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