Jonas Conference Call

In Playing Doctor (Dec. 3, 2007), Jonas stated that he wanted people's thoughts on how to bring the Order down, and wanted to talk on the phone will people about it. On December 13, 2007, at 7pm PST, Jonas conducted a conference call with fans.

It was revealed during the call that Emma had been receiving double-doses of the serum to turn her trait negative from her parents, which was making her sick.

Jonas also mentioned that he wanted to concentrate on bringing down the lullaby project at the moment. That this was probably the weakest link, and that he wanted to start fighting the Order in the form of the lullaby project.

We also learned that Charlie of KateModern had been in contact with Jonas.

The call ended after Virgil somehow hacked into the call.

The audio of the conference call was made available on the forum two days after the call: Forum thread with download link

Transcript

Jonas: Oh, I'm--Definitely. Here's a shout-out. To everyone who's doing this, I really appreciate everybody's help who's on chat. Who's calling in. Um, you guys are awesome. And uh--

Broken Kid: So, on that note, why don't we get started? I think hopefulsemblance had the first question we're going to ask you, Jonas, about finding some altered trait-positives.

hopefulsemblance: Thanks, BK. Hey, Jonas, how are you?

Jonas: Hey, what's going on?

hopefulsemblance: Um, how are you guys planning on finding and treating the altered trait-positives? And is there anything that we can do to help?

Jonas: Well, I mean as far as we know, I guess, I don't think there's any other living altered trait-positives that are out there. You know what I mean, I mean Gina was really the only one that Dr. Hart had ever known that lived to that close to being an adult. Um, but, I guess, if they were out there, if there were any, I mean we'd want to help them. Absolutely. But I think too this is kind of limited in a way. You know what I mean. Trying to save just one girl at a time I think is the best thing to do. You know, instead of doing that, we just want to shut down the Lullaby Project. We wanna close Verdus, um, and you know that's just the approach we're taking. If anyone has any better ideas, I mean that's what this is all about. I'd love to know. So I guess we don't know about any altered. It's also been our policy--we want to help people. But we really think the best way to do it is to take these people down. Hit 'em where it hurts, you know?

hopefulsemblance: Cool.

Jonas: Do you have any ideas though? Anything? That we could do differently?

hopefulsemblance: I can't really think of anything.

Jonas: Oh.

Broken Kid: You also had a question, hopeful, about the Ceremony girls, right?

hopefulsemblance: Yeah, Jonas. Like, have you guys just given up or is it on the back burner to rescue all the Ceremony girls?

Jonas: No, no, no. It's not on the back burner. Um, it's hard to put it--I guess I'll put it this way. We will help people when we find them, but we think that the best thing to do is to cut this off at the head. Um, I think going after Ceremony girls at this point might hurt them more than help them. Because I'm afraid that we might lead them, the Order I mean, we might lead the Order to these girls accidentally. That's just our fear. I mean, we haven't had much luck with that in the past, so....

hopefulsemblance: Right.

Jonas: You know, thanks, and I mean, what do you think? What do you think? Do you think that's a good idea? I mean, I don't know, it's frustrating to us because we want to go out there and we want and we want to find these girls, um, but it's a double-edged sword. I mean, I don't know what's right? The chicken or the egg? Are we bringing bad guys to these girls, or are we doing the right thing? (pauses) You know?

 ???: Hey Jonas, this is ???. I think that for the most part you guys are going about it pretty much the right way. Even if you find all these girls, how are you really going to protect them all from the Order? You remember how hard it was to keep Bree away from them, or Emma. How are you gonna do it when you have ten, fifteen, twenty girls under your skirts?

Jonas: Exactly, that's what I'm thinking too.

Broken Kid: Well, uh, Chipper (?), you had a question about, um, about Dr. Hart and Bree you were gonna ask.

Chipper: Yeah, um, actually, according to the recorded call we had heard between Drew Avery and Isaac Gilman, Bree was only one injection away from being made permanately trait negative. But she never developed any of the same symptoms or the illnesses as Emma and the other girls. So, I'm just curious. You guys have Drew Avery's note from the Camp Play box, and the box that you guys found at the boat dock. Have you all shared any of these research notes with Dr. Hart and, if so, what are his thoughts on it?

Jonas: Well, we have. I mean, that's a really good question, um, first of all. And we have. Um, it's difficult to talk about right now because, again, I'm not sure how secure everything is here. But, and again it's hard for me as well because I don't speak doctor-talk. It's really hard for me. (laughing) Uh, but here's what I remember. And here's what I got from it. That, um, that I guess Emma was given these injections right, and I guess she was given double-dosage. Which Bree was only getting from her dad, who knew what he was doing, was giving a smaller amount--the right level of the dosage. And so, because Emma was getting a double-dosage to begin with and her parents didn't really know what they were doing, I think--I suspect anyway--that they were giving her more of the shots than she was supposed to get because they wanted to hurry up to get her to be trait negative. Um, so that was why she went through those--the sickness and she had the--yeah, she went through the series of injections twice. So, that's why she was sick and Bree wasn't.

Chipper: Okay, so it wasn't just...

Jonas: It's hard for me to do the science talk, but that's what I got out of what he said. And as far as if we've shared the information with Dr. Hart, um, yeah, of course we have. Cause he's our go-to guy right now. He's all we really have, and we--we trust him. At first it was like we had to trust him, but now I really--I trust him. And why wouldn't we share everything we have with this guy? That's all we have.

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Notes

• The conference call had the ability to handle 150 callers. Twelve callers were picked in advance by Jonas to be able to speak on the conference call, to avoid complete pandemonium. It is not known whether one of those twelve callers betayed Jonas and gave their calling information to Virgil.