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- ben. - what?
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Look at this.
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- see that? - oh.
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- that's quite something, isn't it? - yeah. lt says ''smudge.''
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Lt's nothing.
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Residual ink from the facing page. flip it.
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The letters are backwards.
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- lt's a cipher. - yes. lt is.
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A cipher. see how the letters are coupled?
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Playfair ciphers encode letters in pairs. this could prove his story.
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Unless you decode the cipher, this does not prove a theory.
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That's ok. we need a five-letter keyword.