December 11, 2024 • 43 mins
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Stay tuned after the show for a special announcement.
And the one way this can be absolutely proven I'm confident
is using a sword child metric. Ridiculous.
He's insufferable. How many times must we pursue
the same incorrect pathway? You do recall what Professor
Einstein stated regarding the definition of insanity?
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Yes, I recall Professor's work quite clearly and I'm very
pleased that you brought him up as I think relativity is the
part of the solution we're seeking.
The singularity of the Schwartz child metric at the event
horizon is not a singularity. The point at R naughty is merely
an artifact of the coordinate system choice.
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I don't agree. Look, when you use Preschel's
coordinates TX the metric is nonsingular at the horizon right?
Well, OK, well So what? So what you counter an
observation with? So what am I smelling?
Toast doctors, please observe ifyou calculate the DS squared
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space-time interval between 2 events of a person who crossed
the horizon and you should get Infinity yeah yeah in either TR
or TX coordinates. So that quote UN quote
singularity at the horizon is correct.
And there is nothing defective about the metric being Infinity
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in Schwarzschild coordinates. The Schwarzschild metric is
given the correct physics with Crest scales coordinates.
You shift the Infinity at horizon into DX and DT which are
Infinity at the horizon and whenthe differential element DS is
not equal to 0. If you have a singularity in
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some coordinate system, then physically there is some
trajectory that will give an infinite proper time, which
indicates that the singularity is physical and can be felt by
someone on that trajectory. Dr. It has been pointed out
multiple times that not all singularities are curvature
singularities. Are you worried about how to
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detect conical singularities? I'll remind you that the current
work is focusing on coordinates that are.
For the love of God, are we closer to a solution, yes or no?
Yes. No, seriously, does anybody else
smell toast? Does I do?
Look, this meeting isn't for youlot to toss about.
Whatever Propellerhead theories you've got, save that for when
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you're in there. I need to know if we're still on
track for Event 4 agent. I think for the moment that
answer is a qualified. We're not sure yet.
Telemetry from the sensors Lawrence and I left during event
three are still transmitting, but at random intervals.
The best theory we have to date is we may be able to improve the
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detection when we focus on an inverse frequency to cosmic
microwave background radiation and a peak frequency of about
160 gigahertz. The cosmic microwave background
is most evident in the frequencybands between 70 and 217
gigahertz. Exactly that, and it was shown
that the singularity center at the distance between another
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object center is r = 2 M in the Swartz child Solution is a
consequence of the choice of coordinates.
Introducing Crusker. Not the time.
I I need an aspirin. All right, spell it out for me.
Let's assume Doctor Dellums theory pans out.
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Where would that leave us? Well, if his theory were to
become theorem, we could reduce the potential appearance of
event 4 from a 20 mile square radius to roughly a three, maybe
2 square radius. We could be on site within an
hour of the station returning. It will proof out, I am
confident of it. Detection is the least of our
troubles. Determine how to stabilize and
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isolate the specific entropic quantum signature so the station
can exit the singularity as a convolution rotates on the
spherical plane over the 96 hourrevolution.
That is where true mastery of physics will be proven.
And what? What exactly have you achieved?
It was a big old goose egg. 1 doesn't simply grab some white
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out and just the entropic signature of an item, let alone
entire station and all its internal artificially created
differential envelope. It would mirror the entropic
signature of the critical point and establish Landau, you
brilliant commie mathematical madman.
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And talking about you left, not you Martin.
You're still my favorite. Landau is.
That something we need to be bothered about or encouraged by.
Doctor Jovak is prone to engage in periodic flights of fancy
when inspiration hits. If he comes up with anything of
substance, trust me, we'll be aware.
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What is the status with the archworker who was shot by the
Deputy Marshall? Oh.
It's a wonder Marshmallow didn'tkill him.
Bullet lodged in his A order andfrom what I heard they had a
bloody difficult time extractingit.
The letter's still kicking for now.
He's been in critical condition since he was shot last week,
still in a coma, and they're hoping to transport him out in
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another week. Do you still think he was
working for the United States government?
A spy I hadn't heard this, From whom we wouldn't be spying on
ourselves. As soon as I was told what had
happened, I had my resources in the Defense Intelligence Agency
begin a thorough search for anything on this.
Chaz Wilford is NSF paperwork and background histories.
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All shite master fakery, but dodgy all the same.
Somebody did a right job on him.Only thing we could find is a
2002 incident where he was a witness to murder.
Apparently he had a handler backthen who advised Wilfred to do a
runner and how the court summonsnullified.
There was a reference to the code name of his handler,
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someone named Gable. I never met Gable but he decided
to go rogue about 10 years ago. Maybe he found a conscience or
the good Lord. I don't know how to break down
whatever within government circles.
He is one of only a small numberof people who have a shoot on
site order. Is that even legal?
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Oh darling, please tell me you're not that naive.
I mean, it makes you all the more delectable, yes, but legal?
Seriously, I was just asking. Jeez.
Yes, this is all well and good, but to which agency was he given
directions through? Appears to be DARPA,
specifically the Defense Scienceoffices.
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Do we think it was him that stole the Atlas telemetry data
around Christmas time? I had the same thought.
I searched his birth and the logistic offices directly after
a shooting and before Marlowe made his way.
I couldn't find it or anything else of interest.
The next window opens in two hours.
If there is nothing else, I wantto have everybody begin
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preparations for monitoring. You'll see the glacial
coordinates I've selected based on the last results.
I have also a specialized piece of equipment on its way to the
station, an apparatus which should simplify location and
tracking of the Canadian stations once we have it
installed inside that facility. Why wasn't I notified of this?
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Have the proper security precautions been taken to ensure
it arrives without prying eyes? Oh did I not inform you or my my
I must have had my mind on otheritems.
Oh, you right, Pillock. I want to know everything that's
been arranged and the specifics around its transport.
Of course, of course. Happy to bring you up to date.
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I think it's important that we all know about this device,
especially if we're being asked to install it and leave it on
the station before it shifts back into null space.
And I agree with this lovely little chippy, especially since
I'll be leading the expedition into Event 4.
When she reappears, I'll also have a little surprise of my
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own. Recording has concluded.
Recording started. Deputy Marshall Prompt, as
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always. Did Assistant US Attorney
General McAvoy make it off the station All right?
Yes ma'am, he boarded transport out this morning and I have to
say, I'm still not a fan of McAvoy or this particular US
Attorney General's office. Pretty sure he hates me too.
Every branch of federal law enforcement has general
disregard for internal reviews from the AG.
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It's a necessary evil and we're all on the same team.
I'm not sure McAvoy got that particular memo.
From what I read off the wire this morning, he's cleared you
says the shooting of Wolford wasa clean shoot.
He did, he's just a natural bornasshole I suppose.
Anyway, I'm officially cleared by the AG to return to duty.
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What's the latest with the suspect?
Still in a coma, still listed asin critical condition.
Our chief physician has had multiple video consultations and
examinations with docs backed inthe states.
Real top notch trauma surgeons to evaluate the case.
Doc Ambrose is a good doctor andsurgeon, but he's never had a
gunshot case before Will. He live.
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Ambrose says it's about 5050 at the moment.
If they can safely get him back to fully staffed hospital in
Christchurch, those chances should go up.
With winter forecast to begin inanother 5 weeks and the station
going dark for about 8 months, they're going to give it another
week or two, but after that they'll have no choice.
So how's this sitting with? You I'm all right.
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It's not the first time I've been in this situation over the
20 years I've been on the job. It's just annoying having to
wait 10 days to be cleared. AG McAvoy didn't want to handle
the investigation over a video call.
Wanted to be there in person. Don't understand it myself, but
that's their call to make. Assholes and an asshole.
So where do we stand on that investigation?
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Well, we have a full confession for Renee Kellogg.
After she had a gun pointed at her head, she more or less was
willing to give her full recountof the circumstances around the
shooting itself. The Attorney General are going
to drop most of the charges since her involvement was pretty
much secondary and she really had no real clue what Wilford
was up to. We found the coverall exactly
where she said they'd be. They're heading off the Station
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McAvoy for testing back in the States.
Given the cold preservation, we think it should still have
traces of his DNA. Even if his DNA is found.
It's a stronger case that he wasindeed our saboteur, but it's
not the smoking gun I was looking for.
If he makes it and he's able to go to trial, I'm not confident
that it's enough to get his conviction.
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Not that he be ever make it to trial, even if he does survive
you still. Believe he's DoD connected with
DARPA. I bet my badge on it, yeah.
DOJ made a formal inquiry, as you'd expect.
They aren't finding any employeewith that name in their rosters,
denying any involvement. What is it you're mixed up in
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down there, Marlo? A lot of rumor, a lot of cloak
and dagger games. I filled you in on the
Beauregard Loan project. Several of the scientists that
are connected to down here, including Wainwright Wolford,
was on the outside at work, which means DARPA wasn't invited
to the party and says to me thatthey wanted to crash it.
So what I'm hearing is my DeputyMarshall, in addition to running
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an entire continent himself, a smack in the middle of some spy
versus spy inter intelligence dispute.
I don't like it. I'm not having a barrel of
movies myself, ma'am. Do you want reinforcements?
I can have several assets freed up here and call in Pete to give
me some heavy hitters out of Ohio.
Have them spread out between Palmer, McMurdo and Amundsen.
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I appreciate that offer, Marshall, but for the moment I
think it's not necessary. Things are calm presently and I
I don't want to rile up the other nations with enhanced
paramilitary forces, especially everything that the US is going
through on the international theatre.
Good point, Deputy. I have another piece of
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information, an update for you, the Armenian mobster who shot
you in McMurdo and Eric Margosian.
He's dead. Dead.
What happened? Two days ago there was a riot
inside of Auckland Prison D Block, which is where they have
the most dangerous shitbirds they have.
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In the course of events, they found Margosian with a shoe
through his ear. Death was instant.
Five other inmates in D Block were killed, more than 20
seriously injured. So, well, it doesn't appear that
Margosian was specifically targeted.
Margosian was specifically targeted.
Pretty much it happened during ashift change and when that
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block's guards were already minimal staffing due to some
virus going around. Shit, there's an inquest from
the local authorities that started last night into the riot
and subsequent deaths. I don't think much will come
from it. Marshall would would it be
possible to get a list and nationality of all the other
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inmates who were in D black at the time?
I'm honestly not sure privacy laws can get touchy when you're
dealing with overseas, but I'll see what I can get for you.
You have a hunch. Nothing I want to articulate
just now. I'll know more if I can get the
list and review it. Give me a few days, I'll see
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what I can obtain. I appreciate it, Marshall.
Hang in there, Beth, head on a swivel and all that.
Yes, ma'am. Good night, Marshall.
Recording stopped. Sweetie, you've been tossing and
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turning for, I don't know, an hour.
You want to talk about it? Oh, I'm so sorry, Kondra.
I don't mean to keep you up. Do you want me to go back to my
own birth tonight? Then I'd lose my favorite space
eater. No, but why don't you tell me
what's keeping you up? Better to talk about it than let
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it fester. Margosian was killed.
Nerik Margosian, He was the guy who shot me and McMurdo.
He's dead now. What happened?
There was a prison riot in the cellblock where he was being
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housed. He was stabbed along with a
number of others who either diedor were seriously hurt.
And people are saying he wasn't specifically singled out.
But his trial for crimes on McMurdo, including shooting me,
would have started next week. I think he was targeted.
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Oh, why? By the Chinese government or the
mob? Or.
Exactly that. I mean, it's all way too
coincidental, right? But if they killed him, it was
probably because he failed killing me or he was going to
talk. Either way, he was killed
because of me. Honey, stop that.
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I I don't agree. We're all responsible for our
own actions. He chose that life.
He chose the job to be on McMurdo and scouting it out.
He chose to pick up that gun. He chose to get into a shootout.
Do you see where I'm going here?I do.
I do. And you're right and thank you.
But I have to tell you, it's still, it's hanging on me
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regardless if I get it or not. OK, You know what would help?
Actually, Why don't you tell me what's going on with you with
your new position? Because hearing about it will be
so boring that you'll fall asleep.
No, no, that's not it at all. No, I, I, I'm, I'm, I'm
seriously interested. It would, it would be nice
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actually to hear about somethingother than criminal
investigations, international arrest, prison homicide for a
while. And I want to hear how your
job's going. OK, so let's see.
Well, today we had our weekly staff meeting, the whole DSL
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team reviewed where everybody ison their mapping and data
gathering. And Trini on BICEP 2 thinks she
may have discovered a curlicue pattern in the polarization of
the cosmic background. Possible gravitational waves,
ripples in space-time. They'd be generated during.
The first moments of the universe where you theorize
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cosmos went through a brief for a mass expansion called
inflation and it verified these waves would confirm the
inflation theory, right? Oh wow, you actually pay
attention when I explain science?
Well, you still even pay attention to me when I'm Naked
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and up against you. You love my mind, not just my
looks. It's just one of the many, many,
many reasons you're the perfect partner somebody could ever
lead. You're not so bad yourself.
I love you. I love you too.
Where? Where was I?
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Bicep 2 I want to say. Oh yeah, Trini.
Yeah, yeah. So everybody on the BICEP 2
project is excited, but we're remaining cautious.
Last time we thought it was a gravitational wave.
Whole big debacle. It was several years before I
was here. But they sent their findings for
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peer review, and the French contingent of the Plank
Observatory team we had partnered with released the
finding months too early, long before everything was vetted.
Not unusual for the ESA. Forgive me USA.
That's the European Space Agency.
Needless to say, we're being extra cautious this time around.
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All in all, I'm happy I acceptedthis position.
It's exciting stuff. Well that's good and I'm happy
for you sweetheart. Adam hesitant to ask this, but
anything new between you and your mom?
Mother. She stopped being mom a long
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time ago. Nothing new.
I'm still just trying to processthat she's associated with
project outlets, associated morelike it's her legacy that she
takes all of her pride and unlike her own children.
OK, I mean, look, you're not wrong necessarily Kendra, but
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maybe being a bit too harsh, youthink?
I mean, I remember wrong, but isit possible that maybe you're
just looking through tinted glasses still?
But she's so I don't know, maybeI am, Possibly, probably, and
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I'm not. I'm not angry she chose
Shepardellum over me as the project replacement.
That would have been an offer I would have turned down anyway.
I'm just the reason that broughther down here wasn't me and my
work was that damn project and Wainwright's temporary absence.
Just something to add to our distance between us.
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Look, at the risk of sticking mynose into a family affair, and
also, it might be the O 230 talking here, but as someone who
is now technically an orphan after both parents passing,
you're in a position I kind of envy honey.
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I mean, you have a chance to speak more with a parent before
they're gone forever. I'm not saying that you should
eat shit from her or anything like that, but maybe, I don't
know, Reach out. Reach out now.
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Yeah, Mary Ellen said the same thing.
Her mother has more or less written her off since she
decided to be a homemaker ratherthan pursuing radicular biology.
Even despite all that, she's she's been making attempts to
reconnect with Magda. I don't know, Bass.
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It's just such a foreign concept.
Yep, given. Sweetie, Bass, sweetie, you got
your recorder on again. I love you.
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Tovarish, I am sorry, I did not know you would be working in
office this hour, but the early bird gets to find all the worms.
Mikhail, please come in. Don't let me get in your way.
Spicy. But Tovarish, I will not take
long. You are doing well there Miguel.
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I I have to admit I'm confused. Oh, can Miguel help you get?
I'm confused. I think you may be the only
person on station who can. Oh, sounds like this is
important. I will sit down here see if I
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can help find in answers. I have a talent for this thing.
Now, you tell I listens. All right, I'll cut to the
chase. I was digging through old
digital recordings, making sure I don't erase anything not
already having been transcribed.I typically don't go listening
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to recordings made when I leave my recorder somewhere.
I tend to have two or three of those a month.
This time, however, I listened the go on.
Well, digging through them, I struck gold a wealth of
information I never knew about. Specifically, your interactions
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with Franklin. OK, and what's this plan you and
Franklin were talking about? You rattled off station people
and friends of mine talking about getting them lined up.
Are the two of you up to something?
You're all worried over the nothings.
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We are not Batman's will man anddemon.
We have just connected together since we both have very rough
times adjusting to Americans. Or in his case, how how does he
say just to full sin meet sex would have voices that sound
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like rabbit baboons in heat, butnot in good ways.
Mikhail, seriously, you expect me to believe what I heard on
that recording were two individuals who bonded over
assimilating to working and living with Americans?
That's ridiculous. Different cultures to be around
than when we were from people speak differently customs odd,
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way of life odd and strange, butwe try hard to fit in without
giving up The Who we are as in core of persons.
You know, it's just like Klempits family.
Who? The family clamp.
OK, OK, I can help. You'll get it.
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Doverish, please come listen to my story about the man who has
named Jed. He was very poor man who just
tried to provide for family, keep them fed.
Good that, though. Well, one day he was hunting for
food when up from the ground came bubble in crude Beverly
Hillbillies. Mikkel, Enough of this.
It comes. I listened to the recording like
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five times. What do you and Franklin have
cooking down there? Tobrich is very simple and not
all conspiracy makings. We are fishes that are not in
the water. The the how.
How do you say the people are strange when you're a stranger?
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Oh, like when Clampetts must learn how to make livings in
capitalist world of Beverly Hills.
They, they do not fit in. They, they can see how
everything is different around them.
But they tried to get accustomedto all the people's ways.
So to the demon guy and Jonathan, you called him by
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name. You don't call anybody by their
real name. Tell me it's not a coincidence.
Is no coincidence. Sometimes things are just the
way they seem they are. OK.
OK, then what is going to happenin two more years?
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Do we all die like the station computer?
What happens in two years? You both seem to be in the know.
Doverish I am still no good witharts of words, but one time I
write down in the how'd it go again, the most perceptive
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character in a play is fool. This is because the man who
wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be simple to.
But like most writers, only the creator can know what is to
come. But this is all teachings you do
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not believe in. What are you?
Sydney told me to never trust you.
And he was being as serious as I've ever seen him.
You know a lot about the comingsand goings around here.
What are you? I am janitor.
Janitor. Best janitor on station.
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Oh who needs to not take such long breaks and get back to
cleaning Doverish. Soon all the young smart defense
leave station to go back to their homes and station will be
just as clean as on day they arrived.
This is not over Miguel. On this we agree there is much
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cleaning to do around station. Miguel will come back later to
make sure Doverish office is clean as whistles.
Y'all come back now. You're here.
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Supervisory Deputy Marshall Marlowe.
Sounds like somebody got a promotion.
Congratulations. Supervisory Deputy Marshall
Nichols. How you Remember Me?
I'm flattered. I don't know many people who can
leap off a mountain that is 4000feet up in the middle of a
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Blizzard like conditions and survive.
You stand out, but we all have our extraordinary talents like
being able to attract undue attention and put themselves in
the middle of a bull's eye. I do have to say I don't like
the competition that others havestarted in trying to take you
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out. Oh, you won't be able to trace
this columnar. I took steps to ensure that.
What is it you want, Nichols? I doubt it's to gloat about the
escape or the appearance at the Nobel ceremony we all witnessed.
Nice tux by the way. Thank you.
However, I didn't call the way back down to my former home just
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to accept the plaudits of fashion choices.
I'm calling as well what I hope will be the harbinger of Portent
Nichols. Either come out with it or get
on with whatever it is you do. See, this is the primary reasons
Lawrence never cared for you. A lack of general comprehension
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of words with more than a singlesyllable hanging up the phone.
Now get off the station, Marlowe.
Get off the station while you still are able to do so.
I'm authorized to make you a onetime offer.
Leave the station, take whomeveryou want with you, and
everything that happened will beforgotten.
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No retribution, no retaliation, no more people coming after you.
So you sent the Chinese hitman at Palmer St.
Margosian at McMurdo? The Albania wasn't just intended
for you. But yes, Marlow, that was
implied as a showing of our goodfaith.
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We had Margosian dealt with in that staged prisoner ride.
If you walk away now, it all stops.
If you stay and keep on interfering in matters not your
concern, it's fair game on you and all your little chums.
You had Margosian killed. Well, naturally.
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And you're threatening me and others here on the station over
the phone from a safe location. You know, I never took you as
such a little bitch before, Nichols.
Oh, Ouch. Those words hurt me so much,
Marlo. All the same, you have a few
weeks more to decide. Be on one of the transports off
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the station before the next winter season starts up.
If you leave, you and whoever goes with you will live out
their lives and die a ripe old age.
Stay. Wow, you made a decision there
is not coming back from three weeks.
I don't need 3 seconds. I'm staying.
I'm staying right here. And if you want to finish what
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we started on the side of Mount Markham, oh, you won't have to
look hard for me. But I'm guessing you don't
possess the testicular fortitudeto truly represent the less than
obfuscated threat you levied towards me.
How's that for comprehending more than a few syllable words?
Three weeks, Marlowe, we're watching after that, you either
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say you were warned and live outyour life or you can say you
were warned as you watch everybody around you that you
care about killed and slipped through your fingers.
We'll see each other again, Nichols.
On that you can trust. Hope that arm is feeling better
after this long Zeke. Hey go ahead lol man one hour
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the barn tell the team. So long and short of it is if
you're still on station after the winter season starts, he's
not going to afford you mercy orquarter.
You'll be viewed no different than I am.
Josh Nichols said he and his group will try to murder us as
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well. More or less.
That's what we indicated on the call.
Yes, thug lackey who wants to rub me out.
I've seen this matinee in the second feature for a time.
Always ends the same though. My meat walking the Morgan a
goon seeing Tweety birds circling his noggin.
Not even newsreel worthy. Over the past season there has
been two attempts made against me.
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The incident McMurdo with Neric Margosian, who Josh confirmed
they had killed in a New Zealandprison.
And the attempt while I was at Palmer.
And the two Chinese private military D we contractors who
shot at Special Asian Corps. To myself, we continue with
this. I and the US Marshall Service
will do everything in our power to protect you.
But you need to understand that.I mean, I appreciate that,
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buddy, but let me finish my pitch before you decide.
Oh, my bad law man. Yeah.
You're going with that speech. Fine thing.
I'll tell you. I'm still aiming when you're
done. You're going now.
I and the US Marshall Service will do everything we can to
protect everybody in the room, but I can't make any promises.
We'd all have targets on our backs, targets put there by
actors with homicidal intent, both external to the US and what
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I fear may be internal factors as well.
What about your British dog girl?
The ex-girlfriend who's working with the Atlas dudes?
Whatever name is? Is she going to be, you know,
trying to cut off her stems out the root here?
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Not my ex. Thank you, Mr. Dobber, for
making me throw open my mouth a little bit.
No, as much as it pains me to have these words come out of my
own mouth, Jocelyn is unconnected with the plot to
have me removed. But she let.
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Me walk that statement back. She's not connected with this
current plot to have me removed.I honestly believe that she'd
see any attempt to move against me as competition and she'd act
against the other individual. What about the call we
intercepted from her last season?
The the call from the antique shop?
The call one block away from theChinese Embassy in Wellington.
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Yeah, that bothered me as well, Mr. Kelly, for quite a while,
although something never sat right.
If she had been connected with the Chinese, that call would
have been coming from within theembassy, not outside of it, and
I had to get past my own distrust, anger, and rage to
allow reason and logic to take over.
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Honestly, I think it might have been her way of telling me to
watch for them without directly telling me.
Come again? Say what now?
Well, Jocelyn had to know would be tracing the call, yet she
stayed in line long enough to let that happen.
The call came from location directly near, but not within an
embassy we already had identified as being connected
with the data Nichols was tryingto smuggle out.
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I'm not saying I'm ready to put my life in her hands.
Far be it, Very far be it. I am confident she is not mixed
up with the drug smuggling nor the attempts from Nichols and
his goons to Take Me Out. But.
Should we continue to not? Trust her.
Don't trust her in the least. No.
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OK, let's get back to the main point I brought up.
Can I say it now? Not yet.
If you opt to stay on through the winter season, it has been
made known to me you'll all be at risk.
Now, I've outlined everything that has happened that I know of
as of today, and I cannot ask any of you to stay.
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As I said, I'll do everything inmy power to keep not only all at
this table, but all those at this station safe.
But if anybody wants to depart, nobody here will think any less
of you and you will still be family no matter what.
And I am not asking you to decide now.
We still have several weeks before the last flight departs
for the winter. Take the time you really need to
think about. Sorry lol man, I know you wasn't
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finished all the way, but nothing you're going to say is
going to change my mind. Somebody coming here for my best
fan, my brother, my station, my lady.
You best believe they're going to have to go through me.
No, Sir, I was been leaving before.
Your breaking news special report ain't leaving now.
I'm in. Yeah, I'm going to hang around
to Deputy Deuter, Sir. Formal.
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Yeah. What would happen to my kitties
in the greenhouse? Right.
Who keep Keenan from visiting and trying to overdo the
courtesy free samples, Don't you, Zeke?
You didn't hear that part. Hell, I didn't.
All due respect, I'm planted here.
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See what I did just then? Wow, I have to say I've never.
Been in a situation where entirenations and a shady criminal
underworld. Have been out to.
Kill me that. Sounds so exciting.
Except for, you know, the the murdery parts I'm in.
I say let the mugs come. We're somewhat for.
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I'm on the case, Marlo. Thank you, Mr. Todd.
I just got to my place of Zion and staying on this station.
It took me a long time to get tothat place, and frankly, I don't
want to leave. Besides, now that I know Emery,
the man that I still love, stillalive, I can't leave.
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Oh, I know this may come the surprise and a shock to some of
you, but Emery and I, we're in arelationship and we are gay.
We are aware, Mr. Todd. Well, I mean, I figured you'd be
an investigator that Mars boughtthe rest of the.
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People deduced it in 10 minutes after you boys arrived on
station, bickering the whole time.
Hey, took me 6 months after y'all ride.
Figure that one out. Same ZS but you 2 actually
fight. Exactly like my Uncle Milo and
Aunt Cece. My cousin Jimmy's folks, they
get into heated arguments and then right after our loving each
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other up. The one of the reasons why my
cousin Jimmy's products are so strong.
Yeah, he had to burn those memories out of his mind.
Real. Quick, we all figured it out,
Chris. It's just, oh gosh, we wanted to
be respectful and let one of youformally tell us it's just
golly, it's just a respectful thing.
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I mean, come on. Even Fred figured it out.
Yep, so many gay dudes have super killer ABS that I was
surprised when oh, oh, back it up.
What the hell you mean even whenFred figured it out in I'm
saying I'm in and thank you all.Tell some stuff about some
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stuff. You know what I'm saying,
Kendra? I'm a bit insulted you'd even
ask. All the same, this is something
I can't. I won't just assume I know the
answer despite everything. Kendra, please understand.
I'm in. Kendra IF.
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OK, before when I said I was a bit insulted, that was
hyperbole. Now, now I really am starting to
take offense. Especially if you think I need
any different or special consideration above and beyond
what you'd give the others. So please continue, sweetie.
Please finish that sentence. Kendra IF.
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Kendra, if there was a way I could love you even more, you
just showed me that way. OK.
That was a great recovery, stillin.
All right, from here on out, everything gets more difficult
than before. We have forces aimed directly at
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And the one way this can be absolutely proven I'm confident
is using a sword child metric. Ridiculous.
He's insufferable. How many times must we pursue
the same incorrect pathway? You do recall what Professor
Einstein stated regarding the definition of insanity?
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Yes, I recall Professor's work quite clearly and I'm very
pleased that you brought him up as I think relativity is the
part of the solution we're seeking.
The singularity of the Schwartz child metric at the event
horizon is not a singularity. The point at R naughty is merely
an artifact of the coordinate system choice.
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I don't agree. Look, when you use Preschel's
coordinates TX the metric is nonsingular at the horizon right?
Well, OK, well So what? So what you counter an
observation with? So what am I smelling?
Toast doctors, please observe ifyou calculate the DS squared
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space-time interval between 2 events of a person who crossed
the horizon and you should get Infinity yeah yeah in either TR
or TX coordinates. So that quote UN quote
singularity at the horizon is correct.
And there is nothing defective about the metric being Infinity
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in Schwarzschild coordinates. The Schwarzschild metric is
given the correct physics with Crest scales coordinates.
You shift the Infinity at horizon into DX and DT which are
Infinity at the horizon and whenthe differential element DS is
not equal to 0. If you have a singularity in
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some coordinate system, then physically there is some
trajectory that will give an infinite proper time, which
indicates that the singularity is physical and can be felt by
someone on that trajectory. Dr. It has been pointed out
multiple times that not all singularities are curvature
singularities. Are you worried about how to
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detect conical singularities? I'll remind you that the current
work is focusing on coordinates that are.
For the love of God, are we closer to a solution, yes or no?
Yes. No, seriously, does anybody else
smell toast? Does I do?
Look, this meeting isn't for youlot to toss about.
Whatever Propellerhead theories you've got, save that for when
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you're in there. I need to know if we're still on
track for Event 4 agent. I think for the moment that
answer is a qualified. We're not sure yet.
Telemetry from the sensors Lawrence and I left during event
three are still transmitting, but at random intervals.
The best theory we have to date is we may be able to improve the
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detection when we focus on an inverse frequency to cosmic
microwave background radiation and a peak frequency of about
160 gigahertz. The cosmic microwave background
is most evident in the frequencybands between 70 and 217
gigahertz. Exactly that, and it was shown
that the singularity center at the distance between another
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object center is r = 2 M in the Swartz child Solution is a
consequence of the choice of coordinates.
Introducing Crusker. Not the time.
I I need an aspirin. All right, spell it out for me.
Let's assume Doctor Dellums theory pans out.
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Where would that leave us? Well, if his theory were to
become theorem, we could reduce the potential appearance of
event 4 from a 20 mile square radius to roughly a three, maybe
2 square radius. We could be on site within an
hour of the station returning. It will proof out, I am
confident of it. Detection is the least of our
troubles. Determine how to stabilize and
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isolate the specific entropic quantum signature so the station
can exit the singularity as a convolution rotates on the
spherical plane over the 96 hourrevolution.
That is where true mastery of physics will be proven.
And what? What exactly have you achieved?
It was a big old goose egg. 1 doesn't simply grab some white
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out and just the entropic signature of an item, let alone
entire station and all its internal artificially created
differential envelope. It would mirror the entropic
signature of the critical point and establish Landau, you
brilliant commie mathematical madman.
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And talking about you left, not you Martin.
You're still my favorite. Landau is.
That something we need to be bothered about or encouraged by.
Doctor Jovak is prone to engage in periodic flights of fancy
when inspiration hits. If he comes up with anything of
substance, trust me, we'll be aware.
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What is the status with the archworker who was shot by the
Deputy Marshall? Oh.
It's a wonder Marshmallow didn'tkill him.
Bullet lodged in his A order andfrom what I heard they had a
bloody difficult time extractingit.
The letter's still kicking for now.
He's been in critical condition since he was shot last week,
still in a coma, and they're hoping to transport him out in
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another week. Do you still think he was
working for the United States government?
A spy I hadn't heard this, From whom we wouldn't be spying on
ourselves. As soon as I was told what had
happened, I had my resources in the Defense Intelligence Agency
begin a thorough search for anything on this.
Chaz Wilford is NSF paperwork and background histories.
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All shite master fakery, but dodgy all the same.
Somebody did a right job on him.Only thing we could find is a
2002 incident where he was a witness to murder.
Apparently he had a handler backthen who advised Wilfred to do a
runner and how the court summonsnullified.
There was a reference to the code name of his handler,
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someone named Gable. I never met Gable but he decided
to go rogue about 10 years ago. Maybe he found a conscience or
the good Lord. I don't know how to break down
whatever within government circles.
He is one of only a small numberof people who have a shoot on
site order. Is that even legal?
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Oh darling, please tell me you're not that naive.
I mean, it makes you all the more delectable, yes, but legal?
Seriously, I was just asking. Jeez.
Yes, this is all well and good, but to which agency was he given
directions through? Appears to be DARPA,
specifically the Defense Scienceoffices.
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Do we think it was him that stole the Atlas telemetry data
around Christmas time? I had the same thought.
I searched his birth and the logistic offices directly after
a shooting and before Marlowe made his way.
I couldn't find it or anything else of interest.
The next window opens in two hours.
If there is nothing else, I wantto have everybody begin
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preparations for monitoring. You'll see the glacial
coordinates I've selected based on the last results.
I have also a specialized piece of equipment on its way to the
station, an apparatus which should simplify location and
tracking of the Canadian stations once we have it
installed inside that facility. Why wasn't I notified of this?
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Have the proper security precautions been taken to ensure
it arrives without prying eyes? Oh did I not inform you or my my
I must have had my mind on otheritems.
Oh, you right, Pillock. I want to know everything that's
been arranged and the specifics around its transport.
Of course, of course. Happy to bring you up to date.
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I think it's important that we all know about this device,
especially if we're being asked to install it and leave it on
the station before it shifts back into null space.
And I agree with this lovely little chippy, especially since
I'll be leading the expedition into Event 4.
When she reappears, I'll also have a little surprise of my
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own. Recording has concluded.
Recording started. Deputy Marshall Prompt, as
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always. Did Assistant US Attorney
General McAvoy make it off the station All right?
Yes ma'am, he boarded transport out this morning and I have to
say, I'm still not a fan of McAvoy or this particular US
Attorney General's office. Pretty sure he hates me too.
Every branch of federal law enforcement has general
disregard for internal reviews from the AG.
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It's a necessary evil and we're all on the same team.
I'm not sure McAvoy got that particular memo.
From what I read off the wire this morning, he's cleared you
says the shooting of Wolford wasa clean shoot.
He did, he's just a natural bornasshole I suppose.
Anyway, I'm officially cleared by the AG to return to duty.
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What's the latest with the suspect?
Still in a coma, still listed asin critical condition.
Our chief physician has had multiple video consultations and
examinations with docs backed inthe states.
Real top notch trauma surgeons to evaluate the case.
Doc Ambrose is a good doctor andsurgeon, but he's never had a
gunshot case before Will. He live.
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Ambrose says it's about 5050 at the moment.
If they can safely get him back to fully staffed hospital in
Christchurch, those chances should go up.
With winter forecast to begin inanother 5 weeks and the station
going dark for about 8 months, they're going to give it another
week or two, but after that they'll have no choice.
So how's this sitting with? You I'm all right.
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It's not the first time I've been in this situation over the
20 years I've been on the job. It's just annoying having to
wait 10 days to be cleared. AG McAvoy didn't want to handle
the investigation over a video call.
Wanted to be there in person. Don't understand it myself, but
that's their call to make. Assholes and an asshole.
So where do we stand on that investigation?
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Well, we have a full confession for Renee Kellogg.
After she had a gun pointed at her head, she more or less was
willing to give her full recountof the circumstances around the
shooting itself. The Attorney General are going
to drop most of the charges since her involvement was pretty
much secondary and she really had no real clue what Wilford
was up to. We found the coverall exactly
where she said they'd be. They're heading off the Station
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McAvoy for testing back in the States.
Given the cold preservation, we think it should still have
traces of his DNA. Even if his DNA is found.
It's a stronger case that he wasindeed our saboteur, but it's
not the smoking gun I was looking for.
If he makes it and he's able to go to trial, I'm not confident
that it's enough to get his conviction.
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Not that he be ever make it to trial, even if he does survive
you still. Believe he's DoD connected with
DARPA. I bet my badge on it, yeah.
DOJ made a formal inquiry, as you'd expect.
They aren't finding any employeewith that name in their rosters,
denying any involvement. What is it you're mixed up in
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down there, Marlo? A lot of rumor, a lot of cloak
and dagger games. I filled you in on the
Beauregard Loan project. Several of the scientists that
are connected to down here, including Wainwright Wolford,
was on the outside at work, which means DARPA wasn't invited
to the party and says to me thatthey wanted to crash it.
So what I'm hearing is my DeputyMarshall, in addition to running
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an entire continent himself, a smack in the middle of some spy
versus spy inter intelligence dispute.
I don't like it. I'm not having a barrel of
movies myself, ma'am. Do you want reinforcements?
I can have several assets freed up here and call in Pete to give
me some heavy hitters out of Ohio.
Have them spread out between Palmer, McMurdo and Amundsen.
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I appreciate that offer, Marshall, but for the moment I
think it's not necessary. Things are calm presently and I
I don't want to rile up the other nations with enhanced
paramilitary forces, especially everything that the US is going
through on the international theatre.
Good point, Deputy. I have another piece of
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information, an update for you, the Armenian mobster who shot
you in McMurdo and Eric Margosian.
He's dead. Dead.
What happened? Two days ago there was a riot
inside of Auckland Prison D Block, which is where they have
the most dangerous shitbirds they have.
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In the course of events, they found Margosian with a shoe
through his ear. Death was instant.
Five other inmates in D Block were killed, more than 20
seriously injured. So, well, it doesn't appear that
Margosian was specifically targeted.
Margosian was specifically targeted.
Pretty much it happened during ashift change and when that
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block's guards were already minimal staffing due to some
virus going around. Shit, there's an inquest from
the local authorities that started last night into the riot
and subsequent deaths. I don't think much will come
from it. Marshall would would it be
possible to get a list and nationality of all the other
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inmates who were in D black at the time?
I'm honestly not sure privacy laws can get touchy when you're
dealing with overseas, but I'll see what I can get for you.
You have a hunch. Nothing I want to articulate
just now. I'll know more if I can get the
list and review it. Give me a few days, I'll see
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what I can obtain. I appreciate it, Marshall.
Hang in there, Beth, head on a swivel and all that.
Yes, ma'am. Good night, Marshall.
Recording stopped. Sweetie, you've been tossing and
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turning for, I don't know, an hour.
You want to talk about it? Oh, I'm so sorry, Kondra.
I don't mean to keep you up. Do you want me to go back to my
own birth tonight? Then I'd lose my favorite space
eater. No, but why don't you tell me
what's keeping you up? Better to talk about it than let
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it fester. Margosian was killed.
Nerik Margosian, He was the guy who shot me and McMurdo.
He's dead now. What happened?
There was a prison riot in the cellblock where he was being
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housed. He was stabbed along with a
number of others who either diedor were seriously hurt.
And people are saying he wasn't specifically singled out.
But his trial for crimes on McMurdo, including shooting me,
would have started next week. I think he was targeted.
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Oh, why? By the Chinese government or the
mob? Or.
Exactly that. I mean, it's all way too
coincidental, right? But if they killed him, it was
probably because he failed killing me or he was going to
talk. Either way, he was killed
because of me. Honey, stop that.
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I I don't agree. We're all responsible for our
own actions. He chose that life.
He chose the job to be on McMurdo and scouting it out.
He chose to pick up that gun. He chose to get into a shootout.
Do you see where I'm going here?I do.
I do. And you're right and thank you.
But I have to tell you, it's still, it's hanging on me
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regardless if I get it or not. OK, You know what would help?
Actually, Why don't you tell me what's going on with you with
your new position? Because hearing about it will be
so boring that you'll fall asleep.
No, no, that's not it at all. No, I, I, I'm, I'm, I'm
seriously interested. It would, it would be nice
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actually to hear about somethingother than criminal
investigations, international arrest, prison homicide for a
while. And I want to hear how your
job's going. OK, so let's see.
Well, today we had our weekly staff meeting, the whole DSL
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team reviewed where everybody ison their mapping and data
gathering. And Trini on BICEP 2 thinks she
may have discovered a curlicue pattern in the polarization of
the cosmic background. Possible gravitational waves,
ripples in space-time. They'd be generated during.
The first moments of the universe where you theorize
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cosmos went through a brief for a mass expansion called
inflation and it verified these waves would confirm the
inflation theory, right? Oh wow, you actually pay
attention when I explain science?
Well, you still even pay attention to me when I'm Naked
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and up against you. You love my mind, not just my
looks. It's just one of the many, many,
many reasons you're the perfect partner somebody could ever
lead. You're not so bad yourself.
I love you. I love you too.
Where? Where was I?
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Bicep 2 I want to say. Oh yeah, Trini.
Yeah, yeah. So everybody on the BICEP 2
project is excited, but we're remaining cautious.
Last time we thought it was a gravitational wave.
Whole big debacle. It was several years before I
was here. But they sent their findings for
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peer review, and the French contingent of the Plank
Observatory team we had partnered with released the
finding months too early, long before everything was vetted.
Not unusual for the ESA. Forgive me USA.
That's the European Space Agency.
Needless to say, we're being extra cautious this time around.
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All in all, I'm happy I acceptedthis position.
It's exciting stuff. Well that's good and I'm happy
for you sweetheart. Adam hesitant to ask this, but
anything new between you and your mom?
Mother. She stopped being mom a long
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time ago. Nothing new.
I'm still just trying to processthat she's associated with
project outlets, associated morelike it's her legacy that she
takes all of her pride and unlike her own children.
OK, I mean, look, you're not wrong necessarily Kendra, but
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maybe being a bit too harsh, youthink?
I mean, I remember wrong, but isit possible that maybe you're
just looking through tinted glasses still?
But she's so I don't know, maybeI am, Possibly, probably, and
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I'm not. I'm not angry she chose
Shepardellum over me as the project replacement.
That would have been an offer I would have turned down anyway.
I'm just the reason that broughther down here wasn't me and my
work was that damn project and Wainwright's temporary absence.
Just something to add to our distance between us.
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Look, at the risk of sticking mynose into a family affair, and
also, it might be the O 230 talking here, but as someone who
is now technically an orphan after both parents passing,
you're in a position I kind of envy honey.
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I mean, you have a chance to speak more with a parent before
they're gone forever. I'm not saying that you should
eat shit from her or anything like that, but maybe, I don't
know, Reach out. Reach out now.
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Yeah, Mary Ellen said the same thing.
Her mother has more or less written her off since she
decided to be a homemaker ratherthan pursuing radicular biology.
Even despite all that, she's she's been making attempts to
reconnect with Magda. I don't know, Bass.
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It's just such a foreign concept.
Yep, given. Sweetie, Bass, sweetie, you got
your recorder on again. I love you.
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Tovarish, I am sorry, I did not know you would be working in
office this hour, but the early bird gets to find all the worms.
Mikhail, please come in. Don't let me get in your way.
Spicy. But Tovarish, I will not take
long. You are doing well there Miguel.
(23:17):
I I have to admit I'm confused. Oh, can Miguel help you get?
I'm confused. I think you may be the only
person on station who can. Oh, sounds like this is
important. I will sit down here see if I
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can help find in answers. I have a talent for this thing.
Now, you tell I listens. All right, I'll cut to the
chase. I was digging through old
digital recordings, making sure I don't erase anything not
already having been transcribed.I typically don't go listening
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to recordings made when I leave my recorder somewhere.
I tend to have two or three of those a month.
This time, however, I listened the go on.
Well, digging through them, I struck gold a wealth of
information I never knew about. Specifically, your interactions
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with Franklin. OK, and what's this plan you and
Franklin were talking about? You rattled off station people
and friends of mine talking about getting them lined up.
Are the two of you up to something?
You're all worried over the nothings.
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We are not Batman's will man anddemon.
We have just connected together since we both have very rough
times adjusting to Americans. Or in his case, how how does he
say just to full sin meet sex would have voices that sound
(25:06):
like rabbit baboons in heat, butnot in good ways.
Mikhail, seriously, you expect me to believe what I heard on
that recording were two individuals who bonded over
assimilating to working and living with Americans?
That's ridiculous. Different cultures to be around
than when we were from people speak differently customs odd,
(25:28):
way of life odd and strange, butwe try hard to fit in without
giving up The Who we are as in core of persons.
You know, it's just like Klempits family.
Who? The family clamp.
OK, OK, I can help. You'll get it.
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Doverish, please come listen to my story about the man who has
named Jed. He was very poor man who just
tried to provide for family, keep them fed.
Good that, though. Well, one day he was hunting for
food when up from the ground came bubble in crude Beverly
Hillbillies. Mikkel, Enough of this.
It comes. I listened to the recording like
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five times. What do you and Franklin have
cooking down there? Tobrich is very simple and not
all conspiracy makings. We are fishes that are not in
the water. The the how.
How do you say the people are strange when you're a stranger?
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Oh, like when Clampetts must learn how to make livings in
capitalist world of Beverly Hills.
They, they do not fit in. They, they can see how
everything is different around them.
But they tried to get accustomedto all the people's ways.
So to the demon guy and Jonathan, you called him by
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name. You don't call anybody by their
real name. Tell me it's not a coincidence.
Is no coincidence. Sometimes things are just the
way they seem they are. OK.
OK, then what is going to happenin two more years?
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Do we all die like the station computer?
What happens in two years? You both seem to be in the know.
Doverish I am still no good witharts of words, but one time I
write down in the how'd it go again, the most perceptive
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character in a play is fool. This is because the man who
wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be simple to.
But like most writers, only the creator can know what is to
come. But this is all teachings you do
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not believe in. What are you?
Sydney told me to never trust you.
And he was being as serious as I've ever seen him.
You know a lot about the comingsand goings around here.
What are you? I am janitor.
Janitor. Best janitor on station.
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Oh who needs to not take such long breaks and get back to
cleaning Doverish. Soon all the young smart defense
leave station to go back to their homes and station will be
just as clean as on day they arrived.
This is not over Miguel. On this we agree there is much
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cleaning to do around station. Miguel will come back later to
make sure Doverish office is clean as whistles.
Y'all come back now. You're here.
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Supervisory Deputy Marshall Marlowe.
Sounds like somebody got a promotion.
Congratulations. Supervisory Deputy Marshall
Nichols. How you Remember Me?
I'm flattered. I don't know many people who can
leap off a mountain that is 4000feet up in the middle of a
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Blizzard like conditions and survive.
You stand out, but we all have our extraordinary talents like
being able to attract undue attention and put themselves in
the middle of a bull's eye. I do have to say I don't like
the competition that others havestarted in trying to take you
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out. Oh, you won't be able to trace
this columnar. I took steps to ensure that.
What is it you want, Nichols? I doubt it's to gloat about the
escape or the appearance at the Nobel ceremony we all witnessed.
Nice tux by the way. Thank you.
However, I didn't call the way back down to my former home just
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to accept the plaudits of fashion choices.
I'm calling as well what I hope will be the harbinger of Portent
Nichols. Either come out with it or get
on with whatever it is you do. See, this is the primary reasons
Lawrence never cared for you. A lack of general comprehension
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of words with more than a singlesyllable hanging up the phone.
Now get off the station, Marlowe.
Get off the station while you still are able to do so.
I'm authorized to make you a onetime offer.
Leave the station, take whomeveryou want with you, and
everything that happened will beforgotten.
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No retribution, no retaliation, no more people coming after you.
So you sent the Chinese hitman at Palmer St.
Margosian at McMurdo? The Albania wasn't just intended
for you. But yes, Marlow, that was
implied as a showing of our goodfaith.
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We had Margosian dealt with in that staged prisoner ride.
If you walk away now, it all stops.
If you stay and keep on interfering in matters not your
concern, it's fair game on you and all your little chums.
You had Margosian killed. Well, naturally.
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And you're threatening me and others here on the station over
the phone from a safe location. You know, I never took you as
such a little bitch before, Nichols.
Oh, Ouch. Those words hurt me so much,
Marlo. All the same, you have a few
weeks more to decide. Be on one of the transports off
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the station before the next winter season starts up.
If you leave, you and whoever goes with you will live out
their lives and die a ripe old age.
Stay. Wow, you made a decision there
is not coming back from three weeks.
I don't need 3 seconds. I'm staying.
I'm staying right here. And if you want to finish what
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we started on the side of Mount Markham, oh, you won't have to
look hard for me. But I'm guessing you don't
possess the testicular fortitudeto truly represent the less than
obfuscated threat you levied towards me.
How's that for comprehending more than a few syllable words?
Three weeks, Marlowe, we're watching after that, you either
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say you were warned and live outyour life or you can say you
were warned as you watch everybody around you that you
care about killed and slipped through your fingers.
We'll see each other again, Nichols.
On that you can trust. Hope that arm is feeling better
after this long Zeke. Hey go ahead lol man one hour
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the barn tell the team. So long and short of it is if
you're still on station after the winter season starts, he's
not going to afford you mercy orquarter.
You'll be viewed no different than I am.
Josh Nichols said he and his group will try to murder us as
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well. More or less.
That's what we indicated on the call.
Yes, thug lackey who wants to rub me out.
I've seen this matinee in the second feature for a time.
Always ends the same though. My meat walking the Morgan a
goon seeing Tweety birds circling his noggin.
Not even newsreel worthy. Over the past season there has
been two attempts made against me.
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The incident McMurdo with Neric Margosian, who Josh confirmed
they had killed in a New Zealandprison.
And the attempt while I was at Palmer.
And the two Chinese private military D we contractors who
shot at Special Asian Corps. To myself, we continue with
this. I and the US Marshall Service
will do everything in our power to protect you.
But you need to understand that.I mean, I appreciate that,
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buddy, but let me finish my pitch before you decide.
Oh, my bad law man. Yeah.
You're going with that speech. Fine thing.
I'll tell you. I'm still aiming when you're
done. You're going now.
I and the US Marshall Service will do everything we can to
protect everybody in the room, but I can't make any promises.
We'd all have targets on our backs, targets put there by
actors with homicidal intent, both external to the US and what
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I fear may be internal factors as well.
What about your British dog girl?
The ex-girlfriend who's working with the Atlas dudes?
Whatever name is? Is she going to be, you know,
trying to cut off her stems out the root here?
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Not my ex. Thank you, Mr. Dobber, for
making me throw open my mouth a little bit.
No, as much as it pains me to have these words come out of my
own mouth, Jocelyn is unconnected with the plot to
have me removed. But she let.
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Me walk that statement back. She's not connected with this
current plot to have me removed.I honestly believe that she'd
see any attempt to move against me as competition and she'd act
against the other individual. What about the call we
intercepted from her last season?
The the call from the antique shop?
The call one block away from theChinese Embassy in Wellington.
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Yeah, that bothered me as well, Mr. Kelly, for quite a while,
although something never sat right.
If she had been connected with the Chinese, that call would
have been coming from within theembassy, not outside of it, and
I had to get past my own distrust, anger, and rage to
allow reason and logic to take over.
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Honestly, I think it might have been her way of telling me to
watch for them without directly telling me.
Come again? Say what now?
Well, Jocelyn had to know would be tracing the call, yet she
stayed in line long enough to let that happen.
The call came from location directly near, but not within an
embassy we already had identified as being connected
with the data Nichols was tryingto smuggle out.
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I'm not saying I'm ready to put my life in her hands.
Far be it, Very far be it. I am confident she is not mixed
up with the drug smuggling nor the attempts from Nichols and
his goons to Take Me Out. But.
Should we continue to not? Trust her.
Don't trust her in the least. No.
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OK, let's get back to the main point I brought up.
Can I say it now? Not yet.
If you opt to stay on through the winter season, it has been
made known to me you'll all be at risk.
Now, I've outlined everything that has happened that I know of
as of today, and I cannot ask any of you to stay.
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As I said, I'll do everything inmy power to keep not only all at
this table, but all those at this station safe.
But if anybody wants to depart, nobody here will think any less
of you and you will still be family no matter what.
And I am not asking you to decide now.
We still have several weeks before the last flight departs
for the winter. Take the time you really need to
think about. Sorry lol man, I know you wasn't
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finished all the way, but nothing you're going to say is
going to change my mind. Somebody coming here for my best
fan, my brother, my station, my lady.
You best believe they're going to have to go through me.
No, Sir, I was been leaving before.
Your breaking news special report ain't leaving now.
I'm in. Yeah, I'm going to hang around
to Deputy Deuter, Sir. Formal.
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Yeah. What would happen to my kitties
in the greenhouse? Right.
Who keep Keenan from visiting and trying to overdo the
courtesy free samples, Don't you, Zeke?
You didn't hear that part. Hell, I didn't.
All due respect, I'm planted here.
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See what I did just then? Wow, I have to say I've never.
Been in a situation where entirenations and a shady criminal
underworld. Have been out to.
Kill me that. Sounds so exciting.
Except for, you know, the the murdery parts I'm in.
I say let the mugs come. We're somewhat for.
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I'm on the case, Marlo. Thank you, Mr. Todd.
I just got to my place of Zion and staying on this station.
It took me a long time to get tothat place, and frankly, I don't
want to leave. Besides, now that I know Emery,
the man that I still love, stillalive, I can't leave.
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Oh, I know this may come the surprise and a shock to some of
you, but Emery and I, we're in arelationship and we are gay.
We are aware, Mr. Todd. Well, I mean, I figured you'd be
an investigator that Mars boughtthe rest of the.
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People deduced it in 10 minutes after you boys arrived on
station, bickering the whole time.
Hey, took me 6 months after y'all ride.
Figure that one out. Same ZS but you 2 actually
fight. Exactly like my Uncle Milo and
Aunt Cece. My cousin Jimmy's folks, they
get into heated arguments and then right after our loving each
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other up. The one of the reasons why my
cousin Jimmy's products are so strong.
Yeah, he had to burn those memories out of his mind.
Real. Quick, we all figured it out,
Chris. It's just, oh gosh, we wanted to
be respectful and let one of youformally tell us it's just
golly, it's just a respectful thing.
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I mean, come on. Even Fred figured it out.
Yep, so many gay dudes have super killer ABS that I was
surprised when oh, oh, back it up.
What the hell you mean even whenFred figured it out in I'm
saying I'm in and thank you all.Tell some stuff about some
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stuff. You know what I'm saying,
Kendra? I'm a bit insulted you'd even
ask. All the same, this is something
I can't. I won't just assume I know the
answer despite everything. Kendra, please understand.
I'm in. Kendra IF.
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OK, before when I said I was a bit insulted, that was
hyperbole. Now, now I really am starting to
take offense. Especially if you think I need
any different or special consideration above and beyond
what you'd give the others. So please continue, sweetie.
Please finish that sentence. Kendra IF.
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Kendra, if there was a way I could love you even more, you
just showed me that way. OK.
That was a great recovery, stillin.
All right, from here on out, everything gets more difficult
than before. We have forces aimed directly at
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us, and we still have less than half of the complete picture of
what's going on down here. We have to get more Intel, more
information, more knowledge, andwe'll do that from within on
remote research station, the station at the bottom of the
planet, our home. This, this is where we make a
stand. This is where we hold.
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