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This Chatroom KILLS People -- SOLVED Mysteries, Episode 2 · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: messed up that British courts have banned all media outlets
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Speaker 1: from ever revealing the true names of the people involved.
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Speaker 1: As such, the names you're going to hear today have
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Speaker 1: all been made up. But before we get into today's story,
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Speaker 1: let's get into today's story. On June twenty ninth, two
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Speaker 1: thousand and three, a fourteen year old boy named John
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Speaker 1: and his best friend, a sixteen year old named Mark.
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Speaker 1: We're walking in this back alleyway behind a row of
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Speaker 1: shops in Manchester, England.
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Speaker 2: Mark had asked.
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Speaker 1: John to go back there, to which John was a
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Speaker 1: little bit confused because it was just a dead end
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Speaker 1: back there, but he went back there anyways because he figured,
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Speaker 1: you know, Mark must have a reason. And so they're
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Speaker 1: walking along this alleyway when Mark suddenly comes to a stop.
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Speaker 1: Then he turns to face John, and John's looking at
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Speaker 1: him inquisitively, and Mark just reaches out and grabs him
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Speaker 1: by the shoulder before pulling out a huge knife and
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Speaker 1: drives it into his stomach and says, I'm sorry, bro
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Speaker 1: pulls it out again, drives it into his chest before
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Speaker 1: releasing it and letting John fall to the ground. As
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Speaker 1: soon as John hits the ground, he looks up at
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Speaker 1: Mark and he says, you're killing me, and Mark says,
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Speaker 1: I had.
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Speaker 2: To do it.
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Speaker 1: If you knew all the details, you would understand. And
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Speaker 1: so after only a couple of minutes, John goes quiet,
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Speaker 1: and he's laying still on the ground, and Mark would
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Speaker 1: stand there just waiting for about twenty minutes to ensure
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Speaker 1: that John really was dead, before calling authorities and claiming
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Speaker 1: some madman had snuck up behind them and attacked his
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Speaker 1: best friend, and you've got to send an ambulance as
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Speaker 1: fast as you can. When the ambulance arrived, to Mark's horror,
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Speaker 1: they were able to keep John alive and they were
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Speaker 1: able to get into a hospital where he nearly died
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Speaker 1: twice on the operating table, but he ultimately would make
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Speaker 1: a full recovery. And when John was well enough to speak,
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Speaker 1: he would tell police that Mark is the guy who
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Speaker 1: attacked him, but he had no idea why. When Mark
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Speaker 1: was confronted with these allegations that he was the one
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Speaker 1: who attacked John, he quickly confessed and the police thought,
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Speaker 1: you know, this is a strange case, but pretty open
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Speaker 1: and shut, and they arrested Mark for attempted murder. When
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Speaker 1: investigators began digging into the motive behind this attack, they
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Speaker 1: along with Mark, were not prepared for the totally bizarre
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Speaker 1: story that unraveled. The judge in this case would say,
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Speaker 1: well schooled fiction writers could not come up with the
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Speaker 1: plot of this real life story. And so this crazy
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Speaker 1: story starts four months before the stabbing in February of
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Speaker 1: two thousand and three. In February of two thousand and three,
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Speaker 1: Mark was a sixteen year old student who was also
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Speaker 1: a part time dishwasher at a restaurant near his home
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Speaker 1: in Manchester, England. Mark had ok grades, but even by
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Speaker 1: his own account, he was nowhere near an academic.
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Speaker 2: In fact, he was quite dim witted. He was very
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Speaker 2: close with his family, who all lived.
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Speaker 1: In a very modest home in a very modest neighborhood.
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Speaker 1: By all accounts, Mark was living a very ordinary life.
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Speaker 1: That year, Mark discovered an online chat room fourteens in Manchester, England,
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Speaker 1: and it was designed to make.
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Speaker 2: Friends and talk about fashion and sports.
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Speaker 1: And initially when he logged into this chat room, he
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Speaker 1: was just watching, he wasn't really participating. But over time
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Speaker 1: he became a very active user and in fact became
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Speaker 1: totally obsessed with his chat room and basically put everything
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Speaker 1: else in his life on the back burner, to the
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Speaker 1: point where his grades were tanking and he stay up
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Speaker 1: all night. I mean, this really took over his life.
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Speaker 1: Also in February of twenty thirteen, John was a fourteen
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Speaker 1: year old student who lived in Manchester, England, but not
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Speaker 1: near Mark, and at this point he had not met
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Speaker 1: Mark yet. He was incredibly intelligent and polite and charming,
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Speaker 1: and he was an excellent, excellent student, and he went
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Speaker 1: to a very very prestigious school. But while John's academic
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Speaker 1: life was going really well, his home life was kind
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Speaker 1: of in shit ambles. His mother had a series of
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Speaker 1: really crappy boyfriends that always left, and they always left
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Speaker 1: her feeling very depressed, and it was just a very
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Speaker 1: sad environment around his mother. And John unfortunately had grown
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Speaker 1: up believing one of his mother's ex boyfriends was his
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Speaker 1: biological father, and even though this boyfriend had abandoned the family,
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Speaker 1: John at least knew who his dad was. But it
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Speaker 1: would turn out his biological father had actually abandoned him
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Speaker 1: when he was a brand new baby, and he had
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Speaker 1: no way of figuring out who his dad even was.
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Speaker 1: John really wanted to escape his home life. He wanted
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Speaker 1: to just live somewhere else, have an adventurous, happy life
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Speaker 1: away from all this sadness and depression.
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Speaker 2: He was around all the time.
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Speaker 1: And so it was in that frame of mind that
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Speaker 1: he discovered this chat room, the same one that Mark
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Speaker 1: had discovered. Although they don't know each other yet, they're
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Speaker 1: both entering the same chat room. John's initial interest in
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Speaker 1: this chat room was not nearly as high as Mars was.
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Speaker 1: Mark pretty much immediately became obsessed with being in this
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Speaker 1: chat room. John was a little bit more reserved, but
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Speaker 1: his mom purchased a laptop for him, which suddenly gave
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Speaker 1: him twenty four to seven access to this chat room,
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Speaker 1: and he found himself going on there all the time,
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Speaker 1: to the point where he was staying up all night
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Speaker 1: and even skipping meals just so he wouldn't have to
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Speaker 1: leave his stream even for a few minutes. The main
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Speaker 1: focus of this chatroom was supposed to be sports and
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Speaker 1: movies and entertainment, but the real reason teenagers were flocking
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Speaker 1: into this particular chat room was to flirt with each other,
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Speaker 1: and Mark and John were no different. They both really enjoyed,
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Speaker 1: you know, these flirtatious interactions they were having with different
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Speaker 1: girls on this chat room. But John's interactions with the
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Speaker 1: girls was very friendly and wasn't going to go anywhere
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Speaker 1: it was not really intended to. Whereas Mark fell head
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Speaker 1: over heels in love with a girl he was flirting with,
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Speaker 1: and her name was Rachel. Rachel was a sixteen year
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Speaker 1: old living in Manchester, England, who worked at a gym,
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Speaker 1: and when Mark saw her pictures, he was just totally
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Speaker 1: smitten with her, and he sent her a direct message,
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Speaker 1: not really expecting her to write back, but she did and.
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Speaker 2: She seemed at least somewhat interested.
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Speaker 1: In him, and that night they stayed all night chatting
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Speaker 1: with each other, and Mark is just over the moon.
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Speaker 1: For the next couple of days, Mark and Rachel were
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Speaker 1: talking NonStop on this chat room, and then at some point,
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Speaker 1: Rachel says, Hey, I really want to introduce you to
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Speaker 1: this guy I met on this chat He reminds me
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Speaker 1: a lot of you. I think you guys would get
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Speaker 1: along great. His name is John, and Mark was like, okay, cool.
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Speaker 1: So Rachel introduced him to John and they hit it
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Speaker 1: off right away, and the three of them formed their
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Speaker 1: own separate chat thread outside of the main chat room,
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Speaker 1: and very quickly, through this separate chat thread that they
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Speaker 1: were on pretty much twenty four to seven, Mark and
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Speaker 1: John would become best friends, and Mark and Rachel would
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Speaker 1: fall deeper and deeper in love with each other. Every
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Speaker 1: time John and Mark were in this chat room, they
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Speaker 1: would use a web camera, but Rachel didn't have one,
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Speaker 1: and initially that really frustrated Mark because he wanted to
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Speaker 1: see his girlfriend in real time, but she said she
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Speaker 1: didn't have the money to get one, and then she
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Speaker 1: said she was shy, and so Mark's getting frustrated. But
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Speaker 1: she says, Mark, come visit me. You don't live that
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Speaker 1: far away, you can see me in real life, in
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Speaker 1: real time. And so initially Mark's excited and he's talking
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Speaker 1: to John about how excited he is to go See's girlfriend,
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Speaker 1: but then he gets cold feet and he makes an
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Speaker 1: excuse and he doesn't go. Rachel's disappointed, but she asked
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Speaker 1: him again a couple more times if he'll come visit her,
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Speaker 1: and every time he would agree, and then he.
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Speaker 2: Would kind of chicken out.
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Speaker 1: But after the last time he canceled on her, he
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Speaker 1: finally got the courage up and he invited her to
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Speaker 1: come visit him, and this is when she started getting
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Speaker 1: cold feet, and they kind of went back and forth
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Speaker 1: until they basically stopped asking to visit each other, and
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Speaker 1: they just decided that their relationship was going to live online,
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Speaker 1: even if there wasn't a web camera involved. About three
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Speaker 1: months after Rachel, Mark and John had started their own
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Speaker 1: separate chat thread, a new user popped up inside the
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Speaker 1: main chat room. It was a fairly controlled group, so
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Speaker 1: it was pretty easy to tell when there were new
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Speaker 1: people added, and this individual only wrote in pink text,
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Speaker 1: so he stood out.
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Speaker 2: His name was Kevin, and he told the group that.
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Speaker 1: He was a stalker and that he had a foot fetish,
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Speaker 1: and the group thought this guy was pretty weird, but
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Speaker 1: they figured it was just, you know, some kid trying
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Speaker 1: to get attention.
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Speaker 2: They didn't think much of him.
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Speaker 1: But shortly after Kevin's arrival, Mark would get a private
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Speaker 1: message from Kevin that said, I know you're Rachel's boyfriend.
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Speaker 2: And I'm her stalker and I'm going to hurt her.
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Speaker 1: Mark didn't know what to do, so he just went
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Speaker 1: to Rachel and he said, hey, I got this strange
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Speaker 1: email from this guy named Kevin who says he's going
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Speaker 1: to hurt you and he's your stoker. And Rachel kind
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Speaker 1: of made light of it and said, oh, just ignore
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Speaker 1: that guy. I don't know what that's about. And John
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Speaker 1: didn't know what to make about it either, so Mark
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Speaker 1: just kind of ignored it. And then the next day
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Speaker 1: when Mark logged into the chat room, Rachel wasn't there. Now,
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Speaker 1: Rachel always logged in at the same time that Mark
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Speaker 1: did and that John did, it was very rare that
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Speaker 1: she wouldn't be there, and so Mark asked John, you
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Speaker 1: know if you talked to Rachel today, and John said no,
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Speaker 1: and then Mark went into the main chat room and
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Speaker 1: he asked some people in there if they had seen
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Speaker 1: Rachel or talk to her, and they said no, and
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Speaker 1: that's when Mark went into his email and he had
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Speaker 1: another message from Kevin. This message again was about Rachel,
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Speaker 1: but this time Kevin is saying he actually has Rachel
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Speaker 1: hostage and the only way he's going to release her
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Speaker 1: is if Mark lets Kevin look at his feet, because
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Speaker 1: again he has that foot fetish. And so Mark interestingly
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Speaker 1: does not go to the police, He doesn't tell anyone
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Speaker 1: about this. He just says, okay, I'll do that, and
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Speaker 1: so he lets him see his feet and then Kevin
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Speaker 1: writes back saying, okay, I've released Rachel. Later that day,
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Speaker 1: Rachel came back online and she thanked Mark for what
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Speaker 1: he did, but she felt really bad that he had
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Speaker 1: to be kind of humiliated in that way, and she said,
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Speaker 1: you know what, we really need to meet up. We
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Speaker 1: need to see each other face to face. I want
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Speaker 1: to apologize to you and give you a hug. And
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Speaker 1: so they decide the next day they're going to meet
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Speaker 1: up finally in town together. But the next day, when
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Speaker 1: Mark went to the rendezvous point, Rachel didn't show. In fact,
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Speaker 1: after this missed meeting, Rachel never contacted.
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Speaker 2: Mark again she just vanished.
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Speaker 1: When Mark got back to his computer, he asked, John,
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Speaker 1: you know, have you talked to Rachel? And he said no,
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Speaker 1: And again he went into the main chat room and
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Speaker 1: he asked around and no one had heard from Rachel.
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Speaker 1: And then a couple of days later, after just continued
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Speaker 1: silence from Rachel and Mark's really upset about this, he
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Speaker 1: notices a rumor being passed around in the main chat
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Speaker 1: room about how apparently one of the members of this
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Speaker 1: chat room abducted and killed another member of the chat room,
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Speaker 1: and Mark's thinking to himself, no way, that can't be
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Speaker 1: about Rachel. But almost immediately after this rumor was kind
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Speaker 1: of announced on the main chat, people started chiming in
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Speaker 1: that they think it could be Kevin, the guy who
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Speaker 1: writes an old pink, the guy who claims he's a stalker,
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Speaker 1: and the skull Rachel, because they had both logged out
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Speaker 1: around the same time and had not logged back in again.
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Speaker 1: They were the only ones in this chat room that
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Speaker 1: were that inactive. And then after that, dozens more users
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Speaker 1: were commenting that this was actually true, that Kevin had
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Speaker 1: indeed abducted Rachel and killed her. They had heard about
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Speaker 1: it in other chat rooms and at school, and all
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, Mark's reality is just coming crashing down,
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Speaker 1: and he feels so guilty that he probably could have
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Speaker 1: done something to stop this, and he didn't. But then, interestingly,
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Speaker 1: even though Mark was devastated, just crushed by what has happened,
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Speaker 1: he just continued to log into the chat room and
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Speaker 1: acted like nothing had happened. And John picked up on
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Speaker 1: this strange behavior and began kind of delicately asking him,
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Speaker 1: you know, like, are you doing okay? But Mark beta
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Speaker 1: clear he did not want to talk about it, And
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Speaker 1: over time, the rumor about what happened to Rachel and
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Speaker 1: Kevin just kind of left the chat room, and it
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Speaker 1: just seemed like people moved on, including Mark and including John.
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Speaker 1: Over the next month, John and Mark's relationship really strengthened.
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Speaker 1: They continued to speak in that private chat, now missing Rachel,
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Speaker 1: so they were only interacting with each other in there,
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Speaker 1: and they even began meeting up in person and hanging
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Speaker 1: out in real life.
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Speaker 2: About a month after Rachel's disappearance, a new person popped
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Speaker 2: up in the main chat. It was a woman.
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Speaker 1: Her name was Janet, and she wrote in all capitals
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Speaker 1: and she reached out to Mark, and she said to
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Speaker 1: Mark that she was a mother of two, she was married,
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Speaker 1: she was forty four years old, she was a real
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Speaker 1: estate agent.
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Speaker 2: But secretly she was a spy for.
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Speaker 1: The British Secret Service, and in fact, she was the
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Speaker 1: third most powerful person in all of Britain. And she
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Speaker 1: was contacting Mark because she was sent to recruit him.
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Speaker 1: She told Mark if he agreed to work with her,
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Speaker 1: not only would he become an agent like her, he
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Speaker 1: would become fabulously wealthy and he could be her boyfriend. Now,
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Speaker 1: of course, to an adult, this sounds preposterous and sounds
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Speaker 1: like an obvious scam, but you got to remember Mark
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Speaker 1: at this time was extremely vulnerable. He's just lost his
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Speaker 1: girlfriend under very suspicious circumstances. But no matter how it happened,
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Speaker 1: she's gone and he's still grieving her loss privately. And
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Speaker 1: he's just not a very bright person, so he's kind
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Speaker 1: of primed to be taken advantage of. And she was
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Speaker 1: promising him all the things he wanted in life, status, money, romance,
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Speaker 1: and so even though he didn't necessarily believe everything Janet
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Speaker 1: was saying, he wanted to believe her, and so he
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Speaker 1: went along with it. He did not tell John about
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Speaker 1: his interactions with Janet, perhaps signaling that he didn't fully
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Speaker 1: believe it and was maybe embarrassed to give away details,
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Speaker 1: but we don't know. As soon as Mark told Janet
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Speaker 1: he was prepared to work with her, she made him
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Speaker 1: swear an oath through the chat, and then told him
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Speaker 1: he would need to go to London for initiation, where
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Speaker 1: he'd be meeting the Queen amongst other dignitaries and officials.
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Speaker 1: At this point, Mark asked a couple of qualifying questions, namely,
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Speaker 1: how would I explain to my mom that I was
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Speaker 1: just going to suddenly leave for a couple of days
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Speaker 1: in the middle of the week and missed school.
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Speaker 2: I have to give her a reason for that.
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Speaker 1: And she would say, your mother will be looped in
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Speaker 1: on this process. In fact, once you go to London
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Speaker 1: for initiation, will be in touch with her, giving her
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Speaker 1: progress reports on how you're doing, and you'll have two
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Speaker 1: opportunities every day to call her. Feeling satisfied that this
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Speaker 1: was in fact legitimate, he told Janet, Okay, you know,
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Speaker 1: when do you want me to go? And she said, well,
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Speaker 1: there's a caveat. You have to pass a series of
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Speaker 1: tests before you're going to be allowed to go to initiation.
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Speaker 1: This is where Janet explained to Mark why he specifically
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Speaker 1: was being recruited. She said his friend John was actually
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Speaker 1: not named John. His real name was James Bell, and
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Speaker 1: he was a very very important person. But she couldn't
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Speaker 1: say why until he passed his first test. And so
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Speaker 1: Mark's very confused by this, and he says, okay, well,
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Speaker 1: what's the first test? And she says, well, you need
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Speaker 1: to demonstrate you can protect your friend James Bell, and
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Speaker 1: so I want you to escort him from his school
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Speaker 1: to his dentist appointment tomorrow. You're gonna be his bodyguard
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Speaker 1: for one day, but you can't let him know you're
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Speaker 1: his bodyguard. He can't know that you know his real identity.
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Speaker 1: So if you can do that successfully, when you get back,
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Speaker 1: I will explain to you why he is so important.
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Speaker 1: At this point, Mark is very committed to this, so
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Speaker 1: he says, yep, I'll do it. He reaches out to
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Speaker 1: John that day and he says, hey, can we hang
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Speaker 1: out tomorrow and John tells him yeah, but I have
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Speaker 1: a dentist appointment right after school, so maybe after that,
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Speaker 1: and Mark says, oh, don't worry, I'll tag along for
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Speaker 1: your dentist appointment, and John's like, great, I could use
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Speaker 1: the company. So the next day, Mark meets up with
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Speaker 1: John aka James Bell, and he walks with him from
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Speaker 1: his school to his dentist appointment, and he doesn't notice
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Speaker 1: anything suspicious, so he doesn't need to do any bodyguarding duties.
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Speaker 2: Man.
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Speaker 1: After the dentist appointment, the two of them just go
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Speaker 1: to a mall and they spend the rest of the
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Speaker 1: day together. Once Mark got back to his house and
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Speaker 1: opened his computer, there was a message waiting for him
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Speaker 1: from Janet, and the message said, you know we had
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Speaker 1: agents following you and you did a great job. You
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Speaker 1: passed your first test. Now I can tell you why
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Speaker 1: James Bell, your friend John, is so very important. And
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Speaker 1: she told him that at the bottom of the Atlantic
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Speaker 1: Ocean is this big safe that only a couple of
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Speaker 1: countries know about. And inside of that safe is five
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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty eight billion pounds and it belongs to
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Speaker 1: the Queen. But only one person has access to that safe,
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Speaker 1: and that person is James Bell. Literally, his body would
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Speaker 1: need to be in front of the safe for its
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Speaker 1: special scanner to scan him recognize it as James Bell,
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Speaker 1: and then it would open its door. Despite its implausibility,
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Speaker 1: Mark believed this was real. Not so much because he
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Speaker 1: naturally believed the safe at the bottom of the Atlantic
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Speaker 1: Ocean was real, but it was because he totally.
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Speaker 2: Believed Janet was real.
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Speaker 1: Janet had the ability to know what he was wearing,
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Speaker 1: where he had gone that day, what he was up to.
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Speaker 1: I mean, she seemed to know everything about him. And
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Speaker 1: it's because she told him she has agents monitoring him
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Speaker 1: all the time, disguised as bus drive and teachers and mailmen.
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Speaker 2: That basically he was under constant surveillance.
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Speaker 1: And she explained to him that that's what happens when
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Speaker 1: you're being recruited.
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Speaker 2: We have agents watch you.
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Speaker 1: So when Janet gave Mark his final test, despite how
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Speaker 1: shocked Mark was at what he had to do, he
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Speaker 1: was willing to do it because he really believed he
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Speaker 1: was doing it for the government.
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Speaker 2: The test was simple.
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Speaker 1: Mark needed to kill John aka James Bell, and she
16:23
Speaker 1: explained to him that James Bell actually had an inoperable
16:26
Speaker 1: brain tumor and he was going to die any day
16:29
Speaker 1: and if the wrong country found out about this, they
16:31
Speaker 1: could steal his body after he died. And they could
16:34
Speaker 1: use his body to gain access to this safe, and
16:37
Speaker 1: so we need to preemptively end his life, take control
16:41
Speaker 1: of his body and get that safe open.
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Speaker 2: She told Mark.
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Speaker 1: If he completed this test, he would move on to
16:46
Speaker 1: the initiation phase in London, where he would meet the
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Speaker 1: Queen and he would get his first paycheck of eighty
16:52
Speaker 1: million pounds and he would officially become Janet's boyfriend. Mark
16:56
Speaker 1: is in so deep at this point, he is fully
16:58
Speaker 1: committed and he says, yes, I'm prepared to do this,
17:01
Speaker 1: and she says, okay, your new name is Agent four
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Speaker 1: seven six ninety.
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Speaker 2: Five and you need to go buy a large knight.
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Speaker 1: She said there was going to be in a bort
17:08
Speaker 1: code for this test, which was going to be six'
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Speaker 1: nine six,' nine and if at any point he hears
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Speaker 1: anybody say that to him on the day he's supposed
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Speaker 1: to carry out, this attack that means it's off and
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Speaker 1: do not. Do it So on june, twenty ninth two thousand,
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Speaker 1: and three around, Eleven am Mark and John aka agent
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Speaker 1: four seven six ninety Five And james bell met at
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Speaker 1: a bus Station. In manchester Mark took john down the
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Speaker 1: Alleyway that janet had instructed him to go down to commit,
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Speaker 1: the stabbing and she had assured him she would be
17:36
Speaker 1: one of the first people to arrive. On scene she
17:38
Speaker 1: would be dressed as, a detective and she would ensure
17:41
Speaker 1: he did not. Get arrested and so once he was,
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Speaker 1: In position mark, turned Around grabbed john by, the shoulder
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Speaker 1: pulled out, his knife said he, loved him and then began.
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Speaker 2: Stabbing him when the, Police.
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Speaker 1: Arrived janet was, not There, and mark after giving his
17:54
Speaker 1: statement about, what happened was asking the, police Officers when's
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Speaker 1: janet going to?
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Speaker 2: Be here and no one knew what he was.
18:00
Speaker 1: Talking About after john survived the attack And said mark
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Speaker 1: was the one who, Attacked him mark would, tell police,
18:05
Speaker 1: you know you got To. Find janet she's the one
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Speaker 1: who can explain what's going. On Here but janet never
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Speaker 1: Arrived because janet. Didn't exist Neither, did rachel Neither, did
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Speaker 1: kevin Neither Did, james bell neither did one hundred and
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Speaker 1: eighty nine other Accounts that mark interacted with on a
18:21
Speaker 1: daily basis inside of that, chat room and all of
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Speaker 1: those fake accounts were determined to be controlled by, one
18:27
Speaker 1: person and that one Person. Was John when john was
18:30
Speaker 1: confronted with all these confiscated chatlogs that clearly showed he
18:34
Speaker 1: was behind all of, these accounts. He confessed john said
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Speaker 1: he never entered this chat room in order to do
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Speaker 1: any of the things, he did or, you know To.
18:42
Speaker 1: Manipulate mark, he said when, he joined he just saw
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Speaker 1: a Picture of mark and was kind of in love
18:47
Speaker 1: with him and wanted to get closer, to him but didn't.
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Speaker 1: Know how so He created rachel in order to get Closer,
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Speaker 1: to mark but then became Jealous of mark's Love, of
18:56
Speaker 1: rachel so he Killed off Rachel. Using kevin and he
19:00
Speaker 1: Didn't expect mark to. Believe it he thought he would
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Speaker 1: pick up that this is all made up when he's
19:04
Speaker 1: involving this stalker that's abducting And. Killing rachel but when
19:08
Speaker 1: He saw mark totally, Believed it, John, Realized wow mark's.
19:12
Speaker 2: PRETTY gullible i wonder WHAT else i can get him.
19:15
Speaker 1: To believe and before long He, created janet who had
19:18
Speaker 1: complete Control. Over mark And originally john Was using janet
19:23
Speaker 1: To make mark spend more Time. With john he was
19:26
Speaker 1: going to be the Bodyguard Of, james bell which Was.
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Speaker 1: Really John when john started to feel guilty about what
19:31
Speaker 1: he was Doing. To mark he realized there was no
19:33
Speaker 1: good way out of this without kind of exposing himself
19:37
Speaker 1: and definitely losing.
19:38
Speaker 2: His Friendship, to mark something that.
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Speaker 1: In a, weird way he really, really cherished and so
19:43
Speaker 1: he decided that the only way to end this was
19:45
Speaker 1: for him. To die and that's when He had janet
19:48
Speaker 1: flipped the script From Protect james.
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Speaker 2: Bell To Kill.
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Speaker 1: James bell and even on the day where he was
19:54
Speaker 1: going to, get attacked he had given that a, Board
19:56
Speaker 1: code so maybe some part of, HIM thought i don't
19:58
Speaker 1: necessarily want to go through, with this but he never
20:01
Speaker 1: used the. Abort code he was literally prepared to die
20:04
Speaker 1: to protect that Relationship.
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Speaker 2: With mark mark might.
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Speaker 1: Have had suspicions that something was Up with janet Or
20:10
Speaker 1: even Kevin, or rachel but he Never suspected john was
20:14
Speaker 1: behind any of. These accounts he learned about this betrayal
20:18
Speaker 1: when they were in Court and john is confessing once
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Speaker 1: again to being behind all of these People that mark
20:24
Speaker 1: had been. Interacting with apparently in Court when mark is
20:27
Speaker 1: hearing this for the, first time he was just, standing there,
20:29
Speaker 1: mouth open just completely dumbfounded that he's. Hearing this and
20:33
Speaker 1: then he would, Say afterwards i've been such. A fool
20:35
Speaker 1: mark was convicted of, attempted murder but he only spent
20:38
Speaker 1: eight months, in jail and then he was given a
20:40
Speaker 1: two month probationary period where during that time he could
20:43
Speaker 1: only go On the internet with supervision and he wasn't
20:45
Speaker 1: allowed to enter into any. Chat rooms john was convicted
20:48
Speaker 1: of inciting his, own murder which no one else has
20:51
Speaker 1: ever been, charged with so this is, a first and
20:54
Speaker 1: he was not given any, jail time but he was
20:55
Speaker 1: given three years of probation where in that time he
20:58
Speaker 1: was not allowed to Use the internet, without supervision and
21:01
Speaker 1: he also was not allowed to enter into any.
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Speaker 2: Chat rooms and.
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Speaker 1: Both boys were told they had a permanent restraining order on,
21:07
Speaker 1: the other so for the rest of their lives they will.
21:10
Speaker 1: Never interact so that's going to.
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