Spectral Page #3

(Davis) What the hell?

(radio static)

Sergeant Chris Davis.

Three-tour combat vet. Best of the best.

In the last few weeks

we've been finding bodies around the city

that were killed in the same way.

The autopsies defied all explanation.

Their internal organs were frozen

and yet, their skin was burned

and corroded.

The only response from the allied Moldovan

military contact is shock, confusion.

And there's anger.

There's teenagers spray-painting

"genocide aratare" at kill sites.

- Genocide...?

- "Aratare."

It's a local myth. The ghosts of war.

"As nightmarish as."

That's the literal translation.

- That's very poetic.

- (Fran) Well, they're superstitious.

They somehow think...

the horrors of the war have

kicked up something unnatural.

- We hope you have an alternate theory.

- What do you think?

- Think you need a new name for them.

- Beyond that.

- Give me a copy of the data, some time...

- That's not possible.

You want me to figure this out right now?

- (Orland) We want your assessment.

- I don't have one yet.

Then, I think we have to send our

working theory up the chain of command.

- I don't wanna do that.

- Okay. What is your working theory?

The agency thinks

this is some kind of cloaking technology.

Insurgent soldiers wearing

active camouflage.

In this country? Something that advanced?

CIA knows a few groups in Europe and Asia

could be working on active camouflage.

DARPA's worked on cloaking technology.

We're years away from a prototype.

- Maybe somebody beat you to it.

- DARPA is the leader in the field.

Are you certain of that?

The regime spent heavily

on weapons research.

Corruption, loose legislation.

You're a military lab and want obscurity?

- This is a great place to work and hide.

- Okay.

Let's say it is cloaking technology.

- How do you account for cause of death?

- A shock delivered to the victim.

I think you're reaching.

Our business requires us

to make suppositions.

My business requires us to prove them.

Your technician's job is to find glitches,

so, he sees glitches.

Your job is to find the enemy,

so, you see the enemy.

Locals believe in spirits,

so they see spirits.

Everyone is biased, in one way or another.

So, my answer to you right now is that

we lack data to support any theory.

Okay.

What do you need

to make a more definitive statement?

First, you need a better shot.

That's what I'm looking for,

a better shot.

How?

- Right here, sir.

- That's it.

I brought this from DARPA.

A hyperspectral camera.

A more powerful version of the helmet cams

your guys are using.

It sees deeper into the spectrum of light.

Visible or invisible,

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