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Strip 853 -- First Seen: 2011-12-23
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The Transcript For This Page
Panel 1
Cut back to Bert at his desk, talking to his comm.
Bert: After Neanne left, the stay-at-homes talked, even though they were warned not to.
Panel 2
Resume flashback: A pair of talkative aboriginal women sit before a desk behind which sits a Caucasian (white Australian) human rights worker, also female, who listens quietly, taking notes.
Caption (Bert): 'The aboriginals never bought the cover story that the child was mixed, Polynesian and Caucasian – her skin was white and she was more or less red-headed.
Caption (Bert): 'They told some human rights workers in Australia the story.'
Panel 3
Medium shot of the worker at he desk, looking doubtful.
Caption (Bert): 'At first, the rights workers were dubious ...'
Panel 4
Looking at the two aboriginal women from the rights-worker's pov: One of the woman is putting a folder full of 8x10 glossy photos on the desk with one hand while pointing at it emphatically with the other; the second woman is reaching into a cloth bag. We only see enough of the corners of the photos to tell them are shots of a person, but we don't really get a good look of the subject.
Caption (Bert): 'Then they presented their evidence: they had secretly taken photos of Neanne.
Panel 5
The second woman is proffering a 4-inch long lock of hair, bound with a small rubber band, laying within a small, white napkin which the strand had been wrapped in.
Caption: 'But here's the kicker: they also provided hair samples.
Panel 6
End flashback sequence, Cut to Tobi at his desk, smiling at his own joke.
Tobi: Hey, maybe it was just Yeti hair.
Bert (filtered): Ha ha. So, the human rights workers checked out the site of the compound …
Panel 7
One more flashback shot: Same shot as panel 1 of 179, except the compound is gone, as if it had been erased. A bit of concrete rubble here and there is the only marker that anything had been in this place. In the foreground, the human rights worker and a male colleague stand behind their 22nd-Century version of a Land Rover, roughly where the gate used to be, looking puzzled.
Bert: '… but it had been razed to the ground and the soil saturated with bleach. Mount Carmel all over again.'
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