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Last time on no latency. It's not like a murder mystery
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party. It's it's an actual murder.
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Well, obviously I'm the Femme Patel.
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I can't be the doctor and the detective.
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What? What do you mean to take a thing
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Asking questions? I'm the detective.
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Now remember, every murder needs means and motive and
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opportunity. The cause of death?
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An explosive chip placed in his chip slot.
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It says you're not it, Hon, we're going with GS.
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I'll tell you, Victor. Why don't I go ahead and talk to
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the guards to see if they can find your missing prototype?
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JK. 74 Ascend a Visio. They just become like super
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speed. That could be what that green
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light was. It was so fast we didn't see it.
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There's gonna be one of those things where only one person is
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the murderer, but everyone wanted him dead.
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Absolutely. Retro Vivi, thanks for coming
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back. What?
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What do we know so far? Well, we've got one murdered
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asshole. We've got 6 suspects and a few
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clues. And who do we and who do we
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still have to talk to? Oh, well, we still have to talk
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to Ora Gavel, I think. Is their name Savel?
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Gavel. Or a gavel rain Sinclair.
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Just good night. Yes, and the collector.
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Oh, and Remy, we've got that chip.
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We found it. Yes, Remy, we should take a look
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at that chip that we found as well, the private chip.
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We have Hunter's letter. Doc.
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Please be ready to You know what I'm I'm going to go ahead and
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put the chip ready to put in, and at the same time I'm going
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to cover the other side of my neck to make sure the sign of SC
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in person designed to break my neck.
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You're all in a room away from everyone else in the side room
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with the corkboard. OK, I'm still going to do it cuz
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I'm nervous after seeing that footage.
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We'll put it in. Now the chip has on it an
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unreleased episode of Rumor 54. Roll Security Tech.
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No, I don't know if I'm good at that.
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That's 29. Yes, you find a hidden folder
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labeled April. And inside is 1 sound file.
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I'm going to click the April one first because obviously there's
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a connection with there because you know, we watch April all the
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time and we trust them. For our information, we.
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Have to reinforce the parasocial.
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Relationship Take one. Action.
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And hey, Mr. Kerrigan, maybe next time send me an invite.
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I'd love to shop your floor something.
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I mean, I would love to go shopping at your quarterly
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market and report on it for the news.
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No, April, read what's right. Love to go shopping with all of
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my platonic friends sometime. April, you gotta read.
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Mr. Kirrigan, maybe next time send me an invite.
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I'd love to shop your floor sometime platonically I I know
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things didn't workout, but between us and I know it's my
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fault. I.
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I just want to be supportive, you know?
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April. Got this part out.
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Yeah, yeah, of course. God.
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And hey, Mr. Kirrigan, maybe next time send me an invite.
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I'd love to shop your floor sometime.
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Perfect Book it. That that's really embarrassing.
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I think I just got scalded with that hot tea.
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Ow. How many files are on the chip,
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Remy? Well, there's one more I guess
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we could play that. Are we all ready for the next
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one? Is it?
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Does anyone have anything they want to say about the April
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thing in in the shows they talk about the evidence.
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I don't know that that's a clue. Okay.
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Well, maybe the other file is retro.
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All right, hit play. Hey.
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Everyone. To rumor 54 with me.
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Gabriel Steel Finger. Guns a little fan.
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Mail came across my desk this morning from our very own
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collector here in Night City asking to be on the show, and
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here it is. And here it.
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Goes in the shredder. What a square.
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Moving on to some real interesting stuff, I have info
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on who Victor Salas has been playing with behind.
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It turns out that. One of his consultants.
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Got a little closer than they should have.
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Embarrassing local. Auctioneer or a gavel has fallen
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off the wagon and has hired local net runners to hide this
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from future employers receipts. TuneIn next week for some juicy
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gossip about April, Anonymous, and more.
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Sorry, not sorry, April. And we'll see you next time on
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Rumor. 54, sorry, sorry. Wow, I hate that.
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But I love it. But I hate it.
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It's. Not any of those remishes.
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Remember 54 What? Were you going to say Iona?
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No, I was just going to say it's a guilty pleasure of mine.
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Me too. Shut up.
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It's fun. It seems the rumors about Victor
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being with somebody is making its way through the mill, but I
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think we've already kind of nailed down who that is.
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The rain. But this aura, I don't know.
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They seem like they're on the out.
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That felt like a. I'm not.
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I'm not in the room. But I feel like I learned
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something. No, no, Jeb, you're right there.
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You're right. Here I'm right.
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Here, all in this room together, we said it in the beginning.
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We watched that video and everything.
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Right. Aura had a drug addiction.
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And just falling off the wagon. And has fallen off the wagon,
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yes. But that episode hasn't come out
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yet, so does that mean that Gabriel had dirt on everyone?
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I believe so. Wait, Gabriel didn't mention two
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people? Yeah, they mentioned The
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Collector. They didn't mention Hunter, I
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don't think. And they didn't mention Jessica.
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I don't know. I think we should still just try
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talking to people. That's what they normally do on
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the show. Maybe we should go to Ora next.
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I need to grab a drink. Okay, we can go to Ora.
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Right. Who goes over to Ora?
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I'm gonna go back to Hunter. Okay, I own our heads to Hunter.
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Hunter standing there, cleaning yet another glass.
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I'm gonna go behind the bar. What?
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What are you doing? What are you you allowed to do
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that? I'm allowed to do anything.
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I'm the detective. Oh, OK.
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I'm just grabbing a ginger. Ale take a chill bill, that is.
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Yes, I got confused with the Canada logo.
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Listen, you can be real with me. But.
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Did you kill him? Gabriel No.
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Why not? Look he.
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He's a lot more popular than me and has a lot more followers.
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And you know, I applied for the same room at 54 job as him and
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and I didn't get it right. And that's fine.
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It's not a problem. I've got my own blog and my own
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garden. I get followers, people care.
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I snuck in here, didn't I? And.
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Why are you here? It's going to confront Gabriel,
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ask him where he gets all this information, like after the
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auction, because there might have been a scoop, like who
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bought what. I could report on that and maybe
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get like. Contractor job, a room at 54.
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Get some money. Pay some rent.
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Well, now that he's dead, there's a job opening.
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Yeah, guess I'll apply. Well, pay close attention to
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what you learned here. Sure.
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Thank you. You're welcome.
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And I go over to Ora with the rest of the gang.
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Hi. There.
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How are you? Yeah, I know I'm fine.
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I'm cool and great. I'm.
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Fantastic. Uh huh.
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Did you kill him? Do you know when?
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We'll be allowed to get to go to our, to go to our cars or
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something. I didn't.
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Kill the guy I didn't. Kill the guy.
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Why would I kill the guy? I don't know what I did.
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I don't know anything about him. He didn't know anything about
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me. Mmhmm.
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Let me see your back. My neck.
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Fine, fine. You got a pin.
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A pin. Yeah, a pin.
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Role perception. If you could tell, Jeb is not
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one for subtlety. Yeah. 16 Yes, you notice a JK 74
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pin on their inner shirt. Yeah, they're out there.
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What is that? What's the Jiki 74 it?
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Was a gift. A gift from who?
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I. Don't.
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Know, I don't know I should. Tell you that.
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And I'm like, what? Why would you want?
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To tell if. I should tell you that I don't
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know. If I.
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Should tell you because then, like you'd know things about me.
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And that's not like, you know. Look, I promise.
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And and Jeb puts his hand over his heart.
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I promise not to tell anybody out, anybody outside of our core
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group of the of the. I mean, I'm an auctioneer like I
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could I I've got a gavel. He pulls out a gavel from inside
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his hand. I've got my own gavel.
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I come, I come with it, You know it's going to be great.
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Bang, bang. Sold.
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What? Do you want to know?
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I want to know that. I need a little bit of money
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because you know. Just to feel like.
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Medical stuff can't talk. About it, you know.
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But who gave you the pen? Scratching himself.
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Sorry, what? Who gave you the pen?
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The pen. Oh the.
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Pen this pen. Oh shit.
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And he hides it. No, it's this gift.
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But like you could. Pay me for it or like.
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Recommends me. OK, well then at least what's it
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stand for? What's What's Jiki 74 mean?
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You'd have to. You'd have to roll Persuasion.
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On that one, you know. Or like, pay me for it.
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I'd like to lean in the jab and quietly but still loud enough
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for or to hear. Hey, I think I'm gonna smoke a
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joint right now and. Wait, what?
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No. Hi.
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Hey. What's up?
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You're my new friend. How's it going?
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Hey, you're gonna. Have a smoke?
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I'd really. Do you know what?
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You guys seem real cool. Like, hey, if I, if.
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If you share your joint with me. I'll tell you.
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Where I got this pen? Promise.
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No. No jokes.
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You know what I mean? Hey man, I didn't kill the guy.
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I was all the. Way back at the thing.
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I just came here for an interview, man.
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I left all my drugs in my car. They wanted me to see how the
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auction went. I'm really glad Mr. Kate didn't
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see me because like, I am jonesing to go back to my car.
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My guys you guys are cool. Can I?
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Can I bump some of you? I'm really really.
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Coming down right now, I'm gonna have the joint, the jab and be
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like your jab. You work them over.
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Wait, wait, wait no no no cuz this.
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Way left hand side, my brother, where are you?
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Going hey, cowboy? OK.
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Take a Take a load off my dude. And he leans against the wall.
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Oh. Shit.
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Hey, can I have a ginger ale? No, just me.
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OK. Oh, shit.
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This is good. Read right there.
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Easy. You.
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Could see him start to calm down as the weed starts.
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Take him over. Oh yeah, you're a.
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Really good friend. And you know, I had a net runner
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to like. I had a net runner.
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You run 32 on that persuasion, man.
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Wow. I am.
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Really baked. This is really good weed.
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I'm not kind of high. Where I tell you the truth about
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anything, man. Yeah, man.
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I have. Difficulty with women?
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Haha. Well, that's all right.
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We all. I think that's just kind of a.
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I stole money from my mother. Cool.
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I understand. Right.
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I wants to I can finish. This is just for me.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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The badge, man. I got it from Jessica.
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Knight man. To hide my drug addiction while
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I was trying to look for a new job.
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Yeah. Oh, Jinky.
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Hell yeah. 4. Yeah, that's their online
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handle, man. There's a bunch of ways you
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could have found that out as well, but you found it through
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me through by giving me weed. And I'm OK with that.
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Yeah, man. And he leans even heavier
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against the wall. Oh man, this is a mess.
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So I'm just wondering, you know, just between you and Mike.
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You and me. You and me, brother.
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What's up? Do you know if Jessica Nax got
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any implants or anything? No idea, man.
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No idea. I paid them to hide that
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information like months. Ago they.
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Promised lockdown. Never get out.
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They hit it all. No one knows.
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I paid a lot of money for it too.
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I'm not going to tell you where I got the money though, No.
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Thanks for my mother. Don't shit.
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Dude, this weed is purple, man, this is crazy.
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I know I I also partake in cannabis.
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Cuz you're cool, man. Yeah.
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Cuz you guys go cool. Dance for chess.
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Yeah, dabs for Wait, what? I don't know, man.
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I'm just wicked Baked. Right now.
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But I swear, man, I look. Over to that guy over there and
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he's got like a TV. For a head.
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Oh, no, that's that's true. He's got a TV for a.
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Trip he is. Fucked though, right?
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Yeah. And he looks very nice.
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He's very high now and you are. Completely confident that any
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question you ask him, he will tell you the truth.
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Literally anything. Have you seen anyone's back in
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this room? The neck.
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Their back. Oh that.
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Hahahaha. That crack?
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Yeah, man, no. Yeah, damn it.
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So I'm going to go up to rain, Sinclair.
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Rain Sinclair is doing clap pushups.
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Now 1 armed and now somehow no arms.
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That's all core. All core.
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And they stand up and I own that.
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They are full on a foot taller than you, built like a brick
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shell house. Big fucking huge arms and a
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great rack. Hey, how's it going?
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As rain stands up, I'm a little intimidated and so I.
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Take a stumble, step back, and in the process, oops, I dropped
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my drink. Whoopsie.
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What are you intending for this to do?
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Trying to see if she's got the reflexes to catch it.
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She does not. No, doesn't flicker.
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She just watches it for Butterfingers.
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Shit, I that ginger ale slipped right out of my hand.
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Well, all the drinks free. Great.
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Do you need anything? And they flex in front of you?
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No. How can I help you?
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You're the detective, right? Yeah, apparently I am.
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So how long? Long what?
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How long have you been seeing him?
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Seeing you. Do you really need me to spell
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it out? Do you need me to announce it?
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Their mouth frowns slightly, and the red lipstick glistens in the
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rooms like, I don't know what you're talking about.
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There are a lot of people in this room who would pay a lot of
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money for that kind of information.
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Oh yeah. Is that a threat?
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Yeah, it is. OK, real persuasion pep.
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Squeaking. Don't hurt me.
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Don't. Hurt me?
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Oh my God, you've got a gun. 18 Fine.
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Look, I'm. I'm getting out, right?
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Nobody isn't what it used to be. The implants are getting old
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and. With the way I kill.
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That's a lot of work on the body.
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So we took a job with Solace and we he took me to dinner and let
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me test some weapons and arrange and then one thing led to
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another and didn't beg him for a guy like that, but you know.
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And did he let you try out the chip, that thing?
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No, it's never been tested. It's never been tested the.
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First time it's ever been used. I mean the the original one's
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been out for a few months, but this new one with the timer and
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the fingerprint stuff that. Was.
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Fucking cool. That was dope.
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I mean, it's not how I would kill someone.
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I just snapped their neck with my own bare hands.
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Looks like a big bare hands. Sorry.
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What else do you want to? Know you're just a delight.
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Do you know that? Thank you, I try.
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No, I think. You have been honest with me
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this entire time. We haven't had a we've had a
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short conversation, but you seem very genuine.
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You're all high on persuasion. If you want to know anything
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else, like it's in my pockets if you want to know my slide aware.
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I don't give a fuck. I was just sitting down.
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I wanted to see Victor's stuff because.
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And they lean into you because I'm proud of him.
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Because like the reason why we don't want anyone to know is
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because we just kind of really like each other.
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And then? If that gets out, then it gets
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into the public and everyone will know.
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And then we have to have like a stupid famous people name and
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then everyone knows about your relationship and it can really
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really like drive you apart because you can never spend any
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time together. So Victor said he got rid of the
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the footage of us at that bar and no one found out.
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The footage of you at the bar. Yeah, well, we stupidly met in
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public and there was footage in the bar, even though the bar
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said that they were like, discreet.
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And so Victor said he got. Rid of it.
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And you trust Victor? After what we've now together,
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yeah. What do you know about Jessica?
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Jessica Night. Not a lot.
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Not really. Really Matter.
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She's like a hacker or something.
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All right. Do you have any clues in your
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pockets? I mean, other than the fact that
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you basically uncovered the fact that I'm having an affair with
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Victor Solace. No.
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And I would appreciate if you could keep.
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That A. If that ended up happening to
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like some kind of news report or something, that would be bad.
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I lose my job. Don't worry, your secret safe
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with me, OK? Your blackmail safe?
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I mean your. Secret safe with me.
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Jeb, don't you use that And I leave, So do we have left the
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collector? And Jessica?
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Jessica, yes, darling, Hi. What's up, Doc?
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That's Doctor Vivian. Thank you.
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Oh, I'm sorry. And Jessica gets up, leaning on
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her cane and puts out her hand. Charmed, I'm sure.
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Yes. So what is it that you do,
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Jessica? What's your your occupation?
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You're a net runner or something?
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Yes, dialing. I'm a net runner and I get
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information, I hide information and I get you done.
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Baby, any information on our poor victim here, Gabriel?
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My darling. I've never really interacted
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with the man, but let's just say I know a few people in the.
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Room all the people with those pins.
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Oh, and look at you being inside that.
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Wait, Hunter's here. I mean, oh, Hunter's here.
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She looks across. The Mirror.
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Hi. I didn't know you were coming,
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little bitch. So is Hunter trying you and
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Hunter you both have a history. Of sorts, no.
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No, I just know where they are. What did you want to know?
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I want to know what the deal with the pins.
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Why are you handing out these pins to everybody?
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What are they? Real persuasion, darling. 18, I
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suppose. Well, let's just say if you ever
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need a little net running help. Now that you can always rely on
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me, and every one of my satisfied customers gets a
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little pin with a guarantee that anything I do for them will be
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completely secret, and I go to great lengths to make that
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happen. Darling, don't you worry.
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And I didn't see one of these pins on Gabriel that correct.
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When I examined the body, I did not.
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See one on Gabriel now. Okay.
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Well, yes. So you have a lot of clientele
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here in the room. Oh, do I?
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Yes, Aura. I'd never say, but if they want
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to show and tell, that's up to them, baby.
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Just trying to think what? Else kind of persuasion is a
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higher role, honey, yes. Perhaps you can tell me which
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one of these clients that you have.
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Seems I don't know the most off to you.
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You know, most between us. Yeah, like.
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I mean, for my money, me. I mean, I was invited.
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Victor was invited. Gabriel was invited.
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Rain was invited. The Collector.
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That or a guy was here, I think. What was that, some kind of job
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interview or something? Hunter, on the other hand, snuck
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in here, apparently dressed as a bar person.
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And the bad one of that, Yes. And you didn't see Hunter around
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throughout the evening, right? They were just tied.
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I was looking at Mr. Kerrigan. When I turned to my left, I saw
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a dead head on the ground. I wasn't even looking.
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I turned my head when I heard the explosion.
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I wasn't staring at his back when I had to look at Gabriel
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Steele. Who gives a fuck about rumors?
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Rumors mean nothing to me. It's information that I give a
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fuck about. Solid evidence.
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Not just something somebody said.
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Do you need anything else, honey?
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That's all for now, Jessica. Thanks for the insight and
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input. And she winces as she sits down,
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takes out a bottle of pills and slips one in her mouth and
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closes the bottle and puts it back in.
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Raids Queen. Yeah, I don't think Gavel did
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it, but they're having a great time over there.
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So if you guys, I mean, we've got more questions for them,
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just let me know when I can. I can go give them a mask.
24:37
It's hard to say. I don't know if Jessica also had
24:40
much of A motive. She works with a lot of the
24:43
people here. All those pins that we saw.
24:45
That means that they have hired Jessica for their net running
24:50
services. So.
24:51
So wait, who? Who hired Jessica Hunter?
24:55
Victor, right? Aura, right.
24:59
Not our victim, though. Right.
25:03
Well, does Hunter have to hide? Hunter, out of everybody seems
25:08
the most suspicious. They arrived without many people
25:13
seeing they snuck in, allegedly. Clearly they were upset that
25:18
they got rejected. Not saying it's them, I'm just
25:21
saying right now things pin the most to them, but.
25:26
I. Have a different query.
25:29
Jessica Knight is supposedly a net runner.
25:34
A very good net runner, one that hides the secrets, correct?
25:37
Yes. Which we understand that out of
25:41
the three two of those secrets Steele had and Steele did not
25:46
work directly with Jessica. Yes.
25:49
So if Steele had that information, then that would
25:53
probably make Jessica look very bad.
25:56
In doing their job. Oh, cuz that episode's
25:59
unreleased. But without solid evidence, how
26:03
we gonna pin it on anyone? Yeah.
26:06
Was it just me, or was Jessica in pain?
26:10
Could I see what the drugs are that I saw as I was seeing her
26:16
take a that that drug was. Could I have maybe taken a
26:20
glance at if it was a painkiller or some other sort of drug?
26:24
Role perception. You did not notice the pill?
26:28
No, cuz you're all to 14 -, 6. What do we know about this
26:32
mysterious spine San Devastin? Yeah, the San Devastin, What do
26:39
we know about that? It is a neural Ware implant.
26:44
It is, and to get one you have to undergo an extreme operation
26:51
involving your spine, and it does usually give you extreme
26:55
reaction times, extreme boosts of energy.
27:00
Sometimes you are not yourself. Does it give you pain after you
27:07
use it? It could have some side effects
27:12
to that degree, yes. And I imagine you're probably
27:16
not meant to use it while you're recovering, correct?
27:19
If it was something that was recently installed, there is a
27:22
recovery period that you're supposed to be resting and the
27:28
cane keeping them standing up straight because it's a spinal
27:34
operation. Well, can we get any more data
27:37
on on like medical records or something?
27:40
We could give our friend Sawtooth a call or.
27:44
Somebody. Hello Sawtooth, how's it going?
27:54
Hi. Hi, how's it going?
27:55
I'm just, hey, sanitizing things for the third time today.
28:00
Shiny Sawtooth. You have a good, you have a good
28:07
the record of clientele, and you probably have a lot of medical
28:11
records and things of people. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
28:14
Very much so. I I don't share that
28:17
information. Yes, the HIPAA laws and
28:21
everything. Exactly.
28:22
Yeah, unless you like me. Well, you know that us as a
28:27
group, we bring you a lot of business, a lot of business.
28:30
I mean, we feel like we've been seeing you like every every
28:34
session, really. Or every other week.
28:36
Right. Yeah, I mean you.
28:37
Fuckers do get had a lot Remy with his addiction.
28:40
How is your addiction there Remy are?
28:41
You doing well. Clear as a.
28:44
Whistle. Right.
28:44
Good weed. That's fine.
28:46
Don't care. Yes.
28:46
Continue VB. Sorry, we are willing to give
28:52
you whatever you need a little extra.
28:54
Yeah, no, no, I'll break my models for 200 Eddies.
28:56
Just throw those three. Who?
28:59
Who do you want to know about? What?
29:00
Do you want to know about? What do you want to know?
29:01
I've got your back. We're looking up some things
29:04
about, oh, you. You'll love this one, San
29:06
Devastin. Oh the.
29:08
Fuck me. Oh yeah, yeah.
29:10
No, fantastic. And like any like patient names.
29:14
That I should know about a Jessica Knight net runner?
29:18
Jessica Knight, Net runner. Oh, Jessica.
29:21
No, no, I saw her at the. Club last week.
29:23
It's really cool. I got a video.
29:25
You want to see they're showing me this new dance.
29:29
Oh wow. Yeah, she's really got moves.
29:32
Yeah, she's looking pretty. Dumb.
29:34
This is the full splits. No.
29:36
Oh oh wow. You have everything, don't you?
29:40
Yeah, I know she. Showed me this.
29:41
Cool. Like Jake?
29:44
That she can do it was pretty cool.
29:46
But I I mean, I can look. Up some records.
29:48
Role for that, though, what shall I roll?
29:55
What are we? I like how the GIF has jiggle
29:59
physics. Thank you, damn titties stuff.
30:08
Are you saying this is some sort of persuasion or as a?
30:10
Whatever you want to roll to get a tiny bit more information, you
30:13
already got one clue. 15 Yes? Good.
30:17
Yes. You gain a little bit of oh,
30:22
yes, no, I found some medical records.
30:24
Turns out Jessica went to a doctor recently.
30:30
Let's see, Medical. Please do not.
30:32
There you go. I'll send it through.
30:40
Oh, did. You get it.
30:42
Oh, good. And I got my money.
30:45
Thank you very much. Did up 200 eddies from your bank
30:48
account Please be the I'm in debts.
30:52
And paying more debts. Anything else?
30:57
Salivisions are pretty dangerous.
30:59
Looks like, I don't know, a serious amount of pain involved
31:02
in that. Yes, yes, it usually, I mean
31:05
it's a spinal implant, It's. The patient should be taking the
31:09
anti rejection meds probably every hour right?
31:13
They usually are like a pink and teal.
31:17
Pink and white. Sorry, Yellow.
31:19
And white is the color of that pill, yellow and white.
31:23
Yellow and white, yes, yes, You know, if you're looking at the
31:26
sort of the general. Of the area, if you're not
31:28
paying attention, every drug looks pink and sort of a teal
31:32
green. If you really pay attention, the
31:34
colors become apparent if you. Didn't roll a crit fail earlier?
31:38
Damn. So you have to like.
31:41
Identify that so you can get. Your hands on that.
31:43
That's an important to know, I see.
31:47
I mean, if this patient got a stand of his again, then they'll
31:51
be taking that white and yellow. I see.
31:55
Well, I feel like this is very helpful.
32:01
Thank you, Sawtooth. Yes, you're very.
32:04
See you later. Hopefully not.
32:06
Don't get hurt. Bye.
32:08
Well, I think that gives us a pretty good lead on this.
32:17
The question is why? Why would she do it?
32:23
Because Steel was going to leak the information that Jessica
32:29
supposedly quote UN quote hid, right?
32:33
So that sounds like motive enough for me, I would agree.
32:37
Motive is motive is motive. That's our motive.
32:40
We have evidence at least to approve, to prove that Jessica
32:46
got Sandeviston installed. Perhaps I can take a closer look
32:52
at their meds. If we can get their meds, we can
32:56
prove that they're taking the proper meds for the recovery
33:01
process. Yeah, just to confirm and and we
33:05
know that someone with a Sandeviston.
33:09
Killed Steel, yes. That we do.
33:12
Doc, I have an idea. Follow me, I.
33:18
Beat her up. I'm just kidding.
33:21
Tell us what you know. We're gonna head back over to
33:24
Jessica. I'm gonna sit down on my joint.
33:29
Hey, how are you today? I'm OK.
33:33
You seem like you're in immense amount of pain.
33:35
That grimace on your face just does not want to go away.
33:38
No, no. This is just resting Grimmage
33:39
face. This is the face I make all the
33:41
time. I get that.
33:42
I can't get that. It is pretty impressive, but I
33:46
could just tell that you just seem to be well.
33:50
A little hobbled. Perhaps baby?
33:56
Well, I had my back. Blown out last night.
34:00
More ways than one. He was an animal.
34:04
Do you see aura over there? See how cheaper they are
34:08
compared to how terrible they were beforehand.
34:11
Oh yes, baby. I got something that might help.
34:16
What would you if you want to take a drag?
34:18
We're all persuasion. A lot of people have been killed
34:21
recently. I want to make sure you're not
34:22
killing me. I mean, this might actually just
34:25
kill that terrible mood of yours, but all right.
34:28
Oh, everyone loves an attitude. 16 two, yeah, they.
34:36
Grab the joint from you and take a puff.
34:40
I'll really get it in and I'll pat them on the back really
34:42
hard. Sorry.
34:46
So sorry. Ow, that's great.
34:49
Fucking awesome. Thank you for that.
34:51
Take this away from me. Apologies, so sorry, I didn't
34:55
mean. That maybe you should find
34:56
someone else to talk to. I'm done with you now ow.
35:00
And they get up and hobble away with their cane.
35:03
Sorry about that. I don't like it.
35:11
Let me hold on, hold on. So we're pretty sure that she
35:15
did it right, but we're not sure if she was doing it for herself
35:23
or paid by somebody, right? Do you have to roll Human
35:27
perception? I would like to actually ask if
35:30
I can roll perception. Sure.
35:32
Because I want. To see you learn nothing.
35:33
You're all a crip fail -8 -, 6. Yeah, you have a feeling that
35:39
broccoli is involved. I.
35:41
Want to see if I could have noticed potentially the
35:43
cyberware when patting their back.
35:47
Raw Perception 16 Yes. Sixteen's low in this, in this
35:51
case, and I think what you do notice is Hunter Chen staring
35:56
down you and Jessica. And a little bit of sweat pours
36:00
down their brow. OK, so I have very, very strong
36:14
feeling about this, that they probably do have that cyberware,
36:20
but 100 keeps giving me the fucking stink eye and I'm not
36:24
liking that whatsoever. She looks over at both of you
36:03
when you grab eye contact with her.
36:05
She turns away and continues cleaning her.
36:26
Do we confront them? Yeah, I said we would just blame
36:29
them. I just blame Hunter.
36:32
Yeah, in. Front of them, tell them we're
36:33
gonna out them there. In front of everybody.
36:35
Tell them that Jessica told us everything and that they're the
36:37
one who did it. Could try that, that kind of
36:39
tactic and see how they react to it.
36:42
It's an option. Or, I don't know, I feel like
36:46
could could we just go to Kerrigan with this evidence and
36:50
just tell them who we think it is?
36:52
No problem with that. I mean, that's Kerrigan's gonna
36:55
be the one that you know. Pulls the metaphorical trigger
36:58
or you know, literal trigger. I don't know how he does it.
37:01
I do think Hunter maybe is could, you know, we could
37:06
confront Hunter. I don't know.
37:07
Maybe they have more info that could help us pin it down on
37:11
Jessica. Or maybe they were complicit or
37:14
something. I don't know.
37:15
They are kind of suspicious. Or did they hire Jessica?
37:20
Maybe. Because aside from Jessica,
37:23
they're the only one who didn't have anything that.
37:26
Still knew. That's right.
37:29
That's really that's really observant of you, Retro.
37:33
Wait, what? Wait, wait, wait.
37:34
Hold on. I'm not ready for for clue
37:36
music. I need.
37:37
I need dumbed down for me. Jevadiah, when we went through
37:42
all of when we went through the chip and we heard the episode,
37:45
who did we hear had dirt on them?
37:48
He snubbed the collector. He knew about the.
37:51
Affair between Pain and Victor, and he knew about the drug
37:55
addiction of Aura. So did he talk about?
37:59
He was talking about broccoli. Wait, no, sorry, Just keep
38:04
getting that in my head. Could it be possible that Hunter
38:10
set up Steel and told Jessica what was happening?
38:16
Oh, Hunter with the pen. That says Jackie 74 is the one
38:23
that got Jessica to kill Steele. Because Steele was.
38:30
Going to get on to it now. Oh my God.
38:32
Play the cue music, the clue music.
38:36
It's all coming together. Oh my God.
38:41
Clear as day. There wasn't.
38:46
Any brothel? Involved.
38:48
No, none whatsoever. This isn't a vegetable plant, so
38:52
it was Hunter. It was just tonight, yeah.
38:55
Both of them together working together to kill Gabriel.
39:05
So how are we going to confront them?
39:08
I don't know. We Why do we have to do it?
39:11
Why don't we just get the Why don't we get Mr. Kerrigan to do
39:14
it? I am.
39:15
Like, call him downstairs that if we confront them, they might
39:18
get hostile. You know those Saints,
39:21
Everston's, You never know. So.
39:23
Bendel takes out that gun. Then we get to have a fight.
39:29
We could probably be on the same side, the same amount.
39:33
We haven't found any Saints Coke.
39:34
I threw it out the window, remember.
39:36
I know, that's what I'm saying. Fuck.
39:37
Well, surely, like we have to. I think we just go tell
39:43
Garrigan. OK, I have.
39:45
This court to people's justice. Yeah, right.
39:47
I'll call. I'll call him down.
39:50
Said he'd be here in 5 minutes. Gather everyone in the auction
39:55
room for the reveal, :) emoji. I think he wants us to get like,
40:01
get people to sit down and this. Is going to be an announcement
40:04
to everybody. So you've got a few minutes to
40:06
gather everyone to seats etc, OK.
40:09
Everyone, please, if you could just take your seats, we're
40:13
gonna we're going to get done with this pretty soon.
40:16
Investigations coming to a close.
40:18
No, we don't know exactly who it is yet, but we're gonna have Mr.
40:22
Geragon handle this. It's all right.
40:24
Just please sit down. If someone wants to help, just
40:27
cause sit. Obviously they're in a bit of
40:28
pain. Sorry about that.
40:31
Thank you, honey. And if someone could go ahead
40:35
and just wake up or or seems like they're about to pass out.
40:40
Broccoli. Well.
40:45
OK what is happening I. Didn't do it, Nobody sent me to
40:48
it. Can't prove anything.
40:50
No, we didn't see it. So you're under arrest for
40:54
conspiracy to commit murder. Mr. Carrigan isn't here and.
40:59
Jeff Mr. Carrigan isn't here yet, darling.
41:02
Oh, we can't. But I was kind of hoping to do
41:04
the whole like arrest but. Well, no, I think he's going to
41:06
get you guys. No, no, no, no.
41:08
It's fine. It's fine.
41:10
Good gumption, good gumption. Thank you.
41:13
Mendel grabs Hunter Chen and drags them to a seat in the
41:17
front and plops them down in the front row.
41:19
In the various things that have happened over this evening, the
41:22
body has been moved to the stage along with the head, which has
41:25
been graciously leant against the body.
41:28
A retro or anyone? Does anyone want to say anything
41:31
before Mr. Kerrigan arrives? We got you, bitch God.
41:34
Damn, it's just. Certainly a thing.
41:36
Mr. Kerrigan walks in and stands at the podium.
41:39
Ah, yes, yeah. I have how to say, you know,
41:46
I've come from the upstairs. I got the message.
41:48
You solved the mystery, Yeah. Oh.
41:51
Yes, we have. All right.
41:53
Well, as you know the most impartial according to records
41:57
and you know everything's been confirmed by security, you're
42:01
going to explain your evidence so that there is no doubt.
42:03
Yes, like in the show. Yes, do.
42:05
You watch the show as well. Not now.
42:07
We're not taking questions after.
42:10
And this is the big reveals what you're saying.
42:11
That is what we are looking for. I mean, if we're going to have a
42:14
murder, at least let it be traumatic.
42:15
All right, Who's going to? Who's going to lay it out?
42:17
Vivian, you seem like you knew the most.
42:23
I can start and then. Well, you'll add along.
42:29
Yes. Oh man, I don't even know how to
42:32
start this whole thing. Well, we, the detectives have
42:40
talked to all of you about the incident that happened tonight.
42:44
And first of all, upon examination, forensic
42:47
examination of the body, we were able to conclude that this was
42:53
in fact a murder via the killswitch.
42:59
Chip. Oh, did you find it?
43:02
We found that upon looking further at the footage of what
43:08
happened, there was a flash of green light, as if something
43:12
happened in a flash right before the murder.
43:16
And upon looking further at this, it could be very clear
43:21
that somebody who has the ability to move at inhuman
43:25
speeds would have been able to take action right before the
43:29
death. Perhaps somebody who is able to
43:33
get a certain neural implant, known as a Sandevastin.
43:39
Jessica Knights shifts in her seat, but so does Rain Sinclair.
43:44
You see, for those who don't know, San Devastins are a type
43:48
of implants that they do usually are spinal in nature, but they
43:54
do allow you to have extremely inhuman reaction times, allow
43:59
you to move very fast, and can be very dangerous.
44:03
And it seems that our poor Gabriel Steel may have fallen
44:07
victim to somebody with a San Devastin.
44:11
After talking to a few of you, I do know that the procedure of a
44:15
Sandefestin implant can be quite a toll on the body.
44:20
It can leave you in recovery for weeks.
44:23
Usually you aren't able to walk, unless of course you have
44:28
something to help you walk, depending on how long, how long
44:31
ago the particular surgery was. So if it was recent, you
44:35
probably wouldn't be able to walk normally.
44:37
You might need a cane to help you walk.
44:39
Jessica and the collector tensor.
44:41
What? No, honest, I I don't.
44:45
I don't have. I have a neural link for my
44:46
agent and I didn't do oh shit. Also, if you are recovering from
44:52
the surgery, you do have to usually take medicine of some
44:56
sort, a anti pain drug. I haven't taken any drugs
45:00
tonight, so guess not. Me.
45:02
You, Jessica. You have.
45:04
Looks like you have been in a lot of pain.
45:06
When Remy Oh my gosh, why can't I?
45:10
Think it's Remulus Remingus? Remingus when Remingus came over
45:16
and gave you a gentle pat on the back again.
45:19
But Remingus is not the strongest gentle.
45:22
Pat It seems like it hurts. Yeah, it did.
45:27
And I saw you take a certain pain Med and carrying a cane.
45:32
It seems like somebody here might have had a San Devastin
45:36
install in the past few days even.
45:39
I But, oh, Jessica, that can't be all you.
45:48
You couldn't have just decided to do this without I.
45:52
Don't kill things exactly, exactly, but you, Hunter.
45:58
What? Me.
45:59
You have reason, and you've worked with our darling Jessica
46:05
before. You who snuck into this shindig
46:09
this evening. The one person who didn't have
46:13
an invite, who just mosied their way on in, happened to have an
46:16
alibi, of course, of being at the bar all night.
46:20
But you know that she wanted to be on Rumor 54 up and coming
46:26
media, right? Yeah.
46:29
She smacks her black lipstick lips.
46:32
I did, but Gabriel Steele, they're the one that got the
46:37
part. Yeah, not you.
46:39
No. Roll the face off.
46:43
Pull up reputation plus one D10 plus one D10.
46:46
Your outfit as a brain surgeon gives you plus one to your
46:49
reputation for this evening, because you did roll really high
46:53
at the beginning of this adventure.
46:55
That role has come into fruition in this moment.
46:57
Nice. Thirteen.
46:59
Oh, I rolled A4. Not bad, but not as good as you.
47:03
Hunter Chen is not as famous as you appear to be, right?
47:07
This evening, in front of this entire room they snuck in,
47:10
they're kind of a nobody. Got a really small blog.
47:13
It's got under a few 1000 followers.
47:15
She's not well known. You see her go bright red in the
47:18
face. Jessica, you said this would get
47:21
to be smooth. You said it'd be the story of
47:24
the century, you fucking bitch. Oh, baby.
47:30
Jessica gets up. You hear this as she gets up.
47:35
She throws the cane up, grabs it in the middle and spins it round
47:38
her hand and places it back down and.
47:40
I would have gotten away with it too.
47:43
That went for these pesky. Kids.
47:45
Oh, let's get her. Well, for initiative
47:59
next time on no latency. No, just the jib is an idiot.
48:07
I'm sure you found that out already.
48:08
Who saw that coming? Oh shit.
48:11
Send Evison. I'm burning up.
48:13
I'm flaming. Holy fuck, we got to put out the
48:15
flames. You got the little hose?
48:17
Shit. You're right.
48:17
Whoa. Hey, careful, y'all's got me.
48:20
Dang, they got it out for retro. Why wouldn't they go after me?
48:23
I'm smoking after all. Great job, Vendel.
48:26
Took me like an hour to make it does.
48:27
Kind of seem like campers, though.
48:29
Don't. He does.
48:30
He does seem like a cat person. Put the collector down and we
48:33
can figure this out. Alcohol is very flammable.
48:36
You all right, Retro. It's OK.
48:38
I'll go in and I'll try to grab the collector and get him out of
48:41
there. I'll do a stop, drop and roll
48:44
with the hug involved. Amazing.
48:46
Oh, Solar Plex. Is instep nose groin sing?
48:48
Yeah. That's what you get for putting
48:51
your body through that bitch. Oh, it's hot.
48:53
Thanks. That's all that's.
48:54
That's who. That is a hooey.
48:56
Oh man. Do you really want to live like
48:58
this? Are we in trouble?
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