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it's absurd that you should have to go

to work at this hour well it's just

until Haley's Comet is set it brings out

the crazy people you know unhandy

Constable I will not be treated as a

thief I didn't take anything of value

what's going on here

I confiscated some pills from a

charlatan who claimed they provide

protection against the Cyanogen from the

comet's tale well we pass through the

commons tale tomorrow night yes but the

gas will be way too diffuse to have any

effect he was just preying on weak Minds

they'll all take care of this constable

so this offended you as a citizen it

offended me as a rational human being oh

I appreciate your rationality sir I'll

let you off with it this time but no

more confiscating pills

people just need to see that Haley's

Comet is this big snowball that's

circling around the Sun and this is our

once in a lifetime privilege to be able

to see it

well it is going to be a wonderful sight

you seem to know a lot about it space is

an interest of mine I'm a scientist oh

so is my father what field engineering

mostly

but I'm also a Rocket Man

Rocketman yeah low earth orbit mostly

circling the Earth every 92 minutes

it's lonely out in space

what did I tell you people are going bad

already

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it's lovely isn't it it is

I just wish people weren't so stupid

well that's one more

look I have to check on a break-in that

was reported earlier on Tate Street

I suppose I'll see you at home

good night constable

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yeah

you have to believe me sir it's

the end

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just washed up and grabbed me so it

really scared me to death going on about

the end of the world I just assumed

there was another trap going moon from

the comet

any Witnesses not to his stabbings

Robert somebody remembered seeing him

there came in Suma

appears to have been stabbed at least

four times

so I have a look at his knees

yes it was definitely kneeling in

something

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stationed to Don Station 8 15 pm

the Humber station is just North of

Bolton on the CP line

so if he left at 8 15 he'd have arrived

at down station shortly after nine and

he was killed when roughly 11 30.

so he knocked around for a couple of

hours perhaps he's from here do we have

a name no name no Witnesses no motive

I've asked Henry to pass his photograph

around the area

if you ask me it's all this Comet

Madness the whole City's Gone Crackers

thank God it only happens once every 76

years serious

look at this

what is it George it's not pertaining to

the case directly Sir Mr Crabtree your

skills as a creative and original

thinker make you an ideal asset for a

project of great importance for the

future of humanity

please attend our presentation convene

outside the Elmwood Arms Hotel at noon

today not bloody likely but sir it's

regarding the uh future of humanity an

original thinker that's a kind way of

putting it but you don't know who sent

this no sir well George we do have a

case to solve well I know but good

morning Mom look William this came in

the mail no that's just like mine oh so

it is

Dr Ogden your skills in the fields of

medicine and psychology make you an

ideal asset for a project of great

importance for the future of humanity

being at noon

then of course we are we wouldn't want

the future of humanities to be imperiled

by our absence well I thought exactly

doctor oh look at the time we should run

thank you sir

Woody all Murdoch you're a soft touch

wow this is quite the Gathering I

recognize a few people as to why in the

University mostly

Crabtree give me strollers are you also

considered the indispensable to the

future of humanity I'm needed for my

Innovative approach to Applied

Mathematics ah indeed uh what a doctor I

think this is Melody strothers do you

know what this is all about not the

foggiest and if anyone else does they're

not saying

ladies and gentlemen

thank you for coming oh my goodness do

you know what this chat it's Mason

Bartman the philanthropist

well so listen

the victim had been kneeling in some

kind of solution if I can determine what

it is it could inform our search hence

the apparatus

the uh

apparatus yes yes a pure water is

conductive but

salt water

is more so bloody hell look at that

so if you knew it was salt why not just

taste it because

could have been arsenic

genius

so he was kneeling in salt Brian I

suspect fairly concentrated at that

where would that happen

I was so awake he was a farmer or meat

packing lots of salt there most use

Refrigeration nowadays

salt mine

there's an old brine well up near Bolton

Margaret's brother-in-law used to work

there Bolton

Fulton

there it is less than a mile from Humber

station

that can't be a coincidence probably no

if we hurry we can make the 12 45.

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doesn't seem operational

but there were loads of fresh Carriage

tracks at the gate

what's this then

not as derelict as we assumed

looks like an elevator

but there's no buttons

there's a ladder here

I thought you think

I can't see the bottom

if it reaches the saline stratum could

be several hundred feet

you go ahead I'll stay up here

after you

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oh okay

names please oh uh this is detective

Murdoch and I'm inspector Bracken Reed

of the Transformers Delray neither of

you is an invitee we're here on Police

business we are out of your jurisdiction

I must ask you to leave what you two

doing here

oh I could ask the same yeah sir we're

still not quite sure but look we've been

giving these lovely pocket watches

oh I love one of those

oh perhaps I haven't made myself clear

we're on a murder investigation now

unless the presentation's about to begin

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ladies and gentlemen ladies and

gentlemen thank you for coming

and welcome to the end of the world

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for 76 years we knew this fellow was

coming

we didn't know exactly when or where the

complexities of orbital mechanics make

such predictions impossible but among

them was a low probability that Haley's

Comet would collide with Earth

it's happened before

more times than we can count

the meat here that made this was 150

feet in diameter the resulting crater

was 40 times that size now imagine if

Earth was struck by an object 10 million

times as massive that's Haley's Comet

a collision of that magnitude would

destroy every remnant of human

civilization

I wish I could say that this was the

greatest danger we face but with each

technology comes new and more terrible

weapons

we know too much of the Folly of human

nature to believe that we wouldn't use

them against each other in an orgy of

self-annihilation

so what are we to do

while the threats we Face are

existential their probability is

unknowable

but as I say it's happened before

laugh if you must but this is what I'm

proposing folks

a repository of our accumulated human

knowledge and those humans best suited

to its continuation thanks to our

benefactor Mason Bartman and the

tireless efforts of the team tasked with

its design and construction we have made

such an arc here in the cavity left by

this old brinewell each of you has been

chosen for your skills and expertise in

not just maintaining the human species

but of society itself and accumulated

knowledge

these are more than just party gifts

in the events of a sudden catastrophe an

alarm will sound

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upon hearing this you are to return to

this facility with your immediate family

you will likely never get the call

but if you do

the future of mankind depends on your

heeding it

thank you

I'm not sure I want the responsibility

of saving Humanity I suspect you won't

be required to heed the call anytime

soon

I suppose some of us are not good enough

what in special I'd invite you but you

already said immediate family

thank you so much for coming I really

genius point the presentation George

Julia thank you so much for coming

Murdoch and I just here on business

apparently I'm afraid to ask

you happen to know this man

dear God that's kenvin kenvin

Wiley he works for me he was found

stabbed to death last night in Corktown

Corktown does this surprise you well I

thought he was here last night I didn't

know that he'd left vehicle what time

did kenvin sign out he didn't I noted

his absence as I was closing up what

time was that shortly before midnight

when did you last see him Last Supper he

was dining with Mr pendrick and Bartman

that's right about seven

did you notice anything unusual in his

demeanor it was the night before the

launch I doubt I'd notice thank you

he had been kneeling in brine where

could this have happened

above us is 600 feet of shale and

Limestone but flowing over that is the

Humber River water gets in it's rare but

it happens is it important

I don't know yet well my team is at your

disposal how can we help you Detective

now that our victim has a name I suppose

I'd like to know more about him well all

my personal files are kept in the

library come with me Mr pendrick why a

brine well well no excavation was

necessary we simply moved into an

existing space and salt is an excellent

medium for long-term storage and being

600 feet deep were insulated from the

effects of any Calamity that may occur

on the surface

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to save space all documents are filmed

and then projected these cabinets

contain all current scientific

Publications plus an assortment of the

great works of literature

I'm afraid your respective Works have

not been included in spite of their

obvious Merit in your case a

crime-solving manual would be

unnecessary in a society without crime

indeed although a moot points given that

he would be included as member of your

family what does that leave me

I'm sorry Tom but some friendship alone

cannot be a determining Factor but

Crabtree makes the cup

well George Crabtree sees things that

others don't he thinks outside the um

realm of sanity

outside the box

the bloody box what box the box that

holds the way everybody else thinks

exactly well put

sorry I just felt a drop

oh yes look at this is that where he

kneel then

I believe so

and if it was

likely how do you know what he was

looking for

well this one is out of place

modern technology quarterly spring 1906.

allow me

seems the entire issue is dedicated to

the mechanized dispersal of liquid

aerosols oh it's a peach tuna

so why was Wiley looking at it

you have no idea excuse me gentlemen

huh

Kevin had a master's degree in biology

he lived in Parkdale

sticky was for the Don station

he likely wasn't going home then oh he

was studying under Dr Henry Sanford

someone you know I did know him he died

a few years ago he was working on a

plague vaccine same

I heard his back

in India maybe China

listen to this an Ernestine Sanford

reported a break-in at her father's Lab

at 43 T Street when was this 9 35 last

night sir maybe that's what Wiley was

doing in Coke town

I was fetching coal from the bin when I

heard someone rummaging back here

they must have entered through the

window

did you get a look at him I didn't see

him at all I went back into the house

and telephoned the police when I

returned I found the tarp has been

pulled off my father's desk his journal

was opened and this box was here this

appears to be a lab Journal

this looks like it's been in a fire

why would someone be looking at these no

idea I didn't follow my father's work

your father was researching the Bubonic

plague pneumonic actually

is there a difference

bubonic is spread by fleas mnemonic is

transmissible between humans and in this

case rats

oh my goodness

what is it

there was an accidental outbreak perhaps

in separate cages became infected

aerosol transmission that's unusual for

the plague

perhaps it was a new strain

the speed of infection suggests the

transmissibility equal to or greater

than the measles

goodness

you can get the measles

Street he's left instructions that these

vials be burned in a kiln

why not do that himself perhaps he

realized that he was infected

that must be it

he never told me I found the body and he

left instructions to be cremated

he took his own life I never knew why

until now

he's highlighted a sequence of numbers

here what are they

j.a1731

through to ja 1738 those are the vials

he's instructed to be incinerated

but these have been incinerated but the

numbers don't match

perhaps the wrong batch was incinerated

so what happened to the vials containing

the plague

is that why Mr Wiley was looking at

schematics for aerosol dispersal

mechanisms William the mnemonic form of

the plague is 99 fatal

seems someone has created a way of

releasing a plague that would wipe out

Humanity

here look at this

is what he was looking at or one just

like it the entire issue is dedicated to

pressurized liquid dispersal mechanisms

for what purpose artificial pollination

fragrance

paint paint the point is one of these

could be used for the rapid dispersal of

an aerosolized plague

so what you're saying is that there's

some nutcase out there hell Benson

wiping out Humanity I honestly don't

know what is happening sir only that

we've discovered what Mr Wiley himself

was seeking so was Wiley killed by

someone trying to stop him from

releasing the plague I would think it

was the other way around that he was

trying to stop his killer from releasing

the plague how's that well here he's

been stabbed several times and instead

of finding himself help he comes to me

to tell me that it's the end of the

world you think he was trying to warn

you

given the potential Peril we should

assume the threat remains

if the intent is to release a plague

wouldn't it also come with a plan to

survive it

the ark is pendrick behind this

impossible

canvan Wiley worked with Dr Sanford he

also worked on the ark I'm not denying

The Coincidence of it Murdoch or the

logic I simply find it Beyond

contemplation

who knew of the arc project

a couple of hundred people it wasn't a

well-kept secret which is the invitees

knew

I have no idea

none were told before the launch but

word gets around

who originally conceived of the Ark

I did I suppose when

three years ago or thereabouts could you

be more specific

if necessary why because we're bloody

asking James

the outbreak in Dr Sanford's laboratory

occurred in June 1907. what we would

like to know is if the idea of the Ark

arose subsequent to that

the discussion was first broached on the

pendrick Parlor early in the fall

semester

someone posted a calculation of the

probability of Haley's Comet colliding

with Earth it stood a vigorous

discussion in which I was an active

participant

oh dear God Murdock

was I manipulated have I been duped who

else took part in this discussion a

Mason Bartman is the only one I Knew by

name most people preferred pseudonyms is

there any record of these discussions

yes the Parlor is closed but most of the

exchanges in the public forum have been

archived I'll have a portal delivered

immediately

sirs

what have you George I've been going

through Dr Sanford's research a familiar

name came up well spit it out country

all this plague research was funded by

Mason Berman

I'm a philanthropist detective I gifted

dozens of charities

why plague research

is that a serious question

Bubonic plague has devastated the poor

countries of Asia and if I'm being

serious I was

fearful of the outbreak reaching Canada

is that why you funded the ark project

it's one of the reasons

whose idea was it to build this Ark for

all I know it was mine

I'm a fearful man Detective

I fear for my family I fear for myself I

fear for

we fly through the comet's tale tonight

scientists predicted that Cyanogen would

poison us all

apparently that won't happen

perhaps

but I'll be spending tonight in the ark

with my family just in case

sir

I think I found something

thank you for your time Mr Bartman it's

a good day

I've been through the pendrick archives

did you find any relevant discussions I

did and then I went further back and I

found an exchange you'll definitely be

interested in between two people cat

lady and

lmn899 LMN rights population growth is

an exponential function Humanity may be

the Pinnacle of evolution but it is a

cancer on the natural world cat lady

responds well perhaps a call is in order

what percentage do we eliminate LMN I

say we go back to day one cat lady make

it day two we'll need an atom and an eve

LMN h-a-h-a-h-a

we'll need an arc too if we want to ride

out the storm what date was this

exchange sir August 12 1907. so about a

month before the purported arc

discussions cat lady then writes well

Adam it's a big job we have ahead of us

how do you propose we go about killing

everybody but us and here's The Clincher

sir he writes well Eve mnemonic plague

is 99 deadly I'll take care of that you

start building the ark

oh we need to find those two sir I have

no idea who lma899 could be but I used

to work with a woman whose parlor name

was cat lady

your pseudonym is cat lady

yes

I like cats

oh my God

I remember this

you're discussing using mnemonic plague

to wipe out Humanity yes but we weren't

serious you can't think this represents

an actual plan

it was a flirtation

with a perfect stranger it was

fun to be so wicked

for God's sakes we're talking about the

death of almost 2 billion people you

can't think

I know nothing about plague science

but you knew about Mr pendrick's Ark

project yes

I didn't know I'd be included

who is

lmn899 I don't know

that's the truth

l m n a double nine could it be a

telephone number or a name what kind of

name is that well initials first model

and last uh Lucy mod Montgomery

and the number is 899

a birth year month

September 89.

if that is it well the booger should be

easy to find

we'll get cracking Crabtree just a

moment

George say it again once quickly

lmn899

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try it now lmn899

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eliminate 99 as in percent that's it

it's got to be eliminate his own yes

almost definitely but he'll be difficult

to find eliminate 99 was likely an

invitee to the pendrick art that should

narrow the range look into everything a

lemonade has ever written on the Patrick

parlor I can help

August 10th 1907 is this his first

message

read it

problems mathematical all population

growth is exponential it will double per

unit time until it encounters a

constraint in the case of bacteria that

constraint is often the death of its

host and I write back

that's kind of like us

bodies to bacteria as Earth is to us

it's scale symmetry scale symmetry

I was trying to impress him with my

cleverness

Effie

I'm sorry I should have called

there's been a change of plans

you could see that

I'm comfortable

constable

you must do something about this

see the comet through a telescope 59

Cornwall Street what's the problem with

that

it's my telescope

my address

is this a reference to the doubling

Penny wager

yes the one

it's an idea meant to convey the concept

of exponential growth would you rather

have a million dollars or a penny which

doubles every day for a month a million

dollars

surely that's the same

but a doubling Penny would take it takes

a week to reach a dollar another week

takes you to a hundred bucks times a

hundred each week

so the third week would go from 100 to

10 000 and the fourth

a million ten more days and you've got a

billion how much longer to reach 2

billion

one more day

thanks to modern medicine and

agriculture we're doubling every 50

years in a hundred years we could have

seven billion people seven billion

that's hardly sustainable we'd starve to

death first there's your constraint want

to make the world livable for another 10

000 years

go back a few weeks

it's logical

completely barmy but logical

all right listen up you're all on

private property and need to disband

immediately

well here in 30 seconds we'll be wearing

these tonight

if you'd like to live your final moments

in a Cell I'd be happy to oblige

thank you

what on Earth is that

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yes this is definitely one

there's a triggering device set to

release it at midnight

right after the comet is due to set the

two Chambers allow for the rapid

compression of contents before its

release is a fine aerosol

the droplet size is 20 microns just one

droplet inhaled could start a pandemic

so the vial itself isn't pressurized

that mm-hmm

William

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please be careful

ja1735

this is one of them we need to get it

into a kill right away there's one at

the University

Henry

notify every Station House

each constable in this city needs to be

on the lookout for these there are seven

remaining they all need to be found

before midnight

hurry sorry

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the plague must have been released

someone at the ark was alerted

give us a moment James

of course

I can't go

I'm not leaving without you Julia

you have to

for Susanna's sake you have to help

it's all right

who triggered the alarm

I did I thought a plague had been

released and how did you find out Mason

Bartman arrived with information I

should have received from you you

overstepped your Authority I had no

knowledge of your whereabouts as head of

logistics it was left to me to make the

decision it was a rash decision

plague has not been released and we've

identified the culprit

who is it he goes by eliminate 99

that's not a name we've already

discovered one dispersal device and the

entire constabulary has been alerted I'm

confident we'll find the others indeed

and how confident are you more confident

than I am in you at the moment

very well

that is your evaluation consider this my

resignation

before God's sakes Ian

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it's 10 30. we have an hour and a half

let's not waste it

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sir

somebody rented out a cargo hold

of a ship claimed it would be protected

from the cyanogen

and was there a disperser on board they

found it in the air intake good Lord and

the vial taken to the university as per

instructional very good which serial

number

um

ja1737

very good Henry

um

get back out there sir

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you check that direction

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all right

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please

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I don't believe it

George you have to see this

Adam Ivey password Tesla

pendrick eliminate 99 is pendrick what I

think we should start at the beginning

yes please eliminate 99's first chat was

August 7th but I remember Chads from

before so I conducted a search for

specific words he used clever idea and

we found this name before he was

eliminate 99 he was Adam Ivey isn't that

a plant yes and Mr pendrick had one in

his office and that's why I checked and

every one of his posts came from inside

pendrick headquarters Executive Suite

still so I was able to reverse engineer

the passcode

and it was Tesla so

was the name of pendrick's dog at the

time coincidence yes it has to be what

was your passcode

violet

who's violet she was my dog

but this is pendulum we're talking about

I mean he he's trying to save Humanity

not destroy it unless this is his way of

saving Humanity

this is testable what was Hendrick's

passcode

my God it can't be

what is this

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where was it the Academy Theater sir

take a look at this

it seems every disperser we found had

some connection to Haley's Comet I

suppose that's where the Crowds Are

he's a little too clever for his own

good

right then

so we're only looking for things related

to the comet that's right cheers

I've got some names both the cargo hold

and the observatory were rented by Mr L

M Nate and Hugh minetti well let's look

them up and bring them in

you won't find them

if you say both names quickly you get

eliminate Humanity

I really want to get this booger

I don't know what to say I'm astonished

you'd think me capable of such a crime

let alone carrying it out so you're not

out of my

no his post came from the executive

portal using your passcode if not you

then who anybody on the executive floor

had access well the critical point is

that he worked for pendrick Enterprises

on or before July 1907. so who's here

now that worked for you then

there would be several Mr vegal can't be

him he just left in high dungeon Ian

vegel initials IV right but then Adam

we should check his personnel file right

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my God it is him and he owns biology

degree the same year as one it was Bagel

Who convinced me to invite you to the

ark I always thought he fancied me but

he just left well maybe he knew we'd be

on to him

no signal he's got the lines we'll make

the call from Humber station

there's not working

well there's this ladder it's 600 feet

straight up

I'm claustrophobic I can't do it I can

excellent I'll go with you

seven out of eight only one more to go

it may as well be a hundred if we'd all

find it

so what now we've checked every comment

related event we expand our search

if only we knew who was behind this

have you talked to pendrick or tried

calling but I can't get through

if they found something they would have

told us

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are you okay I'm I'm all right I'll be

right there

thank you

that was Station House five

they've sent constables down every

street looking for Gatherings nothing

I've heard the same from station houses

one and three look Murdock

the last train to Humber station leaves

in 15 minutes

save yourself

I'm not going anywhere sir we just got a

telegram from Humber station it's a

message from George

culprit Ian vagel stop bought ticket to

Parkdale at 10 17 address 1201 Queen

Street West

you think he's been here already sir

look

close about a strike midnight the vial's

been removed

there's the landlady saw Vega leave

about a half an hour ago

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hmm look at that

we passed through the tail tonight with

a bit of look that'll kill us before the

plague kisses look it's George

when we arrived

he took the plague vial with him I think

I know where he's gone the roof of

Hendrick Enterprises we used to have

lunch there it's his favorite place

Murdoch you take Mrs brothers and check

it out we'll get copies of his photos

out to all the other station houses cool

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hold it right there Mr Bagel Ian don't

what are you doing here I locked you in

you shouldn't be here

hand me that vial and we can all walk

away you don't understand we are a

Cancer we'll destroy the planet and then

ourselves it's inevitable it's not

look at me

no children maybe that's our future

if you release the contents of that vial

then it's all over

for everyone

still be Eve to your Adam we can call

live on an island

you know it's too late for that

stand back

no

no no

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so that's it then the world is safe

for now

unless he's right

right

maybe we're the ones destroying the

planet

well it's our planet isn't it

besides that's for future generations to

worry about

oh my God

it's beautiful

look at that Susanna

that's Haley's comment

the next time you see that you'll be an

old woman huh

the world would be in very different

place

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