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Director Aaliyah Prescott with researcher David Karlovac.

Prescott: You haven't gone home in 48 hours David, what is going on?

David: We're close to something. We've identified several anomalous fragments of text, deviations from the originals, that look like they're connected to each other. 

Prescott: You haven't gone home David. Have you done a baseline today?

David: Yes, you know I have, you get Dr. Prasad's reports.

Prescott: I do. Why is he wrong David, you're not behaving like yourself.

David: I'm fine Aaliyah, I've crunched on projects before, what are you implying?

Prescott: You're getting obsessed

David: Of course I'm obsessed! I told, this thing isn't playing fair, with the fabric of…

Prescott: You know what obsession means around these things.

David: I'm FINE. I don't feel coerced, Dr. Prasad hasn't identified any coercion, the staff aren't seeing anything else.

Prescott: This feels wrong, David. Look at me. Tell me you're still you.

David: I'm still me. I just need to solve this, Director Prescott.

Prescott: I see. Tell me where we're at.

David: I've deciphered 42 articles so far, there are patterns emerging. There are fragments of text, both in the cyphered text, and the clear text, that seem to be communicating something.

Prescott: To you?

David: I think it's trying to deliver some kind of message. I keep seeing my name in there. Yours too. 

Prescott: In our transcripts? 

David: No, elsewhere too.

Prescott: What else

David: Unclear. There's something about an anomaly, and maybe a place or a thing? It's called Gavilan

Prescott: Correlation search results? 

David: Several landmarks, it was a family name at some point too. No hits in SCiPNET. We're still crawling it on the web.

Prescott: I'll alert Security and see if we can get eyes-on at the landmarks.

David: Thank you. I need to get back to it. I think I can do a few more today, then I'm beat.

Prescott: Get some sleep David, you need perspective. And probably a meal too.

David: Yeah, I think I'll get some ramen in the break room on the way back.

Prescott: I'll have Romano's send in something meatier too.

David: Thanks, yeah, that would be nice.

