Thanks for watching! Welcome to Agent's Dossier,
a Delta Green actual play series brought to you
by 12 Sided Stories. And now your GM, Wes Otis.
Hello. My name is Wes Otis. Welcome to Agents
Dossier, episode number 28. I have some wonderful
players with me. Let us start with Mac. Ew. Hi,
everybody. I am Mac, and I am playing Wanda Sims,
who is about as straight -laced as it comes.
We'll see how that goes with this bunch of miscreants.
Hey, I'm Michelle and I'm playing Yesenia Alvarez.
And yeah, she's all patched up and ready to go.
Hello, I'm playing Norman Morales. And yeah,
he's ready to get his feet wet, even though his
shoes are very clean. So wrong analogy. Hi, I'm
Pooja playing Robin Porter, who just wants to
remind you that if you remain so stiff, it leads
to a higher likelihood of injury. and stretching
and loosening up will actually result in a higher
rate of success. You know what leads to higher
rates of injury? Bullets. Bullets lead to higher
rates of injury. Yeah, what's a good stretch
for bullets, Robin? Can you lead us through that
exercise? If you're more limber, then you can
get into a sprint faster. You can bullet time
like Keanu Reeves. You can zigzag. It makes for
a harder target. Serpentine, serpentine. One
advanced stretch is to jump into the air, stretch
out as far as you can, and jump behind something.
It's to sprint, slide in like you're sliding
in the home base underneath a car. Yeah. Therefore,
the better targets are the people who are slower
to get underneath the car around you. Yes. Incredible.
So last time we got together, the crew met each
other at a Lenny's in Fresno to get a brief from
Agent Jackson, their new case handler, who is
seems to have a very hands on management style
to help with backup. and any of that stuff that
you might need. So she's going to be in the area
why the operation is going on. She reviewed the
last operation and felt that that was a good
step forward to make it a little bit easier for
you all. You found out about five disappearances
from the same school of parents from students
of Washington Middle School in Fresno. And if
anyone's listening in Fresno, I know I made it
up because I didn't want to actually pick a real
middle school from Fresno. I think that'd be
kind of weird. So these parents have disappeared
after sporting events, usually at night. The
last one disappeared in his car, and his son
was in the back seat and fell asleep or was unconscious,
doesn't really remember anything. You all asked
a lot of good pertinent questions. whether or
not the missing parent students were really good
at the sport or really bad, and there didn't
seem to really be a correlation, at least that
Agent Jackson knew about. She also let you know
that they were kind of from all over the place
and that their disappearances were usually...
broken up by whatever season sport was going
on someone disappearing from football someone
disappearing from soccer someone disappearing
from basketball depending on what was going on
for that season you also found out that the pta
is very active in the school and the leader of
the pta is brie baker you don't know much about
her beyond her name and There hasn't been anything
left at the crime scene, so no residues have
been found, no gunpowder, no obvious signs of
a crime besides the person just going missing.
The reason you're all here is because of that.
There usually is a clear path, and the local
PD would be the ones dealing with it. But Delta
Green picked up on it and decided this is something
that we should look into. She also warned you
about Phantom News, both a good thing and a bad
thing. It's a group of YouTubers who go out and
investigate suspicious things going on that might
be supernatural. And they may have picked up
on this story. Delta Green has been kind of trying
to keep it out of the news, but with no avail.
It's kind of rumbling now because five victims
is really hard to keep from the school kind of
blowing up in rumors. That is where we ended
last time. You've left the Lenny's. You've gone
to where the coordinates are for the green box,
which is kind of your loot drop box in a way.
body armor and weapons and all that good stuff
in it. Basically, if it's not too far out of,
you know, there's no flamethrower in there, but
if you want a shotgun or rifle or grenade or
something like that, you can get that kind of
stuff and body armor as well as maps and different
places to go in the city that might be helpful.
You're all together. You've gone by your drop
box or your green box. What do you all want to
do? Well, do we have to, we have to figure out
cover, right? Our cover for interacting with.
Yeah. I was going to leave that up to you. How,
what kind of cover do you want to give? Yeah.
So would we have anyone in the school that would
know actually who we are? Kind of like we can.
So absolutely. Nobody knows who you are. Undercover.
Okay. Totally undercover. Very interesting. Cause
I, I had one idea. I'll propose it to my team
that we could go in as a repair company. That
kind of someone could make a little problem that
seems bigger than it is. And then we have access
to a lot of unconventional areas within the school.
That's just a one off that or. I do wonder about
the school security measures. Of course, we can
probably look that up, but could also go in from
that angle of there's weird stuff. We've been
hired by the district to increase security. Those
are my two ideas for now. Or we could go with
the whole FBI straight up angle. I like your
idea. I think maybe a combination of things like
maybe one of us is the new custodial staff and
one of us is, you know, a couple of us are doing
repairs on, I don't know, the phones or the computers
or, you know, whatever. People tend not to notice
service people. I was also going to propose that
we have someone pose as a athletic recruiter
to go talk to the gym teacher to get more information
about the school's athletics program. Very good
idea. I mean, you could all go under different
covers. Yeah, we could. Or we could go as a team
that's been sent by a local politician in order
to, you know, the new initiative about. Excellence
in schools and the possibility of more funding,
which always gets people to talk about things
that are wrong. Just a thought. That is also
a great angle. Yeah, give the teachers five minutes
with you. They'll tell you everything that is
wrong with the school and the district. We're
just going to talk shop for like ever. A while.
So any one of those ideas is great. You need
to pick one. I feel like my strengths could be
served as coming in as a... either electrician
repairing type deal, or we could go IT route,
of course. And I am okay with doing that with
a, either just a duo or single or whatever, because
I do like the diverse roles that we should be
playing here. I do believe various covers is
going to give us the most coverage. Yeah. So,
I mean, I'm fine with going in as custodial staff
and maybe Norman, you go in as IT and, you know,
Wanda, you could be the, athletic recruiter.
And Robin, you could go in as like some organizational
grant, you know. I mean, all of that showing
up at once, like all four of us showing up at
once with completely different covers feels like
suspicious. They're not going to notice custodial
or IT. They're not going to notice. Nobody understands
IT. No one remembers who the IT people are. Same
with custodial. Robin, I do believe that our
two covers could be. combined into one cover
and we can go in as a team. That sounds great.
I appreciate that. It just feels so, I don't
know, like, yes, different covers, but also,
hi, here are four new people who have shown up.
Yeah, originally I was thinking this would be
spread out. No way on the same day. Yeah, well,
if we speak to academic excellence across the
board and particular funding and that we have
a particular interest in the health of the students
and keeping them active, that allows us to discuss
the sports angle as well. Yeah, balancing sports
and physical activity with schoolyard performance
or school classroom performance, schoolyard performance.
But yeah, something like that. Is your son a
wimp? We just need to know for our statistics.
Does he get beat up a lot? Does he get beat up?
So then doesn't, because we could also still
do it in two different days if we still are nervous
about four new faces. Or do we feel confident
with a duo and then two solo acts? We could do
it in one day. Or do we have an umbrella of,
you know, so that way if people see us together
later, we don't have to hide. That we know each
other. The umbrella of improvement of the school,
but covering these different areas. Yeah. We
could all be sent by the district in some way
for that common goal. Yeah. So like Norman could
start investigating their, what tech do you have?
What do you have? You know, what could be improved
on? Stuff like that. I could look at facilities
in general and talk to different people in facilities
because they see everything. Yep. All right.
But yes, that's just my idea. That way I don't
have to pretend not to know you all. So I'm going
to say for confusion's sake that you all are
using obviously aliases and all of that, but
we're not going to get into all of that. We're
just going to use character names and the listeners
just know. that we're using that for simplicity
so that we don't all get confused. But in reality,
you are using fake IDs, fake names, and all of
that, okay? Just because otherwise, we have 16
different names going on, and that's chaos none
of us needs. All right, so you get all your gear,
you make your plans. The next day is, we'll say
for convenience sake, is going to be Monday.
A great time for you to make a surprise visit
on Washington Middle School. All right. So the
next day, you all get ready. You dress appropriately
for what you're about to do. And you head over
to Washington Middle School and you get to the
front desk. You walk up and there's a middle
-aged woman there with purple hair. And she says,
hello. What can I do for you today? Yes, good
morning. I am here on behalf of the district,
and I believe that you knew that we were coming,
correct? She looks at her Post -it notes in front
of her. She goes, no, I didn't. What's it regarding?
Well, honestly, that's part of what it was regarding.
We want to make sure that communication is on
the up and up between the district and the individual
schools, making sure that everything is... As
it should be on all fronts for potential grants.
Oh, okay. Well, I'm very sorry. We did not get
any communique about it. Oh, and I apologize
for that as well. It's a communication thing
that we're really trying to reinforce throughout
the school district. I see. Okay. Well, Principal
Martinez is out doing... Her round's right now.
She'll be back in just a few minutes as soon
as first period starts up here. Should be in
a couple seconds. You'll hear the bell, and once
she's here, you can speak with her. Until then,
just take a seat. Honestly, it would be interesting
for a couple of my fellows here to go and take
a look around whilst things are in session. Is
that okay? That's fine, but I would need to see
everybody's ID and I'd need to give you a visitor's
pass. Oh, absolutely. No problem. So people know
you're here. You're supposed to be here. By the
way, this is a question that I should have asked
before. Is anybody packing at this point? Of
course. We're in the school. How did you not
trip up the metal detector? That's what I'm wondering.
I didn't even have to think about that. It is
Fresno. Well, not only is it Fresno, it's California.
I guess this is what I mean. I don't know if
middle schools have metal detectors. I guess
it depends on which school district. Well, I'm
going to give it a luck roll to see whether or
not 50 50 roll just to see whether or not they
do, because Fresno has had issues. We know. So,
yeah, it's just wild to think about. Like, I
don't have kids and haven't been in school in
a long time. So it's just foreign to me. There
is no metal detector, but there is a on site
police officer. just an officer that deals with
students who are acting up or having any problems.
All schools at this point, at least all the schools
that I've seen, kind of have a prison feel where
they have the big fence out in front, or you
have to go through one entry, and it's usually
through the office to be able to get into it,
unless it's a much older school, and then they
just have fences up everywhere. So you kind of
lucked out. You show them the IDs. Let's see
how good the IDs are. Your IDs are good. They
pass. I was about to say, what? Well, I mean,
you know, these were all done pretty quick. So,
you know. Oh, my God. No, but you're okay. She
looks at them, writes down your names in the
book. You sign the little book next to your names.
She gives you the green visitor pass things for
your shirts or blouses or whatever. And you head
out into the school. The principal will be walking
the halls, making sure students are. quickly
going to whatever class they're supposed to be.
And then she turns to a girl who is sitting,
waiting, and she goes, the vice principal will
speak to you in just a few minutes. Anna, I don't
like seeing you in here every week as the door
is shutting. So you're in the school. There are
kids everywhere going to their classes. What
do you all want to do? I'm going to keep on a
lookout for Principal Martinez because I'm going
to have to do some talking with them specifically
to help reinforce our cover. So that's what I'm
going to focus on. Okay. What about you, Saint?
What is Norman doing? Well, he has been looking
to see what type of security. system is just
here just me like cameras is it nothing is it
whatever uh can i actually do a roll to see or
can you tell me yeah you don't need to roll i'm
gonna say it's pretty they're they're not hiding
their cameras or anything they have cameras uh
it looks like in all of the hallways you're guessing
probably not in the actual rooms but definitely
in the hallways There is a police officer who
is at the front and kind of greeting kids as
they're getting there. The door is open. Right,
and no metal detectors. No metal detectors. Whether
or not that's the police officer's preference,
you don't know. Lockers, there are no lockers.
Do they have cubbies? Is it like that? No, no.
They have books. The books are usually in...
The school in the rooms that they're going to
go to and then they have a book at home. They
kind of got rid of lockers because of security.
People could put whatever they wanted in them.
So they got rid of those years ago. So a lot
of kids have backpacks with all their folders
and stuff in them. And that is why a lot of times
law enforcement is very pro metal detectors because,
of course, you can carry something in. So, yeah,
but that's what you notice is that there's there's
a police officer. There's definitely cameras
going. They've got the chain link fence around
the school. So there you go. That type. Got it.
Not a fortress, not a fortress, not a total fortress.
No, but which is probably good for their mental
health. Yeah, they're they're taking precautions.
Yeah. OK, I am because I guess I'm not going
anywhere yet. I would be looking to find their
like computer lab and find the like. Computer
teacher or something like that. Right. Some place
to get on. You probably would suspect that their
main computers, the things that you're going
to want to look into, are going to be either
attached to the office or in the office. Probably
one terminal that controls everything. Yeah,
that's a good point. I was thinking, oh, they
might even have like a. A server, you know, server
closet, rather. Yeah. Yeah. So, OK, I'm going
to be looking. That's my my next goal is to figure
out what those rooms are and get on a computer.
Yeah, they have a basically a Mordor computer
that controls it all. Robin, what are you doing?
I think I'm going to just be looking around,
trying to figure out like if there's I want to
talk to somebody. Who, like whoever the administrator
is who deals with the PTA would be my, you know,
my focus. Like, oh, let's talk about parent -teacher
involvement and what your blah, blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah. That side of it. Okay. That is definitely
going to be the vice principal. Great. So I guess
I'm talking to the VP. Yeah. Okay. Yesenia, what
are you doing? Well, before I head off, I just
kind of quietly say to Robin, because I know
Robin's going to be talking to the vice principal.
I said, find out if any of the students had any
discipline issues. Okay. Before this all, you
know, before their parents were taken. Because
I saw that girl sitting on that bench and I was
like, I wonder. So I'm going to go and start
just walking the campus and talking to facility
staff. Okay. So like janitor and all that stuff.
Janitors, groundskeepers, everybody who keeps
everything up and running, you know, looking
good. Those are the people I'm talking to. Now,
this is a school of a pretty decent size. There's
probably about, I want to say, 1 ,200 students
here altogether, which is pretty big for a middle
school, actually, because there's usually more
middle schools than there are high schools. So
they have a couple of janitorial staff, but the
main guy. is his nickname is Ace. The kids call
him Ace because he's able to throw trash from
anywhere in a room and hit the trash. And it's
just a nickname they came up with for him a few
years ago, and it just stuck. So that's what
the kids call him, and that's what he calls himself
at this point. So that's who you'll be talking
to. Let's start with Ace and kind of make our
way back around. So in the mornings, Ace is...
Kind of not in the hallways because it's just
bedlam. He waits for them all to leave. He's
a, I want to say, man in his mid -30s with a
shaved head. He's Caucasian, but has spent a
little too much time in the sun. So he definitely
looks older than he probably is because of sun
damage. He's also obviously a smoker because
you notice nicotine stains on his fingers. He
must smoke quite a bit. And he's got on a Dickies
black like overalls with a white shirt underneath.
And he is outside repairing just like in the
main area where the kids go for lunch. He's repairing
some. table out there. It's busy work before
he has to go in and clean up the hallways and
the bathrooms between the classes. And he sees
you approaching and says, hello. Good morning.
How are you? I'm fine. Can I help you? Yes. My
name is, insert pseudonym here, and I'm here
with a group that's, you know, we're evaluating
the schools and looking at their eligibility
for grants and things like that. And, you know,
we look at all aspects of the school. So I just
was wondering if you had time for a little chit
-chat? Sure. What do you need to know? Well,
what is it that you really like about this district?
I mean, my job's pretty simple. I come in and
I clean up and I fix whatever's been broken.
I like the hands -off nature of the principal.
If there's a problem, she'll let me know, but
she's not down my throat all the time about it,
so I'm able to do my job without worrying about
micromanaging. It affords me my weekends off
and allows me to head to... the Bay area or into
Los Angeles or wherever to go surf during the
summer and kind of hang out. But I mean, you
know, it's, it's a school, it's a school gig.
There's, there's not, there's stuff that's annoying
and there's stuff that's not, you know, it's,
I think it's just like any other school, to be
honest. Do you feel like you get enough support
from the district? Well, no, of course not. There's,
there's never enough support. You always want
more. more people, better supplies. Schools have
to decide where their money goes. So we don't
always get what we need. So what are those annoying
things that you deal with? When I started 15
years ago, I was at a different school. I've
been here for about five years. But when I started
doing janitorial work, the parents were just
starting the kind of helicopter parent thing.
And nowadays, they seem to let the kids get away
with more and more. The children will make a
mess or act out, and I don't feel like there's
enough. Like, they should be taught that, yes,
this is a janitorial job, it's a labor job, and
it's important. And without us, the school would
look like utter hell. Respecting your environment
is something I think that the kids haven't been
learning enough of. To clean up after themselves
or to respect all of the staff. There's a lot
of rich parents who I don't think their kids
are being taught that work is a backbone of how
society is kept running. Yeah, I mean, I can
totally see that. I think a lot of them don't
even realize the safety implications of not maintaining.
the grounds and the facilities. It's an important
job. That's why I'm asking. So how involved are
the parents at this school? It really depends
on what parents you're talking about. It runs
the gamut. If you're part of the PTA, those are
a lot of the rich parents that have a parent
that is able to stay at home. Our working class
parents aren't usually in the PTA. And so they
don't usually have an opportunity to show up
to all the meetings and everything else. They're
still involved. It's just not in the same way.
I don't know how to explain it. The PTA is very
authoritarian at this point. They really push
hard for the changes that they want, and their
changes usually align with what they want. for
their own children, not for the betterment of
the entire school. Was the PTA at your previous
school this bad? No, nowhere near. The last school
I was in, it was more of a mix. You have parents
that generally would love to be more involved,
but just work too much. And, you know, so they'll
show up to a couple of games and do what they
can. And then you have parents that chip in.
But this group, this particular bunch seems to
be very cliquish. Okay. All right. And I think
that's it. I'll let you get back to work. Do
you mind if I just take a walk around the campus?
Be my guest. Go for it. Thank you. I really appreciate
it. All right. Let's jump over to Pooja and Robin.
So, Robin, you were going to possibly speak to
the vice principal, Wallace Tucker. So he's in
the office. And when you go back into the office,
the young lady who was there is leaving his office.
And you hear him say, I don't want to see you
back in here for the rest of the school year
or next time we're calling your parents. And
she passes you by with this, you know, kind of
looking down, angry look on her face. And how
do you introduce yourself? Hello, Mr. Tucker.
I'm sure you've been informed that we are here
on behalf of the school district to evaluate
and make notes in terms of possible grant distribution.
Come into my office. We can talk. Wonderful.
Well, my colleagues are out. You know, we each
have our own. expertise, if you will. And mine
today is family administrator relations. Okay.
And it's my understanding that you are the point
person in contact with the PTA here? Yes, I am.
I deal with a lot of the PTA requests and scheduling
and all that. And how would you say, how involved
would you say parents are in the PTA? Is there
community investment? There is A lot of community
investment in the PTA itself. Our PTA members
tend to be the most invested. As is, you know,
that's pretty standard, I suppose. It is, yeah.
And I know that you have a robust athletics program
at this institution. And do you have a subset
of the PTA that would consider themselves like
the boosters, if you will? Yes. I would even
go so far as saying that PTA's main focus is
sports. Yeah, they do focus on academics to a
point, but they're also very involved in sports.
Additional disciplinary problems, additional,
like maybe some academic lagging. Well, as long
as you're not quoting me on what I'm saying about
the parents of this particular facility. All
of our information is confidential. Okay. In
that case, they are trying is a polite way to
say how they are. interacting they can be very
trying there is a group of moms at the top with
a woman named brie baker running the pta right
now her youngest is in the elementary school
she has her middle child in middle school and
her oldest child is going to be graduating and
i so i've been dealing with brie for quite a
while and i have to deal with her for another
stent if i stay at this school uh she is as ineloquent
as this might be um a ball breaker she is uh
difficult to deal with and her friends are difficult
to deal with they are only interested in what
will help their own children and see anybody
who's not in the pta or part of their clique
as lesser now i didn't explain wallace tucker
looked like he is a black man in his 50s a little
bit overweight but still you know not bad has
a suit on that is very nicely pressed and everything
else and with that kind of in mind you get the
inference that he's saying is that uh they tend
to be a bit in the superiority complex of their
kids being more important than everyone else
You said Brie has, there's like a group of mothers.
Yes. The other two are Tiffany and Summer are
the other two. So it's Tiffany Rogers and Summer
Westfield. Oh, right. Now, where would you say
your greatest. Community outreach, where is your
strongest and where are your weakest points at
this time? Well, sports basically generates a
lot of money for us. The PTA does, to their credit,
set up a lot of things like bake sales. There's
car washes. There's all of these different things
that they do throughout the year. But we also
do things like book fairs, like scholastic sales.
We have our usual open house and our teacher
meetings. That allows us to connect with parents
who are not able to show up as much as other
parents. But yeah, those are our biggest community
outreach. Fantastic. And would you say that,
especially with new parents constantly coming
in, that there's anyone else? I mean, surely
once you get into the... Year five, year six
of someone being the head of the PTA, usually
there are people who like chafe under that kind
of yoke, if we will. He looks reserved for a
moment, like, OK, we're off the record. Absolutely
confidential. And it's really just to get a overall
sense of the health of the school. So being from
the district, you know that we've had some parents
go missing this year. Each year, Bree has been
challenged by someone. And in the past, what
would happen is they would get together and attack
whoever was doing this. Last year, she didn't
have Summer and Tiffany. She always has somebody,
though, that she uses as, you know, her bulldog.
spread rumors or whatever. And this is all stuff
that happens outside the school at PTA meetings.
The faculty doesn't really have much interaction
with them except for when we're invited to those
meetings and when we go and present. So we don't
see the fights that are going on outside of that.
But I do know that she's a bully and I do know
that she goes after people. Now this year, we've
had a few parents disappear. and each of those
parents has complained about Bree, Tiffany, and
Summer for their draconian views on what should
be done with the school. Each of them, except
for... Now, I'm going to rattle off the names
of the victims real quick, just so you all know.
So the first victim was Julia Rivers, and she...
was trying really hard at the beginning of the
year to unseat Bree, and then she just disappeared.
I'm not saying that Bree had anything to do with
it, but it just seems awkward to me. And I mentioned
this to the police at the time when they questioned
us. Shannon White got in an argument with Summer,
I believe. She disappeared not long after that.
Her kid, she's not even part of the PTA, but
her kid's on one of the, I believe she's in track
or something. I'd have to look it up. 1 ,500
students, so I forget. But they got in an argument
at a game, and she disappeared. The next person
was Toni Cruz. Toni was part of the PTA. I don't
know what happened there. I don't know what the
connection with the three were, but I got to
say, just, I don't know. In my opinion, all of
these disappearances have something to do with
those women. Goodness. But that's off the record.
There's no proof. Of course, of course. I can't
connect it back to them. It's just, I mean, you
know, you get a bullshit detector. You just kind
of get a feel for these things. Yeah, well, if
you can think of anything else, especially anything
that might, you know, it sounds like perhaps
an influx of funding might give you a little
bit more autonomy from relying on fundraising
activities from the PTA specifically. And it
sounds like academics could specifically use
a boost. So if you could think of anything else
that would help in terms of applying for grants,
just let me know. I'll leave my information and,
of course, the district's information with the
front desk. Absolutely. Thank you for coming
in. I don't know if it's really a front desk,
like when you're talking about a school. It's
been a long time. Yeah. They say front desk,
but it's usually a, like, you know. It's a bar.
That's an administrative assistant. I don't know.
Yeah. A secretary with a lot of power. So you
get up and he shakes your hand. Let's jump over
to Norman. Norman, you were going to check out
their little server room and their computer,
I believe. Yes. So I got to literally sound different.
Looking for that server room. I'm guessing again
that. would be close to where the adults are.
It's just off the office, and there's the speckled
man in there hunched over the computer, probably
in his late 20s, typing out stuff. And when you
open the door, he turns around and says, Oh,
hello, I'm sorry, I didn't know. Are you lost?
The bathrooms are down that way. Oh, yeah, don't
worry about that. And I just point to my badge.
I'm with the district. We're analyzing a couple
of different things about Washington Middle.
And yeah, I'm the computer guy. I'm guessing
that's who you are. I am, too, a computer guy.
Fantastic. So, I mean, it's real casual here.
I'm just trying to make sure things aren't ridiculously
out of date, as is usual with the schools in
this district. And I know it's... partially funding.
So we're going to see if we can correct that
or, you know, fix any holes, patch any holes
that might be, you know, leaking and we didn't
see. So tell me about your setup here. Well,
you're right. We're behind the times. Just so
you know, I'm Caleb Hernandez. It's nice to meet
you. Oh, yeah. I'm Norman. Sorry. You know, the
badge really makes it easy and you forget. Yes.
I'm on a old Dell computer at this point. I would
love a computer that doesn't take 25 minutes
to boot up. An SSD hard drive would be wonderful,
but I've been told that getting more than a few
gigs of internal memory beyond the external memory
that we have for the server is asking too much.
Basically, what I have here is everything's hooked
up through... The computer just sends everything
to the drives. All the drives are disk drives.
We don't have anything beyond that, which is
normal. That's normal. But a newer computer that's
not so old, he's exaggerating, though. You're
looking at the computer. It's probably four years
old, and it's a Windows machine. It's probably
running like Windows 9 or something like that
or whatever. the uh what was it eight point something
eight point something yeah so it's not like vista
it's not you know that bad but you could see
the xp you could see that it definitely could
use an update um and that they're recording everything
over to these large like pullout drives so the
fans are going and it's pretty loud in here and
they pump air condition you know air into help
keep everything cool. Okay. So how long are you
keeping the data on these drives? Because this
is, and I'm going to pretend I didn't notice.
Oh, this is probably the security feed, right?
Yeah, we get the security feed in here. We've
been told that we can't get rid of anything for
a year. So a school year, that is. So school
starts, we start with brand new drives that have
been wiped and everything. And we go through
the entire year. And then if no one, if there's
no problems by the time the next school year
starts, about a week before the school year starts,
I wipe everything and we start again. Okay. All
right. So that is a massive amount of storage
that you have here. That's kind of incredible.
We have to run it 24 hours. We had a break -in
at the beginning of the year that didn't get
caught because we stopped after. After all the
kids have left the building, we were turning
it off to help save space. And so we had a break
in. I don't know if I should have said that or
not, but yeah. No, it's good to know. I mean,
it's rare people break into schools, let alone
a middle school. What, did they take anything
or was it like, you know, they messed up some
stuff, a little vandalism? Well, that's what
we originally thought we were going to find because
the front window had been broken. This was about
a week before school started, and we thought
maybe the kids were messing around. But it seems
like they just stole a couple of things out of
the trophy case, sorry. They stole a few things
out of the trophy case. A couple of the older
trophies from 20, 30 years ago. Who wants a basketball
trophy from 30 years ago? No idea. That's, I
mean, what, are they made of gold or something?
No way. Definitely not. Definitely not. What
a trip. Norman is filing all of these away, of
course. So we just started running 24 -7 just
in case something else happened. Right. Well,
you know, when you're dealing with kids, you
always want to be extremely safe. And let's see
if I can, well, gesture to the Dell, the ancient
Dell in front of him. I go, do you mind? I just
want to check your internal specs real quick.
Yeah, go for it. No problem. Yeah, I'll make
a quick note of them. And what I want to do is,
I mean, he's going to recognize what I'm doing
as the guy. So actually, he says it's a small
like closet almost. And he says, you know, it's
a smaller room. It's they've got racks that go
up high and it's not very big. He goes, you mind
if I go out? I want to go. The school's close
to like a pokey stop and I just need to get.
Just hit it real quick to get my numbers for
the day. So I'll be right back. Just take a look.
Oh, I thought when you said, I think you meant
a poke stop. Like, no, no, no, no. Like a Pokemon,
like Pokemon go. Yeah. Right. And Norman is like,
man, but that does inspire me to get some poke
later. So thank you. Don't let me stop you. So
he's not in the room while you're doing this
stuff. Okay. do a little exciting little crack
of my knuckles uh then i just want to because
i don't know what i'm looking for but if i can
um and i have a flash drive with me that's about
you know i meant to look up what's the biggest
size flash drive these days they're huge they're
huge yeah you can get like i think up to a terabyte
if you want or or like 500 mega 500 gigabytes
it's a lot That's awesome. And I brought one
for sure, definitely with me. And I am going
to. Let's see if I can get footage of, because
they gave us the date of, do we have the dates
for all of the, I mean, it's kind of a lot of
footage, but we do have the dates. And what month
is it right now? I meant to ask this earlier.
Right now, if we're talking a year, it's probably
January or so, because it was winter when you
did your last. thing so we'll say january it's
after winter break okay so it's the second half
of the school year correct got it got it okay
cool let's see if i can check i let's just get
footage of maybe some of the games you want to
check the dates to make to see what you can find
yes in a very specific non -wasting of time way
all right so um You find that all they have is
the hallways. They don't have anything in the
gym or in any of the classrooms for some reason.
But you can check out the hallways on the nights
that these people disappeared when there was
a sporting event. On one night in particular,
you do see a man arguing with a woman right outside
of the gymnasium. And he is using his hands.
in these, like, big gestures, and she has got
her arms crossed, and at some point, he's yelling,
and she just puts up her hand and kind of dismisses
what he's saying and walks back in, and he storms
off. He doesn't seem to have a kid with him,
so that's a bit odd. But he storms off, and that's
the end of the interaction. I am absolutely saving
the clip. And I think before I part ways with
this machine, I am going to install just a little
bit of malware. Just, you know, just keep my
eye on it, because undoubtedly we will need to
be back here. Right. Yes. Suddenly a DOS window
opens up at the bottom. Oh. And it just says,
friend? Okay. Whoever is doing this at the office
needs to be punched in the eye. What is this?
I'm like, um... Okay, is it doing anything else?
It's not doing anything else. Not right now.
All right, I am going to eject my flash drive.
No intention of interacting with it. Okay, so
you eject, and do you close the window? The DOS
window? I want to observe it real quick. So nothing's
happening? All there is is that little green
clip for you to enter in your response. Can I
try to... and the program so i want to try to
put a command line in the actual window and see
if that actually if i can get it to just turn
itself off sure you do that with no problem it
shuts off okay that's nothing has been changed
on the desktop otherwise not that you can see
now right then the guy opens the door how's everything
going i it's going good um yeah i think that
We have a good idea of what programs we can get
you guys set up with. You definitely need a new
antivirus. That's a travesty that this is connected
to the Internet. Absolutely. Yeah, let's get
that updated. In fact, I can do that remotely.
We're all connected via the networks. Any help
you can give us, I will greatly appreciate. All
right, excellent, and I will. Talk to you maybe
later. Thanks. No problem. Nice to meet you.
Name of man? Caleb Hernandez. Nice to meet you,
Caleb. All right. So you head out. Let's jump
over to Wanda. I'm going to ask you. You see
the principal kind of corralling people. The
bell rings and all the kids have gone into classes
and she has started to walk back. Her name is
Rose Martinez. She is a woman in her probably
early 60s. Her hair is peppered brown and white,
and she's probably 5 '3", but looks like she
probably could punch at 6 '2". So very much a
veteran of the middle school, and she's walking
back. How do you want to introduce yourself?
Principal Martinez. Oh, hello. Can I help you?
Yes. I am so sorry to approach you like this.
I talked to the front office and was informed
that the communication that we sent did not get
received. I am from the district and I am here
with my team to do an assessment of the school
to figure out if we can get you some grants and
some better funding. Well, that would be amazing.
I am not shocked at all that the district did
not get in touch with us. It is a bit of a shit
show. Let's go to my office and have a conversation.
Absolutely. While we're walking, do I see a trophy
case or anything like that? You do. It's right
in front, this big trophy case with a bunch of
trophies. You also notice that the doors... The
trophy case looks old, and it's been around probably
since the 50s, whereas the doors on the trophy
case look brand new. They've just been installed.
Wow, it seems like you have an impressive athletic
history here at the school. We've had some good
years, yes. It's kind of the, a lot of parents
want their kids to come here so that they can,
you know, start getting. a better education in
sports to be able to look there's there's a lot
of sports i i'll i'll tell you right off if uh
i think we focus too much on it we need to get
some music and some arts in here to help these
kids but our sports brings in the money unfortunately
understandable especially with uh it seems like
some level of prestige that you have going on
here Yes, we definitely have a good program.
Has it been continuing into this year to be successful
for you? Yes, it has been. We have been doing
relatively well, for sure. And she leads you
into her office and you sit down. So tell me
about this grant money. So honestly, we're just
looking to help get schools up and running in
a better capacity to better serve the student
population. To do so, we obviously need to have
some routine checks, and my team and myself will
be moving throughout the school, talking to staff,
and reviewing all the pertinent information to
make sure that the money is allocated properly.
Oh, okay. Well, as you understand, as is regulation,
I just need to call the office real quick over
there. And just double check that everything's
on the up and up. You understand it was security
and all that. I mean, you are perfectly welcome
to do so. But as we already know, there's been
some communication errors. And I do worry that
maybe some of that information has been misplaced
or lost, as is wont to do, unfortunately. Even
we have our problems up at district. Well, let
me just check real quick. And she picks up the
phone and she calls. And she says, OK, we have
some visitors here talking about grant money.
Really? All right. All right. Well, thank you.
And she hangs up the phone and says, it looks
like everything is in order. They apologize for
not getting in touch with us. So, yeah. Go ahead
and continue. What do you need from us? Well,
I'm sure that my team is already collecting some
information, but I would like to have your perspective
on where the school is succeeding, where it might
be, I don't want to say failing, but perhaps...
I understand. We're not... This is just between
you and I, so we can cut all the verbiage. Where
we're doing well and where we're not doing well
is fine. Precisely. Well... Our strength is our
sports to the point where it cripples the rest
of the school. All of the money goes mainly to
the sports. Our PTA is mainly concerned about
the sports. They don't really raise a lot of
money for anything else. Most of the richer kids
are tutored and have after -school programs and
everything else that helps them with their academics,
whereas our working -class families don't have.
the opportunities to do all of that. In my opinion,
what needs to happen is the PTA needs to be knocked
down a few pegs so that we can start or we need
to get rid of their leader and we can move in
a better direction that would raise money for
our own after -school programs for children who
don't have the financial means. Maybe their parents
are at work, so they need tutoring help or whatever.
Those kind of things. I'm going to go out on
a limb and ask, is it a question of legacy with
these parents and the sports focus that the parents
themselves were on sports teams and it's a continuation
throughout this family history? At this particular
moment, yes. It is definitely a legacy problem.
Our current member, Brie Baker, came to the school.
About 25 years ago, I think, you know, she she
was here and did really well in sports. And I
remember I was here when I was a teacher at the
time. I remember her from then. And it's odd
for principals to stay in one school for a long
time. But this is my home. I've been here for
for a while and I wanted to retire here. But
anyway, she. She's a difficult one. She's very
precise on what she wants. She is holding on
to the PTA with an iron fist because she has
three children that span every school level.
So she is using that to hold on to power for
as long as possible. I will not be here once
her youngest child gets into our school. So I
will have the unfortunate pleasure of never seeing
her replaced. That's how PTA should work is they
come and go. Parents are on the PTA for maybe
a few years at a time. Their child ages out and
they drop out. But that hasn't happened with
Bree. And may I ask why you will be making your
departure? I'm old. I'm done. I'm going to be
turning. 63 soon. My pension is up and I'm ready
to go on some cruises with my friends and play
bingo and do all that old person shit. I'm just
ready for it. Well, it sounds like it's well
-deserved. Is there anything that you need from
me by way of information or do we have pretty
much free reign to go through and make our assessments
as necessary? I checked with the office. They
seem to back up what you're saying. But I would
like, you know, maybe a rundown of what the program's
going to be, what kind of funds are being offered.
As I said, if there's any way, see if the PTA
finds out that there's money coming into the
school. Bree will be on it. quicker than a spa
day. And we really, we want to avoid that because
if it's earmarked for anything, she will try
to funnel that money into sports. And I'd really
like to avoid that. I understand, but we do not
answer to the PTA. We are going to do what is
in the best interest of the students. Regarding
the details, I will work on having my office
round up. Sort of a memo for you with all of
the pertinent details. Give us some time, though,
as you know, we've got a lot of schools that
we're reviewing and a lot of moving parts. And
as we already discussed earlier, communication
sometimes gets a little broken down, shall we
say. Absolutely. Well, it was nice meeting you.
Go ahead and take a look around. Just keep your
badges on so the faculty knows you're supposed
to be here. And if you have any questions, let
me know. Absolutely. Thank you so much for your
time. All right. You leave. And I totally clocked
that she called the district and everything's
on the up and up. So my brain is like, what the
fuck? What? So out of game, I will tell you why.
You are all professionals. You are very capable
people. So it is, in my opinion, as the handler
of the game, that you would have told your plan
to Agent Jackson. Yeah. And she would have set
up a way to receive that phone call and say everything
is OK. I kind of figured, but I wanted to make
sure that that wasn't like a thing I needed to
clock is like principle is scary and there's
a problem. Right. No, no. You have more backup
this time than you've ever had before. Cool.
I like that. So like she you told her what the
plan was. She put somebody. in place to be able
to handle it. Gotcha. Perfect. That's it. And
I actually think this is a great place to stop.
We have a lot of information to talk about. I
feel like that, that would serve us better in
the next episode, as opposed to stretching this
way out. So I had a lot of fun. Thank you all.
I don't know if you've noticed, but the tone
of this particular episode is a little bit different
because I wanted to do something a little different
from the last two. You know, this is the X -Files
fun. Like, I'm not going to say humorous, but
not as heavy as as like the smoking man in a
garage or whatever. So thank you, Coffee and
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