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  Detective, it is fascinating to see you here, particularly as
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  this is a private event and I know you are on the list.
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  Do you know Ravenna? I think she's one of your
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  followers. I have so many followers, over 2
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  million when I last checked. I just want to find Ravenna
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  where it is. She works here and often gets
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  drunk, if you know what I mean. If I knew such a girl, what she
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  got up to in atrium would be up to her and not.
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  Me, can I go look for her? I'm not going for a Lauren
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  Cosman vibe tonight. I can't have you wandering
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  through and breaking the immersion.
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  There is a killer on the loose, Miss Boy.
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  I want to make sure the young lady is safe.
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  Her sister, her twin, she's worried sick.
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  Just need to check in with her. A twin I see.
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  A matched pair perhaps? I guess I could introduce you,
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  you know, so long as I know Ravenna's doing OK.
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  Very well, she should be upstairs in the VIP area doing
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  her job. Do not upset my guests.
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  Oh, I never aim to be an upset Mr. No, you never do.
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  Too late. I take it you're Ravenna, Miss
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  Verona's sister? So it seems donut detective,
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  same bone structure. That would be easier to tell if
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  I still had a head. Just so you know, I've imagined
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  you with a head because it makes conversing a lot easier.
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  Let's see now you're still warm and the blood isn't even
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  congealed. Yeah, you must have missed me
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  only by a moment or two. Sorry, I had places to be.
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  This guy is quiet, strong and sentless.
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  Isn't he, though? And he doesn't stay for the
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  torturing and the screaming. He's in and out set dressing the
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  space. It's real theatrical, ain't it?
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  But next time could he maybe use staged blood instead?
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  Killed right here on the spot I think.
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  It does look like it from my blood and my body temperature.
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  Such a shame. Used to think I was hot but now
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  cool and rapidly. Any other marks or wounds on
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  you? From the neck down, nothing.
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  Crying out for attention, saving the hole in my chest.
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  The head you got to take on faith.
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  But no, no other obvious marks. The most common wounds on
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  someone like me are closed with a lick.
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  That's true. Not the healthiest of past
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  times, as I guess. You found out you died in the
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  same way, right? Rebar in the heart and a bad
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  case of neck trouble. Sure, detective, just like the
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  others. A death for Kindred, but I
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  wasn't Kindred now. That's something.
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  This is a message to my kind, not yours.
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  So who were you really, Ravenna, other than Verona's twin?
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  And why did anyone want to kill you?
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  Look at me, detective. I'm mortal Cherf.
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  But I'm Blood Doll. You know they called me
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  Isabella's plaything. See the pattern yet?
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  Mean Pandora. Mortals who are tied to
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  vampires. A message from a hunter.
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  Maybe so, but why isn't he targeting the Kindred direct?
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  And how is he here now, 100 years after his first kills?
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  I don't know, but you'll catch. It for me, won't you?
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  Well, I'll try, although it won't improve your day.
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  Shit happens to us all. My sister will be happier at
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  least. Please.
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  Do Detective, My sister will be happy, at least detective quite
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  well. Sorry Miss Emerson, I lost my
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  thread there. What was that about your sister?
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  Let me give you some advice, fledgling.
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  You are young and you must learn.
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  There are two Princess. In this city, and you will give
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  them both deference for your sire's sake and to ensure your
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  own survival. Do you understand me?
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  Oh, I get it. Your Prince ship.
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  Honestly, I do. I cross my heart.
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  I'm listening. Sometimes I wonder what Gideon
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  saw in you. Then I have a conversation like
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  this and realize how similar you are.
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  I said my sister would be happy as she wished to speak to you.
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  What's this? Am I this evening's topic for
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  discussion? Not at all, dearest.
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  Merely discussing etiquette. Not about me.
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  Oh, well, that's time wasted. But it's so good to see you,
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  Detective. I hope you are here to enjoy
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  yourself and not on an official investigation.
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  A broken vase, a stolen innocence, A bloodless corpse.
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  Good evening, my other Prince. Oh.
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  Dear detective, you are a sparkling tonic and an evening
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  of toadies. I have something to discuss with
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  you as it happens, but please do circulate first.
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  Business can wait, after all this is a celebration.
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  I will see you both later. Oh and sister, I want to talk to
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  you about the car stairs matter. Will you have time this evening?
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  Tomorrow. I haven't forgotten.
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  Tomorrow would be better. Very.
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  Good. Now if you'll excuse me, I have
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  egos to massage, including my own.
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  So you 2 are sisters, but very different sisters.
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  Sisters in. Blood detective, not sisters.
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  In mortal terms, has your sire told you nothing?
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  Gideon is not the most direct of teachers.
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  He likes me to pursue my own inquiries.
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  You are on thin ice, Melkavian, as is your sire.
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  What are we celebrating again? Really, I am starting to wonder
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  why mulcaithians are. Permitted at our court.
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  It is New Year and a gathering at this time is considered
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  traditional. Of course.
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  Surprised you still celebrate though, given how many you've
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  seen. We like to keep up with the
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  times, but you look uncomfortable, Detective.
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  Have you somewhere else to be? I should circulate like Miss
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  Graham said. Oh, what a shame.
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  Do have a good evening, won't you?
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  I needed to catch up with everyone before I faced the
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  music. Well, well.
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  If it isn't our very own investigator, I suppose they'd
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  call you a Dick. But you're hardly private, am I
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  right? The king of Swank himself.
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  How's the upper crust? Oh, now, now, let's not talk of
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  kings among Princess. Hope you haven't eaten.
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  There'll be some rather keen party favors along shortly.
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  Excellent. Vintage, Good to talk to you.
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  Always an experience detective. Evening.
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  You're Isaac, right? Pleasant night.
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  Oh, am I in your place? My apologies.
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  Please pardon me. No, no, not at all.
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  It was you I wanted to talk to. Why?
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  It seems both our Princess are in a fine mood tonight.
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  Yes, they're in good spirits. Some believe it impossible for
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  two kindred to rule one domain. Indeed, I have found a precious
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  few instances of it being attempted before.
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  It is assumed they will destroy each other in a bid to claim
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  full power, but our Princess seem to be the exception.
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  They have not had a serious disagreement since March 2nd.
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  It was a dinner party. Lou suggested I be forced to
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  sire the beautiful wife of a politician who didn't laugh at
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  her joke. Rosalind thought it crass.
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  Excuse me, won't you? I'll be here,
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  Jared. Good to see you enjoying the
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  party. Yeah, having a while of a time.
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  You just missed me doing the Charleston.
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  Listen up court Soiree's ain't about cake and cookies.
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  Everyone has a role to. Play.
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  A foothold to gain or a score to sell.
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  But you and me, it's our job to stop trouble before it happens.
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  No one's above that, no matter who they are, God is.
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  So do a few rounds, bump gums, get to.
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  Normal. A little better.
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  Forewarned is forearmed. You never know.
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  He'll face tomorrow. Anything I should know?
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  Yeah, I got something. The cigarette girl color.
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  We knew the whole cross and rebar thing was familiar.
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  Now don't go spreading this around.
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  We don't want to start a panic, but doesn't this sound to you
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  like the work of Santiago? Who?
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  Ah, come on Fabian. He hit the mortal front pages
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  down in Frisco. Serial killer or hunter,
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  depending on where you stand. Ask Isaac the Nosferatu, he'll
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  fill you in. See you around.
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  Sure. Good evening to you both.
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  How are you finding the party my boy?
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  They haven't kicked you out bitch.
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  I guess is a good sign. You know, Sophia, of course
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  we've not actually met. I don't want to intrude.
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  Oh. Please do Fabian right.
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  You sent Gideon the puzzle. You are just as I imagined.
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  He has told me so much. I mean, not that we talk behind
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  your back or anything. Well, we do, but it's all good
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  things. So how are things, oh sire of
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  mine, Same old, same old, They saunter in so full of hope and
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  lose it at the table you did. Pick up on that fascinating man
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  the other day, the one with the numbers.
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  That's right, the numbers, man. I could tell he was working at
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  angle, fidgety fingers, you know, I went over, asked him.
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  Very likely those beans came spilling out.
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  He's some sort of math whiz brain full of digits flapping
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  around like butterflies. So we broke a few of his actual
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  digits and threw him out on his rear.
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  You you'd have liked him, I'm sure.
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  Is there anything I should you know, be aware of?
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  Actually, now you mention it, yes, a little more so for you,
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  our friend Hector. I noticed some tension around
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  the way he's holding his jaw. He's hiding something, a little.
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  Push and I could read enough to tell it was about a girl.
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  I've never known him to spend time on romance.
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  Interesting. Don't you think?
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  Good speaking to both of you. Chin up, my boy.
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  Don't let the high hats get away with anything.
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  We'll be here. I couldn't keep Lou waiting all
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  night time to head up to face her.
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  Mistress Lou, you had something you wanted to discuss.
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  Oh. Yes, the future detective, my
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  sister and I have plans and I'd like you to look into something
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  for us. I'll be honored, of course, to
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  help you both out. As you should be.
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  I'm new to this whole court business, as you know, but I'm
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  given to understand that there's a quid pro quo in these matters.
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  You mean to say you're not blindly obedient but need a
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  reward? How about a debt owed to you by
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  both myself and Rosalind? I would need something more
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  concrete than that. When I haven't even told you
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  what the task is yet. We can discuss details with my
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  sister later. Now if we can just.
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  One from the top, both little and figurative.
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  Our killer was out for the kindred of Seattle and I had a
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  feeling he was just getting started.
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  Well, rise and shine Sheriff. About time you clocked in.
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  See what the Prince has lined up for us tonight.
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  You have nothing to say about your memories.
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  Well, that was a line up of faces from 100 years back.
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  Something's pulling them out of my past.
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  Do I trust my own mind? I would not vouch for it.
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  I do think those things happen. But why we're both seeing them
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  and what bearing they have on our case, that is a puzzle I
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  can't answer right now. I guess we should head out.
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  About time. Surprise.
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  In my time, Nosferatu did not like to be seen.
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  Most hives are all shy and retiring, but I figure I bring
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  joy to the world. It's Christmas, everyone's too
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  wrapped up to even look around. A modern tragedy, am I right?
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  All the lonely people, mind you. It makes for easy pickings when
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  you're feeling the need. Get to the point.
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  Why are you here? Yeah, heard of Isabella Moore?
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  We met. Well, of course you did.
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  You tore your doors. Got to stick together, right?
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  I'm just glad you don't seem to share her vision.
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  Art must be excessive. Art must provoke.
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  Art must live perilously close to railing the masquerade into
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  orgasmic oblivion. Anyway, she has a nightclub
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  atrium. There's blood on the snow
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  outside and the doors are locked.
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  The cop bands are all stirred up.
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  I'm kind of tied up with a thing.
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  Do me a sheriffy favor. Throw on your glad rag.
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  Slip into the party, see what's what.
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  I will visit this atrium. A cut to the chase kind of
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  sheriff. That's handy.
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  Take it from a self-serving rat like me.
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  You're doing OK so far. Rian loves you baby, but don't
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  get any ideas. She might be new to this Prince
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  thing, but the kids swinging the hammer right now don't piss her
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  off. There's just something.
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  So into about this time of night, don't you?
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  Jesus H Christ on a cross. Does it strike you as funny
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  dreaming about Miss Moore's club only to be sent there?
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  It all connects in the end. Chain link.
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  To chain link holy. Evening, friend.
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  Afraid there's no fun to be found here.
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  Back of the line. Maybe it'll open up later.
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  Officer McMillan, 3 kids, Wife has a bad leg.
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  Officer McMillan, good to see you again.
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  How is your dear wife? Hey there.
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  She's good. Thank you.
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  But if you know Abigail, you know she'd tell you to run along
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  home. Strong Drink is a mocker.
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  Yeah, that's Abigail. Place is locked up tight.
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  No one's answering. Sorry to spoil your night,
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  friend, but I'd find your party elsewhere.
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  So much for sweet talking. It's a big building.
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  There'll be another way inside. Blood on the snow.
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  If I had to guess, maybe you could scramble up look for a
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  window. A masterpiece, huh?
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  That smells invisible. I will.
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  Be. He's blood.
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  No, no, no, so much blood but not all fresh
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  by the tank. None.
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  Wait on us are high.
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  Thumbs from the steel carve nicely.
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  Done no more to the. Cry of silence no more to the
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  hiding and the Craven bow. Sit on Thrones made of gold and
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  wonder at the incandescent and you become Come
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  To you who are the source? To you who I spent the water of
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  life flowed onwards to the fountain.
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  Such fragile ephemera icicles on the ground.
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  One was sacrifice, A dedication. I am beauty and I will be heard.
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  My art is my song. I've used it to last me the
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  ages. I have seen lascal in the fall
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  of a world congealed. I have wallowed in the me joy
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  and seen the dawn we could walk through when our works are
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  revealed. Drops the ball and look at a
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  scar and each throngs with a steeled heart.
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  No more bindings, no more. Such fragile if they were of
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  icicles on the tunnel, a sacrament of the flesh to run.
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  Now this is more like Isabella. And each thrums with a steeled
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  heart. No more by you.
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  Well, hey there, hope you're not looking for a bite to eat.
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  Pretty as you are. I'm afraid I'll have to ask you
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  to find another vein tonight. I'm a little short.
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  A little short, she's nearly empty.
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  Where is the entrance to the club?
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  Now why would you want to go in there?
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  You got pure intentions. Because I'll die.
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  Before I betray my Bella. I am here to see Isabella.
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  She and I are old friends. Oh.
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  Makes sense she'd have. Beautiful.
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  Friends. And who are you to her?
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  Wait, wait, don't we know her? I'm Victorine.
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  I'm Lizzie Siddle. I'm Filia.
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  Floating in the river of Blood. I am.
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  Her muse. You are her food.
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  Well, I guess you could just call me Verona, but you'll see.
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  Oh, she'll paint me. Eternally beautiful, her art.
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  It'll save me, wash my sins. Away.
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  Oh my, it is her poor kid. You are dying.
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  You need help. You are awful sweet for Karen,
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  but I give myself willingly. I'd die for her 100 times over
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  if I could because I live forever in her art.
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  She paints salvation and our screams are our prayers.
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  She'll take us to heaven, and her work will open the door for
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  us all. That's our clue.
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  It's her work. The entrance has something to do
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  with her work. She gonna pin me up against the
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  wall like the masterpiece I am. I can't.
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  Wait, you're the art appreciator?
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  Got any notion? Oh, Verona went down the same
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  route as her sister. I guess it's one way to grieve.
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  This gift, this giving, this heart is
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  mine. Can I give this heart to you, my
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  people? So jump touching jump, and
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  emerge as poetry of the blue Hut.
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  To you, my docile Lambs, my unflinching acolytes.
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  Drains the dregs. I've seen this get up before.
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  This is one of Isabella's blood dolls.
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  The willing victim. The water of life flowed onwards
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  to the fountain. Such fragile ephemera, icicles
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  on the tongue, a sacrament of the flesh to rise us upwards.
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  That first painting it had your symbol that got anything to do
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  with it. We give a view.
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  Because it is required. Great art for our wireless
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  sacrifice. A dedication.
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  I am beauty and I will be heard. Feel that breeze.
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  Oh sure, what's wrong I feel. Fire, fire.
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  You all right? She has done something to me.
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  She knew you were coming. She practically brought us here
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  to SAP your power. And what incarnation?
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  This level of control the ghouls blood dolls.
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  Even me, yeah. It's a goddamn cult.
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  Jonestown tools, toys to be used and discarded at her pleasure.
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  We got to stop this. crime of science, No more to the
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  hiding. And the train of your bodies
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  because? Little plane, you have made this
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  such a collaboration. How wonderfully destructive of
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  you. But all art is violence without
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  the right canvas. Is our work matter civil?
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  It makes a statement. And what a statement it is.
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  I knew when we first met you would understand.
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  Being of the same sublime blood, he.
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  Does like the sound of her own voice.
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  You know this, Mark. You used it to weaken me.
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  Tell me what it is. A child's doodle.
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  Unimaginative and inelegant, The work of lesser hands.
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  Think of it as a harness designed to constrain and
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  control. I won't deny that leashing you
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  is pleasant. The drained mortals, the bloody
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  gutters. Why are you doing this?
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  I serve the fountain that will slick the streets of the mundane
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  from its waters shall spring an end from the end, a beginning.
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  The end of what? Why the masquerade ushering
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  forth the bold new dawn of shamelessness?
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  You invited me here to witness this.
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  Why make me your audience? Don't think so little of
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  yourself, Nomad. You are a participant, A
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  misplaced fragment of the greater art.
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  What are you talking about? Don't you fret, you will be put
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  in your proper place. Stop playing futile games.
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  We've put off our love match long enough.
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  I will have straight answers from you.
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  And what can you give me for them?
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  I've told you before, Fire art always takes.
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  This is more than you alone. Who is behind this?
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  It's in her eyes she's done in Italian.
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  All artists desire to be seen, to be understood.
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  That is what their work is. Amuse guides you and you want to
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  tell me. Very good.
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  You continue to impress. My answer should be no surprise.
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  You've spent centuries running a frightened rabbit before the
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  Sword of Cain. Sabbath monsters, A death cult.
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  So simplistic. I will destroy you, Isabella,
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  and when I find your pack, I will destroy them as well.
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  No mercy. I should hope not Now.
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  Run rabbit. Run rabbit.
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  Run, run, run. Mark, tell me how to get rid of
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  it. Little flame.
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  Fire. This is her power.
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  Don't listen. Love me
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  Ah, fire everything under wraps. How's Isabella holding up?
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  She was too far gone. I found her glorying in her
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  narcissism. She was puppeting her crowd,
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  draining them her lake of blood to bathe in.
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  She had no intent to preserve the masquerade, quite the
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  opposite in fact. So I took her head.
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  Well shit, she always was one match away from an exploding
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  cigar. There's going to be fall out
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  Tully, the PD. On it going to be tricky without
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  our backroom buddy, but I'll get it done.
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  But Tully's right, she was a problem.
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  It's past time with trim the fat.
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  Call it restructuring. Either way, it makes things
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  easier. Well done.
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  Sheriff, I'll make sure you're compensated.
• 48:26
  I am not finished with my report, Isabella.
• 48:30
  She claimed to be Sabat, a member of the Sword of Cain.
• 48:35
  I assume you know of whom I speak.
• 48:38
  Cultists, Diablerists. The ancient blight.
• 48:42
  In the name of Cain, they would expose us, ruin us, run us out,
• 48:46
  or worse. No Princeton is safe.
• 48:49
  Even a stable Seattle would fall to their chaos.
• 48:53
  Cutie, you'd look great in a tinfoil hat, but I smell either
• 48:56
  batshit or bullshit. Tolly, I apologize for him.
• 49:02
  Fire, please continue. That is not all my mark.
• 49:11
  She knew it. She used it somehow to weaken
• 49:16
  me. Listen, demolition Derby?
• 49:18
  That's not the sort of thing you should throw around, Capiche.
• 49:22
  A sheriff with a kill switch is not a useful sheriff.
• 49:27
  Tully. Look Prince, with all genuine
• 49:30
  respect, you had 100 problems, now you have 99 because thanks
• 49:36
  to the nomad over here, Atori ain't one.
• 49:40
  But so bats in the belfry, let's not invent ourselves a whole new
• 49:44
  To Do List. I hear you.
• 49:47
  But we stay in business by dotting our IS and crossing our
• 49:50
  T's fire. Look into this.
• 49:53
  I'll let Sofia know. Tolly, just try to be helpful.
• 49:58
  This meeting's adjourned. Music.
• 51:29
  Well, if it isn't my favorite neck snapper, note I am not
• 51:33
  wearing a protective collar, but that's only because I saved that
• 51:36
  for my intimate friends. You need something.
• 51:43
  Actually, no, This is me giving you a gift horse straight in the
• 51:47
  mouth. So listen up.
• 51:50
  Courts got secrets. All sorts of secrets.
• 51:54
  Territories, favors, contracts, obscure cult bullshit, years and
• 51:59
  years of that good stuff. We don't write it down.
• 52:02
  That would just be plain dumb. Almost as dumb as to stuff it
• 52:07
  all into the head of a savant bookkeeper, but, well, that's
• 52:11
  what they did. What are you talking about?
• 52:16
  See, there's this hive name of Willem Quartz, Secret keeper for
• 52:21
  obvious reasons. He knows stuff.
• 52:24
  I was thinking he might have some hint about your mark buried
• 52:27
  away in his megadome. Where will I find this Willem?
• 52:32
  Last I heard he was in the parking garage.
• 52:35
  It's where he goes when he's sucking advance warning.
• 52:38
  It's kind of rank, but I guess it's perfect for a Nosferatu
• 52:41
  who's ashamed to let his freak flag fly.
• 52:45
  My thanks. Hey, got to be both a taker and
• 52:48
  a giver and a solid relationship, am I right
• 52:50
  sweetie? Shit, help me out.
• 54:42
  Nasty business down at the atrium.
• 54:45
  I knew Isabella's ego would land her in hot water.
• 54:49
  I require your help to recover my strength.
• 54:52
  I see it is somewhat of an imposition, but needs must.
• 55:31
  I assume you know how this works, but just so we're on the
• 55:34
  same page, drinking my clan's blood will give your.
• 55:38
  Brain a lovely jolt and help to reawaken your dormant powers I
• 55:44
  will offer you. Some of mine in a martini glass.
• 55:48
  Will there be an olive garnish? Naturally, what do you take me
• 55:52
  for? Hope that was of some use to
• 56:00
  you. Later, perhaps?
• 57:18
  Then you're not finding that Lapras papers
• 58:13
  Stop. Yeah, let's go.
• 1:00:47
  None. We need the more of the light.
• 1:02:59
  clowns here. Still, doesn't hurt to check.
• 1:03:08
  These switches look familiar. Can't place why don't reckon the
• 1:03:13
  normal part of the parking lot. Yeah, looks like no one's home.
• 1:03:51
  There must be something here. Make a detective out of you yet?
• 1:03:57
  So he's a bagger? Doesn't just drink from the
• 1:04:02
  bean? Looks like he sends ghouls to
• 1:04:03
  make pickups. Wake the dead Cafe.
• 1:04:08
  I tried to bluff bag once. Not my thing.
• 1:04:10
  Week old chilled BBQ sauce mixed with ashes.
• 1:04:50
  Watch your back. Jesus
• 1:06:55
  Christ. Keep your eyes peeled for
• 1:07:04
  Willem's Ghoul. Maybe you can shake an address
• 1:07:18
  Them fire you're here. I did we agree to meet.
• 1:07:22
  I wasn't expecting. I mean, it's nice to see you, of
• 1:07:25
  course. You like this place enough to
• 1:07:33
  linger? Would it be a surprise if I feel
• 1:07:36
  the same? I'm so glad you like it.
• 1:07:39
  I mean, I come here all the time.
• 1:07:42
  Missus Thorne. She she gets tired of me, the
• 1:07:46
  cup goes on, the coast are not beside it and so on.
• 1:07:50
  I was waiting for someone, a ghoul, but it seems I've been
• 1:07:55
  stood up. Have you seen anyone?
• 1:07:57
  They serve in Nosferatu. His name is Willem.
• 1:08:05
  Willem, you say? Consider me intrigued.
• 1:08:09
  You are. Of course, for what purpose were
• 1:08:14
  you hoping to meet this school? Oh well, Willem is a troubled
• 1:08:22
  soul. He can't hunt, or at least he
• 1:08:26
  refuses to. So you bring him blood?
• 1:08:30
  Yes, we may be what we are, but that doesn't mean we can't, you
• 1:08:37
  know, be better or try or nobody should be alone.
• 1:08:46
  I still remember how it felt to care for others.
• 1:08:49
  That you remember it still, I commend you.
• 1:08:53
  I knew it. I knew you'd understand.
• 1:08:56
  Do you know where William is now?
• 1:08:59
  That's kind of the problem. No one's heard from him, which
• 1:09:03
  isn't so unusual. But his goal hasn't picked up
• 1:09:06
  the package, and I guess I'd hoped William might show.
• 1:09:10
  His haven was swarming with Anarchs.
• 1:09:13
  Your Willem was nowhere to be found.
• 1:09:16
  No, no, no. He's not like the others.
• 1:09:19
  He was never cut out for this. He must be so scared.
• 1:09:26
  Promise me he'll protect him. Please.
• 1:09:29
  I mean, I mean, if you would be so gracious.
• 1:09:36
  I have no need of him, only what he knows.
• 1:09:40
  Willem's welfare is his own responsibility.
• 1:09:44
  Of course I. Shouldn't have presumed it's
• 1:09:48
  only that I don't want to see him hurt.
• 1:09:51
  Can you give me any clue to his whereabouts?
• 1:09:55
  Willem won't be found unless he wants to be.
• 1:09:58
  I usually only ever meet his goals.
• 1:10:00
  But wait, the last one. Dust.
• 1:10:06
  There was dust on her jacket and a smell like, like industry,
• 1:10:12
  like chemicals, like I knew I recognized it.
• 1:10:17
  The old plastic factory in the warehouse district.
• 1:10:21
  It's unpleasant. I tried to avoid it.
• 1:10:24
  Then that is where I will go. Thank you, Mike, Thank you Fire
• 1:10:31
  and please go easy on him. William is not strong.
• 1:10:40
  So his goal never made it. That's not good.
• 1:10:44
  We should get to the factory, check it out.
• 1:10:46
  Make. A little bird tells me you dealt
• 1:10:49
  with that revolting business down at the Atrium.
• 1:10:53
  Isabella's so-called art always was rather tasteless, not a
• 1:10:57
  floral insight. I would like some more of your
• 1:11:01
  help. Our sheriff needs my aid.
• 1:11:05
  Who am I to demur? Ready for another sip?
• 1:11:43
  Drink it before it cools. I wonder how the flavour of the
• 1:11:51
  tea was impacted. Perhaps we will speak again
• 1:11:55
  soon. I.
• 1:13:20
  Fear not. The darkness.
• 1:13:21
  I am pure. Oh, these
• 1:15:20
  Oh, these deadbeats look familiar.
• 1:15:22
  It reminds me of the words you fought at Isabella's place.
• 1:15:27
  You could be right. over here.
• 1:17:10
  doing? A noble.
• 1:18:03
  Hide them from me? Nothing.
• 1:18:29
  Our time is almost They're here for Willow.
• 1:19:52
  Best take care inside. All those hard cases outside and
• 1:20:09
  none here. Something's up.
• 1:20:49
  Well, this is about as tiny as my office.
• 1:21:15
  I heard it way back. It's you, the nomad.
• 1:22:25
  William, I take it you had some interesting guests outside
• 1:22:30
  expecting trouble. That depends.
• 1:22:33
  Why, why, why are you here? Polly tells me you keep the
• 1:22:37
  court secrets and it's histories.
• 1:22:40
  Another kindred by the name of Isabella used this mark to SAP
• 1:22:43
  my power. Do you know anything about it?
• 1:22:47
  No, no, no, no, no, no. All I had to do was keep my head
• 1:22:50
  down for just a few more nights. There's a Peck of guilt.
• 1:22:58
  Is everything all right, William?
• 1:23:01
  Why would you even ask me something like that?
• 1:23:03
  Even my heartbeat once something troubles you and I would know
• 1:23:08
  what it is I. Did say that you would be kind?
• 1:23:12
  Why did you have to be kind? Now I have to do what he told
• 1:23:16
  me. Oh well, now some kind of what?
• 1:23:38
  Teleportation? Nosferatu don't have that power.
• 1:23:42
  How? But more critically, why?
• 1:23:46
  Just what is he hiding? Willem knows something.
• 1:23:52
  He made the mark bleed. He knows how to use it against
• 1:23:57
  me. We have to find him.
• 1:24:18
  Everyone will kneel for us. Hi, What entire nation?
• 1:24:30
  An illusion. I will die for my master.
• 1:24:44
  We will no longer need to hide the day and night.
• 1:24:49
  What's that? And I resist.
• 1:24:57
  Soon, none of this will matter. was that?
• 1:25:15
  Will not resist. We'll take this city
• 1:27:08
  found his willing. Hey, got a situation?
• 1:29:10
  Yeah. And no man with all legs
• 1:29:17
  everything you're asking, just a few.
• 1:29:51
  There she is. She is what she's not.
• 1:30:01
  I'm sorry. It's going to be enough late.
• 1:30:32
  to be enough. I'm sorry,
• 1:32:24
  I'm sorry, I'm sorry it's. None.
• 1:33:49
  Oh, so there's 172 Cam force 180, That's all.
• 1:33:56
  Yeah, I That's a suicide vest.
• 1:34:49
  A bomb. Connected to the phone.
• 1:34:53
  You, you woke up, but how? I had you under eye, It doesn't
• 1:35:00
  matter. Nothing matters.
• 1:35:02
  Talking down now fast. Willem, listen, I can help you,
• 1:35:11
  but I need you to calm down. Then we can talk Kindred to
• 1:35:16
  Kindred. Oh, I want to so bad.
• 1:35:19
  I want to so bad, but it's not up to me.
• 1:35:26
  They said I could see my family again.
• 1:35:29
  They said if I cut off the court, if I took away that
• 1:35:34
  little black book, all their secrets people caused the chaos.
• 1:35:38
  He needed to strike and not be free.
• 1:35:42
  Who is this he the? Malkavian, the Gardener, the.
• 1:35:51
  Gardener. But now you got the truth.
• 1:35:56
  You know what that means, right? You're losing him.
• 1:36:07
  There is no easy way to say this, this gardener.
• 1:36:11
  Sold you a lie. Your family will not want to see
• 1:36:15
  you if they even still live. You are not the man they knew.
• 1:36:18
  To them you are a monster. Find some other dream to cling
• 1:36:22
  to, but do not destroy yourself for another's game.
• 1:36:26
  You don't understand, They're listening.
• 1:36:33
  He was on a call the whole time. Well.
• 1:36:37
  Then. I don't know what to do.
• 1:36:40
  Tell me what to do. Oh no.
• 1:36:56
  Shit, he's going to. I wonder if if I made it there
• 1:37:05
  could be a worse afterlife. I kind of like the flowers,
• 1:37:09
  ambrosies and tears that crave those lip lips.
• 1:37:16
  I'd like it more without the existing tenant.
• 1:37:19
  A spit of solace for the heart. I know you now, you're the
• 1:37:25
  gardener. Willems Balls.
• 1:37:28
  You must must bring the. Elder to thee we must meet, and
• 1:37:34
  we must meet and we must kiss. I have such a.
• 1:37:41
  Quenching for their desiccation. Oh, I get it.
• 1:37:46
  You have the hots for fire. You want me to introduce you?
• 1:37:49
  Is that right? Such a draft of Essence.
• 1:37:53
  For their drought. Oh look, can we just talk
• 1:37:57
  straight fella? I need a blast.
• 1:38:02
  You blew up Willem and you don't have a plan.
• 1:38:04
  I need a plan. I need a plan.
• 1:38:18
  Multitude. Not an idea, not an excuse, not
• 1:38:21
  a series of threats. A plan this piece of shit.
• 1:38:27
  Is running rings around you one man?
• 1:38:30
  He's killing mortals, boss. Just mortals, that's all.
• 1:38:33
  No, that's not all. He is leaving us messages, each
• 1:38:37
  one crafted to mark us, to remind us of our failures.
• 1:38:42
  Mark my words, this will not stop with mortals.
• 1:38:45
  Well, what have you got? Fabian's been looking into it
• 1:38:49
  and. Well, Chief, I've been piercing
• 1:38:58
  together old cases and new. Santiago was active here in
• 1:39:02
  Seattle in the 1920s and a couple of decades before that in
• 1:39:07
  New Orleans, in LA. So how can he be here?
• 1:39:12
  He'd be an old, old man by now. Your conclusion?
• 1:39:19
  Well, even if he'd killed in the cradle, he'd still be more than
• 1:39:22
  100 now. Not the same guy.
• 1:39:25
  Got to be a copycat and someone who really knows our history.
• 1:39:29
  I'm great. This cannot be the original
• 1:39:32
  killer. So who is it and what are they
• 1:39:35
  trying to do? Well chief, these killings keep
• 1:39:44
  slapping me right in the memory. First one reminded me of Marla,
• 1:39:49
  if you remember her, Rosalind's ghoul.
• 1:39:51
  The second threw me right back to Miss Rosalind herself.
• 1:39:55
  So what gives? Coincidence or am I meant to
• 1:39:58
  remember? You think this is some?
• 1:40:00
  Sort of show just for you. Maybe these memories aren't
• 1:40:10
  meant for me. Maybe someone else who was
• 1:40:14
  there. Fletcher, Miss Louie, even
• 1:40:16
  yourself, I guess maybe just now one of us is thinking, oh God
• 1:40:21
  damn, I was hoping that was gone and forgotten.
• 1:40:24
  So I'm looking for a. Plan.
• 1:40:25
  Not wild theories. You call yourself a goddamn
• 1:40:28
  detective. Find me.
• 1:40:29
  Proof, or preferably. The corpse of a killer, so.
• 1:40:35
  Knock, knock. What?
• 1:40:38
  Don't want to cause you any trouble, my Prince.
• 1:40:40
  Detective. I was looking for the sheriff
• 1:40:42
  here. Well, spit it out you mongrel.
• 1:40:46
  Just thought you should know, Sheriff, we got another one.
• 1:40:50
  Another. Murder, Sheriff, another murder
• 1:40:53
  on your watch while you chase your tail, Tolly details now,
• 1:40:58
  Little apartment just off Pioneer Square where it's gone
• 1:41:01
  out to the PD already, would you believe?
• 1:41:04
  Well, Sheriff. Fuck.
• 1:41:07
  I'll do with the PD. Fabian, get down there.
• 1:41:11
  Take a look. Sheriff Benny knew best, of
• 1:41:14
  course. I should head straight down to
• 1:41:17
  Pioneer Square and not dawdle and say chat to Sophia to see if
• 1:41:22
  she'd heard anything. I figured Sophia would be.
• 1:41:41
  I figured Sophia would be in. Hey there, how's my favorite
• 1:42:30
  forensic department? Fabian, it's been forever.
• 1:42:34
  What can I do for you? It pains me to say this, but
• 1:42:40
  we've had another killing. No.
• 1:42:43
  Who? Where?
• 1:42:45
  Don't know yet, just on my way to the scene.
• 1:42:47
  Figured I'd check in see if you'd heard anything.
• 1:42:50
  I haven't, no. But you think this is Santiago?
• 1:42:53
  By the way, Tolly was smirking. I reckon so.
• 1:42:58
  I don't get it. This is like the 20s all over
• 1:43:01
  again. The old 20s I mean.
• 1:43:04
  I know. I keep getting flashbacks to
• 1:43:07
  what happened then. Marla, Rosalind Santiago.
• 1:43:12
  The killer with the cross. You've shut that case, though.
• 1:43:15
  You told me there were no leads. Will you reopen it?
• 1:43:19
  I think someone's done that for me.
• 1:43:22
  I'd better get down to Pioneer Square.
• 1:43:24
  I'll see you later. If there's anything I can do,
• 1:43:27
  well, come see me, Fabian. I will.
• 1:43:37
  There was a case waiting for me at Pioneer Square.
• 1:44:07
  Off to Pioneer Square. The address I had was in a set
• 1:44:44
  of down at heel apartments, hardly ever used.
• 1:44:47
  My buddy Reggie was a fixture of the square and I often dropped
• 1:44:50
  by for a little pick me up. I wondered if he'd seen any
• 1:44:54
  comings and goings. This place, more rebar, huh?
• 1:45:23
  You aren't looking too well there, buddy.
• 1:45:28
  Dale was one of those guys, you know.
• 1:45:31
  You've just seen him around. Talk to him a few times, maybe
• 1:45:35
  exchange the latest gossip. Hit a body or two together.
• 1:45:39
  Dale, I'd say it's good to see you.
• 1:45:41
  But you know, you being dead and all, and a figment of my
• 1:45:45
  imagination. Guess it means I don't find you
• 1:45:48
  at your most scintillating. Oh, hi, Fabian.
• 1:45:53
  Been a while. Yeah, I've been better, though I
• 1:45:56
  never looked exactly healthy, did I?
• 1:46:03
  Obvious question I guess, but how did it happen?
• 1:46:07
  I'd say my throat was cut and then I must have been dragged up
• 1:46:11
  onto this rebar. Someone rammed it through my rib
• 1:46:14
  cage and then hung up a cross like decoration.
• 1:46:17
  Like the star in a frat boy Christmas tree.
• 1:46:21
  Strong guy then, right? I mean, to hold you up there,
• 1:46:24
  force iron through you. This looks more and more like
• 1:46:28
  Kindred. Mortals just don't have this
• 1:46:30
  kind of strength. Sounds right to me.
• 1:46:36
  You were a ghoul, right? I'm pretty sure of that.
• 1:46:40
  So who was your patron? Your dummy thingy?
• 1:46:44
  Who'd I drink? From you mean?
• 1:46:47
  It's hard to say. I don't think I ever told you,
• 1:46:50
  Detective. Don't think you ever did.
• 1:46:54
  Maybe a person of interest for your case.
• 1:46:57
  Yeah, yeah, maybe. So.
• 1:46:59
  Did you know the killer? You know.
• 1:47:03
  What I think I did at least no sign of a struggle and the door
• 1:47:09
  locks still hold. Must have been someone I knew or
• 1:47:13
  at least expected customer. Maybe.
• 1:47:18
  How is the alchemy trade going for you?
• 1:47:21
  Hard to say, isn't it, Detective?
• 1:47:23
  I've still got the makings of Alka cookery around the place.
• 1:47:27
  Still got that accurate Tang at the back of your throat, same as
• 1:47:30
  you always smelled in here. A note of butane and a cheap
• 1:47:35
  body spray. So yeah, looks like business as
• 1:47:39
  usual. I have helped you figure out one
• 1:47:42
  thing, Detective. There was a reason I was killed,
• 1:47:45
  right? Sure, someone's sending a
• 1:47:48
  message like the others. That and I was probably killed
• 1:47:52
  by someone I knew, so who my patron was is important.
• 1:47:57
  One way or another. You got that right, little
• 1:48:00
  buddy. Thanks Dale.
• 1:48:02
  Sorry about, you know, the whole strung up on a sport beam thing.
• 1:48:06
  I know a guy who founded a whole religion like this.
• 1:48:10
  You never know. Maybe someone will write the
• 1:48:13
  book at Dale. Dale did like to cook, as the
• 1:48:23
  youth seem to call it. Made some of his own recipes
• 1:48:26
  bought in others. Yeah, I didn't see.
• 1:48:30
  I figured I needed my strength for other things.
• 1:48:37
  Me and animals. We'd always had a special
• 1:48:40
  rapport. Hey there, little buddy.
• 1:48:42
  How's your night going? Did you see who killed Dale?
• 1:48:54
  Sorry. Sorry.
• 1:48:55
  Hard to see anything if you don't have a pulse.
• 1:48:57
  Unless you're me, of course. Give me some wisdom, little cat.
• 1:49:01
  Buddy. Really.
• 1:49:05
  I'll have to remember that. How long you been lying here?
• 1:49:14
  That's what I thought. I'm sorry buddy, he didn't
• 1:49:17
  deserve you. Any clues for me?
• 1:49:20
  I'm kind of stumped. Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow.
• 1:49:26
  Well, that is illuminating. Someone forget to feed you?
• 1:49:31
  Sorry about that. Yeah, that's true.
• 1:49:38
  The hell did have his habits? Guess sometimes he let the real
• 1:49:41
  world pass him by. See you on the other side,
• 1:49:44
  little buddy. If folks like me get other
• 1:49:47
  sides, which I doubt, maybe Dale used it to scope out
• 1:50:03
  heavenly bodies. Lotions and potions.
• 1:50:07
  Most I recognized, but one stood out.
• 1:50:10
  I had never seen it before and I thought I was down with the
• 1:50:13
  street trade. It was a Dale whipped up a new
• 1:50:15
  cocktail. I was out of my league here.
• 1:50:18
  Maybe worth a chat with Sophia or Misses Thorne.
• 1:50:21
  I got the fascination with spirit boards but always
• 1:50:24
  wondered what if the ghost never learned to write?
• 1:50:27
  Either Dale was paranoid or he had guests who didn't like
• 1:50:30
  sunlight. I was guessing the former.
• 1:50:33
  If you could say one thing for the man, it's that he had an
• 1:50:35
  eclectic taste in clothes. Estrogen.
• 1:50:38
  Caution do not take if male. Well, what Dale wanted to put in
• 1:50:42
  his own body was entirely his own business.
• 1:50:49
  Reggie. Let my voice be your sanctuary,
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  dear listener. Thank you for all the mysteries,
• 1:51:13
  Seattle. I don't freeze to death.
• 1:51:24
  Reginald my friend, hope you're not too chilly.
• 1:51:27
  Always gentle, always calm, the world flows like a stream
• 1:51:32
  through the forest. Reggie, old buddy.
• 1:51:38
  Anyone going to that apartment over there in the last few
• 1:51:40
  hours? Well, I kind, I kind of, I'm, I
• 1:51:46
  mean. You OK, Reggie?
• 1:51:51
  I. This was not normal, even for
• 1:51:57
  Reggie. Might I take a little nip?
• 1:52:02
  Sharing is the route to Nirvana. That's.
• 1:52:13
  Mighty generous of you. I do feel warmer.
• 1:52:18
  You sure you didn't see anything?
• 1:52:21
  Well, I thought I saw I no. Something was not on his mind,
• 1:52:29
  that was clear. I got places to go, people to
• 1:52:34
  see. May the night bring you the best
• 1:52:38
  of vibes. Reggie was never the sharpest
• 1:52:42
  tool in the shed, but something had made him even worse than
• 1:52:45
  usual. I thought about it, but it
• 1:52:54
  seemed like a really bad move. Nope, I didn't think that would
• 1:52:58
  help. Let's see what's going on in
• 1:53:01
  here. I know.
• 1:53:10
  I saw it. It was.
• 1:53:13
  It was. That's a solid block.
• 1:53:16
  Reggie, my friend, someone has put a compulsion on you.
• 1:53:21
  Now that wasn't memory loss. That was a solid block.
• 1:53:26
  Someone had used kindred juju to seal Reggie's mouth.
• 1:53:30
  I wouldn't get anything from him, but I did know someone's
• 1:53:33
  strong willed had done this. Oh that would have just not the
• 1:53:39
  best comment. I thought I was on the right
• 1:53:40
  lines already. I didn't want to go see Missus
• 1:53:46
  Thorne, but police work is never easy.
• 1:54:11
  A. Visit to Missus Thorne always
• 1:54:16
  made me want to gird my loins. I wish I knew what a gird
• 1:54:21
  actually was. Good evening, ma'am.
• 1:54:25
  Detective, is there something you need?
• 1:54:28
  She seemed in a good mood. I assumed she was marinating a
• 1:54:31
  couple of kids in the backroom. Hey, I found this potion.
• 1:54:38
  I thought since you were our expert on cauldrons and Newt's
• 1:54:42
  eyes and such, you might recognize it.
• 1:54:45
  Something the thin blood's made, I'm sure.
• 1:54:48
  Indeed. Think it could be?
• 1:54:51
  Memory. Memory.
• 1:54:54
  Salvio fissionalist, Centella asiatica, bacopa monorie, the
• 1:55:00
  vulgar time and others. Memory and clarity detective to
• 1:55:08
  cloud. Or to erase, to improve, to
• 1:55:11
  reshape memory. I have the memory of it, Yeah.
• 1:55:16
  What are those little things? Orange gills swim around in
• 1:55:18
  circles opposite of an elephant. Anyway, can you tell me who
• 1:55:21
  might use this or what they need it for?
• 1:55:24
  You have partial information, young man.
• 1:55:27
  There's a manufactured component here, some of that modern
• 1:55:31
  messing about. Have you consulted Sophia?
• 1:55:35
  Sophia, not about this. That is a good call.
• 1:55:38
  Missus T, Mistress Thorne. Thank you very much.
• 1:55:45
  I was wondering, you ever hear of a guy called Santiago?
• 1:55:49
  A hunter. Can't say I know the name.
• 1:55:53
  Active here back in the 1920s, Other places before that.
• 1:55:57
  Oh, long before my time in your benighted country, young man.
• 1:56:01
  Now, is there anything else you've seen?
• 1:56:06
  Any murderers around the place at all?
• 1:56:09
  What variety of murderer, young man of my precious time.
• 1:56:13
  Of the sanctity of a. Bookstore of the English
• 1:56:16
  language. I fancy I could put my hand on
• 1:56:20
  someone guilty of all three. Thanks.
• 1:56:26
  Close the door after you. A quick trip up to the tower to
• 1:56:30
  call in on Sophia, then if anyone knew about WE.
• 1:57:04
  Oh party, just make a big score.
• 1:57:49
  I figured Sophia would be in. She kept off business hours, but
• 1:57:53
  then so did I Just wanted to check back in.
• 1:58:13
  I'm still here, still working. Well, I took a look at the
• 1:58:18
  scene. It was a place on Pioneer
• 1:58:21
  Square. I had a nice chat with the
• 1:58:23
  victim. Dale deals in Thin Blood
• 1:58:26
  elixirs. You know the guy.
• 1:58:28
  Another mortal. You think this is Santiago
• 1:58:31
  again? All evidence says so, and so
• 1:58:34
  will the corpse. What the hell is going on,
• 1:58:37
  Fabian? Someone's plotting this out like
• 1:58:40
  a dime novel. I picked up this potion,
• 1:58:44
  wondering if you could tell me about it.
• 1:58:46
  Found it at Dale's. Oh, interesting, this is
• 1:58:51
  fascinating. Not the recipe I know.
• 1:58:54
  Could you take a guess? Yes, an enhancer.
• 1:59:00
  I would say something to magnify capabilities to make your body
• 1:59:05
  work more efficiently somehow in one way or another.
• 1:59:09
  Missus Thorne thought it had something to do with memories.
• 1:59:13
  That would make sense. A memory enhancer, yes.
• 1:59:18
  To make the subjects recall more acute, more capable.
• 1:59:22
  A. Memory enhancer.
• 1:59:25
  Now that's interesting, I wonder who might be in the market for
• 1:59:28
  memory potions. I can think of a few trees to
• 1:59:31
  shake Niko's one for the markets.
• 1:59:33
  Katsumi might know, given it's a thin blood potion.
• 1:59:37
  Tolly perhaps? Yeah, Tolly might have heard
• 1:59:40
  something, although getting him to share it is never easy.
• 1:59:44
  Thanks, you've helped a bunch. See you tuts.
• 1:59:49
  I wait with bated breath for your next visit, Detective.
• 1:59:59
  I knew. Sophia liked to set down her
• 2:00:07
  thoughts, and this old recorder wasn't tied to any cyberspatial
• 2:00:11
  spy system. Hey there, big ears.
• 2:00:14
  What have you been listening to? Hey, Detective.
• 2:00:17
  Yeah, I might have heard a thing or two.
• 2:00:20
  A little birdies. Talk to me about AK Factor, a
• 2:00:23
  failed experiment and a grocery list.
• 2:00:25
  What do you need? Tell me about the K factor.
• 2:00:31
  Sure thing. The process is clearly
• 2:00:34
  pharmaturgical. Physical transfusion denatures
• 2:00:37
  the power and has no bearing on the recipient's K factor.
• 2:00:42
  Interestingly, a Kindred's kiss does seem to bear fruit.
• 2:00:47
  Mean anything to your detective? Can't say it does.
• 2:00:51
  Wouldn't surprise me if it's Sophia's notes about a hot date.
• 2:00:56
  How about that shopping list? Sure, I got it here.
• 2:01:00
  To do reorder CPDA, one solution sterile saline car hexadine
• 2:01:05
  ensure pewter has delivery by Friday.
• 2:01:08
  You'll get that. Sounds like a fun shindig, but I
• 2:01:11
  wouldn't drink the punch. Give me the skinny on the failed
• 2:01:16
  experiment. It's a dozy.
• 2:01:18
  All right, here you go. R02 demonstrates low level
• 2:01:22
  impulse applied to test block 15 carbon material measured at 1.2
• 2:01:27
  N Compare this to our 00 telekinetic baseline where no
• 2:01:32
  distinction was made between materials and was able to induce
• 2:01:35
  more than 50 and force. It is a result, but not
• 2:01:39
  practical in the field. That get your juices flowing,
• 2:01:42
  detective? I think I fell asleep around the
• 2:01:45
  second sentence. Well, thanks little fella.
• 2:01:52
  No problem boss. Always happy to lend an ear.
• 2:01:55
  I'll bear that in mind. Useful little doohickey.
• 2:01:59
  Maybe I should get one sometime, if anyone still makes them.
• 2:02:22
  Niko knew his apples from his aardvarks when it Katsumi was at
• 2:02:25
  the hole in the I knew where Tali was hanged.
• 2:02:27
  Niko knew. Spare a dollar.
• 2:03:47
  Hey, Nico. Fabian, are you out on the trail
• 2:03:51
  of a conspiracy? Why am I asking with you?
• 2:03:54
  It is always a conspiracy. Any leads on the Umbrella cartel
• 2:03:58
  and their weather making machines?
• 2:04:00
  They sure screwed up this week. Have you seen the forecast?
• 2:04:04
  I am always on the trail of a conspiracy, sometimes more than
• 2:04:07
  one. Say, do you know anything about
• 2:04:10
  potions? I found one, I'm told it's a
• 2:04:13
  memory enhancer or something like that.
• 2:04:15
  Would you know a likely buyer? I'm afraid I do not.
• 2:04:19
  I trade in solids, not liquids. That's what I figured, thanks.
• 2:04:25
  Heard anything interesting lately?
• 2:04:27
  Not at all. It's being quiet like the calm
• 2:04:31
  before a storm. Although we are already in some
• 2:04:34
  sort of storm, no. I do know what you mean.
• 2:04:37
  The impending juggernaut of Christmas.
• 2:04:40
  Perhaps. I was wondering if you could
• 2:04:43
  take a look at this for me I. Did not take you for a follower
• 2:04:48
  of Christ. Only when I stubbed my toe.
• 2:04:51
  I've got a few of these now, all identical.
• 2:04:54
  Yes, I see. Associated with a few hellish
• 2:04:59
  scenes. OK, well, the Cross of Saint
• 2:05:05
  James, yes, this particular shape.
• 2:05:07
  I did know that. It is a mix of mild steel and
• 2:05:12
  some of the decoration is cast in zinc alloy, then lacquered,
• 2:05:16
  aged and weathered, deliberately so.
• 2:05:21
  It's not old then. Oh no, not at all.
• 2:05:24
  Recently made, but made to look old, like a film prop.
• 2:05:28
  It's not a bad job. It would not be cheap properly
• 2:05:32
  made. None of this 3D printing.
• 2:05:35
  Now prop. Now that is interesting.
• 2:05:38
  Thank you, Nico. That's helpful.
• 2:05:40
  Some other time, Nico. See you later, my friend.
• 2:05:46
  Nothing from friend Nico. Time to burn some more shoe
• 2:05:49
  leather. They said a cat may look at a
• 2:05:55
  king, but when it came to Princess I wouldn't advise it.
• 2:05:59
  You could go through nuts. I remember when these were all
• 2:06:02
  the rage, then when they were junk, then when they were all
• 2:06:06
  the rage again. Mortals are fickle.
• 2:06:11
  I never ate fish in Seattle, even when I was alive.
• 2:06:14
  It was something, in a way. Those cold, dead eyes stared
• 2:06:18
  right into you, Soulful. This little guy reminded me that
• 2:06:23
  I'd met a lot of suckers in my time.
• 2:06:26
  I always wanted to be that guy. You know when he wore a wire and
• 2:06:30
  brought down the criminal mastermind.
• 2:06:34
  I mourn the old clackety clack. Computers are all very well, but
• 2:06:39
  since they were invented, there's been a lot more
• 2:06:42
  profanity in the world. Can I trouble you?
• 2:07:00
  Just a moment, Carla. Are you hurting Detective?
• 2:07:03
  You need my help. I'd appreciate a soothing balm.
• 2:07:08
  Come to me, I'll give you what you need.
• 2:07:18
  I needed that. You're a blessing, Carla.
• 2:07:21
  Thanks, Carla. I have cases to solve, people to
• 2:07:24
  save. I'm always here for those in
• 2:07:26
  need, Detective. That's
• 2:07:45
  right. Fabian, it's been a while.
• 2:08:09
  What are you doing down here? I picked up this potion sort of
• 2:08:16
  thing your folk are into. I was wondering if you knew who
• 2:08:19
  might be buying? My people don't buy or sell
• 2:08:23
  alchemical products. You know that, detective?
• 2:08:29
  That's just, you know, pretend they do.
• 2:08:32
  This is important. A man died.
• 2:08:35
  No, Hun, bad day. Listen, if only because I don't
• 2:08:39
  want my people caught up in a murder rap.
• 2:08:42
  That's not a type I recognize. Never seen it before.
• 2:08:45
  Not something we deal it OK. OK, thanks.
• 2:08:48
  I'll take your word for it. You better.
• 2:08:53
  So how's life? Well, I don't know, it's been a
• 2:08:56
  while since I had one. They do say life is like a box
• 2:08:59
  of chocolates, overpriced, slightly melted, and someone's
• 2:09:03
  always taken the toughest center.
• 2:09:05
  Yeah, that'd be about the size of it.
• 2:09:08
  I'll head off. Sure.
• 2:09:12
  Well, that was a dead loss. Who else might have an inkling?
• 2:09:22
  I knew that. Was right God damn slow.
• 2:09:56
  Detective. Well, well, Detective Fabian, as
• 2:10:00
  I don't live or breathe, tell me, how's the case?
• 2:10:04
  Hot leads, cold bodies, reheated plots.
• 2:10:08
  Oh, let me guess. You want to hear the word on the
• 2:10:11
  street? Pretty sure it was curbside
• 2:10:14
  pickup only, something I heard your boys in blue were being
• 2:10:17
  real strict about on Aurora Ave. Seen anything suspicious?
• 2:10:24
  I don't know. Are Seattle dogs outside your
• 2:10:26
  culinary experience? Tubes of gristle, slathered and
• 2:10:30
  fetid cheese, and carbonized onion.
• 2:10:33
  It's a real public health hazard.
• 2:10:35
  Can't you smell it? Every time a tourist goes by, it
• 2:10:39
  just oozes out of their pores. I know you've got some kind of
• 2:10:45
  problem with Betty. What's that about?
• 2:10:47
  Problem with our dear sheriff? Oh no no no detective.
• 2:10:53
  He's such a charmer and so restrained and respectful and
• 2:10:57
  brings joy to everyone he meets. Also beats up on little boys if
• 2:11:02
  he didn't know. Nothing kinky, just for the
• 2:11:05
  violence. Let.
• 2:11:07
  Me see. Do you, detective?
• 2:11:10
  I know your badge is dusty, but remind me, what's the wording on
• 2:11:14
  there? Service pride Dedication.
• 2:11:17
  It's acronym play. See if you look at the first
• 2:11:19
  letters. Must make you proud to share
• 2:11:21
  such dedicated service with good old Benny Maldu.
• 2:11:29
  I'm looking into the alchemy trade.
• 2:11:31
  Better living through chemistry, huh?
• 2:11:33
  You never struck me as the tide. Thin blood Alchemy You any
• 2:11:38
  notion who might be buying an elixir of memory enhancement?
• 2:11:42
  Memory enhancement. Memory enhancement?
• 2:11:45
  Oh, little. Come to me, I'm sure who'd need
• 2:11:48
  an improved memory. You know, Fabian, sometimes I'm
• 2:11:52
  so dull you could use me for crowd control.
• 2:11:57
  You must know something about the memory potion.
• 2:12:02
  I got other things to worry about.
• 2:12:04
  You figure it out. That's what you're here for.
• 2:12:10
  I really don't know who needs this elixir.
• 2:12:13
  You're the detective, you tell. Me.
• 2:12:19
  OK, I better go. Have fun with your private
• 2:12:23
  dickory. Yeah, I wasn't going to speak to
• 2:12:31
  me. What secrets are we keeping?
• 2:12:47
  That won't help me. What are you hiding?
• 2:12:53
  It's Willem, you failure of a detective.
• 2:12:57
  Willem. Right.
• 2:12:59
  I guess Tolley's entitled to his opinion.
• 2:13:03
  So Willem was the buyer. And unless I missed my mark,
• 2:13:07
  Dale was his ghoul friend. Dale hung around in a room full
• 2:13:12
  of junk, staying well clear of the wider world right up
• 2:13:15
  Willem's alley. Willem was no doubt in his
• 2:13:22
  palatial mansion. I need.
• 2:14:34
  Oh that would Nope, I didn't see that.
• 2:14:36
  I had to find Willems trick for getting into his haven.
• 2:14:44
  I probably shouldn't be drinking random potions like this, but
• 2:14:48
  something told me I now have the keys to victory.
• 2:14:53
  I thought about it, but it seemed like a really bad move.
• 2:15:00
  I thought I was on the right lines already.
• 2:15:03
  I didn't see the need. Wasn't going to.
• 2:15:05
  I didn't. Yeah, I wasn't going to do that.
• 2:15:49
  Willem was a strange kind of guy and I was qualified in strange
• 2:15:53
  kind of guys. We got OK.
• 2:15:57
  Hey, Willem. Detective Fabian, I was the case
• 2:16:01
  of the missing St. side. Oh I solved that a week ago.
• 2:16:05
  It wasn't about where the sign was, it was that the street
• 2:16:07
  itself had moved. The 2 are reunited and happy as
• 2:16:11
  Bluebirds. I wanted to talk to you about
• 2:16:13
  something else. Does the name Santiago ring a
• 2:16:20
  bell? The Hunter.
• 2:16:23
  They called him the Rebar Killer in the dailies, didn't they?
• 2:16:26
  A long, long time ago. That's the guy.
• 2:16:31
  He's active again. Really.
• 2:16:35
  That's not good. Understatement of the century,
• 2:16:39
  buddy. You know anything about alchemy
• 2:16:42
  and thin bloods? I mean the skill they have to
• 2:16:46
  whip up lotions and potions. I'm not suggesting we put anyone
• 2:16:49
  in a juicer just yet. Alchemy detective, you know, I
• 2:16:54
  don't go in for that kind of thing.
• 2:16:56
  Memory potions Willem to spring clean your memory palace.
• 2:16:59
  Maybe add an east wing in a pool.
• 2:17:01
  That'll be useful to you, right? I suppose so I might have used
• 2:17:06
  them. You'd remember that is the whole
• 2:17:10
  point. Come clean, buddy.
• 2:17:13
  Your noggins always overflowing and you're indulging in a bit of
• 2:17:16
  chemical expansion. It's not a sin.
• 2:17:19
  Well, it's important, Fabian. There's so much to remember.
• 2:17:22
  Names, numbers, dates. I tell you there are a few dates
• 2:17:27
  I would love to forget. I got to keep myself sharp.
• 2:17:32
  Why does this matter to you? You got the potions from Dale,
• 2:17:41
  You're cool. He's currently pinned up to a
• 2:17:44
  cross beam by someone who's into very heavy metal.
• 2:17:48
  Oh, and his head is missing. His head, baby.
• 2:17:52
  What do you mean? Do you do you think I killed
• 2:17:55
  him? Well, how could I kill him?
• 2:17:58
  You couldn't have killed him, buddy.
• 2:18:00
  Compared to our killer, you're weak as a noodle.
• 2:18:10
  He's weak as a noodle. There's no way he did this.
• 2:18:14
  But he was on the scene, and that's all we have right now.
• 2:18:16
  Let me look at him. He's cooling.
• 2:18:18
  Zeals, anything else? Before you go in, remind me
• 2:18:23
  about the crime scene. Fabian, we just talked about
• 2:18:27
  this. Come on, Leah.
• 2:18:29
  Same method. Victoria nailed the floorboards
• 2:18:32
  by rebar through the torso. And that goddamned.
• 2:18:35
  Sword cross thing. Again, he doesn't get those from
• 2:18:39
  the Five and Dimes, so that's a threat to follow I guess.
• 2:18:42
  Nothing special about the apartment, nothing missing.
• 2:18:45
  Apart from the head. So the victim, what else do we
• 2:18:52
  know? What are you talking about?
• 2:18:55
  We know that it's a pain in the ass, if that's what you mean.
• 2:18:58
  That Hive had so much locked up in the skull.
• 2:19:01
  With Rosalind gone too, we'll be trying to pick up on pieces that
• 2:19:04
  only Isaac knew. Yeah, Isaac, I knew that.
• 2:19:12
  Yeah. I was just testing the arising
• 2:19:16
  extemporising. You can do that in the privacy
• 2:19:19
  of your own haven. Get it together.
• 2:19:21
  There's work to do here. How's the wife and kids?
• 2:19:25
  Fabian, we are vampires. You do get that right?
• 2:19:29
  Blood suckers. The undead sold our souls to the
• 2:19:32
  devil. We don't get to have wives and
• 2:19:35
  kids. You sure?
• 2:19:37
  I mean, we can go to church, right?
• 2:19:39
  A priest could get us married. We could adopt.
• 2:19:43
  Fabian. Back at the party, you were
• 2:19:48
  worried about a girl. You were, Beau.
• 2:19:51
  If it'll keep you on track, yes. There is a girl, no?
• 2:19:55
  I'm not her beau. She's a problem for someone
• 2:19:58
  else. Satisfied.
• 2:20:00
  We've got a man in the sweat box, Fabian.
• 2:20:03
  Try and stick with it. So our suspect.
• 2:20:07
  Sweat him out, find out whether he saw anything while he was
• 2:20:11
  there in the 1st place, how he knew our Victoria.
• 2:20:13
  You know the deal. What's his background Exactly
• 2:20:20
  that kind of thing. You know how to do this.
• 2:20:23
  OK, boss, I'll deal with this. All right, I'll be listening,
• 2:20:27
  but let me know if you root out anything deeper.
• 2:20:31
  Time for me to do what detectives do here.
• 2:20:36
  He was pale, sort of sweaty. Something bugged me about him,
• 2:20:40
  but I couldn't put my finger on it.
• 2:20:45
  Just give me the facts, pal. Nice and neat.
• 2:20:48
  I already gave my statement detective.
• 2:20:50
  Says here Willem Axel, don't I know you?
• 2:20:55
  I don't know how you could. Strange how memory plays tricks,
• 2:21:01
  but anyway lay it out for me. What do you want to know?
• 2:21:08
  So tell me about you. What's your business?
• 2:21:12
  I'm nobody important detective, I work as a bookkeeper.
• 2:21:16
  Accountant. That's right.
• 2:21:19
  So why are you sweating, accountant?
• 2:21:22
  I'm I'm not feeling well, but also because I work at Lou's
• 2:21:26
  place and I know you detectives don't like it there.
• 2:21:29
  You run numbers for Lou Graham's place.
• 2:21:31
  Now that is interesting, but you do look a little pale here
• 2:21:36
  fella. Tell me why we picked you up.
• 2:21:40
  Don't you know? I'm the one asking the questions
• 2:21:43
  here. OK, OK, I was just visiting a
• 2:21:47
  friend at Sunset Heights, I guess.
• 2:21:50
  Wrong place, wrong time. Your boys in blue thought I was
• 2:21:53
  something to do with this killing.
• 2:21:56
  Who was this friend? What?
• 2:21:59
  It's just a friend and there's no law about that, right?
• 2:22:02
  I'm happily married. Does your wife know where you
• 2:22:07
  are? She knows I have business
• 2:22:09
  tonight. She's used to me working late.
• 2:22:12
  They do say absence makes the heart grow fonder.
• 2:22:16
  I've always wondered about that myself.
• 2:22:18
  Some people I don't see for months or years, but when we
• 2:22:22
  meet up they still don't seem too happy about it.
• 2:22:26
  Did you know the victim? Just in passing.
• 2:22:30
  You knew Isaac. Hell.
• 2:22:32
  I only met him that night. I I I've been sent with a
• 2:22:36
  package for him. That's all.
• 2:22:38
  By Your Boss by Lou Graham. Yeah, that's right.
• 2:22:44
  Really. Now there's a thing for the
• 2:22:46
  books. You know what the package was.
• 2:22:49
  No. And he wasn't dead when you gave
• 2:22:51
  him the package. No, I, I just, we talked and
• 2:22:55
  then I left. Did you see anything?
• 2:23:02
  I don't know. Right.
• 2:23:04
  And I was the emperor of China, right?
• 2:23:08
  And I'm the emperor of China. I didn't, I swear.
• 2:23:12
  You're sweating like a ham and a steamer there, fella.
• 2:23:17
  Come on buddy, spill the beans. You saw something?
• 2:23:20
  I got nothing to say, Detective Honest.
• 2:23:24
  He knew, all right, and I'd make him sing even if I needed to pry
• 2:23:28
  his skull open and look inside. Hey fella, clamming up will do
• 2:23:35
  you no favors at all. I'm sorry I can't help you.
• 2:23:39
  He was yanking my chain. If only I could find a way to
• 2:23:43
  figure out what was on his mind. I decided to give him a minute,
• 2:23:48
  but I knew I'd have to keep poking.
• 2:23:55
  What secrets are we keeping? They never told me what the
• 2:24:03
  embrace would really mean. William had seen the killer.
• 2:24:10
  It was right at the top of his mind.
• 2:24:12
  Time to put on the thumb screws. I got a few more questions.
• 2:24:18
  Sure, Detective. You're just like me.
• 2:24:22
  A goddamn kindred. A vampire.
• 2:24:24
  A blood sucker. No, no, it's not what you think.
• 2:24:29
  Better talk fast, buddy. Did you off, Isaac?
• 2:24:32
  No, he offed me. I mean Isaac, he I went to him
• 2:24:39
  to be made over into a vampire some deal he did with with Lou
• 2:24:45
  and well, we, we. The two of you did the deed.
• 2:24:53
  I get it. Your face hasn't done the.
• 2:24:58
  What do you mean? Well, never mind.
• 2:25:00
  No, you'll find out. So then you cut his head off and
• 2:25:04
  ran him through with rebar. Was that part of the deal?
• 2:25:06
  No, no, it wasn't me. I didn't see.
• 2:25:09
  I, I, I, I just, I was recovering and I didn't see
• 2:25:13
  anything, I swear. We both know you saw something.
• 2:25:18
  Something to do with the killer. You're scared of him, right?
• 2:25:22
  This guy kills and kills buddy. You give me a name, I can
• 2:25:25
  protect you. OK, listen, I did that thing
• 2:25:30
  with Isaac. Feels dirty, don't it?
• 2:25:34
  But I get you. Takes it out of you and puts it
• 2:25:37
  right back in. That's yeah, that's it.
• 2:25:44
  Isaac was listening to the wireless.
• 2:25:46
  I was sitting recovering off in the corner, heard footsteps, and
• 2:25:50
  in comes this guy. Did he see you?
• 2:25:54
  No, no, it was weird. I was scared.
• 2:25:58
  I guess he's walking up towards Isaac.
• 2:26:02
  I guess Isaac is asleep or something and I'm holding my
• 2:26:05
  breath. You don't need to breathe with
• 2:26:07
  him. I was holding it anyway.
• 2:26:10
  This guy walks right past me, looks straight at me, but it was
• 2:26:14
  like he didn't see me. Oh I know this one.
• 2:26:22
  It's your cheerful toy like face.
• 2:26:25
  Probably thought you were a generously sized puppet or a
• 2:26:28
  doll. I hate those things, so creepy.
• 2:26:32
  Hey, it might have just saved your life, but he didn't see
• 2:26:36
  you. That's a good thing.
• 2:26:39
  You got eyes on him, right? Not really.
• 2:26:42
  It was dark. Isaac could turn the light off.
• 2:26:46
  He was tall, had a hat. What kind of hat?
• 2:26:50
  Kind of like yours, taller than you, though maybe a bit shorter.
• 2:26:55
  His eyes caught the light, kind of weird, and I could hear him
• 2:27:00
  breathing, sort of controlled, like he'd come a distance but
• 2:27:04
  was trying not to. Oh, breathe, did he?
• 2:27:08
  That is the first goddamn useful thing you've said.
• 2:27:11
  He confirms he's not a dead man walking.
• 2:27:15
  So then what happened? He.
• 2:27:16
  Comes up behind Isaac. Isaac still hasn't noticed.
• 2:27:20
  And and then, and then he pulled out this sort of long rod from a
• 2:27:25
  golf bag over his back, and he stabbed Isaac straight through
• 2:27:29
  his spine from behind. He came out front.
• 2:27:33
  He came out front. God, who can do that?
• 2:27:37
  Who could do that to anyone? All the air came out of him like
• 2:27:42
  a like. A inner tube stabbed by a pry
• 2:27:45
  bar. I'm guessing kind of like a like
• 2:27:48
  a, but he didn't see his face, hands, anything.
• 2:27:52
  I saw his hands as he just reached out and and.
• 2:27:57
  And. He grabbed the side of Isaac's
• 2:28:01
  head and he just, he just. Pop goes the weasel, huh?
• 2:28:06
  So our man is strong, real strong when he breathes like a
• 2:28:11
  mortal. That is not good news.
• 2:28:14
  I got to take this to my boss. What?
• 2:28:17
  What should I do now? I'd lay in a stock of cold
• 2:28:25
  cream. Might be soothing on any skin
• 2:28:28
  complaints. Anyhow, I've got to figure out
• 2:28:31
  who's the one going around treating heads like champagne
• 2:28:33
  corks. Pop Goodbye, detective.
• 2:28:38
  I'm certain we'll meet again, Mr. Willem Axel.
• 2:29:02
  Ryong, where am I? No longer splattered across a
• 2:29:07
  pavement, for one. You're in Weaver Tower.
• 2:29:13
  Then I have failed. Yes, you have.
• 2:29:17
  What did you do? Not now, Sophia.
• 2:29:21
  He was my Willem. He was as close to a friend as I
• 2:29:25
  had. And he and you excuse her.
• 2:29:28
  Tonight's events cause some distress.
• 2:29:31
  And she's not alone. Campbell's wreckers are part of
• 2:29:34
  the machinery that keeps the city running.
• 2:29:37
  Or at least they were, So I'm going to need an explanation.
• 2:29:45
  William had been compromised, blackmailed.
• 2:29:48
  He was beholden to another, an enemy of this court. 1 He called
• 2:29:53
  the gardener. The gardener who?
• 2:29:58
  William used my mark against me, just as Isabella did.
• 2:30:02
  There can be no question. These are not isolated cases.
• 2:30:06
  There are no coincidences. This is the work of the Sabbath.
• 2:30:10
  No, no, no. A villain would never.
• 2:30:14
  He would never. He would, because he was.
• 2:30:24
  I do not know what else to tell you.
• 2:30:26
  He had clothed himself in dynamite.
• 2:30:28
  Someone else caused it to detonate, someone who was not
• 2:30:32
  present. I could not have prevented it.
• 2:30:35
  This gardener, I I need to think you will return tomorrow night.
• 2:30:47
  In the meantime, see what you can do to smooth things over.
• 2:30:51
  Sophia, you have work to do. Of course, my priest.
• 2:31:01
  Poor Sophia, she truly was fond of Willem.
• 2:31:04
  You should maybe go see her. Leave that wound untended.
• 2:31:07
  It might fester. You'll want to check in with
• 2:31:09
  Tolly too, seeing as he gave you the tip this time of night.
• 2:31:13
  He's usually at the Dutchman, and I wonder what the Sophia is
• 2:31:16
  still likely working in her lab. Hopefully she's holding up OK
• 2:31:20
  after the Willem fiasco. But you're good with her, she
• 2:31:24
  can use that. Hello Fire.
• 2:31:31
  About Willem Sophia, I am sorry. You never promised you would
• 2:31:37
  save him. It was an impossible task.
• 2:31:42
  I shouldn't have asked. It was unfair of me.
• 2:31:45
  And I I just got so angry with you.
• 2:31:49
  I'm sorry, love, for blaming you.
• 2:31:54
  I didn't know what to do. I I miss him.
• 2:31:57
  Fire. I grieve for him.
• 2:32:01
  But now, now I walk alone in the darkness again, and I.
• 2:32:13
  Not quite alone, not now. I suppose I learned something
• 2:32:24
  you know about the mark the symbols.
• 2:32:28
  The script is from all Enochian. They talk of binding, weakening
• 2:32:34
  at the the core of it. I couldn't quite find the match,
• 2:32:37
  not exactly, but there's been talk amongst the Anarchs fire I
• 2:32:43
  what they said. I don't like what it suggests.
• 2:32:50
  What was it they said after you woke?
• 2:32:55
  You. Spoke of the old sect, the
• 2:32:57
  Sabbat. I did I know it of old and
• 2:33:01
  Isabella used that name. The Black Hand is here in
• 2:33:05
  Seattle. To even be associated with such
• 2:33:08
  a thing actually. I mean, what was she thinking?
• 2:33:18
  Do you think the Sabat gave me this mark?
• 2:33:21
  I know a way we can confirm it. I told you I couldn't find the
• 2:33:24
  match. And that's true.
• 2:33:26
  Not at least in my books. But there are others, it's just
• 2:33:32
  they are forbidden, such as the nature of the material.
• 2:33:37
  I see forbidden books and you expect me to retreat them?
• 2:33:43
  I see no other way. They were confiscated decades
• 2:33:46
  ago by Luke. And you are certain that these
• 2:33:55
  books will provide my answers? As much as I can be, yes.
• 2:34:00
  Luke Graham and I, If I am the one to ask, she will say no.
• 2:34:06
  It must be you, my love. Very well.
• 2:34:11
  Thank you. I have to finish off here.
• 2:34:14
  Then I will return to wake the dead, do my studies.
• 2:34:17
  I will see you there. Sounds like we're headed to the
• 2:34:30
  glacier, my love. Be quiet.
• 2:34:34
  There's no shame, I'm sure you got plenty going for you.
• 2:34:38
  Be in the nomad and all. Do you know what happened
• 2:34:41
  between Sophia and Lou? Well, Lou's done a lot of folks
• 2:34:45
  dirty in her time. Sophia is just worse at hiding
• 2:34:49
  how she feels about it. forgotten that's How I Met
• 2:35:29
  Willem losing his sire to the Rebar Killer.
• 2:35:32
  Willem's gardener is the one behind these dreams.
• 2:35:36
  It does seem so, doesn't it? Sunflowers and riddles trying to
• 2:35:41
  make me members but what after so long time starts to squeeze
• 2:35:49
  juicing out the. Wonder how Nick's got along with
• 2:36:29
  your menu recommendations? Not here to reduce this hotel to
• 2:36:33
  a pile of smoldering ash as well, are you?
• 2:36:36
  Can you help me regain more of my lost power?
• 2:36:39
  I wouldn't do this for just anyone you know.
• 2:36:58
  Let me tell you how this is going to go.
• 2:37:00
  I've made-up a vial of my blood. You're going to drink it.
• 2:37:03
  The La Sombra blood will kick start your memories and restore
• 2:37:06
  some of the tricks you've so carelessly forgotten.
• 2:37:09
  And you won't tell anyone about this.
• 2:37:12
  Understood. All coming back to you now, is
• 2:37:19
  it? Make good use of what I gave
• 2:37:21
  you. Pleasure, as always, on the.
• 2:38:09
  Fire. How unexpected is this?
• 2:38:12
  Business or leisure? You have had no more visions.
• 2:38:19
  You feel less troubled. Visions.
• 2:38:22
  I have no idea what you refer to.
• 2:38:27
  I have been searching for answers and discovered that
• 2:38:30
  texts once existed that could be of use to me.
• 2:38:34
  Texts referring to older matters.
• 2:38:36
  Gehenna Cain texts you confiscated.
• 2:38:41
  Will you reveal them to me? And why would I do such a thing?
• 2:38:46
  Surely one from the clan of Divas would prefer a picture
• 2:38:49
  book? The mark on my hand.
• 2:38:57
  I believe this may hold an answer.
• 2:39:00
  I see, so this is personal for you.
• 2:39:04
  I do possess the texts you seek. They're hidden in the crypts
• 2:39:09
  beneath Saint Stephen's Church. You may borrow them.
• 2:39:14
  Well, that was a might. Easy.
• 2:39:16
  Where's the catch? My thanks, but of course.
• 2:39:23
  The well-being of my staff is important to me.
• 2:39:29
  I am not your servant. When I have found my answers, I
• 2:39:34
  will leave. But of course, my dear, just you
• 2:39:37
  keep believing that now you should run along.
• 2:39:41
  Just make sure that that the desert is rust and ochre, and
• 2:39:48
  the goddess of wine and honey decays into dotage.
• 2:39:53
  She does not see the feast in preparation, nor the nor the
• 2:39:59
  13th guest, as the cuckoo calls it, to Sup.
• 2:40:04
  Cuckoo. Cuckoo.
• 2:40:09
  Lou Graham. Oh, I no, Matt.
• 2:40:17
  I believe our business is done. Leave me.
• 2:40:21
  Very well, we will talk again. Sounds like we've got some great
• 2:41:08
  Robin to do. Saint Stephen's.
• 2:41:10
  Saint Stephen's I reckon I was there not long ago.
• 2:41:16
  Not for books though. As for Lou's episode, you've
• 2:41:22
  seen her vulnerable. Here we are, the crypt is down.
• 2:41:37
  Foundations through the church itself, I guess, where you'd
• 2:41:41
  expect to find a crypt, right? You tell me it is your religion.
• 2:41:46
  Well, I mean, I don't really call myself a Yeah, never mind.
• 2:41:50
  I know what I mean. Oh, cold enough to freeze the
• 2:42:17
  tits off a frog. Would Lou store her
• 2:42:21
  unmentionables? We should check.
• 2:42:35
  These crates come over here. These bozos again.
• 2:42:40
  Not so close. You've got rat breath.
• 2:42:43
  Hey, Jill, you don't have just focus whatever
• 2:43:23
  A3 Stop. Not resist.
• 2:44:53
  Come on out. What lingers here?
• 2:45:05
  What's coming? I'm nightly dark father ruined
• 2:45:25
  space strike. Mediocre.
• 2:46:12
  Sophia. Four more.
• 2:46:56
  So were we followed or did Lou send those idiots after us?
• 2:47:00
  She knew where we were headed. Makes no sense though.
• 2:47:04
  I lay olives. Those bone heads were the same
• 2:47:06
  flavor as Atrian. Feels like someone else has got
• 2:47:09
  eyes on us. Well, if it isn't our noble
• 2:47:50
  sheriff, what are we up to today?
• 2:47:53
  Keeping the peace or blowing up buildings?
• 2:47:58
  I would like some more of your help.
• 2:48:01
  Very well. I will come back.
• 2:48:17
  You came. Do you have the texts?
• 2:48:21
  Here. Yes, this looks right, Head
• 2:48:30
  Alanam, Esther Vishnam. These will take time to study, I
• 2:48:36
  mean. Take all the time you need.
• 2:48:43
  It is not as if I can wither from age.
• 2:48:47
  It won't be quite so long as that, but I guess we'll see.
• 2:48:53
  And I spoke to Ryong, she asked to see you tomorrow night.
• 2:48:59
  First thing to say what? I don't know.
• 2:49:04
  I do worry. We've been too open with this.
• 2:49:07
  I mean, we haven't been careful enough.
• 2:49:11
  What if Lou somehow found out what your marks meant?
• 2:49:14
  That they could be tied to the Sabat?
• 2:49:17
  Who knows what she would demand a real gift if she thought you
• 2:49:20
  were threat. The old Prince has ways of
• 2:49:23
  controlling her child or making them do things they would not
• 2:49:26
  usually. Do.
• 2:49:33
  Then it is a good thing that I have you by my side, Sofia.
• 2:49:37
  Oh yes, I should get on with my reading.
• 2:49:43
  Not that I don't want you to hear, I do, but.
• 2:49:46
  You know, let me know when you have something.
• 2:49:50
  I will. Good night my love.
• 2:50:12
  Makes sense to see Tolly after his little tiff went so far off
• 2:50:15
  the rails, finally getting somewhere.
• 2:51:25
  So many kindred going to that undiscovered country.
• 2:51:30
  Careful Nomad. I still need help to recover my
• 2:51:33
  strength. Can't say I enjoy it, but OK.
• 2:51:48
  I can help you remember your old powers, but you'll need
• 2:51:51
  something potently bruja to bring those memories back here.
• 2:51:56
  Is this your blood in a shot glass?
• 2:51:59
  A custom Dutchman shot glass? Yeah, knock it back.
• 2:52:04
  It'll put hairs in your chest. Feel that power?
• 2:52:13
  Feels good, don't it? I will see you later.
• 2:53:00
  Looking good, fire. Actually, forget it, I'm trying
• 2:53:03
  to give up lying for Christmas. You look like shit.
• 2:53:07
  Glad that nap was shorter than the last one though, am I right?
• 2:53:18
  Rion said you found me like that.
• 2:53:21
  Yeah, there I was, returning from a well earned midnight
• 2:53:25
  snack and frankly looking like 1 and all of a sudden there you
• 2:53:28
  are by our front door looking like a decade old corpse.
• 2:53:32
  God's own truth scuttlebutt says you had a fiery little tater tot
• 2:53:36
  with dear Willem. What will we do without him?
• 2:53:40
  Your concern is touching. I will pretend this isn't a
• 2:53:44
  headache the size of a horse cock.
• 2:53:46
  He was our little black book of dates and dainties.
• 2:53:50
  Word gets out our hard drives limp.
• 2:53:52
  That's a lot of unsolicited lick pics coming our way.
• 2:54:03
  You have a head full of current secrets.
• 2:54:06
  I cannot imagine this will hamper you. 100 year old
• 2:54:09
  secrets, deals, betrayals. They have a tendency to sock you
• 2:54:14
  in the mouth right when you're on the shitter.
• 2:54:16
  And you know what, you old cadaver?
• 2:54:18
  Some of us have better things to do than memorize Lou's laundry
• 2:54:21
  list. I am telling you, we are going
• 2:54:24
  to have to claw our way back out of the lack of fucking info
• 2:54:27
  hole. Since you're the one who stuck
• 2:54:30
  our Dicks in the blender, you're going to help me fish them out.
• 2:54:33
  Now, I know Benny had himself some insurance, his own Book of
• 2:54:37
  Shaft squirreled away at his office in the SPD.
• 2:54:41
  Now, I could go and get it, but I'm not going to.
• 2:54:45
  It's up to you O Officer of the Law.
• 2:54:48
  Happy fishing, mwah. Back to the old stomping ground,
• 2:55:17
  huh? I wonder how Seattle PD you're
• 2:55:20
  managing. No Benny, No, Detective Fabian.
• 2:55:24
  I'll bet they won't even have noticed.
• 2:55:45
  OK, careful how you play it. You're not supposed to be here,
• 2:55:49
  and they Blocked.
• 2:56:03
  Breaking that will raise a ruckus.
• 2:56:06
  I think there's a vent at the back.
• 2:56:08
  If I remember rightly, there's another in my office.
• 2:56:10
  Jenna was going. To try that.
• 2:56:12
  But. This.
• 2:56:14
  No. Oh, OK, I'm sorry.
• 2:56:16
  My place is free. We could grab a couple of beers,
• 2:56:20
  watch a movie. Did you hear that?
• 2:56:28
  Yeah. How's he doing?
• 2:56:30
  Not good. Not good at all.
• 2:56:31
  Stranger, Stranger. Stranger.
• 2:56:34
  Taser. Hey, keep it down.
• 2:56:47
  There's still a guy out there. Hey, do they know where the cook
• 2:56:55
  is? Smithy must have locked up for
• 2:57:03
  me, I guess. My keys in my pocket.
• 2:57:07
  Damn. Oh wait, my spare is somewhere,
• 2:57:13
  Maybe in the evidence room. Smithy kept it handy because I
• 2:57:17
  kept leaving it open. Good work.
• 2:57:36
  I reckon Smithy must have scratched my key somewhere
• 2:57:39
  around here. Damn, more company just got to
• 2:57:45
  stay out of his way. Thanks Smithy.
• 2:58:02
  Let's get into my office. No, nothing here.
• 2:59:01
  Well, welcome to my humble abode.
• 2:59:04
  I see the cleaners haven't been in, which is how I like it.
• 2:59:09
  I wonder who'll get it. I hope it's not mech dally.
• 2:59:32
  Got to say this is not how I expected an elder to spend their
• 2:59:36
  time. Dolly and better appreciate this
• 2:59:40
  is now a bad time to say I don't like tight spaces.
• 2:59:50
  Finally, this destruction is not what we agreed.
• 2:59:56
  It is too early. Our Prince may have fallen, but
• 3:00:00
  there is much left to do. I will be greatly displeased if
• 3:00:04
  you do not contact me. That's just the ticket.
• 3:00:13
  OK, OK. My buddies here get upset if you
• 3:00:16
  try to break in. Walking out less of an issue.
• 3:00:20
  If you act natural, you might be able to breathe straight out the
• 3:00:23
  front door. Gal, wasn't the scene over the
• 3:00:30
  plastics warehouse? Oh yeah, wow, I heard that was
• 3:00:34
  toxic respirators, all that. Let's get out of here.
• 3:00:46
  We should get back to Tali and hope Benny's book is a solid
• 3:00:49
  boost to his spirits. Hey sweet cheeks, any trouble?
• 3:02:11
  I am the trouble here. Nito, I can start grilling
• 3:02:16
  Benny's old flames, but don't think you're in the clear yet.
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  While you're here, I want to ask you a question.
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  You know, decaying husk to decaying husk.
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  What do you think of Rianne? Her leadership, to be precise.
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  Who is asking you or Riang? Last I checked, I'm definitely
• 3:02:40
  not wearing the prince's hat. This is me.
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  Come on, golden oldie. Been a long time since the
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  Jurassic era. You've seen a lot of courts, So
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  what advice would you give the new boss?
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  A Prince without allies is not long for this world.
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  They need to adapt to make accommodation.
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  Riang has the heart of a trader, so she can do this with your
• 3:03:10
  help of course. Keep up the bullshit Tolly is.
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  Awesome. You think this is a farce?
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  I took notes, didn't I? Relax.
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  No mad. You don't need to take off.
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  Why not stay a while? Fine, I am in no mood for it.
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  Tolly, I have things to do. Well, trot, trot, trot then.
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  Don't want to be late for your very important date, whatever it
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  is. Till next time, sweetness.
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  There's another battle Fleet, Fletcher.
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  Oh hey, fire over here. Good to see you, Nomad Katsumi.
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  Thought you might come. So Katsumi did take you in.
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  Yeah, I took your advice. I tell you, I was shitting
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  bricks. I thought she might blame me for
• 3:05:38
  what Benny did too, but you were right.
• 3:05:41
  She was really cool, grateful for the help.
• 3:05:45
  You seem, well, more confident, purposeful.
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  Yeah, you can say that. It's been good to be needed,
• 3:05:52
  honestly. So you had soon you heard you
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  had trouble with the court and figured she had something for
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  you. Atrium.
• 3:06:00
  We heard all about that. Isabella Moore.
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  Turns out one of her followers made it out.
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  Name of Verona She. Lived.
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  After all, she was talking about you, and Kasumi thinks the girl
• 3:06:13
  might know something you need. How did the Anarchs come to find
• 3:06:19
  the girl? Well, you've met Kasumi.
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  She's a helper. Doesn't really matter who you
• 3:06:24
  are to her, just she just wants to make.
• 3:06:26
  Seattle a decent place to exist? The girl's a blood doll.
• 3:06:31
  That's not a. Habit that's easy to kick.
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  So when she came around asking people to bite her, let's just
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  say we kept her from licks. You wanted a bit more than she
• 3:06:39
  could give. Where can I find her?
• 3:06:42
  We set her up with Silky at the Dutchman.
• 3:06:48
  If you're right about Isabella being so bad, maybe the ramen
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  knows something. Let's head to the Dutchman.
• 3:07:05
  Max set up a Katsumi. I guess he found a way to
• 3:07:07
  change. Let's hope he makes a better
• 3:07:09
  fist of it than with Benny. Here we are, let's find out what
• 3:07:49
  Silkies done with our girl. Storms and Sorrows, Nomad,
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  you're laden with doom. Max said the Anarchs sent
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  someone to you. I want to talk with her.
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  Yeah, that one. The blood doll.
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  She was here. Girls got problems, Kept begging
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  folks to bite her. I told everyone no, leave her
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  be. Didn't seem right to feed on
• 3:08:36
  someone so desperate. You know she didn't like that.
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  Stormed off. I'll have no fury, right?
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  Where can I find her now? Beats me.
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  She didn't, exactly. Leave a forwarding.
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  Address. This is important, Silky.
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  She wanted to talk to me and she may not be safe.
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  I get that, normally I wouldn't share.
• 3:09:04
  The girl's clearly on a knife edge and I don't want to see her
• 3:09:07
  bleeding out here. She left a few bits and pieces,
• 3:09:12
  enough to get her scent if you're keen to track her down.
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  My thanks, I will find her. I will come back.
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  So 1 missing mortal if I might suggest we hack the Bloodhound
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  here. No offense to the lady, but she
• 3:09:31
  did have a memorable scent. I noticed warm, lightly spiced,
• 3:09:37
  sweet and earthy. I will know it when I smell.
• 3:09:40
  It, oh, caught a whiff of our blood Dome, right?
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  Indeed. I moved to Seattle to get away
• 3:09:54
  from weather like this. What's the Cabarella?
• 3:11:04
  That is all of them. Wow.
• 3:11:09
  Verona, It is safe now. Cup.
• 3:11:12
  Verona fragrant choice of haven. You.
• 3:11:19
  I've spent the night surrounded by goddamn killers.
• 3:11:24
  I'm sorry if it. Smells bad, but I hope.
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  It gets up your fucking nose. You murdered Isabella.
• 3:11:34
  Sister then Mistress, we're not on the best run for this girl,
• 3:11:37
  aren't we? Isabella was out of control and
• 3:11:45
  I do not suffer fools. I did what I had to do.
• 3:11:49
  Yeah, I get that you think that. But you got to understand, a
• 3:11:55
  creative soul like Isabella was never meant to hide her light
• 3:11:59
  under a bushel. All she ever wanted was to share
• 3:12:02
  her. Work with the world.
• 3:12:04
  But I know she went too far, pissed off a lot of her friends
• 3:12:08
  too. I tried to stop her and I never
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  meant for it to end like. This.
• 3:12:16
  You loved her deeply. I think it was never lack normal
• 3:12:21
  love, not the way your Mama loves your daddy with hand.
• 3:12:25
  Holding and summer picnics. But with divine love, the way
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  your grandma loves Jesus, I could hang her pictures on every
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  wall and sing her praises on my knees.
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  You know, I'm kind of a big deal.
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  My daddy's a big. Deal.
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  And his daddy's daddy was a big deal.
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  All the way back to the plantations.
• 3:12:45
  But let me tell you, none of the cotillions and champagne balls
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  could hold the candle to a vampire's.
• 3:12:51
  Kiss, she said. You can taste good breeding and
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  I never felt more precious. Than when I was bleeding in her
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  arms. Even her friends were jealous
• 3:13:02
  she got to taste me. Whatever.
• 3:13:04
  She. Wanted she was bleeding your
• 3:13:09
  companions. Do you know her plan?
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  Plan. No.
• 3:13:15
  But it wasn't just her. She was a mighty popular lady,
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  my Isabella, but they were some who were different not there to.
• 3:13:24
  Bask in her. Life.
• 3:13:26
  They got all fired up when the corporate guy died like it was.
• 3:13:30
  Something they were. Expecting, but still a shock.
• 3:13:34
  The blood, it was just weird. They were saving it up,
• 3:13:40
  collecting it. I have heard all I.
• 3:13:47
  I get it. I don't know much.
• 3:13:51
  I didn't know her that long, really.
• 3:13:53
  But I I thought I'd ask. You're strong, they say.
• 3:14:00
  You know things. After I lost Isabella, I thought
• 3:14:05
  I'd never. Want to be.
• 3:14:06
  Fed on again. I was wondering if.
• 3:14:09
  You know. Blocked her.
• 3:14:13
  Oh no, no, no, no. We sure don't need her and she
• 3:14:15
  doesn't deserve us. This is a sign the path you are
• 3:14:25
  on has come to a natural end. You should return to your home,
• 3:14:30
  your mortal family. They will help you through this.
• 3:14:34
  How can I go back now after all I've seen and without?
• 3:14:42
  Without. Her well, sorry.
• 3:14:47
  Thanks for listening to me anyway.
• 3:14:50
  I hope I get to see you again someday.
• 3:14:53
  You should not hope. For that.
• 3:15:02
  We should head on back, let Max know the information was sound.
• 3:15:05
  And why would the Sabat store up so much blood?
• 3:15:09
  You'd think they were trying to wake an antheluvian.
• 3:15:12
  Typically the Sabat try not to wake our ravenous ancestors.
• 3:15:16
  They want to destroy them as they slumber.
• 3:15:19
  I do not think this is about the antheluvians.
• 3:15:24
  To pay off these fucking student loans.