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Why were you so careless?
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I thought the worst they would do is fire me. Who knew they took termination so literally?
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Why were you snooping in my office?
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Oh. I liked you. I was checking you out.
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'Think everybody in this place is here the same reason we are?
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'Cause their apartments might be bugged?
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I told Teddy about you.
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What'd he say?
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"A beautiful geek? What're the chances?"
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I felt guilty. 'Cause I "owed so much" to Alice. But even then I was starting to wonder. Is it so great to be so consumed by this one thing that you let another person do your thinking for you? If you have a lucrative skill, it's all anybody wants from you. You grow older but you don't grow up. You turn into into
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Gary.
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Great. I knocked off the aglet, as soon as I get a passable version of Skywire we're there.
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The dishes are juiced up, too.
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Thank God.
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Milo? Shrot suspects somebody broke into #21. I was in his office when he was reviewing the card readouts.
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They know I broke in. Alice helped me. Shrot's not one of them. He's blundering into this on his own.
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He doesn't know about the Day Care.
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Hardly anybody does, that's the beauty part. No cameras, the DOJ doesn't bother with it, it's accessed by a tunnel they boast about. You know the best place to hide a leaf?
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Yeah, that's old, in a tree.
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Oh.
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Milo? What if Shrot notices somebody entered the Day Care at four A.M.? And tells them about it?
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Same with the excerpts I'm choosing: they'll play against any of the images you described.
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Perfect. How am I gonna get away from the party long enough to
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You could always say you have to go the bathroom.
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That's lame, isn't it?
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You'll come up with something.
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Does he know you know?
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He suspects I know something. I think he was sort of explaining himself to me, in case I do. We have to go in tonight. I'm two hours from a Beta version. But I've gotta go home for an hour.
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Why?!
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She called to apologize. I said I was pulling an allnighter. She said then come home just to say Hi. Which I always do when we fight, it's suspicious if I don't.
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Please don't go.
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At this point the worst thing I could do is anything out of the ordinary.
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Meet me at the other location.
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Tell me you're not calling on your car phone?!
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They know, I had no choice. Get out of the house now! Do you have a laptop?
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It's three years old, it
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Bring it to the other location.
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But you said the other
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Maybe it's the satellite.
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Let's try #2.
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...He knows.
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What?
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He's been altering the coordinates since we logged on. He's a step ahead. Let's jump to #12.
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Latitude 47 degrees.
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Wait a second. He knows I know.
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Could it be a glitch? Something the construction workers caused?
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Unlikely. All 14 cameras are frozen. Do we call Randy and Phil? Tell 'em there may have been a breakin?
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Not yet. 'Love to bust my ass cause I'm not in frigging Mensa. I swear to God, it's that kid Milo, I told 'em so in the first place, but they didn't even wanna hear about it. Let's run a printout on card entries.
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Every entry was authorized.
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Keep looking.
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What're we looking for?
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Any irregularity in the pattern.
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Delbert seems to enter #21 twice. Without leaving the first time.
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Let's get him in here.
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Get the backslash, the colon, keys kids don't use but geeks do. What would Milo want in here, anyway?
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They know. 'Just they don't trust me with it. So we'll get the evidence, first, ask questions later.
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You calling Phil and Randy?
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I'm calling Gary.
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Come with me.
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Where we going?
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Now what are we doing? I don't get any of this shit!
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I launched Skywire. Just pray the last set of coordinates Milo sent me connected us to Gary's satellite.
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All the companies know. The faculties tell 'em. At the target schools.
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In exchange for endowments. They should just drop the pretense and name the schools after 'em.
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I think you should go.
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You do?
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I mean, it's your life.
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I know you lost all his work. Maybe I could come down here and
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You are naive. Look at your employment contract: you can't work anywhere else in this field for at least few years. Not that I don't miss you.
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Just thought his work should go on.
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He was on the verge of something, too. He was gonna show us the next day. He said "The answer's not in the box, it's in the band." Know what it means?
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It's only meaningful when you've got 40,000 lines of code to back it up.
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Man, could he write code. Totally elegant. He had his own style.
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Those really weird, short lines.
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Your app kind of blew mine out of the water.
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We'll come up with the next big thing.
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...You wanna work here?
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Got out of my other commitment.
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You guys'll be using Teddy's old space, is that okay?
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Cool.
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This is good. Who did it?
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'Startup not 50 miles from here. Kid's on Prozac.
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Maybe we should all get on it.
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What'd the girl say?
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There may be a little less trust after your outburst.
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Hasn't affected his work, though.
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Nothing does. Still. I want him to like me.
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Help me change the Skywire settings. Add five degrees to each satellite coordinate.
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Gary, don't worry, we
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Just do what I'm asking!
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Okay, #2.
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Longitude 48 degrees 06 minutes
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Ready for number three?
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Let's go.
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Longitude 109
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Wait... He knows.
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What?
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'Knows I'm altering the coordinates. Let's jump to #12.
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Gary?
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Just do it.
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