Transmitter

"If you come into my office, I’ll show you what I mean."  

The Little Girl, Muttonchop and the Cop all followed the Suit past a maze of half walls and windows.  The half walls were covered in something that felt like carpeting.  There was a giant supercolored monster statue near the elevator (it was supposed to look friendly, but it terrified her, in the way that nightmare clowns do/did)

He made a right after the table that had some kind of erector set toy on it.  All sorts of pieces which were half put-together and half pulled apart.  A picture of a man being arrested, but he was wearing a fake cowboy hat and a giant smile.  The Words; “We are watching you.  Don’t be evil”, like the boss was the meanest grade school principal of them all.

He stopped at a corner that had windows on both sides.  It would be so easy to push him backwards on his fancy wheely chair.  She wasn't sure why these crazy thoughts would come into her head. But she couldn't stop the look on his face, a mixture of horror and vulnerability, as his chair tipped back through the glass and began falling. Funny that she would picture him as looking surprised. He sat down with full confidence that he was controlling the entire show. This meeting, this business, all sorts of plans she couldn't even begin to imagine. Even if he wasn't in control, he'd never let you feel like you could take it from him. Not even in pretend, he was like Marc. Evil, but not evil enough to be dishonest about it. Or maybe it was a matter of greed. He was too greedy to ever give you a moment to feel comfortable.

“Come here, little girl!”  He picked her up by the armpits and lifted her into his fancy black chair that belonged to Darth Vader.  She didn’t like the idea that he was thinking about pushing HER backwards into the glass, and she felt those thoughts very strongly. This was worse, he was trying to make her feel comfortable and even Mutton Chop was looking nervous.

“This is where she went with her car”

The Cop:  “You were tracking her? Are you stalking her?”

Suit: "No, not at all. We are merely tracking the company car.   That piece of it is completely legal.  Here’s the car on May 7, May 8, May 13 and then on May 23rd, the day she was fired."

That wasn’t right.  

She was fired on Friday the 13th.  He’s lying.  I remember her coming home.  "I’m free", she said.  She was so happy. There was nothing that she felt sorry for, no reason for her to be sad.

(When she shared this with Mutton Chops later, he said, maybe that was the day that they put the paperwork in.  Companies do all sorts of strange things with their paperwork..  Especially THAT company.  All they do is focus on efficiency . . . (he stops, seeing a flaw in his own reasoning)  

He remembers the Suit (her boss) saying, 

"She was feeling so terrible that day.  I hate to say it, but near suicidal.  Her work had been suffering for months.  “How will I pay my bills!!  What will my mother say!?!” she was screaming and crying and carrying on.  There was quite a scene in my office in the morning/by my car in the parking lot.?? (OVER THE PHONE??  SCOTT D.!  He comes up to the Cop & says he saw them fighting??  Suit torturing her??)

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(Back to scene in progress)

Suit’s desk is covered in papers and also gadgets, half broken, half still blinking.  Some plugged in. He also has the biggest piece of the erector set.  (He stole it for himself.  Took his ball and went home.)

Kid picks something up and asks “What is this?”

It looks like a GPS.  Small screen.  Maps.

"That’s the real-time function for the transmitter that was on her car"

Cop: We might need that for evidence.  

Suit:  All of our company files are private.  You’ll have to go through our lawyers.  You’ll at least need to come back with a warrant.

Cop: Not if it’s in plain view.

Suit: But you are on company property . . .

The kid began to roll her eyes as they kept arguing in grownup language.

 

"What does that do?  What about that?"

The Suit was only too happy to change the subject.  

"That’s a megapixel GPS . . .

"That’s a . . .

(Eventually, she figures out a way to wander the empty dark halls to go to the bathroom. She wanders off in the vague direction of the Woman's bathroom. Takes a turn at the dead toy playground table. Sees the Monster on the far side of the glass door hallway. Stops herself in front of a bookcase FULL of boxes of Tracker Devices, a bunch of shelves.  A variety of games, toys, devices to choose from, but she sees the exact version he has on his desk. A bookcase full of sample toys. Puts it in her Pink backpack, while looking out for grownups or hidden cameras.)

As they walk out, the Suit is still trying to confuse them with grownup talk that makes even the Cop and Mutton Chops glaze over.  

"Little girl, let me give you a present.  How about a nice electronic compass?"  

"I’d rather have that thing you have on your desk."

"A tracking device?"

(See, he even had the opportunity to help them out nicely. Which he doesn't take)

(He pats her on the head)

"it’s much too complicated for you . . . Here's a . . . " He hands her a toy for preschoolers, something purple with a smiling unicorn on the cover.

"Thanks" she smiles sweetly, wondering exactly how the transmitter will come in handy.

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(PLOT POINT:  She puts it on HIS red convertible-out of spite, rather than out of cleverness?  

Wouldn’t it be funny if he mixed up her car with HIS car?

At the police station.  She takes it off the PARKED car belonging to the WOMAN and puts it on HIS car.

Data readings make him FREAK OUT, when he thinks that she is following him!!  He calls police station, are you SURE the car is in the evidence room??  I think I’m being followed by a dead woman!!!

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TRANSMITTER: Activated when the controller goes ON the device.  He went to Sandy Pond after she made the declaration at the Funeral.  PLUS he drives to Georgia every other weekend (16.5 hours!  But he can make it in 15)

how to get evidence that his car was there on the day she disappeared? 23rd?  

Extra bonus feature.  Connect your car to the bluetooth and gain access to gas milage and PAST data. (maybe only for fancy new cars that cost too much money??)

His car is outfitted with everything.  There’s something that’s been tracking HIM since he got the car.  

HE WAS AT THE POND on the 23rd!!  (Sandy?)  PLus he was at ALL THE OTHER PONDS she was going to, including the one/river in NH!!