Without a Trace

Limitless Podcast Transcript [S2E5]

Mark: We're probably just expendable things to them, geez.

Donghyuck: I always joke about overthrowing the rich but I think they'd probably pay like two billion just to make sure I never speak again. Isn't that one of the things the Broker has done?

Johnny: If you're talking about what happened to Senator Kim then yeah. That shit was fucking brutal. The Broker basically crushed that guy's jaw after releasing his gender. That was crazy.

Mark: I still remember the headlines, that was long before the ban too. If that didn't get them to reconsider the vigilante thing I'm surprised what else the Broker could've done. I wonder what he's up to, I'm sure he knows he probably has the most influence in at least this country.

Johnny: How could you not? All that money and different big-name politicians coming to you for your products... remember when he was on the dark web?

Donghyuck: I remember that! Actually, I think it's still up. Jaemin installed Torr on one of our laptops, which has since been destroyed, just to pull up information on the Huntsman, then we stumbled upon the Broker's page. It's locked by a fucking paywall. Guess how much we have to pay to get in?

Mark: Twenty thousand.

Johnny: Fifty thousand.

Donghyuck: You guys aren't even close! Try two million!

Mark: Holy shit!

Donghyuck: Right?! Obviously, we didn't have that money and within like an hour of installing Torr the cops showed up and took the laptop. Luckily it was an old thing that Jaemin didn't use anymore because of all of the viruses on it so it wasn't like we lost anything, but still. The Broker doesn't joke around.

Johnny: I'm pretty sure the Broker could easily just start a war on his own and bam just like that. Does he even really qualify as a vigilante?

Mark: I guess technically? The Broker did supply a lot of vigilantes, and probably still does. I feel like that makes him a vigilante by default.

Johnny: I guess? He's also officially registered as that according to the Most Wanted list, but in a way, he also isn't. Fundamentally, the Broker's just a bare-bones arms dealer.

Donghyuck: Basically, yeah. Aside from this video that Renjun took we don't have much else to go on, I feel like every time anything is released on the Broker it gets taken off immediately.

Mark: Maybe he's working with Cypher?

Donghyuck: Or maybe he's working with a different hacker we don't know about.

Johnny: Dang, if he is working with Cypher then that hacker must have a lot on his plate and damn, that's a lot of work.

Mark: Vigilantes... they really are on a different plane from us, it's like they have their own sphere of the world that we'll just never be able to understand. And now with this Charlatan stuff, who knows what will happen?

Donghyuck: Have you guys seen the theory that the Charlatan's killing off vigilantes?

Johnny: No way!

Donghyuck: Yes way! A lot of people are pointing out that the weapons Charlatan has been using used to belong to Vigilantes, how else could they have received them if not by killing them and taking them? Not to mention, all of the weapons used have been sourced out by the Broker then maybe later improved on.

Mark: The Charlatan did mention that they want to get rid of all traces of vigilantes, hence why they killed Senator Keeves. Everyone else I assumed were against the vigilante ban or maybe helped vigilantes in the past.

Johnny: And a lot of the people on the list had actual livelihoods that required being in the public eye a lot.

Donghyuck: It is just a theory.

Johnny: The math isn't mathing.

Donghyuck: But it is interesting!

Mark: Add that to the long list of Charlatan theories, huh? Let's move on to our next part of the... huh? [Paper Rustling]

Johnny: What's wrong?

Mark: Johnny, did you do something to my script?

Johnny: No? [More Paper Rustling] Where'd the rest of the script go?

Donghyuck: Hold on, I printed mine out at home, here you... what? Just kidding.

Mark: Very funny, Johnny.

Johnny: I swear I didn't do anything! It's gotta be around here somewhere, right? Look around the office.

Mark: Uh... we're going through some technical difficulties right now, so give us a quick second, sorry about this, guys.

Intermission Song: - Andrew Jeremy

Mark: Okay! And we're back!

Johnny: But still missing an entire part of our script, what the hell... It's not even on our Google Doc anymore.

Donghyuck: Looks like it's you two who need to go into witness protection.

Mark: Shit, maybe!

Johnny: I guess, uh... we really don't have a choice but to end the episode here. Unless either of you still have any thoughts?

Mark: I have thoughts, just not on the Broker. How could all three of us lose a script? Shotaro, what about you?

Shotaro: You guys didn't give me a script.

Mark: Oh... then... never mind. Remind us to give you one next episode.

Shotaro: Gotcha, gotcha.

Johnny: Well then... that's it. That's all we got, guys.

Donghyuck: I have the .pdf file at home so I'll check that one too.

Johnny: If we find the rest of the script we'll do a quick read-through of it in the next episode. Sound good?

Mark: Uh, Shotaro, what does chat say?

Shotaro: They say it's fine, they'll wait!

Mark: Sounds good! Alright then, you all know the drill. Buy either us or Crys a Kofi, if you want! We'd really appreciate it. And the first 100 questions on our CuriousCat will be answered, as per usual.

Johnny: And thank you to Hyuck for coming in! Got anything to promote? Any shoutouts?

Donghyuck: Uh... yeah! We're remaking the Watchtower channel soon, since there are a lot of vigilantes still active, so follow us on Twitter and Instagram at the @/watchtower_2 We're excited to try this again so, yeah! We'll see you soon!

Mark: That's it for tonight guys! See you next episode!

Johnny: Bye!

Donghyuck: Peace out!

Outro Song: - LoFi Waiter

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