Search for Bourne—Day 6

July 23rd, 2007

Here’s a complete spoiler for today’s mission in the Ultimate Search for Bourne. The briefing informed me that I beat the CIA to Bourne’s locker. Here’s a complete spoiler for the mission.

The locker had a video I need Mustapha Nayet, the expert videographer, to descramble, so today’s mission involves contacting Nayet and asking for help. So it’s back to the Instant Messenger. If you need it spoiled: using Nayet’s Dater Notes profile, I find that his handle is probably mouslelion and assume that the underlined phrase Vive le maroc! is his passphrase.

Sure enough, Nayet chats me with two short IMs. They include a link (broken between the two messages but hot in the first) to a YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF8nFpSMUDU.

Watching the video leaves little doubt of what must be transmitted in the communication panel, but here’s a complete spoiler: The video involves looking at a scrap of paper in a garbage can with the word Treadstone on it, a flier on a lamppost with All on it, and a box of paper clips with the camera focusing on the LIES of “office supplies.”

Thus, transmitting Treadstone All Lies in the communication panel (I don’t think capitalization matters) solves the challenge.

You don’t actually need to follow the steps to finish if you’re not interested in going to Dater Note s and Youtube. You can just click Transmit, enter the password, and click Okay, and you’re done.

Incidentally, “Treadstone” is the top-secret CIA program that featured prominently in the first two Bourne movies. (No point in spoiling the plot details of those movies here. If you want to learn more, you can watch them yourself: The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy at Amazon, or at Netflix here and here. Or read the Wik article.) I’m not sure how it can turn out to be “All Lies.” Perhaps that’s just a cloak-and-dagger password, but I think the more the events of the game tie in with the film, the more fun it is. (Of course, we don’t want the game actually revealing major plot details!)

My last camera placement (random, although a commenter thinks the videos may hold a clue) did catch a short of Bourne. Today, with two cameras to place, I chose (more or less at random; I realy didn’t see any connections to any of the possible locations in Nayet’s videos or profile) Marshan Stadium and Rue de Fez. So far, my random placements have done reasonably well; we’ll see if that applies today.

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