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[DISCO ELYSIUM]: Disco Moves From Your Spinal Cord · Brave-Smoke Plays

• 0:02
  The man with the unimpressive beard notices you approaching.
• 0:06
  He drops the ledger he was holding and turns to the lieutenant.
• 0:11
  Mr. Gart, right?
• 0:15
  Yes?
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  I am Kim Kitsuragi from Prison 57.
• 0:20
  This is an interdistrict investigation, so joining me from Prison 41?
• 0:30
  Are you kidding me?
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  It's you. It's obviously you.
• 0:35
  You smell like liquor, and you're orange.
• 0:41
  See? Everyone agrees it's your color scheme.
• 0:45
  We're on the right track with this name thing.
• 0:49
  Is this what you get when you call the police now?
• 0:52
  We've been waiting for a week here.
• 0:55
  Sir, I understand your concern, but we are here to do a job.
• 0:59
  And for us to do it, I need you to stay calm.
• 1:02
  Yes, of course.
• 1:05
  I know it took us a while to arrive at the scene, but it also took you a while to call us.
• 1:10
  It was you who placed the call, correct?
• 1:13
  No, I only just got here. It was probably Sylvie who called you.
• 1:18
  She usually works the bar here. I'm only temporarily taking over her duties.
• 1:23
  Do you have her number?
• 1:25
  As a matter of fact, I do.
• 1:30
  This sounds like something you can use to call this Sylvie later.
• 1:35
  You said you just got here. From where? Are you a local?
• 1:40
  What, of Martinets? No, I live in Jamrock.
• 1:44
  I only sometimes come here to keep an eye on the place.
• 1:47
  This is just one of the many, many cafeterias I manage.
• 1:51
  But you still know your way around, yes? In case we need directions.
• 1:57
  Yes, I know where some things are, but as I said, I don't live here.
• 2:01
  I just used to work here, and I'm not going to start working here again, if that's what you think.
• 2:07
  I didn't imply that, Detective.
• 2:11
  He probably means this is where you step in and ask your questions.
• 2:17
  His face expresses profound doubt in your having this.
• 2:21
  Ask him about the body's location before asking if he killed him.
• 2:27
  People give up information in the more innocuous questions,
• 2:31
  which you can later use in the more sinister ones, not vice versa.
• 2:38
  She went away because none of your business.
• 2:43
  Have they not been telling you you're a cop?
• 2:47
  Okay, you got me.
• 2:49
  She went away because of the dead body out back.
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  And because I asked for her number, that's why Sylvie went away.
• 2:57
  I hope you appreciate that.
• 3:00
  Thank you.
• 3:01
  I asked an employee out.
• 3:08
  She didn't want to come, but felt obliged to.
• 3:11
  It was a bad idea.
• 3:13
  Now, what is so goddamn fascinating about that for you?
• 3:17
  It's got nothing to do with the lynching.
• 3:26
  Good for you.
• 3:27
  Was there something else?
• 3:29
  I'd like to get back to what I was doing.
• 3:31
  I don't know who killed him.
• 3:33
  I'm not the police.
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  That's your job.
• 3:36
  What are you, crazy?
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  Of course I didn't kill him.
• 3:41
  Behind this building, there's a courtyard.
• 3:44
  They hoisted him up on a tree there.
• 3:49
  That's easy.
• 3:50
  See that door there?
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  First, you exit through that.
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  Then, to your right, you should see a big hole in the fence,
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  a really big one.
• 3:58
  You can get to the courtyard through there.
• 4:00
  No need for the keys.
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  The hole is big enough for the Franco-Nigerian cavalry to fit through.
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  This man means the heavy cavalry of the innocence Franco Negra,
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  sweeping over the plains and nations of the enemies of mankind.
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  Fifth century style.
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  Unified currency and the concept of cool came in their wake.
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  They wore lamella and carried guns.
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  But first and foremost,
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  Franco-Nigerian heavy cavalry was really, really wide.
• 4:31
  That hole in the fence must be enormous.
• 4:37
  No, I'm not the bartender.
• 4:39
  I'm the cafeteria manager.
• 4:43
  That period of my life is over.
• 4:46
  Not everyone who stands behind the counter is a bartender, okay?
• 4:51
  I'm the cafeteria manager.
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  I have three cafeterias I manage.
• 4:58
  Three.
• 4:59
  Get over it.
• 5:02
  Let's go.
• 5:04
  Not so fast.
• 5:06
  You owe me a hundred and thirty real.
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  One moment you're running like the wind.
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  Then you've suddenly turned around and are giving him the finger.
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  Furiously.
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  With both hands.
• 5:30
  Why?
• 5:53
  Everything goes dark.
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  Back so soon.
• 6:01
  It was no accident.
• 6:04
  Those were disco moves from your spinal cord.
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  The spinal cord has yet to reveal itself to you.
• 6:15
  Its mysteries are unholy mysteries.
• 6:22
  You are the bottom of the sea.
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  To call for this world.
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  I was wrong to let you go.
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  I should have kept you here.
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  Is it bright where you are?
• 6:45
  Is it terrifying?
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  Have you felt the love?
• 6:55
  That is too bad.
• 6:57
  We all need a little love.
• 7:00
  Are you okay?
• 7:01
  You have sustained the trauma to your lower neck.
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  In addition, you have strained your left trapezius muscle.
• 7:15
  Pain surges down your back when you move.
• 7:20
  Ma'am, are you alright?
• 7:23
  Oh, I'm fine.
• 7:25
  He just tripped over my chair.
• 7:28
  Check on him.
• 7:31
  Sir, I didn't mean for this to happen.
• 7:34
  I'm sorry, this has always been a cop-friendly place.
• 7:38
  The drinks are on the house, okay?
• 7:41
  There were a lot of drinks on the tab.
• 7:44
  I still have to charge you for three nights and the broken window, though.
• 7:48
  That's a hundred square.
• 7:50
  He's shaken. Barton now and he'll cave in.
• 7:56
  Okay, fine. I'll take it off your bill.
• 7:58
  Sleep in a post-apocalyptic hellhole if you want to.
• 8:01
  Just know I won't give you another room.
• 8:06
  Don't thank me yet.
• 8:08
  You still owe me $60 for three nights stay.
• 8:11
  If you don't have it by tonight, I just can't let you up there.
• 8:15
  And for God's sake, watch out for yourself.