Angela Balik is an unseen character in Watch Dogs. Her name and voice can be heard on various audio recordings in every Blume Corporation mobile hideout. She is one of the people who tested the Bellwether code on CTOS.
Audio Log[]
Audio Log #1[]
"I was wowed by the whole Blume vision at first, just like you. I bought into the whole marketing package -- the betterment of life through hyper-connectivity and all that. Sure. They do that stuff. There are visionaries up at the top here. Humanitarians. Blume is helping to educate the underprivileged.They've gone green.They fund everything from social programs to medical research.These things are real ... but you know whose desk I'm sitting in? Raymond fucking Kenney. And that'll wake you up real fast."
Audio Log #2[]
"So ... since I'm the "ghost of Ray Kenney" simply by desk location, I get to hear everybody's fucking Ray Kenney story. In one woman's case, it really was a fucking Ray Kenney story - and that's an ugly one. I about lost it the first couple of weeks until I realized something -- Ray had it all figured out. With his hands in the guts of the ctOS, he began to see the real sinister potential of the thing he built. How do I know this? Because the ghost of Ray Kenney still haunts the data. He knew it would take another engineer to find it, somebody operating on the same level. Well congrats to me, I guess that means I'm one of the smart ones.
Audio Log #3[]
Angela - "So here's my contribution to Ray's legacy. Apparently, you've found me embedded in the system, just like I found him - only I won't presume mine was as well hidden. It doesn't matter - I'm long gone, anyway. I'm going to play you some of Ray's Greatest Hits as well as some of my own. Maybe one day this will all come back to bite Blume in the ass. Probably not.Here, I'll play some Ray: "
Ray -"Inviting Blume to build ctOS in your city is like inviting a fucking vampire over for dinner and handing him a goddamn straw."
Audio Log #4[]
Angela - "So what's Blume doing with all our data? I may have sneaked a peek, sorry. Charlotte and her PR brigade aren't totally lying about how they use it - they're speeding things up. Making life more convenient, but the right hand doesn't know what the asshole is doing.Go ahead. Listen: "
Ray - "The suits are already putting a price on the data they're collecting. They've been ro-mancing advertisers and politicians. Shit, the mayor himself had a date with a coule of them last week. None of this comes as a surprise, so why are they hiding all this from the Board of Directors? There's something else. Something I'm missing."
Audio Log #5[]
Angela -"The bosses are talking about the long-term--global ctOS potential, at least in the countries that can afford it. They say it with stars in their eyes. They mention world-changers like Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell. You almost want to believe them - but then you realize they could actually pull it off. Ray put it best: "
Ray - "Imagine every major city, American, European, Asian, whatever, is now the same city. Sharing instant surveillance. Constantly feeding each other data about you. Now mix in the special ingredients - prediction algorithms, feedback loops, subliminal messaging, Christ--I helped them build this thing and I can stop it. This is so big they don't have all the pieces yet. I still have time to act."
Audio Log #6[]
Angela -"I'm going to let Ray take this one:"
Ray -"I'm on the verge of my third strike now, so they've taken away a lot of my access-prepping for my big meltdown, I guess. They've handed Rose a new task-- they want to start work on a behavioral prediction system. She'll never do it. I worry that if they give it to Tobias, he'll actually pull it off. His OCD cannot resist a challenge. If we're going to burn this thing, we may have to implicate the poor bastard."
Audio Log #7[]
"According to my coworkers, they sent security down to escort Ray out like some kind of criminal. He didn't even get to gather all his things--I still have one of his ugly sculptures on my desk. He kicked and screamed the whole way out which gave Blume all they needed to put an HR spin on it. I'll read it for you:"We apologize for the disruption caused on Tuesday when we ended our contract with Raymond Kenney. As a reminder, your medical insurance covers psychiatric consultations. We wish Mr.Kenney a speedy recovery and we must stress the continued importance of confidentiality to all Blume employees."I'll do my best Ray translation:"Mr. Kenney was batshit crazy and don't you dare repeat anything he said or your ass is grass."
Audio Log #8[]
"Ray lashed out and took down the power to most of the Northeast. People panicked. People died. A lot of money was lost. He was making a point. Demonstrating the dangers of relying on one system to keep everything running. Was it terrorism? I guess so. I mean, it's pretty much the definition, right? Rose Washington, she took a more traditional route in her whistleblowing and picked up a few headlines, but her proximity to Ray quickly discredited her. Tobias Frewer - I don't think anybody noticed him leave. He just wasn't there one day. Ray's still on the run, too. Is he a threat? Blume seems to think so. Every so often, we get an email warning us to report any contact from former employees. But we all know which one they mean."
Audio Log #9[]
"I've been asked to pick up the reins on the prediction software. They call it Bellwether and I suspect it's everything Ray Kenney feared. Just like Ray, I was asked to keep my work between me and a few specific managers. I could go higher up. I could out them and maybe even stop this, but I want to play along a bit more. I want to see where this all is going. Something they can't deny when it goes public. I can't believe I'm actually considering whistle-blowing. I hate the spotlight. I'm weighing other options. There's a hacker group that might be able to do something with this information - they call themselves DedSec."
Audio Log #10[]
"So, I've been working on my own 'Hello World' for the Bellwether to see if it's really as insidious as I suspect it is. Does the Fibonacci sequence mean anything to you? It's always been one of my favorites. I'm going to throw the Fibonacci numbers out there -- Bellwether should predict where they can have the most subliminal influence, saturating the city within days. The ctOS will then monitor for impact. If I see instances of those numbers echo back throughout the city -- everything I've feared will be in motion. At that point, I'm sending proof to DedSec and they can do whatever they do to make things right."
Audio Log #11[]
"Shit shit shit. I checked - the top lottery numbers that people played this month. Fibonacci. I've been hearing people talk about them on the L. On the news last night? A blurb about Fibonacci. I don't even need to read the ctOS report. The Bellwether worked - I sent Fibonacci through the ctOS and the people of Chicago echoed it back. So, I guess this is it. Raymond Kenny was right."