I am sitting her[sic] on this crate in [redacted] with my bottle of whisky and my bolt-action looking out the window down down at the traffic going by below and I am begin[sic] you Jack please wire exactly 1,270 dollars and 43 cents to [redacted] before the man comes around

I don't know when you will get this but I found him and I did all the things he wanted but I don't have the money

Please Jack I don't know why I am still here

I don't think I should do this Jack but if you can't see my message anymore I don't know how else

I only wanted to go home again Jack like you promised

Here he comes now

I'm sorry

Hidell

The preceding message was recovered from a late-2050s model screen phone found in a sealed box in the Top Secret sections of the National Archives. The text matches intercepts associated with [redacted], a member of the [redacted] group [redacted] who disappeared in 2057. The box was sealed in November, 1963. How the phone was placed within the box without breaking the seal is not known at this time.