Last time on no latency. How was Ayanna looking hot?
Yeah, it it doesn't feel good. Get a scratch.
Let's do this. Oh, not yet.
Hold on, let me put the belt back in my mouth.
Oh my. That's a pretty sick logo, dude.
I kind of feel like maybe we should just let him go.
Oh. Oh, oh, OK.
Well, let's get these boxes, get Savannah White and get out of
here. That sounds heavenly.
Thank you. Jen, OH.
Hell yeah. I I think I could get 45 scrap
out of nine. Now don't call him up here.
Let me take a look. Can I make a bathtub?
Office 62, Floor 62. I'm on the hook.
I suppose we should make a plan We.
Do have a Headley pad on top? OK, I like this.
I like this. Because that's what a good
leader does. I remember that.
Takes responsibility for any issues that may arise on their
watch. I I do want it to be known that
there is at least one copy that Retro has, yeah.
Retro's got a key to the van by Tuna.
Tuna gets in banner white and drives it perfectly.
Does not damage it because he rolled very well and he drives
it into his lot. You walk in and there's the
flying vehicle and you get inside.
Everybody piles in and you head up into the sky.
Roll me a family air vehicle, yes.
And Flight of Valkyries starts playing so.
That's nice. You try to make it play, but
there's like a copyright protection on the radio and it
plays something. Snot for Flight of the
Valkyries. That shit's in the public
domain, brother. Oh, that's good then.
I do play. It right here.
You roll 21 and you fly off into the sky into the north of Night
City. Smells like Nepal.
Wow, we can see the whole city. Cool the chapter you're.
Flying north, you fly over Coronado Bay Bridge.
There, across the water on the West Coast, you can see Mauro
Rock, this giant rail gun pointing towards the sky.
You pass through the skyscrapers of this corporate district.
You'll pass Truma, Tim. You go past trauma team, you go
past trauma team, which I spelled correctly.
That's fine. No, it's the, it's the, it's the
rival team. It's the.
Cheaper one. It's the cheaper one, yeah, for
those that don't have the executive pass.
You come around the side of the building and as you turn around
an NCPD chopper is passing by and you almost collide.
Roll a pilot air vehicle. Oh shit.
Jesus. Well man, look where you're
going. Fucking cops. 19 Just
unfortunately, because you did not roll a 21, the side of the
vehicle scrapes across the side of the trauma team building.
Nobody notices because you rolled quite well, but you have
scratched it. Well, I did Dell too.
Now I was going to buff that out so.
You fly towards the biotechnical building and inside the vehicle,
Bendel turns to Iona. Should we have told anyone we're
flying in? Oh yes, I'll make, I'll make the
call right now. Why?
I thought that Iona could just kind of call ahead.
Yes, I'll, I'll, I'll call into the radio tower right now.
OK. This is biotechnical air traffic
control. How can I help you?
Hello this is Iona Popescu. I am requesting permission to
land. OK, you meet the executive
level. Yes, you may.
OK if you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Just make your landing. And of course, you can only be
landed today. You'll have to ask for a permit
for more than one day. Thank you.
We will be there in about 20. Sounds great.
You shoot through the air, avoiding a few more of the
skyscrapers. The view is beautiful here as
you look over the bag, the corporate district being a lot
cleaner. On your right you can see in the
distance the Glass District and Mega Building 17, as well as far
far in the east, the NCPD building.
You come close and land on the top of the fire sector building
on the roof. It's pretty bad.
There's nothing really up here, no other flight vehicles parked.
The air traffic control is controlled with cameras, so
there's a camera that looks at your vehicle and on the roof
there is an elevator door. All right, I, I suppose Vandell
and I will head down. You're going to need to figure
out how to put the the satellite in a inconspicuous place.
So good luck. I'm going to grab our box and
head in. All right, so who?
Who's on? Who's on Team Iona?
Iona and Vandell. I can go with Iona.
That's it. I mean, I guess I could be a
part of it too. Yeah.
No, no hold. On, no, I think, I think you
have to be because who's going to install?
We need you to to install it, yes.
Well, I mean, I I can't imagine it can't be that difficult.
Did it come with it's IKEA instructions?
I I don't I if I have. To be.
Completely honest, I don't think it's a plug and play.
It is not a plug and play, but maybe we can let retro in
through the window and then that's a bit more conspicuous
because I think we can blag having a doctor here because
Biotechnica bio, it's tough. I've got it, I've got it.
Here's what we do. Team Iona goes down to the floor
62 offered 62 with the thing that they need to to put in the
other thing. And here's here's the real
genius of this plane. You guys are going to love it.
Me and Retro, we're going to be out here because we have no
business being inside Biotechnica.
So we'll be outside of Biotechnica installing said dish
on the outside where it needs to be installed.
If you do remember while we are doing the installation, if you
all have any issues, any problems at all on how to
install the thing that you need to install and the place that
you need to install it, you just give us a ring and our boy Retro
Hero just give you a step by step instructions.
OK. OK.
And I mean hands in everyone, hands in Iona, hands in.
You can hover. You can hover it above. 321 team
go. Team all.
Right, OK, y'all have fun now team, team Iona have fun.
Remember y'all belong here. All right.
We belong here. I I I too I I literally work
here. Yeah.
Iona and Vendel and VV get inside the elevator.
We start making your way down. Megan my.
Oh I love, I love this dynamic elevator where the where I can
see the the windows of light pass.
I can tell I'm moving from floor to floor.
It's very immersive. Jeff, you're doing a really good
job being a leader. Hey, thanks, Retro.
Appreciate that. You're here over the radio.
All right, when we get to floor 62, all we have to do is get
inside of my owner's old office, put this box, lay a cable
towards the wall, and hopefully, like, sneak it through to retro
and then we can get out of here. I'm sure nothing else will get
in the way. Oh, I shouldn't have said that,
should I? I'm sorry.
It's great. Actually, I'm going to, I'm
going to send a message to Fresh real fast, just a little voice
recording Fresh. If you get this in the next, I
don't know, 30 seconds, could you do a little look in the
directory and tell me who is in the office number 2 on the 62nd
floor currently? I just want to make sure that
we're not walking into something, I don't know, tense.
He calls you back. Hi, Iona.
HelloFresh. Yeah, Office two.
Yeah. I mean, it's just there's a guy
in middle management in there. Do you want to look up his name?
Can I take a wild guess at his name?
His name's Mark Siger. Siger.
Yep, Yep.
I was just scrolling through my notes in my phone to find his
name and that is him. Yep.
Is that? Bad.
It's not great, it's not great. I don't quite remember what he
can pin me for, but he did see me while he was abducted.
Yeah, he saw you at the Maelstrom place and he walked
through all the dead bodies that you were sitting there and he
didn't see Vendel, but. I I was in the car.
I was in, I was in the vehicle. Yeah, but it was obvious that
you were part of what Vivi was doing.
He also knows what Vivi looks like.
Man, it could. Have been worse.
It could have been Mr. White. Vandel, you're going to have to
take point. Here, take my jacket.
What? Take my excess pass.
Yes, this, this. This person knows who I am, and
they know who Phoebe is. And you're going to need to
convince them to remove themselves from the office
because they don't know who you are.
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Just be ready to be scared. Meanwhile, on the roof of the
Biotechnica building, Retro rolls a 29 on Basic Tech and Jeb
A20 on Stealth, meaning this satellite dish has been
installed clandestinely. You're in the window cleaner
elevator with a cable in your hand.
I can't imagine that the people, if anyone looks outside, they're
not going to be like, Oh my God, that's a, that's a bad cable.
They're not supposed to have that cable.
But I feel like we're probably OK if we just have a cable and
as we're, you know, cleaning windows.
What do you think? Yeah.
I mean, if, if it's I, I feel if it's part of the, you know,
construction efforts for running that lift anyways, it's a safety
cable in case the lift happens to break.
Sounds like current SOP kind of deal.
That way Biotechnica wouldn't be liable if their equipment seemed
to break and then have two people killed on their property.
There you are. Exactly.
It's all about safety. It's the only thing we care
about is. That what Jeb says.
Plus we're outside, no? No, that's why it didn't sound
like Jeb I. Was going to say, besides, we're
also outside. The drones inside don't care
about the blue collar working class, so who's going to say
anything? No, but what Jeb says is, man,
there's cable. You think?
You think it looks suspicious at all?
I mean. No.
No, I. Suppose we should move on, then
when? When do you think it would be a
good time to start the actual window cleaning you know?
I'm I, well, I mean, I'm, I'm running off off your plan, Jeb,
you got to, you got to, you know, set, set the timer for
that. I guess I just, I mean, I just
thought maybe you know, maybe you have more experience with
the window cleaning. I don't know why I think that,
but it just. Why?
Because I've done blue collar work so automatically I seem to
know everything. Right, what do?
You think I just go and put in light bulbs all day or chase
down nails to go and put in the wood?
Is that what you think of Jeb? I mean, I think between the two
of us, it's more likely that you would.
Yeah. I mean, am I wrong?
I here hold on. One SEC.
One SEC, One SEC. Hey, Iona.
Yes. Yeah.
Just a quick question. Nothing.
Sorry. Sorry, guys.
Well, one moment Jeb is calling me.
Yeah, I'm sorry. What were you saying?
Yeah. Sorry.
Just wondering, between the two of between the two of us, me and
me and Retro, which one do you think is most likely to change
light bulbs, hammer would nail into wood and clean windows?
Remy. Yep, thank you very much.
I don't understand. It was you see, I I don't, I
don't know what to tell you. I mean the ass Iona, that's a
biased source, but all right, fair enough, I guess.
So with that being said. Well.
Why don't we just start? Why don't we just start cleaning
now here do you? Should we ask VV to get you, you
know, a special adrenaline steroid cocktail so you can
learn how to actually move your arm up and down to clean a
window properly? I can show you the proper
technique. I mean, I feel like proper
technique is paramount to this charade that we are putting out.
Well, they got any scream sheets because the only way to make
sure you don't leave streaks is you got to use newspaper.
Aha, I knew you knew what you were doing.
Fuck. And as you're standing on the
side of this building, the the. Cable that no one knows goes
anywhere. That nobody knows goes anywhere.
The cable you here to the South. Oh, fork.
Is it you're late? Role perception.
All right. But I, I was like, I can't
remember the name. I think I know who it is, but I
can't remember the name. Good now role local expert all.
Right, I have. No idea where that is.
It's in education towards the bottom.
Retro, you recognize the voice? Oh, it's not bad, Lance.
It's Night City. But that's bad, Lance.
Well then I'm screwed. You, I would no, I'd say you.
Oh no, because you actually have to level it up with points and
stuff, don't you? Points and stuff do.
You want to roll it anyway. No.
I wouldn't hear you.
Hit the. Character.
You hear a distinctly Irish voice but can't pin it.
It's familiar. Yeah, it sounds very much like
that guy from that one TV show that I think I remember.
I I'm blanking on the name. Can with that.
Does it help me remember the name?
Because I. Think.
We we convinced him to come outside and smoke a cigarette
with us, didn't we? Oh, I don't remember at all, to
be honest. Well, I trust you.
Do I just make up a name or do I go with?
I think you just say hey, oh hey you buddy friend.
Oh, hey, hey, Tim. It's Ted.
I think that's what you said you.
Said take up the first one. Hello there, troll.
Hey Ted, love your love, love your talks.
You seem a little down though. Yeah, well do.
You want to have a talk with me, I mean.
Sure. Do you want a SIP?
And he hands you his boost. Sure, yeah, I love a boost.
I'm going to I'm going to feign taking a drink.
So like just keep my mouth completely pursed and like.
You're retro. Yeah.
Yeah, I'll let you have that. Cheers.
They've been fired.
Fired. What'd you do?
Well, they found me weed. Oh, and it wasn't biotechnical
weed. Yeah, no, no, the one I was grow
in. But also I left the back door
open like 3 times and apparently somebody died.
Somebody died because a back door was left open.
Or you know. Or somebody died because of your
weed. Do you know?
HR hasn't told me yet. So wait, I mean, the weave thing
is a very unfortunate. It's the back door thing.
The back door thing. I'm in my mind when you're
telling me this makes me think that there's literal doors on
this building that just lead to outside and people open it and
just walk right out. Yeah, on the ground floor, you
know, I'd go out the back door for a smoke.
Yeah. That they took away.
And then, so then they went out that back door and they died.
No, no, someone came in and fucking marked someone on floor
7. Oh my.
Oh well, that's on security. That's not on you.
I let him in so. OK, well then that is you.
That is your fault. No, definitely, yeah, no, I
said. Goodbye, that's for sure.
We might have shared a cigarette, I'm not entirely
sure. I was quite high at the time.
You know, you might want to get a lawyer before bringing that
stuff up to the HR. Yeah, shouldn't also let them
catch me drinking this boost on the outside of the building.
Oh, you're already fired though, So what does it matter?
We're going to do double fire you.
They can do that. What do you mean it's me?
Why you? Well, you are the only one that
hasn't been seen, so you're going to have to leave this one.
OK, but but you're going to you're going to tell me what to
say, right? Yes, of course.
Right. OK, I will be feeding you lines
in your ear. OK, cool.
Where are we going to be during all this?
Is there is a janitorial closet 3 Doors Down from my old office?
OK, that should work then. It is locked though I'm sure, so
I'm not positive how to get in there.
I'm not very good with lock picking.
We can break in. All right, sure, I got.
It if we can. OK.
So you're inside of this elevator.
Do you hand your jacket to Bendel?
Yes. OK, Bendel takes your jacket and
puts it on. Oh, it's a little big.
Yeah, well, I'm smaller than you, so.
I know it's all these muscles. I'm not as as as stacked.
Hiya. Is that the right word?
I said the wrong thing. I'm OK I I, I am canonically
stacked, yes. Do I have a homonym A.
Homonym A What did somebody say? I.
Was. Trying.
To do a joke and I. Laughed at myself.
I'm dumb. Do I have a homonym?
I don't know what a homonym is. You know, a pretend name.
Pseudonym. But a pseudonym?
Pseudonym. That's the right word.
Would would you like 1? I mean, if, if, if he looks me
up in if I say I'm Vendell, he'll know I'm you.
You'll. Right.
Oh yes, Jackie. Jackie.
Malone. Jackie Malone.
Jackie. Jackie Malone.
I don't know. I'm not.
I made-up a name. I hope that that's.
OK, Jackie Malone. That doesn't really roll the
tongue. What about oh?
I liked it OK. Jackie Masons.
Jackie Masons Mason. Masons OK.
Masons Masons. I'm Jackie Masons and I'm head
of. Research and development, I
suppose. Research and development in a
level. 4 program. Look at me.
Yes. Cool as you're acting.
And the elevator door opens. Ping.
Iona gets a buzz on their agent. I look at my agent.
Can biotechnical double fire someone?
Yes, we have done that before where they were Oh, it's like
fire and then exile. What?
What do you mean say yes? Is that Ted?
I yes, both ways. What?
Yes to you, and also yes to the person I'm talking to.
I'm very. Confused.
Obviously you should be. You're drinking.
Boots in the middle. Of the in the middle of the
morning, he doesn't know yet. He says he's fired, but he
doesn't know if he's double fired yet.
HR have my weed. HR has this weed.
Your your, your your weed. You have.
My weed is in HR if if I got it
back, you know if I snuck into HR and stole it back then I
wouldn't get that strike because they have no evidence and I'd be
on one strike left. Well, what about the cameras?
If you delete the cameras you get the weed.
You do you. Might have to delete the camera
to your right Jeb. Yep.
Yep, actually, I'm on speaker, aren't I?
Yes. I thought.
That's not you saying things. I thought it was coming out of
my speaker. Are you?
Did you put on speaker? You didn't tell me.
That I'm retro I I have the ability to put on speaker.
In my eyes I am aware you do. But you didn't say, darling.
I didn't know. But wait, wait, hold on, is
that? Iona, I mean hello, Hello,
Master. Fuck.
What did what did they like, Master?
Great. And land cucumber sandwiches.
They prefer Iona, prefers their lordship.
Bruce, their lordship, I'm going to roll.
Resist torture drugs. He's drank enough of this boost.
I wrote a fucking 9. Yeah.
Which means if we. Look it up.
Yeah, OK. His intelligence has increased
by two. Wow.
Oh, he can mastermind the plan now.
Now it's time to do it. He's got smarter, yeah.
He's got I. Was I was slightly confused
because I was like if your weed is better than the weed that
Biotechnica makes, wouldn't biotechnic event want your weed
because it's the better product? Well, sort of, but they also are
more pissed off about the man who died on floor 7.
Someone died on floor 70. Yeah, assassinated.
They're sad. Whoa.
Yeah, it was common at first fault.
Murked. Oh, who died?
It wasn't an accident. Oh, right.
No, no, no, no. It wasn't an accident.
It was targeted. What's his face from the place
you know? Mark.
Right, Mark. Greg or George or Mark?
Some guy. Not Mike.
No, no, no, no. It was on floor 70.
Is that Phoebe? Hi.
Am I on speaker? Yeah, you're on speaker.
There's a speaker. Speaker.
Do you need to? I guess I'm this is another
story. Group call.
Teams meeting. Sorry, sorry comrades meeting.
But in any case, that's a problem because I let the guy
in, so I let the guy in. Well.
You know. The the weed and the
assassination act. I hate to tell you, Ted, you
might be double fired. So oh you I'd like the plan that
you came up with. I think that you should follow
through. Right.
He gets up. Right, she says.
So I'll be having you boys. Do I really have to jump off the
building? Why would you jump?
Oh why that's not part of your plan.
Well, I know that's why I was. I'd put Dutch courage, not Dutch
Irish I suppose. Get back inside the building,
that's where your weed is. Yeah, and also the video
cameras, the erase so they can't double fire you.
Mission. All right.
Well, if you feel like helping me, that would be great.
I suppose I was more meant to be a plot hook than anything else.
I'll see you. In a bit and he walks into the
bathroom leaving it OK. Is it a plot hook that we've
completely like? No, he still has to have that.
OK. All right, well, retro, I guess.
We keep cleaning me. You guys clean that'll, that'll
be good. Do you think we should use Ted
as a distraction? Kind of feel like he's hard.
He's doing it himself. We didn't even have to ask,
really. Yeah, is he, is he high right
now? He's not high, but definitely
drunk. But it seems like to me he's got
to that weird drunk that is only ever legendary when you drink so
much that you suddenly have a burst of inspiration.
That's that, you know, that very well could be it.
But also I feel like when he's drunk he's probably a
notoriously low roller. As opposed.
To a high roll, you got a low roll to get high at some point.
True. You got to take some risks,
right, Jeff? Yay, you just got to get in
there. But what I mean is that he
probably won't do this very well.
You've got our number. We're speaking with getting in
there. We, we, we have to get in this
office. The elevator begins to Ding as
Vendel was holding the door open.
We probably should go. Yeah, OK, good talking to you.
Click. OK, so Vendel's going in the
room while we hide in the closet and make sure that everything
goes well, listening in. Yes, Mendel, you, you are GM.
Yes. Would I know that Mark is
associated with any other like in employees here?
Like does he have a underling or a supervisor that I would know?
He does have an assistant. You don't know who they are.
You know that he's in middle management and his department is
into department communications. So he's essentially a corporate
gossip. Great.
All right, Vendel. Yes.
Mark is kind of a sleaze. It's just part of the job.
He'll try to sweet talk you out of whatever you're you're trying
to do. What I need you to do is to
scare him. We want, we want him to fear for
his job, mostly OK, but maybe for his life.
OK. I want you to go in there and
accuse him of leaking the next level of body fuel bite because
you just received an e-mail from an anonymous source.
OK, so I'm Jackie Masons. Yes.
I know you've got body fuel bite to the revenge and you can't
tell people about that because it's not done.
And and if you do, I mean, I've got evidence that you did it.
I've got I've got the emails like that.
Yes, I and I, I'm going to grab Vendel by the shoulders and look
at me directly. OK, it's your jacket, so I
guess. You can do this.
I can do this. You have you have grown so much.
Yeah, the the the leg gave me an extra inch in height.
Linda, you know what I mean. OK.
You've got this is what I mean. OK, I got this.
I know what I mean. We are right here.
I, Jim. Yes.
I would like to get fresh to tap my eye into the camera in the
office. Yeah.
Can I do that? He's you.
You could you go and talk to him in person?
He's in the hallway. He has an open cubicle in this
hallway. You already know that, so you
can just like exit the elevator and walk down the hallway to the
east. Perfect.
OK. So if you want you can just drag
Vendel to fresh, you can go do that.
Sure. We're going to make a quick
stop, OK, to see fresh so that I can see what is happening in the
room and I can feed you a line if I need to.
OK. You pull VV and Vendel out of
the elevator and head down the corridor.
I think fresh is 2/3 sick 6th cubicle along.
Also, it looks like cubicles one and a three are are open if we
need that. Oh yeah, beautiful.
Right hiding and like. We could, yeah.
We maybe we don't have to go on the Janitor class, but.
We could just maybe. Yeah, I mean, it's harder to
hide in one of the cubicles, I guess.
True, true. And and the janitorial staff
comes at night, so. Also, it's Ted and he's standing
on in. He's in the bathroom.
Oh, right. Oh.
Right here, fresh, I need you to.
That's not better. Could you do me a a very good
favour? And I guess that it's not a
favour, it's a request from your boss, right?
Yeah. I I thought.
That was weird. You, you tell.
Me what to do? Could you please connect my
cyber eye to the camera circuit on this floor?
On this floor. Yes, I need to be able to see
into the office that I used to occupy.
Next time on no latency. I took you on.
Carrots. Lots and lots of carrots.
To let us know when to kind of slip this year cable.
I need someone to be able to get in and, you know, get that
window open. I hate when my actions have
consequences. Just in case you look a little
wobbly. Yeah, tell me, tell me.
I was, I was trying to multitask and I, I don't have the, I don't
have the skill set quite yet. Oh, they're a corporal.
They're not really paying attention.
Case of the Mondays. That's so funny.
Did you come up with? That gosh, I really do have huge
tits. Oh.
Yes, and she's busy right now testing out some new prototypes.
You said this was an optional meeting and I actually wasn't
here for the optional meeting. Bring out the bat.
It's your it's your job to pay attention to things.
So pay attention to me for a moment.
But we're busy, Doctor. Bring out the bat.
We're busy right now, OK? And you are insistent about
this? Goddamn optional.
Is a doctor. Meeting.
Hey, thanks, Retro. Appreciate that.
You can go ahead and put that in earlier.
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