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Maddie Park
Pete receives an email from a woman named Maddie Park, and Emily recognizes her as "the PI" UC2 E13·02:30:32 UC2 E13·02:30:41. She says 53V3N told her it was fine to contact him, and apologizes sincerely for having worked as a PI and done black hat work UC2 E13·02:30:47. She says Pete's family hired her to find him, something she would never have done had she known UC2 E13·02:30:47. She offers "If there's ever any other way I can repay the debt" and later texts "Going after Gladiator? I'm in." UC2 E13·02:30:47 UC2 E13·02:33:15.
Maddie Park is a young Korean-American hacker and PI whom Pete's family hired to find him, and who offers Pete her help against Gladiator UC2 E13·02:30:47 UC2 E14·01:05:31 UC2 E13·02:33:15. She is the internet PI that 53V3N described in UC2_09, a "dirt-digger" who "was the one who found you working for your family" UC2 E9·00:22:42 UC2 E9·00:23:15. When her email arrives Emily says "It's the PI" UC2 E13·02:30:41. In it Maddie says she settled Pete's debt with 53V3N UC2 E13·02:30:47. When she meets Pete at the Neptune Diner, Brennan describes her with multicolored hair, piercings and a keyboard rolled into her sleeves, and she introduces herself with "Hi, nice to meet you, I'm Maddie" UC2 E14·01:06:06 UC2 E14·01:05:14 UC2 E14·01:05:31. She says she does some black hat work, lives in Long Island City, and asks whether Pete knows anyone named Joe Jacobs UC2 E14·01:10:12 UC2 E14·01:14:00 UC2 E14·01:14:13.
She digs into Gladiator's buying spree, texts Pete that Gladiator has finalized a purchase of Ellis Island, and Brennan's recap calls her Pete's new friend UC2 E14·01:25:21 UC2 E15·00:00:21. Pete and Maddie celebrate her birthday together after she says she does not have many close friends in the city UC2 E15·01:07:17 UC2 E15·01:07:59. In the epilogue, two years on, she arrives at the park barbecue with her arm around Pete UC2 E18·01:55:31.
By episode
UC2 E13: Of Rats & Dragons
- Maddie Park — sends Pete an apology email and, as a text, "Going after Gladiator? I'm in." — 02:30:47, 02:33:15. Her email offers more: "If there's ever any other way I can repay the debt, (free work,) happy to help" — 02:30:47. Emily: "Oh. It's the PI." — 02:30:41; name reveal for the unnamed internet PI whom 53V3N described to Pete in UC2_09 (00:22:42); here the transcript says only that she is "the PI" and that Pete's family hired her to find him.
UC2 E14: History Checks and Lost Dex
- Maddie Park (card "MADDIE PARK / HACKER EXTRAORDINAIRE", 01:05:18; from UC2_13) — "Hi, nice to meet you, I'm Maddie, hey." — 01:06:06; Brennan: young Korean-American woman with multicolored hair, piercings and a keyboard rolled into her sleeves — 01:05:14–01:05:31; "I do some black hat work." — 01:10:12; lives in Long Island City — 01:14:00; "I think technically I'm an Ophiuchus" — 01:18:07.