Search for Bourne—Day 14
August 2nd, 2007
Here’s a complete spoiler of the answer to the day fourteen puzzle in the Ultimate Search for Bourne.
Our briefing tells us Bourne is lying in the video we captured yesterday and recommends getting in touch with Mustapha Nayet, the video expert, through the instant messenger for ideas on how to deal with lies in audio samples.
It’s been a while, so if you don’t remember, you need to use agent handle Mouslelion and passphrase Vive le maroc in the instant messenger to get in touch with Mustapha. When you do, he’ll tell you: “You’ve got the tools. Search for yourself. These keywords may help: Bourne lie detection Treadstone.”
The trick is to enter the phrase bourne lie detection treadstone into Google Image Search (images.google.com). When you do, you’ll see a picture stored at the Dater Notes site called “How to spot a lie.” (The French “mensonge détection” is there, too, with a miraculously identical coffee mug stain. Spoils suspension of disbelief, but I have to admit I’m impressed that Google Image Search found a relevant non-English version based on the English text entered into the search box. It didn’t find a German version, though. I suspect there’s one out there.)
For once, we don’t have to enter the image into the Decryption tool (which doesn’t work at all for some readers). Instead, we have to follow the final advice from the sheet: “Digital studio analysis can expose a marked increase in transients and visual distortion of the waveform due to stress and the constriction of the larynx under duress. Though the lie may pass aural cues of detection, often the best liars can’t escape waveform analysis.”. The video we found yesterday is in the Media section under Videos and is called “Waveform Video.” I had to click the Video button about three times to get it to show up.
Since Jason Bourne helpfully included a visual waveform readout of his spoken message, all we have to do is watch for those phrases in which the waveform becomes agitated and distorted, as illustrated on the “How to spot a lie” sheet. This happens with the phrase: Stay here.
The answer to today’s puzzle is to type Stay here. in the message transmitter and hit Submit.
Since neither of my camera’s caught a shot of Bourne yesterday, including the one that did catch a sighting the day before that, I’m back to just random guessing. Anyone have a better idea for camera placement?
(Edited to correct a minor error in the answer. Thanks, O Great Commenters!)
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1. quentin | August 2nd, 2007 at 8:46 am
in dater note, look at the profile of nicky parson, her zip code is 10002, if you google it you find the latitude and longitude, then with goole map you find a place near essex market. on day 13 I put UN building and essex and I had two sightings. today I will use the same two sites plus central park.
2. Joel Costa | August 2nd, 2007 at 9:06 am
Just before placing camera’s it tells you to “Corner Bourne in Manhattan”. As such I figure that I have to block is exist. I choose sites near bridges.
3. omg[jess] | August 2nd, 2007 at 9:31 am
“Listen. Stay where you are.” didn’t work for me. I went back to the video and watched it again. I had to transmit “Listen. Stay here. Do exactly what I say.”
4. farmboy (s klein) | August 2nd, 2007 at 9:42 am
If you look at the waveform, it clearly bounces differently around “stay here”. That’s the only thing you have to put in the transmitter to succeed today. I guess that you could put the entire speech there, by omg[jess]’s comment.
I placed a camera yesterday at Essex Street and got a sighting. So I guess that worked.
I think that the 3 west location will probably work today, as clearly he’s moving (by the lack of success from placing cameras in the same spot on day 12, 13)
5. Peter | August 2nd, 2007 at 10:29 am
Yeah, I just entered “Stay here” and it worked. I don’t have any real good guesses on camera placement, though.
6. zackary | August 2nd, 2007 at 10:43 am
I entered “Stay here” as well and it worked.
The daily breifing screen came up with a link to http://www.readteston.com/ but it seems I am unable to access the page. The url is an anagram of treadstone
7. zackary | August 2nd, 2007 at 10:49 am
When i look up the url in google (cached verison 23/07/07) the domain seemed to be parked by GoDaddy.
Looking at the DNS records the domain is owned by NBC UNIVERSAL
8. Alec Bings | August 2nd, 2007 at 10:49 am
Hey guys,
Thanks for catching my goof. That’s what I get for reading on one screen and typing on the other instead of copying and pacing.
Some interesting thoughts on camera placement! I’ll look forward to hearing what works tomorrow–the last day of the contest!
–Alec
9. surfkw | August 2nd, 2007 at 11:04 am
I entered in “Listen Stay Here Do Exactly What I Say” and it worked for me. I didn’t do any of the waveform analysis, I just listened to the message and noticed that whole chunk sounded different than the beginning and the end.
10. very speCIAl person | August 2nd, 2007 at 9:32 pm
This “How to spot a lie” thing is pretty interesting huh. They could have at least get matt damon to do an actual voice over instead of having people cut and paste words he said in the movies, since the message sounds very stutter-ish .
11. bada bing | August 3rd, 2007 at 12:41 pm
if you click on the numbers on the left side of readteston, you get a login for landypamela, but no password. Any ideas?
12. Alec Bings | August 3rd, 2007 at 2:03 pm
Yes, bada bing. Check out my spoiler for day fifteen here. It has all you need to know.
–Alec
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