After finding three mysterious letters on the barrels that someone apparently tried to scrape away (even though you can't really scrape away something that's been stamped into metal), Mark heads to the Internet. Cherry, the Jack Elrod Ball, and Andy (who seems to be observing from a distance, unless it's not Andy at all and is actually a puppet) look over Mark's shoulder to monitor his Internet activities as he surfs the web looking for a chemical company with the initials W.C.C. He quickly finds it (which I find rather convenient because if I had tried, I probably would have gotten all sorts of sites that had nothing to do with chemicals, but maybe the Internet is different in Lost Forest) and discovers that the company is located near Lost Forest, so he decides to investigate. (He also finds out some very interesting information about licorice, but that's a post for another time.) Upon entering the office of the Williams Chemical Company, we can all see right away that something is wrong. These people have obviously no concern for the environment. Otherwise, they would have watered that plant in the corner instead of leaving it to slowly tip over as it inches closer and closer to death (and if it turns out to be plastic, all I have to say is, "How do you kill a plastic plant?"). There also appears to be a slightly snotty/uppity receptionist too (you can just tell from the way she boldly says "who"), so there is obviously something sketchy about this whole operation. The question is: "What is it and what does it have to do with that pile of barrels?"*If you know where that came from, I salute you.
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