Episode 61
Episode 61 - Solos, Pero No
The Agents do their best to prepare for the unknown.
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Transcript
Hello?
Speaker B:What time is it?
Speaker A:Who is it?
Speaker C:I don't know.
Speaker A:Situation Green fillers in darkness.
Speaker A:Sorry love, I have to take this.
Speaker C:I'm gonna do a goog search on local universities.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker A:And there are actually quite a few.
Speaker A:One that does catch your eye, especially.
Speaker C:One with a good pre Columbian anthropology department.
Speaker A:I mean, the University of Oaxacarares does have a very strong local cultural anthropology and archaeology department.
Speaker A:There is also I study post post Colombian, the Museum of the Cultures of Oaxaca that actually houses a lot of the relics that are discovered and vetted and also has offices for the inah which is kind of a larger protective bureaucracy around sites and archaeological dig sites in the area.
Speaker A:So yeah, there's.
Speaker A:There's definitely a lot here as this is one of the waystations of civilization that connects to many of the pre Columbian finds in this region.
Speaker C:I will jot down the information on the University of Oaxaca de Juarez and the museum.
Speaker A:Those are both great places to look for an expert to help you.
Speaker A:We're going to go back to Forest and Faith now looking.
Speaker D:I've been studying this picture this whole time and I think I can give it a better description for the audience.
Speaker D:A lot of the writing is on the walls and it all looks kind of cursive Y, but there is noticeably some on the toilet lid, seat lid.
Speaker D:And it kind of works its way down to the ground across to the tub.
Speaker D:And it appears to be written around the tub on the ground and maybe on the rim as well.
Speaker A:When you look closer at those particular areas, it looks like that might be leavings rather than just writing.
Speaker D:Gotcha.
Speaker A:Someone really had a bit of a spray of bodily fluids, likely blood, as they were meticulously writing again in what must be a bodily fluid since it's showing up so clearly with oxidative luminol.
Speaker C:I feel like that was a tip.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker C:On how it happened.
Speaker D:Just a tip.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker A:Forrest, writing with your tip backs up.
Speaker A:She looks around.
Speaker A:She feels like she's gotten pretty much everything that could be a message.
Speaker A:But the writing is so bizarre, it's so alien.
Speaker A:Might just be gibberish after all.
Speaker A:But it's just nonsensical to you.
Speaker A:Forest.
Speaker A:Something kind of twinges in the back of your head when you glance at it through the mirror.
Speaker A:When you see it reversed, you for a moment think you hear something outside of the bathroom and someone calling your name.
Speaker B:Oh, was.
Speaker B:Did you call my name?
Speaker B:Did you say my name?
Speaker D:No, I don't believe I did.
Speaker B:Something feels a little off.
Speaker B:Sorry, it's probably my lack of Sleep well?
Speaker D:Maybe get a little more tonight, huh?
Speaker B:Easier said than done, you know.
Speaker D:Faith begins taking pictures of the writing.
Speaker A:Let me see what your power is.
Speaker A:Faith is a solid nine.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker A:Go ahead and roll your luck, please.
Speaker D:No minuses failed.
Speaker D:54 of 50.
Speaker C:Dang you.
Speaker A:As you're taking pictures around, moving around the room, you do glance at the mirror as well, seeing the message reversed and.
Speaker A:Doesn't make any sense to you.
Speaker A:In fact, you'll roll a sanity very soon here.
Speaker A:But when you see it through the mirror, it looks like one of those messages that was on the back of the brochure.
Speaker A:The first.
Speaker A:The first passage.
Speaker A:But you turn and you.
Speaker A:You look at it on the wall and there's no way it could.
Speaker A:It could look like that.
Speaker A:It could be readable with English letters.
Speaker A:Roll your sanity for unnatural.
Speaker C:It kind of looks like the COVID of a Corn album.
Speaker C:It's pretty twisted.
Speaker A:Would you like to project any potential?
Speaker D:No, I don't think so.
Speaker D:Spooky writing.
Speaker D:So scary.
Speaker A:Are very confused.
Speaker A:It doesn't make sense, but it clearly says when you look at it through the mirror, Kulthur, which is what you saw on the back of the brochure.
Speaker D:Interesting.
Speaker A:Your head starts to pound.
Speaker A:You're getting a headache.
Speaker A:A stress headache.
Speaker C:You should relax.
Speaker D:Yeah, you're right.
Speaker A:You feel like you've taken the pictures you need.
Speaker A:But something about this room, it's.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:It's oppressive.
Speaker D:I gotta get the fuck out of here.
Speaker D:I'm.
Speaker D:It's just something about this give me a headache.
Speaker D:He ducks out.
Speaker A:You see that?
Speaker A:Felix.
Speaker A:Felix and Frankfurt are putting down the brochure that you left with them.
Speaker A:They seem to have agreed upon something.
Speaker A:Forest turns and she looks worried when she sees you.
Speaker B:Are you okay?
Speaker B:What are you.
Speaker B:What are you feeling?
Speaker D:I gotta get out of here.
Speaker D:It's just giving me a headache.
Speaker D:I don't know, maybe it's the light.
Speaker B:I actually had a similar feeling kind of in the back of my head.
Speaker B:I just thought I needed sleep.
Speaker D:Yes.
Speaker D:Let's wipe it down and join the gentleman out here.
Speaker B:Got me?
Speaker D:We'll begin wiping it down.
Speaker A:Yeah, you're gonna go right back into the bathroom, actually.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker B:Well, I'll take care of it.
Speaker B:I'll take care of it.
Speaker B:You just stay okay where you are.
Speaker D:Alright?
Speaker B:I'll do it.
Speaker D:You got it?
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker A:You go ahead and you take some of the rags you have with you and use rubbing alcohol to remove the luminol.
Speaker A:And that does help denature and degrade some of the.
Speaker A:Some of the Organic compounds, but it's going to require a real cleaning if you want to get that completely off.
Speaker A:The lumenol, though, does come off, if that's what you're going for.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I wouldn't want anyone else to see the traces of what, say, before I exit the bathroom, I just want to do one more, I guess, thorough search for any items like lift the toilet lid, things like that.
Speaker B:Is the mirror.
Speaker B:Is it like a medicine cabinet type of mirror or anything like that?
Speaker B:If I could just do a search as well.
Speaker A:There's no hidden compartments behind the mirror.
Speaker A:You can see it's embedded in the tile wall.
Speaker A:There's nothing in the toilet.
Speaker A:It's been recently flushed.
Speaker B:Yeah, no, not in the toilet, but I meant like in the lid where the water was.
Speaker B:But that's fine.
Speaker B:It sounds like there's nothing in here.
Speaker A:So then I'll.
Speaker A:You look in the tank and you don't see any stashes there.
Speaker A:That's a good spot though.
Speaker D:Right.
Speaker B:I'm going to get out of here too.
Speaker B:Check on the others.
Speaker C:Felix is going to explain to them what he's found and mention the university and the museum as possible places to get information on this location that we've narrowed down to a.
Speaker C:A possible location where he could be.
Speaker D:Good work, Felix.
Speaker C:It's my muy excellent Spanish kicking in for sure.
Speaker D:Maybe it's time you.
Speaker D:You contact those universities, see if we can set up some time to meet.
Speaker D:About that.
Speaker B:I just had a quick question.
Speaker B:I was thinking, I don't know, just have a tip of a finger cut off and nothing else around.
Speaker B:Do you think that's a bit weird or, like, deliberate or just by accident?
Speaker A:I mean, I think he wrote with.
Speaker D:That tip of the finger cut off.
Speaker D:That's what I think happened.
Speaker B:Okay, Yeah, I see what you're saying.
Speaker C:Human ballpoint pan.
Speaker D:Just the tip.
Speaker C:Just.
Speaker C:Just a tip.
Speaker B:I didn't want to overthink it, but that's why I had to ask what you.
Speaker B:What you might have thought I would agree.
Speaker D:I hear you, but Shields is going to make his way across from Frankus or Parefort.
Speaker D:Which do you prefer, John?
Speaker E:I think the Paris vert was my.
Speaker E:My preferred.
Speaker D:Okay.
Speaker E:Yeah, that's the worst one by far.
Speaker D:Okay, cool, cool.
Speaker B:Paris.
Speaker D:Paris vert it is.
Speaker D:It's gonna make its way to the window and.
Speaker D:And check along the windowsill where all the flies are, see if there's any other, like, biological matter there that's attracting them.
Speaker A:You borrow Forest's Luminal and do a quick sweep.
Speaker A:The Biological matter present is spore from the flies.
Speaker D:Gross.
Speaker D:And he waves them out.
Speaker A:You use the back of your hand to knock them out onto the streets below, onto the heads of unsuspecting Oaxacans.
Speaker D:Sorry.
Speaker A:A large mark against Canada appears on the grand global board of tallies.
Speaker C:Dang.
Speaker D:Oh, I've really done it.
Speaker B:Now you've done it.
Speaker E:For shame.
Speaker B:This day was inevitable.
Speaker E:Frankfurt looks up.
Speaker E:Anyone here have any think they could crack into this laptop?
Speaker E:Or short of that, I guess.
Speaker E:Should we reach out to Snediger or Horatio, see if they've got some assets that could potentially get into this thing for us?
Speaker C:I mean, I can try, yeah.
Speaker C:May I try?
Speaker E:Frankfurt, hands over the laptop.
Speaker C:I have a computer science.
Speaker B:As do I.
Speaker B:I think I should probably roll for that one.
Speaker A:Why don't you say that in character, in a way that would share your Expertise?
Speaker E:Computer science is 13.
Speaker E:I would like to roll, please.
Speaker B:Paris Vert.
Speaker B:Paris for it.
Speaker E:You got all works.
Speaker E:It all works.
Speaker B:I'm actually very skilled in computer science and I'd like to take a look at that for you.
Speaker E:As he's starting to hand the laptop towards Felix, he just swings it back towards.
Speaker E:Towards Forest.
Speaker E:It's like grief.
Speaker E:He hands the laptop to Forest and.
Speaker A:That'S a minus one.
Speaker A:Morale detriment to Felix, that's a plus one.
Speaker A:Bonus to Perris, Vert and Forest.
Speaker C:Not cool, compadre.
Speaker A:No one understands that last strange word he said because no one has Spanish.
Speaker E:Yeah, no hablo espanol.
Speaker D:Are you casting unworldly spells at us, sir?
Speaker A:It appears that he might be compromised.
Speaker A:Y'all, I'm taking his teeth.
Speaker B:Don't say that.
Speaker C:Everyone calm down.
Speaker C:I'm taking his tea.
Speaker A:All right, all right.
Speaker A:So your computer science is extremely high.
Speaker A:This is kind of your bag.
Speaker A:As a analyst who builds her own models as part of your job.
Speaker A:And you take a look.
Speaker A:It's a typical VPN portal.
Speaker A:You haven't seen this particular one, but they're all fairly similar.
Speaker A:If you have the tools of the trade with you, you could try to bypass this, get access to the contents of.
Speaker A:Of the.
Speaker A:The hard drive, go ahead and roll your luck to see if you brought with you something that will allow you to do so.
Speaker B:Success.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So you've got a USB key that's going to help you with this.
Speaker A:You rummage through your belongings, you pop it into the side of the Dell laptop and go ahead and boot it up again.
Speaker A:This helper program that's immediately loaded goes ahead and allows you to basically bypass this.
Speaker A:This secure screen.
Speaker A:And get to the contents of the laptop itself.
Speaker A:In fact, you're able to log in with a higher level account through the vpn.
Speaker B:That was actually a lot easier than I thought it would be.
Speaker D:Bingo.
Speaker D:I'm in.
Speaker A:You go ahead and use a higher level.
Speaker E: Was it password: Speaker A: God, it was: Speaker A:Actually, use a higher level of credential to bypass this.
Speaker A:Once you use your help and you're on the UIF VPN now, as you pair through what Sombra was doing, there are a couple of things that you can immediately ascertain with.
Speaker A:With such a good role and such a high skill, it's very clear that no one has used this machine even in the weeks leading up to his disappearance from Oaxaca.
Speaker A:So it just hasn't been touched at all.
Speaker A:It contains access to the UAF's criminal databases.
Speaker A:These appear to be extremely mundane.
Speaker A:Catalogs and repositories of financial crime investigations.
Speaker A:All in Spanish.
Speaker A:Of course, going through these cases, you can tell force.
Speaker A:It's going to be painstaking work.
Speaker A:Even if you are a native speaker.
Speaker A:Running it through some sort of translation program is going to be even worse.
Speaker A:Does not look like this data is going to help you with your investigation.
Speaker B:Is this something perhaps that Snedger's people could help us with?
Speaker A:How so?
Speaker B:They speak Spanish.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:They could potentially have the intel.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:You.
Speaker A:You could go through this yourself.
Speaker A:Right, and translate it.
Speaker A:It would take hours, maybe days, and it would not be useful.
Speaker A:So is what I'm trying to say, it's.
Speaker A:It's just mundane financial crime investigations.
Speaker A:And the laptop has not been used in a very, very long time.
Speaker A:That's the forensic evidence that you've uncovered with your.
Speaker A:With your work.
Speaker B:Unfortunately, there's nothing in here of value to us.
Speaker B:So it was worth the look, but it's not going to help.
Speaker B:Yep.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker D:At least we found that it's not useful.
Speaker D:So we can drop it out of a window?
Speaker B:Yeah, with the flies.
Speaker E:If you insist.
Speaker E:And Frankfurt drops it out the window.
Speaker A:You hear somebody scream.
Speaker A:And the global tally.
Speaker A:The camera pans up to the global tally.
Speaker A:The amount of tallies against America are surprisingly few.
Speaker A:But another strike against the country appears.
Speaker B:Are they more than Canada?
Speaker A:No, no.
Speaker C:Yeah, I'm looking here.
Speaker C:Canada has the most by a lot.
Speaker C:I don't know why there's no notes here.
Speaker C:It's just obscene.
Speaker C:Like how much?
Speaker E:Yeah, it's all those upcountry dj.
Speaker A:It's probably the djens who did that.
Speaker D:Well, okay, so what we've gathered is we got some weird writing kind of swirling around the area of this brochure location.
Speaker D:Similar writing to what was on the back of the brochure was found in the bathroom.
Speaker D:So I think that's two things pointing us out that way.
Speaker A:Forest.
Speaker A:It doesn't look the same at all to you?
Speaker A:You don't know why he's saying that?
Speaker B:I don't actually recognize it.
Speaker B:Quite the same.
Speaker B:But it's another.
Speaker D:I can go fuck my hat.
Speaker D:That's fine.
Speaker A:And he does.
Speaker A:All of you are surprised.
Speaker A:First of all, he didn't even bring a hat with him on this trip.
Speaker A:But he found one.
Speaker C:We beg him to stop, but he just won't.
Speaker D:He won't.
Speaker A:He doesn't.
Speaker A:No.
Speaker D:No.
Speaker E:Starts throwing $1 bills at him.
Speaker C:Businessmen come out of the woodwork just throwing dollars.
Speaker E:Man, this reminds me of one of Diddy's parties.
Speaker E:All right.
Speaker A:Too much baby oil won't be topical when this airs.
Speaker A:Diddy.
Speaker A:Diddy will not have killed himself by that time.
Speaker D:Damn prescient.
Speaker B:So, in any case, we did see after some forensic type work in the bathroom, we found some crazy symbols writing that we don't understand.
Speaker C:Maybe it's some ancient language that one of the professors or museum folk could decipher.
Speaker D:Maybe some folk from under the sea perhaps speak this language.
Speaker D:We'll find out.
Speaker D:Definitely.
Speaker B:Yeah, it was definitely some of the organic material.
Speaker B:Talk about that finger tip and, you know, blood writing.
Speaker B:It's all connected.
Speaker B:It has to be.
Speaker A:You hear kind of a gurgling fish voice from the basement saying, why don't you come down here, we'll read your book.
Speaker C:That's really good.
Speaker D:That's very helpful.
Speaker D:Yes, we will take you up on that offer.
Speaker B:That was such a bubbly voice.
Speaker A:Awesome.
Speaker A:Don't wear your clothes.
Speaker A:Be naked, please.
Speaker A:Free.
Speaker A:Free.
Speaker D:Perfect.
Speaker C:Yeah, I take all my clothes off.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker D:Underwater adventures for me.
Speaker E:Love, Diddy, but you guys weren't clothes.
Speaker A:Paris for it is what it is.
Speaker C:All right.
Speaker D:This whole time he's been naked and nobody's said anything.
Speaker C:I'm going to call the local university to talk to someone in their anthropology or archeology.
Speaker A:Yeah, but before you commit to that, you're probably going to want to get Snedger's help with that.
Speaker A:If you want to do anything in a timely fashion.
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker A:Set something up.
Speaker A:Have him kind of handle all of that for you.
Speaker A:Because you're just a guy that has a fake DEA badge, right?
Speaker A:That's calling up out of nowhere.
Speaker A:What Snedeker might be able to do as he's purported is that he can maybe mountains for us move bureaucracy around.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:So anything bureaucratic I would recommend definitely lean on him for that.
Speaker A:Since you guys are tourists in a.
Speaker C:New land, Felix is going to call Snedegar and ask him if he can arrange a meeting with someone.
Speaker A:We're actually going to role play this because I can't wait to see how you work in the code phrase.
Speaker A:So you go ahead and call the line.
Speaker A:Familiar voice answers.
Speaker A:Agent.
Speaker C:Hey there.
Speaker C:It's.
Speaker C:It's Felix.
Speaker C:How are you?
Speaker A:Anything I can do to help you?
Speaker C:Yes, so we're looking for some help.
Speaker C:We need to get a meeting together with a local university, possibly someone in the anthropology.
Speaker A:Are you feeling okay, Agent?
Speaker C:I'm gonna look at the group like confused.
Speaker C:And this code phrase.
Speaker C:A what now?
Speaker E:Gotta say active exchange.
Speaker C:Oh, oh, there's an active exchange of information that we need for the university.
Speaker C:Info for smart people.
Speaker E:Slow clap from Frankfurt.
Speaker A:You need some sort of.
Speaker A:You need to talk to a specialist at the university.
Speaker C:Yeah, yeah, I thought I made that clear with the active exchange.
Speaker A:What kind of specialist?
Speaker C:Yeah, one.
Speaker C:So someone who is familiar with pre Meso or pre Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations.
Speaker C:Perhaps someone a little bit on the fringe of.
Speaker C:Of said department.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Let me see what I can find for you.
Speaker A:Any other information that I should be aware of.
Speaker D:Oh, tell them about YOLO to YOLO till.
Speaker D:I cannot say that.
Speaker C:What?
Speaker C:What?
Speaker C:One second, Shenandigar.
Speaker C:One second.
Speaker C:Well, what was that?
Speaker D:I don't know how to say that like a Canadian would.
Speaker D:I can't even say it like a human would.
Speaker C:So Yoloto Shishuli.
Speaker A:I didn't quite catch that.
Speaker A:Agent.
Speaker C:Don't worry.
Speaker C:We're doing an active exchange to figure it out.
Speaker C:Once you connect us with the proper authorities, we will actively exchange information with them to derive our active exchange.
Speaker C:I.
Speaker C:You help us.
Speaker A:Yeah, I'm gonna just ignore the last, I guess 30 to 45 seconds.
Speaker C:Yeah, that's.
Speaker C:That's probably.
Speaker A:I'll look into finding you an expert in ancient Mesoamerican cultures.
Speaker A:Give me a few on that.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker A:I do have a friendly actually nearby who I had in mind for something like this.
Speaker A:Let me.
Speaker A:Let me check her availability.
Speaker A:I do want to let you know I have secured transportation for you, along with some additional tools.
Speaker A:There is a panel van as requested that you will be able to pick up at the Enterprise.
Speaker A:Back at the airport, you'll find that it is under the name Lopez.
Speaker A:And you'll be able to use any of your ID to pick it up.
Speaker C:Well, gracias, homre.
Speaker C:I appreciate it, and we'll talk to you later.
Speaker C:Je.
Speaker D:Ad exchange actively concluded.
Speaker C:That's right.
Speaker A:See, that would have been a good way to do it.
Speaker C:Damn it.
Speaker E:That.
Speaker E:That was a lot.
Speaker A:Sa.
Speaker C:All right, well, our.
Speaker C:Our ride's ready, and it's gonna be full of goodies.
Speaker C:We just gotta go back to the airport and pick it up at the Enterprise.
Speaker B:Damn.
Speaker C:Yeah, I pulled some strings.
Speaker C:It's not a big deal.
Speaker E:We were all here.
Speaker B:Well, I appreciate your ability to speak the language.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker D:You've done so well for us so far, Felix.
Speaker D:So.
Speaker A:So bueno.
Speaker D:So bueno.
Speaker B:Mucho grande.
Speaker D:Whereas we would say in Quebecois.
Speaker B:Ooh.
Speaker C:We Quebec.
Speaker C:I didn't know you spoke another language.
Speaker D:God damn, I do.
Speaker D:And I.
Speaker D:I work hard at it.
Speaker D:Okay.
Speaker D:Okay.
Speaker D:I don't need these come ons while I'm trying to work.
Speaker D:Okay.
Speaker A:She has a boyfriend.
Speaker D:Not with that language, she doesn't.
Speaker C:And he has beautiful feet.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker C:Wow.
Speaker A:All right, we gotta move this screen alone.
Speaker D:Soft, supple feet.
Speaker A:All right, y'all, pick up your panel van.
Speaker A:This has your typical abduction kit accoutrement that she requested in the back, as well as a good amount of very small cameras that can be pinned or taped, as well as a hub that can be connected to any computer system, and some very small earpieces and mics that can be affixed to you if you wish to use them.
Speaker D:Perfect.
Speaker B:Indeed I do.
Speaker A:Go ahead and roll your sig Int Forest.
Speaker A:Oh, you don't have that.
Speaker A:Roll your computer science.
Speaker A:Minus 20%.
Speaker B:Nine out of 60.
Speaker A:Go ahead and review this piece of equipment.
Speaker A:This.
Speaker A:This is really nothing.
Speaker A:That's military grade.
Speaker A:It's all consumer grade.
Speaker A:You're gonna have no trouble figuring out how to set this up for the team if they need it.
Speaker B:All right, here.
Speaker B:If I think we should all use this, it's up to you.
Speaker B:But it's ready to go when.
Speaker B:When we are.
Speaker B:I've got you all set up.
Speaker A:Well, you're not set up yet, but you can definitely set it up if needed.
Speaker A:You were just reviewing the equipment.
Speaker B:Okay, well, you're not set up, but it will be nothing to set this up.
Speaker E:Thank you.
Speaker D:Well, thank you so much.
Speaker C:All pre setup has been done.
Speaker A:And in the back of the van is a warehouse with plenty of sunlight.
Speaker A:That was the last thing on your list.
Speaker A:You just need to fold that out when you're ready to use it.
Speaker D:Sounds good.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So Snedger delivers.
Speaker A:We, you know, 100% delivery.
Speaker A:Can you give him a five star, please?
Speaker D:Well, that's the thing is I don't five star anybody.
Speaker C:Yeah, you can't give out five stars.
Speaker C:Otherwise that makes the five star not worth anything.
Speaker D:You know, exactly.
Speaker D:You gotta.
Speaker D:You gotta let them know there's always room for improvement.
Speaker A:Can we do a 4.9?
Speaker D:I think that's good.
Speaker A:All right, cool.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:While we're waiting for Snediger to find you an expert, and I suppose waiting for Horatio to drop ship you something weird, what we would like to do.
Speaker D:Probably make our way back to the hotel that we are at.
Speaker A:And you've got a really cool panel van.
Speaker A:Now it is white and a little bit beat up.
Speaker A:Has a ladder rack and faded stencil on the side.
Speaker A:It's unreadable.
Speaker A:But maybe we belonged to a contracting company before.
Speaker D:Maybe we can set up all that equipment and call it a night.
Speaker C:I'd like to call the number on the pamphlet of the place that we would like to go to eventually.
Speaker C:I want to ask the guy if he.
Speaker C:If he recognizes our dude.
Speaker A:Well, the Ruin doesn't have a phone.
Speaker C:Well, not the Ruin, but whatever the.
Speaker C:The.
Speaker C:The line of tourists.
Speaker C:Is this like.
Speaker C:That's specifically like a tourist company brochure or is this just a brochure about a place?
Speaker A:Actually, it.
Speaker A:There's no phone number on it, but it does look like the brochure was manufactured and distributed by the National Institute of Anthropology and History.
Speaker A:The inah.
Speaker C:Okay, never mind.
Speaker C:But thank you.
Speaker A:My pleasure.
Speaker A:For nothing that's made me feel very good.
Speaker A:But I didn't say it.
Speaker C:It wasn't me.
Speaker C:It wasn't me.
Speaker A:It was him, though.
Speaker D:He said that.
Speaker A:I'm confused.
Speaker A:Who said it?
Speaker A:So I will be finding ways to give y'all bowel parasites in this game.
Speaker A:Both of you.
Speaker D:Oh, I assume everybody already has them because we've been just dealing with so many unnatural too.
Speaker A:But not the new type that I.
Speaker A:Oh, damn.
Speaker A:It's the kind that sings to you when you try to sleep.
Speaker C:Because I've been trying to eat every glob I see and I'm fine.
Speaker C:Still, I don't get it.
Speaker A:Can't wait for Ryan to go on the great south of the border trip to feed you globes.
Speaker D:Spicy globes.
Speaker A:So, Eric, are you wanting to call it a night?
Speaker A:Is that what you were saying?
Speaker A:Or did you want to call it night in the game?
Speaker D:In the game, like.
Speaker A:Okay, well, it's about 1:30pm or so.
Speaker A:Okay, you're welcome to call it A night, but it's not yet night.
Speaker A:Now you can see that Frankfurt's lips have taken on a healthy hue of normal.
Speaker A:They're no longer blue.
Speaker A:He's really jonesing for that next drink.
Speaker A:So maybe that's what's next for the team.
Speaker D:Yeah, totally.
Speaker E:Anybody up for a cerveza a day drink?
Speaker B:Let's go.
Speaker D:Let's get wild.
Speaker B:I need something to help me get a little nap.
Speaker D:The team goes clubbing.
Speaker C:Yeah, let's go to a.
Speaker C:I think if we go to a local bar, maybe we can get some.
Speaker C:A little information on maybe some folklore around the area.
Speaker C:Worth a shot or two.
Speaker B:Ha ha.
Speaker B:Shut.
Speaker D:Is that a drinking joke?
Speaker C:Yeah, yeah, it's a drinking joke.
Speaker B:Don't listen to him.
Speaker B:He's not that far removed from the drinks.
Speaker C:Well, let's make that even less far by going drinking.
Speaker D:Yes.
Speaker E:Paris just stares at the three of them in horror.
Speaker E:See, who is this conversation?
Speaker C:We talk about going to the bar for another 45 to three hours and.
Speaker B:We never make it.
Speaker A:All Paris says is, you do understand that all of this has to be cut out.
Speaker A:Like, none of this is usable audio?
Speaker A:That's what Paris says.
Speaker E:He's like, I'm just going to go by myself.
Speaker C:Felix is still quipping to himself hours later.
Speaker A:What is.
Speaker A:What would the team like to do with the rest of the day?
Speaker A:So you got your panel van.
Speaker A:You just went through Dante Sombra's belongings left behind at his hotel.
Speaker C:I wasn't kidding.
Speaker C:I want to go to a local dive and talk to people, do a little information gathering.
Speaker D:I'd go back to the hotel and talk to the front desk lady, see if there's anything else we can get out of her.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:You want to talk to Xochil Cruz?
Speaker A:Yeah, at the Hotel de Salutari.
Speaker A:And what about the other two?
Speaker E:Frankfurt is going to head back to their hotel and use a laptop.
Speaker E:He can actually work and do a bit of research on this site that they're going to be heading to.
Speaker E:Potentially be heading to.
Speaker A:Absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:She's going to say, I.
Speaker B:Felix, I'd like to join you, but I think I should help Faith first.
Speaker B:Just maybe with some follow up questions to the woman downstairs.
Speaker C:Yeah, knock yourself out.
Speaker C:Come down, get a drink whenever you're done, I'll be here.
Speaker C:I give her the information of the most closest and localest place I can find.
Speaker A:So we'll start with Frankfurt.
Speaker A:You kind of prop up in.
Speaker A:In your hotel room and look into this, this spot, this Yolotul Zozo Shelley oh, God damn it.
Speaker A:Yolotal.
Speaker A:So who named this?
Speaker A:Who named this?
Speaker D:People with better mouths than Yolotal.
Speaker A:Shoshotli.
Speaker A:It's one of nearly a hundred.
Speaker A:I mean, there are so many ruins out there in.
Speaker A:In the central region of Mexico that are available to visit.
Speaker A:And the websites where these are cataloged, especially for tourist consumption, are fairly dated, so there's not too much.
Speaker A:Too much data online.
Speaker A:This is considered a small or lesser cigarette.
Speaker A:Again, the information that was in the brochure is.
Speaker A:Is repeated almost verbatim where you can find it online.
Speaker A:Consensus is that no one's really sure when it was built whether it was something very far back or perhaps even more recent, perhaps even after Europeans arrived on the continent, although there's no evidence either way.
Speaker A:There's just a lot of conjecture and vague verbiage around it, as if there's lengthy diatribes or debates going on behind the scenes somewhere.
Speaker A:All you see is the final distillation of perhaps these debates, which are a few sentences.
Speaker A:A paragraph on a website that looks like it should be on a GeoCities site.
Speaker A:You do find that on the INAH website, there is an article that recently there was a defacement vandalism at a series of cigarettes.
Speaker A:And one of those mentioned is Elotel Shoshotli.
Speaker A:There are no details.
Speaker E:Is there a list of the other sites that were vandalized?
Speaker A:Yes, Yolotul Shoshotli is one that was mentioned.
Speaker E:But I mean, am I able to get, like, a list of all the sites that were vandalized?
Speaker A:Okay, yes, you can have the list.
Speaker E:Hmm.
Speaker E:Clues.
Speaker C:I think the clue is that it doesn't matter what the other ones are.
Speaker D:Yeah, I think that's.
Speaker E:Oh, I was trying to think how I can get more info on the vandalism.
Speaker E:Was there perhaps a police.
Speaker E:Because it'd be a police report associated with it.
Speaker A:Potentially, yeah.
Speaker D:Maybe we need to call Snedgar again.
Speaker E:Starting to feel bureaucratic.
Speaker E:Feeling a little bureaucratic there.
Speaker E:Let me roll my bureaucracy and call Snedeker.
Speaker E:Yeah, let's actually give Snedegar a call.
Speaker A:Sure, give him a call.
Speaker E:Agent Snedeker.
Speaker E:Hey, it's Frankfurt.
Speaker E:I am trying to track down the potential police report on some vandalism defacement of a local.
Speaker E:Local ruin.
Speaker E:Ghost by the name of Eloto, goes by the name of.
Speaker E:Insert recording of name here.
Speaker E:That's something you could help me find out.
Speaker E:I'm trying to get a little more detail on.
Speaker E:On what the vandalism was, the nature of it, maybe some pictures.
Speaker E:If there Are any.
Speaker A:Sure.
Speaker A:Let me.
Speaker A:Let me see what I can find.
Speaker A:That was a name of a ruin that I believe your colleague mentioned.
Speaker A:But before we go any further.
Speaker A:Is everything okay?
Speaker E:Oh, yes.
Speaker E:Just.
Speaker E:Just excited to be having this active exchange of pleasantries with you, sir.
Speaker A:Again, Me as well.
Speaker E:Right.
Speaker A:Me as well.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker A:So there is a release from the Secretary of Culture on a recent act of vandalism on that particular site.
Speaker A:I'll go ahead and send that to you.
Speaker A:Do you have an encrypted account that I can go ahead and utilize?
Speaker A:Yes, he says It's PerisFert.
Speaker A:Pregnantsonic, photonmail.com ParisFert @.
Speaker C:Yeah, pregnantsonic.com do not Google themarconiefect.com unless you want to be just really, really grossed out for hours.
Speaker B:And then pregnant.
Speaker C:And then pregnant.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:You give him your ProtonMail account or whatever, and he goes ahead and sends you the following.
Speaker C:Are you gonna send it to him right now?
Speaker C:Are you actively exchanging information?
Speaker A:Information, yeah, it's been actively exchanged via Foundry.
Speaker A:If y'all wanna.
Speaker A:If somebody wants to read it or take turns or whatever works.
Speaker E:Official notice.
Speaker E:Damage alert.
Speaker E:God damn it.
Speaker E:Yo Ziggurat.
Speaker E:Dear tour guides and visitors, we regret to inform you that a recent act of vandalism has caused damage to a section of Ziggurat, an important archeological site in the valley of Oaxaca.
Speaker E:As a result, we must temporarily close off access to the affected area until further notice.
Speaker E:Reason for closure?
Speaker E:The safety and preservation of the.
Speaker E:In here.
Speaker E:So many times the things Ziggurat are of utmost importance.
Speaker E:The recent act of vandalism has compromised the structural integrity of the site.
Speaker E:Okay.
Speaker E:And we are conducting a thorough assessment to determine the extent of the damage and ensure the safety of visitors and staff.
Speaker E:Action required.
Speaker E:Tour guides and visitors are hereby instructed to avoid the cordoned off areas of the Ziggurat until further notice.
Speaker E:Please adhere to all posted signs and barricades indicating restricted access areas.
Speaker E:Report any suspicious activity or damage observed at the site to staff or local authorities immediately.
Speaker E:Next steps.
Speaker E:Archaeological experts will assess the damage and implement necessary repairs to restore the integrity of the Ziggurat.
Speaker E:Once deemed safe, access to the affected areas will be restored and regular tours will resume as scheduled.
Speaker E:Thank you for your cooperation.
Speaker E:Understanding.
Speaker E:Sincerely, Miranda Justos Ustos.
Speaker E:Probably Eustos.
Speaker E:Director of Public Affairs, Secretaria de Cultura.
Speaker B:And then John died from holding his breath for 5 million years.
Speaker C:Question.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:You mentioned Azira.
Speaker C:What was the name?
Speaker C:I missed it.
Speaker C:I missed the name.
Speaker E:Nope, you heard it.
Speaker D:Yolotal Shoshotli.
Speaker A:Nice that was perfect.
Speaker E:Can you just copy that in into yolo?
Speaker A:No, I'm going to have to come back to you later this week for you to dub all of that back over again.
Speaker A:The entire show.
Speaker E:I'm not going to do it.
Speaker E:All right, if I have to, I'll do it.
Speaker C:But I'm not going to like it.
Speaker D:Okay, I'll like it.
Speaker B:You Only Live once.
Speaker B:Kiss, hug.
Speaker B:Kiss, hug.
Speaker B:Ziggurat.
Speaker D:Close enough.
Speaker A:Let's go back to Faith and Forest.
Speaker A:You stand in front of the clerk's desk at the Hotel de Solitario.
Speaker A:And at the desk is Xochil Cruz.
Speaker A:She eyes you with continued trepidation as you approach.
Speaker D:Hello, Miss.
Speaker D:I just had a few more follow up questions for you about the tenant that you had that left a few weeks back.
Speaker D:Dante Sombra.
Speaker D:Can you give me a little information about his comings and goings before he left and under what circumstances you were aware of his leaving?
Speaker A:He stopped coming into his room, so we waited for him to check out and he did not.
Speaker A:And so we assumed he abandoned his room.
Speaker B:Did you ever notice anyone else with him?
Speaker A:She shakes her head.
Speaker B:Shakes her head yes.
Speaker A:No, she does not nod.
Speaker A:She shakes in the negative.
Speaker A:Cool.
Speaker B:Well, who did you do you happen to know, or maybe are the people around that cleaned the room up after that big mess that you mentioned?
Speaker A:The cleaning stuff.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker A:I know them, yes.
Speaker B:Are they here currently?
Speaker A:No, not right now.
Speaker D:Would we be able to speak to them?
Speaker A:I suppose they come at night.
Speaker D:At about what time?
Speaker A:Around one or two in the morning.
Speaker B:It's an interesting time for your cleaning staff to arrive.
Speaker B:Normally surround checkout times, I guess.
Speaker B:But when do they leave?
Speaker D:We're not here telling people how to run a hotel.
Speaker A:She just stares at you.
Speaker B:When does your cleaning staff typically leave?
Speaker A:She shrugs.
Speaker B:Well, thank you for cooperation.
Speaker B:I don't have any further questions.
Speaker B:What about you, Faith?
Speaker D:That's all I had.
Speaker D:Thank you.
Speaker A:She stares at you, her eyes watery.
Speaker D:Are you okay?
Speaker A:She doesn't really say anything.
Speaker D:She's humint.
Speaker A:She looks side to side.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker B:She goes.
Speaker D:I got a 50 of 54 on Humint.
Speaker A:She doesn't seem interested in his conversation.
Speaker D:Okay, cool.
Speaker D:All right.
Speaker B:Grassy ass.
Speaker E:You're boring.
Speaker D:Bye.
Speaker D:Okay, bye.
Speaker D:Thanks.
Speaker D:Bye.
Speaker D:And then we walk away.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker A:The dim halls of the Hotel del Solitario disappear behind you as you walk into the blazing bright sun of the colorful, beautiful city of Oaxaca.
Speaker A:Walking down cobblestone twisting paths back to the main road where passersby vehicles move beside you.
Speaker A:Joy and exuberance.
Speaker A:The Dreary, drab and solemn air of the hotel.
Speaker A:Forgotten in these moments.
Speaker B:I'm.
Speaker B:I'm planning on meeting up with Felix.
Speaker B:Do you want to come?
Speaker D:Oh, I suppose so.
Speaker B:May as well just have a drink and go from there.
Speaker D:How's about we do okay?
Speaker A:I gotta roll.
Speaker B:Positively not good.
Speaker B:Geez Louise.
Speaker C:Everyone in the bar, broken backs.
Speaker C:They all tried backflips.
Speaker C:None of them made it.
Speaker B:What about a conga line?
Speaker C:It's kind of like a conga line of backflips.
Speaker C:Really.
Speaker C:Or broken bodies really, if we think about it.
Speaker E:Is this the Marconi effect?
Speaker C:In full.
Speaker C:They're all pregnant as well.
Speaker C:I'm gonna point out I'm not impregnating these people.
Speaker C:Sonic is okay.
Speaker C:He's gotta go fast.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker B:It's not called the Sonic Effect.
Speaker C:Not my fault that the effect is after named after me.
Speaker C:I didn't.
Speaker C:I didn't create it.
Speaker C:You created it.
Speaker A:Actually.
Speaker C:It's your fault.
Speaker B:It's your image.
Speaker B:It's in your likeness.
Speaker B:It has to be.
Speaker A:So it's.
Speaker A:You know.
Speaker A:It's around 2 or so when you meet up with Felix and he has found a bar called El Grito Perdido.
Speaker A:Walk through a faded wooden door into what is a no frills dimly lit bar with very smoky and intimate atmosphere.
Speaker A:You look around, you can see that the walls here are adorned with old photographs framed in plastic frames.
Speaker A:Looks like maybe the city's past.
Speaker A:Sepia toned photographs and posters from long forgotten festivals.
Speaker A:You look up to see rough wooden beams supporting the ceiling.
Speaker A:There's the faint hum of traditional rancheras and you can hear the thrum of street sounds from behind you as vehicles churn past.
Speaker A:You don't see Felix yet, but you do see the crowd here as a mix of maybe older locals.
Speaker A:They seem that they know each other well.
Speaker A:Laughing, speaking of something over beers and small lowballs full of clear liquid.
Speaker A:There's a few younger Oaxacans not seated near the bar, but at high tops across the dirty floor.
Speaker C: ito Perdido and what I got is: Speaker C:Doing that scream and then losing the presidency.
Speaker C:I guess that's the Grito perdito.
Speaker D:What?
Speaker C:He screamed.
Speaker A:That's funny.
Speaker C:That made him lose.
Speaker A:It means the lost cry.
Speaker A:I mean that is why I just didn't know it had anything to do with fucking Howard Dean.
Speaker C:It doesn't.
Speaker C:It's just, I guess in Spanish, you.
Speaker A:Know, people have said that's the most famous Greedo Perdido.
Speaker C:A little throwback.
Speaker C:It's fun.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker C:Sorry.
Speaker A:You see that, Felix?
Speaker A:Now, as you walk farther into the bar, he's at the very, very farthest point of the bar away from most of the locals.
Speaker A:Seated next to a gentleman with a grizzled beard.
Speaker A:The man's smoking a cigar and drinking one of those low balls.
Speaker A:Looks like maybe he's in his 50s, maybe older.
Speaker A:But whoever he is, feeling Felix in here definitely having an in depth conversation.
Speaker D:Well, hi there, Felix.
Speaker D:How you doing?
Speaker C:Oh, well, hey.
Speaker C:Hey.
Speaker C:How are y'all doing?
Speaker C:This is my friend.
Speaker C:What was his name?
Speaker C:Did I get it?
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:So this is Don Miguel.
Speaker A:You know, he's a retired school teacher.
Speaker A:He's been talking to you about his late wife, Rosalia.
Speaker A:She passed away decades ago.
Speaker A:And as he gets deeper and deeper in his cups, his voice is quite grown softer, more pained.
Speaker A:And he was just recounting how they would walk through the narrow streets of Oaxaca, hand in hand.
Speaker A:She's always here with me, you know, just over my shoulder.
Speaker C:I know.
Speaker C:I know who that is.
Speaker C:Man.
Speaker C:I lost something.
Speaker C:Someone special in my life, too.
Speaker C:A Ms.
Speaker C:Peppermint.
Speaker C:And then he just takes a shot of his drink.
Speaker A:Was.
Speaker A:Was she very beautiful?
Speaker C:What was that?
Speaker A:Was she very beautiful?
Speaker C:I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker C:Yeah, so anyways, I've got to go to the bathroom.
Speaker C:Excuse me.
Speaker A:Don Miguel's sad, watery eyes watch as Felix leaves.
Speaker A:And then they slowly loll over to regard Yu Faith.
Speaker A:And you, Forest.
Speaker A:You are friends with that man?
Speaker A:He asks in English.
Speaker D:Oh, I mean, we're co workers, but.
Speaker C:Dang, we're good friends.
Speaker B:We're good friends.
Speaker B:He's.
Speaker B:He's a good man.
Speaker B:He's had a rough go of it.
Speaker B:So please don't mind his.
Speaker B:His abrupt departure there.
Speaker B:He's had a rough go.
Speaker A:His heart has been broken.
Speaker A:Do you know this of your friend?
Speaker D:Oh, we absolutely know.
Speaker D:Yeah, he's.
Speaker D:Yeah, like she said, ruff.
Speaker E:Go.
Speaker C:He's really broken.
Speaker C:Very.
Speaker D:Just shattered into a million pieces.
Speaker D:He's just having a rough time.
Speaker A:All he could do was speak of his beloved peppermint and his poor brother, kidnapped and kept from him by powers far greater than those that mere men like myself and yourself could hope to prove.
Speaker A:Victor over.
Speaker A:He takes a long swig out of the low ball.
Speaker D:He has.
Speaker D:He has been known to maybe get a bit hyperbolic when he's in the cup, so, you know, wouldn't take him that seriously.
Speaker A:I would move the world for a man like him to save his brother from Such evil clutches.
Speaker B:Right?
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:Absolutely.
Speaker B:His brother, you know, he.
Speaker B:He saved my life once.
Speaker B:So I.
Speaker B:If I could repay him, I would help with his brother, but we don't really know much about that.
Speaker B:Keeps it close to his heart and doesn't share that.
Speaker A:You don't even know your own friend.
Speaker A:Yet he shares such privacy with a stranger at a bar in Oaxaca.
Speaker A:He finishes the lowball, sets the empty glass down and stands up from his bar stool.
Speaker A:You should learn and know those you travel with.
Speaker A:He walks out of the bar into the blazing sunlight of Oaxaca, leaving you to your thoughts.
Speaker C:That's right.
Speaker C:Be better friends.
Speaker D:Forest flips off the back strap on his gun.
Speaker A:Felix finally returns from the restroom.
Speaker B:Felix, if I.
Speaker B:Could I have a word?
Speaker D:I think we both need to have a word.
Speaker C:All right.
Speaker B:Can you have your word first?
Speaker C:We can all have some words.
Speaker C:I haven't found anything vast around.
Speaker D:Seems like you did a lot less than asking.
Speaker D:And a lot more telling.
Speaker C:Listen, we're in Mexico.
Speaker C:I had a few drinks.
Speaker C:Get off my back.
Speaker D:It's about.
Speaker D:It's about time you call it a night.
Speaker C:What's that?
Speaker B:There's no shame?
Speaker B:No, no, there's.
Speaker B:Nobody's coming from a place of shaming or judging.
Speaker B:We just want to help.
Speaker B:Actually, I kind of was wondering what you had to drink, because I haven't picked one up yet.
Speaker B:But I do want to speak to you in regards to your sharing.
Speaker B:Can we help you find your brother?
Speaker B:What is this about your brother being kidnapped?
Speaker B:That old man said your brother was kidnapped.
Speaker B:And I feel terrible for not knowing that.
Speaker B:And how.
Speaker B:Like the extent of that.
Speaker B:Can we help in some way?
Speaker C:You're going to believe some old drunk man at a bar in just a random city?
Speaker C:Come on, let's get to work.
Speaker D:Faith gives Forest a very deep.
Speaker D:His.
Speaker D:His eyes just kind of look haunted and pained, like.
Speaker A:Yeah, like, don't go there.
Speaker D:No, Like, I think we have to do something type of glance.
Speaker A:I don't know what that means.
Speaker C:He's pulling on his collar and going.
Speaker D:To have to kill him.
Speaker B:No.
Speaker A:Oh.
Speaker A:Why do you think you have to kill him?
Speaker A:Jesus Christ.
Speaker A:What the fuck?
Speaker A:He's telling some junk about his brother.
Speaker D:He's getting sloppy as fuck is what he's.
Speaker A:You don't know anything about his brother.
Speaker A:Whether or not that has anything to do with any of your operations, I don't know why you would shoot him.
Speaker D:He's giving super identifiable information about himself to random strangers.
Speaker D:That's cool.
Speaker A:Damn.
Speaker A:You're gonna shoot a guy for that, huh?
Speaker B:No.
Speaker B:He didn't.
Speaker D:Bad offset, man.
Speaker B:No, no, because then I have to step in the way.
Speaker D:Well, then two people die needlessly.
Speaker C:Are you saying that you're gonna shoot me in front of me or what's going on here?
Speaker B:No, absolutely not.
Speaker A:So you look towards Forest with a we need to handle this problem type of face, right?
Speaker A:We'll assume the handling doesn't jump directly to execution and it means something else.
Speaker A:Okay, cool.
Speaker A:That's what happens for us.
Speaker A:You see this glance, like, we gotta do something about this guy.
Speaker A:What do you do?
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:Faith, if you don't mind, I'd like to have.
Speaker B:I'd like to just hang out here and talk to Felix before we move on with the work.
Speaker E:Sure.
Speaker D:Great.
Speaker B:You don't mind Felix.
Speaker D:And Faith just throws down like a 20 on me.
Speaker B:Thanks, bud.
Speaker B:Felix, another round on Faith.
Speaker C:Yeah, if he wants to pay for my drinks, I'll drink them.
Speaker A:The bartender brings you both, either cervezas or tequila.
Speaker A:Your choice.
Speaker C:Tequila, please.
Speaker A:You now have your libations.
Speaker B:Bennett grimaces at the thought of tequila, but she follows in Felix's steps to drink with him.
Speaker B:Do you know any good?
Speaker B:Cheers.
Speaker B:Is this appropriate?
Speaker B:Can we do that?
Speaker B:Yeah, I have one.
Speaker B:I have one, actually.
Speaker B:All right, well, it's a toast to you.
Speaker B:Thank you for saving my life.
Speaker B:Now, please, let me do the same for you.
Speaker B:And she kind of clinks her shot glass down to the table before putting it up to her mouth.
Speaker C:Felix, volume.
Speaker C:Take a shot.
Speaker C:Look down at his empty glass.
Speaker C:I ain't done nothing.
Speaker C:Nothing important.
Speaker C:But I was just telling those guys that.
Speaker C:That man stories, so he start talking, that's all.
Speaker C:What does that have to do with saving my life?
Speaker C:Well, is my life in trouble here?
Speaker B:It's not that necessarily.
Speaker B:No, I don't.
Speaker B:I certainly don't think so.
Speaker B:I would hope not.
Speaker B:But mentally, emotionally speaking, whatever.
Speaker B:Whatever you have going on that you're not sharing, which I understand, but you saved my life.
Speaker B:I'm gonna remind you of that every chance that I get because it matters, it's important, and you can share stuff with me.
Speaker B:So let me help you.
Speaker B:And I will keep that to myself if you'll trust me with that.
Speaker C:I appreciate it.
Speaker C:Thank you.
Speaker C:And, you know, if you ever need to talk too, I'm here, I guess.
Speaker C:Still not sure what.
Speaker C:What this is about, but, you know, cheers.
Speaker B:Cheers.
Speaker B:Forest doesn't press Felix any further.
Speaker A:Y'all go ahead and stay at the bar for a while longer and speak of mundane things, much like you do when you sometimes get a chance to speak over the phone.
Speaker A:The hours pass by till you're ready to rejoin the others.
