Transcript
RUNNER: [breathing, 14 seconds]
[breathing slows, 28 seconds]
[breathing, 33 seconds]
[footsteps, distant, 42 seconds]
[breathing, 21 seconds]
[a single word, unintelligible, 1 second]
[breathing, 35 seconds]
[recording ends]
AUDIO LOG AL-013 // LAYER 15 // RUNNER
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The runner’s own breathing after the firewall is brought down. No words. There don’t need to be. Duration: 2:14.
Bureau Annotation
The single unintelligible word at 2:08 has been the subject of crowd analysis. Bureau-internal consensus is that it is the runner’s own civilian name spoken aloud, possibly for the first time in years.
The recording captures the runner walking out the front door of Facility North. The footsteps at 0:42 are Helen K., not paying attention to the runner. She has been at her cart for 22 years. She does not look up.
AL-013 plays in FIREWALL//ZERO over the credit roll for the Secret Ending. The credit roll is also 2:14. The credit roll is the recording.