1 00:00:07,053 --> 00:00:26,243 As I turn around in that thick ponytail braid, flipping to my back as I turn, and I'm like, so doctor, um you were mentioning the symbiote for the lack of better word, that's. 2 00:00:26,307 --> 00:00:29,389 Now inside him needs to be fed. 3 00:00:31,471 --> 00:00:43,929 as a caregiver for a short period and maybe an educator, once we get out of here, can you tell me a little more about, um, about what he needs, when, why, anything. 4 00:00:44,743 --> 00:00:52,867 Well, I haven't seen an infection from the swamp things. 5 00:00:52,867 --> 00:00:57,548 I think the verdant path, folks. 6 00:00:57,829 --> 00:01:05,092 And so I'm not quite sure, but it's definitely a different strain from what I have. 7 00:01:05,092 --> 00:01:12,735 m But some heavy metals here and there when he's hungry should... 8 00:01:13,331 --> 00:01:29,098 Okay, there probably will be no cure, but I'm hoping that the sodium I put in his system kills most of it But my guess is it was a little late for that usually have about 48 hours 9 00:01:29,098 --> 00:01:40,083 from what I've seen but His case is more severe he'll just need to eat metal like I would Recommend 10 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:47,423 Mercury in small doses and taking lead and grinding it down and putting it into capsules. 11 00:01:48,184 --> 00:02:01,030 There are uh plenty of strategies to give him a long life, but just know, m depending on who you are and who your connections are, he will be haunted. 12 00:02:03,492 --> 00:02:10,055 We are, for lack of a better term, special in a way that scares. 13 00:02:11,035 --> 00:02:15,026 lot of the powers that be out there. 14 00:02:15,418 --> 00:02:17,978 What do mean, uh, hunted? 15 00:02:17,978 --> 00:02:23,418 Hunted by the powers that be, if you will, but like, not a police officer. 16 00:02:23,418 --> 00:02:26,178 Is it the Boogeyman? 17 00:02:26,178 --> 00:02:26,638 Who? 18 00:02:26,638 --> 00:02:27,129 Who? 19 00:02:27,129 --> 00:02:34,894 Well, I couldn't help myself and I had to know which boogeymen you are. 20 00:02:35,235 --> 00:02:40,819 So I dug through your duffel out on the ATV and saw your weaponry. 21 00:02:40,819 --> 00:02:47,283 um My guess is you know exactly what type of boogeymen I'm talking about. 22 00:02:47,283 --> 00:02:52,307 oh I bring that to you with no offense or judgment. 23 00:02:52,307 --> 00:02:55,139 um There are... 24 00:02:55,139 --> 00:03:03,694 various unnatural things out in the swamp that attract people of your kind, my kind, those who study, those who kill. 25 00:03:03,694 --> 00:03:07,979 um And it seems like you're the killing type. 26 00:03:07,979 --> 00:03:12,697 If you weren't here for me and you were here for them, what were you going to do to them? 27 00:03:12,697 --> 00:03:15,518 Well, story about that. 28 00:03:15,779 --> 00:03:16,929 I don't truly know. 29 00:03:16,929 --> 00:03:24,084 Your uh shot in the dark at me being the killy type is half true, I suppose. 30 00:03:24,084 --> 00:03:33,589 uh I kill when I need to, but realistically, if I don't have to, I'm just here for the ride and the education a bit. 31 00:03:33,589 --> 00:03:40,622 um So it sounds like, and pardon me for not being, you 32 00:03:40,622 --> 00:03:43,223 forthwith with this information I... 33 00:03:43,585 --> 00:03:55,055 walking into this place I didn't know if you would pull a gun out and shoot me right in the head anyways it seems like you and I have come to some type of balance and nobody's 34 00:03:55,156 --> 00:04:01,133 necessarily after the other person and we're both here uh learning like uh I mentioned but... 35 00:04:01,133 --> 00:04:09,954 Right, um so you being the studying type, uh what exactly are you studying out here? 36 00:04:09,954 --> 00:04:18,460 Well, there are creatures who are attracted to areas like this. 37 00:04:18,460 --> 00:04:36,520 That swamp is, I guess, soaked in mercury, and it attracts types of beings, and I think they at one point were here and left their cultures in the swamp, and it's been infected. 38 00:04:36,580 --> 00:04:40,523 with them before any of us were alive. 39 00:04:41,904 --> 00:04:55,074 That's why I'm here, is to study those cultures, because my infection, while not m from the swamp, was some years ago at a previous employer. 40 00:04:55,495 --> 00:05:05,603 And I just spent some time searching and searching around areas that were heavy in copper, lead, and mercury. 41 00:05:06,437 --> 00:05:10,240 when I finally found this area and the... 42 00:05:12,822 --> 00:05:20,247 I hate to call them creatures, but they are creatures at this point, but the people who live in the swamp. 43 00:05:22,730 --> 00:05:25,211 Yes, yes, the burden path. 44 00:05:26,053 --> 00:05:27,634 They were a cult at one point. 45 00:05:27,634 --> 00:05:35,720 m And I just decided to study and figure out what was infecting me and... 46 00:05:35,866 --> 00:05:44,790 That's when I found balance with it by studying the cultures in the area and trying to balance them with what was in me. 47 00:05:44,790 --> 00:05:52,984 And I found a balance between those cultures and the lead that I take. 48 00:05:53,035 --> 00:05:56,378 Alright, so information seeking through and through. 49 00:05:56,980 --> 00:06:00,043 As you know, I am part of the Boogeyman. 50 00:06:00,043 --> 00:06:04,147 uh At least one of them. 51 00:06:04,228 --> 00:06:09,274 It sounds like this information that you're gleaning and pushing and pulling for. 52 00:06:09,274 --> 00:06:12,677 uh You're not hesitant about sharing. 53 00:06:12,738 --> 00:06:13,640 Why is that? 54 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:17,720 Well, um, I... 55 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:23,691 I knew who I was employed with and I knew that I would be burned if anything like this happened. 56 00:06:23,691 --> 00:06:39,362 I guess you can call me old and a little disillusioned and cynical about that whole process, but my end is near and I guess I don't care anymore. 57 00:06:39,362 --> 00:06:46,993 Is there a timeline on, and she turns around and looks at Dell, on Dell as well. 58 00:06:46,993 --> 00:06:50,566 Oh, no, no, my end is near by choice. 59 00:06:50,566 --> 00:06:54,709 can hopefully live a long life when he glances over. 60 00:06:54,709 --> 00:06:56,801 um That's his name, Del. 61 00:06:56,801 --> 00:06:58,572 Okay, thank you. 62 00:06:58,643 --> 00:07:05,318 I was wondering who I was treating, but I didn't want to invade his privacy. 63 00:07:06,239 --> 00:07:10,402 No, no, no, I am choosing my end as I see fit. 64 00:07:10,402 --> 00:07:16,247 um But my timeline has been extended. 65 00:07:17,537 --> 00:07:19,635 for lack of a better term. 66 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:21,357 Not by my choice, though. 67 00:07:21,357 --> 00:07:22,189 What? 68 00:07:22,193 --> 00:07:23,440 Well that's ominous. 69 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:24,707 What do you mean by that? 70 00:07:24,707 --> 00:07:27,958 Uh, well, I was working with another... 71 00:07:27,958 --> 00:07:33,600 It's hard to call him a researcher, but he's gone dark on me. 72 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:38,732 He was getting data from me and trying to find some... 73 00:07:39,332 --> 00:07:46,746 Well, I guess um something I was missing um for my end. 74 00:07:46,746 --> 00:07:54,866 missing for your end so you need help to bring your story to a close? 75 00:07:55,334 --> 00:07:56,527 I was looking for it. 76 00:07:56,527 --> 00:08:02,186 And is this, why I guess is the reason. 77 00:08:02,528 --> 00:08:03,449 Question. 78 00:08:04,532 --> 00:08:14,170 My end is a tapestry or a puzzle and I've only got one piece of that tapestry in this swamp and I believe he was close to the other. 79 00:08:14,170 --> 00:08:20,748 Alright, well, I guess information is a give and take type bit, isn't it? 80 00:08:20,748 --> 00:08:28,076 And I'll take my gloves off and tuck them in my pocket and I'll walk up right in front of them and put my hand out for a handshake. 81 00:08:28,076 --> 00:08:35,354 And I'll be like, my name is uh Morgan Barone, agent Morgan Barone, and I put my hand out for a handshake. 82 00:08:35,594 --> 00:08:42,889 Yeah, he shakes your hand back, his touch is cold, and you get a better look at the tinge of his skin. 83 00:08:42,889 --> 00:08:47,712 It does have a jaundice-type yellow with purplish veins under it. 84 00:08:47,712 --> 00:09:02,273 Alright, well there's a bit of information and then I'll pull up a chair and flip it around backwards and sit on it with my legs coolly draping over the top, er, not legs, my 85 00:09:02,273 --> 00:09:08,598 elbows coolly crossed and draping over the, yeah, just kick them up, fuck it, let's, hey, we're best friends now, whatever. 86 00:09:08,598 --> 00:09:10,922 This is uh fine. 87 00:09:10,922 --> 00:09:17,358 um 88 00:09:17,358 --> 00:09:23,343 god he as you as you do that he says well, I 89 00:09:23,350 --> 00:09:28,090 I have a sneaking suspicion that those creatures weren't who you're here for. 90 00:09:28,090 --> 00:09:30,862 I believe you are actually here. 91 00:09:31,024 --> 00:09:33,126 And you know me. 92 00:09:33,130 --> 00:09:35,270 Or by name at least. 93 00:09:35,692 --> 00:09:36,744 Are you here for me? 94 00:09:36,744 --> 00:09:39,975 Honestly, yes, pretty much. 95 00:09:39,975 --> 00:09:51,138 ah I would be lying if I said I wasn't relieved that this didn't turn into another bloodbath and we could actually just sit here and talk like, like people. 96 00:09:51,499 --> 00:09:59,031 I may be decidedly uneducated on a number of things and you're willing to share what is in your head there. 97 00:09:59,031 --> 00:10:01,982 So I am all ears. 98 00:10:04,570 --> 00:10:07,052 I don't have much more to share about my story. 99 00:10:07,052 --> 00:10:23,002 I've told you what I can, em but your story ends here, but there's a way you can walk away from this without extinguishing my flame. 100 00:10:23,002 --> 00:10:24,273 Hmm, that's a good question. 101 00:10:24,273 --> 00:10:28,757 We were told our mission is to take care of the problem. 102 00:10:30,099 --> 00:10:31,911 Bring him to our side. 103 00:10:31,911 --> 00:10:35,955 those were pretty much our two options handed down by our handler, correct? 104 00:10:35,955 --> 00:10:38,995 Okay, okay. 105 00:10:38,995 --> 00:10:41,160 Del is still decidedly unconscious. 106 00:10:41,463 --> 00:10:43,879 Can Del hear me talking right now? 107 00:10:44,623 --> 00:10:48,768 Still, give a willpower roll, or sorry, a pow times five. 108 00:10:48,768 --> 00:10:50,833 That's got to be close. 109 00:10:51,327 --> 00:10:53,247 How to have 565, yeah. 110 00:10:53,607 --> 00:11:18,030 All right, you can hear through the veils of your comatose reality, this conversation, the revealing of his unnatural, um I guess, his unnatural. 111 00:11:18,973 --> 00:11:20,666 bent towards the world. 112 00:11:20,666 --> 00:11:23,589 Feels a little disgusting as you hear it. 113 00:11:23,590 --> 00:11:35,166 It's a little perverted, but you get the sense that he has saved your life, so it doesn't cause you too much anxiety. 114 00:11:35,807 --> 00:11:50,664 uh I think that in this comatose state, like while the words are coming through, it's almost like in a dream where you can incorporate some of the features around you, right? 115 00:11:50,664 --> 00:12:02,899 And so I was um in a long past memory where I was going through a drive-through to get a double cheeseburger for my dog in the passenger seat and all of a sudden, 116 00:12:03,261 --> 00:12:12,477 you know, after the attendant had just taken my money, she starts speaking to me um about these extra planetary goings-ons. 117 00:12:12,477 --> 00:12:20,682 And it doesn't make sense, but it does make sense as we are just standing there and her microphone is kind of like, you know, cascading static about the Dr. 118 00:12:20,682 --> 00:12:23,003 Pepper that's being ordered behind us. 119 00:12:23,023 --> 00:12:29,758 And it's very surreal, but I am starting to be able to kind of piece together what is of that world and of this world. 120 00:12:29,758 --> 00:12:31,489 Beautiful, love it. 121 00:12:31,489 --> 00:12:49,140 Yeah, you are hearing the dialogue through that medium and sitting in a forever long drive through just hearing their voices through the PA system. 122 00:12:49,861 --> 00:12:52,203 Let's go back to Agent Ryan. 123 00:12:52,598 --> 00:12:53,732 No, okay, great. 124 00:12:53,732 --> 00:13:01,250 Agent Ryan, this swamp creature has lifted in front of you and has said hello to you. 125 00:13:01,444 --> 00:13:04,414 Do you respond or do you just stand in awe? 126 00:13:05,491 --> 00:13:10,707 stand off for a moment and then I say hi? 127 00:13:11,334 --> 00:13:15,175 Yeah, the croaky voice feels like it's recalibrating. 128 00:13:15,175 --> 00:13:16,311 It hums a little bit. 129 00:13:16,311 --> 00:13:17,074 like, 130 00:13:18,455 --> 00:13:31,091 strange, um no affect to it at all, and starts to stabilize through that humming. 131 00:13:31,091 --> 00:13:35,777 It says, you sang the song. 132 00:13:35,777 --> 00:13:36,228 oh 133 00:13:36,228 --> 00:13:37,862 What do you need? 134 00:13:37,899 --> 00:13:39,850 I need to know what you are. 135 00:13:39,850 --> 00:13:42,463 Yeah, it pauses. 136 00:13:42,801 --> 00:13:45,090 Do we know what you are? 137 00:13:45,090 --> 00:13:49,181 Brian Dwyer, this is you. 138 00:13:49,181 --> 00:13:50,814 Yes, that's me. 139 00:13:51,148 --> 00:13:52,902 We know it is you. 140 00:13:54,509 --> 00:13:57,249 And you want to know us. 141 00:13:57,249 --> 00:13:57,784 Yes. 142 00:13:57,784 --> 00:13:59,217 Will you help us? 143 00:13:59,752 --> 00:14:01,330 What does that mean? 144 00:14:01,330 --> 00:14:02,995 What does that entail? 145 00:14:03,109 --> 00:14:11,515 There was a time when you helped us before, but your help was insufficient. 146 00:14:11,515 --> 00:14:13,078 Will you help us again? 147 00:14:13,078 --> 00:14:14,063 I will help you. 148 00:14:14,063 --> 00:14:34,614 It opens another slit in reality and one of the tendrils comes out and pulls out a empty brain jar much like the one you saw before and it hovers in front of it. 149 00:14:35,066 --> 00:14:38,281 the swamp creature croaks a little bit. 150 00:14:39,124 --> 00:14:41,789 Would you, oh shit, you can hear that? 151 00:14:41,789 --> 00:14:42,730 Okay. 152 00:14:43,413 --> 00:14:45,726 Yeah, it's just a dude just like going. 153 00:14:47,056 --> 00:14:51,319 I could hear it too, but I wasn't sure because I can't hear like my... 154 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:55,834 It's probably both of us to be honest. 155 00:14:55,834 --> 00:14:57,781 It's probably mostly me though, right? 156 00:14:58,810 --> 00:14:59,925 Great, all the time. 157 00:14:59,925 --> 00:15:01,717 just gonna look and see what it is real quick. 158 00:15:02,211 --> 00:15:03,523 Yeah, sure, we could give it a sec. 159 00:15:03,523 --> 00:15:12,187 We have like these older neighbors that he'll like basically just blow everything from his yard into the road and leave it. 160 00:15:13,128 --> 00:15:15,088 Just, yeah. 161 00:15:15,103 --> 00:15:17,910 And it's like, that's just gonna blow into my yard. 162 00:15:18,403 --> 00:15:19,341 Yeah. 163 00:15:19,341 --> 00:15:22,970 have no trees in our yard yet we have all these tree leaves. 164 00:15:24,011 --> 00:15:25,724 Yeah, I think it's Don, though. 165 00:15:25,724 --> 00:15:26,550 Yeah, that guy. 166 00:15:26,550 --> 00:15:28,252 Yeah, it's definitely Don. 167 00:15:29,535 --> 00:15:31,385 He's a character for sure. 168 00:15:31,385 --> 00:15:32,682 Yeah, sorry guys. 169 00:15:32,682 --> 00:15:34,476 think he stopped. 170 00:15:35,502 --> 00:15:36,302 No. 171 00:15:37,571 --> 00:15:39,490 He's like riving it up right now. 172 00:15:39,490 --> 00:15:42,190 He's like, nyeh nyeh nyeh. 173 00:15:42,190 --> 00:15:43,725 mouth right now too. 174 00:15:44,389 --> 00:15:49,637 That's a power move before 10am my time on a Saturday. 175 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:51,400 Cigar. 176 00:15:51,573 --> 00:15:54,114 mowed, oh, the cigar, yeah, for sure. 177 00:15:54,114 --> 00:16:00,957 He'll be like walking down the street doing like calisthenics, but he has like a giant cigar like hanging out of his mouth. 178 00:16:01,818 --> 00:16:03,979 I know, he's classic. 179 00:16:04,819 --> 00:16:06,220 He's awesome. 180 00:16:07,961 --> 00:16:10,717 He's lived in this house for like 30 years or something. 181 00:16:10,717 --> 00:16:13,072 He like knows this neighborhood real well. 182 00:16:13,072 --> 00:16:13,835 It's funny. 183 00:16:13,835 --> 00:16:14,788 Okay. 184 00:16:15,903 --> 00:16:16,395 Nope. 185 00:16:16,395 --> 00:16:17,228 Oh, doll. 186 00:16:17,228 --> 00:16:19,208 can't hear it anymore. 187 00:16:20,591 --> 00:16:22,432 it just started back up. 188 00:16:22,613 --> 00:16:23,083 My bad. 189 00:16:23,083 --> 00:16:27,287 Yeah, I really wanted to know what the brain jar ask was. 190 00:16:27,287 --> 00:16:28,718 Fucking Dawn. 191 00:16:30,955 --> 00:16:32,056 Excuse me, Dawn. 192 00:16:32,056 --> 00:16:36,362 um We're in a pivotal moment in our podcast. 193 00:16:36,362 --> 00:16:38,415 An alien is handing me a brain jar. 194 00:16:38,415 --> 00:16:45,153 Do you mind just turning off the leaf blower for a minute? 195 00:16:45,163 --> 00:16:48,253 You could just make a canon pivot and send Ryan to go collect Dawn's 196 00:16:48,253 --> 00:16:50,975 Yeah, it's a good brain probably. 197 00:16:50,975 --> 00:16:52,464 He's still going at it. 198 00:16:53,228 --> 00:16:55,901 turn down my gain and then get really close. 199 00:16:55,901 --> 00:17:00,856 Yeah, is there no way to like, I don't know, cut the background noise and editing? 200 00:17:00,856 --> 00:17:06,849 You can, it's just if I'm talking over something like that, like while I talk, it'll definitely be there. 201 00:17:06,849 --> 00:17:10,255 So can you still hear it with my game down a lot? 202 00:17:10,472 --> 00:17:12,948 ah Can you mute yourself, Christina? 203 00:17:12,948 --> 00:17:13,716 Yeah, yeah 204 00:17:13,716 --> 00:17:14,139 talk. 205 00:17:14,139 --> 00:17:16,954 Yo yo yo yo, I am talking. 206 00:17:17,056 --> 00:17:19,313 Can you hear me or am I too quiet? 207 00:17:19,313 --> 00:17:20,286 no, you're perfect. 208 00:17:20,286 --> 00:17:22,282 Nick, can you mute yourself and Christina? 209 00:17:22,282 --> 00:17:23,175 We'll try you now. 210 00:17:23,175 --> 00:17:24,252 Hello? 211 00:17:24,452 --> 00:17:25,266 I think that's good. 212 00:17:25,266 --> 00:17:26,173 I think we're good. 213 00:17:26,173 --> 00:17:31,819 I think he actually stopped too, so right on cue. 214 00:17:32,474 --> 00:17:34,365 Yeah, I'll keep it down for now. 215 00:17:35,986 --> 00:17:47,112 This wriggling creature has pulled out what you know as the brain jar and set it right in front of you. 216 00:17:47,272 --> 00:17:55,616 It is floating in the air and the swamp creature, sorry, Christina, can you mute yourself? 217 00:17:55,616 --> 00:17:56,967 I can hear myself. 218 00:17:57,748 --> 00:17:59,213 There you go. 219 00:18:01,355 --> 00:18:05,848 Brain Jar sits there in front of you, an invitation almost. 220 00:18:05,848 --> 00:18:21,356 The swamp creature starts to jiggle, almost like in excitement, and its mouth opens and it says, to help, you must come with us. 221 00:18:21,837 --> 00:18:26,379 To come with us and survive the pressure of our world. 222 00:18:26,940 --> 00:18:28,920 This will be your new vessel. 223 00:18:29,799 --> 00:18:35,753 You can take some time to think about it, but you, this is a big choice in front of you. 224 00:18:35,753 --> 00:18:37,972 m 225 00:18:37,972 --> 00:18:39,506 I'm thinking a lot about. 226 00:18:39,506 --> 00:18:42,668 you know, what I would be leaving behind, obviously. 227 00:18:42,668 --> 00:18:52,796 um I've never been super fond of my physical being in this world. 228 00:18:52,796 --> 00:19:05,124 um So leaving, you know, that part behind while unimaginable, I don't have a super huge attachment to it. 229 00:19:05,605 --> 00:19:06,917 I am... 230 00:19:06,917 --> 00:19:25,597 considering, I mean, my sanity has gotten to the point, I think, where I am more likely to accept this new existence rather than. 231 00:19:25,687 --> 00:19:37,967 you know, except and accepting all of the consequences of the people in my world, including Barone and Dahl and what this might do to the mission, but also, you know, the 232 00:19:37,967 --> 00:19:43,554 bonds that I have back home thinking and weighing these things. 233 00:19:43,554 --> 00:19:45,542 You're asking me to put my brain in this thing? 234 00:19:45,542 --> 00:19:48,336 You cannot put your own brain in this thing. 235 00:19:48,398 --> 00:19:53,967 I will remove your brain, open the cylinder and put it in there. 236 00:19:54,019 --> 00:19:57,785 Brian cannot do this by yourself. 237 00:19:59,021 --> 00:19:59,683 Okay. 238 00:19:59,683 --> 00:20:02,342 um 239 00:20:02,342 --> 00:20:03,944 I'm gonna need a minute. 240 00:20:04,287 --> 00:20:05,280 Think about this. 241 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:08,900 Ryan needs a minute to think about this. 242 00:20:08,900 --> 00:20:11,820 Ryan, your time is very different from ours. 243 00:20:11,820 --> 00:20:15,931 A minute is 60 seconds. 244 00:20:15,931 --> 00:20:17,982 Okay, I mean, it's a figure of speech. 245 00:20:17,982 --> 00:20:20,833 I may need a few 60 seconds. 246 00:20:20,833 --> 00:20:23,648 Ryan Dwyer is not being precise. 247 00:20:23,770 --> 00:20:26,595 We do not understand. 248 00:20:28,039 --> 00:20:30,740 Can Ryan Dwyer please be precise? 249 00:20:30,740 --> 00:20:33,552 Brian Dwyer needs a... 250 00:20:33,552 --> 00:20:43,310 Some time, I don't know what the precise amount of time is to think about whether I would like for you to put my brain into this vessel. 251 00:20:43,361 --> 00:20:48,759 Ryan Dwyer needs an imprecise amount of time to think about this. 252 00:20:49,481 --> 00:20:57,773 Ryan Dwyer, you know the song and the words, your words to bring us. 253 00:20:58,205 --> 00:21:08,884 Yes, I will think about this and uh sing out the words when I have an answer for you. 254 00:21:08,936 --> 00:21:13,988 Ryan Dwyer does not make us wait too long. 255 00:21:14,130 --> 00:21:14,862 We see. 256 00:21:14,862 --> 00:21:17,717 but we are confused why you called us at this time. 257 00:21:17,955 --> 00:21:24,384 Where would you be taking me in this new vessel of yours? 258 00:21:24,676 --> 00:21:27,859 to where we call home. 259 00:21:28,081 --> 00:21:32,366 Home is where a person on earth lives, correct? 260 00:21:34,129 --> 00:21:39,615 This would be the place where you could say, we live. 261 00:21:39,647 --> 00:21:42,908 And would this become my new home? 262 00:21:42,908 --> 00:21:53,142 Ryan Dwyer would exist and he spins the empty vessel around here in this home, in our home. 263 00:21:54,423 --> 00:22:00,406 Ryan Dwyer would not enter this home here again. 264 00:22:00,537 --> 00:22:01,040 Okay. 265 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:02,680 um 266 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:07,801 What if I say no? 267 00:22:07,801 --> 00:22:11,724 You brought us here. 268 00:22:12,101 --> 00:22:14,186 You sung to us. 269 00:22:14,186 --> 00:22:19,529 We require something from you for coming. 270 00:22:20,731 --> 00:22:27,555 Ryan Dwyer does not have to return home with us, but we need to bring something home with us. 271 00:22:28,398 --> 00:22:29,890 Okay, and a different brain. 272 00:22:29,890 --> 00:22:33,756 This is a human biological term brain. 273 00:22:34,229 --> 00:22:34,698 Yes. 274 00:22:34,698 --> 00:22:38,853 The human exists in this piece of the biology. 275 00:22:40,096 --> 00:22:45,043 We require the human part of the biology that the human exists in. 276 00:22:45,043 --> 00:22:45,943 Yes. 277 00:22:46,235 --> 00:22:51,690 Okay, I will think about it and... 278 00:22:51,690 --> 00:22:55,353 Ryan Dwyer's thoughts exist where Ryan Dwyer exists. 279 00:22:55,353 --> 00:22:58,795 Thinking about it is an uncertain statement. 280 00:22:59,216 --> 00:23:02,357 We require certainty or we take you now. 281 00:23:02,942 --> 00:23:10,015 Oh, I will give you uh the human biology that you seek one way or another. 282 00:23:11,244 --> 00:23:14,419 This is certainty and we required certainty. 283 00:23:14,419 --> 00:23:16,643 are satisfied with this certainty. 284 00:23:16,643 --> 00:23:23,612 But if Ryan Dwyer does not give us the certainty we require, Ryan Dwyer is our certainty. 285 00:23:23,694 --> 00:23:26,277 Does this make sense to you? 286 00:23:26,741 --> 00:23:29,946 Uh-huh, yep, locked and loaded. 287 00:23:30,100 --> 00:23:32,071 I mean, yes, it makes sense. 288 00:23:32,103 --> 00:23:35,960 Do you require anything else of us while we are here? 289 00:23:36,152 --> 00:23:44,764 How much time do you require for me to give you this delivery? 290 00:23:44,764 --> 00:23:52,182 Ryan Dwyer has a limited amount of time inside of his brain. 291 00:23:52,182 --> 00:23:57,346 when your time is up is when your time is up. 292 00:23:57,467 --> 00:24:05,913 But we require this in a term which you would call soon. 293 00:24:06,205 --> 00:24:09,434 Can you be more precise, wise one? 294 00:24:09,434 --> 00:24:15,461 Give me units of measurement to be precise with. 295 00:24:16,103 --> 00:24:19,085 Time is not something. 296 00:24:19,184 --> 00:24:26,315 The human equivalent of 24 hours is desired. 297 00:24:26,315 --> 00:24:29,915 Rindwire, please define what 24 hours means. 298 00:24:30,413 --> 00:24:35,433 One full day in human time. 299 00:24:35,613 --> 00:24:41,424 One full Earth spin in our universe. 300 00:24:41,424 --> 00:24:42,284 Great. 301 00:24:42,345 --> 00:24:48,011 We will watch your Earth's trajectory to understand more what you mean. 302 00:24:48,343 --> 00:24:53,948 Please, please, please, please. 303 00:24:55,790 --> 00:25:09,482 Okay, we require three of those spins before we come to take the certainty of rind wire. 304 00:25:09,714 --> 00:25:14,220 Okay, uh okay, thank you for giving me extra time. 305 00:25:14,693 --> 00:25:16,167 You sung the song. 306 00:25:16,482 --> 00:25:17,335 Yes. 307 00:25:17,471 --> 00:25:22,188 If that is all you require of us, that is all we require of you. 308 00:25:22,188 --> 00:25:22,962 oh 309 00:25:22,962 --> 00:25:33,337 Do I need to return to this location to sing the song, or uh can I sing this song from anywhere on my planet? 310 00:25:33,337 --> 00:25:38,742 Your planet was once mined, almost dry, by us. 311 00:25:38,782 --> 00:25:44,388 Your metals are not sufficient to draw us, but in some places they are. 312 00:25:44,388 --> 00:25:49,612 This, what you call area of your planet, is sufficient. 313 00:25:49,824 --> 00:25:50,811 Okeydokey. 314 00:25:50,811 --> 00:25:51,906 Understood. 315 00:25:51,906 --> 00:25:56,080 I don't believe I require anything else from you at this time. 316 00:25:56,831 --> 00:26:06,040 The swamp creature goes slack in front of you and slops to the ground, uh completely dead. 317 00:26:06,761 --> 00:26:15,027 And the slit opens up again and this thing slides back into it, almost like a reverse birth. 318 00:26:15,769 --> 00:26:23,034 And it closes, but the purple light remains as it flies to the other two that are floating behind it. 319 00:26:23,155 --> 00:26:24,455 And they both... 320 00:26:25,054 --> 00:26:38,573 start to rise to the sky like some perverted angels going back to heaven and you are laying there at this point on the ground. 321 00:26:39,394 --> 00:26:42,295 Go ahead and roll your sand for me again. 322 00:26:45,252 --> 00:26:49,036 I don't know how I cannot sever something. 323 00:26:49,036 --> 00:26:53,126 63 is the number we're looking at and I got 41. 324 00:26:53,126 --> 00:27:03,954 Okay, you still lose one from the unnatural and tell us what do you do from here? 325 00:27:04,047 --> 00:27:05,732 Uh, shit, my pants. 326 00:27:05,732 --> 00:27:07,469 Um... 327 00:27:07,469 --> 00:27:14,449 sit there and weigh the gravity of the situation for a bit. 328 00:27:14,849 --> 00:27:22,249 I realize this is quite a conundrum that I have ahead of me. 329 00:27:22,949 --> 00:27:31,789 There is a brain of some sort that I need to get into this jar in three days time, whether that be mine or somebody else's. 330 00:27:31,789 --> 00:27:36,280 I also 331 00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:40,543 can't just run around town advertising this. 332 00:27:41,824 --> 00:27:48,850 And I slip the jar into my fanny pack. 333 00:27:49,090 --> 00:27:54,800 And I start to walk back towards the shore. 334 00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:59,818 I mean, I'm at the shore, but even further back to the path. 335 00:28:00,599 --> 00:28:01,399 And. 336 00:28:02,936 --> 00:28:08,035 just kind of start wandering a little aimlessly back towards that boardwalk area. 337 00:28:08,035 --> 00:28:09,471 um 338 00:28:09,471 --> 00:28:15,218 just kind of trying to get a grasp on what the fuck I'm gonna do. 339 00:28:15,926 --> 00:28:31,951 Yeah, as you're thinking these thoughts and reflecting on this unnatural experience, you have very little willpower left to push on, but you do see um some very defined ATV tracks 340 00:28:31,951 --> 00:28:36,373 um by the boardwalk exit. 341 00:28:37,094 --> 00:28:40,615 Yeah, so we cut back to you in the cabin. 342 00:28:40,615 --> 00:28:47,698 You are sitting there with your arms on a stool engaging with, you know, seemingly your mark. 343 00:28:47,698 --> 00:28:53,001 um Any other questions for him as he seems a little open? 344 00:28:53,731 --> 00:28:54,471 So many. 345 00:28:54,471 --> 00:28:56,172 Yeah, absolutely so many. 346 00:28:56,172 --> 00:28:59,334 uh Karas. 347 00:28:59,334 --> 00:29:10,960 So, as you know, uh the Boogeyman has ways of sorting situations and they send people like me and Del here, really with a task to do one of two things. 348 00:29:11,801 --> 00:29:17,724 Get them to turncoat and help us and be an asset or silence them. 349 00:29:18,084 --> 00:29:20,175 I may be a bit... 350 00:29:20,413 --> 00:29:36,538 empathetic for this job but at the same time it sounds like you are attempting to silence yourself I think we might be able to bend those rules a little bit and not report exactly 351 00:29:36,538 --> 00:29:47,761 how the silencing happened and I um would be open to brokering a deal I have questions and information that I would love 352 00:29:47,805 --> 00:29:59,714 to collect and hear from you and in trade for that, I think I would be open to helping you find your end. 353 00:30:00,015 --> 00:30:03,577 Did I misunderstand anything that you've said? 354 00:30:04,361 --> 00:30:07,507 oh No, did not misunderstand anything. 355 00:30:07,507 --> 00:30:10,901 um I'm willing to work with you. 356 00:30:10,901 --> 00:30:13,550 I just don't think you have what I need. 357 00:30:13,550 --> 00:30:18,394 Okay, yeah, great no, uh Let's let's start there. 358 00:30:18,455 --> 00:30:21,938 What what do you need you you mentioned that um? 359 00:30:22,239 --> 00:30:24,781 Somebody was was looking for that. 360 00:30:24,781 --> 00:30:32,108 uh I assume your contact was Finch just laying it all out there What was Finch searching for for you? 361 00:30:32,108 --> 00:30:32,559 Yes. 362 00:30:32,559 --> 00:30:32,819 Yeah. 363 00:30:32,819 --> 00:30:34,010 Yes, yeah 364 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:36,117 Okay, so... 365 00:30:36,117 --> 00:30:38,479 Did you silence Arthur? 366 00:30:38,479 --> 00:30:39,531 that's a good question. 367 00:30:39,531 --> 00:30:44,580 I didn't, and I kind of knew what happened there as an Asian. 368 00:30:44,580 --> 00:30:48,094 I guess I would have been informed by that, correct? 369 00:30:48,094 --> 00:30:52,698 Harcell exclusively protested the silencing of Arthur Finch. 370 00:30:52,698 --> 00:30:56,932 If Arthur Finch was silenced, it was not by our hand. 371 00:30:57,745 --> 00:30:59,565 I'm gonna say exactly that. 372 00:30:59,805 --> 00:31:05,185 If Arthur Finch was silenced, it was not by our hands. 373 00:31:05,185 --> 00:31:06,325 No. 374 00:31:07,299 --> 00:31:11,081 Okay, I will have to trust you on that. 375 00:31:11,081 --> 00:31:12,171 He was a good friend. 376 00:31:12,171 --> 00:31:16,762 We met at a conference and exchanged information, but he had... 377 00:31:18,339 --> 00:31:24,355 He had information for me that he was never able to send on. 378 00:31:24,355 --> 00:31:32,907 was some symbols that I needed to complete my work. 379 00:31:33,247 --> 00:31:35,243 and I never received those symbols. 380 00:31:35,243 --> 00:31:35,738 uh 381 00:31:35,738 --> 00:31:36,299 Symbols? 382 00:31:36,299 --> 00:31:41,926 Okay, you're talking like, uh, runes to complete a ritual. 383 00:31:41,926 --> 00:31:43,618 Do you... 384 00:31:43,618 --> 00:31:48,475 Are you not able to die without some sort of ritual? 385 00:31:48,475 --> 00:31:51,766 I have been preparing my vessel to exit it. 386 00:31:54,827 --> 00:32:05,531 Again, I apologize for not being as forthcoming as I could be, but I also noticed you have one of these vessels in your duffel. 387 00:32:07,152 --> 00:32:10,904 I am preparing myself for that vessel. 388 00:32:10,904 --> 00:32:24,119 Okay, uh you are getting to one of the very next things that I would like help with and I go ahead and go to my backpack that I had set kind of down by Dell that has been on my 389 00:32:24,119 --> 00:32:33,013 back um and I go ahead and take the vessel out and carefully place it on an empty countertop. 390 00:32:33,333 --> 00:32:34,463 Yeah, great. 391 00:32:34,463 --> 00:32:40,956 So step number two of this trust fall, if you will, is what? 392 00:32:41,076 --> 00:32:41,899 Is this... 393 00:32:41,899 --> 00:32:43,283 this is the vessel? 394 00:32:43,283 --> 00:32:46,696 uh In form? 395 00:32:46,696 --> 00:32:48,520 Yeah, tell me. 396 00:32:49,087 --> 00:32:50,651 Where did you find it? 397 00:32:50,651 --> 00:32:55,813 So you remember that church that we met at um to meet up with ATVs. 398 00:32:55,953 --> 00:32:56,824 It was in there. 399 00:32:56,824 --> 00:33:02,976 The uh church itself was strange and uh a lot seemed to revolve around it. 400 00:33:02,976 --> 00:33:08,399 uh The curiosity bit the shit out of the cat on that one and we went right in. 401 00:33:08,399 --> 00:33:14,181 uh I was drawn to the floorboards and this was buried uh underneath the floorboards. 402 00:33:14,301 --> 00:33:17,082 Did I ship off the... 403 00:33:17,082 --> 00:33:18,963 um 404 00:33:19,371 --> 00:33:25,080 rolls of paper that had all the stuff on it or did I just take pictures and send the pictures? 405 00:33:25,753 --> 00:33:27,194 you ship them off. 406 00:33:27,414 --> 00:33:29,008 I did ship them off. 407 00:33:29,091 --> 00:33:29,552 Okay. 408 00:33:29,552 --> 00:33:31,036 Ah, shit. 409 00:33:32,083 --> 00:33:33,167 Now I wish I had everything. 410 00:33:33,167 --> 00:33:44,417 well, so in our first op, I put in a request for us to get a Polaroid instead of a camera that would have to be developed. 411 00:33:44,417 --> 00:33:49,421 Is there any chance that we Polaroid did some of the Torah script? 412 00:33:49,534 --> 00:33:50,355 Sure. 413 00:33:50,552 --> 00:33:53,334 Okay, great, awesome. 414 00:33:53,334 --> 00:33:56,877 we, lo and behold, can't tell the future, right? 415 00:33:56,877 --> 00:34:04,904 uh We sent that off for informational process, we sent off a Torah for informational prophecy that came with this. 416 00:34:04,904 --> 00:34:06,436 I don't have that now. 417 00:34:06,436 --> 00:34:15,964 I wish I was any more help, but we do have these and I'll take the Polaroids out and kind of show them what was accompanying this. 418 00:34:15,964 --> 00:34:18,916 It was with it under the church floor, so. 419 00:34:19,445 --> 00:34:20,928 It was all packaged together. 420 00:34:20,928 --> 00:34:22,249 I don't... 421 00:34:22,809 --> 00:34:23,650 he looks at it. 422 00:34:23,650 --> 00:34:27,854 um Yes, I am not quite sure what it says. 423 00:34:27,854 --> 00:34:31,807 I've never encountered this um script before. 424 00:34:31,807 --> 00:34:41,425 I have sifted through that church, but it, Well, the nature of it was very disturbing to me, so I didn't spend too long there. 425 00:34:42,127 --> 00:34:46,100 I guess I should be more blunt in my scientific endeavors. 426 00:34:46,100 --> 00:34:48,351 That's what my colleagues have always said. 427 00:34:49,836 --> 00:34:53,748 But, uh sorry I cannot read this for you. 428 00:34:54,574 --> 00:34:56,218 But the vessel. 429 00:34:56,218 --> 00:34:59,252 I was more just trying to provide information more than anything else. 430 00:34:59,252 --> 00:35:01,194 But yeah, yeah, back to the vessel. 431 00:35:02,432 --> 00:35:03,924 We believe that, um... 432 00:35:03,924 --> 00:35:17,084 Well, I think that this vessel will, with my preparation and the metals I've consumed, will be the right place for me in the future. 433 00:35:17,084 --> 00:35:17,344 What? 434 00:35:17,344 --> 00:35:18,765 Um... 435 00:35:19,066 --> 00:35:21,067 The right place, okay. 436 00:35:21,568 --> 00:35:22,888 Is this place... 437 00:35:23,149 --> 00:35:26,882 I mean, I just assumed it was some sort of death pact. 438 00:35:26,882 --> 00:35:27,812 Does... 439 00:35:28,753 --> 00:35:30,094 you want to become a... 440 00:35:30,094 --> 00:35:32,456 a uh brain in... 441 00:35:32,977 --> 00:35:33,677 one of these? 442 00:35:33,677 --> 00:35:37,359 And do you want to be, and I point out that the brain... 443 00:35:37,380 --> 00:35:38,341 did like... 444 00:35:38,341 --> 00:35:40,903 like swapped with that one? 445 00:35:40,903 --> 00:35:41,543 Who is that? 446 00:35:41,543 --> 00:35:42,575 Do you know who that is? 447 00:35:42,575 --> 00:35:55,370 don't, but I encountered some writings earlier in the century um about this specific one, which is what drew me here originally. 448 00:35:56,411 --> 00:36:11,797 And those writings express that this verdant path, or what became the verdant path, um once the settlers moved in, they found this and they 449 00:36:12,579 --> 00:36:15,190 believe began to worship it at some point. 450 00:36:15,491 --> 00:36:21,194 The details are foggy, but it was enough to get me exploring here. 451 00:36:21,374 --> 00:36:22,415 Do... 452 00:36:23,876 --> 00:36:31,572 I do not know what becomes of me in this other than I will transcend this painful existence I have in this body. 453 00:36:31,572 --> 00:36:34,294 and be freed from it. 454 00:36:34,294 --> 00:36:45,862 And whether that brings some sort of conscious death or unconscious death, I welcome it because ah I want to transcend this experience. 455 00:36:46,603 --> 00:36:51,405 You look at his face as he's explaining this. 456 00:36:52,527 --> 00:37:00,272 You've clocked him as very rational and deliberate in his help of Del. 457 00:37:00,725 --> 00:37:05,214 This is also rational and deliberate, but in a very insane way. 458 00:37:05,214 --> 00:37:10,634 Like this man, now that you're listening to him, he must be insane. 459 00:37:10,634 --> 00:37:11,141 Yeah. 460 00:37:11,141 --> 00:37:16,023 Yeah, I think, um, clearly he is insane. 461 00:37:16,023 --> 00:37:26,908 think right now, uh measuring his sanity and judging that is not like I need what he knows and I need to get it from him. 462 00:37:26,908 --> 00:37:33,390 And I think, you know, flowing with the current of his sanity in this point in time, fine, great. 463 00:37:33,390 --> 00:37:34,651 Let's do it. 464 00:37:35,551 --> 00:37:40,373 And in, in thinking that he's like, okay. 465 00:37:40,503 --> 00:37:42,615 or she's like, uh, okay. 466 00:37:42,615 --> 00:37:55,383 That's a lot, well above my understanding, but I think, I'm willing to step out on that ledge. 467 00:37:56,064 --> 00:38:06,231 and, um, you know, consider this a gentle woman's pact of I will help you if you can help me just a little bit more. 468 00:38:06,491 --> 00:38:09,583 One thing that's been bugging us and me specifically. 469 00:38:10,053 --> 00:38:20,232 You mentioned in your email um that Arthur was uh holding a scalpel that belongs to surgeon that he cannot see. 470 00:38:20,835 --> 00:38:22,128 What did you mean by that? 471 00:38:22,128 --> 00:38:28,313 He was involved with uh little green men, as I call them, puppets. 472 00:38:30,255 --> 00:38:39,543 They seem intelligent on the surface, but they go inactive from time to time and they hibernate, which was always curious to us. 473 00:38:40,584 --> 00:38:49,692 The more I started to study them and understand them, the more I felt that there was a puppeteer behind them. 474 00:38:50,098 --> 00:38:56,331 The brains were strangely structured and, well, give me a second. 475 00:38:57,032 --> 00:39:07,758 He goes to his desk and starts digging through a small stack of organized papers and he hands it to you. 476 00:39:07,758 --> 00:39:14,942 If you're looking for something for your superiors, um bring them this. 477 00:39:15,683 --> 00:39:18,164 And he gives you a document. 478 00:39:19,432 --> 00:39:32,755 the document is titled Genomic Analysis Addendum 7b Comparative Genomic Analysis Homo sapien baseline to EBE type 1 slash gray. 479 00:39:32,755 --> 00:39:41,138 um As you're reading this document, the conclusion reads that 480 00:39:41,536 --> 00:39:51,733 There is a prevailing hypothesis now that the grays represent a discrete extraterrestrial species and that hypothesis is flawed. 481 00:39:51,733 --> 00:40:03,821 uh All evidence suggests that these were built by some sort of servitor race manufactured using terrestrial human DNA as clay. 482 00:40:03,901 --> 00:40:07,875 And there are two DNA sequences that are slightly different below. 483 00:40:07,875 --> 00:40:08,876 You see... 484 00:40:09,016 --> 00:40:22,107 I can see this as, as you're reading, can tell it's setting in, but we believe that those creatures, much like the ones in the swamp, are us. 485 00:40:22,849 --> 00:40:35,831 Changed and created for a purpose beyond our understanding, but I believe that this jar comes from our, comes from their puppeteers. 486 00:40:35,831 --> 00:40:38,131 Okay, alright, so it's... 487 00:40:38,392 --> 00:40:39,572 They're not... 488 00:40:39,892 --> 00:40:46,334 They're made of us but not by us, by something bigger that also is tied to this jar. 489 00:40:46,634 --> 00:40:58,297 My head is literally drowning uh in information and I mean, I'm a simple driver in most capacities. 490 00:40:58,297 --> 00:41:03,419 uh I think that's enough information for now. 491 00:41:03,419 --> 00:41:04,879 uh 492 00:41:05,047 --> 00:41:08,913 Do you have a place where I could rest and digest a bit of this? 493 00:41:08,914 --> 00:41:14,634 Or maybe pull out a chair or something to lay on next to Dell as he recovers a little bit. 494 00:41:14,634 --> 00:41:18,552 And maybe some coffee or whiskey. 495 00:41:18,552 --> 00:41:20,826 Oh, well, I do have some whiskey. 496 00:41:20,826 --> 00:41:23,159 um It's in the kitchenette there. 497 00:41:23,159 --> 00:41:26,795 I will pull out a cot and make it up for you if you want to help yourself. 498 00:41:26,795 --> 00:41:28,569 um 499 00:41:28,569 --> 00:41:31,917 and I will try to get some rest too. 500 00:41:32,641 --> 00:41:33,870 Great, great. 501 00:41:33,870 --> 00:41:42,399 Yes, uh speaking of whiskey and she walks over the kitchen and uh starts helping herself, man, she's just looking for those glasses. 502 00:41:42,399 --> 00:41:45,292 Would you like a couple fingers as well? 503 00:41:45,986 --> 00:41:55,586 it, uh, yes, sure, but I will have to put some iron in it and I'll have to grab some from my uh workshop. 504 00:41:55,698 --> 00:41:57,373 Yes, sounds good. 505 00:41:57,373 --> 00:42:00,481 Go for it and I'll reach for the glasses and start... 506 00:42:00,481 --> 00:42:04,172 um Start dishing out that brown. 507 00:42:04,172 --> 00:42:10,280 Agent Sandusky, can you make a con save and a power save times five? 508 00:42:11,896 --> 00:42:15,794 Yeah, but I am surprised that his drink of choice isn't Goldschlager. 509 00:42:15,794 --> 00:42:16,938 Zing. 510 00:42:17,699 --> 00:42:18,739 Alright. 511 00:42:19,817 --> 00:42:22,982 45 on the con, that'll do. 512 00:42:23,897 --> 00:42:25,835 And the other one was a wheel power. 513 00:42:26,101 --> 00:42:27,412 we're rolling in it today. 514 00:42:27,412 --> 00:42:29,659 43 is also going to succeed. 515 00:42:30,309 --> 00:42:34,344 Barone, you are getting your whiskey. 516 00:42:34,344 --> 00:42:42,452 You hear a cough and you hear Sandusky say something. 517 00:42:42,633 --> 00:42:44,406 What do you say, Agent Sandusky? 518 00:42:44,406 --> 00:42:45,828 It's not over. 519 00:42:45,828 --> 00:42:47,346 It can't be over. 520 00:42:47,618 --> 00:42:48,880 Fuck Dell! 521 00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:58,165 And I'll set the whiskey glasses down on the counter, abandon, and sprint over, you know, the six steps it takes to get across from him. 522 00:42:58,165 --> 00:43:00,037 Holy shit, you're okay! 523 00:43:00,037 --> 00:43:02,080 uh How many fingers am I holding up? 524 00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:03,111 And I'm like... 525 00:43:03,779 --> 00:43:12,319 Yeah, I think I think I kind of like was backpedaling into like the arm of the couch still in kind of like fear mode a little bit, right? 526 00:43:12,319 --> 00:43:14,359 My eyes are not focused on anything. 527 00:43:14,359 --> 00:43:17,819 And as you are charging toward me, it is more alarming than anything. 528 00:43:17,819 --> 00:43:28,779 But as you stop it like right there is kind of like a you know, bracing for impact or like maybe like a southpaw you see coming up to like meet your chin. 529 00:43:29,079 --> 00:43:33,251 But yeah, as you start holding up fingers. 530 00:43:33,251 --> 00:43:38,477 um I'm gonna try and steady myself and bring myself back to reality. 531 00:43:40,881 --> 00:43:43,875 I have no earthly sense of where I am. 532 00:43:43,875 --> 00:43:45,388 We are still on earth, aren't we? 533 00:43:45,388 --> 00:43:47,103 Well yeah, story about that. 534 00:43:47,103 --> 00:43:52,618 We're definitely on Earth and you wouldn't guess it, but I found somebody as well. 535 00:43:52,700 --> 00:43:53,623 Keras is here. 536 00:43:53,623 --> 00:43:59,613 yet and I'm going to uh put my hand in my waistband and start fumbling for a pistol. 537 00:43:59,613 --> 00:44:02,435 Nope, nope, nope, nope, it's okay, it's okay, it's... 538 00:44:02,435 --> 00:44:09,059 Trust me, my guy, if uh it were a danger in this exact moment, it would have been taken care of. 539 00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:16,946 Believe it or not, I don't know if he's good or bad, but he's definitely hasn't killed us yet and there's been zero threats. 540 00:44:16,946 --> 00:44:19,227 If anything, he's helped you a little bit. 541 00:44:19,227 --> 00:44:22,149 And she points at your chest wound. 542 00:44:22,743 --> 00:44:30,501 Yeah, I will touch a finger to it and taste it and see if it tastes spoiled or anything. 543 00:44:30,501 --> 00:44:39,260 If it doesn't seem like there is any sort of active infection, maybe I will lower my guard a little bit. 544 00:44:40,302 --> 00:44:45,927 Trust isn't something I have in spades, but I guess if we come this far... 545 00:44:46,717 --> 00:44:48,580 mean, spare a little, but... 546 00:44:48,677 --> 00:44:49,785 I... 547 00:44:49,785 --> 00:44:51,439 I sure have a story for you. 548 00:44:51,439 --> 00:44:51,729 Hmm. 549 00:44:51,729 --> 00:44:55,977 Uh, yeah, well, give it a minute. 550 00:44:55,977 --> 00:45:00,614 I feel more like a sieve than a bowl these days. 551 00:45:00,614 --> 00:45:04,159 I'm not sure I can contain anything you got to tell me. 552 00:45:04,651 --> 00:45:11,423 Well, I think you should at least try and contain some water and I'll go and fetch him a glass of water. 553 00:45:11,641 --> 00:45:22,024 as I am taking uh a drink, there is a wince because you can see that there is a slight dribble where, like, my incisor had pierced through my cheek when I had bit through it. 554 00:45:22,024 --> 00:45:29,404 There is, like, a little pinkish dribble that runs through my beard and down onto my shirt, but, like, we're mostly okay. 555 00:45:29,404 --> 00:45:39,025 My man, you are not wearing a shirt, but you see that dribble down onto the bandages that are on your body. 556 00:45:39,166 --> 00:45:48,177 And as you look down at yourself and the size of the bandage and you gonna have to give me a sanity roll. 557 00:45:48,569 --> 00:45:49,140 Yeah. 558 00:45:49,140 --> 00:45:59,817 45 what's our current what we working with 56 no biggie I expected to see a crater the fact that it's still like convex feels pretty good 559 00:45:59,817 --> 00:46:16,091 Yeah, you are able to hold it together and you both hear footsteps outside and a hunched man comes through the front door, which was a jar already holding a few capsules, it looks 560 00:46:16,091 --> 00:46:23,489 like, in his hand and looks over to you, Del, and smiles and we all graced with some luck today 561 00:46:29,035 --> 00:46:33,679 Agent Ryan, you stand alone in the sudden profound silence of the swamp. 562 00:46:33,679 --> 00:46:38,662 The purple lights fade from the sky, leaving you in the mundane darkness of the night. 563 00:46:38,662 --> 00:46:43,685 The terrible buzzing hymn of the cosmos that filled your mind is gone. 564 00:46:43,946 --> 00:46:50,570 It's quiet and there isn't a bug or a cicada sound. 565 00:46:50,772 --> 00:46:52,175 I'm gracing your ear. 566 00:46:52,175 --> 00:46:55,229 But you may be changed by this. 567 00:46:55,229 --> 00:46:56,532 Can you give me a sand roll? 568 00:46:56,532 --> 00:46:57,509 Yes. 569 00:46:57,509 --> 00:47:00,812 007, look at me, special agent. 570 00:47:00,812 --> 00:47:10,872 All right, you still lose one SAN from this profound experience, especially processing that this thing potentially wants to put your brain in a jar. 571 00:47:10,872 --> 00:47:18,575 You came out as an investigator, an observer, somebody trying to find something and you did find something. 572 00:47:18,795 --> 00:47:26,278 And in finding this, you have now made a successful transaction that you will have to pay your side of eventually. 573 00:47:26,439 --> 00:47:27,799 What do you do next? 574 00:47:27,830 --> 00:47:40,100 I stand up and kind of brush myself off a little bit as much as that can be after like waiting in like muddy water. 575 00:47:40,100 --> 00:47:51,128 um But more just like kind of gathering my head a little bit like what just happened and what do I do next? 576 00:47:51,128 --> 00:47:52,449 I think I'm... 577 00:47:52,500 --> 00:48:00,012 just kind of like kicking myself a little bit, but also like I got it, I only have three days. 578 00:48:00,012 --> 00:48:01,442 gotta get busy here. 579 00:48:01,442 --> 00:48:10,104 And I know that um Dell is in bad shape. 580 00:48:10,104 --> 00:48:18,016 And so I'm like, okay, I need to like go find Dell and Barone and like see what's going on there. 581 00:48:18,016 --> 00:48:21,897 So I start to make my way back to the path. 582 00:48:22,069 --> 00:48:25,523 to see if I can see them or, yeah. 583 00:48:25,523 --> 00:48:29,965 Go ahead and make a survival check as you're walking back. 584 00:48:29,965 --> 00:48:34,305 Survival, looking for 50, got 13. 585 00:48:35,127 --> 00:48:42,149 You see incredibly well-defined ATV tracks going off towards the town. 586 00:48:42,149 --> 00:48:44,352 You could easily follow them if you wanted to. 587 00:48:44,352 --> 00:48:47,256 Is that the path you're taking for sure? 588 00:48:49,980 --> 00:48:51,794 yeah, I am. 589 00:48:51,794 --> 00:48:53,700 I am taking that path. 590 00:48:53,700 --> 00:48:57,908 So we will cut back to the agents in the cabin. 591 00:48:57,908 --> 00:48:59,250 Dell, you've just woken up. 592 00:48:59,250 --> 00:49:04,309 What are some initial thoughts in this alien place for you? 593 00:49:04,309 --> 00:49:17,866 I mean, I'm looking around to see what kind of things he must keep in jars or like, you know, if this couch is made of like flayed skin or just generally like what a snake man 594 00:49:17,866 --> 00:49:19,318 would keep in his house. 595 00:49:19,318 --> 00:49:23,271 Yeah, you can give me a quick search if you want. 596 00:49:23,550 --> 00:49:24,720 Do I ever. 597 00:49:24,720 --> 00:49:27,121 67, that's a real quick search. 598 00:49:27,777 --> 00:49:31,462 Yeah, your vision's a little blurry still. 599 00:49:31,462 --> 00:49:34,767 You're feeling a little dizzy as you sit up. 600 00:49:34,767 --> 00:49:38,431 Things are coming in and out of focus, in fact. 601 00:49:38,432 --> 00:49:44,550 So it just looks like a cozy little cabin with a kitchenette and a small desk and some bookshelves. 602 00:49:44,550 --> 00:49:53,593 Yeah, I mean, I think maybe like you know when you like fall out of a dream and you are kind of like startled awake and You are ready to spring into action. 603 00:49:53,593 --> 00:49:57,384 I think there is kind of that kind of like well I need to get my bearings about me. 604 00:49:57,384 --> 00:50:11,417 I need to prepare for danger, but it's Kind of disarming and maybe that's even a little bit more disorienting right like just not at all what I anticipated falling into So I will 605 00:50:11,417 --> 00:50:13,378 quietly try to Yeah 606 00:50:14,186 --> 00:50:15,378 bring my senses together. 607 00:50:15,378 --> 00:50:19,901 Yeah, give me a power roll times five. 608 00:50:20,294 --> 00:50:21,326 Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. 609 00:50:21,326 --> 00:50:22,667 Looking for a 65. 610 00:50:22,667 --> 00:50:23,535 We all right. 611 00:50:24,003 --> 00:50:25,423 Okay, yeah. 612 00:50:25,564 --> 00:50:33,708 You pay attention to your body for one second and realize that it would be tough for you to even stand up at this point and walk. 613 00:50:33,708 --> 00:50:37,670 You are still in quite a bit of pain. 614 00:50:37,830 --> 00:50:47,695 You're not obviously incapacitated anymore, but it is tough to even move and thinking about standing up even makes you dizzy. 615 00:50:48,043 --> 00:50:57,812 Yeah, I think those initial flinches were already uh regretted as I kind of like am trying to settle against my best instincts here. 616 00:50:57,812 --> 00:51:07,532 Yeah, Kuros walks straight up to you from outside and puts a hand on your forehead and then checks your pulse. 617 00:51:07,532 --> 00:51:14,208 Doesn't ask permission just as touching you and he's counting. 618 00:51:14,663 --> 00:51:20,252 I look up at him while he's putting his hand on my head and I just give him a little tongue flick. 619 00:51:20,252 --> 00:51:32,556 I understand that I may not be popular among whatever organization has sent you, but I did save your life, so let me continue to keep you alive. 620 00:51:32,556 --> 00:51:35,304 Yeah, I can imagine you think of that as a mercy. 621 00:51:35,304 --> 00:51:36,877 I'm not so sure. 622 00:51:36,879 --> 00:51:40,821 But, um, for now, I do appreciate that. 623 00:51:40,821 --> 00:51:46,761 And I'll tell you what, Del, I would probably say that I'm better with you here than without. 624 00:51:47,041 --> 00:51:51,701 So welcome back to the land of the living, my friend, and I pat him on the shoulder. 625 00:51:52,368 --> 00:51:53,300 Yeah, great. 626 00:51:53,300 --> 00:51:54,288 Glad I could help. 627 00:51:54,288 --> 00:51:57,191 Well, yeah, sure, yeah, definitely. 628 00:51:57,191 --> 00:52:03,996 Also, um slight update, you're an alien now. 629 00:52:04,249 --> 00:52:08,278 You gotta find a better way to pitch that. 630 00:52:09,100 --> 00:52:11,424 You know, there's not. 631 00:52:11,424 --> 00:52:12,536 There's not a better way. 632 00:52:12,536 --> 00:52:14,810 That's just what you are now. 633 00:52:14,810 --> 00:52:21,201 And I'm sorry, but you could not be here and I had a choice and now you are here and I'm fine with that choice. 634 00:52:21,201 --> 00:52:21,571 Dr. 635 00:52:21,571 --> 00:52:23,259 Cross, you want to chime in here for a second, please? 636 00:52:23,259 --> 00:52:26,144 When you said you saved me, what exactly did you save? 637 00:52:26,144 --> 00:52:31,688 Well, excuse me, um you're not an alien. 638 00:52:31,688 --> 00:52:37,092 Your friend is probably still in shock too, but you do have a... 639 00:52:37,092 --> 00:52:44,737 We would call it a parasite here, but it's a technically some sort of metal that reacts to other metals. 640 00:52:44,878 --> 00:52:49,080 And we used it to save your life. 641 00:52:49,481 --> 00:52:53,137 I was hoping that I could kill it with... 642 00:52:53,137 --> 00:52:57,602 some sodium bicarbonate but I'm not so sure that worked. 643 00:52:57,607 --> 00:53:01,786 you've kept it alive instead so now I'm just a host harboring this parasite. 644 00:53:01,786 --> 00:53:02,405 It's... 645 00:53:02,405 --> 00:53:04,602 not actually an alien, so one step better? 646 00:53:04,602 --> 00:53:06,021 Heh, yeah? 647 00:53:06,075 --> 00:53:12,111 Maybe, until it grows up to be a big old fleshy thing that rips out of my chest. 648 00:53:12,692 --> 00:53:12,973 No. 649 00:53:12,973 --> 00:53:14,472 I never thought about that. 650 00:53:14,472 --> 00:53:15,343 Doc? 651 00:53:16,146 --> 00:53:18,551 No, um highly unlikely. 652 00:53:18,551 --> 00:53:23,902 um Again, this is new territory for even me. 653 00:53:23,902 --> 00:53:27,800 you say highly unlikely, your sample size is credible, right? 654 00:53:28,399 --> 00:53:30,750 I sample sizes myself. 655 00:53:31,392 --> 00:53:33,603 you do notice his skin is a strange color. 656 00:53:33,603 --> 00:53:40,959 He lifts his shirt and shows you the jaundice-y purple veins going through his chest. 657 00:53:40,959 --> 00:53:45,312 I've been living with this for some years and I finally found a balance with it. 658 00:53:45,312 --> 00:53:50,385 It has neither tried to consume me or rip from my chest, as you say. 659 00:53:50,746 --> 00:53:55,160 But it does give me strange dreams. 660 00:53:55,160 --> 00:54:06,820 Yeah, I think, um, Dell settles at the notion of him perhaps not being, you know, the subject of an experiment. 661 00:54:06,820 --> 00:54:07,820 If Dr. 662 00:54:07,820 --> 00:54:19,901 Cross is truly uh under the same affliction, then either he's fully gone and we are totally fucked, or he is doing as best as he says. 663 00:54:19,901 --> 00:54:23,852 Yeah, I mean, you can roll human intelligence if you want. 664 00:54:23,930 --> 00:54:26,031 I mean, I think that the... 665 00:54:26,031 --> 00:54:36,550 I will, I absolutely will, but I do think that the demonstration and the way that he kind of like scientifically launched into not trying to like appeal to me as a person, but just 666 00:54:36,550 --> 00:54:39,582 like based on my observations, I blah blah blah, right? 667 00:54:39,582 --> 00:54:44,717 It's like, okay, clearly self-preservation is like backseat to this man. 668 00:54:44,717 --> 00:54:46,109 It was an 11. 669 00:54:46,409 --> 00:54:47,930 That's a critical success. 670 00:54:47,930 --> 00:54:51,891 um Looking for an 18. 671 00:54:52,491 --> 00:54:54,263 your estimation of him is correct. 672 00:54:54,263 --> 00:54:56,154 He is stating the facts. 673 00:54:56,176 --> 00:55:04,826 it doesn't seem like he has any ulterior motive in, you know, describing this parasite or, you know, he, used it to save your life. 674 00:55:05,528 --> 00:55:12,894 Yeah, yeah, I mean, I think that was felt before we studied his micro-expressions and all that. 675 00:55:12,894 --> 00:55:25,124 yeah, Del now feels like maybe he has intruded on a, put the brakes on a conversation that was already well on his way. 676 00:55:25,124 --> 00:55:35,502 So as Kharas kind of comes back with a wet compress, he will give him a thanks and hold it himself while he... 677 00:55:35,692 --> 00:55:38,933 you know, watches the pair get back into it. 678 00:55:38,933 --> 00:55:54,686 And if any of you were exposed to these creatures for any amount of time or injured by them or inbited any of their blood, um I do have the bicarbonate here if you if you need 679 00:55:54,686 --> 00:55:54,876 it. 680 00:55:54,876 --> 00:55:58,378 um But 681 00:55:58,484 --> 00:56:00,786 Barone puts her hand up slowly. 682 00:56:00,786 --> 00:56:09,945 Um, yeah, how about like a finger into a leg causing a new orifice type thing? 683 00:56:09,945 --> 00:56:11,827 Would that count? 684 00:56:11,827 --> 00:56:15,749 Well, it just depends on your symptoms. 685 00:56:15,749 --> 00:56:19,892 It was quite obvious with him, we saw the veins going through his body. 686 00:56:19,892 --> 00:56:25,955 But have you been craving heavy metals or any metals whatsoever? 687 00:56:26,146 --> 00:56:28,310 No... 688 00:56:28,553 --> 00:56:29,105 Nope. 689 00:56:29,105 --> 00:56:39,578 Okay, well, um then you probably don't need the bicarbonate, but um it can usually stop it early in the first 24 hours. 690 00:56:39,578 --> 00:56:44,476 know, yeah, no, totally, for good measure, let's just stick it on in there. 691 00:56:44,476 --> 00:56:49,192 And I stick my arm out and start prepping it and cleaning the spot. 692 00:56:49,192 --> 00:56:52,282 We could just, we could just give it good old try. 693 00:56:52,282 --> 00:56:57,295 You get a big wet thwap on the back of your head as that cloth just like wraps around. 694 00:56:57,295 --> 00:57:00,023 You motherfucker, what you been keeping? 695 00:57:00,023 --> 00:57:01,703 Ooh, ooh, ooh. 696 00:57:01,703 --> 00:57:11,723 Well settle down Del, I'm not keeping much except a quarter inside my stomach that I'm trying to figure out how to pass. 697 00:57:11,723 --> 00:57:21,083 Yeah so maybe I have been craving metals a little bit and a little off-kilter and kind of strange. 698 00:57:21,083 --> 00:57:22,563 So let's put that shot on in me. 699 00:57:22,563 --> 00:57:24,971 We could just go ahead and do that right? 700 00:57:25,411 --> 00:57:27,273 Yes, you... 701 00:57:27,595 --> 00:57:29,758 it was not as severe as his it looks like. 702 00:57:29,758 --> 00:57:30,980 You're wounded though? 703 00:57:30,980 --> 00:57:32,482 Is the wound okay? 704 00:57:32,723 --> 00:57:35,345 uh Yeah, I think so. 705 00:57:35,345 --> 00:57:44,991 And I'll go ahead and start revealing my leg wound and start unbanning it for this new super best friend, Doctor, to take a look, I guess. 706 00:57:45,540 --> 00:57:48,556 Okay, he's gonna roll his first aid. 707 00:57:50,553 --> 00:57:51,373 Okay. 708 00:57:52,154 --> 00:57:55,056 It seems, it seems trivial. 709 00:57:55,057 --> 00:58:02,062 I mean, that does quite the scratch, but here we can, here, I'll go make a shot real quick. 710 00:58:02,062 --> 00:58:15,974 And he takes um the bottle that he had for Dell and uh the same syringe, unfortunately, and um goes into the kitchenette and starts adding water to it. 711 00:58:15,974 --> 00:58:19,476 And you see him trying to sterilize it as well. 712 00:58:19,476 --> 00:58:20,657 um 713 00:58:20,821 --> 00:58:27,280 anything you want to say or look for under your breath as he's about nine feet from you. 714 00:58:27,374 --> 00:58:31,496 I was giving him the next question, exactly how far he was away. 715 00:58:31,496 --> 00:58:41,463 um So I'll look to Dell and give him that nod of like, hey, we're here, but don't lose the edge that you have type thing. 716 00:58:41,463 --> 00:58:47,047 um And kind of glance down at my firearm at my side to let him know it's right here. 717 00:58:47,047 --> 00:58:49,708 I'm being careful as well. 718 00:58:49,708 --> 00:58:52,331 And then I'll turn back and watch the doctor as well. 719 00:58:52,331 --> 00:58:54,015 Yeah, it's funny that you would say that. 720 00:58:54,015 --> 00:59:00,402 On account of Dell is now actually more comforted by the doctor's presence than yours on account of he's been much more forthcoming. 721 00:59:00,402 --> 00:59:03,038 Hey man, girl gotta have her secrets sometimes. 722 00:59:03,038 --> 00:59:04,100 They have prices though. 723 00:59:04,100 --> 00:59:19,974 He creates a uh very small amount of liquid in this syringe, um nothing compared to the 200 plus milliliters that Dell got in the heart and grabs your arm and injects you with it 724 00:59:19,974 --> 00:59:21,214 if you just let him. 725 00:59:22,639 --> 00:59:23,459 yeah, 100%. 726 00:59:23,459 --> 00:59:28,917 I want this quarter infatuation to end immediately if at all possible. 727 00:59:29,358 --> 00:59:30,800 I guess I was kind of... 728 00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:31,532 uh 729 00:59:31,532 --> 00:59:34,498 you know, settled into the thought of like, well, I have a symbiote now as well. 730 00:59:34,498 --> 00:59:39,469 So if there's any way to kind of save it and hopefully not, then I'm gonna take it. 731 00:59:39,469 --> 00:59:46,779 Yeah, he um quickly removes the needle and puts it back in the kitchenette, walks over. 732 00:59:46,779 --> 00:59:50,926 I am an old man and getting quite tired. 733 00:59:50,926 --> 01:00:01,072 uh And he hands you the aforementioned whiskies and he does put an iron capsule um in his and pour some in there and swishes it around. 734 01:00:01,072 --> 01:00:02,773 He offers you the same Dell. 735 01:00:02,773 --> 01:00:05,834 He holds up a capsule for you in a glass of whiskey. 736 01:00:05,834 --> 01:00:06,995 Do you take it? 737 01:00:07,730 --> 01:00:18,396 I will take it and swish it, but honestly I have been sucking on one of my back molars that has like a backwoods filling in it and that's doing the trick right about 738 01:00:18,832 --> 01:00:20,412 All right, beautiful. 739 01:00:21,152 --> 01:00:26,754 He says, do you mind if I ask you a question? 740 01:00:26,754 --> 01:00:28,977 Fire away, not literally. 741 01:00:29,216 --> 01:00:41,408 Your colleague didn't know for sure if Arthur, Arthur Finch I should say, was retired, as we used to say in the business. 742 01:00:41,408 --> 01:00:45,317 the audio is super choppy for me it's probably my internet though 743 01:00:45,317 --> 01:00:47,502 You were asking if he, if he was retired. 744 01:00:48,253 --> 01:00:51,855 Yeah, he asked Dell if he was retired. 745 01:00:51,855 --> 01:01:00,265 Um, well, to be honest, I didn't get a latest status report, but the state that we delivered him in, I'm not sure that he was, um 746 01:01:00,265 --> 01:01:03,950 Well, I'm not sure that there was much of a man to return to. 747 01:01:04,672 --> 01:01:14,196 The way that we found him when he was diving down that hole communing with that gray, um I'm not sure how much of Finch was left. 748 01:01:14,196 --> 01:01:15,184 communing. 749 01:01:15,686 --> 01:01:16,559 Communion. 750 01:01:16,559 --> 01:01:20,189 If that's what he called it, it looked like something wholly different to me. 751 01:01:20,189 --> 01:01:23,628 Did you find any um documents? 752 01:01:23,628 --> 01:01:29,570 Well, sure, he had been performing all manner of experiments, if you care to call it that way. 753 01:01:29,751 --> 01:01:42,657 It seemed as though uh he had found a way to open a connection, and that pain was a most helpful tool in uh easing that communication. 754 01:01:42,657 --> 01:01:43,517 Okay. 755 01:01:44,340 --> 01:01:46,503 It doesn't seem like Finch that I knew. 756 01:01:46,503 --> 01:01:48,728 was a kind and gentle man, but... 757 01:01:48,728 --> 01:01:54,193 Who knows what this type of journey can give you along the way. 758 01:01:54,193 --> 01:02:01,919 You slip a couple of bath salts into anybody's drink and you your guess is as as mine. 759 01:02:02,980 --> 01:02:04,041 I don't know. 760 01:02:04,201 --> 01:02:11,317 He seemed like he was pushing himself further and further of his own volition. 761 01:02:11,578 --> 01:02:12,138 I think... 762 01:02:12,138 --> 01:02:12,890 um 763 01:02:12,890 --> 01:02:13,666 I don't know what I- 764 01:02:13,666 --> 01:02:14,936 That's quite alright. 765 01:02:14,936 --> 01:02:18,337 He was a friend and he got an idea in his head. 766 01:02:19,376 --> 01:02:24,719 He thought he found some crash sites in the desert and read some books. 767 01:02:24,879 --> 01:02:26,420 Thought he knew something. 768 01:02:26,720 --> 01:02:29,280 He went looking for saucers and government secrets. 769 01:02:29,280 --> 01:02:34,042 He didn't find any, but he did find the old copper mines. 770 01:02:34,242 --> 01:02:41,504 He found something else down there and I was hoping he would have been able to give that to me. 771 01:02:42,276 --> 01:02:51,248 the nature of what you were hoping to find was it uh like notes or a blueprint or an actual artifact of some sort? 772 01:02:51,248 --> 01:02:58,356 uh A second half to a song that I've been keen to learn. 773 01:02:59,828 --> 01:03:01,000 A... 774 01:03:01,228 --> 01:03:02,134 Agent Brown. 775 01:03:02,134 --> 01:03:04,213 that peak your ears at all? 776 01:03:04,213 --> 01:03:18,793 Yeah, no, not necessarily, but just to touch on it lightly, something that happened while you were out is the doctor here wants to leave this world, if you will, in one way or 777 01:03:18,793 --> 01:03:19,364 another. 778 01:03:19,364 --> 01:03:30,544 I am apt to let that happen to solve our mission in some way in trade for a little bit more information out of him. 779 01:03:30,845 --> 01:03:36,376 As far as how to finish that off, I have no clue, my guy. 780 01:03:36,376 --> 01:03:40,586 I don't know anything about any songs and she just kind of shrugs a little bit. 781 01:03:40,586 --> 01:03:42,407 And the... 782 01:03:43,008 --> 01:03:49,394 he was cataloguing symbols that he had found in these old copper mines. 783 01:03:50,275 --> 01:03:56,041 Those symbols were the missing piece I was hoping, but it seems they are gone now. 784 01:03:56,041 --> 01:03:57,673 um 785 01:03:57,673 --> 01:04:00,767 Your organization, would they have murdered him? 786 01:04:00,767 --> 01:04:09,560 I wouldn't put it past him if he weren't capable of providing any more intelligence. 787 01:04:09,560 --> 01:04:15,526 Okay, that's what I assumed, but um you never know. 788 01:04:16,756 --> 01:04:17,618 Nor do I. 789 01:04:17,618 --> 01:04:19,923 In fact, I prefer not to. 790 01:04:19,923 --> 01:04:24,213 It doesn't come out so helpful in moments like this, but it helps me sleep. 791 01:04:24,213 --> 01:04:24,690 Okay. 792 01:04:24,690 --> 01:04:29,904 Well, um this was my only question again about Finch. 793 01:04:31,967 --> 01:04:46,191 I be, I'm quite tired, but if there's anything you need to talk with me about, um we can either talk in the morning or you can talk to me now if you are feeling up to it. 794 01:04:46,191 --> 01:04:58,089 Well, I definitely do have more questions, but and she looks around we're still down one Dell Ryan when we packed up and started going, Ryan was gone. 795 01:04:58,089 --> 01:05:00,031 I don't know if he's out in the swamp. 796 01:05:00,031 --> 01:05:02,012 I don't know if he's safe. 797 01:05:02,613 --> 01:05:05,905 I got to head back out there tonight before I could get any more sleep. 798 01:05:05,905 --> 01:05:07,416 He can't I can't just leave him. 799 01:05:07,416 --> 01:05:13,281 If there's any of those monsters left, there's it's not it's not good. 800 01:05:13,281 --> 01:05:14,960 His legs wasn't working. 801 01:05:14,960 --> 01:05:16,397 What do you mean he was gone? 802 01:05:16,397 --> 01:05:18,135 He didn't leave on his own, did he? 803 01:05:18,135 --> 01:05:20,878 I truly honestly don't know the answer. 804 01:05:20,878 --> 01:05:28,264 I went back, called his name, I could tell you what, if I was being pulled off into the swamp and somebody yelled for me, I would yell, the fuck right back. 805 01:05:29,666 --> 01:05:31,572 So either something took him. 806 01:05:31,572 --> 01:05:32,232 Thank you, Del. 807 01:05:32,232 --> 01:05:34,023 Yeah, no, didn't think about that. 808 01:05:34,023 --> 01:05:36,404 I assumed Ryan was alive, alive until dead. 809 01:05:36,404 --> 01:05:40,966 um either way, got to, got to find him. 810 01:05:41,426 --> 01:05:52,131 we're not, Doc, we're not quite done with all the questions we, we have to ask, but I think we should maybe collect our third party member before we ask anymore. 811 01:05:52,131 --> 01:05:59,859 Um, I guess you guys get some rest and she starts grabbing her bag and, you know, putting her backpack on, but I gotta, I have to head back out there.