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is intended in a fictional way. Fuck.
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Today's been weird fucking first that Kraut and now Cordelia is
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friendly and we're having a laugh in my in my Aster and
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divine. We found Ace in supposedly not
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enemy Japanese base and sorted him out and gave him some energy
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and it's revived Hyperion. But now this where my heart
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feels like my heart drives revving so much and it feels
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like it's about to burst out my chest.
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I hope this passes soon. So when we last left off, Ace
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and Rex were going through some shit.
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Oh yeah? Oh, shit.
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We. We're having heart attacks, Ace.
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Is this? Is this death?
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Are we dying? Is this?
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So so the IT didn't last very long.
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It only lasted a few seconds, but it was enough to bring both
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of you to the ground, basically right in front of Cordelia.
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Oh, I'm, I'm the I'm the fit Japanese woman that that ace
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ruined our chances of seeing tits.
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Fuck you, by the way. Again, one month later, I'm
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still upset. We're all upset, don't worry.
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How do you think I feel? Stay.
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Mad here. Oh shit, what?
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How would how would Rex? Rex would just stand up like
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nothing happened. I think Ace just curls up in a
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ball on the ground and it's just like, I need a fucking second.
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What is happening? You're good.
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You're sure? He's.
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That's from your scolding. He's just mentally scared now
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because you told him off so much.
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I really think that was justified.
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You know what I think Ace just slowly gets up to his feet and
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like, brushes himself off and he's just like, all right, you
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know what? Let's, let's go with that.
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Lieutenant. I don't think I'm ever going to
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disobey your orders ever again. Great.
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I love to hear that. I can't make any promises.
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Yeah, I know. That was comma.
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Cordelia, you your, your radio starts like going off.
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Cool, cool, cool, cool. Yeah, let's let's answer that
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radio. What's What's poppin?
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Yeah. So on the other end is is your
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old pal Benji. Benji.
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We love Benji. Lieutenant, we need you back
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here, please. Shit just happened.
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All of the pilots just went crazy for a second.
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Crazy. What do you mean crazy?
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Crazy isn't like they dropped to the ground.
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Yeah. OK, OK.
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Yep, we're on our way. We.
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Did. Oh, OK.
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Yeah. Also, Doctor Schmidt's doing
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some shit. We could really use your help.
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What do you mean by doing some shit?
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You have to be specific, Benji. You should probably just get
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back Captain. That's not helpful.
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How fast do I need to come back, Benji?
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I mean quickly, but. Oh my God.
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And she just like ignores the radio and she looks at the
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voice. She's like, we have to go back.
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Whatever just happened to you 2 also happened to everybody else.
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Wonderful. Great.
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Oh. Are you hitching a ride with me
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again? Yeah, I mean if you don't mind
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more vomit in your cabin. I mean, I'm not going to
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teleport you in this time. I'm going to let you climb.
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I. Really appreciate that, thank
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you. That was horrifically jarring in
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a way I never thought I would experience in my natural life.
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I made-up for it. I'll let you pilot it.
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You did I truly I am not upset at all.
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I just surprise teleportation we're probably going to going to
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put a stop to unless it's a real emergency.
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I appreciate it, Ace. You're good to fly back.
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Ace tries to summon Hyperion. Yeah, Hyperion comes to your
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call. All right, I think Ace looks
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over and he's just like, OK, well, if I need anything, I
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guess you'll hear me on the radio.
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Yeah, and if you follow another fucking squirrel anywhere so.
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Oh my God. Never again.
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Great. I'm glad we've established that.
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OK, I will see you back there. And if I lose sight of you for
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one fucking second, you cannot imagine what the consequences
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are going to be. Just just stay in my rear view
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ace, it'll be easier. I say that's going to be really
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hard because Ace doesn't have a flight pack.
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I'll just carry him does I'll just like you know when when you
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cap spin bad. Yeah, on under the armpits.
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If if you fly low to the ground, I'll swing on the trees, it'll
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be, it'll be great. It'll be awesome, great, great
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fun. You have two arms, 2 functioning
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arms, Ace. Ace looks down in his arms.
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OK. Yeah, Ace, you're, you're,
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you're back to 100%. Hyperion is ready to go.
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Yeah, Cordelia just doesn't trust him and wants to make sure
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that this is not going to go wrong again, because if
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something happens, it's on her and she's already in trouble
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with that scary German man. Ace doesn't trust himself
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either, but he's going to. He's going to make it home
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anyway. Rex is just here for the ride.
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Yeah, yeah. So I, I feel like one way or
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another, you guys managed to traverse your way back to the
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beach. There's no major incidents or
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anything along the way. And when you get there, you see
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your your entire crew basically standing in a circle arguing
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with the doctor and he's got something on a sled next to him.
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You can't really tell from where you're at.
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You're too far away. What me lumped I'm going to be
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like, is it bully the German guy time?
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Wait, hang on, German guy. The guy I told you about last
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time? Really weird.
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Not sure if he's not sick. We'll find out.
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Oh. You know what?
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Today gets better and better. Yeah, this is what you miss when
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you follow woodland creatures. Do everything in your power to
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make his day more miserable and you will be sweet.
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He does need to clean the vomit out of your cabin.
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Yeah, I've got. That's I've got a list.
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I've got a list, don't worry. OK, great, great.
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And I think with that, Cordelia is going to like kind of like
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OK, break with Ace and Rex and they all head to the good doctor
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to see what the fuck is up. Yeah, as as you're walking over,
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I, I assume you're out of the divine at this point.
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Yeah. And she sort of runs over to
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intercept you and just sort of fill you in on the way and goes.
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All right. Couple things.
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We'll, we'll deal with the doctor 1st and then we have, we
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have a news report on what may have happened with the pilots.
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Which you? Which would you like first?
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What is more eminently pressing right now that you probably be
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over the radio? Probably the doctor.
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Great, then let's deal with the doctor.
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So as you walk over the, your, your crew sort of sees you
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coming and sort of makes way and Doctor Schmidt goes Lieutenant,
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and it's good of you to return. Your team has been very
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unhelpful. Well, I don't quite know how to
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address that. Are you filing a formal
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complaint or are you just expressing your opinion?
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No, I am simply trying to do my job.
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And what is your job? You see and he he sort of
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motions at the at the sled and what you see on it is a semi
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dismantled, yet still active zero that's been restrained to
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the sled. It has no arms or legs, but it
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has a torso and a head and it's still sort of moving around and
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trying to attack things. He goes, I'm trying to load this
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into the laboratory on the Fox schedule and they will not let
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me bring it aboard. Well, considering this is an
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enemy device, I can't imagine why they would have let you
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bring it aboard, especially without my explicit permission
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or the permission of some money ranking above me.
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Did you happen to attempt to get it from anyone, or were you just
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trying to? I'm simply trying.
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To do my job I have been assigned to the Foxcatcher to do
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research on the enemy esters. This is me doing my job and
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trying to research these esters. We have one.
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Alive that has not collapsed in on itself yet.
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I understand that, however have we checked to make sure there
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are no bugs or listening devices attached to this?
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No location devices, nothing that the enemy would be able to
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locate our you know, our our location with if we were to
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bring. This I have not been able to
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bring it into the lab yet. Well, it seems perhaps a little
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risky and maybe as if we're putting a target on our backs if
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we bring this on to the Foxcatcher itself.
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Is there an alternative option? It is not as if they don't know
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that we are here. Oh, I understand that.
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But they don't need to know our exact location, nor do they need
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to know the exact location of the Vine or the Hyperion.
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I feel like we're putting two of our greatest assets at immense
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risk, Rex. Would you not agree, Doctor She.
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Called us a great asset. Not you, ace.
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Shut up. Ace sticks.
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His head in the sand. I I must be able to do my
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research. Is there not some sort of
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alternative? Is there no alternative in in
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the entirety of our our capabilities?
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There's no alternative other than you bringing this fairly
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unknown enemy device on to the Foxcatcher where we store two of
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our most valuable lasters. No other option.
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I have a question, Kyle. Look at that.
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Does it still have its antenna? You don't see an antenna.
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You didn't see antennas on any of these?
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Oh, I thought that was how they broadcasted.
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Well, that's how the first group was.
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This group did. OK.
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As as you're, as you're just having this conversation, it's
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sort of still just like thrashing and but it doesn't
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have any arms or limbs. So it's just what it can move
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with. It's, you know, it's neck.
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I get it. I get it.
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Clearly it is restrained and it is safe.
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I understand it's physically safe.
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Can I kick it? Can you kick it?
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You can kick it if you want. OK, I'm I'm going to kick it.
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How? How big is this 0 by the way?
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So at full height, the zeros are probably maybe 10 feet tall.
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So you figure you cut the arms off, cut the legs off.
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It's, you know, probably maybe 5 feet.
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Okay, so it's still like a decent size.
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Okay, yeah. I also have me me sword that
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I've brought out from the divine because I don't go anywhere
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without it. Can I make an educated guess or
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an uneducated guess? You you tell me of where I where
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a human body could be, because I just want to stab it just in
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case. I mean you would assume the
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chest. OK, I can.
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Ask you also don't see a door like there isn't a visible
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cockpit. Oh, so it's a Leica situation?
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Yeah, but then how there is an opening which is the mouth
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because they were eating like other.
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So I will stab through the mouth then.
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OK, let's go. I guess.
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I don't even know what you would roll for that.
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I can do it. Really I can.
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Do a strike decisively give you a strike decisively.
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Let's see what happens Which. Is that again?
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Is that? Defy, that is, plus clash or
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plus talk. So in this case, clash.
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Yeah, and for the record, Cordelia understands how
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important this research is. She just really fucking hates
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this guy and does not want him to get what he wants.
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I got a 10. A10 All right, so you shove your
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sword down the throat of this thing and it immediately, like
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gargles, and the entire chest cavity collapses in on itself.
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It's safe now, Doctor. Doctor just looks at you,
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horrified. He's like we had one alive, you
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fool. Perfect.
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Bringing the board do. You notice how hard it is to get
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these things without damaging their cause.
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Can I pull the sword out? Is it covered in blood?
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Yeah, it is. There was a there was a person
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in in there. I have done a a duty to America
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and her people. And what if we could have gotten
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them out? Well, you know when they decided
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to jump in a fucking heap of metal and start attacking us?
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That was when their lives had started losing meaning.
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Yeah, I didn't bring rations for prisoners aboard the Foxcatcher.
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What are you talking about? The Cordelian Rex you also see
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that through the the limb like areas like blood is blood and
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oil are mixed together starting to seep out.
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Ace is reading the Hyperion manual and he's just like
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flipping through the page and he's just like, well, maybe I
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had something to deal with it when it was alive, but I think
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it's much better the way that it is.
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See, that is the three most important people in this whole
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area in a grill. And you know you came here today
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and started acting like a prick, so your like opinion is at the
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bottom of the rung. He he, he stands up straight and
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he looks like he was. You do not think I am one of the
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most important people in this entire military?
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Oh no, did I say the military said here on this base at this
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moment in time, Cordelia is my boss and then she thinks that me
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and Ace are great assets. That means we are one step below
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and then then you should go ahead.
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And bring in a board now. And then then the whole crew of
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the Foxcatcher is below that. And then there's you, right
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after the people who clean the shit out of the toilet, which
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may be ace at this moment in time.
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It will be ace actually. Yeah, assumed.
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Hang on before, before I'm on latrine duty, can I walk up to
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the zero and can I attempt to use all things great and small I
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or a combination of that and woodland whispers?
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I just want to see if there's any like fleeting signs of life
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in this 0. Roll me plus channel.
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Plus channel that is going to be a nine.
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A9 you sense so you'd remember that they are the there's the
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Arcane and the profane versions. This happened to be an Arcane 1.
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You sense that whatever was in this before, it was experiencing
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great pain and rage, but it is no longer alive, and it's not.
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I will pass that on to the group.
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So say I did a service. I put whatever was in there out
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of its misery and. And it has the United States of
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America to thank for that. Say, say, look, we're all being
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democratic and amazing and all those things you American people
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love to spout about. Doctor Schmidt looks at Ace and
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goes technically it was the UK that killed it.
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Hey, I do not fight for the UK at the moment.
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I have sworn my allegiance to Uncle Sam.
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And I do not fight for the Germans.
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I do not understand where this hate for me is coming from.
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You came in here. I was.
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In the 1940s and you have a German accent.
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What do you think is going to happen Doc?
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So does Einstein. Would you not trust him if he
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was here? Absolutely not.
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Then you would be a fool and you would not have your answers to
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begin with. I hear a German name and I'm on.
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I'm defensive. What?
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What else did? What else do you tell me?
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This is the type of people that they bring into the military.
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If they made people think, then I wouldn't be here right now.
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That is true and your. Job is not to think, it is to
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obey orders, and your orders are to do as I say.
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My orders. Are.
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Whatever Lieutenant Cunningham says, and she scares me more
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than you scare me so. Lieutenant Cunningham permission
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to fill his shoes with seawater. Absolutely.
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Can I? Can I put?
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Cordelia knows this is a terrible idea and that she is
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completely burning this bridge with this very important person
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and she is just riding so high on getting to pilot the divine
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she has so. Much, Lord, to give and.
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Her new power, friendship with Rex, she's just going to be an
18:52
enabler for a minute. And she doesn't even.
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Yeah. Is that plus divine by any?
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Channel plus channel, yeah. Bucket 15.
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Jesus Christ worth you ass with a + 3 channel is ridiculous.
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Yeah so you fill his boots and he looks at you and he goes.
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You do not understand what you are doing.
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I do. I asked for permission.
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I understand completely. When you start speaking to us
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with a little bit of respect, maybe I won't fill your shoes
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with fucking see what, but you come on this base and start
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acting like you're the fucking man.
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You're going to get taught that you're not.
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That's that's the way it's going to be.
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He he looks at Cordelia and he goes.
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I will be reporting to your supervisor.
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And he turns and walks away. Bitch.
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Cordelia has a moment of like, staring into the middle
19:47
distance, like, Oh, my actions do have consequences, don't
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they? Ace looks over at Cordelia and
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he's just like, right, well, there's a whole crew of people
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that didn't see anything happen. I.
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Don't know what you're talking about.
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Nothing happened and Ace looks over to Benji and the group.
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I mean, for all we know, we didn't even see the doctor so.
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We just seen a wiggling 0. We put it out of his misery and
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then he came over and started acting like a dickhead.
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That's that's the story we're going with.
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I appreciate that gentleman, but I I grew up with with my father
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and he always used to tell me, Cordelia, if you shit the bed,
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don't hide the poop and I. He's the one who was trying to
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hide the poop. He was trying to put an alarm 0.
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For all we know, he was trying to put the poop in the
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foxcatcher. I stand by our decision to
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eliminate the zero. I stand by it fully.
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I truly believe that what we did was the right thing for our
20:54
safety and for the safety of our crew.
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I was never going to jeopardize you or or anybody else like that
20:59
on the Foxcatcher with having such an unknown entity on board.
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But you know, perhaps the sea water of the shoes was taking it
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a step too far. And I will.
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Formally apologize, I won't lie to.
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You today this. Morning when?
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This morning when he introduced himself to me while I was
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pondering my new key from that random woman from the sky.
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Wait, wait. Wait, yeah, this is what you
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miss when you go out. You know what?
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When you follow squirrels into the into the fucking Woodlands
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and get captured, this is what happens.
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You miss really cool parts of law.
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OK, so get. Alone time with us from here on
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out. This, this is a unit.
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We're here for you and all of your emotions, all of them you
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experience enough emotions for for all of us, and that's OK.
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We're here for it. Even Rex is here for it.
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He's here to emotionally support you, aren't you?
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Yes. Great.
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Good job. All right, great.
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From here on out, I will never leave either of your site again,
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so long as I shall live. OK, OK, right.
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No, wait, wait, wait, wait. We need to make some injunctions
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here if I go. I already said what I said.
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It's locked in. It's locked in.
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Sorry about that, Rex. I'm just glad you 2 are getting
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close. I don't want to be close this
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this this this 5m distance in between us.
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That's close enough. But yes.
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I asked. As I was saying, I poured
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seawater on him this morning when he acted like a Dick head
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when I was pondering my new found key.
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Well, I don't know why he was surprised about the second round
22:47
of seawater then. Stupid.
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Either way, I will deal with the repercussions.
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It's on neither of you. This is my fault.
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I should not have publicly endorsed you filling the
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doctor's shoes with seawater. And I will apologize to him for
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me being callous and uncouth and all of these things that he'll
23:06
say regardless, let's let's get the zero loaded up now that it's
23:11
no longer a threat. And.
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The second problem, we have a second, Benji said.
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There was a second problem. Oh, Benji did say there was a
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second problem, didn't he? Yeah, Benji's just been standing
23:21
very quietly off to the side waiting for you guys to finish
23:23
your conversation. I was so distracted by the
23:25
thought of getting yelled at by by triple that I that I failed
23:31
to remember that I really am not a very good leader.
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Benji, please continue. Yeah, so we got a news report
23:39
just after the incident. We're not exactly sure what to
23:43
call it yet of all of the the the pilots going through
23:46
whatever. And he sort of looks at the
23:48
other two and goes whatever you guys experienced.
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Yeah, they. Just they dropped to the ground
23:53
in the fetal position. Ace cried a little bit.
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Rex stood up and pretended like nothing happened.
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It lacked dignity, but it was fine.
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I mean, you didn't need to include that last part, but
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sure. I'm, you know, Ace, if you shit
24:08
the bed, don't hide the poop. Carry on.
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So do you, do you remember what that that Lady that was here
24:16
said about where she was? Germany, I think.
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A whole town vanished. Oh.
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OK. Nobody's exactly sure where it
24:32
goes, but it was there and then a hole opened and it fell
24:36
through it and then it was gone. What did this hole look like,
24:40
Benji? I didn't see it, man.
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How do you how? How do you know this isn't just
24:47
German proper propaganda? Because it came over our own,
24:51
like Intel. Oh, OK.
24:52
And I'm assuming we've lost radio communications with with
24:55
the town itself? There's now Hanover, Germany.
24:57
Yes, ma'am. Hanover.
24:58
Oh, Hanover. That's quite, quite the town to
25:01
have completely disappeared, isn't it?
25:02
Yeah, it's pretty significant. Oh dear.
25:05
But it it it appears that that event sort of created a ripple
25:09
effect through the weave that affected pilots around the same
25:13
time. If not, you know, coming out
25:16
from it curious like a wave of some sort.
25:19
Very curious. Well, maybe our doctor friend
25:25
has some answers. But we don't think that it'll
25:28
affect anything else. No, you don't think it will
25:30
affect anything else? Well, I mean, Intel doesn't.
25:32
I mean, unless another town disappears, then we don't think
25:35
another thing will happen, you know what I mean?
25:36
Did we think a first town was going to disappear?
25:38
Benji No. Of course.
25:40
Not what with me and. I'm just reporting maybe.
25:43
I, I understand what you're going.
25:45
I apologize for being short with you.
25:46
This has just been a very overwhelming day.
25:49
I I think for all of us really an overwhelming series of days.
25:56
Hi. So when, when do we get Mai
25:59
Tais? When this is over, Rex, we can
26:03
all get Mai Tais. Oh wait, I've got my personal
26:06
beer collection to go and I'm. Sorry.
26:14
Y'all have your ice cream? I've got a Crater Lager over
26:18
there, so I'm going to go and come over and have a beer.
26:23
Give me a shout when you need me.
26:26
Will do. For the rest of the day, there's
26:30
really not a whole lot that happens if you guys want to just
26:32
sort of relax. I mean, this is still
26:34
technically the same day that the beach storming happened, so
26:37
it's been a very long day. Cordelia, I told you to say
26:41
antihistamines. Well, now I got to leave him in.
26:49
Literally I remember the last episode we recorded she started
26:53
sneezing just before we got in the divine.
26:55
I was like, have you not taken your antihistamine?
27:00
I imagine A sees another squirrel on the beach and
27:02
without thinking he just stabs it.
27:05
Oh no, Oh no, we've sent him the wrong.
27:08
No, never again. Oh God damn.
27:17
Yeah. So for the rest of the day, I
27:19
mean, if you guys have any downtime you want to do, you
27:21
can. Otherwise, we're just sort of
27:24
going to roll through to the next day.
27:26
Yeah, Cordelia just wants to kind of prep the crew for what's
27:30
coming next. Oh yeah, you should probably
27:32
tell them where you were. Yeah, she she's going to give up
27:35
a briefing, essentially, and she's also going to try and
27:40
prepare what she's going to say to triple when he inevitably
27:42
confronts her about her behavior.
27:45
Ace wants nothing more than to have everybody forget what
27:52
happened in the past 36 hours and move on to the next thing.
27:55
Every 30 minutes, if Cordelia does not have eyes on Ace as
27:58
well, she is pinging him on the radio and making it.
28:00
Oh I imagine, I imagine Ace is like fully following Cordelia
28:05
around. Yeah, that makes sense.
28:08
Like carrying carrying clipboards and all.
28:10
Rex has his feet up like like a cooler bear next to him, his
28:16
feet up, and anybody who comes and sit next to me goes.
28:18
Can you believe fucking Ace follows a squirrel and it's the
28:21
fucking middle of the woods? God, wait until fucking Gary
28:28
hears that one. Do you think I'll tell Gary?
28:32
At some point ace Doctor Schmidt does approach you again and goes
28:37
look, I do not understand why all they hate, but I am in
28:41
charge of ASTER maintenance and repair.
28:43
I would like to see Hyperion if possible.
28:46
Mr. Randolph. Yeah, all right.
28:48
Look, all things considered, Sure, sure.
28:53
And ACE finds, finds an open area and transforms into
28:58
Hyperion. Yeah, he, he sort of takes out
29:01
some like equipment and just even though it's a tree, it
29:06
still has all these mechanical bits and bobs in it.
29:08
It sort of plugs in and starts running diagnostics and shit and
29:10
goes, you do not need to be here if possible or if you can get
29:14
out. Otherwise you will just sit
29:16
there while I run these. It's up to you.
29:18
I mean, I, I guess I'll just sit here.
29:20
I don't know if I've ever been well.
29:24
Am I able to be separated from Hyperion?
29:26
Yeah, you've been out of it. You you were out of it on the
29:29
ship at one point when you first showed up.
29:30
You got out of it so the techs could run maintenance.
29:33
All right, Yeah, yeah, yeah. Then I think Ace will.
29:36
OK, here's here's the keys. I I guess radio me when, when
29:42
you're ready for me to collect it.
29:43
And Ace is going to run off and find Cordelia.
29:48
No, Cordelia is sitting there watching.
29:50
She wants to Great. She wants to see it.
29:53
Yeah, I mean it. It just there's a lot of techno
29:58
going on and he's talking with some of the techs on his team.
30:01
I don't know. Nothing untoward seems to be
30:03
happening. He's just running routine
30:05
diagnostics. Especially after Ace's incident
30:07
with the hard drive, he wants to make sure everything's up on the
30:09
up and up. Yeah, and she doesn't understand
30:12
any of it. Believe it or not, he's actually
30:14
trying to help you. No, I know, I know that as a
30:18
player, as a character, Cordelia, just Cordelia.
30:23
Just don't don't trust him. But I think it's also just
30:26
because of the way he came in swinging his Dick.
30:28
She feels like now she has to swing hers and she's doing it
30:31
and sort of a dipshit way. You know, she's a she's a new
30:35
leader and she feels like she has a lot to prove and she's not
30:38
necessarily always going to make the right calls.
30:41
And she knows that she hasn't necessarily made the right calls
30:44
when it comes to this guy. She should have been more
30:46
welcoming and more receptive, but she refuses to back down on
30:48
that now. And this is the hill that she
30:52
has decided to die on. So she's going to.
30:54
I think this is her attempt at an olive branch.
30:56
Without apologizing, she's just letting him go about his
31:01
business. The the Doctor sort of waves
31:05
over Ace and goes where were you stabbed?
31:09
Right, right here and Ace points to the area like in the hard
31:15
drive. I think he puts like a like a
31:18
thing that sort of magnetizes to your chest over the drive and
31:22
just starts reading some outputs and goes rough repair job.
31:26
You will need maintenance on this at some point.
31:29
What it seems to be holding steady, for now at least.
31:32
Like maintenance on me. Yes.
31:37
Sorry. So surgery.
31:41
Well, unless you know how to get to the hearts without going in
31:44
through the chest, then yes, but not right now.
31:47
You seem to be holding holding fine for the moment, but.
31:50
You know, as as comfortable as that makes me, I look, I, I just
31:55
work here, doctor Sir. So if if I need to, if I need to
32:00
go to Med Bay and I need to get routine maintenance done on
32:03
this, just just put it in my chart and I'll be wheeled off.
32:06
When we would not be able to work on this here in the field,
32:10
it would need to be a hospital backstate site at the very
32:13
least. OK, well just just put it in my
32:17
chart. That's whatever repairs
32:18
happened. What happened correctly to allow
32:21
you to get the Hyperion back? Yeah.
32:24
I sure don't know how that happened, but I guess 1 is.
32:29
Like glaring at him across the Bay.
32:32
Like say nothing. The weave is a mysterious thing,
32:37
Mr. Randolph. Mysterious indeed, Doctor
32:42
Schmidt. And he sort of unplugs from.
32:45
Everything goes OK. You may have the Hyperion back.
32:49
All right, And I think Ace jumps in and powers it down and
32:53
continues on holding Cordelia's clipboards.
32:57
Yeah, she just occasionally like passes him something.
33:02
It's it's like purely an ego thing at this point.
33:04
She like passes him a random item that she doesn't need, that
33:08
he doesn't need to be holding. And now he's.
33:09
Holding like off the. Dog.
33:11
Yeah, Ace is fully humbled. I imagine he's like holding the
33:15
hot dog like in front of Cordelia's mouth so she doesn't
33:17
even need to like reach out to bite it.
33:20
Wow, Ace is just a straight bitch.
33:21
Huh. I was going to say yeah wait
33:25
man. Man almost died once and changed
33:27
his whole life. We got to get this man his
33:29
confidence back at some point. He could have seen boobs but he
33:33
fucking blew that. Well, nobody fucking told me it.
33:38
Was intentional. You made it choice.
33:40
It's all right, honey. Women are complicated.
33:42
You'll understand them someday. She's lying.
33:45
Maybe never. So if there's nothing else at
33:56
this point, we'll go to the next morning.
33:59
How long did you guys plan on hanging around until you go back
34:02
to the Rebel base? Was it going to be the next day
34:03
or were you going? To hang I I was planning on the
34:05
next day. I'm just calling one of her.
34:07
Everything was good, yeah. OK, so before you leave, are you
34:11
going to tell anybody where you're going other than your
34:13
team or are you just going to go?
34:16
All brief tribble, I guess. Like we've discovered a rebel
34:21
encampment. We're investigating it.
34:24
They claim to have information that might be pertinent, but
34:27
I'll keep you updated as we learn more.
34:30
I want to verify information before I guarantee it.
34:34
Yeah, he he he's fine with that. I mean, he he he's leaving the
34:37
mission in your hands. You have your orders and he
34:40
trusts you to do as you need to do.
34:42
Cordelia, when you get back, we need to discuss your treatment
34:45
of Doctor Schmidt. He's a very high-ranking
34:50
scientist, worked in the Manhattan Project, and he
34:53
deserves some respect and he will be accompanying you on this
34:57
mission. Delightful.
34:59
I can't wait to have him. We'll absolutely have that
35:01
discussion once once we return, if we return.
35:06
I have confidence in you. I appreciate your confidence.
35:10
Will that be all, Sir? Yes, usually will.
35:14
Excellent. So you load everything, Are you
35:18
guys going to walk separate or you just going to ride in the
35:20
Foxcatcher? I feel like Rex would probably
35:24
be like patrolling just in case. Hyperion.
35:31
Yeah, I think. I think Hyperion will also be
35:34
doing the same. So you'll just walk along by, I
35:36
mean it's through a wood, so it's sort of your elements
35:38
anyways. Yeah.
35:41
And yeah, you get back to the rebel base and everybody's just
35:44
sort of going about their business waiting for you guys to
35:46
come back. And as you guys roll up was that
35:49
sort of runs out of the main office and looks up at
35:52
Foxcatcher and goes, holy shit, this thing is huge.
35:58
Yeah, they really didn't give us a budget.
36:03
Glad you guys are on our side because I don't know what the
36:05
hell we could do against this thing.
36:07
I've got a question. I've got a question.
36:09
How? How are you going to be with my
36:11
British humor? Because as soon as you say this,
36:14
I'm saying this above like to you like above.
36:17
For me. As soon as that guy says well
36:20
look at how huge it is, I walk over to Ace and go like in, in,
36:25
in the Hyperion and go. If I had a pound for every time
36:28
I had, I heard that I'd have £0. Period.
36:39
That's you up. Like both of you.
36:44
Yeah. So I imagine that's on like our
36:48
private comms channel. I imagine Cordelia.
36:51
Is that? Oh, I assumed you just said it
36:54
through the loud speakers. Yeah, it just came out of just
36:57
Divine's mouth. Oh, even better.
37:00
Lizette sort of gives you school like gives you guys a scolding
37:03
look and goes immature men. Finger finger guns.
37:11
Anyways, are you guys ready to learn what we've discovered?
37:15
Absolutely. That's why we're here.
37:16
Crazy. But as long as you still hold
37:19
me, I love you enough for the both of us.
37:22
Just lie to me. Tell me I'm everything you want.
37:27
Because honestly, I'd rather put up with the fraud than having to
37:32
do with the dated pain of knowing I'm here because she
37:36
didn't stay. Lie to me.
37:39
Just lie to me. Lie to me, Just lie to me.
38:00
You accept the love you think you deserve and not know you can
38:07
do better than her. You can do better than her.
38:16
Please don't go back to her. Just lie to me.
38:26
Tell me I'm everything you want, because honestly, I'd rather put
38:32
up with the front than having to do with the daily pain knowing
38:37
I'm here because she walked away.
38:39
Lie to me, Just lie to me. Just lie to me, to me.
38:46
I'm everything you want because honestly I'd rather put up with
38:52
the front than having to do with the daily pain of knowing I'm
38:56
here because she didn't stay. Lie to me.