Cooper Capture and Agent Disappearances - Fri, Jun 2, 2017

Initial Recap and Plan at IHOP

• The team, referred to as Masticate, begins by revisiting their plan to safeguard the Berry family at 48 Rancho Manor Drive.
• They decide to approach the Berrys as law enforcement in order to clear them out of the house before an anticipated attack, then ambush the attackers.
• Over the IHOP breakfast discussion, several approaches are debated, but the “law enforcement warning” strategy is chosen.

Booth’s Interrogation of Kim Boyer

• Booth presses Kim Boyer to reveal more details about the mysterious “pattern.”
• Boyer explains that the pattern’s variables include murder, time, location, and observation.
• She describes a multidimensional aspect: when both an observer and the observed comprehend the pattern, they “collapse” into it and move to a new coordinate in some unknown dimension.
• Boyer attributes Nora Brigid’s disappearance (along with a drone) to this phenomenon.
  • The drone, upon returning, automatically reset and “forgot” the pattern.
  • Nora, however, never returned.

Email from “Gerber92”

• Booth emails an address, [email protected], and receives a response.
• The sender implies anyone who can figure out what to do could “join or complete” the pattern and possibly “meet God.”
• The message suggests the sender was impressed by someone capable of understanding the pattern.
• A trace identifies the email’s origin in the Reno, Nevada area.

Delta Green Orders and Non-Lethal Gear

• New Delta Green directives arrive: the agents are ordered to capture whoever is responsible for creating the pattern and causing Nora Brigid’s vanishing.
• Masticate acquires non-lethal equipment (beanbag rounds, stun guns, pepper spray) for the potential takedown.
• Cole Parker locates shotguns to fire the beanbag ammunition.

Arrival of Pizzarelli with Key Intel

• Around 10 p.m., Assistant U.S. Attorney Antonia Pizzarelli arrives, informing the team she has traced the Gerber92 email to 461 California Avenue in Midtown Reno (Peppermill Apartments).
• The complex has around 20 units; the plan is to investigate and possibly surveil.
• There is concern about avoiding any aerial drone observation, given what happened with Nora Brigid.
• The team agrees to move in and identify the suspect’s apartment.

Reconnaissance at 461 California Avenue

• The agents drive to the Peppermill Apartments late at night.
• They discuss wearing hats or bandanas to avoid potentially “looking up” or being identified by drones.
• They park in the small parking lot outside the apartment building.
• The manager’s office (or unit) is on the ground floor; they knock, and the manager initially refuses to help.
• Parker flashes his U.S. Marshal badge, and the manager reluctantly identifies unit “6A” as the unit linked to the photo of Anthony Cooper.

Sudden Dimensional Shift for Frank and Matthew

• Without immediate warning in the transcript, Frank Booth and Matthew McCarter vanish.
• They appear in a strange “spider-web” dimension:
  • They see an environment mirroring the apartment building but covered in thick, gauzy webs.
  • Inside, they find a mummified body in a cocoon-like wrapping with puncture wounds.
  • The place is dimly lit, with no clear light source.
  • They hear a skittering sound, suggesting a large, many-legged creature moving toward the building.

Cole and Drummond Confront Anthony Cooper

• Meanwhile, Cole Parker and Graham Drummond go up to 6A and knock on the door.
• Anthony Cooper, gaunt and disheveled, answers. He is covered in sores and living among chaotic notes and occult symbols on the walls.
• They order him to put his hands on his head and proceed to arrest him.
• As they focus on Cooper, a man with a shotgun suddenly appears and fires at Drummond.
• Drummond is hit by buckshot, taking serious but not immediately fatal damage.
• Drummond and Parker return fire:
  • Drummond critically hits the assailant.
  • Parker also shoots, bringing the attacker down.
• Another attacker with a submachine gun begins firing. Parker and Drummond, with Cooper in custody, dodge into the apartment for cover.
• They phone Antonia Pizzarelli, request immediate backup, and consider how to extract themselves.
• The second attacker briefly tries to engage but then retreats. Cole and Drummond hear a car speed away in the lot.
• They quickly gather Cooper’s laptop and scattered papers at his request, then exit before local law enforcement arrives.
• They manage to hotwire their own vehicle (because the keys were misplaced) and escape with Cooper.

Frank and Matthew’s Escape from the Web Dimension

• In the spider-web realm, Matthew recalls that the drone “forgot” the pattern when its memory reset, allowing it to return.
• He theorizes that if he and Frank can forget the pattern, they might be returned as well.
• Matthew casts a memory-erasing ritual on Frank, targeting his knowledge of the pattern.
  • Frank disappears instantly.
• Matthew then casts it on himself.
  • Once he forgets, he vanishes too.

Reappearance in Reno, the Following Day

• Frank Booth finds himself on the sidewalk near 461 California Avenue, now in daylight.
• McCarter appears moments later, unconscious but unharmed, with a few strands of webbing clinging to his clothes.
• Frank checks the time on his phone and realizes it is the next morning, nearly 12 hours later.
• Matthew regains consciousness, extremely drained in willpower but functional.
• They contact Pizzarelli, informing her they have returned.
• Pizzarelli, suspicious but relieved, arranges for Cole and Drummond to verify Frank and Matthew’s condition.
• The session ends with the group preparing to regroup, having captured Cooper and having Frank and Matthew mysteriously returned from the web dimension.