Blown for Good - Marc Morgan Headley [137]
He told me the whole story about COB giving them all $200. He said that he and Matt Price had left with their stuff and went to Times Square and got some authentic New York pizza with the money and were just hanging out until Gerald Duncan found them and brought them back! I asked Trevor about his little sleep vacation and told him that they had even called back and asked me if I had heard from him. We laughed about this and he said that he was going to sleep for a few days and that he would let me know where.
The next day I was at my workstation doing my thing and the Mfg Sec came running in and told me that COB and COB Asst were outside and wanted to talk to me. This was it. I could not have expected to escape this fate forever. I walked outside.
Dave Miscavige was sitting on his motorcycle that was still parked on the road and Shelly was walking towards me as I exited the building. He was about thirty feet away and the bike was still running.
“COB says you should be the A/V Systems Director, Marc,” Shelly said. “He said that if you were in New York getting the systems done, that this whole fiasco would have never happened.”
“Yes, Sir,” I said.
“Good.” She turned around and walked away.
I nodded to COB and he nodded back. Shelly got on the back of his bike and they drove off. I smiled. I walked back into the building and told Caroline that Dave just made me the A/V Systems Dir. I also told her what he said about New York and that it would have been better if I was there. It was actually perfect for me. Now, nobody could ever tell him that I was there in New York as it would appear that they were trying to tell him that he was wrong by saying that if I were there it would not have happened. I was off the hook and I was now finally doing what I liked after being here at the Int Base for almost fifteen years.
Chapter Twenty-Eight – Happiest Girl
ate one night, I had to go over to the Cine Castle and get some computer parts that I had lent Darius Wilhere a few weeks earlier. He was still the Pre-Production Director in Cine and was always playing around with some computer stuff. Since I was back in systems, I had all kinds of that stuff.
I went up to his office, which was my old office above the research and assembly area. He was not there. The girls in Research & Assembly told me that he had been spending all his time up in the Talent area. As I had previously been posted as the Pre Production Director, these were my old stomping grounds.
Talent was around the West side of the Castle above the Costumes and Make-up Departments. I could hear Darius cutting some audition videos as I walked in.
He was sitting at the desk in the back of talent where there was an Apple G4 with Final Cut Pro Editing installed on it. The Talent Dept used this system to cut together audition tapes that were done in LA at the Talent Office located in Celebrity Centre. Marie Bystrom, the Talent Chief, would put ads on Internet Casting sites, video the auditions and send them up to Gold where they would be submitted for final approval to the Director and then on to Dave if it was for an important video or film.
Darius took his headphones off as I walked in.
“Hey, man, what’s up?” Darius said.
“Oh, you know, same ol’ same ol’,” I answered, pawing through the tapes he had laying around the desk.
“What submission are you doing?” I asked him, seeing he had Mini DV tapes stacked everywhere.
“Some project for RTC,” Darius said.
“This many tapes?” I ask, motioning to the piles on the desk.
“Yeah, well first, we auditioned every single up and coming Scientology actress we could get our hands on in LA. We have seen all of those and now we are reviewing any Scientologist actresses whether they are working or not.”
“Wow, what qualifications do they need for the part?” I asked, thinking this seemed like the most bizarre casting submission I had heard of yet.
“Well that is just it,” Darius said, obviously frustrated with the entire thing, “We have no idea