let me pull
up a sheet here, let's see what we got intelligence. Maybe can you
roll flat intelligence? I can? Yeah, it doesn't give you an extra
dice though. Oh yeah, okay, then in that case, let's do
I will allow either connections tech or just a flat intelligence. If you prefer
connections tech or just flat intelligence. Okay, I'll try. I'll try intelligence.
We'll see I can do that. Does it allow me to do that
sort of thing? I'm actually not sure if it'll allow me to do that.
I'll do a tech roll instead. Yeah, you're right, it's those
under there, So yeah, go ahead and do tech because that's under your
intelligence there you go. Yeah, okay, So yeah, i'd say you're
familiar with some of the standard ones that you've maybe picked up over time,
Like you know that you would think that EMS would be emergency services, but
it's not actually so the ones that they use for that are hold on,
I actually need to pull it up so that I don't misspeak because it's a
legit thing. Please hold up, up, up, up up up,
em R, e MG, I've got it. Yeah, yeah, emergency
that's right, EMR and then e MG. And then there are a couple
of others, but it's EMS. Isn't one that is emergency services? And
I don't think you so you don't recognize that. And I'll give you a
couple of others that you can just have for your own knowledge. But yeah,
you don't recognize it, Okay, ring a bill for you, the
same deal for you guys, unless you want to roll for it. Yeah,
I think I would like to roll. Yeah. Same. You might
as well patch your friends through directly. I don't mind them, you know,
chiming in. Okay, Uh, that would be a tech role,
he said, Or what or the options for the role? Uh? Teech
connections are or intelligence? I think, well, we can't do this straight
intelligence role, but or connections. The answer is obviously slightly different. And
I'll get the two successes for me okay and none for me. Oh bob,
these holds for just a moment. It's just a feeling, Galen,
So what do you want to roll for it? To see what you get.
Uh, I already rolled connections and I think that now, I mean
you rolled connections and then this has happened because of your success on your role.
So now what would you like to roll in relation to this specifically,
can you restate the information that we love here? Yes, you are scrolling
through your brain and I said scrolling. I realize, but you are trying
to recall if you recognize the designation EMS and a list of serial numbers.
So here's what I have. Serial numbers are always the same for replicants,
the model series, then the N series number, then designation TLA, so
then their number in the makeup line. So sometimes that number in the makeup
line included version numbers. For example, pleasure models varied with the tla's being
fab els and E N T. Cabby's transport models or private drivers were always
dr V, but varied with the two numbers after respectively, like Cabby's were
dr V zero one, public transport dr V eleven, and primary luxury luxury
drivers were dr V O nine. But emergency service related models are usually E
M R or e MG. There's no E M S Oh yeah, got
it, So that's base acknowledge you all know, and then with your bonuses,
I'm gonna was gonna give you something else Galen okay, Uh, I
think uh called make an insight role. Yep, okay, okay, So
I er I've got both of them on the line, so I'll just be
here listening, if that's okay. Can I get their names? I met
him before? I'm not sure actually, y'all want to introduce yourselves? Uh?
Sure? Names Bob oh uh Edwards? I got one full name between
the two of you. That's good. Should be happy you're getting anything.
Can I ask you a very appointed question? Sure? What channels did you
use to disseminate this trap? You channelanted? You planned this information right in
this storage location. You're saying you did that as a trap? I did,
well. The information would have to get out there or replicans still want
to infiltrate. So how'd you do that? Get the information out there?
Yeah? All right? How about I keep going and hopefully the answer is
your question? All right? So I see ems come up in that scroll.
I know it's on an emergency services designation, so I ask them point
blank what is this for? And they freeze up and tell me that I've
clearly got the wrong document. So I've been going to Tyrell, you know,
a week and week out on VIP treatment. I come back in the
next day and it's like they've relegated me to a box in the corner.
Is it hot and here, Bob? Yeah, a little bit. Just
turn on, let's turn on the air. Sure, I'm sorry, so
continue. What's wrong with you? H m hmm, I'm sorry. Could
you just give us a moment here? Sure? M h h h.
I'm not quite sure if this is the best time to use not exactly pineapple?
Oh so, uh uh lord, Sawyer? Can you can you can
you can you just uh give us a little a couple of minutes here?
All right, Sam, you keep talking, all right, fellas, I'm
gonna come outside and check up on what's going on. Yeah, just stay
with stand by, all right, I'll be right back. You keep keep
talking to him and I'll come back. Okay, And I walk out and
I go, I make my way towards their spinner, right, but we're
gonna stay with a little nervous there. Sama. Well it's a very nervous
time. Yeah, okay, not in Tyler, Sure with some what's going
on right now? Sawyer? So I'm just trying to get the full picture
here. So if you would continue your story, i'd really appreciate that.
Let me just hammer on to Okay, Okay, I asked him, what
is this for? They started ice me out. I'll come back the next
day. They give me all the information again. But there's data points missing,
altered, very small. But I went over it. I went over
real close and knows these differences. All reference to EMS was gone. I
know it's the second call sign that I didn't catch the first time because I
was to be caught up by the first owl. Oh yeah, that's not
familiar. Yeah, I think so. I mean everything else has been OWL
themed this week. So yeah, all right, So I go through these
lists. I've got EMS zero one two three through zero two eight nine unaccounted
four and OWL three two two one through three seven seven to one unaccounted four,
and Terrell's trying to act like they never existed in the first place.
That's one hundred and sixty six EMS models, five hundred and fifty o WL
models. That's well over six hundred iterations of makes and manufacturers I've never heard
of, and they've just disappeared in the other thing. I find or I
don't find. Rather, is a mention of Avari Tricks previously listed as a
vendor. That's what I asked you about. The other thing is a chief
designer over at Tyrell called Kano Nakayama. Okay heard him? No, I
don't think so. All right, Well, Millier, his name starts doing
a partial disappear in act. So there's memos, there's ride ups disappearing across
the board. So I start following Kana. That's when I called you.
Well, okay, I called you four and a half weeks after I started
following him, but still when things started getting weird, I that's when I
called you. And that's where I'm confused, Sawyer, Why did you call
me? All right? Straight shooter? Sell? Who else do I rely
on? When I don't trust nobody? There is a compliment, by the
way I figured. Listen, that's cipher that code you found, it's all
the information I just gave you run through a kind of a triple encryption of
mine. I'm not going to go into the specifics of what it is exactly
unless that would make you trust me a little more. I mean I can,
but it was just in case it was just in case I vanished.
I wanted it to be some trace of it. Yeah, because, how
ever, said are you are you? Are you concerned that? Are you
concerned for your safety? Selma? I wrote up a piece of paper with
information that I gleaned from Terrell that they did not want me to see,
and I put it in a nowhere corner of the department and a storage box
that was otherwise unused. They killed a medical examiner and tried to blow up
headquarters over it. Now, I don't know if they know what's on that
paper or if they're just worried about what I might know. But I don't
really trust anything right now. I don't know if I'm being followed. I
don't know if I've been listening to There's a reason for the whole cloak and
dagger routine right now, Okay, okay, okay. If I go in
there, if I go in a HQ and I come clean about all this
to the wrong person, I'm gonna get my next snapped. That's what I
think right now. Okay, Well, now there's there's more, all right.
I wish there wasn't more, but I'd really like to get this all
out so that you got it all, no, please, Yeah, I've
been following Connall. He's a Nakayama chief designer at Terurelle. I don't know
what he designs exactly, but you can bet chief designer. He works on
replicants right right. So he's got his own routines in HITSQ out out HITSQ
over at Terrell. He's got his apartment, he's got all the different clubs
and little venues that he goes to. So I've spent a lot of time
watching. I keep my ear off for him when I'm in the building over
a Terrell rebuilding the database, and I keep an eye on him whenever he
leaves. Okay, and I notice people following him. I notice three people
following him, in fact, the same three people every time, maybe not
always the same time, but one then two. They're taking turns like a
security detail on work rota. And he's aware of this, or he's unaware
that he's not calling no it' stee to start with, I thought it must
have been, you know, Terrell appointed security, or maybe someone he's privately
paying playing clothes. But he never acknowledged him, not once, no nonverbal,
no verbal nothing. He never saw him and they were watching him,
waiting for something, some opportunity, something to happen. M hmm. And
I don't know what you think about this whole retire on site order, but
if you ask me, it's a perfect smoke screen for just about any number
of bad actors. I believe that. I believe it. Well, well,
they abducted him, Oh my god, Wait what I know? Right
listen, I'm sending you. I'm sending you through some some images, all
right, okay, And I use the terminal to send across some just some
grainy like photo like Private Investigator sort of like photographs, you know, through
rain of these three different suspects, and I'm just going to describe them for
you, so you have an idea what you're looking at. You're looking at
a somewhat tall looking blonde woman, bring a green scarf. You've got a
very framed person. You can't really tell what jenna. They are wearing a
knitcap, gray beanie. And the last one is uh is a man of
average build with blonde, short cropped hair. He's got blue eyes, and
he's like in his like late twenties, looks like do I just go right
here? These? Oh yeah, yeah? Two of them. The yep
you want to go ahead? One? Okay, yep? What will be
the best role here? Um ooh that is a good question. Insight,
insight inside Okay, yep, yeah, you recognize them both. Do you
want to guess you recognize too? I should say there's a group. One
one is probably Tyson, Yes, yes, yep, the one with the
beanie. I'm not sure if I've seen somebody. Have I seen somebody wearing
a beanie? It's a woman. I'm not sure if I remember last night.
Oh, it's the same woman. It's the same woman. This,
this is the same woman. I'm sorry that Skiff saw Okay, but I
wouldn't know that. Did I see her? I mean you did? That's
right, that's right, okay, I did. I'm gonna radio out.
Mm hmmm, uh, Skiff, you better get back in here. What's
going on? I stop what I'm doing and turn heal and go because I
don't know what the fuck is happening. I just think you're going to want
to see this. Wait, do you do you know these people? The
first one and the third one? Yeah? I think you gotta you got
a name or anything? You hear the sound of like ruffling papers and stuff
in the background. The third one, the third one, we've actually seen
a few of him. That's Tyson Lorenzo. It's actually where I am one
of the people. Excuse me, one of the replicants that murdered unfortunate.
What do you mean a few of them? There were more? There was
more than one. Oh good, it was there were three of them.
I definitely felt like that one was the one call on the shots. If
you ask me, look the the rundown is. I hear that Nakayama is.
He's going to the snake Pin, and unlike a lot of the other
places he goes to, I'm blending a little bit better there. So I
went inside, okay, And I'm pretty good at not being seen if I
don't want to be, so I spend a lot of time listening. Let
me send you through a one of the few other pieces I got. Okay,
I send you a what looks like a departmental rap sheet, and it's
dossier, like a collection of credentials and like associated case files on Broderick Wakeman,
who is a I'll let I'll let PV take over any description there and
oh yeah, I have I have a photo of him or an image of
him that I can put up here in a second. Sorry, I'm answering
a million questions in DM here for the show he is. Let me pull
him up. He is the medium builds, he's very muscular, full of
tattoos. He's got most of his head shaved, and then kind of like
a what would be a mohawk, but usually he styles it down and like
forward, so it kind of looks like a skunk tail on the top of
his head, and then some piercings. And you're showing him. You're showing
the mugshot of him, or are you showing the photo that you took?
I'm so sorry. Did you take a photo while you were in there?
I don't think you did? Did Yeah you did not? Yeah, yeah,
you're very cleverly did yeah yeah yeah. Okay, So then you're taking
you're showing the only photo probably that exists in the database of this guy.
But he's probably fairly known criminal type, but not as far as I know,
they're graded in the police department, So it's he's probably like little to
medium grade. You guys know exists, but you're not really in a bust
him right now because you're more interested in who you see kind of associating with
him. You use him probably quite frequently. So yeah, and then this
is what he looks like for you guys. And then I'll put him up
on the screen for those watching. Just give me a sec. So at
this point I walk in, I look at the screen and less so,
but a similar look too at the I had at the Electric Dreams. Do
you know who that? I ask Clark Sawyer? Do you know who that
is? Which one? The blonde? The blonde? No, listen,
I've been watching her for a while now. Better surveillance ain't much good if
I go up and introduce myself. So I got no names than anybody except
for I guess ren Zone. Now where did you get this? Again?
I've been tailing Kano Nakaiyama for five weeks and she is one of the people
that was tailing him. I knew where is Vanya Anya? That is with
a v Vanya that's a much better call. Signed. Thank you? Ah
wait you nomation? Do you have any other information about her? No?
Not at the moment. I'm sorry. It's honestly, I'm surprised I made
it this far. The I'm happy I made this far. Yeah, me
too. But the rundown is, you know, I uh, you know,
I tuned my years in and U I uh listen to this little I
guess drug deal. For lack of a better term, go down. I
mean, that's what it is. So Roderick and Nakayama exchange money and substances,
and Renzo's watching the whole time. He is fixed on and he makes
it, he makes note of it, he watches it happen. And then
suddenly Nachama gets helps go to the restroom, and Renzo's on his feet,
so I get ahead of him. I go to the bathroom first, and
basically Renzo escorts him out of the building, makes it like he's an old
friend, but I don't see a single glinter recognition in Conno's eyes. He
just gets let out. And then I follow, and all three of them
they bundle him into a spinner and they take off, and I follow,
and I follow at a distance. I get the plate I've got that.
I can send that to you. You got the photos already. But I
follow him through Sector four. They head towards the trail building, but they
go a little bit past it. Then they take a couple of switchbacks right
as they start through descent path, right near Bennett's communications, and that's where
I cut and run, because I'm pretty sure if I take that same turn
day that I'm just gonna get opened up on. So I turn back.
I go to the department, and I hear about the the threat to scare
the bomb, everything I hear about that, and I grab my shit and
I get out of there, and I've not been back since that's. You
said, there's what six hundred of these running around, I mean, there's
just unaccounted for. I mean, there's five hundred and fifty o w ls.
I don't know exactly what they are, what they do, what they
look like. And then there's a I mean that's me assuming that this all
matches up to individual models. It may may not. I don't know.
But we're talking about a nearly unprecedented wave of undocumented replicants out there, and
I've got no idea how many of those are operating, how many have been
retired, We've got no information whatsoever. So worst case scenario, we have
to assume that every single one of them is active, every one of them
is a body, every one of them is a threat. Unfortunately, so
so if they're not on the record, they will never they were rased from
the record, you said, right, I mean Terrell's records at least,
or at least the ones that they're letting me look at, right. I'm
telling you right now, And even if we retire all of the ones that
we have a list for, there's still a small army of them out there
that are undocumented that we can't there's no way to know where they are,
how many are left. None of that. I mean, you are in
the numbers. You already know that we're dealing with an insurmountable foe. There's
already more of these things than we can even fathom counting. It's just made
an unfathomable number a little less fathomable. It made it a war, and
that they passed through Congress, they made it a war. And we are
the soldiers, unwittingly and under prepared. Well, Like I said, that
act is a smoke screen. Whatever's going on behind the scenes right now.
People have been waiting for for a long time. And I think these guys
might have been waiting for that or something else before they grabbed Nakayama. I
don't know what they grabbed him for but I went to Tyrrel seem as I
always do. The next day, he did not show up for work.
He did not leave after work. When I asked about him, they got
realizing if you had to guess based on what you've seen and stuff, you
might not tell us. What do you think their endgame is? I'm all
right, well, listen, I got three prevailing theories right now. One
is that whoever is doing this is a competitor or a arrival, or someone
that has it out for Tyrell for whatever reason. The other is that it's
replicants doing this, some kind of movement, some kind of group. I
don't know what their plan is. The other option is it's Terrell doing this
themselves for god knows what reason. I don't know who tried to plan a
bomb in the headquarters, but for all I know, this could all be
different groups of people working towards different motives, different ends. I don't know
how many Lorenzos there are running around, but that means there's any number of
individual replicant making models running around, derived from whatever template God knows what.
If I were a betting man, I'd say this is a revolution and they're
trying to eliminate all records of well all the lists of all the models and
all the serial numbers. Wow, my question is Nakayama's name started disappearing on
the Terrell records before he disappeared. That's why I started following him. I
had a feeling that something was gonna happen. Yeah, a chief designer.
I don't know what he designs exactly. I don't know if he's uh,
you know, I don't know if he works on specifics, or if he's
he's like an overseer, or what the case is. But I gotta guess
he works very hard. He parties very hard. That's what I can tell
you about him. See the first person you noticed that went missing within the
Tyrel corporation, Uh yeah, I mean other than you know, Avari Tricks,
who I guess may not even be a person at this point. Well,
at this point, we're not sure. It seems like everything's been scrubbed
with that name. But yeah, there's something about it. I don't know
if this is some kind of infiltration model or some kind of you know,
trained liar, or whatever the case is. But the way that I saw
the move, you know, in their surveillance of Nakayama. The way they
took him, it was it was with training, and it was like watching
a security detail go to work. I gotta guess about why they want Kanda
Nakayama. Okay. If I were starting a war a revolution and I had
someone who could make more soldiers, that'd be a very valuable asset for me,
And it seems like Kana Nakayama would be just the person who could either
make more soldiers or upgrade current soldiers. Well, you think the replicants are
making replicants? Yes, I do. I do have a copy. It's
not wars, right soldiers. I mean, okay, that's that's something.
Listen, you got to ask me any questions you've got because my brain's rattling
around real awful at the moment. So okay, So that location in Sector
four that's the last time you saw Nachiyama. Is that correct? They took
a hard turn around near Bennett's communication, but they were on descent, so
they definitely landed somewhere in that block. So if they're holding him somewhere,
it's probably that area. I can get you the plate so you can do
whatever you got it to see if there's been any movements on that. I
tried to pull it up on my own spinner on the database there, but
didn't pull back nothing. So you probably want to check at HQ. Say
that name again, Bennet's what Bennett's communication, and that's just a marker of
where they were headed, not where they were headed. Right. That's that's
the building off the turn that I last saw him at. It's just a
ways past. That's the trail building, so it's quite close to HQ.
I don't know why they waited until he was at the snake pit before they
tried to grab him, and then took him right past his place of work.
But they certainly didn't know I was there. So how did you know
what would work as a trap? I didn't. I put that there mostly
as a fail safe in case I went missing or I died. I figured
you'd be the I figured they'd ask you if you'd heard from me. I
figured you'd be the first person they go to, and you'd check that.
You go to my apartment, you'd follow the thread, you'd figure it out
what happened to me and what's left to me. That's pretty grim, But
the other half of it was that my my ears been on the fritz lately.
And I don't know if someone's following me, but I had that feeling
and gut feelings. I tend to follow those these days. I think that's
one of the only things that separates us and replicants. So keep following that,
hope. So but listen, if they're willing to plan a bomb and
smuggle in replicants wholesale, I don't know who the hell has given the maxis.
I don't know who in the department is working with them. Is the
sympathizer, the mole, whatever you want to call them. But if they
could plan a bomb, they can kill one lousy analyst in a back room.
Okay, that they can. And I know I'm endangering you and your
entire team here by telling you all this, but I have to tell somebody.
And I once asked you to bend the ruse once and you said no.
So I know I can trust you. You can and I won't let
you down. But I also need the captain Holding could be the leak?
Is there Holden. I'm not suspicious of him, I just want to know
if I can trust him. I'm not I'm not sure I'm not the most
popular person around the office, so I mostly keep my head down and do
my work. Him as an asset would be a huge blow for us,
so we need to decide whether we can trust him or not. Well,
I'm not sure. I've got nothing. I'm sorry, I'm I don't have
good I'm not too good at reading people if I'm being honest, I'm not
really good at figuring on folks are lying to me. I'm also really out
of lion, which you probably remember. Listen. I'm trying to wrap my
brain around this. Hey, listen, you're the first person I've been able
to talk to you about this in about five weeks. So it just feels
good to talk. Yeah, yeah, it does. Can you listen,
Let's keep the line of communication open. Okay, let me know if you
see anything else that Look, I guess you need to report, but but
I'm not sure where to begin here. It seems like there's there's a lot.
I got a different elements. I got two other things for you.
Okay, when's a copy of my encryptor that's the little bird icon there.
If you have a copy of that and you're ki, we can communicate a
little bit I'll feel more at ease anyway, Okay, okay, And like
I said, trust is the most valuable currency we got right. So I
wrote up everything in the case file. Now I haven't upluded it to the
mainframe, but I've got a version of it where everdcted my own name from
it. I'm going to give it to you and you're going to decide what
to do with it if you want to. If you want to put that
on the mainframe and use that to get a warrant to go to Terrell or
to search for Nakayama and Sector four, whatever it is, you can have
it. I trust you, but if you attach my name to it,
and I won't blame you if you do. But it minding real bad for
me, real quick. I don't have a team protecting me, I understand.
Okay, Well, thank you for that, and thank you for letting
me know everything and also be willing to share that with them with my squad
here. Is there is there anything you need to mean to do? I
don't know, sir. I've got a ton of questions here. But right
now, what I want you to do is you focus on keeping yourself safe,
can I because that's what it sounds like you need to do. Can
I ask for a request? Yeah? Sure, the blonde woman, see
if you I know anything about her? VAUGHONNYA, Well sure, where where
did you hear the sound of my keyboard firing up? Where'd you? Where'd
just here? I sorry? Electric Dreams? The club here, Electric Dreams.
Okay. I'm not really one for the night life, so I don't
think I know it, but I'll I'll consider taking a look if I can.
It's in sector five. Yeah, it's in sector five. It's above
fifty, so it's a little bit, a little bit more high class,
you know, quote unquote, well if I could girl facial hair at shave
something with that club? Though? One other thing? Uh? Does the
do the words what's this journey mine? Mean anything to you? What role
would I have to make? Narrator? That would be we can allow you
to do tech or any other intelligence based role tech. Okay, now it's
a weird role, but trust me, No, I get you, I
get you. Trust me. It is a success for those listening, So
I think, even just the way that he says it, your instinct says,
oh that's the end of a haiku. You love poetry? That's why
I let you do. That sounds like the back half of something poetic,
at least my thoughts too. There was more to it, so is he.
My conclusion was either first or last line of a haiku, seeing the
syllables, just wondering if it rang a bell, and if it doesn't,
maybe you can find a bell that it rings. I really like poetry.
It doesn't ring any bells, but it does take on my interest, so
I'll see if I can look into it. Thank you, sir. Listen.
I might be a little hard to get in touch with, but if
you leave a message for me, I will get back to you. And
if you don't hear back from me, whatever reason follow the threat I've I've
got to Did you send me that to that case file? Just in case
as it were already have? Okay, all right, I got one one
other question that doesn't relate to the case so much as it's personal. But
what would you like to see come out of this replicant situation that we have
in front of us? That a trick question. What do I want out
of it? We would you like to see happen? It's a I got
more reasons to hey, replicants than most folks do. Doesn't mean, and
that is a very perceptive take, but I do. On a hole,
I hate them, and frankly, I wish on a hole they go the
way of the dinosaur, because this ain't sustainable. Human kind had more than
enough success causing each other grief and bloodshed without introducing literal killing machines into the
general population. Do I think it's wise to give carte blanche kill on site
orders to every meathhead with a badge and the gun. Not really, but
mostly because I know a lot of innocent folks are going to get caught in
the crossfire. That pisses me off. But it's more of a sign of
the temperature. Really, this is just how dire things are, so but
the same token, I understand it. All right, Thanks for your answer.
Okay, Sawyer, I think we're gonna I'm gonna get out of here.
You have my information, I've got yours. If I don't hear from
you, I'll just just just assume. I really hope I hear from you.
Shall I really hope I get the chance to, and I struggle with
my words here. Work with you again, me too, Okay, take
you much, you too? Bye? Bye h out the window. Out
the window, not in my car. I don't want to have to clean
it up. I'm wretching out the window and I'm holding I'm holding my amulet
on my necklace. I'm a bit wide eyed. I have one hand on
the wheel. Yeah. Oh, I don't know what's wrong, Bob,
All right, well walk me through. You're sick. I see you're throwing
up? Is there? What else is? I stamped my foot down and
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