-some of these questions might be difficult to answer but just take your time and let us know if

you need a break okay, Clay you´re here today to set the record straight about your father but first
this has been a really rough year for you with the accident how are you coping?

-it’s been hard, in like a second everything changed , people come up to me and they tell me that I
´m brave like this was a choice ,like I’m gonna get better but that´s not how it works ,this chair
feels like a goddamn prison and I´m not sure what the hell I´m supposed to do my dad would know
,that’s the thing he was always there for me that is why can’t give up I got to do everything I can
,to find him, that´s why I´m here ,that´s what all this is for

-Costumer support, representative, representative I´d like to reopen my account well it´s
technically my mom´s account but she is cool adding me back on, mom they need to talk to you

-what’s up Henry?

-keep looking for his father, and to come forward with any information that might help authorities

-my dad´s not a quitter he´d never run and I know someone out there knows something, knows
what really happened to him and I´m not gonna stop until the truth comes out whatever it takes

-excuse me

-welcome to Surf´n Pizza where we surf up the best pizza in up state of New York Hang loose and
how can I help you today?

-I know what I saw

-we want to believe you Ms. Hulce trust us the department´s suffered enough embarrassment

-were you drunk?

-I´m sorry?

- or high perhaps?

-eight shots from your service weapon, nobody in the road though you called it in, no footprints
just you, alone on a country road you were either intoxicated or you were hallucinating

-I was not drunk, I was not high sir, I know it might be difficult for you to believe but

-you know what you saw noted

-this isn´t the first time you´ve been called for review, correct?

-is the Ortez Mackey case relevant here? We´ll have to see but a situation like this merits a second
look, now is there anything you´d like to say before we dig deeper? thank you for your candor

-I swear it´s like someone is fucking with me

-why would we anyone in this quaint little town want to mess with you sheriff?

-there´s something deeper going on with this Bill Boone shit I

-got to wait for the snow to melt, if Bill was dumb enough to escape through those woods, it’s
more than likely somebody´ll find his body thawing out no sense in us trying to track him down
before then

-at the Coles house I found new blood evidence

-what kind of new?

-Bill Boone´s blood in the dining room

-you confirm that with the lab? Coles woman never said anything about a struggle

-exactly

-how come I didn´t see the blood report

-because I found it after we wrapped the crime scene I expedited the sample to an independent
lab

-you broke chain evidence?

- a new warrant would´ve taken days

-if the board finds out about this after you went all Wyatt Earp on your cruiser? shit

-I know how it looks

-you sure, you aren´t the person fucking with you?

-what are my options here?

-to keep your job? cash in every favor you got and then star praying to the holy patron, saint of
kissing ass

-I don’t see a button for that maybe the promotion expired?

-you new here, you seem new

-no, I´ve actually worked here for twenty year

-try another one

-another what?

-code

-Janet

-Grady thank god, this girl can´t seem to find the discount code

- that´s all right well, let´s see here, it´s a… it’s this button right here it says my favorite costumer,
would be a twenty-six fifty-three please

-finally

- careful on those icy roads

-yes, you too, you too

-bye

-bye see you, she is at least top three most horrible costumers

-I really hope I don’t meet the other two

-I´m one of them so

-are you? You know that makes sense you do seem terrible

-so, don´t get creeped out or anything but I just do I know you? like I feel like I know you from
somewhere and I´m just trying to place it

-you know

-sorry, later

-welcome to surf N´ pizza where we surf up the best pizza in upstate New York hang loose and
how can I help you today?

-we need to talk now

-I’m at work

-so, take a break, where are you with the truck?

-I don’t know, nowhere? I got in it and then I was instantly back at the trailer park so nowhere
seems right

-you can’t let what´s going on in your head control what happens to your body

-well if that’s all

-you need to get in the truck control your emotions long enough to stay in the truck, it’s the only
way that this gets better

-I’m sorry what the fuck do you think I´ve been doing? I´m spend every free fucking moment I have
in that stupid garage so I just I can’t I didn´t I did not ask for this

-It´s unfair I know no one gave us that choice

-My break is over

-Henry meet me at the garage tomorrow we´ll do this together

-this one´s interesting

-I could see you there

-hon we got lots of extras from the college fair, for henry

- is this the school that you´re gonna visit? it’s a pretty campus
-no that is one of my backups, this is where we´re going Colgate Megan´s giving us a tour it’s not
MIT but they´ve a strong Bio program

-here´s one from a good art school, maybe Henry can get her groove on there

-honey how was work?

-so much fun

-what´d your boss say? about taking the weekend off to visit Colgate with me and Townes

-I forgot to ask

-that’s okay we could all go together and look at some schools in the spring, make a trip out of it

-Henry are you bleeding?

-I just crashed my bike but it’s not a big deal

-why didn’t you call us, one of us would have picked you up

-its fine

-Henry wait

-Mom is fine I just want to go to bed

-I don’t want you riding your bike to that pizza place, it’s too far, from here on you need to ask for
a ride

-are you fucking serious?

-Henry

-I got this job to help out now I´m being punished for it?

-this is about your safety, you´re out there alone something could happen

-what´s gonna happen to my mom? right, great good talk, what?

-did you really forget, ask off work?

-does it matter?

-I know that you´re dealing with this job and the school and everything, but maybe getting out of
Reston and would be good for you

-what are you doing?

-what do you mean?

-you want to go to Colgate, and major in biology or whatever? That´s fucking great awesome I´m
glad that you get to plan your life out so perfectly, but you don’t need to come up here and rub it
in

-that’s not what I´m doing

-don’t you´ve a suitcase to pack?

-I got this for you

-meet at your house after school ?

-yes, but if you´re late I will leave without you, the only reason you are accompanying me on this
trip is because my parents don’t like me driving long distances by myself if it were up to me I
would go alone ,pack one bag Megan´s dorm room is small and no music in the car or food plan
your meals accordingly

-Townes are you okay? why are you being like this?

-I´m not being like anything I´m simply stating in facts

-Have you ever seen Mork and Mandy? it’s about an alien that comes to earth it was one of the
only American shows on Tv. In Rumania it´s how I learned English for the most part the alien had
that catch phrase “nanu,nanu” for a long time I thought that´s how Americans greeted each other

-are you having a stroke?

-just a story, your turn

-I mean I don’t get what you want

-tell me, a story

-well I´m supposed to be in statistics right now but instead I skipped school to hang out in lawn
chairs with a fifty´s I don’t know however old you´re man, what is this? are you trying to distract
me?

-no, just reminding you, you are a person who had a life before what happened, and you´ll have
one after, the first concert I ever went to Ramones Auckland nineteen eighty-nine

-Foo fighters fifth grade

-my favorite holyday as a kid was saint Nicholas day, He left chocolate in our boots

-Halloween same reason without the boots

-that´s who I was named after a saint

- when I was like eleven my mom dated a guy named Henry

-before I came to Rest and I would have said Primm Nevada, was the shittiest place on earth

-I once found this scratcher on the ground of this crappy apartment complex where, we used to
live I got fifty bucks and I paid off our gas bill I´m never won anything since

-friend of mine once told me fish are supposed to be lucky, I still believe him, you´re more than
what happened in this truck, remember you´re in control you´re making it move I am gonna get in
okay?

-okay
-tell me another story about time you felt safe

-I don’t

-whatever pops into your head

-me and my mom we were driving there is a fair on the side of the road

-okay

-there was a merry go round and, it’s like really hot in here claustrophobic

-the fair was outside right?

-it was in a field

-good, so it was an open space, open, like your hands, open your hands

-okay, that hurt, I can´t, fuck

-you sat in the truck for one minute and forty-two seconds and you´re still here, I know it’s hard,
the guilt, it’s not your fault, we´ll try again tomorrow

-here I´m strong man twisting cap off tiny bottle for woman who is looking at me with such anger,
what happened to your meds?

-they didn’t give me enough to start refills are too expensive, no I´m fine these are extra strength

-you know your daughter has her own pharmacy upstairs

-my god could you imagine

-I´m just saying

-wait, where are you going?

-Stu threw me some shifts for his plowing company so enjoy your peace and quite

-no, the peace and quiet driving me nuts, come on I´m just talking to myself all day, maybe we
could get a dog or something you think talking to a dog would feel different?

-I don’t know I´ve only ever had a cat, but you know what the girls are gonna move out and this
place is, is gonna be pretty quiet so maybe we get a dog then

-well that´s assuming Henry goes to collage

-why wouldn´t Henry go to college?

-well maybe she doesn’t need it, she is different, she is smart she could figure it out on her own

-it’s important she needs an education

-well if that´s what she wants

-so, you don’t want her to succeed, you know it’s hard without a college degree you know that
-excuse me?

-I didn´t mean it like that I just want Henry to have opportunities that’s all

- so do I

-I´m just saying that Henry isn’t self-motivated like Jenna you just, you got to give her a push in the
right direction

-so, I got to push Henry into collage so she can be more like Jenna so she doesn’t end up a failure
like me ?

-you know what I mean

-no clearly, I don’t

-you know how Henry is

-apparently no, so please keep telling me what my daughter needs

-look I can’t do this right now I got to go we´ll talk later

- fine cause´ you know what´s best

-this is my bed well its actually tammy cho´s bed but she never here on account of having two
boyfriends, so when I visit it’s my bed, you´ll sleep on the floor

-is that Megan girlfriend?

-Darcy

-how long have they been together?

-five months I like her so; I don’t mind if their never break up, Megan brought her home for thanks
giving

-so, they´re like a real thing

-yes, but they´re not as serious as Zoë and me we´ve been together over a year

-but you still haven´t met yet

-obviously we´ve met we know each other very well

-no, I mean face to face

-that doesn´t affect how well we know each other or how we feel about each other

-how could that possible be true?

-you see Zach face to face every day how well do you know him? what is his favorite movie or his
favorite color what is his zodiac sign?

-that’s stuff doesn’t matter

-okay does Zacks have any allergies those matters; they can be life threatening
-the dark crystal, yellow, Gemini, walnuts

-okay well, whatever at least I know for sure that Zach is a real person for all you know Zoe could
be some crazy person playing a trick on you everything she says could be a lie

-Zoe is not a liar, we what we have is special, we don’t need public displays of affection or some
overcrowded dance to prove we love each other, she is real

-Townes?

-she is real

-Townes? you okay I got your snacks, you good? I´m glad you could come I bet it´s nice

getting out of Reston for a minute

-Mrs. Dale Hi please come in, have a seat on the couch

-you bake?

-yes, well I’m working to get that handshake for Paul Hollywood, you watch the great British
bakeoff?

-no

-okay I owe you an apology what I said to you before was out of line I know that we both want
what is best for this town despite our differences I think we are on the same side

-I heard about your troubles at the station Ms. Hulce is that why you asked me here ?

- actually, I wanted to, talk about Bill Boone when Bill cut his deal with the D.E.A. your husband
wasn´t part of his agreement if he hadn’t passed away that day he would have gone to prison,
Bill sold him out I´m concerned that my troubles might negatively affect this investigation

-do you think you´re the only one who could bring him in?

-I´m the only one who is motivated, Bill has a lot of connections in this town he employed a lot of
people not everybody wants to see him behind bars

-It´s cheap to use my husband´s death to leverage sympathy, miss Hulce even for you, you must be
desperate

-okay, look please Mrs. Dale

-but you were right I do want what´s best for this town and I´ll make sure that your replacement
finds Bill for both of us

-Yahtzee, shit no Yahtzee I always say Yahtzee preemptively just in case but mostly because it
annoys Townes

-I´ve to go to bed

-Townes we´re still playing

-I said I’ve to go to bed

-what about best three out of five? that´s what we always do

-I´m at a ten and a half hour sleep deficit this week and I need to start making up for it

-but its only seven thirty

-and I´d like to make up three and a half of those hours

-Townes is something wrong?

-I need to put my pajamas on now

-okay, how about you catch up on your sleep and Jenna faith you can come with me to Darcy´s she
´s having some people over

-I don’t want to intrude

-no, you´re not it´ll be fun, I promise, these are my people okay

-cool

-cool

-okay you sure you don’t need anything?

-I already told you what I need, tell Darcy I say hello

-so, you get paid to hang out?

-I like to think of it Like I´m on call like fireman or an EMT something like that

-that’s a totally apt comparison

-you want a pep-pep? They´re really yummy

-I’m gonna pass

-so, I think I figured out where I know you from, you were at some rich kid´s party I delivered to
right? you asked me for weed

-I’m not really big into parties or smocking so I think you got the wrong girl

-my bad, here try that

-thank you

-but you? you do go to Reston, right? I went to Lincoln thank you for asking, I mean I only kind of
heated it and now I´m over at SUNY but I’m saving up to transfer out of the state so, you´re
probably wondering, where right? I’m thinking somewhere warm you know I´d love to say
California but I´ll probably end up in like Florida, you know off-brand California

-why dream big when you can dream medium

-what can I say I´m a realist, what about you?

-what?

-Do you know where you want to go?

-to school? you know Colgate? I mean it’s not my first choice but they have a really good Biology
program

-Biology? That’s I just I didn´t really peg you as a science nerd, that´s cool

-that´s me

-okay Henry

-I thought you couldn´t come

-You need a drink, come on

-space is an illusion and I think you´re too but I still love you, do you ever feel like you could be a
human but you could also by an octopus?

-isn´t she so talented?

-eight legs are better than two imagine how far you could go

-I mean the sounds are like so good

- the lights are blinding has anyone see in my medicine? here it is

-I´ll be right back okay?

-I couldn´t help but notice that you are not affected by the performance

-no

-I mean this is some deep emotional expression it´s like poetry really tell me who do you think is
the most influential poet of our time? I would say the late Mr. Shel Silverstein are you familiar with
his work ?

-yes, but I´m a Silverstein purist nothing after where the sidewalk ends

-I’m Kate

-Jenna

-I always have fun at these parties but sometimes the performances art poetry songs styling, goes
over my head which I guess isn’t surprising for a geology major

-you´re in science department?

-I am

-I want to major in biology

-that also isn’t surprising and I´ve only know you for like two minutes, did you want another
drink ?
-sure

-cool

-you´re the systems analyst manager?

-Sam

-am I not what you imagined? you were hoping for a blonde? I´ve had some of the best foods on
the world but this? This is fucking delicious I mean the artificial cheese just like melt in your mouth
actually it kind of sticks, where is your friend?

-she is nearby, but first I´ve prepared a series of question that if you answer to my liking

-no, we agreed you´d bring Henry that was the deal

-I told you she is close

-bullshit, I´ve put my life on the line meeting you here, do you get that?

-but you contacted me, you warned me, us

-well it was a weak moment of self-reflection or a death wish either way it was a mistake

-cleartek is cleartek the “they” you warned me about?

-where did you get that from your subway video?

-the geneticist from the video worked for them, I´ve compiled a list of their employees and

-that´s cute you made a list, Kid, cleartek is a shell corporation within a shell corporation within a
shell corporation, turtles all the way down.

-okay then we need to find the Kingpin at the center of this criminal empire, Kingpin is a Marvel
comic villain

-okay don’t insult me, okay? I know who the Kingpin is Miller´s born again was a masterpiece of
modern literature the only difference is, this is real fucking life I worked for these people and I still
have no fucking clue who is in charge they are ghosts

-what about the teleporter from the video? if we find him maybe we can team up

-he is dead

-I don’t understand

-the guy in the photo you sent

-Nikolai that is his first name, I don’t know his last name yet but

-he killed them

-no, that’s not possible he is helping Henry that can’t be true

-look at me these people they don’t help okay they manipulate

-Dom? they brought him in when he was a kid, he was your age they promised him they could get
rid of his seizures, instead they tortured the shit out of him until he became something he never
wanted, now I don’t know what this guy wants with Henry but it’s nothing good

-no

-for fuck´s sakes I have got some ribs coming help yourself

-why did you come here if you´re not I ´ve questions

-okay, honestly, I was hoping a teleporter would come here and save my sorry ass get me off the
grid way off you know? but my friend is dead and you didn’t bring yours, so good luck kid

-first the magic school bus

-o my god I loved that show

-the one where they go inside the kids’ body?

-and then he sneezes them backout I still dream about it

-okay but really

-but really my grandma used to take me and my sister into the city on weekends to go to the
museum of natural history and I remember it just blowing my mind, it still blows my mind okay
you go, what is your nerdy science chick origin history?

-mine isn´t as good as yours

-tell me

-okay, you know Marie curie?

-of course

-okay so it all started in the fifth grade I had this project where I had to dress up as her and make a
speech my mom made me this dress that was, okay honestly, it was hideous but I looked just like
her

-so, you were in love with Marie curie?

-she was the first woman to win the novel prize she was the first human ever to win it twice, okay?
and she discovered radium, she invented X-ray machine to help soldiers and she did all of her
research out of like of a literally

-was that not okay ?

-I should find Megan, Townes I need you to come get me I can’t find Megan and I don’t know my
way back to the dorm

-Jenna, I need your help

-what do you mean?

-it’s wrong it’s all wrong I messed up

-where are you?

-he´s been a dick ever since he had foot surgery

-I literally told him I can work two to four Monday through Friday and he scheduled me all the
hours except those

-Cleo?

-hi

-what´s going on?

-I can explain I just

-what?

-it’s always been Henry and me, you know? the two of us no matter what this idea of her going off
to college or whatever she is gonna do this leaving it just it kills me you know a little bit and I know
that that´s selfish and it’s not fair to her , and it’s not fair to you it´s probably not fair to me and
then here you are you´re this person who calls me on my shit and I´m not used to that I´m , I
mean not in, like the kind and thoughtful way that you do it I mean you and me we are very
different and maybe that’s okay I can learn for you I don’t even know maybe you could even learn
something from me and maybe our girls will be better off for it I just wait let me finish I´m not
used to having a partner not like you are to me ,you had Elizabeth but I did everything by myself
you know? for better or worse with Henry and you´re right she and Jenna they´re gonna leave and
that´s the way it is and that´s the way that it should be ,and what I´m trying to say is when that
happens I want to be here with you

-okay

-okay, so Thomas hope would you do me honor of smoking this joint with me?

-always, always

-this is to mask the smell

-I got it

-I also have taquitos and pizza rolls in the oven

-You know I´m right about Bill

-I´ll do everything I can, within the confines of the law

-Townes, what happened?

-we can’t help her

-it’s okay we´ll figure it out, all right?

-how long?
-four minutes

-tell me more about the fair with your mom you said it was in a field there was a Merry go round

-Henry

-you had to have tickets to get on the rides, my mom was there watching me

-hi, baby

-calm down

-please, please

-don´t fight it, take the good with the bad

-how long?

-doesn’t matter, how do you feel?

-safe, what now?

-try going somewhere

-I didn’t know I could do that

-I didn´t either

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