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Boone wakes up in a strange room and heads back to the office to find his the subject of a complaint from Julian Wickcliffe, the manager of the the vigard end in question. Wickliffe alleges ISDA harassment. | Boone wakes up in a strange room and heads back to the office to find his the subject of a complaint from Julian Wickcliffe, the manager of the the vigard end in question. Wickliffe alleges ISDA harassment. | ||
Palmer-Jenkins dresses Boone down and assigns | Palmer-Jenkins, who is a drill-sergeant, police captain from central casting, dresses Boone down and assigns Kommandant Kurzweil of the Double-O unit to manage and supervise Eagle Squad while Boone himself is demoted and assigned to being detail with the office weirdo and conspiracy theorist Officer Graeber. J-rod wonders whether her old friend and mentor has finally lost it, | ||
First day on netting duty, Graeber won’t stop going on about his absurd (but consistently prescient) conspiracy theories. Meantime Boone shakes down a Luxembourg netting counsel. Counsel babbles about aleatory contracts and is just about to launch into a lengthy description of what a company isn’t when Boone catches sight of the child from the alpha den. She is dressed immaculately and bejeweled and I the company of ... Wickliffe. | First day on netting duty, Graeber won’t stop going on about his absurd (but consistently prescient) conspiracy theories. Meantime Boone shakes down a Luxembourg netting counsel. Counsel babbles about aleatory contracts and is just about to launch into a lengthy description of what a company isn’t when Boone catches sight of the child from the alpha den. She is dressed immaculately and bejeweled and I the company of ... Wickliffe. | ||
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Boone follows the pair into the Grand Hotel where they have gone into a Business Day Convention. | Boone follows the pair into the Grand Hotel where they have gone into a Business Day Convention. | ||
Boone accosts the child but she — or he: it is oddly hard to tell — feigns ignorance. But I saw you at the alpha den.... Boone says “for a young person you find yourself in some grown up places. Do your parents know you’re here?”. She says she doesn’t ''have'' any parents. She looks nervous, shifty. Says she has to leave. She presses a card into | Boone accosts the child but she — or he: it is oddly hard to tell — feigns ignorance. But I saw you at the alpha den.... Boone says “for a young person you find yourself in some grown up places. Do your parents know you’re here?”. She says she doesn’t ''have'' any parents. She looks nervous, shifty. Says she has to leave. She presses a card into Boone’s hand. Barman gives a warning as Boone watched her melt into the crowd. “Careful sir. That is an agent.” He taps his nose and skies an eyebrow. “Strictly professional, if you know what I mean.” meanwhile Graeber tries unsuccessfully to liberate the waiting staff and gets thrown out. | ||
Hacienda scene. The girl is dead. Liquidated. | Hacienda scene. The girl is dead. Liquidated. Regulator stands over body. Very weird. There are no creditors. No parents. No records. No police file. No-one recognises her. Only record ties her back to a boarding house for orphans. In the Cayman Islands. | ||
CB radio interlude. “Boone: you better get here fast. We’ve got a live ongoing situation. Suspected FWMD. | CB radio interlude. It is Palmer-Jenkins. “Boone: you better get here fast. We’ve got a live ongoing situation. Suspected FWMD. | ||
Boone and Graeber hasten to a strip mall on the outskirts of the city where Melvin is holed up, barricaded in the GameStop premises. It’s in the old Blockbuster building. Melvin’s flagship fund vehicle — a twin-class 2/20 clipper out of Georgetown — is badly holed and leaking liquidity. He’s shipping fire from all sides but — weird — the conventional combatants’ artillery depots are all silent. Third Point, Icahn and Pershing Missile have actually sent down a peace-keeping detachment. Ackman is crying. | |||
Boone: This must be some new kind of FWMD. A distributed denial of shortage attack. | |||
Melvin wails, “I can’t see it! I can’t stop it! My models are on the Fritz! | Melvin wails, “I can’t see it! I can’t stop it! My models are on the Fritz! | ||
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Graeber murmurs, “Oh, but this is ... ''beautiful''.” | Graeber murmurs, “Oh, but this is ... ''beautiful''.” | ||
Meanwhile Melvin’s position gets more untenable. GameStop seems to be rising out of the ground forced up from the depths of the earth by some collossal, demonic, monstrous force, as if the crust of the earth has been ruptured and a finger of rock is thrusting priaically into the heavens, with Melvin on it. It is horrifying. Seismic. Not possible. People shriek, | Meanwhile Melvin’s position gets more untenable. GameStop seems to be rising out of the ground forced up from the depths of the earth by some collossal, demonic, monstrous force, as if the crust of the earth has been ruptured and a finger of rock is thrusting priaically into the heavens, with Melvin on it. It is horrifying. Seismic. Not possible. People shriek,“jump, Melvin, jump,” | ||
“Yeah, jump, Melvin!” Graeber cries demonically. | |||
At first he won’t — he doesn’t believe — and by the time he does it is too late. He frantically calls for help but the messages become weak and static-laden. | |||
Graeber: “Go on, jump!” | |||
Palmer Jenkins: “Graeberrrr! Get back here!” | |||
But Graeber has gone. He is running feverishly across the plain towards the hordes of barbarians shouting and weaving his arms. | |||
Boone says, “what the hell is he doing!? They’ll kill him!” | |||
“Only if I don’t get to him first,” muttered Palmer Jenkins, and started firing on him. | |||
Boone says, wait. There are unusual things happening here. This could be | |||
“More margin. I need more margin ammunition... I can hold this: i just need more ammo.” | “More margin. I need more margin ammunition... I can hold this: i just need more ammo.” | ||