[The feed turns on to reveal a single steel blue eye fixed on the camera lens. The video then is turned away from her, steadily, and films for a precise three seconds a patch of ground two meters away. The camera is then turned back, this time slightly further back, allowing a woman to be revealed, curled blonde hair loose and untidy about her face
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That's odd of them to say. An downright lie, actually, unless there's a way out of the city that they haven't told us about yet.
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Perhaps you could explain in further detail.
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[and here's the tricky part that'll determine if he's going crazy or if this is ruse. he's just about ready to call strangelove out on this but wouldn't it be much better to turn her creation over on its head and demonstrate how many holes there are in its programming?]
Just out of curiosity, do you know someone named Jack?
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[This is where machines differ from real life. She's still meant to be undercover.]
You'll need to be more specific. Jack is a very common name.
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How did Jack lose his eye?
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A point four five from an SAA. Any further questions?
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[...UH.]
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when he speaks, it's urgently and apologetically.]
I apologize for that, but it was wholly necessary to confirm your identity before engaging you further. There are...certain people who've imitated the legendary Boss before in the past; very recently, in fact, so I wanted to make sure that it wasn't happening again. I'm sorry for that, ma'am.
[and then before he has a chance to lose his nerve,] You're in a city known as Siren's Port, somewhere in Canada. Did you make contact with anyone else?
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None of these questions reach her lips.]
There was a man who greeted me here, and I have made contact with others since then, through this radio.
[It seems a bit simple to call it a radio when it can do so much more than that. Communicator?]
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[There is the sound of a knife being drawn, and she presents it before the camera, turning it slowly.]
As you can see, we have already spoken.
[Which means yes, she's been stabbed and is carrying on this conversation as though there's nothing abnormal about it. Field dressings come in pretty useful, obviously.]
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at finality, flatly,] He didn't believe it was you.
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In 1964 I mortally wounded him but he did not die. He has been suffering for it ever since.
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