Leon was of course not informed of what exactly it was that he was looking for. He is to write down, longhand, a full description of what he can perceive of the interaction between his boss and any other people she interacts with. On a separate piece of paper he is to write YES if she does in fact interact with at least one person and NO otherwise. On a separate piece of paper he is to write the number of people she interacts with. On a separate piece of paper, if it turns out that Quinn has interacted with exactly one person, he is to write another description of what he can perceive in the video, on a rewatch, looking at specifically that person, from the start of this section of the recording (fifteen minutes prior to Marie Quinn's arrival) to its end (fifteen minutes after). Then, he is to try to reconstruct the contents of each piece of paper immediately after having finished the rewatch, from memory. Then, he is to wait five minutes, and to that again.

This sounds boring as hell but substantially less scary than whatever his colleagues deal with on a daily basis so he'll suck it up.

He hits play, starting this first watch the moment Quinn arrives at the grocery store.

She grabs an empty basket and starts walking down an aisle, seemingly with the purpose of actually getting something. She seems to have some trouble finding whatever it is she wants to buy, and starts looking around for someone who could maybe help her find whatever it is.

Here's a guy. He's pretty tall and he gets the pineapple juice down for somebody short, so probably he's amenable to an approach about where the tamarind paste or whatever is.

Quinn meanders towards Skip and, after a moment's hesitation, asks him something. The footage does not have audio, so Leon can't catch what she's asking.

He taps his chin thoughtfully and then ventures an answer!

She looks down in a direction then turns back to him and asks something else.

Nod nod.

She smiles at him, says something that is probably a thank you and a goodbye with a small wave.

A wave, a pleasantry, and then he puts OJ in his cart.

She goes down an aisle, pick something up, puts it in her basket, changes her mind, takes it back out, and leaves.

Okay, so she did interact with exactly one person, and it happened like so, yes? Does anything stop him from writing these facts down as they happen while he watches the video?

Nope.

Cool, cool.

Now to start watching from fifteen minutes prior to Quinn arriving and look for that guy or whenever he arrives if he's not there yet then.

He shows up, he gets a cart, he starts making young-adult-on-a-budget-with-a-lot-of-roommates grocery selections.

So it's... just some guy?

Well, Leon's task here isn't to question what's happening, it's to write stuff down. He will write stuff down.

The guy does not impair him in the (continuous) derivation of notes from video. He puts chicken nuggets in the cart, and ice cream, and frozen peas, and a big bag of shredded cheddar.

Does he interact with anyone else? What does he do after talking to Quinn?

He gets the short lady the pinepple juice!

After Quinn he gets the OJ, and then moves on to the next aisle and consults his grocery list and grabs toilet paper.

Will he be gone by fifteen minutes after interacting with Quinn, or will he still be there?

He finishes up in that time! He takes his cart to the checkout aisle like a totally normal person and gets checked out and pays by card. He loads the bags into a little red wagon locked up at the bike rack outside, and walks off with it.

Alright. Leon will keep watching the video in case the guy shows back up, and then after that's done he'll try to write everything he just wrote from memory to the best of his ability. The mnestics should help him remember exact words better than a normal person would be able to but he's not on a high enough dose to get perfect recall and the anomaly already beat this dose directly when interacting with Quinn.

There were... definitely people in the grocery store. They bought groceries. Somebody got pineapple juice?

Wait, he was... supposed to... ok he was supposed to describe what he saw in the section with Quinn specifically. What did he see?

She was in a grocery store which had a pretty unremarkable grocery store population. She pulled a product, and then put it back and left the store.

Right. Okay. That happened, yeah, he remembers that.

But he was here to study an anomaly. He needed to know, specifically, if she interacted with at least one person, and how many people if so. Did she?