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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the.
Speaker 3: Oh shit?
Speaker 4: Okay, three minutes, plenty of time.
Speaker 5: You have three new messages.
Speaker 4: Okay, could be worse.
Speaker 3: I called yesterday to talk about my warranty.
Speaker 5: I talked to a woman.
Speaker 4: I think her name shouldn't be me and no ed.
Speaker 5: We talked about my quarranty, did we? But I say
Speaker 5: I've had any questions about my warranty?
Speaker 4: Jesus. I'll call back looking forward Friday.
Speaker 5: March twenty second, at seven thirty three pm.
Speaker 6: We understand your business is important to you, and that's
Speaker 6: why it's important.
Speaker 5: To protect it.
Speaker 4: Not my business is not important to me.
Speaker 5: No one likes to think about the.
Speaker 4: Unforeseen, literally impossible.
Speaker 5: But what if I told you you don't have.
Speaker 7: To today at six fifty seven am?
Speaker 4: Nikes? What did you call from a fallout shelter and
Speaker 4: of messages?
Speaker 7: Okay, not too bad? Maybe this day won't be a
Speaker 7: complete shit shell.
Speaker 8: Hi, do you work here?
Speaker 7: Well, my shirt matches the walls, so that's a good guess.
Speaker 7: But actually we're not open for another.
Speaker 8: This will only take a second to I smell coffee.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's for customers.
Speaker 5: How considerate.
Speaker 4: There's a little paper.
Speaker 8: Cups, no need, I brought my own.
Speaker 4: That's a giant thermos.
Speaker 5: We have a long drive.
Speaker 7: Okay, so what can I help you with?
Speaker 5: It's just you here.
Speaker 7: Like I said, we just opened sugar in the cabinet
Speaker 7: under right.
Speaker 4: So did you need assistance.
Speaker 5: Or well, not quite.
Speaker 8: I was just curious if your boss was in that.
Speaker 5: See I have a.
Speaker 4: Return a return, well we don't really take.
Speaker 9: Well, that's why I wanted to come in person, sort
Speaker 9: of a special circumstance.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 7: Well, I don't know exactly if when the manager will
Speaker 7: be back in today, but you could come back another day.
Speaker 9: And oh, unfortunately I'm on a schedule. If you could
Speaker 9: just take a look and tell me if I've got
Speaker 9: a case, it would be a tremendous hy.
Speaker 4: Okay, where is it in my car? Your car?
Speaker 8: Well, I couldn't carry it myself back.
Speaker 5: Why that's strong.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Columbian blend should be pretty easy for you.
Speaker 8: I'm parked right out front.
Speaker 4: Right sure? Why not?
Speaker 7: This is me the unmarked windowless murder van you're wicked.
Speaker 4: Hi, now.
Speaker 5: You better?
Speaker 10: What hu Jesus?
Speaker 4: What is this place?
Speaker 9: Wait?
Speaker 4: Why am I handcuffed? What am I doing here? Am
Speaker 4: I under arrest?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 7: What for?
Speaker 5: What did he say?
Speaker 4: Who are you people?
Speaker 11: Wait?
Speaker 4: Why are you doing this?
Speaker 6: Stop?
Speaker 4: Stop?
Speaker 3: Let me go.
Speaker 4: I didn't do anything.
Speaker 2: Turn to the left.
Speaker 4: What am I doing here?
Speaker 5: Turn to the right.
Speaker 7: If I am under arrest, you have to tell me
Speaker 7: what I'm charged with, face me else this is unlawful imprisonment.
Speaker 5: Smile.
Speaker 4: Oh, you've gotta be kidding me. Left hand, first finger,
Speaker 4: roll it over in the press it down on the scanner.
Speaker 4: Wait what are we waiting for.
Speaker 5: The machine to match them up?
Speaker 4: Max them up with what? I've never been arrested for anything?
Speaker 5: Left hand, middle finger, roll it over in the ink.
Speaker 5: Press it down on the scanner.
Speaker 4: Wait, this is going to take forever.
Speaker 12: We have the time requisition of resident alpha SAE one five,
Speaker 12: six to zero.
Speaker 4: Inventory. What is happening to me?
Speaker 12: Inventory? One pair of black sunglasses, missing nosebies, A collection
Speaker 12: of keys hung from what looks like a shoelace.
Speaker 4: I haven't done anything wrong.
Speaker 12: One lighter does not appear to work. One pack of
Speaker 12: juicy fruits coustrip, fluff, credit card, debit card, photo ID,
Speaker 12: keep on pro free sandwich.
Speaker 4: I need those loose bills and.
Speaker 12: Change totaling two twenty two fifty correction twenty two to forty.
Speaker 3: That's a bunch.
Speaker 4: Okay, so you're robbing me too? Is that it?
Speaker 12: One necklace imitation silver in the shape of a half moon,
Speaker 12: waxing gibbus, one black jacket, cleather, one jacket, fu leather pants,
Speaker 12: denim ripped, one belt, one pair of black boots what
Speaker 12: I call combat boots, flannel overshirt, cotton T shirt, socks
Speaker 12: for zier underbands.
Speaker 8: And that's you.
Speaker 4: Sign air.
Speaker 7: You can't take my property before you tell me what
Speaker 7: I'm accused of. This is unlawful search and seizure.
Speaker 12: You may submit a petition to have these items returned
Speaker 12: to you, but you have to sign for them first.
Speaker 4: Well, can I fill out that petition? Please?
Speaker 12: You'll have to visit the Resident relations office.
Speaker 4: Okay, where is that? Not here?
Speaker 3: Temperate to a ninety six point six, A little.
Speaker 4: Low and after such a warm reception.
Speaker 13: Okay, see the light on the end of my pen.
Speaker 13: Just follow it with your eyes, keep your head still
Speaker 13: to the left, to the right.
Speaker 4: Tell me what I'm doing here?
Speaker 3: An optitude test?
Speaker 8: First?
Speaker 3: Your vision good? Now, this may be cold.
Speaker 14: Now, oh, just preaze is Oh tell me where I
Speaker 14: am in the clinic.
Speaker 3: Cough the clinic where no fluid in the lungs, no
Speaker 3: signor bronchitis?
Speaker 5: Good?
Speaker 4: No, say, I don't understand why no one will answer me.
Speaker 10: Ah?
Speaker 3: Good, okay, now make a fist.
Speaker 13: Wow, your heart rate is rather high.
Speaker 3: You're right handed?
Speaker 4: Left handed?
Speaker 3: Interest? Why smoke, drink? Take drugs?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 4: I could use all the above right now.
Speaker 3: Any history of illness?
Speaker 4: I was feeling fine until Have.
Speaker 3: You been vaccinated for tetanus?
Speaker 4: Just tetanus?
Speaker 3: Probably time for a booster. Any history of rubella, rheumatism, mumps, measles, consumption.
Speaker 4: Do people still get that smallpox?
Speaker 3: Curvy scarlet fever?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Maybe playing Oregon trail.
Speaker 3: Migrains, blurred vision, associative thoughts, associative non psychoses, grass and
Speaker 3: drum walking, corpse.
Speaker 4: Foll you dear, I've never even heard of that.
Speaker 13: Have you ever fainted? When's the last time you cried?
Speaker 13: How many sexual partners.
Speaker 3: Have you had?
Speaker 4: Okay, we're done here.
Speaker 3: That is just the first page of the questionnaire.
Speaker 6: Hello, ah, yes, yes, should be any minute now, thank you.
Speaker 6: You can wit in the hall perfectly. We don't expect
Speaker 6: any excitement, do we. I buzz you when we're ready.
Speaker 6: I'll be right with you. Yes, yes, exactly this morning.
Speaker 6: Actually here with me now in fact, will do?
Speaker 3: Will do? Okay?
Speaker 6: Be seeing you?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 6: Quite sorry about that, you know, always racing around to
Speaker 6: catch up here. Okay, let's start at the beginning, shall
Speaker 6: we Siuri Rodriguez. No, I'm beg your pardoner.
Speaker 4: That is not my name.
Speaker 6: You're not.
Speaker 4: I am Siuri Martinez.
Speaker 6: Definitely Rodriguez in our files. Well, we'll just call you
Speaker 6: Siary then, Siary. I am aiden, your case worker. Should
Speaker 6: you have any questions, I am to be your first
Speaker 6: point here?
Speaker 4: Where is here?
Speaker 6: Well? This is my office. I know it's small, but
Speaker 6: there are a lot of other cases and thus a
Speaker 6: lot of other case workers.
Speaker 4: No, no, this place? Where am I?
Speaker 6: Why? This is the Pendleton, the Pendleton Rehabilitation Center. Why
Speaker 6: are you saying you don't remember how you got here?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: I remember being kidnapped.
Speaker 7: I'm asking why because it seems like you went looking
Speaker 7: for Rodriguez but ended up with Martinez by mistake.
Speaker 6: In that case. Why do you think we wanted her.
Speaker 4: What How should I know? I guess because she committed
Speaker 4: some crime?
Speaker 6: And what crime might that mean?
Speaker 4: How the fuck would I know that?
Speaker 6: Would you?
Speaker 4: What I mean?
Speaker 6: I keeped him on the desk, But such a small desk,
Speaker 6: and with so many cases all open at once, and
Speaker 6: each with more paperwork than the last, I need all
Speaker 6: the space I can get just to try to keep
Speaker 6: things organized. Would you like one?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 6: Alrighty? You know they have lost some of their mintias,
Speaker 6: so Sayuri Martinez Rodriguez.
Speaker 4: Martinez Garcia Ilgaras Cruz.
Speaker 6: Born Beaumont Hospital, May twenty second, nineteen eighty nine. Oh
Speaker 6: that's one twenty three pm.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure.
Speaker 6: Mother of philosophy teacher, father at exoplanetology biologists.
Speaker 4: Well the other way around?
Speaker 6: How's that?
Speaker 4: Professor dad? Doctor mom?
Speaker 6: One point sixty three meters in heights.
Speaker 7: I'm more comfortable with Imperial fifty three kilogram size seven shoes.
Speaker 6: Didn't you notice that your new clothes fit perfectly the
Speaker 6: first time you tried them on?
Speaker 4: You mean the jumpsuit and sandals. Yeah, like a bad dream.
Speaker 6: You broke your left arm in the sixth grade.
Speaker 4: Right arm eighth grade.
Speaker 6: Was that before or after you were suspended for smoking
Speaker 6: in the girl's bathroom.
Speaker 4: Hey h I think that was high school.
Speaker 6: Some thirty one credits accumulated in various higher learning programs,
Speaker 6: no degrees? Is that correct?
Speaker 4: What's it to you?
Speaker 6: Your favorite cat was named spot Neck. At least if
Speaker 6: the answers to your security questions can be trusted in
Speaker 6: all your life, You've only left the United States once
Speaker 6: to visit the Toronto Airport. You're allergic to pineapple, and
Speaker 6: you are the fourth owner of a nineteen ninety six
Speaker 6: Chevy Corsica with one green fender, or you were. My
Speaker 6: point sary is whatever you'd like to call yourself, we
Speaker 6: already know far more than we could expect you to
Speaker 6: tell us, and whatever contradictions you feel compelled to share,
Speaker 6: it would be very difficult to surprise me.
Speaker 4: Okay, suppose you're wrong.
Speaker 7: Hope for the sake of argument, that these addictions are
Speaker 7: not clerical errors but indicate something else.
Speaker 4: And what's that That you've got the wrong guy?
Speaker 6: Well, then I'd say you have nothing to worry about.
Speaker 6: The smallest er, unfathomable as that is, would certainly be
Speaker 6: rectified before the completion of your E ando, B and
Speaker 6: O evaluation. And observation.
Speaker 4: How long does that last.
Speaker 6: Until you are properly evaluated and observed? Needless to say,
Speaker 6: anyone who had been improperly admitted and quartered as you
Speaker 6: are suggesting, would be detected, have their intake records modified
Speaker 6: and amended, and be summarily extricated from the facility.
Speaker 4: Has that ever happened before?
Speaker 6: Not to my knowledge.
Speaker 4: But if it did, if.
Speaker 7: You locked someone up despite substantial evidence disputing their guilt,
Speaker 7: wouldn't you be compelled to act upon it?
Speaker 4: Wouldn't your conscience?
Speaker 6: What you must understand is that each of us is
Speaker 6: but a cog, a single functionary point in an intricate machine.
Speaker 6: I'm confined to the authority granted by the boundaries of
Speaker 6: my position, with limited influence beyond the walls in this room. I'm,
Speaker 6: in fact subject to the same unyielding hierarchy to which
Speaker 6: you now find yourself bound. In fact, in many ways,
Speaker 6: I am in a much lower position than yourself. So
Speaker 6: there is no acting on one's conscience as you suggest.
Speaker 6: There's simply scope.
Speaker 7: Okay, rapid fire around. Am I under arrest?
Speaker 6: We don't like to use that word.
Speaker 4: Can I leave of my own free will?
Speaker 7: Not?
Speaker 6: At this time?
Speaker 4: On what grounds are you holding me?
Speaker 6: The ground of the Pendleton rehability?
Speaker 4: What is my charge?
Speaker 6: None at this time?
Speaker 4: No charge. How can you detain me if there is no.
Speaker 6: Charge under suspicion?
Speaker 3: Suspicion of what?
Speaker 6: Being dangerous?
Speaker 4: Dangerous? What the hell does that mean? Dangerous? How am
Speaker 4: I dangerous? Do I seem dangerous to you? Do you
Speaker 4: feel threatened?
Speaker 6: A little help in here?
Speaker 5: It's the problem.
Speaker 4: I don't know who you think I am, but you've
Speaker 4: got the wrong person.
Speaker 7: I demand to be shown the evidence against me, she demands.
Speaker 7: I demand to be read by Miranda Rights. I demand
Speaker 7: to be given my phone call. I demand to speak
Speaker 7: to a lawyer. I demand to see my files.
Speaker 6: Move wait a moment. First days are hard for everyone,
Speaker 6: and I know it can seem like a lot right now,
Speaker 6: but this can be a very nice place for you
Speaker 6: if you let it. Crimes in Carill are going to
Speaker 6: take you to your habitation. You'll end the day or
Speaker 6: the night to settle in, and we'll try again tomorrow.
Speaker 15: Do you.
Speaker 4: What about my phone call?
Speaker 5: What about it?
Speaker 4: Hey, come back here. You can't leave me like this. Hello.
Speaker 3: Hello.
Speaker 4: They can't do this to me. They can't and they
Speaker 4: know they can't. I just need to show them that
Speaker 4: I'm not who they think I am, that I am
Speaker 4: who I say I am, And really it should be
Speaker 4: easy because I am me. But how do I prove it?
Speaker 4: How does anyone actually prove that they are who they
Speaker 4: say they are? Who's that?
Speaker 16: I know?
Speaker 4: There's someone there. I can hear you in the next cell.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
Speaker 5: Habitation what don't call themselves? Say? Habitations are simply rooms.
Speaker 7: I don't know what it looks like on your side
Speaker 7: of the wall, but my eight foot cube has metal
Speaker 7: bars for a door, a bed frame bolted to the floor,
Speaker 7: shelf chains to the wall, and combination toilet sinc with
Speaker 7: no seat.
Speaker 4: And no window.
Speaker 5: It also has a mirror.
Speaker 4: What's that supposed to mean?
Speaker 1: That?
Speaker 5: It's clearly your first.
Speaker 7: Day, but you have to understand there's been a mistake.
Speaker 4: I really don't belong here.
Speaker 5: Listen. I've been living in this eight foot cube for
Speaker 5: a long time, the one you currently occupy, seeing a
Speaker 5: lot of visitors with a lot of sad stories. They come,
Speaker 5: they go, and new ones come in their place. But
Speaker 5: there has to be I'm not your Virgil Dante. I
Speaker 5: learned this lesson hard, and you'd be well off to
Speaker 5: learn it sooner. The only way through this is to
Speaker 5: be strong and keep to yourself. Don't make friends.
Speaker 4: So this is a prison, then what the pen?
Speaker 5: No, it's a rehabilitation center.
Speaker 4: Rehabilitation for what if you're here?
Speaker 5: There's a reason, even if you don't see it yet.
Speaker 4: How much more time do you have?
Speaker 5: Ever?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 5: Everyone in the Pendleton served a life sentence?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 4: But why?
Speaker 5: The reason for your captivity may not be the thing
Speaker 5: to focus on in a way, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 4: Then what does what you do next?
Speaker 5: I'm going to get out, and how may I ask?
Speaker 5: Or are you going to do that?
Speaker 7: I'll call my lawyer, your lawyer, Well, I'll find a lawyer,
Speaker 7: and eddy lawyer who hears about my case is sure
Speaker 7: to take it. I've been unlawfully imprisoned. My civil liberties
Speaker 7: have been violated. We could take down the whole establishment.
Speaker 5: Okay, short of mounting a groundbreaking legal defense, what's your
Speaker 5: backup plan?
Speaker 4: Escape?
Speaker 5: Come again?
Speaker 4: Escape?
Speaker 5: You don't have to whisper that word doesn't stoke much
Speaker 5: fear around here, Lieutenant Grimes, Lieutenant Carrill for it. Resident,
Speaker 5: Just letting you know I'm planning my next escape. Good luck,
Speaker 5: you see anything dealing.
Speaker 4: Surely people try to escape.
Speaker 5: Generally they're caught, then punished by whatever the pen considers
Speaker 5: a proportional response.
Speaker 4: Hmmm.
Speaker 7: So whatever the goal of this inhumane experiment, the results
Speaker 7: are arousing success.
Speaker 4: Everyone's spirits have been broken.
Speaker 5: No, not everyone. But in all my time here, I've
Speaker 5: only known one who never gave in. In fact, it
Speaker 5: was the fellow that used to have your room. Tell
Speaker 5: me is his name still written on the wall.
Speaker 4: There's graffiti all over this place, but.
Speaker 5: Right above the door, carved into the stone. Covalis Caval,
Speaker 5: a Frenchman, always on a plot, and that was the
Speaker 5: word he used for it.
Speaker 4: What was he in for escaping?
Speaker 5: Prison?
Speaker 4: Oh? So this is not a prison, but it's where
Speaker 4: you get sent when a prison can't hold you.
Speaker 5: Because I understand Caval did time in some of the
Speaker 5: worst lockups known to humanity and managed to slip out
Speaker 5: of every cage that held him until he reached the pin.
Speaker 4: Okay, but what was his crime in the first place?
Speaker 5: That's a great question.
Speaker 4: So did he ever escape?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 4: How did he do it?
Speaker 5: You don't have to whisper?
Speaker 10: Everybody knows by now, okay, fine, what did he do?
Speaker 5: He never stopped trying.
Speaker 4: But what did he try?
Speaker 11: Say?
Speaker 5: Just about everything under the sun.
Speaker 4: Okay, you're not really giving me much to work with here.
Speaker 5: What are you hoping for? Exactly instructions that the first
Speaker 5: person you meet here will miraculously give you everything you
Speaker 5: need to make a break.
Speaker 4: Okay, Look, I'm only just first of all, forget it.
Speaker 5: Forget what the idea of getting out? You're not, I'm not,
Speaker 5: none of us are.
Speaker 4: Well, you don't have to be mean about it.
Speaker 5: At this point, I've spent more time inside than out.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: Well, don't be That's not your way to bear. My
Speaker 5: point is what you've seen of the Pendleton is only
Speaker 5: a fragment. It's a labyrinth designed to be disrienting as
Speaker 5: a suppression technique. They say it's impossible to memorize, which
Speaker 5: I believe. And you can't get out if you don't
Speaker 5: know where you're going here. You can walk a straight
Speaker 5: line and end up back where you started, retrace your
Speaker 5: steps to somewhere you've never been before, passed through a door,
Speaker 5: and immediately lose track of the other side.
Speaker 4: That's impossible.
Speaker 5: What does it matter? Oh?
Speaker 4: Do the laws of physics matter?
Speaker 5: As someone who was a physicist in a former life.
Speaker 5: I've learned to separate the rules of the outside from
Speaker 5: those inside the pen.
Speaker 4: Former life, were you also studying reincarnation?
Speaker 5: No building nuclear reactors? Oh so the first thing to
Speaker 5: understand is the tricks that get you out of other
Speaker 5: prisons don't work in the pen. But he tried them
Speaker 5: all caval. Whatever you may be dreaming up now, maybe
Speaker 5: his experience will dissuade you.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm all yours.
Speaker 5: Coval was the hell of a lock thick and it
Speaker 5: didn't take much twisted hairpin, misshapen paper clip, rusty spoon.
Speaker 5: Problem is this place is full of doors, doors that
Speaker 5: lead to car doors, full of doors that lead to
Speaker 5: other car doors, full of other doors, doors, doors everywhere,
Speaker 5: but hardly any windows.
Speaker 4: Isn't that a skylight up there?
Speaker 5: Aren't you observant? Look and tell me what you see. Nothing,
Speaker 5: It's dark, exactly dead ends all of them. Govall was
Speaker 5: a cut purse. A pickpocket could get his hands down
Speaker 5: anyone's trousers, but there was always a crap shoot. Use
Speaker 5: handkerchiefs half done to do lists on a good day,
Speaker 5: a couple of bucks and some loose leaf smut. On
Speaker 5: a really good day keys. Govall found loose keys of
Speaker 5: every style, two sided, four sided, padlocked skeleton, things that
Speaker 5: were clearly machine cut, others that had to be hand forged.
Speaker 5: He tried each one by one all around the pan,
Speaker 5: but never managed to turn a single lock. Where do
Speaker 5: you start with that many keys? By finding somewhere to
Speaker 5: hide them? Solid rock, all of it cinder block on
Speaker 5: a cement slab didn't stop Kaval from trying. Trying what
Speaker 5: to dig, usually with a spoon. Maybe he smuggle set
Speaker 5: of nail clippers, at worst the sharpened butt of his toothbrush.
Speaker 5: Cavall left half finished tunnels all over the pendleton, some
Speaker 5: no bigger than a hole to hide contraband others. Who knows.
Speaker 5: Most were discovered, but I imagine there's a few around
Speaker 5: that they never managed to fill in. Tell me in
Speaker 5: your room, is one brick different than the others?
Speaker 4: Yes, it's got no graffiti. That was caval. His tunnels, ever,
Speaker 4: lead to the outside.
Speaker 5: One very nearly did went missing a week before some
Speaker 5: dumb ass Cohn on janitorial duty heard or rumble in
Speaker 5: the ceiling and reported it to a supervisor.
Speaker 4: It was Caval.
Speaker 5: He'd been up in the air ducks, living off candy
Speaker 5: bars and drinking collected condensation.
Speaker 4: I'm guessing he couldn't find an exit.
Speaker 5: Should have an intake right where air flows in from
Speaker 5: the outside. Whether you can make it out or not
Speaker 5: is another question. But Caval said he never caught a
Speaker 5: speck of sunlight, which confirmed a bleak suspicion we'd long
Speaker 5: held about the pen. It's a closed system, totally disconnected
Speaker 5: from the outside world.
Speaker 4: Like no internet.
Speaker 5: Please phone maybe if you want to make an inside call.
Speaker 4: What about television?
Speaker 5: Closed circuit mail? You can write it, they'll screen it
Speaker 5: and throw it away. Newspapers sides the occasional new resident.
Speaker 5: Very little comes into the pen, far less ever leaves.
Speaker 7: Doesn't anyone protests, demand fair treatment, petition the warden for
Speaker 7: basic human rights.
Speaker 5: Oh, nobody talks to the warden. Nobody, not that I
Speaker 5: know of, never even seen them. Caval would agree with you,
Speaker 5: But what can you change when you hold none of
Speaker 5: the power to fight from the inside. You have to
Speaker 5: become one of the warders.
Speaker 4: I don't get it is that some kind of metaphor.
Speaker 5: Caval had been on a stint in the hole. No
Speaker 5: one had seen him in a month. Then one day
Speaker 5: it lights up. There's a new guard on the block,
Speaker 5: tall and muscular with a full red beard. I didn't
Speaker 5: think much of it until the guy called rolled in
Speaker 5: a French accent.
Speaker 4: Wait wait, wait, wait, you're saying solitary.
Speaker 5: He faked some kind of injury, got the attending guard
Speaker 5: alone in the cell, then knocked the bastard out, stole
Speaker 5: his clothes, his keys, and detained them in a stead
Speaker 5: Squez managed to access areas of the pen he'd never
Speaker 5: seen before, but nothing special, locker room, lounge, the john,
Speaker 5: and still he couldn't find an exit. By the next morning,
Speaker 5: the jig was up and Gavall was back in solitary,
Speaker 5: serving an extended sentence that.
Speaker 4: Is absolutely insane. Gutsy though.
Speaker 5: And then there was the gun gun fake gun quittled
Speaker 5: with a spoon out of a block of balts of wood.
Speaker 5: Pretty rough but convincing enough to hold his caseworker hostage.
Speaker 5: Was going okay until he pretended to cock him and
Speaker 5: broke the barrel in half.
Speaker 4: These seems to be getting more.
Speaker 5: And more desperate. Well, he also tried seduction. Don't no much.
Speaker 5: He didn't like to talk about it, as I understand,
Speaker 5: he didn't discriminate, but beyond receiving a better portion lunch
Speaker 5: tray or first choice for work detail. Like everything else,
Speaker 5: these liaisons led only to dead ends.
Speaker 4: This is getting kind of sad.
Speaker 5: It gets sadder. There was his hunger strike lasted forty days,
Speaker 5: ended with a feeding tube jammed down his throat. And
Speaker 5: there were the fake illnesses castor oil in the eyes
Speaker 5: to make them look infected. That type of thing ended
Speaker 5: up getting him in more trouble than it was worth.
Speaker 4: Did he go blind?
Speaker 5: The eye healed up fine. But the doctor have you
Speaker 5: met her?
Speaker 4: Yep?
Speaker 5: She it is no joke, runs that infirmary like her
Speaker 5: own personal laboratory with patients for guinea pigs. After too
Speaker 5: many times crying wolf, she took a special interest in
Speaker 5: caval developed a course of treatment just for him. What
Speaker 5: do you mean, constant inva of examinations, courses of experimental drugs,
Speaker 5: complete psychological remapping, in a word, brainwashing.
Speaker 4: Were you serious?
Speaker 5: The pen recognized him as a threat to neutralize it,
Speaker 5: they needed to reprogram him. That's what he was here for.
Speaker 5: That's what we're all here for.
Speaker 6: Really.
Speaker 5: Oh yes, they have many ways to do it, some
Speaker 5: so subtle you won't notice. Anything is happening, others well
Speaker 5: more forthright. But no matter what you think you can handle,
Speaker 5: who you think you are, they will get to you
Speaker 5: sooner or later, by hook or by crook, They get
Speaker 5: to everyone. Cavall came to the conclusion that if there
Speaker 5: was no way to slip out peacefully, the only alternative
Speaker 5: would be to take the pen by force. And so,
Speaker 5: one day, like every day, a few minutes before five,
Speaker 5: the head lieutenant called dinner. Everyone lined up outside their
Speaker 5: even more promptly than usual, to the meck Hall march,
Speaker 5: but not a soul stirred on the double. The lieutenant barked.
Speaker 5: Every resident held their place, and then the guards saw
Speaker 5: what they were up against. Weapons one in the hands
Speaker 5: of every con daggers fashioned from rusty spoons and plastic combs,
Speaker 5: swords and spears made out of chair legs and mob handles,
Speaker 5: padlocks and tube socks, swung his maces, shoelaces and electrical cords,
Speaker 5: even tangles of floss stretched fists to fist like choke wire.
Speaker 5: Hold your ranks, the lieutenant cried. To this day, people
Speaker 5: argue about who broke the line first, but the guards
Speaker 5: were outnumbered. Most fled, some were taken hostage. The doors
Speaker 5: to the ward were barricaded at both sides, and in
Speaker 5: a few short minutes the sea block belonged to the prisoners.
Speaker 4: Don't you mean residents?
Speaker 5: That's what I said, right. No one knows exactly how
Speaker 5: the guards got back in, and I imagine it was
Speaker 5: those damn doors. I don't know where or how, but
Speaker 5: I believe they're secret doors all over this place, not
Speaker 5: too good at letting anyone out, but for someone who
Speaker 5: understands how they work, they can be used to get
Speaker 5: into just about anywhere anywhere.
Speaker 4: What did they do?
Speaker 5: In the middle of the night, An army of armed
Speaker 5: guards poured unto the floor. Seemed like they appeared from nowhere,
Speaker 5: but I suspect they came in a few at a
Speaker 5: time through different spots all over the block, dressed as
Speaker 5: prisoners and masqueraded as part of the rebellion, taking up
Speaker 5: residents and empty cells until they were sufficient in number,
Speaker 5: and all at once, they took a decisive strike. As
Speaker 5: far as I know, they didn't have any evidence against
Speaker 5: caval but still the warden pegged him as the mastermind.
Speaker 5: They hauled him off and threw him in solitary.
Speaker 4: How long was he there for.
Speaker 5: That time a year or was it too Jesus Christ?
Speaker 5: They wanted to make an example of him, and I'd
Speaker 5: say it worked. Nothing like that has been attempted since.
Speaker 4: How was he when he got out?
Speaker 5: Skinnier paler the red Beard was back? Took him a
Speaker 5: while to get on his feet. The real problem, the
Speaker 5: reason every plot failed, was they didn't have an exit strategy.
Speaker 5: However far he got, he'd still be searching for a
Speaker 5: way out, without knowing where it could be, even what
Speaker 5: it would look like. The question becomes, how can the
Speaker 5: guards navigate the pen but the cons can't. I don't
Speaker 5: think the answer is intelligent, which led to a rumor
Speaker 5: that the guards carry a map.
Speaker 4: A map, wouldn't that make it too easy?
Speaker 5: I didn't believe it either until one day our master
Speaker 5: pickpocket had got his hands on one. At least that's
Speaker 5: what he thought it was.
Speaker 4: Did you see it?
Speaker 5: I did?
Speaker 4: What did it look like?
Speaker 5: Palm sized circular, a lightweight disc like a big aluminum coin.
Speaker 5: The content was a mess concentric circles and intersecting lines,
Speaker 5: boxes and arrows, and squiggles and squares, superimposed with symbols
Speaker 5: like invented hieroglyphics, and naturally there was no key. Honestly,
Speaker 5: the image hardly seemed to resemble a map at all,
Speaker 5: but Cavall became convinced he could use it to get
Speaker 5: out the stone. Yeah, maybe he was onto something over
Speaker 5: my head, says.
Speaker 4: The nuclear physicist.
Speaker 5: What he was planning, he never said, but I knew
Speaker 5: he wouldn't hesitate if there was any chance for freedom.
Speaker 5: The day he found that map would be his last.
Speaker 5: That night, like any other, the cells were locked at
Speaker 5: exactly seven. I laid in my bunk, still as a stone,
Speaker 5: listening for any sign that caval was making his way,
Speaker 5: but nothing. The clock chimed eight nine, ten eleven midnight,
Speaker 5: and then it happened, a terrible sound, so loud it
Speaker 5: shook the bars, and shrill, like the tearing of metal, hard,
Speaker 5: like the breaking of stone. Suddenly the entire cell block
Speaker 5: was flooded with light, not sickly fluorescence, soft blue daylight
Speaker 5: so bright had burned my eyes. That skylight overhead that
Speaker 5: no one could ever hope to reach, had burst wide open.
Speaker 4: But I thought you said it was midnight.
Speaker 5: Why I trust a thing like time? While I maintenance
Speaker 5: crew welded the skylight shut from a scissor lift. Roll
Speaker 5: was called. Of course, Covall was missing. The pen organized
Speaker 5: a search, scoured every cell, office, car, door, conduit and
Speaker 5: dark corner they could think of, questioned each resident, and
Speaker 5: I imagine every guard and member of the staff too,
Speaker 5: but no one knew anything. Even I didn't really except
Speaker 5: I truly believed that he had made it.
Speaker 4: Wow, Wow, Where did he go?
Speaker 5: I don't know, none of us do.
Speaker 4: I wish I could ask him.
Speaker 5: You can try.
Speaker 4: What do you mean?
Speaker 5: Okay? If she comes with me for a walk, Bromuka,
Speaker 5: where down to deep block? God would boom? You're going
Speaker 5: to behave.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 5: This way?
Speaker 4: So caval you mean to say he's still here?
Speaker 5: Twenty eight days? He made it on the outside before
Speaker 5: they caught.
Speaker 4: Him, So he didn't escape.
Speaker 5: Long enough to see the lunar cycle, but not happily
Speaker 5: ever after.
Speaker 4: Where did they find him?
Speaker 5: I don't know, but I'm sure it wasn't in here.
Speaker 4: Well, what happened after they caught him?
Speaker 5: What happens to everyone who tries to escape down to
Speaker 5: the dungeon? The dungeon solitary confinement?
Speaker 4: Oh oh, so you don't mean like an actual.
Speaker 8: Like a literal due I do, okay?
Speaker 4: Is he still down there?
Speaker 5: No? Eventually they gave him a room in d the
Speaker 5: Special Project's.
Speaker 4: Ward, and you never asked him how it worked or
Speaker 4: what he.
Speaker 5: Saw I did. But maybe you'll have better luck.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry if it's okay, I wanted to ask you
Speaker 4: a question. Is that okay? I wanted to ask uh?
Speaker 4: When you escaped? What did you see? I'm sorry. I
Speaker 4: don't speak French or the.
Speaker 9: Boss, but the block, look at the gods, steal the clothes,
Speaker 9: get the key, get the map.
Speaker 4: But you can't read the map.
Speaker 8: You need to be able to read the map.
Speaker 5: If you can't read the map, you.
Speaker 8: Have to take the door without knowing where it goes.
Speaker 8: If you take the door without knowing where it goes,
Speaker 8: you want the.
Speaker 4: Way you'll go where he'll go.
Speaker 8: And when you get there, you wont know how to
Speaker 8: get back, but they will. They will find you.
Speaker 4: Then they will bring you back.
Speaker 6: But which one?
Speaker 8: Only one way up and many ways back? Always lead back,
Speaker 8: always lead back?
Speaker 4: Is he always?
Speaker 8: How can I rest? If he's out there?
Speaker 10: How can he go?
Speaker 8: If I'm in here.
Speaker 5: I am alone, but not alone.
Speaker 8: I will never be alone, just like he will never
Speaker 8: be alone. Alone but not alone alone but on cave.
Speaker 4: When you made it out, when you escaped? Can you
Speaker 4: tell me anything, anything at all? How did you do it?
Speaker 4: What did you see? Where did you think you were?
Speaker 4: Anything would be helpful. Please.
Speaker 7: If I can't know why I'm here, at least I
Speaker 7: need to know where here is.
Speaker 10: I know you you do the people who talk, well.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I don't understand.
Speaker 10: You.
Speaker 8: Sure, I have been here a long time.
Speaker 4: I just got here today.
Speaker 8: So it seems so, it seems so, it seems so.
Speaker 5: It seems so. It seems so. It seems so it seems.
Speaker 9: Do you mean that what it seems is not what
Speaker 9: it seems?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 7: Wait, do you mean you've seen someone else who looks
Speaker 7: like me?
Speaker 16: It seems that you, like me, are not alone, like
Speaker 16: he is not alone, like he is not alone, like
Speaker 16: we are not alone, all of us, none of us,
Speaker 16: not now, not there, never to be alone again.
Speaker 8: See said to.
Speaker 5: Show you the way back, Like I said, navigating this
Speaker 5: place can be confusing.
Speaker 4: What happened to him?
Speaker 5: I don't know. In a way I don't want to know.
Speaker 5: It's sad, but in here it really is better to
Speaker 5: keep your expectations of other people low.
Speaker 17: Frip, Rodriguez Martinez lights out in your habitations now, Jorge mus.
Speaker 5: Ride, I'm slip.
Speaker 17: I'm full of them. You knew here, so I'll say
Speaker 17: it once. No talking, It's about going on with you,
Speaker 17: sweet dreams.
Speaker 5: Ten hours to the morning. The first night is the
Speaker 5: longest hanging there.
Speaker 4: I thought you weren't going to be my Virgil.
Speaker 5: Keep your expectations low. I will too get through the
Speaker 5: night sleep. If you can join me for breakfast in
Speaker 5: the morning six am sharp, you'll meet people who will
Speaker 5: tell you things I never could.
Speaker 4: Okay, thank you, good night Frip. Hour one hour, two hour,
Speaker 4: three hour, four or five. Somebody's out there, mm hmmm, hello.
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, yah, I go ma, I say ma, hi
Speaker 11: sign What are you doing here?
Speaker 4: Why are you barefoot?
Speaker 15: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
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