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your support and enjoy. Why Sam, oh m hm h I don't I
don't understand. How long has it been? A year? No? Less
less than a year? Yeah, when was the last time I talked to
him? I don't get him. Hmm, I don't get it, he
said, I presume couldn't have been him, but that that means that he
wasn't who I thought. M cheea, she'd know how Fuck, there's no
there's no information, there's no records. Can they make replicans from someone that
already exists? Like, can they get a can they do that? Oh?
God? Was he responsible for her death? Did he know? Was
he a part? No? He was devastated. There's no way. M
h. I gotta find him. I need to find him. I'm gonna
find him. I'm gonna find him. I gotta find him, either this
guy or saying I gotta make it make sense. I gotta make him make
sense. H m hm hm hmm. Would you say that it is appropriate?
To roll this stress. Yes and right now, yeah, I think,
huh, I think for this one, I'm gonna roll inside. Here
we go. That's one success. No no, no, no, no,
it's clearly not Sam. It's not Sam. Hmm. Okay, okay,
all right, let's see here because I'm gonna make this. I gotta
make this make sense. Sam and I were partners for about three years.
Closest thing to a friend, great personality, funny, a little lazy,
very lazy. This guy had a sense of humor, maybe very motivated.
If there's replicants. If there was a replicant and he was my partner,
then anybody can be Okay, okay, okay, Galen, Yeah, where
are we? We're at the hospital, Adlie, Adlie Skis's already gone in
with Natalie. We should okay, uh, we should? We should go
in there. Yeah you're all right? Yeah? No, no, no,
I'm not. Are you all right? Why wouldn't I be? You
shot at? It was a bit rush just making sure you didn't get hit
you. Okay, fine, fine, you're fine. Okay, so let
me worried about you right now. I'm fine, I'm I'm not You're right,
I'm sorry. Okay, so I'm uh, I'm I'm good, Bob.
You don't need to worry about me. Mm hmm. Okay, all
right, yeah, let's uh, let's go inside. Let's check on Skiff
and Natalie and you'll yeah, let's go inside. I kind of opened my
mouth because I want to say something, but nothing comes out, so I
just let's go inside. Okay, before we get out of the car,
I'm going to uh put a hand on Bob's shoulder and just kind of lean
in. You're my partner, Bob. If you need to talk, I'm
here. Yeah, okay, I'm not gonna afford you though, Thank you.
Thanks. I there's a minute here where I I'm looking at Galen's eyes,
but I'm looking at very just one specific eye. Yeah, we'll talk
more. I'm gonna be all right. I just I just need to figure
things out, you know. Let's go then, Yeah, all right,
okay. Do we know the room number already or are we checking in with
the I think probably you'd be checking in with a desk. I think that
the LAPD probably has a whole like winger section or some form of priority.
I know that's awful to think about, but I think in a corporal reality
where everything is run by how much money you have. I absolutely think there
is a priority here, so I do think the LAPD has a little bit
of priority. So she's probably rushed in, but he's probably immediately going in
either to surgery or being looked at. And there you're probably in the waiting
room. Now okay, and I'm going to rull to see how well she
does. But yes, please continue, Okay, God these places always smell
the same. Yeah, it's like that nasty cleaning product, this generic.
Yeah, you can't buy it. I looked, you tried to buy it.
Yeah, it's I mean, it's a hospital if it's going to be
that sterile. But yeah, it's a combination of so many things. Yeah,
it's funny. I don't know how much how much of it is just
the covered up sick you know. Now you wonder I wonder that because it's
like, well, how much of it is it really getting? You know?
How much of it is? Yeah? Vending machine around? Yeah there's
still oh there's some right yeah yeah, yeah, I'm looking at the U.
Was that the one I saw down there? I think it's got some
coffee. You want some coffee? Yeah? Yeah, Tither you guys,
Galien, you want you want a coffee? Yeah, I'll have a coffee,
thanks, Okay, all right, I'm gonna go grab us a few.
I'll be right back. And I get up and I walk over to
the vending machine. I'm probably leaning back in the chair, got my feed
crossed extended out words, and I'm just kind of taking a look around the
place. I'm sitting, pretty like bolt upright. My head isn't moving around
too much, but I think my eyes are definitely they're lingering on things.
At times. I'm very aware of my surroundings, and I think if anyone
was really paying attention, they would see that I'm I'm looking and I'm assessing
before I move on and look and assess and then look and assess. But
I'm not looking over at Galen or or Sema. I'm looking for security cameras
that are in here. I'm listening for other people walking around. If there's
a noise, I'll probably jerk my head in that direction. I'm just a
little bit on alert. Come on, this stupid thing. Geez, it's
not even working. It's not working. Give me a second, Bob,
I'm sorry, Oh it's not your friend. God damn it. Okay,
all right, here we go. Oh, hot, hot, hot,
Okay, here's one for you and one for you chairs fellows. Yeah,
well, at least it's hot. It's hot hot brown liquid I don't know
count as coffee. Yeah, it's sort of murky, and I don't know
if that's might be a little stale. I don't know how that machine works.
I don't either. It's one of those mysteries of the universe. I
guess. I turn towards the two of them. That wasn't Sam, but
that looked like my old partner, and I would love it if either of
you could tell me how that could be possible. Just just throw anything out
there that you can think of. How long? Yeah, I think before
we make any kind of an assumption here by, i'd like to hear yours.
Well, I mean, I've got my assessments. I mean right off
the bat open book. Really, I stare past Selma and I'm looking at
Galen mine first. Okay, that's a replicant, which means that either my
partner was one this person somehow is him pretending to be somebody else, playing
some sort of sick game, which I can't even imagine why someone would do
that, but that wasn't Sam didn't feel right, didn't talk to me familiarly.
But I knew Sam well. He was a whole person. He had
a fiance, he had what I would consider a life. So unless my
partner was a replicant or somehow they can make replicans from real people, which
I've never heard of, how how could he have worked in the same department
I did? How could he have been my partner? Did he know?
Did he know what he was? Who he was? Was he just playing?
Was he did he have a job to do? Was he somehow responsible
for that explosion? Good? You're all here? Oh I just got I
just left the turgery room. Good news though, good news, yeah,
I mean as good as it can be. She's she'll pull through. Nothing
threatening that they can see at the moment. But from what they were telling
me, it looked like whoever did this knew what they were doing. They
intended to hurt, but not to kill. It seemed like they beat her
up pretty bad, but nothing that she can't recover from. But they missed
all the vitals, and I'd guess that's on purpose. Okay, but those
are the guys that we saw on the floor in there that were taken out,
they're the ones that did that, pretty sure, I'm asking, I
don't know. I don't either. It seems like we need to have a
little chat about whoever that was. Yeah, yeah, we do. Do
you have any ideas I was hoping you did. It seemed like you knew
him but you didn't know him. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so one
or two theories. Either your partner at your previous partner, right, is
that right? Sam? Yeah, he was your partner though, Yeah,
yeah, either both replicants or just this one is. That's where I'm at.
That's where I'm at too. Regardless, we do, we need to
look into him and the Sam. Do we know what happened to him?
I mean, Galen looked he didn't see any information on the Kia, which
I can't even begin to figure alive he was last time I talked to him,
but it's been a seven eight months. Maybe I see you looking there
to you? Does he have a residence here? I can take you.
I can take you to where he lived. I can do that. Is
there a last known address on that? No information? No information like it's
been away from the record. MM, correct, bitch, But yeah,
I can I can take you to where they lived, and I need to
go there. I need to go and see. Yeah, he didn't know
me, but he knew of me, and that that bothers me so much
more. It makes me think that the Sami knew knew something. I'm not
grabbing his straws here for him to say, ab I presume right for him
to know that unless he got information from a different source, but which I
guess is possible. We got any leads on what he was doing there?
The replicant why he killed all the men that hurt Natalie supposedly, I mean
Natalie was so hurt. I don't she didn't get much out? Did she
have to wait for her to wake up? I think we can make a
few assumptions at least about the men that took Natalie. They were Tyrrell,
all right, And these are the same men that we're using those terminals.
So what has some sort of information get orders? Maybe that's the part that
I'm not quite clear on. Why, even Bob, they're with any sort
of unlockable solution on a terminal, I'm not quite sure how they would help
them. Maybe more about hindering others? Well, going over the CCTV.
It looks like the ones that were dead on the floor were the ones from
the from the videos of the street, right, mm hmm. What was
the purpose of having us decode something? Was it just to buy time?
Maybe it's something that they are able to do because they are more in the
know, a process they have to go through. But it's still kind of
wall. It still takes some sort of effort. Ciphers and passwords and codes.
I don't know. Whatever it is, it's premeditated, all of it.
Well, I don't think any of it is random. I do not
believe that any of it has started from from scratch. I think whatever it
is has been planned. Yeah, but they the terminal gave us a bit
of information for an address, and that's where they took her. Is out
how Sam anywhere to go to? Well, not Sam, you know what
I mean? Because these are just soldiers getting orders, right, That's what
those people were just getting orders. Picking her up aided to knack at Yama
as well. Not quite sure how yet. I don't imagine that Tyrrell would
be kidnapping their own person. I'm not quite sure why they would grab Natalie
of all people. Well, I know why they grabbed Natalie. I know
why they grabbed Natalie. There's something I asked her to look into. I
asked her looked deeper into these Uh, I who's we keep seeing the name
Vanya and uh while she was looking it must have ping somebody who was watching
Avari tricks as well. Those words put her there, put her here in
the hospital. Oh, she did give us a clue. She gave us
lead. There is something on a Tyrail server v A two one two.
Remember that. She also said that when fake Sam was interrogating her or asking
her questions and she gave him a false server, she gave him the wrong
one. We have the right one. So I suggest that we follow up
on that right goddamn now, because if it's on a film on a server
somewhere, that it could be and it didn't messed with deleted whatever, that's
true. We only have a certain amount of time before maybe somebody else gets
there first. And I want to ask me. I'm going to look at
Bob when you mentioned this, and they were very hasty to get rid of
several records the last time we were there. Yeah, we saw I'm running
back and forth, just running with files. What do you need someone I
need a terminal. I mean, I need to literally get to the root
of this. If someone finds the rootfolder before we do, we're probably screwed.
So it's an internal system though that's the thing I don't know. I
don't know if it's encrypted, not even sure if it's cure. I'm going
to roll connections if that's cool to see if I got a computer guy who
can give you some a beast of a machine to get this shit done,
that's all right, Jim, yep, absolutely, yeah, let's see.
I'm going to push Yep. Here we look at that. Totally worth the
push. Okay, don't forget to take that stress. Yep. And I
believe. Actually we also need to roll a critical stress for Selma and have
that in my note, so we'll do that here in a minute. Okay.
But okay, so I have an offer for you, but also we
can if you have an idea, we can go with your idea as well
as you rolled the two, which is like critical success. Okay. What
I will say is that Natalie did mention in the voicemail, and I know
it's been a bit since we heard it, but she did say that the
files were being deleted as she accessed them to remember the server which was V
eight two and two, and then she she did mention, you're going to
need somebody more skilled like Sawyer. Could reach out to Sawyer again, if
you guys trust him or not is entirely different thing. Again, do what
you want. This isn't me directing you, but this is what was in
her voice message. If you want to offer somebody else with that too,
i'd say, you know somebody Skiff for sure. Now we have other avenues
we can we can explore. But I wanted to ask you some is this
something that is better for a solo campaign or would more more hands make lighter
work than this case? Yeah, I think too many cooks in the kitchen
could spoil the broth. So if you want to let me work on this
one, I can probably maintain focus a lot easier. Now, what I
will say is I will take advice or any anything before I really dive into
it. If you know your connection knows something about it that I might not.
I suppose I couldn't. Well, I was thinking, Sawyer, I
do want to reach out to Soiler. Maybe you guys about Soiler. I've
got my own concerns about soiler. Well I can. I can get you
the machine you need. I don't know about the person. I don't I
want to keep this in house. I don't want to. I don't want
anyone else to know. I'm not gonna tell him what the machine is for.
Okay, No, that works for me. Oh wow, Okay,
I take that offer, Zeke. Is what basically what is going to happen?
Then? Is you, by choosing to do this, you're going to
give advantage to Sawyer's rules when he's using this machine because you use the role
to get him something better. So that's awesome and I love that. Okay,
all right, I'll get on the horn right now, I walk away
from the group and I get on the get on the KA and call up
my connection. I'm very glad to hear Natalie's all right, yeah, good
god. What I will say, Bob, is this you know you're asking
how earlier? You know, how could this this happens? It seems to
be that's the that's the phrase, you know, like the And I think
that's something I've been asking myself for the last sixteen years on the force.
I mean, I still am asking myself how, how are people like this?
How can people make things this monstrous? How can we look at humanity
in the same way again after having to deal with all this absolute horseshit?
But goddamn, if I'm not in the same boat, it's hard. It's
it's hard, Bob, and I kind of lean in. It's real fucking
hard. Sam couldn't seem like a monster. I know, I know that
I didn't know him, but I can tell you. I believe you,
I absolutely believe you. But that did not seem like someone familiar. No,
Oh, it's just I think you're a good judge of character despite what
you might think. You say that Sam wasn't a monster, And Sam wasn't
a monster that I believe, Okay, But that doesn't mean he might not
have been involved or aware. He was so distraught after she died. Was
it because he was a part of it and that was a casualty that he
didn't expect? Or was it just the same loss we all feel? And
if you see a replicant, we're cops. You gotta stop dwelling on the
what ifs? Right? Right? What do we know? What do we
know? Okay, you're right, you're Right's better? Ah, proof,
proof, proof, Okay, I know where he used to live, where
they lived. There are a few different places that we would go to and
eat every now and then. One of them, Selma, was that sushi
bar. Okay. Even though the owner is a bit of a bastard,
I don't think he would deny the existence of Sam. M hmm. If
you need proof that he existed, because all you have right now are my
words, and it's proof enough for me. It shouldn't be. I appreciate
that, but we gotta be careful because I don't know, and I'm not
going to assume. And I look at Galen, I'm not going to assume.
And then I looked to Selma and we'll find that trust And that's fine.
As much as I want to go and see their apartment, I think
it's more important we follow up on the server. That is most important.
I'm trying to think if there's anyone else that I knew that was connected to
Sam, and if I can think of anybody, I will, I'll write
that down. We will focus on that later, Okay, later, okay,
yeah, yeah, thanks, yeah, I'll be over in fifteen to
twenty minutes. All right, thanks for doing me a solid. Yeah,
I'll owe you. All right. My guy creep is he's got he's got
the machine we need, at least that's what he thinks. Okay, so
called in a favor, I'm gonna go grab it. Do you where do
you want to set up your your setup? Chop? Tell him, honestly,
if we could do it at the at the office, that'd be awesome.
But I know it's also we're also looking at a compromise building. So
actually that's not a bad idea, you sure? I mean, I don't
know. I don't know how I feel about something out if there's something there
to flush out, I don't know, Bob, I feel like that's almost
taking too big a risk because somebody could potentially monitor, Well, is there
a way to have Sawyer on the line watching if someone is watching? Oh
maybe maybe not be a bad idea. Maybe, you know what, I'm
just gonna almost send a messenger. All right, I'm gonna head over there.
If Natalie takes a chance, has a change or anything like that,
let me know immediately. All right. I exit the hospital in the rush,
head out to my spinner, fired up, head down to I don't
know what sector we're in, but I said fifteen to twenty, so that's
how far away it is. I think it's Sector five because that's where the
LAPD stuff is located. Okay, then we'll go a little bit south,
like towards towards Sector nine. Then, okay, all right, you know
what I think you might be available? Do you guys mind if I give
him a quick call? Yeah? Okay, all right, let's see.
Maybe maybe you'll pick up. I'll just wait wait for it here right now.
Hopefully hopefully he can monitor while I'm work in the terminal. But I
don't know. This is kind of kind of short notice. You think that
you need me and Bob for this? I supposeybe we can follow up on
Okay, all right, you know what? All right, let me go
ahead and home. I'll step away and I'll give him a quick call.
Sure, Bob, Yeah, yeah, no, you're not all right?
No? I don't it make you feel better if we investigate? Yes,
but I don't know what to expect. We never know what to expect,
It's true. Let's see, his apartment is Sector two. It's a little
ways out a noodle bar, sushi bar. It's close, actually, it's
really close. What we could do and I again, I'm looking at Galen,
but sort of been both us this time. I need to know I'm
not misremembering, understand, Okay, all right, So, uh, there's
a sushi place you to go there? Uh with uh? With Sam?
Fairly often chio would come sometimes. Uh, food's awful. If we can
go there and ask if they remember Sam, let's do that. It should
should be a quick back and forth. That'll be enough for you. No,
but it's a start. At least I would have someplace to stand.
What about the apartments in sector two? That's oh, a spinner. It
might be about ten minutes away. I guess that's not too bad. But
the uh, the sushi bar, it's uh, it's literally down on the
street. It's really close. What do you think? Whatever you think helps,
I'm here for you. Let's go the sushi bar. Yeah. At
this point I start, I think I I walk over to where Selma is.
Ah, did you get hold of them? Yeah, yeah, I'm
bound. I think I'm bound foring them right now? All right, Gale
and I are gonna step down the street to the sushi bar just to get
some questions and then catch up with you. Okay, all right, all
right, I'm gonna stay here for a little longer and probably get this I've
been picking up soon. Sure, it's fine, it's fine, okay,
all right, all right, enjoy the sushi. Oh I don't say anything,
and I just keep going, okay, come on, pick up,
pick up, and open up this software because it's it's the home brewed one
that uh that Sawyer had offered us last last time we spoke. It's called
Nightingale. So I kind of looked down at it through my my glasses like
this, okay, all right, come on, pick up, pick up,
pick up, And I'm calling so hey, hey, hello, so
you uh yeah, everything okay, calling me direct? Ah yeah, oh
oh my gosh. I had the craziest day, and I just wanted to
thank you for picking up. First of all, I need your help,
yeah, of course, I mean, that's that's why I put it there,
right right, all right, But listen, I just I've had some
doubts. I've had some doubts about about people that i've I've worked with,
and I just wanted to ask you something. Can I trust you? Kind
of a loaded question is is that there's something making you not trust me?
Right now? There's a lot. There's a lot, there's uh my my
squad right now is I think we're at a point where we're running low on
trust for each other and that starting to affect me. Right. You know,
I shared everything with you folks last time because I was taking a risk
that I trusted you, right, Yeah, that was me going out on
a limb. Yeah for you. And my bet was that anyone you surround
yourself with, because I think you're a good judge of character, is worth
trusting to. Okay, all right, you're shaking on that right now on
your squad or you're talking about the department. Might be a little bit of
both, a little bit of both. I'm worried. I'm worried from one
of my squad mates. Actually I'm worried for all of them, but one
in particular. And I think that in turn makes me worried for myself because
it's hard not to view it through somebody else's lens, someone else his problems,
someone else's pain. I feel like that's all it is on the forest,
is just me living somebody else's grief. And I'm sorry to have had
brought some of that to you. Well, my dad used to say,
there is no sense dwelling in the past, right, And you're not the
first person to say that to me today, but you're right. Well,
I didn't say it was unique advice, just that's what he used to say.
Listen, are you safe right now? It's something happening. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, I'm good. I'm at a hospital right now. You're
at a hospital. Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's all right. Everything
has been for now that things are stabilized, So I'm okay, I'm okay.
Listen. The reason I was calling was I'm about to get kind of
deep into a terminal, maybe go into a little bit of a jungle,
and I was wondering if if you'd help me bush whack some of it.
What kind of jungle? Yeah, it's it's definitely an internal one, something
that looks like a bunch of zeros and ones and might be a little bit
more than just that. So and Sawyer can't see it, but I am.
My hands are shaking, and I'm really the coffee's getting to me and
there's a whole lot going on that my foot's tapping. Okay, okay,
I mean, what do you want me to do from here? Or am
I meeting you? Somewhere. What's what's going on? Well, I was
wondering if maybe you'd be able to do you still have that? Uh?
What it? It was like they called it like spyware, but really you
just watch somebody else's Oh god, it was it was. It was back
when it was back when people got scammed out of that sort of stuff.
People were watching each other's computers. I don't know, do you still have
a version of that that could tap in you're talking about my bread and butter
basically, yeah, I can, Okay, all right, absolutely my wheelhouse.
Okay, well it's going to be at it's going to have to be
at the headquarters. I don't know how comfortable you are with that. At
least I would, I would know you were on the line with me,
but nobody else would. So you're going to hack into the alaped maybe not
hack hacks a strong word. You're making a backdoor in the aliped so you
can monitor systems. What's maybe what's the outcome? I'm not entirely certain.
I'm kind of playing buyer. We we we have we have a starting point,
and I think we'll just have to go through through there. It's not
it's not through l A p D. We're not necessarily going through LD.
We're just it's through Tyrel. It's it's direct, it's direct to Tyrell.
You're trying to you're trying to crack Tyrell. Uh hmm. Can can he
help me do it? Mm hmm, Well why m h You're one of
the only people that I know that can and I need your help. I
know I can have done it before. I guess I'm asking what you're looking
for the truth. I need to know what's going on, all right,
Doing something like this means that you have to have a very specific idea,
but what kind of information you want to pull. So I'm all for it,
But we can't go in there with a pipe dream, right. Intruding
into a system like that means we're gonna light up all sorts of beacons and
flags along the way. We're gonna be disabling security as we're cracking into it.
I mean, you know all this. I don't have to tell you
twice. I just I'm gonna make it as quick a dirty job as I
possibly can while covering my tracks. I don't intend on using any fancy assets
or anything. I'm not going I'm not going layers of programs deep, I
will have animal amount of trace of a digital trace of any all right,
I'm going to take a gamble. I'm kind of assume that the line we
have right now is as secure as it can be. We're using the software.
It's a direct link to you. I'm hoping that means that it's just
you and me talking right now, right, Yes, yes, it is.
I performed this system's intrusion an entire rail about five days ago, okay,
and in the process of doing so, I detected one okay, uh
huh. So I've been working on this for the last five days with the
information I pulled from a tyrail server okay, and the intrusion I detected most
recently, I assume that might have been you. And you're telling me are
at the hospitals. So is this your first time trying this? Uh gm,
I'm actually drawn a blank here. I believe this is my first time
trying it, right, it is. But but if you'd like, you
can roll smilarly insight. Okay, I think I will. I will roll
inside here, yeah, oh, okay inside m oh hell yeah. I
think without a doubt you realize it's Natalie. He must be referencing having seen
Natalie make her breach. That was not me. No, that wasn't me.
Okay, interesting, but I know who it was. Are they on
our side? Yeah, as as as far as I know, they're a
very genuinely nice person and they're there to help. Okay, listen, can
I can? I can I give you a call back? Sure? Listen
real quick? What server was she trying to access? That I'm unaware of?
But do you know what kind of person they were, because I don't
believe I told you. I don't know he she they? I misspoke.
I'm sorry. Okay, all right, no they, I'm not sure.
I'm not sure. I don't know specifics of that. And okay, well
I do I know what. I know what server they were digging through.
Okay, So if that's server you're after, I'm telling you I've been inside
it. If you're looking for something else, then that's a different conversation than
I can help with that. But okay, this this ain't easy, I
understand. Okay, all right, you got to talk to the others.
You take your time, Okay, all right, we're right. Thank you,
Thank you for thank you for being available and for helping me out.
With us. That's okay. You tell Skiff that if he wants to find
out about von Ya that I know basically everything there is to know. And
I terminate my side of the coal, okay, And I put my kaa
away and I'm hanging up all right, We're going straight to Skiff. Where
are we? We are actually in the back of a uh like a thrift
store, like a a secondhand store. Okay, And uh you go in
there, you talk to the right person and they kind of like let you
in the back, and uh there's a you know, obviously it looks different
from the front of the store. The back of the store is uh,
it's it's a mess with like you know, wires and and uh uh antennas
and and what looked like, you know, routers and like old pieces of
ship that like got dust on them and and stuff like that. Because uh,
creep Creep is the kind of guy who uh has something for every situation
and never throws anything away. Okay, I'm a hoarder, got it in
a sense? Yeah, yeah, tech order for sure. Like you'll see,
like if this were like real life. Yeah, if this is a
real life, you have like sixteen different palm pilots just because because you never
know if you're gonna need one, Yes, exactly, okay, all right?
And how how often do we meet? How often do you use me
as a contact? Not? I would not often. I would say that
this is this is a a back pocket kind of off the books. So
I owe you a favor more more so that that I I make good on
my favors. Yeah, I see you, okay, all right, yeah,
so I I I pictured a situation where I would owe him I see,
all right. And have you paid that one back yet? Or do
you still owe me? As you walk in? Just so I kind of
get a frame of how this common for this one? Oh okay, sqquare
right now, okay, awesome, yeah right, Well I didn't think i'd
see you today. I see you haven't cleaned up the joint never. What
can I help you if I don't look up from what I'm doing. I
need a machine? What kind of I need a machine to crack corporo?
Big kind of corporo, big corporo, big corporal. What does that mean
to you? Better? You don't know. Just picture just picture one.
I'm picturing one that's a very very big favor. It is all right,
but you know me make good on my shit. I always half. It's
a point of pride for me. I look up from what I'm doing,
and I have pretty slim wrists, I have heavy jewelry bracelets, I have
necklaces, and my glasses are t shade kind of styles, so they're round.
And I look up at you for the first time over the edge of
my glasses and I pause for a second. I'm clearly assessing the risk,
and I'm going to need you to roll for me. Okay, what would
you like me to roll? Well, because you're giving me a favor,
I think you can roll connections instead of manipulation, because you're offering a trade
rather than trying to threaten my livelihood. Sounds good, And let me put
these rolls up on the screen. Sure, okay, let's see I can
push that. I'll push that. Yep, right too. Yeah, there
we go. That's three successes, so totally okay. Perfect in that case.
I I smile, and it's a wicked smile, very playful. I'm
excited to see you break into this corporo and I lean back away from the
desk and I head into a backpack room. You can hear me clanking around
getting things. You know, I'm definitely being extra dramatic about it as well.
I don't need to make m much noise, but I'm definitely I got
my back to the door jam and I just i'd let you do your thing
and search for your stuff, And I just say, I don't know if
it'll sweeten the deal for you, but I definitely wouldn't mind hitting it at
the the proprietor of this hack, you know, rumors being you build up
that rep a little bit if you wanted, if you wanted, there'd be
no evidence. But and I come back out of the room, and I
am carrying an old kind of what looks like i'd say an amp actually,
And I come back and I set it on the table and I look at
you, and I put my arm on it and I lean against it.
Are you saying you can let me take credit for the hack? That's what
I'm saying. What isn't exactly that you're doing? Then? Well, what's
ah what would you consider a holy grail of hacks? Given the information that
I've given you already, color me intrigued. It might not be number one,
but it's definitely the top three. All right, you could make a
name on this. That's what I'm saying. I reach in behind the desk
and I am going to put a floppy disk. You don't know what that
is. Look it up, floppy disk on top, because in this alt
reality we have future technology but also analog technology. And I tap the amp
and I say, it's inside here. You're gonna have to crack it open.
Don't use it at a public terminal. Put that disc in and I'll
have my signature on it. I'll tell you this, I'll give you an
I'll give you an option, well not an option, but you'll hear about
this. I'm sure whether it'll probably hit your circles first, it might hit
news later. I won't start the word of mouth going until you know what
it is after the fact, and then you can tell me whether you want
your name on it or not. Because this shit is dangerous, and I'm
talking top level dangerous. I can assume it's not entirely gray, then is
it. Well, just put it this way. Doing this doesn't make us
the bad guys, but it certainly doesn't put us and a good guy called
column either. Oh, darling, that's the definition of gray and if it's
gray, I want it all right, good luck still owe me credit absolutely
a favor a uh. When I was walking through, I saw a little
uh, a little hop and frog, little wind up thing. You might
have to throw that in. I cannot roll insight because I don't have a
character shat because you just made me two seconds ago. But I want to
roll insight on you. So how do you propose we do this? I
can roll you roll something yeah, m hmm, and out I'll roll manipulation
yep, perfect, ye. And if you win then I don't get to
know. But if you lose, then I get to know. Or two
successes on all right, then I have no fucking clue, but I definitely
am. I study you for a second. I think you can read mean
like a book. You know. I'm immediately like what I didn't think you
had kids? And I'm second guessing what I think I know about you.
But then I decided to leave it alone and wait if if I catch that
look, yeah, oh for sure, I'm gonna say, like, don't
read too much, inno it? I like frogs? All right, let's
take it off of the shelf on your way out, all right, I
grab it and I put it in my pocket, and uh it, it
wasn't necessarily a big fat lie, but it was definitely like I noticed something
on Natalie's desk and it was a National geographic or something of that, like
a nature thing and it was like, you know, uh, Amphibians of
the of the rainforest or whatever. Okay, I mean I figured it was
for her, But fucker has no clue. All right, so he watches
you as you walk out, and I think he walks over to a terminal
after you walk out, like you know, he just he goes back to
work as usual, but he does watch you leave. Yeah, I got
this. I got this big. I'm guessing it's like a honking piece of
fucking tech under my arm walking out looks like a musical amp. You'll have
to break it open, okay. And I walk out, I throw it
in my spinner, and I, uh, you're probably not too far from
the hospital. To be honest, I call up. I called Natalie or
not Natally, excuse me, Bob Telma, I got it. I'm on
my way back. How are you doing over there? Gotcham I'm doing all
right, doing all right. I just called Sawyer, So see what happens
there, all right, all right, don't want many meet you somewhere.
I think I'm probably gonna go to headquarters. Hold up in my office,
all right, you know mess Okay, well listen, that's well. But
if you want to join me, you want to talk about something, you
just let me know. Well, I'm going to see you there here to
drop this thing off to you. And it's a he's attack, so I
hope you know what to do with it. Me too, all right,
I'll see there a little bit over. I love it. Okay, we're
going back, uh to Aalen and Bob who went to the sushi place?
Correct? Yeah? Yeah? Uh. As we approach it, do I
see mister Utah behind the little counter there. Let's roll for it, just
for chances sake. Sure, Uh, go ahead and roll observation. Oh
one, yep. Then he's there. All right, okay, Gaylen,
he's a he's particular, doesn't It's not a good conversationalist, so this might
be difficult. I walk up to the bar and I sit down at the
seat that I always sit at. Yes, here, you to need ah.
I can't remember who I was. I was very short, I'm very
short. Yeah, he's an old Japanese man. But he yeah, he's
lived in the city his whole life. He tells stories about it over and
over and over again, either his same stories, doesn't care. Yeah,
okay, so my memory is not so great. So prepare yourself. Okay,
that's good. Say order not today, Okay, what you want,
well, nothing, just questions, questions. Well this is important. Do
you remember me coming here with my partner Sam and his fiance So this was
oh gosh, this would have been a year and a year and a half
back or so. I think he stares at you blankly for a minute.
I think she also looks between you and your current partner, and I don't
know, like I think he's trying to figure out. I think he's trying
to assess some relationships and if he's about to get in trouble or yeah,
okay, I will not re that very well. Cheo, You remember Cheo?
She was oh, yes, very nice lady. Yes, yes,
shoulder length hair, yes, fire, okay, she had a indigenous she
was you remember, hm, I remember her. She was very sweet,
alight and I look over remember you though, Well, we don't talk that
much. Do you remember Sam. Sam was with her more than here than
I was. Uh, yeah, yeah, I remember her her husband right,
well, fiance, yeah, yes, yeah, I do. Yes.
I gave a physical description which would include, you know, he's uh,
he's black. He had a very very neat cut hair style at the
time. His clothes weren't necessarily they were nice clothes, but they are always
a little disheveled, like like a button sometimes would be off. So I
give this description, uh to mister d uh. Yeah that that that that
sounds right. I mean it was a year ago, but that sounds right.
Yeah, it's been I know it's been a while. Okay, all
right, thank you. I stand back up and I look over at Kaylin.
So to go, Sushibah, No, to go right? Not today?
Not today. So I'm sorry, We'll take three. He smiles at
you. Oh that was a mistake. I sit back down. This is
gonna take forever. H Yeah. I looked towards I look towards Bob,
and I say, that's okay, all right. I look around this the
sushi bar. It's I have some neon here and there, some of it's
out. It's essentially just a long raised table with four barstools right there.
The food items that you can see even though considering this is a blade runner
and you're never going to find, you know, fresh stuff necessarily, but
even this stuff looks pretty questionable, and this stuff should have a very long
shelf life. There's definitely like a a protein curd of sorts that looks a
lot like tofu. The edges are browning excessively, and it looks like a
lot of the moisture has evaporated over time inside the container, so it's murky,
and it just doesn't look appetizing. He would grab that and cut pieces
off of it and throw it onto a little plate as he continues to prepare
food. Okay, here three boxes to go. Thank you, Oh,
thank you. I'll go ahead and pay for it. That didn't take too
long, Bob, Yeah, that didn't. I stand up and I grab
the food. Usually I'm sitting here for much longer, I don't know.
Maybe expected some sort of lunch rush. What time is it right now?
Actually, I think around nine pm. We started. We started around eight.
But there are there I mean, these places are open twenty four hours.
There are rushes that you see around people's dinner times. I think gone
are the days of the standard nine to five where that's the only rush that
you get. I think we see rushes at varying shifts because there are people
who work night shifts, because the sky is pretty much the same. So
I think you get rushes every four hours, probably every four hours someone's having
a lunch break somewhere well. Being a creature of routine and habit, I
think I've just never been I usually come at almost the exact same time,
so I don't think I recognize he could go faster if he prepped everything beforehand.
I'd pick it up. And he doesn't let you pay for it.
He kind of shakes his hand and waves it in your face and says,
no, no, no, che oh. I liked her. She was
nice, she was nice. Came with her a lot. Yeah uh yeah,
thank you, mister. I appreciate it, thank you. I'm looking,
mister utah, and I say, you have a bathroom here. He
looks around at what's clearly in one of those like stall outdoor. Yeah no
a street ven uh uh for for people outside down the down the street to
the left. That that sign right there, customers floating toilet, floating toilet,
floating toilet, and he points to the floating toilet fair enough. Uh
on't you uh get the ride ready. I'm just gonna hit the head real
quick. Sure, yeah, I can do that. I start to walk
towards the car. I make a move towards the towards the toilet until Bob's
out of sight. Then I'm gonna walk back over to mister Utoh huh what
we've had a pretty rough day to day. Thank you for the sushi.
No problem, mind if I ask you a few questions before I go,
Sure, make it quick, and don't mind me. I'm making more food
and he's still making more sushi. You gave my partner a look there,
had me uh a little worried. Well, you should be worried for your
partner. Why is that very sad all the time? Mm hmmm? Is
that why you camped the sushi? Yes, I can't do it all the
time. I don't remember. It's a long time ago. So many people
come in and out. I remember chio she was real nice, and as
soon as he mentioned her, I remember seeing them together. He used to
come here a lot, but I'd thank you. Uh. We're gonna be
working a few cases pretty hard. We'll probably come back for some more sushi.
Oh good, good. Before I walk away, I turned back one
more time and I say, Cheo, yes, very lovely? Was my
wife? Yes? Here? And I think, actually he will. I
think he'll reach into either a it's probably not a wallet. Actually, he
probably has a couple of different photos that he's taken with people, regulars or
longtime customers or something like that that line up along his booth. But he
reaches down underneath the front shelf and pulls out a botte of the batty Yeah
exactly. Yeah. But he reaches through probably like a little cardboard box that's
got a bunch of them in there, and he digs through for a second
and then pulls out a photo of him and Cheo smiling. She was a
very frequent customer. She pharmaceutical arm a worker, but she a good one.
Used to give me discount on my pain medication. Yeah, a good
woman. He's a good man too. Is there any kind of reaction when
I say this? Uh? I think he just nods solemnly. He feels
pity, I think for bomb and to pass the photo back over. Thank
you, no, thank you. I'll keep an eye out for him,
don't worry. Good, And I turn around and walk away back at the
hospital or no, not at the hospital. Selma left the hospital, right,
we're all meeting up at the LAPD. Yeah, we can go ahead
and do that, and we can say that for our peace sake, you
guys are all arriving around the same time. Okay, Yeah, I uh,
someone gets there first. I'm assuming, and I head to her office.
I got that big honkin amp and I uh, I bringing into bringing
into her office. I said it on her I'm guessing immaculately clean desk.
And I realized, like, what I've just said on your desk is very
dirty. And I think for a second about like wiping off first. But
it's really heavy. It doesn't seem like a priority. So it's like I
am start and typically super heavy. They they're basically cabinets, so they have
a speaker in there, and they're not too they're usually not too heavy.
But if this is a if this is a computer, I imagine it's probably
pretty yeah, pretty heavy. No, I think, Yeah, the amp
is just like the cover. Uh inside is what like is the computer?
I'm guessing is that is that? To add is correct? Yeah? He
hit it inside a musical amp. It's got vacuum tubes. In it.
Yeah, just just another way of disguising pretty dangerous tech that's probably used only
for you know, this brute force attack that you're about to do. So
I think he just wants to ensure that it doesn't get seen you walking down
the street with his tech. Yep, okay, I said it on her
desk, and uh, there it is. You said it's it'll work for
what we need, all right, Hang on a second. She starts brushing
off, oh dirt, and I start I start like getting embarrassed, like
how right, Oh no, that's just me being O c D. It's
not your fault. God, I can't crack this. I'm gonna need to
call Sawyer back. Thank you for bringing it here. Let me go ahead
and take a look now. I just want to let you know part of
the the stipulation of the deal is that I gave I gave. I gave
Creep an option. I said he can take credit for this pack. And
I thought that would be a good idea for a couple of reasons. One
to sweeten the pot for him because rep is everything, and two because I
told him that I would let him out. Once he hears about it,
he can decide if he wants to take credit or not, because this is
probably getting out at some point. It makes no difference to me. I
mean, I don't want my name on it. And that's another reason.
That was the other reason actually was Yeah, so your name or my name
or anybody we know. Yeah, I don't want anybody sort of trace here.
I'll leave you to it. Wait, wait before you go, Yeah,
how's Natalie? Did you get a chance to see her? That's all.
I'm going to go back and check on. Okay, I'm gonna head
back. I got sushi for everybody. You shouldn't eat it. I've had
worse. I'm sure I'd rather eat something right now. We should probably eat.
I should eat. You're right, thank you, Jalen. Okay,
listen, uh, take care of yourself. I'm just gonna be focused on
this. I'll probably having to ask for help. Thank you for bringing this.
Also, So you said you got in contact with our friend, right
Soma, mm hmm. Is he gonna help you on this? I think
so. I think well as always should go concerns, But right now I
think I think been a good spot. I think our communication is good.
Just have some weird history, that's all. So all right, Well,
should go sideways? You let us know. Sure, we'll kick down doors
and going guns blazing if need be sure, sure, torches, pitchforks,
all that. Actually, do you want me to get you? Uh?
To you like, yeah, yeah, yeah, can you get me?
The was the black tea with the milk? Yeah, yep, yep,
yep, yep. No sugar, no sugar, thank you? All right?
And uh as I'm as I'm walking out, I'm probably walking past Bob
and Galen. Yeah, I think I'm I'm probably you're in the back and
forth that they were having. I stop skiff right before he goes too far.
Hold on, she's starting this up right now, or she just preparing
she's cracking open the hidden computer right now? She isn't okay, I've done
anything yet. All right, Let's say hypothetically that she starts this process.
I'm sorry, are you saying this hell loud to me? Oh? Yeah,
I'm saying I'm pretty close to you, Okay, okay, yeah,
I imagine Galen's close enough to hear as well. But let's say that she
starts doing this and then I look over, I look at the floor.
How many people are on the floor here on this level, Like, how
many people can I see in the sort of office space? Oh well,
Selma works in the analytics department, So why don't you roll me one D
twenty? All right? Wait, guys have twenty sides? There is such
a thing. What are the odds of that? Oh? I just type
it in you know what? Let me just roll a D twenty. Oh
yeah, you transpose you are in this last Yeah? There we go.
Six? So six people? All right? So I look at each one
of these individuals, saying, now, we don't know for sure if there's
any sort of I don't know, internal knowledge, if there are people planning.
You understand what I'm saying, right, like, we don't know.
No, I'm I'm definitely picking up what you're saying. Actually, twig me
on an idea. Follow me and I go back into Selma's office and as
we're as we're all gathered around, I kind of like, you know,
lean in, so you know whatever, So hush tones. But do we
tell the cap about this so he knows what to expect in case this should
go south? Yeah? Yeah, I think so, I mean we're gonna
have to I think, Well, the only thing is is that we know
that there could be like, how many sides of this are we are we
seeing? Right? Now? We've got we've got ty realm, we've got
replicans, right, and we could have us, not us, but us
somewhere in the mix now are superiors to some degree, may have some idea
They might not our captain. He's I hate replicants forcefully. Mm hmm.
We say something to him, what's what's the reaction we say, we're trying
to do what we're trying to do. I think if we explain the situation,
I'll see it our way, I really do. I can talk to
Captain holding. That's a good plan. You spin it, right, You're
gonna have to spin it. Yeah, it's a good idea to have him
roped in just in case he can offer us some sort of backup protection.
Well, that's the thing. We're gonna need it. We're gonna need him
on our side for this in case you guys are right, in case shi
it goes south? All right, agreed. I'm just about I think I'm
just about ready start pressing big red buttons here. So if you guys want
to, if you can take care of this now, or I can wait.
What do I know I'm a little dirty right now. Uh he does
work the night shift. Yeah, so it's like nine pm, so yeah,
he would be. This is roughly the time that we saw him,
ye previously. I'll give you the go head once Olden gives me the go
ed Okay, okay, and on my on my way out, I snap
at at uh some rookie, a rook Yeah, come here for a second.
Yep, what do you need? Uh? That nice uh blade runner
in there names Selma. I don't know if you know her or not or
heard about her, but uh, she likes tea from across the street.
She likes black tea cream, no sugar. They should no order black tea
cream, no sugar. Go get it, leave it, just leave it
outside her door. They're doing some important ship that is above your pay grade.
Soy grade, no cream, no sugar. Can I fuck that up?
I look at it, I look at the name tag. What do
I see? We'll go with Kaylen Hey a l l em all right,
Kaylen esus. Not that it's a big deal. But if you fuck this
up, just don't fuck it up. Okay, okay, okay, I
got it, won't fuck it up? A swift pat on the back,
black tea, no sugar. Just just knock and hand it to the first
person who answers. Okay, not leave it outside the door, no knock,
Okay, someone will come to the door, hand it to them,
and then off we one more time. Black team, No sugar, no
cream, just so just black tea, black tea, cream, no sugar,
cream, no sugar. Okay, just tell them Selma's order. Okay,
God damn it. I can't help in amidst all of this, I
can't help but chuckle on my way out. I hop in my spinner and
I head to the hospital. Right, Okay, I say, we go
with Galen. Sorry, I could not help myself. No, that was
fucking beautiful. I loved it. It was so good. I'm like this
motherfucker's gonna interrupt. Yep, you get every time. God damn it.
Really good. Okay, let's see come in, Captain. Hold them.
Got a situation, sir. Okay. I closed the door behind it.
I think he was taking his glasses off and leaning back and looking at the
door, waiting for you to do exactly that. I came here for two
reasons, sir. First and foremost, I needed to let you know that
we are in the process of doing something with your approval that may very well
be rather antagonistic. Okay, Do I want to know about it ahead of
time? Or is this the type of thing that I would like deny ability
for? Fair question, sir, I think it falls under the category of
potential replicant sympathizers, as in, you are investigating replicant sympathizers, you're antagonizing
replicant sympathizers. I need a little bit more detail, maybe a little bit
of everything. We're not sure yet. All right, Well, who are
you antagonizing? Tyrrel Get out of my office. Don't tell me about it.
I'm going with deniability. There was another thing, sir, Sure,
don't mistake me. Get it done, but I don't want to know about
it. I'm better protecting you if I have no idea. There were some
personnel records that I was unable to locate. Obviously, with the blackout,
things can be pretty difficult. Do you happen to know anybody that worked with
Bob before you Sam? Yeah? Yeah? Why you knew Sam? But
I saw him a couple of times. I didn't know him. I didn't
work closely with him. He was Bob's partner, not mine why Sam's records
are completely gone, sir? Inside job or outside? Not sure? Okay,
does this have anything to do with what happened tonight? Maybe? Yeah,
I don't like that. When can I expect a report? Probably after
we do this? All right, there's some information that's critical to the case.
But just so I'm understanding this correctly. This Sam individual, if my
memory serves, he fits the description of the person who was fleeing the scene.
Is that correct? Everything will be in the report, sir. I'd
like to confirm everything first. Do I need to prep for a manhunt?
Sir? We work off of solid leads here. Let me make sure the
lead is solid first. All right, I begin to walk out of the
office, and before I do, I say the analyst, jeez, the
good and I close the door and walk out. You don't see this,
but the audience would see. Hold and pick up the phone and make a
call immediately after this. Alright, we get the good. We don't have
the goodhead Ah, got it? Well, I'll put it up. Then,
wish me a lot, and I'll make my way back to the rest
of the group. They are all in Selma's office. Alma has her own
door, closed door. Been here for a very long time. She's got
our own little private office. It's not very big, all right, Ah,
they they get my tea yet it's the tea outside. Not yet,
not yet. Okay, if y'all don't mind, I'm a I'm gonna make
a quick phone call. Also maybe not phone calls, the big call,
but a big call rather, okay, and tap into a couple of things,
kind of see my vision narrow and focus on a little bit. And
Galen's in the room right now, right, we're all together, okay,
Yeah, I have I have I have a tea, black tea with cream
and no sugar, cream and no sugar. Oh, come on, you
want me to come in? I thought I was supposed to leave it at
the door and then someone was gonna come and get it. Yeah, okay,
you can leave it at the door. Then I'll walk up to the
door like some I imagine isn't even looking. I'm going to walk up to
the door and I'm just gonna like peek through and I'll grab it. Yeah.
Thanks, Stars in his eyes. He's absolutely your number one fan.
Grab the ship, closed the door, don't even don't even acknowledge him.
Oh, he's gonna live on this for weez. Okay, yeah, he's
just like looking at his hand like I'm never gonna wash this again. Are
they getting? Yeah? Thank you? All right? Yeap, that looks
good. Okay. I tap in a couple of things and uh, all
right, it's it's executing. Give it a second. Can I can I
call up Sawyer? Absolutely? Okay, all right, let's just see if
we can get Sawyer on the vidcom go for Clark. Hello, all right,
so what's the game plan? Well, all right, you see my
screen? No, I can can you do me one favor? Yeah,
given that we are currently treating headquarters as a compromise space, a physical sweep
of the room you're operating in. I'm sure you've done this plenty of times
before, but anything that could house any kind of monitoring device, let me
go ahead and uh check for that. Can I can I maybe roll on
insight check? Yeah, it'll be servation, actually servation okay, and the
one who has the highest observation can do it. Since this is probably something
y'all would have done an a so I might I might be able to,
but there's a humis right, we'll see, you'll see what happens with the
Hubris? Yep, Hubris? Was it really? Let me pull it out
one one. It's one that's still a success. That's still a success.
Okay, there is absolutely a uh tracking device in here? What do you
think it is in my room? Yes, there was any doubt that there
is somebody on the inside. It should be gone. Now there's absolutely a
bug in here of some sort. And I will let you you as a
group decide. It can be audio, it can be computer tracking, it
can be just sensing when somebody comes in or out. Maybe it's one of
Selma's. Now tell me if I'm wrong here, Selma. But do you
have like kitschy stuff? Sure? Do I have? I have an old
I have an old am radio that kind of sits on a shelf up there.
I've got an old am radio. I've got a collection or so a
bunch of bottles. I've got like a nutcracker that sort of sits there with
his mouth open like perpetual O nutcracker. Come on, yep, that's perfect.
It's the nutcracker, is it? I think it might be the nutcracker?
Is it ano an audio video device in the mouth of the nutcracker?
Yeah, yep, yeah, yep, yeah, yep, yep, yeah,
all right, I would have to say recognizing. Okay, so then
this is important. Who found it? That's my next question. Yeah,
I think it's Selma. Well let's get the highest observation. I mean,
I guess, I guess I would. Maybe maybe she could also be doing
her tech because she's very absorbed in what she's doing. She could be like,
you know, check everywhere, and maybe somebody lifts up the nutcracker,
looks at the bottom. She says, check the mouth. Oh my god,
we have the intern. Oh my god. All right, I'm so
happy. So then all right, well it's yeah, it's it's got to
be. It's got to be in in that shelf over there. I don't
know, you guys want want to take a look? What is that's a
nutcracker? Have you ever seen one? Look at the look in the look
in the mouth. Why just just look in the mouth. This conversation is
very strong at one sided. So you know, I'm sorry, I'm sorry,
I think we're I will sort of put the device down and I and
I say out loud, there's nothing there, and then I'll turn to the
rest of you and I'll just like really subtlely nod in my head. Damn.
Okay, well, thanks for checking. Okay, So I'm gonna look
for a piece of paper if I see Selma just I'm sure she's the type
of house cool sticky notes and stuff. Yeah, yeah, I got posted
notes. Hell, you want different colored post notes? I got blue ones,
I got red ones. Are gonna like walk over there and just right
on the note. Uh, there's a bug in the nutcracker, And I
say, I think audio visual. Okay, all right, Galen, do
you mind if I just step out real fast? It's a little stuffy in
here. Yeah, it's not really my specialty either. All right, guys,
Well I'll be uh probably working a little bit more. Hey, you
mind if I call you back and I say this directly to the person on
the line. Short thing, I'm standing by for you. Okay, appreciate
that. All right, talk to you and I hang up. You know,
all right, Well let's see you guys. Keep me updated, okay,
and I kind of there's really no reason for me to be here.
I guess I could grab some tea too. Yeah, yeah, tea sounds
good. Okay, wait, wait, where where's the place again? Salmod
could you show us? Yeah, sure, yeah, hold up, let
me let me let me I got mine already, but I can accompany you,
not stand up, you know, like really casually by the way,
like the posted note that I wrote on and I casually slide that back into
my pocket. Okay, okay, can we step out of the office.
I'm assuming, Uh, yeah, I would. I would make to pick
up whatever you just opened up from that amp mm hmm. I don't know
if i'd say anything about it, but i'd go to pick it up all
right after you. H And I kind of wait until we're out of the
office. Do we want to go get some tea? Or should we stay
put? I think we need to do this someplace else. I need to
let let's skiff. No, and then I don't know where it would be
a secure place I could potentially find one. I might know a place.
In fact, I might I might be able to connect us. That's the
thing, though, we'd be involving somebody else in this, and I'm not
sure if i'd want that right now, working with a couple others. Let
me let skiff now, hold on, I get a better idea. There's
a few places in town they they cut into the lines, there's not going
to be any real trace there. Do you have an address I can give
or is it something we just need to find once we get there? GM,
Can I make a connections role? You're absolutely again this will be at
disadvantage only because you do vice and drugs and shit, not typically tech like
this. I will push that. Okay, hmmm. I think you can
call a couple of different places, or you know of a couple of places,
but as you pass by, they're busy. You know, the fail
doesn't necessarily mean that you don't succeed, but perhaps you guys drive by and
you're like, eh, eh, not good enough. Yeah, all right,
let's try your option. This way provided a little bit more anonymity,
but I don't think it's as secure and we need it to be. Mhm,
GM can I uhm. First I want to I want to send a
quick message to Flick or excuse me, Sawyer yep, and I want to
make sure that they understand, uh that what had happened was not anything that
we could have controlled. So as you get ready to send that message,
you see one already sent to you. As assuming we weren't alone. Two
options perform intrusion from secondary site, or set a trap for ourm'll see if
they bite your call. Okay, I'll send back. I don't like mice.
We'll go with the latter, or a mole rather. Actually, let
me say mole. I'm ret coon in that. Yep, that's fine,
okay. So I I'd like to see if if Bill is available. I
haven't talked to Bill in a couple of days here, Oh yep, go
ahead and rull connections. Let's see. And this is just to see if
he's available. Okay, let's see. I've got a one here. I
think that's a success. Uh. Let me shoot him a message, Hey,
do you have time for some heavy lifting? Have you asked him for
this kind of help before he would understand what I was asking? Yeah,
okay, but I don't know if he would be up for it. Yeah.
Let's uh. I don't have a sheet for him. So let's roll
manipulation. Okay. If you succeed, he'll make time. And if you
don't succeed, then he's either at work or he just can't. He can't.
Okay, yep too, he'll do anything for you. Sol'm up.
Yep, for sure. Okay, Okay, I text back, yeah,
so he says, yes, when okay, twenty thirty minutes, got it,
Okay, we'll I'll text back, will meet at your your spot,
your place. Okay. I'm oh boy, okay, okay, okay,
So what are you thinking? Tell me? What are you wanting to do.
There's a guy that I relied on quite a bit outside of outside of
my jurisdiction, and his name is Bill, and I trust him and I
think he would be able to give us a secure connection if this goes sideways.
Listen, if this goes sideways, it's my ass I will tell that.
I will tell that to Holden, and I know that we've already got
Holding's approval on this. So one way or the other, it's happening.
And if he wants to take that up with somebody, can absolutely take that
up with me, because Galen, you already major piece. He already said
yes, we're rolling with it. So we're going to a place and Bill
is going to assist with you trying to get into the server. Say Ryan,
yeah, yeah, and you can trust Bill, Yeah yeah, I've
known been a long time. All right. Now, I know I'm asking
a lot from both of you. I realized that it's it's not an easy
ask. But if I wasn't at my wits end here, and if this
wasn't very very, very important, I would not be doing this. But
as of right now, I don't believe I have the tools as just one
analyst to do this. I understand that just one second, sure skiff copy.
Well, have a little problem at the office. Here's sir. It
was a little loud m hm. I was alerted we're en route to another
contact, and I'm sure I can pass that information over to you as soon
as I get it. But is this a contact we know? Is it
the contact I'm thinking of? I don't know. This is someone that is
new to me. Oh, I look at Selma. But I've been told
we can trust him. Okay, yeah, send it over when you get
it to me. Yeah, I'll do that now, all right, Okay,
So we head to Bill's apartment. Bill answers the door, and I
think he's surprised when he sees more than just Selma. Uh oh. I
was actually gonna ask if if before we go up, if that's okay,
I would ask if Galen and Bob were comfortable with that, and if not,
they could they could stay in the vehicle or Oh yeah, he's is
if you give him the heads up, that's fine, Okay, he'll absolutely
just like let you guys in. But he does look at you, Selma
and and says, did you need my space? Did you need me here?
What? What? What do you need? Oh? Security? For
security? I mean it's secure. Do you want me to be here?
Is this gonna put my job in jeopardy? I think he puts his hands
up and he goes, if you don't need me here, I'm just gonna
go out for lunch. Appreciate that. Yeah, No, I'm sorry,
Bill, I need you to stay for now. Bill, would you mind
staying? I think it's clear there's disappointment on his face as he realized you're
asking him to stay because you don't trust him. Uh. Sure, I'll
just sit over here then, and then he sits down on the chair.
Listen, I wouldn't be asking you this if it wasn't. Just do it
over to the window and just kind of keep an eye out. I'm not
paying attention to Bill or Selma at all. I'm more interested in what's going
on outside. I'm going to be casually walking around the space and I'm looking
for bugs again. All right, I'm setting up the program here. Bill,
do you have do you have an access code for this machine? Or
is it just open? He stands up and walks over and types in a
very long, like twenty seven character code. Okay, okay, thank you,
Okay. I think we're just about ready to ready to wire here.
What do you think, Bob? I just imagine Bob and Bill are like
staring at each other. Bill's got story's crossed? Well, I was,
so I am walking around the the apartment. I was gonna ask to roll
to see if I notice anything. Oh yeah, roll observation, and I'll
tell you a little bit more about Bill if you like, Yeah, I'm
should I push that? Yeah, I'll push it. Ol Damn. I
thought. What I'll say though, is again because of failure, I don't
mean means you don't glean any information. But what I'll tell you is that
it's impacted hily clean. You know, like you're looking around, going,
oh, there's just enough here to seem like a normal apartment. So this
guy is probably his job deals with stuff where he's hiding identity or it's very
secure, but there's nothing really that you could scan in this room and get
any ideas of passwords or you know, people he cares about anything like that.
Does it feel like a like a hotel room level of clean, like
everything is putting in its place? But no, I think it's like it's
just enough impersonal stuff that you'd be like, oh, somebody lives here,
and I think a normy wouldn't think anything of it. But a cop goes
in here and goes, huh, there's no photos of family up, you
know, because and I think it's safe for you to assume that, you
know, somebody who deals in internet security or whatever, they're not necessarily gonna
have photos of their family up. If somebody comes into the room, they're
gonna look and go, okay, that's a dog. And you know,
it's just one extra thing that they can go to use to try to hack
into a password or figure out or do association right like, oh they went
to Iceland last year, let me let me try to do some of that
stuff. So all that kind of stuff has gone from this room. It's
clever. Yeah, you're clever. All right, Yeah, Okay, I
guess we're going I mean, at this point, I think I've crossed all
the te's that I can. Bill will go over and since I'm here,
and if you let him, he will kind of look over your shoulder and
make sure that everything is secure, and I'll let you roll your tech roll
at advantage. Okay, that's all one success I think yep, you can
push that three if you'd like, hmm, give yourself extra success? Do
I just click on the three here, you click push and then you click
the one D whatever it is that you have, just the one on the
six or the three on the six or the three. Yeah, if you
should do the one that gives you the higher die Okay, Okay, I
don't know if I did that right. You did it? Yeah, that's
okay, it rerolled a two. Okay, that's same thing. Okay,
all right, Oh, you're good to go. Okay, I'm gonna if
I can. I'm gonna see if I can get to get Sawyer on the
VID so they're also watching. In the part of things, I'm also going
to assume that you guys have set up your Kia so that this call doesn't
leave Bill or doesn't leave your area like you did at the restaurant. So
now as far as Bill is concerned, he can't hear shit, he can't
hear anything or see what you're doing. And he probably went ahead and turned
his chair away from you guys, so he's not facing in the direction.
Okay, just to give you extra comfort, Okay, okay, Soma,
is it round two? Hello? Hello, it is thank you for picking
up all right, all right, we got to be quick. So I
think, all right, well, just one thing. So you did note
a bug right of some kind. I'm assuming yep, all right, and
this place is secure. I don't need to know where it is other than
you know up Lincoln with your terminal, but I think so, I believe.
So okay, so what's the game plan? What are we doing?
Well? Right now, I kind of absent mindedly have my kea in my
hands, I say to a text skiff as I'm talking, good to go,
starting process, sayd this is foreign to me. I'm not sure what
I'm what I'm doing here, So that's why I'm asking, Okay, this
this is this new information to you? What Vanya? Where the bug?
I've been spending a better part of the week cracking into Vanya via any intrusion.
Lacking a key will not get you the files that you're after. I'm
not going to tell you where the key is, but I have it in
my basin. Okay, okay, narrator, is there a way I can
give I can hand uh access here because I know that Sawyer has like a
remote visual Yeah, yep, absolutely remote access. Yeah all right, So
I tap in a couple of things here into the terminal and it comes up
allow dot access slash admin all right, and then now you're watching the like
mouse and the terminal and everything be accessed remotely by Sawyer. Okay, so
what's the target? You're not trying to hit the same server again, are
you? Via two and two? I mean not if you already have the
information. I do have the information. I guess. The question is are
you looking for something else? Are you looking to intrude into Tyrell for other
information? Other servers? Do you have any leads to go on? Any
words? We're looking for anything you can get me about in Nakayama, Nakiyama.
I can tell you all about Nakayama. I think we just need it
on paper, something visual, something that confirms it. I need to find
hard data. I can't just go off of what people are telling me.
I understand that what I'm working on currently. It's a little difficult to explain,
but I'm creating a I don't know, a burn file and everything that
I've uncovered from Terrell so far, something that the LAPD can use to hopefully
raid their headquarters at this stage, Okay, I'm working on making that physical.
It's a pros have been undergoing since I got a hold of it.
Okay, and now I'm watching what's happening on this screen here? Where are
you taking me? I mean, I know that we're right now. It
just looks kind of like blank. It looks like there's some digits, some
odd words here and there, but for the majority of it, it looks
like it's awaiting a prompt. So I'm just watching to see what pops up.
H question real fast? Can we can Galen and I hear Sawyer?
Yeah, yeah, I would say that it's like open, but you've got
the Kia doing the like enclosure sweep, so anything outside of this bubble cannot
be heard. So your conversation, Bill can't hear anything that's going on right
now. I've just given you the that benefit because you guys have done that
little thing with your ka I walk over as a Sawyer is saying all this,
and uh, Sawyer, can you hello? Hi, Bob. I
don't think we've met. I think we sort of met. Yeah, look,
can you can you look into something? And I'm sorry to do this
right now, but I think it's important to what we're doing. I had
a partner, but there's no records of them. I don't know records in
the LAPD or Yeah, there's no records. I haven't looked at that.
Sorry, I could not contain it. Oh my god, that's what you
want this breach to be. Well, here's the problem. And I don't
understand this stuff very well, but here's the problem. I don't know where
a scrub like that would come from. What I can tell you is I
had a partner and then I saw them again, but they didn't recognize me
and they didn't make sense. So I don't think that was my partner.
And when I asked my current partner, Galen, to look them up,
their information was gone. I don't know if that's an internal like, I
don't know. If I don't know who took that information, I don't know
who scrubbed it any traces. It's got to mean something, So you got
to disappear, and partner who has not all the way disappeared. You're telling
me, well, it doesn't make sense, and I don't know how to
make heads or tails of it. I can tell you that I saw someone
that looked like my partner, and I can tell you that the information that
should be there isn't. Is that something Tyrell did? Is this something the
police did? But we also know that we couldn't do anything from the office
because we were being ratched. How many players do you think are playing in
this game right now? Uh, there's going back. There's Sam, Well,
the person I knew is Sam. There is a blonde lady. I'm
trying to remember if I I knew the name. I'm pretty sure that yeah.
I think he told me ye. And there's Vonya Vanya yep. That's
the information I pulled all on a Project Vanya or the Vanya program, the
Vonya program. Okay, yep, I mean this is what Skip asked me
to look into. So that's why I ripped it. Bill. Do you
have a do you have a drive? Do you have a floppy? You'll
have to step out of the little bubble that you're in, so you maybe
say that right away and realize he doesn't react to you, and then you
step out of the little silencer bubble and yeah, yeah, yeah, Sure.
He gets up and goes into his filing cabinet and okay, clean,
I assume please. Yeah. So he opens it and pulls out a package
and is unseiling a brand new floppy disc because, as those of you know,
even if you've got an old floppy and it's deleted, you can still
recover old files. So I think this right here is just a sign that
he's very he knows what he's doing. Hands you a brand new, clean
floppy. Thank you, I allow you, Yeah, worry about it.
You guys got some tea? Sure, sure, okay, I'd love some
tea, thank you. And he goes to make some black tea with cream
no sugar because he won't forget your order. And what about the other two?
He looks at Jubob No no, okay, So Sawyer, I don't
know where this could fit in. But if you could find who scrub that
information and anything on Sam, So it sounds more like we're intruded into the
LAPD systems, not tyrrells. Well, that's the problem, is I don't
know because this other person who looked like Sam but wasn't clearly with the way
they moved, that was a replicant. All right, I can't tell you
everything right now. It's better we have this full conversation in person. Maybe
we can arrange the meat shortly. What I will tell you is that VANYA
is an acronym that stands for viable augmented Nexus young adult. Oh shit.
The project pertains to how Tyrell originally developed memory implantation and seamless transference of consciousness
into children, not into children. They were making children and implanting memories.
Well that's the thing. These models were designer children for the wealthy, effectively
a child that would grow alongside the client. But Terrell never really cracked the
code and having autonomous replicants that could go through a simulated adolescence. So the
hitch was that they had to swap the chain I see every few years,
so to speak, which meant they had a problem when it came to maintaining
an unbroken threat of consciousness. And that's why Skiff's VONYA disappeared. I mean,
in according to my records, there's at least one prototype model that may
still be functional, so it could be our girl. We got to tell
Skiff this. Well. Look, I'm real glad that we were able to
at least broach that. I know what I know. I'm currently compiling this
all into a physical data drive that I plan on handing to you all,
But I don't know if it's wise that I do that digitally or through our
uplink. Probably I think that's best handed off in person because the level of
effort I had to go through to retrieve this key involved physical intrusion as well
as well intrusion, So I understand. Yeah, this is some weapons great
shit I'm holding onto right now, and I would love to not be holding
on to it anymore, but I have to finish my work first. Okay,
Yeah, Alan, what is the sedyest, most hidden away, shitty
place you know of? That's I mean there's a lot, well, specially
in Sector one. I say, pick one, and then let's get this
stuff. All right. We're still doing this right now. I mean I
think we should. We've got access right now. I mean, sorry,
you're not talking about meeting me in person right now, because I'm absolutely not
doing that. There's a few things I need from y'all before I can agree
to that, I understand. Can you a dead draft debt? Absolutely not?
Are you kidding me? It's that sense of is this like holding a
nuke? Okay? What I'm going to explain to you is that I'm going
to need certain assurances from your team and potentially from the Deputy chief, that
I will not be tried for corporate espionage when this all blows over. I
hear you. I'll do my best. I'm working on that, all right.
Tyrell is Tyrell is going down. Rome is falling, and I think
with this burn drive, we're going to have everything we need to push over
the last foundations. We can get a full rate of that headquarters. We
can pull any file that we need, anything that's still standing. You can
get to the bottom of this. The thing that I'm going to let y'all
know warn you all about is that I think there's at least you've got the
replicant underground. We've got the LAPD, We've got us. If I can
be so bold as to say us, yes, we've got Tyrrell. Who
do you think tried to blow up the archives in the morgue? Who's the
most likely suspect I mean, if we really want to play this, i'd
I'd say it's definitely somebody at Tyrell. I don't know if it's an entire
corporation or not, but I don't think they want this getting out. Are
you thinking if somebody specific? What I'm wagering is if we perform an in
choosing into the LAPD to dig up these files, and these files were scrubbed
by the Molan question, it's most likely they have some kind of Connors security
set up to flag that kind of activity. Right, we can maybe draw
this mole out of hiding, get one of these players out of our precinct,
or we can do it quiet and look for sam what is it under
the radar to the best of our ability. Yeah. I'm just giving you
options because we can try and smoke this person out, take them alive,
I hope, or we focus on getting the information you're after. Yeah,
well, we'll see when we get to that point. I just want to
know if there's any if there's a trail, it's got to be something.
It just doesn't there's got to be something. I can certainly look for a
trail. We can do that together if you like quarters that much. I
know we cannot trust headquarters. I mean, if we found a bug in
my office, it can only assumed that all of our offices or all of
our spaces have been bugged. Absolutely, so sorryer, if you could,
could you first look at any potential deleted information about a Sam Harcrow Sam Harcrow.
Okay, I will do what I can on my back end to look
into this elsewhere, but for the time being, Yeah, we can crack
into the LAPD see what we can do from here. Okay, I'm gonna
need you to roll. Are you in Roll twenty as well? Flick Sam
in Row twenty am? You're literally it's nine am for Flick. For those
watching, we were like, hey, are you around? It's always it's
always nine am when completely stop being cops with us. Okay, so I'm
gonna need out of bed and hack into the server. Yeah, let's go.
Yeah, I'm gonna need you to roll. Didn't have my toast yet.
You want to tech role without advantage? This is a with advantage because
you have cool tech from Skiff. Skiff got some fancy stuff that you're you're
basically using to so you're going in Yeah, yeah, exactly, he got
you something special. Where'd you get this? We got it from one of
our sources. Okay, you don't have to kiss and tattle. I'm sorry.
It was recently acquired, so at this point I know just just as
much as you do. You can push that too if you want. But
you do have it too, which is a critical success, so you don't
have to. But if my only question would be has my resolve recovered over
the five days since my last stressful endeavor? I don't know how that recovers.
We can have it recovers with downtime. But here's the thing. You've
been doing this data NonStop, right, You've been working. Yeah, I'm
trying very hard not to reveal what you've been working on. But he's probably
been sleeping in shifts, like yeah, so maybe maybe like half half rested.
Yeah, okay, then let's say, because it's been five days,
so let's say you get a three year resolve back then instead of five or
even two all back to five? Yeah, sure thing, Yeah, yeah,
in that case, I will push that too. I'll keep that ten.
Oh look at that fucking great. Okay, all right, the l
A p D is yours. However, before we break in, we're gonna
switch scenes real quick to Skiff over at the hospital. Skiff, have you
been basically just like sitting at her bedside? Well, i'd imagine this.
This this all happens like pretty on top of each other. So I I
walk in, I flash my badge around to get you know, get access,
and I walk in to see if if if she's awake, or if
she's sleeping, or if she's even out of surgery yet. Yeah, she's
awake, she's out of surgery, and in fact, she's probably like resting,
and then you walk in and she kind of wakes up, thinking maybe
you're the doctor. But hellottle, detective, I'm I'm gonna go out on
a limb here and say that this is going to cost me more than one
whole pie. Oh, yes, very much. How are you feeling?
Okay? Okay, if it was worth it, I think, is everybody
okay? Yeah, everybody's fine except for yeah, oh yes, well I'm
happy for that. No. No is that bad to say? No?
Okay, No, I would have done the same. So it was I
just I don't want to be a cop right now, but I need to
know. Oh yeah, the people who we found dead, yes, were
those the ones that were yes, we're torturing you. Yes, I did
not tell them anything. Did Did that replicant save your life? Yes?
Do you know why? Uh? He seemed to want to know what information
I was accessing in white. Tyrell was white. Tyrrell wanted me so badly,
but he did not talk to me. He let me go. So
he didn't seem angry or anything. No, he he seemed sad well with
what happened. It seems like whatever you did, he wanted you to to
keep doing it, or wanted you to live to tell about it. Well,
he I feel badly. I just didn't know if I could trust him,
so I didn't tell him. But it's it was a game of I
think us trying to decide if we could trust each other. But I did
not get the impression that he wanted to hurt me, or that he was
ever going to hurt me. You understand the dilemma here. If he let
you live, yeah, I know, or saved your life, that means
that you're doing something that he wanted done. No, No, I mean
potentially he doesn't know what I was doing, though, I think we didn't
know. He wanted to know why Tyrrell wanted to me. He didn't even
know. It was like he was trying to intercept. But but I I
will say I I even I even said to him, if I've seen you,
you know I could report you to to the l A p D.
That's where I work. And it was kind of a well, I guess
that's a risk I take, but I don't want to kill you. Well,
and there's some news there. Bob recognized him, so did I a
little bit. But I don't know why he used to work with us,
right, Yeah, name was Sam Sam Sam partner Sam Harcrow. That's right.
I remember. I think, well, wait, wait, wait,
wait wait, and I think she tried. I tried to get up and
lean closer to you, but I'm clearly in a lot of pain. I
rush over to her, and I take it easy. He was a replicant.
How could he be working for the LAPD. That's what we're trying to
find out. With the lead you gave us, we're doing some work right
now. The wheels are in motion, so you don't need to worry about
it anymore. We're taking care of it. I'm I detective. I want
you to know how sorry I am that I put you in the position to
get hurt like this. I should have known. No, I mean that's
part of the job. I knew it was saying. I knew what I
was doing was dangerous. And I'm just ascalpable. I got you something,
did you? And I take out the little wind up frog and I put
it behind my back and I wind it up and then I take it out
and I put it on the hospital table. It is so cute. We
must name him. What are we going to name him? Put me on
the spot here. I like Harry. We'll go with Harry the Frog.
Okay, look at that smile. Harry smiled. Don't you think so?
Harry? I could not agree more. That's that is a Harry smile.
That is Harry the Frog. Hello, Harry. I've never go ahead,
I've never it felt unlike any other replicant I've ever interacted with before. What
do you mean? I mean the Sixes, you know, they were sometimes
aggressive and angry or almost like throwing a tenttrum. They didn't understand, and
they were frustrated with their lack of understanding. But this was different. He
was it was It was just very strange. It must be in a neat
Yeah, we've encountered some that it acted very differently to the ones we were
used to. There's more out there than we thought, but he chose to
spare me. Did he tell you anything useful? Telling anything we need to
find him? No, he really didn't. It was not that I can
remember. I don't think any any anything you can remember, even the slightest
detail could could help us. Did he have dirty fingers? Did he have
a certain aroma? Smell anything? He I can't and she closes. I
close my eyes and I'm touching my forehead now. No, I can't.
I can't remember. I think the drugs are making it too hazy for me.
Okay, I will try. I will write down anything that I remember,
But I just remember being scared. And then suddenly, suddenly it was
like I was having a conversation about ethics. It was very weird, you
know, just morals or trust and and we were just trying to figure out
if we could trust each other, and that Replican philosopher sort of and the
whole idea that he was trying to figure out if he could trust me or
not. It's sucked me up a little bit. Did you feel like you
could trust him. I did, and I feel guilty for lying to him,
which is super fucked up. That's the whole other thing I have to
worry about. That is not your fault. Be considered. They make them
very human life. Trust me, it's easy to care and even developed feelings
for a non human. I want to make somebody human, Detective. I
don't think I'm smart enough to answer that question. I just go with my
gut. And then you hear up like a vie vibration or a or clicking,
and he reaches in his pockets pocket grabs his ka and looks at it
and there's a message from Bob there and it says it has an ad dress
on there and it says urgent. And I take it and I put it
away. I do I do? I have to go? And what She
lifts one very bandaged arm up and kind of like gestures for you to come
close. Just a quick dessert, and she kisses your cheek very gently.
I will see you later, detective. Thank you for coming to see me.
And as I walk out of the of the hospital room, I turn
around the door and I look at her to go my hero, Yeah,
goodbye, Detective. I hustle to my spinner. Okay, and now we
will switch back to the other crew about to hack into the LAPD. Got
sweaty poems. Thanks for the t bill, Yeah, no problem. Okay,
all right, everybody ready, Yeah, I think I've got control of
the terminal here again. All right, So you are in the LAPD,
Sawyer, that's what you're four is. But also you're pretty certain nobody knows
that you're in here. What are you looking for? The first thing I'm
looking for is Bob how back? How long? Uncle? Was this person
working for the LAPD. Let's see, they were working for the l A
p D a little bit after the bomb went off, after block got okay,
yeah, they resigned. They resigned. Okay, that is perfect.
Can you remember any cases, case numbers, case files they were attached to.
Yeah, there was the Blue Street murder. Let's see, that was
uh, maybe a year and a half ago. It was during it's a
little bit more, Yeah, roughly there. It was closer to Thanksgiving,
I remember that, or somewhere late November. It involves two two robbers that
it was a mess, but they got involved with the street gang. They
were sent to do a job. The job went South and they were killed,
but they were killed in a very public display for the area. There
would have been news about it at the time. Beautiful. That is very
hard to scrub anything that they've done. There's going to be some kind of
trail, even if it's just gaps, right. So do you want me
to take point and you can make sure that nobody's interfering with our interference?
Sure, go for it. I'll play referee. So I'm going to start
by looking for these cases that Bob is referencing so that I can find evidence
in those archives that something has been altered. Yep, Okay, I'm going
on your four, which is a critical, critical, critical, critical success.
So you absolutely do find remnants of deleted Sam Harcrow. He was a
part of the LAPD. He worked there for three to four years. All
of his information has been scrubbed. But I think what you do find interesting
is that they're sorry, Like I was typing it to you, but then
you guys caught up to me. So I'm just gonna go ahead and verbalize
it to you. So you do find that LAPD, somebody inside the LAPD
did scrub the info. That information is redacted, like who was accessing this
and who scrubbed it. It is very well done. I think maybe I
don't know. I feel like I feel like you kind of have a tiny
bit of ego, so you're probably I could have done a better job.
But it's pretty good. It's like it's only because you got your four that
you were able to get this information, to even know that it was scrubbed,
to even know that the remnants of the files are here. But also
I think what surprises you is, man, you rolled a four. I
gotta give it to you. I think it was a three. I think
it was a three. X was a three? Yeah? Three? Okay
it was I do I only have one eye. I'm so sorry. I'm
so sorry. Okay, well I will say, everybody calm down, give
her a break, right before he Okay, So this is I think what's
weird to you. You're accessing all of his files. You go back to
the beginning when he first joined the force, all of that has been scrubbed
as well, and right around the time that he just joins the Force,
a couple of other files are scrubbed. So you go and you access those
files and it looks like it was a meeting between Tyrell and the l A
p D. And this predates me being a This has predate me in my
capacity collaborating with Tyrell on behalf of the LAPD when I was in there.
You start, that's probably after I was booted from the Blade Runner unit.
And when was that? What do we agree upon it? I think it
was like six months ago. That's right. So it does predate it doesn't
it. Well, just to clarify what the dates? How many months ago
was this? This would have been? This would have been at least three
years ago Sam Harkro first joined the force. M gotcha? Do you see
that? So? Holy shit? This goes back a long time. Yeah.
Well, just can't be the first or only person. I don't understand
what's happening here. What's going on? What do you see? Tyrrell had
some scheduled visits with the LAPD years ago. It looks like it was a
mixture of I don't know, pr in compliance, you know, keeping the
Blade Running unit up to dat and all right, it seems they may have
used that as a smoke screen to access our systems. I guess the question
is is there an active mole in the LAPD or have they simply left behind
some gifts for us that we haven't been able to get rid of. I
have to assume all of it's connected. I don't think that it would be
a something someone just leaves behind without retrieval if they don't need it anymore.
Would you like to a first Tyrell? Do we have the option to Sawyer
does? Yeah, Sawyer has created a backdoor into Tyrrell as of our last
solo episode, Sawyer, can you look into this on the Tyrell side,
possibly look into some sort of I don't know, ultimate genetic sequencing. Maybe
they've just stolen DNA. Stolen DNA sure sinds like it. Well, the
whole thing about that seamless threat of consciousness that we talked about before. Are
you saying that it's possible that they created replicants based on real people? And
then, of course, I mean there's a precedent for that in history.
Is taking what already exists? We know it doesn't end well, yeah,
of course, But if I had to assume something, Sawyer, That's what
I would assume. But how far by, how far back could you possibly
a sense of blackout? I guess it'd be almost impossible. Well, any
archives before the blackout. You know, that's actually my wheelhouse you're talking about.
Was reconstructing the ALIPD database from hard copy, and I expected safey.
I mean, I do good work, but that doesn't mean it's all there.
I can only upload what I have on the Tyrail side of things.
I'm sorry. I'm trying to think here, Galen, help me out likely
scenarios with what we've got information from Tyrell or well in the LAPD scrubbed potentially
by a Tyreil or absolutely by Tyrel. Either way, what sort of leads
we even have? I mean, if they took it out of there,
well, we've got a few potential leads, the obvious one being Tyrrell itself,
which it appears that Sawyer has some sort of intimate knowledge with. There's
well, Bob, I'm sorry, but there's a strong possibility that Sam is
a replicant. I understand we have that lead as a potential to investigate.
I was going to suggest that while this is being done, you and I
take a trip to Sam's apartment, all right. The other option is to
follow the Nakayama lead. I imagine I probably do that here. Let me
tell you about the Nakayamalaite. I think I've got everything there is to get
about this man. She sort of actually finding him in person before you tell
us that. I'm not sure if you have some information might be pertinent.
Recently, as in today, an analyst was kidnapped from the ny from the
LAPD. The whole reason we're doing this is because I believe that she was
kidnapped by Tyrrell. When we arrived at this warehouse where she was being kept.
We did so through the use of several terminals. There were some kind
of security cipher or something that we had to get through before we were able
to find out where this warehouse was. When we did, we found Sam.
There were someone who looked like Sam. We're not sure if the Nakayama
thing is connected, but it seems strange. Well, I think that's because
we're dealing with two halves of one conspiracy. Right, the people that kidnapped
Nakayama, I don't think they're the ones that tried to blow up the LAPD.
It doesn't make any sense. No, why would Tyrell kidnap their only
designer. They could disappear them in much more effective ways. That sounds fair.
And have they filed a missing person report yet, No, that is
a little strange. But I wagers because they're trying to solve that different.
I don't think two halves of one conspiracy or three halves three thirds, I'm
not sure. Yeah, I mean that's where we're at, right, Yeah,
if you want some gasses, I can give those. I don't like
to give them normally. I don't really dabble in guesswork neither. So I
think you're I think you're on the right track. I think Tyrrell is trying
to investigate whatever it is these replicans want, and I think these replicans are
trying to investigate this Vanya for whatever reason. I would say that this is
Yeah, I would wager their target in Nakayama because he was one of the
lead designers on Vanya. Mm hmmm, which means that something pertaining to I
can tell you that what was developed with the Vanya program was foundational in the
development of the Nexus eight. Really implantation of memory. That's basically Tyrell's bread
and butter id now, ain't it. But they created children to do it.
Well, that was the template, that was the prototype, that was
the problem they had to solve. But once they solved it. For whatever
reason, they didn't keep making these augmented nexus young adults. They shifted into
whatever you would call the N eight, but they could do so without the
propriety technology to create a seamless transfer of consciousness or by implanting memories, whether
from presumably living people taking their memories as a foundation for a new person or
a duplicate, or fabricating memories wholesale. I have a question for you,
Sawyer. Do you have access Do you have access to the replicant templates,
the templates, you have access to the genetic templates at all. What I'm
thinking is if we have any sort of access to that, we might be
able to run who exactly has been getting into headquarters at LAPD, Either that
they're taking these sequences from living, breathing people, or they started off as
replicants in the first place. Maybe, like Sam, I think we run
something. I don't know it. It doesn't add up. If we have
a way to see exactly what is being used at Tyrell created at Tyreel,
then I don't know. Maybe we'll be able to pinpoint the mole. But
that's where I'd like to set a tramp. See if there's a we get
a hell of a lot more information than just one mole doing that. We're
talking about that's the lifeblood of Correll right there, the sequences and the templance.
That's Uh, Jim, do I feel like that's like another level of
extreme crazy security beyond the already extreme crazy of security that we've cracked and delved
into. H Or is that like a thing you can't even access remotely?
That sounds like a I think you'd have to go into Tyrrell to get those.
Yeah, but see you you might have some of that info in the
info that you've grabbed. Probably not, because you've done an excellent job,
by the way, parsing the information that I gave you. Because basically what
they did was they wanted to create these Child's replicants. But the issue was
they would obviously they would have to change the model every couple of years.
And keep in mind, the original idea to create these children models came back
and like like fifty years ago before then, before the first Nexus model was
even created. So a lot of this is like guesswork, theory work all
the way up until when they first make their first test model. But the
issues that they were having was that they couldn't carry the memory or the consciousness
rather through the first model to the second model to the aged up model,
and so to solve that most recently, they decided, why don't we try
implanting memories and see what that does. So the reason the next is eight
even has memories implanted in the first place was for this project to try to
solve this continuing consciousness problem. So now that this is solved, chances are
they would be able to restart working on the replicant children. As far as
the templates for these memories or templates for the models, which one would you
be looking for early models at this point, like asking Sawyer that question,
Yeah, yeah, I'd say there's two directions we can go in. One
is actually trying to find any kind of data on the memories themselves. Why
as it would be implanted, I don't really know how they extract and store
them. That's definitely TechEd beyond mi Ken. But the actual creation of replicants,
the physical templates, that's definitely something we could look into or at least
try. It might be more physical than anything. I mean, if we
really think about it, it's all physical, isn't it, it's all just
shells. So well, I along with that. When Galen and I went
to to Realm a few days back, we had a conversation. We saw
what they were doing with physical records. At that point, asked for some
sort of like a record of the people that the replicants that they have created,
and we were denied, saying that that's something that was likely lost.
So even though this is a potential avenue, I will say that there's an
issue with the records being wholly unobtainable, either because they have been destroyed or
they're being stored physically. All the archives I retrieved were from I hesitate,
a panic room in Nakiama's apartment. I took as much of his archive as
I could carry, but the kind of systems that man had defend in his
work, the drives I got out of there with. I got everything pertained
to Vanya, his most recent work, which I haven't really looked at,
and his oldest archive disc which I also haven't had time to crack into.
So I have more information than I'm able to provide right now. But hold
on, Bill, I think that's I say, open up, that's skiff.
Oh it's there. Open the door. Okay, all right it uh,
who's that? Who's quick? Get to the door. I got it.
I'm I'm I'm opening and okay, I look through and I go to
open up the door. Got a hand on my weapon. Hey, all
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