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"What seems like the end, is only the beginning."

— Tagline^[1]

Hunt the Truth, stylized as HUNT the TRUTH or the hashtag #HUNTtheTRUTH, is an ongoing marketing campaign for the upcoming release of Halo 5: Guardians^[1], hosted on the popular microblogging and social networking site Tumblr. After a countdown ending on Monday, March 23, 2015 at 1:00am UTC, the site displayed the "Halo 5 Bullet" trailer, as well as acting as the front page of journalist Benjamin Giraud's hunt for the truth about the story of Master Chief. Giraud states that the site will be updated weekly with new episodes of his podcast until E3 2015 in June 2015.^[2]

Episode transcripts

Episode 00

REDIRECT Hunt the Truth Season 1/Transcripts/Zero

Episode 01

REDIRECT Hunt the Truth Season 1/Transcripts/One

Episode 02

REDIRECT Hunt the Truth Season 1/Transcripts/Two

Appearances

Characters

Benjamin Giraud
Ellie Bloom
Deon Govender (First appearance)
John-117 (Mentioned only)
Katrina (First mentioned)
Michael Sullivan
Thomas Wu (First appearance)
Meshach Miradi (First appearance)

Trivia

With each successive turn, the bullet reads: SON, ABDUCTEE, VICTIM, ORPHAN, RECRUIT, SOLDIER, WARRIOR, ALLY, HERO, SAVIOR, TRAITOR. An image of this is shown below.
Benjamin Giraud is voiced by Keegan-Michael Key, of the show Key & Peele.^[2]
Hunt the Truth establishes that Halo 2's cover art is actually an in-universe photograph captured and edited by Giraud.

Gallery

A graphic showing the successive frames of the Halo 5 "Bullet" teaser
Halo 5 promotional art featuring Locke and John-117, displayed at the end of the "Bullet" teaser
The avatar used on the HUNT the TRUTH SoundCloud profile
The countdown to the HUNT the TRUTH reveal on March 23, 2015
Locke and John-117
A grid from the site
Michael Sullivan's message to Benjamin Giraud
The artwork for Episode 1. Some of the files Benjamin Giraud looked though.
Giraud's original photo of John-117 during the Battle of New Mombasa
Giraud's photo with ONI and UNSC notes for propaganda
The final version of Giraud's photo; this is actually a slightly modified version of Halo 2's cover art.
Katrina's diary entry #1, talking about an encounter with John.
Katrina's diary entry #2, talking about John's flash clone death.