This document is a 3-part fictional story told through dialogue and images about attempting to track down missing government information by contacting people in rough parts of town. In the first part, someone is asked to help locate a missing "government hand-job" but says the information is gone. In the second part, a friend has died from a drug overdose, and the person is threatened by another. In the third part, the person tries to get more information from others about who else is looking for the missing information and if they have followed proper procedures.

1. The fevered mind of steve presents:
Policy
Police
Reaching the LEARNER
Part 3
Another part of town.
Another kind of life. Off
database. Cash economy.
We call them hard to
reach, but most of the
time they’re invisible.
Lives we have no
connection with. And the
less we know about them,
the less we have to try.

2. Hey! Looky
here! Looky
here!
What?
It’s trying to
learn me stuff

3. What stuff?
I dunno,
just stuff
Stop arsing about and
find something
useful. Something
that’s worth
something. Capische?

4. Heh. Gotcha!
Universities. Got the
best muck. Bona fide
scholars only.
OK. Gimme.
Gotta go see
the man.

5. Faren! Dude!
Tex, baby!
We gotta
break. A fix on Excellent. Gimme
the missing the coordinates.
hand-job.
Somebody’s
downloading.

6. Should have guessed it
would be the wrong side
of town.
You come here for three
things. Sex, drugs … and
a frisson of danger.

7. Kof! Retch
Ugh!
Wakey,
wakey!

8. Your friend
wasn’t so lucky.

9. Friend…?

10. Dari?
Dari! Wake up!

11. You bastard!
You killed him!
The cheap shit
did for him long
before I arrived.
Like I said, you
were lucky.

12. I’m after a
government
hand-job.
Where is it? Gone
Gone
where?
Dari’s
man.

13. And the man
is…?
I never saw him.
None of my
business.
And if I help a
cop I’ll get my
throat cut.

14. I’m no cop. I’m a
subcontractor. You smell
like a cop.
And you smell like
puke. Clean
yourself up and
get a life.
fuppa fuppa fuppa fuppa fuppa

15. C’mon.
???
Gotta
run.
fuppa fuppa fuppa

16. RUN!
???
fuppa fuppa

18. Who else is on this
case?
Did they fill in the
right forms?
Find out in next time
in
Reaching the
LEARNER.