Ben Tennyson, Colonel Rozum and others in “The Widening Gyre”

Colonel Rozum. This must be pretty embarrassing for you.

Embarrassing?

He probably means the way we saved the Air Force's butt last time, even though you were involved in all kinds of dirty ops.

That's what I meant.

And now he needs another favor.

Embarrassing.

So, what brings us to the department of weird today?

Have you heard of the pacific garbage vortex?

Of course. Approximately billion tons of non-biodegradable plastics are dumped into the oceans every year. Currents collect this and untold trillions of pounds of other refuse into gigantic floating islands of garbage. The pacific garbage vortex is the largest in the world.

Really?

She can't help it if she's a reader.

How much garbage are we talking about here?

It's twice the size of Texas.

That's a lot of garbage.

That's what the public knows. What they don't know is that the area around the vortex has become a dead zone, a dangerous place where ships tend to... Disappear. 18 months ago, my sister was on a ship that sailed too close to the vortex. After she went missing, I sent two of my best agents to investigate. They disappeared, too. Now my bosses upstairs are telling me to shut the investigation down… officially.

So you need someone to investigate… unofficially.

Told you we were gonna do something fun.