Now what? What are you doing here? What do you want?
Now what? What are you doing here? What do you want?
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Get acquainted
Hello!
That's not a very respectful way to address an older woman, now is it?
I'm sorry...
Now what? What are you doing here? What do you want?
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Give her the documents
Talk about Hemnitz
Hand over Hemnitz's pass
Ask about money
Ask about orphanages
Ask about helping the orphanage
Give food voucher
Talk about insulin
Tell about the insulin supply contract
Talk about helping the orphanage
Talk about helping the orphanage
Talk about the soap supply request
Give details of soap provider
Share information about her granddaughter
I found a folder from the archive
General chat
End conversation
Goodbye.
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Compliment
Magda, you look wonderful!
Save your compliments for fools like Emma Hazer. They have no effect on me.
I didn't mean anything bad!
But nothing good will come out of it either.
Talk about the weather
How do you like the weather? The forecast said there would be sun!
Meteorology is the scientific justification of false weather forecasts.
You don’t believe in weather forecasts?
A forecast is something you wait for, and weather is something you have. I don't see any point in idly waiting for anything.
Ask about her job
Magda, do you like your job?
Work is not meant to be liked, it is meant to be done.
But still?
I am Mr. Ferguson's secretary. I hope I don't have to explain to you what this position entails.
I get to decide whether you leave by yourself or are dragged away by security for distracting people from their work!
Ask about the boss
Mr. Ferguson must be a strict boss.
I do not discuss the management with employees!
Talk about family
Magda, do you have a family?
Young man! Don't you think that’s none of your business?
I was just trying to be polite.
Politeness is just well-organized indifference. Keep this up and everyone will hate you.
Talk about her granddaughter
What do you want to know?
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Ask how her granddaughter ended up the House of Misfits
It’s a story about a whole series of deaths.
My husband died first. He rushed to defend his lab assistant when someone from the Ministry of Order came for him. Took a stun gun to the chest. His heart couldn't take it.
Then my son-in-law died on the Front. My daughter was expecting a baby at the time. We didn't tell her about him, but she found out somehow...
She went into labor prematurely... There were complications, she lost a lot of blood... They couldn't save her.
While she was still in the hospital, my granddaughter was diagnosed with diabetes. Under our laws, children with this diagnosis are immediately sent to the House of Misfits.
When someone arrives there, they’re given a number and their personal file is made secret. She was taken when she was still a baby. It’s already been several years, so I can’t even imagine what she looks like. I know where she is, but I don't know who she is!
All I can do is help all the children in that place, without exception. With money, clothes, medicines. In the hope that some of it will reach my granddaughter.
Ask about her daughter
Tell me more about your daughter.
I cannot and will not discuss her or her idiot husband.
How could he leave behind his pregnant wife, volunteer to go to the Front and get himself killed there?!
His wife is in the cemetery, and his daughter is in the House of Misfits. He was even awarded the Medal of Heroism. Posthumously.
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Talk about her granddaughter
You found my sweetheart! I don’t have to help those useless cripples anymore!
Thank you, Evan!
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George Hemnitz asked me to give you these documents.
You didn't look inside, I hope?
I'm not interested.
I didn't ask if you were interested. Reading sealed papers like these when you don't have top secret clearance can cost you your freedom... or your life. Do I make myself clear?
Perfectly. But I prefer not to stick my nose into other people's business.
I don't care where you stick any of your extremities. There are rules, regulations and instructions that must be observed if you want to stay in the Ministry for more than a day. If you make mistakes, nothing will save you - not even your name.
What's wrong with my name?
You're still here? Don't try my patience.
Sorry, I'm leaving already!
And where are they?
I didn't bring them.
Very funny, Redgrave. What else haven’t you done in your worthless life?
Hemnitz has been executed!
You've come here just to tell me what everybody already knows?
You’re the only one I know in the whole Ministry.
All you need to know is who you answer to and where your workplace is. His death only makes my job harder.
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Ask about workload increase
Why’s there such an increase in your workload?
Hemnitz is dead - meaning that he can't do his job and therefore must be fired.
When an employee is fired, they have to hand over their official stamp and any secret documents they may have. They also have to sign the safety journal, and provide a form saying that they have no books from the Ministry libraries in their possession…
But most importantly, he did not hand over his pass.
The security service must have his things. Go to the guard at the checkpoint and tell him I sent you. He’ll give you Hemnitz's things.
Take this map of the Ministry.
Without it, you’ll be wandering the halls until the end of time.
I brought you Hemnitz's pass.
Give it to me.
Now I can finally fire him. It's good that he didn't have any library books - they’re very strict about that. Now his promotion allotment is open.
His promotion allotment?
He was to be transferred to another floor, and now the position is vacant. Every idiot in here is going to be fighting over it.
Now Hemnitz's personal file is ready to be transferred to the archive. But...
But?
But the courier hasn’t brought me all the documents I need for the archive. Yet again. He doesn’t care, and we’re the ones who will be “rewarded” for losing documents that contain state secrets.
Look around in the carts by the workplaces. If you find the documents, bring them to me.
I left it somewhere.
You’d have been better off leaving your head there! Can you even imagine what will happen if this pass falls into the wrong hands?
Hello, Magda, I have a question. Do you know of any orphanages that take good care of children?
What do you mean “good care”? Every orphanage in our country takes good care of our citizens. If you say something like that again, I’ll fine you and have you undergo a patriotism check!
I'm sorry, that came out wrong. Still, what about the orphanages?
There was one man recently... He was asking to increase deliveries of children's clothing. He introduced himself as the director of the Cornflower orphanage. Here's his number.
Thank you.
Magda, you are helping out the House of Misfits?
You talk a lot, Evan. That is very bad. For you.
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Ask about the House of Misfits
And what is this House of Misfits?
It was built as part of a national cleansing program - to round up every child with disabilities and get it all over with once and for all.
No person - no problem! All the sick, disabled and crippled kids are gathered in one place, and everything possible is done to get them to die faster.
There is no medicine, no care. There isn’t even wood for heating.
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Offer help
I feel sorry for those children... If I can help with anything…
First of all, never stick your nose into my affairs again. Second... I need food.
Food?
The children are starving. I had a look at their kitchen - there’s only enough food there for another couple of days. If you can call frozen potatoes food, that is.
I have a blank food voucher somewhere, signed by the Minister of Social Care. But I just can’t find it in this pile of papers!
If I can pass it on to the House of Misfits, the children will be able to eat normally for months!
Maybe I can help you look? Are you sure it's here?
Absolutely!
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But why are you helping them?
I won't answer any questions from someone who pokes his nose into other people's business without asking.
End conversation
I see. So you are helping them?
Redgrave, don't you have other things to do? Let me work!
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What has two thumbs and an excellent eye for detail? This guy! I found the voucher.
Excellent! Now none of them will die of hunger.
But there’s a more serious problem. A lot of the children have diabetes and need insulin, and nobody in the House of Misfits cares. I bribed the staff - they gave the children injections in secret. But now there’s a problem with the drug itself.
What happened?
The national cleansing program has been declared complete, so they no longer bother manufacturing insulin. It's impossible to bring it in from abroad - they search for contraband medicine more actively than they search for explosives.
What am I to do now?
The underground labs I worked with have been under a lot of pressure lately. I’ve learned that there’s insulin in one of them, but I can’t go myself - I might be followed.
What do you need from me?
Meet with the right person and arrange some deliveries. I'll take care of the rest. Can you handle that?
What about the insulin?
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Agree
Where and when will the meeting take place?
You know the old river port on the outskirts of the city? The lab is around there somewhere.
That is a very vague description.
Unfortunately that’s all I have. My man said that if we need insulin, we’ll find it - and we really need insulin, Evan.
Refuse
I’m busy right now.
I did everything you asked.
And it all went well?
In general, yes. Though this scientist is a strange one.
He is a genius, though not one recognized by our science...
Are you confident in him?
In our times, you cannot be confident in anything. I hope that he has good insulin, because I have no alternatives.
I hope it’ll all be okay.
If you'd been there you’d know that nothing is okay in that place.
Why are you so upset? You look terrible!
I need soap.
How much?
A lot of it. Several boxes. There was a mix-up in th supply department and they sent the children three boxes of ammunition instead of soap.
Now they can shoot themselves, but can’t get off the toilet because there’s a epidemic of dysentery in the building.
About helping the House of Misfits...
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Offer help
What do you need me to do?
Can you make a request to the supply department, so that they correct their mistake?
No problem.
Not so fast! They only accept requests from Comrade Ferguson’s terminal. I can’t leave my workplace, but I’ll cover for you if I have to. Here’s the number of the House of Misfits in the ministerial databases.
Don't worry, I’ll do everything I can.
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Sorry, but I need to work. Good luck!
Ferguson was arrested and his terminal has been seized as part of the investigation. I can't send a request to the supply department for them to correct their mistake. I don't know where to find a soap supplier!
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Offer help
I'll try to find a supplier.
You can't buy that much soap in a store. I'm not sure you can buy anything there at all, actually. We need someone who can get their hands on anything.
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Sorry, but I need to work. Good luck!
I sent the request.
Excellent!
You care so much about all those children!
Mostly about the girls, seeing as one of them is my granddaughter.
Why don't you take her from there?
Children in the House of Misfits are given new names, and their real names are stored under numbers in the Ministry of Information Collection database and in the archive. I have the number that was assigned to her at birth - 214782.
And I'm scared. I want to take her home more than anything, but I’ll have to change my whole life.
Remember, Evan Redgrave, I'm telling you all of this because you helped me. This is just a moment of weakness.
I saw your request, Redgrave! I don’t know what the hell it was you sent to those children, but it wasn’t soap!
Fix your mistake and find some soap, or I'll find another use for the rope without it!
Did you find a soap supplier?
Yes, I did.
Excellent!
You care so much about all those children!
Mostly about the girls, seeing as one of them is my granddaughter.
Why don't you take her from there?
Children in the House of Misfits are given new names, and their real names are stored under numbers in the Ministry of Information Collection database and in the archive. I have the number that was assigned to her at birth - 214782.
And I'm scared. I want to take her home more than anything, but I’ll have to change my whole life.
Remember, Evan Redgrave, I'm telling you all of this because you helped me. This is just a moment of weakness.
I found out your granddaughter's new name. It's Nina Rakitich.
Evan! It’s a miracle! I can finally take her home, and I don’t have to spend any more money on those defective children!
Defective children?
That's right! Sick, miserable, crippled, disabled... The scum on the gene pool! Obviously my granddaughter was sent there by mistake. I’m glad I can fix her and get her out of that cesspool.
Fix what?
Fix everything! All of it!
Magda, Comrade Ferguson has ordered me to collect contributions from my colleagues…
Contributions? What contributions? To whom? I don’t contribute anything to anyone! That is a blatant lie and slander!
Well... Contributions to the state on his behalf…
Ah, you mean the bribes! Say it straight and stop mumbling! You need to bring him an amount that's going to look nice sitting in his safe. Small change won't do. will be fine.
I found the folder.
Give it to me. I will take care of it and find out who lost it. He’ll rue the day he was born!
And if you find something like that in the future, bring it directly to me. Do not show it to anyone and don't look inside. It’ll be safer for us both that way.
Got it. I’ll do just that. Thank you!
I don't have time to talk about this.
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