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What is happening, y'all? Welcome, I'm back. Bring Wade. Bring Wade, where are you? Follow the [cough] One. Gas deployment Bring Wade, he's lost. But he's being before. Block. Use the Bring Wade. [cough] Block. Do you copy? Mayday. Where are you? I'm at the firefight. There's a helicopter we can use to escape, but you watch yourself. There's reinforcements here. Demyan's personal guard, by the looks of it. Thanks for the heads-up. Wolverine, control. Listen up. We have two hostiles on the move. Last known position, data center east. Drop on sight. No quarter. This will be fun.
They copy. They broke through our ballistic barrier. That suggests it's heavy weaponry. It's the man down. Just there. Watch the It's working. What happened? What Watch out. Watch it. What? Get up. What's he done? Out like a light. WOLVERINE. Why the hell have you got Where the hell have you gone? Back. Hostile is CHARGING A WEAPON. I see it. Right bloody there. FLUSH OH, YEAH, [__] shut those, please. Damn. I noticed that way too late. That makes this way, way more chill.
Oh, [__] Bond, still with us? You won't get rid of me that easily. Well, I'm glad to hear it. I'm almost at the flight deck. Get here as quick as you can. Do my best. Guess I get all the glory for myself. Target acquired. That better be the last of them. They just keep on coming, don't they? Oh, [__] Flush him out. FLASH BANG OUT. FLUSH HIM OUT. He hit me. He cleared through the team. Focus. Flush out. HE'S NEARBY.
IT'S JUST ME. THINK. Coast is clear. Moneypenny, if you're there, listen carefully. Oh, god. What he's covering up there is mistakes, and Damien is the key to prove it. Moneypenny, do you copy? Just push through. Can't stop. Cargo deck. You will die. I can do it. Can't be late. Let's go. Bond, I'm at the flight deck. What's your status? Popular as ever. Well, hurry up. Place is crawling with mercs. If they spot me, I'm done for. I'm sorry. I'll try to die faster.
Try your luck. Coast is clear. Got to keep going. NO MERCY, LADS. Got you. SUBJECT IS DOWN THERE. Probably should have been a lit little more uh gratuitous with the missile pen, but Out of road. Maybe I can hitch a ride. Error. Weight imbalance detected. Please vacate the loading area. Make me. Rescanning cargo. Stand by. Greenway, I'm near the flight deck. Get ready for lift off. Damn it. Got to hurry. Evening, fellas. Is this the way to the rooftop bar?
No? You hear that, Lawrence? The man's thirsty. Let's quench it for him. What the hell? [groaning] [screaming] [groaning] [screaming] Greenway, I'm almost there. Talk to me. Greenway, Bond. I'm holed up inside the helicopter. I need you to draw their attention while I raise the platform. How do I reach you? Your only chance is to jump across from the control room. And I won't lie. It's going to be tight. I wouldn't break cover. They'll shut the hangar doors to lock us in.
What if I don't make it? Go. Go to the control room, Bond. Clock's ticking. No, [__] Time's actually ticking this time. This ain't like the uh the airplane. I wouldn't shut the hangar doors to lock us in. What if I don't make it? Go. Hurry up, Bond. The control room. Where are you going? We need to finish this. Greenway. You were right, Bond. I couldn't have known, but I didn't even try. I never even looked.
We can't let him win. There is no we. Moneypenny, we need to round up Not here. Come on. Left. Now. I looped the security feeds in the lobby and the elevator. We don't have a lot of time. No, we don't. They're wiping everything at Web HQ. We need to send a team over there right now. Look, it's not that simple, James. What? We messed up. Going to Web's You don't do a thing like that without consequence. Consequences for Web? He's a very powerful man.
What's wrong with everyone? First, Greenway, now you. For Greenway, this is a whole different game. What he learned tonight changes everything for him. He doesn't deserve your anger. Well, perhaps not, but still What we did tonight changed the rules. Where are we going? You'll see. You're making coffee. Could do with a cup. No. Okay. We call it the null space. Whatever goes on in here never happened. No surveillance, not on any blueprint. It doesn't exist. If you hope to bury this, you're out of luck.
I don't care who Web is. We need to stop him. What we do is not up to us anymore, Bond. Is this M stalling? Where is she? I'll talk some sense into her. Be careful what you wish for. M, thank god we don't have much time. There's been a development. Sir Nicholas Webb sent me this. In case you're wondering, it is footage of you and Greenway assaulting Webb HQ. Two of my agents rogue on British soil. Well, that doesn't change the fact that everything. He is accusing you of terrorism. He CCs half the cabinet. As we speak, there are arrest orders with your names on them working their way through the system,
and my future's not looking much brighter. Well, we just have to show them what we found. don't be so naive. It's one thing that you broke into Webb HQ. It's another that you got caught, but leaving without proof? You couldn't have botched this any worse had you tried. But you're not handing me in. Of course I'm not. I'm sending you on a black op to collect the irrefutable proof we need to bring down the Webbs. I am putting a lot of trust in you. Don't you dare disappoint me. Moneypenny, go and finish the mission brief. Bond, you go and see Q. You're dismissed.
I told you I had it straight. Huh. And what about Thea? She's obviously compromised. This mission is strictly off the record, so you can't use it anyways. MI6 needs to shut it down right now. And then what? M needs to play her part in aiding apprehending her rogue agents. And Thea will assist. Yes. However, I'm taking a few pages out of 009's playbook. Meanwhile, you, Mr. Sinjin Smythe, do what billionaire playboys do best. Go to a luxury resort.
The trip booked a year ago. No one will suspect a thing. A luxury resort, you say? Sounds awful. So, we know Damian is heading to Vietnam. I've managed to figure out his destination, the exclusive resort, The Pearl. According to his social media, Sinjin Smith was really looking forward to his stay, but unfortunately for him, he bears a striking resemblance to you. And some odd mix-up with the permit for his private jet is now delaying his takeoff. I dare say he will stay grounded until you send word it's safe to clear up this misunderstanding. The Pearl. That might take some time.
Actually, it might. Without Thea, you're in for some good old-fashioned spy work. The old-fashioned way. So, it was felt like that robot was trying to get me. I'm like, "What are you doing?" I was following you. That's so [__] creepy. Don't trust the robots. In the zone, are we? Bond. Now, I say great work at Wade Industries. Well, the whole business is dreadful, of course, but silver lining, finally some real failure is not an option spy work. Living by one's wits, no safety net, gets the blood flowing, no? Right. Speaking of silver linings. Nice try, but you won't need a car where you're going. Besides, she's not ready.
I do have some gadgets lined up for you, though. Take a gander. Oh, and Waters left you a new service pistol and a suppressor, just in case. Try not to lose it this time. You know how it is, Q. Easy come, easy go. Take a look. I'm sure you'll find something to your liking. I mean, I think we're going to want to go in quiet. So, flash mine. Not to rush you or anything, but the police could knock at our door at any moment.
Just saying. No, yeah, I think that's Trigger is a small probably a disturbance, but the laser strap I can open things up with that, which is really nice. I haven't got to use the shockwave. Let's do the shockwave, laser strap. We have the mine. Yeah, look at that. You take good care of us, Q. Q, I've been meaning to ask, you ever heard of a ghost pattern? I'm no expert, but I believe it's a probability paradox. When one has a large enough data set, accidental patterns emerge from the chaos.
Coincidences that appear deliberate, random events that seem meaningful. If enough people slip on banana peels, it starts to look like banana peels are out to get us. Spot on. So, Sir Nicholas Webb. Fine line between genius and madness. Um Present company excluded, of course. You have a lock on Greenway? He was in a rough spot when I lost him. Greenway knows our playbook front to back. If he doesn't want to be found, there's not much we can do about it.
Look, Greenway has had the rug pulled from under him. Give him some space. How did we not realize that Webb was covering up Thayer's mistakes? Confirmation bias, I suppose. We saw what we expected to see. Thayer was supposed to be infallible, so no one searched too hard for evidence to the contrary. Thayer made us complacent and risk-averse. Hopefully, this whole side affair will serve as a wake-up call. You really are a glass-half-full person, aren't you? Well, depends on what's in the glass. Well, I'm ready to head out.
Front gate's too risky. You'll need to take the sewer exit. The sewer? Can't be helped, I'm afraid. Let me get the door for you. There. It's right through the wind tunnel. Just watch out for the big blue line. Are you kidding? Right. Good luck, Bond. Sorry about the shoes. So, tell me, James, are you familiar with the scientist Benjamin Kwan? I read about him, I think.
Some kind of green energy pioneer? Full marks. Neutrino voltaic energy research. Sadly, he died last month in Singapore under ambiguous circumstances. 3 weeks later, a solar geoengineering specialist died in Orlando, Florida. Circumstances equally ambiguous. Thayer said a pattern emerges. Indeed. Thayer flagged these seemingly unconnected deaths as consistent with the MO of an elusive terrorist, Caliban. A rabid extinctionist who believes that mankind is a cancer on the planet that needs to be purged. Sounds delightful. Safe to say this Caliban is not too keen on scientific progress.
What's it got to do with Webb? Here's the kicker. According to Interpol, Caliban's charred remains were recovered from a Mexican landfill. And according to forensics, he's been dead for months. Now, if this is true It means they have made another blunder. Another ghost pattern, yes. We believe Damian is in Vietnam to cover up this latest mistake. Likely, he plans to stage a copycat killing, making it look like Caliban is very much alive and kicking. Confirming Faye's original conclusion. Who's the target?
I'm afraid we don't know. That part is up to you. Mhm. So, I have to really lock in, listen in on conversations, figure stuff out. All right, time for a little Q&A. Who are we playing today, James? Smythe. S-E-N-G-I-N Smythe. And what do we do for work? We run our own company, same-day courier service called Go Get It. Launched it a year after turning our back on the music business.
Why would we do such a thing? Too many [__] and egos. Lovely. And Vietnam? Once a year, we hop on a plane and venture somewhere to recharge our creative juices. This year, when the dice rolled, Vietnam came up. Okay. I buy it. That's because I'm selling it so well. Time to die. There's the pier. And the welcoming committee. Time for getting character. All right. Well, let me dock. I think that this will probably flag a checkpoint for me so I can wrap things up.
Welcome to the pub, Mr. St. John Smith. That's St. John Smythe, my dear. Of course. The staff and I are very pleased to have you with us. This way, sir. You small me get. Well, you told me to get into character. Well, you are a natural, James. That's Mr. Smythe to you, my dear. I'm just getting started. Oh, man, I'm having a blast with this. Decent. Your villa is this way. We pride ourselves All right. Closing out here cuz it is 1:30 in the morning. I should probably go to bed. But that's uh it's like 3
days of recording knocked out. Good little push. Honestly, I'll probably finish the game when I wake up tomorrow cuz like now it's really got its hooks in me. But anyway. Thanks for coming on by and I'll catch you all soon with more.
