Database: Surveillance Audio, Maeda and Ortiz
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-- AUDIO TRANSCRIPT OF CONVERSATION
-- CAPTURE MADE 17:23 BY SURVEILLANCE MIC #1/12
-- SUBJECT CAYETANO ORTIZ EMP. No. 09/324 and JUNKO MAEDA EMP. No. 09/645
-- FLAGGED FOR URGENT SECURITY REVIEW
ORTIZ - Alright, what's so important?
MAEDA - Wait, wait, I need to check... There's mics all over the place...
ORTIZ - They only have those in the labs... Wait, you're worried about security hearing this? What are you getting me into?
MAEDA - Sssh! Sssh! I'm frickin' freaking out here, okay? Don't make it worse!
ORTIZ - Okay, take a breath. One, two. Calm.
MAEDA - (SLOW BREATHS)
ORTIZ - Now what is it you wanted to tell me?
MAEDA - So. Listen. I did an autopsy on some of the recent code. Basically instead of flushing an instance from a silo I disabled it and went looking through the guts.
ORTIZ - Junko, that is a Code Three violation -
MAEDA - (OVERLAP) Code Three, yeah, yeah. Well I'm glad I did a Code Three because I found out what the fuck they're up to and it is not cool, okay?
ORTIZ - I don't even want to know what they -
MAEDA - (OVERLAP) They've been testing her on people. They gave her a slice of the Animus to work with and put users in there with her. The full Abstergo experience, only run by our baby.
ORTIZ - What? Why? Nobody told me about that.
MAEDA - Of course not. Because we thought we were using the Animus to train the AI. Turns out it's the other way round. They're using the AI to train the Animus!
ORTIZ - Come on. That's conspiracy talk, and it's dangerous. Abstergo doesn't operate like that. There are ethical considerations, to start with. Those are people's genetic memories.
MAEDA - I saw the video logs, okay? She's running a version of the Animus in which she gets editorial privilege. They're testing to see if she can get away with tweaking the timelines. There'll be knock-on effects, of course, but she's smart enough to simulate the outcomes. They want to know if she can fool the users, if she can change history in the Animus without triggering a desync.
MAEDA - Cay, it was her idea!
ORTIZ - Junko, stop. Stop now.
MAEDA - What? Stop what?
ORTIZ - Stop this. You cannot talk this way. You cannot talk to me this way. Whatever you think you know, I don't want to hear it. I have a family, and I very much want to see them again. Do you understand?
MAEDA - Cay... what...?
ORTIZ - I should report you for this. I'm supposed to report you. Otherwise it's my ass as well as yours.
MAEDA - Hey. Where you going?
MAEDA - You're not going to say anything, are you?
MAEDA - Cay?
-- TRANSCRIPT ENDS