Chapter 16.11.2061 INTERROGATION ROOM 6 DETAINEE 14834475739 Appearance and identifiable markings: Dark blond hair, dark blue eyes, distinctive dimples, slight overbite, lean, muscular build, handsome (01:38) The detainee arrives at the interrogation booth. His hands are cuffed and linked to the table. AGT R and AGT H are the interrogators. A DoD deputy and DOC L (BSCT) are present. (02:09) AGT R: State your name. (02:12) DET: Chamelea. Or Leon. Either one works. You can call me Leon. (02:18) AGT H: Your real name? Detainee shifts and looks mildly uncomfortable. (02:23) DET: Robert Stahl. But if you want to find anything about me, you’ll use Chameleon. (02:31) AGT H: It’s just for the record, Robert. You are aware of why we’re here? Detainee nods. (02:37) AGT H: I’m going to be asking you questions now, you’ll answer them. You can ask for a lawyer at any point. Is that clear? (02:46) DET: Yes. (02:48) AGT H: Let’s start at the beginning. How did you join the agency? (02:54) DET: I was forcibly recruited. She found me. She told me they’d been looking for me. Which… I had to respect. There were certain… stipulations, but we made an agreement. It was beneficial for the both of us, and you know how it is in this world. (03:15) AGT H: How did she find you? Detainee shrugs, taps his fingers on the table. (03:20) DET: Don’t ask me. (03:22) AGT H: You visited the agency’s headquarters regularly. How did you get in? Detainee leans back. (03:30) DET: I don’t know how the others got in, I had a special pass made. You won’t find my voice or face or fingerprints in the system. It did take a little persuasion before I could make that happen. (laughs) I had a habit of showing up as a new person every day. That way they couldn’t pin me down. Safer for me, no additional information, nothing constant. And it drove them nuts. (03:57) AGT H: So you didn’t want to work for them? You weren’t loyal to them? (04:02) DET: (sigh) I mean… it’s an eat or be eaten world. It’s survival. I’ve been surviving for a long time. This time it just meant that I had to dance to their music for a change. (04:13) AGT H: What did they give you in exchange? (04:16) DET: Nothing. (taps fingers) As I said, there were stipulations, I didn’t exactly get a choice. (04:23) AGT H: What did they hold you on? Detainee leans forward and glances at DoD deputy. (04:30) DET: Do I have to say it? (04:32) AGT R: No, not right now. Did you stay because of Manco? (04:36) DET: No, I stayed because I couldn’t leave. Manco was just one of the cases. Well, he was the case. I did other things, but Manco was the hardest one, the one they couldn’t get without getting very close, very quietly. (04:51) AGT H: He was why they recruited you? (04:55) DET: Yeah, I think so. After the first time, when he went underground, they had to change their approach, hence… (gestures) me. (05:05) AGT H: Why were they interested in Manco? (05:09) DET: Why? (laughs) You screwing with me? (05:14) AGT H: I mean specifically. (05:17) DET: Well, I would list the usual suspects. Tax evasion, exploiting, oil deals, climate change denial, pills to sugar… (05:25) AGT H: We don’t need the list. There was no other reason that they were after him? (05:30) DET: As far as I know, yeah. (05:33) AGT H: What did you do for them? How did you work? (05:37) DET: Oh, I did everything. A.I.G.O. always had something cooking, and I was always working – one shortage you didn’t have to worry about. I had everything they needed. I could do anything, as anyone. (05:52) AGT H: What do you mean by anyone? Detainee shrugs. (05:56) DET: Anyone white. (05:58) AGT H: So you mean corporate espionage? Businessmen, escorts? Give us examples. Detainee slowly shakes his head. (06:06) DET: Anyone. Whenever, however needed. A businessman, millionaire, worker, homeless, escort, girlfriend, boyfriend, husband, wife, addict, officer, cleaner, janitor, bartender, student, teacher, anything. (pauses) Right now, I’m an ex-agent of Agency for Improving Global Order. Detainee leans back. (06:37) AGT H: Tell us about Manco. How did they tell you about him? (06:42) DET: They didn’t have to tell me. I knew he was on their radar. But she introduced me into the operation slowly. I did other assignments first, then a few months after joining she sat me down and gave me a file about it. (06:57) AGT H: What was in the file? (06:59) DET: Just intel about him. She wanted me to find a way to him. Profile him, study him, see where we could get to him, who could get to him. (07:11) AGT H: And did you? (07:12) DET: Yeah, through multiple people. None of them lead to anything though, always just someone working under him. We faced walls after the other. I started to think that a sex worker would be our best bet. You can’t distance call a sex worker. Or, you could, but… (07:29) AGT H: So you were to meet him through an escort service? (07:31) DET: No, no. That didn’t work out either. He bought me, from my aunt. (07:36) AGT H: Bought you… Detainee leans his elbows on the table and lowers closer. (07:41) DET: Yes, bought me, Mercy Wilders, from my aunt. (07:47) AGT H: How did Manco find Mercy? (07:49) DET: I don’t know. You’d have to ask that from the Com-Intel guys. I just created the life. (07:56) AGT H: And Mercy was a sex worker? (07:58) DET: No, no. She was just bought. My aunt made the deal. Mercy thought she was going to marry Manco. (08:08) AGT H: And you’re saying… that you were Mercy? (08:13) DET: Yeah. You can probably still find some pictures if you look: try @yourwildmercy. (08:22) AGT H: We’ll look into it. What happened next? Detainee leans back. (08:30) DET: We got to work. |
