AGENT COLLINS:
Mr. Konch.
SUBJECT:
I want a lawyer.
AGENT COLLINS:
That request has been noted.
SUBJECT:
Am I under arrest?
AGENT COLLINS:
No.
SUBJECT:
Then why am I here?
AGENT COLLINS:
Because you know where the artifact is.
08:02
SUBJECT:
I told you before. I don't have it.
AGENT COLLINS:
Correct.
You no longer have it.
[PAUSE]
AGENT COLLINS:
That is the problem.
08:11
AGENT COLLINS:
Three months ago, on March 17th, you discovered an object beneath Hive 12.
SUBJECT:
I found scrap metal.
AGENT COLLINS:
No.
You found Artifact 7-Alpha.
SUBJECT:
I don't know what that is.
AGENT COLLINS:
Neither do we.
That is why recovery remains a priority.
08:17
SUBJECT:
What was it?
AGENT COLLINS:
An object.
SUBJECT:
What kind of object?
AGENT COLLINS:
One that should not have existed.
08:23
[FILE PLACED ON TABLE]
AGENT COLLINS:
Do you recognize this photograph?
SUBJECT:
That's my hive.
AGENT COLLINS:
No.
Look again.
[LONG SILENCE]
SUBJECT:
...What is that?
AGENT COLLINS:
That photograph was taken four days before you found the artifact.
SUBJECT:
Okay?
AGENT COLLINS:
The artifact is visible in the photograph.
SUBJECT:
That's impossible.
AGENT COLLINS:
Correct.
08:34
SUBJECT:
I don't understand.
AGENT COLLINS:
Neither did the last team.
SUBJECT:
What happened to them?
[PAUSE]
AGENT COLLINS:
They stopped asking useful questions.
08:46
AGENT COLLINS:
Where did you move it?
SUBJECT:
I didn't move anything.
AGENT COLLINS:
Mr. Konch.
SUBJECT:
I didn't.
AGENT COLLINS:
Then explain the bees.
08:47
SUBJECT:
The bees?
AGENT COLLINS:
Yes.
The bees.
After you removed the artifact, every hive within a five-mile radius altered its behavior.
SUBJECT:
How?
AGENT COLLINS:
They began carrying dirt.
SUBJECT:
Bees carry dirt sometimes.
AGENT COLLINS:
Not from graves.
08:58
[EXTENDED SILENCE]
09:04
AGENT COLLINS:
We excavated fourteen locations identified by the bees.
SUBJECT:
And?
AGENT COLLINS:
The artifact wasn't there.
SUBJECT:
Then why are you questioning me?
AGENT COLLINS:
Because something else was.
09:05
SUBJECT:
Something else?
AGENT COLLINS:
Yes.
[PAUSE]
AGENT COLLINS:
The bees had buried photographs.
SUBJECT:
Photographs of what?
AGENT COLLINS:
You.
09:13
SUBJECT:
This is insane.
AGENT COLLINS:
Perhaps.
The photographs were taken before your employment, here.
09:18
SUBJECT:
...
AGENT COLLINS:
Exactly.
09:26
SUBJECT:
I want to leave.
AGENT COLLINS:
You may.
As soon as you tell us where the artifact is.
SUBJECT:
I DON'T KNOW.
AGENT COLLINS:
Mr. Konch.
[PAUSE]
AGENT COLLINS:
The artifact knows your name.
09:31
SUBJECT:
How do you know that?
AGENT COLLINS:
Because it spoke during containment.
SUBJECT:
Spoke?
AGENT COLLINS:
Briefly.
SUBJECT:
What did it say?
[LONG SILENCE]
AGENT COLLINS:
It asked us where you were.
09:37
SUBJECT:
...
AGENT COLLINS:
You understand our concern.
09:45
AGENT COLLINS:
Mr. Konch.
One final opportunity.
Where is the artifact?
SUBJECT:
I don't know.
AGENT COLLINS:
Very well.
[DOCUMENTS SHUFFLING]
SUBJECT:
What's that?
AGENT COLLINS:
Form 88-B.
SUBJECT:
What's Form 88-B?
AGENT COLLINS:
Notification of Bee-Eater Deployment.
09:46
SUBJECT:
You're threatening my bees..?
AGENT COLLINS:
No.
The bees are already involved.
The Bee-Eaters are for our protectioin.
09:47
[LONG SILENCE]
09:52
SUBJECT:
...I buried it.
AGENT COLLINS:
Where?
SUBJECT:
I don't know anymore.
AGENT COLLINS:
Explain.
SUBJECT:
Every morning it was somewhere else.
09:53
AGENT COLLINS:
What do you mean?
SUBJECT:
I buried it six times.
AGENT COLLINS:
And?
SUBJECT:
Every morning it was waiting somewhere different.
09:54
SUBJECT:
I stopped digging after the seventh time.
AGENT COLLINS:
Why?
SUBJECT:
Because it stopped moving.
AGENT COLLINS:
Where?
[EXTENDED SILENCE]
SUBJECT:
...
AGENT COLLINS:
Mr. Konch.
SUBJECT:
You won't believe me.
AGENT COLLINS:
Try.
SUBJECT:
It stopped moving when I buried it under the hive.
09:55
AGENT COLLINS:
Which hive?
SUBJECT:
[REDACTED].
09:56
[RECORDING TERMINATED]
POST-INTERVIEW NOTE
At 09:56 all monitoring equipment within Interview Room 4 ceased operation simultaneously.
Upon restoration of power, the subject was gone.
Agent Collins was recovered three hours later in Apiary Site 12.
He was unharmed.
He claimed he had never left the interview room.
The hive beneath which the artifact was allegedly buried does not appear in any historical records prior to March 17th.
Multiple aerial photographs confirm its existence as early as 1984.
Investigation remains ongoing.
STATUS OF ARTIFACT:
UNKNOWN
STATUS OF SUBJECT:
MISSING
STATUS OF HIVE:
UNDER OBSERVATION
STATUS OF BEE-EATERS:
ACTIVE
END TRANSCRIPT