Nightmares Only Get Worse | Get in the Trunk S1 E10 | Delta Green

You are listening to the Glass Cannon Network, the premier source for role-playing game entertainment. guys like playing remotely uh i kind of do i'm just gonna admit like i do miss The snappiness of being in person, for sure. But I don't miss the hour drive home at midnight. I will say that. I feel like I like it more...

Yeah, sorry, Matthew, I feel like I like it more than I did in the past, like, when we, before the pandemic and everything, and probably before we even started recording, like when we did Wrath of the Righteous over Roll20, because one of our buddies is in L.A. And we did some jade like that, too. I definitely like it more now. It's probably because the technology is a little better. Yeah, I think that's part of it. I think it's also an acquired taste. You know, it's like...

You need to do it for a while before you work out the kinks and then feel like you have something that works for you. Right now, I think this works. I like finishing an episode, shutting everything down, and immediately being in my bed. I gotta say, I like that part. Yeah, that's nice. I like that we get to play. Yeah, that's the thing. It's like, makes it more convenient to play, for sure. It's impossible to play right now.

Yeah, yeah. I had delusions of grandeur that we'd be able to play a non-recorded game once since, what, fucking March? And it didn't happen. No. Didn't really push it too hard because if there's an open day, we just tend to fill it up with some content. I will say, though, I like it more. But the thing that is still... difficult is if we have different energies and vibes in person if we're like if our wavelengths aren't lining up and as far as timing goes

Like, visually, I can kind of get that. I get all these nonverbal cues that come across better in person, and, like, I can kind of lay back in the cut or talk more. Like, it's hard. Like, if everyone else in the group... especially on side quest is talking a lot. Like I just like, when do I, you don't want to talk over each other. So it's just easier to kind of like find your lane sometimes in person. But yeah, otherwise I do enjoy playing remotely.

Yeah, I mean, I dig it. I think that there is something to be said, especially for Delta Green, to be in person, to feel that tension in the environment and stuff like that. Obviously, we break it up with a lot of humor, but... I don't know. I've generally liked this because I feel like the Delta Green, it's kind of worked because you are...

alone in your own little space. You know what I mean? You have the light of the computer on your face and not much else around. I think it sort of contributes to the tension rather than ruining it. Yeah, I get way more scared. sitting here in my apartment than I would if I was with all you guys. Like, I'm alone. Right. I can't sit behind me. I'm terrified half the time. My favorite part is when you talk about the green screen behind you. It's just like...

Somebody could be walking right up behind you and you wouldn't even know. I know. Don't say that. Grant could be sneaking into your apartment right now. He's... Grant is so technologically sophisticated that what we could be watching now is a recording. From earlier today. He knows how to work the lighting. He knows how to work the lighting. I've actually set up deep deepfake technology for my face and voice modulation as well. And I'm actually Angel Yao.

Oh, wow. Oh, my God. Yeah, so I wanted to plug a couple shows I have coming up. First up, on Zoom, one night only. I was going to say thank God we got someone with talent to be on the show tonight. Finally. Yeah, we really appreciate it. really appreciate your commitment to the show that you choose your deep fakes so well murdering skid And there he is, dead in the corner frame. I said now, Grant.

You still want me to chop his head and hands off? Yeah, Joe, were you expecting that all turn of events last week?

There was not a single thing that I expected after my opening scene last week. I did the opening scene. And then I knew that I was kind of like roll, not rolling the dice. That's a bad phraseology. But I knew that like I had no idea where it was going to go from there because it was going to be based on, you know, second by second, minute by minute decisions that you guys made in the house.

And I don't know why I didn't see it coming, but just the complete dismemberment and burning of the house is so smart, I feel. And I just never saw that as a clear option. I don't know why. So I'm glad you guys... thought of it. But I don't know. I think that, and we said this last week after we shut off, which is like...

It's always a difficult thing, right? Bringing a character into the middle of a campaign, or in this case, the middle of an operation. And we definitely had the option. I discussed it with Grant. I said, look, it's completely an option for you to take a night off.

And we'll wrap this thing up and it'll be quick. And I'll tell you, it's it's enticing to me because I can just finish this operation and I don't have to worry about that element of adding another character. But I'll be honest when I say.

I think it's going to be more fun if we add a character. I just flat out think it's going to be more fun. And Grant was like, no, I'm all in. Here's three character concepts. And I grabbed one of those concepts. And by the way, the other two, I was like... keep those in the chamber like they will appear on delta green uh one of them is so amazing i wish i could share with you it's amazing and so uh but this one the park ranger i was like i can see this working perfectly so i was like let's

Let's use this. And still had absolutely no idea where that was all going to go. And you guys tell me what you think. But I thought that was a blast last session. Yeah, it was great. And it was funny. We were talking off air.

about how hard it is in a game like Delta Green to be able to introduce a new character mid-mission because everything's so secretive. You cannot share what you're working on. with anyone unless you know exactly who they are and that they're on your side. So that's what the whole thing is like we're kind of struggling to find a way.

to kind of link our stories together while this is all happening and have it be a believable way to do it. And we ended up shooting it. It was running through my head. I'm like, how are we going? to play this for real because we know grants.

character is yeah we know he's supposed to be in our group but i was like just throw him in the trunk yes we'll figure it out but also like short of a handler saying like we're sending somebody like there's we have no reason to trust anybody we meet and that somebody's up and pointed a rifle at us just after we watched our friend die and then dismembered his body and then burned the house down while we're trying to exit the scene yeah like

It's reasonable to me that without the FBI identification cover that you would just straight up kill whoever showed up and just run. Like, what is to stop you from doing that? Like, I'm amazed you could have gotten even harder on it. Yeah, but I think that there's what I banked on, I'll be honest, is your creative element. You as players, you guys are very talented players, very creative. It's so fun to run games for you.

And to put you in a situation where your characters would be, I mean, so clearly opposed to this new character, for lack of a better word. But knowing that you as players know you're trying to fit that character into the narrative, I sort of trusted you guys on the fly to find a way to make it work, which I thought would be a fun story. And if you didn't, it's okay.

That's the thing. It's like, this game, this is why I love it. If that crit... If you rolled high enough on that crit to permanently kill him, then like Grant's out. And to me, that's great radio and a great session and hilarious. And I'm sorry for all of Grant's work on Colby, which was so amazing. To put it on another level, in this game, we have gone out of our way to go in depth into each character rather than letting it organically come out in the narrative.

In that situation, it's even more amazing because we hear all of the story, and then three minutes later, he's permanently dead. I feel like it all works so well, and I'm having a blast with it. Can you imagine if we... had died and we were just like, throw him in the house. You don't think that some people thought that was going to happen? They thought that would be the most amazing thing? I mean, I think it's so funny.

Yeah, so anyway, let's get back into it because... There's so many questions right now. Yeah, there's a lot of questions. There's a lot of things hanging out there. You guys haven't really resolved much of anything except... that you did get out of that crime scene, which is a whole new crime scene that you created. And for my money, I'm going to say for the moment that you're fine on that. I think you can be pretty confident that you have thoroughly destroyed that.

That crime scene. And you get out and get all the way down. to Brighton Beach. We talked about this off air too, which was like, it's so funny that you chose Brighton Beach. I mentioned in the show that it is as far as you can get from upstate New York. It is like southeastern and not really far east in Brooklyn, but it's the southern tip of brooklyn uh looking out over the atlantic ocean and you said that you know this guy this veterinarian has mob ties and uh

And that is a heavily, heavily that's an area that's heavily populated by Russians. It's a very like you get a lot of Russian food down there, a lot of Russian Russian storefronts and stuff like that. And of course. There could be a veterinarian down there who's plugged in with the Russian mob and does these favors for them. So Jordy knows him. Of course he does. Amazing. Well done, Skid. You guys get there and...

Through an amazing putting your guys' heads together, you slide that bullet out of Colby and give him a second chance. You still have a lot. A lot to deal with here. And this is what I want to spend this episode doing, is I want to know, as he's recovering, he's unconscious at the moment, and I want to know sort of what you... What's going through your heads, what you're thinking as, you know, slowly but surely we see Colby sweating on the table, but you know it's a fever that's just...

fighting the infection and it's going to be fine. With your 80% medicine doc, you know that this is a routine part of the body's healing process. He's fighting through it and he's going to be fine, but he's... He's turning back and forth. He's mumbling to himself. He's a little delirious. Yeah, what's he saying? Duck. Duck. Gray duck. Duck.

Mallard. Duck. Gray duck. That's a treat for my Minnesotans listening. Instead of duck, duck, goose, they play duck, duck, gray duck. That's a very Minnesota thing, so he's reverting back to his childhood. He's just kind of delirious and babbling whatever comes out. And there's probably like dogs barking too like this whole time. Yeah, they're in cages like all over the apartment. It's very distracting. Yeah, yeah.

This is why I have a bird. Okay. You guys actually have a moment of peace, a moment of quiet here. And you know what?

Uh, I didn't want to bring it up because I didn't feel it was right in the flow of what we were doing at the time, but you had a four hour drive to talk. So summarize for me between the drive and now, like, what is the plan? What is the plan? But he was out of the trunk for most of it, so we couldn't talk about the mission in front of him. He was passed out, though.

Was he passed out? Oh, yeah, yeah. He passed out. That's what happened. He passed out, and the doctor knew that he's going to be in and out of consciousness through this whole ride, but... that he would survive long enough. She had given him that time, but the bullet had to get pulled out or else he would die of infection, you know, probably within 18 to 24 hours. Well, Geordi has a hunch.

He thinks that this guy, just from something, there was something in his delirious laugh that he had that told Geordi that was familiar to him that maybe he's seen something of this other side. So he has a hunch about it. So he wants to, when he's conscious again, he wants to pump him up with some sodium pentothal and find out what he knows of the occult.

Either way, find out if he's going to turn us in or say anything under the effects of the sodium pentothal. And if he is, then we kill him. Yeah, and also, like, he...

The best case scenario is for him to no longer exist. So we need to find out, does he have a family? Does he have anyone? Because with that car left at the crime scene... I think they, you know, I don't know what they're going to be able to pull out of the wreckage of the fire, but if they don't find parts of his body, but they find two dismembered corpses.

they still may be able to sort of assume that he died in the fire. Yeah, so Skid, why don't you tell us real quick what the sodium pentothal is for anybody who doesn't know. Well, they call it truth serum. So that is truth serum. Right, right. Yeah. Okay, so you pump him full of this, and in his state, you clear it with the doc. Doctor says it's going to be okay.

What does he say, Grant? Just between mumbling about Marjorie, his sweetheart, his bowling team, every once in a while he'll say something strange like, Three can keep a secret if... One is dead. And... That which is dead may never die. Just random phrases. Like, it's hard to pick it out. But he just says... Gotta... Gotta find... The host. The host of the creature. My... My handler needs to know. I need to know.

Shoot him. Did he say handler? I think he did. Is he one of us? I'll put the bullet back in. Surgically re-employed the bullet. Are you better at that? Oh, that's amazing. Come on. Oh, look what I just found on Sirenscape. Get out of here. Hold on. My dogs are hungry. My dogs are hungry. How long you be in my apartment? Calm down, Sergei. I'm Leo. Sergei.

Uh, Sergei, can we ask you to step out for a moment? This is my operating room. This is my apartment. No, you cannot ask me to leave. I stay. I learn everything that's happening here. Do dogs eat anything? What? You heard me. Do your mangy dogs eat anything? Of course, they eat anything, yes. Baklava. I give them baklava. No, no. We have some things we need to dispose of. Oh. Oh, yes. Well, there are a few. Yes, they are that hungry. I will...

Yes, I know of what you speak. They will not eat the doctor's clothes, though. Those will not. You have to find another way to dispose of them. It's all or nothing. He just puts him in the bag of severed body parts and heads. And he turns to Geordi and he's like, you, this is going to cost you. You understand?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's all right. You know. You know. All right. All right. Look, no, just Vitaly knows. Vitaly knows I'm good for it, okay? Just don't worry about it. Take care of it. I'll get you on the back end. He's okay. You'll know. And he goes back. He's looking very intently at Geordi. These two have a past. He goes back and, yeah, he takes the body parts away.

So he's, yeah, so Colby is saying this stuff in a delirious state. He says, handler. He says, host. This rings, I mean, this has to ring true to you. Especially you, Geordi. Somebody who has studied the occult. Who would know and at least believe in some way of these supernatural happenings. This creature that stood in front of you in a dead man's body and said specifically that he was Faustus Cloudon. That he had seen these others before in another body. The word host.

rings true to you. You can make the connection. I should say too that it's babbling for now, but that's because he's slowly regaining consciousness. He might be more... Ready to answer questions with the sodium pentothal as he gets awake. So you guys can probably talk about it as he's getting there. Okay. Has anybody ever... Sorry, real quick. Has anybody ever had anesthesia and woke up talking and... realizing you didn't know what you were saying? No. Has that ever happened to you?

I've never had anesthesia. I've had anesthesia, but that hasn't happened to me. That has happened to me. It's happened to me almost every time I've had anesthesia, too. Anesthesia is messed up. I've had it a few times because I've had a few surgeries. There is... It is nothing. It is nothing. It is not like sleeping. There is nothing. So, like, you're there. It's like time travel. It is. You're there. You're under the lights.

They, they, you know, put in the syringe, they tell you to count or whatever you're looking around and you feel a little tingle. And then you're literally like, in my case, I'm like having a conversation with someone. And then you realize you're saying utter nonsense. And that person, uh, in this case was my mom or my wife, like over the years, they were just like,

Oh, hey. Oh, okay. All right, I'll get you some ice chips. You're just babbling. The clone has no penis. Do you have enough? Do you guys dream of it? red hair on you to require extra anesthesia? Because redheads actually require like 1.5 times the amount. Yeah, nobody's ever said it to me, it's ever been mentioned to me, and I've, to my knowledge, never made it past 96 in the countdown from 100, so I think...

I think it goes right through, and it's very effective. Did you just wake up right afterwards? It feels like you never lost any time. Yeah, no, you don't feel like, uh, uh, uh, like, time, Pat, like, it is... It's so hard to explain. It is instantaneous. It's literally like being teleported. Yeah. You close your eyes and you're up. And then you wake up again and you're in a different place.

And it's just, it is very, very weird. I hate that. I hate that idea. Yeah, I mean, I will say that I hate it less than an MRI, which you just had, because those are brutal, but both of them are very disconnected. You're very uncomfortable. It's rough. And you're nauseous for a while, and it takes a while to get your head back straight. It's rough. You should take...

care and comfort though, Troy, don't be too scared because anesthesiology is a very difficult field to get into. It like crunches people out. Like it only takes the best of the best and like they get paid a ton. Like, that's all anesthesiologists do. Yeah, they have to be perfect at their job. They're like fighter pilots of the world, but not doing surgery. Fun fact, my dad, many, many, many years ago,

had a bout with esophageal cancer. And at the time, there was a very, very new procedure where they could cut out a part of your esophagus. And then reattach it and move your stomach and all this stuff. It was very new. It was very dangerous. They had to cut open the front of your body and the back of your body to do this thing. And it was only like 10 years old when my dad had it done, but it was all successful and he made out fine.

His anesthesiologist on the job was, I can't remember his name. But he was an offensive lineman on the 1972 Dolphins. That's amazing. Is that the undefeated team? Yeah. And my dad was like, this is amazing. And he always tells that story. He's always like, my anesthesiologist was on the night. He's over two dolphins. My anesthesiologist was Mercury Morris?

i can't remember his name off the top of my head but i mean it's it's hilarious that's the guy always had a passion for medicine and that's what he went into and i just think that that's so awesome i'm so glad that he did that all mercury morris does all year is wait until someone loses and then calls every sports talk radio show in the nation and it's so obnoxious he's the worst he's the biggest dick in sports uh okay so

He starts to come to. And now you can see he's getting a little bit more coherent, but he's still under the effects of the sodium pentothal. What do you ask? So, Geordi... When he went down, he went through his pockets and takes out his ID and just going through all his pictures, everything that he has, his credit cards, just trying to get a piece of it together, his identity. And it's Mr. Erickson, is it? That's correct. Colby Holger Erickson. Where were you born, Mr. Erickson? Oh.

The Twin Cities. I'm not sure which one, really. It's kind of a family talking point every Thanksgiving. But I like to call St. Paul my home. It's your birthday. Oh, that would be March 11th, 1979. You mentioned... Which makes him, by the way, 30. Yeah, I'm three years older. Roger is. You mentioned a handler. What did you mean by a handler? Oh. I shouldn't tell you about that. I can't trust... I can't... And he just starts breathing heavily again. Handler? Yeah. I was...

I was on a case. I had to move across the country, but I do it because my work is very important. See? Very important. And then he says, It was after a paranormal figure that we knew at least as much to know. Oh. It's been jumping from bodies for centuries. Just as soon as you think you got it cornered, it finds a way out again. Apparently, it was last seen upstate New York. So they gave me a cover of a new job at the park.

Jay Mountain. Stay back. And it's making his heartbeat faster as he's talking all this and he can't keep any truth and keep any secrets anymore. It's alright. It's alright. Calm down. Calm down, Colby. Do the words Delta Green mean anything to you? Oh. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's... I'll tell you, though, I haven't even told Marjorie about that. Oh. Oh, yeah. Oh, they found me. Oh, they found me. Oh, yeah, they sure did in Duluth. Right after, uh... Right after, uh...

I found myself a few blocks away. Naked. Away from the water processing plant. I found something I shouldn't have, you see. Something evil. And something very old. Oh. They said that with my particular skill set and what I'd seen, I'd... Best be you serving the cause. That there are all sorts of things at the edges of what seems normal. And what's good and right doesn't even matter there. There's no moral.

Center compass up or down there. It just exists outside. We gotta stop it. We gotta stop it or else it'll turn everything upside down. Ah!

So, Geordi is thinking, these sons of bitches, that they would send out another team or another agent investigating the same thing and not tell us. But he knows that this is how they work. So he's like, all right. But he turns to the other two and he says like, hold on. I'm going to say one thing. These only you. No, these things are related. The Michael Way killings have no direct attachment to Marlene Bowman.

Only you know this, and no one, as far as I know, told Eileen Parker that you were going to question Francis Way in Keene, New York. As far as I know, from what I can remember. And I haven't mentioned Marlin's name yet, either. That's true. All I'm saying is, I appreciate where you're coming from, Skid, but I think that, like...

There's another layer to it that's like, maybe you're the only people that know these two cases are connected. Yeah, okay. Yeah, because we... Okay. So, he turns to the other two... He turns to Lyra and Roger. It's like we might have common cause. That's good. We won't have to kill him. But we just gotta let him know that he's dead. Yeah. I mean, literally. Hope is a sweetheart. It's an old memory and not a new one.

Wait till he regains his senses. We probably should check in with our handler. Better know that what happened to Riker and... Maybe there'd be some resource within the FBI she can help us with. We still have to close this case. Riker held the phone. I'm assuming you took the phone before you... Yeah, I said empty all his pockets. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we gotta settle up with Kenora. We gotta settle up with Kenora, but Riker was our contact.

These fucking dogs are still barking. I love it. Can you shut those dogs up? Okay, so give me priorities. What's first? Is it Delta Green Handler or is it Settle Up with Agent Canola? You guys are well into the night now. The sunrise is coming. I mean, we should talk to our handler, but we can probably say to Knorr that Riker was called away on another matter, another case, and whatever plan we're going to put into effect with him, we can just do on our own.

Um, right? Yeah. Yeah, we just have to... He's gonna wonder why Riker isn't calling him. With the handler? No, Kenor. Oh, okay. Agent Kenor. We need a cover for why Riker is calling. Family emergency? Laryngitis. Maybe. Why not? Family emergency. He got something with his son. He had to step off the case. He was called off the case. He's taking some personal time. He's got a problem with his ex-wife. And if he pries, we just, yeah. Explosive diarrhea.

And then be like, all right, I don't need to know anything else. Sorry. Let's just call it the big D. Big D, yes. Okay, so what's first, Handler or Agent Knorr? Handler.

Handlers first, what do you say to Eileen Parker? Give her the code for Agent Down. The spaghetti sauce was overcooked last night. Oh, no. Oh, no, not the spaghetti sauce. Oh, fuck. Oh, fuck. We took some meatballs to the beach and fed them to the seagulls. I feel like reading it out of a book. I feel like reading it out of a book. I feel like reading it out of a book.

He kept the pasta theme throughout the cold phrases. Hold on. Is we took the meatballs to the beach and fed it to the seagulls code for what we did with Riker's remains? Or is that code for... Something totally benign. I think it's code for what you do. It's so quick. It's so specific. We have a code for that. I was just saying you took Wrecker's remains to Brighton Beach and fed them to a mob boss's dog. Fed them to a mob boss's vet's dogs. Yeah, so.

You're in a veterinarian's office. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Any outside meddling forces are going to need top tier code breakers to crack that one. She's like, I understand. I understand completely. I'm sorry. You're in Brighton Beach. Okay. Tell Sergei he'll be paid well for his services. All right. Well, it remains. Tell Sergey I'll get him that five bucks when I get the chance.

Sorry, you fed him to a pelican? No, a seagull. Oh, Sergei. Okay, all right. I'll tell Sergei. He's got the money. Okay, so you call it in with the code. And that's amazing. That's a Delta Green wide code. Every agent gets that. Yes, if a Delta Green agent falls on an operation and you cut off their head, hands, and feet, and then feed them to dogs and brightens.

beach you are taking the meatballs to the beach to feed at the seagulls because the spaghetti sauce was overcooked because the spaghetti sauce was overcooked uh she uh I'll just move it along and say that she understands, and she is, you can see there's no emotion.

whatsoever regarding Riker Salas, and her instructions are very clear, that now your best and strongest connection to the FBI is gone. So you need to cleanly close this case with the FBI, give them the evidence they need, and then get out before they have any further chance to look into you and who you are. Okay.

Hmm. Who's going to be doing the call with Agent Knorr? And what are we going to, what evidence are we going to give him the manifesto? Jordy's, uh, were you going to write them? Do we have his hard drive?

Yeah, in the car. In the car, yeah. Yeah, so we're going to hand that over with the fake manifesto. Now, I have the book of many wonders, but I feel like I'm either going to bring it back to DG or just destroy it. Destroy it, right? Yeah, we don't want that tied up in anything. Point of order, you have a copy of the Book of Many Wonders. That's right, a photocopy.

I wonder, though, if it's important to further research into what actually happened to ensure that it doesn't happen again. I feel like it just needs to be handed over to higher-ups, people above our pay grade. I will say, based on what you were told, you need to destroy any... Everybody's pretty clear. Not like, figure out... how this equation works. Oh, destroy the number. Just destroy any evidence of the number that exists. That was your mission. Okay, well, it contains the number, so...

You left it next to Riker's body. Yeah. Well, it burned up. It just burned up. Shoved it down his neck hole. Just aggressively. Really disrespectfully. Get in there. Into the chest cavity. All right, so with that hand, if that's gone... We'll do something. We want to make sure that that didn't survive the fire. We'll destroy that. If Geordi can write the manifesto, we hate it. Hold on. You're really going to leave that copy in the house?

No, no, no. That's fine. I just want to make sure. No, no, we're going to destroy it. I don't know. Like I'll walk down to the beach. So you'll walk down to the beach and burn it on the beach where you're watching it burn. Okay. And then...

Yeah, we call Knorr and tell him we have the hard drive, and we found some stuff on there that corroborates what we were thinking all along. Where's Agent Salas? Agent Salas is my contact. He's the lead of your team here. What's going on? Agent Salas had a family matter that he was called away urgently to deal with. It's a personal matter. Unfortunately. But he left us with all of his reports, all of his materials. We'll be able to liaise with you effectively. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Fantastic. Can you, yes, get those to Billy Gant and just, we can finish this thing up. We really want to close this deal. I know that there was some... talk of uh terrorist activity so where do we stand with that that seems to be mistaken uh and the doctor will summarize basically like that you know that was an initial suspicion based on You know, some information we saw at the scene, but ultimately didn't pan out. The research pretty clearly points to acts of a random madman.

And it's a drug fiend, and he clearly had some psychotic ramblings. That was part of our plan, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yes. Yeah, you have evidence to support this because, you know, I got to go to the press with this. So I just want to make sure. that the evidence is supporting this hypothesis. Look, I'm going to be honest with you. The guy did it. I know that everybody knows the guy did it. We're not looking for a perpetrator here, but we're looking for a reason. Agent Salas, look, I...

all due respect to his family, whatever's happening with them. But there is a deep concern here that he planted a seed that this guy is a terrorist. So it has rippled out through the media, and I just need to be able to shut that down. So you have the evidence I need to present.

them to make sure they know that this is a lone gunman yeah we found some writings from the killer Classic antisocial behavior, psychotic ramblings, unmedicated possible, you know, I don't want to make any speculations, but definite, you know, serious mental illness, bore a grudge.

We'll forward those along to Special Agent Gant as well. But they're clearly the ramblings of someone who is in a very, you know, it's unfortunate, really, because this all could have been prevented if only he'd been able to see and receive proper care.

But yeah, we'll forward this all along to Agent Kent. All right. I don't think you guys need any roles. I think it's pretty solid the way you've set it up with him. I really don't think that he has any... motivation to dig into like rigor solace's personal needs to be away or whatever so i think that's fine you guys are good on that um and then the way the evidence is laid out i think it's

You know, pretty clear, but they're going to need to see everything. So you're going to need to turn into Billy Gant, the hard drive, you know, any of the evidence that supports your hypothesis here. Do we need to go to the precinct again to...

look at the we got the warrant for the security cameras to see how that weapon it's just a loose end that I know it's not part of our mission but I feel like it's an important loose end It is an important loose end because it's like, where did this kid get a shotgun that your evidence suggests is from a police station? You know, I think it goes...

It would be pretty obvious to any of you, particularly Roger, that the end, you know, if during these conversations, Grant's character is overhearing any of this, Kobe's overhearing any of this. So much of the evidence of what really so motive is a huge thing. But like one of the next huge things, if not more huge, is the murder weapon. And it's how was it used and why was it used? Who owned it and how did it come into their possession? And in this case, you know.

Pretty much all of those details, except that there's just a missing link there. You know that it belonged to the NYPD. You don't know why it's in this kid's hands. There might be another party here involved. Of course, it's easier for you to close the case by suggesting there's no other party involved, but you've already kind of got a police shotgun involved in this thing. So I do think that that's something that might need to be closed up.

Dr. Westover is a little wary of going back to a police precinct after last night's events on top of the, shall we say, fireworks of our first precinct visit. Mm-hmm. Fair enough. Maybe Colby wants to go. Yeah, show his loyalty. Yeah, but Colby doesn't have any ID other than... Yeah, Colby, you have an FBI warrant. You have an FBI warrant.

I'll go back in there, head held high, and see that cop we got in a fight with. Be like, oh, look. Looks like the warrants came through. Tell your wife I said hi. I'll go into the... Evidence room and look at it. I'm going to be a real asshole about it. Like, people are going to pull us apart. Tell your wife I said wear the red heels tonight. Oh, my God. Come on. Guys. We're going to a nice, fancy restaurant downtown. I was thinking that since...

Colby is injured. I was thinking, and we don't have to roleplay this out, but Geordi would say, like, you to Lyra and Roger go take care of the warrant and handing off the evidence. And Geordi would take... would take colby to like a 24-hour russian bar like one of those old men vodka bar clubs and just sit him down and like let him catch his breath and we can just like swap stories he just wants to find out more about his experience with

the supernatural and Geordi would tell him what he knows and everything. Just like sitting at down over a drink. Hmm. And, uh, are you willing to do this grant? Absolutely. I think he could use a drink more than anything to get over the painkillers leaving his system as he looks down at the... raggedy Andy job that's been done to his shoulder. Just like suture points really uneven. Who said anything about uneven suture bolts? My suturing skills are, I have an 80 medicine, sir.

I haven't eaten medicine, sir. I can put that bullet back in you right now. Oh, okay. Very interesting. Very interesting. Does Jordy have to write the manifesto? no he wrote it he wrote it yeah yeah he wrote I mean he could have wrote it he could have written it in the four hours on 87 South coming down from upstate New York you know what I mean and just like put you guys

You just have to implant it in the hard drive, which you're able to do at the veterinarians easy enough. Implant it in the hard drive with a suture. With a rough suture. You know, if you ask me, I think it's pretty amazing that Roger's the one who ends up back at the 24th Precinct. Yeah. He's got no friends there, but he doesn't give a shit. Got the tapes. That's all I need. He's got the tapes. He's got the warrant he needs to get the tapes.

No one's interested in talking to him. If he's interested in talking to Marvin Herrera, a police officer who was there, he can speak with him with his lawyer present. Or he can just view the tapes. What do you want to do? He comes in wearing sunglasses. He took him off of Riker Salas' body before he blew up the place. They got little red stains on them. That's awesome. He's got his... Oh, my God.

They've been engraved on the inside of the left arm to say solace. Clearly, if you took them off. He goes up to the front desk and is like, Agent Klaus von Cliff heard my warrant got through. I'd like to see the tapes, please. Do you have a room here that I could watch them? Lieutenant? The person turns, calls back. The lieutenant comes out, the same one you saw before. Sheepishly now.

Gives you the tapes. Right this way. Takes you to a room. Is he walking by? Maybe he sees that other cop? He sees Marvin Herrera, yeah. Gives him a look, but he has shades on so he can't tell if he's really looking at him or not. He goes... The time's your shift end. You might want to stick around after I take a look at these tapes. And he just keeps walking. So amazing. I can see it. It's like a motion picture. I can just see the...

freaking fed walking through with the sunglasses and just like, you might want to stick around while I watch these tapes. I just did a spit take all over myself. Yeah, you did. I saw that. I mean, Troy crushed you, Matthew. He just... I lost you. They got me. So go into the room. I appreciate it. Sits down. You go into the room.

Not sure if you have this ready. I'm not sure where you're at in your Delta Green prep. Why don't you open up a little roll 20? Oh, I'm there, baby. I was not expecting this. I'll tell you. I keep it open 24 hours a day just in case. I'll tell you right now. It's not exactly what you expect. So. You, uh... Starting to get physically nervous. Oh, God. Gonna bring back up the death scribblings, if you recall. Mm-hmm.

Things that were found on the desk. Now, you found these things. You were there. You were there with Dr. Westover when these things were found. And so... You put a certain importance on these pieces of evidence because you were physically there. You remember these things. And it's so great that you're there as the tape starts rolling. It's black and white.

Multiple angles of the outside of the 24th Precinct. And you're watching. You're looking closely. It's just, you know, business as usual, except that they move all of this weaponry out into the parking lot. You stack it up around this one area because they're getting plumbing work done. You know about this. The guy downstairs had told you. So they're putting it in this one little cordoned-off area in the parking lot, and there you see, walking into the frame, Sergeant Martin Herrera.

Marvin, I'm sorry, Marvin Herrera. And he's sitting down on a stool or standing up occasionally, walking back and forth, watching them. This is, you know... 8.50 in the morning. 8.50 a.m. October 12th. You're watching and you're watching. And because Roger Comstone has an 80 alertness. You're looking at this video and from the multiple feeds you see in the distance across the street from the police station, a figure, a slim figure.

standing alone, stock still, staring directly at Marvin Herrera. You look for a few more minutes. And there's no question in your mind that you're looking at Michael Way. And your blood runs cold. He's standing there and standing there. For 20 minutes, you watch him unmoving, standing, watching. He's holding something in his hand. It's a gym bag. A jet black gym bag. It appears to have no weight. It's completely empty. He's staring. Eyes unmoving.

All of a sudden, you see there's no sound. But you see on one of the cameras that Michael Way nor Marvin Herrera is on, there's a commotion. Commotion. Commotion, commotion. You look closely. You see that a police cruiser has pulled out of the parking lot of the 26th Precinct and has struck a dog. Mmm. It hits a dog and the owner is walking the dog. You see the owner starts flipping out, is in hysterics. Two police officers get out of the car that was coming up out through the driveway.

You turn, you look at Marvin Herrera, you see his head turn as he stands, looks at this and begins to walk over in that instant across the street. walks Michael Way, directly toward where Marvin Herrera was sitting. You see Marvin Herrera walks over. He comes into the other frame. He's talking to the officers. He's trying to console and calm down the person whose dog was just hit by a police cruiser. As Michael Way, standing straight up, calmly and without running at all.

walks directly to the pile with a crowbar, pulls out a crowbar, cracks open a crate, pulls out a shotgun. sticks it into a gym bag, closes the lid, slams down the thing, and zips up the bag. Your eyes scan down at the time code on the video. And you see that it is 9.21 a.m. Your mind starts to... As you see all of the equations that were distributed on his desk. You see 10.12 August 12th. You see 9.21, 9.21 a.m. You see 40.796901, negative 73.9681.

And you know immediately that you're looking at the GPS coordinates of the 24th Precinct of the NYPD. And your blood runs cold. Roll a sanity check.

All right. Is low better? I forget. Yes, low is better. 25 under 58. All right. You shake it off, but you see that through a series of mathematical calculations based on the equation this kid was working off of, based off of these 16 numbers, he knew the exact date and time. and GPS location that this guy was going to walk away from a seemingly random event from this cache of weapons. This is crazy. Take the weapon, walk away, and you see within seven minutes, Marvin Herrera return.

having no idea anyone was there. So, like, I feel like we've done a good job of closing this case, but they know about the weapon as well. They know the weapon was traced to this precinct. Now we know what happened. Now they don't know about the desk scribblings, but they could watch these tapes and see him just standing there waiting. Picking it up. Could they?

It stands to reason that you are so highly trained and hyper aware of such small, dangerous details that some people might miss it. Or you can feel like you need to destroy this evidence. Or... you can feel like you simply used this evidence against Marvin Herrera. You know what I mean? There are different ways you can play it. But you have to decide quickly.

I would like to speak to Marvin Herrera. Okay, so you... Boom. We fast forward to you speaking with Marvin Herrera. Only now... Let me just zero out this music. I need to do something else here. So you can speak with Marvin Herrera, but now he's going to be represented by his lawyer.

Not his lawyer, but the union lawyer. So you're going to wait. Take like an hour for the lawyer to get there. Now that you're there and everything, you're going to wait an hour? Yeah. Actually, I'll go outside and I'll call Lyra and Jordy. Okay, so you go outside, call Lyra and Jordi, update them on this, and then come back into the interrogation room where you see they're waiting for you.

Uh, and it's, uh, this woman, uh, who's his lawyer and, uh, Marvin Herrera is sitting next to her and you walk into the room. And part of my call with Jordy and Lyra is to get their two cents on this. I explain to them what happens. So you guys weigh in before he goes into this interrogation. Is there any evidence based on what Roger saw that the number is on those tapes? Just the time code. Huh?

Yeah, no, no, no. You see that, I mean, Roger was able to put together from what he had seen previously, the circled and underlying numbers. He made the connection. 10.12, August 12th. 921. 921 AM. Like, you know, this is not evidence anybody else is going to find. I guess that's the simplest way to put it. When you said 921, I was looking at the scribblings and I saw that number circled and I lost my fucking mind. Dude, isn't that fucking great?

That's awesome. And I'm glad Geordi isn't there because if he were, that would be like, I think he would be so tempted to dig deeper into this for his own reasons. Don't even get me started. I'm really glad he's not there. I'm going to talk about this in the epilogue, how this is all, Roger, this is happening to and not you, because it would be a whole different adventure. Oh, yeah, yeah. It's amazing. Amazing. I love this episode. game so much.

This is so fucking great. Just the idea that two different characters, like there would be differences in any other game we would play if a different character played something out, but not to this extent. This is amazing. Not to this extent. Not to this extent. We'll talk. What do you guys suggest? I think Jordy thinks you might as well leave this evidence, throw Herrera under the bus, because...

This just solidifies our case. It doesn't hurt our case to know that this is where he got the gun from, since they know that the gun was missing from here anyway. So I think it's fine that you share the surveillance tapes with the FBI. There's nothing on the table. He's just standing there waiting, and when he sees an opportunity, he goes in. I mean, it's a little weird that he's prepared with a crowbar, but still, he could have been cased in the precinct.

So there's nothing, I don't think there's anything too weird about it. And quite honestly, like maybe it was a dick. Yeah. Yeah. So let him go to, let his wife go to Guantanamo. Yeah. That's the name of the Cuban restaurant. I'm taking her tonight in those red-high heels. Okay, so you walk into the interrogation room. This woman stands up. She's got straight black hair down to her shoulders. She stands up, holds out a hand. Hello, nice to meet you. My name is Janet Baginski.

Agent Klaus von Cliff. Takes your hand. I'm the attorney for Sergeant Marvin Herrera, and we'd be happy to answer your questions. We are here to cooperate fully with your investigation. And she starts opening some paperwork. I just want to make it very clear that...

Officer Herrera admits to no wrongdoing, and we want to continue this questioning and interrogation, as it were, interview, let's call it, under the clear assumption that he is not a suspect for murder but wants to and is most interested in getting to the bottom of what happened with the murder weapon in this investigation it's a it's a horrible crime and my client is his utmost priority is making sure that the

guilty parties are convicted. May we sit? Ah, yes, please. Have a seat. He just stares at him for a little while. Takes his sunglasses off. Such a freak. Love this. How long you been police Herrera? You can answer that. He says, 26 years. 26 years. How many more until retirement? Four. I mean, I could have retired last year, but I didn't. I wanted to stay on a little longer. I needed to. Got to finish putting my daughter through college, but four more years and I'm out.

You married still? Uh, yeah, yeah. Lucky enough, right? I mean, around here, don't really last that long. Hmm. Maybe you should retire early. Go with your first instinct. He looks to the lawyer. Sorry, I don't understand. Is that a question? No. It's a suggestion. Based on what? You seem like a nice enough guy, maybe a little hot-headed.

Maybe you think you're too cool for school when a couple FBI agents come in and get you a little hot and bothered. But at the end of the day, you're a man, just like me. So insanely delusional. This world's hard enough without heaven. The truth to destroy you. Because you see... Sergeant, on this tape, slaps the tape down. VHS. There's all the evidence we need to show that your gross negligence put a firearm in the hand. Of a killer. Uh. Don't answer that. Don't speak to that.

Sorry, what is the evidence? I'm sorry, we haven't seen the tapes. We haven't been given that opportunity yet. Could you describe how exactly my client's negligence led to the murderer getting the weapon? He slides the tape back towards himself. Troy is holding his dice chest. You gotta see this. Dice tray is the tape. It's amazing. Let's just say it's all here. Remember that dog that got hit by the cruiser? Twitter looks at him. He looks back at the lawyer. Nods. Yeah. Yeah.

They teach you in basic to turn your back on crates of weapons just because Lassie got hit? I... I didn't... Don't answer that. He doesn't have an answer because he already knows. You know what? Try broke character. Try broke character. At least your wife won't be alone in that cell. Maybe next time, answer the FBI's questions. And he walks out.

Oh, that is amazing. I could totally have the lawyer being like, how dare you threaten his wife? All right, so, I mean, there's obviously a lot to go on. She knows his wife is dead to rights. Okay, so let's review. You've updated Eileen Parker on the situation. She says close the case. You've given Aiden Knorr. You need to turn in your evidence. So who is turning that in? I guess that's what I'm doing. Okay, so...

The doctor is turning that in. We don't need to role play, but you turn it in to Billy Gant. Yeah. You guys split up and turn the evidence. You say, here's the hard drive. Here's all you've made. And you tell him what you've been. What you guys have been concocting. Roger Cumstone returns to the group, and you guys need to decide.

If the FBI is going to press charges of negligence on this police officer, is that going to happen? Why don't we just hand it over and let Kenora decide? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. We'll email... We'll put the... We'll drop the tape off at Gantz, too. Later on. When we pick up Roger. I guess we'd have to go get the tape, come back to Jersey, and then... Whatever. Yeah. Sergei has a VHS to digital recorder. Oh, great. At his place. So we can transfer it to digital and email it. Perfect.

Can't believe we pulled this off. I know. I really can't. So tell me what happens.

With Grant's character. So what happens with the recovering park ranger? Yeah, Geordi, you know, I... I think I got in a little over my head there. Thanks for taking me out for a couple brewskis. A couple pops really did me well. Got my mind right. You're a good guy. You're a good guy, Colby. You know, you remind me. There's a character in a book I wrote called The Galaxy Affair. He's a young guy, parks and wildlife official, girlfriend, finished fourth in his bowling league.

Got a little bit over his head with some supernatural stuff that he couldn't quite understand. It's funny that we're meeting this way. Because that sounds like exactly what your life is. That's very funny. Maybe I can get a copy sometime and write to you about it, how I think about it. Well, it's out of print because it was incredibly boring, but... Oh. I think I can find, I can rustle up a copy for you, but... I appreciate that.

But I think that you have what it takes. It's not easy. It's not easy the first time. It can break people. But I think that you have something deep down that will let you handle this. Well, yeah, it was probably my mistake for, you know, shooting the gun at your friend Lyra's feet. I shouldn't have done that. It was my mistake. I was just so worried because, you know...

If we make a mistake, the whole world, you know? And he kind of gets quiet again, like looks around the bar. You know, the whole world. I know. It weighs on you. And don't worry, nobody here speaks English. You're all right. Oh, okay. Yeah. I can tell you, nightmares, they only get worse.

At least, don't feel bad for shooting at Lyra. Lots of people shoot at Lyra, so don't worry about it. Okay. She does have that kind of face, if I'm honest. I know, right? Yeah, it's just something about his eyes. You want to take... Yeah. But she's okay, though. Once you get to know her. Well, you were telling me a little bit about, um... How's just clouding? What do you think the deal is there? I don't know. He had some...

access to something, some kind of knowledge that I don't even want to think about it, to be honest. All I know is that, um... Marlene's body showed no evidence. The supernatural entity seemed to have left her body. So, uh... I reckon that thing's still out there. Yeah. Yeah, it might be. And we fade.

Epilogue. I love that it ends in just a simple bar scene with the new guy. It's so true detective-y. Yeah, exactly. We fade out and then fade in. The epilogue. You see the scene opens up with a bright sunny day. And we see... The wind is blowing, and as our camera comes into focus, we see it almost taking up the whole frame as a young boy. Blonde hair. coming out from under a tight, oversized baseball helmet sitting over the top of his head. He stands on this dusty,

patch of dirt. As dust is blowing by him, he's super young. About four years old. He stands before a t-ball stand. You can see it's Maximus Solace. He's not looking at the ball. He's looking at the stands. He sees his mom there. She's... She's waving excitedly, but he doesn't see his father. He was supposed to be here. Mommy says he's busy. I guess he's just busy again.

He focuses once more on the ball and he gives it a cut. But the ball merely dribbles away from the tee. His heart wasn't in the swing. Something was missing. His dad was a shitty teacher. His dad didn't teach him how to play baseball. How to put out a level swing. He didn't buy him good enough gear. Meanwhile, he has an apartment filled with gear. Filled with gear. Poor kid was using a broom handle out there.

We fade out on that. We fade up. And the interior of something we've already seen. John J. Hall. We see from the back. A security guard is sitting at a desk, a phone held to his ear. We just see him from the back as the camera is slowly moving toward him. He's speaking into the phone. Yes, hi, um... My name is Ralph Macchio. I am a security guard at Columbia University. And I would like to make a formal...

A complaint about some officers, some federal officers of conduct unbecoming. Yes, I'll hold. We come over his shoulder and we see on a pad. He's got the badge numbers and names, fake names, of the FBI agents involved in the case. We fade out. Fade up. We see. The grainy sort of like change from like an actual show to a TV broadcast. Like we're looking at a TV, a TV broadcast.

And in the corner of the graphic is Channel 4 Eyewitness News. And on camera we see a handsome middle-aged reporter in a suit and tie, his salt and pepper hair blowing in a dusty dry wind. Behind him, a run-down house sits in the desert sand. The lower third says, Enrico Save. And then beneath his name, Colorado City, Arizona.

Sources tell Channel 4 that the terrorist behind the Alliance massacre was not working alone. It is possible that his indoctrination began some 2,500 miles away, here in northern Arizona. Behind me, the home of a suspected cult leader who became obsessed with turning mathematical genius... into blood-chilling violence. We then move from the broadcast to the actual scene itself, as Enrico stands for a moment, staring at the camera, and then says, Are we good?

The cameraman says, yeah, we're good. And he says, fuck. When I get back to Newark, I'm going to straggle Chip to death. And then I'm going to fire him. Shit! And we black out. Poor Chip. Oh my god. We fade up on a modest suburban house. On a tree-lined street. We fly in through the window to see a well-kept living room. Small HDTV and a ceiling fan.

In the next room, we see a wood-trimmed study. Floor-to-ceiling bookshelves are packed with what we can already see are books on mathematics. One after another after another. We see a degree framed on the wall from the University of St. Andrews. It's a master's in mathematics awarded to Kelly Castleman. Pan down to a laptop on the desk. Oh, no. We can see an Excel spreadsheet is open. Fourteen cells of nine-digit numbers are up on the screen. She's on the listserv.

Oh no. The camera pans over the desk and you see a mess of papers with hastily written equations all over them. And then we roll down to the floor and see, neatly lined up in a row, 14 pictures of high school students. Oh, no. Oh, my God. Cut to an outdoor shot. Brilliant sunny day. Huge blue sky. and a brick public school building comes into view. The sign in the parking lot reads Brinkman High School, Billings, Montana.

A lone figure walks through the parking lot along the row of cars, a thirty-something woman, dressed as if ready to teach class. She walks along the row of parked cars carrying a heavy... Black gym bag at her side. Oh my god. She approaches the front door of the building and now all of a sudden we hear no sound. Everything goes into slow motion. As seemingly out of nowhere, two maintenance workers, men in thick blue overalls, step into her path.

Blocking her entrance to the door, each one holds a hand out in front of them, gesturing for her to stop while their other hand is buried in the pocket of their uniform. Their expressions are intense. They warn her. She slowly... bends and sets the heavy weight of the bag onto the concrete. A brief pause and she begins to slowly unzip it. Again, we hear no sound, but it's clear the men are shouting at her. She reaches in.

and draws out a 12-gauge shotgun from the gym bag. Everything slows to nearly a stop. The men are strained, clearly screaming at her to put down the weapon. Her face is completely devoid of expression. She raises the barrel and her eyes slowly blink as she pulls the trigger. One man is starting to draw a concealed weapon as he is blown back by the shotgun blast. The other man is faster with his pistol and it is out and firing.

Multiple shots hit Kelly Castleman as she's knocked back and knocked back and knocked back until she drops the shotgun and collapses to the sidewalk. Fade out. The Delta Green agent who took the shot would survive and recover from his wounds, but both would take sanity damage that would change their lives forever. Fade up, and I promise this is the last one.

It's like Lord of the Rings. Jesus. I know. And I knew I was going to get that exact comment. All of this matters. All of this matters. Outside of some sort of public plaza during the day. Rainy day, overcast. There's a misting rain in the air. The focus comes onto a large beige building with tall, reflective windows. In front of the building water drips from a patina-covered equestrian statue of King Albert I.

We move inside the building and see a large seal in marble that's written in another language. The subtitle reads, The Royal Library of Belgium. Amazing. Oh no. We float slowly down a dark, musty aisle, devoid of visitors and quite away from tourists and regular library enthusiasts. And we come slowly to a stop in this... dark aisle. The camera turns and we see a shelf of books that all look the same, basically varying shades of brown and red.

But then we zero in on one in the middle of the frame, its title still visible on its spine in a brilliant, clear, golden script despite its aging cover. Libli plures admiratio. The subtitle reads, The Book of Many Wonders. Blackout. End of season one of Delta Greer. Oh, my God. We did it. You guys did it. You did it. Holy. And we all survived. Shit. We all survived. Each and every one of us. Wait a second.

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