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-He did not miss the morning news. Great. Asks me about the thing they found and Kornfield fesses up like AN IDIOT. Chief tells me that I need a permit to transmit radio. Great. Add that to my list of tickets, please.
-Oh thats basically all he says. Adds a little bit about the cat being out of the bag on the park connection, but thats it. I thought for sure I was going to get yelled at. Aw yeah no parking tickets for this guy.
-I share my info with the chief. Not because Im afraid of getting more parking tickets heh heh heh no not that at all. Just being a good citizen.
-For some reason Kornfield omits the white van info. I hand over the tapes though so maybe the chief can find it himself.
-He gives me some info, too. Each car they found at that park was tuned to the same radio station. 88.5 CXM. THE MORNING HITS AND THE EVENING HYPNOSIS is their slogan, so someone shouldve pieced that together earlier.
-Whoa Anna has info on 88.5 CXM. It is the college radio station and there is a late night program shes fond of called The Darkest Hour. They tell beautiful and haunting stories. Got it so basically Are You Afraid of the Dark?
-Any of those stories involve driving to the park and disappearing, out of curiosity?
-So I bring that tidbit to the chief and hes like yeah I know we didnt find any foul play. Damn.
-Chief: My wife listens to that program all the time. And shes been missing since 1953 so HEY WAIT JUST A MINUTE.
-I get a page (is that the right verb?) from Ty and he tells me I have an install over at Alfalfa Tower. That is the worst tower name Ive ever heard of, but ok.
-Well I go to do the install and some weird writer comes out to talk to me about aliens for half an hour. And the old unit they had is pretty new and in perfect condition. Im beginning to think this was a set up, guys.
-This guy sure loves talking about aliens. Hey can you move out of my light Im trying to work.
-Guy: Whatever happens, John, you cant denyIts brought tremendous hope to the community. The disappearances? Are you sure? You guys feel hope? Oh boy this string of missing people sure makes me hopeful for a future with low property costs because of no one being around to buy anything.
-Guy: With hope you can truly do anything. You can elevate an entire city. Excuse me who the hell are you and is it too late to run away screaming?
-He goes on to tell me he thinks I let a lot of people down with my interview. Ok. Coooool. John how fast can you install a key pad because we really need to get out of here.
-Guy: You see, John, they know what happened to you. They care about what you have to say. Mm hm. Sure. So what are you mad about?
-He wants me to stop with my conspiracy theories and stick with the alien stuff. Im not sure that sentence has ever been uttered before, but ok.
-Hes upset I put the idea of a serial killer in their head. Did I do that? I dont remember doing that.
Also this guy is clearly a serial killer trying to hide his murders behind alien abductions isnt he?
HEY TALK LESS ABOUT SERIAL KILLERS THERE ARE NO SERIAL KILLERS ITS ALIENS YOU GET ME. Yeah man I get you I get you just please let me see my friends again, ok?
-John: Wow. Sort of a strange guy. Oh, you think?!?!
-Well he leaves and it is now Saturday. I check the menu and there are two days beyond this still, so I got until Monday to solve everything and hopefully not get murdered by clearly a serial killer guy.
Wow the park is PACKED. Someone build a UFO replica thing in the background. Pretty sure you guys have guaranteed whatever is going on is going to stop unless this alien spaceship has a Uhaul attached to it for all the overflow they're going to get.
-Anna is here! She brought her friend Kess, who looks a bit dopey.
-John gets why Anna wants to be here with all the people. He says the park has a good energy. And probably an unrelenting BO problem.
-He wishes he had something good to share with her. That shes believed his story from the beginning. She happened to be 12 at the time, and it seems kind of weird to be telling a 12 year old about your harrowing abduction story, Kornfield, but ok.
-Kornfield: What do you think Kess? Kess: I dont know. Ah yes you got roped into your girlfriends weird UFO hobby too, huh?
-The tower is now empty, but I can check the directory inside and I see theres only one company here: Gannet. So weird guy works for Gannet. Good to know.
-I think of using the Garnet info on the phone booth outside the mall, but that doesnt work. I then think of trying to call Lee with the Lee info and it does work! Apparently his lease is out but theres some new space on the other side of the mall hes considering. Intersting
-Also pretty cool this puzzle has been sitting unsolved for a couple of days and I can just do it now. Im curious if things change at all or if this was just luckily the first day I could call Lee.
-The sign for the lottery at the mall has been replaced by an in memoriam thing about Henry Alton. Kornfield comments hes not a handsome man. Hey man stop bullying the dead guy!
-Hm. Interesting. John comments there are a lot of dates on this thing, and I use the 1953 missing people note and find someone else tied to Alton died that year. A Ruth Pike, who he named the garden in this mall after. That seems like a coincidence more than anything, but it uses up the note and gives me a Ruth Pike note instead, so it is clearly doing something!
-I can also try to use the matchbook on it, but Kornfield says he wont set it on fire. Hey man I was just trying to see if that symbol appeared anywhere! Dont you blame your arson thoughts on me.
-Actually there is different dialogue when I look at Lees store today. Something about it being empty and cleared out. So maybe this was the first day I could call him and I just got lucky.
-Police Chief is apparently in hot water with the feds. Theyre not happy with how hes handling things. Yeah, 30+ missing people tend to raise eyebrows, I guess.
-Police Chief: They dont like our response to the footage. They dont think were taking it seriously. Well every time I come in here youre sitting reclining with your feet on your desk and as far as I can tell Im doing most of the investigative work for you. Somaybe theyre right?
The police chief is still not convinced the sightings people are seeing are really a UFO. Lieutenant Daniels has a reasonable take. It could be a dirigible. Got it so the unidentified flying object isnt an unidentified flying object, but actually some sort of flying object, the specifics of which you havent identified yet.
-Do you guys see why the feds are mad at you guys yet?