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Solution to Landing Site

Sci-Ficisco

Answer: DES MOINES
by Mark Halpin

Images given can be formed into the assembled image below, using the map background as a guide, in the process assembling circles with four images in them.

Though place names have been removed from the map, highway and route numbers can be used to identify the Lake of the Ozarks. This is the setting of the TV series Ozark. Each episode of Ozark begins with a distinct graphic such as that shown below; these are recreated with photo imagery in the assembled puzzle.

Graphic from the Ozark episode 'Wartime'.

Identifying the cited episodes and indexing into them using the number of adjacent dots spells the answer DES MOINES.

assembled jigsaw; this is a map of Lake of the Ozarks with various circles on top of it.
EpisodeNumber of DotsExtraction
KALEIDOSCOPE6D
OUTER DARKNESS4E
NEST BOX3S

EpisodeNumber of DotsExtraction
WARTIME6M
COFFEE BLACK2O
KEVIN CRONIN WAS HERE4I

EpisodeNumber of DotsExtraction
ONE WAY OUT2N
REPARATIONS2E
THE BIG SLEEP7S