International Incident

Edith could remember encountering the bright white oval portal just off the main trail at the Strawberry Hills Recreation Area outside of Miles City. Every instinct in her body warned her against it, but there was something that compelled her to step through it, with nothing but the clothes on her back and some money in her jeans pocket. The portal deposited her in El Calafate, on the shores of Lake Argentino in the Patagonia region of Argentina, just down the street from the Apart Hotel Libertador, a facility that employed a lot of the colors yellow and green as part of its decor.

Almost no one but the three CIA agents, who somehow just happened to be here knew where Edith was right now.

"Ma'am, do you remember anything about entering the portal?" asked the John Malkovich** lookalike.
"There was just a flash of blinding light. And the next thing I knew, once my eyes recovered, was that I was out on the street outside this hotel. I'm supposed to be visiting friends in Miles City, Montana right now. All my belongings are still in my hotel up there!"
"Don't get hysterical, lady, we're going to help you," the agent who resembles Morgan Freeman*** interjects. "We will need a little more information first, though."

1. Edith tells everything she knows.
2. The three CIA agents excuse themselves. Sequestered in a private room, they begin to discuss the portal and the imminent security risk it poses to the United States.
3. Back in Miles City, Bill and Alice go to the police station to file a missing persons report.

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