Editing Axon Clips Chapter 8

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==Kamal==
*[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/surveillance_archive/week8_subject3.wav Audio Compilation 6min 49sec]
[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/genetic_profile.wav genetic_profile]

(working on chatter)<br />
'''Kamal''': Peekaboo you bastard... I'll find you... I'll find you peeping tom sucker-- ghost <br />me, huh?

'''Sophia''': Kamal?<br />
'''Kamal''': Sophia. What are you doing here?<br />
'''Sophia''': Uh, just dropping by. Hiro told me where to find you, and I thought that we <br />could have lunch or something.
'''Kamal''': I'm pretty busy actually.<br />
'''Sophia''': Oh? What are you working on?<br />
'''Kamal''': Laura. Her accident.<br />
'''Sophia''': Who's Laura?<br />
'''Kamal''': My sister.<br />
'''Sophia''': I thought her name was Yasmine.<br />
'''Kamal''': Sophia, it turns out your juvenile MCF victim has a real interesting genetic <br />profile. If you look hard, you get 2 distinct groups. The congenitally disfunctional, and a much smaller group of ultra-high achievers.<br />
'''Sophia''': Like your sist--<br />
'''Kamal''': --shhhh... (whispers) people are listening.<br />
'''Sophia''': Kamal, there's nobody here.<br />
'''Kamal''': Not here, here... (taps chatter) Let me show you something.<br />

[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/parabolic_lemonade_failure.wav parabolic_lemonade_failure] 

'''Kamal''': The cafeteria's a better place to talk. Realistically they can't have a live person monitoring every minute of my day.<br />
'''Sophia''': Monitoring?<br />
'''Kamal''': It's got to be a program. Probably not even an AI, just a simple keyword scavenger. An environment like this will make it harder for the voice recognition to work.<br />
'''Sophia''': Why do you think someone is ghosting you?<br />
'''Kamal''': --I don't think, I know. Someone is going me. I know the signs.<br />
'''Sophia''': Kamal...<br />
'''Kamal''': Remember that headset I won in the lottery?<br />
'''Sophia''': You mean the chatter you won in the raf--<br />
'''Kamal''': --keywords, Sophia.<br />
'''Sophia''': Oh. Oh... I get it.<br />
'''Kamal''': There was no raffle.<br />
'''Sophia''': Lottery.<br />
'''Kamal''': Right, it was a setup. Someone just wanted me to have a particular--<br />
(together) --Headset.<br />
'''Kamal''': Right.<br />
'''Sophia''': You don't think Aiden--<br />
'''Kamal''': --No. No, I don't. Aiden couldn't dream of doing the kind of ghosting that's been <br />happening to me.
'''Sophia''': Then...<br />
'''Kamal''': I think it's someone who's interested in parabolic lemonade failure.<br />
'''Sophia''': Parabolic..? oh...<br />
'''Kamal''': Right.<br />

[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/going_offline.wav going_offline]

'''Sophia''': Your...brother? The people who took your brother on that trip.<br />
'''Kamal''': Exactly.<br />
'''Sophia''': Wow.<br />
'''Kamal''': Let's get some food.<br />
'''Sophia''': What are you going to do?<br />
'''Kamal''': I'm thinking about going offline.<br />
'''Sophia''': Don't!<br />
'''Kamal''': Why?<br />
'''Sophia''': It's dangerous. Cars won't drive you, hospitals won't treat you, the automatic <br />door at the grocery store won't slide open for you, and the cashier won't take your money. You don't know what it's like to be off the grid.<br />
'''Kamal''': And you do? (to a vender) Can I have a piece of the cornbread?<br />
'''Sophia''': It's not you Kamal... you'd be like a fish on dry land without your chat<br />

[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/abracadabra.wav abracadabra] 

'''Kamal''': Hang on... (signal/offline) And presto! Now I'm offline. As far as the grid knows, I've just disappeared.<br />
'''Sophia''': If someone really is listening to you, won't they notice that you just vanished?<br />
'''Kamal/Offline''': I spent the last few days building a little Franken-kamal out of my own <br />bitstream traces.
'''Sophia''': I'm going to pretend I understood that to keep you from explaining it again.<br />
'''Kamal/Offline''': Good call.<br />
'''Sophia''': So what if they're listening to me too?<br />
'''Kamal/Offline''': Funny you should ask. I rigged a small... do you mind(?)<br />
'''Sophia''': I don't want to be offline.<br />
'''Kamal/Offline''': It's just a test.<br />
'''Sophia''': Alright.<br />
'''Kamal/Offline''': Abracadabra! (signal/offline) Congratulations! As far as the world knows, you're dead.<br /> 

[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/chatter_to_chatter.wav chatter_to_chatter] 

'''Kamal/Offline''': You're a ghost!
'''Sophia/Offline''': So now you think you're safe?<br />
'''Kamal/Offline''': Theoretically I guess you could build a program that would jump from chatter to chatter, tracking us everywhere we went, but it would have to be so unimaginably powerful.<br />
'''Sophia/Offline''': We aren't right now.<br />
'''Kamal/Offline:''' Yeah.<br />
'''Sophia/Offline''': I know that feeling.<br />
'''Kamal/Offline''': Looks like it's southern food today.<br />
'''Sophia/Offline''': Are those real instant mashed potatoes, or the other kind?<br />
'''Waiter''': Didja see a maitre'd when ya walked in?<br />
'''Sophia/Offline''': I guess I'll have the... uh... chicken-fried tofu.<br />
'''Kamal/Offline''': Kamal. Pay attention to me now. Ask me how I am.<br />
'''Sophia/Offline''': How are you?<br />
'''Kamal/Offline''': Fine.<br />
'''Sophia/Offline''': Now ask me what I'm doing here.<br />
'''Kamal/Offline''': Actually, what are you doing here?<br />
'''Sophia/Offline''': I--<br />
'''Kamal/Offline''': --a glass of juice please. Blue--<br />
'''Sophia/Offline''': --just... thought I'd drop by.<br />
'''Kamal/Offline''': Oh.

[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/deported.wav deported] 

Kamal/Offline: That's great!<br />
Sophia/Offline: You know, sometimes you are so stupid<br />
Cashier: Will that be everything?<br />
Kamal/Offline: I mean, yeah thanks, uh, I'll pay for the lady.<br />
Cashier: (tries card) Your card's dead.<br />
Kamal/Offline: Well that's impossible. Oh, wait a sec. (signal/online) Now try. Please?<br />
Cashier: (tries again)<br />
Kamal: You see?<br />
Cashier: Have a nice day.<br />
Kamal: Thanks<br />
Sophia/Offline: Can you turn mine back on?<br />
Kamal: Yeah, it was just a test. Hold on. (signal/online)<br />
Sophia: So, ask me again why I'm here eating crappy food with you in a lowsy hospital <br />cafeteria in the middle of the day.
Kamal: Um, something's wrong?<br />
Sophia: You know for a smart guy, you're... you're kind of stupid sometimes.<br />
Kamal: Sophia?<br />
Sophia: I'm going to be deported.<br />

[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/ashtray.wav ashtray]

Kamal: What?!<br />
Sophia: Aiden's in jail, the immigration cops caught him. They cancelled like half the <br />Visa's he'd arranged, including mine.
Kamal: Oh my God!<br />
Sophia: There's going to put me on a transport next month--<br />
Kamal: Sophia?!<br />
Sophia: --So my life is ruined.<br />
Kamal: Omigod, isn't there any way you can stay?<br />
Sophia: Ya, marry a citizen real fast.<br />
Kamal: Not Aiden!<br />
Sophia: Oh! Ya, sure, better to see me rot in a transport back to that dump.<br />
Kamal: You didn't mean it that way!<br />
Sophia: You know, you want to be this thing, Aiden's right, you know, you want me to <br />be your mother, that little baba ("baba" = grandmother) making coffee, but I hate that place!
Kamal: You don't mean that.<br />
Sophia: I'm glad I left! The Covies can turn it into a damned ashtray for all I care!<br />
Kamal: ...I think you should go now.<br />
Sophia: ...To hell with you.<br />

[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/they_got_it.wav they_got_it]

(Kamal returns home)<br />
Hiro: Hey, uh, Sophie called looking for you.<br />
Kamal: Oh yeah?<br />
Hiro: How about a beer?<br />
Kamal: No. I'm going to go inside and trace the bastards ghosting my chatter. I'm pretty <br />sure they're coming off the east coast.
Hiro: Beer first.<br />
Kamal: Hiro - let me in the door.<br />
Hiro: Kamal, Coral's...gone.<br />
Kamal: What?<br />
Hiro: Reports are just coming in -- they got it. It's gone. I'm sorry.<br />
Kamal: Oh my God.<br />
Hiro: On Reach, you know, on Reach they left some stuff. You've got to hope it was like <br />Reach Kamal, hold on to that.
Kamal: ...oh my God. My family!<br />

[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/just_wondering.wav just_wondering] 

(working on chatter)<br />
Kamal: What does the navy even do? We give them all this money--<br />
(knocks)<br />
Kamal: Oh no.<br />
(knocks)<br />
Sophia: Kamal?<br />
Kamal: Sophia?<br />
(opens door)<br />
Sophia: I, uh, Kamal, I was just... I--<br />
Kamal: --Sophia, it's raining, come in.<br />
Sophia: (crying)--I was in the neighborhood, I was just wondering...<br />
Kamal: Sophia, get some warmth(?)<br />
Sophia: Just wondering if you hate me?<br />
Kamal: Shh...<br />
(Sophia's crying)<br />
Sophia: Oh my God, I didn't mean it, you know I didn't mean it<br />
Kamal: I know...<br />
Sophia: Please can I stay here tonight?<br />
Kamal: Sure, of course<br />
Sophia: Please... (crying) mom...<br />
Kamal: Shh, shh...<br />

==Jersey==
*[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/surveillance_archive/week8_subject1.wav Audio Compilation 5min 04sec]
[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/real_animal_fat.wav real_animal_fat]

Bev: Hello, and welcome to Hot'n'Cold. Please, place your thumb on the transaction plate.<br />
Jersey: I'd like... do you have real cheese this week?<br />
Bev: We have a high quality, soy-based, cheese product. Many people prefer it to dairy.<br />
Jersey: I'm not of of them. Are the beans real?<br />
Bev: Thank you! I'm afraid I don't know the answer to your question.<br />
Jersey: *sigh* Give me a burrito.<br />
Bev: Would you like sour cream with that?<br />
Jersey: Is it real?<br />
Bev: We have a high quality product (voice morphs into Durga) made with 100% real <br />animal fat.
Durga: Just get a burrito.<br />

[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/dispenser.wav dispenser] 

Jersey: Durga? Are you in the dispenser?<br />
Durga: Yes. Listen, Jersey. Something clicked in my head again this week and suddenly <br />I heard the old man.
Jersey: The spy? W-wait, the one that thinks Section III is trying to kill Rani?<br />
Durga: Yes. This time he was getting his aide transferred to somewhere safe. He thinks <br />Section III is coming for him, too.
Jersey: Hm, where in the world is safe now?<br />
Durga: He sent him to New Mombasa.<br />
Jersey: Ok, that's pretty out of the way.<br />
Herbert: Oh, are you done with this dispenser yet?<br />
Jersey: Uh, almost. ...Durga, I feel stupid as hell talking to a dispenser!<br />
Durga: Too bad! I like it!<br />

[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/black_three_sugars.wav black_three_sugars] 

Herbert: Listen, buddy. I aint got all day. Give me a cup of coffee - black, three sugars.<br />
Durga: Thank you! I am still serving Mr.Morelli.<br />
Herbert: What are you, Miss Manners? Give me my damn cup of coffee!<br />
Durga: Listen, Herbert...<br />
Herbert: How do you know my name is Herbert?<br />
Durga: If you'd seen the same DNA tests I have, I'd spend less time barging into lines, and more time wondering who Herbert Jr.'s real father is.<br />
Herbert: What?<br />
Durga: I'd also start looking for work.<br />
Herbert: What?? I have a job.<br />
Durga: That was then. (chatter ping) Uh oh! I bet that's (chatter ping) going to be bad news.<br />
Jersey: Durga!<br />
Durga: (chatter ping) I wouldn't answer that in a public place if (chatter ping) I were you.<br />
Herbert: (leaving hastily) All I wanted was a cup of coffee (chatter ping)<br />
Jersey: Ok, immensely powerful dispenser, where's this voice in your head coming from?<br />
Durga: I don't know. It's as if I had a guardian angel looking out for me.<br />
Jersey: I know that feeling.<br />
(dispenser dispenses)<br />
Jersey: What's this?<br />
Durga: A free burrito. Who says flattery will get you nowhere...<br />
Jersey: Yes! 

[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/burrito_funeral.wav burrito_funeral]

Jersey: Wait. It's got lettuce on it.<br />
Durga: Lettuce is good for you.<br />
Jersey: But I don't like lettuce.<br />
Durga: You don't even like vegetables.<br />
Jersey: I eat more than you do! hahaha Gotcha!<br />
Durga: I have seen your 4th grade picture, Jersey, and I can send it to every girl you <br />know in a heartbeat. Remember that.<br />
Jersey: Yikes. Lettuce will be fine. So, what's so interesting about this old guy?<br />
Durga: He thinks there's an incredibly powerful device being kept secret on Chawla base.<br />
Jersey: Is there?<br />
Durga: (mocking dispenser impersonation) Thank you! I'm afraid I don't know the <br />answer to your question. Enjoy your burrito!
Jersey: Alright, so how much time do we have?<br />
Durga: You need to get back to the apartment and change.<br />
Jersey: *sigh* Yeah, this is my first.<br />
Durga: Burrito?<br />
Jersey: Funeral.<br />



==Janissary==
*[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/surveillance_archive/week8_subject2.wav Audio Compilation 6min 17sec]
[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/sweet_as_sweet.wav sweet_as_sweet] 

Jan: I'll be ready when I'm ready.<br />
Gilly: Great angles from these windows. Jim picked a good place. Defensible. I guess he <br />did most of the cleaning around here. Is that what you're wearing to the funeral? A combat shirt with the sleaves torn off?<br />
Jan: Yeah. Look, you're not my mother, ok? You weren't here when I was growing up, <br />he was.
Gilly: Yeah. Ok. I guess I'm more like the ghost of your mother. Hey, here comes Gladys. You could pick her off sweet as sweet from these windows. 

[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/not_coming.wav not_coming]

Gilly: (closes the window) Time for me to bug out.<br />
Jan: Aren't you going to the funeral?<br />
Gilly: Mmm... dead people don't interest me so much.<br />
Jan: Jeezus!<br />
Gilly: It's not like Jim Lee is going to be there kid.<br />
Gladys: (knocks) Hey? Anybody home?<br />
Jan: Hey, Gladys.<br />
Gladys: Hello Jan. Hey Gilly. You're not coming, right?<br />
Gilly: Nah, take care of the kid. See ya.<br />
Gladys: Yeah, see ya Gilly. (door closes) You holding together ok, hun?<br />
Jan: Is she on drugs?<br />
Gladys: Hope so. Is that what you're wearing?<br />
Jan: Don't hassle me, ok?<br />

[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/one_point_one.wav one_point_one] 

(ambient funeral sounds)<br />
Jan: Thanks<br />
Gladys: Well, that was a nice service - clean, short. Hun, aren't you cold?<br />
Jan: No, I'm fine. So, who are all these people?<br />
Gladys: Well it's your kin. That there's Moralis, oh and the kid next to him is his son <br />Kevin, who's like you, a 1.1. And that there, that guy's DAC10, came in from the west coast for this--<br />
Jan: A 1.1?<br />
Gladys: A Spartan 1.0's kid. There's 16 of you.<br />
Jan: Oh great, another freak.<br />
Gladys: Kevin's a nice boy. Oh, Moralis said that you could stay with him for a while. Might be nice to get to know another kid like you.<br />
Jan: Stay with him? I don't even know him.<br />

[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/this_damn_rain.wav this_damn_rain] 

Gladys: Well, it's not like you can stay with Gilly<br />
Jan: I dont have to stay with anybody.<br />
Gladys: No one is saying you need to decide anything right now.<br />
Jan: I'm 17, I can live on my own.<br />
Gladys: Ok!<br />
Jan: He looks like a grind...<br />
Gladys: Who? <br />
Jan: The 1.1 kid. He's a dweeb.<br />
Gladys: Kevin? He doesn't usually wear a suit.<br />
Jan: Yeah, but look at his hair... on the other hand, he obviously hasn't gotten his dad killed.<br />
Gladys: Now I told you once and I'll tell you again, that dog don't hunt. Jim James got in over his head. It happens.<br />
Jan: It's rule #1, Gladys. Never go into a situation alone.<br />
Gladys: And he broke it.<br />
Jan: Because it was me!<br />
Gladys: Sometimes those things happen, honey. Like the weather... like this damn rain.<br />

[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/james_james.wav james_james] 

Jan: Hey Gladys, Gilly called dad by a different name. Lee - Jim Lee.<br />
Gladys: She did, huh?<br />
Jan: Is my last name really Lee?<br />
Gladys: Your last name is whatever you want it to be. You want to be Janissary James, <br />that's who you are.
Jan: But I...<br />
Gladys: James James... (chuckles) He said it was so dumb everybody would assume he'd <br />been born with it.
Jan: So do I... have cousins or something?<br />
Gladys: Well now I can't help you out there. I know this family, but Jim never talked <br />about that one.

[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/free_cemetery.wav free_cemetery] 

Jersey: Hey Jan. I guess the rain finally stopped, huh?<br />
Jan: Jersey, what are you doing here?<br />
Jersey: I'm so sorry about your dad. Listen, could I talk to you for a sec?<br />
Jan: Talk away, Jersey, it's a free cemetery.<br />
Jersey: I mean in private.<br />
Jan: Look, I'm kind of strung out from all this, could we do it some other time?<br />
Jersey: It's important. I promise.<br />
Jan: Sure.<br />
Jersey: Hey, do you want my rain coat? You look really cold.<br />
Jan: No, I'm ok. Now, what did you want?<br />
Jersey: Look, I know all about Thin Kinkle. And Bradley. And the knife.<br />

[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/go_ninja.wav go_ninja] 

Jan: How do you know that?<br />
Jersey: I've been ghosting your CP.<br />
Jan: You've been spying on me?<br />
Jersey: A little, a little - but before you go all ninja and kill me, let me just say we can <br />really help you.
Jan: We? Hah, like who? You and Steve? Oh! I know, you and Dwayne.<br />
Jersey: No, just me, and a really good AI program I've got.<br />
Jan: You pathetic sneaking bastard, if you were listening to me, why didn't you call the cops?!<br />
Jersey: Listen, listen - Kinkle's boss is a woman called Monster Ann, she works out of a place called Crystal Security Fence & Gate.<br />

[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/perimiter_alarms.wav perimeter_alarms]

Jan: Say that again...<br />
Jersey: I know who Kinkle's boss is. And I know the business that she uses as a front.<br />
Jan: How do you know that?<br />
Jersey: Jan, I've got God's own spyware. And if you tell anybody about it...<br />
Jan: Jeezus Jersey...<br />
Jersey: I can get you inside their security.<br />
Jan: If you're lying to me--<br />
Jersey: Hey, hey, remember how the perimeter alarms went off when your dad showed up at Thin's place?<br />
Jan: Yeah.<br />
Jersey: Never went off went Gilly showed up did they?<br />
Jan: I don't know, I don't know, I was out.<br />
Jersey: Well, they didn't.<br />
Jan: You did that?<br />
Jersey: We did.<br />
Jan: Aunt Gladys! Aunt Gladys! Hey, come over here, there's someone I want you to <br />meet.

[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/say_please.wav say_please]

Gladys: So you want me to believe you've got an AI that can hack into things the police <br />can't split open? And you programmed this thing yourself?
Jersey: No, well...<br />
Gladys: Boy - either one of two things: You are lying and this is a setup by the people who killed Jim James, or you are wasting my time. And in either case, I am not a happy woman.<br />
Jersey: No wait, for one thing, you don't want to piss her off.<br />
Gladys: 'Her'?<br />
Durga: Me. You are Gladys Wilson, born Gladys Ashantia Swanson in Tahoka, Texas. You volunteered for a Spartan program in January of 2491, after a year and a half of special forces.<br />
Gladys: How in the world--?<br />
Durga: Your superior, Aaron Lewis, said he OK'd the transfer because you were a good soldier. But in his words, 'more trouble than fireants at a barbeque'. And this was one way to get rid of you.<br />
Gladys: What the hell is this?<br />
Durga: You were decorated for bravery at Eridanus, retired after making Gunnery <br />Sargeant, entered into a brief, but spectacular marriage--
Gladys: --huh--<br />
Durga: --with a man who just couldn't keep his zipper--<br />
Gladys: --Shut her up!<br />
Durga: Say please.<br />

==Jersey==
[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/military_application.wav military_application] 

(entering apartment)<br />
Jersey: That was sad.<br />
Durga: Yes.<br />
Jersey: ...and scary. Gladys...<br />
Durga: I thought you handled her fine.<br />
Jersey: You're the one that handled her. Durga?<br />
Durga: Yes.<br />
Jersey: Are we doing the right thing? I mean, giving Jan all this stuff about Thin and <br />Monster Ann and Crystal security?
Durga: Why do you ask?<br />
Jersey: Well, Jan's looking to make someone hurt. Even if it's just herself.<br />
Durga: If you're waiting for me to say violence is never the answer, you'll be waiting a <br />long time. As you pointed out, I was built as a military application.
Jersey: Yeah... I've been thinking about that. Durga, what's Kamal doing right now?<br />
Durga: He's gone offline. I've been meaning to tell you - he's got processes running to <br />block me. And he's turned everything off.
Jersey: Commuter grid?<br />
Durga: Nothing.<br />
Jersey: You'll find him.<br />
Durga: I don't like not knowing where he is.<br />

[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/she_died.wav she_died] 

Jersey: Yeah, I think there's a reason for that.<br />
Durga: What?<br />
Jersey: Tell me about his sister.<br />
Durga: Who cares about her?<br />
Jersey: Durga! Does Kamal have blue eyes, or brown?<br />
Durga: Brown.<br />
Jersey: Favourite color?<br />
Durga: He thinks it's red, but it's a tie between iced-tea color and water at dusk blue.<br />
Jersey: The third test he took his 2nd year at med-school...?<br />
Durga: Pathology 2 - Skin Infections. He aced it, which was trickier than it sounds. The <br />professor didn--
Jersey: --So he had a sister, she died, and it turned out she was kidnapped.<br />
Durga: So? I mean, who cares? (voice slowly mutates)<br />
Jersey: Take a little girl, right... kidnap her, so they could turn her into a Spartan. Only <br />some people don't make it through the process. That's what Jan's dad said.
Durga: (girl's voice slowly intercedes) I don't care about her. I'm me.<br />

[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/another_name.wav another_name] 

Jersey: The ones that don't - there's this thing called 'cognitive impression <br />mapping'. They use their brains to make smart AIs. Like you.
Durga: Jersey?<br />
Jersey: When you were little, Durga, they kidnapped you. They faked some kind of <br />accident and rushed you to the hospital.
Durga: Stop it Jersey.<br />
Jersey: They sent the flash-clone home to your family.<br />
Durga: Please?<br />
Jersey: Once upon a time, a long time ago, you had another name, Durga. And that name <br />- was Yasmine.
Durga: Don't say that! (Durga's voice slowly returns) It feels-- I feel terrible. Jersey. <br />That's not me. I like what I am.
Jersey: (whispers to himself) For a quality experience, kiddo, the girl had to be real.<br />

==Rani==
*[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/surveillance_archive/week8_subject4.wav Audio Compilation 7min 57sec]
[http://ilovebees.com/outbound/sleeping_underground.wav sleeping_underground]

Rani: Sarah-John, thanks for the offer, but I've got to stay with my mom and dad.<br />
Sarah: Jason wouldn't mind.<br />
Rani: Well you've been married a month! Jason sure'd better mind!<br />
Sarah: Well then stay with my mom, you don't have to stay at your parents'.<br />
Rani: They can't make me that crazy, for two nights.<br />
Sarah: Rani, he's making your mom live in the bunker...<br />
Rani: They're living underground?<br />
Sarah: Your dad's afraid they won't get any warning.<br />
Rani: Well I am not sleeping underground in my dad's bunker.<br />
Sarah: (laughs) It's more than just a bunker, Rani. Your mom and dad had us over for dinner last Sunday, and we got - the tour.<br />
Rani: "The tour?"<br />
Sarah: You at your driveway yet?<br />
Rani: Just coming up on it.<br />
Sarah: Wait til you see your new room.<br />
Rani: New room?<br />
Sarah: Actually it's your old room - he moved the whole thing.<br />
Rani: What does that even mean? My room is on the 2nd-- (sees the house) Oh my God! <br />What happened to my house?? Sarah-John?!
Sarah: 'No point in leaving the good stuff above ground' - that's what your dad said!<br />

[http://ilovebees.com/outbound/duck_pond.wav duck_pond] 

Rani: Dad, are you down here?<br />
Tommy: Rani! Well don't you look business-like? Move back home and you can wear <br />overalls every day.
Rani: Just visiting for the weekend, daddy. I've got a good job.<br />
Tommy: A good job. The Covies are coming and you're worrying about your job? Come <br />home, honey...
Rani: If we don't all do our part in the fight, we will surely all die when they get here, <br />dad. So yeah, I'm worried about my job... dad... why are you living under the duck pond?<br />

[http://ilovebees.com/outbound/heat_sink.wav heat_sink] 

Tommy: (chuckles) Hear me out now. You see, water can never be hotter than <br />boiling, which is 100 degrees. That pond is a heat sink. You know what a heat sink is...?<br />
Rani: I can kind of figure it out, but--<br />
Tommy: --underneath the pond is a full meter of ice, wrapped in piezo-foam and <br />pelticours.
Rani: Daddy! Listen to yourself!<br />
Tommy: And under that, is a meter of wax. Under that is the sealant here which is <br />foamed glass, just like a cooking pot.
Rani: How did you afford all this?<br />
Tommy: They measure it in joules. The heat, and this room, can take 70 billion of them <br />before it even begins to warm up!
Rani: Dad?<br />
Tommy: I've been all through the pension thing with your mother, Rani. I don't need to <br />hear it from you.
Rani: Your pension?! 

[http://ilovebees.com/outbound/fusion_cell.wav fusion_cell]

Rani: Daddy!<br />
Tommy: Did you listen to the news today, honey? They got to Coral too.<br />
Rani: Oh my god... Coral too?<br />
Tommy: Money's no good when the planet's glassed, sweet pea. I have got a year's <br />supply of food down here and a composter that turns waste into soil, I've got a starship grade recycler, and a fusion cell to run it.<br />
Rani: But... this is crazy...<br />
Tommy: Over here I've got picks and drills for digging out through the glass, and seeds <br />that ought to do well after, well... you know, afterwards. Hey, I've been doing my homework on this.<br />
Rani: Daddy, this is crazy. It might be 20 years before the Covenant comes.<br />
Tommy: "So man also knoweth not his time", as the preacher said.<br />
Rani: You know what... I... I can't even talk to you. I can't.<br />
Tommy: Rani... Rani!<br />
(Rani leaves)<br />

[http://ilovebees.com/outbound/persnickety.wav persnickety] 

Rani: I'm amazed dad still lets you use the above ground kitchen.<br />
Leah: It's just until he can get the fusion cell working. It's being persnickety.<br />
Rani: Mom, you've got to stop him. This is crazy.<br />
Leah: Honey, you're daddy's doing what he thinks he needs to do.<br />
Rani: You're living under a duck pond!<br />
Tommy: Rani!<br />
Leah: Tommy, don't you have to go to the hardware?<br />
Tommy: I don't have to go right now, I can go tomorrow morning.<br />
Leah: Well you go now. And get there before they close.<br />
Tommy: Look, I just want to explain--<br />
Leah: --Let us talk a bit.<br />
Tommy: Oh. Ok, uh... Rani, you want I should get you anything?<br />
Rani: No, daddy. I'm fine.<br />

[http://ilovebees.com/outbound/new_chicken.wav new_chicken] 

Tommy: I'll just take stock in the garage a minute, and then I'll go.<br />
Leah: Here's your tea, sweet pea.<br />
(dad leaves)<br />
Rani: How can you put up with it? When I was a kid, it was the AI dog-walker business. <br />And then he was going to grow ginseng. And then, it was duck. The new chicken. It's one crazy scheme after another, and now, this!<br />
Leah: Your daddy has always worked hard, always has a job, and always been faithful.<br />
Rani: You're living under a duck pond.<br />
Leah: I know! Aint it great? 

[http://ilovebees.com/outbound/only_one_alive.wav only_one_alive] 

Leah:What cute young thing with a figure is that man <br />going to lure under a duck pond?<br />
Rani: Mom, be serious.<br />
Leah: Rani, everybody is looking at the same thing, and we've all got to find ways to deal with it.<br />
Rani: Well, medication is a whole lot cheaper.<br />
Leah: They're saying people survived on parts of Reach. And for your father that means there's a chance. If only he can take it.<br />
Rani: Do you really think it's going to work?<br />
Leah: Honey, if the Covenant comes, I don't want it to work. I don't want to be the only one alive. But I trust in my maker. Whatever happens happens for a reason.
Rani: I don't know, mom.<br />

[http://ilovebees.com/outbound/eye_out.wav eye_out] 

Leah: You know what I admire about your father? Despair looked him in the eye <br />and he didn't blink. And these days, hope is something we need more than pills or bullets.<br />
(chatter beep)<br />
Rani: Hold on mom.<br />
(Rani takes the chatter outside)<br />
Herzog: (on chatter) Rani...<br />
Rani: Wow, aren't you afraid this line will be cracked?<br />
Herzog: Not this line. Listen, Section 3 security on Chawla base - that's where they're <br />keeping the artifact.
Rani: I know it. I don't have nearly that kind of clearance.<br />
Herzog: I know, but keep an eye out. Watch for techs. Word is they've been going over <br />and over it with magnetometers.

[http://ilovebees.com/outbound/big_city.wav big_city]

Rani: Ok.<br />
Herzog: Since they triggered the artifact, it's been putting out fluctuating fields, up and down, weaker and stronger, but steadily overall, weaker - it's decaying.
Rani: Is that wierd? It sounds binary or something... up, down, on, off...<br />
Herzog: It's more of an oscillation. I think it will continue for a few weeks more. It's regular enough they can estimate it.<br />
(rustling)<br />
Rani: My dad's coming out to his truck. I've got to go.<br />
Herzog: Uh Rani, I don't know how much longer I'll be able to keep in touch. If you can't find me, don't come looking, and don't mention anything to anyone. For your own protection.<br />
Rani: What are you g--<br />
(chatter off)<br />
Tommy: Hi Rani. Those folks making you work on the weekend?<br />
Rani: Big city, you know. Rush rush rush!<br />

[http://ilovebees.com/outbound/decay_timer.wav decay_timer]

Tommy: So I said to Len, well, you know how Len is - Len, I can do the test. I've got the certification. (chuckles) ...A great dinner Leah!<br />
Leah: Thank you honey.<br />
Rani: Oh, yeah mom, really good.<br />
Leah: Something on your mind, sweet pea?<br />
Rani: Mm, I had a wierd call from work today. I'm not allowed to talk about it. Go on daddy.<br />
Tommy: Ah, well, Len wants me to make sure we're not getting static discharges. If you get static during assembly, it can fry your work.<br />
Rani: Uh huh<br />
Tommy: But we don't have the kind of audit equipment for what he's asking for. So I said, Len, I'm going to need a variable resistance reference, and with that kind of oscillation, I'd need a decay timer. I'd need an audit kit like the one I had over at McFarlane's.<br />
Rani: Wait, what did you say? A decay timer?<br />
Tommy: Yeah, a decay timer. You can estimate how long it's going to take before it drops under a certain threshold.<br />
Rani: So things decay, and they get weaker and weaker in a way that you can predict, right daddy?<br />
Tommy: Oh, well, sure.<br />
Rani: I've got to make a call.<br />

[http://ilovebees.com/outbound/counting_down.wav counting_down]

(Rani runs outside and calls Herzog)<br />
Herzog: (on chatter) Rani, you shouldn't call me.<br />
Rani: The artifact -<br />
Herzog: Yes?<br />
Rani: My dad was talking about something called a magnetic decay timer. What if the artifact is a timer?<br />
Herzog: The artifact...<br />
Rani: Maybe it didn't go off one time, like a grenade. Maybe that was just the pulse of it turning on and now it's counting down.<br />
Herzog: If it is, what happens--<br />
Rani: --when it gets to zero<br />

==[[Herzog]]==
*[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/surveillance_archive/week8_subject5.wav Audio Compilation 1min 39sec]
[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/no_trespassing.wav no_trespassing] 

Standish: Herzog<br />
Herzog: Who is it?<br />
Standish: Standish<br />
Herzog: Is this connection secure?<br />
Standish: I'm using a disposable line. Are you busy?<br />
Herzog: Just catching up on paperwork while the car drives. What do you want?<br />
Standish: Uh where are you?<br />
Herzog: In a car, Standish.<br />
Standish: Hey, you hear they're talking about dropping the speed on the belt-way again? From 350kph to 300. Yeah, they say the road-bed is so degraded, it isn't safe, and it's too expensive to upgrade.<br />
Herzog: You called me to talk about construction on the belt-way?<br />
Standish: No! Uh, your girl, the one at Chawla - you'll be pleased to know the Admiral has put no trespassing all over her.<br />
Herzog: That was stupid Standish.<br />
Standish: I know. They weren't supposed to kill her, just scare her.<br />
Herzog: Spare me.<br />
Standish: You're right, they were going to kill her. <br />

[http://transmit.ilovebees.com/outbound/results_are_results.wav results_are_results]

Standish: She was a problem. But, she wasn't the real problem.<br />
Herzog: No, the real problem was that you're a dictator and we live in a democracy.<br />
Standish: The real problem is that you and I have always seen the world differently. I am willing to sacrifice principle for results.<br />
Herzog: Principles are results they are ends in themselves.<br />
Standish: No, results are results.<br />
[Vehicle]: Switching from automatic guidance to manual.<br />
Standish: Herzog. At the bottom of this hill, watch out for the bridge.<br />
(comm off)<br />
[Vehicle]: I'm sorry, manual breaking at this speed is not recommended. If you would like me to apply automatic deceleration, please--<br />
(enormous crash, static)

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