Regional Operative under Tine in Boston; the pond-draining spect-op

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texture · early / mid-November YDAU

When: early-to-mid November YDAU (the Public Garden pond-draining is "always... c. mid-November")
What: As U.S.O.U.S. Chief Rodney Tine is dispatched to metro Boston over the samizdat (the Berkeley/Tempe/Boston outbreaks, the vaulted cartridges, the sifted-out code-name "the samizdat," per scene 107), Regional Operatives Rodney Tine Jr. and Hugh Steeply sit silently in a State House Annex conference room while Tine watches the Public Garden pond being drained. Places Steeply in the OUS hierarchy and on the Boston front.