July 10, 2024 • 39 mins
Our crew is adjusting to life on station with Kendra's mother in charge for several weeks. Kendra has withdrawn into her room and the rest of the base is not doing well. Larry accepts his Nobel and with an unexpected fan in attendance.
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None. United States Supervisory Deputy
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Marshall Bass Marlowe. Today is November 20th, 2022 and
the current time is O 630 hours.Sabotage of C130 plane and
station investigation continues.I'm set to meet with the
station's legal expert today, who has indicated he's made
headway with the circumstances behind the court seal on
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documents pertaining to Chaz Wolford.
It apparently took very little effort given connections he
still had in the US court system, and I'm not sure if I
should be impressed or quite alarmed.
Have an interview set up with one of the main 3 suspects of
interest in my investigation, Sabine Greer, Cargo loader and
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was in close proximity of both the plane and the tampered
desktop system when the virus had been introduced.
This isn't a smoking gun by any stretch.
That said, nobody else I've interviewed or reviewing the
assigned duty roster showed anyone else being both locations
at the same time of tampering. Our third prime suspect is our
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resident blaster, Maurice Lamarche.
Oh, for the record, as I am surethe Marshall Service isn't
familiar with the blaster is an individual assigned to use
commercial grade explosives on the ice.
They measure, place wire and detonate explosives in
accordance with relevant technical safety instructions
and necessary station camp fieldsafety procedures.
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Mr. Lamarr's. He's got a very interesting work
record, not to mention background as an 89 delta in the
US Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal.
He's also nuttier than a fruitcake.
Zeke typically gives him a very wide berth.
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The final tally of the Dreamlandshipment came in and whoever
sent the shipment. Chinese organized crime just
lost 2.25 billion U.S. dollars. It has been officially labeled
as the largest drug interdictionin history.
Thankfully, the media interest has almost completely died down.
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Only one or two interview requests a day now, thank God.
On the personal side, our glorious leader Doctor
Wainwright arrived in Stockholm a few days ago to accept the
Nobel Prize for his work in astrophysics proving and
devising a method to locate darkmatter.
Or to put it another way is being given all the credit by
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Beauregard Lowing for the work that Josh Nichols murder of
Doctor Rodney created. The station is televising a
Nobel ceremony live in large conference room O 900, Stockholm
time 2000 station time Thus far,nobody has signed up to watch
Doctor Jennings. That is to say, my Doctor
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Jennings has elected to take allher leave and sick time since
the arrival of her mother, Professor Magna Beckett
Jennings. It has been a week since her
mother's arrival and she hasn't stepped 1 foot of her birth.
I've been bringing her food and other items, but she has stated
she will not come out until Professor Jennings is off the
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station. The two of them have a rather
contentious history obviously, and the fact that her reunion
with her mother had her had us both naked at the time certainly
didn't help. Thank you so much Jocelyn.
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I'm going to try and help smooththings over as best I can later
today after my interviews are over.
But I'm worried. Worried this will be a giant
step backwards for Kendra. Her stuttering, her lack of
self-confidence, her social anxiety disorder, all of them
are back and with a vengeance. She has come so far, made so
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many strides and accomplished somuch and I am torn.
I'm torn between wanting to helpsolve this, Torn by not feeling
I'm supporting her enough, torn that I'm not able to put a
bullet in Jocelyn's forehead. For the record, that is a
metaphorical bullet, and I'm in no way indicating a premeditated
motive to commit homicide. All right, better end this
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before I implicate myself and anything else.
This is Supervisory Deputy Marshall Bass Marlowe.
Sabotage AC130 plane and stationinvestigation continuing.
Recording started. Good morning, Franklin.
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Oh, good morning, Javan. You said you had something for
me, something you had found while researching the sealed
files on Chaz Wolford. Indeed, just one moment and
sent. Legal work?
Oh no. Just messing with people on
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Reddit again. Nothing like crushing the
righteous indignation of a bunchof socially abhorrent hipsters
taking up space in college classrooms or mommy's basement.
Ah, which is at this time supporting or railing against
the current US administration policies.
Political Reddit. Oh.
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That's so 2016. No, I'm pitting K pop kids
against death metal fans. Ah yeah, that sounds very.
Anyway, so you found something of interest.
Oh indeed, I took some digging afavour here and there, reverting
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ownership of some legal dues owed, but I got some interesting
results. OK.
And they are. Your suspect, Mr. Wilford wanted
on a bench warrant for failure to appear before a Criminal
Court on a summons and then magically let go works for the
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government. He still works for the
Government counsellor. The National Science Foundation
is the government. Oh no, you sweet, sweet innocent
monkey brain farm bumpkin. Not the NSF lowercase G.
He was with the government, witha capital G as in General
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Service 15. Wait a minute, Chaz Wolford was
GS15? I'm only GS13 and after almost
20 years, who is he with and what the hell is the GS15 doing
down here? That's the curious part.
With all this cloak and dagger environment you humans enjoy, I
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first suspected U.S. Department of Defense may be
justice, but no Department of Energy.
OK, the DOE. No that that makes zero sense.
Are you sure your sources are reliable and they're not just
trying to regain, I don't know, parts of their soul?
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No, no, no, no. Doesn't work like that.
You see, for something of that much value to be restored, the
exchange only works if the intent is genuine.
My offer to restore is a value, believe me.
How can I put this for your tinybrain to understand?
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Oh hey, I got it. If it isn't true, it doesn't
shine. And it's always Franklin's time
to shine. Yeah, that that didn't make it
any clearer. Oh OK, try this one on for your
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hairless simian brain. Hey if me smelly the cheaty
cheaty let me know. Make deely deely OK?
You don't need to be an ass about it OK?
Just say it's like a demon ability or something.
That wouldn't be the strangest thing I've heard down here.
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OK, so who tipped off the court of what I'm assuming was his
government clearance and had thebench warrant squashed?
Hold on. I have it right here.
Sweat down sweat. Wow, my.
Eyes are getting bad. Really need an eye exam.
Tell me about it. A newspaper print that used to
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be clear is now getting all fuzzy on across the room.
It's kind of oh, that's not me. You ever tried to read cuneiform
in a cave? My candlelight.
It's like ice cream on crystal meth.
Damp Sumerians. It's because of them we
established a vision plan. Vision.
Wait, are you telling me hell has health benefits?
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That seems kind of contradictory.
Doesn't. It we have.
What they call health benefits, not Blue Cross Blue Shield by
any stretch we got stuck with. Kaiser ah, here it.
Is. OK.
It was sent by General Jay Gordon Co, signed by the
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Massachusetts Attorney General'sOffice.
So again, this begs the question, why is he down here
working in logistics position atthe South Pole?
He obviously has money already. Friends in high political office
were able to get him off the hook for not appearing to
testify. Well, can't do all the
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investigation work for you, Javert.
This should give you the info you need to help piece together
a few more parts of the puzzle you're working on.
Right, I'm going to need to think about this for a bit.
If I dig too deep too fast, I could tip him or his handlers
off. Assuming he's a mole.
Assuming he is indeed a mole. And again, there could be just a
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very simple explanation for all of this, something that could
just get cleared up by asking. However, I can spook him into
rapping if he is guilty. Yeah, I need to figure out how
to play this one just right. Oh.
And if you'll excuse me for that, I need to school Thunberg
fan 223 on Reddit to how the Bankton boys are nothing more
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than glorified karaoke kids and will never touch the musical
aptitude and soulful sound of Morbid Angel.
Everybody needs a hobby, I. Guess permission to dance my
ass. More like permission to suck
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hard. How dare you, Thunderbird Fan
223 exclamation point. Keep up the good work.
Recording stopped. Good morning, Miss June.
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Is she in? Unfortunately, yes.
Oh Lord, I'm really trying down here.
But I'm sure she is a very lovely person in her own way.
Look on the bright side, Miss June.
Doctor Wainwright will be back on the station next week, which
I can't believe I just said. And I can't believe that is a
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bright side. Right.
I never thought I'd see a day where I'd be missing Doctor
Grumpy, bless his heart. But this one, though, I can't
wait for her to leave driving. Everybody at the wall.
Well, everybody is soaked. Yeah, I heard so.
Here you go, Professor Beckett. Jennings.
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Late morning tea, just the way you like it.
Oolong loose, not bad. Steep 3 minutes.
Almond milk formed separately precisely 5 milliliters of
sugar, granulated and not raw. With. 2 milliliters of Sri.
Lanka Cylon. Cinnamon.
I haven't seen him this giddy since the last version of the.
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Cell was released. Well, I'm going to take my
chances and see if I can help reduce the stress during the
last week she's here. Make life a bit easier with
whatever the problem is. Maybe she just don't realize.
That a Medicaid. Card and a dress like hers don't
belong on the same woman. Damn.
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Oh oh. Pardon me, Deputy Marshall, need
to go locate Rhubarb and Custardfor this afternoon.
Oh, so wonderful. And how?
Pardon me, Professor, may I speak with you?
Supervisory Deputy Marshall Marlow, What will this line of
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conversation pertain to a young man?
Well, this may be a bit awkward.Oh come now dear, I do believe
we left awkward behind us, no doubt in the same place you
deposited your shirt and trousers before welcoming me on
station in a traditional bohemian manner.
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Oh, and with my eldest daughter accompanying you.
How wonderful you remembered me,Professor Jennings.
Beckett Jennings. Beg your pardon?
Of course, Professor Beckett Jennings, that is the topic I'm
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here regarding Kendra. So this is a social call rather
than professional or station business.
It's actually both, Professor. Young man, I've been asked to
provide temporary governance over the scientific operations
of this research facility, not to act as a nursemaid to a
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station full of bacchanalian revellers.
OK, the Dark Sector lab has beenwithout leadership for over
three weeks now, and I'm sure productivity has diminished.
Oh, I assure you, I'm aware. Not only am I supporting
oversight of the station in Lawrence's absence, I was sent
here to interview a prime candidate for Doctor Van Zandt's
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position. Seems, however, the candidate
has come down with some ailment.Pandas indisposed.
There is a very simple solution,Professor, one that would remedy
the absence of a division leaderand return operations to normal.
Supervisory Deputy Marshall, as I understand and have read, your
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position on this station is one of security and enforcement of
US laws, not as a scientist or supporting research advisory.
Role. I would thank you to remember
such going forward. So then you're not the least bit
interested in Kendra or how she's been.
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What remarkable circumstances must have taken place to see her
not only deal with her social anxiety, but to thrive, to
become a cornerstone of the science and staff operations
here at the Pole? How?
Kendra chooses to behave and actin her private life is no longer
a reflection upon me and I will not have it be regarded as such.
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Now I see here Doctor Karloff atMcMurdo Station requested your
presence on site for an enforcement related matter.
Shouldn't you be heading off? She embarrassed you.
Is that, is that what you're telling me?
Look, obviously there is a very complex history between you two,
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more than the last two weeks. But we're talking about Kendra.
You can't just treat her like any other scientist or worker.
She is your daughter for God's sakes, Professor.
I'm aware of who my children are, dear.
Now, do you have anything of operational pertinence to
discuss with me? My tea is still warm and I'd
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like to enjoy it. No, nothing of pertinence.
Thank you for your time, Professor.
Enjoy your afternoon tea and be careful it doesn't melt that
cold interior where your heart used to reside.
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Recording stopped. Recording started.
Supervisory Deputy Marshall BassMarlowe Today is November 20th,
2022 and the current time is 1700 hours.
I'm in the small conference roomand with me currently is Station
Cargo Loader Miss Sabine Greer. Miss Greer, before we start, and
this is just routine, I want to make sure you're aware this is
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100% a voluntary interview. You are not under arrest.
You are not being detained. You are free to get up and leave
at any time you wish. No charges or allegations have
been made against you. This is simply an interview.
Do you understand? I understand.
OK. In our last interview, you
mentioned Chief Bustamante had to speak with you regarding the
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ice cores being brought to the station.
Yeah, he did. I'm sorry if Doc Wainwright
doesn't care about people or their feelings, but that doesn't
mean the rest of us can just, you know, shut all that off.
Oh, I get it. And trust me, Doctor Wainwright
isn't one of my favorite people either.
Piece of He don't hear none of this right?
No, ma'am, I'm the only person who hears it.
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He's a piece of shit then. I'm not going to argue with that
one. You know, he told Zeke to come
talk to me. He mentioned.
He need Jesus. What?
Not saying it's it's. Oh, you mean getting Hey Zeus to
show up? Yeah, that only works when Zeke
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does it. Weirdest thing, right?
You know what I think? What's that?
I think it's like that vampire movie.
That shit don't work unless you really believe.
Damn Zeke, the most holy man I know.
Of course it will work for him. Interesting.
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OK, back to the events of the day.
You said. Give me a second.
OK, Here it is. OK, you said.
Zeke pulled you aside, said he understood why you were upset.
That he was upset, too. Because.
Oh, we're we're not actual boyfriends, Miss Greer.
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Hey, I don't judge. Only big man gets to judge
people. You 2 have some sugar ain't none
of my business. We are not an item, Mr. Greer.
He's like a baby brother to me. He ain't that much younger than
you. Five years.
You almost 50. Yes, ma'am.
Damn baby, you don't look it. Well, thank you for that.
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What keeping you looking so young?
No booze, no bread, diet, something like that.
OK, we're off the subject again.Can we?
I'm just saying some of us wouldkill to look like they steal 35.
Wait, I don't mean like kill kill.
I understand. No, really, I never killed
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anybody. I mean, sure, I could make up a
list of guys I knew. Let's Miss Greer.
Let's get back to that day. Right, right.
OK. So where we leave off?
Zeke came to talk to you. You were upset.
Right, right, right. So yeah, Zeke made it clear head
in the game, he was upset too. His boy best friend was out
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there too. Focus on work.
OK, got it. Let's go back to the day the
plane with me on it took off. OK, where do you want to start?
Let's begin. That morning you started loading
the plane up. We started loading the pallets
of materials into the plane, materials being offloaded to the
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mainland, waste used, consumables, items being retired
in favor of new items. Do you recall how many pallets?
I don't know, 10/20, it was the last transport off the station
for that season so a lot after. You were done loading.
We signed off on the upload, theplane cargo hold was sealed, we
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started the load and shutdown procedure for the season and
went to go get breakfast. OK.
And what time was this again? We.
Broke about 8:30. There was like six of us on
loading that morning, Zeke said.He and the rest of the DeWalt
said everything else. So go on and get breakfast.
Lunch. Lady Alice was serving grease
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that morning. I love me some grease.
OK, What else do you remember from that morning?
Well, everybody up working in the station was shuffling about
getting ready for the winter season and seeing people off.
Gally was quiet that morning. Always strange that first day
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when the quiet sets in. I remember Chris and Emery
coming in and going on about their cartoon things.
Like always. We heard Doctor Jennings singing
her song on the Pai. Don't really like country music,
but it was all right, I guess. After that I took my bowl of
grits and walked down to the operations so I could see your
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plane take off and. That's when you saw the person.
Like I told you last time I saw somebody in one hour jumpsuits
under the operations workbench fiddling with something.
Shit maintenance during season, staff changes ain't nothing new
so I didn't think twice about it.
OK, humor me. I'm going to ask you to close
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your eyes and think, really think hard when looking back.
OK, whatever you need. You've had your bowl of grits,
you've had a couple of spoons already and can still taste the
melted butter and honey in your mouth.
Oh AB you killing me right now? Walking down the APOD corridor
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it's really quiet, just the hum of the station heaters.
Heading down by OPS and you see.Some guy under the workbench.
And he has on. Gray DeWalt work suit.
He's on his back working on one of the computers underneath.
You're sure it's a he? All that pad the size honey, I
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know all the DeWalt ladies, onlyQueens we have close to that
size. We're down working with Zeke.
He even said so. How long did you see him when
you walked by? 3-4 seconds maybe?
OK, let's try to hold on to thatmemory for a few more seconds.
You said he had a bag of tools with him.
I mean I guess it was his. It was on the floor by open with
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a tool laying on the floor next to it.
Any chance you remember seeing anything about their face?
No, I'm sorry baby. They had their knees up, almost
touching the bottom of the workbench.
I couldn't see nothing about a face.
OK, I think we're good here. I appreciate you stopping by to
talk with me again. No problem, I hope y'all find
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them soon. Recording stopped.
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Please go away. I don't.
I don't. I don't.
I don't feel very good. Sweetie, it's Bass.
Will you please open the door Is.
Is she off? I mean, has she left?
Did did she leave yet? No, sorry, she's still here.
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Well then I still I'm not I really I I don't feel well and I
don't want to. Baby, it's me.
Please, Would you let me come in?
Thank you, sweetie. I sweetheart.
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When was the last time you cleaned in here?
Oh, so not only am I, I'm not good enough and I have no place
in but I but I also need to. No, no, no, honey, honey.
Look, I, I just, I'm just, I'm just very worried about you and
I haven't ever seen you like. She's she's the absolute worst
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bass. You have no idea what growing up
with. I mean, she's always been I.
I can't even fathom what you andyour siblings must have gone
through growing up. I I only interacted with her
twice in the past week, but thatwas enough to make my own
opinion. Everybody on station, she has
them absolutely miserable. Well, everybody but oh.
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My God, Thomas, Oh, he must be getting it worse of everybody.
No, no, actually, I don't think I've ever seen Mr. Kelly
happier, more content and havinga real challenge.
He's flourishing. Oh, oh, that's good, I guess.
I mean, if anybody I was worriedabout, it would have been
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Thomas. Kendra, look, Zeke just said he
saw Doctor Jovac Lorenz and yourmother heading in the tunnels
about an hour ago. Obviously they're doing
something with the secret project.
She'll be sequestered for a while.
Would you please come out with me on the station just for an
hour or so? Just to.
Get back. No way, no way, no way.
Bass last time I let my guard down or my inhibition, the she
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devil appeared and I am staying right here until she's off
stationed. So then all the steps that you
made in the last year, the baby steps, you're not willing to
acknowledge those all that didn't mean anything to you I.
Didn't I? It's that's not that's you know,
that's not what I. I'm I'm not saying that
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Professor Becca Jennings showingup wasn't a stressful or jarring
incident because, well, because your birth now looks like Emery
and Chris's IT room and it's almost giving the same odor.
So obviously it's trust you. You.
You don't have anxiety, social anxiety.
You don't have this. You're 100% correct.
I don't suffer. That's the wrong choice of
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words. I, I don't struggle.
I don't struggle with the same struggles that you do, OK.
All I have to relate to is what you've explained to me.
So in that sense, I'd like to think I have a general idea.
Oh, a general idea. Well, I have two, Doctor.
It's a masters and enough lifetime experience to tell you,
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sweetie, you don't. I love you, Bass.
I love you, and that won't change.
But you need to understand. I hate.
I hate Magda Beckett. You know me.
You know me better than anybody.So you know I don't use that
word lightly. And I hardly use it at all
because it is a vile word. But I hate my.
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Mother, that is very apparent and from my own experience,
look, I'm I'm not trying to say I relate to what you're going
through and I'm not trying to compare or one up, but your
mother is a bully, an emotional one as opposed to physical one,
obviously, but a bully by the very.
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Difference. You have no idea.
Pass growing up. Growing up, Devin was an
athlete. He was strong and fast.
You put a ball or a stick or anything sports in his hand.
And he was a maestro on every high school team and college
team. And he was so handsome and he
was smart and he didn't even focus on it.
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But he could have been an engineering genius.
He could fix anything with moving parts like cars.
But mother, mother didn't understand.
She wouldn't. She couldn't understand the
allure or appeal of sporting events or things to do for fun.
She and my father got into heated arguments about it, and I
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honestly think he joined the Marines to get away from her.
And then that decision got him. She got him.
And Mary Ellen, my younger sister, She left the house at
16. She got herself emancipated the
same year my father passed, and it wasn't hard to prove a hard
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home life to the courts with that woman.
And I was already gone. I was attending Harvard's
physics program. But I know for a fact that Mary
and my mother haven't spoken in over 10 years.
She's never even met her own granddaughters, and I suspect
she doesn't care. So bullies fast.
Yeah, I have some of my own experience with bullies.
And I know you're about to say that bullies like praying on
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easy targets or the best way to deal with them is to fight back.
But but I'm tired Bass, I shouldn't have to fight.
I'm tired of her behaviour, I amtired of her bullshit.
I am tired of her. I'm in my mid 30s and I've only
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recently started to live, started to enjoy, really enjoy
my life because because I deserve to.
You notice that you're not stammering anymore.
OK, you got me give me some nicer clothes and let's take a
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walk. But I am warning you right now I
best not here and I told you so.If the next two words out of
your mouth aren't good job, the third word will be ah, my
crotch. Why did you punch me in my?
Crotch. Good job.
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Oh, you weren't kidding, Bass Mike.
Just doing a real number around here.
Yeah, Miss June and I were talking about that earlier.
You know, it's an odd thing whenyou're actually looking forward
to seeing Doctor Wainwright again.
I remember chatting with a few of her grad students one time
several years after they had heras a professor, and they said
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she was probably the smartest instructor that they ever had
and they felt absolutely challenged to excel, but that
she had zero people skills or anything close to empathy.
I'd love to have her sit with Sydney sometime.
I'm almost positive that she hasalexithymia.
You're. Going to have to excuse me
honey, I'm not familiar with that term.
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It's, well, it's not classified as a mental disorder really.
It just it means you aren't ableto experience or express
emotions like any emotion as other people do.
It's recognized as a personalitytrait, I think.
Oh, OK. Listen, Kendra, I don't mean to
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pry in your family business, butdid your sister Mary Ellen
suffer from anything similar or did your brother Devin?
No, thankfully, no. Neither of them had to
experience, well, anything to the extent that I have.
Most think I inherited my gifts for science and knowledge from
Magda, but I think her gift to me was neurodivergence and
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trauma. No, no, I don't agree at all.
Look, you told me before, everything you've accomplished,
everything you've earned was earned by you.
You coming out of your shell, making friends and connections
here on the station. That is all you.
Kendra, she didn't have anythingto do with that, inherited or
otherwise. And from where I stand, you
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don't owe that woman a damn thing.
That's that's very kind of you to say, sweetie.
You're right. You're right, of course.
I'm sorry, I I have these old man ears.
Can you repeat that please? My knee to your crotch is still
an option here, bass. I see.
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OK, well, let's not go there. Oh, but let's go in here in
large conference room. They are televising the Nobel
ceremony. What do you say we just peek in
for a moment and see? Whoa.
Oh, sorry, you 2. Jeez, we just wanted to come in
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and take a look real fast. You know, you should really be
doing that in your own births. Oh come on now, boss.
Use. Two of all people should know
how thin these walls are. Besides, I didn't think anybody.
Would care enough to see Larry. Come get his science, Atta boy.
Oh, Frederick, the Nobel Prize is much more than an Atta boy.
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Plus, who said you could talk puppy?
Don't make me get out the whip. Oh wow, I we, we didn't mean to
interrupt your night out. It's not like there's many
places we can go to have our funall to ourselves.
But then again, well, I don't really mind having an audience,
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do you pet? No, ma'am.
That's my good little boy who's a good little boy.
I'm just going to go stand over there and watch something G
rated. What have I said about
disrespecting women, Frederick? Well look, I think Kendra is
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right, we don't want to erupt your fun time.
And while I think this isn't even remotely the proper place
to get out your extracurricular activities, I think I need to go
find some bleach to wash my eyesand rethink that prostate exam
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I'm due for next week based on. This sweetheart, not deputy.
Despite what fun I choose to have in my off time, I'm a
professional at my job and I take it very seriously.
I don't take what you might see out here and bring it in there.
I'll thank you to remember that.Yeah.
Oh, Papi, do you need your bite gag back in place or do you need
a scratch right there? Honey, you should probably OK.
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Well, on that note, Mr. Ferguson, please tell me those
are not your pants on the floor in the corner.
Oh, put them back on, ma'am, please.
You don't put anything back on till I say you may pass.
Kendra, why don't we give these two the run of the room?
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Some things I just don't. No, I need you to look at the
TV. Who does that look like in the
front row? What?
Doctor Wainwright is giving his acceptance speech and it's a
more self promoting the normal. But look there at that guy right
there in the front. That looks like a nick.
That cannot be. That's not possible.
Well. Then it then somebody who's the
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spitting image of Josh Nichols is sitting in the front row of
Larry's Nobel ceremony. You two, you were both on the
side of the mountain with Bass and Josh.
Let's stop straddling one another and come tell me, isn't
that him? Well, that sure looks like him.
Boy has the luck of us Irish. I thought you said you did a
header off the side of the mountain, Deputy he.
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Did I saw him do it? He fell into swirling purple
mist. But that is him sitting in a tux
in Stockholm. I'll be damned.
It is that pumpkin pie hair cutter looking freak.
All right, look at this. Look at the way that tux has
just fallen off of it. You know Big Apex would make him
not look like such a scare. You know what?
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I'm saying. Papi, if you've got time to
analyse his body, I suggest you come back to attention.
This feed is live, Doctor Wain. Oh, he's in danger.
We have got to get him some. Oh.
My God. What?
What happened, Fred? Has nothing on from the waist
down. Oh, I can't Unsee that.
What kind of? Fucking dog wears pants.
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None. United States Supervisory Deputy
(00:44):
Marshall Bass Marlowe. Today is November 20th, 2022 and
the current time is O 630 hours.Sabotage of C130 plane and
station investigation continues.I'm set to meet with the
station's legal expert today, who has indicated he's made
headway with the circumstances behind the court seal on
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documents pertaining to Chaz Wolford.
It apparently took very little effort given connections he
still had in the US court system, and I'm not sure if I
should be impressed or quite alarmed.
Have an interview set up with one of the main 3 suspects of
interest in my investigation, Sabine Greer, Cargo loader and
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was in close proximity of both the plane and the tampered
desktop system when the virus had been introduced.
This isn't a smoking gun by any stretch.
That said, nobody else I've interviewed or reviewing the
assigned duty roster showed anyone else being both locations
at the same time of tampering. Our third prime suspect is our
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resident blaster, Maurice Lamarche.
Oh, for the record, as I am surethe Marshall Service isn't
familiar with the blaster is an individual assigned to use
commercial grade explosives on the ice.
They measure, place wire and detonate explosives in
accordance with relevant technical safety instructions
and necessary station camp fieldsafety procedures.
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Mr. Lamarr's. He's got a very interesting work
record, not to mention background as an 89 delta in the
US Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal.
He's also nuttier than a fruitcake.
Zeke typically gives him a very wide berth.
(02:30):
The final tally of the Dreamlandshipment came in and whoever
sent the shipment. Chinese organized crime just
lost 2.25 billion U.S. dollars. It has been officially labeled
as the largest drug interdictionin history.
Thankfully, the media interest has almost completely died down.
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Only one or two interview requests a day now, thank God.
On the personal side, our glorious leader Doctor
Wainwright arrived in Stockholm a few days ago to accept the
Nobel Prize for his work in astrophysics proving and
devising a method to locate darkmatter.
Or to put it another way is being given all the credit by
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Beauregard Lowing for the work that Josh Nichols murder of
Doctor Rodney created. The station is televising a
Nobel ceremony live in large conference room O 900, Stockholm
time 2000 station time Thus far,nobody has signed up to watch
Doctor Jennings. That is to say, my Doctor
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Jennings has elected to take allher leave and sick time since
the arrival of her mother, Professor Magna Beckett
Jennings. It has been a week since her
mother's arrival and she hasn't stepped 1 foot of her birth.
I've been bringing her food and other items, but she has stated
she will not come out until Professor Jennings is off the
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station. The two of them have a rather
contentious history obviously, and the fact that her reunion
with her mother had her had us both naked at the time certainly
didn't help. Thank you so much Jocelyn.
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I'm going to try and help smooththings over as best I can later
today after my interviews are over.
But I'm worried. Worried this will be a giant
step backwards for Kendra. Her stuttering, her lack of
self-confidence, her social anxiety disorder, all of them
are back and with a vengeance. She has come so far, made so
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many strides and accomplished somuch and I am torn.
I'm torn between wanting to helpsolve this, Torn by not feeling
I'm supporting her enough, torn that I'm not able to put a
bullet in Jocelyn's forehead. For the record, that is a
metaphorical bullet, and I'm in no way indicating a premeditated
motive to commit homicide. All right, better end this
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before I implicate myself and anything else.
This is Supervisory Deputy Marshall Bass Marlowe.
Sabotage AC130 plane and stationinvestigation continuing.
Recording started. Good morning, Franklin.
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Oh, good morning, Javan. You said you had something for
me, something you had found while researching the sealed
files on Chaz Wolford. Indeed, just one moment and
sent. Legal work?
Oh no. Just messing with people on
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Reddit again. Nothing like crushing the
righteous indignation of a bunchof socially abhorrent hipsters
taking up space in college classrooms or mommy's basement.
Ah, which is at this time supporting or railing against
the current US administration policies.
Political Reddit. Oh.
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That's so 2016. No, I'm pitting K pop kids
against death metal fans. Ah yeah, that sounds very.
Anyway, so you found something of interest.
Oh indeed, I took some digging afavour here and there, reverting
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ownership of some legal dues owed, but I got some interesting
results. OK.
And they are. Your suspect, Mr. Wilford wanted
on a bench warrant for failure to appear before a Criminal
Court on a summons and then magically let go works for the
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government. He still works for the
Government counsellor. The National Science Foundation
is the government. Oh no, you sweet, sweet innocent
monkey brain farm bumpkin. Not the NSF lowercase G.
He was with the government, witha capital G as in General
(07:17):
Service 15. Wait a minute, Chaz Wolford was
GS15? I'm only GS13 and after almost
20 years, who is he with and what the hell is the GS15 doing
down here? That's the curious part.
With all this cloak and dagger environment you humans enjoy, I
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first suspected U.S. Department of Defense may be
justice, but no Department of Energy.
OK, the DOE. No that that makes zero sense.
Are you sure your sources are reliable and they're not just
trying to regain, I don't know, parts of their soul?
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No, no, no, no. Doesn't work like that.
You see, for something of that much value to be restored, the
exchange only works if the intent is genuine.
My offer to restore is a value, believe me.
How can I put this for your tinybrain to understand?
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Oh hey, I got it. If it isn't true, it doesn't
shine. And it's always Franklin's time
to shine. Yeah, that that didn't make it
any clearer. Oh OK, try this one on for your
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hairless simian brain. Hey if me smelly the cheaty
cheaty let me know. Make deely deely OK?
You don't need to be an ass about it OK?
Just say it's like a demon ability or something.
That wouldn't be the strangest thing I've heard down here.
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OK, so who tipped off the court of what I'm assuming was his
government clearance and had thebench warrant squashed?
Hold on. I have it right here.
Sweat down sweat. Wow, my.
Eyes are getting bad. Really need an eye exam.
Tell me about it. A newspaper print that used to
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be clear is now getting all fuzzy on across the room.
It's kind of oh, that's not me. You ever tried to read cuneiform
in a cave? My candlelight.
It's like ice cream on crystal meth.
Damp Sumerians. It's because of them we
established a vision plan. Vision.
Wait, are you telling me hell has health benefits?
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That seems kind of contradictory.
Doesn't. It we have.
What they call health benefits, not Blue Cross Blue Shield by
any stretch we got stuck with. Kaiser ah, here it.
Is. OK.
It was sent by General Jay Gordon Co, signed by the
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Massachusetts Attorney General'sOffice.
So again, this begs the question, why is he down here
working in logistics position atthe South Pole?
He obviously has money already. Friends in high political office
were able to get him off the hook for not appearing to
testify. Well, can't do all the
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investigation work for you, Javert.
This should give you the info you need to help piece together
a few more parts of the puzzle you're working on.
Right, I'm going to need to think about this for a bit.
If I dig too deep too fast, I could tip him or his handlers
off. Assuming he's a mole.
Assuming he is indeed a mole. And again, there could be just a
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very simple explanation for all of this, something that could
just get cleared up by asking. However, I can spook him into
rapping if he is guilty. Yeah, I need to figure out how
to play this one just right. Oh.
And if you'll excuse me for that, I need to school Thunberg
fan 223 on Reddit to how the Bankton boys are nothing more
(11:20):
than glorified karaoke kids and will never touch the musical
aptitude and soulful sound of Morbid Angel.
Everybody needs a hobby, I. Guess permission to dance my
ass. More like permission to suck
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hard. How dare you, Thunderbird Fan
223 exclamation point. Keep up the good work.
Recording stopped. Good morning, Miss June.
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Is she in? Unfortunately, yes.
Oh Lord, I'm really trying down here.
But I'm sure she is a very lovely person in her own way.
Look on the bright side, Miss June.
Doctor Wainwright will be back on the station next week, which
I can't believe I just said. And I can't believe that is a
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bright side. Right.
I never thought I'd see a day where I'd be missing Doctor
Grumpy, bless his heart. But this one, though, I can't
wait for her to leave driving. Everybody at the wall.
Well, everybody is soaked. Yeah, I heard so.
Here you go, Professor Beckett. Jennings.
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Late morning tea, just the way you like it.
Oolong loose, not bad. Steep 3 minutes.
Almond milk formed separately precisely 5 milliliters of
sugar, granulated and not raw. With. 2 milliliters of Sri.
Lanka Cylon. Cinnamon.
I haven't seen him this giddy since the last version of the.
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Cell was released. Well, I'm going to take my
chances and see if I can help reduce the stress during the
last week she's here. Make life a bit easier with
whatever the problem is. Maybe she just don't realize.
That a Medicaid. Card and a dress like hers don't
belong on the same woman. Damn.
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Oh oh. Pardon me, Deputy Marshall, need
to go locate Rhubarb and Custardfor this afternoon.
Oh, so wonderful. And how?
Pardon me, Professor, may I speak with you?
Supervisory Deputy Marshall Marlow, What will this line of
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conversation pertain to a young man?
Well, this may be a bit awkward.Oh come now dear, I do believe
we left awkward behind us, no doubt in the same place you
deposited your shirt and trousers before welcoming me on
station in a traditional bohemian manner.
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Oh, and with my eldest daughter accompanying you.
How wonderful you remembered me,Professor Jennings.
Beckett Jennings. Beg your pardon?
Of course, Professor Beckett Jennings, that is the topic I'm
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here regarding Kendra. So this is a social call rather
than professional or station business.
It's actually both, Professor. Young man, I've been asked to
provide temporary governance over the scientific operations
of this research facility, not to act as a nursemaid to a
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station full of bacchanalian revellers.
OK, the Dark Sector lab has beenwithout leadership for over
three weeks now, and I'm sure productivity has diminished.
Oh, I assure you, I'm aware. Not only am I supporting
oversight of the station in Lawrence's absence, I was sent
here to interview a prime candidate for Doctor Van Zandt's
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position. Seems, however, the candidate
has come down with some ailment.Pandas indisposed.
There is a very simple solution,Professor, one that would remedy
the absence of a division leaderand return operations to normal.
Supervisory Deputy Marshall, as I understand and have read, your
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position on this station is one of security and enforcement of
US laws, not as a scientist or supporting research advisory.
Role. I would thank you to remember
such going forward. So then you're not the least bit
interested in Kendra or how she's been.
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What remarkable circumstances must have taken place to see her
not only deal with her social anxiety, but to thrive, to
become a cornerstone of the science and staff operations
here at the Pole? How?
Kendra chooses to behave and actin her private life is no longer
a reflection upon me and I will not have it be regarded as such.
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Now I see here Doctor Karloff atMcMurdo Station requested your
presence on site for an enforcement related matter.
Shouldn't you be heading off? She embarrassed you.
Is that, is that what you're telling me?
Look, obviously there is a very complex history between you two,
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more than the last two weeks. But we're talking about Kendra.
You can't just treat her like any other scientist or worker.
She is your daughter for God's sakes, Professor.
I'm aware of who my children are, dear.
Now, do you have anything of operational pertinence to
discuss with me? My tea is still warm and I'd
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like to enjoy it. No, nothing of pertinence.
Thank you for your time, Professor.
Enjoy your afternoon tea and be careful it doesn't melt that
cold interior where your heart used to reside.
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Recording stopped. Recording started.
Supervisory Deputy Marshall BassMarlowe Today is November 20th,
2022 and the current time is 1700 hours.
I'm in the small conference roomand with me currently is Station
Cargo Loader Miss Sabine Greer. Miss Greer, before we start, and
this is just routine, I want to make sure you're aware this is
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100% a voluntary interview. You are not under arrest.
You are not being detained. You are free to get up and leave
at any time you wish. No charges or allegations have
been made against you. This is simply an interview.
Do you understand? I understand.
OK. In our last interview, you
mentioned Chief Bustamante had to speak with you regarding the
(18:30):
ice cores being brought to the station.
Yeah, he did. I'm sorry if Doc Wainwright
doesn't care about people or their feelings, but that doesn't
mean the rest of us can just, you know, shut all that off.
Oh, I get it. And trust me, Doctor Wainwright
isn't one of my favorite people either.
Piece of He don't hear none of this right?
No, ma'am, I'm the only person who hears it.
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He's a piece of shit then. I'm not going to argue with that
one. You know, he told Zeke to come
talk to me. He mentioned.
He need Jesus. What?
Not saying it's it's. Oh, you mean getting Hey Zeus to
show up? Yeah, that only works when Zeke
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does it. Weirdest thing, right?
You know what I think? What's that?
I think it's like that vampire movie.
That shit don't work unless you really believe.
Damn Zeke, the most holy man I know.
Of course it will work for him. Interesting.
(19:36):
OK, back to the events of the day.
You said. Give me a second.
OK, Here it is. OK, you said.
Zeke pulled you aside, said he understood why you were upset.
That he was upset, too. Because.
Oh, we're we're not actual boyfriends, Miss Greer.
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Hey, I don't judge. Only big man gets to judge
people. You 2 have some sugar ain't none
of my business. We are not an item, Mr. Greer.
He's like a baby brother to me. He ain't that much younger than
you. Five years.
You almost 50. Yes, ma'am.
Damn baby, you don't look it. Well, thank you for that.
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What keeping you looking so young?
No booze, no bread, diet, something like that.
OK, we're off the subject again.Can we?
I'm just saying some of us wouldkill to look like they steal 35.
Wait, I don't mean like kill kill.
I understand. No, really, I never killed
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anybody. I mean, sure, I could make up a
list of guys I knew. Let's Miss Greer.
Let's get back to that day. Right, right.
OK. So where we leave off?
Zeke came to talk to you. You were upset.
Right, right, right. So yeah, Zeke made it clear head
in the game, he was upset too. His boy best friend was out
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there too. Focus on work.
OK, got it. Let's go back to the day the
plane with me on it took off. OK, where do you want to start?
Let's begin. That morning you started loading
the plane up. We started loading the pallets
of materials into the plane, materials being offloaded to the
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mainland, waste used, consumables, items being retired
in favor of new items. Do you recall how many pallets?
I don't know, 10/20, it was the last transport off the station
for that season so a lot after. You were done loading.
We signed off on the upload, theplane cargo hold was sealed, we
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started the load and shutdown procedure for the season and
went to go get breakfast. OK.
And what time was this again? We.
Broke about 8:30. There was like six of us on
loading that morning, Zeke said.He and the rest of the DeWalt
said everything else. So go on and get breakfast.
Lunch. Lady Alice was serving grease
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that morning. I love me some grease.
OK, What else do you remember from that morning?
Well, everybody up working in the station was shuffling about
getting ready for the winter season and seeing people off.
Gally was quiet that morning. Always strange that first day
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when the quiet sets in. I remember Chris and Emery
coming in and going on about their cartoon things.
Like always. We heard Doctor Jennings singing
her song on the Pai. Don't really like country music,
but it was all right, I guess. After that I took my bowl of
grits and walked down to the operations so I could see your
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plane take off and. That's when you saw the person.
Like I told you last time I saw somebody in one hour jumpsuits
under the operations workbench fiddling with something.
Shit maintenance during season, staff changes ain't nothing new
so I didn't think twice about it.
OK, humor me. I'm going to ask you to close
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your eyes and think, really think hard when looking back.
OK, whatever you need. You've had your bowl of grits,
you've had a couple of spoons already and can still taste the
melted butter and honey in your mouth.
Oh AB you killing me right now? Walking down the APOD corridor
(23:35):
it's really quiet, just the hum of the station heaters.
Heading down by OPS and you see.Some guy under the workbench.
And he has on. Gray DeWalt work suit.
He's on his back working on one of the computers underneath.
You're sure it's a he? All that pad the size honey, I
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know all the DeWalt ladies, onlyQueens we have close to that
size. We're down working with Zeke.
He even said so. How long did you see him when
you walked by? 3-4 seconds maybe?
OK, let's try to hold on to thatmemory for a few more seconds.
You said he had a bag of tools with him.
I mean I guess it was his. It was on the floor by open with
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a tool laying on the floor next to it.
Any chance you remember seeing anything about their face?
No, I'm sorry baby. They had their knees up, almost
touching the bottom of the workbench.
I couldn't see nothing about a face.
OK, I think we're good here. I appreciate you stopping by to
talk with me again. No problem, I hope y'all find
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them soon. Recording stopped.
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Please go away. I don't.
I don't. I don't.
I don't feel very good. Sweetie, it's Bass.
Will you please open the door Is.
Is she off? I mean, has she left?
Did did she leave yet? No, sorry, she's still here.
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Well then I still I'm not I really I I don't feel well and I
don't want to. Baby, it's me.
Please, Would you let me come in?
Thank you, sweetie. I sweetheart.
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When was the last time you cleaned in here?
Oh, so not only am I, I'm not good enough and I have no place
in but I but I also need to. No, no, no, honey, honey.
Look, I, I just, I'm just, I'm just very worried about you and
I haven't ever seen you like. She's she's the absolute worst
(26:10):
bass. You have no idea what growing up
with. I mean, she's always been I.
I can't even fathom what you andyour siblings must have gone
through growing up. I I only interacted with her
twice in the past week, but thatwas enough to make my own
opinion. Everybody on station, she has
them absolutely miserable. Well, everybody but oh.
(26:33):
My God, Thomas, Oh, he must be getting it worse of everybody.
No, no, actually, I don't think I've ever seen Mr. Kelly
happier, more content and havinga real challenge.
He's flourishing. Oh, oh, that's good, I guess.
I mean, if anybody I was worriedabout, it would have been
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Thomas. Kendra, look, Zeke just said he
saw Doctor Jovac Lorenz and yourmother heading in the tunnels
about an hour ago. Obviously they're doing
something with the secret project.
She'll be sequestered for a while.
Would you please come out with me on the station just for an
hour or so? Just to.
Get back. No way, no way, no way.
Bass last time I let my guard down or my inhibition, the she
(27:17):
devil appeared and I am staying right here until she's off
stationed. So then all the steps that you
made in the last year, the baby steps, you're not willing to
acknowledge those all that didn't mean anything to you I.
Didn't I? It's that's not that's you know,
that's not what I. I'm I'm not saying that
(27:38):
Professor Becca Jennings showingup wasn't a stressful or jarring
incident because, well, because your birth now looks like Emery
and Chris's IT room and it's almost giving the same odor.
So obviously it's trust you. You.
You don't have anxiety, social anxiety.
You don't have this. You're 100% correct.
I don't suffer. That's the wrong choice of
(27:59):
words. I, I don't struggle.
I don't struggle with the same struggles that you do, OK.
All I have to relate to is what you've explained to me.
So in that sense, I'd like to think I have a general idea.
Oh, a general idea. Well, I have two, Doctor.
It's a masters and enough lifetime experience to tell you,
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sweetie, you don't. I love you, Bass.
I love you, and that won't change.
But you need to understand. I hate.
I hate Magda Beckett. You know me.
You know me better than anybody.So you know I don't use that
word lightly. And I hardly use it at all
because it is a vile word. But I hate my.
(28:43):
Mother, that is very apparent and from my own experience,
look, I'm I'm not trying to say I relate to what you're going
through and I'm not trying to compare or one up, but your
mother is a bully, an emotional one as opposed to physical one,
obviously, but a bully by the very.
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Difference. You have no idea.
Pass growing up. Growing up, Devin was an
athlete. He was strong and fast.
You put a ball or a stick or anything sports in his hand.
And he was a maestro on every high school team and college
team. And he was so handsome and he
was smart and he didn't even focus on it.
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But he could have been an engineering genius.
He could fix anything with moving parts like cars.
But mother, mother didn't understand.
She wouldn't. She couldn't understand the
allure or appeal of sporting events or things to do for fun.
She and my father got into heated arguments about it, and I
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honestly think he joined the Marines to get away from her.
And then that decision got him. She got him.
And Mary Ellen, my younger sister, She left the house at
16. She got herself emancipated the
same year my father passed, and it wasn't hard to prove a hard
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home life to the courts with that woman.
And I was already gone. I was attending Harvard's
physics program. But I know for a fact that Mary
and my mother haven't spoken in over 10 years.
She's never even met her own granddaughters, and I suspect
she doesn't care. So bullies fast.
Yeah, I have some of my own experience with bullies.
And I know you're about to say that bullies like praying on
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easy targets or the best way to deal with them is to fight back.
But but I'm tired Bass, I shouldn't have to fight.
I'm tired of her behaviour, I amtired of her bullshit.
I am tired of her. I'm in my mid 30s and I've only
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recently started to live, started to enjoy, really enjoy
my life because because I deserve to.
You notice that you're not stammering anymore.
OK, you got me give me some nicer clothes and let's take a
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walk. But I am warning you right now I
best not here and I told you so.If the next two words out of
your mouth aren't good job, the third word will be ah, my
crotch. Why did you punch me in my?
Crotch. Good job.
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Oh, you weren't kidding, Bass Mike.
Just doing a real number around here.
Yeah, Miss June and I were talking about that earlier.
You know, it's an odd thing whenyou're actually looking forward
to seeing Doctor Wainwright again.
I remember chatting with a few of her grad students one time
several years after they had heras a professor, and they said
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she was probably the smartest instructor that they ever had
and they felt absolutely challenged to excel, but that
she had zero people skills or anything close to empathy.
I'd love to have her sit with Sydney sometime.
I'm almost positive that she hasalexithymia.
You're. Going to have to excuse me
honey, I'm not familiar with that term.
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It's, well, it's not classified as a mental disorder really.
It just it means you aren't ableto experience or express
emotions like any emotion as other people do.
It's recognized as a personalitytrait, I think.
Oh, OK. Listen, Kendra, I don't mean to
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pry in your family business, butdid your sister Mary Ellen
suffer from anything similar or did your brother Devin?
No, thankfully, no. Neither of them had to
experience, well, anything to the extent that I have.
Most think I inherited my gifts for science and knowledge from
Magda, but I think her gift to me was neurodivergence and
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trauma. No, no, I don't agree at all.
Look, you told me before, everything you've accomplished,
everything you've earned was earned by you.
You coming out of your shell, making friends and connections
here on the station. That is all you.
Kendra, she didn't have anythingto do with that, inherited or
otherwise. And from where I stand, you
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don't owe that woman a damn thing.
That's that's very kind of you to say, sweetie.
You're right. You're right, of course.
I'm sorry, I I have these old man ears.
Can you repeat that please? My knee to your crotch is still
an option here, bass. I see.
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OK, well, let's not go there. Oh, but let's go in here in
large conference room. They are televising the Nobel
ceremony. What do you say we just peek in
for a moment and see? Whoa.
Oh, sorry, you 2. Jeez, we just wanted to come in
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and take a look real fast. You know, you should really be
doing that in your own births. Oh come on now, boss.
Use. Two of all people should know
how thin these walls are. Besides, I didn't think anybody.
Would care enough to see Larry. Come get his science, Atta boy.
Oh, Frederick, the Nobel Prize is much more than an Atta boy.
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Plus, who said you could talk puppy?
Don't make me get out the whip. Oh wow, I we, we didn't mean to
interrupt your night out. It's not like there's many
places we can go to have our funall to ourselves.
But then again, well, I don't really mind having an audience,
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do you pet? No, ma'am.
That's my good little boy who's a good little boy.
I'm just going to go stand over there and watch something G
rated. What have I said about
disrespecting women, Frederick? Well look, I think Kendra is
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right, we don't want to erupt your fun time.
And while I think this isn't even remotely the proper place
to get out your extracurricular activities, I think I need to go
find some bleach to wash my eyesand rethink that prostate exam
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I'm due for next week based on. This sweetheart, not deputy.
Despite what fun I choose to have in my off time, I'm a
professional at my job and I take it very seriously.
I don't take what you might see out here and bring it in there.
I'll thank you to remember that.Yeah.
Oh, Papi, do you need your bite gag back in place or do you need
a scratch right there? Honey, you should probably OK.
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Well, on that note, Mr. Ferguson, please tell me those
are not your pants on the floor in the corner.
Oh, put them back on, ma'am, please.
You don't put anything back on till I say you may pass.
Kendra, why don't we give these two the run of the room?
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Some things I just don't. No, I need you to look at the
TV. Who does that look like in the
front row? What?
Doctor Wainwright is giving his acceptance speech and it's a
more self promoting the normal. But look there at that guy right
there in the front. That looks like a nick.
That cannot be. That's not possible.
Well. Then it then somebody who's the
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spitting image of Josh Nichols is sitting in the front row of
Larry's Nobel ceremony. You two, you were both on the
side of the mountain with Bass and Josh.
Let's stop straddling one another and come tell me, isn't
that him? Well, that sure looks like him.
Boy has the luck of us Irish. I thought you said you did a
header off the side of the mountain, Deputy he.
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Did I saw him do it? He fell into swirling purple
mist. But that is him sitting in a tux
in Stockholm. I'll be damned.
It is that pumpkin pie hair cutter looking freak.
All right, look at this. Look at the way that tux has
just fallen off of it. You know Big Apex would make him
not look like such a scare. You know what?
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I'm saying. Papi, if you've got time to
analyse his body, I suggest you come back to attention.
This feed is live, Doctor Wain. Oh, he's in danger.
We have got to get him some. Oh.
My God. What?
What happened, Fred? Has nothing on from the waist
down. Oh, I can't Unsee that.
What kind of? Fucking dog wears pants.
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