Operation Magenta (Session 11, Agent Jason)

Jason closed the door of the bathroom before he turned the light on. Knight was sound asleep in the bedroom and he didn’t want to wake him. He had a look around. Being on an Op under a fake government cover did have its advantages. They didn’t have to bunk in the scummiest motel they could find. Not that they had any choice really… Merle’s Shut-Eye Motel was the only place in Groversville….
He closed the lid of the toilet, opened the bottle of vodka and poured himself a decent measure into a glass. After lighting a cigarette, he laid out his notes, maps and other bits and pieces of paperwork. He checked his watch and rubbed his eyes. Close to 1pm. He wanted to have a quick think and make some notes before going to sleep. He had told Knight to be up by 8am, so they could all have a quick breakfast and hit the road. There was quite a bit of ground to cover in the morning.

Looking around at his notes, he realized this was the first proper investigation he did with J-Cell. Knight seemed to be worth his salt and had almost intuitively alternately taken lead and stepped back during their visit at the Allen’s Place. He wished he could say the same about the others. To be fair, he hadn’t been there during the apparent altercation with the sheriff, but the fact that there HAD been an altercation was enough to annoy him. Jude was clearly out of it. That much was clear when they met at the airport and during their visit at the FBI building. There was something in his eyes, he clearly was on some kind of medication, looking jittery. Same could be said of Jasper. Whereas before he had been talking about something in the water during their Iago Op, it seemed he was serious now.
Jason took a deep breath. He wasn’t going to let them fuck this one up. He wished they could be put on non-active for a while, spend some time with a guy like Sinclair to straighten them out. He chuckled. If Norman had been here, he probably would have said it wouldn’t be a bad idea for them to join Sinclair.
He coughed and look back at the paperwork. Right, back to it then… He went over the initial notes.

• Operation Magenta.
• Meet SAC James Derringer at Knoxville Tennessee.
• Matter of a join kid, Billy Ray Spivey (Spivvey?), 16 year old.
• Went on rampage.
• Meeting Derringer and checking the footage showed that the kid had superhuman strength.
• Spivey had disappeared on September 22nd, approx. 9pm, after leaving his girlfriend Jane Allen.
• Re-appeared on September 24th, round 8.30pm, clearly in pain.
• Doctor Maurice Simms is contacted. Follow up!
• Spivey is extremely hungry (increased metabolism), doesn’t defecate or piss.
• November 26th. Spivey has a fit and kills his father with a single blow. Punching his fist through the man’s rib cage. Flees town after raiding the St Clair Gas Station, stealing aspirin, cash and a car
• Continues his rampage, following the same lines: painkillers, cash are stolen during robberies at gas stations.
• Ends in a hold up of an Alabama gas station where Spivey hits a cashier’s head with his hand, decapitating the man.
• Police stop Spivey, he gets shot 4 (FOUR) times and is taken in.
• Medical examination shows that the boy has undergone extensive surgery. Muscle tissues have been entirely replaced by NON- HUMAN tissue

Groversville, TN

Jason lit another cigarette and finished the vodka, pouring himself a second glass. He rubbed his eyes again. SAC Derringer had been a great help. He had organised fake FBI and DEA id’s for the 4 of them. Jason and Knight had gone for the FBI ones, the others DEA. The drive down to Groversville didn’t take too long and they met the Sheriff, to sort out the usual territorial pissing.
The man seems friendly enough, typical redneck. No drug issues in his town, no sirree! No probs with Spivey earlier, just the usual bored teenager stuff. They had booked into the local motel and split up, Jude and Jasper doing an initial tactical scouting of the area around the Allen’s place.
Knight and Jason had met the mother, and from the get-go things were odd. The daughter, Spivey’s girlfriend, was absent. Mrs Allen had no clue. When we raised the question if she shouldn’t know where her daughter was, after the boyfriend had disappeared for a few days, returning in an unexplained state 2 days later, she just shrugged. Same when questioned about the whereabout of her husband. Jason thought it was hard to explain. Sinclair would probably have had a 90 min dissertation on what was going on with her, but to keep it short, it felt like she was hypnotised. No matter what he or Knight said, she was convinced everything was ok with her daughter and husband.

Allen's place

Jason had contacted Jasper, told him to check the grounds with Jude while he and Knight cleared out the inside. Nothing was found, and the Allen woman became annoyed by it all. He had decided to push his luck a bit and checked the basement. Nothing. But something felt very wrong here. He was sure that Spivey had disappeared from here, not picked up on the way home. Whomever had grabbed the boy had given this woman some kind of procedure as well.
He decided to keep an eye on the place for a while, sending Jasper and Jude to check on the husband, who was one of the Aldermen of the town. Things had gone wrong there, apparently the 2 agents were caught by the Sheriff, who had gone of his nut when they weren’t able to explain what they were doing sneaking around town hall. Well, a least the hadn’t shot him…
On top of it all, Knight said he had seen a cluster of lights in the sky, moving fast. The place had the reputation of being a UFO sighting and cattle mutilation hotspot…
He tore a new page out of the notebook and made a to-do list, dividing the page in two columns. On the left, he wrote

• “Knight-Jason”
• Visit Spivey’s place. Interrogate mother
• See Maurice Simms, Spivey’s GP
• Visit town hall, Alderman Allen (What’s the bet he hasn’t been there for a few days?)
• Contact Sherriff Oakley. Try to smoothen DEA issue out. Check if there’s something suspicious with him, as Jasper said (or is he just paranoid?)
• The surgery on Spivey was extensive. Needs a professional set-up. Somewhere remote, out of sight. Check with Derringer, see if there are medical facilities that are out of the way.

On the right-hand side:

• “Jude-Jasper”
• St Clair Gas Station. Recover footage if any.
• Expand perimeter around the Allen Place, focus on hills.
• Do same around Spivey house. Focus on area between 2 houses.
• Get low-light goggles and stake out the area at night.
• GTE & County Gas, Light and Water. Check if anything has been going on. Power outages.
• Find local UFO nut, perhaps through local waitress at diner/tavern? Get Knight in touch with him, see if there is a mention of identical sightings as Knight witnessed.

He crushed the cigarette into the ashtray and gathered the notes that were laying around him on the floor into a folder. Time to call it a night. Tomorrow’s gonna be a busy day…