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[Dr Wily]

The thing about these scans is:

- They're printouts of he/sheismissing, which has only been up for a matter of weeks, so these notes are recent.

- The notes are all written on the same two pieces of paper, with the same pen -- of course, it's very possible that MLO has only one type of pen at his desk, but it's also possible that his office is a chaotic mess of machines, stacks of folders, piles of books, and half-eaten donut boxes. Even though his picture looks like that of a corporate bigwig, it's equally possible that he shows up for work on an average day wearing a short-sleeve oxford and a stained tie (in short, a software engineer). When I look at these scans, I see a single session of research, deliberately written right on these print-outs and stored on his metadex so there wouldn't be any evidence of it. Like he's scared. Or possibly extremely busy and doing this at someone else's request (Katherine? Someone else?).

- From his calendar, his life is meticulously ordered and scheduled, right down to his Sunday morning church service. There's a reason he didn't just open up Word and type these little notes, in an organized and easily referenced way. What is he hiding? And who from?

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[Giskard]

[yanka]

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[Azathoth666]

I'd tend to disaggree there Doc... Especially for us PDA power-users, I need access to my work schedule at home: especially when you work for a big multinational, and have to do (shudder) 3am conference calls, or other out-of hours stuff.

As such, I sync my Palm with my work computer, then sync it with my home computer at home, and that way I have a central device (my Palm) for accessing both sets of calendar info. This way, I never book in a 5pm drinking session with the boys, if I know I have a late meeting, or lunch with the fiancee if I'm on site somewhere. Metadex would be handy in that way...

And one thing I CERTAINLY don't have in my PDA/PIM is holiday occasions: why is Halloween in blue? whats' significant about that? Its not a public holiday or anything, is it?

[Dr Wily]

[ChainedLightning]

My thinking has always been that Beth and Avery had a clandestine affair going that for some reason "could never be"..... so he left to go to Zurich and they broke it off, and now she is seeing signs of him everywhere (or possibly she actually saw him). This is bringing up her heartbreak as well as questions about what really happened to him. Or, maybe she knew more about what was going on at the time than she should have - having her and Avery in a relationship before he left gives all kinds of possibilities about what she might know.

As for the Halloween entry - perhaps the Metadex calendar lists all holidays for you, and lists them in blue so you'll know it's a holiday put there by the system and not something you've typed in. Or, maybe he has something planned for Halloween - maybe the Cascade Vortex is having a haunted house and he has a hot date

CL

[Insomniac]

Just wanted to clear something up, tell me if I am wrong.

missing man= James Avery
missing woman= Katherine Cunningham

[Dr Wily]

[ChainedLightning]

Katherine Cunningham isn't missing - she came into MLO's office when Beth was looking at Avery's file. Right?

I still think the missing woman is Trinity as a young woman - perhaps just before she was unplugged. Look at pictures of Carrie-Anne Moss when she was younger and has softer hair and make-up... the resemblance is striking.

CL

[GOD]

Wrong

[Dr Wily]

I've been trying as much as I can not to be too constrained by the perspective of the movies, but still...

Don't these "Have You Seen Him/Her" posters seem a lot like Neo searching for Morpheus?

After all, if they were created by people looking for people they once knew but have disappeared, they probably would have included contact information...

[Insomniac]

why not KC?