Eternal Lies 21: Ash and Vinyl

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Daniel's Dread Tales is a show
for grown-ups.

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It may contain adult language
and adult themes.

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warnings.
Last time on Eternal Lies, our

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investigators returned to New
York after their costly success

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in Ethiopia, meeting with their
new ally, the alienist Dr.

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Donovan Smalls.
Finishing up their business in

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the city that never sleeps, they
go on to their next destination,

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the capital of Mexico, Mexico
City.

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In search of Luz Discos, a
record company with ties to the

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cult, they find the abandoned
location, a mysterious watcher

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from afar, and a recording
studio that had been used by Luz

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Discos.
Entering the studio, they

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encounter a man afraid for his
life and willing to hear them

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out when they promise that they
don't want the world to end.

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The die is cast, the pact is
sealed, and May God have mercy

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on our souls.
It's Daniel's true tales, just.

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Make sure you guys are rubbing.
We were eating tacos.

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You did have tacos, that is
true.

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Oh, right, there was Guy.
He didn't want the world to end

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either.
Yeah, because we went to Mexico

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City to investigate a records
location and turns out the place

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had been abandoned for actually
a fair amount of time.

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So the guy who didn't want the
world to end, we found him at

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the recording studio that they
used.

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A Studio de la Manana.
Yeah, that's the one the.

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Studio of the future.
Exactamente.

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All right then, we're in it.
There is a scared looking man

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who is holding a gun at his
side, not pointing it at you.

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This man, as you're looking at
him, he's definitely been

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sleeping in this studio.
Like for a while.

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You're getting that vibe.
He also maybe hasn't showered in

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a bit either.
Kind.

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Of weird for a recording studio
to have a shower, so that checks

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out, yeah.
I mean, it checks out, but we

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don't have to like it.
Yeah, what do you say to this

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gentleman?
Hello.

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We did start talking to him last
time, but I don't remember the.

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Well, I said we met earlier but
he wouldn't remember and

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everybody kind of freaked out a
little when I said that.

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Yeah, 'cause that was a.
Yeah, So what happened was first

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we broke in, found him sleeping,
looked around, went out, Colin

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picked the lock closed, and then
we knocked as if nothing

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happened.
And paradoxically, it was

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Kearns's idea.
Yep.

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And I guess now we'll just ask
about what that record company

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had done.
Here, Luz Discus, the guy leads

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you inside.
He introduces himself as Victor

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Cortez.
He actually hands you a business

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card, says in Spanish, but it
says Victor Cortez and it says

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Estudio Manana.
Oh, did you make a prop for that

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or no?
I actually have a whole thing of

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props that I would have printed
out when I imagined that this

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would be a game I played in
Perch than a million years ago,

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but I'll spare you that for now.
And he says come inside, come

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inside and close the door and
lock it.

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I do that.
OK, Yeah, we do that, Yeah.

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Also, he's speaking Spanish,
right?

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He is speaking Spanish, yes.
OK, I'm I'm getting all this

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second hand then.
I speak Spanish and Colin speaks

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Spanish, right?
Yes.

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OK, so we have questions.
What's up with Blues discos?

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Who is Leticia de la Luz and
what have they been doing at

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Studio Del Manana?
Have you seen a mouth yet?

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And who is Mr. Connell of that
you mentioned there?

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That's a lot of questions.
You see that this man is very

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sort of nervous.
He also, maybe to calm himself

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down, is handing his business
card to each one of you.

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Oh, thank you very much.
Luz Discos, they're run by

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Jonathan Brooks.
He he came to be about recording

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records, music that his wife
sings.

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Leticia de la Luz.
This was 1933 and we made the

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first record in 1934.
They their their office is just

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down the street if you don't
know where it is.

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Jonathan Brooks.
Yep.

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Jonathan Brooks.
Yeah, he's he's the man in

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charge of loose discos.
Well, I think I think his wife

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might be in charge now.
I look at my companions like it

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translate this and I know
weren't we looking for AJB he's.

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Right here.
The other one.

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Oh yeah, that's Jonathan Brooks
that.

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Makes sense?
It it Why are you I?

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Why?
Why do you ask?

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I, I, I know you said you don't
work for Kalanalov, but the you

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don't.
He said that there was somebody

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coming after him.
Are you them?

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Possibly we're out to stop the
mouth cult.

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It's taken a couple friends.
It'll probably kill us by the

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end of this.
The drips nectar.

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It's a weird drug.
Ringing any bells?

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I don't know anything about
that.

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Well, Novo, Jorge Novo, he, he
manufactured all the records for

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Brooks a little over a month
ago.

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Novo wouldn't do any more work
on the new album, like I said of

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the tracks over and he he
wouldn't press them.

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He thought the record was evil
and unwholesome.

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Jorge Novo, hey.
Yeah, you're not going to be

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able to find him.
How come?

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Brooke sent some people over to
tell him forcefully to make the

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record and what he didn't is
manufacturing facility burned

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down the next day with him in
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Yeah, what an unfortunate turn
of events.

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Yeah, it's somewhere to the east
of here.

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I don't remember the exact
address, I think it was in the

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papers.
But once, once Novo's factory

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burned down, a bunch of men with
Konalov who these Brooks's

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bodyguard or or muscle or
mercenary.

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Something came to my door and
started pounding.

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And then I stuck out the back so
they couldn't find me.

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And I came here and locked the
door 'cause it's more secure.

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There's only the the one door in
and there's not a lot of windows

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or anything 'cause we had to
keep the sound in.

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They'd still probably have burnt
this place down if they weren't.

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I don't know, maybe they want to
record something here

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eventually.
I don't know what they're doing,

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but they're violent people.
Is that all they want with you,

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Senor Cortez?
Just to record here.

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All I do is record, OK?
All I do is record.

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They I, I brought in some of the
guys I know to, to do the

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background tracks.
His wife came in, did the

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singing.
Leticia de la Luz.

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I mean, I used to know what she
was Rosario Maria Lopez.

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But like it's that's that's all
I know.

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S S Honesty.
He's worried and nervous.

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He's not lying to you.
If you're trying to find out if

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he knows more about some
horrible cult, he doesn't.

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You probably ask him more about
some of these people that he's

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talking about.
But like he is not lying to you,

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this man.
I was curious about why this

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woman, the singer, she changed
her name completely.

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Not just taking somebody else's
last name, but like completely

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changed her name.
What's her story?

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Stage names, I guess.
I don't know she she's a nice

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girl.
Or she was.

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I met her back at 32.
She was just singing at the

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local clubs.
I think she's the one who

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actually sent Brooks here.
I should thank her for that.

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I first met Brooks at her
apartment.

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I haven't seen her in a while,
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She's, she thinks she's all hot
now.

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She's wearing like a veil and
sunglasses.

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And I don't know, I feel like I
don't like what she's become now

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that she's been with Brooks.
He's like isolating her, keeping

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her from all of her friends.
Nobody sees her anymore.

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The last time we recorded, she
didn't even come into the

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studio.
He recorded her somewhere else

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and then brought the tracks in
and had the studio musicians

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play to the tracks that she
recorded somewhere else.

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Strange.
Yeah, everything about that is a

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red flag, but because of the
genre of story we're in, it

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could go in a few different
directions.

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Renee is kind of thinking that
there might be a mouth on her

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and that's why she's hiding.
I wouldn't be shocked.

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Well, maybe she is a mouth.
Maybe like one of her eyeballs

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is a mouth or something.
Maybe it's just boilerplate

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domestic abuse.
Wouldn't that be A twist?

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Could also just be boilerplate
domestic abuse.

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Yeah, it.
Could, yeah.

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That is definitely what this guy
thinks is going on.

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Yeah, he thinks it's probably
domestic abuse.

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And I can't blame him for
thinking that, because if we

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weren't in a Lovecraftian story,
that's probably what I'd think

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too.
Yeah, this, this guy doesn't

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know he is in a Lovecraftian
story.

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Yeah.
Yeah.

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Oh well, cut to 10 minutes from
now and I've explained it all to

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him.
No, no, no, no, no, no.

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No, if you really do, all that
does is panic him more.

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Please don't.
Yeah, please don't not do that.

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Let's let's do the opposite of
that.

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OK.
I figure we should visit the

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place to burn down and also
Senor Cortez, if you know any of

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these people's addresses, that
would be greatly appreciated.

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I, like I said, I I went to
Rosario or Latisha's apartment.

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It's somewhere on the West side
of Koyukan.

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This is more than a year ago.
I don't, I don't remember the

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address, but oh, I have a
matchbook.

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I have a matchbook where she
wrote down her address on it.

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I kept it.
I keep sentimental things like

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that.
You know, you never know when

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somebody's going to be a star.
So I try to hold on to stuff

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like that.
I think it's in my above my

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fireplace.
There's a whole collection of

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like matchbooks and stuff there.
Yeah, it's in my apartment.

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Oh, where's that?
Oh, I'll give you the address.

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He he writes it out for you.
Give.

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Me the keys too go in.
There though keys go there.

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And I'm over, old man.
Yeah, I guess so did you?

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Did you say she used to be
Rosario?

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Her name was Rosario Maria
Lopez.

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Maria Lopez, OK.
But she changed her name to

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Leticia de la Luz of the Light.
It's de la Luz, I guess you

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could find it there, but I'm not
going back to that apartment.

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They know where I live.
Presumably they also know where

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you work too, so I don't know
why you think this is safer.

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Just I need the equipment.
Here it's a big heavy door.

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Less windows, more public.
Well, the way things go for us,

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give it a week and they'll be
cleared out of town one way or

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another.
Yeah, like we said, we don't

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want the world to end, so we're
going to have to take care of

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them.
I just, I, I don't think the

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world's going to end.
But that's what Novo was telling

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me before he died, that this was
going to end the world somehow.

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I don't, I don't know what that
meant.

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These are bad people.
I, I know they do.

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They do drugs.
Novo had any close friends,

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relatives, somebody else in the
business with him.

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I just do him professionally.
He ran the shop.

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I think he had a couple people
who worked for him, but the

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shop's gone.
And so are the people,

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presumably OK?
I know he is the only other

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people that might know about
this.

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There's the musicians that that
we had do the the background

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tracks, Javier Luna, ESU son,
Riendo Tontos, which is Javier

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Luna and his grinning fools.
Hell of a name.

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It's going to be Hector, Pedro,
Hernando and Javier Luna.

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They do most of the songs.
They were getting good money,

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but they haven't been recording
here anymore.

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I don't know where they are.
I mean, I know that they go

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around the club circuit trying
to find the big break, so.

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And they heard this record that
caused Jorge so much trouble,

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right?
They're on the record, they're

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part of the record, they're the
background music.

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So they probably did hear it
then.

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I suppose, yeah.
Well, JPI, guess it's time to go

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clubbing.
I did I I I'm sorry, just one

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more thing before you go.
We said he would following you.

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Who?
Who even are you?

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You're looking for?
For Mr. Brooks, he said that

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there were people in Los Angeles
that were looking for him, that

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were coming for him.
Are you those people?

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That hard to say.
Could be us, it could also not

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be us.
What does that mean?

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It means you didn't see us, and
even if you did, you didn't.

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OK, OK.
But did anyone see you?

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Did anybody see anybody
following us?

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Not that I'm aware of.
I I think somebody saw smalls

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outside.
And me, they they ran away when

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I waved at them.
OK, he has eyes throughout a lot

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of the city.
It's not like he runs the city

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or anything.
You know, I, he's, he's very

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cautious.
I'd always tries to hide from

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the police.
But there's he has a lot of

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friends.
Yeah, we're not so worried about

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eyes.
It's mouths that are causing us

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worry.
Why do you keep talking about

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mouths?
I don't like that.

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Oh, that's fair.
Well, see there's. 10 minutes

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later.
She sang about mouths.

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Don't mind him, he's.
I'm harmless.

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I can't roll well enough to be
harmful.

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He's a joker like that.
Well, you should get out of

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here, and if you're coming for
Mr. Brooks, you should either

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come correct or just get out of
the city.

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Should take a spa day first.
No, we're doing clubbing

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currents, boots and cats and so
forth.

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All right.
Yes, yes, we've covered the

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recreational drugs part.
Yeah, he's sort of bouncing his

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legs up and down sort of
nervously as he's sitting.

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Unless anybody else have
questions, let's leave the

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anxious man alone.
All right, and if you have any

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reason just use this dynamite.
Oh my God.

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Don't hand him.
I don't want this.

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I don't want this.
I'm sure canonically we actually

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used the rest of it up back in
Ethiopia, so.

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Yeah, you don't have any
dynamite left.

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You've used it.
All I give him a cigarillo

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instead.
Thank you.

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Here for your trouble.
He sort of gestures to the door.

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It sort of peeks his head out,
but when he opens the door he is

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holding the shotgun and is
looking out frantically into the

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shadows.
But you see out there.

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Nothing.
Oh, OK.

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But you never know.
You never know.

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All right, Get get out of here.
It was nice to meet you.

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I guess.
I don't know.

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I mean, I don't know any close
to the door.

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OK.
Goodbye.

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Oh, that poor wretched man.
What time is it?

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It is like. 3:00 AM.
Oh, that place is going to be

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burned down within like a week.
Yeah.

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Oh yeah.
Likely, yes.

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Very likely, yeah.
Maybe we should fake his death.

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Colin somehow has a Molotov.
My man, come on.

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Where did?
You get that you're racking up

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your cartoon characterness
tonight.

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Speaking of tonight, as I
mentioned, it is 3:00 AM.

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You guys are sleepy now.
You could choose to keep

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investigating, though.
There's not a lot of people that

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would be awake at this point,
which I suppose has its

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advantages, but I think those
advantages might be offset by

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your drowsiness. 3:00 AM.
That's crime clubbing time.

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Oh, a lot of clubs, I don't
think you would be able to find

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them just by going to random
clubs.

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Fair enough.
Yeah.

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Yeah, I I vote.
I vote sleep.

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I vote.
We go to the hotel.

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Yeah, let's sleep.
Our palatial lodgings.

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Oh.
Yeah, we're in a nice place,

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aren't we?
Yeah.

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Yeah, you're in one of the
mansion hotels.

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Sweet.
Now it's about 4:00 AM when you

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make it back.
How big is the city?

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It's a big city.
It's one of the biggest cities

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in the world.
It's currently the most populous

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city in North America.
Wow.

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Interestingly, as in when the
games.

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Oh, I'm sorry, no.
In in 2025, it is the most

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populous city in North America.
Yeah.

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I didn't know that.
Yeah, yeah, it's a big fucking

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city.
Cool.

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What does each one of you do in
the hotel?

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What's something that you get up
to as you're getting ready to go

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to bed?
What do we have for amenities at

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the hotels or in the hotel
rooms?

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You've got running water shower,
Is that what you're looking for?

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No, I'm wondering if there's a
mini bar or something.

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There's not a mini bar, there's
a hotel bar.

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There you go.
If you want to get a drink

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before you go to bed.
Colin's sticking with water for

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now.
OK, gotcha.

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Where do you go, JB?
JB's plan was to go to his room.

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Kearns, I think, watches you go
to your room.

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I'm going to head to mind
change, you know, have a smoke,

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think for a bit.
And Kearns needs to talk to JB

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like, 'cause like I said, I'm
not ashamed of what happened.

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I'm more confused as to why JB
is ashamed.

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I wonder if whether it was me
that did something wrong.

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So I go to your room just to
check on your well-being.

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You knock and JB opens the door.
It's like, hey, currents, hey,

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hi.
Hey, Mr. Falk, may I come in?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Come in.

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I just, I just wanted to see how
you were because I mean correct

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me if I'm wrong but it feels
like you have trouble accepting

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things or maybe accepting
yourself for doing those things.

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I appreciate the concern, but I
am not ashamed of who I am.

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That's something I've always
known about myself and always

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liked about myself too.
I suppose I should apologize if

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I've come off as cold or
avoidant since then.

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It's it's not.
I have a problem in Malta.

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I was kidnapped briefly.
You probably heard about that.

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Yes, I remember, I remember
that.

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Yeah, it was kind of lost in the
commotion of it because

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immediately after I was rescued,
Kay, OK.

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But before that happened, I was
drugged.

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They poured nectar down my
throat, a huge amount of it.

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I don't remember what happened.
I but I've been having some

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trouble kicking the habit and
and when I take it I feel.

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I wish you and I had a chance to
spend time together under better

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circumstances, because I don't
know what would have happened,

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if anything would have happened
between us, if I hadn't.

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If I wasn't, I'm sorry.
This is not your fault.

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There, there is a there is a
weird smile on my face right

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now.
And I go, this is almost funny

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00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:48,640
in a way.
And I reach into my pocket and I

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produce a pill bottle and it
says morphine on it.

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Are you?
Oh God.

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Damn it.
I I haven't been dealing very

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well myself either.
I'm I killed a lot of people

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back there, and while I've
always known since I was a boy

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that I loved all of God's
children equally, that's

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something we have in common
right now.

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00:21:29,360 --> 00:21:32,960
I'm not even sure if God is up
there and listening.

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00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:39,880
I'm a bit lost, so I sympathize.
Would you?

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Would you be willing to stay?
Yes, I don't want to be alone

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either.
Smalls, what are you doing?

367
00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:50,160
Yeah, what's up with the?
Smalls.

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Dr. Smalls is going to go back
to their room and compile the

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notes that they'd taken over the
day before bed, specifically

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organizing them into notes about
the group and notes about the

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case, because he's now going to
write two different books.

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And make millions off of them.
At least that's what he thinks.

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If JB knew that you were also
writing a book about the case,

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he I think he would kill you.
His book about the case is more

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just like a book about cults,
like more of a like clinical,

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less of a book and more of like
medical journal type thing

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specifically about like cults
and the people who join them.

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And then the other book is
people who hunt cults and the

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issues they have.
Not imaginative fiction have

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truth, have fiction kind of
deal.

381
00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:03,560
No, yeah, nothing specifically
about the case.

382
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There will be no lawsuits today.
Yeah, there's, there's no

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competition here. 2 completely
different demographics of

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readers.
Well, there might be like a bit

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of a Venn diagram there, but you
know, there's room for both.

386
00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:22,240
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh boy.

387
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What if someone correlates the
dissociated pieces of

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information?
Oh, that could never happen.

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That wouldn't cause any sort of
problem.

390
00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:32,800
Yeah, you're right.
Anyway, Colin's doing karaoke.

391
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What you singing at?
The at the bar.

392
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Yep, badly.
Is karaoke a thing?

393
00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:43,120
Probably.
Karaoke's not even really a

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thing in Japan yet.
It's definitely not a thing over

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here.
Yeah, which makes it even more

396
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embarrassing for Colin.
Oh, so you just burst out into

397
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song while everybody else just
stares at you hatefully.

398
00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:58,840
Yes.
Yeah, that's in character.

399
00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:03,480
Karaoke was introduced to
America in in 1982, so.

400
00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,840
Wow, my God.
That is so much more recent than

401
00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:07,960
I expected.
Mm hmm.

402
00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:11,800
So yeah, you're like decades I.
Mean the karaoke machine wasn't

403
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:13,480
invented until the 70s.
So.

404
00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:18,240
Like, yeah, but you don't need a
karaoke machine to do karaoke.

405
00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:21,680
No, there's there's probably
somebody playing piano right?

406
00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:24,160
Or or.
Yeah, then then it's not

407
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:26,560
karaoke.
If you're syncing with a band

408
00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:29,600
like the karaoke is is very
specific.

409
00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:31,240
Yeah, they call that open mic
night.

410
00:24:32,120 --> 00:24:33,240
Yeah.
There you.

411
00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:36,680
Go now What's the deal with
airplane food?

412
00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:43,040
Have you ever had your fuel line
cut?

413
00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:46,840
What's the deal with that?
You're flying around the world

414
00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:49,600
on your private plane.
You like movies about

415
00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:53,320
gladiators?
All right, movies are a thing.

416
00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:57,640
We could go see a fucking movie.
You could go see a movie.

417
00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:00,920
That's true.
You could listen to records.

418
00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:04,480
I wonder if you guys all have,
like, songs that you like.

419
00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:07,560
Are you big Cole Porter fans?
Like, I don't.

420
00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:10,360
I don't know.
Colin is into Dick Tracy.

421
00:25:10,360 --> 00:25:13,120
That's the only thing from this
era that anyone is a fan of.

422
00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:16,320
OK.
Kearns is probably into swing.

423
00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:19,320
I think Smalls is a classical
music fan.

424
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:25,560
That does not.
Surprise JJBS about the Blues,

425
00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:27,040
Yeah.
Nice.

426
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:31,440
Anyway, morning comes, unless
Colin wants to keep saying I

427
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:33,760
don't know, I.
Think he gets all that off stage

428
00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:34,800
pretty quick.
You hang.

429
00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:38,000
By the way, I'm just gonna note,
note real quick.

430
00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:40,640
You're probably hanging out with
a lot of black people at this

431
00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,640
point in history if you are
listening to Blues music.

432
00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:45,520
But that's cool.
Yeah, that makes sense.

433
00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:48,200
Yeah, Yeah.
I'm not saying there's, I'm to

434
00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:51,280
be clear, I'm not saying you
shouldn't be doing that or

435
00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:56,200
anything, but that is just.
I mean.

436
00:25:57,280 --> 00:26:01,680
Yeah, J BS like a pretty A key
part of being a writer is open

437
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:03,840
mindedness, right so.
Yeah.

438
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:07,240
You know, it started learning,
it started with learning about

439
00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:11,520
different cultures and ended up
with like getting really into

440
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:16,320
Blues, among other things.
Yeah, it's gonna get a lot

441
00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:20,320
bigger after World War 2, but
regardless, we wake up the next

442
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:22,520
day.
When do you guys all wake up?

443
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:24,880
Or just what if you never sleep?
Like what's going on?

444
00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:27,920
JB, are you a big spoon or a
little spoon?

445
00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:31,920
Little spoon.
That makes sense. 100%.

446
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:36,920
I kind of pictured myself as
like kind of taller than you

447
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:40,720
beef here.
I just have it on good

448
00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:43,400
authority.
This is just my personal

449
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:46,240
opinion, but I'm pretty sure
everybody prefers to be the

450
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:50,000
little spoon, right?
Oh, no question.

451
00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:54,360
Absolutely.
What you you don't like it when

452
00:26:54,360 --> 00:26:58,080
I big spoon you?
Too much information with the

453
00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:02,880
bug guest.
This is pretty good for you

454
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:05,520
this.
Out of the Patreon cut too.

455
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:12,480
Anyway, anyway, they're they're.
Talking about cuddling, not

456
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:22,240
pegging.
Yeah, you could probably go get

457
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:27,720
some breakfast or lunch,
depending on when you wake up.

458
00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:30,880
Just get some eggs, you know,
something like that, some chili,

459
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:34,360
you know, stuff like that.
Unfortunately, the breakfast

460
00:27:34,360 --> 00:27:37,000
burrito not really a thing yet.
Oh.

461
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:40,720
Damn Cuevas rancheros though.
Yeah, absolutely.

462
00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:42,440
Yeah.
Oh, there you go, those are

463
00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:44,640
good.
And you could sort of plan out

464
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:46,720
your day.
This is sort of what we did back

465
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:50,240
when we were in Malta.
Yeah, the the boarding, the

466
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:52,800
boarding planning session.
The morning meeting, yeah.

467
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:54,080
Breakfast.
Yeah.

468
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:57,920
Reconvenes.
Some semblance of normalcy.

469
00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:01,040
Everyone loves a schedule.
Yeah, it's true.

470
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:03,840
When you're going to get food,
you see there's a small stone

471
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:07,360
Plaza off the street and two
groups of young boys are plants

472
00:28:07,360 --> 00:28:09,040
of football with each other.
Yeah.

473
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:12,840
Or I guess you Americans would
call it soccer.

474
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:16,040
There you go.
We would, but I think we're

475
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:19,880
wrong.
Yeah, but yeah, the ball rolls

476
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:23,760
towards one of you.
I boot it OK, I'm trying to toss

477
00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:25,280
it back to him, but it's through
traffic.

478
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:27,360
It hits a car, it bounces off
into who knows where.

479
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:30,000
Oh boy.
God God damn it.

480
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:34,160
I just have bad luck.
The kids, you do have bad luck.

481
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:36,120
Canonically, that is canonically
true.

482
00:28:36,120 --> 00:28:38,960
It's true, the kid does swear at
you and run after the ball.

483
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:40,000
Oh.
Jeez.

484
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:43,280
Rightfully, I think.
I was going to go and retrieve

485
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:45,480
that for them.
That's what I was trying to do.

486
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:48,280
No, after it bounced off to
wherever.

487
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:52,680
So where to gang?
Presumably we're at breakfast

488
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:55,120
while we're discussing this.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

489
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:56,720
Yeah, yeah.
I.

490
00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:04,040
I have my questions about a
couple of things that Mister

491
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:10,320
Cortez told us last night, that
Jorge Novo fellow, what are the

492
00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:15,520
chances that he may have faked
his own death if this Jonathan

493
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:19,840
Brooks is as dangerous as Mr.
Cortez was?

494
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:22,280
Saying, well, I think that's
easy enough to find out.

495
00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:24,960
We just find one of the people
who worked with him and squeeze

496
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:26,520
him a bit.
He used to have a guy through

497
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:30,080
this but I don't know how good
are you at squeezing smalls.

498
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:38,680
I can hold my own in a tussle,
but I prefer less physical

499
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:40,760
altercation.
All right, We'll put that on the

500
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:45,120
back burner, I mean.
You don't quite know where that

501
00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:47,520
is.
Like you could go to libraries

502
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:49,720
and try to like find that
information but.

503
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:54,040
Hang on one SEC.
There are different approaches.

504
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:55,920
Have their own merit.
Yeah.

505
00:29:56,160 --> 00:30:01,000
Interrogation is more than just
squeezing, although, and Kearns

506
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:06,200
flexes his arms and you can hear
the seams groaning, straining.

507
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:10,920
Kearns Plants by John Cena, OH.
Shit, JP says under his breath.

508
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:15,840
If it comes right down to it,
Kearns can always muscle for us.

509
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:21,480
I really think Kearns can, yes.
JP knock a glass of water too

510
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:25,200
early in the morning for this.
Any other ideas gang?

511
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:27,360
Well, we're gonna go clubbing
later.

512
00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:30,640
It's a little early for that.
Yeah, we can look for the

513
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:36,640
posters at least see where those
heavier Luna and the Fools are

514
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:39,080
performing.
You could try to find that out,

515
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:41,760
yeah.
Yeah, it's not a bad idea.

516
00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:45,600
Now that we have a lot more
names and people of interest

517
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:49,920
going into this than we did
before, maybe we should split up

518
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:54,560
from now.
I don't laugh like that, Dan.

519
00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:59,920
I do want to note one thing
because I know this is at our

520
00:30:59,920 --> 00:31:01,360
last recording.
I don't want you forget it.

521
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:03,520
You do have two broken halves of
a record.

522
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,680
Yes, yes, that is.
I don't know if there's anything

523
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:08,840
you could do with that, but just
a comment to make sure you

524
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:11,240
haven't forgotten that.
But yeah, you could definitely

525
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:14,400
try to figure out what's going
on with these musicians.

526
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:18,040
Try to figure out, you know,
what's going on with this

527
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:21,640
manufacturer of the record.
Go to a record repair store.

528
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:26,640
That someone with library use
and someone who speaks Spanish,

529
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:31,200
or ideally someone with library
use who speaks Spanish, could

530
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:34,560
hit a library and try and figure
out what we can about the

531
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:38,000
persons of interests and the
companies of interest that we've

532
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,720
heard about now.
But I don't know.

533
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:43,200
I don't speak Spanish, but I
have library use.

534
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:46,920
Yeah, I was about to say I have
one of those two requirements

535
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:48,920
and it's not the language
requirement.

536
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:53,160
Yeah.
Oh boy, do the people who speak

537
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:56,120
Spanish not have library use
because things are about to

538
00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:57,800
become a lot more difficult for
you all.

539
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:00,120
Do I look like I have library
use?

540
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:03,040
I have a point.
Colin, you said you have a

541
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:04,760
point.
I do.

542
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,080
Hey, that counts.
Yay.

543
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:11,320
So yeah, how do we want to split
this up?

544
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:15,400
Who wants to go where?
Well, I should be going to a

545
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:16,880
librarian who wants to come with
me.

546
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:19,200
I don't think anyone should
travel alone so.

547
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:21,920
Buddy system.
Yeah, buddy system, I'll go with

548
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:23,240
you.
Very well.

549
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:26,280
I will go with you, Kearns.
For sure are.

550
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:28,280
You going to just ask around
about the band?

551
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:32,080
Well, let's see, we can go to
Cortez's apartment.

552
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:34,640
Yeah.
And yeah, we can ask around

553
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:36,760
about the band.
All right, here's his keys.

554
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:39,040
You do have the.
Key, right?

555
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:40,840
We do have the keys.
Thank you very much.

556
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:43,360
We took those.
Yeah, he took.

557
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:45,400
By the way, he didn't give you
all of his keys.

558
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:48,440
He kept the key to the studio.
That makes sense.

559
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:51,760
That makes sense.
He just gave you his house key.

560
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,760
Yeah, I'm not as handy with a
lock pick as you are, Mr. Kane,

561
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:57,120
so thank you.
Hey everyone, I'll get you back

562
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,680
to the show in just a second.
Just popping in to say we have a

563
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:01,760
Patreon.
The plan is to keep all our real

564
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:03,800
content free, but with the
Patreon you'll have access to

565
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,200
the things that are easier to
miss in an audio format, along

566
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,560
with a couple extras like the
Super mid music I make for the

567
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:11,480
show, scans of Renee paintings,
and an episode or two that never

568
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:13,640
made it to air.
We didn't get into this to make

569
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:15,640
money, but if we could hire an
editor, the rest of the cast

570
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:17,560
would have no choice but to
release me from the terrifying

571
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:19,560
editing dimension that
constantly shifts and turtles

572
00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:21,240
one with my feet.
When water comes, it smells

573
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:23,000
wrong and I haven't seen my
family in weeks.

574
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:25,080
Once when I was sleeping,
something grabbed me and threw

575
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:27,720
me across the room, but when I
opened my eyes there was nothing

576
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:30,800
there except the computer and a
pile of strange, coarse meat

577
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:32,240
sustained me for another few
days.

578
00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:35,280
And the echoes and whispers are
pain to remove from my track.

579
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:37,520
You can find it at
patreon.com/dread Tails.

580
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:43,960
Would those kids know anything
about a studio that burned down?

581
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:45,320
Maybe.
Probably not.

582
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:49,200
It's not around here.
I just have like an inkling that

583
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:52,000
they might have seen something
St. kids, right?

584
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:54,280
Some of them are St. kids, some
of them are just, you know,

585
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:57,040
people live around here.
Yeah, to be fair, we don't

586
00:33:57,040 --> 00:34:00,160
actually know of any.
Like if any of them are homeless

587
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:02,400
or if they're just playing away
from their parents.

588
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:06,200
Yeah, every kids a street kid
when they're in the street

589
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,440
playing.
I guess.

590
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:12,880
I think maybe it's worth trying
to play football with them, OK?

591
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:19,159
All right, go for it.
Kick their asses, make them rue

592
00:34:19,159 --> 00:34:26,120
the day.
I have kids, you know.

593
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:29,719
What?
Wait another time.

594
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:32,800
JB is going to be a mom.
Another time anyway.

595
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:35,639
Kearns, if you have kids, I
should have.

596
00:34:35,639 --> 00:34:37,159
Well, OK, we got to talk about
this later.

597
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:41,040
It could also be that Kearns is
fucking with me.

598
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:47,199
Yes, Kearns, I need you to make
a difficulty to athletics check.

599
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:51,199
I'm going to spend the point.
You easily keep up with the

600
00:34:51,199 --> 00:34:54,400
kids.
You can destroy them if you

601
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:57,200
would like, or you could just
sort of play, yeah.

602
00:34:57,240 --> 00:35:01,960
No, I'm not going to destroy
them, OK, Because Renee has

603
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:05,600
played with young kids, right?
Like on the playground.

604
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:10,560
And while they have more energy,
I have better, you know, hand

605
00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:12,760
eye coordination.
I'm also a decent runner.

606
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:15,920
So like it's.
Yeah, if you're good, yeah.

607
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:19,400
I can make it interesting.
The kids are having fun with

608
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:21,000
you.
You could ask the kids some

609
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,120
stuff.
The thing is, you're going to

610
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:24,600
take a little while playing with
them.

611
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:27,600
I think the library team might
need to go while you're playing

612
00:35:27,720 --> 00:35:31,000
soccer with these kids.
I figured we might.

613
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:33,480
Yeah.
Well, Smalls.

614
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:35,280
I don't know what smalls is
getting up to but.

615
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:37,520
Smalls is just kind of watching
from the side.

616
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:42,760
Yeah, get get a coffee, Yeah.
Yeah, as the kids sort of wind

617
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:44,880
down or whatever, you know, it's
like, hey, thanks.

618
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:47,560
Thanks, Mr. You're pretty good.
Where are you from?

619
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:49,560
What's your name stuff like?
You know what happens?

620
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:52,440
They, like I said, kids have a
lot of energy.

621
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:55,240
So it's actually Karns who's
like who?

622
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:57,840
I'm going to put my hands on my
knees, like, bend over.

623
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:02,320
Like who?
You guys got me winded.

624
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:05,440
Good game.
OK, OK.

625
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:06,960
I don't know why you want to
stop.

626
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:08,000
We can keep going.
Come on.

627
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:08,760
Come on.
Oh.

628
00:36:09,720 --> 00:36:12,560
Kids.
No, I'm flattered, thank you.

629
00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:16,920
But I'm I'm an old man.
OK, OK, gringo.

630
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:22,920
Yeah, so fuck, how, how do I ask
if they've seen anything

631
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:26,680
suspicious around here?
I don't know this is your idea.

632
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:30,640
Fact.
You do have conversational

633
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:33,880
skills I guess, or you could
just ask, but I don't know how

634
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:36,000
useful that would be.
I'm gonna just streetwise, I

635
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:37,840
think.
Oh, OK.

636
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:40,480
So you want to know like what's
going on?

637
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:42,400
Yeah.
OK.

638
00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:46,160
Yeah, I get chatting like, yeah,
I'm, I'm from Tennessee, blah,

639
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:49,840
blah blah, you know?
OK, what are the kids?

640
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:51,520
What are the older kids?
He says.

641
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:55,520
Mr. You looking for?
You're you're a tourist.

642
00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:59,440
You're looking for fun time.
What kind of fun we're talking

643
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:03,600
about?
There are some gorilla fiestas

644
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:07,320
that pop up around town.
Find one of those.

645
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:10,720
They could get you what you need
to have a good time.

646
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:14,800
Oh, I I could tell you where
they are if you maybe share some

647
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:20,360
of your American Bunny.
OK, I'm sorry, what is a gorilla

648
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:23,920
Fiesta?
They're like sort of secret

649
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:29,160
underground parties.
OK, not not OK.

650
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:31,040
Yeah.
Yeah, OK.

651
00:37:31,240 --> 00:37:33,680
No, no, it definitely sounds
terrifying the other way.

652
00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:39,040
Gorilla party?
Oh, like underground?

653
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:46,720
No.
Yeah, yeah, sure.

654
00:37:46,720 --> 00:37:48,880
I give him.
I give him like a one.

655
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:54,720
Look, I would help you with
this, but the people, they

656
00:37:54,720 --> 00:37:57,000
haven't been announcing as many
of these lately.

657
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,640
I I maybe need a little more
than that.

658
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:03,960
Your little blood sucker here
and I give, I give them 5.

659
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:07,080
OK.
Fleecing me Dry your ankle

660
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:09,480
biters.
All right, he says.

661
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:14,200
Well, you're gonna go in front
of the Mint at 7:30.

662
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:17,920
The Mint is a club.
He tells you where it is.

663
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:19,840
He doesn't tell the address.
He gives you.

664
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:22,880
Like kind of shitty.
Like you're going to go this way

665
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:24,880
for a little while, then when
you see a blue building, you're

666
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:26,520
going to take a right sort of
directions.

667
00:38:26,720 --> 00:38:29,880
Did you say it's 12?
13, maybe 1213, yeah.

668
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:33,880
Yeah, that sounds about right.
That's how they tell stories and

669
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:36,720
directions.
So you'll go there, there'll be

670
00:38:36,720 --> 00:38:40,160
a little party going on, look
for the van that drives up.

671
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:42,240
Look for a van, All right.
Yeah.

672
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:45,480
Good stuff.
Well, thank you so much.

673
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:46,840
No, no problem.
No.

674
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:49,080
Problem.
Yeah, stay in school, y'all.

675
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:53,480
Yeah, whatever.
I fuck off and.

676
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:57,640
He goes back to play soccer with
his friends, meanwhile over at

677
00:38:57,640 --> 00:38:59,960
the library.
So what are you looking for?

678
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:02,920
A Spanish translation of J BS
Books.

679
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:05,040
Why?
What?

680
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:08,400
They're fun.
OK, but.

681
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:11,040
Yeah, I what?
JB as your publisher, have you

682
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:12,560
published any of your books in
Spanish?

683
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:18,800
I not personally.
Has your publisher done any of

684
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:22,040
that, you think?
I Yes.

685
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,160
OK, sweet.
Great.

686
00:39:26,720 --> 00:39:29,760
You do find that anything else
you're looking for in the

687
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:32,480
library, I think.
JB was the one doing the looking

688
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:33,720
and I was just going to
translate.

689
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:38,360
That is true to an extent.
We have like band names and

690
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:42,760
people names now, and some
company names though I should

691
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:44,960
have been writing it down
actually.

692
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:48,880
Let's start with our singer.
Fake name Leticia de la Luz and

693
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:53,760
given name Rosario Maria Lopez.
I'll just let you know there's

694
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:57,320
no record of her in the library.
Like no newspaper articles

695
00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:00,240
seemingly about her.
That seems to be a bit of a dead

696
00:40:00,240 --> 00:40:02,280
end.
Yeah, she seemed to be fairly

697
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:04,800
recently in the public eye.
Yeah.

698
00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:09,840
All right then, let's try
businesses, Luz Discos and.

699
00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:12,400
Estudio de la Manana.
That's the one.

700
00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:18,640
Luz Discos was established in
1930.

701
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:23,160
And besides that, it's you find
the record of where it is, find

702
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:27,040
it's owned by a man named
Jonathan Brooks, and that you

703
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:29,400
have the address that you
already had when you found it.

704
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:30,920
Yeah, that.
Makes sense.

705
00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:33,560
All right, let's follow the line
through then.

706
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:36,920
Anything about Brooks?
No.

707
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:41,440
That makes sense.
Yeah, you know, this probably a

708
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:44,720
man named Jonathan Brooks is
probably not from Mexico.

709
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:49,680
Yeah, I figured as much.
What about news on any fires

710
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:52,160
recently?
You do find news on a fire.

711
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:55,000
In fact, I'm going to post that
in the Clues chat.

712
00:40:56,720 --> 00:40:58,240
That makes it sound like it
matters.

713
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:01,400
Yeah, I don't know how much it
matters, but I put putting it

714
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:05,320
there also not listed in this
actual prop that I posted.

715
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:08,520
Also you find the address of of
the place as well.

716
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:18,000
OK, deadly fire at record
factory kills owner Quiadad de

717
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:20,560
Mexico.
DF police are reporting that

718
00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:24,280
fire at Novo Records, which
began last night around 2:00 AM

719
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:27,000
is quote, almost certainly
arson.

720
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:31,440
UN quote, Fire Inspector Carlos
Monterey described the blaze,

721
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:35,960
which took the Cuevo de bomberos
more than 3 hours to extinguish,

722
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:38,240
as a tragedy.
We do not yet, you know, what

723
00:41:38,240 --> 00:41:40,640
could have motivated this
terrible act, but we are

724
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:43,080
coordinating with the police to
see this brought to a speedy

725
00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:44,440
conclusion.
End Quote.

726
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:47,640
Police detective Javier Gomez
had no comment.

727
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:51,400
George Novo, the owner of Novo
Records, was killed in the fire.

728
00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:54,840
Is unclear at this time what Mr.
Novo was doing at the

729
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:57,360
manufacturing plant at such a
late hour.

730
00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:03,200
Interesting.
There's also an address for the

731
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:05,320
burned down building that you
find as well.

732
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:08,000
That might be worth looking
into.

733
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:11,280
Yeah, time to go sift through
some more ashes.

734
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:15,480
Yeah, I don't know how much of
anything we'll find, but it's

735
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:18,440
worth a shot, right?
Of course man, no rush.

736
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:19,640
It's not like it's going
anywhere.

737
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:21,360
We can hit up that record repair
store.

738
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:23,200
Yeah.
That's a thing, right?

739
00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:26,880
Yeah, I mean, this might have
been a place that could get it

740
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:30,120
repaired, but you could do you
have like a a skill that could

741
00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:32,400
get it fixed?
I guess you could look around.

742
00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:34,720
You're in the library, You can
find a, you can find a direct.

743
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:38,800
Yeah, you find a local place
that could fix a record and I

744
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:40,920
guess you're gonna head off
there first.

745
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:44,400
Or to the ashes, or.
Record repair first.

746
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:48,560
Record repair.
All right, cut back to the team

747
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:51,480
Smalls.
Well, I guess team, not Team

748
00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:53,240
Smalls.
Team Smalls.

749
00:42:53,240 --> 00:42:54,760
Kurds.
You hyphenated.

750
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:57,720
Smirns.
Team Tiny Colonel.

751
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:02,000
Oh my God, don't be gross.
What?

752
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:06,960
I didn't mean it like that.
I'm going to come up to Smalls

753
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:09,040
and go.
Looks like there's drugs being

754
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:14,800
sold somewhere.
Called the Mint around 7:00 from

755
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:18,240
a van.
We should probably check that

756
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:19,680
out.
Absolutely we should.

757
00:43:19,720 --> 00:43:24,240
As from what you've all informed
me, that's one of the things

758
00:43:24,240 --> 00:43:28,520
this halt tends to deal in.
Yeah, that will take over there.

759
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:31,040
Would hint was hinting at a good
time.

760
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:33,720
I'm not sure how much they know
about drugs, but it's worth

761
00:43:33,720 --> 00:43:37,040
checking in.
Well, we have a full day ahead

762
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:40,880
of us before that.
Let's be off then.

763
00:43:41,240 --> 00:43:42,320
Let's be off.
Lead the way.

764
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:47,720
You head over to the home of
Cortez.

765
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:51,360
It's actually a modest bungalow
on the residential edge of

766
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:53,680
Koyakon.
Schmancy.

767
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:56,920
It's on a very nice St.
There's a small yard in front of

768
00:43:56,920 --> 00:43:58,360
it.
There's a lot of bungalows

769
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:00,240
nearby, some of them have
chicken coops.

770
00:44:00,240 --> 00:44:04,400
There's a couple of sort of
languid dogs around, sort of

771
00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:08,800
play it around gardens, green
trees, lovely sort of place.

772
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:12,520
You open up the gate and get to
the front door, sort of.

773
00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:14,600
As you're looking around,
there's also a back door

774
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:17,480
probably.
You guys should look the traps.

775
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:22,920
I did have a thought before we
go up to the door, there's

776
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:25,200
enough space that we can, like,
walk around through the back of

777
00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:26,320
a bungalow.
Yeah.

778
00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:27,520
Yeah, absolutely.
OK, cool.

779
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:31,160
Doctor Smalls is going to give
the door a bit of a once over.

780
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:34,640
Does it look like it's been like
kicked in or anything like that?

781
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:37,200
The front door or the back door?
He's going to check the front

782
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:39,040
door first because that's the
closer of the two.

783
00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:41,000
It does look like somebody broke
in.

784
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:43,800
Oh boy.
All righty.

785
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:48,000
I'm assuming then the door kind
of easily pushes open without

786
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:49,960
much force, yeah.
You don't.

787
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:54,200
You didn't need the key.
That has become apparent.

788
00:44:54,320 --> 00:45:00,080
I would like to use Assess
Honesty to do some basic crime

789
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:02,560
scene forensics.
I believe that would be the

790
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:05,160
skill forensics.
Except.

791
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:08,200
Oh fuck, right, you have a
whole.

792
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:13,240
I can use so I can use because I
am an alienist.

793
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:17,840
I can use assess honesty as
forensic psychology from the

794
00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:21,320
details of a crime scene.
I can, based on past case

795
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:25,440
studies of similar offenses,
assemble a profile detailing the

796
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:29,240
perpetrator's likely personal
history, age, habits, and

797
00:45:29,240 --> 00:45:32,960
attitudes.
And as it says in there, if you

798
00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:35,960
are playing an alias, you will
likely need to remind your

799
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:38,240
keeper of the use of this
ability.

800
00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:48,760
That is dumbest funny.
Well, you don't have a ton of

801
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:51,520
information just by looking at a
kicked in door.

802
00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:54,280
If you go inside you might get
some more information to put

803
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:56,200
some stuff together.
Yeah, that's what I was meaning

804
00:45:56,200 --> 00:45:59,720
that like I was gonna like do
essentially like a walkthrough

805
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:03,240
and do my whole like crime scene
profiling thing.

806
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:08,040
When you get inside, it does not
look like the place has been

807
00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:10,920
ransacked or anything.
It doesn't look like all the

808
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:12,480
drawers have been pulled out or
anything.

809
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:16,880
It looks just mostly normal.
You do recall that he said that

810
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:19,000
they were knocking on his door
and he stuck out the back.

811
00:46:19,240 --> 00:46:23,920
The only real thing that seems
out of place is on the wall over

812
00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:28,640
the fireplace.
Somebody has written We See You

813
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:33,400
or well, that in Spanish with
translate looks like orangish

814
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:38,320
paint over the fireplace.
Son of a bitch that's no paint.

815
00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:41,840
This is definitely this is an
intimidation thing.

816
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:44,960
They are trying to make sure
that this guy is afraid and does

817
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:47,760
not talk.
In fact, it actually like this

818
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:52,000
is focused really much on
scaring this guy a lot and

819
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:56,840
making him not talk, which is
pretty intense that honestly

820
00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:59,240
like I'm giving you this because
you're alienist thing here.

821
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:03,680
This means that they are worried
that he's going to talk, if that

822
00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:05,440
makes sense.
There's a reason for them to be

823
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:09,000
worried that he would talk.
All righty.

824
00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:13,240
Yeah, I relay that to Kearns.
What else do you guys want to do

825
00:47:13,240 --> 00:47:14,360
it here?
I mean, there's this orange

826
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:16,840
smear.
You also have to maybe find that

827
00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:18,240
matchbook that you were told
about.

828
00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:22,000
Both those things are kind of in
the same place if I remember.

829
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:25,520
Correctly, they are, yeah.
So Smalls is going to go take a

830
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:30,600
look at the orange smear.
I'm assuming when I get closer

831
00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:33,600
the orange smear looks less like
paint and more like like

832
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:36,880
something else.
Yeah, but unless you have

833
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:38,680
chemistry or you have pharmacy,
right?

834
00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:41,160
Actually, I think I have
chemistry too.

835
00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:43,920
Yeah, this is.
I mean, look, we all know it's

836
00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:45,880
nectar, right?
Yeah, we all know that it's

837
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:48,040
nectar.
Like let's not let's like hit

838
00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:50,080
ourselves.
So while you're doing that,

839
00:47:50,240 --> 00:47:51,400
Kurds, what are you doing?
I'm.

840
00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:54,880
Not sure what I can't do here.
Translating.

841
00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:58,120
I mean, yeah, obviously I'm
translating stuff.

842
00:47:58,120 --> 00:48:00,720
OK, cool.
I mean, just if there's anything

843
00:48:00,720 --> 00:48:02,880
in particular, I just want to
get a vibe of what each of you

844
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:04,040
is doing in the room, that's
all.

845
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:08,440
We were looking for a matchbook.
Yeah, trouble is, I don't have

846
00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:11,800
any evidence collection.
No, a simple search will find

847
00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:13,880
it.
OK, well yeah, I'm gonna look

848
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:16,680
for the matchbook.
There's a jar of weird Knick

849
00:48:16,680 --> 00:48:18,440
knacks on the mantle of the
fireplace.

850
00:48:18,640 --> 00:48:20,880
There's guitar picks, rings,
stuff like that.

851
00:48:21,240 --> 00:48:24,000
Near the top there's a
matchbook.

852
00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:27,040
Even through the glass jar you
could make out the name Leticia

853
00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:30,880
scrawled on the slightly gapped
like sort of inside cover.

854
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:34,240
OK, yeah, I'm, I'm gonna take it
out.

855
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:37,040
Well, as I reach for it, a shot
rings out.

856
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:42,360
Motherfucker, I dive down.
Sorry, I shouldn't have this

857
00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:47,000
thing.
Hang on, can I, can I scratch

858
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:49,920
that?
I'm, I'm, I'm gonna, I'm gonna

859
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:53,960
dive, but towards smalls.
So I knock him to the ground and

860
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:56,800
like we're both on the floor.
I'm like protecting him with my

861
00:48:56,800 --> 00:48:59,160
body.
What's your hit threshold 4?

862
00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:01,600
It probably doesn't matter.
Oh yeah it definitely doesn't

863
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:03,600
matter.
Mine is also 4.

864
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:05,960
Oh sweet.
Yeah, whoever the shooter is,

865
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:09,840
spent three points and rolled A4
so they hit you 4/4.

866
00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:14,880
Ow.
It is a currents.

867
00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:16,680
Do you have firearm skill?
Oh hell yeah.

868
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:19,800
OK, I'm going to give this to
you as an investigative thing.

869
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:22,560
That sounds like it's a
high-powered rifle, like a

870
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:25,680
scoped rifle.
Oh, so it's a sniper, huh?

871
00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:29,600
You came from across the street.
All right, I yeah, there's

872
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:31,320
there's a shooter across the
street.

873
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:35,840
I I'd tell it to Smalls.
I'm not.

874
00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:41,680
Thank you for that information.
Yeah, as a gunshot.

875
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:44,360
You hear the gunshot and you're
bleeding.

876
00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:48,400
Wait, who?
Who did it shoot me or?

877
00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:49,920
Small.
OK, good.

878
00:49:50,080 --> 00:49:52,160
OK, good.
Where's the jar?

879
00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:55,720
It's on the mantle still, yeah.
Can I use something to reach it

880
00:49:55,720 --> 00:49:57,880
to knock it down like while
staying on the floor?

881
00:49:58,320 --> 00:50:00,080
Oh yeah, you could just like
throw something at it.

882
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:02,400
A broom or something?
I'm sure you could find

883
00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:04,680
something to throw at it.
Can I suggest something?

884
00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:07,160
What?
There's probably a phone in

885
00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:09,440
there.
Oh, lasso the jar.

886
00:50:09,600 --> 00:50:11,320
No, literally just call the
cops.

887
00:50:12,600 --> 00:50:19,000
Oh, but then, but you guys are
on the run.

888
00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:23,800
So.
By the way, both of you, this is

889
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:26,960
a difficulty 3 loss of three
stability test.

890
00:50:27,240 --> 00:50:28,920
Somebody's trying to kill you.
Yeah.

891
00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:32,120
Yeah, Or probably maybe they're
trying to scare you off, I don't

892
00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:34,640
know.
But you definitely got shot so.

893
00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:38,320
You know what?
I'm going to spend 1.

894
00:50:38,560 --> 00:50:40,880
Sorry team library, the exciting
stuff is going on over.

895
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:43,120
Here I did not need to spend.
I gathered.

896
00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:47,280
Although I did need to spend the
one because if you don't spend

897
00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:49,400
it doesn't like you don't roll
high enough.

898
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:53,920
I got a three so I'm good too.
So anyway, yeah, I hooked the

899
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:57,120
jar with like a broom so it
falls to the floor.

900
00:50:57,120 --> 00:51:02,880
I was going to copy the address
and leave the Knick knack to its

901
00:51:02,880 --> 00:51:06,360
owner, but in this situation I'm
going to grab the jar in one

902
00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:10,960
hand, smalls in the other, and
army crawl through the door.

903
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:13,880
The front door.
That's a good question.

904
00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:18,040
We should probably leave through
the back door.

905
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:22,720
Yeah, that's by the way like
when you both when you tackled

906
00:51:22,720 --> 00:51:28,760
Smalls and when you grabbed him
to start leaving, you realized

907
00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:33,200
he's more solid than you were
originally took him for.

908
00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:37,080
Oh man, you got some muscle on
you, huh?

909
00:51:37,240 --> 00:51:40,160
He has Athletics 10.
Yeah, now's the time for this

910
00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:43,240
conversation.
Oh, exactly, it's relevant.

911
00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:48,800
Do you work out?
By the way, while the shooter

912
00:51:48,800 --> 00:51:52,280
does not seem to have a bead on
you, they are gonna take another

913
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:54,960
shot to keep you honest, as it
were.

914
00:51:55,240 --> 00:51:58,160
So they keep me on the floor or?
Yeah, to keep you on the floor.

915
00:51:58,240 --> 00:51:59,240
Fair enough.
OK.

916
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:03,320
Occurring so many shots before
he has to reload, yeah.

917
00:52:04,240 --> 00:52:06,280
How many shots before he has to
reload?

918
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:10,160
Is this a bolt action rifle
that.

919
00:52:10,240 --> 00:52:14,360
Tells me nothing.
There, let's say it's got eight

920
00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:17,960
shots before you need to reload,
but also there is a chunk of

921
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:20,360
time between the shots.
This doesn't it's not like semi

922
00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:23,200
automatic or even automatic.
They have to do a little bit of

923
00:52:23,200 --> 00:52:26,640
work to take another shot.
Not a ton, but OK.

924
00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:29,760
You're not going to get like,
you know, a hail of bullets on

925
00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:31,640
you.
Also, at this point it does seem

926
00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:34,200
like it is only one gun that is
shooting at you.

927
00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:40,320
OK, so realizing that smalls is
like more solid and that thing

928
00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:42,560
about the rifle, let's do a
different thing.

929
00:52:42,920 --> 00:52:47,520
Would you want me to roll
preparedness to have a sample

930
00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:48,880
selection kit on me?
Yeah.

931
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:50,760
I will need you to roll
preparedness for that.

932
00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:52,040
Yeah.
What would the difficulty of

933
00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:53,120
that be?
3.

934
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:57,320
Three, you know what, I will
just spend 2 points to have that

935
00:52:58,200 --> 00:52:59,760
and.
Take up the nectar.

936
00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:04,080
Yeah, he's gonna between shot,
like after the next shot, he's

937
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:07,440
gonna try and quickly scrape a
little bit off of the wall into

938
00:53:07,440 --> 00:53:10,680
one of the tubes.
He doesn't know exactly what

939
00:53:10,680 --> 00:53:14,600
this is and he wants to like,
figure it out.

940
00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:17,200
Put it in your mouth, smalls.
OK.

941
00:53:17,520 --> 00:53:19,680
What's your hit threshold?
You said it was four.

942
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:22,560
Yeah, OK.
It's five with the cover of the

943
00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:24,720
building that you're in now that
you know that's going on, but

944
00:53:24,720 --> 00:53:25,960
they are going to take a shot at
you.

945
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:29,640
Oakley Doakley Can I try and
roll that damn it?

946
00:53:30,680 --> 00:53:32,800
They are using up their firearms
points though.

947
00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:37,960
But you are hit Yeah for Christ,
7 damage.

948
00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:39,840
OK, are.
You looking?

949
00:53:40,120 --> 00:53:44,640
So that puts me at -1.
You made 2 characters, right?

950
00:53:46,480 --> 00:53:49,600
Shit.
You now have heard screaming

951
00:53:49,600 --> 00:53:51,680
coming from one of the houses
nearby.

952
00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:55,040
Somebody's going to call the
cops while they're reloading.

953
00:53:55,120 --> 00:53:58,280
They're not reloading yet.
Ow, son of a bitch.

954
00:53:58,640 --> 00:54:00,640
There's a chunk of time like
between each shot you said,

955
00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:03,640
right?
Like a like half a second.

956
00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:09,040
Half a second, yeah.
I can't do anything in half a

957
00:54:09,040 --> 00:54:10,560
second.
Exactly.

958
00:54:10,560 --> 00:54:13,440
Yes, that is true.
OK.

959
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:16,840
Also, we're going to have to if
you're at -1 we do have to roll

960
00:54:16,840 --> 00:54:18,880
for you to not pass out.
Yeah.

961
00:54:19,480 --> 00:54:22,000
That's OK.
What am I rolling for that

962
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:25,120
again?
The absolute value of your

963
00:54:25,120 --> 00:54:28,400
health.
So you have -1 you said, so it's

964
00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:30,320
difficulty 1.
You could spend your health

965
00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:33,360
points to go further down to
pass it, but it's -1 so you'll

966
00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:35,920
you'll pass.
Yeah, don't, don't I auto pass

967
00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:39,360
that?
Yeah, that's the one.

968
00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:41,520
Yeah, already.
So.

969
00:54:41,960 --> 00:54:43,960
Can I perform first aid on
myself?

970
00:54:44,240 --> 00:54:47,760
Yeah, I guess so if if you guys
are just set like we're not

971
00:54:47,760 --> 00:54:51,080
going anywhere, we're staying
like behind this counter that

972
00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:55,400
you dove behind because Eddie
trying to this guy has an eye on

973
00:54:55,400 --> 00:54:59,280
the door and they also have an
eye on the hallway that leads to

974
00:54:59,280 --> 00:55:01,520
the back door.
So you're not going to be able

975
00:55:01,520 --> 00:55:04,280
to move anywhere.
But you could stay in your

976
00:55:04,280 --> 00:55:06,520
hiding spot and try to patch
yourself up a little.

977
00:55:06,720 --> 00:55:09,440
Bit I'm just going to triage
myself at this point.

978
00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:13,920
Yeah, I have First Aid 2IN in
case you need it.

979
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:18,320
I I think that's better if.
It's more efficient.

980
00:55:18,760 --> 00:55:21,040
Yeah, it's more efficient in
terms of points do.

981
00:55:21,320 --> 00:55:23,400
You want me to do it?
If you want to do it.

982
00:55:23,720 --> 00:55:25,680
Sure.
I've got three in first.

983
00:55:25,840 --> 00:55:27,440
No wait, I have more in first
aid.

984
00:55:27,440 --> 00:55:29,960
I believe 5.
I have 5 in first aid.

985
00:55:30,040 --> 00:55:33,600
OK, so I'm going to spend 3 put
you back at 5:00.

986
00:55:34,520 --> 00:55:36,600
Right.
Yep, that takes a little while.

987
00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:39,280
A couple more shots ring out,
you realize.

988
00:55:39,280 --> 00:55:41,240
Just five shots.
Yeah.

989
00:55:41,600 --> 00:55:43,920
If you're waiting for the seven,
is that what we're doing?

990
00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:46,480
We're waiting for the seven.
Eight, you said they.

991
00:55:46,480 --> 00:55:47,880
Were.
Oh, you got me.

992
00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:52,920
Fuck me, I can throw something
in front of the door to make him

993
00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:54,600
waste more ammo.
Yeah, sure.

994
00:55:54,600 --> 00:55:56,200
Absolutely.
Yeah, I'm gonna do that.

995
00:55:56,200 --> 00:55:59,320
I'm gonna throw the same broom
that I used to knock the jar

996
00:55:59,320 --> 00:56:01,560
down.
OK, the shot has gone out.

997
00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:04,440
He's reloading probably.
Probably.

998
00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:09,520
Yeah, I mean, you don't see him.
I mean, if you want, you could

999
00:56:09,520 --> 00:56:12,000
try to look across the street
and see him but.

1000
00:56:12,280 --> 00:56:14,440
And get shot in the head.
Yeah.

1001
00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:16,680
I'm not saying it's a good
thing, I'm just saying you have

1002
00:56:16,680 --> 00:56:19,720
options.
You hear the distant sound of

1003
00:56:19,720 --> 00:56:24,160
sirens.
OK, it's now and ever I'm going

1004
00:56:24,160 --> 00:56:26,840
to have a shotgun.
Is it going to shoot across the

1005
00:56:26,840 --> 00:56:28,200
street?
It's not.

1006
00:56:28,680 --> 00:56:31,840
Shit do do you have a weapon?
Smells.

1007
00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:35,720
Smalls just kind of holds up his
hands.

1008
00:56:37,880 --> 00:56:40,720
Fuck, let me at least sneak a
look at their face or something

1009
00:56:40,920 --> 00:56:42,440
like a jack-in-the-box up and
down.

1010
00:56:43,240 --> 00:56:48,080
Yeah, you look up, there is a
man who is a little hard to see.

1011
00:56:48,400 --> 00:56:51,960
They're on a roof across the
street laying down.

1012
00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:53,920
It's going to be particularly
hard to hit them.

1013
00:56:53,920 --> 00:56:56,280
They have a cover.
They have a cover.

1014
00:56:57,040 --> 00:56:59,480
Yeah, you'll be able to get.
You would have to get up on the

1015
00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:02,640
roof and have a longer range
weapon to get a good shot at

1016
00:57:02,640 --> 00:57:05,160
them.
OK, are there any weapons in the

1017
00:57:05,160 --> 00:57:06,840
house?
Not that you can see.

1018
00:57:07,080 --> 00:57:09,560
No.
All righty, let's run while he's

1019
00:57:09,560 --> 00:57:12,240
reloading.
OK, I need you both to make

1020
00:57:12,240 --> 00:57:14,480
athletics checks.
Also, which direction are you

1021
00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:15,920
running?
Backdoor.

1022
00:57:16,280 --> 00:57:18,560
Backdoor makes sense.
What is the difficulty of this

1023
00:57:18,560 --> 00:57:21,640
athletics check?
Difficulty 4.

1024
00:57:21,960 --> 00:57:26,480
I will spend 2.
I like to live dangerously.

1025
00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:31,200
I did not need to spend 2.
Yeah, that is a six year old,

1026
00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:32,840
but.
I've got A7.

1027
00:57:33,640 --> 00:57:37,840
OK, you both make a break for it
and run into the backyard and

1028
00:57:37,840 --> 00:57:40,720
out of the firing arc of this
guy.

1029
00:57:40,920 --> 00:57:42,560
He does not have a bead on you
anymore.

1030
00:57:42,720 --> 00:57:45,600
Would you like to try to go
around the building to the

1031
00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:49,040
front, or do you want to try to
hop the fence in the back to

1032
00:57:49,040 --> 00:57:52,040
jump into somebody else's yard
and like go out that way?

1033
00:57:52,680 --> 00:57:56,320
Rasam rasam.
If we go around the front, he's

1034
00:57:56,440 --> 00:57:59,120
he's gonna shoot at us again.
That is true.

1035
00:57:59,120 --> 00:58:02,400
Yes, he will do that.
Your car is over there.

1036
00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:04,600
But you know, or I guess, did
you walk here?

1037
00:58:04,600 --> 00:58:07,160
We didn't establish this.
Maybe you took public transit

1038
00:58:07,160 --> 00:58:09,200
and you walked.
Logo sticks.

1039
00:58:10,800 --> 00:58:13,360
Not Pogo sticks.
Library crews going further.

1040
00:58:13,360 --> 00:58:15,960
So you probably took the car
unless you guys rented 2 cars.

1041
00:58:16,280 --> 00:58:19,080
Or I guess you could wait here.
Sirens are getting louder.

1042
00:58:19,320 --> 00:58:24,320
The thing is, Kane and Fog don't
have the best relationship with

1043
00:58:24,320 --> 00:58:27,520
the police.
I would prefer to stay out of

1044
00:58:27,520 --> 00:58:30,800
their way.
OK, I mean, you're not Kane or

1045
00:58:30,800 --> 00:58:33,480
Fog, I guess.
Do either of you have Law?

1046
00:58:33,960 --> 00:58:38,040
I have cop talk, I think.
I do not.

1047
00:58:38,240 --> 00:58:40,560
I considered taking it but I was
like Nah.

1048
00:58:41,240 --> 00:58:43,080
No, I don't have cop talk.
That was K.

1049
00:58:43,680 --> 00:58:45,920
Fuck.
OK, well, I was going to tell

1050
00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:47,880
you maybe something about the
police, but you don't have cop

1051
00:58:47,880 --> 00:58:49,960
talk or law.
So yeah, you're just going to

1052
00:58:49,960 --> 00:58:52,240
have to get these these
decisions off the top of your

1053
00:58:52,240 --> 00:58:54,960
head.
Well, shall we?

1054
00:58:55,280 --> 00:58:57,600
Yeah, yeah.
Let's get lost.

1055
00:58:58,400 --> 00:59:01,000
I need a better weapon.
You need a weapon.

1056
00:59:01,360 --> 00:59:06,280
His body is a weapon.
You're able to hop over the back

1057
00:59:06,280 --> 00:59:08,440
fence.
There's a neighbor who is

1058
00:59:08,440 --> 00:59:10,720
saying, are you OK?
What's going on?

1059
00:59:10,920 --> 00:59:15,040
You rush past them into the
streets and make it away.

1060
00:59:15,600 --> 00:59:19,560
And you found a matchbook.
Yeah.

1061
00:59:19,560 --> 00:59:21,680
Oh yeah, right.
I grabbed the whole jar.

1062
00:59:22,480 --> 00:59:26,120
Yeah, the only thing really
valuable there is a batch book.

1063
00:59:26,440 --> 00:59:29,480
Yay.
You see Leticia on one side, and

1064
00:59:29,480 --> 00:59:33,280
on the other side you see Nine O
8 Mariposa, and it's for a

1065
00:59:33,280 --> 00:59:36,600
nightclub called La Paz, But
Nine O 8 Mariposa would

1066
00:59:36,600 --> 00:59:40,080
theoretically be her address.
Mariposa means means butterfly

1067
00:59:40,080 --> 00:59:44,000
it.
Does all right the other two

1068
00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:45,640
pull up on a burnt down
building?

1069
00:59:48,160 --> 00:59:51,080
What do you think the chances
are those sirens are for Cairns

1070
00:59:51,080 --> 00:59:53,720
and smalls?
It's a big city, you probably

1071
00:59:53,720 --> 00:59:59,320
don't hear them.
Priced All right, let's let's

1072
00:59:59,320 --> 01:00:02,920
get investigated.
Did you bring a comb?

1073
01:00:03,720 --> 01:00:05,640
No, I brought evidence
collection.

1074
01:00:06,240 --> 01:00:09,920
OK, 3 blocket walls and a
stretch of rubble, all separated

1075
01:00:09,920 --> 01:00:12,440
from the street by a simple red
and yellow painted rope.

1076
01:00:12,800 --> 01:00:14,600
Seems to be put up by the
police.

1077
01:00:15,120 --> 01:00:17,040
The police have definitely gone
over this site.

1078
01:00:17,480 --> 01:00:19,880
Yeah, well, it was a stretch
anyway.

1079
01:00:20,720 --> 01:00:22,080
Yeah.
You said you were using evidence

1080
01:00:22,080 --> 01:00:24,600
collection though.
I have evidence collection and I

1081
01:00:24,600 --> 01:00:28,400
have forensics.
Let's just see if I can find

1082
01:00:28,400 --> 01:00:33,160
anything in this rack.
Fire was certainly arson started

1083
01:00:33,160 --> 01:00:35,320
at the missing wall and then
spreaded rapidly through the

1084
01:00:35,320 --> 01:00:37,600
building.
Chemical accelerant we used at

1085
01:00:37,600 --> 01:00:40,360
the point of the fire, but it
was the flammable ceiling

1086
01:00:40,360 --> 01:00:43,360
material which would have
allowed the fire to spread so

1087
01:00:43,360 --> 01:00:46,840
quickly.
Besides that, you're not getting

1088
01:00:46,840 --> 01:00:48,400
much.
You want to spend a point of

1089
01:00:48,400 --> 01:00:49,720
evidence collection.
You might be able to get a

1090
01:00:49,720 --> 01:00:52,520
little bit more.
Yeah, I'll spend a point.

1091
01:00:52,840 --> 01:00:58,080
OK, there are traces of baked on
nectar residue on the walls and

1092
01:00:58,080 --> 01:01:01,160
ceilings that are remain.
Oh boy.

1093
01:01:01,880 --> 01:01:06,440
The patterns are not unlike
light water damage as well as

1094
01:01:06,440 --> 01:01:10,760
cracks of deformations as you're
looking at them, these little

1095
01:01:10,760 --> 01:01:14,280
cracks of the walls.
In a moment you probably stumble

1096
01:01:14,280 --> 01:01:16,840
backwards as you realize these
are mouths.

1097
01:01:18,240 --> 01:01:23,440
Oh oh.
They are destroyed mouths, but

1098
01:01:23,440 --> 01:01:25,920
they are mouths.
What's up, JB?

1099
01:01:26,320 --> 01:01:28,560
Colin, take a look at this shit
right now.

1100
01:01:30,640 --> 01:01:34,000
Oh well, yeah, that's the reason
I guess.

1101
01:01:35,360 --> 01:01:37,920
Oh my God.
Makes sense.

1102
01:01:37,920 --> 01:01:41,920
Trouble checks difficulty 4.
Oh God, Oh God.

1103
01:01:42,160 --> 01:01:43,160
Oh God.
Oh God, oh God.

1104
01:01:44,120 --> 01:01:46,520
I'll just spend 3 points and
pass that because I have a lot

1105
01:01:46,520 --> 01:01:49,880
of sense trouble.
OK, that track good because I

1106
01:01:49,920 --> 01:01:52,520
didn't pass it.
Yeah, you're too busy freaking

1107
01:01:52,520 --> 01:01:52,960
out.
Hey.

1108
01:01:53,160 --> 01:01:56,200
There is a car across the
street.

1109
01:01:56,280 --> 01:01:59,720
You realize somebody in there is
looking at you with a pair of

1110
01:01:59,720 --> 01:02:03,680
binoculars.
As you look at them, you see

1111
01:02:03,680 --> 01:02:04,640
that they're trying to start
the.

1112
01:02:05,160 --> 01:02:09,320
Car I chase them down on foot.
You have a car.

1113
01:02:10,280 --> 01:02:13,200
I mean, make it athletics check.
All right, what's my difficulty?

1114
01:02:14,160 --> 01:02:16,600
5.
All right, that's a one.

1115
01:02:17,520 --> 01:02:25,040
OK, the car speeds away.
You run like a maniac towards

1116
01:02:25,040 --> 01:02:28,400
it, but it speeds away.
You do get a good look at the

1117
01:02:28,400 --> 01:02:31,080
guy it looks like.
I mean unfortunately.

1118
01:02:31,280 --> 01:02:35,560
Looks like some guy.
It looks like a just a slightly

1119
01:02:35,560 --> 01:02:38,760
overweight Mexican man.
All right, big mustache, but

1120
01:02:38,760 --> 01:02:40,720
unfortunately that's several
people.

1121
01:02:41,920 --> 01:02:44,160
Didn't catch the license plate.
You did.

1122
01:02:44,400 --> 01:02:47,400
That's a good call.
You caught the license plate.

1123
01:02:47,520 --> 01:02:50,800
Good thinking.
All right, it's not much, but

1124
01:02:50,800 --> 01:02:53,880
it's definitely something and it
means we'll be able to identify

1125
01:02:53,880 --> 01:02:56,480
the car again or track it down
should we need to.

1126
01:02:57,000 --> 01:02:58,360
Well, we can always talk to the
police.

1127
01:02:58,360 --> 01:03:00,400
It's not like they have
jurisdiction for the crime we

1128
01:03:00,400 --> 01:03:02,560
committed in LA.
Yeah, they wouldn't have any

1129
01:03:02,560 --> 01:03:03,600
jurisdiction for that.
You're.

1130
01:03:03,600 --> 01:03:06,200
Fine, we have nothing to worry
about from the police here.

1131
01:03:07,040 --> 01:03:11,400
Very specific.
OK, well, you don't know that.

1132
01:03:14,280 --> 01:03:16,640
If you have law, you know that.
Do either of you have law?

1133
01:03:17,200 --> 01:03:21,720
Do not I do you have OK if you
have law, yeah, you know, yeah,

1134
01:03:21,720 --> 01:03:23,560
that's they don't have
jurisdiction here.

1135
01:03:23,920 --> 01:03:28,080
It's not that I'm worried about,
it's the cult thing.

1136
01:03:29,720 --> 01:03:32,560
The cops aren't the cult.
Yeah, we don't know that the

1137
01:03:32,560 --> 01:03:35,040
cult's worried about the police
at this point on this end.

1138
01:03:35,600 --> 01:03:40,160
Look, the police in Malta were
all on the Colts payroll.

1139
01:03:40,400 --> 01:03:43,680
You'll forgive me for being a
little cautious about this.

1140
01:03:44,160 --> 01:03:47,280
Well, this is a This is a bigger
city than Pauletta, so it might

1141
01:03:47,280 --> 01:03:50,120
be a little harder to have every
cop on the payroll.

1142
01:03:50,400 --> 01:03:53,960
That's that might be true cop
talk to let you know that now

1143
01:03:54,120 --> 01:03:56,160
they might have every cop on the
like.

1144
01:03:56,320 --> 01:03:58,880
There's no way they have every
cop on the payroll.

1145
01:03:59,240 --> 01:04:00,480
Now.
They might have some cops on the

1146
01:04:00,480 --> 01:04:02,080
payroll, yeah.
I don't know.

1147
01:04:02,080 --> 01:04:05,400
They were thrifting around for
production companies, so I don't

1148
01:04:05,400 --> 01:04:07,080
think they got that much of a
budget over here.

1149
01:04:08,240 --> 01:04:10,240
That's a good point.
That's a very good point.

1150
01:04:10,680 --> 01:04:12,600
Yeah, there there is logic to
that one.

1151
01:04:13,400 --> 01:04:17,240
Meanwhile back as you guys are
trying to escape, you hear the

1152
01:04:17,240 --> 01:04:20,240
sirens and then you hear a gun
battle.

1153
01:04:23,760 --> 01:04:29,760
It ends after about a minute.
Now with my firearms, can I tell

1154
01:04:29,760 --> 01:04:33,280
which weapon fired last?
The cops got them.

1155
01:04:35,200 --> 01:04:37,320
Dope.
Probably for the.

1156
01:04:37,320 --> 01:04:39,840
Best quantity is a quality.
Terminator.

1157
01:04:40,480 --> 01:04:43,560
Yeah, word.
I don't know if you want to do

1158
01:04:43,560 --> 01:04:45,200
anything with that, but that is
a true thing.

1159
01:04:45,240 --> 01:04:47,960
That is a thing that happened.
The police showed up and killed

1160
01:04:47,960 --> 01:04:52,040
the man who was shooting at
people in this house.

1161
01:04:52,960 --> 01:04:55,000
If you're planning on
interrogating him, which I don't

1162
01:04:55,000 --> 01:04:56,920
think you were, but that's
definitely not going to happen

1163
01:04:56,920 --> 01:04:58,680
now He's taking all of his
secrets with him.

1164
01:04:59,680 --> 01:05:02,240
This is a Lovecraft game.
We can get him back.

1165
01:05:02,800 --> 01:05:06,120
Yeah.
What do each of you want to do

1166
01:05:06,120 --> 01:05:07,480
now?
Each of the teams?

1167
01:05:07,480 --> 01:05:10,040
Or, I guess, is it time to
reconvene?

1168
01:05:10,320 --> 01:05:12,680
Well, looking at this, Fire is
giving Colin an idea.

1169
01:05:12,680 --> 01:05:16,480
Uh oh.
No good can come of that, no

1170
01:05:16,480 --> 01:05:21,040
good at all.
Colin is going to get a bottle

1171
01:05:21,040 --> 01:05:23,200
or two of the local liquor,
whatever that's called.

1172
01:05:23,480 --> 01:05:24,840
Tequila.
Tequila.

1173
01:05:25,280 --> 01:05:31,120
Oh my God.
Just to be prepared.

1174
01:05:31,560 --> 01:05:35,040
Just to be prepared.
OK, and I guess if you'd like,

1175
01:05:35,040 --> 01:05:38,160
you could reconvene around 4:00
or so.

1176
01:05:38,360 --> 01:05:41,240
Oh, also on the side note, you
got that record repaired.

1177
01:05:41,520 --> 01:05:42,840
We don't need to play that
scene.

1178
01:05:43,160 --> 01:05:47,040
You met a guy who swore.
This is like some cheap fucking

1179
01:05:47,040 --> 01:05:49,160
record.
Why would anybody's garbage?

1180
01:05:49,600 --> 01:05:51,960
Wanna see what's on it?
Which I guess means he's

1181
01:05:51,960 --> 01:05:53,760
speaking I'll of a dead man,
but.

1182
01:05:54,840 --> 01:05:56,160
But he doesn't have to know
that.

1183
01:05:56,720 --> 01:06:01,120
Yeah, and they do get the record
fixed up for you, more or less.

1184
01:06:02,000 --> 01:06:04,240
It's gonna sound.
It's not gonna sound perfect,

1185
01:06:04,600 --> 01:06:06,840
but it should work.
Well, that's probably for the

1186
01:06:06,840 --> 01:06:08,880
best.
If it sounded perfect, it might

1187
01:06:08,880 --> 01:06:11,880
end the world.
So yeah, imperfections.

1188
01:06:11,880 --> 01:06:12,880
OK, sure.
Yeah.

1189
01:06:13,280 --> 01:06:15,520
Is there a place you guys were
going to meet or were you just

1190
01:06:15,520 --> 01:06:17,840
going to be back at the hotel?
What do you think?

1191
01:06:18,360 --> 01:06:20,560
I assumed back at the hotel, but
I don't know, OK.

1192
01:06:20,640 --> 01:06:25,160
Meet back at the hotel and then
go to like a local restaurant

1193
01:06:25,160 --> 01:06:27,360
for for like dinner or something
like that.

1194
01:06:28,080 --> 01:06:31,440
Yeah, somewhere touristy.
Yeah, get McDonald's.

1195
01:06:31,640 --> 01:06:34,640
Stay really public though.
Food trucks are not a thing,

1196
01:06:34,680 --> 01:06:35,440
right?
No.

1197
01:06:36,120 --> 01:06:39,120
I mean, not really.
Street food's a thing, but.

1198
01:06:39,440 --> 01:06:42,240
Street food is a thing, yes.
I was going to suggest go for a

1199
01:06:42,240 --> 01:06:44,960
walk, get some street food and
look for posters.

1200
01:06:45,200 --> 01:06:47,840
OK.
But it's up to you, gentlemen.

1201
01:06:48,160 --> 01:06:50,000
Keep hearing about this street
corn.

1202
01:06:51,120 --> 01:06:53,920
I hear it's good.
How do they get to grow in the

1203
01:06:53,920 --> 01:06:55,880
street?
Do they have to drive around it?

1204
01:06:56,960 --> 01:07:00,000
God.
No, they planted like trees

1205
01:07:00,600 --> 01:07:05,960
instead of trees I guess.
Anyway, at the very least we

1206
01:07:05,960 --> 01:07:09,800
compare notes, yeah?
Yeah, you compare notes at like

1207
01:07:09,800 --> 01:07:14,000
an outdoor cafe, I guess.
Or maybe you get some street

1208
01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:15,360
food and take a seat something.
Yeah.

1209
01:07:16,200 --> 01:07:18,040
Oh, they don't want to deal with
the police.

1210
01:07:18,320 --> 01:07:21,160
Let's talk to the police.
I thought you gentlemen were,

1211
01:07:21,560 --> 01:07:24,840
you know, in trouble with law.
Oh, wanted for murder?

1212
01:07:24,840 --> 01:07:27,000
No, that's back in LA.
This is a whole different

1213
01:07:27,000 --> 01:07:29,520
country.
Oh, I wasn't sure.

1214
01:07:29,880 --> 01:07:32,760
I mean, technically there is
extradition, but that's if the

1215
01:07:32,760 --> 01:07:35,560
people in LA know to look for
you here, you know, like it's,

1216
01:07:36,120 --> 01:07:40,160
you're probably fine.
We've been to a few other places

1217
01:07:40,160 --> 01:07:42,520
since.
Yeah, that's a common thing for

1218
01:07:42,520 --> 01:07:45,680
criminals to flee to Mexico to
evade arrests, so.

1219
01:07:45,680 --> 01:07:52,520
It is a classic thing to do.
I just realized that.

1220
01:07:53,440 --> 01:07:59,200
Yeah, as you are sitting around
munching and chatting about

1221
01:07:59,200 --> 01:08:03,600
that, two dozen weeping women
and a red eyed man come carrying

1222
01:08:03,600 --> 01:08:07,480
a casket up the street, all but
silent save for the jangling of

1223
01:08:07,480 --> 01:08:09,920
little bells hung from the
shawls and scarves.

1224
01:08:11,000 --> 01:08:13,760
What a festive funeral put me in
one like that.

1225
01:08:14,160 --> 01:08:16,000
Done.
Oh, I don't speak Spanish, I

1226
01:08:16,120 --> 01:08:18,120
guess I can't ask anyone who
passed.

1227
01:08:18,520 --> 01:08:25,800
You can ask loudly in gringo
Spanish como estas died no?

1228
01:08:27,279 --> 01:08:28,279
No, no, no.
Come on.

1229
01:08:28,800 --> 01:08:30,840
Come on.
I at least know that death is

1230
01:08:30,840 --> 01:08:34,800
Moyote.
No, it's, it's que pasa, right?

1231
01:08:36,120 --> 01:08:37,960
Que pasta.
That's Italy.

1232
01:08:40,359 --> 01:08:44,960
Yeah, and and I guess in broken
ass Spanish I ask que pasa mente

1233
01:08:44,960 --> 01:08:47,319
they.
Do not acknowledge you.

1234
01:08:47,920 --> 01:08:51,040
They are grieving and you are a
weird stranger.

1235
01:08:52,560 --> 01:08:55,399
That was just some vibes.
Yeah, sometimes you need vibes.

1236
01:08:55,920 --> 01:08:59,080
Yeah, I got that.
I thought it was gonna be like

1237
01:08:59,080 --> 01:09:01,200
the recording studio owner, to
be honest.

1238
01:09:02,000 --> 01:09:04,319
That's a good.
Yeah, that's a thought, but it

1239
01:09:04,319 --> 01:09:05,680
did not appear to be at this
point.

1240
01:09:06,080 --> 01:09:09,000
I thought it was the shooter A.
Little early.

1241
01:09:09,040 --> 01:09:10,800
For that really fast turn
around.

1242
01:09:11,439 --> 01:09:14,000
Yeah.
You know, you sort of look up

1243
01:09:14,000 --> 01:09:17,000
and you see the vibes are kind
of a bummer.

1244
01:09:17,240 --> 01:09:20,399
I mean, actually maybe you like
blackbirds, but there are a

1245
01:09:20,399 --> 01:09:23,120
couple of blackbirds that are
like perched nearby.

1246
01:09:23,880 --> 01:09:27,120
Actually, I need to all make a
sense trouble difficulty 3 I'm.

1247
01:09:27,800 --> 01:09:32,439
Going to spend 2 points.
OK, how good am I at sensing

1248
01:09:32,439 --> 01:09:35,080
trouble?
I mean, if if turns is going to

1249
01:09:35,080 --> 01:09:37,120
succeed automatically, I see no
need to.

1250
01:09:39,240 --> 01:09:44,200
Perched nearby is a single
grackle, shiny and black.

1251
01:09:44,600 --> 01:09:49,160
Tilting its head this way and
that, it opens its mouth to let

1252
01:09:49,160 --> 01:09:53,680
out an eerie caw and reveals at
the base of its beak A

1253
01:09:53,680 --> 01:09:58,320
glistening and brizzly mouth
ringed with tiny hook teeth.

1254
01:09:59,400 --> 01:10:03,960
It's caw is wet and brief, like
a crow gagging on pus.

1255
01:10:05,320 --> 01:10:08,600
Then you hear the cacophony of
answering calls.

1256
01:10:56,420 --> 01:10:58,540
Thanks for listening.
Danielle is our keeper for

1257
01:10:58,540 --> 01:11:01,460
Eternal lies, Nathan is JB
Fault, Damien plays Doctor

1258
01:11:01,460 --> 01:11:04,580
Donovan Smalls, Renee plays
Franklin Kearns, and in addition

1259
01:11:04,580 --> 01:11:07,300
to mixing, mastering and music
in the episodes, Russell plays

1260
01:11:07,300 --> 01:11:09,580
Colin King.
Our album art is by Trinity the

1261
01:11:09,580 --> 01:11:12,060
Tea Time Witch and our main
theme is by Claire LW.

1262
01:11:12,580 --> 01:11:15,260
You can find socials and related
stuff in the show notes or on

1263
01:11:15,260 --> 01:11:17,860
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1264
01:11:17,860 --> 01:11:20,780
can send us an e-mail at
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1265
01:11:21,120 --> 01:11:22,960
Again, thanks for listening and
until next time.

1266
01:11:23,280 --> 01:11:27,360
I am truly and honestly dreading
finding all the bird noises for

1267
01:11:27,360 --> 01:11:28,120
the next episode.