The following interview was between Agent Westbay and Dr. Lienau, a staff member of Research Lab #14. This interview was performed soon after Dr. Lienau contacted the Foundation, and was the first source of information regarding conditions surrounding SCP-2687.

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W: What was the first indicator that development of the product was compromised?

L: In retrospect, Mickey joining our team was probably the first indicator. He was always a bit… off. It's hard to describe. Even when he was completely focused on his work, he somehow seemed preoccupied.

W: You mentioned earlier that your team was suffering some financial difficulties. Could you elaborate?

L: Oh. That was in late '96. We were moving out of animal trials and corporate notified us that a major contract had ended for no reason. I wasn't told who the contract was with, but… I can take a guess. As for my team, our budget was strained because of it. If we didn't make a market-ready product in a year or two, the entire project would have been for nothing.

W: I see. Is that why the supplement you told me about only works temporarily?

L: Unfortunately, yes.

W: I suppose I should ask for more detail on what happened to the facility we found your team in.

L: [Sigh] A few months ago, my team had reached a… high point, if you will. We were shipping out hundreds of organs every day. Each one meant another patient treated… I… it was our crowning achievement. [Long pause] Then, we heard about a missing shipment of the supplement. My superiors told me it was probably a bureaucratic accident. Nothing to be worried about.

Then, we heard about another shipment. Then another. [Angry] By the fourth, corporate had finally figured out what was going wrong. Someone was stealing the shipments and taking them to who-knows-where… We only realized later that the Chaos Insurgency was involved.

W: Considering that we just saved your team from a group of Insurgents outside your bunker, I hardly find that surprising.

L: Oh. Well, thank you for that… As I was saying, after our shipments began disappearing, it became clear that our comms were failing. Within a few weeks, we couldn't get in contact with our superiors. The only signal functioning was the emergency line, but even that was a garbled mess. When the comms came back on, almost all the lines were filled with… well, memes. About fifty different programs, all layered on top of each other. That's what our filters said, anyway.

W: Could you determine their purpose?

L: Well, not really. The first person to go over the data was Mickey. He was the most resistant to such things, or… at least, his tests said so. After a few seconds, he got up, walked down the hallway, and choked out a security guard. He… he didn't even flinch. He… just… killed him. Then, he moved on to the next guard. Then the next.

W: Excuse me. One man took out three trained private security officers with his bare hands? That's more than a little unlikely.

L: Well, I don't know how, but every shot fired at him missed, even from a fucking foot away. [Pause] Sorry, that was unprofessional.

W: How… [sigh] It's fine. Continue.

L: My team ran off, but… one of them didn't make it. I don't know why Mickey even decided to be so brutal. [Visibly uncomfortable] He just tore his legs off and slammed the torso against a wall.

W: That's… unusual. Can you think of a potential motive for these actions?

L: For Mickey, I have no idea. He might have been a sleeper agent, I don't really know. For the Insurgency… Prometheus Labs was already in a bad position. A lot has happened this year, and… well, maybe the Insurgency just wanted another technology to pilfer. Wasn't our facility ransacked?

W: I'm not allowed to tell you that.

L: Well, if it was… Agent, before we end this interview, can I ask you something?

W: Sure.

L: Please tell your superiors to try to save our patients. I haven't always considered your group to go out of their way to use anything that you consider anomalous, but I'd rather not be responsible for more than a thousand people dying.

W: …Of course. This is Westbay, terminating the first interview with Dr. Lienau. Date: December 17th, 1998.

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