Diane, it's Monday, August 29th, 2022 Amsen Scott and 0492
Investigation. Current time is hold up.
Damn, I need an eye. Exam it's 06/20 hours according
to the clock on the galley wall and I'm going to be conducting.
Enhanced background analysis into the possibility that one of
the winter overs may have forged credentials.
No. No, you know what?
We're not doing this shit for the 10 thousandth time here,
boss. We still ain't no close to
figuring out how I got here, why I keep coming back here, and how
we have to stop me from whooshing back.
OK, Mr. Ferguson, let me start off with a A.
How did you know that I was going to take?
And B what the hell? Did you have last night that is
causing this? Stop that.
No, you stop that. No, I'm being serious, serious
now. Look, dead bitty.
I can go on doing this all day long.
I've actually done it all day long along this somewhere in the
20s or so. But I'm sick of this shit, this
this Groundhog Day shtick. All right?
Right now you're thinking about having Doc Brimma do the head
shrink thing and Doc Ambrose give me the old high.
Hey. Howdy.
Let me spoil this one for you. Bremma's going to tell you I
believe what I'm saying and that I seem to be able to predict
what other people will say. Now Ambrose, he's going to say
I'm the most fit 40 year old he's ever seen.
I'm 52 by the way, but why does he have to keep giving me a
prostate check? That never makes sense.
There is nothing up my ass that is causing me to jump back in
time. Also, I'm not sure why he keeps
doing the whole in one thing every time. 52 Mr. Ferguson
Look, I'm sure look. Boss, this ain't agitation a
going stir crazy due to isolation.
Every day I wake up in my birth, It's 6:00 AM and every day at
exactly 527 there was a super strong wind, a bright light from
outside and I go right back into my rack and then everything
happens all over. Seriously, boss, you never seen
Groundhog Day before to know how this shit works?
No, I never saw it. I don't happen to like.
Yeah, you don't like Bill Murray.
What a fucking shmuck. Never forgave him for what about
Bob? I get it.
Look. Oh, shit.
Shit. Fire.
I forgot. OK, look, sometimes, I don't
know, jump 40 something. I had everybody tell me
something private to prove that I'm on the level.
You you picked your wife up at a bar.
Yeah, there it is. Told you at a bar, Mr. Ferguson.
Lots of people meet their spouses in a bar.
That proves nothing. OK, all right.
Right, OK. Oh, you love cheese on pizza,
but otherwise you hate it on anything else.
Fucking weird losing me here. How about we go see Doctor
Bremer anyway? Look, look, look, look, Just OK,
in eight seconds, Thomas is going to come through that door
and he's going to say, hey guys, great morning and Fruit Loops 3.
2/1. Oh, hey guys.
Gee, it's turning out to be a swell morning, isn't it?
Think I'll have the Fruit Loops today.
You're on the level here, aren't you?
You're always the easiest one to win over.
Once you put me in front of one of the eggheads and a poindexter
The Waltz, they take hours to convince.
Tell them you haven't seen it. Oh, hey, Deputy Marshall.
Fred, Have either of you seen my lucky pen?
No, no, no idea where that pen is.
You know just just what have you just repeating time here, not
not taking any office supplies or anything but.
All right. I haven't seen your pen either,
Mr. Kelly, but I promise I'll keep an eye open for it.
This is the pot where. He's going to lick your taint,
boss. Well, OK then.
With a seasoned investigator on the case, it's as good as found
later guys. Now where?
Where could I know? That carpet.
All right, Mr. Ferguson, you're actually catching me at a unique
point. With everything else going on,
I'm inclined to help you. Just one thing.
Oh yeah, boss, I got the pen. I need it for an experiment
later. Just, you know, it's a little
thing that I'm batting around. Let's walk and talk.
I'll fill you in on what's what. Okay.
So like I said, I wake up every damn morning and it's the same
day. Everything happens exactly like
the day before, more or less. As soon as it hits 5:27 PM,
flash, bang, boom, I'm back in my birth.
Now I've tried to get help from the beakers, from Wainwright,
from the spastic old dude head scientist Zeke thinks I've been
drinking and hitting up the greenhouse guys stashes, which I
have, but that's not connected. I've also tried the Radio
McMurdo and some of their eggheads.
Nada. Nothing.
How how many times are you talking?
Geez, I don't know. I stopped counting after like
50. It's been it's been a Lot 50
that's more than a month that almost two months of the same
everything the. Same everything.
Wash, rinse, repeat, boom in my bed and can't find my boxes
anywhere. I've been free bowling this
whole time. O K some details.
No, no thanks. Look, I might know somebody who
could help. He's been going through some
stuff the past few months, but I think for this he may be able to
help. I have hit all the science
nerds, boss. Even that piece of the piece,
there was a stance of all scientists on the station.
Your girlfriend. She has a name, Mr. Ferguson.
No disrespect, right? Right, Doctor Jennings.
Even though she thought this was some sort of scheme to get into
her panties, nothing she said helped.
You said before. I was always the easiest to
convince. In all the past times you
solicited my help, I never took you to.
Oh no, you did. They repeating science wasn't
her thing. She went into some Einstein long
word explanations. Honestly, I don't know.
I I tend to just tune it out when it gets too nerdy.
Now what about this other science person you know?
Well, he's not one of the beakers, just knows a lot about
all this kind of stuff. We're heading there now.
And Mr. Ferguson. A bit of advice, don't ever,
ever reference Doctor Jennings pennies ever again.
That's nothing, boss. Give it a couple hours and
you're going to deck me good in the face.
You always do. Why can't I just go back to
hunting murderers and transporting prisoners, huh?
A temporal causality loop. Pretty simple stuff to
understand and break down actually when you look at the
core material we have on it. What?
You mean like science stuff and books and the interwebs?
No, I'm talking Star Trek, Stargate, Dark Matter, Basically
any scifi show produced out of Canada.
Really. Oh, this?
This guy's your subject matter expert, dweeby scifi guy #2.
Oh, hey, let's try and remember, we're here to ask for help.
Mr. Ferguson, don't be an ass. Wait, if you were in a causal
loop, you should have known not to say that.
This party never happened before.
I never did come down here to ask you, nerd.
You know about the stuff and everything, Mr. Todd.
He's predicted things in events all morning with 100% accuracy.
I have witnessed it myself. Oh, butterflies all that.
What butterfly? What?
Would you mind just telling me what that is?
The butterfly effect? It means that everything
wouldn't happen as if it has for you before, except if you were
to take a particularly different action, even a subtle one.
What slightly changes the future events you're experiencing
before? Oh, but don't worry, time has a
tendency to self correct and return everything to the
predestined path, at least in the Star Trek version.
Not so much for Hot Tub Time Machine though, dude.
Epic fucking movie. You got hot topless chicks,
Mötley Crüe. The whole soundtrack is a slice
of 80s awesomeness. Great White below.
I'm happy the two of you have made a connection.
Now how can we end this, Mr. Todd?
Well, Fred, what is the last thing you recall before the
Temporal loop starts over again? Oh right.
So it doesn't matter what I do, but don't do or change.
Just before 5:30 there is a blinding white light and a
strongest to win. The light is suddenly gone and
I'm back in my bed wondering where my drawers have up and
gone off to. Oh, blinding light.
And then home sweet home. Can you remember where you were
the first time it happened? Man.
I'm not no good with remembering things unless they actually
matter. Number of sets, current best
time for the mile around the gym.
Boob size of the ladies on the station from the bazongas to the
mosquito bites. What's the first time I?
Know this, I think. Hey, hey, that's right.
I was doing a fire safety check on the gas lines in the ice
tunnels. The The new Fire Chief Cajun
Carl gave me the shitty assignment, so I was in the
tunnels section C. Going down the checklist.
Yeah, yeah, I remember this. And then I started feeling like
ants were crawling on my arms. The hairs on my body were all
standing up, and I picked up my radio and then boom, I'm back in
my rack. And I got the worst case of
ballage every single time, too. You know, you scratch, you do
the pension roll. Nothing is working.
Wait a minute, the ice caves. Isn't section C by the Gravity
Well signed? Yeah, that's the one.
So when I time travel, DeLorean jump whatever time loop, not
time travel. What's the difference at
Poindexter? Well, if you had been time
traveling, you'd have run into yourself already.
And the fact that you have and tells us it's a causality loop,
Not. Mr. Todd, do you have something?
Well, maybe, just maybe, I need to do some research, check some
old episodes and VHS tapes. Come back.
What time do you look back again?
Firefighter Fred. 530, give and take.
It's 7:00 AM now. Come back in a few hours.
If what I'm thinking is correct, we may have a way to break the
temporal reversion cycle event. What?
You stop going back in the loop feels like there should have
been more dramatic. Or somebody telling me to tone
it down. Insert it right there, never
mind come back at 9:00. Little nerdy guy.
Always look like that. Unkempt.
Yeah. Look, he's going through some
stuff right now. He just needs some time.
Dude needs a shower and a wait routine.
Oh shit. Did he say it's seven?
Yeah, damn it. We're going to be late.
Come on, what does the gym have to do
with Oh no. No, no, no boss.
This ain't about the time shuffle, 2 step or whatnot.
This this is this is for me. Took me 3 weeks to get the
timing just perfect. OK, now we're going to run laps.
One mile to get warmed up. 20 laps inside the gym.
Let's go already and move them feets.
I tried so many things getting this just perfect.
Golf balls, pencils, metal rods, popsicle sticks, white board.
Marcus the kids pen is the only thing that works.
All right. Here we go, My.
Grandmama. She can run faster than all of
you. Do I have to run with you to set
the pace? 3 21 Bowling with bins.
Oh fuck. Oh, who leaves a pen on the
track? Dude, I swear that will never
get old. You spent months, months
repeating the same day and this this is what you're doing with
it. This.
Oh, this was nothing. You got to wait till 3:00, boss.
Somehow, in most ways. I know.
I shouldn't be surprised, Mr. Ferguson.
I've. Right, right, right.
Now we go see a lady friend science person who goes into a
bunch of math and words. I ain't understand the meanings
of. Always a hoot.
So in all this time, the looping, did you ever do
anything you wouldn't normally do?
I mean, if every day at 5:30 you go back to the start of the day
and nobody else but you were members, you could do whatever
you wanted. Yeah, no consequences.
You asked me that question each time, and each time my answer is
the same. No, I'll show up with the young
Cajun kid to make sure his head ain't getting too inflated.
I'll put hot sauce and wainwright's oatmeal when he
turns his head to look at the monitor and the galley.
I'll unscrew and loosen every sugar container on the station,
but I ain't sneaking a peek when one of the hotties is in the in
the shower going snooping through the underwear drawers
and maybe, what are those little punks call it?
A dude, bro, but I ain't no sleaze a creep.
As my grandma used to say, It ain't about the lay.
It's about wanting them to give you the lay themselves.
That's the sport, Sonny. I was almost there.
Am I right? It swayed to surprise and
respect for just an instant. Then back again.
I was so close. Just need you to go a bit
harder. That's what she.
You know what I'm saying? Here we are, small conference
room. Hi boys, I have to admit the
call this morning was a bit confusing.
You want to know about causal paradoxes?
Yes, Doctor Jennings. Oh.
Come on, boss. Why are we pretending ain't
nobody on the station who doesn't know you to an item?
See, last time I told you I wouldn't use canoodling to
describe it. Fine.
Fred seems to be repeating the same day over and over again.
Events are repeating, and he has already demonstrated an uncanny
ability to know what is going to take place before it happens.
I see. God, I I loved.
Loved Groundhog Day. Thought it was a cute movie, but
there wasn't much science real truth in it.
You you have to understand this. Oh yeah, Doc, we understand.
This is this some kind of? No, no, Doc, this isn't bass
playing a trick on you and and no Doc, my motivation ain't that
this time in a way, if you know what I'm saying.
How did you know? Time jumping.
Looping. Time Door.
No, not time door. That's something different.
Kendra. Look, we're on the level here.
Assuming the points Mr. Ferguson brought up were indeed what
you're about to say just goes to highlight the current
predicament. Guys, time travel itself is
purely hypothetical. From what Bass told me.
Some time ago in an earlier loop for several days.
He and some others were in 2045, a few months back.
I'd say all this is less hypothetical and more thetical.
I thought that was highly classified information.
We're under ND A's it is. We are.
I have no memory of ever telling you anything about that event,
Mr. Ferguson. Previous jump loop, whatever.
Might as well pick a name and go with this hail and jumping.
What? Jump.
You know, jump by only the 3rd best rock group of the 1980s,
Van Halen. When I was a kid, I had the
record. I play it all the time, and on
the record play I had it would just start skipping on the jump
lyrics. I thought it was the funniest
thing. That's what I'm going to call
this thing. I'm in Halen Jumps.
OK, I'm I'm still not ruling out a practical joke here.
But seriously, even with Fred being aware of the.
Canadian station incident tests were conducted upon everyone
returning. We talked about this in another
Halen jump. Anything powerful enough to
transport an entire station back in time or you forward in time
would have left an entropic decay signature on their
clothing and equipment. Wainwright and Lawrence ran
those experiments. Nada.
Entropic decay What? What did Wainwright and Lawrence
do? Oh my God, this always leads to
a dead end. But fine okay.
So Larry took several samples of clothes from him.
And what's the name? The dust cover from a book he
brought with him? A wrench?
Something else that I always forget any who he was.
Entropometry measurements on each item versus other items
didn't go to, I don't know, Nanya future land use were all
at he called each one down almost to absolute zero.
So the entropy also approaches 0.
Then small amounts of heat are put into the item and it records
the temperature until it hits 25 degrees Celsius.
That data allows him to use it in a calometric equation to make
up his damn mind. Oh, you're all killing me.
Okay. Look, look.
Simple. T = A U over a S, with V&N being
the constants from the cooling experiment Duhicki.
And uses the definition of temperature in terms of entropy
while limiting energy exchange to heat.
That takes us to how entropy changes DS when a small amount
of energy DQ is introduced into the system at a certain
temperature or. Teeth Kendra.
I'm more confused now than ever. Everything he he's correct.
A bit more colorful than I'm used to, but.
When? When did you study quantum
mechanics and thermodynamics, Fred?
Hale and jumping. You said it so many times, doc.
The first few dozens. I just sang the George of the
Jungle theme in my head as you went on over the past.
I started paying attention. VH also did hot for teacher.
Know what I'm saying? So, assuming you're willing to
entertain the notion that Mister Ferguson didn't suddenly osmosis
your quantum. Science.
That stuff on the board and an early 80's rock analogy
notwithstanding, can we assume he's possibly time looping?
Hail and jumping. Hail and jumping.
I discovered it. I'm naming it.
Whatever, Kendra. Can you think of any way to stop
it? To stop it, I have to better
understand it, understand what the genesis was to begin the
process, the causal event that preface the anomaly.
Like I was telling the deputy Marshall here. 527 Every time
there's a flash of bright white light coming from outside,
there's a tremendous burst of wind and then bam, might as well
jump back in my rack. Here you go.
It's untight. No boxes to be found anywhere.
I still can't figure out where. They went.
These were. My Thursday set of drawers I
just I wake up and my chains hanging low all alone.
Okay also. We determined the first event
that the first Halen jump was when he was doing checks for
Chief Thibodeau in the Ice Tunnels section C by the gravity
well. Oh, all right then.
OK, First, thank you for the tissue.
Second, good luck with your underpants, but you mentioned a
bright light each time. From which direction?
Depends on where I am when it all goes kaboom me.
Looks like it comes from off in the distance, the end of the ski
way in the downwind sector. There aren't any structures or
buildings out that far. Look, not being rude, but we've
been through this. There is a small operational Hut
at the Spresso drill site, but that's 8 kilometers and not in
that general. I've been through this several
dozen times. It's not Spresso.
We ruled out the buried LC130 at the end of the ski way.
It's not the Super Don. Everybody said that.
I was a moron for thinking it was them tiny Gray big head
aliens with the black almond eyes.
The little fuck is still creeping out with the little
butt probes and the skinny arms. Get some free weights.
Your little anal loving so. It's just Mr. Ferguson, please.
Look, Boss Doc, I appreciate you both for helping out and tossing
around the old hot science batata now.
I need to be over at the DZ staircase so I can stop one of
the beakers from tripping down it and breaking a leg.
Subsequently getting a date for tomorrow night that I never get
to make. And then I got to start putting
items in motion for 3:00 PM when chief etouffee.
I better not spoil it. I'll check back in with Mr. Todd
at noon to see what he came up with.
You'll be back in the galley for lunch at 12:30.
Whoa. Normally it's at noon.
We eat, I guess. Introducing the kid, the
computer nerd Autobot. Whatever introduced the
butterflies. OK, all right, I'll see you at
12:30. And yes, you're still on for
eight, boss. But she wants to stay in a Burt
tonight because she also has a report to file early in the
morning. Also, ask around.
Everybody in a one section of burst knows what you two are up
to at night. Unless Doc Jennings really is
praying out loud to the Lord to not stop.
Paper. Thin walls, guys.
I'm not sure which. I'm more concerned over the fact
that firefighter Fred just described in Tropic decay
calculations using doctorate level scientific theorems
correctly. Or that that perv and half the
station knows about our love Life, OK?
One crisis at a time, with all the science he described.
Any thoughts? Well, and I have to preface with
all very hypothetical, let's assume the flash of light he
described as whatever the causal event was will be coupled by the
fact that he was near the door to Doctor Wainwright's super
secret, the Atlas Project. It's not too far off to say it's
related. I had the same thought, but
wouldn't that mean that Doctor Wainwright and whomever is
running the experiment at 527 would also be halen jumping?
It's possible not knowing what experiment is being conducted
down there and with what equipment.
I can't prove or disprove anything did, as Dr. Wainwright,
Van Zandt or the others claimed, they're repeating the day.
Not that I'm aware of. Seems to me if it really is
repeating the same day for two months, that would have come up
another Palin jumper. I'll check with Jovec and the
others quietly. We yes, we are still on for
tonight, but let's be more aware of the surroundings.
Hey. Whoever you want to worship is
nobody's business other than your own freedom of religion, or
I guess you could say, freedom of expression.
I'll see. You tonight.
Recording stopped. Good morning, Y'all, and I hope
all my police are doing wonderful this morning.
Today is Monday, August 29th, and it's 9:00 on the tick.
This is Miss Cherylin here with your South Pole daily
announcements. Buckle in.
Y'all, Chief Meteorologist, Topper Hunt says this
unprecedented windstorm is only intensifying.
We're seeing sustained winds of 30 to 40 mph and it's growing
every day. Scientists and workers traveling
to and from external buildings in the dark and clear air
sectors need to check in upon our oven.
Additionally, a zip line has been erected between stations
and each employee will need to connect so y'all don't blow
away, especially you skinny minnies and bean poles that need
more meat on your bones. Let's all make sure we science
safely. After a full week, we have a
winner for the Jelly Bean Jug guest contest.
That lunch Lady Alice put out. The winner who correctly guessed
the amount of Jelly beans. Well, look at this.
Not only did they get the number exactly on the nose, but also at
the 7:30 AM cut off time is Fred Ferguson.
Next closest was our new fire tree Flandry who had 1280.
Congratulations to Fred, who gets a special 7 course dinner
for him, OK and a date served by the galley team in the B2
Lounge. With scenic and romantic views
of the Southern Auroras to whoever agrees, we'll put human
resources on standby. As a reminder, this afternoon
we'll be getting emergency refresh supplies for the
station, medical Bay and critical life safety items.
Airmen from the 62nd and 446 Airlift Wing Operations Group
will fly C-17 over us at around 1600 hours.
Cargo teams 2-3 and DeWalt Emergency Operations should have
all snowmobiles fueled and beyond standby.
Remember, y'all have to get them before the bumbles do.
Today's lunch and dinner selections.
Well, I don't think I've ever seen this happen before.
Huh. Due to a supply shipment snafu
this morning, the shrimp and sausage gumbo for lunch, and the
muffalo with red beans and rice main entree at supper has been
cancelled. As a replacement lunch lady
Alice will have burgers, veggie burgers and Fenway Franks for
lunch, along with lobster Mac and cheese or Boston clam
chowder. For dinner, they'll be corn,
beef and cabbage, Boston baked beans, fried clams with
scallops. For those vegetarians, Caesar
squash salad or veggie pizza. And finally, y'all I'd like to
give a special What do the kids all say?
A shout out to a very wonderful guardian Angel.
I don't know who it was that left me the epipan on the OPS
desk, but thank you so much. I swear I didn't know I picked
up a peanut butter cookie this morning.
With my allergies, that could have been nasty, Doctor Ambrose
said. If not for that injection, I
could have been laid up for weeks.
Y'all would have had to listen to somebody else doing my
morning announcements for a spell.
Here I thought I was the fairy godmother.
Thank you, little Angel. Whomever you are, your timing
was perfect. So there you go.
I want each of my police to be careful and safe.
And mind your manners with one another.
Remember, he's always watching. Have a wonderful and blessed
day. Thank you.
Okay. Most times I wouldn't be going
with nonscientific sources, but this is new ground for me.
Run me through this one more time.
Based upon everything you and Fred have told me to date,
cobble with the facts at hand and the assembled works of
dozens of great scifi tales, I have a plausible theory.
Recall how Fred mentioned he was in the ice tunnels in the
general vicinity of where you said there is a hidden chamber.
Coupled with the fact that all the instances of power
interruption last season to this season, the only unexpected
factor are. You and Fred.
That's pretty much where you lost me last time.
The only people who are not supposed to be here but are here
at the station this winter are you and Fred.
Doctor Timms was in the process of picking up medical items from
McMurdo to restock us for the seat.
The pilot trigger sometimes stays on station over the
winter, depending on the flight schedule.
In and out I checked. Both were assumed to be winner
over. You and Fred?
Not so much so Mr. Ferguson. Or myself are causing his Helen
jumps. I'm I'm sorry.
What it's never mind causing the looping effect.
Not directly For this part we need to dip our toes in the
horror science fiction. Not really my Forte or taste
that was more of Emory's, but the needs of the many.
Let's now look at the film series Final Destination as the
next factor. Ironically, it was all due to
something Fred said earlier and how I remarked that time finds a
way to course correct. In that film series, teen has a
vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash as it
explodes mid flight. He and some of his friends get
off the plane and it indeed explodes.
They were all supposed to die, but then leaving the plane.
Messed up the Grim Reapers plan, so one by one they start dying
in Chain line series of events. It's death.
Fixing the plan. Series of events to restore the
timeline so we should have died in that plane crash.
No, no no no. Death isn't doing this, trying
to fix the plan, but it shows us the predetermined series of
events was interrupted. My theory is that Fred's looping
is indirectly caused by whatever's going on in the
tunnels, and that was interrupted by Fred being in
such close proximity. It's reset mechanism, if you
will, Trying to establish a new set of parameters to fix this
plan. It lost me again.
OK, as a kid, everyone of those mazes, like at a restaurant
where you have to draw a line, get to the maze without dead
ends. Yes, of course.
Right O. K.
What was the starting? Point I mean the.
Beginning of the May is right at the entrance, right?
What was the ending point? The exit point?
The opening at the end? I don't know.
If you're like most kids, you did it in pencil when you came
to the dead end. I mean, I didn't.
I didn't have to. But you can race and try again.
Every time Fred resets the day, that is.
Whatever is doing this has hit a dead end and erased the path
back to this morning for Fred. The goal is to get him to the
exit by going down pathways. Events on station not tried, he
said. Before, in all his loops, he
never talked to me about it. Today was the first a due
situation. We're.
Finding the right pathway through the maze.
Okay. I think you got me back again.
But you also said that I wasn't supposed to be here.
Why aren't I? Experienced this, Helen jump.
Seriously, what the hell is a Haylan jump?
It's what Mr. Ferguson calls it. Because the song Jump by Van
Halen. Oh, God, yeah.
OK, all right, I get it. Van Halen Hagar was still
better, though. Can't beat the red rocker.
I was always partial. David Lee Roth, myself, time and
Dave. Whatever.
Running with the devil. But please, David Lee Puke is
more like, can we please get back on track?
Right, right, right, right. OK.
Yes, you too are also not intended to be here for the
winter season. I think that just as Fred may
hold the key to the bright explosion, you may hold the key
to the wind lost me again. The wind.
Things around here may be off weird to the outside world,
Deputy, but in that same sense, we have our normal routines just
like almost every other place. You and Fred.
You're off. Huh.
Come to think of it, Miquel said something exactly like that a
couple months back, just after I returned unexpectedly.
It wasn't me that had to get used to everything.
It was everything around here having to get used to me.
Wow. It's actually a really good
analogy, huh? It's us.
And our routines have to get used to you being here.
What? You weren't.
You said that Mikkel had come up with that.
Wow. I did not think that man
possessed that type of intellect.
He's got a great voice, too. Not just the accent.
Yeah, he had a great voice in many talents.
Now, how do I tie into the wind? Every year we get strong winds,
yes, but never have I heard or read of winds continually this
strong and building in this intensity.
That's new. Or another way of saying it.
Unprecedented. OK, Sydney told me there was a
balance. Things here on the station
depend on a balance, and Franklin had said that.
My, my. Because of my guilt, the scales
were tipped unfavorably. Yin and Yang, the Force and the
Dark Side. And even an odd Star Trek
sequel. They all equate to a balance.
Everything is starting to come into sharp focus.
Deputy. The last remaining piece, the
factor I can't reconcile with it's the explosion.
I know the what? I think The Who is pretty
clearly you and Fred, because you're here, not back in the
world. When is at 527, which is what
Fred reported. Where is here obviously.
But it's the. Why?
The why? I can't logic out the why what
happens around 5:30 today. What is supposed to happen?
I don't. I don't have any.
I mean, dinner got switched around.
They started serving around that time.
That was obviously friends doing.
Of course. I mean, I didn't notice it
before, but the food selections are all New England based.
Pretty obvious he's taking advantage of his former
knowledge. No, no.
Gastrointestinal distress isn't the why.
What are we missing? Breakfast meetings, tripping
Landry lunch, Dinner. There's a staffing at 4:30 in
the big conference room. AirDrop supplies at 5:00 PM.
I mean, that's close, but not 530 close.
But I don't see how medical supplies will be causing this.
Mr. Todd and all your science fiction, Tales stories, TV
movies, what would a decaying radio isotope do to explain why
oh, I know how em always felt. Nice Try Deb Marsh.
Yes, radio isotopes are scary, but they're fairly common energy
wave that could cause a temporal rift or wormhole.
Radio isotope would even face it.
Phosphorus. The cane.
OK, we're getting better, but still no, I don't think so.
What if it was concentrated? Radium two to six Isotope?
No, not bad. Highly radioactive for sure, but
that doesn't occur naturally down here.
Plus it wouldn't have to build up so much energy potential
then. I mean, maybe the Isotope is a
military shield container meant to act as a tracking device to
monitor physical movement powerful enough to be.
Picked up by satellites. Radio giving off alpha particles
contained in a small shielded environment mixed with an
external energy source powerful enough to loop somebody.
I'd have your Doctor Jennings confirmed, but that's going to
cause a fairly powerful boom. Maybe even enough to cause a
temporal loop event. What the hell is the US Air
Force put in those crates? That's classified Mr., Todd.
Needless to say, the shielding was meant to act as a safety
measure for the short time it was supposed to be at the
station again, an event that would not have been triggered
had I not been here. Sorry for the late notice,
y'all, but due to higher than anticipated winds, the emergency
drop will be delayed to 5:30 today.
Cargo and DeWalt emergency teams still be on your toes.
Thank you. Well done, Mr. Todd.
Now, how do we stop it from happening?
Nobody, Marshall. I have an idea about that too,
but you may not like it. Okay everybody.
That's the stuff we can't talk about officially.
Needless to say, it's something Mr. Kelly Zeke and I have been
researching since my return to the station.
Given the events involving Mr. Ferguson, it's become necessary
to include the rest of you in our activities.
Please understand many of you were purposely kept in the dark
until now to ensure no retaliatory steps will be taken
against you. That said Mr. Ferguson.
Kendra, Mr. Todd. That's everything we know to
date in regard to the Project Atlas, as well as the events
with the Station anomaly where Mr. Waters loved us.
You know, if not for this Haylan jumping.
I think you all was some of the most paranoid bunch of nerds and
all a nerd them but hell, 3 minutes.
Yeah, yeah, but hell, this is starting to become a blast.
I'm still astounded at the amount of funding Thomas said
was being funneled into their secret project.
That much money? I could provide so many
additional research grants, it would benefit the station works
we perform. If I thought it was taxpayer
money or funds being misappropriate, I could act and
make arrests. But from everything we've seen,
it's all directly coming from several US corporations, which
are no doubt fronts for. Bolo oh, they absolutely are.
I may not have many detective skills, but from all my years
working in a cubicle and dealing with data and crunching numbers,
I can follow a money trail. It's money coming in from
sources indirectly associated. It's a Beauregard lowing funding
project. All right, well, we may know
it's them, but does anybody know what the hell they're doing in
the ice tunnels? Doctor Lorenz, Wainwright, Van
Zandt and Jovec are all not not in their usual places today, not
in their offices or in the labs. Stands to reason they're working
on Atlas especially well, given what Mr. Ferguson says about
leaving. Hail and jumping.
Also one minute. One minute to what?
Oh, you'll see. So what's this plan you all came
up with? Well, be effectively, for the
most part, and in the reoccurring temporal loop Fred
has been experiencing. To do that, we need to recreate
the original series of events by having Fred in the tunnels where
he was doing the first initial event.
Oh. I'm on it.
I'm already about to be assigned to inspect the pipes again.
All right, just a few moments more, OK?
Seriously, Mr. Ferguson, what is about to happen?
I am so glad you asked boss if I can have everyone focus their
attention to the rear entrance of the galley in 321.
Why is there a bucket perched above the doors?
Is that? Oh.
No. It's Landry.
Oh, hey, looking good, man. New Fire Chief.
Most people put milk on their cereal, not on their heads.
Oh, you find this humorous hockey pot now?
Oh yeah. Well then, you just volunteered.
Oh yeah, yeah. I should probably inspect the
the gas in the sewer lines in the ice tunnels, right.
And you want to report by the end of the evening?
You got him milk man. He's getting so good.
At his punishments he. Calling him out for.
Me. Seriously, you're like a big
bully, Fred. Oh, come on now.
It's OK. Trust me.
He gives just as good as he gets.
OK. So what's the rest of the plan
Mr. Todd, with Fred in position at precisely 527, the energy
created by this Project I list will first interact with Fred,
then go on to interact with the uranium isotopes that are in the
containers being parachuted in by the Air Force.
Wait, what is why are uranium isotopes being delivered?
They're highly radioactive. Look, I knew they were part of
the incoming shipment, but I am not at liberty explain what
their intended. Purpose is.
I'm sorry, they've been contained in secure storage and
containment environment. There isn't.
Well, there was not expect to be any negative effects nor
anything expected like Hagar jumping.
Oh oh, it's Halen jumping. Sammy Hagar had no business
being in VH. It's Van Halen, not Van Haga.
Stick to make it to Caleb. But you all know what?
I'm saying. Deputy Marshall, the Antarctic
Treaty is very specific about the materials to be brought onto
the continent. Radioactive materials for non
scientific purposes are not typically permitted.
This is an unusual situation, Mr. Kelly, I grant you that
again and I'm not able to go into the details.
Suffice it to say the materials will be taken off the continent
within 60 days of arriving. The US government is aware and
has authorized. The activity?
I can't say anything more than that.
Mr. Todd, please continue. Oh OK.
All the energy released by whatever project Atlas is
coupled with Fred's interactions, as well as the
interaction of the alpha radiation build up in the
shielded containers. That's most likely what causes
the massive explosion Fred describes.
However, if we have the Deputy Marshall situated at the base of
the drop zone, I theorize that it will counteract the
modification of Fred's presence, making the interaction inert.
I mean, no offense, Chris, this this has almost no base in
science. Only the creme de la creme of
top science fiction writers. I can't even describe how
dangerous this plan is. What is your source material,
Mr. Hello. Guys, please understand I'm I'm
not trying to dampen anyone's plan, but as a scientist I'm
trying to look at everything through the lens of logic.
And we appreciate that, Doctor. But the belief begins with
science leaves off, and ends with science begins.
Lord, I ain't seeing like you what the science says or the
whatever it is Mr. Todd is on about.
But what I do know is that I've seen Fred here predict things
that are about to happen, and they do.
Not just simple things. Yeah, he did properly describe
entropic decay calculations. I don't know what or who is
doing all this hailing jumping, but I've seen enough to know it.
Needs to stop. Fred needs to stop and living
the same day. Huh.
I know I wouldn't want the same routine over and over again.
Living on the station over the winter can be difficult enough.
Living the same day? Oh, I can't even.
Imagine your spaceman plan is interesting, kid.
What the hell is somebody so big able to sneak around and with
Fozzie? Bear on his hand.
He's your chief. I'm here to hell.
Well, the dime store story and funny book tale sounds like your
mugs needed. How long have you been standing
there? Long enough to know you only got
half the picture. The kid with a thick set of
people. Said that there were two you're
not supposed to be. Here you got two and two right
kid, but they don't have the three, which is what the answer
is Mean but. You were supposed to be here.
Lars is on the official manifest from the NSF.
Well, and NSF, if you believe the alternate reality theory.
I'm not talking about the big moose.
I'm talking about you as true. If this little soiree of yours
goes into action, you'll need all three of us.
And if what I'm thinking is right, I get a one way bus
ticket back to where I belong. To.
Be continued. This is Brian Bradley.
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