Tentacle 8 Page #3

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He's been missing for 2 years.

The station chief from South Central Asia

said that he had covert status,

he came and went without

making a lot of noise.

We don't have a lot of other

correspondence to go on.

A rise in communications in Cienna Capital

FCC.

Approvals from fast

track should be finalized

during the next week.

Who's working on the 8129 LED demo?

NSA is still working on it.

My granddaughter just moved

in with a new roommate.

I want to make sure that my little girl

isn't shaking up with the wrong kind.

Yes, sir. Excuse me.

Neil, I'm trying to help you out here,

but if he asks one more time

you're going to be in a metal igloo

counting blips on the North Pole.

Forensic guys are on it.

Probably not a security breach,

but they're having a hard

time recovering the data.

Backup servers got hit too.

We're gonna have to put the

files back together by hand.

How long is that gonna take?

A couple 100 man hours, at least.

One last thing,

put together a demo for the AE-129 LED.

He doesn't need to understand it,

he just needs to see how it works.

I can't promise you that.

This is the NSA, we got

more important things to do

than make flat-screen TV's

and computer monitors.

Well, not for long.

Come in.

General, this is

Brian Mosely from Washington.

Thank you, Lieutenant.

Thanks for coming.

How was your flight?

Is was fine, General, thank you.

No problems finding it?

None.

I have to say, this is a

bit nicer than I expected.

Ah, well, we're working on it.

wasn't built in a day.

Secretary has given

me SCI security clearance

to assist you with

whatever you might need.

So, what is it exactly

I can help you with?

The secretary has recently learned

the possibility of a

rogue unit inside the IC.

This group is simply known as Tentacle 8.

They may or may not be responsible

for the network breaches.

I've been asked to make a risk assessment

and to come up with any

evidence that could prove

or dis-prove this groups existence.

So, General, I am here to

investigate the anomalies that

you may have come across.

Well, these here are a handful

that are outliers.

Failed psych and/or

polygraphs more than once.

Yes. Most of these

men have been trained

to beat polygraphs and

give a false psych test

to invalidate the results.

Tell me about this gentlemen.

Hey, wake up!

Stop mumbling.

What's wrong with you?

Please, let me go.

You sit in here until somebody says

it's time to take you out.

Hey, stop it!

Let him up.

Don't take your sh*t out on me.

Get him some water.

Now!

F***ing crazy ass b*tch.

Thank you.

I'm hungry.

Sorry.

Please, anything.

Water will be here any minute.

Please.

Peppermint.

It always reminds me of Christmas.

I can't believe I missed Christmas.

Don't talk.

Just sit there.

Where are you from?

What kind of name is Balenoff?

Please, mister, just don't talk.

Riggs, get your ass in here!

Where's the water?

When I was your age,

I remember I couldn't

wait to get the hell out.

Living at home, I was trying

to prove I was good enough.

One night I drove off down the highway,

made a wrong turn,

just kept on driving.

Never would have thought

the next time I'd be home

would be for my old man's funeral.

I never told him how much he meant to me.

I never said goodbye.

I heard one of the other

guards got a ticket home

for making a detainee

talk, sign some papers.

Is that true?

Please, I don't want

to have to gag you, but I will.

I can help you,

but you have to help me.

I'd worry

about your own business.

I don't need any help from you.

This is no place for a lady like you.

The only difference between you and me,

is my hands are tied.

We're both here, the same sh*t hole.

For what?

I don't know.

Do you?

What the hell are you doing in here?

Stop it!

Stop talking!

What the hell took you so long?

Where's the water?

We've got an interrogator

here from Washington.

We've got to get him

cleaned up and moved over

to the other block.

Right now?

Where are his labs and

polygraph results from last night?

I don't know.

One f***ing time I

don't log those stupid things

and General comes down to the block.

I gotta go find them.

Hurry and clean his ass up.

You want out?

Right here, right now.

Take this down.

Is this some kind of a trick?

No trick.

What am I

supposed to do with this?

Give it to someone with a rank

no higher than lieutenant.

They'll know what to do with it.

I don't have the authority to -

Just deliver the note.

Just a little farther, gentlemen.

Private Belanoff is

cleaning up the detainee.

Where's the detainee, Private?

Where's Private Belanoff?

She was just here, just

maybe 10 or 15 minutes ago.

I was getting his last -

Just find the detainee.

Check the infirmary.

Yes, sir.

Sorry about that, Brian.

We'll get is sorted out.

You want to wait for him here

or detainee?

You must be hungry.

Let's get you something to eat.

I just want to get back home.

We'll call it a day.

You don't even have to talk.

I can't do that.

Sure you can, just

sit there and be quiet.

Better yet, why don't you just get out.

DOD:

sent a memo to Langley

late last year, detailing the

possible existance of a covert unit

known only as Tentacle 8.

Stop!

The group inside

the IC, but outside it's jurisdiction,

reporting directly to the president.

Look, I don't care.

I'm gonna jump out if

you don't stop the car.

Sit down!

Mitchell asked me to come.

I'm here for him, not for you.

A memo was drafted in secret

and sent to each agency

warning them of the

potential of Tentacle 8.

To subvert the sabotage.

Any covert programs not

subject to.

And? What's that got to do with me?

I don't know anything about any of that.

Mitchell

asked you to crash the servers,

but what he didn't tell you was that

the files of that got erased

contained the identities of the

Tentacle personell.

They're in great danger if

they're identities become known.

Not just to them, but

to national security.

I don't know

anything about Tentacle 8

or any other covert program

that Mitchell is a part of.

You know, Mitchell is

paranoid over everything.

I don't know what he told you.

I'm pretty sure a lot of it isn't true.

Mitchell

and I were stationed together

in South America.

Then, when he got transferred

to East Asia Station

I went with him.

They tried to force him to

take the station chief job,

but he refused it at least 3 times.

Because he said he never had any desire

to every put on a pair of decent shoes.

He was early to every meeting,

precise with every detail

and a man of the highest integrity.

Maybe you didn't know him very well,

but I did, and that meant something.

I don't know

anything about Tentacle 8

or anything Mitchell was a part of.

He asked me to upload a virus,

erase his case files and

anything else he might be in.

He said he was in trouble

and needed my help.

Can

you get the files back?

No, they're gone.

No one can get those back.

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