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S2E116 - Down to 62 · No Latency

• 0:02
  Last time on no latency. How was Ayanna looking hot?
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  Yeah, it it doesn't feel good. Get a scratch.
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  Let's do this. Oh, not yet.
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  Hold on, let me put the belt back in my mouth.
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  Oh my. That's a pretty sick logo, dude.
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  I kind of feel like maybe we should just let him go.
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  Oh. Oh, oh, OK.
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  Well, let's get these boxes, get Savannah White and get out of
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  here. That sounds heavenly.
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  Thank you. Jen, OH.
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  Hell yeah. I I think I could get 45 scrap
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  out of nine. Now don't call him up here.
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  Let me take a look. Can I make a bathtub?
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  Office 62, Floor 62. I'm on the hook.
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  I suppose we should make a plan We.
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  Do have a Headley pad on top? OK, I like this.
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  I like this. Because that's what a good
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  leader does. I remember that.
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  Takes responsibility for any issues that may arise on their
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  watch. I I do want it to be known that
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  there is at least one copy that Retro has, yeah.
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  Retro's got a key to the van by Tuna.
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  Tuna gets in banner white and drives it perfectly.
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  Does not damage it because he rolled very well and he drives
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  it into his lot. You walk in and there's the
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  flying vehicle and you get inside.
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  Everybody piles in and you head up into the sky.
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  Roll me a family air vehicle, yes.
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  And Flight of Valkyries starts playing so.
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  That's nice. You try to make it play, but
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  there's like a copyright protection on the radio and it
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  plays something. Snot for Flight of the
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  Valkyries. That shit's in the public
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  domain, brother. Oh, that's good then.
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  I do play. It right here.
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  You roll 21 and you fly off into the sky into the north of Night
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  City. Smells like Nepal.
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  Wow, we can see the whole city. Cool the chapter you're.
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  Flying north, you fly over Coronado Bay Bridge.
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  There, across the water on the West Coast, you can see Mauro
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  Rock, this giant rail gun pointing towards the sky.
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  You pass through the skyscrapers of this corporate district.
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  You'll pass Truma, Tim. You go past trauma team, you go
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  past trauma team, which I spelled correctly.
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  That's fine. No, it's the, it's the, it's the
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  rival team. It's the.
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  Cheaper one. It's the cheaper one, yeah, for
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  those that don't have the executive pass.
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  You come around the side of the building and as you turn around
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  an NCPD chopper is passing by and you almost collide.
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  Roll a pilot air vehicle. Oh shit.
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  Jesus. Well man, look where you're
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  going. Fucking cops. 19 Just
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  unfortunately, because you did not roll a 21, the side of the
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  vehicle scrapes across the side of the trauma team building.
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  Nobody notices because you rolled quite well, but you have
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  scratched it. Well, I did Dell too.
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  Now I was going to buff that out so.
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  You fly towards the biotechnical building and inside the vehicle,
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  Bendel turns to Iona. Should we have told anyone we're
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  flying in? Oh yes, I'll make, I'll make the
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  call right now. Why?
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  I thought that Iona could just kind of call ahead.
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  Yes, I'll, I'll, I'll call into the radio tower right now.
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  OK. This is biotechnical air traffic
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  control. How can I help you?
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  Hello this is Iona Popescu. I am requesting permission to
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  land. OK, you meet the executive
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  level. Yes, you may.
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  OK if you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Just make your landing. And of course, you can only be
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  landed today. You'll have to ask for a permit
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  for more than one day. Thank you.
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  We will be there in about 20. Sounds great.
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  You shoot through the air, avoiding a few more of the
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  skyscrapers. The view is beautiful here as
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  you look over the bag, the corporate district being a lot
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  cleaner. On your right you can see in the
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  distance the Glass District and Mega Building 17, as well as far
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  far in the east, the NCPD building.
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  You come close and land on the top of the fire sector building
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  on the roof. It's pretty bad.
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  There's nothing really up here, no other flight vehicles parked.
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  The air traffic control is controlled with cameras, so
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  there's a camera that looks at your vehicle and on the roof
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  there is an elevator door. All right, I, I suppose Vandell
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  and I will head down. You're going to need to figure
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  out how to put the the satellite in a inconspicuous place.
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  So good luck. I'm going to grab our box and
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  head in. All right, so who?
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  Who's on? Who's on Team Iona?
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  Iona and Vandell. I can go with Iona.
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  That's it. I mean, I guess I could be a
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  part of it too. Yeah.
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  No, no hold. On, no, I think, I think you
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  have to be because who's going to install?
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  We need you to to install it, yes.
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  Well, I mean, I I can't imagine it can't be that difficult.
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  Did it come with it's IKEA instructions?
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  I I don't I if I have. To be.
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  Completely honest, I don't think it's a plug and play.
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  It is not a plug and play, but maybe we can let retro in
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  through the window and then that's a bit more conspicuous
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  because I think we can blag having a doctor here because
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  Biotechnica bio, it's tough. I've got it, I've got it.
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  Here's what we do. Team Iona goes down to the floor
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  62 offered 62 with the thing that they need to to put in the
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  other thing. And here's here's the real
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  genius of this plane. You guys are going to love it.
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  Me and Retro, we're going to be out here because we have no
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  business being inside Biotechnica.
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  So we'll be outside of Biotechnica installing said dish
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  on the outside where it needs to be installed.
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  If you do remember while we are doing the installation, if you
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  all have any issues, any problems at all on how to
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  install the thing that you need to install and the place that
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  you need to install it, you just give us a ring and our boy Retro
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  Hero just give you a step by step instructions.
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  OK. OK.
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  And I mean hands in everyone, hands in Iona, hands in.
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  You can hover. You can hover it above. 321 team
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  go. Team all.
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  Right, OK, y'all have fun now team, team Iona have fun.
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  Remember y'all belong here. All right.
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  We belong here. I I I too I I literally work
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  here. Yeah.
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  Iona and Vendel and VV get inside the elevator.
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  We start making your way down. Megan my.
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  Oh I love, I love this dynamic elevator where the where I can
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  see the the windows of light pass.
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  I can tell I'm moving from floor to floor.
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  It's very immersive. Jeff, you're doing a really good
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  job being a leader. Hey, thanks, Retro.
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  Appreciate that. You're here over the radio.
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  All right, when we get to floor 62, all we have to do is get
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  inside of my owner's old office, put this box, lay a cable
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  towards the wall, and hopefully, like, sneak it through to retro
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  and then we can get out of here. I'm sure nothing else will get
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  in the way. Oh, I shouldn't have said that,
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  should I? I'm sorry.
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  It's great. Actually, I'm going to, I'm
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  going to send a message to Fresh real fast, just a little voice
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  recording Fresh. If you get this in the next, I
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  don't know, 30 seconds, could you do a little look in the
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  directory and tell me who is in the office number 2 on the 62nd
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  floor currently? I just want to make sure that
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  we're not walking into something, I don't know, tense.
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  He calls you back. Hi, Iona.
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  HelloFresh. Yeah, Office two.
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  Yeah. I mean, it's just there's a guy
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  in middle management in there. Do you want to look up his name?
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  Can I take a wild guess at his name?
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  His name's Mark Siger. Siger.
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  Siger. Yep, Yep.
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  I was just scrolling through my notes in my phone to find his
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  name and that is him. Yep.
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  Is that? Bad.
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  It's not great, it's not great. I don't quite remember what he
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  can pin me for, but he did see me while he was abducted.
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  Yeah, he saw you at the Maelstrom place and he walked
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  through all the dead bodies that you were sitting there and he
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  didn't see Vendel, but. I I was in the car.
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  I was in, I was in the vehicle. Yeah, but it was obvious that
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  you were part of what Vivi was doing.
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  He also knows what Vivi looks like.
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  Man, it could. Have been worse.
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  It could have been Mr. White. Vandel, you're going to have to
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  take point. Here, take my jacket.
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  What? Take my excess pass.
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  Yes, this, this. This person knows who I am, and
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  they know who Phoebe is. And you're going to need to
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  convince them to remove themselves from the office
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  because they don't know who you are.
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  It has been 13 years since the world nearly split in two.
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  Those of us that knew of the cataclysm at the time have tried
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  to move on. However, as the lines between
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  worlds started to thin again, it was only ever a matter of time
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  before something terrible started to pay attention.
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  But who will stand at the gates for us?
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  Why 4 employees at Thorn Investigations, of course.
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  At least I can do for you know all that you do for me.
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  My reflection looked. Back distorted.
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  There's absolutely nothing normal.
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  About this, this wasn't right from the start.
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  So why don't you tell me? The bits you're leaving out.
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• 11:18
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• 11:22
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• 11:24
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  January 2025, or if you'd like, go listen to our first season.
• 11:34
  Whatever the case, we'll be happy to have you.
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  Just be ready to be scared. Meanwhile, on the roof of the
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  Biotechnica building, Retro rolls a 29 on Basic Tech and Jeb
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  A20 on Stealth, meaning this satellite dish has been
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  installed clandestinely. You're in the window cleaner
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  elevator with a cable in your hand.
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  I can't imagine that the people, if anyone looks outside, they're
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  not going to be like, Oh my God, that's a, that's a bad cable.
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  They're not supposed to have that cable.
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  But I feel like we're probably OK if we just have a cable and
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  as we're, you know, cleaning windows.
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  What do you think? Yeah.
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  I mean, if, if it's I, I feel if it's part of the, you know,
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  construction efforts for running that lift anyways, it's a safety
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  cable in case the lift happens to break.
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  Sounds like current SOP kind of deal.
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  That way Biotechnica wouldn't be liable if their equipment seemed
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  to break and then have two people killed on their property.
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  There you are. Exactly.
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  It's all about safety. It's the only thing we care
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  about is. That what Jeb says.
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  Plus we're outside, no? No, that's why it didn't sound
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  like Jeb I. Was going to say, besides, we're
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  also outside. The drones inside don't care
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  about the blue collar working class, so who's going to say
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  anything? No, but what Jeb says is, man,
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  there's cable. You think?
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  You think it looks suspicious at all?
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  I mean. No.
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  No, I. Suppose we should move on, then
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  when? When do you think it would be a
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  good time to start the actual window cleaning you know?
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  I'm I, well, I mean, I'm, I'm running off off your plan, Jeb,
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  you got to, you got to, you know, set, set the timer for
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  that. I guess I just, I mean, I just
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  thought maybe you know, maybe you have more experience with
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  the window cleaning. I don't know why I think that,
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  but it just. Why?
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  Because I've done blue collar work so automatically I seem to
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  know everything. Right, what do?
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  You think I just go and put in light bulbs all day or chase
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  down nails to go and put in the wood?
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  Is that what you think of Jeb? I mean, I think between the two
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  of us, it's more likely that you would.
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  Yeah. I mean, am I wrong?
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  I here hold on. One SEC.
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  One SEC, One SEC. Hey, Iona.
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  Yes. Yeah.
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  Just a quick question. Nothing.
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  Sorry. Sorry, guys.
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  Well, one moment Jeb is calling me.
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  Yeah, I'm sorry. What were you saying?
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  Yeah. Sorry.
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  Just wondering, between the two of between the two of us, me and
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  me and Retro, which one do you think is most likely to change
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  light bulbs, hammer would nail into wood and clean windows?
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  Remy. Yep, thank you very much.
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  I don't understand. It was you see, I I don't, I
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  don't know what to tell you. I mean the ass Iona, that's a
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  biased source, but all right, fair enough, I guess.
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  So with that being said. Well.
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  Why don't we just start? Why don't we just start cleaning
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  now here do you? Should we ask VV to get you, you
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  know, a special adrenaline steroid cocktail so you can
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  learn how to actually move your arm up and down to clean a
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  window properly? I can show you the proper
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  technique. I mean, I feel like proper
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  technique is paramount to this charade that we are putting out.
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  Well, they got any scream sheets because the only way to make
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  sure you don't leave streaks is you got to use newspaper.
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  Aha, I knew you knew what you were doing.
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  Fuck. And as you're standing on the
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  side of this building, the the. Cable that no one knows goes
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  anywhere. That nobody knows goes anywhere.
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  The cable you here to the South. Oh, fork.
• 15:51
  Is it you're late? Role perception.
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  All right. But I, I was like, I can't
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  remember the name. I think I know who it is, but I
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  can't remember the name. Good now role local expert all.
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  Right, I have. No idea where that is.
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  It's in education towards the bottom.
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  Retro, you recognize the voice? Oh, it's not bad, Lance.
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  It's Night City. But that's bad, Lance.
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  Well then I'm screwed. You, I would no, I'd say you.
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  Oh no, because you actually have to level it up with points and
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  stuff, don't you? Points and stuff do.
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  You want to roll it anyway. No.
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  No. I wouldn't hear you.
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  Hit the. Character.
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  You hear a distinctly Irish voice but can't pin it.
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  It's familiar. Yeah, it sounds very much like
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  that guy from that one TV show that I think I remember.
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  I I'm blanking on the name. Can with that.
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  Does it help me remember the name?
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  Because I. Think.
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  We we convinced him to come outside and smoke a cigarette
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  with us, didn't we? Oh, I don't remember at all, to
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  be honest. Well, I trust you.
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  Do I just make up a name or do I go with?
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  I think you just say hey, oh hey you buddy friend.
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  Oh, hey, hey, Tim. It's Ted.
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  I think that's what you said you.
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  Said take up the first one. Hello there, troll.
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  Hey Ted, love your love, love your talks.
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  You seem a little down though. Yeah, well do.
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  You want to have a talk with me, I mean.
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  Sure. Do you want a SIP?
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  And he hands you his boost. Sure, yeah, I love a boost.
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  I'm going to I'm going to feign taking a drink.
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  So like just keep my mouth completely pursed and like.
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  You're retro. Yeah.
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  Yeah, I'll let you have that. Cheers.
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  Cheers. They've been fired.
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  Fired. What'd you do?
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  Well, they found me weed. Oh, and it wasn't biotechnical
• 18:30
  weed. Yeah, no, no, the one I was grow
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  in. But also I left the back door
• 18:36
  open like 3 times and apparently somebody died.
• 18:39
  Somebody died because a back door was left open.
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  Or you know. Or somebody died because of your
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  weed. Do you know?
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  HR hasn't told me yet. So wait, I mean, the weave thing
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  is a very unfortunate. It's the back door thing.
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  The back door thing. I'm in my mind when you're
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  telling me this makes me think that there's literal doors on
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  this building that just lead to outside and people open it and
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  just walk right out. Yeah, on the ground floor, you
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  know, I'd go out the back door for a smoke.
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  Yeah. That they took away.
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  And then, so then they went out that back door and they died.
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  No, no, someone came in and fucking marked someone on floor
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  7. Oh my.
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  Oh well, that's on security. That's not on you.
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  I let him in so. OK, well then that is you.
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  That is your fault. No, definitely, yeah, no, I
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  said. Goodbye, that's for sure.
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  We might have shared a cigarette, I'm not entirely
• 19:46
  sure. I was quite high at the time.
• 19:48
  You know, you might want to get a lawyer before bringing that
• 19:51
  stuff up to the HR. Yeah, shouldn't also let them
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  catch me drinking this boost on the outside of the building.
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  Oh, you're already fired though, So what does it matter?
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  We're going to do double fire you.
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  They can do that. What do you mean it's me?
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  Why you? Well, you are the only one that
• 20:22
  hasn't been seen, so you're going to have to leave this one.
• 20:29
  OK, but but you're going to you're going to tell me what to
• 20:32
  say, right? Yes, of course.
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  Right. OK, I will be feeding you lines
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  in your ear. OK, cool.
• 20:44
  Where are we going to be during all this?
• 20:49
  Is there is a janitorial closet 3 Doors Down from my old office?
• 20:58
  OK, that should work then. It is locked though I'm sure, so
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  I'm not positive how to get in there.
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  I'm not very good with lock picking.
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  We can break in. All right, sure, I got.
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  It if we can. OK.
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  So you're inside of this elevator.
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  Do you hand your jacket to Bendel?
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  Yes. OK, Bendel takes your jacket and
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  puts it on. Oh, it's a little big.
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  Yeah, well, I'm smaller than you, so.
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  I know it's all these muscles. I'm not as as as stacked.
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  Hiya. Is that the right word?
• 21:46
  I said the wrong thing. I'm OK I I, I am canonically
• 21:50
  stacked, yes. Do I have a homonym A.
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  Homonym A What did somebody say? I.
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  Was. Trying.
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  To do a joke and I. Laughed at myself.
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  I'm dumb. Do I have a homonym?
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  I don't know what a homonym is. You know, a pretend name.
• 22:19
  Pseudonym. But a pseudonym?
• 22:23
  Pseudonym. That's the right word.
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  Would would you like 1? I mean, if, if, if he looks me
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  up in if I say I'm Vendell, he'll know I'm you.
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  You'll. Right.
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  Oh yes, Jackie. Jackie.
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  Malone. Jackie Malone.
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  Jackie. Jackie Malone.
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  I don't know. I'm not.
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  I made-up a name. I hope that that's.
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  OK, Jackie Malone. That doesn't really roll the
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  tongue. What about oh?
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  I liked it OK. Jackie Masons.
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  Jackie Masons Mason. Masons OK.
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  Masons Masons. I'm Jackie Masons and I'm head
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  of. Research and development, I
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  suppose. Research and development in a
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  level. 4 program. Look at me.
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  Yes. Cool as you're acting.
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  And the elevator door opens. Ping.
• 23:37
  Iona gets a buzz on their agent. I look at my agent.
• 23:47
  Can biotechnical double fire someone?
• 23:50
  Yes, we have done that before where they were Oh, it's like
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  fire and then exile. What?
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  What do you mean say yes? Is that Ted?
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  I yes, both ways. What?
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  Yes to you, and also yes to the person I'm talking to.
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  I'm very. Confused.
• 24:21
  Obviously you should be. You're drinking.
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  Boots in the middle. Of the in the middle of the
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  morning, he doesn't know yet. He says he's fired, but he
• 24:28
  doesn't know if he's double fired yet.
• 24:31
  HR have my weed. HR has this weed.
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  Your your, your your weed. You have.
• 24:38
  You have. My weed is in HR if if I got it
• 24:41
  back, you know if I snuck into HR and stole it back then I
• 24:44
  wouldn't get that strike because they have no evidence and I'd be
• 24:47
  on one strike left. Well, what about the cameras?
• 24:53
  If you delete the cameras you get the weed.
• 24:55
  You do you. Might have to delete the camera
• 24:58
  to your right Jeb. Yep.
• 25:03
  Yep, actually, I'm on speaker, aren't I?
• 25:07
  Yes. I thought.
• 25:09
  That's not you saying things. I thought it was coming out of
• 25:12
  my speaker. Are you?
• 25:14
  Did you put on speaker? You didn't tell me.
• 25:17
  That I'm retro I I have the ability to put on speaker.
• 25:19
  In my eyes I am aware you do. But you didn't say, darling.
• 25:22
  I didn't know. But wait, wait, hold on, is
• 25:27
  that? Iona, I mean hello, Hello,
• 25:32
  Master. Fuck.
• 25:33
  What did what did they like, Master?
• 25:36
  Great. And land cucumber sandwiches.
• 25:44
  They prefer Iona, prefers their lordship.
• 25:49
  Bruce, their lordship, I'm going to roll.
• 25:54
  Resist torture drugs. He's drank enough of this boost.
• 26:01
  I wrote a fucking 9. Yeah.
• 26:06
  Which means if we. Look it up.
• 26:08
  Yeah, OK. His intelligence has increased
• 26:11
  by two. Wow.
• 26:14
  Oh, he can mastermind the plan now.
• 26:17
  Now it's time to do it. He's got smarter, yeah.
• 26:21
  He's got I. Was I was slightly confused
• 26:24
  because I was like if your weed is better than the weed that
• 26:28
  Biotechnica makes, wouldn't biotechnic event want your weed
• 26:33
  because it's the better product? Well, sort of, but they also are
• 26:38
  more pissed off about the man who died on floor 7.
• 26:41
  Someone died on floor 70. Yeah, assassinated.
• 26:47
  They're sad. Whoa.
• 26:50
  Yeah, it was common at first fault.
• 26:53
  Murked. Oh, who died?
• 26:57
  It wasn't an accident. Oh, right.
• 27:00
  No, no, no, no. It wasn't an accident.
• 27:02
  It was targeted. What's his face from the place
• 27:07
  you know? Mark.
• 27:10
  Right, Mark. Greg or George or Mark?
• 27:13
  Some guy. Not Mike.
• 27:15
  No, no, no, no. It was on floor 70.
• 27:18
  Is that Phoebe? Hi.
• 27:20
  Am I on speaker? Yeah, you're on speaker.
• 27:27
  There's a speaker. Speaker.
• 27:30
  Do you need to? I guess I'm this is another
• 27:32
  story. Group call.
• 27:36
  Teams meeting. Sorry, sorry comrades meeting.
• 27:45
  But in any case, that's a problem because I let the guy
• 27:49
  in, so I let the guy in. Well.
• 27:56
  You know. The the weed and the
• 27:59
  assassination act. I hate to tell you, Ted, you
• 28:01
  might be double fired. So oh you I'd like the plan that
• 28:06
  you came up with. I think that you should follow
• 28:08
  through. Right.
• 28:10
  He gets up. Right, she says.
• 28:12
  So I'll be having you boys. Do I really have to jump off the
• 28:17
  building? Why would you jump?
• 28:20
  Oh why that's not part of your plan.
• 28:23
  Well, I know that's why I was. I'd put Dutch courage, not Dutch
• 28:28
  Irish I suppose. Get back inside the building,
• 28:33
  that's where your weed is. Yeah, and also the video
• 28:36
  cameras, the erase so they can't double fire you.
• 28:40
  Mission. All right.
• 28:43
  Well, if you feel like helping me, that would be great.
• 28:48
  I suppose I was more meant to be a plot hook than anything else.
• 28:51
  I'll see you. In a bit and he walks into the
• 28:52
  bathroom leaving it OK. Is it a plot hook that we've
• 28:57
  completely like? No, he still has to have that.
• 29:03
  OK. All right, well, retro, I guess.
• 29:09
  We keep cleaning me. You guys clean that'll, that'll
• 29:16
  be good. Do you think we should use Ted
• 29:17
  as a distraction? Kind of feel like he's hard.
• 29:21
  He's doing it himself. We didn't even have to ask,
• 29:23
  really. Yeah, is he, is he high right
• 29:26
  now? He's not high, but definitely
• 29:30
  drunk. But it seems like to me he's got
• 29:34
  to that weird drunk that is only ever legendary when you drink so
• 29:40
  much that you suddenly have a burst of inspiration.
• 29:45
  That's that, you know, that very well could be it.
• 29:47
  But also I feel like when he's drunk he's probably a
• 29:51
  notoriously low roller. As opposed.
• 29:55
  To a high roll, you got a low roll to get high at some point.
• 29:59
  True. You got to take some risks,
• 30:02
  right, Jeff? Yay, you just got to get in
• 30:06
  there. But what I mean is that he
• 30:07
  probably won't do this very well.
• 30:10
  You've got our number. We're speaking with getting in
• 30:13
  there. We, we, we have to get in this
• 30:15
  office. The elevator begins to Ding as
• 30:18
  Vendel was holding the door open.
• 30:19
  We probably should go. Yeah, OK, good talking to you.
• 30:24
  Click. OK, so Vendel's going in the
• 30:33
  room while we hide in the closet and make sure that everything
• 30:36
  goes well, listening in. Yes, Mendel, you, you are GM.
• 30:46
  Yes. Would I know that Mark is
• 30:49
  associated with any other like in employees here?
• 30:55
  Like does he have a underling or a supervisor that I would know?
• 31:03
  He does have an assistant. You don't know who they are.
• 31:07
  You know that he's in middle management and his department is
• 31:10
  into department communications. So he's essentially a corporate
• 31:14
  gossip. Great.
• 31:18
  All right, Vendel. Yes.
• 31:23
  Mark is kind of a sleaze. It's just part of the job.
• 31:29
  He'll try to sweet talk you out of whatever you're you're trying
• 31:32
  to do. What I need you to do is to
• 31:35
  scare him. We want, we want him to fear for
• 31:41
  his job, mostly OK, but maybe for his life.
• 31:45
  OK. I want you to go in there and
• 31:50
  accuse him of leaking the next level of body fuel bite because
• 31:59
  you just received an e-mail from an anonymous source.
• 32:05
  OK, so I'm Jackie Masons. Yes.
• 32:10
  I know you've got body fuel bite to the revenge and you can't
• 32:29
  tell people about that because it's not done.
• 32:32
  And and if you do, I mean, I've got evidence that you did it.
• 32:36
  I've got I've got the emails like that.
• 32:40
  Yes, I and I, I'm going to grab Vendel by the shoulders and look
• 32:45
  at me directly. OK, it's your jacket, so I
• 32:47
  guess. You can do this.
• 32:52
  I can do this. You have you have grown so much.
• 32:58
  Yeah, the the the leg gave me an extra inch in height.
• 33:04
  Linda, you know what I mean. OK.
• 33:06
  You've got this is what I mean. OK, I got this.
• 33:09
  I know what I mean. We are right here.
• 33:13
  I, Jim. Yes.
• 33:19
  I would like to get fresh to tap my eye into the camera in the
• 33:23
  office. Yeah.
• 33:24
  Can I do that? He's you.
• 33:26
  You could you go and talk to him in person?
• 33:27
  He's in the hallway. He has an open cubicle in this
• 33:30
  hallway. You already know that, so you
• 33:31
  can just like exit the elevator and walk down the hallway to the
• 33:34
  east. Perfect.
• 33:36
  OK. So if you want you can just drag
• 33:38
  Vendel to fresh, you can go do that.
• 33:40
  Sure. We're going to make a quick
• 33:42
  stop, OK, to see fresh so that I can see what is happening in the
• 33:48
  room and I can feed you a line if I need to.
• 33:52
  OK. You pull VV and Vendel out of
• 33:55
  the elevator and head down the corridor.
• 33:58
  I think fresh is 2/3 sick 6th cubicle along.
• 34:06
  Also, it looks like cubicles one and a three are are open if we
• 34:11
  need that. Oh yeah, beautiful.
• 34:17
  Right hiding and like. We could, yeah.
• 34:21
  We maybe we don't have to go on the Janitor class, but.
• 34:23
  We could just maybe. Yeah, I mean, it's harder to
• 34:26
  hide in one of the cubicles, I guess.
• 34:28
  True, true. And and the janitorial staff
• 34:34
  comes at night, so. Also, it's Ted and he's standing
• 34:37
  on in. He's in the bathroom.
• 34:39
  Oh, right. Oh.
• 34:41
  Right here, fresh, I need you to.
• 34:48
  That's not better. Could you do me a a very good
• 34:57
  favour? And I guess that it's not a
• 34:59
  favour, it's a request from your boss, right?
• 35:02
  Yeah. I I thought.
• 35:03
  That was weird. You, you tell.
• 35:04
  Me what to do? Could you please connect my
• 35:10
  cyber eye to the camera circuit on this floor?
• 35:16
  On this floor. Yes, I need to be able to see
• 35:20
  into the office that I used to occupy.
• 35:34
  Next time on no latency. I took you on.
• 35:43
  Carrots. Lots and lots of carrots.
• 35:45
  To let us know when to kind of slip this year cable.
• 35:49
  I need someone to be able to get in and, you know, get that
• 35:52
  window open. I hate when my actions have
• 35:54
  consequences. Just in case you look a little
• 35:56
  wobbly. Yeah, tell me, tell me.
• 35:57
  I was, I was trying to multitask and I, I don't have the, I don't
• 36:00
  have the skill set quite yet. Oh, they're a corporal.
• 36:03
  They're not really paying attention.
• 36:04
  Case of the Mondays. That's so funny.
• 36:08
  Did you come up with? That gosh, I really do have huge
• 36:10
  tits. Oh.
• 36:12
  Yes, and she's busy right now testing out some new prototypes.
• 36:17
  You said this was an optional meeting and I actually wasn't
• 36:20
  here for the optional meeting. Bring out the bat.
• 36:23
  It's your it's your job to pay attention to things.
• 36:25
  So pay attention to me for a moment.
• 36:26
  But we're busy, Doctor. Bring out the bat.
• 36:29
  We're busy right now, OK? And you are insistent about
• 36:32
  this? Goddamn optional.
• 36:34
  Is a doctor. Meeting.
• 36:59
  Hey, thanks, Retro. Appreciate that.
• 37:00
  You can go ahead and put that in earlier.
• 37:04
  Future Paris. Thank you.
• 37:10
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