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Wait.
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The legend and the key...
Now there's something.

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A map.
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Maps have legends, maps have keys.
:14:11
It's a map, an invisible map.
So now...

:14:13
Wait a minute. What do you mean,
"invisible" - "an invisible map"?

:14:17
"The stain effected"
could refer to a dye or a reagent

:14:21
used to bring about a certain result.
:14:24
Combined with
"The key in Silence undetected",

:14:26
the implication is that the effect is to make
what was undetectable detectable.

:14:32
Unless...
"The key in Silence" could be...

:14:36
Prison.
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Albuquerque.
:14:41
See, I can do it too.
Snorkel.

:14:44
That's where the map is.
Like he said, "Fifty-five in iron pen. "

:14:46
"Iron pen" is a prison.
:14:48
Or it could be, since the primary writing
medium of the time was iron gall ink,

:14:53
the "pen" is... just a pen.
:14:56
But then why not say a pen?
Why... why say "iron pen"?

:15:01
Cos it's a prison.
:15:03
Wait a minute. "Iron pen" - the "iron"
does not describe the ink in the pen,

:15:08
it describes what was penned.
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It was "iron" -
it was firm, it was mineral...

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No, no, no, that's stupid.
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It was... It was firm,
it was adamant, it was resolved.

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It was resolved.
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"Mr Matlack can't offend. "
:15:27
Timothy Matlack was the official scribe
of the Continental Congress.

:15:31
Calligrapher, not writer. And to make sure
he could not offend the map,

:15:35
it was put on the back of a resolution
that he transcribed,

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a resolution that 55 men signed.
:15:45
The Declaration of Independence.
:15:54
Come on, there's no invisible map on the
back of the Declaration of Independence.

:15:58
That's clever, really.
A document of that importance


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