Search for Bourne—Day 5

July 20th, 2007

Here’s a spoiler, in detail, for today’s Ultimate Search for Bourne mission. It involves contacting Mustapha Nayet, a new contact in Tangier, Morocco, with whose help we will hopefully find a locker that contains clues that will keep us on Jason Bourne’s trail.

The repeating video in the surveillance panel has today switched to one that is presumably in Tangier. And it’s about time, too! I was getting tired of that shot of Paris. Apparently, my four camera placements yesterday caught two images of Bourne.

The videos section of the media panel also includes two new clips: a quick one from the guy who made the original video briefing congratulating me on “getting out of Paris . . . alive,” and what is presumably a clip from the movie of a chase scene involving Bourne, Nicky Parsons, and a man I didn’t recognize in an on-foot (and Vespa) chase scene through crowded Tangiers streets. The clip was exciting at first, but as it went on, out of context, it actually started to seem a bit dull. I watched it twice hoping to find some clue to camera placement for today, but no such luck.

Nayet’s profile on Dater Notes mentions that he likes to make movies, that he loves football (and doesn’t like it when people call it soccer), and contains no photos. It does contain three video clips hosted on YouTube. These three clips all contain, among other things, first-person shots of someone getting on an elevator, followed by a clip of a desklamp being turned on and off three times. The third clip even subtle has the numeral 3 flash on the screen after the lamp.

There’s also a close-up of the number 12 on an LED elevator panel in the second video and the number 45 on a building outside in the third.Since we’re looking for a locker, I figured these numbers made up a locker combination. I got it right on my first guess, assuming the printed numerals, in the order displayed, were what we wanted (and that the lights either meant we needed three numerals or something we don’t need to worry about today).

So, to spoil the answer: You need to transmit 12 3 45 (with spaces between) to complete today’s mission.

As for camera placement, I basically guessed again. In case you haven’t noticed, you can click on the different cameras to see their descriptions without committing to using them. Today’s camera locations are all in Tangier, but you can only place one. None of the descriptions inspired me, and after searching for further information on them in Google (and Google Maps and Wikipedia), I came up with nothing.

So I went with the Parc de al Mendoubia camera, which is at least familiar from Nicky Parson’s Dater Notes profile and was useful in following her to Tangier in the first place. In fact, that’s probably a hint that it’s not the right one to choose. If there are clues that I’m completely missing, well, I’d imagine they don’t overlap with yesterday’s. But I went with the familiar. I guess I’ll find out tomorrow if I made the right choice (unless the results are actually randomly generated, an idea I can’t quite shake).

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