Protagonists#

• Short, Lance - Foreign Service Officer (Γιάννης)
• Miller, Liam (Agent Dave / Jocko) - Naval Special Warfare Group One (SEALs) (Παναγιώτης)
• Lensing, Emma - Professor of Philology (Τάσος)
• Bennet, Wendy - Criminal Intelligence Analyst / Assistant Professor of Criminology (Κωνσταντίνα)

Making the Report (Sunday, August 28, 2016)#

The Old Investigation#

• The agents refer to the report pieced together by the Keith Baswell and Bob Dale of the Criminal Investigations Bureau, MSP.
• They provide additional information on Innokenty being a pedophile. Proof provided:
  • Photos of Innokenty found in Houghton’s house.
  • Kerry Houghton’s Diary. She is accused of being an accomplice and a drug addict.

Cornucopia Excavations#

• The unearthed body were the result of Ryan Innokenty’s and the other caretakers’ cruelty and madness.
• The unnatural properties of the 11 preserved bodies were the result of rare forms of bacteria and microbes.
• The stew is explained as natural chemical formed in the ground.

The Death of Kerry Houghton#

• The murder had personal reasons.
• Houghton was either an associate or an accomplish of Innokenty.
• The assailants were people who knew about what was happening at Cornucopia House.
• They are still to be found. There are currently APBs and BOLOs on them based on camera footage material.

The Children of Cornucopia House#

• There are no records from the children found in Cornucopia House. State bureaucracy and neglect are to blame.

Assigning Blame#

The report puts the finger on Maryland State Police, and subsequently on Velasquez. She claims that the DOJ investigators have a secret agenda, based on their initial non-sensical stories about the X-Files and UFOs.

Cleaning Up#

Pitzerelli wanted all physical evidence the agents possess from Cornucopia House brought in for shredding. He asks them to come back at the building at 18:00.

Theorycrafting#

The agents have a long chat about Pitzerelli’s potential involvement with the case. “He smells like the Stew, and he asked us to destroy it”.

Lance highlights his intentions to get to the bottom of things and find out what happened to the children from 2001, and whether there are other like those out there now.

Wendy collects blood from herself, Jocko and Houghton’s cat to test for anything unnatural. The lab tests come up with nothing worth mentioning. She will resume her attempts in the following day.

Shredding Evidence#

The follow evidence is presented, scanned, backed up and the destroyed:

• Lilian Bondarenko file.
• Files and folder of children currently known.
  • Samuel Ball (5)
  • Thomas Perez (3)
  • Conradin Hopko (6)
  • Elle Gable (3)
• Houghton’s HDD.
• Houghton’s medical documents.
• Hello Kitty folder.
• Innokenty’s Ledger from Cornucopia House.

Asking Questions#

The G.H. Fallon Federal Building’s subbasement houses a high-capacity Formax shredder that shreds confidential documents for the building’s departments. An early waste pickup was arranged by Pitzerelli, but a series of mishaps ensues when the dump truck with insufficient clearance strikes a loading dock sign. The sign’s chain damages a sprinkler pipe, flooding the basement, and the debris knocks the shredder off the dock. It crashes, scattering shredded paper and debris amid the chaos. The truck driver is linked to “Cat’s Paws Shredding Services,” a logo that feels unsettlingly familiar.

Among the chaos, agents find eerie, blood-red-highlighted words on scraps of paper, hinting at an unnatural presence who gives them the chance to “ask”, “know” and “become”

• Wendy:
  • Q: What do you want?
  • A: “serve”
• Lance:
  • Q: Why is this all happening?
  • A: “hungry”, “you”, “kill”, “feed”
• Jocko:
  • Q: What are you?
  • A: “endless”
• Emma:
  • Q: What do you want from us?
  • A: “kill”

Jocko’s sanity is put on the test, and as he enters a state of fugue, he experiences a vision of a dark-skinned man in ancient Egyptian garments, amongst other warriors, embracing him warmly and uttering the word “Naachahhaat.”

Pending threads#

• Almudena Velasquez
• FBI Case file 07-195121
• Crystal Killian (Miami)
• Franklin Price (former case worker)
• Elle Gable
• Samuel Ball / Becky Marshall (mother) / Clarence McLeod (father)
• Thomas Perez / Cunningham family
• Kerry Houghton’s murderers’ facial recognition
• “Naachahhaat”