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Setting: silhouettes of the team looking from outside a door into a dark hallway full of boxes.
Alana: This must be it, look at all those boxes, it's like stuff keeps being delivered and never used?
Steve: And again, where are the guards? Security? This is all too easy. Where is… anyone, actually?

Again view of OIB-A271 in the real world
Heidi (voice): OIB-A271, do you have the ability to locate persons in our surroundings?
OIB-A271: Not directly, I am still trying to fight through the firewall, for lack of a better word. But, indirect cues may be usable. Give me a moment.

Adil: These boxes are food, alright. Proper food, not with an “A” VomiScore! But, most of it has expired? Makes no sense. Is the government on a strict diet?
Zhang: Maybe it is intentional… Wait long enough, and the VomiScore will improve!
Adil: You are becoming scarily accustomed to this world.

OIB-A271 (voice from phone): Heidi, I have detected many humanoid shapes in a large room, with furniture arrangement that seems consistent with people holding a meeting.
Alana: They are all together? Excellent. Let's barge in and crash this party.
Heidi: You are right, we do not have time for subtlety.

Voice from a TV screen showing the face of the “supreme leader”: Halt, strangers! You are trespassing. Return, or you will be punished.
Steve: The same face as on the posters! Looks strange though, gives me Max Headroom vibes.

Adil: What does Max have to do with this?
Steve: I guess that's from before your time. I just mean… it seems animated… synthetic. OIB-A271, any activity?
OIB-A271: Nothing seems to be moving…
Steve: Then let's just head onward.