SPOILERS!!! FOR CATHY"S BOOK!
Cathy’s Book: Numbers
Cathy’s phone number: 1 (650) 266-8233 Access code: 1234
1 (650) 266 - 8202 Access code: 5832
Victor’s phone number: 1 (415) 356-9853 Access code: 5555 or 4884
Emma’s phone number: 1 (650) 266-9240 Access code: 1086 or 3030
Carla’s phone number: 1 (40 cool 236 - 2161 Access code: 1493
Bianca’s phone number: 1 (510) 286 - 7995 Access code: 1111
Tsao’s phone number: 1 (646) 218 - 1289 Access code: 2486
Chang Kuo Lau phone number: 1 (314) 994 - 1264 Messages
BIANCA
"Hi, this is Bianca. Woah! Wait! No it isn't. This is a machine pretending to be Bianca, Ha Ha. I must be out expanding either my consciousness or my waistline. Come on, you know the drill. (beep)"
- You have one saved message sent Wednesday, February 5th at 2:15 PM.
(Male voice) Bianca, this is your... this is Uncle Evan. I'm sorry we never got a chance to meet. Anyway, in a couple of days you'll get a cashier's check in the mail. Don't be afraid to cash it. Its good money, legal, and mine to give. It might seem like a lot but its really no substitution for what you should have had from me all of these years. Okay, I have to go. Remember, you are loved. I love you. Goodbye.
VICTOR
Hi. You've reached Victor Chan. I can't come to the phone right now or maybe ever again. So leave a message at your own risk. (Hear sounds of an engine running and airplane flying overhead) If this is Cathy calling, Please stop. I wish (pause)... I wish things were different but they aren't. (beep)
- 1st message sent Tuesday, January 28th at 4:12 PM
(male voice) Hello Mr. Chan. This is Lu Tung Peng, your new Chairman and Peng Lai Pharmacuticals. I have become aware of some very interesting research going on in your lab. (sounds of raquetball and some Chinese spoken with another man) Are you available for dinner this Saturday evening? New Year's dinner at the Eight Ancestors. 7:00. Call my office to confirm. I look forward to working thogether Mr Chan.
EMMA
Hi! Emma's answering machine is broken. This is her refridgerator. Give me your message REALLY slowly and I'll stick it to myself with one of these little magnets.(beep)
- You have 2 saved messages.
- 1st message sent Tuesday, February 4th at 11:27 PM
(beep) - silence for a few seconds
- 2nd message sent Friday, February 7th at 2:11 PM
(outdoor noises, a car door closing, then footsteps)
Male #1: Okay Jun, we're done, right? Everbody knows we're out of it.
Jun: You're finished. I promise you. Come, Ancestor Lu is waiting for you.
Cathy: Oh, great. (footsteps walking away)
Male #2:Now what?
Male #1: We wait for the check. There's usually a guy who comes right after. Huh, here we go.
Male #2: Four guys?
Male #1: Maybe its a really big check?(sarcastically)
Male #2: These guys don't look like accountants.
Male #1: Yeah, I know.
Male #2: Oh, God
Chinese Male: "lei ho" Ancestor Lu would like to talk with you. PLEASE COME WITH US!!!
Male #2: Like hell he would!
Male #1: Don't do it! (gunshot)
Male #2: Uh, uh (falling noise) oh crap.
Chinese Male: Please come with us.
Male #1: Sure, why the hell not. Nobody lives forever.
CATHY
Hey this is Cathy and I can't come to the phone right now because cell phones can be traced and not always by the good guys. If this Mom - don't worry. I'm okay. Emma - if this is you, I left my book under your porch. Take a look. I think there's stuff buried there we haven't figured out yet. Okay, leave a message at the beep.
- You have one saved message sent yesterday at 4:27 PM
(Female voice) Hey Kiddo, that guy was here again asking for you - Tsao. He seemed very interested. Cathy, is this guy stalking you? Call me.
CARLA BECKMAN CELL
You have reached 408-236-2161. PLease leave a message after the tone. If you wish to reach "Carla Beckman" at work, call 408-236-3715.
- You have 2 new messages.
-1st message sent Tuesday, Jan 28th at 9:18 AM
(extremely upbeat female voice) Hi Ms. Beckman! Cindy in the chairman's office just calling to confirm a luch appointment at 1:00 today to talk about your very exciting research program. I know Mr. Lu is looking forward to it. Bye.
- next message sent Tuesday January 28th at 11:06 AM
(Victor's Voice) Carla? Pick up the phone! Why aren't you at work? You can't do this without me Carla. If you go to Intrepid now they'll just laugh at you. And as for your "Auction it to Genentech and let them bid" idea, that's just gonna get us both fired. Please Carla, Keep Quiet. I'll make sure you have all the lab space and interns you want. PLUS spending money on the side, okay? Carla? Carla, Pick up the phone!
CARLA BECKMAN WORK
(male voice) Due to the, uh, tragic (clear throat), Carla Beckman is no longer receiving calls at this number. Pete Galvin, uh me, has been appointed interim supervisor of "A" Lab. Business questions should be directed to him, uh me. A general memo about Carla's memorial service will be sent out as soon as details are finalized.
K.C. TSAO
You have reached 646-218-1289. Please leave a message.
- You have one saved message sent Saturday, February 8th (in a whisper you hear: "Hour of the rat" wink .
A female voice leaves a message in Chinese (Cantonese?). You can hear airplanes in the background.
We need to move; I'll help you if you help me. We must stop them -- if we don't do this today, we'll be doomed tomorrow.
OR
____('s?) daughter. Frankly my father intentionally brought us on a perilous path of no return. As a daughter I have ____ more than my father all this time. For the world we both have had to change. I will help you(?) But you must help me to find the others. We must tell them about your plan and convince them to stop him. Believe me, Master Tsao, if we do not fight this battle today, we will face a more dangerous war tomorrow
CHANG KUO LAO (number on FDex reciept)
(A female voice with heavy Chinese accent) My friends know, I don't answer the phone or listen to messages. I only do readings for people I like, and I already guessing I don't like you! If you insist to throw money away by calling a psychic hotline I will save you cash and give you same crap for free! Visit my website www.luckyfortuneforyou.com but if you want a real reading, come see me.
Victor’s Email to Cathy:
Cathy, if you are writing this address, it means you haven’t heard
from me for three days and the odds are - i’m dead. for real this time.
And on the Third day, cometh she to the sepulcher but the stone was
still there and she could not enter in.
dead.
How strange it feels to even write that word, after all the lies, the
deaths i faked and the ones i caused - i stopped fearing death a long
time ago; stopped wishing for it a few decades after that.
You remember the day i saw you at the burger barn? we had just made a
breakthrough in the lab and i was - Euphoric. Making ordinary people
immortal, that might still be years away. but the opposite--*Ending*
immortality - that i think we can do. . i think someone in lu’s lab
has produced a serum that can make death a possibility again, even for
us. even for me.
Remember the night we sat together on tirehenge and you told me about
your father, and i talked about the Great war, world war one, this
massacre in armenia, it think it was. bodies scattered on the plain.
Each one empty. broken dolls. cracked cups.
listening to you that night made me fear death again and i am so grateful.
as i write this i am terrified, and i am so glad to be afraid: to
care enough to feel my heart pound at the thought i might never see
you again. since i met you, life has become precious for the first
time in a long time.
to live one year that matters is worth more than a thousand numb years
of mere gray existence.
Now, you have to listen to me, Cathy. Your life depends on it,
because Ancestor lu has hired the lucky joy cleaning service
Guard yourself. these people are killers. they do the *other* kind
of cleaning - buildings burned down, people made to disappear. they are
the best, most professional black ops you can buy. instead of name
tags or badges, they all wear a certain lucky charm. it looks like a
chinese coin, one of those ones with a hole in the middle.
Anyone approaches you wearing one of those, you run and keep running
until you are in a public place with lots of people around you.
also--
someone’s coming. I have to stop.
Never forget that i loved you very much.
victor
p.s. - you have sharp eyes. use them on this letter
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