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When I’m Saved (Part 2)

“The press looks horrendous,” Agent Jareau says, looking out towards the front of the hotel as the team exits their SUVs. “Ah, Lieutenant Kim.” 

“Agent Jareau. Rossi, Reid, Prentiss. Where are Hotchner and Morgan?”

“They retired. These are Agents Simmons, Alvez, and Section Chief Cruz. We have an Agent in Peyton with Dmitri’s father,” Agent Prentiss answers. “How is the group coping?”

“We should get inside.” The lieutenant says, escorting the team into the hotel’s back entrance. “The hotel has been placed on lockdown, only law enforcement is coming and going. We’ve questioned all of the kids and the chaperones. Some of the kids are devastated, some are pleased that Dmitri is gone. The kids are in their respective rooms, and the chaperones are in the Monterey ballroom. The girls are in Room 407 with the colour guard staff and two chaperones, officers have been stationed outside the room.” 

“Pleased?”

“Dmitri isn’t so well accepted outside of his friends. One of the kids in his grade claims Dmitri broke his nose, and other kids have backed up the story. Dmitri has also been the subject of a few harassment incidents in school. Here is a list of people that know Dmitri the best.” Section Chief Cruz takes the list and scans over it.

“How is Mr and Mrs Tremblay taking this?”

“Mrs Tremblay hasn’t had much of a reaction. Mr Tremblay is angry about everything, but has cooperated. The colour guard staff, Dmitri’s direct coaches, are taking it very hard.” 

“How is the colour guard taking it?”

“Most are sad, confused, angry. Some of them don’t see Dmitri favourably. One is exclusively regarding to Dmitri as Rhys.” 

“One of them was a next-door neighbour?”

“Yes, LeAnne Owens. Dmitri was a friend of hers before they moved away into a neighbourhood that suited their Mormon beliefs more.” 

“Religion? Peyton’s separated by religion?” Agent Prentiss asks. 

“The town is mostly Mormon, a church on nearly every block in the downtown area. Those who aren’t Mormon aren’t treated very well once the others find out, apparently. Dmitri has been shunned for a few years, most kids only interact with him during group projects.” 

“They probably took advantage of him because of his intellect,” Dr Reid comments. “Dmitri’s IQ is apparently one hundred and eighty seven. Autistic individuals tend to be more excluded by their peers and have troubles relating to neurotypical peers. The other kids would likely not understand how he functions and behaves, and he would struggle to maintain friendships. He would likely just think they were being his friends and not be able to see that other people were manipulating him to get what they wanted.” 

“Our command center is in the La Paz ballroom. We have five officers monitoring the tip lines, and the media has been running broadcasts since one am.”

“What have the media been saying?” Agent Jareau asks. 

“We told them that Dmitri disappeared, and that anyone who might have seen what happened to him should call the hotline. We haven’t confirmed or denied that Dmitri was abducted, but it’s starting to look like that’s what happened. Park search came up empty, we issued an Amber Alert for Los Angeles and the neighbouring counties around three am, stressing that Dmitri’s health is fragile. Free coffee in the lobby, but warning, it’s as bad as our station coffee.”

“Matt, Reid, go up to Room 407,” Agent Prentiss says. “Ask very specifically about what happened last night and our unsubs. Ask them if Diego or Jacob could have taken Dmitri. The adults may not know about what happened, so tread carefully. Luke, you and Rossi should go to the Monterey ballroom and talk with the Tremblays, Mrs Mellencamp, Mrs Kilburn, and any other chaperones that interacted with Dmitri yesterday. JJ, Cruz, and I will set up in the command center, touch bases with PG and Tara. We’ll text you any new information that comes in. Mobiles on. Head out.” 

“Sanchez. Escort Agent Simmons and Dr Reid up to Room 407,” Lieutenant Kim says, stopping a passing officer in his tracks. “BAU. They’re going to question the kids.” 

“Of course. There’s only one functioning elevator in this hotel, but staircases in every corner. Come with me.” The buff Asian and the pipe cleaner with eyes break off from the group, heading back towards the nearest staircase.

“Only one elevator?” Agent Jareau asks as the team follows the lieutenant towards the lobby. 

“Yes, only one. If they couldn’t grab the elevator, the kids would drag their things up the staircases. There wasn’t much comment on Dmitri’s mobility, but Mrs Kilburn did share with us a picture of Dmitri in the Main Street USA parade.” Agent Prentiss squints at the picture and takes a picture of it with her phone. “What is it?”

“Look at the way his left hand grabs the pole vs how the others in the picture are holding the pole, and how his smile droops on the left side of his face.”

“What does that mean?”

“The right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, it looks like that’s where he took the most damage. Look at those transition lenses.” Agent Alvez points to the glasses in the picture. “Those would hide a drooping left eye.” 

“This is the Monterey ballroom,” Lieutenant Kim announces, pushing the door to the conference room open. Agents Alvez and Rossi nod and pass through the door, closing it behind them. 

“Excuse me,” Agent Rossi asks, approaching another officer. “We’re with the FBI, and we’re looking for John and Amy Tremblay.” The officer points towards an older, balding man and an older woman with red hair holding his hand at a table. “Thank you.” The Italian Stallion and the buff, steaming mug of hot cocoa then head to the table, Agent Rossi sitting across from the couple. “Mr and Mrs Tremblay, we’re Agents Rossi and Alvez with the FBI. We’re a few of the agents helping to find Dmitri.”

“FBI?” A woman with dark curly hair asks, ending her hushed conversation with a woman with red curly hair.

“Yes, ma’am, FBI. We have a few questions about Dmitri. The more we can understand about his behaviour, the more we can figure out what happened to him and how to help him. Who might you be, ma’am?” 

“I’m Jill Mellencamp. I assist with band finances and keep all the records. This is Connie Hiratsu, she’s one of the chaperones.”

“When did you last see Dmitri?”

“Nine pm. He was with his friends, leaving Splash Mountain,” Mr Tremblay answers. 

“What was he wearing?”

“Our grey shirts we gave the kids, rainbow shoes. A rainbow bowtie, rainbow ears.”

“Interesting attire. Do you know of anybody Dmitri would know here in Los Angeles? Did he tell you he was meeting up with anybody?”

“No,” Mr Tremblay answers, his piecing blue eyes beaming through the agent in front of him.

“Has he ever been caught speaking to strangers?”

“This one time, last year, I had found him after our halftime performance, and a tall man was holding him while he was crying. I separated them and had our drum major and seniors watch over Dmitri. He did not tell me why he was upset or who the man was.”

“He knows better than to talk to strangers. He’s in high school, he knows the rules,” Connie argues. 

“Connie. He’s hurting right now. Arguing about it isn’t going to help him.” 

“Are you guys going to tell them how much trouble he is?” She retorts. 

“Connie-”

“He threw a water bottle, had a tantrum, and screamed at me, like he was a toddler. Was I supposed to just let him represent our school and organisation poorly? Other people might think we’re snobs if they saw that-”

“Mrs Hiratsu. What exactly was happening?” 

“He was upset, and he threw a water bottle at the ground, and I told him that high schoolers don’t throw things, and he wouldn’t calm down or tell me what was going on. He was throwing a tantrum-”

“Connie. Loud noises and crowds stress Dmitri out. He was freaking out because he didn’t have his ticket into the park and he couldn’t find Ressa Kilburn, so I had him go through the security checkpoint with me and my family, and afterwards, he ran away, but he came back to the group after a few minutes. Mrs Anderson told us she went to talk to him.”

“He aimed it at the ground or at someone?” Agent Alvez asks. 

“At the ground, but it shouldn’t matter. He was acting out of line.” 

“Mrs Hiratsu, Dmitri has autism, and he gets overwhelmed and shuts down. Now when he shuts down, he might be aggressive or defensive, throwing things or screaming,” Agent Alvez replies. “Him aiming the bottle at the ground is better than if he aimed it at a person. It means that he is semi-aware of his surroundings in his state, and he is empathetic and doesn’t want to disrupt things.”

“Then why would he do that?”

“He doesn’t want to do it, but he just does. He probably feels embarrassed that he reacts like that.” 

“He is rather empathetic. If you raise your voice at him, he’ll think you’re mad at him, and then it takes forever for him to get that you’re not mad at him. He always thinks Jill and I are mad at him.” 

“How is he, socially? Does he get along well with the other kids?”

“No, he’s always closed off from the others. Most people don’t even realise he’s there.”

“If he had his way, he’d be in the corner with his music and his notebook,” Mrs Tremblay adds.

“We try to get him to participate with others, but he always just does his own thing. Jill, you’re also involved with the musical theatre program, and you interact with Dmitri there.” 

“Yes, I do, but he’s practically the same way. He gets really embarrassed to have to talk in front of other kids, just almost shuts down, he starts stammering and stuttering and panicking.” 

“He wouldn’t tell anyone if there was something wrong.” 

“Exactly. Nick, Lily, and Arthur have better luck getting him out of his shell, but he still doesn’t ask for help unless you start the conversation. I can see it when it’s just the guard, but I don’t know how to explain it. He laughs more, smiles more with them. Nick and Lily tell me that he actually reaches out to the new guard kids, which is unheard of.” 

“Could any of you tell us how Dmitri changed after his last concussion, three weeks ago?” Agent Alvez asks. 

“He smiles more, laughs more, asks more questions. He’s definitely more outspoken, but he falls asleep everywhere. I don’t know how he falls asleep on the school bus seats, but he does.”

“I caught him sleeping in the doorway one morning during musical theatre class. He’ll just take little naps during class. He seems to be a lot dizzier, falls a lot more.” 

“Yes. He falls when he laughs, and since he laughs at everything now, he always falls. He’s been walking around with hoods up, headphones on, using the walls as supports.” 

“Do his eyes glaze over? Does he eat enough to compensate for the high activity levels? We noticed he’s smaller than most.” 

“The nosebleed. Do you think that was anything serious?” 

“He acted like it was,” Connie asks. 

“A nosebleed?”

“He bled out all over the boys’ bathroom once, and it took half an hour to get him to stop bleeding. He was accepting the sugar we provided him, but he freaked out once we mentioned afrin, wouldn’t let us give it to him, he thought we were going to give him aspirin. He couldn’t figure out what was happening to him, and he was texting his grandparents.” 

“Okay, okay.” The four adults fall silent, appearing to hold a lifetime back. “Thank you. We’ll come back if we have any more questions.”

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What Tim Cook's enigmatic remarks at D11 can inform us regarding iOS 7 In which we translate the Apple CEO's dubious answers about the following iOS.

For the second time in the same number of years, Apple CEO Tim Cook made that big appearance at the All Things D meeting for a discussion with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. Also, for the second time in the same number of years, Cook gamely swung at the softball inquiries without uncovering much new data.

This isn't an amazement; as one of tech's most unmistakable CEOs, Cook isn't inclined to quote-commendable errors or going off-message. He's additionally around two weeks out from a keynote at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), which is broadly anticipated that would present to us Apple's first new programming and equipment declarations in months.

Of those WWDC declarations, the most exceedingly expected are those about Apple's leader working frameworks. OS X and iOS are both on yearly refresh cycles, and the current year's updates are specifically noteworthy. They'll be the principal created under the authority of Apple outline boss Jony Ive and programming building senior VP Craig Federighi in the wake of Scott Forstall's flight (and consequent administration shake-up) a year ago.

At All Things D, Cook said for all intents and purposes nothing in regards to OS X, yet he gave several iOS-related answers that propose in wide terms what we can anticipate from iOS 7. Like miners, we'll filter through his quotes to discover the specks of gold among the soil.

Over the hood: another look

We've been hearing for some time that a visual redesign of iOS is at the highest priority on Ive's rundown of needs, and Cook affirmed that Apple's long-term equipment creator has been "truly key" to the bearing of the OS. This is broadly expected to mean the finish of skeumorphism in iOS, a move far from surfaces and things that enigmatically take after their true partners.

"We perceived that Jony had contributed altogether to the look and feel of Apple over numerous, numerous years," Cook stated, "and could do that for our product also. I believe it's completely fantastic."

The remark is simply affirmation of something that we've been expecting since Forstall was demonstrated the entryway. The genuine question is: exactly how far will this update go? For an answer, look no more remote than the Podcasts application.

Not at all like numerous Apple-composed iOS applications, Podcasts is a different download that is refreshed autonomously of whatever remains of the working framework. It was presented before Forstall's flight yet has since been given a noteworthy refresh. That refresh didn't radically change how the application functioned, however it evacuated the cutesy reel-to-reel liveliness and uncovered the greater part of the controls as opposed to concealing them under the podcast's craftsmanship.

These are the sorts of updates I expect we'll see out of the following iOS rendition—evacuating unnecessary visual twists however not radically changing the way the implicit applications work or (by and large) the way they're laid out.

Apple-watcher Jim Dalrymple recommended at the beginning of today that the iOS upgrade would be more likened to the way OS X's look has step by step moved throughout the years, and I'm slanted to concur. iOS 7 won't abruptly look like Windows Phone 8, and Apple most likely can't move things around a lot without disquieting change-safe clients. Nonetheless, it will change the OS enough to rouse its visual character (a lot of which is going on six years of age now) and that might be sufficient to relieve protestations about any iOS "staleness."

In the engine: Opening the APIs

I switch amongst iOS and Android gadgets with some normality, and when I come back to iOS there are a couple of things about Android that I truly miss: the capacity to change out the console, to characterize outsider applications as the defaults for specific undertakings, and the capacity to utilize the Intents framework to openly share data between various applications. In iOS, utilizing outsider substitutes for the inherent applications is conceivable—yet setting them as the defaults isn't.

Considerably more than giving the working framework a new layer of paint, making iOS more adaptable will be enter in keeping it focused. That is an issue that Cook recognized the previous evening, with a few provisos.

"On the general point of opening up APIs," said Cook, "I think you'll see us open up additional later on, however not to the extent that we put the client at danger of having an awful ordeal. There's dependably a scarcely discernible difference to stroll there—or perhaps not all that fine now and again."

"We surmise that the client pays us to settle on specific decisions for their sake," he proceeded. While some might need to jump into various settings screens to change their telephones to be quite recently the way they need them, Cook doesn't consider this to be an appreciated element for standard clients. "In any case, will we open up additional? Yes."

Cook didn't state particularly what this "opening up" would involve, precisely, yet it seems like cheerful news for the general population who escape since they might want to set Google Maps or Mailbox to be their defaults.

In the event that I needed to figure, I'd say the progressions will fall somewhere close to the rigidity of iOS as it is currently and the extraordinary, in a general sense encounter changing adaptability of Android. It appears to be likely that outsider applications will have the capacity to incorporate all the more profoundly into the working framework, supplanting the defaults and sharing data all the more openly, however it appears to be improbable that Apple would enable outsiders to supplant anything as essential as the application launcher or even the console.

This is all only theory, obviously, however it's altogether finished because of Cook's "barely recognizable difference." Mac will at present need the experience of utilizing any iPhone or iPad to be in a general sense comparable crosswise over gadgets (along these lines maintaining a strategic distance from the fracture of experience that Apple executives have railed against previously), however enabling clients to open connections with Chrome as a matter of course rather than Safari shouldn't do much to bombshell this adjust.

This is all so much tea-leaf perusing until the famously shrouded Apple really gets up in front of an audience and begins making official declarations, obviously. Our own particular Jacqui Cheng will be on the floor at WWDC covering Cook's keynote, and with any fortunes Cook will be only somewhat more open about the fate of the stage.