Intercepted Transcript: The Copenhagen Incident
CLASSIFIED | SIGNAL TAP 112-A | DECRYPTION AUTHORIZED | DO NOT REPRODUCE
Source: Secure uplink interception – NORDSAT relay array, Node 5
Date: 19.02.2025
Participants: [REDACTED] (Agent CALDER), [REDACTED] (Agent VIENNA)
Context: Operation GLASS SWAN, Phase III – Subject Containment, Copenhagen Sector
CALDER: (whispered) Are you patched in?
VIENNA: Comms clean. Perimeter tight. But we’ve got an anomaly on the neuro-sweep.
CALDER: Define “anomaly.”
VIENNA: Subject 09 isn’t broadcasting expected dream patterns. He’s generating... counter-resonance.
CALDER: That’s not possible. He’s untagged.
VIENNA: Not anymore. We tagged him two days ago—standard passive thoughtloop, layered beneath his morning coffee routine.
CALDER: And he resisted?
VIENNA: No. He inverted.
CALDER: (pause) How the hell do you invert a loop?
VIENNA: I don’t know. But the signal came back... mirrored. Then it propagated through the subnet.
CALDER: (sighs) Which subnet?
VIENNA: All of them.
[PAUSE: 4.7 seconds of silence detected. Ambient noise: wind, distant tram.]
CALDER: Pull back. Now. Ghost the node and burn the local grid. I’ll escalate to Atlantic Tier.
VIENNA: It's too late for that. He’s broadcasting now.
CALDER: No way. Without a rig or anchor device?
VIENNA: He is the anchor.
[SILENCE | SYSTEM INTERRUPTION | UPLINK DISTORTED]
[REESTABLISHED]
CALDER: Vienna? Respond.
CALDER: (sharper) Vienna, dammit—respond!
[UNIDENTIFIED VOICE INTERJECTION – NOT VIENNA]
???: You’ve been listening so long, Agent Calder.
???: Ever wonder if something is listening back?
[TRANSMISSION TERMINATED]
[AUTO-SCRUB INITIATED – 98% SUCCESS]
[DEBRIEFING MANDATED – ATLANTIC COGNITION BUREAU // RED CHANNEL]
Note: This transcript was recovered via dark channel proxies and verified through behavioral anomalies in Copenhagen’s CoreGrid last February. Agent VIENNA has not resurfaced. Subject 09 remains unidentified.
Keep your thoughts scrambled.
Don’t think loud.
Don’t think patterns.
Don’t think at all.