Okay. I studied the transcripts A LOT today.
When I was in college, I was a drama major.
::waits for the snickering and "do you want fries with that?" jokes to subscide::
So, in theater, if you have a biiig budget, you usually hire a dramaturgist.
They study the script, the actual words of dialouge, and look for hidden meaning, things that maybe the director didn't see. They research the plot and all it entails. I got an A in this class, so let's see if it got me anywhere, Eh?
So, in case you don't know my theory thus far, here's a synposis:
OpAphid has a nasty little mole on her hands. We can all agree on that, I think. Well, most of us.
Op's mole is very unframiliar with the ways of the Order. What she sees upsets her and frightens her. Eventually, she begins to blow her cover when the stress becomes too much.
The whole time Tach was spying on the order, she was sending YouTube videos out to her team (who I will be referring to as 'the other side').
These videos are laced with secret messages and codes ... the most common example being capital I = The real person, and lowercase i = her alter ego (her ruse, if you will), the member of the order.
Soon after infiltrating the Order, they started to suspect her. But rather than expose her, they let her stay in hopes that she would lead them to 'the other side'.
'The other side' caught onto the fact that either thier agent was loosing her marbles or that The Order was onto her and cut all associations with her. Essentialy, they left her to fend for herself.
Scared of The Order and fearful that 'The Other Side' has abandoned her, Tach sends out one last YT message before she runs away. And now, BOTH sides are looking for the double-agent.
.... Yeah, I think that sums it up. Maybe I watch too much Alias, but that's my theory.
But this isn't just speculation. I show my work, too.
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I'll just quote the stuff I find interesting ... no need to rehash the whole transcript:
PS -- I'm using the "Julie" version of these transcripts to avoid confusion when at all possible.
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Julie might have too much order in my life, to the point I can't make sense of it!
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Tach never refers to "The Order" directly. It seems to be that when she speaks of The Order to her contact on 'The Other Side', she speaks about order (ie - the opposite of chaos) in her life. Generally, Tach feels there's way too much Order in her life.
I take this to be double speak ... she is using the lowercase i, which I assume to mean "Julie" is just way too entrenched in The Order. Tach can't handle how absorbing her mission has become.
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I feel like Julie is just waiting. Waiting around for all the things I want to happen. Things Julie needs to happen.[
Waiting for something ...
ANYTHING!
I wait, Julie waits, I wait.
It's like I'm waiting for you to just tell me what Julie should be doing
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As Tach brings up in other videos, she expected her mission to have been long over by now. It appears that since the 10-12-06 ceremony was a fake, 'the other side' has kept Tach there indefinetly. It is unclear to me (and apparently, to Tach) what event would have had to take place for Tach to be allowed to return home.
In this way, 'the other side' bears an uncanny resemblance to Cassie, or rather, CiW .... The other side expected something BIG to happen on 10-12-06, something so big that it would not require Tach to keep her post much past Mid-October. When something big did NOT happen ... 'the other side' almost seemed to dissapear.
.... Sound framiliar?
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Waiting for Mom and Dad to make sense of the order for me,
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I've said before ... to me, Mom and Dad = the head honcos. They represent the person or persons who sent Tach on this mission.
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Even though I feel invisible lately.
[in every facet of my life, actually]
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To me, this reinforces the idea that 'The Other Side' has cut off all communication, that the 'The Order' has demoted her to mundane tasks. I doubt she gets a lot of time for conversation.
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I have nightmares that none of you even care anymore
And Julie can't help but let it get to her
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Gets a bit incoherent there, huh? Sounds like someone's freaking out to me.
Also shows that Tach was letting her concerns affect her job and her alter-ego.
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Am I cut off?
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Hello! Clear as day. She's just flat out asking if she's been cut off.
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Julie doesn't have access to all of the answers. It feels like I've only had access to a lot of the questions.
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That's because Julie's not as good at being sneaky as she thought she was.
(By the way, join the club, Tach. We're going to make T-Shirts)
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I am too confused to try and figure it out on my own.
Maybe once we sit down, look at it all, and talk about it ....
Maybe then we will be able to make sense of it!
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Read:
I have some information that I know you'd love to have, Other Side.
But ... lil' ol me can't decipher it all by her lonesome. But if you busted me out of this hellhole, we can look at it together!
In other words, this both shows that she is planning to take information to 'The Other Side' and that she's trying to get them to get her back home.
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So can I please come home now?
Pretty Please?
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I don't need to explain this one, but ... hey, it just cements my point.
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I know you've all been busy
I haven't heard from you in ages
And I haven't been able to get ahold of any of you either
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Obviously, she can't come right out and say "So, are you guys disavowing all knowledge of my existence?" It might give her up even faster AND it might irk 'The Other Side' if she questions thier actions. So, instead, she makes up an excuse for them ... They must be realllly busy. Yeah, that's it.
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Please remember:
I wouldn't ask if Julie had any other way to get home!
I am counting on your help here
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She knows that what she's asking is NOT going to be cool with them. She is seriously putting the mission in jeopardy by asking to come home. But she's desperate. I think the reason she says if "Julie" had any other way to get home instead of "I" is because that ... well, how is she going to explain that one to The Order without breaking her cover?
Julie has no way to get home ... ie I have no good excuse for Julie to be leaving right now.
As for the rest of the transcript ... I have thoughts, but nothing too concrete. The courier stuff, the calling card stuff .... No clue.
But at least I showed my work, right? ::Grin::