autistic.wav
"Hi are you the doctor?"
"Well I'm the nurse."
"Is the doctor gonna see this boy?"
"Ah, I took care of him."
"Is that the best you can do for him - just give him a shot?"
"He's autistic."
"Autistic? Well what does that mean? Nothing gets through?"
"No it's just the opposite everything gets through. He has trouble with feelings and emotions so he gets very frightened and confused."
"Wait. I'm not gonna be able to question this boy?"
"Probably not."
dighimup.wav
"Congratulations. As of this morning you made it to the very top of our perk board. I don't have to tell you how profoundly pissed Lomax is. He's keeping a lid on it to cover his ass, but you don't have much time."
"Did you find out who the shooter is?"
"Whatever happened to "Good morning Tommy, how are you? Sorry about your car, it got impounded, you won't be able to get it for two weeks.""
"Did you get in trouble?"
"No I told him you stole it."
"Found him in the defense department databanks. His name is Peter Berelle, special forces."
"So lets bring him in."
"Can't, unless you want to dig him up. He's dead."
geekfctr.zip +1MB
"Sir, before Mercury went operational we ran a standard validation protocol. The works double sets of paired array super computers, frickin Velociraptor chewing at Mercury twenty four hours a day. Mercury came out unbent. Awsome sir it was finally a code that couldn't be broken but there was one last thing to check out the, umm, geek factor."
"Human beings will fool you some times so we thought it was important to..."
"So we slipped a message in the back of a puzzle magazine right in the middle of one of those egg head word games. We basically dared the amateurs to crack it."
"We were sure that no-one would ever call."
"But somebody did sir."
"His name is Simon Lynch, he lives in Chicago, he is nine years and he has deciphered a message written in the most sophisticated code the world has ever known, in a geek's puzzle magazine. I don't recall ever authorising anyone to put any message in any magazine!"
"That couldn't just happen the kid couldn't just pop it open..."
"Not only is he nine years old, he is handicaped, he is autistic."
"Yes that explains it!"
"So our two billion dollar code is an open book to people of diminished capacity?"
"No, no, sir. Autism isn't synonymous with dimished capacity. Autistic people are, they're shut off but it's not unusual for an autistic person to be a savant."
"Oh a savant!"
"Yeah, look he may not be able to actual decipher the code it might just appear to him."
"He didn't calculate anything, like he saw it. You know like those stupid pictures at the mall where you stare at them and you stare at them and whack all of a sudden you're looking at the statue of liberty."
"This is not a stupid picture at the mall. This is national security."
hopecu.wav
"Has it ever occured to you that maybe Kudrow will just shoot you on sight?"
"Yeah that has occured to me. If that happens you know what to do with these... Hope I see you later!"
kidnap.wav
"You kidnapped this kid from the hospital are you crazy?"
"I didn't kidnap this kid what are you talking about?"
"Lomax has been calling me every fifteen minutes, there's a warrant out for your arrest."
"I just killed a guy on the CTA."
"Oh Christ!"
"I had to - he was trying to kill us."
"How did this happen?"
"Somebody pulled the cops off the kid at the hospital, Tom. It's not a murder suicide, the mom and dad just got in the way. They're trying to get the kid. If he hadn't hid in that wall space they would have got him too."
"Stop it! Stop it, I cannot handle this paranoid conspiracy crap."
"Guess what. It is a conspiracy. Who pulled the cops off the kid? Did dead Martin and Jenny Lynch call up and say "Take my kid out of protective custody"? Bullshit Tom this is real."
"I don't give a f*** if it's real or not! If I don't call Lomax right now I'm an accesory to this."
"If you don't get on the phone right now and call Concorti (?!?) or the CTA you're a dumb cop."
misskid.zip +1MB
"What is this? It's supposed to be a missing kid."
"It is. These are the parents, looks like a murder suicide."
"So where's the kid?"
"Missing, remember? What are you doing here?"
"Well somebody called the FBI and the sent me. Go figure."
"No I meant what are you doing here."
"Working my way to the bottom, Jack. Just lik you."
"Kid's name is Simon. Neighbours say he's retarded."
"Why if he killed his family didn't he kill all of them?"
"Maybe he did the kid somewhere else - didn't want mom to see."
nsa.wav
"I think the FBI likes to call use No Such Agency."
"Why does the NSA want an nine year old autistic boy?"
"Because the human brain is still a mystery."
"What?"
"Look the Regan administration mandated the national security agency to generate a new code to protect American informants working for foreign governments. So we developed a super code, at huge expense, named it Mercury. We thought it was impenetratable."
"Are you telling me a nine year old kid cracked a government super code?"
"look it doesn't matter. He can read it. he might even be able to recreate it. That's why his life is in danger."
"The NSA is willing to have this boy killed to protect the code?"
"They may have already tried. I think my division chief, may have given orders... Look I'm just a cryptogropher, a nerd, I don't know what these people do. Maybe it's routine killing kids, maybe my boss is an..."
[Silenced gunshot]
personal.wav
"Would you mind if I told you something personal?"
"Yeah. I would Roger, I really would."
priority.zip +1MB
"I asked you not to handle the wine please."
"You know it's good to see you've got your priorities in order."
[Swig]
"That's better. You're not worried about murdering a nine year old boy but you're worried about this f***ing wine?"
[Smashing bottle]
"Here's the deal. I don't give the Senate Oversight Committee the carbon. They don't waste three years with their investigation running around wailing and moaning "How could this happen - in America?" while you have one of your spooks wax Simon Lynch."
"Or?"
"Or you do the only thing that'll guarantee Simon Lynch's safety. You or one of your superiors or the President of the United States, I really don't give a f*** who but someone is gonna go on national television an tell American that your billion dollar; uncrackable code has been cracked by a nine year old autistic boy."
puzzle.wav
"Look I have something very, very special. You like these puzzles don't you? Ok but not yet Simon. If I give you the puzzle book I want you to join in with the rest of the class."
puzzle99.wav
"Congratulations. You've reached the puzzle centre for solving one of our master puzzles you've won a two year subscription to the magazine of your choice. Can I please have your name, address and telephone number."
"You are a stranger."
"Excuse me this is the puzzle centre. Where did you get this number?"
"Puzzle nine nine."
"What did you just say? What did you just say? Who is this?"
"Simon, put down the phone honey."
"Simon, Simon, Simon wait a second please don't hang..."
[Hangs up]
simnhome.wav
"Mommy Simon is home."
"Look at me."
"Hi Mom."
"Hi honey. I missed you, come on inside."
wirecros.wav
"Why are you doing this Art? That kid isn't your responsibility."
"Whose responsibility is he? Look at him. Just like a regular kid right? One little circuit gets crossed, zap. Should have been smart, go to college, meet a girl, get married, have some kids, be cool."
"Are we talking about him Art or are we talking about you?"
