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KOKUSHICORP.COM // MIRROR 03 OF 07
HQ-031  THE 02:11 CALL
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STATUS:   PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT
PERIOD:   14 Aug 1986
ADDED:    02 Sep 2026
SHA-1:    DF86481EB8EE
SOURCE:   https://kokushicorp.com/files/the-0211-call/
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A call logged from an extension that isn't in the directory, to an
External Relations desk, three minutes before Watanabe's last recorded
access.

## The log

> LAST INCOMING · 02:11 · EXT 1401 → ER-03 · DURATION 00:01:05

EXT 1401 does not appear in any Kokushi telephone directory I have seen.
ER-03 was the desk of T. Marlow, External Relations.

## What was sent to me

A transcript, typed, with a handwritten note in the margin: the
recording is retained under ER-4417-D. I have never heard the recording.
Below is the part I can publish.

> MARLOW: External Relations. Marlow speaking.
>
> CALLER: Terry. It's Watanabe. Forty-four seventeen.
>
> MARLOW: Mr. Watanabe. It's after two. You should have gone home hours
ago.
>
> CALLER: I tried. The gate wouldn't read my badge. It said I'd already
left.
>
> CALLER: I'm on fourteen. I saw the model. My house is lit. Who is in
my house?
>
> MARLOW: Your household has been reassigned. Everything is within
tolerance.
>
> CALLER: I resigned. You have my letter.
>
> MARLOW: People don't leave Kokushi, Mr. Watanabe. They're reassigned.
>
> [REDACTED]
>
> SECOND VOICE: You arrived exactly as expected, Mr. Watanabe.

## The second voice

The transcript labels the last speaker RESEARCHER. Whoever typed it
crossed that out and wrote nothing in its place.

Two readers who say they have heard the recording, separately and years
apart, told me the same thing: the second voice is older, but it is
Watanabe's.

I don't know what to do with that. Neither, I think, did the person who
crossed out the label.

Watanabe says he "saw the model". The only model I know of is on 11F.
See The Model Room Visitor Book.

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