Search for Bourne—Day 13
Here’s the complete spoiler for the day 13 challenge in the Ultimate Search for Bourne game.
Our briefing tells us that amoung our video files is a “very public” apparent trailer that contains an instant message handle, straight from Jason Bourne. We’ll use this in the transmitter to get the answer to today’s puzzle. This video showed up as “Altered Trailer” on my wife’s machine and started playing automatically, but I was completely unable to get it to display on mine. More evidence that the UI is irritatingly buggy, as some commenters have observed. (Note: I was able to get the video to play on my own machine about five minutes later.)
The video has many promotional titles that, together, read, “His identity erased. His loved one murdered. His past stolen. On August 3rd, Bourne comes home. The Bourne Ultimatum.” Slightly harder to see (I used the pause button to catch them exactly) are JoanneBrous (an anagram of “Jason Bourne) and the familiar TREADSTONE ALL LIES. Key these in to the Instant Messenger as the agent handle and passphrase, and you’ll get a link to a YouTube video (here) with an audio message from Bourne: “This is Jason Bourne. Listen. Stay here. Do exactly what I say. And you’ll get further instructions.”
That’s all well and good, but don’t be distracted. As with the other days’ puzzles, the answer is very simple. It’s the URL itself that we have to put in the Message Transmitter to solve the challenge.
Click “Submit Answer” under the daily briefing and paste the URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq0iKP8c3D0 in as your answer. Transmit it, and you’re done.
It’s possible there’s a clue to camera placement in today’s video, but I didn’t recognize any of the shots of the Big Apple, even when the clip had someone saying “within 1000 yards of this building,” which sounded promising. So I went with proximity, and put the nearest camera at 5 West 37th Street. I don’t know if there’s anything exciting or spyish in that building, a high-rise office building, but it’s right next to Madison Square Park, yesterday’s solution and the place where my first New York City camera caught a sighting of Bourne.
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