Card A — the fraud flag
CASE № MANN/GARGANTUA — Interstellar. Cost: $500,000,000,000. FLAGGED: subject falsified survey data to induce the rescue mission. The most expensive extraction on file was procured by fraud. No funds recovered.
Government Accountability
THE DAMON LEDGER — A Special Audit
How much have we spent bringing Matt Damon home? Tap every place he got left.
What this is
A stylized map of every world Matt Damon's characters have been stranded on — and the audit nobody asked for. Tap a pin, stamp the extraction record: what the rescue cost, who died getting him back, the mission code. The last card totals it, in 2015 dollars, straight-faced.
Card B — the one that cost nothing
REPATRIATION FILE GARIN-2016 — The Great Wall. Cost: $0. Filed under repatriation of a foreign national, not rescue. Standing query attached, unresolved: why is he here.
Card C — the total
CUMULATIVE COST TO BRING SUBJECT HOME: $900,100,500,000. Recommendation: most cost-effective policy going forward is non-retrieval. On the record, the subject concurs — "I'm just very leave-able."