[INTRO] [sound: scanner beeps, pallet jack rolling, warehouse hum] [WORKER — male, casual] We're short six. [REDLINE-04 — male, tired close vocal] Six cases? [WORKER] Yeah. [sound: scanner beep] [REDLINE-04] They're right there. [WORKER] Those weren't there a minute ago. [REDLINE-04] They are now. [WORKER] Okay. [sound: scanner beep] --- [VERSE 1] [REDLINE-04 — male, energetic but tired] Same box Same mark Same product Different date Yesterday's label Today's freight Tomorrow's lot On today's pallet Nobody stops Nobody asks If it scans It passes --- [WORKER — male, casual] This one says tomorrow. [REDLINE-04 — male, tired] Yeah. [WORKER] Okay. --- [sound: pallet jack rolling] --- [CHORUS] [REDLINE-04 — male, driving vocal] Count it! Scan it! Move it down the line! Yesterday! Today! Tomorrow's doing fine! Same product! Different time! Put it on the truck! It'll be fine! --- [VERSE 2] [sound: scanner beeps continue] [WORKER] Lot number doesn't match. [REDLINE-04] Packaging doesn't either. [WORKER] Still the same product. [REDLINE-04] Yeah. [WORKER] Still ships. [REDLINE-04] Still ships. [sound: scanner beep] --- [WORKER — male, casual] Hey. Tomorrow's date. [REDLINE-04 — male, tired] Midnight break? [WORKER] Nah. [pause] Coffee-6. [sound: scanner beep] --- [REDLINE-04 — quiet] Right. --- [VERSE 3] [REDLINE-04] One pallet vanished Nobody moved it Checked every aisle Nothing to prove it Then someone called Said they'd found it Same exact pallet Different date around it --- [WORKER] Where'd it go? [WORKER 2 — female, casual] Probably over there. [WORKER] It wasn't. [WORKER 2] It is now. --- [REDLINE-04] Does it scan? [WORKER 2] Yep. [REDLINE-04] Ship it. --- [BRIDGE] [sound: radio static slowly mixing with scanner tones] [CHECKERFLAG-9 — male, crisp filtered radio voice, calm] Inventory status? [REDLINE-04 — male, tired] Good. [CHECKERFLAG-9] Any variance? [REDLINE-04] Probably. [CHECKERFLAG-9] Resolved? [REDLINE-04] Probably. [pause] [CHECKERFLAG-9] Copy. --- [sound: distorted guitar rising] --- [FINAL CHORUS] [REDLINE-04 — male, powerful but exhausted] Count it! Scan it! Don't ask why! Yesterday! Today! Tomorrow's passing by! Same product! Different time! Put it on the truck! It'll be fine! --- [OUTRO] [sound: trailer doors closing] [WORKER — male, casual] That's everything. [REDLINE-04] Everything? [WORKER] Everything that's here. [pause] [REDLINE-04] Right. [sound: forklift moving away] [CHECKERFLAG-9 — male, filtered radio, faint] Next assignment. [sound: radio static] [END TRANSMISSION]
