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Final Hope Interlude 7: The Woman You Were Made to Be · The Multiverse Collective

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  Spencer, You wake up in the testing room in the Elm
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  facility. It's sterile.
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  Why? And it's quiet enough for you to
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  hear your own breathing. And you've just had this really
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  long vivid dream. It's like 5 year.
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  You spent like five years in this dream.
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  You know, you, you went to high school, you became a Power
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  Ranger, you had friends who you went to save the Galaxy with.
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  And it was all sort of picturesque to you.
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  But the more you try to recall this, this dream, you, you can't
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  really pull details, if that makes sense.
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  It's like vivid, but you can't remember it properly.
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  I think you're about yeah, you're about 12 now.
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  You've already been undergoing these really fucked up
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  experiments from your father David for about 6 to 8 months
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  now. And he, he's at the moment, he's
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  reacting like you're coming close to the end of all, all
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  these tests to, to get you to the, the prime version of you
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  that he wants to, to get you to. And you, you know that the
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  routine now you wake up, you have your breakfast, you go and
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  do a test of some sort, get some tests taken, go to the gym, go,
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  go back to bed, that that's your day.
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  And it's the same today. You, you wake up, breakfast gets
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  slid into your door and it's just like slop.
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  It's not proper human food. It's just a nutrient mix to make
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  sure you've got everything you need or protein or.
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  Everything nutrient mix. Yeah, yeah, I mean, it makes
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  sense. She's not eating for the sake of
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  enjoyment, which is tragic. And I think the worst part about
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  this is I feel like you as, as Spencer, you feel like this is
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  normal. This is your dad trying to make
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  you better and you feel like it is a normal thing.
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  Yeah, absolutely. This is the protocol.
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  It's not like Spencer has friends or like any sense of
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  what goes on outside of her father's facility.
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  This is for her life. This is normalcy.
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  Yeah, it sucks, but you know. Yeah.
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  And that's it, that it's the day-to-day that you've become
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  used to for the last, say, six months.
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  Yeah, I think waking up from that dream really, really sucked
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  because the illusion of free will is, is a crazy thing that
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  I've ripped away from you. You know, as she's, like,
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  grasping at it and trying to remember it, and it's getting
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  farther and farther away from her.
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  It's easier to just focus on getting through the day.
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  That's it. And, you know, you eat your
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  nutrient slop and you go to the test chamber.
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  And today you list, let's think, what's something impossible to
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  lift as a human being? What would be something
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  impossible to lift? School bus.
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  A school bus. OK, you walk into the test room
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  and there's a school bus in the middle of the testing room and
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  I've not figured out a voice for your dad because fuck it, we
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  ball. Fuck it, we ball.
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  As long as he doesn't sound like Trip, I think we're fine.
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  Or two. Yeah, it's just, it's just trip.
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  The whole the whole thing, it all comes back to trip.
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  And over a tanning system, you, you hear your dad and he goes,
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  Spencer, you need to lift this bus.
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  That's your test for today. And Spencer will just silently
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  nod and then go and and do her best.
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  Yeah, and I'm going to give you an advantage on 2D6 plus
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  Superior, please. 2D6 plus superior.
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  At advantage. At advantage.
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  Well I already rolled the 10 so it is a 12.
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  OK, so you will lift this bus over your head, a Superman
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  escort arms up and it's not easy.
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  You know, it is quite difficult for you to get this this bus
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  over your head and your healing ability that he's trying to both
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  into you activates, but it hurts you.
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  You can see like your arms and your legs splitting like, like
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  breaking open when you're lifting this bus.
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  And then he like healing stitching back together.
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  And you know, you hold it above this bus above your head for a
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  couple seconds. And your dad comes down.
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  He doesn't ask if you're OK. He he just says your body is is
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  finally stable. I was worried you'd end up like
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  the others. And then he and he puts his hand
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  on your shoulder and starts walking with you.
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  And he goes. Fortunately, I've perfected it
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  in time for Iris. Do I know what Iris is?
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  Who Iris is. It it'll come to light in a
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  minute, but I've got a question for you.
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  How does it feel to know that there was others?
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  I think objectively, Spencer knew she wasn't the first one
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  that this was happening to. I think it's always bothered her
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  quite a bit that it's come down to her.
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  But I think her father has probably talked to her about the
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  fact that this is her duty as a member of the Alton family.
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  That if she used to carry on his legacy and help him reach his
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  pinnacle, she owes. If she owes him this, this is
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  this is her duty and her responsibility.
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  And who else is to take on this mantle with her at this stage?
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  OK, yeah, I get it. I feel it.
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  OK, so your dad walks it into a very clean room.
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  It's like a sterile room, like a doctor's surgery sort of room.
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  And on the bed, you find this young girl, she's got to be 8-9
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  years old with with a clipboard next to her that says Iris Arms.
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  Oh. God.
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  She's small, she's sedated, she's got 4 lines in these
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  monitors all over the place, you know, just generic charts
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  everywhere. And I think the worst part about
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  it for you, Spencer, is she looks exactly like you did
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  before you got the enhancements done.
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  And you you take a cursory look through the chart that's that's
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  on a bedside and she's got the same genome markers you had
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  before you started. She's got the same projected
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  failure risks that you had, the same emotional suppression notes
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  that you had in there. And then in the margin it says
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  second attempt, cleaner, less resistance.
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  And Iris wakes up just slightly, and she says, are you the
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  doctor's assistant or, or are you my sister?
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  And Spencer doesn't really know what to do with this.
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  I think she's just a little bit in shock and angry.
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  She's angry. Why wasn't these experiments
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  should stop with her? They're working.
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  Things are working the way that Father wants them to work,
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  right? Like they're working the way
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  that that he wants them to work. Why does he need another one?
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  Why does he need to do this to somebody else?
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  Why does he need to do this to this little girl who's done
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  nothing? Are you going to confront your
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  father about it? Iris falls back to sleep.
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  She had a moment, a brief moment of clarity out of her sedation.
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  Yeah, I think Spencer will turn to her father.
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  And, you know, she stopped fighting a while ago.
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  It didn't do any good. It just made it more difficult
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  and it made the punishments harsher and it made the the
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  trials more impossible. And she'll just look to her
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  father and say why? Spencer, you were proof that
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  this could be done. Iris is the refinement of this
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  proof that all you, all you got to know is I didn't ruin your
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  childhood, I've optimised it. And you know that it is the same
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  cold, unemotionless voice he always has.
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  And, and in that moment you, I think you realise that love is
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  irrelevant in this man's life. He doesn't care as long as he's
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  got you or Iris to keep experimenting on.
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  That's all he cares about. And he and he pulls you, pulls
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  you away from Iris and he goes. Iris doesn't need a sister, she
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  needs a future. Just just remember, pain is
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  temporary, power is forever. Yes, Father.
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  And as he's walking away, he says.
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  And remember, morality is a luxury only for the week.
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  And he takes you back to the to your room, close to the door.
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  Spencer is making a note of the route from her room to Iris's OK
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  as she's travelling. OK, a couple weeks go by, you
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  know you've seen Iris a couple of times.
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  The procedure hasn't started yet, but you'd know.
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  You knew that you were screaming and aging it in pain when it
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  started to happen and you overhear one of the guards
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  outside your room saying the procedure starts tomorrow.
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  Then Spencer makes up her mind that she has to get them out of
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  there tonight. Because, you know, as fucked up
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  as all this has been and as as willing as she's been to go
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  along with it, because this is her father and she doesn't know
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  anything else, she's not going to let this happen to this child
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  that she didn't know existed until yesterday.
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  I mean, it was like, you know, her father kept them very
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  separate for a reason, because bonding would have made it
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  harder. Exactly.
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  It's a lot easier to manipulate somebody who's totally isolated
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  and Spencer's like, I don't know, I think the dream that she
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  had is still plaguing her, just like the ghosts of this dream,
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  where she had options and she was able to use this immense
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  power that she's been granted to do something good and
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  worthwhile, and this is her first step.
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  Yeah, and I think Spencer can convince the guys that she wants
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  to go to the gym, you know, get out of the room, get some, burn
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  some of this energy. You go to Iris's room and you
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  can see her panicking and as you get close to her she she grabs
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  your hand Spencer and she whispers to you.
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  He said I won't feel scared after this.
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  Did you stop feeling scared? I'm not going to let you feel
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  scared, I promise. Now, and I think in this moment
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  you realise you didn't just change your body into this
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  biohuman tank. He he tried to erase the
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  humanity inside of you. And this is a really open-ended
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  question, but what part of Spencer is refusing to die right
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  now? I think it's, I think it's her
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  stubbornness, right? Like she just at the end of the
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  day is a bull headed motherfucker and she'll go along
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  with something for a while. But like, you know, when she
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  gets that feeling that this isn't right, this isn't right,
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  it's not right anymore and she can't abide by it, and something
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  just snapped and there's no changing her mind ever again.
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  OK, Yeah. And as you stood there thinking
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  to yourself about what you're going to do, your father walks
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  into the room with four or five guards and he presses a button,
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  unlike this remote, and your muscles sees and you fall to the
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  floor. And he says to you, don't tell
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  me you're thinking about betraying your own blood.
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  No, father, I was just curious. Remember, everything that's good
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  in you comes from me. I couldn't forget even if I
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  tried. And two of the guards pick you
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  up and he says if you destroy any of this, you are admitting
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  to me that you are a mistake. I understand, Father.
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  And in the back of your mind, you hear a voice.
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  Spencer, show me who you were made to be.
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  As you feel on your hand this glove that you morph with in
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  this dream. Cover your hand again and your
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  muscles feel loose so that you can move again.
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  What do you? Do I think the second that
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  Spencer realises that she's not a prisoner in her own body
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  anymore, she swings on the guards?
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  OK, Yeah, roll directly, engage your fret.
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  Yeah, that's a 10. OK, Yeah, you, you just
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  absolutely fling these two guards away.
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  One hits the wall and goes unconscious.
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  The other, like, just flies across the room, bounces over a
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  table that's on the other side. You can hear him groaning in
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  pain. And that's when Spencer goes for
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  her father. OK, Yeah, OK.
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  What? What you're going to do?
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  You're going to directly engage again.
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  Or yeah, I think so I wait, can I use?
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  Can I use one of my moves? You can.
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  You can do whatever you want. You can tell me what you want to
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  do, Spencer. I would like to do my favorite
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  combo, which is where I throw punch everyone on, so I move my
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  danger up by 1:00 so that it's set up +3 and I'll move my
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  mundane down so I'm at a -2 that's fine.
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  And then use physics. What physics to barrel through
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  an insurmountable barrier so I can use plus danger for my
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  directly engaging a threat rule, since in her mind her father is
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  an insurmountable barrier. He is everything, everything
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  she's ever known. Fuck it, read it and weep.
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  No, son. Of a bitch yeah, it was double
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  sixes, whatever, God damn it yeah, so that is that is a 15
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  mate. I've never.
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  Yeah, what what you aiming to do?
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  I want to obliterate him. OK, come on.
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  I Spencer is Spencer's not fucking around.
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  She's this is everything that she's wanted to get out for the
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  last six months. I mean, probably longer than six
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  months. That's just how long the
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  experiments have been going on with the isolation and the, you
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  know, emotional torture has been her entire life.
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  Yeah. Now he's going to do it to
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  somebody else. Yeah, as you're beating him, he
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  he's he's speaking to you. And he pull, he goes.
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  You'd really risk your own sister's future for this.
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  And he presses a button on that same remote, and the machine
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  that started injecting you with all these serums turns on and
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  starts injecting Iris with the same serums as you received.
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  Yeah. What?
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  What What are you going to do? He's pretty lifeless.
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  I'm. I'm pretty sure he broke quite a
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  few bones in his body. Yeah, she's, she's going to
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  leave him where he lies and she's going to fucking book it,
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  Tyrus to figure out what she can do.
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  I mean, I'm assuming they're like doctors supervising this,
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  right? Yeah, yeah, 100% yeah.
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  Disconnect her. Disconnect her now.
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  And all of them just sort of look around at you and, and, and
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  I feel like when they look at you as as just Spencer, they
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  don't, they don't see any fear anything from you.
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  And they just continue letting this machine pump these
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  chemicals into a. Spencer's at a loss because she
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  knows, like, objectively, that if she pulls Iris off of this
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  machine without following the protocol, there's a chance that
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  she just kills her by pulling her off of the machine.
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  And she can't get one of these fucking doctors to help her.
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  And she's like covered in blood and she's full of rage and I
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  think she's going to punch the wall.
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  OK, cool, cool. Yeah, I'm not going to make you
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  roll for this because it's punching a wall.
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  It's not going to find punching a wall and she's just going to
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  put a giant hole in the wall and just fucking scream at the top
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  of her lungs because she's still fucking helpless.
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  I'm. Going to have you roll something
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  here. OK.
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  Roll plus superior for me. Just a superior.
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  Yeah, just straight. I rolled the four.
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  I have a six with my +2. OK, so here's what's going to
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  happen. You punch this wall and you feel
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  the glove, your morphine glove pulse with energy, with the rage
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  of the behemoth, one would say. And it initiates your morph
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  without you even touching the morpha.
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  And do you want to explain your new suit or do you want me to
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  explain you? I'll give everybody, everybody
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  the option. So I.
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  Don't know, you go ahead and explain my new suit.
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  Free for free. Wow.
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  And this suit envelops you and it's like battle armour.
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  You are covered head to toe in this red and grey armour with
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  spiked pauldrons and horns on the head with these bright blue
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  lights coming out of the visor and it just looks scary.
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  Let's be honest, if you've seen somebody coming out with you as
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  spiked pauldrons, horns and foreheads, you'd probably shit
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  yourself. Yeah, and these doctors see this
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  blinding flash of light, and they all just sort of scamper
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  like this. They run away from from Spencer
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  being the scary bitch she is. Yeah.
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  And I think now that she's, I think now that she's morphed,
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  she takes a second, so like the briefest of seconds to
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  appreciate the armour and how it feels to look as powerful as she
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  is. And then she's, I mean, is Iris
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  like screaming in pain? I think she's unconscious at the
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  moment. She's unconscious.
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  I think Spencer's going to frantically look around and I
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  just lowered my fucking mundane and said this is going to suck
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  Dick. I think Spencer's going to
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  frantically look around and see if she can't find some sort of
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  emergency switch. OK to switch this off.
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  OK, Roland, assess the situation and that's plus superior.
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  Oh shit. OK, cool.
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  Well that sucks less doesn't it? I rolled the 7 + 2 that is A9.
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  So you can ask, what hair can I use?
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  What is the biggest threat? What is the greatest danger?
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  What? Who here is the most vulnerable
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  to me? And how could we best end this
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  quickly? You can.
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  Choose how can. We best end this quickly is what
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  I'm asking. I think, you know, I think you
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  remember that it took a good few hours for these chemicals to
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  fully kick in with them siphoning into you completely.
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  And there was a gestation period as well where you had to sit in
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  a room where they they showered you in like growth serum so you
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  could map your body could adapt to it.
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  And you only know she's only been on this serum for a couple
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  of minutes now. So you know you could either
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  remove, you could either destroy the machine and remove the Ivs
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  or can just remove the IDIVS. Yeah, I think Spencer's going to
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  destroy the machine and take the Ivs out because there's, you
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  know, there's like a bitterness to this, too.
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  It's not just about saving Iris because she barely knows this,
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  this child. Like she's had 1 1/2
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  interactions with her, but she's not going to let the same thing
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  that happened to this kid happened or or that happened to
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  her happened to this kid. And your dad, as you, as you do
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  in this, your dad crawls in and he he goes, I didn't make you to
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  be a hero. Can't you kick him?
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  If you want, if you want to kick him.
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  Yeah, Spencer's going to kick him.
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  Yeah, he just, he just. Like right in the fucking gut.
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  Yeah, he just flies to the size and he's like, you're going to
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  destroy my legacy. Good.
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  Yeah, and you break the machine, pull these Ivs out of Iris and
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  you, you've escaped the facility.
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  And I'm going to let you, I'm going to let you choose here.
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  There's two options I'm going to give you here for what is going
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  to happen. You can either call the police
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  and get him arrested, or you can just leave him as much as his
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  his. His work's gone.
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  I think Spencer's going to, she's going to get far away and
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  then she's going to call the authorities because somebody
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  needs to come pick this kid up and she's going to leave Iris at
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  like a Firehouse or something and she's going to go off
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  independently. She does not have the capability
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  to take care of an 8 year old child and she does not want an
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  adult trying to take care of her too.
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  OK, we're going to end on this image.
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  As you leave at a Firehouse, Iris wakes up and she grabs your
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  hand and she looks into your eyes.
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  I feel like you've probably demorphed at this point because
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  you've been running. And she looks into your eyes and
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  you can both see like you're scared, but you both know that
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  you're alive. And for the first time in your
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  in both of your lives, you were free.
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  And you hear that same voice again that was in the back of
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  your head in in the facility. And it says, Spencer, your
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  father made you into a monster. It was your own actions that
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  made you into a hero. And then everything fades to
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  wine. And then a couple minutes go by
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  and you wake up and you're separated from Murphy and Max.
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  You are lay in a random area of Cygnus 7B in your fall suit, the
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  same suit that is your new suit that you're seeing in this
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  flashback. And you feel that you are who
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  you're meant to be in this moment in time.
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  I don't want to leave you here, but I still have to go.
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  Breaks. My heart to disappear.
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  When I'm leaving, I'll be leaving.
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  Slow. When I'm leaving, I'll be
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  leaving slow.