Episode 17
Episode 17 - Extra Fluid Therapy
The team has no chance to rest and must examine another victim who was found disconcertingly near the first. They have no choice but to work closely with FBI Special Agent Rachel Glenn, a highly capable senior liaison and investigator who seems to be scrutinizing their every move.
Based on a scenario by Allan Goodall.
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Transcript
Hello?
Speaker A:What time is it?
Speaker B:Who is it?
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker C:I.
Speaker A:Situation Dream hyper hydration.
Speaker A:Sorry, honey, I have to take this.
Speaker A:So, if I recall, we were mid conversation with Rachel Glenn.
Speaker A:Ryan was about to ask a question, and then I rudely cut him off to end the show with a dramatic cliffhanger.
Speaker A:And as good as that was for the show, I realized how rude that was.
Speaker A:And so I want to apologize not to Michael, but to Ryan, the character.
Speaker A:Michael I don't care about.
Speaker A:Yeah, I have a soft spot for Ryan the character, so I will apologize to him now for.
Speaker A:For.
Speaker A:For cutting you off.
Speaker A:So let's.
Speaker A:Let's pick that up.
Speaker A:She again dramatically announced that.
Speaker A:Hey, new body, come meet me at the New York Medical Examiner's office.
Speaker A:Pick it up, Ryan.
Speaker D:To that I say, new body, new you.
Speaker C:Oh, my gosh, another case of totesma bloats.
Speaker D:Oh, we'll be right there.
Speaker D:That was worth it.
Speaker A:That was worth the wait.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker C:Totes my bloats.
Speaker E:Totes my bloats.
Speaker E:Love it.
Speaker A:So you hang up with Special Agent Rachel Glenn, and he turns and looks.
Speaker D:At all of us like, did you guys hear that?
Speaker D:And we're just, like, staring at him daggers.
Speaker A:Ryan, I think you're actually driving.
Speaker A:So, yeah, you turn to the others, you let them know how clever you are, and then you also let them know what she said.
Speaker C:Yeah, we're calling it that now, guys.
Speaker C:It's clever and cute, and we need a little bit of that in our lives.
Speaker C:We're heading over to the Medical examiner's office.
Speaker C:Apparently, there's another one of these situations.
Speaker D:I'm going to need a Dunkin Donuts before we get there, cuz.
Speaker D:Holy.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:One, I need coffee.
Speaker B:Two, why do you need clever and cute?
Speaker B:You've already got me.
Speaker E:Boom, buddy.
Speaker C:I think Ryan's just going to let that sit in the room.
Speaker E:Paris takes the phone at this point and starts powering it on.
Speaker A:Ah, this is the phone from the hotel.
Speaker A:Comes right on.
Speaker A:There are no biometrics at all.
Speaker A:It loads right up to its desktop.
Speaker E:Start poking around, see if there's anything interesting.
Speaker A:Yeah, no messages, no connection to email or any obvious accounts.
Speaker A:Amazon, Google, anything like that.
Speaker A:There's nothing in the browser history.
Speaker A:It looks like there's been three recent calls on the phone, but otherwise you don't see anything obvious?
Speaker A:Just from a cursory look.
Speaker A:See?
Speaker E:Agent Royston, do you think you'd do something with this?
Speaker B:I can at least try to do a trace on the numbers, see if we can figure out who they belong to.
Speaker E:Sure.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker E:I hand the phone over to her.
Speaker A:When you say trace, do you mean type them into Google?
Speaker A:What do you.
Speaker A:What's your plan?
Speaker B:White pages.
Speaker A:Very cool.
Speaker A:Yeah, this is.
Speaker A:They're not difficult to find.
Speaker A:There's one that was a long distance call to California.
Speaker A:What's to American Airlines.
Speaker A:That was in the evening.
Speaker A:And you also see that the other two are labeled as unknown.
Speaker A:And they apparently lack additional metadata.
Speaker A:Nothing else was collected by the phone that you can see on a cursory glance.
Speaker B:Were those incoming calls?
Speaker A:No, receive calls.
Speaker A:These are all sent calls.
Speaker B:That is really weird.
Speaker D:Burner phone.
Speaker B:I still.
Speaker B:It should have saved a number or something.
Speaker A:Is there anything else you would like to try?
Speaker D:Twilio?
Speaker B:When do you guys want to hit send on these unknown numbers and see if you can get through?
Speaker D:Prentice wrinkles his nose and says, not on my phone.
Speaker B:No, I meant on this phone.
Speaker D:Oh, okay.
Speaker D:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker D:Go for it.
Speaker A:The phone service appears to have been disconnected.
Speaker A:Looks like it used to be AT&T, but it's been disconnected entirely.
Speaker D:We're getting the Swervers on that service.
Speaker E:Maybe when we get to the New York Medical Examiner's office, we can borrow their phone, play some calls.
Speaker B:Yeah, most likely a burner.
Speaker B:If the numbers have been disconnected, I'm.
Speaker C:Assuming I know my way to the New York Medical Examiners.
Speaker C:Or is that something I need to look up?
Speaker A:You actually know New York extremely well, but that's one spot that you've never visited before.
Speaker A:Looking it up is completely trivial for you, though, so this is not a difficult place to find.
Speaker B:Yeah, we do have Google Maps, so I think we're good.
Speaker D:So can you do some forensic IT work on this number to see who purchased it or who's owned it?
Speaker B:The databases I have access to would not have these numbers.
Speaker D:Fair enough.
Speaker A:Well, there are no numbers.
Speaker A:All you see is unknown.
Speaker A:And there's no additional metadata, including phone numbers.
Speaker E:Gotcha.
Speaker E:Gotcha.
Speaker D:Time to make some skill rolls, right?
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:I'm just.
Speaker A:If you want to ask me anything or ask for anything, now's the time.
Speaker A:If not, I'll keep things cheerily moving.
Speaker C:Along, thinking of all the crazy shit that we've already seen and how different things can manifest.
Speaker C:Is it possible that this guy was a target of some kind and that phone was how he got infected?
Speaker C:I'm absolutely grasping at straws here, but any chance there could be some sort of something in that phone?
Speaker B:It's always.
Speaker C:I'm 100% looking for somebody to like.
Speaker D:Say, thinking of some kind of Memetic entity that lives within the phone, giving people hydro hyper hydro blitzmagots.
Speaker B:Don't even think there is a check for that.
Speaker E:Paris scoots away from the phone, slightly smart.
Speaker A:Ryan's phone lights up and rings, playing the most recent rendition of.
Speaker A:Well, is it around?
Speaker D:All Star.
Speaker A:Oh, even better.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Smash mouth.
Speaker C:Do you guys hear those trains?
Speaker C:I thought we.
Speaker C:I thought.
Speaker C:I thought I put up enough soundproofing, but now I can still hear them.
Speaker B:Choo choo.
Speaker A:Your phone.
Speaker F:Your phone rings.
Speaker A:Agent Ryan.
Speaker C:Sorry, what was the song, Chris?
Speaker A:It's whatever your ringtone is, if it has a ringtone at all.
Speaker C:I think it's smash mouth, man.
Speaker A:I mean, it's up to you if you want to accept that it is a canon facet of your character.
Speaker C:Honestly, genuinely, it's probably the default ring.
Speaker A:Gotcha.
Speaker C:Which is a bummer.
Speaker B:Rory Zen makes a note to change that later.
Speaker A:The person who's calling you is not the prior number.
Speaker A:It is a number you do not recognize.
Speaker A:You do answer yes, but you hear a voice that you recognize.
Speaker A:Hey there, Agent Ryan.
Speaker A:Why don't you go ahead and put me on speakerphone?
Speaker A:I need to address the whole team.
Speaker A:Hopefully they're there with you.
Speaker C:Yup.
Speaker C:Listen up, guys.
Speaker C:Puts it on speaker.
Speaker F:Hey there.
Speaker F:Good morning, everybody.
Speaker F:Porter, in case you didn't recognize the voice, let's take a moment to reset some expectations.
Speaker F:When I deliver a briefing and then ask if you have any questions.
Speaker F:I expect you to ask those questions if you're confused.
Speaker F:That's what that time is for.
Speaker F:And the only possible explanation regarding the absolute clusterfuck you dumped on my desk within no less than a half hour of leaving Griffiths is that you must have been very, very confused.
Speaker F:So tell me, are you all esteemed employees of the Centers for Disease Control?
Speaker F:Are you all expert pathologists or microbiologists?
Speaker F:Somebody can answer that.
Speaker C:No.
Speaker F:Then why the ever living shit did you drag a load of biohazard equipment out of your cover van through a swarm of blinking smartphones?
Speaker C:It was a bad idea.
Speaker F:So when I tell you the FBI thinks you're cdc, that doesn't actually mean you're cdc.
Speaker F:You work for us.
Speaker F:You work for the program.
Speaker F:You get in quiet, you get out quiet.
Speaker F:What was unclear about your directives, agents?
Speaker C:Did you hear about the body at the medical center, sir?
Speaker F:Of course I heard about the next stop that I hope is on your to do list this morning.
Speaker C:Yep, we're on our way there right now.
Speaker F:HE SIGHS so I have comms personnel reaching out to two local news stations this morning, and I'm teaching them all about ad hoc federal response training exercises.
Speaker F:There was an actual journalist with a corporate contract who snapped Roizen's photo on your way out and had to be picked up and encouraged to turn over his equipment.
Speaker F:I had to be very persuasive to get him to do so.
Speaker F:He was old school.
Speaker F:Really, really knew his rights.
Speaker F:So, again, extra, extra persuasive.
Speaker F:I don't enjoy getting persuasive, agents.
Speaker F:I don't enjoy it at all.
Speaker F:Will I need to get persuasive with you and the rest of this team, or are you convinced by my tone that you need to keep this shit under a lid?
Speaker B:Quiet as a mouse.
Speaker F:Good.
Speaker F:Call in six hours with an update and we'll just move right on past this.
Speaker F:Looking forward to working with you all further.
Speaker A:Click.
Speaker D:I don't think he was looking forward to working with us.
Speaker C:We'll win him around.
Speaker C:But he did make some good points.
Speaker C:We should be a little bit more in and out next time.
Speaker B:Well, we know maybe we'll do a.
Speaker D:Bad enough job that we won't work anymore for him.
Speaker B:Seriously.
Speaker B:Can we have sned back, please?
Speaker C:Ryan has never been more aroused in his life than when he's been in the presence of Snedger.
Speaker E:Yeah, this is.
Speaker E:This is escalated.
Speaker C:He says that out loud in that way, too.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:The rest of the car ride is silent.
Speaker A:The rest of the car ride is silent.
Speaker A:Chris Ryan drives You too.
Speaker A:The New York Medical Examiner's Office.
Speaker C:Sorry, Chris.
Speaker B:Roisin just gives you the side eye the entire time, because every time you've been with Snedagar, she has been there, too.
Speaker A:When you arrive at the office building, you park in a nearby garage and as you disembark your vehicle, make your way toward an elevator bank.
Speaker A:And standing there in her blue FBI windbreaker is Special Agent Rachel Glenn.
Speaker A:Despite the fact that she's likely had no more sleep than you, she seems very energetic, to say the least.
Speaker A:Also very anxious.
Speaker D:I'll have what she's having.
Speaker A:Good, you're here, she says as you approach.
Speaker A:Listen, let's walk and talk.
Speaker A:Follow me.
Speaker A:She hits the button for the elevator and when it arrives, motions you to follow her in.
Speaker A:As she begins to guide you through the garage and back towards the office itself, down to a sub level into the morgue.
Speaker A:She begins to quickly debrief you, only pausing briefly for you to ask questions.
Speaker A:So I'm extremely worried that your quarantine closure was premature.
Speaker A:That's why I called you the moment I ran across this Police report.
Speaker A:We're going to take a look at the cadaver, I suppose, so that you can go ahead and add your findings to that of the intake examiners.
Speaker A:And then we're going to make our way to where the body was found.
Speaker A:Which.
Speaker A:Which was the apartment building across the street from the Crosby Street Hotel.
Speaker C:Oh, this body that you have here was found across the street from the same hotel that we just came from?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Look, I was lucky to even discover this.
Speaker A:I happened to look deeper into all the nearby police reports from that same night last night for anything suspicious that the federal surveillance team might have missed.
Speaker A:Local PD was actually called to the apartment at the same time you were tidying up your hotel work.
Speaker A:And our communications compartmentalization, well, it left this completely off our radar as we were scrambling just yards away.
Speaker A:She shakes her head, bites her bottom lip.
Speaker A:The intake examiner, and this is what was on the report, noted that Swartz, that's our victim here, Maurice Swartz, died of hyperhydration of the neck in catalog.
Speaker A:Finger marks as well to suggest that he was violently grabbed there.
Speaker C:Can you explain how that works?
Speaker C:Is how.
Speaker C:How does his neck only inflate?
Speaker C:The body we just saw was, I guess, all jelly.
Speaker A:She screws up her brow and kind of stares at you for a moment.
Speaker A:She seems at a loss for words.
Speaker A:Are you asking me to explain to you the anomaly, the biological anomaly here that we called you here to help with?
Speaker C:No.
Speaker C:But when you see that the neck has hyper.
Speaker C:The doctor said that the neck is hyper hydrated, bloated, and yet that there's signs of a struggle around the neck.
Speaker C:Is he able to tell which one happened first?
Speaker A:Or do you think you'll be able to figure it out when we get to the body in moments here?
Speaker A:Because I haven't even been into the morgue.
Speaker A:I called you to meet you here so we could take a look at this.
Speaker A:Because I'm afraid that we have a bigger situation on our hand.
Speaker A:We might have some sort of.
Speaker A:She looks around.
Speaker A:We might have some sort of biological weapon here at play.
Speaker A:And I'm going to need some.
Speaker A:Some of your eyes on this so we can figure out what's going on.
Speaker A:If we need to reset up a quarantine.
Speaker A:We need to reset up a quarantine.
Speaker A:But this is potentially a catastrophic event.
Speaker D:Agent, I personally observed all agents involved on that floor and cleared them.
Speaker D:I don't think we need a quarantine as of yet.
Speaker D:Just give us time.
Speaker A:Good.
Speaker A:That's fine.
Speaker A:But let's take a look at the body, yes.
Speaker A:And ensure that that's the case, because now we have two anomalous biological events in the same block.
Speaker D:Understood.
Speaker A:So let's.
Speaker A:Let's.
Speaker A:Let's rule it out and move on to more plausible explanations and then.
Speaker A:And then we can close up the CDC's part in this investigation and you can go home.
Speaker A:I really would appreciate your expertise here before we do that.
Speaker C:Lead the way.
Speaker A:Before long, you were all standing over the cold, pale body of a middle aged Caucasian male.
Speaker A:This part of the medical examiner's set of offices and morgues has been wouldn't say cordoned off, but it's obviously been cleared out.
Speaker A:FBI Agent Glenn makes it clear to you that she requested to have privacy as this seems to be related to an ongoing federal criminal investigation.
Speaker A:So right now you are in a large, echoey morgue.
Speaker A:Tile floors, tile walls.
Speaker A:There are several slabs here.
Speaker A:Sheets covering what are obviously other cadavers, but one that is completely bare.
Speaker A:And that is the one you now currently stand over.
Speaker A:The body of Murray Swartz.
Speaker A:This is.
Speaker A:This is him.
Speaker A:You can see that whatever was on the intake form.
Speaker A:I mean, I don't really see it now.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker A:I do see some bruising around the neck, but I don't see any of the swelling that what was reported with the cadaver and what was on the initial photographs of Francis Ings.
Speaker A:This seems to be a less serious situation, but please take a look.
Speaker A:She stands back and she watches you more carefully.
Speaker E:Hey, Chris, can I clarify something real quick so.
Speaker A:Of course, please.
Speaker E:This body is not bloated at all that we're looking at.
Speaker A:The man was definitely overweight.
Speaker A:But you don't see unnatural, bloated bloat.
Speaker E:Okay.
Speaker A:And all you see physically is what Special Agent Glenn just noted as well, which was bruising around the neck.
Speaker E:That's it.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:The intake examiner on the report that she read, noted that there was a hyper hydration of the neck that he died from.
Speaker D:Is there a picture of the hyper hydration event that had occurred?
Speaker A:Was there a picture with the report?
Speaker A:No, no, no, I didn't.
Speaker A:I did not get any pictures from the report.
Speaker A:There could be, but there was nothing loaded into the database when I grabbed this report and then immediately called you.
Speaker D:Understood.
Speaker C:All right.
Speaker C:Special Agent, you mind giving us a few minutes?
Speaker A:I do.
Speaker A:Why.
Speaker A:Why do you want me to leave the room?
Speaker A:She screws up her face.
Speaker C:I want to be able to posit some speculation without causing alarm.
Speaker C:If you feel like you can withhold concern or judgment, you're welcome to stay.
Speaker A:Roll your Charisma, please.
Speaker E:First roll of the night.
Speaker A:Jesus.
Speaker B:Damn.
Speaker C:Well, can we just pause and understand how absolutely crazy it is to fail when I.
Speaker A:Why don't you.
Speaker A:Why don't you let.
Speaker A:Yeah, why don't you let the.
Speaker A:The audience know exactly how you rolled.
Speaker C:96 and my target was 90?
Speaker A:It's called a failure.
Speaker E:That's called learn for a ride.
Speaker C:It's called a fail.
Speaker C:Sorry.
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker C:I failed my role.
Speaker A:She smirks and looks at you, Ryan.
Speaker A:I think I'll.
Speaker A:I'll definitely stick around, and I think I'll be just fine.
Speaker E:You know, I'd like to take a look at his personal effects, whatever he had on him when they brought him in.
Speaker E:Do you know where those might be?
Speaker A:No idea.
Speaker A:Medical examiner can grab an intake examiner on our way out if.
Speaker A:If we need to take a look at that.
Speaker A:She's still staring at Agent Ryan.
Speaker E:Yeah, I'd like to look through that and.
Speaker E:And also get the address that he was found.
Speaker E:We might want to go take a look at the scene as well.
Speaker B:We're heading there.
Speaker A:Well, I've got.
Speaker A:I've definitely got that.
Speaker A:She turns to you, Agent Paris.
Speaker A:He was found on the same floor as Francising, so we'll be stopping there next.
Speaker C:Ryan's going to turn to the rest of the team.
Speaker C:This looks fairly consistent with exactly what we saw in the other room.
Speaker C:It seems to reduce over time.
Speaker C:And looking at this right now, he kind of gestures down to the body.
Speaker C:Sure.
Speaker C:He might have been overweight, but doesn't look anything like what we saw.
Speaker D:Prentiss is going to take a look at the neck and see if he can observe any.
Speaker D:The skin deflation kind of thing that happened with the other body.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:You start pinching at the flesh, I suppose, sure.
Speaker D:With gloves.
Speaker A:Trying to see if there's a problem with elasticity or if there's any indication that there was recent distension of the flesh, maybe.
Speaker A:And so you're examining the capillary patterns and trying to figure out what's going on here.
Speaker A:Why don't you go ahead and roll your.
Speaker A:Yeah, go for medicine.
Speaker A:Minus 20, please.
Speaker D:All right.
Speaker E:Hey.
Speaker D:Success.
Speaker E:That's a success.
Speaker A:There you go.
Speaker A:You do.
Speaker A:And this is something you're fairly familiar with as a plastic surgeon.
Speaker A:You do notice that the fibers of the flesh sag.
Speaker A:They have greatly reduced elasticity, more so than you would expect, even with dead flesh.
Speaker D:Right.
Speaker A:However, they're not outside of normal bounds.
Speaker A:It's just.
Speaker A:He's saggy.
Speaker A:Saggier than you would think.
Speaker A:A man of his age.
Speaker A:Bearing and physical appearance would be.
Speaker D:Prentiss just nods and says to himself, can I examine the rest of the body to see any other signs of.
Speaker D:Of what killed him?
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker D:To verify, just to.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker A:You don't perform an autopsy yet, but you start to examine the body while the other four agents in the room look on in relative silence, really trying to notice anything.
Speaker A:Stab wounds, puncture marks, bruises, abrasions.
Speaker A:Anything that could point to a bigger story here.
Speaker A:You even ask for Agent Paris's help, Agent Roizen's help to move the body.
Speaker A:So you can look at the back.
Speaker A:Look at his side, where you can now see blood has.
Speaker A:Has pooled.
Speaker A:Of course, there's large purple spots there, but that's normal in a cadaver of this age.
Speaker A:But you don't see anything indicative of his cause of death.
Speaker A:You have to, unfortunately, go by what special Agent Glenn has conveyed to you, which is that, well, he died of hyperhydration of the neck.
Speaker A:You do see bruising there on the neck, and it does appear to vaguely resemble three fingers and a thumb.
Speaker D:Three fingers and a thumb.
Speaker D:Okay.
Speaker A:It could.
Speaker A:If you really squint your eyes.
Speaker D:Well, I can confirm everything appears as you have said, Agent Glenn.
Speaker D:And I think what we're gonna have to do is investigate the apartment and whatever belongings he had.
Speaker D:I am.
Speaker D:I'm thinking an autopsy at this point isn't going to give us any further information beyond what we already know.
Speaker D:And for our purposes furthering this investigation, I think we should move it towards where he was found.
Speaker A:Are there any tests that you can perform here so that we can find out if he has been victim to some sort of biological weapon?
Speaker D:Yes, absolutely.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Let's do those tests.
Speaker E:She says, apprentice, why don't you start work on that?
Speaker E:And then.
Speaker E:And I was used to.
Speaker E:Forgive me.
Speaker E:What was her name again?
Speaker A:Special Agent Rachel Glenn.
Speaker E:Yeah, Apprentice, you want to get started on those tests?
Speaker E:And Special Agent Rachel Glenn, would you mind walking with me over to.
Speaker E:To get one of the examiners so we could look at the personal effects of the deceased?
Speaker C:I'm sorry.
Speaker A:Sure.
Speaker C:So funny that you said special Agent Rachel Glenn all like.
Speaker C:Her first and last name is so funny.
Speaker E:I'm just trying to.
Speaker E:Trying to keep it formal here.
Speaker E:Trying to keep it formal.
Speaker B:Super formal.
Speaker E:Super formal.
Speaker A:Sure.
Speaker A:You two leave the morgue to go hunt down one of the examiners or assistants on staff to locate what effects may have been taken in with this cadaver.
Speaker D:All right, so what Prentice is going to do while they're doing that is he's actually going to get a swab.
Speaker D:Swab the inside of the throat.
Speaker D:Look at that under a microscope.
Speaker D:He doesn't think there's going to be anything, but he's just humoring her and he's giving her a result barring any outstanding information.
Speaker A:Sure, sure.
Speaker A:Microscopes aren't really something you use too often, but you certainly remember how to from all of your training.
Speaker A:And you locate swabs, you.
Speaker A:Yeah, not a problem.
Speaker A:Takes a little bit of time.
Speaker A:But you.
Speaker A:You get some congealed throat gunk onto a slide and underneath one of the microscope lenses nearby.
Speaker D:And I'm going to get a little blood draw from the body as well on another slide.
Speaker D:I'm going to look at them, but I'm just going to tell her, barring any actual result, that results look fine.
Speaker A:Sure.
Speaker A:You don't have to tell me just yet.
Speaker A:When she returns, you can let her know.
Speaker D:But I don't see anything out of the ordinary from my own non CDC eyes.
Speaker A:You're looking at what you've collected and you don't see anything at all out of the ordinary.
Speaker B:While he's doing that, Roizen's gonna look around and see if there's a file that the coroner has started.
Speaker A:You're getting on a computer or like what are you.
Speaker A:Tell me what you're doing.
Speaker B:Well, is there paper file that they've started or if there's a computer already on.
Speaker A:There are computers in this room.
Speaker A:None of them are accessible beyond its basic OS security login.
Speaker A:But if you have some tools of the trade with you, you could potentially bypass that, do some, do some hacking.
Speaker B:Prison doesn't really want to risk that.
Speaker B:She's already caused enough trouble this time around.
Speaker B:Does not need to get caught hacking into medical examiner's computers.
Speaker A:Yeah, but if you.
Speaker A:If in the future you're like looking to get into a.
Speaker A:Basically a normal.
Speaker A:A normal box like that, putting a USB key with the tools of the trade on there.
Speaker A:If that's something you have.
Speaker A:I know you have a pretty high computer science, so maybe it is.
Speaker A:Allows you to roll and see if you can bypass simple OS login security.
Speaker D:I'm in.
Speaker B:Actually a really good question.
Speaker A:But yeah, you would need some pre built tool, so to speak, code hardware or both in order to do anything fun like that.
Speaker A:So after a while you're kind of working on this.
Speaker A:Ryan's pacing a bit.
Speaker A:Roisin's also pacing a bit.
Speaker A:Paris and Special Agent Glenn return.
Speaker A:Paris kind of looks.
Speaker A:He doesn't look super excited.
Speaker A:He lets you know that the Guy came in with his clothes, and nothing much.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:Wife beater, some boxer shorts, and a pair of flip flops.
Speaker A:They didn't really yield much information.
Speaker A:Special Agent Glenn turns to you, Agent Prentice, as you stand up from a nearby my microscope under a fluorescent light.
Speaker A:So what do we have on our hands here?
Speaker A:She addresses you directly.
Speaker D:And so what am I seeing?
Speaker A:You're not seeing anything out of the ordinary.
Speaker A:You've taken biological samples from this man, and they look like they're from a dead guy who died within the last 12 hours.
Speaker D:All right, that's what I tell her.
Speaker D:To the t, I say there is nothing here indicating a biological threat.
Speaker D:However, I still feel the need to urge that we investigate where the body was found in order to rule it out.
Speaker A:That's.
Speaker A:That's our next stop, of course, but there's nothing more you can find out from.
Speaker A:From the body itself.
Speaker D:There's no further evidence of biological interference in his body at this time.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Okay, good.
Speaker A:So we don't need to quarantine re.
Speaker A:Quarantine the building, right?
Speaker A:In your opinion.
Speaker A:Your expert opinion.
Speaker A:She looks at you pointedly.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker D:Apprentice makes the straightest possible phase.
Speaker A:Let's head back then to the Crosby Street Hotel.
Speaker A:I'll meet you out front.
Speaker A:It is the building that is directly east across the street from the front entrance of where you just were this morning.
Speaker E:We'll meet you there.
Speaker A:Before long, all four of you are back in your vehicle, Agent Ryan at the wheel, heading toward the Crosby Street Hotel.
Speaker A:Anything you want to say or prepare now that you're alone again?
Speaker C:Can we afford to have in the background Smash Mouth playing during this part?
Speaker A:Chris, I can create an homage.
Speaker A:And we can totally afford that.
Speaker D:These are some dope tunes, says Prentice.
Speaker D:Nobody else agrees.
Speaker A:Everyone gets a plus two morale bonus.
Speaker C:All right, so we need to be on the same page with how we're handling this FBI agent.
Speaker C:Sorry.
Speaker C:Special agent Rachel Glenn.
Speaker C:She's been pretty adamant, rightfully so, in her concern about this being a biological weapon.
Speaker C:I think based on what we know in our experience with the program, we can rule that out.
Speaker C:But part of the keeping it secret from everybody else and their sanity intact requires us to, well, it seems like, convince her otherwise.
Speaker C:That, you know, there's nothing significant going on here.
Speaker C:But I'm worried if these bodies keep showing up.
Speaker E:Yeah, I'll be worried if more bodies show up, too.
Speaker D:Well, we just have to let the bodies hit the floor and investigate as.
Speaker D:As that happens.
Speaker B:I mean, it's almost like they're all drowning in themselves.
Speaker D:Prentice turns towards Royson and says that I didn't see any evidence of that, but it's an interesting thought.
Speaker C:Are you saying that the.
Speaker C:It seems like the hyper hydration was happening after they died?
Speaker C:Not the cause of death?
Speaker D:It's really hard to say what the cause of death was, seeing as I'm.
Speaker D:I'm not a actual doctor or a.
Speaker D:I'm not a coroner.
Speaker C:What did I say?
Speaker D:Said what you said.
Speaker C:I won't forget.
Speaker A:It's not difficult to park right on the street behind what you see as Special Agent Rachel Glenn's FBI vehicle.
Speaker A:Because government plates are useful.
Speaker A:You can do what you want.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:So you don't have to suffer from what every other New Yorker does.
Speaker A:Who owns a vehicle.
Speaker D:Other law abiding New Yorkers.
Speaker A:And you again disembark your vehicle, walk up to the front of what is a large converted set of brownstones that has been tacked onto larger adjoining buildings to form a single tenement.
Speaker A:Agent Glenn is there waiting for you.
Speaker A:You also see the entrance is attended to by a stout doorman in a crisp blue uniform.
Speaker A:Agent Glenn turns to regard you as you approach.
Speaker A:Ready to go up, Lead the way.
Speaker A:You don't need any equipment or anything?
Speaker A:She scans over your hands, what you're.
Speaker B:Carrying, backpack on her.
Speaker E:Thank you, Special Agent Rachel Glenn, but no, we're good.
Speaker E:If you could just take us up.
Speaker A:She nods.
Speaker A:The doorman smiles widely and kind of winks at each one of you.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:It's interesting.
Speaker A:It's an interesting choice on his part.
Speaker A:And he opens the door.
Speaker D:Only in New York says Prentice Preston's.
Speaker B:Actually gonna hang back for a minute.
Speaker B:She'll confirm with Agent Glenn what floor it's on before they go in.
Speaker B:But she's gonna stop and talk to the doorman.
Speaker A:Sure.
Speaker A:Sure.
Speaker A:So everyone files in after Agent Glenn to make their way to the scene, and the doorman doffs his hat to you and keeps the door open.
Speaker A:Agent Rosen, Just a couple of quick.
Speaker B:Questions, if you don't mind.
Speaker B:Were you.
Speaker A:Oh, sure, Miss.
Speaker B:Were you on duty early this morning, or was it somebody else?
Speaker A:Oh, I was on duty this morning.
Speaker B:Um, did you see anybody coming in or out that doesn't belong here?
Speaker A:Well, wouldn't be much of a doorman if I was letting people in and out who don't belong here, Miss.
Speaker A:He laughs.
Speaker B:Yeah, I completely understand.
Speaker B:Just standard questions, you know, have to ask.
Speaker A:Oh.
Speaker A:It's my job to make sure only residents come inside.
Speaker A:Or law enforcement like yourself.
Speaker B:Perfect.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Did you hear anything weird this morning or see anything Aside from that circus.
Speaker A:Across the street, a bunch of police had to come in and, well, come back out, unfortunately, with Mr.
Speaker A:Swartz from up on up on the 14th.
Speaker B:All right, well, thank you for your time.
Speaker B:If you happen to think of anything unusual other than that, let us know, please.
Speaker A:Well, sometimes there are vehicles, strange vehicles park nearby.
Speaker A:I mean, there's been one that's showing up, I guess about every night for the last couple of weeks, but that's in the evening.
Speaker B:Just.
Speaker B:Just for sake of covering all the bases.
Speaker B:What did that vehicle look like?
Speaker A:Station wagon looking thing.
Speaker A:It's always towing a hot dog cart, though.
Speaker A:That's why I notice it.
Speaker A:About 7 to 7:30 every night.
Speaker A:He looks up at the sky as he seems to remember, like God himself was saving him a parking place.
Speaker B:That's interesting.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:You know, I just snapped a photo of its license number, just in case we needed it.
Speaker A:It's kind of my job.
Speaker A:He shrugs.
Speaker B:Do you happen to have that photo with you now?
Speaker A:Oh, yeah, sure.
Speaker A:He reaches into his pocket, grabs a smartphone, flips through a few photos.
Speaker A:Looks like he takes a lot of photos of vehicles parked nearby.
Speaker A:Takes him a while to locate what he's talking about, but when he finally does, he brings it over to you, Royzen, so you can take a look.
Speaker A:And yeah, there it is.
Speaker A:Station wagon that's towing a hot dog cart.
Speaker A:And plain as day is the New York permit number or license number displayed prominently.
Speaker A:Never had a good angle to really see the license plate, but got this number here.
Speaker A:Should be enough if I ever need it.
Speaker B:Rosen's gonna jot that down real quick.
Speaker A:You got it.
Speaker D:Wiener's so good they'll drive you mad.
Speaker A:That is not the tagline on this particular hot dog cart.
Speaker D:That's the tagline that I want it to be.
Speaker A:Just has a cartoon hot dog with a big smiley face and a thumbs up.
Speaker B:That's still kind of creepy.
Speaker D:Yeah, it's worse than my thing.
Speaker B:Yeah, Horizon's gonna thank him again and go catch up with the rest of the group.
Speaker A:Sure, man, sure.
Speaker A:He closes the door behind you, smiles and doffs his cap one last time.
Speaker A:Agents, you've gone up through the various floors of this converted set of buildings to the 14th floor, and you follow Agent Glenn down a cramped hallway toward a doorway that is recently decorated with yellow police tape.
Speaker B:Random question, Chris.
Speaker B:That doorman, did he have hair?
Speaker A:You couldn't tell.
Speaker A:He had a.
Speaker A:Like a cap on.
Speaker A:Like a doorman's cap.
Speaker B:So it looks like he might have been bald.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:He could have been Bald.
Speaker D:Where are you going with that one?
Speaker B:Down the watcher.
Speaker B:Random reference.
Speaker A:Agent Glenn walks up to the door.
Speaker A:It's locked.
Speaker A:Any of you know how to jimmy this or we have to go back down to the doorman.
Speaker C:Let me give it a try.
Speaker A:She stands back.
Speaker C:What do I roll for this?
Speaker A:So you're gonna try to pick the lock.
Speaker C:I mean it.
Speaker A:That would be craft locksmith or the special skill called lock picking.
Speaker E:Oh, if only Lenny was still with us.
Speaker A:He didn't have either of those either.
Speaker C:Let me actually, before I.
Speaker C:Before I step up.
Speaker C:How.
Speaker C:How old is this building?
Speaker C:Slash flimsy looking is this door.
Speaker A:Oh, it does not look like it could deal with you kicking it in, that's for sure.
Speaker D:Call this the Delta Greenlock pick kick.
Speaker C:I kind of like the idea of Ryan said I got it then just going just.
Speaker A:Yeah, that's.
Speaker D:No.
Speaker A:Really want to do that right in front of a federal agent.
Speaker A:That sounds.
Speaker A:That sounds like a good plan.
Speaker A:Yeah, go for it.
Speaker C:Well, that's why I asked before I.
Speaker E:She did.
Speaker C:Just spoke too soon to break in.
Speaker D:So what you need to do now is fish around in your pocket.
Speaker D:Can I.
Speaker D:Oh, I don't have.
Speaker C:I'm not trying to annoyingly walk back, but can I respond to her in a different way?
Speaker A:Sure, man.
Speaker C:Than volunteering?
Speaker A:Sure.
Speaker C:Special Agent Rachel Green.
Speaker C:Of course, none of us know how to do that.
Speaker A:You want to try it with her?
Speaker A:Right name?
Speaker C:Rachel Glenn.
Speaker C:Hold on, let me give you the whole line one more time.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker C:Special Agent Rachel Glenn.
Speaker C:Of course, none of us know how to jimmy a door or pick a lock.
Speaker A:She smiles a bit and she says.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker A:And before long, the doorman has let all five of you into the empty apartment of Murray Swartz.
Speaker A:You all start kind of stepping through the remnants of this man's life who so recently passed away.
Speaker A:What you see is a man who lived alone.
Speaker A:He was not entirely a cleanly person.
Speaker A:But you don't see any indications of a violent assault or any signs of real struggle.
Speaker A:However, as you go through his dirty kitchen, his normal disarray level in his living room, in his bedroom, you can see that this is a man who was fairly lonely and apparently owned a restaurant.
Speaker A:At least at one point, you see lots of indications of this house.
Speaker E:How specifically do we know that he was very alone, lonely?
Speaker E:Did we find something specific indicated that?
Speaker A:It just appears he lived a very, very lonely life in general.
Speaker C:Chris starts to describe his own house.
Speaker C:Sorry.
Speaker C:Chris is right there.
Speaker D:He has this big flashlight looking thing, but only on One end of the flashlight.
Speaker D:It's not a flashlight.
Speaker D:Do you get my drift?
Speaker C:That's a reference to something I'm not involved in.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I don't know what's going on.
Speaker E:That's the correct reaction.
Speaker C:It took me so long.
Speaker B:Y'all are slow tonight.
Speaker D:It's a squid mouth.
Speaker A:Still don't know.
Speaker B:Ew.
Speaker C:A squid mouth.
Speaker E:Some weird, esoteric cult device here we got.
Speaker E:Let's quarantine the building.
Speaker A:So lonely.
Speaker A:So, yeah, we don't see any obvious signs of struggle or violence, but the bedroom, the kitchen.
Speaker A:We're in a state of uncleanliness and disarray.
Speaker A:The bedroom itself looks like clothing and coat hangers have been knocked about the closet doors wide open.
Speaker A:Some of his clothing articles are crumpled, lying on the carpeted floor.
Speaker A:Otherwise, there's nothing too obvious here.
Speaker A:Beyond what I've already described.
Speaker A:Are there any places that you would like to specifically search or ask questions about?
Speaker A:Now's the time for that.
Speaker A:As you and Agent Rachel Glenn are now looking around for anything out of the ordinary.
Speaker E:Paris goes and immediately checks the closet and then.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So again, curious disarray here.
Speaker A:Clothing, coat hangers.
Speaker A:You immediately just move everything aside to look at the back of the closet.
Speaker A:And your focus and intuition pays off immediately because you quickly reveal, behind racks of slacks, another black outlined doorway scribbled on the back of the closet wall.
Speaker E:Is the door handle on this one smudged like it was in the other one?
Speaker D:You smudged the.
Speaker A:You smudged the door handles?
Speaker E:No, no, I know.
Speaker E:I'm just.
Speaker E:I'm curious if it's, like, also smudged.
Speaker A:Oh, you're looking for mirror activity.
Speaker E:Yes.
Speaker A:Very interesting.
Speaker A:It is not smudged.
Speaker E:Hey, y'all might want to take a look at this.
Speaker C:John, like, answer the fucking question.
Speaker B:While y'all are doing that, Groyson's gonna turn.
Speaker B:So, Special Agent Rachel Glenn, can you show me where exactly the body was found?
Speaker A:My understanding, it was.
Speaker A:It was found in the kitchen.
Speaker D:And Special Agent Rachel Glenn, what position was the body in when it was found?
Speaker A:I didn't find the body.
Speaker A:She turns to you.
Speaker A:What is your name?
Speaker D:I look down at my.
Speaker D:At my head, CDC name badge and say.
Speaker D:And I read it to her.
Speaker A:It's Theophilus Kortar.
Speaker D:Fuck you, Chris.
Speaker D:Theophilus Kortar.
Speaker A:You say the whole name.
Speaker A:Cool.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker A:I thought you would just go, Theo.
Speaker A:Cool.
Speaker A:She looks over me.
Speaker D:Dr.
Speaker D:Theo.
Speaker A:I'll call you Dr.
Speaker A:Kortar, she says.
Speaker A:I called you the moment I pulled the police report that had a single indication that it could be related to what happened across the street.
Speaker A:I haven't been in this room yet and I didn't get any scene photos.
Speaker A:I called you first because I thought we had something serious on our hands, Special Agent.
Speaker A:I think we might still have something serious on our hands, yes.
Speaker D:The reason I ask is the.
Speaker D:I'm very curious about any possible disease vectors and the position of the body would have helped with that.
Speaker D:Now, I understand you weren't there, so I won't bother you with any more questions about positioning.
Speaker A:It sounds like one of your colleagues has found something in the bedroom.
Speaker A:She begins to make her way in response to Agent Paris's call.
Speaker A:Nope.
Speaker D:Special Agent Rachel Glenn, if you will.
Speaker D:One more, perhaps Dumb question.
Speaker D:Do you know anyone that could bring us some coffee?
Speaker A:She actually turns away and walks into the bedroom, ignoring what you just said, and walks up behind Agent.
Speaker A:Agent Paris.
Speaker A:What you find?
Speaker A:So you hear Agent Glenn's voice behind you.
Speaker E:Especially Rachel Glenn.
Speaker E:Just some scribbles.
Speaker E:It's nothing.
Speaker E:I thought I found something, but it's not what I thought it was.
Speaker A:Huh.
Speaker A:It does look like a lot of these clothes were knocked off their hangers.
Speaker A:Maybe there was a struggle here in the bedroom.
Speaker A:The body was found in the kitchen, though.
Speaker A:She shines a flashlight that she produces from her windbreaker into the closet at the drawing of the door.
Speaker A:Huh.
Speaker A:She starts kind of peeking through the closet.
Speaker A:I need her to roll.
Speaker A:One moment.
Speaker A:There's a footprint here.
Speaker A:Look.
Speaker A:She points down at the carpet.
Speaker A:Is this yours?
Speaker A:Did you step here?
Speaker A:She sounds a little angry.
Speaker E:No, no, that's.
Speaker E:That's not mine.
Speaker E:I assume, right?
Speaker A:You didn't actually step that far into the closet.
Speaker A:So you highly doubt it, but you feel a little bad that you have been stepping all over this carpeted floor.
Speaker E:No, no, that's.
Speaker E:That's not mine.
Speaker E:Let's take a closer look.
Speaker A:She squats down.
Speaker A:Hmm.
Speaker A:What the hell size is this?
Speaker A:Here, take off your shoe.
Speaker E:All right.
Speaker E:You think you should buy me dinner first?
Speaker A:She looks up and you catch the brief flickering of a smile before she goes stony faced again.
Speaker A:Hand me your shoe.
Speaker E:Paris takes off his shoe and hands it to her.
Speaker A:Roll your charisma.
Speaker D:Is he rolling for foot odor?
Speaker E:Oh, it's not good.
Speaker A:She's gonna have to roll her cons soon.
Speaker E:I passed.
Speaker A:She holds the shoe a few inches above the carpet near what she has described to you as a footprint.
Speaker A:Hmm, she says.
Speaker A:She hands you your shoe back.
Speaker A:What are you, a size 10?
Speaker A:12.
Speaker E:Size 12?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Well, this is something like a 16.
Speaker A:It's huge.
Speaker A:She stands back up.
Speaker E:That is Shaquille O'Neal size shoes.
Speaker A:She takes out her smartphone and begins taking pictures with the flash of what she has described to you as an imprint.
Speaker A:You can.
Speaker A:Can sort of see it.
Speaker A:It looks like kind of a pretty.
Speaker A:Yeah, heavy.
Speaker A:Heavy imprint there in the carpet.
Speaker A:Why do you think somebody was standing in the closet?
Speaker A:She asks to the air.
Speaker A:Agent Parrish, you're, as far as I know, the only person in this room.
Speaker A:Unless any of the other agents have followed in.
Speaker C:Yeah, Ryan followed him when he called.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker C:Then she says, a little bit back further away.
Speaker C:I mean, he's just in the room.
Speaker A:Anybody is welcome to.
Speaker A:To answer her, because she just sort of set it to the room.
Speaker D:Maybe it's something he was into.
Speaker A:I'm sorry, you think he was into standing in his own closet?
Speaker D:Oh, he didn't have size 16ft, but maybe he was into, like, somebody watching him while he does what lonely men do in the rooms.
Speaker C:Jesus Christ.
Speaker C:Yeah, I don't.
Speaker C:I don't understand why whatever happened, he kind of side eyes Agent Prentiss in the closet matters here.
Speaker C:You said that he was found in the kitchen, right?
Speaker A:Yes, but we have some disarray here.
Speaker A:It looks like lots of clothes were knocked off their hangers here.
Speaker A:I can see.
Speaker A:She motions to the crumpled clothing.
Speaker A:I can see that something.
Speaker A:Something occurred here.
Speaker A:And we have a shoe print that doesn't seem to correspond with that of our victim.
Speaker E:Let's take some more time and search this room.
Speaker E:Maybe there's something else that'll turn up.
Speaker A:Paris.
Speaker A:Everyone watch where you're stepping, please.
Speaker D:She says, looks down at his feet.
Speaker C:Do you.
Speaker C:Ryan's gonna ask her.
Speaker C:Do you have team coming in after this to take pictures of things, or do you need us to take a picture of that footprint in case we need to compare it to anything?
Speaker A:At this point, I'm fairly certain I should have you all file out of here.
Speaker A:It appears you don't have much forensics investigation experience, so why don't we go ahead and do that, and if I need your consultation on anything, I'll call you in.
Speaker A:Can you just wait outside the apartment, please?
Speaker C:Ma'am, I do apologize.
Speaker C:We will be very careful going forward, but I must insist that we stay to ensure that there isn't any contaminants.
Speaker C:That's why we're here.
Speaker C:We'll make our way.
Speaker A:Well, right now.
Speaker A:Right now, you're the contaminants and what looks like to be a more complicated crime scene.
Speaker C:Why don't you.
Speaker C:Why don't you help me understand that.
Speaker C:Why are we the contaminants?
Speaker D:Well, because we're contaminating the possible crime scene with forensic.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker A:So if you could stand outside of the apartment while I go ahead and do a full sweep here, I think that would be extremely helpful to ensure we don't disrupt any potential clues that could assist us in understanding what happened to Mr.
Speaker A:Swartz.
Speaker B:So real quick, while this is all going on, Roisin's been out in the kitchen taking a look because that's where the body was found.
Speaker B:Is there anything that stands out to her as being unusual?
Speaker B:Food left out, phone on the counter.
Speaker A:You don't see anything unusual?
Speaker A:There is food left out for sure.
Speaker A:I don't.
Speaker A:Help me understand.
Speaker A:There is definitely food left out.
Speaker A:I guess that could be somewhat unusual, but it doesn't.
Speaker A:It doesn't hit you that way when you see it.
Speaker A:It looks like he hadn't gotten to some dishes.
Speaker A:And he did have what looks like a half finished TV dinner on his small dining table.
Speaker A:You do notice there is a window that looks straight across the street at the Crosby Street Hotel.
Speaker B:Does it have to look at the.
Speaker A:Window of it is the same facing.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:They're on the same floor and it's the exact same facing window.
Speaker B:So it's directly across from the room that Inga was found in.
Speaker A:Correct.
Speaker B:One last weird question, Chris.
Speaker B:It doesn't appear that he had hot dogs within the last couple of days from a street vendor, did he?
Speaker A:You don't see any indication of hot dog cart fare in the home?
Speaker A:It's mostly like TV dinners stacked up.
Speaker A:You do see some cans of Bush's chili as well in the pantry.
Speaker B:And he didn't leave his cell phone in the kitchen.
Speaker A:You don't see a cell phone.
Speaker B:Oh, well.
Speaker B:Worth a check.
Speaker A:So you're in the middle of kind of a discussion with Special Agent Glenn, who wants you to now leave the apartment so she can forensically catalog everything Ryan's gonna say.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:All right, let us know if you find anything and when you're finished so we can take a look ourselves.
Speaker C:And then he's gonna.
Speaker C:Special Agent Glenn, turn to Prentiss and physically push him out of the apartment into the hallway.
Speaker A:Prentice, you begin to get escorted as you're yelling back to Agent Glenn by Agent Ryan.
Speaker C:Ryan's gonna push him into the hallway, close the door.
Speaker C:What the fuck was that, man?
Speaker D:Hey, look, I was trying to get her on our side, but sure, by.
Speaker C:Asking her stupid questions.
Speaker C:I mean, question agreeing when I'm trying to let Us stay in the crime scene.
Speaker C:Look, man, whose side are you on here?
Speaker D:I'm trying to obtain some sort of goodwill with her, and seems like there was a bit of a misstep and.
Speaker C:Yeah, fair enough, man, but let's.
Speaker C:Let's.
Speaker C:Less is more.
Speaker C:Yeah, a lot less.
Speaker D:Agent Ryan.
Speaker D:Words to live by.
Speaker C:Ryan's gonna just lean up against the wall waiting for.
Speaker C:Roy's in.
Speaker A:And Paris, Agent Glenn, before she continues her investigation, she does ask the rest of the agents to please leave as well.
Speaker A:She wants everybody out in the hallway until she needs your consultative assistance, it appears.
Speaker E:Yep.
Speaker E:Paris heads for the hallway.
Speaker B:Yeah, Roizen's gonna straighten up from bending down to look at the floor where he was supposedly found inside and lean against a wall out in the hallway.
Speaker C:When she comes outside, Ryan is going to turn to her and ask her, roizen, did you get any interesting information from the door guy?
Speaker B:Just to make sure.
Speaker B:She's going to look around, make sure that everybody's here.
Speaker A:Cool.
Speaker A:So all four of you are now outside.
Speaker A:The door is still open to the apartment, but you're just out in the hallway now.
Speaker B:So Rosen's going to gesture down the hallway a little more, find a nice open spot where she can kind of sit against the wall, make it look like she's taking a nap, but far enough that if they talk quietly, the agent won't overhear them.
Speaker D:Well, she's.
Speaker D:She's investigating.
Speaker B:Yeah, I don't want to deal with.
Speaker B:I can guarantee you we're already gonna get a call from the lieutenant colonel in a little bit that we pissed him off again.
Speaker B:So let's.
Speaker B:Let's not add to the problem.
Speaker C:Ryan's gonna follow Royzen down the hall, but close the door behind him before he does.
Speaker A:Gotcha.
Speaker A:You go ahead and close the door to the apartment, and you repeat your question to Roisin a bit ways down, where she's gone ahead and set up.
Speaker C:Yep.
Speaker B:Part of the doorman's job is to notice when there's unusual vehicles in the area.
Speaker B: pretty much every day between: Speaker D:Well, I think you just cracked the case.
Speaker D:Yeah, hot dogs make you bloated.
Speaker B:I'm wondering if they might have eaten.
Speaker C:Ryan's gonna.
Speaker C:Ryan's gonna begrudgingly chuckle, but also slap Prentice in the arm.
Speaker C:What?
Speaker D:I say Prentice just ignores him.
Speaker C:Yeah, that's fair.
Speaker B:He did not get a full license plate.
Speaker B:He did get A partial.
Speaker D:So can you run a partial plate?
Speaker B:Do any of you have access to DMV databases?
Speaker B:Because I do not.
Speaker D:I'm not Leo, so out of luck there.
Speaker C:Ryan's gonna turn to Prentice.
Speaker C:What do you think she does?
Speaker D:I have no idea.
Speaker B:Well, technically, I work for a government agency.
Speaker B:I do not work for a United States government agency.
Speaker B:I am on loan to them, which does not give me access to their databases.
Speaker D:Well, that's fun.
Speaker A:Ryan, you're from New York, correct?
Speaker A:Yeah, it's a.
Speaker A:It's a New York license number that people can specifically look up publicly to, like, check on the health rating and that sort of thing.
Speaker A:So you could just look it up.
Speaker A:It.
Speaker A:You would know that just because you're part of the municipality.
Speaker C:Got it.
Speaker C:Ryan's going to try and write in.
Speaker C:Did he say if it was a New York license plate?
Speaker A:It's a license number.
Speaker A:Like a hot dog license.
Speaker C:Oh, oh, oh.
Speaker C:Got it.
Speaker A:It's on the cart.
Speaker A:Like, he couldn't get a good angle to see the license plate.
Speaker A:He said.
Speaker A:I understand he grabbed.
Speaker A:He grabbed the big old.
Speaker A:Hey.
Speaker A:New York City operator's license.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Yeah, my bad.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker D:C minus.
Speaker C:So those are public record.
Speaker C:You can.
Speaker C:You can search those and in the city database, so maybe even if it's a partial, at best we can narrow it.
Speaker C:But it'd be awesome if he got enough that it's a unique identified number.
Speaker B:Yeah, Royson's going to toss her notebook over to Ryan.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker C:Ryan's going to look it up on his phone.
Speaker A:Yeah, the vendor's name is Bill Morrison, and it looks like his permit has his usual spots listed.
Speaker A:Looks like he is normally in Battery Park.
Speaker A:His health rating is a 99 out of 100.
Speaker A:It looks like somebody did find a hair in one of the hot dogs two years ago.
Speaker A:He's been operating here in New York for about eight years.
Speaker D:It's pretty good.
Speaker C:So the guys looks like it belonged to a guy named Bill Morrison.
Speaker C:And honestly, apart from one weird claim from a while back, he's pretty much immaculate.
Speaker C:98.
Speaker C:Health rating.
Speaker D:99, buddy, give him his point.
Speaker C:Did you say 90?
Speaker C:Who gives?
Speaker C:I still don't necessarily think that we should rule out that both of these guys could have gotten lunch at this hot dog car that's right outside there where they were staying.
Speaker C:But at the same time, I'm sure hundreds of people come through here every day.
Speaker C:Feel like we would be seeing more of this.
Speaker D:Stop all the hot dog carts.
Speaker B:Yeah, it's long shot.
Speaker B:I mean, did it say where he Usually is around lunchtime.
Speaker A:No, it doesn't have his schedule on there.
Speaker E:Oh, I thought you said usually around Battery Park.
Speaker A:Yeah, but it doesn't have, like, his schedule.
Speaker A:It just says he's been permitted to work within Battery Park.
Speaker B:Well, at some point, we'll want to go check that out, just to be safe.
Speaker B:Honestly, it could be a long shot.
Speaker B:Just something weird that the doorman noticed.
Speaker B:So what did you find in the bedroom before you yelled and got the agent's attention?
Speaker E:Yeah, it's another one of those chalk doors.
Speaker E:Just like the one we found in the other apartment.
Speaker D:Well, that's odd.
Speaker B:So I've got a theory, and I don't like said theory.
Speaker D:Well, go for it.
Speaker D:I don't like anything so far.
Speaker B:Actually, I've got a couple of theories, but it could be bunnies.
Speaker B:Sorry.
Speaker B:Well, one, those doors might be actual doors, which, honestly, my brain doesn't want to handle.
Speaker B:Yeah, no.
Speaker B:Or two, it could be some contaminant in the hot dogs.
Speaker B:Or hot dogs made of things that man was not meant to eat.
Speaker C:So.
Speaker D:Hot dogs?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Why do people eat those things anyway?
Speaker D:Self loathing drives that whole behavior, in my experience.
Speaker B:Since we've got a little bit.
Speaker B:I'm gonna take a nap.
Speaker C:Sure.
Speaker B:Does that work?
Speaker C:Ryan's gonna go knock back on the door, ask if Agent Glenn is finished.
Speaker A:You knock on the door or just open it?
Speaker A:I mean, it's up to you.
Speaker C:I didn't know if it, like, locked behind or not.
Speaker A:Nah, nah, you can open it.
Speaker A:Shot in there?
Speaker A:Yeah, you open in there and kind of shout in.
Speaker A:She's actually in the hall.
Speaker A:She's crouched down and examining the molding with her.
Speaker A:With her flashlight.
Speaker A:She looks up at you.
Speaker A:Her eyes meet yours.
Speaker A:No, I just got started.
Speaker A:What's your name?
Speaker C:Do I know my FBI?
Speaker A:It's Fabian Horker.
Speaker D:God damn it, Chris, if you.
Speaker A:If you guys don't say it, I will say it and you will never like the answer.
Speaker C:No, no, I'm fine with it.
Speaker C:I just.
Speaker C:Because you.
Speaker A:Yeah, you're Fabian.
Speaker C:Worker, sure.
Speaker C:Asian.
Speaker D:I'm always gonna let you sit now.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Agent Horker?
Speaker A:Yeah, it's been about 20 minutes.
Speaker A:Look, I shouldn't have let you in this apartment to begin with.
Speaker A:I should have realized that the police just treated this as a found corpse and not a crime scene.
Speaker A:And I think we do have a crime scene on our hands here.
Speaker A:So just let me do my job.
Speaker A:I'll let you know if I see anything that needs your expertise.
Speaker C:I understand.
Speaker C:Do you need us to wait here, or would you prefer to.
Speaker A:I would prefer you to wait here.
Speaker A:But if you need to do something.
Speaker A:This will take a couple of hours.
Speaker A:I'll call you, I suppose, if I find anything that needs your eyes.
Speaker A:If you, I guess, need to attend to something.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Give us a call.
Speaker C:And then he's going to walk out.
Speaker C:Heading back to the group.
Speaker C:She's pretty adamant on keeping the place to herself.
Speaker C:She said she'd be a few hours.
Speaker C:We could probably get another look once she's done, but maybe in the.
Speaker C:In the meantime.
Speaker C:Chris, how far away is this from Battery Park?
Speaker C:I feel like Ryan would know this.
Speaker A:Oh, not.
Speaker A:Not too far at all.
Speaker B:Walking distance?
Speaker A:No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker A:Not walking distance, though.
Speaker C:Okay, we're not too far from Battery park if we want to see if maybe we can head over there real quick and find that.
Speaker C:That food truck.
Speaker B:Worth a check.
Speaker D:So we're following up on a hot dog lead?
Speaker C:It's the best lead we got right now.
Speaker B:And, hey, lunch.
Speaker D:I guess you're right.
Speaker E:Maybe get some coffee on the way.
Speaker C:I'll buy you a hot dog, princess.
Speaker D:Hard pass.
Speaker D:I don't want to get bloated.
Speaker C:Yeah, Ryan adds to the car.
