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  Time is approximately 2100 hours. This is UCPA
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  Commissioner Reid. addressing ucpa agents various
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  subject master thank you everyone for joining
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  me i know the hour is late but please sit down
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  make yourselves comfortable we have a lot of
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  work to get through today all questions will
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  be answered at the end for those who are unaware
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  special officer is the lead investigator on the
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  master case he is joining us today Would you
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  like to say a few words, Special Officer? Very
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  well. Yesterday at 0900 hours, a survivor who
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  we will refer to simply as Victim A going forward
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  was recovered on 6th Street. Missing an arm,
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  she was bloody and beaten with visible signs
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  of sanguination. as you can see on the display
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  the victim was quite distressed with multiple
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  disappearances having appeared all over civic
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  city with a total of 29 victims 17 having been
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  found within the last three months it is believed
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  that these 17 are all the result of a single
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  killer The killer we know as the master. The
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  targets seem to consist of two distinct profiles.
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  Males and females with a specific biological
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  window. Victims range from ages 23 to 49. So
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  far, no children, elderly. or those of indeterminate
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  or dual agenda have been attributed to the killings
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  but we cannot rule them out of the possibility
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  that they too could be amongst the victims thanks
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  to victim a we have gained deeper insight into
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  the master's motives i need not warn you that
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  the upcoming images may be graphic as you can
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  see Men seem to have had their blood drained
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  in a process known as sanguination. This involves
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  the victim being hung upside down and a small
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  cut being inserted in their neck, severing the
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  carotid artery. Blood and augment fluid are then
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  slowly drained from their body. We believe this
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  to be the primary cause of death within the victims.
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  Furthermore, the men seem to have had the bottom
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  half of their bodies from the abdomen down completely
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  eviscerated only the torso the left and right
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  arms including the hands neck and head are missing
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  while remains of their bodies have been found
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  scattered throughout the city sectors as for
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  the females The pattern is inverted. Sanguination
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  still occurs via the same processes of being
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  hung upside down and bled through the carotid
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  artery. However, the difference being everything
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  from the waist down is kept. Everything from
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  the waist up is likewise obliterated. Special
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  Officer and his team have discerned that victim
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  a surviving though an anomaly does have a reason
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  victim a is the only confirmed victim that is
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  pregnant pregnant with an organic child we suspect
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  that with the other victims this could potentially
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  be a reason for his targets all men and women
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  that have fallen victim to the master are still
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  capable of organic reproduction Despite this
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  theory, we are still unsure as to why the master
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  targets the people of this certain demographic.
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  Furthermore, undergoing medical treatment, victim
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  A was asked if she could remember anything. Despite
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  underheading medication, and even though she
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  was barely able to recite her own name, she was
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  able to tell us that she had made a recording.
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  A recording made before her body passed out.
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  A recording made by her emergency services broadcast.
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  One I ask to listen to now. What you are about
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  to hear. These are the ramblings of a madman.
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  Do not look too deep into his words. If you recognize
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  the words, do not tell your other officers. Report
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  to special officer. There will be counseling
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  after today's session should you require it.
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  Tape playing now. Across your skin. A tapestry
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  woven by a dozen men. For a million distant miles.
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  Be afraid. Be afraid because it is human. It
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  is human to fear the loss of one's life. You
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  are free to be the animal you were meant to be.
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  Free to live and to die as insignificant as you
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  wish. End recording. Linguistic experts are attempting
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  to decipher the words. Perhaps we might find...
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  our killer's origins. As of now, we can only
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  guess. Unfortunately, victim A was unresponsive
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  after giving us access to this information. Victim
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  A is, however, said to make a full recovery,
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  but it will be months before we can hear from
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  her again. Her future testimony cannot be relied
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  upon. We must find this killer. before she awakens
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  as victim a was also found after a day of wandering
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  she was also nowhere near any of the previous
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  dump sites for the remaining eviscerated body
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  parts this makes it nearly impossible to track
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  his exact operating theater however despite the
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  killer's thoroughness and the allowance of the
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  emergency broadcast Victim A's last location
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  for the past three weeks is being deciphered.
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  Though it cannot be determined right now, her
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  automatic GPS trackers were disabled. Her IP
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  addresses, everything was scrubbed expertly.
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  This tells us that our killer, the master, is
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  an expert cyberneticist. As you are all aware,
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  disabling such things usually results in the
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  death of the user or permanent disability this
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  has given us insight into the possible profiles
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  of the master we cannot rule out ex darwin employees
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  and a special officer has hinted at a possible
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  jacker from coral city and even the trenches
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  his thoroughness may be his undoing Moving on.
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  This is where you all come in. Each of you has
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  been pulled from your current assignments. And
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  due to your skills, each of you will be working
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  alone. Directly reporting to Special Officer...
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  You are to search building complexes, tunnels
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  and abandoned sectors. This will help us triangulate
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  his position. You will all be given class 2A
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  clearance. If you find yourselves hitting any
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  corporate legislation walls, please contact special
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  officers. He has been given class 1A clearance.
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  Be wary of strangers. Do not attempt unprovoked
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  engagement. Our target is highly intelligent,
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  and we are led to believe highly augmented. These
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  augments include non -standard cybernetics, possibly
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  black market and illegal upgrades, or self -made.
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  With this in mind, this makes him extremely dangerous
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  and unpredictable. Do not attempt to take him
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  alone. Track. report and wait for backup that
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  is all for this session i'll take questions in
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  a minute and we'll have a short recess and we'll
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  be back in an hour yes officer neil go ahead
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  relay that officer deal right confirmed i'm seeing
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  it now you you who are listening we will find
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  you you are interfering with a ucpa police investigation
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  Track the signal. I want him found now.