DEPARTMENT OF ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA

AUDIO LOGS — CARFAX INCIDENT INTERVIEWS
Classification: LEVEL 5 — RESTRICTED
Archive: CX-01 / Post-Termination Debrief

FILE 01 — INTERVIEW WITH ARTHUR HOLMWOOD

Status: Alive, location redacted.
Date: [REDACTED]

AGENT: State your name for the record.
HOLMWOOD: Arthur Holmwood. Chef. Or I was. Doesn’t matter anymore.
AGENT: You neutralized Lucy Westenra. How?
HOLMWOOD: (long silence) She wasn’t Lucy anymore. That’s how. Knife went in easy. I thought it’d be harder. I thought love would stop my hand. It didn’t.
AGENT: Why did you act when trained agents did not?
HOLMWOOD: Because I had no choice. You people always have choices.

FILE 02 — INTERVIEW WITH JONATHAN HARKER

Status: Alive, surveillance ongoing.
Date: [REDACTED]

AGENT: You were held at Velkanova. Describe conditions.
HARKER: (laughs, tired) Conditions. Like a hotel where the rooms bleed. I was their notebook. They wrote themselves into me. Gertrude’s grief, Jessica’s hunger, Claire’s prayers — I still hear them.
AGENT: Were you ever turned?
HARKER: No. Fed on, yes. Enough to make me dream their dreams. Never crossed over. (low) Don’t ask me why. Ask him.
AGENT: Do you still feel connected?
HARKER: (pause) Sometimes my wife speaks and I hear another voice under it. I don’t tell her that.

FILE 03 — INTERVIEW WITH ABRAHAM VAN HELSING

Status: Alive, location redacted.
Date: [REDACTED]

AGENT: You hosted the V-Files broadcast. Why risk exposure?
VAN HELSING: Because truth is a contagion. You hide it, it festers. You speak it, people act. They laughed at me — until the bodies piled high enough to drown the laughter.
AGENT: Do you regret inciting riots?
VAN HELSING: Regret? No. Regret is for men who sat on their hands while the Prince ate their daughters. I told them the storm was coming. They called me mad. Then it came. Who’s mad now?
AGENT: The Directorate insists vampires do not exist.
VAN HELSING: (snorts) Then you’ll have to invent a new word for the thing we killed, won’t you?

FILE 04 — INTERVIEW WITH DR. JOHANNA SEWARD

Status: Alive, active.
Date: [REDACTED]

AGENT: You treated Lucy Westenra before her death. At what point did you know it was not illness?
SEWARD: The second transfusion. Her body drank the blood too fast. Not metabolized. Stored. That’s when I knew.
AGENT: Why didn’t you intervene?
SEWARD: (voice cracks) Because she smiled at me like she used to. And I wanted her to stay Lucy just a little longer.
AGENT: Do you believe she could have been saved?
SEWARD: No. But I’ll never stop wishing.

FILE 05 — INTERVIEW WITH MINA HARKER (née Murray)

Status: Alive, under Directorate surveillance.
Date: [REDACTED]

AGENT: You were tethered by ARC-DRACULA. How did you resist?
MINA: I didn’t resist. Not the way you think. He was inside me already — in my veins, in my head. All I could do was hold on to Jonathan’s voice. Anchor myself to something that wasn’t him.
AGENT: Do you still feel traces?
MINA: (long silence) Every night. In dreams. Sometimes in waking. Like a shadow that knows my name.
AGENT: And your child?
MINA: (sharp) My child is mine. Whatever you’re looking for, you won’t find it there.

DIRECTORATE NOTE:
All transcripts sealed to Level-5 access. Civilian terminology (“Crew of Light”) suppressed; official record refers to Carfax Survivor Cohort.

DEPARTMENT OF ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA

CLASSIFIED MEMORANDUM — HARKER CASE REVIEW (FOLLOW-UP)
Classification: LEVEL 5 — RESTRICTED
Distribution: Directorate Oversight • Research • Operations

Purpose: Resolve policy posture for surviving tether/partial-feeding subjects Mina Harker (née Murray) and Jonathan Harker following Carfax Incident debriefs and medical/psychological evaluations.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Mina Harker — tether subject with persistent psychic residue. Jonathan Harker — partial-feeding survivor exhibiting hive-echoes and severe trauma but no physiological conversion. Directorate must choose among three policy options: Termination, Quarantine/Isolation, or Indefinite Watch (Surveillance + Integration controls). Each option carries operational, ethical, memetic, and political consequences. Below: analyst memoranda and final directive.

MEMO A — Dr. S. IBANEZ (Research Division)

Recommendation: Termination (if definitive markers present) — CONDITIONAL

Rationale:

  • Tether markers in Mina are persistent and correlate with demonstrable hive-echo phenomena. The infant is a potential ontological vector; unknowns remain large.

  • Historical precedent: unmitigated tether subjects can catalyze re-emergence or inspire cultic mimicry (see Renfield contagion).

  • For long-term public safety, removal of primary vector eliminates highest risk.

Operational Notes:

  • Termination only with irrefutable biomarker confirmation (Level-6 panel). Must include sample cryo-archive before action.

  • High memetic cost: public backlash if discovered. Must be covert, surgical, and documented under sealed protocol.

Ethical Note:

  • Acknowledge moral hazard. Termination is last resort; prefer if objective risk threshold crossed.

MEMO B — Liaison A. POPESCU (Velkanova Reintegration Desk)

Recommendation: Quarantine / Medical Isolation + Rehabilitation

Rationale:

  • Quarantine preserves life, offers opportunity to study resistance mechanisms (Mina’s resilience, Jonathan’s partial-feeding immunity).

  • Reintegration narrative depends on showing mercy and rehabilitation rather than execution; easier to maintain cover stories.

  • Politically expedient: describing subjects as “patients under long-term psychiatric care” dovetails with public cover.

Operational Notes:

  • Level-5 secure medical facility, remote location, Hague-registered cover as “long-term trauma ward.”

  • Intensive psych/neurological monitoring, controlled stimuli exposure to measure hive-reconnect threshold.

  • Offspring cryptographically monitored; no outside contact.

Ethical Note:

  • Preserves lives; supports research; retains public narrative flexibility.

MEMO C — Agent D. VARGA (Operations / Field)

Recommendation: Indefinite Watch + Controlled Civilian Integration (current posture)

Rationale:

  • Neither subject demonstrates full conversion. They have strong social anchors (each other, community). Termination would create martyrs (Quentin precedent) and inflame local cultic activity.

  • Quarantine is costly and creates visible targets for both activists and thrill-seekers.

  • Surveillance and low-visibility containment (household monitoring, periodic medical checks) has so far prevented new incidents.

Operational Notes:

  • Continue passive monitoring; red flag auto-escalation for any hive-echo amplification or physiological shift.

  • Narrative control: classify as witnesses under protective custody; allow limited supervised community participation to reduce mythologizing.

Ethical Note:

  • Balances human rights and operational prudence; accepts non-zero residual risk.

MEMO D — Dr. R. KELLEY (Genetics / Bioanomalies)

Recommendation: Quarantine until genetic/ontological tests clear; possible later release under watch

Rationale:

  • Unknowns about the infant — possible epigenetic/ontological alteration. Must sample and test thoroughly.

  • Mina’s resistance may hold clues to immunity. Preserving subject for study has future defensive value.

Operational Notes:

  • Mandatory sample collection (blood, placental materials) stored under Cryo-Black protocol.

  • Ethical/legal cover: obtain judicially-sanctioned medical order under national security exception; all records sealed.

Ethical Note:

  • Informed consent compromised by tether state; judicial exception required. Moral cost mitigated by scientific value.

MARGIN COMMENT — Analyst ███████

“We are arguing about whether to keep two human beings alive or to make them instruments of policy. Meanwhile the public makes shrines. The moral calculus is messy — but the right answer isn’t purely technical.”

RISK MATRIX (Condensed)

  • Termination

    • Upside: immediate removal of highest-risk vectors.

    • Downside: catastrophic memetic/political fallout if exposed; moral/ethical liability; loss of research opportunity.

    • Operational difficulty: covert medical termination with zero leakage is high.

  • Quarantine/Isolation

    • Upside: preserves research value; controls vector physically.

    • Downside: visible, expensive; draws attention; creates possible rescue/terror narratives.

    • Operational difficulty: infrastructure and legal cover required.

  • Indefinite Watch (Status Quo)

    • Upside: low visibility; flexible; lower immediate political cost.

    • Downside: persistent residual risk; depends on surveillance fidelity; may permit slow memetic spread.

    • Operational difficulty: long-tail resourcing and potential for sudden escalation.

LEGAL & MEMETIC CONSIDERATIONS

  • International law constraints on non-consensual medical procedures require sealed national security orders.

  • Public perception risk: termination resembles execution; quarantine resembles internment. Both encourage mythologizing.

  • Memetic hazard: any publicized drastic action (execution/quarantine) legitimizes vampire narratives and may catalyze copycat cults.

RECOMMENDATION — DIRECTORATE OVERSIGHT (DECISION)

After review of memos and risk matrix, the Directorate issues the following directive effective immediately:

  1. Policy: Adopt Quarantine/Isolation posture for Mina and Jonathan Harker pending completion of Level-6 biomarker panel (90-day window). Quarantine is to be conducted under maximal cover: classified medical facility (Code: HAVEN-SIX), disguised as long-term trauma recovery unit under public health authority.

  2. Samples: Mandatory—collect and cryo-archive full biological samples (blood, tissue swabs, infant cord/placental material) under Cryo-Black; preserve for research and legal record. All collections to be performed under sealed warrant (Directorate Seal).

  3. Surveillance: Maintain 24/7 external perimeter surveillance and internal medical observation. Install memetic dampening measures (audio white-noise, controlled social contact). No unauthorized media access.

  4. Narrative Control: Public messaging to define both subjects as survivors undergoing long-term psychiatric care for trauma. Release no photographs. All Directorate personnel to refer to them as Carfax Survivor Cohort — Subject A (Harker-M) and Subject B (Harker-J).

  5. Escalation Protocol: Immediate termination authority granted only if (a) uncontestable physiological conversion occurs (regeneration, hematophagy), or (b) subject becomes active vector demonstrably causing transmission events. Any such action requires Level-6 concurrence.

  6. Ethics Oversight: Convene clandestine Ethics Review Board (Directorate internal) to oversee consent proxy and legal cover practices. Board report due within 30 days.

  7. Research: Prioritize study of Mina’s resistance mechanisms; Jonathan’s partial-feeding profile to be catalogued as new anomaly class (ARC-HARKER-PF). Findings to be withheld from public archive.

IMPLEMENTATION NOTES

  • Quarantine facility operations to begin within 72 hours. Personnel list, transfer route, and cover story to be distributed under separate sealed routing.

  • All Directorate staff reminded: operational security paramount. Leaks = catastrophic. Disciplinary action for unauthorized disclosure.

FINAL OBSERVATION (Divisional Chair)

The choice is political as much as scientific. The Directorate will quarantine to retain research value and minimize immediate political fallout, but this is a provisional posture. The Harkers are living tests of whether vampiric phenomena can be contained within human rights frameworks — or whether containment requires choices we may not ethically justify to ourselves.

END OF MEMO