There's now a joint task force that has been assembled between
us, the FBI, DEA, and Homeland, Operation Permafrost.
I did. With the Intel you and your team
have assembled and the confirmation that all three
primary US stations on the continent are used as drop
points for drug Courier routes, we have an operational plan
we're putting in place. You should have already received
the encrypted details and overview as of last.
Made for very interesting bedtime story, just to ensure I
have the broad strokes. The DA has arranged to have an
emergency air drop delivered to Thomas and Scott early next
week. 62nd and 446 Air Wings will send three crates emergency
supplies under the cover story of needed medical items.
In these crates will be tracking devices which I'm to conceal
with the canisters so we can track where the shipments end
up. Similar devices are being
transported by iceberg cargo vessels to McMurdo and Palmer
from my special Marshalls to assimilately conceal.
Once winter lifts, the excess materials from all three
stations are to be sent. Back to the office.
Of polar projects in New Zealand as excess.
Non critical provisions not required.
Once in transit, the task force will monitor the shipments
location using the radiometer from a reposition satellite.
The satellite will detect a specific isotope decay inside
the tracking devices and allowing them to follow the
shipments on the move. Roughly at the same time, agents
from the DEA&FBI will accompany the National Transportation
Safety Board as they conduct their investigation.
The crash of Flight 0492, the flight I was on, which we highly
suspect, will also contain concealed shipments of this new
drug, Dreamwax. They'll secure whatever they
find and transport back to the States.
In a nutshell, that's the plan. You clear on everything.
Radio ice. It took decay.
Concerns me. Are me and my team going to
start glowing in the dark? The devices are shielded.
The casing is strong enough to minimize exposure to people in
organic materials, but we can afford the decay is trackable
from space. Other than that you good.
Yes, ma'am. After reviewing the dossier you
sent, everything was self-explanatory.
I do appreciate you including the replacement and
supplementary items are requested and lost in the crash
to be included in the AirDrop. I was happy to arrange a deputy.
Ironically we got the list from field support around the same
time. The task force was trying to
determine what we could drop ship to help justify or validate
the back story. Rather than just putting in
weighted sandbags, might as well put in items needed.
That's Diane for you and Pickable time and always look
now for the Marshall she supports.
I noticed the firearms on that list.
I'm assuming you or Marshall Goodwin secured the necessary
approvals from the NSF to have those on station.
No, ma'am, I did not. I brought my duty sidearm with
me as standard Marshall policy. For the others I.
Have not secured any approvals? Well then just do me a favor
Marlo. Keep them locked up and out of
sight until you need them. I'm guessing when and if you do
need them, the event will justify the action, but it goes
without saying. You'll deny knowing about this.
The Marshall Service never authorized it, and it's on me to
take whatever fallout there is. Your personnel file doesn't
exaggerate fast on the draw and quick to evaluate any situation
you get into. Very nice.
Discretion is the better part of Valor Deputy.
Keep that in mind. Yes, ma'am.
Front and center. How's the other investigation
going, the tampering with the plane and the station?
I've eliminated most of the winter overs and they have three
primary suspects, one of the station scientists and two of
the contractors. I'm working to find a crack in
their alibis and anything I can dig up to solidify a primary
suspect. I've also requested enhanced
background checks on the three to see if I can pull out
anything which may indicate motive or associations that
might suggest a motive. All right, it sounds like you're
running all possible leads to the ground.
I like that. How are you and Dr. Wainwright
getting along? Contentious, same as usual.
He seems to be gradually accept my presence here on the station.
But always works. To get in a backhanded insult.
I strive to remind him that while he may oversee the
station, I don't report to him and thus not a subject of his
little fiefdom. We tolerate one another is the
most apt way to just please make sure not to overly antagonize
him. His Direct Line into Beauregard
lowing in their neck for escalating to the Attorney
General of the DOJ can make Director Marshall Davis get a
bit more involved than I'd like. Understood.
I'll. Dial back the animosity level.
Are you the one stealing the W from his keyboard?
I have no idea what you're Speaking of, Marshall.
Let's remember that we're sworn federal officers, not junior
high students. I always conduct myself as
professional, ma'am. All the time.
All right, then you need anything else from me or from?
Up here? No, ma'am.
I'm all good. I.
Appreciate the call. I'll.
Update on the investigation. My weekly reports end of week
take care of deputy. US.
Deputy Marshall Bass Marlow 2022 August 2020 two 1300 hours and
Scott sabotage investigation, LC130 flight, A NG0492 crash.
In the main gallery with me is Miss Sandra Derecha.
Neil Stewart and this is interview 3 Mr. Recha when we
last spoke. We discussed your general
observation of the station. Staff of the few days.
After this LC130, transporting myself and several others
crashed. Now, as Emile Stewart, would you
continue to agree that you see most everybody on the station
daily? I do, yes.
Excellent. Do you tend to interact with
most people as you conduct your daily?
Routines or just stick to the basics.
Good morning, Good evening. What can I get you?
Oh no. One of the things I love the
most about the winter season down here is the coziness and
how nobody's in a rush like they are in the summer.
I get the opportunity. To sit and chat.
With most people, especially over the winter, we try to
interact with one another and keep each other occupied with
stories about our day or what's going on back home.
It really helps with the morale. During the meals being served
over the. Few days to the.
On station staff, did you notice anybody?
Who was? Off or acting peculiar.
During those few days, I think almost everybody was off.
One way or another, the news of your.
Planes disappearing was. Devastating.
Not to inflate your ego, deputy, but you're very popular around
the station. The fact that we had several
team members, including you, on that flight and was impacting
almost everyone. I understand and it.
Does make sense. Thank you for the compliment.
By the way. Was there any one individual
that you remember standing out or was acting well?
Peculiar. No, no.
I don't remember anything that stands out to me.
Most people went one of two pathways.
Either they hardly ate or they would indulge a bit too hard on
the snacks and sweets. All right.
How about after that, after it was announced we've been found?
Or after we. Returned to the station.
Well, are we including the puppet that now lives on Lars's
hand? No, let's.
Take that as a. Given that's one off that.
Yeah. Well, I guess you could say I
didn't see Dr. Wainwright all that affected by your plane
crashing. He just seemed his normal self
throughout. Oh, you know, Actually, now that
you mention it, I do remember something.
Unusual. It was just before your flight
off station. Please do tell.
It was the day before you all left.
There was a meeting taking place in the large conference room.
It was the packs, flight deck, team and operations crew.
Miss Alice got a call just before lunch that they would be
running most of the day and longer than expected.
And could we cater them at dinner?
So she asked me to help coordinate, take the orders and
make sure we got them off at at 6:00 PM that evening.
There were seven, no, no eight in the meeting, so we prepared
some pasta and meatballs, salad, and one special dietary order.
I made roasted cauliflower salad and a cup of butternut squash
soup as a vegan meal for Marco Green.
Marco Green. Marco Green.
That's the technical. Diagnostic expert.
The one who got food poisoning night before the.
Flight Yeah, exactly. I felt so horrible.
Deputy Marshall. We still don't know if it was
the chickpeas, the cucumbers, lettuce or the sauce.
But after we heard the news from the others, Miss Ellis had us
tossed all the ingredients and we scrubbed down the work
surfaces to ensure no repeat occurrences.
She doesn't mess around with the less than sparkling kitchen.
Who said it was food poisoning out of curiosity?
Was it Doctor Ambrose? No.
Honestly, we we heard it from several people, not just one.
It's curious. I'll see what Doctor Ambrose can
provide to try and clear that one up.
You mentioned Lars and Mr. Johnson earlier.
How is that going? How do you mean?
How are people in general reacting to him?
Have you seen anything, any behavior or actions that concern
you? You mean other than a man who
hadn't spoken a single word in five months, is now performing a
very well polished ventriloquist act and suddenly speaking with
an American 1940s film noir accent like Deforest Bogart?
No, no, no. Nothing.
Touché Mr. Richard Touché. I mean, he'll come in.
Lars gets his meals. He and the puppet mostly keep to
themselves. I caught it leering at me once.
It's kind of a pervy. Or.
Doll keeps calling me tuts, baby, and referring to me as a
Dame. I'm still not sure what he means
by horizontal mambo and gams in the air.
Yeah, he goes heavy into the 80 year old slang.
Have you seen him? Interacting with anybody.
No, he's even more solitary than he was before now.
It's almost like people are going out of their way to avoid
him. And not just those who were here
last time Franklin was out, but everybody ugly.
They they both seem to like it that way.
I did notice Zeke takes extra special care to keep his
distance. Yeah, Zeke.
Has the thing about puppets, I think.
Not sure but. You know, that one I noticed
too. Other than meals, from what I
hear, he does his job loading cargo and then nobody sees him
until the following day. Okay that.
Should pretty much do it for this interview.
Mr. Retro, I want to thank you again for taking time to chat
with me. No problem, Deputy.
Will we be seeing you for dinner tonight?
Oh, without a doubt. See you in 1900.
Looking forward to pork chops? Recording started.
Doctor Ambrose. Working on your short game.
Hello, Deputy Marshall. So who's trying to murder?
You this week. Well, thankfully talk.
I've managed to go several months now, Homicide free.
Actually I was hoping to get some more information from you
if you have a moment. If I have a moment.
Look around you, Deputy. I have nothing but moments.
Go ahead and ask your questions if you don't mind.
I'm just going to keep putting to this automatic machine.
What would you like to know on the day?
Before I left, actually, the night to be more exact, you had
a patient come in with a stomach bug.
Yes, indeed I did Mr. Green if I recall.
From PAX Flight Team. That man was a pale blue.
Is a water hazards a Pebble Beach Course You ever been
deputy? No, can't say that.
Do you recall what? You diagnosed him with.
You already called a deputy. Just simple and common case of
viral gastroenteritis. Stomach bug technically should
be talking about another patient's diagnosis.
However, what you're referring to is incredibly routine and
since you're already clear by the NSF and medical information,
as long as it's needed for your investigations, stomach bug.
So it it wasn't food poisoning. Get in there, get in there.
Damn food poisoning? No, no, although they can
present similarly with the same symptoms.
However, food poisoning will almost always include multiple
cases of. Vomiting and diarrhea over 24
to. 48 hours and leading potential dehydration the
stomach bug. Typically comes and goes within
12 hours and typically doesn't include multiple.
Instances of vomiting. No, Mr. Green had a garden
variety case. Of a stomach bug.
Odd. What?
What can? Cause that the stomach.
Bug do. Me a favor, Starting out that
part of the green by your foot there.
Thank you. Well, you get food poisoning
from a fancy name for it. Food.
Undercooked or contaminated meat, fish or veggies with a
stomach bug. It's more viral than bacterial,
mostly just like the common cold.
You get it from somebody you come in contact with.
I was just getting over it. Or objects that they
contaminated and then you touch. Can.
Is there anything that can be added to food or drink to mimic
those effects of the stomach bug?
Damn it. Turn into a damn.
Shank the potamus down here. Sorry.
What was your question now? Stomach bug Can any food
tampering cause a reaction? That might mimic.
A stomach bug? Well, a couple liquids come to
mind. Most savage person wouldn't have
access to syrup of IPICCAC though.
On the other hand would be the easiest to use, obtain and
administer. Found any drugstore shelf?
You'd have to dilute it though a lot and so the taste wouldn't
give it away. But but yes, what would?
Be the side effects of having been.
Given this ipiccac clandestinely.
Similarly, didn't use too much vomiting, stomach irritation,
dizziness, low blood pressure, shortness of breath and a rapid
heartbeat. Did Mr. Green have?
Any of those symptoms? Yes.
Actually, yes. If I remember correctly, I
thought the blood pressure and heart rate were a separate
issue. Thinking back now, it.
It might have been possibly induced versus infected.
Naturally, Deputy, you think his illness was deliberate?
I'm not sure. If anything, 100.
Percent just yet. Just trying to tie loose ends
together. Makes sense?
Of a few abnormalities I can't reconcile with.
Well, if you think it'll help, I'll review my notes this
evening just to see if anything else about Mr. Green's case
stands out now. Is there anything else you want
to tell me? Doc, you were supposed.
To be here 2 weeks ago for a checkup on your leg and general
Wellness. I didn't mean anything.
Obviously you're more concerned with ducking me and spending
time with that pretty lady friend than keeping yourself.
Personal by a doc, just been running clues to.
Nonsense. You don't seem to be in a hurry
to go anywhere at the moment, right, Catherine?
Yes, Doctor. Do me a solid here.
Take the Deputy Marshall back to Room 2 and start Vitals and
Prescreen. I'll be in shortly to give you
the old once over and kick the tires.
I mean now. I'd be more happy to come back
for a scheduled. Deputy, this way I highly
recommend you stop while you're ahead.
I'm out of particular gel right now, and until Morris brought in
from the Do Not Freeze cargo Hut, well, that means we can do
this here and now and you'll get to skip the prostate check this
time otherwise. Here we go.
Another hole in one. Speaking of holes in one, well,
I guess it's your move again, Deputy.
I still hate you, Doc. Still music to my ears.
Bass, this is ridiculous. And like I told you before,
patient doctor confidentiality does not change by law.
I must keep everything, said, everything brought up in this
room between us. You don't have to keep
repeating. Mary had a little lamb in your
head. Sorry, Sydney, not sorry, you
misled me. How do you feel I misled you?
I don't like head shrinks getting into my head.
Up until recently, that was figuratively.
Now you can. Literally do it this.
Isn't supposed to concern me. What I told you before is still
true. I can't read your mind.
I can't read anybody's mind. It doesn't work like that.
I hear your thoughts. Not all of them, just those that
are the strongest on your mind. I've I've always kind of
thought. Of it like a radio.
Station I can't pick the program and I want.
I'm stuck with whatever is being broadcast at the moment.
I can listen but the request line for specific things it
doesn't work. Then I hope you like nursery
rhymes because it's mother. Goose Head Radio.
Commercial and ad free from here on out it.
Would make you feel any better if I bust out the bourbon again.
What to loosen me up? No, thanks, Sid.
Is there something that happened?
Some bad experience with a professional therapist,
psychologist. Direction was just for me to
report here 2 * a month. Never said anything about
talking fast. Well, talking is kind of the
point of all of this. You know, the dawn is part of
the whole thing. How I can hear thoughts is that
it doesn't work back in the world.
You sit me down in my office in Brooklyn on East 98th St., and
all I hear is my patients and the traffic.
Wasn't until my first session on the ice that this started to
happen. You know what it's like for a
psychiatrist to think they're starting to lose it themselves.
It's not a pretty picture bass, then an observation.
You're investigated in part. You have to sit people down and
through chatting, talking, interviewing, you size them up
and their motivations. From what I've read and what
we've chatted about, you're damn good at it too.
Would it be going out in the limb that while I've been
observing you, you've been doing the same with me?
There's nothing wrong with that. It's what we do professionally,
you and I. Sometimes it just comes so
naturally, doesn't it? We slip into a kind of autopilot
mode, start asking questions, not even of a patient or a
suspect. In your case, even just a friend
or acquaintance, it's kind of hard to turn off sometimes.
So as good as I am, you've been at this just as long as I have
professionally. Well, if you're half as good as
I know you are, you'd already built up a read on me.
So you tell me, Bass. Is anything I've said Anything
on my demeanor, my mannerisms, Any of your observations?
Given your reason to believe I'm up to nefarious purposes?
How about we take a break from the nursery rhymes, have a quick
station identification? Thank you, Mother Goose over.
And I was starting to give me a migraine.
Also, thank you for trusting me. Oh, I'm not.
Sure, I'd go using trust right now.
Said Fair enough. Bad choice of words.
How about? How about a thank you for the
gesture? So then you can't.
Reach into somebody's head and go rooting around for specifics?
No, not as far as I've expansed yet.
Just as I said, it's like a record playing over the PA
system. That's it.
And this doesn't concern you. Oh, it can sense that I have a
living shit out of me. Why do I have this thing?
Why just here? Why not back in the world?
And is this what I'm supposed to do with it?
With everything else down here, I guess hearing thoughts isn't.
Overly high on the Weirdo meter, that's true.
Plus, if I can help out the locals here and make their
experience and then win it easy to cope with, well then I'm
okay. With it so then.
Nobody else knows that you can know a small handful.
Wainwright, of course. Dr. Ambrose, Altright Sandra who
I get the artist sound feedback from Harrison and Times.
The big guy lost two, one or two others who passed through here.
You're probably like 7th. No wait, 9th and I almost forgot
about Franklin. He knows, yeah.
I forgot about and he seemed nonfazed about it, most likely
because I can't hear any thoughts of his.
And that's because he's a demon. Yeah, that would be my guess
too. This thing didn't come with an
instruction book, but I'm sure it has something to do with the
difference in brain Physiology or him being a fallen Angel
Franklin said something about. Balances.
What did you say? Franklin said.
Something about balancing that everything was everything was a.
Balance more so here than in most places.
That my guilt. It was throwing the balance off.
Look, Bass, I know we just established a happy middle
ground here and I don't want to push too hard, but helping
people cope or address things like guilt, it's kind of what I
do. Well, you've probably already
heard me think it OK, but in the interest of maintaining that
middle ground here, how about you say it aloud and we'll go
from there? And how is that going to help
anything? You would be surprised how body
and mind works. Emotions just serve as a
middleman. Are you able to say?
I honestly, I'm not sure what happened on the mountain.
With Josh Nichols, I can't remember.
You can't remember. If I recall what the others said
in their reports, the kid hit you pretty hard over the head
with a piece of two by four. He did.
And concussions aren't anything to mess with Bass.
They will scramble your signal pretty good.
Sydney, I'm fine. Spoke in a way that is far from
fine, but okay. All right, I guess we're doing
this thing. There were two rounds missing
from my sidearm. Sitting.
I nicked the kid intentionally with a round.
To make a point. I didn't intend to ever kill
him, just rattle his cage. I don't remember firing a second
round. But everybody else on the
mountain heard it. And there were two rounds
missing when Zeke inspected the handgun and my mag.
Was too shy. Why don't we focus on what you
do remember versus what you don't?
We had just heard the beacon indicated a plane picked up our
distress signal. They were heading in.
Good. Go on.
I remember. The Sharp pain and that.
Queasy feeling in my gut. Everything went cold inside.
Inside of me, that is. After that scattered just bits
and pieces, even the digital recorder I had on.
The file is showing a deletion. Stay with it after queasy inside
feeling. What do you remember then?
Trigger saying Josh had run off, the helicopter was coming, then
I was running tracking. I'm following him, Josh, through
the snow. My head is pounding.
It's good. Stay with it following.
Yeah. I threw up a can of beans I just
had. I get back up.
I'm. He's talking to somebody.
Who's he talking to? Who else is there?
Nobody. Just him and I.
God, it's so hard to recall. You said your firearm was
missing 2 bullets. Gunpoint.
I had him. He's by this giant boulder on
the mountain. I'm telling him he only has
options. No, he he only has three option.
He's smirking at me. I And that's it.
And most of that I already remembered.
Most of it. The beans puking.
Yeah, I didn't I. Didn't remember that before.
I only just remember that now. Bass, I want to see you once a
week. Going for no fucking way.
I am not a head case. No, you're not.
Nor was I suggesting it. You're probably the sanest
individual on the station at the moment.
I put money that you may be the sanest person on this continent.
Okay. So then, why need to see me
every week, Bass? What Franklin told you before
was not an exaggeration. And this is going to be.
Hard to hear, but this place does have a balance to the ice.
It always has been. From the days of Shackleton,
Scott, Armiston and those that came so long before them.
This place operates on a sense of balance.
Something happened to you out there, something that, well,
wasn't well, it wasn't supposed to have happened.
External forces got in their way and after that interference that
balance has shifted. The outcome of that?
Whatever it was that happened, it caused this imbalance I.
Don't know if I follow you. Look, there is a sense of
contentedness here, but there is also guilt, Pride and humility.
Accomplishment and regret. Basic Ging and Yang.
A comparison. The amount of guilt you have on
you about this, Josh. Kid your boss.
Others. It wasn't ever supposed to be
here at this extreme. Some of that would have been
resolved while you were back in the world, but the plane
crashed, the guilt you and the others had to come back.
That's well that was. How can I put this?
It was off script you could say. You're Speaking of riddles, and
I don't follow. Well, I'm being very cautious.
Remember when I said anything you say?
Anything I hear, no matter the means, is confidential.
Yes, and well, let's just say that there is information I am
Privy to that makes this clearer, but I can't go into the
specifics. I won't betray that trust.
If I did, how would you ever trust me with what we discussed
or what I've heard from you? You said you can't hear
Franklin. I can't never have been then.
Who is the? Other part of this puzzle Her.
Him. Them.
I don't know, maybe Jenna doesn't really apply here.
What are you talking about? What are you saying?
Best I can hear the ice just the same as I can hear you.
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