WEBVTT - Episode 9: Polycule Story, Bro 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:03.920 The Hookup is a production of iHeart Podcasts, Blumbhouse Television, 0:00:03.960 --> 0:00:12.200 and Amber twenty Listener discretion is totally advised. Solving a 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:15.480 mystery is kind of like a Rubik's cube. At the beginning, 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:18.680 all you have is this scramble of disorganized tiles and 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:22.040 the vague reassurance that some combination of twists and turns 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:25.400 will restore the cube to order. Like if I line 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:28.880 up this clue with this question and this person, suddenly 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:31.360 I have a strip of consecutive red tiles and things 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:34.800 start to make a little sense. Example, let's say the 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:38.519 Ludlow Lodge apartment complex is one green tile. Being the 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:41.479 site of Sante's disappearance, we can say with some confidence 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:44.800 that it's relevant to the puzzle. Another green tile would 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:47.720 be the psychotic former Bellboy who lives at Ludlow Lodge. 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:50.720 He went crazy and attacked Matello that night. So it's 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:54.240 an easy connection. So let's just shift this row so 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:58.080 the two tiles are side by side. Okay, great, what's 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:01.920 another clue I can shove into this metaphor? Hmm, the hookup? 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:07.200 Of course, bell Boy did make Mateo inhale it, but 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:10.160 I can't make those tiles line up because we're forgetting 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:13.800 about my stalker. You know, he who wears a crustwick 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:17.520 bad mitten hoodie and watches me from the shadows definitely 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:21.520 warns a tile. Except when I try to make the 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:24.200 stalker fit into the puzzle, it pushes bel Boy out 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:26.360 of the way. After all, I bumped into bell Boy 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:28.679 while running away from my stalker, so they couldn't be 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:32.200 the same. No, but the bell Boy has to be involved. 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:35.400 I mean, take this yellow square here. This is the 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:37.720 vision Mateo pulled down from the hook up Hive mind, 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:39.720 in which he saw a body being shoved down the 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:43.240 normally locked the lodge, dumbwaiter. And who would have keys 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:46.960 to said dumbwaiter The fucking bell Boy, of course, which 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:50.520 is a really hard piece of evidence to ignore if 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:53.520 it even is evidence, It hadn't occurred to me. But 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:56.040 isn't it possible that when Matteo recounted his vision he 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:58.520 was actually already under the Hives influence and that was 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:01.200 all a lie to throw me off. That would align 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:04.400 with Elias's yellow tile here where he suspected that Sandy 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:06.360 was involved in manufacturing the hookup. 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:10.440 Maybe maybe that's the issue. 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:14.000 If we stop trusting Elias's intel. A lot of this 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:17.919 falls apart. Plus, he literally had access to the school's 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:23.360 cadaver lab. Like, hello, easy body disposal. Damn it, it 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:29.440 can't be Alias. He has an alibi. Yeah, a mystery 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:32.000 is a lot like a Rubik's cube. I don't know 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:48.480 how to solve either. Hey, Wade, what's an inflatable butt plug? 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:52.400 Which part isn't clear? This place is bigger than I 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:53.040 was expecting. 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:55.800 Yeah, it's like the three story sex Costco. I never 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:58.840 knew I wanted. That's a lie. I've always wanted a 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:00.000 three story sex costco. 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:03.720 Whoa check out the mosaic wall of condom wrappers? 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:06.480 Are you posting that? 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:07.560 Mm hmm? 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:13.760 Hashtag gay, hashtag gay boy, hashtag LGBTQ, hashtag gay life, 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:17.320 hashtag gay life. 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:22.120 Wow, really showing some pride in the tags there? Huh? 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:22.240 What? 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:23.519 Nothing? 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:25.120 No? Really? 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:27.600 What they say you can pick your friends? 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:31.960 Hey, the sandbox is my territory. 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:35.240 You tweet bitch, and they say you can pick your nose. 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:36.080 Fine? 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:38.040 You smelling boogers anyway. 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:42.440 But for some reason, I have always been pathologically unable 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:50.040 to pick my battles. I just find it curious when 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:52.400 I see tags like that. I mean, don't you feel 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:56.520 a little weird exploiting your sexuality to drive social media traffic? 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:01.560 Exploiting my sexuality? Who's being a? How is it a 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:04.120 crime to celebrate and share my identity? 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:08.600 Well, like, your identity isn't really what you're celebrating and sharing. 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:11.920 You're sharing an Android quality photo of a condom ball. 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:16.040 I mean, there's nothing even specifically queer about that. Like 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:18.719 if you were to post a picture of a newborn 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:22.000 cousin which you captioned at hashtag gays of Instagram? 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:25.800 Is the newborn cousin gay? Well, how could we know 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:26.880 that exactly? 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:27.279 So? 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:29.960 Why are you assuming the tags should all be straight? 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:32.680 I'm not. I'm saying that if the post isn't about 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:34.840 who the baby fucks, the tags don't need to be either. 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:38.360 WHOA? How can you reduce the entirety of the gay 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:39.680 experience to who you. 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:42.599 Fuck by tagging a photo of condoms as gay? 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:47.120 I didn't realize you were one of those I'm gay, 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.880 but it's not my entire personality types. 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:54.080 Bold words from someone who up until very recently described 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:55.880 themselves as straight acting. 0:04:56.480 --> 0:05:02.799 Oh Jesus dayman, did that seem straight acting? 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:04.080 It? 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:09.760 Did not, No, so we should probably, like, I don't know, 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:11.800 look for clues or something. 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:13.719 That was weird. 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:17.720 It's probably just the locale, right, you know the same 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.440 way bookstores give you the urge to poop. Sex shops 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:22.520 make you horny for your sort of nemesis. 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:27.560 Okay, scrapy doo. And exactly what kind of clues are 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:29.159 you envisioning we'll find here? 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:30.000 You know? 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:33.440 Like, uh, this could be one. 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:42.040 Commander Cox Space Explorer five five? Do do people still 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:43.080 buy porn on DVD? 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:43.680 Well? 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:46.480 Not since Max acquired mission to uranus. 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:50.640 Uriness pun That is a low hanging fruit, my friend. 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:54.880 At the very least I was expecting we come in peace. 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:59.039 Did you just shit? That is better? 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:02.279 Oh my god, Wade, we could be a stand up duo. 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:05.480 I'm the funny one and you play the straight man. 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:06.640 Haw ha. 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:08.440 Save it for the podcast. 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:11.080 Podcasts are kind of gay. 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:14.120 Damien, aren't these? 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:19.120 They are indeed behind the glass counter, colorful little bottles 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:23.799 are aligned in perfect order. Musk Berlin Blitz, Chinese water torture, 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:29.120 and of course the hookup. Oh yeah, one thing I 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:31.960 should have mentioned. As we were entering Chock full of Nuts, 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:34.680 I gave way to spark notes run down on the hookup. 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:38.800 Fortunately for him, I'm very good at explaining complex information 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:45.279 in super digestible terms. So when Mateo maybe received that 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:48.640 dumbwaiter murder vision from a hive mind propagoon, I tried 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.920 to move the red rubiscube tile but couldn't because of Elias, 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:54.799 the gay science kid from Werewolf. Does that make sense, 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:57.559 hey Wade, what's an inflatable butt plug? 0:06:59.200 --> 0:06:59.680 Anyway? 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:00.719 The hookup? 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:04.360 Welcome to Chalk full of Nuts, where the customer always 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:08.160 comes first. As Ludlow Hills Premiere Adult Supply Boutique, We're 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:10.600 sure to knock your socks off and get your rocks off. 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:11.720 Uh, thank you. 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:14.800 I wasn't finished. 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:17.520 Now I have to start over. 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:22.679 Welcome to Chalk full of Nuts, where the customer always 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:26.680 comes first. As Ludlow Hills Premiere Adult Supply Boutique, We're 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:29.640 sure to knock your socks off and get your rocks off. 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:32.560 I'm Nancy, Jesus. 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:37.400 Thanks Nancy. Could you possibly tell me who your supplier 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:39.040 is for these hookup poppers? 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:42.880 Do I look like I know that? Well? 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:45.960 No, Frankly, But is it something you could find out? 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:51.400 Well no, Frankly, I can't disclose distributor information, but I 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:53.440 can tell you about the promotion we're running this week, 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:56.480 a free bottle of the hookup with every purchase. 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.320 Audio cue Damien's heart sinks. 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:02.600 Kitchen's pushing the hookup. 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:06.240 That feels bad and like the next phase of a 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:10.720 very deliberate rollout scheme. I'll just get one bottle of 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:18.920 the hookup, thanks for research purposes. Not a total lie, though, truthfully, 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:23.280 I have been thinking I'm just given all the anguish lately. 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:28.240 Maybe it would be easier if no quit it? 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:28.520 Dame? 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:30.560 Did you just slap yourself? 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:31.600 Don't worry about it? 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:32.600 Hey? 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:32.880 Uh? 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:34.000 Do you take apple pey? 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:36.960 I literally just said you'd get the hookup free with 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:39.840 any purchase. Why would you buy it alone? 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:43.040 Oh my god, fine, I'll get this. 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:46.040 I should have looked at what I was grabbing. 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:53.600 All right, one red silicone ballgag and your free. 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:54.360 Bottle of the hookup. 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:59.720 Thank you so much, Nancy. 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:04.480 So nope, Hey, I don't think shame you, do you? 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:08.640 Oh Damien? Look Prestwick Badminton Nody ten o'clock. 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:15.640 Six o'clock, seven o'clock. You're right, okay, not necessarily him, though, 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:17.720 I mean I hear the bad mitten kids are a 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:18.400 horny crown. 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:21.760 Look, he's got the black mask. That's definitely your attacker. 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:24.960 Okay, first of all, we refer to him as my stalker, 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:28.200 it implies I'm borth stalking. Second, fuck, he's coming this 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:30.200 way in the aisle, Go go go. 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:36.280 Can you see him? Yeah, he's heading towards the back. 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:40.440 Come on, wait, turn that off. He's gonna hear us. 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:42.880 I'm trying. I don't know how it got switched out. Stop. 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:45.360 I don't think there is an off button. Maybe it's voice. 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:47.920 There's an off button. Wade fucking give me that. 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:52.760 Stop it. On the bright side, we're lucky it wasn't 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:55.880 one of the ten inch ones. Your stalker definitely would 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:56.240 have heard that. 0:09:57.080 --> 0:09:58.600 Well, I do appreciate the levity. 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:01.679 I'm a little more folk, gust On, said stalker, passing 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:05.079 through a set of double doors across the shop. Where 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:06.840 does that door lead. 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:08.000 The Minotaur's sex labyrinth? 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:11.280 Just Dancy, Jesus scared me. 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:15.040 Sorry, had to restock the electro shock lube. 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:17.720 What's the minotaur's sex labyrinth. 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:21.200 It's where we keep our higher end instruments of pleasure. 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:23.160 Can we go in there? 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:26.480 If you think you can afford anything. 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:36.040 Swar vibrators in there are something to me affording. What's 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:40.240 to say about the Minotaur's sex labyrinth? Sans context? You 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:43.840 might think it's some froddy fundraiser spookas the crumbling stone 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:46.840 walls are just spray painted plaster, and the gravel coating 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:49.959 the floor obviously came from a home depot decorative rocks 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:54.480 bag somewhat infrequently. The odd plasticene phallus protrudes from the walls, 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:57.199 looking more like exhibits than product for sale. 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:01.439 Oh, I wasn't expecting this to actually be a labyrinth. 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:05.760 It's not a great business model. You can't find anything. 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:08.200 Sh I think he went that way? 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:11.560 Come on, Damian, slow down. 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:12.640 I don't want to lose him. 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:18.560 It's fine, he's just around this corner. Of course, it's 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:20.959 equally possible he vanished into oblivion. 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:24.880 We stumble out into a circular clearing scattered with fake 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:28.720 plastic shackles and skeletons. I guess for max dungeon aesthetic. 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:33.840 The outer wall is punctuated by six branching corridors, each 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:38.079 one opening into a wash of darkness. Damn it, six passages? 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:41.800 Fuck? Which way did he go? I? Don't know. I 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:46.439 can't see. It's too fucking dim. Was that you? No? 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:49.839 Did you hear that one? 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:53.599 Hey, Damien, how well do you remember your Greek mythology? 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:54.560 Uh? 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:58.840 Beyond what I've seen in Zena? Not super well? Why 0:11:58.840 --> 0:11:59.280 do you ask? 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.599 Are we just wondering how theseus escaped the labyrinth in 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:03.160 that story? 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:08.520 Fuck theseus? This is my story, and I'm gonna escape 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:14.439 the labyrinth my way with Metal. Remember earlier how we 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:17.199 figured out Metal has been showing the targeted ads for 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:18.199 a chalk full of nuts. 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:21.320 We fell right into its trap by coming here. 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:25.600 I don't necessarily think it was a trap. Yeah, the 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:26.400 app lurred us. 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:26.640 Here, but. 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:33.880 I think Metal has been helping me. Look this sort 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:37.160 by proximity tab has never been here before. Metal is 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:37.840 on our side. 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:42.440 Huh. Whoa waite? 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:46.840 Look Look at the second profile down Sondy. 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:49.439 That can't really be him, can it? 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:53.720 We'll see. Look when I move in this direction, the 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:59.040 profiles reorder themselves. Yes, yes, okay, Come on this way, 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.520 follow the path, delving deeper and deeper into the maze 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:05.160 until we come face to face. 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:08.360 With Adore off limits. 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:10.439 The limit does not exist. 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:14.000 Wad wait, wait, wait, hold a second what are you 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:16.040 really sure you're ready? 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:18.560 I warrant you this is going to be dangerous. Wade. 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:20.520 I won't blame you if you want to go home, 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:22.079 but I just know it's not what I mean. 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:26.200 Are you sure you're ready to know what happened? Even 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:28.800 if that metal account really is himmen and we manage 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:33.840 some spectacular rescue. What's your plan? Are you too just 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:35.319 gonna pick up where you left off? 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:41.640 I think that's the plan. I mean, otherwise, what was 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:47.320 the point of all this? But it's weird imagining the 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:52.880 person I was back then. I mean, would Santy even 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:53.520 recognize me? 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:59.560 Now? Sorry, not a helpful question, but I definitely don't 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:02.920 want to go, at least not alone. 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:04.960 Rat. 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:07.440 Then let's go. 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:15.360 For obvious reasons. 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:17.800 I've been doing a lot of research lately on paupers, 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:22.520 you know, the chemical makeup, history manufacturing. So as I 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:25.000 find myself in the center of what I have no 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:28.440 doubt is the factory producing the hookup, I'm surprised at 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:33.680 how well surprised I am. See as Wade and I 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:37.000 emerge from the dim passageway and onto the catwalk stretching 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:40.280 across the top of the factory, it's impossible not to 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:41.880 notice what this place looks like. 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:46.280 Holy shit, is this a craft brewery? 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:49.640 Indeed, tall metallic brewing tanks line the walls, and the 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:52.960 faux labyrinth architecture has been replaced by the sleek, wooden 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:56.720 veneer and metal graded walkways you'd find on well a 0:14:56.800 --> 0:15:00.520 brewery tour. It looks like one, but so I don't 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:06.920 think they're making IPAs. Check the emblem on the brewing tanks. 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:08.880 The hookup, and see below that those little. 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:13.280 Words miasma corp, miasma. 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:16.760 Hey, what are you doing getting a better look? 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:20.720 Double time truck gets here in an hour and we're 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:22.800 still short three thousand bottles. 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:27.360 Three thousand bottles. There aren't three thousand gays in Ludlow County. 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:33.520 Oh oh no, The barking foreman remains to be seen. 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:35.720 But I have a clearer of you now, the worker 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:41.360 bees bottling and packaging the poppers, and I wish I didn't. 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:50.440 It's all the converted hookup goons of Ludlow Hills, Big Top, 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:53.960 a bell boy, the PM Peter, the cute Chipotle cashier 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:55.440 Faki is gay. 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:59.400 Rather was I guess? 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:05.280 And then of course Matteo. It's not enough to just 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:07.400 fuck with them. They have to be a part of 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:10.760 this too. You heard that guy, The hookup is about 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:15.360 to be shipped wide. I can't let that happen, not 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:16.160 to anyone else. 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:20.640 Okay, fine, but don't just barge in half cocked. Look 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:23.000 down on the ground floor. Do you see that bullpen 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:23.520 of desks? 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:24.360 Wait? 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:25.680 No where right there? 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:26.440 I don't see it. 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:27.200 Look where I'm pointed. 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:29.120 Don't get mad at me. I see it. 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:31.640 And do you see the PC on the desk? 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:38.120 Mmmmm? And that external hard drive plugged into it? And 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:41.400 if I were damning evidence about this entire operation. 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:43.320 I'd probably be on that drive. 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:46.360 With that kind of data, we could shut this entire 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:50.840 thing down. Okay, I have an idea, And before you 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:54.680 say it, yes, I'm on metal right now. Minnie Gerkin 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:59.280 tap local hiker forty two. He looks like the guy 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:04.800 who murders the local hikers. Tap arcouterie whore for twenty tap. 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:06.000 Why are you liking them all? 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:11.000 It's part of the plan, trust me, escaped mental patient 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:15.800 tep Okay, I'm ready. The thing is I need you 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:16.560 to stay up here? 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:17.959 What why? 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:20.480 Because if all those is planned, I'll be sending the 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:22.520 goons up this way and I need you to help 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:24.200 get them out through the labyrinth safely. 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:27.959 Really, are we sure that rescuing them is top priority? 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:30.840 They're not in control of themselves. They don't want to 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:31.840 be here any more than we do. 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:34.359 Debatable. 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:38.679 The pathway to the computer is unobstructed, but puts me 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:41.119 in a view of some goons filling hookup bottles nearby. 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:44.800 But if I could just maneuver a tight, little forward 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:49.639 roll past this first gap, I'd be in the clear. Okay, 0:17:49.800 --> 0:18:11.080 easy enough. Sometimes in moments like this, you know, when 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:14.320 I fuck up really badly, like knocking over for a 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:17.720 giant brewing towers of poppers badly, I try to remind 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:21.119 myself that the ability to continuously reach new depths of 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:26.240 fuck uptitude is a talent in itself. Who am I kidding? 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:28.240 The hook up liquid is spilling everywhere. 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:29.800 It's gonna flood the entire place. 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:34.119 Okay, breeze to your mouth, Breathe through your mouth, breathe. Fuck. 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:37.760 Just a few meters ahead, an erupting popper tank gushes 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:43.479 its contents all over the desk, completely dousing the hard drive. Okay, 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:45.320 new plan, escape with my life. 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:47.520 I pivot back towards the stairs. 0:18:48.880 --> 0:18:55.040 It's little D, Big Top create great, Great, I'm majorly 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:57.280 not in the mood. Get out of my fucking way. 0:18:57.359 --> 0:19:04.080 I'm serious to that, you serious, Mateo. I knew Matteo 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:06.880 would probably be here. I mean, I was prepared for that, 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:09.040 but it's it's still hard. 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:12.000 You haven't been serious to day in your life. 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:16.040 You're a joke, Damien, and not a very funny one. 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:19.520 It's all of them now, all the goons circling me 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:22.959 from every direction. Ah, being around this many guys I've 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:24.719 hooked up with would be a nightmare, even if they 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:28.040 weren't trying to kill me. The hookup level is still 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:29.480 rising almost to my waist. 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:31.240 Now where is it? 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:35.600 I always have that on me? Mmmm? Don't you just 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:40.440 love the smell of freshly baked poppers? Little D? Nice? Try, 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:43.000 But you're talking to the guy who wears an N 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:47.000 ninety five mask to hookups. Now, get the fuck out 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:54.600 of my way, Big Top, stop, get off me, grub, Damien. 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:59.440 Babel Hurst, are you proud of the mess you've made up? 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:03.880 On the cot walk? He steps into view, black mask, Crestwick, 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:08.680 Badminton hoodie. There's no mistaking that's my stalker. Can't help 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:11.000 who I am when I go over to a hookups 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:18.040 as got to critique the decoor. It looks better this way. 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:20.720 Both of you to assume I'm just another one of 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:21.720 your hookups. 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:25.480 Well, they're historically the guys who hate me the most, 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:27.840 so kind of just felt like the most likely outcome 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:31.600 anxiety Royals in my guts is my stalker pulls back 0:20:31.640 --> 0:20:35.359 his mustard hood and begins sliding off black sheer mask. 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:38.440 Well it's just like my life, coach said, But only 0:20:38.480 --> 0:20:40.560 one of us would received a grant upon graduating if 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:43.280 we stop trusting me. Elias of intel a lot of this. 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:45.600 As long as snt he was in the picture, I 0:20:45.600 --> 0:20:46.959 never stood a chance of winning. 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:56.200 The simplest solution is often the likeliest. Elias stop, stop, stop, 0:20:57.760 --> 0:21:05.040 they need a sack. Okay, huh didn't we rule Elias out? 0:21:05.640 --> 0:21:08.080 I mean, I thought he had an alibi since Santy 0:21:08.160 --> 0:21:11.560 went missing during the Crustwit Crustaceans badminton final, anyone on 0:21:11.600 --> 0:21:13.720 the team should be in the clear. And I checked 0:21:13.720 --> 0:21:19.640 the yearbook. Elias really was a Crustacean, But that doesn't 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:26.119 necessarily mean he actually played in the final. Shit okay, okay, 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:28.720 but but what about when Matteo had that vision from 0:21:28.720 --> 0:21:30.919 the Hive mind, you know, of the body being dumped 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:33.879 down the Ludlow watch, dumbwaiter. He told me he didn't 0:21:33.880 --> 0:21:37.000 recognize the person, and he'd already met Elias at that point. 0:21:38.840 --> 0:21:42.680 Unless Matteo really was already fully under the Hives influence 0:21:42.680 --> 0:21:44.600 when he told me that, and it really was just 0:21:44.640 --> 0:21:48.199 all a lie to get me off Elias's trail. And 0:21:48.280 --> 0:21:50.879 would you look at that? All the yellow tiles are 0:21:50.880 --> 0:21:55.479 finally aligned. So is any of this pive mind stuff 0:21:55.520 --> 0:21:56.320 even real? 0:21:57.119 --> 0:21:59.320 Always asking the good questions? 0:22:00.200 --> 0:22:05.440 As Elias speaks nay proselytizes, two goons emerge from the shadows, 0:22:05.480 --> 0:22:11.600 wheeling forth this contraption. It's tall, supporting itself on three legs. 0:22:12.280 --> 0:22:14.439 There are these two cuffs affixed to the top of 0:22:14.480 --> 0:22:17.560 the machine, another two at the bottom, presumably for her 0:22:17.640 --> 0:22:18.359 hands and feet. 0:22:18.880 --> 0:22:21.280 I know you don't believe in fate, Damien, or that 0:22:21.359 --> 0:22:24.520 everything happens for a reason, but I wish you would. 0:22:28.119 --> 0:22:31.399 You can't really believe it's a coincidence that you're witnessing 0:22:31.400 --> 0:22:33.440 the birth of humanity's future. 0:22:34.080 --> 0:22:36.040 Humanity's future is a sex wing. 0:22:36.400 --> 0:22:38.400 Has anyone ever told you that your use of humor 0:22:38.400 --> 0:22:42.040 in certain situations could be considered tone death once or twice. 0:22:42.640 --> 0:22:43.680 It's not a sex. 0:22:43.480 --> 0:22:45.560 Wing, it's hunt. 0:22:47.080 --> 0:22:52.320 It's the hookup neural gateway, the hookup neural gateway. 0:22:53.240 --> 0:22:54.639