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[Binarius]

And I still insist that it doesn't have to be one-single-story.

Remember, we got the previous text bytes separate, too - and they didn't form a consistent story, either.

Hence, I wouldn't force those into "what Durga shows Jersey". I'd stick with "Jersey meets Durga", and "Kamal's dates", and "Jen's adventure", parallel in time, not necessarily interconnected.

[msekolpsu]

Although the correlation between the following anomolies is extremely coincidental and common through the 3 events:

Jersey: Restarting, what the? Oh man, the whole friggin' system just collapsed...

Hiroyuki: I don't know, the connection went dead for a few seconds...

Frank: Massive power interrupt...

With these 3 events being parellel, it would seem that Emergency and Kamal's Blind Date (see www.thebruce.ca) occur afterwards at some point.

Bah! While I'm typing, I'll throw in my huge spec that Jason sent Durga to Jersey via a radio broadcast from Melissa's ship. We know Jason deploys radio beacons, and the appearance of Durga to Jersey seems pretty random otherwise.

[avarame]

Binarius, I'm completely with you.

msekolpsu, that's a very interesting point. If all three stories take place in close physical proximity (e.g., same city) then perhaps one large event started all three stories. We know Jersey and Jan live in the same building, and Jan and James drive home from the police station, therefore Jersey is near the military base. No information about where Kamal and Sophia are, except that they're not in Buffalo or Atlanta. We can reasonably infer that the "power interrupt" at the military base, whatever it was, may have knocked out Kamal and Hiro's connection, and really messed up Jersey's system.

[pjv2]

I think it's important to note that the Date sequence seems to happen over a matter of days, and the other sequences happen in a few minutes or hours.

[msekolpsu]

Exactly!

So, it is possible for the following to occur in real time together (they all start at the blackout event) -

dizzy - Jersey's New Personal Assistant
parasites - Kamal's Date
blip - Janissary's Caught

if you check www.thebruce.ca/ilovebees anyway. It would seem pretty random to overlay the wav files from that point, right?

[Oh, It's Just Pawl...]

questions about the tapes...

[msekolpsu]

Perhaps Durga is Melissa, but not quite. I like the theory that Melissa is infected with something on the ship (see Phase 1).

On Melissa's ship, Greene and Sorenson are obviously freaked out by whatever Covenant transmission they recieved. Perhaps as the ship is going down, Jason rigs a radio broadcast of the AI to Jersey's PC, which causes the power outage and starts all the ghosting. Jason is the Castaway and knows Melissa (she sits with him).

Anyway, the ship blows up, Melissa and the 'virus' are beamed to earth as a warning and the corrupted (or combined) Melissa AI manifests itself as Durga.

Perhaps she learns how to ghost by seeing Hiro and Kamal do it because she is in the proximity and that conveniently explains Kamal.

Plus, I'm sure there will be more wav's. Maybe our mission is to get the Covenant transmission back to the future! Where's the DeLorean?

[Wandering_Angela]

[Oh, It's Just Pawl...]

[msekolpsu]

Yes, but an AI wouldn't need an explanation. Durga seems more intact than when we found the Queen. Durga could ramble off Jersey's life at lightning speed. My spec is that she saw Kamal and Hiro chatting (not ghosting at this point since Kamal knows Hiro is talking to him), but there's probably more there.

The 'grey' reference between Sophia and Kamal and the 'grey' designation Durga gives James James seems related.

[msekolpsu]

[Extrasonic]

Re: questions about the tapes...

[Wandering_Angela]

[msekolpsu]

I don't see why it's so improbable that Durga is an infected Melissa. What we actually see with Jersey is Jeanne restarting. We do come in after a blip because it starts off with him stating 'Hello?' as if something just happened.

I think if Durga could figure out so much information so quickly, she could have immediately been recording conversations.

[msekolpsu]

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