The Notkin technical interview, run under his aegis by Tine Jr.

texture · ? Nov YDAU

• When: "? Nov YDAU" (Molly Notkin's interrogation, just off the NNYC rail)
• What: The U.S.O.U.S. "technical interview" that extracts Molly Notkin's account of Joelle/Madame Psychosis and the final cartridge is conducted "under Chief of Unspecified Services R. ('the G.') Tine" — Tine Sr. is the standing authority whose interviewers "really do do this" (the high-watt lamp on the exposed face). The interview itself is run by "R. Tine Jr. and the other technical interviewer." (TINE JR. DISTINCTION — the on-the-ground interrogator is the son; the Chief is the aegis, not present in the room.) This is how Tine's intelligence machine harvests the auteur's-circle intelligence his manhunt depends on. A texture datum hangs off the Chief's name here: n.325 credits the theories of detection and interview at work as "strongly informed by" the b/w noir films Tine "so enjoyed as a boy late at night on local broadcast television, and misses" — the boyhood noir taste shaping his Office's interrogation style.