[Yes, keeping track of things by numbers, his inner teacher is almost giddy. Point 1 concerns him until she reaches point 4, but he's not going to start tearing anyone apart.
Point 3 gets a lot of focus in the way Skye probably didn't intend for it to. Middle aged cranky redneck jackass who gets frustrated like the rest of the world at large and doesn't thank people for bothering him or appreciate being bothered? He sounds amazing. That's a cold hard fact.]
Got it. [Maybe he's writing this down. Maybe he's just stowing it away in his head, but it seems like the least offensive thing to say.] So what do you think I can help you with, going from here? Is there something in specific you'd like for me to do?
[Other than see if Agent Schrader wants to go fishing.
["No," he wants to say. "No, I can't. You got any slain bodies to go with it? It's easier then."
Too bad that's 1) bullshit and 2) not what he wants out of life.]
There are several starting points here, I might be able to work with it.
I would call that significant, yes. If the name he's gone by is Heisenberg and that name hasn't been mentioned here, it leads into a few directions. He might have chosen a different name or no name, for one. But it also might be that it's not the same person at the helm and whoever it is knows better than to take on that name for whatever reason (fear, common sense, politeness, cowardice, respect, etc).
It's a ring, isn't it? Carried over from a previous ring, from the sounds of it? That would require some sort of group. It could be someone of moderate involvement in the original ring paving their own path here as much as it could be an outlier as much as it could be anything approaching a partnership. But you said the name before was Heisenberg, the name that hasn't come up. You didn't say if any name had come up to replace that. Has there been a name given out in any of this?
You know, it would make sense, actually. Your partner theory, that is.
Schrader showed me this notebook he found in one of his investigations back home. Belonged to a guy they found murdered. A guy named Gale Boetticher. It had all sorts of stuff in it-- poetry. Vegan recipes. And notes on how to cook the blue crystal. But the stuff kept circulating long after he died, so he couldn't have been Heisenberg. Maybe... he was the first assistant. But he was replaced.
Did Agent Schrader say they'd ruled it out that he was Heisenberg? Interesting find but ultimately a dead end?
[If whatever government had come to that conclusion already, that was easier to swim along with. Of course, it's totally possible that the government was involved in some way and this is going to never go anywhere other than confusing circles, but. Gotta take a chance sometimes.]
Sounds like a missed frame job.
[Sounds like somebody has a Goddamn ego the size of Mars tbh.]
I don't remember his exact words now. I'll need to go over the recording again. But it seemed like that at the time.
You think someone was trying to frame this Gale guy for being Heisenberg?
That doesn't make any sense, though. If that's true, why continue production afterwards? Surely the idea behind that would be to successfully frame him and then get the hell out of dodge.
I'm just shooting in the dark here, Skye. It rings as a possibility, but we're somewhat forced to take Agent Schrader's word on what their world made of it when it happened. You could shoot me that recording, if you want.
[Possibility, potential projection, same thing. Same thing!]
Do you want whoever's running this ring to know they're being investigated?
[She's named more than he would have let in on it without any of them, from what he knows, being in an actual group. If it's imPort related, then there's one source of shady back alley news that should get a sniff of this. Even if it's just a short mention, and Will has a direct line to God on that one.
He's not going to say that much without prompting, of course, and it's not a serial killer...yet.]
[Homework!!! Awesome. April probably won't think so, but too bad.]
Thank you. I'm going to hole myself up with this for the evening and see what there is to make of it. [That he's holing up with some booze as well goes unsaid.] I'll get back to you about it once I do. And just as a suggestion, if you're at the end of your rope? Take a break. Find something relaxing and spend time with it. Don't want to burn out.
Take the dog for a walk. Give the dog a bath. Go on a walk on your own. Take whatever bath you prefer. Have a night with your favorite comfort food. Find a local theater and see a show. I personally drink whiskey and make flies. I'm sure you'll find something. If you can keep your hands busy, I've always found it helps with keeping the mind a little clearer. If you can't turn the focus off, try diverting it to something else.
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Point 3 gets a lot of focus in the way Skye probably didn't intend for it to. Middle aged cranky redneck jackass who gets frustrated like the rest of the world at large and doesn't thank people for bothering him or appreciate being bothered? He sounds amazing. That's a cold hard fact.]
Got it. [Maybe he's writing this down. Maybe he's just stowing it away in his head, but it seems like the least offensive thing to say.] So what do you think I can help you with, going from here? Is there something in specific you'd like for me to do?
[Other than see if Agent Schrader wants to go fishing.
That is happening.]
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Apparently the guy goes by the street name "Heisenberg" in Schrader's world, but it hasn't come up here. I don't know if that's significant or not.
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Too bad that's 1) bullshit and 2) not what he wants out of life.]
There are several starting points here, I might be able to work with it.
I would call that significant, yes. If the name he's gone by is Heisenberg and that name hasn't been mentioned here, it leads into a few directions. He might have chosen a different name or no name, for one. But it also might be that it's not the same person at the helm and whoever it is knows better than to take on that name for whatever reason (fear, common sense, politeness, cowardice, respect, etc).
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Like a partnership. Only one isn't here.
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It's a ring, isn't it? Carried over from a previous ring, from the sounds of it? That would require some sort of group. It could be someone of moderate involvement in the original ring paving their own path here as much as it could be an outlier as much as it could be anything approaching a partnership.
But you said the name before was Heisenberg, the name that hasn't come up. You didn't say if any name had come up to replace that. Has there been a name given out in any of this?
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No code name that I've heard of.
You know, it would make sense, actually. Your partner theory, that is.
Schrader showed me this notebook he found in one of his investigations back home. Belonged to a guy they found murdered. A guy named Gale Boetticher. It had all sorts of stuff in it-- poetry. Vegan recipes. And notes on how to cook the blue crystal. But the stuff kept circulating long after he died, so he couldn't have been Heisenberg. Maybe... he was the first assistant. But he was replaced.
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Did Agent Schrader say they'd ruled it out that he was Heisenberg? Interesting find but ultimately a dead end?
[If whatever government had come to that conclusion already, that was easier to swim along with. Of course, it's totally possible that the government was involved in some way and this is going to never go anywhere other than confusing circles, but. Gotta take a chance sometimes.]
Sounds like a missed frame job.
[Sounds like somebody has a Goddamn ego the size of Mars tbh.]
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You think someone was trying to frame this Gale guy for being Heisenberg?
That doesn't make any sense, though. If that's true, why continue production afterwards? Surely the idea behind that would be to successfully frame him and then get the hell out of dodge.
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[Possibility, potential projection, same thing. Same thing!]
Do you want whoever's running this ring to know they're being investigated?
[She's named more than he would have let in on it without any of them, from what he knows, being in an actual group. If it's imPort related, then there's one source of shady back alley news that should get a sniff of this. Even if it's just a short mention, and Will has a direct line to God on that one.
He's not going to say that much without prompting, of course, and it's not a serial killer...yet.]
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[A couple minutes later, an attachment pops up on Will's comm. It's a digitized sound recording of this whole encounter with Hank.]
And I'd like to avoid that, if possible. Though, if they were alerted, how they react might be telling, one way or another.
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Thank you. I'm going to hole myself up with this for the evening and see what there is to make of it. [That he's holing up with some booze as well goes unsaid.] I'll get back to you about it once I do. And just as a suggestion, if you're at the end of your rope? Take a break. Find something relaxing and spend time with it. Don't want to burn out.
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[There it is again. Will, not Mr. G. She really is stressed.]
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Give the dog a bath.
Go on a walk on your own.
Take whatever bath you prefer.
Have a night with your favorite comfort food.
Find a local theater and see a show.
I personally drink whiskey and make flies.
I'm sure you'll find something.
If you can keep your hands busy, I've always found it helps with keeping the mind a little clearer.
If you can't turn the focus off, try diverting it to something else.
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