Joelle's Q-interview on the master — "They were buried with him. The…"
‘They were buried with him. The Masters of everything unreleased. At least that was in his will.’ […] ‘I don’t know that he ever even got a finished Master. That’s your story. […] ‘If it got made and nobody’s seen it, the Master, it’s in there with him. Buried. That’s just a guess. But I bet you.’ […] ‘ That’s the part of the joke he didn’t know. Where he’s buried is itself buried, now. It’s in your annulation-zone. It’s not even your territory. And now if you want the thing—he’d enjoy the joke very much, I think. Oh shit yes very much.’
Context
The Master-copy question (098's whole census hung on it) answered as well as anyone alive can answer it: the unreleased Masters went into the grave by will, she doubts a finished Master ever existed, and her "educated bet" puts the object of two governments' hunt in a coffin whose cemetery the Reconfiguration has since swallowed — "Where he’s buried is itself buried," inside the annulation-zone JOI's own optics-and-fusion career helped create. The filmography's terminal item ends as a posthumous joke at the hunters' expense, and Joelle is sure the auteur would rate the joke highly.