{"id":107,"date":"2012-03-04T19:02:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T19:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifiradiotheater.com\/blog\/?page_id=107"},"modified":"2012-03-10T15:01:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T15:01:26","slug":"the-ba-gua-etuis-box-episode-two","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.scifiradiotheater.com\/blog\/the-ba-gua-etuis-box-episode-two\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ba Gua Etuis Box Episode two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F39314803&#038;show_artwork=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Ba Gua Etuis Box<br \/>\nEpisode 2<br \/>\nCharles Davis<\/p>\n<p>Intro\/Commercial<\/p>\n<p>(Scene: at the Chinese Education Center in Boston).<\/p>\n<p>(Sound of PETER entering the building and walking up to the desk)<\/p>\n<p>Woman at Desk:  Hello there.  Looks like we have a delivery node. Got a package for me today?  Is it in the car?<\/p>\n<p>PETER: (robotic fairly monotone voice) I am PETER.  I am looking for the Feng Shui 100 and 1 classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Woman at Desk:  Oh right.  Hold on.  (sound of her picking up phone and dialing a number.)  Hi Chen, it\u2019s the front desk.  I have a node here with a package for you\u2026 Right\u2026 Ok, I\u2019ll send him down.  (hangs up phone).  Ok, you can just go down the hall and it\u2019s the 3rd door on the left.  Chen\u2019s in the middle of teaching a class, but he\u2019ll be able to sign for you and then you can just leave the package here.<\/p>\n<p>PETER:  Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>(Sound of PETER walking down the hallway.  He stops at the door to the class room and you can hear Chen lecturing inside.  Peter knocks on the door.  The sound of Chen lecturing stops and the sound of the door opening).<\/p>\n<p>Chen: Oh hello.<\/p>\n<p>PETER:  Classroom of Feng Shui 101.<\/p>\n<p>Chen:  Yep, that\u2019s here.  I can sign for you.  I told the people at the front desk to just \u2026 uh\u2026. (sound of PETER walking into the classroom).  Ok, I guess you\u2019re coming inside then\u2026  Uhh, so if you can just give me the paper to sign, you can go on your\u2026 way\u2026 (sound of Peter walking over to a desk pulling out a chair and sitting down.).  (laughing), Ha!  Ok class, it looks like we have a new student.  (students laugh).  I\u2019m sorry, did I miss something?  You have a package for me right?  (Peter is silent).  Uhh\u2026 Hello?  (Silence).<\/p>\n<p>Girl in the class:  Maybe he is the package?<\/p>\n<p>Chen:  Hmmm. Maybe.  I\u2019m not sure who would send me a node though. (To Peter), excuse me, why are you here?<\/p>\n<p>PETER:  To learn Feng Shui.  (class laughs).<\/p>\n<p>Chen:  I guess someone sent me a Feng Shui node!  That will make re-arranging the heavy furniture easier!  (class laughs).  Uhhh\u2026 Ok.  This is a prank right?<\/p>\n<p>PETER:  Teach Feng Shui.<\/p>\n<p>Chen:  Alright, this is getting weird.  Uhh\u2026 Delivery node, please leave.<\/p>\n<p>PETER:  Teach Feng Shui.<\/p>\n<p>Chen:  I am not teaching Feng Shui.<\/p>\n<p>PETER: Why?<\/p>\n<p>Chen:  Because I\u2019m not teaching Feng Shui.<\/p>\n<p>PETER: Why?<\/p>\n<p>Chen:  Because you\u2019re a node and I don\u2019t teach Feng Shui to robots (class laughs).<br \/>\nPETER: (Voice gets violent) \u2026I AM PETER!  TEACH FENG SHUI!<\/p>\n<p>Chen:  (Class gasps and gets silent).  (Startled)  Whoa!<\/p>\n<p>Another Girl in Class:  He must be malfunctioning or something.<\/p>\n<p>Chen:  Yeah, he must.  Man\u2026 Hmm.  Well I\u2019m not really sure what to do.  I don\u2019t know much about nodes and I don\u2019t want to say the wrong thing and have him do something dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>Boy in Class:  Mr. Yap, I\u2019ve taken a few classes in robotics. I can take a look at the wiring in his head and see if there\u2019s something wrong with the wires.<\/p>\n<p>Chen:  Is that safe?<\/p>\n<p>Boy in Class:  Yeah, I wouldn\u2019t worry about it.  Public service nodes have pretty heavy safety protocols, so he probably can\u2019t go off and hit me or explode or anything like that.  They taught us that the cold can sometimes freeze and break circuits in the nodes.  He probably just took some ice damage to his cognition and voice board from being outside too long.<\/p>\n<p>Chen:  Well\u2026 Ok, go ahead.  Just be careful.<\/p>\n<p>Boy in Class: Ok (sound of Boy in Class getting up and walking over to Peter).  Now let\u2019s see.  I just have to find the button to open his head.<\/p>\n<p>PETER:  NO!  (Boy goes \u201cah!\u201d, class gasps.  Sound of PETER getting up quickly and running out of the room).<\/p>\n<p>Chen: Jeez!  Are you ok?<\/p>\n<p>Boy in Class:  Yeah, I\u2019m ok.  He just took off before I could get his head open.<\/p>\n<p>Chen:  What the hell was that?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Sound of class fades away.  Fade in the sound of Zippy in her basement.  You can her flipping through the pages of a book).<\/p>\n<p>Zippy:  Hmmm\u2026  (sound of more flipping) \u2026mmmhmm\u2026  (more flipping)\u2026. Oh\u2026.  Ok\u2026.  My journey through the forest of Algmore has brought me to a large ominous looking stone castle.  It is nighttime and the glow of the moon is illuminating the heavy doors to the entrance of the castle through the trees\u2026. Um\u2026 Ok\u2026  I\u2019m going to open the main doors to the Castle and walk in\u2026. (flipping)\u2026. the doors are locked\u2026. Hmmm\u2026 Oh!  I\u2019m going to use my level 4 lock picking skill to unlock the doors \u2026. Let\u2019s see\u2026 (sound of dice being shaken and then rolled) .. Yes!  16!&#8230; (mumbling and writing on a piece of paper) Ok, 16 plus 4 times my journeyman multiplier equals\u2026 Ok!  I unlocked the door.  <\/p>\n<p>I open the doors and walk into the castle.  (flipping)\u2026 Ok, I am now standing in the main entrance room to the castle.  It is a large room made of black stone.  There are two stairways leading to a second floor balcony in front of me to the left and right.  Straight in between the stairways is a long hallway leading into darkness.  To my left is a closed wooden door.  To my right is a fireplace with a roaring fire.  In front of the fireplace is a small carpet with two comfortable looking arm chairs on top of it facing the fireplace\u2026  Hmmm\u2026 Ok, I\u2019m going to walk down the long dark hallway in front of me\u2026. (flipping)\u2026. <\/p>\n<p>Oh\u2026 Before I am able to walk past the staircases and down the hallway an intimidating older male voice calls out to me.  It says \u2026 Uh (clears throat.  Makes her voice try to sound deep and manly) \u201cHalt traveler!  You have entered my castle, the castle of Lord Merdolock, without permission.  What reason do you have for trespassing on such sacred ground, on this, the night of Uluhat, the most sacred night to Hifyu, the ancient God of flame?!\u201d  I look up to see Lord Merdolock, a tall older man with long white hair and long white beard descending the stair case.  He reaches the bottom of the stair case and walks over to me.  He his dressed in a sacred red rob, embellished with gold chains.  There are shiny rubies of Green and Red embedded within the gold chains around his rob.  He also holds a large wooden staff with metal wrapped around the top and the base of the staff.<\/p>\n<p>Ok\u2026 I\u2019m going to try and convince him that I meant no harm and that he should help me in my quest\u2026 (clears throat.  Change her voice to sound more heroic).  \u201cOh Lord Merdolock!  I, Shalaya, Hunt Mistress of the City of Ravenfeather, am but a simple traveler.  I meant no harm by invading your castle.  I merely seek food and shelter, as well as any help you may offer on my quest to defeat my sworn enemy Norgongol of the Dragonclaw Clan.\u201d\u2026Uh, ok  (sound of dice being shaken and rolled.)  (mumbling and writing) 6 plus a charisma of 10\u2026 Shoot, I didn\u2019t convince him.  (flipping) Lord Merdolock says (clears throat and starts talking in a deep manly voice again) \u201cHow dare you insult the lord of this castle as well as the ancient gods that inhabit it.  Now you will pay with your life!\u201d \u2026 Uh, Lord Merdolock points his staff at me and a level 8 large pylon of fire comes flying towards me.  (nervous) Oh no.  Making a saving throw.  (sound of dice being shaken and rolled) Oh\u2026 I rolled a 2.  (sound of writing).  (Depressed) Oh\u2026 (sound of pencil being dropped) I died\u2026 (pause) During my own game\u2026. (lets out a very long and depressed sigh).<\/p>\n<p>Secruity Voice: (sound of beeping).  Two individuals approaching main entrance.<\/p>\n<p>Zippy:  Huh?  Who is it?<\/p>\n<p>Secruity voice:  1st individual is female, appears to be 5 foot 11 inches or 6 feet tall, approximate age to be mid to late 20\u2019s.  (Beeping)  1st individual positively identified as Patricia Lacreoux. <\/p>\n<p>Zippy: (happy) Oh!<\/p>\n<p>Security Voice:  2nd individual is an unknown male.  Appears to be 5 Foot 6 or 7 inches tall.  Approximate age to be mid to late 30\u2019s.  Will access police records in an attempt to identify.<\/p>\n<p>Zippy:  Oh that\u2019s ok.  If it\u2019s Patricia, let them in.<\/p>\n<p>Security Voice:  Affirmative.<\/p>\n<p>Zippy:  Yay.<\/p>\n<p>(Sound of footsteps upstairs can be heard).<\/p>\n<p>Patricia: (calling from up stairs) Zippy?<\/p>\n<p>Zippy:  (calling up) I\u2019m down here Patricia, in the basement.<\/p>\n<p>(Sound of Patricia and Otto coming down the stairs)<\/p>\n<p>Patricia: (walking up to Zippy), Oh there you are.<\/p>\n<p>Zippy: (slightly giggly and awkward as she\u2019s meeting Otto for the first time) Hello.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia: Zippy, this is Otto.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  Hi.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  He\u2019s the Private Dic I work for\u2026 (pause) What were you doing down here?<\/p>\n<p>Zippy:  Oh, I was just playing Castles and Chimaeras.<\/p>\n<p>Otto: (confused) What\u2019s that?<\/p>\n<p>Patricia: (ignoring Otto) eh, you were playing by yourself?<\/p>\n<p>Zippy:  Well\u2026 Norman and Julia were supposed to be coming over to play, but Julia had to go help her cousin who just broke up with her boyfriend move into her Aunt\u2019s apartment and Norman ate some bad Bocky at Anime-Thursdays and has diarrhea.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  Oooooook, Patricia, who is this person?<\/p>\n<p>Zippy: Hey, I\u2019m standing right here.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia: Otto, stop being\u2026 you.  This is Zippy Erhnstein.  She\u2019s the CEO and one woman show that is the Cyberverse Security Company.  We went to college together.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  You\u2019re the CEO of Cyberverse?<\/p>\n<p>Zippy:  Why is he surprised by that?<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  For god sakes, I use Cyberverse products on all of my hard and soft storage units.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  Zippy, look, we need some help.  Can we store something in Tubby?<\/p>\n<p>Zippy:  What?  (speaking out the side of her mouth) Patricia, I told you not to talk about him in front of other people.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  Who\u2019s Tubby?  There\u2019s another person involved in all of this?<\/p>\n<p>Patricia: Zippy, we really need your help.<\/p>\n<p>Zippy: (sighs) What did you do now?<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  Nothing big\u2026 We just have to hide this box and these document copies until some stuff blows over.<\/p>\n<p>Zippy: \u2026 You two are the ones who blew up the police station aren\u2019t you.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia: \u2026No.<\/p>\n<p>Zippy: Are you sure?<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  She\u2019s telling the truth.  We didn\u2019t blow up the police station.  We\u2019re trying to solve a murder case and we need to make sure this information is kept secret.  It\u2019s evidence that can be used against the killer once we find him.  The equipment in my office isn\u2019t as\u2026 secure as it could be and we need to make sure no-one gets their hands on this until the time is right.<\/p>\n<p>Zippy: And this information isn\u2019t illegal?<\/p>\n<p>Patricia: Come on.  When have I ever done anything illegal?<\/p>\n<p>Zippy: Oh, how about, all the time!<\/p>\n<p>Security Voice: Attention, two police cars have just arrived at the front of the house.<\/p>\n<p>All at once: What?<\/p>\n<p>Zippy:  You said this wasn\u2019t illegal!<\/p>\n<p>Patricia: Heh\u2026 maybe a little illegal.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  Damn.  They must have followed us from the police station.<\/p>\n<p>Zippy: Hey!<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  I didn\u2019t blow up the police stations!  I promise!<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  Look, we\u2019ve got to hide this stuff right now.<\/p>\n<p>Zippy:  Noooo way Jos\u00e9.  I have a nice little life going for me here and I\u2019m not getting arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  That\u2019s it!  (Sound of Patricia grabbing and struggling with Zippy and slapping her hand on the evidence).<\/p>\n<p>Zippy:  Ah!  No!  Hey!<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  There.  Now you\u2019re finger prints are all over the evidence and you don\u2019t have enough time to erase them before the police come knocking on that door.  Either hide this or I\u2019m going to tell them that you were involved and you\u2019ll be going to jail with us.<\/p>\n<p>Zippy:  (Frustrated yell) I can\u2019t believe you!  You\u2019re a jerkiest friend ever!<\/p>\n<p>Security Voice:  Four police officers have left their cars and are starting to make their way to the front door.  They are also looking around the perimeter of the property with their flashlights.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  Zippy, look.  You\u2019re doing the right thing here.  An innocent man was murdered and we have a lot of good evidence here that can lead us to the killer.  He\u2019s going to get away and kill again if you don\u2019t help us.<\/p>\n<p>Zippy:  (frustrated sigh) Damnit!  Fine\u2026 over here.  (Sound of Zippy walking over to a curtain and pulling it to the side.  The sound of beeps).<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  There he is.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  What?  It\u2019s just some goofy looking box.  This is your grand way of hiding things?<\/p>\n<p>Zippy:  Shhhh!!  Don\u2019t say that!  \u2026He\u2019s sensitive (sound of a sad beep).  (talking to Tubby) Don\u2019t worry, he\u2019s just a mean manipulative man whose sad little opinion is pathetic and doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  Oh\u2026 It\u2019s a robot.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  Not just any robot.  This is the world\u2019s only known Octo-sourced, security and storage node.  Not only does he have an extremely sophisticated AI system which can assess a multitude of threats as well as develop theoretical reactions to situations that it hasn\u2019t been programmed to react to, but he has one of the most advanced locking and storage systems ever created on a micro storage unit.  Include all of this with the fact that he has full mobility and environment manipulation abilities, which allows him to be extremely good at hiding, and you are now looking at the most advanced and secure storage system ever made.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  Wow\u2026 and you built him?<\/p>\n<p>Zippy:  Why he is surprised by that?  (Sound of beeping). (Talking to Tubby)  Ok Tubby, I\u2019ve entered the code and done the finger print and retinal scan.  Please open.  (Approving beep and the sound of his hatch unlocking and opening).  Thank you (sound of Zippy putting the evidence into Zippy and closing the hatch).  Ok, items have been stored and hatch has been closed.  Please lock.  (Approving beep.  Sound of lock engaging).  Good.  Now, I need to you go into level 6 hiding.  (Confused beep)  Don\u2019t worry, I\u2019ll be fine.  I will send the signal when you can come out of hiding.  (Affirmative beep and the sound of Tubby driving off).  \u2026 Alright.  That evidence is safe.  No-one is going to find it.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  You gave him emotions?<\/p>\n<p>Zippy:  Yes.  Well&#8230;  Sort of.  He feigns them.  I suppose it\u2019s not like he\u2019s actually feeling anything for real.  The emotive beeps just sort of help me better understand what he\u2019s trying to communicate without risking someone being able to listen in and steal information through a standard language.<\/p>\n<p>Security Voice:  The police officers are at the front door and are requesting entrance.<\/p>\n<p>Zippy: Oooohhh, what do I do?  What do I do?<\/p>\n<p>Otto:   Just relax.  We\u2019ll answer the door and take the heat.  Just come up with us to show that we aren\u2019t holding you hostage or anything.<\/p>\n<p>Zippy:  Ok\u2026<\/p>\n<p>(Sound of them walking up the stairs to the front entrance)<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  I can\u2019t tell you how much this means to me\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Zippy:  Quiet!  I\u2019m not talking to you anymore.<\/p>\n<p>(Door opening).<\/p>\n<p>Otto: Hello Vicki.<\/p>\n<p>Vicki:  Otto.  Patricia.  And you must be?..<\/p>\n<p>Zippy:  Zippy.  I live here\u2026 I don\u2019t know these people. (Patricia makes an audible groan as if to say \u201cyou shouldn\u2019t have said that\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Vicki:  Right.  Well, all three of you are under arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Zippy:  What?!<\/p>\n<p>Vicki: Take them in boys.  (sound of officers walking in and handcuffing them).<\/p>\n<p>Zippy:  Hey, you can\u2019t do this!  I\u2019m an innocent bystander!<\/p>\n<p>Vicki:  Otto, Patricia you are under arrest for the illegal duplication of police evidence and the destruction of the Boston Police Headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>Zippy: (Gasp) You DID blow up the police station!<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  Well\u2026 I didn\u2019t\u2026 exactly blow it up\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Otto: (under his breath) Shut the hell up you two\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Vicki:  Zippy, you are under arrest for aiding and offering sanctuary to two individuals sought after by the Police Department of the City of Boston.<\/p>\n<p>Zippy:  I didn\u2019t aid anyone!  I told you, I don\u2019t know these people!<\/p>\n<p>Vicki:   (Sighs) and I\u2019m sure when we search your house we aren\u2019t going to find the copied evidence either.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  Ha!  Search her place.  Yeah right.  Like you had enough time to get a search warrant.<\/p>\n<p>Vicki: (Sounds of beeping) Actually\u2026 I did.<\/p>\n<p>Otto: Oh\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Vicki:  I\u2019m on the same amateur baseball team as the judge.  All right boys, search it.  (sound of police going into the house and starting to search)<\/p>\n<p>Zippy:  What!  You can\u2019t search my place that\u2019s private property!  Don\u2019t touch my vintage monster manual!<\/p>\n<p>Vicki:  (clears throats) As I was saying, you all have the right to remain silent\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  Hey wait! Vicki&#8230; (sexy voice) Come on\u2026 You\u2019re really going to put me in jail?<\/p>\n<p>Vicki: \u2026 I would rather see you safe in jail right now then out running around town where you can get hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia: (lovey) Awwwww..<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  What?!  Hey?! What?!<\/p>\n<p>Vicki:  (sighs)  Alright, bring them to the cars, (sound of them being walked to the cars).  Starting again, you have the right to remain silent.  Anything you say may be used against you in a court of law\u2026<\/p>\n<p>(Sound fades out)<\/p>\n<p>(Scene: Inside a police station)<\/p>\n<p>(Sound fades in. Police station.  Lots of commotion as people are scrambling with the police headquarters blowing up).<\/p>\n<p>Police Officer:  (Sound of him walking by) Alright Tony, stop fighting.  You\u2019re going in the slammer whether you like it or not.<\/p>\n<p>Tony: Hey!  Officer Manny, come on!  I\u2019m an innocent man.  You know me!<\/p>\n<p>Police Officer: Yeah, yeah, get moving.  (sound of them walking off).<\/p>\n<p>(Sound of Otto, Patricia, Zippy, Vicki and an officer walking up)<\/p>\n<p>Vicki:  Ok you three, sit down here.  You\u2019ll be called in when they\u2019re ready.  Maggie, make sure they don\u2019t try to escape.  The French girl is good with locks.<\/p>\n<p>Maggie:  You got it Vicki.  (sound of Vicki walking off).<\/p>\n<p>(Otto sighs.  After a moment Zippy starts to hyper-ventilate).<\/p>\n<p>Zippy: Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god.<\/p>\n<p>Maggie:  Is she going to be ok?<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  Hey, calm down Zippy.<\/p>\n<p>Zippy:  Shut up!  I can\u2019t believe what you\u2019ve gotten me into!  Oh god, those guys are tearing my place apart as we speak.  This is just going to be great for business when everyone finds that the CEO of a security company broke the law.  (hyper-ventilating) Oh god, I have a criminal record now!  All of my clients and distributors are going to fire me.  I\u2019m never going to be able to get a job again and I\u2019m going to become some shiftless hobo that they find having starved to death in a dirty alley way after not making enough money from hooking to buy food.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  Wow.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  Hey, look on the bright side.  Now you can market yourself as having first hand insider experience into government run penitentiary security systems.<\/p>\n<p>Zippy: (suddenly more upbeat and seriously considering the suggestion)\u2026.Hmmm.<\/p>\n<p>(Sound of police officer walking up)<\/p>\n<p>Police Officer: Zipporah Ernstein?<\/p>\n<p>Zippy:  (nervous) Eeeee,<\/p>\n<p>Police Officer: Follow me please.<\/p>\n<p>Zippy: (Sound fades as she walks off) Oh god, oh god, oh god.<\/p>\n<p>Otto: She\u2019ll be ok.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Man: Hey Maggie, you\u2019re beating Herman in the league now.<\/p>\n<p>Maggie:  Ha!  I knew it.  That bastard couldn\u2019t pick a team if it had been mapped out for him\u2026. (Voice fades out).<\/p>\n<p>Patricia: (Whispering) So are you going to tell me what you found at the brothel?<\/p>\n<p>Otto: (Whispering) A battery from the murder weapon.  Laser saw.  Didn\u2019t find the actual weapon though.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  (Whispering) Really.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  (Whispering) Yeah. And more interesting then that, the Pleasure Node that saw the crime had her memories deleted.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  (Whispering) What?!<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  (Whispering) Yeah, I know.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  (Whispering) And you\u2019re still not dropping the case?<\/p>\n<p>Otto: (Whispering) (sighs) Like I said.  I don\u2019t know.  Obviously this is big.  But\u2026 I mean.  This may be leading us to the source of where all this crap has been coming from in the city.  This case allows to get paid while investigating it.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  (Whispering) God damn it Otto, like money is an issue right now!   You\u2019re a damn private dic.  It\u2019s not you\u2019re job to cure the city.  Leave that to guys with the state pensions.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  (Whispering) \u2026I know.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia: (Whispering)  I\u2019d also like to remind you that closing down crime rings puts us out of work.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  (Whispering) Oh whatever.  You know most of our money comes from the soft jobs.  It\u2019s not like we\u2019re constantly getting murder cases.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia: (Whispering) Well since you found MacBerger dead, that makes this the 2nd one we\u2019ve gotten this month.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  (Whispering) Alright, fine.  This month\u2019s been busy.  But still, that\u2019s not where the money\u2019s coming from and you can\u2019t deny that\u2026 Besides\u2026 If we can help bring down whatever the cause of all this is\u2026 that will make the city a safer place\u2026 and that\u2019s why we got into this in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia: (Whispering) It\u2019s why you got into it.  Not me.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  (Whispering) Then remind me why you did get into this?  (Patricia is silent) that\u2019s what I thought.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia: (Whispering)\u2026 What makes you so sure that this case is connected to other crimes, much less that something organized has been going on over the last couple years?<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  (Whispering) Where would someone get the know how to delete a nodes memory if there wasn\u2019t something organized going on?<\/p>\n<p>Patricia: (Whispering) \u2026Fair enough.<\/p>\n<p>(Sound of Vicki walking).<\/p>\n<p>Vicki:  Alright Otto and Patricia, Bates wants to see you personally. Follow me.<\/p>\n<p>(Sound of Otto and Patricia getting and following Vicki)<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  This should be great.<\/p>\n<p>Vicki:  Yeah.  He was already really pissed off at you.  Having his office blown up hasn\u2019t made him very friendly today.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  What did you do to piss him off originally by the way?<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  Ehhh, I have a feeling you\u2019re about to find out.<\/p>\n<p>(sound of door opening to Bates office, them walking in and the door closing behind them.  The sound of them sitting down in chairs). <\/p>\n<p>Otto:  (Sarcastically friendly) Hiya Howard!  How are things going today?<\/p>\n<p>Bates: (Weakly covered rage) Otto Vainikainen\u2026  We have a lot to talk about\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  I never knew a person\u2019s face could turn that color before.  Howard, I think you need to take some time and chill out, you know how your blood pressure gets.  (Bates lets out a long sigh trying to contain his rage).<\/p>\n<p>(Commercial)<\/p>\n<p>(Sound fades in.  Still in Bates office.  The sound of Bates pacing back and forth in front of Otto and Patricia not saying anything).<\/p>\n<p>Patricia: \u2026Is he going to keep pacing like that forever?  It\u2019s making me nauseas.<\/p>\n<p>Bates:  Sometimes, I sit alone in my house and watch the sun set\u2026  As the sun drops below the horizon the darkness of the night comes pouring in through the windows, and assuming I don\u2019t have the lamp on, I am covered in this darkness and for a few minutes before I turn the lights on, life feels a little too\u2026 real.  Like I\u2019m living in some kind of world that is more aware and real than the real world\u2026  It\u2019s during these times that the feeling of dread that always lives in the back of my mind and in the pit of my stomach overcomes my body and I come to the realization that I am cursed.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  \u2026Vicki, does he normally get like this when he hasn\u2019t eaten in 2 hours?<\/p>\n<p>Bates:  \u2026After some therapy sessions following a.. LONG and painful divorce from my beloved Dianne, I decided that the only way to overcome this curse, and thus destroy my fear of the dark, was to seek it out.  To face it head on, in the same way a medieval knight faces the dragon that is continuously burning down his castle.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  (confused) Huh?<\/p>\n<p>Bates: And like that medieval knight, I quested Otto.  Oh yes.  I quested high and low.  Looking for the totem that held all of my nightmares.  And Otto, oh how long I quested for.  I searched every corner of this Earth.  I even bought the ticket and went to the Moon, and I explored every corner of the great city of Luna looking for that enemy that I could face in battle in hopes that I would be able to escape my personal living hell.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  \u2026Bates\u2026 quite screwing around.<\/p>\n<p>Bates:  But I found nothing there Otto.  Nothing on the Moon, nothing on Earth.  Maybe I needed to quest further into the Galaxy I thought.  But, the tickets were so expensive.  It would be a long time before I could do that.  So I returned home Otto.  Back to my home in Boston.  And to my surprise Otto.  Do you know what I found?  I found the answer.  I found the Totem.  The enemy.  I found the thing that was cursing me, right there in my home.<\/p>\n<p>Otto: \u2026Uh oh\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  What?<\/p>\n<p>Bates:  I entered the door to my house.  It was a day like any other day.  There in my house.  All alone.  I closed the door behind me, and hung my jacket.  Suddenly, from the floor above me, I heard a noise.  I walked slowly up the stairs.  I could hear the noise getting louder.  It was coming.. from.. my bedroom?  What could be going on in my bedroom?  I reached my hand out and touched the cold door knob.  I turned the knob slowly.  I pushed the door open.  And do you know what I found Otto?  (Starts breathing heavy, rage seeping through but still slightly contained)  I found you!  Screwing my neice!<\/p>\n<p>Patricia: (gasp) Michele Jonesworth is Bates niece!<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  Ehhh\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Bates: (Heavy breathing, but keeping it together.  Progressively getting angrier as he talks though)  You are my curse Otto Vainikainen.  You are the demon that haunts me in the night.  You are the dragon that is set to burn down my kingdom.  And now, a week after catching you with Michele, my police headquarters explodes and I found out that you\u2019re assistant was responsible for it.  (Yelling) Well, let me respond to you Otto! (Screaming) DOES IT LOOK LIKE I\u2019M SCREWING AROUND?!!!  (silence) \u2026Well?!  Don\u2019t you have any god damn comments now?<\/p>\n<p>Patricia: \u2026I wasn\u2019t responsible for blowing up the police department.<\/p>\n<p>Bates:  Shut up!  I don\u2019t care who\u2019s responsible for what anymore.  I am locking you two up for the rest of your natural lives!  I swear to god you will not see the light of day as long as I live!  And after we\u2019re all dead I\u2019ll make sure you\u2019re damn ghosts are locked up in a black hole too!  And you!<\/p>\n<p>Vicki: Me?<\/p>\n<p>Bates:  God damn it Vicki!  You and your libido are the ones that let this psycho-bitch into the evidence room in the first place!  I swear, you\u2019re Turkish voodoo gods must have been watching over you, because if I didn\u2019t need every cop I have available right now, I would be bringing you up on every corruption and incompetence charge that the United States of America has on the books, and then some!  I promise you after this is over, you\u2019ll be sweeping the floors with a toothbrush for a living!<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  Damnit Bates!  She told you she wasn\u2019t responsible for blowing up the station!  You and your idiot team brought an active hyper-neuro bomb into the building.  That damn thing was just waiting for the right time to go off!  You\u2019re punishing Vicki?  He\u2019s the one that got everyone out of that building safe! You should be giving him a damn medal!<\/p>\n<p>Bates:  Did I ask for you god damn opinion?  When that station blew up, one of our central evidence storage hubs went up with it!  Do you know how many cases you just sent back to square one?<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  Not all of the evidence was destroyed\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Bates:  What?!<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  We were able to make duplicates of all of the evidence for the Homer Diya murder case.<\/p>\n<p>Bates:  The damn Homer Diya murder case?!  What the hell are you doing investigating that thing?<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  His sister seems to think I would do a better job finding her brother\u2019s killer than your idiot squad\u2026 No offense Vicki.<\/p>\n<p>Vicki: Don\u2019t worry about.<\/p>\n<p>Bates:  Damn it Vicki!  Don\u2019t talk to him!  I\u2019m the sheriff here, you\u2019re supposed to be on my side!<\/p>\n<p>Vicki: Sorry boss.<\/p>\n<p>Bates: Shut up!  Who cares if you have evidence.  It\u2019s all useless.  That case is just another god damn John getting killed in a brothel.  He probably just pissed off another John.  It\u2019s a dead end.  And I hope it was worth it Otto, because that case just ruined you\u2019re life.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  Well that dead end case just had a hyper-neuro bomb explode in your police headquarters.  A god damn hyper-neuro bomb Howard!  You\u2019re still going tell me this isn\u2019t more than just an open and shut John murder case?<\/p>\n<p>Bates:  What the hell do you know?  You\u2019ve been on this case for 2 seconds.  We\u2019ve been investigating it for 6 months.  Hyper-neuro bombs don\u2019t mean anything.  If you\u2019re rich enough you can buy those on the black market.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  I saw that bomb.  That was no street job.  This was made by a professional.  Not only was it stable and dormant for god knows how many months, it had a sensor and timer attached to it.  Have you ever seen anything like that on the black market?<\/p>\n<p>Vicki:  It\u2019s true, it was some pretty impressive stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Bates:  Damn it Vicki!<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  The node that found Homer Diya\u2019s body had its memory erased.<\/p>\n<p>Vicki and Bates together: (Shocked) What?<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  I went to the brothel where the body was found.  I talked to the node that found his body.  Someone had erased its memory then put up a cloaking program so that it would lie whenever any asked it questions.<\/p>\n<p>Bates: (silence for a second) &#8230;Impossible.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  Here.  I recorded our conversation. (sound of him pulling out the recorder)<\/p>\n<p>Vicki:  What?  How did you get that through the brothel sensors?<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  It\u2019s made of poly-nickel.<\/p>\n<p>Vicki:  Wow.  That\u2019s really cool.<\/p>\n<p>Bates:  Shut the hell up Vicki!  Why didn\u2019t you confiscate that from him?<\/p>\n<p>Vicki: Sorry boss.  We patted them down, he must have hidden it.<\/p>\n<p>Recorder: (sound of Otto pressing the button, rewinding and then the recording playing)<br \/>\nNode 8: \u2026see him before hand.  I just found him dead.  Then the police came and I told them that I had found him dead.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  Hey not Beatrice.<\/p>\n<p>Node 8: Yes.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  I have another fantasy.  And this one is so hot to me I\u2019m putting it as fantasy number 1. (Node 8 beeps).  My greatest fantasy is to talk to a pleasure node about a murder after she\u2019s used the pleasure slave directive to override the subterfuge code that causes her to falsify her testimony.<\/p>\n<p>Node 8: (beeps a bunch)  Done.<\/p>\n<p>Otto: Nice.<\/p>\n<p>Node 8:  This is hot.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  Yeah it is.  Now, tell me.  Did you see Homer Diya alive in the brothel before he was murdered.<\/p>\n<p>Node 8:  That information has been deleted from my memory.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  (shocked) What?&#8230;  Who deleted it?<\/p>\n<p>Node 8:  That information has been deleted.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  \u2026Did you certify the deletion?<\/p>\n<p>Node 8:  That information has been deleted.<\/p>\n<p>(sound of recorder being pressed to stop playback)<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  \u2026and before you think you can just steal this recording from me, I\u2019ve made copies of it as well. \u2026Now tell me this isn\u2019t something big?  An advanced hyper-neuro bomb?  A node getting their memory deleted?  All of these things need organization Howard.  This could be a direct lead to where all of the crime has been originating from over the last 2 years.<\/p>\n<p>Bates: (silence for a moment) \u2026Fine.  We\u2019ll open the case back up.  Give me the evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  Like hell.<\/p>\n<p>Bates:  Listen here, you\u2019re still criminals!  Stealing evidence, making illegal copies, and  taking part in the destruction of a police station!  Don\u2019t make you\u2019re lawyers also have to defend you for hiding evidence from the police department.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  You want this evidence? Including a part of the murder weapon that I found and box that contained the bomb by the way?  You drop all the charges against us..<\/p>\n<p>Vicki: (clearing throat) A-hem\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  \u2026Oh, and you promote Vicki to Captain.<\/p>\n<p>Vicki: Errr..<\/p>\n<p>Otto: \u2026 Uhhh, I mean you only demote him to speeding ticket duty.<\/p>\n<p>Vicki: Well\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Otto: \u2026 I mean\u2026 you leave his job exactly as it is now.<\/p>\n<p>Vicki: There you go.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  And on top of that you bring me and Patricia into the case too.<\/p>\n<p>Bates:  Psh.  Like you have anything to bargain with.  We\u2019ll just find the damn evidence ourselves.  It\u2019s probably still at that girl\u2019s house.  My guys have probably found it already.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  Like hell you\u2019ll find it.  That girl you\u2019re talking about is one of the most advanced security minds that\u2019s currently alive in the world.  Her house is so tight, you won\u2019t find anything unless she wants you to find it on purpose.  Your boys might as well be looking for a single grain of sand in the desert for all the luck they\u2019ll have finding anything useful.  And don\u2019t think you\u2019ll be able to get anything out of her through interrogation either.  Her mind is like steel bear trap.  She\u2019s been trained to guard herself from every form of interrogation and torture technique that\u2019s imaginable.  You\u2019ll never break her or get her to confess anything, so you might as well just give up and accept that you\u2019re not getting anything from us unless you play ball.<\/p>\n<p>Bates:  (after a second the sound of the phone being picked up and dialed.  Ringing for a second) Maggie, bring that other girl into my office.<\/p>\n<p>Maggie: (through the phone) you got it boss.  (sound of Bates hanging up the phone).<\/p>\n<p>Bates: Let\u2019s just see about that.<\/p>\n<p>Otto: (whispering to Patricia) She\u2019s been trained in torture and interrogation?<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  (as if to say \u2018how would I know?\u2019) Meh\u2026<\/p>\n<p>(Sound of doors opening, Maggie and Zippy walking in.  Door closes and Zippy is led to a chair which she sits down in).<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  Hey Zippy, how are you doing.<\/p>\n<p>Zippy: (Sniffly) They were very mean and made me cry.<\/p>\n<p>Maggie: Hey boss, the boys got done searching her house too.  They weren\u2019t really able to find anything.  Just these weird sex magazines.  (sound of \u201csex magazines\u201d (aka D&#038;D handbooks) hitting Bates desk).<\/p>\n<p>Zippy:  (horrified) What?!  Those are my handbooks!<\/p>\n<p>Maggie:  Eh, yeah\u2026 Anyway, she had all of these crazy locks and stuff all over place.  Even software locks on her computers.  They weren\u2019t able to figure out how to break them\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Bates:  \u2026What\u2019s you\u2019re name miss?<\/p>\n<p>Zippy:  Zippy.<\/p>\n<p>Bates:  Zippy, where\u2019s the evidence?<\/p>\n<p>Zippy:  (to Patricia) You told them I hid the evidence?<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  No you fool!  He just tricked you into confessing!<\/p>\n<p>Zippy: (nervous)\u2026hehe\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Bates:  Zippy, you are in a ton of trouble.  I can have you locked up for a very long time\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Otto: Oh don\u2019t listen to him Zippy, he\u2019s got nothing.  If you give him the location of the evidence he\u2019ll just throw us in jail anyway.  We\u2019re trying to negotiate ourselves out of this mess with the evidence as bait.<\/p>\n<p>Bates:  Give me a break Vainikainen, you have nothing to negotiate with.  We have all of those records logged into the computer system already.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:   You\u2019re lying!  The law they passed last year forbids the police from saving soft copies of evidence on network enabled computers, and I have a feeling the computers that were storing those soft copies lived in the headquarters.  Beside, even if you did, you still don\u2019t have the piece of the murder weapon and the box that held the bomb.  Not to mention what we found in the box once the bomb was out of it.<\/p>\n<p>Bates:  What did you find?<\/p>\n<p>Patricia: Psh.<\/p>\n<p>Bates:  Zippy, tell me where the damn evidence is!<\/p>\n<p>Otto: Don\u2019t tell him anything!<\/p>\n<p>Zippy:  You guys it doesn\u2019t matter..<\/p>\n<p>Otto and Bates:  What?<\/p>\n<p>Zippy:  It doesn\u2019t matter.  You can ask me all you want.  I don\u2019t know where the evidence is.  I put it into Tubby remember.  I don\u2019t know where his location is.  I just call him and he comes, but I don\u2019t know where he is hiding.<\/p>\n<p>Maggie:  What\u2019s Tubby?<\/p>\n<p>Zippy:  My security box node.<\/p>\n<p>Bates:  Then call you\u2019re robot!<\/p>\n<p>Zippy:  No!<\/p>\n<p>Bates:  Why?!<\/p>\n<p>Zippy:  Because\u2026 you\u2019ll just put us in jail.  \u2026And don\u2019t think you can call Tubby or find him yourself.  He only responds to me.  On top of that, I\u2019m the one who programmed him to hide, so don\u2019t think you\u2019ll able to find him.  Even if you did, you\u2019d never get him open.  He only opens with my password, finger print, retinal scan and voice commands.<\/p>\n<p>Maggie:  (after a moment of everyone being silent) \u2026 So now what?<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  You know our demands Bates.<\/p>\n<p>Zippy:  What are our demands?<\/p>\n<p>Vicki:  (Talking fast) Otto wants you three to go free, and for me to keep my job and for him and Patricia to be brought into the case.<\/p>\n<p>Zippy:  Oh\u2026 ok.<\/p>\n<p>Bates:  DAMNIT VICKI!<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  Howard!  What\u2019s it going to be?<\/p>\n<p>Bates: \u2026 (grumbles) Fine.  You have a deal.  Call your robot and give us the evidence and we\u2019ll let you go free.<\/p>\n<p>Otto: No, no, no! I\u2019m not falling for that.  We are making this official.  I want a contract and recording stating our agreement, including that us three are brought in to assist on the case.<\/p>\n<p>Zippy: What do you mean us three?  I don\u2019t want to be on the case!<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  We need you to be.  The lock that was installed on the box with the bomb was a Cyberverse lock.  I\u2019m going to need you to go through your records to find who that lock was sold too.  On top of that, Tubby is our safety net now.  As long as we\u2019re able to have the evidence\u2019s final storage place be in him, they can\u2019t throw a fast one on us, and you\u2019re the only one that can operate him.<\/p>\n<p>Zippy:  No, no no!  You can\u2019t use him!  I\u2019m not helping!<\/p>\n<p>Otto: You will if you want to stay out of jail.<\/p>\n<p>Zippy: (Depressed sigh)<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  Ok, call you\u2019re lawyer Howard.<\/p>\n<p>Bates: \u2026Maggie, get Mark.<\/p>\n<p>(Sound fades)<\/p>\n<p>(COMMERCIAL)<\/p>\n<p>(Sound Fades in.  In a conference room in the station with people surrounding the table talking to each other).<\/p>\n<p>(Sound of door opening and closing.  Zippy walks in with Tubby following her).<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  Hey\u2026 I see you found Tubby.<\/p>\n<p>Zippy: (Mad and hurt) Of course I found him.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  Hey, look, this wasn\u2019t my idea getting you roped into all of this.  Otto just sprung that out.  Hell, I don\u2019t even think we should be doing this case either.  If it was up to me I would drop it.<\/p>\n<p>Zippy:  Whatever\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  \u2026That being said, I\u2019m happy you\u2019re going to be doing this with me.<\/p>\n<p>Zippy: \u2026Just don\u2019t talk to me right now\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Patricia: \u2026Ok\u2026<\/p>\n<p>(Sound of a gavel hitting something.  Room quiets down)<\/p>\n<p>Mark:  (sighs.  Sounds depressed and down trodden) Hello all.  I\u2019m Mark Worthington, currently acting lawyer for the state of Massachusetts police precinct 1035, now acting as the police headquarters for the City of Boston.  After deliberations between Sheriff Howard Bates, licensed private investigator Olavi Vainikainen and certified private investigator assistant Patricia-Jean Lacreoix, an agreement has been reached and signed in both contractual form and in the form of a declared video recording, which will be held independent of all parties by the state of Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>This\u2026 stupid\u2026agreement runs as follows:  Olavi Vainikainen requires that Sheriff Howard Bates agrees not to arrest, imprison, sue or in any way take legal action against Olavi Vainikainen, Patricia-Jean Lacreoix or Zipporah Erhnstein for the destruction of the City of Boston Police Headquarters, nor for the stealing, duplication and hiding of evidence pertaining to the Homer Diya murder case, despite the fact that he obviously did all of this things. On top of this, Olavi Vainikainen also requires for no punishment to befall Officer Victor Jones in relation to the previously mentioned crimes nor for apparently following the duties of his groin versus the duties that he actually gets paid tax payer money to do.<\/p>\n<p>In return, Sheriff Howard Bates requires for Olavi Vainikainen to allow the city of Boston police force to have unlimited access to the evidence surrounding the Homer Diya murder case, despite that fact that the case has been a running joke around the precinct for the last 6 months and this entire investigation is going to make Bates look even more like an insane douche bag, which everyone already thinks he is.<\/p>\n<p>In return to this, Olavi Vainikainen requires that Sheriff Howard Bates, allow Olavi Vainikainen, Patricia-Jean Lacreoix and Zipporah Erhnstein to participate, in an unlimited fashion, with the investigation into the murder of Homer Diya\u2026 god knows why\u2026 and on top of this, Olavi Vainikainen requires that all evidence pertaining to the Homer Diya murder, when not in use, be stored in that weird nerdy girls moving bucket which only she can open.  (sighs)<\/p>\n<p>As a final addition, Patricia-Jean Lacreoix requires that her and Olavi Vainikainen have the option to leave and not participate in the Homer Diya murder investigation without any threat of legal repercussions\u2026 finally someone with some sense.  Unfortunately for Zipporah Erhnstein however, she cannot leave the case unless dictated by Olavi Vainikainen and Patricia-Jean Lacreoix.  Tough break kid.<\/p>\n<p>And in a final last minute note put in by Patricia-Jean Lacreoix, let it be recognized by the state of Massachusetts that Sheriff Howard Bates is a negative nancy whose butt smells like ass\u2026 very mature.<\/p>\n<p>And in end, Sheriff Bates, I just want to say that this is the most ridiculous agreement I\u2019ve ever had to preside over in my 20 years working as a lawyer and I quit.<\/p>\n<p>(Sound of Mark walking off.  Opens the door, walks out, and slams it behind him).<\/p>\n<p>Bates:  Oook\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  (addressing the room) Ok folks, Sheriff Bates has agreed to let me speak.  Look, I know this isn\u2019t the most ideal situation for all of us, but there\u2019s something bigger going on here then whether we want to be here or not or if we like the circumstances.  A presumably innocent man has been murdered, a highly advanced bomb has been detonated and has destroyed the police headquarters.  On top of this more evidence has come to light to suggest that this seemingly simple case may have been an act of an organized threat that currently exists in Boston.  It is my and Sheriff Bates belief that all of this may be ultimately leading to the core reason why serious crime suddenly spiked in this city two years ago, and has remained there ever since.  We are going to need to work together to get to the bottom of this.  So first things first.  We are going to share with you all the evidence we have collectively found so far.  Zippy, please bring Tubby up here with the evidence.<\/p>\n<p>(Sound of Zippy and Tubby walking up to Otto)<\/p>\n<p>Zippy: (sound of her pressing buttons on Tubby).  Ok Tubby, I have entered the password and done the finger print and retinal scan.  Please disengage locks and open.  (Tubby beeps in agreement.  Sounds of locks disengaging and the hatch opening.  Sound of Patricia grabbing evidence and handing it to Otto).  Here.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  Thanks.  Ok.  So here\u2019s what we know.  First, Homer Diya, a professor in the Robotics department of BIT, was murdered approximately 6 months ago in the Washington Street Brothel.  His heart was apparently cut out of his chest, as you can see by these pictures (sound of him flipping papers on a projector).<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  One thing you\u2019ll see in the pictures if you look closely, is that there is a light and some wires sticking out of the inner left side of his rib cage.  However, this was never reported in the autopsy report.  On top of that there is no name for the person who did the autopsy report, just his hand written analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  Correct.  And his hand written analysis just reads that Homer Diya was murdered by having his heart cut out.  That\u2019s about it.<\/p>\n<p>Maggie:  Couldn\u2019t we just dig up the body and take a look then?<\/p>\n<p>Bates:  Hmm.  Hard to get that kind of clearance but not a bad idea for a last resort.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  In the meantime, I think our take away from this is that we need to find out who did that autopsy, and see why they would have missed something like that.<\/p>\n<p>Bates:  That\u2019s you Vicki.<\/p>\n<p>Vicki:  On it.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  And here, while you\u2019re looking into that Vicki, see if you can get any information on this, (sound of Otto putting the laser saw battery on the table).  I found this hidden in an air vent at the brothel.  I think it\u2019s a battery from a laser saw but I\u2019m not sure.  I think it may have been part of the murder weapon.  If you can trace it back, you\u2019ll also want to see if an electric screwdriver was purchased at the same too, as the air vent had been screwed into place with something mechanical.<\/p>\n<p>Vicki:  Ok.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  Speaking of the brothel, I was able to interview the node that found Homer Diya\u2019s body.  It had had its memory erased.<\/p>\n<p>Maggie and Zippy:  What?!<\/p>\n<p>Maggie: No way\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Zippy: That\u2019s\u2026 That\u2019s crazy\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  I know.  So we need to find out who did this, and how they did it too.  I already investigated the brothel myself and I\u2019m not sure if there is too much more there that will give us any leads, so I think the next best place to look is at the offices of the brothels management.  They\u2019re at the top of the Essential building.  Patricia, that\u2019s you.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  Yep.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  And you\u2019re bringing someone with you too.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  What?  I don\u2019t need backup.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  Like hell you don\u2019t.  Last time you went off on your own a hyper-neuro bomb went off.<\/p>\n<p>Bates:  Maggie, go with her.<\/p>\n<p>Maggie:  Sure thing, boss.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  Jeez.<\/p>\n<p>Maggie:  (joking her) Hey don\u2019t worry about, we can talk about girly things together.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia: Great\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  Anyway, speaking of the hyper-neuro bomb, this was found on Homer Diya\u2019s body.  (sound of Otto putting the Etuis Box on the table).  It contained what seemed to be a highly advanced hyper neuro-bomb inside of it.  Inside the box are a number of multi-colored pebbles.  The box itself appears to be some kind of&#8230; like\u2026 nail clippers holding box or something.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  An Etuis box.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  Right.  It\u2019s been hollowed out to contain the pebbles. This box is probably the biggest mystery at the moment.  It obviously was very important to Homer Diya, as there was a hyper-neuro bomb in it that went off when it didn\u2019t recognize him after it had been opened.  However, the items inside of it seem more or less just a bunch of useless pebbles.  So, Zippy, I\u2019m giving this one to you.<\/p>\n<p>Zippy: Yeah\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  The box had a Cyberverse lock installed on it.  If we can find out who that lock was sold to or installed by, that may be a first step into finding out what the box is and who put the bomb in it.  I\u2019ll need you to look into your records on who this lock had been sold to through out the last year and see if anything can be traced back to an, uhh\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Patricia: Etuis\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  Right, Etuis box.<\/p>\n<p>Bates:  You can use the computers here.  I don\u2019t want you and that bucket of yours leaving my site.<\/p>\n<p>Zippy:  (Tubby makes a sad beep) Ok\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  And last but not least, there\u2019s BIT.  To date, no-one has been able to get any particularly useful information from Homer Diya\u2019s co-workers or office.  I\u2019m going to head over there though.  Given what I found out at the brothel, I have a feeling there may be more going on at BIT then was originally thought.<\/p>\n<p>Bates:  Fine, I\u2019m going with you.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  Ha, not this time Howard.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  Like hell Otto.  If I have to have a cop with me, so do you.<\/p>\n<p>Otto: \u2026Fine.  Alright, we have our marching orders.<\/p>\n<p>Maggie:  What about his sister?<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  What?<\/p>\n<p>Maggie:  What about Homer Diya\u2019s sister?  Don\u2019t we need to question her more?<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  Hmmm.  You may be right.  It\u2019s kind of late tonight though, and we\u2019ll need to come up with the questions we want to ask her first.  Bates and I will go speak with her at the library she works at tomorrow morning on our way to BIT.  So, Bates, think tonight on what you want to ask her and I\u2019ll do the same.  Ok folks, get some sleep and we\u2019ll reconvene here tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>(sound of everyone getting up and heading for the door).<\/p>\n<p>Otto: Here Zippy, put these back in Tubby.  (sound of Otto handing Zippy the evidence).<\/p>\n<p>Zippy: Ok  (Sound of Zippy taking evidence and her and Tubby heading for the door)<\/p>\n<p>Bates:  By the way Otto, you three are sleeping here tonight.  I\u2019m not letting any of you out of my site.  I\u2019ll see you here in the front lobby first thing in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  Right\u2026 Fine&#8230; (sounds of Bates and of people leaving the room fade out in the distance).<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  (Sound of her walking up to Otto) (Whispering) What do you mean you\u2019re going to take Bates to go talk to Barbara?!  She wanted us involved separately from the police.  Remember, they can\u2019t find out her brother was on drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  (Whispering) I didn\u2019t know what to do.  I couldn\u2019t think of any reason why we wouldn\u2019t go talk to her.  I\u2019ll have to figure something out on the way\u2026 We\u2019re also risking something by having Vicki look into the autopsy.  What if they did find drugs in his blood during the autopsy and then hid it\u2026 he could expose it and blow everything \u2026 (sighs) ey, ye ye\u2026. Ah well.  I guess there\u2019s nothing we can do about it now other than just hope he doesn\u2019t find anything\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  (Whispering) Yeah\u2026 we\u2019re going to have to be looking into this drug thing in secret I guess.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  (Whispering) \u2026Yeah, looks like it.  I\u2019ll see if I can find any evidence on what this \u2018new drug\u2019 was at his office at BIT.  See if you can get away from Maggie while you\u2019re at the Brothel offices and try to find any information about him acting high when he entered the brothel too.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  (whispering)\u2026 ok.<\/p>\n<p>Vicki:  (from doorway) Hey, they got the cots set up for you guys.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia:  Ok, we\u2019ll be right there. (To Otto) Come on.<\/p>\n<p>Otto:  (Sighs) Alright, off we go.<\/p>\n<p>(sounds of them walking out of the room.  Fades off).<\/p>\n<p>OUTRO\/ENDING CREDITS\/COMMERCIAL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ba Gua Etuis Box Episode 2 Charles Davis Intro\/Commercial (Scene: at the Chinese Education Center in Boston). (Sound of PETER entering the building and walking up to the desk) Woman at Desk: Hello there. 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