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- Mr. Blassi

- What took you so long, Prad?

This girl is with you?

I'm sorry I couldn't come before.

It was impossible for me

But I think what's this all about

Are these the ministry's plan?

What happened?

I hope you know what you'll say

The train is still gone

And I don't want to have more

problems than I already do.

Now come with me.

Here, I leave you this so you play

whilst I speak to these people.

Okay.

Exactly, we checked everything and...

- Gentlemen

Mr. Daniel Prad.

Representing studio Del Plata.

They built the perimetral connection

Mr. Kent, our Engineer Chief

Mr. Aguirre, representing intendancy

Dr. Canotti from the

central military hospital.

Dr. Nazar from del Sur insurance co.

And our driver... Edmundo

Please try to specify.

You saw it, or not?

Well yes, I mean...

we practically saw it

When we found that red light

Just at the entrance

of the General Paz joint

Couldn't that be another train?

All trains have been

retired from the tracks.

Except this one... We

are the only ones we've

traveling thru the system

during the last four hours

When Edmundo stopped in

front of the red light

I thought it was out of order.

That's why I told him to keep on going

That's when we heard the noise

the other train was doing

whilst crossing the joint.

- You saw it?

- No, no, we couldn't see it.

The light is just before the curve

But... we all heard it.

Why didn't you followed it?

Well... we were not sure

about where it went to.

It was there, we cannot

be wrong about it.

That was at 1:
38, wasn't it?

- Yes, the first time.

- The first.

Gentlemen, this chat is going nowhere.

So, later it happened again

Yes, but not in the same place

We found another red

signal near the joint

Yesterday at 2:
15

Then, again at 3:30

You saw the train at 2:15?

No, we didn't but we felt the vibration

So, I tried to reach it, but...

It must have turn somewhere

else at the General Paz joint

'Cause there's a

declivity beyond the light

It's impossible that that train was

circulating during all these days

Without no one noticing

What's impossible is that you

are surprised being the main responsible

- Now in the moment that...

- Wait a second, young man.

We aren't here to hear

questions, but to make'em

This time we've got it.

It's passing by the inferior

level where Maloni is

You saw it? It's passed near by.

- It passed by the lower level

- Not, the higher one

- No! It passed by the lower level

- What is going on, Blassi?

You saw it by yourself, it

passed down here, am I right?

- Yes, yes, yes.

You really saw it?

We heard it, it passed

by the upper level

And I think in that direction.

Maloni, go back downstairs.

Excuse me

Tell the authorities

I'll be right there.

Engineer, Is there

any way to communicate

- to the Main office?

- Yes, yes, come with me.

Mr. Blassi says he's coming in a moment.

Main office, this is Kent, it's urgent.

Please inform what is

sector fours reading.

The consumption is equal

to standard lighting.

In tunnels and stations,

plus an intern rolling

Please specify consumption.

Everything's normal boss, we only have

you rolling.

Cut the main electricity provision.

until I tell you.

Done, boss. Now, what do we do?

Watch the monitors and warn

me if you see any change.

This is nuts, we've been

transiting only in one wagon

- That's too much consumption.

- What's going on, Blassi?

We have indications of a

train transiting by the system.

When will we know the

circuit has been interrupted?

I don't know, maybe it's just a flight

Yes of course, the flight

of a train inside the system.

Now we're going to check it

Restore the electricity

Now there's consumption

at various sectors.

Did you authorized this maneuver?

Different zones at the

network are registering that

Probably those are

unhooked wagons around.

Can you please explain

us what's going on?

Gentlemen, I think the young

man has something to tell us.

We have a disappeared train

with people.

But the system is closed

Trains cannot go out.

What are you saying?

All the system was checked and

It's not here, what do you think...

that we're playing to 'hide the train'?

Shut up Dr. Nazar. Let

him finish his explanation.

We know the train was going

to the Plaza de Mayo station.

The morning of the 4th... but

we also know it never arrived.

Such a novelty, Prad.

And when it entered the tunnel

that crosses Maldonado river...

it transformed into a boat

and now's sailing to Africa.

Excuse me, Dr.

How can you explain a train can..

be running wild around the

tracks since March 4th until today

without being seen for almost 5 days?

That's exactly like that engineer.

Is that this train cannot be seen.

This train... Intern 86

Without showing any kind

of mechanical failure

With the whole network working

With other 300 trains around

Somewhere during its route

just vanished

Somehow it found a node...

A node! What is 'a node'?

The system that keeps the track clean

In those, nothing else

but trains circulate

I still don't understand.

A node is not an obstruction

In topology...

a node is a particularity

A pole of superior order

I don't understand anything.

And I think nobody else does.

Dr. Nazar, please don't

complicate things even more

I think this was caused by a new branch

And what does the perimetral

has to do with all this?

The system is a network

with an amazing topological

complexity, you'll see

from the latest extension.

But the perimetral

must have done something

absolutely singular.

I still don't understand very well.

But I believe that the

new branch has taken

the connectivity of the whole system

to an order so high

that I don't know how to calculate it.

I think it has made it to infinity.

If it's like that

gentlemen, we can deduce

that the system behaves

as a Moebius belt.

May I?

If you look this paper,

you'll find out that

This is a simple two faced belt,

but if we join both extremes...

like this, we obtain

a very particular belt.

It's a one faced belt.

on which we could circulate endlessly

But this...

Translated to a subway network,

must have an infinite

number of particularities.

Could you imagine what can the properties

of a network like this could be?

I can't either.

To tell you the truth...

The structure of the whole

perimetral system, is way beyond

my reach.

I can't do anything but suppositions.

This is outrageous.

We have 200 kilometers of tunnels

How can it be that a finite surface

Can convert into an infinite one?

That's a good question

But anyways it happened. It happened.

Do you have any idea

about the passengers?

None.

Hold on a minute, Prad.

If what's making this whole confusion

is the perimetral, first we close it.

and then, if things are like you say

We can keep on with

our normal operations.

Without collision danger.

If you close the perimetral,

the train will never reappear

What is not certain

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